#MLBVideos: The 6-1-1 Podcast: Guest star Jed Lowrie reacts to the World Serie viewership, free agency, more!

The 6-1-1 Podcast: Guest star Jed Lowrie reacts to the World Serie viewership, free agency, more!

Here we are back on the 611 podcast, Jimmy Rollins, Ryan Howard, and we have a special guest, a man that we get to call our cap partner, ambassador, a veteran of the game, a man who also has aspirations of being an owner, president of Baseball Ops. Whatever it is that needs to do to be ran a team, he’s willing to do it. Our man, our guest, Jed Lowry, thanks for coming on today, Jed. Appreciate you, brother. Hey. Hey. Thank you, Jimmy. Thank you, Ry. He’s the perfect guy to do it, too. He is. He is the guy. Couldn’t have thought of anyone better. [Music] All right, Jet, we are aware of the numbers. We’re game set. Yes. with that what I would like to call the growth or the the return of America’s pastime. Yes, we have so many international players in this game right now. We had the US versus Canada. We had LA versus Toronto. We had Kendrick versus Drake all over again. And it could not have been watched by more people. Um, if I could think about it, uh, baseball is, we’ve kind of seen it go up and down. Um, we’ve seen other sports literally take the lead, just kind of just leapfrog baseball in regard of viewership. Um, we haven’t had that concert moment in a long time. But this World Series, this game seven, Los Angeles Dodgers vers Toronto Blue Jays, we had that World Series concert moment. And I think it was long overdue, right? Read the numbers, man. You know, you’re you you have you have those those those spectra vision. Let me let me let me take a gander here. Game seven 2025 presented by Capital One averaged 51 million viewers combined across the United States, Canada, and Japan. All right. So, let’s let’s start there for a second. I think that’s the highest numbers in what I think it was like 34 years or something like that since what 911 World Series. Yep. Exactly. Let let’s start there. 51 million viewers across Canada, Japan, and the United States. Now, as we’ve said, as Jimmy said, it’s America’s pastime, which is growing into the world’s game, right? Because you look at how many people from Japan were watching this game. how many people from Canada were watching this game and the growth in getting baseball back to where it was at the top. This certainly adds to that and starts to put you in the right direction. Yeah, I mean I I’ll I’ll chip in here too. Just the the excitement of these games. I mean, when you have international stars like Otani, like Yamamoto, and then you’re you’re including Toronto who, you know, was just the the entire country of Canada is just, you know, thirsty for the game. I it’s just a it’s an amazing platform and and I think Major League Baseball has done a great job of building this foundation um for which the game can continue to grow. This is something that we’ve been one for a long time. we get to work uh with Rob in a sense uh with CAP uh the commissioners ambassador program and we’ve heard him talk about you know how he wants to grow the game. We’ve sat there and we saw the numbers how baseball was really just getting passed over. If you’re the commissioner of baseball, you might be one day. We don’t know. You might be one day, but if you’re the commissioner of baseball, yeah, what’s your message? What’s your message? Yeah, I’ll try to put that. Those are those are big shoes. big shoes to fill. Um, nothing but positivity. I mean, how how could you look at this World Series, this postseason in general as anything but positive and creating huge momentum and finding ways to, you know, bring more people into the game. And I and I think what excites me more just as much as anything else is is the domestic engagement in the game. The amount of markets that are consuming baseball domestically as well as internationally. So, you know, the obvious the stars, like I said, Otani, Yamamoto, excuse me, bringing bringing back uh the the Japanese viewers that that those two players did by themselves. Um, but but just the domestic energy that that I think both of us felt, all three of us felt in LA. Um, and you know, you just you just have this excitement, palpable excitement about the game. uh you know, the games have gotten more easier to they’re they’ve gotten easier to consume with things like the pitch clock. They’re, you know, implementing things that uh give the fans what they want, right? And and I think that is more action in the game. Home runs are fun, but the way the game is played reminds me of the game that I think both all three of us um grew up watching. So Jed, I got a question for you. How do we keep it going? Yeah. Right. How do we keep this momentum coming off of this great and amazing and exciting World Series? How do we keep that momentum going forward for the 2026 season? I mean, obviously, we got the the the collective bargaining agreement coming up at the end of 2026 and right now we we want to continue to ride this high. So, how do we keep this momentum going? Well, I mean, I know there’s an initiative, uh, I think the games got under