00:00What's the question of the day, fellas?
00:02Question of the day, you're familiar with the work, or lack thereof, of one Aaron Judge, right?
00:07Ha! Yes!
00:09Yeah, I'm a big fan.
00:10What a loser.
00:10Big fan of his work yesterday.
00:12He's an absolute Nalga.
00:14He's a Nalga.
00:15He's five inches of Nalga.
00:17He was Nalga.
00:18My son's called, people were bad at things, they call him Cheeks.
00:22Yeah.
00:22This guy's Cheeks.
00:23This guy's Nalga.
00:24Nalga.
00:25Who's a star player you just cannot trust?
00:27Star player you just cannot trust.
00:30Perceived star player.
00:30All right, so I'm going to go straight to the Rockets on this one, because that's the team
00:33that is disappointing me the most right now.
00:35How many star players do the Rockets have in your opinion?
00:36Well, by definition, Alperen Sengun is an all-star, so he's a star player.
00:41He is not to be trusted at all right now.
00:43Okay.
00:43At all right now.
00:45I don't trust him when he gets the ball at the top of the key and starts backing guys down.
00:48I don't trust him when he gets into traffic and guys are swiping at the ball.
00:52And he's turning over.
00:54Yeah, layups, all those things.
00:55So that's the one that pops to mind right now.
00:59CJ is the one that's going to take the brunt of this question on the text line, if I had
01:03a guess.
01:04You know what?
01:04One that I would add, and I feel part of this is unfair, but part of it is also, part
01:10of
01:11it's based on his team sucking, but also part of it's based on him and his injuries is just
01:15Mike Trout.
01:16And it says, I like Mike Trout a lot, but in terms of what he could have been and what
01:22his career has ended up being, not individually necessarily, but just the whole sum total of
01:28it, I just, I, because I would have bet a lot of money that Mike Trout would have ended
01:33up doing incredible things like legendary type things and be part of an incredible team
01:40at, at, for at least a few seasons in his career or something.
01:43Yeah.
01:43Yeah.
01:44Played in three playoff games in his, in his entire career.
01:47Right.
01:47Trout three playoff games.
01:49I still remember like looking at the advanced stats.
01:51Yes.
01:51I'm a nerd.
01:51I know.
01:52Um, early on his career and being like, if you protect this out, he's the best player
01:55of all time.
01:56Take his first eight or nine years.
01:59And it's incredible.
02:00He doesn't have an MVP finish.
02:01It's outside the top three for like nine seasons.
02:05It's incredible.
02:06To the point where one time during the show, we can only guess that this was a younger person
02:09that texted this in.
02:10He basically said, what has Mike Trout ever done?
02:13Like what he won?
02:14How many MVPs did he win?
02:15Person's 15 years old.
02:17Yeah.
02:17Like he was just, he was, he was the best player in baseball for a long stretch of time.
02:22Here was, here was Mike Trout.
02:24This is Mike Trout from, it's a good one, Seth.
02:26I like that.
02:27I think they can't trust part of it.
02:28Mike Trout from, he was rookie of the year in 2012.
02:32He was also runner up for the MVP of the American league.
02:35The next from 2012 for the next nine year for the next eight years.
02:41This is his run runner up, MVP runner up, MVP, actual MVP runner up,
02:47MVP, actual MVP.
02:49So that's his first five seasons.
02:51Yeah.
02:51He's either runner up or MVP.
02:53And then that boy, then he just turned into a scrub fourth in the MVP runner up, MVP, actual
03:00MVP fifth in the MVP.
03:02It's like, I feel like any injuries kicked in.
03:04I mean, that would be a fun kind of pool to figure out like the players who are just incredible.
03:10And yet we're also on teams where you couldn't do anything with it.
03:14It's just, I feel like for what he could have been, had he just been on a different team
03:18than where he would be held in terms of esteem amongst major league baseball players?
03:22It's just, it's, it's a big gap.
03:24Well, and the, and the sad part for sad part for angels fans, not like I'm weeping for
03:29angel fans, but the sad part is that they signed Shohei in about 2018 or 2019 around
03:34there.
03:35And that's when, that's when trout started to dip off.
03:37Right.
03:38So if trout had been able to sustain that and you've got Shohei out there, maybe he would
03:42have played in more than three playoff games.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Maybe.
