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Oh, right, of course, because I know who that is.

I don't care what you think, it's-I'll tell you some of the rugby rights.

We've sheltered in mass, and I need five to sports home.

Well, this is certainly the moment of the game to this point.

It comes the one-two, and in there struck him out.

Now they're going to challenge this.

That is challenging the picture.

Look down.

Let's see.

It is a ball, but barely.

This is the ball.

Three tenths of an inch.

So two and two.

He'll try again.

And that's in there, and he's going to challenge that one as well.

Another challenge at home plate.

That is challenging the picture.

Let us see.

That's a ball.

And it's off.

So it's a full count basis loaded two down.

Back-to-back challenges, one by Swarrest.

And the three-two from Watson.

Up the middle, little tapper.

Meyer crosses body.

Got it there in time.

And Watson gets out of it.

Despite a lot going against him.

But I think the story in Major League Baseball over the weekend was ABS,

and there was the big example in the Red Sox game.

Johanio Suarez challenging consecutive strikeout pitches from Red Sox.

Rookie.

Is he technically a rookie this Ryan Watson?

Yes, he is.

So 28 in a big moment of the game, bases were loaded, I think.

And it gets two strikeout pitches on Swarrest.

He challenges both CB Buckner comes up short on both.

And that was your signature ABS moment from the weekend with the Red Sox.

Before we get to your takes, just real quick,

because we started this with Jeremy Swaman.

And like, how do you like him now?

Listen.

I would not sign him of that contract.

I'm not wrong about that.

Since he signed it, what have you gotten out of him?

And this is a good month.

I could give you a bad month, but why not just take the whole sample?

So we looked it up, you know, thought about it,

put some research into it, you know, didn't just haul off and wine.

So over the last two years, among starting goalies,

and we drew the line at 80 starts, 40 starts last year,

40 this year, I mean, it could be more,

but 80 starts, I think is fair.

There's 24 goalies who qualified.

Of the 24 goalies who had 80 starts over these past two years.

So with the regular goalies in the league,

Jeremy Swaman ranks 18th in goals against average.

He ranks 15th in save percentage.

He has the third most losses.

And he does have the ninth most wins.

But again, 18th in goals against 15th in save percentage.

You misapply off in your one and our seven seed in your two.

I would not sit there and say,

I feel great about the money I'm spending in net with that result.

But he's playing great and maybe puts you on his back

and you really go on a run this year

and we can continue the sample, but that's just the sample.

Yeah, look at it.

The one thing you could say is he's been out there a lot,

like relative to other guys.

You know that yes, it was only a second back to back ever.

Is that right?

Ever.

So hardly.

Wow.

A workhorse kind of guy here.

But the guy who's played the most in the last last years

is Vassa left.

I was going to say Vassa left.

Yeah, he's played 114 games started 114 Swaman's at 107.

He's tied for fifth.

So it is amazing how none of these guys played more than about 50 games.

Anyway, thoughts on ABS mess.

So look, I like it overall.

They got to put a limit on how many times you can use it in a game.

They're going to have to do that.

And I'm not even worried about the time of game.

I just think it turns into kind of studiary.

It becomes like up, challenging other one, up, challenge

another one.

They keep regenerating.

You can do it.

There were eight of them in the Saturday game.

Eight.

And I know Buckner sucks as an umpire.

I get it.

But I also think that, you know, in theory, you could have 20 if you

keep getting them right.

And to me, I would give it every side too.

And if you get them both right, you get one more.

And that's it.

So there's a max of six in any game.

I don't mind the, you know, like in a big spot with the red socks in the first game of the series.

That was a big spot.

They were able to, you know, extend the iPad or extend the inning.

Anthony walked on the iPad.

They ended up getting a couple of more runs.

To me, that's how it should be used.

If it's going to be used in the third inning of games.

Oh, then I mean, you know, I was scored this game or one run game.

F off.

I got, you know, too much.

Remind me to never play Blackjack at the Maz Casino shut you down if you get the hot hand.

Nope.

You've won too much.

You got to go.

I get it.

Then that can be annoying.

I'm sure this is probably an annoying experience for a lot of people who feels like it's maybe gumming it up.

I overall like it.

