August 26, 2024 • 37 mins
Talkin' Jake & BBD are breaking down the monster seasons by Aaron Judge & Shohei Ohtani that seem to be getting even more impressive every day. Jake also takes a look at the storylines that can come about from the current playoff bracket
Wake n Jake is available on YouTube. Watch today's episode HERE: https://youtu.be/EFNbhluqaNM
+++++++
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:05 Shohei & Judge
21:55 Playoff Picture
27:30 Best AL Matchups
33:20 Best NL Matchups
#dpshow
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hellone. Welcome to waken Jake, myself, big baby David as
we talk about the world of sports. A lot of
baseball to cover today between uh, just the historic guys.
Judge and Otani both had a big boy weekend. I
want to talk about that a little bit. Click. I
(00:20):
also I want to look at the playoff picture a
little bit with a month to go, what it looks like,
and maybe what do we want to see and maybe
we do our all dream playoff and what that looks like.
Maybe I'll talk about fantasy football. I did an auction
draft last night. Always really enjoy doing that. Always quite
(00:42):
the scene. We are officially the pathetic group of mid
thirty year olds. We're just getting sleepy by the end.
And it's how is this only halfway through the draft?
And whyde don't just bid that much for McCaffrey because
you don't know what's going on? Old, Let's talk some
ball first. Uh, how about this, I'll start with show Hey, Judge,
(01:06):
click click show hey, show hey, show Hey. If you
didn't see this, it's kind of a must show.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Otani entered the forty forty club with a walk off
grand slam. God that doesn't walk off Grand Slam doesn't
happen a lot. Forty forty Club doesn't happen a lot.
Uh So now it's him Ronald Kunya Junior. So I
(01:39):
guess that takes a little sting out of it. Remember
Ronnie went forty and sixty eight, pretty unreal season, and
with the stolen bases up, I think things got a
little there's the for the YouTube people. You could see
the Otani Homer on there Waking JK YouTube. Make sure
you're subscribed, just out of our Guy Jose series reach.
And we found out from Trevor Pluf that the guy
(02:01):
who's glove it went off of apparently is like a
Twins super fan ballhowker that Trev's friends with wh.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Trev's just been like friends of this guy for at
this point like fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Just not really sure what that's about. And excuse me.
Acuna had forty one and seventy three last year. He
had sixty eight at the time he hit his fortieth
home run. Alfonso Soriano two thousand and six, God, I
loved him a Rod ninety eight, Barry Bonds ninety six,
Jose Canseco in nineteen eighty eight. So still a very
(02:38):
exclusive club. You know, the kids probably know Jose Canseco
for much different reasons now if they're familiar with Jose Canseco.
But I it's so funny. I remember, you know, by
the time I'm getting into baseball ninety four, ninety five,
ninety six, like still, the lure of how good Jose
Canseco was was kind of mind bottling. And he's, you know,
(03:03):
maybe one of the people that got hurt more by
steroids and helped. I would have to talk to a
doctor or someone about that because I have no clue
but Bonds rod Akunya Soriano and now show Heo Tani
and just a reminder for those listening, show Heyo Tani
(03:24):
can pitch and he's rehabbing, and boy, oh boy, is
it going to be interesting. It's so tough, especially now
knowing how media works. But I also like to think,
I know how competitors in front offices work that you know,
we got video of show Heyo Tani throwing, and my god,
(03:46):
if that guy can throw for your team come the postseason,
and it's I don't know, I mean, I realized the
Dodgers have an embarrassment of riches and let's see where
their team looks like come the playoff thrown in the
Freddie Freeman Shirsey A power move electric. That's that's kind
of an all all time cool guy teammate move. I
(04:10):
don't know. I know. Michael Kopek's been great for them.
Evan Phillips has been great for them. He had a
blown save over the weekend, and then he band does
put together a fantastic season. But previous to his career
before that, he's kind of been a vagabond. Daniel Hudson
thirty seven and half, some great postseason memories, Blake trying
(04:31):
and working his way back, and you know Joe Kelly
will be pitching in a big six inning of a
playoff game. But man if shoe hee o'tani a knowing
the competitor he is, like, go back to the World
Baseball Classic. Him coming out of the bullpen not insane.
He's technically done that before. Was that this year? When
was the WB before last season? Last season? Okay, that
(04:53):
makes he's recovering from the surgery this year. That makes
a little more sense. I don't know, man, that's a
tough it's a tough chip to have the guy who
was brought in in the World Baseball Classic to be
the best pitcher on the field for the final outs.
If they have that, those rumors are gonna get so big.
(05:15):
The Dodgers are also respected enough as a franchise that
I could see them just very much having it as
a no, no, don't touch where we've already decided. We're
talking seven hundred mil on the table here. That a
postseason run, which a lot of front offices do think,
comes down to a lot of luck. And there's something
(05:37):
right to that. There's something wrong to that. You'd be
a little less, you wouldn't need luck as much as
if you had a healthy show. Heyo Tani. The whole
point of all of that is he just hit forty forty.
I think it was on Friday, so that would have
been what August twenty third, Not good with dates. He's
(05:57):
having an incredible season. It feels like he's going to
walk to the MVP. Frankie Lindor is putting together an
incredible season, so is Marcelo Zuna. But talk about a
bad year to be putting together a DH season When
Shohey is doing everything, you're doing a tick better with
forty stolen bases, it's absolute madness. The watch is on
(06:19):
for fifty to fifty. No one has ever done that,
and I don't know. I want to bet against this guy.
It it seems like the Homers, well in theory, the
Homers are the harder task right, because that's there's no
middle area. There either hit a home runner, you do
not do or do not. There is no try yoda
(06:42):
for the kids. Forty Selen bases, it starts turning into okay,
if you get on, let's go, even if you get
caught at that point, which it does deserve to be mentioned.
Forty stolen base is only four caught stealings coming off
of a year where he had twenty stolen bases half
in six cost. So like Otani and Judge will get
(07:05):
to him, are in this weird breed of like it
feels like they're getting better and that's not supposed to
be on the table, but in a way that's a
sign of an all time great like you keep it going.
I was shocked to see I think Judge's career war
is at fifty now b war and like that just
feels wrong, like people that have been people that have
(07:30):
been good in that same timeframe. You look to open
up their baseball reference and be like, you know, we
looked at Matt Olsen today. I think he's at like thirty.
It's a similar timeframe. Good baseball player show hey Otani
also similar time frame. Twenty eighteen was his first year
over here, forty one point one war. So these guys
(07:52):
are doing historic stuff. It's the conversation around baseball right now.
Did watch my guy Greg Amsinger give his starting nine
list that had Judge is the ninth best living player
because Willie May's rip he had Sho has is number one.
(08:12):
So I don't know, Maybe am singer for clicks per usual,
And it just opens up a thought exercise because it's
best player as of right now. Is it best player
when their career is over? Is it the unique player?
