August 18, 2024 • 37 mins
Adam and Josh discuss the 2028 LA Olympics and they accidentally start the Zambian National Baseball Team.
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Chirpin from the pine.
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It's time to rage.
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So quickly we're back because we felt like we cheated you a little bit because we talked all this shit that we were gonna talk about UCL injuries and the fucking Olympics and we ended up doing none of that but now you're getting it anyway so I don't want to hear it.
I don't want to hear you bitching and complaining.
No, no, no, we do. We just, we just did it. That was like a bonus episode you got us talking about all the NFL preseason and shit so.
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Anyways, I'm Josh. He's Adam.
Yep.
This is triple from the pine.
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I listen to a bitch about shit. All you fucking mouth breathers that listen to fucking anime.
That's too mean.
That's too mean.
You're a fucking mouth breather.
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Hey fuck you I'm on that show.
I'm on that fucking show.
Hey you know what that shows like our number one fucking show to the numbers don't lie.
So it's also money money.
That money money.
Yeah.
That wasn't a personal attack I was just saying broadly that enemy fans are fat. No.
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Well actually I thought I was the one to push the button but yeah, you did. Yeah, I didn't push the button fucking cave dwellers are fucking they are fucking permits.
They're fucking he keep him or whatever as they call them.
They see called by their own language there.
They're he keep him or a that's what they are talking fucking otaku's anyways.
Anyways, none of them are listening to this anyways because if you like anime you don't like sports.
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Oh yeah, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
Don't show up to school tomorrow.
Yeah.
Hey guys, I just want to let you know don't show up to school tomorrow.
So I guess we could just talk about the first topic and it's not really exactly sports related.
So we have the LA Olympics coming to Los Angeles true and that return that includes the return of fucking baseball.
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Now we got lacrosse and I think we forgot what the third one is.
I'd be surprised if it was fucking 3b3 football but like what country would play football.
No one would just whoop everybody's ass new sports added to Dan.
That would be cool for those three three v3s.
Dude, we should we should sign up and see if we can get in on 3v3 football action.
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Shit man.
It's really a damn shame that there isn't another country hosting so we could have got a free trip out of this.
I know man.
No, now we just get to go down the fucking freeway.
I gotta say man that woman that Rachel Gunn I think is the name the fucking break dancing girl.
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Did you hear about the whole story with her?
I mean I heard some things but.
So her husband was part of the committee that allowed or would coordinate the team for the Australian team for the breakdancing competition.
Competition for the Olympics right?
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Dang.
So she basically got in because her husband was on the committee that was formed to find out who was going to be selected for the Olympic team for Australia.
It wasn't based on merit that she got into this competition or whatever.
That is fucking ridiculous.
I'm not gonna lie I actually kind of respect it because that's the kind of thuggery that we need.
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The fact that she conned her way and it was evidently.
I mean shit dude when you see people doing breakdancing on reels and shit.
I mean they're doing fucking crazy ass bullshit right?
Yeah.
And then you have this woman show up and yeah she didn't get any fucking any type of score or whatever but she got her way to a free trip or she got a trip out of it to go to Paris to compete.
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Meanwhile more athletic more talented people got fucking jib.
I respect it dude like that kind of bullshit is admirable.
I will say this it is admirable for the subhuman countries that are not the United States of America.
I will have none of that horse shit because we win all the medals.
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We need all the medals okay.
So every motherfucker that goes needs to be ready to fucking go.
None of this horse shit.
Oh my husband's on the thing.
This shit would never fly here in America.
No because we actually play to win.
You would be executed immediately if that happened in America.
Also I will say this it's this 2028 games will feature the debut of flag football and squash as optional sports it says but what the fuck does that mean.
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Oh if it works if it happens to work out or what the fuck.
Let me see 20.
What is optional.
USA Olympic flag football let's see if we can get on it.
I swear to God you know who's going to kick our ass New Zealand.
Probably they're crazy.
Because they basically play that game with rugby.
So they're just going to run the ball and steamroll people like who's going to be able to grab their fucking flags.
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2024 men's and women's flag football national teams.
Let's see who the fuck is in on this shit.
Let's see name position and residence.
Holy shit man.
Imagine we see has been fucking football players try to Nico Casaris is a quarterback.
Darryl Doucette quarterback.
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See I'm just looking for quarterbacks because I'm still gonna see if I see any names.
Oh Jamie Kennedy from fucking the Jamie Kennedy experiment.
He's a defensive backslash wide receiver man that's pretty sweet.
Man if you like if you wanted any fucking chance at any type of glory this is your opportunity at three.
Is it three V three or what is it.
I don't know what it is.
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I think it's just regular.
I think it's five on five.
Oh it's five on five.
OK.
All right wait let me see this.
It is what if we just send our best at what if we said Tyreek Hill as a why we just get our best everything and just send them and we just annihilate everybody dude.
Dude I didn't even know flag football was a thing.
It says the nation's 120 best flag football players 60 men and 60 women descended upon the U.S. Performance Center in Charlotte North Carolina for testing and field work.
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You know what's kind of horseshit is I feel like the Olympics are supposed to be for amateur meaning that you don't play professionally.
That is true.
Like the fact that LeBron like Steph Curry and all these guys that end up playing for the national basketball team represent us when it's supposed to be like amateur athletes.
I had to fucking hilarious.
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That's true.
That is true.
I wonder if we can get on the one thing get on the flag football fucking team.
That's what I was saying man.
We need a clean residency at some other country and just so we can get in for the next four or five years.
And then like for Botswana we just start like our own baseball team.
We can do that.
We can fucking make that happen.
We just end up in another country.
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Just go find automatic bid to the Olympics.
Yeah like we just find all the kids who are good at baseball and we just be like all right listen this is what we're going to do.
We're going to the Olympics.
Free trip.
You motherfuckers.
But it has to be somewhere else because in L.A. it doesn't mean anything because we're basically over here.
Yeah that's why 2032 we will figure out where that's going to be and we'll go.
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We have eight years to get the Botswana fucking national baseball team ready.
All right.
Yeah.
Dude this is going to be like the bad news bears but like in a foreign international level.
Oh shit man.
Maybe we should help those guys in Bhutan who the guys that were playing at the Buddhist temple they're playing like baseball.
Oh yeah that's super bad ass photos.
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It's like man they already kind of got the ball rolling mainly just playing for recreational purposes.
Yeah.
And then there was a team that we could just co-opt and take over so we can go to the Olympics.
We'll just do that.
Yeah.
Actually I want to see who is in dead last place for the fucking Olympics this year.
Let's see who won the least medals.
Zambia.
All right.
So we need to go to Zambia.
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That's where we got to go.
