Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Do These Teams Deserve More Respect? | Weekly Recap | 877

Episode Date: August 19, 2024

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Man, it's time to give the brew crew a little more love. Maybe we'll have a couple beers. Yankees fell on their face last night. Let's talk some ball. Let's talk some ball. Are the Ray's back? Who wants to see Houston come October?

Nobody. Matt Beerling. Raw. Raw. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. presenting you by Seekek. Make sure you use Code Talk in 10. Players weekend, baby.

Code Talkin 10 at Seek, 10% off any tickets, whether you're a new customer or not. Go see a concert, Hosier, my guy, Bad Bunny. Trev's trying to dress like Bad Bunny a little bit today. Yeah. Or go see some of the baseball. Finish up the dog days, get ready for the postseason run. That's what we're doing.

Code talking 10% off your next order at Ciki. Click the link in the description. Trevor Plouf, got to see you this weekend. Pretty nice. Pretty nice. We did have a nice little night together, didn't we? Perusing the streets of the West Village and our John Boy Media gear, I had a glove on.

Got a lot of love, you know, a lot of young boys. There was a funny moment. We watched the end of the Yankees game, and then we watched the end of the Mets. the Mets game as well. They changed the channel right before Best of Talking Yanks was about to come on, which maybe could have got my street cred up at the pub a little bit. But we had a nice meal.

We were at Fanatics Fest all weekend. You can hear that in my voice. That was just a wild sports event. Trev back in the West Coast, how you doing? I'm doing great. It was interesting, waking up on Saturday in New York and then heading straight home. I felt like I had two different.

days in one so it's kind of a simulation experience for me. But look, as you mentioned, we're almost out of the dog days. Like one more week of the dog days and then we're into playoff push. Then we're into the playoffs. And this is when ball gets really exciting for me. The first four months, it's a lot of jockeying for position. You have the trade deadline. You have injuries, all these things.

And now it's here. It's here and it's beautiful. A couple great division races. The wild card trying to sort out Literally like last life for teams. I know my Cincinnati Reds, I couldn't believe when I brought up their weekend.

The Rays keep doing this every other week survival game. I was laughing the Cubs like have a crazy easy schedule for 18 games. Could they find a 12 and 6? and does it matter either way. There was a lot of ball this weekend.

Let's get into it with the AL Recap. Brought to you by Team Mobile. Do do do, do, do. 5G innovation partner of MLB. They're there for All-Star Week. They're there wherever you need them. You're trying to track your team on the road. Trev's in the big city, keeping tabs on his twins.

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Orioles and the Boston Red Sox. Zach Eflin, I owe you half an apology because you've been nothing short of amazing for Baltimore. Another six innings, one earn run for him. The Sox, they come back, they win the next two. Our guy Brian Bayo talking baseball celebrity. And the socks knocked around Corbin Burns, Yoshida, Duran, Devers, the lefties got them. And of course, on getaway day, there's Albert Suarez with zero earn runs yet again. A big weekend for Gunner as he gets back on the homer train.

Adley got pulled with a back thing, but he homers in that final game. They split four in beautiful Baltimore. Speaking of the Minnesota Twins, they take the first three against the Texas Rangers, and that's obvious. Two one-run games. The nightmare, Bailey Ober. Most quality starts since Johan San Diego. Tanna consecutively? What the hell's that about?

Trev, they're going for the four-game sweep. And here's Adoles Garcia has kicked back into gear a little too late for them. A good rally by them, including our guy Josh Young with the walk-off single. But this kind of sums up both teams. The twins kind of won three games, maybe not in the sexiest fashion. And Texas, oh God, Trev did not like that. The Arizona Diamondbacks, they're hot, man. his team in baseball. Keep it rolling. There go the raise. Raise. Go on raise on him.

Dylan Carlson. How about a St. Louis Cardinal getting traded and performing elsewhere? He's got an OPS in the 9s. He had a home run. He had a walk-off single in this series in the last game, 12 innings to walk it off. Man, snakes fought in each game. They came back. Pete Fairbanks has two blown saves before going to the IL, but it's not enough. Snakes get raised a little bit. Oh, boy. Tigers take two out of three from the Yankees. Yankees win the first game.

Garrick Cole is back. Six shutpiece. Judge Homers, Paraza homers, remember him? Tigers win the next two. They get shut out in game two by your guy, Keiter Montero. And then Terrick Scoobel and Strom and Stromen, goes toe to toe with them. It's 1-0.

Yanks into the 9th. Clay Holmes, major league leading. Blown save. And then they walk it off in the 10th. In front of the kids in Williamsport. How do you like that? The Astros take two out of three from the White Sox. And that's obvious.

They lose the first one. Crochet, nine punches and four innings. Luis Robert, two homers. Hey guys, trade for me. I'm right here. Please trade for me. Houston comes back. back. They win the next two. Hunter Brown. He goes seven innings for the first time in a while.

Framber goes seven innings with like 80 pitches. My goodness. Altuve, Yiner Diaz with the homers in that one. Houston, rolling, man, always. We had our last Bay Area series, a two gamer, and they split it. Hayden Burt. Show Me Your Bird Song gets outpitched by Treves. Osvaldo Bito, who's been rolling lately. Six-inning shutpiece. Giants. Giants. They come back, win the second game in extra. Snelldel, back-to-back homers, Gerar Encarnazion, and Elliot Ramos, who's always two-for-four with a homer,

only one-for-four with a homer in that game. And your final AL series, The Angels and the Braves, man. Saturday night's game was an absolute circus. We got players catching balls off their thighs. We got controversy. Theumps wearing a Kramer T-shirt. Braves blew him out in that game.

They take the final game again because of the salt man, Charlie Martin. Hey, Angels, they won the first game. Oh, Hoppy goes yard. That is what happened in the American League. I just need the standings. Lucky for you. Yeah.

I got them right here. Yeah. And you just did the AL, so that's what I'm going to need. And because it's Monday, I'm going to start in the central, the guard dog 72 and 52 still a really nice record but the twins are coming two games behind them at 70 and 54 the royals won't go anywhere

there are three games back of the guard dog 69 and 55 those tigers 61 and 64 and then the white socks so I believe we're eliminated from postseason contention tough times out there 30 and 95 every time I read their record I can't believe I really can't. We'll go out west. Where are Houston Astros?

Big. How are we the biggest Houston Astros supporters outside of Houston? Now we're talking. Now we're talking. I think we are, dude. Now we're talking. The clip that we put out about them being the AL favorite,

people are like, no. And I'm like, oh yeah, they probably are. That got a lot of juice on the internet, huh? A lot of Yankee fans mad about that. But I asked people, like, did you get like Will Smith men and blacked and forget about the past seven years because I haven't I have not I guess I missed that one I had the shades on they're 67 and 56 four games up now on the Seattle Mariners were 64 and 61

the Texas Rangers are just completely out of it 57 and 68 they might be getting some pitching back but okay they're 11 games back of the division the angels and the A's are tied for the bottom of that division, 53 and 71 a piece. Then out east, your Yanks and BBD's Orioles tied at the top 73 and 52

apiece. The Red Sox, seven games back, 65 and 58. Tampa Bay, as you mentioned, finally getting back over 500 again, 62 and 61, and the Blue Jays, 58 and 66 in the wild card. We're starting to see some separation, Jake, in both leagues in the wild card.

Right now, Baltimore, or New York. One of them would have the top wild card. The twins at 1754 would have the second wild card. Kansas City would have the third wild card. And the closest team

is the Boston Red Sox three and a half games back of the Kansas City Royals. Seattle, five and a half. Tampa Bay, six and a half and Detroit, eight and a half games back. Texas is not even in the picture anymore.

And those are your standings in the American League. I do want to point out, I think last episode you talked about the Yankees would have to go face Houston, which is not the case. Had that wrong. You had that wrong, but it was scary. It was like, you know, we're almost a Halloween. It was a scary thought.

So right now, I guess it would be either Yankees or Baltimore would be hosting Kansas City. And then Houston would be hosting Minnesota, which is very scary for me. Yeah, Orioles have the- Twins kind of like, twins kind of own the Astros as of late. Correa effect, you know? I'm just, like, strike that from the record. I didn't say that.

Yeah, because did they. Don't use that in your highlight real. Did they beat that? Don't use that. Did Houston beat the twins last postseason? Or is that two post seasons ago? It was last post season. Okay.

Nice. Yeah. But you own them. Owned. It's a new year. I don't think you want this smoke, okay? Let me see what we are against them this year. I say we.

They're four or two against him. Oh, dominant. Great standings. Why not? Trev, it's a little dog dayish as we lean into this. Great standings. I take it back.

Let's start with the Orioles and the Red Sox. I gave an apology to Led Zeflin on the way in. You know, there was a lot of Orioles rotation and, you know, it's gray rock. can Eflin even be a three? Evelyn's been fantastic for them. Fantastic. Corbyn Burns does get knocked around.

