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and welcome to Waking Jake, presented to

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you by Cushy Dreams. Jake

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Storyelli, big baby David. We

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are talking ball. We're

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going to make the all struggle bus team.

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That's right. Every team has

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a couple guys you're looking at that

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it's like, I don't, is it the

0:16

year? It's almost coming up on a

0:19

month now since baseball started. At least

0:21

the games overseas. And

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it actually might end up being a good thing

0:25

because there's a couple guys on your team you're

0:27

looking at like, dang, they're really struggling. Well, Misery

0:30

loves company. We're gonna show you

0:32

guys that are struggling the most

0:34

also a couple

0:36

of the baseball topics that are

0:38

out there Ronald Acuna, Jr. Calling

0:41

out snit hot in the streets.

0:43

I'm half interested in that The

0:45

Yankees Aaron judge

0:47

getting a home run taken

0:49

away and Max Frieds no

0:51

hitter getting taken away Both I

0:53

kind of have the same reaction you just saw on

0:56

the YouTube. Ah, I mean, what do you really

0:58

do? If that Homer cost

1:00

the Yankees, I'd be freaking out. If

1:02

Judge lands at 61 homers, I'll

1:05

be free. Well, I'll be happy. I

1:07

would be happy. But yeah, we

1:09

would definitely have to revisit that

1:11

one, because I think John's working on

1:13

the breakdown right now, and he's

1:16

got some UFO footage tracking the ball

1:18

that, tough to say, it wasn't

1:20

a Homer. And that would be

1:22

upset. The, like, Apple Maps

1:24

shot of it from above.

1:26

Those trees look like they're

1:29

firmly fair. So

1:31

I don't think we need to do a ton

1:33

of that. We'll see what other baseball is there.

1:36

NBA Playoffs did start. It's

1:39

a big week. NFL Draft Week is

1:41

here. NFL, NFL

1:43

Playoffs, NFL Draft, which

1:45

I'm very excited for, per use. NBA

1:48

Playoffs, I watched the one game

1:50

that mattered to me this weekend. Oh,

1:53

that's not true. I caught some, the Knicks.

1:55

I was gonna. do my

1:57

normal Steph Curry speech. Worth the watch.

1:59

It's a Sunday night. Do I want

2:02

to stay up till midnight? How much

2:04

is this going to ruin my Monday? How much is

2:06

this going to ruin my week? Old. A,

2:09

very little as of now. B,

2:12

Curry is worth. I

2:15

was going to say the price of admit, he

2:17

makes like paying for cable worth it flex.

2:20

Also just watch sports for my

2:22

job. So cable makes sense,

2:24

but. Almost every

2:27

time like there's not

2:29

There's not a ton of players

2:31

across sports that

2:33

you can say almost

2:35

every time You're going to

2:37

get what you're looking to see and I'm

2:39

looking to see him make plays other people

2:41

can't make I'm looking for him to make

2:43

shots other people can't make and he seemingly

2:45

does it every time They

2:49

get a nice 1 -0 lead on the Rockets. Oh

2:51

my guys Simmons and Ursillo. They're not not

2:53

bought in don't like the Warriors depth.

2:55

I get it Don't care. Let's

2:57

talk baseball and let's talk

2:59

the all struggle bus team

3:01

because like I mentioned a Month

3:04

in kind of at least

3:06

for the Cubs and Dodgers

3:09

sneaking up on a month

3:11

and It's April 21st, which means

3:13

a couple things BBD

3:15

mentioned this beforehand as I suggested

3:17

the struggle bus team and he

3:19

was like, remember when Devers was

3:21

struggling? Devers? Not

3:24

struggling too much anymore. His

3:26

OPS plus is 106. Another

3:29

good week. He probably ends up

3:31

more in Rafael Devers territory

3:33

and his slow start, his shoulders

3:35

are banged up. Are his

3:37

shoulders okay? Well, maybe he's DH 'ing for

3:39

the first time. I don't know if he's going to be able

3:41

to do it. It looks

3:43

like he's returning to Rafael

3:45

Devers. So The best way to do

3:47

this I think is go around the horn. We'll

3:50

build a team not a lineup Kind

3:52

of like that phrase and I'm gonna start

3:54

using it even though I don't think it

3:56

matters at all. I think it just matters

3:58

for what we're doing here But we

4:01

start behind the

4:03

dish And if

4:05

you're a Kansas City Royals fan,

4:07

you could have a lot of people on this team I

4:11

don't know. Did any Royals make the final

4:13

cut? No, and that might be a

4:15

shot at them. I will tell the people

4:17

listening to Wake and Jake. Hey, thank

4:19

you. Again, things have been going pretty well

4:22

here. If you're on the YouTube subscribe,

4:24

we appreciate it. Leave a comment. Whoever

4:26

I leave off is probably a player on your

4:28

team you're mad at. Tell me why I should

4:30

have picked them. Salvador

4:33

Perez is a runner up. And

4:35

by the way, he could be a

4:37

runner up at first base and catcher. Big

4:39

Salvi has been really struggling. As

4:42

we get this season underway the

4:44

other guy who stats jumped off

4:46

the page to me But

4:48

not winning the final vote Travis

4:50

Darneau. I mean how was

4:52

that was a transaction that well

4:54

a it did feel a

4:56

little angels II which I

4:59

Can't believe I have to tell BBD this right now.

5:01

I'm gonna stop hating the angels for a little bit

5:04

Really? Yeah, they're

5:06

walk off yesterday won me over. Okay.

5:09

I said for a month It's

5:11

been overall a solid start for them.

5:13

I'm not going to like them

5:15

I'm not going to let

5:17

them in But I'm not going to hate them. I'm

5:19

not gonna go out of my way to dig the angels or

5:22

anything like that They're game -winning Joe

5:24

Adele double the other day Ron

5:26

Washington freaking out Mike trout freaking

5:28

out. I Want stuff

5:30

like that to matter. I'm

5:32

gonna ignore the uniform and

5:34

everything for like a month

5:36

And I could take that back in about two

5:38

days, but let's call it a month Travis

5:41

Darno is like, oh, best backup catcher in the

5:43

game, Angels. They've got Ohapi. OK, that's a

5:45

little weird. Ohapi got hurt.