two, right around 2 hours and 40 minutes this year. Um, I I believe the goal is to get them down to 230. It might not sound like a lot, but that I think those 10 minutes do make a big difference just with the cadence of the game, keeping guys uh, you know, fans engaged. Uh, so I think continuing to make the game um, consumable, not just as a TV product, but in person as well. I think the the pitch clock has made the the game on TV uh a better product. Uh and you don’t even notice the pitch clock. I mean, I don’t know how many games I watched this year, but the pitch clock I I was actually, you know, I was a uh very concerned uh when we started talking about the pitch clock as a player. I thought that was something that differentiated us from the other games, the fact that there was no clock. And I, you know, happy to admit I couldn’t have been more off base on that, right? Like I genuinely believe the pitch clock has changed and and I like I said this earlier but it has taken us back to the way the cadence of the game was played when we were growing up when we played the game or you know when we were learning and watching the game and I think that the analytics of the game uh the the problem with the analytics is that they’re right and and that the analytics you know what I mean and and the anal the analytics are what eventually what eventually led to these longer game times because they incentivize they incentivize the things in the game that take longer, right? More foul balls because hitters are trying to hit a home run or walk every at bat. Pitchers trying to strike somebody out or get swings and misses every single pitch because that’s what that’s what these guys were being uh you know evaluated on. And so when when your incentive is to do the things that slow the game down, the game is going to slow down. And I I like I like to throw in there something that I think is very relevant to the game continuing this momentum. And I’ll start here from from my lifetime. You had the Showtime Lakers, right? You had the Chicago Bulls and their run. Um in recent times, you got the Golden State Warriors and their championship run, Tom Brady and the Patriots and their championship runs. the Chiefs in their championship runs and right now what’s looking like the start of the Eagles championship runs. Are we seeing that with the Los Angeles Dodgers? A team that is dominant. So dominant that a part of you wants to see them lose because they’re that good. Like not as in we won’t see them lose, like who can beat them? And it’s like show me who can beat them cuz we can’t see across the board that we can just write a team up there like yeah this team can knock them down. It doesn’t happen. They’re that dominant. It’s part of this momentum. The Dodgers living up to those expectations. They spent all this money. They have some of the They have for sure the best player on the planet, but some of the best players combined. Do they need to keep this going? Do we need a three Pete? Do they win, you know, six out of the next eight? What does that look like? I think, you know, obviously with the CBA aside, if the Dodgers keep this going, I think that keeps momentum in baseball going. Just like I mean, the Yankees and and the late ‘9s, we we were saying there like, who’s going to beat the Yankees? It seemed like every single year it was a Yankees championship to lose. And we looked forward to not liking the Yankees. Is that what the Dodgers, you know, is that what the Dodgers are for today’s game? We’re looking, look, it is the Dodgers World Series championship to lose every single year until somebody beats them. And right now, I don’t see any I don’t see that happening. Yeah. And I I would I would say that, you know, this is an entertainment product, right? We we are in the entertainment industry. And like there’s nothing more, you know, close to human nature than having a common enemy, right? And nothing more nothing more entertaining than rooting u against somebody. Right? Now you got this big market that has built this, you know, huge uh huge empire, right? And and you know, for all intents and purposes, there’s a lot of people that kind of want to see that empire come crumbling down and and and that that’s what this is, right? Like this is entertainment. And and I I I think that when um with all of the the changes that have been made, I think it’s that it’s been the focus of let’s bring the entertainment factor back. Like all the analytics, like I said, they’re right. Um but we can keep that kind behind the curtain, right? Like we we can we we can use that as like the Wizard of Oz, right? Let’s keep all the analytics behind the behind the curtain and let’s put on a show. And they they they have definitely done that. So we’re going to switch, J. We’re going to have you put on your GM baseball ops owner hat because this is our time uh as free agents free agents that that that that we like to get paid. You know, we put up numbers, we work hard, uh we we we get paid handsily, but this is our time to really really really take advantage of uh our opportunity uh at this life-changing money. So, Jed, yes. as a man