Corbin Carroll EARNS Gold Glove Finalist Honor After Stellar Defensive Season
Corbin Carroll is the Arizona Diamondback’s only gold glove finalist and we’re going to talk about if that was the right call and if he actually has a chance to win it. Also, it’s spooky season, so we’re talking Etsy witches and haunted hotels around here. Don’t you go anywhere. We’re starting in 30 seconds. [Applause] [Music] Ski and welcome in to another edition of the PHNX DBags podcast live from Studio K presented by our friends at Circle K. It is your mayor of PHNX, occasionally known as Derek Montia, and that brings an abrupt end to our music. That is not a good sign for our show today for sure. But hey, welcome in everybody. Glad to have you here. Uh happy uh Wednesday. Happy to at least be talking about the Seattle Mariners more today and not the Los Angeles Dodgers and what Yamamoto did last night. My forgiveness, by the way, or my my apologies. I uh said last night’s on last night’s postgame show that Yamamoto only went eight innings and uh discounted the amazing feat that he really achieved there having a complete game. Uh once again, those Dodgers are infuriating for sure. I I wrote down that Yamamoto was only going eight innings because he was at 97 pitches after eight innings and why the hell would he go out there for a ninth? Well, he did and uh he was incredible and I am very worried about that baseball team. But of course, welcome in to the PHNX Diamondbacks podcast. This show is brought to you by our friends at Bet365 and Game Time. Make sure to use that code of PHNX365. When you sign up, you get yourself some bonus bonus bets over there for being a new customer. Over at Game Time, use our code of PHNX. get $20 off your already low last minute ticket deals uh for that website. Of course, I got Shane Dembbach on the ones and twos today. Uh Damon is off and so in in lie of that, my dog is here. Just to bring in the the balance of dog ratio without Damon being here, no Cosmo. Yeah. Well, now Shane is also my dog. Sean Shane’s my dog for sure, but Cosmo’s running around the office. Uh and he’s as excited as we are to see uh game three today for between the Seattle Mariners there and the Blue Jays. Uh, Mariners lead the series 20. Excited. What’s that? Definitely not as excited as you. Yeah. I mean, you are just living in a constant world of worry and I don’t understand why. I mean, Derek, this team hasn’t been to the World Series ever. Ever. In ever in ever, you know. Yeah, for sure. And now they’ve taken both games in Toronto and things are going entirely too good for you. There’s no way that that this can continue to be this positive. But it is I I mean it was a nice game two victory there winning 10 to three. I think that’s the most important thing is that this offense has been slowly increasing. And of course now the Toronto Blue Jays aren’t in a great position themselves. They face the dawning task of winning three straight games in Seattle uh to essentially avoid elimination. Um and of course uh not not three altogether but of course they got to take two out of three there in Seattle and that’s not going to be very easy to do. Uh today on the mound we got a pitching duel between Shane Bieber and George Kirby. Uh aka is it Angry Cheddar today or Sharp Cheddar? Let’s hope it’s Sharp Cheddar today. Uh for sure. Furious George. Oh yeah, Furious Furious George is such a good nickname. Uh but and that that goes with Angry Cheddar. Angry Cheddar. Furious George. But after a solid performance there in the ALDS, Kirby looks to continue his momentum. Uh he’s done a great job of managing the games and avoiding those big innings which will once again be crucial against this potent Blue Jays offense. Uh and then Shane Bieber, the veteran right-hander. Uh he has a strong postseason pedigree here, but uh he does come off a shaky start and he’ll need to kind of uh give give this team more than what he gave them before. So offensively, the the Mariners, like I said, are rolling. And quite frankly, it’s wild to me that they’re doing it without Cal Rally. Like not to say they’re doing it without him, but you know, again, the the 10 to3 game was really uh Palano and Rodriguez having those home runs plus Josh Naylor flashing his dad strength and adding, you know, to that as well. But uh I do do think that George Springer, of course, is going to continue to factor in and you got to imagine that Vlatty is going to go off here. Uh it’s hard to contain him for too long. So you don’t you don’t got to imagine that. No, there’s that. You don’t have to imagine anything, Derek. Your brain can just turn off. It can turn into like gray goop and you don’t have to imagine anything. Well, I mean, rule and stare into the nothing. The the one thing about this is and putting all of your worries and concerns aside, this doesn’t make any sense. Like, it really doesn’t. Like, but once again, baseball tends to not make any sense. And it’s not to say you this is any kind of case for a layoff or not a layoff. the Blue Jays weren’t even off for that long, but the fact that the Mariners almost never stopped playing baseball. Uh it it feels like it really helped them despite the fact that I personally was of the thought process if you go back and look at one of my tweets that they were in a tough spot coming into, you know, that that first game. And just the way that they’ve responded in in Toronto has been really impressive. The Mariners also just like they didn’t play baseball for a week and a half and then they dropped a game against the the Tigers and then responded well. So I I teams react differently. It’s all about vibes. Yeah. And you know you know Gino says Yeah. Yeah. Gino’s there to radiate the vibes. So good vibes all he’s radiating the vibes from the interstate barely. Mariners uh moneyline favorites in this one right now. And the overunder is projected at seven runs total. I feel like I feel like the smat you smash that over on that. That is that that feels like these teams are going to both be a little bit off better offensively. Derek, it’s in the witches park. It is in the witches park. That ball does not leave the stadium there. We look, we’re going to talk about the Etsy witch because I’ve had entirely too many people just straight up not understand what happened with the Etsy witch. And I have a lot of things to address with the Etsy witch, but we need a whole segment um for that. But the Etsy witch was in in in attendance there at at T-Mobile Park and apparently was shown on screen and the Etsy witch got a huge round of applause. So that’s amazing. Uh Mariners are slight favorites in this one. Of course, uh it feels like, you know, the Mariners keep keep things going and and get this taken care of here at least in game three. But I don’t want to say that in front of Shane. Um, for sure. But man, nothing matters. Um, Shane, I will say this. We got uh we we did talk about the nicknames. We did talk about the cheese nickname. Yes. That our guy Bryce Miller likes to give everybody out. I love that that little point that you