February 9, 2026 • 45 mins
Ladies and gentlemen, the floor is ours! After tonight's game baseball isn't full swing there's not a month until November that we won't see baseball! Mike and Mike are back in studio breaking down everything happening regarding the world baseball classic our condolences to the Gore family. Bryce Harper's jersey sells out in minutes other notable jerseys that Mike and Mike would like to buy and everything
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
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Speaker 3 (00:31):
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Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who else. Mike and Mike welcome on Bass part of
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Shot Network and everybody behind the scenes. So what a Mikey?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Nothing much? Man, It's Benito day. It's bad Bunny Day.
And I heard I heard two lay Mass teams are
playing football too, So there's no I'm kidding, but I
definitely only don't care about any of these teams.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, no, I don't think anybody does. New York is
a little buzzed because of Sam Darnold, like you know,
and it's just in Jets fashion. You know, their quarterback leaves.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And the guy they ran out of town is the
guy they're now rooting for today. That's cool, that's like,
that's like the Bills if if Mitch and obviously this
would never happen. But like if Mitch Trubisky was starting
for the Bills and they went to the Super Bowl,
Bearish fans would be like, yeah, bro, that's awesome. Like, bro,
they ran Mitch out of town. What do you talk about?
Like everybody forgets the past. I can't stand stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's too funny.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Now, look what I'm excited about is the future, and
the future is warm. It's baseball, it's spring training. Pictures
and catchers are arriving any minute. Lindor's are ready in
Saint Lucie. I'm just so ecstatic. Man, Baseball is back, baby,
you know, and that's really for me. This is like
I think you said it earlier, Happy New Year, you know,
(01:57):
this is this is this is New Year's Eve. The
second that clock expires, it's go time, baby, you know.
And you know, we got a ton of stuff. We're
gonna talk about a ton of situations that are going on,
but more importantly, the World Baseball Classic. Man, I'm excited
for that. You know, you shared some stuff. I don't
know if you want to get rolling with that. First,
(02:19):
Great Britain did upgrade their jersey, so we got that
going for ourselves, like it's slightly upgraded. Hopefully none of
the letters fall off this year. But you know, I
was thinking about getting one of those, just because you know,
that's our that's our roots, that's where America first became
the villains, right, great Britain took over these lands.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Percent No, I mean I look and again shout out
mlbshop dot com, shout out Fanatics. If Fanatics is watching
this and they want to send us some gear and
some you know, some price Hoppen, some Picro Armstrong merch,
I wouldn't be upset onsoever. But my issue is I'm
I'm on the World Baseball Classic website right now, and
I'm looking at all the jerseys that they have available,
(02:59):
and they don't have any Team USA jerseys. They don't
have a single one. And I don't know why that's
the case. If you look up Team USA World Baseball Classic,
there's only like sweaters and and polos and and and
stuff like that and and and like granted, like yeah,
the logo is just like an eye and it just
looks like a Iowa Cubs hat for the A team,
(03:20):
But like I wanted to rep a team Italy jersey
I would have got one if they had. I'm like,
I don't care. I would have put Mike Piazza or
Anthony Rizzo or something along those lines. Nicky Lopez Naperville
legend from uh Chicago, Landaria. But uh yeah, I don't
I don't know what their what their beef is with
Team Italy. Great Britain's bullshit is available, so I don't know.
I don't know what's what's what's wrong with Italy? Why
(03:42):
don't they get any love?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yo? And also can all of Americans actually play for
Great Britain or I guess like ancestry wise, I guess
they would have to have.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
From what I understand, you can kind of play for anybody,
like I understand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's how I understood it too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Like I know my buddy Miles Portery, he runs a
podcast called Shalom Shluggers, and they're going to be doing
stuff with Team Israel during the World Baseball Classic, And
there were like real conversations that like Alex Bregman could
go play there, that's what he That's what they were
telling me. And I was like, oh, like he's always
been with Team USA though, and they're like yeah, but
(04:17):
it's like always he always gets that invite, you know
what I mean. And I was like, oh, that makes sense,
kind of like Rizzo, Like Rizzo played for Team Italy once,
you know what I mean, but like yeah, because he
wanted to, you know what I mean. Like there was
from Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like Winter Olympics has a California born Chinese woman playing
for China and she's like an amazing snowboarder. Like right,
so I guess it has to do with your heritage,
but also like same thing. But with that said, it
is kind of cool. Shout out to Team Italy. I
mean they brought it when Piazza was the manager a
(04:51):
couple of years ago. They had the expresso machine in
the dugout. I love that. I love that so much.
Show on brand, you know, I'm excited for all this stuff.
My face favorite jersey period is the dr I just
love their hat, their jersey, everything to go with that.
If I had to get one, that's that's who I'd
be rocking, you know, especially back with Cespitus and those
(05:11):
those days in age. But man, you shared that pie
crow armstrong and it looks strong. It looks so strong.
You bought that or you copping that. What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Look, here's where I'm at, because right now they're two
hundred bones a piece, so you definitely definitely get in one,
you know what I mean. If you're getting any you're
getting one, and that's it. I am stuck right now.
The top three finalists is PCA at number one at
this moment, because I think the four, the red four
with the navy blue. I'm more fan of the navy
(05:43):
blue USA ones than I am the white ones. I
just think they look cleaner. I also don't think I
look good in white jerseys, but that's just me. I
do think the PCA is the fan favorite right now.
In my eyes, I would love a Harper, but all
they have available for the Harpers are smalls right now.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Say, I don't know, man is one thirty apparently?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna do that,
but uh no, it's crazy to me that the Harpers
are like sold out as soon as they came out,
especially when you're not elite, right Mikey, Like when the
entire city of Philadelphia is saying you're not elite, but
all your jerseys sold out nationwide? Is I don't know
that's that's an elite stat I would say, but hey,
maybe the Phillies front office doesn't agree, but uh no.
(06:29):
And then the third one, I'm a big Bobby with
you and your fan man, like I am a Bobby
Do or Die guy since day one, so I would
love one I'm not, and I think you would agree.
I'm not into wearing other teams. I wouldn't like buy
another team's jersey because I'm just like, I'm that much
of a Cubs fan. But Team USA is one of
(06:50):
those moments, like the only other the only other baseball
jersey I have that isn't Cubs is the Kumbas from
the movie Hardball with Deana Reeves and Michael B. Jordan
and G Baby in that like it's a g Baby jersey.
I wear it every Saint Patrick's Day. But uh yeah,
so I'm thinking PCA, Harper or Bobby, but I'm leaning
towards PCA. How are you gonna get one?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yo, I'm gonna throw a curveball at you, bro because
for and no pun intended, I want to clean kershaw tmosa.
I think it's kind of cool. It's gonna be the
last jersey he wears. Uh you know, I I really
like him, Like, you know, it was cool seeing him
in the World Series like throwing like old man stuff,
and then also like just knowing that he was there
(07:32):
as a youngster too, and and like just elite of
Elite and now changing the game. But yeah, the fact
that he's on t USA and this is his last,
you know, his swan song, I was like, maybe I'll
cop that, you know, I think of all the other
guys like I, I would I would definitely rock a
PCA because it's the guy who got away. I was
just looking at that trade the other day with Hobby, like,
(07:54):
it's just sad man that you know that it's it's it. Yeah,
it just sucks.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Can I can I like just like totally change the conversation,
by the way, because it's just something. It still involves
the World Baseball Classic, but I'm looking at guys who
still haven't really announced that they're going to be playing,
and I ended up down a rabbit hole. Man, have
you heard what's going on with Puig right now? Yo?
(08:21):
Yo waw.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I looked it up and I was like, hey,
it's like.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's it's potential facing up to like ten to twenty
years for some like federal gambling case that's going on,
and I'm like I look it up because I'm like, hey,
is y'all see how we going to be in the
World Baseball Classic this year? Because like, no disrespect, but
he's not really doing much else nowadays, so like I know,
he's not busy, he's not doing any spring training stuff.
And then I look it up and the first thing
(08:47):
I see is that like, oh, he could get arrested
at some point, and he's like facing up the ten
to twenty years on this on this like investigation about gambling,
and I'm like, holy crap, man, Like it's it's.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Crazy though, both like all this crazy stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I'm like, dang, like that's that's the guy. I mean,
that's the guy. Like Peek was that guy for like
a small period of time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And like he was he was also like I'm not
shocked by this, like at all, because like everybody I
like Vin SCULLI would call him like you know, they
like a rabbit, wolverine or something.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I just remember licking the bat and like all that.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
He was just like this guy's nuts, Like but yeah,
they got in sliding and then like this.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He got into it one time. I think it was
with Hobby Bayaz and uh not even just with Hobby,
but like I remember when he was on the Reds
and I think he got into a brawl with the
pirates and it was like you saw him going and
like he was full sending it man, like he was
willing to like die for that scrabble. Like he was
he was hitting everybody. People that weren't even people that
were in the bullpen. We're getting haymakers from y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
See.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
It was crazy. But like I saw that, and I
was like, it was the first thing I wanted to
tell you because I was like I was looking at
guys who could potentially still be playing in the WBC,
and I just like, as we're live, I see it
and I'm like, oh, never mind, Like yeah, this is I.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Mean, it's also fun to see. And I actually I like,
shout out, the Olympics is going on right now. But
when Todd was in the Olympics, it was so much
fun to see the minor leaguers that joined him on
Tmosa for baseball, and like you got a sneak peak
of what they're doing. You also saw how strong Japan
is and like all those prospects that have now filtered
(10:29):
in mostly to the Dodgers. But you know it's it's wild.
So uh yeah, man, I'm excited for this. I am
excited that Lindor is not playing. Here's why. It's it's
very simple. If I'm Lindore, the Optics right now, is
the team bet on you. They got rid of everybody else.
