April 24, 2024 • 49 mins
As the crack of the bat echoes in our hearts, Tyler, a true Baltimore Orioles devotee, steps up to the plate to share his touching origin story with the team—a tale woven with memories of his grandfather and the diamond heroics of Orioles legends. Our exchange, rich with both nostalgia and forward-looking enthusiasm, captures the bittersweet symphony of the past pitching disappointments and the bright horizon promised by fresh ownership and a burgeoning roster of young talent. We stroll through the hallowed grounds of Oriole Park at Camden Yards, where each home run etched into Utah Street's plaques is a verse in the Orioles' enduring saga.
Picture the frenzy of a ballpark as Tyler and I recount the evolution of Oriole Park, from the B&O Warehouse roots to the modern fanfare of rooftop bars and the lively "Bird Bath" cheer zones. We celebrate the legacy of the Orioles greats and set our sights on the rising stars poised to carry the torch. Names like Adley Rushman and Gunner Henderson inspire chatter about their impact and the future they're crafting in Baltimore's lineup. The heart of our discussion pumps with anticipation for these young Orioles, their promise shining bright against the backdrop of baseball's grand stage.
Settle in for a playful banter that leaps from the field to the stars, as we juxtapose Orioles trivia with the lore of Star Wars in a game of cosmic proportions. We revere Cal Ripken Jr.'s ironman legacy, debate his place among baseball's pantheon, and make bold predictions for the Orioles' season. Pondering the same odds as a non-Skywalker Star Wars film, we dream of World Series glory dawning over Baltimore. Join us for this episode, where the love of the game and the soul of a city converge, and the spirit of Orioles fandom flies higher than a home run sailing over Camden Yards.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
All right, everyone, welcome back to Fandom From Afar
.
We have another returning guest.
Today.
It is baseball season and Tyler, who you may remember from our
Baltimore Ravens episode, isalso a huge Baltimore Orioles
fan, and they are one of the hotyoung teams in the league, so I
(00:23):
wanted to take the opportunityto learn more about them and we
can talk some baseball.
So welcome back.
I appreciate it, brian.
Thank you, so obviously you'vebeen here before.
You know the routine.
Yes, so I got to say, though,when listening to your Ravens
episode, your origin story forthe Orioles has a lot to live up
(00:47):
to.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it's definitely not as cool.
It's definitely not as cool atall.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You don't have one of the best players ever talking
to you and giving you swag.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
No, no, no.
Cal Rifkin's not walking up tome and handing me his game-used
glove or anything like that.
Well, all right, I'm sure it'llbe cool anyway, so let's hear
your origin story of uh, how youbecame an orioles fan, um, so
yeah, it was basically aroundthe same time that I really
started getting into being tobeing a ravens fan and, uh, my
grandfather, um, he used to takeme and my cousin brady.
(01:16):
He would take us to oriolesgames and I remember the very
first or I wouldn't say the veryfirst one, I think it was the
one that stood out the most tome was when he got a suite for
us and, oh wow, it was like likewe had free hot dogs and free
soda all day and he and he waslike no rules on anything, just
have whatever you want, justdon't tell your parents oh,
that's like the dream.
(01:36):
Yeah, I was like, okay, cool,you ain't gotta tell me twice,
right and um, so yeah, that dayI believe it wasoles.
I think they were playing theNationals.
It was the Beltway Series, sothe stadium's always full for
that because it's only about a35-minute drive between the two
stadiums.
Oh yeah, so it's literally onthe same Beltway and so, yeah,
(01:58):
the stadium was always full forthose games.
And it was just like ever sincethen watching Miguel Tejada and
, like Javi Lopez and MelvinMora, and I mean especially
Brian Roberts, like he was oneof my favorite players, yeah he
was like, uh, like a littlesecond baseman, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
oh, yeah, yeah he was .
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He was one of the most sure-handed fielders I've
ever seen like he did incrediblethings.
He I mean he holds the Oriolesrecord for batting average in a
season too.
I mean I think he hit 281 in aseason Very nice, which is very
weird that we haven't had a 300hitter on the Orioles,
considering the type of playerswe've had around.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, that's actually very odd.
It's very, very odd.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Shocking almost Is that true, yeah, wow, I mean
take it this way the season thatthe Orioles set four offensive
records, they lost or they went,like I think it was like 22 or
23 games under 500.
Oh, so like I mean, yeah, theoffense is there, but the
pitching was never there.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So it's like, yeah, we were setting records, but all
for nothing.
That's interesting and, likethe first 10 years of my fandom,
I didn't even see a playoff win.
I didn't even see a playoffappearance until 2014, when they
won the AL East and they sweptthe Tigers in the first round
and then lost in five games tothe Yankees in the next round.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But that's when you really get your fandom stripes,
is when you stay loyal to a teamfor 10 years without any
success, and you're still therefor the glory days it was not
easy, brian yeah, it was noteasy, like back to back hundred
plus lost seasons and finishinglast five out of six years, and
you know it was hard.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But then I mean everything kind of started
turning around when, uh, uh,like people like Adam Jones and
Matt and Matt Wieters and, um, Imean who else you have the Eric
Bedard and Zach Britton andlike all the, all the good
people started coming up, likeall the crappy years and all the
high draft picks and all thatthey finally started paying off.
(04:00):
Had people like Nick Marcakisand Jay Gibbons who were being
called up, and so it's.
I mean, from there it's alwaysbeen forward momentum, but then,
like the main thing that wasalways holding us back, which
got changed this year, is we gota new owner.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And our new owner is David Rubenstein, and it's him
and 15 other guys and Calrickand Jr is actually a part of the
ownership group, and so isGrant Hill.
Oh very cool.
Yeah, so is Michael Bloomberg.
So you know, like BloombergInvestments.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Billion dollar portfolios and stuff like that.
And so now we have the richestowner in baseball.
We got all these people to signextensions to.
That's really interesting,maybe you'll start owner in
baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We got all these people to sign extensions too,
so that's really interesting.
Maybe it should be a lot of funstart spending with like the
yankees and the red socks, andoh yeah that's.
That's gonna be reallyinteresting.
Oh yeah, I'm excited, I'm readyfor it.
Well, that gives me hope,because I think that's the main
thing.
Holding the rockies back now,too, is the owner just does not
care about winning.
They just they want to spend aslittle money on the team as
possible because they know thefans are going to sell out the
(05:07):
stadium every night, no matterhow good the team is.
They'll make as much money aspossible and that's all they
care about.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That's the issue with baseball too.
It's all up to how much moneythe owner has.
There's no salary cap.
That's why the Yankees are ableto spend half a billion dollars
in one season on their payroll.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Same with the Dodgers .
What's their payroll?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm pretty sure they're almost at a billion
dollars.
It's really close.
And I mean you're signing guysto 10-year $700 million
contracts, like Shohei Otani,and he deferred all that until
the end of his contract.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They'd only given him $2 million.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's cheating.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You shouldn't be able to do that.
Maybe they knew he was going togamble it all away, so they
just knew where his translatorwas going to gamble it.
Exactly.
Now let's, I guess, kind of abroad question, because you
mentioned getting the suite atthe stadium.
Yeah, but that's one thing Ialways think about with the
Orioles is their stadium is justreally cool looking.
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It's kind of one of thoseclassic stadiums with all the
brick and everything and it'sjust one of the cooler looking
stadiums.
Does it seem that way whenyou're there too, or is it just
kind of like my memory seeing iton TV that I just kind of no,
it's like when you're there,it's one of those parks where
you walk in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're like man, this is different from other
baseball fields.
Like this is cool because thewarehouse, uh, it's in right
field.
So behind right field is theBNO warehouse.
What is that?
So it was a warehouse for arailroad.
Oh, okay.
And so now it's actually theOrioles front offices, and so it
overlooks the field.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh, very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's where all the offices are, and they bought it
out a long time ago I think.
I think sometime in the 80s or90s.
I might be wrong, but um, theybought that out, now it's their
front offices and um, and nowthey, now they use that as like
a part of the stadium so that uh, the street in between the
warehouse and the stadium iscalled utah street, okay, and so
whenever somebody hits a homerun there, uh, they put a plaque
, and it's in the shape of abaseball where it landed and
that's really cool player's namehow far it went, and the
furthest home run to this day isken griffey jr.
(07:12):
In the home run derby, Ibelieve he hit it like 468 feet
I remember watching that homerun derby.
That was fun yeah, and theplaque is on the wall, the
warehouse, like it didn't hitthe ground first, like he hit
the warehouse first, that's abomb, I mean it's ken griffey,
yeah exactly.
He's the only player in mlbhistory to have his his name on
there as an opposing player,like there's no other player
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besides orioles and there's he'sthe only one on there who has
his name up there because he'sthe only one that's hit it out
there.
Yeah, oh really, so it doesn'thappen very often no, just
because he's the furthest,that's it wow, okay, yeah yeah,
if you're an oriole and you hitit the furthest, I mean,
obviously they're not going totake down ken griffey's ball
yeah I mean, at this point hehit the warehouse wall, so how
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much further can you hit it,right?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
well, I was gonna say that was like back in the day
when they were kind of juicingthe baseballs because they
wanted everyone to hit home runs.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They were juicing themselves.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, that's cool, and so I guess what kind of like
it's a cool-looking stadium,what kind of amenities does it
have?
Like, is there anything thatkind of makes it stand out, or
is it pretty simple and it justis kind of like a throwback in
that sense too, where you'reliterally just there to watch
the game and just enjoy timewith your family or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So in recent years it's become a little more modern
.
It used to be just like aclassic, like if you were going
to Turner Field for a Bravesgame or something like that.
That's the kind of feel it gave, like long beer lines because
they weren't updated withvendors and all that stuff yet.
So I think in the last five orsix years the Angelos family one
of the very few things theytook investment in the team for
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was the stadium.
So what they did was they addeda Coors rooftop deck bar and
that actually got finishedbuilding this past off off
season.
So this season is the firstyear they have it open and stuff
.
Um, and then, uh, something newthey added to it's uh, it's
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called the bird bath and what isthat?
and it's a section out in leftcenter field and it's a very
small section of like.
I think it's just one sectionof like eight, eight seats wide
and like 10 rows deep and we andthey call it the bird bath, uh,
because we have this guy, hisname is mr splash and he stands
(09:27):
in this platform at the front ofthe section and whenever we
score a run or hit a home run ordo something good, he has this
water hose and he sprays all thefans in the in the bird bath oh
, okay, and that's fun.
Yeah, so it's cool and, like ourteam, like we have a lot of
play on, like on things withwater, like our bullpen.
So every game, our bullpen uh,they have.
(09:48):
They have one of those, likeit's one of the funnel things
and you would chug something ohyeah and so every game, the
bullpen pitchers they pick oneplayer to hit a home run and if
their player hits a home run andthey take a whole cup of water
through the funnel and that'sawesome.
In the dugout we have what'scalled the hydration station and
it's this it's a funnel that'sgot four hoses coming off of it,
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because that's the max amountof runs you can score on a home
run on the grand slam and soanybody who scored and the
person who hit the home run willall drink from the hydration
station after they get in thedugout, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
See, I like little stuff like that.
It's so much fun, it's so muchfun to watch.
There's so many games.
Why not do little quirky, funthings like that, just to have
fun, why not?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's what I was telling my fiancee.
She's like how do they play 162games?
And I was like because they dothings like this?
To keep themselves occupiedlike yeah, exactly, you have to
make it fun when you, when it'syour job.
That's why they're.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They're chewing sunflower seeds all the time,
like they're just trying to likepass the time and do something
exactly like that's cool.
