TRANSCRIPT: Ep. 28: Cubs and Brewers Snake-Bit Out West

Text Transcript of Ep. 28

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Woah to. Welcome to the new best rivalry in baseball. Welcome back to the ninety miles podcast baseball fans, I’m here with Ryan who’s somewhere in California. To find his way through the mountains. Yeah. Upon days has been here. Yeah. Went to the data hurt you into dodgers game on Sunday, which, you know, wasn’t bad. There was the possibility of getting Janssen, again, in the ninth, which would have been cool. But unfortunately that didn’t happen. And so, unfortunately, I got to walkout a Dodger Stadium with my head down and shame and embarrassment of. But a lot, there are a lot of cubs fans there, obviously, they travel, well, and LA being, you know, a lot of transplants, plenty of cubs fans out there with a good group of cubs fans, so that was fun. And. Yeah. Would have been nice win that one. I think the cubs competed pretty good against the very good dodgers team even though even though they only won one of the four games, you know they played well they were in every game. And you know what? There’s still some pieces that need to be put together for the cubs yet. I mean don’t have kimbro yet. So, yeah. Anyways, it is introduction to the go. Yeah. Like, hey Ryan went to dodger game sweet annually. It was a fun one. I caught the end of it. Havi lined out that was an exciting finish to that game. Yeah. Of course it was that what was it? No doubt kind of reminded me of the night before the bruise had a similar situation against the giants who they’re supposed to be. But apparently, Milwaukee doesn’t know what it means to play baseball in the west coast. So it’s been a great week for cubs and Burs fans alike. Yeah. So you got to got to hang out at dodgers stadium. Saw some pictures. It looked like a looked like a great time. That’s one of those ballparks that’s on my on my shortlist of ones. I need to get to. So at some point here, I’ll probably be flying out to California to crash at your place and go to go to a data game. Get a dodger dog. I’d be good. Yeah. Well, you know, I if I were a dodgers fan it’s a cool place to hang out. I’d go there quite frequently. It’s a nice park. I I like it. It’s a cool vibe. And I guess as long as you’re not a giants fan. It’s, it’s, you know a safe fun time there. Yeah. The giants and dodgers have had some incidents over the years. The brewers and cubs are occasionally getting some of those we saw a little bit. Actually, it was more cubs. Cubs hate in the Miller parka. Alls leaving the stadium the last time, there was a Sears there. But yeah. Like you said, if you know if you’re as long as you’re not a giants fan wearing giants gear you’re in good shape there. No. But it does a lot of fun with the dodgers fans there, you know, little back and forth and the stands and, and it’s fun and and but all all, respectful and all in funds. So it’s all good. And. Yeah, Erlach lot of cubs fans. And yeah it’s good. It’s a it’s an interesting via that stadiums. Got it’s own vibe. It’s they got a very, very loud sound system. And, and, you know so it’s very the places bouncing for sure. And great organised. Yeah. I was going to say they went from gosh, bohemian, rhapsody all the way to baby shirk in the span of about thirty seconds. Oh, yeah. Yeah. It’s no matter how you look at it. That’s not easy to do. And make it work and yeah, absolutely. Yeah. I mean he’s he’s really good in the way he ties at each of the bat. I mean he was play. Being music from Greece. When when Rizzo was coming up to bat stuff like that, like, crazy pretty clever. Good stuff. I did see the first base the first base ballgirl made a leaping stab at a line drive that would clean somebody’s clock into he she went up and got it came back down with it and immediately he was into playing beach boys wish they could all be California. Who’s? Oh, yeah. Pretty pretty amusing. Like, is he doing what? Yep. He is he he’s, he’s right. On on top of it all the time. Yeah, it’s good stuff. Yeah. Looks like a great atmosphere. I gotta get my butt out there one of these days. Yeah. It was really nice. And we, we took the shady side, the third base side for the afternoon game. And, but it was very comfortable like low seventies, you know, great great time there and. Yeah. California weather. Yep. Yep. And. It can be hotter than that sometimes down down there. So it worked out. Well, though, that was very comfortable temperature.

