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Purple has a wide variety of mattresses from the original purple mattress to the Restore Hybrid Collection that combines gel flex grid with coils and the rejuvenate lux collection, the height of luxury. With over 112,000 to five star reviews to prove it, visit purple.com to find the perfect purple for you and enter code podcast 10 to get 10% off. All right, fellas, it's been a minute. It's been like a month, hasn't it? Yeah, it has been a minute. And really, we're going to have to wait a couple weeks till you get back from the ocean, Jason. But these questions, well, the Orioles questions are through next Friday, the 16th. There is an off day on Monday. As long as you score it correctly, we're good to go. As long as you abide by your own rules, you got it in your little Google Maps. I have it in my notes. Okay. Don't lose your laptop. We're good. That's a lot of time. You can lose your laptop between now and then. This is in the cloud. This is Gmail. Oh, then we're good. It's in Jiro's cloud. That's the vault. Yeah, but the vault was really the cloud. I don't think it was the cloud. No, I think he had a vault. He had a vault with a big book in it. Yeah, yeah. Adley. Mother bound book. Yes. Adley Rochman. He has not homered since July 19th. That was the first game after the All-Star break. Adley Rochman, homers between now and the 16th next Friday. There is an off day on Monday. Who's first? Let's go with Jason. Not playing tonight. An off day Monday. He's going to be catching a lot. Most of the power comes when he D H's. I'm thinking. I don't know about them facing a lot of lefties in the next week. I'm going to say, Boney, he's got a couple of doubles. But not a homer. Oh, man. Oh, double. Yeah, it's this one. This is a tough one, Boney. It's a tough. It is very timely, though, considering what we were just discussing. Yeah, I know. Totally, Radley. Well done, Boney. Thank you. And full disclosure, we moved bounce back fall. So really fun that nothing to do with that. Yeah. Wow. I changed the order. No, rock changed. I changed the order of the questions. Oh, okay. You might have done that. That's smart on his part. You know, we got to give him that. Well done, Boney. That is good. I was trying to give you a price. You wouldn't lie about something like that. No, throw a lie about anything. Well, probably not. I'll say, you know what? Seems to me, he likes the drop. I think he homers this weekend. Kenny Sunshine. Yeah. He omered off of Jason Adam in the trap. Yeah, I think he had a grand slam the last time they were down there. Speaking of homers, man, we know that Kobe Mayo is still looking for his first hit. Yes. But he homers between now and next Friday. Mark me down as a bounce back. Oh, there we go. Even though I might never play again. He's like, he's going to homer. Yeah, I don't know how much regular run he's going to get. And if they do start leaning, you know, hern at first, then that means you've got an experience right handed bat off the bench in Mount Castle who could provide some pop. Bone, I'm going to say he gets his first major league hit. And I'm going to say he has an at bat next week at Camden Yards, where he goes Oppo and hits one off the out of town scoreboard. It's so no homer. Not just yet. Wager the opponent or a pitcher. It hits the scoreboard. It's where they're giving the Philly score. Oh, very nice. How about that? I like it. I'll say that's some karnack stuff to get right there. I'll say this. If that happens. What will you do, Bob? I'll give you a statement. You'll stroke me every time we have this segment. Verbal. I mean, we'll change the name of this segment to something that honors me. Yes. Bounce back, fall back, locking for as a genius. Yes. Yes. We will. We will. Absolutely. You got it all on your Google notes there, right? I have it all here. Did you hear me typing? This isn't fake. This is real life. Zach Evelyn against this former team tonight. Delivers a quality start and records at least one out in the seventh inning. Ooh, yeah, it's a spicy meatball, right, Jason? Man. Bone, I hate when he does these combo. I know. It's tough. Six and a third. Six and a third. So we got the out. Two earned. Two earned. Okay. That's it. Six hits. Okay, hold on. I'm going to put the bounce back. Six hits. One walk. Six hits. Two strikeouts, two, okay. How many runs did you say? He said two. That is a bounce back. So, yeah, just to clarify, he didn't have to finish seven. He just had to get one out. Okay, just one out. Yeah, I'm going to agree with my friend. He will. I'm going to go bounce back. All right. We know that the O's, they've struggled to do anything right. Yeah. Okay. I was going to say going around here, but I guess that pretty much fits and starts. Do they buck that trend camp? Buck, word of the week you're on. What trend? I'm saying that the next. I don't understand the question. This is very open to interpretation. I haven't asked the question. It's a very ambiguous question. I haven't asked the question. I thought you forgot how this game was played. You said my name. I thought the question was, will they buck this