 What's up everybody it is episode two of talking baseball. We had a wild week of MLB Games tempers flared all over big series. Some teams are now out of it. Some teams are way more in it We're gonna talk all about it. We got slump watch. We got home run derby updates We got buyers. We got sellers and we got who got mad. Let's go Talking baseball talking baseball everyone. Thank you if you listen to the first episode or the test episodes Which are now on the feed. We appreciate you very much. I have my co-host Jake as always with me He's actually in the same room as me which don't get used to this. He's leaving after we record this but Jake How you doing good James? I'm good. We're talking baseball. You said it best the song says it best Um, yeah, man. It's uh, it's it's been a whirlwind Literally Uh, and figuratively as we were doing uh, if you're listening to this you you probably caught Some of the John Boy stuff yesterday. Uh, it was nuts From the Yankees game and yeah earlier in the week. It's it's so funny. You and I We we probably have a couple phrases We're gonna bring over from our other podcast that we're introducing to people But something that you say and I I've come to is that baseball moves so fast And I think a lot of people that's the opposite thing they think of when they think of baseball But when you go back to like I I was looking at brice harper's big Like rbi comeback the Phillies against the Dodgers the other day and I was like that felt so long ago Um, just because the day-to-day in baseball with the more games it just moves quick So I'm uh, I'm excited to get our teeth sunk in we've already had a ton of people Uh listening and leaving reviews and stuff like this is kind of episode two as jimmy mentioned We did a few before that so we're uh, we're rolling man. Yeah, we're actually Jake and I have been doing podcasts for a long time guys. Well, actually that's not true We've been doing podcasts for two Plus years two plus years, but we've been doing a lot podcast world, you know, we're like I don't know. We're batting 400 lifetime. We uh, we have a lot of shows. We're really excited about this one This is the first show that we launched That already had we already had like a following, you know everything else is like hey episode one 20 people listen great Yeah, let's keep building over a thousand people downloaded. I think minimum really across all well Actually, I think like probably two across all platforms. Yeah, listen to the first episode and we're super appreciative It's kind of like this tingling feeling like holy shit like we actually have People that are going to tune in from the get-go. Let's fucking make this work Let's have some fun a lot of reviews came in if you were wanting someone that left a review on the podcast app Uh before we even asked or just to be nice like I really really appreciate that and we need to get those reviews up It's it's it's this stupid world that the podcast lives in where If someone googles it and they check a podcast out the reviews hold So much weight in people's head if you don't have a lot, it seems like it's not a real show This is a real show and we have a real audience So we need you guys help for a little bit just to bump those up I want to give we don't have stickers yet But I want to give stickers to everyone that leaves like the first 50 reviews We'll get you some stickers. So I don't find a way Hey, I don't know how to do it leave like your instagram or your twitter or dm us Your review and and then we'll get in touch. We'll send you some stickers or something. Yeah, we'll look at that I appreciate all the support. How you doing jen? I'm on like Five hours of sleep, which is not as much. I went to be a I went to bed at 3 a.m. Last night We do talking to yanks and uh the erin boon and the savage quote, which is now the biggest story Yeah, I'm always gonna feel guilty whenever the yankees are a national storyline and talking baseball because I I don't want this I don't want our yankee bias to like come on here at all. We talk enough yanks over there Right, so I'm always nervous like oh shit. They're gonna these guys just talk about the yanks But I think that is the biggest story. I think it's transcended baseball I think it's one of the biggest story in sports. Yeah, and that's uh a lot of the guys I mean uh We'll give some kudos and not a not a weird pat ourselves on the back way But I mean it went all throughout the baseball world. I mean buster olney guys like that. We heard Uh Ken rosenthal was was getting involved in the action Um, so I mean the the biggest names in baseball and then just like sports guys collin cowherd Um, he he was retweeting it. I think the the comment that resonated with me was like this I think people were saying this was one of the coolest things they'd seen in baseball This was like one of the first things if you're not a natural baseball fan That they felt almost like resonated with them. They're like this is cool. This is what sports is like Yeah, all right, so I have the tweet so i'm getting a million replies and all different types of replies And so contradicting because that's how it is and sports fans and even umpires I had a lot of past umpires say like this is awesome. Yeah, uh that ump took it boon Use some harsh language, but it wasn't mean like he he wasn't he really wasn't like Mean right um And then there's other people that I think are not sports fan. They're like, why is this a lot in sports? Sports is the only place you can do this and it's like, uh, yeah, I I understand it might be weird for you But that it's so good shades of gray. I know a lot of business worlds where you can get a yelling too like that And I've gotten a couple yellings like that and that's why i'm doing this now. Yeah Um, yeah, so I don't know. Do do we start getting into the baseball or what? Yeah, we're if you're this is your first time listening We appreciate you stopping by hanging out with us if you want to watch live in the future We are going to be posting it live on patreon patreon.com slash jamboy media That should grow as we go and then a chat can start and people can hang out It's slowly grew for talking yanks. Now it's a fun space. I think we can do the same here But how it works is we're gonna open up with the nl and the al report We're always gonna rotate. I did the al last time so I will do the nl today Jake Are you ready for this? I'm ready. Go get it. Catch catch me up. All right. Here we go The giants and rockies squared off for a four game set including a double header in which the giants swept The rockies. Oh, no rocks yikes the giant scored 40 runs In four games. They jumped the rockies in the standings The rockies are now in dismay and kind of a bad place The Dodgers and Phillies also had a four game set and it was crazy tempers flared the entire time We had an injection in the first game. Then we had an injection in the second game in the third game I'm not sure if anything happened, but um They split the series two to two in the fourth game. There was a lot of yelling on the field Naras screams rustle bar and screamed back said some words and all that but that series Went two and two which actually is kind of a victory for the Phillies the reds and cubs Squared off the cubs one two of three Kind of that's bad for the reds that might push them into being sellers The cubs lost game one but won the next two to take the series Darvish got his first win at Wrigley in his 12th attempt. So good for him Braves and brewers squared off That's a fun match up two teams that I think are going to be solidly in the hunt for playoff wins The brewers beat the Braves two out of three Pirates and cardinals cardinals beat the pirates That's rough for the pirates because they're a team that needed to have a good start after the break Josh bell had a rough one through nine more on that another home run derby contestants later The nationals beat the Orioles. No, they split Nationals and the Orioles split little dmv action one game each both of them were blowouts Padres and Marlins squared off in Miami and the marlins won two of three I think marlins have been better than people think they have brian anerson Won the series and the last game with a walkoff. So that's exciting The diamond backs beat the rangers in a two game set They scored 19 runs in game two, which I think they said was a franchise high and the Mets beat the twins So wow twins are sellers now. That's crazy. Sorry I think they also have to delete themselves from the mlbj getting swept by the Mets when you're the twins That's a tough break relegated and that is the nl report anything that catches catches your eye here Hey, low smats congrats for for beating the twins And in minnesota, you don't want to go there on a hot summer day Actually would probably one of the nicer places in the mlb to be in the dog days of summer Thousand lakes all that No, I think you got a the d-back set in a franchise hide for record run scored I mean that that's something of no And uh, yeah, I mean braves brewers. You got some some two really good baseball games and the one blowout by millowock a um And yeah, I I don't know. I think we uh, I I snuck in a little buyer sellers segment Coming up later jim. So I I don't I don't want to deep dive into what the reds are doing and all that I mean I'd say the stories in the national league that I think jump out Are the implosion of the rockies Um, they have done so bad slump watch. Yeah the slump watch. We're gonna be hearing about them later Um Dodgers Phillies was a big series with a ton of action And I I don't know you kind of do a shrug when you split like that, but everyone walks away from it And uh, yeah, I don't know what what else is jumping off to you I just uh, I thought all the national league teams beat the why I had it wrong. I thought the uh There's that one split right there was the national split with the Orioles Which is a huge win for the