that played in Houston, uh you understand that they they use they they run a pretty tight budget over there and Jim Crane doesn’t like to pay a dime over the luxury tax, which makes it tough to win, especially with this powerhouse with the Los Angeles Dodgers. But we’re talking about a guy that went from Houston is now in Chicago and is going to demand a lot of money. And Kyle Tucker, where do you see him going if if if you could say if there’s any fit that you like for him? And is there a a number that you would not pay rather? Ooh. Okay. Um, so yeah, I mean the Astros, you know, the Astros going back to that I I think, you know, to to give Jim credit like he will do whatever it takes to win, right? But I look at I look at what um I I I look at what his payroll is in 2025 at, you know, 224 million and what their commitments are in 2026 at 222 million. um that that doesn’t that that doesn’t, you know, look like there’s a lot of money to be spent, right? Unless the budget is going up. So, is is Tucker a great fit in Houston still? Yeah, I think so. But if I’m looking at it, it’s hard not to say that the the Dodgers aren’t in play, right? You know, I I think you you look at you look at um Tay Oscar um and you look at the defensive upgrade that Kyle Tucker brings um and you put Tay Oscar in left field, it brings even more balance with a left-handed bat uh another left-handed bat in that lineup. Um I So, the Dodgers have to be in play. They’re going to be in play for pretty much every big free agent. Like I said, we with the amount of revenue that they’re generating interest, I mean, people want to play for them, too. So, I I just I can’t imagine that that Kyle Tucker won’t be discussed in in the Dodgers front office. The The other one, the one that I when I started digging into this that was really intriguing to me that that might be a little bit of a flyer is the Orioles. So, the Orioles, I I was looking, they got a $160 million payroll in 2025, and they only have 82 million. They they have 82 million committed for 2026. So, that that makes me think that there’s there should be some money to be spent. And then I look at I I look at the depth chart and you got a young kid in Dylan Beavers who ca uh came up, performed well. Um, but you know, you’re you kind of have this window in Baltimore, too, where you got the Hender Gunner Henderson, Jackson Holidays, Jordan Westber, um, Kobe Mayo, Adley Rutman, uh, Samuel Basio, right? So, you you’re pretty confident if you’re the Orioles in in who you’re throwing out there in the infield. Um, then you got, you know, you got Colton Cowser, you got Dylan Beavers, and you got Tyler O’Neal. Um, you’ve also got Jorge Matteo and Dylan Carlson uh on the depth chart, but Kyle Tucker instantly becomes their best outfielder. And, you know, they they’ve got some pitching to shore up as well. But from a lineup perspective, I I I actually think that this might be a a better fit than than the Dodgers. And if they I if they have the money to spend, which, you know, based on the commitments that they have in 2026, um I would love to see the Orioles pursue Tucker. So what I’m hearing is no reunion. No no no Carlos career reunion because they don’t have the money. We already know Chicago Cubs doesn’t have the money. The Dodgers who have they can print money. We don’t say they have. They can just invent. They just out of thin air. Let’s go ahead and trade. And the Baltimore Orioles I did not see that coming. Wow. No. I I figured that would I figured that would throw you guys off. That’s you know we uh I I wanted to be a really good fit. Yeah. I and I I like I said, I I just I think that I think that given their their um payroll commitments and where they are in their cycle, I think if they could add somebody like Tucker um and then a you know, maybe add another arm uh maybe two. Um I I really like the fit. Very interesting. Very interesting. Yes, that’s very interesting. I I have another run. I’m going let you get out there. I have another one standing Houston, although he most likely will not stand Houston. Flambear Valdez. Now it’s projected it’s projected at six years somewhere between 70 to 190 million. Now now now places that immediately came to mind for me was Toronto. Like I I think he would absolutely do well in Toronto. We we’ve all played there and I swear unless it’s changed I swear they have the tallest mount in baseball and he’s a sinker baller. That ball is falling off the table. that change up and that back door curveball absolutely filthy. And if you’re Toronto, you weren’t one pitcher away, but you are going to have to make some changes. You’re probably going to lose Bieber um to free agency. Uh I think he’s a great fit. He’s young. He’s a longterm. He’s proven that he can pitch in the postseason. The Cubs, oh man, the Cubs can definitely use some pitching. I mean, they can use some pitching. I think with pitching, uh, maybe that may maybe that series against Milwaukee, uh, or maybe the season against Milwaukee is flipped. Um, but I think that would be my third spot. My top two was Toronto, but my number one, a place that is always pitching rich. Probably