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We are excited We're even putting a lot of work into it Jake, how are you? You got anything you need to say to the people? Good. Yeah, I don't I'm Yankees fan I don't know what you're talking about. I think I Think the people find I'm just a neutral baseball fan with no biases at all go rocks Huge Rockies fan huge blue jays fan. I mean I got the ink on my skin for a reason And yeah, man, it's exciting. We uh, I've we've always kind of been baseball nuts I think it's it's kind of funny how the life cycle comes in with baseball a little bit like I don't know when you you start out working in the real world You don't watch as much baseball as you used to when you were living a fake life whether as a kid high school college Whatever it may be and now we got sucked into this Yankees world and now we're in baseball world And I think we're gonna let it rip. I think Our our voices is what baseball is looking for man baseball still cool and fun and like a good time But I mean even you and I were getting fed up with And well, I guess we'll start here, but the the ESPN broadcast the last night's Baseball Dodgers Dodgers Red Sox last year's World Series goes 12 innings and they were just leaning so far into the light Oh my god 12 minute. We're still here. Are they gonna turn the lights off and it's like it's kind of cool, though The base I have this is a I don't want to get on my cell Tangent baseball is a problem where the people that have the most influence About baseball Downplay it all the time and say it's this boring terrible sport and it's like you have all the Authority to spread the cool and the fun and we have a Sunday night Baseball game tied up in the 12th ending with with some weird plays at the plate and Out's on third and it's like an interesting game and the crew was talking about how brutal it was and we should just do ties And like the thing about this if that was like a Sunday night basketball game And it was LeBron and Kawhi and they were in like triple overtime Like everyone would be on Twitter like get over here now who these guys are doing it Meanwhile on the broadcast broadcast, they're basically saying we're trying to get out of here wins the who concert So I don't know. I think I think our intro is there and I had one point at one point on the broadcast Yes, Mendoza and Vastirian how you say his name? You're around it Contemplated whether or not the fans that are attending the 12th inning of the tide game Right should leave early so they don't miss their trains and that's what they said out loud on the broadcast and What a bad message the message should be like I can't believe anyone would leave their seat with a game like this going on That's what the message would be and they get a turn it to a rod and he's like I think you should bunt here. Yeah And yeah, and then the Dodgers scored and they were like, do you think Red Sox fans are cheering so they could get out of here And it's like wow. Yeah, that sounds like a Red Sox fan to me What a terrible broadcast so there we are so let's get back takes and rants That's we thank you for tuning in checking us out giving us a chance. We have a ton of fun segments We did two practice episodes with we Every segment we did we liked well, but we'll get your feedback eventually We're gonna need your help getting because it's impossible to watch every game in baseball We did the math on it. It's like actually impossible. It's like 30 something hours every day of baseball so we're gonna try and Gain as much knowledge and this is how this works is every Monday. We're gonna recap the weekend series every Friday we'll recap the weekday series. That's pretty standard formula right there I'm pretty happy with that and let's just get straight into it Jake. We have your National League report It's gonna be brought to you by Jake story alley Jake. What happened this weekend in the National League? James National League report Atlanta hotlanta Braves They sweep the Padres out in San Diego All of them were close games tough start for the fathers out of the all-star break a couple good pitching performances in Atlanta The Nationals take two out of three from the Phillies Strasburg Corbin show they do their thing Michael Franco saves the fills with a walk-off in the last game Met win the final two games of their series against the Florida Fishies the cubbies bring their brooms out after the break sweep the Pirates in Wrigley the brew crew lose two out of three to lose even though he hadn't days the Giants Buster Posey Grand Salami and extra as a game one I like that the Cardinals win the final two games of their three games set against Arizona Tyler O'Neill Four RBI's aka all the runs scored in game two in a win for the Cardinals and the Reds dropped two out of three to My Rockies apparently core's effect, baby 45 combined runs in the final two games two games 45 runs and last year's World Series you heard us mention it Dodgers Red Sox Split the first two games and blowouts and then the Dodgers win the rubber match in 12 innings last night in Fenway I'm looking at this great job by you as always always. I'm looking at some times some times. Let's be honest Sometimes I'm looking at this Jake. Yeah You just told us the Pirates and the Reds lost series coming out of the break. Oh, the trade deadlines July 31st Ticking time bomb. There's no waiver wire deadline No, July 31st pirates and the Reds lose their next series. They should trade They should they should get pieces while they can especially the Reds They have a lot to offer teams two weeks into the deadline away from the deadline Yeah That's what I'm saying like those teams needed to come out of the gates flying and they did not well and it's man I mean even It it'll the NL central is a mess and I don't know how it's gonna sort out because I mean The Brewers man like they lost two out of three to the Giants. They're not gonna punt I mean, they're all in with Yelich like they're they're not gonna think they're going anywhere But that's a difference the Reds. Oh the pirates have been mentally out in my head Throughout same with the Reds. I there was there was that stat like a week ago that the Reds were four and a half games out No, they're not they're four teams out From being first in their division and I think that's the better way to look at the Reds have been out for me And the pirates. I mean Yeah, but I don't think sorry uncle rick. He loves the pirates, but no I think the the weird thing is you got to think if they make the playoffs Do they have the magic to go deep and they don't so just don't tell that to Derek Dietrich Because he has the magic. They got a lot of pieces. Derek take advantage of the trade deadline Man, but yeah, we'll we'll get more into that earlier. Yeah The cubs The cubs lost no, what are the cubs swept cubs swept which they needed because they went into they went into the break pretty beat up They needed it. So they they distanced themselves from Milwaukee. It's now two and a half games in the central Which isn't bad and the Reds are now six and a half. They were four and a half at the break But yeah, the Reds time to sell you guys got pieces go get yourself something for the future The west is a shit show The Dodgers We said this on one of our practice episodes. I think it's a great point that you had Because Arizona, Colorado and San Diego are all so close All three of them probably miss out on the wild card because they're gonna spend the spend them Spend the rest of this half beating each other up Yeah, I think it's gonna be a game of chicken a little bit because san francisco They've been playing decent baseball of late, but I mean they're they're not going to get into this thing Um, San Diego got swept. They were 500 going in the break now. You're 45 and 48 and it's like That's going to be a tough message, but you kind of have to You you should still be selling what you can because you have all your young guys Machado is going to be there next year kind of build it up because the Dodgers are annoying Arizona and colorado are playing a game of chicken of who's gonna sell off some parts I think zone is gonna trade because because my rockies don't want to And the diamond backs man. I mean they don't want to either. They just got jake lamb back eduardo eskibar is a good player They sold before the season and we saw when the yankees went in there earlier this year when we