Luke Arcaini on the Phillies, Eagles draft, and Sixers -- 4/27/24

#Phillies/#MLB Insider Luke Arcaini joins Mark Henry Jr. to talk all things #Phillies as they split a four-game series in Cincinnati before their current stop in San Diego and then Anaheim early this week. They talk the about the first month of the #MLB season overall, and then dabble in the #Eagles' draft as the #NFLDraft continues this weekend, #Sixers back in the series against the #Knicks, and more.

Episode Transcript

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a huge favorite short notice. Whatan absolute stuff coming on the show.
You follow on Twitter at Arcaney LukeLuke, thanks so much for coming on.
Man. Yeah, I got alittle late start to the day.
I woke up to a text aboutit now ago for the next little bit.
So that's what happens when the fieldsare on the West Coast, get

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you, especially when the Eagles aretrading back twice in the third round.
You're you're waiting on baited breath forthat the film Good Night like that feels
that Fields game was long last night, by the way. It felt like
Yeah, I mean, granted theyhit, they hit, they hit that
many home runs. Yeah, yeah, that one did feel that one did
feel a little long last night.I don't have a time. I might

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have one down here somewhere, butYeah, that that one felt that one
felt pretty long last night. Itdefinitely went three plus hours. It was
definitely like a pre pre pitch clock, pre pitch clock type type of time.
There felt like maybe it was justlate, I don't know, but
it definitely felt that one went longfor sure. But we got a lot
to talk about here obviously. Uh, the Eagles had the draft last night.

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We can get into that for alittle bit. Sixers not dead yet,
but we're gonna start off here.Who let the Phils get hot?
Luke, I don't know, notme. I got I guess the Rockies
in the White Sox. Yeah,that's exactly your answer. But no,
that they I mean they look theylook look really good. Uh. The
offense I think finally looks like whatwe we kind of wanted it to look

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like for those first twenty games ofthe season. I mean, when Nick
Castians is finally coming around, thenI think, you know, the offenses
is really back. He finally wentyard last night. That one had to
feel good for him or whatever yourthoughts are on Nick Casian. I know,
I know you're not a big castianisguy, Mark, but I know

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that one felt good for that wasthat was big. Yeah. I think
there were five home runs last night, Schwarber, Harper, j T.
Marsh Castianus so a lot of homers. I I guess Joe Musgrove is just
kind of washed. I don't likehe's just not what he used to be
anymore. He just he's just beengetting knocked around a lot. So definitely

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a good A good night for thePhills is sort of bounce back after that
okay series. But I think tonightshould be a good one. Ranger vers
Dylan Cease should be a very goodgame, probably a low scoring one if
if those if those arms are outthere like they've been the last few games.
Yeah, I mean those are twolike leading cy young candidates right now

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for sure. And I could tellI got Dylan Cease on the fantasy team
and our fantasy league over there.He's been absolutely killing it. And I
think Ranger was a steal for youthere. I think Cease is actually one
of the most underrated pitchers in theleague. Now. I feel like he's
not mentioned enough when we talk aboutthat top end talent because when he's almost
like one of the biggest names ofthe offseason, and then I feel like

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once he went to San Diego,he just kind of got like silent,
like there there was nothing really theretoo. It Yeah, it's because people
were sick of San Diego, likethey got rid of all those names.
But then they traded for season andit was like, oh okay, I
guess like so people just like oncehe went there. I don't. I
don't think people cared at all.But he has been absolutely killing it over
there. But you mentioned Castianos andyou're right, I'm not a Castiano's guy.
I think we're stuck with him.So I want him to get I

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want him to get going. Soand I do think he is a guy
who is streaky obviously, So doI think that the book is out on
him? Yeah. I think hehas to make some adjustments and hopefully what
we saw last night was the startof that. So whether why, whether
I'm you know, in a Castianosguy or not, it's definitely good to

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see him, you know, geta home or there. I think it's
definitely good for the confidence. AndI think that does matter with a player
like Nick, who I don't thinkthinks all that much when he goes up
to the plate, as he wouldtell you, I think so much of
his game is just confidence and isfeeling good and making adjustments. But yeah,
Nick, what do you think aboutkind of the chances for us to
see I mean, we don't needto see him have the season he had

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last year. We just can't seehim have twenty twenty two. Like,
what do you think the chances arethat Nick turns us around and at least
brings it, brings it up toa respect the level. Yeah, I
mean I think it's I don't thinkit's gonna be a great season out of
him. I think he has thechance to kind of turn around and make
it a good one and an aboveaverage one. I don't really think anytime

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you get off to a start likethis you can have, you know,
your best season. I don't.I don't think anybody should expect that.
But Castianos, for probably the moston this entire team over the last three
years, what I've noticed is he'sjust such a like you have to watch
one go in type of guy.Like, just like you said, if

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you need to see a bet gothrough, just ben a heavy favorite,
like just go shoot a layup,like just to see one go through.
That. That's kind of what Castianoshas been uh, for the last few
years, because I think we knowonce Castianos goes, he he usually goes.
Last year's last year's playoffs, obviouslyhe had a bad end to it,

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but when he started, he wasthe best hitter on the team for
the first five games of the playoffs. So it's just a matter for him
of finding that that kind of groove. I think the home run last night
really helped. I think just obviouslycast Donis knows he can hit home runs,
but to to see himself finally doit again from I believe the last
one he hit was Game four thenl DS last year, game two of

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the NLCS, something like that.So it's been it's been a while for
Nick. But I think I thinkas long as he just sort of tries
to keep that consistency. He doesn'tneed to hit three hundred, right His
OPS doesn't need to be a thousand. If you can give me like an
eight hundred OPS after this start,then I'm cool with that. Right,
as long as he's giving you consistentproduction, because right now you have a

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back end of the order that's beenproducing boom in that in that five hole
right now has been probably the besthitter on the team, and you could
probably make an argument for bomb overover tray right now, random Marsh while
he's still striking out a lot,he's still putting the ball in play,
and he's and he's hitting for forway more power. I mean, his

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his home run totals almost matched lastyear's already. Even Rojas, who over
the last few days has has struggledto tad but he looked really good there
for those two weeks, and itfeels like he's kind of starting to turn
it around too. I think hisaverage is around like last time I checked,
it was like two sixty. Ithink it's down now, but it's

