Welcome to Talking Baseball. Today is July 29th. We are inching closer to the trade deadline. We do have some trades to talk about. We got a lot of madness to talk about. Jake, a lot of people got mad. A ton of walk-offs. Some standing shuffles. A lot of good stuff. Let's do it. All right. Let's talk baseball. Jake, how you doing this Monday morning?  Yeah. What are those? The standings have shuffled. The standings have shuffled. Okay. I thought you were saying standing shuffles. Like that was a new code for baseball fights or something. I did say standings shuffled. Because that's the standings shuffled. Right. I didn't get the S on the end of standings. So I thought you were literally standing. We'll get some hard Ss going the rest of this podcast. I'm doing good, man. Deadline is sneaking up. We're, what, 48 hours away? Something like that. And we've already had some movement. We had some good baseball this past week, this past weekend. Dude, there are so many walk-offs. Just yesterday. Never mind the whole weekend. Yeah. There are a ton of walk-offs. A ton of ejections. Yeah. So it was a big weekend for baseball. We were waiting for that kind of sorting period of teams that would be the buyers and sellers. We kind of hit that. I feel like the beginning of last week, there was really no more teams in that tweener area. And now it's just a matter of getting it done. And I mean, the blue jays in the Mets dropped the first bomb. But I think we're getting there in a little bit. So how are you doing, Jimmer? I'm good. I'm good. I'm frustrated because the live won't work right now. Right. We have a lot of patrons that have live access. We had some people in the chat that wanted to hang out with us live. But internet won't work. Need to go. Need this to become a real thing pretty soon for my brain. I don't want to be producing this anymore, basically. Right. But anyway, we're good. A lot of baseball. It's getting fun. It seems like we're later in the season than we are. Like, because the trade deadline makes it seem like you have to make or break your season right now. We've got two more months of games. But it's without the waiver wire. You've got to make your move right now. And then you've got to hope you... It's crazy. You've got to hope you make the right move.  We've got to do something. It's like there's two months left. There's so much baseball left. There's so much to do. But yeah, man, it was a lot of ejections, a lot of walk-offs, and a lot of weird trade talks that are bizarre. And we'll get into all of it. I'm excited about that. I do have to say that this episode is brought to you by Curtis Kopp. Yep. Or Kope. It's K-O-P-P. I think Kope. Kopp. That's cool. Curtis Kopp. Anthony Loscalzo. Yeah, good plays on. Bacon steak to go, Jake. Okay. Family name. He was in the chat. Missing out. Damn. Spencer Griffin. I think he was also in the chat. Sage Gurdado. Gordado, every day. Gordado. 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So, Jim, your National League report will start at the top of the NL Beast. The brave score 24 runs to win the first two games versus Philadelphia. They end up dropping the third, but they'll take their series win to stay at top of the East. The Nationals drop two out of three at home. First, the Dodgers, who had quality starts from Ryu and Kershaw, step right up and greet the Mets, Jim. They sweep the Pirates, and they sweep up Marcus Strowman in a trade with Toronto. We'll get there later. Your Florida fishies. They win a series at home over Arizona. Jim, is that the hump that broke the camel straw? For Arizona to start trading? They get some good... The Marlins get some good pitching and a nice walk-off Friday. Back-to-back sack flies for the walk-off. Well, hey, Jim will jump to the central. The baby bears. They lose two out of three to the beer makers. That's Cubs Brewer's people, including an eighth inning comeback and our guy, Hessen Kira. He had a walk-off in that one. St. Louis. They lose the rubber match and the series at home to Houston. So that'll happen. But they did win Game 1, so that's got to be a little deflating for them as the NL Central tightens up. Sinsey gets their doors blown off Game 1. But, Jim, then they win two pitchers' duels. Again, that's right. Your Slump Watch, Colorado Rockies. And then to the NL West, you heard the Dodgers beat the Nats. You heard the D-backs lost to Miami. You heard the Rocks lost to Cincinnati. But, Jim, do you believe in magic? The San Francisco Giants, they take two out of three versus the Padres, including an 11th inning Pablo Sandoval homerun that helped them take the first game of that series. Los Evidohiantes, stay hot, Jim. That's amazing. All right. So there's some interesting things here in the National League that, like we said, Jake does the report and I try to do the AO report. So I genuinely am interested to hear what he's saying. And here's what I got for you, Jake. The Cubs and St. Louis, both losing their series and staying tied in the standings is fun. Like St. Louis just tied them. So they're both at the same exact record. They go to a three game set each. They both go one and two, 56 and 49. But now you've got Milwaukee, who took two of three from the Cubs, one game back. That's going to be so much fun. I'm so excited for the NL Central down the stretch. Yeah, the NL Central, I mean, outside of the wild. Actually, both central divisions, if we're being honest. I know I'm jumping a little bit. Those are going to be the two division races this year. The wild card is always, you know, is always going to be exciting to a degree just because you've got so many teams around there fighting for it. The NL Central, Cubs, Cards, Brewers, and even the AL Central, Indians, Indians, Twins, you're going to see some battles in the Midwest. And yeah, I mean, Cubs, Cardinals, Brewers, those are the teams that have kind of run that division now for a little bit. With the little, the Pirates were fun there for a little bit, huh?  You've got Yellowitch on the Brewers, Goldy, you might hear him later on the Cardinals and just all those young Cubs guys that, you know, Rizzo, Bryant. So coming down the stretch, man, every week the NL Central update is going to be a good time. Another thing that widens my eyes is that the Giants did it again. Can't stop, won't stop. I get down, baby. They get the mad bum win the final game. Him and Joe West having a good time. Old buddies, old angry buddies you probably don't want to drink with. But yeah, man, they win the first game of that series to the 11th inning, Sandoval. And they're just rolling, man, and they went from heart. It's crazy how much these two weeks legitimately matter on how we view players and how we view teams. Because the Giants, again, their bullpen was supposed to be a lot of trade pieces. Madison Bumgarner has been getting traded for the past year and a half and now it looks like everyone's going to stay.  They are 18 and 5 in the month of July. Yeah, that's a good way to do it. Six or seven come from behind victories. I will say this, Jake. They're two and a half games out of the wild card right now. Their division is enough for grabs. The Dodgers have that incredibly locked up. But they're two and a half games out of the wild card, but they're jumping some teams. There's three ahead of them right now, I believe. Yeah, so they are right now your wild card. Cub, St. Louis, and Washington are all tied. And then you've got Philly, Milwaukee, and then San Francisco. So there's four teams ahead of them. So it's still a climb. But I'm looking at they play Philly coming up. They're ahead of them, right? If they work their magic on Philly if they win the series against Philly then that puts them, I mean, they're ancient closer, direct competition with the wild card. Then they go to the terrible Rockies, or the Rockies come to them then they play the Nationals and the Phillies again. So they kind of have their destiny in their hands.  Yeah, and I think it's well, everyone should be rooting for the Giants because it's one of the things that they weren't playing well while they're playing and see Bruce Boci and his last season as manager and they're putting this thing together. Yeah, I just, I hope we're not here in two weeks. The Giants don't trade away any pieces at the deadline and they have a brutal two weeks.  That would suck if this whole thing flipped on them and they were like, well, those three weeks stopped us from being sellers and now we've screwed ourselves going forward by missing out on five prospects we could have added to our organization. But at the same time, I know that kind of went to negative Nancyville. They're rolling and it's so much fun. This is literally what sports is about. Happy for my Giants still. Happy for your Giants. All right, you ready for the, what's that?  Bring Hunter Pence back. That'd be fun. I'd root for that. All right, you ready for your AO report? I think I am, Jim. What did I miss in the American League? Well, we'll start out here in the American League. East, you did not miss this. The Yankees got smoked by the Red Sox. They scored 39 runs in the first two games. Took the first three of a four-game set. The Yankees did salvage it and not get swept by winning the last game. They are, the Yankees up in the loss column to Boston, but that was a chance to do damage at the Yankees. Got damage done to them. The Rays and the Blue Jays squared off in a series that was more about trades than games, I think. The Rays took two out of three. The Rays came back from being down eight to one after the fifth to win game three and the series, but I think the Blue Jays had some other things on their mind. Some trades were going down during that game. The Angels and the Orioles almost swept the Angels in a four-game set, Jake, which that just would be super embarrassing for the Angels. Rookie Matt Thice homered twice in the final game and the second was a walk-off to avoid the sweep. The Rangers and the Athletics squared off for a four-game set. Tempers flared. Oakland won three games. They win the last game on a walk-off walk. Always fun, but the opposite of fun, kind of.  The Twins and White Sox matched up and the Twins took care of business winning three games out of four. They kind of needed that because they were on a tiny bit of a slide. Nelson Cruz went off and Michael Panetta had a nice start. An old friend. The Indians and the Royals squared up for four games. A lot of four-game sets and the Indians took care of business. They took three or four from the Royals. They stay hot in the fight, but the story now is Trevor Bauer throwing the ball over the center field wall and not the good baseball the Indians are playing. Tigers vs. Mariners squared off in a series that no one cares about. The Tigers got swept, Jake. A four-game sweep. Seattle had two walk-offs. The Tigers are now three and 19 in July and have lost 12 games in their last 13. Gross. The Tigers are gross. But you guys got to start the rebuild. I don't even think you've started it. Anyway, the wild card in the American League is dwindling, Jake. It's really a four-team race. Boston, Tampa, Oakland, Cleveland. There you have it. Yeah, Jim. I think what jumped out to me from that report, hey, how bad Detroit is. Wow, the Tigers. They're the worst team in baseball now. They don't have easily. They only have 30 wins. Baltimore. If you're looking at the bottom of the standings, which a lot of people do, three-game lead on Detroit for the worst team. The Marlins have 40 wins. Detroit has 30. That's pretty mind-bottling for Detroit, which is a pretty proud baseball city. But you're right. They aren't in the thick of rebuilding. They're at the tip of the iceberg and bottoming out and getting some top draft picks in. So it really jumped out to me as that. Jim, there are going to be two good teams in the American League that miss out on the playoffs this year. Yeah. And man, again, they're another team. They're like the inverted Miami, the Oakland days. We just picture them small market pesky. We never fully give them the love or the chance. Man, they're in it. Right now, they're the wildcard team. All the Rays and Red Sox are out. And they're going to be in the division scrapping. And while Oakland's