All right.
We got to pick.
Well fuck we're going to have to wait until the L.A. one and see who's in last place.
Maybe we should just start there now.
They got one silver medal.
We got to hit them up and be like hey we want to get a baseball team.
They got one bronze medal in athletics.
What the fuck is athletics.
It's like track and field I think.
Why don't you just call it track and field then.
Why you got to call it athletics.
That sounds fucking confusing.
It's not too broad.
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Go click one of the other countries.
Oh athletics.
The men's 400 meter.
All right.
So this guy we're going to have him.
He's going to be our second baseman.
Muzala Samukanga.
All right.
Because he's fast.
He's going to be our leadoff hitter.
That's the first guy we're getting picked on the fucking Batumat or the Zambian baseball team.
All right.
I got something I got something worth mentioning for a track and field.
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OK.
Because a lot of the countries that end up winning the long distance running and I hope
I'm not stereotyping but I just think it's just the perfect circumstance for these type
of things where like if it's fucking Kenya or or one of the one of the many countries
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within Africa that end up taking gold for track and field especially like the long long
distance running I think I think those circumstances where water is not accessible or even how
there's not that much in some cases there's not that much food to go around that walking
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or running is kind of like the mode of transport most of the times or not most of times but
in some cases that they end up becoming super athletes as a consequence of their fucking
daily lives and I feel like that's why we see countries like fucking Kenya or I can't
even think of other countries but this is their fucking life it's life or death for
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them.
Yeah.
They end up taking gold because who else lives a fucking lifestyle like that that's so harsh
that anybody can compete with them because they're basically running marathons to to
fucking live.
So true.
What do you think about that?
Because that I think that's why you like countries like that end up taking gold for track and
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field because it's just their fucking life.
Yeah.
I think that also like they don't I mean they don't have access to like major vehicles or
like shit like that where it's like yeah like you said it's your everyday part of your life
is like oh you got to walk everywhere.
Uganda is like another country that had a number of athletes that won gold if I'm not
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mistaken in track and field.
But anyways getting to the main topic at hand for LA Olympics and this is more just about
the creative aspect of the Olympics.
So they've basically revealed some of the graphics and basically the branding for the
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LA Olympics itself and it includes the typical rings that you would expect for the Olympics
and then you have LA 28.
And there is there's a letter missing and it's the letter A and what this supposed what's
this what this supposed to denote or represent or depict is that what is LA represent to
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you so they had I think they commissioned like 32 people for this whole promotion or
campaign for the LA Olympics.
I'm like man that's fucking badass like that's actually kind of cool because what I think
this in turn will mean for other people especially as the date gets closer is I think a lot of
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people that are hungry that are graphic designers are going to take this template like this
this LA Olympics template the LA and then 28 and then come up with their own creative
design for LA itself.
So I think it's actually going to what it ends up doing is creating a bunch of content
that people are going to make videos of how what their approach was to make their own
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design true and it's just going to promote the LA Olympics itself indirectly by people
just creating this fucking thing and I don't know I'm just I was just really fascinated
by that because I don't think that's ever been done with other other Olympics prior
to.
I think it's all you know very like I don't know what it's called pyramid proper or whatever
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we're like it's all only oh we'll only take the best artists submissions and blah blah
blah but like that yeah that is fucking cool man like the way that they they did that and
yeah the logo looks fucking cool and like I'm just who knows what the fuck is going to
be you know when we get there.
All I know is that traffic is going to be fucked so that's you know.
Yeah we'll see what happens with I think it's just going to be fucking Carmageddon.
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What was it like 10,000 10,000 to the nth degree.
It's going to be fucking wild but getting back to like the subject of graphic design
man since it is tangentially related to sports I think this is one of the coolest things
that I've seen as far as the Olympics.
I think it's going to get a lot of people excited.
I also think it's going to make a lot of people fucking money that are on social media.
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At least that they're going to draw interest in themselves but also promote the Olympics
itself by creating content around this fucking template for yeah for the poster or like the
graphic art for the LA Olympics but anyways I just brought that up because I thought it
was fucking interesting.
Yeah yeah no I think it's very interesting and I can't wait to pirate it.
I mean what shit maybe we'll make our own fucking logo the game rage version.
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Yeah that'd be fucking hilarious and now on to the main course I suppose or the secondary
course which is I guess it might be the main course.
A course nonetheless.
Hell maybe it's the intercourse.
Oh got him.
Got him.
I want to have sex with your wife.
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Oh god damn it.
Yeah that's a perk angle.
You talk about fucking and he just has to show up and fucking rear his ugly bald head.
Yeah we have maximum security and he still finds his way to the building so we have to
fucking get him escorted out for the umpteenth time.
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So about baseball itself man I'm starting to fucking lose my mind with this bullshit
with the UCL tears.
I don't know what's provoking it I don't know if it's guys throwing 105 miles an hour because
I shit that's cool and everything but if it's getting to the point where people are restraining
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their arms I don't know and also this pitch clock thing I don't know if that's also contributing
factor for guys tearing their UCL.
Yeah it could be.
Because I don't know what is it like 24 seconds or.
I think it's 28 I don't know.
28 seconds oh fuck I don't even know what it is but.
Plus we're both wrong it's like fucking it's like two minutes.
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No it's not.
It's a pitch clock.
But uh.
Pitch clock.
I don't know if the allotted time is enough that these guys.
Oh it's 30 seconds.
It's 30 seconds.
Oh it's wait oh wait sorry.
30 second timer between batters.
Between batters okay.
Okay it's okay it's 30 seconds between batteries.
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And then we got 15 seconds with the bases empty between pitches okay between pitches
it's 15 seconds.
Okay.
With nobody on and it's 20 seconds with runners on.
Now they reduced it to 18 seconds with runners on this year in 2024 so you have 15 seconds
in between pitches when no one's on and then when you have somebody on it's 18 seconds.
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Well in either case man 18 seconds is not a lot of time.
Well because then you got to okay because like if you stand there all right it's it's
not even it's from the second the pitch hits the catcher's gloves when they start the set
the clock.
Yeah.
So now the asshole's got the catcher has to throw the ball back to me okay.
I catch it then I got to walk to the mound which you because I'm probably in front of
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it so I got to walk back to the mound all right.
I got to take my fucking stance on the rubber.
I got to get the sign from the catcher who has to have gotten it from or get it on the
fucking pitch com or whatever and if I get it from the pitch com okay he could be telling
me the next pitch as I'm fucking walking back up hey I want to throw a fastball.
Okay you got it boss fucking I get on the mound you know just take my stance and then
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I look you know whatever I'm gonna check the runner and then I go.
Yeah.
You got 18 seconds to do all that.
