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[SPEAKER_00]: And Podger is win the night seven two.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is the wrap-up show, John is ditching us guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is decided to do the collective instead of the wrap-up show tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, solo show tonight for me, be with you for about 30 to 45 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Really good wins tonight for the Podger.
[SPEAKER_00]: As they win seven two, they end up winning the series over the asshows after the falling in game one of the series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tatis has a home run tonight, big three on Homer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jackson Merrill continues his hot stretch and the pitching was fantastic tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: So make your way in This is the wrap-up show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll try to get to as many comments as I can tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is a solo show So it's a little bit different, but if you want your comment read super chats are open So send in your super chats with all the super chats in the show tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it is a solo show tonight for me Exactly all bark pretzel you can collect these nuts No, we love everyone on the collective.
[SPEAKER_00]: We love everyone on the collective
[SPEAKER_00]: Except for John, but yes, so here with you for 30, 45 minutes talking about really, really, really, really good wind if the pod dr is, um, you know, I'll just start tonight like go down to nothing Jackson mail hits the home run, um, but as they go down to nothing, you're thinking there's self, all right, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: Randy Vasquez year has been, I would say up and down, even though he started out hot, but he's, he's gotten himself back into a little bit of a groove here, but then you thought yourself tonight, they go down to nothing, you're like, oh, no, here's the, here's the, here's the Randy Vasquez that we've seen over the last couple of months that's not been good, but then he locked the fucking, and he was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bullpen was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure, I don't
[SPEAKER_00]: But the entire staff is a whole tonight through less than a hundred pitches in the game as a whole.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, I know they mentioned on the broadcast in the night, Danny, like that's incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like just looking at the how many pitches that the staff through tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got so let's go over here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, all right, Randy Vasquez, 62 pitches, Kyle Hart, seven pitches, Rodriguez, 17, a straw to 12, like, I mean, I can't do the math off top of my head, but that's, that's really, really effective tonight from the staff and all and all, just a fantastic win.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, one of the types of wins that you watch and you're like, that team could do some damage.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now the thing is, you watch, you know, the team tonight, they could easily go out in this series coming up with the Brewers lose two or three.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, and we talked about it in the last wrap-up show.
[SPEAKER_00]: They have a great win against Arizona.
[SPEAKER_00]: And in the following night, they put up a stinker against the Astros.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now they did win the series, so that's the most important thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And right now, there are five games over 500.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, one's lost, how many are five games over 500?
[SPEAKER_00]: have they been five games or five hundred this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think they have but still, um, you know, you look at the wild car standings right now as it stands, uh, their game back, Phyllis one tonight, Arizona one, um, Chicago, not even worrying about right now, but, uh, my name is one a couple in a row here, San Luis is one, uh, what nationals have won three in a row.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, it is a, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: uh... bottom half of the wildcard right now with erasona filled alfias and yeah go my amy saint louis and i'll throw washington maybe out right now i'm there four and a half back of the fillies but they're only three and a half back of the podris so it's the bunched up it's a bunched up group right now uh... and every win is going to feel like the best thing in the world and every loss is going to feel like the worst thing in the world and that's uh... that's where we're at in the season that's where we're at in a
[SPEAKER_00]: That's where, you know, in August and September, every wind feels like it's just like they're gonna win the world series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every loss feels like what the fuck they should have sold the deadline, this team sucks.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababababab
[SPEAKER_00]: that's what you want as a fan.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I understand the best thing to want as a fan is to be 15 games in first place and have no stress until the post season.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, every game now for the rest of the year, it just means that much more.
[SPEAKER_00]: It every game, if you, I mean, it feels like a do or die situation, even though it's not, it is not, it even the podries lose
[SPEAKER_00]: Right, so it's going to suck, put it at the same time, even if they lose like three or four, like yeah, they could draw back.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if Philly's one three of four or the Diamondbacks one four and a row and you lose three of four, then yeah, then your four games back and then it does feel like you know the world, but there's still time left if they play like they played tonight on a more consistent basis, I'm not saying they have to play like this every single game, that would be amazing right, hitting for power, your all stars are all starring and your pitching is amazing and then you guys got off the bench contributing and you got the others contributing right like yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight was, tonight was awesome if you're a progress fan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tonight was great, but can they, and that's the biggest question with this team, can they be consistent, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Can they be a consistent baseball team and not go to the highs and lows that they've gone through seemingly through the entire year?
[SPEAKER_00]: They had a stretch before the All Star Break, which got them into a place where AJ Perler had no choice but to buy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, you look at this series that come up here with Milwaukee.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got Casey, my is pitching for you on Monday.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got a dealer on Tuesday and then on Thursday here, or sorry, Wednesday here, you got Robbie right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, Casey, my is Robbie right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said this at the end of the wrap up show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think this is a little bit of a one off their bad starts.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Casey Mies came in.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he didn't pitch for like 11 days.
[SPEAKER_00]: Robby Ray last time he pitched was in San Francisco is more than five days.
