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What's going on, everybody? It's been a while.

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Me and Gabe are back to talk about some more

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baseball. But today it's a bit of a different

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episode. Usually we talk about what's going around

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the league and some news, some injuries. But

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today it's a special episode. We're going to

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be calling it the State of the Union of the Baltimore

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Orioles. Now, if you have not been following

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along with baseball, we'll let you know. What's

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been happening. And it's that the Baltimore Orioles

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have been a. What do you say? A joke. A disappointment.

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Junk. Awful. Horrendous. Did I already say disappointing?

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I think I did. But disappointing. But I think

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you get the point. It has not been so good for

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Baltimore Oriole fans. Started off really good

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on opening day. But ever since then. They've

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been kind of an embarrassment. And Gabe's had

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enough. And so today we have taken the time to

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just talk about how horrific and disappointing

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the O's have been to Gabe White. So Gabe, I won't

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even ask you how you're doing. I'll just say

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here's the mic. Take it away, kid. Take it away.

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Thank you. Thank you to my wonderful co -host

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for that lovely introduction. I have a lot to

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say. So I've cooled off. We're recording this

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on Monday the 21st. Yesterday, Easter Sunday,

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Charlie Morton ruined my Easter Sunday. The Orioles

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lost 24 -2 to the Cincinnati Reds, who struck

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out 14 times today against the Marlins. But do

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that with that information while you will. And

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I watch every game. There's a lot of things that

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have been making me a little nervous. It's important

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to caveat you're this early in the season. And,

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you know, I think they're 9 -12. You're 21 games

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in. There's a lot that can happen still the rest

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of the way. You have 141 games the rest of the

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go, something like that. So you got to feel like

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you're – it's not over yet. But you got to feel

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pretty anxious if you're an Oriole fan. I have

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four key points about the O's that I want to

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touch on. But this is a somber occasion. There's

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no intro music whatsoever. Kenji's doing the

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intro. And I'm just going to talk. Kenji's going

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to bring up some interesting questions as he

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sees fit, as they might integrate into the conversation.

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But that's generally the format for this episode.

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You can probably hear it in my tone. I'm pretty

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sad. You can ask Kenji. Last week, he was like,

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hey, man, let's get together. Let's record. And

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the O's had lost on Tuesday, Wednesday, whenever

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it was because they lose a lot. And I just said,

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I said, baseball is depressing me right now.

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I need a break. And then yesterday, 24 -2, I

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texted him and said, I don't care if you're there

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or not. I will be there, and I'm going to rant.

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And I have so much to say. So that's what this

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is. Any questions, Kenji? No. Well, I guess we'll

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first start off with what did you expect, you

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know, coming into the season to what you have

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gone so far? I expected better. I mean, it's

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a tough answer to the question because I expected

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better. I mean, everybody did. You know, the

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GM, Mike Elias, said two years ago that it was

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lift off from here. They won 101 games in that

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offseason. They said. It's liftoff. Like, we

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got the young core. They're cheap. Let's go.

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And then last year, they add Corbin Burns before

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the season. They have a great year, even though

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they kind of tumbled after the All -Star break.

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And then they get swept in the playoffs again.

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And then they lose Corbin Burns. This is a great

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introduction into one of my points. It's actually

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the fourth one I have written down, but I'm going

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to start with it. It's the roster construction.

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Because you lose Corbin Burns, you lose Anthony

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Santander. And listen. I was on team, let's not

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re -sign Tony. I did not want to re -sign Santander.

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I was on team, let's re -sign Corbin. And if

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not Corbin, let's go get a legitimate arm. The

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roster just isn't constructed very well right

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now. And even the players that were brought in

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to do a job, you know, in spring training, Elias

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comes out and he's like, hey, we bring in Charlie

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Morton because he's great to eat innings. We

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bring in Gary Sanchez, Ramon Laureano, and Dylan

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Carlson because they can all hit lefties. Because

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we couldn't have lefties. And nobody's doing

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what they were brought here to do. And I understand

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it's premature to say three weeks into the season

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that they're never going to do that because their

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career numbers tell otherwise. But it's just

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not a very well -constructed team. Against left

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-handed pitching, they're trotting out Jorge

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Mateo. They're trotting out Gary Sanchez. They're

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trotting out Laureano. And I think Gary Sanchez

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has three hits this year. Laureano had his insane

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game on, what was it, Saturday against the Reds.

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So I'm not going to hate on Laureano too much.

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But Mateo looks like he's swinging with an oar

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and he still wouldn't make contact. And Gary

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Sanchez looks horrible. And don't even get me

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started on Charlie Morton. That guy's a terrorist,

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a domestic terrorist to the city of Baltimore.

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He's 41 years old. Ruined my Easter. Ruined Oriole

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fans' Easters everywhere. Domestic terrorist,

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Charlie Morton. Wow. Wow. You know, he's 41,

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and he came in to eat innings. And after Saturday,

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the O's show a bit of a show of force offensively.

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They absolutely smack Hunter Green around, which

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that's kind of a silver lining from the weekend

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series. He came in with a .9 ERA, and the O's

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just smashed him around the yard, which was phenomenal.

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I was stoked to see that from an offensive standpoint.

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And then we used a bunch of pitchers that day

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because, again, we have no starting pitching,

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which is another one of my points. I'll get to

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it. Brandon High postgame says, hey, this is

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why you bring in Charlie Morton. Charlie, we

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need a good start out of you tomorrow. Like,

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we need length from the bullpen. Need it. We

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need length from the starter to save the bullpen.

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And what does Charlie Morton go out and do yesterday?

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Two and a third innings. Seven earned runs. Walked

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like five people. The Reds, who came into this

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series a bad offensive team, drop. 24 runs on

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the O's. They had two different position players

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throw yesterday. Jorge Mateo and Gary Sanchez

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both. And guess what? Both of them allowed more

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earned runs than they have hits this season.

