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Episode Date: July 7, 2023

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Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. Massive Ep, the Phillies are rolling. Did the Mets and Padres save their season players only? Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. I'm going to say top 10% episode coming right now. Oh my God. Which would mean what? One of our top 68 episodes?

Yeah, I was going to round up. 69. Trevor Plouf, live from MC Studios. Myself, BBD, Manhattan. Might have myself a Manhattan after this. I'm running so damn hot. A huge week of baseball, brought to you by Seeky, Code Talking. Actually, you know what?

All you NL stands? I want the D.H. gone. The pitcher's hitting is cool. Guess what? Nobody says that. Nobody says that. episode for the NL. A.L.

Kind of soft. This episode. Speaking of, Trevor Plouf, how are you doing? We're going to see each other soon. We have our, like, weird brother wrestling each other energy going on right now. Like,

I feel like... You're going to walk up to Jess and, like, kiss her on the lips and just look at me, like, who's going to say something? I'm not, I'm not going to do that. Okay. I might come on a punch you right in the face.

Set the tone for the weekend. Establish your dominance. there is some energy here I woke up early today I did some prep work I went live on IG I don't know why I do that I feel like sometimes

you just peel the curtain back a little bit I want people to see how stupid you are in the morning and what I have to deal with so I get a little bit of sympathy that's basically what happens yes All Star Week is like approaching quickly two more games Friday Saturday Sunday

Sunday so three more games then we get the break the players are excited about it. You get those four days. What are you going to do with them? You're going to rest? If you have a family, guess what? You're not resting. You got to go do a bunch of stuff with your family, even though you

just want to sit around and do nothing. But that's called making a sacrifice. Okay. Do you guys ever punt? Not punt, but were their teams going into the All-Star break that you know, maybe those final three games

had in the break, the team wasn't necessarily locked in? you have to stay locked in. That's basically the topic around the league this weekend. We'll be like, guys, let's stay locked in. We got three games until the break. And we're going to, hey, Ben, you have your fun in three days. But these Friday, Saturday, and Sunday that's locked in.

Let's go in and create some momentum for the second half. Yes. Yes, Coach Garden higher. Whatever. What you just say? Bro, I'm just trying to put a freaking barrel on the ball. It's hard. Me and Chris are.

Archer in the back. Man, I miss Arch. Meet him and Snell Zilla back in the day. We were just like on the bench, riding it with the race, and we would just have the conversations. We got into some simulation talk, those guys and I.

You three. That's a... We're a problem, yeah. That's a bad girl. That might be why the race sent you out, dude. I think they saw you talking to some of the kids, and they were like, whoa, we can't have this. You think you make an impact.

Like, you know, your presence has felt when you come around my neighborhood. When Archer lived here for off-season, I mean, he basically, he ran the place. Yeah. So another thing your second place at. Trevor, okay. I, another reason this episode is going to be so electric. Treve, I haven't talked ball in a minute, dude. It's been a week.

I miss the Monday, yep. I know. I know. I'm a NASCAR guy now. We do all JM, which is, you know, highlighting dudes, sure. But I haven't talked ball in like a week. So I'm excited to chop it up with you. Huge National League, again, our team's saving their season.

And Trev, I'm, you don't even know. You came in, again, we were being Big Brother, Little Brother this morning and just kind of punching each other with words. this new partner with Johnboy Media Oh Tommy John I uh Trev I have a whole script

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We'll be there. You got your good pair. You want to know the secret, Trev? I've been waiting for this because I'm going full Tommy John. They're going to be, you get older and you realize you got to take care of some things. I'm going full Tommy John. John and I myself, I'm not even going to bump the sales team. I'm cooking the books.

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I agree with everything you just said. We're all going full Tommy John. I think we're going to do a shoot, you and I, underwear shoot, just to show off. But I'm warning you right now. Homer and Derby comes around Monday, July 10th or 11th, whatever that day is. I am going to make sure. I'm going to check. Okay.

I want to check to see if you have your Tommy John's on, and I'll send a picture out to the world. Wouldn't it be crazy, Treve? I mean, we've kissed at the Homer and Derby before. So. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, people forget that. People forget that.

And Trev, you're currently joking about our underwear shoot? No, I'm not. I suggested it to our sales team. I, we'll talk offline. Like, there's something brewing. I have a great tan right now, so we should probably get it going. You and me both getting tight for an event in December. Maybe if we can plan the shoot around there.

Let's get into some ball. Let's talk some National League baseball. Massive, massive National League episode. And it starts with your St. Louis Cardinals. Jack Flaherty shuts him out. 6.29 hits. No Cardinals done that since Jason Marquis. Pumping into my veins.

Nolan Aeronado, we're fist pumping. What a homer. That was the only game they won of the four games set. Fish with arms, baby, but fish with bats. They put up double digits in those middle two games. Fifteen runs. Who! Ten spot against the Liberatore.

Jorge Soler. He's an all-star. We'll see him. God, Garrett Cooper with a big game. Yule Guerrille in the first one with two rib-eyes. The fish? We have a serious case here of Jakey Analytics. One team's winning games.

one team ain't and the fish are winning baseball games they take three out of four Dodgers take three out of four from my pirates Dodgers behind a couple nice performances Max Muncie good to see him back didn't talk about him on all JM he has a big game in that first one JD Martinez snubbed and yeah Frederick Freeman casual three for four utility player Mookie Betts at shortstop with two doubles in that final game. They take three out of four from Pittsburgh.

Man, the game the Pirates do win, they put up big run, Swinsky. Nick Gonzalez, sure, why not? Don't care over it. Cubs and Brewers, they split four brewers. They take the bread games, double meat, four gamer. Some offense in this series, Christian Yellich, you might hear about him a chunk,

this episode. He is going and it's fun. It's good to have Yelie back. The games, Jemai Jones almost gave him my award. Big pinch hit. Awesome for him. Cubs, they win those middle two. I don't know. Four games split. Doesn't put a ton of lead in my

pencil. Cody Bellinger four-hit game does, though. Trev, you're Cincinnati Reds. Did they go undrafted with you, Jolly and BBD? Just to sleep at the wheel? I'm going to... Not me. Not me. I'm going to take a whole undrafted team and beat your guy's ass because the Cincinnati Reds

Sweep the Nats four games. Uh, should Ellie Dela Cruz be an all-star? Cool conversation, national media, Chris Rose. No! Matt McLean should be over him. Don't get me hot. Don't get me hot. Red sweep the Nats, Spencer Steer, how's your four-hit day?

Ellie's got a couple multi-hit games in there. Stevenson, he's entering date my daughter territory. Hot. Not. No, he's not. No, he's not. Mets. Mets sweep my snakes, Trev, in one of those games, dramatic fashion.

How about Francisco Alvarez, the kid? Letting it eat. Most go-ahead home runs in Major League baseball this year. Mets aren't going nuts in the dugout. Tough for my snakes. Hate that it happened to them. But boy, did the New York Metropolitan's need this?

They get a huge day from Lindor in the final game. Kodi Sanga. How many teams are regretting not signing that guy for five for 75? Sheesh! Huge series for the New York Mets. And that is what happened in the National League. You're something else, Bob. I'm so hot right now.

I want to bump into someone on the streets. Hey, hey. Just like some 12-year-old kid. What? in the National League. The Atlanta Braves, we'll see if we even need to talk about them. They've basically won their last 20 games,

58 and 28. The second place team that Trevor, I'll give you some love right now. The Miami Marlins are 51 and 38. That is a pretty boy record. Holy smokes. The Phillies are a little bit on. there but are the three hottest teams in the NLEs?

No, Jake, because the Cincinnati Reds exist. Mets fighting for fighting. That's okay. Reds are 49 and 39. Hot team. Good record now. Brewers are two games back. Cubbies are 40 and 46.

Pirates. Half game below them cards. Yeah. Snakes are 50 and 38. The Marlins have a better record than the snakes. think about that one. Dodgers, half game back. Giants are 47 and 40.

Padres, 41 and 46. Rockies exist. Trevor Plouf, we are a Cron Pod. This one started out with the team I just complimented you on. Miami Marlins are no joke. They are what now, 21 and 5 in one-run games. I believe they still have a name. negative run differential, which is just interesting.

I know that's not the best way to judge a team, but it means something, right? They might have gotten it up now with some of these runs. Minus 10. Minus 10 still, even after putting up 15 runs against two on the 4th of July. No, it was a big series for them. I mean, look, the Cardinals are, we know what the Cardinals are doing. They're struggling. a nice game there in the first one.

Braxton Garrett, that's Dalton's guy doing his thing. Then they got to Wayno in the second game. The Zarado's been going off. So that's, I mean, the formula, we know what the formula is for them. Like, you have the starters going, you're getting some timely hitting.

Sometimes this offense is exploding like they did on the 4th of July. That was kind of nice. But I believe, Jake, if I'm not mistaken, and they have the third best record in the National League. And let that sink in a little bit, dude. Trev, what if I can one up you?

Second best in the NL. The second best winning percentage in the NL? Yes. Behind the Braves? Yes. It's real deal, man. It's real deal. I want to know what they're,

I'm looking at it up right now, because I'm very curious. I always want to know, we know they can pitch. The hitting's been, you know, it is what it is. It'll show up when it need to be. they know how to play close games, all that.

Defensively, I'm looking right now, they're just middle of the road, man. Not even. They're 18th overall and defensive run saved with a positive three. They're the last positive team on this chart. So they're getting it done somewhat there, but they're just winning, man.

They're just winning ball games. And they're beating up on the teams they need to beat up on, like the Cardinals here, Salair is doing this thing. They're getting contributions kind of up and down the lineup. You mentioned Cooper going a little bit here. It seems like they've just tiptoed up into second place.

