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GSMC Baseball Podcast
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on GSMC Baseball Podcast
"Was expected to resume baseball activities on sunday. The veteran outfielder will be eligible to come off the injured list during the astros next series against the angels but a specific timetable for his return has yet to be set out there publicly so once again he could be available as soon as the next couple of days to come off the injured list. But i'm unsure if we're going to see him right away as once again branly was one of the top hitter's and all of baseball for the first. Few months of the season began to struggle and now is dealing with some knee issues for the dodgers. Cody bellinger. he was originally scheduled to start. Saturday's game in cincinnati. But manager dave roberts opted instead to continue to rest. The outfielder bellinger wanting to roberts has a non-displaced rib fracture stemming from a collision with gavin lux in left center field during a series against the diamondbacks earlier in the week. He was also not in the lineup on sunday so bellinger once again now dealing with some issues to his ribs as he is trying to figure things out offensively for the dodgers and you also have. Aj pollock his right hamstring strain. He is scheduled to play in simulated games on monday. Back in arizona. Dave roberts said the plan is to activate him following the club's road series against the rockies which ends on thursday so aj pollock could be back with the dodgers in the big league club this upcoming weekend and that would be a nice site for them as they look to win the national league west still trailing the giants here at this moment. Wander franko of the race. He's dealing with a right hamstring straight. He is scheduled to take part in a full pre-game workout on monday. And it seems possible that he will be activated from the injured lists soon after he is first eligible to return on tuesday so the race holding out hope that he will be back on tuesday but obviously a lot of that plays off of how his full pre-game workout routine comes together and how he bounces back after that workout if he will be back in the lineup as soon as tuesday. Or if we're gonna have to wait till a little bit later on in the week. Shane bieber for the indians bieber. Made a rehab start his second as he is coming back from a right shoulder strain for double a akron. on sunday. He allowed three runs in three and a third innings. Throwing just fifty seven pitches but overall there was good news. Coming out of that outing as it does seem that everything in the shoulder continues to be. Okay we'll see if bieber makes another start here for the big league club before the end of the year. Or if they just opt to transition into the off season next year for shane bieber for the cincinnati reds jesse winker winker was placed back on the ten day injured list on saturday with these same intercostal strain that kept him out for more than a month before he returned friday so bad news for reds fans out there. One of their top offensive players. Winker came off the injured list and was put right-back on the i l. with that same injury so clearly. He was not ready to return to action. And this is a big blow as they're making a playoff bush they now trail the saint louis cardinals for that second national league wildcard spot and with castellanos and winker being their top two offensive weapons. It makes everything much more difficult for them. In this playoff bush the last couple of weeks. The reds also placed shogo akiyama on the ten day on saturday with a right hamstring strain. So a couple of injuries the injury bug hitting the reds hard here over the weekend and what certainly is bad news for reds fans. The last injury to discuss with you guys chris. Basset of the oakland as he had a right fray show fracture he will throw another bullpen session on monday. Of course bassett being hit in the head with a line drive earlier this year manager bob. Melvin said that bassett through around thirty pitches in a simulated game on september eighteenth and came out feeling good. So they're going to take things slow he's going to go through another bullpen potentially another simulated game before he returns to the mount as the as still on the outside looking in for that american league wildcard game and acid would certainly be a welcomed return for these last couple of weeks transitioning now to some of the other big news across major league baseball. I'm sure you guys have seen the video by now. But if you haven't manny machado and fernando tattooists junior had to be separated after a shouting match the dugout during a padres loss to the cardinals. The padres blue in eighth inning lead against the cardinal saturday night to full three games back in the wild card and some of the frustration began to boil over between their two biggest stars. Tat thiessen machado. There's video of it out. There online out there on twitter you guys can check that out and you can hear. Essentially what was being said. Back and forth machado basically telling tattoos it's not blanco. 'bout you an expletive being thrown in there and padres manager. Jason taylor was ejected earlier. that day. Home plate up phil. Cozy did not like what was going on tattoos or the padres didn't like what was going on with cozy and obviously tensions within the roster understandable padres continue to struggle they continue to fade and. This was a team prior to the season or the over under was right around one hundred games it was supposed to be san diego and l. La go at it for that national league west crowned. Instead it's been san diego or l. a. and san francisco that have been battling it out for first place San diego has now lost. Seven of their last nine has gone five and ten in the month of september. Twenty three and thirty two overall for the second half of the season they once led the national league wild car to get. It looked like a runaway. It'd be san diego and la even with the giants winning the national league west and now they're odds to make the postseason are down into the single digits depending on what type of algorithm or what source you guys are looking at but tattoos and machado going at it. It certainly looked like machado was showing some leadership in the situation he could see the status was being a little bit selfish. Based on an outsider's perspective make it really all about him and machado wanted to let him know. It's not about him. This is about the team right now. Everyone is struggling..
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"I am very new school in that regard. I don't think they drastically improve your chances of scoring in an inning. I i don't think it makes a lot of sense to give away outs. I detest especially position players. I get it when he got a pitcher who can swing the bat. He comes up less than two outs. Guy first base fine but a position players not swinging the bat and instead laying down a sacrifice bunt for the most part absolutely not but today shogo akiyama laid down a sacrifice bunt with two on and nobody out in the seventh-inning today and i was here for it. First of all shogo. Ocoee is not good offensively. second of all. I'm trying to avoid a double play third of all. I can't count on a hit to get the run in if i can get a guy to third base for less than two outs. Maybe the next guy up as dribble cabrera can get about of the outfield. That is exactly what he did. He does not yet have a hit for the reds but he has one of the season's most important sacrifice flies. He had a sacrifice fly. He drove in the go ahead run and the reds win the ball game one. Nothing today in pittsburgh to avoid a sweep. They have gained a half game on saint louis. They have gained a half game on san diego. Who's playing right now. As drubel cabrera with his first real contribution is a member of the cincinnati. Red of the cincinnati reds. Here a is as drubel chatting with reporters after the game. What did it mean for you to get a win here. In the finale.
