July 22, 2024 • 35 mins
Talkin' Jake is running through all of MLB sorting out which teams have the most variability in what they could do at the Trade Deadline based on how they play this week!
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2:25 Reds are Done
5:40 National League Deadline Plans
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake with myself David Mendelssohn,
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as we jump around the world of sports and primarily
baseball season. Although Olympics Friday opening ceremony a lot going
on had such a ridiculous boy weekend, I'll walk through
that a little bit later. You guys like getting into
the sports and it's baseball season. I'm not excited for
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the Olympics yet. I think when they start rolling, get
some more of those Team USA NBA games. Give me Shikari.
All day opening ceremonies doesn't do much for me normally.
I guess if I'm bored and it's on, sometimes they
have cool effects and stuff, but I'm not gonna get
into that un till I'm into that. It's baseball season
and it's the time of the year that I've now
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tried to quantify for two seasons now. I've said treadline
jolly through the runway. I mean, I think purgatory has
been thrown out before, and I like that where teams
kind of have their fate decided. But that's not is
that purgatory. I gotta reread between.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, purgatory is definitely and in between State but.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Aren't you stuck in purgatory? Or can you get out?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think you know it depends which context we're exactly
talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Basically, the context for baseball is, especially with the expanded playoffs,
the variability that can happen in these next coming weeks
or coming games is insane. My Cincinnati Rts that had
been Trevor Plue's recent sweetheart of season, we're gonna talk
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ball today. I hope you're okay with that. Also, this
week what's becoming a famed episode, General manager Jolly Olive
will be proposing us trades and we will be accepting
or denying.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's a big one, even better than Jolly Olive.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh did I say Jolly? I meant foolish God Jolly
jumped in on talking baseball today. They're basically the same guy,
just ones covered in grease.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
They can make them fight again. You guys like that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
One burns in the sun. We'll get them both on
again soon. Foolishes GM episode. But yeah, Like example, this
past weekend, my Cincinnati Reds that I've been on, trev
was getting hot to trot on. They get swept by
the Nats and in my head, like it is over
they keep they l four. They just dropped a half
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game back into that exclusive third worst team in the
National League participation trophy. That keeps happening, and that could
change tonight. But the thing is, if you're the Cincinnati
Reds and it's July twenty second, you had the Gnats
on the schedule who played themselves into they need to
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trade right territory. Although they just jumped, they just jumped them.
The Cincinnati Reds, Luckily, I don't think their deadline was
gonna have crazy juice either way, because they're just banking
on their in house talent. But I think any of
their bullpen arms that they get a real off run,
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you gotta make the move. You can hopefully find someone
else down there. Frankie montass not a ton of guys
in the lineup unless they end up in one of
these weird blockbusters where teams are begging for hitting like Seattle.
I don't know, Seattle. Seattle has been the buzzest word
of the day. We did a whole Talking Baseball episode,
as I mentioned, with Jolly not Trev not foolish Seattle
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as of today's out of the playoffs, And if I
told you that coming into the season that on July
twenty second, the Mariners would not be in the playoff picture.
You'd be like, oh, okay, I mean it's a little disappointing,
but you'd probably be like, well, Houston's Houston, and they
have been for a couple months. But they also pooped
the bed early on. You'd say the Texas Rangers are
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probably following up their World Series. They're not. Texas Rangers
are in the bad place, still not hitting. Lost another
series this weekend. I was a little nervous when we
did our trade draft episode on Talking Baseball. That's become
an annual favorite. A lot of Texas Rangers got picked
that every year, and it's the beauty of purgatory. Season
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one team happens like the Cubs. They happened last year.
It was over. The Angels put their chips in and
then took their chips out in a sad development. Last
year the show Hey Times Got Crazy was that Lucas Giolito.
It'll be a bad, bad, jolly or foolish video one day.
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Although we liked Lucas Giledo, they yeah, I so many
teams are interested to see what their next steps are.
I guess let's do true purgatory teams. Maybe this will
be the segment, even though in my head it already
feels like I've talked about this stuff too much. But
between here talking Baseball All Star Break and it's just
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the topic. And I did open one pass An article
but he's buns. Oh that's that's just me being rude.
We'll circle back to passing and I have to tell
you guys about my Loser Boy weekend. Okay, let's reverse
engineer this NL West standings page. Colorado Rockies set in stone.
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But we have no idea what they're gonna do. Because
they're the Rockies. They should be selling what they can. Giants,
nervous face. That's what I just did on the YouTube.
If you watch their subscribe, I mean, they're not gonna
hard sell, right, I don't think they can, are they in?
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I mean, I guess if they have an awful week
a week they have a great week, they're gonna buy.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Like I know, the the.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Player options make like Chapman and Snell specifically weird, but
they have they have other pieces and somebody would do it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Giants, they're in purgatory. Padres are not like because then
I start playing the game. Well, if they lose their
next nine, well yeah, but the Padres also have their
chips on the table. I don't think they're in purgatory.
I think they're buying the Diamondbacks. I don't think they're
in purgatory. They won the World Series last year. They
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got to the World Series. Sorry, They've been playing a
much better brand of baseball. They haven't lost their last
sixth series. I think someone came out with there since
June first stats and they've been pretty good. Uh, the
Snakes were pretty banged up. They've got bodies coming back.
I think it's let it ride then. I don't think
they're in purgati. Dodgers not in purgatory. Reds I just
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gave a whole speech about them not being in purgatory.
I don't know. I'm gonna double check our purgatory list.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Cubs.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm out on them too. Those teams need to sell.
And how about this, I guess this is where I
can I can plant my flag. I've been kind of
pro Reds this year. I've been kind of anti Cubs
this year. Cubs felt a little too cock sure, Reds
felt like they could be up and coming. Both are
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now a half game separated at forty seven and fifty
three or forty eight and fifty three. Both those teams
need to sell. Should they be in purgatory if the
Cubs win a couple of games, how about this. Cubs
are in purgatories, Reds are not. Those teams are operating differently.
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Cubs have given out a couple real contracts. I mean,
going back, Dansby showed a hap say ah, like they've
given out Bellinger. They've given out real contracts. I was
happy with my Reds, and they brought in Jamer They
did Montas on a one year. They did some moves,
But the Cubs are in purgatory. The Reds are not Reds.