trend? Yes, me too. Raise and the match. That is their next five games. Uh-huh. The Orioles go four and one over that stretch. Mm-hmm. Can't win. Hmm. Or better if they somehow. They go five and a half. Yeah. We'll give you the points for that as well. They do like playing at the trot, Bong. They do. And then they're home against the match. The match is struegulae. Yeah. Model Orioles fans will be down. Bounce back, Bong. Oh, Bongwon. Wow. You sold me. Bong at this point, I would gladly take three and two, and that's what I'm thinking. So that's a phone. I'm not pushing my luck with this routine. These guys too. We also know that the ninth inning situation is very much up in the air. I don't think it's up in the air. I think Domingo's. I think it's Domingo's. Domingo or their closers. What? Let me ask the question first. Smart guy. No. That's a guy. Push him back, Bong. A backbone. Fight for your right to party, Bong. A single pitcher. A single pitcher will record multiple saves in the next week. Could be anyone. It's only five games, right? It's only five games. How many save situations are we going to get? Bong, I will say that Domingo's and Cano each have one save. That's not in that span. How is it the five games we're talking about? Well, I have them going four and one, Bong. I got Domingo's with at least two saves. So I will bounce back. Two saves. So now let's get to tonight. Okay. This one's easy, straight for it. David O'Javo gets a sack. Ken won. No, I'll fall back on that one. I will remember the words of our friend, Jonah Shafer, who said he's been much better against the run lately. Yeah, I don't see that happening, Bo. Same fallback. Okay, yeah. How about this? Yeah. Tez Walker scores a touchdown tonight. The rookie gets in the end zone tonight, Jason. Not so sure about the caliber quarterback play here. I can see them scoring, but maybe on the ground. What is it? Oh, and what? Oh, and right. Oh, and right. Not Oh, and what. Oh, and right. Oh, and right. Not to be confused with Owen. Ken, I'm going to bounce back. I'm going to say though, Owen, right scores. Oh, I'm going to bounce back. I think he's going to catch one from Emery Jones. Oh, wow. Calling the shot catches. Trying to steal my thunder. That's right. Emery. What? He doesn't force it though. I mean, Ken, what are you implying? He forces. I'm not saying that's all I'm saying. That's exactly what he implies. What are you implying? That's exactly what he implies. Are you diminishing my product? I'm not saying that's all I'm saying is, when Ken gives a prediction, it means a lot. It has a lot of weight. Oh, really? He does not give many predictions. He typically just plays the game. Yes, there's a lot of weight. I mean, when he nailed, what was it? Jimmy Butler's points in a playoff game. He doesn't want to force it. No. Right between the eyes. Bowen, you get, you pick it up, but I'm putting down. You're touring. Who's on every hand? And the last one. And I know where you guys are going to go, but I'll ask anyways. Josh Johnson does not turn the ball over tonight. Does not turn the ball over, Ken. I would say fall back on that one. Ah, that's a fall back. Josh Johnson picks six. Oh, maybe Cooper Dijon. Pick six to see healthy. I don't know. Yeah. I know he's hurt. You know, I almost said, just to your point, Bowen, I almost said pick six, but I didn't want to force it. I didn't want to force it. No, I didn't. And I respect how I do it. When this goes down as the most historic bounce back fallback ever, we'll know the score by Thursday or Friday. Feel free to call me, though. I'm not vacation. We'll bring you on. If Kobe Mayo. 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Blackout and other research and supply major league baseball trade parts used with permission. Orioles getting ready to take on the Rays first of three tonight. Remember Baltimore Baseball tonight at six o'clock. It's the bone and Jim Hunter getting you ready for baseball. Orioles lose two or three in Toronto. And last night, we weren't here from the people for 105.83, 105.7. We can talk to your expectations. Ravens and Eagles tonight. And also your thoughts on the Orioles of late who continue to play 500 baseball. What's it, 26 and 26 in the last 52? Last night was a combination of things for me and I think for all of us. First of all, Dean Kramer was awful and the defense like not, there was only one error, but Jackson Holiday had another kind of missed play that he was bailed out. Maybe they would have a double play if he gives a good throw. And even though no error occurred, Ryan O'Hernan right field. That's a ball. And those are two balls, the double and the triple. Anthony Santander, I think to me it's pretty clear he catches both of those. Instead, their RBI base hits. This team is not good enough right now to win without the little things being taken care of. And the little things for them right now become big things when they're not hitting as consistently or anything close to it now as they were in the first two and a half, three months of the season. And when their pitching staff has been decimated by injuries. So I think they need to get back to