HUGE Braves-Angels brawl, Taj Bradley shines, Fish pull Sandy, Konnor Griffin deal done, Horton surgery

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Speaker 1: We are here for is Anski Kratz Brown we have a brawl to discuss or we are going to take one moment to toss some flowers to AJ. You predicted this, it happened to a t. Connor Griffin signs for nine years one hundred and forty million dollars. There's escalators in there that could push it up to one fifty. There's a signing bonus paid out over the next three years that's twelve million. But I have a conspiracy theory, AJ, this was agreed to when we first saw a busterer one tweet posting the exact deal a week ago, and then it's like, wait, you can't post that yet because if he wins Rookie of the Year they get an extra draft pick, but not if the deal is agreed to. So you were like, yeah, they'll wait several days.

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Speaker 2: They did.

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Speaker 1: They waited a week.

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Speaker 2: Strange how that worked out, right? I mean, isn't this old news?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 2: Why are we talking about this? At the top of the show, I thought we knew this, Like I don't know we could go or so why are we bringing this up now? Everyone already knew this was happening, or even before Buster only was already talked about.

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Speaker 3: See before it was Buster Posey that broke it, according to Scott, So now Buster only broke it. Arson Judge extension.

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Speaker 1: It's true, it's real. Now it's official. He hugs his dad, He gets the teammate showing up to the press conference. Congratulations to Connor Griffin, nineteen years old, highest paid Pittsburgh Pirate ever by guaranteed contract before he steps foot in the big leagues. Now he's in the big leagues. But wink, wink, this one was done beforehand. You're seeing the news pop up again because it is now official. And now let's charge's charge. Yeah literally, jorgesel Layer charging the mound to aj and going after Raynaldo Lopez. He did not like the hit by pitch and then the pitch that gets close to buzzing the tower off him first time around. He's also got ridiculous video game numbers against him. I don't want to bury the lead to sixty two year old Walt Weiss was the one who came in to save the day and prevent so Laer from hurting more humans.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, listen, he owned him. He owned Lopez, so fine, what did Lopez do? He brushed him, by the way. The pitch that hit him he almost swung at by the way. Let's not for I mean, he was like a oh man, and he like nicked his hand. It wasn't even I mean, I don't know, Kratz, maybe you and I have different opinions on this, but I didn't think it was really even that close to him. I mean, it hit him obviously, but it wasn't like right here at his head. It was more kind of out here, just I want to back him up a little bit. And then the next one was kind of the same thing, and he almost swung at both of him. And then he went and I give wore a celeire credit. He went, and there was some talking first, but he went. But Kratz, where's Jonaheim? Jonaheim just back there like the umpire, Like, hey man, great job on the on the abs so far this year. Like oh, by the way, your guys charging the mound, Like isn't that your number one job as a catcher to not let that guy get there? Took him down form tackle.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know what you all star catchers do, but as the backup catcher, if that dude gets out there. That is a big time fail. That's almost you should get cut, like you cannot let anybody get to your pitcher, especially in that case. It wasn't like it wasn't like hit him, sprint out there. It was culminating. And you saw Jonah him on the one close up that I watched. He was just kind of in the background. He was like looking over and then he saw him say something and he looked back over again. Oh crap, need to get him. And then if you watch the replay that we're watching right now, it's real tough. Jonah's getting he's getting boxed out by like first and third base coaches. Weiss is in there before him. But yeah, it was a big old melee. That's two big boys that are going after each other too.

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Speaker 2: By the way, it is get the way. Yeah they're both getting suspended. But my thing is is like once, like fine, so there got there. But there's that split second. I've been in these before where there's that split second where you have to make a decision what am I doing? And your first instinct as a catcher is to grab the dude that just charges your picture no matter what. Right if he punches you, fine, you deal with the punch, but you got to make sure that dude does not get any swings on your picture. He can't get any licks on your picture no matter what. If you hold him and your picture hits him, great, that's good. But you can't let and this is not not Jonah Hunt's probably never had the mound charge, never even thought about because nobody really does it anymore. But that's rule number one as a catcher is that guy does not get a swing on your picture. And he got a lot of swings. And I was just shocked because then Joe to drop your glove, Jonah, and use both hands and grab him and don't let him go, and then you're gonna get tackled and punched and all that stuff. But he cannot get a swing on your picture.

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Speaker 3: So I had one chance. I had one chance. In my entire career. Prince fielders are an altercation. This was in rookie ball, so we're talking two thousand and two. And the dude that charged the mound was like two hitters two hitters later, and I mean he our pitcher threw up at his head, he ducked it, skimmed his helmet, and he was ducking and he was already running out there, so he had like three steps on me. I'm not catching anybody. I threw my mask at him, I threw my glove at him, anything to get him to get away from our picture. But as soon as our picture like started drifting towards first base, that's when I was able to, you know, the momentum change, and I was able to grab him, spin him off. And then when I spun him off, he turned and our first basement came in and just picked our first basement right off, right in the nose, just blood everywhere. Tremendous story.

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Speaker 2: Wow. Uh Well, I had it to have it once to me, and it was Miguel Olevo and he charged DJ Carrascal at the basis loaded and I was and I listen, he almost charged he. It was base loaded, and he threw a pitch up and then didn't mean to, and Olivo swung at it and actually hit him. And then the next pitch he threw in the same spot, this time he almost swung at it and did hit him, and he charged him out and the base loaded, and so he ran out there and I got him, and I saw DJ at the players. The players thing we did in spring training and we were laughing about it, and I said, DJ, what's the one thing I taught you? And he's like, if you grab the guy, I hit him. And I'm like, exactly, because I grabbed, I run out there. I have Alevo wrapped up. He went to hit him, He put his arms like, you know, kind of widened out and I and I went right between his arms, so I had his arms behind his back and he was he was stuck like this right before anybody got there, and DJ Carrasco takes his glove and just goes hey and didn't do anything, and I'm like, hit him. He was not coming out here to say hi, I hit him, and then of course everyone gets there, all hell breaks loose. A Levo tried to actually hit me in the pile and I ducked and ended up hitting jose Gian, which was kind of, you know, funny enough for for not for me, if not for Joseva for me because he was trying to hit me, and uh, that was it. But but I mean I was like, this, dude, I don't care how big or fast you are, you ain't getting because he had at some point, they have to stop, right so before they swing, they're not running out there and tackling them. They always stop. And that's the split second where you got to get him as a catcher.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 1: But I'm happy to say this and stop.

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Speaker 2: I like this, So Scotty, are you kidding me? Let's we need more of this? Yes, this brings attention. I mean they're gonna say, oh, it's negative attention. Who cares? Remember when hockey when they dropped the gloves USA and Canada before the game's even started. Guess what everyone watched next time usavers Canada. Guess what everyone's gonna watch next time the Braves and the Angels and Ronaldo Lopez play. I mean it might won't be until next year. They're gonna want to see or so there and Rinaldo Lopez face off. I mean it might be bad press, but it's still people talking about baseball.

