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So now it's the all 47's club for show you Tony and year one with the Dodgers. And it's home run number 47 for the big Joe. Oh, he lights up this crowd. It is a two to one score now. One thing that I thought was hilarious about some of the coverage the last couple days of what Otani's doing is a comment from David Ortiz was one of the great defense designated hitters ever. He said MLB always had an excuse for not giving me the MVP. Supposedly because I was designated hitter. I'm going to see what they do this year. I'm going to sit back and wait to see where they run besides Otani is MLB's darling. He's suggesting Otani's going to an MVP, which he is because he's major league baseball's darling. Otani's the anti David Ortiz. David Ortiz couldn't play in the field at all. And all he could do was hit. He also couldn't run the bases. He was just a big bopping masher. Otani has 50 stolen bases. We'll soon. We'll have 50 home runs and is rehabbing from his injury where he's one of the 10 best pitchers in the game, just a stunning unbelievable season and a really bad take from David Ortiz. So he had years where he absolutely could have won the MVP. Yeah. When another guy was great and also played in the field. Totally. But even with that, I, if you're asking me what I've given it to him over Justin Moore no in 2006 upon retrospect, maybe I could. I could be talked into that. But that's, that's the other here and there. The implication of why never won it. So the only reason Otani's winning it is some sort of like he's their darling or he sells a ticket or something like that. What? I don't know. There have been guys that it respectfully that it fit 50 bombs that 130 plus RBI's like Ortiz did in the mid 2000s. And Ortiz is great as damn Hall of Famer for God's sakes, right? I mean, the iconic moments in Boston are his, right? He's the, he's the number one curse breaker. Superstar should be in rare fight air and he is. But the idea that because he didn't win the MVP, somehow it's this weird, Otani conspiracy, just such a bizarre opinion to me from a guy that I generally respect an awful lot. Well, he was told along the way, I'm sure, or at least acknowledged it's hard for me to win because I only hit. And that's what, to him, DH meant. And I think that was held against him. Surely it was that he was just a DH, but he was a DH because quite literally, if he had to play in the field, he wouldn't have been a starter. Very bad. It would not have worked. It would have been a disaster. He had a frying pan for a glove. Otani plays at times a premium defensive position when, you know, he is, and he hasn't been here this year, but when he's been asked to play in the outfield is an athlete who could run around if they needed to him in center. But he's a pitcher and a hitter. This year, he's just a hitter. He is just a DH, but he impacts the game on the base pads as much as anybody not named Ellie Dayla Cruz impacts the game offensively in a way that nobody else has other than Aaron judge this year. I just thought it was a bad take and it sounded like sour grapes from David Ortiz. Let's hit the headlines in our final few minutes. We'll start in the AFC of the NFL where there is a game tonight between the bills and the dolphins. T Higgins is confused by talk that he is faking in injury. Told ESPN on Thursday that he is in fact hurt and anybody who thinks he's just now not playing because this is a continuation of a holdout is wrong. He said, quote, I just don't understand why fans think I'm faking an injury when for me to get an extension for a contract. The deadline is over. I just don't understand why they think I'm faking an injury. It doesn't make sense to me. He didn't practice. He said he wasn't going to play without a new contract. That probably has something to do with it. I personally don't think he is faking the injury, but I could understand where fans would be skeptical when a guy who was at odds and angry at the team is now pops up on an injury report and could be out for a few weeks and no one really knows where the injury came from. You're at odds with the team. You said as much you're on record, I believe is saying I'm not going to play without a new contract and you don't have a new contract. That's where they're getting it from. Now, I don't for one second, unless there's a report I don't know about believe that he's faking an injury. That is no way to get what you want. What you ultimately want is a long term deal, whether it's there or somewhere else. You don't get that by faking an injury and not playing. That's that's that's going to what's we like to call this in industry, hurting your value that is hurting your value. He needs to play and play good football and demonstrate that he still can't. I believe he can, by