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better than I think a lot ofpeople expected, and all you really need
out of a nine hole. Soif if Castianas can just sort of have
that consistency going in the in theback half of this lineup, I don't
think there's any reason to worry aboutthe front half right now because they've been
hitting the ball really well. Soit seems like with Castiano's finally coming around,

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I think this is the first timeall year that you're really seeing all
nine guys maybe click at the sametime. And then you mentioned Alec Boom
there, I thought Jeremy was SchimanAnd sorry you mentioned Alec Boom there and
I've been longtime critical on Alec Boomand kind of he falls into the nic

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Casianos saying, I like my guyseither hitting for power or walking. Alec
Boom is doing more of both now. So it feels like Alec Boum has
really taking a leap. Obviously,the ops is now at a thousand,
which is just I mean, that'spretty incredible stuff for Alec Bohum there.
He's also he's not leaving the teamand walks anymore because Schwarber's been on a

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walk fest lately, but he's secondon the team and walked with fourteen walks
there. That walk grade is justway up on you from years past there
for Boom. What do you thinkhas changed for Bowm and is what has
kind of made the game slow down? He's been more selective with pitches.
He's waiting for his pitch and thenhe's driving it. Like what has kind
of changed where he's been able totake this step as a hitter? Yeah,

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I think he just sort of foundconsistency as well. I think he
found the right swing as in rightnow, and I think these guys kind
of noticed like anything that works atthe time, just just keep doing it,
like, don't change nothing. Baseballis a is a sport where once
you find something, you don't changeit. So I mean, Alec Bohm

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had a seven oh four OPS elevendays ago and now he has one thousand
OPS. April sixteenth, he hada three fifty six slugging percentage with a
seven oh four OPS, and onApril twenty seventh, he has a five
sixty eight slugging percentage with a thousandops. Uh. He has an extra
base hit in six games in arow four eight, ten, twelve,

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fifteen. He is nineteen hits inhis last like nine games. He's been
a multi hit, extra base hitmachine. And he's hitting every single ball
hard, which is the best thingfor Boom, which is what I've said
for years, Like I obviously Iwant Boom to go out and hit twenty
five thirty home runs, and ifhe keeps swinning like this, I think

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he can. But my favorite partabout this Boom hot streak is he's raised
his average eighty five points over thelast week and he hasn't hit a single
home run, doubles balls in thegap balls down the line, and and
every every one of them he's he'shitting at a at a very high speed.
As long as Boem can just really, all all I need Bone to

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do is just hit the ball hard, because with Boone's build and just how
he swings the bat, if hegets a hold of one with his swing,
it's gonna go out. So Idon't need him to try and hit
thirty home runs a game. He'sbuilt to hit home runs once the power
is there. So I mean,yeah, you couldn't have asked for anything
else than Boem over the last week. And to think that he was hitting

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like two twenty at one point thisseason is absolutely bizarre. Looke. We
talked a lot of hitting, butgoing to the pitching side, we have
guys like Ranger Suarez having a cyyoung, candid season already this early.
Zach Wheeler's pitching great, Aaron Nolais getting back into his you know vibe.
But Spencer Turnbull has a what aone point three to three r ray

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I think that's what around that range. What's going to happen when Taiwan Walker
is officially a part of this roster? What's going on with Taiwan Walker?
And Spencer Turnbull And what what shouldthe Phillies do? Yeah, so Spencer
Turnbull is gonna come out of therotation. I don't really I don't necessarily
agree with it. I listen,I get it from the nonsense. I

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get it from the injury standpoint.But it is it is, like you
said, sort of nonsense. Yeah, I mean, you're you're gonna take
You're gonna take a guy out ofyour rotation that signed for two million dollars,
has a one to three three er A, a point eighty five
whip. He's striking out eleven guysper nine thirty strikeouts and twenty seven innings.

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He's allowed thirteen hits all year.Like, and and you're gonna take
this guy out of the rotation,Like the dude almost threw a no hitter
last week, And I get it, Michael Lorenzen threw a no hitter last
year. But but Michael Lorenzen didn'thave a one three three e r A
when he threw his no hitter.It's it's insane. And listen, I
I get it. You don't wantanother It seems like how they worked last

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year with a himbrel. He threwa lot of innings the first three months
of the year, and I thinkthat that that had a big effect on
him. In September October, heobviously was was not himself late in the
season. And if the Phillies reallywant to have a another lethal arm in

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turn Bull, I get it,like you want to save the innings.
My my thing is, if TaiwanWalker is gonna come back into the rotation,
I need him to earn it,like I I don't. I'm so
over this. Just throw guys inwhenever they want because the amount of money
they make, And I get it, sports are a business. But if
if you have a guy that comesback and throws anywhere like he did last

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year with some like four to sevene r, you just can't look me
in the eye and tell me heshould be in the rotation over Turnble once
again. Taking this this whole injuryand the innings limit out of it.
Right now, I kind of wishthey would let Turnber. I I want
them to kind of let him rolllike a little bit like I I I
almost wish they would kind of lethim go maybe until like a not as

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good start, and then maybe takehim out because it just feels like it's
it feels wrong to take a guywith his stats out of it right now,
and a guy for me too,that's been like I don't know if
you guys have really watched like hisstarts, like he's, dude, he's
a psychopath, like he is,Like he he led up a solo home

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run the other night. It wasthe first run he let up. He
went back into the dugout and he'sscreaming at himself and throwing against the bend
like he is a psychopath, andI absolutely love it. Yeah, he's
a nut, so I mean yeah, I mean he he's allowed four and
runs in five starts in twenty seveninnings, like it's it. It is
like there is no answer right nowto why they would take him out of

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the lineup. It's it's really justbecause time one. Walker is your fifth
slash fourth starter when he's when he'sheard or not. So it does seem
like Walker will a Walker will beout there Sunday. I can't imagine he's
gonna be out there throwing like likeninety ninety five pitches. Could they turn

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this into like a piggyback sort ofthing, maybe maybe with like a Walker
four innings Turnbull two to three typeof thing every five days. I could
see them doing that, but it'sjust tough, man. It's it sucks
that that this guy isn't going tobe in your rotation the next week.
And it sucks to just kind ofmess mess with the vibes. I'm a

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I'm a big vibes god. Yeah, and like it sucks that you have
to you have to change anything withthis rotation. I I also just don't
get it because you know, they'reworried about Spencer Turnbull with like his you
know, worrying about his past injuries. Tylan Walker is coming back from an
injury right now. You're gonna haveto worry about that with Tylan Walker,
a guy that hasn't proved himself ina couple of years. And it's not

