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It's happening.

Happy opening day after opening night, which we'll get into.

We are here.

We are watching baseball today.

There's actually only one early game that starts, and I think about 15 minutes or so,

AJ and me were scrambling to figure out where it was.

It's going to be a fun game this year to figure out where games are.

Yeah, no one knows.

No one knows.

No local stations.

I guess no locals just found out yesterday where most of their games are, but they just

announced that this morning for fans.

I mean, it's fun.

Listen, I get it.

It's about money.

Yeah.

I still, I'm a big opening day, day, guy, not in night.

I'm just not a, I'm not, I said it the other day.

I just wish that they would go back to opening day.

They should, you know, kids are excited.

They get out of school.

They get to go watch their team, whatever, or, you know, the teacher turns it on or they're

trying to watch it on their phone, whatever, but I'm just a big opening day guy.

Day time.

Yes.

Okay.

Are you okay with today having some games spread out?

Yeah, some fight with that, but they should be on the same day.

And I get why they're not.

I understand.

Fine.

Yeah.

I just wish they were all most of them, because some teams don't play it all tomorrow and

some teams start today and some, it's just like, wow, there's a lot.

There's a lot to keep up with.

And I've even reached a point where it is going to be a fun game to find where, for example,

the Yankees are playing on a daily basis.

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I always like to get your logo take.

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Didn't you play there?

I did for a while.

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They're going to have some stuff to talk about.

I definitely have stuff to talk about.

Yeah.

What do you think?

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Great logo.

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Let's get to some news to start.

It's church in the mouth.

Uh-oh.

You hate the opening day I.L. Stints.

Jackson Churrio fractured left hand.

So he heard his hand during an exhibition game when his team was prepping for the world

baseball classic.

I think he missed two games at the time and then played in the rest of the classic.

And then this news pops up on opening day.

So I don't know every single detail, but clearly it did not heal.

Yeah.

Just bad news.

I mean, just add it to the list of the brewer thing.

They always seem to get through it.

I mean, Churrio going down.

There's a big blow for them, but the brewers find a way.

They called up, they called up someone, uh, Jesus, I'm sorry, I went blank, but I know

they called up someone I had heard of.

So it wasn't like they called up some guy that I didn't have a little bit of experience.

Like Parkinson's, who has done some nice things.

Yeah.

So I think that, yeah, this is fine.

It hurts, but for the brewers is going to come down to their pitch.

And can they pitch good enough without losing Freddie?

Well, would you be good enough?

I mean, it's just, to me, it's about their pitching.

This is a big blow.

Yes.

But the brewers always seem to find a way.

It gives a nice speed defense combo.

Jake Powers is going to get the start in Churrio's place today.

It sounds like two to four weeks was the initial, initial prognosis.

I would tend to think with that kind of injury and that age player, crats, it's going to

be more towards the four.

And so we'll see him in mid to late April.

I would say the other way.

I would say, yes, I get it.

You don't want to rush it, but it's 22 years old.

Like some people aren't even graduating college right now, 22 years old.

So I think he's going to heal pretty quick.

I think they know they can't miss many games without him because Glen Perkins can do some

nice things.

But you got, I mean, Blake Perkins, not Glen Perkins.

Blake Perkins can do some nice things, but nobody's going to, obviously the ceiling is

where you need Jackson Churrio to get to.

And he hasn't quite reached that yet, but he adds an electric piece to that lineup that

they desperately need.

Crats, your former teammate, Christian Yellich wants to play in the outfield and it sounds

like they're going to give him that opportunity with this news.

Are we good with that?

He's had what?

What's been the primary issue to back for him?

The back was...

Like the crime.

It all stemmed.

Yeah.

He's been dealing with his back for two back when I was playing with him.

You know, I think it's just something that the way he spins and rotates, I think it's

something that he's had a deal with.

I think he's got that cleared up, but after that kneecap injury that, you know, cost him

his second MVP, I think it's something that he slowly worked back, but I think he's

really gotten to the point where he's healthy.

How much do you want him to play in the outfield?

He's going to be fine out there.

It's about him being on his feet that whole time.

Does that affect his back?

Because if it does, then you got to have somebody else out there because he'll play a fine

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He does a great job of keeping him ball in front.

He doesn't throw...

He doesn't make bad throws.

He doesn't have like the most tremendous arm.

So he'll be serviceable out there, but for a whole 162, nah.

