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Lots to get into on today's episode, an absolute horrible effort.

I think we got to talk a little bit about what was going on with Kevin Gossman's outing,

the offense of course.

And then just the remainder, right, the last three games of this series, why this team

needs to bounce back, how they can be effective a whole lot to come.

This is not the brand of baseball I wanted this team to kick off this series with.

That was pretty pitiful.

After we just talked a lot about how things were starting to look up, good things were

starting to happen, it's this brand of baseball we're presented with.

And especially for me, going down to Minneapolis, which I will be down in Minnesota, so you

guys can come see me all be in section 107 on Saturday, 108 on Sunday.

Come say hi.

I'll probably have a couple beers.

I was looking forward to watching hopefully good baseball and I still am.

I just pray to God that it wasn't a game like yesterday because man Carter, that was, that's

pretty bad.

That's not great whatsoever.

Funny timing.

We kind of talked about it before the episode.

Is it too early to say that the Toronto Blue Jays are back and then you kind of, we've

both made each other put a definitive answer on it, which was definitely going a little

bit ahead of the ball here.

We probably got a little bit too far ahead of ourselves.

Again, three series wins are very good and I still expect them to play some very good

baseball down the stretch here in this series, but not a very good start.

Started the boss or Ed Sox series pretty much the exact same way with the five nothing

lost there.

This one 7-1 where you have a lot more mishaps, some of the defensive laws that we saw

earlier on in the season, definitely not good when you see just mental mistakes like

that.

And it's absolutely dead.

It's so much worse watching Bailey over, just strike hitters out and get soft contact

on an 83 mile hour change.

If that looked very good, the change up was phenomenal today.

Then he blows 88 by some of these fatters and it's like, this is almost like home run

derby type pitching, especially when you see other starters that are throwing 98, 99

until and see one of them on the Toronto Blue Jays.

You go to Bailey over.

You think that you should be able to hit a guy that isn't throwing the fast ball very

well.

It's only just not very competitive at bats, not a lot of great swings.

One of them has his satches just to call out one player in one at bat throughout the game

a lot of them.

We're like this though.

3-0 count the top of the fifth inning.

There's two outs.

I get you want to do something, but swings pretty much through a 3-0 fast ball just flies

out.

If you're going to swing 3-0, you got to have a very, you got to put a good swing on it.

Unfortunately, all throughout the game against Bailey over and honestly the entirety of the

twins pitching staff.

No offense.

Tough score runs.

Kevin Gauss in the comment theme again.

He's on the mound tough to get this offense to do literally anything it seems like.

Just an unfortunate start to a four game series, especially when you're going to be boots

on the ground the next couple of days.

Yeah.

To be honest, I'm not really giving Kevin Gaussman a big pass on this game either.

I think we'll get into more of it, but the stuff looked not very good.

It didn't have much control today.

But it's the offense.

I mean, in totality, this is what we are big complaint was is that it's very hit and

miss on a day to day basis realistically.

George Springer was above and beyond your best hitter.

And this is a guy that is coming off the IL.

This is his second game back at the top of the batting order, which we were concerned

about, but he did his job.

It's everybody else.

Vladimir Grotto Jr.

Get to hit today and he's clapping.

You broke your bat flared one of the outfield.

Those aren't good at bats.

Yeah, it was frustrating to watch.

You talked about the Hazus Sanchez at that absolutely sickens me to my core.

I don't know if there's something in baseball that gets me more pissed off than swinging

3-0 unless you're Aaron Judge.

Even Vladimir Grotto Jr.

I give a little bit of leeway to if it's your pitch, you take it.

Hazus Sanchez?

No.

Red light.

Throw up the fist at third base.

Red light.

No go.

No go.

It's frustrating to watch because this team prides itself on doing the little things right.

It prides itself on being smart at the plate and taking the walks when the walks are given.

It prides itself on defense, which at some points throughout this year so far, you've seen

games where good defenders have lapses and judgment.

Make bad throws, make bad decisions.

Kevin Yosmin was pretty annoyed within the first couple innings because Hazus Sanchez

probably should have caught a ball.

There are a lot of things in this ball game that were bad.

