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Can't story figure out Pagan at last, down two strikes, two down to one, and Pagan

with the O2.

Check swinging, and he went to play up, I was going to ring him up.

That is strike three in the end of the inning.

Got a check there.

That story is livid.

It was the home plate-up, Buckner, who rings him up.

Got a check there.

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

The court is saying the same thing.

Hey, my home buyer's 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 Buckner.

Take a look at this.

A called strike three on the swing.

All right, first of all, he doesn't go, and then secondly, does not appeal to an

uppire with a better angle.

There's nothing that irritates a hit or more.

When a home plate-up buyer 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 innings.

He is out of the game, story stays in the game, it's short, but just a bad call.

So horrible, Kor.

To me, the story was not the ineptitude of CB Buckner.

I know that he sucks.

That was obvious.

The story is that you only went one of three on challenges against him and ran out of

challenges because you could, CB Buckner was more right than you were.

That's hard to do.

That's hard to be.

You said they went back and looked at it with the quest or whatever.

He had 26 missed calls in that game.

Correct.

Yeah.

Earlier in the day, that on strike calls strikes, he was 72% accurate, which it, Mike,

that is so horribly bad.

It's not even, he missed one out of every four and you went one of three against him

and we're out of challenges by the third inning.

That's the story.

Good point.

That's the red socks.

You were worse than CB Buckner.

Go ahead.

That the red socks as an organization haven't looked at the ABS change here is that there

needs to be real strategy behind it.

They just said, oh, that's a new rule change.

Okay.

It needs to be strategy in a case like with CB Buckner, who sucks, know that there's going

to be your greatest calls being made against you at some point.

Hold on to them.

They're going to be coming down the pipeline.

So don't be so quick to use these challenges, maybe lose them like you did.

And then you're boned.

The other team was smarter.

Yes.

The reds were five for five.

They didn't, they, they knew how to handle CB Buckner.

You had no clue.

Your guy was such a great eye, Rowan Anthony, who was bragging after opening day.

Well, yeah, I knew that was low.

It was obviously low.

The broadcaster.

He's not going to be missing many of these here, you know, with his elite eye, he, he was

the one that ran you out of challenges.

Because he kept tapping his helmet and CB Buckner got it right.

So there's a little commutments for you.

But the story is that you couldn't take advantage of CB Buckner.

The red shirt did.

They were smart about it.

I was reading this in the athletic.

Reds catcher, Jose Trevino on Saturday, refrained from challenging two called third strikes, one

of which was egregious.

Perhaps he just wanted to avoid the risk of the reds running out of challenges early.

But he also might have sensed that CB Buckner was frustrated.

And knowing he would be working closely with the umpire all game, figured discretion was

a better part of valor.

Smart.

So the reds catcher was playing them strategy thought that's the only thing I might like

about this ABS is that there is some strategy involved now.

You obviously don't have any.

And the reds did.

And to me, that's the story, not the fact that CB Buckner sucks.

I know he sucks.

Talk about a guy who could read the situation, right?

Now, I'm going to let this one go.

I'll take the bullet.

This guy's on edge.

He hates this thing.

He's pissed about it.

He's old school.

And we're going to need him later.

So I'll shut my mouth.

Exactly right.

That's it.

Meanwhile, your guy with the elite Hawkeye Roman Anthony challenging pitch after pitch

and finally you run out of challenges.

But into his own bull crap, because he heard and read all this stuff about how he's got

such a great eye and he's good at it and he took the bait.

So and they told them, I mean, Corey had a comment about this.

We told all these guys to save him.

And Anthony admitted after the game that he effed up, but I'm some, you know, you're

telling me he didn't know that going in.

I would, if you're the manager, don't you say to every guy in your clubhouse, fellas,

if any one of you challenges a call in the first three innings, you're beat, you're

sitting your ass the next day.

I wouldn't let him to challenge before the sixth inning and pretty much only the

catcher.

I mean, it really should be only in the last three innings that we're going to use it.

Now, I suppose if you have a basis loaded rally and there's a horrible call in the fourth,

maybe you use it.

