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February 11, 2020 • 48 mins
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Full time fantasy, Full time fantasy. Right, it's Dr Rodo.
Get out the insurance cards, get out the cope. The
office is open. My friends, you got a busy show today,
I really do. I've got my friend and hopefully your
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friends soon. Steve Carney from w d a E in
Tampa joining me, talk a little Tampa Bay raise about
it maybe two fifteen. I got Gray Albright from razzball
dot com at two thirty. Gonna be a lot of
a lot of baseball today. So let's kick it off
though with an interesting lawsuit that was filed. And I'm
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sure you guys have heard this, but if you haven't,
let me be the first to enlighten you. Mike Bowlsinger,
a former big league pitcher who spent time with the Dodgers,
Blue Jays and the Diamondbacks, filed a lawsuit Monday against
the Astros, and he's asking for close to thirty one
million dollars. And that's the money there in the World Series.
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Of course, they cheated to win, and bowl Singer feels
wrong by the Astros. That says here in this article.
Since he was sent to the miners in two thousand
seventeen after getting pounded by the Astros hitters at the height.
At the height of the science ceiling scheme, he never
made it back to the big leagues. So here's Bowlsinger
file the civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday,
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accusing the Astros unfair business practices, negligence, and intentional interference
with contractual and economic relations. Yes, Bowlsingers seeking unspecified ADAMA newses,
but then not all for himself. He wants the Astros
to forfeit the roughly thirty one million in bonuses from
their ill gotten World Series tunnel and for the money
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to go to charities in l A focused on bettering
kids lives, as well as to create a fund forty
baseball players who need financial assistance. There's a message to
be sent to youth out there, especially athletes. Right, it
was awesome to grow up and watch the game played
the right way. We've kind of drifted from that. So look,
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I respect bowl Singer. Here he's saying, Look, I don't
need the money, but let's give it to people who
do right and who could say no to bettering kids
lives with money that they got cheating. Part of bowl
Singer's case hinges on the research done by Astros fan
Tony Adams, who listened to every pitch Astros hitters faced
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at home in two thousand seventeen and counted all the
trash can bangs the team used to signal which pitches
were coming. Right. There was algorithms and spreadsheets, and they
used the video camera in the outfield. We know all this.
Once the Astros players knew pictures were coming, they banged
the trash kang. Just know if it was a breaking ball.
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You guys do all this right. Adams research showed that
the Astros banged of the trash can fifty four times
during in August four game against the Blue Jean Blue
against the Blue Jays, in which bowl Singer was the
picture that was the most bangs of the season for
the Astros. It's also a bad outing for bowl Singer,
who gave up four runs on four hits and I
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only got one out right, And he was sent to
Triple A after that game, never to be called up
to the big leagues again. After the season, no team
was interested in signing him, so he played in Japan, right,
and he actually was good in two thousand eighteen in Japan,
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was crappy in two thousand, nineteen. Bowl Singer told USA
Today that part of the reason for the lawsuit was
that players like him were cheated by the Astros too.
I don't think the punishment is fit the crime. And
let's be honest, all these guys are gonna get managing
jobs again, guys like us that were cheated. I don't
have a job, um not playing. Do we agree with
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Mike bowl Singer. Let me say this to you, if
I am the attorney the Houston Astros, there's no way
that this case makes it to trial. None, not a
This is a case that goes away. Here's the problem.
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The problem is if you pay Bowlsinger, do I have
to pay every single guy who feels that way. There's
got to be a class action suit, and so far
only Bull Bulsinger is the only guy who stepped up. Now,
if every single picture comes in who was affected, that
would change the class. But the problem is I can't
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let this go to trial. But at the same time,
I don't want to pay out Bowlsinger ten million and
pay the next guy ten million, the next guy ten million,
next guy ten million. At what point does it end? Right?
At what point does it begin? At what point does
it end. So it's a slippery slop slope it is.
I don't know where this goes. I believe that he
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has a case. Does Bolsinger have a case? Yes, he
has a case. They cheated. Now let's take a look
at what he's claiming again, he is claiming or his
uh yeah, unfair business practices. I think he wins on that. Now,
remember this is not beyond a reasonable doubt. And in
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the civil court it's not beyond a reasonable doubt. That's
criminal court. In civil court it's a preponderance of the evidence.
So is there a preponderance of the evidence that they
had unfair business practices? Yes? Yes? Was there negligence? Yes? Right?
Was what did they breach the duty? The duty was
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that he would have a fair game a pitch in.
Did the astros breach that? Yes, they breached that duty.
They owed him that they owed him a fair game.
Did he get that? No? And because they had to
advise him that he wasn't getting it, that's negligence. Now,
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I don't think he wins on intentional interference with contractual
and economic relations because I don't think it was intentional
to him. I think there was interference, yes, but not
to him directly, right, it wasn't intentional. Didn't wake up
and say, how do we screw Mike Bowlsinger's life. Let's
let's do trush cans and do that. So that's not
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gonna win. I don't think they get that one. But
I think unfair business practices and negligence, I think those
have a shot. I mean, the problem is this, Rob
Manfred has not punished the Astros appropriately. Pete Rose gets
a death sentence. A J. Hinch and Jeff Lune get
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you know, suspended for a year. Alex Cora, who knows?
I mean the higher I Ron Rednicki is a new manager.
But we still don't know what happened to Alex Cora,
do we? We don't know. But what about all the
aggrieved players? And nobody's talking about them. The only player
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people are talking abut him is Mike fires Oh that
guy ratted, dude, He was right to rat. These guys
ruined the careers of people. Seriously. Mike bol Singer goes, now,
look your job and and major League Baseball's tenuous at best.
The guys in his thirties, he gets rocked, and the
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Blue Jays A're like, you know, what he was hanging
by a thread. Anyway, Let's bring up this twenty three
year old from Buffalo, and let's get rid of this bump.
And now this guy goes to Japan, and now he
makes four hundred k in Japan, four hundred thousand yen,
and he could have made one point two million in America.
Well do we owe him that difference? Maybe he's got
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a case. They're gonna settle. Now here's what they're gonna do.
They're gonna settle, and they're gonna put a cap on it,
and they're gonna put a cap on Mike Bollsinger, and
they're gonna say, we're gonna give you X amount of dollars.
Shut up right, and you'll never hear about this again.
That's how it works. You hear about it now, it
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gets all the publicity. Now, and in four months when
the two sides meet, ball singer goes, I won thirty
one million, The astros go, we're gonna give you two
bull singers. Attorneys walk out of the room, going, that
will ever happen. Then, as we get closer to trial,
after the lawyers make all the money, because you know
who has to make money in this world the lawyers.
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Right as we get closer to the trial, they sit
down with both singer and say, look, dude, we'll give
you a cool million, make this go away. Sign something,
and ball Singer looks at his wife and she goes, honey,
you never to see another million bucks again in your life.
And he signs it, And what about doing good for theion,
for the kids. And then maybe, if ball Singer is
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a good enough guy, he says, look, give me one
million and put one million for like, you know, underprivileged
kids in l A. All right, maybe he gets two
million boomed done. Maybe, and there you go, and then
you never hear about this case ever again. But it's
a fair case and he's got a case. And the
truth is they should have done way more here. Baseball
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just wants us to go away. And do you know
how this goes away as quickly as possible by playing
the game of baseball. As soon as this season starts,
there will be other stories people will be talking about,
twenty eight other things they won't be talking about this.
But this is an a mega story and it's quite
shocking why it hasn't been a bigger story. This should
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be the biggest thing cheating in baseball. But we're like, yeah,
I've seen bigger, right, doesn't seem like it's be way worse.
This was point shaving and basketball. Don't you think this
would be major if abronze shaved points? Come on, people
go nuts. I know I would. The bargain that we
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get is that you see a fair game. The bargain
the pictures have is that it was a fair game.
Bargain didn't happen on both ends. It didn't happen all right.
But here's my bargain to you. My bargain is I'm
gonna call Steve Carney and during the break and we
come back, I'm gonna talk about the Tampa Rays. That's
my bargain. Will I fulfill it? I think so. I'm
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All right, but it required listening as to my friend
Steve Carney who's joining us. Steve, have you been? I'm good, Doc?
How are you body? I don't know. It feels like
it's been forever. The family is good, your life is good.
Everything is good. Everything is fantastic. Getting ready for another
season of Rays baseball. This will be my tempt here
covering the team. I had to port Charlotte for spring
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training in the morning. Wow, all right, Steve. It covers
them at w D at three and Tampa does an
amazing job. He has the pulse of the Rays on
at all times. So let's get to last weekend's trade.
Steve Amelio Pagan, shockingly to a lot of people, gets
traded to the Padres. Manuel Margo comes to the Rays.
