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Speaker 1:
[00:00] I mean, this is a sport that's on the precipice of irrelevance.

Speaker 2:
[00:04] The games are taking over three and a half hours, playoff games are taking over four hours. Game's too long, too slow, who cares?

Speaker 3:
[00:12] This is a situation where baseball is in trouble to begin with.

Speaker 2:
[00:16] I hate to break it to you, baseball's dead.

Speaker 1:
[00:19] Baseball is dead.

Speaker 4:
[00:22] Rest in peace.

Speaker 1:
[00:26] What city are you in today, Dallas?

Speaker 4:
[00:29] I'm in the great Republic of Texas. Wow. The lovely city of Arlington. It's a glorious day. Just outside the golf course. It's a beautiful morning. It's a wonderful morning. I love I love Texas.

Speaker 1:
[00:47] I do.

Speaker 4:
[00:47] I love Texas. Yeah, Texas is great. Yeah, I know you have a great state of Texas.

Speaker 1:
[00:56] Great state of Texas.

Speaker 4:
[00:57] Tattooed on your own.

Speaker 1:
[00:58] I sure do.

Speaker 4:
[00:58] You've been here. You think you've been there once. It's cool.

Speaker 1:
[01:01] I've been there double digit times, I would say. Been to Dallas a bunch, been to Austin a bunch, been to Houston. You ever heard of Pflugerville, Texas?

Speaker 4:
[01:13] I have heard of Pflugerville, Texas.

Speaker 1:
[01:15] Yeah, there's a bunch of silent letters in Pflugerville.

Speaker 4:
[01:20] There's a P that gets the party started.

Speaker 1:
[01:22] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[01:23] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[01:23] Shout out Pflugerville. There's definitely people listening right now in Pflugerville being like, wow, did not expect to get a shout out to lead off Baseball is Dead this morning.

Speaker 4:
[01:31] But you know what they call residents of Pflugerville? What? Flugies.

Speaker 1:
[01:38] Flugies. OK, I like that.

Speaker 4:
[01:41] Yep.

Speaker 1:
[01:41] I like that.

Speaker 4:
[01:42] Shout out Flugies.

Speaker 1:
[01:43] Shout them out, man. The Texas Rangers, they've got a is it a three game set or a four game set coming up against the A's? Uh, it's just three, just three. Are you afraid of them? Because I feel like you should be. Not at all. This is like the first like you've basically been playing like a bunch of like dogshit teams the whole year. So like your your win loss record is super inflated. This is like the first time that you're playing a legit team.

Speaker 4:
[02:14] No, that's that's not the case. And the fact that we are walk any anytime I'm walking into Texas with Shay Langley is on my team. I feel pretty good about it. That's all shape bangalores does in Texas is bang. Straight up. That's all he does. And against the Rangers. I mean, he it's like he's taking BP that hasn't stopped since he was at Baylor. This is just fucking rod after rod after rod after rod.

Speaker 1:
[02:46] It's no comment on the A's having the worst run differential in the division.

Speaker 4:
[02:51] Buddy, this is a results oriented business, Jared. And if it results in paper champs is what people are calling the results and wins. That's what matters. That's that might be what you'd like to call the athletics.

Speaker 1:
[03:01] No, no, no, I'm a fan.

Speaker 4:
[03:02] I understand. I understand why you're swinging at the air right now.

Speaker 1:
[03:06] No, I'm a fan.

Speaker 4:
[03:06] You're swinging at the air.

Speaker 1:
[03:07] I'm a fan, Dallas.

Speaker 4:
[03:09] I mean, you're swinging at the air. Your team's swinging at the air. We saw that last night.

Speaker 1:
[03:15] It's going to get worse tonight.

Speaker 4:
[03:17] Good God.

Speaker 3:
[03:19] I mean, it is worse.

Speaker 4:
[03:21] Holy shit. I mean, what do you what's what's the takeaway? At least you didn't get shut out. Is that is that how we're looking at things? Hey, hey, congratulations to the Red Sox. They did not get shut out last night. Shout out to them looking to not get shut out and back to back. Oh, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Looking to not get shut out and back to back.

Speaker 1:
[03:42] None of this is phasing me at all because I'm I hate them more than you do. So I don't know.

Speaker 4:
[03:48] I don't have any hate for them. I don't have any hate for them at all. I think we're just we're both. Maybe we both just celebrate our team differently.

Speaker 1:
[03:55] That's all I got nothing to celebrate. There's there's nothing. This is the most pathetic Red Sox team of all time.

Speaker 4:
[04:02] Come on. Max Free didn't go CG. Max Free didn't shut you guys out. I mean, well, he may have the Yankees didn't. I mean, yeah, there's there's positive.

Speaker 1:
[04:12] I don't care about like this. This is having I feel nothing when you do this. I hate this team. Yeah, like in years past, this is the sad part, Dallas. In years past, I would have been like, no, we'll just wait until, you know, we call up Roman or wait until, you know, we get Bregman back healthy or Chris sales coming in the second half. Like none of that stuff's happening. Like this is the team. They're fully healthy. They just fully suck.

Speaker 4:
[04:35] Roman's here. Roman and his hot dog canner here.

Speaker 1:
[04:38] Is he here or is he at loco?

Speaker 4:
[04:43] I mean, he's on he's on the team, right?

Speaker 1:
[04:47] He hasn't played the last two games.

Speaker 4:
[04:49] It's it's well. And look, he can no longer be the savior if he's here. So he's here. Now what?

Speaker 1:
[04:58] Yeah, that's yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't exactly call him a savior.

Speaker 4:
[05:05] So I'm pretty sure that's that's what was getting ballied about before before he got here. Roman will save us. Roman will write the ship.

Speaker 1:
[05:14] No one will get the Red Sox.

Speaker 4:
[05:16] No one said pointed in the right direction. Oh, no, I think that's I think that was a large part.

Speaker 1:
[05:20] The general sentiment was it's unfair to put him in the position to be the savior. That's what the front office did. But the fans were like, he's fucking 21 years old.

Speaker 4:
[05:31] What? Like I couldn't wait for a 21 year old savior. And now that that hasn't necessarily been the case this year. It feels like you guys are starting to cannibalize before we dive into it.

Speaker 1:
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Speaker 3:
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Speaker 1:
[06:47] Yeah, you want to talk about real team turmoil? The Mets. So Dallas, for the record, has not heard this Soto sound. So you're going to get a real natural Dallas reaction, which is probably better. I don't know that you want a preconceived Dallas notion before hearing this audio. But I don't know if the clip includes the question, but Soto was basically asked like, hey, because he just came back from the injured list. I think he's been out since April 3rd. But he was asked, what kind of words of encouragement did you give your teammates while the 12 game losing streak was going on? Here's what Juan Soto had to say to that question.

Speaker 5:
[07:36] Have you been talking to guys throughout and trying to gauge where they're at and try to lift them as we go along here? No, not at all. I mean, they've been on the road most of the time. So I haven't talked to them.

Speaker 1:
[07:54] So for the last 12 games, the Mets were on a 12 game losing streak. Juan Soto didn't speak to a single teammate. Not one.

Speaker 4:
[08:05] Yeah, well, for starters, that's not weird at all. And the only reason why I do not have a single friend on the team. Those are two very different things. And this is what I was going to kind of explain. Is it's one thing to have friends that you're reaching out to, you know, like, hey, no big deal, whatever it may be. Like, hey, tomorrow you're going four for four and everything's going to be fine, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, there's just different ways you can be reaching out to your teammates like that, I guess, is what I'm saying. But the idea of like him rallying the troops and him reaching out to each teammate. And I'm not saying that that's going to be the case. I think a lot of people want this to be a narrative, want this to be something maybe bigger than it is, because we've identified what we've identified, which is a lack of leadership in this room and a lack of cohesion in this clubhouse. That's what we not only know, but that's what everybody has been able to speak to now. And this kind of plays into that, doesn't it? But in reality, what people should also understand is being on the injured list in Major League Baseball is one of the worst feelings in the world because you are separated from your teammates. The show must go on. Your role is being filled. You are left behind so that you can do work and get healthy to rejoin the club. And there's honestly not much time for that rah-rah type of connection outside of a text before the game, a brief chat or a text after the game. Brief chat. There's just not that room. And if you're somebody who hasn't developed... Well, to the extent that I said, honestly, if the Mets had a day off during their 12-game losing skid, then that might be an opportunity where Juan Soto says, hey, you know what? I want to reach out to a few of the guys. Like, hey, I want to talk to Frankie and see what he thinks the deal is. Maybe I want to reach out to somebody on the pitch. What's that?

Speaker 1:
[10:30] They hate each other, so I don't think you would say that.