Like no one really is talking about the Marlins. No one's really mentioning them when they're saying who's the top of the NL, the class of the NL. It's the Braves. We always talk about the res. They're so exciting, you know, what they're doing. Oh, the Phillies are hot now. Swarber's gotten hot in June, and they're going now.

It's like no one mentions the Marlins. The second best record in the National League, or in all of baseball? National League. National League. Third and all of baseball, I think. Trev, I believe in winning, and they're winning games. Winning's contagious. I also think losing's contagious.

And when Jordan Hicks throws that ball away, holy smokes. I've got people tagging me saying, do the Joey Wendell voice. I've got Cardinals fans that, for me, that's it. Is that the nail in the coffin? Because you have Jordan Walker come up and hits the bomb. Go ahead bomb. It's like, hey, he's thinking, I'm going to go out Miami tonight.

I just hit, go ahead, bomb. I'm young. I'm the man. I'm the man. This game's on me. This game's on me. Get on my back. Yeah.

And then what happens? a ground ball back to the pitcher to end the game? And I, on my flight back from Chicago, I watched the replacements. I almost, or not the replacements, I watched, uh, what's the other, remember the Titans getting a little emotional on the plane.

Um, and when Sunshine, the quarterback comes in, you can throw the ball a mile, but you can't make a three-yard pitch. Jordan Hicks throws 104. Just airmail's the first, Baseman, and Trev, that was the final and only nail for me. Because the other thing that you know, I'm too much of a fan of this, but we also see it every year that for the first two and a half months of the season,

if you go on a 10-game win streak, like, you're good. Like, if you're a bad team, you're back to 500. If you're a good team, you're one of the elites. We're talking about the Miami Marlins with the second best record. and the National League. The Cardinals math is done. They are, they're 36 and 51.

It's a 414 winning percentage. They would have to be, again, not a math pod. Their number to get to 500 is a really good record. And they don't have that in the tank. They're 15 games under 500 right now. They're 27th in the league as far as winning percentage.

The only teams behind them. Can you name them? I bet you can. There's four teams underneath them. See if you can name them. Nationals. Yes. Kansas City Royals.

Yes. And Rockies? Yes. And the Cardinals. I mean, yes. It's crazy, dude. The guys are going to leave. I mean, you have to trade Flaherty.

he's actually pitched really well. Back-to-back starts, I believe he's had like shut out starts, no runs, pitching himself back into the conversation. He should go somewhere. I'm hoping that maybe they let Goldie go to the twins. I don't know if they want to do that. Goldie to the twins.

He's getting reunited with the snakes, Trev. Read a book. It's going to be interesting to see what they do, who they sell, but it's going to happen. I mean, I don't want to call him dead. I think you already did for me. It's, yeah, it's been very disappointing. But, you know, I mean, I don't know.

I want to talk more about the Marlins and what they've been able to do. The game they lose, Yuri Perez drops it on the table again, six innings one earn run to lower his ERA to 236. So Marlins in the new playoff format are a problem, and it feels like it's finally happening and you've teased it for a couple years now that, dude, when that first week of October happens and you've got to go up against their guys,

you are on a level playing field. I know we say this, we're going to say this about a lot of teams leading up into the trade deadline. But like they have what you need. They have the starters. Like go, let's go do something. Let's go make an impact trade, get a bat, and let's really put ourselves in a conversation for a World Series contender.

You think you're, I know, I know it's. not that easy. I understand that. But like you're in a position now where you could do that. So it's like you got a strike. You think your guy Jeets is regretting leaving?

Don't make me answer questions like that. Running hot right now, do not make me answer questions like that. Let me hit you with two baseballisms. One we just covered. We're heading into the break. You know, let's get hot. Keep that momentum going. We're not there yet.

The other thing that I think we need to think about this Cardinals team. There's a lot of baseballisms that we shrug, and I remember we laughed when Lance Lynn was on the show, and he was like, dude, if I have a bad start and the team loses, I say, you know, I wasn't good enough, didn't have it today. You know, that's his post-game presser. If the team wins, he says, you know, team played really well,

we look good today. Like, that's, well, one, that's not being a media person, just Lance Lynn. But two, we also, baseball players have to tell them, because it's a sick sport, you know, don't get too high, don't get too low, all of that. And, you know, it's going to happen. And we're going to make the turn and get around the corner. Think about being the Cardinals.

There's a lot of dudes in that clubhouse that those baseballisms, you don't say and believe anymore. You don't say, you know, we're about to turn the corner. No. You get the work every series that, man, I'm very interested to see their, trade deadline. Yeah. I mean, they've blown a ton of games late. The bullpen hasn't been good for them. There's just a lot of different reasons. I mean, it's the pitching. 26 and ERA for their starters. 24th in ERA for their relievers, 28th and WIP for their starters, 26 and WIPP for their

relievers. That's just not going to get the job done. It's not. Crazy. An unreal season for them for all the wrong reasons. Gene Seguerra. I wanted to mention one thing. Injection. That was funny. The Marlins record 51 and 38, right? Yeah. 51 and 38.

They're 1 in 9 against the Braves. I say this every year. There are eight games under 500 to the Braves this year. If they played a 500 ball against the Braves, that would put about 5 and 5. We'd get them four extra wins.

We'd be talking about a 55 and 34 team. And that would, then would that put them at the top? Could I tell you, though, I can spin that as an optimum, again, going into the new playoff format, if you're the Marlins and that beatdown continues, and say you link up with the Braves in the playoffs, you win that first playoff game, and those numbers are gone. The Padres did it to the Dodgers. Right? Last year.

Remember that? 111 games. Who gives a fuck? Cool season. That's how it is. I mean, that's it, right? Look at my snakes. My youth team, two and 13, regular season.

Who's got the ring? We do. Got hot. Evan Longoria. Oh, I might need you to reach out to Longo. Going to a snakes game in August. In Minnesota? We'll talk about it.

No, dude. He's going to be there when I'm there. Hi-T. He's coming to Lake House. Let's go. Don't say those words to me. Trev. Wait, was that the first series?

We need to go, bro. What's happening? Well, dude, that was probably the biggest one. Because Dodgers, Pirates, I don't know what you have. Dodgers, they take three out of four. Pirates, again, are, you take away that April, and it's been ugly for the pirates. I like to see Miggy Rojas with a big game in that first one,

but I don't know. Maybe Max Muncie. can get going again for the Dodgers because he all JM to not talked about. He missed some time too. A good performance by their bullpen in the first game. I don't know. I'll be honest. I don't have a ton on this one.

I think we got a shout out Johnny DeLuca. Watching this on the 4th of July. First home of his career. 17th game played. I don't know if you mentioned all this. I didn't really listen to you. But he gave the Dodgers the lead after they stormed back. Yeah, I mean, look, the Dodgers are going.

The Dodgers are going to be there. I believe that even before, like we're going to mention Corby and Carol, got something going on with the shoulder. Yeah. That's not good for them. But even before that, I mean, all the projections, all of the odds were that the Dodgers were still going to win the NOS, even though they were three or four games back. It's just, it seems like they're inevitable.

The pitching has got to figure itself out. I'm still kind of really believing that Kershot is just taking some rest right now. But they need to get healthy there. And they probably need to add there. And I think they're going to. Chris Rose is convinced they're going to do a two for one, a bullpen and starter, like maybe do like a Joe Kelly Lucas Gialito or Ronaldo Lopez,

Lucas Gialito, bring them over. They've done that before. But they're, they're so good. J.D. Martinez has been so good for them, man. They got Daniel Hudson back, which is a nice help, for their bullpen. That's the only thing I think I'd counter Chris Rose's old ass with

is that the Dodgers have a lot of bodies coming back and they didn't make moves this free agency that they might just be in it this year and they're saving every penny for Shohei like we've talked about. Only team with three players with 20 homers. Interesting. Muncie bets.

Really? Muncie bets and J.D. Martinez, yeah. Braves don't have that? They have Olson. They have a coon yet. I think they just have 26 players with 15 homers. It's unbelievable. Cubs Brewers, Trev, they end up splitting four.

I, unfortunately, I wish I had more on this series. I don't know. Are you talking about Yelly later? Did that? We'll talk about Yelly later. I mean, there was some good baseball being played here. Cubs are an interesting team to talk about because we're still kind of seeing what they were going to do

They can, you know, kind of get back to where they need to. It doesn't really seem like that's going to happen. So they have a lot of pieces to move. I mentioned Bellinger. He's been playing really well. He's got some numbers. He's on the one-year deal. What's going to happen there?

Stroman just announced he's not going to pitch in the All-Star game. He wants to rest, which it's a contract year. So, yeah, bro. Don't throw any meaningless innings that you don't have to. I'm down for that. the brew crew, man. We're talking a lot about the Reds and what they've been able to do. But the Brewers have been kind of keeping pace.

And they're sitting two games back right now. I'm curious to see what they're going to do at the deadline. Tehran kind of got touched up for the first time in the first game. Six earned runs there. And then Wade Maidy kind of the same thing. Those have been the two unsung heroes for the Brewers. They've been pitching really well. Two not-so-great starts here.

Yeah, man, it's going to be a good race. You talk about the Reds and, you know, they're all anyone wants to talk about. But I just, I know they've been winning the games. I know they just swept a four-game set, but I believe it's going to come down to it. I don't think they're going to just take this division by Storm. I think the Brewers are going to be there with them. Two important series this weekend.

I forgot to mention it with the Marlins. I was talking about it with my baseball euphemisms. Marlins, Phillies, two teams playing well, jockeying for in the standings. Brewers Reds. Brewers Reds this weekend in a series that matters to both of those teams. Cubs, I don't know. I guess surprise me.

