40 Burst results for "One And A Half"
Mark Levin
Kevin McCarthy: Dems Will Say There's Nothing in the Bill for Them
"First McCarthy cut to go Right because at this point you guys only Republicans only control one half of one branch of government So for you to get what you got was great For the most part because the Republicans did much better in this than the Democrats did obviously And to your point Joe Biden tends to negotiate Go ahead There are going to be You know a bunch of Republicans on the big vote are going to vote now You're going to need a bunch of Democrats to say you know what I can't believe I'm doing this I'm going to vote with Kevin McCarthy Well normally when you make when you come to an agreement with two different parties you have people on both parties vote for it But the difficulty that's different than any time before is the Democrats will tell you there's nothing in the bill for them Nothing The president numerous times He kept asking for tax increases new government programs and I just said no And he says well there's nothing in it for us to vote for That's debt ceiling I'm not sure people want to go past that deadline and interest rates go up in others I think this is a good first step but we can go much further And I have a plan for that coming forward where we can look at the entire budget and tackle our problems especially in a bipartisan way This is reasonable This is sensible but it's also responsible thing to do He's among the most popular Republicans in the country And there's at least one common cause he's talking about making a motion to remove him as speaker So I don't follow the kamikazes
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "one half" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"Is beneficial with air quality in DC at hazardous outdoor dining was taken off the menu and it was indoor recess for area CBS's Christina Raffini the low visibility has caused delays at airports on the East Coast FAA National Traffic Management Officer Sam Osby from the aviation standpoint we slow things down and we allow aircraft to have more space to maneuver until they are able to safely see the airports the main suspect in the disappearance of American Natalie Holloway has landed in Alabama after being over hand to U .S. law enforcement agents in Peru Yurun Vanderslot is facing charges of extortion details from CBS's Janet Shamlian part of an FBI sting he accepted $25 000 and that is where these charges come from he's never been charged with her death however he was twice in Aruba he was the last person to see her in 2005 after her high school graduation trip to that island it was another good day on Wall Street today CBS's Jill Schlesinger says we could be looking at the beginning of a bull run the broad market indexes like the S &P 500 have led higher been by a small group of what some are calling the mega cap tech stocks the big huge technology companies that took it on the trend last year and have led the way this year the number is at the close the Dow up one -half of 1 % S &P 500 up 27 points the Nasdaq up 1 % this is CBS News need hires who dazzle without the hassle you need indeed their powerful platform helps you attract interview and hire candidates all in one place visit indeed I'm slash credit 3 here on WTOP Thursday evening June 8th 2023 Dupont Circle at 70 degrees
AP News Radio
LeBron posts historic first half, questions future after Lakers eliminated
"LeBron James 20th NBA season came to an end after his Los Angeles Lakers were swept by the Denver Nuggets in the Western Conference Finals. Afterward, the NBA's all time leading scorer hinted he might be contemplating retirement. We see what happens going forward. But I don't know. I don't know. I got a lot to think about, to be honest. The 38 year old James had a personal playoff best with 31 of his team high 40 points in the first half. James is under contract for a $46.9 million next season with the Lakers. I'm geffen coolbaugh.
WTOP 24 Hour News
Fresh update on "one half" discussed on WTOP 24 Hour News
"About its exclusive reporting at 715. On Wall Street, the Dow picked up 169, 7 o 'clock. Air so bad you can taste it. We urge residents for caution. A supreme surprise. There is still the voting rights act. Van der Sloot extradited to the US. He is not coming here back to face murder charges. This is the CBS World News Roundup, late edition. I'm Christopher Cruz in Washington. To some kids an orange sky during the day is a scary thing. An eclipse. I thought it was going to be the end of the world. That's Ryder Vincent in Montclair, New Jersey. It's been a miserable couple of days for some people in the mid -Atlantic and northeast, with smoke from Canadian wildfires making air quality unhealthy, forcing many to stay indoors. It looks like the air is going to be unhealthy for a bit longer, says Philadelphia's Health Commissioner Dr. Cheryl Bettigal. We expect that such fluctuations could continue for the next several days. The smoke is affecting tourists and flyers in the northeast. Still having a good time. The Farner family from Houston is making the most of their vacation despite the unexpected smoke. It would be nice to get a clear view of the skyline, but now we can always say we were in New York when there was the haze and other visitors can't say that so at least we have a story. And all this haze is making it tough on air travel. Poor visibility has forced the FAA to slow flights in the northeast, causing hundreds of delays and some cancellations. Bradley Blackburn, CBS News, New York. President says Biden the U .S. is sending help to our northern neighbor to fight the wildfires. I dictated a national emergency fire center response to Canada's request for additional firefighters and the fire suppression assets such as air tankers. A surprising five to four Supreme Court ruling today, the high court said a lower court was right to find that there had been a violation of the federal voting rights act in the creation of a congressional map in Alabama. CBS News legal contributor Jessica Levinson. What the Chief Justice said is looking at these maps, there's a likely violation of Voting the Rights Act because they were drawn out of political power. About 20 teens were injured this afternoon when a walkway collapsed in Surfside Beach, Texas on the Gulf of Mexico. KHOU -TV's Matt Doherty. The spokesperson with Brazoria County tells us 21 teenagers were injured in the collapse, five were life memorial Herman in the medical center, six were transported to local hospitals by ambulance, and 10 others were taken by private vehicles. We're told none of the injuries are life threatening. All of the teens were attending summer camp there. On Wall Street today, the Dow closed up one half of one percent, S and P 500 up 27 points, and the NASDAQ was up one six and services for small business remote workers and learners, even teachers and parents. Explore more at your local local Staples store. 703 here on WTOP Thursday evening, June 8th, 33 hazy air still and 70 in Rockville. Good evening, I'm Dimitri Sotis with the top local stories were
The Charlie Kirk Show
Sen. JD Vance Proposes Safety Standards for Railroads and Firefighters
"Let's bring in senator JD Vance from Ohio senator. Thanks for making time for us today. Good to be with you, Alex. So let's first talk about your real Bill. I think this is a big deal and I love that you're showing leadership here. Is this your first big Bill? I guess that's my first half question. And the other thing is noteworthy that you're actually not doing this to campaign for some higher office, you're actually trying to benefit the people of Ohio with it, which is nice. Explain what's going on and you're building a huge coalition. Give me the details. Yeah, so the basic idea is what happened in east palestin, Ohio, where you had a train crash, terrible chemical fire afterwards, and basically a chemical bomb that went off in northeastern Ohio. I don't think that was going to happen again, or at least we should do some common sense things to make it less likely. What I've tried to do here is basically create a couple of additional safety standards that railroads have to comport with. And then simultaneously make it so that the firefighters who are dealing with these chemical fires when you have the train crashes to begin with, they actually know what they're dealing with because that's something I heard from the folks of east Palestine and 99% volunteer firefighting force is they were going to this chemical fire. They didn't know what they were actually dealing with and how could they properly protect themselves or deal with the fire given that given that reality. So the bill addresses both of those things. And the thing that I try to remind people because I know a number of conservatives don't like the idea of doing anything that makes it harder for corporate America to live their life. The basic problem here is that the railroads socialize the risk of their business model. When they have a massive train crash, that costs a lot of money for Ohio taxpayers, it costs a lot of money for federal taxpayers. Think about the welfare benefits they're going to flow out through the door to the people of east Palestinian to healthcare benefits because of the health and economic consequences of what Norfolk Southern did. And if we're going to do that, and I think of course we should, we have to take care of the people of east Palestinian. We should expect Norfolk Southern and other real companies to hold themselves to a higher standard. And that's exactly what we're doing with this bill. It's pretty simple and straightforward. I know, you know, rightfully so people are focused on the border. People are focused on the debt ceiling negotiation. Those are all very important issues. But I think this is a small win that I can get for the people of Ohio that matters a lot to folks back
Bloomberg Markets
Fresh update on "one half" discussed on Bloomberg Markets
"It's on demand it'll be on YouTube tomorrow you know there's a lot of different ways you can watch it and we you know we're going out to talk to a variety of different kinds of people. I think it's a perfect it's always a great time in Silicon Valley because there's always so much change but now it's not just the same old story which is things right great you got to put some perspective out there for it and I think that's probably what a lot of your viewers are gonna be looking for is this perspective on an industry that you know has some headwinds. Times are changing no more free kombucha and lattes okay but don't go home. Very good Emily Chang thank you so much for joining us here right here in New York. I'm so excited I got to meet her in person. I always see her on TV. What an honor. All over Silicon Valley the circuit premieres tonight as Emily said on a variety of platforms. Let's look at the market right here. I'm up about three tenths of one percent. We'll take that. You know we're almost a little over ten points away from the S &P 500 flirting again with that bull market levels. Yeah I got it. We have to pay attention to that I think so. So anyway it's good there. Nasdaq up seven tenths of one percent and looking at WTI crude oil off about one percent to seventy one dollars there. So we're gonna have more coming up from the Bloomberg Invest conference. This is Bloomberg. Paul the former CEO of Walgreens is suing the pharmacy giant in a contract dispute Bloomberg's Gina Cervetti reports. He claims that current CEO Roz Brewer went back on company's the agreement with him to replace glass doors on store refrigerator displays with high -tech digital screens. Wasson says Brewer's decision to end a roll out of the smart doors that Wasson Watson and his partners had committed to installing cost their startup more than two hundred million dollars. Watson served as CEO of Walgreens from 2009 to 2014. Thanks Gina. Shares of Walgreens right now are down less than one half of a percent. Tesla may face a class -action lawsuit from forty black factory workers. Bloomberg's Charlie Pellet has more. They're describing rampant racism and discrimination at the electric automakers
AP News Radio
Nuggets blow past Suns 125-100, advance to Western Conference finals
"Dakota jokic led the way with 32 points, ten rebounds and 12 assists as the nuggets advanced to the Western Conference Finals by defeating the shorthanded sons one 25, 100. Jamal Murray added 26 kentavious Caldwell Pope scored 17 of his 21 points in the first quarter as Denver put up 81 points in the first half and never looked back. Jokic was pleased, especially with the defense. The mindset was really, really, really, really on high level and progressiveness focus. We know other details. So we didn't make many mistakes and that was that was why we won the game. Cameron Payne had a career playoff high 31 points for the suns who played without injured starters Chris Paul and Deandre ayton, George Phoenix
Bloomberg Surveillance
Fresh "One And A Half" from Bloomberg Surveillance