out there, yeah, they've got Houston. I don't think they're going to catch Houston. But man, you're going to have two teams with really high expectations that miss the playoffs and the AL. And I think that's what's becoming the story over there. Yeah. The A's, they keep having comebacks. They're doing stuff right now. They're seeing the giants and they're like, hey, we want some of that Bay Area magic. Yeah. Wow. Maybe that's what's actually going on here. Just the Bay Area, man. Again, some magic dustings of rain. Probably not. E40. Let's see. The A's have Milwaukee and St. Louis and then the Cubs. They got three interleague series in a row. That's bizarre. No way. Is that wild? Yes. My initial reaction was you're misreading the schedule because that would be wild. No, they play the Brewers for three. Then the Cardinals for two. On the road. Oh no. At home. At home. And then they go to Chicago and play the Cubs for three. So they have eight interleague games in a row. Then they have a three game set at White Sox, then two versus the Giants. So Yeah. Your National League Oakland Athletics, basically. Ten of the next 13 games for the Oakland A's versus the National League. And not for nothing. I actually I mean, obviously we get to this part of the season and if you break something down to 13 games, those games are going to be very important. Man, I kind of like that for Oakland. That's very Oakland A's of them. For them to come in and sneak out a couple NL series wins. It's just so we look in two weeks from now. 13 games that we look back and we're like, yeah, the A's stayed pretty hot. They snuck up on some teams. Not everyone knows about L'Oriano and Simeon. I don't know. It sounds like a nice little Oakland A's stretch. Yeah. The other race is in the central, basically the only real race right now for division is in the central and Minnesota took three out of four and Cleveland took three out of four. So it stays exactly where it was with Cleveland two games back, I believe. Yeah, two games back in the lost column. So good for those teams. I think that's going to be more fun. I think the twins should be more nervous than they are. Cleveland doesn't have pitching and there's talks that they're going to trade away Bauer. I don't get it at all because he's one of their three pitchers. I think trading him away means you have two games in and you're two games out of the division. And if you go into the playoffs with Bauer, Clevenger, Bieber, that's a good one, two, three. Yeah. So I have no idea why they trade Bauer. If Kluber can somehow get back. Yeah, I mean I don't know what's actually the financials and stuff. That's what they're talking about in Cleveland and they want to trade him while he's high. But yeah, you're right. I mean that's just not a message you send to make a little more sense. If Houston were to go nuclear, if Houston went out and got Cindergarde or something like that, because then I just think you're looking at them like, I don't think we can do anything against them. That would take a couple different shoes to drop. Man, it's, yeah, I know you and I got, we were in the middle of Yanks socks this weekend and the socks put on a display for a little bit. Man, it's so crazy how just sometimes winning one game in baseball can be so huge. I mean, I think if the Red Sox won that game last night, people would expect a big topic of this show to be like the Red Sox are back in this AL East race. And then the Yankees win last night and you look at the standings. Red Sox are technically back to third in the east. And it's just, it's funny the images we keep in our heads of different organizations. It's kind of what I was saying about Oakland before. If Boston had won last night, I think I think you could honestly come up here and say, hey man, some of those Boston teams get that magic going. Oh my god, they may, if they snag Edwin Diaz from the Mets, Boston's coming for the east. Now I think, I think that's kind of muted all of that. I think it's in limbo right now and next Monday's show we will tell you if Boston's in the race or not. Cause currently there are 10 games back in the Lost Column still. There's a four game set starting this Thursday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday in the Bronx and if Boston takes three out of four there, Jake, then yes they're in the race for the east. And Yankee fans should be worried. But the Yankees can still, they can take three or four in their building and then it becomes what, a 13 game or it becomes a 12 game lead. 12 game lead and then you're thinking, okay, you know so this Yankees could have ended it. They didn't they get one more chance and if they don't again, then yeah. Then I'm gonna start to get worried cause the Red Sox are playing good ball. Yeah, and you know it's insane Jim and it's something I've stolen from you is about how how quickly baseball moves and just you, you were talking about next weekend's Yankees Red Sox series and I thought about everything that's going to take place between now and then. The trade deadline for both teams. What are each of those teams going to bring in? Are the Red Sox going to add some relief? Are the Yankees going to add some starting pitching? They each have series before they play each other. Are they going to pick up a little momentum? Or could one of those teams lose some momentum? And then what happens in those four games? And I guess that's something that we're trying to do here at Talking Baseball. Tell people how cool that is. Realize how different each of those teams upcoming weeks can be. And hey, tell your friend. Check out Talking Baseball. How about that? Yeah, that'd be cool. That'd be cool. You want to go to see the trades that happened? I think so. The storyline, some trades. There's the one big one, Jim. The Derek Holland one? I was going so-guard, but... Well, Derek Holland got traded from the Giants to the Cubs for cash considerations. Very ancillary piece. Derek Holland was in their rotation, got moved out of their rotation, went to the bullpen. Cubs have a terrible bullpen. We might be talking about that. Come slump watch. So that's nothing. Let's do Strowman last. The Reyes made some moves, Jake. And I like these moves because they explain the inner workings of roster construction, which a lot of people kind of aren't familiar with if you're getting into Baseball and why would they do this? Why would they do that? So first, the Reyes have a lot of infielders on the Hill, and Joey Wendell's not having a magic season like he did last year. So they want infield help. So they get so-guard from the Blue Jays for a player to be named later. So the Blue Jays actually, they have some time to pick two pitchers from a group of four pitchers in the lower levels. So the Reyes said, out of these four pitchers, by this date you can pick the two. Which is a fun way to trade that that's like allowed. Some thoughts. The Blue Jays picked up so-guard on a minor league contract because no one wanted him as a free agent. And he played so well that they can now trade him and get two minor league pitchers back. I like when that happens to teams. They take a chance on a minor league and then they get rewarded for it. So good for the Blue Jays there. That's fun. You need to be in a position to kind of ride out of a minor league or to do it, but still fun. Anyway, so now the Reyes, they got a lot of guys on their 40- on their 60-day DL glass now and there's someone else I'm blanking. And when they come off the 60-day DL, they need to be put on the 40-man. So they need to clear room on the 40-man roster for so-guard and for their injured players. So they traded Hunter Wood and Christian Oroio. Christian Oroio is actually on the 60-man DL and Hunter Wood's a reliever. They trade them to the Indians for international bonus money and minor league Rubin Cardenos. And yeah, that trade was basically just a clear space because Hunter Wood and Christian Oroio don't have any options left, Jake. So it's either DFAM or trade them. There's so many of these movies that go on in baseball and you don't really know the reasons behind them. And Hunter Wood, he'll be comfortable in Cleveland. He was the king pirate for Tampa out of their bullpen. Yeah, he's a gross pirate. Him and Mikey Clevenger are going to have a good time out there sharing some hair product. Yeah, and you summed it up pretty good, man. There's the 25-man and the 40-man roster and you've got to navigate things sometimes with the option. So the rays were navigating and he was like, yeah, man, good for the Jays for getting anything for SoGuard. SoGuard's 2018. Man, was unbelievably bad when he was getting some run for the Brewers. He's had a nice little year in Toronto. A lot of it does look fluky to some of the advanced stats, not to be Debbie Downer. I think he's got one of the lowest hard hit rates and one of the lowest woebas. Whoa, there's an advanced stat for a couple of people if you want it. I feel like a Tampa guy. They're just going to move him around a little. He's going to give you some pesky at bats and some of them are going to end well, some of them aren't.  There's reports that they might try to flip SoGuard. Sure. And then the international bonus money, if you're not familiar with that, if we have any new to baseball listeners, each team is allotted some money to go sign international players, but you can trade that money to other teams and some teams covet international bonus money, the Yankees do, and some teams don't care for it that much yet. So the raise just got $250K of that. Yeah. Because that Christian Royal Hunter would for money. Like you don't really know what that is all about. So it's very much just roster construction moves and not like the Indians really wanted these guys. Hey, Hunter Wood. I've seen him throw some innings. Yeah. Oh, yeah. And he is going to have a lot of fun with Clevinger talking about hair. Oh, what are you putting your hair? Nothing. What are you putting yours? Oh, nothing. Oh, that's why these both look gross. We might be able to get one of those poorly made local commercials out of Hunter Wood and Mike Clevinger. If we're lucky. Okay. I like that. If we're lucky. So that's some what to watch for there. The big trade is Marcus Strowman from the Blue Jays to the Mets. Marcus Strowman has this season and next season on the books. So the Mets have him for 2020 as well. They traded two pitching prospects to the Blue Jays. One is like a rising prospect. They both they're, neither of them are top 100, right? Like I think you can anyone that says they're really good, they're like minor league lovers. Yeah, I mean so it was Anthony K former first round pick for the Mets. He, I don't know he had, he was looking really strong in double A this year. He got called to triple A. He's getting knocked around a little bit. But as a former first round pick, Jim out of Yukon, how about that? Go Huskies. But yeah not listed as a top 100 prospect. He's 24 years old. I mean there's a good there's a chance he's going to get a shot in the major leagues at some point. It's what are you? I guess you could say that with any prospect. And then yes, Simeon Woods Richardson he's the rising prospect. He's still a kid. He turns 19 in a couple months. And he was a second round pick by the Mets and he's the one that I think people are getting high on. He's got some high strikeout rates in the minor leagues right now. 78.1 97 strikeouts. But Jim all of those stats and all that information is a long winded way of saying that neither of these two guys are highly touted. I mean there are two pitchers that I think you can like and you can say some serious major league potential. But one's a kid and one's close to the bigs and not a big time prospect. So it kind of goes with your theory slash I mean truth that a lot of trade hauls get way overblown. And this is the problem. Yeah, if you were like what's Stromean worth what's Stromean worth everyone was saying higher than this. And I don't know but I was trying to tell people like it's always lower. It's always lower than what you think. Dude this kid's a kid.  