Episode 53: Very Streaky Teams to Start The Season

The Jimmies break down all the series from the past weekend.  Pops and Slay Dude talk about some streaky teams and why they might end quickly or keep going for a while.

History was made by both the Guardians and the Braves players this weekend.  

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:01

Baseball fans and baseball lovers, good day. Thank you for joining us for another episode of the MLB Clubhouse with the Jimmies. I am here with the Slay dude, Justin Slay, Wendell Pops Patterson, and I am Josh Patterson. We have had some teams on some really, really bad skids lately, and some teams on a couple of heaters. Um, so we're gonna get into that and talk about why we think that's going on right now. And some big surprises when you talk about the standings this week. Let's get into it. All right, fellas, we are gonna start in the American League. First off, White Sox at Kansas City for a four-game set. Pitching was the story, two to nothing in the first three games. But Kansas City took two of those. Chicago takes it to Noah Cameron. Uh, and Tenor Murray got his first big league homer. Congratulations to that young man. And they end up splitting the set. Uh the Fish visit the Tigers for three. Kyder Montero threw six innings, a two-hit ball. Javi Baez is still good, fellas. Um, and Kenley Jansen got his 478th career save. Um, that makes him third all-time, just past Lee Smith on the list. Uh, game two was all T-Grays, led by Casey Mice and Riley Green. Detroit finishes off the sweep as game three pitted a couple Cy Young winners against each other. Scoobyl did Scoobyl things, but Sandy Alcantra got roughed up. Um they pumped him for seven runs on 10 hits in six innings. Uh, the Minnesota took two out of three from the Jays. Um, they have been uh riddled with injuries all throughout their roster, and it shows um again Twins taking two out of three there. Um Yanks at Tampa Bay for three, and Tampa Bay sweeps the set. Chandler Simpson was everywhere this series. He's batten over 400 on the year. Um and Dan, sorry, Drew Rasmussen um was almost unhittable in game three. San Francisco at Baltimore, the O's take two out of three because the Giants have apparently forgotten that you're supposed to score more runs than your opponent. Um, Houston at Seattle. Seattle finally has started hitting and they sweep the set. Houston, one and nine in their last 10. Gotta love that, boys, for our Rangers. Hell yeah.

SPEAKER_04 2:16

Couldn't happen to a better team, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_01 2:18

Absolutely. Um, that's all I got for the American League.

SPEAKER_04 2:21

Slade, dude, you got some standings for us, guys. It looks like we've had some big swings in all these American League, and this pop's going to get into the National League division. We are 16, 15, 16, 17 games in, depending on where everyone is on their schedule. And man, there's been some big jumps. That old team in Baltimore after a slow start, and our Rangers taking two out of three from them, as of right now, are completely leading the division at 9 and 7. Uh, Tampa Bay and New York have the exact same record. Toronto's trying Toronto and Boston better weeks than what they've had considering the slow starts. Surprise, surprise, big one out there in the central Minnesota and Cleveland, exact same record. Didn't we all have them as uh leading three weeks into the season? Minnesota, right? So, you know, Buxton and and Buxton and you know, everyone else there on Minnesota, but but good for them. But we'll go into a couple of those series as well. Cleveland kind of sticking around. But I think the common theme here in the American League, anyway, is no one running away with it. Texas and the A's are playing tonight, and not Oakland, not Sacramento, even though they play in Sacramento. A's are both the only teams over 500 with the Angels at 8-8. Seattle starting to come back stronger thanks to playing a Houston team that's been in big trouble. So everyone's pretty tight right now in the American League. Uh, some surprises, even being this early, but just uh it's uh it's been a an early season of runs, good and bad, I think, for most of these teams.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Absolutely. And one of the things uh that we'll talk about tonight is is the streakiness of some of these teams. Um, some of them got out of the gate, really scuffling, some of them have been on a heater as of late. Um, the athletics are one um that uh, you know, if you look at their last couple of series, um, they've they've played really, really well again. Um let's see, they uh we haven't gone over their series yet for the weekend because they played in a National League stadium, but um they have had um a really nice run lately. Um they took two out of three against Houston last weekend. Um so they beat up on a divisional opponent that obviously helped them in the standings, but um what we thought was gonna be a big Achilles heel for them, their pitching, um, has not been as bad as we might have thought. Um so you know what are you seeing from the A's, Slay dude? What do you think there is uh what's going on with them on their heater? And then we'll talk about a couple of teams that have done kind of the opposite.

SPEAKER_04 4:58

I think that it kind of you pinpoint exactly what you said, not so much in that Astros series where they definitely put up some runs. They put up, you know, uh 11. They won 11-4 the next night. The Astros actually shut them out 11-0, but then they come and they they have a barn burner, and it's a 12-10 game. And but the Yankees series, I mean, they've really enjoyed playing in New York. Pops will go over when they played that National League New York team, but those were all super low scoring games, including a one-nothing shutout on Thursday for their final game up there to win the series. And I think it's exactly what you said, Josh, is you know, we we did count on some of these guys getting some hits. We count some of these guys knocking in some runs. You know, you've got um, you know, Lang Lear, Soderstrom, Muncie, they're all playing well. You've got, I mean, the guys that we thought that thought we thought that they would. And you know, you got some guys driving around. Lang Lear's has five home runs, 10 RBIs, Soderstrom, 13 RBIs. We knew that they were going to be able to hit, and they've been proving it. So that's been pretty crazy. But as you said, their pitching has been what's been really surprising. When we talked about was going to be their Achilles Hill, I mean Springs and was it Savali? Those guys both have uh ERAs 1.47, 1.72, respectively. Uh Servino, who is pitching tonight, well, he's at 5.4 ERA before he gave up three runs in the first to the Rangers. So I don't know if it's the Rangers that are hitting well or if they just hit well outside of what has become a hole for all um offenses, Rangers and opponents included there at Global Eye. Something's got to get figured out. But yeah, Josh, I'm with you. Uh the runs runs is not surprising, but then to go in and I think score eight runs in three games and take two out of three against a very good Yankee team that, you know, up until last week had some the best pitching in the league. So it's uh it's been a fun young team. They're doing better, better than I thought, you know, this early in the season for for you know kind of what they have.

SPEAKER_02 6:54

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

All right. Now um kind of killed two birds with one stone on the next one because we have um Seattle, who has uh been playing really well. Um, or maybe they just ran into a Houston team that's been playing really badly. So um we'll kind of kill two birds with one stone with one stone there because um as of right now, Houston is on an L8. Um they are one and nine in their last 10. Seattle on a W4. Um, three of those four were against um Houston. So uh the big thing is Seattle has started hitting, and I think the the bad thing with Houston has just been their their pitching, and they got Hunter Brown on the shelf right now, so I don't think that's gonna make it any or e any easier on them.

