 I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again, yeah, please, three out of four, we'll make it four or four later. Talking games, pre-game show. What do you got, Ken? Oh, wow. Jake is coming to you live from the airport. Aviators on, a little Unabomber. That's international. How come you have the sunglasses on? Someone's got to fly the plane, Jim. Well, it is Sunday. The Yankees have taken the first three from the Astros. We're in a good spot right now. And we have an interesting lineup because I thought for sure, it was live on Periscope last night for like an hour yesterday, Jake. I thought for sure, Judge was going to get the day off today. He played two in a row. That's what they've been doing. Judge does not have the day off. We actually have a pretty, any lineup is awesome. That's basically with a point. We have DJ LeMay, leading off, playing third base. Judge batting second, playing right field. Voight at first base. Gary Sanchez catching batting cleanup. Edwin and Carnassione in the fifth spot. Didi at short. Glaber falling second. Hickson center field. Gardner in left field. Stanton's on the bench. Urshela is on the bench. And Romain's on the bench. They called up Nestor Cortez and Cameron Maven-Scones. We're back to a three-man bench. I really thought Judge was going to have the day off. Stanton has the day off after a huge game yesterday. Gary and Glaber got the days off after their huge games. What this series has taught us is that the Yankees have a lot of good players and you can give guys rest and the lineup still looks good. Like, stands out of this lineup and everyone's still saying, whoa, are we sure? Yeah, I mean, we're, Jim, we're kind of, I don't want to say baseball traditionalists, but I think there will be a day when we're looked at as people that appreciate a little older version of the game. LeMay, you judge one, two. I mean, that's just fun. That's like just the leadoff hitter. Okay, the guy that makes a ton of contact and he's going to give you a chance and give a rip at it. And then Aaron Judge, and you're right. I mean, you thought he'd get the day off today, but we saw Stanton drive LeMay, you and Judge in yesterday, which was nice. But we'll see, he gets the day off and you're, that's still the top five, Jim. I mean, the top seven when you go Dede and Glaber, right now the top five is just like, oh my God, wait, Sanchez, Edwin? Like it's just, I think it's evolving again where you and I went from our top six should be dangerous to our top seven should be dangerous to now. Like our top five should be scary and it is. It is, yeah. Stan did not play a complete game yesterday again. So we're like very careful with Stan's almost like, Are we on watch with that? Like where are we at with that? So he's played four games since coming back. He's had two off days now in like the six days together. Like this is another off day. So six games, he's had two off days. He's had two where he got subbed out before the game ended and two complete games. So I don't know. It's interesting. They're being overly cautious with Stan and I thought they'd be more cautious with Judge today, but I don't know. I'm fine with it. It's just interesting. We can watch it, yeah. Yeah. I mean, do we be mad? Are we mad? Are we sad? No. Our lineup is so deep that they can rest guys and they love, this is Yankee's dream. They love resting guys and we can be aggravating. It's not anymore. We can rest those guys and we can still win. What is it, Jim? Seven games in a row? Eight? No, I think they've won eight in a row. Well, two versus the White Sox, three versus the Reyes. That's five and now three here. That's eight. Yeah, man. They're on a roll. This Houston team isn't at full strength, but the Yankees haven't been at full strength. Like we're just now at full strength. Right. So like that's an excuse. You can't triple stamp a double stamp. Yeah. Like Yankees are finally at full strength. This Houston team is not. Oh, you're not at full strength, Houston. Let's talk about it. We do have Verlander on the mound for Houston today, which you and I very much appreciate what Verlander does. Like he crushes the Yankees. He pitches with so much cockiness that you and I, I know that you and I love watching it. Even when it's, even when the Yankees are getting shut down, I still get impressed with it. Like, holy shit. Like he just takes his fastball and shoves it down your throat. It's almost old school ace. It's three, one. I will throw my fastball and you still won't hit it. And it's, I mean, when it's right, it's right. I mean, I mean, you talk intimidators on the mound. It's probably Verlander one half two. Yeah. Haps got that Swedish doctor. I'm going to, I'm going to put you to sleep and you're never going to wake up intimidation. Right. I'm going to wear your skin. Yeah. Verlander. I'm going to show you. Yeah. So you know who has good numbers versus Verlander? Who has them? DD Gregorius is seven for 19. That's a 368 batting average. 455 on base percentage in 22 at bats. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Brett Gardner has a good amount of hits versus Verlander, but his overall numbers aren't great, but they're kind of good for versus Verlander. Other than that, there's not much going on. I mean, Edwin and Garnassione has popped them twice for two home runs, but has a 300, but has a 167 on base percentage. So Edwin must be going up there like, well, this guy, fuck that. I'm just trying. He just searching for like one mistake and it looks like 35 times out of 40. He hasn't gotten that mistake, but the times he has, he's done some damage. Every, every, every hundred pitch Edwin sees. Yeah. He gets a real meatball from Verlander. Yep. He's a monster, man. And he's, he's still my biggest concern in the American League. Who is Verlander? You broke up a little. Yeah. Easily Verlander is my biggest concern in the American League. Well, Verlander, his last seven games, four earned runs, three earned runs, three earned runs, one, two, one, one. So his last three games, he's allowed 334, which isn't terrible, but for Verlander, it's kind of like more than I would expect. Yeah. And it's, I mean, for him, it's always going to be, I mean, he's at the point where it's reputation over what's happening. Like if we would be more shocked if Verlander gave up five today, then if he went eight and scoreless, you know. Yeah. He's very good. And he's very good against Yankees. Have they been winning Verlander starts? So I'm going to look at right now. Yeah. His last, they've lost three of his last five. So. Looks a surprise. Yeah. HAP on the other hand, isn't intimidating, does not have intimidating stuff. And that's about it. HAP's last couple of games, where are they? Two earned runs, four earned runs, one, one, three. So it's actually not that bad. Let's see how he does here. I mean, are we, are we, what are we expecting? What do we want out of HAP today? Like last time he went out there, he gave five innings pitched, two earned runs versus the raise. The bullpen's kind of taxed. Like to get him to six innings pitched today with three or less. Like a quality start out of him would be great. Is that happening too much? His last start was an escape. I mean, for HAP, it seems, it seems pretty obvious. And I don't know if this is a little lazy, Jim, but it's those, in every lineup, those top hitters that are righties, they spare the hell out of us versus HAP. We don't trust them against an Alex Bregman yet. Like, like we, we know we're not in the advantageous position in that matchup. So I mean, for me is seeing how he deals with Bregman in the top of that line about two-way, two times. Well, I think he lands six innings pitched one or another. And he struggles with Bregman out two-way. He lands at like five innings pitched four. So. All right. We got to, we got to. He's too lazy, but we got to. We just got to do the Homer draft. Do you have a what to watch for? Like one sentence, Jake, because we can't understand a thing you're saying. We lose you completely. My what to watch for, Jim? Yeah. No, I'm, I'm here, girl. Get against Houston. Are you kidding me? All right. We, we can't hear anything you're saying. Let's do a Homer draft. That's one word answers. We'll get that done. And then maybe I'll take some questions. Who's first pick in the Homer draft? It is me. I have first pick in the Homer draft, Jake, and I cannot take Gary. I cannot take Maven. I can't take Dede. I can't take Stan. It's time. I'm taking judge as my first pick versus Verlander. Okay. Heard of them. Heard of them. All right. So you've taken Gary. I have to take Gary. I'm sorry. Because he's available to me. And that, that's how the game worked. And give me Voight. I was going to take Voight. I'm going to take DJ LaMahew. They called him the sale killer. Now let's see what he can do versus Verlander. It'd be cool if DJ just had big at bats versus big pitchers. Our biggest adversaries, pitchers in the, uh, that we're going to face down the stretch. That would be very cool. DJ Esk. That's what he's like, kind of provided this season. So I'm going to go. Dede material. Yeah. I'm going to go judge and Dede. Let me find the over under for this game. Unless you have it. No. I can get there. What do you think it is, Jim? I think it's eight. Eight and a half. I think it's eight and a half. Yeah. Eight and a half seems like the play. Let's see. Um. Well, Tigers Indians. No. Where is it? I can't. Oh, here we go. Astros Yankees. Nine and a half. Yeah. Wow. Nine and a half. Undercruel, huh? Yeah. I mean, I do not expect the Yankees to bomb Verlander. Like Verlander is very good. Even though our lineup is really good. Well, I still not going to like disrespect Verlander in that way. Yeah. It's the theory I dropped before. It's five runs versus one earned run. You'd be much more surprised by a five earned run start than a one earned run. Yeah. I'm going to go under. You're going to under. I am now. Well, those are all fake. We both got the over right last time. All right. That's the pregame show. Got anything else you want to say, Jake? I might take some questions here. So it's going on in the chat. We got Trevor C. Is a Cubs fan. He used the super chat. Supported the show. Appreciate that, Trevor. He's a Cubs fan. He says they should trade Chris Bryant for pitching. Both him and Baez are their contracts up. And Bryant's free agent. Bryant's agent is Boris. Man, free agents. It's the year of extensions right now. Boris is kind of like the opposite. But everyone's getting extensions. I wonder if Chris Bryant is going to go after the free agent market. I mean, in the end, the top dudes like Manny, like Bryce, like Corbin did get paid. So I think Boris and Bryant will go test the free agent market. But he's so essential to winning right now. And if the Cubs aren't out of it, so I don't think you can, I don't think you can trade him. I didn't even know he was going to be a free agent this off season, which is actually really interesting because he's pretty good. Again, not to be symbolic in lane, but Chris Bryant was like the start of the new Cubs. And if, I mean, if he's gone, that's like, that's them moving on to a different era when they're, they're a team that could very well still be there in October. Dude, Chris Bryant. Like they signed Kimbrell. Has Kimbrell even played for them yet? I don't know. But yeah, they're trying to win right now. So I don't think they're in a position to get rid of talent. They're in a position to bring talent in. And Baez and Bryant both are key to them winning right now. Dude, Bryant's numbers are crazy. He has a career OPS that starts with nine and his career on base percentage is 386. In five years. Yeah. I think he's a, I think there's a little bit, he's kind of a new age