You know, Stroman and Steel have been so. good and there's some numbers you like there. Again, we're at that point of the season that, like, they're 40 and 46. You know, I could still throw my Hail Mary of, you know, win 10 straight games and you'll be fine, but they haven't shown me that that's happening. And, man, there are not going to be a lot of Cody Bellinger's available at the deadline that if Cody Bellinger was available, be tough not to press that button.

Interesting couple weeks in Chicago. This series had some really good moments. You mentioned Jemai Jones in the first game. Ian Hap kind of took a game over defensively, thrown a couple guys out, which is really cool. Then you have Victor Keratini hitting the homer off of former, which is a bomb, puts them ahead. There were some really cool moments in the series,

and that's always a fun, it's always a fun series, Milwaukee and the Cubs. Yeah, the beautiful people in that neck of the woods. And yeah, the Jemai Jones, I know we've referenced it a couple times now. His first big league at bat since 2021 pinch hit three-run double. So that's a, I was almost going to give him my award just because man to be toiling and doing the minor league thing for two years. And that's your first one. That's pretty cool. And Talkman, former Yankee, right?

Yeah. Nice double there off of Williams. Producer Tom Prysman's favorite player, Mike Talker. That's right. That's right. So shout out Tom Prysman. Yeah. Him and I get an argument all the time.

Why is that? Tom is a... Love Tom. Tom, Kyle. We have some sports... Kyle's been getting testy with me lately too. We have some sports debate people in this office. And they won't be.

shy if they feel some type of way. Speaking of feeling some type of way, I don't know what to say anymore. The Cincinnati Reds, they sweep four against the Nats. Trev, everyone hits. Everyone hits. Like, that's where I, the NL is stacked and there's a lot

to talk about, but I don't know what I have to say that's new about the Reds. I mean, I know it's the National. So you used to sell, you swept the National. It's great. but you see the four-game set. A four-game set. I mean, this is the stuff you need to do, you know,

to stay atop these divisions. You've got to stay hot. I think the Reds are a great baseball team. I've talked about many times. They're hitting is excellent, up and down the lineup. They're able to score runs. They answer. They score in bunches, all that good stuff.

But the pitching also showed up for them this series. Graham Ashcraft had a nice start. Luke Weaver had a nice start, which is nice to see. Siri just came on as saying something about Graham Ashcraft right now on my computer. Why? Did you say Siri? Shut up. I'm trying to think what you said, anything close to Siri.

I don't know. No idea. No idea. I love, I mean, look, yeah, what else can we say about this Reds team? And Botto was in a little mini slump. Jonathan Bada was in a mini slump. Came out of it. He's having a great time trolling saying he's a young kid.

He's young. He's hip. He's drinking fresca and playing video games. Kind of love that whole stick. I'm all in on that. I'm all in. He's not, though. He's just going home and playing chess by himself or like against the computer.

Have you heard the mopping thing? This isn't a joke. I'm telling you this straight up. Okay. Joey Votto loves to mop. like, I don't know if it's a calming thing or whatever it is, but I guess Joey Votto, when he's home, he's like constantly mopping.

And there's, he thought about starting an Instagram account that's just like, Joey Mopo, that he's just mopping all the time. This is a real thing. I'm not a mopper. Like, I like to clean. I do.

But the mopping doesn't do it for me. I think you need a good mop. Like, I think if you have a sick mop and you've got, the right setup and you can wash it and like squeeze it out and go back in every mop does that bro what are you talking about but if you have like a deluxe mop like you got the good set of everyone has a gross mop like joey vado's got a nice mop game you know that what does he use to mop i guess is my question is it using fabuloso on the floors is he just doing soap and water you know he does

it to the 10 um umpteenth degree uh shout out breck kennedy who's first major league appearance in five years and gets the win for the Reds. That's the kind of thing that's happening for them right now. It's special right there in Cincinnati. And yes, did any of us take the Reds on our draft to who's going to have the most wins in the second half? No. I was choosing between them and the Orioles. I chose the Orioles, my last pick.

You said they're going to do it? I don't know, man. I believe in them. I think it's great. I think they're in the right division to do it. They're playing. I mean, they have an excellent team. I still have to point to the pitching, man.

And I know people are going to hate that because they've been able to win and they're getting good starts from some people, sometimes. I just feel like it's really hard to rely on an offense throughout the entire second half. Can I give you one stat? I want. 22 and 6 since calling up Ellie Day, LaCruz. Hot. Do you have anything on?

Did he be an all-star? Should he be an all-star? Um, not really. Davey feels like he's in it right now. I feel like we're getting all the wrong Davy Martinez highlights. A lot of people are saying, you know, he doesn't like, he said, I don't like, I didn't like what he did. Pointing to the bad.

He's only got two weeks in the show. A lot of people are pointing to that and they're like, well, bro, like your antics have been sort of legendary this year. The picture, the getting down on, you know, like on the floor to show where the pitch was. Like he's been, he's had some antics on the field as well. And he's a grown man at 58 years

old. So like, you know what I mean? That's like, let's think about some stuff. Davy's, Davey's been playing loose and fast recently. And I want to say this about Elliott the Cruz. So he has the black, remember blast motion. They were a sponsor.

Yeah. So he has the blast motion casing on the end of his bat. Apparently he's not using the blast motion. It's just the casing because it feels nice to him. Okay? I got made fun of for doing that. My first year of Pro Ball, I was used to, you remember,

you probably don't remember this because you're not a ball player. Okay. Shots fired. They had the bats with a large, flared knob. It was just a massive knob. Like, Khalio Green. Yeah, yeah. Okay, okay.

So I had one of those pre-draft, and I loved it, but then I didn't have it again. I broke it or something. So I bought, I bought this rubber piece that's called a sting stopper that kids use. They put on their aluminum bats, and I bought one and put it on the end of my wooden bat, just because I wanted to feel like that extra width of the knob.

And, man, I got made fun of so much. for having a sting stopper in my rookie year. Look, and now L.E. Daily Cruz is doing the same freaking thing, and everyone's like, hey, it's awesome. He's L.A.D.C. Trev, I've told you this. What's the difference between him and I? The fact that they now put grip on the wooden bats, like, 20 years ago, 20 years ago,

that was, like, sinful. Like, what? It's a wooden bat, kid. And then, what, a couple pros were like, oh, this is comfy and I can hit. And everyone was like, oh, let's do that. People are so stupid. People aren't real, though.

Should Ellie be an all-star? No. Who scored the winning run when Jordan Hicks threw the ball over the first station said? Okay, thanks. Say the name. Trev, the last NL series, again, A-L's kind of weak. Snakes, Mets. We have some absolute drama in that second game.

Two out, two strikes, chafing on the bump. The kid, Alvarez goes opposite. field. It's a nice pitch. He's starting to feel kind of special, huh? And if you watch the Mets' reaction and Sanga drops it on the table, snakes, the bigger concern, like you mentioned, Corbyn Carroll, what's going on with that shoulder? Because, you know, at All-Star Seattle, he's from there, like, scary stuff for our snakes there. Trev, I guess for the Mets,

this is a team that, you know, when we talk trade deadline and stuff like that, it was kind of like, can the Mets even sell? Like what, how would that even look like? There's some, there's all timers, there's Hall of Famers on short-term contracts, but you can't really do that, right? They really needed this and the Mets got a taste.

I don't know what it means, but the Mets got a taste. The guys that need to step up have been stepping up. Yeah, Cookie had a great start. Senga, like you mentioned, had a great start. Lindor has been going. Starling Marte had a great first game. I mean, so we just gave Nimmo all JM through June, right? Yeah.

I was talking last night to one of our guys. I'll shout him out. Ken Fuchs, producer of Shark Tank. Maybe even the director of Shark Tank. I don't know. What's the difference? Same thing, right? No idea.

Producer, director. he was the most optimistic MET fan I've ever seen because usually I get all mine from Jolly Olive. Jerry Blevins is pretty optimistic, but there's some other guys in our company who I follow on social media. Man, it's always just dreadful, especially this year.

It's just been all like, man, it's just negative, negative, negative. But he was a breath of fresh air. He's like, man, they're coming back. They're going to do it. I said, you're the most optimistic MET fan I've ever talked to. And yesterday he kept coming up to me, showing me the highlights. Hey, they're up this month.

They're up this much. They're doing this. They're doing that. And you know what? You don't sweat the diamondbacks. And you had your moment. You have Alvarez hit the Homer to tie it. You got kind of hitting.

I think it was a triple. They go ahead. And then there's like a little basis. There's a, excuse me, a bench clearing, like a little scuffle kind of thing going on. You know that fires teams up. And they have the pieces in there to go. And there's plenty of season left. Give it to me, Mets.

Come on. Get back. in this thing, it's amazing. Need to see it. You want to know why I want to see it. You have, I mean, you know why. I need the Padres to go. I need the Mets to go.

When you have owners committing the way they've committed and then you don't get the job done, you know what message that sends to all the other owners? It doesn't work. You can buy, you can't buy a team. Yes, you can. The Rangers have done it. No one talks about that.

Yeah, right. It just hasn't happened yet. Both these teams, the Padres, they swept. These are. They're going. Snakes, snakes limping into the break a little bit. Let's get some Corbyn Carol updates. Dodgers half game back at the snakes.

I know. I know. Mets, you got to believe. I hope. I genuinely hope we start believing more, because man, that team should be so fun. Lindor with the five-hit day getting IV fluids a couple days ago. Alonzo, I mean, he's like my favorite player

to watch on a baseball field. Alvarez, this kid. He's not your favorite player to watch in a baseball field stop. Dude, Alonzo might be. What about Tommy Pham? What about Tommy fan? 132 OPS plus

350 OBP 500. slug. What's your and Tommy Fam connection again? We both have been to Pacers in San Diego. Look it up. Don't if you're under 18.

