August 2, 2025 • 26 mins
Jon Jansen joins Dick Jerardi, Mike Kern, and Kyle Nunnamaker to
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Speaker 4 (01:12):
Right now, I'm just sitting in Wilmington, Delaware, Beautiful Wilmington.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So I read a little earlier about the MLB trade deadline,
where all the teams under five hundred just trade all
of their good players the team's over five hundred and
for prospects that are never heard from again before we
get to your baseball picks or whatever else you might
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have today. And are you as outraged as I was that,
Like it was just Rob Manfrend should retire tomorrow, he
should be fired.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would you agree with that Rob Manfred should be fired because.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Because he makes lets this happen every year or teams
just get rid of all their good players in mid
in late July.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, especially with teams that are still potentially in content.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, your whole team. It's absurd.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, I think this is the most trades ever had
a trade deadline. So yeah, this was Maybe this is
an out liar. It seems to trend in this direction. Obviously,
teams don't. There are certain teams that don't want to
pay players, and there are certain teams that want to compete,
but only at only when it gets to a certain
margin in their you know, financials. Uh. It's yeah, it's
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a problem for Major League Baseball. But Minnesota did completely
offloading every single good talent they have. Maybe they needed
to rebuild, but also I just think they didn't want
to pay the money. And Oakland doesn't want to do it,
and Pittsburgh doesn't want to do it, and with Pittsburgh
having maybe the most, uh the biggest, the most well
known young player in Major League baseball. That's that's a problem.
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You would you would like to see that guy kind
of get the money, get the good team around him. Right,
he'll be gone in a couple of years. But it's
just it's a shame. It would be great as Pittsburgh
was putting in money to try and make this team
work around Paul schemes. But yeah, money becomes a big
issue in Major League Baseball. I don't think a salary
cap is even gonna help it. Teams that don't want
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to spend don't want to spend, and that's never gonna change.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
What's Pittsburgh's incentive, John, There is no incentive because the
teams that that don't spend the money make as much
or more. I'm not saying they make. I don't know
what the Dodgers make or what the Yankees make, or.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
A lot more than what.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
There's no incentive to spend money because it's.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Just there is. It's if you if you want to win. There.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
What I'm saying is you who owns those teams, you're
more if you try to win. Yeah, but he's making money.
His team's going.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
On, you don't care he's not he's not making well, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's that's the thing. Even even the Phillies for a while,
the Phillies for the longest time, it wasn't. Everybody keeps
saying it was prospects and the and the reason why
the Phillies didn't win was because Ruben mar Jing your
trade all the process. It wasn't that the Phillies didn't
want to spend money. They didn't spend anything. They didn't
want to go over to the luxury tax, they didn't
want to spend for big players like and even the
Phillies had that for that problem for the longest while
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until they know getting Bryce Harper and then they dish
out another three hundred million dollar contract and a couple
one hundred million dollar contracts. So yeah, it's the intentive
is like, yeah, there there is none. But it's just
if an owner wants to win. And that's the problem
with Major League Baseball. Some owners just don't want to win.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
And here's the other problem. Now you're the Phillies, you're
in year four of this, we got a chance to win.
If you don't win, now you're going to year five
and you got like this pay roll that's through the roof,
and you got guys on your team that want you
got to sign.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's the other part of it. Fire them all.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's like, you know, can you
find that happy medium if you can win, like the
Dodgers have won twice in four years.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I guess whoever hire everybody? That's my fire, everybody in
every fire. And there is no dynasty in base ball.
I mean that's also John.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't know if you listen to the beginning of
the show, but Dick Trarty's just a little sour because
of the Orioles were big sellers at the one they started.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, well, it's a shame because it's it's.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
A it's another situation, the same thing, because the Orioles
are part of that team, like a Cincinnati, like a Pittsburgh,
like an Oakland. They don't want to spend. And that's
a team that very clearly needed to spend a ton
of money to get a lot of pitching, and they
didn't want to do it. They tried, and they guy
at least a pitcher, but they needed a lot more
and they just were unwilling and it's a shame because
they brought up some of like Jackson Holliday, Gunnar Henderson,
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Adley Rutchman, all these guys that came up like they
are some of the top prospects in Major League Baseball.
And uh, I know because I work at a card score.
Now those guys still like have a huge market and
people really know them and like them.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And all the Orioles did was kind of go, yeah,
we can try and see if we can win a
little bit, and that just doesn't work. So yeah, it's
the tough thing is like when teams are all in,
like the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Yankees, they spend a
lot of money, but they're there are too many teams
unwilling to spend even a little bit to try and
get their payroll up to end up winning. And the
tough thing is to but yeah, eventually run out of
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players to pay too.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
By the way, before we get into it, by the way,
are you interrupting the I am interrupting the host.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's a bold move on my part, but I just
had to bring up one of the most bizarre things
I saw, which was Sir Anthony de Mingez, how about
my man getting traded in the middle of a doubleheader
to the team that he was playing.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So just switching people baseball, Baseball is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Something to day night doubleheader in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Oars ended up sweeping the doubleheader against the first
place Blue Jays, and in between games, Sir Anthony was
traded and pitched against the Orioles in the nightcap and
had a great inning, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Pitched against him again the next day and had another
great sorrow. Guys a free agent. That's another thing.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
These guys are about to be free agents.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We're not going to pay them, so they're at it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But you're throwing the game like in the fifth inning.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, throwing the games and the team they're playing.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, come on again, you goteckless commissioner a food baseball
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
In fact, fire all the commissioners in all the sports. Okay,
would you agree with that? Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I will I will say so, Josh, your commissioner John's
a little too animal.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Does that does come with a pay?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, we've got off the rails. Who's the commissioner? There's
never one?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I will I will say. Baseball has at least a great,
a great person representing there, a great player representing them,
and Bryce Harper that can stand up to the commissioner. Yeah,
Lebron James. Lebron James did it. Lebron James knew he
had a bunch of power and he got players paid
a ton of money. So it's it's really great that
there is a player that. Look, Brice Harper has been
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around baseball more than anyone, like a fifteen years old.
