The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz - Hour 2: The Mark Sanchez Stat

Episode Date: July 25, 2024

Mina Kimes is here to chat with the crew about the best stories around the NFL, but first, she shares her love of the Olympics ahead of tomorrow's opening ceremonies. Mina is blown away by Dan's Stat of the Day, and she entices Greg with her Tua Tagovailoa analysis. Then, before we finish off Mina's interview in the Postgame Show, it's time for another episode of The Pitch Clock. Taylor tests the knowledge of Jeremy, Billy, and David Samson with today's contract-based trivia game, and Jeremy chats with Adnan Virk about the biggest storylines in MLB as we begin the second half of the season. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to Giraffe King's Network. This is the Don LeVittor Show with the StuGuts Podcast. Mina Kimes is with us. We are delighted to see her. I don't know if she heard any of the nonsense it is that we were talking about, but before we get to football stuff with her, I do want to gauge her interest in the Olympics. Are you excited about opening ceremonies? Are you going to gather around a television or a streaming service with your friends in order to partake in the pageantry of the opening ceremonies? I love the Olympics. I don't know if I'll catch the opening ceremonies, but I love that universal,

like collective thing where we all instantly become experts in sports. We know nothing about and have like incredibly strong development opinions, pardon me, and takes that develop like in the span of a single day. You don't know anything about, I don't know, the, I would say the luge, but that's a winter sport. I'll have to go with summer thing, like the 400 meter fly. And then suddenly you're watching and you're like, this is an outrage. How did this happen? I love that feeling so much. Pete It's just sports in cubes, right? It's just the stuff that you love just stuffed all together as fast and as quick as you can so that you can enjoy the

things you enjoy about sports and sprinkle some patriotism on top. I think yeah it's that but it's like I think with a lot of sports debates on the internet and beyond it can get toxic because people bring such different levels of investment and expertise. Whereas with the Olympics, I mean, we're almost, I would say 99% of the people who watch it are new to whatever sport we're talking about. And I weirdly think that sort of democratization of knowledge makes it less toxic.

Give me the start of the day music, please. Start of the day, start of the day, and this is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. Start of the day, start of the day, it is the start of the day. I need to explain to the shipping container that once we get to the third hour of Greg Cody, he doesn't know he's on the air anymore. Like we are just badgering an old man, be careful please, because he doesn't know when we're on the air and when we're not. No, as soon as I said wow,

I instantly realized that I should not have said that aloud. That's self-awareness. That's self-awareness. No, it's my fault. I told him in his ear that flag football would be in the 2028 Olympics, and he said wow. Hey, it was worthy of a wow. I mean, they're letting anything in, break dancing.

Come on, surfing. Surfing competition is in Tahiti, which is how many thousands of miles from Paris. Ooh, wait a second, can I trade one of my things to get surfing in Tahiti? Mark Sanchez has more playoff wins than the combination of Lamar Jackson, Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, Kyler Murray, and Derek Carr.

That is a great stat that I want to save the next time. I literally just coming off first take where we had this argument. The next time people use playoff wins as a metric for why one quarterback is better than another. Thank you for that stat. Can somebody email it to me please? Cause I wanna have that on hand,

like just like a weapon in my back pocket. All right, Mark Sanchez has more playoff wins than the combination of Lamar Jackson, Dak Prescott, Kyler Murray, Derek Card. It must be better. And Kirk Cousins. It must be a perpetual frustration to you or you just perpetually amused by it.

I know that quarterbacks wins are not a quarterback status or used to be part of your Twitter bio, but you do find maddening do you not the general silliness that surrounds you as you're breaking down tape and studying advanced analytics? It only bothers me because there's different layers to when it's deployed in debate like some people bring it up if we're talking about I Burrow versus Josh Allen, Justin Herbert versus Lamar Jackson. I actually don't want to be patronizing and say it doesn't matter at all or it's never worth bringing up because obviously those memorable playoff performances and your playoff record

and certainly Super Bowl record do matter to the average fan. Where it bothers me though is when people use it as a stand-in for what actually happened in the games and when instead of talking about, okay, what actually happened in this game? Why did they lose? Was it because of the defense? It just gets reduced to a record three and oh or he lost or whatever. And that bothers me because I feel like as analysts, our job is to actually try To give context for these performances and what you're doing with that particular stat is you're robbing individual players of their context I have spent the last couple of days

