August 8, 2025 • 20 mins
Kevin Pillar, Cam & SB lay out their new top ten team power rankings. Be nice :)
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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We're gonna let you go first. Then KP's gonna follow you.
I'll go last. Give me your one through ten. We'll
throw the board up there and talk us through how
you got there.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, you know, I try to think outside of the box, right.
I don't like to be like everybody else. So I
love that we don't conversate before we send in our picks.
So for me, number one is the Milwaukee Brewers. We
talked about it the other day. They have a great
leader and man and Pat Murphy. I think you know
what they continue to do every year special. Then you
have the Cubs right there. You know the record doesn't lie.
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I love the offense saying Suzuki should be getting a
lot more love as we talk about Kyle Tucker and PCA,
who's been phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And then you got the Phillies. You talk about it
all the time, Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
If Phillies do what they do do in the regular
they went out and got one of the best bullpen
guys in the game. I love the setting when he
comes in. Now it's lit and the Blue Jays. Right,
they locked up their guy in Bladdy Junr. They're playing
good baseball right now. They look in thus they look
like they're excited to be back headed to the playoffs.
The Dodgers are have five for me right now, right
a little bit, still in first place, right, still doing
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what they do and finding the way to win ball games.
I've got Padres at six. I told you, I love
the chemistry. I love the way they're playing for each other.
They have the most impressive trade deadline of anybody in
my eyes. I think, you know, filling up a lot
of different holes. You got the Mets at seven. Still
worried about their rotation a little bit. I love what
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the Manners do. They have one of the best starting
rotations in the game. I mean it speaks for itself.
You talk about Josh Nayler still in bases. They got
one of the best, you know, first base coaches. I
still stand on it, even though AJ is probably watching.
They have one of the best hitting coaches and Kevin Seizer.
Then you got the Tigers rounding it out. Love what
they're doing. I still worry about that offense. The Astros,
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like KP said, earlier teams like the Astros, the Guardians.
They just find a way to win when it's time
to win. And that's probably what a top ten power
ranking should look like. If you have anything different, I'm sorry,
you're probably wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, so then we're gonna quickly go to KP, but
I'm gonna make sure I point out a couple of
things I noticed, KP, as you're going to walk us
through yours. I did not see the Red Sox or
the Rangers on CAMS lists, and they're not on mine either.
I'll get to that. I also noticed there is one
team that is in a very different spot KP on
yours compared to CAMS. Do you know the team that
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I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I was really nervous doing this. This was my first
time doing this, and I was nervous. And I will
say that I factored in the standings, I factored in
trade deadline acquisitions, and really just how they played recently.
I mean, I don't know how everyone does their power
ranking board, and I will say I went a little
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bit conservative here. I added an eleventh team. I had
to tie it too, But I will say teams probably
from five, five to ten are probably interchangeable. So if
we can get my list up there, But the very
obvious is I went with the Brewers number one. How
could you not go with the Blue Jays at number two?
With you know, they're in first place and probably the
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toughest division in baseball. I know they just played the Rockies,
but you still got to beat bad teams, and you know,
winning games in the major leagues is hard, and what
they just did in Colorado was historic. You know, the
Phillies with their rotation, their star power, the Phillies are
the Phillies. The Mets was a team that as we
got into the conversation about the Mets a little bit,
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I could have probably moved them down a little bit there.
But like I said, probably from this point on, I
think all those teams could kind of be interchangeable for me.
But I had to give my flowers to the Red Sox.
I have to give my flowers to the Rangers because
the way the Red Sox have been playing, uh after
the break and what the Rangers were able to do
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after the trade deadline and you know, almost swept, almost swept.
The Yankees just swept the series before and I still
don't think they're firing on all cylinders offensively. I definitely
think they deserve to be in there, but I didn't
want any want to get upset with me, so I
had to go with the next team. I probably I
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probably could have. I probably could have put the Tigers
in there too, but the Tigers aren't playing great right now.
I do believe that they are a top ten team,
but right now, the way that they've been playing over
their last ten or fifteen games, you know, they're just
the next team probably looking in for me. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right, so Cam, first off, just with the obvious,
are we okay with eleven? When we.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
KP? This?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Listen, if you ask anybody about KP, one of the
best guys you're ever gonna come across.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And it still shows. Still listen, this is what I
learned KP. And I had to learn this in my
first year.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You can't make it everybody happy, all right, man, Hey,
you know what, you'll have to leave somebody else. And
it's kind of fun when you go to your you know,
your little X page and you see people giving you,
you know, giving.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You hell a little bit. It's fun a little bit.