gave me. And I was thinking about it. One thing we failed to do when discussing this incredible, I guess trait, this this incred I I want to call it an ability, an ability to uncanny to give an uncanny nickname that’s based on your persona. That’s a That’s cheese based, right? Yeah. So, I I I think that we didn’t do it for the office and I think that we should give some of our co-workers cheese nicknames. Well, go ahead and rip that. Um I think we should start with Leah just to get this out of the way and ensure that you and I stay out of trouble. And I think making her goat cheese makes a lot of sense because she’s the goat, right? Okay. Canadians are also a fan of goat cheese. I’m fairly certain. I might be that this might be a stereotype. I think their cheese is cheddar. Okay. Mainly, but but goat is fine. Let’s go with goat. Let’s go with goat more as a description of her, not anything to do with her. Goat cheese is also awesome. Goat cheese is awesome. You know what else is awesome is cream cheese, right? But cream cheese is different, right? Cream cheese is like a little bit more, you know, is cream cheese. Is it cheese? I think I think just dairy, I think. Is it just a This is blowing my mind. Don’t tell me that cream cheese is not an actual cheese. Cream cheese and cheese. Okay, it is cheese. It is a cheese. Thank god. Because there’s soft cheeses out there, right? I know. I know. I know. I just didn’t I just don’t think of cream cheese as a cheese, right? But it’s like um it’s like a blueco collar cheese, right? It’s not out there being fancy. It’s not Yeah, I know. I guess you’re right. No, it’s a cheese for the blue collar people. Yeah, it’s a cheese for blue collar people. The cheese itself isn’t inherently blue. That’s why Espo has to be cream cheese. He’s He’s a man of the people. It’s a blueco collar man for the people, by the people. Yeah. A lot of variety in cream cheese as well. Espo has a lot of variety. See, I went with a different one for you. See, I’m thinking because you are an insanely different person, but you’re also uh incredibly high high quality person. Uh ricotta cheese. Ricotta cheese. Again, a cheese you don’t think of when you think of cheese. Yeah. I saw this on the rundown. I didn’t really like it. Or nor did I agree with it. But I like the nickname ricotta. Just just like as a nickname. I don’t. It sounds like I’m an ass. Does it? Yeah. Does it sound pretentious? Oh, like pretentious. Yeah. What about rock fort? That sounds pretentious, right? Yeah. Yeah. That’s max. Yeah. It’s a complicated cheese. There’s a lot of rules to make a cheese rock for. Can I be feta cheese? You can be feta cheese. I like that. Feta cheese is my favorite. It’s also Bryce Miller’s favorite cheese. Well, and he’s has he given anybody? Yeah. He gave everybody the uh on the uh Fox broadcast panel cheeses because they asked him what cheese we are and he said, “You guys are all fed up because that’s my favorite.” That’s pretty good. That’s pretty good. Uh, I feel like Damon’s queso dip. Why? Well, okay. So, first of all, spicy. Yeah, Damon’s spicy. Just like hot in general. Yeah. And in general, he involves a lot of people in his like discussions, right? So, it’s like a welcoming like everybody get in on this. When you start eating queso, it’s hard to stop. And like if you engage with Damon, he will not. It’s so hard to stop. He won’t leave you alone. Yeah. No, you can’t stop. Once you’ve started, you absolutely can’t stop. You can’t. All right. Well, um, Eric’s American cheese. I don’t I feel like that’s calling him boring, isn’t it? Is that Eric’s just American cheese. I’m I’m You’re staying out of it. You’re staying out of it. All right. White cheddar works, too. But I’m not staying out of it. White cheddar is incredible. White cheddar is incredible. Well, uh, Shane, overall here, though, I know that again, you don’t want to you’re you’re not going to say anything positive. There’s no way you can as a Mariners fan. But as somebody that’s adopted this team, I I feel like the Mariners are just really in a great position. Uh Woo returning to the roster feels like, you know, a huge, you know, he’ll be the game one starter in the World Series. It’ll be great. I I just overall you won’t need him for game five. Well, again, and you also just have somebody that that’s that good coming off of a significant rest. You don’t know what he’s the hottest pitcher in baseball. You you you labeled him as the hottest pitcher in baseball, but not in the way that mostly would be used. And you mean he is the most attractive? Yes. Pitcher in baseball. He’s hard to look at because of how attractive he is. You know what I mean? Like the It’s funny because last year he didn’t have he didn’t grow his hair out and he didn’t have like any facial hair and now he’s just like sex icon mound guy. It’s just awesome. He’s got that certain level of I don’t care about what I look like. If you’re not good, you’re not hot. Yeah, that’s true. That’s true. Yeah. Who’s the the hottest baseball player that’s not good? On the Diamondbacks, Trump. Wow, that was nasty. Was that mean? I I didn’t Is Dre Jameson bad? I mean, he’s got a 15 ERA right now in Arizona Fall League, but there Oh, I mean, I don’t think he’s bad. He’s not bad, but But you think Jake McCarthy’s bad? Uh, no. No. No. Maybe we should move off this topic. I’m guess Yeah, I’m going to get myself in trouble, man. I feel like I’m sorry. No, you you should be you should be sorry, but uh you shouldn’t apologize for this Mariners team because like you said, this is a uh this really is a chance for a team that’s never been to the World Series to finally, you know, and and and quite frankly, the Mariners have been good for a couple of years now. On Friday, we’re going to take a look, like we did with the Brewers, at how the Mariners kind of came together and and if the Diamondbacks can replicate some of their success. But it’s not a formula that, you know, you can necessarily follow. It’s it’s it’s a little dash of, you know, homegrown talent. It’s it’s a dash of having, you know, a guy become an absolute superstar as part of your roster. The emergence of Cal Rally, who quite frankly up till now has not been what he was this season. Like he’s he’s a good player. He hit some home runs. He hit like around 30, but he was never this what he is this season for this team. So, I mean, again, this is like this this is the payoff for a Mariners team that was patient with their roster, but at the same time went out and recognized that this season was a was a year was a year that this team could contend. And they made some big trades, especially with this Diamondbacks team to bolster that roster and and try to make them better. And and boy, did some of those pieces really work out for them, including the way that Josh Naylor has been embraced and beloved by that team and that fan base. Like J N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N N I mean Gino already was a part of that fragile Derek. It’s crazy. Like I I defended the fact that people said he was miserable