Episode 37: MLB Futures Game Recap, Mike Ford Is Raking, And When Do The Mariners Qualify As Buyers?

00:00:00 Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number thirty seven of the Marine Layer Podcast with TJ. Matthewson and Lyle Goldstein. On today's pod, we'll recap the first couple of days of All Star Week. Of course, by the time this comes out, you'll know everything that happened, but we were there to experience it all. We'll talk about some of our favorite things from the first couple of days. Be sure to stay tuned to our social channels for some of our content that comes out related to all this. Throughout the next couple of weeks, we have our now two Mariners storylines. Now that we're to two episodes a week, we go down on the farm and we'll recap the Futures game we were there on Saturday, and we'll tell you what we saw from Harry Ford and Jonathan class Say. We'll go around baseball with our MLB wrap arounds, another Russell Wilson umpire of the Week, and we'll close out the show with Speak your Mind. 00:00:48 Speaker 2: You heard TJ mention our social media channels if you're not already, go over to Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, YouTube shorts. Give us a follow at Marine Layer Pod, especially right now with it being all Star Week were pumping out a ton of content. You're not gonna want to miss it. We think it's some really cool stuff, so be sure to head over there. In terms of our full podcast, go over to Apple and Spotify. If you're watching on YouTube and go give us a download, rate it, review it. Same thing. If you're listening on the audio platforms, go watch us on YouTube too with our full video podcast, Rate review, subscribe, give us five stars. Be sure to check us out everywhere. 00:01:24 Speaker 1: Let's get it rolling, and we welcome you to this episode of the Marine Layer Podcast, recording late at night here on Sunday, July ninth. And if you can't hear it in my voice, we've had a lot of fun the first two days of All Star Week. The Futures Game was Saturday, the Draft was today. We've had a blast through the first couple of days of these All Star Week festivities. It is so good to have the game back here. 00:02:04 Speaker 2: It's so cool that it's back in Seattle. I mean, we've waited forever for this. We don't have any memory of it back in two thousand and one, or barely any when it was here all those years ago, twenty plus years ago, but to actually get to experience it now in real time. Oh, by the way, with it being the inaugural year of this podcast, it's pretty cool. 00:02:25 Speaker 1: It is pretty cool. And just a reminder to all those listening wondering why I didn't announce a guest in the intro when we said, okay, now that we're officially going to two podcasts a week, we're gonna have our guest episode come out on Wednesday, and we're gonna have a full podcast episode with all the topics on Friday. Well, due to some scheduling issues with Joe Doyle, who we will have on the podcast releasing on Friday, where we're going to cover the Mariners entire draft. It's gonna be a fun conversation with Joe. We got to talk to them today, but some scheduling mix or some scheduling complications with Joe lead us to we're just going to push him to Friday's episode, So that'll be our guest episode everything MLB draft. We saw the first two rounds today. We'll just mention the fact that the Mariners drafted Cole Emerson, Johnny Farmelo, what a last name. That's a great last name, Ty Pete and Ben Williamson with their first four picks, the first three in the first round and Ben Williamson a bit of a money saver in the second round. We'll get Joe's thoughts on that on Friday when we released that episode. Should be good. We'll have a lot more to comb through as well with some of the later rounds. But we went to a draft watch party today with our partners at Just Baseball phenomenal eBay trading card event at Gantry Public House next to the stadium. Was a really fun environment. I got to see all the guys all together and it was a fun experience. 00:03:51 Speaker 2: We were really really happy to be a part of it. We weren't sure how the turnout was going to be, of course, you can't know before you actually get there. It was really good. There was people filing in all throughout the day doing some card trading. There was food and drinks, there was giveaways. It was really fun. In fact, I wasn't expecting this, but they kind of handed us off the mic at one point to help give away to a prize of some cards to a listener, and they just handed us the mic because there's a bunch of Mariners fans in there and they go, Hey, these are our guys at the Marine Layer podcast. They're new to Just Baseball. We're gonna have them ask ask you guys a trivia question. And I kinda to think on the spot, what in the world am I going to ask? And I'm sitting there, Okay, what's not too hard? What's not too easy? I'm thinking? So I went with how many All Stars were in the All Star Game the last time it was here in two thousand and one, which was good. Nobody got it right away and then eventually somebody landed on the eight and they won the prez But yeah, it was it was a blast. The Just Baseball guys were doing a live stream of the draft the entire time. We hopped on when the Mariners picked, which was pretty fun. Yeah, it was. It was really really a cool event. 00:04:57 Speaker 1: And that's why I think it's such great timing that we joined the Just Baseball podcast network when we did, because they're all here in Seattle, most of them are. I mean, we've gotten to see Jack for the first time in years, Arm for the first time in years. You and I had never met Peter before, so it's really good to meet Peter will as well, Colby and then two people from Denna Geek who they partner with, Chris and Jess, were there as well. And it's really good to meet all the people who make just baseball happen, which now in small part, make us happen as well. And it was great to have everyone together. Sat together for the Futures Game on Saturday, and then again for today was the Draft watch party. We'll try and catch up with them as well on Monday or Tuesday. It's gonna be pretty crowded for the derby and the All Star Game, so might not be quite as easy, but we'll do our best. And I don't know, dog, I'm really looking forward to the next two days. It's gonna be fun. Everyone listening to this is gonna know if Julia won the home run derby. But the anticipation right now, you know, we don't know. 00:06:00 Speaker 2: We don't know, we don't know at all. So we're just sitting here hoping. We're hoping he starts lifting the ball a lot, and hey, maybe that turns the second half around. But I'll tell you, seeing Harry Ford get the ovation that he got during the Futures Game, it only makes me that much more excited for Julio because you would merit his fans in there. The future game wasn't filled up or anything with fifty thousand people. There's people channing Harry, Harry, Harry. As he's out there, I'm thinking, if they're going like this, if they're channing like this for Harry Ford, what is it going to be like for Julio Monday night? 00:06:32 Speaker 1: Did that give you hope for people in the pen, your general Finn in the pen, did that give you hope that they might actually know a little bit more what you're talking about. 