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Capping this off with the overall point on the brewers, I'm not too concerned.

They didn't really turn it on last year until the last two, three months.

Well, the first four games, they got smashed by the hankies around the torpedo vats.

They were like, oh, the brewers, they've lost it.

No, they had the most wins and baseball last year.

So yeah, it sucks to lose your areas, one of your better vats, I'm not too concerned

about it.

Especially like you said on the offensive side of things.

They should be a pretty solid offense with their own unique flavor.

It's going to be the same flavor offense.

They keep acquiring similar types, right?

You plug in a David Hamilton, a Jet Williams, all these kind of guys that they keep acquiring

to be in their system.

The organization minor leagues or major leagues, no, Crats, you don't think so?

Yeah, I mean, I get it, Durban, Durban and Collins, like they had success last year.

Were they elite players?

No, they weren't elite players.

But now you're plugging in guys that you're like, I hope we have success.

The Andrew Vaughn thing worked out.

Like you can't just constantly keep hitting on these guys.

It's like, oh, we're going to replace it with the next, hopefully the guy works out type

of player.

And when you lose a Cheerio, I think that I'm more concerned about it than I think you

are, Scott.

Okay.

Are they plugging a player into a system or they're finding a player that they think they

can tap into more?

Or I guess, I mean, it's more they try to find players that they can do.

They can tap into that is Murf style that he likes around.

Okay.

That, like the lefty pitcher here is Harrison.

Kyle Harrison, that they picked up.

There's a breakout candidate for a lot of people because he's going to get thrown into

the brewers pitching lab and the way they do things there.

So I think they more try to find people that fit into their system than going on finding.

And Murf does a good job of also adjusting to people.

But I think they do a good job of finding people that they like that have certain skill

sets that work together.

Speed in here.

Okay.

Well, we'll see.

Yes.

Speed in defense.

And Kratz doesn't have to make the playoffs this year.

Yep.

I said it with my chest.

Yep.

You did.

And you might be right.

We'll see.

Cubs definitely should be better.

Pires should be better.

Are they going to be great?

I don't think so.

But are they going to be better?

Yes.

Red should be similar.

So last year.

So Cardinals should be worse.

So we'll see.

All right.

Let's move on to the next topic.

Last night's game.

It was just one game.

But the Yankees smacked the Giants.

So first off, game thoughts.

Was a game looking web.

They jumped on Logan Web in the second inning.

Game was over in the second inning when they went up five nothing.

Max Fried was great.

A little more speed, a little more aggressiveness from the Yankees.

And what we had seen last year.

Kabaiero when he went first to third in the left fielders face was fun.

Stan looked good.

Fried pitched well, obviously.

Everyone's overreacting about judge going over five with four punches.

It happens.

I mean, I did I did barstole this morning.

Wake up barstole in Fox.

And they had one of the guys asked me if Aaron Judge was beginning to be washed.

And you know, Philly is Jersey on.

So I told him the clown question.

It's one game.

He said is Aaron Judge washed.

He's like, is he starting to get washed after the WBC and this four strike

okay?

And I'm like, do stop.

Like, please.

But no, I thought it was, it was a fine.

It was a baseball game.

You never know what's going to happen.

Of course, everyone wanted a three to two nail bider that comes on last.

And you didn't Yankees jump them.

They jumped them early.

It was fine.

It was, it was a nice intro to the season, which is rare for Logan Webb.

Yeah, but he still gives him five innings.

It's amazing.

It's amazing.

Right.

After the, what was it?

The second.

Then the third and the fourth one went very nicely.

Yeah.

And then in the fifth, there were a few, you know, hard contact knocks to start the inning.

What did you think, crats of the Yankees showing up with some offense and the Giants

showing up with what three hits?

Yeah, I mean, the whole note hit thing that's probably concerning.

Just because you see the guys that are in the lineup and you're like,

Lee's going to be your fifth hitter and a lineup that they need to make contact.

And they did that last night.

So I guess that's a positive about the fact that they still only had three hits.

You know, if I'm trying to make something positive out of it, but to me,

the story was the fact that the Yankees did it without needing to beat the ball out of the stadium.

Like they did it by putting the ball in play.

How do you do that against Logan Webb?

You do it early.

You jump them early because then you, if you don't, you know, then that sinker gets a little bit more sink to it.

Then that four seamer changes your eye level and you never want to face that change up.