saw them I don't know. Arizona's looking for a fun environment and good baseball. They're not I I think Arizona's the kind of team that you have to think about if they start putting a bad product on the field I mean Tough to go to a d backs game So it's too hot. It's hot. It's way too hot. Yeah, did you imagine living in Arizona? There's no ocean It's nice. It's a getaway. I think that's their biggest sell right now a little air conditioning No, no if it's that hot. I need an ocean Go in the dome, baby. That's their sell $15 for free ac Come live in the air conditioning. What uh, what's going on in the american league jim american league report Here we go the rays and the orioles faced off the rays took two out of three They crushed them in the first game and they lost a close one Yankees and the jays had were tied at one and the yanks win the rubber match So the jays and the orioles both lose Kind of the story of the al east all the bird teams are losing this year. Sorry to all the birds out there Like you said the red Sox lost the series to the Dodgers Tough team to come out of the break if you're the red Sox, you got to face the Dodgers right away who are You know one of the special teams going right now In the central the twins and the indians faced off the twins run won the first two games a good start By beaver in the third game helped the indians avoid the sweep. Good job Justin Bieber pride of cleveland. Oh, they're saying he's the new lebron Do you know you just called him Justin? Justin Bieber, do you think he gets called a different name? Shane Name he's been called his whole life youth. How many people in the in the clubhouse. Do you think just call him? Justin they call him beads you stay away from the front name. He's got the last name It's been his nickname forever. I know but I don't mix in the justin. Oh, it's like a it's like a dig It's up. Justin No, that happens to him a lot beeps. Yeah, but that's the that's when you're being friendly when you're being unfriendly you call him Justin That's what happens. Anyway, the tigers and the royals In a series that no one gives a shit about both these teams have now combined for 62 wins jake 32 and 29 But the uh, Detroit avoided the sweep the royals won no one cares. Um, you know had a really good start Max Keller or something killer Brad Keller. Yeah, I had a really good start White Sox and the athletics squared off and the ace swept him with a weird walk off at the end But this is big for the a's and the white Sox aren't contending but they want to have fun But a sweep is pretty big for the a's right now who uh Are making trades and we'll get into that later Mariners and the angels faced off in an emotional set and the angels swept the mariners So good for them angels doing some sweeping Astros and rangers had a four game set The rangers took the first two games It's kind of surprising because houston was kind of limping into the uh the break But then houston came out they won seven to six in extras then 12 to four in the final set There was a walkoff in there as well The standings didn't move that much the Yankees are still in first in the east up six Minnesota twins still up six and a half. They actually helped themselves out beaten cleveland Who's in second place and houston's up six in the west oakland gained Some ground with the sweep. I mean oakland and the angels both swept And they're still six and 11 games back The wild card the al is really a three team race in our brains. Maybe four for the wild card, but That's what happened Nothing nothing catastrophic and the standings happened first game out Yeah, don't tell that to our white socks fans because they were they're getting that wild card. No, they're not but they Again like this sweep for the white socks is probably a good thing for them They they dropped to eight and a half out of the wild card You can't the white socks came into this year. They wanted harper. They wanted machado. They signed their cousins and brothers literally um And I think for the white socks like you guys had a fun first half and a lot of good things happened for you Juan mancada had a good first half. That's good news because he was pretty bad before that What's his name? Geolito. He had a really good first half. You've got some things to build around now tim anerson Jose abrayu they established this culture and the dugout which is key good times Um co-pec will come back next year. I don't know like for the white socks I I think If any of our white socks fans are listening, they may not be pleased But they may be very pleased because if you're a smart white socks fan, you're not going to jump LAA, texas, boston, cleveland, oakland, tampa to get into the wild card So we have the same take basically. I said it with the reds and the pirates You're saying with the white socks losing out of the break was probably better for them Well, but not really fan hood because fans want to win but uh organizationally like all right good Let's not break our backs to win right now Because trading and establishing for next year has always been the goal, right? We were kind of got a little sidetracked with this winning doesn't that have doesn't that suck when you get sidetracked by winning Sidetracked by winning the texas rangers asked them about it. They're 50 and 44 and lance lin looks incredible You might hear him mention they have so many pieces to trade The rangers have so many pieces to trade if they were out of it. They at lance lin. They got hunter pence. They got uh Mike minor, but they're gonna they're being sidelined by winning They might be they might be the team that most teams are rooting for To sell because they have the most pieces. Yeah, but they're getting fucked because they keep winning Yeah, well good for them. And I I think uh, I guess on the other side of that Like I like what texas is doing texas had a winning culture a few years ago the ron. Washington years And they're doing good things and it like it Makes sense slash it Well, I don't want to say it makes sense because I saw lance lin throwing 98 on the black the other day and that We haven't seen that since his saint louis days kind of Um, but like it does make it's not like you're looking around and like, all right Our guys are doing bad, but we're still winning games like pence had a huge first half lance lin Mike minor had huge first halves and they've got the young talent. We saw joey gallo flaunted in the all star game So, um, I don't know what what else do we need from these series from the weekend? No, that's all it's moving to the Yeah The major story lines and the biggest one and this seems a little old now because baseball moves so fast is that The angels had a no hitter on their first home game. Everyone's wearing the number 45 And the numbers surrounding it are insane trout hit a home run that was 454 feet Which in parentheses stat cast is bullshit and I don't believe it but That's cool that that's what we get to say happened The no hitter combined no hitter is wild And then the other thing was the last time a no hitter happened in california was on the day of scags birth So emotional weird I once brought I once brought like something like this to my history teacher It was like that abraham lincoln and john f kennedy their secretaries had the different names and there's a and uh And my teacher looked at me and said you can find weird numbers about Anything in the world if you want this isn't interesting to me and I said oh, okay So he kind of bummed me out and now I have a bummer brain about things like this Yeah, uh, I'll say this because I I think that bummer brain is true because you saw there was a lot of people on the Internet that were like all right. Well, there was one there was one run nine hits or whatever it was and they started adding up the numbers and it's like Yeah, if you start reaching around the scoreboard the birthday one's cool The birthday one is super cool the the 454 home run stat cast is low to shit anyway, so half cool Like it. I mean the biggest thing is you have a field of people wearing 45 For a pitcher who passed away you throw the no hitter I mean, it's it was unbelievable. It's it's incredibly emotional his his wife or mom throughout the first pitch. Yeah Yeah, it's incredible and it's yeah, it's just it's some it's the beauty of sports. It's people that People that don't like sports, which is fine. If that's not your prerogative. That's okay, but