July 28, 2025 • 54 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Gambler.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You start, do what Mikey us. First off, before we
(00:36):
even talk anything, I owe you an absolute apology. This
has been what feels like over a year overdue. They
say you hurt the ones you love the most, or
ignore ignore the ones you love the most, And it's
been on me. As you could see the studios being renovated,
everything has gone away. Like even setting this up, I
(00:59):
was trying to find a camera that worked. You recommended
me not to use the camera above. It didn't look good.
So Mikey, yeah, we're here, baby, trade deadlines here. You
know how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's been one hundred and eight years. Man, it feels
like the Cubs won the World Series again. You know
I haven't. You know, Mike Powers is a hard man
to get a hold of. I think, give us a
shot network, But he's here, man, He's always here, He's
always doing something.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'll always be here for you, buddy. Oh promise that yo.
Speaking of the Cubs winning the World Series, did you
see that AI generated thing that like predicted the next
like fifty years of World Series winners.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I did. I saw the Savannah Bananas do win their
first World Series in like twenty years, and I was like, Okay,
I mean, if we're doing backflips and shit in the
in the outfield, I guess I guess that'll that'll help them.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But yeah, and as we speak right now, they're on
the CW and ESPN nationally, which is insane. But more importantly,
this weekend, over one hundred thousand people walked into Philadelphia
to watch that game, and I'll tell you I was
one of them. I'm proud to say that it was fantastic, dude,
(02:09):
absolutely electric, so much fun, a whole different spin on
the game. The ball's different. I immediately went over to
the concession stand bought one of the balls, just like
I feel it, grip it, get a sense of what
it was going on. But yeah, like you said, those
trick plays are sick man, and and some of those
kids like out there, I mean, they're as the average
salaries thirty dollars an hour, so they're playing for pride.
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But that thing, I mean, that's that's wwe like pay
per view type attendance. So and they're doing this throughout
the country and it's just it was a lot of fun.
They had a hot dog eating contest with Joey Chestnut
in right field while the game was being played. My
mind was just blown, like the fact that they're doing
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that and like there's no sense of like, yeah they
you know, screaming line drive might kill the god that
is Yey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, so sure, and that'll be the thing that takes
him out, which is the craziest part, not eating one
hundred hot dogars a day. But no, man, it's really
cool to kind of see what they're doing. And I
know a few guys like Meadows and obviously Liam Spence,
my Aussie from Australia who drafted by the Cubs straight
out of Tennessee. You know, he had the option of
going back home and playing overseas, going to Australia, or
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you know, riding it out here with the firefighters and
the Savannah Bananas organization. And I think it's really kind
of cool to see what he's been able to do.
Last fourth of July, we actually went to the Chicago
Dogs game. I don't know what league the Chicago Dogs
are in, but we were at the game and he
was playing for another team where you know, you're making
like ten bucks an hour pretty much. I can't quote
that being ten bucks, but it's not non dude. Yeah,
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and for I will say for it to be thirty
bucks an hour for the Savannah Bananas. I mean, I
don't even make thirty bucks an hour. I don't even
make twenty bucks an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So like, dude, for me, I do minimum wage. I
would play baseball anything for sure, But no, they're they're athletes.
I mean, the Bananas hit two home runs last night.
Uh you know, the Tailgeters looked like a great team too,
to the point where I was like, the next game
I go to, I don't want the Bananas there. I
want to learn about these other teams. And uh, you know,
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we have some allegiance to fire fighting, right your your family,
you're you're pretty much born in in a firehouse, right
from what I understand. And you know, we also got
germ who's out there protecting the streets of Leland, North Carolina.
So I'm like, I'm like, should that be our team?
And also are they going to go to Chicago eventually?
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Because the Chicago the Fireman Chicago Firemen sound freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Like, you know, so we do already have the Chicago fire,
but I'm sure they can they can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, Oh they'll make it happen, right, Like I don't know,
you could do like the.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Great Chicago Fires like something, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
What I mean. Yeah, they got yeah, they got to
figure something out. But these you know, and they bring
out like a ladder or something during their game. So
I started like diving into all these other teams and
I was just like, yo, this this is pretty crazy.
I mean it, dude, and like the amount of kids
that were there, like so it's like everybody wants to
say baseball's dead, it's an old man's sport. This is
bringing it back. And and I'm sorry, there's no other
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not even the NFL. We saw it with the XFL.
They're not selling out forty five thousand fans, you know,
on a random Saturday and then doing it back to
back on a Sunday. So, like I said, one hundred
thousand people went through. There's no other sport that's able
to do that right now. And Savannah Bananas have created
a niche where the whole world is buzzing the hottest
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ticket to get to give you an idea to go
to the Phillies game. It was forty five dollars to
get in to get into the Phillies Yankees game. To
get into the Savannah Banana game, it was one hundred
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but yeah, humble brag, humble plug.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No sure, but like also, I kind of just wanted
to point this out because I did see the movie yesterday.
It's no spoilers. It's just the entire plot of the
movie of Happy Gilmore too. They're trying to reinvent golf.
They're trying to make it quicker, they're trying to make
it more fun. There's a new league. It's the pros
versus this new era, and that reminds me so much
of the Savannah Bananas in that sense, like, you know,
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just like an Happy Gilmore. You know, these guys are
trying to show that, like, hey man, no one cares
about golf. It's boring, no one can watch it. I
want Happy Gilmore style golf where everybody just swinging and
dinging and doing their thing, and this is kind of
what the Savannah Bananas are in real life. So it
is kind of funny, like if we ever did get
to see, like you said that Chad GBT made the
Savannah Banana's World win the World Series in twenty fifty,
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Like what if the Savannah Bananas really did go up
against like retired MLB players like Ichiro Suzuki or some
of those guys who shout out Ichio by the way
made the Hawk.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Today so great.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But like, you know, if we did get to see
former legends face off against these guys, I do think
it would be like the craziest like spin of it all.
And I'm pretty sure like guys like Ken Griffy Junior
would still take all those guys deep, but it'd be
pretty fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Fair Like I I first glance, I was like, there's
not many hard hit balls. Honestly, it's a yellow ball,
so I'm colorblind, so it was so hard for me
to read. I was gonna, yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't
keep track of it, and it uh, you know it definitely.
I was like, man, like I was scared. I was
gonna like take one of the phase.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Man, you were trying to you were trying to catch
a home run ball, yo, I.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Brought so at first I was gonna bring my own glove,
and I was like, ah, that's corny. So I convinced
my daughter to bring her glove, and like, dude, I
don't know if you saw the highlights. She got to
play whiffle ball before in the little Citizens Bank field
that was all done up with bananas. But dude, first
pitch swinging over the fence, I was like, that's my girl.
So like she was timing it in the dug like
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on deck circle. She just she did her thing. And
then she's like, dad, give me her glove. I'm playing
in the outfield and she's you know, uh, you know,
catching some pop flys. So it was an amazing, amazing experience.
The Savannah bananas definitely made it a whole family event.
We got there, I was texting you, this has been
the greatest day I've ever had in this stadium, and
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it's we're three hours away from first pitch, you know,
and everything was an event. It just it felt good, man,
it was. It made me feel really good about the
sport of baseball and where it's headed and it just
for me, like it was probably one of the best
shows I've ever got to experience. And it is a
show and they call it a show, and you know,
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it's definitely like a circus. They do a lot of
stuff that is crazy. But as you mentioned, Hall of Famer,
you know, we talked about this a little bit before
we went live. These Hall of Fame hats are strange, dude,
or I mean, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Think some of them look cool. I think the White Sox.
I was watching Cubs, White Sox Crosstown right now. I
think that Ben Brown's on the mound, so the Cubs
totally could be losing since we started filming this, But
I think some of them look decent, Like the White Sox.
I kind of liked how the logo looked. Cubs still
look two to one top of the fits nice, but
you know, the Cubs one, it was just the Cubs,
you know what I mean. It's it's just the generic
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see with a Hall of Fame patch on the side,
and I kind of just wish it was a little
bit more fun. Maybe you do like the Cubby Bear
logo old I know, I kind of like them going
old school, but it doesn't really seem to be the
way of the Cubs right now, but I definitely, you know,
I feel like Chicago just doesn't switch things up a lot.
I think they liked their original how they are, and
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that's just how it is. Like I know a lot
of other teams play like play into it and have
a lot of fun. Team might suck, but at least
they have like cool merch, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You got to have the good merch when he sucks.
Shout out to the seven line. They kept us, you know,
on that trajectory of still being a fan when the
team sucked looked like the Mets hilariously, And they haven't
pulled this hat out in thirty years, which is mind blowing.
Uh you know, so I was ten the last time
they had had like this. But all they did was
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change the orange button the blue.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That's what I'm talking about, though. Bro. It's like it's
it's just like little stuff like that where I'm like, like,
I will look at the White Sox too, and I
know it's not the Hall of Fame, but like they
did team up with the Chicago Bulls because they do
have the same ownership, and they made those red and
black jerseys and they look clean, bro, and it's like
something special, And I think it's really cool when you
start to see like actual change, whereas with other organizations,
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like you said, it's like, oh, well, we've seen this
jersey before, but this time, like the patch is a
little bit lower, or this is a different color. And
it's kind of like I kind of want to just
go balls of the wall and just like do something
completely authentically you like whoever the designers are like, you'll
disrespect to anybody who works at Fanatics or anybody that
works anywhere. But sometimes I see some of these hats
and I'm like, you guys really do get paid to
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do nothing like that's that's really like. You guys sit
in the boardroom all off season and you're like, all right,
I've sat here for the last seven weeks and I
think we should just change the orange to blue. And
you're like, that's what you That's like I would be
if I paid you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, Like no, the giants they went for the stars.
I do not like theirs. Uh you like them? I
like just I think the script is weird, the ball
is weird. It changes colors, and again being colorblind, like
I could tell, like the G and the s are
different color than the inside. It looks like to me,
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I don't know, but it's just you know, for me,
that didn't hit, but then it made me pay attention that,
oh wait, this is like a Hall of Fame thing.
I will say, they hit it out of the park.
No pun intended with the July fourth hats. Dude, I
got that baby blue med hat. I'm I'm rocking it.
When I come down to your town, come up to
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your town, I should say shy town this weekend and
or next weekend, I should say. And dude, those hats
were just I mean they were they were beautiful. There's
nothing you could say from the rope on it to
the American flag inside the logo.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I was going to add, how do you feel about
the rope, because I know that's like something that's kind
of like not just with baseball hats, but like NFL
and NBA just hats in general. Everybody's kind of going
onto this trend about the rope on the top of
the lid. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't mind it, Yeah, I don't mind it at all.
Like I think it would be weird if I actually
had to play with it because I didn't like it
in the fitted for him. I had to get it
as a snapback. So I don't know if the players
would like it, you know, i'd have to play with
it a little bit more. But I do like that aesthetic,
Like I like change right, I like things changed up.
(12:37):
I would I want to rope on every major League
Baseball hat? Absolutely not, but if it made sense and
it paid homage to something like that'd be dope. Like
I wouldn't mind a traditional hat with like a pink
rope for breast cancer or a blue you know blue
rope when we do with Father's Day and for colon
cancer and stuff like that. Like I wouldn't mind changing
it up, but I would say that it has to
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be done right, and with this one it works. With
this one, it definitely works. Just adds a little bit
of more you know, patriotism to it for for any
lack of a better word or term. But I enjoyed
the hat and I had to go get it, and
I was like, yo, dude, I need this hat. Like
it just it's better than the Father's Day version that
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came out a couple of years ago. That I also
bought that was a power powder blue and it just
makes me. I enjoy it because it's still a med hat,
but I could blend in with that Chicago baby blues.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know, No, I dig it, I dig it for sure, yo. Man.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So there's there's a lot going on. Trade deadline, We've
had some moves. You know, everything is clicking on all cylinders.
There's a lot of teams still in it, obviously because
the trade deadline has been moved up to prevent people
from just doing complete fire sales. But you know, there's
there's a lot going on. I want to start with
your Cubs. Then we could talk about other transactions that
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have taken place, and then we can end it with
the Mets. But where do you see your team? Where
are you at and what can we expect from Chicago?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah? You know, when when you hear Derek Jeters say
on live television that he sees the Yankees beating the
Cubs in the World Series, it's a good feeling. And
I recently texted Bert that because we were talking about
it when the Cubs and Yankees faced off against each other,
and I was like, yeah, man, even just being in
that conversation of being in the World Series, Like, this
is a team that hasn't made the playoffs in a
few years, so, you know, and the last couple of
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years it's like, right at the end of the season,
you know, we blow it away, and that's kind of
just been you know, this repeated history and the narrative
of this club specifically where it's like, you know, man,
like these group of guys the second half of the
year kind of just fall apart. And some of that's
on Preig Council, some of that's on Seya Suzuki, and
that's on everybody from top to bottom. Definitely Dani Swonson.
