December 16, 2024 • 24 mins
Adam and Josh discuss the recent mix up and shuffle of Single A Baseball in Southern California.
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Chirping from the Pine.
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It's time to rage.
Oh baby, what's going on everybody?
Welcome back to another wonderful episode of Chirping from the Pine.
My name is Josh.
I'm here today with loud noisemaker Adam.
Yes.
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And today we're going to talk about the very confusing shakeup in the SoCal single A minor league baseball, which who would have fucking ever thought?
I mean, probably no one cares about this.
I almost don't care about it, but I am kind of excited for it.
So we'll see.
We'll talk about it.
But anyway, before we get into that, if you want to go follow us on social media, you can follow us on GameRage magazine, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
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You can also go to sub stack dot com slash at GameRage magazine.
You want to follow Adam on Instagram, you go to at all gas, no trash official.
It's also on, you know, all the social medias.
Additionally, also at sub stack dot com slash at all gas, no trash official.
If you want to do that, that would be great.
So, you know, Adam, I don't know if you if you heard recently about this this minor league baseball nonsense that has been fucking about.
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Yes. Why? Why? Yes. Good buddy, Josh.
I have.
Oh, I have to say it was very confusing reading that fucking thing.
I'm like, wait, they're doing what? This doesn't make any fucking sense at all.
Why wouldn't you just start a whole fucking new team?
Why is everybody just shuffling around?
So this is this is I'll just explain. I'll go ahead.
Oh, OK. Well, maybe it's included because I know there was a single team and I think it's the one that one of the ones you're talking about.
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I don't want to spoil it. Yeah.
But I'll just say it real quickly.
So there's this team called the Modesto Nuts, right?
So they were planning to build or rather they wanted a new stadium built and they wanted the city to pay for it.
Yeah. And now I didn't I mean.
Now you can kind of go into it.
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So the city told him to fuck off. Yeah. All right. Fuck off, too.
So OK. So what ended up happening is basically you have because we did an episode talking about the new Ontario Sports Complex.
All right. How are the lawyers? Yeah.
They're building a minor league baseball stadium there.
So the Rancho Cucamonga quakes, who are the current affiliate, single affiliate, single affiliate for the Dodge.
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They are now moving to this new Ontario Stadium and they're going to be given a new name.
All right. Then we have we also submitted our name.
We did submit the name. I don't know what it was.
Well, I don't know. But anyways, go back.
You can go listen to the episode because we did it. I think on the episode.
So also. Now the other single teams, one of the other ones, the Inland Empire,
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sixty sixers, which play out of the San Bernardino Sports Stadium.
They are moving to Rancho Cucamonga and are now going to become the rich Cucamonga quakes.
Yes, but they were also bought out. Yes, they were bought by Diamond Entertainment or what is Diamond Sports or whatever.
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Yeah. OK, so they so so they lost the quakes.
Or whatever. And then they bought another.
The other Inland Empire, the other Inland Empire team, they purchased them.
One of the other purchase the Inland Empire, six sisters, say, cool, we're going to move them to Rancho Cucamonga
and just give them the same fucking name that we had before. Yeah.
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Then those Modesto nuts from also the rich Cucamonga quakes are now going to be the single affiliate of the angels.
So that's the affiliation there now.
Then we got the Modesto nuts.
Saying, oh, fuck it, we can't be here anymore.
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So they're going to up and move. To the to the San Bernardino Sports Complex,
and they're going to become the Inland Empire, sixty sixers, which was the team that just moved from.
So it's like all these teams shuffled around but decided like, oh, we're just going to.
All right. They fucked up and hit something. But anyway, we're going to just keep the same names.
Basically, the only one that's getting a new name is the quakes being moved to the Ontario.
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They're going to get a new name because that's obviously not had a team for.
So they're going to get a new name.
An Ontario fucking whatever crack heads or whatever the fuck they're going to call them.
I don't know. The Ontario crack babies.
The Ontario gutters. Yeah, the Ontario gutters.
I think that's what we'd say. That's a great name.
They're probably going to be called whatever, but that's going to be them.
So they're the only one getting a new name.
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The other teams that moved are taking over the name of the team that used to be there.
So it's like all changed around, but kind of the same. It's very strange.
I did say that, hey, this will be cool. Now we'll get to go.
I mean, me and Frank can go see branch, cook them up, quite games now because they're the affiliate of the angels.
So that'll be cool.
I mean, I do want to go check out that new Ontario sports complex when it opens because this is all happening.
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Twenty twenty six. All right. That's when this is all finalized.
These in open season season opening of twenty twenty six will be this will be the new order.
This is how it will be. So twenty twenty five.
They're all playing their last years at their current locations and then they're all making the move.
So, yeah, I guess we'll just see what happens with it. But I thought it just doesn't make any sense why they did this in the most complicated fucking way possible.