SPEAKER_04 7:42

Yeah, so four of four have all come against Houston, actually. So they went they went into or they went back home against Seattle and Seattle went back home against Houston. They won four in a row after getting swept by the Rangers here in Arlington. So again, it's just been a crazy, crazy amount of runs. You know, the Rangers sweep the Mariners after getting swept at home by Cincinnati. So it's just been a it's been a a week and series of runs this year, but I think for Houston, Josh, kind of the same thing. You know, they're putting up a decent amount of runs. The thing with the Mariners is what they started doing, at least the last four games, they started hitting the ball. The last four games they didn't score less than six runs. And so, you know, I don't get me wrong, it's always fun to play Seattle. We we've already beat them as many times this year as we did all last year. We've only played three games, but I think it also is coupled with us facing them at a time that they weren't hitting, and hopefully they haven't figured it out. And Josh, I hope you're right that it's just the the Astros that are helping everybody, including the Colorado Rocky, figure it out too. So I think Mariners pitching is is gonna be back. It's gonna be fine. Their last two games against Houston, they give up one and two runs respectively. So we all picked them to be there. I think we all knew they're gonna be there. It's just a matter of time early in the season, but you know, two, you know, one cold, one hot streak followed by each other. We'll see, we'll see what the Padres have to say here this coming week uh to the Mariners, who Padres actually doing pretty decent right now.

SPEAKER_01 9:05

All right, good stuff there. Um so the last team, I guess, in the American League that's been on a little bit of a skid is the Yankees. Uh, they started off red hot. Pitching was um absolutely unhittable. Um, the offense was just enough, but looking up and down their lineup, the only guy that's really getting it done consistently is Ben Rice. Everybody else is is really struggling big time. Their stopper, um, Max Fried, last season, I believe he was 12-2 uh when he followed a Yankees loss. And um, you know, his first time up after a Yankees loss this season um did not get the job done. So um tell me a little bit about what you're seeing out of the Yankees.

SPEAKER_04 9:52

Yeah, I'm thinking, you know, the first player that thinks he's ever gonna go was it 50-50 is batting 179, that's Chisholm with uh no home runs, right? So that doesn't help Aaron Judge batting 218 right now, Belly at 241. I mean, those are guys that you know they're gonna count on to get started. Stanton, you know, is is batting 300, and like you said, Rice is the only one that's really even producing on a regular basis for them. I think that their pitching was so good in the first couple weeks that it could kind of hide this offense. But even though pitching can tend to stay, and they definitely have the guys, like you said, they've got freed, they've got, you know, is it Schlitler, they've got these guys, and but it's just a you know, kind of a Rangers deal last year when you when you when you're trying to count on everybody, your starters or whoever holding everybody or shooting your whole freaking team, bullpen included, holding someone to two runs or less every night with an offense that's not hitting. It's just a tough, I think it's just a tough combination, but I think the Yankees will snap out of it. They got the veteran presence and uh, you know, Captain Amy Aaron Judge that if he snaps out of it, I think we'll pick everybody up on that offense and and keep them going in the right direction.

SPEAKER_01 11:00

All right, good stuff. All right. Um let's talk a little bit of National League. We'll go into recap those series, and then Pops is going to give us his breakdown um of some of the teams that have been on the skid and on a streak um in the National League. All right, starting it off a four-game set, the Rocks and the Padres. Pretty fun little four-game set, um, but only if you're a Padres fan. Uh close, um, but the Rocks just they couldn't hold on. Um, and apparently Tatish Jr. is a second baseman now. Um the Pirates visit the Cubbies, uh, who've been shuffling to start the season, but the Bucks take the first two um in typical low-scoring fashion. Um, but some timely hitting and some shoddy defense, frankly, um, allowed the Cubs to salvage the series. And Cade Horton is out for the year. Got an update on his elbow injury, so he is done ski. Um, we can talk a little bit more about that uh when we break down the teams that have been scuffling. Uh the snakes in the fill square off for three, and the snakes take two out of three. Um, quick El Bombi update, fellas. He's still bad. He's he's doing really bad. Turns out the strikeouts are bad no matter which park um you're playing in.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Well, you know, the short it doesn't matter how small the park is. If you don't make contact, you are not going to be successful.

SPEAKER_04 12:20

That's that is your hot sports band of the week, there, folks.

SPEAKER_01 12:24

Um the LA Angels go to Cincinnati. Um and the Halos can play some ball, fellas. Uh, they take two out of three. The stoppers were not stopping this week. Um, Andrew Abbott got rupped up for seven earned runs. Um, but Jose Soriano, who is the ace for the Angels, he's got a 0.33 ERA this season. So he is also the first four-game winner. Um, athletics at the New York Mets talked a little bit about that already. McNeil made his return to City Field. He got a nice little standing ovation. Um, and the$800 million man is still missing from the Mets lineup. Um, the Mets drop the first two games and pin their hopes on their stopper fastball, Freddie. Um, but he takes a tough one to nothing loss thanks to a solo shot from the Big Amish, and the A's sweep the Mets. The guard dogs visit the Braves, and the Bats are hot in hot Lana. They take two out of three, but a little history was made also. Jose Ramirez became the first guardian ever to Homer against every other team in the league. Um, and Matt Olson played in his 796th career game. That makes it the 12th longest streak um all time. Uh, that was a really fun series to watch. And I don't know if it was just a little bit of nostalgia. Was that 95 World Series? Was that Braves and and I guess it was the Indians back then? But didn't the Braves, wasn't that their one World Series win in the 90s was against the Indians? Yes. Yeah, okay, yeah. So that seemed, I don't know. I guess watching that series was fun. It was a little one-sided, um, because the Braves just freaking knocked the ball all over the field. But um, but yeah, that was that was kind of fun to watch. Got the juices going a little bit. Um, the national sweep, the Milwaukee Brewers, obviously. Um, but nobody can get James Wood out. Slate called that one. He called the epic collapse of the Milwaukee Brewer season. So we've got to- Thank you.

SPEAKER_04 14:24

James Wood might get another award from our podcast tonight, too. You never know.

unknown 14:28

Nice.

SPEAKER_01 14:29

Um, Boston um visiting St. Louis. Will Wilson Contreras visits his old team and he got a standing O also. Uh, but St. Louis fans were not clapping by the end as Boston took two out of three. And then last but not least, our Rangers tried their best in this series um and gave the Dodgers a pretty good run for their money, I'd say. Uh, game one, Edwin Diaz going save. Only the best um closer in the game, thanks to a two-run homer by Evan Carter and uh RBI Cotter by Zeke Duran. Um but a three-run, three homer day from Max Muncie uh sealed the deal in the bottom of the ninth on that one. Seeger Langford and Pajes also homered. Showhead let off game two with a homer off Jack Leiter. Uh, first time he looked kind of bad uh this season. Tao also had a big three-run jack. Nemo um tried his best to carry the offense with a two-run, two homer day, uh, but it wasn't enough. Shohe then let off game three with a homer as well. Um, but deGrom shut him down after that, striking out nine, and the Rangers end up end up salvaging the series. So that's all I got.

SPEAKER_04 15:38

Did you know Muncie, Max Muncie's from Keller High School? Oh, no, I did not. Yeah, and he went to Baylor, I guess. And yeah, you you know, I guess he really wanted to beat the crap out of his hometown team, so good for him.

SPEAKER_00 15:50

Yeah, you know, Dodger and Red Sox legend. Uh what's his name? Dustin May. He's from Justin. Really? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 16:02

That's right. That's right. And uh really just a good name overall. Right.