here and I don’t really know if he was miserable here. I can’t I can’t say that. I can’t say he was miserable in Cleveland. I don’t think he was. I don’t think But you’re right though, like there’s a different glow to him. Obviously, you know, being a new dad is part of that as well. But baby glow. But, you know, this this season, I think that, you know, the the the things he was doing, becoming the the the on base thief that he became and just everything that he became for that roster, it was a huge, you know, addition to that team. And this is a guy that’s on an expiring contract. They gave up quite a bit for him and Gino, who both could essentially be free agents and go somewhere else at the end of the year. But, man, this this team would not be where they’re at with Josh Naylor. Gino, meanwhile, a little bit of a disappointment for that team, you know, and again, has been also here through the playoffs. He’s struggled, but when you bring the vibes that you bring to the team, do you need to be good? No. No. Gino’s just out there radiating good vibes and and helping this team win. Him and the Etsy witch, those are the two uh supernatural forces here at work that have propelled the Mariners to have a 20 lead over the Blue Jays in the ALCS. Hopefully, they can keep this magic rolling and get the job done to make their first World Series appearance. At this point, according to uh Google Trends, America is pulling for the Seattle Mariners. Not just this podcast, not just that guy that’s been doing it for entirely too long. And he’s he’s not ready to welcome too many people on the bandwagon. So is Toronto. Yeah, Toronto, too, right? City of Toronto is pulling for the Mariners, apparently. That’s crazy. That’s what I’m hearing. That’s Well, I mean, the country of Canada. I heard you turn as well. I heard Leah is a Mariners fan now. No. You know what’s so funny about this? She actually turned her back on me. She promised me that if they played I’m not, this is not a joke. She promised me that if they played in the playoffs, she would cheer cheer for the Mariners because it meant more to me. Yeah, I knew this was going to be problematic. Rat. Yeah. Oh, yeah. No, I bet she was out there jersey. And you know, you know what? You know why I’m a great person? Because I’ve just shut my damn mouth, Derek. I could be dancing. You could be. You could be. You could be. But you’re you’re humble. You’re humble and you stay humble. Also, they’re they’re still gonna lose this series, so I can’t really dance yet. There it is. There it is. Keep it all in perspective, my man. Keep it all in perspective. Well, we’re going to take a quick break. On the other side of this break, we are going to talk about Corbin Carroll being the Arizona Diamondbacks sole gold glove finalist. We are going to question if he can win and we’re going to question if that was the right call or if anybody got snubbed. We’re going to do that on the other side of this break. Don’t you go anywhere. You’re watching the PH andX Diamondback show. Well, of course, Zen Leaf is a great place for you to head out and get yourself ready for any wonderful sporting event. 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Go. Download the Game Time app today. Well, we patiently waited today as Rawlings, the good folks at Rawlings, we love their gloves. We love their products. They rolled out their announcements today about the finalists for the Gold Glove Award and we waited and we waited and we waited. We waited just to see one Arizona Diamondback name on the list. We were fairly sure we were going to see Corbin Carroll, but as each individual position player, especially for the infield, was was shown and the finalists were named, it became painfully clear that we weren’t going to see very many Diamondbacks uh on this list. And in fact, Corbin Carroll did end up being the only finalist for the Gold Glove Award. Carol is uh in there in the mix with Sal South Salic and Fernando Tatis Jr. for right field. Those are the three finalists for the Gold Glove award. Of course, Corbin had himself an incredible year defensively. Um he had nine outs above average this year in right field, 10 total. Uh he had eight defensive runs saved and his range according to baseball savant was in the 98th percentile. Uh his arm strength also has really picked up uh over the last two seasons. His arm strength rated in the 62nd percentile. So still not a superior arm strength, but again uh above average for sure for Corbin. Uh plus his fielding run value was seven in 2025. So Corbin really uh flashed some good defensive metrics out there in right field and you just felt like um he took a big step forward as far as you know his his defensive play. Uh he became a real threat to not run on out there in right field. That was something that was incredible to see. And that once again as we’ve discussed in the pack past was about his improved technique basically. I mean you can’t go into the gym and work your arm out to increase your arm strength. A lot of it comes with technique and figuring out ways to get a better uh launch angle essentially on the ball and and to increase that velocity. But um yeah, I mean both both of these guys and the true question here is is that can Corbin Carroll win it? Feels like it’s a little bit stacked against him. Tatis Jr. currently has the edge in the clean cut traditional metrics. He has 15 defensive runs saved and eight outs above average in right field. Uh so those are, you know, significant right there with Corbin Carroll, but the defense runs saved obviously uh almost double of what Corbin Carroll had. Um some of Corbin Carroll’s case is m is mostly on somewhat of the projected advance metrics and again the percentile claims, the 98th percentile for range, things like that. Uh also outs above average, arm value, fielding run value. uh and his reliability. He does not have many errors out there in in right field, but uh the the errors thing gives him a little bit of an edge. His speed is gives him a bit of an edge, but again, the the amount of time he’s played in right field, you know, they they moved him around quite a bit last season in the outfield, so sample size impacts it. And defensive valuation, again, it just may limit how much weight he gets overall. Um, plus as stupid as it is, it’s kind of like MVP where the Padres’s and the Brewers both made the playoffs and it’s hard for that not to deep down inside potentially impact this if this is a close race. Felic is the wild card here. Um, Candace Montoya says Freelick has a better defense, doesn’t he? I mean, Freelick again, he was really good in right field for the Brewers, so I I I don’t love Corbin Carroll’s chances. Uh, but it it’s good to have him at least as a representative out there. And I think, you know, Corbin uh at least deserves this acknowledgement, if not being considered heavily for the award. He’s he’s a great defender, though, and I think that he is is a big reason why the Diamondbacks won uh quite a few of those games down the stretch, not just with his bat, but with his