one of the most friendly pitcher friendly ballparks in Major League Baseball, the San Francisco Giants. My my my take, Jed, let’s hear it. Yeah, I I know. I like I like all that. the two the two that I wrote down. Um, one was the Blue Jays and then I do like your I do like your Giants pick there or or fit. Um, and you know, they they look like they have some room. They had $177 million in payroll in 25 and and $150 million committed for next year. And and they they have a they have a need. They they actually have, you know, a couple needs. So, I but I think pitching is at the top of that list. Um the the one that you you didn’t talk about that um I think just because of the desire from ownership the New York Mets. And and if you look Yeah. And if you look at if you look at their payroll at 340 million their commitments for 2026 224 million. So plenty of room. if Steve Cohen is ready to you know meet that number again uh there there is a lot of money that that and and then if you look even further 2027 he’s down to 153 million of commitments and 28 down to 117. So, they got a lot of money coming off the books and a guy that as effective as Framber Valdez is, um, I I think that’s a I think that’s a pretty good long-term fit for the Mets, too. And they appear to have money to spend. Jed, I didn’t leave that off. We between Ryan and I, we don’t need him to go to the Mets, right? Sorry. Yeah, I didn’t I didn’t consider that. I didn’t consider that. He would he would be a great fit over there in New York cuz I was thinking about that. Like if you throw him in that rotation up there, he could definitely do some damage up there. Now, we need to talk about some bats. Yes. With big arms, we got some big bats. And we got to talk about the man Schwarber. Yes. Kyle Schwarber. We got to see where that that that’s the hot topic is where does Kyle Schwarber end up? Where do you see him, Jed? I I just I I can’t I can’t see him anywhere else but Philadelphia. I I mean it just the the fit is too good. I mean, you guys would know this better than I would, but I mean, he’s kind of a folk legend up there already. And and I just I I think that I think he has to I think he has to end up back in back in Philly. I mean, they, you know, if we’re just looking at the numbers, $290 million 2025 uh payroll, $227 uh million committed uh for 2026. Um I I just I can’t see the Phillies letting him, you know, slip through their fingers. How many how many years and what’s the number? Because what what is what is 31 or so? 33 somewhere between. Yeah. Born in 90. Yeah. Born in 93. So he’ll be he’ll be, you know, 33 next. How so? How many years do we expect him to perform this way? He’s going to DH and and I want to throw something else out out there at you while you’re in there. Is there a possible reunion with the Cubs? Tucker’s coming out. Tucker’s way too much. Kyle is although he he’s a DH or do you want to lock up a DH? But he’s definitely going to be uh more manageable for a salary and and and and years compared to a Tucker. So, I want to throw that in there with the mix. After you after you give us this, how many years? What’s the number? And is there a possible reunion with the Cubs? I’m gonna throw some extra croutons on that salad. I’m gonna go ahead and add uh does can he potentially go back to Boston? Yeah, I I I mean, I think, you know, if you’re looking um you know, I I it’s hard not to say that the Red Sox aren’t a fit. Um I mean, listen, that that’s the thing about Kyle Schwarber. He’s a fit anywhere, right? like that pretty much like you look at any team that could afford Kyle Shore’s services, it’s hard not to put him in the middle of your lineup or I guess in the Phillies case in the leadoff spot, right? You got you got a guy who is getting on base for, you know, as a career 346. Um, and I mean, if you just look at if you look at the statistics from 23, I mean, there’s been virtually no no drop off. And actually, I I I’m not sure that this lasts, but the sprint speed has actually gotten better um over the last two years. So, you know, I I don’t know if that’s sustainable, but that’s that to me indicates that he takes his body seriously, right? And that he’s working hard uh to stay in shape, which, you know, you got to as a DH it’s hard to do, right? There’s a lot of uh there there’s a lot of just sitting around waiting for your next at bat and and it’s easy to put on weight and to lose sprint speed, lose, you know, explosiveness. And so I I think if I’m looking at, you know, even 2023 spent sprint speed, the fact that he’s aged and that has gone up, even though it’s it’s, you know, within a couple of um, you know, percentiles, like it’s it’s still impressive that he he has he has gotten faster as he’s aged. And so I think that’s a I think that’s a really good trend. I I mean I wouldn’t I I wouldn’t be afraid of a five-year deal with Kyle Schwarber just because of the just just because of his ability to, you know, recognize pitches. I mean, the guy’s in the 86th percentile for Chase. He just he doesn’t go out of the zone. He walks a ton. The bat speed is still in the 98th percentile. I mean, the guy the guy is