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Chirpin' from the Pine.
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It's time to rage.
I love the deadpan delivery.
I'm not super hyped for this.
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You can join us.
I'm not super hyped for this.
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Anyways, don't follow Adam on Instagram at Allgasnotrashofficial or on YouTube.
And definitely don't fucking go to his stupid ass Substack page where that's all he does is talk about the fucking Dodgers and how it's related to music somehow.
I don't even know how he pulls it off. It's stupid ass Dodgers.
Substack.com forward slash at Allgasnotrashofficial.
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If you're not a dirty fucking borscht loving communist, then you should go.
If you don't eat the Balkan breakfast every fucking day, then you can go to fucking Gainrage magazine.
I kind of want to try that shit out because it's just like all raw vegetables, a nice fucking deli meat.
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And a long ass piece of French bread.
You just go to town on that shit.
You just go to town when he does like the onion, like the whole onion.
It just goes. I can't do that. I can't do that.
I think I can do that. I don't think I can do that.
All right. You know what? We should try that.
We should do an episode of BFN where we just eat the Balkan breakfast live on the podcast and see what happens.
But anyways, yeah, Gainrage magazine on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
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Gainrage mag on Twitter slash X. All right.
That's the plugs. Yeah.
Okay. Well, take it away there, homeboy with your fucking.
This is your show.
I'm just here for fucking moral support and moral support and to possibly fucking annoy you.
Yeah, that's cool.
Now, hopefully this is just I mean, I'm hoping that you find a way to piss off like just the MLB in general, like other MLB teams,
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because everybody's in a uproar about this whole rookie Sasaki deal, not only because he went through the pageantry of picking teams like.
Okay, so obviously this started back in November with him announcing that he's going to go up.
He's going to go to the MLB and go through the posting system and eventually get to be inside.
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So everybody was already losing their fucking mind that this thing was dragged out long enough because the posting,
the post date that he started was like towards the end of the twenty twenty four posting deadline.
So like it was two or three days before.
So he has like a 30 day period to sign.
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So it's like those two or three weeks were the holiday break.
So he couldn't actually sign with anybody during that. It's like a dead period. Right.
Yeah. So he's just meeting with teams and talking and shit. So nobody actually knew what was going on until more recently,
like this past week where he started eliminating teams and.
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It was, you know, the the New York Mets fell off, the New York Yankees fell off the Rangers.
Everybody was speculating that the Seattle Mariners might have had inside track because of Ichiro coursing him possibly like,
hey, this is a small market team. You can make your name here.
You can be a standout dude. But unfortunately, they weren't even like even mentioned.
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But it was just really funny to see how this played out ultimately with the last three teams being the San Diego Padres,
which was one of the one of the teams that was favored in signing him.
And then the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been like the perennial bridesmaids for like anything significant in terms of signing a player.
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Right. Yeah. And ultimately, like the San Diego Padres were eliminated in third place from signing Roki Saki.
And it was just funny because everybody was so hyped about Roki wearing Padres gear,
much like a college football player showing up to any number of colleges with their gear and shit and being decked out when they do like some type of tryout or not try out,
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but like a showcase or whatever. And then being eliminated is just fucking hilarious.
And ultimately, it came down to the Blue Jays and fucking Dodgers and the Blue Jays offer 12 million and the Dodgers gave six and a half.
So he ultimately decided going with the Dodgers to well, I guess a team that's basically the fucking Avengers at this point.
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But a lot of people were saying that this is collusion and all this bullshit and to no no founding. What's a.
Oh, shit, I lost my place. Oh, all right. Whatever.
Well, we had to pause for a second. But anyways, I'll say I will say I will say this, though, about this whole situation.
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First of all, fuck Roki Sasaki, first of all, fucking putting everybody through this goddamn drama and this for no fucking reason.
You didn't need to fucking go through this whole fucking level of pageantry with all which team I'm going.
First of all, Roki Sasaki, you ain't it. You ain't the fucking guy yet. You do not deserve this level of fanfare.
Oh, so what you did pretty decent in the goddamn NPB. Who gives a fuck about that?
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First of all, OK, that is not to the caliber or the level of Major League Baseball.
It's not even in the same fucking arena. All right.
It ain't even fucking close. Firstly and foremost, I hope Roki Sasaki that you tear both your fucking rotate rotator cuffs the first time you go out on the field in like your first appearance.
I hope that somehow you tear both your fucking rotator cuffs.
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And since you can walk, they'll let you walk off the field.
And as you're walking off the field, you trip over the fucking chalk on the foul line and you break your fucking ankle, tear an ACL, maybe even blot your fucking Achilles.
And then they have to cart you off and you can't even do the thumbs up because your rotator cuffs are broken.
So you can't even move your arms. So that's that's why I fucking hope.
OK, we're putting us through all this horseshit.
And I will say this to the haters of Roki's. I'm not a hater of Roki Sasaki because of what we signed with Dodgers.
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No, no, no, I don't go fuck about that.
Fuck you for putting us through all this stupid ass garbage when you realistically we all knew you were going to go there anyways to begin with.
Don't be an asshole. OK, you haven't earned it. You haven't earned it right.
You don't have no right. OK, secondly, I will say this to the people who hate Roki Sasaki or hate the Dodgers or are bitching complaining.
You're an idiot because this isn't even the Dodger.
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You know why the Dodgers were allowed to even fucking do this?
Because they traded to the Reds. I think the Pirates and a couple other teams, they traded shit to get more international pool money.
So now not only can they sign Roki Sasaki for a good amount of money, they still have money left over that they can maybe go sign another guy or two from fucking Japan.