defense. The question here is were any of his teammates snubbed? And uh it’s hard to say that. I mean, maybe Heraldo Purdomo, but that’s probably it. And even then, it’s hard to make a strong case for Purdomo to win the award even if he was a finalist. So, I don’t know if this is just loser talk because we only have one nominee. But, uh, what I I don’t does it matter to be a finalist but to not win the award? I don’t know. I mean, hopefully Corbin Carroll has a better chance than I’m giving him credit for, but it would be hard to imagine Purdomo winning it over the other shorts stops there that that were nominated, right? Uh Purdomo had five outs above average, three defensive runs saved, but he had a lot of errors last year and he made, you know, some defensive mistakes. Honorable mention would definitely go to Bla1 Alexander because if Bla1 Alexander played a full season at third base, he would 100% not only be a Gold Glove finalist, uh, but he would be probably the winner. I mean, I believe uh, in in the short sample size that he had, I think, um, Blaze had seven defensive runs saved and that was in the smallest sample size pretty much of anybody you could imagine on the Diamondbacks team that would be considered a success at their position. So, uh, I I I can’t sit there and say that the players were snubbed. Um, but, you know, this is, uh, th this is one of those situations where doesn’t feel great. Uh, Mariners only had one guy on there as far as our sebacks are concerned. Julio Rodriguez was the only finalist there, right? Yeah. And it’s insane. Is it Should he be on that list? Yeah. The only person, I don’t know, maybe the platinum glove winner. Yeah. who never didn’t have a pass ball in the regular season. Yeah. Oh, I don’t know. Maybe whom I I maybe that guy. I don’t know. He’s He was pretty good back there, right? I I don’t understand what’s going on sometimes with these nominations, but what do I know? What do I know? At the end of the day, uh again, this is more about the player recognition and doesn’t do much for the team. But, uh I I still love seeing, you know, the Diamondbacks. I think that this is an indication of how the Diamondback’s identity has changed because in the past we’ve seen multiple snakes on this list year after year. So even if they didn’t win it, they still ended up as finalists because the Diamondbacks typically had one of the best defenses in the league. Right now, their defense is mediocre mid. I mean, it was much better at the end of the year, but right there, there was a stretch, you know, where obviously it was very bad early. uh kind of regressed to the median I guess with how much better it got. But still their their end of the year numbers still don’t put them much more above 10th or 11th. What are you looking at me for? Oh, he’s in what? Can you re Can you just read that comment for me? Oh, the one from Elgo that says Cal Rally is overrated. I’m doing this. Hold on. I’m sure he’s talking about the city rally North Carolina. That’s Yes, that’s definitely the case. Honestly, I think it’s underrated. It’s probably adequately rated. Like, I think it’s underated. I actually like it up. Did you really? All right. Well, I don’t know. But he’s definitely not talking about Cal. Definitely not talking about our guy Cal for sure. But that would be crazy if he was. Do you put I mean, again, that’s that’s definitely something that touches is is sensitive for you, Shane. But, uh, I mean, do you put a whole lot of value in this, especially considering it means nothing to me. Okay. Right. I mean, it’s to to me honestly, and I know this sounds callous, but it’s like, great, you want an award that’s going to make you cost more to keep you on our team. Like, you just added to your resume and your pedigree pedigree that essentially allows you to charge teams more for your services. Not to say players don’t deserve that, but overall, it’s like, h I like it’s like when Zack Gallon missed out on the Sai Young, but he was close. I was like, we’re trying to resign this guy, and that would have made it impossible. But um yeah, Elgo not not not serious. He just trolled you and that makes a lot. He was talking about rallying North Carolina for sure. Um but yeah, I mean yeah, especially when you guys are in the position that you’re in. This is more for like teams like the Diamondbacks that need kind of a pickme up. That’s why I feel like like come on, give me give us something here. For people like you who need a topic. Yeah, I need a topic. I need a topic. And the topic is that that we only have one in there. But a very deserving one in Corbin Carroll. It’s just, you know, again, if you’re talking about what they look at, which is these metrics, it’s hard to make much of a case for Corbin Carroll to win it over the other two guys that he’s up against. So, I I have a hard time seeing that be the case. But, uh, again, this is, uh, this this is fine with me. I just like the fact that Corbin Carroll was recognized. And if we didn’t have one gold glove finalist, then uh I would have been calling up Killer Rex and and talking about how can we how can we get on board with this Fire Tory thing? How can we get everyone on board? But uh he we’re okay, Rex. We we got we got one, so we’re going to be rational today. But uh we’re going to take a quick break and we’re going to get to the big topics of today. And the biggest topic of today was uh spending $16 on an Etsy witch. The best $16 ever spent in the history of mankind. 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But I’m very uh it’s it’s it’s just, you know, it’s it’s what I worry about all the time. Uh I I worry about my dogs when I’m home. I don’t know uh if you guys wear this. Candace wants to to see them. I would love to bring him on camera, but uh his snorting and his panting is going to completely take over this place altogether. So, uh can’t we’ll see. We’ll get him on here before the show ends. But, uh, we really do got to crack down on something that I’ve been getting a lot of questions about. On this show, we have been discussing the Etsy witch, uh, that has given Seattle magical powers and, uh, that that I’ve had a lot of people because we just kind of glossed over it. Overall, we have for the most part just kind of discussed the Etsy witch like everybody knows what the Etsy witch is. And I I’ll tell you right now, for those of you that may not know, the Etsy witch was the best $16 ever spent in the history of mankind. Uh for for those of you that might not know the backstory to this, there was an Etsy seller who was a witch who went by the name of Spell goes by the name of Spell by Luna. Uh she was paid by a fan named Steve Blackburn $16 to cast a spell to help the Seattle Mariners turn their season around. Uh the request went viral after the Mariners began I an impressive winning streak I think underestimates what we’re talking about here. The Mariners subsequently went on a significant winning streak. The Mariners went into first place in their division during this winning streak. The Mariners ended the Rangers