Speaker 4:
[10:33] Maybe I want to reach out to somebody on the pitching side as well, so that we kind of touch on all fronts. You know, I want to make sure the pitchers have an idea that I am supporting them. I'm watching. I'm wondering what's going on. Is there anything that I think they might be able to offer to the group? If so, hey, hey, you know, like Jared, if you're the pitcher on the team that I feel like has the ear of the pitching staff, maybe I call you if I'm Juan Soto and go, hey, Jay, why don't you, we got a day off, like, why don't you get the boys together and go grab lunch? Why don't you get the boys together and go grab a dinner? And, you know, it's on me. Just get the boys together and let's figure out how we can put this to bed. Let's figure out how we can bring this to an end. And that's something that I would do if I were Juan Soto. If you're Juan Soto and you don't have those relationships and maybe that's not a priority of yours, well, then that's not something that you're doing. And this isn't to bash Juan Soto. This is just the reality of what I think the situation is and what I know to be fact about being on the injured list, which is time marches on. The game moves on without you. We do not have time to sit here and cry bitch piss and moan and wonder what life would be like with Soto here with us. And as the player, you almost, and this is how I felt about it, and maybe not every player feels this way, but you want to be out of the way. The last thing I want to do is be in anybody's way when I'm hurt and I can't contribute because I am worthless. I am less than worthless when I'm hurt. I can, it feels like I can only be a detriment. And I know that's not the case because I know if you have things to offer from a leadership perspective to some of the younger players around you, especially when you're going through what could possibly be the worst part of their season, then you'd like to think that words of encouragement could make an impact. And you almost, like if you had the opportunity to play all 12 games at home and you were going through that, then you like, you wear that with your boys, right? But I'll tell you straight up, when I was hurt, not when, but one of the times I should say, I was hurt, like when I knew I was done for the season in 2011, I got to the yard early, got my work in, and was gone before a lot of guys were even getting to the ballpark. And that's number one, because of our confines and where we were at, at the Coliseum, there's just not physical space to have somebody who doesn't, who can't contribute. There's just not the space to have me around. Sure, Dallas, didn't you have a locker? Yeah, but you want to know what? That locker stays there, somebody else fills in another locker, and that's the body that is taking up the space that I would be taking up. Now I'm just an extra person walking around. I'm an extra person in the training room looking for help when I can come in and get that done early and get out of there and free up that space. And then what am I going to do? Sit in the dugout where there's not much room and cheer on my teammates that are going to look at me and go, Cool, bud, we get it. But I mean, how about you go out there and get a fucking out and then we can have you, you know, put the pom poms on. And it's like, you know what I need to do? I need to just I probably just need to be out of the way. And it's a terrible feeling to have. And and I wasn't Juan Soto.

Speaker 1:
[14:00] That's what I'm saying. He's one of the leadership expectation. The largest contract in North American sports history. Like no one is looking at him being like, dude, you're in the fucking way. Like, get out of here. Like it's Juan.

Speaker 4:
[14:10] And that's why I said that's why I said what I said is if I was Juan Soto, I would probably be trying to figure out a way that I could that I can make an impact. And I think that what I said about having you, somebody from the pitching group, take the boys out and get together. That would probably be an angle I would take. And what's tough about this Mets situation specifically is that if I again am Juan Soto, I feel like I should be able to rely on what I would refer to as one of my co-captains or one of my lieutenants, if you want to try to demote somebody from co-captain. Like, where's Lindor in this is what people are asking. Why didn't Francisco Lindor try to do something? Who's to say Francisco Lindor didn't though? That's the other thing. Let's not get on Frankie about this. Like, let's just, and that's why I say if we're reporting to Juan Soto and we're trying to blow this out of proportion, like this is some crazy thought that he just wouldn't give a shit to reach out to his team. It's not that crazy. I think what we could all bank on is that Juan Soto cares. I think what we're all curious about is why haven't those relationships materialized to a point where he might have answered differently and said, Yeah, you know what? I reached out to the guys. It's just one of those times during the season where you're trying to do everything you can to win. Sometimes trying harder doesn't work. And we all we all know that. That's why the adage work smarter, not harder exists, is because sometimes you can just put yourself in a bad spot and you're putting the horse blinders on and you're not zooming out and seeing everything for what it is. You're just trying so hard to do something that you end up you end up putting yourself in a worse position. I mean, I say all that to say that, yes, I would like to see the relationship have developed to an extent where Juan Soto felt like, hey, you know what? I can't. But here, let me ask you this, Jared, when you really, truly think about it for Juan Soto, where has he spent enough time where he would learn these leadership traits?

Speaker 1:
[16:26] The Bronx?

Speaker 4:
[16:26] Because he's been around. What's that?

Speaker 1:
[16:29] The Bronx.

Speaker 4:
[16:30] He's been around leaders, right? Like he's watched guys like for. I mean, how many guys will tell you that Manny Machado is one of the best teammates that they've that they've been around?

Speaker 1:
[16:40] I feel like that's like toxic leadership, like the way that we've seen the interactions with Tatis. It's like, so I'll say it this way, right? Like it's different kinds of leadership for sure. But in New York, we've seen Judge go over to guys like Marcus Stroman and be like, hey, that's not how we do it around here. You know, like a stern talking to. It's like a respectful but stern talking to. The Padres, it's like Machado has got a different relationship with guys. So he'll just scream at you in the dugout and tell you to shut the fuck up and get out on the field and stuff like that. The judge isn't doing it that way. It's not to say that it's not leadership. It's just a different kind of leadership.

Speaker 4:
[17:25] And then something else. Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[17:26] So he was also around Scherzer in DC., you know.

Speaker 4:
[17:30] But see, those are those are again. And this is what people need to understand. Scherzer is a leader when it comes to the pitching group. And he is somebody whose leadership can transcend and impact the position player group. But when you are the young dude who everybody understands is it's going to be one of two things. You're going to either own the franchise based on the deal they're going to give you or have to give you to keep you or you're going to be moving on. And when you're that young 19 year old kid in the big leagues and you have this narrative starting to develop around you, you have a choice. You can be malleable and you can accept some of the leadership that's being bestowed upon the room or you can almost say, you know what, that's leadership for you, not for me. I'm doing my own thing. I'm kind of going to go about this in my own way. And you're not really paying attention to what leaders are doing in the room. And that can stifle your ability to learn how to become the guy when you become the guy, because when you spend a full season and a half in San Diego, like he did, you feel like at some point in time, he would pick up on what Manny was doing, what Xander was doing, right? What these guys are doing to lead the room. And to your point, if that's toxic, then maybe you're looking at that going, you know what, that's not my personality, that's not how I would roll. So I think I'm just going to stick to myself and I'm just going to do my own thing. And so again, you're almost removed from the impact of the leadership in the room. And then you get to New York and you have the narratives surrounding you that you did there, which is this isn't going to be your team. This is always going to be Aaron Judge's team. You need to fall in line. And Soto is thinking to himself, well, I'm probably a guy who deserves to have the opportunity to be a leader. But why can't I watch Aaron Judge? Those are questions that I would be asking at that time. Like I was trying to learn from anybody and everybody who I was watching do it. Like I was watching my catcher Jason Kendall and how he went about his business. I'm watching veteran guys in the bullpen go about their business. I'm watching Dan Heron go about his business. I'm watching Justin Dukesher, Jay Witasek. Like I'm watching all these guys go about their business. Joe Kennedy, rest in peace. I'm watching these guys do their thing. Learned a lot from Alan Embry. And those aren't necessarily leadership attributes that you're trying to pick up. You're trying to learn how to be a big leaguer.

Speaker 1:
[20:16] No, I just think we're losing track of like what the actual thing is here is that it's weird he didn't talk to any of them for 12 days. Like, especially the fact that they were on a losing streak for those 12 days. That's weird. Like, you know, you can talk about like leadership and different relationships and yada, yada. But like the story is that he didn't talk to them the entire time that they were on a 12 game losing streak. That's weird.

Speaker 4:
[20:47] How much how much time was spent on the road? Start there.

Speaker 1:
[20:50] Like, was it a did they have a 2026 FaceTime text message? Like, it's weird, Dallas. I don't know why you're trying to say it's not.

Speaker 4:
[20:57] It is because it's not. It's not that weird. It's just not that weird.

Speaker 1:
[21:01] It's weird.

Speaker 4:
[21:01] It's not that weird.

Speaker 1:
[21:03] So then it's not that then I think contextually you're acknowledging you it's a weird environment in the clubhouse. Then if that's if that's the standard that is hello, all the all the teams, all the teams that do the best and they win. And like it's like a family in here. How often have you gone 12 straight days without talking to your family?

Speaker 4:
[21:23] Jared, I'm not telling you that it's good. Though these are these are two very. So we agree.

Speaker 1:
[21:28] Then it's weird.

Speaker 4:
[21:30] It's not weird. It's just not good that they don't have that relationship based on the roster that they have and the guys that they have in that room. You would like that.

Speaker 1:
[21:39] I think we're saying the same thing. It's just you're stuck on the word weird like it's abnormal. Does that make sense?

Speaker 4:
[21:47] I understand the language and I am well aware of what you are looking at, which is, wow, they just didn't. I just as somebody who has been in a big league clubhouse. You don't you just that's just not like. It's not that crazy.

Speaker 1:
[22:03] If you were on the injured list, you would go two weeks without talking a fucking boom boom and bones and the boy like you just wouldn't.

Speaker 4:
[22:13] No, Jared, we did. I did.

Speaker 1:
[22:15] You do weeks without a word from anybody. You don't even have one guy that you confided in, not one.

Speaker 4:
[22:23] Because you're in the clubhouse. Like, so when they come back from the road and I'm there. Well, now I'm now I'm seeing you. Right. And we're talking about what happened on a game road trip.

Speaker 1:
[22:32] Not a phone call, not a text message, nothing.

Speaker 4:
[22:39] Yeah, it's no, yeah, that's weird.

Speaker 1:
[22:42] That's weird to me. You can't and like, you know, plenty of teams at the end of the year, they win the World Series. Yeah, man, like it's like a family in here. It's like, yeah, like it's still clicky. Like, there's still good teams that can be clicky and like, it's not exactly like everyone is is best buds. We get that. But whatever, talking in circles, the Mets won a baseball game. They won. They won the game.

Speaker 4:
[23:08] That's the take home message.

Speaker 1:
[23:10] The take home message is that they won a game and the speech after by what's his nuts. The fucking, the guy that went from the Yankees to the Mets, what's Buddy's name? Luke Weaver. Did you hear his speech? He cut a fucking WWE promo on the PA mic after the game. It was actually pretty good.

Speaker 6:
[23:38] Look, people smell fear. I'm not the biggest guy in the room, but I ain't scared of nobody.

Speaker 1:
[23:42] And that's the attitude I try to take.

Speaker 3:
[23:44] And if I screw up, it's on me.

Speaker 6:
[23:45] But at the end of the day, I'm going to sleep at night.