Orioles And the Phillies splitting with the Dodgers is a huge win for the Phillies And that the Phillies played close games. Yeah is kind of good for them Harper kind of came to life and gave that place energy. Kapler got ejected Once got an argument twice like the Phillies may not be where they want to be talent wise Yeah, but I guarantee you their organization and like everyone's happy like they have the drama the Appeal I can tell you from my youtube numbers or the Phillies are involved right now. Everyone's checking it out Yeah, and I I think I think the phrase I heard because you were doing that youtube Phillies game and I I think a couple phrases I heard a I heard one great baseball phrase The announcer dropped, uh, baseball is pretty simple You're gonna win 50 games a year you're gonna lose 50 games a year Whatever you do with the other games is what matters It used to be 60 60, but now with how good some teams are now other teams are tanking such a good baseball quote I love that quote. It's such a good baseball quote Um, and then the other thing and it's the vibe I've gotten from Phillies Phillies nation if you will Jen is that the Phillies haven't like played good ball this year Like that I I feel like that's the feeling out of Philadelphia And I think Bryce's numbers are starting to sneak up there I think I saw some f war stuff that he's actually like Having a good year when people think he's having like a down down year Um, so I don't know. I think Philadelphia They're a team that I'd have to look at their needs a little bit Everyone needs pitching but I think if they get a couple wins going and maybe bringing a fresh body or two I think they're they're kind of primed to take off or they want to be primed to take off Philly. Yeah this year Yes, they asked Kapler that in his interview and uh, he said it's the worst interview ever It was on youtube. I should promote that. I was part of like the chat It's kind of cool. I wish it was Yankees game to be honest, but uh It was it was fun and they asked Kapler and he was like, I think it's more about reinforcing what we have here Which is just like a good non answer by him. Yeah, that's I mean, that's how you don't throw your guys under the bus If you say like, yeah, we could use another pitcher You got a couple pitchers in your clubhouse that are like, oh, but they're right in the race They are half the game out of the wild card. So that's good for them. They made up some ground So I'm saying that splitting with the Dodgers was like a victory for them Yeah, and uh, yeah, Milwaukee technically is in the wild card right now with the with the gnats Atlanta still has the east Dodgers in the west cubbies in the central I have a uh, uh, national league opinion Okay, I think I like the Dodgers are like a fantastic team. Yeah, this lead is too much I think they're gonna hit like a swoon. You think they're gonna do the like week We just we haven't played a meaningful baseball game in three months. They're not gonna play meaningful baseball game until october Yeah, no, I I don't think that's uh, I think that's super hot tag is I think that's a pretty normal sports thing It'll be interesting to see I mean, what do you do? They're what's their lead right now? Are they at 14? They're 14 games ahead I mean, that's insane. I mean, it's like a good test of self self motivation. Yeah, man. I mean, I I'd almost like Know how teams normally rest guys the last like week or two before the playoffs and you know Do every other game or however they they want to do it if you're the Dodgers do you take like the first two weeks Is september off Just like kind of wash your hands and be like hey this hell of a year Like yankies used to do that let someone else manage hell of a year is your audio muted Oh, it might not be um And I I think from there. Yeah, you and then UK. Okay. We've got two weeks You do like a new spring training You take a couple weeks out the season ended august 31st You clap you take a week off two weeks off spring training get back into it because They really aren't going to play a game. That means anything to them for a while I guess I guess you try to gear up for when the The better teams in the nl you play them if they have a series with If they have a series coming up with the cubs or I don't know any of the teams fighting for the wild card. I guess in that moment. That's your test But you're right. I mean they're uh They've they've won They won the west I'm sorry. I'm trying to figure out audio here yours uh yours was Edit this out of the pot. Okay. Yours was super echoey because I think it was still on yeah And then I had to switch the mic because then you were muted because I think this mic wasn't that mic wasn't on Because who's in the chat philip whites in the chat I'm glad he let me know. Yeah He said now this is good. Okay. Yeah, it's still not gonna be great because we're using like one mic between the two of us, but Okay, sound Yeah, all right. Yeah, this should be what we would do it. Cool Thank you for all right, and I'm gonna have to throw this up. Yeah, we'll do the editing All right All right, you want to jump to the al report al report brought to you by jake store Jimmy the american league the yankies take three out of four versus the rays in the battle at the top of the Ale beast would have been a sweep if not for a three homer game from travis darno. How about that? boston takes three out of four against the jays not the rays Including a dominant chris sale performance in the final game They haven't seen that at fenway and a little bit as john mentioned orials and that split the beltway series to round off The east in the central john boys twins We mentioned they lost to the mets lost by one lost by 10 one game Meanwhile, the windians live up to their name jim four games sweep over the teagraze clevenger and bower with double digit strikeout games to wrap up that sex the l socks I mean the white socks they drop all four to the royals and casey sell sell sell, baby In the west the straws and halos they split for angels won the first two houston comes back and gets the second two The a's win both games putting up a nine and a 10 spot over the mariners Mariners scored two each game not as good and texas forever my friend or maybe not They lost both games to the timing backs. They gave up a nine spot and as we mentioned a record 19 burger for the d backs I think the texas went to arizona And usually they have advantage of people coming to texas and not being able to handle the heat right And went to arizona and I was like This is cool nullified. Yeah, I go. This feels good. This is real heat. Yeah Arizona was the home team, right? Um, I I believe so I think so Otherwise we have to throw out that whole theory. Yeah. Anyway, um shocked I didn't actually I was so busy with our event and everything that I didn't I didn't check the al scores I was a little out of tune and I'd like to be and when you said that the indians swept the tigers That's that's the biggest series That's the biggest result of a series in the al well raising yankees, but that one's huge for the indians And jim I I think the bigger thing and I'm I'm gonna start patting myself on that that series was actually in texas So heat theory is out out. Um, but that even worse look for texas Well, no, okay So usually teams come to texas right and texas he gets them arizona was like this is nice This is chilly. What are you talking about? Yeah, okay? We got we we knew there was a heat theory in there We just had to get there. Yeah, um, jim I I'm gonna start patting myself on the back as I as I try to try to build myself up every day. Um I told you I was buying stock in the indians. Yeah, you did Four game sweep over the tigers So I mean and the tigers are sneaking towards one of the worst records in baseball they Them and the orioles are both having one 29. Yeah, they haven't won 30 games yet So I and you know, it's not a it's not a big flex by them But jim with the twins losing those two games now as we sit here And uh, by the way, if you are listening at home, we do it series by series So if a team starts a new series on a thursday night, we're we're if there's something we need to talk about We'll talk about it, but we're going series to series as it stands right now cleveland's four games back Um, and and that's the tightest race in the al Oakland is sneaking up on houston, but Not to be rude to our our new a's fans. I mean houston is one of the clear favorites to win it all So there's not a huge threat there until maybe they play and something happens Uh cleveland's gonna make a run at it. They they've got their pitching back Cleuber is supposed to come back at some point if they get him instead of I saw adam plukko I think he won the first game with like five innings five earned runs cleveland's gonna make a push and I think it's um I think that might end up being some great baseball down the stretch because it's kind of the uh It's it's going to be the classic baseball. I mean the indians sure they have a couple stars But they are built on their pitching minnesota is clearly built on their hitting in the gopher ball So we we might end up getting some really good baseball at the al central All right That the indians i'd be nervous of is twins twins just lost two indians just won four their pitching's good Yeah, like you said the tigers it's not Beating the tigers Isn't something to celebrate and i'm sorry if we have tigers fans listening. Yeah, but Sweeping a team and this is where some like I know yankees fans do this like you can a four game sweep Yeah, is impressive no matter who you play And uh, you just can't downplay it like that's that's a good That sets the indians up nicely Yeah, and and maybe the best news for minnesota gym is that The rest of that al central has now gone To complete schmutz with with the white socks coming out uh and going one and nine in their last 10 Detroit is also one and