 I'm back. I'm back in the saddle again. Giancarlo Stanton is back in the saddle, my friends. G unit, the big G. Giancarlo, Mike Stanton returns. You know, he was just going to be on the IEL a couple days with the biceps thing, and it turned into a shoulders thing, which pivoted into a leg thing, but we're not bitter. He's back. He's batting fifth for the Nueva York Yankees. Jimmy, James, Johnboy, how are you? I'm good. I'm doing well. Just got a flash flood of rain, and this is another one where we have to say, weather permitting. We're going to talk about the game as if it's being played, which... Yeah. How many people do you think... I think we might get a delay early, but I think we might play ball. We're early into the show. Everyone that's in the chat right now. How many people do we think come in and drop something about like it's not even going to be played? Oh, yeah. We might need a policeman in the chat today if someone talks about rain today. Just count them. Maybe we'll get none. Maybe we'll get five. Who knows? But it is raining. Just rained here. It's raining in Omaha. They're putting a tarp on the field in this Auburn Levelle guy. Omaha. Omaha. Set Omaha. Anyway, Yankees got a good lineup today with Stanton back. DJ Lamehu leading off playing third base. Voight is playing first base. Hickson center field. Gary Sanchez is the four-hitter, and behind him is a guy named Jean-Carlo Michael Cruz Stanton. I'm in trouble with this tarp in Omaha. And then after him, a guy named Edwin Incarnation. Edwin, we were excited about you yesterday. We're excited about Stanton now. I apologize. Didi after him. So that's late in the lineup for Didi to be playing. It's like 2016, Didi. Glaiber in the eight hole and Cameron holding the Yankees hostage, Maven rounding it out in the ninth hole, which makes the bench Brett. Big ol' alien head gardener. Austin, Romine, and Gio, the god, Urshella. Hello to Daniel Roth in Belize. Got a guy out here, a guy listening from Belize, Jake. That is unbelievable. And yeah, it's a great lineup. Cameron, Maven, he's got what? Three Yabos in his last three games. He's bringing up the rear in the nine hole. Well, I don't like Brett Gardner batting lead up. Well, guess what? He's not supposed to. And he's on the bench, kind of where he's supposed to be. He'll be rotating in, especially when Judgy gets back. But we love what's going on here. You're right. I think that the Didi Hicks just balancing out the lineup right now is still kind of a mental dance when you see, you know, Didi down at seventh, Glaiber, eighth, Edwin, sixth. But I think it's still going to be evolving and it's tough not to like, man. It's tough not to like. Yeah. We'll see. They are facing Stannock, Ryan, the opener, which gives them trouble. It is still Stanton's first. That bats back. So don't expect them to go off if they do. That'd be great. But limit expectations a bunch. Be excited, but don't be disappointed if it's like not, you know, homerun at each. But he has been hitting a lot of homeruns in the minors. Haps on the bump and Hap needs to have a good start. Actually, what was Hap's last start, Jake? It was bad again, right? It was the White Sox start. He had the one bad inning. He lost his fastball. He ran into Tim Anderson with a couple of runners on and he went from 4-0 Yanks to a tie game 4-4s. I mean, he's still, I mean, if you still run it back amongst his last 10 starts, it's a 3-8-1 ERA. It's very J-Hap. He kind of essentially just had the bad inning last start. So not that I'm going to fully give him a pass. It was a bad inning and you can't really do that. But he's still, after his first three putrid starts, he has been J-Hap. People want to ignore it because they're old and we hate old people and Yankee land, apparently. But yeah, I mean, still, you know, Hap's going to get a lot of hate either way. If he has another bad start today, I mean, it starts getting so loud with all the pitching trade rumors and everything and blah, blah, blah. So let's get some good Hap or Upper today, you know? Hap or Upper. Up, down, up, down, inside, outside, inside, outside. Yeah, he had two good games before that. Five innings pitched, one earned run, seven innings pitched, one earned run. And then he runs into the bad start versus the white socks who I said in our pregame show then were a home run hitting team who just, we're going