Bobby and Alex share, in great detail, everything they watched, did, and thought about on Saturday! Then, they create a drinking game (whatever “drinking” means to you!) for the 2024 All-Star week events by each sharing five rules for your at-home imbibing while watching the festivities. Finally, Alex is put through a gauntlet in this week’s…Lineup Construction (?).
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Tell us a little bit about what you saw and be able to relay that message to Cora when you watch Kimbrel pitch and kind of help out so he wasn’t tipping his pitches. So tipping pitches we hear about it all the time. People are home on the stand what tipping pitches all about? That’s amazing. That’s remarkable.
BOBBY: Alex, can I tell you about my weekend? I want to fill you in. I want to fill you and the listeners in. Just on, like, the TikTok of, like, what you— it’s— it’s Sunday right now so, you know, Sunday is still a day full of potential. Anything can happen. We’re sitting down here to record this podcast.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: But I want to fill you in mainly like—
ALEX: Although it’s— although it’s like 6:30 Eastern Time, so the clock is ticking.
BOBBY: Just when I’m— just when I’m getting started. Look what I got here in my hands.
ALEX: Got it. Okay. All right. Oh, yes, there it is.
BOBBY: The— the rattling of those ice cubes in this ice latte. I’m getting really— I’m gonna just get really into ASMR on the pod. Maybe that will get us, like, 100,000 new listeners. a
ALEX: I know. We say it every couple weeks. Eventually, we’ve got to just take the plunge and do it.
BOBBY: What if we just put it in the title? Like, ASMR and then the normal title.
ALEX: Right. It’s like SEO.
BOBBY: Right. Exactly. We just put like LeBron in front of all of our titles for some reason. It’s like, “This is a baseball podcast, but they talk about LeBron every week?”
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: “Interesting. I’ll check that out.” And then they just get so wor— won over by our winning personalities.
ALEX: How was your weekend?
BOBBY: I wanted to just tell you about my Saturday. You know, kind of like— honestly, like, hour by hour, everything that happened on Saturday.
ALEX: Okay. All right.
BOBBY: So, I woke up, naturally.
ALEX: That’s good.
BOBBY: Came downstairs, made a coffee, had a little granola bar. Came in, hung with my parents for a little while, chatted it up with them, played with Stevie outside. Then me, my dad and my mom— actually, wait, I— I made lunch. I had a Greek yogurt and some fruit and granola, and honey. And then me, my dad and my mom, we watched the Michael Mann film Heat. You familiar with Heat?
ALEX: Uh-hmm. I’m familiar with it.
BOBBY: Check that one out. I gotta say—
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: —what a picture.
ALEX: Wonderful [2:09] banger.
BOBBY: Yeah, of course. I mean, you don’t need another guy telling you Heat is cool.
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: This had nothing to do with the events of online the last two weeks, the discourse around Michael Mann, nothing to do with that. We just opened up—
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: —Paramount+ and Heat was there at the top. And my dad was like, “Good movie.” I was like, “We should watch it.” My mom stuck around for the whole movie. I was really proud of her. And then, you know, just a couple hours passed, took Stevie for a walk around the block, had dinner, then watched Oppenheimer, another fantastic film.
ALEX: Great. Of course.
BOBBY: Another three-hour film. Two three-hour films, one Saturday, two five-star masterpieces.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: And then I went to bed. That was all of my Saturday. Everything that happened on Saturday.
ALEX: Nothing else?
BOBBY: Not— nothing else happened,
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: That was the whole day. That was all of the events and things that I thought about and did on Saturday.
ALEX: Right. Nothing else. Nothing else happened.
BOBBY: That was the entire Saturday. And I just wanted to let everybody know for full transparency, that’s everything that happened to me on Saturday and everything that I didn’t thought about on Saturday, from the great state of Pennsylvania, by the way.
ALEX: Right. Yeah, I was— I was at a wedding. We’re not together. We’re on separate coasts, once again. And I had nothing to talk about at that wedding.
BOBBY: Hmm.
ALEX: It was nothing that happened as I was rolling up.
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: And so I didn’t have anything to talk about the whole night.
BOBBY: Okay. Well, then, great. Everybody had a great time, Saturday— just a normal Saturday.
ALEX: Very normal.
BOBBY: And that makes this a normal Sunday, which means we just have to do the Tipping Pitches podcast and just focus on baseball, which is what we always do every Sunday.
ALEX: Right. Well, we al— we always do.
BOBBY: We would never delve outside of the realms of something as germane and— and currently relevant as the all-star game. That would never happen. I appreciate—
ALEX: I’m— I’m like bursting at the seams over here. I’m like—
BOBBY: I really appreciate you laughing, because that was, like, a really elaborate bit to drive it home, the joke when you realized—
ALEX: That was a really—
BOBBY: —that I wasn’t gonna say anything else. So thank you. I appreciate you giving me that courtesy laugh. I hope people at home are also laughing, because that’s what we do, you know? We all just laugh. Today on the podcast, we are going to preview the all—
ALEX: It’s on [4:18] each of— each of my jokes and be like, “I hope the people are laughing at home.” Let me know in the comments if you laughed at that joke.
BOBBY: They’re just out of frame, laughing at the podcast. Let me know in the comments. Did you see that Spotify added comments?
ALEX: No way.
BOBBY: To podcasts? Yeah, man. Yeah.
ALEX: That’s an awful idea.
BOBBY: Now, we’re really gonna know what the listeners think about you.
ALEX: Jesus.
BOBBY: I think it’s in beta, though.
ALEX: Typical. Typical Spotify move. Beta company. I can say it.
BOBBY: We’re— we’re gonna— no, you can’t. We’re going to preview the MLB All-Star game and as well as, I guess, the Home Run Derby by playing a fun game called the Tipping Pitches 2024 All-Star Game Drinking Game. Game twice in the name there. Long weekend. So we’ll— we’ll run through some— some fun things that we have predicted for you to play along at home in the Tipping Pitches All-Star Game Drinking Game. Just gonna keep saying it until it sounds normal.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: And then, of course, we’ll close with— with our ranking segment, which this week, I’m calling lineup construction, and you’ll see why when we get there.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: But before we do all of that fun stuff, I am Bobby Wagner.
ALEX: I am Alex Bazeley.
BOBBY: And you are listening to Tipping Pitches.
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BOBBY: Thank you to this week’s new patrons. We got another Alex, Alex. Another one. Another— the DJ Khaled meme, another one.
ALEX: Yeah, add them to the group chat.
BOBBY: Every four days, another person signing up for our Patreon named Alex. Thank you, Alex. And thank you, Kate. Tipping Pitches Patreon popping off. Patreon episodes, some of our best work. Can’t think of any other place that you would want to be inhaling the news of the world than the Tipping Pitches Slack. You know, it’s a great it’s a great place. It’s a— it’s a forum for wonderful scholarship.
ALEX: It is a great place for— for breaking news, I will say. It’s like a— it’s a filtered social media feed, basically.
BOBBY: We’re breaking news to happen, which on Saturday, it didn’t. I just watched two movies.
ALEX: Oh, oh. Yeah. I’m just saying, just abstractly speaking.
BOBBY: Before we— before we get into our All-Star Game Drinking Game, third times the charm. Still didn’t feel good coming out, you know? Help me out. What should we actually call it? I don’t know. Before we get into that, a reminder, link in the description if you would like to come to the Tipping Pitches Brooklyn meetup. It is less than two weeks away, July 27th 6:00 PM, the Brooklyn Cyclones game in Brooklyn, New York. They play on Coney Island, and I got flamed last year for not pronouncing the name of their ballpark correctly, so I’m not— I’ve been very pointedly avoiding saying it. Maybe you could say it. Maybe you could do a little bit of the hosting work.
ALEX: I only recognize MCU Park.
BOBBY: I agree.
ALEX: Just so you know.
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: Back— back in the— the Washington Square News Style Guide.
ALEX: Exactly.
BOBBY: What did MCU stand for? And please do not say Marvel Cinematic Universe.
ALEX: No. Of course not.
BOBBY: Since I saw it wash over your face.
ALEX: Municipal Credit Union.
BOBBY: Oh. At least that’s easy to pronounce.
ALEX: It is. That’s good. That’s a— that’s a good sponsorship. Credit Unions are solid.
BOBBY: Better than banks, worse than hospitals.
ALEX: Right. Exactly.
BOBBY: One more time for good measure, Saturday, July 27th Brooklyn Cyclones meetup, 6:00 PM. We will be there. Plenty of other people will be there. You have until, like, a couple days before the event or, I guess, the day before the event, to actually purchase the tickets via the link that’s in the description there. So— and that— those tickets will mean that if you buy through that link, you’ll just be seated in the same section as us and everybody else who’s attending for the meetup. But do that leg work early. Get— get that— get those tickets bought so that we know how many people are coming, and we know the nature and the scope of our— of our power that night, frankly. What we’re— what we’re accomplishing, what we’re capable of accomplishing. And then in— in— in August, we’ll be doing a separate meetup on Saturday, August 17th at the Chicago Cubs game. There is a Google form in— in the description, a link to a Google form in the description to express your interest in that game, with a little bit more information about pricing and what those tickets will look like. We can’t get like a special link that buys— I’m telling you this live too on the podcast, we haven’t talked about this.