His ERA is at its highest point, which, you know, when I say that, I think it's like a 3-1-8. Where is it? 3-1, excuse me. So I don't think it's time to get nervous about that exactly. But we have another big Jackson holiday series with a four-hit game.

I don't know. I know a popular topic around right now. and it's a little bit because it's the Yanks, but Orioles and Yankees are toe-to-to-right now, literally the tied record. We talked about Orioles having the tiebreaker. Feels like the Yankees haven't been in tune for a little bit. Neither have the Orioles.

It's good on them. You know, if the Orioles had lost that last game, and we're talking about Boston coming in, three out of four, blah, blah, blah. They get neutralized, and it's a little bit by Albert Suarez. Also, I don't know, man. I guess the names in the Orioles bullpen have changed a decent amount, and that feels significant.

I know there's some early returns on that, but it's, you know, Sir Anthony Dominguez and Soto, like those were two guys in the Phillies, like World Series run bullpens, and now they're doing it in Baltimore. Yeah, Sir Anthony is going to get a shot. I'm very curious about all of Baltimore starting pitching going forward. You know, Grayson, we got an update on Grace, from Rodriguez and he thinks he could be back

by the end of the year and then Brandon Hyde had some quotes and apparently a grimacing face when asked if he was going to be back. So if you don't have Grayson, your rotation then will be Corbin Burns. Who cares about this start?

It bumped his ERA all the way up to 3-1. Yeah. You have Corbin Burns, you have Led Zeflin and then you got Albert Swores. I mean, that's not exactly what you envisioned coming into the year if you're an Orioles fan, but hey, like, it's, it can work. After that, you know,

who we'll see what they can conjure up there, some Cade Povich, maybe some Dean Kremmer. Do you like cremer in your coffee? So yeah, it's going to be interested to see how, how they go and how they kind of, what do we have, six weeks left? Six weeks, like a lot of things can happen. And I'm very curious to see, did they have anything up in their season? I don't know their farm system. Is there anybody else, you know, sitting in AAA that they can call up and be a difference? I think Cade Povich was that guy. Yeah, I mean, I don't know potentially bullpen-wise. It feels like every year there's one or two teams that have a kid in AAA who,

oh, he just ticked up three miles per hour. And he's striking out people at a 14.1K per 9. I guess if any of your teams that you guys know your team better than us has guys like that, comment him interested. Yeah, and it was funny at Fan Fest. Some guy came up to me. He's like, I think I'm done with Cade Povich. And I was like, I think he's like 14 years old.

Like, let, let, let, he just came up from the Great Lakes Little League team. Like, let's, let's give Kate a couple more starts. I mean, I know, I know they optioned him back. 24 years old. So he's, he's there. But, yeah, I mean, Trevor Rogers was that guy they paid a paid for to get. And I don't know. the as the big boys, whether it's wild card or

winning the AL East, get ready. It's going to be funny where, you know, right now, Craig Kimberl's kind of buried in that Orioles bullpen. Sir Anthony Dominguez with their last two saves, which I don't, it's just going to be very interesting in hindsight. You know, Phillies fans and Orioles fans tracking their bullpen to be like, that's a case of who won that trade. And one or two games in October,

like if Sir Anthony Dominguez blows a big game for Baltimore Philly's fans are going to be they're like I know it I know it and then if what if he goes on a run for Baltimore

what if he's there closer what if he's doing multi-innings nasty stuff which we've seen in the postseason before the flip scripts I got their guy you found a guy yeah and you love his name

and he's started for him before. Okay. Kagan Aiken. Oh, get Keegan. I'm just kidding. Get Kegan Aiken out of here. Where are you at with the socks, kid?

I don't really know, man. They're so up and down. And like I said, they're three and a half games back right now. You get Tristan Kossas back so that could jolt the offense. I mean, they're going to have to go on a run. I guess let's schedule watch with the Red Sox right now. So they've got a tough little schedule coming out. I did this.

They have Houston for three. in Houston. Then they host the snakes and then Toronto. Okay. Hey, they're very much still in the thick of this race. I mean, I think they're like really the only team that I'm looking at

that has like a real chance to come up and snatch another playoff spot because who else is behind them? It's, I mean, Seattle at five and a half games back out. Do you expect them to go on some magical run? Man, I really do. don't. And Tampa, like, again, can't ever count them out, but I don't really see that

happening for them this year. So Boston's kind of like the only hope for a team to come in and steal one of these last playoff spots. So definitely on Boston Red Sox watch over the next, let's give them, let's give them two weeks, Jake, two weeks to make their move. Is if they go through any sort of, I guess any sort of streak, a winning streak can really firmly enthrink French them in the playoff race and then like any sort of losing street kind of like gets them out of it because that's where we're at in the season dude like these these these series and these you know a road trip here or a homestand there can get you in or out there's no coming back yeah uh Dalton texting me Saturday night late night uh Poppy Gordo fried out turning his brain off

on the couch watching a little Braves halos obviously and the UFC fights man I can't believe how much I love them. Dude, I get, I get, I didn't watch them, but. Bro, I, I, all in, all in. And Dalt texting me and it was a good, good radio fodder. He was like, who's a team that's out right now that could get back in?

And I mean, the only teams that are even like options, it's like if you had Ray's stock, the San Francisco Giants, like, They could, feels like with their new rotation, maybe they could have a month out of somewhere. But yeah, I mean, nobody jumps off the map. Nobody jumps off the map. I think it is the Red Sox.

The bullpenny's, you know, get into shape. Yeah. Besides Kenley, they've had some trouble there. But they have everything else that you need to, you know, first of all, get to the playoffs. I think, I think win in the playoffs as well. I mean, the lineup can be extremely dangerous. but they got to make these games up and they got to do it quick. And I think final notes spent a little more time here than I thought, but good.

Hey, that gunner guy. Pretty good. Four homers in his last five games. He's back. He's back. I'm looking at who the, so they had, they went four and two against the Royals. So they have the tiebreaker there. Okay.

That's something. They have three more against the twins. They're one and two so far on the year, so they could get the tiebreaker there. They win that series. What does it go to if you split? What's the second tiebreaker? I think it's...

You're usually my tiebreaker. Archery shootout? I don't... You know I fucking hate tiebreaker. Record and division. Head to head, intra division record, an inter division record. Intra?

What's intraming? What is that mean? What they did against your own division? Okay. Why is that a tie-breaking? How would that be the tie-breaker between those two teams? Not in the same division. Why would that be a tie-breaker?

That sounds ridiculous. Feels wrong. It doesn't feel right. I'll double check that this is an article just about your division tie-breakers, but I think it's for playoff spots in general. Okay, let's get off the rails. It's the dog days. These series, there's some stuff.

I wish I had a picture or a video of Trevor Ploose face when he found out from our bartender on Friday night that Sabrina Carpenter wore a Jesus was a carpenter shirt at Coachella this year. Trevor tightens up, like get serious eyes. And he goes, she stole that from me. you've never seen a bartender more confused or less interested and didn't care but this was a conversation between you and i i didn't care what the bartender had to say we saw carrie carpenter on the screen and i said oh jesus was a carpenter

and she looks at me and and you know says all that and i had no idea and you did you're super tuned in on sabrina carpenter yeah i had to remind people that we met many moons ago, 2017, mean Sabrina Carpenter, you know, she threw out the first pitch to me. Maybe she's been following talking baseball this entire time. There was a, there was a theory that maybe she stole, like she's kept tabs on Trev since 2018. Like he said something.

Maybe she just hates him and has been keeping tabs this whole time and stole that Jesus was a carpenter shirt. Or, or the alternative theory is that were just two brilliant minds. Right. With marketing campaigns. Yeah. Right. That is a little off the rails, Pop.

We're in the AL recap right now. Well, let's, how about we just check the box of Carrie Carpenter's Tigers who take two out of three from the Yankees? In Yankee land, if you want to go check out a very sad, tired, broken talking Yanks, go check it out. A little, mostly from the weekend and just a little bit in general. Like, we know the Yankees have a good record. We know the Yankees have a shot this year.

But Clay Holmes blowing his, Major League leading, was a 10th or 11th save. You know, Jimmy's got frustrations with the Yankees' defensive shifts. If you want to go hear that, go check out talking Yanks, really in the weeds there. And it's just, I don't know, man, they do some weird stuff. They call up the Martian. This is his first game this season. He's the 27th man, so he's up and he's down.

He's batting fifth little he's he hay on the game-winning run. You don't love to see that. And I don't know. The Tigers, hey, they called up two young prospects. We got the other young brother. We got Chase Young in the Biggs, along with Trace Sweeney. The first time the Tigers have called up two rookie infielders making their debut since trampling Whitaker in 77. I think that's like true.

At least some of them. It is. So I don't, whatever you want there. I talked about this for an hour 45 last night, way too tired and a little hot. so I'm I'm good. I mean, the last game I watched last night, obviously Sunday night baseball, Little League classic, is that what they call it?

