Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Is Cal Raleigh the MVP Front-Runner?

Episode Date: September 25, 2025

Download the DraftKings Sportsbook app and use promo code JMBASEBALL Follow all of our content on https://jomboymedia.com 00:00 - Welcomed to Chicago by Hotel Lobby Mets Fan01:43 - Scariest Team to Face in Playoffs07:15 - Who Wins AL MVP? (Cal Raleigh vs Aaron Judge)13:05 - Impact of Judge not Winning MVP17:02 - Did MLB Nail the Final Week of Season?20:32 - Expanding Playoffs23:20 - Questions from the Audience!24:16 - Which Unlikely Playoff Team is Most Exciting?26:22 - Is the NL MVP a Race? (Ohtani vs Schwarber vs Soto)28:17 - How to define "Knowing Ball"30:02 - Chicago beefing with Trevor Plouffe?31:15 - Shoutout DraftKings Sportsbook & Band Selfie31:46 - Go Cubs Go GAMBLING PROBLEM? CALL 1-800-GAMBLER, [phone] or visit gamblinghelplinema.org (MA). Call877-8-HOPENY/text HOPENY (467369) (NY). Please Gamble Responsibly. 888-789-7777/visit ccpg.org (CT) or visit www.mdgamblinghelp.org (MD). 21+ and present in most states. (18+ DC/KY/NH/WY). Void in ONT/OR/NH. Eligibility restrictions apply. On behalf of Boot Hill Casino & Resort (KS). 1 per new customer. $5+ first-time bet req. Max. $200 issued as non-withdrawable Bonus Bets that expire in 7 days (168 hours). Stake removed from payout. Terms: sportsbook.draftkings.com/promos. Ends 9/29/25 at 11:59 PM ET. Sponsored by DK. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The other thing I will kick us off with is that if you're here, you're probably a pretty big baseball fan. We appreciate you. And baseball is kind of a one-of-one that we all have the same addiction or whatever you want to label it as. And it's a beautiful thing. And we saw this in full tilt. As we got to our hotel room last night, our flight came in. Huge first step. It was delayed and we got scared.

but our flight came in. We got to our hotel, 930, 10, everyone looked at each other like, you know what, let's call it. Let's fight to fight tomorrow. Let's get a good night's rest. And that's what we did. As we were in the hotel lobby, a gentleman walked in wearing a Mets shirt. This gentleman on the low end was 70 years old. This gentleman on the high end was 160 years old.

And this ghost of a man looked at me and Joe's McFly And he's, he got Yankee fans He goes, you know, I saw Aaron Judge on New Year's Eve in Times Square And we go, yeah? He goes, yeah, he dropped the ball. That man suffers from the same sickness we all have. So with that, it doesn't get any better. And I'm not trying to throw my guy under the bus here.

saw the same guy this morning in the lobby, said the same exact joke. Same exact joke. Perood. Yeah. Perude. So that's what we were doing. So again, final thank you. Let's talk some ball.

Yes. And I want to start out why, and I thought it would be funny because we got a little AL-NL angle from you two, that we've just heard enough, Jolly. Jokes, you are maybe the world's biggest Yankees fan. Correct. I am a Yankee fan, yes. Okay. Let's say the postseason magic happens.

The Cubs fans here know what that feeling is like. The Philly fans know what it feels like to go dancing. To get to the World Series and that feeling, we got to feel that again last year. Let's say the magic happens for R.Nx again this year. Who is the one National League team that after you're done celebrating, after that CS is done, that you're like, God damn it. We're running into them.

Who's the last team from the National League do you want to see? The Padres. They're open. They have a legit open. Do you know who the Cubs might be facing in the first? I know. That's why I need the Cubs to do some work over there. They terrified.

That bullpen terrifies me. What they did in the death line, really, you know, people that they acquired and who they already had. I'm a smartest guy. I love Suarez as well. that open scares me. You've got to lead late, and I'm like, oh. Okay. I think Padres are a fair answer. I think it's their most complete team.

It's the problem with the National League that there's a lot of complete teams. But for you, young Jolly, your Mets go on a miracle run. They do it again. Okay. Slight confidence. They get to the World Series.

You catch your breath. Who's the last of the game? American Lake team you would want to see waiting for you. Don't see the Yankees right away. First of all nice to see you my friend Jeff, talking Jake. Nice to see you. I have to throw

them off guard. I have kind of a weird answer. Okay. If you remember the last time and that's where in the World Series, they played a very defensively sound team that stole bases, played the fundamentals the right way, and won on the margins.