But because I'm fair, it could be tweaked a little.

It's not perfect.

I talked about this Saturday with Gaspar.

I sent you the clip, Mike, because you heard me talking about.

There was a clip that went viral between a game between the Royals and the Braves on Friday night,

where Salvador Perez apparently knows the strike zone better than this umpire that was behind the plate.

But when the ABS shows it, it's coming down to the little, middle, middle, little millimeter.

And that's, I know it's technically correct, but it's not what I'm looking for.

I'm looking for real a holes like CB Buckner.

You know, a name you know, like you know, Angel Hernandez or Joe West, because he's a known a hole who will call a clear ball a strike and vice versa.

I'm looking for what happened yesterday.

To see a prick like that get, you know, humiliated in front of 40,000 people and people really loving that.

That's what I like about it.

But it's certainly not perfect.

Some of it's real cheesy.

Like some of the stuff I've seen where it's just in the air.

I want, if you want to reverse it, it's got to be more ball in the box than anything else.

Not just a tiny bit like that part to me is kind of cheesy.

But overall, Murray, what do you like about it?

Oh, I love it.

It's just that you see the worst dumps like a known a hole like CB Buckner getting overruled again and again and again.

And on one of them, you see him kind of huff take off his mask, better his root challenge the call.

And then he gets overruled and the pop you get from the crowd.

Oh, they're getting humiliated like that.

It's, I love it.

I find it wildly entertaining.

It makes me want to go to baseball games.

If I get to go to a public humiliation of an umpire and get the game as well, that's worth the ticket price.

Murray says before this, we had nothing to hold the umpires accountable with.

Now they face the music.

And if you don't like this, you have a giant turd in your drawers.

And some of it is fun.

That stuff with CB Buckner was great stuff yesterday.

He just looked so mad.

Like, um, I've always been in charge.

What I say goes, not anymore.

You prick.

Now there's accountability.

And you're going to get showed up by the robots.

And they're going to put it on the big screen and people are going to laugh in your face.

That's, that's fantastic stuff.

So the good of it.

The things that I find that I like about it is there is another layer of strategy now.

And the smart teams will use it.

The dumb teams like you will let it get away from you.

There's this too.

Yeah, it was bad.

Because in your CB Buckner game, your team burned their challenges in the third inning and you were out of them.

Buckner, this CB Buckner could not tell if the beach ball went in the ocean.

Seriously.

No, I mean, he is so bad.

Looks like it's on the sand to me.

He's so bad.

And you're only one of three on your challenges, which makes you worse than CB Buckner.

The Reds went five for five.

They did.

So they challenge it eight.

I mean, eight times.

It's a lot.

And there would have been more, but there were limits, right?

Or you hit your limit.

The Reds kept going because they, but the Reds were five for five.

CB Buckner was better than you.

And you burned your challenges by the third inning because Roman Anthony.

I know the strike zone so well.

Like this, this is what I enjoy.

This karma coming back to bite you when he challenged that pitch on opening day.

And said after the game, oh, I knew that was obvious.

And the, the nesting crew is like, he's not going to miss very many of these.

This kid's got an unbelievable.

I had all the sudden Roman Anthony from Roman Anthony to the broadcasters on nestin to you.

Pull it out and start pleasureing yourself over this guy.

Oh, he's not going to miss any of you.

Oh, yeah, I knew that one was obvious.

CB Buckner got you.

It was Roman Anthony who stupidly challenged the third pitch on CB Buckner.

CB Buckner was right.

And you lost your challenges.

So I like the strategy.

Sure, of course.

No, that part of it's good too.

I mean, the Reds completely outclass the Redsaucks in this yesterday in that they knew

there's probably going to be egregious calls from this a hole.

So let's save them where the Redsaucks kind of blew their load early.

Like, uh, no, let's, and then you need them later and you got nothing left.

This guy's going to give you plenty of chances.

Don't know reason.

Do it in the third.

But Roman Anthony, he's got an eye.

He's not going to miss many of these.

Is he?

Okay.

So I enjoyed that because Narvaea has burned their other one in the second inning.

So I also enjoy the thing of in stadium.

It's obvious fans are into it.

And that adds a little layer of something that thing about publicly shaming and the fans getting

on it.