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Speaker 1: Is definitely possible. I've done stuff like that too. The best way to do this, though, is use the code Territory one zero. If your next set of tickets at sea Geek, that's ten percent off. Any tickets with the promo code Territory one zero. Make sure you click the link in the description to download the app, have that code automatically added to your account so you can use it later. Props to sea Geek. Yeah, and if it's happening all the time, every day, Okay, it's rarely happening. It has become a true novelty in the sport. I mean it might happen to that extent a few times the entire year, over thousands and thousands of games in Major League Baseball. So I certainly don't think we have a problem there. And you administer suspension, so that holds some weight. Rinaldo Lopez is a starting pitcher, so you imagine he's going to get at least five games. So they try and kind of like miss a start. What's what's the problem for?

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Speaker 3: What what's your to get five? For getting charged?

00:10:37
Speaker 1: Well, he punched back.

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Speaker 3: Well if that's the case, then somebody should just not a designated charger. Hey, we're facing We're facing Garrett Crochet charge them. Oh crap, all right, here we go.

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Speaker 2: How do you think Robin Ventura got out there? Do you think Robin venturea charge? And Nolan Ryan, because you they had a thing before the game, they said he's going to hit somebody whoever he hits has to go to the mount and get him out of the game. That adventure is just happened to be that guy, and then asked Robin, he was not happy about this.

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Speaker 1: So you think it'll only be on solaiocrats. I'm I'm not saying what you think should happen. I'm saying what you think will happen. You think only Solaire gets game suspension punishments.

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Speaker 3: I think Lopez will get fined. I do think he'll get fined or maybe even suspension. But he didn't like he did he cause Like to me, if major Legue Baseball looks at it and says, oh, yeah, he caused this, like, I would have to see more evidence to say, because I don't feel like he was throwing at Solaire. Did he have to move Solaire off the play? Yes, he was hitting six hundred often. It was his fifth home run of his career off of one guy. That's a lot you got to move him. But I don't think he was like maliciously going after him. Now, are they going to get him for swinging at Solaire with the ball in his hand? Or maybe he like provoked him to come out there. Maybe I could. I could see that, but like somebody comes and charges me, I'm not just going to stand there and be like, I'm not getting suspended. Hit me, hit me, hit me, No, like you're gonna fight back. I don't think that's just he should get suspended for that.

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Speaker 1: Soor Lea thought he was thrown at. Of course he's going to say that. He was asked by an MLB dot Com reporter if he thought he threw out him on purpose. He said he didn't miss with the other hitters like that, like he missed to me, So I think it was intentional. And remember he homeward, he's got a history against him. Then he gets hit by a pitch. Yes, you can make the case that was not intentional at all. And then that one missing up and in certainly caused the Angels to be pissed off, primarily so Lair, but I will include all of the Angels. Remember last weekend, we just went over how there was a little bit of action towards Mike Trout and then he eventually gets hit by a pitch. But the same reporter, Jack Jayne said, Angels lead MLB it hit by pitches so far in twenty twenty six, Kurt Suzuki on if the team is frustrated with getting hit quote, it is part of the game. But there's going to come a time where enough's enough. You don't want to get hit by pitches. Ad I think that time came for the Angels.

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Speaker 2: Go get him. You wanted to stop, Go get him, make him stop. Though that means they're pitching inside. And I was never a big believer. And when this team leads the world and hit by pitches, so it's it's you know, sometimes it's also the hitters don't get out of the way right, So sometimes hitters are taught to stay in there and take it. So I don't know. I think it's all depending on how your teaming made up. But listen, good for Horace clere Man. He had a problem with Ronaldo Lopez. Ronaldo Lopez said, come get some and he tried, and Renaldo Lopez got the best shot in with the ball in his hand. I mean, that was the best part of this. He punched him with the ball in his hand. He didn't even he didn't even drop the ball and throw, and then he kind of if you watch it, there was a little wabble and soor lera after he got hit by with the ball in his hand, but he kept throwing. But he was throwing like open hand punches. He wasn't really like it was weird. It was like open hand punches.

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Speaker 1: Those are not as effected as effective as closed.

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Speaker 2: Hand with a ball with a base ball in it.

00:14:09
Speaker 1: True, true, it was great.

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Speaker 2: Listen, what why's a badass? We know that. We've talked about it with him. He's a like a twelve degree black belt in jiu jitsu or whatever he is. And even though he's like I'm old now, he's still strong when you see him. He's strong in person and he's quiet and he's nice. But I guarantee you piss him off, he'll go full black belt on you.

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Speaker 1: Did you guys see what David O'Brien put out the former Braves reporter. He told the story about how Walt Weiss essentially took out Josh Donaldson like pinned him years back when he when donald was pissed off about his place in the batting order.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't mess with what Wiss. We've said it. We said it before. We told we asked him in person, and he didn't want to talk about it. But do not mess with Walt wise he will he'll lock you up. Listen. I always tell people this. I all my kids this all the time. No matter how tough you are, there's always someone out there that can kick your ass and you don't know who it could be, and you don't know it, and it's usually the guy with the cauliflower ears. That's also the dude you probably don't want to mess with.

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Speaker 3: More the fanny pack. So fanny pack or cauliflower ears are the people you don't mess with. Just life advice.

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Speaker 1: He's a full service manager, I'll put I'll put it that way. I'll bring up the exact wording from David O'Brien here. He said, remember when I mentioned Walt Weis's MMA training and workouts back when he got hired as Braves manager. I must admit I never thought i'd see him use it in his new job. But there you go, a couple weeks into the season, already take down an imposing player. And he was talking about this back and forth with Donaldson. He said, only two to three others witnessed it, but the club hause it just emptied out for batting practice. He was still there interviewing Mike Soroka. Two dudes came flying across the room, one with the other in a choke hold, knock over a large potted plant a few feet from us. Which of them was administering the choke hold the older gentleman? It was something I'll tell you that you don't forget moments like that.

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Speaker 2: You don't if your coach chokes out a player, you definitely don't forget that. Now, I give Dave o brian credit. He didn't talk about this for a long time, so I give him credit. Apparently you can trust Dave o brian because most most reporters would have wrote that right away before they got out of the clubous it would already been tweeted. So I give Dave O'Brian credit for that.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, credit that that is true. Right. He's retired now, so he's gonna lay the stories out last part here. Does this provide any kind of spark for you, Aja, I mean, you weren't here the other day when we talked about Wilson contraras, actually that was yesterday. But does any of that kind of stuff fire up, fire you up, you know, brawl whatever? It is not that the teams needed it. Both the Braves and the Angels off to a pretty good start.

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Speaker 2: No, I don't think so. I think this is they don't play each other for a long time, so I think this will just go away. I think it's it's fun to talk about today, but as a team. Again, I've been in these before. They don't linger very long, especially on teams that don't play each other. I mean, the Braves and Angels won't play each other till next year, So it's not a thing. It'll go away. It's cool, you know, it's cool, and it's something fun to talk about, but I don't think it carries over. It means much other than it's a great story for everyone to tell. And then I guarantee there's guys in the clubhouse last night and today they're going, oh, let's see where he was, let's see what he did, And they're going through their teammates and they're finding the guy that didn't do anything. They're like, huh, you didn't do anything?

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Speaker 3: Where were you?

00:17:31
Speaker 2: What took you so long? Where were you?

00:17:32
Speaker 3: You know?

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Speaker 2: Krats how it is, what these things happen. Everyone goes through the tape about a million times and just looks for every person they know, Oh.