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I think a lot of people question that deal. What
were the race thinking? Well? I think that and talking
with general manager Eric deanderbout it. Doctor. Uh. You know,
he felt like the Rays needed one more position player
to to be ready to win this year, and they
didn't really want to give up Amelia forgot. They've liked
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Manuel Margot for a while, and Meander said that he
tried to get Margot using just prospects, and the Padres
balked at it, saying they wanted a guy off the
big league roster. So you end up looking at the
bullpen and the way the race bullpen is stacked. Even
though Emilio Pagan had twenty saves last year. You know,
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they did closer by committee for most of last year
with Jose Alvarado and Diego Castio and even Oliver Drake
getting some opportunities to try and close out games. So
they felt that Pagan was probably losing. A guy like
Pagan was going to hurt, but it wasn't going to
be a death knew for their bullpen, because you think
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about it, they's still got a very very good bullpen
on paper going into even no they do. They do
have a very good bullpen. So let me ask you
this for the fantasy people out there, would you think
that Nick Anderson should get most of the saves or
do you think it gets spread out between Alvarado and
Drake and Castillo and Anderson. Yeah, you know, I think
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that they're going to I think early on They're gonna
try and and figure out if there's a guy that
they want to use as the ninth didn't guy uh
full time going forward? I mean you have to look
at go back to twenty nine team. They wanted Jose
Alvarado to be the number one guy, to be the
ninth inning guy out of the bullpen. The problem wasn't
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after a very good start. His first four weeks were
fantastic thing, but then he ends up having a family issue,
goes back to Venezuela and missing three weeks. He comes back,
he was out of shape, Uh, strange and oblique mrs
five weeks, comes back, it's just five games and hurts
his elbow and he's done for the year. Uh. They
want to make sure that whoever is going to be
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that ninth inning guy uh is healthy the complete year through.
And Alvarado has gotten all those issues now put behind him.
His parents got moved out of Venezuela to the United States.
That's one less thing he's got to worry about. He's
already in camp and looks fantastic. So I think that
Alvarado is gonna get a good chunk of it. Diego
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Castillo is gonna get a good chunk of it. I
think Anderson will get a little bit of it, but
I think that they liked his role as the eighth
inning guy, setting up guys like Alvarado and Cassio. Alright, Steve,
this wasn't the only deal that the Rays made this offseason.
They also made a big trade getting Jose Martinez, and
they made a trade for Hunter renfro. So let's break
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down each deal. Firstly, the trade with the Cardinals getting
Jose Martinez. Martinez very good against lefties, as is Marco.
It almost feels like the race have a left handed
lineup and a right handed lineup. Yeah, it certainly does.
Doc And the one thing that they liked, on top
of the fact that they can use Jose Martinez against
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a division that you know, when they got Martinez, they're thinking,
you know what, we've got to face Chris Sale and
David Price and James Paxton and Jay Hap and John
jin Ryou and all of these left handed arms that
are gonna be and and guys like John Means as well.
Don't want to leave him out. You know, they've got
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all these left handed arms in the American League East.
We need a guy that punishes left handed pitching, and
there's really nobody better than Jose Martinez. The problem has
been with St. Louis is they had no place to
play and because they would have to put him Uh
in the outfield or at first base. And let's face it, guys,
the defensive liability doesn't have to worry about that. In
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the American League's they can use him as a d H.
They also really like Randy Rosarina. They feel he can
he can play all three outfield positions. Probably gonna start
the year at Triple A now with the acquisitions made
later on in the off season, but I certainly think
that this is a guy that they really like what
he did at the end of last season, and they
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feel like he could be a big piece going forward.
All Right. They also brought over Hunter Renfro, who, for
my money, could easily hit forty plus home runs in
the a L East. Does Renfro play every day? There's
a lot of bodies you've gotta play offstin Meadows, but
you've got kier Meyer and Mark Goole and Martinez and Sugo.
Does Renfro play every day, Steve? I think he does.
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I think that they want Uh their regular outfield line
up to be Meadows, kier Meyer, and Renfro. Uh, and
they'll see what the what they have with Ssugo, uh,
whether they play him at third days or if they
have to use him in the outfield. But really, I
think if if Eric Deander had his way, his starting
outfield would be Meadows, Kermeyer and Renfro. And I agree
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with you, uh, you know for what he did the
first half of last year in San Diego with what
what was the seven homers in the first games of
the season. Part of Renfro in some of those very
very uh friendly uh fences in the American League East.
You know, it's only three ten feet to that giant
wall in Boston. Uh. Baltimore plays very short in the summertime,
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uh out in the power alley and right center. Uh.
The Yankees, Uh you know it's not it's not the
jet stream to right field that they have, but uh,
but you know, it's a it's a very friendly uh
division of ballparks for right handed hitting. And I certainly
think that Hunter Renfro could could benefit from playing all
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these games in the American League East. We talk gonna
raise baseball insider Steve Karney works for ninety five point
three w D A E and Tampa Steve. We mentioned
Susugo and you said something that surprised me a little
bit about third base. I mean, we know him as
an outfielder, but Yondi Diez was a third, there's Robertson.
Would he slot in best a third? Can he handle
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the position defensively? That's what they're gonna find out. That's uh.
That is certainly the big question on the minds of
raised fans. And it's a question that we got a
chance to ask Eric Neander and Kevin Bash this past
week at at Ray's Fan Best to Trafficana Field and
that's uh. That's one of the questions that's gonna need
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to be answered is where does Sugo slot in best?
Do they use him? Are they going to be forced
to basically you use him to play tune d H
with those Dame Martinez. I think that's where Martinez ends
up being is as a as a full time to
uh didn't get it hit or But they know that
Tsugo has played third base and has played in the
outfield in Japan. They want to see if he can
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handle the same thing, uh in in Major League baseball
and whether or not, Uh, it's gonna be him or
Yandy Diaz. They're also gonna try to go at first
base as well, to see if that works out. You know,
we've got a lot of moving parts going into spaper
and training tomorrow. Uh, Steve the race have so many riches.
Wander Franco, arguably the number one minor league in all
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of baseball, happens to be on the Rays. What's his
e t A. The bat plays everywhere, but what's his
defensive position? Do you think, Uh, Well, he's playing, he's
They're gonna have him in at shortstop. I would assume
if everything goes well this spring, he probably starts the
year as as a nineteen year old in Double A.
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I think that they send him to Montgomery to play shortstop.
I think his e t A. Uh, you know, I've
been wanting to see him get a cup of coffee
with the big club this year. I don't know if
that will happen, but I think that if, uh, if
he does, I think that he ends up. I think
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he ends up getting a cup of coffee at the most.
But one is not out of the question. If they
if they bring him up in September is one of
the three guys, because remember you can't bring up all
forty guys uh this year. You can only go to
twenty eight at the in September. I think that that
kind of uh makes it less likely that he can
stop a coffee. I think more than likely. Uh, you
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may see him sometime in one All right, last question
for you, Steve, Xavier Edwards comes over and that deal
from the padres. This guy is like uh de Gordon
with better plate skills. Can he fit with the race
at some point this season? I think that he is
more likely than than a guy like Franco, But I
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think that you probably would see I mean, how will
that double play combination if you were to have Franco
and Xavier Edwards as your as your shortstop in your
second base it's been you know, full time studying in like,
that would be probably more like two. I think that
that is a a a notion that really excites raise fans.
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Uh and uh. You know, if you're a fantasy owner,
having those two guys at the big league level together
could be incredible. Well, it's a great time to be
a race fan, and it's a great time to be
you heading down to spring training. I hope you have fun.
I certainly look forward to it in six uh six
hard weeks of work living out of a hotel in
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Charlotte County. But I think somebody's got to do it, then,
why not be me? Exactly? Have a great time, my friend.
I'll talk to you soon, all right, Yeah, take care?
All right? That Steve Carney from w d A and
TAMPI does a fantastic job. You want to know stuff
about the raise. Steve will let us know the things
we need to know. Wander Franco, Man, it's gonna be good.
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It's incredible how the Rays are young, deep, and they're
just gonna get deeper. Outstanding stuff. All Right, we gonna
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old enough to know this tune, aren't you? Oh yeah, yeah,
Batty baby, Betty Betty, I would sing it for you,
but I won't. Do You know I raised I raised
my my daughter. Though my daughter loves Elton John, she
loves Billy Joel. She loves you too. Kind of raise him, right, Gray?
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You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I I hear you.
That's what That's what I do with my dog as well. Ye,
he's a big Billy Joel fan. I've heard that. Yes,
he interested. Let me ask you. This is Mike Fires
or Fears or whatever you like to call him. Is
he a snitch and is snitching aloud in cases like this?
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And do snitches get stitches? No? Man, I don't. I
don't think so. I tweeted that you're you're going off
of what I tweeted. I send Mike Fears as a snitch.
But I I was just joking. I mean, I think
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the uh, you know, I think honestly, it's sort of
what Joe musk Hope said today when he reported the camp.
He was like, you know, someone asked him about the
whole Astute Astro's cheaty cheaty bang Bang scandal, and he
was like, you know, if you were to investigate every team,
they would all be cheaters there. There'd be cheaters on
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every team. So I mean, I agree with that. I
don't think. I don't think Feers, feerspies, Fiers, Fyers, that fires,
fears said anything that everyone doesn't already know about, Like
most of the teams, I think you're you're not trying
if you're not cheating. You know. You know what, when
I heard cheaty cheaty bang Bang, I just wish that
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I'd come up with that. That is so good. I
don't know. I have to really get better at my
a game here. All right. Let me ask you this.
