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7.18.24 Gwynn & Chris Hour 2: Revisiting our preseason MLB picks
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And listeners can get an exclusive 20% off IXL membership when they sign up today at IXL.com/audio. Visit IXL.com/audio to get the most effective learning program out there at the best price. And away we go into hour number two of going in Chris. Happy Thursday to you. Thanks for being with us. Unless of course you're listening live in Australia where we welcome you to a Friday morning. Scrabby wanted me to point that out earlier. 301 is the time Chris Elomats. Scrabby back from two days off. Unscheduled? Yes. Unscheduled. A couple of days off. How did the dog do with you in the sick bed? He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it. He doesn't like it outside. Oh yeah. He doesn't like it when I got my surgery. He was very scared of me. But that was because of the big arm contraption I had on. But when I'm sick he doesn't even want to be near me. Between your shoulder and your health we're lucky you ever show up here at all. You're talking to a guy who had shoulder surgery and took one day off. That's right baby. You've got two days off for your infirmary visit here. Yes I did. I did. But we're good to have Scrabby back. Tony will hopefully be able to check in with us tomorrow before the game in Cleveland. Padres are headed to Ohio. As we speak, Mandy Bell did a great job from the melby.com. You know that whole manual class A debacle. That's a debacle if you're the Padres. I don't remember the situation. Who was the Padres closer? Yeah I don't. Yeah right there. That's right and you're right. Different situations. But you know they they boxed it up with Munoz trading him to the Mariners and getting very little for him. Yeah but class A he was originally a Padre. That's painful. He went to the Texas Rangers in what turned out to be a player to be named later. The Padres got it got Brett Nicholas. Oh that's what I mean. That guy sorry Brett if you're listening. That's right. Rangers traded him off to Cleveland for Corey Kluber. But yeah. Class A I mean Josh Naylor obviously seems like that hurts. Yeah. Because Josh Naylor has been really good for Cleveland as well. I didn't realize that Class A had a 2020 was a year suspension due to PEDs. Which year was that 2020? The the COVID year. Yeah I'm not sure I didn't. I don't remember that. I don't remember that either. But it's looking at me in the face right here. Staring right at you there huh. All right uh by the way if you're wondering about Josh Naylor the trade that sent Josh Naylor to Cleveland was one that everybody wanted to do at the time. I must tell you. See in my clevenger guy. My clevenger came and you know who else ended up coming in that trade later to complete the trade? Matt Waldron. Ah there you go. Yeah so you did get something out of that one. I just got something out of that. But Josh Naylor wasn't all star this year for the Cleveland Guardians. All right we're gonna get into well there's no games tonight of any kind. There's not a WNBA game. Again I'm gonna you know ding the WNBA. They keep missing all these open dates on the calendar. They should be playing games you know making sure that those of us who don't always tune in might tune in tonight because we're looking for a game to watch. There was a game last night. Yes there was but tonight there's nothing on the calendar. Come on schedule a couple of WNBA games so we can watch uh the MLS isn't playing tonight so we can't even get into that. Oh wait are we an MLS show? Did I miss that? We did. Yesterday we made MLS wagers. Let's tell you how it looked out and today's Daily Gambit. Do you like money? I think about money. Do you like money without doing anything? Uh dah winning. Do you want to make money while watching sports? I think Washington is immortal luck. Washington! Woohoo! If you answer yes this is your segment. Just don't blame us when you lose. Nothing is ever your fault. It's your game. Take it. When and Chris go through the top bets of the day in the Daily Gambit on 97.3 the fan. All right Daily Gambit. Oh yeah I've been doing this the last couple of days. That's okay. That's okay. Daily Gambit is our daily sports betting segment on this show. Please gamble responsibly everyone. Back to you Chris. All right uh I changed that by the way. What did you change to? I changed it to don't bet at all. Okay then we should just get rid of the segment. No we're not getting rid of the segment. We can still have fun making our picks and call it the Daily Gambit but I'm just advising people not to not to wager on this stuff at all. Use your money for uh more important things. All right uh yesterday Frank Marquesi and I did some picks. He went two and four. I went five and one. So I'm having a good week. Uh starts with uh Indiana fever at Dallas. Indiana's favored by four and a half. I took Dallas. Dallas won outright. They did. Kaitlyn Clark had a record setting game last night with 19 assists. She also went over her 20 and a half point line for scoring. She had 24 points to go with those 19 assists. That's a monster game under uh under any circumstance. So uh Kaitlyn Clark well done. Uh and real quick question. Yeah. If they've been saying like the newcomers to this league need to prove themselves first. Why are Angel Reese and Kaitlyn Clark both setting records in their first year? Yeah. Maybe they've proved themselves. Yeah. Maybe they've already proven themselves. rookies don't come in and just set records like those two did. 19 assists. No one's ever done it before in a WNBA game. We know what Angel Reese has already done. Very good. Uh I brought this up because I like pronouncing her name. Enrique Ogumbinwali. Third leading score in the league. Over under 22 and a half. She scored 24. Went over. Uh Hawks and Lakers. We had to resort to Summer League game uh on the docket last night. Hawks were favored by four and a half but Bronnie James had his best game. He didn't score 12. I mean look we're overreacting to a guy scoring 12 but we are uh Lakers won outright and then they were the two MLS games. Now the first featured the best team in the league. The team with the best record in the MLS and I did kind of a very you know unofficial poll yesterday to find out just how much all of our soccer fans out there know about what's going on in the MLS. After all we're going to be in the league next year. We are with San Diego FC and I'm thinking you know we're a soccer crazy you know town. Are these at least what people tell me. So I asked everybody yesterday to you know just put it on the chat the answer which team has the best record in the MLS. It took like five or ten minutes for somebody anyone to get the right answer. So I don't know what that says about us if I think that says we're going to get into it here in San Diego but we're not there