Speaker 1:
[23:48] And I'm going to feel good about the effort I put in. And I ain't fearing nobody. You remember that.

Speaker 6:
[23:53] The emotions, not just for yourself, but for this team finally getting over the hump tonight.

Speaker 1:
[23:58] A little bit of relief. Look, this wasn't about attitude.

Speaker 2:
[24:01] This wasn't about word that thick.

Speaker 6:
[24:03] This wasn't about a bad demeanor.

Speaker 2:
[24:04] There was none of that.

Speaker 5:
[24:06] It's about just showing up every day, giving you something to cheer about.

Speaker 1:
[24:10] And thankfully, today we freaking did that. All right. Thank you.

Speaker 6:
[24:13] Let's go Mets.

Speaker 1:
[24:17] Oh, we freaking did that. All right. Like, stop yelling at us.

Speaker 4:
[24:21] It's like, get off my back.

Speaker 1:
[24:23] Yeah, I don't know that you can really do all that. I mean, you won one baseball game in April. You can't be like, finally, we did it.

Speaker 4:
[24:32] Come on. That's true to you.

Speaker 1:
[24:33] We're not going to lose every game for the rest of the year.

Speaker 4:
[24:37] That's that's the demand of the fan base.

Speaker 1:
[24:39] That's it is. Yeah. I think it's a pretty reasonable demand to just win a game. Um, game.

Speaker 4:
[24:47] Yeah, sure. Over over almost a two week stretch. Yes. Yes.

Speaker 1:
[24:52] See the Mets, the Mets make it look like baseball is really hard. Shohei Otani makes it look like baseball is really easy. He goes out there last night and shoves, but it's like it's not even like you came to, oh, wow. Like, you know, he went out there and that one start and what a what a dominant one singular start that we're going to highlight right now. It's like no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 3:
[25:18] No, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1:
[25:21] Shohei has been doing this all season long. He's given up one earned run on the season. He lowered, lowered his ERA. It was at half a run going into this start. It's now, what is it, 039? It might be actually lower than that. Let me double check. Uh, it is like, oh.

Speaker 4:
[25:48] 28, isn't it?

Speaker 1:
[25:49] So this is so many goddamn numbers on his 038, 038, 038, 038. He's punched out 25 batters in 24 innings. The whip is 075. Has not allowed a home run yet this year. Yeah, it's kind of crazy. Like, you know, you're watching him just dot up dudes at home plate. He's blowing 100 on the radar gun. No traffic. Strikeouts galore. And then he goes out there. And like I said yesterday, the 153 OPS plus, it's like that's a down year for him. It's yeah, we don't need to do another Glaze Shohei discussion. But since we did talk yesterday about his chances of winning both the MVP and the Cy Young Award, I would imagine that the odds are greater now than they were the last time we spoke.

Speaker 4:
[26:53] Jared, would you believe it if I told you that that market has actually increased?

Speaker 1:
[26:59] Interesting.

Speaker 4:
[27:01] The odds of him winning both Cy Young and the MVP have increased. Yes. I mean, marginally, but we've gone from an 11% share to a 13% share.

Speaker 1:
[27:17] It's going up 2% like a day.

Speaker 4:
[27:23] It's bananas, dude. It's bananas. Because to say it out loud, you're like, who's seriously talking about that? Who would you ever seriously have that kind of conversation about?

Speaker 1:
[27:37] Well, I mean, it's happened before. You know, like Verlander's done it.

Speaker 4:
[27:41] Yeah, I know. But like in the fashion, put it like this. Verlander did it in a way where you just you almost have to pause and wait for this dominance to unfold. We're talking about two very different performances being arguably the best performances you're seeing on both fronts.

Speaker 1:
[28:06] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[28:06] So it's one thing to just dominate over the course of 33 starts and lead your team into the postseason, a deep postseason run. And that's just how your year goes. And you look up and you're like, there was nobody more valuable. Well, he's going to leave or hopes to leave very little room for argument that he's the best pitcher as well as the best hitter, which that's why he has the respect of everybody that he plays with and against, and what he does is because everybody that straps it on daily knows how difficult it is to just do one of those two things and be good at it. And they're in awe of watching a guy do with them both at the same time and be elite at it.

Speaker 1:
[28:51] Yeah. I wish that there was like an award or a distinction that has never been attained before that would be worthy of the season that he could potentially have.

Speaker 4:
[29:05] I mean, you know, like this is this is what I would love to see. I mean, it's not going to happen. Can't can't say it won't happen because Shohei tends to just do those things. But he wins the Cy Young and he wins the MVP and he's a double crown, a crown crown. The triple crown in both.

Speaker 1:
[29:25] That'd be cool.

Speaker 4:
[29:26] That that that would be like as far as personal accolades go.

Speaker 1:
[29:30] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[29:30] Is that not like what's left? Like like he'll win the Cy Young and the MVP in the same season.

Speaker 1:
[29:37] And a double, triple crown.

Speaker 4:
[29:39] And then a double, triple crown.

Speaker 1:
[29:40] Yeah. See, I don't think he'll have the strikeouts to do it, but. Yeah, that would be really cool. So you just imagine thinking like, yeah, but he probably can't do that. It's like, oh, what a letdown.

Speaker 4:
[29:57] That's why as soon as I said it, I was like, oh, but you know what? I should probably not just do it. How about I don't say that out loud? How about I put that back?

Speaker 1:
[30:04] Yeah, I don't think he'll have the strikeouts to ever do that, but even if you have, I don't know, five out of the six of a double triple crown, that's pretty fucking sweet, too.

Speaker 4:
[30:20] I mean, ridiculous, dude. Ridiculous.

Speaker 1:
[30:24] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[30:24] Yeah. He's more than capable of it.

Speaker 1:
[30:28] He sure is. In terms of other great standout performances, I feel like the last time we talked about Jose Soriano, we didn't really give him the tongue bath that he deserves, but I feel like we can't even really do that ourselves because J. Hay is on vacation, but when he comes back, he'd be able to give him the proper tongue bath, but Jose Soriano has made six starts this year. It's 37 and two-thirds innings. He also has only allowed one earned run, however, it was a solo homer. So like one pitch, like it wasn't like one bad inning, it was one pitch. Like he could be, he could have a zero ERA through six starts to start the year. And it's also what, like 10 more innings than Shohay. But yeah, he is striking out more batters than Shohay, not to compare him to Otani, but I mean, this is a guy that is, is it fair to call him a late bloomer? I mean, he's 27, he'll be 28 in October and he's having a start to a year that, you know, pretty good big league numbers prior to this, but not anything crazy. Like what was his career ERA before this season? Probably like, it was in the three, yeah, 389. Yeah, but he wasn't even striking out a batter per inning prior to this, this start to this season.

Speaker 4:
[32:00] This is other worldly dominance that you, I mean, it's fair to say that you just didn't see coming. I think it's I think it's more than fair to say that. Right. That's that's that's the whole premise. Like this is this is a dude that is on an other worldly run right now. Like it's it's just incredible. Like put it like this. There's different ways to contextualize this. And obviously, J. Hay, I think, would would give you that historical perspective in that historical context.

Speaker 1:
[32:35] Well, I would want to know, like pitch usage, like what what is he like percentage wise? What was he doing last year compared to what what's he doing this year? Like he had to have done something. Don't just get that much better in your age 27 season. Like it's it's got to be something like arm slot pitch usage.

Speaker 4:
[32:51] So like, well, so like right right now, like the sinker, right? Opponents are hitting 119 against the sinker or five for 42. The fastball, four seamer, six for 47. They're hitting 222. So barely above 200 on either of the fastballs. They're hitting 156 against the curve ball. They're hitting 048 against the split. The slider is what has given the opponent the best opportunity to get the bat on the ball. They're hitting 250. They're one for four against the slider.

Speaker 1:
[33:31] What's his ground ball rate?

Speaker 4:
[33:33] It's a pitch he's thrown the least. Hold on.

Speaker 1:
[33:44] I mean, whatever it is, whatever pitch he has, it's working.

Speaker 4:
[33:48] It's 58% league average ground ball rate, 43%.

Speaker 1:
[33:53] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[33:54] And this is according to Quest.

Speaker 1:
[33:56] Punching tickets and getting balls on the ground.

Speaker 4:
[33:59] Yeah, it's just, it's ridiculous, man. It is ridiculous. And to your point about some of the other adjustments you were asking about, like, oh, did he change his, did he change his arm angle? Is he? Let me take a look at that. I can tell you right now.

Speaker 1:
[34:18] I would love to know that. Yeah, there's a lot of red here.

Speaker 4:
[34:24] Yeah, a lot of red here, but. Now it looks like things have been. Things have been fairly consistent for Soriano. He's I mean, he's it's the lowest arm slot. Since he's been in the big leagues at 33 degrees. Last year, it was 36 degrees, so it's also the biggest shift in angle that the opponent is experiencing. And that can obviously change and affect movement profile to an extent. But when we start to look at like pitch usage and how it's gone, like right now, sinker 30% of the time. Last year, it was almost 50%, it was 49%. The curveball, 26% last year, well, actually 27% this year, 28%. Foreseam fastball, about 24% this year, Jared.

Speaker 1:
[35:28] We got some breaking news here.

Speaker 4:
[35:30] Oh, what do we got?

Speaker 1:
[35:31] Well, we can skip ahead to our Phillies segment that we had.

Speaker 4:
[35:37] Okay, let's do it.

Speaker 1:
[35:40] The Philadelphia Phillies have released Taiwan Walker. He's one in four with a 913 ERA in the final year of a four year, $72 million contract. See, that's an organization that's like, listen, we gotta fire a guy. That's what I've been saying about the Red Sox. I don't know. What suggestions do you have? Fire a guy. Who? I don't know. Just got to set the tone and fire a guy. The Phillies are like, boom, we fired a guy. That can change the whole season around.

