Hour 2: Flip Cup? (feat. Senator Mark Kelly & Adnan Virk)

We appreciate Senator Mark Kelly's work and his time. He's a former US Navy combat pilot. He's an astronaut, former astronaut. He's the current Senator for Arizona. Mark Kelly, we appreciate the time.

Senator for you joining us between a war, government shut down,

and having to defend your first amendment rights against Trump

and headset as they threaten to take away your military retirement rank and pay. I don't know how you're not walking around every day, wildly insulted about the position our country and its leadership has put you in. Thank you for the time. Well, it's good to be on.

And thanks for having me on again. How did we get to war with Iran?

“And what are you finding most offensive about how we got here?”

Well, I think we got here because we have a president that has a hard time thinking more than one step ahead. And these things have second and third order effects. I also think he's an individual that doesn't listen to people around him. And in his second term, he has put folks around him,

secretary of defense being, I think, at the top of the list. You know, people who really shouldn't be in these jobs. So you're not getting great advice. You're also generally not listening to this advice. In the case of what happened in Iran, I really believe

the president thought we'd drop a few bombs here. And then the administration would fall in Iran and we'd have a new government. That would be supportive of the United States. Incredibly optimistic thinking.

And I'm generally an optimist, guys. I flew a spaceship built by the lowest bidder. But I'm not that optimistic.

“You know, these things tend to go sideways on you.”

And he wasn't thinking ahead. And now we're in a situation with the straight of Hormuz shut down 20% of the world's oil going through there. And he's gotten no answers.

And never had a real strategic goal for what this should be.

So, you know, I look at this thing. You know, and I thought over there. I mean, I spent, you know, 1991. I was in the first Gulf War. I know how complicated these things are.

This thing is turning into a train wreck. What are the best case and worst case scenarios here? Well, always the best case would be for the Iranians to say, OK, we'd like this to end. What do you want?

That's not likely to turn out that way. And the worst case scenario is that we wind up with the straight of Hormuz shut down for who knows months, years. I mean, I really don't see how this ends in a positive way right now. And what that means for the American people is rising costs.

And it's not just gasoline and fuel. I mean, cost go up on everything when energy costs more. Any kind of manufacturing costs go up if the energy goes up. So, that's the, you know, the worst case scenario.

“But even beyond that, I'd say the worst thing that is them rushing to get a nuclear weapon.”

We didn't obliterate it last summer. The president said it over and over again. Now, he sometimes says, that's why we're doing this operation. Sometimes he leaves it out. So, there's, yeah, there's a lot in the way of worst case.

Have you ever in your life met a human being who lies this much? No, not, and I've only met him once.

So, and it was before he was elected the first time.

But, I mean, he is, he is set. I think there needs to be a new entry in the Guinness World Book of World Records that includes Donald Trump for, for the lies and the falsehoods. Where are you on speaking freely on his cognitive decline and failing health? What's fair there?

Well, I mean, I watch him closely, right? I mean, I don't watch everything he says. But sometimes I've seen him give statements where he contradicts himself multiple times within a matter of minutes. You know, he'll say this war is over.

Then he'll say he needs our allies to support it. Then it's over again, then we're winning, but we won help. I mean, he'll go back and forth. And that indicates to me, I mean, you see a lot with people, you know, his age. That happens.

And he just doesn't seem to be able to track. And I'd say at the beginning of this administration, I noticed it was like from one week to the next. Now it seems to be more like from one minute to the next minute. What do we do about the state of our airports when is this going to get better and why

are ice agents at our airports? Well, he sent ice agents there. He didn't send them there to take over the duties of TSA. That's what he said. But that's not what they're doing.

So you still have the long lines. They shouldn't be there. We want to see ice, you know, overhauled in a way that protects the rights of Americans.

rights have been violated. We could open TSA right now.

“We have offered to fund TSA multiple times.”

Unfortunately, my Republican colleagues have politicized this and they refuse to do that. We've also offered to fund Coast Guard multiple times and FEMA.

Now ice has a $75 billion slush fund.