yet across the league. We're clearly not there yet. The team with the best record the answer to that question was FC Cincinnati. Now that's crazy isn't it. Cincinnati never leads in anything. Well they had the best record. Well I guess they have the bangles and the Reds now so you know they're good. Anyway they were favored over Chicago. It was a three and a half goal over under you know me for a soccer match. I went under and it was way under Chicago won the game 1-0. The other bet was Inter Miami without Messi playing out Toronto. I took Toronto that was my only loss as Inter Miami prevailed three to one. Now as far as today's concern we don't really have any games to pick or to wager on. So Scrabby is going to run through some of these some of these lines for the upcoming NFL season. We're only we're less than two weeks away from the Hall of Fame game opener by the way. That's crazy. That's insane. So let me ask you Scrabby what do you have on some of these preseason awards and Super Bowl odds. Well we have the offensive rookie of the year. I'm going to do you're going to do individual awards first. We can go the other one. I mean either way. Okay we'll do individual awards first because this is the page that I'm on right now. Kayla Williams leads the way plus 135. Jayden Daniels plus 550. Marvin Harris and junior plus 650. J. J. McCarthy plus 1600. Bo Nick plus 1600 Malik neighbors plus 2000. Yeah. Some of the other Williams. If you repeat that 135 the next best is 550. I mean they're basically guaranteeing that Kayla Williams can win offensive rookie of the year. Maybe I'm not a Bears fan but I just don't get why everybody thinks this guy's going to light the NFL on fire because they gave him Keenan Allen. They gave him Rome Adunze who's another guy on this offensive rookie of the year list. But I you know I haven't been impressed with Kayla Williams in the way he's handled everything so far. But he did sign his contract a day after he got on his case for not signing. He did finally sign his contract but he seems like a big distraction. He wanted did you hear that he wanted in his contract the ability. I think it was a note. Oh no. I know what it was. Oh yeah. He didn't want to be able to be tagged with the franchise. Crats. No rookies ever gotten that before. And like Dak Prescott maybe the only one and he thought he should get that. And I'm thinking come on man do something in anger before we start giving you stuff. See I'm not so mad about that because if you ask what are they gonna they can say no I'm actually mad it's whoever put that out there because just makes them look bad. Yeah a lot of stuff is trying to stay in the middle of Kayla Williams. I can't yet. I'm on the the out for Kayla Williams. You're gonna have to win me back over when I watch hard knocks. So now yeah we'll see. All right the MVP Patrick Mahomes leads the way plus 475 although he's gonna be playing a lot of video games during Chiefs camp so he's not going to win the MVP. You're gonna have to take it away from him though. This guy. Now here's he's on another level right now. Now here's one that I am a little confused by. I am too. The second MVP guy in odds that was not the way to say it's CJ Stroud plus 850 over Josh Allen and Joe Burrow who are plus 900. CJ Stroud had a fantastic year last year. Can he do it again? We don't know. I don't know that I would put him second in the odds race. I would be okay with if he was in the top from five to 10. Well here's some of the guys that are below him. You mentioned Josh Allen and Burrow but Lamar Jackson's below him. Aaron Rodgers is in the running at 1600 but he's below him. Brock Purdy, Justin Herbert is below him. But here's the guy that I would bet on right now. Let's hear it. Because it's plus 4000. Oh my goodness. Christian McCaffrey. Are you kidding me? I mean you wouldn't put a few bucks on that. I kind of would but I don't think it shot. I don't think a running back will ever win. Ever? Yeah. How about how about this guy at plus 13,000? Would you put a couple bucks on Justin Jefferson? I could see that even though they have no quarterback. That's the problem. I can see that because he's good enough to go jump up get the ball run 180 yards could catch 130 passes. They could just throw it to him consistently. But yeah that's kind of crazy. Let's go to the coach. Coach of the year. This is ridiculous. I'm just absolutely ridiculous. If I before you say who it is, if I asked you out there to name who you think's going to be the coach of the year in the NFL, I'm pretty sure you could name 20 guys before you'd get to this guy. And you may never get to this guy because how many people really even know his name? I don't think as a coach in the NFL. I didn't know how to say it for like two or three years. Tell us who it is. Matt Eberflus plus 800. Is it ever flu? I think it's ever flu. Oh gosh see I know I still don't know how to say it. Matt Eberflus of the Bears is the favorite for coach of the year. Get this. Are you kidding me? Jim Harbaugh plus 1000. Jim Harbaugh is a better chance at winning than Eberflus. He has he has a track record of he has a track record and plus if he does anything with the Chargers, they're going to build a statue of him out there. Basically, if you had a bad team last year and you're a new coach and you could you have a chance to win because it goes Robert Salah, Matt LaFloor, Raheem Morris, D'Mico Ryan's Shane Stike and Jonathan Gann and Dan Campbell. I'll take Dan Campbell over all of them. Dan Campbell should be a heavy favorite for coach of the year considering the kind of team he's had and he's trying even though they had success last year. He's trying to take the lines to their first ever Super Bowl. If he does that, he's got to be the coach of the year. Agreed. Where's your guy on this list? He's down there. He's way down there. He's plus 3500. Yeah. Our guy Sean Payton plus 3000. The only way Sean pay or not Sean Payton but your guy Kyle Shanahan. The only way he can win coach of the year is if he goes undefeated because the 49ers have such huge expectations. All right, real quick. The favorites to win the Super Bowl, the Chiefs plus 500, the 49ers plus 600, the Ravens plus 1000, lines plus 1200, bangles plus 1300 and the Eagles plus 1500. I guess I should group in the Bills to a plus 1500. And how far down are the dolphins? Oh, we are they left them off the list. They're not even on the list plus 2,200. 