00:17:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's finish with this and then we'll get ready for our first guest. Say Langeleier is joining us, krats, Can you show everyone what Ronald Lukunya Junior did when he was running in bro.

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Speaker 3: I mean he was like he was like in uh oh, what's the he just I mean, he came running in and he was like, let's go, oh, we're ready, here we go. What is it the arm wrestling movie where.

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Speaker 2: He's over the top, Bro, come on over the.

00:18:06
Speaker 3: Top, he goes. He goes, when I moved my hat from here to here, I am ready over the top.

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Speaker 2: Sebby didn't have a Russian accent.

00:18:19
Speaker 3: Who wasn't?

00:18:20
Speaker 2: No, that was that was your Philly stallone accent.

00:18:24
Speaker 3: So it wasn't.

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Speaker 2: I forget who it was then, but it was still loone. It was stallone. It was over the top, he said, when I turned my hat around, it's like the start of an engine.

00:18:36
Speaker 3: That's what it is, okay.

00:18:37
Speaker 2: Because he was a truck driver. Remember it was called Hawk and Son by the way, Hawk and Son was the name of the truck driver. He had the machine in his truck where he just sit there and go and then he had to beat the big guy with the big mustache, the food made at the end that no one could beat. And he did the little with his fingers. He did a little move with his fingers where he went over the top.

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Speaker 3: I clearly didn't watch it as many times as AJ has.

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Speaker 2: So anyways, Scott's like, what are you guys talking about?

00:19:05
Speaker 1: I didn't watch that episode of foul Territory? Was that an all show or a Tricia show?

00:19:13
Speaker 2: Great flick, great flick.

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Speaker 3: It was what they would play. It was what they would play during Sunday Night Baseball and MB Network. So that's probably why you missed it.

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Speaker 1: M Yeah, I was always sleeping during those movies.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said.

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Speaker 3: That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said. You know, it's a sneaky good quote, John Schneider. And first we'll start with his ejection yesterday, well timed. AJ. The Blue Jays are struggle city right now, and a lot of it has to do with the injuries. We'll get to some of those later, but he did really lay it all out. He put it all out there in his ejection after the Dodgers took them down again. Well, during the mist of that game.

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Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, he did. That was a lot of frustration I think for Schneids, between the injuries, the beating they took the night before Monday when I was there and position players pitched for both teams. I mean, listen, this is one of those that was almost like, I have to do this to try to get some emotion on my team. And he did it, and he got his money's worth and his fate. When his face went red, you were like, Oh, this is not gonna end well for him. He's gone. But I want to ask Kratz a question because we kind of had this conversation after the game I did on Monday the Dodgers in the Blue Jays, is it more? Is it worse that you lose fourteen to one. You're losing fourteen to one and you have to pitch a position player in Heineman who came in, or that the Dodgers went out there and said, we don't think you can do anything, and we're gonna pitch Mickey Rowe in the night instead of one of our use one of our bullpen bullpen arms, which one's worse, not even close.

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Speaker 3: It's the fact that the other team is beating your brains in and they use a position player to finish the game out. I'm not saying it's I'm not saying Dave Robert was wrong in doing that. I think it's gene I don't know. I think it's a genius because you get every inning you save, and that's why when you're losing, you do that. Every inning you save, you're you're good to go for the next two or three days. But the fact that they couldn't they couldn't even use up their bullpenut like, that's way worse, way, way, more embarrassing, way, whatever words you want to use.

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Speaker 2: Agreed.

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Speaker 1: So Schneider also had obviously his team's getting messy with injuries, especially to their rotation. So Schneider had a quote about Patrick Corbin and we've been covering him for years in the game. He's popping back up here with Toronto and he's going to pitch, I believe, on Friday. So Schneid's who's a really sneaky good quote. I know if I Tello for the Giants is still in the show these days, but don't sleep on John Schneider. The feedback he got about Patrick Corbin from his old teammate Max Shuzer quote. I think Max called him a sod dog. It was the first time I've heard that. I guess he just kind of does what he's told and pulls the sled. Ah. Have you heard of the term slod dog.

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Speaker 2: I've heard of a sled dog, but I've never heard of a sod dog. I mean, listen, back sometimes speaks his own language. So just let him go. Just let just let him roll, because maybe he was talking out of his blue eye instead of his brown eye. I don't know, but I don't know. Sometimes you gotta let Max just go.

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Speaker 3: I don't know. I looked up. I looked up AI sod dog. Sod for Dogs provides a natural absorbit non toxic surface for pet potty training. I don't know. I'm not sure sod dog. But I know what Patrick Corbyn does do. He doesn't say boo about anything. He comes in and gets a contract with the NATS, wins the World Series and takes it on the chin for the next few years because his e er isn't very good. And you know what he keeps doing coming out there. He keeps showing up every single day, making every one of his starts during that time. He didn't duck away. He didn't duck away like you see some dudes that get contracts and they're like, I just can't make it. He showed up and he actually kind of reinvented himself towards the end of that contract and end last year, where he's still the same guy that's making all his starts, but he had better numbers. So I don't know that is high praise coming from Max Schurzer. If a dude just is going and knows that this dude just goes out there he said, does what he's told and helps the team win.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And that's why he's still in the league too. That's a big part of it. As he gets up there in years, let's get to a guy who does go very deep in his outings and is super reliable, but a little bit pissed off. San Dielo Contra removed from last night's game, the game that his team ultimately lost. He was responsible for the two is that we're on hitting a walk. He was like writy on deck and they decided to remove me. So the quote from him, as tweeted by Isaacazook from Fish on first part of the e Fty Network quote. I feel like I deserved to be asked how I feel before getting taken out of the game at ninety five pitches and already on deck. But I respect the decision. Should this have been handled differently? A j If the Marlins want to take them out, they take him out. But do you have to handle it differently with your acem.

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Speaker 2: No, it's a it's a It depends on how what your relationship is. I feel like Sandy's been so good for this team for so long, and there's his numbers. What kind of want that guy on the mound. I'm not gonna lie. Did you think he could go? Yes, Sandy's the guy who wants to finish every game. He's kind of like an old school guy in that respect. He wants to go nine innings. He doesn't want to go six or seven or whatever it is. He wants to go and from the Marlins. I kind of want to let him do that because isn't he going to get treated anyways? So why are we even having this conversation, like, let him pitch as much as he can for them. I don't know, know, it's a weird conversation. And Clayton McCollugh knows him better than we do, but we all know that Sandy wants the ball for nine ins.

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Speaker 3: I think I think the beauty of Sandy is he says this if they win the game, too, like he wants to be out there. It's not because they lost, It's because he wants to be out there, and I think he is their best option, especially with Pete Fairbanks down. Now, if you watch the game last night, when he walked off the mound, when he walked off into the dugout, he took his hat off and tip tipped his hat to the crowd as he was walking off in the at the end of the eighth and I saw Clayton McCullough go down the tunnel and talk to him. Now, obviously we have no idea what he says, but did he think he was coming out of the game at that point? Was that hat tip for something else? I don't know. But if you're told, hey, you're back out there, I don't know that Clayton McCollugh needs to necessarily ask you if you're okay, like he had just gone CG the time before. It's early in the season. Yes, I get it, you're dealing, but pushing it to the limit. I mean the manager. The manager is the one. The manager is the one that needs to make that decision. But yes, you're one hundred percent right, Scott, that your ace, your number one, is treated differently. Everybody will be treated fairly, but not everybody will be treated equally. Like you talk to him more than you would talk to a Yuri Perez who's also a good pitcher but hasn't earned the same clout as Sandy. And maybe maybe Clayton doesn't didn't know how to handle it because Sandy last year wasn't going to this point.