basics. I think they've ridden this platoon thing as far as they can. We all wanted Kobe Mayo here. Those who've watched him closely in the minors had grave concerns about his ability to play third base. But hey, they know better than us and outside of a week or two at first base, when it looked like they might trade Mount Castle, they played him exclusively at third base in the minors. They never put him in right field, even though I was shocked. He didn't play a fair amount of right field for the Norfolk tides. But that's their reality. So if he has to sit because Ramon, as much as he's not as good as he used to be at third, he's not even league average. He's definitely more professional there. He's not pretty Mayo right now. And the shortstop we know has been struggling. And you've got to play that kid at second base every day and move him up the lineup because of the bat. But he's not a natural second baseman. He's not comfortable there. And he's going to have growing pains. And the guy at first base has seemed a little off to me in a bunch of different ways. And he looks like someone who might kind of know the end is near. And I don't think that's bringing out the best in him. Like that's a problem. And then you're playing a guy in right field is really not a right field or two. Like, I think they're going to have to get their heads around the fact that this pitching staff is going to have a lot of balls put in play. And you need more often than not Mullins, Calzer and Santander out there. And Mayo's going to have to get in where he fits in. And if you really want that left handed bat of O'Hearns, then it's going to be at first base, which means less Mount Calzer. I think they need to ride that. Like, I think they need to stick with that for a while here and try to win some games, at least playing a professional degree of defense. They have to because right now you have problems compounding on each other where the pitching has been really bad for a while now. And then you combine that with the poor defense. And it's just it leads to these on her and runs. You got 16 errors in your last 17 games. I mean, that is nowhere near good enough. And that doesn't include those, you know, misplays by right on her. And that doesn't include Jackson holiday, maybe botching possible double plays. It's not good enough. And this, this team, it just, it looked like when they won four or five in between the Blue Jays and the Padres, okay, maybe they're heading in the right direction. And then you lose the first two of the Guardians here. They haven't won three straight games since, you know, the, the all-star break. It's been two wins and then a couple of losses to it. You know, they just haven't been able to go on a run. And that's a huge reason why in the last 52 games, they're 26 and 26. We're talking almost a third of the season. Well, let me just be clear too, and I'm not too, not to be critical the way you termed it, but those weren't misplays by her. And those are just plays he can't make because he's not an outfielder. Like, like, like an outfielder. We saw an outfielder who can't run great, but he's a very good outfielder in, in San Antonio the night before, go up against the wall and rob Vlad of extra bases. Then the next night, a guy who's not a right fielder, that's a ball that, that a competent right fielder, both those balls are competent right fielder catches, but he can't make the play on them because he's just, he's not suited for that role. Like if you would, if somehow Calzer's in right field, he makes those plays. Like, but you put a first baseman in the outfield, he can make, he can catch pop-ups, he can catch fly balls that are routine, but anything that's not routine, you see, he can't get to. Look, we wanted this team to get another bat in the off season. They didn't do it. They got to a point where the offense became a problem. And now they're sacrificing defense for offense. One thing Christian Passche could do was go get the ball. Now he can't hit a lick, but he's gone because they think Slater's a better match. I'm not sure how good he is defensively. Eloy Jimenez can't catch a cold. Now, he's not playing. Colby Mayo, I don't think is ever going to be a major league third baseman, but like, right, they've leaned that way because they need help offensively because Westbrook went down and because they didn't really add a power bat. I mean, even Eloy, like he's hitting ground balls. Like it's great, you know, it's working, but it's not going to work forever. So, but at some point they better lean defense. Let's go out to the phone lines, 410-583-1057. Allen, you're on the fan. Hey, guys. How are you doing? First on call or thanks for taking. Thank you. I've been watching the game. I've been watching the games a lot and and I've noticed we get too cute with guys that we should be pitching to and let them grow out very last night. I wouldn't even be pitching and I'd have walked in every time he kills us. He kills us all the time. And the guy behind the Horowitz Kramer was striking him out. I don't know why, you know, let's put him on and strike the guy out. Let's get out of the inning. And, you