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It seems like I would have rather had them just like, OK, cool.
The ranch, cook among the quakes are or the 66ers are got bought out by the team that owned the quakes.
Cool. Just make up a new goddamn name. Just call them something else. Ranch, cook among.
I don't know. It feels like I don't feel cheap to like just use the same.
It's really good. It's for the continuity. Yeah.
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The sake of continuity or consistency.
So like, well, I don't know what type of fandom a single team has, but we also don't want to alienate people.
We're already here. So we'll just keep the same fucking name.
I mean, it'd be cool if they change your name to the fucking Rancho Cook among the fault lines or something.
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I don't know. I don't know what you would want to call it.
Something cooler than quakes. But yeah, so I don't I don't know what the fuck that's going to entail.
I'm sure it's a logistical nightmare to do all this shit, but whatever, they're going to get it done by 2026.
Also, the Modesto Nuts, which are now going to be the Inland Empire, 66ers are the Seattle affiliate of the Seattle mayor.
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They're still maintaining being the Seattle affiliate, the Seattle mayor, your single affiliate.
So we're going to have 66ers Seattle, Rancho Cuckoo, Quakes, Angels, whatever the Ontario crack heads,
gutter snipes is going to be the Dodgers, single affiliate and the Lake Elsinore storm.
For the Padres, they're not single, though, right? I don't remember.
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I feel like they're double a are they? I feel like they're either double or triple.
I don't know. I should probably look that up, actually, just so we can know what the fuck we're talking about.
Lake Elsinore, Lake Smelson or a storm.
Oh, no, they are single. All right. So they're all these fuckers are all just going to continue to play each other basically.
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Anyways. All right. Cool. So now we'll get to go see some more single a baseball options in the Southern California region.
We're going to have one additional team. And now we're going to have, you know, more more options to go to go see shit.
So that'll be kind of fun for the twenty twenty six season. Go check it out.
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We should go to one game of everything just to see because I've never been to the I've been to the Storm Stadium.
I've seen a game, a couple of games there back when they were in the back in the day when they were like the Angels affiliate.
Yeah. A couple of games. I've gone to the quakes as like a child.
Like I remember I've been like as a young child, like I remember specifically owning that like light green fucking cue with the purple circle around it.
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It's disgusting. I specifically remember owning one of those hats as a child, though, as a young, young child. So we're definitely going to go have to go back there.
And then obviously the Ontario one never been to that one because it hasn't been it's not going to be it's going to be a brand new.
So this is the biggest shakeup in single a ball history. It really is.
It really this is this is this is the most newsworthy thing to come out of single a since probably ever.
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I mean, I don't think anybody gives a shit about single a. And you're probably right.
I do feel like there is probably a contingent of fans that are just from the local surrounding area that are diehard fans of these franchises.
And they're going to be like, yeah, sad.
But then again, your whole team is leaving. So it's like everything you liked about it's now gone.
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It's going to be it's all different people. It's going to be same name, different dude.
So maybe a lot of those quick fans will migrate over to the Ontario team.
Who the fuck knows? Maybe those Inland Empire 66 fans will come from the fucking reservation and they'll go fucking go to Quake Games.
I don't know. Or maybe they'll just stay sticking with the same team.
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Well, I have a secondary topic. OK, all right. Go ahead. What do you got?
All right. So I've been keeping up pretty adamantly with any baseball related news as far as free agency goes,
to the point that the night that Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets, you knew about it before everyone else.
No. Oh, yeah, I was there. I was in the room. Yeah, I was in the room.
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Yeah, that Sunday night that it happened, there was numerous reports about Juan Soto is, you know, whatever bullshit thing you can think of.
Oh, he's likely to sign with the fucking Mets. He's going to do this or that. Whatever bullshit thing.
Right. I'm just thinking, dude, how much worse has journalism got when most of the news?
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It's probably because of the access to the Internet and also the 24 hour news cycle. Right. Yeah.
That something has to be reported on because we got to make fucking money.
And that literally means we have to speculate or throw whatever bullshit out.
And that's been the case for like the last three or four weeks. And I know that's kind of been evident since the beginning of probably sports journalism, sports journalism in general.
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But perhaps more so now with the advent of the Internet and social media that journalists are just putting out their best guesses of where people are going to land and what they qualify as fucking information or news.
And I'm kind of tired of it, man. Like I would much rather have a moratorium on reporting for it.
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It's not just baseball free agency, but I'm just talking about sports in general when it comes to free agency that the only thing that that you could talk about because yeah, there are stories about.
New York Yankees had their shot with Juan Soto, but he didn't like the security. Those stories should come after the fact of the signing.
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So post the signing of a player to a team, go fucking nuts. But before that, it's all bullshit and people, I think, eat it up.
But I'm kind of done with it, man. Like it's so it's so stupid that every 30 seconds somebody spelling out their opinion of where somebody's on land.
