Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Home Run Celebrations, Rays Hot Start, and 2017 Astros | 648

Episode Date: April 12, 2023

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. We are ranking the dugout celebrations, talking about the raise, being undefeated, and other stuff. We're going to talk about other stuff, too. Wow. It's a great opening. It was good, and then I didn't stick to plan. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball brought here by Seatheek. My name is Jimmy.

I'm sitting here with Jake and Trev and BBD's behind the dish producing away. We've got some fun midweek conversations today. Louaser 11 and oh, real or fake? Are you buying Ray stock? Jake, how you doing? You look good? James, Trevor, BBD was just looking at Trevor and Olivia on Instagram. Hot.

I'm doing well, but we don't talk about that. And yeah, I'm running hot today. I got the big coffee. I didn't sleep at all last night, so we're going to run on pure American caffeine energy. drinks, all the healthy stuff that my mother hates. And just had brother Jeff Passing on Wake and Jake this morning and talked about some of the same topics. And he was running hot.

So that's got me fueled up. And we got the full band midweek. So that always gets me a little hard H in the pantaloons. Trev. How are you? I don't like where you. You know what? I told you like out here, the vibe is not great.

It's misty. It's foggy. It's a little dark. and then you start talking about boners and the intro and like, what am I supposed to do, man? I'm trying to have a serious, you know, baseball show here and here you are, man. Yeah, I didn't say.

I do agree, though. You look, you look really good. I didn't pick up on the boners. Didn't say the B word once. You said hard in the pantalones. I don't know what else to infer from that one. That's good need a lot of things, man. Okay.

Good quads. I'm doing great though. Look, it is weird. I'm going to have a weird energy today on this episode. I want to warn everybody. These dugout celebrations. I'm going to be harsh. It's just how I am.

I can't change that, James. What about you? How are you feeling today? I'm good. Busy day today. I think we're doing a lot of stuff. I already did a big old show, two shows. I've got a lot of meetings.

He's a day game. It's a big one. But also, I'm going to see you in a week or so. You're coming out here for another warehouse tournament and we'll do some in-person shows together and shit. So that got me jazzed up. You know, Sam told me yesterday. She's like, you know, it's next week.

And I was like, whoa. And Katie's got a friend coming out. And she's bringing her kid. So I'm doing like hotel days. I think I'm doing two or three nights in the hotel. Whoa. Very excited for this tournament. That's some late night hangs, me, you, Jay, TBD.

Maybe we invite Zach. I don't know what will happen. Ooh. So things are going well. Yeah, home run celebrations. You want to get right into them? Sure. Can.

Now, I know we were texting last night Are we just choosing our favorites of the existing ones? Are we still going to provide help for teams that don't have them with some ideas? I think it's a little of both, right? We got a lot out there right now. It's a lot to drink in. We do the what is these called? Caesar thumb.

I think we do that for each celebration that's existing. And then as I suggested last night, some teams that don't have them, let's suggest. And you can actually run it back. If you don't like one that's already happening, you can suggest something for them. I think teams need help. And you could probably find some other home run celebrations

on MLB 9 innings the app. Trev, it was live on talking Yanks, took my first at bat in the game, Aaron Judge, Homrun. So the game's realistic as all heck. They got some celebrations in there as well. They've got league modes live PVP. You could, how many games you want in your season to run out.

That's probably the future of baseball too, right? And they've got all these historic players. Larry Walker, Walter Johnson, Jackie Robinson, Roberto Clemente, Jim Tome, Trevor Plouffe, Ty Cobb, and so many more. Download MLB 9 innings the app. There's a link. MLB 9 in 23. There's a link in the description. And if you're a baseball fan, which you're listening to talking baseball right now, and you got a phone,

that's a pretty good combination for this. So go check it out. See if you like it. Enjoy it with us. hit some homers and celebrate. Okay. Let's let people know where we stand. Like kind of when you great attractiveness,

you need to understand the barometers of someone's opinion. Like, first I want to let everyone know, I'm a fan of home run dugout celebrations when warranted, not every home run. If you're down, if you're down eight months in the eighth, I think you don't do it, you know. I think you have to have the wherewithal and kind of the,

understanding of, yeah, let's do it. If you're down three runs in the eighth, yeah, you're mounting a little comeback. You know what I mean? So I think we've gone astray there where we've seen some really sad ones. My favorite one of recent pains me because it's a team I don't like.

The Red Sox dugout cart, I thought it lasted longer than it should have. But the first year, I think it was 2020, and then even 2021, I thought that was a real fun one because it looked like a good time. You get to sit in the cart, you get pushed down the hallway,

you get all your high fives. I thought when they hit that appropriately, it was one of the more fun dugout celebrations going. And then it kind of lingered too long and you're like, guys, it came in last place, you should do something new. So that's a little bit of where I send. Jake, do you have any favorites from past times? Are you in every home run, just big home runs?

See, it's just what you laid out is tricky because you're leaving a little gray area. Oh, yeah, tons. That's where, you know, Trev's kind of the, opposite end of the spectrum. He's more of a, if you do it, you got to do it and, and lean into it where, um, I don't know. I, I think just more fun needs to be in the game. Treves coaching kids nowadays like, you know, I, I want even, I want individual guys, you know, the guys round and third that do the, the stutter step or, or whatever it is. I think guys individually should have their own thing. The kids are mimicking in the yards. And yeah, I think you got to feel it out

year by year if things are working for you and depending what it is let it ride if things aren't which you know there's an argument for you know 29 other teams 28 other teams that the season kind of didn't get to where it was supposed to to change it up a little bit so it's a long season I think you got to do something fun to get through it the Orioles busted out some sprinklers the other day which uh was one of my favorite things I've seen in a long time and is ridiculous but I love that. Hopey lead off today just to let you know. Trabb?