I think so. Where was that field? Is that like where they always play the league? It's Williams for, yeah, there's a minor league team there. I think it was a minor league team when everything contracted. It's now like a college summer ball.

Your guy, Matt Veerling, played minor league baseball on that field before making a great miced-up catch on Oswald Paraza. I did. like that catch. That's one of those catches where like he knew the entire time he was going to catch it. And it's one of the balls where you can make it seem as easy or as hard as you want. Okay, I like that. You can slow the steps down a little bit.

My guy Matt Beerling. Shout out. Every time I see him on the screen now, I'm just like, that's my guy. Even though I don't even really know him. No. Well, you guys do. You guys do. Yeah. We're connected forever. I too, like the ground balls, the two, in a row there at the end. I thought possibly were going to be hit right at defenders for the Yankees and they just weren't. So maybe I have a problem with the Yankee shift and then, I don't know. Sounds like you have the same problem.

I think there was some hesitation from Dominguez on that throw because, I mean, he was 25 feet off the dirt of the infield. And the Tiger's third base coach decided to send the runner. could have been first and third, nobody out with a chance to win the game. And instead he just ultra-aggressive send. I think that's what caught Dominguez off guard a little bit. Because he made a strong throw. But Yankees lose.

He knows what he's doing. Scoobel, six innings, one-er-and-run. It sounds like they're going to start, they're not going to pitch him every fifth day. They're going to kind of ease them in to the finale. Something to watch as he's chasing the triple crown in the A-L, inning, strikeouts, and ERA. They're doing that all over the board.

Crochet is doing that. Scoobel's doing it. There's an article that just came out today from Kenny Rosenthal talking about skeins and the pirates posse, you shut him down. You know how much crap I got for saying that? Right. Just a thought in my head, people.

If you've been just paying attention to ball, like the pirates are probably going to do something. I don't know, completely shut them down, but that's just the way of the world now. Hey, and Tigers fans, Carrie Carpenter, the old man on the block at 27. Torkelson is backup.

Jace Young, Trey Sweeney, Colt Keith, Riley Green, Parker Meadows. I don't know. I'm not a scout anymore. I gave that up. But man, baseball, it takes youth clicking

to kind of open up a new window or be successful. and they're giving it a look. And a couple of these guys click. Like Riley Green has kind of officially clicked. He's off the IL. Kerry Carpenter also, as long as he's out there playing, he's been hitting.

I don't know, man. A couple of these guys turning around and maybe we'll talk some more Tigers 2025. But I believe we've been saying that for a couple of years. I know it. I know it. That's why I'm not enthused about it. Cater Montero, just throw more strikes, bro.

Like, you got good stuff. Just throw more strikes. Easy. game. What do you want on your Twinkies? I didn't know this, but Daltz got on the sheet how they had the best record in baseball since April 22nd, like 100 win pace. They've dealt with a ton of injuries too throughout the year, man. They really have. Their lineup has just not been consistent, but they've been able to find ways to get the job done. Again, they know they had some good pitching performances, Bailey Over is my guy. He's been Mr. Quality Start. He did it.

all last year as well. So 10 straight for him. He's got a couple blowup starts to kind of skew his numbers a little bit. But he's, he's been good. He's going to have to. I mentioned that, you know, they're going to very, very young rotation. So I got him, I got him in San Diego. I'm heading down after the show. I'll drive down to San Diego. I believe Ober gets the ball the second game. I'm going to see your guy Michael King pitch tonight. It's going to be a good series. I'm very, I'm very curious to see, you know, how these two teams kind of match up because it's If I had to rank them right now, like, I probably put Padres over the twins, but the twins have just from playing consistently good ball all year long.

So we'll see. Some of the twins of numbers are surprising. And, like, you know, Pablo's kicked into gear recently. I mean, he's kind of up and down. He needs to be more consistent. Like you mentioned, they have had the injury bug. And yeah, I don't know. There's just something odd about this that,

If anyone still has ranger stock, go actually look at the standings. They are below the Blue Jays. The three teams below them in the AL are the athletics, angels, and white socks. So the wheels are just fully off there. Everything's bigger in Texas, including the World Series Hangover. Yeah. Do you think Rangers fans, how do you, I'm very curious. If you're a Rangers fan, you won the World Series last year.

Good question. Bad year this year, injuries, all these things. The team that you thought was going to be on the field hasn't really been on the field. Do you care? Or are you still riding a high? I've never been a fan of a baseball team to like won a World Series. Like I've just never really been like super invested in a team. I don't know how it feels besides playing on a team.

And obviously I didn't win any World Series there. There you go. I thought about it again. Never played in the playoffs. Every single day people are thinking about that. It haunts me. It's like the Inouye Hotel, the Fist, or whatever. I don't know.

Barely know her. Do you know? I mean, the Yankees win the World Series a million years ago, 2009. The next year, how'd they do? I mean, those next couple years, they were still good. And I think there was a thought because 09 was a new team. They made the big free agent splashes. You thought you were going to go on a three-ped again?

You thought that they were back to being the Yankees, that they were going to be in the mix every year. And then they weren't. And then when did it start getting ugly? 2014. 13. 13 into 14. That 2010 team was like the best on paper team of that run.

And the Cliff Lee trade doesn't happen and they fall apart. So, yeah, Tiger's. Hey, DeGrom's throwing. That's cool. That's cool. Give me one to the end of the year. Why not? The raise, man.

It feels like every time I open up this sheet, they've either lost three out of four or they've won four out of five. They get back over 500 after sweeping the Diamondbacks, who had been the hottest team in baseball. Snakes fought in the first and last game of the series, including 12 innings. I mentioned on the way through, Fairbanks gets two blown saves, and he's going to head to the IL.

Rays, I don't know, Pepio's back after missing. a month and a half due to a spider bite infection? Spider bites are no joke, bro. Spider bites freaked me out. Don't use any inflection in your voice. No, it's more so just baseball. Like, it's... My dad when I was younger got bit by a brown recluse, and he was earmuffs.

He was fucked up, dude. I don't like that. I bit him on the leg, and he, it was, it was... I still remember it, dude. That was a long time ago, and I remember it. So spiders are just, like, the worst. Oh, the worst Spiders

Like snakes Like I don't get I don't get as scared of snakes As I do have spiders Like I am not a spider guy Spiders are snakes Got me as a kid That's an all time debate

That's like a caveman debate Like Anacondas The scary snake movie But that's like It's kind of so silly That it's like Right But that's totally

Like they're so big That it's just like horrifying Like animals Shouldn't be that creepy dude yeah some people are like about spiders though because don't you like swallow a certain amount of spiders per year I'm more of a hawk to a guy

um your average run of the little spider does a lot of good for the ecosystem but okay snakes fans scary ones are right guy Ryan Nelson probably makes his last start um eight start starts at 273. That shows you when times are good.

But again, that could become an interesting thing of note, but maybe they can use them in the pen. I know Ryan Thompson's got knocked around recently. Snakes fans will be able to let this go because this is, in a way, they could have won two games in this series. And they fought. And that's what you want to see from your team because, you know, baseball games, you're going to be down.

You're going to lose a chunk. But if you show fight and good at bats and Corbyn Carroll's hitting two-run homers to tie it up, that feels good. was a bomb too. It's like 4.30 or something like that. But you do walk away getting swept that when you start off your next series, if you go down in game one, that's when the dark thoughts kick in, and that's when baseball can happen. So they're going to face the Marlins in Miami. And then they head up to Boston. So big East Coast trip.

The Florida Bowl. I was about to give the snakes of what is you doing, baby. But then I thought you're in Tampa. Right. playing at the trough. You fought in two games, had some good moments, had some bad moments. So I'm going to hold off on that. They don't get a what-as-you-doing, baby.

If my raise can give the Oakland A's a four-game sweeper that they have coming up, I'll put my chips on the table for them. I don't think they're gonna. The A's are playing pretty good baseball right now, but Jeffrey Springs is back. his first win in a while. Dude,

Ray's rotation right now. I know Tage Bradley's falling off a little bit. They got Bradley, Bos, Pepeio, and Springs coming up. Like, that's...

The Razor? I don't know. Fuck them. No, I'm out. Don't take my chips. Six and a half out of the wild card. They'd have to get... Have to get very,

very hot. The last thing I think in the AL is, you know, the last battle of the Bay series happens. Yeah. Bob Melvin. there who was pretty emotional about it.

I think it's cool that the Chapman was there. Apparently he requested like a base and they gave it to him, which I think is cool. It ends up in a split. Mark Cotsay gets tossed so it doesn't even get to see the end of the game. He's probably good because the Giants won it and extras. Blake Snell

doing his thing. That was cool to see the call to see him like with fans in it again. How's cool? 37K in there, something like that. J.P. Sears and Snell? having a nice south paw off on that final game. Snell, 55 strikeouts over his last five starts.