Speaker 4:
[36:14] You want the Red Sox to fire Alex Cora? No. I can't believe you're already you're there. No, you're there right now. Calling for your manager's head.

Speaker 1:
[36:22] Anyone anyone but Cora can be fired at this point.

Speaker 4:
[36:27] Well, that's not what you just said. You just said we got to fire somebody. Leadership starts from the top. Why is Alex is not at the top? I believe those were not somewhere near the top, but he's not the crazy because I got a lot of love for AC and I know that, you know, I'm going to tell him that you were advocating for his firing, but you said it. Not me. I was shocked to hear you say no, I did not say I want nothing more than Alex Cora to spend the remainder of his years leading the Boston Red Sox. That's I would I would love that. That's a great fit for that franchise.

Speaker 1:
[36:58] I think he is as well.

Speaker 4:
[37:00] But you just proved my point about the fan base cannibalizing, turning on themselves. Now you're turning on your manager.

Speaker 1:
[37:06] Oh, I mean, if you want to go there, then I can just, you know, share the screenshots where you called Marcotte, say a dipshit idiot. But I'm not going to do that.

Speaker 4:
[37:14] That's not it. I'm not going to do a great conversation.

Speaker 1:
[37:17] Why would I do that?

Speaker 4:
[37:17] Actually?

Speaker 1:
[37:18] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[37:19] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[37:20] I'm not going to say that. I think he's smart. I think he's a smart manager. I've picked him for manager of the year multiple times on the show.

Speaker 4:
[37:26] Yeah. Well, and I mean, if you're obviously closer to him.

Speaker 1:
[37:30] So I mean, your opinion speaks loudly in the space.

Speaker 4:
[37:36] Which is why I love him dearly.

Speaker 1:
[37:38] Doesn't sound like it, but at least privately.

Speaker 4:
[37:40] So then who do the Red Sox? So then who do the Red Sox fire? And I know it doesn't have to be somebody from the staff per se, but what do you do?

Speaker 1:
[37:50] Fire a guy. That's it. You got to trade a guy, you got to fire a guy. That's what they have to do. If I'm Jaren Duran, I'm like, buddy, you guys were shopping me around for an ace all winter, and now I'm a bench player. How the fuck did that happen? I was a nine win player a couple of years ago, and now I'm a fucking role player. I'm a platoon bat. The fuck is this? Get me out of here. I would not be pumped if I were him. I wouldn't be pumped if I was. I guess Rafael is fine.

Speaker 4:
[38:29] So it sounds like you want to fire somebody that has to do with roster construction.

Speaker 1:
[38:36] I don't love the way the roster has been constructed, no.

Speaker 4:
[38:40] So then it feels like that's where you're pointing your arrow. You want you want somebody out of you want somebody out of office?

Speaker 1:
[38:45] Well, you need to hire a guy also.

Speaker 4:
[38:49] So then maybe it's not firing a guy. Maybe it's hiring a guy.

Speaker 1:
[38:52] Yeah, I think I think they need to trade a guy, fire a guy and hire a guy. That's what they need to do. Yeah. Wow, it sounds like there's a lot of problems or maybe promote a guy to man throw.

Speaker 4:
[39:05] Fuck. All right. Now, so we're we're we're trading guys. We're firing guys. We're hiring guys. We're promoting guys.

Speaker 1:
[39:13] Yes. Or girls.

Speaker 4:
[39:15] I mean, why don't we just call it a rebuild at this point?

Speaker 1:
[39:18] Yeah, this is more than a rebuild. This is like a complete dismantling. Like I would like to just completely dismantle the franchise and start over.

Speaker 4:
[39:26] Wow. Wow. And it's April. Oh, what a what a long year. What a tough scene.

Speaker 1:
[39:33] It's going to be a long couple of years because then there's going to be no baseball next year. So like go get them in 28, I guess.

Speaker 4:
[39:41] I mean, I got I got nothing to do today, really. I mean, I've got some things I want to do today, but. I'm thinking about I'm thinking about. I'm thinking about giving you a little call, Jared. Right after you guys get slid on and and see, I'll be fine.

Speaker 1:
[39:58] I've already mentally accepted that.

Speaker 4:
[40:02] That's a cam Schlittler lives. Right, you know, it's it's actually one of those weird universes where you're paying. You've got cam Schlittler on scholarship. You're paying him to live in your head. I forgot.

Speaker 1:
[40:17] I forgot he was on the team until he started talking again like five days ago.

Speaker 4:
[40:22] Stop it. You saw this coming. You can't you can't see.

Speaker 1:
[40:26] Yeah, we did. We did the we did the preview. Yeah, we did.

Speaker 4:
[40:30] And forget about him at the same time. You can't do that.

Speaker 1:
[40:32] The last episode we did, we did the the pitching preview. And I was like, yeah, he's going to fucking jam it right up our ass. I pulled the tape, man.

Speaker 4:
[40:39] I tell you, it's been a while since I've seen you. This mentally pretzeled, mentally pretzeled.

Speaker 1:
[40:46] I genuinely forgot that he was on the team. I didn't know he was pitching in the series until Connor, who does our pitching matchup, sent me the matchups. And I was like, oh, Schlettler is going in this series. That that'll be a fucking dumpster fire. Completely forgot about him, had removed him from my brain.

Speaker 3:
[41:05] And he is like, when I warm up in the bullpen, you're going to throw stuff at me and you're going to grab me and you're going to yell at me and I don't like it. I'm not nervous about you or anything.

Speaker 4:
[41:16] Are you going to go into the game tonight?

Speaker 1:
[41:18] No.

Speaker 4:
[41:20] I mean, because tonight would be the night that you would get a real feel for what he was talking about, not throwing a bullpen pregame with just the fucking ushers and the vendors walking around getting ready for the game.

Speaker 3:
[41:31] I don't care, though.

Speaker 1:
[41:32] That's the thing, is I don't really care.

Speaker 4:
[41:36] I don't think anybody believes that.

Speaker 1:
[41:38] I mean, if someone wants to send me a video of his bullpen, then I'll watch it, but I don't care enough to go there and be like, look, I don't care.

Speaker 4:
[41:47] Yeah, I'd be willing to bet there's going to be a boisterous voice or two.

Speaker 1:
[41:51] Yeah, but that's to be expected. It's Fenway. You pitch for the Yankees. It doesn't matter if you were born in pretend Boston or if you were born in Arizona, people are going to yell at you because you pitch for the Yankees.

Speaker 4:
[42:03] It's Cam from Weymouth. Steve's their wall pole.

Speaker 1:
[42:07] Which is basically Foxboro.

Speaker 4:
[42:10] You sure he's not Weymouth?

Speaker 1:
[42:12] Positive. Steve lives in Weymouth.

Speaker 4:
[42:18] I know. I told you, I gave Steve some love on the on a broadcast earlier this year.

Speaker 1:
[42:23] Yeah, he loves bunting.

Speaker 4:
[42:26] Yeah. Sometimes you got to do anything you can to win a ballgame, Jared. And according to you, it's fire everybody, tear it down, change the team name. Except for Cora. Move to Maine.

Speaker 1:
[42:38] Yeah, I'm just I fucking hate this team. I hate watching them, but.

Speaker 4:
[42:44] It's tough.

Speaker 1:
[42:45] It's the worst, like even like 2012.

Speaker 4:
[42:47] Well, you know what?

Speaker 1:
[42:48] Let's Bobby V was more exciting than this.

Speaker 4:
[42:51] Let's let's shift some gears here. Then let's shift gears because the Phillies, the Phillies have now taken over the spotlight of the team who was wearing it on the chin.

Speaker 1:
[43:04] Losers. They make the playoffs in 2018. It's the longest losing streak since 2018. Is it? Do they make the playoffs that year? I don't think so. Maybe. I remember Noah being nasty that year.

Speaker 4:
[43:15] Yeah, I don't know if they made the playoffs. I don't remember.

Speaker 1:
[43:17] Phillies make the playoffs. I thought they made the yawfs that year. No, they were 80 and 82. So now they finished third.

Speaker 4:
[43:28] Not going to get to the playoffs.

Speaker 1:
[43:30] No, that was that was a Gabe Kapler season. I've dude I forgot that that fucking weirdo was a manager in the big leagues.

Speaker 4:
[43:38] Wow.

Speaker 1:
[43:40] Well, I'm only saying that because of the stuff like stuff that you've told me offline, but yeah.

Speaker 4:
[43:45] Again, not not true, not even close to being true.

Speaker 1:
[43:49] Hmm, whatever. Enough, enough public information to be like, yeah, that guy's a weirdo, but let's let's play a little game. Let's play a little game.

Speaker 4:
[43:59] You ready for America's new favorite segment, which is Why is this team so bad?

Speaker 1:
[44:05] Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 4:
[44:08] Where do you think collectively the Phillies are sitting as a group when it comes to team batting average during this little skid they've experienced?

Speaker 1:
[44:21] 27th.

Speaker 4:
[44:25] No, that would be the Red Sox. The Red Sox are 27th. Yeah, yeah. So the Phillies believe it or not, even worse than the Red Sox. There's not many teams that are worse than the Red Sox. But the Phillies are one of them. They're actually the worst. They're hitting 192, Jared. 192 as a group. Yeah, no, and remember we learned yesterday that you gotta get on base if you're going to score runs. Right?

Speaker 1:
[44:55] Have to.

Speaker 4:
[44:56] And we also know that you don't always have to be on base if you're a power hitter.

Speaker 1:
[45:00] Sure.

Speaker 4:
[45:01] You don't have to be on base. You could be in scoring position at home plate.

Speaker 1:
[45:04] You could be.

Speaker 4:
[45:04] But collectively, Jared, where do you think the Phillies sit when it comes to on base percentage as a group during this tough little skit?

