Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Shohei Ohtani is the Best Player Ever | Weekly Recap

Episode Date: September 20, 2024

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Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Shohei Otani 50-50. We'll talk about that. Trev's twins were worried about... Craig Kimbril got DFA. The Tigers are in? Mariners alive? They're alive.

The Mets are hot. Twins pitcher. Third Akuna, brother. Hello and welcome to talking baseball. Presented to you by Seek. My name is Jake Storelli. I'm joined by Trevor. Ploof live in person, Jersey City.

Touching. Gently. Hope everyone's doing well. We've got a little over a week of regular season baseball. Maybe like a week of games that matter. Yeah. A lot of teams out. A lot of teams out.

It's so on both sides. Out because they've already clenched. They're spraying champagne. They get red eyes like you do this morning. Pat Murphy. Yeah. Hot. I can't tell if Pat Murphy's a champagne guy or not.

I feel like he enjoys it. It's not like he's like a man of... I think he's everything. Yeah. I think like there's a day that wifey comes home. I don't know if he's married. I should look. I should know this kind of stuff.

I think he's married. Feels like it. Yeah. I think there's days... I think there's days lady baseball comes home to Pat Murphy and he's got the champagne out. Oh, he brings it out. I didn't have him bringing it out.

A little bow tie on? If he gets served a glass, he'll drink it, but I don't have him pop in a bottle just because. I think he's the every man. And yet he's better than us. Let me tell you something. You haven't yucked ball until you yuck ball in a warehouse at 7 a.m. in Jersey suit. Yeah, you guys want us to focus on show. Hey, here's Pat Murphy.

His Wikipedia actually doesn't mention being married, but his daughter is married to Pedro Alvarez. Whoa. Oh, Jesus. In 2011. And the episode. I love me some picture. That's a lot of power. That's a team USA, yeah.

It's a lot of power. Thank you guys for tuning in. It's a team USA guy. 30 homers. Jolly all the video. It's going to be a funky episode. You guys, we're in person. The season's winding down.

We've got a lot we need to highlight. I think we want to, you know, we had a bunch of teams clinch. Yes. Guard dogs, brew, crew, yanks? Phillies are real close. Oh, Phillies technically haven't. Yeah, we haven't seen the party.

yet. Yeah. That's got to be. I got, yeah, we'll talk about this in a little bit. I have thoughts on the parties

and what needs to happen. Party etiquette. Yeah, there is party etiquette. Okay. And then we'll get into the weeds of, like, you know, there's a few teams that are in,

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in a hairy predicament a little bit. They are. Snakes don't have hair, but if they did. If we stimulate today, which we may. This Friday. Right now, the NL playoff matchups have changed because the New York Mets, Uncle Steve's.

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And we're starting with, of course. We'll start out with a potential playoff preview. The Milwaukee Brewers, Pat Murphy, against Rob Thompson. Wow. Rob Thompson and Pat Murphy, Pedro Alvarez in the mix. The Brewers took two out of three. They clinch the NL Central, as you know, and they do it in style, Trev. They'd already clinched.

They were going to pop bottles anyways, and they walk them off. Jake Bowers, and a pitcher's duel. Aaron Nola versus Freddie Peralta. Okay. It's starting to become a lot like October. Ranger Suarez had an okay start. Philly's fans are kind of up in the air on what to do with him, because of his postseason history.

Let's see what he could build upon there. Nick Cassiano's and Harper, they homered in their wins. Jake Bowers walk off. Congrats to Milwaukee. They're close to the Dodgers still for like best record. Yes. We'll see what goes on there. Phillies, you don't care, you're over it.

San Diego. Fernando! They hosted the Houston Astros. And with Don Orsillow ended the broadcast. with a potential world series preview as the Padres take two out of three. You Darvish. Six-inning shutpiece.

Okay, okay, okay. Mike King and Hunter Brown had a young man. Get to that game three matchup. Oh, no, I can't. You can't. Bleep this out. Get all eight-st-up. Framber Valdez versus Dylan C's.

Oh. Man, Jerks and Profar is going for rookie, or excuse me, Jerks and ProFar has a four-hit game. Jackson Merrill, going for the Padres' rookie home run record. And I don't think that's, like, his skill. And he's like a defense contact. I don't think he, I think he's a home run.

I think we found out he has a girlfriend. I think we got that inside. Good for her. Good for both of them. We're happy for them. Mani Machado, two homer game. Fernando and Donnie Barrels goes yard. Kyle Tucker back, two for four in that middle game.

San Diego. They take the series. And then the Mets sweep the Nats. Oh my God. 10-0-0 in the final game. 10 won the game before that. It was a slaughter. Kintana's got a scoreless streak going.

Kintana wins. Mets win that first game on a Starling Marte, walk off RBI single. Look at Shamanai's line. Talk about him. Seven innings, won her and run. He's throwing from down here. He doesn't give a. He's going to get paid coming up.

Luis Henlecuna? Am I even saying that right? Yeah. I'll talk about him later. Jose Iglesias. Oh my God. The Mets. 15 of 19, they've won.

Jesus. The Arizona Diamondbacks. They drop two out of three to the rock pile. Kelsey Winger's here. Did we fuel this? I don't know. The Rockies won the first two games. Thank God the snakes came back and they won that final game.

Erod with 11 punchy. This could be a part of their playoff formula. Oh, has Monty got knocked around? Hey, Hunter Goodman's homering, and then. Zeke Tovar is good. You guys kind of tuned it out, didn't you? Snakes, be careful. Yes.

Weird place to see you in the standings day. The Braves take two out of three from the Reds. Reds won the first game, six to five. Reds have been so bad in one-run games this year. A lot of what-if there. And the Braves come back, and they win the next two. Spencer Shreland. Blah.

Peter more than said he's the best pitcher in baseball. He likes him. He likes him. Peter's been known to talking hyperbole a little bit. Chris Sale, fastball, tick down a little bit. People nervous about that. They said he was just looking for his control. Been there.

I've been there. I didn't think Chris Sayle's been there. Gio Orchella's winning over hearts. And finally, Marcel the Snell, Ozuna homers for the first time in a long time. They need him to go if they're going to go. Oh, Dodgers take two out of three from the Marlins. You didn't see. Otani's the best person ever played baseball.

50-50. He does it on a three-homer, 10 RBI, two stolen base night. Jesus Christ. He might be. He might be. Cardinals, pirates, no. Cardinals win three out of four. Cubs, A's, no.

A's take two out of three. That's what happened in the National League. No. Do you know the standings though? Yes. If they're getting important, it's like finally my job has some marriage here. At a certain point, like that's it. We just did the National League and it's Friday.

So I'm going to start out west with our Dodgers. Our Dodgers. Jack Flaherty's Dodgers, probably Shohay Otani's Dodgers. Mookie Betts is loving life. They're 91 and 62. They did clinch a playoff spot. It's good. Still have not clinched the division, but they are mighty close.

The Padres are, four games back of them now, 87 and 66 for them. Arizona, as you mentioned, fallen a little bit here. 85 and 68. There's six games back. And then it's the giant 74 and 79 and the Rockies 59 and 94. We'll go to the central where Milwaukee. They spray champagne all over each other. And Bob Eukerset he peed his pants, which is, you know, that sounds about right. It's just guy stuff. It's just guy talk. Gosh, I'm telling you guys. 88 and 65 for them. The Cubs, 78 and 75. They're eliminated from the central, obviously. I just said that the Brewers won it.

How are they in? They're almost eliminated from everything. Three game elimination number for them. They're 78 and 75, St. Louis 77 and 76, Cincinnati, 74 and 80, and the Pirates, 72, and 81. Collectively, do they have, is that the best division collectively? As far as winning percentage, can someone find that out? The West? The Central?

Yeah, because I'm looking at other divisions. Because they don't have a dud. They don't have like a big duh. But I guess like the ALE East doesn't really have a big dud either. So it might be A.L. East. Okay. We'll get our analytics on that. Anyways, NL East Philadelphia Phillies a six-game lead over the Mets, 91 and 62,

85 and 68 and 68 for the Mets, 83 and 74, the Braves, 68 and 85 for the Nationals and 56 and 97 for the Marlins. This is kind of what we care about people. The playoff picture. Right now, the Dodgers and the Phillies have, identical records. So they would be the one and the two seed, which means Milwaukee,

would have to play a wild card series as of right now. You have the tiebreaker there for Phillies and Dodgers? Sorry. I do. You're my laptop guy today. I do. They lose a tiebreaker to the Phillies. Okay.