I'm all for its entertainment.

No problem.

I think that's neat too.

And I will say that if it gets someone like CB Buckner out of the rotation behind home plate,

you know, if it just shines a further light on the guys who really stink at it,

then that's probably for the better.

Because CB Buckner has long been known as one of the worst umpires in baseball and his work behind the plate

is just atrocious, atrocious, and it always has been.

And if this sheds a light on him, then it sheds a light on him.

Fine.

I still don't need it.

And I still think it's wildly unfair to the umpires.

I mean, that just for example, Murray, the the clip that you sent on Friday night,

the Salvador Perez of the Royals calling three straight on Doug Addings, the home plate umpire.

Addings really didn't do anything wrong.

And I don't think those were bad calls at all.

The first two, as you mentioned, are super cheesy.

We're under.

I mean, it's like 0.1 millimeter.

It's so corny.

The third one was clearly above the knees and should have been a strike.

But Addings was just doing what we've asked umpires to do forever, which is just be consistent.

Do you have a high strike zone or a low strike zone?

We're okay with you calling a high strike or a low strike or you have an outside corner and inside corner.

But whatever you call on one pitch, you got to call on the next.

And Addings pretty much did that.

He calls or he was calling balls on those, right?

So he's got a higher strike zone and he was really consistent on it.

Furthermore, what constitutes a strike now has been totally changed.

And maybe you don't know this.

So maybe you weren't listening to us last week.

Or because of the height thing.

It's no longer a pitch at the knees.

They measured these guys.

They measured these guys in spring training.

And the more I read about it, the more goofy it feels to me, Mass.

They measured these guys in spring training.

And this is how they're now determining the strike zone.

It's no longer the letters.

It's no longer the knees.

Again, I'll just read from one of them various reports.

And again, the more you read this, the more goofy it gets.

They measured everybody in spring training.

They did it in the morning because they found and studies have shown that you shrink throughout the course of the day.

Some more than others.

It's trying to own bigger.

But apparently you shrink throughout the course of the day by millimeters.

So they measured everybody in the morning, but not just that, Mass.

I've been shrinking for years.

Everyone was measured between 10 a.m. and noon local time.

Oh, there you go.

So it was between 10 a.m. and noon prime time.

Okay.

And then they set the ABS zone as follows.

The width of the strike zone is 17 inches, which is self evident.

That's the width of the plate.

The top of the zone is set at 53.5% of the players measured height without cleats.

You got that.

Do we follow along at home?

53.5%.

53.5% of a player's measured height without cleats.

That's the top of the zone.

The bottom of the zone is set at 27% of the player's measured height again without cleats.

The strike zone.

The strike zone is captured as the ball passes where?

Where do you determine where does it have to cross a plate for you to determine where the strike is?

Well, it's supposed to be any part of the plate.

I always thought it was any part of the plate.

It is. That's why that's why the plate is in the shape of a house, but it's upside down.

Yeah.

Any part of the ball catches any part of the plate.

That's a strike.

It's a strike, which is what it was.

Correct.

But they found a Hawkeye technology didn't capture.

And then I thought, oh, no, well, maybe it's where it crosses the front of the plate.

No, it's, but going up playing baseball and find my whole life.

Any part of the ball.

No, no.

It's.

When they went to the ABS, the Hawkeye technology had problems at the front and back of the plate.

So they determined.

It's now going to be in the exact middle of the plate.

Okay.

Okay. So the bottom is set.

So it's going to be a flat plane is what you're saying.

The strike zone is captured as the ball passes through the middle of the plate, not the front.

Okay.

So all this means is now you're dug outings.

The home plate umpire in this Salvador Perez game.

And his whole life, he's calling pitches at the knees strikes.

And it's when it crosses the plate or for captures any part of the plate.

No, no, no, no, no.

Now he has to figure, oh, okay, it's not the knees.

It's 27% of this guy's measured height standing straight up without cleats.

All right.

So I got to figure that out.

Now he's wearing cleats and he's in a crouch.

But it's not at the knees anymore.

It's 27%.

I know.

That's ridiculous.

Of his measured height standing straight up at 10 a.m.

How cleats?

How the hell?

Where's that?

Where's 20?