If there's nobody on you see you only have 15 seconds to do that but then depending on
what type of pitcher you are if you're gonna throw from the the full standing upright position
do the full wind up motion or if you're gonna just throw from the stretch with one foot
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on the rubber like that that probably maybe will take into account people maybe maybe
guys have changed their fucking their stance and they don't go for the full wind up anymore
and they just go fuck it I'm just gonna go to the stretch and I will say when you go
from the stretch you're not getting the full I feel like you're losing a little bit when
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you go from the stretch it's not I don't think you can maybe I think if you go from the full
wind up you're getting to get a little bit more motion and a little bit more momentum
to help your arm throw the ball because you also got to remember too I do think I think
what you're saying is there's validity to it and I think there's needs to be studies
done.
By people more competent than us for sure.
Yeah I mean we're.
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But my my theory is I think that there has been a change or a shift in mechanics from
the old days and I think that the emphasis because it's always been your legs man the
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pitchers in the in the 80s and 90s even like these dudes had just tree trunk fucking legs
and if you look at a lot of pitchers now they're skinny they have thin legs like they're not
like the power is not coming from your legs anymore or it's it's there's not enough power
to draw from so if you're having to crank your arm and get your arm in motion to start
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doing shit I think that's maybe why you're seeing you could we could be seeing more of
these injuries now as a result of people skipping leg day and general just weakness so I think
that's really what the problem is is just people not not fucking not throwing mechanically
the same as they used to.
I don't fucking know what it is because it makes me wonder if the pitch clock is even
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the thing too that there's not even a resting point between like you have 15 seconds so
it's like all right you get you throw the pitch you get it to the catcher and then immediately
the clock starts ticking for getting the next pitch in motion and if there's no rest period
between pitches themselves does that contribute to muscle aches or even muscle tears or because
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there's no in between because you know like in tennis or well even baseball prior to these
pitch clocks and yeah they're the whole reason why this whole fucking thing started is because
there were pitchers that just fucking lollygagged around the fucking pitching mound or they took
too long to find out what pitch they're gonna throw and yeah like yeah it's it's reduced
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the game time significantly but as an expense to putting in these or instituting these new
rules and this pitch clock is there no rest period enough for that that players are getting
themselves injured or whatever i don't know if it's i i still think that it could be something
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with mechanics and the way people are being taught to throw and also the lack of leg power
i think it's and and and i think that this was a problem before but the pitch clock has
now just exacerbated the problem because if if people would go back to throwing from your
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legs or fucking whatever it wouldn't really matter how much rest you had in between because
like your arm is just the fucking delivery mechanism it's not the power source but i
think a lot of guys are throwing from their arm with the as the power source now or a
higher piece of the power source puzzle which it should be basically at the bottom i mean
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and you got guys that threw 100 mile an hour pitches back in the day that that didn't have
ucl surgeries so you know now you got guys huh no one ryan yeah no one ryan didn't have
a uc didn't have any fucking tommy johns or so who knows i'm sure there is a correlation
somehow between the pitch clock because i mean it had it seems to be since the pitch
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clock has been implemented happening more frequently but that's the thing is we also
that could also be uh what's the word not counterintuitive but it could just be like
it could be that it's not substantiated by that that this just exacerbated a different
problem that the root it couldn't be the root cause like the pitch clock maybe isn't the
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root cause of the problem but it doesn't but it exacerbated whatever the problem is yeah
so i don't know currently the dodgers have at least 10 plus pitchers if i'm not mistaken
they have all resulted in ucl tears dustin may uh somebody over the weekend one of the
rookie pitchers river ryan fucking tore his ucl and on my shit man now it's making me
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wonder if the coaching staff aren't doing what they need to protect their pitchers from
getting injured and shit or if it's something else if they're asking too much of these players
but i'm like no these guys are getting five the pitching rotation is basically has been
like six or seven dudes in the rotation so it's not like these guys aren't getting the
rest because most rotations are like somewhere around five yeah they're basically going five
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innings five innings i'm talking about five days of rest yeah five five days before they
get to the next start and you're throwing five or six innings maybe minimally so it's
kind of like all right is it is it is it the rest is it the is it the maybe people are
just weak i don't know like i don't fucking know man but you know what also makes you
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fucking wonder this is like a topic to transition away from this uh ucl this ucl shit but we
already kind of talked about it with the guys not going deep yeah i'm starting to think
that it and maybe it's just times are changing and and it's i hate to say this because i'm
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not even an athlete anymore but it's like are we getting fucking soft with like pitchers
dude yeah man i think we are because the slightest inconvenience as well like tyler glass now
has gone back on the il for like the second stint and i'm not even sure if i actually
believe him actually having tendonitis he's not being a bitch other than to have because
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he's basically he's hit his pitching pitched innings max like his total innings pitch within
a season he's basically reached it so i feel like they're protecting him by putting him
on phantom il stints jesus uh or at least that's what my belief is because the the last
time he was on an il stint was he had back tightness which feels like a general illness
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or and no one can prove or disprove that nobody can prove or disapprove that so and i know
this isn't exclusive to the dodgers but i'm starting to wonder if this is just the new
standard for pitching where we only see guys go five innings deep and then you have something
of like a long relief guy or maybe maybe even maybe we even have double the amount of starters
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and guys get paid less they get scaled back because they're not going as fucking deep
and you basically have two starting pitchers in the game itself one that goes four innings
and you have another guy that goes another three or four innings you have like a secondary
starter yeah like that's what it feels like now yeah that's what it is because that's
probably what it's going to change to um that seems like the natural evolution of this whole
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thing i i also think that a contributing factor to some of the softness and this is probably
going to be a hot take but i don't give a fuck because this is how i feel uh i think
the way that they treat some of these guys that come out of high school and like draft
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them right out of fucking high school and put them in the system or these guys that
while they're in high school they're playing they're playing games in like major league
stadiums it's like they're being groomed from like high school to get there i feel like
that kind of fucking has something to do with it as well like that mentality you might have
a good point because i mean fuck i've been following dude we well our our instagram follows
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fucking all these some of these assholes because oh i mean not that they're assholes but it's
these guys that i think are being kind of i don't know if it's coddled is the right
word but it just seems like uh this this is setting up a bad precedent i feel like it
possibly i mean possibly because one guy i'm not gonna say his name but i don't know if
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he was pushed to start throwing a hundred out of high school yeah but that's seemingly
what guys are aiming for in order to win people over uh yeah to to say this is where you got
a pitch now because everybody's hitting so well possibly because of analytics and also
all the footage that everybody has on everybody that you just need to throw fucking gas to
