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Welcome to the Dog Days of

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Summer edition of Sharing Socks,

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although I guess this year

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for the White Sox they’re all Dog Days.

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I’m duty geezer Lee Allen,

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with me my son and West

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Coast correspondent Will,

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and we sitteth with 40

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games to go in the season.

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We’re recording this on the

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Friday prior to the series in Houston,

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after…

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The humongous win against the Yankees,

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which kind of disappeared

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over the next couple of days.

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But it was fun for a day.

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Anything to shut up Yankee fans.

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Even one day is worth.

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I mean,

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when you haven’t scored double

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digits all year,

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it’s fun to do it against the Yankees.

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It is.

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There was a moment where it looked like,

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because Grady Sizemore now

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is one and four.

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And there was a moment.

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where it looked Wednesday in

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the final game of the Yankee series,

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like the Sox were going to lose 4-2.

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And that would have meant

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that Sizemore would have

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had a 200 winning

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percentage and a positive

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run differential.

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And that would have been

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such a cool combination of stats to have.

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It would have been plus two runs.

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But then the Yankees decided

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to score eight more runs,

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and that went out the window.

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Well,

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it kind of felt like after the 12-2 loss,

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Juan Soto was like, this isn’t happening,

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you guys.

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I actually saw a crazy stat since, gosh,

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I think it was since July 1st.

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The only two teams that

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haven’t won five games at

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home are the White Sox and the Yankees.

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Oh.

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Isn’t that crazy?

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I mean, it’s not crazy for the White Sox.

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As we know,

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five wins at home would mean

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they’ve won five games since then,

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and they have not.

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And they certainly weren’t all at home.

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But the Yankees not winning

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five games at home in at least a month?

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It was 50 days.

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The last 50 days,

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the two teams that haven’t

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won five games at home were

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the Yankees and the White Sox.

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And yet the Yankees are

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still neck and neck with Baltimore.

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They are tied for first

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place in the AL East.

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Yeah,

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they go back and forth a half game on

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any given day.

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Yeah, I mean, that is wild.

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It certainly makes me think

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the Yankees probably aren’t

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going to get it done this year.

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I mean,

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I don’t think you go into the

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playoffs and kick butt if you,

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for some reason,

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can’t win in Yankee Stadium

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as the Yankees.

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It means they’re winning well on the road,

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which is the plus side there, I guess.

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But yeah, that stat blew my mind.

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Because usually when you see

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these things where it says,

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have you scored 10 runs in

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the last three months?

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And it shows every single

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team in baseball and then

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the White Sox on the other side.

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Uh,

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but this time it was the White Sox and

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the Yankees together, which,

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which I thought was, was pretty shocking.

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Uh, I mean, winning the one game was fun.

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Uh,

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it was fun to see all the White Sox

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fans be like, okay, size more.

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We have a fire under our butts.

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Now we’re going to start

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playing like we care,

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which of course was delusion.

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Um,

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Yes,

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it’s quite possible it worked for a day.

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But at the end of the day,

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you still have a bunch of

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guys who can’t really play

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Major League Baseball.

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You see a bunch of comments

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from people who went to games,

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whether the 12-2 win or one

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of the losses.

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But games since Sizemore took over.

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So the Cubs or Yankees series,

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which are the best sellers

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of the whole season by far

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for the obvious reason of

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who the opponents were.

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Dodgers too, but yeah.

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Yeah.

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and people who went go, well,

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you can feel there’s more energy.

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I said, really?

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You’re sitting in stands up in Section 512,

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and I can feel that a given

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individual ran hard or

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something like that,

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but I don’t think I can

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sense the energy down in the deck.

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Maybe they’re having fun.

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Maybe if you’re sitting down

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close in the big box seats,

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you can hear a little clever repartee.

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going on between them.

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But basically,

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I’m sure they do feel better.

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I mean, Griffo was such a doubter.

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And Sizemore apparently is a

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kind of gung-ho,

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let’s get out there and

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play and kick some butt if we can, guy,

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and enjoy the game,

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which is kind of important.

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um so but I i think I think

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if there’s if this team was

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made up of different people

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if this team was made up of

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23 year old star prospects

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who have just been getting

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their butt whooped because

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they’re 23 and then you

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bring the guy and you start

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winning I i think there’s a

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chance where I buy into the

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the energy is different narrative

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But it’s the same guys.

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And you’ve got no veteran

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leadership whatsoever, it seems.

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And your young guys, you know,

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aren’t really studs.

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So it’s not a scenario where

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I think a new manager can

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come in and actually change anything.

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I think that’s an

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unrealistic expectation of Sizemore.

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I think if Sizemore… I

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think he can at least not do harm.

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Correct.

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Correct.

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I don’t think he’s going to

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make things worse.

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I think bringing him in

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gives you the opportunity

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to not have the worst record ever,

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which I think under Grafal,

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it was kind of a guarantee.

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I really think we were at a

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point where it was a lock.

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that we weren’t going to get it done.

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I think with Sizemore,

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you now have a chance to

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not have the worst record ever.

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But at the end of the day,

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it’s still the same guys going out there.

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They’re still deflated.

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They’re still defeated.

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We’ve all seen at this point

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the Miguel Vargas poor guy

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sitting alone after coming

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over from the Dodgers who

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loved him in the clubhouse.

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And now he finds himself in

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the worst clubhouse.

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If I can download it into it,

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it is Dodger reflection on Vargas,

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on the Vargas scene and how

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loved he was by every other

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player in LA and just feel

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so bad for him.

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Yeah, I mean, I’m sure,

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did you see Tyler Glasnow’s interview?

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That’s the Glasnow interview.

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I want to try and insert

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that in the column if I can

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get it downloaded into it.

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Yeah, I mean, Tyler, he’s a stand-up guy,

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and when they ask him that, and

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he kind of laughs at first

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because it’s so sad.

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Like he can’t help but

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chuckle a little bit,

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but then goes on to say, you know,

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he was one of our favorite teammates,

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you know,

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one of the best guys in the

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clubhouse and was actually

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playing better for the

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Dodgers than he had in quite some time.

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And then to get shipped out into,

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can you just imagine,

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can you imagine that?

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You’re playing in L.A.

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to an average of forty nine

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thousand people and you are

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in first place.

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Granted,

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they are in the danger zone of

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losing that.

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But still, your teammates was Shohei Otani,

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Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman,

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Clayton Kershaw.

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And now you find yourself.

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in Chicago and on the wrong

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side of Chicago.

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And not that it would be a

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thrill to be a cub right now,

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but it’s certainly would

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not have the same feeling.

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And then he’s going to go to

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September where they’re

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going to be playing for, you know,

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6,000 people often.

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The only thing that they

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have going for them, I think in terms of-

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Yeah,

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he’s been a nightmare for the White Sox,

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but I’m sure that’s the deflating factor.

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The only thing the White Sox

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have going for them

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attendance-wise is we’re

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going to start getting that

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reverse success effect

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where people are going to

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want to be there for loss 121.

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Unfortunately,

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they end the season at Detroit.

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I know.

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But I think they can do it before that.

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So I’m thinking maybe I’m

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going to be covering loss 121.

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Right now, where they sit,

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I presume there are 40 games left.

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40 games is probably 13 series.

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I haven’t counted the series,

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but there are no two-game series left.

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So it’s 13 threes, 12 threes, and a four.

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Somebody’s a four-game series.

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So if they take just one

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game in each of those series –

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They’re lagging up at exactly 120.

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It’s just like tying the

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record on losses in a row.

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Oh, man.

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You don’t want to tie the record.

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If you’re going to be there, beat it.

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Yeah,

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because they’re in a position where

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they can’t win more than 12, right?

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But they are currently on pace,

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if you go by their winning percentage,

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to only win nine.

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Yeah, yeah.

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Their pace is to lose 123.

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But got a three game cushion there.

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But you know,

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it’s it’s it’s gonna be

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really interesting because

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you’ve got you’re going to Houston,

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you’ve got a really good chance,

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especially now that crochet

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is just terrible.

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You’ve got a really good

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chance to get swept in Houston.

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Houston has a lot to play for right now.

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You know, getting better.

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And they’re going to face…

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It looks like they’re

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facing Valdez at least.

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So that’s with Kai Busch on the mound.

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So that’s pretty much a guaranteed loss.

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Then they’re going to go to San Francisco,

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who still has something to play for.

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Is it realistic that San

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Francisco is in this mix

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with how hot the Padres and

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Diamondbacks are?

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Probably not.

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But the rest of the NL is so

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bad that there is a world where…

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you know, a San Francisco team,

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you could have everybody

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coming out of the West

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except the Rockies in these playoffs.

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So I,

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I do think that San Francisco will

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still be playing very hard.

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I mean,

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I think they’re one game over right now.

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Uh,

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They’re chasing a falling

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Dodgers team and the two

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hottest teams in baseball.

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But there’s a lot to play for there.

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Then they’re going to have Detroit,

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which is kind of a toss-up.

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However, in that toss-up,

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you have to face Tarek Skubal.

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which is your Cy Young favorite,

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that’s certainly not going to be easy.

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And then you’ve got Texas, the Mets,

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Baltimore, and Boston,

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who are all still trying to

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hang in there.

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Then you’ve got a Cleveland team,

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who is certainly…

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Best record in the American

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League is certainly going

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to want to sweep that

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series for mental purposes.