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Mateo and Sanchez. Absolutely atrocious. They

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picked up Cody Poteet, who was the piece that

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swapped with the Cubs and Yankees when they traded

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Bellinger. They picked up Poteet and sent him

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to the minors. They traded for him for cash,

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and they brought him up. And after Morton came

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out of the game, it was just like, screw you,

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Poteet. Good luck, dude. We're just going to

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let you die out there because we have nobody

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else that can throw. So you're going to go out

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and do as much. And Poteet got shelled. I mean,

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absolutely shelled, like six earned or something

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crazy. Former Oriole catcher Austin Wins, who

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was with the team when they were really bad,

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like 2019 through 2021. Horrible. He went six

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for seven yesterday out of the eight spot. Backup

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catcher for the Reds going six for seven. Just,

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I mean, whatever. Noel V. Marte goes five for

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seven with the grand slam out of the nine spot.

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Whatever. I wasn't old enough when the O's gave

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up 30 runs in a game with the Texas Rangers.

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back in, I think, 2010. 30 -3 was the final score

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in that game. And I've sat through the last decade

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of Oriole baseball. I'm a pretty, I mean, I am

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a diehard fan, as dire as it gets. And yesterday

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was as embarrassing a loss as I can recall in

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some time. I mean, I've watched them get swept

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in the playoffs twice. I was really young when

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they got 30 dropped on their head. I've seen

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them get blown out before. But Easter Sunday,

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great home crowd, beautiful weather. And let's

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face it, you got the shit kicked out of you.

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They did. They flat out did. They got embarrassed.

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And it was kind of a wake -up call for everybody.

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I mean, honestly, Brandon Hyde does the post

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-game interview, and I didn't want to see Hyde.

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I wanted to see Mike Elias, the general manager.

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I wanted to see him at the podium, like handcuffed

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to the podium, and they ask him all the tough

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questions. Why? On God's green earth is Charlie

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Morton starting games for this team still. He

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has a 10 .95 ERA through five starts. By the

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third or fourth inning of every game he's pitched,

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the game is over. Because he sucks. Because he's

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whore. He's geriatric. He sucks. I got to bring

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it back home. He's what again? Geriatric. He's

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old as shit. he's horrible he's horrible and

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the worst part about it is like like he's like

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a martyr post game like his like at first it

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was kind of cool that he was honest about his

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performances like after first couple bad games

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he's like I'll figure it out but he was just

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like like he's just kind of a martyr he's like

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yeah it's just nothing's working right now like

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I just gotta like he's like I if he told me I

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get 30 starts he's like it's no question I'm

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gonna figure it out but am I gonna get 30 starts

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and How bad are we going to be before I figure

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it out? It's like, dude, what the hell are you

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doing? We paid you $15 million. Yesterday, Justin

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Verlander, who got paid basically the same amount

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of money by the San Francisco Giants, threw six

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innings of one -run ball against the Angels and

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looked like vintage Verlander. Max Scherzer's

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on the I .L., so do with that what you will.

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Jesus Lizardo looks phenomenal for the Phillies,

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and they traded him for a bag of chips. We gave

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our bag of chips to the Marlins for Trevor Rogers,

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who's not even playing. That part hurts when

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you think back to that. Kyle Stowers is hitting

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.300 with an .850 OPS for the Marlins. Could

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use that right now. Could use that right now.

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So the rosters construct very poorly. I've been

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gravely disappointed in Mike Elias and his failure

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to build around his young core. That's kind of

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like the most frustrating part of this is the

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O's have notoriously been extremely cheap with

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payroll, extremely cheap. And you have this amazing

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farm system, number one in baseball. four years

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in a row something crazy you have three years

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of number one prospects you go Adley Gunner Jackson

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bam you got three number ones in a row and they're

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all cheap and you don't build around them like

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you refuse to like you trade for Corbin Burns

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you don't re -sign him and then you just do nothing

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else it's like well Corbin didn't take our fair

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market price so we're gonna go get Charlie Morton

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like I don't give a shit about your fair market

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price If they don't want to come to the Orioles,

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to your team, you got to up the price. You got

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to bid more. That's not fair market. Your fair

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market numbers don't work if people don't pick

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your team. And that brings me to my next point.

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Starting pitching. The Orioles have the worst

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starting pitching. No, I think overall ERA in

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all of professional baseball, all of Major League

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Baseball. They are 30th. They are currently behind

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the Colorado Rockies who play at Coors Field.

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Name me one starter for the Colorado Rockies,

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Kenji. Name me one. Kyle Freeland. Okay, sure.

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Name me two. Give me one more other than Freeland.

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The rookie. That's the rookie. That's it. That's

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all you got. And they play at Coors Field. They

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play a mile high. Like, it's known as a horrible

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pitchers park. And the O's play in a neutral

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park. And they are dead last in pitching ERA.

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Dead last. I can confirm. 5 .43. The bottom of

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the league, the Baltimore Orioles, 5 .12. Nationals,

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5 .05. Colorado Rockies. Then Marlins, Athletics.

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Diamondbacks, kind of surprising. But that's

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a pretty bad list. That's a horrible place to

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be. That's a horrible place to be. The starting

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pitching is just atrocious. It is. I mean, I

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love Tomoyuki Sagano. He pitched great last time

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out, so I'm a fan of Tomo. And he has the kind

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of stuff that you need. He's reliable. He has

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a pitch mix that isn't reliable on pure stuff.

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He can be a finesse guy. He can control. So I

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like Sagano. But other than that, I hate the

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rotation. I hate it. As it stands right now.

