00:00Some teams, Craig, just looking for a home.
00:02Is it in the Bay Area?
00:03Nope.
00:03Is it going to be in Sacramento?
00:04Uh-uh.
00:05It will be in Las Vegas as the team is building a stadium,
00:07and they want to get some momentum, Craig, before they get down to Las Vegas.
00:11How about those A's?
00:13It's kind of funny.
00:14Like the West, like, well, the Mariners probably run away with this thing,
00:16or maybe the Astros can, you know, have enough left in the tank,
00:19and then you take a look and say, well, who is it?
00:22The Rangers?
00:22No.
00:23First place is 526 and 26 for those athletics here.
00:287-13 against teams better than 500.
00:3010-7 in one-run games, and right around what they're supposed to be, Craig.
00:34Analytics says they should be 25-27, but they sit at 26-26.
00:39The athletics in first place, not even above 500, Craig.
00:43Yeah, I think that this is a surprise also,
00:46but I think that the surprise may be what we see in the second half,
00:50which is Texas and Seattle are just very fortunate that they have not played good baseball,
00:55but it's still very much in the mix here.
00:57I think that's really the takeaway from this.
01:00Look, the A's, Donnie, once a decade, come out of nowhere to win, like, a lot of games, right?
01:05Like, it kind of feels like once in, like, five, six, seven years,
01:09they're going to make another Moneyball movie, and maybe this is it.
01:11Like, maybe this is the year that the A's win 90 out of nowhere,
01:14and then they go back to, you know, winning their 70.
01:16I don't know.
01:17But offensively, with Kurtz and Langoliers getting on board as much as they have,
01:21and then surprises like Cortez has been great.
01:23The pitching has been pretty good, too.
01:25Piecing it together.
01:27Sustainable for me?
01:28No, I don't think so.
01:29But when the A's have rolled off those seasons, Donnie, that have shocked people,
01:34and one not too long ago, by the way, I believe it was 21 or 22,
01:38where the A's also were really good, too.
01:41Maybe this is going to just happen for them this year.
01:43But I don't think – I don't envision anything major.
01:47It's more stunning to me that Texas and Seattle have not been able to overtake them,
01:52but I've watched baseball long enough to know that this is one of those categories
01:56where we're, like, 40% into the season, 38%.
01:59I got to believe that Texas-Seattle, one of those two teams, jumps them.
02:03Moving Mason Miller, like, you say, okay, maybe we're not expected to compete.
02:07You don't need that strong back-end guy.
02:08But as we talked about, Craig, heading to Las Vegas, which is expected in 2028,
02:12so only a few seasons away, do we look at the A's a little bit differently
02:15where if they are hanging around – and I know it's still a couple years away –
02:18trying to build that momentum as opposed to selling those pieces off,
02:22you start to add some of those pieces to build that momentum.
02:24How do you view the A's over the second half of the season?
02:27And an organization that doesn't typically make big moves to help the team out,
02:31do they start to add some bats and pitchers here to sort of get that done?
02:34I mean, there's no revenue, so I'm not really sure.
02:36They're, I think, last in attendance, if I'm not mistaken.
02:39So, yeah, I mean, Donnie, I don't think so.
02:41You know, I think it's just kind of – you know, are there a couple of guys that –
02:46let's put it like this.
02:47Are there a couple of guys out there that are on one-year contracts
02:51that made $8 million this season or $10 million that the A's would take on
02:56for an extra three or four at the end of the season?
02:58Yeah, I mean, I think that is possible, but I don't think that they can take on
03:03any massive salary until they get into that new building.
03:06So I would not – I would not guess that the A's will do anything else except play this out.
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