Warning Track Power Hour
Warning Track Power Hour: Weekend Championships, 2024 MLB ASG/Draft - s04e22
welcome to the warning track power hour I am dr. Andrew Sked is dr. Michael Wurman Esquire on today's show we'll talk a little about the MLB draft and the royals Kinsey royals picks we'll also talk about I guess maybe we'll brush up against talking about the Olympics a little bit even today maybe starting soon but we'll start today's show with the championship weekend that just happened last couple of days. We had Euro 2024 Kova America Wimbledon lands and women's champions crowd. What if anything like did you find most interesting from the weekends of champions. I think maybe it was it would have to be Wimbledon, not so much the women I guess it was interesting that we have a kind of underdog. So let's give a who beat Paulini in the final from Czech Republic being the Italian, who apparently was the first as we talked about before we got out of the air, the first Italian woman to be in Wimbledon final, which I was surprised that it was really shocking tennis fans might remember that Gabrielle 17 he was also Wimbledon final but she despite her Italian name was Argent was from Argentina. And that's not because that's not because she's not represent. Italy he was just Italian Argentinian by heritage. Yes. My name sounding much of Argentina. I think Italian ancestry is the most common ancestry for. It riles even Spanish like in terms of history and Argentina it's, it's one of the like yeah, I little messy you know he's you know they're all a lot of Italians. I don't know if Argentina has its own like pizza scene in the way that the United States does you know. But I would assume so. I never heard of it. Yeah, I've, I've had pizza in South America before I had some in Peru when I, but I haven't, I haven't been Argentina but the, I'm, I'm told that the culture and language is very, there's a lot of Italian influence, but it makes sense, but Paulini. Did not win a critique of a one, but I think on the men's side was actually the more interesting side because that was Carlos Ocarras, when his fourth major championship he's only 21 years old, and his second Wimbledon in a row, and he beat no that joke of it she was trying to go I think we're twenty five or something like that. Thanks for your five. Yeah. Five. So I'm glad the joke of which didn't win. I'm not a big joke of which of the big three I'm a Federer guy. I think you're a Federer guy as well. I think we have them in the same order. I know the lukewarm on the doll but I like compared to another joke of which I like the doll more so. Federer one adult to go to which three, even though I think a number of major titles against the opposite but. Ocarras looks like no, he was the youngest person to ever be number one in the rankings and he's also got four major titles so it's like there's a changing of the guard in men's tennis and somebody, you know, who's not one of the big three is, you know, really coming into the, into the forefront. And I think he took five sets to teach, which last year, but so this year you didn't straight sets which makes it look like he's, you know, they're going in opposite directions. Right. Yeah. Yeah, they still are both going to be in the Olympics in the tennis. They're both favorite. They're one and two for the Olympics as one at all actually also be in the Olympics representing Spain. But I think, in terms of odds, I think the author is the number one joke, I think, of course, it's like plus 175, Jeff is like plus 230 and then like no dolls like plus 900 or something. If we want to bet men's tennis at some point in the Olympics, we will, we will bet several things in the left is just to make it interesting, even I think we're not supposed to, you know, I think it violates the spirit of the amateurism that the Olympics were founded upon by Baron, to Cooper 10 back in the 1890s, but oh my, by having like professionals play in the Olympics, not by us talking about betting on athletes in the Olympics. They started it. We were just, we're just concerned since the dream team has been playing in. Yeah. And so, you know, we'll talk about the dream teams, men's and women's, the women are overwhelming favorites to win gold medal. And even despite not having WMB's, Clark on the team. Did you see the Indiana fever is doing pretty well now that you actually beat, I think, Minnesota, where the Olympic coach is on Minnesota. Yes. And the big story was last week, they're during the week, I guess, yesterday. It's kind of stupid. I think, even if you don't think she's one of the best players like, it brings a lot more publicity and I think pizzazz to the Olympic team to have her on like the original dream team, you know, they were like, there was like, at least one college player on the team And he was going to ask you if you remember who that was. And I didn't get to ask you, you're already a Christian. So, yes, that's right. It should have been Shaq, who was also in college, but he would have been awesome on the Olympic team but Christian lightning and the other nod. Shaq was on the, on the night, 16, I believe, I think somebody recently, who was on the night, 16, maybe it was Kevin Garnett or somebody. If he was on the, I don't know if she was on the night, 16 or not, but I think somebody said the night, 16 would have beaten the 92 dream team and then just interesting to see. I think the 96 team was a younger squad and the 92 team was mostly older. It was, you know, it was over the hill basically Magic Johnson and, like bird and, you know, they're all fairly, fairly long in the tooth other than. Not that Christian late there. Yes. But they still won big every every every game. But, in comparison now, you know, the rest of the rest of the world has really shot up. Yes, yeah quality and a lot more international players in the NBA than there were in 92 and some