Big Dumper Derby W, All-Star Game preview, Mr. Met IL’d?

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Speaker 1: They were the two voted in players automatic starters. No matter where they're hitting in the line up, obviously one and third.

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Speaker 2: I want to see him. I want to see him hit three times.

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Speaker 3: Oh rap, let's do this. We are live, Yeah, we're live right now. I'm yours community corner. It's Braun, Krazinski and Kratz the OGFT fam for day two of our little All Star break as the American League takes on the National League tonight at a fun home run derby last night. We're here for day two right now. Excited to talk to Ken Rosenthal. Probably in about ten minutes. I see him taking some nice photos right now behind us. First off, before we dive into the derby, there was a tweet that went out last night right after Jazz Chisholm's performance that had a lot of people laughing and others confused.

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Speaker 1: I left out, I left out loud because all over the internet, all over Twitter, Instagram, it was all Jazz Chisen stuff, and this one got sent to me. Our illustrious social team put that out there, and some of our social team likes to take shots at me, and I appreciated it, and I really did like this would be my turn to take shots back at our social team.

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Speaker 2: But I wouldn't do that.

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Speaker 3: No, you would. I would do, and you should. But it was a headshot of Krafts and a Yanks.

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Speaker 2: I mean, I kind of get it, but I mean I think Crafts maybe would have hit four. I don't think it was directly like a home run Derby correlation. I think it was more like Jazz's performance in the home run Derby was more like my career performance.

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Speaker 1: I think was like that. It was so that's that's where I got it. And I literally opened it while I was at the home run Derby and I was like, but I didn't text anybody, l L.

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Speaker 2: I texted people. I laughed out loud. What happened to him?

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Speaker 3: It's a great question. We're gonna get into it.

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Speaker 2: Am I gonna ask him? In his interview he did his postgame it.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he said he wanted to keep his swing but hit home runs. He said, next year, if he's got twenty at the break, he'll come and do the home run Derby, but swing for the fences.

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Speaker 3: I don't think he's getting invited back.

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Speaker 2: Wait, so he wasn't trying to hit home runs? That is that was his nonchalanty. Isn't it called the home run derby?

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Speaker 3: No, it's called the base hit derby.

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Speaker 2: I didn't know every other guy. I mean, I saw at one point cal Rawle took about eight swings in a row and was almost falling over on every swing because he understood the mission. The mission should you choose to.

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Speaker 3: Accept the simplest mission of all times?

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Speaker 2: Yes, the mission should you choose to accept it is to hit home runs in the home run derby. I thought that. No, he said he was going to keep his swing and hit home runs with his swing. But what's weird is I don't know you played. I played. I could hit home runs of BB like almost any time with the swing. Now, the game was different because the ball's moving. But fifty miles an hour down the middle.

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Speaker 1: I could the pressure of the home run derby. Wait, agree, like hitting with no turtle hitting.

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Speaker 2: I get all that stuff.

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Speaker 1: Guy's practice too, But like you can change your swing to hit dingers, like you can change it to hit like BP dingers.

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Speaker 3: How many home runs would you hit in a derby in the first round with that format?

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Speaker 1: Five to seven? Okay today, you mean right?

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Speaker 3: No? When you were playing?

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Speaker 1: Oh, when I was playing because you had pop.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely had pop and.

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Speaker 3: There's you're not getting fooled. You know what's coming.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Ernie Whit is my BP pitcher. Yeah, I'm definitely. I'm definitely hitting ten.

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Speaker 3: You're getting double digit pumps. Again, the pressure with white.

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Speaker 2: Fresh would be there, but you can get in a roll.

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Speaker 3: That's what I'm saying a lot of guys.

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Speaker 2: It's just yeah, you guys know how.

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Speaker 3: To put baseball's over the ye fence TP. Yeah, yeah, BP. You know what's coming. Yeah, you're trying to hit homers.

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Speaker 1: You're going to put the fresh Sure plus gets to guys because you don't hit a few, and now all of a sudden you're like.

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Speaker 2: I got to Now I'm tired.

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Speaker 1: Oh crap, this is getting out of control. I just I think the pressure gets the guys.

