With that, beginning at verse 1 in chapter 6, this is only 12 verses, and you would think I'd get through it very quickly, but I probably won't, but I'm going to do my best to probably cut out some things. But with that said, verses 1 and 2, there is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men, a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires yet. God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it's an evil affliction. And so as we enter into this, let me remind you that Solomon had just written that a person who rejoices daily in God will always have few regrets. In chapter 5 verse 20, he had said that God keeps him busy with the joy of his heart. So in his enjoying of the gifts of God, he doesn't think too much about the sorrows of life. It isn't that he has an experienced sorrow, it's not that he has an experienced grief. It's just that the joy that he has in the Lord has overcome all of that. He had pointed out that God had provided for him, and the blessings have been greater than the hurts. Just in contrast with the rich man, the rich man who has made bad choices and due to that has lost everything. The man left nothing to an heir, and he died, Solomon says, and the way that he was born, he died naked. He didn't use this money or enjoy it. He died with sorrow and sickness and anger. So he's been pointing out that making wise choices in life, especially in our loving of God, will make a lifetime of joy. And the life that we have, and he's been pointing this out over and over again, is that we should see this as a gift from God. So knowing this provokes us to store up happy memories, knowing this should provoke us to enjoy our life. So in chapter six, Solomon is returning to his thoughts on the futility of wealth. Now at first it may seem as we've been going through ecclesiasties that he's basically talking in circles, because he has said to enjoy money. He's also said to enjoy the advantages that having money will bring to us. But he had said in Ecclesiastes 5.10, he had said, silver and abundance can be vanity. In other words, he seems to be saying that we should know that God is the giver of all good gifts. With that in mind, we should enjoy our relationship with God and not rely on personal wealth. That Proverbs 23.5 says, cast but a glance at riches, they're gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sea like an eagle. So the key to joy in life is pursuing God, trusting him for daily blessings. Why is that? Well, because it provides for us what we eat, what we drink, what we put on. And those are the things we should be satisfied with. That's the key to contentedness, enjoying the things that God has provided. So what should our first pursuit be? What would Solomon be pointing us to? Our first pursuit should be God and his kingdom. Later on, Jesus in Matthew 6.33 would say it like this, he would say, seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. So the key is seeking the giver of the gifts and not just the gifts. First Chronicles 16.11 says, seek the Lord and his strength. Seek his presence continually. Isaiah 55 verse 6 says, seek the Lord while he may be found call upon him while he's near. And again, Psalm 105 verse 4, seek the Lord and his strength, seek his presence continually. So we receive his gifts and we do so with gratitude. We bless others because we've been blessed. And when we yield to his will and use what he gives us to his glory, he is saying you can have a great life and be satisfied. And so Solomon is continuing his thoughts on the vanity of trusting in wealth in chapter 6. And he points this out in verse 1. He says, there's an evil which I have seen under the sun, it's common among men. And then he says what this evil is, a man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires. And yet God doesn't give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, it's an evil affliction. There are many wealthy people who can't enjoy their abundance. Notice he said, God has given them riches and wealth and honor. And he says they lack absolutely nothing. So that distinguishes him from the one who has gained wealth through oppression. He has a glorious abundance of treasures and a spotless reputation, materially he's saying he lacks absolutely nothing in any way. And all of this honor and wealth has come from the Lord, but even so he's unsatisfied. God gave him all of this, but he never enjoys it. The ability to simply enjoy what he has is beyond him. You know there are wealthy people who never enjoy the advantages of their wealth. They work hard, they save, they look forward to a comfortable retirement, but in the end because of a bitter spirit they never really enjoy those things. Others have been blessed, but they don't have the ability to make use of it. They may have been blessed financially, but they become an invalid or contact a disease and sometimes they may even die suddenly. And because of this they never get a chance to enjoy it. And they may lose their family. Now they have no child to inherit any of the wealth. Notice he says that in verse two, God doesn't give him power to eat of it, a foreigner consumes it. They're not related to him is going to get it and they're just going to spend it. And they're going to use it all up, they're going to exhaust it. He doesn't have the ability to enjoy it and he leaves it for someone else to enjoy. Now he said that in chapter two, verse 21, when he said there's a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge and skill, yet he must leave his heritage to a man who hasn't labored for it. It's also his vanity and a great evil. For verse eight, he said there's a man all alone without even a son or a brother. And though there's no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth. For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment? This too, he said, is futile. It's a miserable, miserable task. So what is it that you have all of this and you end up with vanity and an evil affliction?  So little. And so as he's speaking of this, he goes on in verse three and he says, if a man begets a hundred children, I'll stop for a moment, think about that. No, that's terrible. If a man begets a hundred children and lives for many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness or indeed he has no burial. Notice this, I say that a stillborn child is better than he. For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness. Its name is covered with darkness. Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man. Even if he lives a thousand years twice, but has not seen goodness, do not all go to one place. Well, let's develop that for a moment, shall we? Notice how he begins by saying in verse three, he has a hundred children and lives many years. Why is that significant? It's significant because having many children and a long life has been seen as a blessing of God to men. To have many children to the Jewish family was a very important thing. It was a demonstration of God's grace. But I was thinking of that and I was reading this, so I'll just read a couple of things to you. A recent survey showed that people said they didn't want kids for various reasons. These are people who never have had a child. And when they were being questioned in the survey, they said, I never want to have one. They're very wise. But out of the 1,000 surveyed, 52% said they didn't want kids. 20% were unsure. And when asked why they decided to not start a family, 54% of them said they didn't want kids because, listen to this, it will interfere with their personal lives. 54% of those surveyed said I don't want a kid because it interrupts my life. And that reveals something about the American character to this day. It reveals something about us. I don't want anything in my life that will interfere with my enjoyment of it. And children will require too much time and sacrifice. Therefore, I don't want children. And the result has been that the US has a declining birth rate and it is now affecting our nation's future. We have what is called a shrinking replacement birth rate. Because of that, we will not have future workers. There will be no future taxpayers. Our economy will dry up. We will not have hospital staff. We will not have workers in nursing homes who will care for the aged. Our military will dry up. In the 60s, there were six people of working age for each retired person. Today, the ratio is three to one. And by 2035, it will be two to one. Our economy can't survive without consumers, without healthcare, and without pensions. So the question has been asked, who's gonna fund healthcare? Who's gonna fund the pensions when the population average is old? So many don't value children and many don't want them. And they mess up their plans for their good times and that's why they don't want them. Now with women finding their value in work, many women have decided to not have children. They now have good incomes, but they have no sense of purpose. At an age beyond childbearing, many are sorrowing over their choices because they say, I've achieved my financial goals, but I have no one to share them with. This is what Solomon is talking about. I have things, but no one to share them with. I've achieved my goals, but I have no pleasure in them. You see, the man and the woman in Jewish theology in the way that is presented scripturally, the man and the woman represent two halves that join together in order that they may be completed. And in marriage, parents are partners in God's creation of creating a human being. And it is also God's way of caring for the parents of the children when they're aged. You see, to the Jew having children was regarded as a blessing. It guaranteed the continuance of the race into the future. And that's why the Psalmists in Psalm 127, 3 and 4 said it like this. He said, behold, children are a heritage from the Lord. The fruit of the womb is a reward.  