of the best players are international players. So, and then the last several MVPs that they could have been international guys. Yeah, LeBron, when he, or Steph Curry, you know, they've been, you know, young us are, you know, good sure. You know, people like that. So, it's been. But in terms of other international sports is we did have the finals for Euro 2024 in the club America and are betting turned out to be on the nose for one of the pre each of us we each won one of the tournaments. My pick for European championships was Spain going in. I think there are plus 390. So that was a, they had to make it through a tough bracket with France and Germany in their half of the bracket and then they beat England two to one in the final England beat your Netherlands squad. Also a very close game in the semi finals. So, but Spain won I think Spain was the, it seemed like they were the best team in the tournament they didn't lose it single game or tie a single game, they won outright all their games so they might have an incredibly young player so looks like they're maybe around at this level for quite some time. And they might, and then they're probably also favorite of the Olympics, perhaps because they have such youth on their squad. But by the time the Olympics were on he might be 17, they still be on the under 23 Olympic squad for men, the women's Olympic soccer team is an open championship it's usually regarded as on par with the World Cup in terms of prestige and the women's game and men's tournament the the Olympics are pretty far down on the totem pole and later, this is only an under 23 tournament with a few older above age players that can play but go into the club America, maybe the biggest story wasn't Argentina one which was your pick, but it was the violence and the chaos that surrounded the last couple of matches, both of them involving Colombia's team. What do you think Colombia's fans. Yeah, yeah, but the fans of Colombia. Do you think that boats, poorly for World Cup 2026 when we see the sort of fan violence in the stands and then swarming security and overwhelming the gates and things like that, non ticketed customers, you know, non ticketed fans getting into the to the venue. Is this something that the US will have to worry about in 2026. I think it's cool that they need to be more prepared and I think for for for these games so yeah it's like security needs to be stepped up pretty dramatic for these types of games. Yeah, I don't know that I don't know that American fans are, you know, quite the same rabbit miss for American sports as maybe the world soccer fans are for soccer. I think there's also a, it was because Colombia was playing other South American nations I think maybe there was a more of a rivalry and more animosity than they might be in the World Cup if Colombia plays, you know, Nigeria or something like that, you know, they are not natural rival team. Maybe they just love, maybe they just love hooligan, maybe the new England, not New England, but the new, yes, right, when British squad 90s when when the English were known for their hooliganism, and that seems to have died down quite a bit. But it's the Colombians that are the new bad boys of the, I guess this had happened in in England, not too long ago I guess something similar like this like the rushing the gates and it's like this like in just a few years ago so it seems like maybe we should have been prepared for their lucky requirements, seriously heard or killed in those kind of stampedes. Those sort of those are some things that can lead the historically have led to, you know, deaths at soccer matches. You know, gates being shut and then and the crush of fans moving forward, but yeah so I think it's something that we just has to watch it was, I guess this this term was organized primarily by Colombia ball the South American Federation, rather than by the United States, soccer Federation or by conca calf, which is I think going to organize the World Cup or FIFA itself. So maybe, you know, with the lookout for maybe it'll be a little less. I guess, ticket prices were also seem to be as too seem to be too high for this tournament there are a lot of games that were played not in front of sell crowds. So, like it seemed like the pricing and the promotion was not very good. This is even though, you know, it was a big tournament, but this is kind of the United States normally isn't in so it probably wasn't promoted terribly well among fans of the United States anyway but. But yeah, back to back to our formatting story Argentina though who was the heavy favorite going into the into the knockout stages. One I think there are plus was a plus 110 so you won $10. Yes, overall between the two between the two that's the one $110 on Argentina. Yes. So we each made money. You made more so you won this round. I did. But the warning track power did successfully pick both champions. We did. Out of out of 16 teams. Yeah, we had, you know, in those knockouts stages we did pretty well. Actually, there were. Yeah, 16. Yeah, we're. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, 68. Eight names. I think we made the bed after eight. There was actually I think there's 16 teams that advanced in Europe and the Euros. Or 12 more than eight, I think, because you're I think it was. We think about the end of the knock at the end of the end group faces. I think we picked them before the quarterfinals. So, yes. Yeah. But, yeah. So we were we were we were spot on. I mean, hopefully our American football picks will be as good coming into this year. As, as our European international football picks have been also have international bed on the soccer in the Olympics, the both the men's and the women's the US men, I believe are six in the rankings in terms of odds and the plus 2,400 or something like that. To win. And the US women, I think there are slightly slight favorites above Spain at plus 175 to win. So we'll talk about both of those teams. Next week, we're going to talk about our Olympic betting specials. We'll also begin maybe talking more and more about American football next week, because training camp has begun, at least for rookies and new players. For the Chiefs are making their way to Missouri Western State University. Now, in St Joseph. There wasn't a whole lot of chiefs news. Otherwise, do you have any. Do you think the any rookies that the Chiefs have are going to make a big impact this year. I think the kind of most interesting thing I want to see leads to new ways, how they use the Welsh football or the rugby player that recently examined. Yeah, I just I just want to see how they decide they're going to use them. That's really what what I think is most interesting from from this off season, at least anyways. I mean, beyond that, you know, it's going to be great to see like what David Worthy has, how fast he really is and then how they mesh with Hollywood Brown and, you know, that kind of thing, you know, loves a whole bunch of new targets. So hopefully we can see how that started to fit together. I think that's really on and I guess I don't know that's that's probably what I'm looking forward to have about you, Mike. We're looking forward to you. I look, I guess I want to see if the Chiefs are going to be able to repeat. That would be unprecedented the Super Bowl era. I think there's still a few question marks around certain parts of the roster wide receivers we talked about. You know, I'm just, I'm interested in still seeing if, you know, some of the. Some of the chefs that she's have, like a Darius Tony, or sky more if they can kind of turn into something that the Chiefs maybe thought they would be. Or if they're just, you know, guys who are never going to pan out. So I'm interested in that I'm interested in the left tackle situation. Is it going to be. The new guy Kingsley so, so a Matta, as this new starter, or is it going to be one anymore, or are they going to have. Maybe Lucas Nyang, who's kind of a dark horse or one of these other guys, or maybe they're going to bring back Donovan Smith. He's still out there. It's still available. Apparently. So that'll be, you know, that'll be interesting. I think it's always good to have options, though. That's usually it's somewhat rare if you're, you know, close to this gallery cap anyway. You still have options. They have a little bit of room this year. And they have a little room, but I don't know if they, I mean, they have so many options like in house that they don't necessarily need to go outside for a lot of these things at least anyway. Yeah, I don't know what they might spend that extra money on. And maybe there's no way to see if they take on any injuries and then if they have to fill in anything like as the preseason goes on. Maybe a wide receiver free agent or trade that Brandon Ayuk recently asked for a trade from the 49ers. Do you think the Chiefs have any chance trading for Brandon Ayuk who would be installing one of the. You know, probably the chief's number one receiver if he came over. And, you know, I think that would give a top of the line target to my homes. Do you think there's any chance that the four owners would trade their best wide receiver to the team that beat them in the Super Bowl two out of the last five seasons. Well, I think technically it's a non zero chance. It's going to be awfully close to zero because I can't imagine that there was this game really wants to trade with the Chiefs. But also we wouldn't have thought that the, you know, the bills would want to trade even swap picks with the Chiefs, but they have. Again, twice they did it with McDuffey last year and they did also course with my homes. And then savior worthy is a mean worthy. Yeah, this season with a trade of draft takes with the Buffalo Bill. So. I mean, I guess you never know. I mean, trade partners. You know, they have a need that wasn't with McDuffey. Not one of those McDuffey. The Chiefs ended up beating. They jumped ahead of the bills. I mean, they jumped ahead of the bills. But the worthy was a trade with the bills. Yeah. And then the bills ended up drafting a wide receiver after they traded down again in the second round. Yeah, they seem seemingly strange anyway. Yeah, Tyler. Yeah, Coleman or somebody, I think they got the guy from Florida State. Something like that. But I think. And of course they were without Stefan Diggs this year, they traded Stefan Diggs to the Houston Texans. So that's going to be interesting to see what the bills are going to do. You know, the bills are going to do without their top receiving threat from last year. I would do you think maybe go back to the 49ers? Do you think the 49ers are going to trade? Are you or are they just going to let them kind of fester and be. And just sort of stew and remain with the team. You know, there's no, you know, the 49ers don't have to trade and they can keep them, even if they don't want to sign them for a long term deal. Right. So what the Bengals are doing, it seems like with T Higgins. With T Higgins. Yeah. I think they're, yeah, they're in almost the exact same situation. So. Yeah, I mean, the team has control. So like the, the only threat really is if either of the receivers essentially want to sit out rather than play, but that usually doesn't look very good. Moving forward either because whoever wants to sign up knows that he's willing to sit out if he's not happy. And so it usually lessens their value. I think to the team, whatever team it is that you're doing them. So chances are they may just be disgruntled that have to play out the year. And then, you know, play as well as they can so that they can maximize their next contract with whoever it may be, even if it might be with the same. To you, but I can't really see either of them. Being traded unless, you