So I encourage you to tap in to Pisson somebody trouble.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Trouble finds me. Believe me, Believe me. I've been dealing
with it for a while. But I'll be honest with you.
I got the text from the group, you know, send
your power rankings in, so I was I looked at
the standings. I looked at like how they've been playing recently,
and then I just started typing names in the order
and I got to nine and ten so quick, and
I was like, dang, I forgot some teams. So that's
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the that's the real reason why I put the eleventh
team in there is because I just started typing teams
and I'm like, dang, I forgot about the Cubs. And
instead of fully rearranging everything, I just, you know, took
the easy way out and I put you know, ten teams,
and you're lucky. I didn't really do what I wanted
to do, because after five, I believe all those teams
are interchangeable right now.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But that's why it's fun. That's why it's power rankings,
and that's why the Cubs two and you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That's the other thing. I understand. It's my list. It's
my list. It's not it's not scientifically proven. I have
no hypothesis. It's my list. You can't argue with me
about my list. That is my opinion. You can go
out and have your top ten ranking and I'm not
going to argue you. We can have some friendly debate
about it, like, hey, why do you believe that this
team's in the four hole or not the sixth hole.
(06:25):
It's my list. Stop getting mad at me for how
I feel. And this is this is the list that
came up with.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I want to see Scotty's though. I want to see
what Scotty has.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, so here, I'll walk you through it. I mean,
the Brewers are the smallest TV market, bottom third pay roll,
and they're like, don't care. They're one right now, best
record in baseball. I think it's a team that's going
to be really good. They've got it all going. Yes,
I factored in trade deadline. I didn't love what they
did obviously, but they're still cranking, so I'm good there.
Dodgers two for me, records still there, Guys are coming back,
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like Muncie making a big difference, maybe Roki at some point,
Philly for me at three. They got stronger at the
trade deadline. I like what they're bringing to October with
that bullpen. Is it the best in baseball? No, but
it's going to be up there for October when you
shrink how many people you need to trust bullpen wise,
So I like what the Phillies are selling me, and
it's a really good regular season team. Padres jump up
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there in the number four slot, and that could move
even quicker if they keep this up. That's a basically
new looking team to me. Mets five really strong year,
bad past week or so. I still don't love as
I always have the Frankie montass edition, and I think
he'll be booted at some point from the rotation, but
for now, still a very good team. I was close
with them in the Cubs. Cubs a better offense right now.
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I don't trust their pitching as much as I do
the Mets. Mets starters probably in a similar spot, but
I like their bullpen better than the Cubs Blue Jays,
so this is the big difference for me. I've got
six teams in the National League and then I begin
the American League, which is exactly what I did last year.
And here we are again, Blue Jays, Tigers, Astros, Mariners
rounding it out for me. Tough one for me, guys
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was Red Sox and Rangers. I think there's a top twelve,
and then I think it's a big drop off, but
that's not how this works. So anyway, that's my Hey,
it does work like that.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I have eleven teams. You could you could have done
what I did.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I will. I will say where I do agree with
you the most, Scotty, and.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Where I have my most difficult time, because I think
me and you are have been lockstep mckeeal on this.
I think the National League is so far superior than
the American League. But I do believe the Blue Jays
are the exception right now. I like what they have
and that's why they're in my top three. I do
as I as I look, and this is why I
love doing this because you guys.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I am, I want to say, easily swayed. But the
more I look at it, I do agree with you.
Agree with you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
If you did disagree with me that I probably could
move the Tigers down on my list for sure. Yeah,
I would, Scotty. I liked all the National League teams.
I like how you did it because I do agree
with you. I don't think like KP said, I don't
anymore think that's the toughest division in baseball. I really don't.
I think Tampa is, you know, I think they are
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who they are. Who else The Orioles.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Are not what they've been the last two seasons.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So and the Yankees, just to be honest with you,
they are so inconsistent and they beat themselves so much
that it has hard for me to say that like
I used to believe that.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So I do agree with you, Scott, I do like
your list.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
On the fact that I do believe the National League
is much more superior than the American League this year.
Speaker 1 (09:23):
I do. Yeah, I mean, just for my test, that's
what I'm seeing. And also someone from that top team
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gonna sizzle. So Jay's Journal with Jake Ferrara writing, put
something out called outside of Rogers Center. Is there somewhere
in Canada where MLB could showcase a Blue Jays game?