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It's not the year Cubs. If you can have a week,
make your August fun. Pirates aren't in purgatory. As weird
as that is, because they said they're buying right.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Definitely not selling.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't know what exactly they're gonna buy, but they
ain't in purgatory. If they're making any number of moves,
that's I think they're all gonna be adding to their roster.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They cannot sell. You're not in purgatory. That's huge, Cardinals. No,
they've been cleaned for a little while. They win another
set this weekend. Brew Crew. No, not in purgatory. So
currently locked Giants and Cups. Giants and Cups disappointing Marlins. Nope,
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they did one of the first trades. Could the Nats
be in purgatory? They can't buy.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I don't think they're gonna be really he can't buy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean they just won three that It would be
really funny if in a week there is like a
W nine because in the NL that would have them
in the playoffs. I don't think they're in purgatory. I
hope it becomes.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I don't think they're gonna be like hard selling.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I don't. I hope they become a fun part
of this exercise in a week, because they could. They
could put everything on its head. W three out of
the break. Who do they have coming up? Padres? I've
seen the Padres lose series, Padres Saint Loui, Arizona. Hey,
if they earn their keep against three teams fighting for it, maybe,
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but no, I'm not gonna put them in purgatory now.
They called up their top prospects. They can't buy the
idea of purgatory. Is you could go one way or
the other. Mats can't go the other. Mets purgatory, and
that's obvious.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
There's a purgatory team.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mets fans live in purgatory. Fifty and forty eight. Jolly
spun it as a win win on Talking Baseball, and
I did like that attitude. Like if you're the Mets
and you get you trade some guys and you get
some packages, I think you just say, hey, all right,
this year was not the plan. Hopefully the next couple
of years of Mets baseball or what it's about. If
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they buy you say okay, hey we got here. Let's
win a couple more games and see something happen. CODEI sanga,
I think he's like rumored to come back this season.
Now where's he? He was on my article I was
reading earlier.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Not been a part of the are yet right?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
What I saying? What is this article? Season debut Friday?
So like, all right, that's adding a guy in theory.
Mets are in purgatory, but a positive purgatory. Jolly said,
at least.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You can you can be happy either way, but doing
nothing would be crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I know a guy Braves Phillies, No, they're they're in
the game. So out of that, we've got Mets, Cubs,
Giants firmly in purgatory. If I was to make a
gray layer of purgatory, it would have the Gnats in
the Reds. But I mean, even that's that feels thinner
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than we think.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And there's like a layer of like purgatory being between
just not selling whatever you can and fully selling your stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, which is what those two fall into it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
We don't see either the making major additions or trading
for any sort of like rental.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Or if it was one of those charts you see
that it's like if you answer yes, go this way,
it's like a V chart, not the name of it.
One of your options need to be buyers at the
deadline to be in purgatory, and the Nats cannot be
buyers at the deadline. The Giants could, the Reds could.
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It would have to be long term. It wouldn't be
like rental.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You can make smart trades.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm keeping them out of perk, and that's what the
whole point is. If we did this episode on Friday,
the Reds would have been in perk. So maybe I'm
being a fool. Maybe I'm being a fool in the
American League as no Angels, no Texas Rangers. Yes, big
bull blown P. I'm pushing P. Remember that Mariners can't
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sell right tough John Boy Media.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Day for the Mariners, there's there're gonna be parts in,
parts out, but they can.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Though they can't sell Texas Rangers. Only team in that
division in purgatory. Astros are going. They are back in
first place. Seattle half tied with them, half not h
Halo's as dead. Okay, Al Central guard Dogs have been
Electric Twins. Electric should buy in some way, but it's
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got to be a cheap, cheap, cheap buy. The fight
between the Brewers, Twins and Guardians for Eric Fetti's seven
point five mil next year. Oh yeah, get your seventh
prospect ready.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, Dodger, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I think the bargain beIN teams. Although I did see
the only thing I was gonna say, the only thing
Jeff Passing did today to make my Wiener flinch, and
the fact I was going to say that into a microphone.
Thanks San Patrick, you were gonna say that. I was
gonna say that, And then I stopped trade draft. I
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went Flaherty to La He's an La guy. He's been
striking out, he's been punching tickets this year. That I
was like. My thought process was, the Dodgers need a
bona fide guy that could pitch in the playoffs, and
rental wise, they're willing to pay probably more than the
lower market teams because it's a pure rental. You're here,
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let's go that they might need playoff innings where I
don't know, not to be rue deerk Fetti. If you
trade him to the Dodgers, I don't I don't know
where he's gonna be come October. Is he going to
be primed for a playoff start? I think Jack Flaherty,
he's he's been in some big games where Jeff Passing
did that thing that I said, I wasn't gonna say.
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Uh he said Jack Flarity to the Brewers, and I
was kind of like, Ooh, I don't not see it.
That's kind of nice. That's a that's an aggressive Milwaukee move,
which we're constantly begging for because that's a guy that
could start a playoff game for them. So thank you
Jeff Passing for for one thing, doing that to my body.
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Back to Purgatory, White Sox are not in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Guard Dogs, Twins not in purgatory. Royals not in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Already of bot have purchased.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
They can't sell, although seven three in their last ten.
Me always loves when there's a buy sell team. No,
they're in. I think they have another easy series coming
up after sweeping the White Sox. Or no, excuse me,
they have the Snakes. Lies. There's been a lot of
lies said at this dinner table tonight. Oh, they got
another White Sox series coming before the deadline.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
They're good, they're buying.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They've got a Chicago two step that I like.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
The Royals.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh my god, it's jose McFly.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Word Nelly.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's me screaming at a man. You can't see pictured podcast.
Only Tough. Royals are not in purgatory. The Detroit Tigers are.
I'll tell you what. The Detroit Tigers, who just had
themselves another winning series against the Blue Jays. They won
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a Dodger series before that, they won a Guardian series
before that, they swept a Red series before that. If
the Detroit Tigers are at five hundred come the trade
deadline or over, I don't think they're selling. I mean,
maybe they'll do the retoolsy thing. But the Tigers at
one point they won ten out of twelve, and I
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think they're just looking for winning culture. But you're out
of the wild cards so hard I guess this is
a test for me beeps, because can the Tigers buy?
That feels like immediate regret, That feels like a media regret.
They can make.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Moves for beyond this season, depending who's around. I don't
see them acquiring any any rentals. They could do that
kind of trade, but still move off of like a
flairty who's a little bit found money for them.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So this is I'm I'm trying to figure out in
my language of how I've been speaking, if they're not
gonna sell or buy, would they be in purgatory?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
They're not full buying.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know selling, that's tricky. I've now put myself
in a conundrum.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But if they had an off, if they lost their
next five.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh, they're hard selling.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So that's true. They are.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
If the Tigers remain hot, if they win their next
couple series, they've got a Guardian series. Okay, there's there's
a decent.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Announcer about this.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's a beautiful sport people. Here is your Detroit Tigers schedule.