Mike Bowlsinger comes up with that, how about bang bang
Ghazi any good or no bank workshop? I'm work shop
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at him. I like that one, But it's Mike bull Singer.
Does he have a lawsuit that that has any merit?
Because he wants thirty one no for ruining his career
and sending him to Japan like Mike you know, Mike
ball Singer to me, sounds like a name that Bart
Simpson would use when he calls mode. Is this Mike
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ball Singer? Is there? Mike Ball is there? My ball
Singer here? Oh, this is like Parky's. This is from
Parkies you're talking about here. I don't think he has that.
I don't. I don't. I don't really think he has
a cage, you know, because he's Uh, it's too there's
too much subject subjectivity in that lawsuit. There's no way
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to say whether or not he is uh, you know,
whether or not it was really the reason why he
got sent to um, which recall to where do you go?
And yeah, j yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So yeah.
I mean, I don't. I just think it's like there's
no hard facts that he he'll ever be able to
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prove that. I don't. I don't think. What do you think?
Do you think you will? Yeah? I think that. I
think there's negligence and I think that there's there's a
little kid bit of a case or that I think
the case gets settled in a hush hush fashion because
they can't let everybody sue otherwise they got they sue forever.
Uh yeah, maybe you're you're talking about a a a
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lawsuit settlement. You know what that makes me want to
see somebody who can we do? I wouldn't mind get
a settlement, I know, right, settlements are good. All right,
let's speaking of Japanese show a Otani. They're talking about
him coming back in mid May. Is there any way
that you would draft him? No? I was so out
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on Otani before this news. I kind of you know,
it's like when uh, when you're out on someone and
when you're out on a player and then bad news
comes out about them, and now now more people are
gonna be out. It's such a bummer because like another
for instance, was I was out on Bregman way before
the cheating scandal because I just didn't like Bregman's five
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balls and uh you know week five ball tendency dependency.
So I was out already on Bregmant. I was out
on a tub and now more people are out on
them for you know, the reasons with the cheating. So
it's prey the same way with Otani, Like I was
out on Otani already and now more people are gonna
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be out on him. I originally back in December, I
projected Otani for a hundred innings. I never saw him
getting more than a hundred, I thinks at all. So
now that they're saying he's not coming back to pitch
until May, now everyone's gonna be projecting him for around
the same number of enditings. It's kind of it's kind
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of gonna screw up May because I was already out
on him, and now everyone's gonna be out on him.
But suddenly there might actually be a buying opportunity where
there wasn't before. But you know, everyone, I feel like
because he is uh, you know, he's the Unicorn and
he uh, he hits and pitches so well that there's
a lot of people probably still buying him just because
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he's a hitter. And now from um, you know, April
through mid May exclusively, so people could be buying them
for that reason. But I'm still I'm still kind of
out on him because even with hitting, especially by the way,
especially in weekly league, because you're gonna have so many
situations where people are saying, you know, like the Angels
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are gonna say, oh yeah, he'll pitch on Thursday, so
you put him in your weekly league for his good
match up on Thursday, and then there's a rainout or
something and he gets or or he just gets bumped
for whatever reason, and now you're gonna lose out a
week of pitting because he was supposed to pitch, and
vice versa. It's just it's such a recipe for disaster.
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Buying Otani in a weekly league. There's another guy like that,
James Paxson, who are gonna miss a bigger part of
the season with the Yankees. Do you think there's a
buying opportunity there with him? Maybe he gets a hundred
twenty innings, Yeah, I mean right now, I actually I
haven't projected for a hundred and fifteen, so very close.
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I think there's uh, you know, I think there's a
buying opportunity for anyone at the prices. Right right now,
I have packs in around to twenty overall on my rankings.
I think that's pretty fair. I mean, I probably won't
be drafting him. I think, you know, there's always a
worry with him that even when he's quote unquote healthy,
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you know, with it, within the next month or two,
he's gonna be unhealthy. So, you know, because he never
really is able to throw that many innings, I'm probably out.
I'm packed into even at a even at a decent discount,
like I said, at like all right. We had my
friend Steve Karney from w d A and Tampa on
(31:16):
last segment before you were here, and he said, when
I we talked about the Emel Yopa gone trade, he
thinks that Nick Anderson is gonna stay right where he
is and there's a better chance at Jose Alvarado and
Diego Castillo my close games. Alvarado is dealing with some
family issues and some injuries last year. How do you
think the safe situations shake out in Tampa? Well, I
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think I think your buddy who uh you had on
earlier might be onto something. You know the problem with
Kevin Cash is he oh, he's always playing matchups and
he's he's hard to read for fantasy, you know, with
platoons and openers and never really naming a closer. So
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there's yeah, there's real concerned in Tampa that Nick Anderson
won't be the closer. There's one good thing that Nick
Anderson has going for him, as his ratios are gonna
be so great that he's probably worth owning even if
he gets under twenty saves. You know, So if he's
striking out guys like he did last year at a
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fifteen plus k per nine, Uh, he's worth owning, probably
in the top one overall, even if he only gets
fifteen saves right now, I'm assuming he's gonna be a closer,
but yeah, he's he's definitely there's there's a lot of
risks there. There's a good chance Diego Castillo or Alvarado
(32:40):
se saves. Talking to my friend Greg Albright from razbal
dot com, one of my favorite fantasy baseball sites out there, Greg,
when I see, uh, Jason Kittness, the A's have in
touch with them, I always wonder I have no interest
in Jason kitness Why do they? Why do you think
that baseball teams like hit the tires and eyes who
were past a five years ago? Yeah, I mean, you know,
(33:05):
specifically with the aids, they're always looking for a bargain.
I guess, you know. So, I mean that how would
be my guests with them? Because they really I mean
I love this, They could use a second baseman, you know,
but I would love to see them, you know, play
someone like um Matteo or even Bratto. I mean, there's
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something's gotta sone's gotta give with their second base situation.
So I honestly, I want to be shocked if Kitness
does end up in Oakland, because they just need, they need,
they need a place holder, probably until Matteo is a
hundred percent ready. Uh So, I don't know, it's it's tough.
And even Matteo if he goes to shorts and semi
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in play second or something, it's a it's a bit
of a mess their middle infield situation right the second.
I uh, frankly, I think you know, Kitness for Oakland
isn't the worst deal for real baseball, for fantasy baseball,
it's a it's a wasting. I mean, there's there's no
value with Kitness. The Lord Todd Zola had mentioned Sheldon
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Noose as somebody. And you see this guy's numbers in
Triple A duty he might hit three seventeen home runs
any chance he sticks, Yeah, well, I mean he was,
he had twenty seven homers last year in Triple A.
But he's also he's old for the mind, I mean
he's already you know, maybe there's there's always a chance
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that a guy just breaks out a little bit later.
So possibly, but up until last year he did nothing
in the minors at all, so I'd be I'd be
a little bit wary of relying on him for anything
other than say a you know, fifteen team league or
deeper as a as a very late round flyer. All Right,
(34:59):
Grey Albright from razzball dot com, talk to you, uh
actually next week, my friend. Okay, oh no, no show
Thursday Friday. I still love you, though, Okay, don't tell anybody, Okay, alright, okay,
talk to you alright, alright, alright, that's Gray Albright from
razball dot com. He will be your regular contributor to
our show. I worked lucky to have him. All Right,
(35:19):
I'm gonna take your time out when we come back.
Maybe talk a little football. Maybe we'll have to see, Hey,
a little baseball, may a little football. I don't know.
Dr Rod will be back right after this. I want
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Road dot com backslash do you learn more? I'm back, Seriously,
I'm trying to deal with my My daughter just texts
me two seconds ago her teacher. She's got this art thing.
(36:25):
It has to be in today. How can't you give
kids more notice than that? Can I deal with? How
can I deal is? I'm on a radio show? How
can I deal with your life? When I'm on a
radio show? Ridiculousness. I can't handle it. I can't handle
it all. Right, here you go, I am on the radio.
(36:47):
Can't talk to you all with apparently or text hold
on or text. Okay, there you go. I think I
feel people feel closer to me right now. Like to
hear this. So let me ask you a question, sean,
very important question. Yep, I'm ready. Did you pay attention
to the XFL? Yes? I did well? Yeah? I did?
(37:08):
You did well? I had Is it because you like it?
Or you work purposes? So I said, I need you
to watch XFL. No. I was doing a show for
Sports Grade on Saturday, and that was the predominant who
we talked to XFL we like every um. So don't
you find like that's a little desperate, don't you don't
you think you should be watched doing baseball prepping for baseball?
(37:31):
Well not well? Well in game live is the premises
that you know, follow up games that are present. So
there's no about the NBA. It does start ntil five
o'clock on Saturday. So XFL is at too, So we
talked about it. I find I don't think there's enough
room in my brain for the XFL. Right, why do
you know what I'm saying? Did I gotta I gotta
(37:53):
fit baseball in my brain? How am I gonna faceball?
And then if I if I spend all this time
on XFL and it's not even around next year, I
just wasted my brain space. Don't look at it like that.