This guy was a big time prospect. He came up
through the minor leagues really quickly. He's he's been like
the face of baseball, like the prodigy baseball for a
long time. And he knows he has that kind of cachet.
So yeah, it's it's great that baseball has that at
least so players can stand up to Ron Anfer because yeah,
he is not the best, he's the worst.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Legitimately make it worse yet because there's a large crowd
out there, it's fat.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
All right, John, what you got for us today?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And this fine slate, first Saturday of August August the second,
give us some games to pedal.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, let's first, Uh, let's go with the Tampa Bay
Rays and Los Angeles Dodgers. So this one's a little
bit of a small money line. Blake Snell is on
the Mount. Blake Snell hasn't pitched all that much. This
is one where I really don't care what the pitching
matchup is. The Tampa Bay Rays are not good and
their lineup is not very good, so they have a
decent pitcher on the mount, Drew ras Newson. But I
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don't really think it all that matters when you're going
up against the Dodgers. Dodgers haven't been perfect as of late.
But still, if I'm getting a minus one twenty for
one of the best teams in baseball just because of
a pitching matchup player, there might not even be that
much of an advantage. I think. I think Dodgers are
a pretty good play there.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Let's go with The game is in Tampa Bay in
the Yankees Minor League Stadium, which holds seventeen people.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So Stein Brenner Field, Stein Brenner, why not, we'll make
it again? Is bizarre?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, so Karen does not like the race. Dodgers are
twenty over five hundred, race three und five hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
All right, let's go with the There's two other games
I really like the Atlanta Brays minus one twenty on
the road against Cincinnati Special Stride on the Mountain. Three
point seventy era doesn't look great. Five and eight doesn't
look all that great, but I think he's been pitching
better as of late. And Chamee Burns he's a really
interesting prospect for Cincinnati. He's got electric stuff. The problem
is just to start hasn't really been the best start
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of the ser This.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Game is at the Bristol Motor Speed.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, yep, yeah, yeah, I
forgot the MLB Speedway Classic, which actually looks really good.
They've done this a couple of times and looks really Uh,
the atmosphere looks really cool.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So lead lead producer of Fox is good buddy, my
big racetrack guy.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he's at the Bristol Motor Speed at seven fifteen
for Braves, Reds, Braves, Reds.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, Braves. Which is such a random game.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But they have vehicles running around the infield between innings.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Wouldn't that be cool? Guess I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Ada should only run the bases by driving a Brave.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And also getting a nice minus hold.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
On John hold on a second do you have a
line on the Bananas game tonight anywhere, by.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The way, against the firefighters. No, I don't think I
have that one.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
This is how bad it's gotten around here, there and
everywhere these days. Mike Kern ranted against the bananas.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It wasn't a ring. There wasn't Nobody is safe on
this show.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Not a fan in the Banana entertainment.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's fine.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
My grandkids liked it. Don't tell me it's baseball, and
don't put it on twenty four. They're gonna have their
own channel. It's gonna be a twenty in the Banana channel.
Mike Kurrent's like, oh yeah, get off my law. Fifty
six years ago they had the banana splits were on.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well did they How did the Globetrotters ever get that
kind of Well, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
They'd be on, like but John, fifty years ago it
was different. You didn't see they show them Wide World
of Sports once a year. They got meadow lak Lemon
and curling Neal and it was great. Watched it and
you said, hey, that's pretty good. I don't need to
see five banana appeel games in a week.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah for TV in a live setting like being at
the game. They put on a great show, and that's.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You know, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, you get on our set a number of times
out of here through the years. All these people at
the Slavish you're all looking over here at Mike Kurr Lunatics.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
If somebody's ranting about a banana field.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Hates potassium.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Sorry, but that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
What you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Last one Oakland Athletics going up against the diamond Backs.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
O the Sacramento Yeah, well whoever, Philadelphia, here, there and everywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yes, this game being played nowhere is Yeah, that's true.
Bringing back to Philly, I do it, uh minus one
twenty the Athletics going up against Jack Allen five point
six year e ra A for the Diamondbacks this season,
and actually, the Athletics have been one of the better
teams of baseball as of late. They've been really good.
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Diamondbacks have been awful. They traded away a lot of players,
So I'm I'm gonna take take advantage here of a
of a short money line for a team obviously that
doesn't have a good record, not very good. There's still
some good young talent on that team. Nick Kurtz is
really fun to watch a few other players. But yeah,
Athletics have definitely been looking good as of late, and
I think I want to take advantage of the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Phillies lost to the Diamondbacks two years ago. I still
find that incredibly hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah, that was yes.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, Can I give you our good friend Daddy Barkowitz
with some school Bowl Wheeler not because that's a great
game today. Yeah, Okay, Wheeler six and one at home
this season with a two e r A. He's lost
his last in his last three starts. He's given up
four runs in each of his last two starts. School
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Ball is just two and two in nine starts on
the road, but his e r A is one eight
nine and he threw seven shutout in his last season
against the Phillies with seven.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Strikeouts, one nine RA on the road.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Is do you like any Do you like anybody in
that game?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
John?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Or is that just stay away?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
And mainly stay away, But I would I would tend
to look towards the Philly side with Jack Wheeler at home.
Jack Wheeler probably gonna, I think pitch better in this
next start, lighting it off. No, And like, yeah, that's
the thing, is that both both teams aren't really lighting
it up lately, so it's going to be low scoring.
