 Watch Here - https://youtu.be/DN9PTnYV9Cc According to sources - Los Angeles Angels owner Arte Moreno has explored selling the franchise. A recent Axios study valued the Angels as the 8th most valuable organization in Major League Baseball. Their play on the field would not suggest that as the Angels have struggled to a 55-73 record as of August 29th. The poor play on the field comes as Shohei Ohtani currently has the second best odds according to Vegas for the AL MVP award in 2022. Mike Trout, who has been an Angel his whole career, is currently batting .270 with 28 home runs and a .967 OPS. Both Trout and Ohtani have a combined three playoff games in their career as a result of the Angels shortcomings (Ohtani has never been to the postseason. The Angels also have the 4th longest playoff drought in the MLB. Kyle & Ju-Ju discuss the future for the Angels should Moreno move the team by baseball's winter meetings. #shoheiohtani #miketrout #losangelesangels
Julian martinez: [00:00:12] Arte Moreno said he's open to selling the team. And over the last month, I have declared this place baseball hell. In fact, over the last decade, you could declared a baseball hell. The angels are just not a fun franchise, and I bemoaned them for their inability to win while having to legendary historic players on their roster. And it's like looking up to the skies and seeing that there is a just God. What did you think when you heard that Moreno is open to selling the Los Angeles Angels? [00:00:42][29.9] kyle ledbetter: [00:00:43] I was a little bit surprised just because if I had to, like, pin down a baseball team that would have been up for sale, I wouldn't have guessed it would be the owner who's, like, the most meddlesome in baseball or the guy who's the most involved in day to day operations would want to step away from the team. I would have thought that maybe he passes it down. I don't know how many children he has or what his living situation is, but I would have thought that he wouldn't have been the one to pass it down, given how active he is. It was kind of surprising, like with the Wilpon, when they sold the Mets to Steve Cohen a few years ago, where it's like the reason this is happening is because they lost all their money in the Bernie Madoff scandal. So like that one made some sense. But this one is just like this is a very front facing owner. This is someone who has power within the league. He's very active in running his team. I was kind of surprised that he would be the one who would sell his team prior to like, I don't know, the Pirates guy who people have been clamoring for him to sell the team for years. Like, I'm just surprised it would be Arte Moreno. [00:01:42][59.4] Julian martinez: [00:01:43] Do you think he's somewhat of a self-aware James Dolan in the sense he knows in a way he's dragged down this organization for years and he finally just called it quits. He finally was aware enough to say that maybe I'm just not a good baseball owner. [00:01:58][14.8] kyle ledbetter: [00:01:58] Maybe I'm sure he's looking at the good business deal he can get from this, especially given the fact that the Angels are in a stadium dispute right now with the city of Los Angeles. And it's been very confusing. I don't have all the details to it. I just have been following it vaguely over the past few months. But that's I don't know how much that played into deciding to sell. I'm sure he has his reasons for wanting to sell, besides being a terrible owner and running one of the worst baseball teams in all of baseball. [00:02:26][27.9] Julian martinez: [00:02:27] Everyone in their mother is tweeting at him or mentioning him in scorn. Any time we talk about the Los Angeles Angels and why they struggle and their struggles as a franchise, so I'm sure on a human level that has to get to you at some point in terms of the better business deal. Yeah, when he does sell this team, that's going to be a big time payday. We're talking about a baseball franchise in Southern California that will definitely sell very easily, even if they don't end up staying in Anaheim, Orange County, Los Angeles, whatever you want to call it. Because we know that baseball is very much open to the possibility of moving organizations around, getting into the business of sports ownership. It's a very lucrative business right now. I know that the owners try to say that their profit margins weren't great when we're talking about the CBA negotiation, but still you are making profits on $1,000,000,000 industry. So it can't be all that bad. [00:03:25][57.5] kyle ledbetter: [00:03:25] Considering that the Angels also, according to Axios, are the eighth most valuable MLB franchise at the time, and their performance would not suggest that they would be the eighth most valuable baseball team. [00:03:36][10.2] Julian martinez: [00:03:36] And if you acquired this team right now, let's say he sells at the end of the year, then you're getting an organization, you're getting a team that does have, again, probably two of the greatest hitters of their generations and health slash pitchers of their generation, and Shohei Ohtani and Mike Trout. So this would be a great time to buy them if you're a prospective owner with any kind of foresight or any kind of put spa and putting this team together, then you are excited at the possibility of having Mike Trout and Shohei Ohtani as your building blocks on your team. If you're trying to think about a team that you want to build into a serious contender, then this is as good as it could possibly get. And of course, that's going to come down to your hiring decisions. You're hiring firing decisions because clearly over the last 20 years, Mareno wasn't doing a lot of great hiring, firing decisions. And that's what's led to the malaise in the Angels organization, why they haven't been able to do anything since that World Series run with