[SPEAKER_00]: They both had clunkers.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think these two guys are going to show in this series against Milwaukee.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have very high hopes for the series against Milwaukee.
[SPEAKER_00]: Milwaukee's one of the best teams in baseball.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think this series, Casey Mise and Robbie Ray are gonna pitch much, much better than they pitched.
[SPEAKER_00]: Their first time out into a potter is uniform.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, that's just what I feel, because I think those are one-offs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know everyone's like, oh, sell, I can't, what are we doing, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do think now that they're going to get back into a groove.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think those two guys are going to pitch much better.
[SPEAKER_00]: But this gives them super chats tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, if you want your comments to be read, send it to the super chat, I will read every super chat tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll try to get to as many as comments as I can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, like I said, solo show.
[SPEAKER_00]: little difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: John might be a little better at me than this, but at the same time, John's on here.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, um, this gets some super chats here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, the start off with, uh, case sizzle 83.
[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for super chat, but I appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: John the sell out.
[SPEAKER_00]: Boycott collective kidding.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no, he is a sell out.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't boycott the collective because I think they're going on here in about 40 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, John is a sell out.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he'll admit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: He'll admit it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But thanks to the Super Chat buddy, appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Andrew Berlin, 4193, thanks to the $10 Super Chat, really appreciate that, man.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great W. Randy was great again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Todd T's got the ball in the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: He looks great.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know he's been written off, but he leads MLB and hardest hit balls.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he can be elite again with the trajectory fix.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm glad you sent this super chat because I wanted to get to, you know,
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, was just the overall win, right, how they looked, pitch you staff, the offense, can they be consistent going forward or are they going to fall back in the trap where it's up and down and up and down, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: They can't get a consistent stretch going here for the remainder of the season, um, even though they want 8 of 9 lead in the All Star Break, right,
[SPEAKER_00]: But it's go time now, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: You can't rely just on that stretch to carry it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to continue it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But to your super-trap here Andrew, and thanks to the super-trap, I appreciate it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fernando Todd Testerner, another home run tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got six in the second half.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw Sammy Lev post this tweet.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll get him credit for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll just pull it up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fernando Tati's junior, since the all start break.
[SPEAKER_00]: Three, 10 batting average, which he's hit for a pretty high average all year.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I think his batting average is like the high 280's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, the batting average from has not been a problem this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been the power.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been the impact offensively that needed to pick up like great.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was getting on base a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was hitting for a high average, but he needed to impact the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: how he's paid to impact the game, which is by hitting the baseball over the fence, driving and runs, hitting for power, getting doubles, getting triples, like, you know what he was doing for and what he has been doing for a majority of the year, it's been, it's been fine, it's been good.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that's no, that's not what they paid him to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's not paid to just hit singles and hit 280 with a 740 OPS.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's just, that's not what Fernando taught his juniors paid to do in the baseball field.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fernando taught his juniors paid to do things like he did tonight on the baseball field.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what he's done in the second half on the baseball field.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what he's done in the second half has been incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been the Fernando taught his juniors that you wished that we've seen
[SPEAKER_00]: And what that version of Fresno Tidez Jr is is a feared hitter at the plate, not just a guy that can get on base because he hits a bunch of singles.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, it's a guy that can drive in runs, hit for power and is in his feared.
[SPEAKER_00]: 310 6 home runs 19 RBIs and a 1,015 OPS, that's the all start break.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Fernando Tatis Jr.
[SPEAKER_00]: This team needs to rest away.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the Fernando Tatis Jr. That we all expected and I expected for the season hasn't been that way for the full season.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had an awful first half, like just flat out awful.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no way around it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what he has done since he also outbreak, that's the version of Fernando Tauti's junior that this team needs.
[SPEAKER_00]: And what he's paid to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: So could not be happier to watch Fernando with his highlight kick again, driving in runs, but more importantly, hit for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then on the other side of the coin here, another player this team who has had up until he all star break, an awful season.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's had one of the worst seasons leading up to the all star break on the team easily now is Jackson Merrill and Jackson Merrill since the break has Essentially, I'm not gonna say it turned to season around, but it feels like it's kind of turned to season around like I mean shit Yeah, he has he's turned to season around since the break he has been Incredible I I was worried as I can this guy
[SPEAKER_00]: Is this guy going to ever replicate close to what he did in his rookie year?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, is this guy just going to continue a decline as he gets older here in a podgers uniform?
[SPEAKER_00]: Was the best season of Jackson Merrill his rookie season?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, have we already seen the best from Jackson Merrill?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the answer to that is probably not because ways then since the all-star break is a better version of Jackson Maryland.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was his rookie year, which he's hit in 341 with eight home runs, 21 RBIs, and a 1,017 OPS.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those two players alone, just having that production in your lineup, not just getting on base hit in for high average, but hitting for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I saw a lot of people in the chat and every time I would be like, for now, he's hit for more power.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, whoa, we talked about Jim, he's playing great.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at his numbers.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's hit in, you know, 290 with an 850 OPS.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got one home run in like seven RBI's, but dude, he's getting on base.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's great.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's not what Fernando taught these juniors paid to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not what Jackson Maryals paid to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those two guys are doing exactly.