5:47

So it instantly looked like

5:49

things were going well. Things

5:51

were going well, transactionally, having

5:54

Darno on the team. Darno,

5:58

woof, 115 batting average. A

6:00

negative weighted runs

6:02

created. Plus, that's tough,

6:05

Trav. But the winner. Was

6:09

yiner Diaz I did not realize

6:11

and this is part of

6:13

the reason we're doing this exercise

6:16

yiner Diaz 143

6:18

batting average of 182 on

6:20

base percentage The weighted

6:22

runs created plus is 15

6:25

and this is a guy that I've

6:27

I found myself back on the Astros

6:29

hype train who the Astros did have

6:31

a very nice series win this weekend

6:33

over the San Diego Padres which

6:35

not a lot of people are doing

6:37

that to the San Diego Padres, a

6:39

Cam Smith two homer game. Got to

6:42

watch that because I was betting at

6:44

DraftKings. Might have been on the wrong

6:46

side of the bet, but I got to see Cam Smith

6:48

have a two homer day. Yiner

6:52

coming off last

6:54

year, expected batting

6:56

average, 97th percentile. A

6:59

hard hit rate guy, a good K

7:01

percentage guy, not the biggest walks,

7:04

but Everything else

7:06

landed in a good

7:08

place right now. He's barreling

7:10

the ball, but the

7:12

expected batting average is 17th

7:15

percentile He's a guy that can

7:17

be a difference maker you've heard

7:19

me talk about catching position a lot

7:21

I had this Weird theory about elite

7:23

catchers were the only teams in

7:25

the postseason. There's some chicken in

7:27

the egg there a little bit

7:29

Last year he crushed

7:31

sinkers sweepers and cutters.

7:33

Hello That feels

7:36

like a lot of guys arsenals,

7:38

huh this year and not

7:40

a lot of how about

7:42

over on the slider That's

7:44

no good and obviously the

7:46

other numbers aren't

7:48

great too Especially I

7:50

guess Slider

7:53

sweeper is actually the most significantly down

7:55

for him Although he crushed sinkers last

7:57

year and he's not doing it this

7:59

year. So yiner Diaz. Hello

8:01

and welcome the starting

8:03

backstop of

8:05

the all struggle bus team

8:07

over at first base. Like

8:10

I said, Salvi was a runner

8:12

up here too. Sorry, Royals fans. That

8:15

whole lineup is the struggle

8:17

bus. Tough to watch for

8:20

Kansas City right now. There's

8:23

a couple of fun names here. St.

8:25

Louis Cardinals fans are probably yelling about

8:27

Wilson Contreras trying to make the switch.

8:29

We talked about Devers a second ago.

8:32

Wilson Contreras. Down

8:34

bad. I

8:36

think there's an argument Lamont

8:38

Wade, Jr. Late night Lamont

8:40

is in his feels pretty

8:42

bad. It's getting late early

8:44

for him. But they

8:47

both give presidents. Is

8:49

that the right phrasing? Probably not. Presidents?

8:53

I don't even know if it

8:55

makes sense. Finish the sentence and

8:57

I'll have a better idea. Tristan

8:59

Kossus is your all struggle bus. First

9:03

team first baseman had a

9:05

game -winning sack fly This weekend

9:07

so that's good And I hope

9:09

it turns around for the

9:11

big man whose stats jumped off

9:13

the page. We've talked about

9:15

trade He we thought he was

9:17

gonna be a trade guy

9:19

this offseason With the the Red

9:21

Sox lefty depth and need

9:24

for pitching they brought in pitching

9:26

and they got to keep

9:28

causes So far this year Not

9:30

going well When

9:32

he came up the baseball

9:34

Savant had everything on it

9:36

Great bat speed Expected Woba,

9:38

you know, that's what I'm

9:40

always diving into The bat

9:42

speed is down a tick.