That passes John Montefusco, the most in a five games spanned by a Giants pitcher. So significant to some. That sucks, man. I know we've done this a lot, but God, Oakland's a great baseball town. It is. It is.

The crowds can be electric there. The stadium is, you know, for all the shit. it gets, that's a pun, it's unique, man. Like, it's, there's a lot of history there. Yeah. Like, I,

I, I enjoy that. Like, I don't need some brand new, whatever, looking park. Like, like,

when there's history. And I guess, you know, you have to build them and play in there to have history, but, like,

a lot of things have happened there. Football's happened there. Right. You know, like, you hear about Mount Davis and, and all these different things

and, to think about what are they going to do with the Coliseum, man? Like, what's, what's going to happen to? I mean, I still don't even know what's going to happen

with the A's, right? They're going to Sacramento. Sacramento. Like, Vegas isn't locked in yet, right? Like, we've done everything but lock it in? I'll say this with the A's stadium situation.

I don't think anything's ever locked in. It hasn't been seven years. It's been here that's going to do this, do that, do that, Jack London Square. But then it's, until I see them with the gold shovels and the hard hat I hate that so much like some stupid dude in a suit's like here we go

and then here you guys do the work if they do that they should have to stay a full day and dig and why not at least put in like an hour and the stupid big scissors cutting the ribbon out in you're in on the big scissors bigger ribbons bigger scissors oh let's keep going to buy big scissors Now that's a good question. Amazon.

Gotta be. Buy big scissors. Okay. 25 inch ribbon cutting scissors. Amazon. Crazy. Okay. Braves, I've actually got something your way coming in a little bit.

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Get your jobs more visibility at Indeed.com slash talking. Just go to Indeed.com slash talking right now. Support our show by saying you heard about Indeed on this podcast. There's a link in the description, Indeed.com slash talking. Why would the National League not start with the Cleveland Guardian? because they faced the Milwaukee Brewers and they got doused in beer, baby. The Brewers sweep, and they did it in such brewer fashion. Willie Adamas, his 10th three-run homer this year, that leads baseball.

Savali, Peralta, and Colin Ray, all with six innings less than one run. What? Colin Ray. Colin Rye. And then, oh, yeah, out of the bullpen. Who do you want? You want some K-Nig? I mean, they're just the Brewers' AI bullpen generator still working.

As they sweep the guard dogs, man. You know, both of these teams, we give a lot of respect, but we central and blah, blah, blah. Brewers are going for the best record in the NL. And they swept the cross-town, cross-borderline. I don't know. the Guardians. Let me look it up. The Dodgers. They take two out of three from the Cardinals. Justin Robleski didn't say that right. He gets his first win.

Your usual suspects, Keirmeyer and Gavin Lux Homer in that game. Man, Dodgers had a big comeback in the sixth inning. Michael Kopeck with two saves in this series after Cardinals and I. Andre Palante, seven innings, kicks it to Hellsley in the back end. By the way, Shohei's about to get a 40-40, probably quicker than any other players done it. Soriano has that record, so watch out for that. Lars Neupbar, pinch hit home run, didn't matter. Clayton Kirshaw, sick shutout.

Here we are, people. Here we are. The Washington Nationals, they got the business from the Philadelphia Phillies. The Phillies take the first three out of four. There's Wheeler. There's Nola. There's Treves. Christopher Sanchez.

Nine innings. That's a complete game, people. One earn, one run. Weston Wilson cycle. Absolutely. Why wouldn't he? Trey Turner, four hits and a walk-off RBI single. Absolutely.

Cassiano's with a couple big games. Hey, our Nat salvaged the series. Our guy, Key Bear Ruiz, he's turned it on since the break. Does that matter next year? I don't know. Let's find out together. The Royals. Uh-oh. They sweep the Cincinnati Reds. Buy Reds. We had our last flirt. God, it was fun. God, it was dirty too. Cincinnati Bar. Grimy. Hand on my leg. Royals. Crush them, Trev. 7-1. 13 to 1. 8 to 1. Man, I thought there was a lot of things that could have went wrong for the Reds this year.

I didn't have it as they're hitting. And on the other side, Bobby Witt Jr., three-hit day, Pasquintino, couple multi-hit days, and Tarion Blanco, one homer coming into the weekend, three homers coming out. Good for you, Poppy. Royals, they remain a big part of this season. Do you want to see them in the playoffs? Interesting.

The Chicago Cubs, I think they're the next fighting for their lives. They take two out of three from the Blue Jays. Would have been nice to get three, especially a one-nothing last game, where our guy, Joey Lopperfito, oh, he hits a solo donk to win one-nothing. But the Cubbies, Ian Hap, Pete Crow Armstrong, Cody Bellinger, Michael Bush has kind of made it a full season. And the Cubbies, here's something, Trev. I think their next 18 games against teams under 500.

Cubbies. Show me a little bit of sauce. Two teams that have just made me miserable. The Pirates and the Mariners, they played three games. The Pirates took two out of three. Nice. Nice. Skeens and Gilbert, that makes it move.

That it doesn't matter. The Pirates, they ruin, they end their skeins losing. streak. I-K-F trade deadline ad with a big game in game number two. Mariners, George Kirby, and that Victor Robles extension, they get it done in the final game. Man, the Mariners, I hope you kept track of them in the standings because I couldn't believe where their record is at. And the pirates have lost me.

So I don't know. I'm getting a little too emotional about it. Kelsey Winger's Rockies, they take two out of three from the Padres, Big Padres' Twin Series this week, and you just heard about that. Go Rocks go. Nolan Jones is back. Bradley Blaylock throwing 5.2 one earn run. Couldn't pick him if he was in this room, but I'm excited to. Padres recover or don't. And the Mets and Marlins, they've played three. The Mets, they won the first two games. Mania Severino, complete game shut piece. Otto Lopez and Derek Chill. Get it done for the fish in the last game.

That's what happened in the National League. Great job, pop. Great job. Do you need to? something right now? The NL and the IL standings would be great. You got me there a little bit. You were flirting with the Reds, a little dirty. All year, man. All like, like, I don't know, college football's coming back. We got to the bar at like 12. We said what up then. We saw each other at 4 p.m. Oh, you guys having fun. That was a good game. Time for an espresso martini, I guess. It's 1115 and you're just looking at each other. Like, I don't, I don't think I like you.

I don't think you like me. It's getting late. It's getting late. What are the standings again? I don't know what that was all about. That's a weird day of flirting right there. Wouldn't expect anything less from you pop. I'll start in the central.

By the way, so if you just went, I guess I'll go this way. If you just went, Jake, Milwaukee, and kind of went at this angle, down. You have to cross two great lakes to get to Cleveland. Oh. And you'd stop in Detroit in the middle. Wow. Yeah. You're crossing Michigan right there. I don't know. That's just a little geography lesson for everyone. In the central Milwaukee you mentioned doing their thing, trying to get the best record in the National League. 72 and 52. That's 20 games over 500. The Cardinals said 11 games behind them at 61 and 63. Cubs 61 and 64.

Cincinnati 1664. So if you shut out the Reds and you said buy Reds, that means you're shutting out St. Louis and Chicago as well and I think it's okay. Yeah. I'm sorry. Pirates, 58 and 65.

Didn't they get over 500 briefly in like end of June, early July? Not so sure that ever happened, but I think it did. In my mind it did. Pirates? Yeah. Yeah, they did. And then they lost 10.

Yeah. Okay. Moving out west, the Dodgers 73 and 52, and hey, we got a race out here in the NL West. The Padre, 70 and 55, only three games back. The Diamondback, 69 and 56, only four games back. Then you have the Giants right at 500. That's where they've been all season long. 63 and 63, Colorado 46 and 79, 27 games back of the division. Out east, Philadelphia, 73 and 51, a seven game lead over the Atlanta.

Braves who are 66 and 58. The Mets, 64 and 60, and then Washington, 56 and 69, and the Marlins, 46 and 78. In the wild card, Jake, another, it's starting to get separated here, okay? We got San Diego in Arizona have the first two wildcard spots, and then Atlanta right now currently in the three hole at 66 and 58. The Mets, two games behind, so they're there. They have a very good chance. shot. The Giants at

500 are four games back at that spot and then you go down with the Cardinals, the Cubs, and Cincinnati as well. I can see a world where maybe that happens, Jake. It's his baseball. We still have six weeks. But right now, if I'm just saying

who's got a shot at the playoffs, I think I'm saying the Mets and the Giants. And after that, I don't really believe in any of those teams. And those are your standings in the National League. Mets and Giants are interesting for very different reasons. Thank you, Trev.

Yeah, hey, Cubbies, 18 games against bad teams. Give me that 15 and 3. They're under 500 team. You can't speak like, oh, they're playing these under 500 teams. Like, they're under 500. They're one of those teams. Spider-Man mean. They're playing themselves.