"Wildfires in Canada and offered additional support so far the US has sent more than 600 firefighters support personnel and other assets to Canada to respond to the devastating wildfires Ukrainian authorities are rushing from supplies drinking water to areas affected by flooding from a collapsed dam in southern Ukraine they also are weighing where they might resettle residents who relied on now the breached reservoir on the Dnipro River meanwhile the US is holding off for now on providing an assessment on what happened at the Kokoka Dam Deputy State Department spokesman Vanant Patel We still conclusively don't have anything additional to offer on what happened at this point but that a is process that continues to be underway and we will share more information when we can Germany has blamed Russian president Putin global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries live from the Bloomberg Interactive Broker Studios I'm Michael Barr Tom Paul Michael Barr thank you so much Paul Sweeney the markets are claims today elevated well over two standard deviations I'm not willing to say I was a jump condition to worse claims worse it's unemployment but there it was it was a worser number yeah worser number initial jobless claims 261 ,000 in came the consensus was 235 it is Bloomberg invest and with this Chanel a basic after wonderful conversation with Stan Druckenbiller here one of the leaders of Goldman Sachs John experiencing we don't have a conversation about whether help we want to talk about that economy you told investors a week ago that the macro backdrop is extraordinarily challenging what the are troubles that you see for the economy ahead well I think that what's most challenging is the cross currents so you can you can certainly identify a lot of negative impulses and a lot of us find ourselves talking you know into those negative impulses and kind of getting more worried but there's likewise a lot of positive impulses and I think the fact that there's all this cross current this is the best predicted recession that hasn't happened yet and may not happen so we're we're dealing with a lot of cross currents in our business that that can tend to make clients sit a little bit more in their hands and be a little bit more muted about their positioning and their activity levels. We obviously have tougher capital markets environment it hasn't been as robust as we saw coming out of the pandemic recovery period and so what I'm really reflecting in those comments is more about the activity levels and the cross currents and the the the continued debate about will we or will we not have a recession will we or will we not rates have that stay higher longer inflation that stays higher longer and until we get more resolution on that debate I think we're going to be in a much more challenging period I can see scenarios where the second half of the year gets a lot better we we obviously got through the debt ceiling so last week when I was making those comments we were on the precipice of getting through the debt ceiling we've gotten through it that definitely created the lead up to the debt ceiling debate created a lot of angst and caution in the market for good reasons we're now through that so that's a that's a that's an obstacle that's been moved moved aside now I think really we get back to the primary debate which is to me is inflation when I talk to our clients whether they're corporate clients or investing clients the single biggest debate that I hear is how sticky will it be and how much is the Fed or the ECB gonna have to do to get it down to you know percent it's two target in the US terms let's say or or you know thereabouts in European terms and I think that's a very question hard to answer and I'm not even sure the Fed at this point understands what where that has to be and I think that's that debate is going to persist and that's going to really weigh on sentiment how much is the consensus that inflation will be higher for longer and therefore rates will be too well I hear from corporate clients the persistence of inflation in the system it's felt on the supply side so whether it's commodity inputs or other supply side inputs you still feel the supply chain imbalance has gotten a lot better but they're still pretty positive upward bias on pricing in the supply chain obviously wage pressure remains it's an extremely tight labor market you know I often ask myself late at night can we actually have a recession with three and a half percent unemployment seems unlikely maybe unemployment has to go a lot higher from here maybe it will maybe it won't but right now at the moment wage and recent the job report was certainly stronger than many of us would have expected so wage pressure is still there so if you're running a company you've higher got wage prices higher supply prices you've passed along that price pressure to your customers the customers have generally absorbed it I sense at the moment more concern in corporate offices and boardrooms about whether you can continue to price that way and will you margin have more pressure so there's definitely debate and pressure on margins which I think is going to be we haven't really seen that in earnings persistently up but I think that's potentially a negative drag on earnings so that's the CEO sentiment when you get the investor sentiment it's a little bit of a what rate assumptions we want to make what inflation assumptions we want to make and what growth assumptions we want to make if you want to paint a more cautious picture you would say we might have a mini stagflationary scenario it might not be massive stagflation but if you have sluggish growth one percent plus minus growth and inflation doesn't really get down below three percent and rates have to stay three plus percent for a that's while not going to feel it's not going to be called a recession it's not going to feel great and activity levels will be more challenged that's the scenario we kind of plan for and worry about because that's the scenario that could persist for a where you just get sluggish growth I think we need better growth we need more productivity and there are impulses that could provide that I'm sure you want to talk about AI, generative AI is a potential productivity positive boom I think a lot of the lot of what's going on in science life sciences and the investment the progress that's being made there's there's plenty of innovation that we could point to and say there's an enormous opportunity to have like industrial another revolution it just might be more of a digital revolution and a science revolution that could unleash a lot productivity of but we need something to get more growth in the economy that will allow us to deal with some of the challenges we're going to face. Now that's a very robust backdrop to look at a different range of scenarios both for CEOs and for investors. What does it mean about the risk appetite that your clients and you are taking on? I would say for our clients risk appetite is lower. It was very very low leading into the debt ceiling if you're talking about more investor risk appetite for a was moment it very low leading into the debt ceiling debate. The last handful of days has been better. You can see some things back into the marketplace but I'd say generally speaking it's still a lower risk appetite than we would have certainly 2021 in and into the first half of 2022 for good reason because these cross currents are complex. It's not clear anybody wants to make a very declarative set of risk judgments at this moment. So lower risk appetite and I think CEOs are cautious. You can see it in business spend. If we're not in a business investment recession we're sort of on the precipice of it I think. You're seeing decline in business investment but on the consumer side the consumer is quite resilient. So consumer demand which is 70 % or so of the US economy remains pretty strong. So we don't have a recession because the consumer is really maintaining that strength. So I think risk appetite is going to maintain a more muted positioning until there's more resolution of some of those debates. So what does this mean for things that are under the hood? We have kind of a joke among my colleagues that we're really tired of worrying. a I think lot of investors probably feel that way however it's the job of a risk manager to do it. So if you look under the hood what the are biggest concerns that are under the surface? Well we worry about everything all the time. That is our job. And as I said last week we're running the firm tighter. We're being more cautious. If get we that sort of more sluggish growth higher inflation scenario and studying what has happened in those types of scenarios you can see you generally get less economic activity. And you get a reduction in purchasing power capability for the consumer and so that does have flow through effects. And that will obviously impact our industry and our business. So we're planning for that scenario to be more likely. Doesn't mean it will happen but we plan want to for it and if it breaks to the upside we can flex into the upside. So we've
AP News Radio
Harden scores 45, hits late 3 as 76ers down Celtics 119-115
"With sixers star center Joel embiid sidelined with a right knee sprain, harden matched his playoff career high with 45 points. Tyrese Maxie added 26 points for Philadelphia, which improved to 5 zero in the playoffs after a first round sweep of Brooklyn. Celtic star Jayson Tatum scored 26 of his team high 39 points in the first half and jaylen Brown added 23.
News, Traffic and Weather
Fresh "One And A Half" from News, Traffic and Weather
"Is sponsored by indeed .com long days longer to -do lists hire with indeed their hiring platform lets you schedule and conduct virtual interviews all in one place learn more at indeed .com slash credit let's to your turn forecast now sponsored by northwest crawlspace services we will see a little bit of sunshine today but clouds this morning and again increasing clouds this afternoon with highs only in the mid to upper 70s some showers tonight lows in the mid in the mid 50s and it looks more and more like we're going to see some rain for at least the first half of tomorrow with a cloudy afternoon highs cooling all the way back to the upper 60s for your friday right now in downtown seattle mostly cloudy and 55 degrees it's now 556 a family from las vegas claims they saw aliens in their backyard after something fell from the sky on wednesday klas tv released 911 call audio from the morning of
AP News Radio
Brunson, Barrett lead Knicks over Cavs 102-93 for 3-1 lead
"The next have jumped down to a three games to one lead against the Cavaliers by winning game four one O two 93. New York jumped down to a 15 point lead in the first half, then had a weather of Cleveland come back with a score time at 75 in just under ten minutes to play. RJ Barrett led a 15 to 6 run that put the Knicks just one win away from advancing to the second round for the first time in a decade. What quarter to stand tough, you know, every time they threw a punch and kind of do some better. Now it finished with 26 points, ten in the fourth quarter. Jalen Brunson led all scores with 29. Josh Hart added 19. Game 5 Wednesday in Cleveland. Tom Arian, New York.
AP News Radio
Bucks make 25 3s, beat Heat 138-122 without Antetokounmpo
"Playing without their big man, the bucks took it outside and crushed the heat one 38 one 22 to even the first round series at a game of peace. Milwaukee tide a record for three pointers in a playoff game, going 25 of 49. Pat Connaughton furnished a playoff career high 22 points while shooting 6 for ten from beyond the arc. Brook Lopez finished with 25 points and drew holiday added 24 for the bucks who led by 32 in the first half despite playing without Giannis at tenta kumpo. Jimmy Butler scored 25 points for the heat, who host game three on Saturday. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Booker goes off for 38 points as Suns even series vs. Clippers
"Moved up two in their opening round playoff series with the Atlanta Hawks beating the hawks one 19 one O 6. Jason Tatum had 29 points, the Celtics went on a late run to finish the hawks in this game. Phoenix says, even at series with the LA clippers at one one, Devin Booker with 38 points, leading the suns to a one 23 one O 9 win. The sun's rebought it from our disappointing game one, and they fell behind by 12 early in this one. The Cleveland Cavaliers avoided an O two hole. Darius Garland said in early tone, 26 of his 32 in the first half and the Cavs blew out the New York Knicks one O 7 to
America First with Sebastian Gorka Podcast
Sebastian and Chris Kohls Review David Lynch’s “Dune”
"Just say this about dune. I did not expect it to be good at all. I was dreading watching this film. 'cause you never seen it, right? I'd never seen it. I have seen the first half of the new film. The remake that's split the story into two halves, right. And I fell asleep like 6 times watching it. It was terrible. And I thought, oh God, I got to sit through this again, right? So I watched this one, and I do have to say, it's a lot better than the new one. And there are like these little hints of genius throughout the film. I have to say, there are moments of genius in this movie. And I can see why some people love it and why some people hate it. And maybe through the course of the hour, we can figure out why some people love it. Some people hate it. The reason I think maybe a lot of people hate it is because those moments of genius are fairly inconsistent. Do you have moments of genius and then you have moments of kind of tacky, weird stuff, and the thing that I want to compare it to a Star Wars. Because Star Wars very obviously ripped this story off from the novels, right? This is a novel originally. And I think for film, Star Wars did it better. Star Wars everything was very real and naturalistic George Lucas tried to make everything as realistic as possible. Whereas dune kind of feels like I'm going to see a Broadway show a little bit. Interesting. All right, look, this is where this is where it gets really fun because I watched this as a kid. I was 13 years old. I think it has been unduly maligned. Yes, there are issues with it, all the exposition, the voice-over stuff. I get it. But some aspects of it, I mean, the battle sequence. They had some battle sequences where they had 3000 people in the Mexican desert. I mean, just stunning. Is that true? Yeah. They had 6 Chris, they had 6000 costumes built by hand. 6 thousand costumes made for some of those costumes are amazing. Oh, my gosh. I mean, just the still Suits alone
AP News Radio
Agbaji scores 28, rallies Jazz past Nuggets 118-114
"Ochai abaji scores a career high 28 points to push the jazz past the nuggets one 18 one 14, sitting 7 members of their regular rotation, including their entire starting lineup, the jazz already eliminated from playoff contention, managed to build a 19 point first half lead squander it and then overcome a 9 point fourth quarter deficit closing the game on a 25 8 run head coach will hardy. I'm really proud of the guys and can't stress enough how hard it is to maintain the focus when everybody's telling you that these games don't matter. Nikola Jokić scored just 6 points and only 5 shots for a nuggets team that clenched the top seat in the west on Wednesday. I'm Denny Capp.