And it's not even remotely like true about it. Like unless you're tied to the party. Right. Just shut the fuck up. Yes. What do you have to say about that?
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I agree. I'm tired of all the speculation shit because honestly, that's all the fucking shit I see. Oh, who who are the angels going to be signing it?
Don't tell me until they sign the paperwork. All right. I don't give a fuck about who you think they're going to get. None of that means anything.
Because again, like you said, 95 percent of the time it turns out to be wrong anyways. And that was that was not even an option. Yeah.
Same thing with like this Roki Sasaki deal that's going on or whatever. Right. Like all that speculation is nonsense.
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It's all nonsense until he puts fucking pen to paper and signs with a team. Right. Like, yeah.
So like the the latest bullshit with that is that this guy can't take criticism from the media because he was so heavily scrutinized in Japan.
So. What do journalists do at the winter meetings?
They pick apart what Joe Wolf, his manager, his agent, his agent.
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Was saying at the winter meetings and he said, oh, it's possible that Roki Sasaki would be open to and maybe he didn't even say that.
He just said maybe it would work out better for Roki Sasaki to go play for the Seattle Mariners because there's the Ichiro Suzuki tie.
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Not that he knows him personally, but, you know, of course, Ichiro Suzuki could play an ambassador to four Seattle Mariners to talk to Roki Sasaki and to court him to play for the Seattle Mariners.
But of course, the way journalists.
Spin that is like, oh.
Roki Sasaki potentially could go to the Seattle Mariners or some other small to mid-market team.
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And it's like, man, you're picking you're like nitpicking little portions of his agents fucking words all for what?
For like a news headline for today and tomorrow.
Oh, no, he's going to the Dodgers or he's going to the fucking angels wherever or wherever.
I'm like, man, I really think we need to we need to dial back the news of sports sports journalism.
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Like it just it's too much and there's not enough truth.
Yeah, it's all wild speculation because nobody knows anything.
That's the one thing that I have learned is that nobody knows jack shit.
Yeah, it's everybody's just taking their best guess and then hyping it up and basically putting like act not accusations, but like false bullshit behind it to try to back up what they're saying.
Yeah.
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So, I mean, yeah, I think I think that that needs to just go away.
It's the same thing in like every sport, too.
It's not just baseball.
I mean, football does the same shit.
I mean, all this stuff with like, oh, Belichick going to go sign with the fucking easy becoming the University of North Carolina.
Oh, yeah.
Did you ever ever did talk about that?
So we're talking about that now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Belichick signed with the University of North Carolina.
He's now going to be the head coach and he got a fucking sweet deal.
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He gave him this 400 page manifesto that they apparently agreed to.
And I don't know.
That's pretty interesting.
I haven't seen the document, so I can't comment on any of that shit if it's actually true.
You end up being the dean of the university.
I mean, basically, supposedly his girlfriend is his 24 year old girlfriend gets a fucking full ride scholarship for a master's degree.
Yeah.
His son is going to be hired as the assistant coach.
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And then when Belichick retires, they have to keep him on as the head coach for like five years or something like that.
And then they have to behead him and put his head in one of those Futurama capsules so that he can still be or be a ball.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
They talk all this shit about Belichick.
I mean, there's all these things that they've been saying about how this is just doomed to fail.
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And listen, maybe.
But one of the things is like you can't take and discount a guy who's been an NFL head coach for fucking what?
Or like he was like a head coach for like 30 years or some shit like that or he was in the coat and to varying degrees.
Yeah, because he was like a defensive coordinator for like the Cleveland first part of his career.
And then I think he became the head coach of Cleveland at some point.
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And then that's when he got picked up by maybe one of the team and then he got picked up by the Patriots.
Yeah. So as a head coach and then basically had the most epic run of in sports history, essentially as a single team head coach, you know, winning all those championships in over fucking 20, a 20 year.
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Yes, man. Six, six championships in 20 years.
I mean, that's pretty fucking good.
So to say that, yes, I don't think 75 year old Bill Belichick wants to deal with these asshole fucking 18 year olds.
That may be the problem, but he doesn't have to deal with anybody directly.
He can just fucking hire minions do that to deal with these assholes and their fucking problems because now, granted, they were talking about, oh, the professional pipeline that he can create.
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Yeah, they're sure. I'm sure there are programs that that run like, you know, NFL programs.
But I think they give them a lot of slack.
I think what team what team did you say he is in North Carolina?
No, the Tar Heels. Yeah, I think that's who it is.
You and what what conference do they belong to?
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Uh, you and see, I feel like they're part of the SEC or the SEC or the ACC.
Which one do they belong to?
Um, I think they're in the ACC.
Yeah, Atlantic Coast Conference. They're in the ACC.
All right.
I think he's off to a bad start by just picking that.