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But this year, man just felt different. The first half
of this year, the addition of Kyle Tucker, it really
did just you know, expand the horizons of everybody else
in this lineup from one to nine. You know, you
got guys like Carson Kelly out here hitting Barry Bonds
the first month and a half of the year. PCA
who I you know, you know, I've been huge on PCA.
I was there for his first Triple A game in Iowa,
drove all the way down there, covered him his media
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hit a Grand Slam in his first game as an
Iowa Cub in the middle of the moin, by the way,
which there's nothing to do in the moin, but it
was It was a cool experience, nonetheless, but to see
him two and a half years later really come into
this guy. Who I mean, he's having a forty forty season.
He's on paceball right now, He's at twenty seven home
runs over twenty five stolen bases. Like, he's been incredible,
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lights out defense. The only thing is the Cubs rotation
and honestly still still that bullpen, because you know, I
love Jed Hoyer. He's a theo Epstein guy, but like
he always pulls some guys out from their couches, he
always pulls some guys out of nowhere of double A,
triple A from somewhere that nobody else wanted to tinker with.
First half year, they're always great, second half they're not.
I do think there's guys out there, a Mason Miller,
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Emmanuel class a Badard I believe it's not. Binar from
the pie Ritz is also available as well. From a
reliever standpoint, would definitely want another arm. But the big
line for me with the Cubs is really just that
starting rotation man you have Justin Steele out for the
year Mississippi Fastball with Tommy John surgery. Definitely miss his presence.
Jameson Tyone is gonna be out for a little bit longer.
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I think he just had some kind of strain, if
I'm not mistaken. But you definitely need another arm man
because guys like Ben Brown, who we got from Philly
just a couple of years ago for Dave robertson the
shout out Dave Robinson by the way with the Phillies.
But you know, it's it's one of those things where
I want a guy. Just to name a few. Edward Cabrera,
right handed pitcher from the Marrow, had a three point
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forty eight e R this year, seventeen starts. He's been
great and he's under control until twenty twenty the end
of twenty twenty eight, so twenty twenty nine. I really
like that. There's a guy, Adrian Houser. We saw him
the other day for the Chicago White Sox. Not a
huge band. And listen, the Cubs are playing the Socks today.
So I'll say it, kids, dog shit, he's just having
a really good year. He's over thirty years old. This
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is his last year of control, so I'm not trying
to deal with that. So Edward Cabrera really is the
big name. I know everybody wants Sandy Alcantra, but I
just don't see it from him. After coming back from
Tommy John, I don't think he's gonna be a legitimate move.
We'll talk about the Mets in a little bit, but
I think the Cubs and the Mets and maybe even
a couple other teams will be on the hunt for
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Mitch Keller from the Pirates. I think that's a guy
through control for twenty twenty eight. I definitely think he's
another guy you could really go out there and say, hey, man,
look shitty team, bad place to be. But if we
can get him in the right organization, you could definitely
have a really great picture out of him. He has
a fWAR of two point six this year, so like,
that's really cool. It's balling even though the Pirates are horrible.
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So I definitely do I want to see the Cubbies
get some arms. I think the offense is perfect. I
don't want Suarez. I don't. Yeah, I gotta make that
clear because I see the comments every day. I don't
want a third basement. I believe in Shawsey. I think
Shawsy's gonna have a Miguel Amaya twenty twenty four second
half caliber season or at PCA of the second half
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of last year where you really kind of started to
pick it up and you're you're more proud of them.
It's interesting, though, man, to see like how things are
gonna unfold. But uh, I definitely think it starts with
the with the starting rotation for the Cubs. If not,
you know, I think they're gonna be in and out
of October very quick.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, look, I that I got excited either way. Like
one you mentioned theo Epstein, that's the one list that
I wish came out is his list of who we
should be going after. But in all seriousness, dude, that's
spot on. The Cubs should just hire you right now.
I'm just saying, but I'm definitely You know.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
How many times I was like we should sign this
guy and then like you're horrible, and I'm like, oh,
never mind.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well you when when the Mets went through all their
trades man and they got rid of ever the house
they cleaned house, you were the only guiding light that
was reassuring me that these guys that they're bringing in
are rock stars, and I'm absolutely thankful one for you
as a baseball brand, but also my friend, because I
was ready to jump off something I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I mean, it's probably cure like, but Jon, we wouldn't
be we wouldn't be doing an episode together if I
didn't mention Drew Gilbert right now too. And the Mets
need another bat at the trade deadline. Kids hit four
home runs in his last three games. He's in triple
A for a little bit of time, like Gilly Goo.
I need Gilly Goo in a Mets uniform today. It
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is electrifying.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You know what always scares me? And this happens in Metsland.
I want to know if it happens with your team
or any team. But it always feels like our guys
get injured and then they come back around the trade deadline.
So ownership tries to convince you, like, no, it's like
we acquired four new players because Sanga's back, you know,
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you know, Blah blah Blah's back, whoever it is. We
have Francisco Alvarez back, like and it's like, you know,
Sean Manet is back, and.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Just get owned and They're like, here's your starter that
you're looking for, and it's like, yeah, we still needed
one when he was here, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
What I mean, yeah, exactly exactly, Like that's that doesn't
get me excited. Like so when the Mets brought in Cesspitis,
and they also brought in you know, a ton of
other like key players like third baseman. I can't remember
his name right now, and that's that's embarrassing. But it
was it was dang, dang, who cares, Let's move on.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It was just like it felt like the right transactions, right,
and it obviously sparked the rest of the team. David
Wright comes back, you know, Daniel Murphy starts hitting the ball.
But Cesspaenis was that nucleus that we needed at that time,
and it was a big spend and uh, you know,
and I don't think the Mets need something like that,
but I do think the other team in New York
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needs a Cesspetis type signing. And so I've been looking around.
Uh you know, I looked at Brian Hayes because, h
that is that is my daughter's number one favorite player
in the world. And yeah, yeah, man, that's it. That's her.
She no one.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
No one can say anything about Peyton being a bandwagon
because that is the most genuine that's my favorite player
I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, she she checks on she checks up on him
like she she'll as for his stats. She wants to
know when we're going back to Pittsburgh like that is her, dude,
And I'm not mad at it. Uh, you know, She'll
randomly tell me like he's gonna hit him run today.
I've won three of those four bets, like it's some time.
I tell my daughter, Uh no, in all seriousness, it's
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just you know, she she likes him, and it's, uh,
it's kind of cool because his dad played for the Mets,
and that's that's cool for me. So I'm not mad
at that at all. You know, Mason Miller with the A's,
everybody's talking about him. Everybody wants him, and I think
the funniest thing about the A's is they do have
a lot of young talent, but there are rebuilding and
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the Mets have some key things. So I see a
lot of people going looking at these teams thinking they
could just rob them. And you know, even with the Marlins,
that's same case scenario. Like everybody thinks they could just
keep buying play like all stars from from them, So
look man like it. There's there's so much going on.
But if if the Yankees what they did, they got McMahon,
(22:17):
which I think is a great addition. I'm not mad
at at all. I'm at Rosario. I loved as a
New York met Uh you know in part of the
in door trade. It was a bummer he had to go.
He's gonna be great, but he could play everywhere. For him,
he's mister utility. Reminds me of a Jeff McNeil type player.
Maybe not doing as well as some would like the
(22:39):
last couple, you know, at least this season, and a
little bit of lass. But I mean for the Yankees,
that's these are these are two really good transactions so far.
Do I think it's enough? Absolutely not, Like especially with
Aaron Judge, as you know, going into onto the I
l they're saying it's.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Not from what I read that his UCL is intact.
And then there's just other issues obviously, But like when
you hear that a guy can't even make a throw
from the outfield the routine, just like, hey man, let's
just let's just throw the ball around you know, it
reminds me so much of Bryce Harper prior to his
Tommy John surgery, and you know, obviously that ultimately has
made him first basement Bryce Harper. I saw a kid
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the other day tweeting that he's one of the best
first basement they've ever seen, and like, still hearing that
Bryce Harper's a first basement, I kind of just like,
it just don't sit right with me. Man. I was
just like, Bryce Harper's an outfielder, but like whatever, right
right right, the first basement. But like I'm always like
that's I didn't grow up with that. That's weird. Like
if Mike Trout was ever just like I'm a first
basement now, I'd be like no, no, brother, Like you're
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you're no, You're You're captain centerfield every day. But yeah,
I don't know. The judge situation is interesting. You kind
of brought up the a's I look more of like
a Brent Rooker to be that if they're not interested
in a guy like Jones. Jones has been incredible in
Triple A so far for them. I really think they
should give in the shot. They already have him in
Triple A. But Brent Rooker who's thirty. You know, I'm
(24:04):
really big on Lawrence Butler Nick who six for six
with four home runs the other day. Man, he was incredible,
really hurting the ball, no pun intended, but he's doing it. Man.
And then obviously you have a guy like Jacob Wilson,
who is one of the best young shortstops in the
game right now. So they have a nice young core.
But Brent Rooker being thirty thirty one years old going
into next year, you know, you definitely can say, hey, man,
(24:27):
if the Yankees can give us some top prospects to
continue to build on that, you know, you can definitely
make some moves because like when you look at a
guy like Mason Miller, like the Mason Miller stuff just
doesn't really make sense to me because you look at
his contract and you look at how old the kid is.
He's still super young. He's gonna be under arbitration until
twenty twenty nine. He's unrestricted free agent in twenty thirty. Like, bro,
if I'm the A's and this kid's twenty five and
(24:49):
I have him until twenty thirty, I can wait, Like
I'll wait until Like you just keep doing what you're
doing and we'll try to get the offense around you
to be able to do that. And really, I think
they have that offense now. They really just need the
starting pitching behind it. So a guy like Brent Rooker
to New York could be really interested, in my opinion,
but I think they kind of I mean New York
kind of has that problem, which is a good problem
(25:10):
to have where you have so many outfielders in this system,
and also on the field. You know, you have Gihn,
Carlos Stan, Cody Bellinger, you know you have all the
Aaron Judge, you got Jones and Triple A. You have
a million different guys in that outfield. I really don't
think they have to go out of their way to
get anything. And if Judge does miss a significant amount
of time, with where they are right now, I mean, Mike,
(25:31):
I might you know, Garrett Coles out for the year,
you still got Marcus Stroman on the bump once every
five days. Like at some point I might just say,
you know, man, we're just gonna play out this season.
I wouldn't even make any moves. I would just see
how it all folds out.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
No, they're like half a dozen games out of out
of first right now, right not doing well, lost the
series to the Phillies. We'll see see how the rubber
game goes as it's going on right now. But the
one thing that I would share is like, yeah, I agree,
Like you scared the living daylights out of me when
you just mentioned Harper and Judge in the same kind
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of trajectory.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I didn't even put that together until you said that.
So now I'm like, oh, no, you know, like I.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Got I got the fucking I got the guy. I
got the fucking guy in fantasy. So like I'm over here,
like I traded. I traded Chris Saal and Juan Soto
back in May for for Aaron Judge, and now I
have show Hay and Judge. So I'm like it's over.
It's gigs, Like I'm winning this league. It's it's not
even a conversation. And like when I saw a Judge
go down, like my heart sunk into my ass and
(26:37):
I was just like, oh my god. And I'm literally
like it because it said day to day and I
was like, Okay, it's day to day. No one's gonna
notice it. I'm gonna try to trade them, and I
hit up some people and they were all like, I
don't want that, Tommy John, and I was like, oh no,
I'm gonna cry if I lose them.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, I'm worried.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Man, I really do see it. You know. I kind
of did a video that I'm like that. I kind
of did a video back in April kind of discussing
the situation with Justin Steele and everybody just kept saying
it was elbow inflammation. He had that problem back in September,
and he kind of, you know, babied it throughout the
off season. He didn't last until mid May. Bro like,
(27:18):
and I saw it. The writing was on the walls.
And with Judge, it's kind of the same thing where
it's like, you know, you know you avoided it with
Sean Manaia, and I really like it can be done
that you can avoid it. But yeah, it's just like,
are you gonna sit him for four weeks just so
that it happens again? And then now you're delaying the recovery.
You could have been four weeks ahead, now you're four
weeks behind. It's it's risky business man. Me personally, I
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shut them down the rest of the year. That's me.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But you what do you think, yeah, I mean, if
if that's the case, like and like you said, you're
playing with house money right now. They're still in a
wildcard position. Wildcards now matter just as much as winning
your division. So if there's an opportunity, that's definitely conversations
they gotta have. The fan base is not happy with
Cash right now. So like, honestly, like Cashman's playing the
(28:05):
cards probably a little harder than he should be, because
maybe he's worried about his job, or or his legacy
or even just maintaining, you know, his position with the Yankees.