Mike Jose. I guess they've had a 91 season mixed in there a time or two. But still to consider that Mike Trout's entire playoff resume resume boils down to three games and all three of them were losses. Tells you just how bad this organization is really fallen into. They're really a poverty franchise despite being the most valuable. [00:05:00][83.7] kyle ledbetter: [00:05:01] Combined with the fact that Arte mareno hires agreeable people, he hires people who he can. Tell what to do and they will do it. And obviously, everyone who's hired their boss will say things that you might have to do it. Even if you think it's not the greatest move. The good bosses or the good leaders have the foresight to trust the people they've hired to put in positions of power. And already Moreno's like, I want to be shadow. I want to be person who runs the angels and also owns the team. And that's part of his thing. So I think that leads to the Angels having a generational star in two consecutive generations now. And yet they have the fourth longest playoff drought in all of baseball, which has been highlighted a lot before. Obviously, they're going to go six years of Pujols contract, right into Rendon contract, which is looking like two of the worst in baseball. And presumably if they sell the team before the winter meetings this year, which I assume is like baseball's preferred timeline, then perhaps Shohei Ohtani gets a giant extension, or perhaps Shohei Ohtani gets traded. Who knows how that plays into the conversations we've had before about that situation. Do you think. [00:06:12][70.8] Julian martinez: [00:06:12] There was any internal pressure by Major League Baseball? Because they have to know. You have to hear the whispers. [00:06:18][5.4] kyle ledbetter: [00:06:19] I don't know how popular or not popular Arte Moreno is within Major League Baseball circles. [00:06:25][5.8] Julian martinez: [00:06:25] So I'm sure Rob Manfred and the other 29 owners want that organization to be a good, well-run organization in the same way that the NBA wants the New York Knicks to be a functional organization. You want your two major media markets in Los Angeles and New York to have good teams in them. And while obviously we've had good players, the Angels have been one of the most dysfunctional. So I'm sure that. I don't know if they said it to his face. I don't know if they would say it in a closed door meeting. But if you asked Rob Manfred over some drinks, which owner would he probably want to just boot out of the league? I kind of feel like Artie Moreno would be on that short list. [00:07:07][41.8] kyle ledbetter: [00:07:08] I don't know, because famously, Arte Moreno was one of those people who was what we call Bud Selig's guys. And the way Bud Selig used to run baseball is like, if you were one of the people who was his buddies and had his or he would do what you wanted. This was famous Jerry Reinsdorf thing where like anything Jerry Reinsdorf said went with Bud Selig. So Jerry Reinsdorf had all this power. [00:07:28][19.6] Julian martinez: [00:07:29] During one of those years in your town have to outweigh your problems and clearly in terms of being a baseball owner. Arte Moreno doesn't seem to be that talented from my visit. [00:07:37][8.3] kyle ledbetter: [00:07:37] This is correct. And Robert, from what I've heard, again, I'm not with inside sources, but from what I've heard, Rob Manfred doesn't have like people who he like listens to or agrees with compared to Bud Selig. But one of the famous examples is I keep bringing up the pirates, which I think is baseball hell. Bob Nutting is just he's the owner of the Pirates. He's just a well-liked guy. He's just a very kind man who people within the owners circles like. So I all that to say, I don't know what the opinion of Artie Moreno was. I'm sure everyone wants the angels to be successful, but I'm sure they also like the fact that Arte Moreno never spent over $175 million in his entire time as Angels owner. [00:08:17][40.2] Julian martinez: [00:08:19] Again, where my difference is, I'm calling the Angels Baseball Hall, as opposed to the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the Pirates are just paid, they know nothing but pay. But the angels are an ironic sense of pain because, well, you can have, again, two generational hitters in your lineup on your roster and never attain any kind of postseason glory that is being on the treadmill, that just being stuck in that hamster wheel. That's what the angels are. That's why I call them baseball. [00:08:52][32.8] Kyle Ledbetter: [00:08:53] And I agree with you. I agree with you on that fact. [00:08:55][2.5] Julian Martinez: [00:08:56] Anyway, guys, let us know in the comments below. Are you relieved? Are you happy to hear it? Baseball fans rejoice. Arte Moreno is finally giving up his team. I want to see I want to see some celebrations. I want to see some fireworks in the garden as well. We will like on this video because it helps the channel hit that subscribe button because it really helps the channel. And other than that, from Juju talk sports, Kyle Ledbetter. Stay safe, happy and healthy. We will see you next time. [00:08:56][0.0] [510.6]
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 Watch Here - https://youtu.be/v2LzcNcA3jc Speaker 1: [00:00:12] Big news out of San Diego. So we haven't seen any of Fernando Tatis Junior this season as he was recovering from a wrist injury. And now we won't see it for at least 80 games because I hear it takes about 80 games to heal up from ringworm. Right. That sounds about right, according to my sources. What were your thoughts and were you surprised that ringworm was such a costly infection? [00:00:31][19.0]