Their fate is somewhat in their hand. Guardians for four. Hey,
if they handle that ownership in the GM has to
open their eyes a little bit. Minnesota for three, okay,
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Cleveland for two. Then it's the deadline. So that's nine games,
seven and two. I don't know there's a convo there,
especially against two teams in front of you. What I
wish their deadline was a couple days later. It's Kansas City.
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So they're facing Cleveland, Minnesota, Cleveland, Kansas City for the
next fourteen games, thirteen games. Their fate will be decided
during purgatory season. They're in Oh God, and they only
have no how on different websites it'll have the projected starters.
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They only have Scoobale Flaharty in Montero listed for the
next ten days. That's our guy, Cater Montero. Just a
reminder to everyone might like what just happened on the
screen from Venezuela and Austin Wells. Homer sure is how many?
How many runs? Does that score?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Just one?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh, it's a solo homer. We'll take that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Three strikeouts in the first for the gangs.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, yah, yeah, Yeah, Tigers are in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm happy for them. And that's what a recent hot
streak does. Uh, finishing up in your American league, beast Orioles.
Yankees are not in purgatory. Rays are in a constant purgatory, right,
They're they're buying and selling. Yeah, if they win today,
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they're gonna be two games above five hundred. In the mix,
they're listening on both sides. I'll put the raisin perg Yeah,
blue Jays are not. Blue Jays are done done.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Blue's gotta just sell.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Blue Jays are done done. It's over. It's jover. Blue
Jays are done. And that was the other thing in
passings article that you already know the effect it had.
We're going back to back Yankees, Wow, Wells and Volpi.
It was a live reaction. The future is now. The
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future is now.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Palm boys, Uh, Laddie.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I think is has real rumors there. Everyone says the
Jays want to compete next year. Okay, you can't think
of your no idea where any of those contract talks
have gone. Laddie's value is up. I mean he is
a gem of a piece to trade for I think
a team could throw the crazy offer at them. Bishet
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just got banged up again and hasn't been playing well
that the set's not going anywhere. People are still talking
about him like he could be the biggest piece of
the deadline. If you're the Blue Jays, you cannot possibly
sell where his value is at. Would you say the
Red Sox are in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It don't.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't see him doing like real byes.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
But but yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Would have to be full till. It would have to
be a full till losing sessh. Now they open with
three l's to the Dodgers. They're facing the Rockies, which
can be medicine can be weird.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
This Rocky series goes weird, They're like got buying.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
If the Rocky series goes awry, and this is supposed
to be the whole point of perg then they've got
Yankees and Mariners at home to decide what they're gonna do.
They're they can't sell.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
They can't sell.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
They're a weird team.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
As far as trying to figure out what they have
to sell. Look, if they wanted to just get value
on whatever, then sure they have pieces. But it's like
a weird group of guys that would be And like,
you're committing to being terrible the rest of the way,
and you're eight games over five hundred right now.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I'm I'm not even gonna because they would have to
be so atrocious that it would it would be bad.
So if you're looking to add at the deadline teams,
you need to be rooting against. Tampa Bay Rays perg.
The Trait Tigers are pergan after after a big couple series.
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Texas Rangers are pergan. It's getting dangerous for them. New
York Mets pergy bad week and they'll hard cell they
might want that. Cubs pergan and Herbin. San Francisco Giants
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pergan Santana. So it's a little less teams than I thought.
I think some lines have been drawn on the sand
I did I left out. I did leave out the
teams that would be outliers. If Pittsburgh somehow loses every
game for the next week, their hand gets forced a
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little bit. Same with Boston, kind of same with the Yankees. Like,
I know they're not gonna, but you can't start bringing
in those extremes yet. One team will probably do that.
One team will look up and it'll be a two
and eight and that'll decide their fate. That rhyme, yeah,
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two and eight decide their fate. Maybe I'll add that
to my purgatory song. Just our guy tech Mike's throwing
the baseball in the lab over there. All right, we
did a little that. I will stop mentioning the past
an article. But there is one other thing of note,
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because I really did Jack Flaherty to the brewers. That's
a power fit, but everyone Jack Flerty is a fit
with everyone right now. That's why he has to be traded.
That's why maybe the tires aren't in purgatory unless they
got a picture back with another year of control. But
that starts getting really tricky. MLD. Value wise, you get.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Some guy who, like you know, can contribute to your
lineup for a couple of years, be a weird rental trade,
and like they can qualifying him if they think celerity
right now would decline that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I think, oh that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Or maybe he'd take it for one year of a
pay day and go for a big Either way, I
think everybody would be comfortable with it.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The starting pitching is expensive.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The other fun one that brother Jeff had because I've
mentioned the Rays are in purgatory. There they operate differently,
so maybe they shouldn't even be in purgatory. Passing put
a rose Arena to the Dodgers and that was like,
that was really cool in my head if they did that.
Randy's been swinging the stick better lately. Luckily my Yankees
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got to be a big part of that help. So Hey,
I'm gonna be honest with you guys. It's a high
and tight one today. Not much. Oh, I have to
tell you about my weekend because some people like that,
and then we'll thank Dan big weekend. Went to Five
Iron Golf after work Friday, bang, trying to get my
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swing dialed for my annual fantasy football golf trip coming
in bong. Five Iron great, A couple beers, fine, head
back for the Yankees. Game put on the Yankees Friday
night was cold game. They're winning, They've got a nice lead.
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Before the game, I went to download NCAA football college
football excuse me on my PS four. Turns out college
football not compatible on the PS four. Well done PlayStation.
I sit there brooding for a couple minutes. I go, Okay,
what am I going to do? I said? You know what,
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I'm a man. I like video games in a way.
They're a cheap, effective hobby in New York City. Yeah,
if you can stay in, that's a win.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It's a one time, decent payment. But you find one
game that you play it.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Done, you start doing hours in city time, video games
become a decent hobby to have in your back pocket.
I say, I'm doing it. NC College Football. It's one
of my favorite video games I've ever played in my life.
It's probably the most hours I've put into a video game,
just because doing Dynasty modes and getting lost in it
and whatever. So I got it, watched the rest of
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the Yanks game, fired it up late night grinding. San
Diego State got them in a good spot. Would have
liked to get a little better. A lot of slippery
ends to seasons. But you know, I think we want
a couple armed four versus bulls whatever. Had two job
opportunities staring me in the face. Oklahoma that had fallen
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on mediocre times because they're in the SEC. Now college
football kind of wild or the U and I don't know,
I mean, we're playing college football. It's the video game
everyone's wanted that took over the U. We're grinding. We
had a good we had a good run in one
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of the playoffs. I think we lost the championship game.
