00:00But more than important, Stavman lost a series.
00:02Yeah.
00:02Went out there and took care of business.
00:03Yeah.
00:04Ball's still flying out.
00:05We're going to see Austin Riley get a couple in there.
00:07Got a little unlucky with that ball hitting the bag like that.
00:10I think he – but, I mean –
00:11Might have been a bases clearing.
00:13The way that thing came off, I'm surprised the bag is still there.
00:15It hit it so damn hard.
00:17But, yeah, if this was trying to go as yesterday, okay.
00:20He was okay.
00:21He was okay.
00:21There was some good and some not so good.
00:23I mean, he got seven outs and six of them were strikeouts.
00:26Or maybe ten.
00:28They got ten outs.
00:28So the six of them were strikeouts.
00:30But they were making contact.
00:33And he was walking, guys.
00:35So, yeah, I take it for the first time back.
00:38Obviously, it would have been nice if Bummer could have come in
00:40and helped him out and not let the inherited runner score immediately.
00:44But he's kind of the next one, right?
00:47Oh, yeah.
00:48As we're looking around this bullpen and everybody's doing their job
00:50and everybody's kind of figuring out what their role is.
00:53Bummer's been a bummer.
00:54Yeah, man.
00:55And it hasn't really cost him.
00:56But it's like he actually got the win.
00:58For being in the game when they went off.
01:01Also, shout out to Jonah Heim for trying to make him think twice
01:05when Sean Murphy comes back.
01:06Yeah.
01:06Because, you know.
01:08Because Mertz is doing really good.
01:09What's that?
01:10From what I'm reading, Mertz is doing pretty good.
01:11Yeah.
01:13He's just better than him.
01:14He's going to come up.
01:15But Heim's like, what about these five RBIs?
01:17I mean, that's something we talked about.
01:19Don't send me down.
01:20You mentioned it to Grant last week about the possibility of them
01:23carrying three catchers and things like that.
01:25So, I mean, he's making a case for that.
01:27Like, all right.
01:29Again, I don't understand about the numbers of how many catchers you need on the roster
01:33at a particular time.
01:34The dude's playing.
01:34Well, leave him up.
01:35I mean, just leave him here, right?
01:36Yeah.
01:37Well, he's not.
01:37He just had a game.
01:38But the thing about it is, everything is about what have you done for me lately.
01:42That's true.
01:42He helped them win the game yesterday.
01:43Exactly.
01:43I think five was his career high.
01:44He'll learn how to play left field.
01:46Yeah, maybe.
01:46I don't know.
01:47If that's a thing, maybe he stays up.
01:49He's a switch hitter.
01:49So, he kind of gives you a little optionality there.
01:51But he's not a very good hitter.
01:53Yeah, I don't know.
01:54Probably not.
01:55Anyway, I just have a lot of respect for somebody who kind of sees the end near.
01:59Like today?
02:00Yeah.
02:01Like, there's a – yeah.
02:01Whenever Sean Murphy's back, which might be today.
02:05Maybe he's lucky because they're in Seattle.
02:07Aren't they in Seattle this weekend?
02:08They are.
02:08Okay.
02:09So, maybe Sean Murphy's back.
02:10Murphy can't hit out there?
02:10I don't know.
02:11Maybe they just wait until they come back home.
02:12Oh, okay.
02:12Yeah.
02:13You know what?
02:13They don't want to put the bill on that extra plane ticket.
02:16I don't know.
02:16Well, we've seen – we've seen –
02:18Some Pacific Northwest teams are doing that.
02:20Yeah.
02:20That's for sure.
02:21Who knows?
02:21And now there's no Spirit Airlines anymore either?
02:23Yeah, man.
02:23So, you can't just do those quick flights?
02:25You can't do that.
02:25Like, I'll tell you about this.
02:26Because the Braves are going out there, is it going to be some trash talking with Ryan?
02:30Somebody's going to see some texts?
02:31Oh, yeah.
02:31Ryan will probably say something.
02:32Okay.
02:32Yeah.
02:33Probably at some point.
02:34It'll be like at 12.30 at night.
02:36So, I won't see it until the next morning.
02:37Right.
02:37Because the games are going to start so dang late out there.