the way. So yeah, that's not in his best interest to to go out there and or not go out there as the case may be and you know, go my neck, my neck and my back. I can't go today, Skip, but that's I don't buy that for a second. On to Thursday night football, Bill's dolphins. You heard me say earlier to our guest, Will Brinson, I'm sneaky picking Miami in this game. Do you have a good feel for this game that I know? I think Buffalo is better than Miami. I think it's early enough in the season that that doesn't matter that much. I think the fact that it's an early game, meaning Thursday night football, like throw everything out. It's just now strange and same kind of thing. I said, honestly, with the international game for the Packers and the Eagles. Uh huh. These week two, it's a half week after the season started. You're not in any kind of a flow. It's really strange. I know that they've dealt with some injuries with Jalen Waddle and the dolphins don't have Rahim Mostard tonight. So they're also banged up, but my big concern for Buffalo is Ava Heat. You're playing in Miami in September. Look at how much they cover how often they win in those games, especially in the one o'clock, but obviously it'll be a night game a little different, but it's still nasty and sweaty for a team that isn't going to deal with that a whole lot this season to the extent that they will tonight. The other thing is they don't have 30 points in them right now. I don't think I know they had to win a game with 34 when Josh Allen went nuts. I mean, Superman stuff. Yeah, but that was Arizona. This different thing, not a division game against a team that knows you knows what you want to do. That was cross conference team. You barely play. You're in the East there in the West kind of deal. I don't think they're going to score 30 plus on Miami. So unless they can hold the dolphins offense and check, I just don't see them keeping up. I picked them to beat Miami probably 90 80% of the time. Uh huh. Tonight's just a weird night where I'm kind of sniffing the dolphins. So watching Buffalo against Arizona. So a lot of that came this past weekend. They were really kind of in the mud sort of like stuck in neutral for a while, right? On offense on defense just sort of didn't look up to snuff and Arizona got a lead on them and was probably the better team for most of the game. Then you said it, Josh Allen turned into Superman and Buffalo hit that gear and Arizona couldn't match it. So I'm going, okay, you can't get away with that against Miami, right? Well, Miami did the exact same thing against Jacksonville where they're sleepwalking through and it's only a fluke fumble that turned that game around. They, they shouldn't have wanted either. I just don't, if, if Miami had been playing well and I saw what I saw from Buffalo, this is a week three or four, right? Am I already played well? I got to three and one start and Buffalo been kind of slogging their way through that to two and one and had eked out a win kind of playing the way that they had. I go, I got a good feeling about Miami. I really have no idea who's showing up for both of these teams. I'm leaning Miami, but that's one of those like my voices going up. Well, I know this. If Miami loses this game and they're one and one, the feeling tomorrow fair or not is just going to be that they couldn't meet the bullies. They're good, but they're just not good enough. Like the bills are still a lot better. And I just think the bills are there for the taking. It's kind of a, if not when you're not now when kind of deal where they don't know who their weapons are. They don't really have everything sorted out on offense. It's kind of a Josh Allen James cook mismatch where they're going to be running the ball and playing closer games. And I think that should theoretically play into Miami's hands. Although it is true that the dolphins are injured a little bit more than they'd like to be too on offense, but you got Tyree kill. And when you got Tyree kill, you got a shot. Absolutely. That is a strike up the band. Make it easy kind of guy. See if he goes in motion that I think he will rain most or chest out. I believe we mentioned that he will not be going tonight. So throw him onto the pile for Miami in terms of the injuries. All right, let's get you ready for Nat's baseball. They're coming your way against the Miami Marlins over at Nationals Park at 6 45 this evening. You're Nat's starting line up and pitching matchup is presented by the window man. Since 1989, the window man has been the educational window company. Get your free no pressure in Ohm estimate at the window man dot com. We're at their Fairfax showroom behind Mitchell Parker. Where may go pitch Miss Parker. We've got playing shortstop. See Jay Abram is batting second to right field Dylan Cruz batting third