I have no affid clue.

No, yeah, look 27.

Wait a minute.

Not enough that the amp should go up with measuring tape to try to figure that out.

27% of your measured height standing up straight at 10 a.m.

without cleats in February.

Now you're in a crouch.

You're wearing cleats and you're down here.

Where?

What?

What am I supposed to do?

That's not the umpire's fault.

CB Buckner is a clueless dope.

Okay.

And if it shines a light on guys like this, unqualified.

Guys like this.

Great.

But this poor dog headings.

He called three balls at the knees the exact same way.

And again, the third one was what?

But I don't blame him.

No, those first two were like.

What's he supposed to do?

Yeah.

How's he supposed to figure out 27% standing straight erect without shoes on in February?

Well, it's May.

It's April.

And he's in cleats and he's crunched over.

I can't call it the knees anymore.

I'm supposed to figure out will someone can someone draw some split like lay some string.

So I can figure out where the F 27% is.

How about 53 and a half percent on the high part of it?

53 and a half percent.

Oh, I got a finger.

Would you stand straight up for me, sir, real quick?

I got to find the midline of you.

And then I got to add three and a half percent.

However I do that.

And it's not where it crosses the front of the plate or the bat.

It's, I got to figure out the middle of the plate.

Like F off.

And it will go great to see these umpires getting exposed.

Yeah.

You try it.

You try that.

Try and figure out where 53 and a half percent is of this guy.

No, that's acid.

That's for me.

Again, you know what I mean?

I'm not.

You already know it.

Salvador Perez knows the zone better than the umpire.

Well, one he's standing race in a crouch.

Standing over the sitting over the plate.

So he's in a little bit of a better angle to call the low strike because he's right there on top of it.

It's his picture.

And he's only.

You.

Okay.

I'm going to have Salvador Perez stand up behind the catcher for every picture of the game.

There's like what?

280 pitches a game or something like this?

All park sure.

But between 250 and 250 and 300 pitches a game.

And now you've got to keep your focus for 300 F in pitches standing over the catcher with guys you've never seen before.

Not your pitcher.

And do you know the zone as well as dog headings?

Do you?

I bet you don't.

I bet you don't.

So like.

I see be buckner deserves whatever he's getting.

But there are a lot of good umps who they've made it.

I think pretty challenging.

Pretty hard for them to call what a strike is.

Yeah.

This again, this is part of the reason why I think there were too many challenges.

But those numbers are unbelievable.

Yeah.

I'm just looking for the come up.

And it's on a holes like Buckner when it's that chancy.

Like it just feels like this is a waste of everyone's time.

I just think they made it impossible for these guys to tell what the top and the bottom of the zone is.

So like if you're six foot and all by the way, time of games are way up.

And it's always.

I'm not surprised.

It's always hard to drag down the game.

Last year's average nine inning game was 238 already this year.

It's 244.

I told this to you on Friday.

And immediately got the emails.

We were a lot of runs card.

Okay.

Well, now we've got a full weekend slated games.

High scoring, low scoring.

You're averaging 244.

The total average time of game, including extra innings is 248.

It's the highest since the prega pitch clock.

Here we go.

The slippery slope back to us sitting around with our thumbs up our ass.

For four hours.

Because the umpires being asked to ask and being asked to figure out what 27% of the guys hide is.

It's just stupid.

It's just dumb overall.

I don't need this crap.

As usual, I've gone way too long.

I'm sorry.

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Felt good.

Mass.

Oh, I got a pass.

The sports out.

Can't story.

Figure out Pagan at last.

Down two strikes, two down to one.

And Pagan with the O2.

Check sweating any wet top plate up.

I was gonna ring him up.

That is strike three in the end of the inning.

Got a tear.

And story is livid.

It was the home plate up butler who rings him up.

Got a tear.

And Trevor's story just does not lose it like this.

The court is saying the same thing.

Hey, my home buyer is trying to call a bitch and a swing.

Just check it.

That's why the guy's down there.

You don't have to do everything, CB.

No.

We have time to show you how bad this was by CB Fogna.

Take a look at this.

A called strike three on the swing.

First of all, it doesn't go.

And then secondly, does not appeal to an uppire with a better angle.

