City Connect jersey ratings + David Peterson’s pitch usage gripe

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Speaker 1: That's what he said.

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Speaker 2: That's what he said, that's what he said.

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Speaker 3: We got a good old fashioned duel.

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Speaker 4: In the postgame, quotes David Peterson struggling for some starts for the Metropolitans, and I'll read you what Carlos Mendoza, Mets manager, said, from his perspective, he thinks the problem Wednesday was an inability to execute his sinker inside to Wrighty hitters. And Mendy said, quote, if he's healthy, which he is, there's no concern. He's too good of a picture. Here's where things get interesting. Peterson said, quote, we relied on the sinker and the change up too much and allowed hitters to kind of hold on this quotes a little bit off here allowed hitters. I think that's a different quote. Now I'm getting all mixed up. Anyway, let me get back to this. In my eyes, it's more of usage than it is execution from him, and he had said he felt like they were allowing hitters to just kind of sit over the plate. With part of the issue here, so we can bring up the other part. Now, let's bring that up too, and then I'll get mister Catcher's thoughts on how to mediate something like this between pictures. Yes, we need mediation, John Harper said, or put in here interesting to hear Peterson disagree with Mendoz's assessment that he hasn't gotten insight on righty hitters.

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Speaker 1: Quote.

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Speaker 4: I don't think we've gone there enough. I think we've relied on synchron change a usage too much.

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Speaker 1: There.

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Speaker 4: It is a lot of hitters sit over the plate. In my eyes, it's more about the usage than execution. So Kratz, how do you handle this? I mean, who's right and wrong? Because you're on the outside looking in who's right and wrong? And then what do you do?

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Speaker 2: Well, ultimately there's one person that's right and wrong. It is the picture. Because in nowhere are they going to look up David Peterson on Baseball Reference and go, oh, here was his era, But here was the ra on pitches that the that the dugout called in, Or here's the ra on pitches that Francisco Alvarez shook him off to throw. No, it's ultimately up to David Peterson. It's ultimately up to the pitcher, and if he has a gripe with the usage, he's got to do the oldest sign in Major League baseball history. But I think in the game, when that decision has to be made, it's too late. I'm not saying it's Francisco Alvarez's fault. I'm not saying it's whatever coach is sending in the signs fault. It is always will go on the shoulder of the pitcher. Anytime a pitcher gives up a hit through the shift, they turn around and go, oh, my goodness, are you kidding me? You knew where the shift was, You knew where you have success throwing a pitch. If you do not like where you're catcher setting up because he's always calling sinkers and change ups away, you need to bust some dudes in. And I couldn't agree more that David Peterson needs to throw the ball in more. And David Peterson agrees with that. Carlos Mendoza agrees with that. So somebody needs to throw the pitch and the only person that can do it is David Peterson. So you can disagree all you want. That needs to be worked out before the start, in the start, during the start, and when the pitch is thrown. That's whose fault it is.

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Speaker 5: Communication. Communication is all that needs to be talked about. You can decide what you throw. It's not like the Marlins, where they decide, you know, exactly what pitch each pitcher is gonna do.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 5: I think when you hear a quote like that, you're like, oh man, because you want them kind of to be on the same page. You know, you wish you had a conversation before the quotes went out there. So, and I know how the Mets media work. Hey, hey, mister Peterson, we just heard from your manager.

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Speaker 1: He said this was the problem.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know what, Actually he's wrong. I thought this was the problem. This is how they do. They manipulate. They do all this time stuff or you know, vice versa. But when a player is not doing well and he's frustrated and they come back, hey, well your manager just explain this about the whole situation. He's like, well, I actually thought it was this and now here. This is how it starts. And I can't stand why they do that. Why these reporters do this all the time. They want to get the juice out there. I just think, and it's the Mets too, and they find ways to do it. So I love Drew. I think he's fantastic. I think he's going to be fine. I don't think we should blow this up any bigger than what it is. They need to get on the same page, and I think they will and get the media out of here.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 2: See, I think Todd is he has always butted heads with the New York media.