So we're still coming down from that, but we're really
establishing something and we'll see I don't even know if
there's another jump point I want to go to or
I admitted this earlier. I force won a bowl game.
I wasn't proud about it, but it really helped early
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on at San Diego State to get me where I
want to be that I think I need. This was
my test Dynasty to see how it's going. I wish
the recruiting was just a little easier. You gotta click
a lot of buttons. It gets it gets very clicky.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Seems like a lot of steps on there haven't.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It's like one extra step. And the problem is I
hit the point where I turned on like auto recruiting
or yeah, whereas but you can't get involved like the
auto recruiting being on it usurps what you want to add.
So like there's this four star QB begging to come
to the U, and I was like, yeah, we need them,
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and so I I would offer and then I forgot
I had autow on I would simm to the next
week and it wouldn't be there, and I'd be like,
you can't do that. So I don't know, we'll see.
I saw our guy, Blake Snell, was in our Jam
Gaming replies on the college football game. He didn't love
it so far. There was some constructive comments that were like, hey, dude,
they haven't done any patches yet, like this is literally
like this is version one of a game a decade later,
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like we should be making some progressive steps. There are
some people being rude to Blake Snell in the comment, oh,
focus on baseball, get to pitching. He hit him with
some two young bruh, Real recognized, Real Snelly. So excited
to see some of my next steps with that game.
It's mostly probably just gonna be Dynasty Mode alone by myself.
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We'll see interactive dynasties. Is that what people are doing
jam Warehouse. We'll see on the jam gaming channel. So
in between that, so, I mean, we're talking late Friday,
after the Yankees game, Saturday, wake up, start playing again? Obviously,
little kid on Christmas? What's that you said? Oh, Saturday,
(30:36):
we went to Luke Comb's concert, which was awesome. Sony
like hooked it up because we're like partners with them.
We're in a suite with This will matter to some
people with the Toast, the Toasters popular female podcasts. I
guess if I had to label it girl with No Job.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
So there's a podcast, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Podcast we basically so some people were really jazzed up
about that. And the suite had like floor access, so
we would go. We saw like, we walked out on
the floor, saw someone that seemed to have like a
fake NCAA football pennies worth tent, Craig Pennington. That's not
his name. He ripped. We're on the floor for that.
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The sun's up. We're on the field at MetLife. That
was pretty crazy just to like look around. It was
trying to imagine playing football on that and it's insane.
Literally like man in the arena. Yeah, went back up
to the suite for the the Guy before the performance,
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a couple of drinks, some food, mixing it up in there,
making some friends, and then we went down for Luke
colmb's awesome. I'm not deep into Luke Combs collection, although
I did listen to his Fathers and Sons album because
you know, I'm not gonna lie to the people. Like,
if we're promoting it, I want to be in on it. Uh,
listened to it at the gym before the show. That
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was a mistake because it's all songs about being like
kind of sad and like loving your pops. I don't know,
it wasn't exactly Jim fuege Jim. Yeah, that was a
little bit of a miss. But he's got the new
He's got a new song in the Twister movie No
One's Safe in Oklahoma something like that. That song is
like a power song that ripped fast car brought the
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house down obviously. Uh, and just the chillerver Dude, we
got to he took photos with people like an hour
before the show. There was just like a quick moving
line on Sony like put us in it. So got
a pick with Luke Comb. So that's cool. But I
was really impressed. I was like, dude, he's doing this
before a show, like I want it, Like, especially after
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interacting with players who like don't want to be bothered
two hours before they play a game. And yeah, we
were just told like he's that guy, like he he
loves the people, He's about it, he's a true man
of the people. Awesome show. Get back obviously, get back
on the recruiting trail for just a little bit. You know,
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while they're sleeping, you need to be recruiting. Go to sleep,
wake up, just grind a little more NCAA football because
you need to. And then I went to my first
pilates class. It was just as one hundredth and I
told her at some point I would go. So we
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went obliques and Cheeks class. Maybe the cheeks you're thinking of,
maybe not only guy in the class. Always a little
bit of a fear of mine. It was okay, got
really nervous. A couple of minutes in. We were really
hammering the core and I was like, I cannot do
this for forty minutes. Like no way. Turns out they
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were kind of hinted hard at the start and getting
the hardest core out of the way sports where I
did decently. It's one of those workouts like the whole
time she's telling you the different adaptations they got, like
different power levies on there, it's like, okay, put too on,
take two off, so you adjust with that, and you know,
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you just it's kind of like it's like yoga, like
speed yoga, where it's like Okay, if you want to
adjust and do something a little easier, you could be
on your knees for it, or if you want to
do the hard version, lift your right arm up. Had
a fine enough time, was expecting the worst. I told
the instructor that she really didn't like that. I was like, yeah,
(34:37):
you know, I'm expecting this to not go so well.
And she was like what, She's like, what kind of
mindset is that? Like it's nothing against you or this
what this is. But I've just been told this is
very hard that I could have a bad time today,
like the fact that she was taken aback.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
They always do that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I did a yoga class in high school or not
high school, in college that person come in once a
week and then they were doing that like mindset talk,
and I laughed because I was like, I'm not gonna
think positively about myself. And then at the end of
the at the end of the thing, she's like, you
laughed when I said to think positively before, but you
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made it like, well, it wasn't about you at all.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I was gonna make yeah, this is a me thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
She was very bummed out by that. Mindset by me
went to New York diner after so pretty uh pretty
nice weekend. Crazy one, crazy summer weekend. I guess that's
why they call it summer. What huge app Wednesday, foolish
general manager bringing trades to the table.
Speaker 2 (35:45):
Dan waken Jakis a production of Dan Patrick Productions, John
Boy Media, and Workhouse Media.
Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake with myself David Mendelssohn,
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as we jump around the world of sports and primarily
baseball season. Although Olympics Friday opening ceremony a lot going
on had such a ridiculous boy weekend, I'll walk through
that a little bit later. You guys like getting into
the sports and it's baseball season. I'm not excited for
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the Olympics yet. I think when they start rolling, get
some more of those Team USA NBA games. Give me Shikari.
All day opening ceremonies doesn't do much for me normally.