You know, their annual budget is typically about $10 billion. And they've got $75 billion that the president can, you know, play around with. So we want to see some changes to ice. TSA, FEMA, Coast Guard, we could go down to the floor and offer another vote here, but somebody would block it.

That's happened over and over again. On just a human level, we can all play politics, but just on a human level, do you find yourself losing great amounts of respect for some of your peers here? Yeah, yeah, that is happening. I try to work across the aisle, I have great friends who are Republicans, work with them

on a lot of things. There's others, I'm not going to name names, but over my time here about five and a half years in the United States Senate, I kind of wonder how they get this job, why are they in this job?

They don't seem to know much about a number of things.

I'm not talking about the majority of my colleagues, you know, just see, you know, a couple of individuals. I just don't get it. The top official at the TSA said staffing shortages have led to the highest weight time in TSA history and the agency has lost almost 500 officers since the shutdown began.

What's the breaking point? How much worse can this get?

“Well, I think I thought we were being on the breaking point already, and that's why we”

continue to offer funding for TSA to try to get us out of this. And I hope we get a resolution here. I mean, hope is not a strategy, but you know, I want to see this resolve as soon as possible. There's something about college whoops this time of year where you tell yourself, you're just going to casually watch one game.

And suddenly, your entire night is gone.

That happened to me the other night.

I was planning to say home and keep a game on in the background. Maybe pretend I wasn't checking scores every five minutes, then a text comes in. We've got multiple screens set up. That's how they get you. So I said, yeah, I grabbed a pack of Miller light on the way a little while later.

Nobody's casually watching anything. Somebody's yelling because their bracket is already cooked. Somebody else suddenly cares deeply about a school, then thought about it in 10 years. And a game that looked over is somehow tied late. You take a sip.

“You look around and realize, yeah, this was absolutely the right move.”

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believe the state of this country, like you are somebody who has served honorably and nobly because of the way you believe in the principles of this country, and you see them being urinated on. Are you going home optimists or not? Hope not a strategy.

Not a strategy, as you said, are you going home every night saying, "I don't recognize what's happening here." Well, I mean, this has just been like the slow moving train wreck over the last year.

really challenging times.

I didn't know it was going to be this bad. I didn't know we were going to go to war against Iran with no strategic goal and no plan and no, you know, he's not even playing at checkers at this point. You often think of, like, as this guy playing Chester Chekers and you would say, "Well, he's playing Chekers.

He's not even playing Chekers."

“I think he's playing with a couple of those solo cups, right?”

Flip cup and it's, you know, those red cups, he's just moving two of them around. That was like a good thing. Yeah, I think that's part somewhere, and he's just making his own game. Yeah, he's just, you know, moving those two things around, not really thinking ahead on anything here.

Hey, we're in some challenging times, but I think we're up with the challenge. I think we're going to get through this. I spent, you know, career 25 years in the United States Navy. I've seen the best of this country, you know, I also flew on a rocket ship four times. You know, I see what the United States can do when we put our minds to things.

We have the best scientists, engineers, the best innovators. I really think if we can get our politics fixed, you know, the future for this country is better than any other country on the planet. We've got hard problems to solve. We've got the people that can solve them.

We need to get rid of the, you know, the children out of the way. I don't literally mean that. I mean the, the people that politicize everything and make this stuff a lot more complicated than it needs to be. We need to focus on science and data and facts and get rid of a lot of the bullshit.

It's not working, though, like you, you said a form of that last time you were joining us during a different shutdown, right? And I understand why you're saying. I've gotten worse. Yeah.

Oh, that's right. Yes. It's gotten worse. The challenges have gotten worse. Put us next to you, though.

Put us next to you as someone who believes in the principles of governance and the principles of this country when the news gets to you for the first time, yeah, we're bombing Iran. I mean, it's like, what the, you know, I'm not going to drop the F bomb on you here.

“But, yeah, it's like, like, why, what is the strategic goal?”