So Solomon is making a point. There's a man who has many children. And these many children will care for that man when he's old. And he might live for many years, which again was considered a blessing. So he has long life with these children. He has a comfortable support system. But in spite of this, his soul isn't satisfied with goodness. He's not contented in what he has. He has no pleasure and he has no enjoyment of them. He hasn't understood that his blessings have come from God and he's not thankful to God. You see, to know the Lord and to know his blessings auto motivate us to be thankful. But instead, verse three says he's miserable and a stillborn child actually seems better off than he is. Why is that? Well, because neither one of them have enjoyed life even though the man lived for many years. At least the baby didn't have a long miserable life. That's what makes it better off than that man. In verse three, he said the man has no burial. That's another way of saying this man died unloved and unmoored. He died unloved and unmoored. I think about that often. Not because I'm anticipating dying soon, because I'm not, but because I've known people who are similar to this, who have pursued things, fame, so many different objects, to the point that they've excluded people from their personal lives. They have no friends and kind of like that old Christmas tale by Dickens, like when Scrooge dies. Some of you may remember it. If not, it's too bad, I'll tell you it anyway. These ghosts of Christmas present and past and future and all visit him. It's a morality tale because he has the opportunity of attending his own funeral and nobody's there to mourn him. And the only ones who say they'll go, they'll say we'll go if they provide something to eat. And Scrooge had so much money, but he had no friends. He had nobody to mourn him when he died. And I have done funerals with a handful of people who showed up, a handful of people who had come to say this person meant something to me. And that's what this man had. He had everything he wanted, but he didn't have anybody to share it with. He had everything he wanted, but he had nobody to mourn him when he died. Nobody cared that he died. He had a long life. He had many wives, he had many children, but Solomon says he died alone. He died without love in his home and as a result, he was empty. He says in verses four through six, it comes in vanity and departs in darkness. Its name is covered with darkness. Though it has not seen the sun or known anything, this has more rest than that man. Even if he lives a thousand years twice, but he has not seen goodness, do not all go to one place. The stillborn child never had the chance to achieve anything. His life was really vanity. It departed in darkness, meaning it died without any ever even knowing it. And the result will be that, will be like that for everyone except its parents. Parents remember, but even so, eventually they forget. So ultimately the ability to enjoy life will always come from within a person. The labor of a man verse seven is for his mouth and yet his soul is not satisfied. So he's speaking of the rich man a moment ago. Now he's speaking of a regular person, a regular laborer. And so he's saying the labor of man is for his mouth, but his soul isn't satisfied. Man works long hours in order to satisfy physical appetites. He knows that for him to eat. He needs to work hard so that he can eat. And if he desires other things, it takes long hours of labor to make that possible. And even when he achieves all that he's desired, none of that will ever satisfy your soul. That's because things don't bring inner satisfaction. They don't bring peace. You know that and I know that. If you pursue things, material objects, if you pursue things, expecting them to bring contentment to you, they can bring a short period of pleasure, but it's not lasting. Think about, I'll give an illustration like this. There are people who say I want this particular vehicle. We'll say this is a car guy. I want this particular car. I want a 56 Chevy with a 427, 475 horsepower, six speed, dual exhaust. I've never thought about that car. It just came to mind at the moment. And so finally you work and you get it. I don't have it, by the way. And you turn the car on, you get the sound. It gives you great pleasure, it really does. If you get something like that, it really does. Drive out, go around the neighborhood. Your friend's going, wow, that's a good car. You go, yeah, it is. Then you go to the supermarket and somebody swings their door open or they let go of a cart and you almost have a heart attack. See, it's beautiful until it gets its first scratch. It's beautiful until you have to go to the gas pump and you put $120 in the tank as it gets six miles to the gallon. It's pleasurable in the mind, but not in the reality. That never gives you lasting pleasure. It never does. You might have this desire for a certain person. You think about them, you wish for them, you pray for them, you end up with them.  The only God himself can fill. That's how I got saved. I won't go into it, but that's how I got saved is trying to grab this to fill this emptiness, trying to grab that to fill this emptiness, trying to dull myself through this in order to fill the emptiness or at least dull myself for a while so I don't fill it. And then one day the Lord, like the rising sun breaks into your darkness and you see things clearly for the first time and you realize that your greatest hunger hasn't been a human being. Your greatest hunger has been God in the flesh because your greatest need was forgiveness. And your greatest lack was you didn't have any hope. And then when you receive Christ and you're forgiven, He also gives you joy. He gives you peace. He gives you hope. And you come to grow and realize that so that the things you have now you can use rather than the things owning you, you can now use those things because there are some people who are owned by their things but now you just use things because they're just things. They don't last, right? And so you can have so many things and have nothing. You can work long hours to satisfy your physical appetites. You can eat, you can drink, you can survive but you're not satisfied. Why? Because again, enjoying life is a matter of the heart. Contentment comes from a life that's centered on eternity and not on the temporary. Contentment is a fruit of having a hope that is anchored beyond our present life. That's why Jesus in John 6.27 said, do not work for a food that spoils but for food that endures to eternal life which the Son of man will give you for on him God the Father place his seal of approval. Now our present conditions often may speak differently. The way some things are going we can get to the point of thinking. So what's the point? As a Christian I'm following the Lord but it doesn't seem that it's done me any good. Is what Paul would be speaking of in 1 Corinthians 15, 19. When he said, if only for this life we have hope in Christ we are of all people most to be pitied. Because you're doing your best with what you have and this heathen neighbor comes driving up in a brand new Lexus or whatever and every time you start your car it's like it makes smoke signals, you know. And so he's saying that material things don't matter but sometimes we may think that they are. And so life has to consist in more than just eating and working because if that's our whole purpose in life we're no different than animals. But we have been created with a higher purpose and that higher purpose defines our lives. Our real hunger is spiritual and it can only be satisfied by the bread of life. So he says in verse eight what more has the wise man than the fool? What does the poor man have who knows how to walk before the living better in better is the side of the eyes and the wandering of desire. This also was vanity and grasping for the wind.   So the poor man is said to be wise. So what advantage is wisdom over foolishness? If all a person does is satisfy their wants then a wise man has no advantage. That's because both only exist to satisfy their needs and that would mean there's no advantage to having wisdom at all. But that would not be so because in scripture it says the fool says that there is no God and wisdom comes from above. So for the believer contentment comes from knowing God. For the unbeliever contentment is something they never truly completely have. Think of your own life prior to coming to faith in Christ and if you were anything like me again you never were really contented for long. Sometimes you could feel at peace and sometimes you could feel a bit of contentment but it always evaporated. As a believer it's not that I don't go through periods of thinking what's going on Lord what's happening I do. But at the end I always remember one thing I've said it so many times but not recently I see things happening. I look at my world right now for example and I say Lord and then I have to remember I've read the last page of the last chapter of the book and we win in Christ. And I have to remember that because I cast my eyes on him my cares on him and my trust is in him. And I know that the Lord is gonna take us through all of these things and therefore I just hold fast to him. And so the Lord would have us to know that. In verse 10 it says whatever one is. This is interesting. Whatever one is he has been named already for it is known that he's man he cannot contend with him who's mighter than he since there are many things that increase vanity how is man the better? For who knows what is good for man in life all the days of his vain life which he passes like a shadow. Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun? Oh that's an encouraging way to close a Bible study. In verse 10 whatever one is has been named already. Everything that a person does has been previously known. Nothing that we do will ever catch God by surprise. God knows us and God also knows of our sinful nature. In John 2.25 in the new living translation it reads no one needed to tell him tell Jesus about human nature for he knew what was in each person's heart. He knew the essential part of man. He knew what is in man and because we're human it is unwise to attempt to argue with him. We can't argue that we're right and good when God says otherwise. It's interesting how many people actually really seem to think they're good. We need to remember that there's none good no not one. And that the only good person who ever lived was hanged on a tree. That was Jesus Christ. He's the only one who was ever good. All the rest of us are born with a fallence in nature. And when we try to argue with God that we are indeed good no God knows what's in man. In Jeremiah 10.23 Lord I know the way of man is not in himself. It is not in man who walks to direct his own steps. We aren't in control of our own life in the way that we think and no we're not that good and we can't argue with God and tell him that we are. Romans 11.34 who has known the mind of the Lord who has been his counselor. And so because that's true we need to seek the Lord for direction. Verse 11 says since there are many things that increase vanity how is man the better? Many things increase vanity. The word things there is interesting. The word things speaks of speech or sayings. It speaks of words and utterances. So many things contribute to a man's sinful sense of importance. Because he has many advantages he does think himself to be good. And again they may argue that they're good but their arguments are futile. Man's argument that he's good is futile because he'll never be good enough. How do you become better? We become better when we admit that we need help and agree with God. And like again on that day that I heard the gospel I was talking to my wife just today a little bit about this and I was sharing with her that as a young person I felt that what I needed was gonna be in a relationship but I aimed too low. I thought that the relationship that would make me well was gonna come through a human being through a person. I thought it was gonna come through having a girlfriend that could help me to get well because I knew that I wasn't. So I thought perhaps I could have somebody who could help me to straighten my life out. Somebody that I would want to be a better person for. And then I realized that that was never gonna happen because it came to realize that the hole in my heart was so deep and so dark that no human love could ever fill it to its capacity. It was so empty that no matter how many people would throw into that hole love it just would be taken in. It was God. I needed a greater love than any human being could give to me. And that love came through God himself. It came through Jesus Christ. That's what made me whole when I stopped looking for man or for a girl to make me feel better about me. And I realized that I was worse than I was pretending to be. I was never as good as I thought I was. And that no human being could ever fill that gap. And that's how I got saved. I was seated there in that Myrnotha concert. And I saw all these people around me and I heard this music about God and Jesus. And I saw people actually putting their arms around other people and having affection and not wanting something in return for showing kindness because the world I lived in was filled with reciprocal kinds of things.  