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"This her. I guess i'll talk to ask you where you from where you pay rent then. I heard it's not what you make. But how much you spent words to live by taryn. Bland be like nineteen when they wrote that stuff seventeen when they wrote southern playlist unbelievable. How are people that talented. Did you see the the fighters thing over the weekend. You're not familiar are you. You're not familiar with this fighters thing. That's gone on so little girl in london right names. Nandy bruce shell and at the beginning of the pandemic like year and a half ago. She sent dave grohl of video challenging him to like a drum off and he responded and they've been going back and forth and it's been this cute little like you know online viral thing that's happened and he brought her to staples center over the weekend and had her come up and play ever long on her own drum set at the staples center in front of like thirty thousand people and she was awesome awesome. How how do you get that talented. That girl's eleven she has. She's done more at eleven that i've done like in my whole life and she's gotten like as she's gotten bigger and bigger like is it's gotten out there like people from all over like do videos back and forth with her and like the sender stuff and she's famous. She's eleven cancer that stuff at seventeen nineteen years old. I can't say on this. Microphone what i was doing at seventeen in one thousand. Nine years old making hits tearing. I mentioned this. When do you go to atlanta tomorrow. So taryn turns experience bookies for the first time are you gonna do. Are you going to put it on your agenda tomorrow or are you going to save it for the way home or you're going to do both because what you really should vote my way down there. Well if i'm going to tell you this right if you do it on the way down there you're gonna stop on the way back. You're going to just going to happen. You're going to do it on the way back like that's that's the only way that that's that's gonna work my friend. You're not going to stop the buckeyes on the way down there and then just drive. Pass it on the way back this reds team. I can pinpoint exactly where things have gone wrong. If you wanna you wanna know where this offensive downturn senate around let me take you back though. Let me take you back. Remember last year. This is one of the worst offensive teams in forever. They like to oh four last year. They're terrible but they got hot at the end. Remember why they got hot at the end. 'cause shogo akiyama got going right and sparked the top of that lineup. He was getting on base productive and things started to work around him. Because you got that leadoff guy guy at the top of the order that can really push the envelope and put heat put pressure on the opposing pitcher on the opposing defense. All of a sudden things change for everybody else but it only happened in that small window last year. Remember that little two week window to end the season when they made that push to get to the playoffs. That's when shogo akiyama really made really the only impact. He's made a significant impact. He's made since he's been in cincinnati but it was great. Tom get to the playoffs. What's been different this year. Jonathan india right jonathan india's. What's been different this year because of jonathan india at the top of the lineup. There's been a spark but if you go back to august seventeenth jonathan. India is seven for his last forty five seven for his last forty five and more importantly than that. You're he's only walked four times that's where this reds team has been killer killer. Is jonathan india being on base two three times a game putting a ton of pressure on the opponent and he's in a funk right now he's in a slump and when he's not doing that because that's been the thing with india right we've seen him have a little bit of hills and valleys in terms of his overall batting but he's been able to get on on base and still apply that pressure. I i haven't paid enough attention. Because i've been so caught up in football and you see camp and everything that's been going on with that to pay enough attention to this. Our team's pitching them different. Is there a is there. An indication that something's different in the way teams are approaching him. Or is it the logical thing what we've seen. He's beat up man. He's beat up has taken an absolute beating at second base shoulder. Like you name it. He's beat up. Take a quick break. We've bobbin nashville cliven. Three seven four nine fifteen thirty. We'll get to you as well and a guy mike. Let's talk some grads leading into brennan jones on baseball cincinnati's. Espn fifteen thirty headline. I can't dawson's candlesticks in the dawn visit reds lose tonight. That's gonna be me. i can't sleep. Ottosson earns finger on the trigger minds playing tricks. Tear ain't going out without a fight close. I thought sweating. Blood starts reds loser fourth in a row watching but i don't know and they play again in two hours. Six forty cobb. Tough stretch right now. Top stretch to start step september and they got to find a way to get themselves out of it because the cardinals are starting to heat up. The padres have come out of their swoon. It looks like most importantly for the padres of getting back at home. That's a different team at home by the nashville wants to talk. Some how you doing bob how you doing. I been better after watching that first game. You know what man. I'm i'm here and unfortunately we're in the blackout situations. So so you watch bad. Even watchman probably you probably are okay with that after the first game how. I'm not okay with that. I'm a cardinal fan. Then i get it. She probably pretty mad did well. And you know what. It's maybe better than i don't watch. It seemed like every time i watch them. They lost so when we got. Somebody's gotta get some access nashville. Bob you can go to. Mlb dot com get a monthly subscription. And you can watch on your phone. All.
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Last night the reds flail away against a lefty and not look very good and doing so for the most part lefties have been this team's kryptonite all season long last night. It was john lester and it wasn't vintage two thousand sixteen john lester until last night. So there's a couple of different issues here number one. whether or not it's a you haniya suarez or asdrubal. Cabrera gotta start getting some production from third base number two. It is very fair very fair to look at. What does team did around the deadline and wonder wouldn't have made a little bit more sense to address. What has been a bit of a weakness. Which is this team's performance teams production against lefties going to be a lot of lefties between now and the end of the year. They've lost three straight game the reds have. I'm not. I'm not worried worried in concern to me or different things and i know we're kind of talking semantics here. Worry is panic concern is. I'm keeping an eye on this. Because it may be troublesome. We talked about this a little bit yesterday. I have seen we have all seen. What can happen to this team when it goes through a massive prolonged offensive downfall. It's called most of the two thousand twenty season but the good news for last year. Is those last three weeks. Because of trevor. Bauer and louise castio and shogo akiyama. They did enough down that stretch to get to the post season but for about a five or six weeks stretch. This team was awful. Offensively my hopes for the reds coming into this season were based around this team. Simply being better than it was in the micro season last year and offensively that has been the case but good offensive team. Still go through collective slumps. Jesse winker is not active right now. They're they've gotten no production from anybody. Playing third base. This year joey vodkas come crashing to earth a little bit same to a degree for.
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Acquired cabrera not with the team. Right now you're being fair if you thought well maybe this means max rock is going to be sent back now. It's worth mentioning. The roster's can expand ones the first time. Wednesday rustler's could expand here in less than a week. So you're going to have a couple of extra spots to fill so you could send a guy back and bring them up. But max rock is starting and let in left field tonight against a right handed pitcher shogo akiyama is not starting aristide's keno is obviously not starting. What raises eyebrows. There is i think shogo akiyama who has maybe to a degree effectively. Become the last guy off the bench. Still a lot of value in centerfield defensively almost none at the plate. Twenty five minutes. After three o'clock we've got a guy thinks the bengals are going to go to three and fourteen rights. Sports illustrated get mad at him. You know three forty five. I don't think the bengals going three and fourteen connor or from sl does at one of the thing i was going to share with. You can't remember what it was. I made pile of disorganization today. Taryn eddie in green township. Hello eddie how are you. i'm great. how's it going. What's up Actually it was one idea about your real quick and what you think about it. It's kind of outside the box there. If the reds happened the snack that second wildcard spot human. And what do you idea you. Use to starting pitchers in that game because you have to win that game. There's no tomorrow you lose that game you have. They struggle a little bit. You take him out or four or five and they get along and then you bring in your next starting pitcher. Who's your best. Which i think is and you just try to win that game. You know. i think that's the need to do 'cause i. The bullpen is better than what it was.