Okay kind of trying to gear up for the season by having some to a conversations just trying to get myself in game shape for for the season and one of the conversations we were having here this week that i want to ask you about is how many quarterbacks are you sure about a number you put them in any offense they're going to be great and put up the same numbers it's not going to be offense dependent you're going to get the confidence of i have

blank number of quarterbacks that i simply know that my measurement of them is they are valuable and good the most valuable and the best. How many quarter you're asking is sorry I was so derailed because some reason I thought when you were saying you were gearing up into what you were gonna finish that with talking about his brain and then when you pivoted to actually just talking about football it kind of threw me so how many quarterbacks you're asking do I feel confident in like their ability to elevate what are we talking actually just talking about football, it kind of threw me. So how many quarterbacks you're asking,

do I feel confident in? Like their ability to elevate? What are we talking about here? What are you doing about this? I guess forgive me for the way that I introduced that, but I'm laughing at, bemused and marveling at our inability to accurately measure the value of the best quarterback separating them

from their wide receivers, their offensive lines, their systems and everything. Just asking who's great, who do you pay? No questions asked. The problem with that question and as looking at it through the lens of who you pay is you can't take any of these quarterbacks out of context when you're making a decision about paying them. Tua being a perfect example, a quarterback who I think is incredibly valuable in the context of his offense. And that matters when you're deciding whether to pay him. Like, I swear to God, I'm not being political when I say the Dolphins should pay Tua.

But if he was on another team, I don't think that team should. And that gets tricky, Dan, because you can hear that and you say, well, how do you know the context around Tua is going to this context in which he is so good? It's an offense, the scheme, the speed of skill players, the play calling. How do you know that's gonna stay the same if you give him $50 million a year?

You don't know. However, you can operate from the assumption that at least the head coach is going to be in play and that you have a wide receiver in Jaylen Waddle who's very, very young and very, very fast in a front office who has been this offense with him is going to look like for the next Three four five years even if if you took him out of that context I don't think he would be as valuable does that make sense it does But why haven't they paid him because the the reason that we started the conversation is me saying I don't blame the Dolphins For thinking that if he went to another offense any other offense maybe san francisco mean about any other offense outside of san francisco that he wouldn't be statistically the player that he's been

and i think that will be fair but the thing is you're not paying these quarterbacks based on who they are in a vacuum i think to uh... is not as good as they know your josh allen's job rose hillmark jackson's whatever he is not as good as, you know, your Josh Allen's, your Joe Burroughs, your Lamar Jackson's, whatever. He is not in that tier. I look at those quarterbacks and I think, okay, you could put them in any offense in the league and they are elevators of talent and they are uniquely able of creating offense on their own in a way that I don't feel about

Tua. However, the decision to pay him is not putting together a team from scratch or it's not like, you know, building a bad in dynasty or whatever. You are paying him based on the quarterback you want him to be in this offense, the quarterback he has been. Where I would get a little bit hesitant is okay, I've been saying he's so great in this offense. His offense is a buzzsaw, but of course we have seen this offense run into some grit against difficult defenses, obviously in cold weather. And the question I think the front office has to ask is, are the struggles of this football team, this offense, in those situations something that can be pinned on the quarterback?

And are there ways in which the quarterback can continue to get better that perhaps might enable them to get over the hump? He's lost some weight. Does that mean he might be more mobile and able to create on his own, which he hasn't been very good at? Is he gonna be better under pressure? I think the offensive line in the front office have done him no favors there. But the thing about too, you also have to remember

is he's still a young quarterback. He could get better at those things. And that to me is the decision that the front office has to make. Mena, stay right there, okay?reg cody was riveted by your every word i've never seen him out what what happened no i'm i'm not in agreement with almost everything mean a said

uh... i am approach to a guy of written like three columns which is probably two too many that they should pay him uh... in and i think they're nickel and i mean i mean he's you know no matter where to a ghost he's gonna bring his accuracy with them you had his undivided attention is my point i have not seen that look from greg cody in several years working with him he's distracted he's swinging but you were talking his language there and so i'm gonna put a pause on this for a second

and we're gonna finish the show strong a very strong Greg Cody week. You have been disoriented. You've been distracted. You've been wonderful. Are you ready? Are you ready for this post game? Are you ready to finish this the right way?