Speaker 1:
[45:15] Well, if they're the worst hitting team, then they probably aren't working their walks either. I'm gonna say 29th.

Speaker 4:
[45:23] Nope. Nope, they are 30th.

Speaker 1:
[45:25] Okay, so they're the worst.

Speaker 4:
[45:27] They're the worst. There's nobody worse at getting on base right now than the Phillies.

Speaker 1:
[45:34] Okay.

Speaker 4:
[45:35] Then the Phillies. And you know what? Hey, maybe you run into a ball on the gap. Maybe you're able to hit a few off the wall, right?

Speaker 1:
[45:42] Yeah, sure.

Speaker 4:
[45:45] Do you want to know where they sit in terms of team slugging percentage?

Speaker 1:
[45:50] Slugging percentage.

Speaker 4:
[45:52] Yes. Can you can you find me a barrel or two, boys?

Speaker 1:
[45:56] I saw Bryce had a homerun maybe the other day. Schwabber. Trying to think back in my head, like how many Phillies homerun notifications I've seen pop up recently. It seems like maybe just those two guys. I'm going to say I'm going to say that they're down the bottom somewhere like 28th.

Speaker 4:
[46:18] They're not 30th.

Speaker 1:
[46:19] OK.

Speaker 4:
[46:21] They're not 30th. Yeah, that's the Red Sox. That would be the Red Sox. Yeah, that'd be the Red Sox. Yeah. Yeah. Red Sox are 30th. The Phillies are 29th, 29th when it comes to team slugging percentage. Yeah, that's real. Five. Just just three or five. It's not great. It's not great. Which obviously you do all that math and you realize that there's only one team worse when it comes to OPS than the Red Sox. And that is the Philadelphia Phillies. Philadelphia Phillies, 552 OPS during during their eight game skid again. Not not ideal.

Speaker 1:
[46:59] It's got to be close though.

Speaker 4:
[47:00] You're trying. What's that?

Speaker 1:
[47:01] It's got to be close between them and the Red Sox.

Speaker 4:
[47:04] Uh, yeah, it is. It is very close. Um, the Red Sox, 585. They got a 585 OPS. OK, Phillies, 552.

Speaker 1:
[47:13] Got it. OK.

Speaker 4:
[47:15] Yeah. And believe it or not, the Phillies during this time, Jared, have. They have hit more homers. Than a lot of other teams, one of those teams being the Red Sox, who have only hit two during that time.

Speaker 1:
[47:39] That's bad.

Speaker 4:
[47:40] So that's a large part of why they're not able to score runs because they're just not finding the baseball. They're not barreling the baseball with guys on base, which is kind of necessary in baseball. Here's there's just a lot of different reasons why that hasn't really panned out.

Speaker 1:
[47:58] Were they in runs scored?

Speaker 4:
[48:01] Tough, tough. Let me let me let me get that for you.

Speaker 1:
[48:04] Yeah, sort that run scored. I bet they're I bet they're not last. There's some real bad run scoring teams out there like the Red Sox.

Speaker 4:
[48:11] Um, runs scored? Well, would you believe that they have scored during the stretch? Where are they at?

Speaker 1:
[48:20] Middle of the pack.

Speaker 4:
[48:24] Jared, they've actually scored the second most runs. What? 56 runs.

Speaker 1:
[48:32] Wait, during the eight game losing streak, they've scored the second most runs in Major League Baseball?

Speaker 4:
[48:40] Is what I'm seeing here. How is that? How is that? Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. I changed. I changed my screen change, which is why I was scrambling.

Speaker 1:
[48:50] Yeah, I was like, how the fuck can they be the worst hitting team and score the second most runs?

Speaker 4:
[48:55] They've allowed the second most runs.

Speaker 1:
[48:57] That makes a lot more sense. Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[49:00] Yeah. Yeah, they've actually, believe it or not, the Red Sox have outscored them.

Speaker 1:
[49:07] How?

Speaker 4:
[49:08] Just just by six runs, though. The Phillies have scored 16 runs during this time.

Speaker 1:
[49:14] I don't know how the Red Sox have outscored anybody. They never score runs.

Speaker 4:
[49:21] Yeah, tough.

Speaker 1:
[49:23] That's bad.

Speaker 4:
[49:25] Tough. And I mean, we can take a look at the pitching side of things since they did just release Taiwan Walker.

Speaker 1:
[49:33] They did.

Speaker 4:
[49:34] We just kind of went over where they're at in terms of runs allowed. They are 29th, believe it or not, the Kansas City Royals are the only team that has allowed more runs during that stretch. They've allowed 58.

Speaker 1:
[49:49] Damn.

Speaker 4:
[49:49] Not ideal.

Speaker 1:
[49:50] So have you seen any of my Royals tweets, my Royals coverage this year?

Speaker 4:
[49:56] No, what do you what drum are you beating for the Royals?

Speaker 1:
[50:00] So I don't know what it is. Maybe it's just like the time zone and when they also more breaking news, Francisco Lindor likely to be placed on the IL with a calf injury. Got hurt running around second the other day. So I've just been watching a lot of Royals baseball. Like I like every year, like I try to find like a comfort team where it's like, all right, the Red Sox are so bad, I just need to like lock in on another team and just, it's almost like, it's like cosplay. Like I'm just trying to imagine what life would be like as a fan of this team. And I locked in on the Royals early and it's just the same thing as the Red Sox. They just don't score runs. Like every night, I'm fucking watching the Royals not score any runs and Vinny Pascuantino is hitting a couple home runs recently. But outside of that, like I tweeted about it. I was like, yeah, like I've been watching a lot of Royals baseball this year. I don't know why. And Royals fans are like, why are you doing this to yourself if you don't have to? And like some of them were blaming me. They're like, oh, so that's why we suck and we're not scoring runs. It's because you're watching us. I was like, yeah, I don't know. Maybe maybe it is me.

Speaker 4:
[51:11] I don't know. This is you know what the problem is, Jared, is what you're doing with your Baseball fandom is tantamount to not understanding the test material and bouncing around the Scantron instead of just sticking with A. So select A when you don't know the answer, select A because you don't want to bounce back and forth and back and forth. I don't know how many times it's going to be a. But if you don't give yourself an opportunity to land on all the A's that are the option, yeah, you're screwing yourself. That's why I mean, shout out me. Shout out the Buccos, winners of 14. Shout out the green and gold division leaders. See what happens, Jared, when you stay consistent, you stay in the lane. That's what happens. Good things happen to good fans and good people, Jared. That's the narrative.

Speaker 1:
[52:01] So you ever see the movie The Mask with Jim Carrey?

Speaker 4:
[52:07] Yes, I have.

Speaker 1:
[52:07] The longer he leaves the mask on, the harder it is to take off.

Speaker 4:
[52:12] To tear it off.

Speaker 1:
[52:15] So I'm like, one year I'll dip in with the Brewers, then I'll dip in with the Braves, and then I'll dip in with apparently the Royals. I can't stay in one place for too long because then I become too ingrained in their culture. Then they look to me like I'm their leader and I'm like, no, I'm only here for a short time. I'm not here for a long time, I'm here for a short time. Because I am a Red Sox fan at the end of the day. But I like to bounce around and just become a little part of the culture. I think 2020, I was kind of in with the Padres. Like, yeah, 2020 was my Padres year. 21, I caught a tidal wave and I was a Braves guy that year. 19 was my Brewers year. This is my Royals year. And you're not going to catch a big wave every time you go out into the ocean, Dallas.

Speaker 4:
[53:11] Right now, it feels like you're playing in the you're playing in the tide pool. Yeah, I don't know that you're even on a wave.

Speaker 1:
[53:17] But like, that's the thing about baseball season, especially if you're a content creator or just a personality on baseball Twitter, you've got to catch your waves early, right? Like you, you don't want to be Ben Verlander and only come in when it's convenient. You want to or like when it becomes like popular, then you're like, I've always been this a fan of this. And it's like, well, no, for me, like the Murakami is a wave that I think I got on early. So like now I'm going to ride the Murakami wave and that one is paying dividends. The Royals wave. A lot of sharks in that water, Dallas.

Speaker 4:
[53:54] Yeah, I would. You're you're you're swimming in the lineup, my friend. And that's what sharks like to hunt.

Speaker 1:
[53:59] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[54:00] Sharks like to hunt.

Speaker 1:
[54:01] Yeah. I don't know if I like I kind of want to get off this ride, but I can't I can't. I'm just every fucking night Royals baseball, not scoring runs. It sucks. I go from watching the Red Sox, not score runs to watching the Royals, not score runs. It's fucking nightmare.

Speaker 4:
[54:18] I can I can see how that becomes a more daunting task to just watch baseball when you are watching losing baseball night in and night out. I mean, yeah.

Speaker 1:
[54:30] And it's a limited menu, right? Like you can't be like, yeah. So I started watching the Dodgers in April and I just rode the wave. I always believe again. Oh shit, dude. Like, you're not special. You're not cool. You got to go out into the lagoon and catch a Royals wave. Like, that's when you that's when you really earn it like the Braves in twenty one. It's like, yeah, all right. Yeah, there were pieces there. But fucking Ronnie went down and I'm still riding that wave all the way to a championship.

Speaker 4:
[54:58] If we're talking about waves, you mentioned his name. I mean, we do need to talk about the Murakami Tsunami because that's that's what a wave it's been. What a wave. Yeah, it's now. It's now five homers in a row.

Speaker 1:
[55:14] Yep. Well, five straight games.

Speaker 4:
[55:17] Yeah. Yeah. Five homers.

Speaker 1:
[55:19] OK, people might be like, oh, shit, he hit a homerun of five straight at bats.