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to beat pitchers because they're gonna get behind on swingy or whatever but if you're
already pitching 100 miles an hour in high school fuck what kind of damage are you doing
to your arm oh throwing a baseball is like the least natural fucking motion on the planet
and it's you're you're fucking yourself up every time you do it and if you're trying
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to if you're trying to hit 100 in high school or out right out of high school yeah you're
fucking your your future up man your career is not going to last and this is i am i honestly
after seeing all this shit that we've seen once we got into the when we got thrust into
the high school baseball scene by fucking accident basically last year or whatever or
earlier this year i do believe that after seeing all this stuff i fully believe in support
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that there should be a moratorium there should be an age limit on drafting into the mlb i
think like you should have to go to college and get drafted out of college i don't think
you should be pulling guys out of fucking high school at all because baseball is a game
of like longevity and if you have dudes that you're putting into this pipeline at 18 years
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old and expecting shit out of them that and again they're just dumb fucking kids man you're
not growing yeah you may legally be an adult when you're 18 but you're not a fucking adult
you're still a child you haven't fucking learned shit yet manipulative it's super manipulative
and when i see these guys that are 16 17 18 in these commercials for like performance
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centers and shit like that okay man i get it dude like it's cool to be in that it's
cool to like you know have that feeling of somebody wanting you or like making you feel
like you're fucking derrick jeter in a fucking gatorade commercial right like that's that's
what they're going for but man you're 16 bro you should not be worried about this you should
not be concerned about this at all and yes i understand i am a boomer for sure on this
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issue we didn't have this problem back when i played nobody was getting deals with performance
centers nobody was none of that shit existed nobody even fucking wanted to talk to you
unless you played at the collegiate level even if you played in junior college you didn't
get fucking you had to play at like fucking a four-year d1 d1 or d2 fucking college to
even get fucking talked to now they're going straight to fucking high school and getting
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guys in shit as we've seen and i've bitched about before the the accounts with the eight
nine-year-olds fucking uh training like professional fucking players and shit and i'm like dude
that's not that's not a good look that's not good and that's going and i think that is
going to be part of the problem with whatever this next generation is is yeah you're gonna
get guys that are outliers that are gonna be fucking great and phenoms but generally
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it seems like the mentality of a lot of these younger people is oh i got it i'm just doing
all this stuff i'm just playing baseball that's my whole life is baseball right and when you
got a guy who's just done baseball for fucking the last 10 years of his life from 10 to 20
and now when he's 21 he's he's making it finally to the show and he gets hurt or he faces some
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kind of adversity he doesn't have anything he doesn't have any bad experiences to draw
from that like people we've talked to that were in that zone or whatever high school
it's like bro yeah i get it like your buddies have not faced any fucking adversity whatsoever
in their life you guys go to school you fucking go to your you don't even go to school you
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go online you go to your fucking training performance center you throw balls fucking
and and hit do bp for fucking four or five hours a day maybe you do a little weightlifting
maybe you i don't even know if they're doing that maybe you do whatever some some kind
of physical training and that's the end of it and then you go play in the games and shit
right that's that's kind of what it's become for for these people that get into this pipeline
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and i think it just breeds a mentality of oh i'm like owed this i've been this is me
paying my dues of just going and doing baseball all the time so now i'm owed this so now when
you get into the real shit you get into the real situation and you're not given that what
happens then what happens with that guy then so or if they asked uh i mean aside from that
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like yeah if they're being asked too much right if they're asking guys to hey if you
want to make it you better start throwing 100 miles an hour because you want to be recruited
by if you want to be scouted this is what you have to do now it's like before they even
have a chance to really get off and be a star in the mlb they're already fucking setting
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themselves up for disasters yeah the goalpost just continually keeps getting moved forward
and it's it's like it's like that brass ring thing it's it's not it's never attainable
like you'll never be it's always out of reach because they're just moving the goalpost on
you and and there's guys that we talked about that we said hey you know what we're gonna
watch these dudes over the next five six seven years depending on how long their careers
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last and see where they are five years from now and people that are being touted as phenoms
now i doubt will be anything of the sort in five to seven years yeah because of this fucking
shit like one thing i have to say about pitching as well because now they were on the subject
of speed yeah who gives a fuck if somebody could throw 105 yeah is it cool is it gimmicky
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like is it cool to see a guy throw that fast fuck yeah it's awesome like holy shit this
is this is what athletic ability is at its peak right but fuck man most of those guys
can't even locate the fastball right most of the guys who throw in the high 90s can't
even locate the fastball so what's funny about that is okay i i called i don't know what
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if this has a name or not but i'll refer to it as the batting cage principle when it comes
to speed so yeah it's it's it's it's cool to say that oh you can hit triple digits or
you can throw 100 miles an hour right but just like at the batting cages you can get
up to hitting it's very easy to catch to 100 miles an hour to be able to fucking hit that
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shit it's all it is is timing essentially um so if you fucking go from 50 to the 60 cage
to the 70 cage to the 80 cage to the 90 cage and then to the 100 cage right you slow you
work your way up and eventually you can hit 100 mile an hour fastballs like it's no big
deal if you practice it enough and guess what
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so but i will say what the fuck was i saying the we were talking about oh the batting cage
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theory it doesn't matter if you can fucking throw 100 miles an hour eventually everyone's
just going to be able to hit that so sure maybe for like 12 to 18 months you might be
unstoppable but then once everybody figures it out and it just becomes the norm you just
fucking shorten their swing yeah you shorten your swing and you start your swing sooner
that's all you need to do because it's still eye contact batting the ball you train it
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enough you will see the ball it's it's just a training issue so your phenomenal feat
of throwing 100 mile an hour yeah it's cool it's gimmicky in the moment but like at the
end of the day it's not it doesn't last it doesn't define you as a pitcher it's like
it shouldn't because you aren't going to be able to do that for very fucking long yeah
that guy on the angels the fuck Ben Joyce yeah sure it was cool as shit to see a triple
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digit number get hit every fucking pitch he was when he was closing but tell me where
you're at in five years are you still going to be able to do that in five years doubt
it I doubt if you're gonna be able to do that in three years yeah I think pitching command
should be like the most important thing taught at any fucking level is if you can fucking
locate because you're basically a magician at that point if you could put your pitches
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where they need to be yeah and you know the guy you know the guy is a hitter where he
falls short as a in a swing like where the problems are you can attack it every single
time you already know like so it doesn't matter how fast you throw because you already see
how the batter is yeah exactly so 105 miles an hour is not going to make a fucking huge
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difference makes fuck all difference yeah so yeah anyways anyways well how long was that
we've been going for 36 minutes so sounds about right anyways well that'll be it for
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I listen to a bitch about shit. All you fucking mouth breathers that listen to fucking anime.