I mean, you know, he's just.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Crazy because he just like you know what Mike Powers
would do just to go to the World Series last
I know, I know, I'm worried about my job. We
just made it through the World Series. We lost the Avengers,
like the Bronx.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
The Bronx spurns if it rains, dude, Like you know
what I mean, Like it's just like they can't have
a normal season, they can't have a question mark. Like
the fan base is just so turmoil. It's why I'm
glad I bleed orange and blue, you know, And there
is an alternative in the city, and you know, and
I'm just proud I was brought up in that, you know,
speaking of that orange and blue. The Mets just when
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dos Soto, Baby, I love this transaction. A left hand pitcher,
Jeremy Hefner is is a god amongst pitching coaches. I
loved him as a player, I love him even more
as a pitching coach, like this is the best guy
to get and let Jeremy do his thing. Let Hefner
do his thing and figure him out. You know, I know,
(29:11):
working in Philadelphia, I knew so many writers, journalists, friends
that love Sodo, loved the idea of him, would die
on a sword for him, and it just didn't work
out all the time. But to have him, you know,
activated with the New York Mets and traded to the
New York Mets, I'm so excited for Dose Soto. And
you know, everybody making the jokes like the Mets just
(29:33):
signed Soto, it's like, yeah, no, no crap, that's old news.
Well it's it's new news again, so for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But so you bring in all of that though, And
I do kind of want to ask you because Sanga
has been incredible and I know towards the second half
of last year, you and every other Mets fan. I know,
we're kind of like off the Sanga train where it's like, yo, bro,
you don't you don't want to pitch like in October,
you don't want to be here for us, like and
it kind of like rubbed you guys the wrong way
in a sense. He's had a great years so far. Man,
(30:01):
are you back on the Sega train? And and in
full belief that come October Sanga's ready.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I just look like his his legs tend to he
injures his legs more than any pitcher I've ever seen
in my life, like honestly, and also those first two
innings are like horrifying, Like it's like he never better
nerfy if he's pitching. I'm just telling you, like because
he's gonna load the bases up before he gets the
first out. Like it just feels like, yeah, I can
(30:26):
only relate it to John Franco when he would close deals,
like close games, he would turn around, uh, load the
bases up, just give you a heart attack, even when
he you know, he has the most saves ever as
a met or whatever, at least at his time when
he you know, retired, but with Senga. It's that same
same type of vibe where like his stuff is nasty,
but it's like he he struggles to get out, so
(30:50):
like he puts people on base, he does things. But
I am the era is amazing this year. His pitching
is amazing. I was never again, I was just hurt
that I wasn't getting more.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, it was just like, are you really not gonna
play for us in October kind of thing? You know
what I mean? Like that was I mean, you guys
had a chance to go to the World Series last year.
You know, that team was like you know, Chef always
has a team of destiny, like they that group had
everything going for them. And for him to just kind
of opt out of that, I think and maybe not
you personally, but I know a lot of people he
rubbed them the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, I mean I was happy to see him play
in Philly for the postseason. I mean, even though he
gave up a shore bomb in the first you know,
and then we ended up winning that game. So he
was very very you know, he missed the first first series,
was activated for the NLDS. He he did his thing.
It was amazing, and I you know, I wasn't mad
(31:43):
at the scenario, but again that first inning, if you
go back and watch it, I mean runners on first
and second, Sharver hits home run. It just felt like
we're not even gonna win a game. And you know,
obviously the Mets took the entire series and only lost one,
took it three to one. Phillies couldn't even take it
to game five. Shout out to Philadelphia. But you know,
(32:04):
it was you know, for me, Sega is I'm excited,
like he's a unique pitcher. The ghosts uh, you know,
forkball is insane, and I just I think he's he's
a fun human being and I want to watch him play.
So if I was upset, and and if if if
I portrayed myself upset, it was just it was fear
(32:24):
of missing out on on once in a lifetime opportunity,
Like you said, for sure, Now.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
What do you got to get to get there? Bro?
That's like because for me, like that's where I'm at.
I'm like it's starting or bust for the me too.
And who are guys that are kind of like on
your radar right now?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
So so like it's it's so hard to say because
like it's like, you know, the fan base is so stupid, right,
And I love New York Mets fans and I love
like listening to it. But they call him to w
FA and hey, hey, why can't we get Jacob to
goron back rangers on doing that great? It's like, dude,
that stuff's not happening. So I think it's it's going
to be that White Night, because like I would have
(33:02):
never put Cessamadis on the Mets in twenty fifteen, like
I would have never bet that in my life. So
I don't want to Chinx anything.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I told myself, I wrote a note ready here, do
not Jinx, do not be like I was right, Like,
I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I want.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I want Stevie Cohen invested in this team in two ways,
one front office right, getting the right guys, like, you know,
our version of what the Cubs did, our version of
what the Red Sox did. Getting the right analytical brains,
the right guys in the thing that will know, hey,
this guy's a game changer, and I'm gonna let that
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happen and kind of sit back as a fan because
I don't want to Jinx. You want to talk about
any other team, I'll jinx the you know what's out
of them. But I do not want to jinx this
New York Mets right now because we need starting pitching.
I don't know where that is. I get a little
fandom there too. You know, you mentioned stro I would
love to see Strowman in orange and blue again. I mean,
I know that's not gonna happen, but I'm in them,
(34:00):
you know, I love them, but.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's just it's time. It's time.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
It's time. Yeah, I guess so. But then you look
at like clubs, like who's on the A's. Uh that
was on our team, Batantas Dylan you know, damn yeah,
the starting pitcher that was on our team last year.
Why can't I remember? Oh man, people are screaming right now. No, no,
(34:32):
Sev Severino. Oh yeah, bro, bro, I would love Sev
to be on the Mets.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And look like they sevee got paid well by the A's.
It's it's a good contract both ways. Uh, you know,
but the Mets could absorb that. So the A's are rebuilding,
we got some players. We could definitely take him, like,
I would love that, you know. And we talked about
Miller earlier. I don't. I don't mind that either, but
the A and and again I'm doing exactly the fans.
(35:00):
Do you look at these teams and you just assume
they're all selling and it you know, for me, it's
it's it's not a matter of I just want to
be wowed by the deal like I do. And you know,
so I don't know, but yeah, I would love to
see a reunion in New York with sev.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I definitely could dig it man. And for for Peyton Powers,
I would love Key Brian Hayes to join the organization.
But also I think Suarez is in that conversation too.
He's been able to do an Arizona man. I mean,
he's hitting bombs left and right, you know, not that
baby and Viento's aren't doing their job. But they're not
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, so everybody everybody in Philadelphia Land was talking about
no Viento is being like that that thorn in their
side for the next ten years. So this is a
sophomore slump. I do not want to see the Mets
trade him because of this, so I do.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, That's kind of where I'm at with it, though. Bro,
It's like you have a guy like Suarez, like just
because of the situation right now with like the Dodgers
not playing as well the Brewers. Who I mean, hey, look,
I don't know who's a bigger rivalry right now, the
Mets and the Brewers or the Cubs and the Brewers.
You guys really made a statement last year with how
you guys finished that off in the playoffs, which I
loved it. You know, Polar Bear Pete did his thing
(36:17):
to send that home. And you know, a guy like
Devin Williams hasn't been the same since. But you know,
it's it's definitely something where I believe in Viento's because
of you like because of it, and also just MLB
the show the kids cracked. But you know, I think
when you bring in Suarez for a year because he's
on a one year deal, you know he's gonna, yeah,
at the end of the year, a man, if you
can help us win this year, We've done that. We've
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done that, Like Viano's, it's yours every year after this.
But right now.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Shades a hobby by ads if that happens, Like Schwarrez
has thirty six home runs, eighty six RBIs right now
he's due first slump, you know, where he could slump
in Queens like I'm I'm so scared of that. Like honestly,
just just off of the hobby by ass conversations like
you know, and shout out to the hobby right now
an all star. We didn't get to talk about that
(37:08):
at all. And I'm so happy for him and all
of Detroit right now. The Tigers are on fire and
talk about resurrecting your career, and it couldn't happen to
a better ball player, couldn't happen to a better person.
I know how much you liked Biass. I did enjoy
his time here. People will be look, oh we did
the thumbs down movement. It's like, yeah, you guys were
a bunch of assholes, like stop. Like our fan base
(37:29):
was was yeah, like Ron Keith and Gary in the
booth like begging the fan base at that time to
be nice, like it was just like addle control, like
writing letters to the fans saying like, hey, can we
be a little bit nicer, like we don't want to
be like the guys in the Bronx, like you know,
and it was just like the fan base was so
turned like you know, and I get it, the thumbs
(37:50):
down thing. It was an inside joke. I think the
press in New York. I know the press in New
York tends to take a make a mountain out of
a molehill. And that's what they did there. And you know,
it sucks because like imagine, Hobby was still on this team, Like,
and I get it took him a while to get
back to where he's at, but this is so cool. Man.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, I thought it was over. I really did. And
and like, yeah, year was his first time back at Wrigley,
and I got the privilege to meet his mom and
his brother because I was doing a partner up with
a T shirt company and we were just handing out
I Miss Hobby or Bias t shirts. I was walking
around the stadium, we were interviewing people like what's your
favorite Hobby or Bias moment? And the city still like
engulfing him. And even when Rizzo came back to Like
(38:30):
I cried when Anthony Rizzo came back, and like it
was like such a huge thing for me because like
I just loved him so much growing up. Same with
Hobby and and KB too. When KB came back, Like
you get emotional about these guys, you know what I mean. So,
like you when you see that kind of stuff happen where,
you know, especially like you know, Hobby Bias his career
got resurrected, but Rizzo's currently still looking for a job.
You know, you got Chris Bryant, who you know, signed
(38:53):
with Colorado and was never seen again. And it's just
like one of those things where it's like, you know,
not everybody does get that storybook finished. Everybody does resurrect
their careers. So to see that happen for Hobby and
to see that picture of him and PCA together as
both the starting center fielders in the All Star Game
was pretty crazy, especially because Hobby never in my life,
if I ever seen Hobby play in the outfield prior
(39:14):
to being a Detroit Tiger, it's just and and like,
you know, MLB kind of did, like, you know, we'd
be like, oh, look at this elmgo play. Look at
this magical play by Hobby in the outfield. Then it
would be like a routine fly ball and I'd be like,
I don't know, but he's hitting that lights out the ball. Man.
I'm really happy for him, bro, But yeah, man, that's Hobby.
(39:35):
I know you're sick because Pc a man and then
Hobby it's it's.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
No that was hugging, hugging at the All Star game.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
But when you.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Total though, Mike, I can't you get he's not an
All Star, Mikey, he's not good enough.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
That's that's a whole different.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
So even how he being an All Star, I was
kind of like, a, yeah, Clayton was cool though that
miked up situation and him throwing like like he was
throwing out there miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah that was that was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
He's like he's like check this out like it was
so great and yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
No, that's just me as a Cubs fan that like,
I actually hate Clayton kersh everything about him as a person.
It's a he's a great guy, sure, but he he
was that Cubs killer for years. Every time I see like,
get off my screen.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Bro, Yeah no, I agree, I agree. You know what
did you think of the Like the home Run Derby
was dope? Like I'm not gonna lie, I love I
could watch that stuff. Shout outs to Todd Frazier. Just
the Homeroom Derby X, which I want to sink my
teeth into I just reached out to Home Room Derby
to see if, like, hey, is there there a way
we could help, like elevate this thing or talk to
(40:56):
the players promote it, like because I didn't even know
where to watch on TV. I don't even know if
you could watch it on TV. But I saw the
highlights on socials. It's pretty dope. They hit from the
third base, literally third base. There's rules, there's it's a
smaller like area where you can hit the ball. And
I think they play defense too. I saw the guys
with gloves. I don't know, but I want to, Yeah,
(41:18):
I want to really find out what the heck is
going on with this. They incorporate softball, female softball players
into it, so they have legends on that side. So
it's yeah, it's a really dope thing. But the All
Star Game ended in a home run, you know, swing
off and what's your feelings?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
I mean, it was really cool, man, And I think again,
like I'm just gonna continue just fan boying out. But
I did get a chance to work with Schwarber's neighborhood
heroes earlier in the year. I worked for Schwarber's Foundation
for a day and I you know, when Philly was
in town, I got a chance to walk around and
ask everybody their favorite Kylee Schwarber moment, Phillies and Cubs fans,
and to just know, like what an amazing human being
(41:55):
Kyle is and just like the type of person he's been.