There was never just giving you a ride. Hey, Dave, can you give me a ride? You got a car. I'm walking and I'd say, what do you have? Well, you know, what do you have? I can give you a couple of joints. Yeah, okay, I'll give you a ride. That's how it was. That's how it was. It was never, you know, you need a ride, bro. Let me give you a ride. It was never that. It was, you need a ride, I got a car. I don't have money for gas. You want to put some gas in my car? That's how it was. And that's how my world was. And when I encountered Christians who were the real deal, who actually saw that was more blessed to give than to receive, that was mind blowing. I'd never seen that. I'd never been around that. I found that attractive. I wondered why they were that way. Well, I ultimately found out is because they were sinners saved by God's grace and they were thankful and loving as a result of that. See, so the only way that we can ever have a real, a life that's filled with contentment is to realize that we need the Lord. We need God. We're not good enough. That's why Psalm 41 verse four says, Lord be merciful to me, heal my soul. I've sinned against you.  Who can tell a man what will happen after him under the sun? Who knows what is good for man in life? God does.  The fact is, every one of us have one appointment that we will definitely keep and it will be right on time. And that is our death. It's appointed unto men to die once after this judgment. So we all have an appointment. So who knows? God knows. And seeing that God knows what happens next, what should we do? We should align ourselves with him. And that's what we do when we come to faith in Christ in second Corinthians five, six through eight. Paul said it like this. We are always confident knowing that while we are at home in the body, we're absent from the Lord. For we walk by faith and not by sight. We are confident, yes, well pleased, rather to be absent from the body and to be present with the Lord. I've been at the bedside of more than one person who's about to go to heaven, talking to them and watching them as they breathe the last. And I can tell you that the believers that I've been around when they've passed on to go to heaven, that there's something about them, there's something different, the ones that I've seen. It's a confidence. It's a confidence because they know where they're going. I was at my uncle's bedside. He was very dear to me, my uncle Ray.  My father's side, they all yell. And they used to scare me as a kid because I have like a shy spirit, you know?  And my dad yelled. I mean, like he'd get a phone call and you'd hear him yelling and you'd think he was angry and he was and he was talking to a brother.  And I never liked it. And so my uncle Ray was scary. He was about 5'10", 190, 200 pounds, broad shoulder, very handsome man, my uncle Ray, very handsome man. My brother, my father's younger brother. And he had a mustache, a little straight pencil mustache. Bright green, green, green, blue eyes. Very handsome man. And my aunt called me and said, David, can you come and see your uncle? He's dying. And so I went to see him in Riverside in hospital in Riverside. And I walked in the room and as I walked into the waiting room, the room was filled with all of these people. There were, I don't know, 20, 30 people at least. It was full. And when I walked in, I looked at all these people and every one of them was a cousin. Every one of them. I didn't know a single one of them. In my family, I was the only one with light skin, light hair. Every other one looks like chocolate bars. They all do. So when I walked in, they didn't know who I was. And I remember that. I later did his memorial to over 200 cousins that I've never met. I had to introduce myself to them, tell them who I'm related to, and then shared with them the gospel. But when I walked into his room, my uncle who had been around a 200 pound man was down to about 90 pounds. And he had taken radiation and all the different things. So he was bald. He had no mustache, eyebrows. He was a skeleton. And I walked in and I saw him. And as a man, I'm looking at this man who used to scare me when I was little. And remembering that he was the most affectionate uncle I had because when I got older, he hugged me and loved on me and all. And I realized that his voice had scared me, but his heart was soft. So as I was there looking at this skeleton, my auntie says to me, my aunt says, your uncle has been in a coma. He hasn't stirred and he hasn't spoken, David. But talk to him. She said, talk to him and do it like a Rosalis, meaning talk loud. And I started laughing because that reminded me of how scared I was of this man's voice. And I said, Uncle Ray, I'm here to pray. It's your nephew, David. I'm here to pray for you. He had been in a coma, but his mouth moved. And he said, he spoke, he said, pray. And I held his hand and I prayed for my uncle. I said, a prayer asking God to be good to him.  And if he has gone to prepare a place, he will come again and receive you unto himself for where he is, my uncle, there you shall be also. And the next day he died. And again, I did his memorial. But my uncle died with peace. Why? Because he had made his peace with his God. So a person who doesn't have a relationship with God doesn't have contentment and they don't die in peace. They're afraid because they don't know what's going to happen. Solomon pointed that out. But we who know God absent from the body, present with the Lord, we will close our eyes here only to see him there. And so that's the hope we have, isn't it? The hope of eternal life that was given to us through Jesus Christ. And so the unbeliever doesn't have that hope. I sure hope you do.


Wheeler to Philadelphia, Hamels to Atlanta, and Dylan Bundy to Baltimore. Let's talk. What is going on everybody? My name is John Boyd. I'm coming to you from New York City. And I got my co-host Jake coming to you from Denver. And we weren't gonna make an episode today. We're gonna wait till Friday morning to record because we dropped the Trevor Plouffe episode this morning. We hope you enjoyed it. It was fantastic. The hot stove went sizzling on us, Jake. It went so crazy. This is one of the biggest news days of the off season. We texted each other, so we gotta do an episode. So much stuff has happened. There's non-moves that are fantastic talking points. And on top of that, we have like 10 moves that are great talking points. There's a lot going on. Jake, are you ready to talk some baseball? I'm ready, I'm ready. I think, I don't want this to bring you down early in the app. I think you said Dylan Bundy to the Orioles. He's escaping Baltimore. He's going to the Angels. And he has gone to a bird sanctuary full of Orioles to reminisce about his time. His memories there, and that's pretty emotional. Yeah, it is. If you've never done that, that's emotional. He was just walking around looking out of the bird and saying, I was in Orioles once. And Jim, I'll give some people some behind the scenes stuff. One of the strengths that me and Jimmy have because we currently have no life or existence and we do all this podcasting stuff and you can relay this to your friends so they listen, is that if someone big signs, we can hop on the mics and rip it. And Zach Wheeler counts. I think people in the baseball world, baseball-wise might not say that, but 100 million plus does. And I think with everything else that happened, we said it's time to go and I'm excited. Wheels up to Philly, bro. It's insane. It's insane. So we're gonna talk about a lot of the bigger names at the top of the show just to give you a little insight into the structure here. As Jake said, Wheeler and then Hamels and Moose. Then we'll talk about some of the smaller trades and then we'll talk about some of the off-the-field stuff like the Metz News and the Rangers New Stadium and Anaheim and some non-tendered guys. Just to give you a little insight into how the episode's gonna go, can we start with Wheeler or is that bad podcasting? Do we have to do an appetizer starter like Cole Hamels to the Braves? I think the rules of the podcast world haven't been written yet. I think you're supposed to lead with the meat and then be good enough that people wanna hang around for the potatoes. So I don't know if that puts too much of an onus on us. People are probably here for Wheeler, so let's go Mustakus. Okay, Mustakus goes to the Cincinnati Reds. Dude, MOB's doing good things. Last year, you were so mad at Major League Baseball.  You were like, they don't make any moves, this is boring, NBA has it figured out. I love you, National Basketball Association. I heart you, heart, heart, heart. 143, NBA, are you come back from that? Come down a little bit? I'd say once a month, I give myself the Peyton Manning speech and I'm like, I should start writing letters. I couldn't tell you the last time I wrote a letter. And it's not fully out of laziness, that's a part of it, but my handwriting is awful.  