AL East is tight! Rangers wake up, Astros metal scoreboard issue, Phils add Buehler, Braves claim Kim

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Speaker 1: Happy Tuesday. I hope everyone had a great weekend. O. My voice is not back. I kind of lost it for where'd you go a couple of days. I lost it on Friday doing nothing. I think we talked so much last week that it just went away. I thought it was back, and then I started talking, and it's like seventy percent. You know how players go, I'm seventy percent right now, I'm seventy three percent. I'm seventy three percent right now. You're always a hondo, yeah.

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Speaker 2: Because what no one cares if you're seventy percent. You're either you can play or you can't play. Scott, there's no there's no like, oh, let me everyone feel sorry for me. He's grinding through. It's seventy three percent. No either can go or you can't go.

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Speaker 3: Completely agree. One hundred percent is all that you have. I'm like, you're you're going, It's not like, well, I'll kind of just like play it out, bro. See that's to me, that's like nonchalant, nonchalant way of like you're your one hundred percent might not be what you think is your best, but it's still one hundred percent. You can't play one hundred and ten percent unless you're Jake Pevy.

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Speaker 4: Oh, I'm okay out there and give one hundred and thirty seven percent for the boys.

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Speaker 2: Well, everyone else is only trying to give a hundred. But Jake was the master of it. He would, he would, He had a lot of people.

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Speaker 1: Would he say that publicly? Yes, Okay, I don't remember. Yes.

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Speaker 2: For after a game he'd be like, oh, I was out there giving one hundred and seventy two percent. What time?

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's It's just not a thing like that.

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Speaker 2: It's not. But I mean, listen, I played with Jake PV in two different places. Ah, the boys.

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Speaker 4: I gotta be out there for the Bulls. I give three hundred and ninety two percent. Everyone else it's only given seventy three percent, like Scott Oh, and I'm gonna play my guitar.

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Speaker 1: All right. Let's get this one from AJ over the weekend, because it looked like it was one hundred percent done with which playoff teams were involved. Do you feel like there's a little opening.

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Speaker 2: I listen, I didn't say any. I didn't say I didn't say that. This is just to get people's responses, which I like, And I was just asking, are all the MLB races decided, except for seating. It's September one. There's a lot of separation. I mean, I feel like if you look at the standings, well, namely for the wild card, I mean, I guess the Rangers are alive, but gosh, the Mariners are just there. They're trying not to get into the postseason. Sometimes you look at it, you're like, remember when they made all those moves of the trade deadline and we were thinking, gosh, the Mariners are it. They haven't played any better. They've actually kind of played worse.

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Speaker 1: Their starting staff is not the same right now.

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Speaker 2: What happened? That was their strength? I don't know. The Rangers are making a run? Do you believe in the Rangers? Though they're nine to one, they won six in a row, so this is their hot streak. There's still what two games.

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Speaker 1: Back, game and a half, Wells doing the loss?

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right? I mean the National League, I can't see the Reds catching the Mets at four back with twenty five games. At twenty four games to.

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Speaker 1: Go, they called up Suth Stewart.

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Speaker 2: Well Stewart, by the way, thank you for the twenty twenty one state championship. Or my son, never forget you about thank you, Welcome to the big ones.

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Speaker 1: He can hit, he could, they need the bat.

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Speaker 2: Great story. So we're playing them in the state championship in the Twin Stadium, and he was of course went on to be a number one pick or whatever. And he plays at Miami Westminster down and he played at Miami Westminster, which is like down in Miami obviously or a rod and I mean Kayevich. There's a whole line of guys that went to Miami Westminster. If you don't know what it is. They had a fence, it was like two hundred and forty feet I guess the ray field. So he could hit like a fly battle right and it was. It was a home run. So we played him in the state championship. First a bat, best ball to right, and our redfielders like boop exit, He's like, what wack next to that fly ball? Right? Got it? He was like best ball and the guys just like because it was in a big league spring.

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Speaker 1: Training, right, so he's used to that part.

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Speaker 2: It was just to Westminster and then he got to Yeah, we won.

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Speaker 1: So they made a little Yankee Stadium short port over there.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, supposedly, it's like, really, I don't know because I've never seen him, but I've heard it's like super short. Wow. Yeah, but jeoh Sal.

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Speaker 1: Stewart gotta change your approach. But whatever, he made it to the big.

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Speaker 2: League, to the big leagues, and he got a knock and.

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Speaker 1: They walked up. Yeah, good for him.

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Speaker 2: I mean, listen, apparently he's been banging in the minor league, so good for him. Welcome to the big league, sou But I mean, I always never forget your twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: It's funny. As we're saying this, Alden Gonzales just tweeted, and I know we'll get to the topic here coming up in one second. Literally, as we're talking about this, Alden Gonzales just put out a tweet that said, the Red's got key Brian Hayes because he's one of the game's best defensive third basemen, but they also hoped his bat would come alive and a hitter friendly park. Twenty nine games in two seventy four three forty three on base four fifty three slug three home runs, one more than in one hundred prior games with the Pirates. He's just pointing out the numbers have been better, Okay over a month or so span, so we'll see. I mean it's certainly helping the Reds. It's just not enough right now.

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Speaker 3: I daily text my Pirate friend Dave Wisnowsky, Dave, did you see ke Brian Hayes got a big.

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Speaker 2: Oh wait a minute, sorry too soon.

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Speaker 1: I feel like the Pirates are still happy about it though it wasn't work.

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Speaker 2: The Pirates are very happy that this trade happened. Well, I mean, it doesn't matter unless I mean unless Cabrian Hayes goes off and becomes the MVP of the American League. The Pirates are very happy.

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Speaker 1: National League. But yeah, yeah, that's it.

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Speaker 2: It was a contract dumped for the Pirates and they were like, oh, a team in our division will take him for joy.