ALEX: Uh-hmm. Yeah.
BOBBY: We can’t get like a special link that gets you tickets for the Cubs, because the Cubs are, like, kind of a hot ticket over here at Wrigley Field. Like, you guys figure it out. We don’t have to do this leg work for you. So more info in the Google form that’s in the description about how you can, you know, basically, reserve your spot with the group. And then once we have a better idea of how many tickets are needed, I will let people know more about how we will distribute those tickets and how people can pay for them, et cetera. But Saturday, August 17th, 1:00— 1:40, I think. I think 1:40—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —if 1:40 was the game— feels like the game time, 1:40, in Chicago, Illinois. Okay. That was a lot of housekeeping, which means I am tired of talking, which means you’re gonna kick off our All-Star Game Drinking Game, fourth time.
ALEX: MLB All-Star Game Drinking Game, the game.
BOBBY: Which also includes the Home Run Derby.
ALEX: So you’re— right. So the way we did it, we each came to the table with a handful of, I guess, prompts, triggers—
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: —for drinking throughout. So— so you included Home Run Derb— the Home Run Derby in this? Is that correct?
BOBBY: Oh, you’re— you bet your bottom dollar I did.
ALEX: Okay, great.
BOBBY: And I want to say, for— for listeners at home, it doesn’t have to be alcohol that you’re drinking. You could be drinking whatever you want. Me, I’ll be drinking a— a mocktail concoction of tart cherry juice and Spin Drift. Spin Drift, please sponsor the pod. If you don’t, I will retroactively go back in here and bleep that out. No free sponsors.
ALEX: So you would— you would publish it live, and then they have, what, 24 hours to sponsor?
BOBBY: Like a tick down clock, kind of like, you know, Doomsday?
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: Which— just having watched Oppenheimer, top of mind.
ALEX: You’re very familiar with, yeah.
BOBBY: To be clear, you liked—
ALEX: Yeah, what—
BOBBY: —Oppenheimer because you were like, thankfully, now the US has what it needs to conduct democracy around the globe, right? Like, it has the proper military might. Like, that’s the takeaway that you had from Oppenheimer, the film?
ALEX: Yeah. Well, I was like, someone has to do it, right? Like—
BOBBY: Right. Might not be popular by necessary.
ALEX: Why— why not us?
BOBBY: Great. Just wanted you on the record there.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: So the drinking game.
ALEX: So the drinking game, I—
BOBBY: How did you go about coming up with things for this? Just whatever came to the dome?
ALEX: It really— I just kind of started going like what—
BOBBY: Just free association Bazeley?
ALEX: I actually— I did go back and— I didn’t watch, obviously, the full all-star game from last year, but I did— you can find the full game on YouTube.
BOBBY: You should’ve lied and said you did.
ALEX: Shouldn’t have said I did. I did go and kind of click through inning by inning to sort of see if there were any trends that kind of came up, things that frequently happened during the all-star game. And then also just started jotting down, what are the things that we’ve been talking about this year, what’s on everyone’s lips, what are the things that are definitely going to come up? And I went from there. And then winnowed the list down to a solid five-ish.
BOBBY: Yes, I have five things as well. We will be sharing what those triggers are, as well as what you need to do if that gets triggered, what type of drink, what type of consumption needs to be done? Do you have any like— like, wild executions? Like, you have to go outside and run around the block? Nothing like that, right?
ALEX: No. That’s—
BOBBY: Okay. Because you didn’t go to state school. I mean, neither did I.
ALEX: Right. Yeah.
BOBBY: We went to college together. I feel like I kind of [12:45]
ALEX: But you, like, went to a state school in spirit.
BOBBY: Sort of, yes. Like, I had all my friends went to state schools, and I visited them once or twice a year. But I feel like I had, like, pre-K for state schools, like in high school.
ALEX: That’s actually true.
BOBBY: Yeah, thank you. It made sense. Thank you. I landed that.
ALEX: No. All of these are very straightforward. I have— so— so again, we have not seen each other’s lists. We will kind of collectively, I think— are— are we deciding our own penalties? Are we— are we discussing them?
BOBBY: Well, I think they could be up for discussion, but I think that— I mean, if you feel that it should be something, then you’re the author of your own destiny.
ALEX: Okay. I appreciate that.
BOBBY: Normal thing to say to your podcast co-host.
ALEX: Uh-huh.
BOBBY: Feeling really normal on this episode. Normal time to be doing a podcast about baseball, just like in the world.
ALEX: I’m feeling super norm— I mean, I feel great, first of all.
BOBBY: Okay.
ALEX: I’m— I’m in a great head space. I am not tired, whatsoever.
BOBBY: You don’t look or sound it.
ALEX: No. Didn’t do— didn’t— certainly didn’t do any consumption in the last 24 hours.
BOBBY: Consumption, that’s what— that’s what got the sailors, right?
ALEX: What?
BOBBY: Isn’t that the name of like a disease?
ALEX: Scurvy?
BOBBY: That— that’s tuberculosis. I was wrong. It’s just another name for tuberculosis. I thought consumption was more so like gangrene. In my head, consumption and gangrene are the same thing.
ALEX: I don’t think I’ve ever heard the word consumption used to describe like a medical malady.
BOBBY: Yeah, you need to watch more old timey movies or read more old timey novels.
ALEX: Oh, so this was like a 1950s thing or whatever?
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: It’d be like, “He has consumption.”
BOBBY: Yes. I think it was before they officially named it tuberculosis. Kind of like how they were just like, “This is corona.” And then they were like, “No, now you have to call it Covid-19, because there are other coronaviruses that cause normal sicknesses.”
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: Remember that? But we have the internet now. Back then, they were just like, “Well, consumption is consumption, and I’m not changing my mind.” Personal liberty. Don’t— I really don’t know how we got here.
ALEX: I really— I— it’s—
BOBBY: I apologize to you.
ALEX: I’m— I’m doing great. I’m doing great.
BOBBY: Okay, good. Can you share your first thing? Do you want to share your first thing or do you want to just keep kind of vamping in this weird nether region that we’re in of podcasts where we’re not talking about anything, but kind of also sharing a lot of weird facts?
ALEX: Yeah. I think we should keep doing that.
BOBBY: At some point, it would become performance art. Like we say that we’re gonna—
ALEX: It feels little like performance art to me already.
BOBBY: We say we’re gonna get to the All-Star Game Drinking Game, the game, plus the Home Run Derby, and we never actually do. Like, we just keep going, keep going.
ALEX: I— I don’t think I’m gonna make that if I’m— if I’m being quite honest.
BOBBY: All right. Well, let’s end— end the pod.
ALEX: Bye.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: Hello, everybody. I’m Alex Rodriguez.
ALEX: First on my list, someone makes a reference to things being bigger in Texas, right? This year’s game—
BOBBY: Oh. Oh, great one.
ALEX: —being played in— in Arlington.
BOBBY: Yep.
ALEX: You know it’s gonna happen.
BOBBY: Yep, yep. Lockheed Martin signs are bigger in Texas.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: Dome stadiums are bigger in Texas.
ALEX: Someone’s gonna hit a home run, and they’re gonna be like, “Even the home runs are bigger than Te— bigger in Texas.”
BOBBY: Bigger than Texas as well.
ALEX: Bigger than Texas [16:10]
BOBBY: Fucking hit it to Oklahoma if you want.
ALEX: Topeka.
BOBBY: That’s Kansas.
ALEX: I know. That was just a different location.
BOBBY: Gonna hit multiple sta— okay, wow. That’s a— that’s a bomb. Gonna have to [16:22]
ALEX: I’m just providing an alternate landing spot and I’m not saying it has to also go to Oklahoma.
BOBBY: Well, why stop there? Why not just hit it to Binghamton? Just naming cities at this point. I love this one. How many drinks? Probably just one, right?
ALEX: This feels— this feels like a one— a one-sipper. Now, again, I— I was kind of asking you about this before we started recording, right? Some of these are potentially things that may happen, like, periodically throughout the game, right?
BOBBY: Yeah [16:52] every time.
ALEX: I think— I think— you dri— you drink every time?
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: Now, this one, I— I don’t know how often it’s gonna— it’s kind of like, once you’ve made the joke, you can’t keep going back to that well, but you never know. You never know. So one drink, someone says things are bigger in Texas.
BOBBY: I like it.
ALEX: Boom, send it.
BOBBY: How about— can we do a bonus on this one?
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: If we go to, like, a Tom Verducci sideline report, where he’s the one who says, “Things are bigger in Texas,” can we make it like a three-drinker?
ALEX: Okay, sure. Yes, yeah.
BOBBY: Because, you know, it’s like this weird Fox broadcast, like they do during the World Series, where they have— they have Verducci and Rosenthal. And Rosenthal is on one side, like talking about the NL and Verducci is on the other side talking about the AL, like they’re the fucking Montagues and Capulets. I don’t understand why they do that. I guess it’s just to get like more people involved in the broadcast and—
ALEX: And more coverage?
BOBBY: Right. And Rosenthal and Verducci are both extremely popular broadcasters. But I think that, like, Verducci is going to be in the booth again, because he has been on Saturday Fox broadcasts this year. I was watching Orioles-Yankees yesterday. Oh, I left that out of my— of my Saturday diary. Fucking journalistic malpractice by me. I’m so sorry to everybody listening at home.
