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Hello and welcome to Visiting Dugout,

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a Fans First Sports Network production.

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I am Crystal O’Keefe.

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Today I have the wonderful

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Britt back to chat about the Giants.

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Britt,

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please reintroduce yourself in case

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those forgot.

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Hi.

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So I am Britt,

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most frequently from Casual Die Hard.

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So if you like…

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The weird intersection of

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baseball and Formula One and NASCAR,

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that’s where you can find it.

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It’s true.

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I’ve been on some Formula

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One podcasts last year.

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We did some astrology.

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It was wonderful.

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The astrology was great.

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It was you, me, and Addie.

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Oh, it was great.

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We were doing their big

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three and everything.

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Good times.

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Yeah, we got in deep.

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Oh, we did.

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All right, so,

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but this is baseball at this moment.

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So what is new with the Giants?

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Oh, that’s an excellent question.

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They’re in an interesting

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spot right now in that they are,

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they show moments of a lot

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of promise and then moments

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of not as much.

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They’re hovering right around 500,

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which like spiritually

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feels accurate aside from

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just being like mathematically accurate.

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But I do think that they’re

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actually in a decent place

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right now in that the

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pitching is really as good

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as you could ask for.

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And there’s a lot of young

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talent in the lineup,

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in addition to Matt Chapman

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and Mark Hanna,

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who are obviously great

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veteran presence kind of guys.

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So it’s an interesting

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combination right now.

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Yeah, I was looking at that.

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I mean,

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the division that the Giants are in

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is rough because you have the Dodgers,

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obviously.

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You have Dylan Cease’s Padres.

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That’s canon.

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And then the Diamondbacks,

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who were in the World Series last year.

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And then you sit just under

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the Diamondbacks and –

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I looked last year,

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it was like 10 and a half games back,

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which isn’t a lot in the

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grand scheme of things, to be honest,

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especially not in that division.

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So what do the Giants need to do?

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Not saying necessarily that

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they’re going to climb up this season,

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but what do they need to do

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to just set themselves up

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for more success in like the next season?

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Yeah,

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I think the biggest thing that they

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need really is just

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consistency from the lineup.

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I think because there is a

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lot of young talent,

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that that’s definitely

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within the realm of possibility.

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That doesn’t feel like an impossible task.

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And the other thing is that

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I really think they need to

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not let Matt Chapman leave.

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They need somebody to be the

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anchor of that clubhouse and that lineup.

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He has very quickly stepped

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into that role.

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He’s obviously really

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comfortable with Bob Melvin.

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He’s comfortable in the Bay Area.

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He’s a California kid,

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even if he is from LA.

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So I think they really need

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to not lose that presence.

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Because I think the

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combination of him and

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younger guys like Tyler

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Fitzgerald and Elliot Ramos,

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Patrick Bailey,

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who’s spiritually a little bit older,

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even if he’s not

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necessarily chronologically,

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have the potential to be

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really good pieces long-term.

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They just need to get

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consistent performance from

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them and then to have some

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sort of anchor.

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So he’s locked in until 2027.

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He has an opt-out.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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That’s where it gets dicey.

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He has that opt-out.

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So we’ll see what happens there.

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The impression that I’ve

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gotten is that he doesn’t

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really want to take the opt-out,

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but he also would like more

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security than he has with…

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that length of contract,

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which obviously is not

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going into the off season.

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It’s not what he expected to get.

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So I don’t blame him for that.

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So, I mean, I think there’s a very,

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very good possibility that they can,

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come to some sort of

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agreement that makes everyone happy.

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Yeah, that would make sense.

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He’s,

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he would be a good one to keep after all.

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And yeah, you guys,

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you do have a ton of young people.

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Cause I was looking at

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pitching matchups too,

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because all of our pitchers

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right now on the white socks are,

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are babies.

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Um,

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they were born in like the two thousands,

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which grosses me out.

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Yeah.

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I’m still not okay with that.

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I mentally, I have not, uh,

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come around to that fact yet.

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No.

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So it didn’t look like there

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were a ton of like, I mean,

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there were no splashy moves

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at the trade deadline,

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really just kind of small potatoes ones,

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but how did you feel about

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the moves they did actually make?

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I honestly,

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I think what they did was the right move.

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I think they were in a

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position where they didn’t

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want to give up young

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talent because they’re

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going to need that when the

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window really opens.

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Um,

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And they also weren’t one

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big piece away from really

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making a huge charge.

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So I think it was the right move.

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Personally, I love Mark Canna,

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who was their big move at the deadline.

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And he’s one of my favorites.

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I loved him for a long time.

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So he’s great.

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And he obviously,

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he’s thrilled to be back home,

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be with Bob Melvin, be with Matt Chapman,

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And I mean,

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it just it feels like a really good fit.

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And I’ve sort of felt like

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that was a good fit for a

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long time and was sort of

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disappointed that they

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didn’t really seem to be

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like making a play for him

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during the offseason the

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past couple of years.

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So I’m glad that it eventually worked out.

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We’re big Mark Hanna girlies

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at Casual Die Hard, especially.

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I remember he was on the

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Tigers for opening day this year,

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who the White Sox did play.

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And I was like,

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I don’t really want to go

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see my team necessarily play.

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But like Jesse was coming into town.

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And Mark Canna was playing and I was like,

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well, that I guess is worth it.

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Right.

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There you go.

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I’m going to get as close of

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seats as we can to where he

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will be so that I can watch him.

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There you go.

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It’s going to be brutal otherwise.

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And I mean, the Tigers won.

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It was not a pleasant game.

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But alas, that’s my life.

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Speaking of pleasant games,

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I did I did make it.

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out to san francisco this

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year and I had I went to

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the infamous pelican game

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oh my goodness so and jason

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bonetti was on the call for

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that too which was even

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better incredible I had to

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go back and listen and

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watch all the highlights

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from it because we were I mean

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We were right there.

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We were up a little higher.

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Cause I wanted to,

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I wanted a good view of like the whole,

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the whole park and the bay

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and everything.

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Um, but he was, this Pelican was,

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was right by us.

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So we got to see all the action.

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And then when it finally left the field,

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it made it over.

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Like there’s that kids zone.

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And then there’s this little

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spot next to it.

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That’s it’s like kind of fenced off.

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I think it might just be

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more of a kids zone where

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you can maybe like throw

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baseballs and stuff around

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so it landed in that kind

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of gated off area so they

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had to evacuate that all

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the kids had to leave and

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it just sat in there for a

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good 20 minutes I’m not

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even exaggerating I missed

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that part that’s oh yeah

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they weren’t showing it

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after that they only showed

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the pelican on the field he

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sat in there for a good 20

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minutes oh someone

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Like some employee of the

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Giants eventually came and

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was trying to like shoo him out of there.

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And he got booed,

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like mercifully booed that poor employee.

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I felt so bad.

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So finally he just kind of gave up.

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Like it kind of perched

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itself on something in that same area.

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And then eventually it left.

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I’m not even kidding.

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It was at least 20 minutes

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of him just sitting in there,

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just watching the game.

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being as carefree as he could.

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And all these kids were just

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standing outside.

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They’re like, come on, dude.

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But yeah,

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that was the best memory I have

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from that day with the Pelican.

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Couldn’t even tell you who

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they played at this point.

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I just remember the Pelican.