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For all sorts of reasons,

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they’re going to want to sweep that.

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The big issue they have is

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once you hit mid-September,

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you’ve got the Oakland…

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And then you’ve got two

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series against the Angels.

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And those are the big issues there.

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That puts you in the danger zone.

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And the fact that they’re at

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the end makes it even

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scarier because Oakland…

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I don’t even know if they’re

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going to field nine guys at that point.

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The Angels are so terrible

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right now that they could

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completely drop off,

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and I don’t know what kind

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of roster you’re going to see from them.

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I think they’ll get swept by

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the Padres in San Diego.

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But it is really dangerous.

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You got nine games in there

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with Oakland and the Angels.

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So I think in order to achieve this,

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they need to get swept

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quite a bit going into the

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rest of the year.

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Those three make me really,

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really nervous.

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I would love…

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love,

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love for the White Sox to get lost

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one 21 in San Diego.

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Uh, cause I would love to get down there.

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Weirdly,

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San Diego ticket prices are always

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insane.

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They sell out constantly.

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They are so popular for that series.

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They are $13.

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Uh,

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I’ve never been down to Petco.

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I love the idea of hopping in the car,

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going down to San Diego and

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catching loss 121.

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The other White Sox guys in LA,

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we’ve already talked about

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how we’re going to road

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trip together if that opportunity arises.

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I think it’s going to be

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bleak in guaranteed rate

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for the rest of the year

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until you creep close to that record.

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I think if the White Sox – You know,

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there are the people who do

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the statistical analyses of

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strength of schedule,

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and they tend to disagree

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because they have different

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algorithms on what they work with.

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But the two that I looked at

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both have – they have Sox

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at a different position and

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degree of difficulty in the ranking of 30,

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but both about in the middle.

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They really have about in

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the middle because of the

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three series you talked about.

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They’re a bunch of tough series,

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but they’re three.

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Really easy ones.

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Well, if you weren’t the White Sox,

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really easy ones.

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Right.

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They will be competitive for us,

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but they are games that we could win.

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Yeah.

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And, of course, it’ll depend.

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September,

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you don’t have the chance to

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bring up 40 guys like you used to,

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but you can bring up a couple more guys.

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And I would guess for the White Sox,

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it’ll be pitchers.

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They’ll be trying out some

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of the starting pitchers

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that have been doing pretty

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well in Birmingham and see how they do.

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And the other teams will

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probably do the same.

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I think with those

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projections that you see

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that have the White Sox around 116 losses,

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117, stuff like that,

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there’s a key stat in there

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that I don’t think gets

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highlighted enough in that projection.

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ICB, which I don’t know if you know ICB,

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but it’s a stat they use in

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these projections called,

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it can’t possibly be.

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It can’t possibly be.

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Oh, I messed it up.

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It’s IPB, Dana.

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No, it’s ICPB.

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ICPB.

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It can’t possibly be,

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which is we got to throw

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them a few more wins

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because they certainly can’t be this bad,

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right?

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It can’t possibly be this bad.

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Computers are still on 117.

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I think Dakota and Fangraphs

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are both still at 117.

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And that’s what I mean.

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I think those guys are

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making their projections being like, no,

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certainly it’s not 123.

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Certainly it’s not one.

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It can’t possibly be 123.

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But the crazy thing is it

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quite possibly could be.

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And we will see how that goes.

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I did hear something

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interesting talking about

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guaranteed rates.

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uh I have a buddy who’s

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coming out there in a

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couple weeks um and he’s

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gonna catch his first game

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at guaranteed rate and he

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he’s a big stadium guy he

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goes to a ton of stadiums

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and he has done a lot of

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research and has found out

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that if you have a 500

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level ticket you can now go

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to the 100 level yeah I

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think I think they gave

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that up this year it was

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just this there’s always

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just in general yeah I

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think I think there are no

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sales and you might as well

00:16:04.042 –> 00:16:04.822
treat people like they’re

00:16:04.842 –> 00:16:07.086
people instead of like- I

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honestly don’t even think it’s that.

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I think that’s a really generous thought.

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I think the reality- They

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don’t have any workers upstairs.

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Exactly.

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I think they don’t want to

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open anything up there.

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So basically what they’re saying is,

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look how nice we are.

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We let you go to the 100 level.

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But in reality,

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what they’re saying is you

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have to walk a mile to get your hot dog,

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buddy,

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because we’re not selling you one

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up here.

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No one’s going to be up here.

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Uh, so at least there’s that because my,

00:16:38.264 –> 00:16:39.645
my buddy’s very excited

00:16:39.706 –> 00:16:40.946
about the campfire shake

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and I’m sure you couldn’t

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get that on the 500 level, uh,

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at the one hot dog stand

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they’re going to have open.

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Uh, but at least they’re letting people.

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It’s not open at all.

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I mean, we’ve, we’ve been,

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or at least I’ve been to games where the,

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the upper deck is closed.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I mean,

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they’ve got a couple games coming

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up where they’re going to

00:17:01.421 –> 00:17:02.402
fill a little bit.

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I think the Frank Thomas

00:17:04.786 –> 00:17:05.887
bobblehead weekend.

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I was going to say the

00:17:07.309 –> 00:17:09.854
giveaways tend to be very successful.

00:17:10.818 –> 00:17:13.361
Yeah, and I think that’s a big enough one.

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What’s interesting is the

00:17:14.902 –> 00:17:16.503
White Sox don’t do a lot.

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They don’t do a high number of giveaways,

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which I guess you can’t

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because if you do 30,000 or 40,000,

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then you’re going to end up

00:17:29.034 –> 00:17:30.094
throwing away 20,000 giveaways.

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But they do a really small number.

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The Dodgers do the most.

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They do 40,000 of each giveaway.

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I think the Suns are typically 10.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And a lot of teams are in the 15,000,

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20,000 range for the marquee giveaways.

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The Dodgers do far more than anyone else,

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which they can because

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they’re going to have a

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first 40,000 at every game

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that there’s a giveaway for.

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They’re not going to have

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leftover giveaways on a

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40,000 giveaway day.

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But other teams would.

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Well,

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we do have something we want to talk

00:18:12.547 –> 00:18:14.689
about on this episode specifically.

00:18:14.828 –> 00:18:15.749
The proposed,

00:18:15.930 –> 00:18:16.930
some of you have probably

00:18:17.009 –> 00:18:18.832
read the article on ESPN or

00:18:18.872 –> 00:18:20.673
various sources about this

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six-inning series.

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starting pitcher minimum

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limit that they’re they’re

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wanting to do so we should

00:18:27.857 –> 00:18:29.980
take our break here uh and

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I think this is something

00:18:31.340 –> 00:18:34.102
really worth dissecting uh

00:18:34.323 –> 00:18:36.144
and and talking about as as

00:18:36.523 –> 00:18:38.305
for me I’m I’m such a big

00:18:38.325 –> 00:18:39.445
fan of starting pitching

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growing up in an era of

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starting pitchers that, you know,

00:18:44.410 –> 00:18:45.529
we all did, actually.

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Until this era,

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we all grew up in eras

00:18:48.053 –> 00:18:49.753
where starting pitchers mattered a ton.

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But for me as a kid, you know,

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it was Roger Clemens and

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Pedro Martinez and Randy Johnson,

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and starting pitchers were

00:18:57.119 –> 00:18:58.039
what got you in the

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building a lot of the time.

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So we’ll take a quick break here,

00:19:02.203 –> 00:19:03.164
and we will come back and

00:19:03.204 –> 00:19:05.145
talk about this proposed rule change.

00:19:05.767 –> 00:19:06.307
Hang in there.

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We’ll be right back on Sharing Socks.

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Welcome back to Sharon Sox.

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We dissected, you know,

00:19:16.246 –> 00:19:18.366
the continuation of the

00:19:18.767 –> 00:19:20.087
sadness and madness.

00:19:20.208 –> 00:19:21.248
And I didn’t even mention

00:19:21.288 –> 00:19:22.308
that there is no longer a

00:19:22.368 –> 00:19:23.608
single position player on

00:19:23.628 –> 00:19:25.289
the White Sox with a positive war.

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I’m sorry, with a positive war either,

00:19:30.152 –> 00:19:31.393
but a positive OPS.

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OPS plus of 100, of course,

00:19:34.074 –> 00:19:35.974
is league average by definition.

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They set it to that.

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And there’s not a single

00:19:38.695 –> 00:19:39.876
White Sox position player

00:19:40.680 –> 00:19:43.060
with an OPS plus of 100 or more.

00:19:44.422 –> 00:19:47.944
That makes Luis Robert look really bad.

00:19:48.345 –> 00:19:49.925
Moncada is over, but, of course,

00:19:49.965 –> 00:19:51.626
Moncada’s probably not going to play,

00:19:51.686 –> 00:19:53.387
so that doesn’t really count.

00:19:54.228 –> 00:19:54.548
Man,

00:19:54.588 –> 00:19:56.750
that is a stat that makes Luis Robert

00:19:56.789 –> 00:19:58.711
look like he is absolutely

00:19:59.251 –> 00:20:00.011
screwing it up.

00:20:00.531 –> 00:20:03.294
He, well, he’s hitting, well,

00:20:03.693 –> 00:20:04.515
let me tell you here.