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Yes, I think he's picking the wrong fucking horse to bet on by going to the North Carolina Tar Heels because they're not really primarily known for their football.
They're more known for their basketball program. Right.
I think so. But also the ACC is like a team or rather a conference.
Not that they're actually fucking penalized, but nobody kind of respects that conference.
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So he's already kind of handicapping himself. Let's say he goes, I forget how many games they play within the college football season.
But I think it's I think 11 games or 12 games. I don't remember.
Let's just say 13 games.
If they go 13 and oh, if they go fucking 13 and oh, who's going to give a shit like they'd have to play some fucking pretty decent teams.
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And most of the teams that matter are in the SEC or the Big Ten or things like that.
So as we've learned in previous seasons, specifically, I think it was last year or the year before the Florida Seminoles, the Florida State Seminoles, they went like 13 and oh, right.
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And they didn't even get a bid into the 14 like playoff tournament or whatever.
And so I don't I don't know why he chose. Maybe it was just the next available position to take the head coach, the head coach, head coach position for a college football team.
But I already think he's kind of handicapped, handicapping himself by playing in that fucking conference because nobody basically respects that conference to begin with.
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Yeah. Well, maybe that's the reason why he chose it is because they were willing to give him the most money and the most leeway in terms of like, oh, we'll acquiesce to all your fucking demands essentially, because no one we want to bring prestige to this program because no one gives a shit about it.
And he's like, oh, nobody gives a shit about it.
If I fucked this up, who cares? No one's going to do gives a fuck. Right. The only thing he does have working in his favor is that if he builds a good program right away and he goes undefeated against a shitty conference and then he beats some juggernauts like, yeah, he'll command a little bit of respect.
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But he does that over the course of four or five years or however long his commitment is to he essentially has like an easy path to get to the to get to the college playoffs, which now is expanded to 12 teams.
So now there's even more likelihood that he could potentially get there with with with with a team that's in a really shitty conference to begin with.
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Yeah. And I will say this as well.
If he gets the program going right like if he executes this shit. One of the things that the Patriots always like to do, even though they never really did it or never really needed to was they used to pull these fucking shady ass trick plays all the time.
Right. That was like one of their specialties was doing all these weird ass little bullshit trick plays. That shit is like bread and butter in college. All these fake ass trick plays and all this dumb shit that they do.
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I feel like he could probably bring some fucking shit to that. That's some crafty shit that nobody's probably seen in a while and in the college level.
And I feel like that that stuff will probably shine, especially if he's in a weak division and maybe your guys aren't that good. Oh, if you just give them the all these gimmick trick plays, you just keep constantly innovating trick plays that no one's able to figure out.
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Yeah, you could steal 13 victories or 12 victories from people if you fucking have enough trick plays up your sleeve.
Yeah. So, you know, I think that very well could fucking could be a great move on his part potentially. But I guess we'll see fucking next college football season when that comes. I'm sure it'll draw a lot of interest.
I mean, Colorado University having Dion Sanders and Warren Sapp as like a I forgot what Warren Sapp is. I can't remember if he's the lineman coach or if he's a defensive coordinator.
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But Colorado has seemingly got back on the map of interest for people within college football when a program a program like that hadn't really garnered a lot of attention.
But now because of Dion Sanders being part of the program, that that's a it's huge for them. But also now we have Bill Belichick getting into the mix. I don't know, man.
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College football is going to be really interesting. I don't know if I'll pay attention to it, but I don't know either. But I mean, I might check out some fucking North Carolina game highlights, you know, but just to see.
Consider me not surprised if this dude ends up going like 14 and 0 or 13 and 0 and finds himself in the first.
Bowl game? First year? First.
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What is it? I think it's a 12 team playoffs. If they end up getting their first bit into the 12 team playoffs on his first go, I think that'll be a definitely a pillar of success for him in his first year.
Well, last year in 2023, they played in the Dukes Mayo Bowl and they played in the Holiday Bowl before that. And then also the Dukes Mayo Bowl again.
Apparently that they like the Dukes Mayo Bowl. Fuck. Yeah. So I can't wait for the Pop Tarts Bowl. That's my favorite.
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Especially when they murder that Pop Tart. Yeah, it's my favorite bowl now. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Anyways. All right. What else? You got anything else? No, no, I don't. All right. Fuck it.
Anyways. Well, that'll be a wrap. Go to Gamerage Magazine on all the social medias and, you know, I'll gas no trash official as well. Poopoo peepee check.
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Poopoo peepee check. Yeah. Then you say poopoo peepee. Why? I don't know. Why not?
I don't know about that, man. I don't know. I don't know a lot about a lot of things. Poopoo peepee. The numbers don't lie. Poopoo and peepee are the numbers now. Yeah.
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Anyways. All right. Well, that's it. Go fuck yourselves. See you on the next one. Whenever the hell that is going to be.
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Chirping from the Pine.
