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Hello, ladies, gentlemen, and Blue Jays fans of all ages. Welcome to the Jay Bird Watching Podcast, home of the Jays fans' unofficial barroom chat. Our hosts, Craig Borden, Liz McGuire, and Jason Lyons are here to bring you all the words on these birds. We are here to have fun and talk baseball with all of you, so have those questions ready in the chat. Special thanks to our sponsor, Jay Birdy Baseball Company, Canada's baseball brand. Get ready in the comment section to have your voice heard. Grab a bar stool or your favorite beverage, and let's Talk some baseball. Let me hear you, James Nation. We are live. Hello and good evening, everybody. Jaybird watching as usual on a Wednesday evening at seven o'clock at game time. But a little rain delay, at least it looks like there's something going on. But on that note, we're here. We're ready to talk Blue Jays baseball and run this therapeutic couch with some fun people on the show tonight. But first, my my co-partner. What's going on, Liz? Nothing, guys. I'm just I've been really enjoying this frustrating week in Blue Jays baseball. where we could have just almost won the game against the Yankees, except for, I would say, some real weird-ass approach at the plate where George Springer was like, I'm just going to swing at every ball. Let's go. Let's swing at every ball. Especially when they almost bounce. Every ball. Every ball. Not a single strike he swung at. No. And so that's – the man – Could have just stood there. And he didn't. And so that's been inspiring to just see him swing and fail. And, you know, and then last night, you know, we tried to make a comeback, but we couldn't. But it would have been cooler if we did. So losing winning real games has been lovely, especially to the Yankees, which is what actually sealed us our home field advantage last year. So that's how I'm doing. Let's go. yeah and then the dominance in the playoffs that is clearly almost existing at this point but here to cheer us up and have some fun and talk things in half baseball news and half just shenanigans around the ballpark we have our friends the looney dog kings and i'm going to start with ryan because you have number one Thanks for having us on again, Craig. And Liz, I got to say, I think you misspoke there. A frustrating season of Blue Jays baseball. Not just week. It's been rough. Like I said, therapy sessions are about what I feel like we've been running on this show. Thankfully, like I said, like you two, we've had some great guests to goof around with. Also with us tonight, Jody. How the heck are you, buddy? I am well. I'm well. It's, you know, it's an away week. So, you know, I get to just rest up. Yeah. Get ready for the next record-breaking night or whatever it might be. Or just, you know, are you trying to like Cal Ripken this thing and just get better as you progress more and more? I don't know if you get any better over time. But, you know, really, Iron Man, if we could just get through, you know, that many seasons, I just want to live. It's true. I respect that. So for those who don't know, our two heroes here are the Looney Dog Kings who dress up in the hot dog suits during games. They crush hot dogs, and they're the heroes that we all cheer on, perhaps to their own demise. But on that note, at least you have the coolest super suits you can possibly have, just saying. Craig, I'm just happy you keep calling them suits, right? That's lesson number one we have to tell media. We need it. some sort of media package we need to send out or something just to remind people like superheroes wear suits they don't wear costumes nobody ever said hey superman go to the phone booth and change into your costume you know it's not that is disrespectful yeah but tonight like i was making the joke before we have the tony stark we have the bruce wayne we have the men behind the suit this evening to talk a little bit of blue jay baseball and like i was mentioning shenanigans so let's talk because the game is starting here hopefully in the near future but you guys have been at a lot of games tuesday nights have been obviously a wonderful time and i'm sure you've found some other times that you've been at the ballpark ryan i'm gonna start with you how frustrated are you right now is i guess the best way to say it no bias in that question it is so tough uh you know we we were fortunate enough to be at game six uh against the dodgers last year and you know the the roller coaster of a game that was and then the letdown and then watching game seven from home and so you got all this like just pent up energy just ready to come out and it's like okay that has to now sit for a few months and when the season starts up right again there's there's high expectation right there's no reason to think that this team is gonna regress so much and so yeah this this year has been a challenge yeah Jody, what is the biggest thing that you have noticed that is the stinging point as much as possible to you, at least at this point? Well, I was happy Bo Bichette left, but now we're not playing well, and I'm hoping the two are not related. That's the stinging point. He's not playing well either. I know, but there could be two wrongs that just don't make a right here. He doesn't want it to be another Marner situation. Yeah. Who I also thought we should have kept and got rid of the other guy. But anyway, hot take there. It's true. When you see the injuries and you see what's happening with everybody, it's I get it and you want to be patient and you want to let all that happen. There's a finite number of games and you just can't keep throwing them away because the ones in April count the same at the end of the season. How long can we go? I think we looked back a little while ago and their record, while not great, was the same as they had been. It gave some confidence that they were keeping pace with last year's team to a degree because they had a really hot finish. But I don't know if we're holding pace at this point. It's still in the ballpark. And it's mostly because the rest of the American League is dog shit. Dog shit. It's so bad. I will just say that it wouldn't have been cool For one time. We were good right away. We stayed good. That's what I wanted. I'm on this podcast and saying. How dare you. We're going to dominate. We're going to be what the Yankees have been. And you know what? We're not again. It sucks. And we even pulled some of our own tricks from last season on this show last week as we had rock star Shane Told on because last year we invited him on the show and we took off. It was just insane. So we were hoping for the Shane Told effect again. And then that night we got a Dalton Varshow Grand Slam. And we're like, okay, maybe there's something to it. And then we, you know, what we've been doing against the Yankees the last few days. It's just, ugh. so much just back and forth up down not enough up yeah it's funny how how bad the the al has been right texting with my dad and my brother earlier in the week and and my brother's like only five teams in the al are above five hundred and i was like and two of them are the a's and the white socks like Predict that. The White Sox have the best hitter in the American League right now in Munataki Murakami. And so... Wow. And it's just insane. The shuffling that baseball has had. And I believe the argument was the Dodgers were stealing everything. And you're seeing this parody of what is going on in baseball period this year. It is mind boggling. It's like, okay, are the Rockies all of a sudden going to be good next week? It almost feels like that could happen. It feels like anything could happen, but damn. I wish that we would stop having injuries. I wish we'd stop having injuries. Yes. And Liz, it's like you knew where we were going to segue to, but go ahead, Jody. I was going to ask, and that's the problem when we see the struggles of Vladdy, the struggles of Springer. I don't expect them to, they don't have to be the A++ right now, but Just even, can we get above C? Yeah, just to be, what is it, above replacement? Just be an average baseball player, an average baseball man to keep us at . Well, that's what hurts about Vladdy because he started the season. He didn't have the power, but he was hitting. He was getting on base. He was getting clutch hits. And now he's not. The power would show up, you would think, with that kind of mentality. It's coming. It's going to happen. He was hitting three fifty for a while. Yeah. Right. He was the best. He had the best average in the MLB for like a week. Yep. But then he had that homer that he just kind of bumped into with a line drive that made it over the wall. Right. Like, you know, it's there. Just what what's the timing? Where is that? Where is that falling off? Uh, it's when he was, he remember when he was playing in the WBC and crushing, I don't know what's going on, man. Like he can, and he's slumpy