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2:00

North side of the city. Okay. That's such a

2:02

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2:04

much. I'm not from Chicago. That was good. That

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was good. I'm gonna find, uh, I'm gonna find

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it, I'll, I'll. I'll. I'll. That's a guarantee.

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That's a guarantee. Stamp it. Stamp

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it. It's a guarantee. Penful week.

2:31

Penful week. Cubbies had a very nice.

2:34

What was the last time we

2:36

recorded a week ago? You know what happens

2:38

during the season? Is it like you

2:40

lose track of what day it is? You

2:42

know, like how much stuff has happened in

2:44

the last week? I think we recorded

2:46

right after we opened in Sacramento.

2:49

Is that right? We recorded Monday

2:51

night last week. So we recorded a week

2:54

ago. And for the Cubss. play a

2:56

ton of day games like for most

2:58

other teams it's like you kind of

3:00

know when Sunday is because that's like

3:02

your day game but for cubbies it's

3:04

like it could be any day you never know

3:06

yeah so I think we're recorded on Monday

3:08

I know we record Tuesday afternoon

3:10

sorry Tuesday afternoon sorry Tuesday afternoon

3:12

okay and then the cubbies won

3:14

two more in Sacramento and

3:17

then we went to and one at home

3:19

and then we just won another one so

3:21

the cubs since last reporter five

3:23

and six and one whoops Two things

3:25

we should hit before we get into

3:27

Cubbies. Make sure you're finding the video

3:29

episodes those are on the on the

3:31

Marquis YouTube channel. Second thing live

3:34

show tickets should be live by the

3:36

time you're seeing this check the description

3:38

check our socials go to the music

3:40

box theater website 25 dollars for

3:42

a ticket. So if you want to come out

3:45

and then we're still working on some

3:47

of the VIP stuff we'll have more

3:49

on that front coming up but general admission

3:51

ticket we're going to have some

3:53

ideas. Dakota's got to play some games. I've

3:55

got some games I've been working up for Dakota. He

3:57

doesn't know about them yet. That makes me nervous.

4:00

That makes me nervous. May

4:02

31st, Saturday, May 31st. That

4:04

makes you nervous? That makes

4:06

me nervous that you got

4:09

stuff planned that I don't know

4:11

about yet. I don't know if

4:13

I like that. You have to

4:15

wait and find out May 31st.

4:18

You're gonna have a couple drinks

4:20

at the game. You're gonna

4:22

get me nervous and then

4:24

we'll both be nervous together.

4:27

Yeah, only a couple. I swear.

4:29

Great job Tom, good reminder.

4:31

Go to Marquis, YouTube, Marquisports

4:34

Network, YouTube to see you,

4:36

the YouTube. Yes. I have,

4:38

I've beef with your wife, and

4:41

so on. Yes. I have, I've beef

4:43

with your wife and so, so

4:45

should Tom, actually, so should Tom,

4:48

you know what, let's hear it.

4:50

You played in your thousandth

4:52

game, it's past weekend,

4:54

really cool, really awesome.

4:56

Congratulations. Yeah no get to

4:59

this point I agree but then

5:01

you had a thousandth game surprise

5:03

party and I'm your friend Tom's your

5:05

friend we're on a podcast

5:07

together more my phone's been on

5:09

the whole time and no text came

5:11

through with an invite I'm only

5:13

two and a half hours away Tom

5:16

is in the city where it happened

5:18

that's crazy I was checking my phone

5:20

I was like I must have you know

5:22

what it is I must have had it

5:24

an airplane mode I must have, you know,

5:26

it must be on me that I must have

5:28

missed this message that came in, but turned out,

5:31

there was no message actually, which was

5:33

crazy. And the best part is we can't

5:35

be mad at you because it was a

5:37

surprise from the Instagram stories. So I don't

5:39

know, I wasn't there, so I don't know

5:41

if there's a surprise. Maybe you knew, but

5:43

it looked like you were surprised from the

5:45

videos I saw. No, I'll tell you. She did a good job.

5:47

She did a good job. She did a good job. She

5:49

did a good job. She did a

5:52

good job. a couple different events where

5:54

she surprised me with get-togethers. I'm I

5:56

must be the most oblivious person on

5:58

the planet because I thought we were

6:00

hanging in the condo with a couple

6:03

people. I was like, yeah, there have some

6:05

people over the condo, it's gonna be

6:07

great. And then before you know, it's like,

6:09

oh, let's go to this place. I'm like,

6:11

okay, it's nice taking a little bit of

6:13

a turn. And then, yeah, the whole team

6:16

and staff and every, it was really cool

6:18

because the whole team was there as

6:20

staff, like a lot of the staff

6:22

members, almost all of them. Which was

6:24

which was a lot of fun. Awesome. Good

6:26

to get the group together. But yeah, it's

6:28

on her really. The whole group. No, everyone,

6:31

everyone, all your closest friends. Yep. Yeah, you

6:33

can't play me. And it's really her fault.

6:35

And I think you should send her message

6:37

and say, hey, what's this about? You kind

6:39

of tried to dig yourself a hole right

6:41

there saying you're having people over to

6:44

the condos. Maybe I could have came.

6:46

You had a guest room. We got an

6:48

open invite invite invite for you. If people

6:50

don't watch the video episodes, they

6:52

should just watch Dakota during that.

6:55

I had so much fun just

6:57

watching Dakota as Ian kept talking

6:59

about more and more people that

7:02

were invited. He was like, so

7:04

many people came. The entire staff?

7:06

He's like, we had thousands of

7:09

people, anyone who's, anyone who's,

7:11

anyone was there. I can't believe

7:13

you guys weren't there. To be

7:15

fair. No, I'm not gonna be

7:17

fair. I'm hurt, I'm hurt Julie.

7:19

She will know. But yes, Ian, your thousandth

7:21

game, back to that. Hey, actually,

7:24

congratulations. Yeah, that's, that

7:26

was really cool. Being here in Chicago,

7:28

we'll talk about that a little bit,

7:30

but it was really cool to see how

7:32

the crowd received you an opening day

7:35

and then to have that the next

7:37

day, it must have been an emotional

7:39

weekend for you, obviously. What were

7:41

the emotions like going out there for

7:44

the thousand game? Yeah, I, I didn't know

7:46

that they were going to do any of

7:48

that. Is that your first standing out you've

7:50

gotten? Yeah. Nice. Yeah. And you know,

7:52

what used to be a little bit more

7:54

prevalent with the old dugout back in 17

7:57

was the curtain calls. Curtain calls

7:59

used to be. kind of a more prevalent

8:01

thing at Wrigley where if somebody did

8:03

something you know they would curtain call

8:05

them usually after a Homer but they would curtain

8:07

call the guy from the dugout and they would

8:10

go back up so I got one of those

8:12

in 17 which is like a really cool thing

8:14

but yeah never had like a standing oh for

8:16

any reason and reason and so that was

8:19

a really special thing I was not expecting

8:21

it and then they announced it as I

8:23

was walking up and put on the video

8:25

board and put on the video board and

8:27

you know they have to tell the umpire

8:29

and stuff. I was going to say that

8:31

pro move by Diaz to kind of like step

8:33

off to the side and like give you your

8:35

moment. Yeah, they gave me that moment. So it

8:37

would be able to, you know, tip the hat

8:40

to the crowd and just see the reception from

8:42

everybody standing. It was super special. And you know,

8:44

you don't many times in your career get

8:46

that, especially in the middle of your career.