Bopi leadoff, okay. All right. I want there to be feel with these home run celebrations. I actually do agree with Jimmy. The problem is we're in 2023 and everything is black and white. So that's what's going on here.

There's no feel whatsoever anymore. I want there to be feel. So I don't want you putting those words into my mouth. Jake. For me, my barometer, I want it to be like topical. I want it to make sense with the city. I think most importantly like that to me it's like you're doing it for the fans. Like you're celebrating yeah, with your boys. But like the fans want to be part of it too. So I feel like it just has to like relate to the city that you're in in some way. Or like there needs to be a good story. If there's like a story out there and you bring it into the team and you guys rally around it,

I'm okay with that. If there's just something just like out of the blue made up, I'm kind of kind of out on it. I think you're going to see for a lot of these. I think we're going to give them better ideas. That's going to be my favorite part about this. Like ranking them, whatever, but I think giving these teams ideas is going to be fun.

I think that I like the backstory a lot. It's like a nickname, right? It's got to have a cool origin story. And then you can all accept it. If, you know, the guys are going into a room together and saying,

what should our thing be? And they're just, there's no like connection. It's a little odd. but we got a lot this year. Most of them are headwear. So I think we kind of bucket those all into one category. It's very easy guy hits a home run.

You put a silly hat on them. And we got the Braves with the big giant hat. We've got the reds with like the Viking hat. With the thorns and the, what would that be called a cape? It's like cape. Yeah, like the Game of Thrones. Your Thrones. Like,

I'm famously against this Reds Viking thing. Everyone knows that. But you just threw up a picture of Jonathan India in it. And now it's like, that's not fair. That's not a real representation of what it looks like. That's too good. Well,

I like at the end when they walk at the end of the dugout line, they present them with the bat. That's another big thing for me. I think you need a closing act to the celebration. If the guy gets to the end of the dugout and kind of just like takes the hat off sadly, it's weird. Like you need someone at the end of the high five line bringing it home.

So that's where the Reds win me over with this one. Because it's more than just headwear. They're presenting him with the bat at the end as like a gift to the gods, King Ragnar. The angels have been doing sombrero and then now they got a samurai helmet that Otani bought. And my God, that thing is cool looking. They had the cowboy hat last try. I guess Shohay decided or wanted to do the samurai helmets. This is,

this one makes sense to me because obviously Shohay just came back from beating the Americans. Don't they call themselves like the Samurai Japan team? So he's bringing us in. The angels are like, hey, Shohei, whatever you want, bro?

Like we can, what else do you want us to do? We want you to stay here. So we'll just be a true back and call. This one makes sense to me. And it's a badass helmet. So I give this one my approval. Yeah,

that's tough. Trev, I mean, splitting the Reds Viking and the Japanese samurai helmet, that's, that's a tight, that's a tight lane. Well, he got it from Japan. Joe is from, yeah, show he's from Japan. Luis Sessa said Jake Fraley looks like a Viking. How is that difference than, how is that different than Team Japan win the WBC? So wait, is that, I was going to ask, why do the Reds do the Viking thing?

Your boy, Louis Sessa said, he's like, Fraley, you look like a Viking with. the big beard and the long blonde hair. That's loose. That's tough, right? And then the Braves Big Hat one, that's just got to be like, hey, there's the big hat thing going on.

So let's go through. Braves Big Hat. Braves Big Hat's a giant thumbs down. It's, it's too good of a team. If you don't want to do one, you don't have to do one. You look back in time and you're just like,

what were we doing? I mean, that's the only picture I've seen of Maddles where I said, no, you can't date my daughter. Yeah. And this isn't a knock on the big hat.

I don't want people thinking that. We have a big hat in the John Boy Media community. We had, you know, let's bowl battle three. I had a lot of big hat involvement. I like the big hat. But when everyone else is kind of up in the ante, this seems like maybe you should have just sat it out.

Seems a little like, eh, not enough for me. Yes. We're out on this one. This one's not creative enough, essentially. Yeah. No. I agree. Viking.

Celebration for the Reds? Caesar Thumb? I'm up. I'm up because of the ending. Jake's staying neutral. I said it. I think we're being a little too tough on them because the fact that they're the Reds.

I'm up. There's not as much. I'm talking to Trev, Jim. I will not hold this the entire episode. I won't. Yeah, it's you wish there was a stronger connection. I think the full conversation we had is right. But it looks cool.

And yeah, why not? India looks. I got to hold that thing. Is it heavy? Is it like just a plastic one? No, that's plastic. Because I like the ending a lot. I'm into it.

Okay. Angels. I'm up on the samurai. If they've completely gone to that, I'm down on the sombrero. If that's... Have they been using a sombrero? Yeah, they started with a sombrero,

and now they're doing the sand. They're still using the straw hat on road... Straw hat. I'm sorry. They're not traveling with it because I guess it's like a whole deal. And that sounds a little angels to me. We're an MLB team. You can't figure out you're shipping bats and balls and gear.

You can't find an extra box for the samurai helmet. But hold on. I have a thought. So when they were in Oakland, it was a warrior's hat. Now, if they're choosing on the road to, wear like if when they go to an opponent's other team's hat if it's a rub it in mode I'm out on it and I'm out on it if it's not double out on the straw hat okay I tried to talk myself into it as like a rubbing salt in the wounds but you're the angels you can't do that yet um I'm out if

the straw hat I'm out on I actually enjoyed the cowboy hat it was like a nod to jean a tree and like that made some sense and I think cowboy hats like on Mike trout look phenomenal so I was excited to see that. The fact that they don't travel with the samurai helmet is the least show thing I've ever heard. Wait, hold on. Look at this helmet. Hey, rook. Are they saying it's a weapon?