Just graduated high school. Sugar Land, Texas. He was a second round pick in 2018. So like whatever. We have probably some people unfamiliar with me. I'm very cynical and skeptical of prospects. So some people see prospects as, you know, a lottery ticket. Some people see lottery tickets as lottery tickets. I see them as a piece of trash. Oh, hello. Actual lottery tickets. Yeah. And I mean that's the actual lottery tickets. I don't see this kid as a piece of trash. He's got talent. I mean it sounds well people are talking man. Now I'm a big Simian Woods Richardson fan. You can't have three names and not amount to anything. Three, two, ten, big boy. Yeah Jim and it's where the prospect game gets so tricky and lottery tickets almost works out in a good and a bad way because it almost turns into a numbers game. Like go out and grab. We've seen Brian Cashman do it with the Yankees and now Domingo Herman is part of that. Just get a couple different bodies in the trade because you never know what a prospect is really going to turn out to be. I know I was digging through some old stuff the other day. Jim, you know our guy Jordan Alvarez who's been killing it for the Astros? Yeah. He was traded at the deadline in 2016 for reliever Josh Fields. So that was Houston in the Dodgers trading and they got Josh Fields who pitched a couple important relief innings but it was Josh Fields and now here we are modern day. Jordan Alvarez looks like he might be one of the bigger power threats in the AL for a while so you kind of never know what you're getting into and that's you and I were talking briefly last night and it's funny like we don't we genuinely just don't know. The Jays top scout could have been in the room maybe there's something that we would view as just people that watch the game regularly and say like oh they could have got that guy and that guy for Strowman, they're pretty good but if the Blue Jays head scout and they're hammering the table saying I love these two prospects they're easily the best haul we can get maybe that's how the decision gets made. I think you're right the output or the return for a lot of these trades does get overblown but I think Jim even with that hat on this was a little bit of a shallow return than a lot of people expected. Yeah. And big news is that Woods Richardson puts both of those last names on his jersey so it's so many letters it's like more than Salta Lemakia who I think used to have the record for most letters it's literally almost a circle So we are a big big Simian Woods Richardson fan is what you're telling me. No I don't like that look you guys got to do like W. Richardson you can't have both names on there the jersey looks ridiculous. Wow. Damn. It's a tough break and I'm sorry about it the jersey looks crazy. It's too many letters. That's tough. Anyway what does this mean Jake what does this mean? The Mets are six games out of the wildcard with a bunch of teams ahead of them are they are they going to flip Cindergaard or not flip are they going to trade Cindergaard and keep Strowman like that's what I would think. Mets fans are like oh we got a rotation to Strowman to Gromwealer Cindergaard now it's like you've had the best rotation on paper for the last six years you've had the best rotation on paper going one of them a top rotation on paper you haven't done a thing with it so like I think they're going to trade Cindergaard yeah I think there is funny Buster only dropped the nuke and he was like yeah rival scouts are saying you know Marcus Strowman paired up with one of the worst defensive shields in our history with his ground ball rate it's just like shots fired off the bat I don't know man and Jim well I'm so excited to see this deadline play out because I mean a couple things we haven't really talked about so now that that's out on Cindergaard and the Mets got Strowman can't teams kind of low ball the Mets like can't they be can't they be like well you okay so you went out and got Strowman which means you want to flip Cindergaard well if you're going to move them here's our offer like haven't they just lost some leverage oh I thought of it the opposite way I thought of it as now that Cindergaard's available teams are going to rush there and they're going to know that every other team is rushing there and they're going to the Mets are going to get like a ton of fantastic offers like if this was proof that Cindergaard's available with two more years of control and this year because if he's a game changer this year like even as a rental he's kind of can be a game changer then you get two more years I took it as the Mets are going to get ten times the offers because now the Yankees are going to try and block the Astros we're going to try and block the Indians we're going to try and block Minnesota you got the Padres who are interested I mean I thought it was like I thought he's a mad dash oh see I don't know man I mean they brought him in and it's out there I think you're right maybe there's a chance I think but Jim what if I told you this deadline passes and Cindergaard is still a Met and so is Strowman I'm not I'm not shocked by anything the Mets do right that's what I'm saying I mean you that I guess that would be my counter to you is that you're basically saying in those words that they got Strowman and we liked that deal because there weren't any really big prospects and now you're saying that the Mets are going to turn Cindergaard into this great return I mean just think of all the words you're saying those are those are words that just don't add up that's that's me getting hopeful for the New York Knicks it's just it's a bad idea and it doesn't make sense I don't yeah I'm not following I think it makes like a lot of sense oh I'm saying the Mets doing it because the Mets don't do good things like this oh you're saying the move makes sense but the Mets doing it doesn't make sense because the Mets don't do moves that make sense correct I'm following now yeah we'll see man I don't know they should because like I said they've had good pitching for a while and they have good hit I don't know what's wrong with the Mets man but the Buster only dropping that nuke of a tweet like Strowman's the biggest ground ball pitcher and the Mets have the worst infield defense get a Buster like historically bad so yeah I mean they're hey Brody Van GM likes the spotlight it's gonna be on them for the next 48 hours to see what they can do and Jim that that might even be the craziest part they're they're what six games out of the wild card this might have been a Mets like we're going for it move which that's that could even be the craziest part the Mets going for it who knows like I said there's two months of baseball left if that's the message they wanted to send to their team and their fan base it's I'm not mad at that message like if the Mets do say we got Strowman and they make like another move for whatever else they need relief pitching defense offense baseball players well if they do something like that Jake I'm not gonna be mad at a team for trying to go for it I think you just work because you said that formula hasn't worked nobody they need they need like off they've never tried to get good offense all their moves have been so stupid that's what I'm saying so I don't think you can just give them credit for going against Roman with with everything else you just said well I said I'd give them credit if they go went out and got two more pieces right I mean it for the New York fan base like that's better than selling they may win over some Mets fans like our Mets fan was excited our friend but what if what if they don't do any other moves that's what I'm saying then that's dumb okay they either need to sell us in the guard for a great return or they need to go trade more they should sell us in the guard for like is there a help now return out there for him I don't think so I mean depends what you consider help now and depends what you consider available yeah that's such a weird move and I feel bad for Strowman as much as you as much as people don't want to like admit it like they're like look at his tweet he's happy like okay look at his tweet okay that's if he's going to tweet out fuck this they said there was a big commotion a locker room he wanted to go to a contender Jake he was treating out second half savage you want to go to the Yankees yeah or anywhere like he was like he's from he's from New York he said on R2C2 I mean the dude wanted to go to the Yankees yeah and he there was like he had like tweets about him going to the Braves he just wanted to go to a contender and the Mets are six games out and they're just an inept organization so kind of a bummer kind of a bummer for him sorry Mets fans congrats I'm rooting for the Mets good luck you want to get into everything else of the fun stuff I think so I like the fun stuff you like the fun stuff? alright let's go to Jake's standout performance Jake's standout performance standout performance Jake who had a performance that lit up your eyes get a little smelling salts before I say this on the air Jim we are such Yankee homers that's all we do so there's no way that I'm making my standout performance Mookie Betts Jim we got we got to see it four for five he had a three homer game just popping balls over the monster sent him into Lansdowne street five RBIs Jim his batting average in July is up 20 points his OPS is up 50 points in July slashing 366 462 with a 1 dot 088 OPS a lot closer to his MVP numbers than he has been Jim the Red Sox shoved this weekend and they needed it and they need this guy I mean man it's kind of nuts that we've been looking at the Red Sox lineup this year and Mookie's been there but he hasn't been Mookie and he's starting to show signs of that the guys leading the Red Sox offense are Rafael Devers and Xander Bogarts and I think if you're on the outside world especially if you saw what they did last year it was so special Betts, Ben and Tendi, JD Martinez and then you know they'd normally throw someone in that four hole if it was a lefty they'd throw Steve Pearson there and he'd maul you but those three were so vicious to get through and now with the year Bogarts and Devers are having man if Betts gets it going like he has been JD Martinez has been good he's got another gear in there you wonder if he finds that and Ben and Tendi he had a huge weekend you wonder if he gets it going but this weekend Jim a chunk of their season was on the line they held serve at home they put up huge runs and I mean that one performance by Mookie you crack the level on the other side like how can we possibly be letting him go for a third one but special players will do that to you too and he had a pitch to hit for his fourth home run he only hit a double on it so regression happens to the best players but I'm giving it to the MOOC man especially if the socks want to do this thing going forwards good for the MOOC man three home runs three home run performance is good James Paxton is bad yeah you might hear him mention briefly later you can't do someone tried to play that game with me yesterday because I said GR shell is locked in and they're like you mean Chris sales is just bad and it's like well not everyone's hitting the ball that way like James Paxton is bad but not every player hit three home runs so MOOC gets a ton of credit for being none of them did oh yeah my standout performance is a pitcher Jake who's your standout performance Jim did one of the more fun things in baseball in present day because it's so rare yeah Steven Matz pitched a Maddox if you're not familiar a Maddox is a complete game shut out in less than 100 pitches and guess what the game ended on his 99th pitch Jake yeah he had to he was forced to I think the I think the hitter put it in play which is great 99th pitch 5 hits 7 K's 0 walks this is where it gets weird this performance great job by Steven Matz it's the best outing of his life the Pittsburgh Pirates Jake they had a base runner in 5 of 9 innings yet he still kept the pitch count under 100 in a complete game shut out a little more a little bit I mean those that can end up helping you out sometimes if you get a couple double plays but yeah only one only one double play yeah I was crazy I was like wait what how did the like the Pirates had a lot of guys on base for a complete game shut out under under 100 pitches anyway good for