This is coming off the Speedway series. MLB always does
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a few things per year in places outside of the
normal ballparks, or in Sacramento's case, they're doing that for years.
Sorry I had to, but anyway, they could play anywhere
in the country.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
This is Canada's team, so they have played at Montreal's
Olympic Stadium. But there are other spots that are pointed
out in this article. They said BMO Field, which is
home to Toronto FC, although that's still in Toronto. Commonwealth
Stadium is the largest stadium capacity in all of Canada
fifty six thousand plus in Edmonton. And then they said
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BC Place is the biggest stadium, which is British Columbia
located in Denver. That's got fifty four thousand and five
hundred and it hosts both the CFLBC Lions and the
MLS Vancouver white Caps. So, KP, what do you got
for us? What should they do to have a little
tour over the years, And they should definitely do this right,
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try to set up some games across Canada for fans
that are living really far away from Toronto.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, you guys, sit this one out. Let me cook
here real quick. You mentioned the games in Montreal. I
got a chance to go play in those games in Montreal.
I think we played the Mets one year and we
played the Cardinals one year, And how could I forget that?
That was we brought Vladimirica Guerrera on that trip. He
was seventeen, eighteen years old at the time. Hit a
walk off home run in the ninth inning. You talk
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about loud stadiums, these were exhibition games in Montreal. These
fans are dying for baseball there and just for these
exhibition games, you know, fifty sixty thousand people. I don't
know what the stadium holds, but it was sold out
for both nights. We talk about a couple of these
other places, Vancouver would be the very obvious one. They
love sports there. I had a chance to play there
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in the minor leagues for the Vancouver Canadians. Great baseball town.
But the best part about being a Toronto Blue Jay
is when you go to places like Minnesota, when you
go to places like Seattle, when you go to any
bordering state to Canada, you were getting those type of
fans that are coming to see you for the first
time and they were selling out those stadiums. And another
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great part about being a Toronto Blue Jay is where
most teams do fan fest, which is typically just in
your city, which Toronto is now doing. The Blue Jays
are now doing fan Fest in Toronto, which they had
never done. When I always a member there, we would
caravan across the entire country. We would pick different places
across the country and everywhere you go there were Blue
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Jay fans. There is so many great places. I've been
to Edmonton, I've been to Alberta, But if I had
to pick my number one destination, which is probably the
most beautiful place on Earth. It would be in bands.
It has to be in the summer because it gets
really really cold in the winter.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, do they have capacity there to host you guys
or to host the Jays?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
No, but they need to start working on that.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now, what about what about Calgary? I'm looking at like,
what about.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I mean Calgary Calgary. I've been to Calgary. I've been,
I've been to a Flames game there and obviously passionate fans,
But Calgary is also home to one of the biggest rodeos,
the Calgary Stampede, in the summertime. What would be better?
There would be no better event for me personally than
going to Calgary in the summertime going to the rodeo,
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which I've heard is just the most insanely fun, insane event.
Pairing that with a Blue Jays game, there you go.
This would be unbelievable for baseball, This would be unbelievable
for Canada, for Blue Jays fans. We gotta make it happen.
Calgary Stampede meets Toronto Blue Jay What a What a
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week what a weekend?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm there, Hey, somebody hits a homer. Guy comes out
of the pin on the ball, right, like, let's go. Hell,
I mean it, it would be awesome, right, it would
be sweet. I would love to see it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Hey, let me let me be a dreamer. I'm not
a logistics guy. I'm not building the stadiums. I'm not
feeling them out. Let me dream on this. So my
two places Colgary during the Stampede and then Banff and
do they have the facilities? Not my problem, I'm just dreaming.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, you hire outsource it and it's not going to
be the group that did the Speedway Classic. No offense
to them, but they had culinary issues. I will say though.
On the field, it was super cool to watch that
event and it gets me thinking of how they did
the race car doing a lap for a home run.
That kind of stuff's cool.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I mean from a from a visual perspective, it was great.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So I'm all, I want to see more. I want
to see more. I think it's a shame that, you
know some of the issues, and obviously the fans are
really important. They need to be treated correctly, especially with
the rain delay. And you know, I was away, but
I was watching the game on TV and I'm seeing
kids in there. You know, sitting with their parents with
their ponchos on and the fact that the food situation
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wasn't very good. I don't want to let that overshadow
from you know, at least my point of view being
at home and seeing it on TV. What a really
cool event, the first time we had Major League Baseball
in the state of Tennessee. We need more of that,
and we can't overdo it. We can't have it every weekend.