The Lead
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on The Lead
"Well as good as this guy is a player. He's also pretty famously. Legendary personality they were talking about. What i'm going to do with the two thousand and i said my very first hit. I gave to my dog to eat. And maybe it wasn't a good thing to give him i. I don't know if you should be giving dogs baseball's but i did at the time and he loved it by the way and that brings us to why we're here today to look at how that personality drives him as a player along with a couple of colleagues at the athletic spoke to fourteen of his former teammates in old rivals will get to baseball in a second but first we have to ask about the mopping so please. Trent tell us about joey. Mapo showy apparently loves too much. So i talked to two of his former teammates. Chris dickerson carlos guevara. He loves to mock his house so much. Every even tried to convince joey to make an instagram account called. Joey mabo in with just the joey mopping floor. Sometimes carlos would just get a video that started from joey. It'd be black. You would hear the music and like nobody on the screen. And i'm like what the hell's this and all of a sudden there comes. Joey mopping goes across like little dance. Because of this. I mean he's meticulous guy. Everything is in its right place. Everything is meticulous. Not apparently goes when his house as well. He love the spotless floor. He loves to come. But i think that really is a deeper thing. It shows the attention to detail. It shows how he pays attention to every little thing and wants to be done right. That includes mopping. There's a method to the madness for everything that he does. Well as you said as hilarious as the mobbing is this is not just totally random and goofy behavior. So with that in mind. It seems like another key components. Joey votto s- baseball personality is his intensity and that's true away from the field as well. What stories can you tell us about that. Joey will get laser focused on something one off season. When the red signed our oldest chapman out of cuba he decided that he wanted to learn spanish joey next as ordering rosetta stone. While like this guy better. Spanish than need a year. So this guy from toronto put his mind to spanish and then carlos who is of mexican descent from texas pro said after awhile. Joey was better than he was. Chairlifts correcting meal spanish win. The red sign shogo akiyama. He started studying japanese two thousand twenty in spring training. Joey had a cheat sheet with some japanese words so that he could make sure that he remembered when he was talking to shogo. Japanese joe is a big fan of comedy. He's a funny guy very dry. I've heard some comments from some guys saying they'd like to play less games. Make less money i say. Play more and make more money. Let's play up play november and march another sixty games. Let's do it. what do you say. He's taking improv. Classes according to his former teammates because he felt like it would be a better way to speak to his teammates in engaging manner. I thought that was so fascinating. And then there's chess. He loves chassis plays online chess quite a bit every all season he decides. He's going to do something like this. All seasonal chess l. She goes all and so not only is he studied up on chest. He takes private lessons from eric hansen. Who is a canadian. Grandmaster chess player. The level that he's at the app won't even let me challenge him because he's so far advance. Because when you're joe votto well you go to the best. That's amazing. let's turn our focus to veto on the field here. You collected a number of stories that seem to really show this guy's dedication to his craft. So can you tell us what you learned about joey votto and mimicking other players in the minor leagues one year. He decided that he was going to be our pools. And so that whole season with chattanooga he had our pool whole stance mimicking albert from the left side. So it's really spread out stairs and would just hit like albert pools but a left handed version. What did he do that year. He won the southern league. Mvp and at the end of the year he told carlos lorette the unity year. Say legs are tired out down like that. You want todd helton and barry bonds and would imitate them and try to do exactly what they did with helton a lot of it was fouling off pitches to get what he wanted. Todd helton is one of the all time. Great spoilers good pitches even if that meant you know the worst swing possible. He would mimic it. Full red legs the to out out of the night that one another and another breaking ball boy so he went back to back her balls breaking balls for there. Were days that we would call his shots. He's done it many times sometimes as easy as hey. I'm going to foul off ten pitches in an at bat and he would foul off ten pitches. There's one against yu darvish when darvish. I came over and was pitching for the rangers and it was in spring training and through slow curveball and joey said if he throws me that again he told the catcher if he throws me that again. I'm gonna hit it out. I remember this day. Because i was there through it again. He hit it out of the stadium in goodyear. Well we know that he is a super intense guy who clearly thinks about the game on a high level. But the last few years before this resurgence it has really seen like. He's been on a decline. Fato get up there last year not a great year but try to come back talking about the his metrics couple of statis-. How much do you think that was wearing on vodka especially considering that he's the highest paid player on the team you know. Joey is always talked about how he did not want to play. If he was not able to play at a level that he thought he was capable of playing and part of it was in. Two thousand. Seventeen is called it his masterpiece. Peace day resistance. That was the finished. Second in the mvp voting to giancarlo stanton but in two thousand seventeen and really from two thousand say fifteen to the middle of two thousand twenty he would crouch and nobody in the game choked up more than joey votto or when i saw vodka choking up the way he does and you saw the last few years defensive swings. I've been there before as a hitter. It's the passive aggressive approach in two thousand seventeen. He would show up inches on his bat. And he's still had thirty six home runs and he walked a league-high majors. High one hundred and thirty four times and struck out just eighty three times. If you have more walks than strikeouts it's amazing. He had fifty one more walks than strikeouts. That was the year that he was kind of in his mind. Perfect and he was crouched over choked up so that he could see the ball the longest and then react over the last couple of years. He said he's not quite got that skill anymore. So what he has done and what he did last year about this time when he got benched for two games but it was a little bit before that honestly start standing up straighter stops choking up on the bat and said you know what.