to look to feast off J-Hap. Like that was an easy call. The rays just got shut down by Tanaka. Now for the last week, Jake, I've been saying who's going to step up as a starting pitcher and start a trend? That's how starting pitching works. You get one good one, then you get another, you get another, and they build off each other. I think we can actually go back to Chad and Nestor. Might have been starting it because then Paxton gives us a good outing. Tanaka just gave us a gem yesterday. So if J-Hap does this, it's four good outings in a row from our starting pitcher slash opener, headliner, combo. And I would really, really like that. It's going to be a tough task. The rays are good. The lineup they're putting out there is as follows. Is this true? They have Travis Dernot leading off. Yeah, Jim, you prefer, you, we give ourselves pats on the back when we do something a little right. The raised lineup today is, whoa, there's a lot of LOL's on the internet. But at the same time, we know we've seen Yankees lineup that have pissed people off and been LOL, including the Yankees game this Sunday with Brett Gardner batting five hole. And we end up winning that game. So you have to take it seriously. But this Ray's lineup is, whew. Travis Dernot is leading off playing first base. Tommy Pham is D-H-ing. Brandon Lowe is at second base. Avisale Garcia in right field. Willi Adamus at short. Kevin Kiermeyer in center field. Heredia in left. Zanino in catching. Wendell at third base. No Austin Meadows. Who didn't he have a hit yesterday off of Tanaka? He had one of them. Yeah, he had a hit and a walk. He's been in a terrible slide. So they sit him down to reward him for... Yeah. I mean, it's versus lefty. And I mean, even if you bring in yesterday's game, it's not like he's been hot, hot. And Heredia has pretty good numbers against tap. 286 batting average, 375 on base. So, you know, I guess they figured. And who knows how they're scheduling their off days and every team does it. I mean, the big ones, you got a circle. Avicile Garcia is three for nine against Hap. Two of those are home runs. And I mean, the other guy that jumps out to me, Tommy Pham, he's on a hot streak lately. Another righty versus the lefty. So those are the two guys you circle. And then, yeah, I mean, a lot of guys in this lineup today for the raise or whatever they do at the plate is kind of bonus points. Did you say what Avicile's done versus Hap? Yes. Yeah, two home runs. So watch out for that guy. Everyone, no one else really has much going on there versus Hap, which is good. Hap's last five starts, we went over that. Has Hap faced the raise yet? Looks like he hasn't faced the raise this season yet. He has not. He has not. So, Stannock's going to be their opener, Ryan. So, he's going to be facing DJ, Voight, Hicks, Minimum. Hicks is 0 for 4. Voight's 0 for 3. And DJ is 0 for 2. So great. That's good. Good shit. So great. That's good. Good shit. I would have moved Hicks. Everyone's complaining about Hicks being in the three-hole. And I think it's a little overblown. The lineup's really good. I don't really care. Eventually, we're going to get to the point where the order does not matter. You just throw it on the fucking board. But going against an opener, I would have liked to get Gary in a bad versus him. Is that fair? Yeah. And I mean, you still hope to do so. I mean, and if Stannock does go 1-2-3 in the first, he probably comes out for a second, not that that's optimistic, or if you get someone on. Yeah. I don't know. It's still, for me, it's a shoulder shrug. I think where things are going to get really interesting, because, Jimmy, we've had so many people DM us that, well, the third batter in the order actually sees the least runners in scoring position. And they talk to us like they're a character from Star Wars, which is odd. But I mean, this is going to get really funky when Big Aaron judges back, let's be honest. And when Stanton shows he gets it going. I mean, it turns into this whole kind of former Little League mentality that made its way to baseball. Get your best players the most at bats and scoot them up the lineup. You're right. I mean, right now Gary Sanchez batting four-hole seems like a little bit disservice, you know? Get him more at bat. If it's bottom nine two outs and Aaron Hicks is up instead of Gary Sanchez, that's tough. That's tough. No