Episode 29: Justin Toscano (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Mariners Bullpen Might Be Great Again, And Voicemails

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number twenty nine of the Marine Layer Podcast with TJ. Matthewson and Lyle Goldstein. On today's pod, we'll have on Justin Tiscano of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. A fellow graduate of Arizona State University, he covers the Braves for the AJC, their beat writer every day he's around them. He gives a great breakdown of the upcoming series this weekend, and hey, we're able to share a few memories down in the desert as well. We have our three Mariners storylines of the week. And for the first time ever, we have a voicemail segment on this podcast. Yes, we now have a voicemail line. We get to hear a few of your thoughts here on this upcoming episode. We'll get into a little bit more of that detail of how you can get in on that. When we get to that segment, we'll take a look down on the farm to look at our standout prospect of the week in the Mariners Minor League system. We have another Russell Wilson Umpire of the week, and we close out the show we speak your mind. 00:00:56 Speaker 2: Before we start the show, quick little word from our sponsors in the Clutch Clubs. In the Clutch Clothing Company is an official partner of the Marine Layer Podcast. In the Clutch is the ultimate fan site for Seattle Baseball merchandise, including the Celebration Trident, official MLBPA shirts for j Rod, Jared Kellnick, cal Riley, and Los Bombarrows. I've got my Jared kellnickshirt coming in the mail. TJ has his Lost Bombarrow shirt in the mail. These shirts are awesome. We can't wait to get them. We can't wait to wear them around. I can't wait to wear them around at the ballpark. It's going to be great. So use the code marine Layer Pod at indclutch dot com for ten percent off and currently every shirt on their website ships within the US for free. 00:01:36 Speaker 1: All right, let's get it rolling, and we welcome you onto this episode of Marine Layer Podcast, recording here on a Monday, May fifteen. Wild. Did you remember what to do on a weekend that you didn't spend at the ballpark? 00:02:00 Speaker 3: Sped it at the ballpark? 00:02:04 Speaker 1: We're oh, yes, yes, different ballpark. Different ballpark. Had had a bit of a mental lapse, But you did have some fun going down to Tacoma this weekend and seeing some of the all time greats down there, like Mike Ford. Are they is his statue ready yet? 00:02:18 Speaker 2: I think they have to start building it. I mean, he hit a bomb on Friday when I was there, crowd goes nuts. I mean it was it was a no doubt or too. 00:02:27 Speaker 3: But yeah. 00:02:27 Speaker 2: So our buddy Jeremy, like we've talked about, works in the Mariners organization. He's with Tacoma this season and this weekend schedules worked out. I had a chance to go hang out with him for the weekend, stay with him, and while we were at it, went to catch a couple of the Rainiers games. So what do I do when the Mariners are on the road, Well, I still go to more Mariners affiliated baseball So I can't get enough of it. 00:02:48 Speaker 1: Well, I'm glad you kept me in chick there. Actually thought you had put you had the potential to have a life, just potentially. But but I guess you managed to find just another baseball niche to go find. 00:03:00 Speaker 2: Now you might say the Mariners are on the road again this weekend, Lyle, I'm sure this weekend you're gonna find some other things to do. 00:03:06 Speaker 1: Socialize. Are you gonna go socialize? 00:03:09 Speaker 3: Wow? 00:03:09 Speaker 1: Go hang out with some friends. 00:03:11 Speaker 3: The Aqua Sox are in town. 00:03:13 Speaker 2: Oh, I think all serious as I am gonna go down to see the Aqua Sox and Everet this weekend. But that's only one day and that's a twenty five minute drive, so that'd just be a day thing. Yes, I will plan to socialize this week, but I will still try to get some content in here for the pod. 00:03:29 Speaker 1: That's good. We like a healthy work life balance. 00:03:32 Speaker 3: We do love a healthy work life balance. 00:03:34 Speaker 1: We me and you have been to that Have you been to that park since we last went when we went for the first time. 00:03:41 Speaker 2: I'm trying to think if I have, it might be it might have been since. Yeah, our summer after our freshman year, when we were interns with a local college baseball team broadcasting games and there was a couple of games at Funco Field. I think that was the last time I was there. 00:03:55 Speaker 1: I think so too. The only thing I remember about Everett. If you're a native of Everett and you listen to this podcast, please reply to our episode and tell us what else there is an ever ittt. The only thing I remember about Everett, going there just a handful of times, is the Dutch Bros. I think that's it. Dutch Bros. And Evertt Memorial Stadium. That's pretty much it. 00:04:14 Speaker 2: That's all I got, But that might be all I need this weekend. Go get a chocolate milk, which, by the way, yes, Dutch Bros. Is a coffee place, but their chocolate milks are absolutely insane. If you haven't tried them, you legitimately have to try them. I had so many of them our freshman year school because there was a bunch of Dutch Bros. In Arizona and I just couldn't stop ordering those three four dollars chocolate milks. They were unreal. And now that I'm going to be an Evert, I might have to stop over. 00:04:39 Speaker 1: That's just so funny though, thinking back to our time at Everett Memorial, remember the opposing coach yelling at us in the press box, wondering what we were doing up there, And then we were sharing the same room with the PA announcers, like, hey, guys, like between innings, could you just not talk because I have to listen to you guys talk during the innings, So like when the innings concluded, just don't talk. And we're like a nineteen year old us were like, uh sure, yeah, of course, I don't think. 00:05:10 Speaker 2: There was a lot of broadcast interns in that league. And I say, I think now I know we were the only team with broadcasters in that league because people didn't seem very prone to having other broadcasters around. 00:05:20 Speaker 3: They didn't even seem to like know what in the world was going on. 00:05:23 Speaker 1: No, And I think that also led to some very interesting setups that we'd have because well, no one would know that we were coming. But good times. We could probably start a podcast about our time in the Pacific International League, because there's definitely some stories. But regardless, we can save those for another time. Let's get to our three Mariners storylines of the week. Okay, up first, up, lyle more of a general observation, now that we're about a month and a half into the Major League baseball season, we have a bit, we have a decent sample size on this Mariner's bullpen, and it seems, again, well, maybe this group could regress a little bit over the course of the season and might not be the best bullpen in baseball. Right now, they're bitching like probably the best bullpen in baseball, with half of it being completely new. Guys. Jerry did it again with this Mariner's bullpen. 00:06:15 Speaker 3: Can I throw a lukewarm take out here? 00:06:19 Speaker 1: Go for it. 00:06:21 Speaker 2: I'm looking up and down this bullpen. Of the three years that the Mariners have had a lead bullpens, I legitimately think this has a chance to be the best one. From how it's started and now how it's going here in mid May, I think this can be the best one. This bullpen currently is the best in baseball by f war their first fifth, their first x FIP, their first They've given up the least amount of home runs of any bullpen in baseball. They're giving up less than half a home run per nine innings, so their home run per nine rate zero point four to six. These guys are dominating, Like every single one of these guys is dominating. There is no weak spot in this bullpen right now. 00:07:04 Speaker 1: Oh and by the way, they are a missing their best reliever, a guy we tabbed as a top five reliever in baseball, Andres Munos has pitched all of three innings this year. And second, they're essentially pitching a man short every night because Chris Flexen still occupies a spot on the twenty six man roster as an emergency starter and he sits in the bullpen instead. So think about that. They are down their best reliever and they're down essentially a bullpen roster spot, and still manage to produce at these kinds of levels which we've now been so accustomed to seeing. But it's just the faces change, the results don't year to year. 00:07:44 Speaker 2: In twenty twenty one, the big three were Casey Sadler, Paul Seawall, Drew Steckenrider. Twenty twenty two, the Big three Andres Muno's Matt Brash Paul Sewall. Seawall has been a key cog again. I mean, he's been the most consistent guy through all of this, and the fact he's doing it three years in a row is pretty incredible. 00:08:02 Speaker 3: But just take a. 00:08:03 Speaker 2: Look at some of these guys. I mean, justin Topa in a small trade with the brewers, he gives up no hard contact. Nobody's getting hits off him. He doesn't even need a high strikeout rate. He's got a one zero six CRA What a dog. Gabe Spire Dog He was a waiver claimed by the Marriagers. They picked him up after Kansas City let him go. Gabe Spires in the one hundredth percentile in baseball in chase rate, everybody goes after that guy's offerings and swings at him. His walk rates under four percent, deceptive Lefty one eighty four era absolute dog, Trevor Gott Hitters aren't picking up extra base hits against him, Cutter's nasty ninety eighth percentile and barrel rate absolute dog. All these guys were totally new faces, picked up off the street by Topoto, and now they're dominating. It is ridiculous how good Jerry is at evaluating these. 00:08:58 Speaker 1: Arms and Salsado's been pretty decent as well, stepping in in a replacement role for guys who have been injured and who have sent down. I mean, here's just some guys who have who are not on the on the roster right now, who are on the roster to begin the season in that bullpen. Penn Murphy is on the injured list, Matt Festa and Diego Castillo are into Cooma. My question is how I I don't see how those guys reclaim spots on this roster with this this current group of guys. When we saw Festi go down, we were pretty certain, Okay, he's coming back up at some point because he's still got pretty good stuff and they just want him to throw more strikes. Who are you taking off the roster now? If you're keeping Chris Flexen. 00:09:38 Speaker 2: That's another conversation than itself. So first off, to your point, you're right, I don't know how Fester Castillo get back up at this point, and I don't know how much longer Flexen is going to be keeping a spot because keep this in mind, this group's been so good right well, when Munnos gets back, obviously he's getting a spot on the roster. Somebody's got to go. When Penn Murphy gets back, who, by the way, with a sub to era Savant page looks pretty good, was incredible before he got hurt, He's getting his spot back when he's healthy. 00:10:08 Speaker 3: And they keep. 00:10:08 Speaker 2: Talking about pre Lander Burrow is not far away, I mean, and that is gonna be a weapon in itself when he gets up. We saw it in spring training. There are not a lot of rooms, not a lot of room for guys to get their spots back, and there's not gonna be a lot of room for flexing all of a sudden when everybody gets back healthy and is ready, Broa. 00:10:28 Speaker 1: Pushed to the bullpen just this week. I mean, it had him start to start this season, but as soon as the guy shifts to the bullpen, we saw this. I mean, it just feels like DejaVu. With Edwin Diaz, the dude gets flipped to a bullpen roll and he's in the big leagues within two months or I think it was actually less than that with Edwin. Was it less? 00:10:46 Speaker 3: It was pretty short? 00:10:48 Speaker 1: It was, Yeah, it was pretty short. They realized, oh, well he's thrown one hundred and two miles an hour. Yeah he's he's on this roster and yeah, Perlander and his outings out of the bullpen, he's up to ninety nine with a devastating slider. Is It's right out of the Mariner's bullpen book. So he's got to like he's gonna get an opportunity. This year, they're really running out of roster spots to get guys looks on the mound because it doesn't really seem to matter where, like if it's in the rotation or if it's in the bullpen, whatever. Guys they have really gotten their hands onto mold. Pitching wise, it has worked out and overall as a whole, Marritors far and away lead Baseball in pitching war. But the bullpen is it's such an important part to this because it's a group that keeps cycling through year after year. But the results get better and better and better with different formulas and different guys in different angles, but the results are still magnificent. 00:11:44 Speaker 2: To do what they've done three years in a row is ridiculous. Everybody always talks about bullpens are fickle, they change from year to year. Guys have trouble staying consistent from. 00:11:53 Speaker 3: Year to year. That might all be true. 00:11:55 Speaker 2: Jerry Depoto's defied all of that because the Mariners just continue to roll out absolutely lethal bullpens. Okay, second storyline here, TJ. Julio moved out of the leadoff spot. So this happened now a few days ago. He's been scuffling, like we talked about on the last show. The Mariners are now trying to take some pressure off of them, so they've moved him down in the order, out of the number one spot. We've seen him hit six, we've seen him hit third. He's been mixed around a little bit, and you know what it seems like so far, it's doing its purpose because he is starting to slowly get his feel back at the plate. 00:12:32 Speaker 1: They've been scoring some runs with him in that spot. It's too small of a sample size to say that's really the cause, but to be honest, I'm a bigger fan of this current iteration of the lineup with JP leading off, with Tye hitting second, and then some combination of Julio and Jared at three or four. I think that is their most productive lineup they can put out right now. We're going to talk about JP Crawford with our next storyline, but I think he deserves to lead off based off what he's done this season, hitting the ball hard and walking at a good rate. And ty Frant's gonna keep his two spot. Well, then you put your two masters at the three in the four spot, and you got like they're not only masters their speed, they're gonna spray the ball around the yard. I mean they at their peak, they will make this lineup longer being in those spots I think than they were in their previous spots. 00:13:23 Speaker 2: Right now, I'm a fan of it, And you're right, we'll save the JP Crawford talk for a couple of minutes from here, but from what he's doing right now, yeah, he's a perfectly fine leadoff hitter. Now, I can't just sit here and forget about twenty twenty two, which consisted of twenty eight home runs one forty six oh ps, plus the fact he was one of the best players in baseball after the month of April. Like, let's not act like hitting Julio in the leadoff spot is all of a sudden, a dead spot. I mean, I understand why they wanted to move him out for now. They also seem like they want to move him back to the one spot eventually. Right now, I think this is the best lineup you can roll out there moving forward. 