And I kind of feel like the makeup of this year's team would be susceptible to that again. They're hot right now. I really don't want to see the Cleveland Guardians. If you're talking about a team that's going to make us play deep, they're going to bunt on us, they've got a stacked bullpen, and starting pitchers that can go, and one of them almost no hit us at our stadium this year,

the thought of that terrifies me. The teams that are going to hit home runs and maybe rely on star power, they scare me less. But the team that's going to play small ball and kind of expose us in that way, that's the thought that terrifies me. So after we play your trivia games, the franchise that you told me

has the longest World Series drought. That's who you don't want to see at the end. Droughts are meant to end up to end up. The longest drought used to belong in Mississippi City, that chick. Right? What's what I'm saying? A couple beautiful nights. Some of us believe in the guardians.

Others don't. Joe, do you believe in the gardens? Honestly, I just can't believe in the aliens. Central team. Why is it? It just never have. I mean, the only team, it just hasn't been one that I believe. I mean, the last one to win was back in 2015.

Royals, so it's like, I don't, they haven't given me a reason to believe it. Who did they beat Jones? Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's the Mets. But, you know, the Mets figure out ways to lose, so it's fine. But I just... You know, I'm ready to earn Judge in Times Square. Don't do that. You the guy, is he the guy?

Is he the guy? I was telling the stars. Is that him from the future? They've never been in the... Those two people have never been in the same place at the same time. So it might be down. I look good for 70. That's good.

That's nuts. I think... For myself, thank you for asking. For myself, I still think it's the Phillies. I see that one there. Hey, there's a reason you guys are booing them. I agree. There's a reason you guys are pulling them.

all of those veteran star players in their prime that had had a couple opportunities it felt like they were going to have another in the Arizona Diamondbacks just came out and got them these guys are part of the show I love a couple rowdy Mets fans getting mad at the Phillies and whoever plays home and home versus you guys

figure that out but I don't know If it's October, can the Phillies get their next shot at it? Bryce Walker, Trey Turner, Kyle Schorker, the year he's having, Sanchez, the whole rotation, that's my number one I know. Shorter is like the last hitter I wanted to get in the way. Well, you guys know here in Chicago with the guys in his clutch. Is he coming back? He really won't do whatever he's like.

I thought we were just going to get the casual, like, yeah, Shortsch is coming back. That was a... Yeah, we trust our ownership. It's slumber over, Kyle Tucker. I feel like I can't even talk about that right now. That feels like sacrilegious a little bit. Okay. This is another, I don't want to say generic,

but we got a lot of ball fans, and it's one of the biggest topics, and Jolly rolled his eyes when I asked him about this, because he said every time he hops on baseball today, it has to be talked about it. But we have one of our most fun. Jolly, it still is. I hate to Chris Risen.

I know, I know. We have one of our more creative MVP races in a long time. Cal Rubble, the catcher, who has broken the catcher home run record, who has broken the switch hitter home run record, who plays amazing defense, who is leading the Ameriners to an ALS title for the first time in insert Cali stat here. 2001. Yes, 2004.

Yes, 2004. I had that. Or is it the larger than life? New York superstar. 6-7-300. Hits home runs with the best of them. Who's having one of the historic hitting seasons of all time. I think he has Cal Raleigh beat by about 175 points in OPS.

He missed a little bit of time, but he came back. He was back to his hitting ways. Joe's, I guess I'll start with you, even though I think I know your answer. But is it Aaron Judge or is it Cal Raleigh? It's Aaron Judge. Oh. I mean, you take away all of those OPS rules we talk about and you get Kyle Raleigh. You take the 176 OBS points from Kyle Raleigh, and what do you get?

You got like the 74-Rank OPS Prater. So I look at that as what Judge has done for the team is indispensable. I feel like the team gets pinched different. I'm not saying that it doesn't for Colorado. It almost feels bad because I like Colorado. And I feel like to make a case for one, sometimes you feel like you've got a disparage to another. And I hate doing that because I really do think that he's really good.

The fact that he's doing that as a catcher, us growing up as Posada fans, you know, like what he did. And he took that to him. And now, Rale's taking that to another level. I look past his answer where he said, I'm going to vote for a judge, but I'm not happy about it because of what he's done.

