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Speaker 1 (00:07):
And welcome back to Let's Chat with Bran Tyler, also
known as the Pod. Today we are covering mostly just
the baseball regular season for the first full week plus
a few days and this past Nintendo direct to discussing
the switch to, and might cover a couple other things
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that are relatively notable from other professional sports leagues, but
for the most part, it's going to be mostly baseball related.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yep. So let's just get the short one out of
the way. The I'm just going to talk about the
title direct real quick. The switch to. They just announced
that it's going to be about four hundred and fifty
dollars market price for the switch to. The thing that
people are very mad about is you're not going to
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have actual carts. You're gonna have like a key card,
go whatever.
Speaker 1 (01:02):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
And then the games go from eighty to ninety dollars MSRP.
That's max. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
It is like eighty bucks for the digital copies, max
ninety bucks for physical copies max of physical air quotes,
because they're just game keys where you just plug that
into the system and then you sold download off the
airnet and then it's saved on that game key cartridge.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
And here's my thing, there's fort switch to there really
is no point in getting a physical copy because you're
not getting the cakes, You're just getting the key card.
Speaker 1 (01:41):
Yeah, and like they're usually leasing a enhanced edition for
a Breath of the Weld. They're doing that for Legend Za.
And then Mario Kart World is eighty bucks. If you
bundle it with the system, then it's thirty bucks cheaper.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, thirty bucks cheaper. That doesn't matter better, you're still
paying five hundred something bucks because.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
The tax, yeah tax. Yeah, that they use expensive monster
and they get like the game prices are back to
what they were back in the mid nineties.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
Really, like you could get the KI for like one
hundred bucks back then.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
And then, like I said, you don't need the physical
copy because I don't think people usually buy the physical
copy to have the case and the box aren't.
Speaker 1 (02:30):
For the most part these days, Like there are some
people like yeah like physical copies that way, I feel
like I actually own my games both they're downloaded on
your system and they're not a multiplayer only thing. You
can still access them after let's say they're taking off
the marketplace. Just make sure they're backed up.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Yeah. I don't know what Nintendo was thinking, but this is.
Speaker 1 (02:48):
Like, yeah, okay, this is this is probably the poorest
decision they've ever made. And that's why I just like,
I read an article today where they're in they did
like a war room crisis mode situation. The last time
they lowered the price on their system was a three
DS when that first was supposed to launch. And when
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they did that, the CEO of Nintendo took a pay cut.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Oh gee, how much of a pay cut?
Speaker 1 (03:16):
I don't know, I have to double check that.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, the three DS, I think that was. They're just
a normal one, right.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Yeah, the original three DS. They had to lower the
price and the CEO took a pay cut. And that
was like ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (03:32):
It was. It was hold on.
Speaker 1 (03:37):
It was three years before Nintendo like sold their majority
share on the Seattle Mariners and now they only owned
like ten percent of them and they're not the primary
owner anymore.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
It was it was fourteen years ago, February twenty six,
twenty eleven, is when the thirty S came out.
Speaker 1 (03:53):
All right, And that's when the CEO at the time
took a pay cut.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, and then they said we're going to make the
switch to more expensive in games more expensive, I go,
can you just put them back at thirty dollars please?
Speaker 1 (04:05):
Yeah, it's like for the games, like was it depending
on the company. I'm I can stomach seventy if it's
like a very high quality frum Soft thing.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
But I can't.
Speaker 1 (04:15):
I'm like that, then I'll be like, keep it at
like sixty, please, I.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Can't stomach at the eighty ninety dollars bs they're putting
out there.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And then that that makes you think, well, maybe GTA
might actually be one hundred bucks. I'm not buying it anyways.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
I'm not probably gonna buy it. I had my phone
with GTA five. I don't need GTA six. The only
reason why I would the only reason why I would
get it is for streaming. But I'm too small, so
it doesn't matter.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Yeah, so therefore why bother mm and then anyways other
and then like other major sports leagues, yesterday of Vechkin
broke the UH career goal record set by Gretzky by
one goal in the same amount of games played that
was the same.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Yes, congratulations to mister Alex Ovechkin. He broke Wayne Gretzky's
record when he set that back in the eighties and nineties.
You know, it took thirty five forty years. But it's okay,
right And and like.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
I said doing the D and D campaign when I
was extreming the game right next to my laptop on
the iPad.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Right right, I share this. But another regular season news.
We just had the first full week of the regular season,
which was which they call Benin week. It's not looking
good for the Chicago White Sox. They're two and seven
and on a five game losing streak.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Here, Oh did that? I wonder, did that get worse?
I'm pulling up the it got worse? Oh? You know
they're still two and seven that they haven't played their
their next game yet. The probably gonna lose that one.
Who are they up against.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Cleveland?
Speaker 1 (06:04):
Yeah, they're gonna lose. But then get the Ale Central
as a joke.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, well the Ale Central as a joke. But the
Tigers are actually doing pretty well in that division.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
As of right now. The White Socks aren't doing anything.
They did okay for what like three days and then
they just fell off planner.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Not even they did okay for two days because they
only have two wins.