like that, but he's just, he is too. This is my baseball analysis. He's too swingy. He's like swinging at some weird ass things. It's it's the injuries. right they pile up it's the it's the expectation coming out of last year everybody you know that I'm sure the players feel the pressure right getting so close and not making it so now you got to come out you your mindset's like we have to be we have to be that team again immediately there's all these injuries so then you got guys like George and Vladdy who are like we have to be the guys and you love that attitude in them, right? Wanting to step up, but they're trying to do too much. percent and it's just getting to the point where you just were we we've been holding on to the hope of reinforcements and it's really starting to look like the reinforcements are in just as big of a problem as this team is because every time we've gotten somebody back and i give you the example that is addison barger in point two seconds of actual play um after coming back from an injury after he was just destroying the baseball in dunedin Our buddy Stuart Mayer, who is basically the runner of the Blue Jays fan club in Dunedin, Florida, was sending me videos that we were posting. And he was just mashing balls off of the Blue Jays office in right field in that ballpark. And it's just insane to me that we can't get these guys back. And then unfortunately today... We knew something bad was coming, especially with Jose Barrios and the up and down, the no velocity, this stuff, that stuff. Oh, he's going to see a surgeon. I wonder what that could mean. Well, we know today that he has now got ligament damage and he is going to have Tommy John surgery. So I know everybody's got their mixed opinions about him and his mentality at the last season. He wanted to get back, and you could see that. I don't know what your guys' feelings are in this whole thing. I'll start with you this time, Jody, and see where you're going on this piece, and we'll go around the corner here. Yeah. You know, I like Brios. I love his – just his grit. I love the way he goes at it. I love his consistency. And last year, as he was sort of – you know, I'm assuming that some of this injury was – starting to creep in, starting to affect him, and seeing him off the roster seemed like the right decision, but it just didn't feel great because he's done so much leading up to this point. So now that we're in this era where we're looking to get a hot start and keep going, I miss him. I'd love to see him on the mound, but I want to see a healthy Barrios. Liz, I'll let you go first. This is my question. Is he cooked? How old is he and how much time in his contract if he goes to Tommy John's and if there is no, say, baseball next year, is he cooked? I don't know. It's a good question because at the end of the day, he is exactly going to be thirty two. So basically he's going to have Tommy John's surgery on his birthday. He's thirty one days and three hundred fifty eight days are thirty one years. Three hundred fifty eight days on May twenty seventh. He will be thirty two. So just over a week here. And I like the way I thought Tim Hill was like a million. How old is Tim Hill? He's like thirty seven. I thought the man was like forty five. That's a hundred years old. Two million years old in baseball. I'm forty two. Anyway, so that one will blow your mind. Oh, that one. Salvi is the best player in baseball right now as far as screwing with umpires. Yeah. But his age, right? I feel like he's been playing ball for like twenty-five years. Okay, hold on. How old is Sal Perez? Let's see. Thirty-six. No, I thought forty-one. He looks like he's been playing baseball for a bajillion years. But no, Jose Barrios is a Blue Jay through the twenty-twenty-eight season currently on his contract. Okay, okay. He might be back for some of a season at the end then. He should be back for almost the full. Uh, twenty twenty eight season. I'm going to give it a fact that he's going to get the pitch because we all know where next year is going to Liz's exact point a minute ago on, because the, apparently the first collective bargaining session went so well between the players and the owners the other day, because it was more or less exchanging of demands and they walked out is kind of what it was, or at least that's the summary from Ken Rosenthal and all the quote unquote MLB insiders. It sounds like he might have a full year rehab, just saying. Yeah. So, Ryan, go ahead. Oh, I'm a huge Burrios fan, right? Like, his nickname, La Makina, the machine, is that that's who he is, right? And... And I hated seeing what happened towards the end of the season last year. Totally understand it on the Jays' perspective, right? He was not being as effective. There was obviously something wrong last year towards the end of the year. You couldn't put him on. It was the right move to shut him down, Wish he'd seen a surgeon in October, right? It makes you wonder how much this is the same effing injury because we did see his velocity drop in August last year. I'm right there with you, Ryan, on that. Why didn't you go to the doctor? Why couldn't we have done this? He felt fine all the way up until the fucking physical at the World Baseball Classic. And he goes, wait, what? You know what I mean? What was it? Floating bodies in the elbow? That was the most recent diagnosis. And then they found apparently some more stuff going on when he just went into it. But during the World Baseball Classic, they found a stress fracture in his elbow. That's what it was. And they're like, we're not insuring that. Don't touch that. Just stop. and he goes well i feel fine and you know obviously they the blue jays and him agreed that hey i guess just wait it out and see what happens and then he heated it back up he had a couple he had three really good starts before everything went crazy down in the need and then when he got promoted to buffalo it's like oh by the way You suck now. And they obviously went and looked at his arm a little bit more. And Jose Barrios, unfortunately, got the bad news that we just all heard today that he is currently, you know, going to have to have Tommy John surgery. And it's like somebody knew that we were talking about one of his favorite players because Jason Lyons has joined the chat. What's up, everybody? I like that we're not hat twins. We all wear different Jay Birdy baseball hats. Not twins. You can get this hat and many more with our discount code that I always forget. Jay Bird Fifteen. Jay Bird Fifteen. I'm logging on now to get mine. Jody is. I am very curious about this awesome hat that Ryan has. Apparently, Jody, you have, too, because that is just. Jody, you're wearing a shirt. I am wearing a shirt. Yeah. We thought we'd be on brand even if we are in Dugnito. I have stickers of that somewhere. That's perfect. So on brand and so perfect. For about . Two seconds when you guys joined the call from very far away, it looked like an Ultimate Warrior logo. There you go. The Ultimate Wiener. I just arrived, everybody. We're talking about Brios. What's your vibe there? well I mean you know very disappointing I kind of felt like it was something like that that was going to be announced whether it was major shoulder major arm I mean Tommy John's is awful for him um you know he's he's no spring chicken um you know it's this is going to be a very tough uh injury to overcome for him I mean Justin Verlander had it at a decent like I mean I don't think he was Too, too young. And, you know, down in the States, they're giving it to seven year olds. So, I mean, you know, who knows what Tommy John's what what you're going to come back to? I mean, at least I was really surprised to see the amount of time they said he would be out based on what most people thought. are doing for tommy johns right now like they said they said twelve to eighteen months and most guys are getting back to throwing at the major league level and sort of six and then you know looking like they're gonna be back in eight and then you know you could probably push a lot of those guys just based on the quality of the surgery and and how heavily these guys are are trained So to see eighteen months of him being thirty two versus that's one hundred percent what it is. I mean, I think they also want to be able to kick that can down the road a little bit. And when he can't come back or, you know, when when he Manoa's or any of these other guys, you know, then they're like, oh, well, at least we were prepared for eighteen months and now he's gone. So. Liz, I think you might have heard your comment from afar. Is he cooked? I feel like it's the end of him playing Major League Baseball. He's probably got a chance to go play in Korea or Japan or Mexico or something like that. It'd be very interesting to watch in banana ball. I don't think I'll see him in a Jays uni or in another Major League uni again. I think that's probably... uh gonna be so he is