8:48

And so to see that appreciation from the

8:50

people was really cool. And Nico gave a

8:52

little talk before with the team. before

8:54

the game which was just super special

8:56

you know Nico and I've been together

8:59

now for so long and like for

9:01

him to do that was was really

9:03

cool and that's saying something for Nico

9:05

because he's not like the vocal like

9:07

talker like he so if he's standing

9:09

up in front of the team like he

9:11

you know that was heartfelt and he's awesome

9:13

he killed it yeah and that you know

9:16

what the weird thing is about the the standing

9:18

oh thing is like I'm not like I don't like

9:20

when things are about me no I don't

9:22

I'm not my favorite. It's not

9:24

my favorite thing. I was my

9:27

favorite part of watching the party

9:29

videos. I was like, oh, he's,

9:31

this is not what he wants

9:33

at all. Like deep down, he

9:36

hates this. That's the, not hates

9:38

it, but like deep down, he's

9:40

like, I don't like this. Well,

9:43

yeah, when you're doing, like, when

9:45

you're doing the helmet tip

9:47

thing, like you don't want

9:49

to take too much time. when it

9:51

was happening and then when I watched

9:54

the video after it was like pretty quick

9:56

but I felt like I was standing there

9:58

for an hour it was legit like seconds. It

10:00

was like the perfect amount of time.

10:02

I feel like I was on an island

10:04

for five minutes out there. Yeah, and

10:07

it's sick. Like not many people, I

10:09

feel like, do that with one team

10:11

too. Like that's incredible to do it

10:13

all with the Cubs. I did see

10:15

a stat. They had it on the

10:17

broadcast and I made sure to write it

10:19

down to remember it. You were also one

10:21

of four Cubs with three goal gloves,

10:24

three plus because one of these guys

10:26

has like nine and 150 plus home

10:28

runs. Can you name any

10:30

of the other three? Sandberg. I

10:32

was like one will be

10:34

easy. Yep. Yep. The last one.

10:36

Me. Well, yes. Three gold gloves

10:39

with the Cubs and 150

10:41

plus homers. You need a phone

10:43

to friend over here. I do

10:45

know the answer so I can I

10:48

can phone in for you. Yes with

10:50

the Cubs. Let's go to the

10:52

you want to use your life? No,

10:54

no, no. No, I'll get it. Okay.

10:57

It's like a it's like a all-time

11:00

great cup number retired.

11:02

Yes Dawson nope Dawson

11:04

doesn't have to do the Cubs

11:06

I feel like I don't think

11:08

you're gonna get it and deleted

11:11

have three No, it's not who

11:13

I would have like this person

11:15

would not have came to my

11:18

mind originally like if

11:20

you asked me just because

11:22

it was older player Do you

11:24

want to use your life? earning banks?

11:26

I didn't know if he had the gold

11:28

gloves. I could have just kept naming Hall

11:31

of Famer's. But that's what, like, they showed

11:33

that graphic and I was like, that's a

11:35

pretty sick list to be a part of.

11:38

Like, that's, those are three all-time great Chicago

11:40

Cubs, soon to be four. It's just, yeah.

11:42

We need a World Series idea, all right,

11:44

and then I'll put you up, okay. Anytime you're

11:46

on the list like that, like, like, Cubs franchise

11:49

has been around a long time, I mean, I

11:51

mean, I mean, I mean, I mean, unless, that

11:53

are, that are, you know, three, five, ten people

11:55

long, like it's really, really cool. You know, one

11:58

of my favorite stats from the week. was

12:00

just there's only been three guys

12:02

that have been drafted by the Cubs

12:04

and played a thousand games with the

12:07

Cubs and that was that was really

12:09

really cool. Draft hasn't been around

12:11

forever so the draft you know draft

12:13

started in like 1960 or whatever but

12:15

you know it's it's rare to be

12:17

able to do it with one team

12:20

and been really lucky to be here

12:22

and be a cup so well and then you

12:24

lead off the game first pitch almost

12:26

hit ya up and in. Nick Povetta get

12:28

out of here. Nick Povetta

12:31

gross. I already don't like

12:33

Nick Povetta from his time

12:35

with the Red Sox. Come

12:37

on, we're a positive pod

12:39

dude. You keep going negative.

12:41

No, I'm negative on Nick

12:43

Povetta. I've always been negative

12:45

on Nick Povetta when Nick

12:47

Povetta did that. I was

12:49

like, I'll walk over there,

12:51

fight Nick Povetta. Meet me and

12:54

meet me outside. Didn't he play

12:56

for the ball? Go. Tom said he's

12:58

like I thought it was destined for

13:00

the basket just you know dead center

13:02

you went dead center and regally or

13:04

in April what are we doing going

13:06

to dead center in rigly in April

13:08

no you're not doing that you're not

13:11

doing that what was the EV on that

13:13

ex-vila it's like 105 at 24 something

13:15

that's got to that's just got to

13:17

go for you that's the thing is

13:19

like in a month that's a Homer yeah

13:21

we go in some places that's for sure

13:23

yeah Kyle Tucker had one today it was

13:25

that was that you should have heard

13:28

the broadcast. Oh, Tucker Hammer's in. It's

13:30

caught at the track. I'm like, it's

13:32

Wrigley in April. Yeah, 105.29 for that

13:35

one today. Yeah, 105.29, not even a

13:37

chance of going. No, there was no

13:39

world where it was getting out. Yeah,

13:42

that was his first Wrigley experience.

13:44

And I was like, hey

13:46

man, welcome. You're a cubby

13:48

now. Like maybe that extension doesn't

13:50

look so good so good anymore

13:53

if that doesn't get out. In August,

13:55

that might be, that might be like

13:57

halfway up or three quarters way up

13:59

to... bleachers in August, but no, right

14:01

now, April, not in April, take your

14:04

box. But that wasn't even the

14:06

highlight. The highlight of the day was the

14:08

diving catch down the left field line. That,

14:10

and I texted you, and I said, that

14:12

had to be the best catch of your

14:14

career. You knew, of course, for like,

14:16

it's one of my better ones. That

14:18

was the coolest catch I've seen, like

14:20

full sprint, full extension, sick. Like,

14:22

that was a good one. It was

14:25

a good one. It was definitely full

14:27

speed morning track. Not didn't not good

14:29

didn't feel well, that's where it's

14:31

scary too because like you see yourself

14:33

getting closer and closer to the wall

14:35

and you're like alright I still got

14:37

room. I still got room. I still got

14:40

room and you had room and you

14:42

rolled up against the wall and it

14:44

was sick. I think I texted you

14:46

about the statcast numbers on it. Yeah,

14:48

I was getting back. Statcast hated it.

14:50

50% catch probability. I'm just going to

14:52

get mad about the metrics for a

14:54

second. Like, Statcast doesn't care where the

14:57

wall is. It doesn't care that you're

14:59

running full speed towards a wall. So

15:01

like you make that catch, 50% catch

15:03

probability, then Diaz hit me a ball.