SPEAKER_00 16:09

Bob, so you got some standings for us? Uh yeah, so um the Braves over look starting at the east. In the east, the Braves are uh kind of running away with it. They're two games ahead. Uh huge run differential, plus 46. Uh, Baldwin looks like he's decided that not only that he's gonna add a MVP trophy to his rookie of the year trophy, uh, he just continues to rock. Uh everybody else floating around 500. Uh, you know, I think obviously the big story here is the the Mets. Uh, we'll talk about them a little bit more in a little bit. Um and the Central, the Pirates have a one-game lead over the Reds. Uh and uh, you know, this is not something you would you would have seen very often in the last uh five to eight years. They are plus 19 run differential. Uh O'Neill Cruz is just ripping the cover off the ball now that he's got somebody else in the lineup uh whose batting average is over their weight, their playing weight. Um you know, Cardinals hanging in there. You know, that they've they've lost two in a row against the Red Sox. I think they're they're they've they're losing tonight against the Guardians. But you know, at some point the shoe's gonna drop on those guys and they're gonna fall to the bottom. Uh the Brewers also on a five-game uh gold streak, and the the Cubs are just uh yeah, I don't even know what to say about the Cubs. Yeah, pretty surprised. Injuries are killing them, basically. Um so um we'll get into them a little bit later. And then uh as we talked about, the Dodge the Dodgers um are uh 11 and 4. You know, this may be the year where they get the 105, 110 wins.

SPEAKER_04 17:58

Um Josh, Josh, I think it's messing up with our screens, so to make sure you're getting your FaceTime. And it did the same to me whenever I was going through some of my series.

SPEAKER_00 18:12

Okay, all right, awesome. So uh Dodgers are um running just you know 11 and 4. The Padres finally starting to hit. They are on a five-game heater, and uh, you know, we thought that they were gonna get left in the dust, and it turns out that that they are right up there. And uh Fernando Tatiste made his first career start at second base on Saturday, and second one on Sunday, and uh kind of broke out of his hitting hitting slump. So maybe he may stay there for a long time. Um Diamondbacks are hanging in around 500, and then uh uh I guess it'll we'll figure out if the Giants are going to outlast the Rockies for last place. Uh the Giants are really scuffling, and the Colorado Rocky only have a negative six run differential.

SPEAKER_02 19:04

So Colorado Rocky.

SPEAKER_00 19:08

So uh, you know, good good for them. Good for them. They can't they can't pitch for for anything, but they're still hanging in there.

SPEAKER_01 19:17

They they've got some fun hitters. I mean, they they really can't hit the ball all over the field, but man, they just they gotta figure out something with their pitching if they're ever gonna do anything. But like we talked about before the season started, they've got some people in their organization now that have actually started to do some research as to what works at course field. So we'll see how that goes. Um, so thank you for the standings there, Pops. Let's get into a little bit deeper dive on some of these teams. Um, I guess do you want to start with the good or the bad? Uh start with the good.

SPEAKER_00 19:48

Um let's talk a little bit. You got to kick it off with the black and gold, right? Oh yeah. You know, a good good game tonight after his ERA is finally under back down under four, I think, or maybe right at. But the you know, the biggest thing, you know, I talked about earlier is their their offense are actually scoring scoring some runs. Um O'Neill Cruz is just, you know, he's he's he's looking like Kid Griffey Jr. out there. He's got five five home runs and 13 RBIs, and he's hitting 340. Crazy Brandon Lyle hit his sixth home run tonight. So, you know, finally there's somebody in the lineup to predict Cruz. Um O'Harn's doing well. So uh it's gonna be an interesting thing. You know, I think um they won two out of three from the Cubs over the weekend, but you know, there's just it's a huge trend, not just with the Pirates, but with everybody where they it doesn't matter how many pitches they have or haven't thrown, they just do not let the pitcher go through the lineup a third time. Yeah. And you know, that happened to the Pirates twice. Um and they wound up burning the bullpen on on in Friday and Saturday night's game, and then you know, basically they lost um that had that walk-off on Saturday, on Sunday, because the guy's out there and he's he's throwing 35 pitches and he just he couldn't get anybody out. You know, and they just they wound up with the with the walk-off. Uh so uh but man, you know, nice for the black and gall. You know, I'm I'm glad he's with us, but you know, you just wonder what they could have done if they'd uh played nice with Andrew McCutcheon and had his veteran leadership to this to this mix. And you know, I think he's made a a huge difference with uh with our ball clubs.

SPEAKER_01 21:45

Oh yeah. Yeah. I love seeing Kutch in Ranger uniform. I think I said it last week. I I just he's been just one of the really great ball players, um, and great clubhouse guys of his of his generation, his his entire. Career. So it's fun to see him getting up there. Um, how about the Dodgers and Padres Pops? What what good things you got to say about them? Is it is the Padres more of hey, they just played the Rockies, or did you see something turn around a little bit? They did start hitting.

SPEAKER_00 22:16

Uh I mean that that's that's the thing, right? I mean, they they started it's finally started hit hit hitting the ball. Um they won five games in a row. That that you know, they had a three, they only had three against was it was it three or four against the Rockies? Um four of those were against the Rockies and what one. Uh so you know, but uh they're they're they finally started to hit. Tati's hitting a little bit. Uh got a the rare walk-off grand slam in the bottom of the twelfth uh after the uh Rockies or both teams had scored single runs in in both the 10th and the 11th, and then they get the uh the walk-off grand slam in the 12th. But they finally started to hit the ball. I'm sorry. Was that Sheets that game? No, that was Bogart's. Oh, okay. She Sheets hit hit uh it wasn't a walk-off, but he hit a basically a game winner in the eighth, I think. Oh yeah. In game two or three. I don't know. I got I got all the game. But you know, yeah. But then, you know, uh then the Dodgers are just Dodgers, you know, they're plus 35 uh run differential, six and three at home, um, and five five and one um on the road, three and oh against the east, three and oh against the west. You know, they just they just they don't they they they just don't seven and three in their last ten.

SPEAKER_01 23:44

So, you know, um well they're kind of well on their way to what we thought they were gonna do last year, right?

SPEAKER_00 23:50

Yep, yep. Uh so you know like I just and uh so I think they're uh yeah Mookie's on the disabled list, and you know that's probably the best thing for them, you know, at this point. You know, everybody knows what a great, get great pro he's been over his career. But you know, he's if you throw pitchers in there, he's probably their 16th, 17th best player.

SPEAKER_01 24:20

Yeah, yeah, which is crazy. And he's still pretty good, right?

SPEAKER_00 24:26

There's a lot of teams that would take bookie backs any day in the week, right?

SPEAKER_01 24:29

He had a he had a down year and it was a five more season last year. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 24:34

Throwing the local spin on that, first of all, I feel weird. Like I'm trying so hard not to move when Pops is talking. All right, so just so you know, so we can get FaceTime in there. Like, I'm not even trying to touch my beard or anything. But weird as this is, right? Talking about just how freaking good LA is, right? You and this the this should never be a sentence that's spoken when you're talking about your team. I felt okay with us, or probably even good about us losing two out of three in LA. Yeah, we played pretty good ball. You know, that that lineup dude is just the most ridiculous thing ever. Now, granted, we had Rocker and Leiter. Leiter's been doing really good, and he was probably that was the worst performance of the starters we had. DeGrom did what de Grom did, except for first pitch of the game again to show hey, but a lot of people do.

SPEAKER_00 25:22

Well, again, that is what deGrom does. Yes, and they know what you want to do.