Okay.

Like I'm willing to allow for a, wait, the exception, there's got to be a high leverage

situation.

Exactly right.

When Anthony ran out of them, I want to look it up.

Mike, even our bias in the second inning, I think the count was there was nobody on base.

There might have been two outs when Narvaia's used the first one and then Anthony used

the next two and Narvaia's whipped on it.

It's just stupid.

I mean, he was behind the plate, they were on defense at the time, but they both used

him at bad times.

They used both of them before the first three innings were over.

Especially when you're facing a guy that's going to give you chances all game long.

I just want to look this up real quick.

Hopefully they tell me they don't, do they, they know, then the play by play, they don't

do the challenges.

Yeah.

I think that's right.

I checked that over the weekend.

And I don't think they do it.

Well, Anthony, there were two runners on.

So at least I'll give him that.

Okay.

It was like there were, it was runners in scoring position.

There were, there's one out runners on first and second when he did that when he ran out

of challenges.

So at least there was something, you know, at stake there with his at bat, but the game

was scoreless at that time.

Wasn't I believe so?

It's good cut.

Did you already say that?

I did not.

Oh.

Anyway, that's one of the items on the board here on a reentry Monday.

We're kind of listening.

Joe and Lincoln.

Go ahead, Joe.

What do you got?

Yeah.

Guys, I'm a technological idiot.

So this is probably something obvious.

But since the players don't come to the plate and bare feet and the empire doesn't say

stand up straight, how are they supposed to know exactly, you know, how high, I mean,

it wouldn't be like about it as chin or about it as nose, it would be crouched down.

This is exactly this exactly my point.

Yeah.

I mean, it's not you've put these umpires in an impossible position, which does not

excuse CB Buckner.

CB Buckner is a special kind of suck, which everyone has known in baseball for years.

And this thing just further exposes them, which I'm fine with.

And if it can somehow get CB Buckner out from behind the plate or off majorly diamonds,

that's a win.

Like I'm not going to fight you on that.

But they've made it impossible on the umpires.

And again, if you weren't listening earlier, if you weren't listening, you weren't

listening to us on Thursday and Friday, I've been on this now for a week.

And I don't think enough people know that it is no longer the strike zone is no longer

determined by the knees or the letters.

The ABS zone is set by predetermined heights and widths.

The width is 17 inches, which is obvious.

That's the width of the plate.

The top of the zone is set at 53 and a half percent of the players measured height

without cleats.

I love this.

Okay.

So fifth and they measured the players in spring training between 10 a.m. and noon

local time because they also did research that determined that we shrink during the

course of the day.

So they went around in spring training team by team, measure them all between 10 a.m.

and noon in bare feet standing straight up erect.

And from that measurement, oh, and if there was discrepancies, uh, they were, each player

was measured twice with a device similar, similar to the one you'd seen in a doctor's

office.

Yeah.

They took at least two measurements.

And if there was a discrepancy of more than a couple of millimeters, a third, then they

figured out the average of the three.

Okay.

So they, this painstakingly went around in spring training, standing upright in bare feet

to the millimeter.

By the way, I was distracted for a second because I'm seeing it if I run tech department

has a tape measure, I'm going to take my shoes off.

We're going to do this at some point this week.

The, the top of the zone is set at 53 and a half percent of the players measured height

without cleats.

The bottom is set at 27% of the players measured height again without cleats.

The strike zone is captured where I grew up believing that if any part of the ball touches

any part of the plate or the plane of the plate, you know, crosses any part of the plate,

it's a strike.

Then other people would say, no, it's the front.

It's the very front plane of the, the, the, the, well, the dish, right?

No, because this Hawkeye technology was having a hard time or it wasn't as accurate at

the front of the plate or the back of the plate, they determined that the strike zone

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

So these umpires, it's no longer strictly at the knees.

It's no longer strictly at the letters.

It's no longer strictly above the belt or the armpits or whatever.

And it's no longer the front of the plate.

It's this, it's not arbitrary, but it's this set, fixed distance.