Tommy Fam. Go look at that baseball reference. He's, Tommy Fam's got some years in the show. Career 354 on base. Tommy Fam salaries career to date. I haven't looked it up.

I'm going to get it up. I haven't looked yet. I'm going to guess. So he's got seven-year service time. I'm going to guess it's somewhere He's got more than that, right? Oh, seven years, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think it's got to be somewhere in the high 20s.

Oh, I'd say, I think I'm... I'm looking at a number. 45. I'm going 28. Kind of right in the middle, 35. Okay. Dang. 35 and a half.

35 and a half. Oh, he made some good money in arbitration. Okay. Got some good arbitration. money. Yeah, I mean, Tommy. 7, 9, 8, 9. Okay.

931 OPS one year with the Cardinals. Mets, make us talk about you more snakes. We'll be fine. Let's get to the break. I think FAM's got a great butter knife on the season. Won't do it. Oh, yeah. No, he's been, he's been killing it.

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A.L. A little aisle coming up. Trev, I say it's light, because maybe I don't want to talk about my New York Yankees. Because, man, every time it feels like they're building to something, they just absolutely pooped the bed. And they got pooped

by Birds. The Orioles, 14 to 1, the final game. They end up splitting a four-gamer. The Yankees won the first two. They're up to nothing going into the third game. Orioles put together a big inning, and then they put together a big game. Dean Kramer, Kyle being Bradish in that final start. Oh yeah, Gunner Henderson, two homers, four-hit day. Ryan O'Hern, he's looking like a fantastic ad for them. Harrison Bader and and Volpe for the Yanks. Some good performances. They end up splitting a four-gamer.

Your guy Josh Donaldson. Twins. Sweep the Royals. 8493-50. Pablo Lopez. Hello. Nine innings pitch. Zero earn runs.

12Ks. You might hear more about that twins pitching staff later. They got a four-hit day from Correa, a three-hit day from Solano, not Joe's, Donovan. Twin sweep. Red Sox, kids, kid. They take two out of three from the Texas Rangers. Rangers, sneakily limping into the All-Star break a little bit.

And good on the Red Sox, Brian Beyo. Talking baseball favorite. He drops one on the table. Good fortitude to win that game, 4 to 2. And then in the final one, that looked like it was going to be a Fenway, Slug Fethe. the Evaldi return. The socks out slug them. They put a 10 spot on the board.

Connor Wong, three-hit day. Pump it into my veins. Watching a pre-game interview with Connor Wong. No idea why we watched that. Blue Jays. They sweep the white socks, and I guess that's obvious. Lance Lynn keeps having these crazy strikeout games

where he loses. Vladito, big day at the office. Jose Barrios. One hit. I think that's back-to-back one hits for him. Boba Chet had four in the final game. Blue Jays. Getting it going in the break in. White Sox. Maybe the final blow to their battleship.

This is the only time you'll hear me talk about it. A's take two out of three from the Tigers. They win the first game. One nothing in ten. How juicy is that? They win the second game. They put a 12 spot on the board. Joliers, Jordan Diaz.

Big Day at the office. Estuary Ruiz. Tigers win that final game behind all-star Michael Lorenzen. Javi Baez, three-hit day. Man, A's Tigers. Yeah. And that's what happened in the American lane. Good tune.

Good job. Jazzy. Rays, 57 and 33. We haven't talked about them yet, but they had an interesting series. Orioles are 51 and 35. Yankees and Jays, 48 and 40. Interesting. Red Sox are 45 and 43.

So are the Minnesota twins in first place in the AL Central. Guardians are game below 500. Tiger, six games back, sure. White Sox are 37 and 52. Royals, oh. Texas Rangers, 51 and 37. Astros, two games back. We'll get to them.

Angels, a game above. Love 500. Uh-oh. Mariners are 500 athletics. Yeah. Trev, I'll let you go on Yankees' birds if you want it. I talked with Ryan Rucco for about an hour and a half last night on talking Yanks. Emotional episode. You're going to do Yanks, Orioles. I'm going to do twins. Okay. That's right. You- Royals. You prefer that. Here's what I'll tell you. I laid it out there.

Yankees won the first two games, some big moments baiter with a massive swing. He shows bunny hits the homer, places going bonkers. Yankees win the second game. They extend the lead fourth of July. It was a nice Yankees win, and you're like, okay, if we win these next two games against the birds, we get to second in the ALEs and we can change the whole feeling of this season. They have a lead in the second game, ugly inning. Also, that scary moment, cameraman in the well got hit with a ball and a throw from your Adam Frazier,

had to get carted off the field. And then in a game, Trev, I just want you to picture this emotion. Game four, the Yankees are coming in, and it's kind of like, hey, if you guys win this one, you have your best series win of the season. Like, three out of four from the Orioles heading into the All-Star break. Rodan makes his debut tomorrow. And they throw up their worst loss of the season. 14 to 1.

Severino, you might be seeing a Phantom I.L. And the Orioles flexed what the Orioles do. Their bullpen showed up in that second game. And then the offense was there in the final game. Gunner Henderson, first up out of the game. Homer, opposite field, didn't really click. Still got out of the ballpark. Yeah, that's what I got.

Well, I'm rooting for your yanks. I swear I am. I promise. I bet. Go birds at this point. Give me some twins. Or give me some twins. Excuse me. I'm going to talk more about all the starting pitching later in the show. They've been phenomenal. Joe Ryan, quality start after quality start after quality start. In the first game, the Royals tied it in the eighth. And then our guy Eddie Julian, our Canadian, lover. He's just been swinging a hot stick. He's, it's interesting because Polanco coming back is, I think, so big for the team. But Julian needs to stay and play and hit because he's just, he's very good.

It's very good for the twins. He hits the homer to go ahead. The twins added on there at the end of the game. So they win game one. Then it's the Kentimaeta show. The bats really show up. They get Grinky. Grinky's damn, she didn't have his stuff Twins kind of pounced on him there but Maeda's been great

I think he's made three starts now since coming back and has looked just like phenomenal so to add on to him they sent Louis Barland down Maeda steps up

I wasn't sure how that was going to go but he's just been and he keeps saying he's like I feel like my old self I feel like my old self the splitter is splitting

slider or be sliding sneaky hot boy too he's got style Does he have the frosted tips going? Yeah, but it's like strawberry frosted. They're like, they're like, you know,

it's like a little bit of red. They're like a little bit of red. Okay. What really got me is when we sat next to each other, when I came back from Twins Fest, he had no idea who I was. And I asked him for a picture to put out to social media. He just thought I was a fan.

So I love that for me. And then it was Pablo Day. Like again, I'll talk more about these pictures later, but you go complete game, Shuddy, doing your thing. twins, man, they need offense. Like still, like Kepler's kind of come on a little bit. Talked about Eddie Julian.

Like Buck has been back the last, you know, five or six games he's been hitting. But like they need something bigger. First base is an interesting position for them because they kind of like they do like Alex Kiroloff there. Then they send them to the outfield. Sometimes Donnie's Salon will be over there. It's, it's, I think they would be real, it'll be real nice for them to get just a first baseman bopper.

don't know if that's going to happen. I mentioned Paul Goldschmidt. That is probably not going to happen. But that would be nice. They sweet, man. I'm going home, going home. CJ Crone, because I'm going home. Who did I just meet the new CJ Crowe?

He's like, yeah, I play with CJ Crone. I like CJ. Welcome to the worst segment. Welcome to the worst segment in talking baseball history. Who did I just meet that new CJ Crone? Why? What's wrong with that? Fuck, man.

Treve. Twin sweep. Twin sweep. And we're going to hear more about them later. Exciting. Trev, sneaky storylines here. Red Sox win a series at home. They've been playing some better ball.

Your guy, Bayo. Our Texas Rangers that, you know, we've been pumping our chest about, Seeger won't stop. He's having three hit days. Does not matter. Um, sneaky. They've, I think their last 25 games, it's like a 10 and 15 or something like that. I think they might have lost one more since then.

For the Red Sox? For the Texas Rangers. The Rangers are sneaky limping a little bit. Oh, sure. It's a butter knife. I, you know, classic baseballism. They're looking for the All-Star break. I guess they do close with the Nats.

So maybe that might be the medicine. and they're looking for. I guess your thoughts on this series or are these two teams? 13 and 17, the last 30 for the Rangers. 15 and 15 for the Red Sucks. The Red Sucks are just kind of staying afloat. Game one, Garver, Big Boy Homer to center.

Three run home or to center. Dane Dunning, your favorite pitcher in the big leagues. Great start. And then the second game was the Bayo start. He's been crushing it. I want to talk a little bit about Justin Turner. Is anybody talking about him later?

No, I mean, you're not, okay. You love Justin Turner. Well, I mean, look what he's been doing. Okay, in July, I know it's five games, whatever it is. He's four, five, six in it. 476, 522, 667 for a 1.1. Nice. How about this?

Hey, Trump, that's five games. It's a small sample size. That's not analytically sound. You can't do that. Shut up. How about since June 1st? How about since June 1st? How was that for your sample size?

320, 368, 552 for a 920 OPS. Turner's turning it on. He was one of the better second halfs in baseball last year. He's feeling it, playing a little bit of first base, kind of moving. I love it. Beard goes with the uni. And then game three, six run seven for them. Kike like bloops one in, a lot of soft contact in the inning for the Reds.

sucks, but they put up six, find holes? Win the series. I don't say find holes. Chris Martin comes in, gets a big out, out of the bullpen. Kenley Janssen's doing his thing. He's an all-star. Dude, Kenley's gross. Every time I watch him pitch, I'm just blown away. Like his massive body and his timing stuff, he's disgusting. Kenley Janssen and Clayton Kirschaw are just like nobody talks about them, but they're just, excellent pitchers.