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They did. I mean, not not not a Japanese players, but just international.
So now, oh, so everybody wants to know you can thank the Reds for this because and all the other people complaining about like whatever, you know, this that or the other thing with with salary caps.
Sure. Maybe there is an argument to be made.
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But when the other teams like the Reds are in the National League, right, you're going to be playing the Dodgers.
You're already uncompetitive basically to begin with, as it is.
So you just furthering the Dodgers agenda of domination.
I don't feel sorry for you Cincinnati Reds when they whoop your ass fucking every single time you see them in the season and in the odd chance that you may make the playoffs and end up having to play the Dodgers.
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I don't feel sorry for you at all when they whoop your ass because you fucking did it to yourself.
You allowed it. You did it. You allowed it to happen.
And so. Everyone else can just go get and go fuck themselves, in my opinion, on this whole thing.
This was this was drama that did not need to fucking be drama.
Well, the other part was Tanner Scott, who the San Diego Padres traded for.
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I don't know how many players they traded for this guy, but for him to end up in free agency and then sign a four year 72 million dollar deal, the same weekend as Roki Sasaki signing is like for a lot of people.
It's a. It's cut.
It's cut in the cable cord or it's them tuning out of baseball because the Dodgers essentially acquired a super team.
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When it which it already was, it already felt like a super team, but now it's like all the infinity gems have been aligned and allocated in the fucking infinity gauntlet.
And I mean, whatever, dude.
Every other every other team has the same opportunity to some regard in some regard.
I do think that smaller market teams like the Pirates and shit like that.
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I mean, you're you're always going to be priced out.
So maybe maybe the route of spending as much money as possible is not the way to go.
But honestly, I hope they lose.
I hope the Dodgers lose.
And it shows everybody.
That you can't just buy a fucking World Series.
You can't. It's the baseball playoffs.
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It has the most parity.
It's so fucking random.
It's it's both it's the most random sports playoff system or not system, but just the outcome of the playoffs is unlike any other sport.
The best teams usually win in other sports.
So that's not the case.
That's not the case with baseball all the time.
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No, it isn't.
So it's like this doesn't guarantee shit.
If anything, it adds humor to baseball because all right, Dodgers are now the the team with the highest payroll and they're going to be paying the competitive balance tax.
Where I think they're paying upwards of like one hundred fifty million dollars just to have this roster.
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Right. All right.
That's going to be funny when they fucking lose the World Series or if they lose in the World Series, everybody's going to fucking laugh.
You're like, oh, look, they put this fucking team together.
They can't even fucking win a World Series.
But if anything, I think having a juggernaut team like this, I don't know.
I actually don't know how this plays out.
I don't know if back in the 90s when the New York Yankees from 98 to 2000, when they were just like going to the World Series consistently, that it drew more interest in baseball just for people to see.
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Like, I don't know if it's like the same way in wrestling where people just want to see a heel champion fucking lose.
Yeah.
I don't know if it equates the same if people tune out because a team wins too much and they're in the championship too much.
Or do they tune in because a team wins too much and they win too many champions.
They want to see who the next motherfucker is going to take down this team, I suppose.
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Yeah, I guess the Lakers would be a good example because they they ran three peats a couple of times or whatever.
Right.
So like, yeah, I think there was an aspect of people there was like a weird in between period where, yeah, the first three Pete or whatever.
OK, cool. Like, we'll just let it like that's when people the next year.
Oh, then they just tune out. Right.
And then if you got them, once they come back again, they're like, well, fuck, I want to see these guys lose.
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And then you get to that weird middle period where then it's like, oh, they're just going to win anyway.
I'm not even going to watch. Yeah. So I don't think the Dodgers are there yet.
They've only won one. So they want to, but not not consecutive.
Yeah. I'm talking about this last this last one they won. Right.
So like Covid, I don't really think the code I don't think anybody's watching fucking baseball anyways during that whole time.
I think anybody gave a shit. So I will say that that first one probably won't even you can't even really count that one as like for the fan base or whatever.
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The people that watch baseball that aren't Dodger fans, I don't even really think you can count that one for that in that in that spectator aspect.
But for that last one, yes, people that just like watching baseball and watching the World Series, they saw that and they tuned in.
And I think this year they will tune in to see if the Dodgers come back.
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Now, the Dodgers win two in a row, then you're going to get this.
They'll probably tune into everybody wants to witness history.
So you're either going to tune in to watch them lose or you're going to tune in to see them make the history.
You can at least say, you know, you're not listen, I wasn't a Yankee fan at the time, but hey, yeah, I saw the Yankees when they're fucking.
All the World Series, I watched it. I saw it.
I necessarily wasn't a Cardinals fan or really.
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I mean, I was a Mark McGuire fan, I guess, back at the time.
But like, yeah, I watched him hit the fucking sixty third homer or sixty second.
Where the fuck the number was back then.
Home run. I even like Barry Bonds and definitely was not a Giants fan.
I watched him fucking hit his seventy third or seventy second or whatever the fuck the number was at the time to break the thing.
So, you know, people sometimes just like watching shit to, you know, to watch history potentially happen.
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So I do think, though, that there will be a segment of the audience that's not from L.A.
or not Dodger fans that will tune out eventually.
But I don't think that's going to even matter because L.A. is such a huge market.
It doesn't fucking matter.
Now, if you had a team like the Cleveland Guardians be the one that wins, their market's not super huge.
So those people will all watch everything, but then everybody else is going to go, I don't really care.
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Yeah, I feel like that happens.
I guess to go on a tangent.
