Baltimore Orioles vs Tampa Bay Rays | LIVE! Play-by-Play & Commentary | 9/23/25 | Game #157
to see a show. But Miss Kate said no. I’ll tell you what you can do. Take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crackers, Jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root. Root root for the home team. If they don’t win, it’s a shame. For it’s one, two, three strikes. You’re out at the old ball game. Ky Casey saw all the games. Knew the players by their first names. Told the umpire he was wrong all along. Good and strong when the score was just two to two. Casey Casey knew what to do. just to cheer up the boys she knew. She made the gang sing this song. Please take me out to the ball game. Take me out with the crowd. Buy me some peanuts and crack a jack. I don’t care if I never get back. Let me root root root for the home team. If they don’t win, it’s a shame for it’s one, two, three strikes. You’re out at the old ball game. Greetings folks and welcome to live coverage of Orioles baseball where tonight the Baltimore Orioles will be playing the Tampa Bay Rays in the first game of a three-game series, the final series at home in the 2025 season for the Baltimore Orioles at Oral Park at Camden Yards here in Baltimore, Maryland. How you doing everybody? It’s your old pal, the bird watcher here. People call me BW for short. That works for me. I apologize. I’m 5 minutes later than uh my scheduled start time for the event. I had it in my mind that it was 25 after the hour. It’s 20 these uh a uh these weekday night games at home. We start earlier than every other team. I wish we would stop doing this. Uh but uh it’s a uh short pregame uh presentation uh usually and today it’s going to have to really be cut short. Um so let’s uh get right into what we need to talk about which uh I mean I’ll just hit on some things and then we’ll we’ll we’ll we’ll dive further into talking about it uh as we watch this game. Okay. I think the biggest news uh in the sport uh is I don’t think there’s a question about it. Starting next season, uh, Major League Baseball will be implementing the ABS system, the automated balls and strikes, uh, system where, uh, a player or a catcher or a pitcher, uh, can challenge the call of an umpire, a ball or a strike. Uh, you get a couple of challenges. Uh if you’re right, you keep it until you run out. And uh it’s happening. It’s coming to baseball next season, regular season and postseason. Automated balls and strikes. The umpires. It’s a new day, fellas. And oh, there is a lady. Uh it’s a new day, folks. Uh look out. We’ll talk about it. Uh let’s see for the Orioles. Two roster moves today. First of all, we’ve got Adley Rutman back with the team. Six games left to play. Adley’s in the lineup tonight in catching uh in order to make room for him. Luis Vasquez was optioned uh off the team. There’s no AAA team playing now. Norfolk is done with their season. So any players who are sent off right now are going back to the spring training complex in Florida. But Adley Rutman has been activated. Uh Luis Vasquez uh makes room for him on the roster. Uh from the pitching side, another roster move. Colin Selby has been activated. And uh gosh, where is it? I can’t find it. Who made way for Selby? I believe it was uh I’m going to get it wrong if I guess. Uh there’s Adley. Folks, if you know, you tell me. Somebody was uh it was that guy that we just picked up. I can’t keep up with all the Oh, there it is. Jose Espada. Jose Espatada option to the spring training complex. So, just to uh summarize, two two players added to the roster today. Adley Rutman’s back. He’s in the starting lineup, as well as Colin Selby, the right-hander, relief pitcher. he’ll be back in the bullpen. Uh leaving the team is uh now I forgot the name again, Luis Vasquez, infielder and Jose Espatada, relief pitcher. Okay. Also, Gary Sanchez won’t return to the Orioles this week. Where’s my button? So, there you have it, folks. That’s how the relationship for this one-year contract ends with Gary Sanchez won’t return to the Orioles this week. Well, news flash, this week is it. In other words, he won’t return. I’m really not sure why you bothered to use the words this week when reporting this. Just say Gary Sanchez won’t return to the Orioles. That is factual. So, there went that uh free agent. There went that signing. Uh Gary Sanchez wound up playing, I believe, 30 games. Yes. 8.5 million, batted 231. And uh yeah, he had a 10ame stretch where he drove in 14 runs. That was nice. Uh the other 152 games pretty much useless and a waste wasted signing. Uh what else? Let’s just get to uh pitching matchups and uh starting lineups cuz first pitch is like 3 minutes away. Wait, why does it say delayed? Why does it say delayed? Is the weather is weather an issue? Oh god, here I am rushing through and now I’m seeing the word delayed. All right, it’s back to Twitter. What’s the delay? Is there a weather issue in Baltimore? Folks, if you’re in the area, please let me know. I’m bringing up the Baltimore radar right now. There is rain. Oh, you got to be kidding me. Yep, I see the band right now. There’s a very colorful band. And the worst part is it’s to the west of the city, which means it has yet to pass over. Uh, actually I’m looking at what they’re predicting the radar will be at 6:25. Let’s play this through. Oh, no. So, it looks like Oh. Oh, it is. What am I saying? It is 6:25 where you are. Okay. 633 right now. All right. Well, let me let me look at the u projected path of this storm here. Uh, let’s see. So 6:25 6:30. Okay. So right now it’s there. Looks like it’ll be gone by 74 after 7 could be about a 45m minute rain delay. I’m just guessing. I’m just guessing. Of course I’m relying on a radar that’s just predicting things. So make what little of that you want. All right. I guess I can slow back down now, folks. I was worried about being late and now I wish I hadn’t started. Such is life. All right. Um I guess a fine tooth comb now can be used to go over some of these notes. Well, let’s get back to Gary Sanchez. Oh, let’s let’s go over this. Here’s some good news. Well, I mean, I say good, I mean it’s kind of obvious news. The Orioles named their uh most valuable oral of the season. And folks, I don’t know the last time a vote would have been easier than this year’s as Trevor Rogers takes the award as this season’s most valuable oral. Uh do I need to explain why? 17 starts. He’s got an ERA of 1.35. It’s ridiculous. He’s going to get some Sai Young votes. He’s He has to He I don’t think he can win, but he’s going to get some votes and that’s nice. Uh so Sanchez appeared in 30 games. Going back to Gary Sanchez, he was put on the DL back on July 5th. That’s the last time we saw him. A right knee sprain. So, he missed virtually all of July, all of August, and all of September. He will have missed half a season injury for a knee sprain. I mean, honestly, I mean, they were projecting Sanchez to come back when this injury began, I think like early part of this month, and then that kind of got pushed like a week, and then his rehab started, and then his rehab needed a little bit extra time. Next thing you know, you wake up, there’s one week left to play and you get the announcement that like, well, he’s not coming back. That’s it. Kind of makes you feel like he never wanted to come back or maybe didn’t push himself to try to come back. Maybe just thought, well, this injury’s timing out till September. The Orio, you know, this is I got my money. What am I worried about? I don’t know. I can’t I’m I’m I’m just upset. I’m not trying to accuse anybody of, you know, I don’t know, like uh exaggerating their injury or something, trying to, you know, drag out the the time it takes to to come back and then magically you’re just about ready to come back, but oopsie, the season just finished. Just missed it. I don’t know. I’m not happy about it. What am I happy about, folks? Oh, well, let’s see who’s here. Hello, everybody. There’s 30 people here. 18 have hit the like button. 12 have not. Who are these dirty dozen? Don is here. Froggy’s here. Gary’s here. Michael’s here. Daniel’s here. George is here. Asia’s here. And another George is here. George Pearson, how you doing, George? Frank is here. I think that’s everybody in the Charm City chat. If you’re here but quiet, hello to you as well. Uh, I got something since we’re just hanging out here. This was mentioned on my uh Discord page, but for some reason I wasn’t able to upload a photo to the uh community tab for this YouTube channel. So one moment. All right. How you doing? What’s going on with my hair? Oh, you know what? This camera is getting cut off. It makes it look like my head I look like I have Ray Leota’s head from Hannibal and Dr. Lectar just used my brain to pick out some some dinner. All right, that’s better. I already have thin hair. I don’t need it to look thinner than it already is. All right, so basically I just want to say thank you uh uh in general to everybody when it comes to uh supporting the channel. uh and and helping out the cause, keeping the lights on. Once in a while, I’ll mention something that man, I really need to I really need an upgrade in this or that. Like my chair for example last year um I’m still in the same chair I had most of last year but when people saw how how bad the chair was in terms of comfort and everything uh couple of folks were really uh nice to to donate to the channel like that night like put in a huge donation to where it’s like look here’s the money to go get it shut up go get the chair I got the chair lasted about a week. In fact, this was about one year ago to the day where I got that chair because I remember it was like a a week left to go in the regular season and there I was debuting that chair and I got about seven games out of it before it busted. Anyway, uh about a month ago, maybe two months ago, I was explaining about uh you know, how I’m just kind of scraping by and stuff. This is not meant to sound like a sad story like wo is me or whatever. I’m I’m I’m used to living cheap, but I showed some physical evidence of my footwear, which are these sandals I have uh that are basically grinded down to just, you know, like like 18th of an inch uh worth of of material there. It’s about to go. Anyway, long story short, I talked about how living out here in Thailand, uh, it’s just impossible to find a nice quality pair of shoes that fit me because I’ve got very large feet, okay? At least very large uh, according to this part of the world. But even back in the states when I went shoe shopping, usually I was relegated to like one tiny little row of one column of shoes in the corner of the store for freaks with big feet like me. And I’d have a choice of like three types of shoe. Anyway, somebody in the Charm City chat about a month ago, month and a half ago, they put in a very considerable donation and said, “Go get some shoes.” And I said, ‘I’m going to go get those shoes. It’s not going to be easy because just finding them, it’s like looking for a leprechaun. But folks, may I present to you this might we might need hat music. Something now to accompany the hat. Ladies and gentlemen, shoes. Now look, I’m not a brand person. I these this is this shoe that you’re looking at. That is my foot size. I can’t even fit it into the screen. That is my foot. Okay. Um now, do I have uh an affinity for Nike? No. Um did I want this style or color? No. I I hate white shoes because they get scuffed up and dirty looking like immediately, right? Uh but here’s the deal. They they were in my size and that’s all that’s all there was to it. This was found at a Nike outlet store in a very like uh touristy like shopping mall that has like stores with all the big brands. And of course, I’m this is a place you only go shopping if you want to splash money and like you’re on vacation and you want to show whoever you’re with that uh money is no object because I would never spend what works out to be about $45 American for these shoes. Uh I mean that’s probably the going rate if not still much cheaper than back in the States. But I just know that shoes around here if if he could fit in them, you can get a nice quality pair of shoes for like 15 bucks, 20 bucks maybe. So this is like double or triple a normal price I would pay for shoes, but I had to do it uh because they got my size. All right, folks. I’m just very excited. I’ve lived here now. I might as well look. We’re in a rain delay, by the way, folks. Just so you know, we’re in a rain delay. We are in a rain delay. Uh, so that’s why I’m talking about stupid stuff. But, um, what was I going to say? Yeah, these, by the way, I was like, are these waterproof at all? Because like these are the shoes that I’m going to be wearing around all the time, everywhere I go. And, you know, living around here, you go out and the weather looks good and then you get stuck in the middle of a rainstorm. are these things going to just like evaporate on my feet? And they were like, uh, you don’t want to wear those in the rain. Those are for running and jo and and and walking. I’m like, first of all, let me stop you right there. I don’t run. All right. Unless I’m being chased, and even then, it’s a judgment call. No running. I just want to walk. But just tell me, tell me straight. Like, I’m not saying I want to, you know, swim the English Channel wearing these things. But like, you know, you know how it is. You go out, you wear something, but you’re not expecting it to rain. But oopsie, uh, a storm pops up. You’re stuck. And maybe it takes you five minutes to find a little bit of shelter. I just need to know, will this thing, you know, survive five minutes of rain? I’m talking about shoes still, just in case anybody didn’t know. Um, have they announced how long the delay is going to be? Uh, I don’t I they haven’t even announced the delay. I’m just going by ESPN saying there’s a delay delay. I’m going to go back to Rock Kabatokco’s Twitter feed. Usually, he gives a delay tweet of some sort, but I’m not Oh, it just says start of tonight’s game will be delayed. That’s it. That was 51 minutes ago. Okay, so this sucks. I didn’t see this earlier. I probably would have just delayed the start of the stream. So, they knew. They knew like 35 minutes before first pitch that uh this was going to be a delay. They knew. That’s right, folks. We can’t lose. If it’s still raining, we can’t lose. All right. So, uh, tell you what, I’m just going to read through Rockco’s, uh, post about some of the things we’ve talked about, and, uh, if I’ve got something to chime in with, I’ll do that. Um, the honor might have meant more to Trevor Rogers than anyone else in the clubhouse. Media chose Rogers as most valuable oral with the announcement coming earlier today. He was recognized for a comeback that carried him from a 7.11 erra in four starts last summer in a demotion to AAA Norfolk to a 1.35 RA. That’s the lowest ever by an Orioles pitcher in his first 17 starts. He’s also going to bring a 872 whip, a 178 opponent’s average, and a 6.0 Ino Bw into his last game this weekend in the Bronx with a streak of two earned runs or fewer in 15 consecutive starts, which is the longest in franchise history. Roger says, “It’s huge. I’m honored just to be in the elite company that’s had this award in years past and just the entire journey that I’ve been on since I’ve gotten here. Kind of a bumpy start. Not the start that any of us would have wanted, but seeing where we are today. It was worth it going through those struggles. Getting this award, I’m very thankful. My stuff is in a really good spot consistently. I’m not a one-dimensional guy anymore. I always relied on my fastball change up in years past. It seems like if one of those pitches went haywire, I only relied on one pitch. Developing multiple pitches I can throw for strikes and be competitive with those makes my job a little easier. Well, it’s beyond easier, Trevor. It’s uh historical, buddy. Come on. Uh Gunnar Henderson was named the most viable Oriel the past two years. No pitcher has received the honor since Rodrigo Lopez back in 2002. Rogers is is the only fourth left-hander to ever uh get the award with Randy Meyers being the most recent back in 1997. Hitting rock bottom last summer made Rogers appreciate the award much more today. Yeah, absolutely. He said, “It means a lot that all the media recognized my efforts that I was trying to put forth, trying to help this team win on a consistent basis when I was out there. very thankful for the honor and I don’t take it lightly. It’s very special just with the amount of talent that we have here position player-wise. I’m just very thankful. Man, he says that thankful a lot. I kind of have a loss for words on it. It’s just an honor and very thankful. I think boy, I’m I’m only reading his quote and I can feel him going like, can we wrap this up? Do I have to say more? I know I’ve said that probably about 10 times. I know you have, Trevor. I’m reading it and I’ll probably say it 10 more times. I’m just very honored. Okay. Ah, it’s uh it’s cute, Trevor. It’s It’s like people who don’t know how to take uh a compliment, they get all they get all, you know, uh shy about it. Uh I can be that way, too. Uh it’s a very important part of my game. Josh and I have had really good talks throughout the season and just trying to take it one day at a time of really have a solid process with him. A big part of this goes to Josh. Who’s he talking? Oh, Josh Cus Cusk. That’s the mental skills coach. Okay. Kosuch. Who’s this guy? We have a mental skills coach. This is a name that everybody should know. I mean, Gunner Henderson to Trevor Rogers to Jackson Holiday to Adley Rutman and then this guy like his name should be right there. Josh Kos Kuch Ko Z Uch is the Orioles mental skills coach. How what what does that entail? How do you how do you uh what do you have to study to become one? I mean, what are we talking about here? Like a guru? Do we have a guru? And if this guy helped Trevor Rogers become one of the greatest pitchers of all time, at least for one season, uh why isn’t it rubbing it off on everybody else? Why Why isn’t whatever magic that uh Rogers is crediting this guy for giving him, why is why isn’t even rubbing it off on anybody else? Hello. All right, I tell you what, Trevor. Uh you’re going to get a big contract eventually. Hire this guy. Just have him around you at all times. Apparently, it’s working, but it doesn’t seem to be working for anybody else. and let’s go get another mental skills coach. In fact, bring in about half a dozen mental skills coaches. We’ll figure it out. All right. Uh the Orioles will stay with three catchers for the last