So I think they did a good job of just jumping them early.

But hitting as a lineup and then Max Fried, you give Max Fried a lead.

He's one of the better pitchers in the game at pitching with the lead.

And I say that because I think some guys just have one route to a successful game.

And that is strike one, go for the strikeout, go for the strikeout, go for the strikeout.

And I think Max Fried does a really good job once he gets a lead landing pitches.

He's like, Hey, you know what?

If you hit this ball hard, it at worst is a double.

And then he's ahead in the count and he's able to go deeper into games and give you quality innings.

And so Max Fried off to another off to a good start.

Can he get 20 wins this year?

Yeah, if he stays on the bound, we did have only one ABS, right?

Last night, I don't know, I turned it off when I was seven, nothing.

I believe just the one from Kevin.

The one that, and what was the outcome?

I don't even know because I didn't see it.

But he thought it wasn't a stretch.

I know it was called a hero, but it was in the middle of it.

People that don't like the manager interviews fine, but they're going to happen.

And it just was weird.

Normally, I know on Fox, when we do, and we split the screen, so you can still see what's happening.

And also, I know when we have Ken and Verlucci doing the interviews, they'll stop and say, Hey, hold on, we need to go to this.

They'll stop the guy, which they, I mean, that's not a lock on Lauren at all orange.

No, it's tricky, but it was a tricky thing.

So people that were upset, I get it.

I just thought they should have split screen instead of stopped and be like, Hey, hold on.

And then they had the manager on.

They could have said, What do you think of the ABS right then and there?

Yeah, that was the only thing.

Like they just didn't show it.

Yeah, it was a tough spot there.

There were some technical issues.

I'm not even into all that because it was their first broadcast.

Yeah, they have room to grow fine.

Exactly.

But that was the one thing that people, most people are complaining about.

I get it was the first one ever.

And you can stop a manager interview in the middle and say, Hey, this is the first one of this ever.

Let's show it.

Mm-hmm.

That's fine.

It didn't happen, but fine.

Yep.

I'm with you.

Paul Schienz did not make it out of the first inning in Queens opening day.

37 pitches.

I mean, you can't let him go much past that anyway.

Met's got to him a little bit.

O'Neill Crew has got to him a little bit.

Twice.

Base falls hard.

It happens.

It happens.

I don't even need it.

I don't know.

There was a couple of wins blowing.

One went over, said he lost one in the sun.

Stuff happens.

Base falls hard, but does that happen to every center fielder?

Like where?

Sure.

Every center fielder has lost a ball in the sun.

Sure.

We asked Kevin Blarr.

He's lost one in the sun.

I'm sure Darren Herstead went to Anaheim and he said.

I've never lost a ball in the twilight in that night.

First game in center field.

He lost a ball in the twilight.

So I mean, stuff happens.

I don't know.

I'm not worried about Schienz.

Schienz will be fine.

Yeah, it's not.

But here's my question for a team like the pirates.

What are they build on?

Yeah, so he added offense, but they're build on pitching.

Their defense actually wasn't that bad.

I think it was the sixth best defense in the game last year,

six or eight somewhere in there.

But if you have guys that can hit playing positions,

then maybe they normally don't play.

O'Neal Cruz, I think, is still learning the position.

Last year was his first year where he got thrust out there.

He did OK, but are you downgrading your defense?

And upgrading your offense enough to make the to make to make up the difference?

Hey, with Seakeek, we're looking ahead at games.

So let's look at the weekend.

Let's start with Friday.

What else do we have?

Cam Schletler is making his season debut.

We'll see if Luis Severino is the usual dude on the road

versus at home.

Kevin Gossman pitching in that game for Toronto.

Chris Sale will pitch for Atlanta.

Sandy Elcatra on the mound for the Marlins against the Rockies in Atlanta,

by the way, is playing the the Royals on the weekend here.

That includes, what's your game?

What do you know we are pitching?

Do you know who's pitching?

No.

I can look though.

I haven't looked.

I haven't dug in.

They've started to lay him out.

Matchups are good.

The matchups are good because it's all the best starting pictures going against each other.

But the team matchups, Pirates Metz,

not a lot of fight.

Not like, we're really banging heads here.

Twins Orioles, White Sox Brewers.

It just feels like I wanted to look down the list and go,

man, I'm seeing all these number ones on the mound.

And I'm like, Red Sox Reds.