GSMC Baseball Podcast
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on GSMC Baseball Podcast
"But you also have really young guys like jonathan india. Like a jose barrio. And i know barrio obviously doesn't play as much as kyle farmer does short. I mean kyle. Farmer i mean he was born in one thousand nine so he's not that young but he's still. I mean if actually that. Read steve really. Isn't that young but do have some really good prospects like hundred rain coming up. The jonathan india is is the guy that they brought up this year they and they also have shogo akiyama who a good outfielder forum is just right now with tyler. Knick win and then center tyler. Aikman's a great defensive center fielder allocates. It's as simple as that for the American league cy young award or not cy young award the american league rookie of the year. The award was predicted to go to randy arose. Raina i mean. He was the number one prospect in all of baseball. He got off to really slow start and who didn't get off to a slow start. Els all these garcia at the at a texas. I think he has a pretty much locked up. And i think i mean like he could hit thirty home runs this year. He's i mean but he is a twenty eight year old rookie. So he's like right in his prime. You could make an argument. For like casey mayes or luis garcia at a houston. Honestly like i would probably go with luis garcia but i do think that all these garcia kinda has locked up as of right now randi arena a little bit of dark horse out in the al accu battle a great a great option as well but in the grand scheme of things. I don't really think that it's much of a real real race in the american league wild-card much like i don't think it's any kind of erase. Really four. Eighty buddy to win in the al other shohei otani in that at the i mean itani has elite league in home runs and he's also their number one starter. It feels like he's playing. Mlb the show like legitimately. You can do that on. Mlb the show. And i try it like dynamic difficulty. My is on everything. Like i'm playing it like everybody else. And oh my gosh. It is so hard to be shohei ohtani. I don't know how he doesn't out in the nfl. Though it's it's different because death really. The front runner diocese absolutely the front runner but he was out for a while. And did he give enough space to like. Did he leave enough space. Open for a A max muncie. I mean maximum. See quietly leads everybody in be war and left handed. Slugger has a nine seventy one opie s escape to bolt capable defender at multiple positions. You also freddy freeman you. Also kind of have trade turner. Turner is in the batting title conversation right now. Some dark horses. I mean buster. Posey's having a great year. Kris bryant was having a great year bryce harper. I've been kind of making a push for bryce harper. You can also make the case for joey votto also nicholas cassiano says well but neither of those guys were really getting much love in that aspect. But i think that i mean. Turner freeman muncie. Those are all very good options. Battiste definitely does not have this locked up like shohei does. It's going to take a lot. I think for show to lose it and fruit to go to to guerrero as good as guerrero has been this year. Now we're going to take a short break at least for you guys for me. I'm going to wait until the twenty second. So that way i can give you guys the most accurate standings updates before i up to upload the episode. Excuse me for stuttering. Over my words. But i will see you guys in.
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Being whole also they're still forty-nine games remaining. I feel comfortable in saying this. I certainly hope i'm wrong. Injuries will affect this team again. As of now there is healthy as they've been maybe all year long since zealous. Working his way back antonio's working his way back. But beyond those guys. This team as of this moment appears to be in pretty good shape from a health perspective. They still have a significant chunk of games to overcome right now. Three and a half against san diego not insurmountable right now six against milwaukee not insurmountable but difficult the time to make up ground. You could talk about. What the schedule's now. Going to get a little tougher at least for the next week because the pirates are in the rear view mirror. The minnesota twins are in the rear view mirror. The cubs come here Next week and the cubs are awful but still all right so the schedule eases up take care of business against bad teams and hold her own against the ones that are okay and there's some validity to that at the same time i think you have to strike while you're healthy because who knows when you're not going to be chances are you won't be healthy over the course of the final forty nine games of the season to the extent that you would like a huge stretch for this team because they do have all their guys like tonight we're wondering where's moves dacas and whereas winker and extensively one guy who's replacing him aristide aquino another guy who's effectively replacing him as shogo akiyama one dude you brought over for twenty one or the other guy had a record setting homerun month. Two years ago suarez's playing the venezuelan homerun king like these aren't easy decisions i'd play moose but but nonetheless this team top to bottom is as deep as good and his whole from a health standpoint as they've been a while who knows how long that's gonna last jinxing anything and a believe jackson's but this is just three is injuries. Take a toll. Injuries become a part of the season by the way there's also the factor which we don't know right so right now while you got all your guys. This is an optimum time to cut into that lead. This could be as simple as get to september when you're playing a whole bunch of pirates games and if you're as far out from the last wildcard joie right now you're going to be able to make up that ground. That's a lot of ground to make up short amount of time regardless of who. You're playing do it. While you're healthy. We'll go back to paul brown stadium. We'll get tony. Pike's thoughts on this journey fowler of espn reports today that the bengals and jessie bates not likely to to get a deal. Done one of the subplots of training camp one of the subplots. The off-season has been you know. Are they going to get a deal. Done with jesse bankston. And let's face it when they got the the sam hubbard deal done. There's a lot of people who thought that right obeyed. Steel is going to be imminent here. In fact they could almost be piggybacked on top of one. Another jeremy reports the bengals and bates not expected to get a contract extension. Done quote at this time. This is a player who has been pretty vocal about wanting to stay in cincinnati. This is a team that would certainly love to ensure that. Jessie bates does not hit free agency. Next year. he is the best player on the defense..
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Maybe nikola delo and maybe even hunter green right now. This team offensively this scary as as constructed as it is right now hineous juarez is playing tonight but he took a back seat this weekend. Mustafa's you are now going to play a lot of games in which the venezuelan homerun king is coming off the bench. You gotta do coming off your bed. She can say whatever you want about. Gino's lack of production. He has been a strike out machine. He doesn't deserve to start on a regular basis with the team as currently constructed he still got twenty two homers. He's still second on your second hundred team and rb is and rbi's are sort of a flawed metric when assessing how good of a hitter a guy is but nonetheless do this club. Twenty two homers. This year is now gonna be probably coming off your bench on a pretty regular basis. Certainly against righties indians are running a lefty out there tonight. So you're going to get some gino from the dimension. There are getting at the top of the order with jonathan india. Figure this team last year and how homer dependent they were. This can obviously still hit the long ball but they're not homered dependent. Jonathan india has solved. What has been pretty much. A three decade quest for a leadoff hitter you have players and winker and cast janos who are having career years. You were having joey votto. Enjoy a resurgence kyle. Offensively has been a bit of a revelation and has hit often over the last five or six weeks at a level that. I'm not sure sustainable. But still shortstop no longer or at least doesn't appear to be the sort of the productivity whole that it was earlier in the season and that most of his thought coming into the year was going to be all season long. This team starting staff. You would like a little bit more consistency. From sonny gray but louise castio. Who gets the ball. Tonight has been magnificent for the better part of two months. I think we've kind of put behind us. The notion that lewis castio is having a down year. He had a bad two months. He's been awesome since wade miley is as reliable as they come. Time only had a really good big start yesterday to to run seven innings. This guy who