00:20:05.075 –> 00:20:06.195
Since the All-Star game,

00:20:06.256 –> 00:20:08.446
he is hitting 135.

00:20:08.446 –> 00:20:09.768
Wow.

00:20:10.048 –> 00:20:12.851
43 strikeouts in 92 plate appearances.

00:20:14.692 –> 00:20:15.153
Wow.

00:20:15.653 –> 00:20:17.134
And he was even quoted the other day,

00:20:17.174 –> 00:20:19.957
and it’s not, he didn’t say, I give up.

00:20:19.997 –> 00:20:20.938
He was saying, well,

00:20:20.958 –> 00:20:21.919
I just almost feel like

00:20:21.939 –> 00:20:23.140
giving up because it’s so awful.

00:20:24.201 –> 00:20:25.321
And he doesn’t talk much.

00:20:26.182 –> 00:20:27.583
He’s a very quiet guy.

00:20:28.423 –> 00:20:31.547
And if he’s talking like that,

00:20:31.606 –> 00:20:33.848
he’s got to really, really,

00:20:34.108 –> 00:20:35.069
really feel bad.

00:20:36.144 –> 00:20:37.364
But anyhow, that’s not the story.

00:20:37.443 –> 00:20:37.963
I mean,

00:20:38.003 –> 00:20:39.565
when you have more strikeouts since

00:20:39.605 –> 00:20:40.644
the All-Star break than

00:20:40.704 –> 00:20:42.385
Tony Gwynn had in the 90s,

00:20:43.506 –> 00:20:45.766
you certainly have to be

00:20:45.806 –> 00:20:46.926
feeling kind of bad there.

00:20:47.426 –> 00:20:48.366
But let’s talk about this

00:20:48.426 –> 00:20:49.307
new proposed rule.

00:20:49.386 –> 00:20:52.228
So the idea is that a

00:20:52.367 –> 00:20:54.929
starting pitcher will have

00:20:54.969 –> 00:20:56.568
to stay in the game,

00:20:57.288 –> 00:20:59.269
will have to pitch six innings,

00:21:00.710 –> 00:21:02.550
unless they throw 100 pitches,

00:21:04.738 –> 00:21:07.039
they give up four or more runs,

00:21:07.800 –> 00:21:09.301
or they are injured in a

00:21:09.362 –> 00:21:11.542
way that will put them on the eye out.

00:21:13.525 –> 00:21:15.266
That’s a pretty massive role.

00:21:15.286 –> 00:21:16.467
It would have to be an

00:21:16.527 –> 00:21:17.467
adjustment because I think

00:21:17.487 –> 00:21:18.448
pitchers leave games for

00:21:18.488 –> 00:21:19.548
blisters all the time,

00:21:19.608 –> 00:21:21.670
and that shouldn’t be a

00:21:21.730 –> 00:21:22.530
mandatory eye out.

00:21:22.810 –> 00:21:23.892
I understand why it’s there

00:21:23.912 –> 00:21:24.952
so you don’t fake it, but

00:21:26.161 –> 00:21:27.644
Because everybody would fake

00:21:27.703 –> 00:21:28.625
it all the time.

00:21:29.067 –> 00:21:30.549
Everyone would fake it all the time.

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This rule would never affect

00:21:32.273 –> 00:21:33.135
the White Sox because we

00:21:33.155 –> 00:21:34.519
don’t have any pitchers that

00:21:35.369 –> 00:21:36.750
don’t go 100 pitches before

00:21:36.769 –> 00:21:37.750
they get to six innings.

00:21:37.891 –> 00:21:41.392
Well, which leads me to, you know,

00:21:41.471 –> 00:21:42.511
why we don’t have pitchers

00:21:42.551 –> 00:21:43.653
that don’t go six innings,

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because they all throw 100

00:21:44.772 –> 00:21:45.874
pitches by the fourth.

00:21:46.634 –> 00:21:47.493
So, you know,

00:21:47.614 –> 00:21:49.055
I think it was Brandon Gomes

00:21:49.075 –> 00:21:49.775
that might have been for

00:21:49.795 –> 00:21:52.596
the Dodgers after this proposal was made,

00:21:53.135 –> 00:21:54.115
where he just said,

00:21:54.596 –> 00:21:55.537
you’re just going to let

00:21:55.576 –> 00:21:56.896
your pitchers run up the

00:21:56.936 –> 00:21:58.238
count to get to 100.

00:21:58.238 –> 00:21:58.317
Yeah.

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And you’re going to have a

00:22:01.618 –> 00:22:03.858
painfully slow first four innings.

00:22:04.400 –> 00:22:05.319
And then you’re still going

00:22:05.339 –> 00:22:06.420
to see the bullpen in the

00:22:06.480 –> 00:22:08.040
fifth and the sixth.

00:22:08.361 –> 00:22:12.021
And that would be my biggest concern.

00:22:12.561 –> 00:22:15.442
My biggest concern is that they’ll say, OK,

00:22:16.002 –> 00:22:16.303
well,

00:22:16.863 –> 00:22:18.463
you’re not going to change our

00:22:18.523 –> 00:22:20.345
strategy with this rule.

00:22:20.845 –> 00:22:22.265
All you’re going to do is

00:22:22.345 –> 00:22:24.506
allow us to throw a lot more balls.

00:22:26.578 –> 00:22:27.720
you’re going to allow us to

00:22:27.779 –> 00:22:28.820
dance around the strike

00:22:28.840 –> 00:22:32.482
zone a lot more because if

00:22:32.542 –> 00:22:34.505
we just got to get to that 100 pitch mark,

00:22:34.545 –> 00:22:34.704
well,

00:22:34.724 –> 00:22:36.567
we don’t care if you average 25

00:22:36.567 –> 00:22:37.366
pitches an inning.

00:22:38.647 –> 00:22:39.648
It doesn’t change the game

00:22:39.689 –> 00:22:40.430
that much for us.

00:22:40.690 –> 00:22:42.090
You’re out after four or

00:22:42.131 –> 00:22:43.172
you’re out after five.

00:22:43.632 –> 00:22:45.854
Starting pitchers are going –

00:22:47.528 –> 00:22:49.931
the least far into games as

00:22:49.971 –> 00:22:51.872
they ever ever ever have

00:22:52.032 –> 00:22:56.455
every year we’re now at

00:22:56.576 –> 00:22:58.557
just above five I think

00:22:58.577 –> 00:22:59.759
it’s 5.13 maybe it was the

00:22:59.778 –> 00:23:01.940
number right I saw recently

00:23:02.540 –> 00:23:03.500
something right around

00:23:03.540 –> 00:23:04.662
there which is really

00:23:04.721 –> 00:23:06.763
pathetic I mean it’s that

00:23:06.844 –> 00:23:08.464
that is a different game

00:23:08.704 –> 00:23:12.488
entirely uh than even the 90s early 2000s

00:23:15.250 –> 00:23:16.391
Oh, no.

00:23:16.730 –> 00:23:17.832
They were around six then.

00:23:18.031 –> 00:23:19.673
It was around 5.98 or

00:23:19.732 –> 00:23:20.833
something in the early 2000s.

00:23:20.873 –> 00:23:22.753
That’s a big difference.

00:23:23.474 –> 00:23:25.135
The reasons for this idea,

00:23:25.155 –> 00:23:26.236
and it would take years to

00:23:26.296 –> 00:23:27.116
implement because you’d

00:23:27.136 –> 00:23:30.617
have to work pitchers through the minors.

00:23:30.637 –> 00:23:31.699
Some are saying even to the

00:23:31.798 –> 00:23:33.279
amateur ranks would have to change.

00:23:33.880 –> 00:23:36.201
Although in colleges,

00:23:36.221 –> 00:23:37.342
it seems they never go more

00:23:37.362 –> 00:23:37.882
than three innings.

00:23:37.922 –> 00:23:40.844
But at any rate, one reason is

00:23:42.576 –> 00:23:43.578
because of starting pitchers.

00:23:43.618 –> 00:23:44.259
We used to say,

00:23:44.400 –> 00:23:45.422
people come to games to see

00:23:45.461 –> 00:23:46.123
starting pitchers,

00:23:46.143 –> 00:23:47.365
then the starting pitcher’s gone,

00:23:48.185 –> 00:23:50.128
and nobody comes to see the bullpen.

00:23:50.970 –> 00:23:52.492
There are a couple of exceptions to that,

00:23:52.532 –> 00:23:53.694
but by and large,

00:23:53.734 –> 00:23:56.137
people do not come to see the bullpen.

00:23:56.637 –> 00:23:56.897
I mean,

00:23:56.917 –> 00:23:58.577
if they’re coming to see the bullpen,

00:23:59.219 –> 00:24:00.979
it’s not that they’re coming to see it.

00:24:01.199 –> 00:24:02.699
First off, there’s only one scenario,

00:24:02.739 –> 00:24:04.299
and that’s if you have a famous closer.

00:24:04.859 –> 00:24:06.119
If you have Liam Hendricks,

00:24:06.619 –> 00:24:07.461
there will be people who

00:24:07.500 –> 00:24:08.881
want to see Liam Hendricks pitch.

00:24:08.921 –> 00:24:10.141
But they’re still not coming

00:24:10.181 –> 00:24:12.402
to the game to see Liam

00:24:12.442 –> 00:24:13.761
Hendricks pitch because you

00:24:13.801 –> 00:24:15.823
have no clue if he’s going to pitch.