We act like they're both. We act like they're both on the outs. Right. All the time. Had a great run. Yeah. What? They're still gross.

Really good, really good story about Justin Turner on the Chris Rose rotation this week with Vinnie Pasquantino. It's a connected dots story. Zach Rinkie's involved, but good listen. Good listen.

Trevor, the last series we'll talk about in the American League, A's and Tigers. I'm sorry, it's that time of year. It just ain't happening. Blue Jays sweep. Same record as the New York Yankees now. They sweep the White Sox. These Lance Lynn games are getting ridiculous. Season sweep of the White Sox, 35 to 11 in six games.

Whitmerfield, All-Star Whitmerfield with some good. Big games. Your guy, Baradillos, with back-to-back, tasty ones. I don't know. I guess the end result isn't that surprising. Hard-fought series, though. I mean, it looks kind of that way. I mean, Vladdy has to hit the Homer in game one.

They score six in the 11th inning of two to win. That was the most White Sox box score I've seen. The zero-zero's into that. And then to put up a six spot, that's heartbreaking. It is heartbreaking. And that was on a double header, so then they had to play another one,

and it's like, okay. Cacucci, not a great start. What are his overall numbers right now? We see him all the time on here. Do you want some Cacucci stats? I do, because I feel like I'm like, I think he's had a pretty good year. 18 starts a 424.

A 424? Okay, man, he's made some good starts. I bet I can butternice. Maybe some bad starts, yeah. Look, they're in it, man, they're eight games over 500. Where are they at in the wild card? Baseball reference has, I love this website.

You know that, but their standings page is so bad. They are in a spot. They're in a wild card spot right now. MLB wild card, they are? Houston, New York and Toronto right now. New York and Toronto are tied for the last spot. That's fine. Well, the second and third spots are tied for.

No, Baltimore, Houston, Yankees in Toronto. Oh, it is Baltimore, you're right. Baltimore, Houston, New York, Toronto. Okay. I forgot about Baltimore there. Everyone does. Yeah, it's, the Yankee season has felt like such a malaise that we've had these moments of checking in and being like, wait, like the, they have the same record as Toronto who, you know, outside of Manoa, it's felt like they've had some good stuff happen up there. Houston.

Yankee fans are annoying. You have a playoff spot. I hate them. You just can't have nice things or like appreciate something. Like yeah, Aaron Judge is not coming back for the foreseeable future. I know he played some catch on the field. Yeah.

It's going to be okay, man. Sheesh, Carlos Rodon is coming back. Like, enjoy it a little bit. Show you some long toss. Let's do. I'm coming to the city. That's right. A little.

doing dinners. A little ad lib. Oh, shit. I forgot the wives are texting. We're doing dinners. The wives are texting. Olivia asked for your number the other day. Not happening.

I said no. It's texting Olivia. It's text Jess, okay? She did not ask for your number. I want to clear the air there. Only in your simulation dreams. Did FaceTime with her a little bit yesterday. Treve, let's do some interleague baseball.

Let's do it. She would. Chris. Rose's Guardians versus Peter Moyland's Braves. The Guardians win the middle game in extras, a walk-off David Fry. Chris Rose getting his fry jokes in. We love that. I only mention that because basically the Braves have won 20 straight games.

I think they've lost two, and one is that David Fry walkoff, and the other is the Ellie Day-Lacruz cycle game, I believe. the Braves are a wagon. Bryce Elder has arguably been the best pitcher in the National League. He does it in the first game with two Ozuna homers. Sean Murphy, Matt Olson, and Austin Riley. Don't want to walk into my apartment with those three in there. Braves.

Braves are a wagon. Mariners take two out of three. This is the Trevor Plouffe series. Mariners Giants? How about it? Logan Gilbert. complete game Shuddy. How about it from him?

Brian Wu, I told you he's hot. We got his following up. Him and Logan Webb were going toe for toe in that first game. Julio Rodriguez with a big double. He'll be in the home run derby. We'll see him in Seattle. Mike Ford with a big day on his

birthday? Sure. Giants, they win the last game behind a nice Alex Cobb and Luis Matos performance. We love a prospect. Padre sweep the halos. Here's a tale of two cities. Snell has such a Blake Snell start in the first game.

Five innings pitch, seven hits, four walks, no earn runs. Joe Musgrove drops it on the table. Seth Lugo's snapping curveballs. Most importantly, Trevor, the offense. Bogartes, Tatees, Croninworth with some big games. Okay, okay, okay. Padres, a lot of stuff we said about the Mets we're hoping to say about them

and Halos, been so complimentary of them they're getting into a nervous area. Know who's never nervous? The Philadelphia Phillies. They sweep the raise. The first time the raise have been swept this year. In the goddamn trap, what the Phillies are doing,

a 12-game winning streak on the road. road. A 12-game road winning streak. What? A 12-game interleague winning streak. Phillies are some sickos in some of those swings. Derek Hall put a swing on a ball that looked like a Schwerber Harper swing, and he's not a guy that gets talked about. Bryson Stott will get talked about Nola, Christian Sanchez, not in my book, six innings, one earn run. Good for you, fella. Houston, they take two out of two from the Rockies, a two-game sweep, and that's obvious. This just happens before every All-Star break. I feel like I see this every year now.

A guy named Gray Kessinger came up for Houston, played some shortstop, third generation of Kessengers to hit a home run. We love a baseball family. That's what happened in the Interleague Baseball. I love Interleague Baseball. Yeah? I do. Nice.

I think about the old days of baseball. the fact that you had to win the AL or the NL and then you were in the World Series. Yeah. Whoa. No wonder the Yankees have 50 championships. They had to win one series. He had to win a lot of games before the series.

But you're a Yankee hater, Trev. I'm not defending the 19-20s. I'm not a Yankee hater. I have to balance it out, people. Read the room. I'm surrounded by Yankee fans. Racist 20s. Where are we starting, coach?

Chronologically, it's Braves' guards, and I don't want to say this dismissively because they are now, I think, not an argument, the best team in baseball. The Atlanta Braves, Michael Harris has a two-homer game. I mentioned the guys that are waiting in my apartment. I mean, I don't know, Treve.

What does that even mean? I'm in a weird spot. the Braves. They're like... What are you in a weird spot about? Yes, Michael Harris has been going off. People are mad at us because we didn't have them for our June all jam. It's not for just June.

Through June, but he's having a great June. Yeah, shout out to two homers. He made some nice catches out there. They beat Bieber. Like, is Bieber going to be around? I'm going to talk about that, man. I don't understand that, but Chris Rose is adamant that it's probably going to happen. but yes the Braes 4-2 in the first game that's great fortitude did you say that um you run down

I don't think I said that yeah I think you forgot to Bryce Elder continuing to do his thing yeah and you got Michael Harris two homers Azuna with the homer it's basically all the offense you needed you mentioned David Frye with the walk-off single Chris Rose was stoked about that one and then yeah the guys in the last game getting it done are the guys you'd expect and it's just they're a team that it seems like winning series for them is it's inevitable like they're going to beat you in a three game set i wonder i wonder what what do you think the record is for for them as far as winning the series losing the series and then splitting a series it's got to be overwhelmingly in favor of them winning the series right The Braves?

Yes. The Braves who have won 17 of 18 and 24 of 27? I think the numbers are good. I want to know like overall, like the record as far as winning series, losing series, and splitting a series. It's got to be crazy. Seems to me like they just don't lose series. I'm having trouble thinking of a team I'll like more than them come October.

Eddie Rosario's making diving catches out there. Your guy. he's played so much at that field. Is it progressive still? I think so. I don't know. I don't like the stadiums change their names. No, no, no, no, no, no.

Oh, Cleveland. Cleveland. Oh, the Jake. It's not a joke. Progressive. I think in the game that the Guardians did win, Ahmed Rosario had a nice offensive game. That's nice for them to see.

Trev, do rubber games matter? You know, when it's a three-game set And yeah, they do And what are the Braves and rubber match games? No idea, please tell me. 7 and 0 If there's a game to decide a series, the Braves are undefeated.

It's July. Why do they have such a big attendance on Monday? It says it's the largest crowd in the regular season is 2014. for the Indians, for the Guardians. In 2014, they were the Indians. Since they were the Indians. Sorry, I played back in the day when they had that moniker.

Oh, your grandkids are going to call you racist. Oh, they are. That's awesome. I am Native American. I'm 17% Native American. 17, no sure. How does that happen? I mean, I did the 23 and me thing.

I want the receipts. I'll show it to you I found out some interesting stuff I'm definitely Spanish my French roots You scream about being French all the time and we're running out of area for French Kind of kind of in question

Because it says I'm actually Northern European leaning Scottish But it says can also include northern France So it's like Obviously my last name is French But now I'm you know I'm questioning my lineage a little bit I wanted to just hit the Gary Thorne Plouf

button so hard. I need to fight him. What's he doing? I think he's training. I think he's training to fight you. Yeah, he better. I'll beat you up and then beat Zuckerberg up after he beats up E-Long. That's your thread game.

Oh, I hate that. I just did it because everyone was doing it. I just wrote Jake sucks and I left. Not bad. Play the hits. Can you tell us about the Trevor Plouffe Bowl? Giants versus the Mariners? Dude, quite the series.

Mariners get to Doval in the first game. Don't say that name around me. They get to them. Four run ninth. J.P. Crawford does it. Sack fly. Julio doing Julio things. People are real mad at me and C. Rose

because we said, Julio kind of got put in this All-Star game, hometown thing, did he really deserve it? And they yelled at us. Of course he deserves it. Look at the stats. They're comparable to the other guys that you mentioned. Okay, whatever, pro. I know Julio's a good player.