[SPEAKER_00]: what they're paid to do right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that is not only hit for a high average, but be as impactful as they possibly can be driving in runs and hitting for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what they're paid to do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, manny's average has been dog shit all year, but the one thing that manny's done is hit for power and driving a bunch of runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like,
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't ripped many too much this season.
[SPEAKER_00]: There have been times where it's been bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I have, we have acknowledged that here on this show.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's no doubt about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I remember having a conversation, me and John had a conversation, maybe three, four weeks ago, maybe it was like right before the All Star Break.
[SPEAKER_00]: What season would you rather have right now?
[SPEAKER_00]: Would you rather have a many Machado season where he's hit in barely 200, little above 200?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where he's got 20 homeruns and 55 RBIs or would you run a Fernando Tate's junior season?
[SPEAKER_00]: Where he's hit in 288 or 285 or whatever with a 740 or 750 OPS, but he's got six homeruns and he's got 40 RBIs.
[SPEAKER_00]: I said I would take many season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would.
[SPEAKER_00]: the way the game is structured nowadays, you win by hitting home runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just it's just look at the last however many world series winners.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't win a world series, let's hit home runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Planned and simple.
[SPEAKER_00]: And many season, even though his average in his OPS are not great, he is by far and away their most feared hitter because he hits for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you're in a
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you need one swing of the bat to change the game, that swing of the bat needs to be a swing that hits the ball with a fence, not a ball, you know, just into center field for a single.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just, just, just, just, just as simple as that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Look at the world series last year, game seven.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna say the Miguel Rojas is a homework hitter because he's not.
[SPEAKER_00]: We guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: The Miguel Rojas just hit the single there to extend the game there in the night denning, against the blue jays, blue jays when the world series.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead, with one swing of the bat, ball goes to the fence, changes the game, obviously dodging when the world's series.
[SPEAKER_00]: So hitting four power wins you games.
[SPEAKER_00]: And not always it wins you games, it gives you an opportunity to go deep in the postseason.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you're not gonna hit for a home runs, you're not gonna have for power, you're not going deep in the postseason.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's as simple as that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that Tatiessen Merrill are not hitting for power and Merrill and sorry, Machado has hit for power this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now you've got legitimately three guys in your lineup.
[SPEAKER_00]: The stars of your lineup, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: The guys that me and John on this show have been begging to hit for power all your long as collective, collective.
[SPEAKER_00]: Manny, any moment, dude can't do all with offense.
[SPEAKER_00]: He got 24 bombs in the air.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's gonna end this season with 35, maybe, home runs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jackson Merrill, he's gonna get in the 25 range.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a point this season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't think Jackson Merrill was gonna hit 15.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then Tatsis, shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's on the verge of maybe getting to about 2020 plus.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there was a lot of time this season, where I didn't even know if he's gonna get the double digits.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was that bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: But now, hitting for power,
[SPEAKER_00]: You see what happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see how much it changes the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: You see how much of a momentum swings swing it is for a team that hits for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gavin Cheats and I home run, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's been struggling this whole year.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got a foot thing going on.
[SPEAKER_00]: But that must have felt good for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then you look at the new guy that brought up Austin Hayes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not brought up, but signed off of waivers.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hits a bomb tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Didn't even realize he was in all star back in I think 2019 with the Orioles that's a crazy stat throw out there to bar you want to win a bar bit I Ask anybody hey, do you know Austin Hayes was like once last time you was an all star you'd be like who?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, who's an all star with the Orioles.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, crazy So all in all tonight just a fantastic team one
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, ball bar pretzel, Austin six one nine shirt in the cart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get it Austin Austin the six one nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's actually really good one.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like the 16 Austin three 16 said I just will press, but instead it's Austin six 19, not you there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Six one nine obviously area code San Diego.
[SPEAKER_00]: And thanks for your chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Eric, where's that say?
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, e-race with him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, e-race with Dale as a loyal listener of the show, pretty shit you buddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: As a great game overall, Tyler Dangerous, Mariles Winni-Hotstick, Zander's soul holds a team town LFGSD, John sucks LL.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's so funny, because Tatis, he's looking dangerous again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just hit for single, but hit in for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: His big ass late kick has returned.
[SPEAKER_00]: I saw this tweet that I also forgot to bring up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let me just pull this up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this tweet from Mike Pertello, I think that's it right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pertrillo, Pertrillo, Mike Pertrillo.
[SPEAKER_00]: He put out a tweet today, based on some hot page.