Steven Matz I don't know what his future holds with with the Mets him and Strowman can become buddies they're both Long Island guys so yeah I think so yeah I'm sure that story will definitely leak out in a week or two that Matz and Strowman played against each other or something yeah right now the Mets DeGrom, Cindergarde, Wheeler, Matz Vargas and Strowman so someone's got to move otherwise the Mets are going full 6 man which again don't just don't be surprised by whatever the Mets do haha where's Ward Melville that's where I wonder if they did are they the same age Strowman and Strowman and Matz because that is fun if they're like the same age from the same area now in the same team if there's a chance that they played together well Matz is 28 I believe so he's older and Strowman how would Strow he's got to be around there right okay Marcus Strowman is 28 he's Medford, New York so yeah so watch out for that story they're both from Long Island I wonder if they played against each other in high school they had to be at the same camps and like events and stuff that's cool yeah wow Marcus Strowman and Steven Matz good for them but Matz complete game shout out 99 pitches gets the Matz love me I like complete game shout outs like Hint if someone throws a complete game shout out they're like jumping up my my standings of like a standout performance I'm a big fan of those especially this day and age how much they'll save your team's bullpen nowadays is insane right and it's crazy how much I mean depending the game situation but if the game is within like five runs nowadays as a manager you can get in trouble if you leave the starter out there too long because teams can put up a crooked number so quick with the rate homers are getting hit and I mean especially with the Mets bullpen a lot of Mets talk watch out for that elevator later but uh yeah it's a huge game for Matz and yeah the Long Island Mets we're rolling we like that we like that yeah I do like that alright Jake what's next slump watch we have a lot of people on slump watch Jake too many I think we need to limit ourselves in the future we said that last week yeah that's the tricky now that we've made the rule that you have to play yourself off that's gonna leave some guys hanging out for a while the first collection of guys that Jim they're staying and we don't want them to stay we're so rooting for the Rockies to get off the slump watch and they just won't do it Rockies I mean is there a point where it turns into your bad watch and that's how you get off because I think that's how I think the Rockies might be off slump watch and they're onto you're just very bad watch Jim wish this was a baseball podcast and we had some like baseball terms like three strikes and you're off the slump watch or something like that but no who would think of that who would think of something the Rockies are off man they're just bad now they're off three strikes you're out for the Rockies you uh you you rode slump watch too long you're bad yep wow that's tough this might be a brutal slump watch then you say Kukuchi you say you sigh he plays himself off Jim 6.2 turn runs get out of here you sigh versus the Tigers or the worst team in baseball but good for you take it good for you Kukuchi and what we got both Chris Davis both Chris Davis's yeah man and so Chris Davis on the Orioles he only played one game he went 0-3 with a lock I mean if we're doing new bad watch rules do we just get Chris Davis out of here no no he's still on it's kind of a bad watch he was he was last week was his first time on he stays on for one more week okay well he's staying with the other Chris Davis because uh Chris Davis in Oakland uh he goes 1-for-13 so he's staying man he did have the walk off walk in game four though stays okay and then we had another picture you know you know when you're on slump watch like that and a picture walks you that's firmly on the picture oh yeah oh yeah that picture should feel like an idiot all right you added Homer Bailey to slump watch last week yeah and he uh Jim he get he kicks in a good start for the a 6.23 and run so he's he's clear in my book good job Homer quality start your off slump watch all right now new additions yeah so I wrote down a couple hitters here Jim um and and we'll see if both make it or if expectations become a factor here I've got a couple guys that are in 1-for-19 slides that's 1-for-19 uh couple outfielders the first one Greg Allen for your Believeland Indians uh he's in a slide Jim the other guy next to him uh towers over him not necessarily slump wise but literally Aaron judge and god my Yankee bias kicks in oh keep talking Yankees get your Yankees on the slump watch dude good job uh big Aaron man you and I know the bigger thing and I hope you don't have the numbers in front of you because I don't Aaron judges career numbers at Fenway at this point are getting ugly yeah he did have a good post season uh at Fenway last year yeah but but uh yeah so last year at Fenway he was 5-for-9 Jake with three runs two RBIs and two home runs so like that's when it matters most he like really played really well in Fenway in the post season but his regular season stats at Fenway are very bad yeah so but I almost don't care because of how good that post season stats are I'll uh I mean I'll leave it to you in the court of law I mean are they both on slump watch does I don't have to say you put them on there they're on oh no I thought this was just an open forum where we discuss things but okay okay and I probably wouldn't put Greg on there due to expectations but you're both on sorry guys um and then yeah Jim the last guy I put another Yankee I just I lived there I'm so Yankee centric James Paxton Jim his last six starts 29.2 innings a 667 ERA and the Yankees are one in five and James Paxton's last six starts he throws a dud against the Red Sox he was part of that Mookie 3 Homer game and uh yeah man Paxton is firmly there oh yeah well if you want to hear me lose my mind about James Paxton go listen to today's episode of Talking Yankees I don't want to relive it because it makes me very angry yeah very angry you know who I put on I put on slump watch today yeah looks looks like you got a crew the Cubs bullpen yeah the Cubs bullpen they just traded for Derek Holland because they're desperate they were desperate in 2016 they made a lot of moves they won the World Series eventually but uh I I went over that a couple episodes ago all the moves they made in 2016 they're bad Jake the Cubs have blown eight saves in July yeah in July most in the NL and tied for most in baseball in their last five losses they had lead or were tied going into the seventh inning every loss comes at the hands of the bullpen yeah brutal dude that that turns into a mental thing at a certain point um I mean we've kind of seen it with the Mets all year like yes it's tough not having the talent and performing out of the bullpen but dude when that becomes a thing on your team you're just living in fear you're living in fear of that skunk that skunk and it's a it's a tough way to play baseball man so you wonder yeah I mean Derek Holland I won't say he's the solution uh you wonder what other names they're talking to right now if this was talking Cubs tweet out at us who are the Cubbies going out and getting I'm sure they've got Felipe Vasquez rumors Ken Giles Giles Giles Diaz there's a lot of relievers out there so yeah if you're a if you're a Cubs fan tweet tweet at us let let me know um but yeah man that's a that's just like a stink that you can't wear off yep next up in fuego in fuego dirt nasties in fuego celebrate some good performances why don't we I have some fun ones on here Jake that I was like whoa I love learning new names in baseball there's so many players 25 really 40 times 30 whatever that number is that's how many players there are okay that can impact a season this dude never heard of him I wonder if you had Josh van meter 24 years old on the reds now he was drafted by the Padres is a fifth round pick shorter guy 511 whoa he was traded Jake as a player to be named later the Padres traded Louise something from the reds and he was the player to be named later that the reds chose from the Padres he got called up in May but only came off the bench for like the whole month or two months and his numbers aren't great he finally gets his first chance to start consecutive games he had never started three games in a row this season he starts four in a row and in his last four games he is hitting 692 with a 733 on base percentage and a 2 1 9 5 OPS he's got the highest OPS in baseball the last seven days never heard of him he's had a hell of a week Josh van meter from the reds he is in Fuego yeah I'm I'm not super familiar Jim I just know the last name stands out because we've been to the van meter van meter Iowa I forget I don't think it was van meter I thought it was van van meter Iowa yeah I think that's the town yeah that's where we went what famous pitcher is from there Don Supton Bob feller we went to the we went to the Bob feller museum in van meter Iowa so that's why that jumps out but no not not hyper familiar with Josh happy for a young man I mean dude how many times does it feel like we hear about some guy on the reds just putting up a big performance dude they've got to have one of the weirder seasons just looking back like they've gotten some really good hitting performances they're starting pitching grades out really well but when you look back at this red season it's just like they're run differentials amazing but they just can't win damn sorry reds good job Josh though good job Josh van meter happy for you damn well it's he got Jim Nelson Cruz he had a three homer game in his last seven games he's got a 485 on base percentage with a 1.657 OPS and seven home runs in his last seven games that's good speaking of home runs Paul Goldschmidt six games in a row with the home run Jake get him Goldie first tied for first place Cardinals Goldie is going to lead the way in his last seven he has 13 home runs 10 hits 10 hits six homers no other extra base hits it's single or homer yes sir yeah Jim jumping back a little bit Nelson Cruz he is on Edwin and Carnasio's tail for the most home runs this decade and I know I know that's kind of a I don't want to say it's a lame stat it's just a funny way to look at stats like genuinely from each decade who hits the most home runs Edwin Edwin and Carnasio and Nelson Cruz two guys that we're going to look back and we totally respect his power hitters but won't be remembered as I guess all-time greats and I don't think that's anything rude to them but when you look back at the most home runs hit by players per decade I mean you see Babe Ruth you see Alex Rodriguez you see all these all-time names and one of these guys basically whoever has the better last two months is going to finish with the most home runs this decade and whenever they pop that graphic probably nine years from now and then 19 years from now 29 years from now we're going to look and see that without that so I like a little old man power race in the AL Can you tweet out like can you be the guy that gives me the updates on the Nelson Cruz versus Edwin and Carnasio decade home race I think I'm here to the end of the season I think I can I think someone needs to give those updates follow at Talking Jake on Twitter for your Nelson Cruz, Edwin and Carnasio home run decade that's it now that's all I'm doing I'd like you to be the guy every at bat of each you need to put alerts on for Nelson Cruz and Edwin and Carnasio and the bats and be dedicated to this fun it's who you are now change your Twitter bio it's my life it's my new life what about I had another rookie on here Matt Thice you heard of this guy first round pick I'd rather go to college then he gets picked up for LA got called up on July 3 did nothing for his first eight games passed four games Baltimore Orioles in the worst pitching staff in America comes to town three homers two in one game and one was a walkoff 429 on base percentage Matt Thice and Fuego proud of you Matt Thice and uh yeah I mean technically a little preview of watch coming up Jim I threw one pitcher on here and man big Mets episode Jacob DeGrom everyone's been talking