They bet on you. Peter A. Lonzo's in Baltimore. McNeil's
(10:50):
over there, and with the Athletics who don't really have
a set wherever wherever they are, yeah, wherever they want
to be and wherever they're gonna end up going. And
you know, and you know, you got Nimo over there
down in Texas now and everybody's gone. He has is
a Dodger, Like, you're still here. So the fact that
you the minute Port Saint Lucy opened up, you're there,
(11:11):
you know, getting your your your stuff together, and you're
not doing the World Baseball Classic is a nod to
to leadership and understanding the room. So I'm not saying
that it was his fault that these players aren't there.
I'm just saying he recognizes that they chose him.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, And it was like very confused too, to your point,
like it makes sense, It makes more sense than what
the reason was. And the reason is, oh, well, he
had a clean up surgery or whatever you want to
call it on his right elbow because he wanted to
like fix some things. But then I see him in
I believe y'all are y'all are in Arizona too. I
see him in Arizona and he's like throwing there in
(11:49):
Saint Louis for spring.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Saint Lucy a Port Saint Lucy, Florida. It's all good, man,
it's all good. It's gonna be awkward if we like
meet at the like if we were like, yo, let's
meet at springstre And.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I thought I thought the National League all went to
they all divided West West Coast, East Coast, So like
we're in the Grapefruit League with the.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah coming up next to Extream near you ship.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
The divide is live in thirty something minutes, and I'm
not mistaken. But no, my point of that was, like
I did see a video of him and baby going
around right now, and they were like, you know, taking
in field grounders and they were just like making plays,
and I'm like, hey, man, elbow looks pretty good to me, man,
I was like, I don't know, I don't know, but
uh no, this is a statement.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This is a statement like although he would love to
play for his country, and you know, it's hard for
a lot of these people to pass us up. I
know that's why how he's so destroyed right now, like
that he can't play. We want it from marijuana, like
what do we?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
What do we?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know, there's guys that pass up on it, but
then there's guys that passed the blunt and now they
can't now they can't play on it and from Okay
Sheffield Shuffler, if you haven't checked him out already, did
an amazing breakdown of this video. Chef is the man
down in Philly. But I think right now what I've
gathered is Hovey didn't pass a drug test for marijuana.
(13:16):
Marijuana twenty twenty three. By the way, even if it
was three years ago, it still is perfectly Okay, didn't
pass a drug test in twenty twenty three. They made
a rule Team Puerto Rico in twenty twenty four that
if you fail this drug test, then you're not going
to be able to be a part of the team.
So because Hovey failed it a year before this rule
(13:37):
was made. He is now not going to be able
to play for Team Puerto Rico, who is also without
Francisco Lindor Carlos Korea, and of course because of age
Yadier Molina Mike, I, this is super lame. This is
super lame to me, especially in a world where there
are all these THHD companies, there are all of these
you know, medicinal marijuana shops and all this stuff going
(13:58):
around the world. For it to be twenty twenty six
and us still be having these conversations to why one
of the best players in your country cannot play on
this team because he smoked weed three years ago is
absolutely ridiculous to me, and I really don't And mainly
the most ridiculous part is it's because he did it
a year before the rule was established. So like I
(14:20):
I'm I'm having a really hard time gathering how that
even sticks. But like, what were your thoughts on it,
because we both had Hovey on our teams, Like that's elmago.
I still to this day remember the no Look tag
in the WCC in twenty seventeen. It was the coolest
play I've ever seen. And for him to be on
(14:41):
my team. I mean, imagine how the country feels knowing
like that's our guy.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Oh, it's devastating then too, Like Hobby has reinvented himself right,
so like to now not be able to showcase that
for your country, Like he's a whole different player now, Yeah,
like Jones easy biased, yes, hell yeah, And then we're
excited for that and I'm happy. Yeah, the thumbs down
thing really sucked in Queen's but the excitement behind Hovey
Cumming was was really cool. And you know, I love
(15:08):
I would love watch to watch him in Lindor, you know,
on the same team again. It you know, they they're
a fun group. So I think maybe that had a
lot to do with Lindor's decision as well. But for me,
we talked about this, it's like, hey, we changed the
speed limited. It's now fifty five, no longer sixty five,
and we're gonna write you a ticket for something you
did a year ago. Like it just doesn't make sense,
(15:31):
like there had there should have been grandfathered in, you know,
an appeals thing. But look like at the end of
the day, he's going to report to you know, spring
training and just go do his thing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So do you think there's something more to that though,
Like do you like, do you think they used that
as the reason. But maybe there's something political or something
along those lines. He maybe he pissed somebody off along
the way that to why he's not a part of this.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'm so tired of the P word. Like, so I'm
hoping not you know, like politics and baseball need to not.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, well maybe not like politics politics, but like maybe
just eternal.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, probably I could see that. I could see, like you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Know, it's off the manager or something. You know.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's it's strange that it wasn't like fodd or you know,
there wasn't that big of a It was just like, yeah,
he's not playing because of weed. And you're just like wait,
what Like meanwhile, like everybody's hitting the pen right, like
everybody's hitting it like you know, so I just I
see everybody hitting it regardless if you're in Chicago, you're
in Queen's Like, everybody's got that pen in hand. So
(16:33):
I don't know, the other day.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
My bad, I didn't put you off, but I was
at my I was at my aunt's wake the other day,
and you know, it's an Irish wake. So everybody's there,
everybody's drinking. That cooler's outside everything. And my cousin Danny Man,
this is why I brought it up. Danny athlete man,
he's played baseball, played football his whole life, walks up
to me, was like, hey, Mike, you don't And I'm like, hey, Dan,
(16:56):
what's going on? You know they got the little Italian
he's a paramedic. He goes he want some zin, and
I go, no, thanks, Bro, I graduated eighth grade a
long time ago. Right, why do you have? And like
people are just walking around with zin or chew or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Bro, It's wild. It's replaced like so urinals used to
have cigarettes in them, like in the nineties, and it
was disgusting. Now if you look down when when you're
taking a piss, all you see is like a bucket
of zin's right, I'm pissing on somebody's zin, you know,
Like it's just yeah, that is a wild, wild thing.
And like the one thing that Dared taught me was
(17:32):
to not like put tobacco or anything my mouth or
else I'll look like, you know, I don't know, Oscar
the grouch down there in there, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
so disgusting. Man, Like I don't know, I get I
like it better because you knew, like I met, I
want to say it was dyke stra Like my dad
got me onto the field once and like they had
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chewing or whatever, and it was just disgusting and it
smelt so bad. Yeah, you know, so at least it
doesn't smell anymore. And that's the same thing with weed with.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The pen like flavored cancer. It's insane.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, it's tremendous.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah cancer.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh I died of cancer, but I had a great
tate smelling breath.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And tell you about Loco butter Zin's man, like, what
are you talking about? It's crazy, it's actually crazy. Yeah,
and again like not to go back to my thing.
But I was like, didn't walk up, not a sorry
for your loss, not hey, how you doing? It was like, hey,
damn you want some Zin. I was like, fucking addict,
what you talking about? Get away from the psycho?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, man, I it reminds me of Sandlot where they
get chewing tobacco and then they all the rides and
they puke everywhere. Like my buddy had one on a
golf course and he was he was seeing uh stars
and you know, he was he was he was on
a different planet. And I was like, thank god, I
didn't partake. Yeah, you know, because it's just yeah, it's
(18:55):
not it's not my flavor. It's funny for my fortieth
I never but I got a cigar and my daughter
was like, you're gonna smoke like that's no good daddy,
And I'm like, oh shit, I didn't even and I'm like, oh,
just a celebration, you know what up? Kobe, Uh dude,
this is my buddy. We got to have him on
soon at the National I got to hang out with
(19:18):
this gentleman and he's he's just an awesome human being.
Him and Smalls. We'll be there again all together, all
four of us this time. Yeah, we love you, bro.
You know I have met him, Mikey. I've never met you,
which is I've never been friends with somebody for almost
half a decade now. I was doing the Math yesterday
(19:39):
and still I haven't met you. I'm so jealous that
Bert has met you, but I've never met you.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But yeah, yeah, you taught me the one time I
left Chicago in like a decade like that was the
craziest thing in the world. But the National T twenty
six will be there.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Look, so yeah, World Baseball Classic, Man, we'll be covering that.
We'll probably do a couple watch parties stuff like that.
It's it's gonna be fun, especially when it cooks up,
you know, just having baseball and meaningful baseball. Like I
get it, like Diaz got injured, lost an entire season
because of it. Uh so this is this could happen,
This could affect your team. Uh So I think you know,
(20:16):
it's pretty awesome that Lindor is not playing. It shows
his leadership.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But also you could say that happens in a spring
training game too, though.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, I was just gonna say that, yeah, exactly, Like,
but you got to play anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right, Yeah, so at some point you're going out there
and that's just yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And when you don't give it your all, like that's
when injuries happen. So the fact that you are playing
at full speed is actually pretty cool. And I know
that the WBC is very mindful that the players are
still gearing up for the season, so you're not gonna
see them throw you know, seven innings, you know, one
hundred and something pitches, like that's why this team is
(20:53):
made up this way for sure?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
What do you the last thing I wanted to touch on.