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Yeah,

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I don’t even remember who they were

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playing either.

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But I do remember the Pelican.

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So clearly we know what the

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priorities are.

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It was Hello Kitty Day.

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Some asshole took all of the

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Hello Kitty hats.

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He had like five massive,

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like reusable bags full of

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these hats that he was trying to sell.

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And I was like,

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these were geared towards little girls.

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Like they had the Girl Scouts here today.

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Right.

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It’s Mother’s Day weekend.

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You’re an asshole.

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And you have hundreds of

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these hats that I didn’t get, by the way.

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Oh, I was furious.

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But let’s be honest.

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But I got the pelican, so it was fine.

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Lovely place.

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So, well,

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that’s what I have with the Giants.

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We can take a very quick break,

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and then we can get into this fun series.

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That’s good.

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It’s going to be a bloodbath.

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Okay.

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Okay, welcome back.

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So I’ve been refreshing the

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Probable Pitchers page.

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The Giants haven’t put anybody up yet.

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But as far as the White Sox,

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you will see Jonathan

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Cannon for the first game.

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He’s been pretty good.

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He’s a baby.

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But he’s shown signs of life.

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Davis Martin, who’s been okay.

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And then you’ll see Garrett

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Crochet for the last game, which…

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Right now it’s kind of hit or miss,

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unfortunately.

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But what can you tell me

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about this Giants pitching rotation?

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Well,

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assuming they don’t finagle anything

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with the rotation,

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I think it should be Kyle Harrison,

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Robbie Ray,

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and then Logan Webb for this series.

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That’s assuming that they, again,

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that’s assuming they don’t,

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move anything around or

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stick at a bullpen game

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there or something, which they might,

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they’re kind of trying to

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give Kyle Harrison some extra rest,

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but he’s also only thrown,

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I think a little over a

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hundred innings this year.

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So he doesn’t really need it,

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but he was on the IL a

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little bit earlier in the

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year and it’s his first full season.

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So obviously, you know,

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August,

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September can be rough for guys

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that first year.

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Cause it’s just workload wise.

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It’s just a lot compared to

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what they’re used to.

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So, um, but those are the three,

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it should be assuming that

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nothing changes.

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Um, kind of a mixed bag that, uh,

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Robbie Ray has shown

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moments of being the Robbie

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Ray that you can have come

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to expect in his good times.

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Um,

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But he also is coming off a

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truly apocalyptically

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terrible start the last time out.

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Yeah.

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He didn’t make it out of the first inning.

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So mixed bag.

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Could go a lot of ways.

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Kyle Harrison, like I said,

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it’s his first full season.

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He is great.

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He was one of my favorites in the minors.

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I actually saw his first

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professional start in San

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Jose now many moons ago, it feels like.

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He has an incredible amount of talent.

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I do really think that he’s going to

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have a really good career

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and that he’s going to be really, really,

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really good when it all comes down to it.

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And he’s had a solid season.

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It just hasn’t been as

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consistent as I think he

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would have wanted.

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Um, but again, not,

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not the first young pitcher

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to have that happen.

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So definitely the

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possibility for him to do really well.

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Um,

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His command is his biggest thing.

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As is so often the case,

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walks get him in trouble.

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But he’s got some incredible stuff.

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He doesn’t throw super duper hard,

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but he’s got incredible

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movement on a lot of his

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pitches and can just be really,

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really nasty when he’s on.

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And then Logan Webb is Logan Webb.

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I mean,

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he’s been the ace of the staff for

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a couple of years now for good reason.

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He didn’t have as great a

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start to the season as, again,

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I think he would have wanted,

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but he’s been very, very good.

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He’s coming off a

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sub-two-hour complete game shutout.

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Yeah.

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So that was weird and fun.

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I missed the beginning of that game,

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and I turned it on.

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I was like, how is it already, like,

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the sixth inning?

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Because he was just…

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ridiculously efficient.

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And so and he’s had a good

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run of starts in a row that

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were were really good.

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So yeah, mixed bag,

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but I feel like at least

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one of those should be good

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on the giant side.

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Yeah, that’s true.

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I was watching some of those

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highlights from Logan Webb

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the other day and I was like, oh my gosh,

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I don’t want to go against this.

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He’s so good.

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He’s always been so good.

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But it seems like it’s a

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really even matchup because again,

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Jonathan Cannon, first year,

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hasn’t finished a whole season yet.

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So that’ll be nice.

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And then Davis Martin and Robbie Ray,

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I feel like are kind of

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in this similar boat davis

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martin came back just from

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injury um so he’s kind of

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new to the season he hasn’t

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really pitched a lot and

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then garrett crochet is I

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guess the ace on this team

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so he’s certainly he’s

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certainly the one making

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headlines at least oh gosh

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yeah negative mostly but

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yes um I talked about every

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single person that’s been

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on this since that came out

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has been like so how did you feel

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I was like,

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you know what this it was like

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my Lucille Bluth moment of like,

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good for her, you know,

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but at the same time, yeah,

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that probably bit you in

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the butt a little.

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Yeah,

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it was it was a bold move on his part.

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And I absolutely get where

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he’s coming from.

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So again, like good,

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good for him for sort of

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taking a stand and having a

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very clear like set of

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expectations and sort of

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knowing his own value, but yeah,

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it’s a dicey move at the same time.

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It’s dicey when you’re

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coming from the White Sox

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and you’re the ace on the

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White Sox because that

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doesn’t translate well to anything.

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Right,

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not as strong a bargaining position

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as it could be.

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No, it’s a little tough,

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but I am excited to see

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Robbie Ray just because of

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the whole tight pants

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movement from like two seasons ago.

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Oh, and his pants are as tight as ever.

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So you will not be

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disappointed in that regard.

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Great.

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I’m going to stay awake for these games.

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9.45 my time.

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Yeah, that’s rough.

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I don’t I don’t miss living

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back east and trying to

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watch Giants games where

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it’s 10 o’clock before the

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games even start.

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And I’m like,

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trying to desperately to stay

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asleep or stay awake.

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Thankfully,

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my kids are pretty responsible.

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And like,

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because my son has to be up super early,

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his bus gets here at like 645.

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Oh, my gosh.

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I know.

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So thankfully, he’s typically responsible.

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And if he’s not and he oversleeps,

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he can walk to school in

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less than five minutes

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because it’s like basically

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across the street.

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And my daughter,

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she doesn’t have to be up

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until like eight.

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So the joys of having them

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in two different schools where all.

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Because, I mean,

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it’s broken up into like

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three different types,

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like the elementary and the

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middle school and high school.

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And they’re all on different times,

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of course.

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Of course, of course.

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Makes it so easy on mom.

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So I’ll just be a zombie in the morning.

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It’s okay.

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It’ll be fun.

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It’ll be brutal, but yeah.

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So with this Giants team,

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who would you think is the

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biggest threat to the White

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Sox right now?

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Oh, that’s an excellent question.

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I sort of have two answers there.

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And one is based more on

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just historical performance

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and one is based more on

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hysterical hot streak.

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Tyler Fitzgerald has hit 14

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home runs this season.

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13 of them have been since

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the beginning of July and

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12 of them have been in the past month.

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Oh, my God.

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So that’s an interesting…

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I’m not sure what’s happening there.

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And neither is anyone else, I don’t think.