struggled at home at times this year nice bounce back start albeit against a bad team. Then there's a lot of good years. I just like watching vladimir gutierrez pitch somebody who just seems to get how to pitch and i think specifically in this day and age. That's saying something. Think of what. He's done for a spot on the team. That was a huge question. Mark coming into the season certainly wants. The season began and definitely when they started to lose sonny grave for a little while or not. Get what we were looking for from the waist castio didn't have michael lorenzen and try. The jeff hoffman experiment. But it didn't work out. let them. you're good air. Gets the ball right now. You feel pretty good also feel pretty good about what's going to happen when that bullpen door flings open and that to me might be the biggest difference right now. Two very quiet innings from reds relievers. Yesterday and to me the difference is simply this from where the reds are now to where they were just maybe two weeks ago. Not every relief appearances going to end. Well not everybody in this. Bullpen is going to be immune to bad outings. There are probably still going to be occasional bullpen implosion. I hate to say that but what you're getting is a degree of comfort and reliability that bullpen door flings open. The guy who comes out. I think now you could feel better about most of the options. Michael lorenzen you feel better about than some of the dudes. We were watching earlier in the season. Michael gibbons i think you feel better about rather than some of the dudes. We were watching earlier in the season. The revolving door of just waiver wire guys and call ups and four pitchers they've at least got a bullpen. Now of pretty established major league relief pitchers some of them have to perform better than they have so far this year. You're being fair if you're wondering about the club's overall health and how it might impact the relief corps but for the most part right now when a guy gets up and throws and you guys gonna come in. I think you feel pretty comfortable. What's that gonna add up to. Does it mean the reds are going to chase or catch. The milwaukee brewers. I feel better about the idea that they will today. I did coming into the weekend but to me right now with fifty games to go. I'm more into the composition of the team. The makeup of the club a team that most of the season we've held in contrast to how people feel about ownership and we've talked about it's likeability and we've talked about resilience and we've talked about offensively. How much better. They are this year as opposed to last year. All of those things are true. I see a team. The top to bottom right now is pretty. Damn good doesn't have a lot of holes has some depth and there's still going to get some guys back and they still could bring up some players who can make a difference in september. How how long is that gonna last. You can't predict injuries. Is this team going to be good enough to get the ninety. One wins gets a ninety two wins. I feel better about that now than i have at any point this year. I don't know what there is to not like about this team. At this moment we've spent a lot of the year talking about what they're not getting it. Third base might miss dacas returned. We spent a lot of time early in the season wondering about joey. Votto complaining about joey votto joey votto enjoying a find season. We wondered often during the season. What can last year's offense tell us about this year's offense we spent a lotta time worrying about what they may or may not get from shortstop would they may or may not get from rookies. Jonathan india looks like a guy who is going to do anything but hit a rookie. There right now is very little to not like whether it be about the composition of the club the deployment of players. How david is using guys. It might not like the fact that he's gonna play tonight but you're at least using him against the kind of pitcher that you would expect david bell to use u. juarez against. There is not a lot too not really really like about this club and for a living. I knit pick. I think as fans we all nit-pick and even if you go well i'd like to see a little bit more out of centerfield. The tyler naked thing dried up a little bit. I wish i was shogo. Akiyama was a guy that you count on to to do a little bit more. Offensively the absence of castanos pave the way for guys like keno and maybe even knock yokoyama to show what they could do. Neither really took advantage on under the umbrella of things that could be fixed between now and the end of the year. What is there. There's not a lot to tell me if there is at five point. Three seven four nine fifteen thirty eight six six seven zero two three seven seven six not the deepest hardest hitting analysis ever but just based on the way they played and i get it. You can get too caught up in. You know beating a bad team and the pirates but again what we wanted this team to do. I think what most of us wanted this team to do around. The deadline was centered around the fact the schedule over the final. Two months of the season was going to ease up drastically. We didn't want this team to go into selma right now. It sounds absurd to even suggest they should have. We wanted this team. We wanted this front office to give this bunch a shot to what extent they did. We can argue we debate. We can wonder even after the fact but we want this team to be given a chance because the schedule was going to ease up drastically because there was going to be a lot of pirates cubs and depleted washington nationals and miami. Marlins on it. If hopes for this season rested on cleaning up against awful clubs over the final two months then the early returns of the.
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"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Back. it is. He's worked really hard. Maybe we took an extra step He's still going to have he's still going to have to deal with it. He's he's had. An injury will significant. But i think taken an extra day or to get him his best chance to pick up where he left off. hasn't been too long break so the timing slur he's been working really hard Simulating game action so My big concern was just compensating. And and and doing it in different with swing. And i think by taking the extra couple days ticket gives us our best chance to make sure that doesn't happen. It's great to have him back clearly. Just a big part of our lineup. Big part of our team and we're playing really important game so it's great to have neck back in there tonight without having seen the light bulb soothing It'll be hitting. Burt is yeah he is you have an update on the and said sale and it will be up to them to tell you when their timing is right but reports to get it so the plan is for most his time aaa may have come to an end. He may actually even report back here today. When be activated Has not been decided but it could be unfair to away so knicks lovett behind that nixon behind that. He's going to need some more some more times more games Still dealing with that just getting through all the all the recovery from from money's been through so Hopefully not too much longer. But we'll be back before nexans. Why would his time be up but not be activated as well he. That pretty much tells you that it's a matter of days we just don't he's not gonna be active tonight We wanna make sure that the transition back from playing a lot Make sure he continues to recover properly and everything goes well. I consider it could be in the next day or two david bell chatting with reporters specifically a jim day earlier today. Nick castanos is back. He is hitting third. Meanwhile mike mistake is who has been productive. He's been five games. in louisville. He's had hits in each of those five games. He has six hits. Seventeen plate appearances. I'm sorry in seventeen at-bats with homer a double three one. Three runs a walkie as struck out. It feels like it's been years since we've seen might is play. His last game in reds uniform was back on may the eighteenth but seemingly on track to perhaps return this weekend. And you heard david bell say it's going to happen before nixon's l. There's a couple of different things here. there's number one. The return of nixon's l. I'm sorry the number one. The return of nick The point was made on twitter by steve. Mancuso who's website reds content pluses outstanding that the production of aristide's aquino's shogo akiyama and tyler aikman's since july sixteenth has frankly been very very subpar and not to get too caught up in a whole slew of numbers but aristidies aquino hit one ninety five during that stretch. Shogo hit below two hundred during that stretch. Nick wanted to twenty six during that stretch. The did not get the production you were looking for. You're probably never going to replicate with nick. Cast was given this team but that little window was viewed as a time specifically for a keynote to show what he could do and the team has been. Okay in the absence of nick castellanos. But this guy gives this team a major major major boost major boost in productivity..