00:14:03 Speaker 3: I don't know. I think they might go back to it. 00:14:05 Speaker 1: In an ideal world, you hit Julio second. I think, oh, in a perfect I want him to have the opportunity to drive in some runs. I mean, that's why i'm i'm I'm I'm a fan of him hitting third, so I think it helps. 00:14:21 Speaker 3: In a perfect world. 00:14:22 Speaker 2: I think, once they feel like he's ready for it, Jared could hit lead off and then Julio hits two, and you fill out the rest of the lineup from there. I mean, don't forget they had Jared leading off when he debuted and when he was a rookie that first month or so for a while, because it's that same idea for why they put Julio there, Whyacuna leads off a lot for the Braze, why George Springer used to lead off a lot for the Astros, that each Yiero type of leadoff hitter. I mean, it's working right now with JP, but you don't see that as much anymore. You'll see guys with pop hit toward the top of the lineup. So if you have Jared and Julio eventually at one and two, I mean, I'm indifferent to how they mix and match him in those two spots, but I think that that's the ideal scenario moving forward, and then hopefully with Tie hitting, hopefully tay Oscar keeps this going because he's had a good few days. If Gino starts to find his power stroke again, then the rest of that lineup fills out cal of course, and you can you can make it work with Jared and Julio at one two if everybody else is clicking. 00:15:19 Speaker 1: The way I'm thinking about it. If JP Crawford can hit two fifty and continue to walk fifteen to seventeen percent of the time, which he might not do all season, in which case you adjust. But if he continues doing that, he's he should at he should be leading off. I mean, he's probably he's arguably the best on the team right now at getting on base, something this lineup does not have. It doesn't They don't have guys who just purely get on base. It's been it's been pretty middling, and I think that's been the biggest frustration with all the strikeouts, is that guys haven't been getting on base, and JP's that guy who gives you the opportunity to do so because he's walking so much. So that's why I think he should get his opportunity to stay in the lead off until he either hits his way out of it by stinking, or best case scenario, he keeps this up all season. 00:16:07 Speaker 3: I can buy into that. I guess. 00:16:08 Speaker 2: I always just like the idea of JP continuing to hit like this but also still be in the ninth spot to essentially flip the lineup over and do what they had him in the ninth spot originally to do, which was to be that second leadoff guy, which is what a perfect nine hitter does. Now, if the Mariners keep winning with this formula of a lineup, I'm not going to stand here and say to change it, keep rolling with it. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. But I will be interested to see what it looks like in July, when we assume Julio is going to be back to his normal form by then. 00:16:37 Speaker 1: Let's get to our third storyline of the week and highlight the man we've talked about a little bit here in our second storyline, it's Timeliyle to give JP Crawford his flowers. We're still in a bit of a small sample size fromhever. He got off to a hot start this year, but there's some real differences in how JP's battedball profile and his approach at the plate has changed this year opposed to his past years with the Mariners. 00:17:01 Speaker 2: The Mariners current leader in war, it's not Jared Kelnick, it's not George Kirby, it's not Luis Castillo. It's JP Crawford. By Baseball Reference, it is JP Crawford one point four war here as we sit on May the fifteenth, He's been great, one sixteen WRC plus entering today's game. This being a Monday. He's walking a bunch. He doesn't strike out as he always does. His defense has gotten better, I mean, everything looks much better. 00:17:32 Speaker 1: Here are his percentile rankings by year in reverse I guess reverse chronological audio. So we're going to start back going forward of some past seasons, loudest, let's pick this season. Where is this season out? Where is it? Third? Percentile average eggs velocity ninth, eight third and sixty third is where he currently sits. This year, he is above average in terms of average eggs of velocity off his bat. He's been hitting fast balls really well. He has a four to forty four weighted on base average against fastballs. He's walking nearly eighteen percent of the time. Sandwich right between two guys who you might think of a pretty good eye, Max Munsey and Atlie Rutchman. Pretty good, right, pretty productive there. He is having the highest marks of his career in expected weighted on base average, so quality of contact, weighted on base average, average, eggs of velocity, hard hit rate, walk rate, and he his defense hasn't been absolutely terrible like it was last year. Like all things we hammered on with JP, he is doing. 00:18:38 Speaker 2: Defensive run saved actually likes him better than alt above average does out above average has a little bit below average right now. Defensive run saved he's plus three, so DRS says he's been a good defender at shortstop and is getting back to his usual ways. So that's been great to see the fact he is squaring up fastballs, that is the biggest key. I mean, as for any hitter, you hit fastballs, you're going to be successful. Talked about with Julio last week. He was struggling to hit the fastball. That's why he's gotten off to a little bit of a slow start. We have hammered on the fact that JP Crawford has struggled with fastballs his whole career until this year. His run value against fastballs is plus seven. That's really really good. All the rest of the years of his career it was really low. He was not hitting fastballs. So all that work he did a drive line. It's paying off. It's doing dividends because he looks like a completely transformed hitter right now, and it's been doing wonders for this Mariners lineup. 00:19:35 Speaker 1: We're going to check back on this, let's say in July. I think that's a pretty fair sample size, pretty fair chunk of time for JP Crawford because he did start well last year and he tailed off and was not hitting well at all down the stretch of last season. But if we're talking about this in July, where JP Crawford is still hitting fast balls really well, he's still playing good defense, he's healthy, and he's still a walking say fourteen percent of the time, then you know, Jp, here are your flowers. You You have done what is asked of you, and you're living up to the contract. Your team chose not to sign an impact free agent shortstop because they believed in you, and you went in and you put in the work in the off season to make yourself a difference maker and really helped this team in a position they needed. 00:20:25 Speaker 2: I'm just gonna say it really quickly. We'll check back on this in July. Right now here in the middle of May, Trey Turner lower war than JP Crawford, significantly lower WRC plus. He's under one hundred right now. Carlos Correa, who point two war eighty seven WRC plus. Again, JP'SWRC plus, which measures of offensive production one sixteen sixteen percent of lygue average Mariners Fans harped and harped and harped on getting one of those guys, and they might still end up being better than Crawford. They're superstars, but right now JP's been the better guy. 00:21:05 Speaker 1: That's true. Let's say the position's hurting. The Mariners so far have not been the guys they did not sign this offseason, that's for sure, because that would be a whole nother conversation we could have. So I think that'll do it for our Mariner's storylines. Lyle, I've been really looking forward to get to this next segment. When this idea was broached to me that we should include this on the podcast, I was very, very intrigued. But we officially now have a Marine Layer Podcast voicemail line. You can call us, leave us a voicemail and have your voice heard on the show. And my day job, I do a call in show. I love doing the call in show. I love reactions, I love excitement, and this is how we get an opportunity to do this on this podcast. So I'm so excited we finally get to do this segment. So, so here is the phone number you can call the Layer line. We're gonna call it if you want to give us a ring and have your voice heard on the podcast. You can call two zero six eight eight zero zero nine zero seven. Again, the phone number is two zero six eight eight zero zero nine zero seven. You can leave us a voicemail and you have a chance to get played here on the podcast and hear us react to whatever you have to say. You can send us whatever. To be honest, we'll screen it and see what we should put on here. But we'll also put the We'll put the number down in the description on YouTube and on Spotify and such. So I'm really excited to get into these. 00:22:34 Speaker 2: I can't wait. And guys, we're giving your We're giving you guys a chance to have your voice heard. So we know you're out there as people who spend time on social media and on Mariners Twitter, we know there's a bunch of you out there that have thoughts on this team. You like to scream it on social media, through text and through words. Well, you can have your voice heard now on the podcast. We're gonna give you the platform. All you have to do is call the line and give us your message. It can be positive, can be analytical, it can be as negative as you want it to be whatever you want to send us send it again. Like TJ said, we will listen to these before we play them, but you can send us whatever you want. 00:23:11 Speaker 1: And I would say, we have a pretty as long as you're not maybe like demeaning somebody and take making it really personally. If it's good, we're gonna play it. I promise you, and I promise you, so without waiting any longer, love, let's get to our Let's get to our first one. He sent us one right away. I'm not gonna spoil his name. We can hear it when I play this, but right after radfore we introduced it, we got one in. So he's first. He's first in line. So let's hear our first first voicemail here on the show. 00:23:43 Speaker 4: Hey guys, this is Tommy and Austin, Texas. 00:23:45 Speaker 5: Love the show. Uh do you think the Mariners. 00:23:48 Speaker 4: Are missing guys like Carlos Pantana and Jesse Winker. 00:23:52 Speaker 3: Uh? 00:23:52 Speaker 5: You know, notoriously for getting on base, good at control. 00:23:55 Speaker 1: On the zone, because right now watching this lineup is abysmal. 00:24:00 Speaker 3: They seem to have. 00:24:01 Speaker 4: Horrible play discipline except for a few guys. 00:24:05 Speaker 1: But we'll love to get your take on that. Thanks. Thanks, to Tommy, the first official caller of the Marine Layer podcast. I'll let you go first. 00:24:17 Speaker 2: So this is a good question, and he clearly thought it out, and I'm glad he sent it to us, so I think we can kind of agree. I'll hit this on two points first. I think we can kind of agree in just a short sentence right here. I don't think people are missing Jesse Winker just between He's not playing well in Milwaukee, he had clubhouse problems. Here in Seattle, he massively underperformed expectations after the trade, both with his offense and his defense. I don't really think people are missing Winker, despite the fact that he Drew Walks Now. Carlos Santana, I think is a fair case. I think people are missing Santana because we've talked about it here through the first six weeks, they're kind of a bat short. They could use a DH. Santana's off to a good start with the Pirates. I'm not saying he's an all star, but he's doing essentially what he did last year in Seattle, and the fact that the shift is gone now so opened up more holes for hits for him. So yeah, I do think they miss Santana a little bit. 00:25:11 Speaker 1: Here's my thought on this in theory. Having more guys who could control the zone I think would be better for this lineup. I think it would make it longer, and I think it would be some nice variance for what they currently have in this lineup, which is a lot of swing and miss and right now not as many walks as they would like. But let me read you some stats here Lyle on the season Carlos Santana ninety one WRC plus two thirty nine three twenty seven three sixty two on the slash line. Jesse Winker seventy nine WRC plus two eighteen three forty seven two fifty six, striking out twenty two percent of the time. Tioscar Hernandez, who I know, is essentially the aim of this. I can just pick it out that this is the aim of this ti Oscar. By comparison to twenty nine two sixty eight fourteen eighty nine WRC plus thirty four and a half percent strikeout rate, the oscars striking out more. He's not walking as much, but the offensive productivity is overall about the same a net same. So my response to Tommy is, in theory, yes, but those specific players maybe not, I guess is what I come to conclusion with that. 00:26:25 Speaker 3: I think that's fair. 00:26:25 Speaker 2: I mean, ninety one WRC plus is below league average, and to be fair to Santana, he was hitting better a few weeks ago. But it's probably still better than what they've gotten out of the DH spot for at least a portion of the year, you know, when they were trying to throw Cooper Hummel out there, when they were you know, I mean, Pollock would be in there sometime when Tommy Lostella was in there. Santana definitely was an upgrade over those guys, But to your point, maybe it's not a massive upgrade now that they've kind of reconstructed things a little bit. 00:26:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, and I forgot to add Pollock in there, So yeah, he's probably an upgrade over AJ Pollock. I mean, I'll give him that, But AJ Pollock was also needed in the outfield, didn't We didn't see it, but I guess you did. You saw it, but maybe not not everyone was big on the Jared Keelnick train. Just then, all right, let's get to our second voicemail. 00:27:15 Speaker 6: This is Mike from Spanaways. 00:27:17 Speaker 4: So good series by the Mariners. 00:27:18 Speaker 1: Here, yes, the Tigers. 00:27:20 Speaker 4: You know you're able to get the series. 00:27:21 Speaker 6: Two out of three, but unfortunately. 00:27:23 Speaker 7: Game three should have been a sweep. This this should have been a sweep. 00:27:28 Speaker 4: It's good to see the Mayors beat up on. 00:27:29 Speaker 7: A team that they have to beat up on and that they should have been up on. But Logan Gilbert has looked so mediocre this year. I'm not saying he's not an aste, but it's just he's not pitching as well or. 00:27:42 Speaker 1: Up to par like he usually has. 00:27:44 Speaker 6: And of course Scott Servis goes to the bullpen and he uses the one guy that he continuously overuses, and Matt Brash is on pace to pitch over one hundred games this year. 00:27:54 Speaker 7: He just can't do that to a guy like him today. Absolutely no control today, and starting to think either you give the guy a week off or you send him down to Tacoma for about a week or two and develop. 00:28:12 Speaker 1: A little bit more control. 00:28:14 Speaker 6: Good series by the Mariners. Looking forward to playing against Boston. 