Like what?

Rangers Phillies.

They have a long history of what, opening days.

Like, it just feels like a weird, weird mishmash of teams.

I agree.

Some make sense.

Some don't.

By the way, AJ's game on Saturday is Waka against Ronaldo Lopez.

Yeah.

That'd be good.

Yeah.

Too good.

Good names.

Waka.

And Ronaldo.

Next teammate, Ronaldo.

Yeah.

Because he was with Vilo.

He didn't really pitch last year.

No, but they said his Vilo was down the spring.

So we'll see.

We'll find out together.

But I can't wait to go to Atlanta.

It's going to be fun.

See Vinny.

See Jack.

See a bunch of the Royals.

And then see a bunch of race people that I know from a long time ago.

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What do you guys think?

Offense defense balance.

I mean, O'Neill Cruz was top by one of the best who got his of all time this off season,

so he should have cracked the code, cracked the code was the word.

But I mean, O'Neill Cruz wasn't great at short-stop, he definitely hasn't been great

to center field.

So I guess his offense, the piracy, can make up for the defense, but where else do you

put him?

Where else do you put?

If you don't put O'Neill Cruz in center field, where do you put him?

Corner.

Okay, but you have rent olds in Ryan O'Hern, so then who do you put center?

Someone else.

I mean, that's, that's the, that you're right, he should be playing center.

The question is more about do they do, you know, is Brandon Laos defense ever going

to be as good as say a guy that the pirates would have called up or would have put it second

base where they're like, well, we can't pay for offense.

So we're going to find the best defensive player.

And that's, that's honestly where they were like, hey, we're going to find value in this

defense.

Look, they gave key Brian Hayes an extension.

I don't know that they thought he was going to be this, you know, 25 home run 85 RBI type

of guy.

I think I would hope their evaluations knew he wasn't going to be great offensively,

but he was great.

He was elite defensively.

And so they're kind of trying to make that change didn't go like crazy different.

But to me, that's where it'll be interesting to see how they do because I truly believe

they're built on that pitching.

They've built some pitching from the minor leagues, schemes, Keller, Bubba Chandler.

And then, you know, the other guys that they have coming also, it's like, you have to

be able to back those guys.

You can't just be like, good job, guys, you've made it.

We're going to put you on an island out there and you better strike everybody out or you're

not going to get through the games.

But how important is defense?

It's very important.

Okay.

There was an argument a couple days ago about a guy who signed an extension and he thought

if he's only defense only, but now you're talking about how defense is this and that.

I mean, Jason Aewert signed a contract and people said basically for his defense.

Beaker Armstrong.

Well, what PCA is he going to get now?

Defense is important, especially in center field.

And if you can sign a 30-30 guy who had a down second, imagine we didn't have a down

second half, is he 40-40?

Then the deal looks like a steal for the team.

So I mean, I don't know.

It's interesting.

And honestly, you got to build, you got, this is where the whole, like, building the

whole team.

You have a guy like Ajay Przysky on your team, one of the best hitting catchers during

his generation.

You can have somebody at another position that is going to bring mostly just defense because

he's bringing offense at a position that you normally don't get offense from.

If you have me behind the dish, you're going to need somebody else to step up at another

position that normally isn't a major offensive position.

That's why teams that have elite players at catcher, shortstop and center field that

can both hit and play defense at the big league level.

Those are the teams that are in playoff contention.

Like it's not, it's not like this like crazy formula, it's, are you, are you good up the

middle?

Are you good close to the ball?

And then does the rest do the rest of the guys hit?

And that's the question that the pirates and the pirates fans are going to need to watch

and or going to get to watch this year and see which iteration of the pirates is the

most successful.

It's opening day.

It's not even the second inning yet.

I don't think maybe they got to the, I didn't see if they got to the second inning yet.

But like, yes, I'm not, we're not overreacting.

We're just making comments.

Yeah, of course.

And this is our job.

I mean, we're doing a live show while there's a game going on and the best pitcher in the

National League is going up against the team that basically did a shift change with

half their roster.

So you like to see what this all looks like.

Not all of the blame on O'Neill Cruz, three walks from schemes, two other legit hits besides

the two that were missed by Cruz, but well, almost an infield hit off the end of the bat

by Polanco.

And one was a jam job by Soto, but he did walk Lendora and he did hit out of it.

But yeah.