sports Is the original reality television? Sports is that if you watch any reality tv or anything around reality reality tv sports is that Yeah, and the only the only thing that was comparable and I mean people were posting this so this is an original thing But the d gordon homer after hosé fernandez pass. I mean one of the Least power-hitting players of all time Hits a homer and starts crying around the bases and you're just like Jesus. So it's uh, it was cool power of sports and all that um And I think uh, I think felix peña might hear him later. He uh, he was seven innings of that no hitter So a shout out to him, but it doesn't get much cooler than that. Yeah Well, the rays almost tried to make it even worse tried to one up them and it's like That's pretty rude raise hadn't had a perfect combined perfect game going and it's like raised the this is the angel's moment So why don't you back first uh first hitter in the ninth and I I think uh You and I talked about the all-star break a little bit and we wanted it longer And then it happened and we were like we want it shorter And I think we definitely saw a little bit this weekend of rust I think it's it's it's kind of crazy that I wanted to do a big report on all the starting all-stars Because I'll freddy freeman a lanzo had terrible Weeks So I wanted to do a report on that and see like how the hitters did but I was like that's a lot of work Yeah, um So yeah, I don't know. I think there is I think there is if I were to guess I think there's slightly better pitching performances But it's funny how you hear the general lines creatures of habit and then you kind of see it and it's like oh, okay Yeah, um gym I think the other news From this weekend and you saw us starting to hint in it in our a l and nl reports Trade deadline is sneaking up big time. We had the first couple of trades Andrew cashner stays in the a l beast. He goes from the orios to the red socks. He's been pitching well lately Couple 17 year olds going for Andrew cash for Any ellio prado or null berth romero fans out there? um Get ready for baltimore in six years if either of them are good and homer bailey gets traded straight up for minor league infielder Kevin merrill. Yeah, let's stay on cashner first. Sure talk about this Caster his eras not great On the on his career or this season, but he's been pitching really good his last seven games are really really good he He this this is weird. Yeah cashner There's an article that came out that said he would almost refuse a lot of trades To leave baltimore because he likes baltimore so much right also when he was went to miami don mattingly's in miami And he makes his players shave his beard and cashner hated. He said it's part of him He's he couldn't pitch without right beard So the fact he gets to go to the red socks and be his ugly self and gets to be like ugly himself up with a weird hair cut And a beard i'm happy for him there. He found a home right he does have another year on his contract So the red socks got him for this year and next season and the return Being only two 17 year olds is kind of it's not like shocking, but it's like man People really overvalue trades and i'm not saying anyone thought cashner was going to be worth a lot But i guarantee you any mock trade the orioles fans were looking at or red socks fans for cashner Included something better than these two 17 year old prospects that are complete They have value, but like complete crapshoots. Yeah, it was a true rental This would make 100 sense the fact they have them for next year too Maybe like someone who's in double aj. These guys aren't even an able it's not like they're 17 year olds Who are flying up the charts? No, they're in rookie league. Dominican rookie league. They haven't even really started their professional careers yet. Yeah it There's a there's a lot of interesting things going on So you talk about red socks fans talking about what they'd pay for andrew cashner I don't think they were talking about it Andrew cashner wasn't being mentioned and i think that's kind of the funny dynamic with this is that Andrew cashner seven starts ago Kind of wasn't a trade piece like if you traded for andrew cashner Your team wouldn't be too excited about it and you mentioned that second year of the contract um That's actually part of the risk of this trade and i think people are overlooking that that being said because Don't want to come off as an eccentric cashner has been really good. His past seven starts He's in the al east so he's been doing it there and that's always a big thing for al east people um The I think it's interesting that that extra year is a coin flip for both teams I mean if andrew cashner comes over and he's the andrew cashner. That's a career five e r a guy I mean that becomes a hindrance to the red socks if he comes out and he pitches well You know that's a bonus for the red socks and they did really well in this so I think uh You know, I think there's the normal coin flip of when a guy comes over. What are they going to look like? um I think both teams kind of flip the coin here though. I think I think the orioles were kind of betting on his whole body of work and saying hey We like these two kids and we're doing a big rebuild here in baltimore We'd rather have these two seventeen year olds in house Then whatever andrew cashner can provide us and I mean andrew cashner if he has two bad starts What's his return? You know, so I don't know I I I kind of like it for both teams and I mean I say that again With uh with very little hopes that ellio prado or null berth romero make it to the majors and the socks bring in an arm Which it kind of moves their chain of events with the valdy going to the closer and Maybe it can wind things up for them. How much does this help the red socks because The biggest thing this does is allows them for valdy to go become their closer or you know a big part of their bullpen Which is a role that his stuff Plays but we've never seen him do it. He's never been that dude to get handed like the mental aspect of it Right. He's never been that dude to get handed the ball. So like cashner Helps the starting rotation. He wouldn't be in the playoff rotation for them It's just kind of a cog to eat some innings But it really allows a valdy to go to the bullpen But is that going to be a success and then is this the move that the red socks make because if this is the move Then that's basically the season and they need to do more moves. So if I was a red socks fan I think you can you can hopefully say that they're going to try and do more to help the red socks the front office But that's what you thought in the off season. They didn't get anyone Now you promised of all day he'd be a starting pitcher for you when you signed him Now he's in the bullpen and he had traded for another starting pitcher of all these like yo, dude I'm the starting pitcher you traded for or you signed. So I don't know a bit weird Yeah, and so the the cashner stats, which we we wrote the past his past five starts 32 innings pitched 141 era before that he was 504 flat era on the season So hey, maybe he figured something out and he's going I mean he's been around for a while So it's it's not like he's a young guy figuring it out And yeah, I I mean my counter to your argument is if you're a red socks fan You hope this isn't the last trade And I don't think that's rude to say If you're an optimist though, you can say I mean there's there's a bullpen effect that happens when you add a guy So and I mean say cashner solid or even if he's not that solid But he's around and he's your fifth starter If Evaldi can go and he can close which I mean his stuff Can play up in the bullpen because he's always had that fastball Then if he locks down that closer roll, which has been a problem for the socks all year Brazier moves down the other guys all move down a notch and lower lever Jennings So there can be effect there and this can work. Um, I think it is a little bit more of a hail marry than socks fans would want Um, but they got their ring last year and I think they want to stay Under that salary cap number. So that's how that's how baseball kind of operates now. Yeah luxury luxury tax Yeah, another trade Homer Bailey to the a's this is Just the prospect that they brought someone in is probably exciting for Oakland. Yeah, they sweep the White socks and they have a walk off and they make a trade So right now the vibe