Because shoe Heyo Tani is gonna have an argument over
anyone forever. And if he goes fifty to fifty in
the one season he doesn't pitch, this dude's gonna have
(08:36):
trump cards everywhere one fifty to fifty season, either shoe
Heo Tani pitches and hits at an elite level. Sho
Heo Tani, He's got two MVPs in the bag. He's
gonna go in this year, so he's gonna have three
MVPs in the bag. And this is the season he
(08:56):
didn't pitch. He led the National League in home runs
last year. He's leading in home runs, RBI, runs, slugging ops,
and ops. Plus he also let in slugging and ops
last year. So what Shohy is doing is absolutely insane.
I always forget the speed thing. You guys have even
(09:16):
probably heard me talk about it on here and talking baseball.
But when you say he hits the ball as far
as anyone, he hits the ball overall ops, which is
supposed to be an all encompassing stat he does that
better than anyone. He's in two ninety two. Uh. He
(09:37):
pitches as good as anyone can pitch. His fastball is
about as hard as anyone can throw. His little split
split change there as unhittable as a pitch as there
is in baseball. And when I say all of that,
and like it still is in the realm of reality, Like, okay,
let's just say this guy is better. He's a better pitcher,
(09:58):
he's a better hitter than you. He's faster too. It's nuts.
That part's that part has never fully computed for me,
And if he puts up fifty to fifty, it's a
season we'll all remember. And we're starting to find a
lot of check marks and why we'll remember this season. God,
(10:22):
Aaron Judge mentioned him New York Yankees a fifty point
eight career war. He's got a nine point four war
this season. Over the weekend he it is fiftieth homer
or excuse me, he hit his forty ninth, his fiftieth,
and his fifty first home run. His slash line is silly.
(10:45):
I couldn't believe when I heard this morning he's hitting
three thirty three. That's that's elite. The MLB batting leaders
right now. I think WIT's the only guy that has
him at three forty seven. So when I'm talking about
all the things show hey can do well, which, by
the way, show he is like not out of the
(11:06):
NL batting title. I mean he'd have to go, he'd
have to go kind of nuts, but not really at all.
Marcelo Zuna is hitting three oh five, leading the way
a rise at three oh three, I think he's sixth.
Let me see, let me get my NL stats right.
That's always what I'm worried about. Yeah, show Hay is
sixth in batting average, so not far off the pace,
(11:28):
and he's a game away from jumping like two guys.
Absolute insanity. What these two people are doing. Aaron Judge
is playing center field very casually, which is a position
we designate on its own outside of the outfield because
it's harder to play. Three point thirty three batting average,
(11:48):
fifty one home runs, one hundred and twenty two RBI,
No one cares anymore, one hundred and six walks only
behind his teammate Wan Soto a four to sixty five
on base a seven thirty six slugging. His OPS on
the year is now one dot two. The splits on
(12:10):
him are crazy because, as everyone started pointing to he
did have a slow first month. His first month was
uh two O seven three forty seven fifty four ops.
So yes, I mean that ops is in line with
a great player's bad month. The batting average pretty low,
(12:33):
but it's the rest of it that's just looney tunes.
In the month of May one dot three nine ops,
i'll call it one point four. For this June one
point three seven one point three is don't happen that's
not a thing for a month, it's a thing for
a weekend. That's a thing for a blitz ball tournament.
(12:55):
One dot one in July down that's his second worst month,
one dot one, which would be most of the league's
I mean, not even best month, but a pipe dream like.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Most All Star's best months, or almost there.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
In August, and this is where things get scary. Four
to twenty five batting average, a five point fifty eight
on base a nine to eighty six slugging that combines
four A one dot five four four ops. We haven't
really seen this before. When the names get brought up,
(13:38):
there's Bonds, there's Ruth, there's Ted Williams. Even their bests
don't come up against what Judge has been doing recently.
There's something beautiful and majestic to it. He's a massive human.
He's six seven to eighty two. No shots fired at
(13:59):
show Hey, who I think is probably listed six '
four oh and I'm on jam I'm on Jamer Candelario's page.
That does not help me currently, although I liked his
signing before the season, but he's been a little disappointing.
Show Hey listed six four to two ten. That's a
big guy, broad shoulders is a big guys, a massive guy,
but not as big as Aaron Judge. The way it
(14:24):
almost feels like he has figured out the perfect contact
approach with an uppercut swing, which maybe that sounds like
an oxymoron, but because he's so massive, when he runs
into it, the ball just explodes like it feels like
(14:44):
one of those softball videos that goes viral every year
or so of a guy like hitting a softball that
just takes off because they catch it right.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
His strikeout rate is at a career.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Low, so when do you think about it that that way?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And it's the guy who, one of the three guys
who hits the ball harder than anybody else's ever played baseball,
is now making more contact than ever before, having one
of the best seasons ever.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Can make sense. It's a good formula, and that's the
I think that's the scary thing, and it's it's not
how does this end. We're gonna have plenty of time
to talk about show Hay and Judge when they're old farts,
and how lucky we were to see it. I think
it's gonna be pretty cool to see them both get
the MVP. This year as they bleed New York in
(15:32):
LA into the playoffs. Oh my god, Aaron Judge is
literally giant of a human in New York City, New
York or nowhere shoh or Otani in LA like the
bridge between like America and Asia. Kind of that's not
really I don't know, Seattle, Vancouver, what's your favorite West
(15:55):
Coast city sound off? But the fact that those are
the two biggest markets, the two biggest players. They are
performing at a level that literally no one has done.
I guess that's what needs to be said. Like there's
having great seasons like wow, I think you know, tugging
fantasy football. This guy might run for two thousand, this
(16:17):
guy might pass for five thousand. This guy's fifty to
fifty's never been done. The guy also pitches. He's currently
not this year Aaron Judge hit sixty two. Sixty one
is one of the big numbers in baseball lore, and
maybe it's not gonna be anymore. Maybe that's going to
be a number that kids laugh at if I say
(16:39):
that sentence in a few years, because he's got sixty two.
Now he's on pace for sixty three, his own record,
and just a reminder and maybe this will be maybe
this will be an annual thing because I did this.
I did this in twenty twenty two and I ended
(17:00):
up being a little sad. But let's do it again,
because if you do home Run Leaders by season, all
of the names that end up, oh my god, this
list is hilarious. How have I ended up? On Wikipedia?
(17:25):
All of the names that are above Aaron Judge are
directly connected to steroids, like, not.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Not loosely, not like they're the first names that come
up when you think of guys accused of star.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
They're the faces. It's Bonds, it's Sosa, it's Maguire, that's it.
That What would the record feel like if that didn't exist?
And I know we already played this game and that's fine, whatever,
But imagine if that record at more the sixty two
sixty one was still that prestigious number Abe Ruth the Babe,
(18:07):
like the biggest icon in any sport. Him and MJ
probably debate that somewhere else, No thanks, but yeah, the
guy that broke the record, if that was the record,
was now chasing himself again at age thirty two, thirty three,
(18:28):
now thirty two. It's kind of unfathomable, unfathomable to think.