9:44

It's still elite But nothing

9:46

else is going right For

9:49

the big man. So interested

9:51

to see how that Develops

9:53

for him this season. We

9:55

didn't see a ton of

9:57

him last year He did

9:59

crush the foreseamer in the

10:01

sinker Again, for a

10:03

lot of these guys, I hope

10:05

it doesn't come too repetitive. He's

10:07

hitting sinkers. He's not hitting four

10:09

Seamers All these guys who are

10:11

about to be mentioned aren't hitting

10:13

a lot of anything because it's

10:15

about a 20 game 20 plus

10:17

game sample size So maybe I

10:19

won't harp on that as much

10:21

Congrats to Tristan Casas And I

10:24

I think I was gonna say

10:26

this caveat at the stop Start

10:28

and then I distract myself for

10:30

the all struggle bus team. I

10:32

will say name value matters I

10:34

think there's one or two positions

10:36

Where if it was gun to

10:38

my head who is doing the

10:40

worst worse? It would

10:42

be a slightly different name

10:44

But we like names here

10:46

expectations exact exactly the word

10:48

I was gonna say like

10:50

the concept of struggling In

10:53

this sense, what I expected of you

10:56

is what is a big part of

10:58

that. Like, you know, I don't want

11:00

to tease those corner outfields too much,

11:02

but Tommy Pham and Hunter Renfro sure

11:04

could have battled for both spots. But

11:07

that's not sexy. And

11:09

I don't know what I expect from those

11:11

guys anymore, except I expect Tommy Pham to

11:13

be traded to a contender and him batting

11:15

in the middle of the lineup. are

11:18

we doing for the Diamondbacks? He'll

11:20

find his way to important at bats. Excited

11:23

for that and he'll perform

11:25

maybe back in Kansas City. I

11:27

don't know Let's not get

11:29

too far ahead of ourselves because

11:32

we have to go to

11:34

second base Go to second base

11:36

unhook the bra Michael Massey

11:38

Which is tough man, I really

11:40

like Michael Massey Michael Massey

11:42

has a pretty lefty swing for

11:44

a second baseman and I've

11:46

seen him make a couple Sparklers

11:48

at second base. I suppose

11:50

the problem is When I

11:53

haven't been watching him

11:55

he hasn't been doing much

11:57

zero home runs in

11:59

his 21 games this season

12:01

Yeah, 197 225 a

12:03

237 slug and there's there's

12:05

nothing going right there

12:07

He grades out as a

12:09

negative defensively on fan

12:11

graphs Kansas City Royals again,

12:13

I can't even congratulate

12:15

you unfortunately because the man

12:17

that I Offensively is

12:19

doing a tick worse But

12:22

he always brings his glove

12:24

with him is Marcus Simeon Marcus

12:26

Simeon for your Texas Rangers

12:28

21 games 141 209 and 18

12:31

weighted runs created plus The

12:33

Texas Rangers my Texas Rangers who

12:35

in a panic move before

12:37

the start of the season and

12:39

trying to stay away from

12:41

Yankees bias I went with the

12:44

Texas Rangers and I Also

12:46

noted I thought they might have

12:48

the best lineup in baseball

12:50

this year a little bit of

12:52

a hot take Let's say

12:54

it's a cold take. I wouldn't

12:57

say it's a hot take

12:59

their offense Has been struggle bus

13:01

as well Simeon has been

13:03

a big part of it. They

13:05

do have another member on

13:08

this team coming up And yeah,

13:10

I'm hoping they head to

13:12

Sacramento after facing the Dodgers where

13:14

they got shut out in

13:16

two of those games Yikes,

13:18

it is the Dodgers. I

13:21

mean, Simeon's kind of the head

13:23

of the snake. And

13:25

when he's right, he feels like a

13:27

two for four, which is

13:29

weird because when he's wrong, it's probably

13:31

like a one for four. But I

13:34

guess day in, day out, that matters

13:36

a lot. And going

13:38

back to our starting first baseman, Tristan

13:40

Casas, I haven't been watching the

13:42

Red Sox stock. I think you have

13:44

been. I watched it.

13:46

And? It's a fun

13:49

watch. It is genuinely

13:51

entertaining. have to get over

13:53

some fandom stuff. The

13:55

clip I saw was Kassus talking

13:57

about the difference between a 260 hitter

13:59

and a 300 hitter. And he's

14:01

like, you guys realize the difference between

14:04

those two players is like one

14:06

hit a week. And I

14:08

was like, that's a pretty interesting scope. And

14:11

mathematically, it kind of makes

14:13

sense. Yeah. Which is insane. One

14:15

more hot streak. But

14:17

then the insane, if you want

14:19

to start doing baseball thought processes,

14:22

how different in your head a

14:24

260 hitter looks than a 300

14:26

hitter? So

14:28

in a way, I get what Casas

14:30

is saying, but in a way,

14:32

it also doesn't make sense. Because

14:35

everyone has their hot and cold streaks,

14:37

and I'm hoping for a lot of

14:39

these guys that we're talking about on

14:41

the list. A lot of these guys

14:43

are gonna get off the struggle bus

14:45

and we're gonna talk about how they

14:47

had a slow April and then they

14:49

had a crazy May or they had

14:51

a massive second half that happens every

14:53

year in baseball It Do you see

14:55

what I'm saying there at all like

14:57

That hitter feels different. I know what

14:59

Casas is saying is true But that

15:02

hitter does feel different at bat to

15:04

a bat and the payoff of that

15:06

over the course of a season Is

15:08

those a hit a week? Which

15:11

is insane weird those sport a

15:13

lot of ways you can you

15:15

can skin this cat Start with

15:18

the tail take off the ears

15:20

The other thing that stuck out

15:22

to me about Simeon the defensive

15:24

side of the ball and obviously

15:26

small sample defensive metrics are kind

15:28

of nothing right, but Usually he's

15:30

the best second baseman. He's getting

15:32

out fine. Yeah, but that's a

15:35

that's part of the Marcus Simeon

15:37

equation as you get great defense

15:39

at second He's so

15:41

far he the metrics haven't liked

15:43

it. He's been getting dubbed by

15:45

Tommy Edmond jazz Chisholm who you

15:47

know again, this is this might

15:49

be a fun part of the

15:52

exercise jazz Chisholm Torpedo bat be

15:54

damned has been struggling pretty good

15:56

when he does hit it it

15:58

goes for a home run So

16:00

he has six home runs this

16:02

year, but jazz Chisholm sitting 157

16:05

But with a few walks and

16:07

with some power Among

16:09

second baseman and the defense I

16:11

mentioned he's he's great. No pretty

16:13

pretty well All around so I

16:16

know it's not the numbers Yankee

16:18

fans expected But we all expected

16:20

Kyron Paris to be leading our

16:22

second baseman in f4 this year

16:24

So let's see I I did

16:26

want to do another disclaimer for

16:29

the talking talking yanks folks. We'll

16:31

call this waking Jake instead For

16:34

the wake and jake folks is

16:36

that I guess I was debating is

16:39

it time to do the breakout team? I

16:43

Think it's easier To

16:45

give the breakout team another

16:47

week or two. I

16:49

think I Think the struggle

16:51

bus team is here the struggle

16:53

bus has arrived like the

16:56

guys we have here right now

16:58

It's not quite a full

17:00

month of games And

17:02

there is some like a

17:04

full week left of April,

17:06

but like you kind of

17:08

can't save it. You can

17:10

help in your seasons, obviously

17:12

They they cannot It's like

17:14

a good April's kind of

17:16

over that like craziness even

17:18

like a league average April.

17:20

Yeah, you kind of can't

17:22

save it It's a long

17:24

season though for this month

17:26

heads up. So sorry Michael

17:28

Massey you do not get

17:30

the podium Marcus,

17:32

Marcus Simeon does.

17:34

And that's tough. Sorry

17:37

to Luis Garcia Jr. Adam

17:40

Frazier in the running. Feels like he

17:42

always is. Let's

17:45

go over to third base, because

17:47

that's something that always confuses me

17:49

why we skip short stops sometimes

17:51

numerically, but that's how it works

17:53

for this. Third

17:55

base had some juicy candidates. About

17:57

out of the park, Mark. Vientos.

18:00

Everyone when I say that they jump

18:02

to canna and I didn't realize how

18:05

much of a lockdown he had on

18:07

that nickname Yeah, I'm happy for him.

18:09

I mean he was a big Kind

18:11

of baseball figurehead for a little bit.

18:13

I get it. I think it I

18:15

think it either was or maybe still

18:17

is his username right one of them

18:20

It's just if mark vientos turns into

18:22

the power hitter he's supposed to be

18:24

that feels like a good usage of

18:26

that nickname anyways Vientos has really been

18:28

struggling I'm eating a little

18:30

bit of crow today. I

18:33

mentioned the Texas Rangers Offensively, I

18:35

just thought they'd have the

18:37

goods and maybe they still will

18:39

again Hopefully these couple days

18:41

in Sacramento get them going Can

18:43

spark the spark they've been

18:46

pitching out of their dome? They're

18:48

starting pitching in the I think

18:51

six game homestand. They just had the

18:53

era started with a one to

18:55

Grom the really nice start watch out

18:57

for that guy I've

19:01

been wrong about the Texas

19:03

Rangers hitting a free agent

19:05

signing. I really liked one

19:07

of my Yankees to be

19:09

on the mix in I

19:12

even convinced myself Maybe he's

19:14

a trade candidate dump this

19:16

offseason Jamer Candelario Yikes Despite

19:18

how delightful he was on

19:20

Rose's new show dugout discussions.