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Go pee-pee. Stugats. Go pee-pee. This is the Don Lebatard Show with the Stugats. ["Pitch Clock Theme"] Welcome to the Pitch Clock. Here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game

and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock. Our esteemed producer Taylor can you explain to this group right here me David and Billy what the game is that we'll be playing today? I tailored the game towards David so this list you guys could flip it over now. Alright. This is every $100 million contract in baseball pre-2010. So you guys have the number that they signed for, the team that they signed for,

and then the year that they signed. So it's gonna be three strikes and you're out. We'll alternate Jeremy, David, Billy. Okay, so each of us has a sheet of paper sitting in front of us. And I have a 20 second shot clock. All right, 20 seconds. Wait, can I ask questions?

It's a 20 second pitch clock, Taylor. This is just the amount they signed for in the year, but we don't have a length of deal here. That's correct. Correct, it's just the total dollar. Okay. This is a nightmare for me. I'm going to go ahead and say,

I'm gonna take the first guess, number two on the board, Texas Rangers, in 2001, $252 million, that's Alex Rodriguez. That's correct. I'm gonna go number one on the board, the same guy, Alex Rodriguez, Yankees, 275 and 08. That is also correct. All right.

Is number 12 Vernon Wells blue Jays Wow great pull Vernon Wells 26 million 200 all right, so that was through one round. I should have held on to that one That was a stupid great one. That's a really good one to get that early All right So through one round of this game me David, David, and Billy all got ours right. A-Rod for both the Yankees and the Rangers, and Billy pulling Vernon Wells out of the hat. I shoulda held that one, that was dumb.

I'm gonna go, ooh, two. Man, this is tough. We have 20 seconds on the clock, right? 10 seconds left. 10 seconds left. I'm gonna go number nine. New York Mets, $137. We have 20 seconds on the clock, right? 10 seconds left. 10 seconds left. I'm gonna go number nine. New York Met's $137.5 million in 2008.

Was that Johann Santana? It was Johann. Wow. Is there a chance that number eight, 141.5 in 03, was Todd Helton? Yep. Wow! Yeah!

With the Colorado Rockies. That's a good one, David. That's very well done. Back to Billy. Man, it's getting hard. Yeah, this is getting more and more difficult. I'm gonna get another one of these. And now to our guest portion here on the Pitch Clock,

Adnan Virk of MLB Network. Joining us today to share his expertise. Adnan, thank of MLB Network. Joining us today to share his expertise, Adnan thank you for joining us. I wanna start with you with Jordan Alvarez because he has led the Astros back in their division, the poor Mariners. I mean the poor Mariners just cannot catch a break

as the Astros catch up to him. He hit for the cycle on Sunday. There's a couple interesting things here. He got the home run ball back in exchange for a signed baseball. Carlos Santana also had 30 homers and 30 ball parks. The fan asked him for season tickets in exchange for the ball, got batting gloves.

So I have kind of a two part question here. One, how impressive is it what Jordán Álvarez is doing in leading the Astros in his season? And also, do fans need better negotiators on their behalf? Yeah, yes and yes. But we'll start with Jordan. Jeremy, great to see you as always. Thanks for having me back.

Let's start with Astros first, because it's been an incredible story. I know we all want to hate the Astros, and I get it, but it's been an amazing run considering the fact they were 10 games back just 33 days ago, and all of a sudden now, a virtual tie here in lockstep with the Mariners. Since the start of June, no team better record than the Astros

27 and 14 going into Monday's action. And Jordan specifically, he mentioned the cycle, which is always tough to do. He got a double in that final at bat. Going into this week, he was slashing 367, 500 on base, a 700 slug, 11 extra base hits, 13 RBI's last 18 games. He's been awesome. And also, one homer shy of 150, which he'd be the sixth fastest player in NL or American League history to reach 150 home runs. Think about that.