Yes. Interesting. Okay. Yes. And then let's see what about the brew crew. We're going to get into this later, dude. Stop. You're like ruining my standing section.

I'm sorry. as of right now San Diego has the first wild card there two games up on the Mets and the snakes who were tied for the second and third spot at 85 and 68 apiece and really the only other team there

is the Atlanta Braves who are two games back of a playoff spot but they do own the tiebreaker on Arizona and it's still yet to be decided against the Mets as they will host the Mets for a three games set after they play at Miami. It's all coming down to it.

It's basically what's going on. Those are the standings in the National League. Thank you, Trevor. Fantastic job. It's for anybody better. Metz, no comment. I think the ALE East is two games ahead of the NL West. Let's go.

NL West, huh? Sheesh. The, do you want to do your celebration etiquette? You have me a little distracted by that. We should probably start a show. show hey because it's all it all goes into one let's we can start with show hey otani what are your thoughts trev you played i i i put out a tweet last night and i said he's not a generational talent he's the best to ever do it right like i don't think he's like hey this is he's the best in our generation no it's like

no generations ever nobody that's put a baseball glove on their hand or picked up a bat can say that they are a better overall baseball player than show hey otani And that was true before 50-50. Yeah. We already knew that. People are saying that C.C. has the quote, he's the most talented baseball player that's ever lived. Obviously, longevity comes in.

Are there as numbers there yet? No. But I don't think you could make an argument for anybody else, literally ever. Right. Are you a better baseball player to show you a tonny? Because he does everything. I just, what's crazy to me every time,

we've talked about this before, we know he's got pop. Like even the 50th Homer, goes opo looked weird like a weird swing 109 off the bet like i don't get it like his exit video is so good he hits the ball so hard but then when he runs it's crazy it's the one that always trips me up dude he's got long strides it's the one that always trips me up he's just it's he's a different he's just a different type of player so yeah last night six for six 10 runs driven in two stolen bases three homers 51 51

Everyone's getting their 50-50 tweets out. He's like, no, how about you just tack it on? Save him. What can he do? Can he go 55-55? Like, why not? Yes. Right?

He can. He just had a three-home or two stolen Bay's day. He'd get there tonight. Do that over the weekend. It's insane what we're seeing here. And we've been, listen to the you know-what show. I've been telling people, go see this guy. When he was in Anaheim, and that was my big thing,

hey, go check this guy out, cheap tickets. You're watching something special. This is the guy that we're going to be telling our grandkids about. It's special, man. This is, I can't believe I'm starting here because this is going to sound obnoxious. I can't wait to see the next steps, like when Shohei's pitching again. Like now that this has happened, is this going to be, is this going to be the, I was going to say, asterisk with baseball people hate? But is this going to be like, is this going to be the anecdote?

You know, the season Shohei didn't pitch, he went 50-50. Or is this guy going to come back next year? Pitch hit and run like this? Like, it's insane. I think we won't see as many stolen bases when he's pitching. Can't. Yeah, I think that's kind of... It's just not worth it.

Yes, and he, you know, you got to save those legs. 60, he'll go 60, 40, though. I'm curious to see what he does. I mean, if you go back and look at... Just say from 2021 on, he went 46,100, 3495, 44, 95, 51, 120. That's good. Stolen bases were 26, 11.

Actually, I mean, he's had some bad stolen base numbers before this year. New rules, bro. Well, they had new rules last year. I guess he was a little better. 26 and 10. Stolen bases caught stealing in 2021. 11 and 9 in 2022. And then it was 20 and 6 last year and 51 and 4 this year.

Do you think he just like, you think this? And I'm not being serious about this. How old is he? 29. Do you think this year he just put his mind to it and was like, I'm going to, I'm going to work on stealing bases. Like I'm going to go study the pitchers.

I'm going to work on my jumps. And he just, I know there's rules in place now that are helping stolen bases out. But do you think he put his mind to it and was like, I'm going to, I'm going to work on this. And this is the result of it. I would think Shohei wanted it.

Like that was the whole thing with show his contract. Like he wanted that weird contract. You think he had 50-50 in mind before the season started? No way. Maybe. 30-30 had mine. Yes. Yes.

He'd never done that. Probably came into the year saying, no, I'm not going to pitch. I'm going to swipe 30 bad. He wanted to steal bases. That's the only way you go from 11 to 50 plus at age 29. Dude, that's absurd. No players ever done that. I'm not going to research it.

But I guarantee you. At 29, just up this stolen base percentage? from 11 to 50? Yeah. That's nuts, man. Is career high in Japan? 11. 7. You know, as I said, you probably didn't steal.

So you just didn't go. Shout out foolish. The only other thing I'd want to know that could have an impact on this is like just the Dodgers philosophy. Because I could see Anaheim. Like, dude, Anaheim let him hit him pitch. That's like part of the story that other teams were like,

hey, we'll let you throw and then maybe we'll get you some A-Bs. Like Anaheim let Shohay cook and thank God they did. Maybe the best thing Anaheim's ever done for baseball. But like, hey, maybe they were like, dude, you can hit him pitch. Like we can't have you running. Like there's an injury risk there. There's no need. Like it's sick.

You're fast, dude. But maybe the Dodgers were just like, yeah, if you want to run, go nuts. The one thing we're missing in all of this talk about Shohey Otony. he's never been in the postseason. Him and I are the same. We are going to see Show Hey, Connie, in the postseason. I are the same.

That's how you want, that's how you want to end the 50-50 segment. Facts. How you want to end the 50-50? Yeah, no, I look, obviously, tip of the cap, whatever you want to say, show hey. Add-a-boy. Yeah, out-a-boy. He gets a big out-a-boy.

He gets a big out-a-boy. Coach ballgame probably. love Shoah Oton. He got to love Shohei. I don't know. I'm trying to look at some other stats. Like, has he improved in anything? Shriking out less this year.

Shout out to Decoy. He's got a 60% hard hit percentage. You know what the NB averages? Half. 39. I'm excited to see him in October. There's rumors of him pitching, possibly. Dave Roberts hitting us with the non-zero.

Okay, so let's get into then now the Dodgers celebration. Okay. You know what? I feel like, We don't really talk Dodgers on this show. You skim over them. They're good. They're going to be in the playoffs.

Now it's a time that you start talking about these teams that we try to avoid a lot. Yeah, it's just funny because the Dodger, the Dodger topics, like, Mookie was the clear favorite for MVP for a little bit. Yeah. And now Ochani 50-50. So I don't know. So, okay, here's my thing. Sure. Now, I just had the standings up.

Let me get back to that. Dodgers did a champagne toast, which is very classic of them. They've clinched the division. How many years in a row? 12 or something like that. It's like 24 out of 25. I don't know. It's a lot.

So they've done this a lot. A lot of guys in that club else are used to having champagne soaked eyes and shoes and everything, every year. But let's just say, let's just say, they don't win the division. Right. And there's one guy on that team. that all he got was a champagne toast. Nightmare. Never gets to do it again.

That is the stuff of nightmares because... How big is their lead? Four game lead. Elimination is number is six with whatever, 11 to go. Yeah. I get it. I'm just saying... I get that, though.

Pop. This can be someone's only chance to get rowdy with the boys in the clubhouse. And you've heard my sob story before. Michael Cadire, we were not going to celebrate with the twins 2010 AL Central champs. We were not going to celebrate because we had to wait for a game out west to finish. Michael Kodair said,

you never know when it's the last time you're going to be able to do this. They had been winning, right, the division year after year after year. It's my only time I ever got to do it in the big weeks. So I thank Michael Kodair every time I see him for that. I'm just hope it doesn't turn out that way. I think any chance you get people are like, oh, it's unfinished business. You know, they've been there before.

It's like, not everybody. Right. What if poor showhead never gets to do it again? Thank you, Michael Cadire. Anyways, it was classy. I don't know. No, I think you're right. I asked...

I'm trying to freaking, you know what I'm saying? I asked, okay. I asked Boone because... Yeah, Yankees did it. The Yankees were in a similar boat, right? Yeah. You're the Yankees, blah, blah, blah. I think the timing for the Yankees matter,

that they missed the postseason last year. The division wasn't guaranteed, isn't guaranteed, although it's getting pretty close. They've really opened up a gap with the Orioles. The exact same as the Dodgers. Stay tuned for those American League standings coming up. Yeah. That, yeah, I asked Boone,

and then I kind of felt a little dumb, but I guess we're not because the Dodgers did. Because one year the Yankees did do the champagne toast. And we were all kind of like, Ah, fellas. As fans, don't you want to see your guys going nuts? I think it was during the COVID years. That was a factor.