know, we get too cute and like y'all were saying before, the defense, the defense has to get better because we're not good enough right now in defense. We got to make the simple plays. Let's, you know, catch the ball, throw the ball. Know where you're going with the ball. It's just basic fundamentals. And I think that's what this team lacks a little bit sometimes. I think they just get mentally, they just forget. I don't know if it's forgetting or what, but I just think we got to get back to fundamentals the way this team was playing in the beginning of the year. And Dean Kramer, that's my stepson. My stepson loves Dean Kramer. I told him, Dean Kramer ain't no better than a fit starter or maybe a bullpen. Guy at best. He's never going to be, you know, he has his great times, but he gets too cute with his pitches. This is going to the guys that, you know, guys hitting 200. Let's go after him in class. But I would, he wouldn't have never pitched. I don't ever pitch. Now appreciate the card. Hey, walking Dalton Vartio in front of Vlad twice. That's just unacceptable. He nibbles with the guys he should challenge. And he challenges the guys he should nibble with. Like that, I've been watching it for years and it drives me crazy. Let's grab one more. Steve's in ballet or Steve, you're on the fan. Hey, guys, I was just wondering what effect moving the the wall back and left field had on Monte, Monte Castle. I wonder what his record was before that. The years before, because, you know, he was, you know, he was so at that time. And, well, you have seen, and I think it was the, I appreciate the call, the Roku game, because it was Matt Vaskarajan calling it, he hit a ball that Vaskarajan thought was gone. And he got, it got caused at the wall because of Walterborn. You saw Ryan Mountcastle kind of roll his eyes. He's been, but now it's been a while. He hit a career high 33 home runs in 2021. And then since the wall. Yeah, look, Austin Hayes power went down. Ramones got one home run at home the last two years. And that just came a couple of weeks ago. And the power is down for, for Mount Castle. So it definitely has an effect, but he's not hitting on the road. No, either. And he's not, he's not, we're not seeing power on the road. That's a ballpark Skydome. He usually matches it again. He has two home runs and 16 RBI since the end of June. That's just, that's not what you're expecting from Ryan Mountcastle. We'll come back Ravens and they have a football game tonight against the Eagles. It's six pack time. The six pack of guys were intrigued or interested in seeing in tonight's game. We'll give you our list next year on the fan football is back. Ravens and Eagles tonight pre-season game. A number one, it's time for our six pack of guys to start another damn streak. That's right. Yeah, it is. Make some history. Six guys weren't treated or interested in seeing tonight. And Ben, let's get started. Number six, number six for me is Charlie Kohler. I, I think he's going to have a bigger role in this offense this year. And I'm intrigued to see with, obviously, Mark Andrews ain't going to play. And we'll see it if I say it likely plays. But I think Charlie Kohler is a guy, what was he? I think it was hurt in the beginning of last year and finally got to play. He's healthy this training camp. And I think he's in for a bigger role. I'm interested to see what he does tonight. My six is Travis Jones. We've heard a lot of buzz about him. Somebody's like, you can't sit everybody. I don't think he's at a stage in his career where you say nothing to see here. You know, put him on ice till week one. I think he's got an opportunity to make some things happen here in the preseason. And I, I, not that we're going to see him with Mattabeek. Cause I don't expect Mattabeek at all, but you might start to get a glimpse of what him taking a step forward alongside Mattabeek. And the regular season might look like, um, I'd like to see him. Rick, some havoc. Number five. It's been a long time since Voorhees played football. Right now, I'm not a big guard guy. I've said that a million times, but in this instance, I am interested to see what it looks like, particularly because I got a feeling he's going to have a six, six, three hundred and sixty pound guy snapping next to him in Ben Cleveland, which is not ideal. A guy who hasn't played a whole lot of centers. So that's going to ramp up the degree of difficulty. And I think the Eagle starters are going to play a little bit tonight. And they've got some big bodies, uh, in their defensive front. So let's see how Voorhees holds up. That's a good one. I, I didn't because he's a guard and I'd watching on TV. I don't know how much I'll be able to clean, but I, I do want to see what the whole Voorhees thing looks like. My five is, is Tess Walker. I, I, he's probably going to be their number one receiver tonight. Now the quarterback situation is very interesting, but I want to see what Tess looks like. Remember he was a guy at North Carolina. Then originally they, they, they did not approve him to play. Then they did. He was somebody that people thought of as a higher round pick going in the last season. I