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Speaker 1: He also is hit with the triple whammy runners on base that he's responsible for both score that's number one, number two blown save two outs, and Elie de la Cruz comes racing home on a while pitch from Bender that's two, number three. Team lost the game, So it's the triple whimmy. It sucks, so postgame you're going to be pissed. I'm actually wondering a little bit of a conspiracy here. Aj Sandy's starting to get a little more open with the me. I love it, of course, we love when guys are speaking their mind. He wasn't pleased with being removed from the game. Last time around. He had the CG and he's like, that was fun, but nobody was here. We're getting some quotes from Sandy's popping up on this segment pretty frequently lately.

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Speaker 2: I like it. Those guys get more comfortable, they open up, and that's what we like. We want guys to be comfortable. We want guys to open up and you know, be themselves. And Sandy's doing that. And listen, Sandy's earning the respect. Sandy's got a cy young Sandy's got the respect of the Marlins organization and the respect to people in baseball. He can say and do what he wants at this.

00:27:56
Speaker 3: Point, and I like it in twenty twenty, playing that at the end of the season, obviously there's no fans in the stands he was in. I had just gotten done catching a bullpen. I wasn't playing, but he was in the outfield and he stopped me and the pitching coach or the assistant pitching coach at the time, because it wasn't anyway whatever, And just hearing him talk like he rarely do you talk to the opponent, but the fact that you know just hearing the way that he talked, hearing the way that he like he commands like a presence about him, and so I'd love to talk to him now at six years later, six full seasons later, he commands that type of presence. And I think he said, I think he would say the things that he said this year other times. Maybe they just didn't put a mic in front of his face because he's not He's not afraid. He's not like, in no way is he disrespectful about it, but he's not afraid of saying what he thinks. And he's earned that clout now. But he was kind of like that in twenty twenty, where it was like you knew what he was about. He was about going CG, he was about the Marlins winning, and he was there for the boys. So I love that we're getting it in the media now.

00:29:10
Speaker 1: He's about to get a lot more of the spotlight if he keeps pitching like that. He is going to be the most talked about pitcher over the next couple months because the Marlins will trade him and AJ. We had David Sampson on while you were gone, and Samson thinks that the Marlins are going to essentially trade him regardless. As long as the asking price has met, they could be leading the division. And Samson, a former Marlins executive, thinks that the way that the current front office operates, they will they look for their asking price. It hasn't been hit yet, but as soon as it's hit, boom, he's gone, because it's all about maximizing every player in their return. That's what Samson said. Still be myers, but they'll be sellers too. No.

00:29:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of what the Marlins have always done, right. They try to thread the need and be good, but they're never really that good except for the two years they win the World Series, and then other than that they don't really seem to try. Fans perspective, David Simpson said something else. I saw on a clip. What was the other thing he said? And I was like, what is he talking about? And I forget what it was now. Oh man, I'm sure he did say something else and I was like, what is he talking about?

00:30:14
Speaker 1: Was it CBA stuff?

00:30:16
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:30:17
Speaker 2: There was a clip and it was the abs on every pitch, That's what it was. And I was like, no, No, that's yeah, that's yes, abs on every pitch. I'm like, and then, didn't you say the ABS wasn't good or didn't you say it wasn't good because he wants it on every pitch? And I'm like, no, because here's what people ask me every every place I go, every everywhere I go. The first one of the first questions people ask me is what do you think of the ABS? And I said, you know what, It's done, more than anything, proved how right umpires are most of the time, because most of the time they're pretty dang good. Now they're adjusting to a new thing too, because it's not a three D zone like they're used to calling. But it's proving that these umpires are pretty dang good.

00:31:00
Speaker 1: Yeah. I think it was last night in the Yankee game where the ump was yelling back like, Hey, if you don't like my freaking call, then challenge it. I mean, that.

00:31:09
Speaker 3: Is good.

00:31:10
Speaker 1: I want all of that. I want the league to actually promote that telling umpires, if someone says a word to you, tap your head at them. Yeah you don't like it, challenge it. That's good. I'm with you, though, aj. I like the way the current setup is. I just I know, but I'm just saying I respect the opinion. Some people just say, you know what, I don't. I want every pitch to be called uniform by a machine, and I don't agree with it, but I respect it. I don't think it's like a crazy thought, and I think it could happen someday even if we don't want it. I hope not, because I'm looking also to be entertained, and for me, this is playing out exactly the way I wanted to. This is entertaining as hell to watch these games right now and then watch the missus get turned around. I think we'll talk about the Mets game at some point too. Aj they thought they were out of the inning, and who was at Brazaband thought he's out of the inning. And then all of a sudden, you know, all Freddy Peralta's runners scored because the call got flipped. I mean, that's just good drama. It's extra drama agreed out of the moscows. Let's run through a few things that stood out from yesterday. Paul Skeens took a no hitter into the sixth inning, and we also have a little quote from him. He said, a long way to go. I'm excited to see what it turns into I don't even think we're playing our best baseball yet, which is scary to think about. It's going to be a lot of fun. Yesterday was what they call a babbit performance by the offense, like anything that they put in motion was turning into offense for them. You had dribblers, you had just balls finding the right spots. And that also included Connor Griffin contributing a couple runs on his space hit late in the game to make it a seven to one win. I think it was five to one at the time. That turned into seven to one, and Schemes was Skeens. He was himself, so everyone relaxed. He's fine. Is he the face of the team anymore? And AJ ask you this because Skeens was just talking to the media after the Connor Griffin extension and he gave that title to Griffin already.

00:33:23
Speaker 2: Well, I think he kind of said a tongue in cheek because he has a long term deal and Paul Skeins does not. Yeah, and that means that the pirates are Everyone assumes that the pirates are just gonna shot Paul Skins at some point. So I actually liked this quote and much like we just talked about with Sandal Contra and how he's kind of opening up a little bit. Maybe we're getting a little bit more of Paul schemes and he's starting to open up. We're actually getting see him smile now every once in a while, which was not a thing of the past.

00:33:51
Speaker 3: Wasn't wasn't anything to smile about. He was he was going out there. He was literally on his own island for a little bit. And the organization's clearly ate some moves. But yeah, he's the face. He's the face. Like the team made these moves because of Paul Skins. How many teams do you say, oh, man, you know this team, they have some good players, like we'll try to build around them, and then not actually do it, Like Paul Skins made the Pirates go out And maybe they had to spend just over a million dollars too, I mean a hundred million dollars, so maybe that had to do with it. But they looked at it and the easiest stat was before this season, Paul Skins in his career to almost two full seasons, just shy of it would have been forty three to one had his team scored three or more runs in every one of his starts. That's a lot to ask, I get it. Three runs is a lot to ask. Oh wait, no, it's not. Actually like the Pirates sat there and they go, who like, we do need to build around this guy. So as much as I actually agree with it, Connor Griffin is the new face of the organization. Everything this team is gonna do is gonna be because of Paul Schemes and his ticking time bomb. That is his day of when the Pirates get rid of it.