I just think with the Phillies at home, they tend
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to hit a little bit better at home, so I
would just say a slight advantage to the Phills there.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
All right, So, John, now that I've calmed down from
my rant about the trade, then do you have any
thoughts now? As we obviously have to reevaluate all these squads.
The better squads obviously changed their rosters to Dodgers significant extent. Right,
Dodgers think they have enough if they got all their
people back healthy. Some made really big moves, some made
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no moves at all. What are your thoughts now as
we start the month of August, we're two months from
the finish line.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, there were there were a lot of moves made. Again,
I think thirty six moves and maybe a little bit
more than that, and I think the most of the
trade deadline, so it's a lot to move around. I
think the Mets, certainly for the Phillies perspective, they made
a ton of pitching moves and they got some really
good guys Hellesley and some others into the bullpen. So
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that's been great. I really thought the Cubs should have
done a little bit more for their starting rotation. The
fact that Merrill Kelly was kind of out there and
the Texas Rangers ending up getting him. I think the
Cubs had an opportunity because they have such a great lineup.
They had a really good opportunity to get a top
flight pitcher and to really make a run at this,
but they ended up not doing it. They only got
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one guy, Michael Soroka, and Mike Soroka, we know he's
had a ton of injuries. He doesn't really go deep
into games, so it's just a move that I thought
maybe they needed to go a lot more in on.
They do end up getting some relief pitching help, which
is good, but I think the starting rotation needed a
lot more. So it's kind of a shame because the
Cubs really the lineups there, and they really could have
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competed if they went with somebody but the National League. Yeah,
it's just still looking at the Dodgers. I think the Phillies,
even though it didn't seem like a ton the relief
picture they got, as we just saw last night, he
is lethal. He's very good coming late in the games,
but also I think Harrison Bader is a decent move.
I wish they would have gotten more of a bat.
Maybe ao Henio Suarez was going to be in play
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and that could have been a lot better for them.
But still, I like Beader. It's a right handed bat.
It's a little bit better of a move than Austin Hayes,
that kind of caliber player. It's better. Harrison Bader is
better than that, but I think it needed to be
a little bit more. But yeah, well yeah, not with
mayor Field either, But yeah, I just feel like there
were a lot of moves. I don't think too many
teams completely changed because if they did, it kind of
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was even evened out by what the rest of the
teams did in Basil. So yeah, the picture kind of
remains the same to me, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I tend to agree the Phillies needed to get a
guy that they can get three outs in the night
to think, which they obviously think they got for the Twins.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I think not not only they got they got one
of the better ones. He's been that way for a
few years now, so they they did a great job.
And look, they didn't want to get rid of their
top prospects and they didn't. So now it's going to
be up to them whether or not they want to
bring those guys up.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it was interesting that they had a post game
interview with him last night. They had the interpreter that
every she speaks perfectly, well, she was perfectly Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, that was a great postgame interview, the whole atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, and that look that can that can that.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Can help change the season. You know, the Phillies haven't
been a little bit in the dog days of summer.
It does seem like they've been like every team, every
team's been going through the motions. Every good team has
gone through a bad spell in July. So it's the
dog days of summer. It happens. But that's that's the
one that could really really get you going again. That
that felt like a playoff atmosphere last night from the
Philly side, So that that was really great to see.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
They're playing a team a potentially could play in the
World Series. I mean, you know, De Truit is certainly
good enough to get out of the American League. Nobody
would argue that. And and as Mike was just talking
about the the really one of the great pitching matchups
of the season or Philly's and the Tigers tonight at
four o five this say afternoon, basically identical record, Tigers
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sixty four, forty seventh, probably sixty two and forty seven.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The Tigers last two weeks pretty much Stone Yeah, really bad.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, they've been bad. Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
And Wheeler hasn't been at his best since that awesome
complete game.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
A couple of weeks he took ten days off, yeah,
which he says he never likes. That's I didn't understand
that whole thing. But again, you know, he's great. So
I'm not going to hey, John, Yeah, probably.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Not gonna But in the long run, I think it's
probably a good thing he got some rest, even though
he hates it.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Absolutely a bit of difference in the end of September
that he took five extra days off in July.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I'm sorry, I yeah, I see that.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I don't know, take taking maybe like a yeah, I
mean look at to me, I look at it. It's
one hundred pinches left on his army.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
John.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Anytime you can get a little bit of rest for
an arm I know, I.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Get it, John, But again, it's in It's two months
before he's going to be pitching in October.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I don't care. The Mets have become the ultimate five
inning team.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Their bullpen now is so good on paper Anyway, if
their starters get to the six, let's say they're bringing
three guys in, they already had the closer.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I don't trust, by the way. Yeah, well, there's a
lot of closers I don't trust. I want to see
him get big outs. That's what I want to say. Yeah, no,
you're right, I've seen him.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yeah. No, ill on paper looks good, and I honestly
think that the Phillies bullpen now with the top guys. Uh,
it's not the best. I wouldn't say it's better than
the Mets, but it's a very competitive, uh you know,
top end hole.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Game.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
So he's coming back sometime in the middle end of August.
But the problem is he can't pitch in the posts.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
They's gonna come back for twenty five. That's fine, though.
They can use him pitch the hell out of.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh yeah, unless he goes on a diet again. Yeah,
he goes on another diet. I don't know how that's
going to work out.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Idiot, John, I know we asked this every week, but
if you had, if you don't have to, if you
had to pick a winner of the World Series today,
do you have any wow, who might win?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's become the hardest of the playoffs to predict.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I mean, yeah, and I just I can't say the Cubs.
I've really wanted to, just because like I look at
that lineup and I think it's just head and shoulders
of all most lineups. Yeah, really fun team to watch.
It is one through nine that has power, that has speed.