And you know, me and Dal talked about the last horrible game, Carter, but how do you just

sweep this one under the rug and keep going?

To me at some point this year, you got to stop as much as I want them just to hate, forget

about this one.

Sweep it under the rug.

It is what it is.

Why are these games happening?

And that's something that they're going to have to look at internally of, hey, why are

these lapses happening?

Why are these defensive mishaps happening?

Is it the people who are putting out on the diamond or what is it?

Because I, it's, yeah, as Blue Jays fans frustrated to watch, give me a few things to respond

to there.

I want to start off by going back to the Hazus Sanchez part of this all.

If you are batting in front of Vladimir Kro Junior and it's a 3L count, can we make this

just a golden rule where you're not allowed to swing the bat no matter who you are?

It's two outs.

It's the fifth inning.

You are down one run, but with Vladimir, how good he has been, why would you want to take

the bat out of his hands with runners on base when things have not been going well against

Bailey over?

You kind of have to get, you have to run with what you're given in a lot of these games,

especially with, I don't, you want to tip my cap to Bailey over.

I don't even think he was that good in this game.

The changeup was good, but again, the fastball, the curveball, the secondary is that he

started.

It didn't look like it was unhittable.

Whereas you watch some of the at bats and you might, you know, depending on which

I bat you're watching, you might think, oh, this guy was absolutely unhittable just

because the Toronto Blue Jays approach was absolutely horrific in this game.

Looking at Kevin Gossman specifically, he has had some philosophy fluctuations throughout

these games.

Today he sat 92-3, which on the year has kind of sat 93-8, has been a spot 93-94, 2-93-95.

We'll put it in a general range.

But we've seen him be 92 at the start of the game, kind of being upticked at 95 at times,

can reach back for a little bit more if he does need it in very specific scenarios.

You saw him reach back in advantage counts, or if it was a two-strike count, sometimes

had the ability to throw that 95-96.

But with Kevin Gossman, you said it yourself, Kevin Gossman was not at his best today.

I think the command could have been a little bit better.

The splitter didn't look like it was the most effective that it has been throughout

his starts.

So Kevin Gossman has been producing for the Toronto Blue Jays.

Now with all things considered, especially with the philosophy fluctuations that we have

seen, does any part of that concern you a little bit for what Kevin Gossman can do for

the Toronto Blue Jays?

Just in terms of his durability as well for the future.

So the velocity is, the fluctuations are always going to be Fee, right?

What's off?

Why isn't it where it should be?

But that just happens.

I mean, some guys just, you go out on a day and you don't have exactly the same stuff

you had the day before.

What concerns me is the ability to locate, especially with the OSP, Kevin Gossman is known

for using that splitter so, so effectively, but it has to be on point.

That is his pitch that wins in ball games.

So when that's off, it makes everything else very tough to play with, right?

Even if you're not using your splitter effectively and then you go and try to throw a 92-mile

an hour fastball, well, hey, guys are probably just going to sit at a 92-mile an hour fastball.

It really comes down to that pitch for me.

And if he's not having a good day with that, which today definitely was not, I mean,

just watching some of them, I was getting, or I could tell something wasn't Kevin Gossman

and his batsden.

And you brought this up, Carter, many times, start the last couple of years, we've done

the podcast.

Pictures have 10 great starts, 10, okay, starts.

And then 10 bad starts.

To me, this was a Kevin Gossman bad start.

I, some people argue that it wasn't horrendous.

This wasn't good Kevin Gossman.

This wasn't great Kevin Gossman.

This was bad Kevin Gossman.

And it all comes down to the location of the splitter and where he's being able to just

control.

That's it.

It's control.

I argue it's maybe somewhere more in the middle.

I don't think this was absolutely horrendous from Kevin Gossman.

And we already said this is more so on the offense with Gossman.

I think the main issue here was specifically with the splitter on the first pitch, whereas

Kevin Gossman throughout the game just didn't really have the control as we said.

First pitch strike percentage was 48%, but specifically with the splitter.

You throw the fastball in the zone, eight out of his 14 first pitch fastballs were in

the zone.

You throw that splitter.

You want them to get that swing over the top.

They're sitting on the fastball.

You want to be a competitive pitch.