offense to Aaron Hicks, because me and Joe Hicks, close friends, tag me on Instagram today, Jim. Wow. Probably golfing together soon. I don't know. Joe Hicks doesn't golf. He watches Aaron golf. Yeah. Let's golfing together. Is it? Who's going to be the raised headliner today? So yesterday, is it going to be like Beaks? Oh, Chas Roe and Hunter Wood probably come into this game. Beaks, Wood, Roe. I mean, they're not shy on doubling up relievers. So kind of whatever they need, I guess. Yeah. What's your what to watch for? What are you having it in on? Man, pretty tough when the what to watch for seemed to be pretty obvious. I'll cave and I'll go, screw it, man. I'm going Cameron Maven show. This is also one of the hottest topics in Yankees land right now. Oh, Susan. And Jimmy, I think it actually might tie a couple of things together. You mentioned our quote unquote starting pitchers doing well throwing in Chad and our guy Nester. Cameron Maven has been playing incredible and not really giving us an option to not keep him on the team. A lot of double negatives there. That's fine. Jim, if we keep getting good performances from our bullpen from our starters, that allows us to not use our bullpen. And that allows us to have more ammo to say, well, maybe we can keep another guy on the bench. So I'm watching out for that. And yeah, give me some more Cameron Maven. Just good things happen. Kevin Kiermeyer, Platinum Gold, Platinum Gold Glove winner as Kaster called him the other day. It's a ball at him. It goes under his glove. He takes the extra bait. Just good stuff happens with this guy. So Cameron Maven show. Hot dog, hot diggity dog that Kevin Kiermeyer's a hot dog. You hear that? That's his new walk-up song. I hadn't heard that. Wow. Yeah. This is a weird walk-up song, Kevin. Why would you choose this? Love them. Yeah, you do love them. My what to watch for, and I can't believe you glossed over this, is Giancarlo Stan. It's his first game back. That's right. That whole, yeah. That whole singing to start the thing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Giancarlo Stan. Come on. It's his first game back. Let's see how he does. Do you think he's going to hit three home runs? Two home runs? His first game ever as a Yankee hit two home runs. Do you equate that to this? Toronto. Toronto versus JAAAP. JAAAP or who's happens to be pitching for the Yankees. If you somehow miss that so far. The teammates now. Yeah. Man, baseball. Didi was hitting poorly in the minors ever since he's come up. He's played great. Giancarlo was mashing in the minors. We'll see. Maybe it carries over and maybe it doesn't. That's why it's a beautiful game, Gemma. One of our buddies in the talking to chat, I think it was Jared, who got a quote tweeted by Cameron Maven today. Congrats, Jared. Yeah. Said, if he strikes out like three times, does he get booed? Like how quickly can Stan get booed even his first game back by them heathens in Yankee Stadium? I think if he strikes out three times, I think people will boo him. It's become kind of an inside joke amongst the asshole Yankee fans. Like, yeah, we boo Stan. That's what we do. Yeah. It's almost like a New York flex at this point. Like, oh, yeah, we could boo that guy. We'll boo anyone. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you stare at some booze. Just don't boo your mother. That's about it. Thinking about how that would play if I booed my mom. Like, what if she like... Oh, it doesn't go well. She gave me dinner. Like, Sunday dinner. Like, boo. I think New Yorkers are willing to boo everyone except their mother, pretty much. My mom watches a lot of our shows. I don't think she watches a pregame show, but I wonder how she'd take to a good booing. Not well. Interesting. Yeah. Talking from experience. I'll have intern Luke Boer. He's more brazen with that stuff. He won't do it in a brazen way, though. It'd be a casual boo. Yeah. Boo. Luke is shut your mouth. All right. Let's go on to Homer Draft. It's the Homer Draft. Homer Draft. It's the Homer Draft. Can you hit a Homer? Can you hit it really far? Homer Draft. Jake, I think you get to go first. I do. No one shows Cameron Maven yesterday, so there are currently no points on the board. I do get to go first, James, and I am going to take Giancarlo Stanton, a little rope adult from before. I think he's coming in hot, babe. Wow. You're such