I got a list of like 15 things, I've been keeping track and it changes. I was down in the skip the other day and we're talking about what's the goal now. You know, what one of the goals is to open up the straight-up or moves, obviously. Well, that wasn't a goal on 27 February because it wasn't closed. I mean, so now we have a strategic goal that was of our own making, a problem that we made.

And who's paying for this? The American people who are having a hard time affording rent. Half the country is having a hard time affording groceries. People are working two jobs.

They're never going to get a chance to go on a vacation.

And we're spending one to two billion dollars a day on this thing. Every single day, you know what that money could have been used for? Could have been like, don't cut kids snap benefits. So they can eat and they can have a lunch when they go to school. Give people, don't cut their healthcare.

Instead, this money has been spent on the other side of the world. And by the way, we're depleting our munitions in a way that I have never seen before in my career. And it makes us less safe. Senator, we have less than a minute here.

Thank you for your time. A lot of the issues that you're highlighting are a direct result of misinformation being spread. And now we're at a time with AI advancements where you look at your phone and you simply cannot trust what you see.

“I'm wondering if misinformation is a huge issue for politicians like yourself?”

And what can be done about this for the future? Because it's only going to get worse. It is going to get worse before it gets better. We are, it's something we talk about a lot.

It's going to get, and it always gets worse when we, we're getting up to an election.

I would just caution people, you know, watching this, watching your show, is that when you get to election time, probably a third, maybe half of what you see online about political candidates and about issues around the election comes from the Russians, the Chinese, the North Koreans, and the Iranians, you know, that they have misinformation operations at scale. And they just flood the zone with a bunch of, you know, stuff.

So I would advise people, go to a trusted source, you know, you might not like the, you know, New York Times, go to the Wall Street Journal, or vice versa, go to your local newspaper, go to ESPN, go to your show, good information on your show. But you know, getting stuff, you know, off a Twitter, if you don't know the source, you know, take it with a grain of salt.

Senator, thank you for the time.

going to remain a cardinal in the ground. That was a bad take, I told you back then, he wasn't that good, he was good in the whole sudden. He's a Viking. It's the most offensive thing that's happened to you recently.

Now, be honest. But we got the number, we got the number three pick. So we got, we got, we got options. Murray went number one. This guy is so hopeful.

Thank you, Senator. We appreciate the time. Thank you. Good to talk to you. Likewise, Zaz, I thought you were great there.

Really, was he passing this? I heard him, I heard him up game. I heard him mutter during the middle of one of my questions.

“Okay, he says flip cup, that's why I don't talk politics.”

That's why he said it while I was asking the question. Oh, what is that? I don't like that. Senator Kelly, and like this guy will get the streaking game reference. I wonder if it'll rattle Chris going into trivia on the pitch clock that's coming up.

Dan, are you going to clip where the Senator said we have to get rid of the children? Yes, he will. I looked away and then heard that and I was like, wait, what? Dan, spearheading our digital team will make sure that that is out there. Make the cut, Dan.

Because our show is a trusted news source. That's right. Where do you get your information?

I do so with pitch clock in a second, and then a three o'clock with pitch clock.

It's a trusted news source. I cannot believe that we're giving you more Jeremy on a day when he's had this many bad jokes. This is a good show you're doing. Baseball is back, Jack.

Time for your favorite springtime sport. We are saying names like uneski, betten, court, that's it, power, buddy. Welcome to the pitch clock, here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the pitch clock.

We're going to have an opening day livestream on the Levittard YouTube channel later today. You'll be there. I'll be there. Ethan will be there. Yeah.

Will Percy be there? Percy will be there. Percy will be there too. Percy's here right now.

First they get into our trivia for today.

We will have some expertise previewing the major league baseball season a little bit later

“on in today's show, but Ethan, what is our trivia for this opening day?”

Do you actually know what day your dog was born? Her birthday today. Happy birthday Percy. Way to go. Did you ask Percy?

She's seven years old. That's the Percy's parents. That's the Mickey Manel year. Alright, Percy, get down. Let's try to read you guys a year.