And the issue with the splitter is especially when he was throwing it on that first pitch.

It just was not even a competitive pitch whatsoever.

It's a ball out of the hand.

Hitters aren't even offering at it.

We talk about a badge counts all the time, especially with swinging miss guys.

You use least Kevin Gossman most of the time swinging miss guy has kind of fallen off

with a little bit of the width and the chase in these last few starts.

That's kind of why I brought up the question, but especially for a guy that gets that swing

and miss, you want it to be at least start as a strike.

It didn't look like Kevin Gossman had the movement that we traditionally seen with the

splitter.

Again, some pitches throughout the outing were better than others, but in totality, I thought

Kevin Gossman, at least from a stuff perspective, definitely did not have his best stuff was

able to work through this game.

And just with the Minnesota twins with Kevin Gossman, doesn't have the greatest history with

that ball club.

David Popkins being around from 2022 to 2024 with the Minnesota twins really gave them

a very good game plan.

Seemingly, every single time they went against Kevin Gossman, really being able to lay off

that splitter just going over his ERA against the twins against some of this, like these

starts are from like 2014, 2015, not taking as much regard as to that.

But since 2022, the twins have had a relatively similar team throughout the years, but with Kevin

Gossman, a one in six record, again, not very good stuff, but a 643 ERA 82 strikeouts over

15 appearances.

So Kevin Gossman has pitched a time against the Minnesota twins, definitely hasn't gone

well a lot of the time we remember the playoff starts with Kevin Gossman, not even him

necessarily pitching that bad, but again, just never seemingly to get that run support.

Looking up and down the line up, Vladimir Groat Jr., as we said, not very good at bats.

George Bringer was the one of the better hitters in this game.

We said that probably shouldn't have him as lead off hitter at least for the first game

back.

Well, just we were wrong, obviously on that, George Bringer is available, just having

lead off at this point.

And then just throughout the lineup, I wanted to just give a shout out to really the only

other guy that offensively that you can give one swing a shout out to, and that is Dalton

Varsho called him out a little bit said he hasn't really done a lot in the last week.

We got one swing, a change up that was left higher in the zone, actually it was a fast

ball.

It's just barely over throws 88.

A change up, but gets launched into the right field stands.

Yep, one run, absolutely great, but one run is going to be real tough to win baseball

games like that.

Yeah, again, we're going to talk more about this offense because there's a few more things

I want to touch on.

It's going to be tough to talk about the bullpen.

We're going to have to do a little bit, obviously, still lots more to come, right?

There's still three games up in this series.

We're going to have a lot more to talk about, so stick around with us.

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Carter, we talked a little bit about the offense, and I want to touch a little bit more on

what makes this team successful compared to what doesn't.

And I think what we've seen a lot of this season so far, and when this team is winning

ball game, it's really not when one or two of your top five guys are doing well.

It's when the bottom of the lineup turns it up, and that's what makes games unreachable

for other teams in terms of the Toronto Blue Jays.

Brenna Valenzuela does get a hit today, but I mean realistically, everybody else in the

bottom six does nothing.

And that's not to take away from some of the top guys doing nothing either.

But I think it really was the difference maker last season is the past of a ton mentality

that the Toronto Blue Jays have, right?

I can take a walk here because I trust the guy behind me.

Now, a worry for me this year is, is that sustainable from last season?

Is it sustainable to trust every single guy?

And can you trust this guy or this guy on any given day?

It seems like it is a little bit of hot and cold baseball right now, isn't it?

I hate to use this excuse, but just looking at the bottom of the order and the guys that

are there right now, like David Schneider gets put in the game for your 100 Penango,

which I have my own gripe with.

I think like a very competitive bat at bat in his first half out, I'll kind of leave

this story for a little bit at the end here, but I thought he had a very good at bat.

Like, give this guy a little bit of runway, like he's you're struggling a little bit

offensively.

It has been better recently.

But for a guy that's a left-handed hitter or gets a guy that isn't throwing that hard,

I would have liked to see Penango have a few more chances in this game specifically.

But looking at the bottom of this order, Penango being a rookie on this team, don't think

that we're going to be relying on him farther down the stretch.