technically a blue jay he is technically a blue jay through the twenty twenty eight season jason maybe him and santander can hang out for a while oh sad island yeah i looked it up verlander was thirty seven when he was he really Wow. It's wild. That's crazy. Correct me if I'm wrong, didn't Scherzer have his last one pretty late in his career, too? Last one? Yeah, he had two. Crazy. He had one really, really early while he was in the minors. How long did he have to pitch to get two Tommy Johns? A long time. Yeah. He used to throw BP to J.C., Oh my God. He's killing it today. Jason coming in hot. So, but on that note, Jason, we were talking about the Yankee series. Do you have any takeaways outside of the fact that we obviously suck? well i watch both games um you know i feel like the jays in some of these series are just it's so ironic we were just talking about that with the boy the north shore twins boys baseball how they're just finding a way to lose games rather than than win and um it's funny because it all when whenever stuff like this happens it always takes me back and you know and i like to be able to to reference pop culture media stuff like that and it's the shorzy like these kids aren't scared to lose like like if you you know if you're if you're scared to lose and it's the only thing that you're afraid of then all you'll do is win you'll push everything across the line to try and win and the jays are complacent right now they're you know that what they're hearing in the media is oh they were the same as last year and oh you know they had a great this and a great excuse And if they don't, if they don't have a big July and a big August and even a big June, then they're not going to make the playoffs and it'll be a huge disappointment. But I mean, that being said, you know, there's lots of positives in these games. I mean, in starting pitching seems to be great. And when it's not, I mean, the Jays are a little anemic with the bats. You know, like having Ernie Clement struggle both sides of the ball right now is really tough to watch offensively. I never thought I'd see him struggle defensively. How much of that is we found out yesterday he may have had strep throat? These are the lies we tell ourselves to make ourselves feel better, okay? The defense has been happening for a while. And also, like, back to my baseball analysis, the Jays are having terrible play appearances. Too swingy. It's so funny to take, you know, like as a parent group, we've been talking about this a lot with the team my boys play on, the U-Fifteen North Shore Twins. And what they do is they get themselves into bad hitting situations all the time. And the kids we're playing against are ultra aggressive and they want to hit the ball. They don't care if you're throwing fastball, curveball, changeup, first pitch. They're going at it. And, you know, nine times out of ten, they're making good contact. And with BB Corps bats, the ball flies off it a little bit better. And so if you're sitting back and waiting for the pitcher to throw you a ball that's the size of a dinner plate so you can hit it, then you're going to strike out a lot. Or you're just going to roll over on bad pitches. So, I mean, it's frustrating to watch at any level. And when the Jays are doing it, I feel like it's even more frustrating because... Last year, they sort of made that switch. They were a very good eye hitting team. They walked a lot. They hit a lot of balls that probably, you know, like they made pitchers come into their zones. Now, this year, Vladdy and a few of the other guys seem to be swinging at pitches they normally wouldn't swing at because they're squeezing it a bit. So when the whole team's squeezing it, it makes it really hard. And then you come up against, you know, the Rays or the Yankees, who are really good teams, and they're going to spank you. They're going to put you over their knee and spank you. Like, I mean, you know, the fact that they take Mako out the other night when he's pitching great to give up three runs, you know, like it's... Also, wasn't that to Yariel? Didn't they put in Yariel, who we know who has been cooked? And we just keep trying him. He's the man of his teeth and chains. We keep bringing him up and down, up and down, up and down. He looked so good his first two outings, though. And then, obviously, laid a complete duck egg the other night. And just, holy shnikes. Two home runs for four or five earned runs against the Yankees. It just sucked the wind right out of everything we possibly had good going. And it was just a rough... time but at the end of that i was like okay we lost that game because yariel rodriguez did not have a good game who else would have been better was my next follow-up question and right now i was honestly really surprised they brought yariel up with how good adam makos was doing in meyer leagues how good um chad dallas has been doing in the meyer leagues so there were some other names that i was surprised that yariel jumped in front of but obviously that was because of the quote-unquote experience level right i get i give you that fine sure you were hoping for the best and he definitely has been working on some new pitches so maybe he had a new rub there for five seconds but the yankees clearly figured it out Yeah. There's something that, Jason, you said there, right, about the jumping on the early pitches. And there was a period, I think it was either September or potentially even the postseason last year, where I want to say it was a few games where, like, the Jays were hitting so well, and it was like, like, Just knowing the pitcher's going to throw something good and you're just looking for it and you drive it. You're being aggressive. Very rarely do but being aggressive. Yeah. Very rarely do good pitchers throw their bad pitches to start the, you're at bat. Like you're almost always getting their good stuff. And that's why I'm a little surprised while you say that you save, it hasn't been figured out a bit more than he has because they know it's a heavy dose of splitting. Like it's just coming. And I can understand how hard it is to hit based on the travel it has and all the rest of it. Some of these guys are real good at baseball, as you can probably tell by watching it on TV. uh, and there at the game. Um, but yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it's, it's one of those things where, where like Varshow and, and Clement and, and Schneider and, uh, these guys were all ambushing like that. Looking back at even the world series, like just think about when Schneider and Vladi went back to back, that was first pitch home runs on both. Yeah. The first two pitches thrown to you in a World Series game, you take yard because you're ready to go. You understand he's going to come at you. And, you know, he's not throwing you some eighty six mile an hour change up. He's coming at you. And I mean, if you can time it up, she don't. And like. Be ready for it. I think we need to talk about that for . Two seconds here is the weirdest way of getting rid of Eric Lauer and how stupid we are for letting him just all of a sudden be an LA Dodger. Weird. What the hell are we doing? And I feel like I feel like that. that may be one of those ones where we get a trade back in this. Like, I think there might be something that happens later on in the year. And you're like, that's weird. Like, how did we get, you know, pa has for nothing from, from the Dodgers. And you're like, Oh, right. Adam Lauer. You're like, right. At the moment, the trade is quote unquote settled for them splitting his contract. So to your point, though, Jason, that doesn't mean there's not some little dumb flyer written into that contract that the famous player to be named later, the most traded person in MLB history. He's right up there with cash considerations. Yeah, I love that player. He's the best. Well, here's a question for you just to cross over a little bit with our hockey playoffs going on. Do we feel that there's any residue? There's always talk of teams that go deep in the playoffs that the offseason is too short and they got slow starts because of that. Are we seeing these young guys just going like, I didn't realize how tired I was from the long run in the playoffs last year. Is that a real thing? I hear that. And I point you to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Yeah, the Dodgers are a bit of an anomaly, though. I mean, the rest of the teams that are in the majors are real teams. They have real guys that play real baseball. I mean, the robot squad that the Dodgers pump out, and they just seem to just find... The only thing I do like is that that rushing kid is just crashing now, like... you know but how the hell do they find a kid like that like he was drafted like in the third round and he's been sitting in their minor leagues toiling and he comes up and he hits like six or seven home runs in his first two games you're like what and he's