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It's time to rage.
Oh baby, what's going on everybody?
Welcome back to another wonderful episode of Chirping from the Pine.
My name is Josh.
I'm here today with loud noisemaker Adam.
Yes.
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And today we're going to talk about the very confusing shakeup in the SoCal single A minor league baseball, which who would have fucking ever thought?
I mean, probably no one cares about this.
I almost don't care about it, but I am kind of excited for it.
So we'll see.
We'll talk about it.
But anyway, before we get into that, if you want to go follow us on social media, you can follow us on GameRage magazine, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube.
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You can also go to sub stack dot com slash at GameRage magazine.
You want to follow Adam on Instagram, you go to at all gas, no trash official.
It's also on, you know, all the social medias.
Additionally, also at sub stack dot com slash at all gas, no trash official.
If you want to do that, that would be great.
So, you know, Adam, I don't know if you if you heard recently about this this minor league baseball nonsense that has been fucking about.
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Yes. Why? Why? Yes. Good buddy, Josh.
I have.
Oh, I have to say it was very confusing reading that fucking thing.
I'm like, wait, they're doing what? This doesn't make any fucking sense at all.
Why wouldn't you just start a whole fucking new team?
Why is everybody just shuffling around?
So this is this is I'll just explain. I'll go ahead.
Oh, OK. Well, maybe it's included because I know there was a single team and I think it's the one that one of the ones you're talking about.
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I don't want to spoil it. Yeah.
But I'll just say it real quickly.
So there's this team called the Modesto Nuts, right?
So they were planning to build or rather they wanted a new stadium built and they wanted the city to pay for it.
Yeah. And now I didn't I mean.
Now you can kind of go into it.
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So the city told him to fuck off. Yeah. All right. Fuck off, too.
So OK. So what ended up happening is basically you have because we did an episode talking about the new Ontario Sports Complex.
All right. How are the lawyers? Yeah.
They're building a minor league baseball stadium there.
So the Rancho Cucamonga quakes, who are the current affiliate, single affiliate, single affiliate for the Dodge.
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They are now moving to this new Ontario Stadium and they're going to be given a new name.
All right. Then we have we also submitted our name.
We did submit the name. I don't know what it was.
Well, I don't know. But anyways, go back.
You can go listen to the episode because we did it. I think on the episode.
So also. Now the other single teams, one of the other ones, the Inland Empire,
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sixty sixers, which play out of the San Bernardino Sports Stadium.
They are moving to Rancho Cucamonga and are now going to become the rich Cucamonga quakes.
Yes, but they were also bought out. Yes, they were bought by Diamond Entertainment or what is Diamond Sports or whatever.
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Yeah. OK, so they so so they lost the quakes.
Or whatever. And then they bought another.
The other Inland Empire, the other Inland Empire team, they purchased them.
One of the other purchase the Inland Empire, six sisters, say, cool, we're going to move them to Rancho Cucamonga
and just give them the same fucking name that we had before. Yeah.
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Then those Modesto nuts from also the rich Cucamonga quakes are now going to be the single affiliate of the angels.
So that's the affiliation there now.
Then we got the Modesto nuts.
Saying, oh, fuck it, we can't be here anymore.
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So they're going to up and move. To the to the San Bernardino Sports Complex,
and they're going to become the Inland Empire, sixty sixers, which was the team that just moved from.
So it's like all these teams shuffled around but decided like, oh, we're just going to.
All right. They fucked up and hit something. But anyway, we're going to just keep the same names.
Basically, the only one that's getting a new name is the quakes being moved to the Ontario.
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They're going to get a new name because that's obviously not had a team for.
So they're going to get a new name.
An Ontario fucking whatever crack heads or whatever the fuck they're going to call them.
I don't know. The Ontario crack babies.
The Ontario gutters. Yeah, the Ontario gutters.
I think that's what we'd say. That's a great name.
They're probably going to be called whatever, but that's going to be them.
So they're the only one getting a new name.
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The other teams that moved are taking over the name of the team that used to be there.
So it's like all changed around, but kind of the same. It's very strange.
I did say that, hey, this will be cool. Now we'll get to go.
I mean, me and Frank can go see branch, cook them up, quite games now because they're the affiliate of the angels.
So that'll be cool.
I mean, I do want to go check out that new Ontario sports complex when it opens because this is all happening.
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Twenty twenty six. All right. That's when this is all finalized.
These in open season season opening of twenty twenty six will be this will be the new order.
This is how it will be. So twenty twenty five.
They're all playing their last years at their current locations and then they're all making the move.
So, yeah, I guess we'll just see what happens with it. But I thought it just doesn't make any sense why they did this in the most complicated fucking way possible.
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It seems like I would have rather had them just like, OK, cool.
The ranch, cook among the quakes are or the 66ers are got bought out by the team that owned the quakes.