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like Spencer Turnbull just had a oneor two game stretch where it's like,
oh, he's looking really good rightnow though it's been a month now.
This has been five consecutive starts whereSpencer Turnbull literally looks like an ace in
those five starts. Yeah. Sothat was the thing when when after his
first like two starts, I waslike, all right, like this is
like this guy's pretty good, Likeyeah, but at the time, at
the time, I was still like, all right, and Walker, it's

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gonna die down. Yeah, it'sbeen it's been twenty seven innings and he's
four and runs, like how muchlonger can this go? I don't know?
And and let's find out, though, let's let's push him and find
out, see how long it comein. I'm not arguing with you.
I'll come in. I just don't. I'm in the middle of if the

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Phillies want to push him to thatlimit, because maybe it's a I don't
want to kill your confidence thing andpush you to a bad start, but
I think taking him out of thisrotation is just gonna kill his confidence even
more so. I don't know.It's a weird situation, but it seems
like Walker will be out there onSunday. I think Rob Thompson said he

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will throw at some point next week. Uh, Herbal, I have a
feeling he's gonna kind of be thatrole of sort of like Ricardo Pinto,
but we'll actually be out there fora lot more innings than Pinto and not
just in like an eight run game. So yeah, I mean, it's
stinks, but it's it's kind ofwhat's what's gonna happen? So, yeah,

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I can't stand the decision. Butit's just them being afraid of Scott
Boris, I think, which stinksthat that's the case. But uh,
I wanted to real quick. I'llget back to the pictures because there's a
lot to talk about from that angle, but I wanted to real quick just
mention something I was actually talking Iknow reads for the other station. I
was talking to Jack Fritz about thisoff air, and we were kind of

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kicking around some trade deadline names andI couldn't help but notice that the Houston
Astros are seven to nineteen when itcomes to surprising team that's down in the
dumps. Maybe they could be outof it by the time the deadline comes
around. And there's a certain playeron the team who was pretty good against
us in the World Series, andhe I think is a contract expires after

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twenty twenty five. Obviously, everyonetalks about Mike Trout as a potential big
name to go big fish hunting.Is there any any interest in Kyle Tucker,
any potential for Kyle Tucker to kindof be available? Yeah, I
would love it. Trade he isa playoff machine. The second that dude

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gets October, he just goes nuts. Do I worry about adding another left
handed bat, Yes, but ina in a sort of time right now
where I think if there was aneed for this lineup once we get to
August September, I think it's anotherbig time right handed bat. But listen,

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I'm not I wouldn't turn down KyleTucker at all. I mean,
the dude's a freak. He lastyear's playoffs were a bit shaky for him,
but in the year he played off, he destroyed us. He went
off in twenty twenty one. Thedude just mashes home runs like and when

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he hits him, they go reallyfar. I think he hit two against
US in Game two of the WorldSeries. Yeah, it's listen. I
take it that that would obviously dependthat would probably come with a Castianos trade,
I would assume, because I mean, I don't think you can bring

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Kyle Tucker in and like bring themoff the bench. Well no, no,
I think Rojas would probably be theone who would who would probably go
to the bench. I love,Yeah, I mean as long as he
would play left. I mean,he he plays a good amount of right
field. Yeah, as long ashe was able to play left, you
could put him in left and andhave Marsh back in center. I'm not

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against it at all. I Imean, yeah, that would be I
would not I don't really have anyother words I would. I would not
say no to that one. Anyother names out there, Like obviously everyone
brings up Trout, everyone brings upTucker, and I think before the before
the offseason, people were bringing uparms. I think there's a zero percent

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chance that the the Phillies would makethe big, the big trade for another
arm at this point. And it'skind of funny, like looking back at
that wanting to sign Blake spell periodof time where Blake Snell has like a
twelve v R and he's now onthe I L and we've got all these
five guys killing it, and we'reupset we're taking someone out. Like it's
kind of funny looking back on it, that we thought starting pitcher was a
need. Jordan Montgomery's killing it,So I will I will give that credit.

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We could still use him, butI think it's got to be a
bat and I don't see the spotin the infield that anyone can be replaced
so it feels like the only upgradethat you can really make outside of the
obvious bullpen and it's hard to getlegit top end bullpen talent because most of
them are on good teams. Butin terms of like, I think it's

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got to be a left fielder,center fielder, and you know, at
the expensive Ross who I love andobviously I think he's legitimately the best defensive
baseball player I've ever seen, like, not the center fielder, like,
no, no, he's the bestdefender I've ever watched play baseball, Like
I've never seen anything like it.He's truly special. But if you could

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make the upgrade into Kyle Tucker andmarsh still plays a very good center field,
I think that's something you would haveto look into or it's a bad
similar to that, Yeah for sure. I I I still think right now,
I think they're gonna try and getone more bullpen arm I think,
yeah, for sure, one more, I think, And I think they

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know they made that mistake last year. They had to rely a lot on
a on a some twenty one yearold kid who got drafted eight months prior
to the playoffs that they had torely on him way too much, so
I I think, uh, rightnow, I I think it's bullpen,
but I think you could possibly seea bat as well. One game that

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sort of stands out for me,and it depends on where they end up.
A med Rosario Tampa Bay Rays lastplace right now. Don't think they
expect to win the division. Don'tthink they expect to get a wild card
spot right now, because the AmericanLeague has been been pretty awesome this year
so far, Orioles, Yankees,even the Red Sox have been like,

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okay, I thought the Red Soxare going to be horrible. Granted it's
not even May yet. But aMedversaro is a name for me that I
that I think will probably get dealtat the deadline if the Rays are are
down at at that time. Uh. He is an eight thirty five oh
ps this year, mainly a rightfielder. Can can probably get into left

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if the Phillies would would sort ofneed him to. But I mean that's
a name I do like yours.Like you said with Tucker, I really
haven't thought a ton about the tradedeadline yet, but I think once we
get there, preferably and and andhopefully for me, it would it would
be a right handed bat and onemore bullpener. One more name I'll throw

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out there, and this is kindof a pie in the sky one even
though he's been terrible this year isRandy Orris Arena would would be another name
i'd throw out there. I don'tthink he's locked up long term actually,
and we all know that Tampa lovestrading their guy is right before you'd have
to pay them. And it's alittle bit of a weird situation. I
think it's Ops is a shit likefour thirty this year, he's been really

