A's Cast - A's Talk - September 1

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1:04The Rangers defeat the athletics for the second straight night. And the Rangers will have a chance at a sweep tomorrow morning here on the West Coast against the athletics. A3, 3, 6, 2, 5, 2, 2, 7, 8 is the number, as always. That's A3, 3, 6, 2, 5, 2, 2, 7, 8. We, of course, love hearing from the fans. And we want to hear from you again tonight. So I was watching today's game. And I was watching Brady Bassel. And I was thinking to the opener. And I'm thinking about how do teams that have started pitching that goes deep into games typically do in a season? And to my surprise, there isn't a team in baseball this year or in any of the years that I researched. No team in baseball has had an average of six innings or more pitched by their starters in games.

2:05So right now the A's are 139 games in. And so I wanted to look there first just to see how teams fare when their starting pitcher goes to most of my earnings. So there's seven teams in baseball that have 60% or more of their earnings covered by the starting pitchers. And those teams are the Mariners, Dodgers, Guardians, Diamondbacks, Philly's, Royals, Orioles, and just the Orioles, those seven. So the Mariners have had a very disappointing season. They have great starting pitching. But we're in game seven of the ALCS last year. Dodgers are the two-time defending world series champions, as we know. Guardians under Stephen Vote have been a perennial playoff team. The Diamondbacks who are 73 and 66 have had a nice season. The Philly's, since dawn mindingly, has taken over, have turned it around. And the Royals have had a bad year

3:05and the Orioles are still in the thick of things. They just came to Sacramento and swept the athletics, as we all know. So then my mind got to think, well, where are the A's? A's are now 23rd in baseball, and innings covered by the starting pitchers, 54 and 1,5%. On average, per game A's starters cover 4.82 innings. The number one team in baseball, the Mariners, has that 5.66. Dodgers are second at 5.53, Guardians 5.5. And so then I got to think, well, let's look at now the last six years or five plus years. So data going back to 2021 into most of this season. And you look at the top 10, and you've got a bunch of teams that have either one World Series been close or been to a World Series, or were right on the doorstep of the World Series. So the Philly's went to the World Series in 2022.

4:09Mariners, as we just mentioned, on the doorstep of the World Series last year. The A's shows won the World Series in 2022. The Braves won in 21. These are the top four in order. Philly's Mariners A's shows Braves. 62.2% of innings covered by starting pitchers were the Philly. 61.9 Mariners, A's shows at 61.1 in the Braves, 60.7. And then he continued to go down the line. You have the Guardians, Cardinals, Blue Jays, Yankees, Diamondbacks, and Metz. So in that bottom half of the top 10, you have the Blue Jays who were in the World Series last year. Yankees who were in the World Series two years ago, and the Diamondbacks who were in the World Series three years ago. Where are the A's in that stretch? Now, 2021 was a good year for the athletics. They were 20th. They were 57.6% 5.11 innings covered per start. So then you go to 2022, and you take 2021 out of it, just specifically from the A's perspective.

5:11Because that's when the A's decide to tear it down and rebuild. Well, that drops the A's to 27th at just 55.8% of all innings covered by starters and 4.95 per game. So what am I getting at here? The, if you look at the top half teams in baseball, you look at starting pitching, and you look at pitching that can get out. And does it typically translate to success? Well, based on this data, yes. All right, there's always going to be an outlier. When I've given you information, when I've given you data that I've researched, there's been a few outliers, as there always are. Everything's not going to totally line up. But when you look at today's baseball, pitches are throwing fewer innings than ever before. But you can still look, and I talked about this last night, with Jacob DeGrom. He got ahead with the fastball. He located the fastball.