six games of the season. Gary S. Sanchez won’t be reinstated from the injured list with his last game played on July the 5th because of a right knee sprain. Gary Sanchez appeared in 30 games this season with two stops on the IIL limiting his availability. The Orioles didn’t get the expected return on the 8.5 million invested in him as a free agent. You don’t say. Quote from Manelino. Just where we’re at with the roster and kind of where everything’s at. Um, how was that a quote? I’m sorry. I thought most statements required a subject and a verb. I I do not identify a verb in this statement. I’m going to read it again, folks. I’m I’m I’m trying to learn how to speak Manscolino. I’ve been taking uh night classes. Uh I’m still in the 101 course, though. I’m a little bit green, but I’m gonna try I’m gonna try one one more time to read this quote. This is regarding Gary Sanchez not returning for the final week of games. Okay. Quote, just where we’re at with the roster and kind of where everything’s at. Manelino said, “Huh? kind of where everything’s at. Kind of where everything’s at. So, it’s it’s not the best option, but it just is what it is. I mean, get I I’m done with this dude. All right. Look, if you’re going to get a yes man, a lip service guy, I have no control over that. But could you at least get one that’s not this bad at being that? Could we at least get a guy that can slightly trick me into believing him from time to time? Or are we going to stick with a guy that can’t construct sentences that make sense? Just where we’re at with the roster and kind of where everything’s at. predicate uh point something. That’s all you get. That’s it. That’s closing the book on Gary Sanchez. That’s all you’ll ever hear about him ever again. Just where we’re at with the roster and kind of where everything’s at. So, it’s it’s not the best option, but it just is what it is. It’s just who do you think you’re fooling? Like if you’re trying to appease Orio fans who take the time to read like a beat writer’s daily reporting and follow the team as closely as possible, you know that a quote like that is only going to be read and cared about by people who are completely invested in the team, know what’s going on. We’re not like fringe fans that just have a a slim grasp on on what’s really going on. And you’re going to say something as pointless and shallow and empty as that and expect us to go, “Oh, all right. Well, that puts a fine point on Gary Sanchez then.” Or could you maybe just go like, you know, I don’t know. I mean, what happened there? I mean, it’s the end of the contract. Did Gary not want to work hard enough to come back? Did you just feel like, you know, with a week left to go, we’d rather just bring Adley back, get him some starts, and we still have Basio. We We just We just don’t see a point in using Gary for the final week. Just what the hell? Whoa. Wow. Hey, folks, you want to know how to shut up BW? go absolutely bonkers in the Charm City chat. What the hell just happened? And can I have another rain delay every game for the remainder of the season? Don, holy cow, Don, you just you just basically paid for my visa this season this year. Don, that’s crazy, dude. BW, I have turned in to watch you for over 150 times this most difficult year for the O’s. You have been great. You never miss a game. Always trying to be positive. Thank you for the season. Don, that is just really nice, Don. Uh, that is extremely generous. Thank you. What can I do for you, Don? What can I do for you, man? I mean, what that does is like it if I took 150 games like you said it and took that uh that you just handed me uh it’s like raising the average that I’ve earned over the course of the entire season. Uh it’s like wow. Like that’s like a month. That’s what I earn in a month on a bad month. Uh, that’s crazy, man. Thank you so much, Don. You you brought the show to a screeching halt, but that’s uh that’s the perk of a super chat like that. By the way, you’re making YouTube extremely happy as well because they’re going to get their percentage unfortunately. Wow. Ah, okay. Just thank you, Don. I don’t know how to give you the time that I feel is warranted for a donation like that. Uh, but I also have to continue to do this. That’s crazy, Don. Thank you, Don. All right. Anything you need, Don. Anytime, you let me know. All right. All right. Um, where where was I? Suddenly, I’m not in such a cranky mood about the state of the Orioles. Uh because something just helped uh keep this channel going for a little while. It’s It’s really nice. All right, we’re about to talk about the automated ball strike system. We’re about to get into that, so that’ll be fun. I’m still trying to get through Tony’s quotes. Uh, Manscolino and his staff have started their exit meetings with players before everyone scatters on Sunday and Monday. Quote, “They’re all individualized.” He said, “It’s positive. We’re not beating anybody over the head. I don’t think that’s what we do. Playing this game is really hard.” My god, this guy is like a walking fortune cookie. Could Could you say something of substance, Tony? I think what’s important for players is transparency and honesty. I agree. I really do feel strongly in this business that if you tell people the truth, you’re going to get the best out of them. A real big leager, if they know exactly what they need to do, it’s the best thing for them. All right. Well, then let’s be honest. Let’s be honest. Why is the team chemistry just a it’s it’s where did it go? what happened. And I don’t blame you for this, Tony. I don’t blame you for this because this started to happen before you took over. But what we need right now is somebody to fix that. And you’ve been in charge and I get it. Uh you gave us a winning record in charge. Uh it’s not a playoff caliber winning percentage if I’m honest. I don’t think you’re our long-term solution. Um, but the fact of the matter is this team ain’t going to win anything. Uh, if we don’t get that mojo back, you knew what it felt like if you’re an Orio fan back in 2023 and first half of last season. You knew what it felt like. There was, you know, we we we were flexing. Uh, we had we had chemistry. It was tangible. Uh, you just felt it. Every time somebody got on base, everybody was right there to be like, “All right, let’s let’s go. Let’s get let’s get after him.” Just just everything every all parts of the game. And now we look at where the team is now and we’re watching hitters go up there and pop out or strike out and just have this really terrible body language about themselves. We’ve had games where it looks like the whole team decided to just check out defensively and and again I’m not blaming players for that. I’m blaming leadership for that or lack thereof and something is missing. Okay, that is the biggest problem with this team. The talent I believe is there. I mean, like any team, you want to go out and try to address your weaknesses, try to go find those complimentary pieces to put together the best possible roster. But the core of this team has enough good players, I feel, to be a contender. What it needs is to be uh put back in the right direction. And also uh they need to be kept healthy. healthy, please. Uh the it’s just been egregious the the the number of injuries, the length of the injuries, the recurrence of injuries, or in some cases just ignoring that an injury even took place. I can think of a concussion or two that just kind of went ignored. Uh nobody even checked to see what was up. And then next thing you know what go and how many times have we had a report where uh they’re going to do an evaluation but uh we think he’s fine and then what happens uh they’re on the DL. I mean how many times I’m just And you talk about transparency Tony where is it right here it says I think what’s important for players is transparency and honesty. Now, would you would you feel like you were being honest if you were to use those two words to describe how you relay injury news to fans out there? Transparent and honest. Because I wholeheartedly disagree. Okay. We’ve had a lot of guys who were like like Westberg with with that foot or whatever like it looked bad and then they’re like well you know it’s not as bad as we thought. Uh he’ll be dayto-day but he just he winds up on the DL. It’s like why why do you do this? Why do you do this? All right, I’ll calm down. uh automated ball strike system. How you doing everybody? We got some other people here. Folks, we are in a rain delay. Okay. Um if somebody would do me a solid maybe one of the mods, please just kind of keep an eye on the side or um any update from Let me get the Madison broadcast up here. Yeah, it just says we’re in a delay. Okay. If you see anything before I do indicating that the game that the tarp is off, that the players are on the field warming up, anything like that, please uh let me know so we don’t miss anything. Excuse me. Um okay, where were we? Oh, 22 seconds ago. Wow, look at this photograph. That’s insane. What a skyline. Oh, I thought that was lightning. Those are just the lights on top of the stadium in the warehouse. Okay. I’m like, is that lightning going through? This looks like War of the Worlds. Hey folks, here’s a quick peek at a photo right now on uh right now on uh Rock Kabako’s Twitter feed. Here you go. Look at that sky. Look at that, man. It’s It’s purple. It’s like scissor. It’s like that Gatorade grape colored drink. Uh but it’s it’s it’s quite uh quite the site. But anyway, there’s a look from a photo that was uploaded just a minute ago of the field right now. All right, back over here. So, automated balls and strikes, they are bringing it in next season. In case you’re not familiar with how this works, if a pitcher, catcher, or batter disagrees with the umpire’s ball or strike call, he can request a challenge by topping his hat or helmet and vocalizing a challenge. The plate dump will announce the challenge to the fans in the ballpark and a graphic showing the outcome of the challenge will be displayed on the scoreboard and broadcast. The entire process is supposed to take approximately 15 seconds. Each club will start the game with two challenges and all successful challenges are retained. Uh this is Trevor Rogers talking. It’s going to be interesting. Incorporating the challenge system I think will help some guys with the tight situations in the game. If the umpire gets a call wrong, be able to challenge that. It’ll be interesting. I’ve had it in Norfolk. I don’t really mind it, but it’s going to be interesting to see how it plays at the big league level. Yeah, it’s going to be interesting. He said that. Um, well, here’s how you know Tony Manscelino doesn’t even know how he feels about his own opinions. It says, “Manscelino is keeping an open mind and trusting his acceptance of past alterations to the sport.” Quote, “I threw a fit when they brought the extra inning rule years ago in the minor leagues. I hated it and now I love it. Manelino said, “I thought the three batter minimum was terrible. I love it now.” Okay. I thought changing the shift was going to be bad. I love it. Stolen base, two pickoffs. I thought that was awful. It’s the greatest thing they’ve done. Wow. Tony, rather than be a manager of a team, would you like to, I don’t know, be the personal assistant for the commission? I mean, you sound like the biggest yes man I’ve ever heard. I was I was the biggest uh critic of all the changes that have been made and now I think they’re all the greatest changes ever. I also think uh Jackson Holidayiday is the greatest leadoff hitter of all time. Uh, I think entertainment value in our game of baseball isn’t a bad thing. This doesn’t need to be the crusty, grungy, bunt them over and do the whole deal and play the game the way it was in the 60s type of deal. Although, I do like that version of the game. What the hell are you saying here? Did you just basically crap on like the golden age of baseball? Crusty. Grungy. Yeah, I like crusty. I like grungy. I like bunning them over and the whole deal. Let me read this one again. Quote Tony Manscelino. I think entertainment value in our game of baseball isn’t a bad thing. This doesn’t need to be the crusty, grungy, bunt them over and do the whole deal and play the game the way it was in the 60s type of deal. Although I do like that version of the game. Listen to him try to cover his bases. Oh, wait a minute. Did I just say something that might offend All right. But but but I like that too. This guy This guy just a fence sitting. I don’t need a fence sitter for a manager. All right. You want to be a fence sitter? Uh be the equipment manager, not the team manager. Okay. You got to have you doing Phantom? You got to have, you know, some conviction with your with your opinions. Okay. I mean, I don’t know how I can win for a manager if that if I felt like my manager did not believe in their convictions. You understand what I’m saying? And I read some of these quotes and it’s like, God, that is just a perfect example of a fence sitter who wants to make everybody happy. H it bothers me. Uh, like I don’t like I don’t My god, he sounds like he’s a 1985 Valley girl. Like I don’t think we need to probably challenge the first pitch of the game. Like I don’t think we need to probably challenge the first pitch of the game. He’s even giving himself an out there. Well, probably. We might challenge the first pitch, but I don’t think we need to probably challenge the first pitch. I think you’re going to figure out players who are good at it and players who are bad at it, and you’re going to have to put some rules and regulations. Well, I’ll tell you this right now. You can’t let Gunner Henderson, like at least to begin with this whole new phase of the sport, Gunnar should not be the one going, I want a challenge cuz uh Gunnar doesn’t really seem to know where the zone is compared to some other folks. Uh he’s made a lot of complaints on pitches that were strikes. Uh, but I think Jordan Westberg knows the strike zone pretty good. Think Westberg would know. Anyway, uh, hey Chilo, what’s up? Chile just got destroyed in Yatsi twice by random people. Oh, he’s Is it yatsi time? Yeah. Chilo Don with a big big big uh what whatchamacall it uh donation uh gift uh whatever you would like to call it. I I don’t think there’s a good enough word. That’s a big one. Now, folks, if you’re here and you saw that, that doesn’t mean that, oh, well, BW is good to go now until next year. Nah, I’m thinking about how much that makes up for lost time. We are still very much in the uh need support for the channel kind of a situation. Uh I think tonight we’re good. Uh this is the final week of the season. uh maybe in that Yankee series. Uh if you’re feeling generous, you want to uh pitch in yourself there before the season ends, that’s probably a good time to do it. But I think tonight Don has uh definitely taken a strangle hold on uh any attempts at uh getting anywhere near uh a donation like that. That was Wow. that really and it it was a big bright and red like when I first saw this big bright red box in the corner of my eye I thought there was some kind of virus going on the chat. Never seen a red chat before. That was nuts. All right. Well, the penalty is this. Uh you lose you lose your challenge. You get two challenges if you’re wrong twice. Uh that’s it. No more challenges. You you keep them if you’re right. So you could use them cons uh conceivably 20 times in a game if you’re 20 for 20 or if you’re 19 for 20 or whatever. But uh once you get it wrong a second time, that’s it. Uh so by the way, all the time they’re trying to like save this is going to add some time. They say it’s just 15 seconds, but you know, if if this does happen several times in a ball game and the players or the catcher, the pitcher, whoever is challenging, if if they’re right, it’s going to be interesting. It’s going to be interesting. I mean, I think there’s some catchers out there that know the zone so well that they’ll be able to challenge with like 99% efficiency, you know? They’ll just know, you know? I mean, if anybody knows exactly where the zone is, it’s it’s the catcher, right? Uh anyway, what else is going on? You want to play some uh Yeah. I I just I you know, enough with the speeding up. I I I’m right. I like a three-hour game. I don’t know about you. And it feels like half the time they’re three hours anyway. I don’t know. I feel like they try to do too many things at once. Uh maybe some of these changes gradually. I’d be happier about. Maybe I just overreacted because I went away from the game for a while, came back, and I’m like, what’s going on with all these roles? Ghostr runner, what the hell? I think the ghostr runner is my biggest issue. Although, I will also say that it’s probably in terms of helping to keep players from getting injured and worn out. You know, those 15, 16, 17 inning, extra inning games. I get it. It completely destroys bullpens, but you know, we we figured it out somehow. They We’ve gotten this far. I don’t know. I I don’t know. Anyway, let’s uh let’s see. Oh, we got a start time 7:45. All right. So folks, half an hour from right now, 30 minutes until first pitch. That news just coming out. Well, no, it came out 10 minutes ago. 7:45 first pitch. It’s currently 7:15 p.m. on the East Coast, US. Uh there are going to be a couple of games to monitor tonight. Uh the Yankees have the luxury of playing the White Socks during uh this uh weekday series. Uh so obviously the Yankees heavily favored and in a very advantageous position to you know maintain their top wildcard spot and perhaps even still time to catch uh Toronto. I don’t think that’ll happen. But either way, we are rooting for the White Socks obviously because Yankee fans will be uh out of their minds if they lose to a team like the White Socks. There’s no score there in the top of the first. Another big big series this week is the Tigers and the Guardians. They are now within what like a game and a half of each other. Let me go to the full standings here. One game. One game. Cleveland is one game back and I do not know what their head-to-head record is. Who has the tiebreaker? Obviously, it could still be up for grabs because they’ve got three games to play starting tonight. But if the Guardians take two out of three, then Detroit and Cleveland will be on the same record with the final threeame series or yeah, the weekend series coming up. Uh, so that’s exciting. Seattle has now widened their lead after a big weekend against the Astros. Uh, Seattle now has won four in a row. The Astros has lost the Astros have now lost three in a row. And even though they’re tied with the