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bad. He's been horrible. Ithink ultimately he probably hasn't totally forgotten how
to play baseball. Yeah, sohe's a free agent after this year.
Wow. Definitely a name that ifthe Rays are down, they could try
and get some value before before hewalks, because there's gonna be a team
next offseason that'll give him way moremoney than the Tampa Bay Rays will ever
give a free agent. Yeah.So, yeah, that could definitely be

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a name. I don't think he'sgonna be a four to eighty seven OPS
guy for the entire season. Ithink Hold definitely find it considering he was
in like MVP talks like last yearat some point. So yeah, I
think that'd be a fun one.He's dude plays with it like dude the
monster when he's out there and whenhe's playing his best, and in the

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postseason too, he's he's disgusting inthe postseason as well. Red Rose.
Oh yeah, and he like hejust played like I don't know, I
feel like that's sort of like attitudetype of thing that he plays without on
the field. Would would kind ofgive this this locker room a little like,
damn, this guy can hit typeof thing. Yeah, but I'm
I'd be in on that as well. Granted, I think this does come

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with where the Rays will be bytime we get to, you know,
July fifteenth, at the end ofJuly. So but yeah, a Rose,
Arena, Rosario Tucker, any ofthose three, I would be happy
with that. I think all youhave to do with the trade deadline,
Detroit won't be good anymore, andyou go take as many of their bullpen
arms as you can. I don'tcare if it's John Foley, I don't
care if it's Andrew Chafin. Takeone, two, three, Take any

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of the Detroit bullpen, anyone fromthe Detroit bullpen, and this team will
be better. They are so goodover there in Detroit. Now I would
take a bat from there too.Yeah, anyway, they have some good
bats this year. Yeah, they'replaying I would love. I think the
Tigers are gonna be probably a maybea pretty popular team with the deadline,
I think too well. They they'vebeen you know, okay, I don't

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think they expect to maybe get intothe playoffs if they're If they're looking to
trade maybe one of their big bats, I would look at definitely one of
them, whether it's a Mark Kana, whether it's a Fencers. I don't
think they would get rid of Carpenterprobably not maybe, but yeah, they're
their teams are young. But JakeRodgers at catcher, I know, we

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don't need a catcher, but evenhe's fantastic. They're everyone on their team
is just they're good. The Tigersare a decent team, but I just
I think they're too young to beable to hold up for that long through
the entire season. And I thinktheir bullpen, they're older guys that they
need to get rid of, youknow, they can get more value for.
And I think they'd fit Philadelphia sowell. I want, I want
John Foley. He's so good.You mentioned kirk Or earlier, and I

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just want to say he might nevergive up a hit again. He might
just be the first player just nevergive up a hit. I mean,
he's given up one this year.It's healthy, it's insane. That's the
best slider I've seen in my entirelife. He's got. That's one of
the best pictures I've ever seen.Ever. They need to use him in
higher leverage situations. I think he'sgonna be He's gonna be your second most

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used writing by time you get theJune. Yeah, it'll be. It'll
be him and Hoffman, Alvarado andStrom and then Soto. Yeah. But
yeah, I mean he's been he'sbeen disgusting. And obviously they're keeping the
seat worm for my guy, AndrewBolotti in the in the I don't even
know if he's even in the gameon October October twenty twenty two, Andrew

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Bilotti. Man, do we stillhave tell stories about? What about twenty
twenty two? Connor Brogden, Let'stalk about Oh jeez, the one that
guy. Man, it's it's sad, man, it really is. I
don't I would love to know whathappened, like, I just I don't
have an answer. I don't likehe just he didn't have any turn on
anything and everything was flat like butat least Brogdon got so many chances.

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Bloody was up for like a couplebad outings in his next year and never
got back up like killed killed springtraining, never didn't make the roster.
I don't get it. I loveAndrew Bilotti. Dude makes people strike out.
I wish they'd give him a chance. I can't believe in twenty twenty
four. But uh, but oneone last question on the field. Aaron

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Nola, I mean three straight startswhere he's gotten a pitch in in the
eighth inning. I mean that Ithink that. I saw the stat Aaron
Nola has had more starts into theeighth inning than any team in baseball,
which that seems like an insane stat. I don't know if that's true or
not. I saw someone tweet thatout this morning. I can turn that's

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unbelievable. I mean that's it's it'sthe first time ever in his I believe,
ten year career now that he's gonethrough eight innings and back to back
starts, so it's he's been nastyand the fact that he has the highest
e RA in the starting he isabsolutely discussed because people are giving it to

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him, being like, oh,I mean, of course Nola has to
be the one struggling, but he'snot even struggling, like he's playing so
well. It's just how other guysare just balling out. Man, I
kind of terrible start. I thinkearlier you were the one that that that
either replied to one of my tweetswith the Nola being last in you I
hate it, like I really hope, like nobody takes us as a shot

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on Nola is like this, Likewhat I put in there is like that
is like historical stuff going on exactlyexactly bizarre. It's only driven down because
he had a bad start in fortyfive degree weather against the Braves were the
best lineup of all time, andthey beat him up in his first start
when he was three miles per hourlower than his normal velocity. Like,

(28:48):
if you took that first start out, I'd be curious what is what is
era would be. But we're gonnatake a quick break, Luke, you
want to stick around and talk somesixers. I got absolutely nothing to do.
Let's talk sexer not dead yet.On the other side, we're talking
about the Sixers. Stay tuned theTough Caver Radio Show back after this on

(29:10):
the Gambler. Welcome back to theTough Cover Radio Show. If you're listening

(29:33):
to an iHeartRadio, keep listening absolutely. But I'm gonna play something real quick
through Twitter. We're streaming on Twitterhere on the Gambler account. The Eagles
just tweeted out the phone call withJal's funt as incredible. It's incredible.
I I didn't love the pick,I'll be honest, and you know I
do all this, all this breakdownand stuff, but I always say,

(29:56):
you get to a certain point inthe draft, you can't get too upset
and they make a pick, obviously, especially when the first two you love
so much. I'm willing to lethow He cook a little and Big Fangio
love the guy, so whatever,they can take a chance, and there's
guys still on the board. Iwould have taken over him, but I
might be in on the pick nowafter how he answered the phone call from
Howie Roseman. And that's what I'mgonna play right now. Get what's going

(30:21):
on, man, It's Howie,what's something big? We won't pick you
right here, brother, that's allI'm gonna play. That's all we need.
I don't know. We obviously didn'tget to the later part of the
video, but they they would nothim. His family would not stop yelling,
and Nick Sirianni said you go enjoythis moment. We'll talk later.