03:44You know what my favorite thing is though about, well, you mentioned Shohei and I do have to
03:48say this.
03:48Did you see the Bob Nightingale article after Japan loses to Venezuela a few days ago?
03:53And it's like a Shohei Ohtani experience is something that he hasn't experienced very
03:57often failure.
03:57And I was like, he played for the angels.
03:59I retweeted that and said that exact thing.
04:01But my favorite thing about Mike trout is that he is probably the single closest to my
04:07ideal if I was an athlete, which is possibly one of the greatest that we've ever seen
04:12that also looks like a creative player and probably can go around and live his life as
04:15normally as any other.
04:16And he does.
04:17He's not a big marketing guy, you know, like he's just, he, he, he lays low Mike trout.
04:22Like I bet he could go to the grocery store and probably be okay.
04:24Yeah, probably.
04:25Yeah.
04:25Like, yeah, that guy's in good shape.
04:27He's not in shape like that guy.
04:29He probably does CrossFit.
04:30Right.
04:31Yeah.
04:32You know, on me, the, everybody's going to say, uh, everybody's going to say James
04:36Harden, uh, but for me, the other rocket for me is Tracy McGrady.
04:40Yeah.
04:40Back in the day.
04:41Yeah.
04:41Yeah.
04:42And it went because of him.
04:43Yeah.
04:43Just that, that back man, that back popped up every damn time.
04:46It did, but he never won a playoff series.
04:48Yeah.
04:48No, no, everybody, everybody else was about 13 points in 33 seconds, which was cool, but
04:53it was in the middle of the regular season.
04:54They've been ousted in the first round.
04:56Like I think three of his first four seasons.
04:57That's a good one.
04:58That's a good one.
04:59Framber became an answer to this question in the second half of last season.
05:03Yes.
05:03You couldn't trust Framber like on so many levels.
05:06Yeah.
05:06Just pitching well, but you didn't know if he was going to bean his catcher in the chest
05:11with a 98 mile an hour sinker or whatever it is.
05:13Yeah.
05:13And that might be the more uncomfortable ones because you had reason to keep buying in,
05:17right?
05:17When it was good, it was really good.
05:19Yeah.
05:19The problem is you couldn't tell when it was going to be good.
05:22And sometimes when it was bad, it was really frustrating.
05:24James Harden is taking some, just warning you guys for 10.
05:26Oh.
05:27James Harden is taking some.
05:28CP3, Chris Paul's hamstring is taking some.
05:31And a lot of Nalga talks on the text board.
05:33Oh, good.
05:34I think y'all have done a great job of curating the text line because right now I'm just seeing
05:39a lot of stuff that's making me chocolate.
05:41So appreciate chocolate.
05:41Okay, good.
05:42Yeah.
05:42Well, we'll leave some meat on the bone for you guys then.
05:44I see what you did there.
05:44Yeah.
05:46Yeah.
05:46Some Nalga on the bone.
05:49Yes.
05:49Yeah.
05:50Although the way that you said that, that might end up being in a violation of something.
05:54Yeah.
05:54That's true, too.
05:56All right.
05:56We are done.
05:57We are out of time.
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06:00Seth, antibodies to you.
06:01And thank you for sticking up for me on the text.
06:03Yes.
06:04I appreciate that.
06:06Antibodies and don't let that puerta hit you on the fandio.
06:09Hey, that was very good, too.
06:12That was very good, too.
06:13No, you did good.
06:13Hey, do I say puerta or puerta?
06:16Puerto.
06:17Puerto.
06:18Puerto.
06:18Wait, do you roll the R or no?
06:19No, you don't really answer puerta.
06:21Yeah, you do.
06:21Puerta.
06:22You got to roll it.
06:23All right.
06:23Puerta.
06:24Yeah.
06:24I'm a lot.
06:24I want to learn Mexican Spanish.
06:26I don't want to learn Spanish.
06:29Yeah.
06:29The queen's Spanish.
06:31Just screw them.
06:32Screw those fancy lads.
06:34I want to be able to go anywhere in inland Mexico and be able to order some food.
06:38Which is Selena, by the way.
06:40Okay.
06:40The queen's Spanish.
06:41Yeah, yeah.
06:42That's true.
06:42That's true.
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