Speaker 2: [00:00:32] Is it ringworm or is it treating a fungus from a bad haircut? Because that's the that's the excuse that Fernando Tatis is dad trotted out on radio today. [00:00:42][9.3] Speaker 1: [00:00:42] So, you know, when you have locks like that, I'm sure it takes a lot of proper hair maintenance. And I'm sure, you know, sometimes a clipper gets in there that you weren't planning on and it has it's carrying something. And sure enough, boom. Ringworm. [00:00:56][13.4] Speaker 2: [00:00:57] I guess I don't know exactly how all of it plays out, but yeah, Fernando Tatis gets an 80 game suspension. He's not going to play for the Padres this year. I was disappointed, as any fan should be, which is like, Oh shucks, he's not going to get to play in the playoffs. But I'm not like downtrodden or upset about it. I was surprised by the hostile reaction people had to tatis testing positive for PEDs because like when DeAndre Hopkins tested positive, it wasn't a hostile backlash. Maybe there was a handful of Cardinals fans like baseball. Yeah, of course. [00:01:29][31.9] Speaker 1: [00:01:29] That's part of the reason why there is such a hostile backlash, because baseball is the sport that had the most notorious run ins with PEDs in the early 2000. And here's what I'll say just for the sake of not being a hypocrite whenever I talk about this. So for those steroid era guys, I gave them all passes. You know how I feel about Barry Bonds. You know, I feel about Roger Clemens. I think they should be in the Hall of Fame. But when it comes to like modern baseball suspensions, I do look at those guys a little funnier, like when it came down to Ryan Braun. And this situation kind of comes very similar to Ryan Braun in terms of deflecting blame or a Manny Ramirez or A-Rod the second time around when he got busted. When you get hit a second time, I start to really question kind of like the integrity when we really get into that part. And I think when it comes to Tatis and what a lot of people take issue with is it really speaks to the character of Tatis coming into this year, kind of like that careless attitude that he somewhat has. I mean, obviously I mentioned it out the gate here. The wrist injury was caused because of wanting right around a motorcycle, an offseason, which, hey, for every average day citizens not really a big crime, but when millions of dollars on the line and the whole brand is carried on your back, that's a big problem, especially because Fernando Tatis was in the argument for who is the next face of baseball. And I think one of the big things I got to ask you is he he completely disqualified from that argument moving forward. When you look around the game and see other people like Aaron Judge Shohei Ohtani, Jacob deGrom, you know, other young faces, kind of like competing for who's that face of baseball that people could really rally behind. [00:03:06][96.8] Speaker 2: [00:03:07] Are you asking if he's disqualified from. [00:03:09][1.8] Speaker 1: [00:03:10] That are disqualified from that argument moving forward? [00:03:12][2.2] Speaker 2: [00:03:13] No, I don't think so. [00:03:15][1.3] Speaker 1: [00:03:15] I would, of course. [00:03:16][0.3] Speaker 2: [00:03:17] So I think that there's a bit of a generational gap and a racial gap happening around the situation. When I hear when I hear AJ Preller used terms like personal accountability and maturity, Ray feels like. [00:03:30][12.6] Speaker 1: [00:03:30] It's has nothing to do with his race. If I just mentioned Ryan Braun. [00:03:33][3.5] Speaker 2: [00:03:35] Oh, of course. There's a gap here when you have the loud, outspoken Latin player who is now getting busted for riding a motorcycle and taking PEDs, and all of a sudden it feels like people are coming to crucify him. [00:03:47][12.8] Speaker 1: [00:03:48] Well, you know, it's also crucifying him as teammates. Mike Clevinger put him on blast this week or two times that they've had to cover his ass. [00:03:54][6.5] Speaker 2: [00:03:55] You mean white guy might clevinger who? [00:03:57][1.7] Speaker 1: [00:03:57] Oh, I mean, I wonder who also. [00:03:59][2.1] Speaker 2: [00:04:00] Does is. [00:04:00][0.5] Speaker 1: [00:04:01] On the same team that has to rally for the same prize, a World Series championship. And they thought they were competing for that when they went out, inquired, Oh, I don't know. Juan Soto here at the trade deadline. And now suddenly their star player that was already on their roster, tatis, is having these issues. And not to mention to he had that dugout blow up with Manny Machado last year. So there's a running history. It's not just those two issues, health, technically three issues. And it does have you mentioning character. [00:04:26][26.0] Speaker 2: [00:04:27] Yeah, I totally get that. People are totally going to go to the character point on Tatis and I think at a certain point you have enough of these like little transgressions that happen that people start to associate it like, Oh yeah, there's probably a problem here. Fernando Tatis just lost his age 22 season for two different reasons, obviously. And the point I'll point to with the PEDs is that we know Fernando Tatis was taking the PEDs this year and we also know he hasn't played a single game. So if it was helping him this season, it would have been to help recover the wrist injury faster. And this is a different conversation about PEDs, about whether PEDs help improve your performance and also help heal injuries. So in this case, it was a. [00:05:11][44.0] Speaker 1: [00:05:11] Big healing. [00:05:12][0.2] Speaker 2: [00:05:12] Injuries camp. [00:05:12][0.4] Speaker 1: [00:05:13] If it was strictly about healing the injuries, I don't think Tatis in his camp would have been in such a rush to get out that bullshit ringworm argument. [00:05:20][7.3] Speaker 2: [00:05:21] I think it's just getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar. And either I think that that's been mishandled badly by Tatis and his camp. Like just make the statement and then don't address it