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And yeah, it’s it’s been an interesting weekend, though. You know, I, I do want them throw I am a throw in a low pitch. Just a reminder, to everybody ninety miles podcasts dot com. Get on there and subscribe, ’cause we got that giveaway coming up. So yes, we yes them cool gear. And and you gotta be subscribed by basically by the all star game. So that’s coming up quick, we’ve been in, it is coming up quick, and get your friends subscribed Geli cubs fans. All your Bruce fan subscribed. Yeah. They want free gear. We’re giving it away. And we’ve actually had some success. We’re not that far away from going to the next level, your friends and family on there. Have you been so they know in the next podcasts are? Oh, we’re not far away from bumping up from that knit hat and shirt low, it’s still a little bit to go, but we’re getting close, if we really pumped the gas boy by the time, the all star break gets you’re there could be something really sweet on the line for somebody. Yeah. If you’ve been listening, you know the past few episodes in here in us mentioned while and and maybe you’re like, well there’s still time while there’s not as much time now. So go go do it. The votes are out there. They’re accumulating the all star games almost here. That’s another thing that would be fun to talk about. We’re gonna talk more about it. Once we get closer not today today, we got a for better for worse segment. Remember, we kinda shifted how we do things. It’s a little more debate oriented, although today’s kind of a kind of a step back from that a little bit. We got a tweet of the week regarding one brewer player and what I think, needs to happen, that will be fun to talk about Brian’s got a couple of predictions that I am not mistaken. You’re gonna take a couple of hard ELS this week, aren’t you buddy? I guess we’ll have to wait and see. Yeah. Yeah. And then we gotta make our new predictions, and we’re going to kind of burn through this one have some fun with the if you hadn’t checked out last week, sepsis owed. It’s excellent. We, we both really good about it. And the nice thing is it’s somewhat timeless even though it’s been a week that one is one. I can still go back and listen to. And it’s now early stuck in time. And we’re trying to find a way to do a little bit more of that were these are relevant for a couple of three weeks. Yeah. Let us know what you think give us some ideas. If you got different things you think we should cover. Let us know today we wanted to break down a little bit of the lineup for the cubs and the brewers and how they pit against each other a little bit head to head. Everybody knows about the top three guys for both clubs right yelich this year. It’s been moussaka some grand all for the brewers. Who would you say the top three of Ben on the cubs side? Ryan. Oh. Well, you gotta go with, you know, Rizzo Bryant by as they’ve kind of been the, the Staples their top three, you know. If you look at the exact moment, and Opie s though, you know, you could make a case for control us over by as actually, but I, I don’t think that’ll be the case by the end of the season. I think you gotta put by as a just a little bit ahead and Rizzo Bryant. Are while they’re there you gotta you gotta have Brizo up there. The top two so Rizzo. Nice. Fan ahead and heard that before. Oh, really, yeah. Yeah, no, Brazil, no bridge, that lake. Yeah. Anyway. Hawaii Zeo but, oh yeah. You got to spell it right. Because you can really hear that when you when you say it out loud. So anyway. Long story short, you got Brizo and bias at the top, you’re probably going to be talking about contraire us who’s been obviously a huge contributor. Yes. So what we wanted the reason we wanna do this. We want to talk about how these lineups stretch out. We both think these lineups for each squad if not having the both lineups have the potential in my opinion to end up being the best or one of the best in the National League. Why don’t you lay at me? What do you coming at me with for the cubs and the foreign five whole four and five hole of the lineup? But for third fourth and fifth best contributor. Right. And fifth best contributor. Yeah. As far as where they end up in the lineup. You know with Madden. You never know. Yeah. Council shuffles guys pretty regular to. Right. Right. So, so, yeah. So we’re looking basically at the couple players beyond Brizo and bias. And in that case for the cubs, I’d, I’d have to say contrarius without a doubt, which, which is, you know, that’s pretty good for a catcher slotting up like that. And then I you know if you looking at plate appearances, you, you gotta kinda say Schwarzer probably at this point, you know, although his batting average doesn’t reflect that once you take into account as on base and slugging, you know as Opie s is, is over eight it’s eight oh five right now and he’s been playing a bit. But then I think a case could be made with Bodey, although he’s not as much full-time, but that’s kind of rounds out those that air in from that, that stretch words, you know, like Hayward L more.