SPEAKER_04 25:26

Give up niggers to lefties. Second time he's done that this year, first pitch of the game, right? Did it Seattle then gave up one more run the rest of the game? But you know, just going up and down that lineup, and then us even, you know, not securing the lead. Thank you, Garcia, again, in the first game on Friday night. But that's when I was texting you. Obviously, I was very pissed because then I started looking at payrolls and stuff. But for us to come back, you know, three runs down in the ninth against freaking top-tier closer. I mean, I don't care how good or bad he's been doing. He probably didn't have to close too many games, so that's why he kind of freaked out when he actually had to do something. But yeah, I mean, they're so good that that's one of those where you like we went into LA, lost an extra innings, got beat handily on Saturday, but then had what a three to one, four to two, or three to two game, anyways. It was something really close.

SPEAKER_00 26:13

Five to two, you know, they worked uh 10 walks against the Dodger staff. So that was pretty good. And you know, three amazing challenges by Jansen. Yeah, and then you know, Friday, Friday night. I mean, you know, you come back against Diaz, and then you've got Latz out in the position to close who hasn't given up a freaking hit all year, let alone a run, right? Hasn't given up anything, and um and then you know, Muncie walks it off. So I'm I'm I'm I'm right there, right there with you. You know, I feel like losing two out of three is not the worst thing that happened to the Rangers this week.

SPEAKER_04 26:49

And scoring some stinking runs too, right? So that's what's been nice too.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Yeah, we weren't a good score. Yeah, what was it? Seven seven runs that they scored in game uh one, the first game of the series, they scored eight runs and sweeping the Mariners for the entire series.

SPEAKER_01 27:09

Right. Um, so Slade did the next time you get mad about the Dodgers budget. I'm just gonna tell you this to put your mind at ease a little bit, okay? The leaders of the American League East, the top team, Tampa Bay Rays, okay? The Central, none of those teams spend money. But you've got the twins and the Guardians at the top of that one, okay. We've got our Rangers, who I really I don't, I know we're spending money on Seager, but I feel like we're not spending or maybe big. I think we're 15th or 16th, 200 million.

SPEAKER_00 27:42

Basically, it's him and the Grom, right?

SPEAKER_01 27:44

Yep.

SPEAKER_00 27:44

Probably Nemo a little bit since we picked up his contract, but that was kind of a swap for yeah, he's probably 20, give or take, but you know, you got 37 and Seager about 35 or 32.

SPEAKER_04 27:57

Gained a little space by trading Simeon.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

So those contracts were a little bit better for us for getting who we traded him for, but yeah, he does he did he's not in the Simeon territory.

SPEAKER_01 28:07

Yeah, but the big time spenders of the West, Seattle and Houston, that's who I feel spend the most money in our division. Those are the two bottom teams, Houston's 6 and 11. National League, you've got Atlanta and Miami at the top, um, which Atlanta does spend money, but they have very team-friendly contracts. Um, and then in the central, you got Pittsburgh and Cincinnati at the top of that one. Um, and then in the West, we know what's going on there. But um, you know, maybe maybe all these mid uh to low market teams or small market teams, excuse, excuse me, um, maybe they're trying to show out because of the CBA thing. We can do it, you know what I mean? We'll we'll see. It's still early. We'll see how they do.

SPEAKER_00 28:48

But well, the New York Mets are paying, uh, and we'll get we'll get to them here in a second, 30 million dollars a year, whatever it is for Simeon and his one home run, six RBIs, and one ninety batting average. I'd much rather have them take any. He makes us um glad we have Jacques.

SPEAKER_04 29:07

Oh, I don't know about that, but yeah, I am glad we have Nemo. Dude, he has been great. I was watching some of that Saturday game at Mole Man's, and he bit I hadn't even said nothing about it, and he was talking about how much he likes Nemo. So that means that's been the payoff has been great on that early.

SPEAKER_01 29:23

Yeah, for sure. Um, he's uh it's made me want to buy a Nemo jersey. He's he's uh and I don't buy Rangers jerseys, I like my t-shirts and my polos. Um Pops, who else we got? Um I guess we gotta go to the bad teams now, huh? The teams that have been skidding a little bit. Uh talk about the brewery cares.

SPEAKER_00 29:44

Uh yeah, the brewers, you know, I just yeah, I don't know how you go in and get swept by the Nats. You know, they're they're they're uh the Brewers are lost five in a row. I mean, part of the reason is because um there was it James Wood got on a heater and he'll be probably player of the week. Um even though he started that series only hitting 268, and now he's hitting like 450 or something. But well, 268 is probably leading the league nowadays. But uh you know, it just uh and I think they can have him batten batting leadoff pops.

SPEAKER_01 30:26

I think he's batten lead off in that part.

SPEAKER_00 30:28

Yeah, he's he does, he hits in the leadoff spot, which is kind of interesting. But you know, there's nothing really, you know, from the Brewers. You just look at it, and it's not like you know, their offense is in the is not in the in the tank and their pitching isn't terrible, but they just you know, they just um can't get out of their own way. I mean, like the the game Saturday night's game. The Nationals turned three bunts into four runs in the in the in the top of the ninth inning or eighth inning, whatever it was. And it's just you know, just that's just weird. Yeah, that's just weird shit, right? So um at the end of the day, you know, I I think the Brewers are gonna come back and and break Justin's heart and and make the playoffs, but uh they are definitely special.

SPEAKER_01 31:16

I remember Slay Slay talked about it a lot in the in last season. Nobody knows how to defend the Bunt anymore. Maybe I mean maybe that's the secret. Maybe that's how you beat the Brew crew. I think a big part of it, Pops, and I said it before the season started. Yes, the Brewers have have some kind of formula because they've they've been a winning team for what 10 seasons in a row. Um, but I just I think losing fastball Freddy, he was their stopper um in that rotation. I think losing fastball Freddy is a much bigger deal than people made it out to be. Um, I think losing guys like Chad Durbin and Isaac Collins that that took them so far last year, I think that hurt them a lot too, Pops. I'm not I'm not saying I'm out on the brew crew being a playoff team, um, but I think it's gonna be a much tougher road to get there this season.

SPEAKER_00 32:08

I will just say this in response to that. They're starting off this year very much like what they did last year. That's true, also.

SPEAKER_01 32:17

And then they went on what the 62 out of 75 games or some crazy shit like that. Yep.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, two two separate three pops, how many winning game winning streams?

SPEAKER_00 32:31

It was three three, they had three um 10 game winning streaks, or at least 10 game winning streaks. I agree.

SPEAKER_01 32:39

I think it was and I might I might be thinking the rays for but I I think it was four 10-game win streaks last year. But I but I'm but I might be thinking about the rays going on one. The only 10 games they won last season. All right, yeah, good stuff. We'll we'll see about the Brewers. I don't I don't think they have the roster to unless things really start to break down. I don't think they have a roster that's gonna keep them in uh in a skid like this, but um, but we'll be keeping a close eye on it, especially with them being almost cellar dwellers in that NL Central right now in the early going. Um how about the uh how about the cubbies pops? You want to talk a little bit about the cubbies?

SPEAKER_00 33:22

Man, they're just injury, injury, injuries, injuries, injuries. You know, um Horton's down. Um the guys they got filling in just aren't getting it done yet. Uh nobody's really nobody's hitting yet. PCA is about 200. Um even Horner's Horner's doing okay, but you know, and the rest of that lineup just isn't gelling together. Matt Bush broke it over 30 uh yesterday. Uh beat the help beat the pirates. Uh, of course he he misses um who was his best friend on the Cardinals. Who's best friend? The pitcher Matt Bush. Oh yeah, Eric Fetty. Oh yeah, he misses Fetty.