6:13He used the slider as a secondary pitch, which allowed him to throw his tertiary pitches. Not much, but by commanding those first two, he was able to throw them just exclusively enough to keep hitters off balance and to get out. So it's gauge jump was not able to do that. So simplifying the game. Because everyone wants to complicate things and have the new data, new stat, and well, we can do this. And we can do this with your swing. And you need to throw your arm angle at this angle when you throw a change up on a 2-2 count on a day game on Wednesday. You could still just simplify the sport. And by the data that I've been researching, it's telling me that having a starting pitcher go out and give you six or seven innings, even maybe when he doesn't have his best stuff, is better in the long run. The Ace bullpen is overworked right now. They are tapped out.

7:14And the Ace went with an opener today. Now, I know the reasoning is they wanted to give JTG in a few extra days. I don't know if something's been bothering him. He was on the IL earlier this season. But you have starters going less and less innings. Getting hurt more than they've ever gotten hurt because of the new analytical data and the new biomechanics and biometrics that teams use. And it's not really catching up with today's baseball. In my mind, I could be wrong. But based on from what I'm seeing, simplifying the game back to its core roots, which is kind of the phrase I used last night, it still works in 2026. The analytics people don't want you to know that. They don't want you to see that. But simplifying the sport still works. I'm watching a game right now. Runners on first and second. What is the team at bat two? They bunch the runner over. What game are you watching?

8:14And guess what? The runner's not only move over, but you force the defense to play defense. And they don't make the play. Now all of a sudden, you got the bases loaded. And we seen the Ace do that a couple games ago, where they bunched with runners on first and second, got them in the scoring position, and we'll look what happened, both runners score. So simplifying the game still works in 2026. Going back to what you learned growing up as a kid and little league, playing high school baseball, doing those little things, and sticking to them still works today. And I think as a sport, and everything, and sports in general, and everything we do, we always try to over kind of complicate it, and try to overthink. You go through something in life, and you're saying, well, am I overthinking it? And most of the time, we are. And you can hear back, well, just simplify it. You ask a buddy, we'll just keep it simple. Well, baseball's got to be the same way.

9:17And this data proves that you can keep it simple and still win at a high level. Now notice in the 2022, the 2026 data range that I have, so the last four plus seasons, I didn't mention the Dodgers. Well, the Dodgers are an outlier. Dodgers are 21st and baseball. But you look at the unlimited depth that they've had, and they use the ton of openers over this run, especially over the last three years. Look at how many openers they use now. That is in large part due to the amount of injuries that they've had. But the Dodgers, again, they're an outlier. They're a team that has unlimited depth and unlimited resources. So when you look at the overall data, and I mentioned the top 10, but you look at the Padres number 11, Perennial Playoff team, the Cubs number 12, Perennial Playoff team, the Blue Jays have been in the playoffs a lot over the last few years. Again, should have won the World Series, you could argue.

10:21You go down the list. Now again, few outliers, Tampa Bay Rays, ton of openers, Detroit Tigers, AJ Hinch, known to use a ton of openers. Dodgers, Dave Roberts, ton of injuries, but again, known to use a ton of openers, the Milwaukee Brewers. But it just goes to show you that for the most part, you look at this range of four plus years, it still can work, simplifying the game, not thinking too much. Because it's almost like this chess match too, when you get into a series, maybe a playoff series, you're trying to outthink your opponent and try to outthink the opposing manager. What is he gonna throw out there? If I put out this lineup or if I pinch it this guy, sometimes you just gotta roll out your best nine and go out there and play the game. And again, it's not what the analytics people want you to hear.