That's too mean.
That's too mean.
You're a fucking mouth breather.
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Hey fuck you I'm on that show.
I'm on that fucking show.
Hey you know what that shows like our number one fucking show to the numbers don't lie.
So it's also money money.
That money money.
Yeah.
That wasn't a personal attack I was just saying broadly that enemy fans are fat. No.
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Well actually I thought I was the one to push the button but yeah, you did. Yeah, I didn't push the button fucking cave dwellers are fucking they are fucking permits.
They're fucking he keep him or whatever as they call them.
They see called by their own language there.
They're he keep him or a that's what they are talking fucking otaku's anyways.
Anyways, none of them are listening to this anyways because if you like anime you don't like sports.
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Oh yeah, that's true.
That's true.
That's true.
Don't show up to school tomorrow.
Yeah.
Hey guys, I just want to let you know don't show up to school tomorrow.
So I guess we could just talk about the first topic and it's not really exactly sports related.
So we have the LA Olympics coming to Los Angeles true and that return that includes the return of fucking baseball.
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Now we got lacrosse and I think we forgot what the third one is.
I'd be surprised if it was fucking 3b3 football but like what country would play football.
No one would just whoop everybody's ass new sports added to Dan.
That would be cool for those three three v3s.
Dude, we should we should sign up and see if we can get in on 3v3 football action.
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Shit man.
It's really a damn shame that there isn't another country hosting so we could have got a free trip out of this.
I know man.
No, now we just get to go down the fucking freeway.
I gotta say man that woman that Rachel Gunn I think is the name the fucking break dancing girl.
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Did you hear about the whole story with her?
I mean I heard some things but.
So her husband was part of the committee that allowed or would coordinate the team for the Australian team for the breakdancing competition.
Competition for the Olympics right?
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Dang.
So she basically got in because her husband was on the committee that was formed to find out who was going to be selected for the Olympic team for Australia.
It wasn't based on merit that she got into this competition or whatever.
That is fucking ridiculous.
I'm not gonna lie I actually kind of respect it because that's the kind of thuggery that we need.
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The fact that she conned her way and it was evidently.
I mean shit dude when you see people doing breakdancing on reels and shit.
I mean they're doing fucking crazy ass bullshit right?
Yeah.
And then you have this woman show up and yeah she didn't get any fucking any type of score or whatever but she got her way to a free trip or she got a trip out of it to go to Paris to compete.
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Meanwhile more athletic more talented people got fucking jib.
I respect it dude like that kind of bullshit is admirable.
I will say this it is admirable for the subhuman countries that are not the United States of America.
I will have none of that horse shit because we win all the medals.
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We need all the medals okay.
So every motherfucker that goes needs to be ready to fucking go.
None of this horse shit.
Oh my husband's on the thing.
This shit would never fly here in America.
No because we actually play to win.
You would be executed immediately if that happened in America.
Also I will say this it's this 2028 games will feature the debut of flag football and squash as optional sports it says but what the fuck does that mean.
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Oh if it works if it happens to work out or what the fuck.
Let me see 20.
What is optional.
USA Olympic flag football let's see if we can get on it.
I swear to God you know who's going to kick our ass New Zealand.
Probably they're crazy.
Because they basically play that game with rugby.
So they're just going to run the ball and steamroll people like who's going to be able to grab their fucking flags.
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2024 men's and women's flag football national teams.
Let's see who the fuck is in on this shit.
Let's see name position and residence.
Holy shit man.
Imagine we see has been fucking football players try to Nico Casaris is a quarterback.
Darryl Doucette quarterback.
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See I'm just looking for quarterbacks because I'm still gonna see if I see any names.
Oh Jamie Kennedy from fucking the Jamie Kennedy experiment.
He's a defensive backslash wide receiver man that's pretty sweet.
Man if you like if you wanted any fucking chance at any type of glory this is your opportunity at three.
Is it three V three or what is it.
I don't know what it is.
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I think it's just regular.
I think it's five on five.
Oh it's five on five.
OK.
All right wait let me see this.
It is what if we just send our best at what if we said Tyreek Hill as a why we just get our best everything and just send them and we just annihilate everybody dude.
Dude I didn't even know flag football was a thing.
It says the nation's 120 best flag football players 60 men and 60 women descended upon the U.S. Performance Center in Charlotte North Carolina for testing and field work.
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You know what's kind of horseshit is I feel like the Olympics are supposed to be for amateur meaning that you don't play professionally.
That is true.
Like the fact that LeBron like Steph Curry and all these guys that end up playing for the national basketball team represent us when it's supposed to be like amateur athletes.
I had to fucking hilarious.
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That's true.
That is true.
I wonder if we can get on the one thing get on the flag football fucking team.
That's what I was saying man.
We need a clean residency at some other country and just so we can get in for the next four or five years.
And then like for Botswana we just start like our own baseball team.
We can do that.
We can fucking make that happen.
We just end up in another country.
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Just go find automatic bid to the Olympics.
Yeah like we just find all the kids who are good at baseball and we just be like all right listen this is what we're going to do.
We're going to the Olympics.
Free trip.
You motherfuckers.
But it has to be somewhere else because in L.A. it doesn't mean anything because we're basically over here.
Yeah that's why 2032 we will figure out where that's going to be and we'll go.
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We have eight years to get the Botswana fucking national baseball team ready.
All right.
Yeah.
Dude this is going to be like the bad news bears but like in a foreign international level.
Oh shit man.
Maybe we should help those guys in Bhutan who the guys that were playing at the Buddhist temple they're playing like baseball.
Oh yeah that's super bad ass photos.
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It's like man they already kind of got the ball rolling mainly just playing for recreational purposes.
Yeah.
And then there was a team that we could just co-opt and take over so we can go to the Olympics.
We'll just do that.
Yeah.
Actually I want to see who is in dead last place for the fucking Olympics this year.
Let's see who won the least medals.
Zambia.
All right.
So we need to go to Zambia.
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That's where we got to go.
All right.
We got to pick.
Well fuck we're going to have to wait until the L.A. one and see who's in last place.
Maybe we should just start there now.
They got one silver medal.
We got to hit them up and be like hey we want to get a baseball team.
They got one bronze medal in athletics.
What the fuck is athletics.
It's like track and field I think.
Why don't you just call it track and field then.
Why you got to call it athletics.
That sounds fucking confusing.
It's not too broad.
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Go click one of the other countries.
Oh athletics.
The men's 400 meter.
All right.
So this guy we're going to have him.
He's going to be our second baseman.
Muzala Samukanga.
All right.
Because he's fast.
He's going to be our leadoff hitter.