Are they saying it's a weapon? Are they saying like security doesn't allow it because it's so scary? No, shoot. They said weight in size. We're a pro baseball team, though. What about all the bats and balls? Yeah. Well, they don't bring those either.

I'm down. Oh, shoot. I was up, but now. Dude, that's such an angel's thing to say? You're missing the boat. Why? In the samurai hat, you'll get thumbs up. You bring the catcher's helmet.

I'm back to down. I'm down on it. If they bring it on the road, I'm up. Then I'm up. Okay. Like, you know, buy in one time, angels. It's crazy. Okay, another hat.

Let's move on. I like the cheese head. The Brewers. Now the brewers, let me say this. Last year with the bell. and the hand, I was in on it. You talked about finishing moments, a little climax, the ringing of the bell.

Love that. The other team hears it. It's not too disrespectful because you're doing it in your dugout, but you know that pitcher is like that. You do not like that bell. I think the bell, and this is where I might confuse everyone or even myself, I think the bell stands the test of time. I think that can be a that dugout feature,

no matter who players are. there. I don't think that needs to be swapped in and out season to season. It can almost become something where like people, you have bell night at the stadium and you have little bells and then after a home run, bam, or you have like a, okay, what if you have one bell in the outfield that a fan, like a random fan, if the home run, you get to ring the bell and they're like on watch for an inning. Just feels like that should be Philly. Like it should be a Liberty Bell.

Like you need, because any team could have a bell that, again, I'm going to need the connection there. That's tough for Philly that Milwaukee already has done it because that would be like an excellent Philly Homer celebration. Yeah. They can't copy it now. I like the bell. It makes more sense for Philly. But the brewers did do it. I don't think it's illegal to not to for them to do it just because the Phillies exist. I would have stuck with it. The cheese set is you need another element to it. You know, it's it's one. Everyone identifies that with the Packers. But I understand the whole city is the cheeseheads or the state or whatever it is. But that's where they miss.

They should have waited. If you're going to go cheesehead, if you don't have something already, when football season starts up and the brewers are looking for a little September magic, then you start going cheesehead. Now that football season's kicked into gear, you have a couple of players show up at games.

I think that could fuel the crowd a little more of that. You know, the cheesehead by the time we get to September, it's kind of going to run its course. I'm giving it a seizure thumb up because I think It makes sense. I'm going this way. For those listening at home, I'm middle, but slightly up because it makes sense. I think you need to start adding like how they add stickers to football helmets.

Like what if every time a homerunners hit a little tassel gets added to the cheesehead? And then by the end, it's like a disco curtain hat where tassels are hanging over your eyes and you can't see. This is what we're here for, Jimmy. We're here to give these teams ideas. I love the tassel idea. I love tassels in general. Yeah, yeah. See this picture I have of Jake.

Okay. All right. So we made it through Reds, Angels, Braves, and Brewers. I have, I have just like a tough one. And I don't know if they're doing this all the time or not. And I hate that I have to be because everyone thinks I hate them and they're and blah, blah, blah. If you're going to not do the jacket, Blue Jays, you can't do the jacket. You can't do an invisible jacket.

It was the saddest thing. I've seen in a long time. I don't think they're all doing it. I think it was just a one, was it a one time thing? But Vladdy goes down the dugout and they do an imaginary jacket. If you want to do the jacket, stick to the jacket. And at that point, it's on us to be like, well, they love it.

It's their thing. It's never leaving. But the invisible jacket, you could do the real jacket. Right. We should have something for them. I don't think any of us pick them to, give one today, but maybe we should make that a point. Let's figure something out for the Jays. Because if you're missing something so much that you're doing a fake thing, then we need to give you

something. Yeah, they're desperate. Well, I think you guys are all around it. You just got to step on it. The jacket's coming back. Because if you're doing the invisible jacket, guess what? One day, the real jacket's going to show up and the boys are going to be hype about it. Because they love the jacket. They do. I know it ran its course on us, but they're doing invisible jacket. I couldn't believe it. You start busting out the real, like at the right moment, the real one's going to come out. It's like, it's back. Whoa. Yeah.

So here's a quote from the man. My Adam's on. They got a lot of heavy guys. I think, I think they could have fun with piggyback lines. It's time to go from a talented back and getting a piggyback ride to a to a talented fun team to it. To a talented fun team that's going to scrap and claw and find ways to win games. It's a fine line between silly and fun. There's something to be said about acting like you've been.

here. Who said that? That's Toronto's manager. John Schneider. Yeah. So it could be a manager, uh, manager's decision saying like, let's, let's stop with the Homer jacket and let's just play ball. And that to me is like, bro, that's really not up to you.

It's funny that the, the public discourse on the Blue Jays acting like they've been there without having been there was like a lot of fan stuff. And Blue Jays fans were getting very upset about it. But now we've had Bobichette and the match. manager say like, yeah, we agree. So that's what it is, that Toronto takes first place, like August, August 14th. And the jacket's back. Oh, I love that.

Schneider brings the jacket out. You boys earned it. That's having feel, Trev. Like, if they get, you know, this point in the standings there in first, bring the jacket back. Earn the jacket. I love it. I love it. I love it.

