00:00Listen, your favorite team, the Athletics.
00:03Langoliers, right?
00:04Sondestrom, Nick Kurtz, all on the IL, right?
00:08And you know how much I love my first five with Michael Walken.
00:11I can't do it.
00:12I can't do it.
00:14Just the first five because I want nothing to do with the Royals.
00:18No, no, first five.
00:20That bullpen of the Royals, you and I both know.
00:24No, horrible.
00:25They also, if I'm not mistaken, you know, arguably, I don't think he's had that awesome of a year,
00:31but Michael Garcia has been one of the Royals' best hitters.
00:34He's back tonight for the Royals.
00:37He's been on the injured list, too.
00:38Caglione has had a good year.
00:41Look, it's either fade the A's the rest of the season or do nothing.
00:47Are the A's going to win 10 more games?
00:52Maybe.
00:53Maybe.
00:53Maybe they win 10 between now and the end of the season.
00:56So you don't want to be on the side where they win and you go against them.
01:00And maybe the Royals are just what the doctor ordered for them.
01:03But I ain't going to do it.
01:04Joe, you just illustrated it.
01:05They don't have Kurtz.
01:07They don't have Langoliers now.
01:09And they don't have Tyler Sondestrom.
01:11This lineup is like an absolute disaster for them.
01:14Their pitching is even worse.
01:16And I, quite frankly, their 10 wins, I will say this for them,
01:20they're probably going to have to come on the road
01:21because they are going to get absolutely hammered now at home
01:24with these teams coming in and scoring runs.
01:26Now they can't even catch up to them anymore.
01:28So, on paper, this may be the easiest series they have, Joe,
01:31the rest of the season.
01:32But I can't do it.
01:33I can't take the A's.
01:35Can't do it.
01:36No.
01:37And I don't want nothing to do with the Royals' bullpen.
01:39But Waka has been phenomenal at keeping the ball in the ballpark.
01:44He's another guy that gets no run support all year,
01:47but keeps his teams in games here.
01:50I think he's gone eight straight starts without a win.
01:54And it's not because he's given up a ton of runs.
01:57It's because his team just won't score.
02:00I thought he pitched great against the Dodgers last time out.
02:04So, yeah, I'm looking at this lineup for the A's.
02:08And this is a AAA team.
02:10Half of these guys, nobody's ever heard of here.
02:13I mean, it honestly is a AAA team here right now.
02:17So, yeah, I'm going to lay the half a run in the first five.
02:20I'm going to take the Royals to get it done.
02:23It's just that bullpen is so gross.
02:26If you think the athletics is good,
02:27the bullpen of the Royals is even worse.
02:31And my question is, listen, we didn't trade anybody, Joe.
02:35The Royals made no trades.
02:38They couldn't even trade anybody.
02:39By the way, since April, the A's are 31 and 61.
02:4731.
02:48And that's 30 games under .500 over the course of the season is horrendous.
02:53Wow.
02:53We haven't finished the year yet.
02:56This is like the White Sox of a couple of years ago
02:59when they won 40-something games.
03:01It's been that bad for them.
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