[SPEAKER_00]: Great fall, by the way, does everything for MLB.com.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he did a little bit of deep dive here in Fernando's year so far, and this was his tweet.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said, one day, we'll get the full story of why Fernando taught to you, senior, closed up his stance so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: The first two months of the year before opening him back up.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has a 136WRC plus since June 1st.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I tweeted out, whoever finally got through to him give that person a raise.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was so stubborn it felt like the start of the season for the first two plus months that He just couldn't get the ball in the air if his life depended on it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was fucking pathetic and he was awful And hurt like he he is the type of person that's like just like he tinkers a lot, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He does he changes things up But whatever he's done since June 1st, which is the highlight kick
[SPEAKER_00]: and opening his stance up more because he was closing himself off.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't know power, opening his stance up, having the high lay kick, just continue to do that, Totti, just like don't change, like continue to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the proof is in the pudding, I don't see what, like again, maddening that he decided to close off his stance and not have a high lay kick.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it just fucking ruined his power.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then now he opens the stance up more has a high lay kick and look what happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got six home runs since the all star break.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says an opiocese over a thousand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you better never go back like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: That needs to be the toddy of rest of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I swear God, if he goes back to a close stance or not a high lay kick at any point in the air, you're bra.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can't happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: can't not happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Martin J.
[SPEAKER_00]: Music, sorry, Martin Jr. Music paints the Super Chat really appreciate it, says most complete win of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, kind of felt like way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of felt that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: They looked and played like a better team.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: And, and look, when you are put on a national broadcast, loved on a mud, but, you know, their homers play a simple as they should be.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when you're put on a national broadcast, when there's no bias towards
[SPEAKER_00]: And you play the way you play tonight and you hear the national broadcast team talk the way that they talked about the pod race tonight, it makes you feel good as a pod race fan.
[SPEAKER_00]: It should make you feel good as a pod race fan because you're not getting the home we're talked from, you know, the pod race broadcast, which is their job to do, by the way, you're getting the real talk from the outsiders, right, the the
[SPEAKER_00]: the broadcast that isn't biased to anybody.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that I know PV was in the booth, but still you get my point.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got Jeff Blom and PV in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, something like, something like baseball.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I agree with you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Martin, it did feel like the most complete win of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure I could go back and maybe look at others that felt like a better win.
[SPEAKER_00]: the way they pitched, the big home runs, the stars being stars.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it felt like one of the more complete wins of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: He really did, they really did.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's get to, uh, let's get to our title sponsor of the wrap-up show, our good buddy, our dear friend, the goat, Mark Nimitz, if you have any insurance needs, Mark is your guy, uh, all his information is on the ticker below, and Nimitz of Farmer's Asian.com.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh No, I lost it hold on can we one second
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, geez.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, all right, let's get that to some chats here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I'll look at, uh, let's go to the live chat here.
[SPEAKER_00]: See what's going on in the live chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: I haven't seen, I haven't seen what's going on in the live chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, Austin A's, we ride.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Austin, Hayes jersey in the cart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Austin Hayes was really good for the reds last year, except 760 OPS, he should play more often than not in left field in my opinion.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look, they, they, they, uh, Chase Bowen was, was not going to be around for long or at least Chase Bowen isn't going to be a guy that should be in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Austin Hayes, he has a history.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got some pop in the
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy that can come off the bench and and give you some pop, you know, if Gavin Sheets is there and awesome, Hayes is there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are two righty and lefty off the bench, like that's pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: So overall, like, I mean, hopefully this team starts hitting that stride right now, because this wind loss wind loss stuff, like it's it's just, you know, it's just going to be just the most.
[SPEAKER_00]: epic roller coaster for the second half you could think of because every like I said this are the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's gonna feel like the grazing in the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every loss is gonna feel like like this team is never gonna make the post season.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, I mean, they got it lined up here at the series against Milwaukee with Casey Mise and Robby Ray pitching.
[SPEAKER_00]: Michael King the other night was fantastic.
[SPEAKER_00]: The bullpen, once again, fantastic, and so yeah, I think that the series against Milwaukee, which is a big one, I think Mise and Ray are going to pitch much better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It says Austin A's Rakeskins lefties.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he does.
[SPEAKER_00]: What did they build lefty and pitching DH outfielder hit 22 hormones a few years ago against lefties.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: So look, I know he mentioned up the broadcast that AJ and his agent and him and AJ, they've talked for a couple years to try to make something happen and, um, getting released by the white socks.
[SPEAKER_00]: maybe maybe he finds a perfect home here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just one game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, what did they be, man?
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[SPEAKER_00]: And if he could turn into a kind of a bright spot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, they've had some pretty nice bright spots out of nowhere this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ty France, some odd tailor, even though he's hurt.
[SPEAKER_00]: Austin Hayes now, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like they've had some...