Nice, Trev. Hip. Thanks. That's my hip. You're hip. You're all over it. I'm such a loser. That drive to San Diego later.

What are you going to do? Think about that line. Like I crushed it with that line. You go in tunes? You're going podcast? I don't listen to any podcast. Maybe I'll do wipe my one podcast. Shout out group chat.

You do love them. That's it. Okay. They're my friends. If the N.O. playoffs were today, the Phillies and Dodgers would have a buy. The Brewers would host the Atlanta Braves. Yes.

Zoiks. Man, the fight for the second buy in the N. I guess the both buys in the NL. That's going to be fun to watch. Man, we're at that time of year, huh? We're tracking some different things. Milwaukee and Atlanta would be great because didn't the Braves come from Milwaukee?

Oh, the Hank Aaron Bowl. Yeah. I like that. And then I think this would be the most electric matchup of the season. San Diego hosting Arizona would be awesome. Hey, I know we throw darts at this wildcard format and we're still learning. Padre snakes, three games to decide their fate, yo. All in Petco?

Ooh. That goes great. That gets chippy. I can't wait. That gets chippy. Tori Lavello, Machado? Oh, hey, Padres, host a wildcard series, three games in a row. The fans wouldn't even leave

They just sleep there I love that dude Ooh Could a team do that Just put tents up in the concourse Maybe hey we're Playoff game Into sleepover

Bark at the park Anyways I don't know about that Where do the dogs go to the bathroom You know Just anywhere You know Trev let's grab a beer

The Milwaukee Brewers they sweep the guard dogs. They have the biggest divisional lead. They have an 11-game lead in their division. I mean, I think it's partial shots fired to their division, which we have done tastefully the past couple minutes. They are also the class of that division. And I don't know if it starts with pitching or run prevention.

We talked about defense before, but Aaron Savale has come over, and he's been great. He's returned to his form that he had on the Guardians pitching against his former team. Colin Ray is one of the hot buzzwords in baseball today, because the season he has now put together. And this is all with Willie Adamas putting together a great season as we dreamt up his basement last episode.

William Contreras has kicked back into gear. These brewers, I don't know, we kind of, They don't have the sex appeal of a Dodgers, of a Phillies. They traded away who we thought was their best player before the season. And yet here they are having been dominant all year. And they clearly, organizationally, whatever they are doing is miles ahead of the rest of the division. Agreed. Willie Adomis 10, three-run homers is nuts.

That means he has at least 30 runs driven in. I did that math all by myself. This one was like the bullpen series Both bullpins were awesome And I guess you'd expect that coming in to the series Like this is these are two of the better bullpins And all the baseball When right

Um Yeah I don't know what there is to say about Either of these teams I think the what we've been talking about With the Guardians like has kind of come to life a little bit Although they've been playing some sort of like Jekyll and Hyde ball as of late They either, you know, win a bunch of games in a row or lose a bunch of games in a row.

But a lot of it, you know, the offense can be spotty at times. It can go off at times, but it can go quiet. And then you mentioned the overuse of the bullpen. It didn't really matter in this series here. As they were, like I said, they were lights out. But this is a fun series. I think this is kind of like, again, I don't mean to overuse the Spider-Man meme, spam that button.

But these are two teams that kind of are like, they're pretty similar. I think the Brewers have more consistent starting pitching but they operate on the same wavelength, I would say. But the Brewers just got the better of them, got the early leads and then had a little bit better offense going in this series. But I would say if these two teams met a bunch, like we would, the series would be close a lot. I mean, this series was close.

There was no blowout games. It was kind of well-played baseball. again, the bullpens were just kind of the story of the series. We've been critical of the Brewer's deadlines in the past, and let's see where the roster lands. Obviously, the Yelich thing was a big blow.

Man, Frankie Montas and Aaron Savali, adding two guys to your rotation, that's significant. And Devin Williams has another 10-pitch save, obviously. And Jared Kainig and Brian Hudson, these are guys, not national radar guys coming into the season. And whether you like war, whether you like straight up stats,

Brian Hudson has a two and a half war for a reliever this year. And that's just Brewer's devil magic, man. The Guardians came in, one in ERA, one in whip. The Brewers came in one or two in ERA, two in whip, as far as bullpens across Major League Baseball. and they showed up. God. I mean, that's a recipe for success.

If you can get out and get an early lead and you can just unleash these dudes, we talk about, oh, we don't want to face the Astros and the playoffs. We don't want to face this. And, you know, they have a nice back end of the bullpen as well. But I'm very curious to see how these two teams will, like what the pitching plan will be for them when they get into the postseason.

Like how quick of a, hook are these guys going to have? How we've seen teams ride bullpens before like but how much can you like if the guardians somehow you know get into a wild card series and they host it and you got three games in a row like they've Clause A shown the ability to go three days in a row like they're going to rely heavily on those guys. I'm I'm excited to see how they handle it. Two first year coaches. Well Treve it's crazy we've ignored it to this point. Um, John Hayman's top five manager performances this season, he had Pat Murphy won and Stephen Vote too.

Chris Rose has asked me a question later today. Is Pat Murphy, is that the biggest postseason award, like after the season award lock right now? And it might be, like he's going to win manager of the year in the NL. And Stephen Vote is going to win manager of the year in the AL. Yeah. It's a little sprinkle, sprinkle. What are the numbers on that, B.

Oh, don't sleep on Joe Espada. The Mastros are coming. The way those awards usually work, I would guess they're... But I think you're right. ...f, you're a big meme guy. Obviously. The two... The two hands and arms embracing each other meme.

Handshake. It's like two ripped arms. Oh, yeah. Yanks are hosting the guards this week. Let's go Yanks. Let's get those twins in first place. I don't get the meme. Oh, first place blocking.

It's the Yankees and twins coming together to take down the guardians. Oh, now I go. Now, yeah. We're hip. I'm a meme guy. I'm a meme guy. I'm a meme guy. Haktua.

Dodgers. Before we do Dodgers, just manager of the year. Check. The two names we said are heavily favoreded. But the other one to consider Matt Quattaro and the Royals, big jump. Those royals come and snake it. Alex Corrin, the Red Sox are exceeding some expectations.

Mike Schilt, Rob Thompson, are two and three slot in the NL. Schilt a beast. Dodgers cards, I'll be honest, Trev. I think the biggest thing of note is Clayton Kirschon, the final game goes six shut and with glass on the IL and we saw Bueller earlier and he didn't exactly look like Walker Bueller like, okay, you're a meme guy. Ah, shit, here we go again. Meme.

I don't know that one. I know you don't. It's from a video game. I think it's from an early Grand Theft Auto, popular meme. I think my favorite meme is like the lady sitting on the bench outside of a fast food restaurant with like your hand or has. You like that? You know that one?

Here's the, here's the, I don't know that one. Okay. That is Grant. That's all. Nice. Yeah.

We've said everything about the NL Central. We feel like we said everything about the Dodgers. Oh, I'll just throw a little Yankee saltiness after watching Clay Holmes blown another save. The fact that Michael Kopeck was moved. Yes, he's closing down. He's closing.

He's closing. He's closing. games for the Dodgers. That might be the most obvious thing in baseball right now is the fact that a guy that has the arm of Michael Kopeck is going to come over to the Dodgers and be dominant. I mean, there is something to be said about being a professional and getting the job done no matter where you are.

I get that. People will think that. But the mental part of the game, talk about it all the time. If you're playing for the White Sox and there's nothing to play for, how up can you really get, how laser focus can you really be? Now

you put on the Dodgers uniform and you understand it is. World Series or freaking bust your manager even says things like that. The intensity and the focus rise. There's just no way around it. And now yeah, we got Kopeck.

You know, the Dodgers are trying to figure out what they're doing. Kopeck now in the back end of their bowlpick. looking good. He induces a double play to end the game. How about Gavin Lux hitting third for them? He's like turned it on. I think he's almost like at a one five war season now, which earlier in the season would have been unfathomable. But he's starting to look like the guy they thought he would look like. That's big for them and lengthening their lineup in the postseason. Hey, Bobby Miller's back. What's up, Bobby Miller?

Copac's numbers since going there. You taking a look at these things? Read them out. Nine games, 9.1 innings, no runs, one hit, one walk,

13 strikeouts, which is, you know, 12.5Ks per 9, 28 years old. I saw the guy throw an immaculate inning against my twins.

Like, this guy's got real deal stuff. Does it get wild every once in a while? Sure, but I don't know, man. it's two completely different organizations going from the white socks

and whatever the hell they have going on over there and then going to the Dodgers. Well, dude, the other, I was getting, I don't know if it was just long weekend and worn out. I was getting a little salty at last night's ESPN broadcast. One, they were complimenting the Yankees bullpen, which I currently disagree with. Two, dude, they were talking about,

they were interviewing Hinch about Scoobel and they were talking about, you know, how much credit so many people in the org deserve for reworking him and getting him that change up and stuff. And he did end it with like, and you know, Scoobel obviously deserves the most credit, but he named like four guys

that came together to take Scubel as their like lab rat and how do we make this better. And it's just nuts to think about because I doubt whoever was coaching Kopec in Chicago I don't think they would get the same level of credit or maybe credit in the wrong way. Hold on, hold on. Because I thought I saw this with Scoobel.