I think we've also talked about it for college football.
How now that they added more teams in a playoff system, it's I think it's 12 teams now, right?
Yeah, yeah. Just based on just based on ESPN basically broadcasting exclusively the SEC.
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Right. Yeah. That they would have a vested interest in having as many teams appear in the SEC.
Therefore, in a similar note, baseball would be best when the biggest market teams usually make it towards the end.
Yeah. Whether that's the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Marlins.
Florida is a good market for that for baseball.
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Like, you know, yeah, you want your big you're what your big yeah, your Boston, New York, L.A., your San Francisco's all the major metropolitan areas of the US.
Yeah, your Chicago's like you said, you want somebody from there make it into the playoffs at least every year.
And then, yeah, you can have your little anomalies squirt in your small market towns, whatever.
Yeah. Or smaller markets, small to medium markets.
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Again, there. But yeah, I think that. The Dodgers will mean that in all this does all buying a good roster does is it gives you the best possible chance.
But like we had said, it doesn't guarantee you're going to win.
I mean, listen, these guys might all play fucking shit together.
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And also, here's the other deal. I mean, how much do they spend on Roki Saki was the number for his contract like five or six billion?
For what, a year or no, it's for six years.
But there's like I think after three after year, three or four, it's arbitration.
So it's like you can you can negotiate.
The get like a couple million dollars a year at this point.
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Yeah. But I mean, he's going to make a heap off of endorsements anyway.
So it's like it doesn't really matter. That's if he fucking does well.
That's true. I mean, because I mean, if he shits the bed and you're going to be calling.
But even the same like the selling point of just having all three of these guys that have been on the Japanese team for the WBC is like it doesn't even necessarily have to be that they're performing well.
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I mean, if anyone had to perform, it's definitely like Shohei Otani.
But I mean, just the three of them alone is like a.
It's like a. It's an opportunity for marketing marketing, I suppose, because it's like it's like, oh, man, you got a three headed.
Everybody is touting it is like the fucking King Ghidorah of baseball or like a three headed monster, the Blue Eyes ultimate fucking dragon.
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Yeah. Exotic. All the pieces of Exodia are now in the Dodgers hand potentially.
Yeah. But that in itself sells itself, I suppose.
So it doesn't mean that Roki Suzuki has to perform well.
But I honestly don't even think he's going to pitch all that much for his first season, because as it's been noted that he can't he hasn't played a full fucking season.
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And in Japan, you pay you play.
You pitch every seven days, so it's like when they only play 80 games, they don't play 162 games, right?
They don't. But also the Dodgers.
I feel like that was the tell that was a telltale sign that they were going to sign them is that they.
They've adapted their whole rotation to a six man rotation.
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So everybody has seven days rest with like a travel day, right? Yeah.
Or seven days rest so that they accommodated for everybody, you know, half their players, half their starting rotations Japanese.
So it's like, all right, we want these guys arms falling off because we just paid a fuck ton.
We paid a billion dollars for two players. We want to make sure these guys fucking last.
So that's why we got these other assholes that are, you know, U.S.
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born or U.S. native to the U.S.
that has been able to play 120 plus innings to begin with. So it's like they are they're they're they're essentially the the arm jockeys for the other.
The other guys, I guess, is the way of phrasing it.
But I don't know, man, it's I think hopefully.
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This works out both for both the.
Fandoms of people that just love baseball and for Dodger fans, because, yeah, dude, would it be fucking funny if the Dodgers make it to the World Series like numerous times, they ultimately come out with like one or, you know, one of five.
Yeah, it'd be funny as fuck. Like I already got my dude last year was like.
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Probably one of the greatest seasons I witnessed because of all the bullshit that went on during the regular season with all their guys arms falling off and
them just scraping by getting to the playoffs, not that they were like, not that they're not that they were scraping by to get to the playoffs because they were already get a clinch.
But just the way the things played out and then also to play the fucking Yankees like two historic franchises like as old as baseball is itself.
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Like, that's the one thing I think baseball has over football is, yeah, sure, like football, I think, has been nearly been around nearly as long as baseball.
But there's something about baseball, dude. There's like the legacy.
There is a legacy of like the home run leader.
There's the there's the World Series being around for like 100 fucking years.
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It's just cool shit like I know it's not the ADHD ADHD catered type of sport like the NFL where there's just shit going on every five seconds like baseball is like something you enjoy because you have an attention span.
Yeah, and it has legacy. It has.
It has impact on history itself here in the US like Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier for baseball like that was a big fucking deal. But I don't know, man, like, as we progress in US history, baseball has always been there.
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I don't feel like football's had that same impact in my opinion, but I don't know how you feel about that.
No, I mean, I agree with you. Baseball is much more historically significant than the NFL or the NBA or the in any of that shit.
Baseball has been referred to. It's America's pastime like that's that's it is true.
It's it's what it is. And yeah, people who are historically inclined or who enjoy legacy.
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That's who watches baseball now.
Yeah, you got some of these little assholes and that they had to put in the 30 second pitch clock or whatever to keep the shit moving.
Yeah. You know, in the end, I don't know if this will accelerate injury in pitchers.
I do have a feeling it might, but or it'll accelerate the wear on dude's arms.
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But I don't know. I mean, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. But I do think it's made the game faster. I mean, definitely has made the game more enjoyable.
Yeah, they're not fiddle fucking around.
Oh, yeah, dude. I mean, especially with dudes that go off the mound, wander around and do all that bullshit.
Yeah, that is some fucking bullshit, man. Yeah.