[SPEAKER_00]: And Walker Bueller, even though he's gone through some bad stretches this year, but he's been a nice bright spot at times at one point.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was like, they're best pitch on the team.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he feel comfortable.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, pitch a great outing against the dynamics of this past couple of days ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, all in all, they've had some, they've had some guys that have kind of nowhere that have really contributed to this team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It says, big W. First of the season, where all runs came via the home run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome, and yeah, I see a lot of Holy Sheets and Mojis in the chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gavin Sheets 15th home run of the season and I fantastic for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But all in all, just again, I can't say enough about how good of a win this was tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Given the fact that, you know, every game feels like
[SPEAKER_00]: Do or tie, when it really isn't, it just feels that way, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not the case, but it just feels that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that just brings me here to our Freedom Bokelo player of the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you got a ton of players to choose from here, but I've talked a lot about them tonight and how could I not go with this guy?
[SPEAKER_00]: Our Freedom Bokelo player of the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got to be a Fernando Todd Dishonier.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he was incredible tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that double.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's that home run here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got three RBIs in the night.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got 54 in the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: More importantly, the power is back.
[SPEAKER_00]: It feels like it's officially back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I can, I feel like I can say right now on August 9th for Nando Todd Dishonier.
[SPEAKER_00]: that player.
[SPEAKER_00]: That player's back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I hope he keeps it up.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, I hope he keeps it up because right now he's got 11 homeruns in the year.
[SPEAKER_00]: If on September 15th, we're talking about for now, Taji's junior.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's got like 13 homeruns in the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to disappoint
[SPEAKER_00]: Because at this pace now, I expect him to hit for much more power.
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect him to hit over 20 homeruns on the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I expect him to push an 800 plus OPS.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just, that's how, that's what I expect of Fernando because I expect so much of them because I know he's got it in an in him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know he can be that player.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just has to be consistent.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not tinker as much as he's tinkered with his bad stance.
[SPEAKER_00]: go out there and just do what he did tonight on a more consistent basis.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going to do this every game.
[SPEAKER_00]: He can go over for tomorrow night, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He can go over his next 10.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the power, that needs to stay.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that needs to be something that's a staple for the rest of the season for Fernando Tauti's Junior.
[SPEAKER_00]: So my free to book, I'll play the game.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's pretty easy one for me tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could have chose Austin Hayes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could have chose Randy Vasquez.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could have chose Jackson, Maryland.
[SPEAKER_00]: Could have chose Gavin Sheets.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for me, Fernando Tauti's junior, hitting that home run tonight, it's not just hitting the home run tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's him hitting home runs more consistently since he also are break.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the power feels like it is officially back, and that is something that, again, if you're a podress fan, been waiting to see that all year long, and it finally feels like that version of Tati's that we've all been wanting to see and waiting to see, feels like that guy's back.
[SPEAKER_00]: Feels like that guy's back.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Thanks for that says many in Bogee always get challenges wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they do.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's because when you've been the bigs as long as those guys have had been.
[SPEAKER_00]: have had been.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's 11 36 for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm tired.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when those two guys have been the bigs as long as they have been, there you go.
[SPEAKER_00]: To all the sudden now, have to like think about challenging pitches when they've never done that in their entire career, they're probably not going to be the best at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some players are way better than others.
[SPEAKER_00]: But man he's always
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he he wanted a challenge of pitch.
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember that when he like went into his helmet and like was about to tap on him and then didn't challenge it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good thing he didn't because I think it was a strike.
[SPEAKER_00]: I remember correctly.
[SPEAKER_00]: But like he just is him and Zan.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there is all of the place.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just they just.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're not used to it yet.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's still a new concept for them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And speaking of bogey, you know, the one negative of the night.
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[SPEAKER_00]: what you're out to hear is probably like Jim did a great win.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why are you being so negative?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's because I'm talking about Zander Bogart's.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll talk to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll talk about it for a comment here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wolf.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just flat out wolf.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you when you think about it, like take away the name Zander Bogart's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take away the fact that he has the worst contract in history of franchise.
[SPEAKER_00]: He signed a $280 million contract a couple years ago.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, don't even think about this as Xander Bogart's.
[SPEAKER_00]: Think of it, pretend his name is Joe Rain, or something, Stu.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think of him as something someone can completely different.
[SPEAKER_00]: Take away the Xander, take away everything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of what you're gonna get, and it's, expect from a guy that hits eighth in a lineup.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect anything from an eight hole hitter.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do you, like, honestly, like, to disenge it, do any of you, if I just were to tell you, like, what, if I would ask you this question, what do you expect of an eight hole hitter in a lineup?
[SPEAKER_00]: Your answer would probably be not much, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't, I don't know anybody that watches as much baseball as me and John and everybody in the chat right now that would say yeah, we expect to aid a leader to be an all-star.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, you expect the aid a leader to have a couple moments here and there.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe, you know, a bunch of guys over,
[SPEAKER_00]: even those enters really do many of it much of that, but still like, honestly, take away the fact that Zander Bogarts, what do you expect realistically of an eight hole hitter?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I get it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is a very expensive A-Liter.
[SPEAKER_00]: What I'm telling you is don't think about the money, don't think about the name, just think about what I'm saying right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do you expect of an eight hole hitter?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the money is the problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Zander is just overall a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if I'm taking that away, I'm not even thinking about that, because honestly, the money doesn't even matter at this point in time.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't hit into them from getting Robby Ray, didn't hit into them from getting Casey Mies.