You know, he got his thousandth career hit the other day,
which I thought was insane to think that it's just
been that long since the catcher in Iowa for the
Chicago Cubs turned into an outfielder. You know, everyone always
judged him for his outfielding. He was a catcher his
entire Like, yeah, yeah, he looks like a catcher. I
don't want to hear any of it. Like he's built big,
(42:16):
He's a stocky guy, like he lost all that weight
to be in that outfield. And now you you know,
Washington was a shit show. Boston. Boston was okay, but
it was just like to see him finally find that
home in Philly. Man, I really do hope at the
end of the season, man, they give him his Duke,
because I mean, he he has been that Philly staple.
I feel like, you know, Bryce Harper is one of
(42:37):
them too. If Bryce Harper does a lot in the
community from what I've heard, but like him and schwarbs Man,
I mean, they're they're incredible people. Never seen a walk
off like that. I missed the game, but I missed
most of the game. But then I get home and
I turn it on and they're they're going into extras
and I'm like, all right, cool, and it turns into
this like you know, went swing off and I'm like, well,
(42:58):
where's Judge? You know, why, why is why is Aronda?
Why is Aronda batting? And they're like, oh, Judges on
a plane right now, probably right like yeah me he left.
Like they're like, oh yeah, these guys are in street
clothes right now or they left, and I'm like in
my head, I was like, I don't care if they're
in street clothes, tell.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Me ye, get them out, get them out and their
flip flops, like, let's see it.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
I would love to see that because it would give
you like this like backyard baseball type of like vibe
to it, which is like shout out back in baseball,
by the way, but oh, dude, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Shout out to you.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
It was cool, bro, It was a cool swing off, bro.
And I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't think
we see it again for a few years because it
was very hard for that to even be that situation,
but so true. I would just next time. I think
every single player should stay. Every player should be uniformed
up in the dugout, just waiting, because if we would
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have got like Schwarbs versus Judge and like all these
big home run power bats just going off in a
swing off like that would have like Schwarps hit three
home runs in a row, that's awesome, but Judge would
have smacked the dog the dog out of like thirty
of them, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, yeah,
I would have loved to see that. Like Aronda, I mean,
what's he's a two ninety plus hitter, like great contact guy,
(44:14):
guy has like ten home runs on the year. Why
was he in the swing off? You know what? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, No. It felt like the minute you announced the lineups,
like I was like, oh, the animals winning this right.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Over and you know, guys like me and you were
like we won it.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Never. Yeah, we haven't won any I.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Never All Star Game. The National League always loses. It's
like in my life, I've seen like three or four
times the National League has won.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I think yeah, and I think I think that would
be an exaggeration, like honestly, like yeah, I don't even know.
I don't even know. Like it feels like they've won.
It's like the Braves in the nineties, Like they always
won the NAL East. So like yeah, and then lost
the Yankees in the World Tiers. But I digress it. Like, dude,
I liked it. I was a little like, you know,
(44:58):
Peter a Lonzo hit a real three run home run
during the game, and like, if Diaz is able to
close the door and save that impossible situation that they
put him in. If he was able to do that,
you know, Pete's the MVP. So and then Pete doesn't
even get the bad in the swing off because Schwartz
did his thing. But the coolest picture that we will
(45:20):
have for the rest of our lives is Pete and
schwarb are hugging it out, and like, this is what
scares me. Man. Bryce Harper allegedly or reported that he
went hard for Pete this offseason because of the fact
that he wanted to get back into the outfield. I mean,
and Pete's playing a damn good first base right now.
He just saved the game last night with a jumping
(45:43):
line drive catch, which is insane. You know, he had
three great plays that games. He's been on fire ever
since everybody mocked him for that throw to plate. So like,
I think everything happens for a reason, and clearly right now,
Pete's playing a really, really solid, underrated first base and
I'm really proud of him. Dude.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
I did want to hit you with one last thing
before we get out of here, though, because I feel,
just like David Wright, that Pete Alonzo wants to be
a Met for life. But I feel like there's a
level of it to where it's like you can't get
lowballed twice, you know, And I think this last contract
was like, hey man, you just got to prove it
to us, even though you know, I think many MET
(46:22):
fans would say he did prove a big pay day,
especially in that playoff series, and to only get a
two year deals, it's kind of crazy. Do you see
a world where Pete would accept another, you know, not
low ball offer, but if it's not the best offer
on the table, you think Pete would leave?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Yeah, I think it gives me shades of like Piazza
with the Dodgers. You want to be a Dodger for
the rest of his life, right. I do think if
the Cones can make it happen, they will. I think
we're in the best case scenario because of everything that
happened with David Wright and that retirement, and dude, I
was crying that whole weekend we were going to do
a show. If that was today, I would be buckets
right now, man, like it would just be. It was rough,
(47:00):
and it was great to see and it was awesome.
Cliff Floyd looks like he could get out there and
play right now. You saw I dm that to him.
I love that man. He's He's been a great person,
just in a baseball mind. Their interview is so touching.
Cliff killed it interviewing one of his best friends. But
it just goes to show, uh, he's got a new talent.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Man.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
And you stay at Dingers in New York and Chicago
now and now in Florida and now he now he
talks that talk man on the MLB Network And I
love every second of it. But I hope Pete is
a met for life. But those are gonna come far
and few in between. Nowadays, like having a lifetime player
is going to be something that you'll never forget. And
(47:43):
I'll be very lucky if I get two of them
in my lifetime, you know, So that'd be dope. And
you know, he's he's breaking all the MLB Mets records.
You know, he's arguably the stats are starting to rack
up to where you could almost start looking at you know,
does this guy go to Cooperstown? You know, like he
could he could get hot, he could get hot. And
I know, like first basement numbers are inflated because the
(48:06):
steroids and most steroid users were at first base. Shout
out to smarting Wire, but you know, it's it's tough
to really figure out a way that I'm certain until
I get told that. You know, the twelve year deal,
there's some crazy astronomical deal with no opt outs that
Pete alnsos here for a long haul. But I'll tell
(48:27):
you what, man, we're not in first place right now
if Pete's not on this team.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah, for sure. For sure.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Speaking of first place, we're both in first place. And
that's that's unbelievable. Would have thought.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
By the hair of my head, brothers, the Brewers and
the Brewers for a long time just would not lose, Bro.
They lost. They won eleven straight. If I'm not mistaken,
we're actually we're technically in first, but we're both tied,
which is crazy, Philly one dude at home. The Cubs
are thirty three and nineteen. The Brewers are thirty three
and nineteen. Okay, the Brewers are twenty eight and twenty four.
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The Cubs are twenty eight and twenty four, and like
their last ten, the Cubs are six and four, the
Brewers are seven and three. And I'm just like, and somehow,
some way, the Reds have won fifty six games, and
I'm just like this NL Central bro is just is
just insane. And it's like it's crazy because I feel
like the Cubs have just been kicking ass the entire
way and it's just like Milwaukee just won't go away, man,
(49:21):
And they really are the dark side of just like
you know, they're they're evil, Bro, They're evil, They're got
magic powers. They don't have a crazy lineup they got
like they got a kid who pitched three games in
the All Star Game. Like that's that's nuts. I don't
even know Milaukeas, I don't know how but the kids
a monster. The kids a monster. Don't get it twisted
like the Brewers. The Brewers terrify me. Brother. If the
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Brewers make a serious move of the deadline, maybe they
add Suarez, maybe they add a big arm. They're They're scary, man,
they really are.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
It's the same thing's happening. I ditto everything Mets Phillies
like that. We are living this same exact season so far,
and it's fun, but it is hard fine at the
same time. You know, the Phillies are making Uh the
other team in New York look like what they are
train wreck right now. But the Mets, they've they've won
six in a row. They're on a West coast trip,
(50:13):
which is not easy to do. It's funny. Like two
months ago, somebody from the Mets fan social team was like,
don't worry, we have no more ten o'clock games, like bro,
Monday's ninety, Like don't what are we talking about? Yeah, yeah,
I got played. I was like, oh, that's so great,
no more ten o'clock games, Like I could deal with
(50:33):
a nine, Like n that's ten o'clock, Like you know it.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Starts at nine forty. But they're not really going to
start the game until and it's a Monday. Yeah yeah,
like right right.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
So dude, this has been a great you know first half.
Trade deadline looks like it's gonna be exciting. I can't
wait to hop back on with you and talk the
final moves. Uh, you know we got some moves this week.
You're going to start your week at the National for us,
making some content, hopefully meeting some amazing uh you know, legends,
sports legends. Gary Vee will be there. You know, the
(51:08):
list goes on and on. We just talked about it. Uh,
but but yeah, you're gonna start your week there. I
am gonna touchdown for the first time in my life
in your hometown, Chicago. I've never been one time.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
I'm not the one time.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
I'm unreal, unreal, man, unreal. I never met you in
person yet, I've you've met Bert, which I you know
we both love. But yeah, I was pretty gutted, but
I understand family first, loved ones first, man, and uh,
there'll be more. I I'm sure. I'm sure this won't
be the last taste. And hopefully, if we do a
great job for the National, they'll keep having us back
(51:40):
because you know, you know they I've worked with them
on some events we've had in Philadelphia, as recent as
last week at Infinity Live.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
They literally put us in front and center in front
of the stage. We were interacting with the players, more importantly,
the fans and it was a great night. I would love.
I can't wait for what's gonna happen this week. And yeah,
so please please follow the Shy Kid on all socials,
whether it's TikTok, you know, Instagram, Facebook, you name it.
Mikey Hughes is out putting out great Chicago style content
(52:13):
and yeah, you're gonna see more of it at the National.
Follow the Divide Live and you know, I'll be sure
to share. Uh you know what I'm able to do
at this amazing event. Again, Mikey's gonna be there the
first two days. I come in August first through the third.
Uh and uh yeah, we're gonna be rocking it out
at the National. Gary Vee is gonna be there. That's
(52:34):
just crazy and gilding. Guys, what were we talking about earlier?
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I was like, you know, man, at the Cubs, do
make a crazy move or the Mets that and You're
on air and I'm in Florida, you'll definitely get a
FaceTime call from the beach, and I'll just oh without
be yelling at a beach scaring kids, like, look, man,
you know how quick these stream yard links could go out?
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Well, I'll have you right on. We'll yeah yours, Suarez.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
It's over. The season's over.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Yeah, I'm worried. I'm playing baseball for the first time
probably and almost since I had Peyton. No, she was
like two when I stopped playing, so it's been like
at least seven years. But Gearhard's Appliances is doing a
charity baseball game and we have Team I Heart so Wednesday,
the best first baseman, defensive first baseman ever lived. We'll
(53:25):
be taking that hot corner again. So I'm excited for it. Man,
I can't wait. But it's also trade deadline day, so
I'm like, I'm gonna be checking my phone in between
innings and whenever my team's not playing. So it's gonna
be an epic day for charity. We got other charity
events coming through, so please make sure you're you're tuning in,
checking in, you know, and I'll give us a shot
(53:46):
network wherever socials are and YouTube. But Mikey, I love
you man, I appreciate you. Uh, there's gonna be more
of these, you know. I finally got this thing figured
out over here. They're still working on the soundproof and
stuff like that, but least I got my little desk going.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
So you.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, broken clock is right at least one time once
a day, but did not this one. All right, everybody,
have a great night, and uh let's go Mets. Fox
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Speaker 2 (00:09):
The Gambler.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
You start, do what Mikey us. First off, before we
(00:36):
even talk anything, I owe you an absolute apology. This
has been what feels like over a year overdue. They
say you hurt the ones you love the most, or
ignore ignore the ones you love the most, And it's
been on me. As you could see the studios being renovated,
everything has gone away. Like even setting this up, I
(00:59):
was trying to find a camera that worked. You recommended
me not to use the camera above. It didn't look good.
So Mikey, yeah, we're here, baby, trade deadlines here. You
know how you doing.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
It's been one hundred and eight years. Man, it feels
like the Cubs won the World Series again. You know
I haven't. You know, Mike Powers is a hard man
to get a hold of. I think, give us a
shot network, But he's here, man, He's always here, He's
always doing something.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
I'll always be here for you, buddy. Oh promise that yo.
Speaking of the Cubs winning the World Series, did you
see that AI generated thing that like predicted the next
like fifty years of World Series winners.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
I did. I saw the Savannah Bananas do win their
first World Series in like twenty years, and I was like, Okay,
I mean, if we're doing backflips and shit in the
in the outfield, I guess I guess that'll that'll help them.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
But yeah, and as we speak right now, they're on
the CW and ESPN nationally, which is insane. But more importantly,
this weekend, over one hundred thousand people walked into Philadelphia
to watch that game, and I'll tell you I was
one of them. I'm proud to say that it was fantastic, dude,
(02:09):
absolutely electric, so much fun, a whole different spin on
the game. The ball's different. I immediately went over to
the concession stand bought one of the balls, just like
I feel it, grip it, get a sense of what
it was going on. But yeah, like you said, those
trick plays are sick man, and and some of those
kids like out there, I mean, they're as the average
salaries thirty dollars an hour, so they're playing for pride.