00:06:43 Speaker 2: The fact they knew who Harry Ford was is a win in itself. That is a win in itself. However, I don't know if our data points are skewed because it's All Star week without our usual people in the pen. 00:06:55 Speaker 1: We've talked to some great people in the pen, don't get us wrong. I mean across our social tie us. We really have talked to some great people. But you know, Low and I tend to agree that your general, super super super casual fan that hangs out in the pen, you might not know who the Mariner's top thirty prospects are. And that's totally okay. But then to see Harry. We're standing there to see Harry walking out to the bullpen, and we're standing there kind of in the back of the pen and they're chanting. You know, look at us, like what the fuck are they talking? Who are they chanting to? Like this is the Futures game? And then Harry's like, yeah, I think he's having a good time. 00:07:30 Speaker 2: That was great. I mean the fact they gave him the applause and everything. I think it was cool for him and it was certainly cool for the fans. Yeah. I had a blast watching the Futures game. I'll tell you what. I got a kick out of the celebrity softball game for the few winnings we were there. We've been going back and forth about this all week. TJ hates the celebrity softball game. 00:07:49 Speaker 1: I waste time. 00:07:51 Speaker 2: I was eager to see Felix getting it bat, so I enjoyed it. 00:07:55 Speaker 1: What did he do with his that bat? I don't even remember. 00:07:57 Speaker 2: Well, he hit a home run later in the game, but you would us to leave at that point, so I didn't get to see that in person. Good but we in the bat he had I think he hit like a groundball single. We saw Brett Boone hit a home run and Mike Cameron, but. 00:08:10 Speaker 1: Not feeling not to slay Felix, he did pick right up where he left off, giving up two runs in the top of. 00:08:15 Speaker 2: The first Yeah, that's that's quite the way to treat a hometown legend when he when he comes home is is instead of the warm welcomes and cheers, he just like, I see you're still giving up runs. 00:08:29 Speaker 1: You know. I try not to be too hard at Felix, but if he ever feels offended by his words, he can say, okay, so I'll look at my bank account and you can look at yours, and then we'll see who's actually happy here. And then I'm like, you know what, you know a pretty good point, you know. Yeah, it was cool seeing all those celebrities there. I know I did. Mina was gonna be there. Mina was there, Kenny Mayne was there. I just hear Kenny Mayne's voice came over the intercom. 00:08:52 Speaker 2: I'm like, what I would say, those two are a couple of white whales of this podcast too, in the sense of if we could ever get them on, that is a huge wind. 00:09:04 Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm glad Mita was there, Like doesn't she have NFL Live tomorrow. 00:09:08 Speaker 2: Maybe, but she made the time for it, and I'm not shocked. I mean, you know, she's a Seattle fan through and through, so I'm sure they wanted her to be a part of it, and I'm sure she was more than happy to fly out from LA and be a part of it because that is where she's from, right or not from, but she's in La right now. 00:09:22 Speaker 1: I wish they put her in the lineup. It's real shame. 00:09:25 Speaker 2: That would have been fun. Meanwhile, I mean, we're sitting here Sunday night. We're only halfway through this thing, and the best two days are ahead. We're a little exhausted, aren't we. I mean we're sitting here pushing through this podcast because I mean, one, we love it, and two we're doing it for you guys. We want to get the content out there and we don't want to miss shows ever. But we are tired like this. This stuff will drain you being out in the sun all day, walking around, being on your feet. It's diaring. 00:09:52 Speaker 1: My voice will sound infinitely worse when we record Friday's episode, infinitely worse, so worse. I'm gonna have to drink some tea here. I need some voice recovery. I'm just not very for those who haven't picked up on it yet in social gatherings, not very efficient at voice management. So maybe sometimes they just dial it. 00:10:15 Speaker 3: Down a little bit, just a little bit, so you can imagine when you know, we had seventy five people packed into the back room of Gantries today, Yeah, gantry and the music's blaring and people are talking and I'm just trying to have a conversation. 00:10:30 Speaker 1: Talking really loudly, and sometimes it just happens a little bit too much. But honestly, maybe it was Calgirls too. I honestly, actually, you know what, I think it was cal Girls. I'll blame Cowgirls. 00:10:41 Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I think it's more of that. So for those who don't know, Cowgirls is the go to bar after Mariner's games. There's a Mechanical ball it's kind of like a nightclub. We've been there a couple of times, and we figured on Saturday night we were going to be home by nine o'clock, go to bed early, and just rest and recover for the next day. But we're with some of these just baseball people and they said, do you want to go to Cowgirls. We said, I guess so, and nine o'clock then turned into ten o'clock to eleven o'clock to twelve o'clock. I think we got back to TJ's house around twelve. I think I got home around one, got to bed as fast as possible, and tried to get some sleep for the next day being Sunday. But now we're sitting here on Sunday night recording our podcast. It's now ten forty five pm. So yeah, they were like, they're long days, they're really fun days, but they've ended up being long. 00:11:29 Speaker 1: I think my kryptonite, honestly is tequila and sing along music. That I think that's where we're gonna narrow it down to. 00:11:38 Speaker 2: That sounds about right, I think I think that's about spot on. 00:11:42 Speaker 1: I will those say, though, Cowgirls, even though it was fun the second time, I did like your music selection when we went back in the first weekend of the season, I thought it was a little more consistent. That's all. So only thing I have to pass off. 00:11:57 Speaker 4: This fall. 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So now you ask the question, and we talked to Bob Stelton about this last week on our episode and it's a good question. So I thought it is appropriate now at the end of the first half to bring this up again. When can we qualify the Mariners as buyers with less than a month ago before the deadline. 00:13:17 Speaker 2: It's a good question, and just to clarify before we dive into this now that we are doing the two shows a week. Instead of doing the three Mariner storylines over the course of a one week show, We're going to do two Mariner storylines per episode now doing two week shows, so it's four total Mariner storylines per week. So for this show we'll do two, Friday will do two, so on, so forth. Back to your question, how far within that final wildcard spot do they have to be within to be buyers? Is how I'm trying to think about this. They're four out right now. If they're three out with a week before the deadline, that should qualify as being buyers. Right If you're three out of the wildcard with two months ago, you're absolutely in striking distance. And if that's where they are, I think you have to be buying. I think you have to go get a couple of bats. I mean, am I wrong for. 00:14:04 Speaker 1: That along those lines, Yes, but I think it's less necessarily of what those teams already in those spots that you have to gain on DOO and more about what you do out of the break. There's a pretty notable ten game home stretch right out of the break against two to against the Tigers. I have the three teams written down the yeah and the Twins Twins Yeah, those