There's nothing that irritates your hit or more.

When a home plate on fire tries to call everything.

All you got to do is put your right hand up and let the man on first base make the call.

Eventually, Kor ends up getting wrong here between Emmings.

He is out of the game.

Story stays in the game.

It's short, but just a bad call.

It's a horrible call.

When they showed the replay, stories hands are, he's holding, trying to hold the bad back.

And he succeeds.

I can see that he didn't go.

But it's not like the head of the bat was by the catchers shin guards.

Okay.

The bat was pretty parallel with the front of the zone.

And by definition, that's not a swing.

It's got to break that plane.

Okay.

But the way they talk is like he missed it.

But look, look at how this is the only time I got annoyed.

I'm like, look, guys.

You hate CB Fogna.

Okay, you do.

The call was wrong, but it wasn't so horrifically bad that it was obvious.

No, but the problem is that he didn't check it.

Yeah, I don't know.

Listen, totally.

Just go down to first.

Yeah.

So I just think that, you know, the hatred for CB Buckner is an umpire is getting confused

with the actual call.

Okay.

So that's all I'm saying is I'm not telling you the guys are good up.

He's not.

He's not.

But that doesn't mean he misses every call by 10 feet.

Okay.

That's all my point is.

So I, you know, I just felt like it was a little over the top, a little.

Anthony and Jacksonville on ABS.

Yes, Anthony.

What's up, boys?

Leave it to baseball.

It's kind of ruined this again.

I mean, we got the game shorter with the pitch clock.

And now this game's going to be 30 minutes longer.

So you're I knew listening to that.

Your schmenzer was getting a little not like.

It's a minute to like three a game for each team prioritize them.

See you.

Yeah.

I mean, listen, if I were a manager, I would tell my team, you're not going to do it at

all until the sixth inning.

And I'd, you know, unless it's so, so, so you bet.

If you do this early, you better not be wrong.

Something like that.

You know what I mean?

Yes.

Because it's just a waste of just so many.

It's just so hard.

And now harder than ever for these umpires to call the bottom of the zone.

It's the bottom of the zone stuff that it really seems to be showing up.

Especially now that it's a predetermined formula based on 27% of the guy's height standing straight up without cleats.

And where across is the middle of the plate, not the front of the plate.

It's amazing.

So hi, like that's just this is asking a lot for a guy to figure that out.

He can't call it at the knees anymore.

That's not what that is technically.

So it's pretty much like that's what I think it's going to come down to.

There's going to be so many that are on the board of line that you just going to you should save them.

They should all be at the end of the game.

I mean you and I were just going over this quickly during the break.

If you're 72 inches tall with your six feet, then 53 and a half inches is you said 38 plus 38 and a half.

38.52 is what I just said.

Okay, so 38 and a half inches is the top of the strike zone.

So they clearly plugged everybody into a mat formula and said this is where it's going to be.

What if your bow leg had like me?

What if you have a big torso like a shorter legs, right?

Or what if you like stilts over here on my left who's got long legs?

Right.

You know, so your bodies are all different sizes.

So now it's going to you're going to use the same formula for everybody.

I hate that.

Yeah, it should still be arbitrary.

It shouldn't just be this one system that everyone is adhered to like that.

I didn't know that this part I find cheesy.

I mean, and again, the top of the zone is 53.5% of a player's measured height without cleats.

So that is as I just put it in the calculator, it's 38.52.

38.52 inches.

And then they convert to millimeters.

Okay.

So now the empire has to figure out what this dudes.

Where is 38.52 on this guy?

And then it calls a high strike.

It comes back.

It's 38.53.

Oh, idiot.

You lose.

You don't know the zone.

Like, come on people.

Be fair.

Like, be reasonable about this thing.

I mean, by the naked eye, you're supposed to be able to detect a tenth of an inch with a ball moving 90 miles an hour.

It's just stupid.

How about Derek and Fox, bro?

Go ahead, Derek.

Yeah.

So, you know, as bad as the Red Sox offense was over the weekend, you know, they would still be three.

You know, if sunny gray and white.

Didn't completely craft that pants in their outing that, you know, this sunny gray.

You know, the rest of the history of bringing in these, you know, former all-stop pitchers who are when they get here that over the hill, you know.