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You know kinda put. Pushes out from there. I think as if you’re looking at production, anyways, well, if, yeah, if I were looking at the cubs and looking for the fourth and fifth best contributor, even though boaty has the smaller sample size. I still think he’s having by far the better year and when he put it all together by the end, he very well may out contribute, someone like Schwarzer. Yeah, nothing. I’m they contribute against war here, different way. They have the same slugging. They’re slugging is basically identical end Baudys got the better average the better on base. Yeah. Opie as eight twenty six overs, eight oh, five. I yeah. I mean it’s slightly smaller sample size but not that much smaller. I mean, David bodies got to four plate appearances shores got to seventy six I know that’s why I gotta have Bodey in the conversation there. So. Yeah, he’s, he’s been great. I like him a lot. He’s very he. He’s clutch to which is great. I mean he is like basis runners on base, and, you know, that kind of stuff. I mean what is what two outs with runners in scoring position? He’s batting three twenty seven. That’s in fifty five at bats sixty three plate appearances two outs runners in scoring position, three twenty seven I that is that’s great. That’s impressive. Got an over a thousand Opie S one point six seven in that situation. That’s that’s clutch. So that’s that goes a long ways. That’s huge. He’s gotten to be known as that, of course. Yeah. That walk off grand slam last year, you know, and that, that got a lot of attention. Of course. Sure, you know, he’s had he’s had some clutch performances, no doubt about it. You know, smaller sample size with the two hundred thirty eight plate appearances, or I’m sorry. The excuse me, the two hundred four control us only has twenty eight more play. Appearances IRS at thirty eight thirty four more he’s a catcher. He’s supposed to he’s supposed to be in the lineup less. That’s logical. If I didn’t have grand doll sitting in my top three which I have to have. Yeah. We’d be sitting here talking about grin delivers contraire, which I think is a great debate. It is one that we need to do at some point, we will part part of the reason is grand all has two hundred seventy three plate appearances. He’s, he’s playing a lot. And we more than contrarius got Victor carotene e it is interesting. They’ve used them a lot. Switch hitting catchers, get to play more because they aren’t getting split up as much. But you’ve also had carotene contributing quite a bit too. That’s more. Anyway, that’s going off on a tangent that we didn’t really mean down. What I would like to try and bring to the table as an argument that the brewers eventually will have a better fourth and fifth contributor than the cubs. Unfortunately, as all Burs fans no rate. Now we’ve had some struggles with. Guys, some big regression, there’s been guys than overachieved as there is with every lineup. And there’s guys underachieving right? The cubs one through five based on what you’re talking about very solid. You get into the brewers, you know, yelich moose Grendel, I’m going to have to make. I can’t make an argument for HR. He also only has one hundred ninety six plate appearances, I can’t make an argument for Shaw. He’s got one hundred and eighty eight plate appearances both of these guys have had atrocious season so far. There’s obviously some progressing to the mean to come, I actually have to make an argument for Eric fame. The fourth best contributor in this brewers lineup. Thus far. Yeah. This is going to be a painful ah, painful debate for me. Because I I’m trying to find a way out of the paper sack. And I, I don’t see it. I don’t see it right now. The cubs have better foreign five contributors than the Bruce do the boomers when they get it turned around. I think will have the better lineup the longer lineup. It just hasn’t happened this as far this year themes, has an eight seventy two Opie on base, plus slugging. Right. So he’s on base three seventy five his oh. P p is excellent. It’s not like he’s having a bad year. There’s nothing to be ashamed of here. The thing is we gotta remember. He’s been splitting time with angular Aguilar has been bad until the last fourteen days last fourteen days, he’s about to ninety two so he’s pulled it around a little bit on his batting average. The fifth hit. Her would be Ryan Braun. Unfortunately, at this point Braun is not what he was five years ago. He’s still having a very solid season. But again, he’s more of a part time rate is two hundred and fifty five plate appearances. He splitting time with, with a excuse me. Splitting time with Ben gamble in the outfield who’s having a solid year but you’re bution are pretty minimal eleven home runs for Braun.