I guess if I'm bored and it's on, sometimes they
have cool effects and stuff, but I'm not gonna get
into that un till I'm into that. It's baseball season
and it's the time of the year that I've now
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tried to quantify for two seasons now. I've said treadline
jolly through the runway. I mean, I think purgatory has
been thrown out before, and I like that where teams
kind of have their fate decided. But that's not is
that purgatory. I gotta reread between.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
Yeah, purgatory is definitely and in between State but.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Aren't you stuck in purgatory? Or can you get out?
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I think you know it depends which context we're exactly
talking about.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
Basically, the context for baseball is, especially with the expanded playoffs,
the variability that can happen in these next coming weeks
or coming games is insane. My Cincinnati Rts that had
been Trevor Plue's recent sweetheart of season, we're gonna talk
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ball today. I hope you're okay with that. Also, this
week what's becoming a famed episode, General manager Jolly Olive
will be proposing us trades and we will be accepting
or denying.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
It's a big one, even better than Jolly Olive.
Speaker 1 (02:02):
Oh did I say Jolly? I meant foolish God Jolly
jumped in on talking baseball today. They're basically the same guy,
just ones covered in grease.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
They can make them fight again. You guys like that.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
One burns in the sun. We'll get them both on
again soon. Foolishes GM episode. But yeah, Like example, this
past weekend, my Cincinnati Reds that I've been on, trev
was getting hot to trot on. They get swept by
the Nats and in my head, like it is over
they keep they l four. They just dropped a half
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game back into that exclusive third worst team in the
National League participation trophy. That keeps happening, and that could
change tonight. But the thing is, if you're the Cincinnati
Reds and it's July twenty second, you had the Gnats
on the schedule who played themselves into they need to
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trade right territory. Although they just jumped, they just jumped them.
The Cincinnati Reds, Luckily, I don't think their deadline was
gonna have crazy juice either way, because they're just banking
on their in house talent. But I think any of
their bullpen arms that they get a real off run,
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you gotta make the move. You can hopefully find someone
else down there. Frankie montass not a ton of guys
in the lineup unless they end up in one of
these weird blockbusters where teams are begging for hitting like Seattle.
I don't know, Seattle. Seattle has been the buzzest word
of the day. We did a whole Talking Baseball episode,
as I mentioned, with Jolly not Trev not foolish Seattle
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as of today's out of the playoffs, And if I
told you that coming into the season that on July
twenty second, the Mariners would not be in the playoff picture.
You'd be like, oh, okay, I mean it's a little disappointing,
but you'd probably be like, well, Houston's Houston, and they
have been for a couple months. But they also pooped
the bed early on. You'd say the Texas Rangers are
(04:10):
probably following up their World Series. They're not. Texas Rangers
are in the bad place, still not hitting. Lost another
series this weekend. I was a little nervous when we
did our trade draft episode on Talking Baseball. That's become
an annual favorite. A lot of Texas Rangers got picked
that every year, and it's the beauty of purgatory. Season
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one team happens like the Cubs. They happened last year.
It was over. The Angels put their chips in and
then took their chips out in a sad development. Last
year the show Hey Times Got Crazy was that Lucas Giolito.
It'll be a bad, bad, jolly or foolish video one day.
(04:54):
Although we liked Lucas Giledo, they yeah, I so many
teams are interested to see what their next steps are.
I guess let's do true purgatory teams. Maybe this will
be the segment, even though in my head it already
feels like I've talked about this stuff too much. But
between here talking Baseball All Star Break and it's just
(05:17):
the topic. And I did open one pass An article
but he's buns. Oh that's that's just me being rude.
We'll circle back to passing and I have to tell
you guys about my Loser Boy weekend. Okay, let's reverse
engineer this NL West standings page. Colorado Rockies set in stone.
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But we have no idea what they're gonna do. Because
they're the Rockies. They should be selling what they can. Giants,
nervous face. That's what I just did on the YouTube.
If you watch their subscribe, I mean, they're not gonna
hard sell, right, I don't think they can, are they in?
(06:01):
I mean, I guess if they have an awful week
a week they have a great week, they're gonna buy.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Like I know, the the.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Player options make like Chapman and Snell specifically weird, but
they have they have other pieces and somebody would do it.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Giants, they're in purgatory. Padres are not like because then
I start playing the game. Well, if they lose their
next nine, well yeah, but the Padres also have their
chips on the table. I don't think they're in purgatory.
I think they're buying the Diamondbacks. I don't think they're
in purgatory. They won the World Series last year. They
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got to the World Series. Sorry, They've been playing a
much better brand of baseball. They haven't lost their last
sixth series. I think someone came out with there since
June first stats and they've been pretty good. Uh, the
Snakes were pretty banged up. They've got bodies coming back.
I think it's let it ride then. I don't think
they're in purgati. Dodgers not in purgatory. Reds I just
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gave a whole speech about them not being in purgatory.
I don't know. I'm gonna double check our purgatory list.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Cubs.
Speaker 1 (07:15):
I'm out on them too. Those teams need to sell.
And how about this, I guess this is where I
can I can plant my flag. I've been kind of
pro Reds this year. I've been kind of anti Cubs
this year. Cubs felt a little too cock sure, Reds
felt like they could be up and coming. Both are
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now a half game separated at forty seven and fifty
three or forty eight and fifty three. Both those teams
need to sell. Should they be in purgatory if the
Cubs win a couple of games, how about this. Cubs
are in purgatories, Reds are not. Those teams are operating differently.
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Cubs have given out a couple real contracts. I mean,
going back, Dansby showed a hap say ah, like they've
given out Bellinger. They've given out real contracts. I was
happy with my Reds, and they brought in Jamer They
did Montas on a one year. They did some moves,
But the Cubs are in purgatory. The Reds are not Reds.
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It's not the year Cubs. If you can have a week,
make your August fun. Pirates aren't in purgatory. As weird
as that is, because they said they're buying right.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Definitely not selling.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
I don't know what exactly they're gonna buy, but they
ain't in purgatory. If they're making any number of moves,
that's I think they're all gonna be adding to their roster.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
They cannot sell. You're not in purgatory. That's huge, Cardinals. No,
they've been cleaned for a little while. They win another
set this weekend. Brew Crew. No, not in purgatory. So
currently locked Giants and Cups. Giants and Cups disappointing Marlins. Nope,
(09:17):
they did one of the first trades. Could the Nats
be in purgatory? They can't buy.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
I don't think they're gonna be really he can't buy.
Speaker 1 (09:29):
I mean they just won three that It would be
really funny if in a week there is like a
W nine because in the NL that would have them
in the playoffs. I don't think they're in purgatory. I
hope it becomes.