00:24:16.343 –> 00:24:17.603
Right.

00:24:17.623 –> 00:24:18.563
So part of it is that.

00:24:18.643 –> 00:24:20.384
Part of it is the PR thing

00:24:20.423 –> 00:24:21.564
of having the pitchers go.

00:24:23.084 –> 00:24:25.585
Part of it, a big part of it is,

00:24:26.345 –> 00:24:29.768
that they want to cut injuries.

00:24:30.567 –> 00:24:32.190
And the idea is if they have

00:24:32.230 –> 00:24:33.351
to go that deep,

00:24:34.352 –> 00:24:35.311
that they will not be

00:24:35.352 –> 00:24:37.433
throwing 100 miles an hour.

00:24:37.453 –> 00:24:40.135
And if you have to go more

00:24:40.375 –> 00:24:43.019
on control and command than

00:24:43.098 –> 00:24:44.299
on sheer velocity,

00:24:44.940 –> 00:24:46.761
that it will change the game,

00:24:46.842 –> 00:24:49.423
probably create more offense,

00:24:49.503 –> 00:24:50.565
which major leagues want,

00:24:51.384 –> 00:24:53.446
but also cut down on Tommy Johns.

00:24:53.727 –> 00:24:54.508
I tried to look up.

00:24:55.369 –> 00:24:57.451
Whether more starters than relievers,

00:24:57.490 –> 00:24:58.451
what the percentage is of

00:24:58.491 –> 00:24:59.472
starters and relievers who

00:24:59.512 –> 00:25:01.394
have Tommy John, I can’t find that.

00:25:01.433 –> 00:25:03.776
It’s probably somewhere online,

00:25:03.796 –> 00:25:05.057
but I can’t find it.

00:25:05.436 –> 00:25:05.836
And of course,

00:25:06.198 –> 00:25:07.117
some people aren’t defined

00:25:07.178 –> 00:25:08.118
by starter relievers,

00:25:08.138 –> 00:25:09.940
so it becomes shady anyway.

00:25:10.500 –> 00:25:13.923
But I don’t know that that makes it.

00:25:14.143 –> 00:25:16.144
You had thought as an

00:25:16.204 –> 00:25:17.404
ex-pitcher that when the

00:25:17.525 –> 00:25:18.465
shot clock came in,

00:25:19.346 –> 00:25:20.346
that we would not see the

00:25:20.346 –> 00:25:21.667
100 mile an hour pitches

00:25:21.748 –> 00:25:22.588
because the pitchers

00:25:22.628 –> 00:25:23.990
wouldn’t have all that time to

00:25:24.480 –> 00:25:25.380
kind of stroll around the

00:25:25.400 –> 00:25:26.279
mound to get their breath

00:25:26.339 –> 00:25:27.921
back and get ready for the next pitch.

00:25:28.300 –> 00:25:29.641
It turns out they’re just

00:25:29.721 –> 00:25:30.661
really good at getting

00:25:30.721 –> 00:25:31.701
ready for the next pitch.

00:25:31.780 –> 00:25:33.182
It hasn’t made any difference at all.

00:25:33.201 –> 00:25:33.461
Well,

00:25:33.561 –> 00:25:36.781
they are and they aren’t because what

00:25:36.821 –> 00:25:38.742
they are doing is they’re not saying,

00:25:39.182 –> 00:25:41.262
okay, I got to focus more on command.

00:25:41.363 –> 00:25:43.084
I got to focus more on control.

00:25:43.463 –> 00:25:45.183
What they’re saying is I’m

00:25:45.203 –> 00:25:46.364
going to throw it 100 miles

00:25:46.403 –> 00:25:48.345
an hour until my arm falls off.

00:25:49.045 –> 00:25:49.904
And they are –

00:25:50.904 –> 00:25:52.467
They are not using this

00:25:52.527 –> 00:25:53.948
opportunity to retool

00:25:53.988 –> 00:25:55.210
pitching in any way.

00:25:55.569 –> 00:25:57.751
They are pitching the exact same way.

00:25:57.771 –> 00:26:01.236
I mean, everybody is getting Tommy John.

00:26:01.955 –> 00:26:03.617
Everybody is getting it.

00:26:04.419 –> 00:26:06.101
Any pitcher who comes up right now,

00:26:06.300 –> 00:26:07.821
if they’re throwing 100 miles an hour,

00:26:08.123 –> 00:26:09.284
you’re getting Tommy John.

00:26:09.604 –> 00:26:11.526
Paul Skeens is probably

00:26:11.787 –> 00:26:12.707
going to be the first guy

00:26:12.728 –> 00:26:13.769
to have four of them.

00:26:14.429 –> 00:26:15.829
It is crazy.

00:26:15.890 –> 00:26:17.991
I mean, the Dodgers just lost River Ryan,

00:26:18.751 –> 00:26:21.453
a stud who just came up, throws gas,

00:26:21.875 –> 00:26:23.336
was looking incredible.

00:26:23.715 –> 00:26:25.698
All of a sudden, elbow discomfort,

00:26:25.817 –> 00:26:26.758
done for the year.

00:26:27.138 –> 00:26:28.779
It’s happening with almost

00:26:29.059 –> 00:26:31.102
every single stud prospect

00:26:31.142 –> 00:26:31.961
that’s coming up.

00:26:32.323 –> 00:26:34.144
It’s going to continue to happen.

00:26:34.564 –> 00:26:36.526
So I understand that.

00:26:37.086 –> 00:26:39.488
the logic behind if I have

00:26:39.528 –> 00:26:42.631
to go further in this mindset,

00:26:42.730 –> 00:26:43.291
in this world,

00:26:43.632 –> 00:26:45.773
I understand the logic of I

00:26:45.814 –> 00:26:46.974
have to go further in the

00:26:47.015 –> 00:26:49.737
game so I can’t blow out my arm as much.

00:26:50.198 –> 00:26:53.140
However, based on what Brandon Gomes said,

00:26:53.500 –> 00:26:55.682
which is if it’s just 100 pitches,

00:26:56.262 –> 00:26:58.065
if we can get them out at 100 pitches,

00:26:58.444 –> 00:26:59.766
then you don’t actually

00:26:59.846 –> 00:27:01.448
have to make it to the sixth inning.

00:27:02.327 –> 00:27:03.948
And in that scenario,

00:27:04.409 –> 00:27:05.588
you just go out and you

00:27:05.608 –> 00:27:06.628
throw a hundred miles an

00:27:06.669 –> 00:27:08.109
hour until you hit a

00:27:08.150 –> 00:27:08.990
hundred pitches in the

00:27:09.089 –> 00:27:09.990
fourth or the fifth.

00:27:10.369 –> 00:27:12.030
And then you’re, then they take you out.

00:27:12.590 –> 00:27:14.090
And that does nothing,

00:27:14.810 –> 00:27:16.731
nothing at all to derail

00:27:17.092 –> 00:27:18.231
what is going on with these

00:27:18.291 –> 00:27:19.432
Tommy John scenarios.

00:27:20.472 –> 00:27:21.313
It changes nothing

00:27:21.452 –> 00:27:22.972
whatsoever in how they’re

00:27:23.012 –> 00:27:24.453
going to approach each pitch.

00:27:25.233 –> 00:27:25.493
And again,

00:27:27.027 –> 00:27:28.107
Major League Baseball says

00:27:28.327 –> 00:27:29.588
we want more offense.

00:27:29.648 –> 00:27:30.730
We want more offense.

00:27:31.150 –> 00:27:32.431
This could lead to more offense.

00:27:32.810 –> 00:27:34.291
Well, what do pitchers want?

00:27:34.811 –> 00:27:38.115
Pitchers want less offense.

00:27:38.295 –> 00:27:39.394
There’s no point where a

00:27:39.434 –> 00:27:41.997
pitcher is ever going to say, oh, well,

00:27:42.037 –> 00:27:43.778
the league wants more offense,

00:27:44.439 –> 00:27:45.960
so I’m going to give it to them.

00:27:47.401 –> 00:27:48.561
I think I’ll put this one right.

00:27:48.722 –> 00:27:49.703
I’m going to hang a slider

00:27:49.723 –> 00:27:50.845
in the middle of the plate

00:27:51.144 –> 00:27:52.226
to see what happens.

00:27:52.606 –> 00:27:52.787
Yeah,

00:27:52.946 –> 00:27:55.089
I’m going to cut my fastball down to

00:27:55.089 –> 00:27:55.789
92 and I’m going to take

00:27:55.829 –> 00:27:56.550
the movement off.

00:27:56.912 –> 00:27:58.933
Like it’s just never,

00:27:59.134 –> 00:28:00.295
ever going to happen where

00:28:00.655 –> 00:28:01.477
these guys are.

00:28:01.896 –> 00:28:03.578
Well, they should be this competitive.

00:28:03.679 –> 00:28:05.161
So this is not a slam that

00:28:05.181 –> 00:28:06.201
they’re too competitive.

00:28:06.442 –> 00:28:07.022
Exactly.

00:28:07.502 –> 00:28:09.444
They should be going out there saying,

00:28:09.664 –> 00:28:12.607
I want zero runs to score.