So Seattle's soft, man. He's not only dealing as a catcher, but he's got to deal with that travel too. If Judge loses, will you be sad? No, because he's already got two MVP's, Astros three MVP's. But I think Judge, you know, he'll be in yet again.

I don't know if Patrick can be in it. I don't know if Colorado can do this yet again another year. So it'll be like, you know, all right, you win some, you lose some, you know, you lost you a good player. It's not like... Right. I'll too late in 2017 was kind of crazy. I won't get into that, but, you know, that's what I'm in. So I'm going to get Jolly L's opinion. Jack?

First of all, I want to thank you for being so brave with her answer. Thank you. Really on the cutting edge. I only speak truth. Only speak true. Also, it kind of weird to me when Joe says OBS. I like start talking about stats. Just doesn't matter.

I'll play the other. side because I like Jake said before whenever I fill in on at any show that we do at our company Chris Rose will just handy with us as he loves to talk about it. I think we have an opportunity here to go back 20 years on how we used to vote for stuff. We used to care about wins. We used to care about batting average. We used to care a lot more about things being done for the first time and Cala Rale has done a lot of things for the first time this year. You mentioned the switching director. He's putting together a season of that I can. hatcher may never do again. And also, I do think that team success is some sort of factor here.

The Akees are there every year. The Mariners very clearly are not. They're usually there at the very, very end, and then something goes wrong when they just fall short. And this year, they kind of feel like they're getting over the hump. And I'm not saying that's only because of Cal Raleigh, but to think that he had no large majority part of it would be naive. So part of me, my heart is with Cal. My heart is fully with Cal Raleigh. Just because I have no large majority part of it, I think we may never see a season like this from the catcher again, including Cal, including whatever he does in the future. When you look at the numbers, it is Aaron Judge.

But I think when you have an opportunity to give this player an award for what they've accomplished, I think you should seize that opportunity. And I think it's going to be a closer vote than a lot of people expect. That's what I'll say. Yeah, my core, it comes down to human mode. Yeah. So I think weird things like round numbers are going to matter. Like if Cal Raleigh gets to 60, I think that matters significantly more than 59, which it should.

It's one homer over 162 games. I do think that's going to matter, and I'm starting to think Raleigh's going to win in. And I don't know if it's right. Like I know that's not the popular take or slam the table. Judges OPS has so many points higher above all. There's a reason we're talking about. There's a reason Chris Rose, who was alive for the last guardian to a series. It's a reason he's asking about that.

Has he seen the past hundred years of baseball? And he... It's a little true. Chris Rose is in great shape. Chris Rose was the guy in the lobby. Chris Rose was in great shape. He likes to hide that, and then he busted out the guns of the All-Star games here.

That's me being nice after being mean. I don't know. I think Rally's going to walk away from him. Just because, like, okay, the best catcher season ever. The best switch hitter season ever. that if it doesn't, and with Seattle's history, it comes out of humans. I just think, I think he's going to get it. You asked Joe's this before, I'll ask you, are you upset as the anchor state of judges

have come away from it? Like, I mean, remove prior MVP's whatever, and you're just focusing on the numbers themselves. Are you having the same reaction as like Day 1? Or are you saying, okay, whatever, let's go win? I'm not having that reaction. I would be disappointed from the standpoint of we're going to talk a lot of Yankees baseball for the rest of our lives in the way we judge judge, which by the way, another big postseason coming out.

Aaron Judge is 34, 35? I think it's 34. You start looking at guys in the league 35 plus and who's performing. It's not a lot of guys that literally. the dorm man in my building one day was like, even if the Yates goal, judge isn't going to get it done in October. Are you just getting harassed on a day

to the day. Yes. Yes. There are days I dread taking my dog outside because I know I have to talk to the doorman about baseball for about 15 minutes. Again, a perk of the gig. But yes, there's a couple down to I'm like, oh God, don't give me the judge can't perform in October. But seriously,

They figured, Joe's McFly very casually and accurately mentioned how there's already an asterisk around 2017, where Judge had a lot of better numbers, and the guy he was competing with, his team at the minimum was conducting some funny business. They're like, I don't want to be the old guy who's yelling at people in lobbies, who's saying, you know, Judge should have had too much. Let me peace. I don't want to be that guy. So if Judge wins this one, I do think his season is and was so good this year that we started doing best right-handed hitter ever. When you look at his baseball reference page and you see all of the bold on it, and it looks like the legends of baseball. It looks like if you bring up Willie Mays's page. It looks like if you bring up not exactly Baves, but like there's so much bold. of being the best player at so many offensive stats, that if he wins a third MVP,

that just enters you into an even rarer error. Rare error. Tough to say. Say it five times? Rareer. Nice. That, yes, we don't get mad like we used to when, I guess Joe still gets mad. I don't get, you know, pillow punch you mad anymore.