Mike Gallagher Podcast
Andy McCarthy: Democrats Want to Jail & Prosecute Their Opponents
"Andy, what are amac members saying about this indictment? I got to believe there is furious as the rest of the country. Mike, you would be right. Either the Democrats are mad geniuses who believe they can manipulate one half of the American electorate, it is supporting a candidate, they believe they can beat next year or they are so panicked over the prospect of another Donald Trump presidency that it's motivating them to upend our legal system and do whatever it takes, including abusing prosecutorial power to stop him. They might personally, I don't believe Democrats are that smart. What's on display here at the links, Democrats will go to to grow to obtain and to maintain their power. Democrats are looking to prosecute and ultimately jail their opponents. We've never allowed this in America that we must not know. It's a mockery of justice and does great harm to our republic and the Democrats Mike could care less.
AP News Radio
LSU wins 1st NCAA championship, beating Clark and Iowa
"LSU wins its first national championship in program history defeating Iowa one O two 85. Jasmine Carson knocked down 5 threes scoring 21 of her team high 22 points in the first half as LSU took a 59 42 lead into the break. Every player dreams of being on a big stage like this and having a game with your life and for it to, you know, coming to a free issue and it meant a lot. I was Caitlin Clark at a national championship record 9 triples to lead all scores with 30 points. Clark also set new records for total points scored and three pointers made in an NCAA tournament. I'm Denny Capp
AP News Radio
Gabriel Jesus ends drought as Arsenal beats Leeds 4-1 in EPL
"Gabrielle Jason sended his long scoring drought in leading arsenal's four one win against leads. Jason had gone 6 months since 17 games across all competitions without a goal before netting two. He converted a first half penalty and made it three zero with a simple finish in the 55th minute, then white and granite jacka also scored to help arsenal keep its 8 point lead over Manchester City atop the Premier League table. Rasmus Kristensen spoiled Aaron ramsdell's bid for a clean sheet in the 76th minute. Leeds is just a point above the relegation zone. I'm Dave ferry.
AP News Radio
Harden, Embiid lead 76ers to 117-110 win over Raptors
"Joel embiid and James Harden had double doubles in the 76ers one 17 one ten win over the raptors. And beat had 25 points in 12 rebounds as he continues to take aim at an MVP award. He's playing through a nagging calf injury, Hardin had 23 points and 11 assists for the sixers who shot a blistering 77% in the first half and led by as many as 24. Toronto got within one O three one O one before a 7 O run put Philly back in control. Scotty barns dropped in 29 points and OG Anna and obie had 19 for the raptors. I'm Dave ferry.
The Charlie Kirk Show
Why a Recession Is Imminent With Economist E.J. Antoni
"Very confusing economic climate currently, a Washington D.C. seems just determined to continue to spend more money as inflation goes and the economic indicators go under. We have bank collapses, federal government is doing more than ever, the fourth branch of government seems completely just unchecked and they are doing whatever they want. So EJ, we're seeing, we're seeing this confusing economic time and it's hard to pinpoint exactly where we are at. And I know this is a difficult question, but if you were to forecast the economic trends, do you think we're already in a deep recession? We're going to stay in a deep recession, what is the data showing you? Early, it's a really, really great question. And when we try to determine, for example, when a recession begins or ends, we have to look at a whole host of different factors. And right now, the majority of those are pointing down. But probably not enough to really say definitively. Yes, we the economy is contracting right now. But what it looks right now, just given today's data before years end, we are definitely going to be into that downswing where the economy is in fact contracting. And I have quite frankly given up on all of the so called experts who are supposed to officially determine whether or not we're in a recession because look at last year. Look at the first half of the year when the economy actually shrank. And what happened? That came and went. And again, the so called experts never batted an eye. Whether or not that was politically motivated, I'll leave that to you to determine, but the fact remains that the economy did contract for the first half of last year, and it's very likely going to begin contracting again in the very near future. One
AP News Radio
Va Tech women headed to 1st Final Four after topping Ohio St
"The Virginia tech hokies advanced to the final four of the NCAA women's basketball tournament for the first time ever with an 84 74 win over the Ohio State buckeyes. Elizabeth kentley had 25 points and 12 rebounds as the hokeys won their 15th straight game. We all come from different places, but this year we came together because we all wanted the same thing. And it's so nice to be at the spot, but we know that we don't want to be done either yet because we have so much fun playing together. Georgia amor added 24 points for Virginia tech and was named the region's most outstanding player. Taylor Mike sell little House state with 25 points, 19 coming in the first half where she had 5 of her 6 three point shots. Jim Bernard, Seattle
AP News Radio
March Madness: Boston, South Carolina women reach Final Four
"Unbeaten South Carolina advanced to its third straight final four topping Ohio State 86 75 and the NCAA women's basketball elite 8. Leah Boston scored 22 points and ziya cook had 18 to lead her team back from a 6 point first half deficit. I think we just had to start attacking them the same way they were attacking us. Coach kept telling us that we see harder plans. So we got to make sure we're doing the same thing. But they definitely were getting down on downhill on us and we just wanted to make sure we did the same thing may lay ups and just became great defenders. The gamecocks next play Iowa and Friday's national semifinal. Diamond Miller scored 24 for Maryland in the loss. Josh rowntree AP sports.
AP News Radio
UConn routs Gonzaga 82-54 for first Final Four in 9 years
"The Connecticut huskies are headed to the final four for the first time since 2014 after an 82 54 west regional final win over Gonzaga. Yukon scored the final three points of the first half and then started the second half on a 21 to 5 run. Huskies head coach Dan Hurley. Obviously we were just playing at a super high level, but we're not, I don't think we're obviously surprised by the margin of victory, but not surprised about where we're going next because this is who we've been for a large part of the season. Andrew Hawkins led the huskies with 20 points knocking down 6 three pointers while Alex caravan added 12. I'm Adam spelling.
The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"one half" Discussed on The Bronx Pinstripes Show - Yankees MLB Podcast
"More baseball. It's a disservice to the organization and the fans is service to the fans is what it is injury organization roster spot as a roster spot and is pitching in a one run ballgame and lewis. He'll pitching in screen. It's it's unacceptable. It's absolutely unacceptable. And and they're they're talking about louis. He'll about being stretched out getting these Getting the starters inning. Getting the starters workload it in the bronx do it in the freaking bronx the fact that he look. I know boone was out of the game at that point. But you know he's still making those calls on android not so. I tweeted out. It's funny gary sanchez. hits the two run home. Run to put them up three runs and There's like a little playground like a five minute walk from our house and we have been meaning to take harrison there because we wanted to put him on the swing as three run lead. Seems like the yankees are gonna have. I'll just pop the game on my phone. Listen to john. And susan and before we even made it to the playground. I'm hearing andrew. He needs just meltdown on like. Oh god here we go i tweeted. Don't be mad andrew. Heaney be mad at brian. Cashman for keeping him on this roster and be mad at aaron boone for continuing to pitch them. And i understand that aaron boone had been ejected from that game. However it's not just yesterday it's making calls and after the game. Did you hear what. Aaron boone said after the game about entry. Heaney said he felt he said he felt like he was a victim of some soft contact and he still is going to get his chances to prove. What are we doing. If we can't say we've seen enough of andrew heaney at this point. It is september sixth the yankees are fighting for their playoff lives and he is the worst pitcher on the roster. He does not deserve to pitch anymore. No he doesn't. He absolutely does not every single time he comes in. It's it's We we know what's going to happen. The game is going to change in a very bad way. So there's no reason for it. The fact that lucille is pitcher. When i see the stout lines when i see people tweeting about how well he's doing it. Just aggravates me in pisses me off and i'm looking squarely at the yankees brass the yankees manage. What what what are you possibly seeing here. That makes any kind of sense. 'cause it doesn't make sense. It's not a difficult decision either. This is not difficult. This is not a hard choice. This is a very easy choice. It was so many things went wrong. Sunday's game it was a four plus. Our game. I i i think yeah sunday afternoon. It was good gross out. It's just like i. I felt like all day. I was just watching naked. Labor's the play that gleyber torres didn't make in the sixth inning. When is a routine ground ball. And i forget who was it. No mullins wasn't wasn't mullins. It was marlins hit the home. Run off but it was judy air. Whoever whoever it was running. He's a fast he he's a you should know. It doesn't matter what i don't know his name you don't know his name. God what guess. What kleber should know who. Yes kleberson have a profile on him. Glitter should know exactly what he's gonna do and how fast he's probably gonna get done online at least have an idea the fact that he took his sweet ass time. I remember the the the the absolute rage from people when a-rod would double pump. This do doesn't even double pump. He just he just lollygag weights and just like takes sweet time and then loops over. I mean there was arkansas. I've seen recently throw some absolute missiles over the first couple. Couple turns where he's coming across the bag he lets that thing fly and shows off the arm that he has. He's got a very very good arm and to use it in that way because it's a mental mental mental mistake domino effect that play. He doesn't make. And then abreu gives up the tour and homerun to moments now. You can't completely excuse. The tour and home runs should be giving up to run home runs but shouldn't have been in that inning anymore. Which means he had to throw more pitches which means he could not come out for the seventh inning which means andrew heaney pitched the seventh-inning which means he gave up. Four runs in the yankees. Lost the game. It was like a domino effect from the just bonehead is sleep. Moment fall asleep moment. That gleyber torres had i'm done. I'm done with gleyber torres this. I don't see a reason to continue to put him in the lineup. He's not hitting okay he. His bat is not worth it right now to put him in the lineup for his awful defense play velazquez play tyler way. His name is tyler would play somebody other than glacier tours at shortstop because he's a bad shortstop and he makes stupid mental mistakes. See one of the problems with this team. Who were. we're back to a construction problem again when you have shoah and glare back in the lineup. Now you're looking at a Not not as much or shallow. But more so kleber the fact that he doesn't hit and and you're looking at that that type of profile for him to come in there and be complementary and the lineup. He's not complementary in the lineup right now not not even a little bit whereas you have a guy like tyler wade who's hitting and you know but also gives you some defense but also as he doesn't need to be a superstar like velazquez playing out. There doesn't need to be a superstar. Shortstop needs to be a guy that can play the position. Well do do the small things. Run the bases. Not every single position needs to be that that superstar tight caliber player. And it's like at this point if gleyber doesn't mean you can't you can't just end the labor experiment right now like you're saying you're done with him you're done with it. You can't just end it right now. But if he if he doesn't show that he's that he's doing something in in the next week or so. You gotta make some serious decisions but even in the in the in the mid term while you're waiting for that he doesn't need to play every single day you can mix things you can send some messages. This is where the manager pulled out of yesterday's game after that after that play. He needs to be taken out off the field after that. Play because the messages to be you. Yes fall asleep. Shortstop shortstop glazer. If you want to be a shortstop you can't fall asleep when you're out there. Aaron boone has to do has to fix this. This this goes back down to the very much managerial problem..