Is illegible a word? That doesn't seem like a word either. I feel like it's non-legible. Allegible's like when a receiver's downfield, but he's not allowed to catch the ball. Yeah, that's, well, all right. Hey, this isn't a football pod, bro. That's on me. Jimmy talking football and NBA. Wow, let me reel this back in. But honestly, last year, we were both disappointed in baseball because they just didn't get any news. They had all this to do. They didn't do anything. And they've dominated this offseason, Jake. Like some of it, the Astro stuff is not by design and MLB probably wishes that didn't happen, even though it is good for the sport to be talked about. But now all these signings, the stove's been hot. It's December 5th, 4th. Like usually things happen before Christmas and that's good. But like so much has happened and we're not even at December 5th yet. So are you happy with baseball? Are you happy with the way this offseason's going? Yeah, I think this is what baseball wants. It's ideal offseason to look like minus the non-tender stuff. We'll talk about that a little bit later. But yeah, there's been good action and this is a little baseball romantic in me, but there's a good pace to it. Nothing's felt nuclear so far. It hasn't been like five signings in one day. It's kind of like, all right, Moustak is signed. Ooh, that's fun. And then it's like, all right, let's breathe for a day. And now it's like, Hamels, wow, I didn't know he was still worthy of that kind of money. Zach Wheeler, big money. So it's been exciting. There's kind of been some ebbs and flows that you don't get too, too bored in the offseason. So yeah, I'm liking it. And I'm also interested, Jim, to look back because I was looking at last year's transactions a little bit. And I've been trying to wonder, were we just being dramatic last year and is it my expectations rules? Like last year, we were so excited for the offseason that it let us down. And this year we came in with no expectations. So we're like, yes, Steven Voigt signs with San Fran. We start celebrating. I looked back and I don't know. I think Corbin signed December 7th, but I think before that there really wasn't anything. So we are making a lot better pace. And yeah, I think this is good for baseball. I would still love an MLB signing period where teams have a frenzy. Because I think it would just be insane. I'm not saying it would be good for baseball, but I think it would be insane. Yeah, I actually do like this better where it's not one day everything happens where like you said, every day we're getting nuggets. It's been a lot of fun. So let's start with Moustakis going to the Reds because that happened first. Yeah, and this is a cron pod. It's a cron pod and everyone knows that. I wasn't too shocked by this until I saw four years and that is playing second. And then that there's having a second. Have we had two moves now? The Brewers picked up a second baseman and they're gonna make him a shortstop. And now the Reds have picked up a third baseman and they're gonna make him a second baseman. And they're like going all in on this. So good for Moust. Dude, I do like that the Reds are like halfway through last year, they could have decided to sell and like kind of ditch money. And they said, no, like let's build off what we have. And they're putting together a nice club. Like we know their staff's pretty good. They're top three, Casio, Bauer, Gray is good. They have Vado and Eugenio at the corners. Now they have Moust at second. I don't know defensively how he's gonna be over there. He doesn't look like a second baseman. But what do you got on this? So I was surprised by that. Four years is kind of crazy to me. Everyone's getting overpaid and that's good for baseball, I think. You have the players in the money? Yeah, the players are getting paid and that just means good things for the sport. Jim, I think we deserve early claps that Moust finally got paid. I mean, Moust got thrown in the franchise tag ringer and he was the qualifying. I mean, he'd been waiting for his payday for a couple of years now. He finally gets it good for Moust. And just as he expected, it's as a second baseman. I mean, kind of wild stuff. And that's, you know, he's listed at six foot 225. I think he might have pushed the limits of that a couple seasons when I've seen Moustakis. But yeah, it looks like, again, I didn't see his, let me see how many games he played at second base. He played 47 games at second base this year. Apparently he rated out pretty well analytically enough that Cincinnati was ready to make him their second baseman for at least a few years. And I think another interesting thing we haven't seen messed with too much in baseball is that there's something to baseball with all the shifts that are happening that the positioning is more important than the dude almost. So if Mike Moustakis can, in theory, field a ball and make a throw, you can put them in different spots on the field. So, I mean- You can take a bad defender, but match him up with a great defensive chart and he's good. I mean, it just feels like we've lived in this baseball world and you know, I hope, I have hopes that, I mean, don't get me wrong, I love the fact that only so few people can play an awesome third base and like the same thing with shortstop. But there is something to the fact that like, hey, if you can make a throw and you can field a ball and we can put you in the right position, let's have some fun with this. Like let's get the best bats on the field and it'll be interesting to see what since he does at shortstop. And I don't think they're done spending, Jim, the rumor was they were in on Wheeler. Well, John Heyman had everyone in, John Heyman had everyone in on Wheeler. We'll do our Heyman segment later. But no, this is fun for the Reds. We'd like to see more teams doing this. Well, is Freddie Galvin's gonna be the shortstop? Are they gonna match him up with Deedee now? Or like are they, like they were rumored to go after Deedee. They need a shortstop. They didn't get Wheeler. They have three starters. Are they gonna go after Deedee Gregorius now? I think there's still a chance. I wouldn't rule it out. Who knows what Deedee's price is at? Like, I mean, this is kind of wild, right? Everyone has been getting paid and shortstops never hit free agency. Are things going really well for Deedee right now or not going well? I don't know. We haven't heard his name mentioned at all yet, have we? Yeah. So I don't know. I wouldn't rule it out for Cincinnati. I think Cincinnati has a number that they're willing to spend this off season and they wanna go all in. And I think the numbers just have to line up. I think they're gonna get another impact player. I don't know if that's Deedee Gregorius. I don't know if that's a starting pitcher. I'm not sure what that looks like, but since he's in, I mean, the Cubs have taken a step back. They're not the juggernaut Cubs. St. Louis is good, but I mean, Ozone is gone and they're not a team that scares you. So go get it. And the Brewers, our Brewers, that team looks a little funky right now. I'm interested to see what they do this off season. Travis Shaw's gone now. We were talking about their corners before with Shaw. Their team's a little bit of a mess. So I'm excited for the Cincinnati Reds. All right, yeah, I'm excited as well. I mean, Moose isn't a top tier player. Like don't get us wrong there, but he helps them and he's good that he got the money. Like the best thing people say about Moostakis is, you know, he's had two seasons where he has hit over 30 home runs and less than 100 strikeouts. But that would make you think he's a power and on base guy. He's not an on base guy. I think his best on base year was last year and it was still below or just barely above league average. Yeah, he got on base at a 329 clip, which ain't great, but he's got serious power.  So he's got some pretty solid OPS seasons and especially of late. I mean, earlier in his career, he had a couple of rough seasons that really kind of hurt his total numbers, but over the last since 2015, so what's that, four seasons? He's got an 817 OPS.  You know, he's gonna give you 25 homers on a bad season, 35 homers on a good season. Okay. Do you like him in Great American Ballpark? It's a hitters' park. He should fare well there. Okay, what about close your eyes and picture him in a red uniform? Ooh. Some of the weird ones might not look good on Moose. He never really looks good in a uniform anyway. Sleeveless day? That might be tough for Moosey.  Maybe Moosey's planning on losing a couple LBs. I think he's gonna have to. Doesn't look good. That's good for longevity. Next on the table, Zach Wheeler is off the board. A reported five-year, 118 million dollar agreement with the Phillies, 118 divided by five for the average annual, what's the V stand for? Value? Value. Jake, what is it? Oh, God. The number? Yeah, what's his AAV? It's 23.6. You know, not a number. I just did it in my head. Cameron didn't show me on the calculator at all. Yeah, no. Well, it is 23.6. And for those asking, Moose Doc is 16 on the nose, so you're welcome. Can I tell you something about this Wheeler deal? Please. All these deals this season, dudes are getting overpaid and I'm happy for it. It's better for baseball. I root for the player to get money more than the owner to get money.  Yeah. Zach Wheeler getting more money than Patrick Corbin. It's nuts. AAV wise. AAV, average annual value. Corbin's was less than Zach Wheeler's. I mean, $100 million for Zach Wheeler is nuts. We joke that, you know, we didn't, we joke that like if Houston grabbed him, they can turn him into coal. So we do think there's a lot of potential because he's got the armed talent. He's got the raw abilities. He's like had Tommy John surgery and that's way in his rear view now. So I think he's a good pitcher, but like 118 million over five years. I'm kind of shocked and scared at what this does to the Collins-Strasburg deals, which were already high. Yeah, I don't know. I'm not too surprised. I mean, when you put Wheeler and Corbin in a bucket, the numbers aren't that crazy. I think the bigger thing with Corbin is, A, he's a lefty and B, his slider significantly ticked up that you could link that to his success. Wheeler's numbers, when I got into baseball reference today, I thought I'd be a little more depressed by the signing. He's got one outlier season and I think it was the year he got hurt or the year he came back. Otherwise he's been pretty good. But Patrick Corbin had the benefit of being the top of his class. Like he was going to get the much. And everyone was kind of in agreement that the nationals overpaid for Corbin. Well, that's why our friend Zach Wheeler deserves to make a nice call to young Patrick because Patrick might've got Zach a little extra cheese. Yeah, yeah. Because he, Corbin, had a really nice season and a really nice playoff run for a team that ended up winning the World Series. So that's exactly what the Fils are telling themselves right now. And yeah, I don't know. I think injuries have been a thing for Wheeler. Maybe he's got a little bit of the Met Stench. We'll talk about that at the end of the show a little bit.  