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Absolutely hate it. Cade Povich, Charlie Morton,

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Tomoyuki Sagano, Dean Kramer, and Brandon Young,

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the AAA guy. Did you know this? Here, while I'm

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on my Mike Elias hate, not a single pitcher drafted

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by Mike Elias has made his Major League debut.

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Not a single one. Adley Rutschman was the first

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position player that he drafted. Not a single

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pitcher that he's taken has ever made it to the

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Major Leagues. That's a little alarming. He can

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draft position players very well. I'll give him

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his credit. But he doesn't know pitching. He

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doesn't at all. The whole theory is you draft

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hitting to trade for pitching, and they just

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haven't. So it's just horrible pitchers. Now,

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that's kind of my two cents on the starting staff.

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Listen, it's tough when those are your frontline

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guys. but I think it also kind of goes in conjunction

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with my next point, which is injuries. They've

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been ravaged thus far by injuries. I mean, no

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matter what team you pick out of a hat, pick

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any team out of that besides maybe the Los Angeles

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Dodgers. And you say you're one, two and three

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starters for the year out. Like, like what? That's

00:14:35.639 --> 00:14:38.240
going to blow anybody's rotation up, blow anybody's

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rotation up. The O's coming into the season.

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You needed a good season out of Grayson Rodriguez.

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You needed Zach Eflin to be Zach Eflin, and you

00:14:46.700 --> 00:14:48.379
need Kyle Braddish to come back healthy after

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the All -Star break. Grayson Rodriguez goes down

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with triceps soreness in spring training. He's

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already getting his shoulder checked out too

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because that dude is made of effing fiberglass.

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Zach Eflin will be back soon, hopefully. He's

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throwing again, but he left with shoulder soreness.

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He's out a couple weeks. And Kyle Braddish will

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be back and so after the All -Star break. So

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quickly, the rotation that you were like, okay,

00:15:09.620 --> 00:15:13.389
we need young guys to step up. is just bad players

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because none of the people you were remotely

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relying on are healthy and i just i i get it

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you can't you can't foresee pitching injuries

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but you kind of can in this day and age you can't

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bank on people's health and i just it's so frustrating

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like watching having to watch my favorite team

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and see the are the names that they put out there

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to start on a daily basis is so tough it's so

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tough like i'm like like yes tomorrow i look

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they play the nationals i guess the day this

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is released they play the nationals and i'm like

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okay dean kramer cool and then you look at his

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era and you're like well that's a loss then you

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look the day after and you're like okay maybe

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sagano can give us something or publish can you

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give us something okay And then the day after

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that's another horrible pitcher. And then this

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weekend they're playing in Detroit. And I'll

00:16:04.259 --> 00:16:06.259
guarantee you Charlie Morton's getting a start

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in Detroit. And Detroit's going to put up six

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on him or something crazy and say the same thing

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postgame. Colton Couser's hurt. Kirstad got hit

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on the arm. I don't know why the hell Jorge Mateo

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still has a job. I don't know why he does either.

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They just look lost. The O's have dudes that

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can run now. Mateo has no value because he can't

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hit, he can't field. Jackson Holiday should play

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every day against lefties, which inconsistent

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lineup construction has been a gripe of mine

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as well. They, like, shift around this lineup

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every single day. Brandon Hyde is a moron. They,

00:16:46.879 --> 00:16:50.159
like, cursed at hitting two bombs in a row before

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he finally got a start against a lefty. It's

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like holiday doesn't start against lefties. They

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play Mateo almost every time a lefties on the

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mound. And it's, that's your number one prospect.

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The 21 year old phenom doesn't even play against

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lefties, but a guy that has horrible career numbers,

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who's just fast. That's it. You just like him

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because he's fast is playing against lefties.

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It's so dumb. Holiday should play every day.

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You should play every single day. I just, I think.

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I don't blame Brandon Hyde for half of it. People

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love to hate on Brandon Hyde. I don't really

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have a problem with him because he has to do

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with what he's given. And what he's been given

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is a shit roster, frankly. But, I mean, I fully

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blame Mike Elias. Fully blame him because David

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Rubenstein, the new ownership group, like they've

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come in and they've said that, you know, people

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aren't staying away from Baltimore for money

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reasons. And so, you know, they bring in Tyler

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O 'Neal. They go after Corbin and give him a

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competitive offer. But your pivot could not be

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like the Yankees lose out on Juan Soto. What

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do they go do? They go get Max Freed. They go

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get Paul Goldschmidt, Cody Bellinger. And while

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those guys might be old, they at least made a

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move. And the O's lose out on Corbin Burns. And

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they go, you know what? Charlie Morton will be

00:18:05.470 --> 00:18:06.970
good because we'll have guys that will step up.

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And then they're all hurt three weeks into the

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year. Now, actually first, Kenji, do you have

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any thoughts here? I looked into your guys' farm

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system before they came to pitchers, and all

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I see is Chase McDermott. Yeah, he's hurt too.

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Guess what? Shocker. Oh, that's really unfortunate.

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Yeah, guess what? He's hurt. He's been hurt since

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spring training. Yeah, I'm not seeing much else.

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I'm trying to look at your pitchers. I see a

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couple guys in AAA. Cameron Weston, I think Brandon

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Young, you said, has pulled up now. Patrick Riley,

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he's double A. Yeah, it's not looking like you

00:18:55.849 --> 00:18:59.029
guys really got much coming up. No, they don't.