That's like a 30 minute. That's like just 30 minutes there for everybody that just goes off the mound, takes a minute, gathers themselves like I'm glad.
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And I even think that they could add 15 more seconds to the pitch clock.
So it's not that much more additional time, but it's enough time to like it doesn't feel like you're constantly throwing a fucking pitch every like 18 seconds or whatever.
I don't know. That's my personal opinion. But as far as like sports in regards like baseball and football, dude, baseball, like baseball.
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Is worldly now it's it's it's open to Japanese. It's it's trying to open itself up to your MP countries. I mean, mainly it's kind of been just Mexico, South Korea, Japan and stuff like that.
Taiwan. But just looking at the NFL and I hate to say it, but like NFL is just insular to itself. Like people that play football are just from the U.S. It's not North America because Canadians have they have the Canadian like football league.
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Right. OK, that's fair. But I mean, as far as being a sport that's welcome to everybody, it's not really there.
I mean, they're trying to do that by having games in Europe and shit. But baseball, it's like motherfuckers come here from other countries to be the best and get their bag.
And that's where it's like, oh, man, that to me embodies what like the U.S. is a melting pot of cultures and shit.
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And everybody's trying to get their slice of, you know, slice of happiness or get their bag.
And we all have to coexist in and function as a society. And baseball is like a microcosm or a sample of that.
And I think it is like embedded in the fabric of the U.S. more so than any other sport in general.
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Like, I don't know. I fucking love baseball. Yeah, me too. And I will say this, that I think if the MLB wasn't the last to fucking adopt every fucking goddamn thing, the MLB realistically should be the first of the American sports that has an international like team.
Not in Canada. Canada doesn't really fucking count. I don't count Mexico either. But that should be the first fucking thing that has a division in Japan or an MLB division in fucking Korea or Asia, whatever you want to call it, an Asian fucking division.
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And it's just Japan. It's a couple of teams in Japan, a couple of teams in Korea, the first one that should have a fucking European fucking deal or South Americans because they play that shit there.
And baseball is played everywhere. Not everywhere plays fucking football, not everywhere fucking plays hockey, not everywhere fucking plays basketball. The only other thing that everyone else plays for sure is soccer.
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And we don't really. It's not really that big here in America. Like it's it's all right. But like the MLS is like kind of garbage. Like it's nothing compared to European soccer is more exciting.
But that sport just fucking just doesn't add up for me. No, considering how many people flop.
And and that's why I think I've been turned away from basketball because it's become that where guys are just looking for fouls as opposed to just playing the fucking game.
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I mean, dude, I mean, people in the fucking 90s would throw fucking hands or I mean, you would elbow dudes in the gut just to get inside inside the paint score scored a few points and shit.
And now it's deteriorated more towards being like soccer where guys are looking to draw fouls and shit.
This sport sucks ass, dude. No wonder it didn't fucking take off here because this shit's fucking whack. But I digress. But anyways, that's more or less the episode.
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All right. I didn't have anything else to add other than, you know, I will say this to fuck the Dodgers.
Fuck anyone who's on the Dodgers. Fuck anyone who was on the Dodgers. Fuck anyone who didn't get their contract.
First of all, fuck anyone who didn't get their contract resigned from the Dodgers. OK, first of all, you loser. Fucking asshole losers, pieces of shit.
Can't even fucking maintain fucking lucky to be there type motherfuckers can't even figure out how to throw a fastball around the strike zone.
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Yeah, fucking cocksucker fucking can't even play more than fucking 35 innings a year.
Fucking waste of money asshole. All right. These fucking these all these people. OK. And then also fuck the Yankees and fuck Red Sox fans, too.
And you know what? I will say this also. If you're a fucking Blue Jays fan, I hate you so fucking much.
I hate people who fucking love the Blue Jays. They're all just so nice and cheery. And you're all fucking assholes, really.
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OK, go fuck yourself. You know, you ain't fooling nobody. OK. You ain't tricking me and you ain't tricking nobody else.
You know, I will say this, too. I wish we would go back to the Houston Astros cheating days because that was peak baseball.
All right. Steroids and cheating peak baseball. OK, I think that should be allowed.
And also, I still don't think the Astros cheated. I think that was fucking they just looked within the rules.
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And you fucking people who want to be like, you're just losers. That's what you're a loser. Fucking mentality right there.
And Barry Bond should be the greatest player of all time. And his record stands over.
There's no Astros. As a matter of fact, they should give him the presidential medal of freedom for fucking bringing more interest back to baseball.
Yeah. And Jose Canseco and fucking Mark McGuire, Rafael Romero, Rafael Peral, Sammy Sosa, Cork Bats.
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Hey, bitch, I'm just trying to make the game more fun. All right. Go fuck yourselves. That's ridiculous. These fucking assholes.
Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame for gambling. Yeah. He should be actually in the Hall of Fame gambling.
They have a gambling wing. Yeah. Fucking show me his record for betting with the Reds.
Oh, I bet it was fucking stellar. Thirty two and oh, like, yeah, it was fucking amazing.
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So, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's that's what I believe. That is truly what I believe.
And anyone else who disagrees with me, I think you just go fuck themselves. That's that's where we're at.
So anyways, all right. That'll be the end of the episode. Go to GameRage magazine on Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok.
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No trash official. All right. Well, fuck off. Can I get a ho? Yeah.
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Oh, yeah.
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It's time to rage.
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I'm not super hyped for this.
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And definitely don't fucking go to his stupid ass Substack page where that's all he does is talk about the fucking Dodgers and how it's related to music somehow.
I don't even know how he pulls it off. It's stupid ass Dodgers.
