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Blair & Barker

Season Turnaround? + Yordan Álvarez's Elite Hitting with Geoff Blum

22 Jun 2026

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Chapter 1: What happened in the Blue Jays' weekend series against the Cubs?

5.363 - 26.68 Jeff Blair

All right. Well, Parker, you got a job interview or something? You're all dolled up. Push the on button there, big boy. Don't let it beat you. Hey. Look at that. It's early. How do I look? You look nice. Shame about the shoes, but... What's wrong with my shoes? Well, running shoes and a suit.

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26.93 - 34.261 Kevin Barker

Actually, it's not running shoes. Do you watch any sports whatsoever other than the sport that we're watching on a TV that nobody can see?

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34.282 - 35.083 Jeff Blair

Okay, what would you call them?

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Chapter 2: What roster moves did the Blue Jays make recently?

35.103 - 38.568 Kevin Barker

Sneakers. Whatever. It's not whatever.

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39.249 - 40.171 Jeff Blair

Well, they're not dress shoes.

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40.191 - 55.616 Kevin Barker

You should be wearing dress shoes. Yeah, nobody's going to see them anyway. It's about comfort. Style. Interesting color combination. That's the first thing you noticed, right? It wasn't, hey, you look sharp in this suit.

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55.636 - 55.797 Jeff Blair

I know.

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55.997 - 59.383 Kevin Barker

It's the, man, that color coordinating. Boy, you're bad at that.

59.403 - 60.264 Jeff Blair

Well, let me just.

Chapter 3: How did Luis Urias perform after joining the Blue Jays?

60.805 - 61.827 Jeff Blair

Well, no.

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61.907 - 63.79 Kevin Barker

That's exactly what you started with.

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63.91 - 66.094 Jeff Blair

You're wearing a vest. What, are you going to play pool or what?

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66.174 - 68.698 Kevin Barker

Well, it'll look nice whenever I put my jacket on. Anyhow.

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69.421 - 74.37 Jeff Blair

It is Blair and Barker for Monday. Barker's all dressed up. He's going to leave us in an hour for a job interview.

74.39 - 80.06 Kevin Barker

That's what you're mad about. I got it. I don't care. Boom. I don't care. I don't care about that.

Chapter 4: What are the signs of a potential turnaround for the Blue Jays this season?

80.08 - 88.294 Jeff Blair

I really care about that. I mean, they got you three guests. You'll be all right. I'll make it work. You'll work through it. You always do. I did for eight years. I'll make it work.

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88.454 - 88.735 Kevin Barker

All right.

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90.738 - 104.1 Jeff Blair

It's been a while. Jays and Astros tonight. Biggest homestand of the year. Ten games against two teams around him in the wild card spot, and then Bo Bichette returns with the Mets. Biggest homestand of the year so far.

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105.223 - 108.892 Kevin Barker

Yeah, I think we can start saying that every single time they take the field now.

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Chapter 5: How has Yordan Álvarez become one of the best hitters in baseball?

108.952 - 122.827 Jeff Blair

We probably can. Yeah. We probably can. Dylan Cease against Hunter Brown. The best news, well, there was a lot of good news for the Jays out of the weekend. That come-from-behind win on Saturday was great. Okamoto with the bomb, Varsha with the bomb, Vlade going the opposite way.

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123.268 - 141.076 Jeff Blair

The best news, though, the best news, though, was that it rained biblically in Chicago on Sunday, so after getting, what, five and two-thirds innings out of their starting pitches for the first two games, and You know, using Louie to get... Six outs. Six outs. Not complaining about it. It had to be done, man. Boy, I'll tell you what, though.

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141.096 - 144.101 Jeff Blair

That Sunday, that weather, that rain out, that was like a godsend.

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144.121 - 147.006 Kevin Barker

Yeah, I'm not sure how much more you can run Patrick Corbin out there.

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Chapter 6: What impact does Yordan Álvarez have on his teammates?

147.066 - 153.377 Kevin Barker

I mean, it sounds to me like they're going to try. What's his next start? Friday? I believe Friday. I think it's Friday, yeah. I mean, that's...

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153.357 - 179.455 Jeff Blair

Right now, just the way it's setting up, Shane Bieber was supposed to... He's going to be bounced back. He was supposed to start Sunday. He's bounced back now to Tuesday, which is tomorrow. So Dylan Cease will start tonight, followed by Shane Bieber and Trey Savage. That is against the Houston Astros. Then the... then the Texas Rangers are into town. I want to get this out of the way, too.

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179.535 - 183.52 Jeff Blair

I remind you, tomorrow's game, 4-0-7 because of the World Cup.

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Chapter 7: How is Hunter Brown evolving as the Astros' ace?

183.58 - 202.04 Jeff Blair

So 4-0-7 is the first pitch tomorrow. I mean, we do have a lot to talk about. Look, after that 16-2 embarrassment on Friday, and there's no other way to describe it, it was a flat-out ass-kicking by the – well, it was. It was an ass-whooping. It was a whooping. They got whooped by the Chicago Cubs.

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202.06 - 210.636 Kevin Barker

I like it when you get some rest. They got whooped. You know? Went to the cottage. You lay on the side of the water. A little fishing. Tarps off.

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211.037 - 211.638 Jeff Blair

No, no tarps.

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211.698 - 211.938 Kevin Barker

No?

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Chapter 8: What strategies will the Astros employ as the trade deadline approaches?

212.199 - 214.964 Kevin Barker

No. Well rested.

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215.825 - 220.634 Jeff Blair

I don't know about well rested. They'd have to drive back. Yeah. So I don't know about well rested.

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221.853 - 225.077 Kevin Barker

It was a good win yesterday, though. Or the day before yesterday.

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225.297 - 250.649 Jeff Blair

Yeah, it was all good. Yeah, it was good. No, it was all good. Anyhow, yeah, so the Jays getting whooped. 16-2 on Friday. Came back for a come-from-behind win on Saturday after being down 5-0. And then, as I said, mercifully, it pissed rain on Sunday, so the Jays got to fly home and didn't have to use their bullpen. The Jays have made a couple of roster moves today.

251.15 - 272.639 Jeff Blair

Well, one in particular, they made a minor league signing. I'm not certain we really need to care about that unless you're a big Ryland Thomas fan. But the Jays did acquire Luis Urias, pardon me, from the Arizona Diamondbacks organization five years ago to be You'd be going, wow, getting a dude to hit like 23 bombs, I think, from Milwaukee, if I'm not mistaken.

273.3 - 295.09 Jeff Blair

Anyhow, he has been acquired, and Johendrik Penango has been optioned down to AAA. So let's take a look at the Jays' lineup for tonight's game before we go any further. There you go. Springer, Lucas, Guerrero, Kirk, Varsho, Okamoto, Sanchez, Clement, Jimenez. We mentioned Dylan Cease on the mound. Ernie Clement and Vlad, by the way, leading all-star voting.

295.13 - 311.209 Jeff Blair

Ernie Clement, I think he's probably already basically been voted in based on the vote difference right now. Kaz Okamoto's just behind at third base. So yeah, so we covered a lot of ground. First of all, let's get to the actual news. The roster move, Penango down, Urias up here.

312.269 - 321.663 Kevin Barker

Yeah, look, it is what it is. I mean, it's an extra guy off the bench, you know, a middle infielder who can, you know, do some things, I guess. You know, it's the pinango thing.

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