know, somebody offers an enormous haul in return. In another or past the via the draft, I don't. I mean, you're going to have to get like actual players as return or future future players. Yeah, so like you're talking about a whole year out waiting for, for your return on, on, you know, the trade. So I can't imagine that they should want to move either of them unless they had an absolute need for something that they could fill with, you know, whatever the trade for. Yeah, I don't see it quite. I think, I think it's a little more likely than not that I was still going to be on the 49ers. But yeah, it seems like, as you said, really the best way to ensure that you're going to get a big contract in the future is if you perform really well in your contract year, rather than seeing it. I mean, in the NFL, especially when players sit out or, or they don't tend to do as well in their next contract because this happened, I think, with Levy on Bell, as you remember, when he sat out for the Steelers and then went on to the Jets, he didn't have a, you know, great career there. I think even just sitting out for a little while is, is something that also maybe rust, it leads to, to rust and you're not usually as good coming back as you are. Before even is it something like we've seen also with, you know, to Sean Watson, who was, you know, suspended for a long time. And when he has come back, he has not been the same player. You should be in his like athletic prime to basically like, probably right now, why still because he's not getting his invigorating massages that he used to always get. Maybe that was the secret success was, you know, harassing people. Yeah. Hopefully that was a nice. Maybe the Browns and all these other teams, the quarterback situations for all the teams and coming weeks as well. But yeah, there hasn't been a whole lot of NFL news. But, you know, there've been, you know, a couple of recent, I guess, deaths, I hope Jones died from the Ravens from just, you know, 10 years ago, only 40 years old and exactly what happened with that as a sort of sad story. And there's a lot to Kevin Lane, Kevin's dad, the designer of the fame to Tampa to defense. He was 84 that would die. So that was, you know, those have been the big news stories lately it's, it's been. I haven't been a lot of on the field stories, at least not new on the field stories we have kind of continuous as of, you know, what, what are the. They're just going to do with Dak Prescott did they want to pay him, zillions of dollars to be the 10th best quarterback or 12th best quarterback in the league, continue or do they want the same thing. This is what's going on with the dolphins, you know, they want to pay $50 million plus a year to to to who. I think, I think has more of an injury, checkered, checkered injury history than Prescott does, he's been pretty healthy. He's been out a couple times but he doesn't seem to be his injury prone as, as to, but they both made. Most, to all of the starts last season, last season. Yeah, right. Yeah. So maybe that's a, maybe that's a good sign for both of them. But the dolphins also haven't been potentially disgruntled Tyree kill who wants more money. He's getting a lot of money I think next year in his balloon payment contract but he probably wants more security. I think he's supposed to make 30 is supposed to make $40 million or something next year. In his balloon payment season. So there's a lot of contract kind of issues. Weighing over the league right now, but there haven't been a lot of really interesting news stories but we can, we'll begin our NFL previews of the next couple of weeks and talk about that. But right now it's been, I guess, baseball season. And right now the All-Star game is going on. The American League was leading. Last time I checked, they are still up five. Same score. Yeah. Five three. Five three in the eighth inning. And then the Royals pitchers. Cole Reagan to the set. We go pitched scoreless innings. Although we go had a little bit of trouble. It looks like he loved to get some. But he's gone to the jam. Yes. But I guess the biggest story was about what juniors near victory in the home run derby. He lost to. Yeah, I mean, I mean, I mean, he's not. I mean, he's not really a home run hitter. He's an all around kind of player, but he needs to hit home runs. He's pretty good. I guess. Right. He does have really hard hit balls. So he was one of the, yeah, I think hardest hitters in the league. But not necessarily the biggest home run hitter, but he has hit some of the longest home runs in the league this season, which is kind of impressive. Actually, you don't really. Think of him as being that kind of hitter, but he does, when he does connect, he gets a very, very popular. So that still leads to longer home runs. But yeah, it didn't look great. I think right. He was the second player to go and he didn't have the most home runs after that point, but he managed to hold on and make it into the next round. Which was great. And then he had a really good second round. So put him in the finals and had to down to the last swing, or he could have tied it. But fell short at the wall, which was pretty exciting. No, I think it was a, you know, the tension really ramped up there at the end. Did you, did you wash that? If I wanted to. I heard the Chris Berman no longer involved with the. Yes. So the number of backpack backs was a cut down to very, very few. Yes. Yes. Do you miss, do you miss the Berman? Chris Berman, you know, his home run call is a little over in that, in that setting. When it's in a game setting, it's fine, but like in the, all in the home run, Jeremy, it's like, everything's basically that. I mean, there's nobody who's moving back. It's only like little kids in the outfield, right? It's right, but they could be moving back, back, back, I guess. But most of them are standing pretty far back, I