It is awesome, awesome baseball. But the problem is they're
they're pitching is just especially starting pitching. That's gonna be
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a little bit to overcome. And I don't know if
they're going to, So I mean the default for me,
I don't like the Brewers, I don't like the Mets,
the Phillies. I think Phillies are up there, I would say,
but they even have some questions. Look if Houston and
the Dodgers, to me, like it's two teams that have
proven it is a it is a weird, weird season
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so far. I don't think any teams stand out. So
when Houston goes out and just kind of goes, hey,
what if we just get the old band? Back together
and see if we can just kind of run it
back again. So I think it's a smart idea and
I think Houston could absolutely do it now getting Korea back.
But the Dodgers, yeah, they just they didn't do many
moves into deadline, really small pieces. I thought they were
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really good though. That could help out. But mostly they
have the team. There's a reason why they didn't need to.
They have pretty much everything they need.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
So here are the bet Parks numbers. With two months
to go in the regular season, and obviously you got
to win multiple playoff rounds to win the World Series.
Dodgers are favored at bet Parks plus two twenty five
second plus eight fifty two teams that are playing at
four o'clock tonight here in South Philly, Detroit, in Philadelphia, Mets. Yeah,
he's both plus nine hundred Yankees. And they see that
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fiasco last night in Florida. They lost like twenty one
to twenty.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh yeah, that was that was bad bad baseball, bad baseball.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They brought it.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
They just got the guy Bednar from Pittsburgh. He blew
up in the last thirteen to twelve thirteen twelve final.
John your astars are ten at bet Park's Cubs at twelve,
Brewers at fifteen. I'll tell you what if I was
if I was playing today, I would take Milwaukee at fifteen.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
That is a good number. I think there are Yeah,
I have a I have a little bit of a
tough time with that, only because they do have some
young pitching and Mizerowski's one of them, and he's like,
we've seen it a lot, like, yeah, yeah, the fifteen
is great. I just it's a it's a lineup that's
over performing and it's starting rotation that is probably going
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to hit a wall just because it's it's young. In
some areas we saw that. We thought it with the
breaks and they first brought up Spencer Strider and the
Phillies benefited off of that. He really hit a wall
because like he was too many, too many innings on
his arm, too many pitches on his arm that he
wasn't used to, so he had.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
A Hugh John I think, I said, but I agree
with that fifteen. Fifteen is a big number, good number.
I think that like the Yankees Sattle in Toronto or fifteen, well,
Seattle just really strength. I think used to attend to
one and I think anybody can win. I think literally
he was looking for a price. The Phillies, to be
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honest with you, probably have as good a chance. It's
just that we live in Philadelphia, so maybe we look
at it differently.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I just don't. I think it's so hard to repeat that.
I just think that.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And plus I think you're right. The Phillies are one
of the league.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
They might see the moves they made, they're good. Dodgers
might not win that division.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's San Diego is closing fact, what San Diego's number?
That might be a play San Diego is although I.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Wow that way, Wow, they're only like two or three
games behind the Dodge.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I am aware.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yeah, that's three games.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's harder to come out of them.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
That Parks get out of here, Oh my god, twenty
to one on the get on the with that bullpen,
Naga that Parks.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh man, that might I might have to change. How
about the Houston.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yet, Ran Diego always gets forgotten you just because they're
in the division with the Dodgers. But yeah, Danny's got it.
I mean they I'll say, the San Diego is like
just as good as the Phillies, the Mats, the Brewers,
the Cubs. You're getting that twenty to one just because
they were up two to one last year.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Nobody would have heard of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They would have broke the team off, probably have been gone.
It had all been Christy gone get him out. John's
been nice having you on. Nice to go back to Wilmington.
Oh you're already in Wilmington. Yes, enjoy line.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We'll take it to you guys. You guys enjoyed the
final hour that we got golf plays from Mike turn
coming out.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
We got golf plays. We've got a little football. I
don't know what else we'll figure who know?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Can I can I say my way out? A Lance
looked awesome. Jim Hall doing his magic again, trying told
another young quarterback, I.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Stop, he played against me. I was playing defensive back.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Come on, you were playing defensive tacking.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
From Minnesota that the Eagles got years ago. And he
went eight for eight against the Packers.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh my god, we found Johnny United, I the guy.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
That won Theravn Trophy and Oklahoma San Bradford. He was
playing against the Packers thirteen.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That was exhibition football. Lance.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Okay, maybe Trey Lance at some point in his life
will hook up with a team and he'll be decent quarterback.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
It sounds like money.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Did he look good last?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I will give he looked he looks like fundamentally better
than he did, which is something that more like like
fundamentally he looked a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Six take care Jos the codes. Mike Kurn with a
record of stops very impressive. All right, we got to
take a break.
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Speaker 4 (01:12):
Right now, I'm just sitting in Wilmington, Delaware, Beautiful Wilmington.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So I read a little earlier about the MLB trade deadline,
where all the teams under five hundred just trade all
of their good players the team's over five hundred and
for prospects that are never heard from again before we
get to your baseball picks or whatever else you might
(01:40):
have today. And are you as outraged as I was that,
Like it was just Rob Manfrend should retire tomorrow, he
should be fired.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
Would you agree with that Rob Manfred should be fired because.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Because he makes lets this happen every year or teams
just get rid of all their good players in mid
in late July.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
Yeah, yeah, especially with teams that are still potentially in content.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, your whole team. It's absurd.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Yeah, I think this is the most trades ever had
a trade deadline. So yeah, this was Maybe this is
an out liar. It seems to trend in this direction. Obviously,
teams don't. There are certain teams that don't want to
pay players, and there are certain teams that want to compete,
but only at only when it gets to a certain
margin in their you know, financials. Uh. It's yeah, it's
(02:33):
a problem for Major League Baseball. But Minnesota did completely
offloading every single good talent they have. Maybe they needed
to rebuild, but also I just think they didn't want
to pay the money. And Oakland doesn't want to do it,
and Pittsburgh doesn't want to do it, and with Pittsburgh
having maybe the most, uh the biggest, the most well
known young player in Major League baseball. That's that's a problem.