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Speaker 3: Well, that actually happened in the finals. So let's let's get to that right now. Let's hit hot Corner. It's powered by Next Playground New Home Run Heroes Home Run Derby game from Next Playground is awesome, by the way, go check it out. We'll post a link to it if you're watching on YouTube. Cal Riley first catcher to win the derby, first switch hitter to win outright?

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Speaker 2: And what does that mean? Outright? Either win or you lose. I don't understand what it means first to win outright? Is there another way to win?

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Speaker 3: I just read the tweets.

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Speaker 2: Oh there was a tie.

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Speaker 3: Oh they had a tie. They didn't break the tie.

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Speaker 2: Remember the do you remember the old school says there's two trophies that year.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there was a tie back in the day, and they didn't do a swing off. How convenient they didn't do a swing off. Now to win in the ground, we went by inches.

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna go here on that one.

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Speaker 3: You know who else is doing that? People that bet on the derby? It's real. Did we know about this? Was that publicized that you would go off stack cast inches?

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Speaker 2: I didn't know could get you within It was like less than an inch. They apparently they can, but it was a tenth a tenth of a foot. Oh so tenth of a foot right, so it was an inch inch inch and a.

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Speaker 3: Half whatever, So they can.

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Speaker 2: But here's my thing. Did you see the thing?

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Speaker 3: You see a JJ Cooper's tweet here? Because I feel like this one.

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Speaker 2: I'm on board with JJ.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, can you read that? Because I can't see pretty much.

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Speaker 1: There's zero chance the margin of error on a tracking system can accurately measure a difference of an inch in distance on a pair of balls that traveled four hundred and seventy feet.

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Speaker 3: Because they said four to seventy point six y one yep for cal Riley and for seven five to three for Brent Rookery.

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Speaker 2: Zero eighteen jero eight of an inch of an inch.

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Speaker 3: A foot of a foot pill we're talking about about an inch an inch of a difference and who made it to the next round? Do you feel like that was clear enough? And do you feel like it is a game? Okay, So but that what happened happened a million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that should not be the way they decided. Yeah, that should This should not be the way this decided. But you can put money on the line a million five swings, you get five swings? I mean, can you get in five swings? That's it.

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Speaker 1: Any any time at the derby. I was at the stadium yesterday, anytime at the derby that's there was like a like when Cam and Arrow got close at the end, or like when Matt Olsen was close to like hatching him at the end, and Eddie Perez dropped all the baseballs and he couldn't you know, it didn't get the last few pitches in the stadium energy just like ramped up. If you gave guys five swings, if you gave Cal Raley and Brent Rooker five wings, the energy in the stadium would just have it just it goes up a notch. And the energy was still there. It was a great, great event, but you can't like you just look at it and say four to seventy and four to seventy, like whoever came up with that?

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Speaker 2: I don't I don't agree.

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Speaker 3: Bush League decision. I think they did it because they don't want to get caught. Yeah, they don't want to get caught in the first round of a bunch of ties and swing offs. And I don't want.

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Speaker 2: Any I didn't. I didn't want extra swings either.

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Speaker 3: But that's what you need in that scenario.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and that would have been electric, not just like okay you give them another round, Okay, another minute, it hurts their chances. Later you get five swings and if it ties, you get three swings, then it's one swing. You don't need a commercial break in between each one. That is what that that could have been the most like invigorate, Like best part of that whole home run derby was the swing off in the first round because eventually that guy ended up winning, ended up winning.

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Speaker 3: Did you hear about Rutgers saying that he was two baseball short? Did you see that?

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Speaker 2: He told me about that, but I didn't see that it stopped. Yeah, he ran out he.

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Speaker 3: Had a baseball was too short. Yeah, because he had a couple of takes. Although almost all the guys that take to But but why did.

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Speaker 2: Begin I guess at the beginning they get to throw a couple, yeah, and then until they say, okay, now we start the timer. You get to make sure the VP pitcher's ready.

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Speaker 1: And he said he had he had more four balls and he had like six more seconds.

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Speaker 3: Well, he was out of baseballs, but he should have had two more swings.

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Speaker 1: Two more swings left. Yeah, there was no more balls in the bucket.

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Speaker 3: How are there no more baseballs in the bucket.

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Speaker 1: As soon as that happened, there were I saw people run out to the people doing the bucket. If you play baseball, you know what the bucket man is and the bucket man was like became like an official person. And the bucket man was like standing there and they were going through the baseballs, and then somebody would run him in and James would hit and I guess nobody ran him in.