That's the first guy we're getting picked on the fucking Batumat or the Zambian baseball team.
All right.
I got something I got something worth mentioning for a track and field.
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OK.
Because a lot of the countries that end up winning the long distance running and I hope
I'm not stereotyping but I just think it's just the perfect circumstance for these type
of things where like if it's fucking Kenya or or one of the one of the many countries
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within Africa that end up taking gold for track and field especially like the long long
distance running I think I think those circumstances where water is not accessible or even how
there's not that much in some cases there's not that much food to go around that walking
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or running is kind of like the mode of transport most of the times or not most of times but
in some cases that they end up becoming super athletes as a consequence of their fucking
daily lives and I feel like that's why we see countries like fucking Kenya or I can't
even think of other countries but this is their fucking life it's life or death for
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them.
Yeah.
They end up taking gold because who else lives a fucking lifestyle like that that's so harsh
that anybody can compete with them because they're basically running marathons to to
fucking live.
So true.
What do you think about that?
Because that I think that's why you like countries like that end up taking gold for track and
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field because it's just their fucking life.
Yeah.
I think that also like they don't I mean they don't have access to like major vehicles or
like shit like that where it's like yeah like you said it's your everyday part of your life
is like oh you got to walk everywhere.
Uganda is like another country that had a number of athletes that won gold if I'm not
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mistaken in track and field.
But anyways getting to the main topic at hand for LA Olympics and this is more just about
the creative aspect of the Olympics.
So they've basically revealed some of the graphics and basically the branding for the
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LA Olympics itself and it includes the typical rings that you would expect for the Olympics
and then you have LA 28.
And there is there's a letter missing and it's the letter A and what this supposed what's
this what this supposed to denote or represent or depict is that what is LA represent to
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you so they had I think they commissioned like 32 people for this whole promotion or
campaign for the LA Olympics.
I'm like man that's fucking badass like that's actually kind of cool because what I think
this in turn will mean for other people especially as the date gets closer is I think a lot of
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people that are hungry that are graphic designers are going to take this template like this
this LA Olympics template the LA and then 28 and then come up with their own creative
design for LA itself.
So I think it's actually going to what it ends up doing is creating a bunch of content
that people are going to make videos of how what their approach was to make their own
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design true and it's just going to promote the LA Olympics itself indirectly by people
just creating this fucking thing and I don't know I'm just I was just really fascinated
by that because I don't think that's ever been done with other other Olympics prior
to.
I think it's all you know very like I don't know what it's called pyramid proper or whatever
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we're like it's all only oh we'll only take the best artists submissions and blah blah
blah but like that yeah that is fucking cool man like the way that they they did that and
yeah the logo looks fucking cool and like I'm just who knows what the fuck is going to
be you know when we get there.
All I know is that traffic is going to be fucked so that's you know.
Yeah we'll see what happens with I think it's just going to be fucking Carmageddon.
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What was it like 10,000 10,000 to the nth degree.
It's going to be fucking wild but getting back to like the subject of graphic design
man since it is tangentially related to sports I think this is one of the coolest things
that I've seen as far as the Olympics.
I think it's going to get a lot of people excited.
I also think it's going to make a lot of people fucking money that are on social media.
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At least that they're going to draw interest in themselves but also promote the Olympics
itself by creating content around this fucking template for yeah for the poster or like the
graphic art for the LA Olympics but anyways I just brought that up because I thought it
was fucking interesting.
Yeah yeah no I think it's very interesting and I can't wait to pirate it.
I mean what shit maybe we'll make our own fucking logo the game rage version.
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Yeah that'd be fucking hilarious and now on to the main course I suppose or the secondary
course which is I guess it might be the main course.
A course nonetheless.
Hell maybe it's the intercourse.
Oh got him.
Got him.
I want to have sex with your wife.
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Oh god damn it.
Yeah that's a perk angle.
You talk about fucking and he just has to show up and fucking rear his ugly bald head.
Yeah we have maximum security and he still finds his way to the building so we have to
fucking get him escorted out for the umpteenth time.
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So about baseball itself man I'm starting to fucking lose my mind with this bullshit
with the UCL tears.
I don't know what's provoking it I don't know if it's guys throwing 105 miles an hour because
I shit that's cool and everything but if it's getting to the point where people are restraining
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their arms I don't know and also this pitch clock thing I don't know if that's also contributing
factor for guys tearing their UCL.
Yeah it could be.
Because I don't know what is it like 24 seconds or.
I think it's 28 I don't know.
28 seconds oh fuck I don't even know what it is but.
Plus we're both wrong it's like fucking it's like two minutes.
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No it's not.
It's a pitch clock.
But uh.
Pitch clock.
I don't know if the allotted time is enough that these guys.
Oh it's 30 seconds.
It's 30 seconds.
Oh it's wait oh wait sorry.
30 second timer between batters.
Between batters okay.
Okay it's okay it's 30 seconds between batteries.
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And then we got 15 seconds with the bases empty between pitches okay between pitches
it's 15 seconds.
Okay.
With nobody on and it's 20 seconds with runners on.
Now they reduced it to 18 seconds with runners on this year in 2024 so you have 15 seconds
in between pitches when no one's on and then when you have somebody on it's 18 seconds.
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Well in either case man 18 seconds is not a lot of time.
Well because then you got to okay because like if you stand there all right it's it's
not even it's from the second the pitch hits the catcher's gloves when they start the set
the clock.
Yeah.
So now the asshole's got the catcher has to throw the ball back to me okay.
I catch it then I got to walk to the mound which you because I'm probably in front of
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it so I got to walk back to the mound all right.
I got to take my fucking stance on the rubber.
I got to get the sign from the catcher who has to have gotten it from or get it on the
fucking pitch com or whatever and if I get it from the pitch com okay he could be telling
me the next pitch as I'm fucking walking back up hey I want to throw a fastball.
Okay you got it boss fucking I get on the mound you know just take my stance and then
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I look you know whatever I'm gonna check the runner and then I go.
Yeah.
You got 18 seconds to do all that.
If there's nobody on you see you only have 15 seconds to do that but then depending on
what type of pitcher you are if you're gonna throw from the the full standing upright position
do the full wind up motion or if you're gonna just throw from the stretch with one foot
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on the rubber like that that probably maybe will take into account people maybe maybe
guys have changed their fucking their stance and they don't go for the full wind up anymore
and they just go fuck it I'm just gonna go to the stretch and I will say when you go
from the stretch you're not getting the full I feel like you're losing a little bit when
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you go from the stretch it's not I don't think you can maybe I think if you go from the full
wind up you're getting to get a little bit more motion and a little bit more momentum
to help your arm throw the ball because you also got to remember too I do think I think
what you're saying is there's validity to it and I think there's needs to be studies
done.