ALEX: How can I trust anything else that you said happened to you this weekend?
BOBBY: Literally, so many more things could have happened yesterday that I forgot to mention. Huge things even that I just left out.
ALEX: Yeah, but— but— but I don’t think so.
BOBBY: Probably not, yeah., I mean, I took detailed notes of everything I did.
ALEX: There— you’re— there— there are like— there are like eight broadcasters for the all-star game, right? Because, like, they also have the, like, A-Rod, Big Papi, Kevin Burkhardt crew, who they’ll bring in. Obviously, I mean, they’ll be there, I don’t know, doing pre and postgame.
BOBBY: Right.
ALEX: And then, like— and last year’s broadcast, they just—
BOBBY: And— and Jeets, right?
ALEX: And Jeets as well. Oh, my God.
BOBBY: Jeets will be there, too. How could you forget Jeets? maybe because of the fact he doesn’t really contribute much exciting to that broadcast, so you forgot him.
ALEX: I don’t— I don’t— I don’t know that I’ve actually— that he has said anything that has, like, stuck with me. Like, I can’t even make fun of him, because I’m kind of, like, I don’t even know like what— what do you do here exactly?
BOBBY: And you just Don Draper memed him. You don’t even think about him at all. Brutal. It’s the first ballot Hall of Famer right there.
ALEX: Yeah. Sorry.
BOBBY: Be funnier, I guess. I don’t know. Be like Big Papi.
ALEX: Yeah, get more range in more ways than one.
BOBBY: Okay. There are a lot of broadcasters. I was reading that on the Wikipedia page before we got on the Zoom call.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Okay, my first one, and I kind of have a sneaking suspicion that you have one that’s similar to this, but we’ll see.
ALEX: All right.
BOBBY: Take a drink every time an announcer explains who Livvy Dunne is and why she’s famous.
ALEX: Okay. So I did have one like this on my list.
BOBBY: Okay. Yeah. I kind of expected to— expected. How— well, how did you phrase it?
ALEX: You— well, so how I phrased it, now again, I don’t know if she’s going to be at the game. She may very well be. She’s not in school over the summer.
BOBBY: I think she will be. She’s like— she was like at the red carpet event last week—
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: —leading up to it, right?
ALEX: Yeah, I think you’re right. So— so what I wrote down is, if she’s mentioned on the broadcast, it’s a sip. If she’s shown on broadcast, there’s two sips. If she’s interviewed—
BOBBY: I love it.
ALEX: —you finish your drink.
BOBBY: Oh. Oh, wow.
ALEX: But [20:18] too crazy—
BOBBY: Yeah, that escalator clause in there. This is exactly like— like—
ALEX: Exactly.
BOBBY: We got like— if you get 500 ABs, this contract option vests. Man.
ALEX: Maybe that’s— maybe that’s too much.
BOBBY: She’s gonna be shown, though. You can’t like— that feels too likely for a drink finish. Maybe, like, you could like—
ALEX: Well— but— but an interview. In the— the interview is the— is the drink finish, which, in theory, is only gonna happen once.
BOBBY: That’s true. What if you do it— I like where your head is at, honestly.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Worried that she definitely will be interviewed, though.
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: And I kind of don’t want people to be, like, chugging their drink. We’re, like, making a drinking game, but like trying to make it pleasurable at the same time. Like, drinking games are just— they’re dumb. What if you do like a you have to fountain the whole time she’s talking? And then you can stop when she stops talking and then [21:05]
ALEX: All right. That’s good.
BOBBY: —she’s talking.
ALEX: That’s good. Even better.
BOBBY: Like I said, pre— pre-K for state school.
ALEX: Fountain. I thought about having people fountain during the Stand Up to Cancer moment, but I figured maybe that’s— and that wouldn’t go over well. It’s also like a minute and a half long.
BOBBY: Is it really? I feel like it’s like 15 seconds, but it feels like the longest 15 seconds.
ALEX: No. It’s like, actually— it’s up there a while.
BOBBY: Okay, great.
ALEX: As it should be.
BOBBY: Don’t they, like, not let you actually write what you want to write? They, like, give you pre-written Stand Up to Cancer signs.
ALEX: Yo. What?
BOBBY: I think that’s true. Although, we aren’t—
ALEX: Wait, like— like to everyone? Because, like, everyone in the crowd has one.
BOBBY: Yeah, I don’t know. I don’t know if they let you write it yourself. I think they, like, pre-write them.
ALEX: That’s an insane conspiracy theory. I love this.
BOBBY: This could be a totally insane conspiracy
ALEX: No, I love this. Because it’s a little bit of a wild card. Everyone in the stands has a sign and a pen to write something on.
BOBBY: Right.
ALEX: Like—
BOBBY: Like, knowing baseball fans and the type of people, like, if you put that at Yankee Stadium, it’d be like 30% it would say, “Deez nuts.” You know? Like—
ALEX: Right. Well, you just have to get a few friends together, and then someone writes the F, someone writes the I, someone writes the R, someone writes the E, someone writes the R, someone writes the O, the B, you know?
BOBBY: Oh.
ALEX: Like, get a little like— like, message— like, message going. Now, you went all this—
BOBBY: You went— you went for R-O-B. I thought you were going for J-O-E.
ALEX: Oh, J-O—
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: J-O-E?
BOBBY: Yeah. Joe.
ALEX: Oh. Oh, God.
BOBBY: Connor Joe, I’m talking about.
ALEX: See, nothing different [22:43]
BOBBY: Not— no. Not another Joe. Yeah, definitely not. Not any politically-oriented Joe.
ALEX: Right. Also, I’m sure all of this would go over very well with— with everyone else around you in the stands.
BOBBY: I do think that Rob Manfred is the type of person who would lose his shit if there was, like, a shot of a sign that was like, “Stand Up to Cancer, fire Rob Manfred.”
ALEX: Yeah [23:06]
BOBBY: I would use it as—
ALEX: —free— free speech.
BOBBY: I would use it— right. I would use it as an opportunity to advertise for Bespoke AI appliances, because I don’t think that’s taking up enough space in the ballpark.
ALEX: Right. Now, would you advertise appliances themselves or are you, like, saying, “Please advertise your Bespoke AI appliances to me. Like, I need more of it.”?
BOBBY: Both
ALEX: Like, are you doing the work at— okay.
BOBBY: Somebody— a listener sent us a photo on Twitter— sorry, sorry. I’m sorry. On X, the everything platform, or potentially, the everything app. Still not sure which one it is. And they were like, “Yo, I’m at fucking Home Depot or whatever. Here’s the Bespoke AI appliance.” And they sent a photo of it. Did you see this?
ALEX: I did, yeah.
BOBBY: And nowhere on the appliance can you tell where the AI comes into play, still. So it just looks like an appliance with a screen, and allegedly, they have the AI baked into the screen. It’s whatever is the screen is doing, there’s AI in there. I don’t know what’s— what’s happening inside there. But if you crack that bad boy open, you’d see so much AI, like you wouldn’t believe about how much AI is in there.
ALEX: So much AI bouncing around. You’d be like, “I didn’t realize I could fit this much AI into the—
BOBBY: They fucking—
ALEX: —the washing machine.
BOBBY: Right. They use the thing from Honey, I Shrunk the Kids to get more AI in this washing machine. I don’t know what this podcast is anymore.
ALEX: No, but I never did anyway. Okay. So we have everything bigger in Texas. We’ve got a little Livvy Dunne esc— are we doing the escalator? Is that too much?
BOBBY: I think we should do— I think we should do your escalator. I like— I like your escalator.
ALEX: Okay. All right. Okay.
BOBBY: But let’s do a combination of— of yours and mine. So— so one drink if she’s mentioned. Two drinks if she’s shown. Fountain when she’s being interviewed.
ALEX: Right. Exactly. Okay.
BOBBY: Okay. We should be writing these down, because we should make a graphic of this, and then we should share it all week, because people will be like, “Oh, I’ll pass this around and play this. This is fun. This is how we make content.”
ALEX: That’s— damn. What’d you get your marketing degree from?
BOBBY: From the fucking— the hard knocks of the ringer.com.
ALEX: So— so that one was kind of a— a combo.
BOBBY: Yeah, I’ll go again.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: Take a drink if someone refers to Bruce Bochy as an old school manager, or the type of manager that they don’t make anymore. Bruce Bochy will be managing the American League team because he is the reigning—
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: —World Series manager. World Series winning manager. Congratulations to the Texas Rangers. He is also the hometown manager, so I feel like there will be a lot of discussion about Bochy and about his storied baseball career, all of his titles with the San Francisco Giants. The culture setting type of manager that he is coming to the Texas Rangers as they were refitting their roster for contention and adding all of these guys, bringing up all of these young guys. It was definitely a— a through line for the postseason last year. To me, honestly, one of the more interesting through lines of the postseason. I’m not actually even rolling my eyes all that much about this particular conversation. But I am kind of rolling my eyes at the idea of picturing the people who will be saying this, being like, “Man, Bruce Bochy, I mean, I just— we— we— we used— we used to be a country.” You know? A guy who had the guts to go out there and put in Sergio Romo again.
ALEX: Right. It’s also like, is he an old school manager? Is he just, like, old?