think, normally. Yes, no one's up close. Yeah, it's. But maybe speaking of home run hitters and the Royals, the Royals draft. From, at least from my perspective, seems to have gone almost as well as it could have, at least in the first round, since Florida prospect, Jack, technically own as he is, as we know his name is pronounced now, not Cal yet known as it looks, or would be a perfect Italian like Dr. scaff and I have, but he's Jack, as he said, so there's that second, that the first end is not pronounced in his, in his name, and the G is pronounced the hard G sound. He's like, technically own first baseman and left handed pitchers, he was when I'm Manfred announced him, he was announced as a two way player for the world so it seems like maybe the roles are going to at least allow him to pitch, but he has, you know, he's left handed and the power hitter has what I've heard as Aaron judge type power from the left side. So this is, you know, you can imagine him hitting behind Bobby with junior in a couple of years. Yeah, I think you and I were texting like leading up to the pick. And, you know, I think we were both surprised and he was still on the board because he was, I think, listed as the number three prospects. And I think where we had seen other people having him to and I think he was still available at six. I was oppressive. And I think, yeah, I think my message to you was, you know, hopefully they pick, they don't think at all and they just take a player and then I, yes, was very surprised by my, I believe my next message was mostly just expletives. Not you as a like a holy, you know, something and positive expletives. Yes, like, I mean, I think we've had this discussion about the And they're drafting for a long time where they, they, you know, could possibly replace their entire team with just a, you know, baseball America or baseball prospectus list and just take whoever is best available, they would probably better off. And they kind of maybe actually did that this time you think they have heard our complaints and maybe have taken under advisement this year. Maybe, I think they've gotten some new personnel in the draft room, pickle piccolo is still leading it, but I think there's some new blood in the room. It seems like a judge from the rest of the draft their second It was David Shields, a high school pitcher, but he seems to be a pretty highly touted prospect, but almost after that the almost entire went college players and almost entirely college pictures. In the rounds three through 20, I think, out of the 20 rounds 13 of them were college pitchers. Yeah. So, we've been another three high school pitchers. I think, too. Right. So, it wasn't like 16 pitchers. If you include Caglio and as a pitcher, or as a pitcher, I think they had 16 at 20 that could be pitchers, five position players, if you include Caglio and as a position player. So, yeah. Having two outfielders a catcher short stop, I think, with the other total. So that's the totality of their draft was just those, like, basically three positions plus lots of pitchers. Lots of college pitchers, especially as they more once said that pitching is the currency of baseball. Do you remember that line? Yeah, there's also not a third baseman tree. Yeah. It's one of those things I think that the pitching prospects pan out less, maybe regularly than the hitting prospects so it's better to throw a bunch of darts at the wall and try to get as many pitchers on goal sort of mentality. Yeah, and then you can pick up, you know, out, this is our own 20 rounds left in the draft, you can always pick up some, you know, college players that might be, you know, right college graduate players that maybe can fill out the rest of the. You know, you know, you don't need as many players is used to because there aren't as many my own teams as there's a, they used to be. But, yeah, it's, it's, I think that the fact that the only play connect fell to the world some of the world's went so heavily on pitching but not high school pitching like they seem to go a lot. The pitchers pan out a little bit better than college, then high school players, although high school pitchers sometimes have the higher upside like when the world's got it's that famously Zach Grinky, and this was the, we've talked about this a thing a little before if you if you read money ball. Michael Lewis actually quoted the local days, making kind of making fun of the royals for picking Zach Grinky as the deficit is a high school pitcher, when the road when the money ball approach was of course picking college players. And, of course, Frankie actually turned out to be by far the best draft pick that year, especially in the first round so the world is actually right at that time but it's a little bit like a, maybe a broken clock is right. Twice a day. That's if it stops though it's running slow if you'd never be right. That's the barrier. Maybe only once a day or something like that. Maybe we'll use the blind a pig will find an acorn once in a while. It's not a squirrel, whichever you prefer. Yeah, the blind pig and a brothel maybe is that, but the pigs wild or sort of things to me like an acorn fed pork is supposed to be very tasty. The humans cannot eat acorns did you know that. That's right. You have to be a bleached or some sort of boil or something before oil. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I think there's some sort of German acorn related dessert that you can eat, but like they, they, the poison and leached out of them somehow. You can treat it first in some way and then it could be fine for you. Yeah. Yeah, so you can make stuff with acorn flower apparently, but it has to be done in a certain way. So, so if you want to treat not stick to the less poisonous, but commercially available varieties is what seems like the smartest way to do it, rather than like urban foraging or something for instance. I'm not. Yeah. Maybe I'm related to this story. What we were just talking about anyway, or acorns. What did you think about the royals trading their competitive balance big, along with their number two prospect for an eighth inning reliever So they got Hunter Harvey from the Nationals, who has been a solid pitcher for the Nationals. He kind of slots in probably as the eighth inning guy right now, maybe a potential closer. But so I think I think getting him was good. But I think opens been having a lot of problems and having a lot of problems. Maybe it just needs one more guy to help anchor it maybe that's. It'd be the right. But the royals did deal up a lot, it seems like, although I think it seems like the. It was a Caden Wallace was that was that who the royals traded. Yeah. It seems like he was kind of falling on prospect was in the world prospects aren't very solid to begin with, other than maybe Blake Mitchell before this draft now jack's Kaggle and I think it's going to be the. You know, number one prospects all right off the bat. Yeah, he's thinking. Yeah, I would guess. So he's, you know, really, really, I think it's possible he might make the majors next year, even maybe, you know, something like that. I wouldn't be surprised so. But, yeah, so I think I think giving up the prospect is not as big a deal as as the ballot competitive balance pick, although maybe. So they give it the 39th pick in the draft the world pick two and 41 instead of 239 and 41. But maybe that forced the royals to focus a little more and not be as cute and play games with slots and values and everything. Yeah, maybe that was a. I think it may have actually saved them and maybe they still ended up selecting. Can't really out it because they gave away that 30 minutes make that really save them inadvertently. I don't think it was their plan. Yeah, I don't know if it was either but hope, you know, if they have an attendancy to sort of like try to, you know, reach down and pull someone that wasn't as high of a prospect. I'll try to save, you know, some money. Yeah. And they have done that many times and with. Little to success. Yeah, they get it getting up getting guys a kind of doger as their first time. And it doesn't quite turn out so wonderfully, but. Or Christian Cologne, somebody they can sign for a bit below slot value and. So it seems like the world is this. I think the trade also signals that the rules are going to go for it and try to make the playoffs and like they're seven games about 500 now, which is what I predicted. Going in the rose without the rose will finish the three to actually, I bring them to win two out of three against the Red Sox and split with a card is they ended up serving us. One and so they didn't do as well as the Red Sox is maybe we would like, but there's seven over 500 they're only maybe a game out of the last wild card spot right now. New two games out of the last wild card spot. I haven't looked at the standings and. Well, I think at the end of the right before we also bring a lot of the top teams were falling and Cleveland have lost several games towards the end Dodgers lost a bunch of games at the end. Yeah, Yankees have been like a near free fall. Unfortunately, yeah. Unfortunately, the Red Sox are surging right now. Because they have the last spot. Right. They pick up the game on the rails two games during that series. And unfortunately the Astros are kind of hot on the Royals trail right now too. So who I think we all thought the Astros were going to be. Next, but the Astros also might end up winning the division and being Seattle and Seattle might fall back behind the Royal. There are only six games above 500. So they're actually will be behind the Royals in the, in the wild card if the the Astros. So if the Royals can at least be head of one of those two West Western division teams they have a good shot at getting the wild card of the Tampa has been doing doing a little better although seems like Tampa's maybe is trying to trade prospects away and maybe play for next year more than they are this year. So I think the trade deadline is about two weeks away. At the end of the month. And I think the Royals management has talked about looking for a player that can play both infield and outfield. Maybe not necessarily needing a trade though with Maryfield was recently released by the Phillies. Do you think the Royals may try to bring. Maryfield back as a as a reunion. I don't think it would hurt. I don't think he'd be any worse than their other their current outfielders or infielders Melinda's I think is now going on the DL on the injured list. So maybe maybe bring in Maryfield and see how he does it for a week or two and if he's not doing so well. Bring in somebody else or even if he is doing well you can still bring in somebody else via trade. I think Maryfield is he's not young but he's played for the Royals a lot he didn't have a great season with the Phillies this year. I think he was under 200 I think even for a betting average for the limited time he'd been playing but they the Phillies just got, you know, a couple of their players back and they've been injured like Harper was out. You get someone else to it and also came back like the same day. Maryfield was hitting 199 this year. He was still 0.4 war positive. So that's pretty good. He's 35 now so that's, he's on the older side he was at 277 on base percentage which is higher than some of the other lower Royals. He's been, you know, maybe he do better with, you know, going back to Kansas City, you know, sometimes just a change of scenery can. I was kind of against bringing him back but now, you know, you know, he's a, he's a, he's still, I think one of the better royals of the of the post World Series years and you know he's, he can still bases. A lot of different positions. He had become the face of the team even but they kind of screwed