But I love these events.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I agree, I love them too. So if you're doing
this in Canada, I know they have great food at
the ballpark at Rogers Center, but what are you making
sure that you show off in a showcase event that
everyone would be watching in a different destination in Canada?
What's the go to out there?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I mean the obvious is the pootine. You gotta go
poutine for people that don't know pooftine. That's basically not choose,
but use French fries and you could pretty much put
whatever type of toppings on this. Yes, and you go
as basic as you want. You can go as extreme
as you want, but you know, for ballpark food, you
have to have poutine.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That was my favorite thing as a visitor. I will
ask the you know, the guys.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
In the kitchen, like, hey, anyway you could have me
some poutine after the game, please, Maybe some bacon, maybe
a little beef on there, you know, whatever you want
some jalapenos.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Oh my goodness, you're right.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I mean I will take this kind of I mean
we're in the same you know, realm of conversation. But
do you guys have somewhere that you would like to
see a game played? You know, maybe aside from like Canada.
But like, I mean, the racetrack idea was good. Could
they do it in like Daytona, Florida? I mean, obviously
the racetrack thing has been done, but there's so many
other great creative ideas.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Scott, you go, I got one. Yeah, I mean I
have a bunch. But the one that stands out to
me because it's part of a bigger problem in our
sport is Omaha. I would love them to play a
baseball game in Omaha and have the draft there during
the College World Series. Why is it a good idea?
Because it was an idea that was actually discussed and
I think was going to happen, and then COVID kind
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of ruined it, and then somehow we took it to
the All Star Game, where I think it gets overshadowed.
So I think it would crush out there. Obviously, there's
plenty of players that are getting picked from high school
and the fans that show up for the College World
Series don't necessarily know them. But there are plenty of
college starts. It's a way to elevate them. So I
think you make that a showcase, you make that part
of the College World Series experience, and you get a
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game over there plus the draft and now you're talking.
I like that idea. I think that would be super cool.
What do you guys think that would be cool?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I think that would be sweet. I think that would
be awesome. That would be so.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, that would be awesome to kind of integrate everybody
and everything together.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
That would be sweet.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But for me, I think playing for the Padre is
one thing that I really really love so much was
honoring our militaries, and for.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Me, I think a naval base, like I know you
have to get around.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Like some security stuff, but I think like if you
could somehow put a you know, stadium or build something
like they did, like do everywhere, you know a field
and do it on a naval base just to kind
of on our military. Maybe have you know, different branches
of our military show up as well as some fans.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'm sure it would be some security checkpoints you have
to go through, but I think that would be so
cool to do it on like a you know, on
the water or something crazy or you know, some type
of bass.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'm with you in cam Obviously, it would be a
smaller event, so I would say, just keep the military
personnel to keep it right. You know, it's not it's
not a money maker, although the TV side would be
right so that that covers the event. But I think
that would be sick. I'm all for.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I think that would be awesome, Like maybe like on
the water, like that would be crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I'm gonna you know, I'm a piggyback the because I'm
a big military guy, and I think we we owe
it to them to you know, do a game at
a Navy base and kind of highlight what they do,
you know, for us in order to play baseball, what
they do for a country. To piggyback that it needs
to be done in Hawaii because I would love to
see baseball in Hawaii. I love going to Hawaii. I
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know it has got a rich culture of baseball. So
do the military game at a naval base in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Boom, done, amazing. That would be awesome. Yeah, yeah, and
we got it. Okay, we'll bring attention to it. We'll
do the show their live ft from Hawaii, Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
We got it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah. But I'm with you. I agree. I would love
to see a game out.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
There, a k pre and post game. We got it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It's done, done, done.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
We'll do the Hawaii I'm there.
Power rankings are powered by Arena Club. Yes, go check
out the platform if you're into buying or selling cards. Okay, Cam,
We're gonna let you go first. Then KP's gonna follow you.
I'll go last. Give me your one through ten. We'll
throw the board up there and talk us through how
you got there.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, you know, I try to think outside of the box, right.
I don't like to be like everybody else. So I
love that we don't conversate before we send in our picks.
So for me, number one is the Milwaukee Brewers. We
talked about it the other day. They have a great
leader and man and Pat Murphy. I think you know
what they continue to do every year special. Then you
have the Cubs right there. You know the record doesn't lie.