BOBBY: OId. Yeah, that— exactly. But that’s what I mean, they will definitely be like, “This guy is just like— he trusts his gut.”
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: “You know? And his gut is telling him not— not what the nerds are saying. His gut is telling him [26:44]
ALEX: Right. He doesn’t— he doesn’t manage with his head. He manages with his heart.
BOBBY: Yeah. Or he manage it with something else.
ALEX: Yeah. A secret third thing.
BOBBY: That’s mine, one drink. Little thing—
ALEX: That’s good. One— one—
BOBBY: Will— will definitely be mentioned. Could honestly be like a— a sideline report. I’m really hung up on the sideline report thing.
ALEX: I know, you love this. Should we ju— I— do you think we can find like a sideline report only feed? Someone at Fox can hook us up with that.
BOBBY: I will be cutting—
ALEX: We won’t share the link with anyone.
BOBBY: I’ll be cutting that feed and running it live on our Patreon.
ALEX: Okay. Well, so I take back to what I just said to the Fox employee who shares that link with us, but—
BOBBY: No, they can send it to us, and then that’ll save us some work. And— and you will be doing the play by play in between. So we’ll just— we’ll have you do the throw to Ken and Tom.
ALEX: Who’s in the— it’s— I guess it’s— it’s Joe and— and John, right? Who will be up there in the booth?
BOBBY: I— I think it’s Joe, John and Tom. They added a third person to the booth.
ALEX: Oh, and— and Tom will be up there. Okay.
BOBBY: Yeah. Well, I— I don’t— I actually don’t know how they will—
ALEX: [27:49] down.
BOBBY: He’s here, he’s there, he’s everywhere, ladies and gentlemen. He’s in your walls right now as you listen to this podcast. Tom Verducci, he’s got a fucking report for you. Just— just knock on the wall twice and he’ll come bursting out like the Kool-Aid man. How they’ve been doing it— that’s what I was saying when I was watching the Orioles-Yankees game yesterday on the Fox Saturday broadcast. He was in the booth, but I know that during the World Series, they just do two people in the booth, and then they have them as two sideline reporters. But I don’t know if that’s just because he has to do his journalism. Boots on the ground reporting during the World Series, all that shit that— all that investigative stuff that Tom Verducci is digging up.
ALEX: Right. That they definitely talk about on broadcasts.
BOBBY: It is my sincere hope that he’s not in the booth the whole time. I’ll leave it at that.
ALEX: Look, eventually, we’re gonna have to squash the beef with— with The Dooch.
BOBBY: I don’t think we are. Don’t— don’t you remember like—
ALEX: Should we have— should we have a little like Charli XCX Lord moment, like, have him on? You know, like, work it out on the remix?
BOBBY: You’re talking to me like I’m aware of what that beef is.
ALEX: Wrong crowd?
BOBBY: Unfortunately.
ALEX: Well, not a brat summer for you, that’s for sure.
BOBBY: Yeah, it’s not. It’s not. You know what it is? It’s another at the drive-in summer for me.
ALEX: Oh, yeah. Okay. I think it’s over to me, right?
BOBBY: Yes, I just did Boch, Boch.
ALEX: Boch, the Boch.
BOBBY: What a strong name, by the way.
ALEX: Doo— the Dooch. Bruce Bochy.
BOBBY: I mean— yeah.
ALEX: Oh, God.
BOBBY: I don’t love you calling him The Dooch, because it sort of reminds me of Mussolini, who’s called Il Duce. That was the nickname.
ALEX: Well—
BOBBY: But if you’re okay with that association—
ALEX: —maybe Tom Verducci change his ways, then.
BOBBY: Don’t love it. Just gotta say, don’t love it.
ALEX: All right. All right, that’s fair. We’ll find something else. Famously, we’re very good at landing on names for— for things on this podcast.
BOBBY: We call him TV. TV Tom.
ALEX: You keep working on that.
BOBBY: All right, I’m workshopping.
ALEX: Discussion about game times, shortening game times.
BOBBY: Yeah. Uh-hmm.
ALEX: Maybe it feels a little obvious, but you need a few obvious ones to be able to drink at all, or do whatever activity you’re— you’re doing while partaking in this game.
BOBBY: Jumping jacks, perhaps. Yeah.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Jumping— jumping— push-ups?
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: Pull-ups if you’re feeling bold.
ALEX: Are they gonna talk to Manfred at all? I feel like they’ll probably get him in there at some point, right?
BOBBY: No, I don’t think so. I can’t recall him ever doing an interview during an all-star game. Because you know what people don’t want during the all-star game to showcase some of the most exciting, talented players in baseball is like hear from like— from Rob.
ALEX: Hear the commissioner?
BOBBY: Yeah. I mean, he’ll do all these press conferences and stuff, but I feel like the only time—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —I ever remember hearing him in the booth is like opening day.
ALEX: Yeah, that’s true. And he, like, talked about the world changes and stuff.
BOBBY: And— and it went smashingly well. I thought he was really convincing and so charismatic.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: He won me over in an instant. There definitely—
ALEX: Well—
BOBBY: —was not a pitch com problem during the interview that he was giving. That definitely didn’t happen.
ALEX: I have to imagine they will give Rob his flowers.
BOBBY: But like again? Didn’t they do that last year? Like the whole time? They had the pitch clock last year, too. I mean, they will do it. I know— you’re right. They will do it, but— but why? We—
ALEX: I mean—
BOBBY: Should we also commend him—
ALEX: I—
BOBBY: —for three strikes being an out?
ALEX: I mean, you could— we could broaden it, too. If we don’t think that will— that will happen, you can say just discussion of the rule changes which—
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: —will happen.
BOBBY: Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, no, no. I— I think that’s specific enough. And I— I think that maybe we should make it— take a second drink if then one of the— one of the people talking about this is like, “Eh, you know, and arm injuries, we’re not sure.” Then they’re gonna get bold. That’s bold.
ALEX: Uh-hmm. Yeah.
BOBBY: How dare you imply that making pitchers throw more often injures them? And there’s just no studies done on this before they instituted this, but how dare you. Okay. I like that one. My turn?
ALEX: Yeah, you’re up.
BOBBY: Speaking of things that I feel like always get talked about, you know, you mentioned the rule changes, so it’s just— just— what, reminded me of this. Things that always get talked about, it’s usually the Rays because whenever like a Rays player comes in, it’s like, “Well, look at this guy. You’ve never heard of him, but here he is, and he’s great.” And they dug him out. Erik Neander, you did it again. I feel like that always happen every all-star game, where they’re like, “How did they keep turning these schmucks into good baseball players?” Except this year, here’s mine, take a drink if someone talks about how cheap of a roster the Orioles have built in comparison to the other teams that they’re contending with.
ALEX: Nice.
BOBBY: Such as the Yankees, or the Dodgers and the other teams with the best record in—records in baseball, because you know they just fucking love that shit. It’s like, “Ooh, ooh. Look at this. Here’s Gunnar Henderson making $300,000. Here’s Jordan Westburg, bet you never even heard of this guy.” They’re gonna do that the whole time. And then they’re gonna be like, “And of course, and they splurge to get Corbin Burnes in his final year of ARB. Ooh, we love it.” I just feel like the Orioles are— are a major story. Rightfully so, I mean—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —it’s kind of amazing how well-represented they are and just how well this rebuild has gone, honestly, and how fun the team is. But the way— the way that it will framed will be funny for our purposes, and I think that you should take a drink if they’re eluding to how cheap the Orioles roster is. Like, “Oh, this guy, Mike Elias.”
ALEX: “They’ve really managed to do something special over there with limited resources and turmoil at the top of their franchise.”
BOBBY: Right, exactly. Limited resources is— is like— you take a big swing for that one if they say the word—
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: —limited resource— the words limited resources, big swing, big swing. All right, so I have done—
ALEX: What about— what about Rubenstein mention? Do you think he’s gonna— I feel like he’s— they’re gonna talk about him, right?
BOBBY: Probably. It’ll probably be in— within that same conversation.
ALEX: Finish your drink if someone mentions a Magna Carta?
BOBBY: If someone mentions the Magna Carta, I’m— I’m gonna need you to, like, take several shots.
ALEX: Right. Shotgun multiple beers.
BOBBY: Exactly. Okay. I’ve done three. I’m gonna throw it back to you.
ALEX: Well, I think— well, we’ve each done two and then, like, we have like one shared one, right?
BOBBY: Oh, yeah. True.
ALEX: It’s kind of a combo.
BOBBY: Seems like we’re gonna end up with nine. Who’s really paying attention—
ALEX: Hey, I got— I got more. I’ll just— I’ll just keep running—
BOBBY: Well, we got escalated clauses in here. You know, we got bonus— bonus content for people.
ALEX: Well, we intended to end up with nine, right? Because baseball games are traditionally nine innings long—
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: —and so that’s why we were going for the—
BOBBY: I’m telling you, you’re joking now. Wait ’til— wait ’til the ranking segment.
ALEX: Okay, great. You gotta take a drink every time they do an aerial shot of that ugly-ass stadium. I’m sorry.
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: And they’re gonna do it throughout the game.
BOBBY: Yeah, they are.
ALEX: But like it’s the only way you can stomach it. That cavernous like fucking conference center-ass, like warehouse.