15:05

In the same inning, Diaz hit a

15:07

ball between me and Pete, like right

15:10

in the left center gap. And that

15:12

one was like a 45% catch probability.

15:14

But there's a guy in first base.

15:16

I think there was, there might have been

15:18

two outs. Two outs gone first base. So I

15:20

play it on a hop. Throw it into

15:22

second, so we have first and third, chance

15:25

to get out of the inning with no

15:27

runs. Metrics don't care. Metrics

15:29

don't care. The first one is a

15:31

double with no outs that turns into

15:33

an out. It's a triple. If you

15:35

don't catch that, that's a triple. Well,

15:38

it changes the inning, changes the dynamic

15:40

of the inning, you know, to go

15:42

from man on second, nobody

15:44

out, nobody on. But it doesn't

15:46

care. metrics don't care. You can't you can't

15:48

get too mad at the metrics when you got three

15:50

gold gloves because metrics go into that. So you can't

15:53

you know I hear you but you can't be too

15:55

upset. He also said I was too negative and then

15:57

we're talking about the bet one of the best plays

15:59

of his career. Let me talk about the thing

16:01

I don't like about it though. I will say

16:03

50% cash probably use insanity because there's

16:05

just no way that's a 50-50 ball.

16:08

I'm convinced that the metrics don't take

16:10

into account that Wrigley moves, like the wind,

16:12

the way the wind moves the ball, Wrigley.

16:14

And you definitely hate the metrics even more

16:16

because then I think it was the next

16:18

game. I think it was Sunday. You had

16:21

the ball that you had to run in

16:23

on and you like dove. caught it through

16:25

it in and they said you didn't catch

16:27

it so they ended up just tagging out

16:29

the runner so it goes as like a

16:31

force out at second instead of you catching

16:34

it like it was a crazy play it

16:36

was on the replay it was like clear

16:38

as day like no he got that yeah

16:40

Machado hit the ball like 104 at 12

16:42

or something and so like I could have run

16:45

in and caught it was one of the

16:47

one it's like tough to read off the

16:49

bat if it's gonna dive on you if

16:51

it's gonna carry and so I kind of

16:53

just One to make sure I caught the

16:55

ball, then the umpires are like, no catch.

16:57

Well, and what sucked is it's not,

16:59

you can't even challenge it because like,

17:02

then they would just put a rise

17:04

back at first. It's like, okay, well,

17:06

then a rise goes back to first.

17:08

So it's like, okay, well, then a

17:10

rise goes back to first base. So

17:12

it's like, what's the point of

17:14

challenging? Yeah, it was kind of like,

17:17

and I think the clot, nobody knew

17:19

what was going on. was like an

17:21

hour and 10 minutes long with

17:23

multiple box and 17 walks. I mean,

17:25

very odd game yesterday. Yeah, Cubbies did

17:28

a good job of rallying and getting

17:30

back in that one because getting down

17:32

three early, three nothing top of the

17:34

first with the wind the way it

17:36

was and the environment the way it

17:38

was like tough environment to score runs.

17:41

Tough to like the game could be

17:43

over there pretty quickly and the boys

17:45

did a great job rally and put runs

17:47

on the board and. getting back in that

17:49

one and having a lead for most of

17:52

the game. So it's been fun. You know,

17:54

the last week, playing really good baseball, base

17:56

running has been great, defense has been

17:58

great, just the pressure. on other teams,

18:00

especially like a day like tonight, like it

18:03

was the feels like tonight was like, I

18:05

don't know, 18, really tough environment score runs.

18:07

We just talked about Tucker hitting the ball.

18:09

Yep, feels like it's 18. The Tucker hit

18:12

that. Did you see that Marquis posted a

18:14

graphic that said it was colder than the

18:16

winter classic? Oh yeah, for sure. I was

18:18

there. And it was cold. Just was colder.

18:21

What happened? Sunday's game. I forget the guy's

18:23

name. The first reliever that came in when

18:25

he got called for a balk twice. The

18:28

last thing. He was in between wind-up and

18:30

stretch, right? Like he kept switching what he

18:32

was doing? So he said he was in

18:34

the wind-up. When you're in the wind-up, when

18:37

you're in the wind-up with guys on base,

18:39

you can't do like all the crazy pause

18:41

stuff that you would do with nobody on?

18:43

Yeah. Which you shouldn't be able to use

18:46

torpedo used torpedo bats. Someone. Someone's got to

18:48

stick up for the pictures here, all right?

18:50

All right? Just kidding you should be able

18:53

to use torpedo bats but I knew pitches

18:55

then whenever you come in the league you

18:57

have to designate your pitches you can't change

18:59

the yeah so he paused in the middle

19:02

of his wind up you know like he

19:04

he would do this turn and then put

19:06

his foot down and so that was a

19:08

balk and he did it twice and then

19:11

he went to the stretch but he did

19:13

like he did a bunch of different timing

19:15

stuff out of the wind up so he

19:17

would you know he would. slide step he

19:20

would high kick he would do a bunch

19:22

of stuff so that was a tough spot

19:24

to bring him in though I think he

19:27

flew in that that day from El Paso

19:29

were never get off the plane and then

19:31

he's in in the first inning because the

19:33

the starter couldn't get out of the first

19:36

like that's a it was a rough assignment

19:38

on top everything else I mean he settled

19:40

he settled in and he did a good

19:42

job after that you know he I think

19:45

we scored tuck at that home or me

19:47

scored two but kind of after that he

19:49

he gave them some innings and he gave

19:51

them some innings meanings and you know kept

19:54

them in the game and you know kept

19:56

them in the game yeah It was just

19:58

one of those were like watching on the

20:01

broadcast. Even I was like, what just happened?

20:03

Yeah, it was the second one was more

20:05

obvious to me. The first one I was

20:07

like, I don't know why they just called

20:10

time and gave the Cubs a run, but

20:12

cool. Yeah, it was a pretty nutty game.

20:14

It was, it took forever. tonight, you guys

20:16

were running wild on the base paths. I

20:19

hate for showing big bag of the year.

20:21

There is a year. You were in between.