People like didn't want to see a party. The only, that's like what I wanted to see during COVID. I wanted to see a party. I, for just clenching. I think the only thing, if it was going to be like, if it was going to be like within the same two or three days, I think then I would be like, then let's do a toast night.

But it had to be like guaranteed. Like, dude, I think it's guaranteed. I think for the Dodgers or for the Yankees, I think it's going to line up. Like, dude, because the guardians, did they clinch the central or the playoffs? Playoffs. Like, they're having two parties. They're very close. I mean, they're six and a half up, yeah.

I mean, they're all kids. These teams are going to have two parties. I'm just saying there's an off chance. And I think you celebrate every chance you get. I mean, you're almost making me want to, I don't want to say root against the Dodgers. And all they have is that little tiny toast? That's a bad feeling.

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Let's tidy up some NL. Do we just, hold on. Do we just talk about the Dodgers? Oh, tidy up NL. Okay, I'm so confused. You're okay. It's a weird one today. It's the end of the year.

We're talking about Milwaukee. We're going to talk about the Mets. We're going to talk about the end of the NL wildcard. Talk about Milwaukee, Philly, whether you want to talk series or the teams. Because I think that's the most juicy NL situation. Yeah, I mean, look, I like Milwaukee and talking about them in a, and we talked about this a lot, though.

That's the thing. Right. In a year with the expectations, you know, widely were down. Apparently not in their clubhouse, but I talked about this on baseball today the other day. I'm like, really? Like, everyone says, yeah, we got a chance to win. You lose Corbyn Burns. Do you really believe that?

Devin Williams is out. Woodruff is out. You know. But. It's a good question. What do we know? Pat Murphy. He's come in and it's been awesome to watch

and they've done it in such a fun way. Whether it's the guys running the ball down in the outfield, Perkins and Freelick out there, our guy, Bryce Terang, how many bags does he have? 50. 50-50 for Bryce Tray. I just think about teams and hits and steals. You know, every team has to overcome injuries.

Sure. Throughout the year. But I think what Milwaukee is, gone through. New manager. Trade your ace before the season. That's usually like, dang,

like, isn't going to be it for us. Like, we just traded our guy. Corbyn Burns is a guy. Trade away from the team. Lose your other starter to injury. Your closer gets hurt.

All the new man, everything is working against you. Christian Yelch hasn't been that guy. When he out, when he was out there, he was that guy. Yeah, like, but he was burned down.

Everything's kind of against you. And then all of a sudden, they put in work the entire year, man. They become a pitching factory. They figured things out. They didn't really have to make many moves. What moves did they make at the All-Star break? Well, I will say, Aaron Savali.

Savali coming in is good. They brought in. He's been huge for them. They brought in Motas, too. So they gave themselves starting pitching options, which... And Savaldi was early. We talked about going after,

go get somebody quick. They made that move. And that was their team weakness because they have bodies. Like, dude, Garrett Mitchell keeps sneaking in box scores and it's like, okay. Like, I thought he was kind of out

due to injury. But like, they have bodies and they believe in their recipe that if you're going to be on the field for the Milwaukee Brewers, you have to play defense. Like, that's the requirement. then from there, whatever hitting you had is a bonus,

and they've been a good offensive team this year. Tereo going nuts in the second half, William Contreras, obviously, all year long, Willie Adomis all year long. There was a really funny video, and maybe you can get this up, Beavers, and I won't be able to see it because we're in the studio, but it's Murphy and Euker standing next to each other,

and William Contreras is behind them, and he has, I don't know if it's beer or champagne, but he has it shook up, but he's got his thumb over it. So it's holding all the pressure in. And he's just taking his thumb off just a little bit. So it's like a little stream. And it's just kind of like Murphy's talking.

And the stream is just kind of like hitting him in the back of the head. And he like puts it over to Yucre. And he's just doing a little stream on that. It's hilarious. I don't know. You mentioned their defense as we like to. A third in baseball and defensive runs saved. Only behind the Blue Jays who went all in on that.

Forget about the offense. And then the guard dogs. Those two teams. as we talk about many times, mere images of each other. They kind of do everything right is what the Brewers do. And, you know, as we go through these series throughout the year, you know, there are certain things that teams just do well. And I think for the Brewers, it was almost like a relentless attitude.

Come from behind victories. We're able to win close games. I think Pat Murphy tried as best he could to put people in advantageous positions and everyone bought in. And sometimes that sounds like cliche locker room talk. But as I mentioned with,

I mentioned this on baseball today yesterday as well, there's not too many guys there that are like paid paid. Right. So there's a lot of drive there to like, hey man, like I need to establish myself. I need to have a good season. All these things.

When you have all of that together, that's when, you know, they had one losing month this year, and I believe they were 13 and 14 in it or something like that. But everyone, every day is coming to the park saying, I got to do something. Yeah. I got to continue to earn my keep here. And I think that kind of embodies what the brewers have done this year.

I could be wrong. Brewers fans, let me know. It feels like the brewers have had healthy competition, whether that's in the bullpen and like, you know, they tap into these guys, Hudson, pie amps. Like, come to the Milwaukee Brewers, play good baseball, and you'll get run. You could turn into the setup man for Devin Williams. You can, like Blake Perkins, some of these guys that, I don't want to say we're written off because it was too early for them.

But like, you come in, you play good, you'll play for the Milwaukee Brewers. And I don't know, I guess where I asked Brewers fans if it feels like that, it's been, Sorry, everyone, but it's been one of the Yankees complaints that it feels like they don't believe in competition. But it's kind of the contrast of Milwaukee and Cleveland and some of these bigger teams. Like, you know, even for the Dodgers, you're not going to have.

Yankees have guys that are paid. Exactly, exactly. Like, you're not, Teoscar Hernandez doesn't have to compete day and day out for the job because they gave him 24.5 mil for one year. So they're going to run him out there. And he's been great. that yeah it's um it's funny that those two teams I think the recipe's out

get a lot of young guys that can play good defense get some talented pitching run the base and you're gonna win ball games yeah go Brewers go they're gonna be fun they're a team that's really hard to predict I think even though they were the first team in baseball to clinch their two games behind for best record in the national league yeah nobody's still nobody's gonna pick them

to win the World Series, unless you will. I'm not going to. I already picked the Phillies. I was daydreaming about that, because it's funny, you know, and probably our listeners know by this point, like Jimmy doesn't care about predictions at all. He thinks it's like the dumbest thing in sports media.

Okay. I do know. I grew up on sports media. I think it's fun. I have predicting. You had one of the best predictions ever done. Yeah, I did. That I was like, oh, shoot, I kind of need to like,

Who was your preseason? No clue. See if Bebs has it. No idea. But I don't know, man. I started spinning through the teams yesterday, and then I was going through like the wild card stuff. Like this time last year, I think the snakes weren't even in the playoff picture.

Well, they were in the playoff picture. But I don't know day in day out if they were in the dance that I was like, do I like the Mets? And then I was like, I got a reset. I got a reset. And I'll figure that out. I mean, the Mets could be that team that just gets hot, 100%. Philly side of this thing. I think we come back to the Phillies.

We got a lot to chew on. There's going to be time to talk about the Phillies. They're deciding postseason roster construction. Right. How many pitchers to bring? Yep. Rob Thompson likes an extra bench piece. Sure.

So that'll be interesting to see. What I like, he's not afraid to burn a guy to get the match we wants, which I like love that in a manager because so many times just like, well, we're going to pinch hit the Ritey, and they're like, okay, we're going to bring in the Ritey, and then it's like, what was that move for? Yeah. You just went from one crappy matchup to the next crappy matchup. Rob Thompson's like, I'm going to bring the Rite and you're going to be the right in. Oh, sorry, Ritey.

Sit back down. Yeah, go put your shoes on. Get some gummy bears and watch the game. Yeah, great job. You did your job. Lefty. That'd be a good role for you. Go do your thing.

I would love that. Let me tell you something. For soft toss and lefties coming out of the ballpenn. All those soft toss and lefties still coming out of the bullpen. If you're in a game, you're in a big league game, you're sitting there all of a sudden you're about to hit, but you know you're not going to hit all the pressure's off. And you just get to watch a big league baseball game

in the best seats in the house. You did your job. Did your job. It's a good feeling. When you get pinch ran for, oh, you feel like a king. Yeah, the first time you told me that it. It really opened up my eyes.

You feel like a king? I guess I was the guy hoping to pinch run. Trev, maybe it's like a winner's only up, obviously, is we're in person. Padres take two out of three from Houston. That was a great series. Oh my gosh. Dylan C's 8.1 shutout.