nine in their last 10 kansas city seven and three in their last 10 but they're still 36 and 62 so uh minnesota if you're them you say hey, but if we can manage our cleveland games And just take care of the rest of the division. We should still be good the rest of the way, but It'll be interesting to see how how those head-to-head series goes and what else comes in their way. Yeah Any uh, I don't know any anything else jump out to you from From the al gym. No, like we said the yankees taken three of four from the raise was kind of big It was six games Yankees had a six game lead double header before Well before the series then they split the first two So it could have been a big swing a sweep would have brought it two games, which would have been I mean I would have been so shook as a yankee fan or um 10 games back. Yeah, but the Yankees take three or four So it's now at eight Which is sizable the Yankees and the rays don't play each other again until until september and it's just two games It's at the very back end of the season. Hopefully those don't matter So this was the last chance for these teams to do damage against each other because you know when you play each other It's worth two. Right. It's a win and a loss So the rays are going to need other teams to do their bidding form and The Yankees have eight games in the next two weeks coming up against the red sox Yeah So the Yankees have their the Yankees might get to a Dodger standpoint if they have a good two weeks Wow Do you want to take that Dodger take back now? No, do you want the Yankees to lose to the red sox? That seems like something you'd say I think I heard that on the last I I want between six and 10 from here out. Okay. I like that once you get the 15 You're struggling to find reasons to play. No, but that's that's that's fair. Yeah, rays are now 10 back in the loss column Um, and you're right. I mean boston yankee series coming up um Eight games in two weeks. I mean that's that's going to paint a lot of the picture. So um Yeah, I don't I don't know. I think we get into the major storylines because I think Uh, I think the buy sell teams are are one of the bigger topics in in baseball Now the al has sorted itself out the nl hasn't but before then jim I I think we want to go into uh Some suspension some some some throwback bean ball not really But um, I don't know. I mean you're all uh, you're obviously all over this with the breakdowns and stuff I don't know if you you have a lean with mariznik or naras or or what do you want? Yeah, so we had uh mariznik if you remember the uh, the lucroy slide Tackle at the plate got him pretty bad. He felt bad about it, but he got suspended for it So they play each other again And mariznik takes a pitch Too high for my liking. Yeah. Now. I know that like some people are you're pussy, but i'm not i'm not down I don't watch are they right or wrong? I am a pussy in some regards. Yeah I do not watch baseball Actually, I don't watch baseball to see like huge plays at the plate If you were asking me what what do you love about baseball right to get down to like huge collisions at the plate? Yeah, or pitches near your guys head It's not part of what I watch. No, I don't care about that And I think this pitch was too high either the pitcher Ramirez mariznik aimed too high And that's dirty and I don't like that Or he was aiming lower missed his spot And that's if you can't do it right don't do it. That's like what cc and a lot of players do Yeah, so I didn't like it, but mariznik comes out as the biggest winner in this whole thing for me He goes the first base his bench is full of people that are screaming. That's too high. That's too high Blah blah blah. It's bush league. Don't hit him in the head You know I for an eye the whole world goes blind Uh, mahogany pools turns around. He's like enough shut up But shut I think that's what pulls I I edited the breakdown. I haven't posted yet Yeah, him him and the ump. We're just looking at the dugout and we're just like stop stop Yeah, uh and mariznik is that eventually tells them Stop. Yeah I knew I was getting hit It sucks. It was a little higher than I wanted Yeah, but stop I hurt that guy and I didn't mean to So just shut up. So I think mccullers came out looking like a big time Whoa I'm gonna be I'm being careful because we have a new audience that doesn't know my voice yet He looks like the guy from mtv Yeah, which I don't like but like I used the word loser and idiot so flippantly right where I don't actually like You could call lance mccullers that you could call me or yourself that in the next sentence Yeah, but some people that don't know my voice like think it's like wow. He's mean and it's like they're hearing that voice right now I think mccullers. I think mccullers look like a loser in this exchange I think mariznik look like a big time winner and I think the picture that hit him kind of looks um Just inexperienced. Yeah. Yeah, maybe it was the wrong guy to do it. That's not a bad way to put it Yeah, that was that was mine. I uh, normally I just talk and hope I stumble into something and find something with this I'm pretty confident. I mean he was gonna get thrown at you're right. The pitch came in a little too high Um, and again, we don't know if that was the intent or if that was his miss like he aimed for the hip and it ended up there Mariznik ends up taking it off the shoulder and he walks down to first And that that's one of my personal gripes with baseball right now Is that like that should have been it like Move on but instead the dugout starts chirping out Now you guys got doing doing the one leg over the dugout. Like are we doing this here comes the bullpen and like that escalated the whole thing and I don't think uh Ramirez gets suspended if none of that happens if mariznik just went to first and that was it and they played ball I think you're good But now because guys are chirping from the dugout the bullpen comes running in he gets suspended which I think that's messed up I don't think the bullpen came running in But I I know what you're saying. Yeah, I I mean just the the dugout being there. I thought I did but Um anyways, and then the other thing about this whole incident that made me mad was hinge the uh, the astros manager after the game Was given the whole, you know, there's gray areas in baseball and you just can't be doing this and it's like Yeah, man, but right now you're living in this gray area And if you were the guy that had your catcher Bulled over and laid out and taken off the field your team would have been the one thrown at it So like I don't know I there's there's a lot of quotes and a lot of things you have to say in this situation And part of it's that but all of this kind of got escalated for no reason And it's why you hear, you know, the the old guys on the broadcast getting mad That's you know, bob gibson. He you were lucky if you if you could walk after he hit you in the batter's box And you're like, what are you talking about jim cot? Um, love I love jim. That was that was so That was an but he's a jim cot was old 20 years ago. I'm not trying to be rude. I'm not trying to be rude I looked up his stats one day. I was like, oh my god, so many gold gloves really cool But anyways, I I just think there was an unnecessary baseball multiplier in that which I I think could have been dodged and I mean now Ramirez gets suspended and I I think that's the problem that's We've gotten away from the baseball like hey, dude, you you sent our catcher to the hospital We're gonna hit you with the pitch Marisnik did everything right like you said and they just People didn't move on because they wanted to be loud and chirp and all that. I'm fine with the suspension Yeah, I uh, I don't like it. I just think if if you took out the chirping from the dugout I think we throw the next pitch and game on I don't think so because narress. That's the other story Right. Um, it's the same thing. He throws at a guy's head And gets three games, right? Yeah, they both get three games which as a pitcher As a relief pitcher, it's not that much. Yeah, it's really maybe one game that they can't use you But this this one is funny and I did the breakdown of this one and this one's funny because Uh, who was it? Verdugo hits. Was it verdugo? Um, forget it. Yeah, it was verdugo hit a big homerun to take the lead And the next pitch is at david frieze's head same thing hits in the back of the shoulder just too high and, uh Real muto's reaction behind the dish He doesn't even go for the ball to try and catch it and then he looks at his pitcher and shrugs like dude Really? Yeah, so it's very much intentional On purpose. I'm fine with that suspension. And that's why I think that the Ramirez one's the same deal It's very clearly intentional. It was too high same exact suspension I don't think the Ramirez got suspended because of the bench's clear. I think it's that's what happens But uh, I I don't know I I just think if if none of the funny business happens because look the I have the video in front of me now the baseball game is about to go on And pool hosts in the first base ump are just looking at the dugout like what the hell are you guys doing? Like just stop. Um, I agree with you, but I just don't think that had any influence on the suspensions I Agree to dith agree. You saying dith saying dith right now. Um The biggest storyline that we talked to the break is the boon rant savages, which I got And I I I want to do what we did a little bit of yesterday, jake I'll do it quickly is to just explain why I love this quote so much And I we have it on a t-shirt at talking yank store and I'm gonna put that on the screen for anyone watching live Because the full quote's there and you need to read it to understand how good it is, right? I'm gonna break it down real quick. We do it together real quick. So, um The umpire it's his fifth ever mlb game young kid Shook from the jump. I never seen gary