00:28:18 Speaker 7: Because I got a feeling that we are going to take tickets to Boston get two out of three from them. 00:28:30 Speaker 1: Yeah, he's got a solid point there about Brash. I don't know if his overuse directly relates to his sometimes sporadic control, because he's just a guy who has sporadic control. But he's right. I mean, the Mariners cannot pitch Matt Brash one hundred times this season and expect him to hold up. 00:28:50 Speaker 2: I agree with that he needs more rest. They've got to get him some more off days, for more consecutive days in a row. No reliever throws a hundred appearances. Now, a lot of these appearances Brash has been brought in for have been short because they bring him in a high leverage situation to just get one out. Maybe two still doesn't matter. He's got to get more rest. 00:29:09 Speaker 3: Now. 00:29:09 Speaker 2: I'm gonna disagree with the Logan Gilbert point there because so Jerry Depoto was on the Wheelhouse this week, that's his podcast he does with Aaron Goldsmith and Gary Hill. He was talking about how, dating back to last August through now, the Mariners have three guys in their rotation that ranked top ten in the American League in f War. Logan Gilbert is one of those pitchers. Now he ranks lower than Castillo and Kirby. He's in the top ten right now. He's got a win and a half by f war and you look at his underlying numbers with a two six' FIVE, xcra which is an era, predictor it's saying what your era should. 00:29:46 Speaker 3: Be, yeah he's been pretty. 00:29:48 Speaker 2: GOOD i know he has his starts where maybe he struggles a little bit with, command BUT i Think Logan gilbert's been pretty. 00:29:55 Speaker 1: Good i'll agree he was pretty mediocre against The. Tigers yeah On. Sunday, yeah he was pretty. Mediocre you're not wrong. There but Like klayle, said he's already been a worth over a win and a half this, year AND i believe he's what top, fifteen it's top, fifteen top, Twenty, like you can't complain about that one bad. START i, mean it. Happens it. HAPPENS i do have LIKE i have my beef With Matt, Brash like you come in with the bases loaded in a tie game against statistically the worst hitter in baseball On, sunday the guy for The tigers whose name is escaping, me and he ends up hitting, Him AND i have my beef with. That and we'll hear a little bit from our next voicemail as, well who goes along the same lines in terms Of Matt. Brash But i'm wondering Where Matt brash's cutter is BECAUSE i believe it is for situations like this where his control kind of goes right out the window and he can't throw a strike super. 00:30:53 Speaker 3: Quick before we move, on wasn't It mayton that he? Lost? 00:30:55 Speaker 1: Yeah it? Was, YEAH i think. So, yeah wasn't totally. Sure So i'll Address Matt brash after we hear a third voicemail. 00:31:03 Speaker 6: Here, hey what's? 00:31:05 Speaker 4: Y'all this Is. Isaiah i'm From. Texas, uh longtime, listeners second time. CALLER i didn't like my first. One. Anyways you, know story of the. Game bullpen could have hold it. Late Matt brash more Like Matt. Trash he had no, command not at. All put that put kick his asked coma. 00:31:20 Speaker 3: He be run? 00:31:21 Speaker 4: Near? Anyways? Uh what one for twelve with runners in scoring? Position that's. Ridiculous come, on we gotta do better than. That you, know if they needed somebody to go out there and not hit the ball with runners of scoring, POSITION i could do that. Shit so, Anyways, uh you, Know i'll just hang up and listen to the. 00:31:37 Speaker 1: Response isaiah will pass your number along To Jerry. 00:31:41 Speaker 2: Depoto, Okay i'm just gonna go in on this. NOW i saved it after the last caller BECAUSE i knew we had some brash talk to get. To this is WHY i am begging. PEOPLE i am begging people to learn modern. Baseball look at advanced, numbers look At baseball, savant look at the era, predictors because this is how big league teams. THINK i saw way too much of this discourse yesterday After brash is. Outing and, yes we will sit here and Say Matt brash had a bad adding yesterday cost him the. Game But Matt brash is still pitching like The Matt brash that is an elite. Reliever it's just not showing up on. Er look at all of his underlying. Stats every single one says that he is going to get back to his peak form really. Soon here And Jerry depoto reiterated the same thing on his. Podcast he's reiterated it all. Year they are not Sending brash To. Tacoma that's not. Happening they're not Sending Matt brash To. 00:32:42 Speaker 1: Tacoma they, well first of, all they can't because he's their best. Reliever, like let's just, stop like you stop it right. There they like they need him. There it can be true That Matt brash is a your best reliever and be that he had a shitty outing On sunday because he. Did that's an, outing like we, said where he could use a. Cutter the only the only reason you would ever ponder sending him To, tacoma whereas you could, Say, okay you're gonna go down there for two weeks and you're only throwing cutters because you like it was. Told we were told in the off season that you were gonna come in here and you're gonna throw a cutter for the situation Like sunday where you cannot locate your fastball and your slider's moving so much you can't put it in the strike. Zone, okay so NOW i have a cutter that can actually throw in the strike, zone get a little bit of swing and, miss but more, importantly just throw it for. Strikes that's the most important. Thing it's something we haven't seen From brash this, season is throwing that. Pitch that's the only REASON i would think. Of but they're not gonna do. It it's like it's not gonna. 00:33:42 Speaker 2: Happen just to run through a couple of the, numbers really. Quick HIS fip is two oh, eight his X fip is two forty, one HIS xcra is three twenty. One and again those are all er, predictors taking more modern things into account like, walk, strikeouts home run to signal what your era probably should. Be and again he's still striking guys out at a ridiculous. Rate his k per nine is. Seventeen he's striking out seventeen batters per nine. GUYS i Promise brash is gonna be. Fine just give it a little. 00:34:15 Speaker 1: Time could you remind the good folks what his batting average on balls and play. 00:34:21 Speaker 3: Is, oh it's the highest in. 00:34:24 Speaker 2: Baseball it's over five, hundred and it's the worst in baseball by a huge. Margin so that's the other part of. This all the runs that have been credited to his era are basically all on ridiculously soft contact that he's had the unlucky side of because they're just falling for. Hits he's not giving up home runs or hard hit. Balls it's pretty well. Said if you could just go look my favorite. Activity you go go to, fangrafts go to the leader boards for relief pitcher f, war get them in, order and then go to the babbb call um and then go look. Down it's like to sixty to thirty to ninety to seventy, five twenty six to eighty three, hundred like it's it's fucking. 00:35:10 Speaker 1: Ridiculous it should be possible that he's still up there with. 00:35:14 Speaker 2: That so it's gonna come. Down he is not gonna give up hits on half the balls that get in play all. Year there's no chance it's coming, down and he is just gonna continue to get. 00:35:25 Speaker 3: Better end of. 00:35:26 Speaker 1: Story you, KNOW i think we got everything we wanted out of our first voicemail. Segment look at, us we're. Shouting that's the. 00:35:33 Speaker 2: Point this is why calling stuff is. FUN i, mean you do it on the radio all the. Time you match people's. Energy if people are mad about, something we might push it right back and, say, hey either we agree or here's why we don't. Agree, Yeah so guys keep sending us calls like you want to bring our personalities, Out we want to bring your personalities. Out send, us send, us send us voicemails. 00:35:56 Speaker 1: Again the number to call to zero six eight eight zero zero nine zero. Seven it's very. Easy my voice will walk you exactly through what you need to do to just leave us a. Voicemail we'll get the voicemail and if it's, good we'll play it on the next. Show a little, bit we're gonna get to a conversation here with our good Friend Justin. Tascano he is The braves beat writer for The Atlanta Journal. Constitution we all met while we were Covering Arizona state baseball back in. School justin a couple of years ahead of, us but we're, all you, know like Minded West coast baseball loving people who study journalism AT, asu so you could imagine we had a lot in. COMMON i always love talking To. Justin he knows his, baseball he's, funny we have a lot of the same, friends so it makes for a fantastic. Conversation, Yeah i'm. So i'm glad we got him. 00:36:48 Speaker 2: On we haven't had a ton of beat writers on this year outside of The mariners, guys and we certainly have had no other beat writers on from other. Teams but we, figured, look This brave series is such a marquee series because they're a true world series, contender we should preview it a little bit because it's arguably The mariner's biggest series to data up coming this, weekend And justin did a great job for us doing. So talked about a bunch of the guys that have been, hot maybe some areas The braves are looking to improve in and, Also, okay so we'll give you guys a heads up because we all went TO. Asu the first fifteen to twenty minutes of this we are just SHARING asu, stories but all our personalities come. Out we're talking about some fun. Stuff THERE'S asu baseball stuff in. There but if you just want to Hear mariner's brave. Stuff mariner's brave, stuff go to about the twenty minute mark of the interview and you can just go right to. 00:37:35 Speaker 1: That we don't want to hold you any. Longer if you want to go Find justin's, stuff you can go find him On twitter At justin's. C. Tiscano he's, yeah he's he's. Fantastic he knows what he's talking, about and he shared a little bit in that. Interview so we won't hold you any. Longer let's get to our interview With Justin tiscano On Justin tuscano of The Atlanta Journal. Constitution he's The braves beat right or for THE. AJAC a fellow Asu alum a couple of years ahead Of lao AND. I so we appreciate justin taking some time to join us. Today justin appreciate you coming. ON i would just like to say how PROUD i am of the three of, us look like how how like how does all of us have grown since sitting in The Phoenix comunity press box during twenty, Eighteen CAUSE i think that was that was the initial point where we all met and JUST i feel like that's that's a place where things really get established and then start growing from. 00:38:29 Speaker 8: There, YEAH i, mean and, yeah, no that that was. FUNNY i remember like meeting you guys as. Freshmen it was cool to just kind of shoot the breeze in the press. Box we didn't get to watch a ton of good, baseball but, YEAH i feel, LIKE i don't, know it is pretty crazy because now we're all doing this and, yeah it's it's fun to look back on that and just kind of, like it's it's wild to think THAT i knew you got you, KNOW i see you guys at like parties or like out you, know at school or stuff like, that and it's just, like, yeah it's it's, no it's crazy and it's been, yeah if that. 00:39:03 Speaker 5: Was twenty, eighteen and, geez like it's been what five? Years that's five years? Ago smokes. That, YEAH i know that's that's. 00:39:12 Speaker 8: Crazy, also why when you Say, PHOENIX, muni why DO i think of like the chicken tender? Basket like why CAN'T i smell the chicken tenders right? Now like just like were you used To. 00:39:23 Speaker 1: Were you a, big big concession? GUY i, like none of that food ever appealed to. Me it's just so. 00:39:28 Speaker 8: Basic, dude when you when you cover FORTY asu THIRTY asu baseball games a, year what are you going to, do especially on some of those like afternoons where you you, know you wake up and just head to the. PARK i, MEAN i was they used to get, Pizza SO i don't know if they did that when you guys were, there BUT i remember my first couple of years there they used to do like pizza in the press box for Like friday And saturday night, games which was like. 00:39:53 Speaker 5: Awesome but, anyways thanks for having. 00:39:56 Speaker 8: ME i won't go on ABOUT asu baseball BECAUSE i know people aren't listening about, that but we like. 00:40:01 Speaker 1: IT i do have to ask one hard hitting. Question do you think you're still allowed in the press. Box. 00:40:09 Speaker 8: Uh i'm hoping there's like sort of LIKE i haven't tried in five. Years and that's Because i'm hoping there's sort of like a statute of limitation sort of thing where people just forget no in all, SERIOUSNESS i joke AND i. 00:40:20 Speaker 5: CAN'T i. 00:40:21 Speaker 8: Hope so BECAUSE i love that program and, like, HONESTLY i have like a lot OF i have a lot of affinity for it BECAUSE i feel like that's HOW i got my start in a, way LIKE i feel very LIKE i feel very grateful and very indebted to like those, people you, know From Tracy, smith whose PROGRAM i, covered To Thomas lennberg who was THE sid WHEN i was, there To Jeremy hawk's who is you, Know thomas's replacement as the BASEBALL. Sid AND i just feel really indebted to all those sids and coaches and players who allowed me to be. There, so, yeah that's that's kind of WHAT i. SO I i'm just like, hyped. MAN i know they're on a little bit of a kind of a cold snap right, now but like they're, good, Man they're, good and it's it's fun to, watch AND i just, like you, Know i'm happy for, him and that's where the program deserves to. Be and, uh, YEAH i guess for those of you don't, KNOW i you, know there was a STORY i wrote that maybe was not well liked among the coaching staff at the, time BUT i just did the reporting THAT i could AND i thought was right and checked it over and over. Again so BUT i JUST, i, YEAH i have so much love for that program because that's HOW i feel, Like that's HOW i feel LIKE i got my. Start like even THOUGH i also covered football and basketball and like you, know other sports there WHEN i was a, FRESHMAN i did like swim and, dive and i'd done like hockey, too like their first and their FIRST d one hockey SEASON i. Covered but, yeah, MAN i love that program And i'm just like so happy that they're good. Again here's the, thing, though what are we gonna get an on campus? STADIUM i, MEAN i feel like the days Of packard must have been. 00:41:54 Speaker 2: Lit i'm with, you except we never got to experience. It, WELL tj sort of you just. Said i'm gonna tell a twenty second funny story. HERE tj had to do some project for his freshman year, class so he was gonna do it ON asu. Baseball this dude doesn't have a, car so he takes the light rail down To Packard stadium in twenty seventeen when we were. Freshman he gets, out he looks around and he's, like, wait AM i in the wrong? 00:42:19 Speaker 3: Place? 00:42:21 Speaker 1: Yeah there were the chain link fences up over all of the. Entrances they had him up on the on the second level, too And i'm looking, like this does not look. Great there's no way at college baseball team place. HERE i had to do some googling and eventually the resourcefulness paid off AND i figured out where they actually. Played but it was nice to get to See packard from the. Outside i'm sure it was great on the inside when there was a field, there but now it's just a parking. 