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Well, I got a partial answer to that.
He's never had a fight for an inning
and didn't have one last year and that's gonna be it.
Wow, Don Kelly has seen enough
and all skins will be done after 37 pitches
and two thirds of an inning on opening day.
Wow.
NBC with the Metz Pirates opener.
I don't know.
I watched every pitch.
Seen enough.
I don't think skins was bad.
The Robert, I'm gonna go baseball guy
for like 30 seconds.
The Robert at bat was beautiful.
Luis Robert Jr. for the Matt Center field
and he battled 10-11 pitches and worked a walk.
The previous hitter also got skins.
One of those first few hitters, maybe Beshat, I'm not sure.
He went fastball, curveball, change up, sweeper or slider.
You've four different pitches to start in a bat
and he just wasn't missing bats,
which you know, the standard's pretty high.
He wasn't missing bats.
He has a chance for a reasonable inning
and the Pirates do go on to score seven runs in this game,
but his center fielder lost the ball in the sun maybe twice.
The first one maybe was the wind
and then the second one was the sun
and that was four runs right there on Neil Cruz
and they were talking about how he doesn't
or wasn't wearing sunglasses,
which maybe that was a mistake.
So, skins easily could have gotten out of the first
without too much damage.
Nobody took him deep or anything
and then, you know, great pitchers sometimes.
I mentioned time-glaven earlier.
They always said this about time-glaven.
Once he gets out of the first inning, look out.
But sometimes he would struggle early
and they say that about all the great pitchers, don't they?
I mean, he was close.
They were in no mood to suffer through it though with him.
Opening day, you know, just go take a shower
and we'll be fine.
Are you...
No, you're not a Metz fan anymore.
Like a big fan.
So, if you're a big Metz fan and you're at opening day
and of course, you know, you want your team to win.
Yay, you know, I love the Metz goal, let's go Metz.
But you also know you've got a ticket
to see the best pitcher in baseball.
Is there room for you to be disappointed
that he got knocked out so early?
I think there is a little bit.
I think I think I meant when I was younger, probably not.
But if I'm going to Pittsburgh in August, two games,
a Saturday evening and a Sunday afternoon.
And if I'm lucky enough that schemes is pitching
one of those games, I am not a big enough Red Sox fan
that I would not want to see schemes work.
For like, I'd want Boston to win,
but I'm going to want to see him throw seven innings.
Like I want to watch, I want to watch the guy.
I got a chance to see this guy in person.
And my rooting interest, one of 162,
is going to kind of take a back seat to that, I think.
Yeah, I want to see this guy.
I, if he gets knocked out, like, oh, great, yay.
Well, if you go to all the games, you've seen him
and you'll see him again, right?
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And opening day, you know, you're just feeling it.
I don't think you'd have to be disappointed at all,
but I certainly get that.
You know, it's also a great moment
if you're a fan of the home team at a game
where you do take the pitch.
You do get the knockout.
The big guy out there.
That's a great moment, you know,
whether it's the first inning or ever.
I'm thinking also of game two of the World Series
that I went to with Yamamoto.
And I mean, he was, he was ruining life.
Like I was there to see the Blue Jays race.
Oh, right.
They killed him in game one.
Two hits or something.
And they couldn't, they couldn't touch him.
But it got into the late innings.
And I kind of thought, let me see if the let him finish it.
And they did.
And he went nine.
And that's what, that's the lead of that game is Yamamoto
went nine and then he comes in in game seven
and is the MVP.
He's pitching the night, by the way.
And so, you know, I didn't know my team lost,
but that was cool.
Just the world series game would mitigate that
from a fan's game.
Oh, yeah.
I'm not saying that Boston and Pittsburgh
are playing in game five of the World Series
that I want to see schemes work as magic.
I'm going to want to see his, yeah, yeah.
I want body parts stapled to the green monster.
Yeah, if it's the World Series.
But you know, mid August, yeah, all right, do your stuff.
It's a great thing, a great pitching performance to be at.
It's a great thing.
How soon do I start looking at the pitching rotation?
Not yet.
August, mid August, yeah.
I wouldn't say, yeah.
Maybe he moved up a date after today.
Maybe after the All Star break and I start looking at it.
37 pitches.
Yeah, I think, I think then that would be the time to start.
Not before, okay.
They're going to have the All Star break.
He's probably not going to pitch in the All Star game.
He could either way, well, if especially doesn't,
he'll pitch the first game after the break.
Start there.
You can do that right now.
There you go.
Whatever the first game is after the break is probably
schemes and then you know, count them out.
All right.
