00:00We play a little game every Tuesday, a little real or fake.
00:04I say a statement, you let me know if that statement is real or fake.
00:10You can participate on the Base Power text line.
00:13You can as well on YouTube and Twitch.
00:15Tyler, I'm coming to your ass first.
00:17Real or fake?
00:20Follow directions, Brandon.
00:23You started off by believing it's real or fake.
00:28You too on the text line.
00:30The Base Power text line, YouTube and Twitch.
00:33Real or fake, Tyler?
00:35Yordan Alvarez is still a top five hitter in baseball right now.
00:39Real or fake?
00:41Oh, for me, that might be the easiest real I've ever had.
00:44Real, real, real.
00:46He didn't think about the others.
00:48Hell no.
00:48No, absolutely.
00:49With a bat in his hand, big man Yordan, I mean, as long as he's healthy, he's top five, if
00:55not top three, if not higher than that.
00:57All right, there you go.
00:58Still in it right now.
00:59A lot of people may forget a little bit because he played, what, 48 games or something last year.
01:05UB, Scott, is Yordan Alvarez still a top five hitter in baseball, real or fake?
01:11Yeah, assuming that he's actually hitting the baseball, that he's not, you know, that he doesn't have a 60%
01:16healed, broken hand, or that he's not breaking his ankle on home plate.
01:20Who are we talking through?
01:21Shohei?
01:22Yeah.
01:22So, the only hitters in baseball that I would definitively put over Yordan Alvarez, and Tyler's going to hate this,
01:28so forgive me, Tyler.
01:29Oh, God.
01:29But the only ones I'm going to put ahead of him are Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani.
01:34So, to me, he's the—
01:36And Soto would be in the mix.
01:38So, he's at least top three, top four.
01:41Soto would be right there as well.
01:43I'd say he's a top three left-handed hitter and a top five hitter in baseball.
01:47Jordan.
01:49Yeah.
01:50Yeah, Soto's right there.
01:51Yeah.
01:52Soto's one of the greatest hitters of all time.
01:54Yeah, his—
01:55So, yeah.
01:56Yeah.
01:58Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, and Juan Soto are the only ones that I'm willing to put over Yordan Alvarez definitively.
02:05Everybody else is—
02:06Just from a hitting standpoint.
02:07From a hitting standpoint.
02:09Everybody else is just in a conversation.
02:11Text line coming in, Cal Riley.
02:12I wouldn't say that from a hitting.
02:14I need to see more of it.
02:15He had a hell of a season.
02:16Victor says real.
02:17He had a hell of a season.
02:19I wouldn't have put him there.
02:21I just pulled up a list.
02:23I'm going to say real, too.
02:24You know how I feel, Tyler.
02:25I think he is the best hitter in baseball.
02:27Someone else just texted in fake.
02:29I think he's the best hitter.
02:30Just to me, from the just all-around hitter in baseball, he can go in every—all fields with power,
02:37all fields with bad pitches, good pitches.
02:39He doesn't usually get himself out.
02:42This is the top ten I pulled up.
02:44They have him eighth.
02:46Eighth.
02:46They have Shohei Judge, Bobby Witt.
02:49I watch Bobby Witt every night.
02:51I don't agree with that.
02:52Soto, Jose Ramirez, Kyle Schwarberg.
02:57Get out of here.
02:58Kyle, Kyle Riley.
02:59Then they have Alvarez, and they have Julio Rodriguez and Freddie Freeman behind him.
03:03I just—
03:04Yeah.
03:05Yeah, no.
03:06I would stick with what I said earlier.
03:08But what makes it an interesting, real, or fake is that it just shows you how injury and lack of
03:14availability,
03:15what that can do to your reputation.
03:17Yep, yep.
03:17Because now we don't talk about you the same just because we ain't seen you play,
03:20and now it's one of those folks that forgot about how good you are.
03:24Because he's definitely in the conversation of top three to five hitters in baseball.
03:30Yeah.
03:30So, uh-oh.
03:32Lord have mercy.
03:33Here we go.
03:34We got a little music rolling.
03:35We got a little extra.
03:36Got a little extra.
03:37All right.
03:37Real or fake?
03:39B. Scott, this is Kelvin Sampson's best chance to win a national championship.
03:44Real or fake?
03:45Ooh, I'm going to go fake on that one because I thought last year was his best chance.
03:48Oh, you thought last year was better?
03:49Yeah.
03:50I thought last year was his best chance, and they just kind of—I mean, it's wild that they had that
03:55moment against Duke in the Final Four,
03:57and, man, they just blew it.
03:58They just flat out blew the opportunity.
03:59I think this year is a much more crowded field.
04:02They're very good, and they've got a really good chance to make a run here.
04:06Don't get me wrong.
04:06I'm not counting them out by any stretch, but I think when you look around the college basketball landscape and
04:12run,
04:12you follow it as closely as anybody, just within their own conference, and honestly, all of the power conferences have
04:22at least three to four to five teams that are pretty good.