And I think the crazier thing that we might land
at at the end of this year. If Judge keeps
going at this pace, he would land mid sixties, high sixties.
(18:48):
It's already become a storyline, that is, if he had
a regular ish April, could he actually be chasing bonds
or seventy You know what, seventy would have It's meant
before Maguire and Bonds. It's just a not real number.
It doesn't make sense. So a little blessing from the
(19:12):
baseball gods that we get to see this every day.
A blessing and a curse that these two are doing
it in separate divisions, so they each get MVPs, because
my goodness, if they were doing this in the same division,
it's probably what we'd be talking about every day. And
what did we do in twenty two? I know we
did it. It was the same two Cats, just one
(19:36):
was pitching on a losing team. And we'll hold on him,
show Hay his numbers because I was a Judge Stan
in twenty two when he broke the home run record,
partially because he carried that team. And this is so
horribly rude to Atani who in twenty twenty two he
(19:57):
had an eight seventy five ops, which is incredible, that's
all star level. And he pitched, and he pitched, he
pitched to the tune of A twenty eight starts A two,
three three. Ah, Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I was right,
(20:20):
because the Yankees went to the postseason and that was
only because of Aaron Judge. The team was nothing, And
I don't know, and my head most valuable still has
to mean something. Oh Tani letting k FORER nine that year,
what an absolute freak show. Both of these guys are
about that. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In the fact, in the case of both of these guys,
I mean the year they are doing this has been
offenses down. In general, this era of baseball is harder
to hit in than ever with the way pitch design
happens and the amount of relievers to get used in
a solo amount of times you get to see the
same guy a third time.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Is way down.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Like in the in the historical context of this six
year period of baseball, we'll see how the game changes
moving forward. There's there's We did a whole episode on
potential rules to bring back some third time through the
order stuff. But they're doing this in in this kind
of year. That offense is down and.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Ruth played against clums and the balls ain't juice. Everyone
that comes out of the bullpen throws ninety six and change.
It's it's special to watch. It was a special weekend
Judge getting getting over the fifty hump that made things
a lot more real for whatever reason. Uh and now
show hey chasing fifty on both sides of it. So
(21:43):
that's gonna be a fun thing to track this summer.
And uh something that we've started to track, and I
think we're going to be tracking more and more as
the season goes. The playoff picture, because I have some
bad news. If you're in the outside. Look, it doesn't
feel great right now. After this weekend and my Red
(22:05):
Sox getting swept in the American League, the Red Sox
are the closest wildcard team four and a half out
of both Central teams who are in pursuit of the
guard Dogs Royals Twins with the same exact record the
Orioles three games up on them. No one will be
(22:28):
selling their oriol stock. I don't think anyone's selling Yankee
stock at this point. I fully hit that point of
the season. Let me know if you're selling astro stock,
because I'll buy it. And it's just hard to picture
the Guardians at least fully missing the dance. You can
daydream of the Twins or Royals falling apart and missing,
but in that day dream you need the Red Sox
(22:49):
or the Mariners to catch them, or the Rays or
the Tigers. And the Red Sox pitching has been kind
of what we thought the Red Sox pitching was gonna be.
They have come back to earth in a big way.
I think I read a stat today and talking baseball
that Tanner Hawke the Red Sox have lost Tanner Hawk's
last seven starts. He was a guy contending for the
(23:11):
Cy Young for a bit. Uh, he had an incredible
first half of the season. That's falling off. Cutter Crawford,
who had some numbers that were really nice, had fallen off.
Their bullpen has really given up.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And there was there were some numbers in like May
June about because the Red Sox overall starting pitching staff
had gotten off to such a good start and all
that the r A wise, I think they I believe
as a team they had given up the most unearned
runs because the defensing ain't great or at least as
they were assembled. Arly, they've gotten some guys back throughout
the or whatever. So there were there were signs that
(23:44):
this was coming.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Where are you, Trevor story So in the National League.
So not only do you have to believe in a
Twins or Royals collapse, I don't think any no one
believes in Orioles. Houston Yankees in the Guardians have been
so so good that it would have to be a
(24:05):
historic level collapse that I don't think we can dream on.
So you need a Royals or Twins collapse boom. Trevor
Pluf couldn't rule out as Twins. That makes me believe
it's in play the Royals. Everyone's been waiting. I just
don't think they're gonna That's a baseball town and they
have a formula that's happening. So let me say the
(24:27):
ale is done for now. I'm out on the Mariners.
Although Dan Wilson's Mariners haven't lost a series, the Rays
can't get out of their own way, the Tigers fighting
for five hundred, do what you want with that, and
I just I don't think I can fully believe in
Boston getting hot enough than those other two central teams
getting cold enough to get Boston in the mix. Let
(24:50):
me finish the keep the ale there for now and
then Nationally, Dodgers Phillies and the Brewers Phillies have been dominant.
Dodgers have been sneaky dominant without even being dominant, and
now they might start being more dominant. The Brewers have
(25:11):
a ten game lead. Those three teams are locked in.
They'll be in the playoffs in some fashion. The Arizona
Diamondbacks in San Diego Padres, sure h d Backs are
four and a half games in Padres. Three above the Braves.
The Atlanta Braves, who are supposed to be in dynasty
mode and have a lot of players. You may know,
(25:35):
they're two and a half up on the New York Mets.
Step right up and greet the Mets. Hey man, if
you want to buy metstocks over the Braves, I mean literally,
go to DraftKings and bet on it because you can
make a you can make a nice penny. The Mets,
(25:58):
with no expectations and a franchise, viewed very differently than
the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves have maybe cured. They
are they always had a fifth spot in the rotation
that was hurting them. Riis Iglesias is just perfect that
they've been looking for more from the lineup that if
they start getting that, watch out that. I don't think
(26:20):
anyone's selling on any of the National League teams. I
think the only team I've been semi rude to is
the Mariners. Are four and a half back in their division.
But it's of the Houston Astros. And I've done this
all year and I won't do it now. So within
all that and Mets fans, I'm sorry, but you guys
(26:40):
are Mets fans. You understand where this conbo is going.
Let's say it's locked. The Giants and Cardinals are five
games out, Cubbies five and a half. They're fighting trying
to get to that over under. Let's say for all
intents and purposes, it's done. These teams are in the
play else, they're in the dance. We have our sweet
(27:03):
six from each side. I want to put together the
dream playoff bracket. And dream can mean a lot of
different things, right. It can mean the best matchups for views,
it could mean the best baseball matchup. I want to
sort through it and see where we land. So, uh,
(27:24):
currently in the let's do the al the one seed
is the yankeesps, the two seed is the guard Dogs.