Snyder's got it locked up in his office, like a chastity belt. They got to earn their way in. so we're we've come up with a solution for the jays win without the jacket so you get the jack yes okay let's move to the red socks which they're doing the gold dump inflatable dumbbells uh because yoshita did those while he was in japan and brought up the team i guess they call him macho man he looks just like jake's dory alley with that body here's my problem with this i don't mind this one because there's a backstory and they're trying to make Yoshi feel as comfortable as possible and I'm sure he's just like they're having a great time. I wish they were real dumbbells.

Like let's get a pump in the dugout for the boys. During the summertime you got no sleeves on, you do a little little of this and all of a sudden the traps are hitting in the jersey and I think you feel more confident and maybe you play better. So I would go with real dumbbells. I guess that's the part that's a little confusing for me. You're right, Trev. Like, you know, those those look like 35 or something like that, that we could roll those out and get some gold dumbbells going. Or if you're going to have them be ridiculous, have them be ridiculous, right? Like, give me a fake bench press that looks like, you know, it's 500 pounds or give me dumbbells that are 100 pounds.

Like, it feels like it's too in the middle. Like, give me a little, give me more silly or give me, like, real? I have, I have something that makes me not like it. Sure. They're team branded. Oh. Which makes me think this is more marketing, PR, business side said, we got these for you.

We think it'll be fun. And the players didn't come up with it on their own. I'd be slinging in Japan right now. The Red Sox, Yoshita. Oh, if Yoshi came up with it, then I'm okay. I'm down. Like, if he's making a bunch of bucks off inflatable gold dumbbells, I'm all about that. But it just doesn't seem to be, yeah.

The fact that they have the Boston B on them, you know. Well, I'm out just because I feel like they should be real. They look, they look cheap. It's like when the Orioles just had one of those, like, chains you get outside the stadium on last year, I was over it. Like San Diego has got a jeweler making them one. And here you are with this, this plastic thing. It's the show, guys.

We've got to step it up a little bit. Okay, I've got two variations that I think I could like this more. If each player had their own workout, like if Devers had, like, the flies, if someone did, you know, squats or something like that. or tying to that if they added a whole fake weight room and then there's videos of like four guys and they're all doing a quick workout after a homer. I think that could bring me in a little more.

That could get a little taxing come July when you're in fourth place and you hit a homer. Yeah, it's a lot going on. Just don't do that then, Red Sox. I'm giving it a seizure thumb down. I'm diagonally down. I'm down just because I don't want it to be, it seems like it came from the front office, not the players.

I could be up if they change it to real dumbbells and they started getting an exercise. I like that. It's unique. There's a way to make that up. Keep workshopping, you know? Who else have we missed? The pirates is not a hat or a jacket.

It's a sword. And they're, you know, pirates had swords. So there's. Love this. There's your connection. There's your connection. And they're killing. people you know choy looks like he got his throat just like sliced i don't know if he would have died from

that but a big gash right on his throat um from jack is that is that uh what's his polish name swinsky swinsky in this in this gift we have yeah he's just right up on his neck so i like that i like stage and fake deaths at the end like this is where i'm saying choy was at the end of that line like he got killed someone on the pirates always needs to be the guy getting stashash and stabbed in a fun way. No, no. No, no. Yeah, and then the guy who hits the home run,

they can do like the double slice on the chest and then a big stab. They can do whatever they want. Is that what your finishing move would be? The X and then a step out? Yeah, I think that what is that movie? Is that, uh, Zoro? Zoro.

Yeah, yeah, it was a Z. That's a Z. But that was cool. You like brand. Oh, that's a good scene. I would do a Pittsburgh P. Yeah. So I'm a Hayek.

Oh. Maybe like, you know, you go like Monty Python, you just take the leg off at the end. That's funny. Someone hops around. Yeah, the person at the end has to, they're part of it. Is this enough or would you guys like to see a little more? Would you like to see maybe a peg leg or a hat get involved in this?

If they continue to play well and winning ball, you can add more like the Blue Jays. But I'm fine with this. I think what you do here to have feel is, you know, big home runs. You run down that dugout and you're slashing everybody, like a gauntlet of just like, Boom, boom, boom. Not big home runs. You do what Swincky did here, where you just kind of like wave it around

and then you get Choi at the end. Okay. I was in on this one just because it's the pirates and the sword and it makes sense. And then I got more into it as they started killing people at the end of the line. And then I got even more into it because they source this sword from fans.

They put it out on Twitter like, hey, we'd like to have a sword. Can you guys point us in the right direction? And some group of fans, like I said, we got you. I like, I like this one. After a game or something.

So this, this one makes a ton of sense to me. I'm giving a Caesar thumb up. I'm going Caesar thumb up. Yeah. So we have the Orioles. And they have an home run celebration and an extra base hit. Now I'm not sure if the extra base hit's going to stick.

But the, uh, home run celebration is the Homer hose is what they're calling it, which is a good name. It's a funnel that they're funneling like a beer bong that they're getting just putting water in there, I'm guessing. they putting anything in there water water water i'm seeing that uh this is good this fun they're young young team so this is uh i wonder if mb doesn't like this or shuts it down or whatever but it's fun

that's what i was that's what i talked to rosy about this one on baseball today and that's what we said we liked it but is there going to be someone stepping and be like hey it's sending the wrong message also just a quick note MLBPA and john boy media are partnered on merch now and i think a lot of these We have shirts in the store. Our store is going crazy right now because we are able to make awesome shirts and the players get their cut and it's awesome. So if you haven't seen it, shop.jambore media.com, we have a new website and like tons of merch and it's doing really well.