But, yeah, I would be mad if Joe doesn't win the MVP this one. I think it's fair. I think it's, like, different. other teams like my friend Bernie over there mentioned before the meds have never won one so if I felt like a player got like quote unquote cheated on the one I think I would wear it on my sleeve but I think like you mentioned the postseason before I know that doesn't factor into voting but it does it sticks in people's minds Joe's you have thoughts on that yeah I mean judge even if you win to MVP it's gonna be kind of like okay but what about October yeah um I think the only time I really got mad about

MVP was when Jeter didn't win it. You just brought up a two-vain judge. It's fine. That, okay, I was mad then too. And that was a lot. I won't be mad now. I knew it was a fit. But, yeah, I mean, I think,

I think Judge is gonna be fine. He's gonna be graded differently. This is more like, what are you gonna do in October compared with the 80s? And what happened with the doctors last year? He dropped the ball. Can't have those jokes in. It is, if judge.

was doing this season without any of his previous seasons, I think it's his MVP. Which again, if you start playing that game, what are we doing? What are we doing? Let's talk a little Cubs. Yeah. And Chalblin, yeah. Go Cubs, go. Can I sing it?

Go! Hey, Chicago, what do you say? God's a go to me. In two days. My favorite song in two days. days in two days in two days let's go brewers so this is a little anecdote it's the final week of it's the final week of the baseball season and today we have cubs fans rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers yeah that is crazy we have New York Yankee fans on their flight watching the MLB app on their

phone watching as delayed pitches come in, hoping the Boston Red Sox win. I guess I was going to bring this to Cubs, but Joe's, I, um, you're a silly guy. Some people know. You're also a very well thought out. You're a veteran player in the club. Sure. With all the talk about expanded playoffs and everything, and hey, we're the MLB sellouts now.

We work for Uncle Rob. Did I hope you kind of nail it? Like this week is electric. Yes, there's so many teams that would have been out of it. And now you have the hope of that. Kurt Walker. Like, does Cleveland have the same push if they don't feel like there was a third ballpark that way over them? And now they got the division.

So it's like, I love this. I love chaos. That's just me. As soon as we started, I looked around and I looked like, wow. Detroit's having a pre-fall for the ages. Cleveland's having like a ride for the ages. Yankees and Red Sox and Toronto all fighting for the same piece of chicken. They try to figure that out.

You got the Cubs. You got the Mets. We got Cincinnati. Everybody's involved. So I love that. Arizona. Arizona? They're still in it.

How about that? Charlie, it was kind of an open question. I don't know if you have any comments and feedback. Yeah, I mean, we're seeing the best parody we've seen the league. in how many years, maybe ever. No team's going to reach 100 wins this year. That's the nuts. That's great. That's because so many teams are trying to compete. And like the trade deadline's crazy now because there's like two teams that sell and everyone's

buying. So I do think it's like changed the landscape a lot. I think you can make the argument of like, okay, the Mets are like 81 wins. They can max out at 85 and they're going to be a playoff team. Does that feel right? I don't know. But at the same time, now you have people in Cincinnati are excited. People in Arizona are packing the stadium, and I'm watching Hunter Green versus Paul

Skins tonight on the edge of my seat for more than just the fact that it's a great pitching duel. So I think on account of that, I think it's great because you're not watching that tonight. You're watching the Mets. I'm watching it while you're yapping. I forget we're in Central. This is like a whole different world. There's just always sports on it.

All right. Cali, you keep talking. You know, I was hoping that you can say, but the funny thing is, like I had the thought the other day of like I've listened to the Reds broadcast for like two weeks straight. That's more than I've ever listened to the Reds broadcast and probably more than I ever will listen to it. And it's because of this format. So I do think they nailed it. Wild Card Weekend's awesome. Like those are my favorite streams that we do because it's just so much going on, so much chaos. And I hope they don't expand it further. That's what I'll say.