You're scared for the future. I think a lot of baseball people are shocked he got that kind of money, but I don't know. I think this is kind of it. He doesn't get that six year though, but we'll see. I mean, they need, the Phillies need three years out of Wheeler. And I don't know if they're gonna get that. Say that again, you broke up a little on me. I said the Phillies are saying they need three years out of Wheeler and I don't know if they're gonna get that. Yeah, where do you think he slots? Is he their number one now? And Nola's the two and Velasquez is the three? I think Nola's the one. I think Nola had a slow start last season, but he's still the guy that's supposed to be kind of their rock. I mean, 2018, Nola was 17 and six with a two, three, seven ERA. I agree with you, but it's just funny to sign this guy for this much and he's not your opening day starter. Yeah, I mean, I don't know. You could go different ways with that conversation. Opening day starters.  I can't believe I just said that. It's overrated anyways. I mean, the Yankees traded for James Paxson last year and that became a whole thing. Guys ended up getting hurt, but yeah, no. I don't think that's a thing. But yeah, I mean, hey, good for Philly. Good for the NLE. Girardi, your dude. Joe's putting together a squad here. I mean, they got a pretty good group, right? They need maybe, I don't know if the whole five's pitchers are that great.  They're competing. They're going out there and getting guys. So I like that. And maybe that's what's happening this off season, Jim. How many teams have we heard like are on the brink of doing really good stuff? I feel like that wasn't the story last season. Like Machado Padres rumors were like, yeah, they want Machado, but they still might be a couple of years away. And it's like, that's not exciting at all. Like right now we've got a lot of teams that are trying to strike and like Donaldson's such a wild card right now. Like where's he going to end up? Like I feel like the Phillies are in on him. The White Sox want to be on everyone like Zach. Wheeler and now you're the most hated person in Chicago.  I was being sympathetic to White Sox fans because their GM is going out there. And like, so if you don't know, the White Sox offered Wheeler more money than the Phillies. Maybe not AAV was higher, but more money for sure. Who knows how they loaded the contract. But he said, no, he'd rather go to Philadelphia. And the reason that they're telling the public is because his wife's from New Jersey and they wanted to stay close to New Jersey. But like, if you're the White Sox, I know White Sox fans are using that as like an excuse. Well, what are we gonna do? His wife wanted to stay in New Jersey. If you're the White Sox GM, you're thinking, fuck, what could we have done that we could have made it more enticing than his wife not moving? You know what I mean? Because a lot of teams have conquered the family close.  So I don't buy that that's 100% why he took less money. I think there's something else going on.  They're my second favorite team in the AAL, you dicks. They were coming at me hard. And I was like, I didn't even insult you.  Last year, Rick Han, the GM of the White Sox, he said he went to sleep feeling very confident because they gave the best offer. But the bunchado wanted guaranteed money. They were giving more money, but not more guaranteed money. So maybe they did it a little different with Wheeler. They made sure to give them the most guaranteed money, go get their guy, they go to sleep confident again, they wake up, he's not a White Sox, White Sox. So I feel bad, that's terrible.  I think you're gonna be competing in the central. So I wasn't trying to knock the White Sox there, I was saying this sucks for the GM.  And it just hasn't worked out yet. You got the backfire, Jim. And we love a good backfire in this podcast and all our podcasts. And yeah, you accidentally turned Chicago against you. I'm trying to figure out, I think the Phillies, I mean, they're going Nola, Wheeler, Arietta should be back. Efflin? A couple other, Efflin. And then I think they have a couple guys that should fight for spots, Povetta, Ike Off. So I wonder if they're done with the pitching. I think they're gonna be rumored in for a couple more arms, but we'll see. I'd like to see one more splashy move on them because that would make it seem like the Phillies are very real this year. Yeah, well, people thought the Phillies were gonna get a reunion with Cole Hamels, but next on the table, Cole Hamels signs a one year deal with the Braves. Why are you smirking? I'm smirking because, I'll say it, I'll say it. I know we've talked about this, we wanna make the show a little more segmented so we could make some nice clips for Instagram and YouTube and stuff. And mentally, your head has just gone back to your old, when a beer pong game over used to slam it and say next on the table. So this has been you casually segwaying us into different topics. It's working great. Well, speaking of reunions next on the table. Yeah, that's how, that's my code to when I'm gonna cut it to do the YouTube. It's really good. To do the YouTube. Okay, great. And we all agree. We got it. Cole Hamels and the Atlanta Braves are in agreement in a one year, $18 million deal, basically a qualifying offer that he did not receive from the Cubs. Hamels taking his physical today. Great, glad I read that line to the podcast. Yeah, I didn't really see this one coming and I like it for the Braves and I like it for Hamel. I would have liked this for any team, to be honest. Like Hamels on a one year deal. If you need, what is he, three, four, five? Is he still a one, two? Dude, he's kind of a solid three. I was surprised when I ended up looking at his final numbers. He had a three, eight, one ERA last year. 27 starts, 141 innings, more than a strikeout per inning in his age 35 season. And Jim, I saw this quote that you'd love from him. He said he was looking for one year deals with contenders the rest of the way because he doesn't want to hamstring a team. He's like, what if I get bad soon? So that's nice by Cole and hey, $18 million.  I like it. I was trying to think of like a National League team that I wouldn't like this for and basically it's only like non-competing teams. Like if the Marlins did this for a one year deal, I'd be like, dude, guys. And that's why Hamels wouldn't have done it. So, right, like if the Reds did this, I would have been, good job. All around. If the Padres picked him up, good job. Anyone that's trying to win, this is a good pickup. Yeah, I kind of would have liked him in San Diego, but yeah, no, this is a solid signing for the Braves. I think the Braves have now doled out $100 million. And I think it, again, we'll circle to our conversation we had at the end of the off season. It's like, what could the Braves have done with this money? I think they're putting themselves in a little bit of a dangerous spot there, but they've also left themselves super flexible. Passan was all over it that, I mean, Hamels is one year. Most their contracts are one year. It's Will Smith for three and Darneau for two. I think everything else is one year, which I mean, part of me likes because it leaves yourself a little bit of flexibility, but part of me is also like, you got these young guys, you've got this young core. If you're gonna start spending, go for it, go all in. And it feels, I don't know, that's the catch 22 here.   And I don't know, if you sneak out a title with this crew, you're gonna be stoked, but none of these signings say that. I like this for the rotation a lot. I think this really helps them. It's a replacement for Kaika, what better? And interesting note from the chat, Andrew Pelham said, Brian McCann said last year that Max Fried reminded him of a young Cole Hamels and now they're both together so they can do some father son stuff and have a lot of fun. I added the end part. We do like a little bit of pupil stuff. He is, the reason why I said I liked Cole Hamels to San Diego, he's from San Diego. So I was gonna play that card, but you get the father son card, which that's a good card. Yeah, he hates San Diego, man. He's got PTSD, yeah, yeah. His body rejects San Diego against the shits. What's going on in Hot Lannis? Seroca, Freed, Fulton, Hamels, is Tehran back? I feel like he told me he's a free agent, but I don't think he is.  They bought them out. And you need more than that. Well, change the game, Atlanta. Change the game, Atlanta. Brewer's already doing that. So, it's been done. I mean, that ends that. Let's go to a quick break and then we'll come back with the next stuff. Okay, Jake. What's next on the table, Jim? Next on the table. We've got a bunch of like little stuff here. That is kind of cool, kind of interesting. If you're like really into the weeds in this, you're casual to like, I like baseball fans, probably wouldn't care. But if you're really into baseball, here we go. Oakland has officially announced his acquisition of catcher Austin Allen and a player to be named later from San Diego for second baseman, Juddakson Prophar. Prophar had a down here and I believe there's a lot of rumors that the A's are trying to trade Feigley to get some money off of the books, which means that they have that rookie catcher, forget his name, Sean Sutton, maybe, and- Yeah, Feigley's gone. Feigley was a non-tender casualty. Fuck, and so he's gone. So this is why they traded for a catcher and they used Prophar to get it. So they get Austin Allen from San Diego. San Diego picks up second baseman, Juddakson Prophar. I haven't looked into this a lot. Where's Prophar? Where does that pencil on him in? Is he just a utility guy for the Padres? He's got the ability. I mean, the left side of the infield is taken, so it's either second base or bust and they traded Urius. I think he was the plan there. So yeah, I think you could pencil him into second base with some flexibility if they need to move him around. Are you going to be the starter there? Yeah, I think they got him with the intentions of starting him. He's played 139-plus games the past two years. Yeah, man, I mean, former number one prospect in baseball, 20 home runs the last season. Last year was not a good season for him. He hit 218. I don't know if there's been a bigger lock in the world for someone to have a big year before free agency and then get paid a ton of money and be bad again than Jerks and Prophar. Oh, wow, wow, Jake. I think that's just the prototypical top prospect. Couple teams have tried to figure him out. They can't do it. His final year before free agency, he's going to go nuts. The light bulb clicked. He gets paid big money and then he's bad again.  Okay. Sneaker, sneak. Sleeper? Sleeper pick. Jake's here. He's a sneaker too. He's a sneaker, sleeper. Hold on, I was going to play. He's a bit of a sneaker. I was going to give you a sound effect.  