So all of these I think have shirts or most of them will have shirts by the time they keep going. The Homer hose, it's solid. Slug it and chug it was used by Melanie Newman on the radio. So I guess currently where the Orioles are landing for me, the sprinkler celebration that they did, one of the players got on base. He did the sprinkler, and the whole dugout is spit in water.

It's the best one. I love it. And I guess putting all the Orioles stuff, and Trev, this is, because I know it's getting a little college basebally with these Orioles. Yes. And they're very young,

but I want to tie it to your kind of old rule about the raise, where when there's one of these, it's kind of good for baseball in the game, that the Orioles being young, and if they start having a celebration for everything, I like them being that team. So I like all of this for them. And the sprinkler,

when you get a whole dugout spitting on the field, that's my speed. Yeah, I like the sprinkler. I also do think it should be for one player, because it's a lot. And I think it's like, who got the double in the video I'm watching? Was it Hayes? You're going to get people spitting on each other in the stands.

But I like it being for one player because it's a lot going on. Visually, it's hilarious. It did make me laugh when I saw it the first time. If they start doing it for every double, I think it's, it loses its luster quickly. But if it's like, say you have a catcher, like it's a great slow-of-foot guy when he gets a double, this is what you do.

Because then there's so much box. because it doesn't happen a lot. Travis seems like you hate this one. Hates it. I hate it so much. I just, it's, it's too much. You brought, I was going to say it's very college-ish and you brought it up, Jake. It's true. It's too much. I mean, you can't do that on, you can't have a celebration for everything. I don't care if you're the youngest team and you, whatever, whatever. Like, you just, you can't do that. What are we going to start doing, man? Like, every time you take a ball and it's like, good take and we're going to fucking do sprinklers. Like, come on, man. slippery slope don't people say that what if what about what if they do limit it right what if this

was like um um there better be at least an rbi i double their catchers really good okay but what it was one player that doesn't double a lot rush i was thinking catchers but he's going to double a lot um all right still out on it all right it's like homer hose uh dong bong slug it and chug it i like it I want to give my thumbs up, but I think they could have made a nicer one. The hose is too long. That's my biggest complaint. And look at a little funnel on it, bro. What is that little funnel?

The funnel is tiny and the hose is so long that it looks like a car part. Chugging water's tough. I keep going back to it. This is the major leads. This is the show. Like you have to, that was an impromptu thing. And it ends. I think it's like swerve and Irvin and some of,

another pitcher on the team made it, but it's fine for one game. You come up with the idea, hey, we're going to do this. I like the idea. But now let's go back and let's re-up it a little bit. Let's make sure that it's like a big funnel. The hose is an appropriate size. They taped the orange and black on it. So like, let's just get a custom one.

Like make it show. Then I'm in. Out on the sprinklers. I like the sprinklers. I don't like them a lot. Okay. Like I almost think if it happens once a week and then they save it for perfect moments. There's got to be someone in charge, you know, the groundskeeper.

When are we going sprinklers? I think I like it a lot. Let's give one team each. We're running a little bit long on this. We still have a few things to get through in the app. Let's go one team apiece and give them their new home run celebration or if they don't have one, just give them one. And I think the new sellies, especially coming off the Dongbong, are brought to us by Bloom. Moon, Trev, you were, you were telling me before, Blue Moon's got a couple new products coming out

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We had the same exact thing for the twins, which I don't know. Does that scare you away, Trev, that it was too easy that we both thought of at the same time? Or is that excite you that it's easy? I think the fans will be into this. Again, it just makes sense. You want things to make sense in this world, Jimmy. And you and I were just all over this one.

I'll let you take it because I have one for the mariners that I want to do. You take the twins. Well, Minnesota produces more hockey players than any other state or province in the world. I read the book about the 1980 U.S. Olympic team and the line that always stands out to me was one of the players said, usually you make the NHL you're the best player in your county, you know, maybe the best player in your state. He says, I was the third best player on my block. and he's like, that was Minnesota growing up for me.

Hockey Town. I think you have a hockey lid, right? Much like our friend Oli posting in from on the bench. If you haven't looked at them, they're funny. But you have the hockey lid that's kind of loose, the straps. That's the headwear. And then you have hockey gloves. And you shadow box down the lane or do like a hockey celebration,

like mimic skating past the bench. And at the end, you have the guy you fight and you pull his jersey like over his head and de jersey him and then punch him and that's it. A little hockey for the boys in Minnesota. That's the end for you.

So you have the gloves, you throw the gloves down, pull the freaking jersey in the little. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Little shadow box. I wanted to be hockey themed. We talked about that right away.

You kind of came up with like the hockey fight aspect of it. I wanted like a slap shot at the end of the dugout. That's kind of, you know, space is limited. He probably couldn't do it. But the hockey theme, you got to go hockey theme. Whether it's whether, you know, you just figure something out. I think what you said is great James. If they want to make it their own, sure.

But let's go hockey theme. Let's get something going in Minnesota. Like it. Like it. Yeah. And I would get either the translator or one of the team's health guys in like a twins hockey jersey and maybe they're the person that gets fought every time. Gets pulled over their head.

You know what this needs? Say that again, so I don't say the same thing, because you might have just sparked me. Who did you have at the end? I had either one of the trainers or the team translator at the end wearing like a twins hockey jersey, and they're the person at the end that gets it pulled over. What's the best baseball movie that involves the Minnesota Twins?

Little Big League. Little Big League. And the best scene from Little Big League is the trick play. And the best part about the trick play is the security guards in on it. The security guard of the dugout has to be the guy that gets D jerseys and beat up. Has to be. Okay. I don't know if the security carroll like that.