You have Andre Semenas who will be here, Brandon Valenzuela just as the catcher

position in totality.

You haven't really gotten a whole lot from either of these players in Brandon Valenzuela

in Tyler Hydenman, just looking at the stats.

Both these guys are not playing very good Brandon baseball.

Waiter once again plus for Brandon Valenzuela is 85, which is fine for a backup catcher.

Again, you have your main catcher go down.

One of the best in all baseball.

It's going to be hard to replicate that production.

But Tyler Hydenman has a nine, waiter once again plus, that's 91% worse than Lee Gavridge.

The only thing that this guy can do right now is bunts and the Toronto Blue Chiefs are seemingly

going away from the bunting strategy, which I'm not exactly sure why they're doing that

either.

So looking at the bottom of the lineup, Andre Semenas kind of has fallen off at least

a little bit just in the last couple of games.

I don't want to say fall enough, probably wrong way to put it, but it hasn't been as good

as it was to start.

You're probably going to have a guy like maybe a Hazoo Sanchez, maybe Ernie Clement goes

farther down the lineup, Nathan Lucas, but he comes back.

These aren't going to be guys that you're relying on throughout the entirety of the season,

but as you said, when you have Okamoto at the top of the order, you have Torch Prager

who you can't blame this game on, but Vladimir Crowe Jr., a lot of these at bats, at bats

were not very good.

You have to rely on the bigger dog.

So I'm not going to worry as much about what the bottom of the order is doing, especially

because these aren't going to be the guys down the stretch that you are relying on, but

last year you had guys like Andre Semenas and Ernie Clement at the bottom of the order.

Now you have Brandon Valenswela, it's a little bit of a difference there, but last year

you're right.

A lot of the time when the Toronto Blue Chiefs were having these big innings and starting

these rallies, it was the 7, 8, 9 hitters that were getting on base for the big dogs

out the top of the lineup.

This game we didn't really see that, but as you said, the Toronto Blue Chiefs offense

as a collective, the entire offense isn't hitting, it doesn't really matter who's trying

to get on base at which time.

Games like this do happen.

It's not like this is the first of it's kind, the only one we'll see all season.

There are games where your offense doesn't show up, and that's fine, I think it's baseball

fans we understand that.

The problem is it has to happen less than the times that they do show up, otherwise

you're not winning too many ball games, you're not going to be a successful ball club.

Jesus, I was Buck Martina's right there.

Almost Kevin Bigeo asked him that one.

Sometimes.

Yeah, so you have to be able to have more success than you don't.

It's easy as that to say, and I hate to break it down in generality terms, but that's

what it is.

You need this entire lineup to be better more consistently, and it comes down to the

consistency of this team, which so far, whether it be injury, I totally get that.

I understand that, but like I said in the past few episodes, you can't just use that

as an excuse because you have to be able to keep your head above water.

And again, a series that you should win, and to start behind the eight ball, this badly

isn't a good look.

And now you got Patrick Corbin on the Mount Carter.

If you start O and two against the twins in this series, you're at best getting a split,

which normally would get you a series loss.

The top guys got to be better.

They can't have games where Vlad, he drops the ball, Azuz Sanchez drops the ball, Okamoto

doesn't do enough for you, like you can't have three of your top five guys, not do legitimately

anything.

I'm excited there because the saw it off at that was just, it was bad, it was bad swing.

You got the saw it off, he gets it lucky, he gets it based luckily, that is part of baseball,

but that wasn't a successful at that.

It's so much worse just with Bailey Ober on the Mount and the pitching that you did have

as well.

Again, watching a guy throw 88 by you is always going to be frustrating, especially when

you see some other guys where the stuff is just no offense to Bailey Ober, but just a

lot better than what Bailey Ober did throw on that Mount.

Then you had Kevin Gawson on the Mount, debatable your ace to get Dylan C's Kevin Gawson, whoever

you want to go with, but you had the pitching advantage in that game, and unfortunately you

just didn't get the win.

It is one game, the Minnesota twins have not been playing a very good brand of baseball,

you have Simium Woods Richardson on the Mount, which we will get into, so another advantage

I'd say for the pitching matchups and another guy that in theory, you should be able to

get hits off of, but your offense is going to have to show up again, you got a score

runs, believe it or not, two win baseball games, and if the Toronto Blue Jays are only

going to score one run, they're not going to have a lot of success throughout this series.