Correct.

That the umpire has to figure out as the plate or walks to the plate and then gets

in his crouch.

So me as six feet even, my 27 inches is right there, okay, call it wherever that is in

bare feet.

Now I come up in one inch cleats or however long the cleats are and I get in my crouch.

Where the hell is the bottom of the zone with 53 and a half, I'm supposed to figure out

53 and a half percent, 53 and a half percent of a 72 inch man, which is me, is we, what

do we say, 38 and a half, 38.52 mass.

This is to the millimeter.

Okay, right.

38.52 standing straight up in bare feet.

Now in cleats in my crouch, where is it?

Where is the top of the zone?

You get, you have to say these umpires are a bunch of idiots, you try that 300 pitches

a game.

No, it's Astonine.

And again, the fact that it's uniform is Astonine because the original people are different

sizes.

So this is my issue with it too, long legs or top heavy, etc.

Yeah, if everybody had the same proportions, okay, fine, you can probably get away with

some stupid formula.

What about the jackass who has long legs or the guy who's got a long torso?

You know, you got Michael Phelps up there, he's going to get screwed.

In this breakdown that you read, if they said all this and said, well, this is our baseline

and then we'll judge it differently depending on the size of the batter.

I could accept that, but this is the baseline and that's it for every guy.

That's just stupid.

It is.

It's ridiculous.

It is based on the size of the battery, but, but, but not while he's standing at the

plate, right?

Not in his crouch, not in his batting stance.

It's standing erect on his, on his, you know, metrics and so who the hell does that at

the plate, though?

Right.

Like who's right?

Well, there are a few guy, Don Money with the Brewers, you see.

Yeah, I'm right.

He was straight up.

Yeah, I remember him.

Yes.

Yes, he was like that too.

Old timer.

Yes, straight up.

So some guy stands straight up, but there's, everyone's got a different crouch or batting

stance.

So, all I'm saying is, yeah, these umpires are missing balls at the bottom of the zone.

What exact, where is the bottom of the zone?

It's no longer the knees and it's no longer where it crosses the dish.

It's in the middle of the dish.

Now I got to, like, I got to see in three dimensions, like, there's a mind bleep.

So I think you're asking, now they're asking more of the umpires and they're not going

to get it right.

How could you?

And if their technology only reads it at the middle of the plate, we'll get more lasers

and get better technology so it reads the whole plate.

That feels like an easy enough fix to me.

See, this is what I thought.

I thought when it came in, you know, I should have asked this idiot me.

I assumed that it was going to be, you know, them picking up where the guy is standing

and that the computer can do all the work.

The other thing is they've changed the strike zone, not just on the height and, you know,

the width, but they've now made it a single plane.

It's like a window.

Right, right, right.

It's really like that box on TV.

One point.

Right, exactly.

Where it dissects that plane in the middle of the strike zone.

Mike, the whole reason the back end of the tape, that plate is tapered, is because

if a breaking ball comes in from the outside and you make the plate square, in theory,

that's a lot tougher for the hitter to cover.

But if the back of the plate is tapered, the ball comes in at an angle to play the

batter can hit that still.

So like, you know, they've given the batter a break by making a taper.

I see.

I see.

So, you know, because the ball's got to come in ultimately to the middle of the plate.

Now, the taper doesn't really come into play.

No, it doesn't.

If you go by this, it doesn't.

The taper doesn't matter.

That's a point at the back of the plate that it sits right in front of the cover.

I got it.

It relevant.

It's irrelevant.

Well, at least when they go to ABS, it is.

Right.

Exactly.

And the umpire has to call it, you know, to the ABS.

Correct.

So overall, I still don't need this thing.

Oh, look, it's added a layer of strategy, which I enjoy.

And I think it's, you know, that, that's a little interesting, that the, frankly, the story

on that Buckner game was that you were stupid with your challenges and the reds were smart.

And it's one of the reasons you lost that game.

So like I, the strategy part I'm interested in, the fans in the stadium seem to be going

to kick out of it, which is good.