No, they like it. Okay. Not like the cop. Treve, hit up hot guy king of Minnesota. What's our guy? Dylan Morse. Oh my gosh. You call him Dylan?

He's never going to hook us up ever against Dustin. Dustin, excuse me. That's tough. I asked you. I was Blankin. Hot. Hey, Minnesota's got theirs. I'll go next.

I'm going with the Mariners. And all the highlights I've been watching, I haven't seen that like Vader helmet out this year. It might be anybody in our chat. Can you let us know if it's still there? Even if it is, I think we're changing it up. It's not super topical to Seattle or your namesake. I'm going with like a mariner, okay,

a guy that, you know, is at sea, a guy that likes to catch fish. They have the fish market there. So what I like to do with them is whoever hits the home run, dapps up to board. poison the dugout gets to the end and someone's got a fish and they throw it to them and they catch it just like at the fish market it's topical it has an ending it's easy it makes sense and this is one you could do like big moments it's good but even the small moments just a little fish toss that's

all it is so you can kind of keep it going throughout it's not this big you know there's not so much theatrical involved in it but it's it makes sense because of the um fish market and the catching of the fish everybody knows that bam we got it lock it in mariners real fish wouldn't be a real fish i think you do have to wet the fish first i think you have like a bucket like a gallon bucket where the balls are kept and there's a water in there and when a home runs hit i think actually someone at the back of the dugout, it's wet. And after he collects his high fives, he's got to get ready because now that fish is coming.

And it's got to have some weight to it. I think we're talking rubber fish. Yeah. And maybe it's not water. Maybe it's lube or some Vaseline make it tough to catch. It's got to be a tough test. No, they have newspapers, right? So you get the newspaper and you catch the fish.

Yeah. Tomorrow they may wrap fishes in it. But I was a star for one whole minute. It'd be tough if it was covered in Vaseline, and then that same guy hits the field the next inning and, like, botches a ball. Some bad optics there. Well, hopefully it dries his hands.

Well, you're welcome Seattle. You have your new home. That's a good one. Jake? Do you have one? Yeah, I, you know, you said, you know, pick a team. I picked my two favorite teams, the Yankees and the snakes. I'll do them quick. Yankees for me, you set up a quick old school barbershop and you actually shave them.

Um, you put a thing over the guy. You put a little, uh, shaving cream on them. Yeah, you can do like a, like, teaching your son how to shave with like a fake razor too and just like, um, then you can do it a little sloppy. I like that. That's no brand. Or you pop out of the chair. You just hit a homer. You got a fresh shave.

Are you kidding me? That's good vibes. D-backs. Yeah, actually, this is so, it's no creativity. You just get a big old ass snake. And it's like intimidation. Like you bust out a bo-a-constrictor. real snake in the dugout

and after you hit a home run you're on top of the dugout with like a 15 foot honker and that's real man and I'm not a snake like snakes kind of freaked me out but man you hit a homer that's like the one time I think I'd want to hold a big old snake like that

I feel like it's a big expense you have an animal trainer on staff now it's advertising for the zoo or something I like a big rubber snake yeah the other way you go with it is like as fake of a snake as possible. Yeah, yeah. Or maybe it was like a snake pit.

Ooh. And you got to like, everyone throws a snake. I would go with the fake snake because then, yeah, Jimmy made a good point. You're going to have an animal trainer on staff. You got to feed that thing, little bunny rabbits. Like, you know, no one wants to be doing.

Trev, Evan Longoria, top button on button, just hits a three-run dog. And then he's standing on the end of the dugout. Big old snake on a shoulder. You do have to think about the, the Jack Peterson Pearls effect. You know, when he was wearing the pearls and then in the playoffs,

the whole crowd was wearing pearls. You want something that the stadium can easily latch on to. And if you have fake snake night, that's a win. Yeah, that's easy. I don't know. I feel like you could easily sneak a real snake into a stadium. Then all of a sudden we're getting like real snakes just. People have done that.

There's some people don't go anywhere without their pet snake. So that's just, you know, it's been part of society. That would, uh, and then there's one time where it's like, you know, one of the young snakes. Jake McCarthy and like the snake actually starts rapping and you're like whoa hey but it's a good clip it goes viral so you have to have a sword in the dugout for those emergency situations and you just fucking speaking of I suggested this to you guys I think maybe the rays should just do juggling knives the whole team there's no lie you did throw that out I did throw that on the

that would be funny right this guy hits a home run comes to the dugout and everyone just tossing them knives to juggle they'd probably begin at it. I got one for the Cardinals. What's that? I got one for the Cardinals. Oh, okay. You know, like the Cardinal way.

They're just kind of boring, just like business as usual. They just hit a home run and they go to the end of the dugout and drink a glass of milk. Coach Ballgame's dream. That's as Midwest as it gets. Coach Ballgame is absolute dream. And then like Paul Goldschman just like has a milk mustache and wipes it off. Oh, good milk mustaches after home runs would be fun. Yeah.

You basically those old, what were those, those old posters that got milk posters? Yeah, have one of those. Sexy. How do we get the kids to drink milk? Oh, that's another thing. Sponsorship. You're slinging milk in the stands. No, I'm out on the sponsors.

Okay. He's out on the sponsors. You only are out if it's corporate. Yeah, if it has like the logo on it. Like the snake can have like a branded Diamondbacks logo. That can come in the playoffs. Like when the Braves were probably selling replica beads. That's what I'm saying.

Fake snakes are on the shoulders. We do that easy. What about like a Mark. Mark Antony, Cleopatra, snake bit, like death scene. Like, they acted out. Okay, you can play it on the big board, maybe. Like, it becomes a drama. And you know what?