02:40What's it?
02:409.40 tonight?
02:41Yeah.
02:42Which is actually great because home games in Seattle used to start at 7.35 when I was a kid.
02:46So, that'd be 10.35.
02:47Okay.
02:47Happy that it's a 6.40 local start.
02:50But, yeah.
02:509.40.
02:51I don't know.
02:51You can stay up and watch the first couple innings maybe.
02:54But, yeah.
02:54The Mariners aren't playing great this year.
02:56Yeah.
02:56So, he doesn't have a ton to say to me.
02:58They're 16 and 19 right now.
03:00The Braves, on the other hand, are off to their best start since they moved to Atlanta.
03:04Which is unbelievable.
03:04And maybe their best start since 1900.
03:07Like, the Boston Bean Eaters did this one time.
03:09The Boston Bean Eaters.
03:10When we're talking about the Boston Bean Eaters, something has either gone horribly wrong or really, really great for the
03:17Atlanta Braves to have to go back that far and talk about it.
03:21But, yeah.
03:21That's where they are.
03:22That's what happens when you win, when you haven't lost a series up until this point of the year.
03:27They're 25 and 10.
03:29And it's just a lot more enjoyable than what last year was.
03:32Hell, yeah.
03:33And it's a lot more enjoyable because the guys that struggled last year are playing well.
03:36So, I mean, Mike comes off the bench and wins the game for you in game one.
03:39How cool was that on Friday?
03:40That was freaking awesome.
03:41He was, because he's like a pretty calm guy.
03:44Pretty even demeanor for the most part.
03:46Oh, yeah.
03:46I've never seen him that far.
03:48Oh, going around first?
03:49Yeah, the whole thing.
03:49Yeah, him going around first, yeah.
03:51It was just like, ah.
03:52He was in the dugout, like slapping high fives like crazy.
03:56Like, I don't know.
03:58I mean, obviously, you hit a pinch hit game-winning home run in the ninth inning.
04:02That's pretty heroic.
04:03I wonder, was there like something extra that was special about it?
04:06I don't know.
04:07But he was more fired up than I've really ever seen him after a home run like that.
04:10I was pretty fired up, too.
04:11Yeah, man.
04:11Because, yeah, we love Michael, man.
04:13And we all knew what was going on last year.
04:16Not what we didn't know, but we saw him go through what he did for the most part for the
04:20first part.
04:20Then, obviously, come out the all-star break, fixing some things with his mechanics.
04:24He's just off to a hot start, man.
04:25You love it.
04:25You hate the fact that he can't get out there because of whatever's going on with him.
04:30But, yeah, at the same time, he still contributes just like everybody else is out there.
04:33Just put him somewhere.
04:35Devon, put him somewhere.
04:36You know, you're finding out, you know what, these guys are versatile until you get your guys back.
04:40And, obviously, earlier in the show, we already talked about Ron is going to be out for a while.
04:43So, another guy's got to step up and figure this thing out.
04:46But, yeah, for them to just – Andy, I'll be honest with you.
04:50When I saw Grant's Boston beanbag thing, I was like, who?
04:55I was like, when the hell were they there?
04:57So, I'm assuming they went there to Milwaukee?
04:59And then –
05:00I think then they were the Boston Braves.
05:01They were the Boston Braves.
05:02And then they were the Milwaukee Braves.
05:04And then they were the Atlanta Braves.
05:05Okay.
05:05And they still are the Atlanta Braves.
05:07Yeah, I was just like, okay.
05:08Well, they play in Smyrna.
05:09But they are the Atlanta Braves, which is cool because I live in Smyrna.
05:11So, it's nice for me.
05:12Get over there pretty easy.
05:13Yeah, but I mean – but I wonder, are people still –
05:17No.
05:17No.
05:17I didn't need to bring that up.
05:18I was like, okay.
05:19I was just trying to play on –
05:20Yeah, I was like, don't do that because there's still some madness.
05:22Because we were doing the moving.
05:23We were doing the Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta.
05:25Yeah, and they moved out to Spurs.
05:26They moved out to the Burbs.
05:27Well, it is technically Atlanta.
05:28I think they redrew the thing.
05:30But it's fine.