Okay. Jake's sleeper. Jerks and Prophar, pick him up around 20. It's going to have a fantastic year. Then if you're in a keeper league, don't keep them because Jake's sleeper is going to have a bad 2021. And you put that down in your locket where it around your neck. All right. Okay. Do you have any more advice for everyone? Interesting. No, I think Austin Allen, he's a catcher, you're right. He'll fight with the other kid for the A's. And yeah, I think it's just the Prophar story. We want this dude to be good. He's only got like one year of solid baseball. His brother was just in the Little League World Series. So. Austin Allen has not yet hit his first career home run. 34 games played for the San Diego Padres, zero home runs. So that's something you can look forward to in Oakland. A career first. It's coming next year. Coming your way. Feel it. He's going to hit the drummer right on the head. Feel it. Feel it. Feel the rhythm. Jim, I'm about to get heated. Yeah, stove's been hot. This next topic has me. Premat. Dylan Theodore, Ted Bundy is heading to the Los Angeles Angels in exchange for quantity four.  Can I let you know something? What? I think I may make you more mad because I think this is a good move by the Angels. Oh, no. Yeah. Dude, they currently have one pitcher. Now, hold on. Hear me out. They need to sign someone else. If they get Cole, then I'd like this move. They need someone who can eat innings. They can trust him to at least keep them in a game. Bundy can do that. He's not going to be fantastic. He's not going to be good. The prospects they gave up for him, two are like. I wouldn't say that last sentence again. He's not going to be fantastic for him. But he's going to be. Not going to be good. He's going to be an innings eater. And he's going to keep them in the ball game once every five games. But they need to pair him. They need to go get a legit starter. Otherwise, this is more slop to a slop fest. But it's, like we said this last episode, Bundy has pitched 160 innings the last two years. The Orioles suck. There's no motivation. They zoom in too much on his face on the broadcast. He doesn't like it there. There's no reason to try in Baltimore. You know what happens if you try?  Or they non-tender you like Valar. So I like this move. The angels need to get another guy though. And Cole is rumored to be going there pretty strongly. If they get Cole, and then they have Cole and Haney. And they have Bundy as like a 4-5 somewhere, I think it's a good move. And Otani, they're hoping that he comes back and they can give him some starts. Jim, you know Bundy's ERA over the past two years? It's probably terrible, dude. Probably like 5 or 4-5. 5-1-3. Yeah. 61 starts. He has a 5-1-3 ERA. And if you're going to play the Camden Yards card, he's actually been better at Camden. He's been worse on the road. Dude, I'm not playing the Camden Yards card.  They'd hit pop-ups and they'd just get hit in the head and it would drop.  I'm going to the ball game today and we're going to put in a hell of an effort. That was zero. Anywhere's that been in LA for the past decade? Not there. But if Otani- They're going to the right team for that. No, but he may be if Otani's coming back and if they do get a Cole or Strasburg or someone maybe bum-garner Ryu, I don't know, but someone to make them have three pitchers and then he's the four, it works. But they need to get that next guy. They need to get the other guy, which is a bigger step. Jim, let me read off some names for you. Who would you rather have next season? Would you rather have Tanner Rourke or Dylan Bundy? Tanner Rourke, I don't know. Brett Anderson or Dylan Bundy? Same guy. Nope, Ivan Nova. Well, that's unfair because I like Ivan Nova. Jim, there are a lot of free agent arms out there that could be had for A, cheaper than I think the 6 million that Dylan Bundy's going to land at in arbitration this year. And B, they're flat out better than him. Dylan Bundy's not good. And you could play the Orioles card all you want. He's gotten progressively worse and maybe that plays into your Orioles theory, but he's just flat out not good. There's nothing to it. This is such an angels move. This is such an angels move. Who are we going to bring in to help out Mike Trout this year? Hey, how about Dylan Bundy? And let's give away four arms. I don't care if any of the arms are good or not. They're probably not great if they're giving up four of them for Dylan Bundy. But it's the classic, and you know we've seen this in Yankee Land. Hey, you just, it's baseball. Bring in more bodies. If one of those guys figures it out, you got a body to work with. You could have gotten so many dudes who could have been Dylan Bundy for you and probably pitch a lot better than the 5-1-3 he's given his last 61 starts in Major League Baseball and you didn't have to give up four minor leaguers to get them. This is such an angels move because they are still going to sign another impact starting pitcher. Whether it's Cole, Strasburg, if they miss on them, maybe Ryu or someone like that, they still need other arms and they're going to bring someone else in. But they're going to tag this move on and say like, look at the off season we had. We went out, we got, we traded for Dylan Bundy. Don't care. You could have gotten so many other guys without having to cash in four prospects. Even if they're not legit prospects, you went out and made a move for the dude with the 5-1-3 ERA in his last two seasons, 61 starts. He's not good. He's not good. Okay. What is, let me do some math real. 20, 20. Okay, we got 20 on one side. Okay. Remember that. Okay. And one, two, three, four, five, six, 20 on the other side. Fuck, they're the same.  And then, so like Tanner Rourke's bad. He just didn't have any six earned run starts and Bundy had two. So the ERAs are actually pretty similar. They're like, work is pretty similar. Same amount of pitches, whatever. Roark was in Cincinnati and then the Coliseum. They're like the same guy. What if they go sign Tanner Rourke and Cole? Good. Why didn't they sign Tanner Rourke and Brett Anderson and get two guys with Moxie who have pitched and done anything? Dude, aren't two of the prospects that they gave away like literally 2019 prospects that aren't projected to be good? That's how four prospects, like two of them are nothing.  I mean, we've seen it in a lot of Yankee trades. Throw in guys turn out to be something. It's baseball. If you can find something or an organization can find something in you, hey, that's not a bad way to go about it. You could have gotten a litany of Dylan Bundy's in the free agent pool and made something of it.  He's gonna be bad and they're gonna say, oh, well, we tried to get Mike Trout help and it didn't work again. No, it's because you focus on getting pieces like Dylan Bundy instead of getting Mike Trout actual help. I do think that there's other options they could have gone that are better than Bundy, but I don't think Bundy's as terrible as you're saying. Like he's got the arm talent. Like, you know how Cashman likes getting number one picks because if you can fix him, you can fix him. He's lost three miles per hour on his fastball in the past two seasons. He doesn't have arm talent anymore. He's a dude. His average fastball went from 94 to 91. He's trash.  I'm now rooting for Dylan Bundy. I know and that's what I've set myself up for and now I'm kind of rooting for him. Know what I've been rooting for? I've been rooting for Mike Trout to get help because he's the best baseball player ever and nobody knows him because he's never been to the playoffs. Get Mike Trout help. I think if the Angels don't land like Cole or Strasburg or Madbom or Ryu and if they like fill their rotation and it's like Haney, Otani, Rourke, Bundy, then like I am fully with you. 100% fake news that you're trying to make your team good. But if they get Cole or one of those top tier guys to match him with Otani and Haney up there and like how good is Haney even? I'm not even positive on that. Then I don't hate this one. Haney's solid. He's like a solid three, four. Okay, then I don't, I don't.  Tehran. Give me Porcelo and you know I'm a Porcelo hater. Give me Porcelo over Bundy any day of the week. But every free agent's getting overpaid and over years like this is what? Bundy for one year and $6 million. Right, but I'm digging through the depth chart. I'm skipping a lot of names to get to these guys. These guys are going to be available. Jason Vargas, your dude. I mean. No, no, no, no, no, take it back. Take it back right now. He's not your dude. He's not your dude. I'm sorry. And he's not a better option. Dude, I mean statistically he is. I mean probably not in the clubhouse and stuff. But I mean I'm just telling you like Dylan Bundy's been one of the worst starting pitchers in baseball for the last two years and the Angels made their big move and got him. Yeah, he faces the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Reys or Sneaky or Good a lot. Astros can't cheat anymore. Mariners have no idea what they're doing. The Rangers will be good and the Angels. That's going to be a sloppy division. It's going to be a sloppy division. Yeah, okay. Next on the table, what's the next topic? Oh, so Baltimore, speaking of getting rid of guys who did well, Jonathan, yeah. He goes to the Miami Marlins, Jake.  There's so many of them. I'm happy for him that he got his good seasons. Hopefully he can do it again. Now that's the right side of the infield, Valar and Aguilar, what are the Marlins doing? Is this a scene? I think VR is going to play shortstop because they've got Ison Diaz, Ison, the one guy I named from their depth chart. I think these moves are widely regarded as pretty good stuff by the Marlins because they're essentially getting them for free. And it's like zero risk, right? And if they can do something, maybe they can flip them. The Marlins put together an infield. We played this game the other day, named people on the Marlins, and we struggled. Now they've got Aguilar, Diaz. I think Diaz is sliding over to short. I mean, they could be doing that. He played a little bit in the minor league, but I mean, Valar played there last year and he rated out pretty well as a shortstop. So I mean, either way, you've got your middle infield. And then Brett Anderson's another solid baseball player for them. He can play third base. Now you could do some stuff with Garrett Cooper. He can play a little corner outfield. I mean, you're the Marlins, you're putting a team together the Marlin way that you can for now. Good for them. So this is the quote from... Hill, who's Hill? Marlins president of baseball operations, Michael Hill. We feel like each player was an offensive upgrade for us. We know that Valar is incredibly versatile and athletic. We'll look to move him around the field. We'll look at him at third base and the outfield. Additionally, we know that he's played second base in shortstop historically. Weird use of the word. It's weird. That's so weird. Just actually, I scratch that. It's not a weird use of the word historically. It's wrong. Yeah. He's just an offensive upgrade. So it seems like they plan to have Rojas and Diaz still in the infield with Aguilar at first and Valar as their Benzobros, their Rover. And hey, if that's what they wanna do, knock yourself out, Marlins. And yeah, I saw Rojas had an okay year for them last year. Nothing crazy, but... There's one breakdown I did. There's one, I like Rojas, because there's one breakdown I did where he was telling the ump like, it's not professional and do your job is just wrong. It was like very earnest. Stray Ford, the confident little kid argument. Yes, it was like a seven-year-old that's got too much vigor. You're like, you should not be talking to me like that. Yeah.  