I mean, and he did walk Luis Robert had a hell of a bat in there too.

Did you hear what Luis Robert said, by the way?

He's motivated.

He's like, oh, I didn't get these crowds in Chicago.

You did for opening day.

Save it, dude.

You were on the teams when they won.

So save that.

That's that's that's spilt milk, Elise.

Go kick rocks on the street.

Dude, that's such a lie.

You didn't get the teams.

You didn't want to know why you didn't get the crowds because you weren't very good.

You couldn't play.

That's the answer.

Do you know what?

Yeah, cool.

But he were 21.

He weren't complaining about the crowds.

And I was there for the postseason.

And he had the blackout and the crazy game with the cane guy and all that.

And the crowds were stacked.

You weren't complaining.

Dude, don't take shot.

I hate when people do this.

Dude, don't take shots at your old team because you couldn't play.

You were always hurt and you didn't perform.

Well, wait.

Can I identify?

I think you can take shots at your old team, but not in this case.

No.

Sometimes I think you can.

But in this case, he's pointing to the fans not showing up.

The fans didn't show up because the team was terrible.

That's what I'm saying.

The team weren't good.

The fans weren't showing up and they're in a hundred win team.

Yeah, sure.

You want to call that out and be like, hey, where the fans at?

The fans weren't showing up because the team sucked.

And all of the guys that they signed up long-term became busts.

I played an entire season where there was legally no fans allowed in the stands.

I promise you still get the same, you get to still get the same focus level to go out

and perform because you're on a big league field.

You're going out to perform against other big leagueers.

Not, oh, I'm going to put on a dog and pony show in front of all these fans.

No.

Does that mean none of our fans showed up in their way game so I didn't have enough energy.

Do you get energy from the stands?

I get that.

But I watched in an entire season, 62 games where there was no fans and I promised you can

still go out and compete.

So overall, it looked promising for the pirates for a minute.

They had a two-run home run from a new addition and Brandon Lau.

But then, you know, Schien's unravels along with Cruz.

On the, I mean, the second one he lost the ball in the sun, the first one, first step

was in.

I mean, are you blaming that also on the sun causing the issue?

I don't know.

I've never played center field.

I'm not blaming anyone.

I'm not blaming anyone.

I mean, who knows?

The wind's blowing out.

Who knows?

Just the first game.

If it's June 20th, it's whatever.

But because it's today.

And because it was Schien's, because he gave up, I mean, it was the shortest start of

his career.

And he gave up five runs in an inning.

That's what we're talking about.

It was June 28th and it was, whoever named another pitcher on the planet other than probably

Terek's Google, okay, it was a bad inning, it was a bad start.

Freddie Peralta last year.

I don't think made it out of the first inning on opening there if he did it.

What much longer, and he handed it up, okay?

You know what's going to sift through the toxic social media airwaves?

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It's garbage, but I'm just saying it will pop up.

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That's what it was.

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Hey, welcome to ABS challenge system world and umpire scorecard.

The Twitter account provided some information.

So let's go over a little bit of it right now.

They said we're excited to announce some stats related to the new challenge system.

So they said the Yankees had the highest challenge utilization rate at 37% using challenges

and situations where it would be the right choice.

Remember when the brewers were trying to do the green card to say, oh, this would be the

right choice time period.

Well, you can't do that.

But the Yankees were doing that well.

They also had the lowest challenge restraint rate at 97.2%.

This is going off from training by the way.

They challenged when they shouldn't more than any other team.

Combining restraint and utilization, they created the challenge I score.

The rate at which players and team make the correct challenge decision.

I feel like I'm just going to love this stat.

The catchers with the highest challenge, I score this spring where Will Banfield and

Hazus Rodriguez at close to 98%.

But that's just one of many stats.

Really took a great question.

They had a great spring training and an awesome job for them.

Yeah.

Teams are also supposed to do.

I know the Yankees are supposed to push the limit in spring training.

Sorry.

I mean, this is going to be a cool stat moving forward, but spring training, you're supposed

to push the limit.

How many of those 50-50 balls are you getting right?

The umpires are guessing, so are the catchers and so are the hitters.

Isn't the point to point out the egregious stuff early on in games and be very careful about

the borderline pitches?

Yes.

Very strange.

Just challenge on one that was had all kinds of late, so I mean, he lost.

I don't know.

Umpires might have a good day.

They got the, they went one for one yesterday.