00:28:12.708 –> 00:28:14.128
There’s no world, you know,

00:28:14.269 –> 00:28:17.311
even in slow pitch softball, of course,

00:28:17.352 –> 00:28:19.133
zero is unrealistic.

00:28:19.472 –> 00:28:20.134
But you’re like,

00:28:20.374 –> 00:28:22.955
I want less than 15 runs to

00:28:22.996 –> 00:28:23.856
score this game.

00:28:24.298 –> 00:28:26.078
I’m never going up there saying, okay,

00:28:26.179 –> 00:28:27.460
I’m fine with giving up 30

00:28:27.460 –> 00:28:29.902
because we’ll try to score 31.

00:28:29.902 –> 00:28:31.442
It just doesn’t happen.

00:28:32.103 –> 00:28:33.623
Sometimes you give up 30,

00:28:33.623 –> 00:28:35.923
but you never make that your goal.

00:28:36.784 –> 00:28:38.224
There is no world where the

00:28:38.265 –> 00:28:39.765
pitchers go out there and say,

00:28:40.325 –> 00:28:41.326
I’m going to cut it back

00:28:41.385 –> 00:28:43.066
because I got to get through the sixth.

00:28:43.865 –> 00:28:45.646
And if that leads to more offense,

00:28:45.886 –> 00:28:46.547
so be it.

00:28:46.666 –> 00:28:48.147
That’s great for the game.

00:28:50.028 –> 00:28:50.728
It doesn’t exist.

00:28:50.828 –> 00:28:51.528
It’s a pipe dream.

00:28:51.548 –> 00:28:53.489
There’s some corollaries to

00:28:53.528 –> 00:28:55.690
that that are also under discussion.

00:28:55.750 –> 00:28:57.150
Again, these things are years away.

00:28:57.550 –> 00:28:58.570
It’s an interesting thought.

00:29:00.112 –> 00:29:03.594
One is to mandate, you know,

00:29:03.614 –> 00:29:04.454
they’ve made the rule now

00:29:04.515 –> 00:29:06.696
on three batters for a

00:29:07.396 –> 00:29:09.159
relief pitcher to increase

00:29:09.199 –> 00:29:13.862
that to five so that you

00:29:13.882 –> 00:29:15.143
can’t have as much turnover

00:29:15.163 –> 00:29:15.903
in relief pitchers.

00:29:15.923 –> 00:29:17.325
They’ve got to go a little bit longer.

00:29:18.025 –> 00:29:19.566
I don’t know what impact it

00:29:19.586 –> 00:29:21.448
has on how fast they throw,

00:29:21.567 –> 00:29:22.228
how hard they throw.

00:29:22.268 –> 00:29:23.709
I can’t think going to five

00:29:23.789 –> 00:29:25.069
makes much of a difference

00:29:25.089 –> 00:29:27.311
because they often go to five anyway,

00:29:27.451 –> 00:29:28.313
whether they want to or not.

00:29:29.446 –> 00:29:32.690
Another possibility was

00:29:32.930 –> 00:29:35.271
cutting down the number of

00:29:35.372 –> 00:29:38.974
pitchers on us permitted on the team.

00:29:40.375 –> 00:29:43.959
And what somebody commented on that was,

00:29:43.979 –> 00:29:46.800
it was in the ESPN article,

00:29:46.840 –> 00:29:47.842
one of the follow-ups maybe,

00:29:48.382 –> 00:29:52.486
that the union would not

00:29:52.526 –> 00:29:53.006
put up with that.

00:29:56.128 –> 00:29:58.190
because of any limitations on players.

00:29:58.309 –> 00:30:00.711
It’s just the union is going to fight.

00:30:00.751 –> 00:30:01.271
Of course they are.

00:30:01.372 –> 00:30:03.012
That’s their job.

00:30:04.413 –> 00:30:05.253
But then the thought was,

00:30:05.314 –> 00:30:06.354
what if you did this at the

00:30:06.433 –> 00:30:09.375
same time as expansion so

00:30:09.395 –> 00:30:10.096
that there were actually

00:30:10.355 –> 00:30:13.117
more players in the majors, just one,

00:30:13.518 –> 00:30:14.759
like if you went down to 25

00:30:14.759 –> 00:30:15.479
players on the team,

00:30:15.479 –> 00:30:16.819
12 of whom could be pitchers,

00:30:17.380 –> 00:30:19.080
but you’ve got two new teams out here,

00:30:19.141 –> 00:30:20.141
so that more than makes up

00:30:20.201 –> 00:30:21.902
for the loss on there.

00:30:22.402 –> 00:30:23.542
You’ve actually added players.

00:30:24.561 –> 00:30:25.061
I mean,

00:30:25.103 –> 00:30:26.644
there are just so many

00:30:26.703 –> 00:30:27.724
technicalities on this.

00:30:27.964 –> 00:30:28.826
But the real question is,

00:30:29.365 –> 00:30:32.868
would it really help with injuries?

00:30:35.151 –> 00:30:36.251
I don’t see how it would.

00:30:36.852 –> 00:30:39.914
I don’t see how the – first off,

00:30:40.035 –> 00:30:43.157
the three – facing three –

00:30:43.157 –> 00:30:44.858
the three batters to five

00:30:44.898 –> 00:30:46.901
batters thing or whatever,

00:30:47.240 –> 00:30:51.174
that’s just – that is like, you know –

00:30:51.174 –> 00:30:52.256
putting a blindfold on and

00:30:52.276 –> 00:30:53.457
throwing darts at something

00:30:53.537 –> 00:30:54.458
to see if that works.

00:30:54.939 –> 00:30:55.239
I,

00:30:55.659 –> 00:30:58.741
I don’t see any value in that whatsoever.

00:30:59.001 –> 00:30:59.903
I truly don’t.

00:31:00.002 –> 00:31:00.242
I mean,

00:31:00.303 –> 00:31:02.464
I guess you’re saying we do that

00:31:02.506 –> 00:31:03.646
and then you have one less

00:31:03.666 –> 00:31:04.988
guy in the bullpen and that

00:31:05.067 –> 00:31:08.810
kind of offsets that if you, but what,

00:31:08.911 –> 00:31:10.553
what is this world we’re

00:31:10.593 –> 00:31:12.114
coming to in baseball where

00:31:12.134 –> 00:31:13.415
you bring a reliever in,

00:31:13.955 –> 00:31:15.116
he’s got a phase three,

00:31:15.798 –> 00:31:16.778
all three guys are,

00:31:18.066 –> 00:31:20.067
just crank this pitcher and

00:31:20.086 –> 00:31:20.928
then you got to keep them

00:31:20.988 –> 00:31:22.087
in for two more guys.

00:31:22.107 –> 00:31:25.509
I understood the move to get

00:31:25.630 –> 00:31:27.471
rid of the loogies to get

00:31:27.551 –> 00:31:29.772
rid of the one out lefty guys.

00:31:30.272 –> 00:31:31.834
It was really slowing down the game.

00:31:31.854 –> 00:31:33.214
It was really boring.

00:31:33.775 –> 00:31:35.556
But I don’t understand

00:31:35.655 –> 00:31:36.797
saying if we bring a

00:31:36.856 –> 00:31:38.617
reliever in and it’s not his day,

00:31:38.678 –> 00:31:39.959
he has to go through five

00:31:40.078 –> 00:31:41.380
batters no matter what.

00:31:42.299 –> 00:31:44.461
It just doesn’t feel like baseball.

00:31:44.481 –> 00:31:45.282
It doesn’t feel like

00:31:45.462 –> 00:31:46.844
baseball strategy to me.

00:31:47.223 –> 00:31:49.026
It certainly has nothing to

00:31:49.066 –> 00:31:49.826
do with injuries.

00:31:50.047 –> 00:31:50.326
I mean,

00:31:50.626 –> 00:31:51.907
if you’ve got a guy who goes out

00:31:51.948 –> 00:31:53.849
there and he’s just getting shellacked,

00:31:54.269 –> 00:31:55.211
he’s going to be doing

00:31:55.270 –> 00:31:56.932
things that he should not

00:31:56.991 –> 00:31:59.914
be doing to try to not be shellacked.

00:32:00.375 –> 00:32:02.175
And I don’t see how that can

00:32:02.215 –> 00:32:03.617
help you in the injury world.

00:32:04.198 –> 00:32:05.739
having fewer guys in the

00:32:05.778 –> 00:32:07.059
bullpen doesn’t seem like

00:32:07.140 –> 00:32:08.721
it can help you in the injury world,

00:32:09.061 –> 00:32:10.403
because all that means is

00:32:10.623 –> 00:32:12.703
you got more strain on those guys.

00:32:13.224 –> 00:32:14.746
As you move deeper into the season,

00:32:14.786 –> 00:32:16.906
you’ve got more tired arms in September,

00:32:17.007 –> 00:32:18.828
tired arms lead to injured arms.

00:32:20.148 –> 00:32:22.089
I don’t even understand how that works.

00:32:22.230 –> 00:32:25.051
So there’s so much fear

00:32:25.592 –> 00:32:26.893
about this sixth inning

00:32:26.932 –> 00:32:27.873
thing and about these

00:32:27.932 –> 00:32:29.153
potential changes to the

00:32:29.193 –> 00:32:31.634
bullpen that just don’t

00:32:31.974 –> 00:32:33.615
seem to actually form a

00:32:33.695 –> 00:32:36.676
cohesive answer for how to A,

00:32:37.137 –> 00:32:39.097
keep guys from getting hurt, and B,

00:32:39.519 –> 00:32:42.339
get more offense going in

00:32:42.359 –> 00:32:43.320
Major League Baseball.