And I just want the freezer pop.  That's what it was like. Now that's funny, Jake. Go Marlins. Okay, let's take a quick break so we can all think about Jake's joke again and laugh, and then we'll be back. Okay. Wrong break music, but we're gonna let this ride. Yeah, it isn't sexy. That break music was called slow jam loop. Yeah, so, yeah, okay. Now we got our final section of the show. The odds and ends, Jake. Actually, we were supposed to do non-tenders before the break. We talked it up. Can you run me down the list of all the players that got non-tendered? Yeah, do you want to do that game we joked about? Yes, I do, and this is mean. As mean as you were to Dylan Bundy, I'm gonna have to be mean to some people kind of here. Explain the game. So, and if you don't know, so MLB has this non-tender deadline that wasn't a thing in baseball really a few years back. And what it is now is that guys who are in arbitration, the major league team can just say like, oh no, we're good and the players hit free agency. So it's kind of this weird dynamic in major league baseball that I'm interested to see the winter meetings conversation because it's good that guys hit free agency, but also some guys aren't getting paid. So that's kind of problematic for baseball. But so we had a lot of third tier players or so hit free agency that in past years they wouldn't. All right, how about I'll start with MVP vote getting getter Kevin Pilar, Jim. Yeah, I care. Yeah, he could be an impact player somewhere, right? He deserves to be somewhere and be getting money for what he does. Here's one where I'd cut myself off. I didn't realize how solid of a ball player Cesar Hernandez is for the Phillies. Oh really, I'm not aware as well. Yeah, career 352 OBP. He puts up some good war numbers. Like he's a good baseball player. I left him off my all non-tender team I posted the other night. Kevin Gossman. Kevin Gossman. Yeah, I care.  I'd rather have him than Dylan Bundy. Gossman was so bad at a time. Like it was worse than Bundy, dude. Gossman had a stretch that was gross. Let me see if I could find it. It might have been just against the Yankees, but it was like automatic, like 10 runs. Also, he's from, Kevin Gossman's from Colorado, so you should be friends with him. Your gold glove winning second baseman, Yolmer Sanchez gets the cut. That was a tough one. It's weird, man. I want a gold glove.  Like you said, this was put in place, so if a guy does really well, the team has the option to get him at a discounted price almost, but that discounted price has turned into too much money that they're saying no. It's like a really weird turn in this situation. Let's see some of the other guys we've got on here. Do you think Aaron Sanchez can figure it out? He went to Houston. No. Nah, he's got injuries and stuff, I don't know. Yeah, he seemed a little broken. Addison Russell, he's got some off the field stuff going on. He got picked up, right? Padres or something? Did he? I don't know. I believe he got. Soon to be 26 year old Addison Russell, that's insane. No personality at all, and also kind of a bad guy, so I don't care. Yeah, we're pretty sure a bad guy. He went on part of my take a couple years ago. Maybe I missed that.  You don't understand anything. Doornob?  Yeah. But yeah, 25 year old, all-star in 2016, I'll be interested and see. If he could figure out his life on and off the field. Blake Trinen was a big one, Jim. Yeah, I bet Cubs wished they had Glaber still instead of Russell. Blake Trinen. Trinen? Yeah, it's weird. I thought he would. Someone's gonna fix him. You would guess. He's good. At baseball? He's good. At baseball. I don't know, I'll read off a few at a time. You could say who jumps off. Domingo Santana, Taiwan Walker. Oh, he was supposed to be good. Yeah, Jimmy Nelson. Well, let's do we got Kevin Smith, who batted clean up a few times for the Angels, and then they non-tendered him. Got a little louder. Got a little louder on that one.  Or the Angels, you hate the Angels more than any other team. It's just, I just don't get what they're doing. You have a cheat code in center field and you're doing nothing to help them. I mean, we've gone through the roster. We do this, I say we do this like monthly. We end up on the Angels roster and you just walk away, Stad. You're like, wow, Tommy Listela had a good first half. The Royals let him go. Not going there. Free Mike Trout. He deserves better. You, what about if my brother-in-law, Brett's listening to this? You apologize? I think Brett might be on my team. No. No, it would be cool if- Brett says that the combination of Stasi and Dice is killer. Give me, he does say that. Travis Shaw got non-tendered. He'd be nice if he could figure out how to hit again. I mean, he's proven to do it, right?   Because who would you rather, Shaw or Anduhar? Oh, I think there's gonna be a lot of teams willing to give Travis Shaw a chance and just call it a bad year because 17 and 18, he had combined for 63 homers and 844 OPS. He was a big left-handed threat that can play first and third base and last year he just flat out lost it. Yeah. Anyone else? I don't know.  No loyalty in this business. That's messed up. Yeah, it's kind of messed up, man. It's kind of like, I'm gonna be honest. It's kind of mean. Yo, Nines, that's like really messed up. You know what they call that? They call that the use them, then lose them. You've been hanging out with the schmooze too much. Two relief pitchers with the last name, Guera, made that. We're getting deep into, I don't care. CJ Cron, 55 homers the past two years. What was the splits there, 50 and five? I think it was 50 and five. Damn, juiced ball. There's a couple of decent relievers. I don't know, it's a really weird thing that baseball needs to figure out how to address. So teams don't just burn out young relievers. Yeah, he was our most used reliever just because we know where he's not going to be used next year. We don't want to pay him the two mil. Yeah, he threw too many innings last year, so we don't want to bring him back. It's messed up. Jake, quit joking about it when it's such a serious issue. That's a tough one. Let's move on to the fun updates. We have fun updates. The Mets is the biggest one, but we had the Angels in the city of Anaheim have reached an agreement on a new deal that keeps the team in town through 2050, 2050. So you won't even live to see the next Angels Stadium. The Angels will buy the stadium and surrounding parking lots for $325 million. I like this. I like when a team is loyal to the city, when the city is loyal to them, even though Jake hates them. Well, yeah, they're loyal to the city of Anaheim, besides just putting another city in front of their team name. Super loyal. Well, you know, you got to do what you got to do. Oh, we just don't want to be super associated with you guys. We like you Anaheim, but you're just not really the hot chick we want to go out with. You know, yeah.  Of a mask of a 10. I was I was going to say an eerily similar comparison. Yeah. Yeah. No, good, good for them. They'll be in Anaheim to watch Mike Trout die. Nice. OK. The Rangers New Stadium, Jake, they put out their fun. They put out their dimensions today. And can I give just a round of applause to the Rangers PR team that put forth all the new stadium stuff today? I think they did a bang up job. First, we get the pictures with the dimensions and the layout and all of the dimensions and with a player they're honoring. Like they have meaning. They have meaning. Three twenty nine down the line is for who's twenty nine Beltray? Beltray. And then I'm not going to pretend to know any of the other numbers and like, was this happenstance or was this really planned? I don't know, but it's cool. It makes people talk about things. Then they had Joey Gallo go take BP at like the stadium, but it's not finished. That was cool. There's no dirt on the field. There's no grass and he's just hitting it into like the Raptors. Really cool move. Every new stadium should copy that and paste it because that's kind of like just a cool site. That looked like a video game. That looked like Tony Hawk met a baseball video game and it was like, all right, we're hitting in the construction field. Yeah, it was cool. I liked it. So my claps were not. They weren't ironic claps. They're real. Good job, Rangers PR team. I'm proud of you. The big news here is that the New York Mets are going to maybe change owners, Jake, in five years. Billionaire Steve Cohen, nine point two billion dollars to his name is going to buy the team. And it's a five year transition where the Wilpons will be in control over five years. And then Cohen's going to take over at the end of it. The Mets fans got to be ecstatic, like as we've chronicled this for a while and everyone knows it, everyone's chronicled this. The Mets from top down are bad at being a baseball franchise and it starts and ends with the Wilpons. So get them out of there. I heard from a secret source, Jake, that the Wilpons just want the money and the family doesn't like each other and they just want to be like, let's get down with this. Let's get some money and then never see each other again. Free at last. Is there more to that song? I don't know. I think you just say free at last again. Yeah, I should have repeated it, but I got caught up looking at you. It was nice. You're still fighting a good fight over there. You thought I was going to say, I've got the lyrics up now.  This can't be the right song. Can't be the right song. Is it saying free at last? Thought I could escape it, but I can't. Well, no, it was interesting at first because the rumors were coming out and it was like, hey, the Wilpons get five year contracts. Does that mean something happens in five years? And then it came out later in the day that, yeah, that Cohen guy, after five years, is going to own 80% of the team. He's a super billionaire. I think someone said 9.2 billion, which would make him currently the richest owner in baseball. I said 9.2 billion. And he came out with a quote that was like, yeah, I plan to compete at the highest level, so that's some good bait for Mets fans for the next five years until Cohen lose all his money in a Ponzi scheme. I mean, the Wilpons had to go. They literally got fleeced in like the game of life. They're terrible. It's a Martin Luther King quote, so now I feel like we shouldn't have applied it to the Mets situation. So I don't know if that was rude of you. He delivered it better than us, to be honest. Well, that was his job, and your job is also the same job, orator. Yeah, I wouldn't say me and MLK Jr. have the same exact job, but... Fight in the good fight. Bringing baseball to the youth. Yeah, we're both like baseball. Yeah, no. Mets, it's a good... It's ooh, interesting. Is today a good day to be a Mets fan?  