Don't remember what they bought in John Smoltz years ago when he was completely cash.

Well, let me tell you.

They might be cash.

It's gotten worse.

Yeah, it's got worse than ever, Derek.

It's a typical mid-market NL Central kind of move that you made.

He came from the NL Central sunny gray.

He just swapped NL Central teams.

That's what Henry and.

He also have turned into a nice little NL Central club.

You take sunny gray from the Cardinals.

They send some money, throw them in there, see how that goes.

Doesn't really cost you much.

Good cost effective move.

And that's what you are.

That's what you got.

You got exactly what they've done.

You got the, you got one of the Cardinals starters.

You got the Brewers.

Third baseman.

Durban.

A nice affordable deal, sort of mid-market kind of swapping.

And that's what you are.

That's what your team is.

Nice.

You got a nice cute little NL Central team over here, guys.

I am offended by Caleb Durban.

And not by him specifically.

I'm offended that the Red Sox identified him as a, you know,

American league east big market player.

That is offensive.

It's offensive.

That guy's not even close.

He is a, again, he doesn't hit the ball hard.

He's not very big.

You know, he's just, he's a borderline big leagueer.

He really is.

He's a for a player.

Don't go playing Cleveland.

What are you doing here?

And it's not his fault.

So like I'm taking, it sounds like I'm taking it out on him.

But that's on them.

He's naughty.

He is not what you'd call a first division player.

He's a likable guy when he performs a little bit.

Because he's really a tri-hard guy and a dirt dog.

And one of the, you'd like him.

When he's not going over 12,

over 4th runners in scoring position with three strikers.

He should be hit nath for the Minnesota twins.

Yeah.

Well, that's what that he is.

Wow.

Turns out, Maz, he is.

Because that's the club that that the owner wants

and the GM has built.

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Mike and Tony have a definite chemistry.

Are they?

100%.

Are they?

Yes.

Did I do I study?

Do you consider them the periodic table of sports stars?

Put down your pipe and smoke, buddy.

Sorry.

We need to blow a gas.

Blow it, baby.

Blow it.

Feel good and bad.

That's up to Royale.

Now to 2-1.

Go!

I run right field deep.

Benchon back, back, back.

And it is gone.

And it is tied.

How do you like that?

Will you're touching along with two down in the ninth inning?

And it's a five-five game in Cincinnati.

I'm going to get thrown around.

Throw one more.

See what happens?

Because this one up, you could tell.

We just sat there.

He knew we got it the whole way.

This guy's going to have a monster year.

I'm telling you.

Will he swing the bat at WBC?

The way he swung it.

And spring training at the end.

That went a long way.

360 feet.

It was really high.

But he knew it.

He cares.

Too high.

It's gone.

You're Meloni's call there?

Yeah.

That's up to Royale.

Now to 2-1.

Go!

I run.

Do you have faint whiff of zo?

In that call?

I think golly and the list do it the same way now.

Go!

I run.

You're supposed to laugh at the opponent?

No.

Go!

I think it's supposed to be sort of the guy in the background.

That's like the Pat McAfee crew.

Ah!

That's not just that.

It's like sort of laughing and mocking.

It's loose.

You just keep throwing it.

Didn't he?

Yeah.

He did mock the other side.

Yes.

Definitely.

So laughing at the guy.

Go!

Listen to those calls.

You know, Bader's being a play.

He's pretty much laughing at the opponent.

He's gonna be one of the dumbest calls in Super Bowl history.

That one deserved it though.

That's a famous example.

But, uh, yeah, I got a little whiff of that.

Remember the Washington play by play guy who did it?

Of course.

Touchdown!

Touchdown!

Touchdown!

Touchdown!

Unreal!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

It tickles.

It kills very doughboy.

I'm gonna start doing this.

Touchdown!

Touchdown!

Touchdown!

Unreal!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Let me hear Lou again.

Ah!

Ah!

Oh!

Ah!

Oh!

Oh!

Let me hear his own.

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Ah!

Just laugh at the opponent.

He yuck it up.

Uh, back your call.

Ah!

Ah!

Allen in four down the red sauce.

Go ahead, Allen.

Yeah.