00:42:45 Speaker 8: Lot yeah, yeah, remember, yeah when the chain link, fences when they still had the signage. There, Like, SO i was there over the weekend for my brother's college. Graduation shout out, branding, congratulations BUT i. Was we drove past Where packard used to. Be it's, nothing but it used to have like the signage when we were. There but do you remember like the overgrown trees like on the. Signage it almost looked like the wall At Wrigley. Field it almost looked like the, ivy like it was just overgrown on the signage of like the Old Packard, stadium but no. 00:43:13 Speaker 1: Field the THING i have to, ask like the, university what are they gonna put? There like you could put another baseball diamond. 00:43:19 Speaker 8: THERE i my my HOTTEST asu take to, date and there have been some hot. Ones no not, really BUT I i'm not a big hockey, fan so, LIKE i love that we have a program and it's fun to, like you, know support or hope they do well and support. 00:43:38 Speaker 5: Them but. 00:43:41 Speaker 8: Hockey arena over a basketball stadium or like even a multi purpose arena or like over, dude we're a baseball. School we should have an on campus baseball stadium and it just LIKE i, know the attendance is never going to BE sec, level like nine thousand on A friday night or, something but come, on, man we can have more than three or four. THOUSAND i think if you put it on campus and people could just walk, there like from mill or from their dorm rooms or from wherever they're. COMING i just, think LIKE i THINK asu baseball deserves to be, relevant relevant in the tempiece. 00:44:13 Speaker 5: SPHERE i agree with. 00:44:16 Speaker 2: THAT i, mean like you, SAID i, Mean Barry bonds went to this, SCHOOL a ton of legends played baseball in the. Valley so, look, Yeah i'm a hockey guy, too BUT i would have loved to see an on campus baseball. STADIUM i don't think that's a hot. 00:44:27 Speaker 5: Take, YEAH i, KNOW i know. 00:44:29 Speaker 8: IT i don't know if. WE'EREVER i don't know what the lease is like AT muni or like how that even. Works BUT i just, like, OH i, mean you guys went. Man like WHEN i was a, FRESHMAN i didn't have a, car and it was just like the light rail To. Muni the light rail plus the walk was like, yea you know the. Way it's just like if you're a, student, dude why like you got to be a pretty big baseball fan to do. That And i'm not saying it's hard to, Do like it's relatively close to, campus but a lot of college, students like you would get so many more people if they could just stumble over, there like just walk over there whatever from whatever they've been doing and just like catch even a little bit of a baseball. Game whereas LIKE i feel Like Phoenix muni it has to be an outing per. 00:45:11 Speaker 1: Se the THING i like About muni it's it was good for a journalism students because the press box is far and away the best in the pack. Tool it's it's not even, close like as someone LIKE i work here In corvallis With Oregon. State now they're press. Boxes is okay for a college press, box BUT i mean it's Not muni air conditioning and multiple booths and a bathroom in there and like all these sorts of things that not all these other press boxes. Have so like it was good in that, way but you're, right they're just. There needs to. Be they need to like somehow replicate the old miss structure where they can put the students in the outfield with like a grassy, Berm like is that all the spring training stadiums and just have them get. HAMMERED i think it's more fun that. 00:45:53 Speaker 8: Way that that's actually a good point and THAT i did not think, Of and it makes me want to walk back part of my comments About munion on campus baseball, stadiums very nice press box like to the point where LIKE i, MEAN i think sometimes they do now Like kronkite kids travel to away baseball, games but like we never, did or at least like LIKE i went To fullerton a couple, times but that was like during spring break or like WHEN i could could you, know WHEN i was home already back In San. Diego But muni, was, Like muni is as nice As muni is nicer than most spring training Ballparks i've been in in terms of press, boxes like in terms of site, lines in terms of the, views Like muni is better THAN i would, say a decent chunk of spring training. Ballparks and that's Like Major League baseball spring training ballparks that people have to work in every. 00:46:48 Speaker 5: Day And muni is a very good press, box. 00:46:51 Speaker 8: You're, Right very, Spacious, yeah lots of, room lots of, chair very nice, chairs very very comfortable. Chairs, yes very cush need. Chairs, YEAH i. Know but man teams come a long, WAY i. THINK i JUST i just keep thinking they may not have the, pitching and then the pitching showed up for three games and they couldn't score more than like five. 00:47:14 Speaker 5: Runs so we'll see how it. Is young, team really, exciting, THOUGH. 00:47:18 Speaker 1: I GOTTA i have one More arizona question before we start talking a little bit about The braves in this upcoming. Series this. Weekend so you mentioned you were In arizona for your brother's, Graduation so this is always a fun. Question so when you get To arizona and you're going back to someone who no longer lives, there what food places or? Slash what drinking places are you? Going in? Order what's? First and like what's? Next like what's it out for? 00:47:45 Speaker 4: Us? 00:47:46 Speaker 8: Dude, Okay so If i'm going, there usually this TIME i. Wasn't but Usually i'm staying. Downtown so let's just take a brave strip for. Example Usually i'm staying you, Know i'm staying downtown, Honestly, Like, hey did you guys ever go To Taco cello. 00:48:03 Speaker 5: On Roosevelt row or on Like Roosevelt. Hits that place is super. 00:48:08 Speaker 8: GOOD I i haven't been a welcome diner in, years so Probably Taco. 00:48:14 Speaker 5: Cello and then When i'm In, tempe, man like can you? 00:48:17 Speaker 8: Not can you not go To? Kasa like is there any way to not go To? Costa LIKE i just think like it's, Iconic like even If i've been. There you, know WHEN i went for a football game a couple of years, AGO i went, there you, know before the, GAME i think like it's so basic and, unoriginal but it's kind of like a FOUNDING asu, experience like it would be on the mouth rush more of OF asu. Experiences SO i Think casa and then, Yeah i'm trying to think of like other food PLACES i. Eat i'm trying to think. Downtown where did that? GO I i feel Like i'm drawing a big. Blank Oh Cebo sebo hits that place slaps the pizza? 00:48:57 Speaker 5: Place you ever been there? Downtown? 00:49:00 Speaker 1: MAN i think we had some different food. Experiences, YEAH bobbyq is? 00:49:03 Speaker 5: Good you ever been TO? Bobbyq? 00:49:07 Speaker 1: STILL i think. 00:49:07 Speaker 3: Different we're gonna have to make a checklist for. 00:49:10 Speaker 5: Us, yeah what what where did you guys? 00:49:13 Speaker 1: GO i Think i'm landing on defalcos at number one bar none at that? Places that? Place is that like that? Play if you told me that was like like someplace On Long, ISLAND i would believe, You, like like that's how Authentic italian it. Is so it's it's, Good and then you know other you could go Like i'm a big culinary dropout. Person it's like it's a, chain but it's pretty. Good and then on on mill we didn't get to go there last time we were there In february for The Super Bowl Fat. TUESDAY i, mean ACTUALLY i need an answer from you on this BECAUSE i think we have a divide in on this podcast of our opinions of that. Establishment SO i think you're the deciding vote here on If Fat tuesdays is a legit bar or. 00:49:55 Speaker 8: Not, HONESTLY i don't Think i've ever, been or maybe maybe like it's because here's the thing, is it's not somewhere you would, start and so LIKE i tend to not have as much of a recollection of where the night goes then where it, starts like not in terms of like drinking too much that's never. 00:50:15 Speaker 5: HAPPENED i just, mean, LIKE i just, mean like. 00:50:18 Speaker 8: There's NO I i just think about it in terms of like where we go, First and that used to be for, me Like Whiskey, Row, Dude i'm So Whiskey row was like as basic as it got and it was like so, annoying but somehow we would always find our way, there and it was like it was like the prodigal son always finds his way home when he's on. Mill like it's just kind of like you you think you want to do some cool, Stuff you're, like all, right we're AT Q CUP Q. Club it's pretty. Chill we're at low, key like good, environment good. Atmosphere, eventually like all roads lead back To Whiskey row and it's it's not there. Anymore it, was it. Was it was highly annoying Like casa. Was but, YEAH i don't think i've been to That. Tuesday i'm trying to, think, like there's nothing that distinguishes it WHERE i remember. 00:51:03 Speaker 5: It did you guys go to? 00:51:05 Speaker 1: Slushies? 00:51:06 Speaker 8: Oh have you guys ever been To Champagne lanes downtown which. 00:51:10 Speaker 5: Was not there when we were, there but it is there. 00:51:13 Speaker 8: Now it's like, this it's like miniature bowling and like it's a bar and. 00:51:17 Speaker 5: Stuff it's like it's think of like top. 00:51:19 Speaker 8: Golf well not, really but it's kind of like it's miniature bowling in a. 00:51:24 Speaker 5: Bar like it's it's it's. 00:51:25 Speaker 1: Interesting so when we were back there In, february we got to explore a little bit Of Roosevelt, row but, like since so much of that has been built since we, graduated like we haven't gotten to go see all of. It SO i think the only PLACE i can remember See Arcade, bar WHICH i can't remember the name. Of, yeah That cobra probably my most. Famous, yeah that one's, Good Yeah. 00:51:46 Speaker 5: Cobra AND i, think, like. 00:51:49 Speaker 8: Did you guys see like the place Asy, Wilderness like it's kind of like that patio On. Roosevelt it's like it's kind of like a drinking you, know it's like a patio where you can hang. Out it's like a what do you call? It it's almost like a it's like a food hall. Inside it's that you can get food. Inside but then there's that huge patio outside where everybody, Said. 00:52:09 Speaker 1: Lyle is it not where we? 00:52:10 Speaker 3: Went say the name one more. 00:52:14 Speaker 5: Time it's like wilderness or something like. 00:52:16 Speaker 8: That it it's maybe, big big outdoor, area like, big it's mostly. Outdoors, ANYWAYS i feel like my last two years, THERE i just didn't really. Well last year and a half or, YEAR i didn't really like go out as. Much and that was probably just BECAUSE i was doing so much stuff and like trying to get a job and like all that stuff that it just like it didn't really appeal to me as, much AND i didn't really like. GEEZ i wasn't as wild as you know some people at our. School we went TO, asu so we were by no means you, know even if we had, fun we didn't you, know go hard or. 00:52:49 Speaker 5: Anything but it WAS i, yeah SO i. 00:52:51 Speaker 8: Can't i'm trying to think man LIKE I i'm trying to think of like. 00:52:56 Speaker 1: Lef if it rings your memory a little, bit it was the place we were at where you guys we're all making fun of me for being. Hungover still. 00:53:04 Speaker 2: Isn't for some, REASON i don't know Why i'm blanking on. This i'm gonna have to go look it. Up justin's given us a whole checklist now of downtown places to go hit the next time we're, there because maybe we only hit The tempe spots a lot and didn't check out check out enough of. Downtown so maybe maybe next time we'll have to circle our way more around the downtown area and. 00:53:21 Speaker 5: Stuff yeah, YEAH i like, downtown. MAN i still stay. 00:53:26 Speaker 8: There it gives me the feels because we went to school, there BUT i didn't BECAUSE i never lived In. Tempe like to, ME i just stayed In ropo the entire. Time BUT i guess you might not be able to do that now because like there's rats and. 00:53:35 Speaker 1: Stuff, yeah we heard about the rat, stories so we're pretty thankful we didn't didn't. 00:53:42 Speaker 5: Try it sharp Twist ropo used to be WHEN i was. 00:53:46 Speaker 8: There so twenty, fifteen fall twenty fifteen. 00:53:49 Speaker 5: Was my sophomore, year and was that? 00:53:53 Speaker 8: Right, Yeah fall twenty fifteen was my sophomore, year started my sophomore, year and LIKE ropo was like the gold, standard like in terms of apartment, living it was like the only place there that you would you, know you could live At, skyline you could live at. 00:54:08 Speaker 5: You, know the met a couple of these other. 00:54:10 Speaker 8: Places But ropo was like that your traditional like quote unquote high, rise you, know mid, rise whatever you want to call, it nice college, apartments like really, nice you know, expensive and then like in the span of like three years it had Rats. 00:54:29 Speaker 3: What a, place, man that's a su for. 00:54:33 Speaker 5: You oh, yeah oh. Yeah good education, though oh oh great. 00:54:37 Speaker 1: Education that's what like we always, Say harvard of The, west innovation and all. 00:54:42 Speaker 8: It all, Right crockite was the, Best like you, really it gives you so many opportunities THAT i realize now that LIKE i would not have gotten At, missouri and LIKE i wouldn't WANT i would not have wanted to live In, Columbia, missouri AND i would not have wanted to live In, Syracuse New, york or, like you get so many opportunities At kronkite THAT i just feel like kids at other schools didn't Get AND i was like that was, yeah that was. Sweet SO i, YEAH i LOVED Asu and LIKE i, SAID i mostly LIKE i didn't really party much AND i didn't you, know so my experience is much different than that of like A tempee fraternity brother, obviously BUT i enjoyed how Like i'm then we'll get into. Baseball BUT i still remember like in high school we would do SO i went to A catholic high, school all boys high, school and we would do like, this uh spring break trip you could go on. 00:55:34 Speaker 5: One of the, years you, know for juniors and seniors or whatever it. 00:55:37 Speaker 8: WAS i think it was juniors and seniors and the year that my parents sent me on and it was kind of like a college trip and like there was like it was a service. 00:55:44 Speaker 5: Trip so we do some commedia service, too but we check out. 00:55:46 Speaker 8: Colleges and the YEAR i went it was To chicago and h, DUDE i remember going To northwestern legitimately like one of the best journalism schools in the, country especially if you're a, Writer like there are tons of writers went To northwestern And i'm just walking through And i'm, like, dude like none of these kids seem like any, fun LIKE i would not, Have like it was like not even just Like i'm not even talking about partying BECAUSE i didn't really do that. 00:56:12 Speaker 5: MUCH i just mean LIKE i was, like, well it just it seemed like hog. 00:56:16 Speaker 8: Boarts it was just like a it was One northwestern was one big, library and it was, cloudy and it was like the vibe LIKE i felt like everybody AT asu was very laid back and like super kind and like really. Nice AND i think that's what made it so much, fun is, That LIKE i mean even you guys were a couple of years behind, me BUT i feel, like you, know i'd still consider pretty good friends or you, know guys i'd talk, to and SO i just feel LIKE i just feel LIKE asu aligned much more with like the PEOPLE i liked to be around, to which was sweet. 