and left field. The James Wood quick pause. Abrams Cruz would one, two, three in the order. Yes, please. Thank you very much. David Martinez. It's the good stuff back to your lineup. Your DH batting cleanup. Andres Chaparro batting fifth to third base. Oh, they're getting out of some of batting six during the catching cable or we's betting seventh and second base. Luis Garcia batting eighth at first. That's Joey Gallo batting ninth and center field. Your guy, my guy, our guy. That is Jacob Gallo Mitchell Parker, the 24 year old lefty six hits, four runs and four walks. Didn't get out of the fourth inning in his last start against the pirates. Look at the splits for him. It has been a rough second half. Yeah, pretty steam a little bit. Feels like right. Oh yeah. Pre all star, big 237 average against in the 390 are a post all star break a 304 average against and a five, five, six or run average. Okay. So the pre was better than the post, you know, looked like a mid rotation big league starter for a little while and it's kind of cooled off in a big way, but he's been durable. He's a horse of sorts and you know, he's a guy that can go out any given outing and give you six innings and they're hoping for that some length tonight for the nationals. Let's get you our nat's weather report presented by Pepco. Today's game day weather is presented by Pepco because storm seasons here and they know a little prep makes a big difference. Get storm informed at Pepco.com/storm prep. Our show meteorologist is Daris Dameron temperatures are a fallen. It'll be 78 degrees by first pitch tonight. A little bit cloudy, but no worries. No precipitation in the area. It'll dip down into the six into the high sixties by the end of the game. Should be a good night in that's park. You and I will experience it in person as we get ready to head over to Nashville. Need a gang for some baseball. By the way, I had to fill out today the media awards given to the nationals, each baseball season. I didn't have to turn it back in today, but it was sent today, I guess. I should say the player of the year, the picture of the year and the good guy of the year for the Washington nationals. Player of the year was somewhat difficult for me and I'm still workshopping it. I actually tweeted a poll just to get the pulse of the people at Grand H. Paulson on Twitter. To me, to be the nationals player of the year, you probably had to have been here for the vast majority of the season. So that excludes James Wood, who's going to end up playing about half a year. Certainly anybody who came up after him in early July, they've basically only got four guys who have been here all season because of the trades and all of the demotions and promotions. Yep. CJ Abrams, who is the fifth national level of a 20 home or 20 steel season has 20 bolts and 28 stolen bases. Luis Garcia, who got his act together and had an excellent year compared to his past. Jacob Young, who's been one of the great defensive center fielders in baseball and has a TMI 31 steals and then catcher, K Barrett Ruiz, who has actually been pretty solid in the second half of the season. If you look at that rotten start, yeah, horrendous and the numbers because that are going to end up being really bad. But like he is on a 28 home where I think it is pace, basically since the all starboard. So he's been a lot better since then, but Abrams Garcia, young Ruiz, those are the only guys essentially that have been here all year that you can even consider for player of the year. I think I'm going to go with Jacob Young, which I think is a minority opinion because Abrams with the home runs and the steals is flashier and Garcia has some better counting stats, certainly more power. Young's not a high OPS guy, 257 average, a lot of just base hits. But the 30 steals, I think allow me to slot him in based on his premium defense. He's been a immaculate in center field. And if you look at it right now, he's worth more wins. His war B war, I would imagine his F four as well, but his B war is the highest on the team slightly had a CJ Abrams, which means he's been the most valuable national. So even though I think he might not win it, that's the guy I'm going to vote. Yeah, that's not crazy, by the way. I mean, you look at Abrams overall, because the, the two months that he was just incredible, booed over his overall numbers, but almost identical slash line to last year in terms of batting average on base percentage, slowing percentage OPS. Ultimately, not maybe as much growth as we thought for Danny. I'm Grant saying so long. Big thanks to Daris and Ryan behind the scenes for their production. As always, you want more on the Nat's, we got an episode of Boston lose baseball and is out for you. It's a terrific national's podcast. 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