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Speaker 1: Come on, let's charge the mount. Let's charge the mound. Powered by MLB rivals, here's a rivalry Yankees, Red Sox, Blue Jays at the top of the Al East. But will it be for long? Who do you like of the three? And are you surprised that it's gotten this close this quickly? We have a full month to go.

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Speaker 2: Surprised, because here's the thing. Who do the.

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Speaker 1: Yankees just play nobody?

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Speaker 2: Now? Who do they play?

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Speaker 1: Somebody?

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Speaker 2: Astros? Right? They did Jays. They run the gauntlet for the like the next two weeks. Is it gauntlet for them?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Astross. It's like all first place teams, isn't it so?

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Speaker 1: Astros for three? Then they're home against the J's for three. They stay home for three against the Tigers, they hit the road to Boston. Then it starts to ease up again.

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Speaker 2: But what do the Yankees always do? We've talked about it. They beat the really they beat up on not so good teams because they can hit the homers and they don't face the best pitching, right, so now they get to go and play. Now we'll find out the next twelve days of the Yankees, now the Red Sox, I don't know who they played, but the Jays at least the Red Sox have Yankees and there Jays have Yankees in there, so in the next two weeks will know. My surprise, No, I'm not surprised about this at all because the three teams, the Jays were on such a rocket ship for such a long time. They got that lead, and now it's kind of okay. They're they're still playing okay, but they're they're they're coming back to the pack a little bit. But I still like, I still right now like where the Jays are at. It like they're starting pitching. I just think that they're in a good spot. So we'll see where they end up. I mean, they're they're two up in the Wildcard and the Yankees three up on the on the Red Sox, so we'll see.

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Speaker 1: And they have a bullpen problem.

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Speaker 2: Krats, they do, but I still like their bullpen.

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Speaker 3: I was really hoping for them Jemy Garcia would make it back, it's not gonna happen. I mean just the back to guys, I mean just the end to Nancy's been throwing. Well, he blew it yesterday. Hoffman is good. He hasn't been elite Hoffman. But last year he was elite Hoffman and went to the playoffs and he.

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Speaker 2: Was not elite Hoffman the Mets. The Mets figured him out.

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Speaker 3: But to me, when you have Louis Varlin, who had a great outing his last outing against the Brewers, but the two weeks prior, maybe he's still trying to get his feet wet with the Blue Jays, maybe still you know, not understanding how they're approaching hitters the same way. It's not just it's not always just a linear move across the board. To me, you have to look at you have. This month of September will obviously tell where the Blue Jays are going to be. This bullpen has an advantage over other bullpens that are struggling right now. Their starters usually give them length. These guys that go out there, they're giving them like six seven innings, so they're not just getting burned out. And hope Philly Schneider can find a guy like Louis Varland some extra you know, softer landing spots to not have to come in a one run game.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're frustrated with Violin because they feel like the stuff is there. Yeah, he's just not getting the results. Hoffman, on the other hand, aj has given up fourteen home runs this year. He's got an eighty five ERA plus after a dynamite couple seasons before this in Philly in twenty three and twenty four. Do you trust him?

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Speaker 2: Here's my biggest thing about Hobman is at the beginning of the year he was really good, but they also were using it for multiple innings. He had a lot of four out saves. He was doing a lot of things that most closers don't do. Is he tired? Does he?

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Speaker 1: Does?

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Speaker 2: He a little bit worn down from all of those innings. I mean he's done a lot, and he's done multiple inning. Every time I turned it on the eighth inning, Alvin was in the game trying to get us four or five out saves. So I just I think that maybe he might be a little bit tired and he'll get ramp back up and when you know, when it comes to it. But I mean, he's got eight wins. Also, it's a lot for a closer. Eight wins, Yeah, eight and six hawking them victories.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, twenty nine saves fifty seven and a third innings. How many appearances sixty appearances? I mean he did make sixty eight appearances last year.

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Speaker 2: I mean we've got a month ago and he's sixty, right, And I know that he doesn't have as many innings as he does appearances, but there was a lot early, especially early where he was four or five outs, you know, but they were really trying to figure it out. So it's furtailed a little bit, but still it's it's you might be a little tired, who knows, We'll see, but dude, listen. September first, September second, Now adrenaline kicks back in. It's time to go.

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Speaker 1: Okay, they picked up Isaiah Connor fileffa the Blue Jays did. They also booted Derek Lowerd to the bullpen for now. That'll help the bullpen if he looks like he did as a starter crat.

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Speaker 2: For sure.

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Speaker 3: You hope, you hope his stuff translates maybe even up. But again, are they gonna lean on Biaber? Is Bieber even making that that playoff rotation.

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Speaker 2: I get it.

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Speaker 3: You know, he's had two great starts, but Lowers Lower's got to be down there ready to go because he was he was kicking it in the in the in the rotation. It's gotta be a it's gotta be a knock to his not to his ego, but just he's gotta be pissed off about it because he was thrown.

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Speaker 1: Well, which team is the bigger threat, the Red Sox or the Yankees or do you want to hear some scheduling, because I think the Red Sox. Yeah, it's soft schedule coming up for them too. I mean, they didn't handle the Pirates too well. They picked up the end of the series, but they lost two out of three there. They did beat Cleveland last night. They've got two more against Cleveland. Then they hit the road for Arizona and the at.