want to see what this looks like. Four is Trenton Simpson. They're like, what exactly is Trenton Simpson like in year two? We didn't see a lot of him last year, especially in the regular season. And he was a rookie. So you're still getting your feet wet. This whole thing of being under Rokwan Smith's like wing. What, this is the first opportunity to see this new Trenton Simpson. What does it look like? I thought about him, but then I was like, the whole thing with him is what he looks like next to Rokwan for me, like, right? That's when we'll really know there's no substitute for Rokwan. And I do wonder if they even put the dot on him and make him Rokwan tonight, would you? Yeah. Well, that's what you don't think I'll have to do in the regular season. So I went with a different young defensive player at four, four for me is Nate Wiggins. I mean, how was he not playing in the preseason? And the Eagles offensive line. I know there's been a retirement at center. And I guess Landon Dickerson is a little beat up, but like, I would think they're going to run the ball. I want to see what he looks like in run support. I want to see what he looks like in coverage. I would think he's someone who's going to have a significant opportunity in these games. Yeah, I'll go a slight edge to Jason. I mean, I'm interested in seeing all six of the guys that you named. But I mean, Wiggins being the first round pick for he's hadn't played football in forever. And Travis Jones has been one of the stars during camp. We are doing the six pack of guys. We're looking forward to seeing tonight. And Ben, let's continue. Number three, I've got a backup left tackle fetish. I've been very, I've been very open and honest about that. Yes, you have early in the early in the off season. John Jones, I've been here a couple years ago. Yeah, John Jones, I believe will be the starting left tackle tonight, because I don't think they'd put Ronnie on this surface right now. Although I do think Ronnie is a guy who probably just played a little bit. What did I say? John, I'm sorry, John Jones. I miss, well, I got, I got another. I got a JJ coming up here, and I think we all probably do as well. But no, look, does he become the swing tackle? Does it, does he play well enough that McCarrie's role morphs a little bit? Does he end up being the starting right tackle and the swing left tackle? I think we'll see a lot of them this preseason. My three is Roger Rosengarden. Like, he is he able to hand on, and he's going to take on it. Sounds like the Eagles are going to play their starters early. Can he handle the physicality of a team that can get after the quarterback pretty good? Is he going to be able to stand up to that? What does that look like? I'm very intrigued to see him tonight. Number two. Two is where I have Wiggins. He's the first round pick. I know that when they had the NFL officials out there this past week, he got a bunch of, he was a little too grabby. Were you there out there that day, Jason? There were flags galore. Yeah, like, yeah. So he's, I want to see, obviously, he's got a ton of confidence and he's got speed, but can, like, can he handle Devonta Smith tonight? Like, is he going to be on him? How's that look? That's something I'm looking forward to. My two is Josh Johnson, the other JJ. I don't think it's quite good enough. I don't think it's going to look good enough. I'll be fascinated to see how much he plays in these games, how much of a competition this really is, how willing they'll be to go outside the organization. If this looks like somebody who's much better in theory, then in practice, he's obviously had a rough start to training camp. He played more than expected because of Lamar's absence. That didn't go so well. Now that's against a really good defense. And he's got a young offensive line in front of him. But guess what? That's going to be the case again tonight. He's going to have some pieces around him that are suboptimal. Again, including a six foot six guy who hasn't played much center, snapping him the ball and there might be adverse weather conditions. So let's see QB two. Number one, one for me is David Jabo. Like this is got to like this better different, but better look better than a year ago. Like that was jarring. Watching that last year was jarring. Like, oh my God, am I off on this player right now? Kenny set the edge. Is there any degree of physicality to him? Is he is he setting people up or their moves? Are there counters? Does he look like he belongs on an NFL football field? And I understand he's obviously still coming back from a major injury. But given what they have or more specifically don't have at this position group. Yeah, I want to say it. Yeah, I didn't get to Josh Johnson because I frankly, I feel like I know what he is. And I'm not going to be surprised about what I see tonight. But my one is a job. Oh, as well. Like, do we see any signs of a kid who was supposed to be a first round pick before he got hurt and then was taken hurt in the second round because it was supposed to be a steel in value. We haven't seen anything close to that from David Ajabo. Oh, and he keeps getting hurt. Way