an excellent catcher like don't get me wrong but that seems to be what they do which is different and i mean i do agree with you jody that there definitely is some level of hangover But you also have to, you know, like you guys were saying, it's the same teams in the postseason for the most part all the time in the majors. Like, you get a couple of weirdos checking in and things like that. But, I mean, you know, you could make a bet that you would probably be fairly accurate with, you know, with the division winners and your wildcard. I mean, like you said, a few weirdos, but... Until you get the conversation we had when you jumped in here, Jason, that the White Sox and what was the other team? The A's. The not-so-Oakland A's are two of the best teams in baseball. Sacktown. In the AL. Not in baseball. In the AL. Valid, valid, valid. But even on Ryan's point there, the Dodgers go deep every year. So that is their normal rhythm. So that's proven. That's what they're getting themselves trained and stretched out to. They also use to go back to a hockey reference. Are you going to say crystals? They use crystals? No, they do the same thing that the Tampa Bay Lightning do. They allow players when they are injured or tired to take time off. They cooch are off, they sit because he's not good for a whole season. He needs two months off in between to have a couple of darts and eat a couple of steaks. If The Dodgers do the same thing. On the West Coast here, I get the benefit of seeing a lot of Dodgers games. And I'll turn them on and I'll be like, who are these idiots? You're like, I don't recognize a single guy that's in the lineup except for Freddie Freeman. Oh, there's Mookie Betts. He's on the bench. And Shohei's been non-existent the last two weeks either, too. So it's been even crazier. So I feel like that's another thing that the Dodgers do well is they don't mind bringing up guys. They don't mind trading for guys. And because the guys they bring up and trade for are mature, they bring them up for ten fifteen games they give max muncie a month off and you know he comes back and looks like hank aaron like i mean it's it's you know it's the right way to do it if you can manage the rest of it where the jays every single time we bring a guy up we're like we got no idea about this guy i'm like who are these men like and i say this on the show i have no idea who this man is This human showed up. My wife was watching the game the other day with me, and she literally was looking at the lineup going, do we know these players? Yeah, who's Sosa? Who's Pachango? Yeah. Wasn't he one of the bad guys in one of those bad games? I will say, at least Miyago's been unchained at this point. Can we talk about when are we going to do the tattoo giveaway at the Dome? That's what I want to know. That is the most fuckboy tattoo I've ever seen, and I will say this to you. as a well-educated well-sensed woman it's like catnip like damn damn you know what so the creepier thing on that whole is just i'm not just i'm not strong enough to do that that's that's not like i don't think i don't think i get a face tattoo i can't do and i don't think i could do that that's i it was It's like you know that guy's going to get you. That's a big one. Some kind of STD or knocked up with twins he won't support. But, like, let's go. If you want to even get weirder and cringy on this whole thing, David Cohn on the Yankees feed went a little too far down the neck to do a kiss thing the other night, and it was creepy. Super cringe. Yeah. I think that one's up there with the guys who get those. I don't know if you know this, but Ryan was the model for those lips. Anyway, going on. He was waiting for his own tattoo and they went, well, what do we want us to draw? He puckered up. He was being kissy. It was just a minor leaguer then. We didn't think it would turn into something. And here we are. What are our thoughts on who's the team was doing field humping? That's fucked up, right guys? Wasn't that the Giants? They actually were told to stop. Major League Baseball told them to stop. yeah it sort of escalated too and that was uh that just got a little bit yeah okay it's cool as long as you're like it's super gay and this is what we're doing it's a family sport but it was left out there oh my god and that's coming from a guy's dude dressed like wieners like i mean like we also agree probably too much yeah That's too funny. So I don't even know where to go anymore. I'm lost. You guys, finally, it's been five hundred and twenty four episodes before I've literally been knocked off my game. And it took Wiener and Kiss that tattoos to who's pitching tonight. They're playing tonight. You said they are. They're right. Right. All right. All right. So where are we at on Trey? What's our thoughts there? I was surprised that he wasn't right up at the beginning of the season, but I don't get it. There were some lingering injuries, usage questions, right? I feel like I can speak to this one. I feel like I can speak to this one fairly, but the Blue Jays have been notorious for overdoing, overcooking their rookies. And they bring guys up, they overcook them, and then they send them back down and they're like, he'll be fine. And then we never see him again. And so I think what they were doing was... Thankfully we got Trey back. Yeah. Like, I mean, you know, there's been, there's been so many guys that have come up and you're like, Whoa. And then it's like, where'd you go? And it's, I think it gets down to overuse. I also feel like based on sort of, I was, I watched some of the Alec Manoa did an interview about, you know, being DFA or whatever he is now, whatever they call that now. And he was saying that when he was with the Jays organization, I mean, they really built him up to feel like he was better than he was, even though he was pretty good. And so that's also part of it. I feel like Trey has a very level ego when we, you know, like he's an egotistical guy, obviously. I mean, they interviewed him in the playoffs. He's like, I built for this, right? Like, I mean... But the question is, is it ego or does he actually think he's that good? I think it's both. There's a difference there between... Being inflated in your head and then being able to actually show up and do it. Let's go back and talk about our boy Alec Manoa because I think at the time he could have done it. I think if he wasn't – like we had the pitch clock that cooked him because remember I was thinking about this last night about when he was – they miked him at the All-Star game and how fun it was. He had like the three punchies. but okay i will say this it's usually a bad sign when you have your own last name tattooed on your arm and you you've got a brand and a bling made of your own name that's like probably i don't know that's usually a bad sign about ego uh but like blue jay with her own face on it with uh our name on but but go on go on yeah yeah yeah but your name was self-promoting that's allowed on this that's allowed no tattoos though jody you haven't seen me Anyway, go on. That one right here. Yeah. Looney Dog Kings right there. Oh, I love that. I bet you you could convince some stupid fan to get that. I love that. I wouldn't even ask because you know there would be. You know there would be. Yeah, you guys do a radio contest in TO. Somebody will do it. Yeah. You know when it happens. For sure. Anyway, and so that's like there's a band, Alexis on Fire, and they were like, if you get our band name tattooed, you can get into our shows. And then they were like, we had so many fans. we couldn't let him in because it'd be fire code regulations and we felt really bad anyway um but that being said so alec manoa got he was out of shape and that's the thought is pitch clock got him we just saw him getting eaten up as an angel last week getting uh blown up had there been no pitch clock would manoa still be alive today I'll go this way. I thought, like, I loved his attitude. I loved his arrogance when he's pitching for you and he's delivering. Where it got creepy was when it started to fade and he was hitting the challenges and the attitude did not, there was no humility that came in that said, I got to get better. I got to do this. It was still, it was now it became a blame on everything else. And that's, that's when it was like, this, this doesn't feel right anymore because the observation was, he's not hitting the timing right. Like he's taking too long. And part of that is, is that partly his routine? Is that partly his windup? Is that partly being in shape? I don't know. And you have to adjust. You have to like, if the game changes, you have to adjust to it. It's just the way, you know, like if tomorrow, you know, the, the, they were to go to metal bats, you have to adjust to that. You have to make the stadiums bigger or, you know, I'll let the pitcher wear a helmet. Like, I don't know what you have to do, but everybody needs to wear a helmet. Yeah. Everybody