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Ten home runs for Fame’s. Those are kind of the fourth and fifth best guys bronze on base. Plus slugging is only seven fifty expect. Those numbers to increase for him. Yeah. This I don’t even know kinda low. For brawny. It is. Yeah. For thirty nine slugging is on the low side for him. Right. He’s usually a little more selective. I mean, yeah, maybe he’s not juicing as much as you used to or something. But oh come. Come off. You can’t bring on. I mean, it’s you know it’s not like I’m lying. You know, you’re, you’re, you’re still trying to make jokes about something that happened in, I don’t know eight years ago. Yeah. Well. Fans. Never let it go. Yeah. Well, uh-huh. Uh-huh. Yeah. Who would you rather have not even going to? I’m not even going to do it. I’m not sinking to your level today. Okay. I’m writing above. I’m staying above it. Mustafa’s took a another pitch off the fingers. This bruise lineup has actually been struggling quite a bit for a while. And I’m gonna talk about it more when we get to tweet of the week, I still think when it’s all said and done the bruise will have a better four and five contributor than the cubs. Do yeah. Think it’s really that close. Oh, contraire can triage isn’t going to maintain this. Two eighty seven three seven five thirty. Oh, yes. Yeah. I think that’s that is kinda his mean really? You know, I, I would not be surprised if he ends a season. Eight fifty or more. Jairo P S you know what one of the top? I mean, you, you got a prediction on grand all. So I already told you I think can do pyre was war was that the prediction was war. This war predict ran doll will have the better wins above replacement and I don’t even think it’s going to be close. Yeah, I know I know can control his young. He’s got some things going for me played well, but his career batting averages to sixty nine is on basis. Three fifty five career numbers. He hasn’t had he had a down season last year. And so that’s going to sink the numbers, a little bit being that he’s young and doesn’t have as, as many years in. So I, I think we’ll see. But, you know, thirteen home runs to eighty seven five thirty slugging nine sixteen Opie s you know he’s he’s he’s a full hundred points. He’s a full hundred points higher. Here on his Opie s this season versus career. Right. And that’s two hundred and two at bats versus thirteen hundred five at bats. I think he’s due for regression. He has to be I. About that in the nine hundreds, I think he okay. Christian yelich season. And, and I think we’re seeing, you know a new player. So we’ll we’ll see. We’ll see that’s fine. Schwarzer Schwarzer, I think is gonna is underperforming. I think he’s gonna get better. I do as especially as OB p I think is lower than at it will end up being and slugging. I think could move up batting average. I you know, I don’t know at this point. But you know that’s why you know we look at Opie s we look at on base, plus subbing takes out the that the, the weaknesses of the batting average statistic. I guess the whole well, yeah, we’ve, we’ve had we’ve had discussions about it. It’s how do you get to that opiates? There’s more than one way to do it last year, Lorenzo Cain. For instance, had an over, if I’m not mistaken. Gotta show was like seven fifty five or better opiates, Lorenzo Cain, has like six five O PS right now. His career is seven sixty three when this is all said and done he’s going to get going much better than he is. Now, he may not maybe last year was a career year for them, but there’s no way this guy’s to forty nine hitter in the leadoff spot. Lorenzo canes to talented of an individual he’ll be number four number five contributor by the end of the season. For the Bruce in my opinion with that in front of guys like grand doll in front of guys like yelich. I think the brewers will absolutely have a better foreign five contributor now, of course I’m projecting right now. There’s no question. The cubs have performed the brewers in those four and five slow. Yeah. But there’s also. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Hey. I mean yeah. It’s yeah, Well, I, I don’t I thought I had a better argument than this when I started doing my research. I really I got depress it was like what these guys are all. They’re having that Ben of the brewer they only got four hitters with eight hundred or better, Opie S, and James is is in there.