sanchez turn around and be like what you didn't call that a strike gary's made faces before but never turned around and like dude So there was a lot of pitches Both sides I heard that the raise broadcast said what we said like it was just a race to see which manager can use this to fire up His guys Yeah, and boon got there first because some manager was getting ejected because this ump was brutal It was bad. It was really really and it was so clear that he was young and shook Yeah, anyway, so boon gets out there. He goes my guys are fucking savages in that box We had a lot of people say what does that mean? It means uh, they're beasts. Yeah, they protect the plate. They know the zone. They attack pitchers They don't get got they're often Yeah, they don't get got and the pitcher was like striking him out with ease He's like, dude, that's your fault because you're expanding the zone. My guys are savages You you're making this look like this He goes and you're having a piece of shit start to this game. I feel bad for you Yeah, just honest insult and I feel bad for we don't want to ride you. We know you're young We know you're rookie good dig But fucking get better Now he's trying to instruct him a little coaching moment, you know teachable He's a coach. He goes this guy's a good pitcher. I'm not trying to diss Yeah, he compliments the pitcher He's good. He's good, man. This isn't like, you know, it's nothing But our guys are fucking savages in that box. Yeah, tighten it up right now Okay, tighten this shit up because dad mode and the ump just kind of looked at him with a sad face He gets out of there. I mean I said this if you think that using the word savage is cringy or corny Yeah, I somewhat see what you're saying But if you think Yankees players don't fucking love it Yeah, and it's now going to be a mantra for the Yankees and a rallying cry So boon just sparked a lot of stuff. I think it's fantastic It went national people that don't like baseball are seeing it Yeah, and the reactions are mostly like this is awesome positive. Yeah, it's um I mean anyone that's played any sport ever um, you know We we were laughing you you told an old hockey story the other day where a a coach dropped like a It was a high school coach He referenced like a rap song at the time that you guys thought he was ignoring all year and then he dropped it And you guys were like it it's it's little things It's very little things and that's kind of I think that's part of the beauty of sports that there's All these little things that add up and they make the difference whether it's a rap song in high school Or whether I mean if you want to jump to football and it's like doing things the patriots way or doing the thing the cleveland browns way They're both football teams for 20 years But if you do all the little things right You're one team you do all the little things wrong. You're the other so I I don't know I mean the yankees yankees were already on a war cry this season Obviously boston winning last year the yankees have a team have truly gotten better overall Again, we're we're pretty close to their pulse And and just comparing last year's depth and roster to this year's roster this this team is a lot better So, yeah, I mean this this is going to be their rallying cry going forward All right, we had some just little trade talk stuff Because we're two weeks away. Yeah, people are saying boyd is available on the tigers He would go for a lot Mike miner on the ranger says he's sick of trade talks I think the rangers need to be sellers, but we'll see what they do They have so much to sell Cincinnati reds have reportedly attached an exorbitant price tag on starting pitcher louis castillo He's got four years of control left not money, but like four years like he's on your team Some arbitration in there and he would be Worth a lot. Yeah, and he's um, I mean two four one e r a this year nine and three with a three seven war On a team that technically and I think this is a rude way to look at it But I think they're technically the third worst team in the nl I think that's unfair because I think they're like six and a half out of the wild card But that's that's where this conversation is headed eventually. They're the second worst the Mets have jumped the Cincinnati reds They're the second worst team in the nl But they also have a positive differential. I I gotta stop because we're we're going down another road But yeah, I don't know the the boyd one really interests me Jim Because again as you know being on the polls from yankees land The yankees were rumored to be in on michael fomer A year or two ago when his value was extremely high fomer For lack of a better term eight shit And he he pitched poorly and now he's been hurt and his value is nowhere So and the tigers they're kind of on what would you say like a three-year rebuild plan? Like the the next two years are finding out assets and getting young guys and then In that third year, they're hoping that they have a little bit of a nucleus and maybe can sign a free agent or two and make moves So they're I have no idea. I don't know their farm system, but they're far away right now Yeah, I think and that's that's the thing with matt boyd because he does have the team years of control I mean the question is if if you're one of the big boys out there I mean, you know does matt boyd come in and change anything whether you're The yankees or another one of these big teams. I mean he he's had a really solid year. We saw him tear up The yanks earlier this season So I I don't know I I think that's the interesting one because if you use some recency stuff there You'd like to think detroit would make a move if they get the right offer Maybe they don't and he's a young guy they can keep and move along like I guess that's another angle If if we're tigers fans here, which by the way We have an elevator talk segment coming at the end of the episode If you think your team's not going to get a lot of love they might be there Yeah, I might tell you how the tigers currently only have one player with the ops above 800. That's tough. That's tough So so yeah, I think if you're the tigers you don't have to be in a rush to move matt boyd But I mean if you get an enticing package I think they should for a guy that was Didn't have almost any value to start the season. Yeah, you probably make your move there I think they definitely should trade matt boyd because I don't think their window Coincides with matt boyd's window. I think don't think they're I think they're like I think they're two years away from having a window, right? Like they got a they got a Establish and this would be the first step of like we trade in we get some prospects Okay, but I could be speaking at a turn because I'm not familiar with their farm system. No, and I I think the The big the other thing that you know, I've I've been scheming about lately is that I think there might not be a lot of pitchers Actually available at this trade deadline Well, if these two if these two go if strohmans available bomb gardeners available if boyd and castillo are available Then that's a lot. Yeah, but I mean Louis Castillo is available. I mean you're going to have to pay pay Clint Frazier because he's no, I mean you're gonna have to pay pay Clint plus Davey. I think yankies could do it keep going. They can they can but I don't think it hurts them It's it's a matter if brian cashman who he's invested so much time into these young guys And we've already seen him stick by them. I don't think he's I don't think louise castillo would be the guy He trades in all his chips for oh, I want that's like that's my new one Okay, I like that because then you can pay deedy in the next season You can pay guys because you have a pitcher locked up for cheap. Yeah, I think it like I think it open I think it opens up a whole plan if the Yankees the Yankees have the talent like Clint Frazier Davey Garcia plus for Castillo, I do it I do it floral. I don't I'd trade those three for him. Yeah, I mean it would have to be three big ones Yeah, three big ones. Um, so we'll we'll see if anything comes to that I I don't know and whenever you hear the phrase exorbitant price tag you you wonder what's going on over there Um, and then yeah, mike minor where I think we're we're about to talk about the tayhouse rangers a little bit He's take a trade talks jim. Yeah, okay Yeah, I would be too. Sorry, but yeah, I mean it kind of does Just googling your name every day and it's like, oh, I'm where am I getting traded today? Oh, the cubs like me the yanks like yeah on the youtube Broadcast of the Dodgers Philly's game they talked about verdugo and he said he was happy Because this is the first season where his name isn't linked to trade talks. Yeah There's like so I think I've cemented myself here because they got a lot of outfielders too And that's uh, that's got to be stressful as a minor leaker man. You're about to start like Your life You I think you have to just be like yeah, whatever right, but it's still it's a tough mental hurdle to do that Yeah, yeah, um jim. Let's go. Uh, I threw a little buy sell segment in here Not players or teams or anything like that Literally buyers or sellers because we had some stuff sorted out in the al the white socks. We're still dancing around it They get swept they're out. They're down 11 games out of the wild card like they they don't have a I never thought they were in Right and I think that's a little bit of perception Um, and and I don't think you're wrong about it because I think I perceive the same thing But now it's like they the front office doesn't have an argument like the front office can't be like well We have a good week. We get back over 500. This team put some stuff together. We get guys healthy They've got nothing anymore. They have I don't talk to white socks fans But if I if I'd be shocked if a white socks fan told me they thought they were going to be buyers this