Yes. Golly. Close, great series. I would love to see this matchup. This would be a... It's got a chance, right? Awesome matchup. We had some funny quotes from Josh Hader saying...

Yeah. Those rent free in Sandia. I don't love that. Rent. You don't got to. If you're Josh Hater, you don't got to do that. If you're living rent-free,

you don't have to say it. That's Josh Hader paying rent. Yeah, you're right. He's been nasty. He is nasty. He's been nasty. He's nasty.

Padres are a wagon. Altovae shoes off. I got a clip out right now saying, oh, you want to. I love it. He actually said, I love it.

Afterwards, I came out and I said, listen, what's the, first of people that don't know. Right. He said he fouled the ball off his foot. It was in a crucial time in the game. They can't review that.

And he said, no, you didn't foul the ball off your foot. So Jose is like, so instead he grounds out. Yeah. Jose says, oh, I'll show you. Right. And he takes his shoe off. Umpire sees that tosses him. My take on in this, well, what's the difference between that and taking your batting glove off?

That's what El Tuvae said. I said that. Pulling up your sleeve. Hey, hit me right here. but because it's his feet. Right. People like feet in this world. Not that umpire.

Foot culture has hit a weird spot. I like, I'm not nodding to feet. That's the truth. Oh, well, all right. Machado, Homer. No, you're right. Because there is something ridiculous about the image

or even, I don't know, man, the world of golf, when a golfer has like a shot that's next to the water and they take their shoes off and everyone looks at that image and they're like, oh, golfers going in barefoot. There's a weird stigma to it. And I think I want to get rid of that.

Well, there's some weird. Because it is the same. If a player took off his batting glove, hey. You're gone. No, you don't get tossed through that. No, you don't. You take off your sock and shoe, apparently you get tossed. Which I also kind of got.

I don't know. What if he was like, hey, um, Can I take my shoe off? He would say no. The hump would say no. Which that's messed up. Yeah, I don't know. God, what's wrong with our society?

Last eight games, Padre starters have a 112 ERA. They're about as ready for the playoffs as any team can be. Seeing them in a three-game set is going to be hard because I don't, I want to see them go deep into the postseason. I believe they can. Yeah. but in a three-game set, man, anything can happen. I know.

Like, anything can happen. It's better than a one-gamer, obviously, but... Or is it? Yeah, that's a debate. I know. You kind of want the one-gamer back. If I told you... As a player, I hated it as a fan, I loved it.

If I told you one-game wild card, seven-game DS, would you sign on the dotted line? I don't love a seven-game DS. Okay. I don't think we need that. Really? I don't think we need that. Okay.

I don't know, man. I'm a little surprised by that. I surprise you. You surprise me every day. Every day. What else do we got here? I think that's it. I get one minute on the Mets.

They're insane. They swept the Nats. They're Lindor's in the dugout. It's nervous times. The offense had been struggling. Like, I actually watched that Monday night, Jake Irvin-Shahn-Maniah game. Talk about...

That's talking baseball. Yeah. I mean, they had they... an identical line. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. And they get the walk off from Marte. Yeah, that was big.

Indoor's in the dugout and like the street closed. Not street clothes, but not playing. Not uniform. And then they roll them the next two. McGill is back twirling for them. Gintana's got a scoreless streak. You're going to hear more about that. Acuna in the Mets box score.

You're going to hear more about that. So I think we keep it moving. Nimmo pissed on a couple of balls. It's like just a reminder, who is Brandon Nimmo? In what, in Wyoming, basement. He must own so much land. How many acres does Brandon Nimel are? I was just watching Kevin Costner's Horizon.

Never mind. That got bad reviews and I'm watching it right now. It's, uh, I would never watch something that got bad reviews. Oh, that's a little bit of a me thing, bro. Some of these people are just mad. I'll watch. I'll watch anything. Westerns, come on, bro.

Anything Western. I'm a huge Western guy. Big American history guy. You are. Let me just... Oh, boy. 30 seconds. This is tough.

30 seconds. Like the last frontier. I guess the ocean's the last frontier. But that whole thing... That whole thing, like going out west. Yeah, sure. I'm talking about on Earth. The final frontier on Earth is the oceans.

or parts of the Congo or the Amazon. I don't know. Anyways, just that, just the traveling west, not knowing what the heck you're going to get yourself into, understanding all this obstacles that you're going to come your way, whether it's the Rocky Mountains. A lot of other things out there.

I don't know, man. It just always has interested me, whether it's the gold rush or just settling out there. And anyways, I, do I give it a thumbs up or thumbs down horizon? I go here. just because I'm into it.

So that's like a half thumbs up. That's big. Snakes, I don't think we really need to talk about, although I guess we'll talk about a stimulator, and we've kind of been talking about. They're trying to figure out their pitching, and it was crazy seeing them in the Mets on the same line this morning. And they do not have the tiebreakers.

And I guess, Treve, I would just feel bad. Anything on the Braves, like it, I don't know. It's go time. Yeah. It's go time. You just played, you took two or three from the Reds. You got to sweep the Marlins. Put the Marlins this weekend.

You got to sweep them. Big game last night, 15 runs up there. You mentioned Sale. I think he's fine. I think he just couldn't, like he didn't have control of his fastball. Try to chill out a little bit with it. But it's, there's no room for air for the Atlanta Braves if they want to make the postseason.

It's insane. Get me to that Braves. Matt series. Two names back, yeah. Hopefully Ozuna starts rolling for them. again, Michael Harris with some big games in there. Matt Olson with the two homer day. A little Solair power.

God, the Atlanta Braves are out right now. Let's do a quick AL recap. Congratulations to the Cleveland Guardians who have clinched a playoff spot. Party time, excellent. It looks like they're going to win that central too, Trev, as they take three out of four from the Minnesota Twins. They do the last two in walk-off fashion? Yeah.

Brian Rokio? Of course. Why was I watching that game? Of course. Because I love it. Because I'm about that life, Pop. It was cool to see. Jimenez gets to walk off in that final game.

Man, they, my Tigers hug meter. The guard dogs have that too. I was watching Manzardo and Rokio get interviewed after the game, and I was like, you're kids. These are kids. But they're balling out, man. Congrats to them. Steven, Vow.

God, the Guardians' Brewers' comps. We'll get back into that. And we're probably going to talk about the twins a little bit, because my guy kind of told us. I've been telling. And here we are. Fines were bad. And on the other side,

the Detroit Tigers sweep the Kansas City Royals. Oh my God, stay tuned for the standings. Matt Veerling. Of course. Three hit day in that first game. You know when I see my guy, Tyler Holton in the box score, that's good news. Two innings clean. Is he a hot boy?

Ooh, interesting. Like a bad boy. We'll research that. Terrick Scoobble in the last game. Riley Green is a top blank player in baseball. Go fill that out in your own time. the tigers get the sweep and they are full-blown. Just listen to the standings, people.

Bobby Witt, really good. 30-30. Kind of a bad time to go 30-30. Kind of the worst time ever to go 30-30. Yankees, they take two out of three from the Seattle Mariners. Mariners fans, oh my God. We were having some late-night sessions together. Some of the Bonehead Mariners plays.

Oh, my gosh. Andy throwing his bat at Julio Robles, stealing home. Bases loaded, a 3-0 count. What is you doing, baby? Yanks rolled them in the first game. They win that second one in extras. Rizzo drove in both runs. That's the name I haven't heard in a long time.

What's that from? What the fuck was that? I think that's a Star Wars thing? That's the Obi-Wan thing. I slaughtered it. That did not happen. Orioles. What is you doing, bitch?

Wake up. Giants take two out of three from the Orioles, and it was almost three out of three, if not four. Anthony's Hontan, then. Yeah, with the walk-off. Blake Snell and Albert Swar is in that first game. I'm just going to play on loop on my phone forever, just the first six innings,

where Blake Snell was shutout again. Hayden, show me your bird song. My fingerprints are all over this series. Go look at Blake Snell's numbers from, like, July on. Last 13 starts, he has a one-th century. 3-3-E-R-A. Is he going to go back to free agency? Grant McCray,

Giants, AI player generator. I don't know. Giants, you're out. Sorry. Reyes take 2 out of 3 from the Red Sox. Jose Serean, Chris Morel, haven't seen... That's basically the Ray's talking baseball.

Yeah. That's mostly just for us at this point. Garrett Clevenger recorded a six save. Blue Jays, Rangers, out. Rangers take two out of three. Bouten Francis with another nice start. Good for him. It's going to be a fun player profile and projection next year.