00:56:44 Speaker 1: And you didn't have to suffer through a. 00:56:46 Speaker 8: Winner oh, MAN i know AT, asu you were like can it just please be? Cloudy and then AFTER i left and started my, CAREER i was LIKE i would Take phoenix at a. 00:56:56 Speaker 5: Heartbeat, yeah, yeah, yeah all, Right, Justin, right. 00:57:03 Speaker 1: Let's get on to baseball a little. BIT i, MEAN i do love spending as much time as possible talking ABOUT asu. Memories in, fact we spent probably the first forty five minutes before we started recording doing the exact same, thing which we could probably make our own podcast about My lex's talking to me in the. Background so just disregard that so we can get onto The. Braves The braves and The mariners will face off this weekend and a really intriguing, series a really memorable series last, year one that was AT T Mobile park that we'll touch on a little bit, later but we can talk about this current iteration coming up this. Weekend so we're Having justin on to talk about about The braves because this is his job and he does this every day for a. Living so, Overall, justin The braves are coming off as sweep against The Toronto Blue. Jays, overall the outlooks so, far they've been super good this. Year there's been a lot of guys that have been resurgent or have just been outright awesome along The braves. Roster so, really what is like a general outlook right now of The Atlanta. 00:57:59 Speaker 8: Braves, yeah, well they just kind of as we're doing, this they were just swept by The Blue. Jays but, overall, look you've, lost you. Lose if you lose four games in a, row and you're still up five games in the division in Early, may things are going pretty. Well AND i think what it is is they've found the ideal balance that all baseball teams are trying to. Achieve were, one you've got established, talent and then two your prospects pop at the right. Time, right, so like they had enough of a core of guys from like A kunya And Aussie, albies and Then max freed, eventually and then Like Austin riley, popped and then like a couple years, Later Michael harris popped And Spencer, schreider and like they've kind of achieved that. Balance and then two they've been able to extend. Them like in a sport that sees a lot of guys just take it straight to arbitration and straight to free, agency they've been able to give these guys a decent maybe you, know a little bit of a kind of throw them a bone or give them a little bit of a you, know carrot in their eye about like, hey like you can make this guaranteed. Money, now like how about you, know so they Extended Michael, harris they Extended Spencer, stryder they Extended Austin. Riley you, know Obviously Ronald Lecunya junior got done years, ago same With Ozzy alby's AND i you, know they trade For Sean murphy and they extend. Him SO i think they've really revolutionized baseball and in that. Way and obviously the other side of that is, that you, know there's a reason teams don't. Extend you need to have players that you would want to extend to extend, them and there's a reason that teams don't put themselves on the hook for that many contracts at the same, time that many long term contracts at the same. 00:59:42 Speaker 5: Time BUT i, think, yeah the overall outlook is really. 00:59:45 Speaker 8: Good like the overall outlook is THAT i think it's a bit obtuse to say a team Is World series or. Bust but this is going to be one that if the year doesn't end with The World series, run they're they're gonna be disappointed because they have the team to do, it and they truly can't accomplish. That so you, know right, now they're, deep they're talented things are you, know they've had their struggles and they're different points of. Adversity BUT i don't you, know there are very few, rosters if, any that you would take over this one in. 01:00:14 Speaker 2: Baseball, okay so you just talked about all the contract extensions that The braves have gotten done over the. Years you're probably about as good a person to ask about this as. Anyone how in the world is Alex anthopolis pulling all these deals? OFF i will never be able to sit here and understand how all these young guys who have the chance to make millions and millions once they hit free agency are agreeing to take all these team friendly. 01:00:36 Speaker 3: Deals but it keeps. 01:00:37 Speaker 8: Happening, yeah AND i think some of it is, like, okay team friendly from the. Outside, sure but if You're Spencer stryder and you, know not saying he thought this way, specifically but for a pitcher man like you can blow it out on one pitch and never be the same or whatever it might. 01:00:58 Speaker 5: Be so six years seventy five is pretty good. 01:01:00 Speaker 8: Bet even If spencer's and, like look the Way Spencer strider's going will probably look in a few years and be like this is, Insane like he's going to make two hundred million dollars in his next contract or. Something but, like you, know same With Michael, harris like he he just. 01:01:15 Speaker 5: Wanted to be In. Atlanta he's An atlanta area. 01:01:17 Speaker 8: Guy grew up a huge you, know Diehard brave, Fan Diard falcons, fan Diehard hawks. 01:01:22 Speaker 5: Fan he went to The Braves World, Series prayed a couple of years. 01:01:25 Speaker 8: Ago Austin, riley Like Austin riley could have made more, money and you know knows he could have made more. Money but, eventually the you, know the conversation between you know him is kind of his representation was, like, hey like you, know like eventually you need to you need to be happy where you. 01:01:42 Speaker 5: Are AND i think that Alex entthopolis. 01:01:45 Speaker 8: Has come in and really by hiring good, people by bringing good people, in has turned around kind of the work environment and implemented a culture without you, know he always says that he doesn't believe in the idea of like implementing your own blue but the culture is good In, Atlanta like guys like to play there and you hear good things about it from agents around the league and things like. 01:02:06 Speaker 5: That so it's a good place to. 01:02:08 Speaker 8: Play, two the team is, good so why would you know you know you're gonna have a chance to win long. Term and then, THREE i think there's a part of it that, like, yeah that's, Definitely, hey the team's taking on some of the risk if you're signing guys when they have less than a year of service. Time but there were those examples of, obviously you, know EVERY gm knows who to target and who to go. For like you, Know Ronald acuna years, ago it was his agent actually told, him you, know tried to keep him from keep taking that, deal and it was like To, ronald it was, like, okay you, know if they get to one hundred, Million i'll. Sign and so they. Did they got to one hundred. Million he signed for eight, years one hundred. Million Ozzie alby's you, know seven years and thirty five. MILLION i mean guaranteed money early in careers and guaranteed. YEAR i mean that that has a big sway on Playing AND i think The braves have been the team willing to do it. Right like we're seeing The dodgers this year they cut bait with a lot of guys and we're, like, hey we're not going to sign anybody long term this, winter like we're gonna try they try to reset the. 01:03:11 Speaker 5: Books and that's the, benefit right. 01:03:13 Speaker 8: Because, like if this doesn't work out for The braves and three years down the, line these guys are mid, players medium level, Players, like it looks, bad, right because then you've basically put your next decade into guys that don't pan out as you thought they. WOULD i don't think that's going to, happen but there's certainly risk to, it AND i think, Yeah SO i think, one it's the. 01:03:37 Speaker 5: Culture, two it's the idea of guaranteed. 01:03:41 Speaker 8: Money early in a career that, can like you, know still keep you solid and safe and secure even if you have an. Injury and three it's the guys they, get like the guys they tend to scout and draft like they're team first. Guys they're guys who are kind of like down, home low, key Like Austin riley type guys who you, know they're, simple like they don't want a, Ton they're not just playing for. 01:04:04 Speaker 5: Money they want to. 01:04:04 Speaker 8: Win they want to be part of the community and part of something and part of the. Culture and SO i think IT'S i think it's a little bit of, that but they've kind of just built THIS dna where people want to be. 01:04:13 Speaker 1: There let's talk about the guy who really got all THAT dna, started and it Was Ronald. Acunya back when he came up in the in the later twenty, tens he you, know TOWARDS acl in twenty twenty, one and last year he was still coming back and he wasn't really fully. Himself he looks as good as he's ever been this. Year not only is his powerfully, back what it, seems not only is his, speedback his seventeen stolen bases already this, season but he IS i, mean he has got his taking his game to another. LEVEL i couldn't believe it WHEN i saw. It he's striking out thirteen and a half percent of the. Time that's, absurd that that is totally. 01:04:52 Speaker 8: Absurd, yeah, no he well, ONE i think it's his, explosiveness AND i think that's just completely with the knee being fully. Healthy is now when he's like connecting with, balls he's demolishing. Them like he looks like Old ronald in that way where anything like if he's swats a, homer it's going like four thirty at, least Like he's had a four hundred and sixty one foot, shot a four hundred and forty eight foot, shot and then a four hundred and seventy one foot shot and that's just in like the last two. Weeks and SO i, MEAN i think it's the, explosiveness but he can do it all. Right LIKE i think it's a worthy debate for another time, probably BUT i think If Ronald, lakunya if all five tools are going at one, time and you, know if he's if he's on a, heater. 01:05:39 Speaker 5: He's what got to be like one of the top five players in. 01:05:42 Speaker 8: BASEBALL i, mean just because he has all five tools and if they're all going at one, TIME i, mean you'd be hard pressed to find five or six that are better than players that are better than, him and he really sets the tone for. THEM i, mean it's it's crazy what it can do for. YOU i feel like as a team when it's in the other pit head the entire time that like Ron lacuna is the first guy up and he's aggressive and he's going to look to like hit home run or just get on. Base and if he does get on, base especially with the new, rules he's gonna steal, second AND i think he really sets the tone for them and what's made, it WHAT i think makes it fun is he's got such a flash and a pizzazz that he plays with that makes kind of The braves. 01:06:22 Speaker 5: Fun like he's. 01:06:23 Speaker 8: Different he's different Than Austin riley in that, way Like Austin riley doesn't really show a lot of that, emotion or you, Know Sean murphy doesn't show a ton of that. 01:06:30 Speaker 5: Emotion acunya shows it, differently AND i think that can be really. Fun and the bat flips and like you. 01:06:34 Speaker 8: Know the stutter steps around, third The ja morant like you're too, small like all that, stuff or like the ice, tray or like Doing lebron's. CELEBRATION i, MEAN i think he's fun in that way and he really embraces. It BUT i do think you're right LIKE tj and that HE'S i, mean he's the one who got this all, started like him And ozzie are you, know the first prospects who kind of came up and started making a lot of, Noise and you, know you figure around that if those guys didn't work, out it was going to be a pretty rough. SITUATION i, mean that was kind of the start of really the rebuild in the up and coming, years and you know it's really just fed into everything. 01:07:10 Speaker 5: Else so anything. 01:07:12 Speaker 1: Specific he noted that in his offseason and is working on his approach. THAT i, mean he used to be about a twenty four to twenty eight percent strikeout guy to now he's get probably in the top three percent of guys in terms of striking out across baseball, well having better power than probably all the guys he's in a group. WITH i, mean it's these are the types of, leaps like you, said guys who are top five players in baseball take and it seems like he's really really taken that, step you, know outside of like all the other sluggers that are in his. 01:07:43 Speaker 8: Class, yeah there's probably you, know specific things he's worked. On nothing he's told us like specifically or has revealed or, shared which doesn't mean he hasn't worked On it just means he hasn't told us. PUBLICLY i just think like for, him the thing he always goes back to is just that he feels healthy and just that he feels like mentally like he's got the. Explosion it's, there AND i think a lot there was there was a lot of swing and myths last, year and there was like a lot of you, know we here contact than we'd never seen from. Him and the knee feeling a lot better has allowed him to be more rotational in the swing and has allowed which has allowed him to be a lot more like explosive and kind of just he feels more, FLUID i, think and more. Free AND i mean that's just what he always points, out is how good he feels this. Year it's kind of comforting for him because last year it was like he didn't feel like he was all the way. Back he felt like there was still some residual effect of you, know that knee surgery and then the ensuing rehab and you, know he had a back, thing and it was just like it was one thing after another in terms of like these nagging, injuries and it just kind, of you, know for, HIM i think this, year just feeling fully healthy has been really good and he just it almost makes me wonder how The. 01:08:55 Speaker 5: Braves ever won A World. Series About ronald. 01:08:56 Speaker 2: Mccunya that's the craziest part about that title, is like you, said they did it without. Him it was all those guys they traded for short term at the deadline that figured it out and just kind of a magical run and everything they did it sands of their best, player. 01:09:10 Speaker 5: Right, RIGHT i mean yeah and thoughtless, Magic, yeah. 01:09:14 Speaker 2: Exactly you, know this series is going to feature the two Reigning rookie of The year award, Winners Juleo rodriguez And Michael, Harris and both those guys are kind of similar in the way of they lit the world on fire in their first. Year here we are about six weeks into their sophomore seasons and both of them are kind of struggling a little bit out of the. GATE tj AND i have outlined some of the reasons That julio's gotten off to a bit of a slow. Start but For Michael, harris do you feel like it's that back injury that's affecting him or is it just that he's he's kind of not putting back to. 01:09:45 Speaker 8: Ball, Yeah, YEAH i think IT'S i think it's a little bit of. Both like they're there needs to be more bat to ball, THERE i, Think and that was like the one thing last year with him was he just didn't walk, enough you, know and there was there was a lot of swinging when there, was BUT i still go back to the fact, that like he came up as a twenty one year old and at the time he Replaced travis De, merritt who had a pretty good run there for a couple of, weeks but then he WAS i think like three for thirty five or, something, Right, so like the expectations For Michael harris were just, like don't be that, bad and he really exceeded them because he ends up Winning rookie The, year, Right and so he obviously wants to take a, leap BUT i think there's still some of it where he's still figuring out big league. PITCHING i, mean we tend to like forget that with these guys who are so young and they come up and they're you, know Reigning rookie of The. Years BUT i think for, yeah For mike, too it's been like he's had a couple he had a knee thing a couple of weeks back and then the back, injury AND i think it's just been kind of the season's been stop and start for, him and stop and start and stop and, go and it's kind of been LIKE i think for, him it's been tough to establish a. Rhythm BUT i think like last year, SPECIFICALLY i know he struggled the curveball like later on and. 01:10:58 Speaker 5: Was just trying to set his kind of like set his sight lines. 