season Oh, well, I mean think about how they started their year jim. They thought they were getting machado and harper They still signed a bunch of guys and they believe in their young core But they just got swept four games by the royals and then before that they got swept by the athletics They've lost their they lost seven games this week jim. I know I just I'd The fact that people thought they might trade four people is blowing my mind I don't think I'd be shocked if a white socks fan thought they were going to do that Right, but I mean a week ago. They were they were 42 and 44 They were saying hey, we have a good seven days We're kind of in the mix again and it's almost like it's a little bit more of an nba mindset But it's almost like this building a culture and that's kind of what the white socks were trying to do with all this Well, they have done that. They've done a really good job with that Well, I I'm not talking about their dugout stuff. Would you say they have a fun dugout and you've seen a lot of their antics I'm just talking about like kind of winning ways so that when there are free agents They want to go to the white socks because they clearly ran into that this year The guys don't want to come there So they're trying to build it up while they get some of their young guys healthy copex back next year all that um The only two fringy teams at this point boston. They did the cashner trade right now. There are two games behind um It's texas and the angels texas is now four and a half out of the wild card And the angels are five and a half out And I think one of the important things you have to consider ahead of them is hueson So it's not like you're catching hueson under any circumstances And the a's who are currently in the wild card playing good baseball eight and two Um, I don't know. I just I just think for a lot of owners and teams It's a big mental hurdle for the texas rangers who are 50 and 46 You know four games above 500 for them to say it's time to sell That's tough. But you and I are both very much like yo texas You guys have some serious assets and you've got your young guys and they're doing good things Build it up for next year Because because right now the odds of you guys jumping boston tampa in oakland I mean Slim meat none. Yeah Yeah, I think yeah, I don't think uh I don't think texas or the angels are buyers Yeah, and it's just I I mean it's still a mental hurdle to say you're four and a half games out and not do it I mean the rangers have lost their last four that helps Um, because again, yeah, you start playing that game. Well, even if they split those two games They would have been 52 and 44 They would have been like a game and a half out of the wild card But it's it's funny how much these crucial weeks are into deciding that I I think both teams Should be sellers. It's it's tough to say that as a team though. Um, the real story is the national league gym We currently have one two three four five six seven eight nine nine teams Within six games of the wild card We have seven games seven teams within four and a half And then we've got four within two and a half. I and again I The the part that gets me about the national league is I can tell you san diego is four games out of the wild card But they're 46 and 50. They're four games under 500. Yeah, it's like what you said last week You can't look at games behind you have to look teams behind and they're all gonna play each other so it's Yeah, like if if someone's telling me the Mets or six games out of the wild card, they're in it You're I'm sorry. They're not pirates. You're not san diego. You're not colorado You're not san francisco. You're going on a nice run here. You're not it's st. Louis and philly and uh And mid walkie in washington in a four team race for the wild card with uh With some divisions up for grabs still no love for your d backs um Yeah, and and they're 49 and 48 I know after having like a Solid stretch It's uh, and this is kind of what baseball wanted when they made the second wild card As as an organization It's it's tough to just hit that button and sell. I think like a team like arizona. I mean robby rey has been mentioned Um, I guess you see what values out there for him. I think you're coming from a fan perspective. Well, yeah That's who's listening. Oh, because well when you say the organization is tough to hit that button and sell I think organizations are itching to hit that. Oh, no, they're not either because I mean think about it What what if arizona doesn't sell and they end up winning 87 games and they have a respectable season They push the sell button and they they end up with 76 wins at the end of the year They could get axed. Yeah, but so you got to look at it both ways But selling and and rebuilding is so hot right now like people are Buying buying teams just to do it. Uh, it's like the first thing you do when you get a new team Let's resell the best thing that happened to the yankees was having a bad year in 2016 Yeah, the it was the best thing that could have happened to them And there's a lot of teams that saw that and saw the cubs go bad and saw ashore's go bad and say like oh Fuck if we hit rock bottom we can like this is the new way. So I think if you're rangers gm and you have a brain You know selling right now all those pieces Is so much better for your future. Yeah So I know the fans it might be hard, but anyone in the organization. They're smart enough to know Depends on your owner dynamic. It depends on expectations like texas. You're probably right. They had low expectations this year They overachieved and man if they could get some pieces for lance lin Mike minor under pence. They they can really do something. I think they even have more jake. I think they I think like Angers like I think they have they got assets. Yeah assets. Um, hey good for the san francisco giants All right. Um, is it time to move on to our segments. Let's roll it segment segment o'clock. All right moving on to stand out Performing stand out performance. It's like the one voice we do Oh, I got voices Stand out performance. I'm gonna go first you went first first you went first you went first last and it's a guy My standout performance is glenn sparkman Lenin and spark little spark in kansas city. Oh, that's good. Oh, it's good spark I get it. Yeah glenn sparkman went nine innings pitched Five hits zero earned runs. They call that a complete game shutout. Yeah, man eight k's He had six one two three innings. I always like looking at that one guys have complete games Oh, like how many one two three innings did he have? How clean were you? Yeah, I'll clean. Yeah, yeah He had he escaped two jams one was like one base runner Six one two three innings and a lot of them were towards the end First complete game of his career. So congrats to him He was out of the pen mostly last year and the beginning of this year made his first start This season on may 29th made three starts last year something like that His best start before this was seven innings pitched one earned run complete game shutout Uh, it's the royals first complete game shutout in two years. Yeah. Wow Good for him. It's a great performance. Did I say who he did it against? Good job glenn. Oh, it's against the white They swept them. Yeah. Yeah glenn sparkman's got dyed blonde hair. I might go asterisk there He's got dyed blonde hair and he was the one that hit tim anderson With the change-up In tim anderson's first at bat against the royals after the whole fiasco and he got ejected and he was like that was a change-up Yeah, change up and it was like, yeah, we probably didn't hit him on purpose But that's the worst timing ever one like the worst timing ever first pitch to tim anderson Don't do that glenn sparkman almost should have just dirted him. Otherwise, you're gonna get ejected But anyway, that's a great great outing by him. That's the best performance I saw from ganado texas Wow Gorgeous haven't been really he's a big m&m fan. Why do you think he dies his hair blonde? Um, he looks damn good. Wow Looks damn good. Yeah, man career 503 r. A Get gets the cg s a joe good good for you glenn you go glenn coco. Yeah I uh Jim my standout performance and I I didn't want to do this and I'll again you and I as we go along this We're battling our yankees bias and not biases, but when I looked at the stats He was the guy. It's travis darno. Yeah, um three Homer game from travis darno Sorry Sneeze there This was the first game of the raze yanke series and like we mentioned This was kind of a big series if the rays made some noises series They were basically saying we're going to be a thorn in your side the rest of the way The yanks have a huge edwin and crenaceon home run tied at twos They go up four two bottom of the eighth. Arald this Chapman comes in. He's going to shut the door darno hit two solo shots earlier off james paxton just to opposite field And I also need to mention to you that the last series the yankees saw the rays Travis darno hit a walk off to the opposite field So, uh, there's some pitch selection stuff and if you really want to deep dive into that we did it on talking yanks But travis darno who's kind of this journeyman at this point jimmy started the season on the mets They just cut him. Yeah the dodgers picked him up. They sold him to the rays. So think about that The los angeles dodgers sold him to the rays And uh jim he had all he provided all the runs in this game. It was a five four win for the rays He had all five rbi's three home runs and uh jim and uh the travis darno's story He was a big prospect. He was with the mets. He was the number six prospect in 2013 And then he got metz. He got injured. We got traded for um Dick are a dicky He got traded for the dick right here with with cinder guard that yeah That was when his shine was kind of already down. Um, because he he ran into the injury bug a lot and we we forget man How important that really is for