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It's a little worrisome. Yeah, and I think the

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frustrating part is maybe Trevor Rodgers can

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come back and be like a good fourth or fifth

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starter, but you trade away essentially the two

00:19:10.990 --> 00:19:15.640
guys that you could afford to lose, right? And

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Stowers and Norby were stopped up by the talent

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in the organization. Westberg, Holiday, Henderson,

00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:24.220
and Stowers in the outfield was going to get

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blocked by Kirstead and Couser. So there's no

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way they were going to see the field. So they're

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tradable, tradable assets. And you panic at the

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deadline. And instead of going out and getting

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a Lizardo, who's at a similar price, you go out

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and you get... Trevor Rogers, who's been absolutely

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horrible since like 2021. He's been hurt to start

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the year. Who knows what the hell he's going

00:19:46.900 --> 00:19:49.240
to bring. It's just like, really dude, we have

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like some capital to spend like draft capital

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and we spend it on a useless pitcher. So, and

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until they make me eat my words, I'm going to

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keep saying them. It's just, it's, it's maddening

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because they, they have such an amazing young

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core position players. Few teams in baseball

00:20:09.039 --> 00:20:11.660
can say they have the likes of Adley, Gunner,

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Holiday, Westberg, Couser, Mullins. They're not

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going to re -sign Mullins as much as people want

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him to re -sign. Mullins is currently leading

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every hitting category possible. Average, home

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runs, RBI, OPB, and hits. He is the leader of

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everything when it comes to all of those. Yeah,

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no, Mullins has been great, but they won't re

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-sign him because... They just won't. Who's going

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to play center field next year? Couser. Oh, okay.

00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:48.569
That makes sense. So it's just, there's, there's

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a couple of different narratives that you can

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run with here. And one is, is that the O's are

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in trouble this year, which I don't disagree

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with that. And then the second one is you have

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to like, you wait and see. So I've heard the

00:21:00.269 --> 00:21:01.470
narrative, you know, wait and see till Memorial

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day. Wait until the middle of May. Wait until

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the end of April before you kind of make a snap

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judgment. And I understand that. But small sample

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size is still a small sample size. Charlie Morton

00:21:14.700 --> 00:21:17.500
looks so bad. Cade Povich does not look like

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a big league starter. They just don't look like

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they have the juice. And it sucks because...

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Like the team that was once so fun to watch,

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you know, come back kids, they make every game

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close. They've got all this young, fun talent

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just looks like they are lifeless. Like they

00:21:33.920 --> 00:21:36.019
get down early. You feel like the game is close

00:21:36.019 --> 00:21:39.039
to being over. Like, it's just, it's a really

00:21:39.039 --> 00:21:42.579
tough watch. It's a really tough watch. And it's

00:21:42.579 --> 00:21:46.059
due to a lot of things, starting pitching. I

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mean, they have a really bad rotation. They've

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had a lot of injuries, mainly to the rotation.

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They have very inconsistent lineup construction.

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Everybody's getting flip -flopped around all

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the time. That part's got to stop. Yeah, it does.

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And at point blank, Mike Elias, the general manager,

00:22:01.220 --> 00:22:03.140
did a horrible job preparing this team this year.

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And I think about it like if I was – like as

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an employee at my company, if – my boss or my

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the teams around me like fail to bring in good

00:22:13.009 --> 00:22:17.670
talent or like upgrade at all how how am i expected

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or how can i be enthusiastic about coming to

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work or about like doing more or being better

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when there's no investment from management into

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anything else and that's how it feels is it feels

00:22:30.529 --> 00:22:33.089
like they they're just like well we're just going

00:22:33.089 --> 00:22:35.210
to bank on our guys because they we're not willing

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to pay them this amount of money it's like Who

00:22:37.880 --> 00:22:40.079
gives a crap, dude? You got a billionaire on

00:22:40.079 --> 00:22:43.299
the payroll now. Let him spend his money. Go

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get Corbin Burns. Go trade for Sandy Alcantara.

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Because I would tell you right now, if they waste

00:22:51.660 --> 00:22:57.720
Gunnar Adly Holiday, people will never, never

00:22:57.720 --> 00:23:02.549
forgive Mike Elias. Never. If they waste these

00:23:02.549 --> 00:23:04.210
years away, if they don't get a playoff win,

00:23:04.450 --> 00:23:07.450
if they don't win a series or make a second round,

00:23:07.569 --> 00:23:10.410
if they don't ever do that, they will never forgive

00:23:10.410 --> 00:23:12.710
this general manager. I mean, they hate Dan Duquette,

00:23:12.769 --> 00:23:15.829
who's the previous GM, but he at least had some

00:23:15.829 --> 00:23:20.329
deep playoff runs. Would that lose your fandom

00:23:20.329 --> 00:23:23.109
for the Baltimore Orioles if in five years you

00:23:23.109 --> 00:23:27.839
guys have done absolutely nothing? They don't

00:23:27.839 --> 00:23:29.720
sign Gunner. They don't offer Gunner or Adley

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until they're free agents for their whatever

00:23:32.799 --> 00:23:39.720
it's called. Would you say your fandom is on

00:23:39.720 --> 00:23:41.559
the line when it comes to the Baltimore Orioles?

00:23:42.819 --> 00:23:46.859
I don't think so. Nothing could ever make me

00:23:46.859 --> 00:23:49.700
turn my back on the team. I love that team. I

00:23:49.700 --> 00:23:53.480
grew up going to games. But I spent a lot of

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money to go on that opening day trip. to go to

00:23:55.640 --> 00:23:58.200
a bunch of cities and watch them play. I spent

00:23:58.200 --> 00:24:00.339
a lot of money on, like, hats and jerseys and

00:24:00.339 --> 00:24:02.220
gear, and I spent a lot of time watching the

00:24:02.220 --> 00:24:04.839
games. And you're that one percenter of the people

00:24:04.839 --> 00:24:07.059
that watch Baltimore. Yeah, I was. Yeah, my dad

00:24:07.059 --> 00:24:09.099
and I on that same account. Top one percent of

00:24:09.099 --> 00:24:15.799
those watchers last year. But they just – I mean,

00:24:15.819 --> 00:24:18.700
it's a tough watch. It really sucks. Like, they

00:24:18.700 --> 00:24:22.099
really are not playing good. The silver lining.