Guardians in record, the Astros right now based on uh tiebreaker uh rules are the team. They’re the odd man out. The Astros would not make the playoffs today. Cleveland would. The Mariners, meanwhile, would get a by-week uh after going winning nine out of their last 10. Folks, I told you well before this hot streak for Seattle that they’re the team I’m hitching my uh my wagon to. I want to see the Mariners win a pennant and represent the American League this season. It’s their turn. They’ve waited 50 freaking years to do it. I think uh if we can’t even play in October, then uh I want to, you know, vicariously root uh for something good with through another uh team and that’s going to be the Mariners for me. All right. I hope you don’t mind. We’ve had a couple of beefs with the Mariners over the year. Famous uh brawl and whatever, but by and large we don’t really have a rivalry with the Mariners, do we? It’s not uh sacriiggious or anything to especially when, you know, there’s nothing left for us to do. We’re going home for me to spend October, you know, cheering on the Mariners. See if they can uh do something. Uh so yeah, the Yankees are two games behind Toronto. They’re three games ahead of the Red Sox. The Yankees, uh yeah, it looks like they’re going to be the number one wildcard seed. Uh that looks pretty set. So they will get the home field advantage. And if uh the season was over today, the Yankees would be hosting Boston and Detroit would be hosting Cleveland. Detroit with the worst of the three division uh leading records. Whoever wins that division, if Cleveland does catch and pass Detroit, the winner of that division uh is going to most likely have to play in the wildard round and probably host uh the loser of that division. It’s starting to look that way. Well, it’s close. Uh still some time there. Uh, William, do fast food restaurants like McDonald’s or Burger King have any special region-based items on its menu? Absolutely, William. They do. Oh, I forgot about my coffee. Holy cow. I hope it’s still hot. I can’t believe it. This coffee when I poured it was boiling hot and now it is ice cold. All right, I’m going to heat up some water, get this coffee back up to hot, get a lucky, and uh come back and talk to you about specialty items and fast food restaurants in Thailand. Okay, great. Uh so, give me a second. I will be right back. Rain delay, folks. Rain delay. Uh mods, just maybe somebody type in we’re in a rain delay. Stick around. BW will be right back. Something like that. All right. Thanks, Hey folks, uh with this rain delay and now we’re in the final week of uh the regular season. I think now would be a good time to talk to you guys. There’s only about oh almost 50 people here right now. That’s enough to get some feedback here. Now, I had mentioned already that I plan on calling some playoff games. I don’t have specific games or teams to cover in mind. I’m going to wait to see what the schedule looks like. And most likely the number one criteria will be uh the later the game, the more likely I am to cover it because I would like to get back to a normal sleep schedule, especially with the travel I have coming up in a couple of weeks. So stay tuned for that. And again, uh, if you weren’t aware, I’m going to be starting up a Orioles franchise mode video gaming sort of, uh, uh, channel, uh, uh, what do you call it’s content, folks. It’s offseason content uh where I’m going to hook up my PS4 and play through a season in franchise mode with the Orioles being the manager, general manager and player of the game. It’s going to be fun. But along with those two uh things, uh I think we need to talk about what else might be good for uh channel content and if anybody out there has any ideas or suggestions, things they would like to see uh on the channel. Now, I’m not saying that any suggestion will automatically get green lit, but uh feedback is a good thing. uh ideas can spark other ideas and what have you. Now, let me propose this. Uh would would you just give me a indication? You don’t have to type no. If you feel like it would make you uncomfortable, but if I get a bunch of crickets, I’ll know. But I’m thinking a weekly sort of podcast type show. Maybe a Sunday night. I’m thinking the gaming thing, a a a Monday through Friday night kind of a deal. Saturday night take off, Sunday nights, uh like a weekly around baseball sort of podcast going over offseason stuff. I don’t think if every week we just talked about what’s going on with the Orioles, there would be enough to cover, you know, like an hour or whatever would would be uh at least at the beginning. I don’t know. It could start to heat up. Obviously, if it’s a week where the Orioles go out and sign a free agent or go out and make a trade or something super big happens, um then we can spend the entire episode of that that week focusing on stuff that’s just the Orioles. But if there if it’s light on Orioles, then we can kind of go around all of baseball and just uh you know, keep up with what’s going on out there. Would you guys be interested in tuning in for a show like that on a Sunday evening? And if so, maybe let me know uh about what time would make sense for you. Uh early evening, 6 700 p.m. later evening, 8 900 p.m. Let me know. Montage videos on home runs, strikeouts, stolen bases, closes, and other good calls from the season. Uh you mean me? a montage of my calls, not like video footage, right? Because I can’t put together clips of the games. I mean, I know they’re out there. I guess you can do that, but I I don’t have an editing setup to put out like compilation videos of of that or that or my calls. Um, yeah. Uh, I would have to work on figuring out how to edit them all in a giant road that they just, you know, just bleed one right into the next over the course of like, I don’t know, a 30 minute chunk. I don’t know. Would anybody else be interested in that? That would seem like a one-time special event. like here’s the best of 2025 and just uh you know I think the best way to do that William is like I do have clipped versions of some of my favorite calls of the season. So I could just sit down like I am now and just go right to them like like for example let’s say this is that show you’re thinking of. I come on I’m like how you doing everybody? Bird watcher here. Uh we’re here to enjoy some of the favorite calls of the 2025 season. Uh there’s many of them to look at. Let’s start with uh this uh this memorable uh moment back when the Orioles played the Yankees three months ago. Here, here’s a moment. Here we go. One and two the count. The pitch. Here it is. Swing and a miss. Swing and a miss. Triple digits from the mountain. And the judge goes back to his chambers. Sit down. Well, you all come back now. You hear? Got to be kidding me. Well, you all come back now. You here. I just spilled coffee on my new shoes. Hit the bricks, pal. You’re done. You get nothing. You lose. Good day, sir. How about this? Peace. Dope. Now get the hell out of here. All right. So, yeah. Now you’re only hearing the audio, but like I could just like go over here and be like, here’s the call. There’s the call again. One and two. The count, the pitch. Here it is. Swing and a miss. Swing and a miss. triple digits from the mountain and the judge goes back to his chambers. Sit down. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? All right. Just uh buying myself some time while I clean up the coffee I just spilled. So, yeah. Uh long story short, best of 2025 night. I don’t know how many people I gonna want to tune in for that, but yeah, we can do that. That’s probably just a oneoff thing, not like a a reoccurring thing. Bray is here. Cover football. Nope. Can’t do it. Uh, let me just let everybody understand something in case I’ve haven’t made this clear before. I truly believe that I have the ability and the talent and the knowledge and the passion, all the requirements necessary to call Major League Baseball games for the Baltimore Orioles because I’ve invested so much into this team and this sport in my life that it’s what I it’s what I know most. Now, am I a [ __ ] when it comes to the NFL? No. I, you know, I can hold my own, but I don’t, it’s not even close. It’s not even close. The passion isn’t as much. The, you know, the desire to know every little thing that’s going on with the team isn’t there. I wouldn’t be the guy that you deserve. I would not be the guy you deserve calling any other sport or any other team really like me doing these playoff games. Honestly, it’s just because I do need content and it’s still baseball and I can do it. I can do that. Uh anything else you would be getting a, you know, just a a shell of the version of the the the wonderful talent that you see here. doing this. This is this is my lane and I know how to stay in my lane. You feel me? All right. Don’t you hate it when you get a longer answer than you wanted? So, yeah, a lot of people have asked the only reason why I’m giving you the extra long response is that is a popular question. Cover football games. There’s really only one other sport and one other league that I’m qualified I feel to cover. Uh but how many people who like the Orioles here? How many of you like uh Premier League English soccer? Anybody? That’s an issue because uh where’s my lighter? All right, I might have to step away again for a minute. Starting to get hot this morning, too. So, yeah, Chilo loves the Premier League. Uh, I’m a Tottenham person. So, if I were to ever have another channel, it would be a Tottenham Hotspur channel, and I would cover all 36 league games, cup games, uh international um uh I’m sorry, European uh league games as well. European Cup, whatever, you know, Champions League or Europa League, whatever whatever tournament Spurs are in. Uh that would be I could do that and there would be some overlap because the Premier League season starts like in August and goes all the way till like middle of May. So the months of like April and September, two full months where baseball and Premier League are going on same time. Uh but you know with the time difference England obviously 5 hours ahead East Coast there’s hardly ever any you know conflict of schedule between an Orioles game and a Tottenham game. Uh maybe once or twice in a given year. So I I I could consider doing that. And there are some Spur fans in in in uh America. I know because I found some uh groups out there uh on on the Facebook back in the day. Hey, listen. I need to go find a lighter. All right. I’m holding a Lucky in my hand, and the longer I’m holding it without being able to light it up, it’s just driving me nuts. All right. What time did we say was first pitch? 7:45. All right. So, we’re 10 minutes away. So, I’m going to have my lucky and then we’re going to go over the lineups and the pitching match up here. And where am I? How you doing, folks? I did want to help answer somebody else’s question about weird fast food items you might find over here where I live. I’m opening up the app right now. We’re just going to check out McDonald’s because it’s easy. Um, let’s see. Crystal THC That sounds lovely. Uh, what do we got? All right. Well, my phone is acting slow. Let’s go over tonight’s pitching matchup and starting lineups. We’re less than 10 minutes away from the start of the game. We think. We think it’s currently 78 degrees. The rain uh I’m guessing has stopped. I don’t know if the tarp is off yet, but uh where are the lineups? Hello. Where the hell are they? Oh, you know where I can go for that? I go over here. All right. The pitching matchup is Tyler Wells is on the mound, folks. 2 and 0 record, 17 and 2/3 innings. His erra just 2.04 and his whip just 0.62. Fantastic. Just one walk in 17 and two/3 innings and just 10 hits, 11 base runners in nearly 18 innings. Uh striking out 14 along the way. Shane Baz, a right-hander on the mound for the Rays. A record of 10 and 12. Erra as close to five as you can get without being five. 4.99, a 135 ERA. Baz has just hit 162 innings on the season and he’s averaging better than a strikeout per inning. does give up uh more walks than he’d like to see in 26 home run balls he’s given up on the season. Shame Baz. Now for the lineups, I have to go somewhere else. For Baltimore leading off, playing second base, Jackson Holiday, Jordan Westber will hit second and play third. Gunnar Henderson at shortstop will bat third. Tyler O’Neal’s the cleanup hitter in right field. Dylan Beavers will play left field and bat fifth. Adley Rutman, I forgot. Let the clutch out gently, right? Is that even still on my board? Here it is. Let the clutch out gently. Okay. Hey, it’s still on the board. Adley is back, folks. Adley Rutman in the lineup, catching, batting sixth. Sammy Basio. Were you worried that with Adley coming back, Sammy would go missing? No. Sammy hitting seventh and dhing. Colton Cowser will bat eighth and place center field. Kobe Mayo plays first base and hits ninth. All right, now for this Rays lineup, I do need to go over here to get it because holy cow. Half the names on this raise uh half the names on this raise uh list here I’ve never heard of. Where is what I’m looking at? No, that’s not it. I’m looking Oh, it’s probably here. No, not there. Trevor Rogers. Morren Rogers. This this I I had like a 5050 chance. All right, this should be the one. There it is. All right, for the Rays leading off and playing center field, Chandler Simpson, Yandi Diaz will DH and bat second. Brandon Lau will play second and hit third. Junior Camro, the third baseman and cleanup hitter. Josh Low is in right field batting fifth. Jake Mangum in left field hitting sixth. Hunter Feduchia is the catcher. He’ll hit seventh. Carson Williams will bat eighth and play shortstop. And at first base batting ninth, Bob Seymour. Who the hell are these guys? Who are these freaking guys? Uh, let’s see. Live button. Are you live? Come on. How do I know you’re live? I don’t believe you. Are you sure you’re live? Okay. Uh, once again, that’s Chandler Simpson, Yandi Diaz, Brandon Laauo, Junior Camroero, Josh Low, Jake Mangum, Hunter Feduchia, Carson Williams, and Bob Seymour. Oh, Seymour. Suddenly, Seymour is hitting in ninth place. Wells and somebody else. What? Pitching. Shane Baz. Shane Baz. Kramer pitching. You know what? You’re right. It is. Why did I say that? I’m Oh, I’ve got No wonder it’s not showing the lineups. I’m looking at tomorrow’s game. Oh no. Oh no. Oh god. I suck. I was looking ahead at tomorrow’s game so that I could adjust the scrolling text at the bottom of your screen to add tomorrow’s pitching matchup. I then forgot to switch back over to today’s game, which would explain while I’m sitting here telling you two pitchers that aren’t pitching tonight. All right, here is your pitching matchup. Forget everything. Well, or just save it for tomorrow. Tonight’s pitching matchup, by the way. The lineups are accurate. Okay. The lineups are accurate. Leave me alone. The pitching matchup is Dean Kramer. And I don’t even have now I don’t have their stats because it’s already showing a batter ready to bat. You know what? Kramer’s got an RA of 4.39. and he’s going up against Ryan Pepio, 3.77 erra, right-hander. Uh Kramer has had success against the Rays. Uh this season, he’s only given up, I think, two runs in 18 and a third innings. You want to double check that, go ahead. But I’m pretty sure that’s about where it is. And I think uh career-wise here it is. There it is. Kramer has faced the Rays three times this season. and has allowed only two runs in 19 innings. He’s 4- one with a 1.83 ERA in 10 career starts against them. Okay. Per stats, per like an official stat uh area that keeps track of this kind of thing. Dean Kramer’s erra against the Rays. uh a pitcher having at least 10 starts or more against the Rays. Kramer has the second lowest erra of any pitcher against the Rays in their history. Okay, that’s that’s a good that’s a good thing. The only pitcher with a better erra than Dean Kramer against the Rays, again, minimum 10 starts, is Orlando Eld. He had a 1.31 erra. Hey, how about this positive note? The Orioles have played 11 games this season in um this season. This month, the Orioles have played 11 games this month that have been decided by two runs or fewer. 11 games. Two runs or fewer. Would anyone in the chat care to guess what our record is in those 11 games? Go ahead and give it a guess. This is called interacting with the chat. Hey, there’s Adley Rutman. He’s getting his catching glove ready to go. Adley’s back. Chilo guesses were seven and four. George with the same guess. Seven and four. Seven and four. Once again, folks, our record in games decided by two runs or fewer. We’ve played 11 of them this month. Froggy says six and five. Phantom goes 8 and3. Kramer is on the mound right now about to take his warm-up tosses as we get ready for baseball after a rain delay of about uh what would you call it? Almost an hour. It’s almost like we should just start games during the week at 7:30 or so anyway. All right. Looks like everybody’s done guessing. Folks, the answer is Matt coming in with nine and two. You’re all wrong and you’re even though you’ve all guessed winning records, you’re all short. We are 10 and one. 10 and one in games decided by two runs or less this month. Conversely, uh, in games we’ve lost, uh, we’re getting our asses handed to us. Uh, so it’s one or the other. We’re winning the close ones. We’re not winning a whole lot of blowouts. Uh, we’re losing the blowouts, but yeah, 10 and one in our last 11. Two runs or fewer. All right, Kramer. Time to get the volume up. Time to close this door back here. We’re almost ready for baseball, folks. Just another minute till the first pitch. Uh, be right back. All right, here we go, folks. So, it’s Chandler. Is it Chandler Simpson in the box? Left-handed bat against Dean Kramer. First pitch of the night is a strike. A sinker from Dino. And we’re underway, folks. Rain delay is over. We got baseball. We got BW right here. The 01 to Simpson. Hit on the ground. Foul. Third base side. 0 and2. Look at that. We’ve already got the scoreboard up and working. Would you look at that, folks? Back like we never left. Go Rays. Welcome in there. Hope I pronounced that right. Here’s a tapper behind the plate. It’s still low and two on Chandler Simpson who’s batting 299. He doesn’t strike out much. Just 10% of the time. That’s seventh lowest in baseball. That’s a good quality to have in a leadoff hitter. 