him around by making him play different positions even though he was probably the better second baseman. Yeah, and they kept moving him over to make room for the health kids who was actively bad most of the time. So, when he played for the Royals, at one point he, he was an all star a couple of times. Yeah, the league and hits twice. He led the league and triples, doubles, soul and bases, games played at bats so he was a, you know, real pretty good player he was, you know, he was. But he's old, I guess, is the problem, you know, he's 35, he's younger than we are but he's old for baseball player. Yeah. He's pretty old when he made it up to the media. Yeah, he was kind of at the end of the being considered a prospect even when they finally called him up in 2016, I think, wasn't it? He was 27 years old when it came up. Yeah, that's pretty old to make your debut in the majors anyway and have, have like, you know, much of an upside because you think that's kind of already sort of maybe it's going to be a replacement player. You can't make it to the league until you're 27 soon. The last play for the Royals in 2022 so he's, he's, you know, he's only been gone for a full little over a year and a half now so I think, yeah. I don't think he would hurt, at least taking the tires on what Marifield, but he's still, I think, I think the world still need someone with the kind of more impact bat. I think they have a lot of utility guys. I think Marifield would be a slightly better utility guy than, you know, Nicole often might be right at this point in his career, but he would probably want to get thrown out. He probably won't get thrown out as many times as Garrett Hampson. Yeah, well, who cost the Royals, maybe one of the victory and against Boston in the last game before the All-Star break so why not why not try to get there so why not. What do you feel? Well, I think trying to get Marifield is much better for the team because I don't trust who they're willing to give up at any point because it seems like they do not do well with judging how much they need to give up to get an asset. It seems like they end up giving way more than they should. So, I would rather them see them just sign a free agent rather than make a trade because I don't think that they know what they're doing. I don't trust management at all. Yeah, this point. And, you know, just the fact that they haven't decided they haven't, you know, toned down the aggressive base running, especially in the late innings. Now, they actually have to keep the ability of hitting home runs like this mobile days are not necessary. Like, you do not need to take that extra base. You can actually get many extra bases by actually just hitting the ball really hard and sometimes getting it out of the park. So, they've been running themselves out of games the last week. And in the upper management is in telling the lower management to knock it off, then the players are certainly not hearing this from anyone. So, I am, yeah, still pretty low on the Royals organizationally knowing what you're doing at all. We're doing fewer to plans as we've discussed, yes, less of that thrown out on the bases like anything. Yes, to plan our favorite acronym. But, yeah, this happens a lot. Bobby Whit has also been one of those guys who gets thrown out a lot. I think he steals a little bit too much or maybe, maybe he needs to steal more and try to get his volume up a bit more. I mean, he's picking the wrong times at least. It was two of the last like eight games or so, Bobby Whit got either cop stealing or thought he was going to get a wild pitch that ended up being stabbed by the catcher and then he got thrown out. Wasn't really, I was sort of a cop stealing, but it's more like a base running error. Yeah, but he was, you know, there have been like four games in the last two weeks where the Royals have gotten a very unfortunate base running error that, you know, ran them out of games rather than staying competitive to the end. Really, really annoying when it happens once, but when it happens like four times in two weeks, it's like too many times. Guys, you got it. You have to like learn something from the previous games, right? That's right. Well, speaking of staying competitive till the end, we stayed competitive until the end of this week's broadcast of the one trick power. Maybe, perhaps. Maybe we got to blend a little bit ago, but perhaps, but I think this has been another solid installment of our fine podcast slash YouTube show. Do we have anything else to add before we sign off this week? Um, I believe the Ulster game is now finally narratively has won. Five to three. Yes, and. There's a little bit of wealth hitters ended up doing anything. The Bay, you know, played well defensively and. Homefield advantage by the Ulster game as a. Now that it's correct. Yes. And I believe about me. What was the first Royal to advance out of the first round of the home run dirt ban? I don't know if you mentioned that earlier. So that was, you know, an interesting little little in the home run derby in the last many years. I think so. So did. Yeah. He had one of those really unfortunate way that they had the bracket set. He had the second, he had the second most number of home runs, but he ended up being, you know, paired with the guy that had the most and got knocked out of the first round, even though he had like the second highest total. So that was, that format has been scrapped now so that, you know, would have to miss a thing to really mess with the format for the home run derby quite a bit. It seems like a change is every year, you know, exactly. This one worked for like excitement at least. Anyway, it was really, it was really fun to watch. I think maybe this format is a little better because they all have like the same number of pitches that they could face. It wasn't, you know, having your picture throw really