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They have five. They have five. Yeah. Ones in the minor leagues. Oh, right, right. With. Another reason that the rules are going to have a better. But, but yeah, I mean stock is grand doll. Okay. You know, they’re all nine hundred or better Dame’s is eight seventy two but then you got Braun seven fifty in what arsia six ninety Gammel, seven twenty six these he’s themes, and gambler are not, and you go back to the beginning of the season, I think I predicted six qualifying hitters to have an eight hundred psi or better yet, I’m only halfway there. No Ryan Braun. I think very very well could get there to sixty two batting averages literally almost forty four points below his career average. He’s about a two ninety nine career hitter. Somewhere in that range. You can’t expect them to say to sixty two. You can’t expect that slugging stay that low. I, I look at this. I mean you really think contrary is going to hold it up. You really I think, boaty has the potential still hold it up. But I think by the end when we get to the when we get to August. And this fight release starts for between the cubs and the Bruce as to who’s going to win the central I think, Milwaukee’s gonna have the better lineup at that point. Well, I wouldn’t agree with that. Okay, we’ll tell me. Cups, have six six hitters with eight hundred or better opiates right now? You know, I, I can’t argue with the now that’s for sure. Yeah. I mean Hayward in Laura, I’m not even going to mention to scout. So, you know. That there’s. You know some other issues there cure, teeny, doesn’t have a lot of plate appearances only seventy one he was injured earlier in the year. But he’s got an eight fifty three. Oh, PS when he’s in there. He he’s basically been catching, Darvish Addison, Russell not not been great six seventy five Opie s course he’s got ninety nine plate appearances, but, you know, I mean if we’re kinda looking out out there, you know, I missing zobrist that’s for sure. You know, I think. You know, I I don’t know. I don’t know what I do something. I mean that lineup. I feels pretty solid I but I don’t know that if if you’re if your going to propose that hero. Makes the Burs lineup better than the cubs lineup. I’m gonna have to call Bs on that one. Well, he did make it better than the, the cubs lineup while he was up a different story. Yeah. If you look at, you know, if you look at the cubs, I, I expect a little bit of regression from a couple of spots, and I expect some pretty big progression from the Bruce bats. But the truth is, for better for worse, which is the segment title rate now as it stands the cubs have the better lineup. All right. I don’t whatever. But I got nothing else. All right, shoot. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Well, let’s. Themes and Bron themes in Bronner, not supposed to be the fourth and fifth best contributors in this Burs lineup maybe on, but certainly not themes it’s supposed to be Agu are or Shaw or Shaw’s replacement because that’s probably what’s coming Aguilera, doesn’t turn it around. Fames. James, just really dial in how they can sneak more performance enhancing drugs. You know, could maybe they wouldn’t be for five they’d be, you know, two and three maybe but. Got anything else? I bringing. What maybe John? James, you know, maybe maybe he needs to hire yelich as signs Steeler. Maybe that’s right. Yeah. There you go. Right. Let’s get out of that segment that I feel bad. I don’t know how to make this argument any better the brewers right now. Just are not what we expected them to be lineup wise. I honestly expected this to be the best lineup in the National League. It’s not right now and there’s some ugly spots in it, and the cubs have pretty good lineup but they can’t seem to win any more games than the I mean. It’s more of a pitching issue, which we’re not as much talking about today’s so.

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Although there’s been issues with with getting runners in runners in scoring positions, some of that, as far as in general, as a team, there’s been they’ve had their moments trouble with that, but not boaty, obviously. But but, but team in general so that some of it, but mainly it’s been the pitching, which, you know, I’m sure we’ll cover another time in, and, you know, the cubs may, we will we got kimbrel coming. So he’s already in triple A, so that’s gonna help. But, but anyways, yeah, let’s we’ll see. We’ll see. Okay. Okay. Well, let’s get to the tweet of the week here. Yes. So I don’t know jumping on that since it’s kind of brewers based kind of ties into my whole depressing argument that I just had with you. This comes from Luke Launer. At LA at LA U N D is easy. L E thirty three salon diesel thirty three he kinda puts it into words. I don’t know if I agree entirely with this, but I agree with parts of it. So what Luke head to say? Kissed in here needs to be recalled ASAP. The brewers clearly aren’t quote unquote all in, like they say they are by keeping him down in AAA, but letting guys who can’t do their jobs effectively and efficiently up in the majors over him. Exclamation point. So basically, he’s on board with idea that kissed in here. Maybe should never have gone down. That’s more my opinion they should’ve left Shaw down and let them get right? Anyway, we’ve been over this time. But what I would like to do is point out some numbers that kind of backup. What Luke’s opinion is here. Because I did tweet out just a little earlier today in preparation for this episode some interesting numbers so before. Esten hero came up and I’m not trying to tie this to Travis Shaw at all. But before here came up the brewers were averaging four point seven two runs per game. Once here came up for the next seventeen games, the Burs averaged five point nine four runs. That’s a one point two two run per game increase. That’s a massive massive increase in the thirteen games since hero, went back down there, even below where they were before they’re at four point four six runs per game. Now you can talk to me a little bit about having to play you know out of those last thirteen games. Five of them have come in. Petco park in San Diego. And oracle park in San Francisco, but you can’t tell me that, that one run per game difference isn’t tied to having somebody that fits into that fourth best fourth or fifth best contributor role in your lineup. They took a guy. Oh, okay. I’m gonna try not to go off the rails. Amy tricky. You can feel it common. The guy that was. Yeah. To eighty one batting average three thirty three on base