I'll take it.

And again, if it exposes the really inept guys like Buckner, I'm fine with it.

That's the part I like.

It's, but it is, it needs to be tweaked and it's definitely flawed.

But like, you know, you're, you're reversing pitches based on one tenth of an inch on a line

that is, I'm, I'm sorry, impossible for these umpires to get right.

It's just impossible how they've measured this out and how they've mapped this out.

They're not going to get that right at the end of the day.

You still have the same problem, which is my point on replay, Mazda.

I'm not yelling at you.

I'm yelling.

I understand that.

This is why I'm against replay.

It doesn't solve anything.

At the end of the day, you're still bitching.

At the end of the day, you still don't know what's a strike and what's not and what's

a catch and what's not and you still think the umps are corrupt and or incompetent.

It doesn't change it.

It doesn't change it.

It doesn't help anything.

There's just as many questions coming out of it is coming into it.

And this is replay in a nutshell.

And in the meantime, the games are getting longer again.

They're back to 244 for a nine inning game 248 overall after being under three after being

under 240 the last three years since the instant of the pitch clock, the games are creeping

up longer again because this is taken to just, it's just a slow chip, chip, chip at the

pace of play.

Again, a nine inning game last year, average 238.

So far this year, we're up to 244, including the extra inning games are up to 248.

So I don't need it.

I don't need this.

And that's our ABS reset right there.

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Now, more of Felger and Man, now I'm on the sports hub.

So, bottom of the third here and Victor Arvetson has a chance to win up to the goal.

Arvetson, the righty.

We'll start in from the right side to the dot.

Coming between the circles goes the backhand and scores!

Bruins win it and I shoot out!

What a comeback!

Victor Arvetson puts it away!

Confident move by Arvetson to finish this thing off and what a comeback.

Can you believe it?

Bruins come from three down in the third period.

Score with the goal tender pulled the tie up in 11 seconds to go and win it in a shootout.

Great win.

I thought their game on Saturday in Minnesota was a great game.

That's the best I've seen them look this year.

That was a game.

The Saturday game made me say, oh, okay.

Maybe they're sealing on this team.

But your thoughts.

John in the car. Go ahead, John.

That was a good weekend for them, Mike.

It's been a while since I've said that.

But they're gonna be a tough thought.

And I don't think anybody wants to try and get the fourth win against that team.

They're just, they don't quit.

But if Elias Lindholm is the most overpaid player in the league.

Can I say Henry Yogi are you is the most insignificant paid player in the league?

What?

In God's creation.

Dear Don Schwini.

This is John in the car.

As Michael just told you, if you don't want to take Henry the joke is on you and give him a car service

because you don't want to throw good money after the bed.

I will take him to any airport shipping terminal bus or train station for you.

And PS don't put the Lindholm brothers on overtime three on three anymore.

Pathetic doesn't describe it.

Thank you.

Okay.

I'm with you.

Yogi Haru.

It's going to say they demoted Mason Laura off the power play.

Yeah.

Like that was his punishment for those two giveaways last week.

Has it been peak and Yogi Haru who've been going back and forth Kevin?

Like who does Yogi Haru draw in for?

What are my options?

Typically it's peak.

But he drew him for Laura yesterday because Laura has hurt.

Okay.

So I was wondering about that.

So Laura did not play last night.

Or did he?

No, he didn't play.

They announced that he had got dinged up and that he was out for an injury.

Okay.

So that was Yogi.

Okay.

He is another person.

There is still some particularly useless players.

Oh, definitely.

He's he's on the list.

How about?

Is there any one play that guys made that you remember?

I don't.

Oak and Hofstner.

Yes, Oak.

Yes, I'd like to first on the ABS.

Whatever happened to just if the balls over the plates ring the bat.

Now as far as I mean, it's not simple.

Now as far as getting a new coach, I called you last week on storm.

Would you sign Cassidy?

Would you bring Cassidy back with this year's roster?

Yes, I've always liked Bruce Cassidy.

But storm doesn't deserve that.

He's done a good job.