Speaker 2 (09:42):
I don't think they're gonna be like hard selling.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
But I don't. I hope they become a fun part
of this exercise in a week, because they could. They
could put everything on its head. W three out of
the break. Who do they have coming up? Padres? I've
seen the Padres lose series, Padres Saint Loui, Arizona. Hey,
if they earn their keep against three teams fighting for it, maybe,
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but no, I'm not gonna put them in purgatory now.
They called up their top prospects. They can't buy the
idea of purgatory. Is you could go one way or
the other. Mats can't go the other. Mets purgatory, and
that's obvious.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
There's a purgatory team.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Mets fans live in purgatory. Fifty and forty eight. Jolly
spun it as a win win on Talking Baseball, and
I did like that attitude. Like if you're the Mets
and you get you trade some guys and you get
some packages, I think you just say, hey, all right,
this year was not the plan. Hopefully the next couple
of years of Mets baseball or what it's about. If
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they buy you say okay, hey we got here. Let's
win a couple more games and see something happen. CODEI sanga,
I think he's like rumored to come back this season.
Now where's he? He was on my article I was
reading earlier.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Not been a part of the are yet right?
Speaker 1 (11:04):
What I saying? What is this article? Season debut Friday?
So like, all right, that's adding a guy in theory.
Mets are in purgatory, but a positive purgatory. Jolly said,
at least.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
You can you can be happy either way, but doing
nothing would be crazy.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
I know a guy Braves Phillies, No, they're they're in
the game. So out of that, we've got Mets, Cubs,
Giants firmly in purgatory. If I was to make a
gray layer of purgatory, it would have the Gnats in
the Reds. But I mean, even that's that feels thinner
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than we think.
Speaker 2 (11:52):
And there's like a layer of like purgatory being between
just not selling whatever you can and fully selling your stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Yeah, which is what those two fall into it.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
We don't see either the making major additions or trading
for any sort of like rental.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Or if it was one of those charts you see
that it's like if you answer yes, go this way,
it's like a V chart, not the name of it.
One of your options need to be buyers at the
deadline to be in purgatory, and the Nats cannot be
buyers at the deadline. The Giants could, the Reds could.
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It would have to be long term. It wouldn't be
like rental.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
You can make smart trades.
Speaker 1 (12:40):
I'm keeping them out of perk, and that's what the
whole point is. If we did this episode on Friday,
the Reds would have been in perk. So maybe I'm
being a fool. Maybe I'm being a fool in the
American League as no Angels, no Texas Rangers. Yes, big
bull blown P. I'm pushing P. Remember that Mariners can't
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sell right tough John Boy Media.
Speaker 2 (13:14):
Day for the Mariners, there's there're gonna be parts in,
parts out, but they can.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
Though they can't sell Texas Rangers. Only team in that
division in purgatory. Astros are going. They are back in
first place. Seattle half tied with them, half not h
Halo's as dead. Okay, Al Central guard Dogs have been
Electric Twins. Electric should buy in some way, but it's
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got to be a cheap, cheap, cheap buy. The fight
between the Brewers, Twins and Guardians for Eric Fetti's seven
point five mil next year. Oh yeah, get your seventh
prospect ready.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yeah, Dodger, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
I think the bargain beIN teams. Although I did see
the only thing I was gonna say, the only thing
Jeff Passing did today to make my Wiener flinch, and
the fact I was going to say that into a microphone.
Thanks San Patrick, you were gonna say that. I was
gonna say that, And then I stopped trade draft. I
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went Flaherty to La He's an La guy. He's been
striking out, he's been punching tickets this year. That I
was like. My thought process was, the Dodgers need a
bona fide guy that could pitch in the playoffs, and
rental wise, they're willing to pay probably more than the
lower market teams because it's a pure rental. You're here,
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let's go that they might need playoff innings where I
don't know, not to be rue deerk Fetti. If you
trade him to the Dodgers, I don't I don't know
where he's gonna be come October. Is he going to
be primed for a playoff start? I think Jack Flaherty,
he's he's been in some big games where Jeff Passing
did that thing that I said, I wasn't gonna say.
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Uh he said Jack Flarity to the Brewers, and I
was kind of like, Ooh, I don't not see it.
That's kind of nice. That's a that's an aggressive Milwaukee move,
which we're constantly begging for because that's a guy that
could start a playoff game for them. So thank you
Jeff Passing for for one thing, doing that to my body.
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Back to Purgatory, White Sox are not in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
We know what they're doing.
Speaker 1 (15:41):
Guard Dogs, Twins not in purgatory. Royals not in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
Already of bot have purchased.
Speaker 1 (15:50):
They can't sell, although seven three in their last ten.
Me always loves when there's a buy sell team. No,
they're in. I think they have another easy series coming
up after sweeping the White Sox. Or no, excuse me,
they have the Snakes. Lies. There's been a lot of
lies said at this dinner table tonight. Oh, they got
another White Sox series coming before the deadline.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
They're good, they're buying.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
They've got a Chicago two step that I like.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
The Royals.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
Oh my god, it's jose McFly.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Word Nelly.
Speaker 1 (16:23):
That's me screaming at a man. You can't see pictured podcast.
Only Tough. Royals are not in purgatory. The Detroit Tigers are.
I'll tell you what. The Detroit Tigers, who just had
themselves another winning series against the Blue Jays. They won
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a Dodger series before that, they won a Guardian series
before that, they swept a Red series before that. If
the Detroit Tigers are at five hundred come the trade
deadline or over, I don't think they're selling. I mean,
maybe they'll do the retoolsy thing. But the Tigers at
one point they won ten out of twelve, and I
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think they're just looking for winning culture. But you're out
of the wild cards so hard I guess this is
a test for me beeps, because can the Tigers buy?
That feels like immediate regret, That feels like a media regret.
They can make.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Moves for beyond this season, depending who's around. I don't
see them acquiring any any rentals. They could do that
kind of trade, but still move off of like a
flairty who's a little bit found money for them.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
So this is I'm I'm trying to figure out in
my language of how I've been speaking, if they're not
gonna sell or buy, would they be in purgatory?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
They're not full buying.
Speaker 1 (17:59):
I don't know selling, that's tricky. I've now put myself
in a conundrum.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
But if they had an off, if they lost their
next five.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
Oh, they're hard selling.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So that's true. They are.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
If the Tigers remain hot, if they win their next
couple series, they've got a Guardian series. Okay, there's there's
a decent.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Announcer about this.
Speaker 1 (18:28):
It's a beautiful sport people. Here is your Detroit Tigers schedule.