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Speaker 3: Shouldn't they have like eighty in there just in case?

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Speaker 1: Yes, you've seen the ball bin at Todd's. Todd's got the big ball bin. It holds so many I think it holds like twenty dozen baseballs.

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Speaker 2: You should be filled to the brim. Yes, and they also have the pink and white baseballs.

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Speaker 3: So does Brent Rooker have beef?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? A million dollars.

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Speaker 1: He had a shot at a million dollars, gets six in a row to start, six in a row to start his first round.

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Speaker 2: So maybe he has milk. He got milk at one point his baby did oh yeah.

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Speaker 3: Someone didn't like that. Did you see that?

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Speaker 2: At him? I don't understand that.

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Speaker 3: Why do you have to feed your baby during the derby? He's like, why not.

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Speaker 1: Do you want him to just not come to the derby because his kid needs to go to Well?

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Speaker 3: They like, can someone else do it? And it's like, but my fan's out there and I'm just chilling.

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Speaker 2: I'm enjoying it. There's a count and doing account.

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Speaker 3: I got worked anyway, and I didn't get to compete after that, so it's the difference. I'm chilling.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Majorleague bay Fell screwed me.

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Speaker 3: That's good. Uh what about the performance from O'Neill Cruz five hundred and thirteen feet with one of the homers.

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Speaker 2: Somebody bet the under on that feet. Somebody that was with at dinner last night bet.

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Speaker 3: What was it? What was the line?

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Speaker 2: The hot low farthest was like four eighty eight, And I told that person, you're crazy if you don't think they're going to get one over five hundred.

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Speaker 3: I took the over last year and it lost in Texas.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas is different here.

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Speaker 3: That's why I didn't touch it this year. And then of course it got smashed there you go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was. It was.

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Speaker 1: It was unbelievable because we were sitting up high in right field and the cow was right there, The Chick fil a cow was right there, and I said, someone, someone's hitting the cow, and the gout next to me was like, no chance, dude, that would have hit the cow right in the utter, Like.

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Speaker 2: Somebody hit one on top of the chop I was on the roof. I don't know who it was. Somebody, couple of them did. Because that could do you closely. I was watching it could see you.

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Speaker 1: I mean I could see down on top of the on top of the chop house and balls were bouncing around out there. The ball was the only thing that was more juice than the balls for the Big League home run Derby was the high school home run Derby. In between rounds, high school kids were putting balls into the second level of the fountains in center field and three balls went on top of the chop house a high school kid.

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Speaker 3: Were people freaking out for them because that it's fun.

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Speaker 2: I like that it was. Who was it? Were the kids? Name so for Shifting.

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Speaker 1: And Ronald Acunya yeah, and Jan Soda still in high school.

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Speaker 2: Basically it was illuminum bats and the illuminum bats.

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Speaker 1: Chuck Fox. Appreciate you, Chuck Fox. I need that illuminum bat for next year's school season because it was hot, the balls were jumping.

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Speaker 3: Ask him what it was and go get it.

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Speaker 2: I don't think it's legal.

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Speaker 3: Just best bat in my mind was Junior Cameronaro with a self portrait bat and a great performance. But that's that's the thing is he got to that last bonus round and he had a shot, and that's why it was a cool finish.

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Speaker 4: But the pressure was on him and he didn't perform. I didn't watch that closely. I apologize. I didn't watch that closely. I was a dinner and it was on. But then then I had to switch seats, so the TV was behind me, So.

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Speaker 1: I didn't see the self portrait bat obviously, But before the game I saw the big dumper bats. I mean the performance. Yes, Cameron Erra did a great job.

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Speaker 3: Great fell short.

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Speaker 1: No better story than father throwing to his son catcher as his brother, I mean, little dumper.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna get a truck.

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Speaker 3: And he's having the best year for a catcher in Major League history. Through the first half of the season.

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Speaker 1: You couldn't write. You couldn't write that script. To start the year, you sign an extension, you lead the league in home runs at the All Star break, obviously you're starting the All Star Game, which I think people thought Cayl Raley could do.

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Speaker 3: He announced that he's gonna be playing for Team USA at the World base Ball Everything. He's a great ambassador.