Look at it is. There's so much I can fit
up there. I enjoy it. If you think it will
be around, seriously, Poop Poop Hamilton is a coach. Do
(38:15):
I think it will be around? I can't answer that.
I can't not after one week? What makes you think
it's going to stay around? I think there's a wait,
there's room in the American sports landscape for a winter
slash spring football league. I don't think so, right, not
at the level of the NFL. But yeah, there's definitely room.
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There's definitely room. Don't which was the league that people
watched for like a week and then they stopped watching it?
Was that the XFL for the first time, and then
the A F f A whatever it was called last
year at this time. But here's what made THEL was
successful when they went out and got big guys. They
got dude Donald Trump, spend got big guys, Jim Ellie
(39:00):
herschel Walker. They spent big money. Granted, but you're looking
at it Arena football was was popular for a while.
You're looking at it like it's going to be the NFL.
It's don't look at it like that. Look at it
like it's gonna be like a a second tier version
of football, right that can grab you three or four
million viewers each time out Like that's that's where it's
(39:20):
gonna fit. So I have so I have to cover it.
You're saying, no, no, I don't I have to cover. Well,
you cover the NBA. It out viewed the NBA this
past week college basketball as well. Three of the four
games can't be because people it's no. No, I get that,
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but that's why I'm saying, weeks into it, how many
people are watching it? Well, we'll find out. Carddale Jones
can't get a job in the NFL. He's in the
XFL and now he's a good quarterback. Stink a stink Uh.
Do you watch the w n B A only if
you can read down to a couch when it's still around, right,
(40:04):
twenty five years somebody's watching it. Yeah, yeah, because that
is the young women out there need role models. I
don't think it's for the men who watch w n B.
I think they have a male audience, don't you think.
I think they're young. Female audiences out drives everything. Do
you think that's enough? And I think that's a very
important audience. No, No, I don't think it's enough to
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be sustainable, but I think the NBA sustains it. I
do think with gambling becoming more and more, I guess
legal in each state. I do think that there's room
for football something gamble on it helps, that's true, that's
not true. People are always looking for something. Did you
watch any of the game Did you find the games
to be like, imagine a good college game and it's
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not what's better? Man, it was below that. It was
below good college game like mac football, Green is playing
Kent State, bowling Green is playing Kent State or XFL?
What do you watch? Here's what I like about it.
I followed mc launch's career up state. I followed Cardel
his career. I followed even even the kid who played
uh A Temple Walker followed. I know the quarterbacks, I
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know the running backs. Not every running back, but I
know most of the players. That helps, you know when
I'm watching mL watching and MLS is a good comparison.
I mean that's like a third fourth, fifth tier soccer
league and people watch that. Yeah, but only soccer people
watch that, and only certain in certain places. They keep
doing something right. There's like ninety friends. But you know
(41:31):
what they states. You know, they have very small, small
uh stadiums. They don't put them in you know, MetLife stadium.
They put it in a stadium with people. Right that
that was, yeah, you're correct about that. They can make
these adjustments smart. Not everything they do is going to
be right, you know. I also like the the idea
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that it's different from the NFL as far as there,
they try out different things like did you see the
kick off? What did you think of that? Where the
team know they line up at the opposing teams thirty
right there, like five yards apart, and they can't move
until the returner touches the football. That's interesting, No, it is,
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it isn't I mean I also went from the guy
who was mixing the field goals they were going up
with soccer and talk to him. I don't want did
that to me? I hate but yeah, it's too much.
But but they also they have a running clock, which
is kind of cool outside of like the two minute
maybe two minutes in each half. I think they stop
it for for that, but but they haven't run. Do
you think we need more football? Don't you think we
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need Don't you think the beauty of football is that
it's only so many weeks and then we get some
time off and we we miss it, and then when
it comes back, we we salivate for it. Yeah I
think that, Yeah I do. But do do we have
time too much football? I mean, we keep talking about
the NFL Draft. I'd rather watch football than talk about
the NFL draft for three months because that's what we
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do you'd watch a football he's you're gonna play in
the NFL. He stay, you don't know that. Oh, I
know that. They said the same thing about Kurt Warner
when he was playing. We're in the football league, and
he turned it to an m V in the NFL
and a Hall of Famer. Right, so when Carddale Jones,
it turns out to be a Hall of Famer. No, no,
you can see someone from the league is going to
(43:16):
make an impact in the NFL in the next couple
of years. How about that. I won't buy from this league.
Is gonna make a name. I will bet make it
into the league. I'm not gonna make donuts. I forget
about money. Dollars to donuts will a little bit. Okay,
we're betting a pizza high. We could do that. Yeah,
we can do that, all right, But I want a
guy making an impact, not just I want to pro
what I get a footballer? Yeah, pro bowler. I could
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do that within the next two years. Okay, good, okay, good.
You can't wait for this. This is gonna be the
best pizza I've ever had. All Right, you're not winning
this bat the way a guy's gonna go XFL all
Pro Bowl. You said Pro Bowl. You can say all
pro A Pro Bowl? Well, probo any any of the
(44:02):
big guy right, nobody wants to go. They take like
the seventh running back on the Lions. You know that
guy's all of a sudden, Tray Carson's in the Pro Bowl. Yeah, okay,
I meant to say all Pro. Can I read this? No, No, bro,
you're kidding me. Come on, that's a high threshold to meet. Yeah,
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that is a high threshold. All right, Well, we don't
think we'd have an open mind. You have an open mind?
Is open and I'm not doing it. I'm not doing
it because I know in another month it's gonna disappear,
and I've just wasted brain power. I gotta deal with
my daughter texting me while I'm on the radio. How
much gonna handle? Seriously? What do you want me to do?
(44:46):
A girlfriend can help you with. All Right, question for
you here, Tom Brady, if you're going to Vegas right
now and you had your last hundred dollar bill, who
was he going to play for? Where did you put
your money? Wow? That's question. I thought that Tennessee Titans
were in the mix, but I think that's out. Think
they're gonna go to Tannehill. If I had to guess,
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I'd say the New England Patriots. But do you think
he can win with the Patriots? I don't think you
went anywhere. I think he has finished. You think Brady's finished? Yeah?
I do. Seriously, you think you put Tom Brady on
the fort and they'll be finished? I think they'd be
Super Bowl champions. That's a great question. Wow. Yeah, but
(45:30):
he's not going to the forty nine. Well you said finished,
just said he was. He's gonna go to these middling
teams like Oakland Raiders. See that's the thing. He's not
going to the Vegas Raiders. He's not starting over. Yeah,
he's not going to the Bucks. You know. Is he
gonna go to the Chargers in the same division as
Patrick Mahomes? Yeah? No, he's not winning there. Um. That's
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why New England makes the most sense. And where's it
gonna fit? The Titans with Derrick Henry is a running
back that would be a nice fit, actually be a
good fit. I think the way the playoffs, I mean,
you only have the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins to beat. Well,
I think the Bills are improving, though they're not a
gimme as the Bills are a good team. So was
Miami well coach well coach though they beat him, they
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beat him last year. That means everything. That means everything.
One day week game they needed, No, they needed that game.
It lost home field. That's pretty embarrassed. That telling, don't
you think? Yeah? That is telling. That is telling. So
if you can't win that game, how do you think
you expect to when that? Uh? I think Brady's gonna
go back there? Well you have to think that Brady
is gonna get worse not better next year, right, he's
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getting older. Do you think Drew Brees goes back to
the Saints? I do, yeah, yeah, But Taysom Hill is
gonna be way more involved in that office is I
don't what do we think of him? Can he play quarterback? Yes?
Because he can run, he could play, he could play,
he could play. Being Lamar Jackson type of guy, I'd
say Lamar Jackson, but that's I mean, he's I think
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he could throw better the Mark Jackson. I think so.
And he's he's he's athletic, but in a different way,
like he's supreme athlete, but he's Yeah, this guy's got
some skills and in today's NFL, I think he can
handle it. Be interested to see how it shakes out.
All right, so last hundred dollars you're betting it on
the on the Patriots. Um, yes, yes, all right, thank
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you for the delay that I appreciate that. Okay, all right,
well right now it's time to put away the insurance cards,
put away the co pay. The office is close, my friends.
I want to thank Steve Carney from w d A
in Tampa for joining us. Really helped talk a lot
about the Rays and what's going on there. Wanna thank
my man Gray Albright from rasball dot com for joining us.
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Appreciate him being on. I don't want to thank my
friend Sean and the booth for talking about the XFL
and then the easiest bet I'm ever gonna win. All Right, guys,
this is Dr Rodo saying see tomorrow, be well. Take
air sh
Full time fantasy, Full time fantasy. Right, it's Dr Rodo.
Get out the insurance cards, get out the cope. The
office is open. My friends, you got a busy show today,
I really do. I've got my friend and hopefully your
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friends soon. Steve Carney from w d a E in
Tampa joining me, talk a little Tampa Bay raise about
it maybe two fifteen. I got Gray Albright from razzball
dot com at two thirty. Gonna be a lot of
a lot of baseball today. So let's kick it off
though with an interesting lawsuit that was filed. And I'm
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sure you guys have heard this, but if you haven't,
let me be the first to enlighten you. Mike Bowlsinger,
a former big league pitcher who spent time with the Dodgers,
Blue Jays and the Diamondbacks, filed a lawsuit Monday against
the Astros, and he's asking for close to thirty one
million dollars. And that's the money there in the World Series.