just, you know, he is he he is the ultimate hitter. No doubt, Ry. I think I think he’s working. He must have heard about your three triples in a week. So, he’s like, “I’m coming for it, player. I’m I’m gunning for it.” But look, if if you seen his body, bro, like from when he first got into the league to where he is now, he’s definitely invested a lot of money uh and to himself. Uh he’s taken it serious. And I’m not surprised now that you say that that his sprint speed is has gone up. He’s got that sneak that that sneaky speed as as uh Ryan likes to say, that sneaky speed. You don’t you you don’t see him bend in a corner and then he turns around sliding third looking at dugout cuz he’s leaving the team in triples for a week. No, nobody’s nobody Yeah. No, nobody’s going to pay him. Nobody’s going to pay him for his base running, right? But I I I think that I I just I look at that as kind of a a snapshot into into the athlete and how how much he, you know, cares and invests into his body. Love them. Do you drop him in, you know, more of those traditional roles that two, three or that three, four, right, where he’s comfortable at the very top of the lineup, you know, because we talked about it, Jay, and and hitting that three, four hole is a different mindset than than hitting one two. So, best way to utilize him, I mean, he’s he’s versatile in that asset, in that aspect to where, yeah, I think he can make the adjustment, but how does it look in terms of from a team standpoint where you’re looking for, hey, we want those 40, but we want you to hit 40 with 150, you know, like the old school type numbers, you know, so that’ll be an interesting look as well. But as we move on, this one is a true professional right here. We got Alex Bregman currently with the Red Sox. What What’s our thought process there, Jed? Where where you Before you jump in, Before you jump in. Yeah. I don’t think he leaves. I don’t think he leaves. We We We’ve heard We’ve heard a lot about him loving Boston, buying into it. Um I think he’s affordable. you lost um Devers um and brought in Bregman. I don’t think you I don’t think if you’re Boston, you let Bregman go. I mean, unless you let Devils go unless you know there’s a long-term game plan for Bregman. That’s all I have to say. I’m jumping out. No, I I I don’t disagree with that. I I think the I think the Red Sox I if I’m looking at the and and we kind of talked about this offline before we started recording, but I’m I’m kind of looking at Bregman and Bashette, right, as uh as guys. I don’t want to call them interchangeable because they’re not the same player, but I I think they’re um I think Bett’s versatility plays into some of this stuff, you know, some of these decisions. And I I mean kind of like Schwarber where you could kind of plug him into any lineup. I think Bregman and Bashette are are very similar in that regard. I got a long list of teams um that that I think, you know, could fit. I think the Red Sox are obvious one. Um I I think the the Blue Jays are an interesting one um you know with with what they do at third base. Um and it will just depend on their other moves and what their priorities are. Um, we talked about the Mets earlier. Uh, the Mets have Vientos and Batty. Uh, kind of, you know, you could you could move either one of those guys to first base, uh, and or DH and you could use a rotating DH, especially if Bregman. So, I I could see the Mets, especially with the money that we talked about that’s available. uh it’s just hard not to include them in any of these bigname free agents because of because of how aggressive uh ownership has been and um the the desire from Steve Cohen to win, right? Um the two that that I’m going to throw at you that I think uh you know may not be as talked about as much that I think are fits, I’m going to start with the Mariners. Um, the Mariners have 166 million committed uh or sorry in 2025 127 uh in 2026 commitment and then all the way down to 59 million for 2027. A lot of money left over to play with. There’s a lot of money there and then you start looking at their depth chart and where they ended up um you know that close to the World Series this year and you know you got Leo on their depth chart right now. You got Leo Revas and you got Miles Mastrobone on there. Um, Bregman is an upgrade for virtually everybody in the league. It is a huge upgrade for the Mariners. Uh, they they do have a couple of of young kids um, you know, in Colt Emerson and Cole Young. Um, Cole Young came up as a 22-year-old this year and and he he did okay, but but there’s, you know, there’s some growth still there. Cole Emerson’s only 20. Um, but but killed it at AAA this year. I mean, as a 20-year-old, hit .285 with a 383 on base and a 458 slug at AAA uh in Tacoma, which, you know, we’ll we’ll take it uh you know, we’ll take it with a grain of salt uh because the league that he’s playing in, but but Tacoma is not the most hitter friendly uh ballpark in that league. So, so I I got to assume that they’re very uh excited about Colt Emerson, but I but I think the the Mariners are a spot that if they’re not considering Bragman with the pitching staff