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Speaker 1: Yes, and he's got a great Yeah, he's just a great dude.

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Speaker 2: Tory Hunter used to say, I hit like Reggie Jackson and VP and Michael Jackson in the game.

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Speaker 3: Tory Hunter had that kind of BP pop.

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Speaker 2: No, he's talking about me. Oh, he was talking about me, Reggie Jackson, Michael Jackson in the game.

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Speaker 3: Did you have VP tanks? Oh yeah, then you were trying to keep the batting average.

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Speaker 1: It was a different time. Yeah, Brandon Moss he had some good seasons.

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Speaker 3: Yeah he did. We're back. I got another super track question from alex Is Christian Yelich is going to be a candidate to win Comeback Player of the Year and do you guys think he's returning to m v P Yelich or those days long gone?

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Speaker 2: What was the first part?

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Speaker 3: Is Yelich and m a comeback Player of the Year and.

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Speaker 2: He wasn't gone. He wasn't out long enough last year for me and then be comeback Player of the Year. But maybe he's.

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Speaker 3: Playing at the candidates it's going to be a yeah, oh yeah, he's already he's already won that. And as in the American League, right, it's not.

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Speaker 1: And if you don't even get like a plaqueror an award for it, you don't know why not you they announce it, they announce it. Nobody's that's not a bonus winning. You'll put a tuxedo on show.

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Speaker 2: Me the BBW A A maybe they should, maybe they should show maybe.

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Speaker 3: They should invite them. Yeah, but no, that's a league award, not a writers People don't want that award though, because that means that you had.

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Speaker 2: Did something either you played really terrible ear before you were hurt. Yeah, so you don't really want that award.

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Speaker 1: I think is going to wrap that up in like the next two weeks for the National League. I mean a c L coming back and doing what he's doing so far ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: There's no other pictures. I'm trying to think if any other picture that came back, I mean, Strider, if you would have flown through this season, would have been a candidate. Anyone else that's back from injury. I'm sure we're.

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Speaker 1: Making people are coming back from injuries, but not to that extent, not style.

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Speaker 3: Yeah that's fair. Okay, good question there. Did you guys see Vinnie Pasquentino live tweeting last night? He was like, I'm only allowed to do this right now and then.

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Speaker 1: I gotta I'll see it. I see it football season.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, he was hilarious. It was one example. Sometimes I go out for mound visits with Sabada Perez or Freddy for me and with a Steve Zerpa and Cruz who speaks Spanish only and have no clue what's being said, but I give a good bamba at the end and feel like I contributed.

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Speaker 2: Getting like I mean, viny p. He had it.

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Speaker 1: He had it going on even he even had a partigastic tweet. Probably his most his most retweeted or commented on tweet was his sarcastic tweet about cal Raley, and it was perfect because the way he was talking. Yeah, here here it is. Oh, I'm cal Raley. I hit a lot of home runs. I hit from both sides of the plate. I played the most valuable position. I have one of the coolest nicknames in the sport. Screw you, man, This is the way guys talking the clubhouse, Like his tweets were exactly the way guys talking the clubhouse.

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Speaker 3: He's a jem, He's a jet And I show you how deeps the rabbit hole goes. Got two minutes here before the TV crowd comes back. Paul Skimes is the youngest pitcher to make back to back starts in the All Star Game. That's pretty obvious anyway from a stats perspective. Inside Edge is letting us know how schemes dominates right handed hitters unlike anyone else in the game. Right now, they're one sixty four with their batting clip against tonight's NL starter. That is best among qualified starting pitchers in baseball. Now I'm thinking back to what the first three or four in the lineup look like that.

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Speaker 1: You got Judge, You've got cow sitting fourth. Dang, how can I now remember who's hitting first and second? But he dominated like this is what I think. We actually had one of these data dishes earlier and it was it was how much he does well against the best hitters. And we got the al lineup. It's Labor Torres right not who's not swinging at not swinging at balls right now? And Riley Green, who's the lefty. So he's got two righties, just saying Aaron Judge, Flavor Torres, Riley Green, and then cal Raley. If he doesn't get those three guys out. But I feel like I feel like he's gonna get those three, those three down. I feel like Judge is gonna be his biggest issue because Judge handles sinkers well, sinker ball pitchers well, and if he lets one that runs in there, Judge will short gator arm that ball and hitting nookski to right field, which last night we saw right field the ball was traveling. But I think I think that'll be he That's the thing about Paul Skemes is you look at his numbers against better hitters. He succeeds better hitters, and that's all there is here. You're not ducking anybody in the lineup. You're going full tilt at these boys.