19:23

He's been bad at playing baseball And

19:26

I can't imagine Cincinnati

19:28

Reds fans have a really

19:30

good relations relationship with

19:32

Jamer Right now because his

19:34

numbers are big bad.

19:36

He entosed his big bad,

19:38

but a Name that

19:40

I feel like the baseball

19:42

people probably could have

19:44

guessed Coming into this Alec

19:46

Bohm Has won the

19:48

gig for us as the

19:50

all -starting struggle bus third

19:53

baseman Very interesting To

19:55

see the next steps For

19:58

the Phillies in boom Brandon Marsh

20:00

Who's another guy that you

20:02

may have guessed would be on

20:04

this team. He's not he

20:06

just went on the aisle. That's

20:08

not a full cover -up. I'm

20:10

not above that There were

20:13

other options that that landed with

20:15

Marsh as well And I

20:17

guess the injured thing. I don't

20:19

know it didn't feel great

20:21

Alec boom 90 plate appearances zero

20:23

home runs I

20:26

think we have one walk

20:28

on the year 193 The

20:30

defense has never been his

20:32

thing we've seen the growth

20:35

in that area of making

20:37

the play when the plays

20:39

got to be made This

20:41

guy offensively for the first

20:43

half last season was the

20:46

most consistent Philly and then

20:48

another year of trade rumors

20:50

and Alex Bregman Phillies were

20:52

one of the teams he

20:54

was linked towards. It's

20:57

gotten off to an atrocious

20:59

start. Hey, of

21:02

some of the guys we've named, Alec

21:04

Bohm has one of the

21:06

better hitting profiles when he's right.

21:09

Maybe that's about to click, and maybe he's

21:11

gonna one -dot it for May. If

21:14

he doesn't, this...

21:17

Third base has been the

21:19

Phillies area of focus unfortunately for

21:21

Alec Bohm because there's so

21:23

very few others to look at.

21:25

There's been a corner outfield

21:27

spot that's been in flux for

21:29

a couple years there between

21:31

how they want to do center

21:34

and how they want to

21:36

do the other outfield position besides

21:38

Castellanos, Schwerber, D 'Hing, that

21:40

there's been the least Robert rumors

21:43

over the years. The

21:47

Phillies feel like they need a

21:49

little a little spice And I

21:51

don't know if that's third base.

21:53

I don't know if it's Louise

21:55

Robert I don't know if it's

21:57

something else The Phillies are really

21:59

good and they're off to a

22:02

solid start which a couple of

22:04

these good Philly teams didn't have

22:06

solid starts They were fighting for

22:08

500 for a while Trey Turner

22:10

had a big weekend Harper's Harper

22:12

In a new National League Like

22:15

remember when the Phillies were just happening and

22:17

it was like, wait, I know all of

22:19

these dudes and they're sick and the stadium's

22:21

rocking. This is awesome. The Phillies are gonna,

22:23

they're built for the playoffs. The Phillies are

22:25

gonna go to the World Series every year.

22:29

The whole conversation has turned to how

22:31

good is the National League? That,

22:33

I don't know, I think the Phillies are

22:35

gonna be a fun, are they? There's

22:38

already been a little bit of it. Of

22:40

the will they won't they do they like

22:42

bone? Is there something to add in the

22:44

outfield? The alley

22:46

bone thing doesn't

22:48

turn around quick Philly's

22:51

gonna have a

22:53

situations on situations. I

22:55

said multiple on

22:57

their hands And yeah,

22:59

sorry twins fans

23:01

Jose Miranda All so

23:04

bad less games

23:06

played twins Yikes Yikes

23:08

twinkies I have a couple

23:10

of candidates for this position. Castro.

23:13

Man. Things went

23:15

south there quick. Shortstop.

23:23

You guys know I love Zeke Tovar.

23:26

And you guys also know he's probably not

23:28

sexy enough for the list. Sorry

23:30

to all my Rockies fans. I love

23:32

them. They played a crazy game. Such

23:34

a good 12 -11 course field

23:36

game over the weekend. Nats almost

23:38

blew a 10 run lead. Why do

23:40

you know that, Jake? Is it because you

23:42

cover baseball kind of? No, it's

23:44

because I also bet on that. Nationals

23:47

minus one and a half. Crazy loss. Crazy

23:49

loss. They're up 11.

23:53

Anyways, let's not dwell on

23:55

that. Zeke Tovar, our guy,

23:57

off to a slow start

23:59

to the season. Negative war. And

24:01

most of that's all offense because he's

24:04

still grading out OK defensively. The

24:07

number one name on the list

24:09

of negative war both sides of

24:11

the baseball Willie Adamus a big

24:13

Willie style who When Yankee fans

24:15

lost Soto, this was a guy.