299 average and doesn’t strike out much. 02 popped up shallow center actually make it the infield. Gunnar Henderson one step onto the outfield grass makes it the catch on a little popup to begin the ball game. Well, look at that. Masson is now showing the exact stat I read off a little bit earlier, which is that Dean Kramer’s erra against the Rays, 10 starts minimum, second best in the history of the Rays franchise. Only Orlando Eld Hernandez has a lower ERA against the Rays. Dean likes to pitch against the Rays. Yandi Diaz, a veteran right-handed hitter, dhing tonight, looks at strike one. Holy cow. I just got to look at the side stands here and if we’ve got 10,000 people here, I’ll be shocked. There is nobody here. Rain. Two eliminated teams on a Tuesday night. Swing and a miss by Yandi Diaz. It’s 0 and2. Diaz has not been able to figure out Kramer. 22 previous at bats, just three hits. That’s a 136 average. 02 popped up on the infield. This Dean wants it. Dean’s going to get out of the way as Jordan Westber calls him off. Two outs on two popups on the infield. It’s a good start for Kramer defensively for the Orioles. Beavers in left. Cowser in center, O’Neal in right, Westber at third, Gunnar at short, Holiday at second, Mayo at first, and Adley Rutman. Behind the plate here is Brandon Laauo, powerhitting second baseman, hitting third in the Raid lineup, batting 258. He looks at a fast ball from Kramer up and away for ball one. 30 home runs on this season for Lao with 81 RBI. Here’s a ground ball to Gunner. It’s a worm burner and Gunner is gonna make a routine play here to get the final out. Dean Kramer, couple of popups and a ground ball. Three up, three down in the top of the first. And I would have to guess 12 pitches tops. Nine pitches. A nine pitch inning. Three up, three down. Great start for Dino. We go to the bottom of the first. Rays nothing. And the Orioles are coming up. Wow. Is this has chat GPT joined Charm City chat? This sounds like an AI comment section now. Uh are these like notes for for sports betting? Over under eight and a half runs. What? Tighten things up late. Okay. Well, sounds like you know how the entire game is going to play out. Normally I just Look at who’s pitching. Look at the lineups and just sit back and see what happens. Anyway, you’re here. You are here for the sports betting. That’s that’s Yeah. So, once again, my instincts right on point. I’m like, who the hell would talk like this unless they were uh you know, a gambler. Okay. Uh just so you know, uh feel free to enjoy coverage here. Uh any more talk about your betting uh will get removed by the mods and if it’s habitual uh you you get timed out. Uh we’re here to actually follow a team that we uh root for and uh follow the sport because we we enjoy the sport. Nobody’s here for a bet. No worries. Now you know. And again, feel free to enjoy the coverage. Uh Jackson Holiday pops up the first pitch he sees from Ryan Pepio. It’s a foul ball. Pepio making his 31st start of the season. Record of 11 and 11. 377 erra. A6 whip. Holiday fouls the second pitch back. It’s 0 and2. Jackson s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s h s hitting 247 with 17 homers and 55 driven. And that OPS is now under 700. 699 on the OPS for that generational talent, Jackson Holiday. That’s off the plate. One and two. Now, we’ve seen Pepio a couple of times this season. I want to say one time he absolutely shut us down and another time, uh, it was a closer game that we that we won. He wasn’t bad, but I just hope he doesn’t shut us down like he did that one other start. Two- two pitch way inside. Goes all the way to the back stop. We got a full count on Holiday leading off the bottom of the first. Pepio. Wow. I have to look at that stat again. Check swing by Holiday. They appeal it. He doesn’t go. It’s ball four, folks. First batter for the Orioles tonight. Reaches on a walk. Hey, look at that. I’m walking here. I’m walking here. All right. Holiday aboard. Folks, it’s been a while since we’ve had some Westberg emojis in the chat. Whip them out. He’s up to hit. West is that way. Westberg goes to right field. That ball’s traveling into the corner. That ball, where is it? We lost sight of the fielder into the corner. Did he catch the ball or not? Looks like he didn’t. He tosses it into the stands. That’ll be a foul ball from Westber. For those not familiar with the the ballpark here in Baltimore, down the right field corner, there’s sort of a triangular cutout and a ball can drop in there and unless you’re sitting opposite from that part of the field, you can’t see what happens down there. It’s 0 and one on West. Next pitch called a strike. Tough pitch from Pepio. A sinker just catching the inside corner at the bottom of the zone. Westber is hitting 260. Did he get a glove on it? Phantom, I didn’t even see that. That pitch is low. One ball, two strikes. Got so scared. I need that under. Okay. Well, for the second time in one inning, please uh let me remind those that might be new to my channel that this channel is for baseball fans to watch a game. Commentator is a boner. Are you talking about me, bro? What do you expect to happen at this point? Hey, hey, Aiden, I’m about to make $1,400. Hey, why don’t you turn that around? invested in the crypto and watch it all go down the [ __ ] just like you’re about to go down the [ __ ] All right, buddy. Bye. I’m about to make 1.4K, man. Yeah. Uh two and two the count on Jordan Westber. Holy cow. Yeah. Go. Yeah. Invest in some NFTTS. Why don’t you go the the career path of Hawk to a girl? Line drive. Base hit down the left field line for Westber. Holiday will make it to third base. No, he won’t. Yes, he will. There he is. Okay. Westberg’s got himself a double, folks. Second and third. Nobody out. If you got a bet on this, kiss How about uh this? I’ll give you three to one. You’ll kiss my ass. If you stick around here talking about your bets. All right. Gunner Henderson. First pitch is outside for ball one. Hey, there’s a JJ Raid apparently. I think that’s Westber’s second hit. Phantom. I think he had one before. Infield hit if memory serves. If I’m wrong, I’m wrong. But I think he had one. Gunner fouls one off. It’s one ball, one strike. Hey there, JJ. Folks, it’s good to see you. Uh, and let JJ know whenever you go back that I appreciate the raid. If you are here, please tap the like button and subscribe if you haven’t already. And, uh, folks, uh, please return the favor and, uh, support JJ, us Orio fans. We like to send people over to JJ after our game finishes because we’re usually on first, but tonight we got a rain delay. Maybe, maybe not. Uh Gunner one-two pitch popped up behind the plate and out of play. Folks, here’s a bugle. We are in the bottom of the first inning. The Orioles are threatening with second and third. Nobody out and Gunner Henderson at the plate. The one-two tapped at the plate. It’s foul. Will do it again. Pepio has thrown 17 pitches already without recording an out. He’s working up a sweat. A good start. Let’s just cash in these runs here. Come on. pitch fouled away off to the right by Gunner. Still a ball and two strikes. Why are you so triggered? All right. You know, I’m even going to read the rest of your comment. How about if you’re brand new and you haven’t had a chance to get acclimated with me or my channel, you don’t get to tell me about my attitude or how I do things. Gunner with a high-fly ball to left field. That ball is traveling. That ball is caught up against the wall. Jackson Holiday and Westber will both tag. Holiday will score. Gunner shaking his head going back to the dugout. He just missed a three-run homer to the opposite field. The left fielder caught that ball with his glove above the wall. He didn’t have to leave his feet, but that ball just might have sneaked out of here. It is an RBI for Gunner. The Orias have taken an early lead, one to nothing. Uh Tyler O’Neal fouls the first pitch he sees away. Yeah. If you don’t like that I have a firm stance about talking gambling on my website, sorry. That’s about it there. Dun fuchu. It’s pretty simple. Uh Tyler O’Neal with an 02 count. Pitch bounces in there from Pepio. One and two on Tyler O’Neal. Ahoy there. Anybody home? triggered. Triggered. It’s my channel, man. It’s like It’s like my car and if I drove my car somewhere and I didn’t want Here’s a ground ball. It’s on the drawn in infield, but we’re going to drive in a run anyway. Ground ball to short. Westber breaks for the plate. It’s going to be an RBI ground out for Tyler O’Neal. It is two to nothing, folks. We got ourselves an early lead. Oh ho ho. It’s magic, you know. It’s magic. Dylan Beavers looks at one low for ball one. Hey folks, show me your beavers. Nice beaver. Thank you. The 10 popped up out of play. One ball, one strike. Beavers is hitting .256. He’s still drawing walks, but uh he hasn’t gotten too many hits lately. Did have a double, I want to say, not long ago. But this ball has popped up shallow right man. The second baseman going way out into right field. But the right fielder will call him off and make the catch. The inning is over. Gunner just missed a three-run homer, but the Orioles do score two of the potential three runs uh in a variety of ways. Uh one on a sacrifice fly, one on a ground ball out. Gunner with the sack. O’Neal with the ground ball out. Holiday and Westber score. Two runs, one hit, and nobody left. We go to the second inning. It is two to nothing. Baltimore. All right, good start. Kramer looks good. We got two runs here. Not too shabby. You know, I would bet we’re going to have a fun night. I bet uh you know I kicked out the right people early in this one. Why are you so triggered? I don’t know. Maybe I think uh making sports betting uh super easy to do uh is generating a lot of problems for a lot of people. And I’m not here to help support that or condone it. Now, if it’s what you like to do, you do you. But you’re not going to do it here. Okay? Now, if you want to track your bet quietly, you can do that. But nobody cares about how your bet is doing. First of all, even if it wasn’t a question of ethics, nobody cares how your bet is doing. Just so you know, it’s just like trying to explain somebody a dream you had last night. Try as you might, nobody cares. So have some self-awareness and keep your bet to yourself. Top of the second inning, Junior Camro will lead it off and he looks at strike one on the outside edge. It’s 0 and one. Camo up to 44 homers and 108 RBI. Are you kidding me? Those are some pretty gobby numbers. There’s a strike. It’s 0 and2. We are in the top of the second inning, folks. We got three games head-to-head against Toronto. And if we were to somehow sweep, oh, what a relief it would be. We would be tied. And a chance to not finish in last place going into the final weekend. But we’re going to have to sweep. Only one player younger than Camro or as young has hit more home runs. Eddie Matthews. So Camro is only 21 in a 40 homer season. Wow. I did not realize he had gotten that far up in the home run total. Uh, one two pitch is low. Two and two. Well, I mean, at this stage, you don’t want to have to pitch to him if you don’t need to. That is true. Here’s a ground ball to second base. Holiday over to first. Easy first out here in the top of the second. Yeah. I mean, if you’re gonna take bet winnings to send a super chat, then uh you know, or even if you’ve told me, “Hey, I’m going to put a bet on this and if I win, all of it’s going to this charity.” I’d be like, “Okay, I will root for your bet.” But, uh, what are we talking about here, folks? Unicorns, leprechauns, other non-existent things. Uh Josh Low takes high for ball one. The next pitch is outside 2 and 0. Low is batting 223. 20 from Kramer. Adley with a high target and Kramer hits it top of the zone for strike one. Scattered seating all around the ballpark, folks. Pick a section and sit where you want. 2-1 pitch fouled away. Count even up at two and two. folks, like how soon after this season ends, are you wanting to see some announcements regarding personnel changes with this team? Josh Low reaches for one and turns on it to right field. Can’t get a whole lot on the swing, trying to pull that pitch on the outside part of the plate. It’s a lazy fly ball to right caught by Tyler O’Neal for the second out. Jake Mangum coming up next. So yeah, when when do we begin? Because first of all, we already know that the Orioles are going to hire a new GM. Mike Elias is going to be president. And I’m assuming part of that job will just be to thumbs up or thumbs down whatever moves our new GM is setting up. If it’s a trade he’s got ready to confirm, it’s going to be Elias’s call to say thumbs up or thumbs down. I don’t know. But, uh, we’re going to need that pretty soon. You kind of have to do it in the right order, right? Uh, we got a 20 count on Jake Mangum. That pitch had the plate just a little bit low. 3 and 0. Um, nonplayer moves, I think. So Joel, there’s a called strike at the top of the zone. The count is three and one. I mean, I personally, we already know. I just feel like whoever GM we bring in is going to kind of have to do whatever Mike Elias kind of wants him to do. 3-1 pitch swung on a miss. It’s a full count. Uh like I don’t think suddenly like in next year’s draft we’re suddenly drafting a lot of pitch. Like I feel like a lot of the the way uh we’ve been building this team over the last few years is not going to change, but it will be an extra voice in the discussion. Like maybe it’s what we need. Maybe maybe two heads are better than one and trying to find the right players to add to this team next season. Here’s a dangerous ball down the left field corner. It is foul. Mangum with a foul ball that got all the way to the corner. Couple of feet to the left of the foul line on the wall. It’s a full count. Two down. Nobody on base. I just hope we get going quickly. Uh payoff pitch that’s fouled over by the third base coach box. Kramer with an extended atbat here against Jake Mangum trying to end this second inning. Another 3-2 pitch that is right down the middle and fouled away. It’ll be at least a 10 pitch at bat. The last four pitches have been fouled off. Started a three ball count. 3 and 0. Got it to three and two. And it’s been four foul balls since. That one’s going to be in play. Right center. Cowser coming over, but O’Neal is going to make the catch to end the inning. Kramer had to throw a lot of pitches to get the final out, but he’s still uh perfect through two. We go to the bottom of the second. The Orioles have a two nothing lead. All right, Charm City D. You down with CCC? You down with CCC? Who’s down with CCC? All right, now to the ladies. CCC means something different. The first letters are the same, but the last is something different. What? All right. How you doing? Naughty by nature. I love it. I love it. I need to bring up the lyrics for this. Was there a time when I actually knew the lyrics of this? OP. How can I explain it? I’ll take you frame by frame it to have you all jump and shout and saying it. O is for the other. P for the people scratch your temple. The last P. Well, that’s not that simple. It’s sort of like, well, another way to call a cat a kitten. It’s five letters that are missing here. You get it on occasion if the other party isn’t gaming. It seems I got to start the explaining. Boy, they’re very subtle with these lyrics. I don’t know if I’ve ever read these lyrics. You ever had a girl and met her on a nice hello? You get a name and number and then you’re feeling really mellow. You get home, wait a day. He’s what you want to know about. Then you call up and it’s a girlfriend’s or a cousin’s house. I hate when that happens. Yeah. And there no uh what was that one band? Why am I using the word band? What was that one act? Uh oh, they were my favorite from that time period. God, what was the name? Adley Rutman is up with his first plate appearance in a long time and he’s quickly behind 0 and2. He just fouled a pitch off. Adley, welcome back. Um, let the clutch out gently. Okay, Sabrina, I’m not awesome. I’m easily triggered by degenerate gamblers. Don’t you know that? No, this is more like gangster rappy. There was a band. They had like a a little person in it and their songs were like kind of funny. Oh god. What was that? No, not Far Side. Ghetto Boys. Ghetto Boys. Ghetto Boys. Me and Ghetto Boys. A trick or treat in. What was that song by? What was that song by Ghetto Boys? where they’re trick-or-treating. Here’s a ground ball by Adley to second base. Brandon Laauo will throw to first in time. One away. There it is. Me and get Oh, my mind’s playing tricks on me. Oh my god. I haven’t heard this song in 35 freaking years. Holy cow. Oh man, homie. My mind’s playing tricks on me. Oh, I have to see these lyrics. Oh man, homie. Here’s a fly ball to left. It’s a can of corn. Sammy Basiah was at the plate. I forgive me for not giving him the announcement uh that he deserves, but he has retired quickly. There’s two down on a fly ball to left by Basio. Sorry about that, Sammy. I’m trying to remember my ghetto boys trivia here. Here is Colton Cowser. He looks at a strike. He looks at a lot of strikes. He also swings at a lot of non strikes. 198 average. That pitch is low, I think. Hard to tell. We’re looking from the Oh, yeah. Very low. Why are we showing the replay of that? I don’t know. One-1 pitch to Cowser. Two down, nobody on. That’s outside. Two in one. Oh man, homie. I gotta hear this song today. I haven’t heard this song. I used to play this song like all the time. Swing and a miss. It’s two and two on cowser. What’s wrong with my back button? Give them lyrics. 2-2 to Cowser. Fouled to the left side, slicing out of play. Still two and two. I don’t think I can uh go through these lyrics with you on on the air, folks. I don’t think YouTube would be happy. That is a called strike three on Colton Cowser to end the inning. The little homie in Ghetto Boy’s name was Bushwick Bill. All right, let me look up Bushwick Bill just so I can Oh, there. Oh my. Somebody has just gone down a rabbit hole. What a rabbit hole. What a rabbit hole. There he is in all his glory. Bushwick Bill, born Richard William Steven Shaw. He really he originally joined up as a break dancer in 1986. Oh, he passed away back in 2019 at 52 years old, man. There’s Bushwick. Oh, man. Homie, my mind playing tricks on me. I got to go back and hear that song today. Did they have a good like second hit? What was What was Ghetto Boy’s number two song? Sorry. I promise I’ll get back on track. Oh, there’s a ghetto boy’s greatest hits. All right, this should tell me. You always put track two as your as your biggest track. Mind playing tricks on me. Scarface. Gotta let your nuts hang. That is not a name of a song, is it? I’m I wouldn’t be surprised. All right, top of the third inning. Feduchia at the plate. Hey, Feduchia. Huh? Hey, why don’t you try some of my mother’s sauce? Huh? Give it a little taste. Hunter Feduchia, he’s batting a buck 67. No homers, seven RBI. That pitch is high from Kramer. All right, Feduchia. We could do this the easy way or we could do it the hard way. What? Too topical? Two and 0. The count on Feduchia pitch. Three and 0. Come on, Kramer. How about you throw some strikes? It’s three and 0. I don’t like it when it’s three and 0. Pitch. There’s a strike right in there. Luckily, Feduchia didn’t have the green light. That was right down the middle. 