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"What did you. i thought it was interesting. In the first few minutes he actually took interventions rather than getting into the main flow and and made a point of it. He was oh cool. I want to hear my colleagues and then quickly adding because he realized that man probably seven every that seconds he decided he was not going to take semi interventions but as you say when he was responding to them. You didn't really get a sense. He was engaging too much in the point of making generally speaking. And i think on. The theresa may one adjoining boris johnson once again to conversation about when he had spoken to people but i think it was also quite clear from that intervention and others that boris johnson is adamant that there was not a military solution to this off to the us decided to pull out and that's something does put him at loggerheads with several of his mp's hugh i think d- believe that at the current situation that could have been avoided or the very least could have been less chaotic than it has played. And i think that you can. Boris johnson trying to mountain defense. But also as a result of that not fully engaging when it comes into specifics. She took free that. I think it's fair to say that. If boris johnson had an uncomfortable session the person feeling the most discomfort was foreign secretary. Dominic robb. He didn't like he's had a particularly relaxing. Holiday has to be said what holiday he he did have before he eventually decided to come back to this culture. He was specifically named in a number of speeches particularly case star. Who said you kind of coordinated international response from the beach. Katie what do you think is the mood amongst conservative. Back benches about raw. He was clearly taking a lot of the criticisms very personally and seemed very very angry. Actually during a lot of the a lot of the opening speeches and i noticed. One point or celia conservative backbencher made a point of order to complain that in blackford speech which was characteristically long had turned into a conversation between him and dominic robb. Wh where do you think the foreign secretary standing is amongst conservative. mp's generally as you say he looked very unhappy for at that potty because you had opposition figures you can't bring up the holiday and that was clearly riling dominic robb dating there. Was that much sympathy on the tory. Benches dominic robb. At the moment. I think that if you look at the general anger in the fact that this really not much tool. That's being supportive towards boris johnson. The government so far in this debate some of the most difficult inventions with the government have come from the tory side. I think if you if you look at that. I think it reflects the sense that the government has mishandled this now. There is a debate of in the tory party. About how exactly have mishandled it so there is some do think that there is an alternative after your side to pull out. There was a way to have that continued military presence. And that could avoid some of this. There are obviously gene. Do you think probably it was inevitable that the uk would have to leave afghanistan. And you'd have a situation where the alabama take control. But it didn't have to be done in this way. And i think the problem debate. Dominic robb isn't all these scenarios at any. Anyone thinks that was a good idea. Dominic robb to stay on the beach. The heat is the exact length of time on sunday. Night while this is playing out and then you couple but that the fact that there is clearly friction between the md in the foreign office. And i think a far..
Fantasy Focus Baseball
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"And then labored hits like thirty home runs in the second denver. I kinda think the rockies get ripped off if they do that. I think they should push for more than that. Personally but yeah. That's that's interesting. What do you what do you do with a building block player. Who just looks nothing. Like building block player anymore. I mean like you know. I loved scott king a couple of years ago. And now he's ever gonna play in the majors again. Then you just ask the same question about venison. Toys is not scott kingery though tourists should be hitting thirty home runs a year. But maybe it's just baltimore pitched better. Now treat me. Taking the pitcher part out of that kingery was supposed to be a twenty twenty player three years ago. so let's not say we'll glacier was a slam dunk over. What do you think labor is going to thirty. Thirty eight home runs in his first. Full season either. A legit fantasy draftable guy three seasons ago right but he was not the prospect the tourists. You're of course. I'm not saying that. But he was a definite prospect. He was a he was a relevant player right. But i don't think tortoise today falls in the same descriptive category as scott kingery. There's a pretty wide guy tightly with that. But i mean if it's tours for story straight up that's a really intriguing deal there because i'm the go all in on signing trevor story and it's a good place for him to land outside of colorado marquette. The marquess tree possibility fascinates me where. You're saying. Tough fifteen you could sign me up for that but do you really think it's going to just click overnight like that. I think it's already clicked for him. And the only thing holding back. Herman marquez is denver and even now it's not holding them back. What working on these pitch better. In denver autumn. I know lost internet but i still have the squad gas working. So fair dare jinx. I'm not trying to jinx anything. He's six years. The wires literally plugged into my computer. My internet's not working but his home road splits. Last i looked at her marquez. We're fine like three gator home home. He's not john. Snow does too but okay. What's that was our last question. 'cause no that's the thing you're it's flipped over this year. This is the folly of home road splits in the past. He was clearly better on the road. I mean it wasn't even close and this year. He's better at home okay. Maybe that's like a pitch new york. We wouldn't be scared of the ballpark right in very we wouldn't really i mean if you're not if he's doing well in coors like why the hell that it's well it's the altitude. I guess he's still left. Handed hitters yankee stadium hitting on runs. I don't isn't a comfort like the rockies haven't they don't have like this who they then traded. There's no right now. There's no comfort pitcher like this being traded by denver. He really he be cease about the trade to milwaukee he could be that or he could be baldo jimenez finish in cleveland. He got arms not their current. He's carrying my frigging labor team or anything to be closer to cece. Of course. I traded it with my early because i needed save. So i'm the full here to more shares at least circle back the trivia. Here who are. The three pitchers have thrown at least seven innings on eight occasions. This season zack. Wheeler zach number. One with eleven. that's crazy. I think he leads the league. In innings and eleven times kevin guzman. Kevin guardsmen has seven seven just mess. There are a handful of seven. How about that sandy. Alkan tara now he is at six. Well i suck all right if you start getting trivia questions wrong. I mean. I'm doing something right. Doesn't mean your bed while i hope it's not suspended dodger. Man i want to talk about him again. Bessette facet seven could guess that grant cranky and nine. You're missing one. Another elder statesman not sherzer masher elder statesman not kershaw knocker show elder statesman. I'm telling you it's not you you you're nailing these i know it is i know what it is. 'cause i've got him on all my teams i've got i bet you do because you have all guys so well. You know what a lot of them are doing. Well it's definitely adam wainwright definitely is wayne right. He's he's wow. Is there anything to that. i mean wheeler. The youngest of them is thirty. One years old. But greek in wainwright like old man. Ninety six when you throw ninety six ninety eight you you get arm troubles or you know into grabs case side or oblique or whatever troubles like like these guys are just smart pitcher i hate. I hate the saying that announcers he knows how to pitch pretty much. Everybody in the major leagues those pitch. Even eric sogard knows how to pitch. But the problem is when you say. Oh wainwright and cranky. Their veteran guys know how to pitch. Okay f. one knows how to pitch to. We just can't do it as well but these guys like. They have moxie they change speeds. That's what i think. Changing speeds is very important. It's not as important storing ninety eight every time but it's born. You know guys to command the word you so often in this game and people when people use that phrase. You know exactly what they're talking about. It's that they used to throw hard and now they don't anymore and they found her with other pitches they're fooling hitters and keeping them off balance wainwright adjusted to diminish stuff in his later years. He's done an excellent job of doing baseball announcers mandate. I just have to meet them half the time because when they say things or were they say analytics or ruining baseball sure. That's exactly what you're doing your genius go ahead. It's all because shifting whatever you say..
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"Would i add. Jose iglesias labor. Probably not but i nico. Horner has a chance to be better than labor tourists in the second half of the season. I know we keep doing labor. But he's got three home runs at the all star break. So what are we. What are we doing here. Yeah us at all to beat the narrative into the ground around somebody a player that one of us just generally doesn't like like i mean. Look eric did a like laboratories this year and was dead on. He's had a terrible year. I didn't see this common though. I mean how do you go from thirty home. Runs to a pace for six but like hairs guys with lower. Slugging percentage yelich. I would trade for matt shelvin of oakland very good june. Yeah i would trade for yom moncada slugging three ninety eight. Okay if healthy yeah. I would say he's never going to run. You know like we thought. But he's only got five. Home runs to more labor charleston. I still like him. And he resorted was seven. Home runs and nine steals. Who saw that coming but he can do better. We know he's got more power than that. Well lemay you don't have to trade for lemay who i have to think so. He's a better player than this. I mean indoor so much name value right like right now right exactly like anybody who has door is stuck for the long haul by all means reach out. But i don't expect you're going i just i just had somebody asked me a question about you. Know bringing labor tours back into this work another counter another trade counterpart just traded for the guy. And i got a question about. Do i give these to kind of useless players for gleyber torres. You've got to ask yourself. Why would the person with that do that. And that's where you're at with wind door. Why would you gonna give two guys who just doing nothing for francisco indoor. Why would the personal with linda do that. Why would i think lindores are goodbye. Low so i would think is too but i think you're gonna have to pay with a guy who's performing very we. We have to reevaluate linda warriors for next year. He might see a just a fifteen homer fifteen still guy. Best to seventy which is fine but at the top fifty pick. He is a much better real life than fantasy player. And you raise that question in march. And i remember i was in. I was intrigued and moved them down. Accordingly i had no shares. Because i didn't think he was a second round pick and most people did. But i didn't see this you know. He's been better in june as well. So if you're going to buy chap and you have to buy all indoor bef wants to know who your favorite over. Achieving pitcher is to keep rolling in the second half this is when comparing era to expected era. Kyle gets in taiwan walker. Marcus stroman oh man insen walker stroman. I mean this is. This is the question from a month ago. I have quite. I have concerns about all three performance to some degree. Stroman have any strikeouts in his last outing right. Because i have on a team and i'm like what is that all about you. Were on kyle gibson. You were right about that. I did not see that coming. I mean it wasn't. It's not really ballpark related. On kyle gibson is it. I mean it's just like it's been a very very pitching friendly ballpark but could control. Yeah you know so and good strike. Our i mean how gibson striking out this many batters. That's that's part of it So give him credit. For that. Taiwan walker taiwan walkers. Isn't he the best. Come on my my instinct tells me i'd rather have taiwan walker and i don't have much more than just the gut is saying so and it's a big god so it knows what i'm talking about. I guess okay on that good weekend of eating so yeah clearly i probably would. Cash in the cow gets chip. I think i would too. I think stroman fine. You know you're going to get you know. We rank them not in the top. Forty starting pitchers but but inside top fifty five not strike out guy similar question. Nick pa- vada. No i no. I'm begging both of them in labor and it's been glorious. It was herman marquez. I'm on my kids is really good. Is he only gonna get better if he gets moved. You know what he's pitching. Fine court right now coors. That's what i'm saying. Do we want him to stay in coors. Like is this that weird. I don't know how. I don't know what colorado is going to get for. I think it's going to be moving right. It doesn't make sense for them to keep them that's just from trying to maximize the return for them. As opposed to you. You say it doesn't make sense house colorado going to be good in two years if they don't cover story or herman marquess if no pitching and you wanna trade a guy who you put her in marquez on a contender and he is in the top twenty top fifteen starting pitchers you put them on the yankees right. Now is a normal marquez. In the top. Fifteen starting pitchers theoretically the problem. Is there aren't comps for pitchers leaving cores during the year. None of that caliber except for baldo jimenez and the issue with jimenez a comp was that he was already showing diminish stuff in the year he got traded to cleveland. He was bad. In cleveland after a straight was worse there than he was as a rockies pitcher if the yankees trade gleyber torres david garcia to colorado for trevor story in herman.