are the three right, yeah, and two of those teams are ahead of you in the standings. Ten straight games at home out of the break, you should win what seven or eight of those? If you want to slam dunk be a buyer out of the break that dumps you around the exact date I think around the twenty fifth of July, which is less than a week before the deadline. You need to rip off a great ten games stretch at home. I think to stamp yourself as like confident buyers, not like a little like futuristic trade where Jerry's like, oh, this guy's gonna gonna help us in the future, Like no, they're going to actually go out and acquire something of impact. I think you'll like, you really need to make a statement in his first home stand out of the break. This is what happens when you play five hundred throughout the first half and the deadline's creeping up on you, like it's you say, like, why are we making decisions based off ten games? Well, they're essentially five hundred now through the first nearly ninety games of the season, and you got to show some separation. If you're actually gonna go out and actually gonna buy and actually feel confident it's worth giving up some of your prize prospects to go get major league talent. So I'm calling it seven or eight out of the first ten out of the break to actually stamp themselves as buyers. 00:15:53 Speaker 2: Six probably is not enough. Six out of ten because winning six out of ten on this home stand is too similar to everything else they've done in the first half. That's too much treading water, and we're getting to the point in the season where they cannot continue to tread water. If they want to make the postseason. You have to actually take advantage and motor through some of these teams if you want to climb your way up the standings, make a statement, actually gain momentum, and get closer and closer to that battle wildcard spot. So you're right at home against teams that are ahead of you and the Tigers, you have to take advantage. I think seven of ten is the minimum if you are absolutely serious about being buyers now. I think if they're three out with a week to go, no matter what happens, they should be going for it. No matter what. Just get yourself in and that rotation can give you a chance in the playoffs, but if you really want to sell the team, the front office, the fans, everybody that this is still a team that can compete. Yeah, seven of ten, This upcoming home stand should be the bar. 00:16:56 Speaker 1: I know that Blue Jay series is going to drive me crazy. It's the Canadians are gonna drive me crazy. And it's gonna be the biggest series of the season. Like you're gonna be playing a road game in your home park with are you know at that point I'm gonna guess is gonna be the biggest series of the season. 00:17:13 Speaker 2: For sure, And you know there's gonna be a bunch of blue and red in that stadium, which is not going to be fun. Here's a question for you as we start to wind down on this first topic. Can the Mariners trade Tom Murphy and still be buyers? Can they say we can ship him off to get prospects back in return, but still buy elsewhere or do you have to hold on to Murphy to be buyers. 00:17:40 Speaker 1: I don't think you'd. I don't think that's that would be a good idea. I don't think so because I don't think thinking about it a little bit more after we talked about it. I think last week of if it would be worth it to trade Tom Murphy, and I threw out some like, oh, remember Austinola. But the thing I somehow forgot is that Austinola had at least four years of control left when the Mariners traded him. Tom Murphy does not have four years of control left. That's pretty significant when it comes to trading prospects. So when it comes to trading someone of the four years of control, it's like, oh, I'd be a little more comfortable giving up a better prospect because we're gonna should get be getting four years out of this guy. Well, they're only getting two months out of Tom Murphy whoever would get him. That doesn't lead to much prospect return for the Mariners, nothing that would actually be of impact this season and potentially even next season. I mean, you'd be asking for a total flyer if you're actually gonna win that trade. The way the Mariners lineup looks, it has been swinging better lately, But I do not think you can trade Tom Murphy. He honestly, outside of the guy we're going to talk about next, is your best option at DH. You got to score runs. There still hasn't been enough guys in the lineup to say, hey, we're comfortable trading White Cal's back up. Second of all, like who's come up. 00:19:02 Speaker 2: Like chef? 00:19:03 Speaker 1: Cooper Humble's not chef, I mean Jeff, Yeah, sure, but no offense to chef. Is he going to put up the Tom Murphy offensive numbers? Probably not. 00:19:11 Speaker 2: That's that's probably fairly. I mean it's certainly not right away. I mean Tom Murphy over the last month has been a legit offensive catalyst. So yeah, I mean there's catchers in the system, right there's Brian O'Keeffe, there's Cooper Hummel. But you're right to ask those guys to do what Tom Murphy's currently doing is not realistic. So if you're going to go and try and win, yeah, you should keep Tom Murphy. So I'm with you. I just wanted to pose the question to see what your two cents on it was. But I think if you're going for it, you've got to keep that guy to be your DH, to be a good bench bat, to be the backup catcher, because he's too valuable right now to ship off. 00:19:48 Speaker 1: I think you would see a reaction similar to what happened when Graveman got traded in twenty one. Now Grayman did trade itself was the right idea, but the reaction will be I would say almost similar. Because Murphy has actually provided good value for you this season and is a value contributor of this baseball team. You cannot say you're going to win and trade away valuable pieces that detriment your roster just to just for the just because oh, he's going to be a free agent. Well, that doesn't help you right now. 00:20:21 Speaker 2: I agree, they've got to keep Tom Murphy if they want to try and win, you want to bring him back next year. I know he's going to be a free agent at the end of the season, but you want to bring him back. Guess what, he's probably not going to be that expensive, and you know he likes it here. So if they really want to bring Tom Murphy back to be the backup catcher next year, they probably can. So if that's the case, you just keep them. 00:20:40 Speaker 1: And you know it's a way not to bring him back is if you trade him and he's like what the fuck? 00:20:46 Speaker 2: Correct? Now? Speaking of guys that have been hitting lately, and a team that's been hitting lately has anybody been in the headlines more than Mike Ford. 00:20:58 Speaker 1: No, I couldn't believe he's hit four hundred is last? Uh what is it? Since the twenty fourth four to ten. We hate batting average, but that's a that's a bizarre number. Four to ten average, two fifty five WRC plus since the twenty fourth of June. Like only Mookie has been better over that stretch. He's ahead of guys like Matt Olsen, show A and Ronald Acunya. 00:21:25 Speaker 2: I mean, come on, so this is our second storyline here is Mike Ford is on an absolute tear through thirty games. For entering today's game, he was at thirty games with the Mariners this year and it was a nine to fifty three ops, one sixty three WRC plus And as you mentioned just a second ago, since June twenty fourth, it's way over two hundred. Not to mention, Mike Ford has not been all or nothing. This guy's walking over twelve percent of the time. He's only striking out about twenty five percent of the time since the twenty fourth of June. He is not just flailing out and running up a forty percent strikeout right. He has been a good hitter with a lot of power, and he has been. He's been the Carlos Santana this year, if not better, over this thirty game stretch. 