01:11:01 Speaker 8: Differently it's probably the easiest way to say it in the zone of trying to like pick those up and things like. 01:11:06 Speaker 5: THAT i remember talking about. 01:11:07 Speaker 8: That but, YEAH i THINK i think he will be, fine especially because, like, look at, worst he's like the number, eight you, know number eight hitter for, them which is Pretty If Michael harris is your number eight, hitter that's that's not. 01:11:21 Speaker 5: BAD i want to. 01:11:25 Speaker 1: Talk a little bit about the Other rookie of The year finalist on The braves last. Year i'm disappointed a little bit that we're not going to get to actually see him. PITCH i thought for a second someone tweeted out that it was gonna Be Bryce miller Versus Spencer streider On. Friday it was, like, oh, OKAY i, mean The maritors probably won't, win but it's gonna be pretty entertaining Because stryder is probably the most fun guy to watch pitch nowadays in the big. LEAGUES i think he's on pace for like three hundred and forty strikeouts this, year which is just just, bananas and it just so strange that a guy in his rookie season will strike out over two hundred guys in one hundred and thirty. Innings but you did an article on him the other day where you're just going around and asking players like just to describe him because, he's you, know he's six foot like a buck. EIGHTY i Think lyle is bigger than he. Is and yet he's on the mound throwing one hundred miles an hour with essentially one, breaking one breaking pitch and guys cannot hit his fastball because it is it is such a good. Pitch so could you like just describe like what like the what Makes Spencer strider like so good and like kind of put it in. 01:12:29 Speaker 5: Perspective he's intentional about everything he. 01:12:32 Speaker 8: Does so a few years ago in twenty, nineteen he Had Tommy john surgery and is That Clemson and he has a surgery and he's done for the entire, year and so the way he looked at it, Was, okay, well you, KNOW i can't pitch for a year year. Plus so What i'm gonna do Is i'm gonna tear everything down to the studs or WHAT i FEEL i should tear down to the. Studs i'm gonna look at, everything And i'm gonna be intentional about. Things so what he was is he was intentional about one his, routine two his arm, action three his. Delivery everything that went into everything he, did he thought, about he, evaluated he was intentional, about AND i think he set that intention of LIKE i think he, knew you, know, hey like being a strikeout, Pitcher like that's what's going to make me. Money like that's what's going to keep me in the big. Leagues that's what's going to get me, there keep me, there you, know make me. Money and WHAT i find most impressive About spencer is that he's incredibly, Cerebral like he's the smartest guy you ever talked. 01:13:32 Speaker 5: To like the way he, explains like if you ask. 01:13:34 Speaker 8: Him a question about something you see in baseball savon or like he was teaching me spin. DIRECTION i remember the first TIME i ever talked to him for an extended period of time in spring training was last, year and he was telling me about like spin direction and just like you, know just the percentage you know at which you wanted like those pitches to spend or not spin you, know if they're different, Pitches. 01:13:59 Speaker 5: You're, LIKE i understand maybe forty five. 01:14:02 Speaker 8: Percent of what this guy is saying at me right, now and my brain is, turning but it's not turning quickly. Enough and he is so, smart like just so, insightful and he takes it to the mound right like you really see, it because he's intentional about everything he, Does like he keeps a journal and he uses it to ride, about you, know different things like how he felt in this outing and if he was a little more tired in the fourth inning than he was last time, out maybe that's because he did a little extra this in his. 01:14:28 Speaker 5: Routine so let's tone that. Down every single thing. 01:14:31 Speaker 8: Is, calculated like, everything AND i, know Like Jesse chavez told me like he reminded him a little bit Of Sunny, gray which WHEN i asked that question around the, CLUBHOUSE i was thinking of it more as like, stuff, right like who's? 01:14:43 Speaker 5: Stuff does this guy look? Like can can you compare him to? 01:14:45 Speaker 8: Anybody But jesse took it in the other route of like mentally Like Sonny, gray in terms of like having everything mapped, out everything planned. Out suspencer's one intentional and two he's just he's, disciplined, Man like you guys know how it is starting, Pitchers like that's what it. Is it's like it's, routine it's. Discipline it's how much you're willing to like stick to. It And spencer does a really really good job of. That he's super smart on the mound, THOUGH i, mean it's. 01:15:12 Speaker 5: It's. Insane it doesn't make. 01:15:14 Speaker 8: Sense like you watch him, Pitch so if you were just to watch his delivery and you didn't see a radar, gun you would think he throws like ninety three because it looks, effortless like it doesn't look like he's like he's not like De, gram looks like he's just completely like slinging the ball, right Like spencer looks like he's just it's just so fluid and it's effortless and it comes out at like ninety seven ninety, eight and it. 01:15:41 Speaker 5: Probably plays up because he's. 01:15:44 Speaker 8: Got a lower slot right and so like to, HITTERS i think it looks like the fastball's never going, down so it's like you're not throwing it and it's not ever it's not ever arcing that you can't ever pick. It it's like it just goes, up so you think it's gonna be one, spot and then it's up here you swing under, it and so it's like and like you, SAID i, mean one break the slider is devastating because the fastball is so good he hardly even uses the change. Up he's like doing this with two. Pitches AND i mean you look at in his rookie, season he was the fastest player ever to get to two hundred strikeouts in a, Season faster Than Randy, johnson faster than, anybody you, Know Clayton, kershaw anybody like all the, Greats AND i mean he fell too short of the most consecutive nine strikeout. Games Nolan ryan had, Eleven spencer's got, nine and he's only twenty four to twenty five years. OLD i just think it's. EVERYTHING i know that's a really long, answer BUT i think the way to break it down for people wouldn't know him was be, like he's just incredibly, smart and he cares a lot about everything he. Does he lives and breeze. Baseball he's got other, passions but he loves. Baseball and you can tell because he just dives so much into everything and looks for every little edge and he's so disciplined what he's, doing and he's got the consistency that a lot of people his age might. Lack and then on the, mound obviously he's, got you, know superhuman, Talent like that's just you're you're not gonna you can be intentional and be smart and. 01:17:14 Speaker 5: You AND i could do. 01:17:14 Speaker 8: That we we all could do, that and we wouldn't, throw you, know the fastball like he does or even close to. It so IT'S i don't, know, man it's like the eighth wonder of the. WORLD i feel like you just he's one of those guys THAT i don't at the risk of sounding like A, HOMER i just watch him every five days LIKE i did To gram WHEN i cover The, mets and you just, like you're, like, dude if this guy stays, Healthy, like how is he not going to be one of the greatest ever do? It because he's already like you mentioned A tj his strikeout. Rate oh and it's probably gone up since he struck out twelve In. Toronto but WHEN i wrote that, story he had a he had a forty two percent strikeout. 01:17:49 Speaker 5: Rate STRIKE i right of over forty. PERCENT i think it was forty two four that. 01:17:53 Speaker 8: Was six percent higher than second Place Shoho, Tani like there is nobody even close To, spencer and it's, yeah you just look at him and you're, like, man if he stays, healthy how is he not gonna? 01:18:04 Speaker 5: Win like three cy. 01:18:05 Speaker 2: Youngs it's too bad we're not gonna See Bryce miller And strider now Because miller is supposed to start in the series for The mariners and he's only made three starts and obviously there's still a long way to go with. Him but people have compared the stuff and the fastball That miller's displayed so far a lot To strider because he throws this high rising fastball that people swing underneath and it's really. Heavy and to See strider do what HE i, mean that's the extreme right to what you were just talking. About to see How strider's done it and he doesn't have to use a third, PITCH i, mean it's pretty. 01:18:37 Speaker 3: Otherworldly it's. 01:18:39 Speaker 8: Yeah and the thing With strider too is like we talk to guys and it's like as a, hitter, LIKE i guess the only way people, say LIKE i, guess the only way is like if you get it, down like if he's, missing if he's missing. 01:18:52 Speaker 5: High and like not spotting real. 01:18:54 Speaker 8: Well but like you look at some of these strikeous he has and like its a fair amount of looking strikeouts for like a you, know backwards case for like a u you, know swing and. Misguy AND i think that's just because he dots the fastball so well at the top of his. Own so it's, LIKE i, know Like Austin riley told, me is like he's never hit he's never faced, him, obviously not even in spring. Training but he was, Like i'm sitting off speed and Like austin was like smiling and he said, that and it's, LIKE i guess that's what you got to, do because like you got to hope he's not, hitting you, know with his, fastball but he attacks so much and he knows his stuff is so good and he's so confident that he just goes right after guys the, fastball like he is not a, Nibbler like sometimes he'll walk a few guys and he's still young and he still works out the kinks with. Things BUT i, guess, like, YEAH i, say like the only way to do. It some guys say it looks like ping pong, balls because like you think it's gonna be, there and it's just like it's like an optical. Illusion it's like a magic, Trick like you can't you swing and it's not, there and it's like you're kind of hitting something that like it just looks like a bebe as it's coming, by like it kind. 01:19:55 Speaker 5: Of like it it doesn't make, Sense LIKE i. 01:19:57 Speaker 8: Know that's What Sam hillier told, me like one of his butt he's on like another, team it was like his fastball doesn't make, sense and LIKE i think guys just think it's like you kind of have to like get him, down like you have to hope he's missing a little bit so that he throws a mistake somewhere during the. BAT i. DON'T i don't, know because the stuff is like it's almost. Unhittable but, obviously you, know you gotta stay healthy and who knows how it all, ends but, yeah it's We're we're gonna see a lot more guys like like that, too Like stryder And miller and, others because guys know that's like the way they're gonna get paid. 01:20:31 Speaker 1: Nowadays spencer's gonna have a pretty big load to carry now. Though in The braves rotation because to other guys that were a big part of The braves one hundred and one win team last, Year Max freed And Kyle wright are both on the, shelf and you, know outside of outside of, them the replacements have been. Okay but as we were noting a little bit, BEFORE i, Mean Bryce, elders who was picked in the same draft As strider the round after slid into the rotation a little, bit but is and he's pitched, well but he's it seems like he's gonna regress a little. Bit do you think that rotation outside Of, strider which you know The mariners will see a little bit, Of, UH i. Don't i'm not exactly. SURE i didn't write down who the three that The braves are gonna line up against. Him but outside of, THAT i, mean do you do you think this is a rotation that can stand up outside Of Spencer strider without the likes of those two on the? Shelf? 01:21:25 Speaker 8: Yeah, Yeah and like even IF i, DIDN'T i would think it could just because the lineup is so good like that they're gonna have a chance to win most. Nights but look Like Charlie morton's having his best start in a few. Years he had really slow. Starts the last two, seasons he's looked a lot. Better he kind of ages like a fine. Line like to, me the ball looks like it's still coming out, well LIKE i you, know who knows if he's ever gonna have the stuff of like twenty, seventeen twenty Eighteen. Charlie but like, dude for thirty nine years old guy pushing forty like he's still on the ball really really, well and, yeah like he's he's been, Awesome Bryce. Elder bryce is an interesting case BECAUSE i know you say what a lot of people, say like they look at The savant. Pages i'm sure you, did and they see a lot of blue right and they see, like, okay the regression monster's kind of. COMING i don't really like WHEN i See, bryce LIKE i see, like, OKAY i see The to, me what stands out is kind of the hard hit rate is. 01:22:23 Speaker 5: Around you, know it's forty eight point five. Percent that's not. 01:22:26 Speaker 8: Good but what sometimes it looks like you need to the quality of contact matters in a, way, right like ninety six miles an mile an. Hour balls can look, different you, know depending on where they're, hit what they, are what pitch they come. On whatever it might be to, ME i don't Think Bryce elder's gotten hit super hard in a lot of his. Starts so WHAT i kind of looked at BECAUSE i was going over those few weeks ago and writing the. Story the ground ball, rate, though is almost fifty seven, percent SO i guess you can hit him. 01:23:00 Speaker 5: Hard but if you're hitting him on the, ground The braves tend to play really good. 01:23:03 Speaker 8: Defense they've got a great, infield like that's usually gonna work out for. You and the fly ball rates under twenty, percent and the line drives, are you, know almost twenty, two so, LIKE i don't, know like he's still getting enough ground balls for, me like so until he, does until he has a couple bad, starts you, KNOW i think he deserves the benefit of the, doubt which is, Interesting BUT i do think they have enough pieces in terms of, like, Look strider's gonna have to carry the, load like you, Said charlie's gonna have to be Good bryce, too but they're gonna need somebody. Else they've done two bullpen games in the last four, games and they've lost both of. Them they had a chance to win both if things go a little, differently but. 01:23:43 Speaker 5: Eventually that's not. 01:23:44 Speaker 8: Sustainable LIKE i think they've been able to do it because of the off days that they've had kind of clump together in this little. Stretch but they're gonna Need Jared schuster Or Dylan dodd Or Michael soroka, eventually Or. 01:23:55 Speaker 5: Alan winans or. 01:23:57 Speaker 8: Anybody they're just gonna need some consistency from Some but as you guys, know you guys followed the, game you can you can't pull The Tampa Bay rays stuff. Anymore if you option the, guy he's got to be down for fifteen. Days so like that's another, consideration is whoever it's gonna. 