Cool. Just make up a new goddamn name. Just call them something else. Ranch, cook among.
I don't know. It feels like I don't feel cheap to like just use the same.
It's really good. It's for the continuity. Yeah.
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The sake of continuity or consistency.
So like, well, I don't know what type of fandom a single team has, but we also don't want to alienate people.
We're already here. So we'll just keep the same fucking name.
I mean, it'd be cool if they change your name to the fucking Rancho Cook among the fault lines or something.
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I don't know. I don't know what you would want to call it.
Something cooler than quakes. But yeah, so I don't I don't know what the fuck that's going to entail.
I'm sure it's a logistical nightmare to do all this shit, but whatever, they're going to get it done by 2026.
Also, the Modesto Nuts, which are now going to be the Inland Empire, 66ers are the Seattle affiliate of the Seattle mayor.
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They're still maintaining being the Seattle affiliate, the Seattle mayor, your single affiliate.
So we're going to have 66ers Seattle, Rancho Cuckoo, Quakes, Angels, whatever the Ontario crack heads,
gutter snipes is going to be the Dodgers, single affiliate and the Lake Elsinore storm.
For the Padres, they're not single, though, right? I don't remember.
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I feel like they're double a are they? I feel like they're either double or triple.
I don't know. I should probably look that up, actually, just so we can know what the fuck we're talking about.
Lake Elsinore, Lake Smelson or a storm.
Oh, no, they are single. All right. So they're all these fuckers are all just going to continue to play each other basically.
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Anyways. All right. Cool. So now we'll get to go see some more single a baseball options in the Southern California region.
We're going to have one additional team. And now we're going to have, you know, more more options to go to go see shit.
So that'll be kind of fun for the twenty twenty six season. Go check it out.
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We should go to one game of everything just to see because I've never been to the I've been to the Storm Stadium.
I've seen a game, a couple of games there back when they were in the back in the day when they were like the Angels affiliate.
Yeah. A couple of games. I've gone to the quakes as like a child.
Like I remember I've been like as a young child, like I remember specifically owning that like light green fucking cue with the purple circle around it.
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It's disgusting. I specifically remember owning one of those hats as a child, though, as a young, young child. So we're definitely going to go have to go back there.
And then obviously the Ontario one never been to that one because it hasn't been it's not going to be it's going to be a brand new.
So this is the biggest shakeup in single a ball history. It really is.
It really this is this is this is the most newsworthy thing to come out of single a since probably ever.
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I mean, I don't think anybody gives a shit about single a. And you're probably right.
I do feel like there is probably a contingent of fans that are just from the local surrounding area that are diehard fans of these franchises.
And they're going to be like, yeah, sad.
But then again, your whole team is leaving. So it's like everything you liked about it's now gone.
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It's going to be it's all different people. It's going to be same name, different dude.
So maybe a lot of those quick fans will migrate over to the Ontario team.
Who the fuck knows? Maybe those Inland Empire 66 fans will come from the fucking reservation and they'll go fucking go to Quake Games.
I don't know. Or maybe they'll just stay sticking with the same team.
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Well, I have a secondary topic. OK, all right. Go ahead. What do you got?
All right. So I've been keeping up pretty adamantly with any baseball related news as far as free agency goes,
to the point that the night that Juan Soto signed with the New York Mets, you knew about it before everyone else.
No. Oh, yeah, I was there. I was in the room. Yeah, I was in the room.
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Yeah, that Sunday night that it happened, there was numerous reports about Juan Soto is, you know, whatever bullshit thing you can think of.
Oh, he's likely to sign with the fucking Mets. He's going to do this or that. Whatever bullshit thing.
Right. I'm just thinking, dude, how much worse has journalism got when most of the news?
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It's probably because of the access to the Internet and also the 24 hour news cycle. Right. Yeah.
That something has to be reported on because we got to make fucking money.
And that literally means we have to speculate or throw whatever bullshit out.
And that's been the case for like the last three or four weeks. And I know that's kind of been evident since the beginning of probably sports journalism, sports journalism in general.
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But perhaps more so now with the advent of the Internet and social media that journalists are just putting out their best guesses of where people are going to land and what they qualify as fucking information or news.
And I'm kind of tired of it, man. Like I would much rather have a moratorium on reporting for it.
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It's not just baseball free agency, but I'm just talking about sports in general when it comes to free agency that the only thing that that you could talk about because yeah, there are stories about.
New York Yankees had their shot with Juan Soto, but he didn't like the security. Those stories should come after the fact of the signing.
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So post the signing of a player to a team, go fucking nuts. But before that, it's all bullshit and people, I think, eat it up.
But I'm kind of done with it, man. Like it's so it's so stupid that every 30 seconds somebody spelling out their opinion of where somebody's on land.
And it's not even remotely like true about it. Like unless you're tied to the party. Right. Just shut the fuck up. Yes. What do you have to say about that?