athletes? Um, so man for for him to do that on the new york stage That must have been a really good feeling for him because he was basically beating the yankees and the mets In one swing by taking the headlines that day. Hey check this out Travis darno was drafted by the fillies. Yep in 2007. Wow. Yeah, man Whoa, how old darno to baseball 30 Whoa, I thought he was younger than that. Anyway, uh, he was traded to the blue jays for holiday And then the blue jays traded him to the mets for cinder guard and our addicky was involved in there So he's there's a lot of good pictures involved in his transactions linked to that travis uh, then the mets release him Yeah, and he he's batting lead off for the rays. Yeah, because he was hot and the rays kind of do that stuff. Um, Yeah, he caught caught the whole game and jim the other the other part that was important Um, that you just it if you know baseball, you know this feeling Um Chapman comes in and his stuff was looking good. He had an o2 count and he gave up a single He had two strikes on kirmeyer and kirmeyer slapped one through the hole. So then I there's two out Um And it's like who's coming up to the plate. It's the guy who's hit two home runs this game First Chapman and it was just like I mean, this is you know, we're we're not going to go on our high horse right now Because we we're riding that high horse. We're doing some good things for new age baseball Um, like this is what baseball needs to be telling people about They like travis darno in this game came up with two outs in the ninth against the raul this chap And he did the damn thing. It was a slider away and he short porch did a little bit So good good for you travis get out of my face He was really locked in. I mean a lot of raise fans because I mean shots fired raise fans are I keep getting in my place where I don't want to say things on this nationalized A lot of the raise fans that interact with me on twitter are new to baseball fandom and kind of like Just started a little off on the scope of things and like the day-to-day of baseball But they were upset that we were saying like Chapman had bad pitch selection because they're like don't know Was locked in I was like, whoa, he was as locked in and you can see it better. Yeah, it was impressive what he did But there's also a little poor pitch selection, but I'm not trying to knock anything That's a good standout performance because that game three home runs with the walk-off Yeah, and I think uh impossible not to give that kudos when I when I was looking to see who was hot I don't think any no one hit like four home runs in a series So darno had the most series home runs in one game. Yeah, so you get it. All right Let's move on to a fun one Starting off with your guy. Well, we got to update this is this is how I decided to do it Jake once you're on slub watch you're on slump watch until you're off Last week I gave it to joitesmith jr. And pita Lonzo Joitesmith jr. Had one game it was a two game set and he played one of them and he went 0 for four Yeah, so he's now like you're not off this oh for his last 25 or something like that So joitesmith jr. Still on slump watch a Lonzo. He was one for 10 Now in the two games versus minnesota. He did bad. He was two for 19 with 10ks He did hit a home run last night, but that'll be part of uh monday show So for now a Lonzo's kind on slump watch right and all the home run derby contestants besides bregman and chatman Are on slump watch basically tell them Jim I have the numbers. I don't have them in front of me, but they all aren't doing great besides bregman and chatman Who did bad in the home run derby? Yeah, but latty latty was doing bad latty jock bell Santana a Lonzo all doing very poor since the derby all you home run derby truthers out there Save that when your guy wants to enter next year. I got a fun slump watch. That's a little mean Okay, interested charlie tilson. You know what charlie tilson is He I would guess a lot of our guys don't know who charlie tilson. You don't think we have a lot of charlie tilson fans listening He's on the white socks. Yeah, who we've talked about a good amount. He is the defensive replacement for eloy hymen s Yes, he comes into a lot of games I don't know why maybe there's an injury something happened. He's been starting a good amount recently started five of the last seven games He appeared in a couple this weekend, right? Yeah In that seven game stretch five starts two pinch hit or two defensive replacement and some up bats there One for 17 With one walk and one hit by pitch so whoever walked you you're shamed. Yeah Shame shame charlie tilson. He's a defensive replacement. So he's not on the white socks for his bat They're not in a win now mode. Yeah Good for you that you're getting some run, but I mean you gotta start hitting dude That's uh, that's tough one that hit by you think that hit by pitch felt good Oh, yeah, yeah, that was a good hit by pitch. He was like, thank god I wonder where it came in like first pitch hit by pitch is such a win for charlie tilson. Yeah, okay great I'll put my speed on the basis Let's go Dairy to hit me Um, I woke up begging yeah for a hit by pitch I dare hit me harder next time. Yeah, let's see who it was. It was uh a cub hit him Wow, which cub wow, he got his hit by pitch and his walk in the same game I wonder if it was the same picture if it's the same picture that hit him that also walked him And those are the only two times he's reached base in the last seven games. Yeah That's not a good look. Oh slump watch can turn mean on the pitchers really quick Oh, yeah, you got the guy that gave up the hit to Dwight Smith or whatever john lester walked him. Oh, wow big one and john lester Oh craig kimball hit him Some premier names charlie wilson. Yeah charlie. Charlie charlie. Charlie wilson charlie wilson. He's fighting the war charlie Nice, man. Who you got on slump watch? Yeah, man. I I wrote a couple names on there I like I like seeing who's got the biggest o for going out We had elias Diaz of the pie rats and your guy j bruce Who's usually very hot or very cold? No, he's back. He I thought he got injured. No, he's back Oblique injury. He's coming back from an injury. That's to me. Oh, wow That's too mean. Wow too mean for the injury. No, he exited with an oblique strain two days ago. Okay, so get better Yeah, get better j. Oh, so it's a fake injury. We got it now. No, no, did you see it? So he swings and it's like the judge one. Yeah, and you immediately grab that as oblique and just like So it's probably gonna be out for a while oblique or get better j and now he's on slump watch, which that's so mean of you That's tough. That's pretty brutal. That's how the cookie crumbles sometimes Um and then jay burs likes cookies, too Loves a good cookie. Um and jim. Yeah, I wanted to get a couple throwers in there I mean jesse chavez on texas. He he had some bad numbers Pitching in texas to those diamond backs who who set a set their franchise record That's going to be a bad look for someone or you think this is hot. Yeah Come to arizona. We got the heat You don't even know we sweating air conditioning. Um and jim. I just threw your guys on there the colorado rockies Um Do you say they're two and 11 since the break or two and 11 in their last 13? Yeah A team that was looking like They were going to battle for that wild card throughout has one of the most brutal stretches of their season We're gonna get a good look at them soon because they're they're playing the Yankees this weekend Which I in our head we're thinking is going to be a full out death punch for them I hope so But yeah, I was I was looking I was looking for pitchers to put on the slump watch area Um and searching it by e r. A. There was Um, there was three there was four colorado guys in the top 12 Freeland, uh, tenoko my guy sansatella and chad bettis All with eras that are over 11.25. So again, it's small sample size in e r. A. You can't just do that But uh the Rockies are getting roughed up. Um And I'm sorry Sorry Rockies are on slump watch. They're on big slump watch. They're like they're about to be on hide the knives watch. Oh, yeah We've never put a team on that. Yeah, Yankees have a chance to put the Rockies the first official hide the knives watch I mean that's got to be a brutal feeling man two weeks ago. You're like we are grinding and in it and now you're like Is it over? Yeah, no. Yeah, let's move on to You got it and flay go I'm on fire, baby We nailed it. Yeah, that was bad like way go like way go. But you did in a way You didn't do the what were you expecting for you to do the dirt nasty song I wasn't gonna do the dirt nasty part. I was just doing in flago. Yeah, I was expecting the dirt No sound board has been tough. Yeah my laptop broke sound board laptop is broke. So we are running our own sound boards You roll Jim Brandon Crawford remember him. He's been an illegal while now. Yeah. Yeah, I saw him on the field Yeah, I used to think he kind of had like a nice swag or look to him. You fully turned on Who who has a good head of lettuce in major league baseball price Harper. Okay, Tanaka I wouldn't say Tanaka's got a head a bowl of lettuce. Oh like long hair. Yeah No, but like Harper allow it's got great hair. Yeah um Once it starts getting too greasy your album Brandon Crawford was looking caveman-esque. Yeah, and I didn't I didn't remember him looking as caveman-y But maybe use caveman with the bat. I used to think Brandon Crawford's like a little cutie out there I don't know. Okay. I thought the ladies thought he was attractive and then I was like, I don't think so anymore Seven for 15 with three home runs 10 rbi's five runs scored They scored 40 runs in the series. He accounted for 15 of those 40. Yeah 10 rbi's five runs. So that's really good Um Good for him. He had he had a huge day. He had the um What was it? He had five hits Um, it was the first game of the doubleheader. He had five