again. Now you have secondary statements about ringworm. They're not letting it go. You've now have his dad going on radio, like I mentioned, and saying that it's, you know, an issue with a haircut like that part. They've totally but that's. [00:05:45][23.5] Speaker 1: [00:05:45] About to after the fact he has he's a second generation superstar. The fact that he has a dad who played baseball and actually a dad who also played baseball right around the heart of the steroid era as well, kind of also makes this just as bad. They did. His camp wasn't around to advise him in a proper way. Again, I don't want to come down on Tatis fully, but I do got to say, I think he's disqualified from the face of baseball argument, especially because we have so many exciting young superstars out there. I mentioned show, I mentioned Judge and too, obviously, we touched on the kind of the racial dynamics. Those are obviously two very nonwhite athletes there in Judge and Show respectively. I don't think obviously it's a racial argument in that when it comes down to Dottie's. I just think that no matter what he does moving forward, people are going to throw this in his face. And again, Ryan Brown had a decent little career after he came back from his suspension, but no one wanted to kind of like look at him as superstar MVP caliber Ryan Braun from that point, move forward. Not that he really never lived up to that potential, but I think this is going to have some lingering side effects that Tatis maybe didn't really plan for whenever he first took the substance. And as far as if he knowingly or unknowingly took the substance, we've come to the point where you're a professional athlete. Your job is knowing what's going in or on your body. [00:07:06][80.9] Speaker 2: [00:07:06] Yeah, personal accountability, which is the same thing that A.J. Preller was yelling him out for, like the get off my lawn guy who needs personal accountability. And I totally get that point from the Padres. I thought they maybe would have supported him a little bit more, but obviously, this is what you might call strike three. So at this point, the Padres just might be a little bit tired of this. AJ Preller is not exactly the nicest guy in the world if you've read reports about him as well, so he doesn't necessarily buy brownie points with me on that. In terms of the face of baseball argument, I think that's a bit more of a popularity contest because we know face of baseball is not necessarily merit based of like the best player will be the face of baseball. Derek Jeter is obviously still the most famous baseball player in the world and never during his career was he the best player. [00:07:52][45.6] Speaker 1: [00:07:52] Top 40 was on that trajectory. I mean, when I think about who was on the cover of the show, when I think of little things like that, or how the Dairy Queen commercial between him and Cody Bellinger and obviously Bellinger's falling off and we'll never be in that conversation. But Tatis was the guy that baseball was pushing out there and saying, That's our guy, that's our rallying point, because he was fun. He so it can be fun. I just think that unfortunately, every time he pimps a home run, it's going to look a little funny to maybe more casual fans or obviously the baseball purists that will hold it against him that this happened because he is a superstar and people are going to associate, oh, look again, another baseball superstar pop for steroids and we're going to have this argument go again. But it's different because at least again in the mid 2000s, I can make the argument that probably like 50% of baseball was using PEDs in some form or fashion. We got to the point where it's like we maybe get one or two suspensions a year and for it to be such a notable name like Fernando, it's not a good thing. It's not good for the health of baseball. [00:08:58][66.1] Speaker 2: [00:08:59] Oh, absolutely. And you say we're going to rehash it the same way we rehashed it with Ryan Braun and Robinson Cano and rehashed it with that Biogenesis clinic where Alex Rodriguez is being chased around a parking lot by Pedro Gomez. Like, we can rehash it all again, but we don't have to like base casual baseball fans, baseball purists, whatever you want to call it. We don't have to do that. We could just let him serve the suspension, move on from it. And if he hits 40 home runs at age 24 season, we can celebrate him as one of the best players in. [00:09:29][30.3] Speaker 1: [00:09:30] But he's going to have to take his lumps. Look at Jose Altuve. Altuve had that whole season after the trashcan scandal where he just had to take it on the chin from every fan in the stands, every baseball writer, media pundit. He just kind of had to sit there and take that punishment. And that's going to happen to Fernando when he comes back, when he eventually does come back there and hits his first home run. Think about the Bonds treatment. Fans throwing needles down on the stands. Obviously, it won't be to that degree, but I think that there are going to people who are people that like have their eyebrows just a little bit up whenever they think about like how he got there or what's he doing now or what is going to be his future in the game. Now for him, luckily, he signed that big ass contract with the Padres this past off season, I believe. So he's going to be with you guys a while regardless. But if you're ownership, part of signing an athlete is not only investing in them for their physical attributes, it's also for their mental attributes as well. So you have to be a little bit uncomfy if you're in the Padres front office and you made that move. The good thing for the Padres is you guys seem to be in this point where it's fucking well to spend all the money we can on pitching anyway. [00:10:37][67.4] Speaker 2: [00:10:38] It's so. [00:10:38][0.2] Speaker 1: [00:10:38] Cool. It's