Right now, the Orioles would play the Royals, the Astros
would play the Twins. So let's popurri this around a
(27:47):
little bit. Let's keep it. They're tired, so I'm I
don't know which one would play? Which Fox has that
with the tiebreaker right now? Nice, I've always where I
get mine. Let's say Yankees guards are one two for now,
what would the ideal wild card matchups be? Because right
(28:08):
now it has Astros Twins, which these two teams have
played before Korea is an interesting storyline, Uh, Orioles Royals,
I mean that would just be like Bobby Wood and Gunner. Yeah,
it's not awful for the sport. With the rest of
the Orioles. You got catchers there, Salve and Adleian.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I know Royals, Herves are Orioles last year's year, they
like arrived, but there's still two the two like young
up and coming teams.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
As far as these playoff groups Royals Astros. That doesn't
really have any.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Juice, does it. No, No, no specific thing i'd market there.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh, kind of different timelines right when Houston started, Kansas
City ended just young Bulls, old Bulls, young Casts, Extros, Orioles.
These teams just played. I don't think it would line
up that way, just record wise, and that would just
be it would be the old guard of the Astros
(29:14):
trying to fend off the young guard of the Orioles,
which then that would leave Royals Twins, which hey, maybe
you say there's some a fun new divisional rivalry forming
that doesn't move the needle too much if it stays
Yankees Guards as the one too. I think the current
(29:36):
seating would be the best. I think Orioles Royals you
could really you could really sell Gunner and Wit. That's
a lot of fun. The deposition shortstop left the righty,
that's fun. Even the catchers I threw in there. I'm
into that to two kind of historic baseball cities that
(29:58):
have been out of the mix for a little bit. Yeah.
Uh and Astros twins. Like I said, with Korea, you
can upsell that they played last year last year, that
there's something there Astros. I mean, you'd want the Astros
(30:19):
to advance. Sorry Twins, Astros Guardians, my god, sorry Guardians.
Fans just would not feel good for you, and that
if it was Oriols Royals, you'd also say Orioles, and
that that would set up a Yankees Orioles a l DS.
(30:39):
That that would be pretty pretty bitching. Uh, not an
excited way, not me as a Yankee fan, Like, yeah,
give me that, but I mean Orioles Yankees. You got
some Jeffrey Mayer stuff in there. Al East playoffs Turtlenecks, Uh,
sign me up for that kind of like picking, ticking
(31:02):
that rivalry into like a real rivalry. Like the Yanks
and O's have had some hot games this year, there's
been some hit by pitch stuff, but a playoff series
between these two would really elevate that to the next
level for the next couple of years. So yeah, I
think I'm looking forward to that. Or as Astros, that's
a little it's a little light and maybe that's rude
(31:25):
to my guards. And then essentially what in the ale
that would set up Astros Astros or Yankees and Orioles.
I obviously have some bias in the situation. I think
MLB views wise, I think there's some bias in the situation.
Or as Astros would be great, no qualms. I think
(31:49):
a bigger win for baseball and everyone if the Yanks
and Astros teed it up one more time in the CS.
I guess just reworking this a little bit. If the
Astros were to catch the Guardians, so then it would
be Guardians as the five or no or yeah, that
(32:13):
would make sense. It would just be the three and
the six Guardians twins. I don't know. I don't need
I don't need more Central Ball. Yeah, I'm I won't.
I won't daydream about that for now.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I think that would just be Astros or Home for
that set on paper chalk, wild Card.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And Yeah, I guess again gonna lose some fans with
this one. But in the AL, I think the Yankee,
the Yankees, Astros, or Orioles probably in that order, would
be best for the sport. I know there's a lot
of you that don't like any of those words. I
just just said. The Yankees getting back to the World
(32:55):
Series would be massive for baseball. Do I have some bias? Apps?
The second best story there would be the Astros trying
to make this thing full blown dynasty mode, and then
the Orioles coming to Fruition and entering what would be
the start of an era for them. I think those
(33:16):
would be the best for baseball in the National League.
Dodgers Phillies won two hello with the Brewers nipping at
their butt. It's currently set up and this is kind
of what sparked this idea in my head. Padres Diamondbacks.
Whoa if that stays three games for those two teams,
(33:41):
that each can be such sexy World Series teams in
their own right. Arizona just did it. Everyone thought the
Padres were going to do it, then it looked like
they were out, and now they're back in. So two
NLS teams playing three games to go face the Dodgers.
Basically an NL wes bracket. Yeah, and I hate it's
(34:05):
a win win. The Diamondbacks eliminated the Dodgers last year.
Nobody saw that coming. The Padres and Dodgers kind of
were supposed to be the rivalry that was supposed to
be next the young core of San Diego against the
mighty Mighty Dodgers. That would be win win either way.
Brewers fans, cover your ears. We've been daydreaming about the
Hank Aaron Bull Milwaukee versus Atlanta, and if we're being honest,
(34:30):
it would be Atlanta going on to play the Phillies.
And maybe this is lame. Maybe this is lame because
I just ended up with divisional stuff on this side.
But maybe this is what it is. Or maybe hey,
Brewers fans, if you want to feel better, catch the Phillies,
because then the Phillies would be playing the Brace in
the first round. So instead of five games, you get three.
(34:52):
But Philly Braves Part three at this point, right, they've
played the last two years and the Phillies have gone
in both times. Philly Braves Part three. I think baseball
would be psyched for that. And let's see, if we
had to hodge podge the pieces around Padres Phillies would
(35:13):
be fun. Not a lot of animosity. Dbacks Phillies last
year's NLCS. That would have some good entertainment value there.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Padres Phillies was previous year's NLCS and that that was
a fun one.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That was good. Okay, so anyone in the Phillies. Basically,
I guess this exercise ended in a sad place. And
then basically just being rude to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
This became a little bit more mean to the Central winners.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I just became mean to the whole Center. Hey, I
upsold the Royals, Bobby Witt. We marketed the Royals. Can
we market the Brewers? Can I market the Twins? All right? Unfortunately,
this is why we do some of these exercises, and
(36:01):
you find out you're just a bad guy to the Central.
I understand why you don't like me, and I like
the Central. It's Americana, but they need to show something.
Braves Brewers. I bought in on Hank Aaron Ball. God,
what's the Jackson Cherio? Willie adamis.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Wish Ellie was playing?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't know well people. This is why I do
these exercises. I like to stumble into stuff. Unfortunately this
ended up very poorly for my Central. Convince me of
the best playoff brackets, please comment. I love going through them.
You guys are the best. I have a meeting to
go to. Hate that for me and my fantasy football
(36:55):
auction stories. I don't think you want that got Josh
Allen and Dalton Kincaid. So we're just gonna linked up.
We're just gonna link that up all year long. All
my wide receivers are old, and my running backs. It's
a really bad formula. Speaking of good formulas, thank you guys,
make sure you're subscribed and
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Waking Jake is the production of Dan Patrick Productions, John
Boy Media, and Workhouse Media.
Hellone. Welcome to waken Jake, myself, big baby David as
we talk about the world of sports. A lot of
baseball to cover today between uh, just the historic guys.