Only Ryan Howard, Pete Alonso, Aaron Judge, Eddie Matthews, and Ralph Keiner have gotten 150 homers faster. So Jordans had an incredible career. It's not like last week when I was speaking last week speaking about Jose Ramirez apparently underrated your dogs like that too doesn't speak English, you don't see the media is not out there but obviously an incredible slug and always in the mix as far as their top 10 MVP considerations concern obviously not playing the field hurts him a little

bit but yeah, he's been on a run right now the Astros have been really good to get healthy man the starting rotation was beaten up once they got those pictures back their offense can bang and eventually get Kyle Tucker back as well. To your point about the batting gloves, yeah, it's always funny when guys want to get something back. You know, I think there's a, there's, I can see both sides of it.

For a fan, I can see the element of classiness and saying, Hey, this is important to you. I'm happy to give it back. But also it's worth something to you, right? And you've got a lot more than me and I've got four kids and a mortgage to pay. So you know what, let's make this worth our while. So yeah, I think more than batting gloves, I don't think season tickets is unreasonable.

I'm not asking for a new Porsche, but I think if you're a fan and you've got a little bit of leverage, that's what life is, Jeremy. When you got leverage, you got the hammer, you got to wield it. So I'm pro fan in this instance. Well, now you're sounding like David Sampson

talking about leverage nonstop. But Jordan Alvarez, I mean, I remember when he came up thinking like, oh, okay This is big poppy. So it's impressive to see him doing what he's doing Yankees, I mean, I can't I have to guess the exact Yankee. There are still four more Yankee logos I know but I need to I can't just say was XYZ. How much time is on the pitch clock? Seven seconds. Oh, seven seconds. Was number 19 Carlos Lee.

Wow, what a pull. What? What a catch. Did you just say Carlos Lee? The former Marlin? That's amazing. El Caballo. Carlos Lee for $100 million in 2006.

So through two rounds, nobody has gotten one wrong yet. We have A-Rod twice. We have Todd Helton and Johan Santana. We have Vernon Wells and Carlos Lee. I cannot believe that. All right, start the pitch clock. I am looking here. How about number 16?

The Cincinnati Reds, $116.5 million in 2000. Is that Ken Griffey Jr.? It's Ken Griffey Jr. Was surprised nobody went to that earlier. All right. I'm gonna help you guys out by getting one wrong, and I'm gonna get the name right, but the amounts are a problem.

One of four or five, I know. I just can't remember, and I don't know my glasses. Is one 180 and one is 161. That's correct So I am gonna go with number four and I'm gonna go with Mark Tashara Wow Mark Tashara 180 million dollars with the New York Yankees David to not saying who the other name could possibly yeah very well played David. That's very good

Oh man, so Billy you you're up. Number seven. Is number seven Miguel Cabrera? Wow, $152.3 million in 2008. That was like the first of his two teams. Wow, this is unbelievable. So through three rounds, through three rounds, nobody has gotten one wrong yet. We've got nine contracts.

This is pretty impressive. I'm not gonna lie. I would think above average. We haven't played this specific game yet but this is every week it's gonna be a slightly different game this is this is pretty impressive to me um okay this one is eating at me um I see a couple of different contracts here that are potential. How about... How about...

Five bucks. 2004, number 18, a hundred million dollars. Is that Albert Pouos? It is Pouos. Yes! Good for you. That felt good. I'm very happy for you. Thank you. Number 13, Rockies, 121 and 01, former Expo, Sir Larry Walker.

First strike. Oh, I thought it was going to be him too. Now we've got to figure out who that is. So that's a strike for David. The first strike of the game thus far. Billy, you're up. His number 11, 126, and 2007 Buster Posey. Steer right. Strike. Wow. Wow. Is number 11 126 and 2007 buster posy

Strike Wow Wow But both of those I don't know off the top of my head who those would be otherwise I gotta think with the Giants It's likely a pitcher That's why years is not the years are difficult here. She doesn't years who 2001 We both have strikes. This is a big moment for you. Yeah, I can capitalize here potentially. You do have the lead technically. Adnan, I wanna talk to you about the Yankees because this is a sort of weird and unexplainable one to me.