(30:45):
And he said, hey, coach, I need the playbook asat he couldn't
get anything else out, like everythingelse, give a playbook in the playbook.
But yeah, I think Howie.We can all say, Howie Roseman
is officially how Hee big pimp andRoseman. Uh, he is a big
pimple name going forward. Add thatto the add that to the h the

(31:07):
fan cam that the the Many Menby fifty cent fancam by Howie Roseman,
what's up, big Pimp? Andthen just dropped the fifty cent uh you
know the beat to that Many Mensong? Oh my god, how I
love how he looked like shook theretoo. He didn't even know how to
respond. He just started laughing alittle bit. He's like, you're going
to be an eagle. It's sofunny because obviously, like I always talk

(31:29):
about, like my favorite athletes inthe city, the Mount Rushmore. Howie
Roseman's like more important than any athletein this city. It is so funny,
like just having a GM who's soaggressively competent as Howie Roseman is,
and hey has how he nailed everydecision ever. Absolutely not. That's what
being a general manager is. Andnobody's been more critical of the Jordan Davis

(31:51):
pick over Kyle Hamilton than me.But you can be critical of into individual
picks and ideologies while also pointing athow he and saying, you know what,
overall, it's a pretty incredible jobthat he's done. Obviously, getting
Jalen Hurts in the second round peopledidn't like it at the time turned out
to be a pretty incredible value.And something I'll say I said it last

(32:13):
night on the EP Sports stream beforewe get over to the Sixers. Something
I'll say when it comes to Howie. The things that we criticize Howie on
and I think they're valid at times, Howie takes that criticism and learns from
it. Generally, if something biteshim, he comes back and learns from
it. For years, we criticizedthe way he valued the wide receiver position

(32:35):
and the way he scouted the widereceiver position. Came back out drafted DeVante
Smith. The next year, tradedfor aj Brown. I was very critical
all off season on the lack ofvalue he placed on dB. What did
he do? Came out and draftedquing on Mitchell and then drafted Cooper de
Gene. He learns his lessons andhe corrects, if not over corrects at

(32:55):
times for those kind of mistakes oryou know, different is an opinion he
has with the general consensus. SoHowie brought though man, big pimp,
real quick. Mark. I know, obviously you're probably the biggest draft Sickoh
there is. Troy Franklin just wentto Denver, so they reunited him with
Bonix as I believe that was thefirst. That's great. He was my

(33:17):
number one o'reall player available going intoDay three. I had him number thirty
on my big board, so Iactually only had twenty three guys graded as
actual first round prospects, But ifyou just go by the numbers, I
technically had him graded in my firstround at number thirty. So yeah,
I mean that's an incredible value.Good job by Denver, and obviously you
get bo Nix. Someone he's familiarwith. I'm not a bo Nicks guy,

(33:38):
but I do think Sean Payton isa heck of a at least offensive
football coach. So Bnicks has apretty easy system to learn, I guess,
and at least he gets some familiaritythere. But we could talk some
drafted. Luke came strapped with picks, and I've got some picks as well.
We've got to get to that realquick. I said, we're going
to talk sixers, though not yet. They won Game three, and here

(34:04):
we are, and it's I saidthis about game two. I said,
the winner. What's that? What'sLuke? What's that? This little string
that you can't see they're hanging onright by that little string. I know,
man, It's where I'm at,not dead yet. And I watched
on mute during the draft. Duringour stream, I said I wasn't gonna
watch. I lied. I watchedthe whole entire games. Did missa dribble.

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But I think now that means Ihave to watch on mute for game
four. I think I can't havethe sound. I have to mute it.
So absolutely yeah, I'm gonna sitright where I'm sitting right now.
Here's where I was watching, soI won't move. So but that's what
I'll do. But I said goingin the game two, if they win
Game two, they win the series. If they lose Game two, the
series is over. There's part ofme I can't lie. And I said

(34:50):
it to Jeremy. I. Idon't think I said it on the show.
I think I said it off air. But there's a part of me
that thinks Game two there's no thatjust becomes a footnote, there's no way.
Game two just becomes this like,oh, remember when they tried to
screw us and we we won?Anyway, Like I just I've been here
too long. Maybe I'm too pessimisticbecause of what this franchise has put me

(35:14):
through. I struggle to be like, yeah, that's just gonna be some
water under the bridge. Like tome, that seems like something I'm gonna
be telling my grandkids about, Likeit seems like a nightmare that I will
be talking about forever. Jeremy's onyou talking we've seen this movie before.
Yeah, yeah, that's where I'mat as well. Then that's my thing
too. It's like we and Isaid the exact same thing you did.

(35:38):
I said, if they if theydrop both, they go down to Oh,
I think the series is over,but I just don't. I don't
know, like I I just don't. I get it and beat and Beat
had one of the best playoff hisbest playoff game ever, one of the
best we've seen from a Sixer.You didn't healthier for whatever reason. He

(36:00):
didn't. He wasn't he didn't lookgimpy, he wasn't lumbering. I mean
maybe that extra day, yeah helped. But all right, if I see
these two teams for what four moregames, yeah, I don't see.
I just don't see this Sixers teamout. The biggest thing for me right

(36:22):
now is that the Knicks just looklike they want it. More like they're
beating us to every loose ball.They're winning every fifty to fifty. They're
diving on the ground for the likethey they're playing. What it looks like
to me is it looks like theKnicks are playing playoff basketball and the Sixers

(36:42):
are playing a really important regular seasongame. It's a good joame that.
That's kind of what it feels liketo me right now. Now, Like
maybe after maybe after Game three,maybe Nick Nurse went in there and he
ripped them a new one and said, now go do that for the next
four games. And I hope hedid, because, like some much,
he needed to say something even afterthey won, because first of all,

(37:04):
that game shouldn't have been that closein the first place. They should have
ran away with that game. Now, the rebuttal, the slight rebuttal,
is that even with that, andI agree, I tend to agree with
you on the effort point. Ireally do tend to agree with you.
I still think like they're up toone. The NBA just decided they're not.
So Like that's the crappy part thatI struggle with. Like they did

(37:27):
enough to win Game two. Theywon that game in my eyes, as
crappy as that sounds, I knowit sounds like loser stuff. I don't
care if it's if it was adifferent situation, if it didn't happen on
the last play of the game whenwe were up five with thirteen seconds and
then you're up Like, there's justthere's no scenario where they should have messed
up the Josh hart fal call,the Jalen Brunson foul call, and then