hits and eight rbi's two home runs Um, again against my colorado rockies pitching Um, I gym I'm at talking jake twitter social media I need a giants fan to reach out to me because I I have I have a take on brandon crawford, but I don't know if it's right Okay So that's really putting myself out there. Yeah, brandon crawford is really good defensively. Yeah I I love watching and play defense. We we caught a little bit of that late night mets game last night That's not a part of this series. Um, love him defensively With the bat, I feel like he he had one good year. He won um, he won the silver slugger I feel like brandon crawford and again, correct me giants fans That he has like three huge games every year And like if you took those out His stats would be pretty rough and I know that sounds a little obnoxious But I don't know like if you have an outfielder that has a 32 home run season And you take away his three biggest games. He's still gonna have a good year, you know I just feel like brandon crawford like jim. I'm looking at this right now. He had a two homer game Um against baltimore. Um, so there's two of his home runs earlier this year I just mentioned he had the two home run eight rbi against colorado Um, so on the season he has nine homers. So if you take those away I I mean my guy has what five homers on the season Um, so I don't know that I'm just throwing that out there If any of our giants fans want to correct me or tell me something else I should know about b craw Um, I'm here for it. You are yeah Okay, because I I want to know more. I want to know if that's just if that's as asinine as it gets Well, he had a really good series or if your ass is a 10 Well, you got a couple other swingers on here We just did bad stuff on the thing Keston hyura your guy I'm guessing japanese player your guy. He's uh, he's a big time prospect. Oh, he's not japanese. He actually you never I think he Well, he's japanese in ethnicity. I think he's american. I think he is um He's from uc irvine irvine. What uh, he is from uc irvine. Yeah three games Eight for eleven jay. Yes, sir. Yeah young fella on fuego Dirt nasties in flago means on fire, baby One triple one home run three doubles only four of the eyes and four runs scored, which I thought was kind of crazy for like Eight for eleven must not have just come up at good opportunities but Eight for eleven three games for a young guy rookie and by the way homeboys having a season. Yeah, I saw that He's hitting 323 nine homers 33 games. Uh, dude's raking 992 Ops how many games has he played 39 you said 33 games nine home runs. Yeah, yeah hitting 323 Nice tyler. O'Neill tyler. O'Neill power hitting outfielder for your st. Louis billikens So close so close. I had it. He went seven for 12 with three home runs Yeah, and he had two hits in each game two hits two hits three hits I believe so they spread it out. Well six rbi seven for 12 tyler o'neill st. Louis cardinals. Yeah I'm guessing a lot of people don't know the names keston here And I'm probably saying that one wrong and tyler o'neill pretty confident in my pronunciation of tyler o'neill. Yeah. Oh, you you nailed that one Yeah, he's he's on the cards. He's got some pop in his stick. He's 34 games Hitting 314 with an 891 ops. So he's um, and he's he's still young. He's 24 So there there are a couple jim. How about this? How about a couple young guys in the nl central? Oh keep keep your eye on them. All right tyler o'neill hit a walk off at one point I'm guessing and they ripped his shirt off and it's uh It's kind of Like a good look for him like let me say this if he's got a girlfriend, right and she saw that they ripped his shirt off After the celebration on the one this was She's not embarrassed tyler o'neill Canadian guy. She's a little giggly that this is This is what he got to show off You sure? Oh, yeah, that is a good pick. Yeah Damn Yeah, we got some more here too. He's like he's got a little me vibe to him, huh? No, no, no With that chest tattoo and just roped up. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. I couldn't be those are some fun picks, huh? Yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah, they're uh, it seems like they were doing this for a while Ripping his shirt. Geez tyler o'neill. Good for you. Um, yeah Both guys were were previously top 100 prospects. Um, heura was like number six by baseball prospectus one year. So Um, watch those guys in the nl central jim. Great call. Thanks. Just in fuego. Thanks, man Um, I want to get a couple arms on there. Yeah, we don't want to leave them out. I've got arms Speaking of your guy and beautiful hair Dog face mickey clevenger. I like clevenger. He's he's like a good personality for baseball 11 innings pitched 18k's he's he's getting it going Um, and I I want to give our guy we skipped over him quickly before what do you mean 11 innings pitch 18k's he started two games in this series Always last two games. Yeah Whoa, I was told in flago we could we could go outside the boundaries. You just have to say you just have to say how Many games because you say 11 innings pitch. That could be three games. It could be two. I don't know. Whoa um Well, we'll talk about that after and then uh, who darvish his last two 12 innings pitch zero earned run who who darvish and he gets his first win at wriggly Just a year and a half late Yep But uh, good good for you you get the monkey off your back get it going and I I put down some honorable mentions Altuve's hot pool holes was swinging a good stack Stick good for you. Albert Bogarts has been raking for the socks also erod for the socks couple good starts and garret coal, dude I'm starting to get freaked out by the astros. He uh, he now leads the ale and strikeouts And his stats were stupid. It was I I can't even say I'm all right. Cool. Let's move on next segment Who got mad mad jim who got mad so many people got mad. It was too much. They became boon got mad I'll get boon out of the way boons out of there. We talked about cap. We got mad twice Yeah, first time he was right next time He kind of knew he was wrong. It was the weirdest conversation I see right First time but he was leaning into the last last time the Dodgers in the game one the Dodgers were up like 12 to 2 um Dodgers hit a home run and then their pitcher hits justin turner on a curve ball It was clearly not intentional Even the Dodgers laughed at the ump like that was a curve ball. Why are you throwing them out? Like that's crazy Kapler got mad Kapler actually didn't get ejected the game. I don't think the pitcher just did next game Nerris we talked about this after another after verdugo homerun throws at freezes Head shoulders he gets kicked out now Kapler comes out and he's complaining about yesterday and the ump's like yesterday was whatever This one's warranted and he got kicked out. He got mad pool holes and the Astros got mad we talked about that a little bit. So we kind of covered it because they got these people got so mad It became a storyline. Yeah Yeah That's uh, and yeah, I mean we we mentioned we mentioned pool holes. We mentioned Dodgers fills Uh, they got mad at each other. They got mad. They got mad. Um Jump into walk-off watch walk off I only have two I might have missed one might have missed one I can do a quick scroll see if anything we mentioned mr. Anderson Ryan Anderson for the marlin ryan Anderson for your marlins koopa loop got on big marlin koopa loop Garrett cooper gets on bottom nine Anderson comes up hits him in I think he had two hits on the day. He had left three on base earlier So this was kind of nice for him. Yeah good for him. And then uh, sure one was good. Yeah, sorbers I like sorber a lot. Sorber is a tough guy to dislike. Yeah Definitely talks like this a little bit I I don't know if that's true. Yeah, I don't know looks like he talks like this a little bit. Okay Okay, how would you describe that a guy who wears shorts in the winter? Oh, yeah, I mean that's a no brainer. Yeah, I think they have a similar Chicago vibe Yeah, I think they have a similar sound. Where's sorber from? Where do you think sorber grew up? Midwest somewhere. I'm from city in the Midwest Kyle schwarber Oh, and how about this? I'll throw you on the spot. How many career homers do you think schwarber has 100 and I don't know man That's like, I don't know. That was a rude question. Yeah 93 I was gonna I was I was close. Okay, follow your heart. Um Born in Ohio high school in Ohio, Indiana University guy I mean schwarber is Ohio. Yeah, it's like ben rossberger schwarber shorts shorts in the winter time Talks a little bit like this. Yeah. Yeah No, that's the most midwest guy. I love schwarber 21 homers is here 91 games So for him for you schwarbo good for you. And then uh, those are the two I saw I don't I don't know if there's another one. I might have missed it. So crazy crazy hectic week. Yeah, let us Yeah, we were uh, we need your guys help. Yeah, you guys need to help us. We have a twitter account It's not in use yet. It is talk in baseball underscore But yeah, we need slump watch. We need who got mad watch. We need call up watch We need your guys help. It's Jen. We admit it's impossible to watch every baseball in Possibly did the math in we didn't want to yeah, we didn't want to but there's like 30 hours of baseball It's impossible. Um, so yeah, you guys please get involved. There was no debuts unless there was a debut yesterday Which I looked it up. I think we we missed there is no call-up. So I think that brings us to words I'm gonna go first. I don't know if I get to go first. I think I think you're you're the go first guy today All right, my award is the little things the little things. It's the little things the little things making who I am today Good charlotte. Hmm. Ooh The little things award goes to taking a player from the charlotte team. No, absolutely not. The rays haven't moved there yet. Go on Kyle no, not kyle chris bryant chris chris