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I love the offense saying Suzuki should be getting a
lot more love as we talk about Kyle Tucker and PCA,
who's been phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
And then you got the Phillies. You talk about it
all the time, Scott.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
If Phillies do what they do do in the regular
they went out and got one of the best bullpen
guys in the game. I love the setting when he
comes in. Now it's lit and the Blue Jays. Right,
they locked up their guy in Bladdy Junr. They're playing
good baseball right now. They look in thus they look
like they're excited to be back headed to the playoffs.
The Dodgers are have five for me right now, right
a little bit, still in first place, right, still doing
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what they do and finding the way to win ball games.
I've got Padres at six. I told you, I love
the chemistry. I love the way they're playing for each other.
They have the most impressive trade deadline of anybody in
my eyes. I think, you know, filling up a lot
of different holes. You got the Mets at seven. Still
worried about their rotation a little bit. I love what
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the Manners do. They have one of the best starting
rotations in the game. I mean it speaks for itself.
You talk about Josh Nayler still in bases. They got
one of the best, you know, first base coaches. I
still stand on it, even though AJ is probably watching.
They have one of the best hitting coaches and Kevin Seizer.
Then you got the Tigers rounding it out. Love what
they're doing. I still worry about that offense. The Astros,
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like KP said, earlier teams like the Astros, the Guardians.
They just find a way to win when it's time
to win. And that's probably what a top ten power
ranking should look like. If you have anything different, I'm sorry,
you're probably wrong.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Okay, so then we're gonna quickly go to KP, but
I'm gonna make sure I point out a couple of
things I noticed, KP, as you're going to walk us
through yours. I did not see the Red Sox or
the Rangers on CAMS lists, and they're not on mine either.
I'll get to that. I also noticed there is one
team that is in a very different spot KP on
yours compared to CAMS. Do you know the team that
(02:37):
I'm talking about.
Speaker 4 (02:40):
I was really nervous doing this. This was my first
time doing this, and I was nervous. And I will
say that I factored in the standings, I factored in
trade deadline acquisitions, and really just how they played recently.
I mean, I don't know how everyone does their power
ranking board, and I will say I went a little
(03:01):
bit conservative here. I added an eleventh team. I had
to tie it too, But I will say teams probably
from five, five to ten are probably interchangeable. So if
we can get my list up there, But the very
obvious is I went with the Brewers number one. How
could you not go with the Blue Jays at number two?
With you know, they're in first place and probably the
(03:22):
toughest division in baseball. I know they just played the Rockies,
but you still got to beat bad teams, and you know,
winning games in the major leagues is hard, and what
they just did in Colorado was historic. You know, the
Phillies with their rotation, their star power, the Phillies are
the Phillies. The Mets was a team that as we
got into the conversation about the Mets a little bit,
(03:44):
I could have probably moved them down a little bit there.
But like I said, probably from this point on, I
think all those teams could kind of be interchangeable for me.
But I had to give my flowers to the Red Sox.
I have to give my flowers to the Rangers because
the way the Red Sox have been playing, uh after
the break and what the Rangers were able to do
(04:05):
after the trade deadline and you know, almost swept, almost swept.
The Yankees just swept the series before and I still
don't think they're firing on all cylinders offensively. I definitely
think they deserve to be in there, but I didn't
want any want to get upset with me, so I
had to go with the next team. I probably I
(04:25):
probably could have. I probably could have put the Tigers
in there too, but the Tigers aren't playing great right now.
I do believe that they are a top ten team,
but right now, the way that they've been playing over
their last ten or fifteen games, you know, they're just
the next team probably looking in for me. Wow.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
All right, so Cam, first off, just with the obvious,
are we okay with eleven? When we.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
KP? This?
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Listen, if you ask anybody about KP, one of the
best guys you're ever gonna come across.
Speaker 3 (04:54):
And it still shows. Still listen, this is what I
learned KP. And I had to learn this in my
first year.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
You can't make it everybody happy, all right, man, Hey,
you know what, you'll have to leave somebody else. And
it's kind of fun when you go to your you know,
your little X page and you see people giving you,
you know, giving.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
You hell a little bit. It's fun a little bit.
So I encourage you to tap in to Pisson somebody trouble.
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Trouble finds me. Believe me, Believe me. I've been dealing
with it for a while. But I'll be honest with you.