3-1 pitch. Popped up on the infield. Third base side. Westber straddling the foul line. Makes the catch. Folks, you tell me. Was that a fair ball or a foul ball? I don’t think anybody knows. That was right on the line. We will never know. Nobody will ever know. Uh Carson Williams at the plate. One out. Takes a strike. Carson batting 173. Five homers, 12 driven in. Swing and a miss. Oh, that cutter with a big break. Almost looked like a slider. It is 0 and2. Another cutter that breaks low and away. This time Williams able to lay off. One and two the count. One out, nobody on. Top of the third. The Orioles lead it two to nothing with a couple of first inning runs. That sinker goes up and away. Two and two. Man, now I can’t. I got a earworm, folks. 22 pop foul and we’ll do it again. I really do like me some like that 1989 to 1991 sort of range of hip-hop music. It just uh a lot of fond memories. Swing and a miss on the 2- two pitch. Strike three. See you later. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? Hey, Carson, it’s not your tonight show, is it? Go sit down. Here is Seymour. Seymour, what are you doing up the hit? Oh, Seymour. Who is this guy? Bob Seymour. Folks, it seems like you take any name, put a baseball uniform on, and it sounds like a baseball name. But folks, I got to draw the line somewhere. Bob Seymour just doesn’t sound like a baseball name to me. Bob Seymour should be selling me insurance. Bob Seymour should be at that used car lot with that giant wind sock puppet dancing around. It’s one and two on Bob Seymour. And that ball is a little liner caught on a little bunny hop by Jackson Holiday at second. That’ll end the inning. Dean Kramer, nine men up, nine men down. He loves pitching against the Rays. We go to the bottom of the third. Two nothing Baltimore. Who are we watching? Can anyone tell me if the game is still going on or not? Well, I think I am telling you. I’m calling it. Hello. Hello. Is this thing on? Is who are we watching? Huh? Who is this? How you doing? Does that answer your question? Have we figured out where we are? All right. Don’t believe anything, Hutchkins. Don’t believe anything, man. There’s only one thing to believe in. Do you believe in me? No. Okay, I might need some context to just No, no, no, no. What? No can do. Is this still Baltimore versus Orioles? Yes, we are fighting ourselves. That’s a great way to put it. I can tell we’ve got ourselves a character. Toby Mayo first pitch is out uh ball one. Next pitch outside, 2 and 0 on Mayo, leading off the bottom of the third, folks. And then it’s the top of the order. Let’s get it all on there. Just spread it out. I’m not sure how to convince Dantree that yes, there is a game on. Uh there’s a score at the top of your screen. It’s live. There’s balls and strikes uh going on. They’re live. I’m here talking about the game and giving you playbyplay. I’m live. Uh, does that answer your question? Three in one the count on Mayo. That ball’s crushed but foul. Mayo out in front of it. Three and two. Oh man. Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue. Payoff pitch. Hit in the air to center. Shallow. Could drop. Could drop. That ball will drop. Kobe Mayo with a blooper. A bloop shot to center field. A leadoff single. Take your base. All right. Leadoff man on top of the order coming up. Jackson Holiday walked his first time. Tapper in front of the plate. The pitcher picks it up. Goes to first. It’s his only play. A one pitch out by Holiday. He does move the runner up in the scoring position with one down. folks. Which way is west? West is that way. Which way? Well, west is that way. All right. Westber emojis, folks. I know you got them. First pitch is a check swing. It’s off. Wait, did they call that a strike? Did they say he went or did they just call it a strike? Because I don’t agree with either. It’s 0 and one on West now. That’s way outside. One ball, one strike, folks. Pepio is about to throw his 49th pitch. Just one out in the third inning, runner at second. Westber fouls it back. It’s one and two. Trevor Rogers currently being interviewed by the Massen broadcast team. Earlier in the day, he was named the Orio player of the year, the oral of the year. And uh it’s there’s no close second for that honor this season. Trevor Rogers has been absolutely incredible. That pitch low and away. It’s two and two on Westber. Mayo out at second base. And there is some light rain falling now here at the ballpark. 2-2 reached for Westber. Somehow got a piece of that low pitch. Got a little piece of it to stay alive. Looks like we’re frozen on the Westberg screen here. Are we going to get balls and strikes or what? There we go. It’s two and two. Now, what happened? The pitch low and away. Full count, folks. Full count, one out. Gunners on deck. Payoff pitch to Westber from Pepio. We’re going to wait a minute as Westber steps out of the box. There we go. Whoops. Cut off a little bit there. Payoff pitch again. Swung on and another foul ball, folks. Westber with a hit. a double his first time up. Another 3-2. He looks at strike three. Damn. A four seamer at 97 at the knees on the inside corner for the second out. Gunner’s do up with Tyler O’Neal hitting behind him. I don’t see how the Rays give Gunnar anything to hit here. I mean, if you were the Rays, wouldn’t you just take your chances with Tyler O’Neal? You’re already down two. There’s a base open. Well, curveball for a strike to Gunner. First pitch would say, “No, they’re going to go right after him.” 0 and one on Henderson. His name’s Gunner and he’s dating my mom. And Gunner, he’s going to get a base hit into center field. Here comes Mayo around to score. It’s three to nothing Orioles. Thank you for pitching the Gunner. You had Tyler O’Neal on deck. What are you doing? It’s magic ride. This magic break. O’Neal with a swing and a miss, it’s 0 and one. I tell you what, if O’Neal strikes out in this at bat. I mean, what was Tampa thinking? The 01 swinging a miss. 0 and2. He chased a slider in the dirt. This is who Pepio could have pitched to. Gunner might try to steal, but he’s running out of time. It’s already an 02 count. The O2 check on Gunner. He’s back. extended interview with Trevor Rogers. So, it’s been a picture and picture here for most of this inning. Kind of tougher to see the action here. 02 pitch. That is way high. Head high. Ball one. Come on, Papey. Little spinach today. What do you say? Ahoy there. Anybody home? What do you say? One, two, pitch off the plate. Two and two. Count back to even. Two balls, two strikes, two out. A run in. 60 pitches from Pepio already. Here’s 61 swinging a miss and O’Neal strikes out. What did I tell you folks? It’s almost like BW knows a thing or two about how to manage a baseball game, how to pick your spots to do what you’re supposed to do, and uh when to not let your other team’s best player beat you. Tampa, thank you for that run. All right, RBI single for Gunner. It’s his second RBI of the night. We go to the fourth inning. The Orioles lead it three to nothing. How you doing? I’m Strongs to the finish cuz I eat me spinach. Hey Kk. He met a strange friend in the Chesapeake Bay. Well, blow me down. And if that’s asking too much, just blow me. Hey everybody, we’re all going to get laid. All right. Hey folks, we’re back for some more baseball. The Orioles are three games behind the Rays and we’re playing them for three games. What if we won all three? That’d be something, wouldn’t it? Top of the fourth, top of the order. Chandler Simpson shows bunt, brings the bathead back is 1 and0. Yes, Don Fierce. Don, if you’re still hanging around, buddy, I haven’t forgotten, man. And I won’t forget. I won’t forget. That was a fierce super chat, man. And I’m happy to see it’s still sitting at the top of the chat. It should. That’s a big one. All right. Uh count even up at one and one. There is some light rain at the ballpark pitch. That’s in there for strike two. Just sit right back and I’ll tell a tale. A tale of a last place team who had an incompetent manager. What? That ball pounces bounces in there. It’s two balls and two strikes. With as consistent as the Rays Oh, you mean the Tampa Bay Rays have been over the years. When was the last time they finished under 500? Does anybody know? I don’t know. I’d be guessing. Two- two pitch hit on the ground. Kramer got a glove on it. Gunner got a glove on it. And it winds up in center field. I think it’ll go down as a hit even though two gloves touch this baseball. That would be the first hit of the night. First base runner for sure. And first hit of the night, I think, given up by Kramer. That is a hit. What is Kevin Brown eating? That looks terrible. Yandi Diaz at the plate. First pitch. Whoa, that’s a bad pitch. Goes all the way to the back stop. and Simpson who’s a fast runner now at second base with nobody out. Kramer really missed this one. 3 ft outside. Adley can only get up and go chase that ball down. So, nobody out. Rays with a runner at second. One and0 on Yandi Diaz. Popped up. All right. That’s a good recovery. Kobe Mayo on the lip of the outfield grass makes the catch for out number one. What are you eating there, Kevin Brown? Calamari. What is that? So, we’re watching two professional broadcasters chew and talk while calling the ball game. And here I am. At least I have the courtesy to keep it to coffee and cigarettes. All right, Brandon Laauo. He looks at a first pitch curveball outside. Brandon Laauo’s one of those players that have those batting helmets that are permanently caked in mud and pine tar. Swinging a miss. It’s one and one. Don’t like the clean helmet look, says Brandon Laauo. I think I’m a dirty helmet kind of a guy myself. One-1 pitch. And what a terrible swing from La Rising fast ball. And Lao just waved at it. Oh, that is not good. That is not a good look. One ball, two strikes. There is activity already in the Tampa pin. A lefty and a righty up. Pepio’s on what? 60 pitches. 61. But they already got somebody up. Two men up. Curve ball from Kramer is low. It is two and two on Brandon Laauo. One out. Runner at second base. Three nothing Baltimore in the top of the fourth. Ah, hello Noah. Welcome to the channel. Well, just so you know, sports betting talk here is frowned upon and a first mention is okay because maybe you don’t understand the rules around here. So, no harm, no foul. But, uh, please refrain from betting talk. Uh, we’re here to follow the team we love. We’re actually interested in the game itself. Thank you, Noah. No problem. I uh appreciate your understanding. Here’s a soft grounder to first. Mayo will flip it to the pitcher covering to get the second out of the inning. Simpson will move up to third base on the play, but with two down, the Rays are still going to need a hit here. Yeah. See, Noah, Noah, Noah, I just want to point something out, man. I think you’re a really cool dude for just being like, “Okay, sorry.” And even the sorry wasn’t necessary. It’s not like I need people to apologize. Just like an okay, I get it would suffice. Not that what you did was wrong. All I want to say is is that most people, unlike you, would get all offended and buttth hurt about it and then want to attack me and accuse me of being whatever. But you you’ve been cool about it. So, I just want to acknowledge to to Noah, thank you for being cool about it. All right. Cool. Uh, Junior Camero has an 01 count. Next pitch just missed the outside corner at the knees. One and one. You really can’t see the rain that is falling without a certain camera view. But, uh, there is rain coming down and more and more people are starting to make their way into the concourse area. So, we might have another delay in this ball game if it starts to rain anymore. Camero just had to wipe his bat between his legs. Yeah, the rain is definitely starting to come down now. We could have a delay here pretty soon. Not an official game yet. We want it to get there because we’ve got a a nice three nothing lead going. The count is two and two. Kramer’s on 62 pitches. See, Noah telling us that you’re a Blue Jay fan. We’re not even going to give you any kind of flak about it. That’s fine. Your team had a good season this year. By the way, can we have Santandere back? We’ll give you Tyler O’Neal. What do you say? They’re making about the same money. What do you say? Uh, you know, you had your one year with Tony. We’d like to have them back. It’s a full count on Camo, runner at third. If Kramer winds up walking him, I’m okay with it. That ball is fisted in right. Okay, it’s hanging up there. I thought that ball might dunk in. Tyler O’Neal will come in and make the catch. And Kramer gets out of the inning after giving up his first base runner of the ball game. Uh Kramer only uh the Rays were only able to get that runner to third base. They leave the man on. We go to the bottom of the fourth. It’s still three nothing Baltimore. And at this point, we are monitoring the weather here. Hey, Pocket Watch is here. How you doing, Pocket Watch? Hey, Pocket. I I know uh maybe on the air here isn’t the best place to get into the uh the weeds, but uh if you do have some uh insight and some uh some advice regarding uh the channel, particularly content coming up in the off season, promoting it, what have you. We should add that conversation pretty soon. I was thinking about reaching out to you yesterday during our off day, but that’s when I went out shopping. Folks, again, if you if you’re here late, I think this is probably worth mentioning a second time. Uh to the gentleman that sent in a super chat about two months ago, as I showed everybody the very worn out pair of sandals as my only footwear, I was able to finally find and purchase a pair of shoes that fit me out here in Thailand. Just bought them yesterday. There, that’s the shoe. That’s how large my foot is. Okay. In Thailand, shoe sizes end about right here. So, I had two options. Uh, start walking around barefoot or cut off my toes so that I could fit in the largest shoe they have out here. Uh, but I finally got to track down a pair of shoes that fit. And I just want to say thanks again because I’ve lived out here now for 10 years. Twice I’ve gotten used pairs of shoes from friends donated to me and I’ve worn those. Those have all been worn out. The original pair I came out here with, those are all worn out. So, I was down to just who knows how long. Uh, but now I finally have a new pair of shoes. Hopefully good to go for a long time. Very happy about it. Uh, Dylan Beavers is leading off the bottom of the fourth. He’s got a 1-1 count, folks. Kevin Kelly is on the pitch, by the way. Ryan Pepio’s day is over after just three innings. Uh might have to check to make sure there isn’t some kind of an injury related issue. I mean, Pepio wasn’t exactly having a good night, but 61 pitches, three three runs. Normally, you don’t see a guy pulled unless uh they’re trying to be precautious or there’s a problem. It’s two and two on Beavers. Nice beaver. Thank you. Pitch fouled away. Beavers swung at ball three. Yes, Hutchkins. They are humongous. And you know what they say about men with big feet, right? I mean, you know what they say about men with big feet. They wear large socks. It is a full count on Dylan Beavers. Payoff pitch up the middle off the mound and fielded by the shortstop. Beavers retired. Williams on the assist. Carson Williams. Is that this dude’s name? Carson Williams, the shortstop, throws out Beavers for the first out. So, Pepio, three innings, three hits and a walk. Struck out three, gave up three earned runs, 61 pitches. Rutman’s up for the second time. First pitch inside for ball one. Kevin Kelly, the current reliever, erra at 4.86, 86 right-hander. There’s a strike. It’s one-on-one on Adley. Here’s a tapper foul behind the plate. One and two on Rutman. Who we giving up for Vlad Guerrero? I mean, he just got a long-term extension, right, Matt? He’s not going anywhere unless there’s some kind of Raphael Devers level fallout with the team. Swing and a miss. Rutman strikes out. Two down. I mean, I think you’re half joking. It would be nice to have Vlatty’s bat in this lineup. I want that right-handed power bat, and he definitely fits the bill, but I don’t think we have a path to get him. Hey, Sammy Basio’s up. Checks his swing on the first pitch inside. Sammy made a quick out his first time up. Sammy, I think Tucker’s price tag is too much for my blood. And uh honestly, I really want a right-handed bat. Also, Tucker got benched by the Cubs for not running out a a grounder, if anybody remembers that. Honestly, if you’re getting paid top free agent money, you have to be, you know, 100% like doing the right things all the time. And if you’re getting benched by the Cubs, uh, for not hustling, uh, to me that is a instant no thank you for like a 200300 million contract, whatever it might be. Basio strikes out on a high fast ball and the inning is over. So Kevin Kelly comes in and he has himself a pretty dominant inning. That is it for the fourth. We go to the fifth. The Orioles lead it three to nothing. Someone broke the likes. Well, I just saw the like count go down. That’s interesting. I just saw it go down again. I guess some folks are having fun. Hey, guess what? If you have uh signed up with another account because I kicked you out, but you’re not in the chat. You’re just here to hit the like and then take it away. Uh guess what? I don’t care. This has to be something weird though. Yeah, the light count is just going down, down, down. That makes no sense. I don’t know. It’s gone down three more. That’s at 51. George, are we up to 3530 on the subs? Lovely. Welcome in new bird watchers. Message for you, son. Yeah, pocket. I I do now realize that. I mean, if it was a few, that would have been my assumption, but once I saw it was now dozens upon dozens. Yeah, I don’t think it’s individuals. Uh it would it would it would take a coordinated effort the likes we haven’t seen since uh JFK drove through De Plaza. So I don’t I don’t think I don’t think this is a coordinated effort. We’re down to 43, folks. Oh my god. We’re not going to have any likes. What’s happening? I told you I needed help. Pocket watch. Look at this. We’re sinking. All right. Top of the fifth. Josh Low leads off. Fouls off pitch one from Kramer. Low is 0 for one. That one’s lifted off the end of the bat to right center. O’Neal coming in will make the catch on the run. One down. Kramer. Four and a third innings of shut out baseball. Rut row. Like why is the light count going down? Likewise it happening. Yeah. Can I make the light count go up for two Scooby snacks? Jake Mangum looks at a pitch inside for ball one. How low can we go? How low can we go? Here’s a fly ball to left. Backing up. What kind of route is that? Oh my god. Oh, terrible. Oh, Dylan Beavers. I have not seen him look that bad defensively, but that was H Kirstad levels of route running right there. Beavers got turned around and could not secure that ball. I mean, he he should have caught that ball in more ways than one. That is an E7 all the way. A two base error. Runner at second with one down. And Feduchia up to hit. Boy, you hope that was just a, you know, a talking about a glitch. You hope that was a glitch from Beavers and not the You hope that’s a bug and not the feature, right? Splitter outside of Feduchia. It’s a ball and a strike. Hey, Beavers, if you think left field here is tough now, he should have been here last year. Uh, George, I think a better comp on that would be Kirstad. That looked more like a Kirstad level attempt at a catch. And the route running. It was all about the route running. He He went the wrong direction. Had to turn around. Couldn’t recover. One-two pitch is high. Two and two. Hey, who wants to guess where Matteo is playing next year? I don’t think he’s just going to swinging a miss on a two- two pitch. Veduchia strikes out. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? two down in the inning trying to work around uh he’s I I don’t think he’s under contract after this season, KPK. So, I don’t think he’s going to be with us unless we offered him another contract and I definitely don’t see that happening. So, unless I’m wrong and he’s still under contract for 2026, uh this is these are the final moments with Jorge Matteo. I will double check. I will double check the contract status. Pretty sure he’s a free agent after this season. Yeah, this was a one-year deal he’s on. He’s on a one-year deal right now. So, yeah, he’s walking. Why would we? We gave him three and a half million. Yeah, we’re not gonna exercise any option. I don’t see why we would swing and a miss and Carson Williams strikes out. Backto back K’s from Kramer to end the fifth. Well, y’all come back now. You here? 5 a.5 million. Forget it. No way. Well, y’all come back now. You here? You want us to pay him 2 million more than this year? No. We could barely when he’s healthy find a way to use him in center. I don’t ever want to see him in center field again. He’s gone. He’s definitely not He’s definitely not here this week or this this week. Next next season. I don’t see how. That’s why I’m trying to have a little fun. He’s going to wind up somewhere. somebody’s gonna give him a contract. It’s not going to be for five and a half million, but you know, again, you can’t coach speed. He does have it. And some teams out there that might not have a good speed option, that want a utility type uh, you know, bench weapon, speed guy. He’s going to probably wind up somewhere, I think. who needs speed. Now that I’ve said that, he’ll definitely be on the team. Honestly, we’re just talking about the money that was wasted on Gary Sanchez, a host of others. I just don’t see how you can like financially say it’s a I mean just taking away your personal feelings about Matteo. Just take away the personal feelings, take away the the stats, just knowing the player that he is and what he brings to the team. you’re actually going to bring him back and give him a $2 million raise. Almost like a a 40% like salary raise. I I don’t see why you would do that. I don’t think he’ll be back. Uh, another pitcher is on for Tampa, a lefty, Ian Seymour. Wait a minute. Don’t they have a Seymour at first base? The second Seymour for the Rays has entered the game. Well, happy Rashana to everybody. Colton Cows are at the plate. First pitch is up and in for ball one, folks. Seymour has got a 2.54 erra inside the cows. It’s 2 and 0 pitch. That is a strike. Cowser started to swing. Didn’t matter. It was in the zone for strike one. Need this walk from Yandandy. Boy, that sounds like somebody who’s here to see a bet pay off, doesn’t it? Again, Jeremiah, nobody cares. I don’t I haven’t seen you speak once in the chat, but you need a walk from Yandi Diaz. Is that the deal? Even though the Rays aren’t even up to hit right now. Okay. Uh the 22 to Cowser is hit on the ground. Foul. We’ll do it again. pitch. Hey, Cowser lays off. We got a full count, folks. Payoff pitch foul back. We’ll do it again. Eight nine and one batters due up in the inning. Mayo is on deck. He’s already got a hit and a run scored. And then Jackson Holiday to follow. Another 3-2 from Seymour. Fouled again. A little squibber off to the left, folks. Nine pitch at bat. It’s about to be pitch line drive. Base hit into center field. Colton Cowser smokes it. A liner right back where it came from. That was a good level swing and Cowser. That’s what we need to see, man. We know you can hit the ball 450 ft when you barrel it up, dude. But you got to have more hits like this. You got to have more hits like that, my man. Good hit. Leadoff man is on 104 off the bat. Here’s Kobe Mayo. He takes low, folks. gradually Kobe Mayo is just looking a little more comfortable at the plate. I know the average is still bad, 211, but I think uh if he stays on this track, he could have a big 2026. I am not trying to fill you with false hope or [ __ ] optimism. I’m being absolutely honest. I think Mayo has a chance to really figure it out in 2026. The two- pitch. That is the line drive. That’s a base hit up the middle. Cowser stops at second. Mayo two for two tonight. Two on. Nobody out, folks. Oh, here we go. There you go. Mayo with a 280 average in the month of September. How about that? Yeah. I mean, and it it shows. It’s not just about looking at the numbers on the page. It’s about watching him take his at bats. When he does swing, it feels like it’s with confidence like, and he’s seeing more pitches. He’s not getting behind. 0 and2 quickly all the time. Uh Holiday with a 10 count. That’s high. Two and 0. The Orioles have a chance to blow this open. It’s 3 nothing. They got two on, nobody out. And Holiday with a two- count. Here come Is that Don Mattingley? Was Don Mattingley the pitching coach here? I should probably know this. Who is that out there? Why would he be talking to a pitcher anyway? Who is that? That’s not Mattingly. I’m sorry. Who is that? All right. Ray’s pitching coach. I’ll find out. Kyle Snyder who with a photo of him looks nothing like Don Mattingly. Holiday with a ground ball right to first. They go to second for one and that’s the only out they’ll get. Holiday makes a first pitch out again. Uh, they get the middle runner out of here. It’s a fieldielder’s choice. Cowser’s at third base now though with just one out. Mr. Hyde, I said it myself. I’m like, I said exactly that myself. But now you want to tease me after I checked myself again. You You guys don’t even give me the opportunity. Even when I call myself out, you do it anyway. you people. Jordan Westber lowing in for ball one. I would just love to see some of you folks talk for three hours straight about facts and figures and live events happening and and getting it all nailed perfectly 162 times a year. I want to see you do it. Westber pops it up. Simpson in center field makes the catch. Runner tags, comes home. The throw is offline and late. Cowser comes in on a sacrifice fly. The Orioles lead it four to nothing, folks. Oh ho ho it’s magic you know it’s magic. All right we’re up to a four nothing lead. Gunner at the plate. Runner at second. Holiday. First pitch called a strike. Gunner didn’t like it. Hey Gunnar, stop complaining. We’ve got five games and change left to play. Next year you can use the ABS system if you don’t like a call. And that way we can uh maybe get rid of that attitude of yours, which I really don’t think is helping. One and one on Gunner. Hit hard but fouled down the right field line. Leave the complaining. Leave the non-stop complaining about umps to us fans. You have to pick your spots because you have to you have to work with that ump and other umps. It’s a give and take uh relationship. One, two pitch to Gunners off the plate outside. Two balls, two strikes. The Orioles. Wait a minute. Let me get my ghetto boys tab closed. I’ve got too many tabs open. I’m looking up ghetto boys. Uh the Orioles have a run in in the inning. Cowser at second. the 22 to Gunner. I’m sorry, Holiday at second. Uh Gunner fouls it back. It’s two and two still. All right, let’s see what we get here on 22 again. Oh, okay. That was close. It’s a change up. Had the bottom of the zone until the last second. Dipped an inch below. Gunner took it. Ump did not ring him up. We got a full count. Two down. The payoff pitch up and away. Ball four. Take your base. Gonna walk here. All right. Does my warm-up jacket have a zipper? Do you think that that that’s what this is? It’s not a jacket. It’s just a shirt made out of a nice material that’s good for hot weather. I have half my wardrobe is this design shirt. That’s not a jacket. I I You don’t need a jacket in Thailand unless you’re Thai for some reason. for them. 75 degrees is cold. Hey, here’s Tyler O’Neal. Ball one. Next pitch in there, a change up for a strike. Ahoy there. Anybody home? The 1-1 O’Neal swinging a miss. One ball, two strikes. Oh yeah, they’re over here. Why does it say Adley Rutman? Looks like I got to fix some stuff. The one two to O’Neal swinging a miss. He chased a change up low and away and he slams his bat and helmet down. O’Neal strikes out again. Why is he the cleanup hitter? Why did we sign him? H man, just going back and thinking about I mean, if we looked at the payroll when this season started, like the top five paid players on this team were like Tyler O’Neal, Charlie Morton, Gary Sanchez, uh Zack Efflin, who knows if we’ll see him again. And uh uh yeah, like uh who am I trying to think of? Like I think Lauriana was only 5 million. I think Lauriana was only like 5 million, man. Which is the same we paid for Gib. Yeah, that’s the name. I forgot. Five million for Gibson for four. You say four starts. I don’t even know if he went four innings, right? I mean, he was absolutely battered in each start. I can’t remember any of those starts where he got past like two innings. It was such a disaster. Unmitigated dis Andrew Kitridge. Kitridge wasn’t wasn’t cheap. I want to say he was like 8 N million something like that. again. Just really really bad bad off season last year. 9 million for Kitridge. Four starts, 12 innings. So, all right, I exaggerated, but let’s face it. I mean, I guarantee you three of those innings were just an inning where they just threw him out there to be like, “Come on, man. You’ve given up six runs already, but we’re going to make you pitch.” Oh, yeah. Carson Ragdale. Ragsdale. Car is it Carson Ragsdale? Ragsdale, man. That is my Oh yeah, he gave up four homers in that one start. God, all in one inning, right? Just terrible. I mean, it’s traumatic. It’s traumatizing just to mentally take myself back to the opening two months of this season and watch this team just, you know, end all hopes of the season before like school was out. Uh, all right. Seymour, not the pitcher, the hitter is up for the Rays. Leading off the top of the six, Kramer first pitch is ball one to Seymour. Yeah, Kyle Gibson. I mean, you know, and it’s not like I’m sitting here going, “Screw you, Kyle Gibson.” But it was just another bad move, bad idea. 6 and a half million. Uh, and if the Padres’s don’t pay that, then they’re nuts. because I will gladly pay Raone 10 million today. Today. Come on over. 2-1 to Seymour. That’s a Oh, a one hopper. Third base. Westber over to first in time. That ball I think had a little bit of English on it. One away in the top of the sixth. Kramer still doing. Look at this. Hammering in the uh cleat uh what would you call that? The cleat mat for pitchers to clean up their cleats, get the mud out. Just hammer and nailing that thing in there like it’s the 1800s. Uh Simpson with a line drive to left caught by Dylan Beavers. There’s two down in the sixth. Dean Kramer is one out away from a quality start, a very quality start as he has yet to give up a run and he’s only given up the one hit. Here is Yandi Diaz. He’s popped out twice. Yep. Was that the uh Yeah, 50 games in 16 and 34. Just incredible. And I mean incredible, not in a positive way. It is 2 and 0 on uh Yandi Diaz. pitch. Strike on the inside edge. Two and one. Probably Kramer’s last inning. I feel like with a four-run lead, and this is Dino’s final start of the season, everybody’s making their last starts starting tonight. Six-man rotation. And here’s a fly ball to right caught by Tyler O’Neal. Looks toward the bleachers behind him for a souvenir to give out. And that ends the inning. Six shutout innings of one hit ball from Dean Kramer. Folks, where is Chile? Come on, Chileo. Where are you? You’re always here to let us know when Kramer has a bad game. Where are you now? It’s an all points bulletin out there for Chilo. Folks, check your milk carton. Where you at, Chilo? Come on, buddy. We want to hear The Dean Kramer love the love he deserve. Hey, whatever happened with that like count thing? So, it dropped to 30 and then stopped because I’m looking at 30. Whatever happened with the like count thing? It is very strange. Hey folks, do me a favor. If you can’t like it, sub it. Yeah, J Brownie, opening day was a blast. I remember it well. I was so excited. Brand new season. And look, folks, I’ll admit it. How could I not? I mean, once you go out and you sign players, I know a lot of fans out there immediately said that Tyler O’Neal contract is a terrible one. Gary S. The only one I think I reacted to before anything played out was Gary Sanchez because I just felt like that much money for a backup catcher given the catcher, you know, situation we have between Adley and Basio coming up like just didn’t make sense to me. Everybody else I’m like, “Yeah, Morton, he’s old, but damn.” I mean, last year’s numbers still look pretty good. I was just trying to find the silver lining on these signings. And opening day, uh, what do we do? We hit like five home runs, I want to say. Maybe four. O’Neal got one. Yeah, we’re all we’re all definitely convinced that the accuracy of the light count is uh it’s it’s wrong. Something is something is strange. When there’s something strange on the like count meter, who you going to call? Not YouTube. Beaver is with a line drive foul off to the right. He’s got an 02 count leading off the bottom of the six. Seymour is still on the pitch. He’s on 32 pitches. Nice, Beaver. Thank you. 02 outside, folks. What sucks is Lauriano was what they we paid O’Neal to be. So O’Neal could have just stayed away. The count is two and two on Beavers. Sanchez could have stayed away. We could have gotten a a very nice backup catcher, veteran, good defense, you know, no offense, but that’s what you expect. Beavers, he’s got that compact swing of his. He fouls it off to the right. It’s still two and two. So, yeah, I’d say save about 6 million on your backup catcher. Throw away the 20 million on O’Neal per year, whatever that is. So now you’re up to 26 million. Morton was what 15. So that’s 41 million. I would have taken those three contracts and just gotten one $41 million a year pitcher which is basically Max Freed even though the length of the contract is ridiculous. Uh popped up shallow center field. I definitely would have brought Tony back knowing what I know now. even though Tony’s been hurt a lot this year, but you can’t predict that. Uh, I would have I would have put another big arm in the bullpen, though. Again, you never quite know. I was rooting for Tanner Scott because we got rid of Koulom and I thought, well, if we’re going to spend money, let’s go get a really good lefty high leverage guy. If you have him in Bautista, sort of as a one-two punch. Adley Rutman, the ground ball to third. It’s a fair ball. Camo throws across the diamond in time. Rutman is retired. Two down in the bottom of the sixth. So yeah, long story short, I would have rather have and and this is how I normally treat when I’m playing, you know, when I’m executing trades in a video game, when I’m playing fantasy sports and I’m looking to trade or Bio gets hit by the first pitch to him. Hopefully he’s okay. Got him on the left upper arm or excuse me, lower arm below the elbow. I’m not sure where though. Hand, wrist, forearm. He’s wincing. Trainer out to ask some questions. He’s probably going to grip that left hand to see what’s going on there. Let’s see where he hit him. On the Yeah, below the elbow on the forearm. of his left arm there. So, yeah. Uh, if you’ve ever played fantasy football and you have a a a a uh an auction draft style rather than a snake draft, if you know what I’m talking about. I’m always the kind of person that would rather go after those two expensive premium guys and then take late flyers on cheap like $1 guys that nobody wants and and then just hope that out of the bunch one or two are going to materialize. But I want you know I don’t want to you know what I’m saying? I’d rather get one or two premium players than go out and get like five or six kind of just mid guys, which is kind of what we did this off season. Uh the 01 here to Colton Cowser who’s up uh he’s one for two tonight is low and away. One ball, one strike on Cowser. Vegas had to make that call. They rigged my parlay. Yeah, they rigged your part. Vegas is rigging your bets, dude. Of course. And you’re here to complain about another rigged game for your bet. You’re delusional. If all of you better bettors out there, every time you lose a stupid bet, feel like something is rigged, why are you betting? If sports are rigged, why are you betting a rigged game? Here’s an idea. Go to a carnival. Go play that game where you shoot a basketball into a hoop that’s one inch wider than the basketball itself or some other stupid game that’s designed for you to lose cuz those are rigged and at least you know what you’re paying for. Two and two the count on cows two down runner at first. Good god the degenerate gamblers are out tonight. Pitch is low and away. Guess what? You know what? This channel could probably have double the size if I were to be kind to these people. If I were to embrace it and turn this into, hey, let’s track your bet channel, but it ain’t happening. Sorry. Payoff pitch coming to Cowser. That ball’s lifted to the air, center field, and deep. Keep going. Keep going. That ball is gone. Bye by by birdie. The milkman delivers. He hit a line drive base it up the middle his last time up. It might have given him a little confidence. That ball was crushed. 