percentage five thirty one slugging eight sixty five Opie s right? We just talked about how the brewers don’t have anybody else anywhere, you know, they’ve got four guys over eight hundred hero would be the fifth, so it’d be Fame’s than hero than brawn than gamble. Without that guy in the lineup. They just don’t score as many runs aren’t as good against left handed, pitching Casten era is going to be part of the argument, why I think the bruise will be a deeper better lineup then the cubs by the end of the season, but it’s really frustrating to watch this team not score runs knowing they were scoring runs when that guy was up the adult know if you’ve got anything to add to that, or some frustrations from past cubs teams where you’ve seen things like this, or, you know, I, I don’t know. It is. It is does seem. It you know, when you really look at the lay out of the lineup with the brewers and especially in that area. And you look at what here did. And you it just does make you kinda wonder my God. I mean you got he got several starters sub seven hundred PS you know. It’s like. Yeah. I mean, the biggest make salary of the biggest contributors from last year are sub seven hundred opiates the Anna Agee Laren Shah that means there should be some progress into the mean which is what I’m counting on. But. You can’t sit here and run this lineup out there every day. When you’ve got a guy banging on the door. That’s just where I’m at with a. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it seems to me that you, the, you know, it would make sense to. Have here up. I think that would make the lineup better not better than the cubs. Don’t get me wrong. There. Not right away. I would I would agree with you right away. But, you know, over time it could I wouldn’t expect custom here at a hit, you know, to eighty one for the rest of the season. I’d be happy with two sixty five to seventy. He, he was on pace to basically, contribute at a clip better than Travis Shaw did last year in a way and I’m not trying to pitch them against Shaab when Sean Eggy lar- have five home runs each and, you know, they both have about one hundred ninety plate appearances in some kid comes up in sixty nine plate appearances hits five it’s an issue.

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But anyway, that’s the tweet of the week for my perspective. Yeah. It kind of didn’t mean to cut you off there. I don’t know what else to say about it. I think here needs to be up a SAP agree with Luke Launer. Well, I don’t think there’s any more time to waste. They’ve blown a chance to take big lead on the cubs in the last few days. Yeah. I mean I. Well, and I guess that might be a good time to mention about the standings, just briefly. Fortunately, for both the cubs brewers even though they have not done as great. Neither had the rest of the central so yeah. Yeah. What happened to our National League central dominating the rest of the league? Yeah. What is going on Cincinnati and Pittsburgh. Come on. Yeah. It’s I don’t get. I don’t get it. I don’t know. I it’s a little odd. I mean. You know, you got the central you got last ten even if you look while last ten you got. Well, I guess the cardinals are six four everyone else’s. Yup. Five hundred or worse. Cincinnati. Milwaukee in Chicago. Yeah. Pittsburgh walkies five cubs Ford, six the last ten it’s like, you know, I mean, the cardinals had an opportunity to get back in the mix more. So the brewers or the cubs won had an opportunity to run away further into the lead. But instead, everyone sunk so, yeah, it’s been awful. Don’t look now. But the National League West appears to be much better than we thought it would be Arizona to me is a bit of a surprise Colorado’s doing what Colorado does doesn’t surprise me. Yeah. San diego. We knew would be better. I didn’t expect them to be five hundred as of today. They’ve got a game starting a little bit about an hour and a half with Milwaukee tonight, but San Diego has looked good. The pitching’s been pretty solid. You know, the runs against total isn’t terrible. Yeah. There with Milwaukee’s? If you wanna look at it that way. But I think when it all shakes out the National League central will still be the best. Division in baseball. But that’s going to require Cincinnati and Pittsburgh to get their crap together. Yeah. Quite frankly, and I would never count on that. So I can get their stuff together. They got another game against the White Sox, and they got the Mets, and hopefully they can get it together. A not great Mets team. So maybe four games there, give them a chance. But then they got four against Atlanta which they’ve been doing good this year. Atlanta’s the real deal, I’ve been in touch with my friend, Jesse Drager a little bit back and forth, Atlanta does look like they’re pretty legit. Yes. Starting rotations been pretty dang good Julio Tehran. If you look at his peripherals, I happen to have them on my fantasy team you know, with the guys from and Gail from my Fanshawe’s fantasy baseball league dizzle. Mike and Glenn. Anyway, I have Julio Tehran. But his peripherals have been bad last night. He finally, blew up a little bit outside of that Atlanta’s pitching looks pretty good. They’re young. Ev. Everybody that thought Philadelphia and the Mets, and for some reason, Washington, where the class of that division. I don’t know how much baseball they watched last year. But last checked Atlanta looked pretty dang good last year too. Yeah. I don’t know where all that. Fall off was expected to come from. Right. I’m assuming just media bias as usual, but the east, I think Atlanta’s the class of that division Philadelphia’s rate there. We’ll see what happens. Yeah. But a lot of baseball left to be played the west looks pretty solid right now. Milwaukee always plays pretty mediocre to poor Leo west. So I’m not terribly surprised they’ve had a rough road trip. Yeah. How do the cubs generally do are they usually pretty? Okay. Oh, west. Or do they struggle a lot? I think we really talked about this season. I you know, it’s, it’s been okay. I mean they had trouble with the dodgers, but, you know, most teams are but they competed well, the dodgers are good. He competed mo- most of the time when they have come out west to face the dodgers. They have had a lot of success. I’ve been. Fortunate to be I’d say I, I’d have to dig in. I don’t know. But I, I’d say, I’m well over five hundred as far as cubs wins at games. I’ve I was at so that’s good. Well, that’s, that’s something we should review at some point to the next time there’s a west coast team in tone from one of the two clubs.