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He is not somebody who was

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scouted as having a lot of

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power in the minors.

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He’s sort of a lanky middle infielder.

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Like, he’s tall, but he has that very…

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middle infielder, maybe center fielder,

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which is what he plays body type.

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So you don’t look at him and think,

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Oh yeah,

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he’s going to hit for a bunch of power.

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He was a guy who ran.

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He was a guy who he might

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have doubled and tripled,

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but it would be because he

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hit them into the gap and

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he could stretch them out.

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And all of a sudden he hit five home,

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hit a home run in five straight games.

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He had a couple of two home run games,

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like just absolutely bonkers.

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So yeah,

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We’ll see whether that continues.

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And then Matt Chapman is Matt Chapman.

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He’s been playing much more like himself.

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than he was at the start of the season.

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I think they set up during

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the broadcast last night.

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I want to, or yesterday afternoon,

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I want to say he’s hitting

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like three 20 over the past

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month or so month or two months.

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It’s like, I think since, since the break,

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give or take.

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So he’s,

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he’s back to being sort of the

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matchup menu expect and his

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defense has never changed.

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So he’s,

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he’s always liable to start

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stealing hits.

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Cause he just makes

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defensive plays that nobody

00:19:05.364 –> 00:19:05.903
else can make.

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louise robert finally woke

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up um in again it would

00:19:12.119 –> 00:19:13.059
have been two days ago at

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this point I think so we

00:19:16.843 –> 00:19:17.522
also have andrew been

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attendee I keep forgetting

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that that attendee is with

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the white socks I wish I

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could forget every day of

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my life and he’s here for

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like what feels like 10 more years oh no

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I mean, they’re no Matt Chapman,

00:19:37.451 –> 00:19:41.273
but it’s really

00:19:41.314 –> 00:19:42.234
embarrassing to be a White

00:19:42.255 –> 00:19:43.015
Sox fan right now.

00:19:45.496 –> 00:19:46.576
What are the keys for the

00:19:46.616 –> 00:19:48.478
Giants to win this series?

00:19:48.518 –> 00:19:49.077
Because again,

00:19:49.118 –> 00:19:51.619
the White Sox took one game

00:19:51.660 –> 00:19:52.921
from the Yankees and they

00:19:52.941 –> 00:19:53.941
took one game from the

00:19:54.080 –> 00:19:55.382
Astros that I was supposed

00:19:55.422 –> 00:19:57.583
to cover and went to a concert instead.

00:19:57.603 –> 00:19:58.624
Yeah.

00:20:01.307 –> 00:20:05.068
Oh, I mean, it is 100% please,

00:20:05.108 –> 00:20:05.788
for the love of God,

00:20:05.828 –> 00:20:07.210
hit with runners in scoring position.

00:20:07.670 –> 00:20:07.910
Like,

00:20:08.309 –> 00:20:15.873
that has been their bugaboo for forever,

00:20:16.012 –> 00:20:17.193
but particularly for the

00:20:17.213 –> 00:20:18.134
past couple of weeks.

00:20:18.273 –> 00:20:20.414
They lost two games in extra

00:20:20.454 –> 00:20:22.276
innings back-to-back by one

00:20:22.336 –> 00:20:24.477
run against the Braves

00:20:25.037 –> 00:20:27.478
because they just could not…

00:20:28.558 –> 00:20:30.000
get a runner over or get a

00:20:30.059 –> 00:20:31.320
runner in when they needed to.

00:20:31.682 –> 00:20:34.644
Like unproductive ground

00:20:34.703 –> 00:20:35.585
outs or strikeouts when

00:20:35.605 –> 00:20:36.566
they absolutely needed

00:20:36.766 –> 00:20:38.948
something to like move a runner over,

00:20:39.307 –> 00:20:40.890
like for the love of God, get a slack fly,

00:20:40.930 –> 00:20:41.871
like just couldn’t,

00:20:42.211 –> 00:20:42.991
couldn’t get it together.

00:20:44.333 –> 00:20:45.153
And then they got shut out

00:20:45.173 –> 00:20:46.314
by the A’s yesterday.

00:20:46.454 –> 00:20:48.215
So it’s definitely like,

00:20:49.217 –> 00:20:50.298
they don’t need to score a

00:20:50.438 –> 00:20:52.319
lot of runs because again,

00:20:52.380 –> 00:20:54.280
the pitching has been very good.

00:20:54.300 –> 00:20:54.721
Yeah.

00:20:56.112 –> 00:20:57.833
but they, they got to score some.

00:20:58.472 –> 00:20:59.794
And like,

00:20:59.854 –> 00:21:03.295
if they can get three runs or maybe four,

00:21:03.375 –> 00:21:05.875
if I’m feeling real greedy, reliably,

00:21:05.915 –> 00:21:06.817
they’re going to win the

00:21:06.936 –> 00:21:08.537
vast majority of those games.

00:21:08.636 –> 00:21:10.877
The pitching has been very, very,

00:21:10.938 –> 00:21:11.719
very solid.

00:21:12.459 –> 00:21:12.558
Um,

00:21:12.679 –> 00:21:15.079
and even when Robbie Ray like imploded

00:21:15.140 –> 00:21:15.700
the other night,

00:21:16.121 –> 00:21:18.481
I think they only gave up like, well, no,

00:21:18.561 –> 00:21:21.522
it melted down pretty badly, but, um,

00:21:23.196 –> 00:21:25.178
They, like, last night,

00:21:25.897 –> 00:21:29.180
Hayden Birdsong gave up two runs in,

00:21:29.299 –> 00:21:30.681
I think, four and a third,

00:21:30.721 –> 00:21:31.520
four and two thirds.

00:21:32.321 –> 00:21:33.382
And the bullpen gave up one

00:21:33.402 –> 00:21:34.343
more run the rest of the game.

00:21:35.943 –> 00:21:38.545
So they don’t need to score a lot,

00:21:38.565 –> 00:21:39.384
but they got to score more

00:21:39.404 –> 00:21:40.026
than they have.

00:21:40.205 –> 00:21:40.566
Yeah.

00:21:43.928 –> 00:21:45.268
I understand that sentiment.

00:21:45.407 –> 00:21:46.608
The White Sox,

00:21:46.648 –> 00:21:47.549
I think it was the second

00:21:47.589 –> 00:21:48.970
game against the Yankees.

00:21:49.009 –> 00:21:50.270
The Yankees kind of blew up

00:21:50.330 –> 00:21:51.912
offensively late in the game.

00:21:53.119 –> 00:21:54.942
And they had a chance to come back.

00:21:55.382 –> 00:21:57.865
They were, I think only down by three.

00:21:57.884 –> 00:21:59.486
We had the bases loaded with

00:22:00.686 –> 00:22:03.951
two outs in the ninth and

00:22:04.391 –> 00:22:07.394
Andrew Vaughn couldn’t put

00:22:07.453 –> 00:22:08.255
anything together.

00:22:08.275 –> 00:22:09.195
And I was like, we waste,

00:22:09.516 –> 00:22:11.178
they walked two players and it was like,

00:22:11.198 –> 00:22:15.000
we, they gave us two free passes.

00:22:16.162 –> 00:22:17.703
Was that a Clay Holmes meltdown?

00:22:19.801 –> 00:22:21.344
Maybe, maybe, yeah.