00:32:44.161 –> 00:32:46.382
I just wrote a bit because of the health.

00:32:47.199 –> 00:32:49.020
much it pertains to 2004,

00:32:49.020 –> 00:32:50.362
about the 1970 White Sox,

00:32:50.402 –> 00:32:51.261
which are the team that had

00:32:51.281 –> 00:32:52.564
the most losses of any

00:32:52.584 –> 00:32:54.025
White Sox team ever, 106 of them.

00:32:55.026 –> 00:32:58.288
And what changes were made after that,

00:32:58.307 –> 00:32:59.088
because they improved

00:32:59.388 –> 00:33:01.211
dramatically over the next

00:33:01.250 –> 00:33:03.712
two years in ways that this team, frankly,

00:33:04.153 –> 00:33:05.894
just cannot.

00:33:07.695 –> 00:33:09.478
But one of the things in the

00:33:09.518 –> 00:33:11.480
process of doing that was

00:33:11.619 –> 00:33:14.021
looking at the innings that

00:33:14.041 –> 00:33:15.502
the starting pitchers threw

00:33:17.397 –> 00:33:19.558
And I don’t have them written down here,

00:33:19.578 –> 00:33:22.619
but Wilbur Wood was a knuckleball pitcher,

00:33:22.660 –> 00:33:23.000
of course.

00:33:23.441 –> 00:33:25.000
So all he’s doing basically

00:33:25.020 –> 00:33:27.362
is playing catch with the catcher.

00:33:27.961 –> 00:33:29.682
And he throws 350 innings a year,

00:33:29.702 –> 00:33:30.804
and he probably could have thrown 450.

00:33:30.804 –> 00:33:33.325
The guy was incredible.

00:33:34.305 –> 00:33:37.625
But even the other pitchers were up 250,

00:33:37.625 –> 00:33:38.026
260, 280.

00:33:38.026 –> 00:33:41.248
Just, you know, Stan Bonson,

00:33:41.268 –> 00:33:41.988
those kind of guys.

00:33:42.167 –> 00:33:42.748
Tommy John,

00:33:43.769 –> 00:33:45.148
who had Tommy John surgery two

00:33:45.189 –> 00:33:45.650
years later.

00:33:45.670 –> 00:33:46.289
Yeah.

00:33:47.961 –> 00:33:51.103
And that’s my other bet.

00:33:51.262 –> 00:33:52.104
Tommy John’s got to be in

00:33:52.124 –> 00:33:52.683
the Hall of Fame because

00:33:52.723 –> 00:33:53.683
he’s the most famous

00:33:53.784 –> 00:33:54.804
ex-ball player that ever

00:33:54.865 –> 00:33:56.184
lived because his name is

00:33:56.265 –> 00:33:57.806
out in the news every day.

00:33:58.486 –> 00:34:00.165
And he’s only getting more famous.

00:34:00.246 –> 00:34:01.586
He’s probably the only

00:34:01.727 –> 00:34:02.866
old-timer who’s getting

00:34:03.067 –> 00:34:05.528
more famous every year,

00:34:05.627 –> 00:34:07.048
even though nobody really,

00:34:07.669 –> 00:34:10.090
outside of White Sox fans or a few others,

00:34:10.110 –> 00:34:12.311
know where he played or what he did.

00:34:12.831 –> 00:34:13.951
He was a terrific pitcher.

00:34:13.971 –> 00:34:15.351
He was a great pitcher.

00:34:17.409 –> 00:34:19.253
Oh, he was a great pitcher.

00:34:19.994 –> 00:34:22.259
But he’s not famous for the 63 War.

00:34:22.900 –> 00:34:23.061
No,

00:34:23.081 –> 00:34:24.664
he’s famous for being on an operating

00:34:24.684 –> 00:34:24.925
table.

00:34:25.722 –> 00:34:29.045
yeah and and yeah so I I’m

00:34:29.085 –> 00:34:30.347
not I’m not one of those

00:34:30.588 –> 00:34:33.289
I’m not a I’m not a a

00:34:33.550 –> 00:34:35.532
baseball conservative on

00:34:35.612 –> 00:34:36.753
things need to stay the

00:34:36.793 –> 00:34:38.335
same things need to I’m

00:34:38.414 –> 00:34:39.876
actually a big fan of the

00:34:39.916 –> 00:34:41.697
pitch clock I’m a big fan

00:34:41.737 –> 00:34:43.980
of the bigger bases uh I

00:34:44.079 –> 00:34:45.460
like some of the changes of

00:34:45.541 –> 00:34:47.043
course I I’ve never I’m

00:34:47.083 –> 00:34:48.204
never gonna like the ghost

00:34:48.264 –> 00:34:49.144
runner at second

00:34:50.226 –> 00:34:52.827
um but I’m only okay with it

00:34:52.907 –> 00:34:54.048
because they don’t do it in

00:34:54.088 –> 00:34:56.391
the post season uh if they

00:34:56.431 –> 00:34:57.592
did it in the post season

00:34:57.771 –> 00:34:58.913
that would just be annoying

00:34:59.092 –> 00:35:01.735
but I kind of get it for

00:35:01.755 –> 00:35:02.876
the regular season but I

00:35:02.916 –> 00:35:04.978
don’t like it I don’t like

00:35:05.117 –> 00:35:07.320
that rule I’m not I’m not a

00:35:07.360 –> 00:35:08.260
purist when it comes to

00:35:08.300 –> 00:35:09.621
these things but I just

00:35:10.619 –> 00:35:12.420
this this six inning thing

00:35:12.460 –> 00:35:13.721
and these possible bullpen

00:35:13.760 –> 00:35:15.561
changes I don’t think they

00:35:15.621 –> 00:35:18.541
are fleshed out ideas on

00:35:18.682 –> 00:35:20.043
how to really change

00:35:20.163 –> 00:35:22.224
anything uh in terms of

00:35:22.264 –> 00:35:24.244
injury or or offensive run

00:35:24.543 –> 00:35:26.864
I mean I love the idea that

00:35:27.164 –> 00:35:28.224
when you implement this

00:35:28.286 –> 00:35:29.186
rule all of a sudden

00:35:29.226 –> 00:35:30.746
everyone’s got to watch you

00:35:30.786 –> 00:35:31.927
know hours of footage of

00:35:31.967 –> 00:35:33.246
greg maddox and figured out

00:35:33.306 –> 00:35:34.907
how he did that for all those years but

00:35:36.829 –> 00:35:38.471
that’s just not the reality

00:35:39.130 –> 00:35:40.391
of the game right now.

00:35:40.431 –> 00:35:42.454
I mean, the hitters are too good.

00:35:43.034 –> 00:35:44.275
So these guys are going to

00:35:44.315 –> 00:35:46.237
have to figure out how to

00:35:46.277 –> 00:35:47.659
throw a hundred miles an hour,

00:35:47.759 –> 00:35:48.559
no matter what.

00:35:49.021 –> 00:35:50.382
And I think the answer to

00:35:50.422 –> 00:35:51.422
that is going to be,

00:35:51.782 –> 00:35:53.625
if I throw a hundred pitches by the third,

00:35:53.664 –> 00:35:55.407
I throw a hundred pitches by the third.

00:35:55.947 –> 00:35:58.489
And how is that a better pitch?

00:35:59.289 –> 00:36:02.530
scenario you know I i was I

00:36:02.550 –> 00:36:04.070
was dancing around the

00:36:04.110 –> 00:36:05.472
strike zone at 100 miles an

00:36:05.512 –> 00:36:07.231
hour better completely

00:36:07.311 –> 00:36:08.873
leave this congestion

00:36:08.893 –> 00:36:09.932
because I think it really

00:36:10.012 –> 00:36:10.952
is more an injury thing but

00:36:10.972 –> 00:36:11.853
leave leave the injury

00:36:11.893 –> 00:36:13.893
category what is your

00:36:13.954 –> 00:36:17.474
proposal for offense for

00:36:17.614 –> 00:36:20.235
offense I i don’t care i

00:36:22.045 –> 00:36:23.806
My proposal is I feel like

00:36:23.846 –> 00:36:24.947
they score enough runs.

00:36:26.327 –> 00:36:26.626
I mean,

00:36:26.728 –> 00:36:28.889
I’m bored by the amount of strikeouts,

00:36:29.309 –> 00:36:33.510
but that’s really because

00:36:33.530 –> 00:36:35.072
of the approach to offense

00:36:35.271 –> 00:36:36.112
more than anything.

00:36:36.813 –> 00:36:38.313
We’re in the launch angle era.

00:36:38.454 –> 00:36:40.594
So the strikeouts, you know,

00:36:41.315 –> 00:36:42.876
the three true outcomes is

00:36:42.976 –> 00:36:43.896
pretty big still.

00:36:44.677 –> 00:36:45.898
And pretty boring.

00:36:47.233 –> 00:36:47.893
It’s boring.