Alright, boys, it's opening day. So we're getting back into the wheelhouse here, boys. So in front of you, there are two opening day rosters. Oh my god, I'm writing on one. The one with the new Marlins logo, hold on, is 2020.

The 2020 opening day roster, the COVID season, the one with the old Marlins logo, is 2006. Okay, that was Percy trying to get in here. The old Marlins logo is the 2006 opening day roster. Now, I have given you the names in a line straight down, not by position like I normally

do to make this a little more difficult, not in batting order, just in random order. What year? Do you give me the years again?

“2006 for the old Marlins logo, and 2020 for the new Marlins logo.”

So what you're going to do is you're going to give me a name. You're going to put that person in a position, and if you are correct, then we'll keep going. It's going to be three strikes in your out, like most of our lineup games. Jeremy, you dominated pitch clock jeopardy last week.

You are going to go first.

Okay, so, I mean, I'll start with the easiest one on this list. And the 2006, yes, we have DW, that's your pitcher, don't throw a list. Correct. Alright, instead of showing off, some of the deeper cuts I know, I'm going to take some of the easy ones off.

Yeah, that's how you do it. And I will take Hanley Ramirez. Yes. At HR, you said he has to get the position. Yes.

All right. I knew he knew the position. Just beneath Hanley Ramirez on this list, you have DW, that's your second base of Indiana. Correct.

Yes. All right. We'll just keep it rolling here, Miguel Cabrera, right after Dan of love. What position? Obviously.

What position? Um, well, position was he playing in 2000? Give me a chance to think about a second. I'm trying to think, because I know he, I know the positions he played throughout his

I'm trying to think that year, did he go, I don't think he had gone to the first base.

He had it.

“It's either the third base or right field.”

Which one is it? This is stupid. This gets you to just be the name. Like, what are we really doing? Which one is it?

What are we really doing? Which one is it? Right field. Cody. That is incorrect.

So I'm going to go ahead and say, Miguel Cabrera, a third base. Correct. That's correct. That's correct. You guys.

Love you. As is exemplified by my t-shirt here, baseball is for everyone that everyone includes Adnan Verk, who you know from his book, "Cinofile." You also know him as the man on M.O.B. tonight covering all things major league baseball, and you also know him as our most consistent guess.

So why not start the M.O.B. regular season with Adnan Verk to take us through, basically the table setter for what this season is going to be for every listener of the pitch clock. We are going to get you ready to watch Major League Baseball this season.

And I always say to you, "Listen, we love basketball.

We love hockey. We love football. We're a huge sportsman's of course. But there are two seasons. There's baseball season and waiting for baseball season."

That's exactly right. Baseball season and waiting for good dough. Give me our three best teams in Major League Baseball going into the year. Number three is to fill off your fillings. There were a 96-win team, a season ago.

Yes, they lose Ranger Suarez, but I'm hoping for big things from Andrew Painter, and I do think Adoliz Garcia replacing the Castianos as an improvement definitely defensively, and hopefully offensively as well. Zach will be back at some point or rather. Christopher Sanchez is a breakout season.

They locked him up long-term. They've locked him. He's just Lazardo as well. Schwabra got resigned. Feliz still have the horses.

Judge is a three-time MVP. I don't see any left down there from the Yankees. Number one, of course, is the Dodgers. You go in and sign Kyle Tucker, you get Edwin Diaz, one of the best losers in baseball. It's ridiculous.

They may not have the most wins, by the way. We saw this last year, but not like a juggernaut, but another 112 wins, but it's all said and done to the best team in baseball. Obviously, Dodgers. Yankees' fillings.

That's not a surprise. But Adon, who are three teams in baseball this year that you think could under the radar, sneaky, compete, end up being teams that we're talking about as we chase the postseason. So the first thing I want to give you is the Texas Rangers.

They actually had the best starting pitcher, ERA in baseball last year, and they've

now added McKenzie Gore, who always had type stuff, but it felt like he wasn't quite

an ace. Well, no problem. Now you can be the best number three in baseball, because we're going to have Jacob to grab him and Nathan Evaldi in front of you. Jack led a really came into his own last year.