I know you want more teams. I know you want more chaos. I think 12 is a good number. but once you start graduate into like NBA territory where it's like 10 in each conference NFL feels like they get another one every year I know that there's a lot of reasons to do that that are good but I like where we're at right now I struggled to turn on ESPN in my hotel room today which I'd rather not talk about

it was unksed at I kept hitting the wrong button it was real bad but they were talking about the Phoenix sons and they were like, yeah, I'm not sure if Phoenix is going to be able to compete for the top 10 in the West. And I was like, what are we doing? What is that? That's not fair. That's not fair. That's, that's nothing. So I'm with you. I hope baseball doesn't go there. I still want them to to find a way to reward the teams that have the best seasons. Right now we still don't know if having that one or two and that layoff truly helps. Last year the two ones got there. So that's

I like, I do like the, you know, expanding it, but in a certain way, if you're able to bring back the one game. Yeah. Like, that wild card before, when it was just, it felt like a game seven, it just is a different feeling. And if they didn't do that, then bring that back to wild card. I love that. So you say that, even though the Aps were in like four of them. Yeah. Do you remember how you felt during those, like, they're basically game 163s.

You actually, because I feel like if you're an outside fan, it's awesome. There's no stakes, and you just get to watch basically an elimination game. If you're a fan in those games, it's brutal. So you want to bring that back. I mean, if you're down there in your spot's 9 and 10, you should be happy you're even having an opportunity to play that one game to try to get in. That's how I look at it. You played all season, all 162 proved that, hey, you're here. So if not get out of that.

but I like that one game playoff. Yeah, the Yankees played in it, but I think they won it in 17. They won it in 18. Yes, 18. They lost against the Astros in 15, but I like it. Counting with Joseph. I'll steer away. I was going to say, I was going to ask the question,

if the Cubs win the World Series is because of the blank. But I think the answer to that is sneaky. Played really well. Yeah. Played really well. The lineup bangs, the right pitchers clicked. Callie, you said this beforehand and I wasn't sure if we're going to have time. If we want to do a couple questions from the crowd before we get going, we do, like I said

beforehand, we are going over to the game. I know we're doing a meeting break for like 20 minutes, so if you're in that, make sure we're just high and tight a little bit. Last time we were here, we hung out for a couple hours and just put down drinks because we were senile from our travel day. But we do have to get to the game and make some content over there. But if anybody has any questions, you guys want to ask us in the crowd. We're open to anything. Do you want to go? You want me to go? You go. You go? You go? You go. You're going? You're sure? Yeah, we can share the like. And quick shout out. This is Taylor Jackson, who runs our social

media. Give it up for Taylor. And shout out to Maddie Mass on the camera over there. The go-in. So, we got a Yankees hat down here. We saw a couple of hands go up. He was here last time. Sure. Good to see you guys. Good to see.

Which unlikely playoff team are you most excited to see either to make a lot of our spot or potentially win their religion? Unlegged playoff team are the most excited. For me, this is a little tricky because I've been following this season so closely that like not invited to the dance. Toronto.

Toronto has kind of been a little brother in our division for a little bit now. The whole pop, get your popcorn ready, and then they stopped winning any games. Toronto is really good. They have a lot of veteran pitchers. They got a couple young pitchers. They can really piece it together. They can beat you. Then I'm very interested to see what their postseason goes up.

Hmm. See, I would have thought that whole thing. The thing is that the, I was, I'm going to a couple of teams. Right? Because coming into this year, Detroit, because of the way that they finished last year, Detroit was that team for me, and then now they might not even be in, right? I still, I like chaos, and I would love to see, hey, they got out. But I kind of want to see them in just because I want to see school voting to playoffs.

I feel like just his whole attitude. So, you know, Detroit, to me, is a team. But I'm just not even sure if they're going to be able to me. They're one and kind of last 10 day. It's crazy. Great answer, Joseph, my fun. Quick thinker. I'm going to repeat an answer room before.