in Oakland is hey, we're doing this like this is one of the seasons. We're gonna try to win How about that once every five years this shit happens? Let's do it. Homer Bailey is not the sexiest name anymore. Well, actually as a name Homer Bailey is pretty Homer by Homer by Lee is pretty great name. Yeah, but he's getting older. We did see him Jake Uh pitch a gem first the Yankees earlier six innings pitch one earned run and he looked good doing it. I remember that He's got what does he got a sinker ball? He's well This year so far 90 90 innings pitched 81 strikeouts. So his uh, his strikeout per nine has kind of moved up Um, and you wonder I mean did did the a's see something is is this uh Is this gonna be a move that we're like wow about those a's they made a nice move for Homer Bailey or We're the a's saying hey, we've got an mlb arm here that you know We might be able to get some good innings out of and he's actually He's had a really good stretch recently too. He had uh, he had one bad start um Within these in his last five games started so both these starters with their last five are pretty impressive Um 29 innings pitch to 480 r. A 26 strikeouts. So, um, I don't know. I think this was Both of these moves might have been kind of anticipatory Of not the busiest trade deadline and kind of two teams that were like we're not making the big move this year So if the best arms available are Marcus stroman And then maybe mad bum if he's willing to come to your teams Maybe these two teams were like we just want to get ahead of this And we want to get an arm to help get us through and they got cashner and bailey These are two guys that are not going to be On the playoff roster like you know getting starts. Maybe cash removes the bullpen But the a's had a big opening with frankie montis going down for uh Pds cheating cheating. So now they need another starter. I mean, but the fires anderson um, even even um, who's this basset and that crazy and then they have the The opener Who's that crazy dude with the mustache? mengden mengden dan daniel mengden like even they piece together starts, but I mean good for these guys. It's uh, It's uh, you know good for baseball and good for us on this show because it's a good appetizer of trades before We get into the meal real real stuff and uh, I think jim Um, I mean do we want to do the whole trade deadline spiel? Yeah, I did a lot. I put a lot of effort. I won't go as long as uh, jakes probably scared. I'm gonna go on this But I'm excited for how excited you are about this I did a lot of research because this is what this is what spurned this off So this is world series deadline moves Of the past years. I'll let I want to lay the groundwork a little bit But you didn't really understand where I was coming from yesterday. So no, I did. I think I'm I'm less surprised than you are But we'll see not surprised. Okay. I guess that's what's surprising. I'm zero. I'm zero surprised. I'm proving a point exactly so On yankees twitter This one of the sexiest things to yell is the fact that you know, this team isn't where it needs to be We need this team's not complete yet. We got to get another arm And I think what got to young james here was the fact that Every team at the deadline goes out and makes moves There's not a complete team at the deadline whether it's smaller things bigger things Most of the time pretty significant things every team makes a move. So with that Yeah, I give it to you. I went through the past eight world series winners I think eight I was going to do 10. I got tired. It was a lot of work Basically, I want to say what jake said every team changes and then I just wanted to see like, all right Well, the world series winners Let's see what moves they made and how much it actually helped them and some it helped a ton And some it didn't and it was interesting to see what moves they made that kind of just like didn't or did So 2018 the red socks added steve pierce Nathan evalde and ian kinsler in kinsler became a defensive replacement He got he got innings in the playoffs, but he wasn't a hero steve pierce world series mvp Was great for them from the day he stepped on the field Platooned at first with moreland and was just phenomenal. Nathan evalde Great, he went like those six extra innings ate a lot of innings Pitched really well came out of the bullpen had a 1.61 era in the postseason So the 2018 red socks their additions helped them Pierce and evalde helped them win the world series. Oh, yeah 2017 astros you got Justin verlander is the biggest piece. I mean, that's the nuke. That is the nuke six that changed the history of baseball He was available to any team that wanted him Yeah, because his contract looked like an albatross and again if if he went to the yankees or the red socks or The Dodgers I mean, I think we're talking about any of those teams is starting a mini dynasty and now houston has them Yeah, so he was amazing six games in the in the postseason. Justin verlander went six games 36.2 innings pitch 2.21 era. They went five and one in his starts in the playoffs You they don't win that world series without him. I can say that firmly They also tried out francisco liriano. He did not work out and cameron. Mayben They picked up off waivers as well. No one else wanted him and he was a defensive replacement that played in a lot of games Defensive replacement, but still they picked him up and he played a part The 2016 cubs was wild Their bullpen was so bad that from june 20th They scratched and clawed and just picked up relievers left and right They picked up mike montgomery who actually helped them a lot in the regular season He came out of the pen. He started games 17 games 282 era in the regular season He appeared in 11 games in the postseason Um and only lost or further to lead in three of them. So and uh, what is that eight games? He did his job in the postseason. There's not that many games He almost pitched in all of them or all this Chapman's the biggest one here But there was other guys. There was like joel peralta. Not joel paulth There was some other that I didn't I didn't write down their names They tried they made like one or two appearances and they kicked him to the curb They finally got their dude in a roll this Chapman and they I mean this was the magic Magic cubs year and they finally hit their tipping point because you're right We did leave a couple names out that you'd remember as journeymen type reliever that the cubs were like Hey, if we could get a couple good months out of you, that'd be huge for us They finally caved and a roll this Chapman was available because the Yankees were out of it that year One of the few years they were and they got labor torres out of that So and now we're we're reaping the benefits, but the cubs The cubs hand was kind of forced being the chicago cubs And what their bullpen had done that year, but I mean I I think I mean in these teams in these three teams alone There's now been a world series mvp Justin verlander who I just had changed the course of baseball and are all this Chapman who at the time Was as dominant as closer There was in the sport in the regular season Chapman appeared in 24 games after the trade He blew one game In the in the postseason he appeared in 13 games madden abused him He blew two one was game seven so a lot of people think like oh, he's shocked. He's pretty good Pitched a lot and in situations. He had never pitched joe smith was another guy. He had 12 scoreless 12 scoreless innings in the regular season jake and didn't make the postseason roster. So stuff that postseason crunch. All right, here we go 2015 royals They added johnny kweto benzo brist and johnny gomes johnny gomes did nothing and didn't appear in the postseason But at that point he was like a lucky charm because he had been on so many world series teams and are a red sox giants whatever a lot kweto 13 games started and the team went four and nine He had a four seven six era He did start four playoff games though Two good one bad and then one great playoff game in the world series a complete game one earned run That's what gets remembered. So that's huge benzo brist world series nvp in the postseason he had a 880 Ops 365 on base percentage they traded for him. He becomes the world series mvp So now we've got the list of people now if you if you're talking about like steve pierce Justin verlander or all this Chapman benzo brist Those guys didn't weren't on the