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If you're not a dirty fucking borscht loving communist, then you should go.
If you don't eat the Balkan breakfast every fucking day, then you can go to fucking Gainrage magazine.
I kind of want to try that shit out because it's just like all raw vegetables, a nice fucking deli meat.
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And a long ass piece of French bread.
You just go to town on that shit.
You just go to town when he does like the onion, like the whole onion.
It just goes. I can't do that. I can't do that.
I think I can do that. I don't think I can do that.
All right. You know what? We should try that.
We should do an episode of BFN where we just eat the Balkan breakfast live on the podcast and see what happens.
But anyways, yeah, Gainrage magazine on Instagram, YouTube and TikTok.
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Gainrage mag on Twitter slash X. All right.
That's the plugs. Yeah.
Okay. Well, take it away there, homeboy with your fucking.
This is your show.
I'm just here for fucking moral support and moral support and to possibly fucking annoy you.
Yeah, that's cool.
Now, hopefully this is just I mean, I'm hoping that you find a way to piss off like just the MLB in general, like other MLB teams,
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because everybody's in a uproar about this whole rookie Sasaki deal, not only because he went through the pageantry of picking teams like.
Okay, so obviously this started back in November with him announcing that he's going to go up.
He's going to go to the MLB and go through the posting system and eventually get to be inside.
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So everybody was already losing their fucking mind that this thing was dragged out long enough because the posting,
the post date that he started was like towards the end of the twenty twenty four posting deadline.
So like it was two or three days before.
So he has like a 30 day period to sign.
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So it's like those two or three weeks were the holiday break.
So he couldn't actually sign with anybody during that. It's like a dead period. Right.
Yeah. So he's just meeting with teams and talking and shit. So nobody actually knew what was going on until more recently,
like this past week where he started eliminating teams and.
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It was, you know, the the New York Mets fell off, the New York Yankees fell off the Rangers.
Everybody was speculating that the Seattle Mariners might have had inside track because of Ichiro coursing him possibly like,
hey, this is a small market team. You can make your name here.
You can be a standout dude. But unfortunately, they weren't even like even mentioned.
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But it was just really funny to see how this played out ultimately with the last three teams being the San Diego Padres,
which was one of the one of the teams that was favored in signing him.
And then the Toronto Blue Jays, who have been like the perennial bridesmaids for like anything significant in terms of signing a player.
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Right. Yeah. And ultimately, like the San Diego Padres were eliminated in third place from signing Roki Saki.
And it was just funny because everybody was so hyped about Roki wearing Padres gear,
much like a college football player showing up to any number of colleges with their gear and shit and being decked out when they do like some type of tryout or not try out,
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but like a showcase or whatever. And then being eliminated is just fucking hilarious.
And ultimately, it came down to the Blue Jays and fucking Dodgers and the Blue Jays offer 12 million and the Dodgers gave six and a half.
So he ultimately decided going with the Dodgers to well, I guess a team that's basically the fucking Avengers at this point.
(05:43):
But a lot of people were saying that this is collusion and all this bullshit and to no no founding. What's a.
Oh, shit, I lost my place. Oh, all right. Whatever.
Well, we had to pause for a second. But anyways, I'll say I will say I will say this, though, about this whole situation.
(06:05):
First of all, fuck Roki Sasaki, first of all, fucking putting everybody through this goddamn drama and this for no fucking reason.
You didn't need to fucking go through this whole fucking level of pageantry with all which team I'm going.
First of all, Roki Sasaki, you ain't it. You ain't the fucking guy yet. You do not deserve this level of fanfare.
Oh, so what you did pretty decent in the goddamn NPB. Who gives a fuck about that?
(06:31):
First of all, OK, that is not to the caliber or the level of Major League Baseball.
It's not even in the same fucking arena. All right.
It ain't even fucking close. Firstly and foremost, I hope Roki Sasaki that you tear both your fucking rotate rotator cuffs the first time you go out on the field in like your first appearance.
I hope that somehow you tear both your fucking rotator cuffs.
(06:54):
And since you can walk, they'll let you walk off the field.
And as you're walking off the field, you trip over the fucking chalk on the foul line and you break your fucking ankle, tear an ACL, maybe even blot your fucking Achilles.
And then they have to cart you off and you can't even do the thumbs up because your rotator cuffs are broken.
So you can't even move your arms. So that's that's why I fucking hope.
OK, we're putting us through all this horseshit.
And I will say this to the haters of Roki's. I'm not a hater of Roki Sasaki because of what we signed with Dodgers.
(07:18):
No, no, no, I don't go fuck about that.
Fuck you for putting us through all this stupid ass garbage when you realistically we all knew you were going to go there anyways to begin with.
Don't be an asshole. OK, you haven't earned it. You haven't earned it right.
You don't have no right. OK, secondly, I will say this to the people who hate Roki Sasaki or hate the Dodgers or are bitching complaining.
You're an idiot because this isn't even the Dodger.
(07:40):
You know why the Dodgers were allowed to even fucking do this?
Because they traded to the Reds. I think the Pirates and a couple other teams, they traded shit to get more international pool money.
So now not only can they sign Roki Sasaki for a good amount of money, they still have money left over that they can maybe go sign another guy or two from fucking Japan.
(08:03):
They did. I mean, not not not a Japanese players, but just international.
So now, oh, so everybody wants to know you can thank the Reds for this because and all the other people complaining about like whatever, you know, this that or the other thing with with salary caps.
Sure. Maybe there is an argument to be made.
(08:25):
But when the other teams like the Reds are in the National League, right, you're going to be playing the Dodgers.