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Maybe take a look at the history a little bit. Yeah. You can break down the cubs. You know, the cubs and brewers who’s better through a third party kind of view. I’m pretty sure the cubs should be better than the brewers have been out west based on what I remember. But Ryan interesting, interesting. Yeah. Yeah. So all right. But yeah, I guess that brings us some predictions, right? Yeah. I think that pretty much wraps up the annal central breakdown. Plus, a little quick overview, you know, outside of that one thing, I did want to mention the Miami Marlins have had Jordan Yamamoto who came over in the Christian yelich trade starting his gun to starts seven innings pitched both starts, and he’s had two shutouts. I mean he hasn’t allowed to run in fourteen innings in two games two wins to quality starts. So an impressive showing from somebody that did come over in that Christian yelich trade. Yeah. Maybe not all is lost on that trade for the Marlins. But, you know, Yamamoto I’m happy for them regrets. The Marlins may be able to make the claim they came out better and. I don’t think you can ever make an argument like that, when you win a National League MVP and take your team to the brink of the world. But maybe they didn’t totally get hose that it will give you the may not totally got host. But the better end of the deal. All he’ll need to grab a couple of Young’s before we have that talk. That’d be fun. Maybe that would be good. Well, maybe he and you dervish will be in the sei-yung conversation together. And we can cover that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Okay. Predict onto prediction. Speaking of predictions, speaking of you Darvish, actually, I, I’m gonna go ahead, just because you mentioned Darvish, I figured is better transition. I’m gonna dive right into my prediction right now super, he bring it you know, he starts on Friday against Vargas against the Mets in Chicago. I think Darvish has been pitching great this year. I think the special. All year. Not the beginning of the year. But, but lately, I think he’s, he’s had a lot of decisions in which he pitched. Well, and then the the bullpen, you know, loss at forum, he’s had some bad luck in that sense. I don’t think four six five ER is just bad luck. Well that he. Yeah. Well in any case that was earlier in the season, mostly, he’s been pretty good recently. But that’s fine. That’s fine. Because whatever your, your perception emboldened, this will. We’ll be there and even though it won’t be as bolt. So it’s worked well for me. So my prediction. It’s. On friday. Oh, yeah. But Varga says three point seven four Yara. So, you know, just because he’s got a better Yari than Darvish doesn’t make it bolt. I’ll shut up shut up. Shut up, Darvish Darvish, we’ll get the W and one runner lasts. Seven innings, or more? Innings pitched. Is it one earned run or one run, total one earned run or less? I mean either way it’s not gonna happen. So, yeah, that sounds okay. Seventy one run or less. And he will get the W as well. He leads the league in walks. He’s not gonna limit them to one run. But. Okay. Okay. Okay. All right. That is bold, my friend, Gaye. I mean you don’t give me wrong Darvish is pitched better the last couple of games. Yeah. I don’t think he’s in the site his not in the Cy Young Klaus. But if you get whatever that’s. I’m never letting go of you’re. That. I’ll talk about this next year to okay? Yeah. What I’m going to regret that. Okay. Okay. You’re getting. You’re going to accept that prediction, then. Yeah. Okay. Well, because his lab maker next week again, if you start against the dodgers, by the way, seventy six pitched, two hits, one run ten strikeouts. However, he did not get the W. On that one. Nice game it. My Santa next game against LA did get the W. What am I? No. He did not get the W data was right. He came out the and the dodgers up. That was the one that Reseau hit the two run Homer. I want him where I’m getting that. It’s not your fault. You didn’t you didn’t have you didn’t have internet this weekend. It’s not your fault rattlesnakes snakes at no internet.