00:22:13 Speaker 1: It's just have you looked at how much of the production he's put in the DH spots. It's really bizarre. He already has half the total home runs in the dhpot and he's played a quarter of the games at DH. Like that isn't sad? I don't. I really don't know. What is? Maybe a dog dying? That's that's That's probably the only thing that's said up for me personally. You know urbis as well. It's just bizarre. He's the only player in the DH spot with over an eight hundred OPS who has had more than ten plate appearances at the position, the only one of your DH where it's like, okay, we want you to have an eight hundred ops. And he's the only one with ten plate appearances in that spot with an ops over eight hundred. 00:22:59 Speaker 2: It just makes me wonder should he have made the opening day roster? In other words, I wonder how much the Tacoma at bats actually made the difference this year. Not because we know how Tacoma is, we know how the pcl is, could Mike Ford have just been doing this since early April or was it truly being in Tacoma that helped them. 00:23:17 Speaker 1: Well, it's a good question, to be honest, after watching the DHS in April to say he should probably should have made the roster pretty confidently. It's not like he was struggling much in Tacoma. Take it with a grain of salt. But when you're hitting as well as he did in Tacoma, are you getting better or are you just hitting well? 00:23:37 Speaker 2: That's probably right. The point being he has been a legitimate savior for the Mariners offense. I mean, I know they didn't win that game in Baltimore, but the fact he hit that home run off Felix Fatista down to their last out and reties that game. The fact that now when you have him in the DH spot, you look at that position and say, oh, they could get some production today. It is not a dead spot in the lineup, and the offense just feels so much more rounded out with much more potential for power. With Ford in there, you feel good about him being in there. 00:24:09 Speaker 1: I want him to just start. Let him hit against lefties. 00:24:11 Speaker 2: Now. 00:24:12 Speaker 1: I'm like the unless it's Tom Murphy against the lefty, which they won't always do because they like having a backup catcher behind cal. Yeah, if you're asking me if I'd rather see Aj Pollock or Mike Ford against oh, I don't know. Pick pick your star lefty. I mean, Framber pitch today. But let's just say, framer, who would you rather see? I mean, at this rate, I'd say, you know, Mike Ford. 00:24:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, well Framber pitched yesterday being Saturday, but close enough. 00:24:40 Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, it it all melts together. But pick your lead the left hander from anywhere in the American League, and you'd ask me, do I want this version of Aj Pollock or this version of Mike Ford? And Mike Ford is giving me no reason to bench him against lefties. 00:24:56 Speaker 2: If the Mariners play the Rays in the playoffs and Shane McClair of hands on the mound, I would sit here and tell you I'd rather have Mike Ford in the lineup. 00:25:05 Speaker 1: Absolutely, that's not even a question. So credit to you Fordoh and of course, among all those people I listed off here that he's been better than since the twenty fourth of June, Matt Olson show a Ronald Acunya Like they're all very good baseball players, but they don't have an Ivy League degree. So Ford's got them beat in both. 00:25:23 Speaker 2: And they're not a friend of this podcast like Mike Ford, now, is correct? 00:25:28 Speaker 1: Great guy, Mike Ford, great guy. So we appreciate Mike Ford. So this is another plug to just stay tuned ors social channels because love some more Mike Ford content coming out throughout the next couple of weeks. So look out for it. Look out for it. 00:25:43 Speaker 2: He was great. I mean, he's stood there. He was funny, he gave great answers. I mean, he was really cool. So and he seemed happy to do it. So shout out to Ford. Oh is it a coincidence that he just happens to be going off after doing these interviews. I'll leave that up to debate. 00:25:58 Speaker 1: Yeah, that is up for the view to decide. If you subscribe to conspiracy theories, Let's go a little younger as we appreciate Ford. Oh, and let's go down on the far I thought in this segment here today we did talk about a little bit at the beginning, but we can ash it out a little bit. The Futures game was on Saturday, which was yesterday for us, and a few days ago when you're listening to this. In terms of Mariner's prospect, stuff was mostly a day to forget a couple of strikeouts from Class A and Ford, and that was the only action essentially they saw the entire game. 00:26:38 Speaker 2: Jonathan Klasse made a nice catch in center field. I'll give them that, so that was cool, But in terms of what they did at the plate, there wasn't much. Harry Ford only got one at bat, to be fair, and I said before the start of the bat, I am going to call that he walks, because what do we always talk about with Harry Ford is on base percentages always at four hundred, great plate approach, walks a lot. I figured, well, I'll probably walk in the futures game, that'd probably that'd probably beyond brand. But he got it to a three to two count and he struck out, So you're right, there's not that much to update from the futures game. It was cool to see Class A make a nice catch, but there were no balls leaving the yard off the bat of Fider Class A. 00:27:15 Speaker 1: I was just the thing that was honestly most intriguing of the futures game. We're sitting pretty close to the field and you could really get the size of some of these guys. Seeing James Wood up there at the plate, I think he clocked a sprint speed there of like over thirty feet per second, which was pretty bananas. That dude is unbelievable. I can't believe he was like a I can't believe he was a throw in for the Sodo trade. That just kind of kind of makes me laugh. I think Washington made out okay with that one. Spencer Jones as well. That dude's also pretty tall. He's a bandy last year seeing him step up to play, well, he's he's kind of taller than everyone else. There's one guy, I guess non Mariners, Lyle, that I wanted to highlight here because I thought it was super cool, Jacob I'm gonna mispronounce his last name, miss around Ski, I think. But the Brewers, he was just torching guys. He touched I think one oh two and a half. He threw ten of his eighteen pitches over one hundred miles an hour, and his stuff was moving. It was not flat. It was going all over the place. 00:28:15 Speaker 2: So I had no idea who this dude was before he entered the game yesterday. I looked it up, so he's part of the Brewers system. Second rounder. I think he was a Juco guy. I don't know much about him. He was a pretty lengthy kid. When he got up on the mound, and we're sitting at the game watching with all the just baseball guys we met up before the game, all sat together and watched the game, and a couple of these guys as he's warming up or saying, this guy's throwing Jedder and I don't think they had the b los up on the radar gun yet at the stadium, so I couldn't tell that much either, just off the eye whether it was ninety four or ninety nine. But then he starts throwing in live action and the radar gun's popping up one hundred and one, one hundred, one hundred and two, one hundred and one. I was like, oh my god, Yeah, that guy's unreal. I don't know when he's getting up for the Brewers, but that guy's going to be a back end reliever real quick, and he's going to be mighty effective. 