SPEAKER_01 34:07

His BP pitcher for sure.

SPEAKER_00 34:12

I mean, and again, I think the Cubs, not unlike the Brewers, at some point they'll they'll start to win again. But you know, I think the interesting thing about uh PCA and whatever, you know, he started on like crazy last year and then hit a hit a rough patch, and that's kind of where he's been living. For it's been we're going on, you know, about a three-month uh uh string now where he's been uh scuffling offensively. Yeah. And you know, except for a couple of at bats. He he scuffled in the WBC. So I I think you know, he never has been that great offensive uh giant that he was for the first couple of months last year. So you know, obviously he saves you a lot of runs defensively. Um it'll be interesting. You know, they they certainly committed, uh their pot committed to him. So um for their sake, I hope it works out all right. It seemed like a good kid.

SPEAKER_01 35:15

And and his mom was in the movie Major League, so that's uh that's a plus also. Little big league. Oh, that's what it was. Yeah, sorry. Yeah, it's very different, very two very different things.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

Yeah, one catered towards kids, and the other was uh a little big league.

SPEAKER_01 35:34

Um, so uh and to your point, Pops, they they just extended PCA, they signed Bregman. Um, I think they just extended Horner, right?

SPEAKER_00 35:46

That is correct, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 35:47

Yeah, yeah. Um, so you've got these guys locked up. Um, another thing I will say, Pops, uh, I heard Ian Hap doing it doing uh an interview or you know, post-game interview or something like that. Um Chicago, the windy city coming out of April. You just hope that your batting average didn't destroy you for the entire season. Um, because the wind knocks some stuff down. Um, it carries some some weird pop flies out of the yard. Um, but I guess we'll see how Chicago starts hitting when it starts to warm up a little bit in May. Um, but I think you're I think you're right, PCA. His his biggest thing is he's just he cannot turn into Chris Davis. Remember when Chris Davis hit all those home runs, and then the next season it was like he was he was letting every fastball down the middle go and then swing it at every curveball down and in, right? I mean, he was just completely lost. I mean Josh Young. Yeah, right. Um unfortunately, Josh Young, that's been going on for about two years. At least Chris Davis signed with Baltimore and went and hit 56 home runs or whatever the hell he did. Um, but uh, but yeah, he's he's just gotta learn to keep it in the zone, I think. Um, but with their defense, with their athleticism, um, I do think Cade Horton is going to hurt them losing him uh for the season. But maybe more so than the Astros and Toronto that we talked about last week. I think the Cubbies have a little bit more depth um than the other two. Well, Toronto is pretty deep, but they've got a full rotation on the I. L, just like the Dodgers seem to have all season last season, right? So I do think the Cubbies are are built to withstand losing a pitcher, but Kate Horton is the real deal, and I think that's gonna be a tough pill for them to swallow. They're gonna have to fight hard. Um, last but not least, Pops, what about the New York Metropolitans? What do you see in there?

SPEAKER_00 37:54

See a team that um Mrs. Juan Soto, like newborn Mrs. Mama's milk. Um got shut out by the Mets uh by the A's twice, one to nothing. Nobody's hitting, you know, Simeon's hitting 190, Bo Bachette's not hitting. Um, and nobody's gonna get started without Soto in that lineup for sure. Even Ledor's having kind of a weird season, right? He's got well, I mean, you know, he uh it's a lot different when that, and I'm not sure what their lineup look looked like, but I you get a lot different pitches when you got Soto sitting behind you than not, right?

SPEAKER_01 38:36

I think it was the door Soto Bachet is how they had it lined up. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 38:41

Um, you know, but so they've lost five in a row. Um, but you know, that's a bit of a snake bit franchise, too. You know, like the way they finished up uh last year, you know, they had hell, they were in first place like on September 1st, and then didn't even make the playoffs. Yeah, um so we'll see. Uh a lot of a lot of talent on that roster, they spent a lot of money. Um, but outside of I guess maybe they were counting on Damian for that a little bit, but you know, they took they lost a lot of a lot of veteran leadership, you know. You look at what Nemo's done here and what he's brought to the to the team, and then uh the same with uh McNeil. You know, a lot of those guys uh been there a long time and and and polar bear, you know, I think they they missed some of that leadership. So it'll be interesting to see how the rest of the season plays out, you know. Saying all that, right? There's still 146 games to go. So lots of lots of runway for them to get things squared away.

SPEAKER_01 39:44

That's a good point, Pops. I I I do think that the the names that you popped off there, Polar Bear, I think Jeff McNeil and Brandon Nemo, you know, to a certain extent. Um I think although they were trying to switch up their core and and change things up a little bit this this offseason, I do think you're talking about guys that were pretty good leaders in the clubhouse. Um I don't know that necessarily Soto and Bachet have shown that they're really though that kind of guy, you know, that kind of clubhouse guy. Um obviously we're not in the clubhouse with them. Um if we were, we wouldn't be doing a podcast.

SPEAKER_04 40:25

You know, well, we'd be retired by now, so we could still be doing a podcast. True that, true that, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 40:32

We could. Well, you know, I mean, to your point, Bachet, I mean, definitely Juke Vladdy was the leader of the Blue Jays. And and you know, I mean, who knows what how Bichette would have been had Vlady not been there, but Vladdy's just that guy, right? He's always gonna be the alpha. Yeah, and uh was pretty okay just being uh you know neck neck just a guy. Yeah, yeah, right. And it's different being, you know, we've talked we talked about this when they when the signing was made. A hell of a lot different playing in freaking Toronto than it is playing in New York City.

SPEAKER_01 41:10

So for sure, yeah. Toronto's not booing their team when they go on a little scuffle. Okay, no joke.

SPEAKER_00 41:17

Yeah, for one for five, and he's getting booed.

unknown 41:20

Right.

SPEAKER_01 41:22

Uh wasn't it the first series of the season?

SPEAKER_00 41:24

Oh, yeah. Second game. Second game. I mean, he hadn't even had double digit at that.

SPEAKER_01 41:33

That's crazy. Um all right. Well, good stuff, Pops. Thank you for that. Any other teams we missed in the in the National League going down?

SPEAKER_00 41:44

Um, yeah, I just I think um Miami, I guess we'll see how that goes, how that plays out.

SPEAKER_01 41:52

Do we need to talk about the Giants and how terrible they've been?

SPEAKER_00 41:56

Yeah, you know, that's that's a little bit of a surprise too. You know, they seem to kind of start yelling at each other a little bit with you know, Chapman and yelling at his first baseman because he can't catch. Yeah, and then going around and then kick kicking two ground balls himself. I think that um yeah, uh it's gonna see. Um can Botello pull this thing around in or not?

SPEAKER_01 42:27

He's had some weird, like weird stuff in the media. I don't know what that guy's doing. Someone needs to help him out over there. He was talking about they've had like three incidents in the clubhouse, guys getting into little scuffles or whatever. Yeah, at some point you just want to say, All right, dude, you're giving a little bit too much information. Yeah, like lock it up, get these boys motivated, manage your team, and let's freaking go. They've got they've got a lineup that should pretty easily be putting them second in that in that division. So um, yeah, we'll I guess we'll see how it goes.