I want to say, I'm not gonna react over three games.

But I'm gonna tell you, I said it in January.

And you disagree with me so that this is not a playoff team.

And, you know, how many times I've read in the globe, they have an elite pitching staff?

Elite?

Do they know what the word means in dictionary?

You've got to all over the hill.

You just said it.

Masks just said it.

Sonny Gray, who couldn't get a batter out in New York.

You have a guy since, since, well, Ranger.

How come Tabraski didn't even make a move together?

He didn't even make him an offer.

He didn't want anything to do with him.

And the second best pitcher is early.

By the way, Bretman's got two home runs.

Uh, and you've got a third baseman that really should be in Worcester.

Yes.

Maybe in Worcester.

I mean, and now you've got a guy like Anthony, all of a sudden, he's the D.H.

The third game of the season.

They're gonna keep on moving him from position to position.

This team is really, they're not gonna make the playoffs.

I'm sorry.

Baltimore's gonna beat them out in the playoffs.

This team right now, other than Anthony, the Braille, Crochet and a couple

of the relief pitches with lock and Chapman, they've got nothing.

Well, they might not.

They, they, I don't think it's a lock that they make the postseason.

I don't know how we improve.

They are in terms of the roster from last year.

They're, you might get individual improvement from some players.

But I don't think the roster, roster rosters improved off the last year very much.

At all.

I mean, it doesn't, I mean, it appears.

I think you're right.

It looks, it certainly looks that way.

And when I say it looks that way, I mean, last year, I was looking at some of the

numbers.

Last year, you take away that 10 game winning streak.

They had in the middle of the year.

They were basically a 500 team in games that crocheted in pitch.

They were basically a 500 team.

They couldn't hit with runners in scoring position.

In fact, they struck out a lot with men in scoring position.

Defensively, they weren't very good.

They made a couple of errors this weekend.

They've, you know, made stupid mistakes on the basis.

Durango picked off yesterday.

It might not really be that different.

So, uh, and not that I'm saying that Brian Bale and Lucas Gialito and Bale still here

obviously, but that those guys are better than Sonny Gray and Ranger Suarez or not.

But, you know, you got 21 wins between Bale and Gialito last year.

Are you going to get 21 wins between Gray and Suarez this year?

I don't know.

I mean, you, you, they, they won games.

Do you, do you remember what Kora, uh, Gialito won games last year?

Yeah.

And Kora said something of this effect.

Uh, last week, if you remember, he said, I'm not going to say that we're better pitching

wise than we were a year ago, but we're deeper.

They are that.

Okay.

He said better.

We have to go out and do it.

But I still found the comment interesting because it's like, again, they needed to get

better.

They didn't need to get deeper.

They needed to get better and they chose the depth.

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Oh, yeah!

Thoughts calls emails.

Oh, yeah!

I-I get my jollies on this.

I do.

I'm not a good person.

Go ahead.

Failure and match.

Yeah!

I need five.

The sports hub.

I don't think Adley Ruchman could really trick before he did challenge.

Oh, the pitcher's challenging.

Yeah, he couldn't win.

I think he could trick before he did challenge.

Oh, the pitcher's challenging.

Yeah, he couldn't win.

I think he could trick before he did challenge.

I think he could trick before he did challenge.

Because of the pitcher's challenging.

Yeah, he couldn't win.

Right to his hat.

Brian and Hensley, with the first pitcher challenge he got.

The first challenge by O'Neill's pitcher, and Derek Shelton is incensed, he didn't think

Hensley got that off in time.

Oh, he went right to his hat.

Came off the mound, and tapped his hat.

Last Diaz is on, and Derek Shelton to get back.

back. And the runner, Kishal, will be fed back to first. And Derek Jones has been thrown

out. He's arguing with the roll box. You can't defeat the roll box. He did it a second

time that maybe the manager, he didn't see the first. He missed the first one. He saw

the second one, but he absolutely, watching the replay tapped his shoulder. I'm not

going to do anything wrong. And the pitcher had it right. It was only one of five challenges

from the pitchers. This was I was watching MLB network today. There have been 175 challenges

so far. Overall, the challenging team is 94 of 175 only hitting on 53.7% of the time.