00:40:00 – 00:45:00

I we had no power on Friday for, like eight hours food on the Fraser start Mel, and, yeah, we found to baby rattlesnakes so yeah. That was outside. So that was pretty sweet. But anyways, yeah, a little distressed. Anyway, you should get a cat that’ll take Darvish. Oh, most did that against the dodgers in LA? His last started almost what I’m predicting he’ll do against that. So but it’s fine because you already accepted it as a bold prediction. So that’s fine. But it’s mighty bold. Yeah he had a nice game against the dodgers. He’s not repeating it. Okay. Are you kidding me? Okay. Well, once every ten starts me, okay. Right. Yep. All right. That’s fine. Okay. All right. Anyways, there’s got to come up with a. You still want because I, I need to come to terms with the two that I lost both Kris Bryant win nationally player of the week in at least one of the two weeks did not happen. And also wire were and also to win three of the four against the dodgers. Yeah. That did not happen either. So I will update standings. That’s I think that pushes you into I well, it’s where I belong while you were naked. Here. Yeah. Yeah. Well, what I wanna do here. You’re you’re predicting one that’s going to end. Well, real soon. I’m going to. Yeah. I wanna I wanna make a prediction that’ll end before next week. We got a whole bunch that are gonna come to close all around the all star game. But we gotta keep a couple of the keep the standings, moving and interesting. So you went ahead with the Darvish prediction, whom you know, I, I love to hate on. Yep. So after our discussion today about the fourth and fifth best contributors for the brewers there really isn’t one. So I’d like to make an Eric themes, Ryan. Brunn. Jesus’s Agee lar and Travis Shaw prediction. So the brewers schedule should get a little bit better this week, just like the cubs or get some home games. The Burs will get a little home cooking. But today they’ve got San Diego away, then they got four against Cincinnati in Miller park, and then one at home against Seattle before the next time we record. So in those six games, Fame’s Braun Aguilar, Shah will combine to hit six home runs. Is that bold enough for you, though? Remember, these guys have stunk. Yes. Andrew, there part time players, partly right? So themes is a split guy. He and Aguilar split time for the most part. There’s no game. That’s an American League stadium. So it’ll be either be themes that I or a alert, I it won’t be both of them in the lineup right? You’ll get some pinch hits Shaw kind of a similar situation. They’ve been he’s been on the pine a little bit against left handed pitchers. And I’m not sure if there is a left in the next few games or not then Braun. He gets a day off every third day or so. So I’m taking three guys that are struggling, well, two guys that are struggling and two guys that are part, timers, and six games to get six home runs out of them. I’ll take it. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I think it’s reasonable. They’re all capable of hitting tunnel bombs, but nobody has. It’s just frustrating. Yeah. So this all just compound the frustration that’ll be great. When you lose this. So that’s okay. Yeah. Whatever I think. I think there’s a chance, then again who knows right by the weekend. One of those guys could be off the squad. I don’t even know how interesting, it’s been on. You might be not even kidding. Good mean here as there that I want all of my brewers to succeed. I want them all to do well, but I want here up here too. So he is my hero right after all. Well, they go I need a here. All right. So that kind of wraps up predictions. We did a tweet of the week, the for better for worse. I can’t win the lineup argument rate now. But I think I will win it later. That’s what matters. Yep. Okay. Yep. Yep. Yep. Yeah. How do you want to wrap up, buddy? I think that’s a good episode. I think we got it in the books. Yeah. Yeah. No. I think that’s good. I don’t know. How do you wanna wrap it up other than cubs are the best brewers suck cardinals cardinal suck comes? Yeah. We could together say three to one cardinal suck. Do you wanna do that? Sure. And then we call it to tonight. That’s all right. One two, three. He didn’t do it. Oh my God. I’m done. Okay. Later. Oh, yeah. Don’t forget the stretch. Episodes coming out this. Yes, run differential Sunday. That’ll be good.

00:45:00 – 00:45:04

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