00:35:12
Speaker 1: Mm hmm. He also gave up the first home run of the season by a Pirates starting pitcher Sandero. Belive it, he's the only guy on the rotation right now that's given up a home run. It's embarrassing.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: Trade them and release them.

00:35:31
Speaker 1: That's really impressive DFA a testament to the whole staff on the topic of money pitching. TODJ. Bradley looks different, you know, big fastball, out of movement, nasty splitter, and he completely outshined Trek Scoogle. The Twins got to school and knocked him out of the game a game. Todd Bradley was freaking dealing in a four to two win. So ten strikeouts, no walk, six and a third, one run ball, a gleam in posting the fastball, averaging ninety six point four splitter nine swings and misses. So now through three starts he has a one oadra twenty two strikeouts to four walks, and sixteen and two thirds innings. Kratz wasn't he on with us soon after he got traded, or maybe we were just talking about a quote from him and he said, how you know, he's starting to focus on the prep side. So it did sound like you're very classic change of scenery candidate, and he went from a team that usually is able to take a guy like that and unlock something, but it's the reverse this time.

00:36:34
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it's less of a change of scenery and more of a wait a minute, I can be traded. Wait a minute, I'm approaching free agency. Wait a minute, I'm ridiculously talented and I haven't unlocked everything. Like we should have known this was happening when that when that information came out, and he was like, you know, if I do some prep, like I've seen some other pictures, do prep, like I should try to do that. And dudes are probably like, what, like, you haven't been doing this stuff. You've just been pitching like based on your ability. That's crazy and it is crazy. But if he is actually doing if he's implemented these new things. And then we talked about his stuff plus yesterday increasing as much as it has the fact that he's elevated his velocity, his I think he got two more inches of induced vertical break. Yeah, these numbers kind of match up to that. And you're kind of like, he's kind of a guy that we want to see continue, see what happens here because he could he could go to another echelon that would you know, make him a perennial All Star, because you don't forget he's still only twenty five years old, like some dudes are just barely breaking into the league at this point.

00:37:49
Speaker 2: Tous Rellley's been great. I talked to him spring training and they were talking about how well he looked in spring training when I was at Twins camp. And he's been great. And then also, what was the big thing about the Tigers last year? What couldn't they do especially in the postseason? It oh boom, guess what they're not doing again this year?

00:38:11
Speaker 1: Hitting?

00:38:13
Speaker 2: Yes, hitting, And what did they address this offseason when they made all the moves pitching, pitching, hitching. Oh okay, just asking for just just asking for a friend here. No homers, see that. See the home runs down right there. They have seven homers on the year, seven homers. Their OBP is not great. They do walk. Put the strikeouts up there now though their strikeouts are no boy, no, no no. They strike out a lot.

00:38:43
Speaker 1: And they might end up relying too much on a rookie. You know, we've talked a lot about this with the Red Sox McGonagall comes up. I think some in the organization feel like he's already their best hitter. I mean, that's good and bad. This is his first season, so we'll see what happens. They might be shopping for a little offense at the trade deadline. The last shout out for this game, Ryan Jeffers is the ABS whisperer. He has overturned ten calls already this season. That included two ending ending strikeouts that were balls and then turned in two strikes and a strike three, So good for him. Derek Shelton pointed it out. He's like he's got it.

00:39:18
Speaker 3: You know.

00:39:18
Speaker 1: It's the situation at the time, and obviously the zone right, because it's not just knowing the zone, it's knowing when to use that because if it's a closed call and you get it wrong, you got to be careful. You can't use those up too early.

00:39:28
Speaker 3: No perfect, No, No, you're right, but perfect isn't. I think there should be a stat for perfect before the seventh and then perfect after the seventh. Because I saw a game the other day it got down. I think it was a Marlins game. It got down. I think Hicks was behind a dish. They had two left and there was one out, one out in the ninth inning, and he was just like, yep, challenge it and it was like an inch and a half off, and now the next one was just at an inch off. So it was like, use it up, like you can't. You can't take them with you. You can't save him up for the next game. So I don't think perfect is necessarily gonna be the end all be all with abs, but we'll.

00:40:08
Speaker 1: See, yeah, and we can do that, by the way, I'm sure.

00:40:12
Speaker 2: By the way, I mean, I caught a game the other day and it was the Braves Royals and Drake Baldwin questioned one and he was a ball and he thought it was a strike and he did it in the top of the first and it caught and it clipped the you know, the corner or whatever. It was a strike, you know whatever. He lost the challenge. First hitter Ronald Acune comes up on like a one to one pitch ball clearly in the strike zone. Dude, dude, lose it. I mean it was all in the pink on the screen. Praise are out of challenge is four hitters into the game, four hitters into it? You can't. I mean, Ronald Cooney, you're a superstar, but you can't in that situation. You it's got to be four inches off the plate for you to do that in the first inning.

00:40:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, the Twins have that problem. I mean these are all small sample size right now, but the Twins have the same problem. I think he's got a similar success right right now. Mount Walner is one for four. I mean, he's a dude who takes a ton of pitches. But you can run yourself into some trouble, and you know, I wonder what the rates start looking like for certain players and if teammates get pissed off. If you're a superstar, maybe you get like a little bit more leeway because like if Akunya does challenge a pitch in the first inning and it ends up turning into a longer at bat, that he turned something into. I mean he is the igniter. Still there are other good bats there, but Ronald could score in the first inning. That could set the tone with Walner. You got to be careful based on what your game is. And by the way, we have a Twin show and a Tiger shows. We're talking about both these teams. So Twin City's Territory is one of the newest shows we have, so please go check that out if you're a Twins fan. And then let's move on to the Mets. There's the QR code, by the way, for Twin City Territory, but for the Mets therefore, and oh since losing Jan Soto to a calf strain, so everything that we expected to be true is true. Aj the Mets are better without one soda. Please don't clip that. I'm kidding, but he is out and other Mets are stepping up right now. And this is also giving a chance for some abs and playing time. The Mets have had like this underrated logjam going on. It's not like it's stars. But between Brett Batty and Mark Fientos and now Ronnie Mauricio who gets called up and this is his last year to get options or they have to figure out if he's going to be part of the team long term. His first ab of the year ends up being a walk off hit for the Mets, so they end up winning four to three in that one. They're doing okay right now with Soto, at least for these first four games, and I mean they're on their best run here, four game winning streak.

00:42:31
Speaker 2: Small small sample size, small sample size. Listen, are the Mets better without one? So don't know over the long run. No, But for any team with a bunch of players like the Mets, it's not like the Mets have nobody on their team. They have a bunch of really good players. They can cover it for a little while and depending on who they're playing with, the matchup is that kind of stuff. So yes, they're they're doing fine, they're doing well, and that's good. That's good for the Mets, it's good for Mets fans. And you know, they're seven and four, they're off to a nice start. This is kind of what we thought the Mets were gonna be if they get any kind of pitching, they're gonna be fine. Right now they're getting pitching. And also, you know, I know you're a big believer in the scott Who are they.

00:43:11
Speaker 1: Playing the Diamondbacks?

00:43:15
Speaker 2: They're good for that? And before that?

00:43:20
Speaker 1: Who was the last series?