20:23

You wanted to stay up and you slid

20:25

at the last possible second. I was like,

20:28

that's that's how you break an ankle. Like

20:30

that's how you roll something up. You know

20:32

what happened? And this happens to me from

20:35

time to time is like when I run,

20:37

usually I'll peek, but like I felt good

20:39

about the jump. I just put my, his

20:41

first bag of the year, I just put

20:44

my head down and was going. And I

20:46

thought I heard contact, like the glove smack

20:48

was pretty loud. And I thought it might

20:50

have been contact from Tuck. So as I'm

20:53

running, I'm like looking at Seger trying to

20:55

read if like the balls been put in

20:57

play. And he wasn't, he didn't look like

21:00

he was like ready to receive a. So

21:02

it was pretty ugly. Well, especially on a

21:04

cold night, you're like, I don't want to

21:06

slide. This is going to hurt. Like, it's

21:09

nice dirt there, but it's still going to

21:11

hurt to slide on a feels like 18

21:13

night. Yeah. The other thing from the basis

21:15

tonight, there's nothing more electric to me, like

21:18

birdie. I think it was his first at

21:20

bat, works like an eight nine pitch at

21:22

bat, ends up getting hit by a pitch,

21:24

steel second, steel third. scores like when someone

21:27

does that I'm like you just single hand

21:29

handedly manufactured around like those things are electric

21:31

to me well especially on a day like

21:34

today and a lot of the early game

21:36

that regularly that we play like it's not

21:38

easy to score runs it's really challenging environment

21:40

to score run so in a situation like

21:43

that where he gets on base is able

21:45

to take second is able to take third

21:47

and get in scoring position and give us

21:49

a chance to drive him in and then

21:52

he scored on a ground ball hit to

21:54

the first baseman at the infield. in like

21:56

that. Those are huge plays. We scored our

21:58

first run on. Our first run was on

22:01

a sack fly that Dan's be bunded Bush

22:03

to third and then we scored a sack

22:05

fly from a Maya. Our second run was

22:08

on a infield in guy beats the throw

22:10

like going up to nothing that game is

22:12

massive because it's just so hard to score

22:14

runs and then we end up you know

22:17

being able to add on another and then

22:19

and then break it open a little bit

22:21

a little bit but that's. That's huge and

22:23

pretty, John Bertie sneaky, really fast, led the

22:26

league in stolen bases in 2022. He got

22:28

his 100th bag tonight of his career. Congratulations

22:30

to him. That is awesome. But he's a

22:32

really good base runner and he is very

22:35

fast. And that game like tonight when you

22:37

have Texas coming in, if you can get

22:39

on them early, there's a little bit of

22:42

like, all right, it's 18 degrees, we're down,

22:44

it's four nothing like how much fight do

22:46

we really got. That's one of those games

22:48

where you can get a lead earlier like

22:51

we feel pretty good about making the stand

22:53

up. Yeah and I think any time like

22:55

with that environment I think we feel like

22:57

as a team like if we can get

23:00

up and score some runs like that and

23:02

put pressure like that and like that offense

23:04

that they hit a couple balls hard in

23:07

the air and see like the balls coming

23:09

backwards at them like it's just like we

23:11

deal with it all the time so we're

23:13

pretty used to it but like when other

23:16

teams come in in in in that environment

23:18

like it's just Where do you have? They

23:20

had a they had a stat in the

23:22

ground on the broadcast night that you one

23:25

of your balls you've hit lost 32 feet

23:27

inward, but simian had one that lost 38

23:29

feet coming back at him, which is just

23:31

insane. Yeah, really tough game. It regularly. You

23:34

know what else is criminal? Ian, I just

23:36

looked at it because I was pretty sure

23:38

that's what it said. Is it correct? It

23:41

says that that counts is a force out

23:43

for you like to play Bertie score down

23:45

that you ground out. But no one was

23:47

out. So how does that count as like

23:50

an oh for one? Yeah, it's a feeler's

23:52

choice. I feel like that should be, you

23:54

know what? Let's give the guy a single,

23:56

because everyone was safe. I agree, man. I

23:59

mean, why not? Help the hitter, you know,

24:01

this is a pro hitter podcast. Help the

24:03

get out. Help them out, get them, I

24:05

got some rules changes. You know, fielders choice,

24:08

give me a, help my own base percentage.

24:10

I have a little bit of speed. I'm

24:12

gonna beat out more double play balls. Like,

24:15

Niko Warner, like, he beats out every double

24:17

play ball. Like, you've really does to be

24:19

on base for that. When you're really fast,

24:21

you force more errors by the. Like why

24:24

do you not get to be on base

24:26

for an air? Like you force more errors

24:28

when you're fast? I actually like that a

24:30

lot. It should go towards your OVP. Not

24:33

your average. You can't count it for the

24:35

average. Oh no, no, no, no. You know

24:37

what? It's really hard to get on base

24:39

in the big leagues. I'm not disputing that

24:42

it is, but like, the rules are fine

24:44

guys. The rules are fine. I think we

24:46

should talk about how good this lineup though

24:49

has been one through nine. Has been one

24:51

through nine. I mean. I mean. I mean.

24:53

Kyle Tucker wins N.L. Player of the week

24:55

and he pointed back to that like you

24:58

guys one through nine have been getting graded

25:00

bats getting deep into counts and how fun

25:02

is it for you to have Kyle Tucker

25:04

hitting behind you now I mean that's got

25:07

to be you go up there and you're

25:09

like it's pretty good to have Kyle Tucker

25:11

batting right behind you right now. I mean

25:14

yeah he's he's been unbelievable but yeah I

25:16

think the lineup as a whole some of

25:18

the balls that say a hit in Sacramento

25:20

or ridiculous ridiculous like that first home running

25:23

hit to center. off the batter side, 112.

25:25

He had another 112 ball to left. How

25:27

about the upo? He hit one up or

25:29

two. Hit one upo in the corner. Obviously

25:32

what Tux done is ridiculous, but Danzby's been

25:34

swinging at Nikos, doing his thing, having his

25:36

at bats. The bunch of catchers. Huge RBIs

25:38

and in big situations. Catchers, that spot's been

25:41

great. And that's the best thing real quick.

25:43

that's the nice part too is that they're

25:45

both swinging of like it's not like oh

25:48

Miggi's gonna play five out of seven and

25:50

Carson Kelly will rotate it's like no like

25:52

we can kind of they're both right-handed but

25:54

like we can kind of just be like

25:57

you know what like Carson Kelly just had

25:59

a last night, like we'll give you this

26:01

next game too and then we'll go back

26:03

to maybe the next day and then maybe

26:06

you'll have a good game. We'll go back

26:08

to Carson Kelly like you can rotate

26:10

them in and not wear them out.

26:12

Yeah, across the season. Yeah, and it's

26:15

interesting because even though they're both right

26:17

handed, maybe has handled right handed pitching

26:19

very very well in the big leagues.