01:24:12 Speaker 5: Be you, know you hope he. 01:24:13 Speaker 2: Sticks you, KNOW i was hoping to ask you about this, too because we talked at decent length here about this upcoming series this, weekend AND i think it's gonna be a really fun. One and The braids are obviously a prominent team in the. Game but looking back to last year, series right you were, There you saw that, series especially that, finale which was maybe the game of the. YEAR i, mean did you see a crazier game last year than That sunday game In seattle where The braves score five and then The mariners walk it off on a walkoff homer after a game tying. 01:24:45 Speaker 8: Homer, no that WAS i think that was my and sorry that The braves were, said that was just the most exciting game last, Season like that was the best, game, like, dude the fact that it. 01:24:57 Speaker 5: Was and it was the bottom of the lineup. 01:24:58 Speaker 8: Too when The braves came back against The mariners's best. Relievers it Was Michael harris and Then Robbie. Grossman Robbie grossman hit the go ahead shot and Then kenley comes, out so and you guys know where like the kind of the angles of the safe co press box and like just kind of what it's like looking so basically you're kind of LIKE i feel like there you're more field level than a lot of, Places like it's a great. View AND i just, remember, dude That julio home. Run that was, like to, me that looked like the hardest Ball i've ever seen hit, Live like that looked like it just got out and, Hurt like you heard the crack of the bat and it was like the game was, Over like it wasn't even like there were like one. Second it got out in like a second or, so it felt like AND i just remember that series being so fun because like in, baseball it's not like THE, nfl or it's not like THE, nba like if you cover like you, know The warriors in THE nba or something, like chances on the crowds are going to be pretty good most, places or LIKE nfl like only sixteen, games crowds are going to be pretty. Decent baseball, man like you go To oakland until Like, cincinnati and to like places like honestly that have good fan bases but where their teams haven't given, them you, know the front offices haven't given them anything to cheer. For seattle was like that atmosphere was, crazy AND i think that last game the roof was closed because of the white you, know it was rainy that day and there was some wildfire stuff like, smoke and so the roof was closed and it was. Insane LIKE i don't other than, like, okay other. 01:26:30 Speaker 5: Than San diego in the home in. 01:26:32 Speaker 8: Their home opener In april and Then philly in the, POSTSEASON i. 01:26:38 Speaker 5: DIDN'T i don't THINK i heard. 01:26:39 Speaker 8: A louder environment then then Safe coo that day That julio hit the home, run you, know the walk, out like they came back and he hit the walk. 01:26:48 Speaker 5: Off it was it was just. 01:26:50 Speaker 8: Insane it was LIKE i was like that, ONE i was, Like, okay The mariners are, back but like two and they're going to the. 01:26:58 Speaker 5: Postseason but LIKE i, was it was the most exciting game of the year for. 01:27:02 Speaker 1: ME i THINK i really do think that win from The mariner's perspective was like it was the defining win of, yeah they're like this is a this is a postseason. TOO i mean they they did scuff a little bit like the couple of weeks after, that but that, win it was like it was pretty, Certain like the resilience was was absolutely. There IT i can't think of a of a series that has been more memorable That i've watched in ten. Years you, know growing up Watching mariners, baseball there wasn't wasn't that much of it. There there aren't regular season series like, That so THAT'S i think that's also what made it so. 01:27:36 Speaker 8: Special, yeah and all three were good, games like had you, know potential turning, points even if none of the endings were like that, finale but had potential turning, points and like it almost felt LIKE i think the hardest thing in baseball is like if You're Julio rodriguez or LIKE i don't, Know Cal rawl or, whoever and you like see two absolute bombs get hit off you like, that and you're, like oh, nice we were just gonna like take a series from The braves and now we just kind of, like you, KNOW i just saw two balls get hit into the second, Deck like that's pretty. Sweet LIKE i think it's hard in baseball where you're not continually like, basketball you keep running up. THERE i would think it's hard to mentally just like regroup and just be like BECAUSE i remember the energy in the building was just shot after, That like it was just like it was, like, oh man like but for some reason it was like man like they just breathed life right back into it so, quickly and it was LIKE i just remember being super impressed BECAUSE i was, like, man it just felt like one of those games Like, wow The braves just like punch these guys in the gut and like they're not getting, up like it's it's, over like and Ken lee just comes in and like they just lit him. Up like it was like it was like they punched right. BACK i just remember it was just so impressive AND i, REMEMBER, I, yeah that was that was the Most that was one of the most fun series of the year for, Sure LIKE i can't Really i'll say it's usually not like that on the, Road like that is not you, Know i've SEEN dc when it's pretty, Loud philly when it's. Loud obviously that that was up there with like the best Series i've ever, covered just because of, That like all three were good, games two good, teams two, contenders AND i can't remember seeing like a better finale than, that although though WHEN i did cover The, METS i covered The Edwin diaz game where they they gave up a nine run lead in the ninth inning IN, dc and. 01:29:30 Speaker 5: Dude you're like rewriting your story and you just. 01:29:33 Speaker 9: Hear like like like the crowd like every three, second like you're just like it's going so fast and like it's erupting every minute because things are, happening AND i, think, UH i Think Paul sewald actually started that demise and then they had to bring In Edwin, diaz and Then Edwin diaz just got lit, up and then Eventually Kurt suzuki hit like a walk off three run bomb. 01:29:55 Speaker 8: And The mets gave up like a nine run lead and That So i've seen some pretty crazy ones BECAUSE i covered The mets for a couple of, years but that finish was as exciting as Any i've, seen. 01:30:04 Speaker 5: The, one you, know the one against The mariners with the who AND i swear To god like That julio home. 01:30:09 Speaker 8: Run it's like you you would get whiplash if you like snapped your neck that fast to like try to see where the ball, went just because it's like you just like you look at it and it already it already went to. 01:30:18 Speaker 5: Like Edgar's man. 01:30:19 Speaker 8: Like it was like it was like already on its way like probably served at the. Table it was just like it was one of the best home RUNS i. Ever it was just like the, scorched like it could. NOT i think it registered at like one sixteen seven or something like, that AND i was, like there's no, Shot like it had to have been one, Point LIKE i that's that's an understatement. 01:30:40 Speaker 2: To that, point you were talking about some of Those mariners being unfazed after coughing up the. LEAD i don't know if you ever Saw julio's reaction that THE tv broadcast caught after. That it was one of the craziest Things i've ever. Seen so obviously they give up that, lead you would think everybody's gonna be. Dejected julio's jogging off the field as he's ready to come up in the ninth, inning dudes smiling like not in the, way like he thinks it's funny they coughed up a. Lead it was, like, Yeah i'm not really. Worried i've kind of got. This and he comes up in the ninth inning and hits that absolute missile of a home run that at bat more than any he had last, year was the one that always stood out to, me not just because of how hard he hit, it but the way he reacted. 01:31:19 Speaker 3: Running off the field, too that he was just totally. Unfazed it was pretty. 01:31:21 Speaker 5: Wild, yeah, yeah it's. 01:31:23 Speaker 8: INTERESTING i think fans like to see players be all like wound tight and be, like, ah we gotta take accountability and like da da, da and like we've BEEN i just, think, like hey, man there's a lot of, like, yeah, eventually sometimes you gotta like kind of take accountability and like be serious about. Things BUT i think there's a lot of benefit to having a guy Like julio in your, Clubhouse like guys like that who are pretty care free and like they they view you, know they just have fun like and it's just like it keeps it, loose AND i think you need that over one hundred and sixty two games like. 01:31:50 Speaker 5: That that sets the tone for guys not. 01:31:52 Speaker 1: Panicking last thing, here justin before we wrap, up just want to make sure you're gonna be In seattle for The All Star. 01:31:58 Speaker 8: Game, no, so Actually i'm getting The All star break, off so. UNFORTUNATELY i Like, seattle BUT i think The braves are in Like tampa the series before so and they usually have a lot Of All. Stars so our our first so Our braves features guy Or sports features guy is gonna go do that at The All star. Break he used to keep was the Former braves guy before you, know BEFORE i got the, job when he moved into the features, Role so he's gonna do. THAT i Love, seattle, THOUGH i MEAN I i wish they were playing like like if they were playing In San francisco right before The All Star, BREAK i might have considered, going but like that's, what you, know your only time off is like A baseball beat guy and the you, KNOW i want to cover An All star game, someday but this YEAR i was gonna have to do. It starts like the activities start Like monday and stuff in terms of like talking to the, players Like monday, afternoon and it was gonna be tough to get from Like Saint pete all the way To seattle and not have a flight be, delayed you, know and have literally room for. 01:32:56 Speaker 5: Air so UNFORTUNATELY I i will not be. 01:32:58 Speaker 1: There that is. Unfortunate we're gonna we'll miss, you, though we'll enjoy it for. 01:33:03 Speaker 8: You, yeah, YEAH i saw So lyle's been doing some ig reels and, LIKE i NEED i need a couple more of those guys around the. 01:33:12 Speaker 5: LEAGUE i need. Ice we Saw Taylor. TREMMELL i think we've. 01:33:16 Speaker 8: Seen i'm trying to think of who else you, did but we need We i'm looking for The All Star game content from you. 01:33:21 Speaker 2: Guys, listen if if they give us a credential for, it we're, there like say less, Like i'm all for. 01:33:28 Speaker 5: It YEAH i. Would IF i were, YOU i would. 01:33:31 Speaker 2: Apply it can't. HURT i, MEAN I i'll definitely. Apply i'll just keep my fingers crossed that they look At Oh mariner's, podcast sure check them right, Off. 01:33:41 Speaker 5: Hey hometown podcast man. 01:33:44 Speaker 1: Say it just if they, yeah see consult with the with the hometown pr and they give the thumbs. UP i, mean we're not gonna be the only content people there, is like WHAT i. Say so it's like they. 01:33:55 Speaker 8: Can't also LIKE i enjoy watching those videos and stuff LIKE i it grows the game like. That that's What i've always said about stuff like, that is like there's so much room for different things in. Media and LIKE i don't, know Like i'm not a big like Gate i'm not big on, gatekeeping AND i just, think LIKE i just think there's baseball should be doing what you're, Doing like we should be. 01:34:19 Speaker 5: Growing they should be growing the. 01:34:20 Speaker 8: Game in these ways with different kind of like how The Players association did the videos from THE wbc and stuff of like different. 01:34:28 Speaker 5: Players LIKE i thought that was, sweet. 01:34:29 Speaker 8: Man like people just want To like sometimes people don't want to read a story for fifteen minutes or watch a video for ten like. What sometimes they just want like a little thing where they can have like fun doing it and it can be like mindless for them to watch and they don't have to like put any effort into. It and so LIKE i don't, KNOW i just think like anything that grows the game is a good thing because as we're, seeing like when there are these rule changes with the pitch clock and stuff, like it can be crisp and it can be fun and you can perfectly or accurately show off the talent on. 01:34:59 Speaker 2: The fet well justin we go, ahead low, OH i was just gonna, say, yeah, No i'm with. You like our our kind of goal with it is just try to get some personality out of these. Players and, obviously like we think all the writers like you or like all The Seattle beat writers do a great, job but we're just trying to give people a little bit of a different side to. IT i, guess just you, know try to break a smile with some. Guys we're not asking for like like hours of their time. 01:35:24 Speaker 3: And you, know just trying to bring something. UNIQUE i. 01:35:26 Speaker 8: Guess, yeah it's, fun it's, light and guys like doing that more than they like talking for stories, sometimes you, know or standing in front of a camera doing, it you, know you know LOCAL tv hit like they, yeah, trust but guys love doing that. STUFF i, see like the DIFFERENT i saw. One there are a couple of guys who do it on TikTok and like they, yeah you should. See it's like they'll you, know it's like, players like they'll ask players about their gloves or something like, that and it's like it's, like, oh like would you customize? 01:35:56 Speaker 5: This take us through. 01:35:57 Speaker 8: It and it's like they're so happy to speak about that, stuff happier than they are to speak about like an adjustment to hitting like curve balls or. 01:36:03 Speaker 5: Something you, know. 01:36:05 Speaker 1: How are you going to break out of this? 01:36:06 Speaker 5: Slump how are you gonna break out of the? Slump? NO I i, YEAH I. 01:36:11 Speaker 8: AND i think about, it and it's hilarious to me Because i'm, like oh, yeah if somebody was like consistently asking me about, THAT i would. Love, LIKE i think it's. LIGHT i think it's. FUN i, say keep doing. IT i just want to see all. Time good, Guy, paul see you all of them those we're gonna. 