24:18

They were mad that they didn't

24:20

go more in on The Giants

24:22

signed him and we gave them

24:24

all the credit in the world

24:26

like wow the Giants got another

24:28

big fish between him Chapman jung

24:30

huli I guess this is the

24:32

one that I can spin in

24:34

the most positive way The

24:37

Giants have been playing

24:39

good winning baseball and Willie

24:41

Adamus hasn't been Willie

24:43

Adamus so There's obviously more

24:45

of a fear factor

24:47

having just given a guy

24:49

a big contract that

24:51

okay, let's Let's write the

24:54

ship here pal, especially

24:56

because third base is taken

24:58

But this is the

25:00

only this is probably the

25:02

one I'm spinning in

25:04

the most optimistic light Because

25:09

things have been going

25:11

well for the Giants and

25:13

maybe that's a winning

25:15

cures all thing But Willie

25:18

just brought in the

25:20

bag and Closing note on

25:22

will The numbers that

25:24

we keep saying this final

25:27

week this final eight

25:29

days of the month 202

25:31

273 on base You

25:34

know a couple solid games you

25:36

leave April in San Francisco with

25:38

a 220 batting average maybe the

25:40

on bases in the threes and

25:42

you say, okay, I Had a

25:44

bad month got me But now

25:46

I'm gonna have a good month

25:48

that will ya Domus Will proudly

25:50

be my starting shorts up and

25:52

I think he's probably gonna play

25:54

himself off the struggle bus team

25:57

So that was a happy kind

25:59

of optimistic one Yeah, which I

26:01

didn't think there was going to

26:03

be a ton of that. That

26:06

rounds out the infield. So

26:09

around the horn, Jiner Diaz,

26:11

Tristan Casas, Marcus Simian, Alec

26:13

Bohm, Williadomas, which leads

26:15

us to our outfield. If

26:17

you know how we treat

26:19

the outfield and DH here

26:21

at Johnboy Media, center field

26:23

gets treated differently. Center

26:27

field is a different position. It's

26:29

in the middle of the outfield. aptly

26:31

named. The

26:34

demand on the body is different. It's

26:36

part the reason Yankee fans freak out even

26:38

more about Judge when one of those

26:41

combos come up, because Judge had been playing

26:43

center field while breaking these home run

26:45

records, which just doesn't make sense and was

26:47

probably a mistake by the Yankees having

26:49

him out there. And

26:52

I have good news and bad

26:55

news. There was a lot of center

26:57

fielders that were in play. Luis

26:59

Robert, who I mentioned, Potential

27:01

filly or any team trade

27:03

candidate hasn't gotten it going this

27:05

year Michael Harris too Which

27:07

if you remember doing our center

27:09

field tier list with Jolly

27:11

it was kind of like okay

27:13

one of those guys is

27:15

definitely gonna have a big year

27:17

and Be big back and

27:19

be arguably a top two center

27:21

fielder in the game Instead

27:24

they've both been going the wrong

27:26

direction. I mentioned Brandon Marsh

27:28

before Jose Siri Not

27:30

on the interstate hitting in the

27:32

zeros And Leody Tavares who was

27:34

always just a funky part of

27:36

that Texas organization where you're like

27:38

wait is he good? Feels

27:41

like he's always hit eighth or

27:43

ninth for the Texas Rangers except

27:45

sometimes he hits 280 and gets

27:47

on base at a good clip

27:49

and other times he doesn't Unfortunately,

27:51

I have to hit up a

27:53

friend on this one. I'm

27:56

going with Jake McCarthy for

27:58

my snakes Jake

28:00

McCarthy had a sneaky breakout

28:02

last year in the Diamondbacks

28:04

lineup where Where did he

28:06

finish the season? He finished

28:08

the season 285 349 on

28:10

base I emphasize that because

28:12

he had 25 stolen bases

28:15

He's one of the fastest

28:17

guys in the league if

28:19

you can have a center

28:21

fielder who can get on

28:23

base at a 350 clip

28:25

with his speed that's That

28:27

is a fantastic player to

28:29

have on your team. It

28:31

looked like the breakout happened

28:33

as age 26 season and

28:35

the numbers are so ugly

28:37

in a d -backs lineup

28:39

that has been hitting again

28:41

That I fortunately over the

28:44

names my guy Jake gets

28:46

the nod 073 batting average

28:48

170 on base 098 slug

28:50

So there's just been not

28:52

of it Just none of

28:54

it so unfortunately That's

28:57

gonna earn him the center field

28:59

nod. I'm sorry Jake McCarthy nice guy

29:01

met him for a second Which

29:03

leaves our corners open And I need

29:05

some names here no offense Jake

29:07

the rake Room for you to get

29:09

out of there The corners were

29:11

thin snaps for the corners. I know

29:13

all of you are again let

29:16

me know on your team who's struggling

29:18

and there's guys that are but

29:20

this is also the point where we're

29:22

playing 20 or so games that

29:24

you need to be out there a

29:26

lot and you need to be

29:28

struggling and this is a position where

29:30

you kind of gotta hit otherwise

29:32

you're not allowed to struggle which means

29:35

if you've been having a really

29:37

tough time out there you're either a

29:39

big time prospect or a big

29:41

time free agent signing well I got

29:43

you both Anthony Santander Who's

29:45

gotten thrown into action for these blue jays

29:48

in the outfield maybe more than they would

29:50

have liked? But

29:53

my guy Santander Santander

29:55

Which I know you people

29:57

know and I it's

29:59

probably just comes off bad

30:02

and braggadocious great word

30:04

Someone DM me and they're

30:06

like dude. I was

30:08

watching a jam. I

30:10

was watching a jam

30:12

baseball video from Six

30:15

months ago and you said that

30:17

Santander is gonna get such a

30:19

bag from the Blue Jays and

30:21

I was like, yeah I tried

30:24

to hit that on every platform

30:26

to be honest Because sometimes things

30:28

make sense, but I was still

30:30

in on Santander because I was

30:32

like he knows all the pitchers

30:34

in the division Toronto's a fantastic

30:36

place to hit. It's gonna happen.

30:38

I'm not selling any Santander stock,

30:40

but negative war not liking playing

30:42

actual defense But again,

30:44

you can put them in

30:46

near the Willy Adamus and this

30:48

is a guy that can

30:50

this guy can have a four

30:52

home run series on you

30:54

205 276 so again, give me

30:56

give me a week Tony

30:58

taters and we're good He has

31:00

one three Homer week and

31:02

he's kind of Back where you

31:04

would have guessed maybe average

31:06

a little lower still have a

31:08

five Homer month With one

31:10

good week the other guy I

31:13

mentioned you had to be a

31:15

big free agent or top prospect

31:17

Dylan Cruz Nationals that young outfield.

31:19

Okay, Jacob Young's gonna rack up

31:22

defensive or sure James Wood and

31:24

Dylan Cruz kind of if you

31:26

know baseball One of them was

31:28

gonna go and one of them

31:30

might not it's rare that it

31:32

just all comes together at once

31:34

Dylan Cruz has been on The

31:37

struggle bus 186 2019 a 42

31:39

weighted runs created plus Defensively not

31:41

grading out fantastic, which that's supposed

31:44

to be a big part of

31:46

a skill set Nationals fans. I

31:48

would have to know more from

31:50

you how you feel about that

31:52

He's stolen six base bases some

31:54

say He has two home runs

31:57

on the year Dylan Cruz and

31:59

I those numbers have trended up

32:01

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32:03

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33:00

DH. I could have just pushed

33:02

Santander over there if I really

33:04

wanted to. Some

33:07

other guys off the slow

33:09

starts, Brandon Nimmo, Jonathan India, Lorda

33:12

Scurriel. The

33:15

DH unfortunately one of the

33:17

easiest picks of this and

33:19

I think the first pick

33:21

and another free agent Anyone

33:23

that would listen to me.