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Speaker 2: H s ah is don't sleep on the ath, that's true. I just saw a hanchin to the Tigers and they were talking about the Aths and they were saying, it is it is not a fun place to have to go play right now because what I say about the Tigers. Remember you guys asked me about the Tigers, and I said, once they play the Royals and they start getting back into it. They get out of Sacramento and it's exactly what Hinch and some of the guys said. We went to Sacramento. The lights are bad, the clubhouses are bad, the field it feels like a minor league park. They said that in Tampa it literally feels like a minor league park. And they were like, it's a hard time getting up, not because they understand it's a big leagu game, but it's hard getting up for a game when there's nine thousand people. The lights are bad at Hinch at one point said he was gonna get ejected. He thought about getting ejected, I don't know what, but then he said he'd have to walk across the field. Was when Scooball was yelling at the MP remember the school guy into and then he gave him the Grand Slam, and Hinch was like, well, I wanted to kind of go out there and protect my guy. But then he's like, I gotta walk all the way out to center field to leave. I can't just go through the dugout. It's like then I'll delay my picture longer and it would have just taken longer. So he's like, screw it. I just had to had to let it ride. But it was it was one of those. It was funny because I never heard anyone say that, because he's like, and then he's like, do I get the card? If I get ejected? Do I wait for the car to take me? Or do I walk? And then I got to walk all the way out there, and I'm not as surpry as I used to be.

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Speaker 1: Well, some people fans will say, who've never played baseball, We'll say bs excuses that shouldn't matter. My question back to you is does a game feel exactly the same if you're playing it in a sold out ballpark with all the amenities that you guys are used to versus if you played on a little league field.

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Speaker 2: No, no, it doesn't. Now now if you do the one off games and crawds, I think you speak. If you do like a one hour like I was fortunately playing four Brag, right, that was cool because there was a tiny park, like two thousand people. You're like, I'm a four brag and there's only military people here watching me. Now, that one was cool. But to go and have to play a three game series in a place you're like but I heard the hotel was nice. I heard there was kind of some stuff to do in Sacramento, but it's far the ball. Like they said, the field was fine and the amenities were okay, but it was just more about just the.

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Speaker 1: Atmosphere, so that can be a hell hole. So that there's three there, Then they go to the Bronx to take or No. Then they go home to take on the Yankees. That's the games in Fenway. Then they welcome in the A's, then they're in Tampa in Toronto and finish up with three against Detroit. That's the rest of the schedule for the Red Sox. Do you think they're a bigger threat to catch the Blue Jays or the Yankees? I think the Red Sox okay crats, Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I just feel like.

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Speaker 3: The Yankees haven't been playing their best baseball even though they're playing against bad teams.

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Speaker 2: And I can't decide if they're only beating up on bad teams. I can't.

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Speaker 3: I can't decide that. But then when they face a good picture and that picture carves them up because he can hit the locations that these home run hitters don't hit, then my mindset changes. So to me, I feel like the Yankees are a better team. I feel like they can be a better team. Will be Will they be? I don't know, I don't know. I just I feel like, because there's gonna be a ton of like panic moments, the bullpen really carries you through those panic moments. And the Red Sox bullpen right now is one of the best in baseball in the last two weeks, not even talking about just Chatman. What he's doing is historic. But like I guess, I guess today, I'm still leaning towards the Yankees, but I could be easily convinced to lean towards the Red Sox having the best chance.

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Speaker 2: But I don't think anybody catches the.

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Speaker 1: Peyton totally looked good too the other day for the Red Sox. It's a nice little addition.

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Speaker 2: Should why did we not break that call up? By the way, what do you mean didn't we have the inside scoop on that one?

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Speaker 1: The inside scoop you mean Ken Rosenthal's segment on FT. Yes, Ken broke it. He scooped us.

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Speaker 2: Got us anyway, a little Kenny getting all the scooter.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he got this like I had him this weekend.

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Speaker 2: I mean all he kept doing was jumping in on my conversations.

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Speaker 2: I forgot who that even was. Didn't he the guy that used to rock the rock? Yes, yep, that's really good. I remember seeing him pitch. I didn't realize it had been that long since he pitched, but remember he used to do the whole They were like, is that illegal?

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Speaker 3: It's fun a rule They changed the rule, and one start in he got hurt. They changed that rule in twenty five.

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Speaker 2: You can't. You can't start and stop.

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Speaker 3: It has to be a continuous motion to the plate, even though Nestor kind of.

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Speaker 2: Goes on that line a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, and then he got hurt and people were like, oh, man, you know he got hurt because they changed the rule.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 3: Man, that is a long time to be out ashers have had some guys that have had some long iyel.

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Speaker 2: Stints from arm surgeries. But he was.

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Speaker 3: He went out there and did well. All these guys coming back from IL recently have all done well. Bradish Garcia, Bieber, dudes have could pitch in the playoffs.

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Speaker 1: Yeh, long absences. I mean this is over two years.

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Speaker 2: I do have a question for you, like a serious, legitimate question, Like I joked with Max about going in as a Dodger. Who does he go in as national? Now? You think over Tigers because he won with the Nats.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because he won with the Nats, and I mean, without looking closely at number comparisons, he was nasty with the Nats and nasty with everybody right, right, But the longevity of the individual accomplishment plus the title. Yeah, hey we're back. Let's talk n L West for a moment, Dodgers are hoping to get Tommy Edmund back at some point. He is taking live at bats right now, first time he's done that since landing on the IL. I was Faby and Ardaya. Also, they added Kim back to the roster with the September callups. They added Copak back. It's crazy. You look at some of the players that get activated and I'm like, oh, yeah, I forgot they're missing that player.

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Speaker 2: What the Dodgers been waiting on? Yeah? Well, and the Padres are just self destructing with injuries.

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Speaker 1: Right going the other way for them.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's been like whoa, who else came? Who else? There's like the bad boy I think pulled his hamstring the other day. Yeah, it's crazy everyone. I mean, Bogert's going down. I mean, did you see Jason adam as then? I thought I thought he blew it was his squad. I thought he blew his knee out the way he went in to cart him off the field, ruptured, ruptured quad. I never I don't know if I've heard of that one.

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Speaker 3: No, I think that's I think it's kind of it's like it's the tendon. What I read was it was a tendon that connects like above the knee cap, so it technically it is his knee, but it's the bottom of his squad.

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Speaker 2: Not a doctor. But that's tough.