team at the deadline or at the tray at the break to two Two world series mvps and arguably one of the most dominant starting pitchers and one of the most dominant relievers There's ever been. Yeah 2014 giants This one was an interesting Jake peavey that was their only move Jake They traded for jake peavey and in 12 starts after the trade He went eight and four or the team went eight and four in his starts with a two one seven era He was bad in the world series though like really bad in the world series They lost both his starts. So they won the world series despite his starts But I was like that doesn't make sense. They had to add more people They called up joe panick who became their second baseman and uh cog in their lineup cog And belt came off the dl. He was riddled with injuries that year in september. He finally got healthy He hit safely in all seven games in the world series Yeah, I guess and this is where you and I start to veer a little differently because For me the trade deadline is showing your team That you want to win. It's your gm going out and adding a player to improve your team That's uh, that's a big thing without the team with within the team. Excuse me and then jake peavey I know I guess the world what happens in the post season Is kind of coin flip ish for me like we we've seen guys like alex rodriguez have a bad post season Like it's a it's a seven game set any player in baseball can have a bad seven games And so that's why like I still count jake peavey is like a huge trade deadline acquisition He went eight and four two one seven era the team went eight and four And in his games, excuse me, which still that's better. That's really good. Yeah And his two one seven era is still his so I I still think like Obviously like I mean steve pierce winning the world series mvp I mean that is what it is forever and and good for him But I mean jake peavey's a guy who won a psi young he was he was Off of his psi young pace at this point, but he came in and he was a huge factor for him So I mean it in in my head it still counts just as much as everything else Yeah, because it changes the way your whole season develops it changes Who else is throwing innings it changes the way your bullpen works. It changes everything Yeah, and and the point I would make here is that even though they didn't trade for joe panick or belt They didn't have them at the break if they didn't think they could call them up or that they were going to be Healthy, they would have made a trade for those positions most likely the 2013 red sox Uh who they traded for jake peavey as well and he was not really good for them um He was bad in the in the cs in the world series They traded for quentin berry as a defensive replacement and he made the roster in every post season series That's kind of my and then they called up zander bowgaardts and brandon workman who were clutch for them Uh zander bowgaardts was a young dude. He had an 893 Ops in the post season after he had 44 at bats in the regular season jake And 27 in the post season. He wasn't even like he was a september call-up that became a true cock in their post season run workman had 8 and 8.2 squirrel innings And that was that the next one and this is the last one i do because i know i've done a lot of info now The 2012 giants marco scudero. They traded for him In 61 games post trade. He had an 859 Ops and a 385 on base percentage in the post season 377 on base percentage 767 ops in 16 games. He was kind of like The dude not the dude, but he was a a part. Yeah of that world series win marco scudero. So every team has No team has just sat still at the in the last couple years sat still at the break and said now We're rolling with what we have and won the world series every world series team has made editions or brought someone up The 2009 yankees are the biggest team that didn't do anything really and they also spent the most money in free agency ever I believe before that so But defensive replacement is my biggest thing. We got quinnberry who made post season starts. We had Who else was there? There's chris coglin. He became a defense replacement for the cubs cameron maybin in kinsler So good teams like the get get defensive replacements the yankees went out and did it with echeveria They didn't win last year, but yeah, that's a thing I think you could also say I mean there might be some teams that already have that guy like the teams that haven't traded for defensive replacements on this list You might already have your guy. That's your speedster defense guy turn score um turn score shout out So yeah, if that's what you guys wanted on on the first episode a little marco scudero talk We got it. Um, and yeah, if you're about if you got your twitter fingers out right now And you're about to say There's no way our team makes the world series without making a move. Well Every team makes moves every team will make a move. So so there you go. There you go. That's our big conversation for today Now we're going to get into Some fun stuff to recap the series couple segments to recap the series that were first one We got jake stand out performance Floors yours jake these three games after the break who impressed you I want you to make a nice song out of it or something jakes Stand out performance. All right. I lied. I didn't want that Jim I went With josh donaldson the bringer of rain as everyone calls him they bring her rain Hey, but now about him the bringer. There's your coffee bringer of rain Good look out there Josh donaldson and and my atlanta braves, man. They they've still got the lead in the ailes In a three game set. He had six runs three home runs six rbi's one of those games was a two home run for rbi game Without those they wouldn't have won that game. I know that's a hot take Josh donaldson a guy that can get Hot in a hurry Hot in a hurry in atlanta. That's pretty easy to do. Oh, yeah, you could start swimming pretty good down there Um, especially dog days. Whoo So it's going real good august in atlanta. Um, sounds like hell he uh, he plays an important role in this team Does he he does jen? He splits up freddy freeman and nick marquekis your guy Uh, greek guard greek god of walks part two. Um, and josh donaldson's just having a really good year He's he's got 21 home runs on the season now It's on pace to land in the 30s, which he was at a couple years ago And I don't know josh donaldson has had a lot of injuries. There were some people that didn't know He got the one year big money people were scared to give him long term because they don't know if his body was going to hold up anymore So, uh, and I just think it was a big The nationals Are coming the nationals and fillies are coming for the braves Um, the the nationals have the pitching and they've kind of turned their season around quietly like they're The nationals were sellers three weeks ago And now people are on the nationals training. Guess what if they make the playoffs even if they make the wild card game? Sure sir. Yeah, the nationals are they should mean and if they and if they do Then strawsberg's having a good year and corbin is too. So the nationals are a serious what to watch for And the fillies I mean harper had a bad first half. Are they gonna get it going? Um, so I think it was important for the braves to come out and start the second half with a winning series um To show because when they start bleeding Those other teams are looking for them. Uh, so a little love for it bring her rain Bring me some rain, please. That's why they brought them to atlanta to cool off. Yeah in the summer Wow, that's been some rain Jimmy who's your standout performance my standout performance is a guy named philip Irvin pierve You ever heard of him? Perve. You ever heard of philip irvin? Yeah philip irvin first round pick for the reds back in 2013 27th overall Played the last two years not a lot, but he's having a good season right now. Jake outfielder pinch hitter He's having a good year right now 356 batting average 415 on base percentage not the most at bats because I think he missed all of may and april. Oh my god Yeah, I overslept It's his birthday Today's his birthday. Yeah. Well, that's why he's my standout performance. He went on july 12th He went six for six jake. Yeah One double one triple three rbi's one run scored and one stolen base now here This was in cores. I believe Yeah, and it was a wild game. It's like a 16. There was a couple cores effect