(37:49):
not calling the time out, notcalling even the foul that they said and
be fouled Devincenzo. If that happens, they go to the line for two
and you know, they tie thegame instead of a leak out three.
Like it was just the worst possiblescenario. And I truly think they were
screwed. So even with the effortpoint, even with the fact that I
think maybe we've been outplayed in certainaspects and a lot of aspects, I
still think they should be up toone. Yeah, Like it feels it

(38:13):
feels like the way these games haveended, and and not even how they've
really played in the games. Itfeels like how these games have ended.
If you took the last three minutesof each game and I didn't know what
happened. They should be up toone, like they they should be up
to one. They should have thechance to go up three to one,

(38:34):
and all they have to do iswin one game of a best of three
for the last three games. Butthat's not the case. That's why I'm
so and like that's the thing.So like they I mean, they lose
tomorrow, it's done. Did theylose tomorrow, It's done that they lose
any of their remaining home games.This series is done. It's hard to
win five games in a seven gameseries exactly. And and my thing right

(38:55):
now is with this just kind ofgoes on top of this, this kind
of getting out hustled things. Idon't see them going into Madison Square Garden
and taking a game. That's that'swhere my issue is right now. I
just don't. I don't think thatthey will. And if they like,
I think they can. Do youwant to hear a wild take, Yeah,

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I think it's gotta be game sevenfor it's not based in anything,
by the way, it's not basedin any logic. I weirdly think the
only way it'll happen is if theyhave games because because then you then you
think about it like this, ifwe win someday series tied to two,
Knicks aren't gonna drop three games ina row. I agree, they're gonna

(39:37):
win game five, We're gonna comehome. We're not gonna lose a game
six. Do or die to theNew York Knicks at home? I agree,
then they have to. Just Jeremydidn't like that take. Jeremy thought,
maybe we will. You just saidwe won't lose a game six,
and my heart just drops when we'retalking about game six. Been pretty good
in Game six is Game six ishaven't been the problem generally. I know

(40:00):
can't do it anymore, man,I can't. It's just heartbreak. If
they're heartbreak, and I felt sogood before this series is just anything that
can be said right now, I'mjust please, please to get the cart
crushing Game seven exactly. That hashappened. So I'm just I'm over it,
man. I would need somebody else. I need somebody else to do

(40:21):
something. They're not gonna and that'sthe problem. And I actually think,
like I agree with you in parton the effort point, but I don't
think that's the problem. I reallythink the problem is the Sixers have two
good basketball players. I think theproblem is they're not good enough. We
think this team is better than theyactually are. But saying that for months,
I my think on that would beI just don't think there's any great

(40:43):
teams besides the Celtics exact. That'swhy that's why it's so frustrating, because
I we're not that good. Wereally are not that good in other years.
I don't think we're getting up upfor this, but I don't think
the Knicks are that good like weshould be up to one on them and
they've outplayed us, Like I don'tthink the Bucks and the Pacers dose teems
stink. There are the other nightthere are four. I'd have to go

(41:07):
back and really look at the rostersand think about it, but I'd be
willing to say, off the topof my head, I think there's four
MB rosters of his career that Ithink could beat this one. I agree.
I agree someone with that is Maxiemight be better than any second guy
he's ever had, but the depthmight be worse. Somethow and we and

(41:27):
and and I was I was toldfor the last two months, this is
the deepest the Sixers have ever been. Buddy, non factor. Your biggest
trade deadline acquisition of the last twoyears has been he's been a ghost.
Although that good, so I guessit kind of like's been the guy that
you got from the buyout market hasbeen better than your biggest trade deadline thing.

(41:51):
Like, by the way, theone thing I'll say to the Sixers
favor if if Nick figured something outand we're on the camp paying campaign,
I'll get on the campaign trail man. I will. I'm absolutely down.
Stop playing Buddy like he shouldn't seethe field, the field the rest of

(42:12):
the series. It's just so crazythat that we're at that point. It's
just, really, what do youexpect. It's the Philadelphis hand. I
know, it's just Buddy Heal.We're talk about Buddy. He would come
to the Sixers for years and ithappens and right, and he's just what
happened. He was God's gift tothis earth for the last three years from
Sixer strands and now he can nowhe can't make a three of his life
depended on three weeks ago, beforeDrolling Bid came back, I was like,

(42:36):
wait till wait till embiid comes back, and Buddy Heeld's gonna be you
know, he's gonna fit this rosterso well. And now we're begging for
him not to see the court retreatinghim like Tobias Harris like, yeah,
we talked to I was like,right when that Buddy Hill trade happened,
I was like, I was like, it's good. I'm just I'm not
sold, Like I'm not sold ona trade deadline. That just just gets

(42:59):
me. Buddy Healed and that andthat was before all of this happened,
and I get it underbuttle back wasit wasn't a good trade deadline. There
wasn't that many big of players thatgot dealt. But I was like,
it comes to a point where likeI don't know, Like I'm not some
basketball expert, like I watched basketballall the time, but I'm not some
in depth at like R. Moorehas to find a way, like you,

(43:21):
you have to find a way tomake this team better, and like
I don't think they're that much betterthan they were before the trade deadline.
I would love Marcus Morris on thisroster right now. Every buddy I think
he stinks too. I think hedoes too, But Buddy Yil has made
one shot in three games, SoI like my chances of Marcus Morris making
two. I agree that's fair,that's fair. I don't think he'd even

(43:42):
be playable either. My problem isRicky Counsel, what does the guy have
to do to get on the court. Let's try something. Why not try
all with Joel? If Joel's gonnaif Joel's gonna shoot threes like this,
there's no reason that you can't tryPaul with Joel because if he's gonna be
out there, that Joelle's spacing thecourt, Like I really wanted them to

(44:06):
try that tomorrow, and I reallywanted him to try at Game three.
They're not going to because Nick thinksPaul's and moron and he is, but
and I love him. I lovethe guy. He's basketball Paul. His
first name is literally the sporty plays. But I mean, I I think
Nick sees him make some of theseplays where he like gets a rebound,

(44:29):
spin, moves, cooks, andthen throws up a hook shot and sometimes
it goes in. But Nick islike, oh my god, I just
had a heart attack, Like everytime he touches the ball. I think
every time he gets the ball hewants to cook. I'll give Michael Vin
credit for that one. It's justhe wants to cook every single tie the