Judge and Otani both had a big boy weekend. I
want to talk about that a little bit. Click. I
(00:20):
also I want to look at the playoff picture a
little bit with a month to go, what it looks like,
and maybe what do we want to see and maybe
we do our all dream playoff and what that looks like.
Maybe I'll talk about fantasy football. I did an auction
draft last night. Always really enjoy doing that. Always quite
(00:42):
the scene. We are officially the pathetic group of mid
thirty year olds. We're just getting sleepy by the end.
And it's how is this only halfway through the draft?
And whyde don't just bid that much for McCaffrey because
you don't know what's going on? Old, Let's talk some
ball first. Uh, how about this, I'll start with show Hey, Judge,
(01:06):
click click show hey, show hey, show Hey. If you
didn't see this, it's kind of a must show.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Hey.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
Otani entered the forty forty club with a walk off
grand slam. God that doesn't walk off Grand Slam doesn't
happen a lot. Forty forty Club doesn't happen a lot.
Uh So now it's him Ronald Kunya Junior. So I
(01:39):
guess that takes a little sting out of it. Remember
Ronnie went forty and sixty eight, pretty unreal season, and
with the stolen bases up, I think things got a
little there's the for the YouTube people. You could see
the Otani Homer on there Waking JK YouTube. Make sure
you're subscribed, just out of our Guy Jose series reach.
And we found out from Trevor Pluf that the guy
(02:01):
who's glove it went off of apparently is like a
Twins super fan ballhowker that Trev's friends with wh.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Trev's just been like friends of this guy for at
this point like fifteen years.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Just not really sure what that's about. And excuse me.
Acuna had forty one and seventy three last year. He
had sixty eight at the time he hit his fortieth
home run. Alfonso Soriano two thousand and six, God, I
loved him a Rod ninety eight, Barry Bonds ninety six,
Jose Canseco in nineteen eighty eight. So still a very
(02:38):
exclusive club. You know, the kids probably know Jose Canseco
for much different reasons now if they're familiar with Jose Canseco.
But I it's so funny. I remember, you know, by
the time I'm getting into baseball ninety four, ninety five,
ninety six, like still, the lure of how good Jose
Canseco was was kind of mind bottling. And he's, you know,
(03:03):
maybe one of the people that got hurt more by
steroids and helped. I would have to talk to a
doctor or someone about that because I have no clue
but Bonds rod Akunya Soriano and now show Heo Tani
and just a reminder for those listening, show Heyo Tani
(03:24):
can pitch and he's rehabbing, and boy, oh boy, is
it going to be interesting. It's so tough, especially now
knowing how media works. But I also like to think,
I know how competitors in front offices work that you know,
we got video of show Heyo Tani throwing, and my god,
(03:46):
if that guy can throw for your team come the postseason,
and it's I don't know, I mean, I realized the
Dodgers have an embarrassment of riches and let's see where
their team looks like come the playoff thrown in the
Freddie Freeman Shirsey A power move electric. That's that's kind
of an all all time cool guy teammate move. I
(04:10):
don't know. I know. Michael Kopek's been great for them.
Evan Phillips has been great for them. He had a
blown save over the weekend, and then he band does
put together a fantastic season. But previous to his career
before that, he's kind of been a vagabond. Daniel Hudson
thirty seven and half, some great postseason memories, Blake trying
(04:31):
and working his way back, and you know Joe Kelly
will be pitching in a big six inning of a
playoff game. But man if shoe hee o'tani a knowing
the competitor he is, like, go back to the World
Baseball Classic. Him coming out of the bullpen not insane.
He's technically done that before. Was that this year? When
was the WB before last season? Last season? Okay, that
(04:53):
makes he's recovering from the surgery this year. That makes
a little more sense. I don't know, man, that's a
tough it's a tough chip to have the guy who
was brought in in the World Baseball Classic to be
the best pitcher on the field for the final outs.
If they have that, those rumors are gonna get so big.
(05:15):
The Dodgers are also respected enough as a franchise that
I could see them just very much having it as
a no, no, don't touch where we've already decided. We're
talking seven hundred mil on the table here. That a
postseason run, which a lot of front offices do think,
comes down to a lot of luck. And there's something
(05:37):
right to that. There's something wrong to that. You'd be
a little less, you wouldn't need luck as much as
if you had a healthy show. Heyo Tani. The whole
point of all of that is he just hit forty forty.
I think it was on Friday, so that would have
been what August twenty third, Not good with dates. He's
(05:57):
having an incredible season. It feels like he's going to
walk to the MVP. Frankie Lindor is putting together an
incredible season, so is Marcelo Zuna. But talk about a
bad year to be putting together a DH season When
Shohey is doing everything, you're doing a tick better with
forty stolen bases, it's absolute madness. The watch is on
(06:19):
for fifty to fifty. No one has ever done that,
and I don't know. I want to bet against this guy.
It it seems like the Homers, well in theory, the
Homers are the harder task right, because that's there's no
middle area. There either hit a home runner, you do
not do or do not. There is no try yoda
(06:42):
for the kids. Forty Selen bases, it starts turning into okay,
if you get on, let's go, even if you get
caught at that point, which it does deserve to be mentioned.
Forty stolen base is only four caught stealings coming off
of a year where he had twenty stolen bases half
in six cost. So like Otani and Judge will get
(07:05):
to him, are in this weird breed of like it
feels like they're getting better and that's not supposed to
be on the table, but in a way that's a
sign of an all time great like you keep it going.
I was shocked to see I think Judge's career war
is at fifty now b war and like that just
feels wrong, like people that have been people that have
(07:30):
been good in that same timeframe. You look to open
up their baseball reference and be like, you know, we
looked at Matt Olsen today. I think he's at like thirty.
It's a similar timeframe. Good baseball player show hey Otani
also similar time frame. Twenty eighteen was his first year
over here, forty one point one war. So these guys
(07:52):
are doing historic stuff. It's the conversation around baseball right now.
Did watch my guy Greg Amsinger give his starting nine
list that had Judge is the ninth best living player
because Willie May's rip he had Sho has is number one.
(08:12):
So I don't know, Maybe am singer for clicks per usual,
And it just opens up a thought exercise because it's
best player as of right now. Is it best player
when their career is over? Is it the unique player?
Because shoe Heyo Tani is gonna have an argument over
anyone forever. And if he goes fifty to fifty in
the one season he doesn't pitch, this dude's gonna have
(08:36):
trump cards everywhere one fifty to fifty season, either shoe
Heo Tani pitches and hits at an elite level. Sho
Heo Tani, He's got two MVPs in the bag. He's
gonna go in this year, so he's gonna have three
MVPs in the bag. And this is the season he
(08:56):
didn't pitch. He led the National League in home runs
last year. He's leading in home runs, RBI, runs, slugging ops,
and ops. Plus he also let in slugging and ops
last year. So what Shohy is doing is absolutely insane.