In fact, if I want to go to a game and see him,
that's how I would do it.
If that was priority one, put him in for the first game
after the break in like mid July and then every fifth day.
Right.
Yep.
Well, I didn't think to do that nor really logistically
could I.
Boston's only in town for that series.
I didn't want to take Friday off.
So we're traveling.
You know, we'll drive down Saturday morning
and go to a couple games.
And so I just hope it lands right.
Cause you know, that's the only three days
they're in Pittsburgh, Boston.
Mm-hmm.
And they won't be there next year then
unless they change the format every other year.
Right. That's how that works.
I was in my sadly.
I was in my car and not in front of the TV
for the first challenge of the day.
You really missed out.
It was also O'Neill Cruz, the pirate,
the six foot seven pirate centerfielder,
who had the nightmarish first inning.
He was up and it was three and two on him.
Might have been five, two mats or five, three, five, two.
I think.
And they called ball four, catcher taps his head,
review, strike three.
Next guy, Homerd.
So all right, auspicious.
If you're again a match fan, right.
You get the catcher thinks Alvarez
to challenge the quality wins on it.
And I guess saves them a run.
I still hate it.
I'm not going to be a fan of the,
we don't need 162 games.
You can't, you can't deal with,
with the mets of loss today without that overturned pitch.
I just, I hate it.
I wonder this about it.
And this is probably known
and maybe it would vary team by team.
So one thing about this system, automatic balls of strikes,
ABS is it's fast.
It needed to be fast.
It's not only fast in terms of the turnaround, like tennis,
but you have to challenge the call immediately.
Two seconds, I think it is.
And the managers can't do it.
Maybe there'll be some gamesmanship there.
And like if a manager has his elbow on the railing,
that means, I don't know.
But they're not supposed to be able to do it.
It's only pitchers, catchers, and batters.
And they all say it's a bad idea for a pitcher
to challenge a pitch.
Because, you know, his body's in motion
and he might just sort of feel,
oh, that should have been, yeah.
They don't want pitchers challenging.
Teams don't want pitchers challenging pitches.
I wonder how much authority, like the batters have.
You get two a game.
Unless you're right, then you still get to keep your challenges.
But you only get two.
I was watching Detroit San Diego
and it's six, it was six nothing Detroit at the time.
Now it's eight nothing.
And there was a close pitch that was called a strike
that might have been outside.
And I thought, does the batter have like a red light
because it's six to nothing?
There could be a chart based on win probability
where batters are informed, like, all right,
we're not challenging this thing.
Whatever happens.
Right, right.
Because they're not, teams are going to want to save them.
But even against we needed at the end
when it really matters.
Right, if any of it really matters.
So I bet that's known.
I wonder if I could find an article on matter or something.
What are batters told not to do?
Because you know, you're up there
and it's going to feel like that was outside, whatever.
You don't want to challenge a bad call
and think you're right, maybe you were right.
But you still wouldn't do it.
Makes sense?
Yes.
Yes.
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Hi, Dave.
Hey, guys, I was listening to you guys earlier
and didn't get a chance to call you guys.
But I thought it was interesting.
And I know you guys have a batch going.
I was looking yesterday of day before the game's leading up
to Tampa Bay coming here.
And starting last night with the wild,
lightning has seven home games, which I think
is very advantageous for them.
This goes towards your bet and what's happening here.
And the savers only have five.
And plus Tampa Bay has two games in hand.
So I think it's very advantageous for them.
I just wanted to get your guys take on that.
I don't care that much about Homer away.
The savers for one team have been great on the road.
Do they even maybe have a better record on the road?
It's probably close.
We talked about this with the lightning schedule recently.
And you know, yeah.
But they have, as it goes, Ottawa twice, Montreal twice.
They'll be tested tonight's Seattle.
The bet is that Lindy Ruff win coach of the year
were not against each other.
We're both on the same side here.
And we did have a conversation about that as well earlier.
There's only so far I want to go to make the argument
because the savers are a little bit of a shooting percentage,
save percentage darling this year.
And that's, however, often times how coach of the year
gets decided.
People think they're watching a great coaching job.
Maybe they are, maybe they're watching a team
where there's a lot of luck involved.
I don't think the savers are super lucky.
But you know, a little bit and that's okay.
And Tampa is too.
Tampa is first in that category, PDO, this year,
but they have the star players where you'd sort of be like,
oh, yeah, maybe that's not luck.
Having Kutcheroff on your team, Castle Eski.
Right.
So, yep, we'll see what happens.
Thanks Dave, Mike Schopen, the Bulldog WGR.
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