I know we're like on a time crunch, but like, no,
do how do we not talk about officially Mike Trout
is not going to play for Team USA? Like does
that kind of like does that urb a little bit?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Because it for me, it does, it does, And like
listen when he's on foul territory and he does, like
I listen right, and that he can't catch up to
a fastball right now, like he has openly admitted that
that's not me saying, oh he's Mike Trout. Is Ken
Griffy to these kids out here, like what Griffy meant
to me, Trout meant to them? And I honestly like
(21:30):
I was wanted a Trout USA jersey. Like it's you know,
he's got Trout National right right in my backyard down
amazing golf course that I've been fortunate enough to already
step on that property and and actually hold the club
and and play. But you know, it's it's upsetting to
me that he's not there, and I get it, but
(21:51):
also like it's it just sucks, man, watching people get
old and you know, move on.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
So to know to know that his last game potentially
with team you say it was a strikeout to losing
the championship show and it's just like it stings, and
like I would I wanted this for him, like this
is the Redeemed team, this is Schooball Skiings, Like if
you look back on that roster, I mean, one of
the best pictures was lance Lynn and it's like, not
(22:17):
no disrespect to lance Lynn, but like Scooball and Skiings
like alone, I don't care if it's Mike Powers out
there on the mound for the third picture in that rotation,
like we're good, like it'll be solid. I just it
hurts that he's not going to be back, man, And
it makes me feel older, makes me makes sense to
why my cholesterol is one thirty right now because Mike
(22:37):
Child's not going to be in the WBC. But uh,
I don't know, man, It's just it really would have
felt good for him to be in that role. But
I also understand that it would have been kind of
awkward if like, you know, hey, Aaron Judges the captain
and now you're kind of the backseat guy, and you know,
I think he just kind of wanted to go out
on his own terms. I guess maybe he'll come back
(22:57):
one day.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, you know, I thought for sure him passing the
torch to Aaron was one thing, but for him to
not be on the team is definitely weird and concerning
and maybe like he's actually trying to, you know, get
back to where he used to be. I mean, it's
obviously been a struggle through injuries, through you know, at bats,
not really performing that well. It's you know, so I
(23:20):
love Mike Trout and I wish him all the best,
but yeah, that that definitely sucks because I wanted the
rock that you know, I wanted like a twenty three
Trout jersey, you know what I mean, or a four
or five. You know that that'd be dope. You know,
So I was, I was hopeful, but it's not happening.
What is happening, And I'm freaking excited about this. We
(23:40):
talked about my boy our first episode Beltron Hall of Famer.
You know, it was teased the we thought he might
wear orange and blue in Cooper's town and it's official. Baby,
you know, I am so excited that we have another
met next Toceiver Piazza representing the Orange and Blue, the
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Boys from Queens. You know, baseball in New York means
so much, and that team has just such great history
when it comes to Brooklyn and the New York Giants
are really paving the way for this franchise to be born.
But now to have three solidified Hall of famers that
actually performed amazing in our city, it's just for me,
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like something I really hoped for. Piazza was a tear jerker.
That was something that was freaking amazing because he's kind
of like Harper where you forget that he had this
amazing career in LA and he could have easily went
with those colors. So when he picked us was dope.
Sever started with us, freaking won a World Series. You know,
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he goes away to Cincinnati, has a great career, comes
back at the at the twilight of his career. So
I kind of I wasn't around for that. I've learned
a lot about it. I've I've you know, everybody's taught me,
and I've watched other you know. I love Tom Seaver,
but I knew him in the booth, you know, and
I knew his him as a wine guy, you know.
And then I also knew him as the last ever
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game in Shay when we gave it away in the
first inning to the Marlins and didn't continue into the
postseason or even get a postseason thing, and him and
Piazza waving to us all on the outfield same bye
to this amazing building that my dad used to take
me to and opening the way to city Field. So
look like, I love Beltron. I'm so excited for this.
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I'll say it to him blue in the face. It's
bullshit that we didn't get him as a manager. And
you know he had to step away because he didn't
want to make a scene. But you know, I think
the Mets are a completely different organization if Beltron was
our manager. And that's not a shot at Buck and
that's not a shot at Mendoza, but you know, it's
just the facts of life. Like Beltrom was it.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No and it's no disrespect whatsoever. But like, look like,
at the end of the day, we can say David Ross,
who's a two time, three time champion with the Red
Sox and the Cubs, and he was our manager and
that was fun and it was cool and he is
a winner, and David Ross was everything you wanted but
Craig Council is just a different vibe, you know what
I mean, Like the expectation is just different because he's
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been there and he understands what it is at the
highest level as a manager and guys like that, I mean,
you just especially Beltron man, I mean itching at the
bit to be able to get a guy like that
in any clubhouse. And I would say, if he was
available today, every single team in the league would check
in on that availability more times than not, you know
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what I mean. And it's like at least to see
like if he's available or he'd want to I think.
So maybe there's a couple out there that wouldn't, you
know what I mean, But I definitely do think that's
one of those guys that everybody would be willing to
spend the bank on.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, I agree, man, it's you know, I for me, Like,
you know, I hope this opens the airwaves and conversations
to Barry Bond should be in the Hall of Fame,
Like let's stop. Yeah, let's just stop. Sosa Hall of Fame.
You know, all Hall of Fame they say baseball, they
say baseball. Man, you know, the writers knew what was
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behind maguire during the interviews, like and he's like, it's
for sex, it's for sex, Like it's not for it's
for sex. They're like, oh, cool man, it's an away game,
like we having sex with your wife, Like you know,
like that's that opens a whole different Pandora's box. But
you know, they they knew it was happening, Like, don't
act like you were bamboozled, and I don't care who
you are. You knew it was happening. Like there was
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jokes comedians. I remember Carra Top like had a baseball
bat and he opened it up and had steroid pills
in it. Like everybody knew it was happening. And then
they were like, come two thousand and three, two thousand
and four, I am shocked. I am shocked and outraged,
and it's like are you are you like these reports
coming out Guys that were trying it. Todd Hunley was
on a list. Todd Hunley had more surgeries than any
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human being. He was trying to get back out there.
He lost his job to Piazza. He tried the outfield,
he got injured. Ironically, goes to LA He's trying to
get his body healthy, like and he tried steroids. I'm
guaranteed that's what what had happened.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Of course, a lot of guys do. I mean you
talk about just like to get back into it, like
whatever happened with Paul George. Like people are gonna say
Paul George was doing steroids or peds, whatever the case was,
because he can't hoop play. I mean, Paul George in Indiana,
Paul George. I mean, here's my thing. It's all about health.
It's all about these guys trying to stay healthy because
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they're aging and because they need more to be able
to keep going. And it happens. Guys have so many
surgeries it's not even funny, especially guy like Paul George
who's shoulder literally and his leg I literally obliterated throughout
his career. And you mentioned like the Hall as a whole. Look,
no disrespect. I have friends who are writers in Major
League Baseball. I have friends who are writers in the
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WNBA and all these other places, and we know good people.
But the reality is this, Bill Belichick is a unanimous
first ballot Hall of Famer. Sammy so, Mark McGuire, Barry
Bond's unanimous first ballot Hall of Famers, but Stevie Wonder
and all the other million guys. I'm just naming people.
I don't it don't got to be those people, but
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like you know, like, uh, what's that guy, Hank Hill
and all these other people Homer Simpson say, even though
we haven't ever picked up a bat. Yeah, man, I
don't know. Now, Yeah, we're gonna keep them out. Like,
and that's why I name so many random people, because
it's like they're just random people who are writers and
they know the game. But Mike, you weren't in the game,
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like you have no idea what it all like.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Sucks, dude, it just sucks. Like and I appreciate the
writers that show their ballances and show that they're not voting,
but the ones that don't, Yeah, I appreciate that a ton.
But like when we're looking at this U through just
the whole, anybody from thirty six to forty four, there
was somebody in your high school doing steroids. So when
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I look at a Rod, he grew up in the
this era, you know, like where that was cheap and affordable,
you could get it anywhere, like you know what I mean.
So we grew up in that aspect where in my homeroom,
there was a kid that I knew was taking something
he shouldn't be taking. Like, so we're talking about a
high school here, so of course I remember being a
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kid a gym.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Bro, this is twenty eighteen. I walk into the gym,
see these two you know, juice heads just absolutely ripped.
And then and you want some starms And I'm like,
I want.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Some what what is that? Also, like, look at the
average athlete right now. The only thing that's gotten better
is the synthetic uh, you know, stuff they're able to
put in their body, and so it's not steroids, but
they still look like gods.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Right free workout, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Like it's you know, it's not like we went back
to like nineteen eighty beer belly baseball players, like you know, like, look,
let's not go like have you ever seen Aaron Judge
hold a water bottle like he's got zilla, dude, He's
the biggest guy you could ever imagine, and it looks
like he's holding a tiny, like uh freaking lunchable water bottle.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's it's crazy, bro, And it doesn't it doesn't make
any sense at all, bro, to why we are where
we are today, And it's just one of those things
for me where it's people who don't really understand the game.
And look, you say what you want to say. If
you think for a second that Barry, Bond, Sammy and
Mark don't belong in the hall, I mean, you're a
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goofy bro. And I don't know, like you're you're just
you're just a Buster like that's and not and not
your friend Buster, you know what I mean. I like that,
like you're just a Buster, You're a goofy, Like that's
that's just what it is. And I don't know, man,
it just rubs me the wrong way when we talk
about like, oh, well, yeah I did steroids and that's
why I can hit an eighty nine mile an hour slider. No,
(31:53):
that's not why you can hit an eighty nine mile
an hour slider, you know what I mean. It's just
so much to the game that if I did steroids today,
I would not be able to play for the Chicago
Cubs next month, the year after that, or the year
after that. It just it's not the case.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And it's just and also like there's like you know,
they talk about it with potentially Piazza because he had
like this rare injury that like essentially the muscle ripped
off his hip, and like it's known for steroid use.
So when you're putting that stuff in your body too,
you have to not only manage it, but it could
potentially do anything. And Piazza never showed up on a
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list or anything like that, and he's a Hall of Famer,
but this was a concern for a lot of people.
You know, Clemens, you can't tell me since eighty six
he was the goat, like you know, and back then
they had greenies and stuff like that. You know, I
know people in my high school that tried that and
they had to drink milk to get the stuff out
of their system. It was nuts, dude. So like, you
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can't tell me anybody, like I said, from that thirty
six to forty four year old range, Like I swear
to you talk to anybody in that group, and there
was shit that we could have put in our bodies
that could have changed our lives for the worse or
for the better. And a lot of people did make
that decision as a kid. So the steroids, I think
that's why they cleaned up the sport was really because
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it was affecting now the high school.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
But like, what, here's my thing. Baseball profits off of
betting apps. Now they profit off of casinos and arlays
and same gay same game parlays and all this stuff.