Trev wants you to watch more Kumar Rocker. Camar? I think someone corrected me the other day. I don't know. White Sox. Kumar? Angels. Oh my God. Holy smokes. Someone trade for Reed Detmer's.

Jared Schuster with a three and a three. opening opener appearance. I don't know. I don't know. Devers gave up seven Ernie's after I was calling for him to get traded. Let's go. This is what I'm talking about though. That's what happened in the American League. That's what happened. I could fix them. I'm like that girl, you know.

I can fix him. I can fix him. You can't, though. What's that saying if someone shows you who they are, believe them? I need the standing so bad. I need to hear the standings from you so bad today. So bad.

I got Todd Frazier in a Pittsburgh uniform on my baseball reference pitch. And Tyler Houghton's neck. You got a Holtan pick there? Yeah, I'll get it up for you real quick. You haven't seen his neck like this. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah.

He's hot. He's Detroit hot. Detroit hot. That's a guy who works on your car and then he fixes your back. Yeah, he's from Tallahassee. You can't fix him. You cannot fix that. Don't try.

Okay. Give me the standings and then I've got, I got a couple things. Okay. We're going to start out West where the Ashos have a five-game lead over the Seattle Mariners. They're 83 and 70. The Mariners 78 and 75. And then Texas. Oh my goodness.

73 and 80. Oakland, 67, 86. And the Angels, 62 and 91. In the central, you mentioned Cleveland. They clinched that playoff spot, and they're very, very close to clinching the Central. They're going to have two parties because they're a young, fun team, and they just are happy.

Have two parties. Yeah, why not? 89 and 65 for them. 82 and 71 for the Royals who are six and a half games back, 80 and 73 for the Tigers and the twins. And then the White Sox are 36 and 117. What's the magic number for them? 122?

120? For the White Sox? For the worst record of all? all time. Oh, I think it's 120. It's 120. I think they're going to get there. Okay.

Okay. And then out east. The Yankees clinched the playoff spot. There are four games above Baltimore. Now, that's got to be their biggest lead of the year, right? Yeah. 89 and 64 is their record. The Orioles are 85 and 68, and then it's Boston, 76 and 77, 75 and 78 for the

raise in Toronto, 73, and 80. The Wild card. Baltimore. Oh, here it is. Baltimore's five games up on the wild card, which is nice. It's nice. And then Kansas City is two games. So Baltimore, number one, Kansas City.

Number two. Third wildcard, Detroit and Minnesota. They're tied, although Minnesota has a tiebreaker. So technically they'd still be in the playoffs if the season ended today. And then the Mariners, only two games back. And dare I shout out the Boston Red Sox four games back with 11 to play. Dare you? Dare I?

I don't dare. Mariners have that outside shot is. Pretty crazy. Two games back. Those are the standings in the American League. What do you got? Well, first, I want to tell the people about Pickett. Pickett is a free bet tracker that allows you to see all your bets in one place.

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going back to Tallahassee, Tyler Holden's neck. Okay. One of my friend's sisters, I've told this story before, but it's a good, like, every six months, once of your story.

She's just like a sweet person. Who's this? One of my buddy's sisters. Hot? I'm just, I didn't ask that. Okay, Trevor. I'm just, we're... That's so messed.

just a couple guys in a warehouse right now. That's so messed up. But my buddy was like kind of joking talking about me to her. And she dropped a line. She just said, some people can't be helped. Better help later.

Oh, teaser. Treff. Born in Tallahassee, school in Tallahassee, college in Tallahassee. I wonder if he knows about it in Francis. Give me some research on that because he's from Tallahassee. They like that a lot. They know each other.

Out in Francis with that weird headphones riding his bike from the game. Yeah. Pictures are weird. Don't. Make Teddy hit. Teddy. Please make your son hit. He wants to hit.

He wants to be a position. He just went to school in Mariana. What fuck is that? Probably the next town over. It's different schools. I don't know. That sounds like some Bayou panhandle. Not to blow the whole episode.

Is Tallahassee in the Panhandle? I don't think so. I think it starts to hedge you there. All right, let's see. Probably some awesome showdowns. This is going to ruin the whole episode. Isn't the Marianas Trench? Tyler Oldman went to Lincoln High School in Tallahassee,

Bouten-Francis. Tallahassee isn't the panhandle. He's out of here. Right in the middle of the panhandle. Like the actual handle? Yeah. It's on the Appalachie Bay. Well, I knew that.

I went there once. Anyways Mariana is It's about 100 miles west Okay so they're not buddies They know each other They pitched against each other once

At a showcase Speaking of a showcase Do we need to give more snaps for the guardians Or do we just need to Dude it How It was a tough series for the twins A great series for the Guardians

They I mean it's obvious that this was going to happen It was a lot of lot of interesting bullpen decisions. Again, that's kind of been like the theme. Rocco's on the hot seat, dude. I'm not saying that. I mix it up on the hot seat.

I don't, I don't, I truly don't believe he's on the hot seat. I think that, I think that, you know, the internet fodder is that he is on the hot seat. The internet fodder is that he's on the house. I think those guys are like thick as thieves, bro. The front office in him, I think they have a good relationship and, you know, that's important to your job security. How about that? That's why I'm, I treat you the way I treat you.

interesting bullpen decisions you know it's Griffin Jacks you know he blows a game gets up a homer goes out for two innings he doesn't really like to do that and Rocco hasn't really done that because he doesn't really believe in it but I think he's been getting pressed because they don't have a lot of bullpen back there and then backfired on him there there's some interesting decisions going to a guy like Ronnie Henriquez and in extra innings when you have a guy like Cole Sands who apparently wasn't available, but why wasn't he available? A lot of things were going on in that back end of that bullpen.

And the Guardians just take advantage of it. And their bullpen doesn't falter. Literally ever. Yeah. You need to score early on them and hold on for Deer Life because they're going to continue to score. It's going to be Brian Rochio with like a dump single. And then Andres Jimenez is going to drive him in.

Don't say dumps. It is. That's what it's going to be. Don't say dump single. They're going to advance on a pass ball. Walk pass. And then they're going to hit a sex slide. It's insane.

They come up with big hits all the time. I'm going to be talking about Josh Naler in a little bit. Oh. Wow. Chris Rose really bleez in Kyle Monsardo. And he had a big game on Thursday, had the homer. They just, um... You would have like...

They play baseball, man. Oh, okay. Can I write that down? The Cleveland Guardians play real baseball. They do. You would have liked... Manzardo's post game in the Rokio walkoff. It was those two, and there's someone else with them.

But again, they're kids. And the interviewee was like, you know, Kyle, you know, you've been playing great. You just, you feel different the second time you got called up. You got called up the first time. Didn't click. Come back up. He's clicking. We love that.

That's one of our favorite things. Click, click. Click, click. And Manzardo, you would have loved his answer. He kind of gave the like, I just didn't feel super comfortable. Like, it's all kind of new.

Yeah. And he was like, now I'm feeling comfortable. Like, I know a lot of the guys. So, I don't know. Maybe that stuff matters. Maybe it doesn't, because if anyone on the White Sox said that, we wouldn't care,

but they're on the Guardians and they're playing winning baseball. And that bullpins, Halacious, man. It's starting to get 5.2 hitless in that final game. Yeah. That like... The Twins' offense hasn't been great either.

We'll be honest with that. Sure. But the Guardians have been doing this all season long, and their guys go multiple days in a row. But the Twins are going to get one dumpy hit in 5.2 innings. No. Maybe there is a lot of people in hot seat. I honestly don't know.

As you mentioned, the fodder online is everyone's on the hot seat. But, I mean, there was no reinforcements had at the trade deadline. So like how much, I don't know, there's been a lot of injuries. How much can you fault people? This isn't, whatever. Let's move on from this. Guardians are studs.

Twins, got a, they're holding on for dear life, man. I don't think it's going to happen. I really don't. Let's keep Santralin. Yeah. Because it's all connected and the tigers sweep the royals who there. I mean, royals. technically not out of the woods at this point.

They're not. They're, I mean, they're having. They're good. Yeah. But the consequence of the tiger sweeping being tied with the twins, the twins had the tiebreaker, the tigers would have to be one game better than the Minnesota twins the rest of the way, which the tigers sure seems like they could do that pretty easily. I saw the hugs, Treb.

I tried. We had the answers to the test. We did. And we just didn't use them. Could have made, make, bacon, making bank, bro. Bacon making. Tigers, they're relentless.