He throws the seam shifted, wake change. I thought he learned it from like his teammate. Now I'm going to look it up right on. Maybe I'm, maybe I'm wrong. It was like Hinch took like 5%, which I was surprised about his manager. And then he named like three pitching geeks. And they were like, yeah, that's how we made Scoobel.

And I was like, damn, that's like, that stinks, but is also kind of how it works. Because look at all these good organizations. Look at the Brewers. Look at the guards. Clearly, they have something figured out that other teams do not. Okay, hold on. Okay.

This is the Tigers. The Tigers, maybe there was somebody else that learned their change up from one of their teammates. The Tigers worked his change up. They gave him a ball with a black dot on it and told him to throw it like this. Instead of pronating, you're going to do this. For sale throws now that like non-pronation change up. It's like airplane turbulence.

Anyways. Just throw the ball and watch us here. Didn't Aaron Judge call him the best pitcher in baseball? That's nice. That'd be nice to hear. I know he'd probably put, take that quote, print it out and it's like put it on your wall. I would do that.

Trevor Ploof's the voice of baseball right now. Darren Judge said that. He didn't say that. He didn't say that yet. He will. They come around. Trev, NL, I think it's quick hitters. I mean, the Phillies, the Phillies give the Nats the business.

I mentioned their big three highlighted by Chris Sanchez that you might hear more about in a little bit. The Royals Reds nonsense. I've run through. you start cooking with whatever's got you hot. Let me cook on just a little something. First of all, I was going to give my standout to Weston Wilson. I had to change it because something else on the Phillies is coming later in the show. So shout out West and Wilson. A guy that I've seen in the cage, he worked with Kotuck. He worked with my guy, Brad Boyer. He's always had an incredible

swing. Perseverance at the upper minor league levels. It's been great. And now he's getting a chance to play. I actually sent him a message saying like, dude, congratulations. The cycle's amazing and his response is I just want to win the World Series, which is, if you're a Phillies fan, you're like, I like that guy. Also, I'm not going to say what I was going to say.

Trey Turner, what's up, dog, you sat out for one game, now you're back. You got to love that. That's my guy right there. Kansas City, scary. I'm scared of them. I'm scared of what they can do offensively. I mean, this was an absolute bloodbath in Cincinnati. Addie.

7-1-13-1-8-1. That is about as bad a sweep as we've seen this season. Maybe a higher run differential sweep. Holy crap. And then obviously Bobby Wood's still doing his thing, but they had some starting pitching as well. They've had that all year long. I mean, Brady Singer no earned runs.

Michael Waka, no runs. Lorenzen gets his win. Like, okay, okay, scared of that a little bit. Cubs, I don't care about. Love you, Ian Hap. but again, I'm like a 500 or better guy right now. If you're not 500,

how much can we really talk about you? Was I talking about the Kenny Rosenthal article on camera or was that before this show? You mentioned a Kenny Rosenthal article briefly a couple minutes ago. I don't know. Anyways, they're talking,

Kenny Rosenthal says they might be shutting him down, they might be limiting innings, and I got blown up for saying that. Yes. Whatever. Padres, I don't care. You lost in Colorado. It's the weirdest place to play in the world.

I can't wait to see you guys tonight. On that game. Be giving them lots of love on the Twins broadcast. So tune in if you want to see that. And then the Mets, good job. Took two or three for the Marlins. I don't know. You're still in it.

And the Mets have a crazy schedule coming up too, don't they? I believe they're facing the Padres in Arizona. I think they have Baltimore. More Padres, someone else. It's an O3, three series that Jolly was scared about. Tester. Tester two weeks here for the Mets. Got to love that.

But I still do believe in the Mets. And more on them coming later, right? Hey, man, a little more on them coming later. I, uh, go check out the Royals if you have a chance today. Because, man, I, let's see where everything lands. But I, this team has done a lot of work. Lucas Erseg is is doing things in the back of their bullpen now

which a hole bullpen they fully revamped before the season by the way if you believe in voodoo and you're still looking to play some bets Will Smith the reliever is on Kansas City No no Just a reminder Did you go on the IL? Something happened

There was a big transaction with him He's back And right now the Royals rotation, Trev. This might be my new answer for Dalton in a minute. Seth Lugo has been one of the best pitchers all year. Carl Riggins has his own argument. They traded for Michael Lorenzen, who has been good for them. Michael Waka has put together a great year.

And so is Brady Singer. Dude, they have one of the best five men going right now. And I don't think we talk about the royals like that. We did early on in the season. Then we kind of got sick of it. They're third and ERA, fifth and whip. And this is the most important one in the postseason. They're first in homers per nine.

If you don't give up homers, you usually win the series. That's just how it goes. So, okay. That's a little scary. Dude, Seth, ERA plus, Seth Lugo, 140, Regans, 136, singer, 136, Waka, 130. Carl, Ryan, hi, Kyle Ryan. I don't know who that one.

accent on the Reagan. Hey, y'all, welcome to Carl Riggins. We got everything y'all like to eat here. We've gotten away from the baseball a little bit, and that's okay. Lorenz and 2-8-7 since going over there. Every five days.

Every day. You guys hate the Mets. You guys hate, oh, here we go. 203 out of boo bitch. What's the record since Hock 2a girl? You grow the first pitch. That's just inappropriate. Let's do

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There it is. Nice, Trev. I've got mine on. I'll flash it towards the end. Tommy John, they're the best. I've made my full underrew collection, all Tommy John. There's a funny moment. Well, A, I'll lead up to the funny moment.

get 20% off your first order right now at Tommyjohn.com slash talking 20% off breathable lightweight second skin underwear at Tommyjohn.com again I've changed my whole wardrobe I do have a funny story when we were at Fanatics Fest we were on stage uh two hours a lot of baseball after that happened by the way after us ran that stage after us on stage it's jalen brunson Josh Hart Tom Brady and little Wayne I think a couple of other people hopped on too. I think speed hopped on at one point. Like, what? Tommy, by the way. Tommy, off your story go. Tommy John was a part of their presentation and they had a mannequin that had Tommy John on. I did make a pitch to the Tommy John representatives there to let me be

the onstage mannequin. And worst case scenario was they said yes, because then I would have been on stage with a lot of famous people just in my underwear. That would have been a real tested Jake. Maybe next time. Speed? Yeah. That guy, most famous guy at the venue. That was insane.

Seeing the reaction of the crowd, the kids, I mean, there was a mob of 50 people, maybe more following him wherever he went with their cameras out. If nobody else had that reaction. Yeah. Nobody, not Tom Brady, not Grong. None of the basketball players, not even me, had that reaction. That was insane to see, like, YouTube clout.

And you know who gave him the work? New warehouse legend, kickball dad coming to the next floor ball tournament. They played a one-on-one soccer game. Kickball dad gave him the business. He gave him the business in soccer? Yes. Oh, my gosh. Yes.

Trev, your standout performer? My standout performer is Masataka Yoshita. We went three for four with a homer, four runs driven in, a run and a walk. I was just perusing, you know, the stats page as I do on baseball reference, and I just noticed what he's been doing.

He had a little IL stint there in May, kind of running into June. But since he's been back, it's been 51 games played, Jake. You got a 301. 387, 460 for the 846. I mean, look, sometimes he gets lost in the shuffle there in Boston. He was a darling for a little bit, and then, you know, people were saying, is he really going to adjust?

But he's, I think he is turned into a very valuable piece for the Red Sox to say the least. And I wanted to give him a little bit of run. I didn't know his numbers were there. I did not know the on-base percentage was there. Six homers, 32 runs driven in on the year. I like this, 18 walks to 29 strikeouts. that gets me fired up a little bit. So I wanted to send Yoshida a little bit of love.

I think he got a lot of love initially and really hasn't as of late. There's been younger Red Sox players that have come up and kind of taken that team by storm. And a lot of the press has gone to them. But Yoshida is still performing at a great clip for them. So I wanted to highlight it. One dotting in the second half, 26 games. And yeah, that Red Sox offense, I mean, things are. I think half, unfortunately, for Red Sox fans, landing, like, kind of where we expect.

Like, the offense is now a top three offense, you could argue. But the pitching, especially the bullpen, has given them a couple tough blows. And, man, they have been using that bullpen. My God. That bullpen usage page. Is Kenley a Hall of Famer? I think so. Like, he's been just, for years, just lights out.

Like for how important that role has become. They'll probably fix how a reliever voting works by the time he's in there. Third and OPS, fourth and run. Six in Homer, six and stolen bases. You don't see that a lot. Or teams are, you know. They do it all. Top part of the rankings in homers and stolen bases.