You're already uncompetitive basically to begin with, as it is.
So you just furthering the Dodgers agenda of domination.
I don't feel sorry for you Cincinnati Reds when they whoop your ass fucking every single time you see them in the season and in the odd chance that you may make the playoffs and end up having to play the Dodgers.
(08:48):
I don't feel sorry for you at all when they whoop your ass because you fucking did it to yourself.
You allowed it. You did it. You allowed it to happen.
And so. Everyone else can just go get and go fuck themselves, in my opinion, on this whole thing.
This was this was drama that did not need to fucking be drama.
Well, the other part was Tanner Scott, who the San Diego Padres traded for.
(09:12):
I don't know how many players they traded for this guy, but for him to end up in free agency and then sign a four year 72 million dollar deal, the same weekend as Roki Sasaki signing is like for a lot of people.
It's a. It's cut.
It's cut in the cable cord or it's them tuning out of baseball because the Dodgers essentially acquired a super team.
(09:36):
When it which it already was, it already felt like a super team, but now it's like all the infinity gems have been aligned and allocated in the fucking infinity gauntlet.
And I mean, whatever, dude.
Every other every other team has the same opportunity to some regard in some regard.
I do think that smaller market teams like the Pirates and shit like that.
(09:58):
I mean, you're you're always going to be priced out.
So maybe maybe the route of spending as much money as possible is not the way to go.
But honestly, I hope they lose.
I hope the Dodgers lose.
And it shows everybody.
That you can't just buy a fucking World Series.
You can't. It's the baseball playoffs.
(10:19):
It has the most parity.
It's so fucking random.
It's it's both it's the most random sports playoff system or not system, but just the outcome of the playoffs is unlike any other sport.
The best teams usually win in other sports.
So that's not the case.
That's not the case with baseball all the time.
(10:41):
No, it isn't.
So it's like this doesn't guarantee shit.
If anything, it adds humor to baseball because all right, Dodgers are now the the team with the highest payroll and they're going to be paying the competitive balance tax.
Where I think they're paying upwards of like one hundred fifty million dollars just to have this roster.
(11:02):
Right. All right.
That's going to be funny when they fucking lose the World Series or if they lose in the World Series, everybody's going to fucking laugh.
You're like, oh, look, they put this fucking team together.
They can't even fucking win a World Series.
But if anything, I think having a juggernaut team like this, I don't know.
I actually don't know how this plays out.
I don't know if back in the 90s when the New York Yankees from 98 to 2000, when they were just like going to the World Series consistently, that it drew more interest in baseball just for people to see.
(11:33):
Like, I don't know if it's like the same way in wrestling where people just want to see a heel champion fucking lose.
Yeah.
I don't know if it equates the same if people tune out because a team wins too much and they're in the championship too much.
Or do they tune in because a team wins too much and they win too many champions.
They want to see who the next motherfucker is going to take down this team, I suppose.
(11:55):
Yeah, I guess the Lakers would be a good example because they they ran three peats a couple of times or whatever.
Right.
So like, yeah, I think there was an aspect of people there was like a weird in between period where, yeah, the first three Pete or whatever.
OK, cool. Like, we'll just let it like that's when people the next year.
Oh, then they just tune out. Right.
And then if you got them, once they come back again, they're like, well, fuck, I want to see these guys lose.
(12:19):
And then you get to that weird middle period where then it's like, oh, they're just going to win anyway.
I'm not even going to watch. Yeah. So I don't think the Dodgers are there yet.
They've only won one. So they want to, but not not consecutive.
Yeah. I'm talking about this last this last one they won. Right.
So like Covid, I don't really think the code I don't think anybody's watching fucking baseball anyways during that whole time.
I think anybody gave a shit. So I will say that that first one probably won't even you can't even really count that one as like for the fan base or whatever.
(12:44):
The people that watch baseball that aren't Dodger fans, I don't even really think you can count that one for that in that in that spectator aspect.
But for that last one, yes, people that just like watching baseball and watching the World Series, they saw that and they tuned in.
And I think this year they will tune in to see if the Dodgers come back.
(13:05):
Now, the Dodgers win two in a row, then you're going to get this.
They'll probably tune into everybody wants to witness history.
So you're either going to tune in to watch them lose or you're going to tune in to see them make the history.
You can at least say, you know, you're not listen, I wasn't a Yankee fan at the time, but hey, yeah, I saw the Yankees when they're fucking.
All the World Series, I watched it. I saw it.
I necessarily wasn't a Cardinals fan or really.
(13:28):
I mean, I was a Mark McGuire fan, I guess, back at the time.
But like, yeah, I watched him hit the fucking sixty third homer or sixty second.
Where the fuck the number was back then.
Home run. I even like Barry Bonds and definitely was not a Giants fan.
I watched him fucking hit his seventy third or seventy second or whatever the fuck the number was at the time to break the thing.
So, you know, people sometimes just like watching shit to, you know, to watch history potentially happen.
(13:51):
So I do think, though, that there will be a segment of the audience that's not from L.A.
or not Dodger fans that will tune out eventually.
But I don't think that's going to even matter because L.A. is such a huge market.
It doesn't fucking matter.
Now, if you had a team like the Cleveland Guardians be the one that wins, their market's not super huge.
So those people will all watch everything, but then everybody else is going to go, I don't really care.
(14:14):
Yeah, I feel like that happens.
I guess to go on a tangent.
I think we've also talked about it for college football.
How now that they added more teams in a playoff system, it's I think it's 12 teams now, right?
Yeah, yeah. Just based on just based on ESPN basically broadcasting exclusively the SEC.