that they have, um I I don’t know where they spend money in the free agent market, um I I I got to assume that the Mariners, if if the Mariners aren’t aggressive with Bregman or Bashette, uh I think I I would be disappointed as a Mariner fan. That’s a dark horse. I did not I did not have manners on my bingo card. This is why we have Jed on the show. Jed Jed is our resident GM right now. He is our He is that guy. I I think we got to have him permanently as a friend of the show. That’s that’s what I’m thinking. Yes, sir. The other the other one that I I want to I want to throw out there as a as a total wild card. Um the Rangers. So I I think if you if you start talking about the Rangers and you know 224 million of payroll in 2025, 183 million committed in in 2026 um that and you look at the depth chart of the Rangers, I I think a lot depends on how confident they are in Eavaldi coming back. Um because you know they they had Deg Gro and Evaldi kind of carry that rotation and if they’re going to plug in, you know, be more aggressive in the uh pitching market. But if not, I mean, your third base depth chart right now, you got Josh Young, who I think could you could move Josh to first base. You know that the first base depth chart right now is Ezekiel Durant, Josh Smith, Jake Burgerer, and Jock Peterson. Um, you know, you got Jock for one more year. Uh, you could rotate DH with between, you know, Jake Jock, uh, and then Bregman if you needed to. So, I I think that that that one maybe is a little bit more of a of a long shot, but I I did see a fit for the Rangers uh at third base because I think you could move Josh Young to first. Got one more for you. One more for you. Uh we touched on him and and I think and I’m glad we saved them for last because I see him least likely going anywhere. He was Yep. Yeah. a World Series hero. If you’re the Toronto Blue Jays, he came back, played virtually on one leg and almost carried you over the top. Uh he’s a he’s he he’s fathered in, shall we say, but he has definitely earned his stripes. And I like the kid. I I personally think that maybe not at shortstop, maybe switching over to second base, maybe even a third base, uh if he can push the hammer that hot corner. Yeah. But I mean, Bob Bashette, I think we’d be remiss if we didn’t bring him up. Although I don’t think he’s going anywhere. M we have to talk about it because stranger things have happened. So I’ll frame it this way. He’s been offered the qualifying offer obviously 22 million. He’s going to turn that down. He’s looking for a deal. Sure. Excluding excluding the Toronto Blue Jays. Give me your top three teams for Bobette excluding Toronto. Well, I I this is where this overlap happens with Bregman, right? I I see I see Red Sox. Um you know, I I and I think his versatility, too. I think his willingness I you know I agree. I love the kid. I I mean I I’ve loved loved the bat uh since the day he got into the league. Um and I I mean he he’s a gamer, right? He he shouldn’t have been playing if that was a regular season game. Uh he’s not playing right. And and a lot of people uh a lot of people said, you know, oh well, the fourth run comes Well, if you know, if Bette if Bette scores on that base hit, I think it was Ernie Clemet hit the line drive to right center field. Bette’s on second. That’s it. Yeah. But but but the three-run homer doesn’t happen if you pinch run for him right there. That that that game that hit happened relatively early in the game. I forget which inning, but he doesn’t come up in that spot and hit the three-run homer if he’s out of the game. So, yes, I agree. you know, the the Blue Jays have to look at him as as a cornerstone to their franchise. I I think they do, but I’m going to I’m going to look at the Red Sox. Um I I’m for the same reason the Mets, right? Um the the one thing that I do the one team that I’m going to add in here that wasn’t on Bregman is the Giants actually because they have Chapman at third base. Um, I could see Bette uh fitting at second base with the Giants that I mean that that would leave you with a lineup of Devers, Bashette, Willie Adam, and Matt Chapman. Yeah, that’s nasty. So, I I like I like that. And then once again, we talked about the Mariners with Bregman. I I have to I I have to I said this earlier, but I think if I’m a Mariners fan and they aren’t aggressive with Bregman um and or Bashette, uh I I think I’m a little disappointed. Jorge Palano had a great year. Um he ended up dhinging for a lot of it. You know, I don’t know if there was injury that he was dealing with that wasn’t publicized. Um but, you know, there there was a reason they put him at DH towards the end of the year. Um you know, Bob Bashett’s legs are younger even though he’s coming off this uh knee injury. Um I I I think that uh he he’s a great fit for the Mariners as well. Jed, we have here on the 611 podcast the banana boat ritual segment which is any superstition, something you have to do, something you do to get your mind right and whether it’s in baseball and we know you’re a big golfer so whether it’s in golf now is there any ritual that you had in your playing days that you