a dummy. Short porches won, and then he yanks one left field over the bullpen. I think Stan has two foul balls that are very impressive. Okay. But he goes 0 for 0 with five walks. Wow. Bold. Really bold. Not a lot of people would be willing to make that. Yeah, do you see what John Boy said on the pregame show? He predicted five walks. Does he know something? All right, so if you take Stan, I cannot take Stanton because you have him. I can't take Gary, and I can't take Hicks. I am taking Edwin. Edwin was the story yesterday. He went over four lengthy at bats, like over four of the results bad, bad night, but he didn't look like lost at the plate. No. I think Stan takes all the pressure off Edwin, and the storyline is going to be like, oh yeah, we still got this guy too. I think the parrot goes for a trip around the bases today. And then fuck it, dude. Give me Cameron Maven. Wow. Wow. Jim, some of your best Homer draft picks since probably mid to late April. Really proud of you. Thank you. Really proud of you. Love the Edwin theory. That's just good math there. Unfortunately, you're getting a nuclear lineup for me today because I have to take Gary just in case he sits tomorrow. So yeah, I mean, Gary and Jim Carlos Stanton. What about it? You two had me right now. Every time Gary hits a homerun, I ship one of these hats to someone who retweets my Gary homerun. You think you're going to, you're just going to hat? Is this a hats pod? Can someone screenshot this? Someone wants to get this out to the public. I'll make it my new Abbey. We're a hats podcast. Let me sink down for you. How's this look? I think it's a good look. Yeah. Summer draft took a turn. All right. Time to do the over-under, Jake. Yesterday we were both correct. Tank, shut them down. Yankees put up three. That was free money if we're being completely honest. I'm always honest. It's a good trait. Well, yesterday you told everyone I was a liar. Well, you are a liar. You like lying. Yeah, but I'm honest about being a liar. Right. You only lied about being a thief. Wait, hold on. So what do we got today? We've got opener and happer. Free money. Nice. I heard you were giving out free money. Got the sound board over here. Oh, hey, if the next person type a random letter, I will play the corresponding sound bite. What do you think the over-under is, James? I think it's two. Two? No. I think it's eight and a half. I just saw it and I'll tap out. I wouldn't have had it anyways. I wouldn't win nine because I think people hate half. It's nine and a half. OK. Also, F was the first letter, which is a really good drop. That's not where it resumed. Really good drop. Barbaric. That's not where it resumed. Senator Byrd, RIP. All right. Nine and a half, Jake. I'm feeling the under again. I think these teams play each other close. Ray's bats are, Tanaka just put the Ray's bats into a slide that they will not recover from until September 15th. Yeah, this one's really tricky because you got a Ray's lineup that doesn't look that great. But I think what's going to be bigger here is I think we see some runs early. But then I think we've got two well-rested bullpens here. So I think you might see six or seven on the board early, but then it gets shut down. So maybe the first five over full game under. OK. I'll take the under as well. You're 2018 in the over under. I heard you were giving out free money. Good job. I mean, could if with a loss, I could be one game above 500 tomorrow. So it's not. Oh, you loved it. Is this your strategy? I'm not thinking. I'm never thinking. Yeah. Spot the lie. Let's go off free money. All right. What's next? What are we doing the previous show? Talk to the chat. Yeah. You normally check out the chat for a second. We'll see if there's any good questions or comments. I'm out on bad questions and comments. OK. So. It's well known. Just went to your oldest videos. What is this whiskey shot thing? Hmm. Is that a good or bad question? It's a really good question. I don't know how you describe it. I said I respond. I said those are just weird times, Carl. Yeah. Clint Frazier getting traded, question mark. Definitely getting shopped. I think it would have to be a perfect package. I don't think they're just going to trade them and trade them. Clint Frazier should not have been demoted. It was kind of a numbers game. And there was no way he was surviving. Judge Stan and