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"Kyle now for trivial hash browns. Kyle hello to you again. hello guys. it's good to be back. I don't like having the whole the whole crew together here for trivia. I want you guys to name the pitchers that have completed at least seven innings at least eight times this season. Who is giving you volume. In this crazy era of baseball there are three of them. Don carman don carman not one of them randy lerch rocking closer. We get their third some hash browns before we get into the real guesses. Those players are not a clue. I you could make it be boxers franck. They might be your postman. I have no idea spend my postman actually. Did you know the name of your post man or woman. I post person or mel carrier Now but we haven't been in this house all that line so it's not like we've had a consistent report with our area we'll get there. We'll learn this person's name. I have no doubt about spencer first hash brown and he was one of many here. Everybody's up in arms about dylan. Carlson one is yanni. Good to spend on you can drop guy like mile star. Where myers over three overweight him. Now i don't think we did. But i like the fact that he's leading off and he he should be taking away. He has a decent walk rate. But not lately but yeah. He's not doing so hot and he's not running at all. No nary attempted stolen base eighty four games. Huge disappointment that i expected i expected like twenty home runs. Twelve to fifteen steals. We may get the home runs. But i mean mile. Straw has no power but he could still twenty five basis season. So have you need basis. Sure but in a point sleek i. I would try to stick across. We'll myers doesn't look like we'll myers i. How did that last year. I don't because he's back to his old self disappointing. I stick with carlson. Dealing across has sixty seven th percentile sprint speed. And he's as you said no no stolen base attempts. I just don't get it and you know. Historically saint louis does not use the stolen base very much. They actually have fallen into that oakland. In the zero's kind of mold historically of late. Because you know ozzie. smith. Vince coleman beg to differ. But kyle hasn't heard historically in reasonably in the recent frame of memory for people in fantasy. Hear you say something. I wanna make sure that people understand what we're talking about is you're sure you're older than the twenty five years of age like i run. You know like yeah. Who's going to win the nba. Title i want it to be phoenix. I think phoenix i mean. The honest doesn't look like he's gonna play game one at least like if he doesn't play the first game. I don't think they can play from behind like milwaukee a lot but this is not lineup for chris. paul would would philadelphia have beaten milwaukee. If like doc doesn't play. Ben ben simmons in. That's a big if you're playing your starting point guard. He's bad but the my he was i'm playing. I need to know an expert and nba experts. Opinion the seventy sixers. They're currently constructed and coach beaten milwaukee series with the previous series with honest compromise. No this series. Milwaukee just beat atlanta okay which they might not have done trae young healthy. So you're saying if to eastern seventy six game seven against atlanta where they beat mocking eric. There's no way brandon would corbin burns freddie peralta. They would just so hot right now. Calls that geffen is tall. I think he could dunk. Those guys would have been him zach. Epoca benjamin's doesn't want to stunk my dad's like although this damian lillard form i'm like oh sure it's just easy with half the team and every first round pick for the next decade they can get dame lewis all right. What was the question. I got to wondering. Is there a player whose name symbolizes game better than mile straw. Mean like he's using astrada hit with. I don't know his name the drink. Yeah like if you gave me his name with no context. I would tell you exactly what he is. Bob walk. I mean there's a million pictures like who is that. Josh outmanned been a lot of pitcher but he wasn't a good outline. What i was looking for was when the as had blazed tom that he would be like their pinch-runner extraordinarily unperfect and by the way. How can't sky bolt be the most. The fastest guy on oakland is. It's the greatest thing plays skype. There wasn't who's the blaze. Tom guy times a minor. Leager he actually. I think he's on the pirates. Well you can't tell the difference but yes. The oakland kids sky bolt like is very fast. So that's well said. That was the one i was confusing them with mile straws second. Dave loves getting deals done during the all star right ball. Things are a little slower. Who are some bad. You'd look to invest in now. That could be better the rest of the way. That's a good point yes in. It's a good time for reflection next week. When there's no baseball games. That matter and i looked at my team to say can i contain. What do i need to contain. Not not that. I won't do it today. But i don't feel like it but next week when you know we're watching the homerun. Derby is a great time to actually do that. Reflect on your teams and what you really need So i would say but some hitters like there's a lot of hitters right now okay and maybe you've noticed this way with really low slugging percentages based on their history. Yeah they shouldn't. I'm not just talking like one soto who is destroying i. I had a chance to tease and soda in a league couple of years ago and i took soto and now i realize i did it wrong but when you look at some of these slugging percentages and you say how is this like christian yelich. You notice what he's slugging..
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"Yeah i'm watching him lot of sliders solas he's combating he's finally getting a slaughter over and is doing. Well you know. Obviously kendall agreement is the guy you really have to rostrum seattle's bullpen. But i do think. Paul sewell does ahead of drew stuck and writer for some saves there any other situations that we have to mention. Where do you stand on minnesota's today. They never win. I think it's i think it's a combination between hans robots and taylor rogers and i think it was a month ago and i think either or both could be traded. Because they're clearly out of it now. Now it's it i think it's almost mandatory. They trade row bliss which is why howard seeing forced into save chances when he's he's the clearly inferior pitcher of the to clear. Yeah but rogers pitched in that game yesterday. Said him up. yeah he was. I didn't he was very good. I wanna see rogers going to san francisco with his twin brother. I think that'd be fun right. Twin brother who throws side arm underhand taylor. The left from minnesota does not do that. But i'd like to see that happen but again nobody's going to make a trade until the absolute deadline. Which is what two weeks from. Friday july thirtieth so it is three weeks from friday. I think three thirty the deadline. It's a saturday. It's three weeks from saturday. No but they moved into friday wherever they didn't want to do it over. Nobody wanted to work. Thank you for doing that. You just save me. Have an update forecasters at six. Pm on a saturday. Well i don't feel like doing it on six. Pm on a friday. Either better than the amount of saturday definitely better than that. Okay moving along. Now let's take a look at the schedule for the next couple of days. Really only a couple of days here because we'll have a show on thursday. Let's see today. Tuesday oh you. Espn's got a double header. It's got milwaukee at milwaukee on fire and opening up a big division lead here and that see the cubs are going to sell because milwaukee has such a big lead but the phillies can't sell because the methadone anyway jake. Degrom is on the mound today against anderson. Every degrom outing is worth watching Even against milwaukee. And you know i just i just wanna seem healthy. And i'm also interested to see you starts also because philadelphia zach. Wheelers season won't be to graham. Why can't these pitching sunday. Well he may pitch sunday. The mets have options to fill enough of their games for the week too. Not start degrom on sunday. But but you're right. If they scratch him he could start the all star game. We'll see jared goff again. And they got him to resign in one deal. Yankees are in seattle. Jameson tie on kind of unimpressed with against sheffield. Is there anything. They were tyrone. I don't know if there is. I've not been impressively. no i. There could be. But i'm not seeing it. There's nothing actionable today. Espn plus as reds at royals lewis. Cass theo who had a great june great june and was a lucky couple of those games like his last most recent outing he he cruised into like the fifth inning. I've got him on multiple teams and then he gave up a couple runs in the six. When he wasn't even in the game the reliever gave them up least gets to. You is going to be really good for the second half of the season and he's already been good for the last six weeks. You should get them so for streaming purposes. You know a streamer stephen math at baltimore. I don't want to activate them in a league. I can do that in. Should i win no small. No it's in baltimore and they do have some guys who can cause headaches matchups. Why i don't like it. Nope they have all star cedric mullins. They do leftovers. Left you there so but it's actually been pretty good of late. He's facing jon. Snow and colorado on the road is awful. The arizona anywhere is awful. Colorado historically poor at course that arizona. I know i'm just saying that. Even a course. They are on track for their worst offensive season as a franchise in their own games. So think about what that means on the road. It means badness Sorry using merrill. Kelly today why not. Yeah and use them over. Stephen matt's to wednesday. Espn has Dodgers marlins with no pitchers so i think the hitters are gonna hit off a t. On wednesday and they probably going. Julio reas the marlins have the problem because they demoted could be jordan. holloway jordan. Holloway was the one they demoted. They'll they'll call up a guy like that just to pitch that game. Whatever the case is watched dodgers marlins. Because it's good baseball. Somebody will start those games so the hitters don't have to hit off a t and the dot product. Starting i would think so. I mean you don't think about this because you know their ace. Pitcher is pitching this week but somebody has to pitch dodgers and is not the price who can't go deepen the weird situation with david price season. I'm disappointed because yes. I believed that david price would be a decent starting pitcher. A top forty starter. This year he would go six innings per game. He'd be fine that they're not even trying to make him a starting pitcher. He's not stretched out for anything. It's very strange. Yeah was the injury really. He's giving utility in the nfl. Only leagues for the most part. And that's about it. What else do we have. Oh patrick corbin and chris paddock interesting match there again. Patrick corbin you know you never know from the outing doubting what he's gonna do. I think if it got him in a weekly. It's it's kind of frustrating. Because i've got him in a weekly and i don't know what to do with i just leave of now. You lost your second. Start in the weeklies are. He's not starting sunday. No no he was supposed to start today and they pushed him back to give them arrest so he can't make two starts this week now and it's a san diego game. Yes disappointing knob. Sonny gray on a pitch limit. Apparently even though he threw eighty six last week off the injured list. He's i can't city you're gonna wanna use in. They're even on a pitch limit. I mean if eighty six is the limit or ninety. That's still pretty good and then thursday and we'll discuss thursday on thursday. Don't forget the double header. Because of the cleveland tampa bay games were there avoiding the hurricane. So they've got a double header on wednesday at his correct. So make sure you look. I mean tuesday today games wednesday. Lots of games thursday. Lots of bay game. So if you're in a daily and you're in you're in july and you're still paying attention you should know when there's going.