(44:49):
ball. But somebody else cook otherthan beat him. Maxie, Like that's
what I'm saying. I'm try itbecause Tobias Harris is unplayable and we can
talk around it. We can talkabout Buddy Heal, we could talk about
the backup five, we could dowhatever we want. Tobias Harris is just
yeah. But it's just like Iand like I've been disappointed in Ubra as

(45:09):
well to like just only he Imean, he's only averaging one more point
than Tobias in one less minute.And I get Itubra is not gonna be
a twenty five game score He's andhe's on a VETMN but like, you
gotta like you gotta give something more. The weird thing about Ubre is not
a good defensive player. He wasso good the first two games on baron

(45:30):
game three not good. He startedBrunson for game one and two, like
really really well. Yeah, AndI think he's just at this point the
athleticism he has even if he's notscoring, even if he's not a viable
third option, Like he's the thirdbest player on the team. I think
him or Lowry like at the pointwhere like him and Lowry both have to
play like thirty five plus minute Butlike, isn't that, Yeah, it's

(45:53):
bad, doesn't entire issue. Theguy we got from the buyout market is
our third best player on our team. And and by the way, the
other big problem is the problem hereis that they traded James Harden for for
a fifth to sixth and an eighthguy, Like they were allegedly gonna flip

(46:14):
what they got for Harden into athird piece or into whatever to help this
team. That didn't happen. AndI understand that the deadline happened when Joelle
was up in the air, andI do think that that maybe impacted how
aggressive Daryl was going to be.But if that's the case, that means
we have to start focusing on theoff season. And that's a shame to
say that. And the series isn'tover, And Sean Bernard would be really

(46:36):
upset with the way that. DudeI couldn't imagine being a part of the
show right now, would be clenchingover there. He I'm not even that
negative. I think like I andlike I get it, Like if if
this was the Phillies right now,I would be talking into myself why they're
gonna win this series, like,but I don't know, man, Like
I I just don't feel I don't. There is no off thing like written

(47:01):
like past anything that they're gonna comeback and win this series, Like there's
not. And then I get it. If Bernard wants to say the Sixers
are the better team, that's fine. Sixers were better than Toronto in twenty
nineteen. They were better in twentytwenty one than the Hall. Like the
one thing I'll say so. I'mnot gonna say that they can't run there,

(47:22):
that I don't see it. Look, I think it's like a forty
chance. Like I think right now, i'd say it's sixty forty towards the
next But if the Sixers win Gamefour, I'll probably swing to sixty forty
for the Sixers. If they canfie it up and make it to too,
I'll talk myself in because they're gonnawin Game six like we said,
and then it just comes down toa Game seven. I think at that

(47:43):
point it's gonna happen again. We'regonna talk ourselves in here too. Here's
my getting. If you're so theSixers right now tomorrow minus one eighty six,
yeah, minus four and a halfright East playoff series, would you
instead of betting the game, yes, you consider looking at the series at
plus one ninety eight, yeah,one hundred percent instead of betting minus four

(48:06):
and a half too. I wouldrather just bet the series than I feel
good about having that number, andit will go back to minus it'll I
think it'll be even. If itwould, it would be a dead even
minus one ten or maybe one teamwill be plus one hundred or one team
will be minus one twenty. It'llbe bettable on either side. Even if
you want to say you bet theSixers to win the game and then if
you don't feel fully confident then towin the series after taking the series price,

(48:29):
then you could always come back inand bet the Knicks at that point
if they do win Game two,and if if they lose, and if
they lose Game four anyway, thenyou would have lost the game. Bet
anyway, and at that point atleast you have plus one ninety eight,
you're down three to one. Solike I think, no matter what,
it makes no sense to bet gamefour. I think you should just bet
the series prop. I'd like that. That being said, I'm probably gonna

(48:50):
bet Game four. But yeah,oh yeah, yeah, by the time,
by the time one o'clock hits tomorrow, oh yeah, we're all on
it already. I've been. I'vebeen a catastrophe when it comes to gambling
on basketball. I won't give aboutthe stats. Jeremy was dumbfounded, but
shock but real quick. I sawyou like a tweet I want to get
to the picks. I saw youlike a tweet that I think we have
a little bit of a disagreement,and I I disagree with trilbro Dude on

(49:14):
this as well. The last timeI talked to him, I don't think
we'll ever have me on again becausewe disagreed on it. I'm joking,
but Paul George is a big timeSixers target and the problem with that,
Luke, is we can't be outon every option options. I just I
don't see what's coming down the pikethat's better than Paul George. Like I

(49:36):
don't either, but I don't.I don't. I don't need a thirty
four year old that can't stay healthynext to a year old he stayed healthy
this year. Okay, there itis. I don't need a player,
another star stay healthy next to astar who cannot stay health well, to
be fair with that, if Joelledoesn't stay healthy, none of it matters,

(49:59):
right, correct. So you canmake that argument and then you well,
okay, here is where I will. I will be on the Lady
injuries. If Joel Embiid would gethurt, Maxie and Paul George would be
your best two three that he's had. But I still don't think if you

(50:20):
take him beat off the floor andyou put Paul George and they win this
series hurts the next I will justsay I think Paul George would Actually I
think we absolutely would win the seriesif we have Paul George. I will
say that we wouldn't have without embiid. Oh no, absolutely not, no,
no, they're not. Oh ifthey added Paul George. Oh,
I mean you're putting Paul George infor Tobias Harris. Yeah, you'd absolutely

(50:43):
win the series. Yeah I misunderstood. Yea, absolutely you'd win. You
may win five six. I willjust say, Paul George, the Lakers
are gonna get swept. That seriesis going to be over. I will
just say, Lebron stops come tocome to our album. I would there

(51:05):
would not be a doubt in mymind to go after Lebron before Paul George.
Oh I agree with that. Yeah, Like everyone like, like,
what's the besides those two? What'sthe other option? Like trading a million
picks for Michale You could do that. I don't know you could, No,
I know, I know, butthat he said, just not Paul
George. I'm fine with you.You're like you're a fan, like true

(51:29):
bro dude was like super anti PaulGeorge. But I'm like, what what
are they doing? He didn't havefree agent. Yeah, he didn't have
like the the next option. Andpeople are gonna say trade for Michale Bridges,
like and they could do that withPaul George anyway, Like you could
you could fit him in like butwhatever. Uh, I won't get too

(51:49):
far into that because you're just gonnagive up picks anyway for him. So
you could give up, like PaulReid a salary filler. You could take
him into the salary cap. There'sa lot you could do this off season
in terms of trades, but interms of the agency market, it's Paul
Georgia Lebron like or if you andif you don't get either of them,
we're left holding the bag again.We're left holding the bag again. Yeah,
draft BRONI I'm into it real quick. Let's run down the picks.