So you obviously had theexperience with the suite do you
remember, like what playerreally stuck stood out to you at
that time and like kind of wasyour first favorite oriole I
(11:08):
would say miguel tahata yeah, hewas good because he was so much
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
He still holds the rbi record and hits record a
single season.
For us I think it's like 128rbis, then he had 214 hits in
one season was he still ashortstop for you guys?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I remember he played shortstop for the a's, but I
didn't remember if he moved tothird or anything like.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
No, he was a shortstop and then, uh once
melvin mora got there, uh somelvin mora was a shortstop and
then he ended up playing thirdbecause I guess they didn't want
to move to hoda tahada was abeast, no he was incredible,
like there was that whole goldenage of shortstops back then
with like tahata and jeter nomarjeter.
I mean, who else was?
I mean, I mean, that's just theeast alone.
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He had three hall of famers, sothat yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That was when it's like oh, shortstops can be more
than just like the smoothfielding, like little tiny guy,
they can actually hit some bombs, so yeah right, yeah, tahata
was great.
I loved watching him.
Now you said you had 10 yearsin there where they were losing.
Who was your favorite player onthe team when they finally
broke through and beat thetigers that one year in the
(12:12):
playoffs?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
um, I would definitely was that when brian
ro, brian Roberts was on theteam.
Yeah, that was towards the endof him, but he was injured that
year and he finally got back tothe right form halfway through
the season when he came backfrom his injury and he had an
incredible postseason that year.
I mean, just everybody startedhitting, everybody started
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pitching.
Well, it was just all comingtogether.
And then obviously we just raninto the yankees and who still
had a rod and robinson cano andderrick jeter and all those
dudes over there and all theirpitching.
They had like I'm pretty surethey had randy johnson at that
time, still so they were alwaysloaded during that time.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Again, you know, back to the payroll.
They could pay everyone.
It's just money, money, money.
Exactly our owner.
I think our owner's worth 124billion dollars now.
So yeah, you're gonna beplaying, playing with the big
boys now playing the same game.
You're gonna forget aboutlittle, uh, small market teams
like the rockies and be like, ohsucks to be you can't relate
anymore yeah, well, what it wasthe year you guys beat the
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tigers, is that the farthestyou've gone in like recent times
?
yeah that's the farthest I'veever seen but now they got this
nice young core that hopefullycan put something together I'm
ready for it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm ready for it well , let's kind of talk about this
year's team um because that'spart of the reason why I wanted
to have you on is just toeducate myself a little bit,
just because I feel like I'm outof touch with baseball and I
know there's so many good youngplayers and quite a few of them
happen to be on the Orioles, soI wrote down some names, so just
kind of tell me a little bitabout them, if they are legit
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good or if just the hype haskind of exceeded their talent.
I got you, so let's start withAdley Rushman.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh yeah, adley Rushman.
Oh yeah, adley Rushman iseverything he was supposed to be
.
Yeah, ever since he came to theteam, the Orioles have the best
record in the MLB.
Oh really, since May of 2019,the Orioles have the best record
in the MLB since his first gamein the MLB.
So he completely turnedeverything around for us.
He's everything he was supposedto be.
Okay, so he's our franchiseplayer.
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He's the face of our franchise.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He's everything yeah, and he's the catcher right.
Yeah, he's captain.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He's captain, that's uh okay, that's a good start.
Oh yeah, how about?
Gunner henderson.
He's the.
I think he might win an mvpthis year or next year hey he's
well.
I mean, I mean he's.
I think his ops is over, iswell over 1.12 or something like
that, and I mean that's unheardof.
And he's.
(14:45):
He leads our team in home runs.
He leads our team in hits andRBIs.
He steals bases, he plays thefield well and he was a second
round pick and he became thenumber one overall prospect
before he was called up.
Wow.
So I mean that's just, you guysare legit, loaded with these
young guys.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh yeah, what about, uh, ryan mountcastle?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
he's good.
He's another homegrown guy.
He, um, he was called up alittle while ago, I think four
or five years ago, and um, yeah,he's good, I like him, he's.
He's just, he's just consistent.
More solid, yeah, he's just.
Yeah, he's good, I like him,he's just consistent.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
More solid than the other guys.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, he's more like you know exactly what you're
going to get.
And Gunnar and Adley, they'vedefinitely been up and down so
far, but they've become a lotmore consistent.
They're both hitting well over300.
Mountcastle's right there withthem.
He's just doing it quietly,that's all.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And apparently, as we learned, hitting over 300 in
Baltimore is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, it's real tough to do.
Yeah, apparently.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And then the newest one, which is funny because,
just for the listeners behindthe scenes, tyler and I were
going to do this last week whenJackson Holiday had just been
called up and the hype was huge,and over the past week it might
have died down a little bit,but tell us about Jackson
Holiday no, the hype is stillthere, like I fully believe in
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that kid.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
He was the number one prospect for a reason.
He's not.
He's not just gonna like allthe scouts in the league aren't
gonna look at him and not tellthe truth, right?
What's the point, you know?
But I mean people just keepsaying, oh, he's one for 25,
he's hitting.
I'm pretty sure he's hittinglike 0.04 or something like that
it's, it's not good right now,trust me he's.
(16:29):
But at this point like there'sno point in sending him back
down to triple a because he'salready proven like I can hit
that pitching and take a yardwhenever I want Exactly I need
to learn how to hit this MLBpitching.
And also he's had like 31at-bats, yeah, like, Come on,
dude, he's 20.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And people have these streaks in baseball all the
time.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It just happens to be that he's having this streak
right away and it's fine and Ikeep telling people I'm like, as
long as we're winning and hecan just hide and and figure
things out and hitting ninth inthe order, whatever yeah, and
he'll have a streak eventuallywhere he's like 15 for 25 and
it's all gonna balance outexactly and with the way our
lineup is now, like he couldprobably end up staying at ninth
(17:12):
.
Honestly, yeah, it's like wehave so many more guys.
It's.
It's like an embarrassment ofriches, like there's.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I mean, I don't know if you had any more players to
go over, but well, yeah, I wasgonna say, did I miss any big
time guys that I need to bepaying attention to?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
yeah, jordan westberg he's what position is he?
He plays third base.
Okay, he's incredible, he'slike he.
I mean, it seems like hebarrels the ball up every time
he makes contact.
He's.
He's consistent, he's.
Every time he makes contact,he's consistent.
I think he's on an eight-gamehitting streak right now and I
think he's hitting 18 of 24 orsomething like that I mean
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that's incredible, that's insane.
And he was caught up last yearfor the playoffs and then he had
to make the team in springtraining again, which he did,
and I mean he's just good in thefield, he doesn't make errors.
Playoffs.
And then he had to make theteam in spring training again,
which he did, and I mean he'sjust good in the field, he
doesn't make errors, and likehe's he's he's a low-key
superstar.
I think he's going to be really, really, really good and
correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All these guys are like mid-20s and younger, like,
oh yeah, like you guys are gonnabe good for a long time like
jordan westberg is 23, gunnerhenderson's 22, at least 24.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Jackson holiday is 20 dang, we don't have anybody in
our lineup over the age of 30well and what?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
what perfect timing it is to get owners that
actually have money.
So when these guys are gettingtheir big contracts, you guys
are like yeah, that's fine,we'll pay, you got a lot of
contracts to hand out.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, that's a good problem to have it's kind of
cool.
They kind of made a littleteaser, I think, on social media
, uh, this past couple weeks.
Um.
So they actually had cal ripkenjr sit at a desk at shortstop
at camden yards because, I mean,for those who don't know, cal
ripken jr was a short stop, uh,before he was a third baseman
and he went into the hall offame as a third baseman, which
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is incredible.
That wasn't his first position,yeah and um.
So they had him sit at a deskat shortstop it was like an
office desk and it was ourmanager and David Rubenstein,
our new owner, and they werestanding in the dugout and they
were like, I mean, who's goingto tell him that he can't work
out here?
I'm not going to be the one.
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And all of a sudden, like gunnerhenderson, our shortstop, our
starting shortstop he walks intothe frame and he goes.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'll go tell him.
It's like that's my area exactly, so I'm thinking they were
teasing like an extension orsomething coming up for gunner,
like letting us know like that'sgoing to be his spot for the
foreseeable future which that'sawesome, I really hope so it's
it's very cool, that's like thesweet spot to be a fan of a team
that's homegrown, young andjust super talented, so like, oh
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yeah, you got to be superexcited for the next five years
basically oh yeah, and I mean I,I mean there's another name um
colton kouser is he the pitcher?
No, no, don't you guys havelike a stud pitcher too?
That I'm not, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Corbin Burns, there we go.
Yeah, we traded for him fromthe Brewers Gotcha gotcha, which
we actually traded away acouple good prospects.
They both made the MLB team forthe Brewers as starters.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
So you know that's good for them.
You guys have a, because theyweren't going to make the team
in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
But yeah, but um.
Yeah, we traded for him.
And then grayson rodriguez,he's homegrown, we drafted him
in the first round like fouryears ago and I mean he's
incredible, he um.
But no, colton kouser, he um.
In his first road series of hiscareer he got called up this
year or before the seasonstarted.
In his first road series in uhin boston he had 10 rbisIs in
three games.
He was absolutely smashing theball that series.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What position is he?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
He's a left fielder.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Okay.
Every position they just keepcoming.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I hate to keep talking about the prospects, but
we literally just called one uptoday.
His name is Heston Kerstad.
He's been hitting over 300.
He leads the minors and homeruns, rbis and slugging and ops,
and he's just another.
He's the number 28 overallprospect but he leads the minors
in every hitting category rightnow.
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So, yeah, he's like 23 yearsold and he's playing tonight so
that's so fun.
It's it's really cool and I Ilove that we didn't have to buy
the team.
I like that we did it all theright way, like, yeah, we might
have tanked a couple years, butyou know it's a business.
Well, how to get draft picks Iwas gonna say because there's
plenty of teams colorado rockies, um that are terrible every
(21:35):
year and then don't get theseamazing players because they
don't draft well so it's likeyeah man, you should be pretty
excited I am very excited and,uh, speaking of the rockies
though I hate to get off topicof the orioles but I actually
know somebody who who pitchesfor you.
He's the husband of one of myfriends, uh, uh, justin lawrence
oh yeah yeah, yeah he's.
(21:55):
I think he was your closer orlike short believer for a little
bit.
Or he still is.
He's pretty good.
He's been doing pretty well.
He married my longtime highschool friend.
Oh, that's awesome, yeah, soshe gets to go travel along with
him.
They don't have kids oranything yet.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, you can get the inside scoop from me and see
what a Rockies player actuallyfeels like.
If the players hate the ownersas much as the fans do, I'm sure
they do.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
They just can't talk about it.
Hopefully it's not theirpaychecks.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Here's a good prediction.
Hopefully Justin gets traded toBaltimore.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yes, so that it can bring your worlds together and
then we can both cheer for him.
Then that's probably.
The one weak spot is our middlerelief.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Hey see, there you go , we'll work something out.
You is our middle relief.
Hey see, there you go, we'llwork something out.
You give us some of those niceprospects, we'll take them.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think I'd rather just let them sit in the minor
leagues for a couple more years.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Another connection to the Rockies is obviously
Jackson Holiday because Matt.
Holiday was like our star.
The last time we were good, andso when Jackson got called up
last week or whatever it was,they were showing him little
four or five-year-old runningaround Coors Field just playing
catch with his dad andeverything.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I was like, oh man, he's all grown up now.
Yeah, there's a bunch ofOrioles accounts that were
sharing those videos.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Our little boy is all grown up now I'm cheering for
him because we don't haveanything to cheer for.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I love Jackson.