If they weren't mentally tough, they don't win the yesterday's game.

Yeah, I think they lose on talent mostly.

Yeah, I was going to say how many games did they really lost some mental toughness?

I think they're I think their talent is middle of the pack.

You know, up until that's why they lose up until a couple of weeks ago.

They had not lost the game in regulation all year.

I think that's why they lose up until a couple of weeks ago.

They had not lost the game in regulation all year.

In which they led going into the third period.

And then they finally blew one.

So now, look, there were some overtime losses in there.

What have you?

But, you know, and what do the callers say recently?

The caller earlier said they're 2666 and their last.

They're not.

It's 2266.

But it's still pretty damn good.

Phil involved in your thoughts.

Hi, to piggyback off of storm.

I think you've done a pretty well job this year.

The last night he did probably my favorite thing.

So far this year.

And it's all I haven't seen in 10 years.

And five coaches do.

And that is not put post knockout on the shootout.

And it worked.

Arvetson has the hot stick right now.

And I granted I cannot tell you the last time I've seen post knock score in the penalty shot.

He sucks in the penalty.

She is brutal at sucks.

I know these out there.

I don't think he's an automatic guy that's out there in the first three.

Who was there?

Who was there third guy yesterday?

Two guys.

Two guys scored.

Obviously.

It was so it was mitten.

And then Arvetson had the winner.

And the guy in between was.

Middle stat.

Did they go mitten middle stat.

Arvetson.

Might have been middle stat.

I can't remember.

Anyway, why do you ask?

I was just curious.

It wasn't possible.

No, I just because I can't remember who the third one was.

That's all.

Mitten's goal was a good one.

Two.

He freaking hammered that thing.

Usually the Bruins in a shot.

And then Arvetson had the winner.

And the guy in between was.

Middle stat.

Usually the Bruins in a shootout are like.

It sets the sport back 40 years watching them try to score in the shootout.

Yes.

So those two roles.

That mitten goal was high end too.

Excellent.

And coils goal was good.

Coil all of a sudden.

He's got this little toucher on the net.

He roops it.

Where that come from.

Dakota and brain tree.

Hi Dakota.

So I've been a big proponent of instant replay with this pitching thing.

And what I learned today from you.

And I don't really get educated that much from you.

But you did educate me on this.

That's a lie.

You learn stuff every day on the strike situation today.

I cannot believe that they took a great idea with allowing this use of technology.

And because they don't have the proper technology using the 3D box to go to a 2D strike zone.

It's irrelevant.

They shouldn't have launched it without the utilization of the 3D.

Think of like back in the day of Maddox and all these other pitchers.

That they would look at where the guy is in the batter's box.

And say you know what?

I'm going to throw my slider cutter so it just goes over the little corner of the side of the box.

Now that pitch is a ball.

If it should have been a strike.

This has become useless with this 2D thing.

And I did not know before today, before you Mike, you started talking about it.

So I am out.

Out in the words of Joe Murray out on this technology until they bring in the 3D box that we saw all of the last five years

when they show the multiple angles in a cut a little piece of his own.

It's the only way to do it.

I'm with you.

I don't.

These umpires that are losing quote unquote these challenges.

In the traditional sense, I don't think they were wrong.

If they call the pitch at the knees.

You guys they were trained to do and we've always accepted.

But now it's not quite the knees because that doesn't equal 27% of the guys standing height without cleats.

He didn't really miss or he's or he's given you the strike because across the back of the plate.

Or it clipped the front edge of the plate.

But didn't hit that point in the middle.

Exactly.

Exactly.

He's just doing what he's always done and what we've always accepted.

But now they've just sort of moved it a little bit.

And now he's off by a 10th of an inch and all of a sudden he's some sort of a hole.

He's ridiculous.

I know.

So at the end of the day, the question is, what's the accuracy of the machine?

What percentage is the accuracy of the machine?

And if they come in at 95%.

Well, then it's the same thing as it was with the humans back there.

I mean, I don't know what the actual ball and strike percentage was.