a good point that you guys be in, but it just sucks because I'm sure again, going back to your fan perspective, so a little bit of a beer away from it. You were picturing this lineup of Juan Soto Tatis Manny Machado. So how disappointing was that for you? [00:10:54][15.8] Speaker 2: [00:10:55] I guess the same thing I said off the start. Like as disappointing as a fan should be around this, I'm not so devastated that I'm ready to burn my Fernando Tatis jersey, but at the same time, like, okay, tough break, but we still have an awesome team. It's going to be the best Padres team of my lifetime. Now, the best Padres team of my lifetime is either this team or the 2021 that had them coming back from down like seven runs and tatis pimp and bat flips. [00:11:20][24.9] Speaker 1: [00:11:20] And again now it's just like we look at that. Not that I think that it was directly linked to that, but we just look at that and it just doesn't feel the same. [00:11:28][7.4] Speaker 2: [00:11:29] Oh, not for me. It feels exactly the same. [00:11:30][1.6] Speaker 1: [00:11:30] I'll never forget that era. And I'm just telling you, general consensus, people aren't happy, baseball fans aren't happy. But anyway, guys, let us know in the comments section below. What do you think of the situation? Can Fernando Tatis Jr ever ascend the Mt. Rushmore of current day baseball again? Drop one comments like on this video from Juju Talk Sports Kyle Ledbetter stay safe, happy and healthy. We'll see you next time. [00:11:30][0.0] [657.3] World Series Dark Horses : Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves, Philadelphia Phillies & St. Louis Cards8/26/2022  Watch Here - https://youtu.be/1GNoFmhqMGs Speaker 1: [00:00:12] Middle of the month here in August. August 15th, be exact. We know who the favorites are for the world. The Dodgers who are streaking, the Yankees who are not the Astros are going to get a little run as they passed the Yankees in the standings. And then the Mets. The Mets, now that they got the grand back and Scherzer at the top of their rotation, looking good. So here's my rule for this segment. You cannot pick them as a World Series pick. Who are the dark horses? [00:00:39][26.4]
Speaker 2: [00:00:39] Who are the dark horses? If you're taking out those four teams, the easy fifth one is the Braves, because I think the Braves are as good as those teams. I know their record hasn't shown it so far this year and they're starting to get healthier. [00:00:50][10.8] Speaker 1: [00:00:51] But I think they'll start. [00:00:52][0.5] Speaker 2: [00:00:52] Yeah, for sure. I think Atlanta is right firmly in that group and I know that's kind of like silly because they just won the championship. They're going to be the fourth seed in the wildcard. They're obviously a very, very good team. Atlanta definitely in that group, Padres definitely in that group. And the Saint Louis Cardinals definitely in that group. The St Louis Cardinals have four guys in their bullpen who throw over 100 miles an hour and I can't name a single one of them. It's incredible. [00:01:18][25.9] Speaker 1: [00:01:19] Well, isn't that modern day baseball just guys coming out and just throwing absolute gas? They get the average velocity has to be at close to 100 by this point. [00:01:27][8.3] Speaker 2: [00:01:28] You're absolutely right. But I at least know, like Duvall is the closer for the Giants and he can throw 103. I don't know any of the players on the Cardinals and all of them throw 100. [00:01:37][8.5] Speaker 1: [00:01:38] You don't have to know them. What you have to know is they're cardinals, baseball players. And typically that's been good enough to win a lot of games over the last 20 years. But I think about the Cardinals is one of the top franchises in the MLB. If I had to throw out some potential options, you know, I got to go with a team that I threw out there in the off season who at first disappointed me, heavily disappointed me. In fact, the Seattle Mariners. Yes, the Seattle Mariners. The same team, the same franchise that hasn't won a playoff series. And God knows, when the Seattle Mariners, who have a former Cy Young Award winner and Robbie Ray at the top of their rotation and also went out and acquired Luis Castillo. So they have two studs. And when I think about what wins in October, what wins playoff baseball games, starting pitching, it's guys who can go deep. It's guys like you get with that strikeout stuff and they have that and they have some fun players. Obviously. Julio Rodriguez, what he did in the home run derby, you talk about we talked in passing about potential new faces of baseball. Leo Rodriguez is putting his stamp on that after a slow couple of months to begin the season. I think that's kind of where you trace the Mariners and their struggles. You know, you have stars like him who are struggling out the gate, Kalinic who starred here. I picked him up as a flier in multiple fantasy baseball leagues that really live up to the hype. But nonetheless, the Seattle Mariners, they started coming around. They had that hot streak in June. And overall, I think that they if they get into the playoffs, have an opportunity to make some noise. I'd also throw out the Philadelphia Phillies here. Now, I know they're the third team in the NL East, but they have clawed their way back in it without their best player, Bryce Harper, who's been injured for the last couple of months. They managed to claw their way back into the conversation and they're getting him back. And I have to figure, I have to think that Nick Castellanos can't suck at baseball for this entire season. Castellanos was a stud for the majority of his career with the Cincinnati Reds. I got to believe that he knows how to play baseball and will figure it out, especially playing in that bad box they have in Philly. [00:03:54][136.1] Speaker 2: [00:03:54] So Phillies