04:26Like, it's going to be a really good March Madness, a hell of a field.
04:30So I would say more so because of the field and then also the fact that they got a little
04:35bit of rockets in them.
04:36The way the Rockets are overly reliant on Kevin Durant at times, they are overly reliant on the freshmen.
04:42On Kingston-Flemons, and sometimes their offense can't find anything past that or beyond him.
04:48And the defense is still good, but not necessarily as great as it's been in years past.
04:52So I would call that fake.
04:55I'm going to go fake.
04:55Champ Slice says fake.
04:57Last three years were his best chances.
04:59This is his best overall talented team of players, but as a team, they aren't elite.
05:05I agree.
05:05Victor says fake.
05:06It's just a good way to put it.
05:07What is going on?
05:08I don't think he's got a surefire lottery pick that I think may be top five by the time this
05:15thing's over with Flemings.
05:17And then he has another who's going to be probably a lottery or mid-first-round pick.
05:22Yeah, and Chris Senak.
05:23And Senak, the center, which I don't understand why.
05:28His post-up ability.
05:29Why isn't he better?
05:31Yeah, why is he better?
05:32And why is he not doing anything in the paint?
05:34When I watched him, that seems to be their issue.
05:36He's kind of a finesse player.
05:38And they don't defend.
05:38He's more of an NBA player, like stylistically for a big, than he is college.
05:44And I'll be honest, I think if you locked JoJo Tuggler in the gym by himself, you gave him six
05:49basketballs, I think he would score under ten points.
05:53He was dribbling in one of the previous games that they just played.
05:56No offense, JoJo.
05:57And I literally go, why is he dribbling?
05:59And he promptly got stripped.
06:01He's a hell of a defensive player, and maybe like the only kid out there that really embraces the defense
06:07that he wants.
06:08But they have no inside presence.
06:10They can't go in and get, when they played Kansas, they played Arizona in that stretch, they had to go
06:17get jump shots.
06:18Yeah.
06:19That's what they are.
06:20And Emmanuel Sharp is not hitting shots like he was.
06:22They miss.
06:23They don't have that Juwan Roberts option that they've had in years past where they could just dump it down
06:28to the post and get a bucket.
06:29Because Tuggler's not that guy, and Zanac is more of a perimeter type of big.
06:33I just feel like that's, he had one move against Kansas, a nice little turnaround.
06:38You know, he's talented.
06:39And I said, damn, why don't they go down there again?
06:41I apologize.
06:42Champs Light said I did him dirty on that.
06:44I'm serious.
06:45You did.
06:46I think you gave him six basketballs, and you gave JoJo Tuggler 15 minutes to put it on the clock.
06:51I think he would score under ten points.
06:53He had a drive.
06:54And he could go anywhere he wants.
06:55He dribbled right into his defender and scored a layup, and I thought I'd seen a ghost.
07:01Tell me.
07:02Thought I'd seen a ghost.
07:03And he got fouled, I believe, on this one you're talking about.
07:06Last one, A.J. Brown, Tyler.
07:08A.J. Brown will be a Philadelphia Eagle next year, real or fake?
07:14I'm going to say real.
07:15I'm going to say they're going to do all they can at this moment to keep him in house,
07:19and he's going to remain there because the Eagles are not happy with the way last season ended.
07:23They'll get it done.
07:24I agree with you.
07:25I think a lot of people think he's gone.
07:27I think it's real.
07:28I think Howie Rose, they are a front office-led team.
07:34Like, Howie Roseman has more power than the head coach.
07:40Other places, it's reversed.
07:42Right?
07:42He has more.
07:43Like, in Kansas City, the head coach has more power than the general manager.
07:47Right?
07:48I think it's reversed.
07:49I think Howie is, hey, man, I'm not getting rid of this talent.
07:53Y'all got to figure this out.
07:55Yeah.
07:55And now A.J. does things that almost put you in a spot where you got to do stuff.
08:00But I'm with you, Tyler.
08:02I think everybody thinks he's gone.
08:03I think he stays.
08:05So it's probably real.
08:07Y'all are probably right.
08:08But I'm going to just go fake because I'm rooting for the chaos and the drama.
08:11Like, I like this, especially since I'm not invested in it.
08:15I like the dramatic appeal of this.
08:18And I would like to see what it looks like or what a bidding war would look like for A
08:21.J. Brown
08:22or what he might look like on a contender.
08:25What it would look like if he went to somewhere like Buffalo or, you know, another team, if he had
08:30another act.
08:31So because I wouldn't mind it, I'm going to go ahead and go – or you're saying, is he going
08:36to be there?
08:36So I'm going to go fake.
08:37You're going to go fake.
08:37You're going to go fake.
08:38Yeah, I like him.
08:39I like – I think Howie's like, man, figure this out, man, because I ain't about to sit here with
08:43Devontae Smith and that's it.
08:46Yeah, Howie might be there.
08:46I figured they would do something else.
08:48Howie might be the only reasonable mind that we're dealing with here, and he's the one that matters.
08:52All right.
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