(02:32):
But that thing, I mean, that's that's wwe like pay
per view type attendance. So and they're doing this throughout
the country and it's just it was a lot of fun.
They had a hot dog eating contest with Joey Chestnut
in right field while the game was being played. My
mind was just blown, like the fact that they're doing
(02:53):
that and like there's no sense of like, yeah they
you know, screaming line drive might kill the god that
is Yey Chestnut.
Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, so sure, and that'll be the thing that takes
him out, which is the craziest part, not eating one
hundred hot dogars a day. But no, man, it's really
cool to kind of see what they're doing. And I
know a few guys like Meadows and obviously Liam Spence,
my Aussie from Australia who drafted by the Cubs straight
out of Tennessee. You know, he had the option of
going back home and playing overseas, going to Australia, or
(03:22):
you know, riding it out here with the firefighters and
the Savannah Bananas organization. And I think it's really kind
of cool to see what he's been able to do.
Last fourth of July, we actually went to the Chicago
Dogs game. I don't know what league the Chicago Dogs
are in, but we were at the game and he
was playing for another team where you know, you're making
like ten bucks an hour pretty much. I can't quote
that being ten bucks, but it's not non dude. Yeah,
(03:44):
and for I will say for it to be thirty
bucks an hour for the Savannah Bananas. I mean, I
don't even make thirty bucks an hour. I don't even
make twenty bucks an hour.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
So like, dude, for me, I do minimum wage. I
would play baseball anything for sure, But no, they're they're athletes.
I mean, the Bananas hit two home runs last night.
Uh you know, the Tailgeters looked like a great team too,
to the point where I was like, the next game
I go to, I don't want the Bananas there. I
want to learn about these other teams. And uh, you know,
(04:12):
we have some allegiance to fire fighting, right your your family,
you're you're pretty much born in in a firehouse, right
from what I understand. And you know, we also got
germ who's out there protecting the streets of Leland, North Carolina.
So I'm like, I'm like, should that be our team?
And also are they going to go to Chicago eventually?
(04:34):
Because the Chicago the Fireman Chicago Firemen sound freaking awesome.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
Like, you know, so we do already have the Chicago fire,
but I'm sure they can they can figure it out.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, Oh they'll make it happen, right, Like I don't know,
you could do like the.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
Great Chicago Fires like something, you know.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
What I mean. Yeah, they got yeah, they got to
figure something out. But these you know, and they bring
out like a ladder or something during their game. So
I started like diving into all these other teams and
I was just like, yo, this this is pretty crazy.
I mean it, dude, and like the amount of kids
that were there, like so it's like everybody wants to
say baseball's dead, it's an old man's sport. This is
bringing it back. And and I'm sorry, there's no other
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not even the NFL. We saw it with the XFL.
They're not selling out forty five thousand fans, you know,
on a random Saturday and then doing it back to
back on a Sunday. So, like I said, one hundred
thousand people went through. There's no other sport that's able
to do that right now. And Savannah Bananas have created
a niche where the whole world is buzzing the hottest
(05:35):
ticket to get to give you an idea to go
to the Phillies game. It was forty five dollars to
get in to get into the Phillies Yankees game. To
get into the Savannah Banana game, it was one hundred
plus crazy. That's yeah. Those stats are from our friends
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(05:58):
but yeah, humble brag, humble plug.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
No sure, but like also, I kind of just wanted
to point this out because I did see the movie yesterday.
It's no spoilers. It's just the entire plot of the
movie of Happy Gilmore too. They're trying to reinvent golf.
They're trying to make it quicker, they're trying to make
it more fun. There's a new league. It's the pros
versus this new era, and that reminds me so much
of the Savannah Bananas in that sense, like, you know,
(06:21):
just like an Happy Gilmore. You know, these guys are
trying to show that, like, hey man, no one cares
about golf. It's boring, no one can watch it. I
want Happy Gilmore style golf where everybody just swinging and
dinging and doing their thing, and this is kind of
what the Savannah Bananas are in real life. So it
is kind of funny, like if we ever did get
to see, like you said that Chad GBT made the
Savannah Banana's World win the World Series in twenty fifty,
(06:44):
Like what if the Savannah Bananas really did go up
against like retired MLB players like Ichiro Suzuki or some
of those guys who shout out Ichio by the way
made the Hawk.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Today so great.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But like, you know, if we did get to see
former legends face off against these guys, I do think
it would be like the craziest like spin of it all.
And I'm pretty sure like guys like Ken Griffy Junior
would still take all those guys deep, but it'd be
pretty fun to watch.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
Fair Like I I first glance, I was like, there's
not many hard hit balls. Honestly, it's a yellow ball,
so I'm colorblind, so it was so hard for me
to read. I was gonna, yeah, I couldn't. I couldn't
keep track of it, and it uh, you know it definitely.
I was like, man, like I was scared. I was
gonna like take one of the phase.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Man, you were trying to you were trying to catch
a home run ball, yo, I.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
Brought so at first I was gonna bring my own glove,
and I was like, ah, that's corny. So I convinced
my daughter to bring her glove, and like, dude, I
don't know if you saw the highlights. She got to
play whiffle ball before in the little Citizens Bank field
that was all done up with bananas. But dude, first
pitch swinging over the fence, I was like, that's my girl.
So like she was timing it in the dug like
(07:52):
on deck circle. She just she did her thing. And
then she's like, dad, give me her glove. I'm playing
in the outfield and she's you know, uh, you know,
catching some pop flys. So it was an amazing, amazing experience.
The Savannah bananas definitely made it a whole family event.
We got there, I was texting you, this has been
the greatest day I've ever had in this stadium, and
(08:13):
it's we're three hours away from first pitch, you know,
and everything was an event. It just it felt good, man,
it was. It made me feel really good about the
sport of baseball and where it's headed and it just
for me, like it was probably one of the best
shows I've ever got to experience. And it is a
show and they call it a show, and you know,
(08:34):
it's definitely like a circus. They do a lot of
stuff that is crazy. But as you mentioned, Hall of Famer,
you know, we talked about this a little bit before
we went live. These Hall of Fame hats are strange, dude,
or I mean, you know, I.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Think some of them look cool. I think the White Sox.
I was watching Cubs, White Sox Crosstown right now. I
think that Ben Brown's on the mound, so the Cubs
totally could be losing since we started filming this, But
I think some of them look decent, Like the White Sox.
I kind of liked how the logo looked. Cubs still
look two to one top of the fits nice, but
you know, the Cubs one, it was just the Cubs,
you know what I mean. It's it's just the generic
(09:13):
see with a Hall of Fame patch on the side,
and I kind of just wish it was a little
bit more fun. Maybe you do like the Cubby Bear
logo old I know, I kind of like them going
old school, but it doesn't really seem to be the
way of the Cubs right now, but I definitely, you know,
I feel like Chicago just doesn't switch things up a lot.
I think they liked their original how they are, and
(09:34):
that's just how it is. Like I know a lot
of other teams play like play into it and have
a lot of fun. Team might suck, but at least
they have like cool merch, you know what I mean, Like.
Speaker 1 (09:45):
You got to have the good merch when he sucks.
Shout out to the seven line. They kept us, you know,
on that trajectory of still being a fan when the
team sucked looked like the Mets hilariously, And they haven't
pulled this hat out in thirty years, which is mind blowing.
Uh you know, so I was ten the last time
they had had like this. But all they did was
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change the orange button the blue.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
That's what I'm talking about, though. Bro. It's like it's
it's just like little stuff like that where I'm like, like,
I will look at the White Sox too, and I
know it's not the Hall of Fame, but like they
did team up with the Chicago Bulls because they do
have the same ownership, and they made those red and
black jerseys and they look clean, bro, and it's like
something special, And I think it's really cool when you
start to see like actual change, whereas with other organizations,
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like you said, it's like, oh, well, we've seen this
jersey before, but this time, like the patch is a
little bit lower, or this is a different color. And
it's kind of like I kind of want to just
go balls of the wall and just like do something
completely authentically you like whoever the designers are like, you'll
disrespect to anybody who works at Fanatics or anybody that
works anywhere. But sometimes I see some of these hats
and I'm like, you guys really do get paid to
(10:51):
do nothing like that's that's really like. You guys sit
in the boardroom all off season and you're like, all right,
I've sat here for the last seven weeks and I
think we should just change the orange to blue. And
you're like, that's what you That's like I would be
if I paid you.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Yeah, Like no, the giants they went for the stars.
I do not like theirs. Uh you like them? I
like just I think the script is weird, the ball
is weird. It changes colors, and again being colorblind, like
I could tell, like the G and the s are
different color than the inside. It looks like to me,
(11:28):
I don't know, but it's just you know, for me,
that didn't hit, but then it made me pay attention that,
oh wait, this is like a Hall of Fame thing.
I will say, they hit it out of the park.
No pun intended with the July fourth hats. Dude, I
got that baby blue med hat. I'm I'm rocking it.
When I come down to your town, come up to
(11:48):
your town, I should say shy town this weekend and
or next weekend, I should say. And dude, those hats
were just I mean they were they were beautiful. There's
nothing you could say from the rope on it to
the American flag inside the logo.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
I was going to add, how do you feel about
the rope, because I know that's like something that's kind
of like not just with baseball hats, but like NFL
and NBA just hats in general. Everybody's kind of going
onto this trend about the rope on the top of
the lid. How do you feel about it?
Speaker 1 (12:17):
I don't mind it, Yeah, I don't mind it at all.
Like I think it would be weird if I actually
had to play with it because I didn't like it
in the fitted for him. I had to get it
as a snapback. So I don't know if the players
would like it, you know, i'd have to play with
it a little bit more. But I do like that aesthetic,
Like I like change right, I like things changed up.
(12:37):
I would I want to rope on every major League
Baseball hat? Absolutely not, but if it made sense and
it paid homage to something like that'd be dope. Like
I wouldn't mind a traditional hat with like a pink
rope for breast cancer or a blue you know blue
rope when we do with Father's Day and for colon
cancer and stuff like that. Like I wouldn't mind changing
it up, but I would say that it has to
(13:01):
be done right, and with this one it works. With
this one, it definitely works. Just adds a little bit
of more you know, patriotism to it for for any
lack of a better word or term. But I enjoyed
the hat and I had to go get it, and
I was like, yo, dude, I need this hat. Like
it just it's better than the Father's Day version that
(13:22):
came out a couple of years ago. That I also
bought that was a power powder blue and it just
makes me. I enjoy it because it's still a med hat,
but I could blend in with that Chicago baby blues.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
You know, No, I dig it, I dig it for sure, yo. Man.
Speaker 1 (13:37):
So there's there's a lot going on. Trade deadline, We've
had some moves. You know, everything is clicking on all cylinders.
There's a lot of teams still in it, obviously because
the trade deadline has been moved up to prevent people
from just doing complete fire sales. But you know, there's
there's a lot going on. I want to start with
your Cubs. Then we could talk about other transactions that
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have taken place, and then we can end it with
the Mets. But where do you see your team? Where
are you at and what can we expect from Chicago?
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Yeah? You know, when when you hear Derek Jeters say
on live television that he sees the Yankees beating the
Cubs in the World Series, it's a good feeling. And
I recently texted Bert that because we were talking about
it when the Cubs and Yankees faced off against each other,
and I was like, yeah, man, even just being in
that conversation of being in the World Series, Like, this
is a team that hasn't made the playoffs in a
few years, so, you know, and the last couple of
(14:29):
years it's like, right at the end of the season,
you know, we blow it away, and that's kind of
just been you know, this repeated history and the narrative
of this club specifically where it's like, you know, man,
like these group of guys the second half of the
year kind of just fall apart. And some of that's
on Preig Council, some of that's on Seya Suzuki, and
that's on everybody from top to bottom. Definitely Dani Swonson.
(14:49):
But this year, man just felt different. The first half
of this year, the addition of Kyle Tucker, it really
did just you know, expand the horizons of everybody else
in this lineup from one to nine. You know, you
got guys like Carson Kelly out here hitting Barry Bonds
the first month and a half of the year. PCA
who I you know, you know, I've been huge on PCA.
I was there for his first Triple A game in Iowa,
drove all the way down there, covered him his media
(15:10):
hit a Grand Slam in his first game as an
Iowa Cub in the middle of the moin, by the way,
which there's nothing to do in the moin, but it
was It was a cool experience, nonetheless, but to see
him two and a half years later really come into
this guy. Who I mean, he's having a forty forty season.