But my guess is it's in the it's in the low to mid 90s.

These guys generally were pretty close.

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And Hensley drops in a slider.

That is called ball four.

I don't think Adley Ruchman could keep it.

I think he probably did challenge.

Oh, the picture is challenging.

Oh, the picture is challenging.

Yeah, he couldn't write to his hat.

Ryan Hensley with the first picture challenge.

The first challenge by Arno's picture.

And Derek Sheldon is in sense.

He didn't think Hensley got that off in time.

Well, he went right to his hat.

Came off the mound and capped his hat.

Last Diaz is you know, the Derek Sheldon to get back.

And the runner, Keesaw, will be sent back to first.

And Derek Sheldon has been thrown out.

He's arguing with the robot.

You can't defeat the robots.

Minnesota manager there got tossed because he thought that who was on the other side?

What was the other team?

I don't even know.

The opposing pitcher didn't challenge and tap his head within three seconds.

He was dead wrong.

The pitcher tapped his head immediately.

And the opposing manager just missed it.

He didn't see it.

He saw a tap.

He saw him tap it again a little later.

But he tapped it immediately.

He just missed it and got thrown out because of it.

But funny call there.

But you heard the pop it got in the crowd, right Murray?

Yeah, it's a great line.

And I think, I mean, if you look online, any business, any entity in 2026 wants buzz, right?

You want to be talked about online.

And you know, while it is flawed, this ABS system and you're right to point out the issues with the size of the strike zone and all that,

it got a hell of a pop online over the last 48 hours, 72 hours, or since the season started.

Baseball has to be loving this right now.

And the reaction in the stadium has been great.

Oh, it's been fantastic.

Oh, yeah.

They love watching on the board.

So because people like shaming others, you know, it's, you know, unfortunately party human nature.

But when you see someone screw up and then they get called out on it, you got a few beers on you.

In you, what are you going to do?

Just sit on your hands and not saying anything.

You're going to be like, ah, you lose.

Yeah, you suck.

But it's just again, these heights are just so hard for the umpires.

And now I'm going to, you know, just want to confirm what I'm telling you about.

Now they have to call it where across the middle of the plate, not any part of the plate,

which is again, just reading from MLB.com.

While the rule book has long officially defined the strike zone as being a three-dimensional pentagon

shape hovering over the plate, right?

Meaning the ball, any part of the ball crosses any part of the plate as that plane of it as it goes up theoretically.

So anyway, while the rule book is long officially defined the strike zone as being a three-dimensional pentagon

shape hovering over the plate, ABS testing in the minor leagues led to unsatisfying results when using the 3D zone.

Therefore, the ABS zone you'll see in the majors is a line set exactly at the midpoint of the plate,

eight and a half inches deep.

This change eliminated some odd outcomes in testing and produced results more in line with the expectations of players and fans.

I'm going to read into this further because I wonder what that meet like.

So read that last line again, more in line with the expectations of fans of players and fans more in line, not perfect, more in line.

So like again, so let's just say it's 95% accurate.

What do you think the umpires are?

Like it doesn't really change anything.

So there's just some sort of human condition about believing the machine and not believing a person.

That's right.

Well, the modern condition.

Right.

Kids.

Oh, God.

But this is another thing that I just want to give the umpires a break on.

They were trained and they were their entire lives.

If any part of the ball crosses any part of the plate, it's a strike.

Now it's no no.

Where did it cross the middle of the plate?

And that's it.

This like what do you expect?

So these pitches at the knees caught the knees at the beginning of the plate.

But now they they have to sort of gauge it eight and a half inches back into the plate.

No wonder.

Like what do you expect?

I know really again the fact that it's now a two-dimensional strike zone to me is a huge change.

Like that.

This has changed my whole opinion.

I'm glad you looked this up.

I'm with Dakota.

Kudos to you.

Thank you.

Like, seriously though, it is it's a completely different approach.

The strike zone is supposed to be three-dimensional.

They've changed it to two.

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A couple of people have not, well, many people have not enjoyed our commentary on the strike zone

or the Red Sox.