Cinder guard with the trade Zach Wheeler trade rumors they just go out and get Strowman Strowman Strowman Jacob DeGrom you're defending NLCI young winner he goes out he twirls a casual seven innings pitch zero earned run this week yeah that's fine Jim in his last 12 starts aka two months over two months he's only had one start where he's given up three earned runs every other start has been under three to the tune of a 2.10 ERA and Jim this month more specifically Jacob DeGrom 26 innings pitch with a 1.04 ERA Jacob DeGrom again it gets tricky with some of these DeGrom trouts the studs of the game because they could be in there every week Jacob DeGrom deserve to be talked about so I threw him in there well I have a stud pitcher right behind him yes I have a stud pitcher not in the NL East right another NL East guys these guys in their NL East bias biased here's let's talk about Steven Strasberg so he had a good outing great outing he only allowed two base runners seven innings pitched only allowed two base runners two hits zero walks actually I think he had a hit by pitch damn so that ruins that I think it was maybe two hit by pitches so four base runners but one earned run but Jake this was the Dodgers coming to town this was facing off versus Walker Bueller this was a big game kind you know what I mean like that was like you gotta come to it Strasberg versus Bueller Strasberg comes to he's having a great month of July five starts in the month of July 1.14 ERA they have one they have one oh wow one, two, three counting four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten the Nationals have won nine no ten of the last eleven starts and Jim I'll give you a stat that can help out with that he leads the NL and wins this year Stevie Stevie Strasberg yeah his last eleven starts they have won ten games and he has gotten the decision the winning decision in ten of those eleven so it's all been him yeah man he's been he's been twirling it it's the team that just I feel the American League I feel like right now is living in fear of Houston like if Houston can drop the bomb at this trade deadline and go out and get Cindergarde like that would just take out that would take the wind out of everyone's sails like Verlander, Cindergarde, Cole that would just be tough to beat you're starting to get into miracle time dude if these Nats make it with Strasberg, Scherzer and Corbin nobody wants to play them living in fear of that skunk of those Nats and I know the Dodgers have good pitching too and they've got a lot of talent but you want the Nats in a seven game set Poppy Gordo doesn't ooh for those that speak don't speak Spanish that means fat dad it's around there loosely it's a loose translation and it's your nickname for yourself since like you're 14 years old it's a loose translation yeah it's a I don't know self-fulfilling prophecy whatever you want to label it Jim and I actually I had this as the I had this as the Segway from in Fuego but we can end it with it and I forget if we I don't know if this is our first guy to ever do it Jim I'm putting Jonathan VR from slump watch last week 10 Fuego wow what a transition what a transition what what do we have a nickname for those guys what's something that go microwave guys they get hot in a hurry no that's stolen from NBA but maybe let's figure out a name from going from slump watch started from the bottom now they can hear that song about deaf people and cochlear implants yeah okay we can we can work well we'll brain shop after this tweeted us tweeted us if you go from slump watch to in Fuego what that is in the four games sent against the Los Angeles angels of Anaheim California my guy Jonathan VR went 10 for 18 he scored nine runs in four games five RBI two home runs five stolen bases Jim a 5.56 batting average with the one dot five six three OPS my guy went nuts this series so I'm happy for Jonathan VR oh yeah you know who's not happy a lot of people that got mad a lot of people got mad Jim who got mad who got mad Bowers the big one but first there was a Ramon Loriano and Sampson Adrian Sampson argument you see all this the backstory is wild I did see all this and there was another A's teammate involved too yeah Mark Kana Kana I don't know how to say it yeah so the backstory is that Kana took Sampson deep and June 8th in Arlington and he he really didn't he watched it he watched his ball fly through the night sky and then just dropped his bat no bat flip nothing and Sampson is one of these bum gardener types but he's bad so it doesn't really make sense like dude you're gonna get really worked up if you're upset every time someone hits a home run and admires it off you so he's like run and is it Kana or Kana I can never figure it out it's a Kana Kana so he's like I'll run whatever I don't care and then Sampson was so mad on that June 8th game that he got Loriano out for the last out of the inning Loriano says he stepped on his bat like Loriano dropped his bat on the first baseline as he was running and the dude was walking towards the dugout and just stepped right on the bat and he was mad about that so Kana goes deep he sprints right away out the box he gets his revenge and then Loriano goes deep and he looks at Sampson and says why don't you step on this one then Sampson's mad at him he tells the ump like you see what he did and then they get this whole bench oh then they hit him later on new pitcher came in and hit him but I think it was on purpose but whatever yeah it was uh it's gonna be tough for me to go a full show without talking about Ramon Loriano one of my favorites he had a bomb he had a bomb in his redemption shot just turned on an inside pitch and then he pointed at him he showed him the bat and he said you're gonna step on it now and the pitcher the best part of that exchange was the pitcher and the umpire and you were all over this in your breakdown the pitcher starts huffin' and puffin' over to the first baseline going run to first run to first and Loriano's just there like dude hit another home run like get over it and the umpire comes over and he's like hey you gotta calm down like this is good for baseball like I'm sorry he hit a home run off of you but guys enjoying home runs is what we want so sorry dude catch the net yeah and he like turns the umpire he started it it's like dude you're I wasn't a fan of Samson before cause I didn't know he was not a fan now unless he wants to come on the show then I like it so that was some madness and then dude the diamond backs and the marlins emptied benches but no one cared like no one cares cause it's the marlins and the diamond backs but Christian Walker got hit twice if we have any fans of those teams listening I apologize that no one was interested but Christian Walker got thrown inside twice and he's walking down the first line baseline he's just screaming like fuck god damn it fuck fuck not looking at the pitcher just kinda like I just got hit twice and the diamond backs dug out was started like screaming out to the field like come on bra bra barkin' so is it Tehran Guerrero looks at them and it's like come on you want something come on and like starts calling them up and then it's a whole thing is bad I mean I might do a breakdown of it but it's pretty it's like a it's real dumb sometimes I like the dumbness this one's like so uninteresting and bad the big one is Trevor Bauer the biggest story in baseball if we're being honest turns, throws the ball over the center field fence because he had like I see a lot of people saw the clip Jake didn't get any of the context that's why when I made my breakdown I was like I have to show why he's so frustrated because it had nothing to do so if you just see the clip people are trying to paint it I'm sure there's ESPN hot take shows right now painting it as he didn't he was refusing to give the ball to Terry Francona and like he didn't want to be taken out of the game that is not what happened at all they're gonna try and paint it like that he was he threw the ball he had a ball first and he threw it at the backstop then they gave him a new ball but he didn't want a new ball so he threw it over center field fence like he just matted himself and the terrible luck and the bad inning so I'm already annoyed with people saying like he showed up as manager no he acted like crazy immature you can say that he didn't he didn't it was not a like I don't want to come out of this game he knew he was coming out of the game yeah and I think it's funny Jim because I know you were you were saving this I'm gonna flip it on you I don't think Trevor Bauer got mad I think Trevor Bauer was frustrated I think Terry Francona got mad why well Bauer was mad yeah I I know it was just a little wordsplay to come back at you because Tito dropped a big what the fuck are you doing son on which Terry Francona doing that is always a good time one of the best dudes in baseball but yeah I mean Bauer was frustrated there was there was a swinging bunt the play before that there's a couple balls that leaked through so yeah I dropped I dropped fly out because the son blinded Mercado right the son got in the way of Olivia Mercado or guy so yeah it was it was just pure frustration and if this was anybody else stayed like there if this if this was someone who wasn't Bauer which to be fair it is Bauer and he's put when you put yourself out and you do weird stuff and you be kind of gruff with the media times or whatever you want to be you set yourself up for when something like this happens they're gonna blow it up on you if this was just kind of a random guy or you know if this if this was just someone we knew as a competitor to Grom or whoever it was we'd say like wow I mean this is this guy frustrated or what what a competitor but because it's Bauer we're like I told you this guy can be a troubling presence so I just think it's so funny how how quick people can flip the script on it and yeah I mean I've got no problem with it you find them I think you find Bauer because you just you can't do that you can't let players know it's okay to twirl balls into the stands but I mean that should be it like that that should be the end of it yeah I mean yeah there's I was trying to say like I can't love guys for beating up water coolers and like being intense and then hate Bauer on this incident but that is only talking about the isolated incidents of this because there is other Bauer stuff from the past where like dude you seem like a lot to deal with in a clubhouse and on a team and but I do like the fire and intensity and he is really good pitcher but he was not refusing to give the ball to the manager because he did not want to be taken out of the game I just want to make sure that everyone knows that that is what the hot take and the people that didn't watch the full inning and just watch the clip are trying to portray this as that is not what happened yeah well and I mean the secret double-reversy here Jim is that Cleveland told Bauer they're like dude we have to trade you you know we just can't afford you and we have to get value out of here so just do something a little weird this game so that we can spin that into the trade deadline that's why we're trading you so that's so that so when they trade Bauer the fans won't get mad they'll be like yeah I guess when he threw the ball that was the last hump that broke the camel straw straw yeah oh dude I forgot about a quote I wanted to say about the Loriano okay ejection did you see this I put us here Loriano was asked if he enjoyed his home runoff Samson and he said to be honest I don't enjoy anything it just kind of happens and that's it yeah I mean he's essentially my religion currently is Ramon Loriano feels like just a fatalist just dead inside it's pretty awesome let's rifle through walkoff watch because there was so many there was so many dude you can run man Brewers came back over the Cubs the Cubs took the lead in the 10th or something like that and then the Brewers came back Kimber lost at Yellowchhome run to tie it how do you say his name Kenton Herrero that's Camp Herrero yeah Keston Herrera Keston Herrera hits the walkoff good for him he's having a good year. Teosker Hernandez bottom of the 12th hit a leadoff Homer to beat the Rays Matt Thys hit a home run to