season essentially and sent the Houston Astros uh away. Uh they what Shane was it 10 losses 78 runs scored 29 runs allowed something like that more importantly a plus 49 run differential. Yeah more importantly it was like 18 of 19 or something like that after yeah that’s it’s just insane. Um basically this fan became frustrated because the team was starting to lose and slip out of the divisional race. Uh, and he paid $16 to this Etsy witch to quote unquote uh create cast a spell to unfword the mariners. I used to be able to say that word all the time on this show, but you get where we’re going with that. Uh, the seller uh, Spell by Luna confirmed the ritual was complete. She called that she said it was full of beautiful energies and told Blackburn to stay positive and for the fan base to accept the manifestation that she created. Uh and the manifestation led the Mariners not only did to win their division and go on to the playoffs, but also to become an unstoppable force here in the postseason. Uh the story gained widespread attention uh with many fans and the team crediting the Etsy witch. Like I said earlier, she was at a game and they put her on the big screen and there was an eruption. Uh Blackburn uh was was inundated himself with requests of people that wanted to pay him for his good deed, for his services. and he uh basically directed people who wanted to thank him to donate the money to the Trevor Project instead of sending him money. Meanwhile, Spell by Luna had to close her Etsy shop and it is no longer active. Why? There’s there’s a Okay, so the reason why is because sports fans are maniacs. Sports fans are maniacs. And the minute that this went from being I feel like an innocent um joke from it just being good vibes for it just being like something that brought this team a little good luck to the point of people believing this woman who obviously does have powers. I I can only imagine how flooded she was with requests. I can only imagine how much people wanted to pay her, not just to uncurse their team, but to also fix their lives. And that that’s another question. We could go on a whole other rant, Shane. We paid $16 to fix the Mariners. Were there not other things in life that we could have paid a woman that had these kind of powers to fix instead of a baseball team? Are you saying that’s not the most important thing? Look, I’m not saying it’s not the most important thing, but I’m saying that world hunger. Shut up, Derek. Yeah, we could have baseball world hunger. I mean, maybe someone contacted her baseball. Maybe she’s the one that ended the conflict in the Middle East. I don’t know. But these are more these are important things, Shane. And we might have squandered squandered some powers. And more importantly, I’m furious that her Etsy shop is no longer active. So Derek, because I would have paid this money, this woman every dime I had. $16. You’re being naive because when something good happens, it’s usually at the cost of something else. Sure. You know. Yeah. So the mariner success, we don’t know what it caused, but there’s something equally as strong. You’re talking about the ripple effect, aren’t you? Yeah. Like it’s basically it’s got to be an exchange of powers, right? So that that’s show carnival for HBO. For every 19 out of 20 games they won, there’s some team in the fall league that’s just getting drunk. But you see, that’s the problem though is it’s not just a team in the fall league because No, it’s got to be more. It’s got to be an equal power. Then maybe a team in the fall league has lost a hundred straight games now. Yeah. I don’t know. Maybe m maybe the Mariners were somehow connected to the Cardinals and then they just took every little bit of the Arizona. Maybe that’s what happened in that game that they lost to Titans. An Etsy wedge for what? To to uncurse the state of Arizona. Was this just a random Etsy witch? Hey, what was her qualifications? We have an Etsy witch that obviously her powers work. She was unreachable. But I know that’s what I’m upset about. is in the reply she put the word alignment. Stop it. So you have to think stop it that that helped. Yeah. No, a thousand% is out for 10 days by the way. Yeah. Um so I found your dog. Okay. We have an update on your dog if you want to roll that video. Emily is is he okay? You tell me. Oh yeah, there he is. Oh. Oh no. Oh no. And what is that? That wouldn’t work. Go back to the back to the main camera real fast. So, you saw something briefly on his screen. Yeah, it was kind of horrifying. Yeah, it was terrifying. Can we get a closer look at it? See what that was. It’s Yeah, there he is. Oh, we miss him. We miss him. See, I told you we would bring in a replacement dog when Damon isn’t here. So, it’s an amalgam of of Oh, that’s terrifying. That is terrifying yet well done. Really well done. Damo. Damo. Yeah, Dammo or Cosmo. Cosman. Cosmon. Yeah, I like Cosmon. That’s for sure. We’re all Cosmo Park. Yeah, that’s terrifying. Um almost as terrifying as the idea that actual witches in the Pacific Northwest exist and can help these sports teams when like they’ve had the power to do this the whole time and they’ve just been choosing not to. That’s another thing that we really need to get into. What happened with the Sonics, man? Right. Come on. Yeah. Like you couldn’t get you couldn’t get Seattle. you can get their team back. Oh, and then they have to watch them win in Oklahoma. That’s gross. Uh, we do have a new category though, I think, that we should address because people in baseball love statistics, Shane. They love fake statistics, imaginary ones. Like, oh, this is this is what the ball should have done. So, we’re going to call it, you know, projected stats. No, we’re not doing that. But we’re doing witches above replacement. Okay, that’s what we’re doing. The witches replacement amount here. Uh because if you calculate how they improved this team, there was a 29.4% increase in win rate. So when you take the way that the Mariners were constructed, uh and this is going to sound a little bit like Steiner math from from TNA, so excuse me if it does, but you got to take the Mariners, they’re constructed, uh they were constructed to win 54% of their games. That was what their trajectory was on on board for. Do you know about 54? What’s that? Do you know what the 54% is? Um meme. Yeah. In Mariners fandom. Yeah. Is that it? That 54% is like the number that that in the front office has always said and they win 54%. That might be part of it. So that might just be the uh the the Seattle fan base factoring in 54 as like the baseline, right? Um, but the Etsy witch overall in the time that she was a part of this team’s collective improvement over the regular season, she was worth win a 4.6 war. Uh, you can call it wins above replacement, but we’re calling it witches above replacement. Um, if you project that over 162 games season, 48 uh what’s that? 48. 