2,200. So they're the Super Bowl. They're 12th choice the dolphins are. Again, there's only one team that I think we should bet on and that would be the Chiefs. Would you? Would you just because the Jets are 11th pick. Do you think the Jets going into the season or should be rated ahead of the dolphins just because Aaron Rodgers is back? Well, that was the that was the key piece that was missing last year. So, yes, I guess you have to think of it that way. All right. Someone was asking about Antonio Pierce on the coaches side. I didn't even really notice him on there. He's in the middle of the pack somewhere. Oh, that is plus 2000. The longest shot to win the Super Bowl, I think is kind of interesting. Don't you? Are you looking at the Broncos? The Broncos are the longest shot on the board to win the Super Bowl. At least somebody thinks Sean Payton doesn't know what the hell he's doing over there. Because Sean Payton thinks he knows what he's doing. Well, I mean, but a lot of people don't think he knows what he's doing. It's his way or the highway, Chris. Well, he's the longest shot right now to win the Super Bowl. All right, very good. That's a good daily gamba today. We will take a quick timeout, check you a little traffic. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, we're going to make ourselves look foolish. We're going to revisit our preseason baseball picks to see how those are coming along. 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You have to pay extra. I'm not a fan of, but what I am a fan of is you just turn it on to Jesse and Tony. Yes. That's the great feature. I can listen to the game, but I like to listen and watch. No, no, no, no. On Apple TV, you have the option. Oh, that's right. Yeah. They can let you can choose your announcements. And it syncs up everything. You don't have to do anything. You just choose your audio source. Choose your broadcast. That is a good thing. But not a lot of people like to have to pay extra money to watch a team. They're already paying cable money to watch. Yeah, that's, that's the problem. And, you know, I just think baseball, you know, it just annoys me. And, you know, the money grab of sports is really, it's like the all-star game uniforms. Nobody likes what they're currently doing. I've not heard one person who likes what they're currently doing, but baseball's making more money. And it's like, all right, but does everything have to be about more money? Can't you just let maybe one thing alone? I am with you there, sir. So, you know, that's, and it's not just baseball, it's certainly the NFL, the NBA, the NHL, MLS, you name it. Everything. Everything. Hey, I didn't think the NL uniforms were that bad. Oh, disgusting. I know you were going to hate them because they have black pants, black pants, light blue. What, what did that have to do with the Texas Rangers or the all-star game? Oh, I don't know anything about that. And the American league looked like they were just simply wearing paper bags. I just didn't get the whole paper bag look for the American. I think, I think Rob Manfred's hearing the pressure. I think he's going to go back because you know what you could do, Rob Manfred, sell jerseys with an all-star game patch on it. People will still buy that. They'll still buy it. You're right. You're right about that. And you know, look, the all-star game thinks they're great. I loved Fox's spin on the fact that there was the second lowest rated all-star game ever. That was? Yeah, second rate, second let now. Here's the good news. The lowest rated game was last year. So, they actually went up a little from last year. So, the schemes bump said, I don't know, but said Fox TV and said baseball kind of in joint response to this news. It's the highest rated all-star game in sports. So what? What are you beating out? You're beating up the flag football game at the NFL plays. I mean, just because you have the highest rated all-star game doesn't mean anyone's watching it. I don't even know when the NHL all-star game is in the NBA all-star game. Don't watch. Not the same. So, I got to say this though, because I wasn't here. The pulse gains Aaron judge matchup happened. Aaron judge is an entertainer in the all-star game. He is there to entertain. Do not give us one swing when everybody has been looking forward to this matchup for weeks. What are you going to swing at the first pitch in an all-star game? What if he hit it out of the ballpark? Well, that would have been great, but he did. Well, that's probably what he was trying to do. He didn't. He didn't even come close. I think he grounded out the third base or something. He didn't, but I'm just my guess. I mean, be an entertainer, Aaron judge. Please give me something. My guess is he was trying to hit it out of the ballpark. Thought he's had something good to hit. I hate when people say, not when people say that. I hate that mindset, even though it's probably the correct mindset is that he probably got the pitch they want. Nobody. Look, every look how many times we get mad at Fernando around here. Stop swinging at the first pitch until he hits the first pitch into the seats. Then it seems to be okay. Yeah, you're right. That's the way that works. There is one big NBA story today. If you are a fan of that, Russell Westbrook will be on like his 19th team in the last 19 years. I think by the time it's over, Russell Westbrook will play for every team in the NBA. He might as well go for that. He might as well. The next one he's going to play for is the Denver Nuggets. League sources say that the Clippers have traded Westbrook to the jazz. And I don't understand how all this works and I really don't care. But they're going to sign him and then it's a sign in trade is what it is. So they're going to sign him and then the release him and then the Nuggets are going to pick him up and whatever. So blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's exactly what I said. A Russell Westbrook trade is not breaking news anymore. I didn't break the nose. I know that. I know that. I know that. I know that. When I saw that today, I was like, this should be on the eighth page of the sports page. Giving you that as a bit of information on a slow news day. Chris Dunn is the player that the Clippers get in return for all of this. Couldn't tell you a thing about him except that he ranked sixth last year in deflections. Somebody's keeping that stat now. That's a tough stat. Deflection. So if somebody makes a pass, he's getting a hand on it the sixth most in the NBA. Clippers got him. So good for them. Great defender. I don't know us to tell you about all that stuff. We are coming up on the return to our preseason picks and we do this every year basically to make fun of ourselves. But I think also it's always interesting because in the beginning of the year, everybody is so sure a bunch of different things are going to happen. And it's really funny that by mid season, how many of those things really aren't happening? All you need to do to know that and understand that is see where the Padres are. Yes. Pro-far thumbs up. Suarez up. Waldron up. Higashiyoka up. Mani. Tatis and Bogart's and Darvish Musgrove. Right? Yeah. About everybody you could name is probably gone the other direction that you expected them to. Probably. We'll see what happens. Go ahead. No, the Padres speaking of you Darvish to actually replaced his spot on