Edwin. Yeah. And I mean, what would you do now? Would you send down Cameron Maven, who's been great? Are you going to give me the DFA SESA card? I mean, what are you going to give me right now? And where would you put him in this lineup? I think the person who sent that in looks like they're a Dodger fan, so maybe they don't know the host's scope. Sure. What's your favorite MLB team? Good question, Jake. Good question for you. And please be honest. I lean Yankees. Same. Who's your favorite team outside of the Yankees? Ooh. I don't know. I will say this. The White Sox are fun. We just played them, but they're a fun dugout. But the risk the White Sox run is if they're not good next year, then they're a bunch of jokesters. This year right now, where they have a window where they're playing with house money, they can be fun, they can be loose because there's no expectations. If next year, the White Sox have that same dugout vibe, but they're still playing 500 ball, it's not going to slide. So they have kind of this window of operation where they can be fun and loosey-goosey, and it's all good, which I'd like. I like watching what they do, and I like watching what they're about, but they're not going to have a lot of leeway to do that unless they win. If they win next year and are doing it, then that's fantastic. If Geolito can hold up, they get Kopeck back and maybe sign another starter. They're going to be a solid squad next year. I'll go with my Rockies, Jim. Yeah, I still do enjoy the Cubs like one through nine. There's a lot of guys there that are fun. The Braves have been fun lately. I don't know, that's a tough question right now. Astros are the final boss. So would you have a World Series prediction? Do you care? I'm not going to do that. AL team versus NL team. Ah, fuck, you stole mine. Yeah. Okay. Thoughts about Cespidus wanting to play golf now instead of baseball? Is that a thing? Sounds safer than horse stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. Okay. Jake, a lot came in when we started doing questions. Jake, how upset will you be if the next don't take R.J. Barrett? Okay, if it's Jamerrant. Who goes bald first? Me or you? Ooh. I got a thick head of hair still. It's going gray, but it's thick. Yeah, my hair has always been fine and thin. But no male pattern baldness. Because it's supposed to be your mom's dad, right? Yeah. Baldness doesn't run in my family. I think my mom's dad had a full head of hair from everything I heard. So I don't know. I guess you could lean me. A little more Pizon, a little more Italian baldness going on over here. Yeah, good question. Great Q. Can you please do a breakdown of Luke Voight hitting a homerun the other day against White Sox and then the next step that pitcher went up and in. I didn't think that was worthy of a breakdown. I posted the whole ordeal on Twitter with like, you know, with the caption and stuff, but it seemed it was a 10 second tweet instead of a two minute video. But maybe it's probably too old now, but I did, I did like cover that. Breakdown of it. Breakdown anything. I'll break down your butt right now. Turn around. That was the time to end it, man. There's been another hot ending. No, dude. The questions are coming. People want to hear. I know I got other stuff to do. It's a Yankees pregame show. Mike Trout or Bryce Harper? At what? Botchy ball. Ooh. You still want, you still want Trout there. Harper's too much of a high head. Worst team in MLB baseball. This is the last one we'll do. It's got to be the Baltimore Orioles. They have the worst pitching staff ever assembled, Jake. I'd like to see them versus the Marlins could be a fun series. Marlins have been winning lately. I think it's actually the Royals are like just as bad. Royals are in a tough spot too. Yeah. I mean it would be the stink ball would be pretty fun this year. I mean, Orioles can hit. They literally have the worst pitching staff ever assembled. The Royals. The Royals can run. Royals can run. They can run with anyone. Track me. They got a track team trying to play baseball. And the fishies always have to steal my fishes from you. All right. Thank you guys for hanging out with us, watching us put on multiple hats. Yeah. And we will be back tomorrow with another pregame show. Our sports and news podcast tomorrow morning. John Boyn, Jake radio and some more breakdowns along the way. See ya.