00:36:48.014 –> 00:36:50.655
So I don’t know that any of

00:36:50.875 –> 00:36:52.416
these changes actually put

00:36:52.516 –> 00:36:55.197
more balls in play because

00:36:55.237 –> 00:36:56.237
guys are still just going

00:36:56.257 –> 00:36:58.677
to try to hit it out of the park.

00:36:59.478 –> 00:37:02.179
If you move the fences back 20 feet,

00:37:02.800 –> 00:37:04.219
then maybe you have a world

00:37:04.260 –> 00:37:05.521
where guys are like, okay,

00:37:05.581 –> 00:37:07.362
it’s really hard to hit it out.

00:37:08.621 –> 00:37:10.143
So let me try to figure out

00:37:10.222 –> 00:37:11.322
something to do here.

00:37:11.342 –> 00:37:13.503
I guess you could try…

00:37:14.755 –> 00:37:16.655
deadening the ball,

00:37:16.695 –> 00:37:19.376
which will give you more balls in play,

00:37:19.436 –> 00:37:20.576
but it won’t necessarily

00:37:20.675 –> 00:37:22.016
give you more runs.

00:37:22.655 –> 00:37:24.277
And if what Major League

00:37:24.297 –> 00:37:25.836
Baseball wants is run

00:37:25.896 –> 00:37:28.416
production when they say offense.

00:37:28.536 –> 00:37:28.797
I mean,

00:37:28.956 –> 00:37:30.137
run production is what they care about.

00:37:30.177 –> 00:37:32.378
That’s the statistics that you get shown.

00:37:32.418 –> 00:37:32.978
You know,

00:37:33.077 –> 00:37:35.018
it’s 4.2 runs instead of 4.5

00:37:35.018 –> 00:37:35.898
three years ago or whatever.

00:37:36.498 –> 00:37:36.679
No,

00:37:37.039 –> 00:37:38.659
I think what they really want is balls

00:37:38.699 –> 00:37:39.059
in play.

00:37:39.978 –> 00:37:41.360
Balls in play are fun.

00:37:41.860 –> 00:37:43.679
Balls not in play are not.

00:37:45.425 –> 00:37:46.547
It’s a spectator sport,

00:37:46.806 –> 00:37:48.389
and from a spectator’s point of view,

00:37:48.869 –> 00:37:49.829
watching strikeouts,

00:37:50.289 –> 00:37:51.271
unless you’re counting them

00:37:51.530 –> 00:37:53.612
for somebody who’s off the set of record,

00:37:54.052 –> 00:37:54.514
is dull.

00:37:55.755 –> 00:37:57.817
Watching wonks is dull.

00:37:58.677 –> 00:38:00.177
And yes, there are home runs,

00:38:00.278 –> 00:38:01.960
and they happen to be for your team.

00:38:02.000 –> 00:38:02.340
That’s fun.

00:38:02.400 –> 00:38:03.300
Oh, look how far it went.

00:38:03.780 –> 00:38:05.322
But basically,

00:38:05.463 –> 00:38:06.903
that’s not real exciting either.

00:38:06.983 –> 00:38:08.525
It doesn’t keep the game flowing.

00:38:08.826 –> 00:38:10.527
Nobody’s running around.

00:38:10.547 –> 00:38:11.547
There aren’t plays made.

00:38:11.568 –> 00:38:12.969
Nobody’s trying to throw a guy out.

00:38:13.407 –> 00:38:14.206
when the ball was in the

00:38:14.246 –> 00:38:15.367
center field bleachers.

00:38:17.268 –> 00:38:21.130
So they need something for balls.

00:38:21.210 –> 00:38:22.072
Deadening the ball is

00:38:22.092 –> 00:38:22.851
certainly a possibility.

00:38:22.911 –> 00:38:24.092
I like your 20 feet back.

00:38:24.112 –> 00:38:24.333
Of course,

00:38:24.373 –> 00:38:25.193
nobody’s going to do that

00:38:25.213 –> 00:38:26.793
because you have to change every stadium.

00:38:27.795 –> 00:38:28.715
The owners are not going to

00:38:28.735 –> 00:38:29.635
go to that expense.

00:38:29.675 –> 00:38:30.795
They are not going to go to

00:38:30.835 –> 00:38:32.257
that expense and lose those seats.

00:38:33.853 –> 00:38:36.697
Which is a bummer because, you know, well,

00:38:36.898 –> 00:38:37.518
then you’re going to have

00:38:37.559 –> 00:38:38.740
the people who come out and say, well,

00:38:38.780 –> 00:38:40.061
now no one’s hitting home runs.

00:38:40.483 –> 00:38:43.427
So now home run numbers, guys,

00:38:43.626 –> 00:38:45.769
the league leaders are hitting 30.

00:38:45.769 –> 00:38:48.193
They’re not hitting 70 like they used to.

00:38:48.554 –> 00:38:49.554
And they’re not hitting 50.

00:38:50.846 –> 00:38:52.067
uh except for otani all of

00:38:52.086 –> 00:38:53.827
his are 450 feet anyway so

00:38:53.847 –> 00:38:55.309
what difference is pretty

00:38:55.369 –> 00:38:57.170
safe no matter what otani

00:38:57.190 –> 00:38:59.130
would do well in in my new

00:38:59.211 –> 00:39:00.632
version where everyone I

00:39:00.652 –> 00:39:01.713
mean that’s like one of the

00:39:01.773 –> 00:39:03.293
few things you make it

00:39:03.333 –> 00:39:04.815
harder to hit a home run

00:39:05.476 –> 00:39:06.675
and people won’t hit home

00:39:06.735 –> 00:39:08.938
runs make it harder to hit

00:39:08.978 –> 00:39:10.739
a home run and maybe

00:39:10.818 –> 00:39:12.019
pitchers won’t feel like

00:39:12.039 –> 00:39:13.440
they have to throw it a hundred

00:39:14.221 –> 00:39:16.202
because but then you have

00:39:16.242 –> 00:39:17.882
the other side which is if

00:39:17.922 –> 00:39:18.963
you throw it 100 it’s

00:39:19.443 –> 00:39:20.423
actually a lot easier to

00:39:20.463 –> 00:39:21.985
hit a home run if you make

00:39:22.065 –> 00:39:24.385
contact you know a ball

00:39:24.425 –> 00:39:25.865
coming in at 100 that meets

00:39:25.945 –> 00:39:30.034
a swing that’s at 98.

00:39:30.034 –> 00:39:31.255
Yeah.

00:39:31.735 –> 00:39:34.199
So, I mean, deadening the ball, which,

00:39:34.239 –> 00:39:34.579
of course,

00:39:34.900 –> 00:39:35.842
a lot of people are going to

00:39:35.862 –> 00:39:36.663
hate the idea.

00:39:37.403 –> 00:39:38.244
Pitchers will not.

00:39:38.585 –> 00:39:39.626
They will not hate the idea.

00:39:40.827 –> 00:39:42.230
Moving the fences back,

00:39:43.030 –> 00:39:45.795
which is also very complicated because…

00:39:46.675 –> 00:39:48.496
There aren’t rules in Major

00:39:48.516 –> 00:39:49.717
League Baseball on the size

00:39:49.757 –> 00:39:51.958
of the field and what that means.

00:39:52.018 –> 00:39:55.280
So if Houston’s got to move their wall,

00:39:55.340 –> 00:39:55.920
well, first off,

00:39:55.940 –> 00:39:56.900
you can’t move their left

00:39:56.940 –> 00:39:58.101
field wall 20 feet back

00:39:58.181 –> 00:39:59.001
because then you don’t have

00:39:59.021 –> 00:40:00.922
seats in left field because

00:40:00.963 –> 00:40:02.023
theirs is such a joke.

00:40:02.063 –> 00:40:02.744
What about Boston?

00:40:02.764 –> 00:40:03.505
You don’t have anything.

00:40:03.545 –> 00:40:06.266
You’ve got a wall sitting in

00:40:06.306 –> 00:40:07.427
the middle of the Charles River.

00:40:08.463 –> 00:40:09.826
Moving the monster back there.

00:40:10.766 –> 00:40:11.688
First off,

00:40:11.827 –> 00:40:13.990
what an operation to move the

00:40:14.030 –> 00:40:14.652
monster back.

00:40:14.771 –> 00:40:16.974
But I love the idea that you

00:40:16.994 –> 00:40:18.317
can either move it back or

00:40:18.356 –> 00:40:19.378
you can raise the height.

00:40:19.878 –> 00:40:21.059
And I love the idea that the

00:40:21.099 –> 00:40:22.481
green monster is now 100 feet high.

00:40:24.099 –> 00:40:25.420
Where it’s actually just,

00:40:25.519 –> 00:40:26.240
then we’re going to see

00:40:26.280 –> 00:40:27.922
moonshots come into play again.

00:40:27.943 –> 00:40:31.646
And that’s kind of a fun idea.

00:40:32.387 –> 00:40:34.688
I don’t know what the answer is.

00:40:35.228 –> 00:40:37.150
Outside of deadening the

00:40:37.170 –> 00:40:38.291
ball and making it harder

00:40:38.311 –> 00:40:39.193
to hit the ball out of the

00:40:39.233 –> 00:40:40.534
park so that guys have to

00:40:41.554 –> 00:40:42.976
learn to bat like Tony Gwynn.

00:40:45.297 –> 00:40:46.139
I truly don’t know.