426 ft to center field. The milkman makes it six to nothing, folks. It’s magic. Believe in magic. Splash. Splash. I was taking a B. All right. 6 nothing. One and one count on Kobe Mayo. He takes away two and one. Two and one on Mayo. Wouldn’t it be nice for Cowser to have a hot final week? Maybe get that average up to the 220s. Still not good, but something to give him some confidence going into the off season. That would be good. It’s three and one on Mayo, by the way. He’s already two and two for two tonight. I think Mayo is trying to graduate out of hitting ninth in the order. He just drew a walk, folks. Mayo gets on base for the third time tonight. Hey, look at that. I’m walking here. I’m walking here. Cowser’s home run ball was on the inside black and he turned on it. Nice compact swing and he launched it into the bleachers and right center. All right. I thought it was straight away center. It was more right center, folks, but it was still a poke. I would have gotten out anywhere in this ballpark. Jackson Holiday. He’s 0 for one. 0 for two, excuse me. And uh how did he reach otherwise? He did walk back in the first inning. 0 for two with a walk up here with two down, a runner at first. Two runs in for the Orioles. Seymour’s pitch is off the plate. One ball and two strikes. Yeah, it’s been a nice night for the bottom part of the order here so far. Cowser and Mayo combined four for five with three runs, two RBI, and a walk. Two and two the count on holiday. The ladies who got that Cowser home run ball are getting their photos taken. 2-2 just a bit outside. Good eye from Holiday. The count is full. Runner at first will be off with the pitch with two down. Here comes the payoff. That ball’s lifted to left field. Will be playable right at the foul line. It’ll be caught out there by Jake Mangum for out number three. But Baltimore get another couple of runs on the board. They’ve scored in four of the six innings they’ve come up to hit tonight. A two-run inning, and they have six runs on six hits through this first six innings. They lead it six to nothing. How many times can I say six, folks? We are going to the late innings. The Orioles are ahead 6 nothing. Now, this makes me go, I really don’t want Dean Kramer out here. Oh, Andrea, did I miss your first one? Yeah, there it is. Andrea, forgive me. Uh, Andrea sent a bird watcher membership. Might have sent two. Did send two. Thank you, Andrea. And how are you doing tonight? Uh where is the thing message for you son? And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. Thanks again Andrea. But just as a reminder, we are down to the final week of the season. Uh there will be content going on in the off season, but uh I I think your generosity probably deserves to take a rest. How do I say this in a way where I I’m not trying to sound like I don’t appreciate it. I absolutely appreciate it, but you’ve been so generous. The season’s about to end. These memberships, they’re a one month. Uh, it might be best to give it a rest until we get back to, you know, March spring training. You know what I mean, Andrea? Again, not if you want to keep doing it, I’m not stopping you. I’m just saying. Uh, the the payoff for the recipient of the membership is is lessening with each passing day here as the season winds down. Does that make sense? I hope so. Again, the gesture is fantastic. I’m not in any way trying to uh downplay it or whatever. Uh just letting you know. All right. I hope hope that makes sense. Either way, Andrea is great. We all love Andrea, right? Okay. We are starting the top of the seven. Dean Kramer is still out here to pitch. All right, we’re going to do it. Let’s go. It’s the three four five batters. Brandon Laauo, Junior Camero, and Jason Low. One to Lao is a strike. 87 pitches for Kramer. We should have somebody up in the pin if need be in this inning. 1-1 is low. Two and one. And I want to thank you very much for that. I really do. Thanks again, Andrea. 2-1 pitch. That’s right in there. Swung on. Popped up third base side. Westber near the stands. He’s out of room. When you do the Orioles rebuild on the show, maybe us members can vote for some players you could sign. That would be a bonus in the off season. Interesting idea there, Chilo. Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. I’ll say this about the show franchise. I I’m willing to listen to ideas and suggestions, but just anybody who plans on sticking around, don’t overwhelm me with them, okay? Uh I want to be able to just pick up and play for the most part. Um I’ve I’ve been playing the show a long time. Whenever I get the new version of the game, it asks me, do I want to retain the settings from the previous game? I’m glad they do that because I spent a long time uh adjusting the settings of the game to where it it’s right in that sweet spot where I don’t feel like I have an overwhelming advantage, you know, hitting home runs every other batter or whatever and the computer isn’t constantly kicking my butt. So, the way I’ve got it all set up for sure is the way I like it. Now, when it comes to building the team, yeah, we we’ll have some uh we’ll have some input, but remember, I’m playing the GM. I got to be Elias. I got to have the final say. Is that Colin Selby over there? Okay, that’s Selby. Oh, wait. Whose beard? Oh, that’s a fan in the stands. That’s a That is an impressive ginger beard. Uh two- two pitch to Lao is outside. It’s a full count. We’re in the top of the seventh inning, folks. Yeah, Chile, are you basically telling me you’re trying to get rid of Dean? Yeah, Chile, you’re back. You weren’t here when Dean Kramer had completed six shutout innings of one hit ball. I was wondering your take on his performance tonight as he strikes out Brandon Laauo here in the seventh. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? I mean, Chile, I mean, what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, right? Tit for tat. If Kramer has a bad night, I know you’re the first one to talk to us about it. What do you got to say about Kramer tonight? Camaro at the plate to cut her low and away for ball one. I’m glad we got the good Dean Kramer today. That’s basically saying there’s a bad version out there that I still don’t like. I mean, you’re still like only giving a half compliment. You realize that, right? You can’t just say, “Great effort out there tonight, Dino. Great effort.” You have to give it some kind of a indication. That’s what I’m talking about. Like, just compliment the dude. It’s okay. Cam Monero hit by a pitch on a two- count with one out. The Rays have a base runner. It’s okay to compliment once in a while. It won’t ruin your reputation. If you compliment somebody and then later on down the line they do something uh you know they screw up, it doesn’t mean you’re an idiot for complimenting them beforehand. You know what I it’s just it’s okay. It’s okay to just be like, “Hey Kramer, great night tonight. Thanks for uh a good night on the mound.” Six and a third innings for Kramer. So, while Chilo says, “I’m glad we got the good Kramer versus, you know, the shitty one.” The crowd here in the ballpark is giving a standing ovation without any sort of, you know, you know, asterisk of, “Well, I hope you don’t suck next time.” Oh, boy. We got a pitching change. I know, Chilo. I’m picking on you. I’m picking on you. You have to admit I made a point there. Like, if Kramer has a bad night, it’s just playing, man. Kramer lost the game for us, period. Not like, well, Kramer, you know, some nights he’s good. Tonight wasn’t his night. Never like that. It’s just Kramer lost. This is a game. You leave it at that. When he has a good night, it’s just I’m glad we got the good Dean Kramer versus the other version. You see what I’m saying? You see the difference? Me and Chilo, we’re going to figure this out, folks. This is like a secondary storyline here on the bird watcher channel. It’s the uh evolving relationship between me and Chilo. It’s uh it’s fascinating honestly. Uh yeah, I mean honestly he’s been healthy all season and for a guy that yeah should be your fifth starter in a rotation when everybody’s healthy four and a quarter under four and a quarter erra and uh you’re not paying him any kind of stupid money. I mean, he’s a good guy. Like, by all accounts, nobody has any bad words to say about Dean Kramer, the person. So, yeah, I guess that’s why me and Chilo go round and round about Dean Kramer. Uh 0 and2 the count on Josh Low. Castillo, the lefty on for Baltimore. Here’s a ground ball hit slowly and uh we’re not going to have a play here. A slow ground ball. Mayo came in to get it. Castillo was not able to get to first to cover. And it’s an infield hit. I need more information on our own pitcher here. Where’s my who are you button? I need it right now. Who are you? Jose Castillo. He’s pitched in one game for us, I think before now. Jake Mangum at the plate. He looks at a slider for a strike. The Rays have first and second with one out in the top of the seventh. Jose Castillo, not Luis, but I think he was a Mariner. Slider low and in. It’s one ball, one strike. Mangum is 0 for two. So this season, Jos Castillo has pitched with the Diamondbacks, the Mets, and the Mariners, 26 games. This is the second appearance for us, I think. One- one pitch hit in the air right center. Cowser has to run a long way and he tracks it down and makes the catch. Runner will tag and go to third. Get that ball, Gunner. Holy cow. Little bit of trouble securing the baseball after the throw throw in there from Cowser, but the Rays now it’s first and third with two down. Uh KPK I’m in agreement and I think Povich deserves to, you know, stay in the system, you know, start the season with Norfolk, kind of be our first uh option if somebody goes down and somebody always goes down, but I think, you know, you can’t make Povich stay in this rotation. Line drive to third, caught by Westber, and the inning is over. Kramer with a big smile on his face as his night is officially over with that base runner stranded. Folks, it’s seventh inning stretch time in Baltimore and it’s been a nice night except for the like count. Not sure what to say about that, but folks, like it or don’t, it’s time to throw some cakes on the griddle. Get those cakes up in the chat, folks. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank god I’m a country boy. Thank nothing but a funny funny radio. That’s right. Thank God. All right, let’s take a look at these out of town scores, folks. Out of town scores. There’s a rain delay in the bottom of the ninth in a tie ball game. Three apiece between the Phillies and Marlins. Oh my god. Bottom of the ninth. The White Socks have a two to one lead on the Yankees. Yankees in danger of losing to the White Socks in the opening game of that series. Hello. We’re going to watch that. Red Sox up four to one on Toronto. That is in the top of the ninth. Oh, the Cubs and Mets tied at seven in the seventh. Another wild game. Twins have a two-1 lead on the Rangers. Top six. Royals have put two runs on the board in the top of the first. That’s the two nothing lead they have. The Angels yet to bat. Just getting started. No score. Rockies and Mariners, Dodgers and Diamondbacks, Brewers and Padres’s and Cardinals and Giants. Cleveland beat Detroit. That division is now tied up. And I don’t know who has the tiebreaker. I need to look. But Cleveland has caught up to the Tigers. What a crazy finish. Jordan Westber is batting. He’s got a 200 count. And that’s a line drive base hit up the middle for Westber. It’s his first multi-hit game since coming back from injury, folks. West is that way. West is that way. Other finals, the Pirates doubled up the Reds 4 to2. So, Cincinnati, if the Mets uh win that game, they’re tied right now. They would jump ahead back on top of Cincinnati for that final wildcard spot. Braves uh edge the Nationals 3 to2 and one game coming up in a little bit. Uh Houston and the Athletics. It’s 0 and one on Gunner Henderson. Nobody out, runner at first. And is that still Seymour out there pitching? It is. 63 pitches from Seymour. Good grief. The 1-1 is a strike. A cutter at just 89. Cleveland has the tiebreaker. Wow. But I mean, there’s still head-to-head games to play. Tiebreaker today. But well, I guess if they have it today and then they split and they’re still tied, then the record Yeah. So Cleveland basically has the edge. That’s crazy. That’s crazy. Cleveland are now on top. One, two to Gunner. Fouled away. I want to say there was a point in the season where the Guardians were as much as like 14 or 15 games back of first. Somebody might need to confirm that for me. Gunner pops up and more bad body language as the first out is made by the second baseman on a popup. One down in the seventh. There’s probably a way to look that up. How what’s the farthest back the Guardians were this season? Tyler O’Neal fouls back the first pitch he sees. He’s done nothing tonight. Ground ball to short and a couple of strikeouts. Oh, he has done something. That ground ball scored a run. I’m sorry, Tyler. He got an RBI tonight. Yeah. So, it was 15. Wow. Just goes to show you folks. Colin Selby is up in the oral pin. He was just added back to the roster earlier today. Change up inside 15 and a half. Damn. All right, folks. I say we turn this 2025 season into a 225 game season and then we still have time to make a playoff run. What do you say? Let’s just add another 63 games. That’s just a couple of more months. 3-1 to O’Neal. Did he get it? Left center. No, he didn’t get it. It’s just a fly ball to left center. Two down. He hit it into the power alley. It was aligned off the bat, but uh didn’t have that power behind it. There’s two down. Dylan Beavers, he’s 0 for three. That average has got to be getting down. What is he at right now? 247. All right. Come on, Beavers. Beavers is experiencing his first funk as a major leager. Got off to such a great start. Basically getting on base at least once every game, but uh the hits have been uh few and far between lately. Still has a nice on base percentage. He’s getting walks, but that average now down to 247. He’s got an 02 count. Two down, runner at first. Pitch that’s in the center. Should be playable to end the inning. Simpson makes the catch. We go to the eighth inning. Baltimore lead this 6- nothing. Let’s tune in to Yankees White Socks. So, the Yankees two down. Judge was up and I’m assuming they walked him. Put him on a first. First and third, two down. First and No, they just tied it. The Yankees just tied it. Damn it. On a wild pitch. On a walk. On a wild pitch that walked Bellinger. They tie it. Come on. He only needed one more out. Chicago, you suck. You suck. Damn it. Just a one moment away from beating the Yankees. Oh well, maybe Jazz will help. As the one two hit right back to Louie goes the second one on the first. Jazz throws it. What the [ __ ] was that? There’s the one two behind to right center field. That’s a base hit. And that one gets away from Jazz. Another run is in. More bad defense from the Yankees. It’s 7 nothing. Jazz could have handled the throw coming in from the outfield. And just like that, it is. That’s my favorite part of that clip. By the way, props to Pete on NY. Pete, you do great playbyplay and uh you run a really good channel. That’s the honest truth. Uh, am I going to have fun with you after that ridiculous like uh Olive Branch broken between us because of that H Kirstad incident last season? Uh, if you want to keep holding a grudge about it, that’s fine. I’m willing to shake hands on it. But anyway, uh my favorite part just couldn’t control the ball coming in from the outfield. Just couldn’t control the ball coming in from the outfield. It’s like it’s such a like sound of desperation. It’s like It’s like adamantium for uh for my Wolverine. Oh, it fuels me. All right, Carson Williams is at the plate. Colin Selby’s on the pitch. We’re in the top of the eighth. The count is 0 and2 on Williams. And Selby’s pitch bounces in there. A knuckle curve. One ball and two strikes. We are in the top of the eighth. The Orioles have the lead six to nothing. Dean Kramer with a great start and the Orioles have scored runs in four different innings, including a sack fly, an RBI ground out, a good old-fashioned home run, a nice mixture mixture of ways to score that you’d like to see from a healthy offense. One, two is outside. Two and two on Williams. Here comes the next pitch. Up and in. Full count. I had a feeling the scoreboard would jump out of place. Oh, there it goes. Payoff pitch. Selby to Carson Williams. Fouled back. We’ll do it again. America runs on Duncan. It’s probably one of the most absurd slogans for any big brand American company. I mean, it’s donuts. It’s coffee and donuts. Nobody’s running marathons, eating coffee and donuts. Here’s a ground ball. Westber backhands at third. Throws across the diamond in time. Jordan Westber flashing some leather tonight. I tell you what, this team might still need to find its leader, but we might not have to go far. I think Westberg needs to just take over this team. This is the guy I want. telling everybody else how to behave. Jordan Westber. Good play. One out. Here is Seymour, the hitter. Bob Seymour. Hey. Hey, Bowen. Thanks for hanging out and talking about your bets. Bye. Bowen’s gone. More proof that nobody cares, folks. What is it tonight? What is it about tonight? That is like eight betters coming in. It’s got to be the same couple of people on different accounts uh trolling. I mean, come on. I’m supposed to believe that on an average night, I’d say in an average week, we might get a couple of guys like that. Nine or 10 in one one game, especially this game. Sounds like some kind of coordinated effort to me. Here’s a comebacker to Selby. He underhands it to first. Two down. Two down. Four more outs to get. Top of the order now for the Rays. Chandler Simpsons one for three. By the way, mods be nice if some of you could maybe pick up on that stuff before me on occasion. I’ve had to remove a lot of people here tonight. Again, if if it’s abundantly clear they’re here and only here for that, and unless they’re cool about it, like that one dude, then just show them the door cuz I’m I I tried to be cool about it, but there’s been so many tonight, I guess. Uh, you know, here’s a comebacker. All right, flip to first. Selby pitches a scoreless eighth inning. Yankees walked it off. Oh well. Oh well. We go to the bottom of the eighth, folks. The Orioles one more chance to add on to this 6 nothing lead. Uh, it’s looking pretty good for us, folks. Hey, we’ve got a 100 people here right now. I’ve got a favor to ask even though uh I don’t know if it will be uh you know I don’t know if there’ll be a point to this favor or not but normally at this stage of a ball game on a live stream we’re in a 100 like territory on a good night 125 150 maybe tonight for some reason I think we were what one like away from 100. We got to 99 and then something happened. So, I’m going to ask those out there who have not hit the like button at all tonight. If you’ve already done it, maybe it’s just not going to work. I’m going to see right there. I just saw the like count go up one. It just went up one. So, what’s going on here? I don’t know. It just went up again, folks. Here’s the deal. for whatever reason, and this is my uh just guesswork along with the chat, is that YouTube has had some kind of glitch tonight where we watched a sub count or excuse me, a like count of about a hundred whittle its way all the way down to like 20 over the course of what, like 15 minutes or something. So, now we’re just trying to figure out what the deal is. So, if it’s possible to get those likes back up, that would be good. Uh, cuz basically we had about a 100 likes stolen from us. And what’s up with that? I I’ll ask my colleagues. I’m sure there’s at least a couple of friends who are streaming tonight. Maybe they saw a same a similar uh situation on their channel. Adley Rutman last time up tonight. He’s 0 for three. First game back. That ball’s lifted to center. Can of corn for Chandler Simpson. One away. Rutman 0 for four on his return. Sammy Basio got hit by a pitch his last time up. Luckily, he’s good to go. dhing tonight. First pitch is high to Sammy. Is that Seymour is still out there? 