(14:37):
Right. Yeah. That they would have a vested interest in having as many teams appear in the SEC.
Therefore, in a similar note, baseball would be best when the biggest market teams usually make it towards the end.
Yeah. Whether that's the Chicago Cubs, Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Marlins.
Florida is a good market for that for baseball.
(15:00):
Like, you know, yeah, you want your big you're what your big yeah, your Boston, New York, L.A., your San Francisco's all the major metropolitan areas of the US.
Yeah, your Chicago's like you said, you want somebody from there make it into the playoffs at least every year.
And then, yeah, you can have your little anomalies squirt in your small market towns, whatever.
Yeah. Or smaller markets, small to medium markets.
(15:21):
Again, there. But yeah, I think that. The Dodgers will mean that in all this does all buying a good roster does is it gives you the best possible chance.
But like we had said, it doesn't guarantee you're going to win.
I mean, listen, these guys might all play fucking shit together.
(15:43):
And also, here's the other deal. I mean, how much do they spend on Roki Saki was the number for his contract like five or six billion?
For what, a year or no, it's for six years.
But there's like I think after three after year, three or four, it's arbitration.
So it's like you can you can negotiate.
The get like a couple million dollars a year at this point.
(16:05):
Yeah. But I mean, he's going to make a heap off of endorsements anyway.
So it's like it doesn't really matter. That's if he fucking does well.
That's true. I mean, because I mean, if he shits the bed and you're going to be calling.
But even the same like the selling point of just having all three of these guys that have been on the Japanese team for the WBC is like it doesn't even necessarily have to be that they're performing well.
(16:27):
I mean, if anyone had to perform, it's definitely like Shohei Otani.
But I mean, just the three of them alone is like a.
It's like a. It's an opportunity for marketing marketing, I suppose, because it's like it's like, oh, man, you got a three headed.
Everybody is touting it is like the fucking King Ghidorah of baseball or like a three headed monster, the Blue Eyes ultimate fucking dragon.
(16:49):
Yeah. Exotic. All the pieces of Exodia are now in the Dodgers hand potentially.
Yeah. But that in itself sells itself, I suppose.
So it doesn't mean that Roki Suzuki has to perform well.
But I honestly don't even think he's going to pitch all that much for his first season, because as it's been noted that he can't he hasn't played a full fucking season.
(17:10):
And in Japan, you pay you play.
You pitch every seven days, so it's like when they only play 80 games, they don't play 162 games, right?
They don't. But also the Dodgers.
I feel like that was the tell that was a telltale sign that they were going to sign them is that they.
They've adapted their whole rotation to a six man rotation.
(17:34):
So everybody has seven days rest with like a travel day, right? Yeah.
Or seven days rest so that they accommodated for everybody, you know, half their players, half their starting rotations Japanese.
So it's like, all right, we want these guys arms falling off because we just paid a fuck ton.
We paid a billion dollars for two players. We want to make sure these guys fucking last.
So that's why we got these other assholes that are, you know, U.S.
(17:57):
born or U.S. native to the U.S.
that has been able to play 120 plus innings to begin with. So it's like they are they're they're they're essentially the the arm jockeys for the other.
The other guys, I guess, is the way of phrasing it.
But I don't know, man, it's I think hopefully.
(18:20):
This works out both for both the.
Fandoms of people that just love baseball and for Dodger fans, because, yeah, dude, would it be fucking funny if the Dodgers make it to the World Series like numerous times, they ultimately come out with like one or, you know, one of five.
Yeah, it'd be funny as fuck. Like I already got my dude last year was like.
(18:43):
Probably one of the greatest seasons I witnessed because of all the bullshit that went on during the regular season with all their guys arms falling off and
them just scraping by getting to the playoffs, not that they were like, not that they're not that they were scraping by to get to the playoffs because they were already get a clinch.
But just the way the things played out and then also to play the fucking Yankees like two historic franchises like as old as baseball is itself.
(19:12):
Like, that's the one thing I think baseball has over football is, yeah, sure, like football, I think, has been nearly been around nearly as long as baseball.
But there's something about baseball, dude. There's like the legacy.
There is a legacy of like the home run leader.
There's the there's the World Series being around for like 100 fucking years.
(19:37):
It's just cool shit like I know it's not the ADHD ADHD catered type of sport like the NFL where there's just shit going on every five seconds like baseball is like something you enjoy because you have an attention span.
Yeah, and it has legacy. It has.
It has impact on history itself here in the US like Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier for baseball like that was a big fucking deal. But I don't know, man, like, as we progress in US history, baseball has always been there.
(20:12):
I don't feel like football's had that same impact in my opinion, but I don't know how you feel about that.
No, I mean, I agree with you. Baseball is much more historically significant than the NFL or the NBA or the in any of that shit.
Baseball has been referred to. It's America's pastime like that's that's it is true.
It's it's what it is. And yeah, people who are historically inclined or who enjoy legacy.
(20:38):
That's who watches baseball now.
Yeah, you got some of these little assholes and that they had to put in the 30 second pitch clock or whatever to keep the shit moving.
Yeah. You know, in the end, I don't know if this will accelerate injury in pitchers.
I do have a feeling it might, but or it'll accelerate the wear on dude's arms.
(21:05):
But I don't know. I mean, I guess we'll just have to wait and see. But I do think it's made the game faster. I mean, definitely has made the game more enjoyable.
Yeah, they're not fiddle fucking around.
Oh, yeah, dude. I mean, especially with dudes that go off the mound, wander around and do all that bullshit.