[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't hit into them from doing much this year at the deadline, so don't even think about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zander as an Aital Hitter is doing what eight-holder does, which is not much of anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: So for me, yes, Zander is incredibly frustrating to watch because I understand it is very hard to just not think about the fact that Zander is going to pay to all this money and he is here for at a long, long time and it's just going to be a massive problem going forward.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for the remainder of this year, he's going to be an eight hole hitter unless he turns it around.
[SPEAKER_00]: My guess is he probably won't.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's going to be hitting in the eight hole for the rest of the season.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with that being said, I don't expect anything from him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So how can I get upset with somebody?
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't expect anything from.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Who am you wrong?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's incredibly frustrating to watch.
[SPEAKER_00]: if you don't expect anything from anybody, how can you get mad at them?
[SPEAKER_00]: And when they do do something, like if Xander runs into a ball here and there or comes up with a big two-out RBI hit or whatever, well then, you know, it's a pleasant surprise.
[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe in the post season because he's been a lot of post season games, maybe he gets hot.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then he becomes the best eight hole hitter in the post season, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, but as of right now,
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't expect anything from him.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's just a sad turn of events.
[SPEAKER_00]: How his career has gone into the absolute shitter.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I saw in the chat earlier, like, yeah, it does suck because the enters a great great guy for all counts.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's great with the media.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's great with the fans, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not some dickhead.
[SPEAKER_00]: What is he's not a good baseball player anymore?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just not.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, it's a, it's probably frustrating to watch, but at least it's him hitting the eighth spot and said the fifth spot where it's where he was hitting all last year, essentially because Mike's show was of stubborn SOB and didn't have the balls to put him down in the eight hole.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if he's your eight hole hitter, if he's going to hit too 20 the rest of
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not, you're not freaking in all-star player and being moved down to the eight hole.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're being moved up in the order.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I much rather have Zander hit in eighth than fifth.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I think everybody would agree with that because he's not going anywhere, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just teams every day to work stop and he's gonna be this lineup.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that being said, it's better that he's in the eight hole,
[SPEAKER_00]: Then then the fifth slot or this or hit in fourth because he's hit fourth and fifth a good amount this year.
[SPEAKER_00]: So keep in the eight.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're winning games ready for power.
[SPEAKER_00]: The got the the guys that you need to perform or performing right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Totti, Merrill, Mani, Typhran's have been incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Gabby's been great now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Chrono worth the two whole like right, but
[SPEAKER_00]: Overall, Zander hit Nath doesn't infuriate me as much as when I saw Zander hitting fifth so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though every time I do watch Zander at the plate, I kind of just focus on something else because I know he's not going to do anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get back to some super chats here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How many home runs does Taty's need to hit for Jim to shave his beer, 23?
[SPEAKER_00]: Remember when the over under, we were saying on Taty's homework was 12 and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: If Taty hits 40 home runs, I'll shave my beard.
[SPEAKER_00]: This season.
[SPEAKER_00]: Taty's hits 40 home runs this season, total, I'll shave my beard.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like, what I'm trying to tell you is, ain't gonna happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, at one point, I think the over under I think when the show we were like, yeah, 12 and a half, 13 and a half.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I fully expect him to hit in the 20s around 24 25, I think he had 25 last year.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, he's going to have to, he's going to have to continue on a tear.
[SPEAKER_00]: What if he gets to 25 bombs this year, then, uh, Tati says we'll have had a great second half.
[SPEAKER_00]: That will mean that, um,
[SPEAKER_00]: The second half alone he will have hit 19 home runs because he's got six already right now he would need 13 to hit 25.
[SPEAKER_00]: So 13 plus six is 19.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, if he were to get to 25 home runs this year, that would mean that he would have hit 19 home runs in the second half.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, this guy back to some supers here, J. C. J.
[SPEAKER_00]: Service, you, uh, I was at the game and everyone was up cheering for his and Zander gets, uh, announced, all right, I was to down Zander's up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I, yeah, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, I mean, imagine, imagine what Zander thinks, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Now again, it's very hard for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Very, very hard for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: To.
[SPEAKER_00]: feel bad for somebody that's making $27 million a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just to play a game.
[SPEAKER_00]: It just is.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I do understand the pressure that it involves out every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: You got to perform or there's a chance you could be cut.
[SPEAKER_00]: But in this case, Zander doesn't perform, and there's no chance of him getting cut.
[SPEAKER_00]: So like,
[SPEAKER_00]: He can suck as much as he wants.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's still going to get paid all that money, you know?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I always see, it just annoys me when I see fans being like, Jim, ease up on him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, no, are you serious?
[SPEAKER_00]: If the guy was making minimum wage, and he was playing the game in baseball and he was struggling as much.
[SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, I would be very, I would be very, what's the word I'm looking for?