Speaker 4:
[55:22] No, I know. That's fair. That's right. Five homers in five straight days. Yeah. I mean, the record, all time record shared between King Griffey Jr., Donnie Ball game and and of course, you remember Dale Long. Yeah. And this is this is, I think everything I wanted for White Sox fans when this deal was signed is I wanted him to do something, whether it be really cool over the course of the season or even if it's a short burst like this, this this is what I think White Sox fans wanted as well. Like it's one thing to go and get a shiny toy and feel excited about it and almost have to train yourself to ignore all of the hype that was surrounding why he wasn't as attractive maybe to the rest of the teams in the league because, oh, is this dude gonna hit fastballs? Is he gonna be able to find a position? Like, is this why all these other teams are out on him? Because frankly, if you're getting really excited about a player that it feels like other teams aren't getting as excited about and you're the White Sox, I don't know that you felt like you knew something that other teams didn't. I felt like there was probably an air of, oh, shit, all right, well, you know, I mean, let's hope he's good. Let's hope he's good because if he is, then sweet. Well, he is good and sweet it is to watch this dude go to work because he continues to set the precedent. He continues to give the Southsiders hope. I love every bit of what Mirakami is doing right now. I love every minute of it. He's tied the franchise for the most consecutive games with a homer tying everybody's favorite, AJ Brzezinski, Uncle Polly, Polly Canerco, Carlos Lee, Big Hurt, Frank Thomas, who did it twice in 94.

Speaker 1:
[57:25] Big Feelings Hurt is what I like to call him.

Speaker 4:
[57:28] What's that?

Speaker 1:
[57:29] I said Big Feelings Hurt is what I like to call him.

Speaker 4:
[57:33] I mean, come on, you get snubbed by the franchise you put on the map like that?

Speaker 1:
[57:37] No, he got snubbed by me and got really upset about it. I made that graphic a few years ago, but what if they had the World Baseball Classic in 1998, what the roster would have looked like? And he was furious that I didn't have him on the team.

Speaker 4:
[57:54] Well, why would you not have him on the team?

Speaker 1:
[57:55] Because I had Mark McGuire in over him. It was 1998. Like, sorry, you're not making the cut over Big Mac in 1998 of all years.

Speaker 4:
[58:04] OK.

Speaker 1:
[58:05] I mean, I made the roster with revisionist history, but.

Speaker 4:
[58:08] Yeah. I can I could see why we'd have something to say about that.

Speaker 1:
[58:14] I'm sure I'm sure he was upset about it, but it is what it is. I'm not upset about the Kalshi odds for AL rookie of the year right now.

Speaker 4:
[58:23] Well, that's that's where the Murakami tsunami is coming into play.

Speaker 1:
[58:27] Yeah, he's he's made up a lot of ground recently. McGonagall is at 37 percent. Where would you guess Murakami is?

Speaker 4:
[58:38] Not far behind that. I'm going to say 33 percent, 35 percent. Thirty five percent, 35 percent.

Speaker 1:
[58:46] Again, on the Kalshi app. Promo code BID, if you trade 20 bucks, they'll give you 20 bucks. These are all the line, the odds, the percentages are all fan opinion. It's not set by the wise guys in Vegas. This is what baseball fans and sports fans alike are thinking in terms of the American League Rookie of the Year. And Murakami is at 35 percent, which would be second, second best. But let's call it a tie. Like he's basically at this point tied to win the award.

Speaker 4:
[59:20] And and he's got any. And you know what else is fun for the Southsiders is sure, he might be on the main stage, but but the lights on the side stage right now. Fairly Montgomery. Buddy.

Speaker 1:
[59:34] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[59:34] Four straight games.

Speaker 1:
[59:35] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[59:36] Four straight games that they've both homered.

Speaker 1:
[59:37] Yep.

Speaker 4:
[59:39] Four straight games that they have pretty cool. Homer, that's fucking incredible. They're the first pair of teammates in history to Homer and four consecutive games.

Speaker 1:
[59:47] I don't I'm not even being bitter when I say this. I would rather be a White Sox fan in 2026 than a Red Sox fan.

Speaker 4:
[59:54] Oh, no. Jared has died. His Red Sox. Jared has bleached his socks.

Speaker 1:
[60:00] I would I would I would I would much rather the the Boston Red Sox are 9 and 15. The Chicago White Sox are 9 and 15, which 9 and 15 is more enjoyable to watch. Like you get to watch Montgomery, Murakami, like hitting fucking tanks every night. Literally, the Red Sox hit two home runs in the last month. Like they like the Red Sox play the most boring brand of baseball. They lose all the time. Like they don't have any stars. They don't have any stars. None. There's not like, oh, at least there's that guy. Like, nope. Like the the best pitcher on the team, Crochet, he's been bad the last couple of times out. Roman is out partying and now his back hurts. Like those are supposed to be the stars of the team. That hasn't been a fun watch. And they don't hit home runs, they don't score runs. I would, I would, that's my take. I would rather ride out the neck, the rest of 2026 as a White Sox fan than a Red Sox fan.

Speaker 4:
[61:07] Wow. I mean, buddy, that is... Look, I just think that is a...

Speaker 1:
[61:12] What would you pick? What team would you rather watch 162 of, the White Sox or the Red Sox for 2026?

Speaker 4:
[61:17] Well, put it like this, it feels like one of those teams is lying to themselves and is lying to their fan base, maybe. And it feels like the other team is the White Sox.

Speaker 1:
[61:27] Yeah, the White Sox are just dumb. Like, they're a dumb franchise, but they have exciting to watch players.

Speaker 4:
[61:34] They have exciting to watch players. They have... I mean, we didn't even talk about... Talk about Schultz, the fucking 6'10 lefty, bringing thunder. That was fun to watch. That was fun to watch. That dude's gonna be a problem. That dude is going to be an issue.

Speaker 1:
[61:52] They got funny guys that are gonna be a problem. They got guys. They got guys.

Speaker 4:
[61:56] 96, 98, with little arm side run. He can straighten you out with the forest seamer, two seamer, good change up, little slid row. That dude was disgusting. The only thing that I had to say about Schultz was for as big as he is, I'd like to see him get a little further down the slope. That's about it. Because now we turn 96, 98 into like we're able to start to capitalize on some perceived velocity. Now that should look at 102. If we can get him down a little further down the slope. The crazy thing about Schultz too, is they say they believe this kid is still growing. He's 6'10, 245 pounds and he's still growing. He's only 22. So I get it. I'm not telling you he's gonna hit 7. They believe that there's a possibility for that. There's a lot of folks in that organization who have heard from a lot of folks who understand how the human body works and have been around Mr. Schultz that say, buddy, this dude could very well start tickling the 7 range. And if that's the case, my God. Because you just imagine a 7 flame throwing left-handed behemoth from the south side, like they would have a freak show. And I'm here for every bit of it.

Speaker 1:
[63:23] So it sounds like you agree with me then. This is a long-winded way of saying that you agree with me.

Speaker 4:
[63:27] Oh, yeah. No, I made that obvious when I said, you know, it feels like one team is being lied to and the other team is the White Sox. Yeah. The White Sox. Just to put in a little more context here, run through these points real quickly, because it does bear acknowledgement. He's equaled now the longest homer streak by a Major League Baseball rookie. It's been done 13 times since 1900. He has tied with Trevor Story and George Scott for the fourth most homers in his first 24 career games. We talked about the Punisher, Aristides Aquino and Reese Hoskins, Gary Sanchez. Wednesday's contest, we touched on Montgomery and Mirakami homered for the fourth straight day. Mirakami, fewest career games to 10 homers in White Sox history. Took him just 24, checking in at one less than Zeke Bonara here according to the article on mlb.com. But it's been great, dude. It's been great for White Sox fans. It's been great to watch Mirakami do what he's doing. And I know it's exciting for Will Venable, the manager, to watch this.

Speaker 1:
[64:40] I love Will Venable, by the way. You ever have a chance to just sit down and talk ball with him ever?

Speaker 4:
[64:46] All the time.

Speaker 1:
[64:46] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[64:47] Yeah, we were, we sat at my broadcast partner's wedding. We were at the same table. They put us at the table together because they were like, this will work. You guys will be fine here with each other. Yeah, Will's fucking awesome, man. And I talked to him, I talked to him a lot and they were just in Sacramento as well.

Speaker 1:
[65:10] Great guy. Bald knower, Will Venable.

Speaker 4:
[65:13] Well, yeah, and I said this on the air because obviously I tweeted out, it's not a snafu because I, knowing Will, having spoken to Will and I understand why the decision that they made was made when I was talking about having an opportunity to walk a couple guys, get to the pitcher and from there you probably have two outs and then you can go and attack a guy who just got called back up to the big leagues and kind of hadn't been swinging the bat well in Gelof. And why wouldn't you do that? But Will was very aware of all of the scenarios, had hashed all of it out. And that's why I said sometimes as a manager, you just don't want to put certain players or players that you have in positions to fail. And if you've had a player in a similar position, just a week or so before, maybe a couple weeks before, and the scenario played out negatively, maybe you don't do that again. And that's why I said this is all part of a growing phase for not only Will as a manager, but for the rest of that group. So it's not like he didn't have any clue about what he had in front of him. He did. He made a decision. The group made a decision. And that's what happens in Baseball, is you have to live with those decisions and you learn from those decisions, whether they work out or not. So yeah, I say all that to say that Will Venable is awesome. And I, yeah, I had a great time just chatting with him, but I feel, and I told him this as much. I said, I feel like he's in a great spot where he's able to create culture that probably wasn't allowed to exist in years past. And when you're able to do that, you're able to get buy-in from the group. And he's got a young group that if you can get them bought in and pulling on the same rope in the same direction, you see growth, you see tangible evidence of guys getting better and enjoying themselves. And Mirakami has spoken about how he loves his teammates. He loves the vibe.

Speaker 1:
[67:28] And sure, when you're fucking popping homers, you're underselling it, what he said.