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"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"I didn't have a problem with then almost ten years later. I still don't have a problem with even though it really didn't work out to the extent that we would like and look it would have been really nice as we got to the middle of the decade to have some of those guys threads traded away. I have very little issues with overpayment. There is a a huge huge difference. I said this yesterday so. Pardon me for the redundancy if you were here but there's a huge huge difference between overpayment and doing something that just completely destroys you financially. We will all overpay for things at times. But there's a difference between overpaying. Maybe paying more for something than it's actually worth and destroying your financial portfolio killing yourself economically a huge difference between those two things overpaid for a trip to milwaukee. Pay more money than i would have liked number. One couldn't do a baseball road trip last year number two desperately desperately in need of kind of a guys trip if you will had a chance to do some things that ordinarily don't do overpaid i. Frankly i- overpaid it was worth doing. Overpayment doesn't mean that now my kid can't eat. It doesn't mean that. I can't make my house payment. It doesn't mean that. I got a sleep on on a park bench somewhere. So this idea that we're going to be reluctant to overpay. If you have a shot. And i don't know what overpayment looks like again who knows what other teams want from the reds. Who knows who. The reds are shopping. Who knows who. The reds are completely unwilling to trade. None of us really know these things. We'll get a firmer picture. This maybe right. Before july thirtieth. But we were all on board with overpaying cash for mike moustakas why we not be on board with overpaying in terms of assets to get somebody who can push this team over the top or at least help push this team over the top and if you do go for it and you win i gotta be honest with you. I don't care about who they traded away and if you go for it and it makes sense to go for it because your team's got a shot and you go all in and you overpay and the guys you give up end up being decent elsewhere. I can live with that to you. Could overpay and not totally screw up your farm system. You could overpay and not totally screw up what you have. That's young and controllable an already in the major league overpay and not suffer for it. This idea and i hear it on occasion. That while the trade deadline's gonna come and yeah you would like some upgrades but you don't wanna overpay why not you already have to a degree by the way shogo akiyama kind of feels.
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"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Just in high cottonwood you. My friend and i sincerely appreciate your. Hey yes four. I'm guessing where. I'm at in san clemente california. Didn't even give me a chance to guess. You're in san clemente california. Yeah on the beach and guess what going on a shohei otani back. You can't believe all the parties and festivities on in orange county which is a gigantic county biggest. Having a show to the shohei ohtani party at the beach in california. Yeah and i'm just popped another corona and things are feeling good and you know it sounds like you're driving. I hope you're not popping a corona while you're driving. No no no no. But i won't be out of the damn car and guarantees a very good but it really is electric and and i just i just you know being cincinnati guy born and raised in proud of it. I am in love it out here too. But i think this guy has accomplished mall is i mean they roost big deal. I mean this is something else. He really is the saints itself. It's it's it's remarkable. It's remarkable that you have a guy who is is is raking the way he has and look. He hits these absolute titanic. It's cliche to call a blast. Titanic blast he hits these amp salute moon shots for home runs. He leads all of baseball and slugging and total bases largely because he leads all of baseball and home runs. And look. we've seen great sluggers before we've seen guys have thirty home. Runs at the all star. Break this dude. Hit some four hundred and forty feet. And then he's taken the ball every fifth day and he's a fine starting pitcher his numbers. When you look at the era might not necessarily. Wow you but he's averaging well more than a strikeout per inning and he's done it despite having to miss extensive time because of injury last season or the year before he's just twenty six years old. It feels like in many respects. He's just getting started. Shogo akiyama different type of player. You get him and it does feel like. He spent his best seasons in japan and there have been players like that before who came from asia and yet their best years occurred overseas. That doesn't appear to be the case with this guy. This dude is just twenty six years old and just getting started now. He's not on a very good team. The angels are a game above five hundred nine games out of first place and yes. It affects things that he plays on the west coast..
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"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"I have had no more fun watching an individual player in my life than aristide is aquino in two thousand nineteen. How did the reds reacted that. By signing nick casting janos and shogo akiyama now the akiyama thing dudes been a bust. Just call it. What it is. Nick castalanos says an mvp candidate. They didn't view this. You know just tiny bit of excellence as a reason to go. You know what we're good in right field so they didn't do it there. They didn't do it with the manager. They didn't do it with a couple of utility guys. I don't think they're going to do that. With the bullpen. The standings may do it based on where they are in relation to place and what happens over. the next. Three weeks is going to have a lot to say about that. But i don't worry that they're going to not address the bullpen because a couple of dudes who won in the big leagues at the beginning of the year have had a couple of good games. And if you're a reds fan i think you could take some degree of comfort in the fact that that recently has not been held the reds have operated and for the most part that's been to their benefit twenty two minutes after five o'clock five one three seven four nine fifteen thirty are the eight six six seven zero two three seven seven six. Are the phone. Numbers will look at the baseball draft reds picking seventeenth overall names. You should get familiar with between now and sunday coming up in twenty minutes on. Espn fifteen thirty. Cincinnati sport station. Twenty six after five. This is espn fifteen thirty. I enjoyed watching college. Athletes cash on the name image and likeness rules. That are out there in the ncwa since last wednesday. I'm all for it. Not all of the deals that athletes have signed or or locked into or going to be highly profitable and some will and many will be somewhat profitable. some will be total disasters. And that's okay because that's kind of how business works so i think it's i think it's fantastic. I have been. I have been amused. By the fact that there are some in the traditional media who have been flummoxed or even dismayed by the fact that some of the athletes who have locked into sponsorship deals or have been at least able to attach their name image or likeness to something to make money have been able to do so largely independent of their athletic skill. If.
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"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Short and workweek nonetheless. I hope you're having a good day regardless. I don't care if you were off yesterday i just. I just hope you're doing well now. Okay what does the nc double as new name. Image and likeness rules mean for college athletes. That exciting conversation is going to happen in about thirty minutes and they look at the mlb draft which is happening on sunday starting on sunday at about five forty five a busy hour in front of us. Although i say every hour is a busy hour reds will try to extend their winning streak tonight to six games. No jesse winker is they. Sit him against a lefty jesse one of the interesting things about this team and this is this is good. This is good. You certainly want jesse to hit and a high level and my guess is he will. It's just listening to tomorrow. And tracy talk about jesse winker and nick castanos being all stars. Nick castanos is having an mvp caliber. Season jesse winker. Having the year that he's having think about this for a second think about when you talk about both those guys and i know i'm sort of all over the place when i talked about these two but with with jesse winker. It wasn't that long ago if you go back to the winter of two thousand nineteen to two thousand twenty when the reds acquired shogo akiyama and nick castanos and they were hell bent on giving nixon's l a chance to play center field. It wasn't that far fetched to suggest. That jesse winker may get squeezed out of a gig. Now that did assume that sends el was gonna stay healthy. Which unfortunately he do. But i remember those conversations. Wait they got four outfielders for three spots. And god you know what you wanna play castanos. There's a reason why i gave them. Sixty four mill and send zeller is number two overall pick and they wanna play them in the outfield and it. Surely they didn't sign shogo. I'm going to be a platoon player. Although that's kind of what's happened but it wasn't that farfetched to wonder. God is jesse. Winker going to be squeezed out. And then things change pandemics shortened season. We have d- age and so it was kind of taken care of. Winker had a great first month last year. But we're not that far removed from wondering you know. Is it either really put up or shut up time for jesse and winker or is there going to be not as playing time for jesse winker because of what else. They've done in the outfield. Take that to where we've been this year where he's been invaluable. Can you imagine this team. We're out without them. Not only could you imagine this team without him. Could you imagine this team. If if jesse winker was only having a good year instead of the kind of season that he said obviously he's cooled off here a little bit. Recently the nicasio thing remember that offseason. They acquired him. It was kind of late in the game. I mean you know there was almost this this feeling when the reds got cast janas which was late in january so only a couple of weeks before spring training. God if they don't get this nick cassidy honest guy. What are they going to do in right field and we were talking about the they're going to have to bring back..