Right.

So look, I get it.

You're trolling knuckleheads.

But come on.

I won't point out the fact that you're full of crap in general.

But the players are going to end up learning their strike zone because they know when they reach out or reach down

where their strike zone will be and they'll become intimately familiar with it.

It should get better and easier as time goes on.

It'll be a great addition.

Sure, the umpires.

They suck people complain about it.

This helps.

It gives a strategic way to respond all for it.

I don't exactly get his point though.

I'm not, I'm not talking about the batters.

I'm talking about the ability of the umpire to call that ball or strike when they're, when they're quite literally

overnight changing what's a strike and what isn't a strike and how you to look at it.

Of course, they're going to get that wrong.

That's that.

I do have to call M-A-S on his bullcrap.

The back of the plate is angled like that.

So curve balls can't come in.

Are you bleeping me?

What type of curve ball would have to be coming in from that angle?

No, says Adam.

It's angled like that because it matches the lines of the base pass.

Jesus.

Full of crap.

Meaning not Jesus is full of crap.

You're full of crap.

No, but you can still the back of the plates are relevant when the front corner is the one that's in line.

Why is I meant to do this?

This guy's wrong.

Talk for a second.

Why is home plate shaped the way it is?

Because think if home plate were the same.

I'm not asking you.

I'm asking Google.

I'm going to give you my theory while you're looking it up.

If home plate is a piece of paper, Murray.

I'm going to hold this up.

I'm the catcher.

To make a ball come from the outside and clip this corner is easier than if the home plate is diagonal.

Yes, of course.

Because it's tougher to catch that corner.

It's a bigger plate.

So this would be a really difficult area for the hitter to cover.

These corners right back basically where the hitter is just getting the bat into the strike zone.

If that whole area is a square, much harder to hit.

Much harder to hit.

So they taper it in to allow for the fact that the pitchers got to put it in an area that's in front of the hitter.

So we can hit the ball.

The baseline thing's bull crap.

It's a result of it.

It's not a.

So AI spits out which I'm trying to avoid because I don't believe in AI.

Home plate, but because I can't now find a quicker answer for you.

OK, to read the AI.

Home plate is shaped as an irregular pentagon.

As an irregular pentagon to clearly define the strike zone.

Improve visibility for umpires and pitchers.

And a line with the first and third base lines.

Yeah, but that's a that's a third part of it.

Introduced in 1900.

This house shape keeps all its edges entirely within fair territory, correcting issues with previous square designs.

So what they're also saying is they want the plate to be in fair territory at all times.

If it were a rectangle, you couldn't do that.

I guess that's true.

But but the front of the plate is not.

I'm going to let it go.

The the back corner of the plate.

Is not that reddit.

Says.

That at first it was square like the rest of the bases, but they extended the corners to make it easier for umpires to call pitches.

OK, OK.

I'm going to do some more reading on that.

Yes, MLB dot dot com story that I'll send you.

I have it.

I just couldn't find the quick answer there.

He gave me the history of the thing.

Bob writes in subject line.

Amazing frequent email or Bob.

He's one of these hate email.

He hate emailers.

He ate emails the show.

The steady stream of just bitching about the show long as you're consuming it.

Bob writes in you two are amazing.

You know all there is to know about the socks in just three games.

I can't wait until they get hot and you start to back down.

Well, I always said they had talent.

You'll say.

And Felger turning all red because of the strike zone.

Almost as embarrassing as when he almost had a stroke and choked to death because Swaman missed a long shot in the Olympics.

It was two of them.

I think you failed to know that it happened to other goalies at that rink and a few days later they changed the tent or whatever of the boards.

No, he was pretty much only one that allowed a goal from that distance.

The Italian red line.

Yes, right.

The Italian.

And it's right.

Felger, all those women on nest and make you look like a dope when it comes to hockey.

Bob and Coventry.

Who other than Sophia?

Yorkstovich.

Are we talking about?

I have no idea what he's talking about.

The women of nestin.

Maybe he means like some of the broadcast crews they've had in the don't they do women's games too.