48 witches above replacement. Actually, it’s a 74.52 witches above replacement. Oh my god. So, a team that would be blessed with a witch to be a part of their team like this would essentially go from potentially like a 48- win team to like 122 win team, right? Yeah. Do you think that there’s a chance that the witch is like parasitical? Is that a word that it may turn into a parasite and latch on to this team after it helps them like in paranormal activity? Okay. Well, we’ve talked about how in general we feel like Randy Johnson coming out of the bullpen uh in the World Series cursed this team forever with bad bullpens and it wasn’t about who they beat. No, it wasn’t maybe a little bit about who they beat, but also the Mariners did the right thing that year. Yeah, they laid laid down. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it might have been it might have been a good year to do so but al also it just feels like um you know we sacrificed and at the time you know if someone comes to you with a with with an offer like that right like you know a fouian deal and they’re like hey here sign the dotted line we’re going to ensure you that you take this one home it’s going to be in seven but Randy Johnson’s going to come out of the pen and he’s going to be magical and you’re like what’s it going to cost and they’re like everything and you’re like here I’ll sign it I don’t care good night yeah good night I’ll take it So, I believe the deal was brokered in Seattle at the conception of the franchise. Yeah. And they’re like, “We’ll win the World Series in 2025, but you got to be the worst franchise in sports for until then and you’ll move twice and it’ll be horrible.” Yeah. Um, you know, you know what is funny? Again, another thing that re is reminiscent of me of the Brewers Mariners situation there with like the Brewers being the Pilots and then leaving after one season is that the Diamondbacks experienced something like that in a way. They had their first season and everything was kind of like, okay, this is fine. And then they had uh such a a drop off in season ticket holders that they were like, we’re screwed. And that’s when what allowed Jerry Kangelo to be like, yeah, this this town likes a winner. Like, they’re not going to wait 10 years for you guys to build something here. and they pivoted and they made all sorts of crazy trades and next thing you know they went won in their you know third year of existence right but like the reason why is because much like that pilot situation after that first season they’re like this is not working in Seattle we need to go somewhere else and like it’s just crazy now because I will credit Mariners fans for being some of the best fans that I know honestly it was more so to do with the the the stadium that couldn’t house a school oh that that too. Working bathrooms. Well, don’t forget the Tampa Bay Rays built their stadium to just steal one of those baseball teams away and it sat forever out there. But um one quick thing before we move on from from the the city of Seattle. Lee and I were talking last night and she thinks that the CN tower is cooler than the Space Needle and I think that’s a little ridiculous. She thinks no. No, no. First, let’s just take the names. Branded Tower. Yeah. The Space Needle. Space Needle. Yeah. Not to mention that, but the Space Needle literally uh it it it cast its shadow down on Climate Pledge. Uh what? Climate Pedge Arena, right? It’s right there like Yeah. Uh I mean, the CN Tower is like literally right next to Roger Center. I know. It’s actually really cool in some of the pictures. I saw I saw a game there over the summer. It was really cool. It’s hard to argue against that and the hotel also being in the stadium. Hey, I know we weren’t talking about the ballparks. Okay, we’re talking about the actual snow. One thing I will say, the CN Tower is three times the height of the Space Needle, so it hasn’t been there. But the architecture is nowhere near as I feel like you’ve done nothing but make a case against your case. Like you have argued against the Space Needle this entire time besides the name being Space Needle looks cooler in the skyline. Oh, all right. Well, we’re going to take a quick break. Actually, we’re not. We’re just going to remind you guys real quickly. And we got more spooky stuff to talk about because Tescar Hernandez will not stay in a haunted hotel. And that’s crazy because I drove three and a half hours just to stay in a haunted hotel. But, uh, if you want to join us for some fun, you got to join the PHNX Cardinals crew this weekend on October 19th at 11 a.m. before the Cardinals take on the Green Bay Packers. We’re going to have an 11:00 a.m. pregame tailgate out at Chicken and Pickle in Glendale before the Cardinals take on the Pack. We’ll have our PHNX Cardinals live on site for pregame halftime and postgame shows. Uh, plus our friends at Rally House will be giving away eight $50 gift cards to fans in attendance. So, head on over to gophnx.comvents to RSB RSVP for this free event. Come on out. We’re going to have a great time. having a great time this weekend in Glendale, except for the fact that part of my weekend is doing a yard sale, which I am not looking forward to. Very much not looking forward to. But, uh, one thing I was looking forward to for a very long time was this trip to Bisby, Arizona that I planned. And part of the reason why it was my 16th wedding anniversary, but it was also because my daughter wanted to do something spooky. and she found out that Arizona has a lot of towns that are like, you know, specialize in uh whatever you want to say, paranormal activity, activity, if you will. In fact, my favorite part of staying at this hotel we stayed at, which was called the Hotel Lmore, was that when I contacted them and I had a conversation with the woman at the front desk, I expressed to her that my daughter wanted to stay in a place where there were ghosts. And I kind of said it jokingly and I was like, “Is the hotel actually haunted?” She was like, “Oh, I’ve only had two paranormal experiences in my time working here.” But that kind of made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. It also did not discourage me from go going and staying in this hotel. It was haunted by a cat. It was awesome and it was a great experience. We had a great time. In fact, at one point, we actually locked our 14-year-old daughter in the hotel room because she wanted to stay there and went downstairs. Uh, and again, she did not freak out by staying in a hotel room one without TV and uh, haunted by a ghost cat. But, uh, Dodgers outfield, and this is the reason I bring all of this up, T. Oscar Hernandez opted out of staying at Milwaukeee’s iconic and historic Fister Hotel, which is rumored to be haunted, and this was during the NLCS. Uh, this was due to his wife’s concerns, allegedly, says Tay Oscar. uh does not take any any accountability here himself. Um but he said uh he said even though he doesn’t believe in ghosts, his wife urged him to switch accommodations after hearing stories from other players wives about eerie occurrences like flickering lights and unexplained noises. This drives me nuts. This was the entire again this was the entire reason I didn’t get