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I agree. I'm tired of all the speculation shit because honestly, that's all the fucking shit I see. Oh, who who are the angels going to be signing it?
Don't tell me until they sign the paperwork. All right. I don't give a fuck about who you think they're going to get. None of that means anything.
Because again, like you said, 95 percent of the time it turns out to be wrong anyways. And that was that was not even an option. Yeah.
Same thing with like this Roki Sasaki deal that's going on or whatever. Right. Like all that speculation is nonsense.
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It's all nonsense until he puts fucking pen to paper and signs with a team. Right. Like, yeah.
So like the the latest bullshit with that is that this guy can't take criticism from the media because he was so heavily scrutinized in Japan.
So. What do journalists do at the winter meetings?
They pick apart what Joe Wolf, his manager, his agent, his agent.
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Was saying at the winter meetings and he said, oh, it's possible that Roki Sasaki would be open to and maybe he didn't even say that.
He just said maybe it would work out better for Roki Sasaki to go play for the Seattle Mariners because there's the Ichiro Suzuki tie.
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Not that he knows him personally, but, you know, of course, Ichiro Suzuki could play an ambassador to four Seattle Mariners to talk to Roki Sasaki and to court him to play for the Seattle Mariners.
But of course, the way journalists.
Spin that is like, oh.
Roki Sasaki potentially could go to the Seattle Mariners or some other small to mid-market team.
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And it's like, man, you're picking you're like nitpicking little portions of his agents fucking words all for what?
For like a news headline for today and tomorrow.
Oh, no, he's going to the Dodgers or he's going to the fucking angels wherever or wherever.
I'm like, man, I really think we need to we need to dial back the news of sports sports journalism.
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Like it just it's too much and there's not enough truth.
Yeah, it's all wild speculation because nobody knows anything.
That's the one thing that I have learned is that nobody knows jack shit.
Yeah, it's everybody's just taking their best guess and then hyping it up and basically putting like act not accusations, but like false bullshit behind it to try to back up what they're saying.
Yeah.
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So, I mean, yeah, I think I think that that needs to just go away.
It's the same thing in like every sport, too.
It's not just baseball.
I mean, football does the same shit.
I mean, all this stuff with like, oh, Belichick going to go sign with the fucking easy becoming the University of North Carolina.
Oh, yeah.
Did you ever ever did talk about that?
So we're talking about that now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Belichick signed with the University of North Carolina.
He's now going to be the head coach and he got a fucking sweet deal.
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He gave him this 400 page manifesto that they apparently agreed to.
And I don't know.
That's pretty interesting.
I haven't seen the document, so I can't comment on any of that shit if it's actually true.
You end up being the dean of the university.
I mean, basically, supposedly his girlfriend is his 24 year old girlfriend gets a fucking full ride scholarship for a master's degree.
Yeah.
His son is going to be hired as the assistant coach.
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And then when Belichick retires, they have to keep him on as the head coach for like five years or something like that.
And then they have to behead him and put his head in one of those Futurama capsules so that he can still be or be a ball.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know.
They talk all this shit about Belichick.
I mean, there's all these things that they've been saying about how this is just doomed to fail.
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And listen, maybe.
But one of the things is like you can't take and discount a guy who's been an NFL head coach for fucking what?
Or like he was like a head coach for like 30 years or some shit like that or he was in the coat and to varying degrees.
Yeah, because he was like a defensive coordinator for like the Cleveland first part of his career.
And then I think he became the head coach of Cleveland at some point.
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And then that's when he got picked up by maybe one of the team and then he got picked up by the Patriots.
Yeah. So as a head coach and then basically had the most epic run of in sports history, essentially as a single team head coach, you know, winning all those championships in over fucking 20, a 20 year.
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Yes, man. Six, six championships in 20 years.
I mean, that's pretty fucking good.
So to say that, yes, I don't think 75 year old Bill Belichick wants to deal with these asshole fucking 18 year olds.
That may be the problem, but he doesn't have to deal with anybody directly.
He can just fucking hire minions do that to deal with these assholes and their fucking problems because now, granted, they were talking about, oh, the professional pipeline that he can create.
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Yeah, they're sure. I'm sure there are programs that that run like, you know, NFL programs.
But I think they give them a lot of slack.
I think what team what team did you say he is in North Carolina?
No, the Tar Heels. Yeah, I think that's who it is.
You and what what conference do they belong to?
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Uh, you and see, I feel like they're part of the SEC or the SEC or the ACC.
Which one do they belong to?
Um, I think they're in the ACC.
Yeah, Atlantic Coast Conference. They're in the ACC.
All right.
I think he's off to a bad start by just picking that.
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Yes, I think he's picking the wrong fucking horse to bet on by going to the North Carolina Tar Heels because they're not really primarily known for their football.
They're more known for their basketball program. Right.