33:25

I was trying to tell

33:27

them about It's jock

33:30

Peterson My guy jock is

33:32

down real bad. He's

33:34

uh Not hitting the fastball

33:36

a negative 1 .1 B

33:39

war from the DH

33:41

position is tough Oh

33:44

55 Oh 55

33:46

batting average from

33:48

jock and oh

33:50

73 slugging It

33:52

just goes to

33:55

show you that

33:57

this beautiful sport

33:59

sometimes where a

34:01

guy Hit 275

34:03

a 393 on

34:05

base last year

34:07

a 515 slugging

34:10

908 OPS currently

34:13

Is down 700 OPS points

34:15

feel significant Down close

34:17

to 500 slugging points. That's

34:20

those two numbers come

34:22

together to make one number

34:24

Jack ain't hitting a

34:26

thing right now and he

34:28

seemed He seemed like

34:31

one of the safest free

34:33

agents to me I

34:35

would go on my speech

34:37

about how not all

34:39

not everybody knows how to

34:41

G DH, not everyone's

34:44

comfortable, DHing. Jock

34:46

is supposed to be one of those guys.

34:49

One of the best four

34:51

seam fastball hitters and

34:53

cutter hitters in the league

34:55

last year. Slugged

34:57

964 off cutters. Don't

34:59

throw Jock that last

35:01

year. 6 -0 -2 on

35:03

four seam fastballs. This year he's just

35:05

been getting chewed up by the four

35:08

seamer. He's probably not

35:10

on time. That's what Trevor Ploof

35:12

tells me about major league

35:14

hitters if you're not hitting the

35:16

fastball Every major leaguer can

35:18

hit a fastball. It just means

35:20

your timing is off. I

35:22

don't know if jock's timing has

35:24

ever been more off So

35:26

a tough way to start out

35:28

in his new place The

35:30

Rangers are going to Sacramento Hopefully

35:32

that helps them out as

35:35

a team And hopefully my Rangers

35:37

find it offensively, because the

35:39

pitching Tyler Molley has been incredible

35:41

for them. We've seen

35:43

young guys give them contributions,

35:45

but right now the lineup

35:47

is empty. So you're all

35:49

struggle bus team. Maybe we

35:51

mark down a note to

35:53

check in June 1st. Is

35:55

that too far? Labor

35:58

day? Memorial day, excuse

36:00

me. Around

36:02

the Horn, it's Jiner

36:04

Diaz, Tristan Casas, Marcus Simeon,

36:07

Alec Bohm, Willi Adamus,

36:09

Anthony Santander, two big

36:11

free agents there. Jake

36:13

McCarthy in center, sorry Jake, Dylan

36:16

Cruz in right, and Jock

36:18

Peterson at DH. Let

36:20

me know of

36:23

your, who on

36:25

your team that maybe I should have been

36:27

tougher on. Or maybe give me a

36:29

guy in your team that's been struggling that

36:31

maybe you feel a little better about

36:33

right now That would be the positive way

36:35

to go not how internet comments normally

36:37

work out, but ain't that it? That's

36:41

the all struggle bus team Let

36:44

me see if I have anything else

36:46

to add that the reds red

36:48

socks just won today marathon day three

36:50

out of four from the white

36:52

socks good for them Walker Bueller on

36:54

marathon day obviously What are we

36:56

doing? I'd

36:59

say the other things from

37:01

around the league are

37:03

pretty I Don't want to

37:05

say standard the Baltimore

37:07

Orioles pitching is Historically bad

37:09

and worry some I

37:11

Think the only thing that's

37:13

changed is historically in

37:15

the past couple days after

37:17

the Reds embarrassed them

37:19

at the party yesterday Let's

37:21

see I mentioned I'm

37:23

treating the angels as neutral

37:25

that I already regret Milwaukee's

37:29

really good again. Take

37:32

out that opening series from

37:34

the Yankees. And they've

37:36

been 12 and seven. I think they're

37:38

pitching to the tune with an ERA with a

37:40

two in it. That's

37:43

important. And I

37:45

guess it's a team I

37:47

just need to start treating a

37:49

little differently. The

37:51

New York Mets. The New

37:53

York Mets can pitch the hell out of the

37:55

ball. The offense hasn't fully

37:57

clicked yet. Also, there were signs from

38:00

Lindor this weekend. Pete was doing a lot

38:02

of the heavy lifting. Soto

38:04

got in the mix. He's

38:06

going to get more in the mix. I

38:08

think he traditionally is a slow starter, if

38:10

I remember looking at his numbers. And

38:12

he's been noticeably cold. The hoodies

38:14

he's been wearing have been way too

38:17

big. That'll go away

38:19

soon. The Mets are

38:21

getting pitching performances out of

38:23

Griffin Canning. Who was

38:25

the worst pitcher in the league?

38:27

He was on Eno's who'll

38:29

be the the next Luke Weaver

38:31

list, right? Yes. think I

38:33

learned that from you Yeah, well,

38:35

I didn't realize he'd be

38:37

starting pitching and still pitching this

38:40

well But the Mets the

38:42

Mets are the Brewers They brought

38:44

Stearns over they revamped their

38:46

pitching They have the best era

38:48

in baseball pitching was supposed

38:50

to be the question with this

38:52

team And

38:54

it's been nothing short of

38:56

dominance with former Yankees closer

38:59

clay homes Off the scrap

39:01

heap from the angels Griffin

39:03

canning Kodai sang a good

39:05

no notes Tyler McGill David

39:07

Peterson's given a couple good

39:10

outings and I've gone through

39:12

their bullpen before after Diaz.

39:14

It's not a lot of

39:16

names that Pop off the

39:18

page, but they've been for

39:21

performing As

39:23

a complete unit they have

39:25

the third reliever era second and

39:27

whip the number one starting

39:29

pitching era from your New York

39:31

Mets, so Let's see. They've

39:33

got the Phillies coming up. Let's

39:35

see how that goes this

39:37

week And yeah, like I mentioned

39:39

like vientos could have easily

39:42

been the all -struggle bus third

39:44

baseman He hasn't been doing much

39:46

of anything the second half

39:48

of their lineup has been pretty

39:50

thin Lindor until recently It's

39:53

a lot of Pete. It's a

39:55

lot of Pete. And the other guys

39:57

are going. I mentioned Nimmo briefly. Nimmo

39:59

not. Could have made the list.