He's on paceball right now, He's at twenty seven home
runs over twenty five stolen bases. Like, he's been incredible,
(15:31):
lights out defense. The only thing is the Cubs rotation
and honestly still still that bullpen, because you know, I
love Jed Hoyer. He's a theo Epstein guy, but like
he always pulls some guys out from their couches, he
always pulls some guys out of nowhere of double A,
triple A from somewhere that nobody else wanted to tinker with.
First half year, they're always great, second half they're not.
I do think there's guys out there, a Mason Miller,
(15:54):
Emmanuel class a Badard I believe it's not. Binar from
the pie Ritz is also available as well. From a
reliever standpoint, would definitely want another arm. But the big
line for me with the Cubs is really just that
starting rotation man you have Justin Steele out for the
year Mississippi Fastball with Tommy John surgery. Definitely miss his presence.
Jameson Tyone is gonna be out for a little bit longer.
(16:17):
I think he just had some kind of strain, if
I'm not mistaken. But you definitely need another arm man
because guys like Ben Brown, who we got from Philly
just a couple of years ago for Dave robertson the
shout out Dave Robinson by the way with the Phillies.
But you know, it's it's one of those things where
I want a guy. Just to name a few. Edward Cabrera,
right handed pitcher from the Marrow, had a three point
(16:38):
forty eight e R this year, seventeen starts. He's been
great and he's under control until twenty twenty the end
of twenty twenty eight, so twenty twenty nine. I really
like that. There's a guy, Adrian Houser. We saw him
the other day for the Chicago White Sox. Not a
huge band. And listen, the Cubs are playing the Socks today.
So I'll say it, kids, dog shit, he's just having
a really good year. He's over thirty years old. This
(16:59):
is his last year of control, so I'm not trying
to deal with that. So Edward Cabrera really is the
big name. I know everybody wants Sandy Alcantra, but I
just don't see it from him. After coming back from
Tommy John, I don't think he's gonna be a legitimate move.
We'll talk about the Mets in a little bit, but
I think the Cubs and the Mets and maybe even
a couple other teams will be on the hunt for
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Mitch Keller from the Pirates. I think that's a guy
through control for twenty twenty eight. I definitely think he's
another guy you could really go out there and say, hey, man,
look shitty team, bad place to be. But if we
can get him in the right organization, you could definitely
have a really great picture out of him. He has
a fWAR of two point six this year, so like,
that's really cool. It's balling even though the Pirates are horrible.
(17:44):
So I definitely do I want to see the Cubbies
get some arms. I think the offense is perfect. I
don't want Suarez. I don't. Yeah, I gotta make that
clear because I see the comments every day. I don't
want a third basement. I believe in Shawsey. I think
Shawsy's gonna have a Miguel Amaya twenty twenty four second
half caliber season or at PCA of the second half
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of last year where you really kind of started to
pick it up and you're you're more proud of them.
It's interesting, though, man, to see like how things are
gonna unfold. But uh, I definitely think it starts with
the with the starting rotation for the Cubs. If not,
you know, I think they're gonna be in and out
of October very quick.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
Well, look, I that I got excited either way. Like
one you mentioned theo Epstein, that's the one list that
I wish came out is his list of who we
should be going after. But in all seriousness, dude, that's
spot on. The Cubs should just hire you right now.
I'm just saying, but I'm definitely You know.
Speaker 2 (18:43):
How many times I was like we should sign this
guy and then like you're horrible, and I'm like, oh,
never mind.
Speaker 1 (18:48):
Well you when when the Mets went through all their
trades man and they got rid of ever the house
they cleaned house, you were the only guiding light that
was reassuring me that these guys that they're bringing in
are rock stars, and I'm absolutely thankful one for you
as a baseball brand, but also my friend, because I
was ready to jump off something I don't know.
Speaker 2 (19:09):
I mean, it's probably cure like, but Jon, we wouldn't
be we wouldn't be doing an episode together if I
didn't mention Drew Gilbert right now too. And the Mets
need another bat at the trade deadline. Kids hit four
home runs in his last three games. He's in triple
A for a little bit of time, like Gilly Goo.
I need Gilly Goo in a Mets uniform today. It
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is electrifying.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
You know what always scares me? And this happens in Metsland.
I want to know if it happens with your team
or any team. But it always feels like our guys
get injured and then they come back around the trade deadline.
So ownership tries to convince you, like, no, it's like
we acquired four new players because Sanga's back, you know,
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you know, Blah blah Blah's back, whoever it is. We
have Francisco Alvarez back, like and it's like, you know,
Sean Manet is back, and.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
Just get owned and They're like, here's your starter that
you're looking for, and it's like, yeah, we still needed
one when he was here, you know.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
What I mean, yeah, exactly exactly, Like that's that doesn't
get me excited. Like so when the Mets brought in Cesspitis,
and they also brought in you know, a ton of
other like key players like third baseman. I can't remember
his name right now, and that's that's embarrassing. But it
was it was dang, dang, who cares, Let's move on.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
It was just like it felt like the right transactions, right,
and it obviously sparked the rest of the team. David
Wright comes back, you know, Daniel Murphy starts hitting the ball.
But Cesspaenis was that nucleus that we needed at that time,
and it was a big spend and uh, you know,
and I don't think the Mets need something like that,
but I do think the other team in New York
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needs a Cesspetis type signing. And so I've been looking around.
Uh you know, I looked at Brian Hayes because, h
that is that is my daughter's number one favorite player
in the world. And yeah, yeah, man, that's it. That's her.
She no one.
Speaker 2 (21:05):
No one can say anything about Peyton being a bandwagon
because that is the most genuine that's my favorite player
I've ever heard.
Speaker 1 (21:12):
Yeah, she she checks on she checks up on him
like she she'll as for his stats. She wants to
know when we're going back to Pittsburgh like that is her, dude,
And I'm not mad at it. Uh, you know, She'll
randomly tell me like he's gonna hit him run today.
I've won three of those four bets, like it's some time.
I tell my daughter, Uh no, in all seriousness, it's
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just you know, she she likes him, and it's, uh,
it's kind of cool because his dad played for the Mets,
and that's that's cool for me. So I'm not mad
at that at all. You know, Mason Miller with the A's,
everybody's talking about him. Everybody wants him, and I think
the funniest thing about the A's is they do have
a lot of young talent, but there are rebuilding and
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the Mets have some key things. So I see a
lot of people going looking at these teams thinking they
could just rob them. And you know, even with the Marlins,
that's same case scenario. Like everybody thinks they could just
keep buying play like all stars from from them, So
look man like it. There's there's so much going on.
But if if the Yankees what they did, they got McMahon,
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which I think is a great addition. I'm not mad
at at all. I'm at Rosario. I loved as a
New York met Uh you know in part of the
in door trade. It was a bummer he had to go.
He's gonna be great, but he could play everywhere. For him,
he's mister utility. Reminds me of a Jeff McNeil type player.
Maybe not doing as well as some would like the
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last couple, you know, at least this season, and a
little bit of lass. But I mean for the Yankees,
that's these are these are two really good transactions so far.
Do I think it's enough? Absolutely not, Like especially with
Aaron Judge, as you know, going into onto the I
l they're saying it's.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Not from what I read that his UCL is intact.
And then there's just other issues obviously, But like when
you hear that a guy can't even make a throw
from the outfield the routine, just like, hey man, let's
just let's just throw the ball around you know, it
reminds me so much of Bryce Harper prior to his
Tommy John surgery, and you know, obviously that ultimately has
made him first basement Bryce Harper. I saw a kid
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the other day tweeting that he's one of the best
first basement they've ever seen, and like, still hearing that
Bryce Harper's a first basement, I kind of just like,
it just don't sit right with me. Man. I was
just like, Bryce Harper's an outfielder, but like whatever, right
right right, the first basement. But like I'm always like
that's I didn't grow up with that. That's weird. Like
if Mike Trout was ever just like I'm a first
basement now, I'd be like no, no, brother, Like you're
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you're no, You're You're captain centerfield every day. But yeah,
I don't know. The judge situation is interesting. You kind
of brought up the a's I look more of like
a Brent Rooker to be that if they're not interested
in a guy like Jones. Jones has been incredible in
Triple A so far for them. I really think they
should give in the shot. They already have him in
Triple A. But Brent Rooker who's thirty. You know, I'm
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really big on Lawrence Butler Nick who six for six
with four home runs the other day. Man, he was incredible,
really hurting the ball, no pun intended, but he's doing it. Man.
And then obviously you have a guy like Jacob Wilson,
who is one of the best young shortstops in the
game right now. So they have a nice young core.
But Brent Rooker being thirty thirty one years old going
into next year, you know, you definitely can say, hey, man,
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if the Yankees can give us some top prospects to
continue to build on that, you know, you can definitely
make some moves because like when you look at a
guy like Mason Miller, like the Mason Miller stuff just
doesn't really make sense to me because you look at
his contract and you look at how old the kid is.
He's still super young. He's gonna be under arbitration until
twenty twenty nine. He's unrestricted free agent in twenty thirty. Like, bro,
if I'm the A's and this kid's twenty five and
(24:49):
I have him until twenty thirty, I can wait, Like
I'll wait until Like you just keep doing what you're
doing and we'll try to get the offense around you
to be able to do that. And really, I think
they have that offense now. They really just need the
starting pitching behind it. So a guy like Brent Rooker
to New York could be really interested, in my opinion,
but I think they kind of I mean New York
kind of has that problem, which is a good problem
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to have where you have so many outfielders in this system,
and also on the field. You know, you have Gihn,
Carlos Stan, Cody Bellinger, you know you have all the
Aaron Judge, you got Jones and Triple A. You have
a million different guys in that outfield. I really don't
think they have to go out of their way to
get anything. And if Judge does miss a significant amount
of time, with where they are right now, I mean, Mike,
(25:31):
I might you know, Garrett Coles out for the year,
you still got Marcus Stroman on the bump once every
five days. Like at some point I might just say,
you know, man, we're just gonna play out this season.
I wouldn't even make any moves. I would just see
how it all folds out.
Speaker 1 (25:45):
No, they're like half a dozen games out of out
of first right now, right not doing well, lost the
series to the Phillies. We'll see see how the rubber
game goes as it's going on right now. But the
one thing that I would share is like, yeah, I agree,
Like you scared the living daylights out of me when
you just mentioned Harper and Judge in the same kind
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of trajectory.
Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
I didn't even put that together until you said that.
So now I'm like, oh, no, you know, like I.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Got I got the fucking I got the guy. I
got the fucking guy in fantasy. So like I'm over here,
like I traded. I traded Chris Saal and Juan Soto
back in May for for Aaron Judge, and now I
have show Hay and Judge. So I'm like it's over.
It's gigs, Like I'm winning this league. It's it's not
even a conversation. And like when I saw a Judge
go down, like my heart sunk into my ass and
(26:37):
I was just like, oh my god. And I'm literally
like it because it said day to day and I
was like, Okay, it's day to day. No one's gonna
notice it. I'm gonna try to trade them, and I
hit up some people and they were all like, I
don't want that, Tommy John, and I was like, oh no,
I'm gonna cry if I lose them.
Speaker 1 (26:56):
Yeah, I'm worried.
Speaker 2 (26:57):
Man, I really do see it. You know. I kind
of did a video that I'm like that. I kind
of did a video back in April kind of discussing
the situation with Justin Steele and everybody just kept saying
it was elbow inflammation. He had that problem back in September,
and he kind of, you know, babied it throughout the
off season. He didn't last until mid May. Bro like,
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and I saw it. The writing was on the walls.
And with Judge, it's kind of the same thing where
it's like, you know, you know you avoided it with
Sean Manaia, and I really like it can be done
that you can avoid it. But yeah, it's just like,
are you gonna sit him for four weeks just so
that it happens again? And then now you're delaying the recovery.
You could have been four weeks ahead, now you're four
weeks behind. It's it's risky business man. Me personally, I
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shut them down the rest of the year. That's me.
Speaker 1 (27:43):
But you what do you think, yeah, I mean, if
if that's the case, like and like you said, you're
playing with house money right now. They're still in a
wildcard position. Wildcards now matter just as much as winning
your division. So if there's an opportunity, that's definitely conversations
they gotta have. The fan base is not happy with
Cash right now. So like, honestly, like Cashman's playing the
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cards probably a little harder than he should be, because
maybe he's worried about his job, or or his legacy
or even just maintaining, you know, his position with the Yankees.
I mean, you know, he's just.
Speaker 2 (28:16):
Crazy because he just like you know what Mike Powers
would do just to go to the World Series last
I know, I know, I'm worried about my job. We
just made it through the World Series. We lost the Avengers,
like the Bronx.