flickering lights one time. Shane, I would have killed for flickering lights. Even if it was part of a a show, I don’t care. And you didn’t stay there. Oh man, I don’t get it. Like I said, that’s the entire reason I went to Bisby, Arizona. And a hotel being haunted is a feature. There there’s never a time where you tell me that a hotel is haunted and that’s going to make me cancel my reservation or cause me not to stay in a hotel. There are plenty of reasons. There are plenty of things that I could find out like murder in a room. Yes. Yes. I don’t want to stay in a murder room. All right. And I don’t want to find that out after I’ve been sleeping in the murder room. All right. That’s probably number one on my list. I mean, that’s it’s probably not even very rational. That might be right up there with not staying in a haunted hotel, but I don’t want to stay in a hotel room that a murder is occurs. I also don’t want to stay in a gross hotel room. Just gross. You know what I mean? I don’t feel like I have to give you details about it. smells are included in in a in a hotel room being gross. So, yeah, like that’s that that’s again that’s something that will cause me to leave a hotel. I don’t know if there’s a lot of things. I mean, again, grossness is going to most things are going to involve grossness. It’s going to be gross. Bugs, rodents, that’s all gross. Smells gross. Um, another thing that will definitely prevent me from staying in a hotel is uh or or checking out early and this is the old man in me is loud noises. Uh, I do not like loud noises. I do not like when a hotel is loud and quite frankly that is something that will make me leave a hotel at 2:00 in the morning. Um, so I I don’t know. But I will say that uh there there are no never a time where a hotel being haunted is going to in any way, shape, or form discourage me from from staying at it. Like I said, that’s a feature. Uh Candace in the chat says, “Jerome, I hear is better for ghost tours and stays.” Uh and I also don’t think Jerome is three and a half hours away. So that was part of the reason that Bisby uh was a little bit uh not ideal, but it was a beautiful town and we had an absolutely great time there. Um and now there’s uh let’s see, there’s talk about Jeffrey Dmer in the chat and I think we’re just going to maybe move on. Uh but yeah, there are uh Deborah several uh towns in Arizona that are very haunted for sure. But uh another reason why I wouldn’t stay in a hotel and almost caused me to be weirded out by this haunted hotel we were staying in. No TV uh to watch sports. That’s actually problematic for me. That’s something that will cause me to not stay in a hotel room. But uh yeah, let’s see. 2B says Hotel Congress in Tucson is rumored as haunted. Yeah, I mean Southern Arizona, it’s filled with ghosts. That’s that’s the way it is. If Damon was in here, he’d probably list off a long, uh, line of of things that are are haunted in Tucson and then he would somehow get it back to me. But, uh, to ask Hernandez, I mean, I think the biggest thing here is throwing his wife, as you some of you have addressed, under the bus for not being for being the reason not to stay there, right? I mean, I I I know how baseball players are. They tend to be very honest and open. So, I don’t feel like this was a deliberate thing. I just feel like it was chitchat and talking about the reason why uh he checked out of his hotel in Milwaukee and went to a different one. Uh but I’m I’m pretty sure my wife would get me for this one. I’m pretty sure my wife would not let this one pass for me. Uh even if even if it was factual. Even if it was factual. You got to label this one. You got to fall on the sword for your for your wife and and just take it take it on this one. Again, I just gave you five reasons, Tea Oscar, that you could have used. And uh Shane, who who exited this room, uh would tell you he is the first person to tell you this is why uh he’s no longer a Seattle Mariner for sure. But speaking of guys that are former players, uh we do have to address one former Arizona Diamondback calling it a career. Uh former Arizona Diamondback Chris Owings announced his retirement from the game on Instagram this week. And honestly, Chris Owings was part of a really fun run, a really fun time here. Uh, when this team was once again a little better than they should have been, a little better than they had any business being. But, uh, yeah, Chris Owings spent from 2013 to 2018 as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks. He actually led all of baseball in 2016 with 11 triples and overall was just a consistent player throughout his time here. uh he kind of bounced around after his time with the Arizona Diamondbacks, had two seasons with the Colorado Rockies, uh and last played in 2023 for the Pittsburgh Pirates, but I mean, uh he had a he had a great he was a great part of a young team that formed here. He was along there with like Paul Goldmid, uh and Archie Bradley and some of those guys. So, uh it’s unfortunate. It’s this is the stuff that makes me feel old. Chris Owings retiring and uh again this is one of those uh like happy trails kind of moments. It’s it’s good for him. It’s uh I’m sure uh uh baseball as he has said has given him so much as as it has so many. But it’s also one of those moments that makes me feel very old. I had a I I have a very fun memory with some friends of ours that went to an Arizona Fall League game. Uh it was part of a great Arizona Diamondbacks uh fan group called the Dbacks. I called Devax Nation. And uh at one of the Arizona Fall League games that Chris Owings was participating in, uh they had a ball in which they wrote on the ball uh do you want us to chant for you? Uh which is something that they were doing during Arizona Fall League games. Now, as you can imagine, as I’ve described, or if you’ve ever been to an Arizona Fall League game, you can understand one that there’s not a lot of people there. And two, an organized chant, even by three people, is uh is quite a loud chant at an Arizona Fall League game. Uh so, it’s something that may or may not be unnerving to a young player that was having a group of individuals chant for him. Uh so, they threw what what I would call is a love note, right? When you when you write down to a girl, uh, do you like me? Yes, no, maybe. You have little check boxes in there. You toss it over. Maybe pass the note over. Hopefully, you get a maybe. That’s that’s that’s that’s the best you could wish for. You’re not going to get a yes. You’re most likely going to get a no, but hopefully you’ll get a maybe. Uh, in this case, it was just two check boxes of, uh, do you want us to chant for you, yes or no? Uh, and Matt Williams, former Arizona Diamondback player uh, and third base coach, uh, intercepted the ball. marked it no and sent it back uh to the group of fans. So again, just some fun memories and also another chance to reiterate how much fun it can be to go out to an Arizona Fall League game. I mean, right now you got some young guys out there for the Diamondbacks on the Salt