Their fate is somewhat in their hand. Guardians for four. Hey,
if they handle that ownership in the GM has to
open their eyes a little bit. Minnesota for three, okay,
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Cleveland for two. Then it's the deadline. So that's nine games,
seven and two. I don't know there's a convo there,
especially against two teams in front of you. What I
wish their deadline was a couple days later. It's Kansas City.
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So they're facing Cleveland, Minnesota, Cleveland, Kansas City for the
next fourteen games, thirteen games. Their fate will be decided
during purgatory season. They're in Oh God, and they only
have no how on different websites it'll have the projected starters.
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They only have Scoobale Flaharty in Montero listed for the
next ten days. That's our guy, Cater Montero. Just a
reminder to everyone might like what just happened on the
screen from Venezuela and Austin Wells. Homer sure is how many?
How many runs? Does that score?
Speaker 3 (19:55):
Just one?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Oh, it's a solo homer. We'll take that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Three strikeouts in the first for the gangs.
Speaker 1 (19:59):
Yeah, yah, yeah, Yeah, Tigers are in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
That's good.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
I'm happy for them. And that's what a recent hot
streak does. Uh, finishing up in your American league, beast Orioles.
Yankees are not in purgatory. Rays are in a constant purgatory, right,
They're they're buying and selling. Yeah, if they win today,
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they're gonna be two games above five hundred. In the mix,
they're listening on both sides. I'll put the raisin perg Yeah,
blue Jays are not. Blue Jays are done done.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Blue's gotta just sell.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
Blue Jays are done done. It's over. It's jover. Blue
Jays are done. And that was the other thing in
passings article that you already know the effect it had.
We're going back to back Yankees, Wow, Wells and Volpi.
It was a live reaction. The future is now. The
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future is now.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Palm boys, Uh, Laddie.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
I think is has real rumors there. Everyone says the
Jays want to compete next year. Okay, you can't think
of your no idea where any of those contract talks
have gone. Laddie's value is up. I mean he is
a gem of a piece to trade for I think
a team could throw the crazy offer at them. Bishet
(21:30):
just got banged up again and hasn't been playing well
that the set's not going anywhere. People are still talking
about him like he could be the biggest piece of
the deadline. If you're the Blue Jays, you cannot possibly
sell where his value is at. Would you say the
Red Sox are in purgatory.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
It don't.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
I don't see him doing like real byes.
Speaker 3 (21:57):
But but yeah, it.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Would have to be full till. It would have to
be a full till losing sessh. Now they open with
three l's to the Dodgers. They're facing the Rockies, which
can be medicine can be weird.
Speaker 2 (22:19):
This Rocky series goes weird, They're like got buying.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
If the Rocky series goes awry, and this is supposed
to be the whole point of perg then they've got
Yankees and Mariners at home to decide what they're gonna do.
They're they can't sell.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
They can't sell.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
They're a weird team.
Speaker 2 (22:46):
As far as trying to figure out what they have
to sell. Look, if they wanted to just get value
on whatever, then sure they have pieces. But it's like
a weird group of guys that would be And like,
you're committing to being terrible the rest of the way,
and you're eight games over five hundred right now.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
I'm I'm not even gonna because they would have to
be so atrocious that it would it would be bad.
So if you're looking to add at the deadline teams,
you need to be rooting against. Tampa Bay Rays perg.
The Trait Tigers are pergan after after a big couple series.
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Texas Rangers are pergan. It's getting dangerous for them. New
York Mets pergy bad week and they'll hard cell they
might want that. Cubs pergan and Herbin. San Francisco Giants
(23:46):
pergan Santana. So it's a little less teams than I thought.
I think some lines have been drawn on the sand
I did I left out. I did leave out the
teams that would be outliers. If Pittsburgh somehow loses every
game for the next week, their hand gets forced a
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little bit. Same with Boston, kind of same with the Yankees. Like,
I know they're not gonna, but you can't start bringing
in those extremes yet. One team will probably do that.
One team will look up and it'll be a two
and eight and that'll decide their fate. That rhyme, yeah,
(24:29):
two and eight decide their fate. Maybe I'll add that
to my purgatory song. Just our guy tech Mike's throwing
the baseball in the lab over there. All right, we
did a little that. I will stop mentioning the past
an article. But there is one other thing of note,
(24:49):
because I really did Jack Flaherty to the brewers. That's
a power fit, but everyone Jack Flerty is a fit
with everyone right now. That's why he has to be traded.
That's why maybe the tires aren't in purgatory unless they
got a picture back with another year of control. But
that starts getting really tricky. MLD. Value wise, you get.
Speaker 2 (25:12):
Some guy who, like you know, can contribute to your
lineup for a couple of years, be a weird rental trade,
and like they can qualifying him if they think celerity
right now would decline that.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
I think, oh that's interesting.
Speaker 2 (25:29):
Or maybe he'd take it for one year of a
pay day and go for a big Either way, I
think everybody would be comfortable with it.
Speaker 3 (25:37):
The starting pitching is expensive.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
The other fun one that brother Jeff had because I've
mentioned the Rays are in purgatory. There they operate differently,
so maybe they shouldn't even be in purgatory. Passing put
a rose Arena to the Dodgers and that was like,
that was really cool in my head if they did that.
Randy's been swinging the stick better lately. Luckily my Yankees
(26:05):
got to be a big part of that help. So Hey,
I'm gonna be honest with you guys. It's a high
and tight one today. Not much. Oh, I have to
tell you about my weekend because some people like that,
and then we'll thank Dan big weekend. Went to Five
Iron Golf after work Friday, bang, trying to get my
(26:27):
swing dialed for my annual fantasy football golf trip coming
in bong. Five Iron great, A couple beers, fine, head
back for the Yankees. Game put on the Yankees Friday
night was cold game. They're winning, They've got a nice lead.
(26:48):
Before the game, I went to download NCAA football college
football excuse me on my PS four. Turns out college
football not compatible on the PS four. Well done PlayStation.
I sit there brooding for a couple minutes. I go, Okay,
what am I going to do? I said? You know what,
(27:10):
I'm a man. I like video games in a way.
They're a cheap, effective hobby in New York City. Yeah,
if you can stay in, that's a win.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It's a one time, decent payment. But you find one
game that you play it.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
Done, you start doing hours in city time, video games
become a decent hobby to have in your back pocket.
I say, I'm doing it. NC College Football. It's one
of my favorite video games I've ever played in my life.