77 pitches. That one’s low. 2 and 0. At some point, you got to feel like this dude is going to throw you a fat pitch. 78 pitches in relief. Visio gets a two- fast ball. He wanted to do something with it, but he can only foul it behind the plate. Two and one the count. There’s still some light rain falling here. Swinging a miss. Two and two. The 2-2 to Bio in on the hands. He fouls it away. I mean, with holiday batting lead off, at least at least do this Orioles, at least against lefty starters, go with somebody else. Prove to me that you’re not being like coerced into making Holiday the leadoff man every day by his dad because that’s the only thing. Ooh, Basio. That ball had home run distance, but it’s going to hook foul. A little bit out in front of that one. Two and two on Sammy. Just prove to me that there isn’t some kind of agreement in place that Holiday is the leadoff hitter and is always the leadoff hitter. Because against lefties, why would you know if if you’re all about the analytics and the matchups, why wouldn’t like Westber make more sense? 32 to Basio and he looks at a heater right down the chute. Middle of the plate, a little bit low, but very, very hitable. Two down in the inning. Hey, Colton Cowser. He’s had a good night. Let’s make it a big night. First pitch inside for ball one. Cowser two for three. Home run is last time up. Couple of runs scored. 10. Called a strike. Jerem Heraldo up in the oral bullpen. Swing and a miss on a change up. One and two on Cowser. Seymour now at 88 pitches. He’s going to throw more pitches than either starter tonight. I wonder if he knew that would happen before the night started. Cowser with a little tapper in front of the catcher. catcher will pick it up and throw cows out to end the inning. Rain still falling here, but we’ve only got three more outs to go, folks. Ninth inning coming up. Orioles lead at six runs to nothing. They have seven hits. The Rays have two. They have one error. The Rays do not have an error. And I believe we’ve left five men on base. They’ve only left a pair, but that’s because they’ve had very little traffic on the bases tonight. I’m sorry, they’ve left four men on. Okay, so we’ve only left one more man on than they have and we got a six nothing lead. Looking good. Still a rain delay in the ninth between the Phillies and Marlin. Still tied at seven between the Mets and the Cubs. That’s in the eighth. The Yankees walked it off. What did Boston do? Boston beat Toronto. So now the lead in the East is down to one game. Crazy. Folks, we have to beat the Yankees in the Bronx. Starting Friday night with Trevor Rogers final start. Hey folks, guess what just happened in the game with the San Diego Padres’s? Ryan O’Harn just hit a first inning grand slam off of former Orio Bruce Zimmerman. Dodgers or excuse me, who is this? Padres’s and uh who? Padres’s and Brewers. Ryan O’Harn just hit a salami. Hey folks, don’t forget next season the premium club at Camden Yards where you too can sit behind bulletproof glass in an airond conditioned fancy looking airport waiting room and sip $30 coffee while watching the ball game. Can’t wait for that. Jerem Heraldo on to get the final three outs. Pinch hitter up Nick Forez for the Rays. Right-handed batter. Here’s a ground ball. Hits softly. Westber charges ahead of Gunner. fields it and throws out the pinch hitter whose name I’ve already forgotten. Nick Forez. He’s done. 108. Two more outs to go, folks. Two more outs to go. We’re looking to get a shut out, folks. Yes, the airport lounge. Who Who would who wouldn’t want to enjoy a ball game sitting in an airport lounge? Honestly, like why show up to the ballpark at all if you’re going to be behind glass like in an air like again it’s just I don’t know what are you doing? Are you here for sports or or maybe some Instagram photos to take? I don’t know. Uh Richie Palasios is pinch hitting now. Palasios uh batting here for Brandon Laauo. I’m not sure why they’re both lefties. Don’t understand this move at all. One-1 pitch, swing and a miss. I mean, the only thing I can think is that Tampa is capitulating. They think the game’s over and they’re just looking for a way to get this guy one at bat, but 6 nothing. I mean, to me, that’s not a big enough of a score to just pack it in. Uh, two and two the count on Palasios. Yeah, absolutely, Froggy. Yeah, if if you want to sit in that area, you’re not a real fan. And a real fan should not want to sit in that area. Swinging a miss. See you later. Well, y’all come back now. You hear? One more out to go, folks. Not only do I have my buddy right here, ground ball foul. Left our first base side. Strike one. Not only do I have the hat, but making its debut tonight along with the hat looking at a perfect record ever since its inclusion. It’s the shoe. We now have the hat and the This shoe is so big I cannot fit it in the damn camera. Uh there’s my foot. The hat and the shoe. Here’s a 1-1 pitch inside. Two and one. We got another pinch hitter up for the Rays. Fellow by the name of Is that Tristan Gray? Yes, it is. Tristan Gray. left-handed batter hitting for Junior Camero. So, yeah, they’re they’re just getting some extra at bats for some fringe players. That’s all this is. That’s right, folks. A new legend here on the Bird Watcher channel has begun today. The hat has company. the shoe. Oh, it’s so stupid. Two- two pitch to Tristan Gray. Bounces in there. Bounces away. Full count. One more strike to go. Charm City chat, come on. Those hearts are flying in the chat right now, right? Oh my god, the no fans joke because of air conditioning. No fans. That is a two out walk to gray. See, there won’t be any fans because my favorite part from Chileo is is typing get it, which I know was intentional. I know you’re trying to be super corny on purpose and I appreciate it, Chilo. You’ve you’ve succeeded. What size is that, Scott? I’ve had a nickel for every time a lady asked me that. I mean, look, folks, we’re born with what we’re born with. I mean, nobody’s got a choice. All right. Oh my. We’ve got some interesting looking Orio fans out there tonight. Swinging a miss, strikeout, ball game. The Orioles shut out the Rays. And last place is not necessarily going to be how our season ends, folks. We got a chance to catch these Rays. It’s a 6 nothing win for the Orioles. Ho ho ho. It’s magic, you know. It’s magic, folks. Os. Come on. Get in your calisthenics. Come on. You don’t want to look like a jellyfish on the beach now, do you? Come on. Magic. Magic. Magic. Magic. Come on. Keep it up, folks. Work with me. Four more. Three more. Two more. That’s it. And release. All right, folks. Oh, a good workout today. I’m feeling spry. How about you? The Orioles shut out the Rays tonight. 6 nothing. Six runs, seven hits, one error. The Rays had two hits. A two hit shut out from Dean Kramer combined with Castillo Selby and Heraldo out of the bullpen. Uh the Rays were dormant tonight. They never woke up. And Ryan Pepio, who earlier in the season, Matt, would you like to you guys? So, now that’s your content idea. You guys want to do some morning workout routines, huh? You don’t want to look like a jellyfish on the beach. And by the way, I’m borrowing that line from The Substance, starring Dei Moore. He’s a workout lady. I love that movie. It is wild. Uh West is that Oh, Cowser is getting uh interviewed right now on the field. Uh the ballpark is empty. This place did not take long to clear out. I mean, what was the attendance tonight? If they tell me it’s more than 10,000, they are lying. There’s no way. Uh let me refresh. Maybe they’ll tell me what the attendance is. 15,267. You just I guess 5,000 people were hanging out in the concourse all night just waiting for concessions that never arrived cuz there’s no way. No way. I mean, they might have paid for it, but 5,000 people, I guess, saw the weather and said, “Forget it.” Time of the game is only 2 hours and 29 minutes, but we had to sit through about an hour worth of rain delay. Uh the Orioles now with a record of 74 and 83. Nine games below. We can’t get to 500, folks. We’ve lost 83 freaking games. The most we can win is 79. Uh, but we are now just two games behind Tampa with two to play head-to-head. We want to sweep this series now, don’t we? And then we play the Yankees and have a chance to make their lives miserable. That’s what we’re good for in 2025 and September, folks. Making other players and teams and fans lives miserable. Somebody’s got to do it, right? Hey, we’re up to 3540 on the sub. Did we hit 3540 earlier or was it 3530? Did we actually do some damage on subs tonight? It’s been forever and all I’ve done is basically kick out a dozen people for all the bet talk. You mean to tell me if I uh you know if I just absolutely rip on uh the betting folks that it actually helps. Look at this. That’s right, folks. We did 16 subscribers tonight. Wow. What a great job. 16 subs on a game like tonight. Good stuff, folks. So, the like count, I don’t know what happened, but I will absolutely trade it. And yeah, thank you, Carl. Trust me, I wasn’t going to forget this. Uh Don Fierce came in here before first pitch. I was talking about the shoes I had received from another generous uh bird watcher out there a couple of months back. We’re talking about the state of my shoes. He sent me a super chat. I can’t remember the number and I just feel weird talking about the monetary numbers of these chats. It’s just kind of weird. Hey Melanie Newman, the cans are looking nice today. Nice to see you, Melanie. Uh, so somebody donated a nice chunk of change to go out and and he was like, “Dude, go out and get some new shoes.” And I said, “Then I said, “Dude, I’m going to and you’re going to you’re your donation is going to lead directly to making it happen, but you have to give me some time because it’s not just about affording shoes. The bigger problem when it comes to shoes is just finding a pair of shoes in this hemisphere that fit my feet. As of yesterday, I’ve done it. Yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelu I mean, I’m happy. I met a friend out on the road yesterday. I just we were walking past each other. I’m like, “Oh, Seb, this guy Sebastian. He’s from uh Germany. He lives out here.” I’m like, “Hey, Seb, what’s going on, dude?” And he’s like, “Hey.” And you know, normally we see each other. It’s like a one minute little how you been? Good. see you later kind of a check-in thing. But I had just bought these shoes. They were on my feet. I’m like, Seb, take a look. Look down there. You see that? You see those shoes? I spent 20 minutes talking to this random uh well, he’s not random. He’s a buddy, but uh you know, we just randomly ran into each other. And then I could tell I mean I spent like 20 minutes talking about finally getting a pair of shoes and I could see in his face that he was like, “Dude, how long do you expect me to listen to you talk about these shoes? Come on, man.” So, you know what? For you betterers out there, I just realized something. I make the same mistake you make when you come in here and you’re convinced that other people are interested in hearing about your bets. I just realized my own mistake. I should realize that talking about getting some shoes is probably not interesting to anybody either. So, I should have the self-awareness, maybe a passing mention, but certainly not a long diet tribe about getting a pair of freaking shoes, right? So, this is me owning up to doing kind of what you guys do. I’m going to work on it, though, because see what I did a self-awareness. I checked myself before I wrecked myself. You feel me? Think about it. Hey, KPX has got to run. All right, just don’t fall down. I got good shoes for running. The These are made for running. And that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days, these shoes are going to run all over you. Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom. You keep saying you got something for me. Something I can’t remember, but confess you’ve been messing where you shouldn’t have been messing. Yeah. And now you’re here getting all your best. These shoes were made for walking and that’s just what they’ll do. One of these days these shoes are going to walk all over you. All right. Hey. Hey. By the way, a rare example of nepotism working out. Nancy Sinatra, one good song. Thank you, Nancy. All right. Um, let’s send you to somewhere else. First of all, tomorrow night, uh, come back for game two. Obviously, the Orioles are kicking a whole lot of butt right now, and there’s only five games left in the season. And believe me, if you miss out a week from now when there’s no more oral games for several months, you’re gonna regret it. You’re going to want to be here. Sorry. It’s a new approach I’m trying uh threatening people to watch. It’s a new approach. It’s uh it’s uh you know, I’m trying new things. So, tomorrow’s matchup. Here it is. Is this the uh Shane Baz Tyler Wells game? Yes, it is. So, tomorrow night, Tyler Wells against Shane Baz. This game, first pitch 6:35 p.m. Eastern. I will be on the air at 6:20 a.m. or PM. 5:20 a.m. for me. Damn, Melanie. Melanie, you feel like going down to the nightclub with me after work, huh? Where’d you fall? Baltimore. What? Baltimore. Baltimore. What’s that? It doesn’t really matter. All right. Ah. All right. So once again, Don Fierce who wrote BW, I’ve turned I’ve tuned in to watch you for over 150 times this most difficult year, which is basically every game, right? Did I not hit the heart on that, Don? If you’re within earshot, maybe I unchecked it by accident. Surely I would have. You got 20 likes on that, by the way, buddy. And YouTube didn’t take him away. I’ve tuned in to watch you for over 150 games this most difficult year for the O’s. You’ve been great. You never miss a game. Okay, I’ve been late twice, but I appreciate it. Always trying to be positive. Again, I’m not perfect. Sometimes I lose my cool, but in general, I do try to keep the vibes around here uh fun and uh engaging. Uh we have our detractors, and I like to dunk on them sometimes. I’m sorry, folks. I’m not perfect, but uh yeah, thanks again to Don for the super chat. Uh that is a huge one. There is a thunderstorm in the game tomorrow night. Oh no. Ciao is going to make me look at the weather. Folks, I’m riding the clock just a little bit longer. You may linger longer with me if you please. I just want to look at the radar here. tomorrow. You keep saying you’ve got something for me. No, not Thailand weather. Baltimore weather. Uh, okay. Well, if we go into that’s as far as you’ll take it. Come on, man. Navigating the Okay. Daily. Here we go. Here we go. For Wednesday, clouds and breaks of sun. Humid with a couple of showers. 84% chance of rain. 84% chance. And even the final game on Thursday, 85% chance of rain. Is this really how our last home series, our last three home games of the season are going to go? Just three very low attended, rainy games. Oh boy. Oh well. That’s the way the cookie is going to crumble, I guess. Well, either way, tomorrow night, we’re going to squeeze in these games. At least I guess that’s the benefit of starting so early versus the rest of the East Coast with these 635 starts. A little extra time to absorb a rain delay before it gets crazy late, I guess. Shane Baz against Tyler Wells. come on back at 6:20 p.m. tomorrow. Unless there is a major like delay, uh, look for an update from me on a community post or on the event page, I will if I feel the need to move up the start time because of a delayed start to the game, then that’s where you’ll find that update. Okay, speaking of delays, uh JJ is in a delay calling that Marlins Phillies game in the ninth tied. Uh let me look at his channel right now and see what he’s doing if he’s not even late. Oh, Dr. Delay Mets Cubs. Where is that game at? Oh, going into the bottom of the ninth. All right, this is good. Tune in and try to watch the Cubs walk off the Mets. Okay. And tell Dr. DelayBW sent you. Dr. Delay covers normally the Pittsburgh Pirates and other Pirate or other Pittsburgh sports, but he’s uh doing Cubs Mets right now, which again tie ball game. No, I’m sorry. The Mets are ahead. The Mets have taken a 9-7 lead, but it’s going into the bottom of the ninth right now. Uh, we’ll try to figure out the like button situation, but for now, that’s going to be it for me. Hope have a good night, folks. Until tomorrow night, this has been the bird watcher and the hat and the shoe. And we will chirp at you later. We won, folks. We shut them out. Have a good one.
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