11:22But again, you put your nine best hitters in the lineup, you don't care if you have seven lefties and you're facing a lefty pitcher, you can play the percentages all you want. And yeah, over the course of a long season, yeah, maybe those percentages will bear out. But sometimes they don't. And you're gonna have to be answering questions if you're a manager, well, you played the percentages but it didn't work out. And when you're in a short series, a short playoff series, because we're coming up on postseason baseball starting the end of this month, that's right, it's September 1st. We've talked all about analytics and how it can work over the 162 game season but what you get into the postseason, it's a crap shoot. Well, if it's a crap shoot, then why if it's a crap shoot when it matters most, then why are you doing it at the extent that you do it? Meaning why do you rely on the analytics so heavily in the regular season that in the postseason,

12:22you're not even sure what your data is gonna work. That I think is the frustrating thing to fend. Because you look at a lot of these analytical teams, these highly analytic teams, the Brewers, the Rays, the Astros, right, the Astros have really been the only team that I've had a ton of success in the postseason, the Guardians, highly analytical teams, highly analytical front offices. You look at teams like that, how much success outside of the Astros have those teams had in the postseason as of late. Not much. Look at the Boston Red Sox. Yeah, they've been on this great run after they fired Alex Gore who pushed back against analytics and Craig Rezel looks great now, but since 2018, since they won that World Series, how much success have they had? Think they've been to the playoffs, I wanna say twice. Since then, I could be wrong.

13:22I know they went in 2021. So again, getting back to the basics, getting back to simplifying the sport. Because now you see hitters going up to the play and they're thinking, okay, well, in an 0-1 count, he throws this pitch in a 2-1 count, he's gonna throw this pitch on a day game on Thursday in Anaheim. Just go up there, swing the back. As a manager, put out your best nine. And again, I know this is not gonna change anything, but going back to the start of this, starting pitching, getting out. You're started going out there and giving you length. That's why I think the Ace of Miss Luis Severino, more than I think any of us expected. We talked about this a few days ago. Just the fact that he was giving up three, four runs, but you know what, more or less, he gave you six or seven innings. And I know he was hyped up to be the Ace

14:23and he's getting paid a lot of money. And he has a lift up to those expectations. But when you think about all the injuries, and what the Ace have had to go through, they're missing Luis Severino. And you're hoping what you get next year is a little bit more production, but also the same length that he gave you in 2025 and when he was healthy here in 2026. Let's pause 10 seconds, station identification here on Acecast and the Ace Radio Network. So Johnny and Ken and Jenny and Dallas and Chris Pounson and Cody and Sachy and Nate Mark and Ray from last night. And you Michael, I don't know Ray was on last night. Yeah, I don't know, these days blend together.

15:24Did I get stabbed in the back? Yeah, Ray, what Mark too was on last night, I guess. Yeah, Mark was on. And anyways, what do you think? I just went through that whole opening rant there. I mean, you've been around the, you know, the Ace now for, you know, almost two years. The game is so data driven and so are the NBA, so are the NFL. But you look at just where sports are going. I think we fall into the trap that just because the information is available, we feel like we have to use it and we don't. Yeah, I, this is obviously the most analytical sport, right? I don't think that's a hot take on this Tuesday. You, you agree with that, Michael? This is MLB Major League Baseball. By far is the most analytical. If you direct, directly compare it with like the NFL, they have these kind of next gen advanced stats, but most of them are pretty, at least from the fan point of view,

16:26are pretty gimmicky. They'll have like, oh, Amazon sponsoring the speed from the 20 yard line to the 40 yard line. Like how quick this, I'm serious. Like that's what they do. That's what they're doing in the NFL. That's how it's presented and packaged up for entertainment purposes in MLB. Yeah, it's a way. ABS powered by T-Mobile. Well, yeah, okay, so that, but that is literally part of the game that affects the game in a way where that affects winning or losing, so it's just way different and it is a little annoying and I don't think it's going away because when that information is there like that and it's already so integrated into your sport, it's hard to pull it away. You get, I mean, you get withdrawals from that, like a little dramatic, little, you know, but it is, it's hard to take away something that you've been given for so long. Well, what's interesting too, I mentioned the Brewers. They're a heavily analytical organization