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Of course, they cheated to win, and bowl Singer feels
wrong by the Astros. That says here in this article.
Since he was sent to the miners in two thousand
seventeen after getting pounded by the Astros hitters at the height.
At the height of the science ceiling scheme, he never
made it back to the big leagues. So here's Bowlsinger
file the civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday,
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accusing the Astros unfair business practices, negligence, and intentional interference
with contractual and economic relations. Yes, Bowlsingers seeking unspecified ADAMA newses,
but then not all for himself. He wants the Astros
to forfeit the roughly thirty one million in bonuses from
their ill gotten World Series tunnel and for the money
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to go to charities in l A focused on bettering
kids lives, as well as to create a fund forty
baseball players who need financial assistance. There's a message to
be sent to youth out there, especially athletes. Right, it
was awesome to grow up and watch the game played
the right way. We've kind of drifted from that. So look,
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I respect bowl Singer. Here he's saying, Look, I don't
need the money, but let's give it to people who
do right and who could say no to bettering kids
lives with money that they got cheating. Part of bowl
Singer's case hinges on the research done by Astros fan
Tony Adams, who listened to every pitch Astros hitters faced
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at home in two thousand seventeen and counted all the
trash can bangs the team used to signal which pitches
were coming. Right. There was algorithms and spreadsheets, and they
used the video camera in the outfield. We know all this.
Once the Astros players knew pictures were coming, they banged
the trash kang. Just know if it was a breaking ball.
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You guys do all this right. Adams research showed that
the Astros banged of the trash can fifty four times
during in August four game against the Blue Jean Blue
against the Blue Jays, in which bowl Singer was the
picture that was the most bangs of the season for
the Astros. It's also a bad outing for bowl Singer,
who gave up four runs on four hits and I
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only got one out right, And he was sent to
Triple A after that game, never to be called up
to the big leagues again. After the season, no team
was interested in signing him, so he played in Japan, right,
and he actually was good in two thousand eighteen in Japan,
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was crappy in two thousand, nineteen. Bowl Singer told USA
Today that part of the reason for the lawsuit was
that players like him were cheated by the Astros too.
I don't think the punishment is fit the crime. And
let's be honest, all these guys are gonna get managing
jobs again, guys like us that were cheated. I don't
have a job, um not playing. Do we agree with
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Mike bowl Singer. Let me say this to you, if
I am the attorney the Houston Astros, there's no way
that this case makes it to trial. None, not a
This is a case that goes away. Here's the problem.
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The problem is if you pay Bowlsinger, do I have
to pay every single guy who feels that way. There's
got to be a class action suit, and so far
only Bull Bulsinger is the only guy who stepped up. Now,
if every single picture comes in who was affected, that
would change the class. But the problem is I can't
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let this go to trial. But at the same time,
I don't want to pay out Bowlsinger ten million and
pay the next guy ten million, the next guy ten million,
next guy ten million. At what point does it end? Right?
At what point does it begin? At what point does
it end. So it's a slippery slop slope it is.
I don't know where this goes. I believe that he
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has a case. Does Bolsinger have a case? Yes, he
has a case. They cheated. Now let's take a look
at what he's claiming again, he is claiming or his
uh yeah, unfair business practices. I think he wins on that. Now,
remember this is not beyond a reasonable doubt. And in
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the civil court it's not beyond a reasonable doubt. That's
criminal court. In civil court it's a preponderance of the evidence.
So is there a preponderance of the evidence that they
had unfair business practices? Yes? Yes? Was there negligence? Yes? Right?
Was what did they breach the duty? The duty was
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that he would have a fair game a pitch in.
Did the astros breach that? Yes, they breached that duty.
They owed him that they owed him a fair game.
Did he get that? No? And because they had to
advise him that he wasn't getting it, that's negligence. Now,
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I don't think he wins on intentional interference with contractual
and economic relations because I don't think it was intentional
to him. I think there was interference, yes, but not
to him directly, right, it wasn't intentional. Didn't wake up
and say, how do we screw Mike Bowlsinger's life. Let's
let's do trush cans and do that. So that's not
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gonna win. I don't think they get that one. But
I think unfair business practices and negligence, I think those
have a shot. I mean, the problem is this, Rob
Manfred has not punished the Astros appropriately. Pete Rose gets
a death sentence. A J. Hinch and Jeff Lune get
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you know, suspended for a year. Alex Cora, who knows?
I mean the higher I Ron Rednicki is a new manager.
But we still don't know what happened to Alex Cora,
do we? We don't know. But what about all the
aggrieved players? And nobody's talking about them. The only player
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people are talking abut him is Mike fires Oh that
guy ratted, dude, He was right to rat. These guys
ruined the careers of people. Seriously. Mike bol Singer goes, now,
look your job and and major League Baseball's tenuous at best.
The guys in his thirties, he gets rocked, and the
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Blue Jays A're like, you know, what he was hanging
by a thread. Anyway, Let's bring up this twenty three
year old from Buffalo, and let's get rid of this bump.
And now this guy goes to Japan, and now he
makes four hundred k in Japan, four hundred thousand yen,
and he could have made one point two million in America.
Well do we owe him that difference? Maybe he's got
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a case. They're gonna settle. Now here's what they're gonna do.
They're gonna settle, and they're gonna put a cap on it,
and they're gonna put a cap on Mike Bollsinger, and
they're gonna say, we're gonna give you X amount of dollars.
Shut up right, and you'll never hear about this again.
That's how it works. You hear about it now, it
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gets all the publicity. Now, and in four months when
the two sides meet, ball singer goes, I won thirty
one million, The astros go, we're gonna give you two
bull singers. Attorneys walk out of the room, going, that
will ever happen. Then, as we get closer to trial,
after the lawyers make all the money, because you know
who has to make money in this world the lawyers.
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Right as we get closer to the trial, they sit
down with both singer and say, look, dude, we'll give
you a cool million, make this go away. Sign something,
and ball Singer looks at his wife and she goes, honey,
you never to see another million bucks again in your life.
And he signs it, And what about doing good for theion,
for the kids. And then maybe, if ball Singer is
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a good enough guy, he says, look, give me one
million and put one million for like, you know, underprivileged
kids in l A. All right, maybe he gets two
million boomed done. Maybe, and there you go, and then
you never hear about this case ever again. But it's
a fair case and he's got a case. And the
truth is they should have done way more here. Baseball
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just wants us to go away. And do you know
how this goes away as quickly as possible by playing
the game of baseball. As soon as this season starts,
there will be other stories people will be talking about,
twenty eight other things they won't be talking about this.
But this is an a mega story and it's quite
shocking why it hasn't been a bigger story. This should
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be the biggest thing cheating in baseball. But we're like, yeah,
I've seen bigger, right, doesn't seem like it's be way worse.
This was point shaving and basketball. Don't you think this
would be major if abronze shaved points? Come on, people
go nuts. I know I would. The bargain that we
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get is that you see a fair game. The bargain
the pictures have is that it was a fair game.
Bargain didn't happen on both ends. It didn't happen all right.
But here's my bargain to you. My bargain is I'm
gonna call Steve Carney and during the break and we
come back, I'm gonna talk about the Tampa Rays. That's
my bargain. Will I fulfill it? I think so. I'm
Dr Roto and I'm back right after this. Are you
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This is sports grade. Get all the grade. All right,
we're back. I don't know if I'm gonna be able
to fulfill his bargain. I'm trying trying to get him
(11:24):
on the phone as we speak. I can only do
two things at once. Talk to you, listen to the song,
call phones. It's not easy, trying to juggle many things.
But good too. That's a good, very good thing. All right,
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All right, but it required listening as to my friend
Steve Carney who's joining us. Steve, have you been? I'm good, Doc?
How are you body? I don't know. It feels like
it's been forever. The family is good, your life is good.
Everything is good. Everything is fantastic. Getting ready for another
season of Rays baseball. This will be my tempt here
covering the team. I had to port Charlotte for spring
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training in the morning. Wow, all right, Steve. It covers
them at w D at three and Tampa does an
amazing job. He has the pulse of the Rays on
at all times. So let's get to last weekend's trade.
Steve Amelio Pagan, shockingly to a lot of people, gets
traded to the Padres. Manuel Margo comes to the Rays.