40:01

Could have made the list fairly easily. And

40:04

the Mets are still 15 and

40:06

7 in the crowded NL. Kind

40:08

of circles back to that. Will

40:11

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41:13

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41:15

prospect. He

41:17

had the, I don't want to

41:20

say signature, but we know it around

41:22

baseball and it happens probably once

41:24

a week. Jared Kelnick

41:26

turns on a ball, thinks he hits

41:28

a homer, doesn't get out of the box

41:30

quick. It is not a

41:32

homer, fielded quickly, barehand by

41:34

the outfielder, throw to second

41:36

base. Jared Kelnick is out. Okay.

41:40

Depending your team and your manager

41:42

and your player this situation

41:44

plays out very differently This early

41:46

in the season I think

41:49

a lot of people would tend

41:51

to lean towards Stern talking

41:53

to finger waggle don't do that

41:55

again And that's kind of

41:57

what happened except without the finger

42:00

waggle Because Brian snicker was

42:02

asked about after the game. He

42:04

said oh, I didn't fully

42:06

notice in lifetime It

42:08

was what it was.

42:11

We got the swing in

42:13

the video up on

42:15

the screen here. Home to

42:17

first 7 .49 seconds. First

42:20

to second 3 .3 seconds.

42:23

Out after the replay challenge. That's

42:25

tough. So,

42:28

okay, if you want to is what

42:30

it is or however you feel, if

42:32

you're older school, put them on the

42:34

bench now. You don't really see a

42:36

lot of that. except

42:39

one of the few

42:41

young stars to have

42:43

this happen, and

42:46

then he was benched,

42:48

was Ronald Acuna Jr.,

42:50

who's also a member

42:53

of the Braves organization,

42:55

who tweeted and reacted

42:57

online saying, if

42:59

I did this, I would be

43:01

benched. Good

43:04

note, Ronald, and

43:07

true. Because that

43:09

is what happened so In

43:11

the story of snicker and

43:13

Acunia and we start going

43:15

Okay, so do you hold? Do

43:17

you hold the better player to

43:20

the better standard or isn't the whole

43:22

point of doing it to someone

43:24

like Ronald Acunia? The fact that you

43:26

should be able to do it

43:28

to anyone There's a little bit what

43:30

happened in live time and how

43:33

you know if you're snicker and Again,

43:35

if you're not watching Kelnick run,

43:37

if you're watching the ball, is it

43:39

the bench coach's job to tell

43:41

the manager he wasn't booking it? You'd

43:43

like to think from the result

43:45

of the play? They would

43:47

put that together. Wait, why were you

43:50

out at second on a ball you crushed?

43:57

I'm tending to lead and Ronald

43:59

here. The only thing

44:02

Ronald did bad was he tweeted

44:04

this. Which then it makes

44:06

it public and now Kalinix involved

44:08

and the media is fully

44:10

involved That the argument would be

44:12

you know when you hear

44:14

players say Kind of a lame

44:16

thing where they say you

44:18

know we handled this behind closed

44:20

doors It's interesting because Ronald

44:22

Acuna's benching was not handled behind

44:25

closed doors So I tend

44:27

to lean Ronald here if we're

44:29

gonna be the Braves and

44:31

you're gonna hold me to that

44:33

standard Why aren't you holding Jared

44:35

Kelnick to that standard? And

44:37

if you really want to let

44:39

your brain wander to different

44:41

conclusions, you can start wondering different

44:43

conclusions. And that's the problem

44:46

with not keeping the standard the

44:48

standard. So interested to see

44:50

what develops there. You

44:53

know, I think some people had qualms

44:55

with Ronald taking it to the internet.

44:57

I don't really. He got

44:59

benched for the same thing. The

45:01

teammate didn't. Know it's not

45:03

the best finger point, but

45:05

also Let's point the finger

45:07

and maybe let's get the

45:09

braves out of the cellar

45:11

in the NL East 8

45:14

and 13 right now All

45:16

right, let's wind it down

45:18

Just with a little bit

45:20

of NBA If you if

45:22

you didn't watch this weekend,

45:24

I think I told you

45:26

Just watch curry and the

45:28

Warriors I realized If

45:30

you watch Dreymon take jump shots that

45:32

might frustrate you, but watch everything else

45:34

he does, he had a

45:37

backdoor. It actually wasn't really backdoor.

45:39

He was on the sideline and Curry

45:41

cut through the middle and the

45:43

pass that he made, I

45:45

literally said out loud, no,

45:48

you don't make that pass. Dillon

45:51

Brooks defending Curry didn't matter. It

45:53

was Dreymon and Curry and it's just

45:55

unstoppable. Some

45:57

of the shots Curry made. It's

45:59

just artistry. The

46:01

famous call from this

46:03

game is Defying Geometry, which

46:06

was a really

46:08

good one. I

46:11

don't know. I know they have depth.

46:13

We talked about the NBA Playoff preview a

46:15

little bit. Golden State, they're

46:17

not that Golden State. Although, if you look

46:20

at some of the buckets, Jimmy Butler got

46:22

down the stretch to close this game. Playoff,

46:25

Jimmy, kind of a thing. Playoff

46:28

Jimmy is kind of a

46:31

thing brought some bad heat teams

46:33

Shouldn't say bad brought some

46:35

heat teams deeper than anyone expected

46:37

them to go because of

46:39

his playoff performances eight seed got

46:41

to the finals The Warriors

46:43

are so thin I mean some

46:46

of the bodies that they

46:48

are rotating in are tough The

46:50

Rockets, who were the two seed, they

46:52

get punched in the mouth. This was

46:54

a rock fight, 13 points by the

46:57

Rockets in the second quarter. Yeah,

47:02

at any time the Warriors need to

47:04

get out of jail free. A,

47:06

it's Curry. B, it's

47:09

Butler. Or three, and Draymond deserves

47:11

more love for this. Some of the

47:13

things he can create is just different.

47:16

It's curious basketball.