But then you have a guy like a Manual class
A and Puigue who bet on games and it's or
Pete Rose and they're in trouble, and then you, oh, well,
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baseball was going bankrupt and then the steroid era came
and then they saved it. But then we're gonna punish
the guys who saved it. Like It's just it's that
inconsistency of you love them when they're doing it, but
then and you love it when it profits from you,
but you hate it. You hate it when when people
actually call you out on it, and it's it's just
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one of those things. To me, man, wh're like, it's sick.
Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
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Speaker 3 (34:33):
I've never been to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
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Speaker 3 (35:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
On your birthday they give you a five dollars off
a ticket.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I randomly we'll just go to a game that maybe
had dinner near Philadelphia and I'll just check their two
winnings in Yeah, what.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
What was that thing at the Grammys that just happened
where that guy could hear himself you know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, he had the he had the.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Headset on and you could just hear himself and it
was like playing over and he kind of messed up
his set. I forgot what his name was, but that
literally just happened to me. You were asking me a
question and all I heard was static and I was like,
I was like yeah, and then you were like then
you were like, all right, what do you think? And
I was like, yeah, dude.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
So I thought that was just a painting issue. She
did a podcast while I was shoveling the other day,
Oh dumb. Yeah, so she's in here with Charlotte and
then they're like forty minutes in and just like it
sounded like that.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So I thought, all in the middle of stranger things
or something that was terrifle.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I went into the sunken place, but really quick, what
I was talking about before we get out of here,
and you know, no, you're good, You're good man. The
MLB just released potential World Series opponents, uh, and there
is a concept where they believe that the Baltimore Orioles
and the New York Mets are on a collision course
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to see each other in the World Series. And I
will freak out if Pete Alonzo versus I'll crash out.
I don't think I'll make it to Game one. I'll
just freak out, like because like him coming home, and
then also the idea of him beating us, uh, and
also the sadness of us beating him, and I get it, like, oh,
you're a Met fan, like na, I'm a baseball fan first,
(36:48):
you know, I was talking about this the other day.
It's baseball Mets and then everything else. Uh, so I
think that's poetic justice. Another one that I saw that
was pretty cool looking Kansas City versus San fran I
like that. And then there was a few others that
are on there that really sparked my interest. Atlanta versus Houston.
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I think I'd be dope too. So there's a lot
of parody this year in MLB. There's a lot of
teams that you know, the Phillies are bringing it back
pretty much with the same lineup. You know, the Yankees
are doing the same. You know, the Mets have completely
overhauled their team. I believe for the better at the
end of it, but you know, there's a lot of
(37:32):
question marks. Atlanta was riddled by injuries last year. They
could easily take the NL East from any team. They
have an amazing, amazing team, just unfortunately last year they
were all injured. So yeah, what are your feelings towards them?
What is your World Series prediction on February seventh or
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whatever the hell Bay this is?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah, Well, with the idea that Scoo Ball is still
a member of the Detroit Tigers, I think this is
the year Detroit goes to the World Series. I don't
know if they win the World Series just because of
La Like obviously you got to see them, but adding
Franburg Valdez, adding a couple more arms that they've had
into that bullpen, and just guys getting older. And by older,
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I mean like these guys are like twenty twenty one,
twenty two years old that they had in their farm
system are now coming up and really filling into their own.
Like Riley Green was a great one. I mean you're
talking about Carpenter and so many other great players on
this squad. You bring in a gliber torres A Javey
Baiez who was an All Star last year in center
field for them, which sure, you know what I mean, like,
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we'll take ten home run All Star, but we'll take it.
Shout out Hobby. But I definitely do think I think
they have a shot to really make the World Series. Man,
I really do you look at a team like Cleveland
and Houston and they're kind of like going down in
that sense, like they really haven't done anything to really
push the needle the New York Yankees. I mean, if
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we're gonna be completely honest, I know your your Yankee
guy is coming in in a couple of minutes or
check out The Divide Live is live right after this
with Corey and Mike. But the thing is, man, I mean,
you brought in Belly, but that was that was really it,
And so you brought back a guy you already had,
and that's kind of frustrating. I would love to say
the Cubs versus the Tigers and Hobby versus Chicago, and
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that would be awesome, but I just again, like you
bring in Kyle Tucker, you're bringing Diez like you're gonna
have to. It's it's no hot take that The Dodgers
are going back to the World Series for that potential
three peat, but I do think they lose to the
Detroit Tigers, And I think that's the poetic justice I'm
looking for, is even though you bought your championships, a
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team like Detroit home Grown for the most part, came
through and ran through l A and I think that
would that would be it for me. But before we
get out of here, I do want to say something.
I saw your guy, your guy, Freddie Peralta where in
his New York meds straining hat. Nice hat, nice, very
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nice hat. Very Just know I was at that game four.
I know when he steps on that mound, you're all
of ten sixty West Addison and all of Wrigley Fields
screaming ready. And it's gonna be the most beautiful thing
when he comes back to Chicago. And I hope he's
pitching on a day he plays in Chicago, and I
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hope you're here for it, because I can't wait to
see Freddy again. Man. Everyone's trying to say, oh, he's
all We ran him out of it, We ran him
out of the Central Baby, I'm so excited for it.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Thank God, we have an arm like that, like I'm
just I'm excited for the all right, Yeah, rotation looks great,
like named McQueen over there, McLean, like I'm just excited
for it all dude, I did.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I did want to tell you though, speaking of arms,
this is the last topic I won't like if you
don't have anything else. I wanted to ask you how
fucking gangster is it that Tarik schoo ball walks into
his arbitration hearing pulls up both of his cy Young
Awards and just puts him on the desk and that's
his case. Hey man, why should you get thirty million
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this year? Yeah? Bang? And that was it, Mike. That
is the that reminds me. You remember that you ever
seen the NWA movie where ice Cube walks into the
record label with the baseball bat and he just tears
shit up, and like that reminds me, like it's so
gangster that he walked in there suited and booted and
said fuck you pay me, And that was like it
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was poetic, bro, That's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, man, I mean, I think it's embarrassing for the
league and for the sport that you know, elite players
have to do this to get a few million dollars,
like you know, like I think it's it's it's a mockery.
It's gonna make you saw in the Jeter documentary it
made his decision of being a Yankee for life almost
harder actually having to sit through there documentary though I
(41:55):
hate it, Yeah, well okay, but I mean it was
intriguing to see, like how quickly morale could be lost.
You know, when when you think of Jeter, you don't
think of anything but pinstripes. And the fact is, during
an arbitration, he was really ready to just say fuck
this them out, so like it's it's for me, It's
it's crazy to see.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
There was rumors every from every team that Scruble could
end up being traded. I think he stays in Detroit,
and like you said, there are gonna be contenders, and
you know, I would be dope if either the Mets
or the Cubs line up with them, because I'd be
so excited for that.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
I was playing, Uh, I know, I know we can't
base it off of this, but I was playing MLB
the show, and I did an updated roster and you know,
because I'm in the twenty twenty sixth season before the
game comes out, playing the twenty twenty five to one
and we hit that free agency mark. And it's cool
when you do like contracts now because it'll be like
it'll like do a reveal, so like where does he
end up going? And it's like a whole thing. It's
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like what a Pokemon evolves in Pokemon. And I ended
up signing him to the Cubs. But it was a battle, man.
I think it was like even years three seventy, and
I was like, that's that's what the game had it at.
But like in real life, like I could totally see
scooball definitely like nowadays.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, a picture to strike in twenty twenty seven, you know,
the players will get continue to get paid. That'll be
insanely you know, So that that's pretty much it, yo.
Speaking of that hat, all these spring training hats are fire. Yeah,
look at your Like. I love the alternate caps, man,
It's really what I live for as a bald man.
I need as many as possible. I'm wearing one right
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now because it's freezing down there. There's still a foot
of snow outside, which is dude. You can't even see
out the window because it's covered. So yeah, I'm hoping
for forty degree weather. That's all I'm praying for. Forget
eighty ninety baseball season. I need forty degrees right now. Man,
it's eight degrees outside. It's awful. But Mikey, I love you,
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bro go enjoy the Super Bowl and when that clock
goes to zero, the floor is ours. Thank you everybody
for joining us. Apologies for the audio issue. We'll be
back next week. Shout out bad Buddy Oh. Shout outs
to the Gore family too, Our condolences. You know, special player,
very special. It's very unique for his set of skills
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to be able to take over a roster spot. And
I'm proud that he wore you know, the blue and
orange and uh and the and.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
The blue and red. Was a Cub for a few days. First,
I want to say first major league hit as a
Chicago Cub against Max Scherzer. I believe that was at
Wrigley Gore in his small stint in Chicago. It was
really incredible, really dope to have a guy like that
in the building. I saw Eric Cosmer, uh really really
was devastated by this. Ben Zobris, other guys too. It's
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sad man. It's it's something that you really just hate
to hear.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
No, send in love to the whole family, and you
know it sucks. With that said, we'll see you next week.
There's nothing like you can't like from that. Yeah, but
like you said, that's why I go to a lot
of Irish funerals because uh oh yeah, you celebrate the
life and the love of the person.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
You don't even you don't even say goodbye, you just leave.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's Irish, Irish everybody.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
All right, we're going to do one right now, so yeah,
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Nothing much? Man, It's Benito day. It's bad Bunny Day.
And I heard I heard two lay Mass teams are
playing football too, So there's no I'm kidding, but I
definitely only don't care about any of these teams.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
No, no, I don't think anybody does. New York is
a little buzzed because of Sam Darnold, like you know,
and it's just in Jets fashion. You know, their quarterback leaves.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And the guy they ran out of town is the
guy they're now rooting for today. That's cool, that's like,
that's like the Bills if if Mitch and obviously this
would never happen. But like if Mitch Trubisky was starting
for the Bills and they went to the Super Bowl,
Bearish fans would be like, yeah, bro, that's awesome. Like, bro,
they ran Mitch out of town. What do you talk about?