05:30They redrew the line.
05:32A lot of that going on.
05:33Yeah, a lot of that going on.
05:35A lot of that going on.
05:36But, yeah, I mean, we're in a position we talk about, man, because in the summertime when you –
05:41I mean, it's baseball season.
05:42And when your team stinks like our team did stink last year, call it what it is, it was brutal.
05:46It was miserable.
05:48And for them going into the summer, winning and playing as good and playing as well as they're playing right
05:52now.
05:52I mean, it's just a – I'm going to steal a word from my boy.
05:55It's a treat.
05:56It is.
05:56Andy, it's a real treat.
05:57It's a real treat.
05:58It's really fun.
05:59And this is just such an obvious thing to say, but it wasn't like this last year.
06:03And it really wasn't like it the year before either.
06:05Like two years ago, they made the playoffs and it was all right.
06:07But it was a struggle for most of the year.
06:09Last year was just a total dumpster fire.
06:11It's really fun at 7 o'clock on a random Wednesday in May now or whatever as the summer goes
06:16on just to be like,
06:17guys, put the game on.
06:18This will be great.
06:19Let's put the game on.
06:20So who's on the mound tonight?
06:21Okay, cool.
06:22Oh, wow, Chris Sale's on the mound.
06:23That'll be fun.
06:24Who knows?
06:24How good was he?
06:25He might go seven innings and strike out 11 guys.
06:27Goodness gracious.
06:28But the inverse was true last year.
06:29It was like, wow, am I really going to sit here and watch this?
06:32Like I'll have it on, but I'm probably going to be watching reels.
06:34Doing something else.
06:35I'm probably going to be scrolling reels or looking at Twitch.
06:39Yeah, man.
06:39I'm thinking about Twitching, man.
06:42Twitching.
06:42You currently are Twitching right now.
06:43I'm Twitching.
06:44Again, I don't know nothing about all this stuff, but I saw this morning.
06:48Jalen Brown, I went on Twitch.
06:49I'm like, what the hell for?
06:51And then I sat down and watched bits of it, the clips that they had.
06:53I was like, really?
06:55That's what we do.
06:56We can't even accept L's no more.
06:58I got to break down everything of why we lost.
07:00No, y'all were 3-1, and then the problem came back.
07:05Yeah, man.
07:07The problem came back.
07:08Somehow, inexplicably, out of nowhere, Joel Embiid became five years ago Joel Embiid.
07:14Yeah, the problem came back.
07:14This man hasn't played basketball like this in five years, and all of a sudden he's like,
07:20you know what?
07:20I don't know.
07:20I feel pretty good.
07:21Yeah.
07:21The first game out, there was a catastrophe.
07:23Yeah.
07:24It was in the way, bumping into people.
07:26It was like, all right, cool that Joel played, but they're about to be, you know.
07:28Yeah.
07:29And then all of a sudden, he's just MVP Joel Embiid.
07:32A damn problem.
07:32He's a problem.
07:33They're trying to guard him with guys that are third-string centers.
07:38Yes.
07:38Like, and it's, I mean, and look, I mean, nobody can guard him when he's playing like
07:43this.
07:43It is what it is.
07:44Jalen Brown took a shot at it.
07:45Like, everybody's trying to do their best.
07:47But when Joel Embiid plays like this, and by the way, it's not just him, Paul George hasn't
07:52played like this in five years.
07:53Dude.
07:53Who are these guys?
07:54The 76ers.
07:55Yeah.
07:56When they're healthy.
07:56And the thing about it was crazy, because then you see Maxie running to his leg, like,
08:00oh, here we go with this.
08:02Obviously, there's, I guess, some kind of, I want to say conspiracy, some feels about,
08:06you know, Jason Tatum not playing with the knee and all those different things.
08:09It was the right thing to do.
08:10Right thing to do.
08:11But you were up 3-1.
08:13And then you, again, like every single time, you had a chance to win that game.
08:17And you take a corner.
08:18Dude was wide open in the basket.
08:20Sort of.
08:20And you're up by one.
08:21But no.
08:22It was crazy that this weekend were teams shooting themselves out of games.
08:27It's the NBA.
08:28Shooting themselves out of.
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