00:24:22.200 --> 00:24:24.519
Now, I'm going to try to turn this now somewhere

00:24:24.519 --> 00:24:27.299
positive because I could just sit here and read

00:24:27.299 --> 00:24:28.180
them the whole time. I do have a question. If

00:24:28.180 --> 00:24:29.660
you're going to go positive, I do have a question

00:24:29.660 --> 00:24:34.019
that might be a negative. Do you think your team

00:24:34.019 --> 00:24:37.400
should sell if they keep this trajectory? Like,

00:24:37.400 --> 00:24:40.880
you guys are what? Three games under. Three games

00:24:40.880 --> 00:24:45.059
under. If at, let's say, All -Star break, you

00:24:45.059 --> 00:24:51.240
guys are below 500. And you've got... Who's in

00:24:51.240 --> 00:24:54.460
front of you? You're going to have... Toronto,

00:24:54.559 --> 00:24:57.279
New York, Boston. Let's say you have New York

00:24:57.279 --> 00:25:00.119
and Boston at least 5 -10 games ahead of you.

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Are you selling? I guess it depends on how far

00:25:03.740 --> 00:25:07.059
out you are of the wild card. I would think you'd

00:25:07.059 --> 00:25:11.019
be that behind. I don't really know what you

00:25:11.019 --> 00:25:14.039
sell. Maybe Cedric Mullins? What would you sell?

00:25:14.839 --> 00:25:18.420
I think there's a good amount of things that

00:25:18.420 --> 00:25:20.750
you guys could sell to try and... Get pitching

00:25:20.750 --> 00:25:24.910
or get prospects. Adley. Prospects. You would

00:25:24.910 --> 00:25:31.130
sell Adley. No. No. I just – he's been so bad,

00:25:31.210 --> 00:25:36.470
man. I think he needs a more challenging backup

00:25:36.470 --> 00:25:40.250
catcher that's going to push him. Right? And

00:25:40.250 --> 00:25:42.390
I think you just need better hitting coaches.

00:25:42.650 --> 00:25:45.190
And you just need a better staff. Because I think

00:25:45.190 --> 00:25:47.970
last year we talked about you guys had, what,

00:25:48.009 --> 00:25:50.410
three hitting coaches? Yeah, listen, I don't

00:25:50.410 --> 00:25:52.569
even hate the hitting coach this year. They just

00:25:52.569 --> 00:25:55.069
– they're just getting outscored. Like, they're

00:25:55.069 --> 00:25:56.990
just getting – because they can't pitch to save

00:25:56.990 --> 00:25:59.069
their life. I think you just need to clean house.

00:26:00.150 --> 00:26:04.549
It seems like this system that is currently in

00:26:04.549 --> 00:26:06.750
the Baltimore Orioles system is not working.

00:26:06.849 --> 00:26:09.609
I do think – listen, I will say this. If there's

00:26:09.609 --> 00:26:11.529
any silver lining of a really, really bad season,

00:26:11.670 --> 00:26:14.349
it's that I hope Brandon Hyde loses his job.

00:26:15.430 --> 00:26:17.309
I hope Mike Elias and Brandon Hyde lose their

00:26:17.309 --> 00:26:19.450
jobs. I don't know if Elias will because I think

00:26:19.450 --> 00:26:21.569
the owner loves him because he's buddy -buddy

00:26:21.569 --> 00:26:25.150
with him. But, I mean, if they have a really

00:26:25.150 --> 00:26:29.029
bad season, like a 70 -win season, 75 -win season,

00:26:29.269 --> 00:26:33.630
I hope he loses his job because this is too talented

00:26:33.630 --> 00:26:36.250
of a group to finish there. Way too talented

00:26:36.250 --> 00:26:39.710
of a position player group to finish there. You

00:26:39.710 --> 00:26:42.609
have such good players, like key role players,

00:26:42.809 --> 00:26:45.809
in such crucial and rare positions. Like, you

00:26:45.809 --> 00:26:48.460
guys have... First base is a really hard position

00:26:48.460 --> 00:26:51.019
to find, right? Hitters, they can fill their

00:26:51.019 --> 00:26:53.539
position and still hit and contribute to a team.

00:26:53.700 --> 00:26:55.619
I would say you guys have two really solid ones.

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:58.500
And they have Mayo just waiting. Yeah, they have

00:26:58.500 --> 00:27:01.539
Mayo just waiting. Exactly. Mountcastle and O

00:27:01.539 --> 00:27:04.380
'Hearn. O 'Hearn don't even play outfield. I

00:27:04.380 --> 00:27:08.420
think you got to move on. You got Basayo. How

00:27:08.420 --> 00:27:11.700
did I say his name? Yeah, Basayo. And Mayo waiting

00:27:11.700 --> 00:27:13.519
in the back. I mean, these guys are just kind

00:27:13.519 --> 00:27:15.880
of holding them up. If you guys aren't doing

00:27:15.880 --> 00:27:18.500
anything or even if – I don't even know. If honestly

00:27:18.500 --> 00:27:21.019
the All -Star break, you guys are like in third

00:27:21.019 --> 00:27:23.940
place, I would still look into moving off one

00:27:23.940 --> 00:27:28.960
of them because – I mean, you've got to use your

00:27:28.960 --> 00:27:31.380
young guys eventually. You're just wasting them.