Garrett Cole makes his season debut on June 19th. The Yankees had the best ERA in baseball amongst starters. Since June 19th, they have the worst ERA amongst starters. It's over six. What in the world happened to the New York Yankees rotation? Yeah, it's been crazy, Jeremy. It was such a good story prior to this run

because he was in consideration to make the All-Star game until he stumbled towards a stretch. Cortez has been good. Stroman, excellent great ground ball pitcher. And Rodin had a couple of shaky starts and then he was fantastic. And then Clark Schmidt who was, pitched the second most innings of any Yankee starter

a year ago, you go, hey, who's gonna go out of the rotation once Garrett Cole comes back? All these guys have been great. And then Schmidt got hurt and you go, okay, easy decision now. He should be back end of August, early September. And Cole's first two starts was okay. Traditionally hasn't pitched great against the Red Sox

Devers always has his number but they've just completely fallen apart and it's shocking how bad it's been you know since June 15th the Yankees have lost 20 of their last 29 games going into this week only the White Sox a worse record in baseball over that span and to your point the pitching 5.37 ERA second highest in baseball in that span, behind only the Rockies. And the starter ERA, 6.24, that's the worst, after they had been among the best staffs in baseball.

So it's incredibly frustrating for my buddy Aaron Boone. I hope they get it rectified sooner rather than later. I do think they need to make some moves, pick their offense and stumble, because they're so reliant on Judge and Soto, who are out of this world. Ben Rice in a nice little stretch, but he's come back down to earth LaMahue is unplayable Booneys have to bench him for a week Torres has been bad

Volpe's been bad after a good start Verdugo's at an 84 OPS plus that's a huge drop off from last year after playing some really good defense early in the year so they need help on their offense helping judge and soda and they certainly need help with their pitching staff but it's it's been surprising the only good news is Cole was excellent in his last start so hopefully he can carry them I mentioned he should be on the way back sooner rather than later but it's just been surprising how they were kind of playing their heads above water then came back down to earth and Rodin I think is really important this rotation

because the fact you know he's got big money in that contract they expect so much of him but they've got to keep the ball in the ballpark during more than anything they have a lot of 51 home runs since the start of June that's 15 more than anybody else in baseball so you got to stop giving up these home runs and Rodin the six start stretch going into Monday nine point six seven ERA he's got to be better than that oh boy okay um I don't know what to do here. Uh, number 11 Giants, $126 million in 2007, Tim Lensico. Damn!

We're gonna, is it three strikes and we're out? Yeah, three strikes and we're out. Is number, oh, am I up? Number six Boston Red Sox, 160 and 01, is it Pedroia? It's not Pedroia. No, that's early. That's early, strike two. Too early for Pedroia?

That's a little early for Pedroia. I was gonna go Pedroia or JE. Then that may be early for him too. Yeah. Darn it. Strike two for David. Billy, on the clock 2001

Put yourself there. I'm trying to think I is that Pedro with her six. Yeah I don't think Pedro ever got a deal like that. All right, so I believe we're through five rounds now and Thus far I have one strike David and Billy each have two strikes Which does put me in the lead and potentially if I maybe I could just kind of wait out the class Alright, so if you start if you start the clock here, I'm I have a guess here. I'm gonna go number 15 119 million dollars in 2005 at the New York Mets is that David Wright? You were so cocky you were sure I really thought I had it I really did think I had it I really did you were holding that one too. Yeah, I was I was looking at it the whole time. I thought I had it

This is starting to turn into next one might win. Yeah Well, this is my third everybody's got two strikes Yeah, I mean I need to come up with one right now technically for what right now right now Technically for what it's worth if they both get strikes I I went even though I have two strikes for it. Why is that because I started. So I have I have one more right than you guys. Yeah, you got one He's yeah, we're on the same round right now. So David It's to you 15 seconds left

What if he steps out of the box No, no calling time here. Really? Yeah. There's really no time. Five seconds. New York Mets. Number 14 Yankees. 2,200,000,000. CC Sabathia. Too early. Strike three for David. So David is now out of contention. Billy, can you keep the game alive? No. Adnan, can you name a random baseball player from the past whose name makes you smile? Absolutely, I love this question.