wears that mask. You know, it was such an interesting thing. Here's your helmet. Yeah. I mean, To take the ego he had and all the rest of it. And I mean, he was a talented dude. And I feel like some guys just start to rest on it. Baseball seems to be one of the lowest levels I've seen of guys that rest on their talent for so long that they do what Manoa did. Most guys pull their head out of their ass before. Jazz Chisholm is a perfect example. Jazz is playing like Jazz Chisholm again. That's hard to say fast. Don't say Jazz Chisholm fast. Go slow, Jason. I'm surprised he didn't have a ball in his ear after his little home run the other night, too. Did you see what he did to the Blue Jay dugout when he walked by the other night? He went like the Blue Jay celebration when they actually finally get somebody on base. And so... I would have been thrown at him. Well, let's suggest the same guy who, when they were in the world series against the Dodgers, he had bling made and said world series and talked about how bad they were going to win the world series. He was also the same guy who said during the world baseball classic, that team Britain is going to be the greatest team of all time. They didn't win any games at all. also said he was going to go fifty for fifty this year yeah he was gonna match shohei otani and so he was also the guy they were talking about in post game interview about base running he was like i don't know if the rule on that i don't know what the rule is he admitted he was like i don't know the rules run the first yeah if you hit it far enough you don't have to worry about base running did anybody okay tangent just to throw craig off Did anybody see that Bobby Witt play last week? I think it was last week. Oh, where he held the guy at three? Yeah. Brilliant. Absolute brilliant. The guy's coach is screaming at him. Witt's got the tag on him still. He allows his fielder to get to the ball with enough time to stop him. Absolute brilliance. I want to hate Bobby Witt, but man, that was a great play. Yeah, I don't know how you could aid him. I mean, he's, again, arrogant. But I feel like he does... He doesn't play for the Blue Jays. That's why I don't like him. He does every single thing. If you could make a shortstop in a computer, he's... I mean, he's got a cannon of an arm. He's so fast. He, like... It's amazing to watch the kid play. He dove across and held the tag on him. Some of the pundits were saying that you could have called interference potentially on him holding the tag on the guy because he is kind of stopping him from getting up and running, but it was done so smartly that it never, it never affected anything. And, and you know, kudos to him. I got, I've seen them do it where they do the one at first base where the, the first baseman jumps and then they run like the ball's gone and the guy takes off and he's got it and he just turns and, and throws it over. I mean, it's, Baseball can be a pretty fun cat and mouse game when you're playing with different – he's playing chess, they're playing checkers. That exact play that you just mentioned, Jason, the fake that you missed it is what I said to Jody. I didn't see the Bobby Witt play at first. He was telling me about it. I was like, this is like the opposite of that, but again, in the same brilliance. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, you know, like you hope that that people will be like my two sons, one catches one pitches and one the pitcher plays first base a lot. And they used to be they almost used to have a telepathy to be able to throw a guy out at back, throw a guy out at one. And they were so smart with it that you could see them looking at each other like one step, two step, three step. OK, he's taking three steps. He's cooked like the next fastball. This guy's done. And, you know, I like the creativity of that. I mean, you're not taking a massive chance. The kid's probably going to try and steal anyways. So, I mean, why not? You know, but it's, it's, I like the wheel play. I like stuff like that. Just stuff you don't see every day. And yeah, this is pretty cool. If we just, just let it run. It's, it's insanely smart, you know. And Bellevue in the chats, we're going to get to your question here in just a moment too, after we have some fun here. Completely misses it. And then just holds them on. And look, watch when they show later, the base coach is going snap show. The guy behind the plate, the on-deck batter is yelling for him to run. So this guy turns, and he's like, come, come, come, run, run, run, run. Oh, it doesn't matter. But, yeah, the third base coach is behind him just yelling at him to go. And the on deck, just like the guy who scored there, just coming, come on, come on. Yeah. I mean, I get where the runner's at, right? Like you're supposed to listen to your coach, but you feel the glove on you. And the crowd is probably going crazy. Yeah. wild i can't i forgot about that play until you mentioned that again but there's been a few plays like that at like gun throwouts that second same thing they've tricked the player and the whatnot and this year it's been it's been a high level this year with all the weird shit going on with more bunting and all this other stuff too it's been one night i saw and i i'm hoping it was this season but but but but it was it was illustrating the um The subtle move that the catcher did, it was somebody who was leading off. It was the drop of the glove. Yeah, but it was just... I know the one you're talking about. It was the Josh Naylor fake pickoff at first to pick off at first. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm waiting for the Ken Griffey Jr. Little Big League play to happen again. That's all I'm waiting for that to happen. That was still one of my favorite things. Well, did you guys see Corbin Carroll's inside the park home run last night? Yeah. Like, if you want to see somebody talking, that guy, and this is what I'm talking about. So, like, James, why don't you talk? When you're talking about a guy who is putting out maximum effort. I mean, he hits that ball into the gap and he is thinking triple the second it leaves his bat. There is no other thought in his mind, but triple he's running. I mean, I didn't see a time on it, but I would suggest maybe it was the fastest home to third anyone's ever done. And then within that, my one son was just saying it was ten eighteen home to third and then he gets hit with the ball and has the wherewithal to jump up and run home like there was no other thought than triple and maybe a home run James Woods was the one that had inside the park grand slam the other day that's where you were talking Liz was the last one to do it that Tapia one was nuts that was a wild game best game ever yeah So I got some fan questions in the chat that we got to talk about here, and I'm going to put them up on the screen here for everybody to chit chat to. So everybody wants to talk about Vladdy. How many home runs do you think this season actually finishes with? Correct me if I'm wrong. Did he hit twenty nine last year or is it twenty two? Twenty three. Twenty three. So I just remember twenty this year. I think he will, no problem, but it sure as shit not showing a bunch of a pulse other than that one home run he hit the other day, which, by the way, that home run he hit the other day, that poor baseball man, that ball got no more than thirty three feet off the table. Yeah, it was just a glider above lowest. I think it ran into the stands more than it landed on the stands. Here's what I know. I don't know the answer to this. I don't know. Baseball is weird and crazy. I don't know. I hope it's more than he is hitting now. Twenty five. That's my number. That's your number. I was thinking somewhere in the twenty three to twenty five range. Now, does he bat three hundred, I guess, would be the follow up question with a twenty twenty five home run year, because that's basically what he did last year. If he's batting three hundred, he's pushing one hundred RBI's. But right now it's looking really hard to get to. I think the RBI's will be harder, particularly if they keep them up higher up in the in the order like they're doing. Yeah, I will say, did you see his interview where they talked about him being moved in the order? That was a good interview. He's just like, yep, I got to be where the team thinks I have to be. And I think he commented on his home run not being that good. And that's a good – that's what I want to see. And we know from what they did with Eric Lauer, they're obviously a team for his clubhouse. And I was like, okay, great. That's cool. I'm game with that. Yeah. I was like, okay, that was a shared humility and self-awareness and the, the, the need to win baseball games, which man, I remember last year we had the most come from behind wins of all. And like, that was a team that was afraid to lose. Like, So we need to get them battered a little, spook