00:27:31.740 --> 00:27:36.160
Yeah, yeah. I don't know, man. I think if Adley

00:27:36.160 --> 00:27:38.940
has a really bad year, then I say hold on to

00:27:38.940 --> 00:27:43.200
Basayo. But – I mean, I don't have a problem

00:27:43.200 --> 00:27:45.259
moving Mayo. I would honestly move Mountcastle

00:27:45.259 --> 00:27:47.420
before I move Mayo, though. That's what I'm saying.

00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:49.180
I think you should move Mountcastle. Yeah, I

00:27:49.180 --> 00:27:50.500
think you should move Mountcastle in our hurry.

00:27:50.660 --> 00:27:53.559
If I said move Mayo, I was wrong. Don't move

00:27:53.559 --> 00:27:55.779
Mayo. Keep the prospects. Trade the major league

00:27:55.779 --> 00:27:59.720
ready, guys. That's what I think. Because, yeah,

00:27:59.799 --> 00:28:02.500
they just – if you want to elongate this window,

00:28:02.579 --> 00:28:05.279
this competitive window, you got to keep the

00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:06.960
young guys because Adley's not what everybody

00:28:06.960 --> 00:28:09.509
touted him to be. Like, I look at what the Royals

00:28:09.509 --> 00:28:11.950
have in Bobby Witt, and looking at the Orioles

00:28:11.950 --> 00:28:15.130
taking Adley one pick before Witt kind of pisses

00:28:15.130 --> 00:28:19.410
me off. The O's likely don't get Gunner if that's

00:28:19.410 --> 00:28:22.809
the case, but Witt's infinitely better than Adley.

00:28:23.670 --> 00:28:31.549
Yeah. It's tough, man. Again, now silver lining,

00:28:32.529 --> 00:28:34.849
they're still like two games out of a playoff

00:28:34.849 --> 00:28:36.410
spot. They're like two games back of the wild

00:28:36.410 --> 00:28:39.210
card. That's like a good – you have a good series,

00:28:39.289 --> 00:28:41.829
you're in a wild card spot. You have a good week,

00:28:41.869 --> 00:28:43.450
you're like comfortably in a wild card spot.

00:28:45.009 --> 00:28:48.710
And that's where I'm like, listen, it can still

00:28:48.710 --> 00:28:51.670
turn around. The O's still have pitching that

00:28:51.670 --> 00:28:54.750
will come. Reinforcements are on the way. Kyle

00:28:54.750 --> 00:28:57.009
Gibson, who they signed in for agency at the

00:28:57.009 --> 00:28:58.809
end of spring training, Kyle Gibson is going

00:28:58.809 --> 00:29:01.769
to join the team soon. Kyle Braddish will join

00:29:01.769 --> 00:29:03.130
the team after the All -Star break, and he was

00:29:03.130 --> 00:29:05.759
phenomenal before he got hurt. Grayson Rodriguez,

00:29:06.000 --> 00:29:09.740
maybe he does something. He's made of glass.

00:29:09.779 --> 00:29:12.000
I'm not banking on him for anything. And Zach

00:29:12.000 --> 00:29:14.519
Eflin can still be a reliable arm. So you look

00:29:14.519 --> 00:29:16.500
at, like, three guys that can kind of help a

00:29:16.500 --> 00:29:21.319
little bit. Gibson will join the team soon. Eflin

00:29:21.319 --> 00:29:23.519
should join the team hopefully by the end of

00:29:23.519 --> 00:29:24.960
the month or the beginning of May, like first

00:29:24.960 --> 00:29:27.519
week of May. And then Braddish, like I said,

00:29:27.559 --> 00:29:29.039
at the end of the All -Star break. Or, I mean,

00:29:29.059 --> 00:29:32.869
end of, like, July, August. And they have Kittredge,

00:29:32.930 --> 00:29:35.049
too, who they signed to kind of help bridge the

00:29:35.049 --> 00:29:39.089
gap in the back end. So there are pitching reinforcements

00:29:39.089 --> 00:29:41.609
coming, but if anything has been proven is that

00:29:41.609 --> 00:29:45.970
you can't rely on pitching health. And at the

00:29:45.970 --> 00:29:47.509
end of the day, you have prospects. You kind

00:29:47.509 --> 00:29:49.849
of have to make a move for them. I hope that

00:29:49.849 --> 00:29:51.630
they come out with a fire under their ass tomorrow

00:29:51.630 --> 00:29:54.789
and kind of make a statement because guess what,

00:29:54.829 --> 00:29:57.349
guys? Everybody's doubting you now. Nobody thinks

00:29:57.349 --> 00:30:00.569
you can do it now because, like, You got shown

00:30:00.569 --> 00:30:03.650
up by the Reds at home on Easter. Absolutely

00:30:03.650 --> 00:30:05.309
shown up. You had two different position players

00:30:05.309 --> 00:30:10.630
play. You look slow. You look like you're dragging.

00:30:10.750 --> 00:30:16.109
You look flat. I don't know. It calls for concern.

00:30:16.349 --> 00:30:18.329
I'm pissed off at Mike Elias for not doing more

00:30:18.329 --> 00:30:20.390
to help the young core around him. I'm not as

00:30:20.390 --> 00:30:22.069
mad at Brandon Hyde because he's just doing what

00:30:22.069 --> 00:30:23.890
he thinks he should do with the players he has.

00:30:24.069 --> 00:30:29.589
But mad at Mike Elias. Like, Charlie Morton,

00:30:29.609 --> 00:30:31.769
dude, what an unbelievable – I thought Craig

00:30:31.769 --> 00:30:34.549
Kimbrell last year was bad, and he was really

00:30:34.549 --> 00:30:36.670
bad at times. But at least, like, you go the

00:30:36.670 --> 00:30:37.890
course of the game and you're like, okay, we

00:30:37.890 --> 00:30:39.250
have a chance to win this, and you lose it at

00:30:39.250 --> 00:30:41.809
the end. Like, you can't even get excited about

00:30:41.809 --> 00:30:43.349
Charlie Morton. You're like, oh, shit, that's

00:30:43.349 --> 00:30:46.150
a loss. Like, third inning of the game, he walks

00:30:46.150 --> 00:30:47.809
two batters in a row and then gives up a homer.