went through on a daily routine or something that you had to do throughout your entire career that got you ready each night to play? So, um I I’m I’m a big believer in in process and routine. So, I I never viewed it as superstition. Um you know, so and that that from like a physical standpoint, right? Like I I wasn’t trying to do the same thing over and over again. Like this is a very dynamic game. You’re making a con constant adjustments physically. But what the the routine or the you know if you want to call it a superstition was more um you know Wade Wade Bogsesque where instead of eating chicken before the game every day I would actually I would actually have a toasted peanut butter and jelly sandwich every single game before the game from a ball. You just kept that routine. I I literally I kept it because you know how the minor leagues were, right? like you you never know what you were getting when you were coming into some of these clubhouse and it was just it was something that I knew how my body would react to it, you know, like we get great food in the big leagues, right? But some of the times I’m not I’m not trying to eat a piece of fish before the game because, you know, you you never know what’s going to happen out there. And so, you know, you try to I’m I tried to keep the stomach right, you know, and so I knew exactly I knew exactly what to expect when I ate a toasted peanut butter and jelly every single night before the game. So, that was it. I mean, if you were to talk to any clubby um road or home, every single day, like they they would look at me crazy, too, cuz it was like, you know, I’m I’m, you know, 10, 12, 14 years into my big league career asking for, you know, bread and peanut butter and jelly, and they’re like, you know, we got better food than that here, right? So I have to ask what type of bread was it? What was was it? Was it type of bread? Honey wheat, white raw. No, I just I would just go just ju just just go just go, you know, regular white bread toasted. For whatever reason, the the the crispiness and like, you know, the the pean or the yeah, the peanut butter to get just a little bit melty coming out of the toaster. Um, and then always preferred strawberry, some sort of red berry, whether that was strawberry, uh, raspberry, something something like that. It wasn’t I’m not a big grape. Say, you know, we got to get you over to the grape side, player, you know. I mean, berries are straight, but we got to get you over to the grape cuz it goes with the Kool-Aid and everything else. I I I I appreciate I appreciate grapes in other forms. Let’s just put that. Understood. Understood. I’m going have to try that uh toasted PBJ, bro. I’ve never never had that before. Time out. Time out, Ryan. Never. No, I’ve never had it, bro. I’m a I’m a PB&J fan, bro. I’ve never had I can’t believe this. I I mean, I just learned something new, but I can’t believe it. I can’t You never had Toasted PB&J, Ryan. I Look, man. Don’t judge me. I’m in disbelief. I mean, because if you’re a PB&J fan, we all know the elevated version of PB&J involves toasting the bread. Period. That’s I’ve never been elevated. I didn’t know it was levels to the P. I didn’t know it was levels to the PB&J, bro. I didn’t know it was like that. I’m I’m a strawberry. I go strawberry jelly, too. I’m almost I’m embarrassed like like we can vi we like our producer Jake, you know, behind the scen he hasn’t he hasn’t seen um Training Day yet. That’s like you not having toasted PB&J. I was I was going to say it too. I was like this is like a whole Jake experience with Jake not watching Training Day. This is where it gets aggressive. I’m glad you came on the show because I’ve learned something about my former teammate and co-host who I’ve known for 20 plus years. Just making just just making connections here, boys. Just trying to, you know, get y’all closer. It’s life is a game of adjustments. We can make that adjustment and it’s a fixable situation. It you know, it only works. It only works if Jeb makes it for you. Oh, Je So Jed’s got to make it. Okay, gotcha. So So yeah, I mean I’m trying to think when when is the next uh when is the next opportunity? I mean, is this a or I was just going to say like this might be this might be a segment. This might be a segment right here. The toasted TV. That might be it. Could be. It could be. Yeah, we Yeah. Toasted PB&J with J and R. Oh, that’ll be it. Oh, man. That’ll be it. Well, Jed, uh, brother, we appreciate you coming on. Thank you. Uh, you’re always welcome. Um, we we know you have endeavors. We appreciate you being with CAP. Um, we appreciate what you’ve done for the game. Always willing to give back, always willing to talk, always willing to educate. I’ve learned something. I’ve learned the mind of a future GM, president, owner, uh, Jed Lowry, MLB veteran, CAP member, our brother. Uh, thanks for sharing with us your knowledge and your thoughts about uh, some pressing subjects. On top of that, see you in Vegas at the All MLB. We’ll be in MLB Open uh airing on TBS, my home station. I look forward to it, fellas. Can’t wait.

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