00:29:08 Speaker 1: He was. He was nasty. So that was probably the highlight of the day for me. Otherwise, it was cool seeing all the really highly talented prospects, but you know, a seven inning prospects game for me personally, it's just kind of a kind of a shoulder shrug. You see the Mariners guys and you kind of gawk at all the at all the other prospects. But in the end, it was essentially just a showcase, no more than you know, the celebrary softball game was where we saw it, just only slightly worse play on the field. 00:29:36 Speaker 2: Well, as we get into our MLB wrap around here, let's dive into the celebrity softball game. So Jojo Siwah, I'll give her seventy grade run, maybe fifty grade arm. Who else are we going to give grades to here? Joel McHale has some power potential, could go from forty grade power to fifty grade power as time goes on, He's gonna he's gonna have to hit the weight room a little bit, but power could go up. 00:30:00 Speaker 1: Cameron trying a little bit too hard. It's like, yeah, dude, you were an ex baseball player, Like take it easy on some of these celebs who would look like they'd never picked up a bet before. 00:30:11 Speaker 2: We still only got to watch two winnings of that celebrity toftball game. 00:30:13 Speaker 1: I would have loved to watch more better things to do. 00:30:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I've been told. But Future's game was cool as Saturday as a whole was cool. I think we should get to our actual MLB wrap around here as we do that. There are some storylines in baseball leading up to the All Star Break and All Star Week, one of them being a team in our own division, the Al West. The Angels have injuries piling up yet again. 00:30:46 Speaker 1: What a fourth of July it was for the Angels. I mean, think about this timeline. Eleven in the morning Mike Trout, they announced he fractured the handmaate bone in his wrist and he gets placed on the injured list. Anthony Rendon at four forty pm Pacific foul the ball off his left leg and leaves the game. He has not played in a game since then. Five thirty show, Hey exits off the mound. He has a blister. He's not going to pitch in the All Star Game, and they're expecting him to make his next start on the fifteen against the Astros. But in the span of about a little over five hours, the Angels season nearly ended. 00:31:28 Speaker 2: It's not great. And now they're right floating around five hundred again. I don't know where their season is gonna go from here, because you have Trout down for six to eight weeks. That can tank your season. Not to mention the fact that they have other injuries now too. This is not good news for the Halos. 00:31:48 Speaker 1: Rendon't yet like Rendon stunk this season, but it's unsure if he's gonna be back after the All Star break. He wasn't given a super optimistic look to his injury. Blisters sometimes are worries, sometimes aren't. With pitchers, it really depends on the pitcher. But shoe hey again, thankfully this All Star break for him comes at the right time, so a little bit more time for his blistered arrest. He's and thankfully, when you're as good as show heyo, Tana, you can still, you know, just go hit, which is very convenient of him. How nice. Why can't other pictures think of that otherwise? You know, Brandon Jury is also out, a guy who you know in another subject here in the wrap around to look at the All Star Game rosters. But he could have been at first, he could have been at second base, made the All Star team for how he's played this season at second for the Angels, but he's been out as well. And now we sit here on Sunday, July ninth, and the Angels have gone four and twelve since June twenty and have fallen behind the Mariners. 00:32:49 Speaker 2: So is showing getting traded? 00:32:52 Speaker 1: No, who's going to trade for him? What team would commit the resources necessary to get off the Angels? 00:33:02 Speaker 2: Oh? I think someone would trade for him. I don't know who it's gonna be, but I think somebody would. 00:33:09 Speaker 1: No contender is going to is going to make themselves arguably worse by trading for him, because I honestly think that's the kind of package it would take to land Otani. We're not talking about prospects. We're talking about big leaguers. That's what it would require, and contenders don't trade big leaguers when they're contending. It doesn't matter who it's for. 00:33:33 Speaker 2: Let's get to the point where the Angels would actually bring down the asking price a little bit and just try to get some high level prospects back, because in what world is Otani coming back at this point? If all these injuries pile up and the Angels finish the year at or below five hundred. He's not staying. I don't even think he's staying now, but he's sure as hell not staying if they finished below five hundred, don't you want something back for him? 00:33:57 Speaker 1: And I can tell you he's sure as hell isn't staying if you trade them. 00:34:01 Speaker 2: He's not staying if you don't trade him. That's why I'm saying, if you're the Angels, I think you have to try get something back. 00:34:06 Speaker 1: He still might stay. I'm a goin to putting at about five percent because he likes being comfortable five percent, But that five percent goes to zero. Now. The question is do the Angels value five percent more than some prospects. 00:34:23 Speaker 2: That's a bad beat. If they do so, maybe maybe he doesn't get traded. But if I were a GM and I was in this position now, I'd probably do it. 00:34:32 Speaker 1: Well, wouldn't so low. I can't see any of them the Angels selling wall on that. I mean, you have quite literally the most valuable asset in baseball, and I'm I'm not sure why you'd make a bad deal on that. I don't get it. 00:34:45 Speaker 2: That's fair. I guess we'll see how things play out as the trade deadline gets closer and closer. You're probably right that in the end he doesn't end up getting traded. I just think it's now more and more interesting with all the injuries piling up, if they might start to reconsider it. But again, we'll see how it all shait out. 00:35:01 Speaker 1: Let's transition to our next storyline. This will result for when you're listening to this for last night's All Star Game. But we haven't really got a chance to react to the All Star Game rosters, so I'll throw it to you while taking a look at the rosters. What do you think? 00:35:19 Speaker 2: Why is it Wit Maryfield leading off and playing all nine innings? 00:35:23 Speaker 1: That is a good question. I'm looking at it, and I really the only two question marks I had on it overall are both Blue Jays Wit. First of all, it is kind of a weak American League second base class. I will give it that. If we're looking by WRC plus. I believe after you take Jewry out because he's hurt, he is second in the American League and WRC plus is a second base and it's not a very high mark, but he is, like you know, hitting wise second. It helps he plays a weak position. The one who we should actually be like wondering, like, what the fuck is this? Why is Vladdie in there? He's not an All Star this year. 00:36:04 Speaker 2: He's not. But would people of other fan bases and teams say the same thing about Julio. 