them, or what will happen? Well, Ernie. Ernie too, right? Like strep throat, had a fever yesterday, comes in to pinch hit because the team. And he got a hit. Needs him as well. I can't believe he even got the bat head too. Yep. And, I mean, let's keep in mind that Kirk coming back will help. Barger and Healthy will help. I mean, as soon as the threat of hitting the ball out of the ballpark comes back, because no one's scared of that right now. They can throw middle-middle to Vladdy, and he just can't seem to elevate it out of the park. You know, who's our biggest threat right now? Okamoto would just round it out his last two clutches. He's due. That's a baseball problem. He's due. He's due. Correct. He's a guy that's just been a silent assassin. We're not talking about him nearly enough, and he's a threat every time he's at the bat. I like him a lot. He's been a joy to watch. You guys kind of got to where I wanted to have some fun here at the end of the show, and then obviously I want to talk about the record-breaking night that you three were at least a part of and some of these things about your actual suited-up uniform and whatnot. But I wanted to have some fun tonight and say, what could the Blue Jays do right now and do a Ron Answers Only to fix things? So if you want an example of what I was shooting at here, as we all know that Akamato has been getting everybody to do... the gratitude circle, right? Well, maybe it becomes a goddamn roast, you know, instead and call everybody out and maybe it just lights a fire under somebody's ass. You know, that's the kind of stupid here. Put your mind in that goofy ballpark here. Ron answers only to fix this team. I think that Dalton Varshow should wear Ricky Vaughn style glasses when he plays center field. To accentuate how close his eyes are together. Do they go full cross-eyed? No, no, no. What is crazy about his eyes being close together is he has Gary Varshow's father's face. Because they had to reuse his father's face, I guess that they didn't. I don't know. How about rally pants? I'm going with rally pants. Like, just everybody wear their pants backwards. Yeah. Or flip them inside out. Oh, I thought you were going on a jazz chism a little bit there where, you know, he's wearing Stanton's pants now. Everybody just starts switching pants. It's the traveling brotherhood of the Blue Jays. That's a great film. I will say that's a great film. We're all waiting for the third installment of that film. I do hope they make one. Yeah, go for it. Can we get more couch surfing? Can we do more couch surfing? I was going to say, everybody's got to start sleeping on everybody's couch. I think you should do bunts only. Bunts only. Sleep on pull-out couches and pre-game quesadillas every day. Yeah. Make sleepovers. You know what? I'll go one further. Let's keep the pants and quesadilla going. I think everyone in the outfield should keep a piece of quesadilla in their back pocket. So rather than when they pull a thing out to check their next batter, they pull that out and have a bite of quesadilla and then right back into the back pocket. I don't know if anybody else is a fan of the show, The League, like I was watching that. The one guy, Rafi, was always carrying around pocket hot dogs. I've got hot dog guys on the show tonight. We do that. All the people in the chat that are listening, there's a lot of you in there today, which is great. But if you haven't experienced The League, The League, go check it out. It's a TV show about a seven-person fantasy football league. It is one of the funniest shows I've ever watched. And Rafi, Jason, what's his name? He's a Canadian guy. He's hysterical. He's always that creepy, weird guy. Yeah, always. Anyways, the character of Rafi, I mean all I can say is like Like, Second Harvest, when you see that one, you'll just die. What was the defensive shit? Like, I mean, come on. Like, it's one of the funniest shows ever made, hands down. Jason Manzoukas. I have to watch it. Jason Manzoukas, yes. Absolutely love Jason Manzoukas. He's good. I will say, guys, it's a bunch. I've watched the league, and I need to take little breaks from it, the same way I take little breaks from Always and Sunny, because everybody's just trash. Everybody's a trash human being. It's a hundred percent trashy. still can't tell if jason manzoukas is acting or not but that's the frightening part it's not it's him it's complete like i watched him on what's the on they're doing a new one where they're doing a hot wing one but it's not the same guy that does it they're doing it's like two people challenge each other yeah and he was on it back and forth trivia right oh my god yeah oh lord he's so funny he was on the british the british taskmaster and it was insane like he was brilliant absolutely he was randomly in twisted metal as some random person they ran into on the road it was like oh my god it's rafi that i also think that if when you watch the show if you do watch it there's a part where dion sanders shows up at a porno shoot that rafi and seth rogan are doing and seth rogan's line is i don't know who you are man but you're about to get gonorrhea and i I lost my mind. Like, oh, it's so good. He was trying to buy the apartment, right? Yes! Just the most random shit. But to that point, that show is great and that is gold. But as far as is there any other stupid, not right answers for what the Blue Jays could do to get back on track? I do like the one in the chat of hiring Munanori Kawasaki as the strength and conditioning coach. Bananas for everybody. I didn't even see that. More tennis, more tennis, more bananas. Monkeys never, monkeys never cramp. Just remember that. Well done, Jim. Well, good. So that is still the best interview in major league baseball is Minori Kawasaki. And did you all know he's still actually legit playing? He has two ranks. He has two ranks. Yes, and he just won some championship and the MVP of whatever league he was playing in last season too. He's got a Cubs ring. Yeah, okay, Jim, I agree with that. I actually totally agree with that. So he's in the – He's serious, just saying. Yeah, he's playing in Japan again. Yeah. I mean, we know he's flexible. Like, yeah. Monkeys never cramp. Bananas. It's that simple. Dude's the same age as me. Oh my goodness. Yeah, he's the Yarmir Yager of baseball. Yes. I cannot imagine playing professional baseball. And I'd also like to openly say I've never cheered for another hockey team other than the Vancouver Canucks to win the Stanley Cup. You did it? And I'm really cheering for the Montreal Canadiens to win the Stanley Cup. Sorry, Craig. We got you. I don't know what it is about this team. Yeah. On the record, off the record, all of the above, I could not say enough good things about that series against the Canadiens. It was incredible. It was so fun. Buffalo played well. Montreal played well. You wish every one of them was... Normally, that's a first rounder where it's a knockdown drag out. Yeah. That was, and I feel bad for Montreal because they're going to walk into a eight, like Carolina's only played eight games. They're going to buzzsaw them. But they haven't played in eleven fucking days. I know, it's nuts. They're going to be so fresh and ready to go. Or is it going to be the opposite? I can't see it. If this game gets it. Yeah, if they drag them out into the deep water, I don't think you're going to see the Canadians come back. But, I mean, you know, who knows? That's why you play them. i said i said to the household i said i always want a canadian team to win i just didn't want the canadians team to win that was see and i'm the other way like i would take them or the senators over any other team and like i mean the leafs no way sorry i know we had a lot of life's fans on this but edmonton oh my god no calgary sweet baby jesus no um Winnipeg? Sure, why not? Nobody cares about Winnipeg. They deserve something. I hate the Guess Who. If they could have something better than the Guess Who, let's fucking go. Let's go Winnipeg. Are they still in it? All right, we do Picks to Click. Let's go. On that note, we got Picks to Click and then our shameless self-promoting bit for our wonderful two friends here. Jody and Ryan, you're going to have to concur here on who won last week. Last week, we had our guest Shane Told, and the four picks were Ernie Clement, George Springer, Vladimir Guerrero Jr., and Andres Jimenez. So tell me which one of those players had the quote-unquote best week in Blue Jay baseball last week. It's not a good one this week. That's pretty rough. I don't want to pull out from underneath Ryan because I know he's got a favorite out of those four, but I would go with Jimenez. What are you thinking, Ryan? Do you agree with that? I would agree. Yep. So the guest spot is now once again on the board and in second place in our picks to click, Mr. Shane told of the band Silverstein picked you under seminars last week. So there you go. Who did