They've, they've, the same reason, or the same way I speak about the brewers and how everyone's kind of trying to prove themselves. I feel like it's the same thing with the Tigers. A bunch of young guys up there getting first, second shots, click, click, if you will.

Click, click. I don't want to say this. I've seen this Tigers team play a lot in person this year. And when Hobby Baez was in the lineup, it was a different feel. And I don't, I'm not trying to, Right.

Shoot. I don't want to stop. Shoot my shot. Shoot you. I am. Trey Sweeney, follow Trev on Instagram. I'm not trying to be a dickhead here, but it was a different lineup with hobby bias there. Yeah.

I mean, the picture that I tweeted out when Christian Vasquez was set up in the left-handed batters box. Yeah. Like it became a goof. It's, it's, that stuff rubs off on a team. Yes. You know, like, and now. You don't feel like a team. They're all putting together really good at bats,

you know, quote unquote, passing the baton. And it's grindy and it's energetic. Right. And then their bullpen. Yeah. Yes. Like so it's a lot of these teams,

whether it be the guardians, the brewers, or the tigers, very similar formula where you're putting together good at bats, you're playing good baseball, you're moving runners, you're getting hits with runners in a square position, you're not giving up. Like you have that youthful exuberance, the mentality, which, again, everyone says, yeah, we're, we're going to play hard, you know, 27 ounce, pinstripe strong.

Mm. But not every team does that, dude. No. Because there are some guys who are like, hey, man, whatever. Like, I'm paid. I'm, like, kind of in on that energy right now. The young kids trying to establish the energy. And then plus, you got Terrick School Bowl just every fifth day shutting everything down.

I think the good news. here is. Hobby, let's trade hobby bias to the Mets this off season. Tigers just eat it. It's the whole indoor thing. I don't think that's going to happen.

Done. I just did it. Okay. 25 and 11 from the Tigers, if I'm doing my math right. Like the comeback on Monday was great. They were down 4-1 and 5-2 at one point, and then our guy Matt Veerling took the game over.

Don't. Careful with that. Yeah. Your guy, Matt Veerling. My guy. Hey, can I ask you a question, Treff? Do you mind? Sure.

You're a B-Wore guy. Okay. Where's Riley Green at this year? Ooh, if I had to guess Riley Green's B-Wor. Miss some time. 128 games. 128 games? I'm going to give him a...

No, I think I've seen this, though. He's in the Fores, isn't he? 5.1. 5.1 now. Get some homers this series. Like where... When he... That's real deal.

At the end of this season, when you're doing either outfield rankings or just young good players or just good players in baseball, Riley Green's going to be pretty high on that list. Where's he from? That's Riley Green's person. Florida, gotta be. Florida. Yeah, he looks like a Florida guy to be.

Oviedo, Florida. So that's like Orlando, I think. Makes sense. Or no, Oviedo. He's born Orlando. Okay. I have the Florida map up. Riley Allen.

Allen Green, rag. What am I looking up? Oveeda. Sorry, Riley. Went to Paul J. Haggertie High School in Oviato. Feels like a jock school. It sounds like Central Florida, which is not exactly my... Zach Eflin, Von Grissom.

Look at that. Same high school. Ryan Moutcastle. Whoa. This is a jock school. Where is it at? I can't find it. Everybody's after 2000.

It's a jock school. It's got to be. Tiger. Treff. I almost called you Tiger. Dagger. Dagger. Okay.

That name's kind of taken. It's near Orlando. Okay. Your money. You value. If you were going to D.K. Yeah. Last A.L. team to make the postseason.

Oh, gosh. Twins are tigers. Four Mariners. Don't leave them out. Two games out. I won't leave them out. But I don't. I don't, you're putting your money on that.

I think if you're doing like the eye test, you put the Tigers. I think there's no doubt about it. The way they've been playing, the gumption, if you will. Twins don't have gumption right now. They don't. Maybe they flip the script

and you can do it real quick and get on a heater here. So I test, I'm going Detroit. Money? I think I'd probably sprinkle something on the Mariners. I don't know what the odds are. No. I'd sprinkle.

I would not put a unit on this because it's a mess. Good answer. Okay. Good answer. Yeah. And that's how you'd be smart with your money, kids. Yes. Always been a finance show.

It's a mess. It's an absolute mess. The twins have not deserved to get this postseason bit. They just haven't, Jake. I mean, I wish it was. was different. I'm rooting for him. I love the guys, but it has not been good baseball. I think the tigers have something powerful behind them, man. Nine of their last 11 they've won. That team thing you're talking about. Being young and dumb, I very much believe in that.

Like they are showing up to the baseball park every night, like the most confident team in the league. We're going to win today. Now I'm going to get something. Hold on. Okay. Okay. Because now, What are you going to get? I don't think it's going to show anything, but it might. No who doesn't show up to the field like they're going to win every day? The Seattle Mariners. I'm sorry. Oh, they do not.

Okay. It didn't fit my narrative. Okay. The Detroit Tigers do not steal bases. They're fifth worst. Only 76 stolen bases on the year. Wow. Twins dead last.

What's that? Insane. It's insane, dude. You want any Mariners, Yankees? I'm half good after living it. Yeah, I mean, I think if you haven't seen the clips of Randy Rosemary throwing his bat and Julio Rodriguez getting out of the way of it, but also forgetting that the ball is still in play.

That's an interesting clip. I sided with Julio there. I don't understand people that throw their bats when they swing. I've never done it. There's just some people that are prone to. to that. Similar to the guys that have long swings and hit the catcher in the back of the head.

Like, figure it out, guys. So, like, Randy just can't be striking out and throwing the bat. Yeah. Like, none of that would have happened. Willie was getting out of the way of the bat and then kind of lost track of, like, what the hell was going on.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the rules if it, like, if the bat were to have hit any, like, anybody, it would have been dead. So, Fulio just, like, thought it. It is kind of interesting. The coach. I wonder if the, I wonder if, like, the umpires could have.

And you got to know that. I wonder if the empires could have been like time. Like, no, go back. Hey, that was weird. I don't know if they have the ability to do that. Seems like they do whatever they want. They can't. Bill Miller would have.

Hold on. Let me, let me see what I want to do. And then there was the Victor Robles, as you mentioned, trying to steal home. I don't mind the play. You know, I forget who was pitching. Was it a heel? He was pitching, walking back to the mound.

He's going back to get some, uh, some, some, um, some, Rossin, like bent down. And Victor Rubles had noticed that and was trying to take advantage of a situation. So I don't mind the play. I mind the timing of it. I mean, three oh count bases loaded. Like that's not the time. It's struggling.

It's not the time to do it. You couldn't find the zone. Justin Turner's up who put the best swings on the ball this series for Seattle. And let's be real here. That's not a Mariners thing. That's more like a Tigers, a Royals, a Guardians or a Brewers thing. Well, no. I think the.

other thing that it? Maybe the Mariners needed more of that this year. Yeah, because I, in my core, I didn't hate it. Oh, I didn't hate it either. He kind of read it well. It's bad timing. And the joke on talking Yangs, it was heels, Heels most accurate pitch.

It was a perfect throw. It was. It was. That normally the pitcher spikes that ball or they throw it that we'd be talking about, wow, had he'd play by Victor Robles. Instead, it was the one thing Heel needed to do. it got him out of trouble, locked him back in. Last thing in the AAL, I think we should talk about Baltimore kind of, I don't know,

wobbling into the playoff picture, right, wobbling. Wobbly, wobbly, wob. And I like what Anthony Sontander said. You know, he hits the homer to win game three of that set as they lose the first two. And he said this is a reminder of who we are as a team or who we can be as a team, you know, continue to battle, fight for each other. They've not had a good September. They have not had a good record since the All-Star break.

I believe they are 27 and 30 since the All-Star break. So, you know, I think a lot of things have happened for them. I think, you know, some guys, you know, obviously have started struggling at the plate. It's going to be interesting to see if they can kind of flip it as October comes around. Momentum's a hell of a drug, and they got to drum some up. And maybe the Santander walkoff can get them going a little bit, but they haven't been able to get any.

And baseball kind of becomes a drag through the long days of the summer. That they need to feel the good juice. And they DFA Kimbril. I think that's good. That's like, you know, hey, this guy's not getting the job done. It sends a message. Yeah. It sends a message.