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Speaker 1: All right, We're going to go live to Pennsylvania for our reporter on the Phillies, Eric Kratz, checking in with their latest edition. Yes you can still add players. Now you can't, but you could up until a couple days ago. And what do you think of the latest ad?

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Speaker 3: You mean to the lee have ally iron pigs, Walker Buehler or Tim Masa who pitched a scoreless inning last night and is now a left handed option out of the bullpen that they only had Straw and Tanner Banks. But I guess you're talking about Walker Buehler. He's gonna start September twelfth versus Kansas City. They're gonna try six man rotation. This is the beauty of having a lead. Hopefully you can set your rotation for exactly how you want it to go. And right now it looks like it's not gonna be Walker Bueller, but it looks like Christopher Sanchez, Ranger Suarez, and Aaron Nola. How does Lozardo fit in between all of those guys in a in a playoff rotation. That's going to be the confusing part. I don't think Walker Bueller is really just going to help them make that transition to being able to be set for Game one, But then it's also going to help Do they put him on the roster? Do they put him a playoff roster because of what he's done in the playoffs?

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: To me, he's got to show a lot in September, because that's a coin flip if you if you're putting him on the roster, there's been some other guys that have struggled also.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got to show them some signs of life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he has a good dear, he gets a new start, and we'll see. But I mean, I hope he does well because he seems I mean, people like him. He's pitching great in the playoffs, So I hope he does well. But he's got to earn he's got to earn a chance to be on this roster on this team. Honestly, he's he's just got to earn.

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Speaker 1: It, got to earn a chance to be in the big leagues if he doesn't pitch well over the next.

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Speaker 2: Few weeks, right, Yeah, agree, I.

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Speaker 1: Mean, it's the difference between a major league contract and a minor league invite for next year. If he doesn't pitch well, and it's the Phillies, they're not going to give him a ton of leeway. They're gonna give him what a few starts.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it would line up that he'd have two starts.

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Speaker 3: It would line up that he have two starts, and possibly the last day of the season he would start again. But if he starts the last day of season, I know they have three four days off before their round would begin, as long as they get that buy because they still have to get the bye they like.

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Speaker 2: If you make that.

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Speaker 3: Last start, most likely you're not you're not making You're not making a roster usually unless it's a must win type of situation.

00:26:37
Speaker 2: No, I totally disagree with that.

00:26:40
Speaker 1: He's not making a start in the wildcard series if they're there. But in a division series division.

00:26:43
Speaker 2: Series, you can make a start.

00:26:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a long time. Why a corner look out for the Texas Rangers. Was there a YouTube channel called foul Territory that posted a video that was titled cooked.

00:27:01
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll say it, I still think it.

00:27:03
Speaker 1: You still think they're cooked?

00:27:04
Speaker 2: I don't think they're gonna make it. I just don't. I think I think they're I think they're again. They're nine and one their last ten. They won six in a row. This is their hot streak and they're still two games behind. So until you know, they got to keep this up for a while, and at some point, I think the Mariners are going to figure out how to win some games again. I mean lungs. They don't go east, the marinersors go east. Boy, it is big, big.

00:27:27
Speaker 1: Problem sometimes a team that can get up a spot. That's the thing, like, will this be the Twins from last year.

00:27:35
Speaker 2: Which are on the Mariners, or the Rangers the Tigers from last year?

00:27:38
Speaker 1: A little bit of both.

00:27:39
Speaker 2: I mean, they just lost like three of their best players and they're doing.

00:27:42
Speaker 1: Better they did.

00:27:42
Speaker 2: They lost see your and Simeon.

00:27:45
Speaker 1: Yep, they picked up Dylan Moore, former Mariner. So yeah, I'll give you the schedules because I mean, it's not that hard to put together anymore. It only takes a minute. Right. So for the ms who got smacked by the Tampa Bay Rays yesterday ten to two, they've got two more in Tampa, then they've got three in Atlanta. Three against Saint Louis at home, four at home against the Angels, who always playing pretty well from what I recall. Three in Kansas City, three in Houston, three at home against the Rockies, and they finished with three against the Dodgers. That's the Mariners for you. You want the Rangers. Sure, they've got two more against Arizona. They had a big win and extras against Arizona yesterday. Three against the Astros at home, followed by welcoming in the Milwaukee Brewers for three. Then they're in New York to take on the Mets for three, in Houston for three O. That just sounded rough. Then they get back home to take on the Marlins the Twins, and they finish up in Cleveland for three.

00:28:47
Speaker 2: Well, the six games against the ass are going to decide it.

00:28:50
Speaker 1: That's a lot. Yeah, that definitely makes a difference. Can they catch the Astros?

00:28:57
Speaker 2: The Astros play the Yankees the next three days, right, yep, and then they then they play the Rangers.

00:29:04
Speaker 1: And I mean, crazier things have happened.

00:29:08
Speaker 2: Let's say the Rangers win four out of six. Ye, that puts some against the Astros. I mean that get picks them up two full games.

00:29:17
Speaker 1: The Rangers can pitch, I know, and.

00:29:20
Speaker 2: The Astros the whole thing is they can't hit. I mean, if there's a chance, but I don't know. Every time, it's like, every time we think the Rangers have got to figure it out, they lose four or five in a row. It's like wait, it's like every time you think they're like, oh, Boach, you's got to figure it out. Go go, go.

00:29:39
Speaker 1: With the offense.

00:29:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, let's I mean, you can break down so many stats. Run Differential would say, oh, the Rangers are going to catch them. You can break down so many things. Which team plays more games on the road, because the Mariners are thirty two and thirty eight on the road, the Rangers are thirty and forty. So whoever plays the most games on the road, they're out. Actually, I don't really care who plays most games on the road. Well, they both have the same exact amount left. Just so you know, I don't think the road the Rangers. I don't think the Rangers have enough to catch them. You can't lose Simeon and Seger. You can't lose Simeon and Seeger and your best starter, I get it to Grom has been awesome, but you've Aldi's just he was just putting up six or seven innings a one run baseball every five days. I just I don't think you have enough to catch them. You can't go nine to one again to continue to make up the rest of this ground.