you think? Jody? I thought you were going to pick him in as. Okay. I just didn't. I wanted you to get the credit for picking it, not stealing it from you. I was in the game last week and I was there with my buddy and she was like, this is a game where Jimenez is really going to shine. And I was like, no, he's going to hit a single fucking maybe. This man scores two home runs and drives in five runs. And I was like, shit, if we win this game, I was like, if we win this game, I am buying you a jersey. Unfortunately, we did not win the game. I was wearing my Jimenez record. Or for a fortune for your wallet. I wanted to win that game. So right now, Jason is currently in the lead with three wins. The guest spot is now in two. And Liz, you and I got to hurry up and figure this out. You and I are tied for last with one win apiece. Well, if somebody's bad, when he gets good, I'll win again. That's just how I do it. Slow burn. That's what she does. So on that note, Ryan, Jody, you guys have the pick. You guys have the pick because you won because we also do it that weird way around here. The winner actually gets to pick their next pick and keep this thing rolling as long as humanly possible. So for the guest spot tonight, you two need to collaborate and give me a name for who's going to have the next best game in Blue Jays history here. So we get to next week's show with switch pitcher. Pat Mendidi is going to be on the show. Nice. Why are we here? Because we like you. We have fun. You guys are heroes. You suit up. Who's going to make it through seven games here for the week? Right? He had to go there. If they could just appear in every game. Why do I feel like he's going to put a bet on the ghost runner in the ninth inning? Jody, I think we've got to go with the kiss. I'm with you. I can do that. I can support that. That's a long shot, but I think it's either that or Okamoto. My other thought was Okamoto. I was torn between the two. But I think Okamoto, I think he's starting to cool down a touch. I don't know if this is the week he's going to pick it back up, but let's go. Let's go with the kisses. Pinago it is. Pinago it is. All right, Liz. There you go. And Jason, who you got? Well, I'm going to be strategic for the first time in ever doing this in three years. I'm going to look ahead at the fact that the Jays are what they got one against the Yankees, three against the pirates, two against the Marlins before we get back. So that's, that's, you know, one game where they're, they may see an ace in both sides. So, You know who I'm going to go once again with the old man, George Springer. I think he's going to get off the schneid here. There you go. I'm going to do something a little different because we usually always go hitters on this whole thing. And rightfully so, because usually you don't get the pitcher you want to actually get two starts to overcome a good offensive performance. So in a week time frame, you usually don't get that. The game is still in a rain delay. So I'm going to go on the fact that Trey is Savage still has not started pitching. He's going to get one more in. So I'm going to go trade a here and see if I can hope and pray for the best two outings in the planet to here to get on the board and have some fun. So there it is. Picks to click brought to you by our wonderful friends. And I got to make sure I hit some buttons here to make sure cool things happen by our wonderful friends and sponsors of these awesome hats. Jay birdie baseball company. Make sure you hit your code up and hit Jay bird. When you check out, you'll get a nice little discount. Get moving. I get a lot of compliments on these hats. I don't think we could have planned this better. I was looking for a nice comfy hat tonight. I've been wearing the black Blue Jays hat that I have around because I feel like I've been hanging out at a funeral. At the end of the day, I put this on because I'm like, you know what? This is one of the most comfy hats I've bought in a really long time and was just making me happy so on that note so jody ryan i want to hear a little bit about the record-breaking game night and then obviously the microphone is a hundred percent yours to just shameless self-promote whatever you would like to do so coming into that game right like We knew we were going over a hundred thousand. And you were going to take it there. Anniversary. Anniversary of the first game. First game back against the Dodgers after the World Series. Seventy seven cent hot dog. Like it was a perfect storm. We we knew it. Dodgers. So you got a full stadium. So, yeah. So, so we knew it was going to be something special. In fact, like, so we, we, we, we joined a guy regularly on the morning after a loony dog night on, on, on radio down in St. Yeah. And, and so we'll text him like every time we do our loony dog update in stadium, we have it three, three times a night. Right. Well, we'll text him and I'm tracking along and I'm, Like I've got it like the text chain showing where we were at different points on record breaking nights. And I'm like, I mean, this is what I'm I'm a data guy. Right. So I'm like, we're we're we're trending ahead. We're day job is showing. And so I'm like, we're we're going to break it to the point where so they were given out like little like Schneider's hot dog or baseball cards. Right. You could like go and get your picture taken and all that. and wild ai on that yeah okay i was in line for one of those and i was like wait a minute i have my own baseball card what the am i doing hey he's not even joking happy two-year anniversary But we said to the guy, he's like, come back afterwards because we have these if we break the record. And I just looked at him like, dude, we're going to break the record. Not one that Lizzie had. And so he actually gave them to us when we were still at about ninety three thousand. Because like I told him, I was like, we're going to do a layover. Like it's not it's not even going to be close. What I was blown away by was last game. Getting up to, did we get to ninety six or no? Ninety eight thousand. Yeah. But what was the official number? One hundred and two. One hundred and two. Two sixty six. What were you guys up to? You guys were like eighty seven or something. I was at this game and I was like, not a hundred. That was a ninety six. That was ninety six. That was ninety six. Six thirty three. The record is one oh two. Two oh two. Two oh two. Right. There you go. Well done. So I guess the big question on all the Blue Jays fans' minds is how well did you two contribute to that with the condiment crew and everybody? We have had to expand our count of mouths, if you will. We don't have a term for this. A number of eaters. Just, you know, we've had Uh, this has been a good run and we want to continue to do the run. Uh, and, but, uh, but it does catch up with the, uh, eating that many hot dogs. And, uh, I mean, we were joking earlier, right. About the doctors, but legitimately my doctors have told me, uh, Yeah, you need to stop. Okay, here's the thing. You guys know. And we're not stopping. No, can't stop, won't stop, should stop. You guys know that when they taste wine, they spit it in a bucket. You guys need a chew and spit bucket for your hot dogs. Also, like there's a rumor, I remember that Michael Jackson had a stand-in for some shows. Like you guys could just go do the thing. I can generate that. Don't worry about it. We love our condiment crew folks and big shout out Andrew, John, Jack, you know, the usuals, but they have a, a rotating cast of extras that seem to just fill in whenever one of those guys can't be there. And, and we have not. And I, and I do know that this is the streak will end, but we have not missed a loony dogs night since this hot dog thing started. We have been to forty two consecutive Looney Dogs nights. Wow. We participated in forty three overall. Our first one was earlier in the season. But since August thirtieth, twenty twenty two. Forty-two consecutive, and unfortunately, I will be breaking my streak next month because my oldest daughter is graduating from grade eight on a loony dog night. Are you going to wear the suit to the graduation? I might allow it, and you might actually count it. I don't think my then-fourteen-year-old daughter would realize that. Fourteen-year-old daughters love that. They love it when you make a scene at their graduation in front of all the friends and boys they like. no let's just say ryan that you know she's gonna have other graduations like you're really happy this might be the only one so i mean like i've been through like six of them they just keep coming there there you go there you go yeah i will say that this is the thing okay in an organization that's run by the biggest i would say possibly most evil organization of all Oh, I started nodding a little faster than I expected. That is Rodgers. Not only Rodgers. Rodgers themselves. Perhaps the Blue Jays. It is nice to know