There wasn't overturned, right?

One in the match game.

I mean, we can't follow everything right now, but Cruz got run up on a challenge, I think,

in that game.

But the stat that you want to see is the challenge percentage for hitters, right?

I just want to know who's right and who's not right.

Yeah, because then doesn't that help you catchers and hitters and it helps you choose who

can, who can, who can, who's supposed to challenge and I catchers.

No pitcher should ever be allowed to challenge if I was a manager and two, once you miss a

couple as a catcher or a hitter, then you're told by the manager.

There's another one right there, automated balls of strikes, overturned film right there.

Oh, the Cubs game.

Yes.

That's Cubs.

That's just, that's just didn't want.

So, so if you have a good percentage, it's going to be 50.

It's going to be 52 to 48%.

Like, it's really what's going to happen.

You think it's going to be that close?

You don't think there's going to be a few guys that are at like 62%.

Tell me some guys that are right, more than wrong, 100%.

Oh, totally.

But I'm saying like, how much more?

You think, what do you think the variance level will be for, you know, whatever they qualify

it as a minimum of, I don't know, 20 challenges for the year?

What do you think the, the variance will be like the lowest end and the highest end?

I mean, there's going to be guys that are only going to be, they're only going to,

they're going to be 90%.

They're going to get, because they're not going to push the limit unless it's extreme.

I think those are going to be the, and it's not going to be the stars,

because the stars are going to be able to use it late in the game.

And they're going to get one's wrong that they're going to be like,

got at least try, I just ended the game.

So you're going to get those, it's like saying, all my three, my three point

percentages off because I take the buzzer beaters, you know, a lot of NBA dudes,

they don't even shoot the, they don't even shoot the three pointer at the end of the quarter,

whatever, because the time's running out and it affects their,

affects their shot percentage.

So to me, it's going to, there's going to be dudes that get go a whole season.

They might do 12 challenges, which would be a lot of challenges and not get one wrong.

And then it's going to be dudes who get every single one of them wrong.

We have this tweet from Andy Koska in slap hands here, Baltimore banner.

He was talking about the video game world and injuries.

So we can run it.

It relates a little bit here to Jackson holiday.

He's been using ax handle bats after breaking the Hammett bone.

He's not back yet.

He's not here to start opening day.

It's because of Fortnite kind of has to in Kerstead plays Fortnite with Corbin Carroll,

who also broke his Hammett bone.

Carol told Kerstead to tell holiday, try the ax handle.

Yeah.

I mean, the ax handle has been around for a few years now.

I actually have a bat here.

I actually held the bat like that.

I mean, I still broke my hammett, but I actually held if you can show my bottom here.

So I didn't hold the bat.

I actually held the bat more like this, which is how the ax handle fits.

Peter Lonzi is it as opposed to a lot of guys who hold it more straight with the knob

or even hang over there.

But I actually always kind of held it like this, which is kind of how the ax handle works.

See how it's not straight and flat.

It's kind of at an angle this way.

That's what the ax handle does.

And it's supposed to help you get more whip now whether it helped me or not.

I don't know.

But that was just always the way I held the bat.

I could never hold it straight.

I always kind of was people like, oh, you're choking up.

No, I'm not choking up.

I'm actually on the knob, but I've just told it.

I don't hold it straight.

That was just the way I always did it.

I don't know why, but now they make a bat.

And if it helps them get back sooner from the handmade bone, I'm all for it.

But I know I switched bats one year and I couldn't wait to switch back.

Did you tried the ax handle?

I know teammates had had it, but I just I held it like an ax handle.

So whenever I never I switched bats one time, my career was the worst decision.

I made Paul Canarko talk me into it.

Terrible idea.

Absolutely terrible idea.

You just didn't feel comfortable with a different bat.

No, so Paul, I used to break a lot of bats and when my bats had break, it would do a break.

And Paul would always get the thing in his thumb because he worked thicker, he used thicker handle bats in me.

So then I would get jammed and bow and break and then my thumb started hurting.

And I'm like, damn, dude, I'm the one of your thumb hurts all the time.

So then I switched back and it went away.

Right.

So he was using the wrong bat or

we worked for him.

We worked for him.

It worked for him.

I think it worked great for him.

Yeah, but not for you.

Not for you.

You got to use your own bat.

He had more balls in the barrel than I did.

Okay.

Hey, for tomorrow's show, Friday show.

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