game 45 runs in the final two But here's what's impressive. All right He had never had more than three hits in a game in the mlb and he only had three hits once in 2017 Only no other player has had six hits in a game this season in 2018 only one player did it springer in 2017 Only one player did it rendon. So this is a cool feat not a lot of people have six hits in a game He went six for six. Here's what's even more impressive in my mind. Okay He his first hit single his next hit triple his next hit double Home run away from the cycle in a slopfest game That's like 16 to 9 final score or whatever You'd expect swing to swing in for the fences every time get the cycle He has one home run this season. Yeah, not his game. You know what he does. He goes single single single Slapping around. You know, it's more impressive than a cycle going six for six Happens less. Yeah, we'd like to have that home run though. Um Yeah, good for phil Irvin. You wonder what he's thinking former first round pick Um, he's probably wondering when on this red text him for his birthday He's probably hoping a couple of these guys get traded so you get some run because he's 27 today. Um, so late late blooming Um, ooh and jim. I've got good news Sometimes we run into some some bad twitter handles and stuff on the show. Okay Mr. Magic Irvin. Mr. Magic Irvin. That's pretty good It's a little stealing it's a little stealing but i'm stolen magic magic is so well known That I think you can spin off that so I I like it. Okay, it's better than kreg bizio or cabin bizio's Oh my god doing it big geo doing a big geo time. That's uh, that's tough cabin Sorry, sorry for throwing you under the bus because it probably won't be the last time Cav daddy good for phil good for phil good for phil jim. Now. I think it's time your favorite segment of the show slump Um Damn got me. Yeah, who do you got on slump watch jim? I got dwight smith jr. From our favorite baltimore orioles baltimore orioles dwight smith jr one of the worst arms i've seen in left field to date Yeah, we're not talking about his arm jake. We're talking about the thing that he holds It's an extension of his arm. It's the bat the bat. It's been brutal He has zero hits in his last 26 played appearances. It's not good. That's about as high as you can count It's not good zero hits. He's got two walks. Good for you. You know what? We need to shame those pitchers Can you bring that up? Can you find me the two pitchers that have walked dwight smith? No? No, i'm not doing that It's a friendly show no those pitchers need to get for cabin bizio those those pitchers needed to get shamed And i'll shame them eventually throughout the show oh for his last Oh, it's not it's over his last 24 No hits last 26 play appearances. I dive deeper jake. Okay Three hits In his last 30 in his last 43 played appearances Yeah, and in his last 43 played appearances still only those two walks. So those pitchers I'm coming for you. Yeah once I quit reading these stats I'm gonna go 10 strikeouts in his last 40 played appearances an o 79 average in his last 43 played appearances Hasn't gotten a hit with the all-star break now splitting this up He hasn't got a hit in over a week and he's been playing every day. So dwight smith jr. You are officially On my slump watch You go hunt down those pitchers give me your next one because I can I can build off of it And while while you hunt down those two pitchers. I hope it's the same guy. Oh my god. I didn't even think of that Oh my god. All right. The next my next slump watch is and this one's a little tongue-in-cheek a little more fun Yeah Pete Alonzo the home run derby champ mr. Serious Pete One hit This series coming after the break now. Did he get jinxed? Because you know, he got 10 at bats jake. Yeah one hit 7k's Yeah, wow got that home run swing So as you go hunt down these pitchers um that walked to white smith jr. Jimmy Vlad jr. I didn't have him on here two for 12 since the all-star break So if you if you're one of those people they want to hunt down the home run derby Vlad's two for 12 pete's one for 10 Um, I didn't have laddie jr. On my slump watch, but I wanted to feed the beast on that one My slump watch jml. I'll hit him quick benny in the jets ben and tendy He goes one for 13 to start after the all-star break. He's kind of had a rough year He used to be one of the scariest cogs in that red Sox lineup some good pitching on the Dodgers though Uh, yeah, but the Sox put up put up a couple runs. Um For 13's bad and we we've got a Dodger who walked white smith jr. Guess who was the first walk. I found It's a guy. I don't like Uh Snell, I don't know same team Uh, I mean, there's a lot of guys on the race. You're not yar bro. Yar bro. Nice The slowest picture in the world Nibbles and pitches so slow and the other one was erin sanchez Okay, who was walking everyone everybody 20 walks and six starts. Yeah, okay, so okay yar bro And sanchez you've been shamed yar bro. You've been shamed. Um, all right My other quick hitters I had on slump watch joey wendell. He went two for 14 Why he's on there is against the orioles and they put up big runs So that's tough didn't get invited when all your teammates are filling up the stat sheet a couple of those teammates We're going to talk about later. Uh, that's a tough look for joey wendell Corey seager who was in that red sock series. He went 0 for 11. No walks. That's a tough look Yeah, his brother texted him. It was like, yo, yeah, it's dude. What's going on copying my stuff We've had the seager bros old seagers that made the slump watch three episodes in And then I just thought tre mancini. He also went 0 for 11 no walks So those two guys tied for the most at bats without getting on base So I thought they should be mentioned and uh, I think we only got one picture on here jim if you want to go get them Yeah, it's a light. It's a light slump slump watch jordan zimmerman has allowed seven earned runs in his last two starts boston and then the royals 13 hits and then eight hits so tough to put a picture on the slump watch With just the series after the all-star break. Yeah, but it can delve a little farther than just the series and uh Yeah, only four strikeouts in his last two starts and 14 earned runs. So zimmerman we're watching your next start closely You've been warned Now I think well, I was going to say we could go into the fun stuff But slump watch is pretty fun But the positive fun stuff jim dirt nasties and fuego that means on fire Baby like wego and I'm going to start off with my guy who was actually my My standout performance last week yuli guerrilla I'm just going to do a quick because he's kept it rolling It's now eight homers in nine games two more homers from the four games this weekend jim in 15 games His ops went from 681. So a below league average player to 811 so an above above league average player so Yuli guerrilla killing it and I I've I mean, I've got a couple. I want to rip jim, but I'll I'll mention my raise I'll mention my rookie rays Mike brusso and Nate lau or low which one's low and which one's lau I think Nate low don't know brandon lau on the rays. Uh, so one of our official answer. I'm not sure Um, two rookie rays They each had three homers each and they also get the orials asterisks on it because they were facing the orials Um, but they're just rubbing it in joey wendell's face. Um, so that's that sucks for him a j pollock He comes back for the Dodgers. Uh, that could be a huge piece for him He's really good when he's healthy. He had the big hit and extras and he's a connecticut guy jim Um, I'll I'll let you go. What do you what do you like on there? Well? I'm trying to get so one guy you like No, well, I'm trying to get some love for guys that you hate Okay, and you've always hated adam frazier from the pittsburgh pirates mentioned him last week as my inflego You just always hated him. I think he had a bad weekend Did he yeah, well his last stats are still good. Yeah, 500. I know 500 and last uh, he was 600 last week Yeah, well, he's still good watch out for him. Tell the people about lancelin a little bit lancelin Is So much a joy to watch he only throws fastballs. He's got, um, Macchismo and bravado and he's a guy that speaks to your heart grabs his nuts after every pitch just Gross and sweaty. He says he wears his hoodies on days He doesn't start so that when he's on the mound, he feels not as hot So he just a sweat just a gross sweat ball