win it for the Angels Seattle had two walkoffs the first was Kyle Seeger single and Malik Smith single the second was a Dillon Moore double and a J.B. Crawford single both over Detroit Oakland had a walkoff walk Davis and the Marlins walked off with two consecutive sack flies they scored three runs in the game all on sack flies again I think that wins the least interesting series the Marlins and the Diamondbacks because things happened in it and even myself a baseball lover like couldn't get myself to like go check it out yeah and maybe a little deflating for our D-backs too well that's a team that's still kind of a wild card at this deadline they're gonna move a lot are they gonna move very little what to watch for Brian Cashman making trades with the Diamondbacks as the Diamondbacks come to the Bronx and play a two game set versus the Yankees I think he's gonna be trying I think he's gonna be wheeling deal and ask about Robbie Ray ask about Cranky I think Cashman's gonna be trying to do something right then and there classic Yankees move making them making the Rays play them right before the trade deadline so they could try to get their pitchers that's so Yankees we had three debuts Jake yeah none of them highly touted or crazy things happened Jeremy Walker relief pitcher for the Braves made his debut Jose Rodriguez relief pitcher for the Angels made his debut Ryan Court hitter for Seattle he got a couple hits played a little first base right field yeah he pinch hit in his first first game lined out to left and then he got like two hits in his next game hit the ball hard got a ground rule double good for him and Jim I think the bigger news because you're right not a lot of big name prospects Ryan Court made major league debut at age 31 so good for you dude two hits you're a you have a lifetime you have a lifetime trump card on pretty much everyone you ever meet I I did not look into that that's crazy good for him he's older than us Jim take that Ryan loser older than us and more successful in baseball enjoy playing major league baseball you loser enjoy health health healthcare for life ah awards awards the awards segment of the show Jim you get to go first I go first Jim and I am giving out the Tums award I think I should go on Mondays and you should go on Fridays because you're more of a Friday guy and I'm more of a Monday guy but wow I'm actually I'm actually a pretty big Monday supporter no but you're like a party fun guy I'm a loser with that mentality you're right Jim that's what I'm saying but I want you to shake that mentality so I think it's wrong Jim the Tums award we give out one of my favorite awards in baseball through the years is the Rolades reliever of the year award Jim I think we need to start giving out the Tums award you know are they competing companies are they together no Rolades and Tums are separate right no idea but I'm team Tums all the way you're my expert in the field on that but Jimmy we need to start giving the Tums award to the best field player pitcher of the year and Jim we had a field player made history Stevie Wilkerson comes in and gets the save in the 16 inning Angels Orioles game and yeah I mean a field player coming in twirling it getting a save that's 2019 baseball did you watch it did you watch it yeah I saw he had some he had the floater going yeah it was the only pitch he was throwing and it's it makes a lot of sense because like if you were to take a professional baseball player and throw them into a slow pitch softball game they wouldn't do great their first two at bats because it's so different and that's based on what he was doing to them I wanted to make a breakdown of it after he threw every ball he got into like this crazy ready position like jumped into it like a cat like all it's going to come back and every time they put one in play he was looking up like crazy like we can catch it he's like so excited into it you would think a pitcher would just be like lobbing it and like whatever the fuck happens happens he was like no let's get this it's pretty fun and I mean talk about it's probably something that's going to be mentioned when the next CBA or CBA changes get brought up because there's something to be said about baseball when you're having an outfielder come in and try to get a save in a 10-8 game it was 16 innings I get there's extraneous factors there hey and Stevie Wilkerson Jim he's got four innings on the year now 225 he's given up one earn run it was a Yabo so Stevie Wilkerson he is my leader for the Tums award this season nice wow good job Stevie Wilkerson yeah my award is the you got got award ooh tough oh yeah I've been on the end of this award is not a good feeling you got got dude you know what goes to who got got Ben Gamble Wow I was going to mention Ben Gamble earlier because I didn't realize he's hanging out on the Brewers now right did you see how he buys his fake tag oh yes I did see that I didn't realize that was Gamble nice dude it was the 9th or 10th inning Gamble reaches due to error tied game he steals second to get into scoring position the Cubs throw the ball into the outfield Javi misses the ball Gamble overslides the bag he could have very easily got up and ran to third and now you have to go ahead run on third base but Javi fakes like he has the ball in his glove and Javi did it so well man because he didn't just straight up tag him because if he did that the ump would not call him out you know right so he like intentionally didn't tag him but was trying to tag him and Gamble scurries back to second base Javi doesn't have the ball he got got it was uh it's awesome it's a highlight that if you're listening to this and you haven't seen it you need to look up yeah I want to do a breakdown of that end of bum gardener not knowing you struck out yeah they they did the little like chicken dance where you kind of you're juicing each other for a second and the fact that Javi thought of that immediately is just so good well the fact he didn't tag him like he had to do the juicing tag right and he just he had the self-awareness to do all of that immediately and he didn't flinch at all which a lot of guys normally a guy would flinch and then maybe try to do that or they wouldn't try to do that at all and uh Javi man I I think that's a guy he'd be at the top of the list I feel of if you watch that guy play baseball every day that I think you just fall in love with him I agree I agree I wonder if he did touch him with his glove without a ball in it if he can get called for obstruction probably I know that like in high school you can't do a fake tag because it's obstruction it's automatic and I know that that's not the rule in the majors Jeter used to do a fake tag all time but I wonder if he does make contact if then they could say that's obstruction I get to go to third there's probably something in the rules about that that's interesting but anyway Gamal you got got yeah saw Gamal on the brew crew he fits in there yep he does actually you ready for elevator talk elevator talk favorite segment if you're new 2 minutes will go on the clock it's a fake 2 minutes kind of we're gonna spin a wheel it's got all 30 teams on it we're gonna try and have it land on a team we haven't discussed if you find yourself in an elevator with a fan of this team you will be able to hold a conversation have some fodder Jake and I will go to the websites that we go to and pull up some information some conversation starters for you to have you ready let's get it we're spinning we're spinning we're spinning Houston Astros we did them like 2 episodes ago yeah they're we're pushing them for now they're really good Tampa Bay Rays ooh we could ray out I mean we gave you a little bit they just traded for SoGuard they just traded for SoGuard so that's a big move I think they're gonna float them for more they're in the race with the Red Sox they're strongly in the race for the wild card pretty strong they they're probably not gonna win the division no I think yes I mean them the Sox and the A's they are battling they could use another stick man I mean they G-Man Choi at first base an old friend of the program he could use a little more Tommy fan gets hot Austin Meadows hasn't been who he was he's still putting together a nice year they could use another twig or two Travis Darno has been doing great things for them oh my god I don't know Jim this was the team that everyone around baseball was saying was gonna make a big trade this deadline and I don't even know what that would be and the other thing you know about the Rays is that their pitching has just been so good this year that they they're not shy to use that bullpen it's new baseball a little bit they are still first in the AL and ERA Blake Snell just went down for the year that hurts them if they can get Tyler Glass now back holy smokes he was impressive early on this season that's what I was gonna say they got a lot of guys on the I L right now they got Jose Alvarado Yandy Diaz Abbas Al Garcia Tyler Glass now Kevin Kiermeyer Brandon Lauch Tommy Fan Blake Snell and Ryan Stanek those are guys that are part of this team some huge some small but still have their role like they all all those guys have a role on the team and they're all hurt right now they need to get healthy they have a three game set coming up against the Red Sox so this is huge for them they just lost two out of three to the Sox and the Sox are playing good baseball so they they need to they need to win this series I think it's like it's a big series for them Charlie Morton's having a fantastic year talk about that he was the name he was the name I was going to say Jim if you're if you see a raised fan you give him a firm like damn that that Charlie Morton signing that's a that's one of the best signings of the offseason he's he's look his numbers match what he looks like on the bump this year so one of the best stuff I've watched live this season and then you need Brendan McKay maybe he comes back two way McKay two way McKay hater and pitcher so that's really fun yeah I think that's it that's it and they play in the terrible terrible place so they go oh yeah make make fun of the tropon that's your that's your way out of the elevator and like oh gotta get out of the trap huh see you later bro I'd love to go to a game at the end but I don't want to wait two hours in traffic to go to a stadium where the power goes out boom that ends the show Jake tough tough end for the race today we'll be back on Friday and there's going to be a lot of trades like I don't even know how we're going to do a full show it might have to be nuts I thought about trying to rope you into like a half hour 40 minute trade up Wednesday night we'll see we'll see how it will be fun yeah we'll see how my what's going on in my life we'll see life thank you guys very much for listening leave a rating and review if you are so inclined we would appreciate that and as always we need help slump watch in Fuego some people were treating stuff in who got mad oh Robbie can know someone wanted us to put him on slump watch I didn't look into it but I I think maybe maybe we'll have a user submission maybe in the future so anyway get be our researchers thanks for listening we will see you on Friday or maybe Wednesday last words Jake go the trade deadline excited be crazy baseball take win a news cycle how about that win the news cycle see you guys talking baseball