I got the text from the group, you know, send
your power rankings in, so I was I looked at
the standings. I looked at like how they've been playing recently,
and then I just started typing names in the order
and I got to nine and ten so quick, and
I was like, dang, I forgot some teams. So that's
(05:37):
the that's the real reason why I put the eleventh
team in there is because I just started typing teams
and I'm like, dang, I forgot about the Cubs. And
instead of fully rearranging everything, I just, you know, took
the easy way out and I put you know, ten teams,
and you're lucky. I didn't really do what I wanted
to do, because after five, I believe all those teams
are interchangeable right now.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
But that's why it's fun. That's why it's power rankings,
and that's why the Cubs two and you Yeah.
Speaker 4 (06:03):
That's the other thing. I understand. It's my list. It's
my list. It's not it's not scientifically proven. I have
no hypothesis. It's my list. You can't argue with me
about my list. That is my opinion. You can go
out and have your top ten ranking and I'm not
going to argue you. We can have some friendly debate
about it, like, hey, why do you believe that this
team's in the four hole or not the sixth hole.
(06:25):
It's my list. Stop getting mad at me for how
I feel. And this is this is the list that
came up with.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
I want to see Scotty's though. I want to see
what Scotty has.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
Okay, so here, I'll walk you through it. I mean,
the Brewers are the smallest TV market, bottom third pay roll,
and they're like, don't care. They're one right now, best
record in baseball. I think it's a team that's going
to be really good. They've got it all going. Yes,
I factored in trade deadline. I didn't love what they
did obviously, but they're still cranking, so I'm good there.
Dodgers two for me, records still there, Guys are coming back,
(06:55):
like Muncie making a big difference, maybe Roki at some point,
Philly for me at three. They got stronger at the
trade deadline. I like what they're bringing to October with
that bullpen. Is it the best in baseball? No, but
it's going to be up there for October when you
shrink how many people you need to trust bullpen wise,
So I like what the Phillies are selling me, and
it's a really good regular season team. Padres jump up
(07:17):
there in the number four slot, and that could move
even quicker if they keep this up. That's a basically
new looking team to me. Mets five really strong year,
bad past week or so. I still don't love as
I always have the Frankie montass edition, and I think
he'll be booted at some point from the rotation, but
for now, still a very good team. I was close
with them in the Cubs. Cubs a better offense right now.
(07:39):
I don't trust their pitching as much as I do
the Mets. Mets starters probably in a similar spot, but
I like their bullpen better than the Cubs Blue Jays,
so this is the big difference for me. I've got
six teams in the National League and then I begin
the American League, which is exactly what I did last year.
And here we are again, Blue Jays, Tigers, Astros, Mariners
rounding it out for me. Tough one for me, guys
(08:00):
was Red Sox and Rangers. I think there's a top twelve,
and then I think it's a big drop off, but
that's not how this works. So anyway, that's my Hey,
it does work like that.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
I have eleven teams. You could you could have done
what I did.
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I can't do it.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
You know I can't do it.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I will. I will say where I do agree with
you the most, Scotty, and.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
Where I have my most difficult time, because I think
me and you are have been lockstep mckeeal on this.
I think the National League is so far superior than
the American League. But I do believe the Blue Jays
are the exception right now. I like what they have
and that's why they're in my top three. I do
as I as I look, and this is why I
love doing this because you guys.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
I am, I want to say, easily swayed. But the
more I look at it, I do agree with you.
Agree with you guys.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
If you did disagree with me that I probably could
move the Tigers down on my list for sure. Yeah,
I would, Scotty. I liked all the National League teams.
I like how you did it because I do agree
with you. I don't think like KP said, I don't
anymore think that's the toughest division in baseball. I really don't.
I think Tampa is, you know, I think they are
(09:03):
who they are. Who else The Orioles.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Are not what they've been the last two seasons.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
So and the Yankees, just to be honest with you,
they are so inconsistent and they beat themselves so much
that it has hard for me to say that like
I used to believe that.
Speaker 3 (09:16):
So I do agree with you, Scott, I do like
your list.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
On the fact that I do believe the National League
is much more superior than the American League this year.
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gonna sizzle. So Jay's Journal with Jake Ferrara writing, put
something out called outside of Rogers Center. Is there somewhere
in Canada where MLB could showcase a Blue Jays game?
This is coming off the Speedway series. MLB always does
(11:24):
a few things per year in places outside of the
normal ballparks, or in Sacramento's case, they're doing that for years.