00:30:47.849 --> 00:30:50.970
Like, oh, crap, this game's over. And all the

00:30:50.970 --> 00:30:55.549
players know it too. So, that's my State of the

00:30:55.549 --> 00:31:03.660
Union. Burn it all. Burn it down. It is not looking

00:31:03.660 --> 00:31:08.259
too good. Like I said, the best part about April

00:31:08.259 --> 00:31:10.220
baseball is you have a good week or a good month.

00:31:10.539 --> 00:31:12.680
Not even a good month. You have a good week,

00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:14.119
and then you feel way better about your start.

00:31:14.680 --> 00:31:17.480
That's true. The O's play six games this week.

00:31:17.720 --> 00:31:20.740
They go, I guess between now and Sunday, they

00:31:20.740 --> 00:31:24.519
go like 5 -1, 4 -2. Then you're looking up your

00:31:24.519 --> 00:31:28.890
game under 500 or you're at 500. And you're like,

00:31:29.029 --> 00:31:31.809
yeah, we're okay. We're good. Do I think that

00:31:31.809 --> 00:31:33.430
they sweep either the Nationals or the Tigers?

00:31:33.730 --> 00:31:36.569
Absolutely not. Tigers sweep the Tigers tonight.

00:31:36.789 --> 00:31:39.009
Yeah, do I think that they lose two out of three

00:31:39.009 --> 00:31:42.549
to both teams? Probably. At least with the way

00:31:42.549 --> 00:31:45.309
that they've been playing. But you never know

00:31:45.309 --> 00:31:47.730
what happens, man. Like Jordan Westberg was really

00:31:47.730 --> 00:31:50.269
cold for a while. Couser is an absolute dumbass

00:31:50.269 --> 00:31:52.450
and slid ahead first in the first base and broke

00:31:52.450 --> 00:31:59.690
his thumb. I don't know, man. I think you got

00:31:59.690 --> 00:32:03.730
to play Ramon Urias more. They do. I mean, his

00:32:03.730 --> 00:32:05.769
savant page isn't too good, but, I mean, he has,

00:32:05.769 --> 00:32:09.029
like, the best average on the team. I mean, he's

00:32:09.029 --> 00:32:12.369
getting on base at a very good rate. He's getting

00:32:12.369 --> 00:32:14.130
on base. He plays gold glove defense. I like

00:32:14.130 --> 00:32:16.769
Ramon Urias. Because Westbrook was slumping,

00:32:16.789 --> 00:32:20.549
and Holiday still has a hard time hitting sometimes.

00:32:21.190 --> 00:32:23.869
I think the problem with the O's, and you guys

00:32:23.869 --> 00:32:26.700
keep mixing up your lineup, but. It's like you

00:32:26.700 --> 00:32:29.220
guys just don't have versatile players. Like

00:32:29.220 --> 00:32:32.460
everyone's just kind of stuck. Like your infielders

00:32:32.460 --> 00:32:33.940
are stuck in the infield. Your outfielders are

00:32:33.940 --> 00:32:35.640
stuck in the outfield. They're trying to make

00:32:35.640 --> 00:32:39.880
Jorge Mateo this what? I disagree. I think they

00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:41.799
still have, you know, I mean, I think like when

00:32:41.799 --> 00:32:44.819
healthy, they can do a lot of good things. Couser

00:32:44.819 --> 00:32:47.700
can play center. He can play any corner. They

00:32:47.700 --> 00:32:49.799
have O 'Hearn who can play first or he can play

00:32:49.799 --> 00:32:52.099
the outfield. They have Westbrook who can play

00:32:52.099 --> 00:32:54.799
third or second. I disagree with that. I mean,

00:32:54.799 --> 00:32:56.440
they have Laureano who plays exceptional defense.

00:32:56.940 --> 00:33:00.400
He can play either corner spot or center. Okay,

00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.000
okay. You just need a better catcher now. Gary

00:33:05.000 --> 00:33:07.460
Sanchez has to do what he can do. Like, his career

00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:09.339
numbers aren't bad. He's better than James McCann,

00:33:09.400 --> 00:33:14.799
but he has three hits to show for himself. It's

00:33:14.799 --> 00:33:19.259
tough. I remember you talking about Dylan Carlson

00:33:19.259 --> 00:33:23.829
when you guys signed him. Doesn't have anything

00:33:23.829 --> 00:33:28.930
this year. He's a... He's sat in AAA. Good signing,

00:33:29.049 --> 00:33:31.049
Michael Ice. At least he can hit lefties. Mm

00:33:31.049 --> 00:33:34.069
-hmm. Spend that money and go get somebody else

00:33:34.069 --> 00:33:36.809
worth, like, $18 million instead of Charlie Morton.

00:33:38.089 --> 00:33:40.130
I think that's what it kind of just comes down

00:33:40.130 --> 00:33:43.549
to is just... It was a really bad offseason.