26:22

So more often than not, you're gonna

26:24

see Carson starting against most of the

26:26

lefties. But to keep both those guys

26:28

fresh. Just stay available, you know, having

26:31

that that platoon split and both those

26:33

guys with the way they handle the

26:35

pitching stuff have been great. So I

26:37

mean, it's awesome getting that production from

26:40

where they're hitting the lineup and then

26:42

like daylight today, being able to let Nico

26:44

get a day as he's still coming back

26:46

from the elbow, you know, Bertie steps in,

26:48

does his thing, generates a run, plays good

26:51

defense, you know, gauge gets to start against

26:53

the righty today and has chance to

26:55

go out there like just those things

26:57

being able to being able to have

26:59

that depth, you know, put just in turn, has

27:01

been able to do big at bats. He's just

27:04

like, he's such a professional at bat, like it's

27:06

ridiculous. Well, that's the thing right now for you

27:08

guys, right, is that there's not, there's not an

27:10

easy at bat. Every at bat right now, even

27:12

the guys that maybe are struggling a little, every

27:15

at bat right now, even the guys that maybe

27:17

are struggling a little, even the guys right, every

27:19

at bat right now, even the guys that maybe,

27:21

even the guys that maybe are struggling or a

27:23

little, that maybe are struggling, that maybe are struggling

27:26

a little, that, that maybe are struggling a little,

27:28

sets you up pretty well obviously for

27:30

the next two. Yeah and I think like I can

27:32

speak to it personally because like by no

27:34

means it's like my slash line look like it

27:37

doesn't look good I'll tell you that but just

27:39

like having productive at bats like but I'm

27:41

based twice in a game a lot a lot

27:43

of deep counts even like first about off of

27:45

all today it goes seven pitches fly out but

27:47

just like seven pitchers like having good at bats

27:49

like that drive in three runs today in a

27:52

day that's tough to get hits just like like

27:54

figuring out a way to do that and do

27:56

the little things and have to go like I

27:58

feel really good about the quality. of the at

28:00

bats that I'm having even if I'm not

28:03

getting the results and I think we have

28:05

a lot of that one through nine where

28:07

some guys are getting great results but like

28:09

guys are having good at bats top to

28:12

bottom and that just puts pressure on

28:14

defenses. Well and like you said like

28:16

your stat line today says one for

28:18

five but like if you said like your

28:20

stat line today says one for five but

28:23

like if you don't hit that two RBI

28:25

single and then Tucker drives you and then

28:27

say it drives him and like that's a

28:29

big at bat that the slash lines

28:31

don't always show for everyone. Yeah,

28:33

yeah, and just like, you know, having

28:35

a longer at bat in the first

28:38

inning pitch count, being able to just

28:40

put the ball in play to get

28:42

pretty a chance to score in the

28:44

next one, just like the little things

28:46

like that, you know, they don't show up.

28:48

They don't show up in the stat line,

28:50

but I feel like the quality of bat

28:53

is there to where you hit the hits

28:55

will start coming. You also hate. I feel

28:57

like you hate swinging first pitch even really

28:59

like early in the count like you are

29:01

you love getting deep in counts I was

29:04

about to ask you I know you always

29:06

been a guy that wants to get deep

29:08

in accounts but now batting out the leadoff

29:10

spot does that change your approach at all

29:12

or is it still pretty much like I

29:14

I'm always a guy that's gonna want to

29:16

work the count anyway so same approach whether

29:18

I'm batting third or embedding first.

29:21

I'm not trying to get deeper into

29:23

counts hitting leadoff I think naturally sometimes

29:25

the weather here will dictate dictate from

29:28

time to time of like what am

29:30

I going to do hit a ball 105 to

29:32

29 and I'm out like you know

29:34

in sometimes early in the season especially

29:36

when you haven't seen guys before like

29:39

I didn't face Nick Pavetta since 2018

29:41

hadn't seen Kyle Hart hadn't seen him

29:43

before hadn't like sometimes when

29:45

you're not you haven't seen guys

29:47

before hadn't seen besides Severino hadn't

29:50

seen anybody on the A's like

29:52

when you're not seeing guys before

29:54

Getting a feel for what it actually looks like coming

29:56

out of the hand and giving yourself a chance in

29:58

that first at bat especially up the starter to

30:01

like really kind of internalize

30:03

some of the pitch mix can help you

30:05

later in the game and like I had

30:07

a game against who was just in town

30:09

in San Diego where like the first two

30:11

at bats I took the first pitch of

30:13

the abat and then the third at bat

30:16

when I had a spot leading off

30:18

nobody out like ambushed the first pitch.

30:20

single to left like started a rally stuff

30:22

like that where you can kind of set yourself

30:24

up for bats later in the game from time

30:26

to time it doesn't always work but you know

30:29

and then if you've seen a guy before a

30:31

bunch like sometimes those guys are the ones that

30:33

you know exactly what's gonna look like out of

30:35

the hand you can get aggressive last thing on

30:38

the Cubs before we move on good to see

30:40

Steely today get back on track not that

30:42

he looked terrible like the first I think

30:44

that was like his fourth start already But

30:46

like it was good to see him go

30:48

and dominate with like I even texted you

30:50

being like on a cold night throwing like

30:53

91 and he's still just like carving

30:55

guys like working through it that is. It

30:57

is true also of like pitching on cold

30:59

nights typically favors the pitcher versus the

31:01

hitter because like every bit of contact

31:03

on the bat hurts and pictures like

31:06

obviously we're still cold out there too

31:08

but we have a little bit of

31:10

advantage in the cold. So it was

31:12

good to see stealing out there and

31:14

dominate and throw up. six zero seven

31:17

did go seven and then the goat

31:19

Colin Ray my boy to shot you right

31:21

after that all right good pitcher

31:23

oh he's so good he's so good

31:25

he girls like eight pitches did you

31:27

see Colin Ray got in at bat

31:29

in Sacramento which it pissed me off

31:31

he struck out looking because he used

31:34

to be our designated pitching pinch hitter

31:36

for the Iowa Cubs back in like

31:38

2021 and he could swing it he

31:40

could swing it a little bit He

31:43

took a couple big hacks though. He

31:45

came up hacking early and then I

31:47

think he, you know, maybe, maybe lost

31:49

little confidence in the bat. But it

31:51

was against Johnny Parade, Ex-Cub minor leaguer.

31:54

And you can't, you can't go down looking

31:56

to, it was a ball, but you can't

31:58

go down looking to a position player. Yeah,

32:00

he said it felt so far away

32:02

from him. It was it was like

32:04

two balls off the plate, but it

32:06

was also like 18 to 3. So

32:08

it's like, let's just let's get out

32:11

of here guys. Got to protect an

32:13

18 to 3. I will say about

32:15

Steely, his start in Sacramento. I think

32:17

he gave up two homers early early.

32:19

Rooker got him and then maybe Lingliers

32:21

got him too. And he, you know,

32:24

he was like maybe through two or

32:26

three innings he had given up. three

32:28

or four runs and he really settled

32:30

into that start where he was getting

32:32

hit hard early settled in started throwing

32:35

some more curve balls started mixing it

32:37

a little bit and got through I

32:39

think he got through six innings in

32:41

that game that might have been the

32:43

one that we ended up blowing him

32:45

out but like dude he really settled

32:48

in showed like why he is who

32:50

he is after after the tough one

32:52

in in Arizona that back into that

32:54

start being able to make through those

32:56

things was super impressive and then he

32:58

came out and was like vintage steel

33:01

tonight like dominated the strike zone I

33:03

think he walked maybe one guy but

33:05

he just he really filled up the

33:07

strike zone a day that it was

33:09

gonna be tough to hit and he

33:12

like went out there with the mentality

33:14

of like put it in play like

33:16

do do your worst I dare you

33:18

like and I will say to steal

33:20

like He is just a dog like

33:22

he's someone where he's not afraid of

33:25

anyone like you said like Filling up

33:27

the strikes on like if he's walking

33:29

guys. It's not because he's like I'm

33:31

trying to nibble at corners like he's

33:33

not afraid to attack anybody and that's

33:35

like he's not afraid to attack anybody

33:38

And that's like you said when he's

33:40

giving up runs like he's giving up

33:42

runs like he's great. And to go

33:44

seven in that game Let us use

33:46

C-ray for two and now everybody's fresh.

33:48

We had an off day when we

33:51

got into town, but we're four in

33:53

a row. We're gonna be six in

33:55

a row before we go back on

33:57

the road. So to let the bull.

33:59

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34:02

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I mean, like, Ian, like, how have you

37:16

not been there yet? Who knows? I mean,

37:18

it's almost like you live in Chicago, Ian.