17:27when it comes to the front office, because remember David Sterns was there before he went over to the Metz, but they have the most old school manager in baseball in Pat Murphy. So, you know, you see those two worlds kind of clashed together and you look at where the Brewers are, they are the best seam in baseball, record wise, they're 85 and 53, two games ahead of the raise and three ahead of the Dodgers. So, it's interesting to see those two worlds clashed, but and it's all very collaborative, right? You see front office and front offices and managers are very collaborative. There's line up suggestions and I don't know if the A's do this, but you just see it across baseball that there are GMs and managers that are so in sync and that really if you're the general manager and the team doesn't perform, and you, I mean essentially the GM is putting the team together and it's your philosophy, then you,

18:29there's an argument for more blame on the general manager than the manager. So, it's a very interesting world to dive into, but we are gonna get to your phone calls here at 833-65-2278, A's fall to the Rangers, 8 to 5, the final from Global Life Field tonight, this is A's talk. Low energy, unfocused, foggy, you might be dehydrated. Gatorade zero powders have been scientifically designed to help improve hydration balance in the body with a clinically proven electrolyte blend and no artificial colors or flavors, great tasting hydration, no matter where you're going, shop now online or at retailers nationwide. Gatorade hydrates better than water, is it in you? Symptoms noted are signs of mild to moderate dehydration, consult a healthcare professional if symptoms persist. A's fall to the Rangers, 8 to 5, the final let's get to your phone calls, Sandy, start us off tonight on A's talk, what's up, Sandy? Hi you guys, boy Michael, I don't know how to follow up your statistics,

19:31I think maybe Greg or Greg from slow or... No, we don't need him. Sandy, don't egg him on. He had some time last night, Sandy, it's your time. Yeah, he had too much time. I missed last night because I just got tired and I had to go to sleep and I couldn't watch it. But I will tell you, from an analytical standpoint, being an athlete way back when, I don't wanna tell you that date because it might divulge my age, but we didn't do that. It was just like, if you're on your game, you're on your game, you play the game, you pitch, you hit, you know, like Carlos Cortez, when he was on his streak, I don't wanna go there. All right, so I was going to call in and talk about my fantastic age experience for the last six games, okay? And it may be hard for you guys to listen, but please.

20:35So I saw in a maculate inning on Tuesday, last Tuesday with the twins, Bradley pitching in the top of the fifth. I've never seen that on my home play. Yeah, it's not Bradley for twins. Exactly, that was amazing. So I loved that. I loved it about baseball. And every time I see, gosh darn it, a bulltay run down the line. The first base and he runs faster back to the dugout than any other A's player does. It makes me proud. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, absolutely. This is the guy that, this is the guy that is up in the big leagues in a time where I don't think maybe he even expected to be brought up. And you see obviously what he's done in the month of August. And now as we start in the month of September, he's been unbelievable.

21:36Unbelievable. And when he got that triple in on Tuesday or Wednesday last week, he was like a gazelle running around the bases. I mean, I've never seen any base runner run like that. So, but you know, I see him behind home plate. So I told you this may be a little boring. I have my list I'm going through. Oh, yeah. And then on field, meet and greet on Monday. I got to get pictures with all of the broadcasters. Jenny, Cotsay came around and signed his bubblehead. And so, yeah, I've had a great experience with the A's. And yeah, I am totally bummed out. We're not winning, but like I told you guys, I'm there every game. I will be behind home plate for throw. I'm there. And thank you guys. You're really good at what you do. Yeah. Thank you, Sandy. All right. Thank you, Sandy.

22:36Oh, wait, one more thing. One more thing. Sure. Go ahead. Welcome back. Welcome. Welcome back. Danzel Clark. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Danzel Clark back in the lineup tonight for the first time since April. Sandy, thank you for the phone call. Have a good night. I was good. Yeah, you just, you have a quick. I like to press a button. It's fun to press a button. I push button. It's nice to have power, you know? Yeah. You, you may sometimes abuse that power. Yeah. And I'm going to keep doing it. I don't care. No, I care. I care. I pretend. Oh, I do that. Oh, I don't care. It's not true. I actually care. Something I do want to discuss. And especially with this next caller, I was getting ready to. I know who it is, but what do you? Well, eight. Yeah. How do you got? OK, well, a little tease there. But I was getting ready to just be like, why is your, your, your tour coming back up?