[SPEAKER_00]: empathetic, sympathetic, one of those words, pours that player, he was making 20 bucks an hour.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would feel bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would feel very bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he was making $70,000, $60,000 a year and I'd feel very bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he's making 27 million a year.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's guaranteed to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He could get cut tomorrow and he's still gonna get paid down money for playing a game.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, again, this is what they signed up for.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, to get paid big bucks, and if they don't perform, they get criticized.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the name of the sport.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't feel bad for Zander one bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now unless something happened in this family or happens to him or then yes, those are different things that's a real life situation.
[SPEAKER_00]: But as far as between the white lines go, I don't feel bad for Zander at all.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, oh, he's up on Zander, he's a good guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure he's a great guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, dude, makes 27 million a year or whatever it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't feel bad for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: If anything, I'm annoyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then I have to watch the guy play and know that he gets paid 27 million dollars to play a game of baseball and he's not great at it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now again, am I as good as Zander on the baseball?
[SPEAKER_00]: I feel like no, fuck no.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zander's a billion times better than I'd ever be
[SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't change the fact that as a fan of baseball and a guy that covers the podjrays, guess what?
[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't perform, okay, then you talk about it and he wards the criticism, 100%, 100% warrants criticism.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just, it's just tough, it's just tough.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here this is a funny one when I'll two replays is he standing up yes he is standing up yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here.
[SPEAKER_00]: How does Zander go from being an elite hitter to this?
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the million dollar question, or I guess the $280 million dollar question, is how did Zander go from being a perennial all star and Facebook franchise world series winner to a guy that is gonna be hitting eighth for a team for the rest of the year, and he's hitting like 220.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think, I mean, I don't want to psychoanalyze this here, but I think the pressure of all the money and I think he might have been damage goods.
[SPEAKER_00]: Come in to San Diego with his risks.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think the ballpark is a big thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think he benefited a lot from Fenway as do most right handed hitters do.
[SPEAKER_00]: division, pitchers ball parks, East Coast, I mean, it could be all of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do think, though, one of the biggest things that's not talked about a lot is maybe he was damaged goods coming here to San Diego.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you remember,
[SPEAKER_00]: his first year with the Podger is he had to get that quarterzone shot in his wrist and he had an after that he played really well again empty stats in my opinion honestly his first year to me was just a compilation of empty stats because you look at his September and he
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, if you watch every game like like I did and like John did is 20 23 was not a good season.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'll argue that till I'm blue in the face.
[SPEAKER_00]: He has not had a single good season here in San Diego, not not one.
[SPEAKER_00]: 2023 included.
[SPEAKER_00]: He just wasn't good that year.
[SPEAKER_00]: He hit like 400 in September with like
[SPEAKER_00]: 28 or it was it was insane his September was was ridiculous.
[SPEAKER_00]: But guess what that team was completely out of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it didn't matter So yeah, it is it is the million dollar question how did Zander go from I wouldn't say he's a he was in a lead hitter I would say that he was a really really good hitter He went from a really good hitter to just really bad I feel like it's overnight
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, Fishy push.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get how John does that now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fishy push.
[SPEAKER_00]: I get how John does that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Uh, where's your better half?
[SPEAKER_00]: Sorry.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm late.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he is not here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Obviously.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, he's preparing for Padres Collective, which will be on at 930.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you miss John, you can go watch him there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He ditched us tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's fine.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've missed my fair share.
[SPEAKER_00]: Rapo shows this year because of the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I never ditch you guys for another show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I can't say the same about him, but, you know, it is what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is what it is.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get some more chats here before we wrap this baby up.
[SPEAKER_00]: Just just fan some I.L.
[SPEAKER_00]: Zander twice a year for a month to keep him fresh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Is that is your turn about Zander?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not about keeping him fresh.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's just not good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think rest is going to help him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Quant says, yeah, his numbers number said a lot through with the green monster, potentially.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, potentially.
[SPEAKER_00]: But our pretzel, talk about an era misses gym.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I missed that talk about endemic Donalds and the jersey mics and the jack in the box.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: I do miss San Diego a lot.
[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't remind me that now I'm going to like get emotional.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't remind me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jim is the real one carrying the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I tried to tell you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I carry the show, but John doesn't want to hear it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Santerney's is the center.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's a standing ovation.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, he's the center.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does not any standing ovation.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does not.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, did I ever go sub-chat?
[SPEAKER_00]: How do we do it, man?
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, did you ever go to rallies in the Walmart?
[SPEAKER_00]: rallies in the Walmart.
[SPEAKER_00]: You mean the Walmart off arrow?
[SPEAKER_00]: By, um, by Vons.
[SPEAKER_00]: I had been in that Walmart, but with the rallies, you mean the, um, fast food place.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a rallies in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are a few rallies, listen, is there a rally, isn't there?
[SPEAKER_00]: Really?
[SPEAKER_00]: I did not know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Huh.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, the more you know, but no, I never, I mean, I went into that Walmart.
[SPEAKER_00]: I never realized.