It's probably the most hours I've put into a video game,
just because doing Dynasty modes and getting lost in it
and whatever. So I got it, watched the rest of
(27:45):
the Yanks game, fired it up late night grinding. San
Diego State got them in a good spot. Would have
liked to get a little better. A lot of slippery
ends to seasons. But you know, I think we want
a couple armed four versus bulls whatever. Had two job
opportunities staring me in the face. Oklahoma that had fallen
(28:07):
on mediocre times because they're in the SEC. Now college
football kind of wild or the U and I don't know,
I mean, we're playing college football. It's the video game
everyone's wanted that took over the U. We're grinding. We
had a good we had a good run in one
(28:29):
of the playoffs. I think we lost the championship game.
So we're still coming down from that, but we're really
establishing something and we'll see I don't even know if
there's another jump point I want to go to or
I admitted this earlier. I force won a bowl game.
I wasn't proud about it, but it really helped early
(28:51):
on at San Diego State to get me where I
want to be that I think I need. This was
my test Dynasty to see how it's going. I wish
the recruiting was just a little easier. You gotta click
a lot of buttons. It gets it gets very clicky.
Speaker 2 (29:04):
Seems like a lot of steps on there haven't.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
It's like one extra step. And the problem is I
hit the point where I turned on like auto recruiting
or yeah, whereas but you can't get involved like the
auto recruiting being on it usurps what you want to add.
So like there's this four star QB begging to come
to the U, and I was like, yeah, we need them,
(29:28):
and so I I would offer and then I forgot
I had autow on I would simm to the next
week and it wouldn't be there, and I'd be like,
you can't do that. So I don't know, we'll see.
I saw our guy, Blake Snell, was in our Jam
Gaming replies on the college football game. He didn't love
it so far. There was some constructive comments that were like, hey, dude,
they haven't done any patches yet, like this is literally
like this is version one of a game a decade later,
(29:51):
like we should be making some progressive steps. There are
some people being rude to Blake Snell in the comment, oh,
focus on baseball, get to pitching. He hit him with
some two young bruh, Real recognized, Real Snelly. So excited
to see some of my next steps with that game.
It's mostly probably just gonna be Dynasty Mode alone by myself.
(30:12):
We'll see interactive dynasties. Is that what people are doing
jam Warehouse. We'll see on the jam gaming channel. So
in between that, so, I mean, we're talking late Friday,
after the Yankees game, Saturday, wake up, start playing again? Obviously,
little kid on Christmas? What's that you said? Oh, Saturday,
(30:36):
we went to Luke Comb's concert, which was awesome. Sony
like hooked it up because we're like partners with them.
We're in a suite with This will matter to some
people with the Toast, the Toasters popular female podcasts. I
guess if I had to label it girl with No Job.
Speaker 3 (30:59):
So there's a podcast, yeah.
Speaker 1 (31:01):
Podcast we basically so some people were really jazzed up
about that. And the suite had like floor access, so
we would go. We saw like, we walked out on
the floor, saw someone that seemed to have like a
fake NCAA football pennies worth tent, Craig Pennington. That's not
his name. He ripped. We're on the floor for that.
(31:23):
The sun's up. We're on the field at MetLife. That
was pretty crazy just to like look around. It was
trying to imagine playing football on that and it's insane.
Literally like man in the arena. Yeah, went back up
to the suite for the the Guy before the performance,
(31:43):
a couple of drinks, some food, mixing it up in there,
making some friends, and then we went down for Luke
colmb's awesome. I'm not deep into Luke Combs collection, although
I did listen to his Fathers and Sons album because
you know, I'm not gonna lie to the people. Like,
if we're promoting it, I want to be in on it. Uh,
listened to it at the gym before the show. That
(32:05):
was a mistake because it's all songs about being like
kind of sad and like loving your pops. I don't know,
it wasn't exactly Jim fuege Jim. Yeah, that was a
little bit of a miss. But he's got the new
He's got a new song in the Twister movie No
One's Safe in Oklahoma something like that. That song is
like a power song that ripped fast car brought the
(32:28):
house down obviously. Uh, and just the chillerver Dude, we
got to he took photos with people like an hour
before the show. There was just like a quick moving
line on Sony like put us in it. So got
a pick with Luke Comb. So that's cool. But I
was really impressed. I was like, dude, he's doing this
before a show, like I want it, Like, especially after
(32:49):
interacting with players who like don't want to be bothered
two hours before they play a game. And yeah, we
were just told like he's that guy, like he he
loves the people, He's about it, he's a true man
of the people. Awesome show. Get back obviously, get back
on the recruiting trail for just a little bit. You know,
(33:10):
while they're sleeping, you need to be recruiting. Go to sleep,
wake up, just grind a little more NCAA football because
you need to. And then I went to my first
pilates class. It was just as one hundredth and I
told her at some point I would go. So we
(33:31):
went obliques and Cheeks class. Maybe the cheeks you're thinking of,
maybe not only guy in the class. Always a little
bit of a fear of mine. It was okay, got
really nervous. A couple of minutes in. We were really
hammering the core and I was like, I cannot do
this for forty minutes. Like no way. Turns out they
(33:54):
were kind of hinted hard at the start and getting
the hardest core out of the way sports where I
did decently. It's one of those workouts like the whole
time she's telling you the different adaptations they got, like
different power levies on there, it's like, okay, put too on,
take two off, so you adjust with that, and you know,
(34:15):
you just it's kind of like it's like yoga, like
speed yoga, where it's like Okay, if you want to
adjust and do something a little easier, you could be
on your knees for it, or if you want to
do the hard version, lift your right arm up. Had
a fine enough time, was expecting the worst. I told
the instructor that she really didn't like that. I was like, yeah,
(34:37):
you know, I'm expecting this to not go so well.
And she was like what, She's like, what kind of
mindset is that? Like it's nothing against you or this
what this is. But I've just been told this is
very hard that I could have a bad time today,
like the fact that she was taken aback.
Speaker 3 (34:54):
They always do that.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
I did a yoga class in high school or not
high school, in college that person come in once a
week and then they were doing that like mindset talk,
and I laughed because I was like, I'm not gonna
think positively about myself. And then at the end of
the at the end of the thing, she's like, you
laughed when I said to think positively before, but you
(35:17):
made it like, well, it wasn't about you at all.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I was gonna make yeah, this is a me thing.
Speaker 3 (35:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (35:24):
She was very bummed out by that. Mindset by me
went to New York diner after so pretty uh pretty
nice weekend. Crazy one, crazy summer weekend. I guess that's
why they call it summer. What huge app Wednesday, foolish
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