in the dugout for five days It's four days. Then he goes on the mound. He's like, wow, this is nice. Yeah, this is a relief I was fucking sweat. That's a genius. Yeah, it's smart. It's relieved to be on the mound. Well, he comes out after the break Versus the astros 11 k's you said you're throwing like 90 whatever dude 98. Yeah 98. This is a testament to Don't sign pitchers late. Alex cob and lancelin in 2018 did not get full spring trainings They didn't have their muscles fully fully built up and all that and they had down years Lancelin when he's right. It's so weird to watch. It's fun Dude's just throwing fastballs all over the place fastballs just at you. Yeah So I thought that was a fun start and and it was like kind of a big stage for baseball Because it was a thursday after july after the all-star break only one game was happening It was the rangers versus the astros for the casual fan that tuned in probably thinking like oh Astros are gonna kick the rangers ass. Yeah, and lancelin and then like they're in lancelin's old And just flip the whole casual fan lancelin's pitched for texas. How many people said that on thursday night? Um, I think the final count Get the final count for eight ninety nine eight ninety nine. Wow way One of way this guy started saying he's like lancelin. I knew that and that would have got that would have got to Nine hundred. Yeah, he's having a really good year. That was a bit wasn't he second in picture war Um, it's a bit upsetting and then yeah, I just listed a bunch of names trout had a nice weekend. Uh The scags homer we talked about manny machado. He has another three homerun weekend. Can we talk about trout real quick? Yeah, did you see the mlb? Um Video they made for him. No dude. They figured out how to market mike trout. This is i'm gonna congratulate them Really? Yeah I'm gonna play the audio. Okay, I don't know the video will be able to see it but listen to this They figured out how to market mike trout. It's awesome. Oh cut out. All right It's cool. Nice kind of batman vibe They're kind of like how do we market mike trout? He's not marketable. That's the marketing. Let's talk about yeah Let's talk. Let's talk about that. He can play baseball. Oh jimmy's phone is in a mike trout cycle now No, that's good. I was proud of him. I was like, oh, that's good because if you're not watching If you don't know baseball, you'd be intrigued. You're like, they say that guy's the best ever. Yeah That guy how come I haven't heard of him. How come I've never heard of him? Oh because I'm not a weather fan I miss the mike trout weather segment that I love that. I mean mike trout is easy to like but I actually like that video Yeah, no trout trout starting to get there trout. It's uh, it was kind of interesting 10 years of being the best ever starting to get there And it's nuts that it has to be that way But like at all star weekend, there was definitely like better mike trout vibes Like they even in their intro for the all star game. They were talking about your favorite player to watch in like 75% of the guys were like mike trout because he's probably the best to ever do it. So that's good Um, I got bogarts on there. We mentioned him with the red Sox call-up in 2013 He had a big weekend Um, and then just my quick pitchers felix painia He was the no hit through seven of the angels no hitter brad keller only starting pitcher to go eight innings One earn run Soraka and wainwright in the nl go seven scoreless I don't know how old wainwright is But for the last five years i've been like wainwright still around He's he's been on the cardinals for the past 35 seasons, which is impressive. That's very coming up on the record Yeah, wow next up next segment. Who got mad. Who got mad. Who got mad today? I Got me again. Good. Yeah, always one a little longer than you got mad jim Joey vato got mad because the umpire extended the strike zone struck him out on a pitch That's outside in a 16 to 9 game the reds were winning in the ninth inning Ump definitely was like yo this game's been brutal and long lot of offense I need to open the zone up vato's a guy. You can't do that. He knows the zone All right, so he was probably like ump I don't care what the score of the inning is that's not a strike ump was like yo, but joey Is a ninth you guys are up seven. Let's get a move on He got tossed the other one was and this was a user submission or a listener submission or breakdown fan submission brian anderson got rung up on an outside pitch as well as It was close, but it was outside and he just like stomped on the ground like kind of like a temper tantrum Good stomp. He gave he gave the yell away from the umpire, but he was just yelling no No and jumping up and down like honestly like a two-year little tantrum Yeah, I've been there been there. He got mad though been there. He got mad. Um, that's basically it There wasn't that much this this sometimes this segment won't even make it Barely made it today first show so we wanted to introduce it if you've got a player on your team who got mad reach out to us Um, joey vato's contract is an albatross and i'm not a vato guy Blah blah blah joey vato's awesome Not a fan big vato fan over here Not a fan walk off watch Walk off watch walk off on Walk off on uh texas walked off houston. We said that danie santana with an rbi single versus osunia Um, did you write this franco homer? Is that a walk off? I wrote the franco homer. Yeah, I'm I know we are We are very finite on our walk offs It has to be a walk off and it was a walk off. It was yesterday Okay, and then the a's had a wild walk off that I wanted to a breakdown of is runner on second Ball too short They threw it away and then they have so much foul territory That the ball was just rolling around forever and the runner ran from second to home. I think it was um Who's that a guy whose name starts pinder? I think it was chat pinder. I think he made it from second to home Kind of a weird feeling because you want to walk off on a home run or like, you know something good And it's like um, they just threw the ball around. I don't know I kind of disagreed with you because what's one of the more famous yankees mets plays in the past What is it 10 years 15 years the dropped ball? But that's so embarrassing But that's such a fun celebration because that's literally like jaws of defeat and now you're on the field You're dancing on their graves. It's a different kind of celebration. There needs to be some animosity because this one The a's celebration was kind of muted mundane. I thought they were celebrating pretty good. Yeah, but I'm an expert They were having a young guy's celebration. I don't know that young guys tempered celebration. It was it was tempered. Yeah But it was a still young guy celebration. They they walked they walked off though. All right next up These are quick ones. We're running through them call up watch if there's ever a big debut. We're gonna try and be all over it. Jake Who do you got jim? We had a we had a former top prospect get the call um, bubba starling uh, uh, if you're a if you're a mlb draft person, you remember this name He was the fifth overall pick by kansas city out of high school Um, I I had the draft in front of me, but I'll tell you the guys who got drafted just after him jim um, anthony rundown francesco lindore francesco Javi baez George springer, um, and I didn't go down the list any further because I thought that was getting mean Um, but hey, that's uh, if you think the draft doesn't matter Uh, but hey bubba starling gets the call 26 years old Um, and he got his first hit in his rbi. He's playing center field. So good for him An important note here and this comes from the beer nerd on reddit. Yes With the call up of bubba starling mlb has broken a 13 year drought of bubba's The last bubba was bubba crosby in 2006. So about time a bubba came back into the mlb's life Yeah, so that's uh, that's huge for the sport um Andres muñoz jimmy gets called for the padres 20 years old Um, he was an amateur free agent signed out of mexico Uh, two games 2.1 innings zero earn runs. So welcome to the big skid Ian gibot. Do you think you say that name differently jim? Ian Gabbau Gabbau Um, he's a big boy 250 pounds. We like that 25 years old 11th round picked by the rays One game twinning pitch to earn run. Hey, doesn't matter dude. You got called up to the major leagues. Congrats And louis eskibar 23 years old amateur free agent