37:20

What are you busy? Well, yesterday, after you

37:22

get, you were like, yeah, I'm not been

37:25

there, who knows? I mean, I mean,

37:27

it's almost like you live in Chicago, Ian.

37:29

You live in Chicago, Ian, Ian, you live

37:31

in Chicago, Ian, Ian, you live in Chicago,

37:34

Ian, Ian, you live in Chicago, and what,

37:36

Ian, Ian, Ian, you live in Chicago, Ian,

37:38

Ian, Ian, you live in Chicago, Ian, in,

37:41

Ian, you live in, in, you live in,

37:43

in, in, in, in, in, in, in,

37:45

in, in, in, in, in, in, I did

37:47

know that when Tom said that and it

37:49

wasn't like a bad idea but I knew

37:52

on a Sunday afternoon for Ian to go

37:54

and record at like five or six on

37:56

a Sunday afternoon I was like there's no

37:59

way that Ian wants to do that on

38:01

a Sunday night. It was fun I went

38:03

to the Alamo draft house here in

38:05

Regleville, saw Blackbag, you know, I had a

38:07

good time. Who did any invite to the

38:10

party anyway? Overrated. But Tom, we are happy

38:12

for you. We're pumped. You're in Chicago now,

38:14

so like, you've lived in New York and

38:17

Chicago. You've lived in the two probably coolest

38:19

cities in the US. Chicago's better, but. I

38:21

have to say, I've been really excited

38:23

to get to explore some of Chicago. I

38:25

went to Illinois States, this is an area,

38:28

you know, obviously Illinois States, not Chicago, but

38:30

I knew a lot of people from Chicago

38:32

and to be out here, it's really cool.

38:35

This is a city that's meant a lot

38:37

to me, I mean, it's really cool. This

38:39

is a city that's meant a lot

38:41

to me, and I genuinely like, when I

38:44

remember when I was walking around a little

38:46

bit of an opening day. Not for that

38:48

long, I had my jacket on and I

38:50

was like, I'm going back in the offices

38:53

in about 10 minutes, but to walk around

38:55

and stuff and to feel that atmosphere, like,

38:57

Wrigley's just, you know, reminds me of

38:59

Old Yankee Stadium in that way, where people

39:02

use the word aura a lot now, but

39:04

like, there is an aura around this place

39:06

where you're like, you know, this is the

39:08

place where Babe Ruth called it shot, like

39:11

this is a place that has so much

39:13

history, and it's really cool, and it's really

39:15

cool to be. that they've supported us

39:17

and they've allowed us to have this opportunity

39:20

and really thankful to mark he we're right

39:22

we're we've been talking about some doing some

39:24

cool things and think we're to do start

39:26

doing more of them now that we're here

39:29

so. Oh yeah. I have a question for

39:31

you. Okay, time go. Sout thousand game. Dakota,

39:33

do you know how many guys have

39:35

played a thousand games currently with one team?

39:38

Seventy. Active, active. Four. Six. Six. Oh, I

39:40

was close. Al-tube's got to be one. I

39:42

got Al-tube. Yeah, you want to guess the

39:44

others? Judge can't be at a thousand yet,

39:47

is he? He hit a thousand in the

39:49

same days. They're at the same number of

39:51

games, that's right. I saw that. That's

39:53

crazy. Ian's in a grudge match. He's got

39:56

to make sure that any time judges in

39:58

the lineup, he's got to get in there.

40:00

have to. Hang on. I need to get

40:03

two days first by the way with

40:05

1828. I'll to have a judge

40:07

Ian Happ. Give me a team.

40:09

Royals. Royals. Some of

40:11

them press. He's second 1500

40:14

1559 Mike Trout. Mike Trout.

40:16

Third. Then you're just

40:18

missing one more. What

40:20

team? The guardians. Jose

40:23

Ramirez. Jose Ramirez.

40:25

It's basically just the best player,

40:27

it's just the best player on

40:30

every team. But that's crazy that the

40:32

list is that short. And you know,

40:34

Ian, you've now played more games to

40:36

the Cubs than Rizzo and Brian and

40:38

all these guys that I know mean a

40:40

lot. Not Rizz? Rizzo. Rizzo, like

40:43

13-something. Yes, I'm sorry, Bryant and Baez

40:45

and a bunch of the other guys from

40:47

those teams that mean so much to you.