As Nigeria is getting ready for the 2023 presidential elections, former President Goodluck Jonathan says he's undecided and rejects the all-progressive Congress presidential form bought for him by a Northern group. And court has set aside the Judgment Voiding Section 84, Subsection 12 of the Electoral Act of 2022. And President Buhari has ordered ministers running for the office or any office to resign. This is Plus Politics, and I'm Mary Anacom. Former President Goodluck Jonathan has rejected a presidential nomination form bought for him by a Northern group in Nigeria. Jonathan described the purchase of the form without his consent as an insult. In a statement by his spokesman, Ike Chiku Ezei, Jonathan also said that he has yet to decide whether to seek the re-election on the platform of Nigeria's current ruling of Progressive Congress. His spokesperson, Mr Ezei, however, said in a statement that the former president was not consulted before the form was bought. Joining us to discuss this is Upanabal Incultara Political Analyst, and Izekal Nyaituk is also a Political Analyst and a Politician. Thank you gentlemen for joining us. Thank you. Great. Good evening Nigeria. I'll start with you Upanabal. Goodluck Jonathan has, for the past few months there have been speculations as to where his political leanings lie, whether he's loyal to the old Progressive Congress, and there are also those who are wondering when the former president had left the People's Democratic Party to join the APC. These are questions and speculations that led to people saying that he might be running for the office of the presidency. We saw videos, we saw pictures that somewhat were pointing in that direction, even though most of them were not factual. But we are here today having this conversation. I think my first question is, when did the president move to the APC? Yes, I'm asking, when did President Goodluck Jonathan move to the APC? Even when, or why, you're sorry? When? When? Well, I'm not aware of this, and I'm not aware that Goodluck Jonathan has defected to the APC. All we get is in the realm of speculations. And the president himself has not come out to say he has defected to the APC. And I'll list him to what the chairman of the APC, Bahia Kasim, said. The president may not be made a director, because if you have to defend yourself, of course, it's not from your work, although a lot of defendants rush to Asura just to ingratiate themselves with Mr. President and make a show of their defection, like what panic has they did, which is actually incongruous and wrong, because if you have to register from your work level, you're put in unit. So the chairman of the APC said the president is not yet their member. That was what he said. So I don't, and the president himself has not come out to say he has defected, not even his media aid has said so, as alluded to that part. So I, for now, I don't think it's a president or the former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has defected to the APC. I don't think so. I infuse that. If a man of that class should defect from one political party to the other, of course, he needs to suffuse the air with such a story. The air is on the air, we suffuse with such a story. So I certainly don't think they have defected. Maybe he's still moaning the idea. Maybe he's still commutating upon it. Depending on their accommodation, he's going to reach with Mr. President, as I'm talking of who I am right now, depending on the kind of accommodation, the kind of compact you are going to have, probably. And I think they rush to buy the form for him in order to beat the deadline. So they eventually can put him in. To be eventually suffixed to the call, the plumber, for him to contest. Unless it must be that the form will be an impediment. So I think that will guide the rush to get the form. They have also apologized. I think he messaged them with each of them one. I don't know how he expressed his anger, and they also apologized. So right now I cannot authenticate if you say, if President Moon of Jonathan is a member of the APC, or the President of the APC, or remains a member of the APC. Mr. Ngaitok, we've seen this trend of buying forms for certain persons. I mean, the most interesting is the one that was bought for the President of the AFDB. And the story of the fact that they've been trying to contact him, and they've not been able to get in touch with him. Why do you think that there's all of a sudden that special urge to buy people forms, whether or not these people are interested in running for that office? And why is it just people within the all-aggressive Congress that are buying forms for people who are either members or non-members of the party? The very first thing is that I think we Nigerians need to sit down and really think about ourselves again.  There's a way you are in an office, even as a lady, and people treat you with respect, because your courage is such that people know without even saying a thing, talking about body language, that you are a non-nonsense person. Nigerians, especially those of us that call ourselves professionals, that call ourselves the elites, that call ourselves the intellectuals, we really need to wonder why we are being treated the way that we are being treated by politicians. What am I saying in all these things? There are certain body language that have come to characterize the political mien of the politicians. One of that is, you know, my people want me to. You know, it's a popular opinion. It means we really don't understand the fundamentals of leadership. Leadership in certain offices, like the office of the president, or office of the governor, or office of the local government chairman, which should be, but unfortunately is not. There are offices of maximum service that have to come from a certain level of passion that you have, a certain level of something that drives you.  But could that also not be that people have seen something in you? I'm sorry to talk over you. Does that not also mean that maybe the people have seen something in you, or seen that you have done great in certain other areas? For example, the AFDB president. Some people may have seen that, look, this man has done great in all of the offices that he's held, and we think that he would do great as a president. I'm not in any way campaigning, but I'm saying to you, could that also be the reason why people are pushing? Maybe you're tinkering on it, and then there are people who are saying, let's help you push you to that level. I'll tell you this.   And when you are convinced that you want to do this, you do it because you... Apologies, Mr. Nyaito, are you still there? Sorry. Go ahead. We lost you for a second. OK, can you hear me now? Yes. Yes. When it comes to my people, secondly, we know that these forms are paid for by the people behind. But they want to show that they are very popular. They want to show that they are wanted by their people.  I want you to do a profiling of the people that bought these forms. And let us see those who contributed to get it done. At the end of the day, it's just for me. It's just the way that we play this game. That doesn't make sense. Let's go to the people that bought the form for President Jonathan. Let's go to interrogate the people that bought the form. Let's look at the bank accounts of these people. You just realize that maybe one man somewhere wants to make a point. Either Mr. President's person wants to taste the waters or somebody else who should have respect enough to ask Mr. President, sir, we want to do this for you. So what do we do? So head or tail, there's something that is just not ethical about all these issues of they bought the form for me. Doesn't make sense. I don't buy it. I will come back to you to talk about some other things that some other speculations about why President, former President Goodlock Jonathan is even in this conversation. But let me come back to you upon our board. The former president was seen on Monday night at the home of the national president of the All Progressive Congress. There were pictures that were published on, I think, Monday night when he paid that visit to, reportedly visited Adamo's residence. Two politicians were, the two politicians were actually photographed beaming with smiles to the camera. The visit actually lasted just a few hours. After the Miety-Ala cattle wearers, a fuller need to bought that nomination form, an expression of interest form for 100 million Naira. Even though former President Goodlock Jonathan's office issued a statement denying that he has joined the party, but the question's still linger. What was he doing at the house of the national chairman or the national, yes, national chairman of the APC as a member of the People's Democratic Party? Does that not count as an anti-party? Well, that's not from us. I don't know why you would say that. Without the basis of the facts of that discussion, that the member of the PDP does not really cannot visit any member of the agency. It's fair to cut across, but nevertheless, it became an issue because of the rumor that it's rending the air right now. That's why that visit is now an issue. And like I said earlier, Jonathan's denaturalism, procrastination, whether he was going to contest or not, also gave room for all these conditions and speculation. Probably he went there, won the chairman's invitation, made you to also convince him to contest. Well, probably he was there in order to cross the T's and dot the I's. And the rear saw that should he confess to these two is having the win that he's definitely getting better. The consensus candidate, where will all be guessed? Because we don't have the facts of the meeting. What should he transfer and that meeting? So I think it's not unconnected with the purchase of the form and the presidential ambition. I think it's not unconnected. Because I have a strong conviction that it has a nexus with it. But whether it is anti-party or not, you can only accuse him of anti-party activities when you have the facts that he's not there to betray the PDP. But when you say anti-party, again, if a man is defective from a political party to another political party and that same person is negotiate his defection. I don't think that is anti-party, no. It's not anti-party. Anti-party could be like somebody that is in mood in a party. For example, we are discussing on how we are going to win party A and the man takes that as discussion out to party A for disclosure. Then you can say anti-party. But if Genadal is moving, if it is generally going to defect from the PDP to the ATC and is negotiating, confabulation is going on, you cannot accuse him of anti-party because he has not gone there to sell the PDP to ATC. So I don't think he can be accused of anti-party. So why do you think that the... Because I wanted to ask Ms. Ngay, I took that question, but I'll start with you. Why do you think that President Johnson, whether he's... We're not in his mind. We can't tell. We're not in his inner... We would love to be a fly in the wall, by the way, to hear what's going on in his home. But why all of a sudden has he become a subject in this 2023 presidential race? Why is he in the conversation? Because the speculations belts up to now saying, oh, he might be running on the platform of the APC. But then there have also been those who have kicked against the idea, former President Goodlock Jonathan running for the office of the president. Maybe I do not know what side of the divide that you agree with, whether you think it's a good idea for him to be running, meaning that the South is saying it's our turn, whether it's the Southeast, whether it's the South South, or the Southwest, the South is saying it's our turn. Why do you think that he would even want to consider running? But for those who are saying he shouldn't, do you think that they're right? And what would be their reasons if there be any? Well, first of all, it is within the bias, within the right constitutionally to run. I don't think there is an integral contradiction that will stop him from running. Definitely. The National Committee of the United States is contested in contesting again in the next general election. We are here with our president that contests how many times are failed. I think as if he tried his luck in his world, I think that was him. I think he tried it as well and won. So I don't see anything wrong with President Goodlock Jonathan, we're contested. Although a lot of people are saying he's going to diminish his personality and so on, I have one, and the considering is international crowd, especially after he conceded to President Gouwaring, that placed him on a different pedestal and it is there that a lot of people go in. But then, why some persons are saying he should not contest is because then, for example, the APT, if Jonathan is going to defect to the APT, I can tell you that something has been wished. We would not want to go there and embarrass himself at the venue of the primary. I don't think he'll want to do that. And I think he'll want to step back up and that's why probably the negotiations are still going on. Now, I will say that if it also comes out, I cannot show you that he's going to be one of the strongest candidates, he's not the strongest candidate in the election because the majority of those who want to vote for Jonathan, not because they love Jonathan, but simply because they believe that Jonathan is just going to be helping for just another four years. And to be said that, the power should pay to the South and it has to go back to the North. They'll be able to, I'm definitely not going to be happy because they believe that right now it should be going to the Southeast and with Jonathan from the South-South, definitely it is going to truncate definitely there are impediments to the South system the South system that they make as a presidential candidate and eventually a president. So the South is definitely not going to be too happy with it. Then there are those with some liberal minds that believe that this man has earned his respect and he doesn't need to rubbish his reputation. Should he lose? What becomes of his reputation? But I don't believe in that. That to me is a difficult theory.  