the 40-man roster. And someone on the chat asked me earlier, do you know what's going on with you Darvish? The last I heard is that he's over he's with his family overseas. Yeah. It's a family thing. So I'm not going to say anything. Yeah, we don't we we we're not going to guess. But Tearso or Nellis he has been promoted to the 40-man roster. He is 24. He was an international signing out of Mexico and many people think he's going to be called up tomorrow. Really? Yeah. What's his name? Tearso or Nellis? Tearso. How do you spell that? T-I-R-S-O or Nellis or Nellis. What does he play? Shortstop? I hope not. The last time I'm hoping to give this right. I'm just out fielder. I was confident, but you guys have made me so. You never know. You might as well look it up while you're there. I knew that. All right. Coming up, our recap of the first half of the baseball season, a look back to our preseason picks on Gwen and Chris. If you're not sure, as a reminder, we love Spiro's Mediterranean food around here. Trisperos, Coronado, La Jolla, the ballpark, authentic Mediterranean cuisine for dining or takeout options, visit Spiro's cuisine.com. Chris, hello? Mr. Scrabe back in business today. And Tony Gwen Jr. on his way to Cleveland, Ohio. Cleveland, rocks. For some reason yesterday, we played the Trevor Hoffman interview yesterday, which was a lot of fun from Cooperstown. Yeah. And I kept introducing the interview and saying that we visited with him in Cooperstown, Ohio. And I said that like three times before it's youngstown. I don't know what I was thinking of. Pretty sure it was in New York. I was there. I should remember. But for some reason, I just kept messing that up. We got that was a fun trip. Oh, that's the best. It was Chris and I in a car together from New York to Cooperstown. We got to get somebody into the Hall of Fame again. Yeah, soon. Yeah. All right, traffic. No, it is. Yes, it's ready now. All right, let's go with that. All right. All right, very good. Some music to get us fired up for this segment. Now we're going to go back and we're going to kind of run through this quick. We're not going to lag on this too much, but we said now. I know we'll never make it. But preseason baseball picks, you and I and Tony all made them. Thank you, Cher. I believe we will turn back time to the beginning of the season and our picks. Well, take us through. It's great. All right. Well, let's just start out with our AL and NLS picks that we made and the we'll start the AL West division winner. Tony says Rangers, Chris said Mariners. I said Astros. We're all kind of still there. We're all there. Mariners are in front right now. Last place. A's. We're correct about that. Pretty clear across the board. MVP. I think we're all wrong so far. Corey Seager, Tony said Chris and I said Julio Rodriguez. Oh, boy. Yeah. Tough here for Julio so far. Say Young, Tony said, Franber Valdez, Chris said George Kirby. I said Luis Castillo. I picked the wrong mariner. So did you. We should have gone with Logan Gilbert. He does have a chance to win the saw you. He does. The newcomer Jorge Polanco, Tony said, Chris said Wyatt Langford. I said Josh Hader, which is also a little boy. I'll read him. Wyatt Langford has finally picked it up a little bit to where they're thinking he could go on to win AL rookie of the year, but he really hasn't had a big impact yet. Now, is Paul Skins up for Rookie of the Year next year? No, this year, this year, he's already pitched enough games. That's why that's why we that's why we don't like him around here. Because he's going to take it away from Jackson now. The National League West, Tony Chris and I went with the Dodgers as division winner. We'll move right on. Last place, Rockies. We got that right. Looks like we're good on those two. MVP Tony said Fernando. Not going to happen. I said Fernando too. Probably not going to happen. Not actually not going to happen. Chris, you said Corbin Carroll. That will not happen either. Oh my goodness. Did I jinx that guy? So, Tony, what were we thinking here? I don't know. None of us said him. I was in a hater mode, maybe. I guess we were. Yeah. Sayoung, Tony said Logan Webb, which could happen in a second half. He's seven and seven right now. Tyler Glass now. He's probably the guy right now. I don't know who said him. You did. Okay. His phantom back injury. Yeah, slowed him down from the time being. And then for both of us said, or at least I said, don't cease for sayoung. I mean, he's going to have to have a really great second half. I want to see the seven innings, one hit, Dylan Cease. Yes. Which we saw four times in the first half. Yep. We just saw the other one a bunch of times too. That other Dylan Cease wasn't as good. No. And the final one is newcomer Jung Hoo Lee. Tony said, which he was doing all right, but he's hurting out for the year. Chris, you said Dylan Cease. I said Dylan Cease. We still could have some sort of win right there. Tay Oscar Hernandez would probably win that right now. You're probably it's been very good for the though years. All right. That was good. You got through that quickly. Yes. AL East. Tony said the Yankees. Chris and I said the Orioles, which the Orioles are right now in first place by a game right now. Last place. Tony said Red Sox. They're doing well. Chris and I said the Rays. I believe they're in last place, aren't they? No, the Blue Jays. Oh Blue Jays. Yeah. Yeah. The Rays are 500. Rays are 500. MVP. Tony said Juan Soto. And that's looking pretty good. He just did that just to mess with us. I know he did. And he's looking good. No, he's not. Yes, he is. Juan Soto's not going to win the MVP in the American League right now. Who's going to win it? He's not even going to win his own team MVP. We're talking about the AL East MVP. We're talking about Aaron Judge. Who's better? All right. Much better. You said Gunnar Henderson, which hey Gunnar is great. Yeah. Although he didn't show up at the Homer and Derby. No. Adley Richmond. I said for MVP. Okay. Si Young. Tony said Carlos Carlos Rodon. Not happening. Look like it. He looked like it in here in San Diego, though. He did. Yeah. Chris and I said Corbin Burns. Yeah. Started the all-star game. That's a step in the right direction for him. New cover for the AL East. Juan Soto for Tony. Yeah. That one might hold up. Yeah. Marcus Strowman, you said. And then I said Juan Soto as well. Marcus Strowman with the Yankee East picture. He's not going to be the new cover. Not better than so now. Naturally, yeast. We all said the Braves. We're going to be in first place here. Everybody did, but they are not there and they're not going to be there either. You don't think they're going to be first place? Not with all the injuries. No chance. Why don't we say that a lot about them? Last place. Tony said Mets. Chris and I said the Marl or no. Chris and Marlans. I said nationals. Marlans are the last. Marlans are holding down the