00:43:24
Speaker 2: And they play the Giants at some point they played the Giants Padres A bunch of those teams.

00:43:28
Speaker 1: Yeah, but those aren't bad teams.

00:43:30
Speaker 2: Padres are not playing well. Check the Padres right now. They are not playing very well right now.

00:43:34
Speaker 1: I understand, But but what did you say? Yeah?

00:43:38
Speaker 2: Who you're playing? Right crats? It's not who you play, it's when you.

00:43:44
Speaker 1: Play in scott It's not like they're running into the Rockies then the Cardinals or something. These are I mean, the Giants and the Padres are playoff contenders.

00:43:52
Speaker 2: How are they playing right now? You're gonna put the You're gonna put the Giants right now as a playoff contender with the way they've started.

00:43:57
Speaker 1: Contender. I'm not saying they're getting in, but they're content.

00:44:00
Speaker 2: Okay, Then are the Pirates a playoff contender?

00:44:03
Speaker 1: Mmm? I'm not drinking that way. No, I can't do it. They do this every year. That one, I would rather play the Pirates late in the year because they're not built for depth. That's like the Angels too. You don't want to play the Angels now, you want to play them at the end of the year when they always look like crap because they don't build themselves depth by the depths wise either, and you know you're looking to the miners for a little reinforcements up those guys are already called up.

00:44:29
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm summarized the either do the A's and they always stink at the beginning of the year and they're good at the end of the year. So it's true.

00:44:36
Speaker 1: I can't explain that one the A's have a nightmare one little run that they go through. So and hey, maybe that happens to the A's this year, because I don't think they got enough pitching. But uh, for the Mets. The one other thing I wanted to point out a j because I was curious to see how this goes down. They've been on the money with their bullpen editions. Devin Williams and Luke Weaver have pitched ten innings, They've given up no runs, They've punched out ten. That is what you pay for.

00:45:06
Speaker 2: Yes, it's almost like somebody picked Devin Williams to be Reliever of the Year this year.

00:45:11
Speaker 3: Trying to think that would have been incredibly good looking, really tall. I'm not really sure who that would have been. Who said Devin never pays for dinner. All those all those are characteristics of you know, somebody who would say that.

00:45:27
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, just saying so far, so good.

00:45:32
Speaker 2: But it's so early, though, Scott, because you know, like you said, you know, they fade. He didn't have enough depth, so he fades in the half their second Ascott's we always.

00:45:38
Speaker 1: Said your picks might fade. You're off to a really nice betting start too, but your picks might fade. We're only even No, I'm just answering back. Sometimes I don't, but we have time today, so I'm actually answering back because we don't have to rush to a guest, but we do have to say bye to Eric, so A J and I get to go on it even a little bit more. Here.

00:46:00
Speaker 3: I'm gonna leave. I'm gonna leave, but I want you guys to be nice to each other, Okay, especially you, Scott. Like normally AJ is the pissy one, don't be so mad with AJ. Okay, just be nice since I'm leaving.

00:46:10
Speaker 1: You know why, because it's cold where I am right now and it's pissing me off. But don't worry. I will be down to hang out with AJ next week. Oh, on a lighter note, you want to do something fun? Not really, let's do injuries suck. We had to do a really lengthy segment the other day, AJ, and now we have updates on most of those injuries. So let's start with the one that knocks the pitcher out for the entire season, probably heading into next season two. He'll miss time.

00:46:39
Speaker 3: Man.

00:46:39
Speaker 1: Kate Horton looked really good last year, ends up finishing in second place for Rookie of the Year to Drake Baldwin. We didn't have him. Did we have him at all? Now I'm forgetting in the playoffs or no? He was out right for the postseason.

00:46:50
Speaker 2: Oh he missed the post He missed the Brewer Series, remember right now. And that was a big deal for them because they had to throw a boyd on short rest. There was a whole there was a whole lot of things. It was an and to see him walk out, he has had tears in his eyes remember when he walked off the mount I mean, right there, there's the picture. But oh that sucks for that guy. And it just keeps happening in scott We got to figure this thing out. I don't know how, but we got to figure this thing out.

00:47:12
Speaker 1: You're saying, like the elbow surgeries in general.

00:47:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yes, we got to figure out a way to slow these down somehow.

00:47:22
Speaker 1: Marlin's online one, Hi, I would like Sande al Contra. I'm willing to pay the price now. I have invested a lot in my team this year. If I'm the Cubs, they already have all their best prospects. Remember they traded for a guy named Cabrera.

00:47:34
Speaker 2: They already the Cubs already have all their prospects they got or the Marlins do they have Casey and the rest of that crew they got for that and that? So the Cubs like, we don't have any more left.

00:47:43
Speaker 1: Sorry, guys, it's gonna be tough. I mean, we're going to talk about the Red scene. They're playing really well. They're on a nice streak. Brewers fired, They're a little better. The Brewers are the Brewers. There's a lot of competition here right now in the Central the card are going to be in their own lane, but the rest of the Central looks like it's going to be pretty competitive. So it's a tough blow for the Cubbies. And yeah, you're not going to see Kate Horton probably until middle of next year, maybe next pitching, maybe exactly next pitching injury Hunter Brown. So we knew it was shoulder. Now we know it's grade too muscle strain. And the Astros actually consider this good news for the shoulder because they said it's a muscular thing. It's not any damage in terms of issues with any of the bones or the structures, you know. So it's strictly muscle I guess, not like any ligament ear or whatever. And I'm just going off what I'm reading here in stories and quotes right now that's in front of us. But he's going to be shut down. He'll get re evaluated in a couple of weeks. It sounds like he'll get shut down for a few weeks and then you start the ramp up again. That means he's going to miss a good chunk of the first half of the year.

00:48:51
Speaker 2: I no, there goes my cy young pick. By the way, we just talked about how good my picks are going. Way to Gho, Scott, you ruined it. It sucks for the Astros. It sucks for Hunter Brown more than anything. It just it just sucks. Man. Injuries suck, like the thing below me says. But yeah, shoulders never good. We've how many times we talked about shoulders just never good. I don't care if it's muscle or what. Shoulders just are never good.

00:49:13
Speaker 1: No. And then if you're watching the Astros, you're seeing a lot of the innings from last year gone in terms of starting rotation. So here's Chandler Rome. He said they're missing four hundred sixty three and a third of the eight sixty two. So that's more than half the innings they received last year from their rotation. In from Berbalde is Hunter Brown for most of those innings. Then Ryan Gusto, who threw the team's third most innings last season, And nobody would have gotten that trivia question right outside of Houston. But they did pick up guys over the offseason. And this is where a tatsu Yami comes in. Big. I know the first start was rocky, but I mean I think and since then better, I think that he's going to be special for them in a huge addition, so they're going to need the rest of the rotation, so loud. Yeah, he's been good. I think Mike Burrows is going to be good middleish rotation guy. I think May has got I was the high guy on him. I was like, I think that he's got top end stuff, Like I think he could be a number one or number two starter in terms of this stuff, Like he's got three sliders. That reverse slider is it has the what six six inches or so six seven inches of break on it and it's going the wrong way. Then he's got the traditional slider, he's got the gyro slider. I mean, he looks different out there. If he can command the fastball, I think he's going to be special. It's not the perfect replacement because Hunter Brown's top three in the American League. But I think the Astras are going to be okay. I think it's going to be a fight still, you know, with them and the Mariners. I still have the Rangers a notch below them. Like right now, if I'm teering that al West, I think the Astros and the Mariners are up here, then I've got the Rangers and then I've got the Angels.