(02:54):
You would you would like to see that guy kind
of get the money, get the good team around him. Right,
he'll be gone in a couple of years. But it's
just it's a shame. It would be great as Pittsburgh
was putting in money to try and make this team
work around Paul schemes. But yeah, money becomes a big
issue in Major League Baseball. I don't think a salary
cap is even gonna help it. Teams that don't want
(03:15):
to spend don't want to spend, and that's never gonna change.
Speaker 6 (03:17):
What's Pittsburgh's incentive, John, There is no incentive because the
teams that that don't spend the money make as much
or more. I'm not saying they make. I don't know
what the Dodgers make or what the Yankees make, or.
Speaker 2 (03:28):
A lot more than what.
Speaker 6 (03:29):
There's no incentive to spend money because it's.
Speaker 4 (03:34):
Just there is. It's if you if you want to win. There.
Speaker 6 (03:39):
What I'm saying is you who owns those teams, you're
more if you try to win. Yeah, but he's making money.
His team's going.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
On, you don't care he's not he's not making well, yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
That's that's the thing. Even even the Phillies for a while,
the Phillies for the longest time, it wasn't. Everybody keeps
saying it was prospects and the and the reason why
the Phillies didn't win was because Ruben mar Jing your
trade all the process. It wasn't that the Phillies didn't
want to spend money. They didn't spend anything. They didn't
want to go over to the luxury tax, they didn't
want to spend for big players like and even the
Phillies had that for that problem for the longest while
(04:09):
until they know getting Bryce Harper and then they dish
out another three hundred million dollar contract and a couple
one hundred million dollar contracts. So yeah, it's the intentive
is like, yeah, there there is none. But it's just
if an owner wants to win. And that's the problem
with Major League Baseball. Some owners just don't want to win.
Speaker 6 (04:25):
And here's the other problem. Now you're the Phillies, you're
in year four of this, we got a chance to win.
If you don't win, now you're going to year five
and you got like this pay roll that's through the roof,
and you got guys on your team that want you
got to sign.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
That's the other part of it. Fire them all.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Yeah, I mean, it's it's like, you know, can you
find that happy medium if you can win, like the
Dodgers have won twice in four years.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
I guess whoever hire everybody? That's my fire, everybody in
every fire. And there is no dynasty in base ball.
I mean that's also John.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
I don't know if you listen to the beginning of
the show, but Dick Trarty's just a little sour because
of the Orioles were big sellers at the one they started.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, well, it's a shame because it's it's.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
A it's another situation, the same thing, because the Orioles
are part of that team, like a Cincinnati, like a Pittsburgh,
like an Oakland. They don't want to spend. And that's
a team that very clearly needed to spend a ton
of money to get a lot of pitching, and they
didn't want to do it. They tried, and they guy
at least a pitcher, but they needed a lot more
and they just were unwilling and it's a shame because
they brought up some of like Jackson Holliday, Gunnar Henderson,
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Adley Rutchman, all these guys that came up like they
are some of the top prospects in Major League Baseball.
And uh, I know because I work at a card score.
Now those guys still like have a huge market and
people really know them and like them.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
Uh.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And all the Orioles did was kind of go, yeah,
we can try and see if we can win a
little bit, and that just doesn't work. So yeah, it's
the tough thing is like when teams are all in,
like the Dodgers, the Phillies, the Yankees, they spend a
lot of money, but they're there are too many teams
unwilling to spend even a little bit to try and
get their payroll up to end up winning. And the
tough thing is to but yeah, eventually run out of
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players to pay too.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
By the way, before we get into it, by the way,
are you interrupting the I am interrupting the host.
Speaker 5 (06:20):
It's a bold move on my part, but I just
had to bring up one of the most bizarre things
I saw, which was Sir Anthony de Mingez, how about
my man getting traded in the middle of a doubleheader
to the team that he was playing.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So just switching people baseball, Baseball is ridiculous.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Something to day night doubleheader in Baltimore.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
The Oars ended up sweeping the doubleheader against the first
place Blue Jays, and in between games, Sir Anthony was
traded and pitched against the Orioles in the nightcap and
had a great inning, and then.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Pitched against him again the next day and had another
great sorrow. Guys a free agent. That's another thing.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I know.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
These guys are about to be free agents.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
We're not going to pay them, so they're at it.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
But you're throwing the game like in the fifth inning.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
Yeah, yeah, throwing the games and the team they're playing.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Yeah, come on again, you goteckless commissioner a food baseball
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
In fact, fire all the commissioners in all the sports. Okay,
would you agree with that? Okay?
Speaker 5 (07:17):
I will I will say so, Josh, your commissioner John's
a little too animal.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
Does that does come with a pay?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Yeah, we've got off the rails. Who's the commissioner? There's
never one?
Speaker 4 (07:34):
I will I will say. Baseball has at least a great,
a great person representing there, a great player representing them,
and Bryce Harper that can stand up to the commissioner. Yeah,
Lebron James. Lebron James did it. Lebron James knew he
had a bunch of power and he got players paid
a ton of money. So it's it's really great that
there is a player that. Look, Brice Harper has been
(07:55):
around baseball more than anyone, like a fifteen years old.
This guy was a big time prospect. He came up
through the minor leagues really quickly. He's he's been like
the face of baseball, like the prodigy baseball for a
long time. And he knows he has that kind of cachet.
So yeah, it's it's great that baseball has that at
least so players can stand up to Ron Anfer because yeah,
he is not the best, he's the worst.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
Legitimately make it worse yet because there's a large crowd
out there, it's fat.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
All right, John, what you got for us today?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
And this fine slate, first Saturday of August August the second,
give us some games to pedal.