00:30:41
Speaker 1: Call me a hopeless baseball romantic, but I still think the Royals have a chance. They're only two and a half back. You want the Royal schedule because I think this is the most favorable one. They have three against the Angels this week. Over the weekend, they stay home for the two wins. Then next week four in Cleveland, three in Philly. They welcome the Mariners in their home park, so you get the road Mariners. They welcome the Blue Jays in their home park, and they finish up with six on the road Anaheim and at h It's not as the easiest one, isn't it? Is it the easiest?

00:31:21
Speaker 2: Easiest one can then the Royal score runs, man, that's they They have a hard time scoring runs. They have a hard time scoring runs. I'm sorry, but the game I did Saturday, Bobby went hit a home run and that was it. It was really like a Garcian went hit Homersa.

00:31:40
Speaker 1: Tags is back.

00:31:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he hasn't done anything.

00:31:42
Speaker 1: Well no, he just came back when he was there before anything. Maybe he finds it though, I mean, do you think he's going to be good prospect?

00:31:50
Speaker 2: Jan yep, yep.

00:31:51
Speaker 1: One of the you know, they've got two ones in the lower minors. So this is the kid who they traded away Freddy for me and for and felt like they could replace him with what's the Reagan situation? He Oh, by the way, did you get an update?

00:32:05
Speaker 2: He threw a two winning sim game. It was a sim game. We watched it from the press boxes. We were dying laughing. They put the the plastic guy in there to stand in there. They put the he walked the plastic guy and hit him a couple of times, so we're like, dang that plastic guy. He's got a rally going right now. In the second it was it was just funny because we were just having fun with it, Like he hit him in the hit him in the foot once, and you know, we could kind of tell. We couldn't tell higher low, we could tell in and out. A couple of times. We're like, well, there's ball four of the plastic guy to the dead guy. He's going first, they have a rally going. If he just gets one knock, he breaks this thing open. We were like, does Reagans know he's not swinging?

00:32:50
Speaker 1: Was working on?

00:32:51
Speaker 2: I know, it was just so it was because you know, we're up there and we got nothing to do. We're waiting on a manager meeting, so we're just watching and Hunter Harvey came in and was blowing snot you know, pitching against the plastic guy. The plastic guy was a switch hit or I mean right handed and left handed. So it was it was just one of those moments where if you've ever been in a ballpark for a really long time, that you know you're just sitting up in the press box and you're kind of done with everything. You're just watching this. We just had We just had a good old time with it, laughing at you know, Reagan's trying to pitch to the dead guy.

00:33:21
Speaker 1: So scouting report is not quite ready against plastic but maybe against flat.

00:33:26
Speaker 2: Maybe against the real guy that swings. Okay, I mean, I'm like, well here's my skyingport. Just don't swing, don't swing. There's a good chance he watcher command.

00:33:36
Speaker 3: Fo AJ's breaking it right, now, Cole Reagan's is a four before three guy right now, four balls before three strikes, And.

00:33:45
Speaker 2: I mean again, he probably was. I don't even know. It was just we were having more fun. Like he just walked the dead guy, he walked the plastic guy. And then the Tigers were all sitting over there watching. He had Joey Korra like just watching like every pitch, and I'm like, does Joey know he's pitching against a non human?

00:34:00
Speaker 1: That's why he was worried. They also have to figure out Seth Lugo. He has not been good for a while, but he was so good through June.

00:34:08
Speaker 2: It comes down to this, can they score? They just they don't score enough runs unless they figure out a way to score.

00:34:14
Speaker 1: Bobby wit Gonna is unbelievable. Yeah, but even the.

00:34:17
Speaker 2: Game on Saturday, he made two unbelievable plays. Defensively, he's incredible, and then he hit the two run homeward, I mean dead center.

00:34:24
Speaker 1: You know who's fallen off? Jonathan India is having a brutal year.

00:34:27
Speaker 2: He doesn't play hardly anyway, I know.

00:34:29
Speaker 1: But they expected him to be the leadoff guy the whole year. I'm just thinking, like, what went wrong for the offense because you thought India here to set the table. Jack Tags comes up and maybe he'll be one of the better rookies. Obviously he didn't play well and then he got hurt. What do you think, Krats, Do you think the Royals, your former ball club, has a shot?

00:34:48
Speaker 2: No, I mean they have a shot. Do I think they're gonna make it? No?

00:34:51
Speaker 3: I don't think they're gonna make it. Maybe India's changing of positions actually affects you're hitting more than people want to lead on. But only he can answer that. That's tough. I thought that was a good pickup. But they got rid of Singer who gives them some length when their starters could have really used. You know, one guy that's going to give you six or seven innings every every five days. But hey, they went for it. I love that. I thought it was a good pickup. Maybe there's a bounce back coming.

00:35:22
Speaker 1: There's a lot of time left if you're within a couple of games, like, there's time left.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I don't know. We'll have to see. Here's the thing, though, do we believe that these teams that have basically played five hundred the entire year throwing. The Guardians are only four out. Do we believe they have a ten game winning streak in them? Like the Rangers are on their streak right now? Do we think one of these other teams could jump a ten game winning streak even though they haven't done it all year?

00:35:49
Speaker 1: Guardians, that's that's a little bit of a stretch.

00:35:51
Speaker 2: The other two they're one game behind the Royals right right, So why is that a stretch but the Royals aren't?

00:36:00
Speaker 1: Well, what, it just depends on what your line is. Where's your line?

00:36:04
Speaker 2: So I'm asking when game I'm sure the Royals and Guardians play each other again. Yep, Okay, the Guardians sweep them.

00:36:11
Speaker 1: Then they're all still in I mean except.

00:36:14
Speaker 2: For the White Sox in the American League. The Orioles are still alive too.