I think against the Minnesota twins, for me, if it's a series tie, I think that's a loss

for the Toronto Blue Jays, just with the way things have been going, and with the brand

of baseball, the Minnesota twins have been playing.

One more thing I just wanted to go into before we do break down the second game of this

series is just talking about Joe Man supply and Mason Fluarty, and just their roles going

forward on the Toronto Blue Jays.

Two lefties, I think we both believe that is a beneficial to have two lefties in your

bullpen just to have the matchup, the platoon advantage, as we know, John Schneider definitely

likes to do.

Mason Fluarty, up to this point, has been not great is the way I'll put it.

I was expecting a little bit more from Mason Fluarty after this point, and on the other

side of it, we talked about Joe Man supply in the last episode.

He has been very good, again, not going to blow you away with the stuff necessarily, but

a little bit of a unique Garmango that has been giving hitters fits.

Putting you on the spot a little bit didn't prep you for this spot, but Joe Man supply

and Mason Fluarty, those are your two lefties.

One of them is going to have to pitch in higher leverage based on what you've seen this

season.

Who is your number one lefty in this bullpen?

To me, this is a ride the hot hand situation.

It really is because your top guy originally is Brennan Little, who you send to the moon

because God thanked Christ, and then you're...

I don't want to say you're stuck with, but you're left with Mason Fluarty and Matt

supply.

At this point, Carter...

Yeah, okay, so it's Matt supply right now, but in three weeks, it very well could be

Mason Fluarty again.

I think it's just using your head a little bit and understanding this guy's on a roll.

This guy's not doing well.

Who am I throwing here?

I don't think it has to be a definitive one-a lefty, one, you know, two lefty.

I think it can be a little bit of a, hey, this guy's one-a right now, but then, oh, yeah,

three weeks, he's one-b, and that's what you have to do because you only have two of

them.

You've got to use them wisely and you have to understand what the guy is the best for

which scenario, and, yeah, who's on the hot streak, I think that's the best answer I can

give you.

Yeah, so I guess long story short right now, it's probably Joe Man supply, but for me,

I'm going to add a little bit to this answer just because Joe Man supply's a lefty, I don't

want him in the game over guys like Tyler Rogers over Brennan Fisher or Louis Vuitton.

The matchups matter to a certain extent.

Joe Man supply has been good, but I'm going to trust the guys that have been in the high

leverage situations for an extended period of time, the guys that we have had this built

up confidence in.

I'm going to trust those guys in these higher leverage situations, just because the talent

over, you know, the platoon matchup or the matchup and variance that you get.

Totally.

I think we see what Tyler Rogers could do against lefties as anybody.

I mean, Tyler Rogers, how many hits has he given up that have gone out of the infield

on this point?

It feels like I could count him on one hand.

No, exactly.

And so, yeah, I'm not saying that, you know, high leverage for one of these either Mason

Fluority or Mans supply would be an eighth inning, like ideally, that's where Tyler Rogers

is, right?

And he can, yeah, like you said, face anybody because he can do just as well against lefties.

So it almost is like having a third lefty in your bullpen, but it would be your 1A, guys,

so, but he can do it to anybody.

So I, yeah, 100% agree, I think that's a great thing.

And then just one more thing I wanted to add talking about the lefty situation.

This one is not Mason Fluority's fault.

And the world happened in that eighth inning.

You have an infield fly ball.

Every time this happens, I always get a little bit nervous, especially when it doesn't

really look like someone is taking charge.

But in this situation, it did look like Vladimir Grov Jr. was calling for the ball, but

looked like he was being a little bit locks a days ago, getting to that ball does stumble

a little bit over the mound, but you have a runner on base, Mason Fluority does have

it out already.

But then you let the ball fall, Okamoto, maybe could have called them off.

And again, if a player is taking charge and calling for the ball, I think it's kind

of universal, especially as a baseball player, you get the hell out of the way.

You don't want to be right in the way of Vladimir Grov Jr.