difficult because I don't know if they're going to make the playoffs. I kind of picked teams that I knew for sure would make the playoffs and make a deep run. I feel like the Brewers will ultimately take that final spot. [00:04:05][11.0] Speaker 1: [00:04:06] A game and a half up on them and okay, the Brewers too, they have a strong top of their rotation. But I think the Phillies, as soon as they get their guys back, as soon as they get Harper back, are set to make a little bit of a run. Obviously, I think when we talk about who's going to make noise in October, it's usually the team that gets the hottest in September. That's just been the case in baseball. It's momentum is a power play in Vegas. [00:04:29][23.3] Speaker 2: [00:04:29] Except except that one year that the Brewers were the hottest team in baseball, then they lost to the Nationals on. [00:04:34][4.8] Speaker 1: [00:04:34] A wild card. Just work. Last year though obviously the Braves wanted the hottest team in September are one of the hottest teams is September and they took that momentum all the way to the championship. The Nationals got hot at the right time for the second half of the season and that carried them to a World Series title. When I look at both the Phillies and I look at the Mariners, both got hot in the last month or so, and maybe they could carry that momentum into the postseason. So again, we're we're talking about that top tier. If we're taking those teams out of the equation. I look at this next group down and I look at those two teams because I have known assets that I can point to and say that that could carry them into a potential World Series title. [00:05:13][39.0] Speaker 2: [00:05:14] I understand the point there and I agree with you. I just won't go that. Bridge too far with the Phillies, with the Mariners. I agree with you. And you mentioned obviously Robbie Ray and you mentioned Castillo. George Kirby has also been a very good starter for the Mariners this year. He'll probably be their Game three starter, which that's a solid Game three starter. [00:05:33][18.8] Speaker 1: [00:05:33] Yeah. If you could literally get a three man rotation going, just kind of bridge together your fourth starter and Gonzales has been fine for them. That could sometimes be enough. In October. [00:05:44][10.8] Speaker 2: [00:05:45] Many of us have hitters too. [00:05:46][1.0] Speaker 1: [00:05:47] Now I was a prop bets on the Yankees, so I'm hoping that we don't get into this next year. Down to those early subthemes I'll highlight you highlighted a couple teams. Well, Busters, what teams are you highlighting as potential dark horses to take home the 2022 World Series trophy drop blue undergarments leave a like on this video from juju talk sports it kind of I better stay safe happy healthy we'll see you next to. She? [00:05:47][0.0] [325.1] Speaker 1: [00:00:12] Kyle for this next segment. I really want you to go back to April. I want you to mentally put yourself back in April mindset. What were the biggest major league baseball topics that you imagined we were going to be talking about late August, early September. [00:00:29][16.6]
Speaker 2: [00:00:30] Let's see. It would have been the Dodgers being in first place. It would have been. The Yankees versus the Red Sox in the American League East. We would have talked about the major trade deadline move of Frankie Montas and we probably would have been talking about the NL Central, even though the NL Central is not exciting at all. [00:00:55][25.0] Speaker 1: [00:00:56] Yeah, we might have been talking about the AL Central just because I know you love that topic so much. Surprise, surprise topic that you did not see coming. I did not see coming. We're talking about a 42 year old that is seven home runs away from hitting 700 home runs for his career. We're talking about Albert Pujols and his farewell tour with the Saint Louis Cardinals and that 693, that 693rd home run. It was a big one. It was a00 ballgame, seventh inning off of a lefty, which is a theme that we're going to get out of 2022. Albert Pujols. It was a shot that really invigorated a somewhat hot Cardinals team as they march on towards the postseason. Are we going to get one of those Cinderella endings to Albert Paul as his career? He's going to hit 700 and the Cardinals are just going to get hot in October. [00:01:52][55.9] Speaker 2: [00:01:54] Hot in October? No, they're going to lose to the Padres in the first wildcard round go Padres. But at the same time, I think that it's improbable and not impossible that Albert Pujols is going to get to 700 homeruns because he has hit eight in the last 13 games. He inching ever so close to that number. And you mentioned the lefty thing, and I'll just put this stat out to the universe. First and foremost, Albert Pujols against left handed hitters this year has a 1.240 ops, which is better than 2003 Barry Bonds in terms of ops, but against right handed hitters, he has a607 ops, which is the equivalent of Oakland A's backup outfielder Tony Camp, who currently has a negative wins above replacement on the season. So Albert Pujols has hit against lefties and hit and bombs against lefties. [00:02:43][48.7] Speaker 1: [00:02:43] And correction, obviously, I know you're talking about pitchers, pitchers, not hitters. And I wouldn't be surprised if he was taking some hitters deep. We have seen some hitters on the mound this. [00:02:53][9.2] Speaker 2: [00:02:53] Year against left handed pitching. [00:02:54][1.1] Speaker 1: [00:02:54] Yes, Albert Pujols, he was actually the NL player of the week just this past week. That kind of tells you the type of terror he's on. And I think that the home run derby had a lot to play into his late season push. I feel as though similar to Juan Soto last year, the home run derby kind of lit a match under his ass because he's like, he's had eight home runs in like