Speaker 1 (28:26):
The Bronx spurns if it rains, dude, Like you know
what I mean, Like it's just like they can't have
a normal season, they can't have a question mark. Like
the fan base is just so turmoil. It's why I'm
glad I bleed orange and blue, you know, And there
is an alternative in the city, and you know, and
I'm just proud I was brought up in that, you know,
speaking of that orange and blue. The Mets just when
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dos Soto, Baby, I love this transaction. A left hand pitcher,
Jeremy Hefner is is a god amongst pitching coaches. I
loved him as a player, I love him even more
as a pitching coach, like this is the best guy
to get and let Jeremy do his thing. Let Hefner
do his thing and figure him out. You know, I know,
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working in Philadelphia, I knew so many writers, journalists, friends
that love Sodo, loved the idea of him, would die
on a sword for him, and it just didn't work
out all the time. But to have him, you know,
activated with the New York Mets and traded to the
New York Mets, I'm so excited for Dose Soto. And
you know, everybody making the jokes like the Mets just
(29:33):
signed Soto, it's like, yeah, no, no crap, that's old news.
Well it's it's new news again, so for sure.
Speaker 2 (29:39):
But so you bring in all of that though, And
I do kind of want to ask you because Sanga
has been incredible and I know towards the second half
of last year, you and every other Mets fan. I know,
we're kind of like off the Sanga train where it's like, yo, bro,
you don't you don't want to pitch like in October,
you don't want to be here for us, like and
it kind of like rubbed you guys the wrong way
in a sense. He's had a great years so far. Man,
(30:01):
are you back on the Sega train? And and in
full belief that come October Sanga's ready.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
I just look like his his legs tend to he
injures his legs more than any pitcher I've ever seen
in my life, like honestly, and also those first two
innings are like horrifying, Like it's like he never better
nerfy if he's pitching. I'm just telling you, like because
he's gonna load the bases up before he gets the
first out. Like it just feels like, yeah, I can
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only relate it to John Franco when he would close deals,
like close games, he would turn around, uh, load the
bases up, just give you a heart attack, even when
he you know, he has the most saves ever as
a met or whatever, at least at his time when
he you know, retired, but with Senga. It's that same
same type of vibe where like his stuff is nasty,
but it's like he he struggles to get out, so
(30:50):
like he puts people on base, he does things. But
I am the era is amazing this year. His pitching
is amazing. I was never again, I was just hurt
that I wasn't getting more.
Speaker 2 (31:02):
Yeah, it was just like, are you really not gonna
play for us in October kind of thing? You know
what I mean? Like that was I mean, you guys
had a chance to go to the World Series last year.
You know, that team was like you know, Chef always
has a team of destiny, like they that group had
everything going for them. And for him to just kind
of opt out of that, I think and maybe not
you personally, but I know a lot of people he
rubbed them the wrong way.
Speaker 1 (31:23):
Yeah, I mean I was happy to see him play
in Philly for the postseason. I mean, even though he
gave up a shore bomb in the first you know,
and then we ended up winning that game. So he
was very very you know, he missed the first first series,
was activated for the NLDS. He he did his thing.
It was amazing, and I you know, I wasn't mad
(31:43):
at the scenario, but again that first inning, if you
go back and watch it, I mean runners on first
and second, Sharver hits home run. It just felt like
we're not even gonna win a game. And you know,
obviously the Mets took the entire series and only lost one,
took it three to one. Phillies couldn't even take it
to game five. Shout out to Philadelphia. But you know,
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it was you know, for me, Sega is I'm excited,
like he's a unique pitcher. The ghosts uh, you know,
forkball is insane, and I just I think he's he's
a fun human being and I want to watch him play.
So if I was upset, and and if if if
I portrayed myself upset, it was just it was fear
(32:24):
of missing out on on once in a lifetime opportunity,
Like you said, for sure, Now.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
What do you got to get to get there? Bro?
That's like because for me, like that's where I'm at.
I'm like it's starting or bust for the me too.
And who are guys that are kind of like on
your radar right now?
Speaker 1 (32:41):
So so like it's it's so hard to say because
like it's like, you know, the fan base is so stupid, right,
And I love New York Mets fans and I love
like listening to it. But they call him to w
FA and hey, hey, why can't we get Jacob to
goron back rangers on doing that great? It's like, dude,
that stuff's not happening. So I think it's it's going
to be that White Night, because like I would have
(33:02):
never put Cessamadis on the Mets in twenty fifteen, like
I would have never bet that in my life. So
I don't want to Chinx anything.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Man.
Speaker 1 (33:10):
I told myself, I wrote a note ready here, do
not Jinx, do not be like I was right, Like,
I don't want to be that guy.
Speaker 2 (33:17):
I want.
Speaker 1 (33:18):
I want Stevie Cohen invested in this team in two ways,
one front office right, getting the right guys, like, you know,
our version of what the Cubs did, our version of
what the Red Sox did. Getting the right analytical brains,
the right guys in the thing that will know, hey,
this guy's a game changer, and I'm gonna let that
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happen and kind of sit back as a fan because
I don't want to Jinx. You want to talk about
any other team, I'll jinx the you know what's out
of them. But I do not want to jinx this
New York Mets right now because we need starting pitching.
I don't know where that is. I get a little
fandom there too. You know, you mentioned stro I would
love to see Strowman in orange and blue again. I mean,
I know that's not gonna happen, but I'm in them,
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you know, I love them, but.
Speaker 2 (34:03):
It's just it's time. It's time.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
It's time. Yeah, I guess so. But then you look
at like clubs, like who's on the A's. Uh that
was on our team, Batantas Dylan you know, damn yeah,
the starting pitcher that was on our team last year.
Why can't I remember? Oh man, people are screaming right now. No, no,
(34:32):
Sev Severino. Oh yeah, bro, bro, I would love Sev
to be on the Mets.
Speaker 2 (34:39):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (34:39):
And look like they sevee got paid well by the A's.
It's it's a good contract both ways. Uh, you know,
but the Mets could absorb that. So the A's are rebuilding,
we got some players. We could definitely take him, like,
I would love that, you know. And we talked about
Miller earlier. I don't. I don't mind that either, but
the A and and again I'm doing exactly the fans.
(35:00):
Do you look at these teams and you just assume
they're all selling and it you know, for me, it's
it's it's not a matter of I just want to
be wowed by the deal like I do. And you know,
so I don't know, but yeah, I would love to
see a reunion in New York with sev.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
I definitely could dig it man. And for for Peyton Powers,
I would love Key Brian Hayes to join the organization.
But also I think Suarez is in that conversation too.
He's been able to do an Arizona man. I mean,
he's hitting bombs left and right, you know, not that
baby and Viento's aren't doing their job. But they're not
you know what I mean.
Speaker 1 (35:35):
Yeah, so everybody everybody in Philadelphia Land was talking about
no Viento is being like that that thorn in their
side for the next ten years. So this is a
sophomore slump. I do not want to see the Mets
trade him because of this, so I do.
Speaker 2 (35:55):
Yeah, That's kind of where I'm at with it, though. Bro,
It's like you have a guy like Suarez, like just
because of the situation right now with like the Dodgers
not playing as well the Brewers. Who I mean, hey, look,
I don't know who's a bigger rivalry right now, the
Mets and the Brewers or the Cubs and the Brewers.
You guys really made a statement last year with how
you guys finished that off in the playoffs, which I
loved it. You know, Polar Bear Pete did his thing
(36:17):
to send that home. And you know, a guy like
Devin Williams hasn't been the same since. But you know,
it's it's definitely something where I believe in Viento's because
of you like because of it, and also just MLB
the show the kids cracked. But you know, I think
when you bring in Suarez for a year because he's
on a one year deal, you know he's gonna, yeah,
at the end of the year, a man, if you
can help us win this year, We've done that. We've
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done that, Like Viano's, it's yours every year after this.
But right now.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
Shades a hobby by ads if that happens, Like Schwarrez
has thirty six home runs, eighty six RBIs right now
he's due first slump, you know, where he could slump
in Queens like I'm I'm so scared of that. Like honestly,
just just off of the hobby by ass conversations like
you know, and shout out to the hobby right now
an all star. We didn't get to talk about that
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at all. And I'm so happy for him and all
of Detroit right now. The Tigers are on fire and
talk about resurrecting your career, and it couldn't happen to
a better ball player, couldn't happen to a better person.
I know how much you liked Biass. I did enjoy
his time here. People will be look, oh we did
the thumbs down movement. It's like, yeah, you guys were
a bunch of assholes, like stop. Like our fan base
(37:29):
was was yeah, like Ron Keith and Gary in the
booth like begging the fan base at that time to
be nice, like it was just like addle control, like
writing letters to the fans saying like, hey, can we
be a little bit nicer, like we don't want to
be like the guys in the Bronx, like you know,
and it was just like the fan base was so
turned like you know, and I get it, the thumbs
(37:50):
down thing. It was an inside joke. I think the
press in New York. I know the press in New
York tends to take a make a mountain out of
a molehill. And that's what they did there. And you know,
it sucks because like imagine, Hobby was still on this team, Like,
and I get it took him a while to get
back to where he's at, but this is so cool. Man.
Speaker 2 (38:08):
Yeah, I thought it was over. I really did. And
and like, yeah, year was his first time back at Wrigley,
and I got the privilege to meet his mom and
his brother because I was doing a partner up with
a T shirt company and we were just handing out
I Miss Hobby or Bias t shirts. I was walking
around the stadium, we were interviewing people like what's your
favorite Hobby or Bias moment? And the city still like
engulfing him. And even when Rizzo came back to Like
(38:30):
I cried when Anthony Rizzo came back, and like it
was like such a huge thing for me because like
I just loved him so much growing up. Same with
Hobby and and KB too. When KB came back, Like
you get emotional about these guys, you know what I mean. So,
like you when you see that kind of stuff happen where,
you know, especially like you know, Hobby Bias his career
got resurrected, but Rizzo's currently still looking for a job.
You know, you got Chris Bryant, who you know, signed
(38:53):
with Colorado and was never seen again. And it's just
like one of those things where it's like, you know,
not everybody does get that storybook finished. Everybody does resurrect
their careers. So to see that happen for Hobby and
to see that picture of him and PCA together as
both the starting center fielders in the All Star Game
was pretty crazy, especially because Hobby never in my life,
if I ever seen Hobby play in the outfield prior
(39:14):
to being a Detroit Tiger, it's just and and like,
you know, MLB kind of did, like, you know, we'd
be like, oh, look at this elmgo play. Look at
this magical play by Hobby in the outfield. Then it
would be like a routine fly ball and I'd be like,
I don't know, but he's hitting that lights out the ball. Man.
I'm really happy for him, bro, But yeah, man, that's Hobby.
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I know you're sick because Pc a man and then
Hobby it's it's.
Speaker 1 (39:39):
No that was hugging, hugging at the All Star game.
Speaker 2 (39:43):
But when you.
Speaker 1 (39:47):
Total though, Mike, I can't you get he's not an
All Star, Mikey, he's not good enough.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
That's that's a whole different.
Speaker 1 (39:54):
That's wild.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
So even how he being an All Star, I was
kind of like, a, yeah, Clayton was cool though that
miked up situation and him throwing like like he was
throwing out there miles an hour.
Speaker 2 (40:11):
Yeah that was that was so much fun.
Speaker 1 (40:13):
He's like he's like check this out like it was
so great and yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (40:21):
No, that's just me as a Cubs fan that like,
I actually hate Clayton kersh everything about him as a person.
It's a he's a great guy, sure, but he he
was that Cubs killer for years. Every time I see like,
get off my screen.
Speaker 1 (40:36):
Bro, Yeah no, I agree, I agree. You know what
did you think of the Like the home Run Derby
was dope? Like I'm not gonna lie, I love I
could watch that stuff. Shout outs to Todd Frazier. Just
the Homeroom Derby X, which I want to sink my
teeth into I just reached out to Home Room Derby
to see if, like, hey, is there there a way
we could help, like elevate this thing or talk to
(40:56):
the players promote it, like because I didn't even know
where to watch on TV. I don't even know if
you could watch it on TV. But I saw the
highlights on socials. It's pretty dope. They hit from the
third base, literally third base. There's rules, there's it's a
smaller like area where you can hit the ball. And
I think they play defense too. I saw the guys
with gloves. I don't know, but I want to, Yeah,
(41:18):
I want to really find out what the heck is
going on with this. They incorporate softball, female softball players
into it, so they have legends on that side. So
it's yeah, it's a really dope thing. But the All
Star Game ended in a home run, you know, swing
off and what's your feelings?