Do you know who the twins got? Who's that? Cole, Irvin. Really? Yeah. Your buddy. Yeah. I should go fishing

A lot of lakes A lot of lakes there I wish I knew Minnesota Trev I just I just have this LA vision of you Check a lot of beer I don't know it was like my big beer time Oh yeah

You're thick Um Trev we We got more to chew through Let's do it Ryan Pepio perfect inning Let's go to the second half The show and start it with

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Who's your standout performer? My standout performance is a Cleveland Guardian. Really? Soft. I mean, look, I'm paying homage to the team that just kicked the, you know, what, out of my twins. This is Josh Naylor on Wednesday night. He went two for four with two homes. homers, two runs.

There were two solo shots off our guy Bailey, Ober. And they were his 30th and 31st homers of the year. So he got to 30 and 100 this year, and I think that's still a very, very important milestone. 20 and 79 and 22, 17 and 97 last year. He's obviously picked up the Homer pace this year, 31 and 105. and really, you know,

we talk about the Guardians putting up, you know, just grinder A-Bs, and then it's him and Jose Ramirez. Not that they don't put up Grindr A-Bs, but those are the guys that'll pump you with the long ball, drive in all those runs. And I just think that he's, he kind of fits that mold there in Cleveland perfectly.

Like grinding. He's like, I don't want to say he's their show pony, but he's the first one on top step, yelling at people. Like there's vibes there. Like, I wonder if him in Hedges ever, like what do they do together? Oh.

Do they like just walk past each other and just like give each other the eyes? Like no, it's me. No, it's me. No, it's me. No, it's me. I think, I think Naylor and Hedges have serious moments together. Okay.

Where they're like, hey, today you need to be the hype guy. Didn't know this. But he, Josh Jeter was drafted actually by the Marlins in the first round. And he went with Carter Cappell. Luis Castillo and Jared Cozart to the Padres for Andrew Cashner, Taron Guerrero, and Colin Reha. Mm. Colin Reha.

And then from the Padres, he went with Gabriel Arias, Joey Cantillo, Austin Hedges, Owen Miller, and Calquantrol for Greg Allen and Mike Clevencher. Matt Waldron also came over in that trade too. Guard dogs, man. Uh, yeah, I will speak from experience. Josh Naylor is a guy, you do not want to see it to play in a postseason game if you're the other team. Yeah. Like, not only is he a really good baseball player, but if he hits one, you've just, you've sparked something.

He could be one of those guys that like wins ALDS. Yeah. Easy. Yeah. God. 30 homers? Jacques Peterson-esque, 31. It's pretty good.

Yeah. Who do you got? Um, man, we got caught talking about this guy the other day. Uh, but I don't think I gave him my standout. I think we just got caught talking about what might be in his basement. I'm going Jose Kintana. Mm-hmm. Um, yum.

23.2 scoreless. That's crazy. 23.2 scoreless innings for the New York metropolitan's. He's 35 years old. Yeah. Um, how do you? I turn. 35 in October.

God, me and Quintan are this. I feel like I'm not going to have his career. And it's just kind of hitting me. It's going to be tough now. It's going to be really hard. I'm going to get a little emotional and dumb for a second. Okay. You're Jose Quintana.

Sure. You're 35. Yeah. You're signing some one-year deals around the league. Where's he last year? Or 2022, he started with Pittsburgh. You got trade of St. Louis. He signed with the Mets.

because he had them. They gave him two. I don't know, dude. I don't know Jose Quintana at all. I think at age 35, I don't know if you think you're going to have a scoreless streak like this on a Mets team that looked like they were out. And now Jose Quintana probably gets the pill in a wildcar game. Tough not to.

Okay. It's Mania, Sevi, and Quintana. However, they want to work that. And I don't know, man. Like this is where I was daydreaming about the MF and Mets the other day. I don't know. I like it. I think it might be Peterson Mania Sevi.

We'll see. I don't know. Kintana waiting in the wings. He's great, man. It's a lot of fun to watch. Career or 374 ERA this year. Career. 374 ERA.

What do you want? He's pitching to his 106 innings right now. He's really, really, yeah, I mean, he's been, he's just, he's had the longevity. It's 12th year in the league. Okay. Yeah. It's really doing. It's a great career. I feel, I don't, I don't want to say I feel bad because we did a little bit of this the other day, but yeah, man. And this is tough because this could have gone four hits for Jerks and Pro Far. Shoah went six for six with three

homers and 10 RBI. We did a show hey segment. We did a show hey segment. You do that and you kind of get a segment. You mentioned Blake Snell, what he's been doing. I don't know. Who else we can talk about? Cody Bradford. Dylan Sees, 8.1 shutout. We might hear some of these guys on the best segment of the show. Dirt nasty's on Fuego.

That means on fire, baby. Like my bald spot in there? Let me see. Go back. It's like, you get a lot of different, like, balls. You have bedhead a little bit? This is the worst hair I've done on a show in a long time. Yeah, you got a haircut, so you just think it looks good all the time now.

But I fucked up. Who's in Flake? For the series. Yeah. How about Brendan Donovan? I haven't talked about it in a while. Okay. Eight for 15 in the series.

Three doubles, a homer, five runs driven in. How about Michael Harris? Deuce. Like him. Six for 16. Four homers. Okay. Six runs driven in.

Look at this. He's hit a homer in three consecutive games for the first time in his career. He's got to love that. How about Michael Conforto? Yeah. You and Michael Conforto would get along. Yeah? Yeah.

Six for 13. Two homers. Five runs driven in. His 18 homers are his most since 2019 when Conforo had a career high 33 for the Mets. How about that? For the week. Colorado's catcher, Hunter Goodman,

6 for 18, a double, four homers, nine runs driven in for the 1.4. Not going to talk about the next guy. Not going to talk about the next guy. For the two weeks, Jake, this is the list you want to be on. This guy. Drive Snakes fans. That's nuts.

Pavin Smith. 13 for 32. I think he's been on here for a couple weeks in a row here. Five doubles, four homers, 15 runs driven in for the 1.4. We just talked about Jose Cantana. Oh, yeah. Yeah, he's on here as well.

And? Three games, 20 and two-thirds innings pitch. 10 hits zero earned runs, 14Ks to four walks, 0.67, 0.6.7 went. 0.0. John Boy's. I don't think I have to say 0. John Boy's new favorite player.

rounds off the list. Luke Weaver. New York Yankees. Closer. Luke Weaver. Five games. Two and O. Two saves.

Seven in a third in a pitch. Two hits. Zero earned runs. 16Ks and 17. And 17. And has he always had the K? What's up with that? There's teams from the Reds, the snake,

wherever Luke Weaver's journey's gone that are, stunned right now. The K's, that's ridiculous. He changed his motion and he's just, he's a madman out of the bullpen. I'm so sick of pitchers. I think you'd like Luke Weaver. I think Luke Weaver is a good overlap for you and Jim.

He kind of has his own swag going. Okay. I don't want to hear about Luke. He's not. Give me your game. Yeah. The Corona Extra player of the app? Doesn't have to be, but it doesn't have to be today.

It was last night. It was last night. and I had a few Rona's there. The most infuego player of the, Tampa Bay starter, Zach Lattel. Two games start of 13 innings pitch. That's six and a half. Average.

You know you can't really do a half. Only three hits, no earned runs. And you know I love this, Jake. What do I love more than anything? Shoulder fatigue. 12Ks, zero walks. Don't be walking people. He pitched seven one-hit innings on 75 pitches,

struck out seven without a walk. He extended his scoreless inning streak to 20 innings. He hasn't a lot of runs since September 2nd, and that was after he came back off the 15-day IL with right shoulder fatigue, and he's made his 28th start in his first full season as a starter. That's awesome, man.

So congrats to him. You're the player of the app in Fuego. Oh. Congrats is Ak Lutel. Who'd have thought? Big raise next year. Yeah.

Big, big raise year next year. You think? Camanaro. Stadium's coming. Siri. Morrell. Every pitcher.

That was the best segment of the show, and it's followed by the worst. But I do have to tell you about who went on the aisle and who's off. Stephen Kwan. That's your only question mark in Cleveland right now. They need him. Can they with us? him seems like a no, but I don't know.

Let's try to get him back. Let's see. Don't Varsho. God, speed and defense getting hurt. Lance Lynn. See you, Lance. It's okay. Brandon Williamson had some moments for the Reds this year.

Boba is shit. Talk about a name that. It's a tough year. Baseball, between injuries and baseball, he got served a little bit of. humble pie this year. Get that finger better, Bo. Let's go nuts next year.

Returning from the aisle, White Sox, Yon Munkata is back. Thank goodness. Thank goodness. Yon Munkata is back. That's wild. Reese Olson twirling it for Detroit. Yeah. Let's see. Joe Kelly,

get ready for the fifth inning of a playoff game. Joe Kelly will be out there. The Cubs get some reinforcements and steel and low Lopez might be a little late. Derek Hill for Miami. Great. Vidal Bruhan for Miami.