Like everybody forgets the past. I can't stand stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
That's too funny.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
Now, look what I'm excited about is the future, and
the future is warm. It's baseball, it's spring training. Pictures
and catchers are arriving any minute. Lindor's are ready in
Saint Lucie. I'm just so ecstatic. Man, Baseball is back, baby,
you know, and that's really for me. This is like
I think you said it earlier, Happy New Year, you know,
(01:57):
this is this is this is New Year's Eve. The
second that clock expires, it's go time, baby, you know.
And you know, we got a ton of stuff. We're
gonna talk about a ton of situations that are going on,
but more importantly, the World Baseball Classic. Man, I'm excited
for that. You know, you shared some stuff. I don't
know if you want to get rolling with that. First,
(02:19):
Great Britain did upgrade their jersey, so we got that
going for ourselves, like it's slightly upgraded. Hopefully none of
the letters fall off this year. But you know, I
was thinking about getting one of those, just because you know,
that's our that's our roots, that's where America first became
the villains, right, great Britain took over these lands.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Percent No, I mean I look and again shout out
mlbshop dot com, shout out Fanatics. If Fanatics is watching
this and they want to send us some gear and
some you know, some price Hoppen, some Picro Armstrong merch,
I wouldn't be upset onsoever. But my issue is I'm
I'm on the World Baseball Classic website right now, and
I'm looking at all the jerseys that they have available,
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and they don't have any Team USA jerseys. They don't
have a single one. And I don't know why that's
the case. If you look up Team USA World Baseball Classic,
there's only like sweaters and and polos and and and
stuff like that and and and like granted, like yeah,
the logo is just like an eye and it just
looks like a Iowa Cubs hat for the A team,
(03:20):
But like I wanted to rep a team Italy jersey
I would have got one if they had. I'm like,
I don't care. I would have put Mike Piazza or
Anthony Rizzo or something along those lines. Nicky Lopez Naperville
legend from uh Chicago, Landaria. But uh yeah, I don't
I don't know what their what their beef is with
Team Italy. Great Britain's bullshit is available, so I don't know.
I don't know what's what's what's wrong with Italy? Why
(03:42):
don't they get any love?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yo? And also can all of Americans actually play for
Great Britain or I guess like ancestry wise, I guess
they would have to have.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
From what I understand, you can kind of play for anybody,
like I understand.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
That's how I understood it too. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Like I know my buddy Miles Portery, he runs a
podcast called Shalom Shluggers, and they're going to be doing
stuff with Team Israel during the World Baseball Classic, And
there were like real conversations that like Alex Bregman could
go play there, that's what he That's what they were
telling me. And I was like, oh, like he's always
been with Team USA though, and they're like yeah, but
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it's like always he always gets that invite, you know
what I mean. And I was like, oh, that makes sense,
kind of like Rizzo, Like Rizzo played for Team Italy once,
you know what I mean, but like yeah, because he
wanted to, you know what I mean. Like there was
from Florida.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Like Winter Olympics has a California born Chinese woman playing
for China and she's like an amazing snowboarder. Like right,
so I guess it has to do with your heritage,
but also like same thing. But with that said, it
is kind of cool. Shout out to Team Italy. I
mean they brought it when Piazza was the manager a
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couple of years ago. They had the expresso machine in
the dugout. I love that. I love that so much.
Show on brand, you know, I'm excited for all this stuff.
My face favorite jersey period is the dr I just
love their hat, their jersey, everything to go with that.
If I had to get one, that's that's who I'd
be rocking, you know, especially back with Cespitus and those
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those days in age. But man, you shared that pie
crow armstrong and it looks strong. It looks so strong.
You bought that or you copping that. What are you doing?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Look, here's where I'm at, because right now they're two
hundred bones a piece, so you definitely definitely get in one,
you know what I mean. If you're getting any you're
getting one, and that's it. I am stuck right now.
The top three finalists is PCA at number one at
this moment, because I think the four, the red four
with the navy blue. I'm more fan of the navy
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blue USA ones than I am the white ones. I
just think they look cleaner. I also don't think I
look good in white jerseys, but that's just me. I
do think the PCA is the fan favorite right now.
In my eyes, I would love a Harper, but all
they have available for the Harpers are smalls right now.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Say, I don't know, man is one thirty apparently?
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I don't. I don't know if I'm gonna do that,
but uh no, it's crazy to me that the Harpers
are like sold out as soon as they came out,
especially when you're not elite, right Mikey, Like when the
entire city of Philadelphia is saying you're not elite, but
all your jerseys sold out nationwide? Is I don't know
that's that's an elite stat I would say, but hey,
maybe the Phillies front office doesn't agree, but uh no.
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And then the third one, I'm a big Bobby with
you and your fan man, like I am a Bobby
Do or Die guy since day one, so I would
love one I'm not, and I think you would agree.
I'm not into wearing other teams. I wouldn't like buy
another team's jersey because I'm just like, I'm that much
of a Cubs fan. But Team USA is one of
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those moments, like the only other the only other baseball
jersey I have that isn't Cubs is the Kumbas from
the movie Hardball with Deana Reeves and Michael B. Jordan
and G Baby in that like it's a g Baby jersey.
I wear it every Saint Patrick's Day. But uh yeah,
so I'm thinking PCA, Harper or Bobby, but I'm leaning
towards PCA. How are you gonna get one?
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yo, I'm gonna throw a curveball at you, bro because
for and no pun intended, I want to clean kershaw tmosa.
I think it's kind of cool. It's gonna be the
last jersey he wears. Uh you know, I I really
like him, Like, you know, it was cool seeing him
in the World Series like throwing like old man stuff,
and then also like just knowing that he was there
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as a youngster too, and and like just elite of
Elite and now changing the game. But yeah, the fact
that he's on t USA and this is his last,
you know, his swan song, I was like, maybe I'll
cop that, you know, I think of all the other
guys like I, I would I would definitely rock a
PCA because it's the guy who got away. I was
just looking at that trade the other day with Hobby, like,
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it's just sad man that you know that it's it's it. Yeah,
it just sucks.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Can I can I like just like totally change the conversation,
by the way, because it's just something. It still involves
the World Baseball Classic, but I'm looking at guys who
still haven't really announced that they're going to be playing,
and I ended up down a rabbit hole. Man, have
you heard what's going on with Puig right now? Yo?
(08:21):
Yo waw.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
So I looked it up and I was like, hey,
it's like.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
It's it's potential facing up to like ten to twenty
years for some like federal gambling case that's going on,
and I'm like I look it up because I'm like, hey,
is y'all see how we going to be in the
World Baseball Classic this year? Because like, no disrespect, but
he's not really doing much else nowadays, so like I know,
he's not busy, he's not doing any spring training stuff.
And then I look it up and the first thing
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I see is that like, oh, he could get arrested
at some point, and he's like facing up the ten
to twenty years on this on this like investigation about gambling,
and I'm like, holy crap, man, Like it's it's.
Speaker 2 (08:57):
Crazy though, both like all this crazy stuff, and.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
I'm like, dang, like that's that's the guy. I mean,
that's the guy. Like Peek was that guy for like
a small period of time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And like he was he was also like I'm not
shocked by this, like at all, because like everybody I
like Vin SCULLI would call him like you know, they
like a rabbit, wolverine or something.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I just remember licking the bat and like all that.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
He was just like this guy's nuts, Like but yeah,
they got in sliding and then like this.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
He got into it one time. I think it was
with Hobby Bayaz and uh not even just with Hobby,
but like I remember when he was on the Reds
and I think he got into a brawl with the
pirates and it was like you saw him going and
like he was full sending it man, like he was
willing to like die for that scrabble. Like he was
he was hitting everybody. People that weren't even people that
were in the bullpen. We're getting haymakers from y'all.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
See.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
It was crazy. But like I saw that, and I
was like, it was the first thing I wanted to
tell you because I was like I was looking at
guys who could potentially still be playing in the WBC,
and I just like, as we're live, I see it
and I'm like, oh, never mind, Like yeah, this is I.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
Mean, it's also fun to see. And I actually I like,
shout out, the Olympics is going on right now. But
when Todd was in the Olympics, it was so much
fun to see the minor leaguers that joined him on
Tmosa for baseball, and like you got a sneak peak
of what they're doing. You also saw how strong Japan
is and like all those prospects that have now filtered
(10:29):
in mostly to the Dodgers. But you know it's it's wild.
So uh yeah, man, I'm excited for this. I am
excited that Lindor is not playing. Here's why. It's it's
very simple. If I'm Lindore, the Optics right now, is
the team bet on you. They got rid of everybody else.
They bet on you. Peter A. Lonzo's in Baltimore. McNeil's
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over there, and with the Athletics who don't really have
a set wherever wherever they are, yeah, wherever they want
to be and wherever they're gonna end up going. And
you know, and you know, you got Nimo over there
down in Texas now and everybody's gone. He has is
a Dodger, Like, you're still here. So the fact that
you the minute Port Saint Lucy opened up, you're there,
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you know, getting your your your stuff together, and you're
not doing the World Baseball Classic is a nod to
to leadership and understanding the room. So I'm not saying
that it was his fault that these players aren't there.
I'm just saying he recognizes that they chose him.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
Yeah, And it was like very confused too, to your point,
like it makes sense, It makes more sense than what
the reason was. And the reason is, oh, well, he
had a clean up surgery or whatever you want to
call it on his right elbow because he wanted to
like fix some things. But then I see him in
I believe y'all are y'all are in Arizona too. I
see him in Arizona and he's like throwing there in
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Saint Louis for spring.
Speaker 2 (11:50):
Saint Lucy a Port Saint Lucy, Florida. It's all good, man,
it's all good. It's gonna be awkward if we like
meet at the like if we were like, yo, let's
meet at springstre And.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I thought I thought the National League all went to
they all divided West West Coast, East Coast, So like
we're in the Grapefruit League with the.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah coming up next to Extream near you ship.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
The divide is live in thirty something minutes, and I'm
not mistaken. But no, my point of that was, like
I did see a video of him and baby going
around right now, and they were like, you know, taking
in field grounders and they were just like making plays,
and I'm like, hey, man, elbow looks pretty good to me, man,
I was like, I don't know, I don't know, but
uh no, this is a statement.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
This is a statement like although he would love to
play for his country, and you know, it's hard for
a lot of these people to pass us up. I
know that's why how he's so destroyed right now, like
that he can't play. We want it from marijuana, like
what do we?