player. I think you'd frustrate you slightly on a day-to-day basis if you track what he's doing. But I mean, when the numbers come together, he's, he's great. He plays all over and he, he rakes. He's never had an OVP below 374 on a season. Hop down. Yeah. It's pretty good. All right. Let's see. Voitz in Chicago PD. What the fuck? I don't know what that means. Lucas Voight. I mean, Luke Voight. I don't think so. No, Bryce Harper in the all-star game. Yeah. That curse died when he moved a crap team like the Red. I think they're talking about some, I don't know what that's about. How do you feel about the rays might be going to Montreal? We talked about that on the radio show a couple of days ago a lot. They're locked into Tampa till 2027. So, and the, the St. Pete mayor basically was like, there's no, this isn't happening. There's no way. I thought about that, Jim. Maybe he was just angling for a little payoff. You know what I'm saying? I think the whole thing is smoke screens just to start the conversation and to start like, it's basically a negotiation tax. Like it's a big bluff. Like now St. Pete's going to be like, okay, well, because, because the mayor of St. Pete gave them three years. If you want to go to Tampa, that's fine, but go to go figure it out and find the spot and build it in Tampa. Not St. Pete. He was like that as long as we stay in the Tampa area. You're cool. They didn't do anything in those three years. So now they're like, we're going to move to Montreal. Cause they, they want out of that area and the mayor's like, well, you didn't even do like the Tampa thing. So they're just strong. It is like this right now. And this was like a chess move that spawns more moves. It's not the actual move. It's just kind of like, let's change the conversation. We're serious. So we'll see how it goes. I don't know, man. I think it's just started the exit. How often do you hear a conversation like that? And then it's like, and Tampa worked out great. Like it, it doesn't, you know? Yeah. Not a MAGA hat. Luke Voight plays for the Yankees. Break down the twins near triple play yesterday. Dude, I have so many things on my breakdown list that I need to do. It's going to take forever. I need Luke to come in here and like start procuring the videos for me. All right. The pro yeti donated to the cause. We really appreciate that the pro yeti. He said, despite being a socks fan, this is the best baseball channel on YouTube. Thank you, man. That's really nice. Nice. Yeah. And yeah, we're having our meeting to this week to talk about the MLB show that we're going to try and do and MLB pod too. Yep. The Red Sox are eight plus games back after the all star break. What are their chances of coming back in the division, like winning the division, not that high, making the wild card pretty good probably because they're a good team. Well, you just showed who you support. I don't support anyone and you don't know dick about that. You guys should have a reddit where fans can post clips. I don't know if we're big enough for that. I don't know if you can start that for yourself. I have no idea. The location in St. Pete is pretty good. Just the ballpark is terrible. I heard the location is terrible for traffic reasons. Like it takes four hours to get there even if you're in Tampa. I never been. I don't know. I don't know. Philip says the Yankees suck. Well, not currently. Currently they've won eight in a row. They just swept the raise and they can sweep the Astros today and they're in first place playing five games. So currently Philip Yankees don't suck. What's that? They're two biggest competitors in the AL. They're going to sweep back to back. You're timing Philip. Yeah. Philip with terrible timing there. Timing is everything in life, Philip. Or is it Philippe? It might be Philippe. I don't know. It seems like he's a Philippe. Yeah. You know what, Jake? I actually agree with this. Judge is going to the All-Star game in right field. It's such bullshit. Actually, on the next John Boyd, Jake Radio, we have to have a good, big conversation about the All-Star game and all this because it's in a really bad spot right now. The athletic part of the article about the players and they're just like, this is such bullshit. It'll be a bigger conversation for JGR, but it affects their money. It's so stupid. Yeah. And it's cool with J. Orchella, but then you also zoom out and you're like, well, he was good, but maybe he's not an All-Star. So it's like, we're multiplying the Orchella's and we're multiplying. I don't know. The whole thing's bizarre because it's supposed to be entertaining. So if you want to see our judge, so yeah, baseball does not have a figured out current. You should not be able to bring All-Star stuff into arbitration negotiations. It should not be on the table there at all. No. All right. No. All right. All right. Well, old timers day is about to start. John and Michael just took their tables and John's talking. So I am, there he is. I'm out of here. See you guys. Thank you very much for watching with us. I'll be on, if you want to follow along, if you're a Yankees fan or a Kitschers fan, I'll be on Twitter at Johnboy underscore. Jake's at the airport. So I'll eventually be on Twitter. And if you're a Yankees fan, we will be reviewing this entire, recapping this entire series after the game today. Oh my God. This is not a Trump hat. It's a Luke Voight hat. I can't wear this hat anymore. I didn't even know you were 45th president. I won the hat off. I had no fucking idea that this would ever be confused. I won the hat off. A political hat. Let's go, Bernie. There you go. Is there a politician named Elgarie? I don't know. I hope there's not a politician named Elgarie. Ah, fucking nice. It's Trump's nickname, dude. If you wear that hat. You're a liberal. You don't know what I am. You don't know anything about me. You guys suck and suck. We're out.