Just like his dad, Alan, my colleagues at MLB network, walks a little too much, but he's got great strikeout stuff and Jack's are to figure it out last year. Still waiting for Kumar Rocker to come along, but they're starting pitching us outstanding. Yeah. We got their bullpen a little bit, and their offense needs to pick it up beyond Corey Seagull,

“the Trader's Marcus Simeon, but I think if Wyatt Langford is a big season, if Evan Carter”

has a good season, maybe Texas is a team that will be tougher than we expect in the American League West. The other one, as you've mentioned, I've mentioned you before, just for our boy, Damashach, the Pittsburgh Pirates, because the fact they did get some more offense, they knew they had to get some power, so Brandon Lowska, 30 home run potential, especially from, you know,

the left side, Clemente Walder and Wright, you got Marcelo Zuna, he's maybe 20, 25 home runs, Ryan O'Hurron, 20, 25 home runs, Jake Mangam in that lineup. So, 80 home runs, perhaps the team that hit the fewest home runs in baseball, it's a good song. George Jones is not back until mid-season, but beyond skiing, it's was a supernova.

You've got Mitch Kelly, you've got Prax and Ashcraft, I think they're a really good team, Pirates. Even if they score four runs a game, Jeremy, that could be a 500 team, and as we know, the guys would be the class of the 83 wins, and lastly, the Arizona Diamondbacks. Now, this one's tricky, because they're starting pitching isn't great.

Beyond Zach Allen, who I love, fellow Eagles fan, he gets to qualifying off, he's a race. And Raro Riga, so it was great, the World baseball class, awesome at the WBC. But really, I just want to mention the fact, they've got three of the best position players in baseball. It's crazy.

But you think a Corbin Carroll could tell Martin, her all to Perdona, but Perdona was fourth in MVP voting last season. He's one of the most anonymous, unassuming stars in the game. They're probably not good enough, but they're really fun to watch, especially with those three stars.

Fourth in MVP voting, probably the third biggest star on his own team in Arizona, which shows you just how under the radar he really is.

“And I like this pick from you as an under radar team, because I remember last year they were”

your pick to go to the World Series, and I'm not going to let you forget it. 06. Catcher. Miguel O'Liva. That's my boy.

That's a great one. That's my dog. I love that that deeper cut there. I mean, I'm just, so here's my, here's my debate about how I'm going about. First Chris fastball swim.

My debate on how I'm going about this is, do I want to continue to name names from 2006, hoping, obviously, to stump you, because I don't think you'll know just about any of the ones from, I have to written down 2020. Thank you very much. For what?

It's worth. I'm struggling more with this than I thought I would. I mean, I know I know one of them, and I can't wait to say his name. That's what I'm going to do.

Correct. So that's far, just so we all are clear, there have been six names taken off the board. We have Hanley Ramirez, Danugla, Miguel Cabrera, Josh Willingham, Don Trovalism, Miguel O'Livo from the 2006 Marlins, there have been zero Marlins from the 2020 roster named yet. Can we make a rule that, for 2020, don't have to do positions?

I mean, fair, but there's a few guys here.

“I don't want to change the rules, there's a few guys here that you should know.”

I do. Cody. Saw me. The board is yours. I don't know, what position is going to play.

Are you going? Oh, six, sir. Yeah. I mean, I'm kind of just already a shitty year if you must know. Um, all right, 2020, catcher.

Harold Ramirez. Oh, did he not play Harold Ramirez was on this roster, but he did not play not. I can't see that. That's right. Good.

But see, here's what I'm going to do.

I'm not going to, I'm thinking, I'm, yeah, you're thinking of Augustine Ramirez or Augustine Ramirez. Augustine Ramirez, if you will, he's not on this team. How about me? I'm not going to give you another opportunity to guess that one because I'm going to tell you

who the catcher was. I'm going to tell you who the catcher was. Yeah. You're going to love this. This is Italy manager, Francisco Survelli.