spot right now. MVP. You and Tony said Ronald Acuna Jr. But she's hurt. Which you can't. I mean, no, you can't predict that. He wasn't even having a good season to begin with. No, he wasn't at all. And I said Matt Olson, who is also not having a great season. Nowhere near. I didn't realize until today. He's hitting 229 this year. Yeah, he hasn't been anywhere near what he was last year. Our Cy Young pick, all of us said, Spencer Strider. Wow. Not happening. Look at this. Yes. That's crazy. Okay. Newcomer. All of our new comers are bad. Well, you and I picked Jared Kellnick and Tony picked Tim Anderson. There's not even on his team. Tim Anderson's not even in the league anymore. He's not at least Kellnick plays for the Braves. That is true. And we could take that credit. Probably the best newcomer has been Ronaldo Lopez. This guy's been insane. He's the only guy in baseball with a qualifying ERA under two. But he's also under 100 innings pitched. I was noticing. But he's got enough to qualify. I know. As of now. All right. Baseball coverage on 97 three the fans presented by T mobile switch to T mobile. And you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T and Verizon. Use their savings calculator to find out how at T mobile T mobile.com slash switch. Al central. Tony said the twins Chris and I said the twins to Chris. You don't think it tigers? Yeah. Well, I certainly didn't think already. Who's Oh, yeah. That's who's leading the division. Tigers are only three games under. But there's quite a ways back. Last place. We all said white socks. We're all safe there. Yeah. MVP Tony said Luis Robert Jr. Chris. I think you might have it with Bobby Whit Jr. I mean Jose Ramirez is something to say about that. But she does. Carlos Correa. Not there yet is who I said. Yeah. Uh, take my shirt. Say, um, Tony Pablo Lopez. Not looking good right now. Not great. Chris to wreak scuba. I got that one. I said crochet, but they basically crochet's been really good. But scuba would be the saw young guy right now. He's 10 and three, 2.41 talk about being a fantasy baseball owner and having crochet. Now they're only throwing the guy to it. He's a game and he's like going six up six down. They're just taking him out of the game to save his arm or whatever it is. It's so weird what they do in baseball now. A scuba, by the way, may not finish in the American League Central because he's widely reported to be on the move. Yes. Uh, the last one gets a mention there for saw young in the American League Central. Oh, Seth Lugo. Yeah. Oh, what a year he's had. Well, Tony, the newcomer, Seth Lugo, Michael Walker, he nailed it. He half and half. Half and half. Okay. Uh, Chris, you said Jack Flaherty, who's having a nice season. Been better than he had been in the past. And then I said Stephen Wilson, who's just toiling away in Chicago. Poor guy. You just, you were throwing old Stephen a bone there. I was. I was thinking he was going to be. I remember saying he's going to be a closer. He's going to save some games. No, that's poor Stephen Wilson. National League Central. Tony and I said the Cubs. It's not looking good right now. Chris, you said the Reds. Who's actually in first play? Oh, the Brewers are. Yeah, Tony said they're all year. Yes, they have. I still think the Reds could make a run. They got to get everybody healthy. It's close. Still close. The last place team Tony said Tony and I both said pirates, the pirates, which they're middle of the pack right now. Chris, you said the Brewers. I did. I thought the Brewers would suck this year. They have not. No, but they are starting to ease back to the pack. I must tell you that. That race could still develop though. That three out of losing three out of four to the Padres really put really hurt them. MVP Tony said Paul Goldschmidt of the National League Central. Chris, you said, uh, in Canarassio and Strand. Man, am I, am I? I had a kuna and Karnaughian Strand who's out of baseball hurt. He also had Bobby Wood Jr. That's the only one. My other one. Corbin Carroll, Julio Rodriguez. Oh, yeah. Terrible. Cy Young, Tony said Tony. Oh, all three of us said Hunter Green. I didn't even realize that. We're not there yet. We made the All-Star team, but that's about the extended. He gave up a home or two. Yeah. Uh, I think Paul Skeens probably has this one. Looking like it. I took on some Pirates fans on Twitter and it didn't work out for me. Pirates fans were very angry at me for for putting out the fact that he's only starting 11 games. Allow me to jump into the, uh, the fray. Yeah, let me, uh, let me jump into the fray. Okay. Where the hell have you Pirate fans been for the last like 25 years? I've not heard of a single Pirate fan anywhere. Well, they don't have anything to cheer for. Since they got rid of bonds and Benia. So please, I guess they had that one year with Andrew Cutchin. Please with all of this love for the Pirates out of nowhere. It is true. It's a little much, Chris. Thank you. It is. Please. We, we really like to, the, the, the exciting player, we really like to put him up on that pedestal as soon as possible. And you know, we'll do once he gets up there for good. We're going to tear him down, tear him down. Give him a new, we're going to be Sperch's name. We will tear down Paul Skeens. All right, the last one newcomer, Tony said, Reese Hoskins. I think he was hurt at some point. Chris, Sonny Gray. Sonny Gray's had a nice year for the Cardinals. I said, Jackson Cheerios, not going to happen. Jackson is not lived up to the rookie of your billing. He started out okay. But that, that's it for our picks. We did that way quicker than I thought we were going to do that very nicely. Well, I have a seven minutes of content, if you would like. I got something on baseball. Okay. Mine was baseball too. But here you go. Maybe it's the same thing. Okay. Bradford, do a little. No, not my favorite guy. ESPN staff writer. I just because I don't really agree with a lot of the stuff he writes. I don't know him at all. And Scrabby tells me that because of the way I talk about him on this show, he'll never come on. No, he'll come on. But I just don't feel comfortable. You think I'll just make fun of him to a trap. Well, the thing with do a little is he's, he's all about the analytics. And I just, I can't, you know, I don't mind using analytics as part of the equation. Yeah, I don't mind either. I don't like the whole equation. But he wrote a pretty good article here. And I like this because this goes back to last year's trade deadline and revisits all of the trades that were made last year. And now we see which ones were good and which ones weren't. And I think that's interesting. Because at the time, you know, we never really think about what these teams give up to get guys. Yeah. And we always think that if you make a bunch of acquisitions, it's going to pay off. And that's just not the case. So let's revisit some of the trades