Why are the Wilpons staying on for five more years? Why? Yo, Jimmy, why is everyone ignoring that? In year four, the Wilpons are gonna put together a good effort to make the Mets better. You know what this is? Oh, I figured it out, Jake. Microphone's coming off the stand. So whenever Derek Jeter takes over the Marlins, right, he's like, we gotta put together a plan, we gotta tank for a little bit, and then we gotta win. And everyone hated Jeter, because they're like, you're getting rid of all the bad players, good players. You're just tanking.  And Jeter was the face and he took all the blame and he gets none of the credit for being smart. This new owner is a genius.   They'll do the tanking part for me. People will start to hate them more and more and more and more.  And as soon as I come in, the team will be ready and in place to start throwing money at free agents and rebuilding. Oh, it's genius. What a plan. I wonder that guy's worth $9.2 billion.  So good day for the Mets. Great day. They're about to rebuild. Okay. Yeah, I don't know. I think I started doing. First thing Cohen does when he comes in, okay, well, that guy's an agent, not a GM, so he's out. Yeah, no, you guys made one huge tactical error. You know, you're supposed to hire a GM to negotiate with the agents instead. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know why people aren't talking about why the five year thing, because yeah, the five year thing doesn't end well. It's not like the Wilpons are gonna go out high and mighty. Like these five years are gonna be awful for Mets fans, I think. I agree, but it's, I mean, it's very smart. I just figured out the puzzle, so maybe I should run a team. There you go. There we go. I mean, that's the end of the show, I think. Oh, Noodle knows. Yeah, Noodle knows. Do we wanna do an elevator talk? I mean, we did a lot of talk. No, let's not do an elevator talk. Yeah, we did one this week. Let me give my winter meeting spiel that I said I was gonna give last episode. Jake and I will- And people go listen to the Trevor Ploof episode if you didn't, it's really good. Jake and I will be at winter meetings. If you have no idea what goes on at winter meetings, I'll give you a quick rundown and then you can follow us long on Instagram and Twitter and well, YouTube's kind of a tough place to follow us long because we just post like final episodes. So follow us long on Twitter and Instagram and all that.  But on the consumer side, it's a huge job fair.  You will run into everyone. Like we just ran into Cashman last time. We ran into Michael K. We ran into Aaron Boone. We ran into Shelly Duncan. We ran into Buster only. We ran into Ken Rosenbaum. You run into everyone and they actually have a specific job fair. There's also a trade show. If you have a upstart business that you want to get into the baseball world, it's a lot of companies that are tailored for like at a MLB stadium gift shop or a minor league stadium gift shop, your product would go in there. Like dugout mugs. They were sponsors. Yeah, dude. I got really excited for that. I lost your audio. That's, oh, I got really excited for that today, dude. The, I think Tuesday night is the like happy hour in there. And last year that was a lot of fun. They had like all the minor league games and yeah. So that would be a good time. We'll do a lot of stuff on that on Instagram. And we'll do a whole behind the scenes vlog of the entire thing. Then there's also like radio row. And there'll be like ESPN, Mad Dog Radio, Yes Network, the NSN, everyone will have a camera crew there and a setup to report live from winter meetings. And I think Jake and I and John Boi media has a spot on radio row. If not, we'll do a makeshift spot on radio row. So we could do a ton of interviews and just pull people aside and talk with them. And those will probably go on the podcast and on the YouTube and definitely behind the scenes. So it's kind of a weird scene. But we'll say this, if you ever want to attend and you're like, yeah, that sounds kind of lame. If you love baseball, everyone talks baseball. You get into the elevator and there's two random guys and you just hear them talking to each other. They're talking about baseball and it's bizarre.  So that's really cool. Yeah, it's funny you said that because you're totally right. And like we said earlier, we're juiced up for this winter meetings because there's going to be news and it's going to be like a gossip fest, which will be fun. Yeah, baseball, I think if they fluff up winter meetings a little bit more, I think it'd be crazy. Like if they host a couple of player events or something. Cause even without that, it's cool. But if they tailored it to fans even a little more, like it could be a big event. Yeah. And yeah, who knows? They don't know how to do that. Maybe we'll start that forum this time. Well, we'll cover it for them. They've welcomed us. Jake's gone ghost mode and that is the end of the show. Thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for talking. A packed episode for one that wasn't planned and we just got forced to do it. So see you later. I think the next episode will probably be from winter meetings.


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Hello everybody, Andrea here with Dental L. So are you a patient who is lucky enough to see an independent dental hygienist, meaning you see your dental hygienist who has their own practice for your teeth cleanings? You might be wondering, well, how do I see a dentist? Is it necessary? And how does that work exactly if there's not a dentist on site? So it's very, very simple. I've had my own practice since 2018 now. And I see patients every six months, sometimes even three months, if they have more gum problems for teeth cleanings. And if I feel they need to see a dentist, then I just simply refer them back to the dentist that they have and let the dentist know why I'm sending them there. Or if they're looking for a new dentist in town, then I will help them find one. I do still suggest that every patient have a dental checkup once a year. It doesn't mean you have to have x-rays every single time. But that way, if you have a dental checkup, the dentist is kind of taking another look. And if they feel like you might need an x-ray or two, they can do it at that office. Since I'm an independent dental hygienist and I travel to patients' homes, so more specifically, I am a mobile dental hygienist where I travel into patients' homes. I can't take x-rays because I can't just bring an x-ray machine into patients' homes. That's not how it works. So I do still tell my patients to see their dentist every year. And if the dentist feels they need x-rays, they can do it at the same time. I do like x-rays. We cannot see things perfectly without x-rays.  That's kind of why you saw a dental hygienist in the first place. Or you just would rather not. We have our reasons. I do still tell patients, I would love x-rays at least once every three years because a lot can happen in three years inside the mouth, especially if you're not brushing twice a day. If you're not using the water pick every day using mouthwash, watching sugar, it's very easy to get cavities, especially in between the teeth so you might not be able to see them. Just because they're not causing you pain, it doesn't mean they're not there, but in three years you can see a lot. I don't feel that x-rays are needed every year, but it's still nice to have a dental checkup every year just to make sure that we're not missing anything for you. So yes, it's still necessary to see your dentist. And if you are just seeing your dental hygienist for cleanings, we can help to send that referral to you. And the dentist doesn't care that you walk in and say, I'm just here for a checkup and x-rays. I have another dental hygienist to clean my teeth so I don't need to teeth cleaning at your office. They're okay with that. If for some reason they're not because they feel like they're losing money, you don't want to go there anyway. I hate to say it, but it's true. So let me know you guys if you have any questions. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you guys in the next video.


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So you're watching this video because you're wondering does teeth waning destroy the enamel you can do a search online You will see articles that say yes, and you will see articles that say no Let me explain this a little bit to you So I've been in the dental profession since 2005 so a while now teeth waning does not destroy your enamel That's the short answer But too much of a good thing or too much of anything can be a bad thing So let me explain that a little bit to you if you're going to whiten the teeth every day that isn't necessary and you're probably causing undue harm on the enamel because Chemicals peroxides are chemicals you guys. How do you think it whines the teeth? It goes deep into the enamel to whiten the teeth to change the shade So do you think that's done naturally? No, it's a chemical But if you're following the advice by your teeth waning technician or dental professional They will tell you what is safe for you. Some of us have thinner enamel So maybe getting their teeth waned once every six months or maybe even once a year is best for them Or with thicker enamel you might be okay to do it once every three months But for an example, I would never do professional whitening once a month with professionally strength peroxides There are different peroxides that you can get and take home whitening kits That are less of a percentage that you could use more often because it's less of a percentage And less of a taxing on the enamel basically, right? So make sure to follow the advice by your dental professional or teeth waning technician What I also suggest to all of my clients is I want you to use a toothpaste that does help to strengthen the enamel If you have cold sensitive teeth even a little bit. There are other toothpaste for cold sensitive teeth So it really does depend on your mouth and your teeth. I hope this helps you guys comment below if any questions I personally whiten my teeth often at least professionally once every six months. I do it myself And at least once a month, maybe even once every two months my my at-home whitening kit I do it. So and I've been doing that. Oh my goodness. I want to say for 10 years at least and my teeth are fine There has never been any issues showing up on x-rays and no dentist has ever said. Oh my god What are you doing to your teeth? So It is safe within reason you guys. So again, let me know if any questions Click like if you like this video. Thank you for watching and I'll see you in the next one


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