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Chapter 1: What is discussed at the start of this section?
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Um... Jose Contreras. Jose Contreras? Oh my gosh, why is that my name?
Hello and welcome to Talkin' Baseball, presented by Fanatics Markets, where fans trade on sports. Fanatics Markets available now in the app stores. I'm Jake Storielli. That is Trevor Plouffe. Rob Scirocco producing. Dalton Feely putting a sheet together. Started this whole damn thing with my buddy John Boyd. And now look at us. Pope Leo tuning in, listening to his white socks.
How are you, Trev? I'm doing great. Popolio listening to the pod.
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Chapter 2: What teams are surging and which are struggling in the MLB?
Him and I both White Sox fans after I watched them play. I'm doing great, man. So good to be back from the road. I love being able to broadcast and being around the guys and really seeing the games up close and personal. But my goodness, it takes a toll, man. I need to see my family.
10 days on the road's a lot. Yeah. And also, I mean, you're talking about something else, but how that Pittsburgh twin series went down.
Oh, it's off one. Yeah. We'll get into it.
You know, I hope not.
I think it'll be more pirates.
It's pirate talk. Yeah. Yar. What else you got? Big daddy. You're back home. It's heard as a mascot.
I asked that. It's a parrot. Right. Pirates have parents. Just be a pirate. Yeah, that's fair. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What else is going on? I don't know. Nothing, man. Parrot's a little more friendly. I'm up here in 40. It's my birthday month.
I know it is. So if you want to wish me a happy birthday, go ahead. I'm excited. Middle, middle. We'll get there. As a lot of teams are getting there, there will be some month stuff. I did a lot of my numbers because it is June 1st as we do this. And it's funny to look back at some things like, you know, The New York Mets had a winning month.
If you wanted to do a funny business tweet, the Mets have technically had two winning months because March, I think they went 3-2 or 2-1 or something like that. And then, yeah, man, dude, I don't know what we're going to do. I was talking to our friend Peter Moylan over the weekend because I was watching some Braves baseball because they got into the Reds' bullpen, and oh, my God. Yeah.
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Chapter 3: What recent performances highlight the Seattle Mariners' success?
I have no idea what movie that is.
That, um... Jacob Elordi, Margot Robbie, that got... I know who they are. Yeah. We'll go back to baseball before bringing it back to Pope Leo in a little bit.
Can I... One last airplane thing before we get into the baseball. I actually have a video of it. I was so impressed. So you're creeping out watching the people in front of you. I'm not creeping out. A little, it's a little creepy. It's a little. I was sitting and there was a couple kitty corner for me. So one row in front to the left and they had executed perfectly the dual screen watch.
Nice.
It was flawless. Scenes were matching up perfectly. And I was like, do you know what you guys, they even paused it to get to use the restroom. Like you guys are like, whoa, practiced a lot or something, but they were great.
Cause the more you press those buttons, the more you get out of sync. Good for them. Yeah. Cause when the screens are off, that's just, it's brutal.
It was perfect.
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Chapter 4: How are the Chicago White Sox and Detroit Tigers performing this season?
And, yeah, this series has me not in a blender completely because Seattle homers 10 times in this series, where Arizona homered one time, which if I'm a Diamondbacks fan, I'm also sitting there like, damn, how did we... We took two of these games to extra innings? Like, these... could have pivoted a little easier.
The Seattle Mariners, who coming into the season felt like the ALS favorites, who even as they got off to a clunky start, it was like, it's still there and it's going to happen. It feels like it's full-blown happening. It feels like... This is going to continue because it's the formula that makes them so tantalizing.
The starting pitching is pretty amazing, including a bonus guy as Luis Castillo comes out of the bullpen in this final game. And Julio, man, puts up a monster month.
Yeah, this is a fun one. The piggyback thing is still so interesting to me. I posed the question, why not just go to a six-man rotation? But I guess they don't want to do that. They want to keep guys on their regular rest, whatever it is. In that first game, though, there's Luis Castillo. Hot. The first game. Look, the Dimeback's been playing good ball as well. as of late.
This kind of ran into a buzzsaw here. First game, in that top of the ninth, they do load the bases. The young guys who have been responsible for a lot of the good baseball, Walsh, Schmidt, Fernandez, and Troy, they just don't come through in a big spot. And that does kind of sum up the game for them. They do tie the game. And then if you can show...
Randy Rosarena's walk-off hit, where that pitch was. This is like Vlad Guerrero Sr. type stuff. That thing was in the left-hand batter's box. And he goes and somehow drives it in the gap. And that's not even a flare. He drives it in the gap. Very impressive by him right there. But Mariners are clicking right now, man. They are. And again, all this without Cal Raleigh.