that were made last year. The Texas Rangers got lefty Jordan Montgomery from the Cardinals. That was a good one. For John King, Tacoa, Robie, and Thomas Segees. Now, Jordan Montgomery left the Rangers, but not until he helped them win a World Series. I would say that was a pretty good trade for the Rangers, even though they gave up three prospects, none of whom have yet made it. Yeah. The Rangers acquired Max Scherzer from the Mets. They got him for an infielder named Luis Angel Acuna. Did they go because of his last name? I don't know. Acuna's in AAA right now. He's 22 years old. So, you know, the Mets to that. But again, Scherzer was part of what helped the Rangers win the World Series. Was he? A little bit, not a lot, but a little. The Rangers also acquired a rolled as Chapman last year, which he helped them in the World Series, pitched the eighth inning, et cetera. But they gave to the Kansas City Royals Cole Reagan's who this year was an all star. Yep. So that's the cost of that sometimes. Oh, the Acuna, that is Ronald's little brother. Okay. The Arizona Diamondbacks last year. Do you remember who they acquired to the trade deadline? Tommy Pham. Tommy Pham. That helped them quite a bit. Get all the way to the World Series. Jeremy Rodriguez went to the Mets there. Haven't seen much from him. Diamondbacks acquired Paul Seawald from Seattle. I worked out for him. Worked out. Helped them get to the World Series. Is their closer? They had to give up Josh Rojas, Dominic Canzone and Ryan Bliss, none of whom have done a whole lot for the Mariners yet. No one named my recognizes Rojas. Bray, I'm sorry, Orioles got Jack Flaherty from the Cardinals. Three prospects. Flaherty didn't really pitch much and didn't pitch well for the Orioles. He was 6.71. Now he's gone. So really, even though that could only be a loss for the Orioles, if any of the three Cardinal prospects now end up panning out, yeah, Astro's got Kendall Grayman from the White Sox for catcher Corey Lee. That's kind of a doesn't mean much. Yeah, doesn't mean much either way. Padres not going to like this one. Padre fans cover your ears or whatever. Potters acquired Rich Hill and G-Man Choy from the Pirates. It didn't really even matter who he gave up there. It's going to get an F. Yeah. And that's the grade that do little gave it. The ones that we did give up Alfonso Rivas, pitcher Jackson Wolf. Remember, he started. He's back on his team. Back with what? The Padres? Yeah. And outfielder Estuar Esuero. Oh, yeah. I was thinking Estuar Esuero. Those are the look on the on the surface. It didn't cost the Padres anything. The problem was is Rich Hill helped cost the Padres a chance to go to the playoffs by having an 823 ERA. Yeah, it wasn't good. Every time he took the mound, it was at least six rounds. And G-Man Choy barely played. Hit 065. Did he have two hits? I think so. So those two acquisitions hurt the Padres last year. A couple more here. Blue Jays acquired Paul just young, the young from the Cardinals. Neither here nor there. The young is now with the White Sox and nobody cares what you're doing with the White Sox. Cubs got infielder Jimer Candelario from Washington. Candelaria is now gone. Yeah, so that doesn't work. And the Nationals got a pitcher named DJ Hers left. All right, very good. Some music to get us fired up for this segment. We're going to go back and we're going to kind of run through this quick. We're not going to lag on this too much, but we say that now. I know we'll never make it. But pre-season baseball picks. You and I and Tony all made them. Thank you, Cher. I believe we will. Turnback time to the beginning of the season and our picks. Well, take us through this quick. All right, well, let's just start out with our AL and NL West picks that we made and the, we'll start the AL West. Division winner, Tony says Rangers, Chris said Mariners. I said Astros. We're all kind of still there. We're all there. Mariners are in front right now. Last place. A's. We're correct about that. Pretty clear across the board. MVP. I think we're all wrong so far. Corey Seager, Tony said, Chris and I said Julio Rodriguez. Oh boy. Yeah, tough here for Julio so far. Cy Young, Tony said, Franber Valdez, Chris said, George Kirby. I said, Luis Castillo. I picked the wrong mariner. So did you. We should have gone with Logan Gilbert. He does have a chance to win the Cy Young. He does. The newcomer Jorge Polanco, Tony said, Chris said Wyatt Langford. And I said, Josh Hader, which is also a little boy. All three of them. Wyatt Langford has finally picked it up a little bit to where they're thinking he could go on to win AL rookie of the year, but he really hasn't had a big impact yet. Now, is Paul Skins up for rookie of the year next year? No, this year. This year. He's already pitched enough games. That's why we, that's why we don't like him around here. He's going to take it away from from Jackson now. The National League West, Tony Chris and I went with the Dodgers as the vision winner will move right on. Last place. Rockies. We got that right. Looks like we're good on those two. MVP Tony said Fernando. Not going to happen. I said Fernando too. Probably not going to happen. Not actually, not going to happen. Chris, you said Corbin Carroll. That will not happen either. Oh, my goodness. Did I jinx that guy? How about Shohei Otani? What were we thinking here? I don't know. None of us said him. I was in a Hader mode, maybe? I guess we were. Yeah. Cy Young, Tony said Logan Webb, which could happen in a second half. He's seven and seven right now. Tyler Glass now. He's probably the guy right now. I don't know. We said him. You did. Okay. His phantom back injury. Yeah, slowed him down for the time being. And then for both of us said, or at least I said Dylan Cesar Cy Young. I mean, he's going to have to have a really great second half. I want to see the seven innings one hit, Dylan Cesar. Yes. Which we saw four times in the first half. Yep. We just saw the other one a bunch of times too. That that other Dylan Cesar wasn't as good. No, and the final one is newcomer Junghoo Lee. Tony said, which he was doing all right, but he's hurting out for the year. Chris, you said Dylan Cesar. I said Dylan Cesar. We still could have some sort of win right there. Tae Oscar Hernandez would probably win that right now. You're probably right. It's been very good for the Doyers. All right. That was good. You got through that quickly. Yes. AL East. Tony said the Yankees. Chris and I said the Orioles, which the Orioles are right now in first place. By a game right now. Last place. Tony said Red Sox. They're doing well. Chris and I said the race. I believe they're in last place, aren't they? No, the Blue Jays. Oh, Blue Jays. Yeah. Yeah. They always got 500. Razor 500. MVP Tony said Juan Soto. And that's looking pretty good. He just did that just to just to mess with us. I know he did. And he's looking good. No, he's