00:36:18
Speaker 3: No, you watch the game. They had a graphic. They had a graphic of the race five and a half out. It had like, you know, had the Mariners highlighted, and then it had the race five and a half out as they're like score runs, Bass hit Dinger the right center and then I mean it was four and a half four and a half.

00:36:38
Speaker 2: But this was this was mid game.

00:36:40
Speaker 3: They had the five and a half, like believe all these believe signs from their six thousand fans.

00:36:50
Speaker 1: Was Randy a Roseraina return they did.

00:36:52
Speaker 2: They did a montage for him on.

00:36:57
Speaker 1: Yeah. He was Babe Ruth for a month and they just liked him in general. He was fun. All right, let's cover this transaction. The Atlanta Braves claim Hassung Kim off waivers from those Tampa Bay Rays. Rays put him on waivers. They signed him this fast offseason. That was one of the bigger surprises. Kim really hasn't done much. He didn't play for most of the year.

00:37:23
Speaker 2: He hasn't played for a couple of years. He's been hurt from San Diego. He was hurt too.

00:37:28
Speaker 1: Braves are going to pay two million bucks. So the Raisers are like, whoa two million bucks off the books? Wait, and he has a player option for next year for sixteen million dollars. Now, when he plays, if he's healthy, he's a good player. Will that be the case? What will he do in the offseason? How will he look for the next few weeks? Braids get a look, but it's not up to the Braves, it's up to the player. Is he going to pick up the sixteen million dollars, and I think the Braves are trying to look ahead and they said, hey, I don't see much available short stuff.

00:37:56
Speaker 2: They haven't had a short stuff for a long time.

00:37:58
Speaker 1: No, do you know how many home runs from their shortstops this year?

00:38:01
Speaker 2: Assuming Nick Allen has like maybe one zero.

00:38:04
Speaker 1: Zero zero home runs from the shortstop position this season next I remember they.

00:38:11
Speaker 2: Tried, yeah, it all start team, Yeah, but that he had that one year and then after that he kind of.

00:38:19
Speaker 1: Nose Dave. So they need a shortstop and they're like, maybe it's Kim because they don't like to go hard in free agency. They like to keep their own guys. So this puts them in a position Kratz where maybe this is their shortstop for twenty twenty six.

00:38:34
Speaker 3: I mean, he has to be the shortstop. It's a player option. There's no like tryout. They're saying he's their shortstop. They're gonna pay him sixteen million dollars to play second base. Are they get rid of Albi's He's not playing third base. Austin Riley's gonna be there for a while. He's their shortstop next year unless I don't know how his player option works. But they have no choice.

00:38:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, but he's gonna pick it up.

00:38:58
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a chance that he's got to pick it up though. I mean, there's a chance he comes back. Right.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: If he plays great, he's gonna he thinks he's gonna make more than sixteen million somewhere.

00:39:11
Speaker 1: Who's his agent, Boris And he's twenty nine years old. If he can prove he's healthy the next few weeks. You know, last year he's coming off a major shoulder surgery, so that's a turnoff for most teams. If he proves he's healthy, there could be a team that throws a little bit more at him. I don't know. I mean, he was really valuable at one point not long ago. And if you believe he's still in his prime, he's still in his twenties, you might get more.

00:39:34
Speaker 2: Yeah. The problem is that the injury, Yeah, and he missed. It cost him the last thirty game forty games last year and then just almost all of this year. Yeah.

00:39:43
Speaker 1: I mean he's had and he hasn't co eighty four bats this year, and it's looked like crap.

00:39:47
Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. He hasn't proven that he can do it, so he has to go out on this. He has this month to go out and play and prove, and if he goes out in Rakes, he could decline that option. But if he doesn't, the Braves, I bet would be happy with him one year at sixteen and a half. No such thing as a bad one year deal.

00:40:08
Speaker 1: For sixteen.

00:40:10
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, he thinks one year deal. There are no bad one years, right.

00:40:15
Speaker 1: Okay, So it was interesting. I mean, I do you think there were any teams that wanted him? And then the Braves claim him and they're like, what the you know, like a contender that wanted him or no.

00:40:28
Speaker 2: We'll never know. I guess.

00:40:30
Speaker 3: I mean the Padres again, Yankees, they already have their guy.

00:40:38
Speaker 1: If they're not was the guy. Okay, I don't know, just thought of a team top of my head.

00:40:43
Speaker 3: They're not just they're not just bringing in every short stop possible.

00:40:48
Speaker 2: Scott doesn't understand it. He thinks it's fantasy. We can just sign up this guy. We can sign up this guy. We can sign up this guy.

00:40:54
Speaker 1: Some teams do that. The Phillies just did that with Walker Buehler.

00:40:58
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a stash. He's not gonna get him a couple of starts.

00:41:01
Speaker 1: Yeah, here's the thing. You can't add via trade. You haven't been able to add via trade. This is where even when we were talking about the Blue Jays earlier, they have a problem. Hey, we could really use one more bullpen out too late. Unless you got a prospect, you call someone up, which is what the Mets have done. Hey, we don't have any starters. Let's just call all the kids up early. It's all you can do.

00:41:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, we talked, I mean we talked about on Friday. This is a Walker Bueller decision. This isn't like, oh, the Phillies gave Walker Bueller more money. This is a Walker Bueller decision. If he had other options, which I assume you had other options to go to other teams, he chose to go to the Phillies because of whatever reason, opportunity to pitch, maybe you know, the team's good, he had, you know, a chance to play in the playoffs. Whatever it is. This isn't like the Phillies outbid anybody.

00:41:52
Speaker 1: True. Yeah, with Kim it's hey, we claimed him first and we're taking on potentially eighteen million dollars, which is not nothing. A couple of things from the Brewers, Pat Murphy talking about Shelby. Miller said he felt something pop in his elbow.