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Speaker 3: And hey, on the other side, we did a data edition side edge segment the other day showing how Trek Skuble is best in baseball against the two three four hitters, which obviously are for the most part, the best hitters on the club. Although Scooba was touched up last year in the All Star Game, do you remember that he was?

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Speaker 1: But I don't think you're going to see him like shy away or do something different now.

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Speaker 3: So I'm just saying they got to him last year. Rare moment.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, And I mean they got to it so he had a little bit of a shaky start the last time. So maybe maybe that's the play. Maybe that's the National League's the winner.

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Speaker 3: Timpertrurist money moves. And let's get to the All Star Game, which does not reward players with any money. They got bonuses for being here.

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Speaker 2: Winter winning team.

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Speaker 3: Winning team gets cash twenty.

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Speaker 1: Five thousand dollars per player. I read that last night oh I did not know. Then you get some stipend, you get a first class flights, although everybody.

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Speaker 3: Only user doesn't get that.

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Speaker 2: Correct.

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Speaker 3: Do you think that they should up the ante for.

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Speaker 1: The winning team or do you like John.

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Speaker 3: Smoltz's idea about us a versus the world? What is a way to further incentivize the Ultimate Competition? Now? I don't want to be too hard. On the position player side, there's what two or three guys that didn't show up.

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Speaker 2: Every star.

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Speaker 3: That was picked is here except for Jose Ramirez. Bench Wise, there's a few guys that said no, right, yes, But on the pitching side, is there a way to incentivize guys that would get them here's money wise, you can Zach Wheeler into suddenly pitching. That's going to really make a difference in his life if he feels like he wants to take a break and not pitch for a week.

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Speaker 1: I think pitchers are the most realistic with their longevity of their career. It's just not there. And I think whether Zach Wheeler was told hey, you're not starting, or Zach Wheeler was needs a needs a blow and needs his time. Like if Zach Wheeler starts out the second half really well and continues what he's been doing.

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Speaker 2: His chance for the Cy Young.

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Speaker 1: There is no bonus that's gonna be like, hmm, I'm hanging a little bit.

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Speaker 2: I don't need to break.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna forego my chance of winning the Cy Young, forego my chance of winning the World Series because the Phillies are a World Series team, because they up the anteed for the winning team to fifty thousand a player because uh, you know, some company said, hey, we'll pay you one hundred thousand dollars to make an appearance at the All Star Game. I don't I don't think that upset. I don't think that's where it's at. I think you have to meet the players where they are, and maybe that's, hey, will you come to the All Star Game if there's three more days off, like there's more time off, because that's why they're not here. They want the time off, whether family guys, whether injuries, whatever it is. And if you say All Star Game is still on Tuesday, we have the Futures Game Wednesday, you guys don't play again until Saturday. I know Major League Baseball doesn't want to doesn't want to lose a weekend of game.

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Speaker 3: You're not going to take a Friday off. I mean, I'm actually on the other side with this one. I get it. It is a long bruling season. There are so few precious days on the sports calendar that you can own. Baseball is able to own a couple months in the summer for the most part, and when you have nothing on Wednesday and Thursday, it feels like a wasted opportunity. I've spoken about this already for me on futures game Wednesday Thursday is one game, one MLB regular season game. Do something cool, Matt, do a World Series rematch, something like that. I know this schedule gets set already, so you can't really yet do something cool one game, and I know players will be like, hey, that shortens my break. I get it. It's two teams out of thirty. You're not going to be on that team every year. It's going to flip around. To me, that's how you do it. You got to take advantage of that precious time that you have on the sports calendar. There are people that are going to be sitting down on Wednesday and Thursday being like, what am I watching? Yeah, it's an opportunity. There's no football there's no basketball, there's no hockey period. When you have that chance, you need to seize it. And this comes from both sides. The players need to agree to do something. They did have this at one point where they would. I felt like there was a Thursday here and there at least one or two in the past decade where they had a game. Am I off on that? I'm pretty sure they had one game and then they nixed that. I could be off. I've been through a lot in life. Anyway. For the game itself, what are you looking forward to?