00:36:11 Speaker 1: Julio's been way better than Bloody has over two wins. Bloody is at like half a win. 00:36:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, that one seems like a stretch. I mean, I don't know why Laddy didn't want to do the derby again this year. That could have been his way to get to All Star Week and still participate in the festivities. But that one, that one's a stretch. Blattie and he's. 00:36:31 Speaker 1: Got he said he didn't get finned voted in. They put him on the roster. 00:36:37 Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly. He was a late ad so and they did it probably for similar reasons that they made sure to get Julio in, even though, like you said, Julio's still on pace for just shy of five wins. He's still probably gonna finish the year with twenty five bombs and thirty five plus stolen bases. But yeah, it's a little bit of a pander pick to get Bladdy in because they're trying to get all the stars in the popular guys in like if. 00:37:01 Speaker 1: You don't like literally go to fangraphs and click on first basement. It's sort of and look, it's bizarre. I honestly didn't even realize how low he was on the list. It's it's crazy all these guys are in front of him. But that's yeah. It people like to complain about this stuff. That's why I don't want to like look too much into this because like in the end, we're gonna bitch about the All Star rosters every single year because the people are gonna put favorites in, and you know, that's just what it is. We realized it this week as we're walking around All Star Week, like we said, well, Julio probably doesn't deserve to get into this All Star game, and me and you are looking around, it's like, wow, they have a lot of really big banners of Julio around here. What were they gonna do with these if he didn't make it? 00:37:46 Speaker 2: That was never a possibility. Wasn't for n albeit they were getting it in one way or another, like. 00:37:54 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's good. I mean there is literally like we took a photo next to it, a thirty a twenty foot tall poster with Julio on top of Mookie when you walk into the MLB, Uh, what is it? The park? The playball park, lay ballpark right as you walk in, I mean, twenty feet tall of Julio, Like, where were they going to put that? And they're like, oh man, we're gonna have to put someone else on here now. 00:38:21 Speaker 2: Those were my other two takeaways. Was one, we haven't done a podcast since the announcement that George Kirby and Julio were both added in, so obviously, congratulations to them. That's awesome. George Kirby is every bit deserving to be in that game. I thought he should have been in originally, but the fact they got him in period is what's important. The other thing is all three original starting outfielders in the American League are not starting. Mike Trout, Aaron Judge, you're on Alvarez, They're not playing. 00:38:50 Speaker 1: And I think the replacements though, I think they got them right. 00:38:55 Speaker 2: Yeah, I think so. I think with the outfield they did a good job. 00:38:59 Speaker 1: Yeah, I know people have been like playing. I honestly didn't even realize how good of a year Adulies is having. So I mean it is kind of like a knife twist for Mariner fans, but at least for some of us, not maybe for a different faction of Mariner fans that the Rangers are gonna get so many starters in their own ballpark. But to be honest, I think all those guys deserve to be a prominent role in the All Star Game. So you know, credit to them, they did it. 00:39:25 Speaker 2: Should we talk about the n L at all? Just just some thought about the NL because I just realized all our talk there was about American League guys. I thought it was interesting code I Sanga got added because that's an exciting guy to have in the All Star Game. He's had his ups and downs as a rookie for sure, which is expected. But to see that ghost fork on live display here in Seattle in the big event at the All Star Game, I think will be a really cool one. So late addition, and he's not the feature guy of the National League team, but that was one that stood out to me. 00:39:52 Speaker 1: I thought I didn't have as many takeaways with the National League. I mean interesting that Joseih Gray made. I know the Nationals had to put him in, but just agree like wasn't very good at all. There's I like, there's probably someone else that could have put in on the Nationals, but otherwise, you know, this is a pretty solid group of guys on this National League roster. Even starting wise, you could have like a maybe a little bit of beef with no that's a reserve. I think Orlando Arcia. Yeah, Orlando Arcia is starting the All Star Game, which you could probably be fat. But otherwise, you know, I thought Nolan was having more of a down season than he is. He's honestly not. Their base is having a down offensive year overall as a position, So Nolan put himself back in that starting spot. You know, Freeman, Rise, Murphy, those are all right. Corbin starting in the park, he grew up going to super cool and LOOKI and Ronald, I mean, who, no one's going to complain about that. Like, it's going to be really interesting who the starting pitchers are going to be. I'm very curious to see when they announce those. We don't know those yet what overall like National League, but they did a pretty good job. 00:41:03 Speaker 2: I think the two gripes with the NL are to your Nationals point. I think a lot of people thought Lane Thomas could have gotten in, and I agree with that, I think he could have gotten in over Josiah Gray for sure. I think Mets fans are less than thrilled that Geraldo Perdomo got in over Francisco Lindoor. That one is interesting. 00:41:21 Speaker 1: Yeah, that one was interesting too, Like when door. He hasn't hit as well this year as he did last year, but his defense is so good that his value continues to be about as high as it possibly could be. He has been worth every penny of that contract so far. 00:41:35 Speaker 2: H oh. One last thought. I know it's within the rules, but I don't care. Fernando Tatis should be in this All Star Game. I know because he got pop for steroids that he's not in. He should be in. 00:41:48 Speaker 1: He should be starting. 00:41:50 Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, dudes, Now, like the best right fielder in baseball, he's barely played any right field is the best. 00:41:58 Speaker 1: Athletes always continue to be the best. So you could say, yeah, it's not true nationally gutfield without Bernando Tatis in it, it's not the e as he is. He's amazing. He is amazing. Remember we said the marriage should trade for him. That was Funhadri. 00:42:14 Speaker 2: I'm not happy about that. 00:42:16 Speaker 1: No they're not, but hey, you know what I can't blame on Matt, he seems are you fitting in in the outfield? Perfectly fun let's close out this wrap around. Tigers combined for their first note hitter in history, and I know everyone was just popping confetti to celebrate it. 00:42:36 Speaker 2: The Tigers needed something in their season, didn't they. I mean, it's not like they're it's all roses over there at America Park, So it was nice for them to have a nice moment. Matt Manning, who certainly has not had the start of a career that he probably imagined as a top ten prospect. He did the bulk of the work. He went six and two thirds innings, five strikeouts. Jason Foley and Alex Lang came in to finish the job. But it's nice for them to have a moment. Again. They have not had many highlights in this season. 