00:50:49
Speaker 2: In the A's even without Hunter Brown.

00:50:53
Speaker 1: Even without Hunter Brown. If Hunter Brown's out the whole year, it's different. If Hunter Brown misses let's say six weeks, maybe a little bit more that I think they can withstand that.

00:51:06
Speaker 2: Okay, that's right. I just gotta have a question for you.

00:51:08
Speaker 3: I just saw this.

00:51:09
Speaker 2: The White Sox are playing right now, and it was a three to two pitch and the runner stole. Sorry this is not on topic, and I don't really care, but I want to ask out this question because I don't know the answer. And the runner stole from first and he slowed down and it was called ball four, and the umpire obviously was like, it's ball four, but the White Sox guy tagged him out. What happens if the hitter or the catcher goes boo boo boom boo boo challenge and the hitter shuts it or the runner shuts it down because he thinks it's ball four, but then the call gets overturned. Is he is he considered out even though he stopped thinking it was ball four.

00:51:39
Speaker 3: I don't know.

00:51:40
Speaker 2: That's a good question.

00:51:42
Speaker 1: My guess is now, I mean, instead dead ball at that point, because then you're reviewing it. So that's not a thing, right.

00:51:48
Speaker 2: I don't know, but he was. If the catcher comes up, throws boom, the runner sees ball four, he stops what you see all the time on ball four, and the second baseman tags him even though he's not you know, he's technically supposed to run through it. Is he considered out? If they change it to strike three.

00:52:07
Speaker 1: What do you think should happen? I mean, the rules already start, I think, But.

00:52:10
Speaker 2: If you're the catcher, you're like, man, I just hose that dude a second and he's safe. He would have been out if it wouldn't have been, if the Empire would have got it right. I don't know. It's interesting. This is why the automatic the automatic thing is interesting because what happens if it's called ball four and the catcher launches into center field and the guy keeps going to third but it was called ball four, Well, that sucks too for the catcher. How come they always do these rules against the catchers.

00:52:33
Speaker 1: I think they need you on the rules committee. You would love the rules committee. What they do is you get to talk about the rules and then they ultimately don't really care what you say because the vote belongs to the league, so they just take your input on the rules. While we're on that really quick and I side step for a moment too. Shane Smith for the White Sox got optioned. What's the deal there? For the All Star last year? The opening day starter? And I know he had ther walk issues yesterday, but I mean, you punched out eight, he didn't allow any runs. He gave up one hit. Like, if you got to work on the control, can't you work on that in a bullpen session?

00:53:12
Speaker 2: I don't know what to say on this was. This was when I saw this come across, I was shocked. I was like, wait a second, he's three starts. I mean, as there is ten, he's got eight and a third. He's got too many walks, true, but it's also been cold. I don't know, he's got a lot of whip. He's got a high whip. It seems like a short leash for me. For somebody that was your opening day starter, I mean you fall out of love with the guy after three starts. I guarantee you can go through a lot of guys careers and find some guys with three starts that have had this in the middle of a season, but it doesn't come up. So I don't know. I was, I was surprised by this one. I mean, I don't know. I don't know who they have, who they're calling up to replace him, is the question. I mean, they start tailor every game, so maybe he's going to be stretched out into starter because he goes one inning like three out of four games every time.

00:54:00
Speaker 1: That's a weird one for me. I mean, to let someone lose so quickly back down to the minors. He was a role five picks that you couldn't do that last year, but now you can do that because I.

00:54:08
Speaker 2: Mean he made the All Star team last year. He was your opening day starter, so you were you were rewarded guy for a great year making the All Star team, and say, hey, you're the opening day starter. Oh, by the way, you get three starts and you're going to triple A. It's again, I must say this in White Sox fans. Don't get mad at me. But the White Sox aren't gonna win the World Series this year. I'm sorry, it's not going to happen. They're not going to win the World Series. So if this is a guy you're counting on for the next three four years. Don't you want him to figure it out at the big league level? He had three bad starts. What happens if his next start he goes out and he shoves against whoever he pitches against. We don't know that answer.

00:54:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, I wonder if there's something else to the story here, because that one just was not making a lot of sense to a lot of people when they saw it on social media this morning. And for the rest of you, if you're placing tonight, good luck to you. Also, there's an odds boost token that you might be able to find in your bed MGM account to score a bigger payout. Just add any MLB bet to your bet slip, activate that token, lock it in. If the bet hits, you cash out with an even bigger payout. Gambling problem, We're concerned. There's help, call one eight hundred gambler. What more, We still have more injuries to get to AJS. I know we talked about Addison Barger having some ankle issues. They officially placed him on the injured list. In the past twenty four hours, we learned let's see about Alejandro Kirk's timetable, which is about six weeks. There's a screw and his thumb from surgery that they put in there. This is the list at this point, I'm going to read it out. So the Blue Jays injured list as of April seventh to twenty twenty six, and all the players they've placed on it in the last month. Alejandro Kirk, Anthony Santander, Addison Barger, Jose Berrios, Shane Bieber, Boden Francis, Cody Ponce, Trey Savage, Mimy Garcia.

00:55:53
Speaker 2: Whoa, it's a lot. By the way, Uh, Barger's ankle was like this big normally this big. It was like this big. I don't know, it was huge. I didn't see it, but I heard all about it from uh the Blue Jays people, Hazel May Shulman, the Shulman, the Shulman family.

00:56:16
Speaker 3: Uh.

00:56:17
Speaker 2: Cale Joseph works for them. By the way, I will say this, I went to Toronto. I had not seen the new stadium. Good job Blue Jays, Good job Blue Jays. You guys crushed it. And I got to dance. I got to do the Blue Jay dance on Monday night in a boring game. So that was that made my night. What's the dance, Let's go Jay's and you're like, let's play all mm hmm, and then they do something like.

00:56:48
Speaker 3: I don't think y m c a ish.

00:56:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it's good. All the all the all the Toronto fans know it, so it's good they do it in the seventh inning stretch.

00:56:56
Speaker 1: Mm hmm.

00:56:56
Speaker 2: Good.

00:56:57
Speaker 1: It's a good time.

00:56:58
Speaker 2: Toronto, Toronto, and you wouln't understand, Scott.

00:57:01
Speaker 1: I've been. I haven't been for the new park, but I used to go.

00:57:04
Speaker 2: We used to do a lot of nice, nice job on that place. Man, it's not even the same thing.

00:57:09
Speaker 1: It is high up on the list. I liked it when it was there the way it was, so I can only imagine if they've sweetened it up what it looks like. So I'm excited to check it out. And lastly, it is not sweet Caroline in Boston. So the team's off to a bad start, although they did pull off a much needed win last night. A couple of injury updates. First off, Tristan Cassis tried to swing it did not go well. He is going to go for imaging, according to Alex Korra. So that was just a continuation of what's going on with Cassis. It's not good. I know we mentioned it already the other day. It I'm not going to beat it down, but they're not relying on him right now. Johann Oviedo has a flexer strain and he has shut down for six weeks. That's probably why Kratz left the show early today. AJ. That is a tough blow for the Red Sox. They traded for Ovieda. They were really excited about picking him up. They thought that they were going to unlock some thing with him. They still might, but now they're gonna have to wait a while.