Speaker 1 (12:54):
What do we?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
You know, there's guys that pass up on it, but
then there's guys that passed the blunt and now they
can't now they can't play on it and from Okay
Sheffield Shuffler, if you haven't checked him out already, did
an amazing breakdown of this video. Chef is the man
down in Philly. But I think right now what I've
gathered is Hovey didn't pass a drug test for marijuana.
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Marijuana twenty twenty three. By the way, even if it
was three years ago, it still is perfectly Okay, didn't
pass a drug test in twenty twenty three. They made
a rule Team Puerto Rico in twenty twenty four that
if you fail this drug test, then you're not going
to be able to be a part of the team.
So because Hovey failed it a year before this rule
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was made. He is now not going to be able
to play for Team Puerto Rico, who is also without
Francisco Lindor Carlos Korea, and of course because of age
Yadier Molina Mike, I, this is super lame. This is
super lame to me, especially in a world where there
are all these THHD companies, there are all of these
you know, medicinal marijuana shops and all this stuff going
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around the world. For it to be twenty twenty six
and us still be having these conversations to why one
of the best players in your country cannot play on
this team because he smoked weed three years ago is
absolutely ridiculous to me, and I really don't And mainly
the most ridiculous part is it's because he did it
a year before the rule was established. So like I
(14:20):
I'm I'm having a really hard time gathering how that
even sticks. But like, what were your thoughts on it,
because we both had Hovey on our teams, Like that's elmago.
I still to this day remember the no Look tag
in the WCC in twenty seventeen. It was the coolest
play I've ever seen. And for him to be on
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my team. I mean, imagine how the country feels knowing
like that's our guy.
Speaker 2 (14:46):
Oh, it's devastating then too, Like Hobby has reinvented himself right,
so like to now not be able to showcase that
for your country, Like he's a whole different player now, Yeah,
like Jones easy biased, yes, hell yeah, And then we're
excited for that and I'm happy. Yeah, the thumbs down
thing really sucked in Queen's but the excitement behind Hovey
Cumming was was really cool. And you know, I love
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I would love watch to watch him in Lindor, you know,
on the same team again. It you know, they they're
a fun group. So I think maybe that had a
lot to do with Lindor's decision as well. But for me,
we talked about this, it's like, hey, we changed the
speed limited. It's now fifty five, no longer sixty five,
and we're gonna write you a ticket for something you
did a year ago. Like it just doesn't make sense,
(15:31):
like there had there should have been grandfathered in, you know,
an appeals thing. But look like at the end of
the day, he's going to report to you know, spring
training and just go do his thing.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So do you think there's something more to that though,
Like do you like, do you think they used that
as the reason. But maybe there's something political or something
along those lines. He maybe he pissed somebody off along
the way that to why he's not a part of this.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
Bro.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'm so tired of the P word. Like, so I'm
hoping not you know, like politics and baseball need to not.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
Yeah, well maybe not like politics politics, but like maybe
just eternal.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, probably I could see that. I could see, like you.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Know, it's off the manager or something. You know.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's it's strange that it wasn't like fodd or you know,
there wasn't that big of a It was just like, yeah,
he's not playing because of weed. And you're just like wait,
what Like meanwhile, like everybody's hitting the pen right, like
everybody's hitting it like you know, so I just I
see everybody hitting it regardless if you're in Chicago, you're
in Queen's Like, everybody's got that pen in hand. So
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I don't know, the other day.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
My bad, I didn't put you off, but I was
at my I was at my aunt's wake the other day,
and you know, it's an Irish wake. So everybody's there,
everybody's drinking. That cooler's outside everything. And my cousin Danny Man,
this is why I brought it up. Danny athlete man,
he's played baseball, played football his whole life, walks up
to me, was like, hey, Mike, you don't And I'm like, hey, Dan,
(16:56):
what's going on? You know they got the little Italian
he's a paramedic. He goes he want some zin, and
I go, no, thanks, Bro, I graduated eighth grade a
long time ago. Right, why do you have? And like
people are just walking around with zin or chew or anything.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
Bro, It's wild. It's replaced like so urinals used to
have cigarettes in them, like in the nineties, and it
was disgusting. Now if you look down when when you're
taking a piss, all you see is like a bucket
of zin's right, I'm pissing on somebody's zin, you know,
Like it's just yeah, that is a wild, wild thing.
And like the one thing that Dared taught me was
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to not like put tobacco or anything my mouth or
else I'll look like, you know, I don't know, Oscar
the grouch down there in there, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
so disgusting. Man, Like I don't know, I get I
like it better because you knew, like I met, I
want to say it was dyke stra Like my dad
got me onto the field once and like they had
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chewing or whatever, and it was just disgusting and it
smelt so bad. Yeah, you know, so at least it
doesn't smell anymore. And that's the same thing with weed with.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
The pen like flavored cancer. It's insane.
Speaker 2 (18:04):
Yeah, it's tremendous.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Yeah cancer.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Oh I died of cancer, but I had a great
tate smelling breath.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
And tell you about Loco butter Zin's man, like, what
are you talking about? It's crazy, it's actually crazy. Yeah,
and again like not to go back to my thing.
But I was like, didn't walk up, not a sorry
for your loss, not hey, how you doing? It was like, hey,
damn you want some Zin. I was like, fucking addict,
what you talking about? Get away from the psycho?
Speaker 2 (18:34):
Oh, man, I it reminds me of Sandlot where they
get chewing tobacco and then they all the rides and
they puke everywhere. Like my buddy had one on a
golf course and he was he was seeing uh stars
and you know, he was he was he was on
a different planet. And I was like, thank god, I
didn't partake. Yeah, you know, because it's just yeah, it's
(18:55):
not it's not my flavor. It's funny for my fortieth
I never but I got a cigar and my daughter
was like, you're gonna smoke like that's no good daddy,
And I'm like, oh shit, I didn't even and I'm like, oh,
just a celebration, you know what up? Kobe, Uh dude,
this is my buddy. We got to have him on
soon at the National I got to hang out with
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this gentleman and he's he's just an awesome human being.
Him and Smalls. We'll be there again all together, all
four of us this time. Yeah, we love you, bro.
You know I have met him, Mikey. I've never met you,
which is I've never been friends with somebody for almost
half a decade now. I was doing the Math yesterday
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and still I haven't met you. I'm so jealous that
Bert has met you, but I've never met you.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
But yeah, yeah, you taught me the one time I
left Chicago in like a decade like that was the
craziest thing in the world. But the National T twenty
six will be there.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
Look, so yeah, World Baseball Classic, Man, we'll be covering that.
We'll probably do a couple watch parties stuff like that.
It's it's gonna be fun, especially when it cooks up,
you know, just having baseball and meaningful baseball. Like I
get it, like Diaz got injured, lost an entire season
because of it. Uh so this is this could happen,
This could affect your team. Uh So I think you know,
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it's pretty awesome that Lindor is not playing. It shows
his leadership.
Speaker 3 (20:19):
But also you could say that happens in a spring
training game too, though.
Speaker 2 (20:23):
Yeah, I was just gonna say that, yeah, exactly, Like,
but you got to play anyway.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right, Yeah, so at some point you're going out there
and that's just yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
And when you don't give it your all, like that's
when injuries happen. So the fact that you are playing
at full speed is actually pretty cool. And I know
that the WBC is very mindful that the players are
still gearing up for the season, so you're not gonna
see them throw you know, seven innings, you know, one
hundred and something pitches, like that's why this team is
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made up this way for sure?
Speaker 3 (20:55):
What do you the last thing I wanted to touch on.
I know we're like on a time crunch, but like, no,
do how do we not talk about officially Mike Trout
is not going to play for Team USA? Like does
that kind of like does that urb a little bit?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
Because it for me, it does, it does, And like
listen when he's on foul territory and he does, like
I listen right, and that he can't catch up to
a fastball right now, like he has openly admitted that
that's not me saying, oh he's Mike Trout. Is Ken
Griffy to these kids out here, like what Griffy meant
to me, Trout meant to them? And I honestly like
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I was wanted a Trout USA jersey. Like it's you know,
he's got Trout National right right in my backyard down
amazing golf course that I've been fortunate enough to already
step on that property and and actually hold the club
and and play. But you know, it's it's upsetting to
me that he's not there, and I get it, but
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also like it's it just sucks, man, watching people get
old and you know, move on.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
So to know to know that his last game potentially
with team you say it was a strikeout to losing
the championship show and it's just like it stings, and
like I would I wanted this for him, like this
is the Redeemed team, this is Schooball Skiings, Like if
you look back on that roster, I mean, one of
the best pictures was lance Lynn and it's like, not
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no disrespect to lance Lynn, but like Scooball and Skiings
like alone, I don't care if it's Mike Powers out
there on the mound for the third picture in that rotation,
like we're good, like it'll be solid. I just it
hurts that he's not going to be back, man, And
it makes me feel older, makes me makes sense to
why my cholesterol is one thirty right now because Mike
(22:37):
Child's not going to be in the WBC. But uh,
I don't know, man, It's just it really would have
felt good for him to be in that role. But
I also understand that it would have been kind of
awkward if like, you know, hey, Aaron Judges the captain
and now you're kind of the backseat guy, and you know,
I think he just kind of wanted to go out
on his own terms. I guess maybe he'll come back
(22:57):
one day.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
Yeah, you know, I thought for sure him passing the
torch to Aaron was one thing, but for him to
not be on the team is definitely weird and concerning
and maybe like he's actually trying to, you know, get
back to where he used to be. I mean, it's
obviously been a struggle through injuries, through you know, at bats,
not really performing that well. It's you know, so I
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love Mike Trout and I wish him all the best,
but yeah, that that definitely sucks because I wanted the
rock that you know, I wanted like a twenty three
Trout jersey, you know what I mean, or a four
or five. You know that that'd be dope. You know,
So I was, I was hopeful, but it's not happening.