BOBBY: You know, I saw a Meg Rowley posting that this was her fir— I think it was Meg Rowley. Could have been another journalist. I apologize if I’m— I’m getting this wrong. But I saw— I saw someone posting about how this was their first time at that stadium. And yes, it looks heinous on the outside, but once you’re actually inside, kind of a nice— nice field.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: And— and good sight lines and all of that sort of thing. I think that that might very well be true. I would love to go someday and decide that for myself, because I want to check off all 30 ballparks, not because I particularly want to be in Arlington, Texas, but—
ALEX: You want to see the Lockhart— Lockheed Martin ad in person?
BOBBY: Will they let me take a selfie with it? Let— I’ll just be— I’ll get— I’ll get left field box seats, and I’ll just be yelling down to the nearest security guard, “Let me on the field. Let me— I need— I need to take a selfie with the sign.”
ALEX: You’re gonna— you’re gonna be the first person who’s asking to, like, streak on the field, you know? You’re like, “Hey, can I get down there? Is that cool?”
BOBBY: No. I’m gonna be the first person who runs on the field and doesn’t want to, like, hug a player, or like streak, or run through the field and make them miss me [36:03] take a quick selfie—
ALEX: They’d be like, “What is he gonna do out there?”
BOBBY: —with the Lockheed Martin sign.
ALEX: And then leave.
BOBBY: And I’m going to go back to my business. No—
ALEX: Why wouldn’t they let you do that?
BOBBY: All of that to say, it might very well be a nice place to sit down and watch a ballpark. I’m sure it is. It was built— it should be. It was built within the last 18 months, and then they spent like fucking $1.2 billion. On TV, it is very ugly. Like, very ugly. It’s so dark, and there’s, like, so much signage and, like, it feels weirdly like a warehou— you know, have you been that— have you ever had the feeling of being in, like, a gymnasium where the only, like, half the lights are turned on? And you see, like, darkness radiating throughout the rest of the gym, like light is weirdly only stretching so far and it’s so dim.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: That’s how I feel when I watch that stadium on TV.
ALEX: That’s good, right? You want to feel that? Like, you want the broadcast to feel a little haunted?
BOBBY: I guess so. I don’t know. I guess so. I’m— I’m sure people worked very hard, and people on the broadcast worked very hard to make it look nice. I’m not trying to impugn any of these people. I want to say, this is only Ray Davis’ fault. He is the one man who holds accountability for this.
ALEX: And probably George Bush somehow, if we’re being honest.
BOBBY: I would like to make no further comments about any presidents.
ALEX: Okay. Current or former.
BOBBY: Current or former. Exactly. Back to you.
ALEX: I think I’m on my last one.
BOBBY: Oh, my God. This is flying by. This is what it feels like to be efficient when podcasting?
ALEX: I know. Well, you came in, you set— you were like, “I have a hard out.” I was like, “All right.”
BOBBY: Yeah, I did.
ALEX: “Let’s— let’s roll.”
BOBBY: I’m going to do a hit on MSNBC.
ALEX: What about? Nothing has happened.
BOBBY: To talk about Oppenheimer.
ALEX: Okay. Just like—
BOBBY: They’re like, “One— one— one year from Oppenheimer, what do you think?
ALEX: One year in—
BOBBY: They were like, “How are you the one man who chooses the two best three-hour films to watch the same day every weekend?” That’s what they want—
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: They’re doing it like a sort of character piece on me.
ALEX: Right. They’ve just been watching your Letterboxd, and they’re like, “We need to talk to this man. Something— he’s cooking something over here.”
BOBBY: Exactly. Right. Then, that’s why I got on Letterboxd, to have everybody obsessively watch what I watch.
ALEX: My last one—
BOBBY: This is potentially our weirdest pod.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: And it feels— I feel really good about it.
ALEX: I do, too. I mean, we raise the bar every week. Finish your drink if we get an extra inning, Home Run Derby tie— tiebreaker.
BOBBY: Okay.
ALEX: This is— this was relatively new to the all-star game. It was implemented in 2022, right? It has not happened yet. And I just think it’d be fun. It will happen eventually, one would think, unless Rob gets so antsy that he scraps the rule before he leaves office, you know?
BOBBY: He—
ALEX: “Eh, it didn’t really work out.” I just— I— I don’t know. I think it’d be fun.
BOBBY: Explain to me how this works again.
ALEX: So— so if the— if the game is tied after nine innings, it’s decided via a Home Run Derby. So three players from each team get three swings, with coaches pitching to them. And after all six players have gone the team with the most home runs wins the game.
BOBBY: When you say coaches, how strict are they with that? Can it be like anybody in the dugout? Or does it have to be Boch— Boch himself?
ALEX: I’m not sure. That’s a good question. I’d love to—
BOBBY: I think it would actually be way funnier if it had to be Bochy.
ALEX: It had to be Torey Lovullo and Bruce Bochy, yeah.
BOBBY: I mean, Lovullo is a fit man. I trust him much more.
ALEX: Yeah, I know. Yes.
BOBBY: No shade to Bochy, but he was hobbling along last year. And we know he’s had the— one— one of the things that was an impetus for him retiring was he was like, “I want to get hip surgery,” basically.
ALEX: Right. That’s fair.
BOBBY: That’s going to be me. I hope you know that. One day, I’m going to be like, “I need two months off from the pod. I just got hip surgery.”
ALEX: Uh-hmm. And then you’re gonna be like, “I’m coming out of retirement. I’m ready to go. I was just— I was getting the itch, you know?”
BOBBY: And to be clear, I wouldn’t tell you about any of this in advance. I would reveal it to you live on the podcast. “Sorry, I need two months off from the pod. Just got a hip replacement.”
ALEX: It’s gonna be a really weird way for a baseball game to end. It will— this will not have— have happened like this before. I think that’ll be fun for all of us, and I think it’ll be more fun if you have just chugged your beverage right before.
BOBBY: True. To me, this is as valid and sensical as the Zombie Runner. That’s my take.
ALEX: Yea— yes. I agree. So what you’re saying is that they should basically just do this during the regular season?
BOBBY: Yes. I actually said that.[40:46]
ALEX: I mean, I, ironically, agree.
BOBBY: It wouldn’t— it doesn’t hurt that the Mets have one Pete— Pete Alonso on their squad, so their record in extra-inning games maybe— might not be affected by someone such as a Jake Diekman type, you know? It’d be up to Pete and not Jake Diekman. That would be nice.
ALEX: Wouldn’t that be nice?
BOBBY: That would be very nice. Speaking of Pete Alonso, my fifth and final drinking game rule, the— the Tipping Pitches Official 2024 All-Star Game Drinking game, the game, and also the Home Run Derby, you’re gonna do— you’re just gonna have to finish your drink if Pete Alonso sends another child out on a stretcher during the Home Run Derby. We just don’t talk about that enough, that he hit like 112 mile an hour rocket, and it just nailed a kid.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Actually, that’s not what happened. The kid was trying to field it/maybe get out of the way of it, so that—
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: —it didn’t actually kill him. And I believe he, like, sustained a knee injury or something. He was fine, though, so we— it’s okay that we are joking about it.
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: Oh, wait, I missed one. That was only my fourth.
ALEX: I was— I was kind of wondering— I was counting these, and I was like, “How did we end up with eight? Like, it’s [42:09]
BOBBY: Oh, my God. Such bad content creation with me. I burned my— my best one already, and now that is my last.
ALEX: I know.
BOBBY: Goddamn it. Here I— here I was, thinking that we had it rained on this episode, that we reined it in, that we had a grip on it. Then I botch it like that. Come on. I Jake Diekman did.
ALEX: Well, I love the Alonso one. I’m a lit— now, I’m a little worried about—
BOBBY: No, I’m just— I’m kicking myself, you know?
ALEX: I know, you’re mad. I can see it on your face. It was gonna be a great one to go out on.
BOBBY: This is like when I get something wrong in trivia.
ALEX: I’m a little worried about— we’re— you know, we’re putting these lines out there. Now, Pete hears this, does he go up there and say, “All right. I’m going line drives today.”? Like— like—
BOBBY: I’m not worried about that.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: I— I respect where you’re at. I’m not worried about that because that would involve Pete Alonso not being in like the Shadow Realm when he’s in the Home Run Derby, which he always is, you know? He’s going—
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: He’s not on the same planet as us when he’s participating—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —in the Home Run Derby. He’s in his own world.
ALEX: But same with the rest of the time, probably as well.
BOBBY: I feel like Pete’s a very normal, down-to-earth guy. And I feel like— it— you know, the— like, it’s the kids who are wrong meme?
ALEX: Uh-hmm. Yeah.
BOBBY: I feel like it’s the baseball players who are wrong. Like, the people who think Pete is weird and corny, actually it’s because baseball players are weird and antisocial, and he’s normal.
ALEX: Right. And he’s just, like, actually kind of normal.
BOBBY: Yeah, exactly. I think he’s— he is a little corny, but like that— that isn’t somehow where— an off putting thing, like no. Bring back earnestness, you know? That’s what I’m trying to say.
ALEX: Ernie [43:49] is dead.
BOBBY: We have— we have to restore earnestness to this country. That is the number one thing that we’re missing at this moment. Maybe even— could you even call it a form of decorum?