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"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"And royals again tonight in kansas city. Louise's castio gets the ball against chris. Boob itch eight ten tonight. On seven hundred wwl w bush is a lefty starting lineup for the reds this evening india stevenson castanos who is de aging suarez. The punisher aristide aquino is in left batting seventh tonight. Tyler ache starts against lefty. He is in right field. Kyle farmers at short shogo akiyama in centerfield eight ten tonight on seven hundred w l w also tonight on. Espn fifteen thirty. We have game one of the nba finals between the sons and the box. Jaanus entity kupu is being listed as questionable missing the last two games of the eastern conference finals coverage on. Espn radio starts at eight o'clock. The mlb amateur draft is taking place adjacent to the all star game in denver. They're trying to make it a bigger deal. And i can certainly appreciate that. It's a little bit later than usual. It's shorter than usual. Only twenty rounds or that's more than five rounds we had last year and it is kind of nice. The reds are drafting anywhere. Close to the top five but obviously we still are going to want to familiarize ourselves with names that the reds could be interested in so our next guest. We'll do just that on. Espn fifteen thirty. Cincinnati sports station. I seventeen away from four. This is espn fifteen thirty on mojo allegra. The mlb draft starts on sunday reds have seventeenth overall pick in the first round and then the thirtieth and.
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"They took i mean they signed iglesias to a three year contract on a clip friendly supposedly contract and then they traded him when they were going to get the best value year out of him the last year of his contract right and they traded him or nothing for dude who didn't even make the team and now we're sitting here looking at this volt and i mean how much different this team with. Look if we had a glazed yes at the back of the bullpen. And we just all these other guys up another inning and less leverage situations. I think bob castellini almost made a declaration with trade that i cannot compete as an owner in the national league. And if that's the case. Sell your team. If you're going to be you could. You can't do it both ways. You cannot be the we're going to win championship baseball. We're going to bring championship baseball to cincinnati. You can't be that owner and then make these acknowledgements that i can't win. You can't do both if you if you're going to be the we are going to bring championship baseball to cincinnati guys away. You can calculate it may calculated moves where you trade assets and get big returns teams. Do that all the time. You can't give guys away and by the way as you were talking. I was thinking about aroldis chapman who they traded away and they completely missed the market. There i think they vastly overestimated the public pushback they were gonna get for what aroldis chapman got into that off season and they gave him away for essentially nothing and they gave away for essentially nothing. Because i think to a degree. They overreacted. To a market economically was unfavorable to them last year. But here we are. We haven't even reached the mid part of the season. They could have full. Capacity at great american ballpark and the town has so far given a middle finger to come watching this team in large part because of what they did this offseason. I think the laziest trade is even worse than chapel. We finally make the playoffs. They made the teen worse. We got totally zero for delays. Yes at least we had one or two guys. He made made the team and played a little bit. You feel as bad as it was. But yeah i i agree with you. One hundred percent i mean. I think that. I can't find any legitimate reason in my mind why you make that if nothing else you through the season and then train them some value in the middle of the year right now. Yeah i mean look the the reason they traded him as he makes a little bit more than nine million bucks right. That's why there were no baseball reasons to move on from him. He's he's in his prime. He's thirty one years old. He's coming off an excellent season. He has got a great arm. I know he is over. The last four or five outing struggled a little bit of anaheim but still he was coming off a year in which you looked at him as an asset even either for your bullpen. Or to get something in return if you were hell bent on moving him. I don't know why you would have just said look. Let's see what we can do midway through the season. If it's not working out at the team's not contention will unload them. His contract is going to expire and in that case we could get a lot for him. I mean think of if the reds were sellers right right now if they were sellers in landscape where everybody wants relief help think of what they might have been able to get for rice. Elig gracieuse instead. They traded him to dump the salary and got nothing for him and most teams would look at that. Nine million dollars for a glaze. Yes there's a bargain. Just befuddling and frustrating all the way around and the thing is in look rice. Lacey's is better than archie bradley. At least they got a human being in exchange for rice. Selig laziest not one. That they kept archie bradley. They non tendered and watched him to philadelphia. It's remarkable the iglesias thing ended up being there are second most baffling move. Dj thanks man. We have jeff car back from a kings island. What ride are you about to get on now. I'm actually on the racer. We're about to hit the hill. all right. you're about to hit the hill on the razor. Jeff what do you make of the fact. That have tyler seguin playing so well but for weeks and weeks and weeks i was watching scott heinemann instead of shogo akiyama. What does this say about the potential. Divide between nick. Dick williams who got shogo and buddy buddy about david bell and nick crawl and the current regime who seemingly doesn't like shogo because nee quinn has shown even though he was just a basic add in for minimum money kind of almost skits forgotten move he goes to head and he takes over center field and and now shogo has lost that plane. Something i feel like david bell to give him a little bit more of a shop. Because we're paying seven million dollars for a six man six ounce skilled guy right now but you wanna make when it's been working for the basically win the game against the quinn's you really can't take that guy out right now but on a day-to-day kind of eighth. Was it a calculated. Mistake this off season jeff to not extend jesse winker. And how much money do you think that might now cost them. Given the fact that he's having an all star caliber year. Tell you what. I look at this series against the braves is going to be a big lesson because the resin basically hung around five hundred and kinda like this racer where. It's a really bumpy ride. And just kind of froze all over the place so has this reds fifteen when they go against the likes of ronald junior junior and on the albee's how are they going to handle that. And what's been going to do. It's going to be huge because hopefully they get some guy's back from injury. There's you're right. There's there's absolutely no doubt no doubt about that now. Now again. I asked about jesse winker. They didn't sign him to a contract. Extension this off season that somebody that would probably like to keep your long term. Do you think they made a calculated mistake in not doing that. This past off season. We're now it's going to cost them more money this coming off season. We always jeff. We lost jeff. Jeff cars a podcast. It's called the locked on reds podcast. We didn't drop a phone. Yeah columbine and just i wanna talk to him again very briefly about something else. We still have to play guest the glove reds tickets and we'll have important. Fc cincinnati soccer take. We have to get to. There's something else i want to see. If jeff car will do. Is he getting off. The does the right over that he lose. He loses phone. That loses phone to see if you can try to get a break in before we get jeff back now. I won't be too long. Just text me. He didn't he didn't lose this all right. So he's he's fine. He's he's okay. There's something else. I'd like to see if i could do while. He's at And i don't know if this is necessarily going to work. And i know you did a great job. Is everything. okay oh yeah you'll lose me. I lost at the very end but you. You did a phenomenal job breaking down the shogo thing the the atlanta braves series coming up. Now you're off. It's been a while. Since i've been kings island as i recall when you get off the eraser you sort of walk into this area where there's a lot of like carnival style.