fast. You know, in quick succession wasn't an advantage necessarily. So, you know, you could just have a guy that's just like throwing, throwing, throwing, throwing, throwing more chances, right? So, that was, that was sort of scrapped the cheers. Anyway, it was pretty exciting. Very exciting. To the last swing. Just all this is as exciting as a regular episode of the one track power hour, wouldn't you agree? I don't think the home run derby has anything on us. Last swing, Mike. We, we, we provide an action pack hour or less, or sometimes more every week. We, I think this is probably maybe a little less than an hour this week, but we're saving up our energy for football season because those things are often marathon sessions which go even over two hours sometimes they have. So, we'll be prepared for that in coming weeks. So, our viewers and listeners should maybe, you know, amp up their listening game and ramp up their endurance for. To prepare for these upcoming weeks. But next week, we'll talk more about the Olympics. We'll talk more about the NFL and more about Major League Baseball and the Royals. And whatever else ends up coming across our minds are just maybe we'll even have a, a movie of the week to launch. I recently saw the movie Maxine. Do you see that one? Never going to be with three X's. It's apparently it's a slasher movie. Uh, it was, it was interesting. It was kind of decent, but it's not, not at the Mad Max. No, it was the, there's a movie called X and one called Pearl, I think, and then this is the third one. It's, yeah, my, my friend. It's not that my genre. So, yeah, it was, it was in the theater. So it was, it was. Did you take Marie to see that one? I did not know that she's, that's, that's fully appropriate for Marie. I think she's more of the minions despicable before. To get him or not, maybe that actually is her. You know, I'm not sure. You just don't know it yet. She might be seven. So this is already a movie. So she'll be eight. Actually, she'll be eight and three days. So she'll be still five. She'll be seven for a PG 13 movie, but. Yeah, nine years before she can see our movies without a parent or guardian. And I don't think I read an already movie anytime soon. So also it was just already because it was extra boring. Like, like, there wasn't any, you know, it wasn't any like violence or. Or something, but just boring and they didn't try to get it, get a rating that was lower than our. So that would be fine. Yeah. Is that a thing? I think so. I don't know. Yeah, I'm not sure what my dinner with Andrea, whether it was rated. But, you know, something like that. Something that's catered towards adults, but not really. So I think that might have been, they may not even have the PG 13 yet. I think it was probably before PG 13. Yeah. Yeah. So it's probably just printed PG. I would guess. I don't know. PG, it says, it says PG. Yeah. But it was surprised. Yeah. Something like that, which I would, it was like there was no like language in it, but there's something so boring that nobody would be interested in other than. You know, people like me, adults. So something like that. I was not one of those, those people who also, yeah, they're, when I was, you know, the people that take like their kids to go see the j in the Joker movie or something like that because they think the Batman related. So we're gonna take our kids there, which is completely terrible parenting. But, you know, you probably saw some pretty adult ish movie is, you know, when you were fairly young imagine that. Not really my parents pretty strict. Did you see that man at the batman in the theater. I don't remember. No, I don't think so. I wasn't interested in Batman. And I, and that was the summer of 89. So we would, we would have been 10 or not quite 11. Yeah. That was the same years in the adjusted loss crusade. Two, I believe was also that year, but that man was rated 13. So, yeah. I definitely remember seeing it in the theater. We are still 11 or so that's pretty close to 13, 10 almost 11. So like, but like, yeah, you weren't eight. And it wasn't like as proper. Well, like even I think the dark was the art was dark night or was that art was that 30 13. Um, I think it was still. I don't know if that's got our ratings to them. Each of their team was a dark night, but that was, I don't think the superhero movies got an R rating until dead. But like, I was like intended to be an R rating. I can easily see the dark night and like during rises being an R. Like it's, those are dark. Yeah, but it's mostly just in tone. There's not really language or, or, you know, you don't usually see. It's sort of violent. And it's like a pencil thing with the Joker. Yeah, but it's all implied though. It's not, you know, they don't show blood stuff like that. I think this would helps them, you know, avoid those kinds of ratings. Cause I don't know if you remember, like, yeah, kill Bill was going to get a baby even higher and I can see 17 rating blood and they chose the to turn that one sequence into a black and white shot so you couldn't see blood because it wasn't red. So then they like got it back down to like an R ratings with the, by having having that one scene be black and white. Those are so arbitrary. Sometimes those ratings. It's, I think it's just whatever reviewer, you know, gets assigned it can, you know, maybe justify one way or the other, right? Yeah. So, yeah, who knows. Yeah, so I, well, I believe our episodes of or to power our, our, what would you say, PG G. Good to believe in gene that maybe, maybe for board of reasons that gets moved out to a PhD. So we're pretty, we're pretty clean in terms of our language. And occasionally we'll have a burst of profanity but not often. Usually off screen or, well, if you want profanity, maybe you can tune in next week and see what happens to viewers. 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