I think have anything to cheerfor.
I love.
I mean, I love jackson.
I think he's gonna turn outfine, he's gonna.
He's gonna sit there, he'sgonna figure it out.
He's got his dad.
His dad was a two-time championand well, like a seven or eight
time all-star, you know.
So if he can do anything closeto that, you guys will be happy,
we'll be good.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
He makes me feel old, though, because he has that
little baby face and I'm justlike man I don't even think he
can grow a beard yet.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Well, we'll get into predictions later but, you got
me all excited about the Oriolesnow.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
They're fun to watch man.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I need to watch some games now.
But speaking of games, do youwant to play some games?
Let's do it, all right.
So this first one is calledTitles.
So I'm going to give you atitle and you give me a name of
the player that you anoint withthat title.
Okay, let's do it.
So these are pretty simple, butI'm interested to hear now that
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apparently you have every goodplayer at every position yeah,
it's gonna be hard to pick, sofirst title, best hitter oh.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh goodness, I would say right now it would have to
be Jordan Westberg.
It's because he just alwaysseems to come through with
runners in scoring position andyou know, whenever you need him
most, he's there.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So he's more like solid all around.
He's not necessarily like yeah,he's literally a five tool
player.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, he can run he can hit, he can throw, he can
catch, he can do solid allaround.
He's not necessarily like yeah,he's literally a five tool
player.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, he can run, he can hit, he can throw, he can
catch, he can do everything.
Okay, he's good.
Well, that fits then.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Best fielder?
Fielder Definitely GunnarHenderson.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
He's nasty at shortstop.
That's good.
I mean, he's already made acouple of incredible plays.
I mean, if you want to go lookit up on YouTube, it's there.
But he uh, yeah, he's his arm,and his arm is incredible, like
he'll throw from his butt andhe'll get it there on a I mean
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on a laser.
Hey, that's one of the plays hemade was he threw across the
diamond at like 95 off his buttReally.
So I don't understand how youdo that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So I think now I see why he's he's allowed to kick
Cal Ripken out of out ofshortstop Right.
Uh, best pitcher.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Um, I'm going to go with Grayson Rodriguez only
because we didn't trade for him.
He's homegrown and that givesthem a little bit of a bump.
Yeah, it's kind of like we didthat.
I like it.
Yeah, of like, we did that.
I like it.
Yeah, that's that.
That's our best in my mind.
And then, best player, bestoverall players ali rutschman.
Okay, yeah, as far as like iqand like just being a leader,
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being a captain, being like Ithink he keeps everybody
together, like he's the oldestof the young guys, so he's kind
of like he's like the grizzledvet at 25 years old exactly like
, but he's kind of like theleader of the young guys, and
then we've got a couple vetsthat are probably above him.
But it's really about it likehe's the captain.
He was voted on by the playersas a captain, like it's his team
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.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So perfect, I like it .
That was a easy warm-up gamebecause it's your opinion, so
you can't get it wrong.
Exactly yeah, exactly all right.
Now for your Ravens podcasts.
We did some Harry Potter games,so I told you to switch it up
and I made you.
Tell me some other pop culturethat you like, yes, and you
chose Star Wars, yes.
So this game is called lightside, dark side, all right.
(26:32):
So in this case, you're goingto give a light side answer and
a dark side answer.
So what I mean by that is forthe light side.
I'm going to say a team andyou're going to tell me a player
that you wish would have playedfor the orioles, like present
or past, anytime you want that.
(26:53):
Anytime they, they either playnow for that team or they did
play for that team, likesometime in your fandom and you
wish they played for the orioles.
Okay, the dark side is that sameteam.
You need to name a player thatyou just love to hate whenever
they played the orioles.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, all right, let's do it, so should be pretty
easy we're gonna start out withthe blue jays, oh.
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Who's your light side ?
Your Jedi that you wish wouldhave played for the Orioles?
That was a Blue Jay.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I would say Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Oh yeah, Are you kidding me?
Oh yeah, that dude hits it 500feet with a wooden bat.
I loved it.
He was such a beast.
I mean, he's just like his dadtoo.
He'll hit it.
I mean he'll golf it off theground.
He'll hit it dead center offthe ground.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
It's incredible what he does with the bat.
I mean, he's no good in thefield.
He'd probably be a DH.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
But I'd be cool with that.
He'd probably hit 50, so I'mcool with that.
He'd probably get bored andjust learn how to hit.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Left could hit the warehouse right, right, or just
do it oppo yeah, exactly, it'sjust that strong what about dark
side?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
who did you love to hate on the blue jays?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I really love to hate jose bautista.
Oh nice, I really didn't likeyeah, he was too cocky for me,
like he was just I don't know.
Even though we've never playedthe Blue Jays in the playoffs
during my fandom, it seems likeevery time we were good, they
were bad, and vice versa.
But he was just so, so, sococky.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Those cocky guys that make it easy to hate.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I couldn't stand him, dude.
I really couldn't stand him.
Every home run it was a batflip and a pimp.
He was walking all the way tofirst.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Then he started jogging like posing the whole
way like hurry up, dude, hurryup, like well, there you go.
That's a perfect dark sideanswer yeah, I did not like him
all right, let's go.
Tampa bay rays this is hard.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Um light side, I mean they've had a few good guys,
but I just feel like all theirgood guys they always end up
somewhere else diving off ifthey stay with the Rays or they
go somewhere else and also endup diving off.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Evan Longoria.
He didn't really do much afterhe left, like I don't know.
I think maybe like KevinKiermaier.
Okay, he was really good in theoutfield.
He was fast, he could hit, hestole bases like he had a strong
arm and he was a lefty and Ilike lefties.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So they do look cooler doing everything.
Oh yeah, what about dark side?
Is there anyone that you loveto hate on the race?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
um carlos pena?
Oh yeah, because he he was anoriole destroyer.
He had our phone number likeevery, it seemed like every
series we faced him, it was likeanywhere from like four to
seven home runs, like 10 to 15rbis.
I mean just there's alwaysthose guys pitching like I don't
know what it was about ourpitchers, but he could just see
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the ball.
It was bad.
There you go.
It was real bad.
I did not.
I not like playing him youmentioned them earlier.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let I I uh threw in the nationals on here.
So who, who, uh, who from thenationals do you just wish would
have?
Uh, come up the highway alittle bit and and play for
those?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I mean I'm sure everybody thinks I'm gonna say
bryce harper.
I mean I don't really think Iwould.
I would have wanted bryce BryceHarper to come play for us
because, I don't know, I feellike we didn't really need him,
even though we were losing, whenhe came to the league, but he
didn't go to the Nationals andgo win a World Series either, so
(30:32):
is he your sneaky dark sidepick.
Who?
Bryce?
Yeah, no, Okay, no, no.
I'm very indifferent aboutbryce.
Harper I I I honestly think hewas just a tad overhyped, like
yeah, like two mvps in one worldseries.
I think I think he won a worldseries yeah yeah, and I mean,
(30:53):
yeah, it's awesome, but I don'tknow like he's been hurt a lot.
He's missed entire seasons I Ithink two or three times.
Now he's playing first basebecause he had surgery on his
elbow.
Oh, I didn't even know that.
Yeah, yeah, I mean he was onlyhitting for a while and then
they eventually got him out tofirst base when he started
throwing again.
But yeah, no, I'm neutral onBryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So no one sticks out that you would want off the
nationals.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, oh, steven strasburg.
Oh, okay, there you go 100.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I would have loved to have him because I knew he
wouldn't have abused his arm theway the nationals did I was
gonna say, if he could havestayed healthy, they killed his
arm they destroyed him.
I mean, they were having him go.
They were having him start like33 to 40 games a year.
I think like 35 or 40 games ayear, yeah, that's too much.
Yeah, he was throwing 265innings, like what.
(31:46):
It's crazy.
See, if only he would have cometo the O's.
Yeah, we wouldn't have donethat to him, I don't think what
about dark side for theNationals?
The Nationals.
I really feel like there wasn'tmuch on the Nationals who were
really disliked by me or anybodyI knew, really, I would say
(32:08):
Ryan Zimmerman, maybe.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Okay, yeah, he was there for a while.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, that pitcher, he was pretty good.
He always seemed to pitch wellagainst us.
I always chalked it up as aloss whenever he was pitching
against us.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There you go.
Just a respectful hatred.
It was discouraging when I sawit.
All right, now we're gettinginto the big boys, let's say the
Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
There's so many players that I wish would have
played for us.
Instead of the Red Sox, I wouldsay one that sticks out the
most is probably.
I mean, I would have loved tohave Mookie bets.
Oh yeah, you kidding me.
Yeah, I think, I think I wouldstill rather have Mookie bets
than Gunnar Henderson.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I mean Mookie's crazy .
Mookie's amazing, he's crazy.
He does everything.
He doesn't miss like I don'tknow.
He does everything.
Gunnar does just a little bitbetter, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
And the Red Sox didn't really get much for him
in that trade right?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No, he didn't even get traded.
I'm pretty sure he walked forfree.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh, really, so even worse yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Okay, and then they didn't re-sign Bogarts.
He went to the Padres, yeah.
So yeah, dang, I wish she wouldhave played for the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Who do you love to hate on the Red Sox?
Manny Ramirez.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That came out quick.
I hate Manny Ramirez so much.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Does Manny being Manny?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
No, it's not Manny being Manny, he's being a clown,
he's being a clown.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's funny, that came out so quick.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It is funny to watch him do it, though Like catching
a ball, running up the wallhigh-fiving a fan and stuff like
that.
Yeah, it's fun to watch, but Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I wonder if his teammates thought it was funny
or if they got tired of it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I mean, they also had David Ortiz on their team.
So, I mean, he was probablyjust as bad, yeah.
But I love Big Papi now becausehe got into broadcasting a
little bit and started callinggames.
(34:05):
And he was an analyst for alittle while for mlb central, I
think, and and he became alittle bit more likable for me.
Okay, good, he's like the, thecharles barkley of the.
No, roger Clemens, oh really,yeah, I would have wanted Roger
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Clemens because during the timehe was playing, like I said, the
pitching wasn't there for us,uh-huh, and I loved watching
Roger Clemens.
And he was just winning allthose sightings, yeah and he was
a strikeout pitcher and that'swhat I liked about him is that
he could strike anybody out withany pitch and put it anywhere
he wanted.
And even when he did miss, itwas 98, and he blew it right by
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you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
And he played for pretty much every other team in
the AL East, so why not?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
play for Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Exactly, All right.
Who do you love to hate on theYankees?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yankees.
It's a close tie.
Well, no, it's not a close tie.
I would say it's close betweentwo players.
I would definitely say A-Rod.
Yeah, I don't like A-Rod, hecheated.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
He cheated and I don't like that.
I mean, he was found guilty ofcheating, that's why he got
suspended for an entire year andthen, like I don't know, I
don't think you should be toutedas one of the greats if you
cheated.
Yeah, I think that makesperfect sense.
I mean, hence why I didn'tmention Rafael Palmeiro, like a
famous Oriole, or Sammy Sosa,who also played for the Orioles.
I never even mentioned them.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I even mention them.
Yeah, I don't think they shouldbe in the hall of fame like I
like it, but yeah, same withespecially good, even though
everyone was probably cheatingback then.
It just seems like if they weredoing it to the point where
they kind of stuck out aboveeveryone, then they were pushing
it way too far like yeah, itwas cool to have two guys going
at it for the home run title.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Like 62 home runs, like that's incredible, don't
get me wrong.
But at the same time, ifeverybody did that, then like
what would it be?