Sorry I had to, but anyway, they could play anywhere
in the country.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Right.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
This is Canada's team, so they have played at Montreal's
Olympic Stadium. But there are other spots that are pointed
out in this article. They said BMO Field, which is
home to Toronto FC, although that's still in Toronto. Commonwealth
Stadium is the largest stadium capacity in all of Canada
fifty six thousand plus in Edmonton. And then they said
(11:57):
BC Place is the biggest stadium, which is British Columbia
located in Denver. That's got fifty four thousand and five
hundred and it hosts both the CFLBC Lions and the
MLS Vancouver white Caps. So, KP, what do you got
for us? What should they do to have a little
tour over the years, And they should definitely do this right,
(12:18):
try to set up some games across Canada for fans
that are living really far away from Toronto.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Yeah, you guys, sit this one out. Let me cook
here real quick. You mentioned the games in Montreal. I
got a chance to go play in those games in Montreal.
I think we played the Mets one year and we
played the Cardinals one year, And how could I forget that?
That was we brought Vladimirica Guerrera on that trip. He
was seventeen, eighteen years old at the time. Hit a
walk off home run in the ninth inning. You talk
(12:46):
about loud stadiums, these were exhibition games in Montreal. These
fans are dying for baseball there and just for these
exhibition games, you know, fifty sixty thousand people. I don't
know what the stadium holds, but it was sold out
for both nights. We talk about a couple of these
other places, Vancouver would be the very obvious one. They
love sports there. I had a chance to play there
(13:07):
in the minor leagues for the Vancouver Canadians. Great baseball town.
But the best part about being a Toronto Blue Jay
is when you go to places like Minnesota, when you
go to places like Seattle, when you go to any
bordering state to Canada, you were getting those type of
fans that are coming to see you for the first
time and they were selling out those stadiums. And another
(13:30):
great part about being a Toronto Blue Jay is where
most teams do fan fest, which is typically just in
your city, which Toronto is now doing. The Blue Jays
are now doing fan Fest in Toronto, which they had
never done. When I always a member there, we would
caravan across the entire country. We would pick different places
across the country and everywhere you go there were Blue
(13:51):
Jay fans. There is so many great places. I've been
to Edmonton, I've been to Alberta, But if I had
to pick my number one destination, which is probably the
most beautiful place on Earth. It would be in bands.
It has to be in the summer because it gets
really really cold in the winter.
Speaker 1 (14:07):
Okay, do they have capacity there to host you guys
or to host the Jays?
Speaker 4 (14:12):
No, but they need to start working on that.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
Now, what about what about Calgary? I'm looking at like,
what about.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
I mean Calgary Calgary. I've been to Calgary. I've been,
I've been to a Flames game there and obviously passionate fans,
But Calgary is also home to one of the biggest rodeos,
the Calgary Stampede, in the summertime. What would be better?
There would be no better event for me personally than
going to Calgary in the summertime going to the rodeo,
(14:40):
which I've heard is just the most insanely fun, insane event.
Pairing that with a Blue Jays game, there you go.
This would be unbelievable for baseball, This would be unbelievable
for Canada, for Blue Jays fans. We gotta make it happen.
Calgary Stampede meets Toronto Blue Jay What a What a
(15:01):
week what a weekend?
Speaker 2 (15:02):
I'm there, Hey, somebody hits a homer. Guy comes out
of the pin on the ball, right, like, let's go. Hell,
I mean it, it would be awesome, right, it would
be sweet. I would love to see it.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
Hey, let me let me be a dreamer. I'm not
a logistics guy. I'm not building the stadiums. I'm not
feeling them out. Let me dream on this. So my
two places Colgary during the Stampede and then Banff and
do they have the facilities? Not my problem, I'm just dreaming.
That's right.
Speaker 1 (15:31):
Yeah, you hire outsource it and it's not going to
be the group that did the Speedway Classic. No offense
to them, but they had culinary issues. I will say though.
On the field, it was super cool to watch that
event and it gets me thinking of how they did
the race car doing a lap for a home run.
That kind of stuff's cool.