I get it. He does his thing. Sable, I think has two homers in that game. So they score all these runs in the ninth six to two, the bottom of the night. Sable, Cabo, me and him on the beach together. It's a three-run homer to get at 6-5, but then Seawald shut the door out. So that was a great game right there. And then the next two games were just pitching and domination there.

Gilbert does his thing. Those the complete game, Shuddy. They score some runs. And then Alex Cobb does his thing. Six-in-in-shut piece against who? Tommy Malone. Tommy Mill One. Makes a spot start.

He gets sent down after the game gets designated. but he makes the spot start. Does a great job. I mean, four and a third, one earned run. But the Giants just held the Mariners to zero runs. And if you do that and score any, you're going to win the game. That's what happens. So they win the last one.

They sowish. They don't get sweat. Mariners take two out of three. In a great series, really, aesthetically pleasing, everything about it. You got to love it. I love Tommy Mill 1. 44% 79 mile per hour changeups. Fastball sitting at 87.

Get out there and twirl it, Tombo. Yeah, getting to DeVal. You know that'll always speak to me because you know how much of a DeVal fan I am. In Seattle, they've done enough. Like, you know, as we go through some of these teams that we feel like we need to have extra conversations on, like Cubs, what is you doing?

Like, Mets, where we at, Padres? Seattle has technically done enough. They're sitting at 500. It doesn't feel great. But, you know, a big series with Houston this weekend. Uh-oh. Hosting the All-Star game, their Pythagorean record likes them a little more.

I'll buy in. I don't know what I'm buying into, but I'll buy in. That's why I did not pronounce the Mariners dead. I never believed it. Right. The talent is there. I cannot wait to see all the Mariners fans

torturing you. Can we do, can we just do the Cardinals? Do you want to like actually say it? I'm on, I thought I was on record. I mean, they're dead. Jack Flaherty. Look that when they come back

for the hype video in September. Jack Flaherty with me. Why are we in all the hype videos? We're hot. They're not allowed to use my voice without my permission, are they? Sex sells. There's no rules. There's no rules.

Who cares? Jack Flaherty already pitching for the Dodgers. IMO. Lamont Wade hot. Oh, Lamont Wade had an incredible play in one of the games to save two. And second and third line drive down the first baseline laid out for it. We need to talk about him more. He's having a great year.

Twins missed on that one. Who? Could have had a first baseman there. Oh, boy. Nobody knew. I don't even think Lamont Wade knew. Trev, we've got two sweeps to wrap it up. are actually three,

Houston two gamer. The Padres, where there's a lot of sentiment to be echoed about the Mets and Vamo, Vamo, Poppy, let's go. And we see some offense and Croninworth. Halos, there's a little bit of fear factor because, you, hey, you know, if I'm going to compliment where the Mariners stand, I should technically compliment where the angels stand. But one is going this way and the other one's going that way.

Um, huge for the Padres. Great series for them. I mean, they pitched their ass off. Essentially, Blake Snell. Yeah, I know they have. Blake Snell's, uh, his first start in June, June 5th, up until July 3rd, which is last start. 36 innings pitched. Three earned runs.

60 fucking K's for a point seven, five. How about an opponent's batting average of 160? Free agent. Free agent. He's been going on. off. I just got the weirdest text. What was that?

I saw you, you just had the weirdest look on your face. Robbie Sorocco goes, hey, what's your bed size? We think we're doing sheets? Sheets or something. I don't know.

Of course it's a California king. Of course it is. A California king for a California king. Apparently there's like an Alaskan king size now that it's like massive need that one. What are we talking about again? Padres Angels. Yeah,

I mean the book, Padre's pitched. Snell, five innings shuddy, Musgrove, seven innings, one earned run. Lugo, six innings pitch, one earned run. And the bats came alive. I mean, this is a team that I picked to go in the second half.

And I just still believe in the talent there. People are telling me that's going to make me look stupid. Whatever, man. Like, I believe there's a run in these guys. They're starting out strong here. Through a little three-game sweep. We'll see what happens. It's just too much.

much talent, man. I go back to that all the time. The only time that I've been burned by talking about too much talent is the Chicago White Sox. They're really the only team that's burn me when I talk about that. But that's a whole different thing. And maybe the Cardinals. Shit. So maybe I have been burned by it a few times. But on the flip side, look, we have to talk about the angels and what's going on there. Everyone's hurt. Yeah, dude. That I. That I L is crazy. Brandon Jury, Mike Trout, Rendon. Shoie's got a blister, like he's still playing.

Netto, your guy guy. Netto's hurt. I mean, Yershela's hurt. Everyone. Oh, happy been out. They had to make some trades. They bring in Escobar. They're bringing Mustakis.

Those aren't game-changing things. Those are, those are band-aids on your wounds. You know, so you talk about them and the record and where they're at and forever, we said they're not trading Shohey. He's staying there. They want to resign him.

a shot here. Now, front office is speaking a little bit differently. They're going to have to see what these next two weeks bring before the trade deadline. I mean, if trout's out and they have a losing streak here and it's, it's, man, like I don't want to talk about it, but you have to because it's a reality of the situation where they're headed in the wrong direction now and not,

it's not, injuries have come. And it's a lot of them. I think they've, I think they, I think they've looked really, really good at sometimes this year. I think they constructed a roster that would be in contention for at least a playoff spot and would be dangerous in the playoffs. But if you get bit with the injury bug at the wrong time, things change. The trajectory of your season can change. And right now it's basically what's happening with the angels.

I mean, they're running a rag tag roster of sorts out there. I mean, I don't want to talk shit about the guys that are playing. right now, but this isn't the team that they constructed to be on the field this year. Trev, they have six guys offensively on the IL. Two of them catchers.

So O'Hopi and Stasi that was like essentially their plan at catcher this year on the IL. And then whew. Netto, Drury, Urchella

like there's your infield. and Mike Trout. So scary times, they've got two with the Dodgers heading into the break, and then they come out with three against Houston. So like, be careful. Get your wins. Make sure you don't have that. Don't have the ugly moment that makes us have to talk about,

you know who around the trade deadline. Good for the Padres. Lugo's curveball is so ridiculous. It doesn't make sense. Fun to watch. I still don't think they trade it's Otani. Unless something goes crazy and they lose like 12 in a row or something like that. You can't.

Unless. Trev, if you want any Houston Rocks, it's there for you. It's two games. That's why I'm more dismissive than usual. The final series, before we get into the second half of the show, your Phillies. Hello, give the raise the business And some of those Philly stats I read off to you

About interleague and road And you're going to hear teaser a little bit about Bryson Stott in a minute Nola drops it Braves have been the hottest team in baseball Reds around there Phillies and Marlins have been basically doing the same thing While losing ground to the Braves But they've both been awesome

This is some high-tee stuff from a high T-T team. Phillies are now in the wild card. You knew it was coming, man. You knew it was coming. Say that again. Nola versus Eflin is really cool because they're friends

and obviously Eflin was with the Phillies. Led Zaflin, my guy. They both pitched really well. Philly kind of got out to an early lead. Your guy Stott did his thing. Harper did his thing. Nola was just a tick better. Seven and a third innings pitch,

one and run to Eflin seven innings pitch, two earned runs. I love that between them and 14 and the third innings, only one walk. That always tickles me. Love that. It win game one. Three to one.

Then Taiwan Walker, who's been a very solid back of the rotation option for them. I think he's pitching right around a four right now. He eats up innings. He gets seven there. J.T. comes up big for them. Your guy, stop again. Four knocks in this game.

Alec Baum doing his thing. Swarber in the last. last game. I mean, they had to go to the 11th to get the series victory in Tampa. And man, like, that is, that's a huge series for them. There's no other way around it. And Tampa is kind of like, I think in July, they're, they haven't won a game yet. So you can say like they're struggling or they just run, they ran into a team that's getting hot at the right time, bad series for them. Tampa will be just fine. But if you want to talk about a real turning point in a season,

you can say, hey, all of June, Kyle Schwerver kind of put them on their back. But like, you go in and sweep Tampa in Tampa, that like, that's proof to everyone that you can do it against the best teams in all the baseball. Hey, nice cup. Thank you. Let's go Yanks. Trev.

This could become a fun anecdote. You mentioned the Rays haven't won yet in July. Know who they're playing this weekend? I don't. Your Atlanta Braves. Oh, that's right. I did know that. So there's a,

who, Tyler Glass now, Charlie Morton, the old man in the sea. Do we have a big baseball weekend? I've, like, been getting ready for the All-Star game, and it sounds like there's a ton of awesome series. There's some good series. Philly 22 of 29. Get hot, man.

Rays don't care. Jose Siri does not care. Do you want any Astros? Great job sweeping. The Rockies. They had to put Altovae on the IL. Right. I guess that's the thing we should drive home.

The guys who carried your Astros this series, Corey Jolks, Gray Kessinger, Yiner Diaz, who's been going nuts. you know, Belak. It's pretty crazy who is doing it for Houston. It's what we've expected, though, from them. I mean, they've done that. They're just new names, but that's been their MO.

I mean, similar to the Dodgers. They're able to bring up guys who can perform at the big league level and fill in when needed. But yeah, they need to get healthy offensively for sure. They're still winning games, and I believe they're, what are they back of the Rangers now? They are in play. Two games back of the Rangers, all of the sudden.