I always forget the speed thing. You guys have even
(09:16):
probably heard me talk about it on here and talking baseball.
But when you say he hits the ball as far
as anyone, he hits the ball overall ops, which is
supposed to be an all encompassing stat he does that
better than anyone. He's in two ninety two. Uh. He
(09:37):
pitches as good as anyone can pitch. His fastball is
about as hard as anyone can throw. His little split
split change there as unhittable as a pitch as there
is in baseball. And when I say all of that,
and like it still is in the realm of reality, Like, okay,
let's just say this guy is better. He's a better pitcher,
(09:58):
he's a better hitter than you. He's faster too. It's nuts.
That part's that part has never fully computed for me,
And if he puts up fifty to fifty, it's a
season we'll all remember. And we're starting to find a
lot of check marks and why we'll remember this season. God,
(10:22):
Aaron Judge mentioned him New York Yankees a fifty point
eight career war. He's got a nine point four war
this season. Over the weekend he it is fiftieth homer
or excuse me, he hit his forty ninth, his fiftieth,
and his fifty first home run. His slash line is silly.
(10:45):
I couldn't believe when I heard this morning he's hitting
three thirty three. That's that's elite. The MLB batting leaders
right now. I think WIT's the only guy that has
him at three forty seven. So when I'm talking about
all the things show hey can do well, which, by
the way, show he is like not out of the
(11:06):
NL batting title. I mean he'd have to go, he'd
have to go kind of nuts, but not really at all.
Marcelo Zuna is hitting three oh five, leading the way
a rise at three oh three, I think he's sixth.
Let me see, let me get my NL stats right.
That's always what I'm worried about. Yeah, show Hay is
sixth in batting average, so not far off the pace,
(11:28):
and he's a game away from jumping like two guys.
Absolute insanity. What these two people are doing. Aaron Judge
is playing center field very casually, which is a position
we designate on its own outside of the outfield because
it's harder to play. Three point thirty three batting average,
(11:48):
fifty one home runs, one hundred and twenty two RBI,
No one cares anymore, one hundred and six walks only
behind his teammate Wan Soto a four to sixty five
on base a seven thirty six slugging. His OPS on
the year is now one dot two. The splits on
(12:10):
him are crazy because, as everyone started pointing to he
did have a slow first month. His first month was
uh two O seven three forty seven fifty four ops.
So yes, I mean that ops is in line with
a great player's bad month. The batting average pretty low,
(12:33):
but it's the rest of it that's just looney tunes.
In the month of May one dot three nine ops,
i'll call it one point four. For this June one
point three seven one point three is don't happen that's
not a thing for a month, it's a thing for
a weekend. That's a thing for a blitz ball tournament.
(12:55):
One dot one in July down that's his second worst month,
one dot one, which would be most of the league's
I mean, not even best month, but a pipe dream like.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
Most All Star's best months, or almost there.
Speaker 1 (13:16):
In August, and this is where things get scary. Four
to twenty five batting average, a five point fifty eight
on base a nine to eighty six slugging that combines
four A one dot five four four ops. We haven't
really seen this before. When the names get brought up,
(13:38):
there's Bonds, there's Ruth, there's Ted Williams. Even their bests
don't come up against what Judge has been doing recently.
There's something beautiful and majestic to it. He's a massive human.
He's six seven to eighty two. No shots fired at
(13:59):
show Hey, who I think is probably listed six '
four oh and I'm on jam I'm on Jamer Candelario's page.
That does not help me currently, although I liked his
signing before the season, but he's been a little disappointing.
Show Hey listed six four to two ten. That's a
big guy, broad shoulders is a big guys, a massive guy,
but not as big as Aaron Judge. The way it
(14:24):
almost feels like he has figured out the perfect contact
approach with an uppercut swing, which maybe that sounds like
an oxymoron, but because he's so massive, when he runs
into it, the ball just explodes like it feels like
(14:44):
one of those softball videos that goes viral every year
or so of a guy like hitting a softball that
just takes off because they catch it right.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
His strikeout rate is at a career.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
Low, so when do you think about it that that way?
Speaker 2 (15:00):
And it's the guy who, one of the three guys
who hits the ball harder than anybody else's ever played baseball,
is now making more contact than ever before, having one
of the best seasons ever.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Can make sense. It's a good formula, and that's the
I think that's the scary thing, and it's it's not
how does this end. We're gonna have plenty of time
to talk about show Hay and Judge when they're old farts,
and how lucky we were to see it. I think
it's gonna be pretty cool to see them both get
the MVP. This year as they bleed New York in
(15:32):
LA into the playoffs. Oh my god, Aaron Judge is
literally giant of a human in New York City, New
York or nowhere shoh or Otani in LA like the
bridge between like America and Asia. Kind of that's not
really I don't know, Seattle, Vancouver, what's your favorite West
(15:55):
Coast city sound off? But the fact that those are
the two biggest markets, the two biggest players. They are
performing at a level that literally no one has done.
I guess that's what needs to be said. Like there's
having great seasons like wow, I think you know, tugging
fantasy football. This guy might run for two thousand, this
(16:17):
guy might pass for five thousand. This guy's fifty to
fifty's never been done. The guy also pitches. He's currently
not this year Aaron Judge hit sixty two. Sixty one
is one of the big numbers in baseball lore, and
maybe it's not gonna be anymore. Maybe that's going to
be a number that kids laugh at if I say
(16:39):
that sentence in a few years, because he's got sixty two.
Now he's on pace for sixty three, his own record,
and just a reminder and maybe this will be maybe
this will be an annual thing because I did this.
I did this in twenty twenty two and I ended
(17:00):
up being a little sad. But let's do it again,
because if you do home Run Leaders by season, all
of the names that end up, oh my god, this
list is hilarious. How have I ended up? On Wikipedia?
(17:25):
All of the names that are above Aaron Judge are
directly connected to steroids, like, not.
Speaker 2 (17:37):
Not loosely, not like they're the first names that come
up when you think of guys accused of star.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
They're the faces. It's Bonds, it's Sosa, it's Maguire, that's it.
That What would the record feel like if that didn't exist?
And I know we already played this game and that's fine, whatever,
But imagine if that record at more the sixty two
sixty one was still that prestigious number Abe Ruth the Babe,
(18:07):
like the biggest icon in any sport. Him and MJ
probably debate that somewhere else, No thanks, but yeah, the
guy that broke the record, if that was the record,
was now chasing himself again at age thirty two, thirty three,
(18:28):
now thirty two. It's kind of unfathomable, unfathomable to think.
And I think the crazier thing that we might land
at at the end of this year. If Judge keeps
going at this pace, he would land mid sixties, high sixties.
(18:48):
It's already become a storyline, that is, if he had
a regular ish April, could he actually be chasing bonds
or seventy You know what, seventy would have It's meant
before Maguire and Bonds. It's just a not real number.