Speaker 4 (15:47):
I loved that.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
I mean from a from a visual perspective, it was great.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
So I'm all, I want to see more. I want
to see more. I think it's a shame that, you
know some of the issues, and obviously the fans are
really important. They need to be treated correctly, especially with
the rain delay. And you know, I was away, but
I was watching the game on TV and I'm seeing
kids in there. You know, sitting with their parents with
their ponchos on and the fact that the food situation
(16:13):
wasn't very good. I don't want to let that overshadow
from you know, at least my point of view being
at home and seeing it on TV. What a really
cool event, the first time we had Major League Baseball
in the state of Tennessee. We need more of that,
and we can't overdo it. We can't have it every weekend.
But I love these events.
Speaker 1 (16:32):
I agree, I love them too. So if you're doing
this in Canada, I know they have great food at
the ballpark at Rogers Center, but what are you making
sure that you show off in a showcase event that
everyone would be watching in a different destination in Canada?
What's the go to out there?
Speaker 4 (16:49):
I mean the obvious is the pootine. You gotta go
poutine for people that don't know pooftine. That's basically not choose,
but use French fries and you could pretty much put
whatever type of toppings on this. Yes, and you go
as basic as you want. You can go as extreme
as you want, but you know, for ballpark food, you
have to have poutine.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
That was my favorite thing as a visitor. I will
ask the you know, the guys.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
In the kitchen, like, hey, anyway you could have me
some poutine after the game, please, Maybe some bacon, maybe
a little beef on there, you know, whatever you want
some jalapenos.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Oh my goodness, you're right.
Speaker 4 (17:24):
I mean I will take this kind of I mean
we're in the same you know, realm of conversation. But
do you guys have somewhere that you would like to
see a game played? You know, maybe aside from like Canada.
But like, I mean, the racetrack idea was good. Could
they do it in like Daytona, Florida? I mean, obviously
the racetrack thing has been done, but there's so many
other great creative ideas.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Scott, you go, I got one. Yeah, I mean I
have a bunch. But the one that stands out to
me because it's part of a bigger problem in our
sport is Omaha. I would love them to play a
baseball game in Omaha and have the draft there during
the College World Series. Why is it a good idea?
Because it was an idea that was actually discussed and
I think was going to happen, and then COVID kind
(18:04):
of ruined it, and then somehow we took it to
the All Star Game, where I think it gets overshadowed.
So I think it would crush out there. Obviously, there's
plenty of players that are getting picked from high school
and the fans that show up for the College World
Series don't necessarily know them. But there are plenty of
college starts. It's a way to elevate them. So I
think you make that a showcase, you make that part
of the College World Series experience, and you get a
(18:25):
game over there plus the draft and now you're talking.
I like that idea. I think that would be super cool.
What do you guys think that would be cool?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
I think that would be sweet. I think that would
be awesome. That would be so.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Yeah, that would be awesome to kind of integrate everybody
and everything together.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
That would be sweet.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
But for me, I think playing for the Padre is
one thing that I really really love so much was
honoring our militaries, and for.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Me, I think a naval base, like I know you
have to get around.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Like some security stuff, but I think like if you
could somehow put a you know, stadium or build something
like they did, like do everywhere, you know a field
and do it on a naval base just to kind
of on our military. Maybe have you know, different branches
of our military show up as well as some fans.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
You.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
I'm sure it would be some security checkpoints you have
to go through, but I think that would be so
cool to do it on like a you know, on
the water or something crazy or you know, some type
of bass.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
I'm with you in cam Obviously, it would be a
smaller event, so I would say, just keep the military
personnel to keep it right. You know, it's not it's
not a money maker, although the TV side would be
right so that that covers the event. But I think
that would be sick. I'm all for.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
I think that would be awesome, Like maybe like on
the water, like that would be crazy.
Speaker 4 (19:38):
I'm gonna you know, I'm a piggyback the because I'm
a big military guy, and I think we we owe
it to them to you know, do a game at
a Navy base and kind of highlight what they do,
you know, for us in order to play baseball, what
they do for a country. To piggyback that it needs
to be done in Hawaii because I would love to
see baseball in Hawaii. I love going to Hawaii. I
(19:59):
know it has got a rich culture of baseball. So
do the military game at a naval base in Hawaii.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Boom, done, amazing. That would be awesome. Yeah, yeah, and
we got it. Okay, we'll bring attention to it. We'll
do the show their live ft from Hawaii, Hawaii.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
We got it.
Speaker 1 (20:16):
Yeah. But I'm with you. I agree. I would love
to see a game out.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
There, a k pre and post game. We got it.
Speaker 1 (20:22):
It's done, done, done.
Speaker 4 (20:23):
We'll do the Hawaii I'm there.
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