SPEAKER_00 43:08

Harry shouldn't be giving out talking out of school, right, about what's going on in his clubhouse, right? You know, and you know, part of it too, right? I mean, Devers has never been a he's a great player, but he's he's never been a real team first guy, right?

SPEAKER_01 43:27

No, although he is playing first base a lot this season. That might be part of the problem with San Francisco's record, although he he he wasn't there that day.

SPEAKER_00 43:40

Chapman got all excitable, but no, that was Schmidt. But yeah, Raphael, he likes his dollar, so he was probably counting those and said, All right, first base might be worth it. I can afford a first baseman's event. Right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 43:55

I think can afford a Rawlings, all right. Um, okay, well, uh, we're gonna get on to um I guess Pops will continue with you and just go on uh who stunk it up and we'll end it on a good note with Slay Dude uh with uh players and pitchers of the week. So Pops, who do you got? Who sucked it up this week?

SPEAKER_00 44:17

All right, well, I've got uh I know uh earlier Justin mentioned he was sitting around 300 for the season, but I've got the arm artist formerly known as Mike with the Yankees. Uh two for 17, two RBIs, uh batted 118, uh, all leading into a game Yankee losing streak. So uh like we talked about after them starting off the year so hot, and you wondered if they were ever going to give up a run. Uh now they're in the tank. So that's the National League or American League. The National League, I got Arenado, uh Nolan Arenado. Uh so he he you know had a really, really tough year offensively with St. Louis last year, uh kind of doing the same this year, past week. Um 14 at bats, hit 150, two RBIs. Uh the only difference between him and Stanton was that the Diamondbacks actually won.

SPEAKER_01 45:20

Yeah. And at least Arenado helps his team defensively.

SPEAKER_00 45:25

Yes, yes. Um, you know, I think on the pitching side, I got uh Jamison Teon uh for the Cubs. Uh 12 innings pitched, 6.7 ERA, 1.25 whip. Uh, you know, he did get 14Ks, but um he really, really got um beat up in the Pittsburgh series, had a really tough game. So you know he's uh looks like he's the guy that they're trying to count on to take over for Horton. So you know it's a tough spot, so he's not doing well. And then in the um American League, I got Noah Cameron for Kansas City. You know, yeah, that's a pretty good thing. Really, really tough 4.91 ERA, 1.36 whip. Uh, you know, and I think we I don't we didn't they weren't on the on the bad, but you know, Kansas City's having a real tough year. And I saw a stat today that Bobby Witt has gotten on base 30 times, and he's been stranded at 27 or 29th. I mean, that was that was a guess, yeah. You know, I mean it was just like holy crap, you know, they just they which is surprising because um with uh Mikeel Garcia pass watch, and and I don't know if he left all of his mojo in the WBC or what, but yeah, you know, I was like looking at him for the 50 home runs this year.

SPEAKER_01 46:48

Yeah. I I was thinking he's a 40 homer guy pretty easy. I mean, what he hit 36 or 30 34 last year with and they they brought the fences in. Maybe that's part of the problem, maybe that's in his head a little bit. Uh, but yeah, I mean he's betting a buck fifty pops, and I think Jackie Caggs is doing the same thing. Um, they just have not been able to knock those those those guys in. The only one that's really been doing really well for him, Michael Garcia, but he bets in front of Bobby Witt. Um Witt, and then you've got uh Isaac Collins that they got from the brew crew. He's been playing pretty well. So um luckily they got some good starts, um, but still end up splitting a four-game set with the White Sox, who, you know, if you're Kansas City looking to put yourself in a playoff run, that's you want to take three out of four or maybe even sweep that set, you know. So um, yeah, it's been been kind of a funny year and just a funny year for a lot of these teams. Yeah. Um, all right. Well, I guess we're ready for the Slay Dude to give us some players and some pitchers of the week. You there, Slay Dude? Slay dude. So give us some players and pitchers of the week.

SPEAKER_04 48:22

All right, so I will say in the American League, a rare feat now for anyone. I'm not gonna do it because uh you know pitchers are pitchers. But Josh, you talked about him earlier. MLB picked for the American League player of the week to be Jose Soriano. So he absolutely deserves that. So he's gonna be my pitcher of the week. So I'll just go into that. All he did was go 2-0 this week. Uh 15 innings pitched, 20 strikeouts, one earned run, five hits, three base on balls. So, I mean, hard to do any better than that. I hope he gets all that crap out of his system now. But he was just great, you know, against Atlanta and Cincinnati. I guess two first place teams. Yeah. We're looking at our playing. Yeah. All right. So, but yeah, he went, gosh, eight innings, one run, 10K's against Atlanta. Must have had a little high pitch counter, they were beating their ass. Would have liked to see somebody this early get a complete game. And then against Cincinnati, seven innings pitching to one runs, 10K's. So just uh a great week. So he's my pitcher of the week, the MLB's player of the week. My AL player of the week is going to be a young shortstop. We got a pretty good baseball classic for another first place team, Gunnar Henderson there in Baltimore. The uh he ended up scoring seven runs. He only went seven for 25, but had seven runs, four home runs, six RBIs. So good week for Gunnar Henderson, and I'm going to agree, and we talked about this earlier with who the who Major League Baseball has for the player of the week. That's going to be those Washington Nationals, Mr. James Wood. He had a hell of a week, guys. All he did was go 12 for 22 with eight runs scored, three home runs, eight RBIs, two stolen bases. Oh, he also walked six times. So that let it be noted, okay, that I have picked a Washington National as our player of the week two weeks in a row. So I just thought that y'all should know that.

SPEAKER_00 50:23

And James Wood once traded for Juan Soto.

SPEAKER_04 50:28

Yeah, well, look at that. I did not know that.

SPEAKER_01 50:33

Yeah. Yeah. Right. In the same deal. Jeez. It was Gore Woods and CJ Abrams, I think, were the three big names. I think they still have another player. Uh I don't know. I don't remember his name. But yeah, I think it was four big time players all for one soto in the in the Padres deal.

SPEAKER_04 50:56

And then so took me a while of scrolling to get to my National League uh picture of the week here, but I'm gonna give it to is it Herman Marquez or is it German Marquez? What do you all think? I think you can go with either one and I'll be happy. Okay, so I'm gonna call him German, but he's San Diego, San Diego dads. He uh got two wins this week, only went five innings and against a first place Pittsburgh and uh what next to last or third place Colorado team, I guess. But he actually Yeah, he played with them for the rest of his career. Yeah, actually, he got the win and gave up four runs in five innings against Colorado and against Pittsburgh, whose team that y'all alluded to earlier hitting the ball a lot better, got five innings pitched, and he shut them out in those five innings. So congratulations to German Marquez on being the National League pitcher of the week for the Jimmies.

SPEAKER_01 51:49

Very nice, very nice. All right. I have some trivia this week. Y'all ready for a little trivia?

SPEAKER_04 51:56

Oh, yeah. Did I miss Pops going over our duds? Yes. Yes. Okay, so who was the worst one you could think of?

SPEAKER_00 52:06

Uh the art most artist formerly known as Mike.

unknown 52:10

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 52:10

Trout. No. Stanton.

SPEAKER_04 52:14

Oh, Mike, because he's Giancarlo. Okay, okay. Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_01 52:18

I'm a little slow now. Travis had a pretty good series in Cincinnati.