that we have some folk heroes amongst us. That we're not from the brust of the evil corporations. But we're indeed from the fans and the mans. That's us. And like, you know, came from the bottom. Now you're the top. Yeah, we're still surprised this keeps going, guys. And we're so thankful that you invited us to be a part of the show tonight. It's something that we just last game, we had folks from Colorado, Illinois, Peoria, like just the south of Chicago and Nashville. There was a fellow from Victoria. All of them came in. They knew us through different vendor things and they all put on suits and they all participated in it. This is going on all over. We're hearing more and more about us being referred to in US and away games. In fact, if we're going to plug anything and it has nothing to do, like, just let me be clear. Like, let's get this on the record. Ryan and I don't get, frankly, we don't get compensated for anything. We get a few things. We, you know, Schneider's is good enough to just to get us our tickets for the, for the, for the Tuesday night games. But let's be clear. Like these are the twenty dollar general admission tickets. We're not, we're not getting the, you know, like I see with this. You're not sitting in a loge box. so we're thankful but you know I wouldn't what it is. So we do all this of our own accord because we just think the bit is hilarious. The Blue Jays have been amazing just embracing the idea. And in fact, as Ryan said, with not being able to eat as many as we should or want to, they've really pivoted on how they've approached it. And really, that's where you're seeing the focus on the stadium numbers now. And that's turned into its own record-breaking thing. That stopped you from dying. We're going to share... The slow bit with that. We gave them an out. We know the bit is that we eat a lot of hot dogs. We can't eat as many. You used to have a sign and we'd cheer for them. How many hot dogs have you eaten? Now they've gone to the greater stadium. But you know what? That's turned from a movement from you to us all that we participate in. And in baseball, rituals are the most important. And you started a really special one. Cheers to you fellas. And when we moved to the stadium... The average has gone up. Yeah. But it's something that we've, and I think it's sappy, but it's something that we recognize as a community. It's an odd, fun, niche-y thing. It's silly. It's all of that. But, you know, there's no, you know, if we see other people in hot dog suits, it's not a street fight in the back of the, you know, the two or seven. It's just... uh come grab a dog and a beer right it's like two men showing up but if two women show up at a party wearing the same dress one of them has to leave two men show up in an outfit with the same party with the same outfit you're like best friend for life you know like that's it it's so so that's what it's become and And truly, the condiment guys, these are gentlemen who we did not know before we started doing this. Now they're great friends. We love hanging out with them, even out of the stadium. The people we see and talk to regularly, the whole community online that embraces the silliness of it, not just about the baseball, but just about the fun that the fans collectively have. We are so truly thankful for that. And in fact, we're trying this for a second time now. We're going to do a road trip. for Dollar Dog Night in Pittsburgh. Now, of course, it's not a Jays game, but we're going to take it on the road and pack the suits and cross the border and see about getting down there. We did this for Cleveland a couple seasons ago now. Yeah, I was at that game. You were at that game. We went into you. Yeah. Which was a Jays game, which was all the more fun for us. It was so hot. I don't know how you didn't die. It was close. Their dogs were really good, too. I know. Their dogs were really good. I had one. I thought I was going to die. Luna dogs are way better than the Cleveland ones. They weren't bad. After the game, they had DJ Shaq on the field. DJ Diesel, which dulls the pain of the loss and the heat in the hot dogs. That were bad. That game, we saw the They have their own hot dog crew, so we had a little collab with them. It was kind of fun. So that's the case. We do this all just on our own fun. We're just having a great old time and happy to share it with there. We'll give a shout out, I guess, St. Louis Bar and Grill has your all-you-can-eat hot dogs going on this month. Um, they reached out to us and we did a little special with them, uh, and just, uh, frankly donated the money. Uh, uh, but, uh, uh, but you know, it's not, you know, this, I think the reason part of this goes is we're not, we're not trying to leverage it. We're not trying to turn it into a thing. We're just, just two guys enjoying baseball, just like we're having on this, just enjoy talking baseball, enjoy talking food. And, and the, and the crazy stories that come out of it are just so much fun for us. I want to know how this ends too, as much as everybody else does. So there is a comment here from Belleville Stallion. Would I ever dress up as an honorary hot dog? Let me tell you something. I would do that. I'd do that proudly. I love gimmicks. I love being myself a gimmick as I truly am a gimmick. I also waited in line. I'll jump. I waited in line. I made my friends wait in line two hours to spin a wheel. so we could win these hot dog shirts. So, yeah, frigging right. I'm just going to say it. One day you're going to find me on the porch with the homies, but I'll have to train for it because let's not forget the time that I had too many hot dogs and I couldn't get my shoes off. wasn't uh yeah we've had a few people that have that's not where i thought that was going that happens so on that note i've been training here as a rochester red wing fan for a very very long time with with his waggles hot dogs i have a strange feeling i need to make a trip and i need to see what happens and suit up with liz and just goof off have a wonderful time anytime we'll have the suits ready for you any tuesday night we always have extra suits Did it just sound like I got called up from the Meyer League? I think so, yeah. I felt like we're going to space or something. Hold on a second. Craig, you said you've been training. What are your numbers? My numbers are about four to five right now. No, that's weak. My number is four. I don't know if I'm in the ballpark, but like I said, I'm in the minors. Hot dogs, loony dogs are smaller. So my starting number is four. That's my serving of hot dogs, loony dogs. It's four. I can go from anywhere from four to six. It's getting to six to eight territory. Things get real blurry. I always say number seven is the wall. If you can get past number seven, you can start pushing through. Then it's just because of mechanical. The first six are food. The seventh one is hallucinations. After that, it's however far you want to go. How late can you sleep in tomorrow? How much water do you want to drink? Jody, do you care to know what your career average is? I think it's nine, isn't it? Eight point four dogs per game. This is this is this is me with a whole new whole new mouth since this whole thing started. Yeah. So, you know, every season I was getting surgery done. So complete reconstruction. One thing before we go, I just wanted to get this in. There is a kid from North Vancouver who is pitching for the Michigan Wolverines. His name is Shane Brinham. He is a freshman, which is unheard of to be a starter. He was All-Ten Freshman of the Year. And he has made the freshman Big Ten All-Star team as well. So Shane, he's a friend of the twins. He's a good dude. And he will be gracing us with his presence in our next open slot. That's a teaser for everyone. There you go. Amazing. He also ate ten hot dogs. Yeah. That's what I'm telling people. I'm telling that about him. He's a ten hot dog man. Yeah, he's a Big Ten hot dog man. Yeah, he's a Big Ten. Big Ten. I like these rankings. You a twelve-er? You a dozen? No, a twelve-er? Yeah, ten. Big Ten. So, too funny so guys it's been a blast thank you very much feel free to hang out for a couple minutes after this after we go off live here if you want but thank you everybody we have almost three hundred of you live in and out of this show concurrently right now we have been having a great time talking all things blue jays crazy ballpark shenanigans and of course hot dogs with our friends ryan and jody of the loony dog kings so loony dog kings one dog two kings yeah there you go There it is. So on that note, we will be back next week with switch pitcher, Pat Menditti, former Toronto blue Jay to talk all things about his post career baseball, a Savannah bananas appearance and all things just fun and cheeky shenanigans. And of course, blue Jays baseball. So thank you very much and have a great evening. And hopefully we get a game in tonight. No blue Jays. Cheers. We're close.