Speaker 4:
[67:33] Oh, no. Well, I'm not. I don't mean to undersell it like he was very excited.

Speaker 1:
[67:38] Yes. He was like, I fucking love my teammates. Like, this is awesome. I love the White Sox. Let's see if I can find it. Yeah. OK. They're an interpreter on what he's learned about the White Sox since joining the organization. I love the team very much. All my teammates are very open to communication. They're really just great teammates overall, staff coaches. I love them very much. He just loves it.

Speaker 4:
[68:04] Yeah. Well, I mean, and look, let's be honest.

Speaker 1:
[68:07] Can I ask a question, Dallas?

Speaker 4:
[68:09] Please ask a question.

Speaker 1:
[68:11] We're still in April. Can I abandon the Royals for the White Sox? I'm not abandoning a bad team for a good team. I'm abandoning a bad team for a team that has the same record as the Red Sox. But I want to watch the White Sox. I don't want to watch the Royals anymore.

Speaker 4:
[68:29] I mean, look, dude, if you start to do this, this starts to become who you are. I just want you to understand this. You start to build a track record, and now what happens is-

Speaker 1:
[68:38] What track record? I've always had another team that I watch every year.

Speaker 4:
[68:45] Right. But now we're watching how that waffles. We're watching how that just goes away.

Speaker 1:
[68:48] But I'm abandoning a fucking, what are they? I'm abandoning an eight and 17 team for a nine and 15 team. Get the fuck out of here.

Speaker 4:
[68:58] I mean, you're just worried about wins and losses right now?

Speaker 1:
[69:00] No, I'm not.

Speaker 4:
[69:00] And it's April?

Speaker 1:
[69:01] No, no, no. No, I'm worried about entertainment. That's what I'm worried about. Players and people I can invest in. No disrespect to that.

Speaker 4:
[69:08] Because what happens-

Speaker 1:
[69:09] I love Bobby, I love Vinny P. But I want to invest in the White Sox.

Speaker 4:
[69:14] You're going to find yourself on the Jerry Springer stage, and it's going to be, you didn't like me, you didn't like me when I had pimples on my face. You didn't like me when I was overweight. Look at me now. Look at what you missed. Look at me now. When Vinny P and the boys start rolling, when Bobby Witt and the boys start banging, you're going to be looking around going, oh yeah, but you know what? I was on the Royals early. I've always loved the Royals. I want to- and now teams are going to start to look at you like, hey, don't come around here, bro.

Speaker 1:
[69:46] No.

Speaker 4:
[69:47] Don't come around here.

Speaker 1:
[69:48] No.

Speaker 4:
[69:48] We don't want-

Speaker 1:
[69:49] so I can confer with the board? It's not personal. It's not personal with the Royals. It's just that like- This is sad. I went out on a few dates-

Speaker 4:
[69:57] The Red Sox have done this to you.

Speaker 1:
[69:59] No, no, no. This is the analogy, right? I went out on a few dates with the Royals and we connected. It's like, yeah, I could continue to hang out with you and I'm not going to despise you, but there's no spark. But I think that there's a little bit of a spark with the White Sox. That's all.

Speaker 4:
[70:16] Yeah, see what happened was the waitress on your last date, you smell their perfume, you watch the walk away a few times and you're like, you know what? Like, it's not that this date that I'm on right now sucks. It's that I think I'd much rather be hanging out with the waitress than with the the girl that I'm on.

Speaker 1:
[70:34] That's kind of what it is. And I bet you I bet you Royals fans would be like, honestly, I get it. I get it.

Speaker 4:
[70:40] Like, man. Well, you know what? You know what? Maybe maybe I'm not the one to make that decision. Maybe I'll confer with the board of the Royals. Well, well, well, the Royals fans will hear this. They'll they'll be like, they'll loop me in.

Speaker 1:
[70:54] Go, go, go, go get her.

Speaker 3:
[70:57] Go get her.

Speaker 4:
[70:58] See, is that what you're banking on? The Midwestern sincerity of them saying, look, we understand. We're not in a good place right now. Personally, we want you to go out and enjoy yourself.

Speaker 1:
[71:08] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[71:09] Live your live your best life.

Speaker 1:
[71:11] Yeah. Like, it's not it's not you. It's me. Royals fans. You know, like like you're too much like my ex. Like, you know, you're like the Red Sox that you don't score runs. You remind me of my ex. I don't want I don't want to. I don't want to do that. I want to I want something new. I want something fun and exciting. And that's where the White Sox come in. You know.

Speaker 4:
[71:33] This is this is. This is tough to watch. This is this is part of the unraveling is is what this is. This is.

Speaker 1:
[71:40] Oh, come on. The White Sox are there. They're they have a negative twenty nine run differential. If I if I was all right, here's here's where it becomes an issue. If I'm like, you know what? I made a mistake picking the Royals. But this year I'm going to be all in on the Cincinnati Reds. It's like, yeah, well, that's easy to say, like they're in first place.

Speaker 4:
[72:04] No, I I know what you're doing. You're just looking for some excitement. What we would call it? The Murakami Tsunami. You're looking to jump on the Murakami Tsunami.

Speaker 1:
[72:13] Yeah, I just want to feel anything. You know, the Red Sox just make me feel pain and depressed. You know.

Speaker 4:
[72:21] Yeah. But by the way, I do got to shout out the I saw and I guess I wasn't aware of this. The White Sox announcer had like called him the South Side Samurai.

Speaker 1:
[72:35] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[72:37] Is that not a great nickname?

Speaker 1:
[72:38] It's a great nickname, but I've seen people on social media be like, can we does every every player from Japan have to have samurai in their nickname? Like, can we not lean into Japanese culture every time for a nickname? I don't know. I think it's a cool nickname, but I don't know if it offends anybody. You know what I mean?

Speaker 4:
[73:00] Yeah. And I understand that, because like when I heard it, I was like, that's awesome. Like, there's never, I don't know. I get it. I guess that people might take offense to it. But I mean, I didn't see any sort of disrespect. It's not laced with disrespect. Yeah. Like, buddy, like, I don't know if folks are aware of the samurais, they're badass.

Speaker 1:
[73:22] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[73:23] They're badasses.

Speaker 1:
[73:25] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[73:26] Yeah. Like in my book, it's like, when we're talking about martial art discipline, like ninja, everybody wants to be a ninja because they're stealthy and they can kick ass and they're awesome. But then you have like samurai.

Speaker 1:
[73:41] Right.

Speaker 4:
[73:42] Like those are that's a that's a whole other tier of badassery.

Speaker 1:
[73:46] Yeah. That's like, I don't know. Like what? Like a patrol officer versus the police chief.

Speaker 4:
[73:54] Yeah. Well, I would say it's like, you know, patrol officer versus like a a a SEAL Team six. Well, yeah. Well, if we're talking municipalities, you know, oh, you're a patrol officer. Cool. I'm on the SWAT team.

Speaker 1:
[74:07] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[74:09] Like you're you're right in parking tickets. Sweet. I'm fucking breaking down doors and shooting drug dealers in their living room. We are not the same.

Speaker 1:
[74:20] We have different job descriptions.

Speaker 4:
[74:23] Yeah. We both wear a badge for sure.

Speaker 1:
[74:26] Definitely.

Speaker 4:
[74:30] Yeah. So so I just yeah, I hope I hope you're doing all right mentally. I'm not watching this. Yeah, I'm not watching this unraveling is I mean, I'm not going to lie if I it's been kind of fun, but I do. I worry about you from time to time for me and I think for a lot of other people.

Speaker 1:
[74:50] You think you think it's been fun?

Speaker 4:
[74:57] I mean, you have publicly died your Red Sox White. You have publicly that's you. You intentionally threw them in the hot water with other clothes.

Speaker 1:
[75:07] Breaking news, my White Sox just designated Lucas Sims for assignment.

Speaker 4:
[75:12] And do you want to know who was on the mound in the scenario that I was talking about?

Speaker 1:
[75:19] What scenario were you talking about?

Speaker 4:
[75:21] With the White Sox and the A's?

Speaker 1:
[75:23] Oh, Lucas Sims. There he goes. There goes my hero.

Speaker 4:
[75:31] So now you're off the White Sox?

Speaker 1:
[75:33] No, we're trying to get better. Yeah, no, we're trying to get better.

Speaker 4:
[75:37] Oh, so to your to your point, they're firing guys.

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Speaker 4:
[77:57] I tell you what, we spent quite a bit of time on the White Sox here recently.

Speaker 1:
[78:01] Yep.

Speaker 4:
[78:03] They deserve it.

Speaker 1:
[78:04] Yeah, they do. My White Sox. I can't wait till JH hears about this.

Speaker 4:
[78:15] He's gonna have thoughts. I mean, I have my own thoughts. The Royals fans, I mean, it's still, like, I think this is... It's still up for debate on whether or not the Royals are gonna... Really it's up to them.

Speaker 1:
[78:28] They don't want me. They don't want me there. They don't want to be there. I don't want to be there. Like, just let me go.

Speaker 4:
[78:36] That's... It's gonna be like, they're, you know, now we're getting up and we're walking away from dinner and they've reached to hold your hand and you're like, my hand hurts. I don't want to...

Speaker 1:
[78:45] Like, you're not even... You're not getting... You're getting, like, a hug goodbye, you know?

Speaker 4:
[78:49] Just a non-reciprocal existence.

Speaker 1:
[78:52] Yeah, like, there's no first kiss. There's no spark moment. It's just like, I'm gonna pay for the bill because I'm a gentleman. Like, I'm gonna acknowledge, like, yeah, thank you, Royals, for the opportunity, but, you know, hug goodbye. Nice to meet you.

Speaker 4:
[79:09] That's... It feels like that's what the Royals did to you, and you're like, you know what? I'm not gonna wait around for this. This is not... They gave you the hug goodbye, and you were like, I thought... I thought we were going upstairs.