SPEAKER_00 52:23

Yeah. Uh Stanton hit 118 for the uh with two RBIs for the uh Yankees in the middle of their uh five-game losing streak, and then Nolan Arenado for the uh the National League as he hit 150 for the streaking Diamondbacks. And Jamison Taylon for the Cubs and Noah Cameron for the Royals were the pitching duds of the week.

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Okay, and you know what too? I was looking at Colorado's record because you know, didn't they sweep Seattle earlier this year? Was it or took two out of three, right? Didn't they just didn't they they sweep Houston? Is that what we said?

SPEAKER_01 53:01

Uh most recent. Who they beat most of they sweep Toronto and they got swept.

SPEAKER_00 53:07

I think they did, yeah. The Rockies did. They they did. They swept no, it was the White Sox that swept Toronto.

SPEAKER_01 53:12

Yeah, and the Rockies took two out of three from Toronto, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 53:15

Yes, yeah. I mean, when was the last time the White Sox swept anybody? I mean, that would be that should be the trivia question because oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:21

So yeah, the Rockies did sweep Houston last week, right? And so that's what I'm saying. Then I think they swept or took two or three way fail. So I'm like, damn, they must be doing okay, though. That's pretty good, right?

SPEAKER_00 53:34

Well, they either they either sweep or they get swept.

SPEAKER_04 53:37

And they're six and ten. I'm like, well, I guess the two teams that they swept or took two or three from were in the American League West, so good for us, right?

SPEAKER_00 53:47

Well, they just they swept the Astros early in the week, and then they got swept in a four-gamer by the Pondres.

SPEAKER_04 53:54

They lost a game. They were a net negative one after all that. Good for them.

SPEAKER_01 54:00

Yeah. All right. So we talked about Matt Olsen earlier playing in his 796th consecutive game. So let's go down the list for the records. I'm sure y'all know the top one for consecutive games played. Who's number one? Cal Jr. Yeah, Cal Jr. Oh, not Bill. Right. 2,632 games, all with the Baltimore Orioles. Who's number two? Uh, the Iron Horse. Yeah. Lou Gehrig, 2,130 games, all with Steve.

SPEAKER_04 54:42

Shouldn't have known this.

SPEAKER_01 54:43

Yeah, 2131. I remember it was a big, big deal out there in at Camden. Uh, so yeah, Lou Gehrig, obviously, with all with the New York Yankees, fellow teammate. Little hint there. Is number three. Fellow teammate of uh Lou Gehrig. So here's here's the funny part of it. So his streak ended, um, and then one month later, Lou Gehrig started playing in his streak, started his streak. So this streak ended May 5th, 1925, and Lou Gehrig started June 1st, 1925. Musual? No. No, he's a teammate of Gehrig's. That was Bob Musual, but that's okay. Oh, sorry.

SPEAKER_04 55:37

When you said musual, I was thinking Stan. That's okay. I completely thought Stan. I never knew there was more than one Musual ever played.

SPEAKER_00 55:44

So this is uh M-E-U-S-E-L.

SPEAKER_01 55:48

Uh let me see, Tony Lazari? He was uh he was a Red Sock. And then a Yankee, and then a senator and he won three of his four World Series rings with the Yankees. Played from nineteen sixteen to nineteen twenty. Sorry, that's not how when he played, that's his streak. Nineteen sixteen to nineteen twenty-five. Yeah, nothing. Everett Scott. Yeah, and yeah, I could have sitting here all day. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 56:35

Me too.

SPEAKER_01 56:35

Does that do you know the name at all pops? Actually, no. Yeah, which is that's that's unusual for me to uh yeah, to not even have heard of him. Yeah, um, all right, number four, former Dodger Great and Padre Great, Steve Garvey. Nice, yes, 1,207 games. This one, we all recognize this name. Number five on the list. Oakland Great, Oriol Great, Miguel Tejada, yeah. 1152 games.

SPEAKER_04 57:15

Dang, that's just I don't remember that. Well, I mean, he wasn't he did have um HGH helping him along, but that's good, but so did freaking DiMaggio and all them. Or not DiMaggio, yeah, that's it. That's why DiMaggio didn't break Lou Gehrig's record because he was on HGH. That's my fault. I was trying to make a smart comment and just didn't work. I was thinking of Lou Gehrig, but I'm an idiot.

SPEAKER_01 57:46

All right. Um, here's another uh I think he's in the Hall of Fame. He's definitely a Cubs Hall of Famer. Santo? Nope. Sam Berg. Uh no, he was second in NLMVP in 1970. Billy Williams.

SPEAKER_00 58:14

Yes, and he is a Hall of Famer.

SPEAKER_01 58:17

Okay. I th I thought he was 1,117 games in a row. This name I have no idea. Uh Indians Hall of Fame shortstop. Lou Burdette? No. Uh finished top 10 in the AL MVP voting four times. The streak was from 1922 to 1930. If that happens. Luke Appling? No. Tris Speaker. No. Tris Speaker? Was he a was he an Indian? Why am I thinking?

SPEAKER_00 58:53

Feather or dog?

SPEAKER_04 58:56

Either. Yeah, well. Yeah, I mean, it sounds like you're the guardian. Sounds like Wendell's making up names, and Josh knows exactly who you're talking about, so whatever.

SPEAKER_01 59:08

Pops, you want to hear something crazy? Slate did you love this? This guy, and his the streak was 1,103 games. In that streak, he struck out just 58 times in over 1,100 games. That seems made up. I'm reading it right off of mlb.com. What year? Years 22 to 1930. Pearl Abraham. No. I've never heard this name before. Finished in the top 10 of AL MVP voting four times. I don't know how I haven't heard of this guy. Maybe because he's in Cleveland Indian. I don't know. Joe Sewell.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:00

Oh, yeah, I haven't heard of him. Okay.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:03

Alright. Number eight. You actually, I thought you were talking about this guy earlier. And you weren't. Talking about some idiot named Bob. Stan. Yes. Stan the man. All right. 895 games in a row.

SPEAKER_04 1:00:23

I'll take half credit because Wendell's context clue of Bob. Yeah. Like when you were like Stan, no, he was his teammate. Yeah, I know Bob Musil. Oh, my bad.

unknown 1:00:35

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:00:36

Uh, let's see. He was a cardinal his whole career, I believe. Yes. And then uh the next guy, 1949 to 1955, nicknamed the Walking Man. Do you know that one, Pops? I do not know that nickname. He led the AL and walks six times during his 18-year career. Three of those seasons happened during his streak of 829 games. For whatever reason, doesn't tell me oh Senators. I played for the Senators. Senators third baseman. I I do kind of recognize this name a little bit. Dame Palmer.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:26

Before his bicep. Ryan Zimmerman. No, this is this is from 49 to 1955. Oh. So I don't think Zimmerman's daddy was born yet.

SPEAKER_00 1:01:41

Probably not until years, was it?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:47

Allegedly.

SPEAKER_01 1:01:51

Allegedly not born yet, or allegedly my dad?

SPEAKER_04 1:01:53

Uh second part. I know when Wendell was born.

SPEAKER_01 1:02:00

Oh man. Eddie Yost. Oh yeah, I've heard that name. The last one I got no idea. September nineteen thirty-one to June 1937. Wasn't a superstar. Played for the Pirates. Oh, by the way, Matt Olsen, update. He's now 11th.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:35

Really?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 1:02:38

This day and age?