not. Yes, he is. Juan Soto's not going to win the MVP in the American League right now. Who's going to win it? He's not even going to win his own team MVP. We're talking about the AL East MVP. We're talking about Aaron Judge. Who's better? All right. Much better. You said Gunnar Henderson, which, hey, Gunnar is right there. Great. Yeah. Although he didn't show up at the homerun derby. No. Uh, Adley Richmond, I said for MVP. Okay. Uh, Si Young, Tony said Carlos, Carlos Radon, not happening. Chris and I, he looked like it, he looked like it in here in San Diego, though. He did. Yeah. Chris and I said Corbin Burns. Yeah. Started the All-Star game. So that's a step in the right direction for him. New cover for the AL East. Juan Soto for Tony. Yeah. That one might hold up. Yeah. Marcus Strowman, you said. And then I said Juan Soto as well. Marcus Strowman with the Yankees. He's pitcher. He's not going to be the new company. Not better than Soto now. Uh, National League East. We all said the Braves were going to be in first place here. Everybody did, but they are not there and they're not going to be there either. You don't think they're going to be first place? Not with all the injuries. No chance. Well, we say that a lot about them. Last place. Uh, Tony said Mets. Chris and I said the Marl, or no, I, Chris and Marlin's, I said nationals. Marlin's are the last place. Marlin's are holding them down the spot right now. Uh, MVP, you and Tony said Ronald Acuna Jr. But she's hurt. Which you can't, I mean, no, you can't predict that. He wasn't even having a good season to begin with. No, he wasn't at all. Uh, and I said Matt Olson, who is also not having a great season. Nowhere near. I didn't realize until today he's hitting 229 this year. Yeah, he hasn't been anywhere near what he was last year. Our Cy Young pick, all of us said Spencer Strider. Wow. Happened. Look at this. Yes, that's crazy. Okay. Uh, newcomer. All of our newcomers are bad. Well, you and I picked Jared Kellnick and Tony picked Tim Anderson, who's not even on his team. Tim Anderson's not even in the league anymore. At least Kellnick plays for the Braves. That is true. At least he got credit. Probably the best newcomer has been, uh, Reynaldo Lopez. Skyton insane. He's the only guy in baseball with a qualifying ERA under two, but he's, he's also under a hundred innings pitched. I was noticing, but he's got enough to qualify as of now. Uh, all right. Baseball coverage of 97 through the fans presented by T-Mobile switched to T-Mobile and you can get tons of benefits and still save on every plan versus AT&T in Verizon. Use their savings calculator to find out how at T-Mobile, T-Mobile dot com slash switch, AL central. Tony said the twins, Chris and I said the twins too. Chris, you don't think of Tigers? Yeah. Well, I certainly didn't think Guardians. Who's? Oh, yeah. That's who's leading the division. Tigers are only three games under, but they're quite a ways back. Uh, last place, we all said White Sox. We're all safe there. Yeah. MVP Tony said Luis Robert Jr. Chris. I think you might have it with Bobby Whit Jr. I mean, Jose Ramirez is something to say about that, but she does. Carlos Correa. Not there yet. Is who I said. Yeah. Uh, take my shirt. Sayang. Tony Pablo Lopez. Not looking good right now. Not great. Chris to reek. Scooble. I got that one. I said crochet, but they've basically. Crochet has been really good, but Scooble would be the Sayang guy right now. He's 10 and three, 2.41. Talk about being a fantasy baseball owner and having crochet. Now they're only throwing the guy two innings a game and he's like going six up, six down. They're just taking him out of the game to save his arm or whatever it is. So weird what they do in baseball now. Scooble, by the way, may not finish in the American League Central because he's widely reported to be on the move. Yes. Uh, the last one. You know what else gets a mention there for Sayang in the American League Central? Oh, Seth Lugo. Yeah. Oh, what a year he's had. Well, Tony, the newcomer, Seth Lugo. Oh, Michael Walker. He nailed it. He half and half. Half and half. Okay. Uh, Chris, you said Jack Flaherty, who's having a nice season. Been better than he had been in the past. And then I said Stephen Wilson, who's just toiling away in Chicago. Poor guy. You just, you were throwing old Stephen a bone there. I was. I was thinking he was going to be. I remember saying he's going to be a closer. He's going to save some games. No. That's poor Stephen Wilson. National League Central. Uh, Tony and I said the Cubs. It's not looking good right now. Chris, you said the Reds. Who's actually in first play? Oh, the Brewers are. Yeah, Tony said they're all year. Yes, they have. I still think the Reds could make a run. They got to get everybody healthy. It's close. Still close. The last place team Tony said, Tony and I both said Pirates, the Piratés, which they're middle of the pack right now. Chris, you said the Brewers. I did. I thought the Brewers would suck this year. They have not. No, but they are starting to ease back to the pack. I must tell you that race could still develop. That three, losing three out of four to the Padres really put really hurt them. Uh, MVP Tony said Paul Goldschmidt of the National League Central. Chris, you said, uh, Incanaración Strand. Man, am I, am I, I had a kudya, Incanaración Strand, who's out of baseball hurt? You also had Bobby Wood Jr. That's the only one. I had one Corbin Carroll Julio Rodriguez. Oh, yeah. Terrible. Say young Tony said, Tony, oh, all three of us said hunter green. I didn't even realize that. We're not there yet. We made the All-Star team, but that's about the extent. He gave up a home or two. Yeah. Uh, I think Paul Skeens probably has this one. Looking like it. I took on some Pirates fans on Twitter, and it didn't work out for me. Pirates fans were very angry at me for, for putting out the fact that he's only starting 11 games. Well, allow me to jump into the, uh, both with me. Yeah, let me, let me jump into the fray. Okay. Where the hell have you Pirate fans been for the last like 25 years? I've not heard of a single Pirate fan anywhere. Well, they don't have anything to cheer for. To bonds and banea. So please, I guess they had that one year with Andrew Kutchin. Please, with all of this love for the Pirates out of nowhere. It is true. It's a little much Chris. Thank you. It is. Please. We, we really like to the, the, the exciting player. We really like to put him up on that pedestal as soon as possible. And you know, we'll do once he gets up there for good. We're going to tear him down, tear him down, give him a new, we're going to be Smurch's name. We will tear down Paul's. All right. The last one, newcomer, Tony said Reese Hoskins. I think he was hurt at some point, Chris. Sonny Gray. Sonny Gray's had a nice year for the Cardinals. I said Jackson Cheerios. Not going to happen. Jackson is not lived