Luke Lipinski

But they've been pretty successful against a lot of these other teams on their schedule, and most of them are teams they'd probably be competing with for a wildcard spot.

So the reality of being in a division with the Dodgers is you're not going to catch them over 162 games.

But if you can get into the playoffs...

That's really all you can ask is the Diamondbacks last time they got in, they took the Dodgers out.

So, you know, it's been good in some ways because you're going to get Corbin Burns back and you're going to get Justin Martinez and A.J.

Puck back if you can just hang around.

But it's been bad a little bit lately because starting pitching was the strength and it's completely fallen off a cliff here the last two weeks.

Yeah, well, you pronounced it right, and we're all trying to figure it out because he's on a 27-game hitting streak now after he had a few more hits today, and this is a guy that...

I mean, he's been in the system, or he was in the Diamondbacks system like 11 years ago, and he played a little bit and really couldn't hit very well, and so they kept him around, but then they would send him down.

He ended up on a couple different teams, came back, back to the minors.

We were asking General Manager Mike Hazen about a week ago, and he was like, yeah, I think he has a lifetime contract.

We just didn't even realize it.

And they've liked him for a while.

They like his versatility, but he's really always struggled to hit, and he's

Well, I don't think they'll move Booker because Ishby has been pretty consistent with stuff like that.

And he's been consistent with Booker really since day one.

And I do think he believes they're going to win a championship.

And we're talking about this today, like he says that and we all kind of roll our eyes.

But then we're like, well, a year ago, he said, you know, just doing this and that is going to take them from being a team that's at the bottom of the league to suddenly making the playoffs.

And it actually happened.