ALEX: Right. Civility?
BOBBY: Exactly.
ALEX: Hmm. They solve a lot of our problems. Not any specific ones that have happened recently, but—
BOBBY: My fifth and final one is gonna sound like such a letdown. Now, I’m just gonna let you guys—
ALEX: Oh, no. Oh, no.
BOBBY: It’s actually like kind of funny. It’s actually kind of funny.
ALEX: Okay. I mean, if you want, you can just splice up this episode.
BOBBY: No, no, no.
ALEX: Insert this like 20 minutes earlier.
BOBBY: I’m committed to authenticity. We treat this podcast like Steve Albini treated music. Like, as it’s recorded, this is what sounds like.
ALEX: That— that is like almost a vaguely offensive thing to say. To Steve Albini, to be very clear. All right. Well—
BOBBY: Are you trying to say that I’m not putting in Albini work on this edit? You should see the Pro Tools session, bro.
ALEX: It’s true. It’s true. You do put in work.
BOBBY: I’m kidding. RIP to Steve Albini, the legend, obviously.
ALEX: All right. Well, you’ve— you’ve hyped it up.
BOBBY: It’s your turn, though.
ALEX: But I’ve already done all of mine.
BOBBY: Oh, okay. All right, fine. Well, I’m just— it [45:03] forever—
ALEX: Well, I can just do— I can just do— do another one.
BOBBY: You know what?
ALEX: We’re just— come— come up with some more.
BOBBY: Don’t, don’t even bother. I’ll just do it again. Here’s my fifth and final one. I don’t know why I didn’t write these in the order that I wanted to say them. Come on. Come on. Take— take two drinks— actually, you know what? Take three drinks for this.
ALEX: Wow.
BOBBY: Three sips if Tarik Skubal hits triple digits.
ALEX: Ooh, okay.
BOBBY: This would have been a really great one to start with, because it’s like a—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —nice little warm up. We get to talk about Tarik Skubal having an amazing—
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: —season.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: And is one of the best pitchers in baseball. He has been one of the best pitchers in baseball for years, but the Tigers were not that interesting and not super fun to watch, and they still aren’t, but he’s just having a better year. So people are paying more attention to him, and he’s getting closer to free agency. So other fan bases are like, “I want that guy. Trade for that guy.” That’s not going to happen. Yankees fans, you’re not going to trade him for like Os— Oswald Peraza. That’s not happening. But he was hitting triple digits over the weekend from the left side, which is just— just one of the most beautiful things to watch in the sport. Someone who can hit triple digits left-handed and a starter, nonetheless. This is just my way of saying that, like, he’s having— he’s having an incredible season, and I hope that he will— I don’t— actually don’t know if he will end up even pitching in this game, because oftentimes pitchers just get scratched because of the turn— of their turn in the rotation, but three sips for the triple digits.
ALEX: That was— you started just talking about actual baseball performance here at the end of this deranged episode. I love that.
BOBBY: I can mix it up sometimes.
ALEX: You brought it home. Is it—
BOBBY: I can mix it up— don’t— don’t worry, though, because the ranking segment has genuinely nothing to do with baseball.
ALEX: Right. I’m waiting with bated breath. So he’s averaging 97 on his fastball this year. So, like, if— if he hits— let’s say he pitches an inning, if he hits triple digits, like, what, three times, you’re, like, finishing your drink basically?
BOBBY: Yeah, but I guess, like, with the [47:13]
ALEX: That’s on you for signing up to do this drinking game.
BOBBY: With a— I don’t think that this is like a loyal pact. I don’t think this is like a loyal, sacred agreement that you’re making with us, that you have to follow all of these rules the way that kings were agreeing with their governments when they signed the Magna Carta, for example.
ALEX: Take a drink. Magna Carta mentioned.
BOBBY: I’m just gonna go on Twitter from the Tipping Pitches account and search Magna Carta and quote-tweet every tweet that’s ever been tweeted, and say, “Magna Carta mentioned for every single one that has Magna— the words Magna Carta in it.” That’s gonna be my project.
ALEX: Cool.
BOBBY: So— someone could probably set up a bot to do that, but it would probably cost like $30,000 now that Elon kept—
ALEX: For the API, yeah.
BOBBY: Yeah, exactly. Yeah. He’s averaging 96.8 on his fastball, which like three extra miles an hour from your average is a lot. Like—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —I know he was hitting triple digits this past weekend, but also, like, you pitch one inning in the all-star game, are you really even, like, fully warm? Are you really throwing max effort? I know, like, a lot of guys who are extremely easy, mechanically, hard throwers can do that basically, if they have like, a five-minute bullpen, because guys are freaks now, and also they’re starting their UCLS, as we’ve talked about, and long length. But I just thought it was a— a nice, fun, very specific one, you know?
ALEX: That is good. Well, I’m glad you didn’t choose Skenes as the— as the subject of this, because we’d be in a very different— we— I don’t think any of us would make it out of the first inning.
BOBBY: You’d have to do like if Skenes hits 103, you know? And that’s not as—
ALEX: Right. Yeah.
BOBBY: It’s not— it doesn’t fit as neatly on the card.
ALEX: No.
BOBBY: Did you see the A’s-Angels game? And Mason Miller hit, like, 10— 103 point something and then Ben Joyce on the Angels— you know, Ben Joyce who was the college pitcher from Tennessee—
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: —last year, and now he’s like up with— the Angels reliever. He hit 104.5.
ALEX: Jesus.
BOBBY: Yeah. Like the next inning.
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: It’s kind of hard to find a game log that Mason Miller pitched in where he did not have the hardest throw in pitch.
ALEX: Yeah, man, he’s— he’s pretty good. That’s all-star Mason Miller to you.
BOBBY: Earned it, too.
ALEX: Like— yeah.
BOBBY: It’s crazy—
ALEX: There was no— there was no participation trophy.
BOBBY: It’s crazy how earned it is that he made the all-star game, but had he not been available to play for the A’s, how unearned it would have been for anyone else from the A’s to be sent to the all-star game.
ALEX: Yeah, I know. I know. I think we should— I think we should ditch that rule.
BOBBY: No.
ALEX: Stupid rule. Sorry— sorry— sorry, you want all-star representatives, you should have put together a better team.
BOBBY: Disagree. Disagree. I think it’s nice. I think everybody should have the chance to go there once if they’re the best player team.
ALEX: It’s typical soft millennial culture.
BOBBY: I do want everybody to get a trophy. I’m gonna—
ALEX: You could go.
BOBBY: I’m gonna give—
ALEX: You— you can get a ticket to the game just like everyone else.
BOBBY: Sorry, Paul Skenes. See you on SeatGeek, brother. Okay. So that— that’s everything. Do you have them all written down? Do you want to run through them?
ALEX: Yeah. Let’s run through them real quick.
BOBBY: Okay. This— this will be available. We will tweet out this graphic. If you’re listening and you don’t have Twitter, I guess you just had to be taking notes this whole segment.
ALEX: Well, I mean, to be very clear, no one has Twitter anymore.
BOBBY: God.
ALEX: The broadcasters make a reference to things being bigger in Texas. That is one sip. We have the— the Livvy Dunne escalator, mentioned one sip, shown two sips. What is it? Waterfall? She’s [50:54]
BOBBY: Yeah, waterfall or— or fountain.
ALEX: Okay. Fountain, okay.
BOBBY: Yeah, waterfall— waterfall is— I think probably more people call it that.
ALEX: That’s right, yeah. So you waterfall through— through her speaking bits, basically?
BOBBY: Right.
ALEX: As she— as she talks. Bruce Bochy discussed as being an old school manager, or— or the kind of manager that they don’t make anymore.
BOBBY: Yep.
ALEX: Sip.
BOBBY: Yeah, it is. I feel like—
ALEX: We just—
BOBBY: —all— all of these might hit.
ALEX: Yeah. Yeah.
BOBBY: We—
ALEX: We should have made this our bingo. Discussion about shortening the game times is a sip. And if someone then brings up pitcher injuries in relation to it, that is another sip.
BOBBY: Indeed.
ALEX: Talk about Orioles doing a good job, putting together a cheap roster. That’s a sip.
BOBBY: Should we do an escalator for this one, if they cut to Mike Elias in the stands? You think he’ll be there?
ALEX: I don’t know. Do GMs go? I feel like GMs— this is, like, their favorite time of year. They’re like, “We don’t have to do jack shit.”
BOBBY: Yeah, he’s probably gonna be in, like, Cabo or something.
ALEX: Uh-huh. Aerial shot, aerial shot of that ugly-ass stadium. That’s a sip.
BOBBY: They should have asked some of the people from the vaunted Oakland Athletics Stadium renderings team to draw up something a little nicer for them. No wonder it looks so bad, because all of the people who can design a nice-looking stadium were all on the A’s payroll, making millions of dollars.
ALEX: They’re all working for the A’s, yeah. Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: [52:29]
ALEX: And hey, to their credit, they designed a great stadium. In fact, they designed, like, three great stadiums for the A’s.
BOBBY: Right.
ALEX: They just kept churning them out.
BOBBY: I mean, they’ll be—
ALEX: It’s actually so me coded, they, like, got finished with it, and they were like, “Actually, I don’t like it very much anymore. I can do better.”