It doesn't make sense. So a little blessing from the
(19:12):
baseball gods that we get to see this every day.
A blessing and a curse that these two are doing
it in separate divisions, so they each get MVPs, because
my goodness, if they were doing this in the same division,
it's probably what we'd be talking about every day. And
what did we do in twenty two? I know we
did it. It was the same two Cats, just one
(19:36):
was pitching on a losing team. And we'll hold on him,
show Hay his numbers because I was a Judge Stan
in twenty two when he broke the home run record,
partially because he carried that team. And this is so
horribly rude to Atani who in twenty twenty two he
(19:57):
had an eight seventy five ops, which is incredible, that's
all star level. And he pitched, and he pitched, he
pitched to the tune of A twenty eight starts A two,
three three. Ah, Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I was right,
(20:20):
because the Yankees went to the postseason and that was
only because of Aaron Judge. The team was nothing, And
I don't know, and my head most valuable still has
to mean something. Oh Tani letting k FORER nine that year,
what an absolute freak show. Both of these guys are
about that. Uh.
Speaker 2 (20:41):
In the fact, in the case of both of these guys,
I mean the year they are doing this has been
offenses down. In general, this era of baseball is harder
to hit in than ever with the way pitch design
happens and the amount of relievers to get used in
a solo amount of times you get to see the
same guy a third time.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Is way down.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Like in the in the historical context of this six
year period of baseball, we'll see how the game changes
moving forward. There's there's We did a whole episode on
potential rules to bring back some third time through the
order stuff. But they're doing this in in this kind
of year. That offense is down and.
Speaker 1 (21:21):
Ruth played against clums and the balls ain't juice. Everyone
that comes out of the bullpen throws ninety six and change.
It's it's special to watch. It was a special weekend
Judge getting getting over the fifty hump that made things
a lot more real for whatever reason. Uh and now
show hey chasing fifty on both sides of it. So
(21:43):
that's gonna be a fun thing to track this summer.
And uh something that we've started to track, and I
think we're going to be tracking more and more as
the season goes. The playoff picture, because I have some
bad news. If you're in the outside. Look, it doesn't
feel great right now. After this weekend and my Red
(22:05):
Sox getting swept in the American League, the Red Sox
are the closest wildcard team four and a half out
of both Central teams who are in pursuit of the
guard Dogs Royals Twins with the same exact record the
Orioles three games up on them. No one will be
(22:28):
selling their oriol stock. I don't think anyone's selling Yankee
stock at this point. I fully hit that point of
the season. Let me know if you're selling astro stock,
because I'll buy it. And it's just hard to picture
the Guardians at least fully missing the dance. You can
daydream of the Twins or Royals falling apart and missing,
but in that day dream you need the Red Sox
(22:49):
or the Mariners to catch them, or the Rays or
the Tigers. And the Red Sox pitching has been kind
of what we thought the Red Sox pitching was gonna be.
They have come back to earth in a big way.
I think I read a stat today and talking baseball
that Tanner Hawke the Red Sox have lost Tanner Hawk's
last seven starts. He was a guy contending for the
(23:11):
Cy Young for a bit. Uh, he had an incredible
first half of the season. That's falling off. Cutter Crawford,
who had some numbers that were really nice, had fallen off.
Their bullpen has really given up.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
And there was there were some numbers in like May
June about because the Red Sox overall starting pitching staff
had gotten off to such a good start and all
that the r A wise, I think they I believe
as a team they had given up the most unearned
runs because the defensing ain't great or at least as
they were assembled. Arly, they've gotten some guys back throughout
the or whatever. So there were there were signs that
(23:44):
this was coming.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
Where are you, Trevor story So in the National League.
So not only do you have to believe in a
Twins or Royals collapse, I don't think any no one
believes in Orioles. Houston Yankees in the Guardians have been
so so good that it would have to be a
(24:05):
historic level collapse that I don't think we can dream on.
So you need a Royals or Twins collapse boom. Trevor
Pluf couldn't rule out as Twins. That makes me believe
it's in play the Royals. Everyone's been waiting. I just
don't think they're gonna That's a baseball town and they
have a formula that's happening. So let me say the
(24:27):
ale is done for now. I'm out on the Mariners.
Although Dan Wilson's Mariners haven't lost a series, the Rays
can't get out of their own way, the Tigers fighting
for five hundred, do what you want with that, and
I just I don't think I can fully believe in
Boston getting hot enough than those other two central teams
getting cold enough to get Boston in the mix. Let
(24:50):
me finish the keep the ale there for now and
then Nationally, Dodgers Phillies and the Brewers Phillies have been dominant.
Dodgers have been sneaky dominant without even being dominant, and
now they might start being more dominant. The Brewers have
(25:11):
a ten game lead. Those three teams are locked in.
They'll be in the playoffs in some fashion. The Arizona
Diamondbacks in San Diego Padres, sure h d Backs are
four and a half games in Padres. Three above the Braves.
The Atlanta Braves, who are supposed to be in dynasty
mode and have a lot of players. You may know,
(25:35):
they're two and a half up on the New York Mets.
Step right up and greet the Mets. Hey man, if
you want to buy metstocks over the Braves, I mean literally,
go to DraftKings and bet on it because you can
make a you can make a nice penny. The Mets,
(25:58):
with no expectations and a franchise, viewed very differently than
the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves have maybe cured. They
are they always had a fifth spot in the rotation
that was hurting them. Riis Iglesias is just perfect that
they've been looking for more from the lineup that if
they start getting that, watch out that. I don't think
(26:20):
anyone's selling on any of the National League teams. I
think the only team I've been semi rude to is
the Mariners. Are four and a half back in their division.
But it's of the Houston Astros. And I've done this
all year and I won't do it now. So within
all that and Mets fans, I'm sorry, but you guys
(26:40):
are Mets fans. You understand where this conbo is going.
Let's say it's locked. The Giants and Cardinals are five
games out, Cubbies five and a half. They're fighting trying
to get to that over under. Let's say for all
intents and purposes, it's done. These teams are in the
play else, they're in the dance. We have our sweet
(27:03):
six from each side. I want to put together the
dream playoff bracket. And dream can mean a lot of
different things, right. It can mean the best matchups for views,
it could mean the best baseball matchup. I want to
sort through it and see where we land. So, uh,
(27:24):
currently in the let's do the al the one seed
is the yankeesps, the two seed is the guard Dogs.
Right now, the Orioles would play the Royals, the Astros
would play the Twins. So let's popurri this around a
(27:47):
little bit. Let's keep it. They're tired, so I'm I
don't know which one would play? Which Fox has that
with the tiebreaker right now? Nice, I've always where I
get mine. Let's say Yankees guards are one two for now,
what would the ideal wild card matchups be? Because right
(28:08):
now it has Astros Twins, which these two teams have
played before Korea is an interesting storyline, Uh, Orioles Royals,
I mean that would just be like Bobby Wood and Gunner. Yeah,
it's not awful for the sport. With the rest of
the Orioles. You got catchers there, Salve and Adleian.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
I know Royals, Herves are Orioles last year's year, they
like arrived, but there's still two the two like young
up and coming teams.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
As far as these playoff groups Royals Astros. That doesn't
really have any.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
Juice, does it. No, No, no specific thing i'd market there.