Like we'd be hitting balls like600 feet and like pitchers to
be throwing 105 consistently.
Like how fun is that?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
exactly speaking of steroids, brady Anderson Ah,
brady, his one random year wherehe hit like 50 bombs all of a
sudden, when his previous careerhigh was like 14.
It was 51.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
But yeah, that was a fun year too.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Okay, well, good, I feel like you're a true fan,
because the dark side answerscame out so much quicker than
the other ones, because youalways remember those guys that
kill your team and you can'tstand.
I like it All right.
Our last game is called Eitheror, so this one.
I'm going to give you twooptions and you just have to
(36:55):
tell me.
I'll give you the the categoryas well, but usually it's which
one is bigger.
So on one side, there will be aorioles option, and then on the
other side, it's going to be astar wars option.
Okay, so some of these are kindof out there, so you gotta
stick with me, let's do it allright.
(37:15):
So I looked it up and you guyshave a pitcher on your team
named tyler wells.
Yep, he is six eight, so that'spretty tall.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
He's a big old country boy uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
So um, tyler wells with a baseball on top of his
head, or the actor who playedchewbacca oh, I know who the
actor actor who played Chewbacca.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Oh, I know who the actor is who played Chewbacca,
which is taller.
He's well over seven foot.
He's like 7'3", isn't he?
Yeah, he's 7'3".
It'd be the actor who played.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Chewbacca.
Oh okay, Very good.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I thought that might be tougher 7'3 or 7'4".
Speaker 2 (37:54):
That's like one of the first things my dad taught
me about Star Wars.
He was like you know, that's areal guy in that suit, right, I
say, you got exact card.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He was 7'3".
Yeah, very good.
Yeah, because my first guessfor the Chewbacca guy was like
that he was maybe like 6'11 ormaybe 7', that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
So I thought it might be close.
I gave him like a small stiltor something.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
But no, I should have given Tyler Wells two baseballs
, right, all right.
Next one, which one is higher?
Cal Ripken's streak, which, forthose who don't know is he
played in a record consecutivegames and he had a streak that
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was very famous back in the day,and now this is the one where
it's kind of out there.
You got to stick with me Weeks.
Oh no, I'm sorry.
Days that the original StarWars stayed in the theater when
it was originally released.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Plus Yoda's age in years.
I yoda's like 300 years old soyou have the number of days that
star wars was in the theater in1977, plus yoda's age, plus
yoda's age in in years, yearscompared.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Compared to Cal.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Ripken's streak.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Which is 2,161.
Oh man, I wasn't around whenthe first.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Star.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Wars came out.
I don't know how long it stayedin theaters, for my dad would
know.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I'll give you a hint.
It was in the theater for quitea long time.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, I figured I'm still going to go with Cal
Ripken's record.
Okay, yeah, I mean 2,000 daysis a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It is Now.
Cal Ripken's streak, when Ilooked it up, was like just over
2,600.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Okay, maybe I got the numbers wrong, like 26
something, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And Star Wars was in the theater for 135 weeks, okay,
so that's so.
That is 945 days, okay, andYoda is 900 years old when he
died, so that total brings us to1845.
So you were correct Cal Ripken.
Cal's record still stands.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
That's right, he's the winner.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
All right.
Next one, which is higher thetotal gross of all the Star Wars
movies, oh, that's billions itis.
Or the career earnings of CalRipken Jr, adam Jones, chris
(40:42):
Davis and Mike Musina all puttogether times 25.
Times 25.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Gosh.
Well, for those who don't know,Chris Davis was the highest
paid player on our roster thisseason and last season, not even
in the MLB.
That's how these contracts work.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
He either hit a home run or struck out.
It wasn't anything else.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
But man so.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
So you have Cal Ripken Jr Mike.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Mussina, chris Davis and Adam Jones.
Adam Jones.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
All added up together their career earnings, Times 25
.
Times 25.
Or the total gross of the ninemain Star Wars movies that have
been released theatrically.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Well, we never paid anybody, so this is going to be
the Star Wars movies.
It has to be.
It has to be the Star Warsmovies.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
So the total gross for Star Wars is $10.3 billion.
Yeah, there's no way.
If you take all those guys'career earnings and times them
by 25, $10.5 billion, so the o'stook that one, but I had to
times it by quite a lot to getto star wars level gosh it was
(41:59):
surprising because, like calripken jr, you think he's one of
the greatest players ever, butobviously contracts just weren't
big back then so I didn't makea whole lot.
Back then his career earningswas only 71 million.
So like that's crazy.
I bet he's made more inendorsements since he retired he
was drafted in like 1983 yeah,like he he played until 2001 if
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if he was a superstar nowadays.
That would be like more like700 million.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
See, like everybody, like yeah, cal was a superstar,
for sure, I think the gamestreak definitely helped him,
but like he, he was honestlylike really a middle of the road
player compared to all theother players that were around
him too yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I would say so, like, like, yeah, it's he was
consistently on the field.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Good yeah like he didn't make mistakes right, he's
got like four or five goldgloves, never made errors and
like, yeah, he just, and yeahhe's, he's definitely king in
baltimore, like everybodyworships.
Yeah, cal ripken jr.
Like his little brother, billyis the billy, it's the billy.
Um, uh, what is it called thebilly ripken?
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it's the little league there ohnice so like whenever they
hosted a camp or anything likethat, like I would see.
I would see billy, I would seecal senior sometimes there and
cal junior there and they justbe watching with him, that's
awesome you walking around thepark because ain't nobody gonna
do nothing to cal ripken they're, they're, they're probably like
you said, just they ownbaltimore they worship everybody
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in the ripken family, like hisdad was a manager while cow was
playing and like it's just afamily affair in baltimore for
them that's really cool for sureyeah all right.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Last one this one is what is more likely the o's win
the championship.
I haven't looked in a while.
Or lucasfilm slash disney, makea movie that has nothing to do
with the skywalkers that's notall he did, yeah that's all they
(44:08):
do.
They can't.
They can't get away from theskywalkers um.
So you said so it's either theozwin a championship,
championship or lucasfilm disneymakes a movie that's not about
the skywalkers.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well, that's never happened both are very unlikely.
Those odds have to beastronomical, like I'm gonna
take.
I'm gonna take.
Lucas films makes a moviethat's not about the skywalkers
oh, okay, interesting.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
I thought you just would have said I think the
orals win the championship, havedecent odds.
Speaking of, let's do someseason predictions.
Um, let's start with just theorioles, but that may bleed into
your world series prediction.
We'll see.
So, all right, give me, give mea prediction for their record
and where they finish in the ALEast.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
We're definitely going to win less than 101 games
, which is how many we won lastyear.
I think we won a lot of gameswe shouldn't have.
Oh really, we stole a lot.
Shoot, we've stolen a lot.
This year already we lead theleague by seven and um comeback
wins like at one point I thinkeight of our 13 wins were
(45:19):
comeback wins like oh wow, maybethat's just their skill, not
exactly the best way to watch abaseball game, but you know it's
after the seventh inning.
Like we have the largest rundifferential after the seventh
inning.
So I don't know what it is.
It's like the seventh inningstretch.
I we have the largest rundifferential after the seventh
inning, so I don't know what itis.
It's like the seventh inningstretch.
I don't know if they go eatsome food, you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
They just get re-energized.
Who knows, that's cool, butyeah, so less than 101 could
still be 100 wins.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, no, I think we'll be somewhere in the range
of like 91 to 98.
And playoffs 91 to 98 andplayoffs.
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I thinkwe'll either.
I think we'll win the al east,I think.
Since the yankees don't havegarrett cole, it's kind of
surprising how good they areright now.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
But juan soto is incredible okay, so you guys are
a half game in first right nowand you're predicting to win the
al east?
Yes, so let's take it a stepfurther.
Do you predict them to win theL East?
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yes, so let's take it a step further, do you predict
them to make the World Series?
I think one thing we're goingto have to do is do something at
the trade deadline in order forthat to happen.
Because Justin Lawrence, Ithink we need a little bit more
firepower than him.
No, our bullpen, it seems likeI don't know.
Our starting pitching is good.
It seems like we've got twobona fide aces in Grayson
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Rodriguez and Corbin Burns.
I hope after this season we getto re-sign Corbin Burns because
he'll be a free agent afterthis year.
It's kind of like a rental Likehere.
Let's see what you can do forus real quick.
Yeah, I think we'll make theWorld Series as long as we make
a move at the trade deadline forrelief pitching okay and who do
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you predict they'll be playingin the world series?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (47:01):
it's got to be the dodgers with that payroll.
You would hope so.
Yeah, it hasn't panned outbefore, but you know, but I
don't know.
I think, having just all theguys they have, it's pretty darn
near impossible for them not tothink they're going to be there
right.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
So now, remember, I know nothing about baseball
anymore so this prediction iscoming just out of the out of
blue, but I will not pick thedodgers because I hate the
Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
I know Everybody hates them.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
So I will say Braves versus Rangers.
Sorry, you got me all excitedabout the O's, but I'm still
going to go with the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
I don't like the Rangers man.
I didn't not like the Rangersbefore last season, but they
were destined to.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Yeah, so they had a pretty good next year.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
They had to go on and do that Like we.
Yeah, so they had a pretty niceclear.
Go on and do that like we raninto a buzzsaw and I don't like
having that first round by yeah,I didn't like that, get a
little rusty.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's all about.
It's all about how much momentumyou can keep from the regular
season going into the end of theplayoffs oh, for sure like
baseball is so hot and cold,like I mean you saw with the
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orioles, they won 101 games, hada week off because they were so
good and then and it ended upbeing a punishment nobody could
hit yeah, exactly it was likeone through seven just couldn't
hit.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Well cool man, you got me excited about the orioles
.
Like I'm definitely gonna checkthem out just because yeah, no,
they're fun to watch it reallyis like my favorite kind of team
, where they're just homegrown,they're super talented and like
just fun to watch there's stillguys we haven't mentioned on the
podcast.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Who I mean?
I mean one other name to lookout for who's still in the
minors is kobe mayo.
Um, I saw him.
He was playing against theshrimp, uh this past saturday
night and he had two home runsand a double, seven rbis and had
a diving play at third I meanit was, they just keep on coming
.
Man, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
So you guys, need to spread the wealth.
Can I know?
We definitely need to startspreading the wealth.
It's an embarrassment of richesI'm happy for you I appreciate
it and I appreciate you comingon again yes, sir.
All right, everyone, welcome back to Fandom From Afar
.
We have another returning guest.
Today.
It is baseball season and Tyler, who you may remember from our
Baltimore Ravens episode, isalso a huge Baltimore Orioles
fan, and they are one of the hotyoung teams in the league, so I
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wanted to take the opportunityto learn more about them and we
can talk some baseball.
So welcome back.
I appreciate it, brian.
Thank you, so obviously you'vebeen here before.
You know the routine.
Yes, so I got to say, though,when listening to your Ravens
episode, your origin story forthe Orioles has a lot to live up
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to.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Yeah, it's definitely not as cool.
It's definitely not as cool atall.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
You don't have one of the best players ever talking
to you and giving you swag.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
No, no, no.
Cal Rifkin's not walking up tome and handing me his game-used
glove or anything like that.
Well, all right, I'm sure it'llbe cool anyway, so let's hear
your origin story of uh, how youbecame an orioles fan, um, so
yeah, it was basically aroundthe same time that I really
started getting into being tobeing a ravens fan and, uh, my
grandfather, um, he used to takeme and my cousin brady.