[SPEAKER_00]: Dude, I didn't, I didn't know that.
[SPEAKER_00]: I, I, I realized it's pretty decent.
[SPEAKER_00]: There was a rally's about my house and I'd be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Good fries, really good fries.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know that a rally's in Walmart though.
[SPEAKER_00]: Um, see here, Frank, the pizza man says, wait, how are the Philly cheesesteaks sandwiches out there Jim talking about out here in Philadelphia?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to lie to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to lie to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're fucking incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, like, they aren't clearly.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, the rallies and I be on palm ice live right over there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I go that rallies.
[SPEAKER_00]: The burgers and that's so much.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the fries.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Chad, fries are their elite.
[SPEAKER_00]: They are elite fries.
[SPEAKER_00]: Philly Cheese takes here, Frank.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: The hogees, incredible, Italian food, incredible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, it's just a game changer.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a game changer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see here, you want that one, you want that one out of Mark Hunt?
[SPEAKER_00]: Not really.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get out here in a second.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is now turned into like a food chat.
[SPEAKER_00]: Can they beat McDonald's fries, rallies?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they can.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though McDonald's doesn't have some solid fries, yes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Tom says how would Philly fancy was in her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, you don't want to know he don't want you don't want to know, bro It'd be he wouldn't it like I Then I might feel bad for Zander because it would just be a blood bath.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean this this the city like I was talking to someone there day and Someone got mad about Bryce Harper.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like what?
[SPEAKER_00]: So like it can turn on you like that, man
[SPEAKER_00]: But everyone's talking about LeBron right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: So no one's really mentioned.
[SPEAKER_00]: No one's even talking about the fillies.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though the fillies are going into a freefall.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, oh, the fillies in a freefall?
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about LeBron.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's talk about training camp with the Eagles.
[SPEAKER_00]: So yeah.
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, Calibridos everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: That is the one thing that Pennsylvania does not have and that is a good Mexican food spot.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's a couple that I've gone to.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're like, oh, yeah, this is good, but nothing even, but nothing even close to San Diego, nothing even close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing, especially an IB, a couple of taco stands there, a couple of burrito spots like.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing tacos, like nothing compares to the Mexican food in San Diego.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna pull a wheel mire, it's gonna be like, oh, yeah, Phil Delphi has got some really good Mexican food.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's got okay Mexican food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stuff that's serviceable, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Give me that gives me the edge that I need to be scratched with my Mexican food.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when I'm thinking about like legit Mexican food, like not, San Diego, no, doesn't compare.
[SPEAKER_00]: Does not compare to San Diego, all right?
[SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't compare.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not going to be like, well, Myers.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, North Carolina.
[SPEAKER_00]: They got some, I got way better Mexican food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nope.
[SPEAKER_00]: San Diego.
[SPEAKER_00]: Go destination for Mexican food.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not even close.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I missed down ponchos more than you know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have literal dreams about down ponchos.
[SPEAKER_00]: I have, I, I do, you guys are gonna make, again.
[SPEAKER_00]: can't do this to me guys can't do this to me because now I'm going to be craving it and it's going to be a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: And then I'm going to go out and find some Mexican food and it's not going to be the same.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was talking to one of my buddies here and filled out for their day.
[SPEAKER_00]: We went to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We went to a Mexican spot which was pretty decent.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was pretty good.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told him it was the closest thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: to San Diego Mexican food that I found out here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Still doesn't beat it, but the closest thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: And they had a Calibrito, so we got a Calibrito.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he's like, what's the California Brito?
[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, yo, what?
[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's how detached people are here from authentic Mexican food.
[SPEAKER_00]: I could say authentic, because Calibrito is not really authentic, but like, you get my point.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy, there's a problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I introduced him to Calvarydo and he's like, this is the greatest thing ever.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, yeah, I know.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, what do we do here?
[SPEAKER_00]: All right, see here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think that will do it for the night guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's gonna wrap it up here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I miss anything.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm missing nothing.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I know what I'm missing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I know what I'm missing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That is going to wrap it up for me tonight.
[SPEAKER_00]: Again, we'll be back later in the week, probably John.
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll be back with you guys on Friday, a little hard for me during the week, but I'll definitely be back on Friday after the pod days take on.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cleveland Guardians in Cleveland.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get this, let's get this show tonight up to 350 likes because John's here, shit.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's get to 400 likes on the show.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are, let me double check here guys.
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[SPEAKER_00]: John, we'll be back with you guys on Wednesday.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's doing a collective here in 30 minutes.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you need to John fix, you can go watch him and DSG and Ace Dog.
[SPEAKER_00]: Talk about this good potter is win, but yeah, until then,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: One more super chat for you guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Cas bot 12, what smells worse?
[SPEAKER_00]: Fill your I.
[SPEAKER_00]: B.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not even close.
[SPEAKER_00]: I.
[SPEAKER_00]: B.
[SPEAKER_00]: That'll do it guys.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have