I just said Joe Buck on Cinephile. My dear friend Adam Amin, I was thinking, you know, brainstorming, who could I have on the show? It's a summer. You know, Joe Buck's my favorite play by play gov all time. I met him briefly at the Emmys. Let me ask Adam. I said, Adam, could you ask Joe Buck

when he comes on Cinephile? Adam asked me, he always need a middler, right? Like in Curb, you need a middler. So Joe Buck came on, he was awesome. The reason I want to have Joe Buck on Cinephile is because he was great in Brockmeyer and he's very good friends with Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm. Rudd just got nominated for an Emmy award for Only Murders in the Building, his first Emmy nomination supporting actor,

and John Hamm's a double Emmy nominee as he's up for the morning show at All's He Was Great in the season of Fargo. So anyways listen to the episode Buck told stories when he first met Rudd, first met Hamm, there's a guy named Preston Clark, they were friends in the high school, blah blah blah. Anyways when I said that Buck was this I go I met Paul Rudd before the Sundance Film Festival, it was okay. I said he made a movie, unfortunately it wasn't great, but it's based on a classic book, The Catcher Was a Spy, true story of Mo Bird. Amazing story.

Amazing story, right? And Rudd's a great guy. He was telling me he shot at Fenway, lifelong baseball fan, and I remember asking Paul, I said, what's your favorite team? He said, I'm a Royals fan. And I said, who's your favorite player? And this name always makes me smile.

And when I said to Buck, even he smiled. And it's going to make you smile. Willie Wilson. I don't know what it is about Willie Wilson. Maybe it's just the alliteration of two first names. It's Will Will. But Will Will. It's not just alliteration.

It's literally the same name. But Willie Wilson, I just picture a slender speedster. And it's 1985 again. And a guy who's slugging percentage, if we looked it up right now, it's a guy who's slugging percentage if we looked it up right now it's probably 330 is his slugging percentage but he hits you 300 and he'll get you on base and he'll steal bases he's a guy that always makes us well Willie McGee's another one maybe I just like Willie's Willie McGee of that air against Speedster kind of funny looking great years of the Cardinals

Vince Coleman I just I love that that air those guys definitely make me spot. You say Willie McCovey as well This is a great game and I'm a good one bonded. It was a good one The Cubs won in in 2007 is bothering me. Uh-huh the Mets in 2005 is bothering me The Yankees know nine I should know I'm trying to figure that one out five seconds The Mets know five is the year we took Delgado Who the hell did they sign with CC number five in 2009? I was off by how many years? Yeah, all right. I'm eliminated. Oh god. I'm and I do not guess that I don't know that I would have because can I tell you? What my thinking was I was trying to figure out if one of these was a Randy Johnson deal but Randy Johnson didn't sign in

2001 or 2002 because we would have seen him in the World Series in 2003 against the Marlins So I knew that Randy wasn't there yet, and I wasn't sure if CC was there I'm trying to get the Yankees who were no 2 and 0 1 that means they were on the 0 3 that's what I've that's what I've been trying to figure out all right think think of one but he didn't get paid that amount. So a moment to reset here. No you don't get extra time, you've had time. You're on the clock. I'm the host.

We're through six rounds thus far. David has been eliminated with three strikes. Both Billy and I have two strikes. So we're both just kinda trying to stay alive here. All right, start the clock. Looking at these, so the Rockies is bothering me. I have 2001, the $189 million. Five seconds.

Is that, can I get back in the game? Is that Derek Jeter? Derek Jeter is number three. Yes! 189. Was number six, No Margarita Para. D-Roy! That's the game. D-Roy! That's more Garcia para Ball game over is number 17 Kevin Brown it was Kevin Wow

Wow 99 with the Dodgers yeah, please let us know the rest of the the answers here that we have not I'll go through and let's For you guys 160 from the Red Sox in 2001 Manny Ramirez 136 in 2007 from the Cubs Alfonso Soriano. Oh, I almost guess sorry 126 in 2007 from the Giants Barry Zito 121 in 2001 from the Rockies Mike Hampton they immediately I didn't pay that deal. Mike Hampton. Wow, laid that off on three teams. 120 from the Yankees in 2002,

Jason Giambi coming off his MVP season. Wow, I wouldn't have got that. 119 in 2005 from the Mets, Carlos Beltran. Oh. And then as David mentioned, the Dodgers gave Kevin Brown 105 and wow, that was amazing. That's spectacular. And the Griffey contract, which is pretty amazing, just ended. It just ended to Major League Baseball, baby. Happy Bobby

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