00:43:04 Speaker 1: I couldn't believe for as historic of a franchise the Tigers are, they've never had a combined no hitter. I thought that that was a fun little note. Sarah Langes of MLB dot Com put together a cool little history packet of that no hitter. So pretty cool, and I was shocked for only the twentieth combined no hitter in baseball history. Again, I thought there would have been more, but to be honest, I think most of them have consenced twenty eleven, which is pretty interesting. So good on the Tigers getting that no hitter. Unless you have anything else to add. 00:43:37 Speaker 2: That's the second no hitter of this season total, right, the other one being I don't think we've done a podcast since Domingo Herman's perfect game, which would be the other Those are the only two so far this year, right. 00:43:47 Speaker 1: Really couldn't happen to a better guy? 00:43:49 Speaker 2: Yeah? For real, that was not a fun day because that was the same day it was one of those Nationals games with the day that Patrick Corbyn like just cart him up. 00:44:01 Speaker 1: Yeah, I think so, let's sound it's about right. 00:44:03 Speaker 2: So what a day that Patrick Corbyn, maybe the worst starter in baseball, just carves up the Mariners lineup in a game they absolutely should have won after a miserable loss of the night before in that x RA inning game against the Nationals. And to top it off, Felix rnandez Is perfect game streak gets snapped by a guy who is not very easy to root for. 00:44:22 Speaker 1: No. No a Domestica piece. So and he did it against not a major league baseball team too, So does it even count? 00:44:33 Speaker 2: Let's go with no, even though we're absolutely counting Bryce Miller's dominant start in his debut against the A's. No, we're we're gonna be biased and say Domingos doesn't count. It's like the twenty twenty titles. They don't count. 00:44:44 Speaker 1: That works for me, Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Okay, let's get to our Russell Wilson umpire of the week. Why would you like to bring this one in? 00:44:56 Speaker 2: Sure? So, let's give a hat tip and a nice congrat to Shane Livinsbarger. He is this week's winner. He was behind the plane on Saturday that was July eighth for the Rockies Giants game. He received an accurate accuracy score that ranked as the seventh worst score of the entire season. He called seventy nine percent of his strikes right league averages eighty eight percent. He missed eleven total strike calls in this game. Eleven. And this is your job. 00:45:29 Speaker 1: Now, I'm going to take a different turn with this segment. Ready for this. This might blow your mind. Did you know the overall accuracy of this game right was eighty seven percent. That snapped Shane Livins Farger's streak of consecutive game where the overall average of correct calls was over ninety percent. He did that for ninety four games in a row, the seventh longest streak all time. So this outing was honestly a rarity for Shane Livins Parker. 00:46:05 Speaker 2: Oh, so this guy's actually a good ump and he just had one bad day. Yes, Oh, now I feel kind of bad because they're okay. So as much trashing on umpires as we do, there are the Pat Hobergs of the world, who is the best umpire in baseball, who is spot on with his strike zone almost always. There are good ones out there. But the reason we obviously do this segment is because more often than not, there are plenty of stories that are very worthy of being put in the spotlight of umpires trying to be part of the show. All Right, maybe Shane Livins Parger just had a bad day. 00:46:41 Speaker 1: Now, let me frame it this way. We had to highlight his streak somehow. We wouldn't have talked about it on the podcast unless he had a bad day. So this is a way to honestly promote the good umpires. 00:46:52 Speaker 2: Okay, so it honors Shane Livinsparker. We're doing a full one eighty of this in a spin zone. 00:46:57 Speaker 1: Can I just say that another ninety four games in row, mister Levin's barker? 00:47:03 Speaker 2: Yes, now, can I just say speaking of eleven miss strike calls? Going back to sitting at the Futures game this week, also because I've watched a few games in Tacoma this year when I visited our friend Jeremy who works with the Mariners and he's with the Rainiers this year. The challenge system works, and it works really well. They were literally using it at t Mobile Park for the Futures Game on Saturday. The technology is there, It works, and guess what players know when they get robbed. These guys are not just asking for the challenge after every pitch. They know when a call is wrong because they are that good at knowing the strike zone. So guess what if it's working in the minors, why is it not here in the big leagues? Right now? 00:47:47 Speaker 1: Didn't you get a good chuckle? I forget who's at the play the first challenge of the game. I mean, the ball was at least six inches above the strike zone, if not more and they showed it on the big screen. You get hear go like of laugh from the entire crowd. 00:48:02 Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that one was bad. But point being, if the technologies there, why are we not already using it? The umpires and Major League Baseball decided, Hey, halfway through the twenty twenty one season, we're going to change the rules right in the middle of the year where pitchers can't use sticky stuff and spidertack anymore. You can change things in the middle of the year. Why aren't we doing things for the greater good and bringing in the challenge system right now? 00:48:28 Speaker 1: Because it's too logical. 00:48:31 Speaker 2: That's about right. Absolutely, it's too logical. One day though, one day, okay, let's close out the show here, let's get to speak your mind. Speak your mind spoke. That would be unwise. What is necessary is never unwise. There could be a million things you're thinking about this week, TJ, but what is it. 00:48:58 Speaker 1: I know you're gonna enjoy this one. Man. There's a ton of baseball things we could talk about, but we talked a lot about baseball throughout the day and on this podcast and outside of our segments too, So I thought, okay, we need a change of pace when in doubt, what do we need to talk about now the NBA is over? But I've gotten the biggest laugh ever the fact that I am reading headlines when I scroll on Twitter that Skip bay List has to take two months off because he cannot find a replacement to debate him on Undisputed. And it's the least shocking thing ever. 00:49:38 Speaker 2: I swear people listen to speak your mind at this point, and we always talk about, Yeah, it's our segment of the show where we get away from baseball and just talk about whatever we're thinking about. And to be fair, you're getting the key to our brains here and you're unlocking what's in our head by you the listeners listening to this segment. However, that being said, you're taking away probably after months of doing this being Wow. These guys talk a lot about elon the NBA and Skip Bayless pretty much. 00:50:05 Speaker 1: But I can't put like he's like, man, They're just it's too difficult to find a replacement for Skip Bayless. It is too hard to find somebody willing to get paid millions of dollars just to sit across the table from Skip. I mean I would do that. Sign me up. No offense, will, but I would quit this podcast in a second, put my suit on, and you skip. Lebron is the greatest of all time. 00:50:31 Speaker 2: Oh if Skip had me across the desk and started spewing about Lebron, I just totally changed the subject on him and be yeah, but skip show. Hey, Otani's WRC plus is approaching one to eighty. Now what do you think of that? Buddy? And then you'd just be left silent. Okay, but what do you think about Jared Tellman's hard hit rate? It's up there? You know. 00:50:53 Speaker 1: Lebron sucks. 