00:42:11
Speaker 2: That's okay because I just text Shelby to come on too. He just got his ten years and yeah he did, so I texted him to come on. He said yes, and then this happens.

00:42:20
Speaker 1: So now it's just maybe not. We'll find out more details later today already had one. I know that TJ. Pat Murphy on the mizz who hasn't been sailing as smoothly. He's the ras in the forest quote. I think we're learning as we go. We need him as a starter right now, and he's developing as a starter. That discussion hasn't begun about what else could happen.

00:42:46
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is is that he's been good for like a couple of innings and then he has like a rough when he gets second time through. So maybe is he a closer but Gill's out. Is he a bullpen piece for.

00:42:56
Speaker 1: Him, a both multi inning That's what I'm saying, A.

00:42:58
Speaker 2: Bull bullpen guy. I don't know's that's people are talking about that.

00:43:03
Speaker 1: The Brewers are going to try things scraped in October because it hasn't worked for them in the past.

00:43:09
Speaker 3: Yeah, but they've been in situations where they've been at spots to win the game. Hater gave up a ground ball to Juan Soto on a fastball he should have never thrown, and Trent Grisham missed the ball the game was in hand. Last year, Devin Williams gives up a home run to Pete Alonzo. I think it was a second home run to a right hander. It's only home run off of a changeup all year. Like they've been in situations like I don't think they're going to just remake their entire roster. Jacob Mizerowski has not shown that he is a reliable, full start type of pitcher. Maybe they bring him in, he starts the game and he throws one time through the order, kind of a you know, a bulk starter instead of a bulk reliever, and then they go to their bullpen guys. It's not going to be extreme. I don't see them transitioning him to being their closer.

00:44:07
Speaker 1: Would you rather rather have him as a bulk starter or a bulk reliever in the postseason?

00:44:13
Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, if you're you're gonna go Freddy Quintana, Woody wood Drew, who's your who's your fourth Quinn priesterin pries they're they're like undefeated when he pitches. Get to Mazowski is a bulk reliever. He had a big strikeout. Bring him in to throw one hundred and seven for one hitter, or isn't that the new wave fave thing to do?

00:44:36
Speaker 1: Injuries suck. Taylor Ward had a brutal injury out in left field the other day, smashing into the out of town scoreboard, which is full of what looks like flush metal. He has about twenty stitches above his right eye. For the Angels outfielder, he's otherwise okay this according to Jeff Fletcher of the Orange County Register. He said, cleared of concussion, slept well, thinks only a couple of days resk and can return to the lineup.

00:45:03
Speaker 2: Now.

00:45:03
Speaker 1: The phase of this that I want to address is his fellow outfielder Joe Adele, who said, quote, he's doing what he's supposed to do. He's being aggressive on a play at the bottom line. And I've talked about this before. There should be no out of town metal scoreboard anywhere on the baseball field. It's the big leagues. This bleep is ridiculous. A guy goes back to make a play and he's got to worry about a metal fence. That's crazy. So that's my honest opinion about it. He did everything he could to make a play and he gets beat up by something that's beyond controllable. Should we have metal out of town scoreboards? Just raise it, make it so you can't run into it, So you can't.

00:45:39
Speaker 2: Run into it. I don't think everything else. All the metal should be padded if possible. But I've seen guys get like their jerseys stuck on it. Same as the Green Monster, the Green Monsters metal, right, the whole thing.

00:45:51
Speaker 1: Green Monsters metal. Didn't bryce the Green Monster pat it for you. Scott didn't bryce run into metal? Somewhere was that in la That.

00:45:59
Speaker 2: Was Judge, You remember Judge, Well that was on the concrete.

00:46:02
Speaker 1: Yes, in l A.

00:46:03
Speaker 3: Aaron ruff ran into metal, ran into the metal of the of the tarp, split his knee open.

00:46:10
Speaker 2: Aaron Rowan got better looking when he ran into a thing in center field in Philly.

00:46:14
Speaker 3: They had to change that. That was the first year it was open. They had to change it.

00:46:19
Speaker 1: Okay, so let's play the game. You're the Houston Astros. This happens, and you've done changes before you did a little makeover. Tals Hill's gone it would you either get rid of it or put a pad over it or raise it.

00:46:33
Speaker 2: You got to raise it, that's it. You got to raise it and make the letter smaller.

00:46:36
Speaker 1: Do you think they'll do anything? Why not?

00:46:39
Speaker 2: I think they will. But it won't be this season, no, of course.

00:46:41
Speaker 1: But next year we do something. Do we need it?

00:46:44
Speaker 2: Did? Okay? In Boston? What do you do in Boston? You know outfielders, No, not to run into the metal scoreboard at Boston. There's little hooks that the little things, the little things hang on. There's little hooks out there.

00:46:56
Speaker 1: Can't we make it so that it's no one's ever? Metal is traditions.

00:47:01
Speaker 2: How do you think they hang the little the numbers on on the inside. They don't. You better check it.

00:47:08
Speaker 3: They don't bring anybody. It's all from the inside. They do on some of them, they do.

00:47:16
Speaker 2: Not putting it on. Yeah, Boston, they have a little guy that runs out and runs back in. No, yes.

00:47:25
Speaker 1: He do all right, guy.

00:47:27
Speaker 2: That climbs the ladder sometimes.

00:47:30
Speaker 1: Okay, I just want to be clear on this. You guys don't think that a place that has history with metal should fix it right, Like in Fenway, you think they should keep metal because it's always been there.

00:47:44
Speaker 2: Yes, people know not to go face first into the metal. Okay, they stopped hurt and listen. This is not a knock on Taylor Ward at all. It was just a crappy look. He did everything right. But if anyway, people don't go barreling into it. You saw a Tory Hunter when he tried to catch David Ortiz's grand slam. He went ass over tea kettle.

00:48:04
Speaker 1: Do we want sick athletic plays? If we do, we should try and make it so that there's not a problem when you do it.

