00:00They have the best record in June in the American League.
00:03The AL Central is soft.
00:05The American League is soft.
00:06I kind of think like we've done a lot on Tarek Skubal,
00:09and I'm kind of starting to believe that that is going to have been wasted time, energy, and breath.
00:14You might be right, Joel.
00:16I'll just say this.
00:16I remember at one point this season, they were 16 games under .500.
00:21Now that is a ton of games under .500.
00:23So they've made up some ground.
00:25But basically, they have to keep doing this.
00:27And you're not going to make the playoffs as a sub-500 team, right?
00:32Even in these expanded playoffs.
00:34So we're now looking at them in the opposite sense that we were earlier.
00:38We're looking at them at their best.
00:40And I'm not sure this is who they are.
00:42Let's say, Joel, they're roughly where they are now.
00:45Or maybe they're close to .500, kind of three or four games out of the wild card.
00:50You have to decide as an organization,
00:52all right, are we potentially going to win the World Series this year?
00:56Or are we better off trading Tarek Skubel and taking another shot another day?
01:02Live for another day.
01:03And that is a decision that's not going to be necessarily simple.
01:06Yeah, I think it's not going to be simple because I agree with you, Ken, in general,
01:11about you're going to need to be over .500 to get in.
01:15But maybe not as the AL Central champion.
01:17I just see the division as so soft.
01:19You could convince me an 80-82 team wins the division.
01:23And I know that MLB will then have to deal with, you know,
01:26look at this and we'll forget how many NFL teams make the playoffs over the years
01:30at under .500 or something.
01:32But .