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I think a lot of people question that deal. What
were the race thinking? Well? I think that and talking
with general manager Eric deanderbout it. Doctor. Uh. You know,
he felt like the Rays needed one more position player
to to be ready to win this year, and they
didn't really want to give up Amelia forgot. They've liked
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Manuel Margot for a while, and Meander said that he
tried to get Margot using just prospects, and the Padres
balked at it, saying they wanted a guy off the
big league roster. So you end up looking at the
bullpen and the way the race bullpen is stacked. Even
though Emilio Pagan had twenty saves last year. You know,
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they did closer by committee for most of last year
with Jose Alvarado and Diego Castio and even Oliver Drake
getting some opportunities to try and close out games. So
they felt that Pagan was probably losing. A guy like
Pagan was going to hurt, but it wasn't going to
be a death knew for their bullpen, because you think
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about it, they's still got a very very good bullpen
on paper going into even no they do. They do
have a very good bullpen. So let me ask you
this for the fantasy people out there, would you think
that Nick Anderson should get most of the saves or
do you think it gets spread out between Alvarado and
Drake and Castillo and Anderson. Yeah, you know, I think
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that they're going to I think early on They're gonna
try and and figure out if there's a guy that
they want to use as the ninth didn't guy uh
full time going forward? I mean you have to look
at go back to twenty nine team. They wanted Jose
Alvarado to be the number one guy, to be the
ninth inning guy out of the bullpen. The problem wasn't
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after a very good start. His first four weeks were
fantastic thing, but then he ends up having a family issue,
goes back to Venezuela and missing three weeks. He comes back,
he was out of shape, Uh, strange and oblique mrs
five weeks, comes back, it's just five games and hurts
his elbow and he's done for the year. Uh. They
want to make sure that whoever is going to be
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that ninth inning guy uh is healthy the complete year through.
And Alvarado has gotten all those issues now put behind him.
His parents got moved out of Venezuela to the United States.
That's one less thing he's got to worry about. He's
already in camp and looks fantastic. So I think that
Alvarado is gonna get a good chunk of it. Diego
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Castillo is gonna get a good chunk of it. I
think Anderson will get a little bit of it, but
I think that they liked his role as the eighth
inning guy, setting up guys like Alvarado and Cassio. Alright, Steve,
this wasn't the only deal that the Rays made this offseason.
They also made a big trade getting Jose Martinez, and
they made a trade for Hunter renfro. So let's break
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down each deal. Firstly, the trade with the Cardinals getting
Jose Martinez. Martinez very good against lefties, as is Marco.
It almost feels like the race have a left handed
lineup and a right handed lineup. Yeah, it certainly does.
Doc And the one thing that they liked, on top
of the fact that they can use Jose Martinez against
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a division that you know, when they got Martinez, they're thinking,
you know what, we've got to face Chris Sale and
David Price and James Paxton and Jay Hap and John
jin Ryou and all of these left handed arms that
are gonna be and and guys like John Means as well.
Don't want to leave him out. You know, they've got
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all these left handed arms in the American League East.
We need a guy that punishes left handed pitching, and
there's really nobody better than Jose Martinez. The problem has
been with St. Louis is they had no place to
play and because they would have to put him Uh
in the outfield or at first base. And let's face it, guys,
the defensive liability doesn't have to worry about that. In
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the American League's they can use him as a d H.
They also really like Randy Rosarina. They feel he can
he can play all three outfield positions. Probably gonna start
the year at Triple A now with the acquisitions made
later on in the off season, but I certainly think
that this is a guy that they really like what
he did at the end of last season, and they
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feel like he could be a big piece going forward.
All Right. They also brought over Hunter Renfro, who, for
my money, could easily hit forty plus home runs in
the a L East. Does Renfro play every day? There's
a lot of bodies you've gotta play offstin Meadows, but
you've got kier Meyer and Mark Goole and Martinez and Sugo.
Does Renfro play every day, Steve? I think he does.
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I think that they want Uh their regular outfield line
up to be Meadows, kier Meyer, and Renfro. Uh, and
they'll see what the what they have with Ssugo, uh,
whether they play him at third days or if they
have to use him in the outfield. But really, I
think if if Eric Deander had his way, his starting
outfield would be Meadows, Kermeyer and Renfro. And I agree
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with you, uh, you know for what he did the
first half of last year in San Diego with what
what was the seven homers in the first games of
the season. Part of Renfro in some of those very
very uh friendly uh fences in the American League East.
You know, it's only three ten feet to that giant
wall in Boston. Uh. Baltimore plays very short in the summertime,
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uh out in the power alley and right center. Uh.
The Yankees, Uh you know it's not it's not the
jet stream to right field that they have, but uh,
but you know, it's a it's a very friendly uh
division of ballparks for right handed hitting. And I certainly
think that Hunter Renfro could could benefit from playing all
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these games in the American League East. We talk gonna
raise baseball insider Steve Karney works for ninety five point
three w D A E and Tampa Steve. We mentioned
Susugo and you said something that surprised me a little
bit about third base. I mean, we know him as
an outfielder, but Yondi Diez was a third, there's Robertson.
Would he slot in best a third? Can he handle
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the position defensively? That's what they're gonna find out. That's uh.
That is certainly the big question on the minds of
raised fans. And it's a question that we got a
chance to ask Eric Neander and Kevin Bash this past
week at at Ray's Fan Best to Trafficana Field and
that's uh. That's one of the questions that's gonna need
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to be answered is where does Sugo slot in best?
Do they use him? Are they going to be forced
to basically you use him to play tune d H
with those Dame Martinez. I think that's where Martinez ends
up being is as a as a full time to
uh didn't get it hit or But they know that
Tsugo has played third base and has played in the
outfield in Japan. They want to see if he can
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handle the same thing, uh in in Major League baseball
and whether or not, Uh, it's gonna be him or
Yandy Diaz. They're also gonna try to go at first
base as well, to see if that works out. You know,
we've got a lot of moving parts going into spaper
and training tomorrow. Uh, Steve the race have so many riches.
Wander Franco, arguably the number one minor league in all
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of baseball, happens to be on the Rays. What's his
e t A. The bat plays everywhere, but what's his
defensive position? Do you think, Uh, Well, he's playing, he's
They're gonna have him in at shortstop. I would assume
if everything goes well this spring, he probably starts the
year as as a nineteen year old in Double A.
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I think that they send him to Montgomery to play shortstop.
I think his e t A. Uh, you know, I've
been wanting to see him get a cup of coffee
with the big club this year. I don't know if
that will happen, but I think that if, uh, if
he does, I think that he ends up. I think
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he ends up getting a cup of coffee at the most.
But one is not out of the question. If they
if they bring him up in September is one of
the three guys, because remember you can't bring up all
forty guys uh this year. You can only go to
twenty eight at the in September. I think that that
kind of uh makes it less likely that he can
stop a coffee. I think more than likely. Uh, you
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may see him sometime in one All right, last question
for you, Steve, Xavier Edwards comes over and that deal
from the padres. This guy is like uh de Gordon
with better plate skills. Can he fit with the race
at some point this season? I think that he is
more likely than than a guy like Franco, But I
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think that you probably would see I mean, how will
that double play combination if you were to have Franco
and Xavier Edwards as your as your shortstop in your
second base it's been you know, full time studying in like,
that would be probably more like two. I think that
that is a a a notion that really excites raise fans.
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Uh and uh. You know, if you're a fantasy owner,
having those two guys at the big league level together
could be incredible. Well, it's a great time to be
a race fan, and it's a great time to be
you heading down to spring training. I hope you have fun.
I certainly look forward to it in six uh six
hard weeks of work living out of a hotel in
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Charlotte County. But I think somebody's got to do it, then,
why not be me? Exactly? Have a great time, my friend.
I'll talk to you soon, all right, Yeah, take care?
All right? That Steve Carney from w d A and
TAMPI does a fantastic job. You want to know stuff
about the raise. Steve will let us know the things
we need to know. Wander Franco, Man, it's gonna be good.
(22:55):
It's incredible how the Rays are young, deep, and they're
just gonna get deeper. Outstanding stuff. All Right, we gonna
take a little break. Come on back with Gray Albright
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old enough to know this tune, aren't you? Oh yeah, yeah,
Batty baby, Betty Betty, I would sing it for you,
but I won't. Do You know I raised I raised
my my daughter. Though my daughter loves Elton John, she
loves Billy Joel. She loves you too. Kind of raise him, right, Gray?
(24:10):
You know what I'm saying? Yeah, no, I I hear you.
That's what That's what I do with my dog as well. Ye,
he's a big Billy Joel fan. I've heard that. Yes,
he interested. Let me ask you. This is Mike Fires
or Fears or whatever you like to call him. Is
he a snitch and is snitching aloud in cases like this?
(24:35):
And do snitches get stitches? No? Man, I don't. I
don't think so. I tweeted that you're you're going off
of what I tweeted. I send Mike Fears as a snitch.
But I I was just joking. I mean, I think
(24:55):
the uh, you know, I think honestly, it's sort of
what Joe musk Hope said today when he reported the camp.
He was like, you know, someone asked him about the
whole Astute Astro's cheaty cheaty bang Bang scandal, and he
was like, you know, if you were to investigate every team,
they would all be cheaters there. There'd be cheaters on
(25:18):
every team. So I mean, I agree with that. I
don't think. I don't think Feers, feerspies, Fiers, Fyers, that fires,
fears said anything that everyone doesn't already know about, Like
most of the teams, I think you're you're not trying
if you're not cheating. You know. You know what, when
I heard cheaty cheaty bang Bang, I just wish that
(25:40):
I'd come up with that. That is so good. I
don't know. I have to really get better at my
a game here. All right. Let me ask you this.