Speaker 4 (08:32):
Yeah, let's first, Uh, let's go with the Tampa Bay
Rays and Los Angeles Dodgers. So this one's a little
bit of a small money line. Blake Snell is on
the Mount. Blake Snell hasn't pitched all that much. This
is one where I really don't care what the pitching
matchup is. The Tampa Bay Rays are not good and
their lineup is not very good, so they have a
decent pitcher on the mount, Drew ras Newson. But I
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don't really think it all that matters when you're going
up against the Dodgers. Dodgers haven't been perfect as of late.
But still, if I'm getting a minus one twenty for
one of the best teams in baseball just because of
a pitching matchup player, there might not even be that
much of an advantage. I think. I think Dodgers are
a pretty good play there.
Speaker 3 (09:11):
Let's go with The game is in Tampa Bay in
the Yankees Minor League Stadium, which holds seventeen people.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
So Stein Brenner Field, Stein Brenner, why not, we'll make
it again? Is bizarre?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
Yeah, so Karen does not like the race. Dodgers are
twenty over five hundred, race three und five hundred.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
All right, let's go with the There's two other games
I really like the Atlanta Brays minus one twenty on
the road against Cincinnati Special Stride on the Mountain. Three
point seventy era doesn't look great. Five and eight doesn't
look all that great, but I think he's been pitching
better as of late. And Chamee Burns he's a really
interesting prospect for Cincinnati. He's got electric stuff. The problem
is just to start hasn't really been the best start
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of the ser This.
Speaker 2 (09:55):
Game is at the Bristol Motor Speed.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
Oh yeah, that's right, that's right, yep, yeah, yeah, I
forgot the MLB Speedway Classic, which actually looks really good.
They've done this a couple of times and looks really Uh,
the atmosphere looks really cool.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
So lead lead producer of Fox is good buddy, my
big racetrack guy.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
And he's at the Bristol Motor Speed at seven fifteen
for Braves, Reds, Braves, Reds.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
Yeah, Braves. Which is such a random game.
Speaker 2 (10:21):
But they have vehicles running around the infield between innings.
Speaker 4 (10:24):
Wouldn't that be cool? Guess I don't know.
Speaker 5 (10:26):
Ada should only run the bases by driving a Brave.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
And also getting a nice minus hold.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
On John hold on a second do you have a
line on the Bananas game tonight anywhere, by.
Speaker 4 (10:41):
The way, against the firefighters. No, I don't think I
have that one.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
This is how bad it's gotten around here, there and
everywhere these days. Mike Kern ranted against the bananas.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
It wasn't a ring. There wasn't Nobody is safe on
this show.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
Not a fan in the Banana entertainment.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That's fine.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
My grandkids liked it. Don't tell me it's baseball, and
don't put it on twenty four. They're gonna have their
own channel. It's gonna be a twenty in the Banana channel.
Mike Kurrent's like, oh yeah, get off my law. Fifty
six years ago they had the banana splits were on.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
Well did they How did the Globetrotters ever get that
kind of Well, yeah.
Speaker 6 (11:24):
They'd be on, like but John, fifty years ago it
was different. You didn't see they show them Wide World
of Sports once a year. They got meadow lak Lemon
and curling Neal and it was great. Watched it and
you said, hey, that's pretty good. I don't need to
see five banana appeel games in a week.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
That's all.
Speaker 4 (11:43):
Yeah for TV in a live setting like being at
the game. They put on a great show, and that's.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
You know, it's great.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, you get on our set a number of times
out of here through the years. All these people at
the Slavish you're all looking over here at Mike Kurr Lunatics.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
If somebody's ranting about a banana field.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Hates potassium.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Sorry, but that's what we're doing.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
What you.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Last one Oakland Athletics going up against the diamond Backs.
Speaker 5 (12:17):
O the Sacramento Yeah, well whoever, Philadelphia, here, there and everywhere.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yes, this game being played nowhere is Yeah, that's true.
Bringing back to Philly, I do it, uh minus one
twenty the Athletics going up against Jack Allen five point
six year e ra A for the Diamondbacks this season,
and actually, the Athletics have been one of the better
teams of baseball as of late. They've been really good.
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Diamondbacks have been awful. They traded away a lot of players,
So I'm I'm gonna take take advantage here of a
of a short money line for a team obviously that
doesn't have a good record, not very good. There's still
some good young talent on that team. Nick Kurtz is
really fun to watch a few other players. But yeah,
Athletics have definitely been looking good as of late, and
I think I want to take advantage of the.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Phillies lost to the Diamondbacks two years ago. I still
find that incredibly hard to believe.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Yeah, that was yes.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
Yeah, Can I give you our good friend Daddy Barkowitz
with some school Bowl Wheeler not because that's a great
game today. Yeah, Okay, Wheeler six and one at home
this season with a two e r A. He's lost
his last in his last three starts. He's given up
four runs in each of his last two starts. School
(13:37):
Ball is just two and two in nine starts on
the road, but his e r A is one eight
nine and he threw seven shutout in his last season
against the Phillies with seven.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Strikeouts, one nine RA on the road.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Is do you like any Do you like anybody in
that game?
Speaker 6 (13:54):
John?
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Or is that just stay away?
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (13:57):
And mainly stay away, But I would I would tend
to look towards the Philly side with Jack Wheeler at home.
Jack Wheeler probably gonna, I think pitch better in this
next start, lighting it off. No, And like, yeah, that's
the thing, is that both both teams aren't really lighting
it up lately, so it's going to be low scoring.
I just think with the Phillies at home, they tend
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to hit a little bit better at home, so I
would just say a slight advantage to the Phills there.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
All right, So, John, now that I've calmed down from
my rant about the trade, then do you have any
thoughts now? As we obviously have to reevaluate all these squads.