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"Do to do to gets the closer carousel all right. And then the yankee closed a call to the yankee bullpen. Right now because they've got some issues there literally in that game on sunday. Yeah yeah the yankee closers have troubles here so you watch him and something's gotta be wrong because the walks in his last two games one out to home runs for chapman so i asked you what's going to happen here. Is chad green getting saves this week. There's gotta be a physical issue with him right. Which adam i. I suspect that but the only case against it is that the fastball velocity hasn't been fully lost which is usually the big signal to me. It looks to me like the command of that pitches the huge problem. He has no control of that fastball. At all and you set it the numbers it's fifteen runs. Fourteen earned fourteen hits four. Those are homers nine walks in his past nine appearances and it's k- rate has been below twenty percent. That is not at all chapman. I here's the issue chat. Green isn't going to be able to close tomorrow. Through tone pitches sunday. So is it jonathon. Louisa they might just go back to chapman again and have them blow the tuesday game in seattle. And maybe it's not a safe chance. I but chad grains the guy abi adding. I wrote about him yesterday it. It's gotta be him. You gotta adam a speculative guy philadelphia and all its infinite wisdom as a side of that. Rangers swore as closer with his ninety. Two mile per hour fastball. Oh eighty five year. Eighty three through one eight v. You know what's going to happen here folks. If you want to add swire's would probably get us a couple of chances this week definitely don't roster hector narus anymore but ranger suarez. That's that's hard to believe you even for my team. Hard to believe. And i don't believe it do you. Oh yeah he girardi already said it. He said i just love her again. I feel free man. I feel for you then because not why was that was your motivating guy. What is he doing. He doesn't know what he's doing part of the problem. It's like when. Mike metheny goes the greg even though scott beuller sitting there or stall we're both having a thinning. We're both having some fun years as fans of our team. Honestly it's not bothering me all that much anymore. You more because you have expectations of the playoffs. And my i. Don't i don't have that. I'm kind of embracing this idea of the trading off guys being a seller at the deadline. I'm there's there's no chance he's doing that. I would not be shocked. I i'd be stunned. If the yankees are sellers the phillies are probably going to be buyers for for no good reason. I mean the mets. If the message just run away with his division and phillies would be sellers. Max scherzer be on the yankees. You should blame the mets. You know not only for the weekend. But the mets were like seven and a half games ahead. Sherzer could be on the yankees next month. You know and i said it earlier on the show this year that i you. You said. Sherzer to the yankees. I gonna love it embrace that. And that's what they need speaking of the phillies. Last year's a sweetheart he pembrey is getting for cincinnati now despite allowing a home run almost every time he pitches Cincinnati has to have somebody close games. He has been the guy because lucas sims and tj. Antone are both on the injured list. This isn't gonna last either. Yeah combo it. Though i'm here garrett's still been getting some of those matchups against lefties. Yeah yeah he. They're both in it. You know so. But henry had to this weekend. Just like scott. Barlow kansas city. Who i wrote about today borrows really good. Boyle has been among the wins above replacement leaders. Own was all season long and everyone ahead of him is an all-star barlow could have been an all star. The only royals rep is a perez who deserves it but barlow's been having the best season that can't say boop all season long and finally this week and he gets a couple of saves. But i dunno deal stick to him. You might go back to holland today. you know. Because that's what he does. Barlow is one of the most underrated relievers in the game very under appreciated. I would tell you right now if your options are like suarez. I can't believe rangers suarez ham. Barlow it'd be the first guy you add their over those other guys because it's not going to last in fact i would add barlow. Would you drop jimmy garcia. Dad barlow the bad loan. Save i what. I'm glad you brought to miami. Because that is the number one guy. I see as a trade candidate coming up. Yeah i think benders closer. No i don't think you know contenders going to use jimmy garcia closer right bellevue moat. But i don't think they're contender but anthony. Bender is is having a nice season. He's got the another close is. Does you know. After years of watching. Paul sued for the mets. I'm like how is he doing postcards. Numbers are unbelievable right now for seattle not giving up homers striking everybody out if kendall grave and gets hurt. Pulse is going to get safes. How about that yeah. Nah i'm with you on that. He's been very good. I which it wasn't when i'm watching the yankees plan seattle. Now which game was watching where he looked..
Fantasy Focus Baseball
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"We got lots of them since our last show. And and some odd wants some catchers zach collins not the portland forward but the white sox catcher and kyle farmer. I is there anything there. I mean i as count holiday because definitely matters yes. Monte groundouts probably going on the injured list today and collins will be the starting catcher for the white sox but is it. Is there a pathway to relevance in a ten team league like would you add him in a one catcher the you know and to catcher league. I think you can make the case right and like he takes. Walks doesn't he. He does he whips a lot. There's a ton of swing and miss his game. That's the big problem. You're going for the all or nothing. Potential power outcome and if you look at his numbers the power hasn't been to the level. I was expecting during his prospect status with you to catcher league type. I also be a little worried. The white sox have to seek another catcher. They have lost so many key. Contributors to that lineup. They've got to do something. And if the backstop is where they can add a player a meaningful name. That's going to work against him. Yeah i mean. We'll see i don't want to over eight collins by the other catcher right now. They just called up somebody. Today i saw. That's not mercedes. It would sevi- zavala. Who was at defense. i guy. yeah how about your mercedes. The fall fall from grace for him. I mean a great april and then nothing since then. They demoted him. it's not really a catcher. So that's why they could. You know leave active but anyway and nothing to say about call form on friday. Jackie bradley jr. yada or molina shohei ohtani amazing. Jake fraley stole two bases and very busy friday there. I'm we've talked about otani jake. Fraley is interesting to me. And i think you wrote about him and there's something. There is not a typical prospect. I thought he was a little bit older. I think he was gonna hit for much average but he's doing okay now see. I was going to continue to play. Him is twenty six years old so not a typical prospect seven. Home runs seven stolen bases and he's playing a lot and that's kind of important. Yeah good pitch selection making more contact the big jump for him that he's much more disciplined the season. That's really helping him. Not a star but also a guy is not going to hurt you in most fantasy categories unfortunate. Since i wrote about him. He hasn't been quite as great. So it's probably the fifteen mix where you're going to maximize the always on the gayle. These saturday and sunday. Eli white texas trevor story. Who's a great story. I really should be in the all star game. It's kind of a shame. He's not games denver. I don't you know baseball. Continues to do smart things harrison baiter on sunday and. I don't know if anybody had a combo. Meal on monday into that frame array is definitely did anyone else. Kyle have not okay all right. So harrison badir interests me a little bit tristan. Because he's a he's a homer he's a guy who was great speed. He can still basis a little pop against lefties but a low batting average type guy. So i would ask you this. Would you rather add jake fraley or harrison beta right now. Good question i'm to i would say fraley. I trust the skills baiters. The problem with ater is that he has swing and missing his game. And it's messy. When he is off he can really tank your batting average. Frailties probably not going to do that. I see a little more safety there. All right safety enclosures will find out next person's gonna sing that one to.
Fantasy Focus Baseball
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Fantasy Focus Baseball
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"No pressure you've got it man. Well i think now like the bars raised all podcast producers. Have to play guitar. And you need like you need like twenty five tattoos to lightly beard tattoos or play the guitar. I'm not in good shape for any of those all right. Well we have to deal with this. And i don't really want to. But dodgers pitcher is not pitching this week and he missed last week and you know. I don't have anything to say about. What trevor bauer did or did not do from fantasy baseball aspect tristan here. That's all that matters for this show bus. You can deal with the other stuff. What do you do with our in a fantasy league right now. We don't know how much time he's going to miss. It might only be one start this week. He might come back right after the all star break and he might be fine and we rank them among the top. Five starting pitchers in all fantasy. He's really only good on the field. But do you try to trade him right now. You're always in dropping him right. You probably can't trade him for value at this point because there was concern that he's going to get suspended miss more time and then again he might not be and in a week he might be in the rotation. So what does the fantasy implication to what's going on with him. A lot of these things are very unknown and uncertain because we haven't had a a history of however will deals with these things so i have no clue what the length of absence is going to be I do believe because he's got an out designation. You could put him on the injured list. I don't have a share in an espn link. So i can't tested myself. But i think the player with the o. designation can and if that's the case you just put on the sidelines and see what you know how this plays out. I don't think you can trade them. I don't think you should try to trade him. I just don't think that's a viable option for you and you know we'll we'll see how this plays out. It's a it's a disturbing troubling situation. I mean when he's on the mount. He's talented pitcher moving on now. Let's do the combo meals. Oh there was one other thing. I wanted to get to six. Oh sanchez of the marlins done for the season with shoulder surgery. Which have like harbinger a little bit like a month ago. When i was writing about this situation. I don't even know he's going to have surgery but you can safely drop him. But i wanted to ask your overall picture here. A shoulder as four more concerning than an elbow where the now. But we know how long you're out with a shoulder. Sometimes these guys are gonna come back. They don't throw his hard in a dynasty format. Here tennessee rankings. If six oh. Sanchez was before this week. Among your top. Ten young prospect dynasty starting pitchers. Is he still there. No he would probably at this point if it was a top ten classification. And that's taking a subset group of that age. He's probably now atop twenty type and with the possibility this adversely impacts the remainder of his career. As you said it's a shoulder tear. I worry that that cuts a little bit into next season as well. Especially if it's a surgery situation. Let's say top twenty just ballpark today. And and i will have Dynasty rankings for the readers in the coming week plus accent okay. I wasn't aware that i will look forward to seeing that. Because i wanna see where you rank him because you know we all loved him back in march but with a shoulder injury attaran that shoulder. I mean you don't know like the degree like corey. Kluber shoulder is shot. I mean he's thirty five or something. That's different when six sanchez kid. Who by the way was in the jt. Real trade from philadelphia and it doesn't look as now you know it was basically farro and six though for real moot though anyway. It's it's a shame because we wanted to see him pitch and help. Not only the marlins but us. He's not going to do that anymore. For the rest of the season now. It's time for you to sing about the combo meals today. Many small business owners are busier than ever because they are focused on managing and growing their business. They can't always spend the time they wish they could on recruiting and that's why linked in jobs has made it easier to find and hire the best candidates for free. Look i sure. Wish i had linked in jobs as an option when i was assembling my staff at. Espn many years ago. What made the process easier more efficient. Nobody wants to waste time and with lincoln jobs..