23:39Like what? I get it. What else are we going to do, Mike? But this guy came in tonight. I believe his ERA was 30.6. And now it's down to 21.86. I see. I just every, I think we've seen him. He dropped to what, 15 runs. I mean, there was a point. We're here. There's that 45 in the, in the, in the ERA was 45. But I was getting ready not to come on here and blast him. Because that's not, I mean, that's just not what we do. Like what, what is that? What, what do I know? OK, this guy is a professional. He's been doing it for a while. But he, I mean, he totally proved me wrong. He came out and was dealing. I was, I was very impressed. I'm always impressed when I see a guy who struggles immensely, come out and turn around. And maybe it's not going to last. You know, what I mean, he threw 18 strikes at a 29 pitches. I liked what I saw. He had three strikeouts and just two and a third. So that, that was a positive I saw today

24:41that I was really impressed by. Do I think he's going to be a future player for the A's? Probably not, you know, if I'm being honest, but I was really glad to see him do well. Because I, you know, the other, every other time we've seen him this year, it's been a complete disaster. Just, just out of control, like seriously, out of control. And he stood in there today and he did, well, am I wrong, Mike? He, he, it's not wrong. Out of control. And he came in and was a completely different picture tonight. And I was very impressed by that. Two and a third scoreless, three strikeouts. What, just the one walking. Completely different. Good stuff. Completely different. So yeah, that was nice to see. We'll see if he sticks around. You know, I'm, you know, training lightly, but I want him to do well. It's not like I don't want him to do well. But it is, it's, it's, it was almost a little comical. And then he came out and just made me my own words and I was, I was happy.

25:42It's what the A's do. They make you eat your words. Well, that's what they do. That's what, that's what Luis Severino is going to do to someone. Michael, I knew the A's were going to lose 105 games this year. Okay. I knew it the whole time. So negative, negative Nate. That's why I bet that over on seven, six and a half, between you and Cody. Jeez. Yeah. Well, I try to be positive. I get blasted by our callers. So I got to start being negative. I don't, I don't care what they think. Okay. Well, I do care what this call is. Things can I bring about Mike to our permission? I care what George thinks. What do you got? Nate, Michael, I'm calling you next to about the Paul Rabbit interview. But Nate just brought up a very, very interesting comment about a Unit Tour. And I'm kind of in the mindset of with Unit Tour,

26:45we need to be a little bit patient with him because we kind of rushed him a little too soon up to the majors, but it's great timing. Right. But the thing is he possesses pitches that I wish our guy, me and you, Michael, we like is Luis Morales. I wish Luis Morales would have a cutter in the splitter. And Unit Tour has those pitches. It's just about, it's all about location, location, location. And he looked good today, and we just got to be a little patient with it. I know it's ERA on paper looks terrible, but don't let that fool you. If he can have his location on point, I think he could be very useful even for next year. George, he'd be the pizza like that. You mentioned his splitter, eight of 11 pitches were thrown for strikes with that splitter. So that looked like was actually in his outing tonight. And I'm curious about does the credit go to Paul Abbott, who was on A's cast with Towney with the interview?