00:22:21.463 –> 00:22:24.605
It sounds like him lately, I had to ask.

00:22:24.946 –> 00:22:25.267
I think so.

00:22:25.287 –> 00:22:27.489
Because I missed most of those games.

00:22:27.749 –> 00:22:27.888
Oh.

00:22:29.651 –> 00:22:30.771
The one was really fun.

00:22:30.791 –> 00:22:34.434
Here’s Willow to cause trouble.

00:22:37.017 –> 00:22:37.897
So with that,

00:22:37.917 –> 00:22:39.779
do you have any fears aside

00:22:39.839 –> 00:22:41.340
from just not hitting with

00:22:41.421 –> 00:22:44.523
Risp while you head into this series?

00:22:44.544 –> 00:22:44.584
No.

00:22:45.842 –> 00:22:49.403
I mean, the fear is always, I think,

00:22:51.223 –> 00:22:51.983
with the Giants.

00:22:52.064 –> 00:22:54.845
And this may be teams in general.

00:22:54.924 –> 00:22:56.046
I just feel like it’s so

00:22:56.205 –> 00:22:57.746
particular to them at the same time.

00:22:58.267 –> 00:22:59.247
Pitchers that they are not

00:22:59.326 –> 00:23:01.087
familiar with can just

00:23:01.607 –> 00:23:05.009
befuddle them in the most

00:23:05.148 –> 00:23:06.650
absurd ways sometimes.

00:23:06.829 –> 00:23:08.609
So even aside from the not

00:23:08.650 –> 00:23:09.471
getting the hit when you

00:23:09.490 –> 00:23:12.011
really need it side of things, I

00:23:14.348 –> 00:23:15.630
just really not being able

00:23:15.670 –> 00:23:16.869
to put anything together

00:23:16.950 –> 00:23:19.050
against unfamiliar pitchers is always,

00:23:20.471 –> 00:23:21.353
always a concern.

00:23:21.573 –> 00:23:25.255
And then the Robbie Ray situation just can,

00:23:25.414 –> 00:23:26.914
you know, he hasn’t been consistent yet.

00:23:27.015 –> 00:23:28.236
Obviously he’s coming off a

00:23:28.336 –> 00:23:30.217
long layoff because of injury.

00:23:30.317 –> 00:23:31.136
So, you know,

00:23:31.238 –> 00:23:32.637
can he get it together a little bit?

00:23:32.778 –> 00:23:34.219
If for no other reason than

00:23:35.220 –> 00:23:36.220
the bullpen is going to die.

00:23:36.579 –> 00:23:38.820
If he doesn’t like take it away,

00:23:38.941 –> 00:23:39.961
there are so many innings.

00:23:41.567 –> 00:23:42.027
Yeah,

00:23:42.067 –> 00:23:43.949
that’s always brutal when you have to

00:23:44.009 –> 00:23:45.670
tax a bullpen that much,

00:23:45.730 –> 00:23:46.891
especially because he

00:23:46.911 –> 00:23:48.211
didn’t make it out of the

00:23:48.251 –> 00:23:50.452
first inning recently.

00:23:50.613 –> 00:23:51.513
That’s rough.

00:23:52.855 –> 00:23:54.175
Moving away from this series,

00:23:54.256 –> 00:23:58.239
I wanted to talk more MLB in general,

00:23:58.298 –> 00:23:59.239
because I know you’re also

00:23:59.298 –> 00:24:00.420
partial to the Yankees.

00:24:00.840 –> 00:24:01.320
I am.

00:24:02.561 –> 00:24:02.981
And, you know,

00:24:03.001 –> 00:24:03.863
just how you’re feeling

00:24:03.962 –> 00:24:06.124
overall with not even

00:24:06.183 –> 00:24:06.984
necessarily the Yankees,

00:24:07.025 –> 00:24:08.625
just the season in general,

00:24:08.685 –> 00:24:09.406
how you’re feeling,

00:24:09.507 –> 00:24:10.586
what your hot takes are,

00:24:10.626 –> 00:24:11.268
things like that.

00:24:13.277 –> 00:24:14.857
Honestly, I think it’s been interesting.

00:24:14.938 –> 00:24:16.239
It’s been more competitive

00:24:16.298 –> 00:24:18.240
in a lot of ways than I expected.

00:24:21.041 –> 00:24:23.163
I was just reading an

00:24:23.303 –> 00:24:24.804
article on MLB.com about

00:24:24.844 –> 00:24:28.205
Bobby Witt that I really like him a lot.

00:24:28.286 –> 00:24:29.366
And so it’s been nice to see

00:24:29.386 –> 00:24:32.929
the Royals be competitive.

00:24:34.630 –> 00:24:35.450
That’s not something I

00:24:35.509 –> 00:24:37.131
necessarily expected this year.

00:24:37.191 –> 00:24:38.211
So that’s been fun.

00:24:39.292 –> 00:24:40.773
Having the Dodgers not be

00:24:40.913 –> 00:24:42.275
absolute world beaters.

00:24:43.529 –> 00:24:45.310
certainly makes things more interesting.

00:24:45.550 –> 00:24:45.771
You know,

00:24:45.811 –> 00:24:47.173
the Padres are really nipping at

00:24:47.212 –> 00:24:47.673
their heels.

00:24:47.732 –> 00:24:51.675
So that’s been fun on just a

00:24:51.715 –> 00:24:52.435
competitive level,

00:24:52.455 –> 00:24:53.196
aside from the fact that I

00:24:53.416 –> 00:24:54.297
would love the Dodgers to

00:24:54.376 –> 00:24:55.218
absolutely shit the bed.

00:24:55.238 –> 00:24:56.439
Yeah.

00:24:57.640 –> 00:24:58.539
And yeah, I mean, I think it’s,

00:24:58.720 –> 00:25:02.942
it’s overall been a real

00:25:03.022 –> 00:25:06.285
like hot and cold in that

00:25:06.346 –> 00:25:07.967
sense that the teams that are bad are

00:25:10.086 –> 00:25:12.048
like apocalyptically bad,

00:25:12.587 –> 00:25:13.489
a handful of them,

00:25:14.490 –> 00:25:15.750
but everybody else is like

00:25:15.871 –> 00:25:17.112
a little more competitive

00:25:17.152 –> 00:25:17.872
and a little closer

00:25:17.912 –> 00:25:19.053
together than I expected.

00:25:21.315 –> 00:25:22.796
Yankees wise, they sort of,

00:25:24.336 –> 00:25:25.298
they are what they are

00:25:25.659 –> 00:25:26.980
always seem to be lately,

00:25:27.140 –> 00:25:27.779
which is that like,

00:25:27.799 –> 00:25:28.901
they’re a very good team

00:25:28.961 –> 00:25:30.803
that gives me agita.

00:25:31.262 –> 00:25:33.104
Like they just,

00:25:33.305 –> 00:25:34.925
they stress me out so badly and,

00:25:37.000 –> 00:25:40.463
And it feels bad to say that because,

00:25:40.503 –> 00:25:43.326
again, they’re a very, very good team.

00:25:43.666 –> 00:25:44.586
Like I’m complaining about a

00:25:44.627 –> 00:25:46.648
team that has Aaron Judge and Juan Soto.

00:25:46.689 –> 00:25:48.230
Like that just feels rude.