00:40:46.159 –> 00:40:47.599
I don’t have an answer for

00:40:47.659 –> 00:40:48.360
how to make this work.

00:40:48.460 –> 00:40:49.802
But the way it is right now,

00:40:49.981 –> 00:40:50.702
it’s pretty boring.

00:40:50.722 –> 00:40:51.663
What you were just saying a

00:40:51.702 –> 00:40:53.505
moment ago is a cheaper

00:40:53.565 –> 00:40:55.226
version of the move the fences back,

00:40:55.266 –> 00:40:56.606
which they’re just not going to do,

00:40:57.768 –> 00:40:58.367
would be,

00:40:58.768 –> 00:41:00.070
and you can’t raise the green monster,

00:41:00.110 –> 00:41:01.251
but raise,

00:41:02.672 –> 00:41:04.353
just like the Dodgers did when

00:41:04.373 –> 00:41:05.454
they first moved to L.A.

00:41:05.514 –> 00:41:07.715
and they had that 220-foot

00:41:07.755 –> 00:41:08.695
porch or whatever it was

00:41:08.775 –> 00:41:09.456
out in left field.

00:41:09.896 –> 00:41:11.157
And while they moved, we’d just go beep.

00:41:12.780 –> 00:41:14.661
But to put a big high fence up,

00:41:16.985 –> 00:41:18.186
and that does not absorb so

00:41:18.226 –> 00:41:19.708
that it would come back in the field.

00:41:19.748 –> 00:41:21.329
And then that guy’s running the bases,

00:41:21.429 –> 00:41:22.570
just like at the green monster.

00:41:22.871 –> 00:41:23.972
It goes off the green monster.

00:41:24.012 –> 00:41:24.652
That guy’s running.

00:41:24.672 –> 00:41:26.135
The bases could very well

00:41:26.155 –> 00:41:28.016
get thrown out at second exciting play.

00:41:28.577 –> 00:41:29.197
Uh, you know,

00:41:29.217 –> 00:41:30.278
if you’ve got a good left fielder,

00:41:30.298 –> 00:41:31.179
he can get some guys.

00:41:31.960 –> 00:41:35.784
Uh, but that would help some, uh,

00:41:35.885 –> 00:41:38.867
get some outfield play going, uh,

00:41:39.599 –> 00:41:41.340
But if you’re going to raise the wall,

00:41:41.840 –> 00:41:43.222
you have the same issues

00:41:43.262 –> 00:41:45.023
that you have with owners if you say,

00:41:45.063 –> 00:41:46.025
I want to push it back.

00:41:46.525 –> 00:41:47.947
Which is if you raise the wall,

00:41:48.327 –> 00:41:49.487
then their options are to

00:41:49.688 –> 00:41:51.030
eliminate a bunch of seats

00:41:51.630 –> 00:41:53.251
or to raise all the seats.

00:41:53.271 –> 00:41:54.172
I would make it a fence.

00:41:54.293 –> 00:41:56.795
I would make it like a mesh fence.

00:41:57.936 –> 00:42:00.197
Just like we have behind the plate now.

00:42:01.139 –> 00:42:02.119
Nobody complains about being

00:42:02.159 –> 00:42:02.780
able to get the game from

00:42:02.800 –> 00:42:03.380
behind the plate.

00:42:05.313 –> 00:42:06.054
I think people would

00:42:06.094 –> 00:42:07.074
complain about being all

00:42:07.094 –> 00:42:08.135
the way in the outfield and

00:42:08.175 –> 00:42:09.695
having to look through a fence.

00:42:10.416 –> 00:42:11.137
I mean,

00:42:11.217 –> 00:42:13.958
people will complain about any of this.

00:42:14.478 –> 00:42:15.559
All people do is complain.

00:42:15.679 –> 00:42:16.661
So people will complain

00:42:16.701 –> 00:42:17.742
about any of these things.

00:42:18.922 –> 00:42:22.005
But yeah, I’m just not sure.

00:42:23.746 –> 00:42:24.445
I’m not sure,

00:42:24.505 –> 00:42:26.427
but we are about out of time today,

00:42:26.507 –> 00:42:27.688
so we will leave this

00:42:27.789 –> 00:42:28.969
question unanswered.

00:42:29.030 –> 00:42:30.331
We did not have a perfect

00:42:30.371 –> 00:42:32.092
solution for you today here

00:42:32.231 –> 00:42:33.052
on Sharing Socks,

00:42:33.432 –> 00:42:34.813
which I know is shocking.

00:42:35.114 –> 00:42:36.655
We almost always end with a

00:42:36.715 –> 00:42:37.956
perfect solution on how to

00:42:37.996 –> 00:42:39.416
fix everything in baseball,

00:42:39.998 –> 00:42:41.039
but today we will not.

00:42:41.079 –> 00:42:42.059
Do you have any final

00:42:42.199 –> 00:42:43.621
thoughts before we sign off?

00:42:44.300 –> 00:42:44.501
Well,

00:42:44.561 –> 00:42:46.402
just one stat on something that I was

00:42:46.463 –> 00:42:49.505
working on to write tomorrow.

00:42:50.226 –> 00:42:51.947
Aloy Jimenez said,

00:42:52.478 –> 00:42:55.860
in Baltimore is hitting 414

00:42:55.860 –> 00:42:57.882
with a 916 OPS.

00:43:00.405 –> 00:43:01.606
Holy cow.

00:43:01.766 –> 00:43:02.726
With the White Sox,

00:43:03.248 –> 00:43:09.574
he was hitting 240 with a 642 OPS.

00:43:11.114 –> 00:43:11.434
Wow.

00:43:12.335 –> 00:43:13.436
Most of the players who went,

00:43:13.516 –> 00:43:15.219
and this is what the piece is about, have

00:43:15.925 –> 00:43:16.766
improved quite a bit.

00:43:16.786 –> 00:43:18.507
The exception is Eric Fetty,

00:43:18.829 –> 00:43:19.590
who’s gone the other way.

00:43:19.969 –> 00:43:22.552
But most of them have become

00:43:22.612 –> 00:43:24.536
much happier playing for a competitor.

00:43:26.998 –> 00:43:28.139
Kopech’s got Cy Young

00:43:28.199 –> 00:43:29.822
numbers going on over in LA.

00:43:31.443 –> 00:43:32.385
Wow, that is crazy.

00:43:32.445 –> 00:43:33.306
And Trevor Banks is doing

00:43:33.346 –> 00:43:35.168
extremely well in Philadelphia.

00:43:35.864 –> 00:43:36.005
Yeah,

00:43:36.045 –> 00:43:37.867
I got to see him pitch for the

00:43:37.907 –> 00:43:39.268
Phillies when they were here in L.A.

00:43:39.288 –> 00:43:39.827
That was cool.

00:43:39.847 –> 00:43:40.929
It was fun cheering for him.

00:43:42.690 –> 00:43:43.590
Yeah, wow.

00:43:43.851 –> 00:43:46.193
That Eloy thing is wild.

00:43:47.173 –> 00:43:47.974
That’s telling.

00:43:48.514 –> 00:43:51.478
That is telling, that one right there.

00:43:51.518 –> 00:43:54.119
Maybe it’ll level out, but oh, man.

00:43:54.139 –> 00:43:55.880
It’s an incredibly small sample size.

00:43:55.920 –> 00:43:57.121
He said 29 at-bats,

00:43:57.202 –> 00:44:00.125
but it’s still fun to consider that.

00:44:01.222 –> 00:44:01.422
Yeah,

00:44:01.603 –> 00:44:02.965
and it makes me happy for Aloy

00:44:02.985 –> 00:44:04.706
because we all love Aloy.

00:44:04.947 –> 00:44:06.048
He’s a jolly guy.

00:44:06.088 –> 00:44:07.010
Make him jollier.

00:44:07.992 –> 00:44:08.952
Yeah, exactly.

00:44:09.052 –> 00:44:10.514
I’d love to see him migrate.

00:44:11.376 –> 00:44:12.496
That’s a lot of hits, right?

00:44:14.239 –> 00:44:15.460
Hasn’t pulled his hamstring

00:44:15.501 –> 00:44:17.222
on the way to first base a single time.

00:44:18.065 –> 00:44:18.947
Well, now he’s doomed.

00:44:19.507 –> 00:44:20.007
Now he’s doomed.

00:44:20.268 –> 00:44:20.527
You know,

00:44:20.568 –> 00:44:22.489
I hear they make you stretch in Baltimore,

00:44:22.570 –> 00:44:23.269
so that could have

00:44:23.309 –> 00:44:24.311
something to do with it.

00:44:24.871 –> 00:44:25.692
I don’t think they make you

00:44:25.731 –> 00:44:26.773
stretch in Chicago.

00:44:27.693 –> 00:44:28.855
So that could be it.

00:44:29.255 –> 00:44:30.856
Well, we are out of time for today.

00:44:31.217 –> 00:44:32.438
Thanks so much for listening.

00:44:33.157 –> 00:44:34.699
It’ll be interesting to see how many,

00:44:34.840 –> 00:44:35.219
if any,

00:44:35.300 –> 00:44:37.661
wins we have the next time we are back.

00:44:38.443 –> 00:44:39.603
But we look forward to it,

00:44:39.643 –> 00:44:40.605
and we will catch you next

00:44:40.664 –> 00:44:43.027
time right here on Sharing Socks.