Mo Egger
"shogo akiyama" Discussed on Mo Egger
"Hank like what i mean. I've never operated roller coaster. But if you're like next in line and they go well hold the phone technical difficulties. Are you allowing people to jump in front of you in line. Yes i think the answer is yes. Let's just see that thing. Go round the track a couple of times so this could be really interesting if he ends up being i on board after they shut the ride down he didn't say the right technical four thirty four forty five. You ever been on a roller coaster. This happened to me on vortex. once you're on the roller coaster and there's a problem vortex isn't around anymore right. Say they sold off all the pieces and there's issues and like your mid ride and they have to stop it and you're just kind of like dangling there. That's not a fun time. I mean that's that's not. That's not where you want to be especially depending on the company to. That's not where you wanna be now. That would be a fun conversation with somebody. Do you think that they're onto us. Like maybe kings island. Frowns upon this kind of thing and so now they're trying to snuff out jeff and find out who the guy is on the radio and talking about the reds while the coaster is moving more promotion for them. Yeah all i've done is talk about kings island for free for the last forty minutes about the rollercoaster in kedah broke down here the other. Uk roku broke down. The other week broke down. What happened to patent hazardous. Had to get off and walk down. No you have no choice. I guess when i think of a roller coaster breaking down i think of disastrous consequences. Like that's like a plane crash. Rollercoaster broke down. The folks had to walk off it two hundred feet. Nope well. that's what it's like. You're on a loop and upside down in the thing stops. It's a hard one. I tend to last time. I was at kings island was two thousand nine or ten. So it's been a while it's not haven't been on a roller coaster y or you have a daughter that's come in. I mean we're we're maybe a year young for kings island for the whole thing. All right well keep me updated. But he's he's still and he still thinks he's going to ride the thing. Yes but he's now trying to figure out what they got a guy with his toolbox out there fixing the track technical difficulty that did not go into technical difficulties on the orion rollercoaster. You think it would be okay to bump brenneman jones. For jeff's i think it's almost mandatory right and we're talking baseball. Who knows what they're talking about. Yeah this is far. More current topical brennaman and johns. Let's face it. That's that's a recorded program. It's not like mardi. And tracy come in here and sit down and do a five minute radio show all right. Well so keep me updated on jeff from kings island on he. It's not just the bullpen. I'll explain next twenty five after four. This is espn fifteen thirty. I'm allegra brendan johnson. Baseball coming up in just about twenty five minutes and our guide. Jeff from a kings island. Have they solved the technical difficulties though we have an update from From our guy by the way. We've we've sort of lumped bob castellini. Nick crawl in in together and you know granted the other day both had quotes the came out about the direction of the club. And what might happen between now and the trade deadline. And i think that's the important part it's between now and the trade deadline. The reds have thirty one games before the trade deadline. I sort of excuse net crawl here. I genuinely don't believe here. You have a guy running a major league baseball franchise. He's running the club. He's running the baseball operations. This is his first crack like the main chair. He is doug i if the reds were to win the world series they would show on the podium the manager the owner and nick crawl. This is his shot man. Do you really believe he wants to sit around and do nothing. They really believe he's just content. Just do you think he'd rather be at kings island with jeff or on the phone with managers of clubs or general managers of clubs that have guys he could get for his team. I give him a almost a total pass here. I want bob castellini to give. Nick crawl chance to show us whether or not he knows what he's doing that to is the part of this man. I want bob to get out of the way and say to nick crawl and maybe he will do this and say to nick crawl. Dude do what you gotta do. Don't care about the cost to go. Do what you gotta do. If it doesn't work you'll be held accountable and if it does work. Well then we might have some answers about with this franchise going long term but do we really believe mccraw. Got this job in october and was like oh man i can't wait to do. I can't wait to give away to relief pitchers and a catcher and then spend the next six months scanning the waiver wire for dudes that might be able to give me twelve decent innings all year. I'm running a big league ballclub. I wanna go sign some minor league free agents. I finally got a shot at the title is mind job is mine. You know what i like. First order of business. Don't go get a shortstop like really. That's nick crawl. Really think crawls sitting in his office right now just feet up. I'll tell you what this is great. Well this is off to a degree if if the reds don't make the postseason none of this is going to be on nick crawl. None of it's really good to be on dick williams either. Neither were allowed to finish the job. But if bob castellini says to nick crawl dude all right your show man go for it. Sink or swim. Do what you gotta do to make the team better done workout. You're going to be held accountable. I that that to me is what you're that's why you have employees. Do what you gotta do. Let me know what you need to get it. take it. Go do the job if you don't there's consequences right now. It's not gonna let you do the job but you have to be the public face of what happens. Did nick crawls. I got in the limelight without dick williams working over him involved an off season in which he was neutered. Cut thirty mil from the payroll before you do anything else. I can't be easy thing to crawl wanted to do that. You think nick crawls not dying to make this team better. Hearing nick crawl wants to sit around until july thirtieth and hope that everybody comes back and hope that the team plays well between now. And then i'm going to guess the answer is no the answer is yes then. He shouldn't be in charge of a baseball team. I'm very willing to bet that. Nick crawl is chomping at the bit to do everything he can to improve the club. I'm going to bat in october. When they came to him. And said buddy both jobs yours go for it. I'm going to bet that the first image that popped into his mind was of an offseason in which he was actively making the team better instead of actively. Make the team worse by the way. Nick crawl brought in tyler naked on the cheap goods him. Tyler seguin tyler. Nick was better than shogo. Akiyama right now and the guy that wants the shogo play at beyond absurd. That scott heideman was playing instead of show. Go but tyler. Seguin was a fantastic pickup nick. Nick crawl wanted to spend his first ever offseason in charge of a big league club just grabbing random dudes and hoping they would stick in the bullpen if he wants to spend his first trade deadline. Begging bob castellini to go get one middle reliever. He's going to be the face of it. He's got to be the voice of his name and professional reputation will.