00:00And by the way, I mean, Seattle is 8-0.
00:02Seattle is losing to Detroit.
00:04They're making Frambo look like he's figured something out because he is not.
00:09Yeah, I know what he figured out.
00:10Just pitch against Seattle because this lineup and this offense, Craig,
00:15it's terrible watching them try to score runs here.
00:20In Seattle, they should be so much better than this.
00:25I don't know what happened.
00:27If you consider what we saw a year ago compared to what we're getting now
00:31with a lot of the same faces, it's night and day.
00:36What a difference a year makes here, Craig, with Seattle.
00:38Unreal.
00:39Yeah, Seattle went on a nice run at the end of last year.
00:42I don't really see that happening today.
00:44Yeah, no.
00:45Or this season.
00:46No, I don't see it happening.
00:48They don't have enough.
00:50And outside of getting Taylor Ward, they really didn't do much at all.
00:55So, yeah, I mean, look, Julio Rodriguez is a special player,
01:00but not enough in this lineup, I guess, to go.
01:03But this is just.
01:03Cal Raleigh was hurt.
01:05Yeah, that's true, too.
01:06I got to acknowledge that.
01:08Cal Raleigh is having the single biggest drop-off from an MVP type to this year.
01:13Like, in the history of the league, I don't ever remember this.
01:16Like, I'm not saying Cal Raleigh should have hit 40 or should have hit 30.
01:20But he's having the biggest drop-off I can ever remember of.
01:24And relatively healthy.
01:26Which leads me to believe, Joe, that he's not healthy.
01:28It leads me to believe that that oblique issue was just.
01:30Because it's crazy.
01:31His numbers from.
01:32I thought he was the MVP last year.
01:35Yeah.
01:35Well, and listen.
01:36I mean, to his credit, though, it's not like he went from hitting five home runs to,
01:40you know, 50 home runs a year ago.
01:43I mean, he was very steady.
01:46He was not a guy that was going to hit 330.
01:48Yeah.
01:49I mean, but a switch hitting catcher.
01:51You know, it was that next level breakout for him.
01:55But, man, was this a drastic turnaround this year with what we're getting.
02:01But Seattle, like Houston, like Texas, plays in a division where, let me ask you, okay,
02:09are they going to have a winning record?
02:11The winner of the American League West, will they be above 500?
02:15Yes.
02:16Yes.
02:17I will bet yes.
02:18But not by a lot.
02:20Maybe 83 wins, 84 wins.
02:21And that's crazy that we're even having that discussion.
02:23It's true.
02:24It's just, it's crazy.
02:26It's like the NFC South.
02:27Is that just terrible division or parity at its finest in the West?
02:33I mean, it's underperformance by the second and third team that you see there on that graphic.
02:40Underperforming Seattle and underperforming Texas.
02:42Listen, Houston is, Houston's not good either.
02:45But they're exactly where you thought they would be.
02:47Not good.
02:48Right.
02:48But, like, fair.
02:51And so, yeah.
02:52So, look, Houston's going to come back.
02:55Seattle still has a shot.
02:57Texas still has a shot.
02:58But they're not playing great baseball.
03:00Seattle still has a shot.
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