I don't know.

Did you put on a wig on the show he's on competing against this one in the afternoon?

That's that.

It's to the final word.

Shall we please?

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Before we get to the audio for the final word, they won't hold this up.

Oh, guess what came in today, everybody.

Mark Luke, who sends us a magazine to throw the markers at every year.

It's Christmas in April.

Tick tock.

The countdown to the Felger and Mads big board has begun the Lindy's sports annual draft guide.

He sent to this year.

So one you can we can actually tape to the board and then the other you can.

Love it.

Okay.

It is two weeks from today.

Oh, good.

Yeah.

Went to Monday, April the 13th is two weeks from today is when we begin the big board.

Right.

Get your own loose Murray with the fatties is where we always start.

And a system program director Jim Louth in here today.

They're thinking about adding even more production value to this whole thing this year.

I think we're adding some Hawkeye technology.

Yeah.

We have more camera angles.

Yeah.

You know, I think the camera on the wire is a football game.

Yes.

I think we're going to work on something like that.

We're going to have some alternate angles for you here.

A drone.

Earlier today, if you didn't hear this Bruins fans apparently turning into Celtics fans.

A bunch of snapper sees guys.

Dean and Shrewsbury on the Celts.

You're a known call out.

Put John hole.

Maybe you have us on hold and you just don't know.

Dean or I'm sorry.

Dave and rock board on the piece.

Go ahead Dave.

It's over.

I want to talk about swimming a little bit.

Now, I know you've been ragging out of all year.

He's overpaid.

And, you know, he's not worth it.

And yet I think in this last couple of months, he's really proved his value.

And if you look at like the article that was in the athletic, like a week ago,

he looked at all the gold centers and, you know, he's really not not really overpaid.

And I think swimming really has done a job of kept us in these these games.

He's, you know, really a good player.

And I think I know you don't apologize.

But I think you should apologize to him.

Apologize to him?

Yeah.

It's swimming because you've been ragging out of all year.

I still want to give him that contract.

Apologize to him.

Do you have his number or something?

Should I like text him?

No, I don't have his number unfortunately.

Okay.

You know, you know, you know what?

You also said apologize for him.

Remember back in November when back of work got the puck in the mouth.

Anyway, right?

And he said something about trying to get back to the Olympics.

And then that's in February.

And then you said, I, you know, he doesn't can't shoot you.

You shouldn't be the captain and all this stuff because he's not a team player.

And then a month later, he's back with the fishball playing for the Bruins.

He's played with the fishball in the Olympics.

How come they don't make him the captain?

Dave, why don't they make him?

Why don't they make him the captain?

I don't care if he's the captain.

And I'm talking about you.

You were bad.

I'm not the man.

So I should be weak.

So I have to apologize to him too.

Yeah.

Do you have his number?

Do you have his number?

But I know you probably won't.

I don't know why I'm apologizing.

That guy from Chicago apparently.

Is that exactly a Boston accent?

Get me their numbers.

I'll send them an apology.

How does that happen?

There was another one that came in too.

Yeah, expecting apologies.

I expect better for Bruins fans.

That color bugged the crap out of me.

I don't know why something about his tone and his whole delivery age is from so annoying.

Used to it with the other teams.

The Bruins, it always disappoints me.

I thought you were better than that.

Seriously, I got bugged the crap out of him.

Anyway, what do you got coming up on the baseball hour, man?

We got a lot to get to from the weekend.

The two losses where the Red Sox tower overall relative to a year ago.

People want to bitch about the ABS system.

We'll get into that.

We get a lot to get to in just one very short hour.

And although sometimes it feels interminable.

They're back at it tonight.

Right?

I believe it's eight or eight thirty in use.

As far as this debut, let's see him get lit up.

That could be a lot of runs tonight, Murray.

Here comes Maz.

We're back at it tomorrow at two.

More from the NFL owners meetings.

We'll do more football tomorrow after focusing really more on the other three.

Today, but that comes your way tomorrow too.

We'll talk to them, fellas.

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