Speaker 1 (28:50):
Oh, kind of different timelines right when Houston started, Kansas
City ended just young Bulls, old Bulls, young Casts, Extros, Orioles.
These teams just played. I don't think it would line
up that way, just record wise, and that would just
be it would be the old guard of the Astros
(29:14):
trying to fend off the young guard of the Orioles,
which then that would leave Royals Twins, which hey, maybe
you say there's some a fun new divisional rivalry forming
that doesn't move the needle too much if it stays
Yankees Guards as the one too. I think the current
(29:36):
seating would be the best. I think Orioles Royals you
could really you could really sell Gunner and Wit. That's
a lot of fun. The deposition shortstop left the righty,
that's fun. Even the catchers I threw in there. I'm
into that to two kind of historic baseball cities that
(29:58):
have been out of the mix for a little bit. Yeah.
Uh and Astros twins. Like I said, with Korea, you
can upsell that they played last year last year, that
there's something there Astros. I mean, you'd want the Astros
(30:19):
to advance. Sorry Twins, Astros Guardians, my god, sorry Guardians.
Fans just would not feel good for you, and that
if it was Oriols Royals, you'd also say Orioles, and
that that would set up a Yankees Orioles a l DS.
(30:39):
That that would be pretty pretty bitching. Uh, not an
excited way, not me as a Yankee fan, Like, yeah,
give me that, but I mean Orioles Yankees. You got
some Jeffrey Mayer stuff in there. Al East playoffs Turtlenecks, Uh,
sign me up for that kind of like picking, ticking
(31:02):
that rivalry into like a real rivalry. Like the Yanks
and O's have had some hot games this year, there's
been some hit by pitch stuff, but a playoff series
between these two would really elevate that to the next
level for the next couple of years. So yeah, I
think I'm looking forward to that. Or as Astros, that's
a little it's a little light and maybe that's rude
(31:25):
to my guards. And then essentially what in the ale
that would set up Astros Astros or Yankees and Orioles.
I obviously have some bias in the situation. I think
MLB views wise, I think there's some bias in the situation.
Or as Astros would be great, no qualms. I think
(31:49):
a bigger win for baseball and everyone if the Yanks
and Astros teed it up one more time in the CS.
I guess just reworking this a little bit. If the
Astros were to catch the Guardians, so then it would
be Guardians as the five or no or yeah, that
(32:13):
would make sense. It would just be the three and
the six Guardians twins. I don't know. I don't need
I don't need more Central Ball. Yeah, I'm I won't.
I won't daydream about that for now.
Speaker 2 (32:26):
I think that would just be Astros or Home for
that set on paper chalk, wild Card.
Speaker 1 (32:34):
And Yeah, I guess again gonna lose some fans with
this one. But in the AL, I think the Yankee,
the Yankees, Astros, or Orioles probably in that order, would
be best for the sport. I know there's a lot
of you that don't like any of those words. I
just just said. The Yankees getting back to the World
(32:55):
Series would be massive for baseball. Do I have some bias? Apps?
The second best story there would be the Astros trying
to make this thing full blown dynasty mode, and then
the Orioles coming to Fruition and entering what would be
the start of an era for them. I think those
(33:16):
would be the best for baseball in the National League.
Dodgers Phillies won two hello with the Brewers nipping at
their butt. It's currently set up and this is kind
of what sparked this idea in my head. Padres Diamondbacks.
Whoa if that stays three games for those two teams,
(33:41):
that each can be such sexy World Series teams in
their own right. Arizona just did it. Everyone thought the
Padres were going to do it, then it looked like
they were out, and now they're back in. So two
NLS teams playing three games to go face the Dodgers.
Basically an NL wes bracket. Yeah, and I hate it's
(34:05):
a win win. The Diamondbacks eliminated the Dodgers last year.
Nobody saw that coming. The Padres and Dodgers kind of
were supposed to be the rivalry that was supposed to
be next the young core of San Diego against the
mighty Mighty Dodgers. That would be win win either way.
Brewers fans, cover your ears. We've been daydreaming about the
Hank Aaron Bull Milwaukee versus Atlanta, and if we're being honest,
(34:30):
it would be Atlanta going on to play the Phillies.
And maybe this is lame. Maybe this is lame because
I just ended up with divisional stuff on this side.
But maybe this is what it is. Or maybe hey,
Brewers fans, if you want to feel better, catch the Phillies,
because then the Phillies would be playing the Brace in
the first round. So instead of five games, you get three.
(34:52):
But Philly Braves Part three at this point, right, they've
played the last two years and the Phillies have gone
in both times. Philly Braves Part three. I think baseball
would be psyched for that. And let's see, if we
had to hodge podge the pieces around Padres Phillies would
(35:13):
be fun. Not a lot of animosity. Dbacks Phillies last
year's NLCS. That would have some good entertainment value there.
Speaker 2 (35:23):
Padres Phillies was previous year's NLCS and that that was
a fun one.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
That was good. Okay, so anyone in the Phillies. Basically,
I guess this exercise ended in a sad place. And
then basically just being rude to Milwaukee.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
This became a little bit more mean to the Central winners.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
I just became mean to the whole Center. Hey, I
upsold the Royals, Bobby Witt. We marketed the Royals. Can
we market the Brewers? Can I market the Twins? All right? Unfortunately,
this is why we do some of these exercises, and
(36:01):
you find out you're just a bad guy to the Central.
I understand why you don't like me, and I like
the Central. It's Americana, but they need to show something.
Braves Brewers. I bought in on Hank Aaron Ball. God,
what's the Jackson Cherio? Willie adamis.
Speaker 2 (36:30):
Wish Ellie was playing?
Speaker 1 (36:33):
I don't know well people. This is why I do
these exercises. I like to stumble into stuff. Unfortunately this
ended up very poorly for my Central. Convince me of
the best playoff brackets, please comment. I love going through them.
You guys are the best. I have a meeting to
go to. Hate that for me and my fantasy football
(36:55):
auction stories. I don't think you want that got Josh
Allen and Dalton Kincaid. So we're just gonna linked up.
We're just gonna link that up all year long. All
my wide receivers are old, and my running backs. It's
a really bad formula. Speaking of good formulas, thank you guys,
make sure you're subscribed and
Speaker 2 (37:17):
Waking Jake is the production of Dan Patrick Productions, John
Boy Media, and Workhouse Media.
Hosts And Creators
Todd "Fritzy" Fritz
Dan Patrick
Patrick "Seton" O'Connor
Paul Pabst
Marvin Prince
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
True Crime Tonight
If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.