27:46Because I do think it should go there, because he's looking at him back over there in Vegas with the aviators. And the thing is I was kind of, I'm kind of a, I have to, when I saw Paul Abbott having interview, I wish Towney would have brought up Paul Abbott and his time in 2001 with the Seattle Mariners when he would light out and he was awesome. And he was hanging around each and all, and also the great, dimadging, cousin, Hido Sasaki, the great closer from Japan. I wish Towney would have kind of a, Pope that, Paul Abbott about that, because I'm actually curious about Paul Abbott's mind of how he would probably go and guide a pitcher like Imitatsia into becoming a better major league pitcher. Because, you know, recently, in the very recent time, he helped guide JTG in into becoming a better pitcher in the majors. And I thought that kind of JTG and energy,

28:48and Imitatsia the energy is kind of similar. They're both country boys, country guys, you know, from the South United States, but a country guy from Tachiki, Japan, like Imitatsia, I think those guys, their energy is very similar. And I think Paul Abbott actually would like both of them a lot. I'm curious about how he might kind of approach Imitatsia in the future about how to make him a better major league pitcher. And I wish kind of would kind of kind of prod him and kind of talk about stuff like that, especially being around Sasaki. Cousin, you know, the first Sasaki came over in 2021 as a great closer for Seattle Mariners, if you were around, remember that time. But, you know, he did great with Jacob Lopez, and he's doing good with junior tour. And junior tour like, you know, like Nate said, I came in, you know, he pitch really good, his ERS horrible, but he's doing good. Like you said, Michael was at splitter. And if you can get a sinker into Cosmoground Ball, he might be useful next year, right? No doubt about it, George. And thank you for the phone calls.

29:49Always, Paul Abbott, you know, we've seen it with, with Jacob Lopez, as George mentioned, and now you maybe we'll see something with, with TUR. That's all you can hope for. And yes, Paul Abbott was on Ace Cast Live with Tauney, youtube.com slash athletics, or wherever you get your podcast, we do post the audio version of Ace Cast Live. So make sure to tune into that, or you tune into Ace Cast, either an NBC sports California or your on Ace Cast. So many of you are in the network. Tomorrow morning, I know, right? Tomorrow morning, 11 a.m., Paul Abbott will be on the pre-game show with Tauney and Chuty Babet. So are we on tomorrow? Are we, are we doing this? I think we're doing this tomorrow, yeah. As far as I know. Okay, just checking. You know, we have fun here. Oh my God. Yeah. Anytime George is on. Oh, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a different. He got a raving review from Tauney last week when Tauney snuck off. That is true. Tauney took his call, actually. I know. And yeah, he doesn't always take it.

30:52Yeah, he doesn't take, yeah, he doesn't really take the calls when he comes on, which, it's kind of funny. Well, I'll just say that. It's kind of funny to me. George. Yeah. It's good stuff. It is good stuff. George, we appreciate you. No doubt coming up next. We'll look ahead to tomorrow on A-Stock. Let's go around the league here as the ace fall to the Rangers 8 to 5. That's one of the finals. The Phillies beat the Diamondbacks 7 to 1. Rocky's 4-2 winners over the Orioles. White socks defeat the Astros 5 to 1. That's a rematch. Nate, if you, as you know, or as you may not know, that's a rematch of the 2005 World Series, the White Sox and the Astros. Wow. Because as you know, the Astros used to be in the National League. Did you know that? Yeah. OK. I just didn't know. I mean, I don't know how new you are to the game. So, you know, well, I've always had a, my pole, my finger on the pulse. Is that the right?

31:52Of all sports. So like, I don't know. Other than that, we're talking about the Astros cheating scandal. It's like, how do you? If you're into sports at all, how did you not know about that? Or what, you know, have at least an idea? Because that was such a big boundary breaking thing that it's like insane. No doubt about it. Brewers 9-4 winners over the Cubs. Marlin's 6 to 3 over the Orioles, twins 15 to 2 over the Detroit Tigers. Nationals winners 9 to 5 over the Braves. The Mariners beat the Red Sox 9 to 6 to the Avenge. Their walkoff lost from last night. The Guardian, Stephen Votes Guardians beat the Blue J6 to 1. The Rays, 6 to 2 winners over the New York Metz down at the Trap. The Pirates and a wild one over the Giants. 13 to 12, the Giants scored five times in the eighth to type. And then the Pirates walked them off in the bottom of the ninth. Reds 4 to 3 over the San Diego Padres. And then two games in progress.