Oh, yeah. That's correct. Did he play like three games in that series? He was there and then get a concussion and then his concussions were really a big issue for him.

But he, I just was speaking. I was just speaking, it's bringing training with Orleans catcher Brian now a reddough. And he said, Francisco Survelli, still mentors him to this day. Oh, 2020 pitcher, Sandi Alcantar, there you go. There it is.

All right, so Chris is down to two strikes up to two strikes. Sure. Fallen pitches off right now. So I'm going to go ahead then. Fallen pitches off.

I'm going to go ahead and stick with those six just to try to make Chris be put in the position to have to figure this out.

I'm going to say MJ on the 2006 Marlins Mike Jacobs, the first base in the correct.

Not Jewish. Famously not Jewish, but held Jewish Heritage Night with him as the face of Jewish Heritage Night. All right, let's get into this Adnan. I want to start focusing on the individual.

So outside of Otani and Judge, who are the very obvious guys to watch, two of the greatest players of this time period, of this generation and really of all time, for being our most honest, but we can get into that another time. What the top five players that you're looking forward to watching this major league baseball season?

Well, there's nobody that made my kids enjoy watching more of Frano Tate's Junior. You know, Nando is the coolest guy to watch play baseball. He saw the world baseball clashing in huge home runs. The best backflips in the game, the eye black, the dreads, the setter step in the third base and the dancing.

I mean, every time Nando's out there, he's the best. And just in terms of war, he's one of the best players in baseball, because he's so incredible defensive.

This is a guy who's always going to win a gold glove in right field.

And he could be a plant on the glove award winner as he's been in the past. I hope he has some more power this year. We know the power hasn't been the same ever since he got pop for P.E.D.'s. He's more like 25 home run guy, rather than a 42 home run guy, but still every time Nando is out there, I just think he's so much fun to watch.

“Paul schemes, I think, has must a TV every time he's on the bumpy, if this guy could throw”

a no hit or he could rack up, you know, a Maclin inning, schemes to me, has always must a TV, Ellie Delacruz, again, much in the mold of a Nando electrifying, young, talented, brash, the bat flips the excitement, the dreads. And I hope that Terry Frank Cohen came to cut down the strike that's because I do think that his best Ellie Delacruz could be an MVP candidate.

P.E.C.R. Armstrong apparently spoke to me locked up by the cubs, he had an unbelievable first half. He slowed in the second half, unfortunately. But just again, based on war alone, this guy's a six-war player, because he's spectacular defensive.

He's a best defensive player. He's an elite based runner, and I know he's on base percentage isn't great, you know, a sub 300 is not great to me, but he can slot, and he's a 30-30 player, the first the cubs have had since Sammy's so-so. He's also a great dude, not sure if you had a chance to interview him, I have P.E.C.

as an awesome guy, very down to Earth, Mom was in summer catch. I mean, the son of an actor who, uh, little big league, come on, don't get it, don't get it twisted. I would go, I was thinking about it to pretty appreciate it. The mother, the mother of one, Bill Haywood, okay?

Good catch, touch, hey, and the last one, this one might surprise you, so I'm going with the young players and stars, but the one that watched for me is Bryce Harper. He got, yes, Dave Dumbraowski last season. He's a two-time MVP, filled off, he has a lot of pressure on them.

“They've re-signed Schwerber, but like this is kind of an aging core, right?”

Cascala says gone, Rayal Muto's back, who knows much more. He has left. I'm very curious what Bryce Harper does.

I'm really, really curious to watch Bryce Harper this season. I hope he has a big time here, but I'm curious after what Dave did call him out. I love that call, Jake Mince, obsessed with his family barbecue last week on our show, mentioned Harper is one of the guys he's watching this year. He also made a comparison that you are going to love very quickly.

He called them the Elvis Presley of Baseball, is a guy who is a white guy culture-vulture, but it's actually a good thing in the long run for the sport. So, ultimately, hadn't it?

“I want to get, this is true rapid fire here, all right?”

I'm going to list off several things. We're going to get your picks, and we're going to call it a day. And then I'm going to fact check you later in the year. We're going to go back through this list. I'm taking notes.