Wouldn't that be funny? I mean... It would just be like, oh yeah, that makes sense. Even though the Rangers have been incredible in all facets of the game. Otherworldly. But here are the Eustonashers who just know how to win games. Without Altuvae and Yoran, casually two games back. And like their rotation has been decimated and they're just been able to withstand

injuries and that's organizationally, that's how you know that things are going right for you and you're doing the right things is when you have these injuries and you can win games. I love the Dodgers. Obviously, Houston's showing that right now too. Not like you're Yanks. Zeke Tovar loses his 15-game

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To out performances. Who do you got, Treb? With my good friend, handsome boy. Rich boy. Christian Yellich. Super rich. Keeping the brew crew afloat on Monday, July 3rd, he went three for four with a triple. Love triples.

An RBI, three runs scored a walk and a stolen base on this season. This guy is going off. He's got 21 bags, sorry, 21 swipes, 11 homers. He's hitting 287, 381, 4.59 for an 840 OPS, 130 OPS plus. Some people are saying maybe he should have been in the All-Star game. He doesn't care. He doesn't want to be there. I promise you that.

He's going to count his money, yeah. do you want to know what he's hitting you know i'll give you some some stats here last seven days one dot three in it okay that's small sample size last 14 days one dot zero aiding it oh but that's only two weeks oh you want a month i'll give you a month last 28 days one dot zero four he's one dot in it over the last month it's we asked yelly to be the guy to step up, be the offensive threat we knew he could be. He's doing it. So shout out Yelly, my guy,

getting it done, also kind of flying under the radar with all this. Seriously, though. Like, the brewers are still very much in play for the Central, right? Like, we've enjoyed the Reds devil magic. It has to slow down because no teams... Nobody does that for that. Ever won at that rate forever. But the Brewers, who are going to be in it to the end,

we always talk about that. they're hitting, because it always feels like there's just something missing. Yelly and William Contreras, the only hitters above 100 OPS plus. And I mean, Willie Adomas having a tough go at it. Rowdy was having a tough go, and now he's on the I.O. All the kids, nobody's really bringing it. And the part I love, and we laughed. It's probably my favorite moment from all JM was finding out Freddie Freeman's stolen base numbers.

How about Christian Yelich with 21 swipes? We forget about those gazelle legs. He's on pace for a 40 swipe season with an 840 OPS right now. Yelly's back. And Trev, I'll let you can speak on a lot better than me, but every baseball player gets banged up and stuff. But for him, I think he's just been like searching for his right swing and trying a lot of different stuff, and it feels like he's found it.

he's found it and offensive I mean the brewers have still like you mentioned have been pretty challenged their 22nd and runs 25th in OBP 27 and OPS so like they need some help and yelly needs some help but his season he's happened has been very nice and without him they would be a completely different story so shout out Yelly congrats on your standout counting money um I will give my standout performance and treb I love you you you know We were a little bit jocelyn for this guy, and you have some stats, which I always love. I'm going to Bryson Stott. Bryson Stott had a couple big days at the office, including a four for five for the Phillies

as they sweep the raise and all the road numbers and interleague numbers, I told you. Bryson Stott has sneaky been crazy consistent this year for the Philadelphia Phillies, playing really good defense. He is leading the Phillies in B-war. You know, a lot of guys you would have picked before Bryson Stott, right? He's 10th in Major League Baseball in batting average, with still matters a little bit. Ninth in hits, 15 stolen bases.

Bryson Stott has been doing it all around, and I do want to throw it out there because it doesn't mean anything. Like, it doesn't and it does. Bryson Stott was playing shortstop for a World Series team And they went out and they brought in a dude A guy guy, Trey Turner Who's been struggling and is turning it around as he goes I don't know man if I was Bryson Stott and I got called up

And I was the dude playing shortstop for a World Series team I'd be like no I'm I got this I'm all right Doesn't care he's over at second base bawling out Couple big games for him and a great series. Series and season for Bryce and Stott. And I'm excited for whatever else you have on him, Trev. Well, I was looking up some stuff on him and, you know,

hits Lefty, and I didn't know this. He's kind of like a reverse split sky. Hits Lefty is better than Wright. He's overall in his career, 771 OPS against Lefties, 675 against Wright. He's actually brought the right-handed OPS up a little bit now, so it's kind of even with his left-handed splits, I just like the fact that he's proving himself

platoon not worthy. What is that even? What am I searching for? Platoon proof. Is that what? That old saying. Do you know what I'm talking about? Yeah.

Split-proof? Split-proof. Yeah. He's not getting platooned. That's all I really had against him. Okay. He's crushing it. I do like that.

I... A very solid season. Let me tell you something, kid. Who? You keep putting up numbers like this. Stay solid. Play good defense. Swipe some bags.

Fill in when you get in. Get in when you fill in. There's money to be made for a guy like Bryson's stock. A lot of money. And I do love that, Trev, because I, you know, in our heads, we're always like, oh, here comes the lefty for the lefty. Mike Talkman, spring training, 2020, before the world. ended. He was a reverse

split sky. And we were like, what's that about? Do you see the ball better? And he's like, honestly, most lefties versus lefty end up being two pitch pitchers. And he's like, that's all I need. Like, if I know your fastball slider and I can focus on that, that helps me a lot. So I don't know if Stott operates that way, but I always thought that was interesting. And, A, that tells me something about Bryson Stott. And I

tweeted this the other day? Can we get more heat maps on broadcast of hitters? Because Christian Walker, seeing his heat map, just told me so much about him as a player that I didn't really know. Like, Christian Walker is middle away. Like, if you put it

there, he's going to eat. And, like, I wish I knew that about every hitter, and with one map you can kind of know. I don't know. We could quickly have that a little more at the top of our minds, right? We have to date. the pitchers know

Trev we missed out on a lot of guys Connor Henderson stands are pissed Whit Merrifield, Kansas City and Toronto a lot of pitchers got screwed and should Ellie de la Cruz be an all-star why do you keep saying that

because I hate that that became a conversation I guess I under you know what Davey Martinez is bright he's only got two weeks in the show send them back down if Aldi Mar-Mall and Davey Martinez got in a room. Would you want to stay there?

No. No. You're leaving that room. My team's bad. No, my team's worse. It's more of a shot. I guess in my head that's more of a shot at Ali. Trev, when you're hot for a couple days, for a week, you end up on this.

Dirt nasty's on Fuego. That means I'm on fire, baby. Like Waco. I wanted to mention some more standouts than we had there. Where's my teeth of chalk? Pass the chalk, bro. These guys are standing out in a way. Shout to all the Reds, India, steer Ellie Daly Cruz.

Don't, no, no, no. Should he be an all-star. Oh, no, no. No. JP Sears. Had a great start for the A's. Didn't even mention it. Can Sean Murphy date your daughter?

He's at the apartment. Oh, man. goodness for the series in fuego. How about Xander Bogart? You went five for 10. That's 500 average. That's quick math for me. No big deal. Two homers seven ribbies for a 1.8. That was against the angels. How about Francisco Alvarez? We all know about him. Light tower power. He showed it. Three homers in this series, six ribbies. He got hit by a pitch. Wanted to fight everyone. Kind of love it. The Mets needed that. Good for you. Cody Bellinger. Is he high all the time? Probably. 9 for 16, a double, a homer, five ribbies.

Where is he going? Where is he going? I mean, you know my answer, so you don't want to hear it. Has Joe's Photoshop the Yankees hat on to Cody Bellinger yet? Yes. Okay. For the week of June 30th through July 6th, Jack Swinsky. Ooh.

My goodness, 9 for 29, 9 for 21, two doubles, three homers for 9. Ribbies, he got hit twice, nice. In his rookie season last year, Swinsky had 19 homers and 3702 plate appearances. Guess what? This season, he has 19 homers and 285 plate appearances. Looks like

he's going to hit more homers this year than last year. Shadow Dalton for that note. We talked about Yelly. I can't talk about him anymore. I told you, he's been crushing it. 11 for 25, two homers for a 1.3. Pablo Lopez, answering the bell

two games started in this week 15 innings pitched one Ernie 18Ks his 138 strikeouts are tied for fourth most in a first half in twins history

behind Bert Blylevin your best friend who did it twice and Johan Santana the twins pitching staff is going to get some love people I promise you that

I miss bird man I miss everything he doesn't miss you for two weeks This is what you want to be on, peeps. Kyle Tucker, that Abraham Lincoln MFer went 20 for 51 with four homers, 14 ribbies, six walks for a 1.71 OPS. My goodness, you can hit.

How much money is that guy going to make? More than Yelly. He hasn't signed a deal yet, has he? No. Okay, he's going to get paid. How about Jesus Lazzardo? with a three games start. Siri, I'm not talking to you.

Shut up. She goes, okay. I like you now. Jesus Lazzardo. No, see, it did it again. I'm not talking to you, Siri. In my Lamborghini, Lazzardo. She just called him Jesus Lazzardo.

Okay, anyways, three games started 19 and a third innings pitch for 10 hits. How about this? No earned runs. Guess what that ERA is if you get up no earned runs? 22 to third score the streak. It's the fifth longest stretch in the majors this season. And here's one of my old friends. You used to hit the devil's lettuce with this guy every once in a while.

Ryan Presley. Five saves, seven innings pitch, zero hits, no earned runs, eight Ks. That's a zero ERA and a zero whip. Kind of what you want out of your back end of your back end of your bullpen, right? Houston's doing it. Presley's doing it. My friends, that is who isn't Fuego? Ryan Presley on a, when he's right, man, he's kind of in my ricey-glacius, like, man, give me that stuff for a day, just to mess around with his pitches. He puts you in the

torture chamber. Kyle Tucker's going to be so rich. Go strows go. That's what I'm always saying. Trev, a ton of injuries. Tyro Estrada, the young prince on the eye. Jazz Chisholm back on the aisle. Clayton Kershaw. Waka, Waka, Waka, Mike Trouty, Grinky, El Tuveh. Wayno, Magigal, Whitlock, what? We got some guys back. Ustremski, B. Low.