(52:10):
I'll give out Luke's NBA moneyline parlayand we could dive into some MLB picks.
Right after Luke has an NBA moneylineparlay calves Thunder Celtics Nuggets. I'm
dipping my toe back into the watersof NBA. I put a one unit
play in Thunder minus one that's allI have. I'm on the thunder.

(52:32):
I think I just don't think NewOrleans has enough firepower to do the usual
Game three kind of come back andyou know, get their one win for
a gentleman's sweep. I think Okacsweeps that series out in four. So
give me Okac in that one.So I'm with Luke on that play for
sure, and another play I'm withLuke on so not not exactly because he's

(52:53):
a parlay. Show. Hey,Otani's props today make no sense. I
I look at showhes props a lot. His home run will be like plus
two fifty, his RBI will belike minus one ten. His run will
be like minus one fifty. Sometimestoday I was able to get sho,
Hey Otani, let me get thisexactly correct here, plus four hundred to

(53:14):
home run, plus one seventy toRBI and plus one hundred to get a
run, you have Otani to geta hit. So I'm right there with
you. I love Show Hayes markettoday. Yeah, Show, I don't
know why those prices were like thateither, I was. I was looking
at them earlier. So I justdid get him on the hit with with

(53:35):
Hernandez as well, but I willgive a shout out to Joe Tanzy.
He completely called the Otani Revenge gameone last night home run, completely called
it had the home run prop thatwas solid there. Yeah, so running
down that real quick, Otani andHernandez hit parlay. I'm gonna go Saint

(53:59):
Louis this one thirty four. AdrianHawser hasn't been good, Honey, Gray
has so I'll take the Cardinals thereminus one thirty four. That one's kind
of just as easy as that forme. Altuve home run along with the
over in this game. So thisis that this is that game that they
play every year where the the altitudeis just absolutely absurd. So it is

(54:24):
in Mexico City. The over isat sixteen and a half right now.
I will be betting the over becauseit's just it's just fun. You just
kind of have to do it.So I'm gonna take the over there along
with altuve home run in that oneand then the under eight Kansas City and
Detroit just two offenses I don't reallythink are that good. And it's a

(54:47):
pretty good pitching matchup. If ifanybody I know, you guys probably know
book it with Trent. He hadthe under in that game. Uh the
opening series, he had under eight. It was one nothing going into the
ninth inning and they scored eight runsin the ninth inning to hit the over.
So that that that was pretty funnythe other day. But I'm gonna

(55:08):
roll with that under there. Ibelieve I got it at eight. Just
some two pretty good pitchers against twolineups I haven't really been that that good.
I would probably give the edge lineupwise, maybe to Detroit just because
they've they've had some guys with somepop, but that that's really the card
for me. And then the obviouslythe NBA money line parlay, and then

(55:34):
probably something on the Phills tonight.I haven't really dove into the Phillies yet.
Probably maybe the under, and Ibelieve Ranger suarez K's are only at
four and a half, so Iprobably look at that. He's been just
a strikeout guy for some reason thisyear, so I probably look at Suarez
there. But obviously, like wesaid earlier, Ranger Suarez versus Dylan Cease,

(55:58):
that's probably the best pitching matchup ofthe day I am, so I
wouldn't take necessarily much in that game. I would probably lean the Fills again.
But I'm gonna cry at Ranger Suarez'stwenty twenty four Cy Young celebration next
year on Opening weekend or whenever Isaid to some who was it? I
forget who it was that I Theprobably the most instant purchase that I will

(56:24):
ever make ever is a Ranger SuarezAll Star game. Jersey. Oh.
I love that instant like instant purchase. It is Ranger swarre is gonna be
an All Star and the dude mightfreaking win side. He's my favorite athlete
in the city. I really aproud father. But show hey real quick
on the stats there seven for twentywith three home runs, a double in

(56:46):
a walk against uc Kakuchi, Soreally really hits Kakuchi well, twenty four
runs in twenty eight games, sevenhomers, seventeen RBIs. I feel like
the odds are in my favorite withall three of those being plus money.
It's insane to me. I mentionedmy thunder pick at four to ten.
I like the Cubs money line atthe Red Sox. Former Phils prospect Ben

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Brown has been spinning it a littlebit. I think the Cubs are a
far better team than Boston. Bostonhas lost three of the last four Cubs
have won four in a row.I think Boston's cooling off. I think
that was an early season. Alexscore is a great manager there, they
were hitting pretty well. I thinkthey they're gonna cool off here. I
was very down on Boston. Yeah, before the season. They just they

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don't They don't have enough injuries,just don't have enough arms. They're going
to be a team that I thinkis going to very quickly crash and burn,
probably within the next month or so. The MLB should sanction the Red
Sox for not spending money. It'sabsurd. At eight forty, I have
the Phillies plus one hundred at thePadres Pitchers dual Dylan Sees has been cooking,

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but I think he's become underrated.Like I said, But Schwoarver's three
for four, two homers, adouble, and a walk against Ceas.
I could see him potentially being agood look at the in the market.
But he's like plus two twenty tohomer, so it's like he doesn't even
feel worth it. But maybe youtake a look at him, maybe throw
him in some parlays. I likethe Twins money line for two units.
Chris Paddock stunk to start the year. I'm hoping he figured something out with

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a great start against the White Sox, even though they are just the worst
team ever. The Angels stink tojust not as bad. My favorite pick
of the day d Backs money lineplus one forty at the Mariners. I've
always thought George Kirby was overrated.I just never thought he had like great
stuff. He had a really goodyear last year. I just I never
really saw it with him. He'sstunk to start the year. D Backs
have a prospect in there who hada great start in his first start to

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cony or I don't know if Isaid that right at all, but I
think there's way too much mystery withthe Diamondbacks being plus one forty. So
give me plus one forty for threeunits. That's my pick. So I
just realized what time it was,So let's take a quick break on the
other side. We'll wrap it up, we'll talk a little draft, and
I think Marky Pucks might make anappearance at the end of the show,
so we'll be right back after this. On the Tough Cover Radio show,