I think so. But also the ACC is like a team or rather a conference.
Not that they're actually fucking penalized, but nobody kind of respects that conference.
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So he's already kind of handicapping himself. Let's say he goes, I forget how many games they play within the college football season.
But I think it's I think 11 games or 12 games. I don't remember.
Let's just say 13 games.
If they go 13 and oh, if they go fucking 13 and oh, who's going to give a shit like they'd have to play some fucking pretty decent teams.
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And most of the teams that matter are in the SEC or the Big Ten or things like that.
So as we've learned in previous seasons, specifically, I think it was last year or the year before the Florida Seminoles, the Florida State Seminoles, they went like 13 and oh, right.
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And they didn't even get a bid into the 14 like playoff tournament or whatever.
And so I don't I don't know why he chose. Maybe it was just the next available position to take the head coach, the head coach, head coach position for a college football team.
But I already think he's kind of handicapped, handicapping himself by playing in that fucking conference because nobody basically respects that conference to begin with.
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Yeah. Well, maybe that's the reason why he chose it is because they were willing to give him the most money and the most leeway in terms of like, oh, we'll acquiesce to all your fucking demands essentially, because no one we want to bring prestige to this program because no one gives a shit about it.
And he's like, oh, nobody gives a shit about it.
If I fucked this up, who cares? No one's going to do gives a fuck. Right. The only thing he does have working in his favor is that if he builds a good program right away and he goes undefeated against a shitty conference and then he beats some juggernauts like, yeah, he'll command a little bit of respect.
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But he does that over the course of four or five years or however long his commitment is to he essentially has like an easy path to get to the to get to the college playoffs, which now is expanded to 12 teams.
So now there's even more likelihood that he could potentially get there with with with with a team that's in a really shitty conference to begin with.
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Yeah. And I will say this as well.
If he gets the program going right like if he executes this shit. One of the things that the Patriots always like to do, even though they never really did it or never really needed to was they used to pull these fucking shady ass trick plays all the time.
Right. That was like one of their specialties was doing all these weird ass little bullshit trick plays. That shit is like bread and butter in college. All these fake ass trick plays and all this dumb shit that they do.
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I feel like he could probably bring some fucking shit to that. That's some crafty shit that nobody's probably seen in a while and in the college level.
And I feel like that that stuff will probably shine, especially if he's in a weak division and maybe your guys aren't that good. Oh, if you just give them the all these gimmick trick plays, you just keep constantly innovating trick plays that no one's able to figure out.
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Yeah, you could steal 13 victories or 12 victories from people if you fucking have enough trick plays up your sleeve.
Yeah. So, you know, I think that very well could fucking could be a great move on his part potentially. But I guess we'll see fucking next college football season when that comes. I'm sure it'll draw a lot of interest.
I mean, Colorado University having Dion Sanders and Warren Sapp as like a I forgot what Warren Sapp is. I can't remember if he's the lineman coach or if he's a defensive coordinator.
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But Colorado has seemingly got back on the map of interest for people within college football when a program a program like that hadn't really garnered a lot of attention.
But now because of Dion Sanders being part of the program, that that's a it's huge for them. But also now we have Bill Belichick getting into the mix. I don't know, man.
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College football is going to be really interesting. I don't know if I'll pay attention to it, but I don't know either. But I mean, I might check out some fucking North Carolina game highlights, you know, but just to see.
Consider me not surprised if this dude ends up going like 14 and 0 or 13 and 0 and finds himself in the first.
Bowl game? First year? First.
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What is it? I think it's a 12 team playoffs. If they end up getting their first bit into the 12 team playoffs on his first go, I think that'll be a definitely a pillar of success for him in his first year.
Well, last year in 2023, they played in the Dukes Mayo Bowl and they played in the Holiday Bowl before that. And then also the Dukes Mayo Bowl again.
Apparently that they like the Dukes Mayo Bowl. Fuck. Yeah. So I can't wait for the Pop Tarts Bowl. That's my favorite.
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Especially when they murder that Pop Tart. Yeah, it's my favorite bowl now. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty awesome.
Anyways. All right. What else? You got anything else? No, no, I don't. All right. Fuck it.
Anyways. Well, that'll be a wrap. Go to Gamerage Magazine on all the social medias and, you know, I'll gas no trash official as well. Poopoo peepee check.
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Poopoo peepee check. Yeah. Then you say poopoo peepee. Why? I don't know. Why not?
I don't know about that, man. I don't know. I don't know a lot about a lot of things. Poopoo peepee. The numbers don't lie. Poopoo and peepee are the numbers now. Yeah.
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Anyways. All right. Well, that's it. Go fuck yourselves. See you on the next one. Whenever the hell that is going to be.
That was Chirping from the Pine, the Gamerage Sports Podcast. You can follow us on Instagram and TikTok at Gamerage Magazine.
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