00:25:48.250 –> 00:25:50.652
But, you know,

00:25:50.712 –> 00:25:51.732
they stress me out a little bit.

00:25:51.833 –> 00:25:55.076
But I think as seems to always be the case,

00:25:55.135 –> 00:25:56.917
they have as good a chance of really,

00:25:56.978 –> 00:25:57.198
really

00:25:58.479 –> 00:25:59.679
finally actually putting it

00:25:59.699 –> 00:26:01.680
together and winning for real,

00:26:01.740 –> 00:26:03.221
for real as anybody does.

00:26:04.500 –> 00:26:05.681
So I guess we’ll see.

00:26:05.701 –> 00:26:07.281
We’ll see how that goes.

00:26:07.761 –> 00:26:09.442
It’s been fun to kind of

00:26:09.563 –> 00:26:11.583
watch the back and forth

00:26:11.803 –> 00:26:13.304
with the Yankees and the Orioles,

00:26:13.403 –> 00:26:14.144
because again,

00:26:15.044 –> 00:26:16.825
me sitting in the American league is like,

00:26:16.904 –> 00:26:20.685
I just hope both of them lose time.

00:26:20.786 –> 00:26:22.346
I’m just like, this is really fun.

00:26:22.366 –> 00:26:23.686
Yeah.

00:26:23.946 –> 00:26:26.708
And I can’t, I can’t actually hate the,

00:26:27.990 –> 00:26:29.672
most of their teams because

00:26:29.932 –> 00:26:31.414
I like so many players from

00:26:31.434 –> 00:26:32.095
both of those teams.

00:26:32.496 –> 00:26:32.695
Yeah.

00:26:32.736 –> 00:26:34.178
But it’s been fun to just

00:26:34.278 –> 00:26:35.940
kind of watch them back and forth,

00:26:35.960 –> 00:26:37.402
like siblings almost just

00:26:37.501 –> 00:26:39.404
fighting for like mom’s

00:26:39.464 –> 00:26:40.246
love and affection.

00:26:42.055 –> 00:26:44.136
That is what their kind of

00:26:44.196 –> 00:26:46.839
race has felt like all season long,

00:26:46.980 –> 00:26:48.361
even when the Yankees kind

00:26:48.381 –> 00:26:49.662
of went through a rough patch.

00:26:49.761 –> 00:26:51.723
And the Orioles can be a

00:26:51.944 –> 00:26:53.346
little hit or miss, but they’re still,

00:26:53.365 –> 00:26:54.326
I mean, the best.

00:26:56.067 –> 00:26:57.690
And then the stupid Guardians,

00:26:57.789 –> 00:26:58.270
but whatever.

00:26:58.290 –> 00:27:01.473
I don’t even want to talk about that.

00:27:02.478 –> 00:27:03.739
Someone asked me actually

00:27:03.778 –> 00:27:06.041
recently if I feel like the

00:27:06.102 –> 00:27:07.462
Guardian’s run is fake.

00:27:07.502 –> 00:27:10.886
And I’m like, no, sadly, I didn’t.

00:27:12.107 –> 00:27:12.607
I wish.

00:27:12.949 –> 00:27:14.589
They’ve got that power.

00:27:14.750 –> 00:27:16.332
They’ve always had that power.

00:27:16.432 –> 00:27:20.016
They’ve really honed in on it recently,

00:27:20.036 –> 00:27:21.596
to my dismay.

00:27:21.757 –> 00:27:21.917
Yeah.

00:27:22.987 –> 00:27:23.146
Yeah,

00:27:23.186 –> 00:27:24.587
I think your point about the Orioles

00:27:24.827 –> 00:27:25.888
is absolutely accurate.

00:27:26.509 –> 00:27:27.669
I also like them a lot,

00:27:27.750 –> 00:27:28.670
even when they are sort of

00:27:28.710 –> 00:27:29.711
a thorn in my side.

00:27:29.730 –> 00:27:32.412
I think they’ve got so many

00:27:32.451 –> 00:27:33.512
just like really fun

00:27:33.573 –> 00:27:35.614
players and the energy with

00:27:35.634 –> 00:27:36.693
the team is really fun.

00:27:37.213 –> 00:27:39.415
And it’s very funny with

00:27:39.435 –> 00:27:40.296
them and the Yankees

00:27:40.536 –> 00:27:42.217
because they’re so different,

00:27:42.396 –> 00:27:45.638
like just vibes-wise.

00:27:45.659 –> 00:27:47.160
They’re very different teams.

00:27:47.619 –> 00:27:49.500
And so, yeah, watching them play

00:27:50.413 –> 00:27:52.558
compete is very, very fun,

00:27:52.618 –> 00:27:53.781
even when it is stressful.

00:27:55.527 –> 00:27:56.890
And I would be, you know,

00:27:56.950 –> 00:27:58.935
if the Yankees don’t

00:27:59.965 –> 00:28:00.786
take it all the way,

00:28:00.806 –> 00:28:02.567
then I would be super happy

00:28:02.586 –> 00:28:03.327
for the Orioles.

00:28:04.948 –> 00:28:05.989
Like Adley Rutschman and

00:28:06.009 –> 00:28:07.108
Gunnar Henderson deserve

00:28:07.450 –> 00:28:09.951
the world as far as I’m concerned.

00:28:10.790 –> 00:28:11.932
We’ve spent probably

00:28:11.971 –> 00:28:12.991
countless hours just

00:28:13.271 –> 00:28:15.232
praising Adley in the past anyway.

00:28:15.252 –> 00:28:18.454
That MLB shop commercial

00:28:18.535 –> 00:28:19.556
came out last year.

00:28:19.576 –> 00:28:24.157
It was just a group chat of

00:28:24.258 –> 00:28:26.078
us sending tweets about

00:28:26.138 –> 00:28:27.118
Adley Rutschman back and

00:28:27.159 –> 00:28:28.559
forth for days on end.

00:28:29.240 –> 00:28:30.401
It was the MLB shop

00:28:30.441 –> 00:28:31.582
commercial and then the

00:28:31.922 –> 00:28:34.143
video of him working out

00:28:34.223 –> 00:28:35.463
and just constantly quoting,

00:28:35.503 –> 00:28:36.424
I think you should leave.

00:28:36.785 –> 00:28:37.105
Yes.

00:28:37.405 –> 00:28:37.746
Yes.

00:28:38.746 –> 00:28:39.946
Like right at the same time.

00:28:41.748 –> 00:28:42.568
It was like right after the

00:28:42.628 –> 00:28:43.630
newest season came out and

00:28:43.650 –> 00:28:44.670
that’s all he was doing.

00:28:44.710 –> 00:28:46.270
And people were just so confused.

00:28:47.711 –> 00:28:48.113
I love it.

00:28:48.133 –> 00:28:49.413
That’s all I do is quote that.

00:28:49.492 –> 00:28:50.473
I think that’s one of my

00:28:50.513 –> 00:28:51.434
only personalities.

00:28:51.454 –> 00:28:52.434
Yeah.

00:28:54.005 –> 00:28:54.805
But it’s funny that you said

00:28:54.845 –> 00:28:56.246
that because I’ve always viewed,

00:28:56.266 –> 00:28:57.166
and this is not even a

00:28:57.247 –> 00:28:58.826
negative thing because I’m

00:28:58.846 –> 00:29:00.008
a big Star Wars nerd.