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Speaker 1: But you know, no, no, no, I never did.

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Speaker 2: Just to okay, But the reason that Mets fans like Todd is because he's honest. That is what fans are looking for. That's what the New York media kind of prays on. They're like, Oh, he's an honest guy. We want to hear what he has to say. And they're just getting the story out there. They're getting the story out you know, is there is there underlying things with David Peterson saying oh, it's it's the usage there might be like, but the reality is when you're on a team, I don't care if it's in New York, if it's in Milwaukee, if it's in Pittsburgh where there's two beat writers, like, it is all about you executing, and when you don't execute, it's on you. He has a six to one four era. After the season started so well for David Peterson, he was like the one bright spot in that rotation. He was giving them some length he was getting. Then it just it went downhill. What is the what happened? I choose to believe as a player, you don't just get worse in that short amount of time. You know, he didn't all of a sudden become like thirty five years old. He didn't all of a sudden drop two miles per hour on his velocity. It's not going well if you don't like what pitches are being called. You know what, everybody can have a little deep deep doot deep doot on their sleeve or on their glove, and then you take ownership for what you're doing. And to me, I love the way David Peterson pitches, and I think he can be a guy who, while he's not going to surpass Freddy Peralta as the number one guy on this rotation, I think he's a guy that still has his rotation spot and he sees a guy like Sean and I are making a ton of money struggling in the bullpen trying to make that adjustment. There's a lot of guys on this rotation, including him, that need to take ownership of the fact that if this team's going to be a playoff contending team, he needs to be one of those guys up there because they have what I would consider four other dudes in Noel McClain, Sanga's pitching really well, Clay Holmes is doing ridiculous in his transition from the bullpen through last year to now, and they brought in Freddie p So there's four spots. You don't pitch well, you might lose one of your spots if someone else comes and steps in.

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Speaker 2: Without seeing a game live, and I'm not talking about it on TV without seeing it live. When you know, there's a time that you're looking at different things. You know, fans go to a game and they look at ball, hit run, video board, phone, ball hit run. I'm looking at what's the interaction with the dugout, who's calling the running game, how do the outfielder shift, infielder shift based on account? All those things. So without seeing a live game, I don't know how much Francisco Alvarez is getting advice from the dugout. But anytime you got the wristband, that's advice from the dugout. That's all. That's all the dugouts are doing is they have the wristband and it's on a sheet of paper like this, big like and they're like, hmm, okay, to two count, a good pitch right here would be a fastball. In all Francisco Alvarez is looking at if he looks at the wristband, it's just reiterating the things that you should already remember. And I have no problem with people using the wristband. If you have to lean on it as a crutch. No, you should be more prepared if you have to lean on it and you say, I wonder what this guy bang. You go to it in your pocket, you know, on your wristband, whatever it is. It's good to have that extra backup. And I think if there's any pitch calling from the dugout, which I can't say there is or isn't, it's totally fine because it's not a edict. This is what you have to throw, And ultimately David Peterson could be like, no middle finger, dugout, I'm throwing whatever i want. No Francisco Alvarez, I'm throwing whatever I want.

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Speaker 4: Boom and back to the the Q and a part of it for a moment, Todd Father. I mean, we like to bring up topics that are interesting. So I think there are some cases where some media members might get under someone's skin because they keep asking the same question over and over again. But in this case, I don't know. I feel like they were just asking like the basic like hey where are you at? And Mendy's like this is what I'm seeing, in Peterson's like this is what I'm seeing. I actually think these stories are the good stuff because this is actually real game strategy. I'm just saying from my fan perspective, I actually want to hear this stuff, like I want access to this. I think this is journalism at its finest. When we're trying to pick a fight between Francisco Lindor and Wansta that might not exist. I think that's where it's like, are we pushing it here? Are we just going off rumors? And hey, I'm not saying anything's true or not true, but when I'm talking about like game execution and pitcher is not on the same page as coaching staff, like, that's good.

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Speaker 3: Shit to me.