the last few weeks. He had that one game where he was four for four with two home runs, which is the oldest player to have such a game. And this one, I guess, had a game winner. He's he's just really on top of things right now except against, again, right handed pitching. But this is more than you could have asked for when you signed him as the St Louis Cardinals. It was almost a sympathy signing in a way when he signed there. But now he's a legitimate part of your team coming off your bench and hitting bombs. That that's a great move from what organization that just happens to pull players out of their ass most of the time. [00:03:58][63.5] Speaker 2: [00:03:58] Yeah, the angels are I'm sorry. The Cardinals, who I can say confidently my entire life have been winning 88 regular season games every year for my entire life. Sometimes they make the playoffs, sometimes they don't, but they're always winning 88 games and they always have to really good players. So it's been my entire life that that's been the case for the Cardinals. [00:04:17][18.6] Speaker 1: [00:04:18] Okay, so let's talk about the rest of the way for Albert Pujols currently here, recording on the 23rd of August on a Tuesday. He's got a couple more games coming up against the Cubs here. They have a home series against the Braves and then a three game set against Cincinnati. So I could see at least maybe 1 to 2 more home runs in that set. Probably one, I would say. Okay, Cubs hitter, friendly Park Cardinals Stadium bit hit or miss. But the Reds, you get that band box stadium and then you get some Reds pitching, hopefully get some reds left handed pitching. In that series, you do have a home series against the Cubs. Then you get a plate, the horrible, downtrodden Washington Nationals this year in a four game series, get a three game series against the Pirates on the road and the Pirates have a short left field porch. So if you just want to go straight pull mode pull mode for pull host that that could work out well for him. Milwaukee Home Series. So does it get benefit from Milwaukee Stadium another series with the reds a lot of reds down the stretch run that's going to help anyone that wants to hit more home runs. Then he gets to visit sunny San Diego. So hopefully you get a chance to check out your boys and hope that they don't have history put on them, as the Padres have benefited from the history of other teams happening in their stadium a ton. Very much in the cards by the time we're talking late September, late September, run in Dodger Stadium. So the team that was on last year gets go Milwaukee for a couple more days, gets another round with the Pittsburgh Pirates. In fact, they have a home at home. So they play three games in Saint Louis and they get three more games to close out the season in Pittsburgh. So a lot of Pittsburgh, a lot of Reds, four games that with the Nationals hitter friendly stadiums in Milwaukee. I think he's going to do it and I think there's other reasons to think he's going to do it. Are you opposed to the idea, the principle? Of opposing pitchers grooming pitches for them. [00:06:17][119.3] Speaker 2: [00:06:18] No group pitches. I'm cool with grooving pitches. I'm not someone who clutches their pearls without integrity of the game. Part of it is entertainment. I'm okay with people grooving, especially if you play for the shitty pirates or the shitty reds. Just groove a couple pitches in there so he can hit a home run. [00:06:33][15.5] Speaker 1: [00:06:33] This is about entertainment. If you play the Pirates, if you play the Reds, there's a good chance that there's a ten one ballgame and Albert Pujols has a couple of a bats. Someone can't throw him a 92 mile per hour fastball down the pipe and put. [00:06:46][13.0] Speaker 2: [00:06:47] One of those position players in and make sure it's a position player that throws left handed. [00:06:50][3.5] Speaker 1: [00:06:51] I will say that I was impressed by the 693rd homerun because it was above the box, it was outside the zone, and he still was able to get under it and put enough air on it. So he's actually just swinging the ball, swinging the bat really well. He's seen the ball really well at this point. So hopefully that continues. Like I want to see it on baseball, where baseball succeeds and baseball strives is in narratives and storylines. I think that that's one of the greatest gifts that we get from late season baseball, particularly October the fall classic. When we get to that mode because we can make a picturesque scene, we can tell a beautiful tale of the game akin to James Earl Jones reciting his famous speech. Or we get to see the Field of Dreams game. Baseball is in its elements when it gets to tell a good story. And Albert Pujols is that good story for us this year. And after a decade of wasting his time in Los Angeles or Anaheim and baseball, hell with the Angels, I'm glad that he's finally back in a Cardinals jersey because it just feels like everything is right with the world three away from A-Rod. As much as we've talked about kind of like the steroids arguments, too, and coming in a year in which one of baseball's brightest stars, Fernando Tatis, was hot for steroids, I think it would be good for the minutia of the game if Albert Pujols was to pass one of the known PED guys. And that's not supposed to be a true dig at A-Rod. But I feel as though a guy that, at least for our knowledge, at least for what we know today, was never really wrapped up in the PED scandal, even though he had an opportunity to be wrapped up in the PED scandals. I think Albert Pujols at least passing A-Rod would be a feat in itself. But I want him to hit that magical, historic mark. In fact, if he hits 700 homeruns, let's say he did it on September 1st, he literally just hits seven home runs in the next week. I think he just. Okay. I'm good. Even though I think the Cardinals