The Rays need more help. Jorge Lopez for your Twinkies in the bullpen. Scoobel for Detroit. There you go, Detroit. Patrick Wisdom, You But Thick. E. Rod. Key Brian Hayes. You guys should hang out, dude

He'd love you That's the little IL What? That's the IL Brian Hayes would hate me I'd be like Dude you're so good Love watching you play

Like who are you? Dude I love watching you play Bro All right You know I play third base I used to play third base too Now when you were guard in the line How many steps would you take off of it

You know those reverses angles laterally. You don't want to cut your range up. You got a first step back, right? Did you use the bounce pass? Oh, you would keep Brian talking bounce passes.

Still gives Jimmy a little lead in his pencil. Trev, the weekend has begun. Just a reminder, if you're going to be in Seattle, come to our event, Tuesday. Optimism Brewing. We got a couple tickets left. We're doing a live show. We're doing ref guests with Jolly.

The ref guest community is out of control. We were getting mobbed it. Dan Canobio getting mobbed at NASCAR and the Cubs game for ref guests. Dalton Feeley getting hit up for ref guests. It's gotten too big, Trev. It's all gotten too real. If you're out in Seattle, come to our event. It's going to be so much fun.

Rosie, Ploufe, Jess will be there. What's your award, Treb? So throughout my life, I've had a few, I've had a few staffs enter and kind of change. change things for me for the better. Okay. Let me say that again. I've had a few staffs enter and change things for the better.

I don't know. Not where your head is going. I don't know. You sicko. We can talk about Gandalf. Gandalf the gray, Gandalf the white, entering Rohan,

saving King Theodon from Wormtong and Saram. They forgot to take his step. I told you to take his staff. They didn't take his staff because Gandalf tricked him and said he wouldn't take a walking stick for an old man. It's not a walking stick. It's a powerful staff. Get out of him, Sarmon. He does. He leaves because Gann off the white came. How about Matthew Stafford? I used to be a Russell Wilson guy. Used to be a Seahawks guy. Not anymore. I got a new QB1. And thank goodness because

Russ is on the Broncos now doing God knows what. Seahawks have been pretty good. They got a new up there gave him paid him a little bit kind of loved that for them but I changed Staff he's my guy played tennis I played golf with him yesterday 18 he gave him a few strokes per side

we ended up even on the day he can swing in a little bit he's a stick anyways Kyle's Kyle stopped texting me during my award bro I've had a few

staffs come into my life and make it better just mention a few of them You know what staff is making another staff that's making my life better? Minnesota Twins pitching staff. I never thought I'd be able to say those words, man. I've been part of this organization for a long time. Pitching in my time with the Twins was never our strong suit. Had a few guys here and there.

Back of the bullpen guys. Nice. A couple starters. Nice. But to put together. A season that they're putting together right now. We don't really talk about enough. I don't like to talk about the twins too much on this show

because people say that I'm choosing favorites. But you got to talk about them right now. As a complete pitching staff, not even talk about their starting rotation. Who leads the league in whip? The Minnesota Twins. Who leads the league in FIPP? The Minnesota Twins.

Now, if you want to break it down, the starters right now, they lead the league in ERA, whip, their second and walks per nine, third in K's per nine. Talk about a recipe for success. We don't walk guys, but we strike everybody out.

They're first in hits per nine. They don't allow people on base. They eat up innings. They save the bullpen, which now has the fourth best whip in all of baseball. They allow the third least hits per nine in all of baseball.

The Minnesota Twins are two games over 500 they're sitting in first place in the AAL Central the offense has been abysmal there's no other way to put it but because the staff has been so good they sit where they sit they're in a position to add

offensively and they can really go and this isn't just like it's not fluky man like Joe Ryan's a guy Yeah. Pablo Lopez is a guy. Bailey Ober 6-9, The Nightmare, is a guy. Okay? My Ada coming back was a freaking bonus piece, dude. Nobody knew what to expect from him. He comes back and has been absolutely lights out, dude. I forgot about, I didn't even mention Sunny Gray. How about that? The lone all-star on the team. He's been outstanding. All-Den. All-Stare. All-Stare. All-Ball. year long. It's the deepest rotation in the big leagues right now. It really is. The numbers back it up. Everything supports it. I wanted to give a shout out to the pitching staff. I usually don't

like starters. You know how I feel about Joe Ryan. These are my guys, man. So shout out Minnesota and the pitching and everything they've been able to do. And Pete Mackie, the pitching coach, who had to fill in and has really grabbed the hold of that locker room and made great changes and kept them consistent. That's the staff award. Fantastic, Trevor. I'm, uh, if the twins could hit,

I'll be interested, interested to see at the deadline. Pablo Lopez, all the, that's one of those cases where advanced numbers catch up often and he, to drop his start.

Um, you know, a royals team that ain't hitting a lot, but, um, that's a big boy start from him. Um, And I'm excited to have another staff enter you in a couple days when I see you in Seattle.

So my award, Trev, I think you're going to like this. I'm going to give the pour a little water on the simulation award. Because we have to end up here. You know, we'll see in person. I think we're doing a talking baseball in person in Seattle. I just got the schedule for all of our shows. like I'm going to be not right for that. We grind. We're going to be in that.

7 a.m. 8 a.m. do you know like where I'm going to be? I'm going to be the king of Seattle. We're the last grinders. You know that. Trev, you mentioned this yesterday. The simulation's broken. Me and Joe's McFly ended up at the New York Stock Exchange.

That was a glitch. That wasn't real. Sums up, right? Like that's not supposed to happen. Did you steal any money? Like, is there money? Just like take some? I have the.

power. I think I can just go in there and like, you know, oil. Why were you there when it was majorly cricket doing it? Like, are you, are you tight? I'm a pro cricket guy. People ask, people asking for my business card and me and Joe's being like, we haven't held a business card in a long time. Got a YouTube channel though. Yeah. Yeah, well, no, I'm not John boy. Boy, Trev, I'm going to send some shots fired out there. We need to pour a little more water on the simulation. This is something me and BBD fell into on an episode. Can I stop you?

Yeah. I have no idea where you're going right now. No, you shouldn't. No clue. Me and BBD fell into this on an episode of Wake and Jake. And I get it. It makes sense. Athletes are training harder than ever.

We're throwing harder than ever. We're pushing the body to the limits more. Trev, I'm done with injuries. I'm calling out all the trainers in baseball. We got to get better. Because right now, Mike Trout, Yordon Alvarez, Aaron Judge, your AL All-Star Outfield, all out.

I go through this IL list every episode. Trev, think about what I just casually mentioned on the way by in that minute and a half. Clayton Kirshaw, one of the best pitchers of our generation. He goes on the aisle. Jazz Chisholm was on the cover of MLB the show. He goes on the aisle for the second or third time this year.

Mike Trout, who was the best baseball player of our lifetime until he got a teammate from across the pond. Altuve on the aisle again. I don't know. Man, I realize it's not really how things work. But I don't know. Those trainers get paid salaries. I want more healthy guys.

on the field. Make it happen. Body nerd. I guess. What are they supposed to do for Mike Charles? A hamate bone, dude. Get him a new one. Put a piece of 3D printer. I think they already did that. He already had surgery on it. Give him a new hand. I don't care. I want to see Mike Trout. So, I mean, look, I get what you're saying. And teams are always searching for, we need a new trainer. The Yankees are famous for that over the last couple years. The twins did that. They got rid of their guy and they bring in Nick from the A's who comes over. But it's everyone has a few things that they do, but it's 162 and 180, bro. And, you know, a lot of baseball movements you talk about, people from other sports that, oh, baseball is not a context. No, it's not, but it's a bunch of

short burst movements. And short burst movements, like, you can hurt yourself during those. It's not like you're jogging around, dude. Like, everything is a quick, burst movement with baseball. You're standing there and then you've got to go. Right. That's just how the game is played. And it lends itself to a lot of soft tissue injuries. I don't know what the solution is, man.

Stop playing the game so hard. We don't want that, though. The angels have an entire infield out. I don't know what the solution is, man. I wish there was something. Trust me. I know. Obliques are, obliques are happening a lot.

The bone stuff, what are you supposed to do about that? You can't do something about the bones. I guess with the muscles. I don't know what your point is, though. You're just mad that everyone's hurt. The point is people fall in love with this game by watching great players play.

And a lot of great players are out. And I realize there's not a real solution here, but also maybe there is. And I hope, how about this? I hope on talking baseball, the 2039 episode, where I'm given a trainer some love because he figured out a secret to keeping obliques healthier or keeping the soft tissue in better shape.

Remember when everyone would hurt their oblique? It stinks, dude. I realize it's the nature of the beast, and some people have already tuned this out. But I don't know, man. We see superstars, superstars, superstars of baseball go on the outside. every time we do this twice a week and I hate it. I hate it too.

I wish I had an answer for you, bro. Tell you what? Give you a massage in Seattle. How about in Seattle, one of these late nights we start digging into the world's problems, including this. Trevor, I'm excited to see you. We are recording Monday? Monday morning. Every day.

I think we go back to back or something like that. Yes, but if you listen to this show, you'll hear the next installment of it Monday. We got a special... Everyone, come to Seattle. We'll see you there. Thank you. Hit the music beats. I'm out of here.

All-Star Break. How bad? Ollie's going to be there. Ollie's going to be... Me and him. Package deal. Chick-socks. Best funter in the game.

Ali Linton? Is that his last name? Winston. Oliver Linton Jr. So yes. Short King. Yeah. Oh, he got diced up too.

Dominican barber. Got braided up by a Nigerian. He gave me the whole spiel last night.