00:33:44.269 --> 00:33:46.069
You try... Everybody knew it. I think really

00:33:46.069 --> 00:33:48.670
positive about, like, bringing in just, like,

00:33:48.690 --> 00:33:50.789
depth pitchers and just, like, we're just going

00:33:50.789 --> 00:33:53.980
to have health. But you just have nothing now

00:33:53.980 --> 00:33:56.279
when it comes to the pitching spot. And honestly,

00:33:56.440 --> 00:33:58.380
you know, maybe it's a good thing you didn't

00:33:58.380 --> 00:33:59.980
get Corbin Burns because he's off to a pretty

00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:03.259
horrible start. And he just looks like he's just

00:34:03.259 --> 00:34:06.799
dropping off. But, I mean, Michael King, Dylan

00:34:06.799 --> 00:34:10.000
Seas, they were openly on the trade block. And,

00:34:10.019 --> 00:34:11.699
yes, they did ask for Jordan Westbrook, which

00:34:11.699 --> 00:34:14.679
is a little bit too much. But I think the Baltimore

00:34:14.679 --> 00:34:17.400
Orioles, if they had a little bit more fire under

00:34:17.400 --> 00:34:21.079
their butts and a little bit more panicky. Not

00:34:21.079 --> 00:34:22.739
panicky. Sorry, that's the wrong way. Because

00:34:22.739 --> 00:34:25.119
that's how Trevor Rodgers ended up on your team.

00:34:25.400 --> 00:34:30.760
A little bit more, I don't know, desire, I guess,

00:34:30.800 --> 00:34:33.300
to want to win, to get a better roster out there.

00:34:33.420 --> 00:34:36.500
You guys could have done that. And the offseason

00:34:36.500 --> 00:34:40.619
just did not showcase. Yeah, not at all. They

00:34:40.619 --> 00:34:41.800
didn't do anything. They wanted to win a World

00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:45.019
Series. Yeah. So it's tough because you feel

00:34:45.019 --> 00:34:46.719
like they have the young position players to

00:34:46.719 --> 00:34:48.360
do it, but that pitching staff is like nowhere

00:34:48.360 --> 00:34:50.159
close. They're nowhere close to a World Series

00:34:50.159 --> 00:34:53.800
contending team with that staff. So they need

00:34:53.800 --> 00:34:57.260
a whole lot of help. Hopefully Kyle Gibson can

00:34:57.260 --> 00:34:59.460
be what he's been in his career and give us some

00:34:59.460 --> 00:35:02.659
length, maybe take some pressure off of Morton.

00:35:02.679 --> 00:35:05.619
I mean, because I'm sure he's probably like freaking

00:35:05.619 --> 00:35:08.159
out before every game. Cade Povich doesn't belong

00:35:08.159 --> 00:35:09.880
in the big leagues. I actually liked what I saw

00:35:09.880 --> 00:35:16.280
from Brandon Young. It's a long season. You have

00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:18.340
one really good month and you forget about, you

00:35:18.340 --> 00:35:22.820
know, a bad April. But there are a lot of things

00:35:22.820 --> 00:35:25.159
to be concerned about in Birdland, for sure.

00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:31.019
So that's my State of the Union. Well, everyone,

00:35:31.239 --> 00:35:34.400
just if you made it this far. Thank you. First

00:35:34.400 --> 00:35:36.840
of all, Gabe, he is going through a rough time.

00:35:37.219 --> 00:35:41.480
He lost a lot of recently. And he may continue

00:35:41.480 --> 00:35:45.880
to lose a lot more. And so just be thinking about

00:35:45.880 --> 00:35:50.159
him. For now, I guess, that's kind of all we

00:35:50.159 --> 00:35:52.099
got for today. We were just going to talk about

00:35:52.099 --> 00:35:54.900
the O's. State of the Union, baby. The O's. It

00:35:54.900 --> 00:35:58.179
is a rough start. Could be worse. Could be the

00:35:58.179 --> 00:36:02.039
Colorado Rockies and have three wins. But at

00:36:02.039 --> 00:36:03.719
least they have a better pitching staff. And

00:36:03.719 --> 00:36:07.239
so maybe it can't get much worse. But we'll hopefully

00:36:07.239 --> 00:36:10.820
see you guys. We'll record somewhat soon. Hopefully

00:36:10.820 --> 00:36:13.820
Gabe's feeling better so we can get back on talking

00:36:13.820 --> 00:36:17.360
baseball. But if not, you know, it might be a

00:36:17.360 --> 00:36:20.659
rough year for both of us because the Royals

00:36:20.659 --> 00:36:24.519
are the worst offensive team in baseball right

00:36:24.519 --> 00:36:27.440
now. So worst pitching staff, worst offense.

00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:30.679
At least you swept this in the playoffs last

00:36:30.679 --> 00:36:34.440
year. That's true. You were the only series that

00:36:34.440 --> 00:36:36.960
we have won this year. But that is besides the

00:36:36.960 --> 00:36:38.719
point. Oh, yeah. You did win two out of three

00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:40.780
from us. That is the only series. Oh, my goodness.

00:36:40.780 --> 00:36:44.239
Dude, the O's are so bad. Yeah. We were on a

00:36:44.239 --> 00:36:47.039
nine -game losing streak. You lost to us. Nine

00:36:47.039 --> 00:36:50.639
-game losing streak. We won an O. I hate it here.

00:36:50.699 --> 00:36:53.260
What a disaster. Mike Eliason should lose his

00:36:53.260 --> 00:36:55.679
job. But thanks for listening, everybody. We

00:36:55.679 --> 00:36:57.360
always prep the soft season to get hyped up for

00:36:57.360 --> 00:36:59.219
our teams, and this is what we get rewarded with.

00:36:59.500 --> 00:37:04.159
Yeah. pretty much hang up on one girl on one

00:37:04.159 --> 00:37:06.820
team guys that's right yeah like michael scott

00:37:06.820 --> 00:37:09.539
says don't get help on one girl when it's talking

00:37:09.539 --> 00:37:11.079
to the puppies you know what i'm talking about

00:37:11.079 --> 00:37:13.280
i know what you're talking about perfect thanks

00:37:13.280 --> 00:37:15.739
for listening everybody we appreciate you catch

00:37:15.739 --> 00:37:17.300
you next time goodbye