So again, they're getting, you know, there's 94 calls that would have been missed that have

now been made correct. But in terms of the umpire thought one thing, the team thought the

other, it's still just a 50, 50 call. Yeah. Basically, it's interesting though. Everyone

else is under 500 other than catchers, catchers other than ones who are getting it right.

Catchers are 59 of 92. Pretty good. 64.1%. Be right up a good point about that. Like they've

got the closest look at the action at the plate, you know, of course, and the eye level.

They have the best angle. Right. Again, on the hardest pitch, Murray, which is at the

pitch at the knees, they're right there. So they should have that. I mean, like, of course,

yes, the catcher is going to have that before the umpire. He's in a better spot. Never mind.

He knows the pitcher. He's with him every effing days and catching him for months, if not

years. And I'll dimension. He's right there. So yeah, the catcher is going to have that.

He knows the plate better than the umpire. Yeah, he should. I mean, he's really, he's

on the right plane. He's, you know, he's at eye level pretty much the whole way on the

pitch. But anyway, so catchers are 59 of 92, 64.1%. Batters are only 33 of 78. That's 42.3%.

Pitchers, two of five, 40%. So like, you know, I think this is all going to sort of shake

out over the course of the year. If I were a team, I'd be, I'd be saying, guys, if you

do it before the sixth inning and you're wrong, you're going to get fined or something,

you know, whatever we can do. No, to me, this is why I'd limit the number of times they

can do it. Don't, don't, don't do it before the sixth inning. And, and if you do, you

better be right or you better be one. So, and then I can't do anything to you. But you

know what I mean? Yeah. So before the sixth inning and secondarily, let's have the catcher

do it. You know, the pitcher never needs to do it. The pitcher's almost never in a better

position to see it than his catcher. So the catcher's always going to do it on defense.

And if you're the batter, well, you better be right. Because pretty much the, the catcher

and the umpire are in a better spot than you are. So I think those numbers will come out.

Yeah. The, the, Chris Hales said in spring training that he was never going to do it because

the catcher was in a better spot anyway. So to me, I love that. I love the fact that

the pitchers just staying out of the way on it except for the 5-8 holes who decided to

do it. Like to me, the pitcher, you know, the catchers get the best view of the whole

thing. There's absolutely no question about that. The hitter doesn't have a choice. But

it should be him. I mean, the hitter's at the plate. He's the one who should be doing

it. Certainly shouldn't be a guy on second base. You know, just quickly like people have

always toyed with the idea of maybe the balls and strikes should be called from behind the

plate. I mean, behind the mount. Yeah. I wonder like I wonder if that's a better place

to call balls and strikes from. I think you can see it better from back there. But whatever.

The low ball, you probably can. Yeah. Uh, then there's one in all the reading made Vinnie

came across this too. But all the reading, there was one other little interesting nugget

that I unearthed. And that is, you know, these measurements, these for cocktail measurements.

So now the players actually have an accurate measurement of how tall they are. Where if

you're a little undersized, what do you generally do on that? If you're a little undersized,

yeah. Crouch. I don't understand the question. It tell the meaty relations guy. Oh, right,

right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a six feet. Oh, I see what you mean. Yeah. I'm six feet. You're

no, you're 68 and a half inches. Yeah. I'm six feet. Uh, so of the 430 hitters, this is

a coin to the athletic of the 430 hitters on opening day rosters, 225 of them lost at

least one full inch off their previously listed heights in 2024 and 2025. I'm not surprised.

Is it going to data compiled by the athletic through players official and historical heights

on MLB dot com six have lost three inches. What? So there are three, I'm sorry, six little

shorties out there, little short man complex, who are embarrassed at their 5, 8, who've been

listening to themselves as 5, 11 or something six, lost three inches. The pub shows these

in the world when they actually measured you and logged it and it had to be official.

They have so three inches only was he said six to six lost three inches, 48 have lost two

inches and a hundred and 71 have lost at least an inch on the other side, 45 players did gain an

inch. I mean, you're better off being shorter than taller in the sample. I mean, in this one,

you want to be, you want to be shorter, but no, uh, 225 MLB players were exposed in this one.

I'm going to start telling people I'm 5, 10. All right, back to your phones on everything.

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