47:20

And it's unique to them. And when

47:22

they smell that blood in the

47:24

water, there is a couple of their

47:26

final, final possessions that you're just

47:28

like, damn, that is still feels close

47:30

to peak basketball. Well, not having

47:32

a couple other bodies to complete that

47:34

lineup. Warriors are kind of

47:36

must watch for me going against

47:38

this young Rockets team. Cavs

47:42

roll on the heat, not really

47:44

interested. Celtics roll on the magic,

47:46

not really interested. Thunder

47:48

to eviscerate the Grizzlies Interested

47:50

only from the fact that

47:52

you don't see a lot

47:54

of professional shellackings like that

47:56

And that's what the thunder

47:58

do especially at home. That

48:00

is a rabid fan base

48:02

Real waking Jake listeners know

48:04

I have my group of

48:06

Oklahoma friends A lot of

48:09

thunder people in there. They

48:11

are rabid for that team

48:13

Allah. I'll compare it to UConn

48:15

basketball. UConn is what

48:17

Connecticut has. The Thunder is

48:19

what Oklahoma has. And

48:22

their college teams have some nice

48:24

years. But professionally, this is what

48:26

Oklahoma has. This Thunder team is

48:28

really good. And I think this

48:30

Thunder team also heard, you know, okay,

48:33

last playoffs, you

48:35

know, they get their lumps. Like,

48:37

I was trying to think what if I was

48:39

the Thunder's head coach, what would I say going into

48:41

this matchup that they're probably going to sweep? I

48:44

would say, hey, If this is going

48:46

to be our run in our year, like

48:49

let's start off with

48:51

the bang and they

48:53

destroyed the Memphis Grizzlies. I

48:56

mean fun to watch from like

48:58

an oh my god perspective. Speaking

49:01

of nicks, PBD's

49:03

nicks, they get

49:05

the win. Little scary headed into the

49:07

fourth, down 10 or so. This

49:09

is a Pistons team that there's some numbers

49:11

the past couple months that they've been a

49:13

really good team. They are young

49:15

and punchy, which can be very scary

49:17

sometimes. Kind of like a

49:20

baby snake with their venom. They don't

49:22

know how to control it, that sometimes

49:24

that makes them worse. Bronson

49:26

kicks into gear. Was an 11 -0

49:28

run that kind of flipped the game?

49:30

Was it more than 21? 21. That's

49:32

what I switched, switched an integer there. That's

49:35

impactful in a fourth quarter. How are you

49:37

feeling about the Knicks, Biebs? I

49:39

was feeling bad, and then I felt

49:41

really good. Yeah. Which I think. Matches

49:44

every Knicks fan watching that game

49:46

Look came out did they did

49:48

their old thing Knicks were hitting

49:50

crazy emotes crazy Yeah, I've never

49:52

seen him really hit emotes Period

49:54

outside of Macal has his thing

49:56

and like Brunson does some stuff

49:58

and it kind of wasn't those

50:00

two doing it and it freaked

50:02

me out Yeah, um Kat Kat

50:04

just doing everything his passes were

50:06

all like really cool. Yeah, so

50:08

I felt good about the Knicks

50:10

after game one getting out

50:12

of that with a 10 point win,

50:14

10 plus point win. You're

50:17

like, oh, it

50:19

is the Pistons. This

50:21

Pistons seems first time in the playoffs. How

50:23

quickly that Excel happened is

50:25

pretty cool. We'll see if it

50:28

carries over into tonight. Tonight,

50:30

fun slate. Nick's Pistons and then

50:32

Clippers Nuggets. That

50:34

was probably the best game over

50:36

the weekend. Clippers Nuggets

50:38

goes to overtime. Russell

50:40

Westbrook. People were curious

50:42

if he was gonna be hot

50:45

highlighted in a positive way

50:47

or a negative way coming out

50:49

of this series after game

50:51

one positive a bunch of clutch

50:53

shots and plays by Russ

50:55

You know, they're gonna leave him

50:57

open and the jumper The

50:59

jumper can be ugly. Sometimes it

51:01

drops also some aggressive plays

51:04

around the basket the nuggets get

51:06

game one both of those

51:08

teams That

51:10

part of the bracket in the

51:12

West is really gnarly because the

51:14

Clippers the way Kawhi has been

51:16

playing along with Harden on Big

51:18

Zubach That I'm excited for NBA

51:20

tonight. I didn't fully realize that

51:22

both those those series were going

51:24

on and then I don't want

51:26

to say the surprise but Timberwolves

51:29

Lakers another one of the great

51:31

Western Conference series that we talked

51:33

about Um, you know, Luke and

51:35

LeBron, it's going to be tough

51:37

to bet against that and they've

51:39

been playing so cohesive. Yeah, they

51:41

don't have the big man, but

51:43

we'll see. Whoa. Minnesota

51:46

took it to him. Um,

51:49

Anthony Edwards, uh, as

51:52

fun and doggish

51:54

of an athlete, as

51:56

you'll find, um, Tim

51:59

Rove's also got 23 from Nasred

52:01

and 25 from Jaden McDaniels, which,

52:03

um, if they get that, That's

52:05

gonna make them really hard to

52:07

beat. Julius Randall with

52:10

a nice solid playoff game.

52:12

One of the T -Wolves questions,

52:14

always a question. And

52:16

then funny, the old men, Conley and Gobert, did

52:19

their part. No

52:21

stats that jump off the

52:23

page, but it is funny

52:25

come NBA playoff time when you

52:27

see there's guys that can hang

52:29

on an NBA court for 20

52:31

plus minutes and there's guys that

52:33

cannot. Some of

52:35

the guys, the Warriors are subbing in. They're

52:37

hoping for two. This

52:41

was that Timberwolves team

52:44

that tormented in last

52:46

year's postseason and everyone

52:48

started buying stock before

52:50

Dallas got to them.

52:53

When they play like this, they can be

52:55

scary. Ants out here shooting spider webs

52:57

at people. It's unbelievable

52:59

some of the stuff that happens on

53:02

an NBA court. And

53:05

if you're the Lakers like

53:07

Luca had a Luca game LeBron

53:09

missed a couple threes You

53:11

wash it and you say it's

53:13

one NBA game and you

53:15

and you flip the script But

53:17

if the T -wolves play like

53:19

that what I heard Simmons

53:21

say briefly was the Lakers don't

53:23

have like another counter move

53:25

like hey the Timberwolves shot 50

53:27

% from three 42 threes 50

53:29

% you're not gonna win a

53:31

lot of those games But

53:34

if they make their shots,

53:36

they will win games, which

53:38

that's a nice place to

53:41

be Nice place to be

53:43

All right guys Hey guys

53:45

Let's watch a little NBA

53:47

tonight Pistons nicks and a

53:49

clippers Nuggets absolutely I'm jazzed

53:51

up for that might ruin

53:53

the sleep schedule a little

53:55

bit, but sleep when we're

53:58

dead Thank

54:00

you guys. We'll be back Wednesday.

54:02

Maybe foolish. I gotta send him

54:04

a text and we'll see you

54:06

soon