Fantasy Focus Baseball
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"Might be. Yeah i would hope in the situation that you don't have a glut of injured less players. I do a couple of leagues. So i understand it. If you're in that situation. I think it's okay to let him go. I would prefer to try to keep them around. If i could zach gallon of arizona's just sat down on the field after throwing a pitch. They say it's a mild hamstring strain but arizona's a mess and they don't win very much and anzac. That gown is very good but this looks like a pitcher who's not going to have a great final second half of the season to me like maybe it's because injury maybe it's because of performance or not getting wins but like i don't see how we could rank that gown as a top twenty five starting pitcher and fantasy for the final three months based on his situation. Yes and a lot of that has to do with this. Being the third injured list stint. I can't recall what the first one was coming out of. Spring training began the year on the injured that was elbow and we thought it was elbowing the first time right. I mean i thought that was the second indra. I thought that was the main one. Well i it was. One of them is what i'm saying. Yeah there was definitely one where we were worried. he could be headed for. Tommy john i do recall that i think that was the may one. I don't remember the opening day could have been the same but the fact that these are two different injuries and he's at a difficult time building his himself back up to pitching at the level he did in the previous two years. That's what bugs me. I i'm with you. I don't think you can make the case for top twenty five. Because i don't think he gets to that volume and there will be the risk of re injury. He had a hairline fracture and his forearm in late march and then the elbow is in early. May so you add all these things up and it gets to be a little bit concerning and this is very promising. Young starting pitcher. And that's why we get concerned any other injuries that i i don't want to miss anything here. I'm looking at the most added droplets because that generally tells us who is injured because people are just you know leaving a positive injury note. I mean since. We're doing injuries as i'm pleased about the friend. Male raiders at friend mill race return from the ingest and the homered and his first. Maybe not as first game back but it was one of the early game. I think it was the second. I'm trying to recall doubt the power. You know actually was activated friday. I don't think he played. It was weird. He got activated in play. I think it was weird. Heather transaction fell. What right he. Yesterday you had a home run a double and five. Rbi and he stole a base so he his name will be mentioned a little bit later when after tristan sings I didn't get to listen to thursday. Show how much singing did you do. Last thursday show because dopp guitar for my show. So i'm assuming there was lots of seeing it was like a greatest hits version or something was it was we. We actually did a three man. Combo meal song was. It was pretty epic. All right i will listen to that. I'd guitar through the hash. browns really. Okay well that's can't miss listening. Podcast off their. I mean.
Fantasy Focus Baseball
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"All star break should be a wild homerun derby next week in denver Tristan how are you hope you have a nice weekend. I did i did. It was a very nice relaxing weekend. Pretty decent weather overall for the most part of the last couple rain days. And i'm really thrilled to see that. Shohei otani is on the all star game as a two player. Actually why i'm gonna. I don't always watch the all star game because it's you know it's not normal baseball but i- everything is doing. I'm watching its course field. And it's a designated hitter game. At least at last. I checked it was because there were designated hitters in the voting. And i just want to see the roster maneuvering like how do they handle. How do they handle otani getting into that game as a pitcher on this is the stuff i love about baseball at. He leads the league in home runs. I mean unbelievable. What he's doing right now. And you know if i was thinking about it like who is the player of the year so far in the first half of the season the seasons roughly half over right now so the player of the year. I mean how can it not be otani amis leading the league at home runs. And he's pitching. He's pitching well enough to matter to be relevant. He's number two on the play writer behind fernando totti's junior but how can otani not be our fantasy player the first half of the season. I don't see how he can't. He's been available to people the entirety of the year. He was going one. Seventy five to two hundred overall i i saw leagues where he was definitively after the top two hundred picks he's got four hundred and thirty fantasy points if you combine his hitting in his pitching now. You can't use them because you can't use hitting a bitch at the same time just said that on the thursday show with aj. But i would say that the available points to you. He is by far the most in the league. And you see in the playwright or numbers as well i i. Can't it's indescribable. What he is doing. I mean it's it's never been seen in the history of the game. I'm sorry no. This is not babe ruth like. This is a guy who was putting up great numbers on both sides of the ball. He's an unbelievable hitter though unbelievable babe. Ruth didn't hit and pitch at the same time. He had seasons where he did. One of the other did but not to the extent that otani did fantasy. One hundred years ago So i i would say that this is the fantasy hitter of the euro. He's both he's hit or he's that he wouldn't be the pitcher of verse hitter of the year because of the hitting is is really carrying its value because while not says more stolen bases and almost many home runs i mean atanas. Combination was an early rally. It was the first round. Pick the top. Five pig otani. I don't know if he was really one. Seventy five to two hundred. I thought he was more like one. Twenty five or one hundred but now there is no way was going that soon. I'll i'll get the exact number for you but it was. It was after one fifty for sure. We'll we'll do the pictures of the first half on thursday. Show so vlad guerrero junior is probably going to miss out on american league. Mvp and fantasy player of the year because of taty. But what it's doing is is not stealing basis. But it's incredible vlad with a fifth or sixth round pick in most leagues but just incredible numbers look at the slugging percentage for vlad he slimmed-down gotten better shape playing a decent first base. Throwing not playing it any worse than you know first baseman. He's he's fine he's capable. they're no longer third baseman But i said my top three right now for fantasy hitter of the year would be number one otani number two to tease and then three because of the steals. And then three vlad matiz. He's unbelievable. We were worried member. In the first week able. He wouldn't even play the rest of the season because of the shoulder injury and still every time. I see him dive at shortstop. I get concerned. But i mean what a player just. What an unbelievable player he. The greatness of those names is what makes it difficult to make a case for anybody else and by the way. I'm sorry you're correct. Otani was in the top. Ninety overall pixie sword in the final two weeks of adp during spring training was around one twenty at the midway point of guess just people were chasing the names. I remember you. And i were discussing them. We just didn't think he was really a top hundred guy. Explains how great. He's been the one. I would make the case for in the top three. I actually think. Marcus semi deserves a mention here. As a potential fantasy hitter of the year in terms of value he was a guy was not going in the top hundred changing positions new team taking a one year deal as approve it kind of thing for a new contract. There were questions about him and what he has done is pretty extraordinary. But it is hard to go against. Vlad otani totti's probably otani. I'm probably tony ts. Flat as well. Do you have any shares of these players. Because i'm going about it. Yep so you did get italian leagues. I did not and people reached on. Vlad i i wanted to. You know like i feel like i learned a lesson here like i thought. I didn't think he would do this but i thought he'd be. Really good better than people believe but there was somebody in every league who believes a little bit more and the teach. You needed a top five. Pick for semi and i did not believe. I can't believe what he's doing right now. Another one who actually belongs in that conversation is carlos correa not yet. It's not a top three but but if you wanna talk about candidates who could get there he might get some third fourth place votes. When i when i write up hitter pitchers of the year half year. Whatever i look at where they were drafting. Their otani was drafted. You know whether it was round ten around fifteen. He was drafted in every league. Okay so was semi-in you know it wasn't centered moen's a baltimore is an absolute possibility for fantasy. Mvp right now because he went undrafted and pretty much every league and this is a guy on pace for twenty five. Twenty five homers deals with batting average. She's an all star. He's putting up incredible numbers. I took a chance on a mattel. I think it was last year. That was a year too early. May what a season. And if you wanna talk about the value of the pick he would be the winner because all these other guys were drafted and he was not yeah. I'm trying to dig this up as quickly as i can. And i've gotten a heck of a lot wrong this year but cedric mullins. I believe was the first player in my first three to add coma the year and i hope he will pick them up because if you did at that point that was the period at which it was known that he was contributing in the role and he has never stopped since that. Point one of the reasons for your case as to fantasy value. Is i think the wise fantasy managers as as you had said you got last year and touting you've got him at the beginning of the year here anybody who got him at the beginning of the year has reap the rewards of three excellent months of performance fascinating and you look closer as numbers and there's no reason to think that's going to stop either so you had it right. First week of the season got to add and took a little while for people to do it. But this is why you when you're leagues. Let's talk about some of the news. Not all of its happy as we get to this final week of the season. Well we're already in it because it's tuesday. Monday was a holiday couple of injuries. I call schwarzer. Who wrote an amazing june. This guy had a homer every day. he's on the injured list. It's significant hamstring strain. And i ask you in an espn standard. You drop because it might be two months and.
Cubs Weekly Podcast
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"Postseason seems like it has been decided by injuries. But that's been by acute injuries that have been during the postseason right. There's been a record number of all stars to miss a postseason game whatever else. I don't think we're quite in that boat yet in in baseball at. I think it's different if we get to the playoffs and you know there are multiple teams without their stars but at this point i think there are enough guys who are expected to come back at some point. I'm actually thinking of your crosstown rivals with the white sox. You know they may be getting loose. Robert de la jimenez back closer to the postseason or for the postseason. So he think. Until those things don't come to fruition. It's hard to say that it's necessarily deciding it at an. I also just think that you know with one hundred sixty two games. I i do think cream rises to the top especially with that. It's so many games that even if you are without a star you if you're the best team even without that player that will come through. I think And that's a little bit different when you're talking about other sports shorter seasons or whatever else sir as you've been watching baseball then for this again like the pretty much exact halfway point for most teams right now which storylines have stood out to you. So far that you've just really enjoyed watching and following the most. Oh my gosh. I mean the easy. Immediate anther has to be shohei ohtani. They know his starting. Yankee stadium did not go as plan but that doesn't even matter for this conversation. As far as i'm concerned. I mean he had two runs in any way to start the next day. He is absolutely incredible. Is leading the majors in home runs. And it's really cool because you know. I think we all remember when he signed when he came over from japan. And this is what it was potentially would. It could be rightly this was kind of the best case scenario and those don't always actually happen and it took a few years. He was really good as a pitcher in twenty eighteen but he did get injured. He wasn't really able to do both at the same time. He didn't get to hit on days when he pitched than in two thousand nineteen. He didn't pitch at all twenty twenty. He tried it. Didn't quite work. And now he's one of the best offensive players in the majors and also a really good pitcher who had a bad start the other night but a really good pitcher with an amazing amazing pitch with his splitter. And i just love how into it. Everybody is i it when he pitches and when he plays when he homers. He's one of those players where athletes in all sports or commenting on it. They're tweeting about it. And that's just a whole new level and i love to see that for baseball. Yeah i think it's absolutely great for the sport. Great brand just everything in the homerun derby like all of that but do another storyline. That kinda keeps my head is. We're talking that you know you're talking about the star or one of the stars in the league and then i find it interesting storylines this year with the guys that you don't know much about because of injuries were getting called up specifically for us. They know he just got hurt. during the brewers theories that patrick wisdom he's had a huge impact on the cubs and a lot of guys have come up from triple a. they're not the shohei otani but man of have they proven valuable for teams during when they've had injuries definitely and.