What is happening, And I'm freaking excited about this. We
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talked about my boy our first episode Beltron Hall of Famer.
You know, it was teased the we thought he might
wear orange and blue in Cooper's town and it's official. Baby,
you know, I am so excited that we have another
met next Toceiver Piazza representing the Orange and Blue, the
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Boys from Queens. You know, baseball in New York means
so much, and that team has just such great history
when it comes to Brooklyn and the New York Giants
are really paving the way for this franchise to be born.
But now to have three solidified Hall of famers that
actually performed amazing in our city, it's just for me,
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like something I really hoped for. Piazza was a tear jerker.
That was something that was freaking amazing because he's kind
of like Harper where you forget that he had this
amazing career in LA and he could have easily went
with those colors. So when he picked us was dope.
Sever started with us, freaking won a World Series. You know,
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he goes away to Cincinnati, has a great career, comes
back at the at the twilight of his career. So
I kind of I wasn't around for that. I've learned
a lot about it. I've I've you know, everybody's taught me,
and I've watched other you know. I love Tom Seaver,
but I knew him in the booth, you know, and
I knew his him as a wine guy, you know.
And then I also knew him as the last ever
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game in Shay when we gave it away in the
first inning to the Marlins and didn't continue into the
postseason or even get a postseason thing, and him and
Piazza waving to us all on the outfield same bye
to this amazing building that my dad used to take
me to and opening the way to city Field. So
look like, I love Beltron. I'm so excited for this.
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I'll say it to him blue in the face. It's
bullshit that we didn't get him as a manager. And
you know he had to step away because he didn't
want to make a scene. But you know, I think
the Mets are a completely different organization if Beltron was
our manager. And that's not a shot at Buck and
that's not a shot at Mendoza, but you know, it's
just the facts of life. Like Beltrom was it.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
No and it's no disrespect whatsoever. But like, look like,
at the end of the day, we can say David Ross,
who's a two time, three time champion with the Red
Sox and the Cubs, and he was our manager and
that was fun and it was cool and he is
a winner, and David Ross was everything you wanted but
Craig Council is just a different vibe, you know what
I mean, Like the expectation is just different because he's
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been there and he understands what it is at the
highest level as a manager and guys like that, I mean,
you just especially Beltron man, I mean itching at the
bit to be able to get a guy like that
in any clubhouse. And I would say, if he was
available today, every single team in the league would check
in on that availability more times than not, you know
(26:30):
what I mean. And it's like at least to see
like if he's available or he'd want to I think.
So maybe there's a couple out there that wouldn't, you
know what I mean, But I definitely do think that's
one of those guys that everybody would be willing to
spend the bank on.
Speaker 2 (26:45):
Yeah, I agree, man, it's you know, I for me, Like,
you know, I hope this opens the airwaves and conversations
to Barry Bond should be in the Hall of Fame,
Like let's stop. Yeah, let's just stop. Sosa Hall of Fame.
You know, all Hall of Fame they say baseball, they
say baseball. Man, you know, the writers knew what was
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behind maguire during the interviews, like and he's like, it's
for sex, it's for sex, Like it's not for it's
for sex. They're like, oh, cool man, it's an away game,
like we having sex with your wife, Like you know,
like that's that opens a whole different Pandora's box. But
you know, they they knew it was happening, Like, don't
act like you were bamboozled, and I don't care who
you are. You knew it was happening. Like there was
(27:29):
jokes comedians. I remember Carra Top like had a baseball
bat and he opened it up and had steroid pills
in it. Like everybody knew it was happening. And then
they were like, come two thousand and three, two thousand
and four, I am shocked. I am shocked and outraged,
and it's like are you are you like these reports
coming out Guys that were trying it. Todd Hunley was
on a list. Todd Hunley had more surgeries than any
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human being. He was trying to get back out there.
He lost his job to Piazza. He tried the outfield,
he got injured. Ironically, goes to LA He's trying to
get his body healthy, like and he tried steroids. I'm
guaranteed that's what what had happened.
Speaker 3 (28:07):
Of course, a lot of guys do. I mean you
talk about just like to get back into it, like
whatever happened with Paul George. Like people are gonna say
Paul George was doing steroids or peds, whatever the case was,
because he can't hoop play. I mean, Paul George in Indiana,
Paul George. I mean, here's my thing. It's all about health.
It's all about these guys trying to stay healthy because
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they're aging and because they need more to be able
to keep going. And it happens. Guys have so many
surgeries it's not even funny, especially guy like Paul George
who's shoulder literally and his leg I literally obliterated throughout
his career. And you mentioned like the Hall as a whole. Look,
no disrespect. I have friends who are writers in Major
League Baseball. I have friends who are writers in the
(28:50):
WNBA and all these other places, and we know good people.
But the reality is this, Bill Belichick is a unanimous
first ballot Hall of Famer. Sammy so, Mark McGuire, Barry
Bond's unanimous first ballot Hall of Famers, but Stevie Wonder
and all the other million guys. I'm just naming people.
I don't it don't got to be those people, but
(29:11):
like you know, like, uh, what's that guy, Hank Hill
and all these other people Homer Simpson say, even though
we haven't ever picked up a bat. Yeah, man, I
don't know. Now, Yeah, we're gonna keep them out. Like,
and that's why I name so many random people, because
it's like they're just random people who are writers and
they know the game. But Mike, you weren't in the game,
(29:32):
like you have no idea what it all like.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Sucks, dude, it just sucks. Like and I appreciate the
writers that show their ballances and show that they're not voting,
but the ones that don't, Yeah, I appreciate that a ton.
But like when we're looking at this U through just
the whole, anybody from thirty six to forty four, there
was somebody in your high school doing steroids. So when
(29:57):
I look at a Rod, he grew up in the
this era, you know, like where that was cheap and affordable,
you could get it anywhere, like you know what I mean.
So we grew up in that aspect where in my homeroom,
there was a kid that I knew was taking something
he shouldn't be taking. Like, so we're talking about a
high school here, so of course I remember being a
(30:19):
kid a gym.
Speaker 3 (30:20):
Bro, this is twenty eighteen. I walk into the gym,
see these two you know, juice heads just absolutely ripped.
And then and you want some starms And I'm like,
I want.
Speaker 2 (30:31):
Some what what is that? Also, like, look at the
average athlete right now. The only thing that's gotten better
is the synthetic uh, you know, stuff they're able to
put in their body, and so it's not steroids, but
they still look like gods.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Right free workout, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (30:49):
Like it's you know, it's not like we went back
to like nineteen eighty beer belly baseball players, like you know, like, look,
let's not go like have you ever seen Aaron Judge
hold a water bottle like he's got zilla, dude, He's
the biggest guy you could ever imagine, and it looks
like he's holding a tiny, like uh freaking lunchable water bottle.
Speaker 3 (31:11):
It's it's crazy, bro, And it doesn't it doesn't make
any sense at all, bro, to why we are where
we are today, And it's just one of those things
for me where it's people who don't really understand the game.
And look, you say what you want to say. If
you think for a second that Barry, Bond, Sammy and
Mark don't belong in the hall, I mean, you're a
(31:32):
goofy bro. And I don't know, like you're you're just
you're just a Buster like that's and not and not
your friend Buster, you know what I mean. I like that,
like you're just a Buster, You're a goofy, Like that's
that's just what it is. And I don't know, man,
it just rubs me the wrong way when we talk
about like, oh, well, yeah I did steroids and that's
why I can hit an eighty nine mile an hour slider. No,
(31:53):
that's not why you can hit an eighty nine mile
an hour slider, you know what I mean. It's just
so much to the game that if I did steroids today,
I would not be able to play for the Chicago
Cubs next month, the year after that, or the year
after that. It just it's not the case.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
And it's just and also like there's like you know,
they talk about it with potentially Piazza because he had
like this rare injury that like essentially the muscle ripped
off his hip, and like it's known for steroid use.
So when you're putting that stuff in your body too,
you have to not only manage it, but it could
potentially do anything. And Piazza never showed up on a
(32:31):
list or anything like that, and he's a Hall of Famer,
but this was a concern for a lot of people.
You know, Clemens, you can't tell me since eighty six
he was the goat, like you know, and back then
they had greenies and stuff like that. You know, I
know people in my high school that tried that and
they had to drink milk to get the stuff out
of their system. It was nuts, dude. So like, you
(32:52):
can't tell me anybody, like I said, from that thirty
six to forty four year old range, Like I swear
to you talk to anybody in that group, and there
was shit that we could have put in our bodies
that could have changed our lives for the worse or
for the better. And a lot of people did make
that decision as a kid. So the steroids, I think
that's why they cleaned up the sport was really because
(33:15):
it was affecting now the high school.
Speaker 3 (33:17):
But like, what, here's my thing. Baseball profits off of
betting apps. Now they profit off of casinos and arlays
and same gay same game parlays and all this stuff.
But then you have a guy like a Manual class
A and Puigue who bet on games and it's or
Pete Rose and they're in trouble, and then you, oh, well,
(33:39):
baseball was going bankrupt and then the steroid era came
and then they saved it. But then we're gonna punish
the guys who saved it. Like It's just it's that
inconsistency of you love them when they're doing it, but
then and you love it when it profits from you,
but you hate it. You hate it when when people
actually call you out on it, and it's it's just
(34:01):
one of those things. To me, man, wh're like, it's sick.
Doesn't make sense.
Speaker 2 (34:06):
Mikey, I want to shout out one company that we
both care about a lot, and it's Tickpick. I work
with them nationally through Fox Sports Radio and they're just
an amazing company. But right now we're about three hours
away from the super Bowl, and the fact is the
get in price on Tickpick, right now and you want
to take a guess how much if we wanted to
walk in with one ticket, I'm going to say six
(34:27):
hundred thirty five one hundred dollars thirty five to thirty
four right now.
Speaker 3 (34:33):
I've never been to a Super Bowl.