So you count that offense back when he comes and he's healthy again. But yes, it's the same kind of formula that we've come to know and love from the Mariners. Great starting pitching, a bullpen that can get it done, and then we have the offense who's kind of clicking. You mentioned Julio's May has been great. Cole Young, a nice play at second base. I told Robbie to have it ready for me.
Do you got it, my guy, with a double play kind of volleyball bobble, I'll call it.
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Chapter 5: What are the key highlights from the walk-off weekend?
Yeah. The beard's trying to fight its way back in there. Edwin Encarnacion style. He's raking though. Yeah. If you're a lefty, that's a person you do not want to see at the dish. Um,
Let's head back over to our central, Trev, which, again, if you like races this year, how tight the Brewers' second bunch, which maybe they bury them with the Giants and the Rockies coming up, but the Cubbies, who have come back to the pack, and these Cardinals, who they refuse to go away, and it's...
I mentioned some of those beautiful baseball notes, whether it's young players, whether it's guys being studs. Nelson Velasquez getting his first look at MLB action in a couple years, and he goes big fly to start the game.
Chapter 6: How are the Cubs and Cardinals performing this season?
That's a pretty cool feeling. The Cubs continue to struggle, and they are not out of the woods yet. And these Cardinals continue to just... They play their brand of baseball, and it's working, and we get worried about the pitching here and there, but it's been enough to get them to this point in the season and have a winning record.
You know who took over this first game? Who's that? Atamas Adjaye.
Atamas Adjaye.
He was playing banger third base, making a bunch of great plays. Hits the homer.
Chapter 7: What impact do young players have on their teams?
Him and Yvonne Herrera, who I love the batting stance, obviously. Yeah. And that was, you know, it's big for them. Again, I think you're right. Like the Cardinals are not, they don't have anything that kind of like jumps out of the page. Jordan Walker, I guess does. Jordan Walker jumps out. In what he's doing. But other than that, it feels like we're just kind of getting, it's, it's,
it's like 2025 second half blue jays a little bit where we're just seeing somebody step up for them uh and it's different guys kind of every single night and and you're getting that they do feel like similar to the chicago white socks uh they feel like they're like a unit playing together and it is like they're having a great time you look at the ballpark
and the atmosphere there, which has turned into, or I guess it's turned back into one of the premier places to play because it kind of got away a little bit as the Cardinals had been struggling, but the atmosphere there is great. They're feeding off of it again. It's like next man up mentality type stuff, and They've just been a really, really fun watch.
And if it wasn't for Ben Brown doing his dang thing and PCA kind of stepping up, we could be talking about a Cardinals sweeping the Cubs. And right now they have identical records, right? Did I read that? Oh, let's double check. They do not. They're a half game above.
Chapter 8: What are the standout performances from the recent games?
Yeah.
31 and 26, 32 and 28. It's the Pirates and the Cubs have identical records. But yeah, I mean... I don't think this can be seen anymore as like a fun start for the Cardinals. Okay.
Okay, I see what you're saying, yeah. No, it feels like they have a sense of identity. Could it run out for any team? You know, when the Cubs got off to their amazing start, I didn't think they were going to have the may they did, so baseball can come for everyone. But no, I understand what you're saying.
And yeah, man, that ballpark environment, there's something special about that, a little more than tarps off, but just the place that way is rocking. And, you know, I know as listeners to this show know, we're very close to the PCA situation, we'll call it, because he's just a great dude. I know he's been getting a lot of clips out there that haven't been felt like highlights.
I loved what happened in game two. The crowd's chanting at him, overrated. Good. Like, talk your shit. We're your division rivals, your historic rivals. Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Well, what PCA can do is have a four-hit day. And, Trev, what I love, and I think it's... Baseball has a good mix of, like, David versus Goliath moments when it's, okay, here's this guy out of the bullpen who throws 102, and here's your backup catcher. And every now and then, that backup catcher's going to win, and a lot of times they'll lose. Trev, the final play of Game 2...
Palencia's on the bump, all-Storielli team Palencia, who also happens to throw 102. Jordan Walker's at the dish, 6'6", 250, freak show breakout player. He hits a ball in the gap that I couldn't believe that PCA catches this ball. The more I watch it, the more it doesn't feel... Like, if it happened in a video game, you'd be like, fuck, this game's dumb. Like, why do I even play this?
And that's, it's what makes him so tantalizing. It was the start of PCA was like, this defense is different level. Different level.
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