And then of course, you add field, the fire, the ball falls, but it's Kazuma Okamoto

too.

He throws the ball into center field, not exactly what you want.

The Josh Bell hits a ball off the wall.

They get the ball in on just minutes.

Have Josh Bell caught between first and second base and on just minutes, one of the best

defenders, if not the best defender.

On the Toronto Blue Jace spikes a ball in the dirt.

It gets by Ernie Clement and another Ron Scors, about point six one.

The game is over, but it seems like this has happened so often this year, where I'm

not going to say that's the direct reason the Toronto Blue Jace have lost the game, but

in a spot where it is a big moment, and they have this mental lapse that puts the game

out of reach.

When maybe there wasn't a good chance that they could come back, but you lose, you're

sorry, you give up two more runs in a late inning situation like that.

It's almost impossible to overcome.

Yeah, there's team realistically this season, if we go back over the defensive mishaps

in late game scenarios, could potentially have two to three more wins and two to three

more wins of the difference between being above or below 500.

So yeah, it's not like they don't matter.

And yes, maybe this one slightly less because of where they were already and where the

offense are still doing nothing at that point.

I was going to say did somebody throw a blue line out there because Vladie tripped on

it.

It was after the fact it was funny to watch it at the time, it was a hat slam on the table,

but afterwards hilarious.

It looked so funny.

But then everything that happened after that, it became a comedy routine.

I thought we were watching Dom and Dumber or something and just watching or what the three

stages are it ever it is.

It was just horrific.

Yeah, it was pretty much like watching some of our slow pitch teams.

I think we've actually played better defense than the Toronto Blue Jace did in that eighth

inning.

Not exactly what you want to see, but as we said at that point, didn't really feel like

the Toronto Blue Jace were going to come back anyway.

If you want to spin zone, Toronto Blue Jace didn't really use any of their big bullpen arms

or high leverage bullpen arms, they'll have them available for the third or the second

game of the series.

But you do have Patrick Corbin on the mound.

Maybe this guy goes like eight, nine innings, it's been you know, pleasantly surprising

up to this point.

If we can get even five for them, I think that's going to be a pretty good spot for this

Toronto Blue Jace lineup.

But as we are talking, we have to go over this game.

We have to go over how important now this game is for the rest of the series and just trying

to turn the tides, turn the page and rally for hopefully what is the fourth series win

in a row for the Toronto Blue Jace.

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So Carter, three more games, Blue Jace Twins, Patrick Corbin on the mound.

Simian Woods Richardson on the mound for the Friday game again.

I will be there Saturday and Sunday.

If you're down there, come say hi, come have a beer or water if you don't drink.

I do.

I'm going to.

I'm at the ballpark.

Maybe a dog as well.

You know, I'll send a picture to Carter meeting a couple dogs and having a couple beers.

I'm sure he will be enjoying one or two himself.

Yeah, maybe not the dogs part of it.

You know, it's not a Tuesday.

I usually save the dogs for Tuesday nights.

But looking at this pitching matchup, maybe a good thing that you're not watching this

one.

You got the Friday and Saturday games or sorry, the Saturday and Sunday games because

those pitching matchups are a lot better than this one in theory and Simian Woods Richardson

versus Patrick Corbin.

I would think we could say that Patrick Corbin does have the advantage there.

A little bit about Simian Woods Richardson, obviously the Buberio's trade.

You have Austin Martin.

That is playing in this series that he does come from as well.

But looking at the sanding or stats, sorry, from Simian Woods Richardson up to this point

this season, six three ERA over 30 innings, only 15 strikeouts over that time, a 1.7 whip.

The games have not been going very well for Woods Richardson, 4.1 innings pitched in this

last start for Irrondarons, five innings pitch, three Irrondarons, five innings pitch,

six Irrondarons, four innings pitch, five Irrondarons, not very good.

But the way that again, if it goes anything like last game, you might go seven innings

of score this ball.

This is a game that you need to take advantage of.

This is a picture that you should be able to hit off of because every other team that

has played him up to this point has been pretty successful offensively.

Big bounce back spot for the Toronto Blue Jays.

I'm going to ask for a score prediction for the first time this year because I think this

is a pretty big game for the Toronto Blue Jays just to get the train back on the tracks.