That's, don't let them sneak in. A difficult team to play, man. What was there? There was a fun, fun fact on their stolen bases. Because I think Hamilton and Hamilton and Duran Both have 30 steals. And it's the first time that's happened since Willie McGillacutty

and Frank Frankerton did that for the Red Sox. Harry Hooper and Trist Speaker. You nailed it. Hey, Harry Hooper was very much, that's more ridiculous than the names I said. And Casas is back. Go nuts, Red Sox. Why not?

What are standout, Pop? My standout, I did a double. Why not? It's an NLEE's double. And if you got to stand out, you got to stand out. And one way to stand out is being tall. I know all about that. Christopher Sanchez, nine innings.

That's a complete game. Mention that on the way through. And NLE's double-dip, Luis Severino, with the complete game, shut piece. So we talk about, you know, the Mets are still very much in striking distance. This one-year contract for Louis Severino, I think it's already paid off in what they've been looking for.

The Mets, that funky roster that got hot in the grimace times, and Lendor has put together an amazing season. Yeah, they have a tough Baltimore, San Diego, Arizona, yikes. but let's see where the Mets land and Luis Severino's complete game shut piece helps on that and Christopher Sanchez Treve I hate to welcome you to like all of your nightmares in one person

but Christopher Sanchez seven foot four now and they just went to the tape arm slot came down a little bit they made the adjustment here's your complete game he uh yeah he had a couple big blow up um starts he had a four inning pitch seven earned run against the Cubs. Then he had,

he had six runs against your Yanks and then against Arizona his last start before this complete game. Four and two thirds, 12 hits, seven earned runs and then yes, follows that up. And if you're a Philly's fan and you're in the organization to come back and say, yeah, I know it was against Washington. I understand that. But nine innings pitched only two hits with an adjustment. Got to love that. We love that for the pitch. Trev, there was, I mean, Framber, Clayton Kirschaw,

Bowden, Francis is clicking for the Jays. I mentioned Darien Blanco's weekend. Brandon Lau, Parker Meadows. But let's get to the best segment of the show. Dirt nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby, like Waco. Corona Extra and Fuego, Trev, who do you got? First, I want to give a shout

to Nameless Jeff. I went over to his house for his son's birthday party yesterday. He gave me my birthday presents. My birthday was two months ago, but that's how things work when you're older. If you know Nameless Jeff, you know he does for his business,

and you can imagine what I got for my birthday. Ah. Glass, and it's shaped like a vase. So that's great. Anyways, for the Corona Extra Enfuego segment, we'll start out with Marcel Ozuna. and I'm not going to go over too much because I think we might be talking a little bit later

but he went 8 for 10 in the series against the Angels. Quick math, that's an 800 average. Pretty good right there. How about Darien Blanco of Kansas City? He went 5 for 8. Three homers, eight runs driven in, five runs scored for the two daughter. He entered Saturday with one homer

and five runs driven in on the season and on Saturday he had two homers and seven runs driven in in one game. You got to love that. His seven runs driven out on Saturday was the second most in the game by a royal and most since Omar Infante. Shout out, his seven RBIs on September 17th, 2015.

I think you all know what happened with the Royals in 2015. I surely remember. Blanco entered this series with four homers over 142 games and he had three homers in the series. That's awesome. Trey Turner, I mentioned getting hot again. 10 for 17 in the series. Three doubles of homers.

four runs driven in. He entered the series in a 10 for 70 stretch. He got benched for one game, came back. He had 10 hits in the series against the Nats. For the week, Gavin Sheets, what's up? Chicago White Sox fans, you're not listening. Nine for 22, four doubles of Homer, seven runs driven in for the one daughter. Mark Vientos, my guy, my doppelganger.

He went eight for 22, two doubles, two homers, five runs driven in for the one. And you mentioned Bowden, Francis. Is it Bowden or Bowden? Bobby Bowden. Either one. I'll go with that then. Two games started. 14 innings pitch.

Four hits, one earned run. 15Ks. Jake, no walks. My juices are now flowing. On Sunday, he threw seven shutout innings for the first time in his career. He hadn't had a start go deeper than five and two thirds. That's like a Jake Storelli quote.

Until his last two starts, we went seven-nings pitch. Both the time. For the two weeks, I mentioned Yoshida. and what he's been doing since he came back June 11th, but over the two weeks, 21 for 46, where a 457 average, four doubles, three homers, nine runs driven in. Shout out, Yoshi.

And then Framber Valdez, of course, is on this every. He could have got the Corona extra player of the yet, but I didn't give it to him. Three games started, 21 and a third inning's pitch, only seven hits, only three runs, 23Ks to five walks. He won his career best eighth consecutive. consecutive decision over his last 10 starts and has a two three nine over that span all of which all those starts the astros have won the astros are coming the astros are coming the ben revere astros are coming paul revere and ben's my guy though your guy and now yes for the corona extra

player of the it was always you albert it was always you albert it was always you albert swore Torres. Three games started. 17 and two-thirds innings pitched. 13 hits. 17 Ks to three walks. Guess how many runs given up, Jake? Nunka. Goose egg, baby. Three consecutive starts without allowing a run.

His scoreless streak is now a career long. 17 and two-thirds innings. His previous best was 12 and 2-thirds. And that was from May 10th through May 31st. Of his 17 starts this year, eight have been scored. this. Whoops. No pitcher in Majority Baseball has more score that starts in 2024, and Swarres his third consecutive start replacing Grayson Rodriguez, who went on the IL. We're not sure he's going to pitch again. So this is extra important that he won the Corona extra player of the app because

the Orioles desperately need him to do what he's been doing. Shout out Albert Suarez, your doppelganger. Trev, thank you. I haven't looked at the Albert Suarez stuff in a while. Thank you, Make sure you guys go to order Corona.com. Go get yourself Corona. Drink responsibly, but enjoy yourself some Corona. Get extra on it. Albert Suarez, who hadn't pitched in the major league since 2017, had a higher ERA in Caracas last season in his 54 innings.

So I don't, is the MLB the best baseball league? Click. Where's Caracas right now? Venezuela. One. Yes. Come on. We're a geography.

Flavor Torres. From there. From Caracas. I've been to Caracas, have you? Yeah, it was you, me, Billy Butler, Austin Jackson.

Who's the pitcher for the Royals and the Reds? Who's? Homer Bailey. Homer Bailey. Yeah. For Bailey. Bailey's cream.

Carolina. No. Treve, great Corona stand out. Framber's been flipping that curve ball up There are more. It is Bowden like Bobby Bowden. He's from Tallahassee.

Obviously. Yeah. That's amazing. It's great. That's a sports family. Trev, let's do the IL, the worst segment of the show, because it starts with our friend Tyler Glassnow. He goes to the aisle for the Dodgers.

Scary. We don't love that. Hunter Green for Cincinnati, one of the few guys chasing that NL. Sigh. He goes to the aisle. Zach Lattel for Tampa. he goes to the aisle.

Ron Presley had been getting knocked around a little bit. Hopefully he can clear his mind for Houston. And then a couple bullpen guys. Austin Adams, Stephen Wilson, Derek Law, Dominic Leone. Oh, Pete Fairbanks, we believe, going on the IL today. Returning. We mentioned Tristan Kosses.

How about that for that top three Boston offense? Ryan, a little pep in his stepio, getting over that spider bite. Tyler O'Neill for, Boston. So hey, Boston's going to give it, give it a go. Oh, Riley Green, Nolan Jones, Starling

Marte for Los Metz. And it looks like Max Muncie and Tommy Edmund for your Los Angeles Dodgers. I cannot wait to see how the Dodgers use Tommy Edmund. Is he just, is he there starting shortstop? He's going to be everywhere. He's going to be literally everywhere.

Never mind. Why'd I even ask? Trev, let's start the People's Week. Brought to you by Trevor Plouffe. Shout out. Kels will be seeing her shortly as BB5. Yeah. Is it coming.

My award is Best Quotes of All Time Award. There's a lot of great quotes out there. People have been talking for like a long time. I don't know if you know that, but like so we've been talking, verbalizing our thoughts, that's what talking is.

And so because we've been verbalizing our thoughts for so long, there's been a lot of great quotes. I want to read a few of them to you. Okay. Okay. Do you know who Mahatma Gandhi is by chance? Sure. The big man. You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Salt March.

Kind of goes hand in hand with the golden rule. Do one to others as you'd want done unto yourself. I really like that quote. I tell my kids that all the time. Like, would you want to be treated that way? It's a good one for parents, by the way. How about Franklin D. Roosevelt? The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Classic.

Martin Luther King Jr. Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that. Powerful. And this is kind of like a sneaky one. Never heard this one by Benjamin Franklin.

Well done is better than well said. Like talk is cheat, bro. It's another way of saying talk is cheap. Go do it. Action speak louder than words. Who said that? No idea. It's George Brett, I think.