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He would take us to oriolesgames and I remember the very
first or I wouldn't say the veryfirst one, I think it was the
one that stood out the most tome was when he got a suite for
us and, oh wow, it was like likewe had free hot dogs and free
soda all day and he and he waslike no rules on anything, just
have whatever you want, justdon't tell your parents oh,
that's like the dream.
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Yeah, I was like, okay, cool,you ain't gotta tell me twice,
right and um, so yeah, that dayI believe it wasoles.
I think they were playing theNationals.
It was the Beltway Series, sothe stadium's always full for
that because it's only about a35-minute drive between the two
stadiums.
Oh yeah, so it's literally onthe same Beltway and so, yeah,
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the stadium was always full forthose games.
And it was just like ever sincethen watching Miguel Tejada and
, like Javi Lopez and MelvinMora, and I mean especially
Brian Roberts, like he was oneof my favorite players, yeah he
was like, uh, like a littlesecond baseman, wasn't he?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
oh, yeah, yeah he was .
Speaker 2 (02:15):
He was one of the most sure-handed fielders I've
ever seen like he did incrediblethings.
He I mean he holds the Oriolesrecord for batting average in a
season too.
I mean I think he hit 281 in aseason Very nice, which is very
weird that we haven't had a 300hitter on the Orioles,
considering the type of playerswe've had around.
Speaker 1 (02:32):
Yeah, that's actually very odd.
It's very, very odd.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Shocking almost Is that true, yeah, wow, I mean
take it this way the season thatthe Orioles set four offensive
records, they lost or they went,like I think it was like 22 or
23 games under 500.
Oh, so like I mean, yeah, theoffense is there, but the
pitching was never there.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
So it's like, yeah, we were setting records, but all
for nothing.
That's interesting and, likethe first 10 years of my fandom,
I didn't even see a playoff win.
I didn't even see a playoffappearance until 2014, when they
won the AL East and they sweptthe Tigers in the first round
and then lost in five games tothe Yankees in the next round.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
But that's when you really get your fandom stripes,
is when you stay loyal to a teamfor 10 years without any
success, and you're still therefor the glory days it was not
easy, brian yeah, it was noteasy, like back to back hundred
plus lost seasons and finishinglast five out of six years, and
you know it was hard.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But then I mean everything kind of started
turning around when, uh, uh,like people like Adam Jones and
Matt and Matt Wieters and, um, Imean who else you have the Eric
Bedard and Zach Britton andlike all the, all the good
people started coming up, likeall the crappy years and all the
high draft picks and all thatthey finally started paying off.
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Had people like Nick Marcakisand Jay Gibbons who were being
called up, and so it's.
I mean, from there it's alwaysbeen forward momentum, but then,
like the main thing that wasalways holding us back, which
got changed this year, is we gota new owner.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh, okay.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
And our new owner is David Rubenstein, and it's him
and 15 other guys and Calrickand Jr is actually a part of the
ownership group, and so isGrant Hill.
Oh very cool.
Yeah, so is Michael Bloomberg.
So you know, like BloombergInvestments.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
Billion dollar portfolios and stuff like that.
And so now we have the richestowner in baseball.
We got all these people to signextensions to.
That's really interesting,maybe you'll start owner in
baseball.
Speaker 1 (04:45):
We got all these people to sign extensions too,
so that's really interesting.
Maybe it should be a lot of funstart spending with like the
yankees and the red socks, andoh yeah that's.
That's gonna be reallyinteresting.
Oh yeah, I'm excited, I'm readyfor it.
Well, that gives me hope,because I think that's the main
thing.
Holding the rockies back now,too, is the owner just does not
care about winning.
They just they want to spend aslittle money on the team as
possible because they know thefans are going to sell out the
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stadium every night, no matterhow good the team is.
They'll make as much money aspossible and that's all they
care about.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
That's the issue with baseball too.
It's all up to how much moneythe owner has.
There's no salary cap.
That's why the Yankees are ableto spend half a billion dollars
in one season on their payroll.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
Same with the Dodgers .
What's their payroll?
Speaker 2 (05:26):
I'm pretty sure they're almost at a billion
dollars.
It's really close.
And I mean you're signing guysto 10-year $700 million
contracts, like Shohei Otani,and he deferred all that until
the end of his contract.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
They'd only given him $2 million.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That's cheating.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
You shouldn't be able to do that.
Maybe they knew he was going togamble it all away, so they
just knew where his translatorwas going to gamble it.
Exactly.
Now let's, I guess, kind of abroad question, because you
mentioned getting the suite atthe stadium.
Yeah, but that's one thing Ialways think about with the
Orioles is their stadium is justreally cool looking.
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It's kind of one of thoseclassic stadiums with all the
brick and everything and it'sjust one of the cooler looking
stadiums.
Does it seem that way whenyou're there too, or is it just
kind of like my memory seeing iton TV that I just kind of no,
it's like when you're there,it's one of those parks where
you walk in.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
You're like man, this is different from other
baseball fields.
Like this is cool because thewarehouse, uh, it's in right
field.
So behind right field is theBNO warehouse.
What is that?
So it was a warehouse for arailroad.
Oh, okay.
And so now it's actually theOrioles front offices, and so it
overlooks the field.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Oh, very cool.
Speaker 2 (06:50):
That's where all the offices are, and they bought it
out a long time ago I think.
I think sometime in the 80s or90s.
I might be wrong, but um, theybought that out, now it's their
front offices and um, and nowthey, now they use that as like
a part of the stadium so that uh, the street in between the
warehouse and the stadium iscalled utah street, okay, and so
whenever somebody hits a homerun there, uh, they put a plaque
, and it's in the shape of abaseball where it landed and
that's really cool player's namehow far it went, and the
furthest home run to this day isken griffey jr.
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In the home run derby, Ibelieve he hit it like 468 feet
I remember watching that homerun derby.
That was fun yeah, and theplaque is on the wall, the
warehouse, like it didn't hitthe ground first, like he hit
the warehouse first, that's abomb, I mean it's ken griffey,
yeah exactly.
He's the only player in mlbhistory to have his his name on
there as an opposing player,like there's no other player
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besides orioles and there's he'sthe only one on there who has
his name up there because he'sthe only one that's hit it out
there.
Yeah, oh really, so it doesn'thappen very often no, just
because he's the furthest,that's it wow, okay, yeah yeah,
if you're an oriole and you hitit the furthest, I mean,
obviously they're not going totake down ken griffey's ball
yeah I mean, at this point hehit the warehouse wall, so how
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much further can you hit it,right?
Speaker 1 (07:56):
well, I was gonna say that was like back in the day
when they were kind of juicingthe baseballs because they
wanted everyone to hit home runs.
Speaker 2 (08:01):
They were juicing themselves.
Yeah, exactly.
Well, yeah, that's true too.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Well, that's cool, and so I guess what kind of like
it's a cool-looking stadium,what kind of amenities does it
have?
Like, is there anything thatkind of makes it stand out, or
is it pretty simple and it justis kind of like a throwback in
that sense too, where you'reliterally just there to watch
the game and just enjoy timewith your family or whatever.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
So in recent years it's become a little more modern
.
It used to be just like aclassic, like if you were going
to Turner Field for a Bravesgame or something like that.
That's the kind of feel it gave, like long beer lines because
they weren't updated withvendors and all that stuff yet.
So I think in the last five orsix years the Angelos family one
of the very few things theytook investment in the team for
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was the stadium.
So what they did was they addeda Coors rooftop deck bar and
that actually got finishedbuilding this past off off
season.
So this season is the firstyear they have it open and stuff
.
Um, and then, uh, something newthey added to it's uh, it's
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called the bird bath and what isthat?
and it's a section out in leftcenter field and it's a very
small section of like.
I think it's just one sectionof like eight, eight seats wide
and like 10 rows deep and we andthey call it the bird bath, uh,
because we have this guy, hisname is mr splash and he stands
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in this platform at the front ofthe section and whenever we
score a run or hit a home run ordo something good, he has this
water hose and he sprays all thefans in the in the bird bath oh
, okay, and that's fun.
Yeah, so it's cool and, like ourteam, like we have a lot of
play on, like on things withwater, like our bullpen.
So every game, our bullpen uh,they have.
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They have one of those, likeit's one of the funnel things
and you would chug something ohyeah and so every game, the
bullpen pitchers they pick oneplayer to hit a home run and if
their player hits a home run andthey take a whole cup of water
through the funnel and that'sawesome.
In the dugout we have what'scalled the hydration station and
it's this it's a funnel that'sgot four hoses coming off of it,
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because that's the max amountof runs you can score on a home
run on the grand slam and soanybody who scored and the
person who hit the home run willall drink from the hydration
station after they get in thedugout, and stuff like that.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
See, I like little stuff like that.
It's so much fun, it's so muchfun to watch.
There's so many games.
Why not do little quirky, funthings like that, just to have
fun, why not?
Speaker 2 (10:31):
That's what I was telling my fiancee.
She's like how do they play 162games?
And I was like because they dothings like this?
To keep themselves occupiedlike yeah, exactly, you have to
make it fun when you, when it'syour job.
That's why they're.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
They're chewing sunflower seeds all the time,
like they're just trying to likepass the time and do something
exactly like that's cool.
So you obviously had theexperience with the suite do you
remember, like what playerreally stuck stood out to you at
that time and like kind of wasyour first favorite oriole I
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would say miguel tahata yeah, hewas good because he was so much
fun to watch.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
He still holds the rbi record and hits record a
single season.
For us I think it's like 128rbis, then he had 214 hits in
one season was he still ashortstop for you guys?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
I remember he played shortstop for the a's, but I
didn't remember if he moved tothird or anything like.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
No, he was a shortstop and then, uh once
melvin mora got there, uh somelvin mora was a shortstop and
then he ended up playing thirdbecause I guess they didn't want
to move to hoda tahada was abeast, no he was incredible,
like there was that whole goldenage of shortstops back then
with like tahata and jeter nomarjeter.
I mean, who else was?
I mean, I mean, that's just theeast alone.
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He had three hall of famers, sothat yeah, that was fun.
Speaker 1 (11:50):
That was when it's like oh, shortstops can be more
than just like the smoothfielding, like little tiny guy,
they can actually hit some bombs, so yeah right, yeah, tahata
was great.
I loved watching him.
Now you said you had 10 yearsin there where they were losing.
Who was your favorite player onthe team when they finally
broke through and beat thetigers that one year in the
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playoffs?
Speaker 2 (12:13):
um, I would definitely was that when brian
ro, brian Roberts was on theteam.
Yeah, that was towards the endof him, but he was injured that
year and he finally got back tothe right form halfway through
the season when he came backfrom his injury and he had an
incredible postseason that year.
I mean, just everybody startedhitting, everybody started
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pitching.
Well, it was just all comingtogether.
And then obviously we just raninto the yankees and who still
had a rod and robinson cano andderrick jeter and all those
dudes over there and all theirpitching.
They had like I'm pretty surethey had randy johnson at that
time, still so they were alwaysloaded during that time.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Again, you know, back to the payroll.
They could pay everyone.
It's just money, money, money.
Exactly our owner.
I think our owner's worth 124billion dollars now.
So yeah, you're gonna beplaying, playing with the big
boys now playing the same game.
You're gonna forget aboutlittle, uh, small market teams
like the rockies and be like, ohsucks to be you can't relate
anymore yeah, well, what it wasthe year you guys beat the
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tigers, is that the farthestyou've gone in like recent times
?
yeah that's the farthest I'veever seen but now they got this
nice young core that hopefullycan put something together I'm
ready for it.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
I like it.