Nothing fails, nothing gains. I think Jonathan needs to go in there. Now a lot of them do, I don't think God will say if Jonathan will contest that he's definitely going to support him and he's also not going to contest. Of course you must say, God must send the same thing. And a lot of other persons, even those that they get Jonathan in 2015 now have their regrets because of the cataclysmic leadership that we're expressing today in the country. The other general Muhammad is going in and this point for me to do a question on the general, he said he's the general general of my life. On the general Muhammad is going in and they compare it just so that they realize that the general's administration and that of Muhammad Muhammad is like seven of the different in claim. So for so many reasons, you are using some type of country to contest. Those that are saying they should not contest, most of them are for eccentric reasons because his ambition will definitely be negative in fact on their ambition. And so they don't want him to contest because of the crowd they have. So that's exactly, but whatever it is everybody can tell you there's opinion that's not the truth about it. Mr. Ngai Tok, my first question is, why is, why not contest on the platform of the People's Democratic Party, a platform that he wrote. No, no, the question is, I'm sorry, it's for Mr. Ngai Tok. Why is President Jonathan, if he were to contest, if you were interested, if he used to be part of this, why not the PDP secondly, how important is a good luck Jonathan ticket in 2023? And would really he be able to win the South South in 2023? Okay, I will look at it from a slightly different perspective. My first perspective will be the country Nigeria, the politics, the governance. There's so much of the politics, but politics takes a nation nowhere. Governors decide whether we are going to be the poverty capital of the world or a fast growing economy. We must draw a line between those two, politics and governance. In politics, which is the game of power, the South will be very unhappy with President Jonathan. He was president for eight years and he was the president of Nigeria. He was Pan-Nigeria. So if it comes back as president, he's going to be what favors the North because he's going to be a president for everybody. Now he's going to be there for four years and the South would have taken their turn. Then it goes to the North. Will we have a Northern president who is going to be a Pan-Nigerian like Jonathan? Or would we have had eight years of the North, four years of North-South and another eight years of the North again? It is on account of that, that the South is saying, this man, we thank you and everything for the politics, please wait. Let's get a Southern president who is going to be eight years from the South before it goes back to the North. Now that is the politics. So the North will be happy with the politics. The South will be unhappy with the politics. Let's come to the governance. In the Nigeria of today, Jonathan, my former president, Jonathan, has the good heart, which is good for leadership. He does not have the charisma, which is what is needed today. He does not have that thing that brings people, motivates people, gets people up and then gets them doing, gets them going. He doesn't have that.  He is visionary within a certain context of a nice guy. But we may need to have a man who is a root of some sort, because the global market right now needs somebody who is relatively bullish. And that man can be found in a man like President Buhari, President Obasanjo. Some days back, I was with President Obasanjo. And I said, my ogre is my boss. I said, so let me leak a secret I've never told you. It's true that I became the first Nigerian that got the Shelter of Freak facility by any state government. That is what people know. There's a back end to that story, which is what people don't know what helped me. Shelter of Freak knew that Nigeria was one of the largest investors and one of the longest and most supportive. And that no Nigerian, no state had benefited from the facility. They said, if something is not done, this man is going to withdraw from Shelter of Freak because President Obasanjo takes no prisoners. When Nigeria is not getting value for money, he's going to leave. So they were desperate to get a facility to Nigeria. So I entered and became a beneficiary of the man's bullishness and fear by the international community. For today, we need such a person. And I don't think that President, former President Abela Jonathan has it. Number two, we need somebody who is tech-serving. Somebody who understands the trends and he does not show me in the past eight years he was President that he really did that. Maybe over the years he has lent it, but that is taking a chance again. And finally, we have lacked international role models and figures. And after Nelson Mandela, I dare say that President Goodluck Jonathan is one African that is respected globally today. What is it coming for? For another four years, chance of being rubbish. So please, let him be where we are. Let us have that big figure nationally and internationally. And let us get a more vibrant person as a President. Okay, well, interesting. Finally, the ABC is closing its sailor forms as we speak. We've seen a lot more people rush to buy and submit their forms as the time is running out. And we don't see any green light coming from the area of President, former President Goodluck Jonathan. So now let's look at all that remains of those who are running for office. I mean, the President has today said all of these people need to, if you have to collect to run for any office and you hold a public office, then you need to resign.  But what remains to be seen within the ABC as they gear up for their primaries in closing? Sorry, I didn't get your question. I'm asking, now that the sailor forms is coming to a close, we haven't heard anything from President Goodluck Jonathan.  What remains to be seen as the party gears up for their primaries come to the end of May? Well, the President has other, he who hired fire, the President has other, that all those that are interested in political office, electric office should resign, I think by the latest model they are there about. And they're all going to resign, not because they are legally found to resign, because the constitution said 30 days. If you remember this very program, this is the next task I told you, we'll be voided because it's a very large and steady consistent with the position of the constitution. They also have amended the constitution first before amending their next task. That is what Goodluck does. Remember when I told you that it took a couple of people to voided it?  It's an infusion on the rights of Nigeria. Pavel said this, what do you expect? Well, for the political housing perspective, what the political leaders will do, what they leave office right now, or what they resign, what they will do, is to rev up the political engine, because they will have that. A lot of them are not going to have to do this because we're going to concern the effects of the office, which they will be robbed of, what they leave, their security, probably between now, those who thought it was going to be for the 30 days to the election, between now and the 30 days are going to make more money, sign more contracts and so on. A lot of them think that we will definitely not be happy with it, but well, in life, we can't have all we want. So they'll just come and join the political party, actively now, and not just actively. Most of them will even be looking to their various things, those that are not in Abuja, to ensure that their party goes away to go to the election of those states. So it's going to be an interesting, actually it's going to be an interesting period. Quite interesting, I can tell you that. Well, I want to say thank you very much for now about Inko Tariah, Izikul and I took both political analysts. Thank you for being part of the conversation, we appreciate your thoughts. Thank you. All right. Well, thank you all for staying with us. We'll take a quick break and when we return, we will discuss the appeal court setting aside, a judgment voting or rather voiding section 84, stop section 12 of the electoral act of 2022. And of course, President Bahari ordering during the federal executive council that members of the council with political ambitions must resign on or before Monday next week. We'll be right back.


Sailors at the Pentagon held a coalition of Sailors Against Destructive Decisions, or CSAD, Awareness Fair October 30th. The fair covered topics such as suicide prevention, sexual assault prevention, and health and fitness. Today's Navy is not the Navy was in the past where you can get away with doing certain things. It hurts when you see a great sailor have to lose everything they've earned. It affects their family beyond just them. CSAD is a Navy-wide peer-to-peer mentorship program which aims to build leadership skills in young Sailors. They do this through their creative collective minds, producing videos, posters, performing skits, and writing poetry. If you visit any one of those chapters, CSAD Facebook pages, you can see how many likes or friend-me's they get. Contact your command CSAD representative to get involved. From the Defense Media Activity, I'm Petty Officer James Norman.


Hematologic cells and their functions. In this learning object, we will identify normal blood cells and their functions. This will include the identification of red blood cells, five types of white blood cells, and platelets. Neutrophil.  The cytoplasm contains small, lilac staining granules. Neutrophil fights infections by internalizing microorganisms for destruction and is increased in people with bacterial infections. Eosinophil is a white blood cell that contains large red-orange granules in the cytoplasm and has a blue segmented nucleus. Attempts to suppress inflammatory tissue reactions and is increased in people with parasitic infections and allergies. Basophil. A white blood cell with large deep, bluish-purple granules in the cytoplasm has a blue segmented nucleus. Basophil plays a role in acute and delayed allergic reactions. Basophil is the least numerous of the white blood cells. Monocyte. Monocytes are the largest peripheral white blood cells. They are 12 to 24 microns in diameter and have a convoluted or indented nucleus. They have a blue-gray cytoplasm that may contain vacuoles. Monocytes are the most important phagocytic cell. Lymphocyte.  They have a round blue nucleus with light blue cytoplasm and are 7 to 15 microns in diameter. A lymphocyte regulates the immune system and plays a role in antibody production. Erythrocyte. An erythrocyte is a red blood cell with a biconcave disc 6 to 8 microns in diameter and stains pinkish red. An erythrocyte transports oxygen and carbon dioxide. Platelet. A platelet is a tiny blue cell fragment that is 1.5 to 4 microns in diameter and has no nucleus. A platelet plays a role in blood coagulation. You have completed hematologic cells and their functions.