40:49

And I know it wasn't always clear that

40:51

this was going to be the path. Having

40:53

done this show with you, I can think

40:55

about some trade deadlines where your name was

40:58

around there. Did that any of that kind of

41:00

hit you when you were like man? Because it

41:02

wasn't always guaranteed. We talked about we've

41:04

talked obviously a lot about 19 like

41:06

there have been a lot of bumps

41:09

in the road to get to this place and

41:11

it hasn't always been guaranteed. But the

41:13

fact that you're able to be one of the

41:15

guys on that list like the journey. Yeah,

41:17

I mean, I think that there was

41:20

definitely some times where, you know,

41:22

I didn't come up and it wasn't

41:24

like the guy. Like it wasn't like

41:26

the guy in the middle of the line

41:29

up like from day one and

41:31

like had a smooth road. Like

41:33

there's definitely some ups and downs

41:35

to it. And to get to this

41:37

point in my career, but I think like

41:39

I said earlier, I'm just thankful

41:42

to have been a cup for this

41:44

long and like I can't say enough

41:46

about. how much the organization and the

41:48

city means to me and I think

41:50

that's one of the coolest parts about

41:52

getting to do this is you end up after

41:54

this amount of time like having

41:56

such an appreciation for the place

41:58

and the organization. people behind the scenes

42:01

like what the things that I thought

42:03

a lot about to be honest were

42:05

not only the fans but the players

42:07

that I played with the coaches that

42:09

had been there the training staff like

42:11

a lot of our training staff is

42:13

pretty similar from when I came up

42:15

like some of the guys that have

42:17

been here for all of my games

42:19

like Tommy Hadoughby, PJ Mainville, Nick Prangell

42:21

has been there for most of them,

42:23

Nate Whitney, our PT has been there

42:25

for most of them and then my

42:27

family my sports system but Tyler Scoven

42:29

who's my kind of posture guy trainer,

42:31

And we worked together every single day,

42:33

like he's been there for 750 of

42:35

them. And like, you know, every single

42:37

day we're face timing for 30 minutes

42:39

and he's getting me ready to play

42:41

like those people that help you get

42:43

through like the little injuries, the little

42:45

things like that's what I thought a

42:47

lot about. And it was cool to

42:49

see the crowd embrace you, but also

42:51

like going out there and opening day

42:53

like. you know, I watched Cole Wright

42:55

did a really great kind of essay

42:57

about your thousand game, which were retweeted

42:59

on the compound if people want to

43:01

see it. But you found a home

43:03

now, you know, you were a guy

43:05

that came up, played a lot of

43:07

different positions, and now you have the

43:09

left field spot, and that's yours. Does

43:11

that mean that you're a guy that

43:13

came up, played a lot of different

43:15

positions, and now you have the left

43:17

field spot, I'm the left fielder for

43:19

the Chicago Cubs, Yeah, I got asked

43:21

the question about like, kind of about

43:23

that, but to me it was always,

43:25

it wasn't like, if I was going

43:27

to find a home, it was like

43:29

at that time I had to play

43:31

a bunch of positions to get the

43:33

at bats because our team was so

43:35

good and we had so many dudes

43:37

who could play like, that's how the

43:39

team was kind of formed. The NL

43:41

was the NL, there was no DH

43:43

playing for Joe Madden. We had all

43:45

stars at literally every position that guys

43:47

who were either current or... would be

43:49

in the future all-stars so like I

43:51

had to play six positions to help

43:53

the team and I knew that it's

43:55

like I always believed that whatever it

43:57

was whether a second base or left

43:59

field or center whatever I always felt

44:01

like I was going to be good

44:03

at it I got a chance to

44:05

do it every day and you know

44:07

luckily I was able to kind of

44:09

play left field and establish that like

44:11

I can do this I can go

44:13

out and play that field every day

44:15

and just being comfortable and doing that

44:17

and yeah the left field fans like

44:19

they mean a lot to me like

44:21

they mean a lot to I get

44:23

emotional every opening day going out there

44:25

and tipping my hat to him like

44:27

that relationship is I don't I don't

44:29

it's like I'm sure judge has it

44:31

and right field in Yankee Stadium like

44:33

I Those guys in left field those

44:35

people that are out there every day

44:37

with season tickets like There's nothing like

44:39

it Any of them get invited to

44:42

your party all of them actually is

44:44

crazy I bet they did all they

44:46

were all there it wouldn't surprise me

44:48

All right, we changed the subject really

44:50

quick. I do want to say one

44:52

more thing that I didn't thank you

44:54

both of you guys and Zach as

44:56

well Just like Jack he left No,

44:58

that doesn't get anything. Exactly. Yeah. But

45:00

last year was got. Last year though

45:02

was a difficult time for me and

45:04

this show was a guiding light and

45:06

being able to do this with you

45:08

guys means so much to me. I'm

45:10

just so glad that we keep getting

45:12

to do it and we're going to

45:14

get and do more of it and

45:16

come out and see us in person

45:18

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45:20

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46:56

recorded, went 10 for 19, with a

46:58

Homer and like four doubles, I want

47:00

to say. You know what's hilarious is

47:02

like a guy like Rafi out diverse

47:04

people are like did he forget how

47:07

to hit no he didn't forget how

47:09

to hit it did like four games

47:11

yeah they're like oh my gosh he's

47:13

done guy absolutely rakes he's gonna end

47:16

what do we say last episode he's

47:18

gonna end the year 285 with 30

47:20

to 40 and 100 stakes he's still

47:22

very good over there's too huh what'd

47:25

you say? Brigmen's doing it over there

47:27

oh yeah I think he was a

47:29

a a a-o player that week Yeah,

47:31

I mean he's they're a scary team.

47:34

Tom's a little nervous. He doesn't like

47:36

nervous. Look at him. He's quaking. He's

47:38

quaking The next thing I had Ian

47:40

your boy. I feel like not Tommy

47:42

Edmund you love Tommy. I was gonna

47:45

say Tommy Hammond's breaking. That's just the

47:47

usual what else is new, but your

47:49

other boy. You're your defender Mike Trout

47:51

Homer three straight games. Yeah, because he's

47:54

an MVP. and VP. I love Aaron

47:56

Judge. We all love Aaron Judge on

47:58

this podcast. Judgey, he's our guy. He's

48:00

gonna hit 60 pumps this year. But

48:03

him and Trout are gonna be going

48:05

one A1B for the MVP because that's

48:07

who Mike Trout is. Studed. He's so

48:09

good at baseball. I was just watching

48:11

him or like I think I saw

48:14

his first home earlier and I was

48:16

like, just looks right. Just all is

48:18

right in the world when Mike Trout

48:20

is playing baseball. I am a happy

48:23

person. He is so good. I'm scared.

48:25

I need him to go to a

48:27

team that's going to make the playoffs

48:29

and I want to watch my trout

48:32

playing in the playoffs. That's what I

48:34

need in life. Because the best players

48:36

in sports need to be on good

48:38

teams and need to be in the

48:40

playoffs because that's where their legends get

48:43

cemented. If you're the angels, because I

48:45

don't think he has no trade. I

48:47

don't think he does. If you're the

48:49

angels, he's got to be close to

48:52

10 and 5 though. with the same

48:54

team if you have a no trade.

48:56

Do you think he wants to not

48:58

be traded? I don't know. Maybe. Why

49:01

don't you talk to him? He's your

49:03

guy. Yeah, I'll talk to him. Trout

49:05

doesn't have a no trade by the

49:07

way. Okay. Yeah. He'd look really good.

49:09

I was going to say, if you're

49:12

the angels, do you just like, do

49:14

you move them? Because you want to

49:16

read, but it doesn't matter. It doesn't

49:18

matter. I mean, I don't know. But

49:21

he's already got the statue, you know

49:23

what I mean? I like, I don't

49:25

think angel fans would blame him for

49:27

leaving. This is not just me being

49:30

a Yankee fan. There's always been a

49:32

lot of conversation about him and the

49:34

Yankees. He grew up in New Jersey.

49:36

You know, I mean, there it is,

49:38

and there it is, Tom. Make me

49:41

sorry. I want Mike Trout the best

49:43

baseball player in the place. Yeah, I'm

49:45

sure you do, man. I'm sure you

49:47

do, but Mike, but like. Maybe Mike

49:50

Trout wants to win with the Angels.

49:52

Maybe he's like, I love this place.

49:54

Maybe that's not possible. Yeah, I would

49:56

like to dictate on it. I mean,

49:59

like, let's all be realistic. The Angels

50:01

ain't winning anything. They drafted 20 pictures,

50:03

you know, whatever that was, 21. 122,

50:05

zero of them have made an impact

50:07

for them. They drove the 19 college

50:10

pitchers and just like zero of them

50:12

have done anything. Ben Joyce. Ian, I

50:14

do see your point of like, there's

50:16

just something about like being in that

50:19

one organization and being the one that

50:21

takes them to the promise land. But

50:23

I feel like he's getting to the

50:25

age and the point where it's like,

50:28

all right, well, does he want to

50:30

do this like, soon? Because like, the

50:32

angels don't feel to me that they're

50:34

very close to. doing that. Like I

50:36

just don't see that any time soon

50:39

and like he's not like he's like

50:41

what is he 32 31. So you

50:43

had turn 34 this year? 34. That's

50:45

what I mean. Like you gotta get

50:48

him on a good team. Come on

50:50

VP. He is. He's still and that's

50:52

what I mean. He's still a great

50:54

player like player. I would love to

50:57

see him on a contender and watch

50:59

him in the playoffs. Case you're wondering

51:01

what's left in his contract. He's got

51:03

what's left in his contract. He'll be

51:05

making 37 million dollars in 2030. In

51:08

today's age 38. He'll be deserving every

51:10

penny. Ian is the number one Mike

51:12

Trout Defender, which there shouldn't be any

51:14

haters. He just, it's simply just injury

51:17

concerns. But like when he's on the

51:19

field, he's still one of the best

51:21

players in baseball. I'm just my hope

51:23

for him beyond everything else is just

51:26

150 games. We get 150 games and

51:28

Mike Trout baseball is better for it

51:30

simply. He's going to have a. Eight

51:32

war season minimum You just went into

51:34

instant like defense mode. I mean even

51:37

though I said something nice We're talking

51:39

up Mike Trout. I'm looking at his

51:41

baseball reference. I'm looking at his baseball

51:43

reference. It's hilarious if Mike Trout plays

51:46

150 games he I mean This

51:48

is consecutive years 10.58.97795104 played 114 games

51:50

had a 69 but 140 had a

51:53

99 but 134 had a 7 nine

51:55

in consecutive years. I mean, he is

51:57

so good at baseball. He is very

51:59

good at baseball. And then the last

52:02

thing I had, Vladimir, 14 years, 500

52:04

million, extension, extensively. We don't talk about

52:06

that. That's a lot of money. That's

52:09

a lot of guacamole. I mean, he's

52:11

young. That's why you got 14 years.