Love that. Ryan Weathers. Yep. For Miami. Yep. All in my book. Jacob Lats for Texas. That's not my book.

That was the aisle. Let's start everyone's Penn Ultimate Weekend of regular season baseball. Oh, what? Kels. Where is Kel? She could have said it. I know she's here somewhere.

Oh, maybe she'll come in and just... She's juggling a lot these days. Yeah. She's always got the hand over the belly. Yeah. Love that. I'll start. I have that too.

I'm going to go with the, the Calisi Award. Calisi. Yeah. If you watch Game of Thrones, you know the Colisee is. Mother of Dragons. You like CaliCi a lot, huh?

I like her. Yeah. I mean, she's the mother of dragons. She's a mother of dragons. Love that. Three babies? Three babies. She got three babies.

Love that. There's a scene where she is like still like figuring out like who she is. Ooh, in there. Like she doesn't know that she's like that. Right. This bad. She thinks she's the queen, but like everyone's like, who are you? You're a Targaryian.

Like are those, they exist still? Yeah, what is this? Your brother stinks. Stinks. Didn't they pour gold down the brother's throat? Love that. That was a great scene. Oh, spoiler.

Ground. Spoiler, yeah. Oh, yeah. Spoiler, yeah. Sorry, episode like four. Yeah, okay, sorry. There's a scene where, there's a scene where Kalesi is in a burning building.

Yeah, powerful. And then she walks out unscathed from that fire, and she realizes, like, I am a Targaryen. Fire is who I am. Dragons are who I am. I am who I thought I was. Something is going on. like that with New York Mets.

It's a big Mets episode. In Luis and Hell, Acuna. Now, if you remember... Tough Braves at Braves fans, I'm sorry. If you remember, came over from the Texas Rangers as they,

Steve Cohen, paid down some salaries, one of the bigger prospect. We said, hey, it's great, but like an Acuna brother, like, are you just paying for name value? What's going on there? Short King, 5-8, but 181s. He's like, you know, it's not, not thick.

He is going through his fire right now. Comes up to the big leagues. How about eight for 19? How about getting thrown into the fire of a NL wildcard race for a team that has so much going for them, like you don't want to be the one to mess that up. Here you go. Francisco Lindor is hurt.

Why don't you go play some ball? Five runs driven in. Five runs scored. One dot threeing it. Now, the reason I'm saying by fire is this is cute. This is nice. Comes up has a few good games. Even if Lindor comes back, this guy's going to be on the postseason roster.

Right? He has to be. He has to be for a couple different reasons, Jake. Fast. He's fast. Lindor insurance. He can play shortstop. He can play second base.

play center fill. He's played all of those in the minor leagues this year over 30 games. He's a middle of the field kind of guy. Stearns Masterclass? Unreal. 40 swipes in the minor leagues this year. He's going to be, if the Mets end up making the playoffs, it sure looks like that's going to happen. He's going to be thrown into the fire. And I love it. He might be the reason. If he's playing in that series against the Braves, he might be the reason that his older bro, doesn't get a playoff share this year. He's like, hey, bro, you don't need that money.

I know you signed that team-friendly deal. Still got a lot of money. He's like, I'll take the playoff share and I'll take you out to dinner. How fun would that be? Don't have Ronald, but we got Luis Hen Hill. Because apparently in Caracas, they just breed Acuna brothers.

Great award. I think one of things I'm going to add to my front office binder. Do you know that he's the brother of Ronald, the cousin of Asentee Compe? Post, Alcidas Escobar, Edwin Escobar, Kelvin Escobar, and the nephew of Jose Escobar, all players within the baseball realm. I was just going to say, I would add to this to my front office binder. I would trade for player siblings. Okay.

Like there's just something there. Okay. Even I'll football this. Remember, like, T.J. Watt was like, uh, end of the first round, second round. Like, he's going to be good, but you're not. There's just something there. I've been battling against your older brother your entire life. Yeah.

That's how I could get to baseball. Anyways, that was nothing. Imagine Marshall, just physically imposing over me. I was such a little kid. Literally every day. That's all I think about now. And I think about the Draft King Sportsbook. You guys head there now.

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Bet you's $5 on any wager. That's promo code talking only at the Draft King Sportsbook. Trev, I'm going to give an award that I think we've given out a few times. Date my daughter. No. No. It's the My Hero Award. Maybe we haven't.

maybe we have. Oh, food fighters. Kind of down bad. Dave Grohl kind of out. Dave Grove kind of out. Treb, I talked about... Keep in your pants. What are we doing?

I talked about... Don't tell me about it. I talked about Jimmy falling for Luke Weaver, and he's been struggling with it because Luke Weaver's like a young, cool guy. Younger, cool guy. Jimmy's joke has been, I don't want to meet Luke Weaver

because that's going to ruin the experience for me. How old is? He's 31. I know, but Jimmy, Jimmy's 55. I gave Jimmy the work and shuffleboard last night. Yeah? Me and Luke. Nice.

Oh, I saw that happening. They were kind of broken. You really gave them. Tight game. I saw that. Trev, for me, I still, I mean, maybe it's King Tana, who I'm very similar to. The older players still get me.

And this is a guy we shout him out the last couple episodes. Yule Gereal. Do you know what my guy's up to? Yeah, he's playing with the Royals. 385. Oh, sheesh. 4.55 on base, a 916 OPS. That's not.

That's not real. So Yuli Guriel listed age 40, which we've raised some questions. Okay. Played a whole AAA season in Gwynette. What's in Gwinnett? The best hooters in the world. That this show knows. And here's Yuleiguriel for the playoff Kansas City Royals.

Is he going to chase down 400 this year? I don't know. I don't know. 500 is last five. I don't know, man. I have such respect for the old. He's starting to slide up the lineup. He went from 8 to 6 to 5.

They need help. And here's 50-year-old Yule Gureel. just raking at the big league level. I love that. I'd love to see him in the postseason. Got a lot of experience. A lot of experience. And so does our stimulator hit the music bebs.

Let's wrap this up. People are trying to play Blitzball. 356 plate appearances for Yulee in the postseason. Pretty good. That's a lot. Let's start off in the American League, where? The Twins are in. The Houston Astros would host the Minnesota Twins as of today.

Oh, I'm sorry. Are you asked? It's Astros. Yeah. Twins have played well against the Ashos. The Shortstop Bull. Baltimore hosts Kansas City. Kansas City. Wow.

Wow. Baltimore. People will be asking questions after the season. That means the Baltimore Orioles would face the New York Yankees. The Royals are facing the Yankees? The Royals. Excuse me. The Royals.

The Royals. The Royals won. Yankees be the Royals. beat the Royals. Thank God. Either way. Astros guards. Astros, Yanks. Astros, Yankees with a chance to go to the World Series Part 4.

Yanks. They're awesome. They're nasty. In the National League, we have some changes here. The Arizona Diamondbacks would go to Milwaukee and do that dance again, which they did last year.

Rourers. Wow. Redemption. The New York Mets would fly out west to Trevor Ploof, San Diego. Just saw this series. It happened not too long ago. And it's the Mets. Whoa, in front of the Padres faithful?

No, Friars fans. Wow, little shook. The Phillies have the tiebreaker, so that means they would host the Mets. Mets? My brackets. My brackets busted over here. Yeah, who won between Arizona and Milwaukee? Milwaukee beat the Diamond.

Yeah, so they'd host the Mets. So Milwaukee... Okay, Philly Mets. Philly's in the... Jesus. If that happens. Ooh. Mets.

Oh, boy. I think I know where you're going. I don't like it. So that would have the Brewers and the Dodgers. Do we like that? I like it, the brewers really like it. Jesus. Brewers Mets?

Brewers Mets to go to the World Series. The Stearns Bowl? Stearns Bowl. Stearns wins. Mets. I knew this is where you were going. Subway series, can you believe it? I'd be nervous.

This is the battle for Juan Soto. I'd be nervous. The battle for Wonsoto goes to? The New York Mets. Oh my God. Hit the other music. Congrats to your 2024. If the Mets win the World Series and then take one soda from you,

I'll be sad for you. I'll be sad, but I will dance on your grave. They need it. I will. It's a picture day today. You better get. I just have to do my hair. How about these pants?

It's early. It's early. I had to wake up at 5.30. You like these? Those are okay. Big pockets. Oh, I don't like that. The string's kind of freaking here.