Speaker 1 (13:29):
I'm ready for it well , let's kind of talk about this
year's team um because that'spart of the reason why I wanted
to have you on is just toeducate myself a little bit,
just because I feel like I'm outof touch with baseball and I
know there's so many good youngplayers and quite a few of them
happen to be on the Orioles, soI wrote down some names, so just
kind of tell me a little bitabout them, if they are legit
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good or if just the hype haskind of exceeded their talent.
I got you, so let's start withAdley Rushman.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
Oh yeah, adley Rushman.
Oh yeah, adley Rushman iseverything he was supposed to be
.
Yeah, ever since he came to theteam, the Orioles have the best
record in the MLB.
Oh really, since May of 2019,the Orioles have the best record
in the MLB since his first gamein the MLB.
So he completely turnedeverything around for us.
He's everything he was supposedto be.
Okay, so he's our franchiseplayer.
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He's the face of our franchise.
Speaker 1 (14:21):
He's everything yeah, and he's the catcher right.
Yeah, he's captain.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
He's captain, that's uh okay, that's a good start.
Oh yeah, how about?
Gunner henderson.
He's the.
I think he might win an mvpthis year or next year hey he's
well.
I mean, I mean he's.
I think his ops is over, iswell over 1.12 or something like
that, and I mean that's unheardof.
And he's.
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He leads our team in home runs.
He leads our team in hits andRBIs.
He steals bases, he plays thefield well and he was a second
round pick and he became thenumber one overall prospect
before he was called up.
Wow.
So I mean that's just, you guysare legit, loaded with these
young guys.
Speaker 1 (15:02):
Oh yeah, what about, uh, ryan mountcastle?
Speaker 2 (15:06):
he's good.
He's another homegrown guy.
He, um, he was called up alittle while ago, I think four
or five years ago, and um, yeah,he's good, I like him, he's.
He's just, he's just consistent.
More solid, yeah, he's just.
Yeah, he's good, I like him,he's just consistent.
Speaker 1 (15:19):
More solid than the other guys.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Yeah, he's more like you know exactly what you're
going to get.
And Gunnar and Adley, they'vedefinitely been up and down so
far, but they've become a lotmore consistent.
They're both hitting well over300.
Mountcastle's right there withthem.
He's just doing it quietly,that's all.
Speaker 1 (15:38):
And apparently, as we learned, hitting over 300 in
Baltimore is a big deal.
Speaker 2 (15:42):
Yeah, it's real tough to do.
Yeah, apparently.
Speaker 1 (15:45):
And then the newest one, which is funny because,
just for the listeners behindthe scenes, tyler and I were
going to do this last week whenJackson Holiday had just been
called up and the hype was huge,and over the past week it might
have died down a little bit,but tell us about Jackson
Holiday no, the hype is stillthere, like I fully believe in
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that kid.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
He was the number one prospect for a reason.
He's not.
He's not just gonna like allthe scouts in the league aren't
gonna look at him and not tellthe truth, right?
What's the point, you know?
But I mean people just keepsaying, oh, he's one for 25,
he's hitting.
I'm pretty sure he's hittinglike 0.04 or something like that
it's, it's not good right now,trust me he's.
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But at this point like there'sno point in sending him back
down to triple a because he'salready proven like I can hit
that pitching and take a yardwhenever I want Exactly I need
to learn how to hit this MLBpitching.
And also he's had like 31at-bats, yeah, like, Come on,
dude, he's 20.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
And people have these streaks in baseball all the
time.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
It just happens to be that he's having this streak
right away and it's fine and Ikeep telling people I'm like, as
long as we're winning and hecan just hide and and figure
things out and hitting ninth inthe order, whatever yeah, and
he'll have a streak eventuallywhere he's like 15 for 25 and
it's all gonna balance outexactly and with the way our
lineup is now, like he couldprobably end up staying at ninth
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.
Honestly, yeah, it's like wehave so many more guys.
It's.
It's like an embarrassment ofriches, like there's.
Speaker 1 (17:20):
I mean, I don't know if you had any more players to
go over, but well, yeah, I wasgonna say, did I miss any big
time guys that I need to bepaying attention to?
Speaker 2 (17:28):
yeah, jordan westberg he's what position is he?
He plays third base.
Okay, he's incredible, he'slike he.
I mean, it seems like hebarrels the ball up every time
he makes contact.
He's.
He's consistent, he's.
Every time he makes contact,he's consistent.
I think he's on an eight-gamehitting streak right now and I
think he's hitting 18 of 24 orsomething like that I mean
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that's incredible, that's insane.
And he was caught up last yearfor the playoffs and then he had
to make the team in springtraining again, which he did,
and I mean he's just good in thefield, he doesn't make errors.
Playoffs.
And then he had to make theteam in spring training again,
which he did, and I mean he'sjust good in the field, he
doesn't make errors, and likehe's he's he's a low-key
superstar.
I think he's going to be really, really, really good and
correct me if I'm wrong.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All these guys are like mid-20s and younger, like,
oh yeah, like you guys are gonnabe good for a long time like
jordan westberg is 23, gunnerhenderson's 22, at least 24.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
Jackson holiday is 20 dang, we don't have anybody in
our lineup over the age of 30well and what?
Speaker 1 (18:26):
what perfect timing it is to get owners that
actually have money.
So when these guys are gettingtheir big contracts, you guys
are like yeah, that's fine,we'll pay, you got a lot of
contracts to hand out.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Yeah, that's a good problem to have it's kind of
cool.
They kind of made a littleteaser, I think, on social media
, uh, this past couple weeks.
Um.
So they actually had cal ripkenjr sit at a desk at shortstop
at camden yards because, I mean,for those who don't know, cal
ripken jr was a short stop, uh,before he was a third baseman
and he went into the hall offame as a third baseman, which
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is incredible.
That wasn't his first position,yeah and um.
So they had him sit at a deskat shortstop it was like an
office desk and it was ourmanager and David Rubenstein,
our new owner, and they werestanding in the dugout and they
were like, I mean, who's goingto tell him that he can't work
out here?
I'm not going to be the one.
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And all of a sudden, like gunnerhenderson, our shortstop, our
starting shortstop he walks intothe frame and he goes.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I'll go tell him.
It's like that's my area exactly, so I'm thinking they were
teasing like an extension orsomething coming up for gunner,
like letting us know like that'sgoing to be his spot for the
foreseeable future which that'sawesome, I really hope so it's
it's very cool, that's like thesweet spot to be a fan of a team
that's homegrown, young andjust super talented, so like, oh
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yeah, you got to be superexcited for the next five years
basically oh yeah, and I mean I,I mean there's another name um
colton kouser is he the pitcher?
No, no, don't you guys havelike a stud pitcher too?
That I'm not, yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:59):
Corbin Burns, there we go.
Yeah, we traded for him fromthe Brewers Gotcha gotcha, which
we actually traded away acouple good prospects.
They both made the MLB team forthe Brewers as starters.
Speaker 1 (20:09):
So you know that's good for them.
You guys have a, because theyweren't going to make the team
in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
But yeah, but um.
Yeah, we traded for him.
And then grayson rodriguez,he's homegrown, we drafted him
in the first round like fouryears ago and I mean he's
incredible, he um.
But no, colton kouser, he um.
In his first road series of hiscareer he got called up this
year or before the seasonstarted.
In his first road series in uhin boston he had 10 rbisIs in
three games.
He was absolutely smashing theball that series.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
What position is he?
Speaker 2 (20:45):
He's a left fielder.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
Okay.
Every position they just keepcoming.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
I hate to keep talking about the prospects, but
we literally just called one uptoday.
His name is Heston Kerstad.
He's been hitting over 300.
He leads the minors and homeruns, rbis and slugging and ops,
and he's just another.
He's the number 28 overallprospect but he leads the minors
in every hitting category rightnow.
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So, yeah, he's like 23 yearsold and he's playing tonight so
that's so fun.
It's it's really cool and I Ilove that we didn't have to buy
the team.
I like that we did it all theright way, like, yeah, we might
have tanked a couple years, butyou know it's a business.
Well, how to get draft picks Iwas gonna say because there's
plenty of teams colorado rockies, um that are terrible every
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year and then don't get theseamazing players because they
don't draft well so it's likeyeah man, you should be pretty
excited I am very excited and,uh, speaking of the rockies
though I hate to get off topicof the orioles but I actually
know somebody who who pitchesfor you.
He's the husband of one of myfriends, uh, uh, justin lawrence
oh yeah yeah, yeah he's.
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I think he was your closer orlike short believer for a little
bit.
Or he still is.
He's pretty good.
He's been doing pretty well.
He married my longtime highschool friend.
Oh, that's awesome, yeah, soshe gets to go travel along with
him.
They don't have kids oranything yet.
Speaker 1 (22:11):
Well, you can get the inside scoop from me and see
what a Rockies player actuallyfeels like.
If the players hate the ownersas much as the fans do, I'm sure
they do.
Speaker 2 (22:21):
They just can't talk about it.
Hopefully it's not theirpaychecks.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Here's a good prediction.
Hopefully Justin gets traded toBaltimore.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Yes, so that it can bring your worlds together and
then we can both cheer for him.
Then that's probably.
The one weak spot is our middlerelief.
Speaker 1 (22:37):
Hey see, there you go , we'll work something out.
You is our middle relief.
Hey see, there you go, we'llwork something out.
You give us some of those niceprospects, we'll take them.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
I think I'd rather just let them sit in the minor
leagues for a couple more years.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Another connection to the Rockies is obviously
Jackson Holiday because Matt.
Holiday was like our star.
The last time we were good, andso when Jackson got called up
last week or whatever it was,they were showing him little
four or five-year-old runningaround Coors Field just playing
catch with his dad andeverything.
Speaker 2 (23:06):
I was like, oh man, he's all grown up now.
Yeah, there's a bunch ofOrioles accounts that were
sharing those videos.
Speaker 1 (23:11):
Our little boy is all grown up now I'm cheering for
him because we don't haveanything to cheer for.
Speaker 2 (23:17):
I love Jackson.
I think have anything to cheerfor.
I love.
I mean, I love jackson.
I think he's gonna turn outfine, he's gonna.
He's gonna sit there, he'sgonna figure it out.
He's got his dad.
His dad was a two-time championand well, like a seven or eight
time all-star, you know.
So if he can do anything closeto that, you guys will be happy,
we'll be good.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
He makes me feel old, though, because he has that
little baby face and I'm justlike man I don't even think he
can grow a beard yet.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Well, we'll get into predictions later but, you got
me all excited about the Oriolesnow.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
They're fun to watch man.
Speaker 1 (23:46):
I need to watch some games now.
But speaking of games, do youwant to play some games?
Let's do it, all right.
So this first one is calledTitles.
So I'm going to give you atitle and you give me a name of
the player that you anoint withthat title.
Okay, let's do it.
So these are pretty simple, butI'm interested to hear now that
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apparently you have every goodplayer at every position yeah,
it's gonna be hard to pick, sofirst title, best hitter oh.
Speaker 2 (24:17):
Oh goodness, I would say right now it would have to
be Jordan Westberg.
It's because he just alwaysseems to come through with
runners in scoring position andyou know, whenever you need him
most, he's there.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
So he's more like solid all around.
He's not necessarily like yeah,he's literally a five tool
player.
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, he can run he can hit, he can throw, he can
catch, he can do solid allaround.
He's not necessarily like yeah,he's literally a five tool
player.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
Yeah, he can run, he can hit, he can throw, he can
catch, he can do everything.
Okay, he's good.
Well, that fits then.
Speaker 2 (24:47):
Best fielder?
Fielder Definitely GunnarHenderson.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
He's nasty at shortstop.
That's good.
I mean, he's already made acouple of incredible plays.
I mean, if you want to go lookit up on YouTube, it's there.