By people more competent than us for sure.
Yeah I mean we're.
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But my my theory is I think that there has been a change or a shift in mechanics from
the old days and I think that the emphasis because it's always been your legs man the
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pitchers in the in the 80s and 90s even like these dudes had just tree trunk fucking legs
and if you look at a lot of pitchers now they're skinny they have thin legs like they're not
like the power is not coming from your legs anymore or it's it's there's not enough power
to draw from so if you're having to crank your arm and get your arm in motion to start
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doing shit I think that's maybe why you're seeing you could we could be seeing more of
these injuries now as a result of people skipping leg day and general just weakness so I think
that's really what the problem is is just people not not fucking not throwing mechanically
the same as they used to.
I don't fucking know what it is because it makes me wonder if the pitch clock is even
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the thing too that there's not even a resting point between like you have 15 seconds so
it's like all right you get you throw the pitch you get it to the catcher and then immediately
the clock starts ticking for getting the next pitch in motion and if there's no rest period
between pitches themselves does that contribute to muscle aches or even muscle tears or because
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there's no in between because you know like in tennis or well even baseball prior to these
pitch clocks and yeah they're the whole reason why this whole fucking thing started is because
there were pitchers that just fucking lollygagged around the fucking pitching mound or they took
too long to find out what pitch they're gonna throw and yeah like yeah it's it's reduced
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the game time significantly but as an expense to putting in these or instituting these new
rules and this pitch clock is there no rest period enough for that that players are getting
themselves injured or whatever i don't know if it's i i still think that it could be something
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with mechanics and the way people are being taught to throw and also the lack of leg power
i think it's and and and i think that this was a problem before but the pitch clock has
now just exacerbated the problem because if if people would go back to throwing from your
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legs or fucking whatever it wouldn't really matter how much rest you had in between because
like your arm is just the fucking delivery mechanism it's not the power source but i
think a lot of guys are throwing from their arm with the as the power source now or a
higher piece of the power source puzzle which it should be basically at the bottom i mean
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and you got guys that threw 100 mile an hour pitches back in the day that that didn't have
ucl surgeries so you know now you got guys huh no one ryan yeah no one ryan didn't have
a uc didn't have any fucking tommy johns or so who knows i'm sure there is a correlation
somehow between the pitch clock because i mean it had it seems to be since the pitch
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clock has been implemented happening more frequently but that's the thing is we also
that could also be uh what's the word not counterintuitive but it could just be like
it could be that it's not substantiated by that that this just exacerbated a different
problem that the root it couldn't be the root cause like the pitch clock maybe isn't the
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root cause of the problem but it doesn't but it exacerbated whatever the problem is yeah
so i don't know currently the dodgers have at least 10 plus pitchers if i'm not mistaken
they have all resulted in ucl tears dustin may uh somebody over the weekend one of the
rookie pitchers river ryan fucking tore his ucl and on my shit man now it's making me
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wonder if the coaching staff aren't doing what they need to protect their pitchers from
getting injured and shit or if it's something else if they're asking too much of these players
but i'm like no these guys are getting five the pitching rotation is basically has been
like six or seven dudes in the rotation so it's not like these guys aren't getting the
rest because most rotations are like somewhere around five yeah they're basically going five
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innings five innings i'm talking about five days of rest yeah five five days before they
get to the next start and you're throwing five or six innings maybe minimally so it's
kind of like all right is it is it is it the rest is it the is it the maybe people are
just weak i don't know like i don't fucking know man but you know what also makes you
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fucking wonder this is like a topic to transition away from this uh ucl this ucl shit but we
already kind of talked about it with the guys not going deep yeah i'm starting to think
that it and maybe it's just times are changing and and it's i hate to say this because i'm
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not even an athlete anymore but it's like are we getting fucking soft with like pitchers
dude yeah man i think we are because the slightest inconvenience as well like tyler glass now
has gone back on the il for like the second stint and i'm not even sure if i actually
believe him actually having tendonitis he's not being a bitch other than to have because
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he's basically he's hit his pitching pitched innings max like his total innings pitch within
a season he's basically reached it so i feel like they're protecting him by putting him
on phantom il stints jesus uh or at least that's what my belief is because the the last
time he was on an il stint was he had back tightness which feels like a general illness
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or and no one can prove or disprove that nobody can prove or disapprove that so and i know
this isn't exclusive to the dodgers but i'm starting to wonder if this is just the new
standard for pitching where we only see guys go five innings deep and then you have something
of like a long relief guy or maybe maybe even maybe we even have double the amount of starters
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and guys get paid less they get scaled back because they're not going as fucking deep
and you basically have two starting pitchers in the game itself one that goes four innings
and you have another guy that goes another three or four innings you have like a secondary
starter yeah like that's what it feels like now yeah that's what it is because that's
probably what it's going to change to um that seems like the natural evolution of this whole
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thing i i also think that a contributing factor to some of the softness and this is probably
going to be a hot take but i don't give a fuck because this is how i feel uh i think
the way that they treat some of these guys that come out of high school and like draft
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them right out of fucking high school and put them in the system or these guys that
while they're in high school they're playing they're playing games in like major league
stadiums it's like they're being groomed from like high school to get there i feel like
that kind of fucking has something to do with it as well like that mentality you might have
a good point because i mean fuck i've been following dude we well our our instagram follows
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fucking all these some of these assholes because oh i mean not that they're assholes but it's
these guys that i think are being kind of i don't know if it's coddled is the right
word but it just seems like uh this this is setting up a bad precedent i feel like it
possibly i mean possibly because one guy i'm not gonna say his name but i don't know if
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he was pushed to start throwing a hundred out of high school yeah but that's seemingly
what guys are aiming for in order to win people over uh yeah to to say this is where you got
a pitch now because everybody's hitting so well possibly because of analytics and also
all the footage that everybody has on everybody that you just need to throw fucking gas to
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to beat pitchers because they're gonna get behind on swingy or whatever but if you're
already pitching 100 miles an hour in high school fuck what kind of damage are you doing
to your arm oh throwing a baseball is like the least natural fucking motion on the planet
and it's you're you're fucking yourself up every time you do it and if you're trying
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to if you're trying to hit 100 in high school or out right out of high school yeah you're