01:36:27 Speaker 1: TRY i think he's on the. 01:36:28 Speaker 5: List, yeah do, it do. IT i can't. 01:36:31 Speaker 1: WAIT i think relievers are always the best because you, know they they essentially fuck around most of the game anyway until it's about their time to, Pitch so they're usually always for the most, part depending on depending on the, guy but for the most part in a in a somewhat good mood most of the. Time, Well, justin we appreciate you carving some time out of your your busy. Schedule you obviously have a beat to, cover but we appreciate. You we could we could have gone for like two three hours if we actually wanted, To but it's always good to catch up on SOME asu stuff and some baseball stuff as. Well you you cover it with the best of, them so we appreciate you taking some. 01:37:02 Speaker 8: Time oh, thanks, Guys, YEAH i appreciate it was good to catch up with, you. 01:37:05 Speaker 2: Guys great interview With Justin. Tiscano we certainly loved having him. On, OKAY, tj let's go down on the farm. Here who have you had your eyes on this past. 01:37:20 Speaker 1: Week we're gonna have our first repeat customer of the. Season, yes, yes, yes we've already touched On emerson like we touched on him after his first, Start but he just had one of the best starts he's had in his minor league, career a career high ten strikeouts this past. Weekend five and two thirds, innings ten, strikeouts just two, walks four, hits and lyle he's quietly had a pretty good season so far down In, arkansas and if they need, HIM i, mean he could absolutely pitch for The. Mariners this, Season he's had two pretty crummy starts in two very small. Samples he allowed nine earned runs on three innings on four to, twenty hopefully nothing else was affecting him on that, day and then two earned runs and two thirds of an inning back on the second Of. May outside of, that he's thrown twenty four and two thirds innings and he's allowed three earned. Runs it's pretty it's pretty good run prevention right, there and the strikeout stuff is tacking. Up the control has been not fantastic For. Emerson he's been HOVERING i think Around he's walking about three per NINE i, think which is not great but something that can always be harnessed. In and he got some good distribution on his strikeouts this week. TOO i mean he got six strikeouts on his fastball and then he mixed in two strikeouts piece on a slider and then two on his change up as, well which was really nice to see that he had all three of his pitches. Working and there's one thing we, know right you get your fastball working and The mariners will look at you and be, like all, right, boom You're you're a major leaguer if you have a good. 01:38:50 Speaker 2: Fastball he had a big arsenal pitch is when he was drafted with a hard. Fastball so if he can start to work some of that, back you're looking at a guy that could still live up to the. Hype if The mariners needed him this, year do you think he'd be out of the, bullpen he'd be a, starter or do you think either. 01:39:05 Speaker 1: They needed him to if they absolutely needed him to? Start, yeah, YEAH i think, SO i do. Already why NOT i, mean like him Or, DOLLARD i guess you kind of shrug your shoulders a tiny bit more upside versus, control or you maybe just Thro Tommy. MALONE i guess it really. Depends it probably depends on the. Team in the. 01:39:26 Speaker 2: Scenario he's been off to a great, start which is all you can hope. For another guy that's been off to a great. Start the Guy i'm gonna highlight this. Week after spending some time In, tacoma got to sit back and watch a couple of. GAMES i had one big. TAKEAWAY i think the next position player to get the call up from the minor leagues is gonna Be Jake. SHINER i Know Mike ford's going. OFF i think it's gonna Be Jake. Shiner this guy hit three home runs this past week in The Reno. Series he has twelve on the. Year that's tied for third in all of minor league. Baseball he's got a nine to seventy SEVEN. Ops he's got a one to twenty NINE wrc, plus so he's hitting twenty nine percent above league average right. 01:40:07 Speaker 3: Now In TRIPLE. 01:40:08 Speaker 2: A he's walking nearly fifteen percent of the, time he's striking out under twenty percent of the. Time the difference between him And Mike ford, is you know Who Mike ford is as a big leaguer at this. Point he just hasn't ever really clicked outside a little bit of a twenty nineteen, stint but otherwise he's just kind of a. Journeyman Jake shiner's twenty. Seven he can play both corner infield, spots can play some, outfield and he is just absolutely tearing the cover off the ball right. 01:40:34 Speaker 3: Now that was my big. Takeaway Jake shiner is the Guy i'm, highlighting. 01:40:38 Speaker 1: And it's not like he's gonna call, up come up and Take Colton long's. JOG i it's it's it's not that, level but your injury. Replacement absolutely it could. Happen the infield depth is that. Thin there's if there's a guy who goes down on the, infield you're right he's. Up Because Dylan moore is not like still hasn't gone out on a rehab assignment, yet so you're right that is. Him and you, know put into some, context TRIPLE a numbers can be a tiny bit, inflated but you're still slugging the ball that. Much it's still pretty. 01:41:09 Speaker 2: Good, agreed and with some versatility. Too the thing about for it is he's just a he's basically A. Dh you can play him at first if you have. To you can actually Stick shiner at some different, Spots so keep some tabs on him because, again he's not going to come up and replace, anybody but he could be a bench bat at some point and make some impact as a bench, bat especially with a little bit of. 01:41:31 Speaker 1: Pop that's someone we'll have to keep an eye on as this summer goes. Along we never know what happens with all these, injuries so keep an eye On Jake shiner as we roll. Along, okay, well let's get to Our Russell wilson umpire of the. Week would you like to bring this gentleman. 01:41:47 Speaker 2: IN i would congratulations To Alfonso. Marquez he was behind the plate for The Diamondbacks giants game On may the. Twelfth Christian walker of The diamondbacks is standing in the. Dugout his Teammate Nick ahmed draws a, walk so there was a cold ball pitch off the, zone naturally is his. Teammate Christian walker starts. Clapping he, says like at a, Boy, nick like good, approach way to work the count 'or on? 01:42:16 Speaker 3: It first? 01:42:16 Speaker 2: Base he is simply. Clapping, well all Fonsar marquez didn't like. That he turned right around and he Threw Christian walker right out of the ball, game right, out And walker's standing, There he's got both his hands in the. Air then they go to his, head like both hands on his. Head he's, like what in the world DID i? 01:42:35 Speaker 3: Do you? 01:42:36 Speaker 2: Know Christian we're sitting here wondering the exact same. Thing Congratulations Alfonso. 01:42:42 Speaker 1: Marquez there are a lot of Things i've Never i've seen a lot of things in. BASEBALL i don't Think i've quite seen. THAT i, mean that's honestly, impressive even if it was a sarcastic, clap a bit of a sarcastic. COMPLIMENT i mean he is still literally clapping that the umpire got a call right and twice in a. Row it was two straight. Swings he's, like good. JOB i don't know how that deserves an. Ejection so good, Job Alfonso. Marquez you you did it this. Time it had. It it really. Caught as soon as you know it's making the, Podcast so you know it's making our episode this. Week When lyle AND i see it for the first time send it to each other, instantly it's, like, yup it's. Done we've got ours this. Week it's like it when it answers. Itself it's. 01:43:34 Speaker 2: Beautiful, see maybe you as fans sit there and think to, yourself, say do they really find an umpire every? Week how hard do they have to look for this? Stuff not very. HARD i mean it's right in our face every. 01:43:48 Speaker 3: Week. Guys are these? 01:43:50 Speaker 2: Umpires their baseball savant page is usually in the ninetieth to one hundredth percentile in terms of missed. 01:43:57 Speaker 1: Calls the funny thing you mentioned that we have to find, Them, no they find us it's pretty. 01:44:05 Speaker 2: Easy, yes they. Do and you know, what they're gonna keep finding. US i don't think we're ever going to struggle to find these. THINGS i really, don't so Congratulations Alfonso. Marquez The Russell wilson requirement you met is you did not let a play. Develop you were pretty insufferable to Throw walker out of the. Game so the award's years this. Week with, that let's get into speak your mind. 01:44:29 Speaker 1: Here speak your mind. 01:44:31 Speaker 3: Spot that would be. Unwise what is necessary is never. Unwise what are you thinking about this? 01:44:42 Speaker 1: Week, well after a pretty Underwhelming game seven On saturday between The Boston celtics and The philadelphia seventy six, ERS i would just like to give a shout Out lyle to the. Process let's give around uple the. Process, yep good, job, Guys good Job. Philadelphia the, Process, lyle which is now about a decade old exactly just about has resulted in six playoff, appearances Five Eastern conference semi, finals three game seven, losses and not a trip past the second. Round Congratulations. Philadelphia the process. 01:45:28 Speaker 8: Is. 01:45:29 Speaker 3: MEDIOCRE i don't have much more to add to. 01:45:34 Speaker 2: That they just can't ever get out of The Eastern, conference even though you had THE mvp of the league this, year they still could not get out of The. East they couldn't even get to The Eastern Conference. 01:45:43 Speaker 1: Finals, no and yeah Hit Joel embiid And James harden completely folded On. Sunday They joel And bi did not look like AN mvp On. Sunday you know who looked like AN mvp On sunday In game? Seven Jason tatum on the other, Side that's who it looked. Like, oh by the, way who The sixers had chance to draft instead drafted a guy who could not shoot a. Basketball that that was a decision that came. Here The sixers for four years in a row picked in the top three and got one player who still remains on the. Roster one who Was joel embi THE. Mvp they Chose Ben. Simmons Ben, simmons they chose Over Jimmy butler When butler was a free agent after the twenty nine twenty, eighteen twenty nineteen season And Jimmy Butler's miami heat in The Eastern Conference finals and The sixers who he left have have not reached Where jimmy is right now in this current. 01:46:39 Speaker 2: Iteration, incredible incredible. Stuff, well there's always next, year but will it be a different. RESULT i think we have our. Doubts, okay, oh go, ahead go. 01:46:53 Speaker 1: Ahead, NO i was just gonna, say you didn't like tease any sort of prediction From. Adams so over's crystal ball about this Predictable game seven ending last. 01:47:04 Speaker 2: Week, ooh maybe they're trying to set up A Lakers celtics. Final that's my best. 01:47:10 Speaker 1: Guess that'll be a rating. Sponsor BUT i think we're gonna end up Getting Nuggets celtics. 01:47:15 Speaker 3: Instead probably you're probably. 01:47:18 Speaker 2: Right, well we'll circle back to it in a couple weeks, Here, okay what's on my mind this? WEEK i would like to personally say thank you to the fan base of The Houston. Astros now why DO i say? That if you go to our TikTok, channel which this video is on all our social media. Channels but we did a round of fan, interviews which we've been doing a lot this. Year we ask people what their least favorite team in baseball. Is, naturally a lot of A marion's fans said The. Astros they said they're, cocky they think they're, cheaters you, know all the usual. Stuff, Well astros fans didn't seem to love, that because if you go look at our, replies we have two hundred and twenty nine replies to this. TikTok almost all of them Are astros fans who have come across this video and now have taken the need to hop into the replies and just fire off, comments which by the, way helps our. Engagement SO i just wanted to say thank. YOU i have one more thing after, this But i'll let you get a quick word in. 01:48:22 Speaker 8: It just. 01:48:23 Speaker 1: Funny it is. FUNNY i didn't think you could possibly get so rent free with less than a minute long, video but you somehow managed it. 01:48:34 Speaker 2: So to truly show how THANKFUL i. AM i didn't tell you what i'd say For speak Your, mind But i've written a little poem For astros fans to read here on the podcast For speak Your. Mind and NOW i can't take credit of origin for this poem. IDEA i, mean this poem itself is. Mine WHERE i got the idea is shout Out jerry, O'Connell who has possibly done this on a couple of. PODCASTS i think these are hilarious TJ's whatever about, them BUT i wrote one for myself here to read To astros. 01:49:05 Speaker 3: Fans it's, short but. 01:49:06 Speaker 2: It's still a few, lines AND i Thought i'd just read it to everybody. Here so to the fans of The Houston, Astros, Houston, Houston, houston you constantly dive into comments, sections trying to bring the fury and the. Pain But, Houston, Houston, houston all this shows is that you are clearly not ready to. Reign, Houston, Houston. Houston you really love to, quote, tweet and pay For twitter Blue, Houston, Houston. Houston you must not have better things to. Do, Houston, Houston, houston always bringing up the sweep yourd On alvarez and, yes no one's denying. It your team is really good at this, Game, Houston, Houston. Houston you all seem to care more about screaming at other fan bases and starting social media uprisings to simply try and defend your. Name, Houston, Houston. Houston all of you filled up with so much insecurity and. Hate But, Houston, Houston, Houston i'm sorry to break you the. News the world will never stop bringing up trash. Cangate thank You astros, fans and that is my personal thank you to the city Of. Houston so let's clap it up For astros. 01:50:21 Speaker 1: Fans that was. GREAT i didn't know you had that in. You WHO i, know call me a natural. Poet you must have been great at ap. 01:50:34 Speaker 3: Lit oh, NO i. 01:50:37 Speaker 2: WAS i don't even THINK i took ap. LIT i didn't bother, yeah oh, yeah forget me taken an ap. CLASS i mean as somebody who just despies school, like no. Way but, hey WHEN i care about, Something i'll put some thought and effort into, it just LIKE i did this. One so shout out the city Of houston in. 01:50:56 Speaker 1: Summer we do really appreciate The Houston astros fan base boosting up A mariner's TikTok. ACCOUNT i, mean thank. You probably not your intention at, all but it is doing nothing but bringing eyeballs on, us which is. Fantastic thank you so, Much astros. FANS i hope you all get a trash can For. 01:51:14 Speaker 3: Christmas feel free to do it on every. 01:51:17 Speaker 2: Video, seriously if you guys want to leave two hundred hate comments on every, video hey boosts. Engagement i'm not going to tell you. No so, again that's just a personal thank you for me, Too astros, fans and really the entire city Of. HOUSTON i thought that'd be a nice way to cap off this. Show but with, that that just about wraps up this edition of The Marine layer. Podcast you guys, know if you want to listen to the full, podcast you can do so On, Apple, Spotify google And. Amazon we've got the full video podcast on YouTube with our brand new. Background if you want to follow us on social media and see all these tiktoks that astros fans love to leave replies, to you can do so On. TikTok you can also follow us On, Instagram, twitter and YouTube shorts At Marine layer pot and one final, time leave us voicemails to. Guys we want your. Voicemails we want to hear from you. Guys we want to put your voices on the, show so send us voicemails for T J. Matthewson this Is Lyle. Goldstein as, always we thank you guys for tuning in and we'll talk to you next. 01:52:13 Speaker 3: Week