Out of columbia for pittsburgh twinnings pitch four hits, but no earn runs jim. No, he's he's incredible. So escape artist Uh, congrats guys Congratulation All right award. It's time jake. We're gonna give out an award each awards. I'm gonna give out my award That was the 2011 mlb draft bubba starlings been in the minor leagues for eight years Doing doing giving it hell playing baseball. Yeah, pretty nice. All right. What's what's your uh, what's your first award jim? We have a new king The new king. We have a new king gray king gray king gray About you. Do you know who gets this award? I i'm assuming you're giving it to john because you gave it to sonny last time I gave sonny sonny won king gray last time. I don't think you anointed him the king But you talked about him. You haven't talked about john yet. You've talked about sonny well Sonny gray is the king gray. He's the new king gray. Okay, sonny gray and john gray faced off the other day Yeah, the battle of the grace and check this out sonny gray seven innings pitched five hits John gray seven innings pitched four hits One earned run for sonny Two earned runs for john just barely got beat by sonny Sonny wins the king gray challenged sonny had nine strikeouts and three walks John had six strikeouts zero walks. So I think that's actually a tie in my book right tie in my book and um 98 pitches for john 103 for sonny pretty similar lines. It was a great king gray battle I can't wait for the next one, but sonny Does win the king gray award this week. Yeah, I like that jim and I I wish more people would reach out to me on twitter when the grays are facing off because that's Something I need to know live Gand off the gray All right, jim nice award. Um, I I think I I think I'm gonna do one award this week. Um And I'm gonna do the newspaper award Wow, you've been dying to give this out and dying to give out the newspaper award. Yeah Dying Goes to your mailman. There's actually two winners Okay, but you just opened up with you're just gonna give one award one award to two people Mm-hmm. Yeah, that's fine. You talked about the gray brothers for hours even though they're not brothers So they have to say like we won an award together. Yeah. Yeah, and they will okay, and they will um Jim I'm going to daniel murphy He's been hot and jose al tuve Both hot one So weird one not weird extra extra read all about it jim Because these guys are hitting for extra base hits daniel murphy over the weekend three doubles two homers colorado would love a huge second half from daniel murphy he uh He was kind of meh the first half if he can get a little that quartz field and when daniel murphy gets hot He's gotta get hot Well, he needs to cut his hair because he's weird and everyone he's a guy that gets hot And he looks like the boyfriend from rozan right now and no one likes it Let that hair ride demerf and jose al tuve. He had four extra base hits over the three games. He played in Um, or the last three games he played in two doubles two home runs six rbi's Um, al tuve got hurt in the first half for a while And I think if it was his heart, right broke breakup or something hard. I think and uh If al tuve's back for those straws, man, I mean I mentioned before the verlander effect of how it changed baseball history jose al tuve was the Astros have had a lot of injuries themselves al tuve springer if al tuve gets it going and has an al tuve type second half Houston hot take Will make the playoffs. Okay All right, we have one final segment this episode ran a little longer than usual We had a big a big chunk of the world series Editions and we also did a little longer of an intro than usual We do have one more segment and if you're still listening we thank you so much because this is going to be I think our most fun segment. It's called elevator talk elevator talk We have a wheel on the wheel is all 30 teams. We're going to spin the wheel Whatever team it lands on we do get some emissions because we've talked about some We will talk about some teams and the regular show like that. We talk about them too much But whatever team it lands on we will spend two minutes Going to research finding out what uh, you need to know in case you're stuck in an elevator With a fan of that team and you want to be able to have some casual conversation. Yeah be informed Are you ready jake? Yeah, let's do it. Here's the here. We go the wheel is spinning nervous spinning and we are landing on The houston astros we just kind of segued into it. Yeah, wow perfect. Good job the wheel houston astros won the world series in 2017. They got you talk about that for sure You can talk about that. Oh, I remember you think we're going to run it back this year. Yep They lost in the alcs to boston. They are A playoff team. They're one of the favorites right now It's oh if you're if you see an astros hat in the elevator you go Wow, it's it's got to be this it's got to be stroze yanks or Dodgers this year, huh? You got to drop one of those for sure. I'll to vey all the stuff I just said about him He was hurt. Hopefully he has a big second half for you, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah So they uh, they did have for them a rough month of june They were 15 and 13 in june. That's not the best. Maybe you stay away from june Stay away from june. Say like gary l and pick it up gary. El's been going nuts If you want to talk about young guys, who's that jordan jordan alvarez people love him How strong is jordan? So you're saying the elevator how strong is jordan? What do you think he benches be real with me? 290 i'm not asking you. I'm just saying for the elevator. Oh for the elevator not 290 His arms are too long. He's a baseball player. Um, no just once that's his max one time And then I think oh no know what you're uh when you're slapping ass and getting out of the elevator How do you guys get off an elevator by the way? Um, usually crawl. I think you just so afraid you just say hey Seven game set. It's gonna be tough for them to beat We're gonna have verlander three times garakul two times going to be tough Yeah, that's your slap ass on the exit. Who's their third? That's the picture I've got everyone in the elevator wearing baseball pants. So it's cool If you if you wanted it if you're like running to a real astros fan a deeper question I'm gonna be like, who do you think our number three is right now? You think wade miley's real because it's verlander and coal And then I mean they got framber. He's not doing much. They got collin mccue. He's not doing much right now It's looking like wade miley as it's looking like wade miley. So yeah, if you run a new national Who's our third right now on the playoffs verlander and coal they got it Miley could hold up in the playoffs. They looking to trade for a third. Is that what there is on their mind? You know, maybe Tony camp short Yes, he is he is he is he is he is that's they needed someone That can have a conversation with l2v at eye level. That's why they brought tone and that brantly signing worked out You'd say that too. You can say that. All right. Okay. All right. Enjoy your day. Enjoy your day. Bye Thanks for riding the elevator with us and making me talk to you about baseball talking astros. That was that This was talking baseball first episode if you listen to it on youtube and watch the show We appreciate it if you're patreon and you tuned in and out live We appreciate that if uh in the future if you want to be live We will probably have time to answer some questions from the chat if you go to patreon.com Slash jamboy media. You will find yourself there two dollars a month supports gets you live access and uh Chance to win some jerseys and really just supports everything we're we're doing and we appreciate that All right. I think that's it. Jake any last words big series coming up the only one I know and because it's close to my heart is four games versus the Yankees and Reyes and Both team the Yankees can kind of put away the rays or the rays can force their way into A scary situation for Yankees fans big series for nle's teams nl central teams And the texas rangers To see if they're gonna sell Yeah, the reds pirates and rangers. They're there any else any other good like where the Dodgers going now? the years I should have planned this if we wanted to do it Dodgers fillies that could be fun But there's no divisional stuff. Yeah, we're out. Thank you guys for listening. Uh, see you later