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Speaker 4: I'm into that. I want to know, like, what's going on here? How is this going to get figured out? How does this apply to you know, another person's favorite team, or even to your little league team that you know, any of the teams that you're coaching too, Like, hey, if the picture's pissed, how do we figure this out? That's why I mean my first question for Kratz was like, how do you mediate this? Because I think that's part of it too.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just think now it's not a big problem, but now here's the start maybe of a trickle effect.

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Speaker 1: And I'm not saying they don't have to do their job.

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Speaker 5: I'm just saying I know, I understand how they work if they get some juice from somebody and then they asked, hey, listen instead of saying how do you feel? I'm not one hundred percent certain, but I'm almost say hey, your manager said this and that. What do you What do you feel about that? You know what I mean? So I get it. I get it. I'm not as a player. I don't like it. As a fan. I'm sure they're like, oh, here we go the Mets all over again. But or they're like, oh, like you said, this is great, let's work on this. So hopefully they talk. But now they're probably gonna have to have a conversation and about you know, where you're at. You know, I heard it, has heard that, and hopefully it'll get on the same page.

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Speaker 2: All right, we know all this is something didn't go well for David Peterson, But I try to read between the lines about like the pitch calling usage. One thing needs to be remembered. Like he pitched, and so did everybody else on this staff besides Freddie pet He pitched under Jeremy Hefner. Jeremy Hefner was a pitching coach. I'm not saying he doesn't like the pitching coach. I'm just saying this is the beginning of the season. Yes, spring training you learn things, but now in nut cutting time, you gotta go out and perform. And he's got a new pitching coach that he's learning to work with, a new pitching coach that is working with him. I was surprised that Jeremy Heffner got ousted last year, but hey, you know what, somebody's got to take the blame for the fact that the Mets didn't go out and sign any marquis free agent pitchers last year.

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Speaker 1: So Hefner was the guy.

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Speaker 2: But you know, maybe him and David Peterson had a good connection, and you know, the pitching coach and him are not quite connecting yet. It's it's a there's so many dynamics that we don't know, and we're just we're talking about hypothetical situations. But there's clearly not success right now. And I'm assuming David Peterson wants success.

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 4: There's frustration too, and you can feel that and you want to hear that. I mean, I think about the Shane McClanahan quote from a couple of days ago where he was super pissed about his performance, that that fired me up. That's a guy who used to be towards the top of the sport and he might get there again. And he's barely into his first full season again and he's already saying, Hey, I want to be much much better than where I'm at. And that's cool. You want to feel that. It's the same as when a pitcher struggling. And I always use the Lanceolin example. And then he comes on our show a few years ago and he's like, yep, I suck right now and it is terrible, and I am just as pissed, if not more than anyone else on the planet. So I am going to try and fix that. So respect but good topic, good segment. Leave We were joining us now from the Athletic. He does a very very good job putting together a lot of things over at the Athletic, including the wind up every day, the newsletter that they have there, and LEVI, we're excited to have you here. We you know, hit the bat phone called for you. Emergency City Connect uniforms are out and we need your take, so please help us out. Give us the good stuff right off the jump, like give me one you loved, one you hated, and then we'll dive into all of them.

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Speaker 3: What I loved I love the Pirates uniforms, the jerseys. Not sold on the hats so much, but I love the jerseys. I love the sort of piratey looking font that also at the bottom it looks sinister and diggory. But then you know, when you go to the website and read the background of it, it's they say that, you know, the bottom looks like the bridges that are across the street from the from the stadium. So like so many cool little touches. Really love the Pirates. What I didn't like, unfortunately, because I want to give the Rangers their flowers when they do something that isn't horrifying on this front, like the Rangers video about Tejas and everyone is welcome here and like it was inclusive and that some of the little details that Poppello the Pocado is great, like such a great story. Such a bad uniform. It looks like the Oklahoma Sooners. And if you're from Texas Lake, that's not what you want to look like. You don't want to be giving Oklahoma all that credit. So sorry, Rangers, I really like what you were going for you Swarm for the Fences. Excellent, excellent process, poor result.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like, yeah, do you feel like there is a better you? You even wrote you're not a jersey purchasing person. Do you feel like the pirates did it for you?