River Rafters, Ride the Raft, uh that are doing some fun things and uh it’s just a great time to not only get an autograph or two from these young players, but you know, see their development and be along uh for part of the ride. Right now, I am seeing all of my friends uh run around out in the office with my dogs, so I figure it’s time to go ahead and ruin the audio on this podcast by bringing Cosmo in here. Cosmo, get over here. over here. Everybody wants to see him on the show. So, Cosmo is here. Uh, he’s here to bring joy to the podcast. Hi, bud. Yeah. You want to talk to the mic for a little while? Yeah. Say hi to everybody. All right. That’s Cosmo. Uh, again, things can get stale around here and I’m in my off season, so uh I bring my young son here to the office with me because I get tired of paying uh for his daycare. So, m good boy. Go be a burden to anybody and go hang out. But, uh, again, baseball, we got Seattle Mariners today. We got our Seback. So, that’s who we, uh, now get to focus in on. And hopefully we can watch this, uh, Seattle Mariners team, not not do what Shane thinks they’re going to do. I I think we as Diamondbacks fans or as Arizona sports fans can very much relate to what Shane is going through. And quite frankly, uh, we would probably be feeling pretty uneasy about things going our way. That’s what’s happening right now for the Mariners fan base. Considering that they’ve never really had anything go positively for them in regards to the playoffs in the World Series, this feels like uh an exciting time. But it also feels like you’re very nervous. Like you don’t want to at all start, you know, talking about uh any any any WS stuff or any championship thing until the series with the Toronto Blue Jays is done. Quite frankly, that’s smart, too, because this Blue Jays team is a very good team. They were the best team in the American League for a reason. And I think that quite frankly, their offense could wake up at any point. So, you know, the the edge here is that the Mariners starting pitching has been very good and has given them an opportunity to not maximize or not max out their bullpen like we’re seeing a lot of teams do this in the playoffs. Like, even good pitchers that are having good days aren’t going very deep in some cases for some of the playoff teams. Meanwhile, you got Yamamoto having a complete game for the Dodgers and you have Blake Snell going eight innings the day before, right? So, the Dodgers and their starting pitching is lethal and it looks very much like they are going to finish off the Brewers in Los Angeles and we’ll be waiting for whoever wins this series between the Mariners and the Blue Jays here in the World Series. So, again, I’m going to I’m going to let Shane slide on this one, but um yeah, I I think that he definitely uh is is maybe uneasy for a reason, but should be more positive for sure. Uh Ryan H was Let’s see. Killer Rex says, “Cosmo was about to rant on how much of a bum Tori Lavalo is, but Derrick cut him off.” Yep, he was. He was going to do it for you, Killer Rex, for sure. Uh Hunt Star said, “Also, the Pope watches the Pope is hate watching the Chicago Cubs.” And I think that’s very nice. Uh Deborah says, “Have Cosmo manage.” I I don’t know. I mean, again, he’s he Cosmo doesn’t like being told what to do. That’s something as his owner I can 100% confirm. So, if the front office is going to run this team the way they are with Lavalo as manager, there’s no way that dog is going to take orders from anybody. But, uh again, we thank you guys so much for your time today. Uh we will be back tomorrow with another 12 p.m. show. Um, but in the meantime, we’re gonna put together some fun stuff. Jacob Franklin is going to join us tomorrow to give his thoughts on what the Diamondbacks need to do this off seasonason, specifically on what we discussed the other day, which is the Diamondbacks needs and the order. Uh, and quite frankly, how they’re going to be able to get it done with that limited budget that they currently have. So, make sure to join us for that tomorrow. And again, we’ll be here at 12 PM for the rest of the week. So, very excited about that. Uh, let’s see. Jason in the chat said, “There’s a better chance that Sunday dinners at Cassad Tori is eggplant parm, not chicken parm.” Um, I don’t I don’t like to really reveal what we’re going to have, what Damon and I are going to have over at Toy Labalo’s house for Sunday dinner until we’ve we’ve had it. Uh, we like to keep it a mystery and in some cases, we don’t even know. We’re just kind of told what wine to bring to pair with it. So, again, I appreciate you guys uh doing that. Killer X says, “Cosmo wouldn’t have messed up Corbin Burns’ pitching schedule.” that you’re right about that that that I can’t disagree with. Cosmo understands who the ace of the staff is and definitely would have gone forward uh with with Corbin Burns on day one, but that’s a different that’s a different uh timeline that we don’t live in, unfortunately. That’s a much happier timeline. We live in this timeline for now. So, appreciate you guys hanging in there with us and being here uh for this particular episode. We’ll be back, like I said, tomorrow and Friday at 12 p.m. Until then, follow me on Twitter. I’m at Cap_caveman with a K. Shane is at Shane Def on Twitter. Our show is at phnx_dbacks. But as always, all roads lead to phnx_ports on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. We thank you again for your time. We’ll see you tomorrow. Someone talked about addressing the Catel Marte rumors. Maybe we’ll do that. Maybe we’ll address the Catel Marte rumors tomorrow. So, make sure to join us. We have a lot to talk about even though uh the news isn’t really happening yet for the Arizona Diamondbacks. So, again, we thank you guys so much for your time. We will see you tomorrow. Have a wonderful rest of your day. Behave yourselves. And remember kids, baseball is fun, but it’s so much more fun when you can bring your dog to work. [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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Corbin Carroll has solidified his status as the Arizona Diamondbacks’ premier defensive star, earning recognition as the team’s only Rawlings Gold Glove finalist for 2025. Can he win it and were there other deserving D-backs who got snubbed? We also preview Game 3 of the ALCS between the Blue Jays and our Sea-Backs aka the Mariners, give our coworkers cheese-related nicknames that would make Bryce Miller proud, and ponder whether sports fans missed a real opportunity to hire an actual witch to improve society instead of just giving their baseball team magical powers. Plus, Teoscar Hernandez reportedly skipped a hotel in Milwaukee because it was haunted — prompting us to share a list of all the things that would make us refuse to check in.
0:00 – Intro
1:30 – Mariners and Blue Jays
19:00 – Corbin Carroll only Gold Glove nominee
23:00 – Should Perdomo be nominated?
34:00 – Mariners Etsy Witch
45:00 – Paranormal Activity
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