up to the rookie of your billing. He started out. Okay. But that, that's it for our picks. We did that way quicker than I thought we were going to do that very nicely. Well, um, I have, um, seven minutes of content, if you would like. I got something on baseball. Okay. I wanted to mine was baseball too, but here we go. Maybe it's the same thing. Okay. Brad for do little. No, not my favorite guy. ESPN staff writer. I just because I don't really agree with a lot of the stuff he writes. I don't know him at all. And Scrabby tells me that because of the way I talk about him on this show, he'll never come on. No, he'll come on, but I just don't feel comfortable. You think I'll just make fun of him with a trap. Well, the thing with do little is he's, he's all about the analytics. And I just, I can't, you know, I don't mind using analytics as part of the equation. Yeah, I don't mind the whole equation, but he wrote a pretty good article here. And I like this because this goes back to last year's trade deadline and revisits all of the trades that were made last year. And now we see which ones were good and which ones weren't. And I think that's interesting because at the time, you know, we never really think about what these teams give up to get guys. Yeah. And we always think that if you make a bunch of acquisitions, it's going to pay off. And that's just not the case. So let's revisit some of the trades that were made last year. The Texas Rangers got lefty Jordan Montgomery from the Cardinals. That was a good one. For John King, Tacoa, Robie, and Thomas Segees. Now, Jordan Montgomery left the Rangers, but not until he helped them win a World Series. I would say that was a pretty good trade for the Rangers, even though they gave up three prospects, none of whom have yet made it. Yeah. The Rangers acquired Max Scherzer from the Mets. They got him for an infielder named Lewis Angel Acuna. Did they get because of his last name? I don't know. Acuna's in AAA right now. He's 22 years old. So, you know, the Mets to that. But again, Scherzer was part of what helped the Rangers win the the World Series. Was he? A little bit, not a lot, but a little. The Rangers also acquired a rolled as Chapman last year, which he helped them in the World Series, pitched the eighth inning, et cetera. But they gave to the Kansas City Royals Cole Reagan's, who this year was an all-star. Yep. So that's the cost of that sometimes. Oh, the Acuna, that is Ronald's little brother. Okay. The Arizona Diamondbacks last year. Do you remember who they acquired at the trade deadline? Tommy Fan. Tommy Fan. That helped them quite a bit. Get all the way to the World Series. Jeremy Rodriguez went to the Mets there. Haven't seen much from him. Diamondbacks acquired Paul Seawald from Seattle. That worked out for him. Worked out. Helped them get to the World Series. Is their closer? They had to give up Josh Rojas, Dominic Kanzon and Ryan Bliss. None of whom have done a whole lot for the Mariners yet. The only name I recognize is Rojas. Bray, I'm sorry, Orioles got Jack Flaherty from the Cardinals, three prospects. Flaherty didn't really pitch much and didn't pitch well for the Orioles. He was 6.71. Now he's gone. So really, even though that can only be a loss for the Orioles, if any of the three cardinal prospects now end up panning out. Yeah. Astro's got Kendall Grayman from the White Sox for catcher, Corey Lee. That's kind of a doesn't mean much. Yeah, doesn't mean much either way. Padres. Not going to like this one. Padre fans. Cover your ears or whatever. Potters acquired Rich Hill and G-Man Choi from the Pirates. It doesn't really even matter who he gave up there. It's going to get an F. Yeah. And that's the grade that do little gave it. The ones that we did give up Alfonso Rivas, pitcher Jackson Wolf. Remember, he started the game last team back with what? The Padres. Yeah. And outfielder Estuar Esuero. Oh, yeah. I was thinking Estuar Esuero. Those are the, look, on the on the on the surface, it didn't cost the Padres anything. The problem was is Rich Hill helped cost the Padres a chance to go to the playoffs by having an 823 ERA. Yeah, it wasn't good. Every time he took the mound, it was at least six rounds. And G-Man Choi barely played. Hit 065. Did he have two hits? I think so. So those two acquisitions hurt the Padres last year. A couple more here. Blue Jays acquired Paul Dijung, Dijung from the Cardinals. Neither here nor there. Dijung is now with the White Sox and nobody cares what you're doing with the White Sox. Cubs got infielder Jimer Candelario from Washington. Candelaria is now gone. Yeah, so that doesn't work. And the Nationals got a pitcher named DJ Herrs, Lefty, who started against the Padres earlier this year. Tampa Bay acquired pitcher Aaron Savali from Cleveland. Savali's now with Milwaukee. See, this is what happens. You acquire a lot of these guys and then they don't stay around because they're rentals. In the case of Savali wasn't a rental. Yeah. He started the year with Tampa Bay and got traded. Dodgers acquired Lance Lynn and Joe Kelly from the White Sox. Did not work. Didn't work. Lance Lynn gave up. How many home runs in that last playoff game? I don't know, but it was a lot. At least four in a row. I mean, it was unbelievable. And I can't stand Joe Kelly. So I can't either. Trace Thompson, Nick Nastreany, Jordan Leisure went to the White Sox. Don't know what they're doing because I don't follow the White Sox. But anyway, that's kind of a look back at some of the moves that were made last year. A lot of them worked out. Yeah. Some of they didn't. But you know, it's just interesting because now in the next two weeks before the trade deadline, everyone's going to make these big moves. And most of us are going to think the team that made the biggest splash are the teams that are going to win. It doesn't always work. It doesn't. And the Padres are a perfect example of that. They did the whole Juan Soto Brandon, Jewry, Josh Bell thing that didn't. I mean, got into the NLCS. So it I would say that worked. Although now there's a lot of people that are saying, you know, the Padres gave away way too much. I don't as they watch C.J. Abrams play in the all star game. And James would come up to the major leagues. What's he done so far, by the way, I think he's had a couple of home runs, maybe one home has he? I will say this about C.J. Abrams and James Wood. They weren't going to help the Padres get to the NLCS in 2022. And that's kind of the argument for the Padres. Yeah. All right, we'll take a break. Christopher's the fans is coming up next. Yesterday, Sammy did a celebrity. Christopher's the fans and went out quickly, left us with a whole segment to fill. You know, every time we have Sammy play that game, we have a whole segment of that. But I appreciate it for being there. We'll see what happens today. 833-288-0973. 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