The better squads obviously changed their rosters to Dodgers significant extent. Right,
Dodgers think they have enough if they got all their
people back healthy. Some made really big moves, some made
(14:45):
no moves at all. What are your thoughts now as
we start the month of August, we're two months from
the finish line.
Speaker 4 (14:54):
Yeah, there were there were a lot of moves made. Again,
I think thirty six moves and maybe a little bit
more than that, and I think the most of the
trade deadline, so it's a lot to move around. I
think the Mets, certainly for the Phillies perspective, they made
a ton of pitching moves and they got some really
good guys Hellesley and some others into the bullpen. So
(15:15):
that's been great. I really thought the Cubs should have
done a little bit more for their starting rotation. The
fact that Merrill Kelly was kind of out there and
the Texas Rangers ending up getting him. I think the
Cubs had an opportunity because they have such a great lineup.
They had a really good opportunity to get a top
flight pitcher and to really make a run at this,
but they ended up not doing it. They only got
(15:36):
one guy, Michael Soroka, and Mike Soroka, we know he's
had a ton of injuries. He doesn't really go deep
into games, so it's just a move that I thought
maybe they needed to go a lot more in on.
They do end up getting some relief pitching help, which
is good, but I think the starting rotation needed a
lot more. So it's kind of a shame because the
Cubs really the lineups there, and they really could have
(15:58):
competed if they went with somebody but the National League. Yeah,
it's just still looking at the Dodgers. I think the Phillies,
even though it didn't seem like a ton the relief
picture they got, as we just saw last night, he
is lethal. He's very good coming late in the games,
but also I think Harrison Bader is a decent move.
I wish they would have gotten more of a bat.
Maybe ao Henio Suarez was going to be in play
(16:19):
and that could have been a lot better for them.
But still, I like Beader. It's a right handed bat.
It's a little bit better of a move than Austin Hayes,
that kind of caliber player. It's better. Harrison Bader is
better than that, but I think it needed to be
a little bit more. But yeah, well yeah, not with
mayor Field either, But yeah, I just feel like there
were a lot of moves. I don't think too many
teams completely changed because if they did, it kind of
(16:44):
was even evened out by what the rest of the
teams did in Basil. So yeah, the picture kind of
remains the same to me, to be honest.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
I tend to agree the Phillies needed to get a
guy that they can get three outs in the night
to think, which they obviously think they got for the Twins.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
I think not not only they got they got one
of the better ones. He's been that way for a
few years now, so they they did a great job.
And look, they didn't want to get rid of their
top prospects and they didn't. So now it's going to
be up to them whether or not they want to
bring those guys up.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it was interesting that they had a post game
interview with him last night. They had the interpreter that
every she speaks perfectly, well, she was perfectly Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
Yeah, that was a great postgame interview, the whole atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Yeah, and that look that can that can that.
Speaker 4 (17:27):
Can help change the season. You know, the Phillies haven't
been a little bit in the dog days of summer.
It does seem like they've been like every team, every
team's been going through the motions. Every good team has
gone through a bad spell in July. So it's the
dog days of summer. It happens. But that's that's the
one that could really really get you going again. That
that felt like a playoff atmosphere last night from the
Philly side, So that that was really great to see.
Speaker 3 (17:48):
They're playing a team a potentially could play in the
World Series. I mean, you know, De Truit is certainly
good enough to get out of the American League. Nobody
would argue that. And and as Mike was just talking
about the the really one of the great pitching matchups
of the season or Philly's and the Tigers tonight at
four o five this say afternoon, basically identical record, Tigers
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sixty four, forty seventh, probably sixty two and forty seven.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
The Tigers last two weeks pretty much Stone Yeah, really bad.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, they've been bad. Yep.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
And Wheeler hasn't been at his best since that awesome
complete game.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
A couple of weeks he took ten days off, yeah,
which he says he never likes. That's I didn't understand
that whole thing. But again, you know, he's great. So
I'm not going to hey, John, Yeah, probably.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Not gonna But in the long run, I think it's
probably a good thing he got some rest, even though
he hates it.
Speaker 6 (18:41):
Absolutely a bit of difference in the end of September
that he took five extra days off in July.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
I'm sorry, I yeah, I see that.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
I don't know, take taking maybe like a yeah, I
mean look at to me, I look at it. It's
one hundred pinches left on his army.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
John.
Speaker 4 (18:57):
Anytime you can get a little bit of rest for
an arm I know, I.
Speaker 6 (19:01):
Get it, John, But again, it's in It's two months
before he's going to be pitching in October.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
I don't care. The Mets have become the ultimate five
inning team.
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Their bullpen now is so good on paper Anyway, if
their starters get to the six, let's say they're bringing
three guys in, they already had the closer.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I don't trust, by the way. Yeah, well, there's a
lot of closers I don't trust. I want to see
him get big outs. That's what I want to say. Yeah, no,
you're right, I've seen him.
Speaker 4 (19:35):
Yeah. No, ill on paper looks good, and I honestly
think that the Phillies bullpen now with the top guys. Uh,
it's not the best. I wouldn't say it's better than
the Mets, but it's a very competitive, uh you know,
top end hole.
Speaker 1 (19:49):
Game.
Speaker 4 (19:49):
So he's coming back sometime in the middle end of August.
But the problem is he can't pitch in the posts.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
They's gonna come back for twenty five. That's fine, though.
They can use him pitch the hell out of.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
Oh yeah, unless he goes on a diet again. Yeah,
he goes on another diet. I don't know how that's
going to work out.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Idiot, John, I know we asked this every week, but
if you had, if you don't have to, if you
had to pick a winner of the World Series today,
do you have any wow, who might win?