Putting you on the spot one more time for this episode, give me a score prediction for

the Toronto Blue Jays here.

Six three Blue Jays.

I will take six runs any single day of the week, Patrick Corbin.

Give me six innings for Patrick Corbin as well.

I don't think the offense is going to hit that well.

I really hope they do, but I'm going to have a 4-2 game for the Toronto Blue Jays.

They do bounce back.

Hopefully we are right for this one.

You go down to the twins in the first two games in the series with the pitching matchups.

Everything considered not a very good spot for the Toronto Blue Jays to be in.

You got to win this game just to put yourself better, set yourself up better for the weekend

and just the series.

Hopefully that they can extend that to a fourth consecutive series when I'm just sick of losing

the bad team as well.

You lost the Rockies earlier, which I mean, they played okay baseball.

I guess up to this point, the White Sox, not a very good series.

Can we at least beat the twins?

Give me a twin series one.

Oh, God, I hope so.

So this one, this one would hurt, especially with me being down there and all.

Carter, just before we kick out of here, I think, you know, sometimes I like to bring

things back from ballpark so that I go to.

So what I'm going to do for you is I'm going to pick you up a pack of Minnesota twins

baseball cards, so you can have those.

Oh, I'm going to be so excited to get, you know, Roy Lewis, maybe I'll get an Austin

Martin from there.

I'm going to get a Jose Boreos from when he was with Minnesota twins.

Not a lot of players that, you know, I'm going to be looking for in that pack, at least

like if it is Minnesota twins players specifically, you know, at least get me like an MLB

pack where I have a chance to pull in a Toronto Blu-Jay.

No, that's not as much fun.

Like I want you to pull like a like a gold Austin Martin or something.

I don't know if that gets made, but if so, I hope you get that one.

You know, at the Toronto Blu-Jays win, you got to buy me a Simian Woods Richardson jersey

and then I'll wear that one every single time he's on the mound because the Toronto

Blu-Jays for good luck for the Toronto Blu-Jays.

So maybe just a little bit of support for an extra Toronto Blu-Jays.

Somebody would have to put a gun to my head for me to spend $200 on a Simian Woods Richardson

jersey.

Quinn's jersey at that.

Yeah.

Hey, Toronto Blu-Jays legend.

Another Toronto Blu-Jays legend, Tyler Fitzgerald.

I don't know if we ever brought that up on the podcast, he had such a, well, he had such

a huge impact on the Toronto Blu-Jays ball club.

So yeah, very sorry to see Tyler Fitzgerald go, but the Dodgers are going to somehow find

a way to turn this guy into an absolute superstar, just in the typical way the Dodgers find

some sort of luck.

Very skilled organization as well, but again, when things go this well, you got to be a

little bit lucky.

Yeah.

Good to be lucky, lucky to be good.

That's what they say.

Absolutely.

The Toronto Blu-Jays could use a little bit of luck as well here.

I definitely would not be opposed to that.

I'm bringing it with me.

Hopefully they do well in those two games.

Thanks, everybody, for tuning in.

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I hope you guys enjoy the weekend.

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But yeah, besides that, Carter, last episode of the week, anything else to say to the

people?

Not too much for me.

It looks like it will be myself and most likely Skyler Peters for the Monday episodes

of Brandon will be taking a step back.

There should only be two more weeks in me working the nights and being away from the

podcast.

So unfortunately, or fortunately, whether you like or dislike me or just like to have

new and fresh perspectives on the podcast, we will still be doing this little bit of

rotation here.

So hopefully you guys have been liking what we were doing.

Hopefully you guys have liked everything that Braden, Dalin, Skyler, if we get anybody

else in the podcast has been presenting you guys, yeah, and just a little bit of conflict

with the scheduling.

But we will be back in action with the regularly scheduled programming.

Hopefully only after one week, but it's most likely going to be two.

It has been okay so far since I've been gone, trying to boot you guys putting a couple

of series since I haven't gone.

Maybe Braden having the boots on the ground is a little bit of extra luck and the way

to turn the season to the right direction.

Thank you guys for watching.

We will be back with you guys.

Please all be back with you guys on Monday.