00:50:56 Speaker 2: I just try to make him look stupid by using like in depth advanced data to baseball logic on them and try to make them look stupid. 00:51:03 Speaker 1: What was the last time to use a stat on that show? 00:51:07 Speaker 2: Never? Probably never? Probably never? But I don't know, Like who watches that show? I don't watch that show. 00:51:14 Speaker 1: No. I'd love to see what their live numbers are on television. I don't know how they they honestly stay on network television. I don't know how. It's just not like a YouTube show. 00:51:25 Speaker 2: Yeah, because nobody is sitting down eating their breakfast. It's one thing when you say you're gonna sit down, eat your breakfast in the morning, turn on Sports Center. You're gonna turn on the news. You're gonna turn on Kelly and Ryan. My mom watches that all the time. Nobody is sitting down, eating their breakfast and getting their daily intake of sports news from undisputed. 00:51:48 Speaker 1: No, not at all. But I thought that was funny. I was like, man, who could have seen this coming? Yeah? 00:51:57 Speaker 2: Who could have seen it coming that? Oh? Maybe Skip Bayless isn't so fun to work with. I mean, hey, he called out Charles Barkley to be his new host. But I don't think that's happening. 00:52:07 Speaker 1: I mean, is this Think about the requirements to essentially be in a quote unquote relationship with Skip as his co host, Think about what his wife has to go through. They do not sleep in the same bed in the middle of the week, because he says he needs to be as prepared as possible. 00:52:26 Speaker 2: Yeah, and he gets and he gets up at two in the morning to start working out because if he doesn't, he's gonna have a bad day at work. And let Shannon Sharp just run all over him. As he puts it, even though I'm sure you'd be more rested if you didn't get up at two in the morning. 00:52:41 Speaker 1: He did a whole podcast episode because he missed a workout. 00:52:46 Speaker 3: Sounds kind of like you, dog, oh maybe a little bit. 00:52:52 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't like the idea. That's where this is going with trying to make the make the comps between me and Skip baylist, because gets that's what I consider myself a very nice person and friendly and willing to talk to just about anybody. I don't know if Skips like that, but if you're trying to draw comps in the sense of, well, you guys watch a lot of sports, you like to work out, I. 00:53:13 Speaker 1: Mean, like all get early in the morning to work out. I think what I was getting at. 00:53:17 Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. I don't like where these similarities are going. So so why don't we just shut it down right there? Because I don't want to be compared to I don't want to be compared to get bailess. So you're just on your mind, dog, Okay, little bit of a different topic. Here's still somewhat sports related, but not exactly so we didn't talk about this on the last show. But that Michael Rubin party that he threw was just insanity. I mean, if you watched the minute and a half recap of it that he posted on Twitter, it's almost overwhelming how many famous people and a list celebrities are in that video. I mean you want to list off the athletes. It goes from people like Killian Emboppe to Devin Booker and Kevin Durant. Nice to see Kevin Durant got off Twitter to go to that party, by the way, to a bunch of NFL stars like Odell and Tom Brady and Robert Kraft. And you see Kim Kardashian, you see Jack Harlowe, you see Jay Z. I mean, it was literally insane. It felt like every famous person on the planet was at that party. It was almost overwhelming. 00:54:19 Speaker 1: And Great Williams is there too. 00:54:22 Speaker 2: Oh that's a little bit of a needle in a haystack. 00:54:28 Speaker 1: I see parties like that and I wonder, like, man, how many world problems could happen if like this group of people like decided to do something just fun to think about. 00:54:37 Speaker 2: It is, here's the exercise I was using to think about after seeing that. Now think about this question hard, because I did. Would it be fun to be that famous? Or no? 00:54:51 Speaker 1: That's where your priorities are in life. I guess then's what your goals are depends what you value and what makes you happy, because those money in atten and fame make you happy. 00:55:02 Speaker 2: Maybe, And I'm not saying the money part is the part that you wouldn't like. I'm sure everybody would like to have a ton of money. But what I'm getting at is those people at that party, for the most part, probably cannot walk outside their house without getting mobbed by fans. So does that get old after a certain amount of time. I feel like, maybe like you can't even go to the store on your own. 00:55:23 Speaker 1: Well, I think the digits in their bank account more than make up for it. I do kind of get the human sense you're talking about there, but you know, I kind of struggle to find remorse in that. I mean I do. I mean, we're we're talking we are talking about like the one percent of the one percent of athlete and influencer and just person like on this planet. Right, So like maybe a tiny little shred of remorse for that, But you know, that's that's probably all you'll get from me. Because it did look fun, I will say it did. They did look like an absolute blast. I have no idea where that house is looked like an unbelievable location, and you know, the video was just insane seeing all the people, And I still can't get over the fact that they invited Brant Williams and that is such a random, random invite in that group of like some of the greatest, like most influential figures of all time. 00:56:20 Speaker 2: I think Sterling Shepherd was there too, isn't that a little bit of a weird one? 00:56:24 Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I don't think Sterling Shepherd is in that group. 00:56:28 Speaker 2: I don't either. Also, I think the house was in the Hampton's Big. 00:56:31 Speaker 1: Shocker, oh massive shocker. 00:56:36 Speaker 2: So that's what I was thinking about. I just thought, one, it was pretty insane to see all those celebrities all in one spot. But two, I was just thinking about would it be fun to be that famous or not? So debate it for yourselves, because I think it's actually an interesting topic. With that, that'll just about wrap up this edition of the Marine Layer podcast. You guys know by now, or if you're a new listener coming over from the Just Baseball side and wanted to check us out and don't know, you can find our full audio podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon. If you want the full video podcast that's on YouTube. They're all on YouTube. Make sure to rate, review, subscribe, give us five stars, help us beat the algorithm and go. Check out our social media channels as well TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube shorts at Marine Layer Pod For TJ Matthewson, this is Lyle Goldstein. As always, we thank you guys for tuning in. We'll talk to you soon.