00:48:11
Speaker 2: Okay, we want sick athletic plays in football, but we don't ban tackling.

00:48:16
Speaker 1: Is that an accurate analogy?

00:48:19
Speaker 2: Very accurate?

00:48:22
Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I'm sasking in.

00:48:24
Speaker 2: Houston, they can raise the pad in any way. They can't do anything. In fend Way. They can't do what they can't. It's it's there.

00:48:32
Speaker 3: I think Joe Adell, Joe Adell was being honest. He saw his teammate leacoln pretty good like it was immediate and he was being honest. And I think this is a situation. Yes, they could take that one row of scores out and raise the pad just so it's player height.

00:48:53
Speaker 2: But I mean, look at look at our boy, Rowdy Telez. You can't.

00:48:56
Speaker 3: You can't cover every injury. Raley tells jumped for a ball and his finger got caught in pilatest skins.

00:49:05
Speaker 2: This finger. You try your.

00:49:06
Speaker 1: Best, Okay, Yeah, just asking, just shocking. Anyway, we're going to swing back to a longer last segment. Why because we had some transactions. Something occurred called the dump deadline, and it led to a pickup for one team, actually two pickups. And then also probably the best reliever in baseball this year got paid a little more. So we'll cover both of those things next. Let's lap. First off, congrats to Eraldus Chapman racking up one year about thirteen million bucks on a contract extension. There is a vesting option. If he gets to forty innings pitched, you would add count it. Let's see thirteen million dollars for twenty twenty seven.

00:49:55
Speaker 2: She always seems like he pitches a lot.

00:49:56
Speaker 1: He pitches a lot. I mean he is ridiculous this year.

00:50:00
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.

00:50:01
Speaker 1: Right, he knows where it's going, Yes, he does. It's walk greats.

00:50:06
Speaker 2: Down fastball again, he wasn't able to do that for a long time. He's mostly split and slider. You get there for strike, fastball is just show.

00:50:14
Speaker 1: Now he's got it all.

00:50:15
Speaker 2: He's got all of them.

00:50:16
Speaker 1: This might be the best version of our oldest Chapman ever, krats your former boy, former teammate, ever.

00:50:23
Speaker 3: I would have to look at ever years. He had some pretty Oh absolutely, his era is there, But there were some years where he was punching some dudes out. He's gonna get close, and that's what that's what they're gonna say. You know, if you're I mean, there's no there's no way of Diyson. The dude's thirty seven years old. His velocity, I think it was the day that Ben Joyce a year or two ago. Ben Joyce hit one hundred and five, and he came out and hit one hundred and four like it was a completely different game. He sees it, he knows. He also announs how to stay healthy. When you're talking about forty, he needs to throw forty innings. He hasn't not thrown forty innings since Oh sorry, there was Oh no, no, no, it was twenty twenty two when he had that year where he went home at the end of the year and he said they told him it wasn't gonna be on the roster, so he didn't come back. That was a little scuttle butt. But before that, it was twenty ten. His rookie year was the last time he didn't throw forty innings. So they basically signed him to a two year, twenty six million dollar deal.

00:51:38
Speaker 1: It's a good deal. I think he would have gotten more in the free agent market.

00:51:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, he likes Boston's happy there. Yeah great, I think.

00:51:44
Speaker 1: He would have gotten two years thirty five.

00:51:47
Speaker 2: Maybe definitely happy. He's happy in a place. Why can't someone just.

00:51:50
Speaker 1: Beca doesn't matter? Yeah, No, it's great, great move. Hey, it's a fit in Boston. They've got a lockdown closer, two minutes to go. The stage is yours.

00:51:58
Speaker 2: No, I just want to say, you know, I had this spider problem. I've just built a new dock from the hurricane. Took forever to get it permitted. Stuff. I just built a new dock and I had a spider infestation on the new dock and saw that put a video on Instagram and Twitter, and people were saying burn it down. I'm not going to burn down my dock. People, I just didn't build you. I know they were kidding, but it took. It took, it took a lot, and there's you know, I got rid of most of them. Powerwasher and some spray. I'll do wonders. But took all day yesterday. So on Labor Day, I was not taking the day off. I was out on my dock all day labor labor with a powerwasher and spray and had to take the boat out and then clean in and clean under the cover of the boat. And it's been a it's been a day.

00:52:38
Speaker 1: And then I went out this morning.

00:52:39
Speaker 2: There were still some stragglers, but they got asa. So my new favorite thing is a powerwasher. And some bugs break.

00:52:46
Speaker 1: So spiders hate you.

00:52:47
Speaker 2: That's fine, it's fine. I'm sorry, Toby McGuire. I'm sorry.

00:52:50
Speaker 1: Cubs fans and spiders are now best friend.

00:52:52
Speaker 2: That's fine. I'm okay with it. But listen, people, you know I love I thank you for all the advice. But people that are saying it burn it down, I mean, come.

00:52:58
Speaker 1: On, they were probably kidding.

00:53:02
Speaker 2: They've probably had a rachnophobia too. Yeah. Or move, They're like, burn it down or move. Well, I'm not moving. But I did call my pest company. They wouldn't do anything about it.

00:53:11
Speaker 1: Why, I don't know.

00:53:12
Speaker 2: Today. This is what I'm gonna start doing since I'm now an empty nester. Every day I have a project, so I should start recording him and putting on Instagram. You said, yeah, today I got to change the garage door batteries because their beefingers are dead.

00:53:24
Speaker 1: That's not as fun as this spider.

00:53:26
Speaker 2: I'm climbing on the roof to kill wasp with us.

00:53:28
Speaker 1: That's more fun. That's more fun. But yeah, I put them all up you on the roof. It's definitely entertaining. That's like fear factor. But in case I die, will he live? Will he live? He made it. He's back on f two the next day.

00:53:43
Speaker 3: You're not an empty nester. You're a spider NESTERO or a nester.

00:53:48
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