Speaker 2 (20:22):
It's become the hardest of the playoffs to predict.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
I mean, yeah, and I just I can't say the Cubs.
I've really wanted to, just because like I look at
that lineup and I think it's just head and shoulders
of all most lineups. Yeah, really fun team to watch.
It is one through nine that has power, that has speed.
It is awesome, awesome baseball. But the problem is they're
they're pitching is just especially starting pitching. That's gonna be
(20:49):
a little bit to overcome. And I don't know if
they're going to, So I mean the default for me,
I don't like the Brewers, I don't like the Mets,
the Phillies. I think Phillies are up there, I would say,
but they even have some questions. Look if Houston and
the Dodgers, to me, like it's two teams that have
proven it is a it is a weird, weird season
(21:12):
so far. I don't think any teams stand out. So
when Houston goes out and just kind of goes, hey,
what if we just get the old band? Back together
and see if we can just kind of run it
back again. So I think it's a smart idea and
I think Houston could absolutely do it now getting Korea back.
But the Dodgers, yeah, they just they didn't do many
moves into deadline, really small pieces. I thought they were
(21:33):
really good though. That could help out. But mostly they
have the team. There's a reason why they didn't need to.
They have pretty much everything they need.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
So here are the bet Parks numbers. With two months
to go in the regular season, and obviously you got
to win multiple playoff rounds to win the World Series.
Dodgers are favored at bet Parks plus two twenty five
second plus eight fifty two teams that are playing at
four o'clock tonight here in South Philly, Detroit, in Philadelphia, Mets. Yeah,
he's both plus nine hundred Yankees. And they see that
(22:03):
fiasco last night in Florida. They lost like twenty one
to twenty.
Speaker 4 (22:07):
Oh yeah, that was that was bad bad baseball, bad baseball.
Speaker 2 (22:12):
They brought it.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
They just got the guy Bednar from Pittsburgh. He blew
up in the last thirteen to twelve thirteen twelve final.
John your astars are ten at bet Park's Cubs at twelve,
Brewers at fifteen. I'll tell you what if I was
if I was playing today, I would take Milwaukee at fifteen.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
That is a good number. I think there are Yeah,
I have a I have a little bit of a
tough time with that, only because they do have some
young pitching and Mizerowski's one of them, and he's like,
we've seen it a lot, like, yeah, yeah, the fifteen
is great. I just it's a it's a lineup that's
over performing and it's starting rotation that is probably going
(22:52):
to hit a wall just because it's it's young. In
some areas we saw that. We thought it with the
breaks and they first brought up Spencer Strider and the
Phillies benefited off of that. He really hit a wall
because like he was too many, too many innings on
his arm, too many pitches on his arm that he
wasn't used to, so he had.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
A Hugh John I think, I said, but I agree
with that fifteen. Fifteen is a big number, good number.
I think that like the Yankees Sattle in Toronto or fifteen, well,
Seattle just really strength. I think used to attend to
one and I think anybody can win. I think literally
he was looking for a price. The Phillies, to be
(23:26):
honest with you, probably have as good a chance. It's
just that we live in Philadelphia, so maybe we look
at it differently.
Speaker 2 (23:32):
I just don't. I think it's so hard to repeat that.
I just think that.
Speaker 4 (23:36):
And plus I think you're right. The Phillies are one
of the league.
Speaker 6 (23:40):
They might see the moves they made, they're good. Dodgers
might not win that division.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
That's San Diego is closing fact, what San Diego's number?
That might be a play San Diego is although I.
Speaker 6 (23:54):
Wow that way, Wow, they're only like two or three
games behind the Dodge.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
I am aware.
Speaker 4 (23:59):
Yeah, that's three games.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
It's harder to come out of them.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
That Parks get out of here, Oh my god, twenty
to one on the get on the with that bullpen,
Naga that Parks.
Speaker 2 (24:09):
Oh man, that might I might have to change. How
about the Houston.
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yet, Ran Diego always gets forgotten you just because they're
in the division with the Dodgers. But yeah, Danny's got it.
I mean they I'll say, the San Diego is like
just as good as the Phillies, the Mats, the Brewers,
the Cubs. You're getting that twenty to one just because
they were up two to one last year.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Nobody would have heard of the Dodgers.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
They would have broke the team off, probably have been gone.
It had all been Christy gone get him out. John's
been nice having you on. Nice to go back to Wilmington.
Oh you're already in Wilmington. Yes, enjoy line.
Speaker 4 (24:45):
We'll take it to you guys. You guys enjoyed the
final hour that we got golf plays from Mike turn
coming out.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
We got golf plays. We've got a little football. I
don't know what else we'll figure who know?
Speaker 4 (24:58):
Can I can I say my way out? A Lance
looked awesome. Jim Hall doing his magic again, trying told
another young quarterback, I.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
Stop, he played against me. I was playing defensive back.
Speaker 4 (25:13):
Come on, you were playing defensive tacking.
Speaker 6 (25:15):
From Minnesota that the Eagles got years ago. And he
went eight for eight against the Packers.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
Oh my god, we found Johnny United, I the guy.
Speaker 6 (25:23):
That won Theravn Trophy and Oklahoma San Bradford. He was
playing against the Packers thirteen.
Speaker 4 (25:30):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
That was exhibition football. Lance.
Speaker 6 (25:35):
Okay, maybe Trey Lance at some point in his life
will hook up with a team and he'll be decent quarterback.
Speaker 4 (25:40):
It sounds like money.
Speaker 2 (25:41):
Did he look good last?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
I will give he looked he looks like fundamentally better
than he did, which is something that more like like
fundamentally he looked a little bit better.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
Six take care Jos the codes. Mike Kurn with a
record of stops very impressive. All right, we got to
take a break.
Speaker 3 (26:05):
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