But he uh, yeah, he's his arm,and his arm is incredible, like
he'll throw from his butt andhe'll get it there on a I mean
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on a laser.
Hey, that's one of the plays hemade was he threw across the
diamond at like 95 off his buttReally.
So I don't understand how youdo that.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
So I think now I see why he's he's allowed to kick
Cal Ripken out of out ofshortstop Right.
Uh, best pitcher.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
Um, I'm going to go with Grayson Rodriguez only
because we didn't trade for him.
He's homegrown and that givesthem a little bit of a bump.
Yeah, it's kind of like we didthat.
I like it.
Yeah, of like, we did that.
I like it.
Yeah, that's that.
That's our best in my mind.
And then, best player, bestoverall players ali rutschman.
Okay, yeah, as far as like iqand like just being a leader,
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being a captain, being like Ithink he keeps everybody
together, like he's the oldestof the young guys, so he's kind
of like he's like the grizzledvet at 25 years old exactly like
, but he's kind of like theleader of the young guys, and
then we've got a couple vetsthat are probably above him.
But it's really about it likehe's the captain.
He was voted on by the playersas a captain, like it's his team
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.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
So perfect, I like it .
That was a easy warm-up gamebecause it's your opinion, so
you can't get it wrong.
Exactly yeah, exactly all right.
Now for your Ravens podcasts.
We did some Harry Potter games,so I told you to switch it up
and I made you.
Tell me some other pop culturethat you like, yes, and you
chose Star Wars, yes.
So this game is called lightside, dark side, all right.
(26:32):
So in this case, you're goingto give a light side answer and
a dark side answer.
So what I mean by that is forthe light side.
I'm going to say a team andyou're going to tell me a player
that you wish would have playedfor the orioles, like present
or past, anytime you want that.
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Anytime they, they either playnow for that team or they did
play for that team, likesometime in your fandom and you
wish they played for the orioles.
Okay, the dark side is that sameteam.
You need to name a player thatyou just love to hate whenever
they played the orioles.
Speaker 2 (27:11):
Okay, all right, let's do it, so should be pretty
easy we're gonna start out withthe blue jays, oh.
Oh man.
Speaker 1 (27:19):
Who's your light side ?
Your Jedi that you wish wouldhave played for the Orioles?
That was a Blue Jay.
Speaker 2 (27:28):
I would say Vladimir Guerrero Jr.
Oh yeah, Are you kidding me?
Oh yeah, that dude hits it 500feet with a wooden bat.
I loved it.
He was such a beast.
I mean, he's just like his dadtoo.
He'll hit it.
I mean he'll golf it off theground.
He'll hit it dead center offthe ground.
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:43):
It's incredible what he does with the bat.
I mean, he's no good in thefield.
He'd probably be a DH.
Speaker 1 (27:48):
But I'd be cool with that.
He'd probably hit 50, so I'mcool with that.
He'd probably get bored andjust learn how to hit.
Speaker 2 (27:54):
Left could hit the warehouse right, right, or just
do it oppo yeah, exactly, it'sjust that strong what about dark
side?
Speaker 1 (28:01):
who did you love to hate on the blue jays?
Speaker 2 (28:06):
I really love to hate jose bautista.
Oh nice, I really didn't likeyeah, he was too cocky for me,
like he was just I don't know.
Even though we've never playedthe Blue Jays in the playoffs
during my fandom, it seems likeevery time we were good, they
were bad, and vice versa.
But he was just so, so, sococky.
Speaker 1 (28:30):
Those cocky guys that make it easy to hate.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
I couldn't stand him, dude.
I really couldn't stand him.
Every home run it was a batflip and a pimp.
He was walking all the way tofirst.
Speaker 1 (28:39):
Then he started jogging like posing the whole
way like hurry up, dude, hurryup, like well, there you go.
That's a perfect dark sideanswer yeah, I did not like him
all right, let's go.
Tampa bay rays this is hard.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
Um light side, I mean they've had a few good guys,
but I just feel like all theirgood guys they always end up
somewhere else diving off ifthey stay with the Rays or they
go somewhere else and also endup diving off.
Speaker 1 (29:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:07):
Evan Longoria.
He didn't really do much afterhe left, like I don't know.
I think maybe like KevinKiermaier.
Okay, he was really good in theoutfield.
He was fast, he could hit, hestole bases like he had a strong
arm and he was a lefty and Ilike lefties.
Speaker 1 (29:24):
So they do look cooler doing everything.
Oh yeah, what about dark side?
Is there anyone that you loveto hate on the race?
Speaker 2 (29:31):
um carlos pena?
Oh yeah, because he he was anoriole destroyer.
He had our phone number likeevery, it seemed like every
series we faced him, it was likeanywhere from like four to
seven home runs, like 10 to 15rbis.
I mean just there's alwaysthose guys pitching like I don't
know what it was about ourpitchers, but he could just see
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the ball.
It was bad.
There you go.
It was real bad.
I did not.
I not like playing him youmentioned them earlier.
Speaker 1 (29:59):
Let I I uh threw in the nationals on here.
So who, who, uh, who from thenationals do you just wish would
have?
Uh, come up the highway alittle bit and and play for
those?
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I mean I'm sure everybody thinks I'm gonna say
bryce harper.
I mean I don't really think Iwould.
I would have wanted bryce BryceHarper to come play for us
because, I don't know, I feellike we didn't really need him,
even though we were losing, whenhe came to the league, but he
didn't go to the Nationals andgo win a World Series either, so
(30:32):
is he your sneaky dark sidepick.
Who?
Bryce?
Yeah, no, Okay, no, no.
I'm very indifferent aboutbryce.
Harper I I I honestly think hewas just a tad overhyped, like
yeah, like two mvps in one worldseries.
I think I think he won a worldseries yeah yeah, and I mean,
(30:53):
yeah, it's awesome, but I don'tknow like he's been hurt a lot.
He's missed entire seasons I Ithink two or three times.
Now he's playing first basebecause he had surgery on his
elbow.
Oh, I didn't even know that.
Yeah, yeah, I mean he was onlyhitting for a while and then
they eventually got him out tofirst base when he started
throwing again.
But yeah, no, I'm neutral onBryce Harper.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:20):
So no one sticks out that you would want off the
nationals.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Yeah, oh, steven strasburg.
Oh, okay, there you go 100.
Speaker 2 (31:24):
I would have loved to have him because I knew he
wouldn't have abused his arm theway the nationals did I was
gonna say, if he could havestayed healthy, they killed his
arm they destroyed him.
I mean, they were having him go.
They were having him start like33 to 40 games a year.
I think like 35 or 40 games ayear, yeah, that's too much.
Yeah, he was throwing 265innings, like what.
(31:46):
It's crazy.
See, if only he would have cometo the O's.
Yeah, we wouldn't have donethat to him, I don't think what
about dark side for theNationals?
The Nationals.
I really feel like there wasn'tmuch on the Nationals who were
really disliked by me or anybodyI knew, really, I would say
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Ryan Zimmerman, maybe.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Okay, yeah, he was there for a while.
Speaker 2 (32:11):
Yeah, that pitcher, he was pretty good.
He always seemed to pitch wellagainst us.
I always chalked it up as aloss whenever he was pitching
against us.
Speaker 1 (32:20):
There you go.
Just a respectful hatred.
It was discouraging when I sawit.
All right, now we're gettinginto the big boys, let's say the
Boston Red Sox.
Speaker 2 (32:29):
There's so many players that I wish would have
played for us.
Instead of the Red Sox, I wouldsay one that sticks out the
most is probably.
I mean, I would have loved tohave Mookie bets.
Oh yeah, you kidding me.
Yeah, I think, I think I wouldstill rather have Mookie bets
than Gunnar Henderson.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
Dang.
Speaker 2 (32:51):
I mean Mookie's crazy .
Mookie's amazing, he's crazy.
He does everything.
He doesn't miss like I don'tknow.
He does everything.
Gunnar does just a little bitbetter, I think.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
And the Red Sox didn't really get much for him
in that trade right?
Speaker 2 (33:04):
No, he didn't even get traded.
I'm pretty sure he walked forfree.
Speaker 1 (33:07):
Oh, really, so even worse yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Okay, and then they didn't re-sign Bogarts.
He went to the Padres, yeah.
So yeah, dang, I wish she wouldhave played for the Orioles.
Speaker 1 (33:19):
Who do you love to hate on the Red Sox?
Manny Ramirez.
Speaker 2 (33:22):
That came out quick.
I hate Manny Ramirez so much.
Speaker 1 (33:25):
Does Manny being Manny?
Speaker 2 (33:26):
No, it's not Manny being Manny, he's being a clown,
he's being a clown.
Speaker 1 (33:29):
That's funny, that came out so quick.
Speaker 2 (33:32):
It is funny to watch him do it, though Like catching
a ball, running up the wallhigh-fiving a fan and stuff like
that.
Yeah, it's fun to watch, but Idon't know.
Speaker 1 (33:41):
I wonder if his teammates thought it was funny
or if they got tired of it.
Speaker 2 (33:44):
I mean, they also had David Ortiz on their team.
So, I mean, he was probablyjust as bad, yeah.
But I love Big Papi now becausehe got into broadcasting a
little bit and started callinggames.
(34:05):
And he was an analyst for alittle while for mlb central, I
think, and and he became alittle bit more likable for me.
Okay, good, he's like the, thecharles barkley of the.
No, roger Clemens, oh really,yeah, I would have wanted Roger
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Clemens because during the timehe was playing, like I said, the
pitching wasn't there for us,uh-huh, and I loved watching
Roger Clemens.
And he was just winning allthose sightings, yeah and he was
a strikeout pitcher and that'swhat I liked about him is that
he could strike anybody out withany pitch and put it anywhere
he wanted.
And even when he did miss, itwas 98, and he blew it right by
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you.
Speaker 1 (34:50):
And he played for pretty much every other team in
the AL East, so why not?
Speaker 2 (34:53):
play for Baltimore.
Speaker 1 (34:55):
Exactly, All right.
Who do you love to hate on theYankees?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
Yankees.
It's a close tie.
Well, no, it's not a close tie.
I would say it's close betweentwo players.
I would definitely say A-Rod.
Yeah, I don't like A-Rod, hecheated.
Speaker 1 (35:13):
Exactly.
Speaker 2 (35:16):
He cheated and I don't like that.
I mean, he was found guilty ofcheating, that's why he got
suspended for an entire year andthen, like I don't know, I
don't think you should be toutedas one of the greats if you
cheated.
Yeah, I think that makesperfect sense.
I mean, hence why I didn'tmention Rafael Palmeiro, like a
famous Oriole, or Sammy Sosa,who also played for the Orioles.
I never even mentioned them.
Speaker 1 (35:39):
I even mention them.
Yeah, I don't think they shouldbe in the hall of fame like I
like it, but yeah, same withespecially good, even though
everyone was probably cheatingback then.
It just seems like if they weredoing it to the point where
they kind of stuck out aboveeveryone, then they were pushing
it way too far like yeah, itwas cool to have two guys going
at it for the home run title.
Speaker 2 (35:57):
Like 62 home runs, like that's incredible, don't
get me wrong.
But at the same time, ifeverybody did that, then like
what would it be?
Like we'd be hitting balls like600 feet and like pitchers to
be throwing 105 consistently.
Like how fun is that?
Speaker 1 (36:13):
exactly speaking of steroids, brady Anderson Ah,
brady, his one random year wherehe hit like 50 bombs all of a
sudden, when his previous careerhigh was like 14.
It was 51.
There you go.
Speaker 2 (36:31):
But yeah, that was a fun year too.