George. I think that's George Brett. Shout out the Brett sons who are like, We're thickest thieves, bro. Okay. Love that. Had a really good time with you guys at Cooperstown. I'll read one more.

Before I get into why I chose this award. Be yourself, everyone else has already taken is Oscar Wild. That's a good one. Got to love that. So snaps for all those people that have been talking and verbalizing their thoughts for a while and saying some cool stuff. I am giving this award, the best quotes of all time award, to a guy who I believe I've given an award before,

or two, and this is pretty crazy, because it's John Middleton, the owner of the Philadelphia Phillies, Matt Gelb, who covers the Phillies for the athletics, for the athletic, excuse me, not for the A's, but the athletic publication. He had a nice little, like, he saw on Middleton and kind of, you know, had some quotes about where the Phillies stand and all these things, and it was, it was really cool. We've done this before. Middleton comes from the, like, tobacco family. This guy started, his great, great, great grandpa started a tobacco shop way back in 1867. He eventually sold it to Altria, which was owned by Philip Morris for a lot of money. He ends up buying a stake in the Phillies, ends up upping his stake in the Phillies. Technically,

he's not a majority owner because they're not allowed to have that, but he owns 46% of the Phillies. He's been the face of the Phillies since 2015. And he's said all the right things since then. And he's really turned the franchise around, in my opinion. And he's done that by approaching it the way, I think all of us want owners to approach this thing. If we were owners, I think we'd act a lot like John Middleton. Here's some quotes from that article. He's talking about he feels a responsibility to Philly's fans. I'm going to start with one quote, and then the next one is really the one that hit home for me. This is why it's important to go out and sign people like Bryce Harper, why you pay Zach Wheeler

40 plus million a year for three years it's because this is how the fans react it's important to them they appreciate it they recognize it I love that I have other owners who look at me and say we don't get this it's remarkable how special this city is

as a fan base if your owner came out and said that hey this is why we pay people because we know that you like it how freaking juiced up would you be juiced love that pretty juice right he goes on and this is my favorite quote and this is why I gave him the award because I've been saying this for quite some time you know if you I guess I'll read the quote first

then I'll give my explanation quote it's why I keep telling everybody it may be a privately held business that we own but it's not a private organization it's a very public organization it's a stewardship we have an obligation we are accountable to the fans and to the city if you don't approach it that way. You shouldn't be an owner in my opinion. Holy shit. I've been saying that for years. Yes, you buy a business. You can, you know, quote unquote, run it however you want. That's what a lot of people say. But it's not that way in professional sports, especially in baseball. There's the antitrust exemption. There is the fact that all these stadiums get built with publicly funded money. Like, there are a lot of things that the fans do for the team.

that you have to give some love back to the fans. And I've been saying this, if you can't spend money on your team and you can't really go out there and put a winning product on the field, sell it. There's a lot of people out there looking to get into the pro sports world. It's just facts, dude.

And for him to say, if you don't approach it that way, you shouldn't be an owner in my opinion, I feel like vindicated. I feel like, yes, this is how all owners should talk about their team. So I want to, I don't know, I read this article and I was blown away. I think he's just, he's really been so good for that city and for the team. We've seen him up in the stands just like taking baseballs and throwing them out into the stands.

I know that's like a small stupid gesture, but like it means so much to see your owner going out there and being involved like this. So shout out John Middleton. You got a six pack and you're like 60 something years old. I respect you. and these quotes are incredible. Trevi suck up. I mean, I don't know. You know.

No, what do you mean? I don't care. Like, this is crazy to hear an owner talk like that, on record. And I don't know if he's just like placating to the fan base. Maybe that's all it is. You want some love. But like it sure sounds like he thinks like this. And he's put his money where his mouth is.

I mean, I brought it up earlier this season. Are they like the model? Are they the fan dream model? And kind of. Yeah, I mean, it's, they, I think they just kind of officially got out of their funk. Well, holy smokes, look at this. At Atlanta, at Kansas City hosting Houston. Oh, baby.

We're going to find out if Phillies out of their funk. That is a tough little trip. But when you have Wheeler Nola Sanchez, along with their bullpen, and all their lineup. Looks like Trey Turner's kicked back into gear. Still waiting for that Harper final knob to go. Castellanos had a huge weekend. No, man, you look around the whole roster,

whether it's signings, free agents, call-ups, whatever it is, Stought and Bohm in the middle of that lineup, they are, yes, I love hearing an owner talk like that. I'd love to hear more owners talk like that. And he's got a six-pack, which you really like. I love the man. mention that. You do love to mention that. Who you got, Pop, with your award.

Wow. I didn't know it was an East Coast bias day, but I guess it always is. I'm giving out the Six Crowns Award, Trev. And you know, I could go Lord of the Rings. I could go Game of Thrones on you and talk about some of the different histories. Season 8, just finished episode two. We're about to, we're about to battle. the Knight King probably tonight or tomorrow night. So, the angst tonight. Crazy how dark that is on the wall, that one? No, we're at, we're coming, they're coming to Winterfeld.

Bob. More so. It's all one to happen. The Atlanta Braves that are having a weird old season down there. I don't, they don't know how to think about their team. I asked Moylan what's up. He's like not sure. Charlie Morton is punching tickets still.

Chris Sale. Ronaldo Lopez is supposed to come back. Let's see how that looks for them. Trev, Chris Sale is looking like he's going to win the Cy Young, which is insane for a lot of different reasons. The fact they assigned him to an extension before the season, like that's some actual warlock and wizardry. He's leading in ERA.

He's leading in wins. he's close innings pitched, and he's leading in strikeouts. Chris Sale, I actually believe he is leading in all those National League categories right now. Wins, ERN case. Triple Crown.

Scoobel, chasing that in the AL2. Let's see. A little less talked about, Marcel de Baro Zuna is also chasing the Triple Crown. He is leading the NL and batting average at 309. Okay, baseball.

Okay, arise. Let's go. He is first in RBI with 93. Makes a little more sense. And he's second in homers at 36. I believe Otani's at 39. We're currently at five crowns in Atlanta, like two kind of historic-type seasons.

In a weird Atlanta season that's felt disappointing, more so because of what the Phillies have been doing. but man, if Shohay slows down for any reason, which is doubtful or anything else, or if the bear has a big weak power-wise, we're looking at two triple crown candidates. This is like one of the bigger things in baseball you could put together for a full season. And yeah, we haven't said Braves devil devil magic a lot this year, but this has just a little bit on there.

currently five crowns in Atlanta that's insane I didn't know the Ozuna stuff I saw a tweet by somebody I forget who it is but I was shocked to see those numbers 309 average didn't know he had it like that

Trey Turner has got 311 but he's not qualified yet so that could be interesting to see there at the end of the year if it gets enough of bats to qualify and then him arise in Ozuna kind of batting titling it off would be fun to see. I don't know if he's going to catch Shohei. Shohei just is another world.

Tough to do that. But yeah, you're right. I mean, these are two guys. They're top of the war leaderboard for the Braves. Chris Sill, I love that you said, wizardry and what did you say? Witchcraft and wizardry? Something like that. I agree with you.

Get him over here, you know, figure it out, sign him to a deal. everyone was kind of scratching their head about that. Now here he is. Is he really leading in all those categories as well? I mean, I know he's having a good season, but I just, I didn't know that. 262 ERA, 187Ks, 14 wins. That's insane, dude.

And that's the triple, I don't even know the triple crown as for pitchers, because I don't care because you know about me and pitchers, but... Right. It's insane, dude. We thought it was like over. Like we thought he was going to be a bullpen option for them And he's just going to be

Just going to be the best picture in the National League Beaver did it short in 2020 season Doesn't count furlander did it in 2011 It's historic Already at the most endings He's thrown since 2019 His leading in FIPP So in theory that his FIPP's saying

he's pitching into a little bit of bad luck. So he's one strikeout ahead of Dylan. Cease. That'll be an interesting race going down there because we know CIS can get on a heater as well. He's two wins above Cease and Wheeler. They have 12 to his 14. And the ERA, Wheeler's a 272.

Where's Wheeler in the strikeouts? 162. So Wheeler probably can't catch him in strikeouts. Wow. Okay. Hunter Green just went on the IL. He's at 283. Sales a stub, man.

He got that new change-up, too. Everyone's got the new change-up. All these lefties. Seam-shifted wake. Yeah, apparently his change-up. Cut sometimes. Hey, dog days. August 19th.

Thank you guys. Enjoy your baseball this week. We will see you Wednesday with a fun app. We'll wrap her up Friday. Poof. I need a... I'm a king doing his thing. I need a salad.

Chick sucks. I am hungry. Fourth best out for a trail, Sayung. Class A. Nice, nice. Reliever representation. Scoobles minus 1100. Sean Maniah.

Ninth in the Yenelle for ERA. Good evening. That's... Devil Magic. Talk about the Mets.