Mike Bowlsinger comes up with that, how about bang bang
Ghazi any good or no bank workshop? I'm work shop
(26:01):
at him. I like that one, But it's Mike bull Singer.
Does he have a lawsuit that that has any merit?
Because he wants thirty one no for ruining his career
and sending him to Japan like Mike you know, Mike
ball Singer to me, sounds like a name that Bart
Simpson would use when he calls mode. Is this Mike
(26:25):
ball Singer? Is there? Mike Ball is there? My ball
Singer here? Oh, this is like Parky's. This is from
Parkies you're talking about here. I don't think he has that.
I don't. I don't. I don't really think he has
a cage, you know, because he's Uh, it's too there's
too much subject subjectivity in that lawsuit. There's no way
(26:49):
to say whether or not he is uh, you know,
whether or not it was really the reason why he
got sent to um, which recall to where do you go?
And yeah, j yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah. So yeah.
I mean, I don't. I just think it's like there's
no hard facts that he he'll ever be able to
(27:10):
prove that. I don't. I don't think. What do you think?
Do you think you will? Yeah? I think that. I
think there's negligence and I think that there's there's a
little kid bit of a case or that I think
the case gets settled in a hush hush fashion because
they can't let everybody sue otherwise they got they sue forever.
Uh yeah, maybe you're you're talking about a a a
(27:33):
lawsuit settlement. You know what that makes me want to
see somebody who can we do? I wouldn't mind get
a settlement, I know, right, settlements are good. All right,
let's speaking of Japanese show a Otani. They're talking about
him coming back in mid May. Is there any way
that you would draft him? No? I was so out
(27:55):
on Otani before this news. I kind of you know,
it's like when uh, when you're out on someone and
when you're out on a player and then bad news
comes out about them, and now now more people are
gonna be out. It's such a bummer because like another
for instance, was I was out on Bregman way before
the cheating scandal because I just didn't like Bregman's five
(28:19):
balls and uh you know week five ball tendency dependency.
So I was out already on Bregmant. I was out
on a tub and now more people are out on
them for you know, the reasons with the cheating. So
it's prey the same way with Otani, Like I was
out on Otani already and now more people are gonna
(28:39):
be out on him. I originally back in December, I
projected Otani for a hundred innings. I never saw him
getting more than a hundred, I thinks at all. So
now that they're saying he's not coming back to pitch
until May, now everyone's gonna be projecting him for around
the same number of enditings. It's kind of it's kind
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of gonna screw up May because I was already out
on him, and now everyone's gonna be out on him.
But suddenly there might actually be a buying opportunity where
there wasn't before. But you know, everyone, I feel like
because he is uh, you know, he's the Unicorn and
he uh, he hits and pitches so well that there's
a lot of people probably still buying him just because
(29:23):
he's a hitter. And now from um, you know, April
through mid May exclusively, so people could be buying them
for that reason. But I'm still I'm still kind of
out on him because even with hitting, especially by the way,
especially in weekly league, because you're gonna have so many
situations where people are saying, you know, like the Angels
(29:46):
are gonna say, oh yeah, he'll pitch on Thursday, so
you put him in your weekly league for his good
match up on Thursday, and then there's a rainout or
something and he gets or or he just gets bumped
for whatever reason, and now you're gonna lose out a
week of pitting because he was supposed to pitch, and
vice versa. It's just it's such a recipe for disaster.
(30:10):
Buying Otani in a weekly league. There's another guy like that,
James Paxson, who are gonna miss a bigger part of
the season with the Yankees. Do you think there's a
buying opportunity there with him? Maybe he gets a hundred
twenty innings, Yeah, I mean right now, I actually I
haven't projected for a hundred and fifteen, so very close.
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I think there's uh, you know, I think there's a
buying opportunity for anyone at the prices. Right right now,
I have packs in around to twenty overall on my rankings.
I think that's pretty fair. I mean, I probably won't
be drafting him. I think, you know, there's always a
worry with him that even when he's quote unquote healthy,
(30:54):
you know, with it, within the next month or two,
he's gonna be unhealthy. So, you know, because he never
really is able to throw that many innings, I'm probably out.
I'm packed into even at a even at a decent discount,
like I said, at like all right. We had my
friend Steve Karney from w d A and Tampa on
(31:16):
last segment before you were here, and he said, when
I we talked about the Emel Yopa gone trade, he
thinks that Nick Anderson is gonna stay right where he
is and there's a better chance at Jose Alvarado and
Diego Castillo my close games. Alvarado is dealing with some
family issues and some injuries last year. How do you
think the safe situations shake out in Tampa? Well, I
(31:38):
think I think your buddy who uh you had on
earlier might be onto something. You know the problem with
Kevin Cash is he oh, he's always playing matchups and
he's he's hard to read for fantasy, you know, with
platoons and openers and never really naming a closer. So
(31:58):
there's yeah, there's real concerned in Tampa that Nick Anderson
won't be the closer. There's one good thing that Nick
Anderson has going for him, as his ratios are gonna
be so great that he's probably worth owning even if
he gets under twenty saves. You know, So if he's
striking out guys like he did last year at a
(32:19):
fifteen plus k per nine, Uh, he's worth owning, probably
in the top one overall, even if he only gets
fifteen saves right now, I'm assuming he's gonna be a closer,
but yeah, he's he's definitely there's there's a lot of
risks there. There's a good chance Diego Castillo or Alvarado
(32:40):
se saves. Talking to my friend Greg Albright from razbal
dot com, one of my favorite fantasy baseball sites out there, Greg,
when I see, uh, Jason Kittness, the A's have in
touch with them, I always wonder I have no interest
in Jason kitness Why do they? Why do you think
that baseball teams like hit the tires and eyes who
were past a five years ago? Yeah, I mean, you know,
(33:05):
specifically with the aids, they're always looking for a bargain.
I guess, you know. So, I mean that how would
be my guests with them? Because they really I mean
I love this, They could use a second baseman, you know,
but I would love to see them, you know, play
someone like um Matteo or even Bratto. I mean, there's
(33:29):
something's gotta sone's gotta give with their second base situation.
So I honestly, I want to be shocked if Kitness
does end up in Oakland, because they just need, they need,
they need a place holder, probably until Matteo is a
hundred percent ready. Uh So, I don't know, it's it's tough.
And even Matteo if he goes to shorts and semi
(33:51):
in play second or something, it's a it's a bit
of a mess their middle infield situation right the second.
I uh, frankly, I think you know, Kitness for Oakland
isn't the worst deal for real baseball, for fantasy baseball,
it's a it's a wasting. I mean, there's there's no
value with Kitness. The Lord Todd Zola had mentioned Sheldon
(34:13):
Noose as somebody. And you see this guy's numbers in
Triple A duty he might hit three seventeen home runs
any chance he sticks, Yeah, well, I mean he was,
he had twenty seven homers last year in Triple A.
But he's also he's old for the mind, I mean
he's already you know, maybe there's there's always a chance
(34:37):
that a guy just breaks out a little bit later.
So possibly, but up until last year he did nothing
in the minors at all, so I'd be I'd be
a little bit wary of relying on him for anything
other than say a you know, fifteen team league or
deeper as a as a very late round flyer. All Right,
(34:59):
Grey Albright from razzball dot com, talk to you, uh
actually next week, my friend. Okay, oh no, no show
Thursday Friday. I still love you, though, Okay, don't tell anybody, Okay, alright, okay,
talk to you alright, alright, alright, that's Gray Albright from
razball dot com. He will be your regular contributor to
our show. I worked lucky to have him. All Right,
(35:19):
I'm gonna take your time out when we come back.
Maybe talk a little football. Maybe we'll have to see, Hey,
a little baseball, may a little football. I don't know.
Dr Rod will be back right after this. I want
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Road dot com backslash do you learn more? I'm back, Seriously,
I'm trying to deal with my My daughter just texts
me two seconds ago her teacher. She's got this art thing.
(36:25):
It has to be in today. How can't you give
kids more notice than that? Can I deal with? How
can I deal is? I'm on a radio show? How
can I deal with your life? When I'm on a
radio show? Ridiculousness. I can't handle it. I can't handle
it all. Right, here you go, I am on the radio.
(36:47):
Can't talk to you all with apparently or text hold
on or text. Okay, there you go. I think I
feel people feel closer to me right now. Like to
hear this. So let me ask you a question, sean,
very important question. Yep, I'm ready. Did you pay attention
to the XFL? Yes? I did well? Yeah? I did?
(37:08):
You did well? I had Is it because you like it?
Or you work purposes? So I said, I need you
to watch XFL. No. I was doing a show for
Sports Grade on Saturday, and that was the predominant who
we talked to XFL we like every um. So don't
you find like that's a little desperate, don't you don't
you think you should be watched doing baseball prepping for baseball?
(37:31):
Well not well? Well in game live is the premises
that you know, follow up games that are present. So
there's no about the NBA. It does start ntil five
o'clock on Saturday. So XFL is at too, So we
talked about it. I find I don't think there's enough
room in my brain for the XFL. Right, why do
you know what I'm saying? Did I gotta I gotta
(37:53):
fit baseball in my brain? How am I gonna faceball?