Speaker 2 (41:33):
I mean, it was really cool, man, And I think again,
like I'm just gonna continue just fan boying out. But
I did get a chance to work with Schwarber's neighborhood
heroes earlier in the year. I worked for Schwarber's Foundation
for a day and I you know, when Philly was
in town, I got a chance to walk around and
ask everybody their favorite Kylee Schwarber moment, Phillies and Cubs fans,
and to just know, like what an amazing human being
(41:55):
Kyle is and just like the type of person he's been.
You know, he got his thousandth career hit the other day,
which I thought was insane to think that it's just
been that long since the catcher in Iowa for the
Chicago Cubs turned into an outfielder. You know, everyone always
judged him for his outfielding. He was a catcher his
entire Like, yeah, yeah, he looks like a catcher. I
don't want to hear any of it. Like he's built big,
(42:16):
He's a stocky guy, like he lost all that weight
to be in that outfield. And now you you know,
Washington was a shit show. Boston. Boston was okay, but
it was just like to see him finally find that
home in Philly. Man, I really do hope at the
end of the season, man, they give him his Duke,
because I mean, he he has been that Philly staple.
I feel like, you know, Bryce Harper is one of
(42:37):
them too. If Bryce Harper does a lot in the
community from what I've heard, but like him and schwarbs Man,
I mean, they're they're incredible people. Never seen a walk
off like that. I missed the game, but I missed
most of the game. But then I get home and
I turn it on and they're they're going into extras
and I'm like, all right, cool, and it turns into
this like you know, went swing off and I'm like, well,
(42:58):
where's Judge? You know, why, why is why is Aronda?
Why is Aronda batting? And they're like, oh, Judges on
a plane right now, probably right like yeah me he left.
Like they're like, oh yeah, these guys are in street
clothes right now or they left, and I'm like in
my head, I was like, I don't care if they're
in street clothes, tell.
Speaker 1 (43:13):
Me ye, get them out, get them out and their
flip flops, like, let's see it.
Speaker 2 (43:17):
I would love to see that because it would give
you like this like backyard baseball type of like vibe
to it, which is like shout out back in baseball,
by the way, but oh, dude, so much fun.
Speaker 1 (43:27):
Shout out to you.
Speaker 2 (43:28):
It was cool, bro, It was a cool swing off, bro.
And I'm not gonna lie to you. I don't think
we see it again for a few years because it
was very hard for that to even be that situation,
but so true. I would just next time. I think
every single player should stay. Every player should be uniformed
up in the dugout, just waiting, because if we would
(43:50):
have got like Schwarbs versus Judge and like all these
big home run power bats just going off in a
swing off like that would have like Schwarps hit three
home runs in a row, that's awesome, but Judge would
have smacked the dog the dog out of like thirty
of them, you know what I mean, Like, yeah, yeah,
I would have loved to see that. Like Aronda, I mean,
what's he's a two ninety plus hitter, like great contact guy,
(44:14):
guy has like ten home runs on the year. Why
was he in the swing off? You know what? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (44:18):
Yeah, No. It felt like the minute you announced the lineups,
like I was like, oh, the animals winning this right.
Speaker 2 (44:23):
Over and you know, guys like me and you were
like we won it.
Speaker 1 (44:27):
Never. Yeah, we haven't won any I.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
Never All Star Game. The National League always loses. It's
like in my life, I've seen like three or four
times the National League has won.
Speaker 1 (44:37):
I think yeah, and I think I think that would
be an exaggeration, like honestly, like yeah, I don't even know.
I don't even know. Like it feels like they've won.
It's like the Braves in the nineties, Like they always
won the NAL East. So like yeah, and then lost
the Yankees in the World Tiers. But I digress it. Like, dude,
I liked it. I was a little like, you know,
(44:58):
Peter a Lonzo hit a real three run home run
during the game, and like, if Diaz is able to
close the door and save that impossible situation that they
put him in. If he was able to do that,
you know, Pete's the MVP. So and then Pete doesn't
even get the bad in the swing off because Schwartz
did his thing. But the coolest picture that we will
(45:20):
have for the rest of our lives is Pete and
schwarb are hugging it out, and like, this is what
scares me. Man. Bryce Harper allegedly or reported that he
went hard for Pete this offseason because of the fact
that he wanted to get back into the outfield. I mean,
and Pete's playing a damn good first base right now.
He just saved the game last night with a jumping
(45:43):
line drive catch, which is insane. You know, he had
three great plays that games. He's been on fire ever
since everybody mocked him for that throw to plate. So like,
I think everything happens for a reason, and clearly right now,
Pete's playing a really, really solid, underrated first base and
I'm really proud of him. Dude.
Speaker 2 (46:01):
I did want to hit you with one last thing
before we get out of here, though, because I feel,
just like David Wright, that Pete Alonzo wants to be
a Met for life. But I feel like there's a
level of it to where it's like you can't get
lowballed twice, you know, And I think this last contract
was like, hey man, you just got to prove it
to us, even though you know, I think many MET
(46:22):
fans would say he did prove a big pay day,
especially in that playoff series, and to only get a
two year deals, it's kind of crazy. Do you see
a world where Pete would accept another, you know, not
low ball offer, but if it's not the best offer
on the table, you think Pete would leave?
Speaker 1 (46:39):
Yeah, I think it gives me shades of like Piazza
with the Dodgers. You want to be a Dodger for
the rest of his life, right. I do think if
the Cones can make it happen, they will. I think
we're in the best case scenario because of everything that
happened with David Wright and that retirement, and dude, I
was crying that whole weekend we were going to do
a show. If that was today, I would be buckets
right now, man, like it would just be. It was rough,
(47:00):
and it was great to see and it was awesome.
Cliff Floyd looks like he could get out there and
play right now. You saw I dm that to him.
I love that man. He's He's been a great person,
just in a baseball mind. Their interview is so touching.
Cliff killed it interviewing one of his best friends. But
it just goes to show, uh, he's got a new talent.
Speaker 2 (47:21):
Man.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
And you stay at Dingers in New York and Chicago
now and now in Florida and now he now he
talks that talk man on the MLB Network And I
love every second of it. But I hope Pete is
a met for life. But those are gonna come far
and few in between. Nowadays, like having a lifetime player
is going to be something that you'll never forget. And
(47:43):
I'll be very lucky if I get two of them
in my lifetime, you know, So that'd be dope. And
you know, he's he's breaking all the MLB Mets records.
You know, he's arguably the stats are starting to rack
up to where you could almost start looking at you know,
does this guy go to Cooperstown? You know, like he
could he could get hot, he could get hot. And
I know, like first basement numbers are inflated because the
(48:06):
steroids and most steroid users were at first base. Shout
out to smarting Wire, but you know, it's it's tough
to really figure out a way that I'm certain until
I get told that. You know, the twelve year deal,
there's some crazy astronomical deal with no opt outs that
Pete alnsos here for a long haul. But I'll tell
(48:27):
you what, man, we're not in first place right now
if Pete's not on this team.
Speaker 2 (48:30):
Yeah, for sure. For sure.
Speaker 1 (48:32):
Speaking of first place, we're both in first place. And
that's that's unbelievable. Would have thought.
Speaker 2 (48:37):
By the hair of my head, brothers, the Brewers and
the Brewers for a long time just would not lose, Bro.
They lost. They won eleven straight. If I'm not mistaken,
we're actually we're technically in first, but we're both tied,
which is crazy, Philly one dude at home. The Cubs
are thirty three and nineteen. The Brewers are thirty three
and nineteen. Okay, the Brewers are twenty eight and twenty four.
(48:59):
The Cubs are twenty eight and twenty four, and like
their last ten, the Cubs are six and four, the
Brewers are seven and three. And I'm just like, and somehow,
some way, the Reds have won fifty six games, and
I'm just like this NL Central bro is just is
just insane. And it's like it's crazy because I feel
like the Cubs have just been kicking ass the entire
way and it's just like Milwaukee just won't go away, man,
(49:21):
And they really are the dark side of just like
you know, they're they're evil, Bro, They're evil, They're got
magic powers. They don't have a crazy lineup they got
like they got a kid who pitched three games in
the All Star Game. Like that's that's nuts. I don't
even know Milaukeas, I don't know how but the kids
a monster. The kids a monster. Don't get it twisted
like the Brewers. The Brewers terrify me. Brother. If the
(49:42):
Brewers make a serious move of the deadline, maybe they
add Suarez, maybe they add a big arm. They're They're scary, man,
they really are.
Speaker 1 (49:51):
It's the same thing's happening. I ditto everything Mets Phillies
like that. We are living this same exact season so far,
and it's fun, but it is hard fine at the
same time. You know, the Phillies are making Uh the
other team in New York look like what they are
train wreck right now. But the Mets, they've they've won
six in a row. They're on a West coast trip,
(50:13):
which is not easy to do. It's funny. Like two
months ago, somebody from the Mets fan social team was like,
don't worry, we have no more ten o'clock games, like bro,
Monday's ninety, Like don't what are we talking about? Yeah, yeah,
I got played. I was like, oh, that's so great,
no more ten o'clock games, Like I could deal with
(50:33):
a nine, Like n that's ten o'clock, Like you know it.
Speaker 2 (50:39):
Starts at nine forty. But they're not really going to
start the game until and it's a Monday. Yeah yeah,
like right right.
Speaker 1 (50:45):
So dude, this has been a great you know first half.
Trade deadline looks like it's gonna be exciting. I can't
wait to hop back on with you and talk the
final moves. Uh, you know we got some moves this week.
You're going to start your week at the National for us,
making some content, hopefully meeting some amazing uh you know, legends,
sports legends. Gary Vee will be there. You know, the
(51:08):
list goes on and on. We just talked about it. Uh,
but but yeah, you're gonna start your week there. I
am gonna touchdown for the first time in my life
in your hometown, Chicago. I've never been one time.
Speaker 2 (51:19):
I'm not the one time.
Speaker 1 (51:20):
I'm unreal, unreal, man, unreal. I never met you in
person yet, I've you've met Bert, which I you know
we both love. But yeah, I was pretty gutted, but
I understand family first, loved ones first, man, and uh,
there'll be more. I I'm sure. I'm sure this won't
be the last taste. And hopefully, if we do a
great job for the National, they'll keep having us back
(51:40):
because you know, you know they I've worked with them
on some events we've had in Philadelphia, as recent as
last week at Infinity Live.
Speaker 2 (51:49):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
They literally put us in front and center in front
of the stage. We were interacting with the players, more importantly,
the fans and it was a great night. I would love.
I can't wait for what's gonna happen this week. And yeah,
so please please follow the Shy Kid on all socials,
whether it's TikTok, you know, Instagram, Facebook, you name it.
Mikey Hughes is out putting out great Chicago style content
(52:13):
and yeah, you're gonna see more of it at the National.
Follow the Divide Live and you know, I'll be sure
to share. Uh you know what I'm able to do
at this amazing event. Again, Mikey's gonna be there the
first two days. I come in August first through the third.
Uh and uh yeah, we're gonna be rocking it out
at the National. Gary Vee is gonna be there. That's
(52:34):
just crazy and gilding. Guys, what were we talking about earlier?
Speaker 2 (52:38):
I was like, you know, man, at the Cubs, do
make a crazy move or the Mets that and You're
on air and I'm in Florida, you'll definitely get a
FaceTime call from the beach, and I'll just oh without
be yelling at a beach scaring kids, like, look, man,
you know how quick these stream yard links could go out?
Speaker 1 (52:56):
Well, I'll have you right on. We'll yeah yours, Suarez.
Speaker 2 (53:01):
It's over. The season's over.
Speaker 1 (53:03):
Yeah, I'm worried. I'm playing baseball for the first time
probably and almost since I had Peyton. No, she was
like two when I stopped playing, so it's been like
at least seven years. But Gearhard's Appliances is doing a
charity baseball game and we have Team I Heart so Wednesday,
the best first baseman, defensive first baseman ever lived. We'll
(53:25):
be taking that hot corner again. So I'm excited for it. Man,
I can't wait. But it's also trade deadline day, so
I'm like, I'm gonna be checking my phone in between
innings and whenever my team's not playing. So it's gonna
be an epic day for charity. We got other charity
events coming through, so please make sure you're you're tuning in,
checking in, you know, and I'll give us a shot
(53:46):
network wherever socials are and YouTube. But Mikey, I love
you man, I appreciate you. Uh, there's gonna be more
of these, you know. I finally got this thing figured
out over here. They're still working on the soundproof and
stuff like that, but least I got my little desk going.
Speaker 2 (54:01):
So you.
Speaker 1 (54:04):
Yeah, broken clock is right at least one time once
a day, but did not this one. All right, everybody,
have a great night, and uh let's go Mets. Fox
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