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Visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. Now with the MLB app, you can get baseball your way. Pick your favorite team, your favorite players, and get customized highlights, stories, and breaking news right on your home feed. Follow the action with Game Tip, where 3D replays add another dimension, plus notifications can keep you connected to every pinch, every hit, every game, the MLB app. Baseball your way. Download it now for free from the App Store or Google Play. Blackout and other research and supply, Major League Baseball trade cards used with permission. So I had to miss the Ducat interview yesterday because I had to duck out for the other gig, and you were just gloating today because you had an observation confirmed by someone that ran many ball clubs. Yeah, it was kind of a, look, it was a proud moment for the nation, all right? When we get told that we're right, everyone loves that. We're wrong a lot on this business because we, we have to go out on limbs, right? And you're not always going to be right, but when you are told that someone that did run teams, you know, agrees with kind of your thought process, he did say something that I'm not 100% in on yet. And I think that he said, First of all, tell people what he said. Well, he said how he agreed with something you said. You brought up and tripled up. What's your biggest need? And I said, I think a corner out filter. And I think then maybe another bullpen or maybe a shortstop, maybe a short Yeah, sure. Well, I think your shortstop might be the guy you bring up, which is not so unless he's unless you're showing me he's not going to be ready. Yeah, that's true. But so we talked about that. And then Ducat, when I think Tiffany asked him, you know, what the, what you might need for the trade deadline. And he said, well, I think you definitely didn't know that out corner out filter, at least a guy that you could maybe platoon at times with devol and a bat. He's like, but I'd love the idea of this team getting another guy in the bullpen. He goes to mimic what they did in 21. He goes, they had four guys come out of the bullpen every game. And it was exactly what I said. And I think several guys had closer type stuff too. Yeah, absolutely did. And you remember that AJ mentor that year was phenomenal. Tyler Matic was on a different level than he probably will ever be in his career. The problem he was channeling demonic entities during the postseason. I will always amazing. Rob, you've gotten to watch a little more baseball than me. The greatest start by in a postseason game that I've ever seen happened when I was eight. And it was game seven of the world series. And it's Jack Morris versus John Smalls. And Morris goes, what, 10? Yep. And I think Smalls goes nine. You'll never see that replicated ever again. Doubtful. Yeah. The greatest. Thanks for bringing that that particular night. I know. Well, I mean, you know, it has now now I'm going to think about James Game six and Bobby Cox stupidly brought in Charlie Lee Brad a pitch Kirby pocket. Oh, the other uncle Charlie. Well, here's what I'll do though. I'll tell you this though. The greatest single inning pitching effort I've ever seen in the postseason was Tyler Massey. It's a Dodgers where Luke Jackson just kind of fell apart there. And Luke Jackson was good most of those playoffs. But he just kind of fell apart there in that Dodgers series. And I believe that I'm a second. There was nobody out with the bases, maybe juiced. And he just mowed and he went through a couple of good hitters. Oh, yeah. Including Mookie Betts. So, but that that's what you're kind of looking for a guy that can help you do that. And maybe him and Esther is that because he's been pretty good. Maybe Paris Johnson's that guy. But mentors still, you know, mentor Ajay Smith-Shauber sent down yesterday because mentor looked good, I think. And I think that was part of it for Ajay Smith-Shauber. Just just that back and forth between Gwynette and the big club and all the things. Had he stayed healthy and I saw his fault, but his does he not get hurt and that at start that he had. We don't know who the hell Spencer Schwellenbach is still. I truly believe that. I'm starting to have an idea. Now it's about consistency, you know. Yeah. You don't think you know. I'm saying we don't know who he is right now. If we don't, Spencer Schwellenbach never comes up if Ajay Smith-Shauber stayed healthy after that start because he looked good. Now, he's got to continue that. I still think we would have saw him because, you know, they're doing the six man rotation. It's going to be a little patchwork. You're going to bring guys up to give them a spot start to see what you have, get an idea of what you have with them. It's a good form. I majorly line up. So yeah, you're probably right. But the confidence that we had talked about when we had C.J. Nkowski on with us talking about Swellenbach, right? You're not seeing that anymore? No, no, it's not that. I just don't. I don't think he'd have been brought up. I think he'd have waited. I don't know if they'd have brought him up yet because he'd remember he was a shortstop and a closer in college and he'd only made like what eight or nine starts in double eight ball. Maybe not even that many. And so he's, my point is, is he's relatively young to the major to the pro game as far as minors and stuff. But maybe he would have still been ahead of Hurston-Walter. I don't know. I just think if Smith-Shauber stayed healthy, you're not necessarily bringing Swellenbach up when you do. And so you might have rushed at all that said that might be one of those gyms that you get out of all of this is that Spencer Swellenbach got to come up when he did. And maybe you can set up, you know, kind of set yourself up for the, for younger guys taking over next season, which no matter what is probably going to happen at least with one spot. I got to tell you right now as much as I love Charlie Morton, I think he's an interesting dude, a very smart dude. I might would trust Spencer Swellenbach in the postseason more than Charlie Morton. I don't care about the veteran stuff because Charlie is what Charlie's always been. It's going to be a feast or famine thing with him. He's basically a 500 pitcher. Yeah, he wasn't terrible last night, but he wasn't good either. So because you know what you're going to get from him, you know, it may not always be the best. You'd rather have that than what you don't know about a young up-and-comer. I would take the young up-and-comer, over Charlie right now, yeah. Okay. I thought you were saying you wouldn't. I was like, wait a minute. The thing with young guys is he's either one or the other. You either get the young guy who's too dumb to understand the moment and just goes out there and slings it or blissfully unaware. Or he's, so he, he over thinks it and he's like, Swellenbach has that, and has that makeup to where he just wouldn't care. It wouldn't phase him. And when you got six pitches, it's easier to, if one thing's not working, it's easier to go back, you know, use something else a little bit more. This is Charlie got hit pretty hard last night. Giving up a couple of home runs, you know, he got hit pretty hard. It felt like that was it. The balls that were hit last night felt like they were course-filled. I mean, they had a hundred, 450 feet is a massive- How do you think of tap the Rockies? Sorry, it always makes me laugh. I'm sorry. Tap the Rockies. Like, I don't know why your course feel like this. You're straight to beer, huh? Straight. I do not like that being- Well, she walked in with a tall boy, so she's right. It's coffee. She put her cigarette out for, she came into the studio. Yeah. That's the jazz singer voice center. It's not there today. Is it raspy? It's a little bit. I got a little tin. I like it. I didn't sleep well yet last night. Oh, come on. So I think the way to blink it's too hot. The play kids too. It's supposed to be like temperature controlled in, you know, the modern technology these days. What, the coffee? No, no, the way to blink it I have. Oh, oh, it's too hot. You've got to fix that. You've got to get sleep woman. Consistently. This hour brought to you by Morgan and Morgan injured. Hi, I'm Morgan and Morgan America's largest injury law firm. Well, a lot of people can't say they didn't see this coming. U S soccer, the men's team making a big move, parting ways with their coach details are on the way. 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