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Speaker 1: Will you make the oh yeah.

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Speaker 2: Three hundred and forty eight million dollars purchase of a uniform? Okay?

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Speaker 1: Good.

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Speaker 2: I was just gonna make sure that a grown man wasn't gonna wear another man's grown man jersey unless it's Todd fraz Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, listen, I own one jersey, and there's a reason that I bought it because it was a weird one. I own a d Strange Gordon Reds jersey. And the reason is because, first of all, De Strange Gordon never played a regular season game for the Reds and I got it for like eighty bucks or whatever, and it just if you're not a baseball fan and you see someone walking around and it just says Strange Gordon on the back, that's a cool nickname. So that's the one jersey that I own. So no, no, I'm not a jersey purchaser. You know, if I see one in a thrift shop in a few years, I might get it for playing sandlot pickup games or whatever. But it's a great jersey. I thought they did a great job. I also really liked the Royals gradient, just because it's weird. It's not what you would expect from a baseball jersey. I think they overdid it with the hat. That hat kind of looks like a twelve and under travel team hat where they're like, you know, the preteens are super into it, but an adult and wear it. But yeah, I mean, listen, I'm also too old to be yucking someone else's. Yeah, if you're gonna buy the hat, that's cool. I support your.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 3: I'm not going to I'm not gonna buy the Reds, but I really like the.

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Speaker 1: Jersey I want.

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Speaker 5: I want to talk about there's some jerseys every year where the jersey color and the pant color are the same. So I'm gonna go to the Cincinnati Reds. My biggest gripe with them, and I love the Reds. Is that see that they put on there all the time. I got to know the significance of why it's always that kind of sea that they use. But what do you think about both color uniforms.

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Speaker 1: I like it. I think I like the red on red. I think that's pretty sweet.

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Speaker 3: I think I like the red on red as long as it's sort of those once in a while things. I mean, they are these Cincinnati Reds plural red. They use I think five different reds on this uniform, so that's cool. I heard somewhere. This is not on the website, so this is not canon, but I have heard somewhere that the five stripes that they use on the sea and I guess there's five stripes coming down from the the statue with the water coming down. They use five stripes for that are supposed to represent the five like championships that the Reds have won. I've done. This is This is me doing like Newsmax level worth of research. This could be completely not true, but I heard there's somewhere, So if that's true, that's kind of cool. Unless they win the World Series this year, in which case are they're gonna go back and add a stripe next year? I don't know. Here's something that I think is consistent with all of these uniforms and all the City connect uniforms across the board is that every one of them has a cool story. If you go to the team website and it's you know, they explain, here's where this came from, and the Brewers go, this is the Wisconsin sunset, which is like a you know, a big part of the culture, or the Orioles new hat and they go, this was from an an eighteen eighties team, and when Camden Yards was built, this was the logo that was on the side of the of the bleacher seats. Oh that's cool. I didn't know that. When you read the story, they're all very cool. What I think some of the teams forget to do is also stick the landing with If you don't know that story, you should still look at the uniform and think nice, nice, that's a cool looking uniform. And so that for me is where the hit miss differential comes With the City Connects. They all have a cool story, the amount of thought put into this. They let the creatives really go wild on this, but I think that sometimes they just get a little too miss the forest for the trees and forget that it's supposed to be a good uniform too.

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Speaker 2: I completely agree with you, but these are City Connects and they're not national connects or country connects. Is there a city connect It could be these new ones. Oh actually yeah, I picked from these new ones that will connect with more than just the Rangers fans or more than just the Reds fans in the sense that, yes, this is a regional sport watched in a regional networks watched well some of them. Obviously we're struggling with that too. But is there a jersey of these new ones that you would say, Wow, I could see like other people wanting it, because I know when when the Padres came out with their other ones, the Neon and everything other you talk about travel teams, other travel teams were like, oh, we want to we want to mimic that that like craziness that the Padres put out. Is there one of these that connects more nationally or is it just right on this on the line of city connect for that for that particular city.