to take down the ginger gorilla. I think he should have had Rose and Garden on there. But Josh Johnson need to be on there too. I mean, I've seen all I need to see from him. No, I know. But I mean, backup quarterback has been a big talking point on the show for a few weeks now. You know why? Because the guy's not any good and we know that. Well, they need to be except the reality exactly. Exactly. Is that going to happen? Oh, coming up next are twib notes. The Orioles have been not playing great baseball late. Well, guess what? Neither of the Yankees. They just lost two or three of the Angels. They're rained out tonight. So the Orioles have a chance to pick up a half game away from Aaron Boone. Twib notes next year on the fan. Yeah, very. You know, tonight wasn't our night. I actually thought Nestor threw the ball OK. Like he wasn't giving up a ton of hard contact. Had a hard time putting guys away tonight. His, you know, they were spoiling pitches. He'd get to two strikes, couldn't finish guys off. So, you know, our guys are our guys are more than capable and, you know, hand the ball over to Carlos tomorrow. He's throwing the ball really well and, you know, more help on the way to with with guys coming from injury. So we have everything we need. And that was Aaron Boone. He said he had fun. That's pretty well. Well, he went four and two thirds, nine hits, a walk, six earned runs. The Angels took two or three from the Yankees in the Bronx, winning last night, nine to four Aaron Boone's. The Angels without Mike Trout, without, without Renee Foe. No, Tony. Yeah. Just a couple of pitches away. In his last seven starts, Cortez has an ERA of seven and a half. Since putting out that tweet about like, you know, people. Yeah, I don't want to be as. Yes. He's not been good. Yes. Well, none of their starters have been that good. Luis Hill is back to being their best starter over his last five trips through. And they actually let him throw 107 pitches the other night, which kind of caught my attention. Now, he only went five in doing so because he walked a ton. Yeah. But that was a little bit of a sign of desperation as well. Yankee starting rotation ERA since June 1st. Strowman 632. Rodone 583 Cortez 568. Jericho 509. Luis Hill 431. By the way, Tyler Anderson, who got the win last night. Six innings, three hits, one earned, one walks, seven strikeouts, brings the ERA down to two nine nine. I'm surprised he's still there. Me too. Me too. They've got a big series with the Rangers. I think the Rangers are pretty much cooked, but like, this is interesting for the Yankees now, because they just played a double header a day ago. And dominated the first one, got crushed in the second one, went through a lot of arms, went through some arms again last night, and now they're going to have to play two tomorrow with the Rangers. More from Aaron Boone, did the weather affect Nester Cortez? A little bit of times out there. I think it did. There was that one where it really got bad, you know, at different portions, right affected a couple of pitches, but, you know, I mean, tough conditions, both teams, you know, just not a great night for us. Tyler Anderson pitches for the halos. Yeah. Tyler Anderson pitches seemed to not be bothered. I don't think, I don't think the Angels would give that one back. No, I think they're pretty. They're up like eight to one in the fourth inning. I think they're feeling pretty good. Yeah. So the yes, as you mentioned, Yankees and Rangers, and they were rained out already today. Let's take a look at the AL West, shall we guys? And it's an interesting situation. As we sit here going into play tonight, well, obviously you mentioned the Rangers are sort of fading, but the Astros and the Mariners are in a dead heat as they interplay tonight. Yeah. And the Mariners already began a series with Tigers last night, and they needed a little bit of help from Tigers outfield defense to have a come from behind win. Former oil farmhand Brendan Hanafi started that game for the Tigers and shut the Mariners down for two innings as an opener. So, you know, Detroit's fading a little bit. You'd think the Mariners could at least at home split that series. Well, no, that was to avoid a sweep, Jason. Oh, that was the end of that series. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was the end of that series. It's like a scuba already beat them earlier. They're playing the Mets. So they've got the Mets who just played took two or three from Colorado. And Houston is in Boston. Big series. Yeah. Because Boston's playing the best baseball of anybody in this division right now. And they're, to me, doing it kind of with smoke and mirrors, because the starting pitching has regressed substantially, right? Cutter Crawford's getting hit hard. House getting hit much more than he was earlier in the year. Bayo's still up and down. They're just getting contributions from guys all over the place. They're like the little engine that could and every night, it's another hero. I don't know how sustainable it is. But if they have a good series this weekend at home against the Astros. 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