00:29:00.428 –> 00:29:01.269
And I’ve always kind of

00:29:01.328 –> 00:29:02.689
viewed the Yankees as like

00:29:02.729 –> 00:29:05.069
the serious stormtroopers.

00:29:05.611 –> 00:29:08.152
You’ve got these serious dudes that are,

00:29:09.813 –> 00:29:11.413
well, stormtroopers aren’t lethal.

00:29:11.432 –> 00:29:12.794
They can’t like actually hit anything.

00:29:12.834 –> 00:29:14.174
But like you think of the

00:29:14.194 –> 00:29:15.674
stormtroopers as these like scary,

00:29:15.714 –> 00:29:16.476
serious people.

00:29:16.556 –> 00:29:17.276
And then you’ve got the

00:29:17.355 –> 00:29:18.116
Orioles that are kind of

00:29:18.136 –> 00:29:20.738
like the Ewoks who are really cute.

00:29:21.339 –> 00:29:23.301
They’re like adorable, slightly dangerous.

00:29:23.342 –> 00:29:24.723
Like you can’t fully trust them,

00:29:24.743 –> 00:29:26.306
but like they’re this,

00:29:26.566 –> 00:29:27.207
they put on this like

00:29:27.247 –> 00:29:29.388
little cutesy show and you’re like, oh,

00:29:29.449 –> 00:29:30.150
I love them.

00:29:30.250 –> 00:29:33.294
And then they like decimate your team.

00:29:33.993 –> 00:29:34.394
So that’s,

00:29:34.595 –> 00:29:35.876
that’s just how I view them in

00:29:36.517 –> 00:29:39.140
my little closed off Star Wars universe.

00:29:40.275 –> 00:29:41.715
I think that’s very accurate.

00:29:41.796 –> 00:29:43.017
And I’ve, and I’ve said before,

00:29:43.037 –> 00:29:44.419
I think the Yankees are at

00:29:44.459 –> 00:29:45.479
their best when they accept

00:29:45.499 –> 00:29:46.579
that they are the evil empire.

00:29:46.779 –> 00:29:47.580
Yeah, exactly.

00:29:47.601 –> 00:29:48.922
Like they’re at the best

00:29:49.321 –> 00:29:51.644
when they walk into a game,

00:29:51.844 –> 00:29:53.424
like we’re the Yankees.

00:29:53.925 –> 00:29:55.467
Obviously we’re going to win this game.

00:29:56.067 –> 00:29:56.208
Yeah.

00:29:56.228 –> 00:29:57.127
Who do you think you are?

00:29:57.469 –> 00:30:00.651
They are like the Cowboys

00:30:00.691 –> 00:30:01.531
are America’s team.

00:30:01.571 –> 00:30:03.292
The Yankees are America’s team, but good.

00:30:03.313 –> 00:30:04.614
Right.

00:30:04.693 –> 00:30:04.953
Right.

00:30:05.535 –> 00:30:06.134
Oh my God.

00:30:10.252 –> 00:30:11.973
My dad’s a Cowboys fan, alas.

00:30:13.955 –> 00:30:15.237
But I think the thing with the Yankees,

00:30:15.277 –> 00:30:15.477
too,

00:30:15.596 –> 00:30:21.122
is that they are at their best when

00:30:21.142 –> 00:30:22.603
they accept that they’re the evil empire,

00:30:22.643 –> 00:30:23.683
but also at the same time,

00:30:24.423 –> 00:30:25.704
on an individual level,

00:30:25.744 –> 00:30:26.566
they don’t have to be.

00:30:26.665 –> 00:30:28.307
And I think finding that

00:30:28.406 –> 00:30:30.128
balance when they don’t

00:30:30.189 –> 00:30:31.349
have to not have their

00:30:31.390 –> 00:30:33.672
individual personalities, they can be…

00:30:34.980 –> 00:30:35.721
who they are.

00:30:35.820 –> 00:30:38.782
Like Alex Radugo is not a

00:30:38.823 –> 00:30:40.345
typical Yankees personality.

00:30:40.484 –> 00:30:44.288
And he surprisingly has fit in,

00:30:44.327 –> 00:30:45.288
in that clubhouse really

00:30:45.328 –> 00:30:46.209
well by all accounts.

00:30:48.330 –> 00:30:49.652
He and Aaron judge and Juan

00:30:49.672 –> 00:30:51.314
Soto are very different people.

00:30:51.554 –> 00:30:51.834
Yeah.

00:30:52.294 –> 00:30:54.957
And again, when,

00:30:55.136 –> 00:30:56.057
when they’re really firing

00:30:56.097 –> 00:30:56.978
on all cylinders and when

00:30:56.998 –> 00:30:57.878
they’re really playing well

00:30:57.959 –> 00:30:59.059
is when they’ve all got

00:30:59.079 –> 00:31:01.362
that attitude of like, we’re the Yankees.

00:31:01.402 –> 00:31:02.303
Who do you think you are?

00:31:03.726 –> 00:31:05.951
And, but still being themselves,

00:31:06.071 –> 00:31:08.298
I think is when it’s when

00:31:08.317 –> 00:31:09.220
they’re the happiest it’s

00:31:09.259 –> 00:31:10.323
when they play the best.

00:31:11.334 –> 00:31:12.474
It’s funny with all those

00:31:12.515 –> 00:31:13.654
personalities because they

00:31:13.674 –> 00:31:15.516
are all really likable people.

00:31:15.796 –> 00:31:18.416
I mean, I think they’re all goofy.

00:31:18.436 –> 00:31:21.377
And then when you add Jazz into the mix,

00:31:21.959 –> 00:31:22.398
he’s injured.

00:31:22.419 –> 00:31:23.739
But when you add him into the mix,

00:31:23.778 –> 00:31:25.000
you’ve got a bunch of just

00:31:25.720 –> 00:31:29.241
on the surface really goofy, funny guys.

00:31:29.461 –> 00:31:31.563
And then Garrett Cole is hilarious.

00:31:31.682 –> 00:31:32.982
Garrett Cole is hilarious.