BOBBY: Those images will just— they’ll be in, like, Encyclopedia Britannica in decades, you know? Like—
ALEX: It’s gonna be in our kids textbooks.
BOBBY: Right, exactly. That is the only thing that we could have talked about from this weekend, that would have been in our kids textbooks.
ALEX: Extra inning Home Run Derby tiebreaker, finish your drink.
BOBBY: Love it.
ALEX: Pete Alonso sends a— sends a kid home on a stretcher, finish your drink.
BOBBY: And last but not least, Detroit Tiger starter, Tarik Skubal, three sips if he hits triple digits on the gun.
ALEX: Hell yeah.
BOBBY: The— the one you’ve all been waiting for, folks. Okay. This was fun. Again, we’ll— we’ll— we’ll share that graphic on social.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Maybe we’ll— maybe we’ll even drop in the Slack. You know, might get crazy with it.
ALEX: Maybe.
BOBBY: It’s— it’s really up in the air.
ALEX: It’s— it’s anyone’s guess, to be honest.
BOBBY: All right. Do— do you want to do a ranking segment?
ALEX: All right. Lineup construction.
BOBBY: Lineup construction. I— I call it lineup constructions today, because there’s not just five things that you have to rank this week, Alex.
ALEX: Great.
BOBBY: There’s not just six, there’s not seven, not eight. There’s nine things that I need you to rank.
ALEX: Nine things? Yeah.
BOBBY: There’s nine things that I need you to rank. I have put them in random order, so as to not influence what you might choose first, you know? I’m just putting them, they’re in a totally random order. I use random.org to put them in random order to not suggest that you need to put one higher than the other. I— I would like you to rank—
ALEX: So, are you gonna do— is it like innings? Like, rank the innings, rank baseball innings?
BOBBY: I told you, it’s not baseball-related at all, but that’s a good one. That’s a— write that one down.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: Rank the innings— well, I’m just— I— I love the third inning, you know?
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: Now— now, the game’s really starting, you know? Dodgers fans just got here.
ALEX: All right. What— what am I ranking this week?
BOBBY: You’re ranking Taylor Swift’s fifth songs from all of her albums— not all of them, though, because there’s 11, and I didn’t want to do 11. I only wanted you to do nine.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: So Ieft [54:53]
ALEX: So first off, what were the— what were the two that were left off? Or do you know the— the albums at least?
BOBBY: I left off Cold As You from the self-titled, because apparently, that’s not canon, according to her.
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: And I left off All You Had To Do Was Stay from 1989 because that song is annoying as shit.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: So the options, My Tears Ricochet—
ALEX: To be very clear, this is so hard.
BOBBY: I know.
ALEX: Like, you have to get out of here in six minutes and it’s gonna take me 15 to even wrap my head around this idea.
BOBBY: I— I’m just— I’m just gonna stop the recording after six minutes, you know? I have to be on MSNBC to talk about Oppenheimer.
ALEX: That’s right.
BOBBY: My Tears Ricochet, Delicate, which I will remind you, you startled a person so badly that they turned around in horror when this song came on live at her concert, because you screamed so loud—
ALEX: That’s right.
BOBBY: —in excitement that she was playing this song that the person thought that you got like maimed or something.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Dear John, The Archer, All Too Well, White Horse, Tolerate It, So Long, London, off of the new album, The Tortured Poets Department. Don’t know if you’re familiar. And You’re On Your Own, Kid, which is off of Midnights. Are you just writing them down as I’m saying them?
ALEX: Yeah. Oh, God.
BOBBY: I’m cutting the other way. You know, people are like, “We need less talk about Taylor Swift.” I’m like, “You know what? We need more talk about Taylor Swift.”
ALEX: Uh-hmm. Well, what we need is more positive talk about Taylor Swift, right? Like, we are— we’re the— the counterweight to all the negativity online. This is your space for Livvy Dunne updates and— and Taylor Swift positivity.
BOBBY: There’s nowhere else that you could get that.
ALEX: Nope.
BOBBY: It’s at this point in the— in the cycle of you, like, pausing to collect your thoughts and try to figure out how you want to rank these where I will remind you that we’re on a podcast, and you could just vamp your thoughts out loud, you know? You’re just sitting there, like, furiously scribbling—
ALEX: Just like—
BOBBY: —which is, like, very interesting for me. But, like, for the listener at home, they can’t see how furrowed your brow is and how just, frankly, concerned you are.
ALEX: Yeah, I’m really concerned about this.
BOBBY: About getting it wrong.
ALEX: Here’s— here’s the thing about— here’s the thing about the fifth song on her albums, is that a lot of them are pretty good. She tends to do that thing.
BOBBY: Yes. It’s somewhat of a— a pattern.
ALEX: Do you want to start from nine if that makes sense?
BOBBY: How many times we gotta do this? Come on. If— if you did it like I did my list, you do all of them except you forget one, and then have to say, “Oh, sorry that one’s actually number seven.”
ALEX: The— the thing about— I mean, there’s no winning a segment like this. Like, you backed me into a corner. I’m going to upset a not insignificant number of people the second I say whatever my ninth song is.
BOBBY: I had no intention of doing that, didn’t even cross my mind.
ALEX: Of— of course.
BOBBY: These are published histories, you know? I gotta get you on the record about things.
ALEX: I know you do. I know.
BOBBY: This is going into the internet archive, my Saturday and your ranking of Taylor Swift’s fifth songs.
ALEX: They were like things that happened from July 13th to 14th, 2024 that were historically significant.
BOBBY: Just Bobby logged Heat and Oppenheimer on Letterboxd. Caught a couple innings of the Orioles-Yankees game.
ALEX: I— at nine, I’m gonna go White Horse. Do you want— do you want an explana—
BOBBY: Just leaving a little— just leaving a little— I— I’m just leaving a little space for people to exclaim their frustration and anger.
ALEX: Right. Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: The White Horse heads.
ALEX: I— I heard it.
BOBBY: You know?
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: I like White Horse. I think it’s a good song.
ALEX: I mean, to be clear, I— I like all of these songs just one degree or another.
BOBBY: To be clear, you wish the song was removed from the face of the Earth and you— you could Men in Black memory hold [59:14] ever hearing this song?
ALEX: It’s Taylor Swift’s first war crime, basically.
BOBBY: But not her last.
ALEX: Not her last.
BOBBY: That’s for damn sure.
ALEX: At eight—
BOBBY: I still think about that time that you called a Taylor Swift song the type of music that you’d put in a happy Honda days—
ALEX: Yeah. Right.
BOBBY: —commercial.
ALEX: Right. And like a Kia commercial. Yeah. That one has— that’s your Roman Empire right there. At eight, So Long, London off of The Tortured Poets Department. I like it. It’s got a— it’s got a good groove. I think it’s really funny that the only way that she refers to Joe Alwyn ever—
BOBBY: I know.
ALEX: —is just in the context of— of London.
BOBBY: The whole country.
ALEX: I love a London boy.
BOBBY: Speaking of So Long, London, that’s what the Euro Championship trophy is saying. so long, London.
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: See— see you on our way to Spain.
ALEX: You can’t be pulling that an hour, one minute and 15. I don’t even—
BOBBY: That was a really interesting way of formatting how long we’ve been recording. Keep going. We’re now a minute over time.
ALEX: I know.
BOBBY: Rachel Maddow is blowing my phone up right now.
ALEX: I’m gonna put Tolerate It at seven.
BOBBY: Ooh. Okay.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: Would you say because you just tolerate the song?
ALEX: Really— really good, but I mean, we— yeah, pretty much. I mean, we are now— like, that’s kind of the line where I’m like, “Okay. Like, I’m— like, I’m ranking really good songs now.”
BOBBY: Okay.
ALEX: Like, I’m ranking songs that I actively enjoy and [1:00:53]
BOBBY: So you call So Long, London the Mendoza Line of this exercise, and now, we’re above the Mendoza Line.
ALEX: Right. Yeah, it kind— it kind of is, yeah.
BOBBY: Okay, great.
ALEX: At six, we have The Archer.
BOBBY: Okay. Love the song.
ALEX: Which I personally love that song.
BOBBY: So then, why is it number six?
ALEX: Because I love the rest.
BOBBY: You’re in real like I wish both teams could win their playoff series mode right now.
ALEX: You know this about me. You know this about me.
BOBBY: You gotta put your fucking Anthony Fantano cap on. You know, you gotta be like— I’m fas— I’m— I’m fascinated by one song is still available. That one song on here you think is better than The Archer, but keep going.
ALEX: You’re— you think there’s a song that is lower, that should be ranked lower already? Like a song that I haven’t mentioned?
BOBBY: Yeah, the song that you haven’t mentioned yet. I believe is— is worse than Tolerate It and The Archer, but keep going, by all means.
ALEX: Okay, great. Number five, You’re On Your Own, Kid.
BOBBY: Okay, there it is. You got— you got it.
ALEX: That was the one?
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: Oh, I like that song.
BOBBY: I like it too, but I don’t like it—
ALEX: No, you clearly don’t.
BOBBY: You’re right.
ALEX: Again, this is my— you know, obviously, it’s off Midnights. This was real like— I was like, “Oh, she’s kind of in her, like, indie emo bag.”
BOBBY: Yes. You were like, “She’s talking to me.”