Speaker 1 (06:22):
They're only oh my goodness, only two days. Hey, rhin
Storf should probably sell the team, although he was exploring
that option back in October.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
But here's the thing, they're not the worst team in
the league. You want to know who takes that cake.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Let me take a wild guess. It's go ahead, Colorado Atlanta.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It's Atlanta with a whopping one in eight record.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
How would the hell is Atlanta one and eight. I
suppose they're going to get better over the during the
course of the season, but what the hell they sucked?
I mean right now? They do harvest their injuries.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yes, looking at the NL Central for so reason, the
Cubs aren't first. Don't worry that'll get worse.
Speaker 1 (07:04):
What's the acronym again? Completely uses by September?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
Correct on the team. Birds aren't doing half bad. They're
five and five five hundred percentile or five hundred percentage points.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Saint Louis's rebuilding Pittsburgh has been lost for years since
he's in constant state of retool.
Speaker 2 (07:27):
I'm surprised San Francisco is doing as well as they
are right now. LA was at the top for a while.
Speaker 1 (07:32):
Right, but how many billions of dollars or millions of
dollars and deferred money.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Yes, but San fran they went on a seven game
winning streak, Yeah they did.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And then when you look at the Al side, the
Red Sox are tied with Yankees for the top of
their division. But everyone from Yankees and lower is on
one of them moves in streaks. Baltimore, which only lost
one game out of the past well, okay, they're four
and six for the last ten.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
It's the same with the Ale West, with Texas, La
Angels and Houston on a winning streak, and the Athletics
in Seattle are losing.
Speaker 1 (08:15):
And what's really funny if the whole Texas Rangers thing
is they have the worst batting average in the league
right now.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah, but they won the World Series two years ago,
two years ago.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So I'm pretty sure the fans don't mind who won
it last year.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
Again.
Speaker 1 (08:31):
Oh, LA bought theirs. Oh that's right, money, they just
bought it exactly. Well, the Yankees by theirs too, but
it's not as egregious as the Dodgers where they'll just
go buy their out Japan.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
That's that's right. It was the La New York Yankees
World Series boycott. Oh yeah, no, it did not happen.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
You know, it did not happen boycotting that. And uh,
they need to put a thing where they put a
salary cap on deferred money. They need have a salary
floor of ninety five million year, a salary cap for
the team at two hundred and twenty million and leave
it alone for three to four years.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Yeah, they're not going to do that.
Speaker 1 (09:13):
And then you, of course, in an opening series in
New York for Yankee versus Milwaukee was the major introduction
to them torpedo bats.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I heard about that. What is going on with that?
Speaker 1 (09:28):
So with the torpedo bats, what it is they move
the weight of the bat from the head down to
the barrel, so that way you're getting more clean and
contact hits rather than having it having players get jammed
all the time or barely miss So this is just.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
The modern day corking of the bat. No, because it
actually fit.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
In the MLB's regulation for the bats.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I thought they were banning the torpedo bats.
Speaker 1 (09:54):
No, they were just like there's discussions that there should
be and then there's others that shouldn't be. Man At
our our favorite commissioner is like these things are good
for baseall, especially because they're causing controversy.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
Yeah, and that puts money in his pocket.
Speaker 1 (10:08):
And then they're thinking, after Manfred's gone, have a Tinasio
of Milwaukee possibly take over his commissioner. Lovely, But Manfred,
as we know, he did some good things while he's commissioner.
He did some other decisions that were absolutely terrible ideas,
like the runner on second base and extra innings when
it's not the playoffs, the expanded playoff format, but that's
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actually fine in my opinion. You could even I could
argue even adding one more wild card team to that.
The pitching clock was a good addition. They could extend
that a little bit so pictures don't blow out their
arms more otherwise the other and then the universal DH,
I'm just kind of indifferent on.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Universal DH makes sense. They've been wanting to do that
for like twenty years, and there was.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
A and there's each year there's less and less pitchers
who could hit anyways, Yeah, that's true, and then you
have these baseball odds like Otani. Yes, so just disregard those.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Was there anything else this week or is that pretty
much it?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Those were the major portions I'd say, we did a
pretty good overview of what happened, and I would say
in the future will probably end up happening is we'll
do a brief recap if anything major happened in the
baseball regular season, since we're both baseball guys and I'm
Later on this week in studio, we'll have doctor Mike
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Olson to talk about brass Ensembles Eastern Morning Brass. So
it's a pseudo part due from the previous episode as
well as stuff related to the Madison Symphony.
Speaker 2 (11:47):
Yes, and then after that episode on Thursday next week
we will not have an episode that is going.
Speaker 1 (11:55):
To be next week is next week's offense this Friday
for doctor Olson and then what was after restar again.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Uh, you have to schedule. I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
I think you. We were thinking probably something political in nature,
but we could also that is also up to change
depending what happens, right, I think that's how we're going
to be going about it. Anyways. If anybody else had
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Speaker 2 (12:50):
Unfortunately, yep, and we will see you on the next
episode yep. Boops h