Speaker 1:
[79:19] Vinnie P is gonna be mad about this, and, you know, I don't mean to make him upset, but I gotta do this for me, you know? I gotta do this for me.

Speaker 4:
[79:31] Yeah, I can't wait. I mean, we're gonna see, we're gonna see Vinnie P and the boys here very soon. The A's will when we go home. So I'll be sure to...

Speaker 1:
[79:39] He didn't even know that I was on him, though. That's the thing. He didn't even know that I was on him.

Speaker 4:
[79:44] And again, that speaks to your lack of intensity, your lack of actual commitment.

Speaker 1:
[79:49] That speaks to the lack of things that they gave me to be excited about.

Speaker 4:
[79:53] That's what I would be scared about if I was another fan base that you got your eyeballs on.

Speaker 1:
[79:58] Nah, don't be scared. Don't be scared. I'm the number one hype man if I believe in it. It just has to be authentic.

Speaker 4:
[80:04] Clearly you're not. Clearly, clearly you're not.

Speaker 1:
[80:06] Yes, I am. I couldn't fake it with the Royals anymore. I couldn't fake it anymore. So yeah, I'm just on to the White Sox. It's tough.

Speaker 4:
[80:14] You got to stick with them.

Speaker 1:
[80:15] No, it's not a marriage. It's not a marriage. I didn't make a decision in front of God with the Royals.

Speaker 4:
[80:22] See, I've showed you how to go about it, Jared. I've showed you, you go down with the ship and I've gone down season after season with the pirate ship.

Speaker 1:
[80:32] You married the pirates. I was on a first date with the Royals. Not the same thing. You quite literally married the pirates because the reason why you like them is because they're Meg's team.

Speaker 4:
[80:46] That's buddy. I like the colors too.

Speaker 1:
[80:50] Great color way. I agree. But that was a choice that you made before God. I was at a fucking Denny's with the Royals. That was it.

Speaker 4:
[80:59] Yeah. You were at a... Clearly it was a Waffle House because I mean, Denny's, you see the meal through the Waffle House. There's shit flying around the Waffle House. You're not guaranteed to finish the meal at a Waffle House.

Speaker 1:
[81:11] No, no. But we at least like, I paid for the meal. You know, I'm a good guy. Yeah. We went to Denny's, paid for the meal. You've got a hug in the parking lot. So that's how you know, like, all right, like, I'm not trying to be rude, but I'm not into this. I'm not into this. I'm under no obligation. I didn't ask you to split the check. I didn't ask you to split the check.

Speaker 3:
[81:31] No, no, no.

Speaker 4:
[81:31] See, that's the problem. That's the problem is it feels like what you did is you paid for the check and then on the way home, you sent the Venmo like, hey, so here's my Venmo. You know, just if you wanted to pick up your half, we call things even.

Speaker 3:
[81:45] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[81:46] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[81:47] Look at all of my character. I look at that as just like a cancellation fee. It's like, all right, I'll pay for it if you just never contact me again.

Speaker 4:
[81:56] Yeah, I'm just this is a warning to you, Southsiders. This is a warning if you want that kind of energy, if you want the Waffle House energy around you.

Speaker 1:
[82:05] I'm not. No, I'm bringing that Denny's energy.

Speaker 6:
[82:09] None of the Waffle House.

Speaker 4:
[82:11] Jared is parking lot pimpin outside of a Waffle House at 3:30 a.m. Like, sup, girl? Yeah, I see you shaking over there.

Speaker 1:
[82:21] I'm going to be just fine.

Speaker 4:
[82:22] In your white socks? But I'm like. I like those white socks you got on.

Speaker 1:
[82:25] I'm like, what's that show, Undercover Boss?

Speaker 4:
[82:29] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[82:29] I'll be I'll just be around. Like, I'm not going to try to take over. It would be super easy to be the most forward facing White Sox fan on the Internet. But I'm not trying to be that guy. I'm just trying to support from afar. I'm like, I'm a silent partner. I'm a silent partner.

Speaker 4:
[82:46] Do they have do they have like a is there a hype man for the White Sox? Like, is there a?

Speaker 1:
[82:51] They've got they've got a community of people. I follow a couple of White Sox fans on Twitter. They're I mean, they're they're obviously psychopaths, because if you are a diehard fan of that team, like there's something that's got to be wrong with you. But they're they're they're good people. I've I follow a few of them on Twitter.

Speaker 4:
[83:13] Yeah, you know what? Yeah, point me in the direction of some good White Sox. Good White Sox fans.

Speaker 1:
[83:19] Who's this dude that I just followed recently? See, see, I'm already kind of like in the community because I I am. I am. I am.

Speaker 4:
[83:28] You are disgusting.

Speaker 1:
[83:29] I am. You don't even know, dude. Shy Sox fan Mike, I followed recently. He's he's a good White Sox follow. His bio just says, I love the White Sox. And he's a he's a writer for Sports Mockery. I don't know what that is, but he's got a quite a decent following. Thirty nine point five thousand Twitter followers. I'm going to I'm going to probably hit him up and ask him if he's cool with me coming on board. Maybe I'll make him the White Sox correspondent for the show. How do you feel about that?

Speaker 4:
[84:13] I'm trying to. What's his name again?

Speaker 1:
[84:17] Shy Sox fan Mike. He's got, it says that 47 people that I follow, follow him. Yeah, see, I'm already in the community, Dallas, so.

Speaker 4:
[84:35] Followed, Shy Sox fan might follow.

Speaker 1:
[84:38] There you go. Are you trying to fucking step in on my girl right now?

Speaker 4:
[84:45] I'm just saying, like I think-

Speaker 1:
[84:46] You trying to pull a Steve? I'm talking to a girl at the bar, and you come over and be like, hey, by the way.

Speaker 4:
[84:52] I'm just saying, hey, have you met my friend Jared? He just recently got out of a relationship.

Speaker 1:
[84:57] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[84:58] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[85:00] Yeah, just get out of it. Don't be trying to get in the White Sox culture right now.

Speaker 4:
[85:05] I mean, come on. There's plenty of room on this Mirakami Tsunami, my friend.

Speaker 1:
[85:09] Sure. Yeah, he's more of an international global superstar. I'm I'm a White Sox guy who happens to also be a Mirakami guy.

Speaker 4:
[85:23] Oh, God, I'm going to fucking watch.

Speaker 1:
[85:26] I'll have a White Sox jersey by the next show.

Speaker 4:
[85:30] I was going to say, I can't wait to see you next week in a Jermaine Die Jersey.

Speaker 1:
[85:36] Yeah, dude, I've been preaching the gospel of Jermaine Die. Go look at his numbers, his last season.

Speaker 4:
[85:42] But who are you telling? Come on.

Speaker 1:
[85:44] Jermaine Die's last season was he got like the Barry Bonds treatment. He put up unbelievable numbers and then everyone was just like, Yeah, no, we're not going to sign you because you're old.

Speaker 4:
[85:54] No, JD was a freak.

Speaker 1:
[85:56] Yeah, former teammate. Yeah, but we'll see. I'm just glad. I'm just glad that God made me a White Sox fan.

Speaker 4:
[86:13] Unbelievable.

Speaker 1:
[86:14] I can't wait to tweet the shit out of White Sox highlights for the rest of the full.

Speaker 4:
[86:19] The full transition has taken four minutes.

Speaker 1:
[86:25] I'm just I can already feel the warmth, the warmth of the embrace.

Speaker 4:
[86:31] Look at you just trying to nuzzle up to the bosom of the pale hose.

Speaker 3:
[86:36] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[86:36] This is this is despicable.

Speaker 1:
[86:38] When did the White Sox play the A's? You already did.

Speaker 3:
[86:41] Yeah.

Speaker 1:
[86:41] We already hit the fucking grand slam over the batters. You guys suck. Yeah. I'm sure you come to the south side at some point, though, I'm assuming. No, you don't. No, you have to. Do we? We're in the same league. Yeah. Yeah, it's yeah, it's in the American League. It's home and home. It's only the NL where it's one series.

Speaker 4:
[87:08] Yeah. Yeah, I was trying to look and see where, where or when.

Speaker 1:
[87:16] Yeah.

Speaker 4:
[87:16] Yeah, we will be there.

Speaker 1:
[87:19] Maybe I'll fly out for that.

Speaker 4:
[87:25] Oh, that would be great. That would be great. You could watch us flick that bean.

Speaker 1:
[87:31] Yeah. All right.

Speaker 4:
[87:35] Anything else you got?

Speaker 1:
[87:37] That's it for me. That's it from White Sox Jerry.

Speaker 4:
[87:47] Oh, I can't wait for this. It's a new era. I mean, again, it feels like you've already decided to break the hearts of Royals fans.

Speaker 1:
[87:59] Yeah. Regardless of what they say. I already hard launched my relationship with the White Sox. I went on a date, I went on three dates with the Royals, and then I was like, this isn't for me, and then I just hard launched that I'm in a relationship with someone else the next day.

Speaker 4:
[88:16] Yeah, that's what I was going to say. Once it's Insta-official, that's when we'll know. That's when we'll know.

Speaker 1:
[88:24] It's basically already there.

Speaker 4:
[88:27] But we do play the White Sox right before the All-Star break.

Speaker 1:
[88:31] All right. Well, I'll see you there.

Speaker 4:
[88:37] See you in Chi-Town.

Speaker 1:
[88:38] Can't wait.

Speaker 4:
[88:40] Any final thoughts?

Speaker 1:
[88:41] Let's go White Sox.

Speaker 4:
[88:45] Let us come back. All right. We'll we'll see you next week, folks. Me and be the greatest White Sox fan on the planet. We gone.

Speaker 1:
[88:58] Nope. More like HIGGOM.