00:26:00
Speaker 1: I you know, for me, I want to see I want to see show Hey hit three times. I want to see the best the American League has to offer pitching wise, and I want to see that. I want to see I want to see Judge hit three times. Also, other than that, those two guys should be designated to hit three times, not like not give up their third at bat. I don't care where the game's at. They were the two voted in players, like the two top voters, automatic starters no matter where they're hitting in the lineup. Obviously one in third for Judge for third. To me, I want to see him, I want to see him hit three times. You don't have to say of all four at bats, but that's what I want to.

00:26:40
Speaker 3: See, Okay, I feel like you have a decent shot of getting that right. No, you think it's two and done. I just think it's a.

00:26:46
Speaker 1: Low spring game and then and the guys are trying to be respectful too. There's other dudes that are here that may not get in that bat if those guys get three. But I just feel like everybody else, I think there's I think this who I want to see because there's always a chance to do something special.

00:27:05
Speaker 3: Who is the picture that you're most excited to see Jacob Zerowski? Oh, for sure, there's not an age because.

00:27:12
Speaker 1: I want to hear the I want to hear obviously, I want to see him pitch. I think he might hit one hundred and four. But there's just gonna be so much there's so much intrigue behind it. There's gonna be people that are like, yeah, he's screwed up, and there's gonna be people like, see, he should be there and he's wearing a Brewers uniform, so like I have to be my homer pick there. But there's I don't think there's even close for pictures.

00:27:32
Speaker 3: How do you think the crowd Ruw reacts to his name getting called.

00:27:38
Speaker 1: You mean this year or next year when the All Star Games in Philly.

00:27:42
Speaker 3: This year Philly, they'll boo everybody that doesn't have a Philli's uniform. We know that that's a layup.

00:27:47
Speaker 1: No, I don't think.

00:27:48
Speaker 2: I don't think.

00:27:49
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna.

00:27:51
Speaker 1: React because there's so much always going on during the All Star Game. A new picture's coming in and you're like, oh yeah, new picture's coming in, and it's just it's actually, for me, the game's a little fast. The game's a little fast to really acknowledge each person. I think on the telecast they do a good job, Mike, you guys up and everything, But in person, it's like your family is watching it. It's like wha yeah, and all of a sudden, it's like at bats over, game's over.

00:28:17
Speaker 3: Okay for me. Freddy Freeman abe, it's gonna be cool. Yeah, because he's down here and they could have paid him a little more to keep him here. Matt Olson's a really good player, but Freddy Freeman is a legend.

00:28:29
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00:30:01
Speaker 2: I mean, my guys, he's looking through something. He's got like the mister.

00:30:04
Speaker 3: Mett is giving him flack. I mean this one. He is in an uncomfortable spot there and the stage just let him down. The stage let him down, literally, the stage let him down. Kids side, He's okay that that could be a big tumble he could have. This is why we got out for the season.

00:30:22
Speaker 1: This is why we have dry walkthroughs, so you know where the stadium is. Alicia Keys of the you know whoever was playing the piano there from the Illumineers like could have given him like a whoa, what heads out? Oh? Or if it goes down there, Grimace wouldn't have fallen. Grimace wouldn't have fallen on.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: Wouldn't have moved, Grimace would have sat there. It's working on the piano because Grimace is a little bit sharper.

00:30:52
Speaker 1: Mister Matt but the Grimace would have just been standing and the tambourine would just come and just, yeah, I don't do that tough seven seconds. Grimace is not a try hard mister med is a try hard.

00:31:06
Speaker 3: Mister Mett was trying to put on a show. I give him credit, but it really didn't work out for him. On the positive side of things, for Mets fans, we haven't hit this yet, but Sean Maniah was one of the best pitchers in baseball last year and he's missed the first half of the season. He came back the other day. It looked pretty damn good in relief. But in relief, so what they were just trying to get him in there because they were up against the timeline. You wanted him to start and play Holmes relieve him. Does it really matter?

00:31:34
Speaker 2: I don't know.

00:31:35
Speaker 1: But the guy just came back and he has to be your number one. Yeah, and you're like, we'll go ahead and throw him in relief. I get it. Do you think it matters?