Before the game, people can come and meet the, like, actual snake that's, like, hanging out in the dugout. This is the home run snake today. What if you get, like, a cool snake and it's just loose in the dugout the whole time? You get some great clips. A snake in the hot tub? Snake in the tub. You never know.

Show you a snake in the house. What if there was a Bob for Apple's situation for a team? What team could have that where, like, you know, there's like a horse trow at the end that there's something in and they got to dunk their head in there? You know, like good cowboy hungover scenes where they dunk their head? That sounds like a Rockies thing, Colorado. Bobbing for something.

Or just like, you know, you dunk your head, like you get a swirly. But not like shit. Like, it's more cool. Yeah, that's tough. Colorado, this is hella Colorado. And I'll stop. Whenever they hike the mountains up there, like the 14ers, the big mountains, you take a picture of it and it'll be like Mount Beerstat, the elevation,

and like the date you did it. Like they should do like Mount Coors, maybe you can't put the pitcher's name on there. You put the hitter's name on there and you say how far it went. That could be a fun, like, it's very Colorado. If I knew about this tradition, I think I'd be on board more. Okay. Okay, what if there were ski skis?

Full ski outfit. No, no, no. What if they gave him ski poles and goggles and he like slalomed his way down the dugout? I'm into that. Could be good. Topical. It makes sense. I just learned how to ski, so I'm in.

It's tough. Okay. I guess sound off in the comments. What other ones you guys have that are no-brainers and we can try to, we can try to feed through the pipeline. Yeah. Sound off. Need your pipeline. Okay.

Do you want to talk about the raise? Is the hype video for the J's? 11 and O? You guys are both saying different things. I didn't hear either of them. Next topic is the raise, right? 11 and 0. Okay.

Los Rays, 11 and O, dominant fashion, easiest schedule ever to get going. Jim, I guess me and Trev touched on it a little bit, although we were two Red Sox win short. So you actually, if you want to kick it off with where you're at. It's cool. I think I placed a bet that a team would have a 10-game winning streak this year. I almost, there was a, it was really good odds that a team would go 10-0.

It's still impressive. The twins have technically, by the math, an easier schedule to start the season. They're the easiest strength of schedule, according to baseball reference. And they're 7 and 4. The raise are good. It is funny. The Red Sox are better. The first three teams were like, whoa.

but it's still crazy to win every game, but also winning, breeds winning where your relievers are not taxed and your starters are doing well. They're hitting home runs like crazy. So there's a lot of stuff when you actually, because even if you want to be a raised hater and be like it's the strength of schedule,

when you really dive in, the individual games are impressive in their own way. We're like, yeah. And also keep going. because if a good April can get you into the wild card right now. Like if they end up going like 20 and 6, they can have a fucking terrible pitfall. Yanks did it last year.

They started so well. And then they had the worst August in baseball history still won the division. The stats on this are absolutely nuts. I think it's Sarah Lang's has an article with, it is. Sarah Lang's has an article in MLB.com. And it has just, you know, all of the incredible 1880 stats that you could dream of. This one stood out to me.

They played 99 innings this season, and they've trailed after only five of those innings. They've been ahead for 94 out of 99 innings. All of those innings where they were trailing is in one game, which is on April 4th against the Nationals. So in every other game, they've just had the lead the whole time. That's crazy, dude. like to not have like a blowup inning from a bullpen or one of your starters or you know just giving up like a a couple walks and a three run blast and you're down like that's this is just baseball this stuff just happens but the rays have just i mean a 63 run plus run differential that was after 10 games so it's actually more now because they just beat the red so six eight run differential and 11 games that's freaking

crazy, man. It's where, and when we talk sports, it's like, where is, where's the ship going to land? Has this changed the scope of the race season at all? I think a little bit with how dominant it's been and highlighting how good that pitching staff is in Rasmussen and Springs, probably the best righty and lefty you hadn't heard of unless you've been listening to talking baseball, Jimmy's guy. That, yeah, how dominant it's been, you mentioned the 1884 maroons, and I think there's another team from that season. Again, I just, right before we recorded this, I did Wake and Jake with brother Jeff Passon, because he had a couple tweets that were like, I labeled it, and Jeff didn't fight

me, like, horny Jeff Passon tweets. Last year, Seattle was his, like, late night horny team that he was like, if you don't see what's going on in Seattle with Ty France and these guys, you're missing out. And I was like, are the Ray's going to be this year's team? and he kind of hesitated and he's like, yeah, because he's all in on it. Because Trev, you want to know the fun fact he had on that 1884 team they're being compared to?

That was the first season they started throwing overhand. So that's how historic what the raise have done early on this season is that, yeah, man, their lineup is healthy, Franco and Lowe. They're getting contributions. from other guys in the lineup. And the pitching is real.

Go look at that bullpen depth chart right now. There's six guys that you should know and like if you track baseball. And, yeah, there's about seven guys in their rotation. Eflin just went on the I.L. with some back tightness, I believe. So they called up, I think, number 37 prospect, Taj Bradley. So the raise, man, it's real. It's just it becomes that fun ALE's conversation, right?

Yanks are off to a solid start. without Rodon and a couple other pieces. The Jays are arguably more talented than both teams, but they've got a ghost of a home run jacket right now. So I'm excited to see where the summer leads us in the AL East. Their runs allowed. Slash line offensively. You guys both just jumped in hitting and pitching.

That's where we're... I love... I want to give the slashline, I'll give it to you, James. 283, 365, 580 for a 944. Team OPS. It's nuts. Again, the teams they are playing are rather bad. Do they have the royals coming up?