00:58:06
Speaker 2: Yeah, this sucks, and Crats is the most upset about this more than anybody because Oviedo, as we all know it, is his favorite player, the castest thing on the castest thing is just like whatever, dude like, he hasn't played in so long now, I don't even know. I don't even know what's wrong with him at this point. So someone's gonna have to keep me up on why he needed imaging in the first place. But the Oviedo thing was a guy they were really counting on to maybe be a late a back end starter or a multiple innings guy to their bullpen. So to lose him for six weeks. Anytime they say forearms train, you get worried about the next one, which is the Tommy John. You know, it's the Red Sox and just one thing. It seems like one thing after the other for the Red Sox and no matter what they do. I love Craig Breslo as a guy and as a teammate, but it seems like no matter what he tries, it hasn't worked so far. Other than the Crochet trade and signing.

00:58:58
Speaker 1: That has worked brilliantly. That is true, yes, and some younger players from the last regime that have looked really good.

00:59:05
Speaker 2: It's got box too. I don't know how much time we have, but uh, speaking of the Red Sox, we didn't get we didn't get talk about the Wilson Contreras thing because I wasn't on go for it. But when's the last time you saw a player come out and say I'm gonna get somebody, meaning like I'm gonna really get somebody and then they do it and then they literally like literally karate kicked was it Hamilton and the shin which is not cool. Now. Now, back in the day you got hit. You look at the second basement and short sign and be like, I'm coming for you, dude, because I just got smoked to watch out. And they knew and they knew how to get out of the way. Guys aren't used to getting out of the way now. And he went in there hard and and he got in and mis punched him out and told him. You know, he said some things we can't say on television. I just you just don't see this anymore. That's what I was so surprised about it. And his brothers on the other team, and you got Murph yelling at him, and you got this is good, man, this is good for the game.

01:00:00
Speaker 3: I like it.

01:00:01
Speaker 2: Now they don't play again for another year.

01:00:03
Speaker 3: But I like this.

01:00:04
Speaker 1: Yeah, it is good juice right, it's you wish it was within the division. You're not going to really get to see this.

01:00:10
Speaker 2: When have you seen a guy what did he say? He's like, I'm going to go get him or what ad conturer say?

01:00:14
Speaker 1: He's like he said that post game, so that within the game though he did it.

01:00:19
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, but he was still like, if they hit me again, I'm going to go get someone else. He's like, exactly messing around. I'm not messing around here.

01:00:26
Speaker 1: This is a lot of people saying that he needs to be suspended, including Eric Kratz, who had a little bit of virality yesterday on social media when he called for that because you're threatening, and he was alluding to how Cole Hammils did that years back and then hit Bryce Harper and he got suspended. So for president, do you think do you think that he should be and do you think that he will? For me? I don't think he should be.

01:00:50
Speaker 2: I don't think I don't think he will. Listen, he got smoked for the how many of her times? Until you've stood in the box and gotten hit by a pitch, you don't realize how mad you are at the time. And then you have no repercussion as a position player because the pitcher don't hit anymore. So you can't tell your picture to go throw the picture after he hits you, right, and so your only recourse now is to try to You can't run over the catcher anymore, and you really can't honestly go get the second basement anymore. So you're just pissed, and I get Listen, say what you want about Wilson Trevors. He plays with his emotions and when he gets REVVD, it's hard to take him off that red line. So I don't know, I don't have I didn't really have as big of a problem as this. I actually thought it was great. It was finally we got some action.

01:01:32
Speaker 1: Yeah, wake the team up, because they're off to a slow start too. But with Wilson, I mean, I think a lot of the pent up frustration had to do with the past. With that particular case, I mean, he's on the plate, they're pitching up and in like it did They certainly weren't going after him in that case, like, oh yeah, I'm Brandon WOODRIF and I want to load the bases right now.

01:01:50
Speaker 2: And go after and see here's my thing. If you didn't do what or hey, slur, did you got a problem with Brandon Woodrow. He hits you all the time. There's sixty feet six inches between you, and go and get him. He beat Go get him. That's it. Go get him, cheezy, go get again, Go get him. It's not gonna happen again because they don't play each other for another year. Now, go get him. If you're that mad, you know what you should have done. He should have his brother was catching. He should have just fought his brother and then they could have talked about it at Thanksgiving.

01:02:21
Speaker 1: That would be fun. It's a it's the one time as an adult you can just completely brawl it out with a family member and not get arrested. So there's that if you would like to do that, exactly right. Let's finish on a on a high note, on a nicer note, So let's slap. I had two things aja thirty seconds each. Let's start with Skip Schumacher, who's a great dude getting some fan participation. Here a young kid who was on the field for early BP, and he let him come on on the field and help him out as he was hitting fungos. Pretty cool.

01:03:04
Speaker 2: Love this love fan interaction. Love any chance you get, Skip cats it, Skip gets it and we know this and it was pretty cool moment. This kid will never ever forget this moment.

01:03:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, that way to go, Skip. Awesome and all captured to show everyone on social media. And then we had seventy seven cent dog night.

01:03:25
Speaker 2: Oh so mad I wasn't there, So mad I believe it.

01:03:28
Speaker 1: You missed that over one hundred thousand of them sold. That number was from the seventh inning and they still obviously finished out the game with I'm sure more they probably ended up at like one twenty five k. It was to celebrate their inaugural season back in nineteen seventy seven. Seventy seven cents? How much is a hot dog regularly? Do you think at the parts there eight to.

01:03:49
Speaker 2: Ten dollars at least?

01:03:50
Speaker 3: Right?

01:03:51
Speaker 2: No more? I love this, so youse seventy seven cents they bought sold one hundred thousand hot dogs. That's got to be some kind of record. It's got to be some kind of.

01:04:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm sure the margins are still excellent. It's not costing much to is.

01:04:06
Speaker 2: That Canadian seventy seven cents or America?

01:04:09
Speaker 3: It is?

01:04:09
Speaker 1: And I actually know because we work with one sponsor on another show when it's an exchange rate thing, So I know right now that Canadian dollar matched up against the US dollars actually better than it's been for a while. So take that for what it is. I don't really understand a lot of it, but it is Canadian dollars. So seventy seven cents what is that in US dollars? I'm not going to be able to ask my AI in time, So.

01:04:30
Speaker 2: That's not even a looney. That's not even a looney. It's definitely not a tuny. What does that mean, You've never You've never been to Canada. Yeah, so they're one they're one dollars or loonies and they have a loon on them, and the tunis are two dollars coins, so they call them loonies and tonies.

01:04:47
Speaker 1: I'm a cashless guy, I'm a credit card guy.

01:04:50
Speaker 2: Got to keep up, bro, You're the reason they got rid of pennies. It's all you.

01:04:54
Speaker 1: Oh, it is definitely me. I'm campaigning to get rid of nichols and quarters two.

01:04:58
Speaker 2: What about dimes? You love dying?

01:05:00
Speaker 1: I love that. I love me a good time.

01:05:02
Speaker 2: It's dime bags.

01:05:05
Speaker 1: Yeah,