Speaker 1 (36:34):
Okay, well, good, I feel like you're a true fan,
because the dark side answerscame out so much quicker than
the other ones, because youalways remember those guys that
kill your team and you can'tstand.
I like it All right.
Our last game is called Eitheror, so this one.
I'm going to give you twooptions and you just have to
(36:55):
tell me.
I'll give you the the categoryas well, but usually it's which
one is bigger.
So on one side, there will be aorioles option, and then on the
other side, it's going to be astar wars option.
Okay, so some of these are kindof out there, so you gotta
stick with me, let's do it allright.
(37:15):
So I looked it up and you guyshave a pitcher on your team
named tyler wells.
Yep, he is six eight, so that'spretty tall.
Speaker 2 (37:23):
He's a big old country boy uh-huh.
Speaker 1 (37:25):
So um, tyler wells with a baseball on top of his
head, or the actor who playedchewbacca oh, I know who the
actor actor who played Chewbacca.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Oh, I know who the actor is who played Chewbacca,
which is taller.
He's well over seven foot.
He's like 7'3", isn't he?
Yeah, he's 7'3".
It'd be the actor who played.
Speaker 1 (37:49):
Chewbacca.
Oh okay, Very good.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (37:52):
I thought that might be tougher 7'3 or 7'4".
Speaker 2 (37:54):
That's like one of the first things my dad taught
me about Star Wars.
He was like you know, that's areal guy in that suit, right, I
say, you got exact card.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
He was 7'3".
Yeah, very good.
Yeah, because my first guessfor the Chewbacca guy was like
that he was maybe like 6'11 ormaybe 7', that's what I thought.
Speaker 2 (38:10):
So I thought it might be close.
I gave him like a small stiltor something.
Speaker 1 (38:15):
But no, I should have given Tyler Wells two baseballs
, right, all right.
Next one, which one is higher?
Cal Ripken's streak, which, forthose who don't know is he
played in a record consecutivegames and he had a streak that
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was very famous back in the day,and now this is the one where
it's kind of out there.
You got to stick with me Weeks.
Oh no, I'm sorry.
Days that the original StarWars stayed in the theater when
it was originally released.
Speaker 2 (38:55):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (38:56):
Plus Yoda's age in years.
I yoda's like 300 years old soyou have the number of days that
star wars was in the theater in1977, plus yoda's age, plus
yoda's age in in years, yearscompared.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Compared to Cal.
Speaker 1 (39:15):
Ripken's streak.
Speaker 2 (39:17):
Which is 2,161.
Oh man, I wasn't around whenthe first.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
Star.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
Wars came out.
I don't know how long it stayedin theaters, for my dad would
know.
Speaker 1 (39:33):
I'll give you a hint.
It was in the theater for quitea long time.
Speaker 2 (39:36):
Yeah, I figured I'm still going to go with Cal
Ripken's record.
Okay, yeah, I mean 2,000 daysis a lot.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
It is Now.
Cal Ripken's streak, when Ilooked it up, was like just over
2,600.
Speaker 2 (39:53):
Okay, maybe I got the numbers wrong, like 26
something, yeah.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
And Star Wars was in the theater for 135 weeks, okay,
so that's so.
That is 945 days, okay, andYoda is 900 years old when he
died, so that total brings us to1845.
So you were correct Cal Ripken.
Cal's record still stands.
Speaker 2 (40:18):
That's right, he's the winner.
Speaker 1 (40:21):
All right.
Next one, which is higher thetotal gross of all the Star Wars
movies, oh, that's billions itis.
Or the career earnings of CalRipken Jr, adam Jones, chris
(40:42):
Davis and Mike Musina all puttogether times 25.
Times 25.
Speaker 2 (40:51):
Gosh.
Well, for those who don't know,Chris Davis was the highest
paid player on our roster thisseason and last season, not even
in the MLB.
That's how these contracts work.
Speaker 1 (41:02):
He either hit a home run or struck out.
It wasn't anything else.
Speaker 2 (41:06):
But man so.
Speaker 1 (41:10):
So you have Cal Ripken Jr Mike.
Speaker 2 (41:12):
Mussina, chris Davis and Adam Jones.
Adam Jones.
Speaker 1 (41:16):
All added up together their career earnings, Times 25
.
Times 25.
Or the total gross of the ninemain Star Wars movies that have
been released theatrically.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Well, we never paid anybody, so this is going to be
the Star Wars movies.
It has to be.
It has to be the Star Warsmovies.
Speaker 1 (41:37):
So the total gross for Star Wars is $10.3 billion.
Yeah, there's no way.
If you take all those guys'career earnings and times them
by 25, $10.5 billion, so the o'stook that one, but I had to
times it by quite a lot to getto star wars level gosh it was
(41:59):
surprising because, like calripken jr, you think he's one of
the greatest players ever, butobviously contracts just weren't
big back then so I didn't makea whole lot.
Back then his career earningswas only 71 million.
So like that's crazy.
I bet he's made more inendorsements since he retired he
was drafted in like 1983 yeah,like he he played until 2001 if
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if he was a superstar nowadays.
That would be like more like700 million.
Speaker 2 (42:24):
See, like everybody, like yeah, cal was a superstar,
for sure, I think the gamestreak definitely helped him,
but like he, he was honestlylike really a middle of the road
player compared to all theother players that were around
him too yeah, I.
Speaker 1 (42:42):
I would say so, like, like, yeah, it's he was
consistently on the field.
Speaker 2 (42:47):
Good yeah like he didn't make mistakes right, he's
got like four or five goldgloves, never made errors and
like, yeah, he just, and yeahhe's, he's definitely king in
baltimore, like everybodyworships.
Yeah, cal ripken jr.
Like his little brother, billyis the billy, it's the billy.
Um, uh, what is it called thebilly ripken?
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it's the little league there ohnice so like whenever they
hosted a camp or anything likethat, like I would see.
I would see billy, I would seecal senior sometimes there and
cal junior there and they justbe watching with him, that's
awesome you walking around thepark because ain't nobody gonna
do nothing to cal ripken they're, they're, they're probably like
you said, just they ownbaltimore they worship everybody
(43:33):
in the ripken family, like hisdad was a manager while cow was
playing and like it's just afamily affair in baltimore for
them that's really cool for sureyeah all right.
Speaker 1 (43:45):
Last one this one is what is more likely the o's win
the championship.
I haven't looked in a while.
Or lucasfilm slash disney, makea movie that has nothing to do
with the skywalkers that's notall he did, yeah that's all they
(44:08):
do.
They can't.
They can't get away from theskywalkers um.
So you said so it's either theozwin a championship,
championship or lucasfilm disneymakes a movie that's not about
the skywalkers.
Speaker 2 (44:21):
Well, that's never happened both are very unlikely.
Those odds have to beastronomical, like I'm gonna
take.
I'm gonna take.
Lucas films makes a moviethat's not about the skywalkers
oh, okay, interesting.
Speaker 1 (44:34):
I thought you just would have said I think the
orals win the championship, havedecent odds.
Speaking of, let's do someseason predictions.
Um, let's start with just theorioles, but that may bleed into
your world series prediction.
We'll see.
So, all right, give me, give mea prediction for their record
and where they finish in the ALEast.
Speaker 2 (44:57):
We're definitely going to win less than 101 games
, which is how many we won lastyear.
I think we won a lot of gameswe shouldn't have.
Oh really, we stole a lot.
Shoot, we've stolen a lot.
This year already we lead theleague by seven and um comeback
wins like at one point I thinkeight of our 13 wins were
(45:19):
comeback wins like oh wow, maybethat's just their skill, not
exactly the best way to watch abaseball game, but you know it's
after the seventh inning.
Like we have the largest rundifferential after the seventh
inning.
So I don't know what it is.
It's like the seventh inningstretch.
I we have the largest rundifferential after the seventh
inning, so I don't know what itis.
It's like the seventh inningstretch.
I don't know if they go eatsome food, you know whatever.
Speaker 1 (45:36):
They just get re-energized.
Who knows, that's cool, butyeah, so less than 101 could
still be 100 wins.
Speaker 2 (45:42):
Yeah, no, I think we'll be somewhere in the range
of like 91 to 98.
And playoffs 91 to 98 andplayoffs.
Oh yeah, okay, yeah, I thinkwe'll either.
I think we'll win the al east,I think.
Since the yankees don't havegarrett cole, it's kind of
surprising how good they areright now.
Speaker 1 (45:57):
But juan soto is incredible okay, so you guys are
a half game in first right nowand you're predicting to win the
al east?
Yes, so let's take it a stepfurther.
Do you predict them to win theL East?
Speaker 2 (46:10):
Yes, so let's take it a step further, do you predict
them to make the World Series?
I think one thing we're goingto have to do is do something at
the trade deadline in order forthat to happen.
Because Justin Lawrence, Ithink we need a little bit more
firepower than him.
No, our bullpen, it seems likeI don't know.
Our starting pitching is good.
It seems like we've got twobona fide aces in Grayson
(46:33):
Rodriguez and Corbin Burns.
I hope after this season we getto re-sign Corbin Burns because
he'll be a free agent afterthis year.
It's kind of like a rental Likehere.
Let's see what you can do forus real quick.
Yeah, I think we'll make theWorld Series as long as we make
a move at the trade deadline forrelief pitching okay and who do
(46:57):
you predict they'll be playingin the world series?
Speaker 1 (47:00):
I mean?
Speaker 2 (47:01):
it's got to be the dodgers with that payroll.
You would hope so.
Yeah, it hasn't panned outbefore, but you know, but I
don't know.
I think, having just all theguys they have, it's pretty darn
near impossible for them not tothink they're going to be there
right.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
So now, remember, I know nothing about baseball
anymore so this prediction iscoming just out of the out of
blue, but I will not pick thedodgers because I hate the
Dodgers.
Speaker 2 (47:27):
I know Everybody hates them.
Speaker 1 (47:28):
So I will say Braves versus Rangers.
Sorry, you got me all excitedabout the O's, but I'm still
going to go with the Rangers.
Speaker 2 (47:37):
I don't like the Rangers man.
I didn't not like the Rangersbefore last season, but they
were destined to.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
Yeah, so they had a pretty good next year.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
They had to go on and do that Like we.
Yeah, so they had a pretty niceclear.
Go on and do that like we raninto a buzzsaw and I don't like
having that first round by yeah,I didn't like that, get a
little rusty.
Oh yeah, yeah, it's all about.
It's all about how much momentumyou can keep from the regular
season going into the end of theplayoffs oh, for sure like
baseball is so hot and cold,like I mean you saw with the
(48:09):
orioles, they won 101 games, hada week off because they were so
good and then and it ended upbeing a punishment nobody could
hit yeah, exactly it was likeone through seven just couldn't
hit.
Speaker 1 (48:19):
Well cool man, you got me excited about the orioles
.
Like I'm definitely gonna checkthem out just because yeah, no,
they're fun to watch it reallyis like my favorite kind of team
, where they're just homegrown,they're super talented and like
just fun to watch there's stillguys we haven't mentioned on the
podcast.
Speaker 2 (48:34):
Who I mean?
I mean one other name to lookout for who's still in the
minors is kobe mayo.
Um, I saw him.
He was playing against theshrimp, uh this past saturday
night and he had two home runsand a double, seven rbis and had
a diving play at third I meanit was, they just keep on coming
.
Man, it's crazy.
Speaker 1 (48:53):
So you guys, need to spread the wealth.
Can I know?
We definitely need to startspreading the wealth.
It's an embarrassment of richesI'm happy for you I appreciate
it and I appreciate you comingon again yes, sir.
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