00:31:33.483 –> 00:31:35.944
Whether he intends to be or not, he is…

00:31:36.525 –> 00:31:38.968
hilarious he has my favorite

00:31:38.988 –> 00:31:41.470
just kind of deadpan humor

00:31:41.609 –> 00:31:42.631
especially when he’s like

00:31:42.711 –> 00:31:43.952
making fun of reporters

00:31:43.992 –> 00:31:45.554
they ask dumb questions I

00:31:45.574 –> 00:31:47.957
mean I’ll never forget those clips but

00:31:48.564 –> 00:31:50.085
you have a bunch of really

00:31:50.464 –> 00:31:52.465
funny really likable guys

00:31:52.506 –> 00:31:53.727
so it’s so wild that the

00:31:53.767 –> 00:31:54.887
yankees are this evil

00:31:54.988 –> 00:31:57.308
empire right then you watch

00:31:57.348 –> 00:31:59.029
videos of aaron judge with

00:31:59.089 –> 00:32:00.490
gus on the field running

00:32:00.530 –> 00:32:02.251
around right this is the

00:32:02.332 –> 00:32:03.772
cutest thing in the world

00:32:03.792 –> 00:32:06.454
right the the largest man

00:32:06.535 –> 00:32:07.934
in baseball running around

00:32:07.974 –> 00:32:09.455
with his tiny dogs teeny

00:32:09.496 –> 00:32:10.836
tiny dog that’s not even as

00:32:10.896 –> 00:32:11.738
big as his foot

00:32:12.397 –> 00:32:14.318
right like you’re just

00:32:14.398 –> 00:32:15.798
obsessed and it’s so cute

00:32:15.818 –> 00:32:16.960
and you’re like how you

00:32:16.980 –> 00:32:18.339
can’t you can’t actually

00:32:18.400 –> 00:32:19.820
hate these guys maybe you

00:32:19.840 –> 00:32:20.861
can hate like the front

00:32:20.961 –> 00:32:23.962
office but you can’t I

00:32:23.982 –> 00:32:25.262
struggle with hating them

00:32:25.583 –> 00:32:27.324
the team as an entity is

00:32:27.503 –> 00:32:28.624
one thing the individual

00:32:28.683 –> 00:32:29.484
players are a very

00:32:29.545 –> 00:32:30.765
different thing at this

00:32:30.785 –> 00:32:33.266
stage I think um you know

00:32:33.346 –> 00:32:34.186
when it was like alex

00:32:34.207 –> 00:32:35.606
rodriguez and derek cheater

00:32:36.748 –> 00:32:37.347
that was easier

00:32:37.869 –> 00:32:38.250
Right.

00:32:38.570 –> 00:32:41.373
Like that as an, as an opposing fan,

00:32:41.452 –> 00:32:42.374
it’s much easier to look at

00:32:42.394 –> 00:32:43.915
them and be like these guys

00:32:44.336 –> 00:32:45.717
and be sort of over it.

00:32:45.797 –> 00:32:47.499
But, but yeah, like you said,

00:32:47.558 –> 00:32:48.519
Aaron judge and his tiny

00:32:48.559 –> 00:32:49.760
dogs and Garrett Cole being

00:32:49.800 –> 00:32:52.583
just a total goober, you know,

00:32:52.603 –> 00:32:53.223
jazz and Alex,

00:32:53.243 –> 00:32:54.565
but you go having very much

00:32:54.605 –> 00:32:55.286
their own energy.

00:32:57.190 –> 00:32:58.892
Luke Weaver who is sneakily

00:32:59.451 –> 00:33:00.613
one of the weirdest

00:33:00.813 –> 00:33:03.153
funniest dudes like his

00:33:03.233 –> 00:33:04.694
interviews are consistently

00:33:05.175 –> 00:33:08.678
unbelievably funny yeah

00:33:08.738 –> 00:33:10.098
it’s just like it’s a

00:33:10.138 –> 00:33:14.622
really fun bunch I enjoy

00:33:14.721 –> 00:33:17.723
all of them and it is an

00:33:17.784 –> 00:33:19.005
interesting sort of balance

00:33:19.065 –> 00:33:20.625
that way though and I

00:33:20.826 –> 00:33:21.826
personally just love

00:33:22.047 –> 00:33:24.067
watching Juan Soto crush a

00:33:24.087 –> 00:33:25.689
ball like that’s

00:33:27.298 –> 00:33:29.121
I wish that everyone could

00:33:29.141 –> 00:33:32.163
have a Juan Soto because he’s so good.

00:33:32.703 –> 00:33:34.805
When everyone is playing well,

00:33:35.425 –> 00:33:37.528
having Aaron Judge, Juan Soto,

00:33:37.688 –> 00:33:40.470
and Giancarlo Stanton like

00:33:40.829 –> 00:33:41.631
all together is

00:33:43.952 –> 00:33:47.076
otherworldly fun and also terrifying.

00:33:47.096 –> 00:33:47.175
Like,

00:33:49.357 –> 00:33:50.499
the thing that I love about

00:33:50.519 –> 00:33:53.240
the three of them is um I

00:33:53.279 –> 00:33:53.961
want to say the three of

00:33:53.980 –> 00:33:54.881
them all hit a home run in

00:33:54.901 –> 00:33:56.382
the same game recently if

00:33:56.442 –> 00:33:57.423
it wasn’t in the same game

00:33:57.482 –> 00:33:58.943
it was like back-to-back

00:33:59.044 –> 00:34:00.724
games for yeah I think

00:34:00.744 –> 00:34:03.346
you’re right um but they

00:34:03.385 –> 00:34:04.707
hit very different home

00:34:04.747 –> 00:34:08.088
runs which I love uh aaron

00:34:08.128 –> 00:34:09.710
judge hits these like very

00:34:09.909 –> 00:34:15.072
majestic like rainbow arc

00:34:16.041 –> 00:34:17.903
moonshot kind of home runs

00:34:17.943 –> 00:34:19.664
that are just like the the

00:34:19.804 –> 00:34:21.266
aesthetic ideal of like

00:34:21.347 –> 00:34:23.007
what you want a home run to look like.

00:34:23.949 –> 00:34:27.391
And Stanton and to a lesser degree,

00:34:27.652 –> 00:34:30.635
Juan Soto hit like angry home runs.

00:34:32.539 –> 00:34:34.382
Stanton hits line drives

00:34:34.521 –> 00:34:37.023
that somehow go 500 feet.

00:34:37.302 –> 00:34:38.304
There is no height.

00:34:38.443 –> 00:34:39.384
There is no arc.

00:34:39.864 –> 00:34:42.867
It’s a laser that just

00:34:42.947 –> 00:34:44.867
shoots over everyone’s

00:34:44.907 –> 00:34:46.748
heads and lands in the stands.

00:34:47.349 –> 00:34:48.269
And it’s so much fun to

00:34:48.309 –> 00:34:50.271
watch them together.

00:34:55.954 –> 00:34:59.016
So, and Aaron Judge, back to him,

00:34:59.115 –> 00:35:00.456
he did just hit his

00:35:01.048 –> 00:35:03.349
300th career home run he did

00:35:03.369 –> 00:35:06.090
uh becoming honestly

00:35:06.110 –> 00:35:06.871
probably the best player in

00:35:06.891 –> 00:35:08.391
the game fastest to get

00:35:08.431 –> 00:35:10.132
there he hit that in

00:35:10.172 –> 00:35:15.235
chicago he did he did I we

00:35:15.255 –> 00:35:16.335
there were a couple people

00:35:16.655 –> 00:35:17.996
um kind of from the south

00:35:18.016 –> 00:35:18.936
side socks world that were

00:35:18.976 –> 00:35:21.217
in slack and they went to that game um

00:35:24.079 –> 00:35:24.278
I mean,

00:35:24.298 –> 00:35:25.980
they also gave away this incredible

00:35:27.079 –> 00:35:28.501
jersey for, like,

00:35:28.940 –> 00:35:30.320
Black History Night kind of thing.

00:35:32.001 –> 00:35:34.302
But they were at that game,

00:35:34.322 –> 00:35:36.844
and they did not think that Aaron judged.

00:35:36.943 –> 00:35:39.164
They were honestly there to see it happen.

00:35:39.985 –> 00:35:40.764
They didn’t think he was

00:35:40.784 –> 00:35:42.585
going to have another opportunity to bat,

00:35:42.786 –> 00:35:43.646
so they left.

00:35:44.547 –> 00:35:45.487
Oh, no!