Speaker 2 (34:34):
I've had YO dude and the like. They let you
know you're up there. This is nosebleeds, man. But tickpck
is the solution. Uh you know, that is your get
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hidden fees, the best price guarantee. Checkout tickpck dot com.
And if you're not using them this baseball season, I
(34:55):
don't know what you're doing. You're just overspending. So check
out tickpic. Will be all over the place with them
throughout the year. Mikey has done some amazing stuff in
Chicago with them. When we're down there for the National
we'll definitely go to Wrigley courtesy of you know, the
tick pick app. And like I said, I'm a customer.
Speaker 3 (35:13):
I love it.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
On your birthday they give you a five dollars off
a ticket.
Speaker 3 (35:17):
You know.
Speaker 2 (35:17):
I randomly we'll just go to a game that maybe
had dinner near Philadelphia and I'll just check their two
winnings in Yeah, what.
Speaker 3 (35:25):
What was that thing at the Grammys that just happened
where that guy could hear himself you know what I'm
talking about.
Speaker 2 (35:32):
Yeah, he had the he had the.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Headset on and you could just hear himself and it
was like playing over and he kind of messed up
his set. I forgot what his name was, but that
literally just happened to me. You were asking me a
question and all I heard was static and I was like,
I was like yeah, and then you were like then
you were like, all right, what do you think? And
I was like, yeah, dude.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
So I thought that was just a painting issue. She
did a podcast while I was shoveling the other day,
Oh dumb. Yeah, so she's in here with Charlotte and
then they're like forty minutes in and just like it
sounded like that.
Speaker 3 (36:05):
So I thought, all in the middle of stranger things
or something that was terrifle.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
I went into the sunken place, but really quick, what
I was talking about before we get out of here,
and you know, no, you're good, You're good man. The
MLB just released potential World Series opponents, uh, and there
is a concept where they believe that the Baltimore Orioles
and the New York Mets are on a collision course
(36:28):
to see each other in the World Series. And I
will freak out if Pete Alonzo versus I'll crash out.
I don't think I'll make it to Game one. I'll
just freak out, like because like him coming home, and
then also the idea of him beating us, uh, and
also the sadness of us beating him, and I get it, like, oh,
you're a Met fan, like na, I'm a baseball fan first,
(36:48):
you know, I was talking about this the other day.
It's baseball Mets and then everything else. Uh, so I
think that's poetic justice. Another one that I saw that
was pretty cool looking Kansas City versus San fran I
like that. And then there was a few others that
are on there that really sparked my interest. Atlanta versus Houston.
(37:11):
I think I'd be dope too. So there's a lot
of parody this year in MLB. There's a lot of
teams that you know, the Phillies are bringing it back
pretty much with the same lineup. You know, the Yankees
are doing the same. You know, the Mets have completely
overhauled their team. I believe for the better at the
end of it, but you know, there's a lot of
(37:32):
question marks. Atlanta was riddled by injuries last year. They
could easily take the NL East from any team. They
have an amazing, amazing team, just unfortunately last year they
were all injured. So yeah, what are your feelings towards them?
What is your World Series prediction on February seventh or
(37:53):
whatever the hell Bay this is?
Speaker 3 (37:55):
Yeah, Well, with the idea that Scoo Ball is still
a member of the Detroit Tigers, I think this is
the year Detroit goes to the World Series. I don't
know if they win the World Series just because of
La Like obviously you got to see them, but adding
Franburg Valdez, adding a couple more arms that they've had
into that bullpen, and just guys getting older. And by older,
(38:17):
I mean like these guys are like twenty twenty one,
twenty two years old that they had in their farm
system are now coming up and really filling into their own.
Like Riley Green was a great one. I mean you're
talking about Carpenter and so many other great players on
this squad. You bring in a gliber torres A Javey
Baiez who was an All Star last year in center
field for them, which sure, you know what I mean, like,
(38:37):
we'll take ten home run All Star, but we'll take it.
Shout out Hobby. But I definitely do think I think
they have a shot to really make the World Series. Man,
I really do you look at a team like Cleveland
and Houston and they're kind of like going down in
that sense, like they really haven't done anything to really
push the needle the New York Yankees. I mean, if
(38:58):
we're gonna be completely honest, I know your your Yankee
guy is coming in in a couple of minutes or
check out The Divide Live is live right after this
with Corey and Mike. But the thing is, man, I mean,
you brought in Belly, but that was that was really it,
And so you brought back a guy you already had,
and that's kind of frustrating. I would love to say
the Cubs versus the Tigers and Hobby versus Chicago, and
(39:21):
that would be awesome, but I just again, like you
bring in Kyle Tucker, you're bringing Diez like you're gonna
have to. It's it's no hot take that The Dodgers
are going back to the World Series for that potential
three peat, but I do think they lose to the
Detroit Tigers, And I think that's the poetic justice I'm
looking for, is even though you bought your championships, a
(39:42):
team like Detroit home Grown for the most part, came
through and ran through l A and I think that
would that would be it for me. But before we
get out of here, I do want to say something.
I saw your guy, your guy, Freddie Peralta where in
his New York meds straining hat. Nice hat, nice, very
(40:03):
nice hat. Very Just know I was at that game four.
I know when he steps on that mound, you're all
of ten sixty West Addison and all of Wrigley Fields
screaming ready. And it's gonna be the most beautiful thing
when he comes back to Chicago. And I hope he's
pitching on a day he plays in Chicago, and I
(40:24):
hope you're here for it, because I can't wait to
see Freddy again. Man. Everyone's trying to say, oh, he's
all We ran him out of it, We ran him
out of the Central Baby, I'm so excited for it.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Thank God, we have an arm like that, like I'm
just I'm excited for the all right, Yeah, rotation looks great,
like named McQueen over there, McLean, like I'm just excited
for it all dude, I did.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I did want to tell you though, speaking of arms,
this is the last topic I won't like if you
don't have anything else. I wanted to ask you how
fucking gangster is it that Tarik schoo ball walks into
his arbitration hearing pulls up both of his cy Young
Awards and just puts him on the desk and that's
his case. Hey man, why should you get thirty million
(41:09):
this year? Yeah? Bang? And that was it, Mike. That
is the that reminds me. You remember that you ever
seen the NWA movie where ice Cube walks into the
record label with the baseball bat and he just tears
shit up, and like that reminds me, like it's so
gangster that he walked in there suited and booted and
said fuck you pay me, And that was like it
(41:30):
was poetic, bro, That's all I wanted to say.
Speaker 2 (41:32):
Yeah, man, I mean, I think it's embarrassing for the
league and for the sport that you know, elite players
have to do this to get a few million dollars,
like you know, like I think it's it's it's a mockery.
It's gonna make you saw in the Jeter documentary it
made his decision of being a Yankee for life almost
harder actually having to sit through there documentary though I
(41:55):
hate it, Yeah, well okay, but I mean it was
intriguing to see, like how quickly morale could be lost.
You know, when when you think of Jeter, you don't
think of anything but pinstripes. And the fact is, during
an arbitration, he was really ready to just say fuck
this them out, so like it's it's for me, It's
it's crazy to see.
Speaker 3 (42:15):
You know.
Speaker 2 (42:17):
There was rumors every from every team that Scruble could
end up being traded. I think he stays in Detroit,
and like you said, there are gonna be contenders, and
you know, I would be dope if either the Mets
or the Cubs line up with them, because I'd be
so excited for that.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
I was playing, Uh, I know, I know we can't
base it off of this, but I was playing MLB
the show, and I did an updated roster and you know,
because I'm in the twenty twenty sixth season before the
game comes out, playing the twenty twenty five to one
and we hit that free agency mark. And it's cool
when you do like contracts now because it'll be like
it'll like do a reveal, so like where does he
end up going? And it's like a whole thing. It's
(42:52):
like what a Pokemon evolves in Pokemon. And I ended
up signing him to the Cubs. But it was a battle, man.
I think it was like even years three seventy, and
I was like, that's that's what the game had it at.
But like in real life, like I could totally see
scooball definitely like nowadays.
Speaker 2 (43:09):
Yeah, a picture to strike in twenty twenty seven, you know,
the players will get continue to get paid. That'll be
insanely you know, So that that's pretty much it, yo.
Speaking of that hat, all these spring training hats are fire. Yeah,
look at your Like. I love the alternate caps, man,
It's really what I live for as a bald man.
I need as many as possible. I'm wearing one right
(43:31):
now because it's freezing down there. There's still a foot
of snow outside, which is dude. You can't even see
out the window because it's covered. So yeah, I'm hoping
for forty degree weather. That's all I'm praying for. Forget
eighty ninety baseball season. I need forty degrees right now. Man,
it's eight degrees outside. It's awful. But Mikey, I love you,
(43:51):
bro go enjoy the Super Bowl and when that clock
goes to zero, the floor is ours. Thank you everybody
for joining us. Apologies for the audio issue. We'll be
back next week. Shout out bad Buddy Oh. Shout outs
to the Gore family too, Our condolences. You know, special player,
very special. It's very unique for his set of skills
(44:15):
to be able to take over a roster spot. And
I'm proud that he wore you know, the blue and
orange and uh and the and.
Speaker 3 (44:22):
The blue and red. Was a Cub for a few days. First,
I want to say first major league hit as a
Chicago Cub against Max Scherzer. I believe that was at
Wrigley Gore in his small stint in Chicago. It was
really incredible, really dope to have a guy like that
in the building. I saw Eric Cosmer, uh really really
was devastated by this. Ben Zobris, other guys too. It's
(44:45):
sad man. It's it's something that you really just hate
to hear.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
No, send in love to the whole family, and you
know it sucks. With that said, we'll see you next week.
There's nothing like you can't like from that. Yeah, but
like you said, that's why I go to a lot
of Irish funerals because uh oh yeah, you celebrate the
life and the love of the person.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
You don't even you don't even say goodbye, you just leave.
Speaker 2 (45:11):
You know.
Speaker 3 (45:11):
It's Irish, Irish everybody.
Speaker 2 (45:15):
All right, we're going to do one right now, so yeah,
mh
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