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Speaker 3: I mean, you're not You're not wrong about the Padres ones. I play on a Sandlot team and literally last week we got a text like, Hey, should we do something kind of like those Padres uniforms? So you're exactly right on there. I I think the Pirates Ones just because they're cool. Uh, We've at the Padres Dia delas Martos up on the screen. I think that's neat. It does look a little video gamage to me with the font, but it is very San Diego. I think the Pirates ones will will resonate nationwide. I think that anytime you kind of get a little bit of an attitude with it, there's gonna be some portion of the of the culture that's that's into that. I think the the Royals, uh, you know, they they they went with the bisexual lighting on theirs, and I think that that's good. They're cool. It's a cool uniform. I think that it just looks neat, and I think that people who are not maybe even necessarily baseball fans will see that and be like, that's a fashionable jersey. I would wear that. So so I think those two, probably more than the others are, are more more than just a city city specific look.

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Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Atlanta Braves.

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Speaker 5: They always have like some significant the a the I don't think they can really go wrong if they stick to that old school you know, hang garon kind of look.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little about that.

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Speaker 5: I really like the the powder blue look on them. I like their hat with the a kind of cursive look. The way they do their lettering I think is pretty neat.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: The only knock I've heard on the Braves, either that first or or second version, is it's supposed to be city connects, not a throwback. And to that I say, please shut up. These are amazing, Like every every video they've put out. First of all, their video team kills it. Every video was pretty good this year. I think everybody like stepped up their game a little bit this year. The Braves way ahead of the game. And yeah, these uniforms are absolutely a throwback, and that's part of the city connect like what the Braves have meant to the city of Atlanta over the years. Anytime you've got Hank Aaron in your history, like the Yankees are like, no, we don't, we don't do city connects. That's our uniforms are such a central part to what we do. We're not gonna you know what the Dodgers did a city connect They weren't that good, but they did them. You can lean in to some elements of the past, and I know the Yankees uniforms have been fine for forever you could, you can get created, you can do it. And I think the Braves nailed it. Yes, it is a it is a throwback uniform. Also, it rips like those are those are so cool. It's really hard to go wrong with a powder blue as a once in a while uniform. And it just harkens back to those early days when they when they first came to Atlanta. I love it. I honestly, I'm a little embarrassed I had not mentioned the Braves before they released. There's a little earlier than everybody else, so they weren't part of today's spate of releases. But yeah, I think they've got some of the best ones. You're gonna see these in music videos.

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Speaker 1: That's fair.

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Speaker 2: No, that's fair, And I would and I would argue people who say their throwbacks. I get it, their throwbacks. But I think the Atlanta Braves connect with their city. I think I think there's yes, there's a there's a portion, especially when they were in the old Stadium, they were in a different part of the city than they're now. You know, they're not connecting with fucking hand or wherever they're at now. So that's so I do love that they're connecting with that part. But I have to go to my old team, the Brewers. You typed it, yet, I'm gonna make you say it Wisco. I spent out there. I've never once heard anybody say Wisco. My brother in law lives out in Wisconsin.

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Speaker 1: You know the m k E.

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Speaker 2: But in your research, I love the Jersey color. I love everything about it. In your research, did you ever find anybody that's ever used the word wisko.