00:35:46.286 –> 00:35:51.048
And then they say something in the Slack,

00:35:51.148 –> 00:35:52.610
and I was like, tell me you guys…

00:35:53.507 –> 00:35:54.646
stayed because they left

00:35:54.666 –> 00:35:55.748
like maybe 10 minutes

00:35:55.807 –> 00:35:58.867
before oh no please tell me

00:35:58.887 –> 00:36:00.789
you guys at least got to

00:36:00.889 –> 00:36:02.188
see that home run they’re

00:36:02.208 –> 00:36:03.608
like nope we didn’t think

00:36:03.648 –> 00:36:04.489
he was gonna have another

00:36:04.548 –> 00:36:07.329
at bat and I was like oh no

00:36:07.349 –> 00:36:09.030
that’s brutal that’s brutal

00:36:09.771 –> 00:36:10.771
oh I would have paid to

00:36:10.811 –> 00:36:13.771
watch that and right sucks

00:36:13.791 –> 00:36:15.952
oh my gosh yeah he’s been

00:36:16.012 –> 00:36:17.072
impressive the last time I

00:36:17.132 –> 00:36:18.813
saw the yankees in person um

00:36:21.143 –> 00:36:23.625
was when Judge was out with

00:36:23.664 –> 00:36:25.186
the toe injury last season.

00:36:26.085 –> 00:36:27.987
There was no Juan Soto yet there.

00:36:28.686 –> 00:36:32.088
And Stanton was having a pretty bad year.

00:36:32.108 –> 00:36:33.730
Yeah,

00:36:33.829 –> 00:36:35.309
it was grim there for a little while.

00:36:35.449 –> 00:36:36.751
Yeah.

00:36:36.831 –> 00:36:38.092
And they were playing the Royals,

00:36:38.132 –> 00:36:40.572
who were not good yet because, again,

00:36:40.592 –> 00:36:41.532
this was last season.

00:36:41.552 –> 00:36:42.213
Right.

00:36:42.653 –> 00:36:43.434
So now I’m just like,

00:36:43.474 –> 00:36:44.253
if I could have just

00:36:44.635 –> 00:36:46.175
revisited that this year

00:36:46.235 –> 00:36:47.755
and watched those two teams play,

00:36:47.775 –> 00:36:48.356
that would have been a

00:36:48.396 –> 00:36:49.717
really bad air game.

00:36:50.898 –> 00:36:53.320
Alas, I was a year early.

00:36:54.802 –> 00:36:55.782
The Giants came to San

00:36:55.822 –> 00:36:57.324
Francisco early this season.

00:36:57.545 –> 00:36:59.967
And so, of course, I went because it was,

00:37:00.007 –> 00:37:01.188
like, perfect.

00:37:02.148 –> 00:37:04.731
And Aaron Judd

00:37:04.791 –> 00:37:06.373
single-handedly dismantled

00:37:06.393 –> 00:37:09.436
the Giants so badly.

00:37:09.456 –> 00:37:12.577
And I’m, like, I’m sitting there, like,

00:37:12.719 –> 00:37:15.081
in Giants gear, obviously, like…

00:37:16.773 –> 00:37:17.614
But trying,

00:37:17.755 –> 00:37:18.635
I’m sitting there with one of

00:37:18.655 –> 00:37:19.516
my best friends and I’m

00:37:19.536 –> 00:37:21.719
like trying not to just

00:37:23.199 –> 00:37:24.742
burst out laughing because

00:37:24.842 –> 00:37:28.945
he is just manhandling them so badly.

00:37:29.445 –> 00:37:29.686
Again,

00:37:29.806 –> 00:37:34.110
purely on his own and trying not to

00:37:34.150 –> 00:37:35.891
just like make myself the

00:37:36.012 –> 00:37:37.813
enemy of everyone sitting

00:37:37.873 –> 00:37:39.655
around me as they’re like

00:37:39.875 –> 00:37:41.036
grumbling and can’t believe

00:37:41.056 –> 00:37:41.737
they’re watching this.

00:37:43.177 –> 00:37:43.396
Yeah,

00:37:43.536 –> 00:37:47.418
Juan Soto dismantled the White Sox in

00:37:47.438 –> 00:37:48.358
that series.

00:37:48.838 –> 00:37:49.777
He was even great in the

00:37:49.818 –> 00:37:51.157
game that the White Sox did win.

00:37:51.797 –> 00:37:52.978
I think he hit like three

00:37:52.998 –> 00:37:53.958
home runs in one game.

00:37:53.978 –> 00:37:59.800
I think he was like the solo

00:38:00.719 –> 00:38:02.019
home run hitter for one of the games.

00:38:02.820 –> 00:38:03.239
And they won.

00:38:03.260 –> 00:38:04.581
Oh my gosh.

00:38:05.320 –> 00:38:06.400
So that’s where we’re at with that.

00:38:06.820 –> 00:38:09.081
Anyway, that’s what I’ve got for you.

00:38:09.121 –> 00:38:12.101
I won’t get into being a depressing…

00:38:13.168 –> 00:38:15.128
fan or a team of a fan of a

00:38:15.168 –> 00:38:16.009
depressing team.

00:38:16.849 –> 00:38:17.610
Words are hard.

00:38:19.630 –> 00:38:22.072
But yeah, so again, thank you so much.

00:38:22.172 –> 00:38:23.733
Please just remind people

00:38:23.773 –> 00:38:24.733
where they can find you.

00:38:25.574 –> 00:38:25.934
Yeah,

00:38:26.034 –> 00:38:28.534
you can find me on casual diehard

00:38:28.574 –> 00:38:29.554
just about every week.

00:38:30.036 –> 00:38:31.556
You can find us wherever

00:38:31.615 –> 00:38:32.876
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00:38:32.956 –> 00:38:34.677
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00:38:42.878 –> 00:38:45.498
And you’ll,

00:38:45.760 –> 00:38:47.039
you’ll hear all you want about

00:38:47.440 –> 00:38:49.679
baseball and racing and who

00:38:49.719 –> 00:38:50.721
knows what else in between.

00:38:51.380 –> 00:38:52.320
That’s also where you find

00:38:52.340 –> 00:38:53.181
Doug out of history.

00:38:53.380 –> 00:38:55.902
So if you don’t know already,

00:38:55.981 –> 00:38:57.081
then you’re failing me.

00:39:00.182 –> 00:39:00.483
Yes.

00:39:01.103 –> 00:39:02.342
Listen to all of the good

00:39:02.824 –> 00:39:03.523
stuff over there.

00:39:03.543 –> 00:39:04.364
All right.

00:39:04.384 –> 00:39:04.884
Well, thank you.

00:39:05.184 –> 00:39:07.184
Best of luck in this series.

00:39:07.244 –> 00:39:08.284
This actually might.

00:39:09.260 –> 00:39:10.643
be an interesting one for a

00:39:10.702 –> 00:39:12.264
change I think it actually

00:39:12.304 –> 00:39:14.206
could be so all right maybe

00:39:14.226 –> 00:39:15.608
a pelican will land again

00:39:16.409 –> 00:39:17.349
and play defense for the

00:39:17.389 –> 00:39:20.072
white socks who knows all

00:39:20.112 –> 00:39:21.135
right well good talking to

00:39:21.175 –> 00:39:22.115
you I’ll see you later

00:39:22.635 –> 00:39:23.998
sounds good thanks bye