I've been watching a lot of Gargians baseball. And I just think that their brand is, like, unlike any other team that is going to be in the playoffs this year, they're going to be in. You don't play a ball like this right now and not make it. And I just think they're going to wreak havoc on a lot of these other teams that kind of feel like they're all playing the same brand of baseball. Like, you need a little, as my friend Joseph would say.

chaos in the picture. So I really think they can make noise. I think they're hungry too. I think they're pissed on what happened last year. Guys don't look. I mean we can just hear it's just us. It's just us right now. It's okay. Don't worry about that. But yeah, I'd say guardians. Great question. Thank you. Who else we got? Oh yeah. You guys, you discussed the MVP race between Kowr Allen and Judge in the Yale. You think there's any possibility of Schwerver making a late push for the NL MVP over Otainiel or is that lock up my O-Tonnie's like an

MOB darling I don't know I mean I'm like to see it just because I love what Schwarber's doing I have so much respect for that guy I feel like he shows up in the biggest moments but what Tani does just stolen bases Jimmy mentioned the other day he pitches yes he mentions too

he mentioned the other day how rare it is for somebody to go 30-30 when we were talking about jazz and from the fact that Olatani does what he does with regularity. It's like, any pitch. So they're not going to give it to anybody. Well, I'd like to see Schwerver gut it. Thank you, Mr.

Tony. I think it's up to, like, 80-innings pitch or something like that, maybe 50. And I think before it might have been a question of, like, well, if he's not going to pitch, are we going to give it to a DH again? Now I think it's set in stone. But I think our guy wants up

has got a pretty good shot at MVP, too. If he gets to that 40-40 plateau, it's not going to matter, because like run-up doesn't really matter. But I think that Schwerver, earlier in the year, the excitement was building for that potential home run record and what he was doing. It's still a fantastic year,

and I think the contract is going to be really interesting, a big story this all season, but it's a tonny. Congrats to Juan Soto on Mbium-A-P-Dita. Hey! Yeah. And I was a... Swarber pitched 60 innings of amazing baseball.

We'd all be like, Schorrs. It's show-house. Thank you, though. I think we got one or two more. Taylor's back there. I know Sillies was here early. All right, I'll keep it easy. So how would you define someone that knows ball? Oh Someone that knows well. Wow, an artistic question. I think it's a head knot. It's just a head knot. It could be a jersey. It could be a player's name. It could be a player's name. I don't know, I'm getting more spiritual than I don't like that.

I think you nailed it. I think it's a player's name. Like, if you watched baseball as a kid and you remember one, like, random dude, that for me is always like when I have those conversations with people. Because sometimes I'll have someone come up to me and just, like, name someone. I'll be like, hell yeah. And then it leads to a great conversation. I'm like, I don't know.

You don't need to know all the stats to enjoy baseball, right? Like, that's really what it comes down to. I think, for me, that's what it comes down to. If you're a ball in over, you got like, Dominic Brown for the Phillies in your bag or something like that. Something crazy, you know? I think to me is like what's happened in baseball third in your history and you bringing that up.

So like you're relating to, you remember when I was this old and I remember when Bernie Williams made this catch, Paul O'Neill, this would mean as an example. And you just, you have those things committed to memory because you live that and you still remember that. You still going through that. I think that's how you know. ball. It's not, hey, you know, this guy's OPS is this on certain here.

We do it again. We do just fine. We do, you know, we do stuff with that front, but like, that doesn't necessarily mean that, oh, you know, you know, no ball or whatever it is. It's kind of heavy, man, thank you. We don't let you one more time. You keep talking OPS time. Yeah. What's up with you? Can I go a little inside talking baseball here? Yes. Was here the last time? Trevor, good question here.

Yeah. this year against the guardian. He got the bottles of wine for good there. What is Trevor Plu better against the city of Chicago? It's a great question. I think Trevor Plu, for the city of Chicago, need to start beef. Now that the John Boy, Buster only beef is

has been squashed. We saw Buster today. Everything was good. Yeah, no, if Chicago wants to turn against Trevor Plupe, find more than support that. 100%. The crowd goes nuts.

Southside, bro. Yeah, Trevor, I don't know, I should have defend him at the end here, but he does an annual camping trip with his family every year to end the baseball season. I know. Good guy, Trep shows up one last time. What was that being? Hey, if they let us do this every year, I was going to promise I could get Treve here. I can't do that.

I can't do that, but I know he would love to be here. Unfortunately, he does no ball. He is kind of one of our few ball doors. So with that. So what are we doing, Taylor? We're doing a meet and greet? Okay, we're going to do a meet and greet for like 20 minutes, and then we're going to end to the game.

Thank you guys so, so much. Thank you to the drafting sportsbook. Thank you to baseball. I'm going to take one of those kind of weird, like, I don't know, you see bands take selfies and stuff? I'm doing this for me. Everyone, baseball. I don't know.

Baseball. What is that? I'm sorry about that, I think you guys so much. Go Cubs go. Go Cubs go. In two days. When in two days? Win in two days?

Win in two days.