fucking your your future up man your career is not going to last and this is i am i honestly
after seeing all this shit that we've seen once we got into the when we got thrust into
the high school baseball scene by fucking accident basically last year or whatever or
earlier this year i do believe that after seeing all this stuff i fully believe in support
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that there should be a moratorium there should be an age limit on drafting into the mlb i
think like you should have to go to college and get drafted out of college i don't think
you should be pulling guys out of fucking high school at all because baseball is a game
of like longevity and if you have dudes that you're putting into this pipeline at 18 years
(28:46):
old and expecting shit out of them that and again they're just dumb fucking kids man you're
not growing yeah you may legally be an adult when you're 18 but you're not a fucking adult
you're still a child you haven't fucking learned shit yet manipulative it's super manipulative
and when i see these guys that are 16 17 18 in these commercials for like performance
(29:06):
centers and shit like that okay man i get it dude like it's cool to be in that it's
cool to like you know have that feeling of somebody wanting you or like making you feel
like you're fucking derrick jeter in a fucking gatorade commercial right like that's that's
what they're going for but man you're 16 bro you should not be worried about this you should
not be concerned about this at all and yes i understand i am a boomer for sure on this
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issue we didn't have this problem back when i played nobody was getting deals with performance
centers nobody was none of that shit existed nobody even fucking wanted to talk to you
unless you played at the collegiate level even if you played in junior college you didn't
get fucking you had to play at like fucking a four-year d1 d1 or d2 fucking college to
even get fucking talked to now they're going straight to fucking high school and getting
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guys in shit as we've seen and i've bitched about before the the accounts with the eight
nine-year-olds fucking uh training like professional fucking players and shit and i'm like dude
that's not that's not a good look that's not good and that's going and i think that is
going to be part of the problem with whatever this next generation is is yeah you're gonna
get guys that are outliers that are gonna be fucking great and phenoms but generally
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it seems like the mentality of a lot of these younger people is oh i got it i'm just doing
all this stuff i'm just playing baseball that's my whole life is baseball right and when you
got a guy who's just done baseball for fucking the last 10 years of his life from 10 to 20
and now when he's 21 he's he's making it finally to the show and he gets hurt or he faces some
(30:44):
kind of adversity he doesn't have anything he doesn't have any bad experiences to draw
from that like people we've talked to that were in that zone or whatever high school
it's like bro yeah i get it like your buddies have not faced any fucking adversity whatsoever
in their life you guys go to school you fucking go to your you don't even go to school you
(31:06):
go online you go to your fucking training performance center you throw balls fucking
and and hit do bp for fucking four or five hours a day maybe you do a little weightlifting
maybe you i don't even know if they're doing that maybe you do whatever some some kind
of physical training and that's the end of it and then you go play in the games and shit
right that's that's kind of what it's become for for these people that get into this pipeline
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and i think it just breeds a mentality of oh i'm like owed this i've been this is me
paying my dues of just going and doing baseball all the time so now i'm owed this so now when
you get into the real shit you get into the real situation and you're not given that what
happens then what happens with that guy then so or if they asked uh i mean aside from that
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like yeah if they're being asked too much right if they're asking guys to hey if you
want to make it you better start throwing 100 miles an hour because you want to be recruited
by if you want to be scouted this is what you have to do now it's like before they even
have a chance to really get off and be a star in the mlb they're already fucking setting
(32:11):
themselves up for disasters yeah the goalpost just continually keeps getting moved forward
and it's it's like it's like that brass ring thing it's it's not it's never attainable
like you'll never be it's always out of reach because they're just moving the goalpost on
you and and there's guys that we talked about that we said hey you know what we're gonna
watch these dudes over the next five six seven years depending on how long their careers
(32:35):
last and see where they are five years from now and people that are being touted as phenoms
now i doubt will be anything of the sort in five to seven years yeah because of this fucking
shit like one thing i have to say about pitching as well because now they were on the subject
of speed yeah who gives a fuck if somebody could throw 105 yeah is it cool is it gimmicky
(33:00):
like is it cool to see a guy throw that fast fuck yeah it's awesome like holy shit this
is this is what athletic ability is at its peak right but fuck man most of those guys
can't even locate the fastball right most of the guys who throw in the high 90s can't
even locate the fastball so what's funny about that is okay i i called i don't know what
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if this has a name or not but i'll refer to it as the batting cage principle when it comes
to speed so yeah it's it's it's it's cool to say that oh you can hit triple digits or
you can throw 100 miles an hour right but just like at the batting cages you can get
up to hitting it's very easy to catch to 100 miles an hour to be able to fucking hit that
(33:44):
shit it's all it is is timing essentially um so if you fucking go from 50 to the 60 cage
to the 70 cage to the 80 cage to the 90 cage and then to the 100 cage right you slow you
work your way up and eventually you can hit 100 mile an hour fastballs like it's no big
deal if you practice it enough and guess what
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so but i will say what the fuck was i saying the we were talking about oh the batting cage
(34:26):
theory it doesn't matter if you can fucking throw 100 miles an hour eventually everyone's
just going to be able to hit that so sure maybe for like 12 to 18 months you might be
unstoppable but then once everybody figures it out and it just becomes the norm you just
fucking shorten their swing yeah you shorten your swing and you start your swing sooner
that's all you need to do because it's still eye contact batting the ball you train it
(34:51):
enough you will see the ball it's it's just a training issue so your phenomenal feat
of throwing 100 mile an hour yeah it's cool it's gimmicky in the moment but like at the
end of the day it's not it doesn't last it doesn't define you as a pitcher it's like
it shouldn't because you aren't going to be able to do that for very fucking long yeah
that guy on the angels the fuck Ben Joyce yeah sure it was cool as shit to see a triple
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digit number get hit every fucking pitch he was when he was closing but tell me where
you're at in five years are you still going to be able to do that in five years doubt
it I doubt if you're gonna be able to do that in three years yeah I think pitching command
should be like the most important thing taught at any fucking level is if you can fucking
locate because you're basically a magician at that point if you could put your pitches
(35:38):
where they need to be yeah and you know the guy you know the guy is a hitter where he
falls short as a in a swing like where the problems are you can attack it every single
time you already know like so it doesn't matter how fast you throw because you already see
how the batter is yeah exactly so 105 miles an hour is not going to make a fucking huge
(35:58):
difference makes fuck all difference yeah so yeah anyways anyways well how long was that
we've been going for 36 minutes so sounds about right anyways well that'll be it for
us to go to gameragemagazine.com there might be a follow-up to this the next time we have
a trip in it from the pine episode yeah I'm sure there will be I'm sure there will be
so you go to gameragemagazine.com follow us on instagram and tiktok at gameragemagazine
(36:22):
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podcast and go listen to the anime syndicate podcast as well as the all gas no trash that'll
be it if your fucking kid plays baseball don't make an instagram account that's the fucking
(36:44):
basic don't make any social media account don't expose your kid on social media just
because you think he's gonna be an mobs star yeah because guess what he's not i'm sorry
he's just not
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