52:13

He's 26. Yeah, he's 26. That deal

52:15

takes him through age 39, I think,

52:18

maybe age 40. Like, it's gonna be

52:20

a Blue Jay forever. Adam to that

52:22

list, 1,000 games, same team, he'll be

52:25

there. I mean, good, good for him.

52:27

It's awesome. Like, he had an unbelievable

52:29

season last year. I think it makes

52:31

sense for them to lock one of

52:34

those guys up that, one of the

52:36

young guys that came up together. Like,

52:38

he's gonna be the three, four hitter,

52:41

four hittereable future, future, and good for

52:43

them. Are you a little surprised? Sorry,

52:45

I'm going to keep going. They have

52:48

been so close on all these free

52:50

agents and knock out anybody. And so

52:52

to like lock up Laddy, he's the

52:54

guy you can build around him. Good

52:57

for them. Are you a little surprised

52:59

he didn't wait in test free agency?

53:01

No, it felt like he wanted to

53:04

be there. Fair. That's I guess like,

53:06

yeah, if you know that's where you

53:08

want to play, like, why wait, like

53:10

you get the money you want in

53:13

the years, like, like, like, like, let's,

53:15

let's, let's, let's, let's, let's do it.

53:17

He's had some inconsistent years the last

53:20

couple years. I mean, he's obviously been

53:22

very good, but like his 21 I

53:24

think was unbelievable and his last couple

53:26

years have been by that standard a

53:29

little bit beneath that. So I think

53:31

when you have 500 mil on the

53:33

table and you have a chance to

53:36

guarantee that for the rest of your

53:38

life and you don't have to sweat

53:40

out a contract here, I think you

53:42

take it. I think that's a good

53:45

point of like he doesn't have to

53:47

go through this whole season this whole

53:49

season and like he goes through a

53:52

slump. He's not thinking that way. He's

53:54

like, I'm set. I can just go

53:56

and play baseball now and do what

53:58

I know I can do every game.

54:01

He might be a statue guy there. He might

54:03

be a statue guy. They're gonna have

54:05

to start winning some ball games too and

54:07

they play in the East, which is

54:09

a very good division. But he's got

54:11

the talent. But yeah, good for him.

54:13

And I think it's, yeah, people are talking

54:16

about how it affects Tucker. I think

54:18

you do have to look at the

54:20

years just in terms of like Gladys

54:22

26. But there is some yeah Tucker

54:24

will be 29 when his contract

54:26

starts next year There is some

54:28

part of that AAV that probably

54:30

translates I've also heard a

54:32

lot of rumors that Tucker is considering

54:35

a hometown discount for Chicago That's just

54:37

what I've heard I can't confirm nor

54:39

deny my sources, but that's what I'm

54:42

you heard that the party last night,

54:44

right? You were at the party came

54:46

over to you. It was like I'm

54:49

taking a hometown disco. Don't is true.

54:51

That's exactly That's a great idea man.

54:53

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55:30

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55:32

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let it eat and get through the whole

55:51

thing. I need you to give the rights

55:53

to Wrigley Field to just play like a

55:55

recording of you reading it. It's the best.

55:57

I have it I haven't memor. I mean,

55:59

I don't even look at anything anymore. I will

56:01

say I'd hope you'd have it memorized by now.

56:04

It's just been saying it for like a hundred

56:06

episodes. It's true. 857 is mine. I mean, it's

56:08

almost midnight, so that's like a full day. Ew.

56:10

That's a full day and when I drive around

56:12

a lot for work, so I have maps up

56:14

because I never know what to go. Don't you

56:16

have car play where it goes on the thing

56:18

and doesn't know. No, Ian, not all of us,

56:20

not all of us, not all of us can

56:22

afford four cars from the year 2025. If you

56:25

want to buy me, four cars from the year

56:27

2025, okay, if you want to buy me a

56:29

car with car play, screen time, we'll go down.

56:31

I'll tell Julia that because she didn't invite you

56:33

now we're on the hook for a car. Well,

56:35

I'll take a car too, please. She'll, uh, she'll

56:37

put that on your, uh, Amex, and you'll never

56:39

know. Yeah, we'll be fine. Uh, uh, Tom, five

56:41

hours, six minutes. It's not a bad day. It's

56:44

not a bad day. Ian's going to go, two,

56:46

two, four hours and eight minutes. How about you

56:48

be present with your teammates? I'm sorry that I'm

56:50

so present with everyone in my life. Dakota 857,

56:52

that's a toughie. Well, the thing is, I wish

56:54

I could be present in your life, but I'm

56:56

never invited. So I don't know. He was doing

56:58

eight hours and 56 minutes. That was research on

57:00

who was invited yesterday and why he wasn't. And

57:02

some of the names appalled me, appalled me, disgusting.

57:05

If you tell me, like someone from another team

57:07

was there or something like. I know that if

57:09

I got the whole guest list, it would make

57:11

me mad name by name. I'll allow Nico. That's

57:13

it. Everyone else after that hurts. I'll give you

57:15

Nico. And that's a steal. I'll give you Steely

57:17

too. I'll give you Steely and Nico. And Danny.

57:19

Was Danny there? And that's it. Like was Rickets

57:21

there? He better not have been. I'm closer to

57:23

you than your owner? Danny told me. Danny told

57:26

me he was gonna send me a hot take.

57:28

And he did. He did, he did send

57:30

me a hot a hot

57:32

We got to save it

57:34

for next week. it it

57:36

for next week. week. We'll save

57:38

gonna be mad at

57:40

me. week. Yeah, Well, tell him

57:42

I'm mad at him

57:44

for not inviting me to

57:47

your party. Well, tell him I'm mad

57:49

at everyone that went

57:51

and didn't tell me. me to

57:53

one thing people should

57:55

take away from this episode

57:57

and set the that that

57:59

he didn't get the

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invite. tell me. I'm petty one

58:03

I'm gonna hold on to

58:05

this for a while.

58:08

Like I can't wait till

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I have a cool

58:12

party. set to just wait till

58:14

the day I'm married.

58:16

Just invite me the me

58:18

and I'm petty too. That's fair. I

58:20

I have to. I might you might

58:22

You might not get a

58:24

a plus one get married. I

58:26

fine. now. That's fine That's episode 253 of the

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compound of the compound been up

58:31

by Parsi Rum good If you

58:33

need to get your get

58:35

we'll see you next. We'll see

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you next