Yeah, that is some fucking bullshit, man. Yeah.
That's like a 30 minute. That's like just 30 minutes there for everybody that just goes off the mound, takes a minute, gathers themselves like I'm glad.
(21:32):
And I even think that they could add 15 more seconds to the pitch clock.
So it's not that much more additional time, but it's enough time to like it doesn't feel like you're constantly throwing a fucking pitch every like 18 seconds or whatever.
I don't know. That's my personal opinion. But as far as like sports in regards like baseball and football, dude, baseball, like baseball.
(21:58):
Is worldly now it's it's it's open to Japanese. It's it's trying to open itself up to your MP countries. I mean, mainly it's kind of been just Mexico, South Korea, Japan and stuff like that.
Taiwan. But just looking at the NFL and I hate to say it, but like NFL is just insular to itself. Like people that play football are just from the U.S. It's not North America because Canadians have they have the Canadian like football league.
(22:31):
Right. OK, that's fair. But I mean, as far as being a sport that's welcome to everybody, it's not really there.
I mean, they're trying to do that by having games in Europe and shit. But baseball, it's like motherfuckers come here from other countries to be the best and get their bag.
And that's where it's like, oh, man, that to me embodies what like the U.S. is a melting pot of cultures and shit.
(22:52):
And everybody's trying to get their slice of, you know, slice of happiness or get their bag.
And we all have to coexist in and function as a society. And baseball is like a microcosm or a sample of that.
And I think it is like embedded in the fabric of the U.S. more so than any other sport in general.
(23:19):
Like, I don't know. I fucking love baseball. Yeah, me too. And I will say this, that I think if the MLB wasn't the last to fucking adopt every fucking goddamn thing, the MLB realistically should be the first of the American sports that has an international like team.
Not in Canada. Canada doesn't really fucking count. I don't count Mexico either. But that should be the first fucking thing that has a division in Japan or an MLB division in fucking Korea or Asia, whatever you want to call it, an Asian fucking division.
(23:50):
And it's just Japan. It's a couple of teams in Japan, a couple of teams in Korea, the first one that should have a fucking European fucking deal or South Americans because they play that shit there.
And baseball is played everywhere. Not everywhere plays fucking football, not everywhere fucking plays hockey, not everywhere fucking plays basketball. The only other thing that everyone else plays for sure is soccer.
(24:13):
And we don't really. It's not really that big here in America. Like it's it's all right. But like the MLS is like kind of garbage. Like it's nothing compared to European soccer is more exciting.
But that sport just fucking just doesn't add up for me. No, considering how many people flop.
And and that's why I think I've been turned away from basketball because it's become that where guys are just looking for fouls as opposed to just playing the fucking game.
(24:41):
I mean, dude, I mean, people in the fucking 90s would throw fucking hands or I mean, you would elbow dudes in the gut just to get inside inside the paint score scored a few points and shit.
And now it's deteriorated more towards being like soccer where guys are looking to draw fouls and shit.
This sport sucks ass, dude. No wonder it didn't fucking take off here because this shit's fucking whack. But I digress. But anyways, that's more or less the episode.
(25:12):
All right. I didn't have anything else to add other than, you know, I will say this to fuck the Dodgers.
Fuck anyone who's on the Dodgers. Fuck anyone who was on the Dodgers. Fuck anyone who didn't get their contract.
First of all, fuck anyone who didn't get their contract resigned from the Dodgers. OK, first of all, you loser. Fucking asshole losers, pieces of shit.
Can't even fucking maintain fucking lucky to be there type motherfuckers can't even figure out how to throw a fastball around the strike zone.
(25:41):
Yeah, fucking cocksucker fucking can't even play more than fucking 35 innings a year.
Fucking waste of money asshole. All right. These fucking these all these people. OK. And then also fuck the Yankees and fuck Red Sox fans, too.
And you know what? I will say this also. If you're a fucking Blue Jays fan, I hate you so fucking much.
I hate people who fucking love the Blue Jays. They're all just so nice and cheery. And you're all fucking assholes, really.
(26:08):
OK, go fuck yourself. You know, you ain't fooling nobody. OK. You ain't tricking me and you ain't tricking nobody else.
You know, I will say this, too. I wish we would go back to the Houston Astros cheating days because that was peak baseball.
All right. Steroids and cheating peak baseball. OK, I think that should be allowed.
And also, I still don't think the Astros cheated. I think that was fucking they just looked within the rules.
(26:31):
And you fucking people who want to be like, you're just losers. That's what you're a loser. Fucking mentality right there.
And Barry Bond should be the greatest player of all time. And his record stands over.
There's no Astros. As a matter of fact, they should give him the presidential medal of freedom for fucking bringing more interest back to baseball.
Yeah. And Jose Canseco and fucking Mark McGuire, Rafael Romero, Rafael Peral, Sammy Sosa, Cork Bats.
(26:58):
Hey, bitch, I'm just trying to make the game more fun. All right. Go fuck yourselves. That's ridiculous. These fucking assholes.
Put Pete Rose in the Hall of Fame for gambling. Yeah. He should be actually in the Hall of Fame gambling.
They have a gambling wing. Yeah. Fucking show me his record for betting with the Reds.
Oh, I bet it was fucking stellar. Thirty two and oh, like, yeah, it was fucking amazing.
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So, yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's that's what I believe. That is truly what I believe.
And anyone else who disagrees with me, I think you just go fuck themselves. That's that's where we're at.
So anyways, all right. That'll be the end of the episode. Go to GameRage magazine on Instagram, YouTube, Tiktok.
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(27:46):
Oh, yeah.
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