And then if I if I spend all this time
on XFL and it's not even around next year, I
just wasted my brain space. Don't look at it like that.
Look at it is. There's so much I can fit
up there. I enjoy it. If you think it will
be around, seriously, Poop Poop Hamilton is a coach. Do
(38:15):
I think it will be around? I can't answer that.
I can't not after one week? What makes you think
it's going to stay around? I think there's a wait,
there's room in the American sports landscape for a winter
slash spring football league. I don't think so, right, not
at the level of the NFL. But yeah, there's definitely room.
(38:36):
There's definitely room. Don't which was the league that people
watched for like a week and then they stopped watching it?
Was that the XFL for the first time, and then
the A F f A whatever it was called last
year at this time. But here's what made THEL was
successful when they went out and got big guys. They
got dude Donald Trump, spend got big guys, Jim Ellie
(39:00):
herschel Walker. They spent big money. Granted, but you're looking
at it Arena football was was popular for a while.
You're looking at it like it's going to be the NFL.
It's don't look at it like that. Look at it
like it's gonna be like a a second tier version
of football, right that can grab you three or four
million viewers each time out Like that's that's where it's
(39:20):
gonna fit. So I have so I have to cover it.
You're saying, no, no, I don't I have to cover. Well,
you cover the NBA. It out viewed the NBA this
past week college basketball as well. Three of the four
games can't be because people it's no. No, I get that,
(39:43):
but that's why I'm saying, weeks into it, how many
people are watching it? Well, we'll find out. Carddale Jones
can't get a job in the NFL. He's in the
XFL and now he's a good quarterback. Stink a stink Uh.
Do you watch the w n B A only if
you can read down to a couch when it's still around, right,
(40:04):
twenty five years somebody's watching it. Yeah, yeah, because that
is the young women out there need role models. I
don't think it's for the men who watch w n B.
I think they have a male audience, don't you think.
I think they're young. Female audiences out drives everything. Do
you think that's enough? And I think that's a very
important audience. No, No, I don't think it's enough to
(40:25):
be sustainable, but I think the NBA sustains it. I
do think with gambling becoming more and more, I guess
legal in each state. I do think that there's room
for football something gamble on it helps, that's true, that's
not true. People are always looking for something. Did you
watch any of the game Did you find the games
to be like, imagine a good college game and it's
(40:45):
not what's better? Man, it was below that. It was
below good college game like mac football, Green is playing
Kent State, bowling Green is playing Kent State or XFL?
What do you watch? Here's what I like about it.
I followed mc launch's career up state. I followed Cardel
his career. I followed even even the kid who played
uh A Temple Walker followed. I know the quarterbacks, I
(41:09):
know the running backs. Not every running back, but I
know most of the players. That helps, you know when
I'm watching mL watching and MLS is a good comparison.
I mean that's like a third fourth, fifth tier soccer
league and people watch that. Yeah, but only soccer people
watch that, and only certain in certain places. They keep
doing something right. There's like ninety friends. But you know
(41:31):
what they states. You know, they have very small, small
uh stadiums. They don't put them in you know, MetLife stadium.
They put it in a stadium with people. Right that
that was, yeah, you're correct about that. They can make
these adjustments smart. Not everything they do is going to
be right, you know. I also like the the idea
(41:52):
that it's different from the NFL as far as there,
they try out different things like did you see the
kick off? What did you think of that? Where the
team know they line up at the opposing teams thirty
right there, like five yards apart, and they can't move
until the returner touches the football. That's interesting, No, it is,
(42:13):
it isn't I mean I also went from the guy
who was mixing the field goals they were going up
with soccer and talk to him. I don't want did
that to me? I hate but yeah, it's too much.
But but they also they have a running clock, which
is kind of cool outside of like the two minute
maybe two minutes in each half. I think they stop
it for for that, but but they haven't run. Do
you think we need more football? Don't you think we
(42:34):
need Don't you think the beauty of football is that
it's only so many weeks and then we get some
time off and we we miss it, and then when
it comes back, we we salivate for it. Yeah I
think that, Yeah I do. But do do we have
time too much football? I mean, we keep talking about
the NFL Draft. I'd rather watch football than talk about
the NFL draft for three months because that's what we
(42:55):
do you'd watch a football he's you're gonna play in
the NFL. He stay, you don't know that. Oh, I
know that. They said the same thing about Kurt Warner
when he was playing. We're in the football league, and
he turned it to an m V in the NFL
and a Hall of Famer. Right, so when Carddale Jones,
it turns out to be a Hall of Famer. No, no,
you can see someone from the league is going to
(43:16):
make an impact in the NFL in the next couple
of years. How about that. I won't buy from this league.
Is gonna make a name. I will bet make it
into the league. I'm not gonna make donuts. I forget
about money. Dollars to donuts will a little bit. Okay,
we're betting a pizza high. We could do that. Yeah,
we can do that, all right, But I want a
guy making an impact, not just I want to pro
what I get a footballer? Yeah, pro bowler. I could
(43:38):
do that within the next two years. Okay, good, okay, good.
You can't wait for this. This is gonna be the
best pizza I've ever had. All Right, you're not winning
this bat the way a guy's gonna go XFL all
Pro Bowl. You said Pro Bowl. You can say all
pro A Pro Bowl? Well, probo any any of the
(44:02):
big guy right, nobody wants to go. They take like
the seventh running back on the Lions. You know that
guy's all of a sudden, Tray Carson's in the Pro Bowl. Yeah, okay,
I meant to say all Pro. Can I read this? No, No, bro,
you're kidding me. Come on, that's a high threshold to meet. Yeah,
(44:23):
that is a high threshold. All right, Well, we don't
think we'd have an open mind. You have an open mind?
Is open and I'm not doing it. I'm not doing
it because I know in another month it's gonna disappear,
and I've just wasted brain power. I gotta deal with
my daughter texting me while I'm on the radio. How
much gonna handle? Seriously? What do you want me to do?
(44:46):
A girlfriend can help you with. All Right, question for
you here, Tom Brady, if you're going to Vegas right
now and you had your last hundred dollar bill, who
was he going to play for? Where did you put
your money? Wow? That's question. I thought that Tennessee Titans
were in the mix, but I think that's out. Think
they're gonna go to Tannehill. If I had to guess,
(45:09):
I'd say the New England Patriots. But do you think
he can win with the Patriots? I don't think you
went anywhere. I think he has finished. You think Brady's finished? Yeah?
I do. Seriously, you think you put Tom Brady on
the fort and they'll be finished? I think they'd be
Super Bowl champions. That's a great question. Wow. Yeah, but
(45:30):
he's not going to the forty nine. Well you said finished,
just said he was. He's gonna go to these middling
teams like Oakland Raiders. See that's the thing. He's not
going to the Vegas Raiders. He's not starting over. Yeah,
he's not going to the Bucks. You know. Is he
gonna go to the Chargers in the same division as
Patrick Mahomes? Yeah? No, he's not winning there. Um. That's
(45:54):
why New England makes the most sense. And where's it
gonna fit? The Titans with Derrick Henry is a running
back that would be a nice fit, actually be a
good fit. I think the way the playoffs, I mean,
you only have the Bills, Jets, and Dolphins to beat. Well,
I think the Bills are improving, though they're not a
gimme as the Bills are a good team. So was
Miami well coach well coach though they beat him, they
(46:16):
beat him last year. That means everything. That means everything.
One day week game they needed, No, they needed that game.
It lost home field. That's pretty embarrassed. That telling, don't
you think? Yeah? That is telling. That is telling. So
if you can't win that game, how do you think
you expect to when that? Uh? I think Brady's gonna
go back there? Well you have to think that Brady
is gonna get worse not better next year, right, he's
(46:37):
getting older. Do you think Drew Brees goes back to
the Saints? I do, yeah, yeah, But Taysom Hill is
gonna be way more involved in that office is I
don't what do we think of him? Can he play quarterback? Yes?
Because he can run, he could play, he could play,
he could play. Being Lamar Jackson type of guy, I'd
say Lamar Jackson, but that's I mean, he's I think
(46:59):
he could throw better the Mark Jackson. I think so.
And he's he's he's athletic, but in a different way,
like he's supreme athlete, but he's Yeah, this guy's got
some skills and in today's NFL, I think he can
handle it. Be interested to see how it shakes out.
All right, so last hundred dollars you're betting it on
the on the Patriots. Um, yes, yes, all right, thank
(47:23):
you for the delay that I appreciate that. Okay, all right,
well right now it's time to put away the insurance cards,
put away the co pay. The office is close, my friends.
I want to thank Steve Carney from w d A
in Tampa for joining us. Really helped talk a lot
about the Rays and what's going on there. Wanna thank
my man Gray Albright from rasball dot com for joining us.
(47:46):
Appreciate him being on. I don't want to thank my
friend Sean and the booth for talking about the XFL
and then the easiest bet I'm ever gonna win. All Right, guys,
this is Dr Rodo saying see tomorrow, be well. Take
air sh
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