might actually say, dude, you're hot right now. We need you out there. Your ass out there, Albert. Yeah. [00:08:54][122.7] Speaker 2: [00:08:55] I know what you mean. This can be a good against evil thing and something that baseball sells to not geriatrics, but something baseball sells to people who really love baseball. [00:09:04][8.8] Speaker 1: [00:09:04] Come on, too. So it's a little Timmy. They got to sell. [00:09:07][2.8] Speaker 2: [00:09:07] Little Timmy's little. Timmy little. I'm 21, and I barely give a shit about Albert Pujols. Little Timmy wasn't even born when Albert Pujols was hitting the home runs to the West. [00:09:17][10.0] Speaker 1: [00:09:18] In your NOLA style, you've been beaten down and downtrodden by the world. The B little Timmy with that childhood innocence. Watch. Albert Pujols, one of the greats. [00:09:29][10.8] Speaker 2: [00:09:29] No, it's little Timmy. If little Timmy is going to be captivated by the pureness of baseball, put on Jacob deGrom, put on Fernando Tatis, put on Vladimir Guerrero JR. Put on the people who are actually going to be playing when little Timmy turns into a baseball player. [00:09:44][14.4] Speaker 1: [00:09:44] Himself, little Timmy needs this. [00:09:46][1.7] Speaker 2: [00:09:47] No little. [00:09:47][0.8] Speaker 1: [00:09:48] Little too little. [00:09:48][0.6] Speaker 2: [00:09:49] Timmy. No. You know who needs this little intimidated, little tinies, uncle mini. [00:09:54][5.1] Speaker 1: [00:09:54] This big booty Latinas on Tik-Tok. This is wholesome. This is what? Yes, we have the goodness of Albert Pujols. [00:10:02][7.9] Speaker 2: [00:10:03] No. [00:10:03][0.0] Speaker 1: [00:10:04] No. [00:10:04][0.0] Speaker 2: [00:10:05] No, no. Little Timmy's uncle is the one who cares about Albert Pujols. Little Timmy's uncle is the one who watched Albert Pujols in the 2006 World Series. He's the one who cares about Albert Pujols against Houston in 2005 or the 2010 playoffs like. These are these are people who are yearning for a time in baseball when Albert Pujols was launching Dingers, which is totally cool. It makes baseball fun in the regular season. I love this storyline of fools. Let's not pretend that it isn't like a retirement tour and people who still care about records in baseball and that's okay. It's very, very fun. [00:10:38][33.2] Speaker 1: [00:10:39] You know, I realize talking about this subject, I think I hate the angels more now. [00:10:44][4.1] Speaker 2: [00:10:45] You should know there's a great theory, I believe, with Albert Pujols that signed with the Dodgers after 2011. He would have broke Barry Bonds. His record like no question would have broke Barry Bonds record. He was mismanaged by the car, by the angels. [00:10:58][13.4] Speaker 1: [00:10:59] All the angels just literally sucked the talent out of perhaps the greatest right handed hitter of all time. He's at least in the top three discussion. [00:11:07][8.8] Speaker 2: [00:11:08] I bring this up all the time of players who had a minimum of like 300 at bats in 2006, which was six years ago. Albert Pujols had the worst offensive war in baseball. He was statistically the worst offensive player who batted at a high volume during the season. That was six years ago. He was the worst offensive player in baseball, and he's still going to get to 700 home runs. And he didn't have to play until he was 45. Like like what's his name, Rafael Palmeiro or Hank Aaron like that? Well, actually, Albert Pujols, his birth age is a little bit up for dispute, but like the point still stands. Like Albert Pujols didn't have to play beyond 20 to 23, 24 years to get there. Like if he had just had a not the worst offensive player in baseball season in the mid 20 tens, he probably would have if not broke, Barry Bonds record would have broke Hank Aaron's record and Babe Ruth's record for homeruns. [00:12:08][59.6] Speaker 1: [00:12:09] Okay, guys, historic chase, Albert Pujols seven away. Do you think he's going to get there? What are the odds that Albert Pujols gets there and hey, be bold? What game do you think that he's going to hit that legendary homerun in? I want to know drop that below level like on this video, because it helps us, helps Albert Pujols. It's telling folks it helps Albert Pujols. [00:12:30][21.4] Speaker 2: [00:12:32] I will say this also, if we get to 100 likes on this video, we will start going through Gigi's ticktock, history on on the podcast. [00:12:38][6.4] Speaker 1: [00:12:40] Yes. Yes, we will. It's actually pretty barren, but still we will anyway. Subscribe Ju-Ju Talk Sports Kyle Ledbettor stay safe, happy and healthy. We will see you next time. [00:12:40][0.0] [722.3] Welcome in Slumpbusters! The MLB & MLBPA have joined continued to kick the can down the road in resolving the Trevor Bauer case. Bauer was accused of sexual misconduct during the 2021 MLB season and was placed on administrative leave the back half of the year. As the calendar turns to mid-April Bauer remains on this administrative leave. This comes after his Bauer was absolved of all criminal wrongdoing in the case. While Bauer still fights a civil lawsuit he is choosing to sue the Athletic and one of their writers for defamation. MLB writer, Fox Sports Radio host and Host of Inside the Parker, Rob Parker joins us to talk what's next for Bauer in his tenure with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Should the Dodgers choose to move on? #Dodgers #TrevorBauer #MLBNews Recorded: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Host: Julian "Ju-Ju" Martinez Ig & Twitter: @jujutalkssports Kyle Ledbetter Take It Easy Podcast Ig: @kyle.ledbetter619 | Twitter: @CSM_MemeInsta Featuring: Rob Parker Twitter: robparkerfs1 | Twitter: robparkerfsr Social Media: Ig: @slumpbusterpodcast | Twitter: @slumpbusterpod Website: https://www.theslumpbuster.com/
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