bryant clubs on the mind still thinking chris bryant. Okay, chris bryant currently leads the league and going first to third Which is something you're on a big base running kick Because the Yankees are terrible at it No, I'm on a big What doesn't get talked about on broadcast that the casual fan should know about that can impact the game And going first to third is huge. He's six five jake. Yeah and very attractive Pretty eyes pretty eyes. So like you don't expect him to be the grinder type. Yeah You don't you don't think you don't think his focus is on base running. You think he's like i'm gonna hit a homer today Get out of here. Yeah. No, he's a ball player ball player like that leads league has 15 first to thirds on singles on singles This was okay It leads the league right now hobby biases up there as well as teammates. So that's good But yeah little things man and chris bryant's a star Yeah, he's he's a superstar in this league and still doing the little things every day Yeah, man. I uh, let's uh, let me sing my teeth and chris bryant a little bit because disgusting take it back No, I'll uh, he does not want your teeth in him. I'll do it again. I saw he DM'd me 27 years old now for kb Dude, he's having a big year three six war 20 homers 2.99 batting average Um and jim it kind of gets overlooked like the cups still move him all over the field Uh, like remember when he came up and everyone's like wow chris bryant big time third base prospect And then they were throwing him in like center field and left field and everyone's like, what are you doing cubs? um Dude, he's uh, what's he how many positions has he played this year? He's played the five nine seven in the three jim. Wow corner outfield corner infield Um, which is hey, it's nice to have that looks like mostly third base. Nice to have that guy in the roster. He's uh He's putting together a pretty good career jim. Yeah, he's good He does the little things as well, which is why he got the little things award I guess he's kind of he won the mvp in 2016 he's not let's see 62 57 games started at third base 18 in right field nine in left field three at first base That rizzo guy's pretty good. Um I guess that's why when we went to winter meetings this year someone like pulled When we were talking to like this round table of old baseball man they brought up What old baseball man? It really was Calcuttaire is like 40 Outside of him. Okay the average age I think started with a six burger anyways He won the mvp in his second year someone told me there we were talking overrated players harper came up someone was like chris bryan and I was like Is he I don't know. I think he's pretty good and uh, I I guess when you win the mvp your second season your expectations Do go a little higher. Um, so good for chris. Haven't having a big year. He's gonna get paid paid soon. Oh, yeah All right. Who's your award jimmy? My award Is going to mr. Worldwide pit bull Mr. 305 Pit bull there's a big hint It's a big hint pit bull It's pit bull All right, my favorite my favorite rap artist pit bull. Uh, no jim I'm going to want my guy one of my favorite young players in baseball right now Fernando tatis jordan yamamoto. Oh, wow. Yeah, so we're we're going to the miami marlins And uh jim. I think it's funny. We we talked a lot about pitching this episode and who's available Who's not available who's gonna make the trade? Um and fuego should I just go through everything we did? Um jim jordan yamamoto marlins 23 years old on the marlins Mm-hmm Uh hawaii guy. Yeah mahalo mahalo st. Louis high school in hawaii six starts this year 34 innings pitched He's only given up 15 hits in 34 innings He has given up 17 walks. So there's some control stuff there. Oh my god He's a little scared of attacking his his whip is still 0.94. So he's not letting guys unbase guys are hitting 134 against them He has a 159 er a and he's 4 and 0 jim and I The other thing that I wanted to get across here was a good job young fellow. We're proud of you b And this is something that I don't want to come off as obnoxious yanks fan jim But could you imagine if this guy was on the new york yankees? Or the red socks or the dodgers or the cubs Like the publicity this guy would be getting would be unbelievable But I bet there's a couple people out here that are listening. It's the first time they've heard of jordan yamamoto So I I wanted to give mr. 305 some love and anytime I can reference pitbull. I'm going to do it um, so so good for you jordan keep twirling it and uh, Maybe jeter's gonna figure out something with the fishies or in two years. You'll be traded to a good team Yeah, that's crazy I mean genuinely think about if he was doing this on the yankees the kind of fever pitch we would have for jordan yamamoto Yeah, uh The walks are brutal because he he should be going so much deeper into games Yeah, I mean that's a that's a classic kind of young guy thing. He's he's scared of contact right now Yeah, which hey if you're doing it to a 159 er a that's okay That's okay. That's okay. That's okay. All right. So what was the award? Mr. Worldwide, why? It's pitbull's nickname mr. 305 I don't know that one not hip enough. I don't know the 305 pitbull's big miami guy. It's a 305 Is the area code so he's mr. Worldwide mr. 305 So he's got both dolly So yamamoto is currently mr. 305 and he's now adding that to him doesn't people say dolly or something like that a lot Might I don't know. I don't listen to pitbull doesn't seem like you're as locked into pitbull as I want you to be by the end of this show Uh, not a fan. We'll get you there. All right favorite segment of time everyone's favorite segment of the show Elevator talk elevator talk elevator talk is when if you are in the elevator you walk in you're going down 50 floors It's gotta be a doozy. Wow, and it's a slow-moving vader. Oh, it's old school. You walk in there. It's a dumb waiter You're kind you're kind of nervous, but you like you you want to talk to people to get rid of the nervous Yeah, okay So you have to talk You walk into the elevator guys got the hat on yeah of this team and you got to talk for two minutes Yeah, you just need some fodder. What teams are going to be so how this works is we're going to spin a wheel We're going to talk about whatever team comes up. Here we go. The wheel is being spun We can nix it if we thought Colorado Rockies we did too much Rockies. We did too much Rockies. All right, sorry rocks You already know what to say the Rockies got in the elevator next up San Francisco Giants. We did a little bit Giants. I think that's a good team It's uh, they're kind of hot Jim Well, you can if you're seeing a Giants fan in the elevator right now You can definitely say yo, that was vintage bum gardener, huh vintage bum Yeah, I mean we're we're stealing that from from their next series, but bum gardener threw a jam last night Um, Jim I bring up the whole Brandon Crawford thing All my questions be like, what's up with Crawford? Like is he what's going on with him? Is he swinging this stick? Is he not swinging this stick? What do you think we're going to trade bum gardener? We're going to keep them I mean right now they're like two games out in the wild card or something like that So you could ask them. Do you think this is for real my if you if they ask you that I would say no Jim, you know who's been the best hitter on the Giants this year Tyler Austin don't tell me it's Tyler Austin. No, okay. Thank god. Uh Belt no Voight, uh, uh vote Uh votes up there, but he's only played 49 games. Yeah, it wasn't supposed to he's got a pretty good ops good ops plus all of that Uh posi I think it's uncontested Jim Pablo sandoval Whoa 87 games 11 home runs 35 rbis 8 24 ops Um, it's a little bit the Giants offense doesn't have a lot going on But I think he is the guy so you go panda and you thought he was going to just be out of baseball when he was in Boston. Oh, yeah He thought he was going to be fully made himself out of the league Um, Jim, I guess the other thing and this is what's jumping out to me some arches having a solid year and he he was looked at as to be kind of this dead baseball contract He's got a 393 r. A 105 innings 89 strikeouts Not uh, not the same shark that we were hoping to find but he's uh, he's having a solid year Yeah drew pomegranates is awful. Yeah, and uh, the next year. Oh my god The drew pomegranates is awful the next series of the Giants are playing is against the Mets right now And it's kind of uh two teams um Where their fans can act like there's hope left But there's really not right, but they're just having fun and uh The Giants are 19 and 11 in their last 30 8 and 2 in their last 10 They've been pretty good, man Yeah, they uh, they just want to walk off an extra innings walk off and they got bochi going on in his last season So maybe they get some serious magic rolling. I think bochi is gonna fully not care soon Oh, I disagree. I I think he's going down. So have you seen some of his ejections? Oh, yeah, some of bochi's ejections are like baseball has passed me by I need to get out of this league I don't belong anymore. Oh, yeah, just dejected by it the whole experience of new baseball He uh, he came out to argue something yesterday And he just came out of the dugout and he thought he was going to do the manager walk And he just starts pointing and pointing and screaming and everyone's like, whoa, are you even involved yet? And he's that's just how he's operating. Yeah, it's nuts. It's uh It's funny. It's funny. You get some ejection. He comes out Like you're gone. He's like a garden hires going through the same struggles in uh, detroit donovan donovan solano I think he had he had the walk off last night that we're not talking about alonso hits a home run to give them at the lead And you're like, okay, it's the 14th. Whatever anything it is. We'll talk about this next episode tune in Tune in next time. 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