Because that would be the next team. I mean, they play Boston for a couple more, and then they go to Toronto. The A's are two and nine. They swept the A's. So not every team has swept the A's, but they've only won two games. The Tigers are two and eight.

Not every team swept them. Right. But they're not getting a lot of wins. The Nationals are fourth worst, and that's their first three games. So it was funny because you do look at it and you're like, wait, it's literally the bottom three. The Royals now are down there as well. They go at Toronto after these final two games with Boston. Nice.

But then it's... We've talked about it. I think you can say both things. You can say that they've played poor competition. and you can also say, wow, it's very impressive of how they played. And you're both right. When you play poor competition, you should win.

They haven't been in doubt yet. And my guy Springs looks great. Yes. I think our final topic today, Gattis season, is brought to by the Draft King's sports book. Draft Kings, if you don't know baseball season is here,

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Confirmed that he did steroids twice. Just kind of, yeah, one of the more unhinged baseball Twitter meltdowns we've seen. Not meltdowns because maybe he's getting it off his chest and he feels great. I don't know. What's up? Addis, if you want to come on and talk if you're in a good state. But yeah, how does it feel for you, Trev, to see a guy part of the brotherhood or the union so like flippantly or casually saying all this stuff? You know, I've known Evan for a long time.

And I don't know. I don't really. It didn't really make me feel anything. Like what I thought to C. Rose about when we talked about this was I liked it some of the, some more information, I guess, is coming out or becoming confirmed. I just want to know actually what happened. I don't know if we're ever really going to find out everything, all the nuts and bolts of it. But that's kind of what I was interested in is, you know, what he was confirming or denying.

But I don't know. I don't know if it was unhinged. I don't... That's why I took back that word right after I said it because I don't know if it was another. He might have been a great... He did say some strange things. There's no doubt about it.

It didn't like spark like, man, you're like going against like the brotherhood or anything like that because in fact, I feel like he's... That's the majority of the brotherhood of baseball players. It's like, fuck yeah, man. Like say some more. Like Carlos Correa famously said,

like, you don't know everything. So shut the fuck up. Well, we want to know everything. I want to know everything. And this was just kind of a little bit more of, you know, shining the light on, you know, what's going on. Yeah, and I think, you know, the part we don't know, and if you're not very familiar with Evan Gaddis,

he originally was one of baseball's more wild stories. That's why, you know, anytime you see anyone on a Twitter rant, you're just curious where they're at, although, hey, he was just answering questions. But this guy, you know, to give the abbreviated version, He was a big, big, like, you know, kind of college recruit baseball prospect. He had some troubles with substance abuse and anxiety. He lost his scholarship.

The Wikipedia line that is comical as long as everything's okay is that he, like, explored the American Southwest for four years. He was just, like, Roman. And then he kind of got himself under control, started playing baseball again. And, yeah, if you look at his baseball reference, you might be shocked if you're not familiar. with the guy. Every year he played 100 games. He hit 20 plus homers. He had crazy power for 2013 to 2018. And it's funny, you know, he's a guy that is baseball reference page. There's not like a bad

season. And that's always one of those things that's funny to me because baseball is such a tough sport. You know, you expect it with some of the like legends of the game, Evan Gattis. that yeah you know I think all three of us all four of us everyone listening you want more right you want more of the unfiltered truth because it never felt like we really got that right

like we we got a lot of the story when everything happened it was you know Beltron took a chunk of the blame hinge the players just kind of distributed it why did I say that's so weird that yeah it still feels like there's more of the story and you wonder when we're going to get the next big thing

is it in Evan Gaddis tell all is it in one week is it in two years is it in 20 years and I think that's the part that we all wish we knew it's he also like you know he confirmed the kershot like we knew what was coming someone said did you know what was coming when c he hit homeroff cc he said yes it's the most interesting part I want to see how C.C. reacts. Me too.

He said, you know, you Darvish, we knew what was coming. It was still hard to hit him. It's cool to get some like, even if he doesn't feel bad about it, but just some like, yeah, we knew in the postseason. Because they tried to play it like, eh. They said, and it happened in the posting, but it kind of swept it under the rug because they didn't bang in the postseason. they did a different system that's why i kept looking at i wanted someone to bait gattison to be like so

if you were doing it in the postseason what was the different system because they stopped banging and they did something new um because they couldn't hear it yeah it's i mean it's i think we're all just kind of interested you know it's a story that was huge and then we've kind of just backed off of it because we got we're just getting the same type of information and just nothing new was coming out so we're over it but then you know gattis kind of comes on and starts talking about or bringing it up i think that's the big thing that's the big thing biggest takeaway for me is I want to see if C.C. is even going to react to it. Because I feel like it's almost like a lose, lose situation for him to like come and come on and just scream at the Astros.

But also he has every right to. So I'm curious if he's going to. He's not over that season. Like, you know, on his podcast, he still talks about being pretty. Yeah, he doesn't seem like he like gets over. He probably will hold a grudge from somebody. Try to stay on his good side. I don't know if I would be. Trev, did you cross paths with Gattis? Because I'm seeing he played junior Olympic games with Billy Butler and Homer Bailey. That was like your crew.

Yeah, we went to Venezuela together. So I knew Evan really well. And there's some more stories from that thing that are interesting. But, yeah, he was always been the same kind of baseball player, at least. Like just absolute masher with a weird stance. Caveman stance. Yeah. Cool.

Well, yeah. I mean, go read the tweet thread, and there's a lot of little nuggets there that are interesting. Is that everything we got? Yeah. We crushed it. Leave us all your celebrations. I want to hear more.

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