The Besties
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"I just don't have the. I feel like inner lilies to new tear down too early and we. We might go back to to check those out. This is again a completely meaningless things meaningless yet absolutely meaningless but not not any more or less meaningless than any other ranking that we do on the benches right there i. I love clans to scare anybody away from playing more that game but there is a little game called. Mario golf coming out at the end of this week. We're going talk about it next week. But by the time this episode comes out the game will be out so you can now say that this game you've been secretly teasing like dope has been mario golf. I think. I think we actually cut that from last week. So did we. Because they're worried so obvious. Like one game. you're talking. yeah yeah. I am extremely into mario golf and i am really looking forward to talking about it. I clap hands. Then let's give it this moment you know if it's about to be obliterated from memory and let's give this finding rover well. Is there room for it i think. So if we bump bouncers sherry or outriders bump out riders. Because i was alone in that and put clap clap hands on there i like it. I like it. All right yeah. This is a this is a good list. So yeah if you wanna get if you wanna play like your heroes. The bestes- the games from the first of this year. The eight games in the first half of this year but except for not russia's opinions him in three mario three d world plus passage fury loop hero. Mosser hunter rise. Clap hands golf resident. Evil eight near replicant apart. Good not bad. You know what not a bad year for. It's been slow. I'll say but there's some really good stuff on there. Yeah for sure. I think that we should see what the our friends at home are talking about. Maybe after a quick break. Because i bet they know some stuff we don't our friends at home have also played games that we didn't tell them to play which feels like a bit trail. I guess you know what i mean like. You taste bankers agreement like the fifth best. He you know that is true that extra bit. We need and we needed their help this year. Because if you look at our list not enough indie games and that's how good small game recommendations on on the listener mail absolutely. I'll dive into these right now. The first one is from cameron monster trains. Last expansion has now pushed it into being my second most played game of all time. Otherwise the rogue light slot machine game luck be a landlord is a lot of fun and album was a charming experience. One hundred percent an evening. I am fifty percent certain. That cameron is just in because this just sounds like another excuse for justin and talk about monster trade. I must've train fucking walls. An expansion out for i'm going to go play it now. A monster train rules. Griffin's role those two games both rule. I got a new. Hey if you like those. I got a new one of those coming up free at the end of the episode. So stay tuned these other to sound really good. I haven't played it. But i know russ has been banging the alba jump for a while right. That's when he's discussed. I might grab that on switch Rogue light slot machine luckily lord. That sounds good. I haven't. I haven't checked that out with sounds good up. After we have from raincloud backbone finally released to sierra and i am in love with the combo of detective furry ingredient aesthetic has me hooked in the twist was unexpected Did you get to try this game. No tell me understand this. I've never heard of it. But google says it was released in two thousand nineteen so i think that might have been when it popped up on steam early. Let me put up really quick. You are yes steam. I was born on january. First nineteen sixty four. That's definitely true. This is like a pixel noir aesthetic and this looks like it looks awesome looks like a raccoon detective and very beautifully lit pixel city dang. I think we need to play this game. It's rated m for sexual themes strong. Lingual my shit. I am pt. Try thank you cloud Okay after this. Here is the game that i am embarrassed. That is taking me this long to play From keenan chicory a colorful tale has such a great game for me while the gameplay isn't much straight home about presentation spectacular the music from accurate an incredible the writing humorous and heartwarming. Definitely my favorite adventure game of the year. I have heard so much. Rain is is lena. Is lena rain. The composer for celeste. Just just in case the the mentioned twitter tag and not the name after this. We've got from our boy frankenstein. Cruelty scott cruelty squad is a bonkers low poly cyberpunk. Immersive sim developed by one dude and released earlier this year. It's rough around the edges guys real quick. Just go do is look at something of this. Quick god link here here. We'll get the thing i'm looking at. She s holy my absolutely. Yeah this is. Just describe what you're seeing. It looks like if it looks like if you put.
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"This is my game of the year by a pretty huge margin. At this point. I think it could be unseated by Something that hits in in in a different way Something maybe a little bit more narrative lee satisfying because god knows monster. Hunter rise didn't scratch that it since it didn't have an ending when it came out but it condenses down everything i like about monster hunter and then put it on the switch in a time. Where like that was all. I could really play. I think it came out like a days before gus was born So like there were definitely a couple of nights in the hospital where i just didn't sleep because the baby didn't sleep And it was it it. It's i like monster. Hunter is a lot. I think it's very good. I don't know that there's much else to say about it. No it's good. I know it i. I think it's probably up there for russ also so he would he would. I know he would support this decision. If you've never played a monster hunter is game and people are all the questions always like. Is this the one. Here's all say no but it's never coming. It's folks that games. Not it's you know what they say time in the market beats timing the market. And that's that's very accurate for mosser to just go ahead and played the bullet. You're not gonna time the perfect entry point for this for me. It reminds me of the dark souls games where i don't always finish them put the more. I play them the better prepared. I am for the next one and it sounds like i've heard that was like monster energy to people like. Oh yeah world was the one i tried. I kinda got into it and then they tried you know rise in something. Oh okay now. I definitely get right. Yeah sure. I think that makes a lot of sense. It took me a you to get into it. But i never thought of that before but it it makes ended. It's like kind of cumulative. Maybe you can't enjoy the first one right. It's like the assassins creative like you're just getting the basics. You're not going to have fun. But next time then basic my first one was like monster hunter four ultimate on the we you and i was like this is nothing and then the next game i played i think was one hundred and that was the one that i write or monster hundred ultimate one of the three s. games you can skip out writers. I think we all agree to daddy. I have heard that that game got a patron that is. I don't know that it addressed copywriters whips ass definitely going on this list. Are you kidding me outriders. I've played guys. No i'm gonna have to go ahead and say that it's a lot of outriders which is a very fun game. That is very stupid. Something unthinkable stupid. It's a great you know not unlike loop hero. They're basically clones of each other basically like blue bureau. It's a game where i can do something with my good brain and let my ripped tillerson brain like shoot aliens or whoever you're shooting right. I just remember it being pretty fun. I've dip back into it because it had a lot of weirdness with your your gear getting deleted and stuff. Yeah that's that's the update that i've heard is that they've they've opened up the like fun. Weapon fire hose and did the like opposite of the thing that These always online games do the opposite of holy shit l. anthem or anthem. People are having fun too much fun those guns out there. They're doing the opposite. So i'm i'm curious to dip into our writers Then we talked about grand theft auto for like one hundred years. Can i put out writers now. Well yeah in front of me can always take it off. Yeah just meaningless lists that we're using to structure this segment. Yes we can't they get off snap. I didn't like it all. But i bet you guys not not particularly. I really enjoyed it. I think more than everybody else on this show haven't back to it. Yeah and i have. I don't really have any desire to go back to it. Feel differently about returning. Which was the other game that we discussed this week. So i have not actually played bunch return because i have been waiting for. That is another game that i have on my wait till all the patches get added ryan because there is a lot of trauma around saves and being able to see your game and i figured i would wait that one hour. How about you. I had a very interesting experience with returnable. The not very interesting. But i played it a lot and got extremely frustrated. It is a very frustrating game. It is the kind of game you talking about. Like i've wasted my time. That sort of broken part of my brain. That feels like games have to be edifying in some way they can't just be fun. are not uncommon to have like an hour and a half run that just gets undone in fifteen seconds of bad luck And that is absolutely infuriating. At to a point where i was like. I can't play this anymore. i'm not doing it. I'm gonna stand up and walk away. I'm deleting the game from ips. Five cloudy deal with it but then like fast for two a month later and i'm like it was kind of fun..
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"Wouldn't be like so comfortable to let young another man's young babies but they're so proud of your patty guessing. It's wild any named his baby egg. Sandwich just the background of the best games of the year. My name's graffman. Onto the best teams of the year. My name is retired plant. And i know the best games of the year. Russia's isn't here jokes aside congratulations. I think the three of us are joined in a overwhelming choice. Boy rest rest fresh. He's listening to this show. That's definitely definitely for sure. Listening one hundred percent. I download first in last out definitely So this is the best. It's a. it's a video game club and just by listening you. My friend are member and we're happy to have you. We're going to be taking a look back now. We move so fast through all these huge releases twenty twenty one that we wanted to take a second slowdown and just see where we're at right now and kind of make this is our is our idea. We kinda wanna do. A utterly non vining because russia is in here but if we were kind of making a and we don't even do the The brackets like this. But if we're to make an eight you know an elite eight ride games that are out so far this year. What would make the cut That's it that's why that's already so we're going to go through the episodes. We've done so far this year and probably you might have some other additions of that. We didn't touch on so that would be. I'd love to hear those as well. It's episode of the best these is brought to you by freshly. He stressed tired. Just don't feel like cooking food. That's fast doesn't have to be fast. Food freshly.
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"So which obviously think. Mrs rustam boast. Because i know for me. Like i haven't stopped crying. I guess since he. He told us that he wouldn't be on this episode texas. Like hey guys just had a baby. So happy the miracle life and i finally get it and games don't really matter and that's the secret that you learn when you finally have a child and you feel that happiness enjoying your heart. I just started mind right then. And i really haven't stopped. Oh have you been in contact with him. Not at all not aside from that one. Texted him saying he would be missing. Because i started to text. Demos i came in congratulations. Welcome to fatherhood such a big thing as a huge leap in your life. I'm so proud of you and so happy for you. But then i saw that the mole was on net flicks and i started to just started watching the mole instead so i did not end up. Actually texting him to congratulate him. I've been. I've been texting him like a lot to a point where i'm sorta like. Are you sure you're doing everything you need to do. Right as a father you know. Yeah because think he's already. He's already dropped the ball. Just because of how much you've been you've been riding exactly. I actually have an explanation for that. Because i haven't been texting him at all. But i have been taken care of him his wife and his child. I cut riot village areas. Yeah yes he has been changing his child's diaper. But while doing that. I've changed his diaper. And i know that you've allowed his son. You've sort of been a wet nurse to him. Allowed him to stop at your passing. I think that's lovely dude. That's so hey a lot of dudes like you and me and griffin wouldn't be like so comfortable to let young another man's young babies but they're so proud of your patty guessing. It's wild any named his baby.