SPEAKER_01 1:02:39

Yeah. He was, oh yeah, I guess he tied um, I guess he tied Nellie Fox the other day and just passed him tonight. So Matt Olsen 799. The guy above him, do you know the pirate shortstop pops? I don't. Floyd Weiner. No, watch your mouth, sir. This is a family podcast. Can tell by some of our ratings we've had.

unknown 1:03:07

Right.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:09

We got the one explicit. I still don't know. Oh, that was the that was the Aaron Boone one. Yeah. Oh. You remember that? Yeah. Gus, sir. S-U-H-R. No idea. Me neither. All right. Other notables. Hey, Pete Rose is number 13. Did you know that?

SPEAKER_02 1:03:32

Dale Murphy.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:33

I knew I knew he had a long streak. Who, Rose or Murphy?

SPEAKER_00 1:03:38

Murphy.

unknown 1:03:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:03:40

Richie Ashburn. We're getting some names I recognize here. Ernie Banks. That's it. That's all that matters. That's top 15. All right. Cool, guys. That's all I got. Y'all got anything to add for the evening? It's been a pretty few weeks of baseball. Yeah, it's it's been exciting, and as we talked about, it's been very streaky. Yeah, and very different from what all of us thought the season was going to look like so far. We'll see if the twins can hang on, you know. Amen. I wouldn't put money on it.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:13

Yeah, I wouldn't put a dollar. I wouldn't put near money on it.

SPEAKER_00 1:04:17

You know, I mean, I think it's gonna be interesting as we go through the season as a Ranger fans, and you see them, what what they're doing offensively on the road, and what they're not doing offensively at home. And you know, admittedly, they faced some pretty, pretty, pretty good pitching there with the Mariners, Brian Wu and what have you. But um it'd be interesting if they just continues because it's it's been pretty much since 2030, right after the the season after the World Series. And I don't know if they did something to the ballpark and didn't tell anybody. You know, changed some of the airflow or whatever, but it'll it'll be interesting. They can't really, it's not that big of a stadium, right? It's got to be just something in the HVAC, the air balance. Yeah, that's humility. Something in that, right? Because as nobody's hitting in that ballpark. So it'll be interesting to see if how they if just all of a sudden they go they get back home next week and ball starts flying out.

SPEAKER_01 1:05:22

Yeah, Jock Peterson finally starts hitting up.

SPEAKER_04 1:05:25

Dude, he must have changed something. Well, what when was it Sunday against the Reds, right? When he was tied up, I think we lost two to one or three to two, something crap like that. But he hit that home run, right? And he threw his bat down. He said, Did you read his lips? Because he got booed his previous at bat. Oh at home? Oh, yeah. That was in the middle of the 0 for 19. He said, Keep talking shit. Keep talking shit. And he acted like that was like a freaking second decker. He like Freaking admired it, dude. That thing was almost caught at the wall.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:05

It's the first one he's hit in nine months. So like he had gotten all year.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:12

Yeah, he had he has two singles tonight. Good for him, you know. But it's almost like he's a base dealer. I mean I want him to do well simply because he's a ranger, but just his attitude throughout all this to say something like that makes me want to root against that guy and hope that Kutch plays every day. Yeah, that's what I you know. It just uh, anyways, it was funny.

SPEAKER_01 1:06:36

Yeah, he had a full season of us not talking to well, we did. We definitely did, yeah. The fans supported him for a full season of that atrocious hitting. And now because he's what's he betting now? What one 150 now that he got a couple hits tonight? Uh yeah, maybe 180, but you know, yeah, it doesn't whatever, dude.

SPEAKER_04 1:06:59

It's just and will tick you off even more is I think he's making 16 and a half million this year that he opted into. Now our stupid butts are the ones, I mean us, Chris Young in the front office assigned to that two-year deal, but my goodness. I thought it was 18.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:15

I think it's 18. And so yeah, he is he is at the Mendoza line with these two hits.

SPEAKER_04 1:07:22

Okay, well, dude, betting 200 with what a homer and three RBIs. Yeah, I mean, it's just he's living up to the contract finally.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:30

So and he plays a great he plays a great defense at DH over there. Dude's from work was texting me.

SPEAKER_00 1:07:41

He defends defends the sunflower scene. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:07:45

One of my buddies from work was texting me. He was like, Man, we gotta get Jock out of the five-hole. He ain't hit he he just he can't hit anything. I said the only thing Jock Peterson hits is the drive-thru on the way home. That's it. We gotta we gotta get something going. Like, you want to keep him in the lineup, fine. Put him in the eight hole, dude. Like, I don't care. Put put Josh Young up there. At least Josh Young's up there hacking as hard as he can, trying to get a freaking hit.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:13

Yeah, and at least he's locked down third base for you instead of you know the seat next to Skip Schumacher.

SPEAKER_00 1:08:21

But yeah, I mean, if you remember last year, it's all about the lineup construction, right? Because last year, Josh hit fourth a couple of times because the leadoff was alrighty.

SPEAKER_04 1:08:32

Dude, yeah, I was at the the game, first one against the Dodgers. I think Sasaki beat us like two to one. Same thing to Grand gave still a home run, pitched six more scoreless innings, and like we had guys on second and third. I think Simeon maybe got a hit with two outs, we're down two to one. It's like, all right, here we go. And the very first pitch, Jock hits a one hopper to the first baseman, steps on the bag, inning over. And I'm just like, I stood up and I was like, Yes, Jock sucks like so bad. And Alicia was like, dude, sit down. And I was with like two Dodger fans that we took to the game with us, and they were just like one of them, they're one of them's cracking up. His wife's looking at me like I'm psycho. And Alicia's like, you need to sit out. I'm like, this guy's ridiculous. And then like a couple weeks later, we lost to Philly. I think Jock did hit a home run like two or three to one. And like Jock, Berger, and Telez were all batting back to back to back. And I was like, Are we just trying to put the baddest team possible out there? What are we? And they were batting. Like, what are we doing? Yeah. Anyways, whatever. That's pretty funny.

SPEAKER_00 1:09:37

But yeah, I hope Jock is better. Yeah, well, you know, it was like Simeon Seager, Langford, and Peterson. That was your first four.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:45

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Have you heard any updates on Langford? Was he back in the lineup tonight?

SPEAKER_00 1:09:50

Durant uh no, but he's gonna be back tomorrow.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:53

Oh, good, good, good. Yeah, we did not need that guy spending significant time on the I. Hammer Seager, we gotta have those guys playing 140 games a year. We really do. Absolutely. Especially now that Langford's starting to actually hit a little bit.

SPEAKER_04 1:10:08

Yeah, yeah. How did he get her? Because he hit a home run on Friday, right? It was after the home run. I think it was on his home run trunk, dude. Something with his something with his quad. Yeah, or the way he read that. Yeah, because I didn't start I didn't start that game until probably the sixth or seventh, as y'all can tell from all my tech screen that night, didn't it? Might have been other elements involved in my anger, but right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:31

Um, all right. Well, that's all we got, fellas. Thank you everybody for listening to another episode. We appreciate y'all checking in with us every week. Um, if you like what we're doing, check us out on Facebook, Instagram, uh, X. Uh give us a like, give us a subscription, leave us a comment. Um, but thank you all for supporting the show. For the Slay Dude, Justin Slay and Window Pops Patterson. I'm Josh Patterson. Thank you all, and we will talk to you again next week.