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Speaker 3: I'll be honest, I haven't done a ton of research on this, but I've spent time in Wisconsin. I've got friends that live there. I've never heard them refer to it as that. So maybe that's a new thing. Are they trying to make fetch a thing here by sort of inventing this phrase? I don't know. Listen, we might kretz to you and I might just be stupid. Maybe it Maybe it happens and we just were not aware of it. I am fully open to the idea that, Listen, there are going to be parts of the culture in places I don't live that I am just not omniscient, and I don't know so sure if that's the case, Like, please hit me up on a blue sky or you know whatever. Let me know if that's something that you use. But that's not something effort. When it came up in my group chat, that was the first thing everybody ripped on was like, what is this? Have you ever heard this word before?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: Well none of us lived there, so maybe that's a thing right now. The only thing that I can add, and it's probably not the best take, but I do remember what twenty years ago looking at colleges, and I visited Wisconsin, and there were plenty of people there that were like, Oh, how you liking Whisco? So I think they were talking about this. Okay, So that would be my only take there is there were plenty of people when I was there saying, oh, I'm thinking about Whisco, Michigan, I you whatever, So that was brought up.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 4: I'm sure there's going to be some people that watch this clip and are like, oh, how dare you? It's like the I don't know if you've ever experienced this one San Francisco crowd when you say San fran loses their shit? Oh yeah, how dare you? And I haven't said it for years because of that. I think I said it once twenty years ago on TV and I never heard the end of it for a year, and so I don't think it's a big deal. But some people get really offended. We'll see what where Wisko stands. One way or another, we're going to hear it right. They're either going to say, how dare that's not what we say, that was all wrong, or you guys don't know anything because you're not from there, and that's what we say now.

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Speaker 3: And as it was said earlier, these are not National connect uniforms. If it works for people from there, and that's something that is great, that's great. I'm not gonna I'm not going to be using that phrasing, but that's cool. And unless unless it has proven to me that that is just a thing, and then I will have to eat my words. And one of those words is going to taste like cheese curds. And it'll be this one.

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Speaker 1: Real quick before we go.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm curious. Uh, Todd and Eric both you got the backwards baseball caps on what what do you guys rocking today? There we go? Okay, Yankees makes sense?

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Speaker 2: I mean, is there any other color? Is there any other color?

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Speaker 3: It's it's the Diamondbacks.

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Speaker 2: Right, No, No, it's purple Rockies.

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Speaker 3: Oh Rockies. Okay, well because the yeah, because the Diamondbacks had purple for a while, right, like, yeah.

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Speaker 2: They've had every color. Nobody's changed jerseys more than more than an NBA team other than the Diamondbacks, Like the Diamondbacks and the Blue Jays. The Blue Jays I played for them for whatever, drafted and then went back and played. You know, based on twelve years, they changed all the time. They were the Black Jays, they were blue, they were a different Jays.

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Speaker 1: They were fighting.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, I'm glad that a couple of teams have gone back to their to their standard, like the Brewers with the the they've got their best logo of all time. The Padres I think are in there, like they went back to the brown and gold. I think that's great.

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Speaker 1: Uh.

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Speaker 3: And the Blue Jays seem to like have settled into their classic look, which is which is good.

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Speaker 4: And to cap it here, the reason LEVI that Kratz is wearing that today is we do have a Rockies guest in t. J. Rumfield, joining us. So that's part of the equation. Usually when we have a player guest, we'll get that particular team's cap on this big bald size.

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Speaker 1: What are you eight?

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Speaker 3: That's eight?

00:29:23
Speaker 1: Are you eight? Five eights?

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Speaker 2: Seven and five eights?

00:29:25
Speaker 1: I'm just.

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Speaker 3: Regular, he's just regular. That's only a quarter size up for me or eight the size up for me. I'm seven and a half. So you're probably Bruce bochy.

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Speaker 1: You And probably it's like a half is a dome.

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Speaker 2: It's not like it's not like I'm like I'm like baby Ruth or anything like that. Like pretty much me and you, Me and you probably weigh the same. So if we have about the same size head, yeah.

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Speaker 3: It's probably so you're one hundred and sixty pounds.

00:29:58
Speaker 1: Right, yeah I have.

00:30:00
Speaker 2: I am one hundred and sixty pounds.

00:30:02
Speaker 3: But then there's more after that.

00:30:04
Speaker 1: That's all.

00:30:07
Speaker 4: This was fun, Levi.

00:30:08
Speaker 3: Thanks for joining us.

00:30:09
Speaker 4: Really appreciate it, and there's much more. Check out the newsletter every day, the Athletic wind Up, but also check out his specific review as he goes case by case with more detail on these new city connects.

00:30:20
Speaker 3: Thank you, Levi.

00:30:21
Speaker 4: I good catching up man.

00:30:23
Speaker 3: All right, take care, guys,