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Yeah. I get it. I felt that way. I feel— I felt and feel that way too.
ALEX: At number four, we have My Tears Ricochet.
BOBBY: This is— this is for The Gaslight Anthem heads.
ALEX: My tears Ricochet, number four.
BOBBY: Okay. Banger.
ALEX: Banger. Ooh. Height of the— of the Scooter Braun era.
BOBBY: You know, to be on the record about this as well, you feel that Scooter Braun is just an enterprising businessman who should have the right to pursue his commerce.
ALEX: Oh, frankly, I don’t think he got enough selling her catalog. I think he could have garnered way more.
BOBBY: Excellent. Okay. Just have you on the record about that. My Tears Ricochet, great example of one of those times where Taylor Swift absolutely forces the square peg of a— of a weird word into the title or a chorus of a song into the round hole or— that is the title or chorus of a song, but it actually works.
ALEX: Right. Ricochet?
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: What?
BOBBY: It’s like, where did that— I don’t— I don’t think I’ve ever heard that word in a song before, but it works really well.
ALEX: We’re
BOBBY: In my mind, it works much— it works much better than the word Mirrorball, which is the— that song is—
ALEX: I know but that— that remains a top five song of hers.
BOBBY: Take artistry is now coming out. Now, we’re approaching minute 80.
ALEX: I know. I know.
BOBBY: Or as you might say minute— hour— hour 20 minute— hour, one minute 20.
ALEX: Well, I— I— I don’t have like the— it’s not showing me like— like the total minutes or anything like that.
BOBBY: Oh.
ALEX: Like, it’s showing— it shows me— we’re at one hour, 18 minutes, 56 seconds, 57 seconds, 58 seconds, 59—
BOBBY: I see. Mine counts up just by minutes. Yeah.
ALEX: Right. Okay.
BOBBY: Keep counting. And also try to say what’s next at the same time. See if you can get— fit that all in.
ALEX: At three, we have Dear John.
BOBBY: Now, this is a hit right here.
ALEX: This is such a hit. And if we’re being honest, I almost put it at two, which maybe would have gotten me in trouble with— with some folks.
BOBBY: You know, dear John is like an excellent piece of songwriting, a wonderful song. It is, I would say, in the same way that, like, some of my favorite ’70s movies. It’s paced a little bit slower than you might want at times.
ALEX: Well, like—
BOBBY: By the seventh time she’s doing the Dear John chorus, I’m like, “Wow, this song is like six minutes long.”
ALEX: But I— but I— but I think that’s the— that’s kind of the point of it, right? Is, like, the whole thing meant to be like a John Mayer—
BOBBY: I know. That it’s like punishing you over and over again. Yes.
ALEX: Well— well, and then it’s like, John— that’s John Mayer’s whole thing, is, like, he’s sappy and, you know, the songs, it’s like riffs, and you keep coming back. And then the little guitar noodles in there, right? Yeah, he’s hitting you over the head with it, or whatever. Like, it’s an expert roast of her. Like, she was— she was young when she wrote this and she still— she had it fully fleshed out. She knew what she was going to do.
BOBBY: Yes. She certainly knows how to expertly and deftly direct her ire.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: And I think this is as good of an example as there is of that. Actually, got another one coming up, but yes.
ALEX: Speaking of that one, at number two, we have one All Too Well. That’s right, that’s number two.
BOBBY: I think this is fair, and I think people feel that it’s fair, although this has—
ALEX: Okay.
BOBBY: —become her consensus best song. Like—
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: —in the discourse.
ALEX: Which I almost feel— I— I— I feel like it kind of ends up doing a disservice to both the rest of her discography and this song, and that it can’t really be discussed on its own merits. Like, it’s taken on such a life of its own that it’s like— it’s wrapped up in the 10-minute version and the— the music video and—
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: —the Jake Gyllenhaal story and all the lore that is, like, packed in there, right? It’s like— it’s in part— I think people, like, talk about it as her best song, just because there’s so much that you can do with it, right? It’s like—
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: —there’s so many threads that you can pull at, which is fascinating. And I think one of the fascinating things about Taylor’s songwriting, but I—
BOBBY: And not only that, though, but she has also, like, kind of co-signed to that. She saw that that was a thing that people— that was like an undying resource of Taylor Swift fandom that people were just like—
ALEX: Yeah, yeah.
BOBBY: —so clinged onto it. And so what she did was she just like poured some more gasoline on that by releasing the 10-minute version, but also just by, like, the positioning of the song in her concerts and in her lore, and then all that.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: And everything that comes with the experience, so she’s definitely co-signed it. In the way that, like a director, maybe, like, 20 years later, starts doing retrospectives on a movie that their fans think is their best movie, you know?
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: Even though they might not necessarily feel that that’s their best work or output, I don’t know. Maybe she does think that. I don’t know.
ALEX: Yeah, but it just— it— it feels like a hard song to rank, just because it’s— there’s so much baggage to it.
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: But I’m like, “I can’t— I can’t just discuss this alongside My Tears Ricochet like—”
BOBBY: Right. You’re like, actually, Godfather is the second best Coppola movie. It’s like—
ALEX: Right.
BOBBY: I guess, I mean—
ALEX: But that means at number one— and I think maybe you knew this was coming.
BOBBY: I did, yeah.
ALEX: And the listeners may have after you told that story, but it’s— but it’s Delicate, which I have long loved— long loved reputation. I think Delicate is such a— it comes at a really great point in the album, because I think—
BOBBY: Fifth.
ALEX: —it kind of— well, yes, but like the way that that album is actually structured and the narrative—
BOBBY: Yes.
ALEX: —she’s kind of taking. It’s not just the fifth song because it’s like that’s what she’s been doing—
BOBBY: It’s the first place— it’s the first place you can catch your breath.
ALEX: You catch your breath and like— like, has this real sort of level of vulnerability, you know?
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: The— the first few songs out of the gate are pretty fiery. This is— as you may recall, I just— yeah. It’s a real— it’s a really interesting moment on an album that’s supposed to be, you know— that’s a lot of people view as, like, the really, like, moody one, the one where she’s, like, really going out on a limb, and that’s really bombastic, and whatever. And, you know, a lot of people don’t like that record, but it’s like— she has some like— she gets really personal in some places here.
BOBBY: I think that it is the most understated of her sort of, like, masterworks.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: You know, All Too Well is like—
ALEX: Delicate or Reputation?
BOBBY: Yeah.
ALEX: Or— yeah.
BOBBY: Not reputation. Reputation [1:08:38]
ALEX: I was like— I was like, “I don’t know if that’s understated.”
BOBBY: Delicate is. I think that like—
ALEX: Yes.
BOBBY: —in comparison to something like All Too Well that we were just talking about, that’s like, I dumped everything out, it’s all here. Just— I poured it all out. Delicate is like it’s all there. You have to kind of pay a little bit closer attention to feel it, though.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: Because it’s like—
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: —a very chill song, but also it’s an incredible work of production.
ALEX: Right. I mean, it’s not like a— like a banger or anything like that. Although I will say, like, a lot of these are not [1:09:07]
BOBBY: Not bang— not a banger— not a banger like Don’t Blame Me. The song that comes right before it.
ALEX: Yeah, that’s true.
BOBBY: Excellent work.
ALEX: So that’s it. That’s— that’s the list. That is the lineup construction.
BOBBY: I really put you through the test today. I did [1:09:19]
ALEX: You really— I’m— I’m sweating.
BOBBY: That’s— that’s what I— that’s what I’m going for, actually. Okay. Thank you to everybody for listening. Unfortunately, I did miss out on my MSNBC opportunity, but I think it was worth it to hear— hear your ranking here in full. As a reminder, check the link in the description for the link to buy tickets to the Brooklyn Cyclones meetup, as well as the link to fill out the form to express interest in tickets for the Chicago Cubs meetup. Those dates are Saturday, July 27th at 6:00 pm and Saturday, August 17th at 1:40, we’re calling it, PM.
ALEX: Uh-hmm.
BOBBY: That’s Central Time respectively. As always, patreon.com/tippingpitches, tippingpitchespod@gmail.com, 785-4225-881. Happy all-star week. Please enjoy this drinking game responsibly, meaning, just don’t do it with alcohol if you don’t want to. But if you do want to, then you do. And that’s my advice.
ALEX: Yeah. Doesn’t have to be a drink. Could be a—
BOBBY: A push-up.
ALEX: A push-up. Could be a— a Cheeto. Finish your bag.
BOBBY: I like that. That’s good.
ALEX: Yeah.
BOBBY: That’s all I got this week. I— I look forward to telling you about my Saturday next weekend.
ALEX: I hope it’s as eventful as— as this one was.
BOBBY: Action-packed.
ALEX: I actually [1:10:40] a very— a great day, yeah.
BOBBY: Enriching, wholesome. Those are the three words like— like the Netflix subtitles that they put on. Those Ne— Netflix genre titles where it’s like irreverent, witty.
ALEX: Thrilling.
BOBBY: Thank you, everybody, for listening.
ALEX: Cerebral.
BOBBY: We will be back next week.
ALEX RODRIGUEZ: Hello, everybody. I’m Alex Rodriguez. Tipping Pitches. Tipping Pitches. This is the one that I love the most. Tipping Pitches. So, we’ll see you next week. See ya!
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