32:52The St. Louis Cardinals leading the Dodgers 11-4 bottom of the seventh and the Yankees leading the Angels 7 to 3 going into the bottom of the ninth. Well, 24 years ago today, a very, one of the most historic moments in the history of the Ace franchise happened. And if you put two and two together, 24 years ago was 2002. And the Ace won 20 straight in 2002. Well, today was win number 18 in a row and it became courtesy of Miguel Tejada with the great Ken Korak on the call. Randy Valardi at second, Ray Durramid first, one out in the bottom of the ninth. And Garado Deals. And it's a drive to left field team. Jones going back, looking up. It is gone. It's gone. Dona wins it. Do you believe it? 18 wins in a row. I don't know that there's a whole lot more than I can say

33:56because what you're hearing is all that needs to be said. Absolute, complete and total deadlock at the Oakland Coliseum. The Oakland A's have established a new club record, a franchise record. Move over a conny Mac. Art Howe in the 2002 A's own the franchise record. 18 consecutive wins. And now in the history of baseball, in the history of baseball, there have been only four winning streaks longer than this 18 game streak of the A's. The 1916 New York Giants 26 straight, the 35 Cubs 21 straight. The 06 White Sox 19 straight, the 47 Yankees 19 straight. What a moment. And you heard Ken Korak right there.

34:57You don't hear Ken with that much inflection. But that was more Kenny. Yeah, that was Kenny. That was young Kenny. That is so that was an amazing call. Oh, unbelievable. Beautiful. And it's in money ball Nate, as you don't know, because you haven't seen it yet. Maybe I have. I don't know. I don't know. We'll see. Maybe I have. But that was to give the A's a 75 win over the twins. And just say a historic moment for the athletics. And Miguel Tahada again, the walkoff three run home run to give the A's a 75 win. That was a win where that was a game where the twins had hit three solo home runs in the top of the ninth to take a 5-4 lead. And then the A's of course with the three one rock off from from Miguel Tahada. So the A's if you want to hear the home runs from the twins, interesting. You've got Matt LaCroy, Cory Korski, and Michael Kaddire,

36:02a young Michael Kaddire, went deep for the twins to tie that game. And then of course, Miguel, you're welcome Ken. That was a lot there. That was a lot. Ken, you're in. These are exciting. And it's on one tonight. Turn back the clock. Ken's ready to rock. Come on, Mike. Did you have to go there? There's Prince Charming right there. That's right. You know who I am. You know who I am, Tony. That's right. Joy is a baseball guy. Anyone else? You got to get out there, Nate? I don't know. It's when it rains, it pours. Yeah, just say you got your finger. You got your finger on the pulse of all the drops tonight. Well, as you know, Johnny, you can look at the stats. Any others? I just sent you one. I don't know. You know, I sent you one from today from Johnny. It's not in the board yet. You got some work to do. Great point. Come on, Nate.

37:03Yeah, thanks, Johnny. In this, we got Baltimore. We do. Come on, morning. Bacon and A.E. 1135, first pitch. Our coverage will begin at 11 here on Acecasts and the A's right now. Jacob Lopez will be on the mound for the athletics, looking to continue what he has done since coming up from Las Vegas and working with Aviators pitching coach Paul Abbott. And you'll hear a little bit of that interview on Acecasts on NBC Sports, California. Or you can hear the whole thing by going to wherever you get your podcasts and listening to Acecasts Live or by going to youtube.com slash athletics to watch the full interview. Lopez versus Cody Bradford, the South Pole, for the Texas Rangers. And then of course, we will take your phone calls following the game. Morning baseball from a globe life field. Of course, morning here on the West Coast should be a whole lot of fun. For Nate Littlefield, I'm Michael Barrabal. Thank you for listening to Ace Talk, everybody. Sleep fast. And we will talk to you all tomorrow.

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