00:31:47
Speaker 3: Is great? That was what's most important.

00:31:49
Speaker 1: Yeah, he ended up getting lost.

00:31:50
Speaker 3: I think he had what five k's in a row?

00:31:52
Speaker 2: He did, but he threw sixty pitches in three innings.

00:31:56
Speaker 3: Like I want to see him pitch get swinging miss and then field, but feel okay the next day, Well what happened to her? I bather him start? Yeah, but how long to start in the second half the rest of the way.

00:32:06
Speaker 1: Now, Yes, it was confusing to me, just like I was confused why Andrew Heeney came out of the bullpen in the Twins series. He was the one to end up giving up the home run to the buck Truck to Byron Buxton like my thing, like, he has been one of your best pitchers besides Skeens in the first half and he's coming out of the bullpen. I don't know the whole situation, but to me, I was surprised that Sean and I came out of the bullpen just because he's coming off of injuries.

00:32:34
Speaker 3: That's just yeah, you want him to just do the clean get ready for your start, even if it's how long did he go? Do you remember three and sixty two Pitcheska, You got to let him go three innings to start the game. Instead, you're putting.

00:32:48
Speaker 1: Him in a situation that like, the game's a little bit tighter, and I think he got the l but I could be wrong.

00:32:55
Speaker 3: I'll look it up.

00:32:55
Speaker 1: I have to look back at that. Did he look good, Yes, he definitely looked good. That fastball had life. I don't know what the velocity was, I could really care less, but he was getting swings and misses at the top of the zone. And to me, that's obviously that's a huge They need it. They need him because that's like picking up a number two starter at the All Star break tomorrow.

00:33:21
Speaker 3: Not a live show, but we put a whole show together for you to preview, second half get some of our FT network Famin Bob, so check that out. We'll have that running for you on TV on YouTube, and after that, Trevor May will be live with May Day. It's gonna be a two forty five, So for the YouTube crowd, we will be on at two forty five Eastern with May Day following our show. Our show for the TV crowd, same deal, one to three Eastern. Check that out and then you can flip over to watch Trevor May after that. And lastly, in our final minute, we did giveaway an MLB jersey up to four hundred bucks in value to Trang on chat BCC congratulations. We posted that. I think there were only two people that ended up with a perfect score. We came up with a much more difficult trivia question. Sign up for our chat ECC. It's totally free. We do trivia in there. We've been giving away tickets Jerseys, the whole deal. I love the trivia. I I have a bit play like. I sit down and I'm like, two minutes, let me focus. I want to make sure I get it right. So I'm not the best at the timer part. But I got nine out of ten. I was pretty proud of myself. The one I missed on was the twenty nineteen cycle Jake Bowers question did you see that?

00:34:31
Speaker 2: One? Was so mad?

00:34:31
Speaker 3: I'm like, where did that come from?

00:34:34
Speaker 1: I was so mad. But good for Olivia for putting some tough ones in there.

00:34:37
Speaker 3: You gave us a mean curveball.

00:34:39
Speaker 2: No. I like that though.

00:34:40
Speaker 1: Hey, I'm all about the time. I'm allbout the time. I'm all about the w And I was pissed that I had to throw that chat out in Chat ECC because I want to win to Jersey.

00:34:51
Speaker 3: So you're not going to win regardless. I'm gonna have a team member win.

00:34:55
Speaker 2: I don't care if I don't get the Jersey. Right.

00:34:56
Speaker 3: You just want to win. You want to be at the top.

00:34:58
Speaker 2: That's it.

00:34:59
Speaker 3: Where was I at the finish line? Did you see me up there on the leaderboard? I wasn't high up really because a lot of people got nine out of ten quicker than me.

00:35:06
Speaker 1: Quicker your speed, Bai, Yeah.

00:35:09
Speaker 3: I can't do that. My brain doesn't work that way. I needed time when I was taking tests. I'm gonna find it real quick.

00:35:15
Speaker 2: I just take me long to read it. I'm a slow reader.

00:35:20
Speaker 3: Where am I for? What are you talking about it?

00:35:22
Speaker 2: Boston? I didn't see that.

00:35:24
Speaker 1: How many times did do it?

00:35:25
Speaker 2: Though?

00:35:25
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