So, Adnan, who are your MVPs in each league? Joe Hey wins his fifth MVP and his first MVP after being a runner-up to show Yotani in 2021, Vladimir Kuro Jr. wins the American League MVP. Sigh youngs in each league. Mariners pitching staff is so electric.

Every year you feel like you could pick a different guy, so it could be Logan Gilbert, it's going to be George Kirby. I'm calling Brian Wu to win a saw.

Managers, I'd have a the national league, Logan Webb, which perennially, a bride's bay, never

a bride, Logan Webb, finally wins a saw. This guy every year, 200 plus the things, 200 plus strikeouts. Incredible. Logan Webb is like an old school pitcher. If you love old school pitching, fans of the pitch clock, he is a guy that's must see TV

on MLB TV, division winners in each division Adnan. Tell me who you got. Yankees, Tigers, and Mariners, the American League, and the national league, Phillies, Cubs, and Dodgers. Feel like I'm going chalk.

No real surprises here. But I'm not going to get burned again after betting on the royals last season. Yeah, you tip it on the royals last season. But thank you for bringing it up yourself, because I was going to, who are your wild card winners?

Best division in baseball is the American League East. You're going to see the blue Jason, the Red Sox, and the playoffs. And the Astros will just squeak out the Orioles and the Guardians. So I've got Jay's Red Sox, Astros, and the National League, Mets, Podras, and back in the playoffs for Buster Posey.

The San Francisco Giants, a full season of Rafael Devers, look forward to that.

“Who makes the world series and who ultimately wins it?”

Yankees over the Dodgers. We're going to re-batch for a couple more. Wow.

It's finally a silence as the critics and it has this big moment.

Looks like very bad. It's finally had this big moment. 2002 Giants against the Angels. That would be spectacular for Major League Baseball after what should be a great season. We've had mentioned in this pitch clock Dodgers.

Yankees, Philly, Steinbeck's Rangers, Pirates, Podras, Reds, Cubs, Dodgers again, everybody in baseball except for the Marlins. Yeah. All right. Let them talk to you.

Your boy Peter Padnex, you got to cover it. You will leave the Marlins talk to me. We're actually doing it in the trivia game that's happening right now amidst this pitch clock. But pitch clock fans, if you live here in Miami, and you're planning on potentially going

out to the ballpark, may I entice you with the fact that this weekend opening weekend, I will actually be your in stadium host. You could see me on the on the big screen, welcoming you to the ballpark. I'm looking forward to it and getting back on that broadcast on Marlins.tv. It's going to be a lot of fun.

You can also check out Adnan on MLB Network. He'll have you covered all throughout opening day. He's also going to join us on our live stream later today. We will be live Thursday to 26 for 3 to 5. You can watch us on the Lepatard YouTube channel.

Adnan, as always. Thank you for joining us. Cody, there's to your way that the Marlins' right fielder, no six. He'd been talked to me with your eyes. Don't talk to him with your eyes.

Stop talking to him with your eyes. Look at the look at it on the sheet. I'm not looking at him. I know who it is. I know who it is.

I know who it is. I don't know who else this could be. Jeremy Hermida. Yeah. Awesome.

Doesn't that name just get you to yourself? Yeah. I love the name Jeremy. Jeremy? I don't need it.

One more. Yeah. If you guys get this guy, I like that's deep, Marlins' knowledge because I didn't know this name. So can you tell us, position that?

Do we both agree? Well, there's one position left on the field. Shit. Let me do that math. Okay.

So I'm going to head and move back up to the 2020 Marlins while Chris does math.

I'm going to name their third baseman.

That's at the bottom of this list, BA Brian Andersen. Correct. Oh yeah. See this is so annoying. I'm still in this game if it's not for the positions.

I don't remember what position this guy is. Yeah. It is fair. To Chris is credit. He's got never name.

Oh, he's spot on. Yeah.

“That's why I added positional element because there's another level of knowledge”

sir. I'm going to give you guys the initials at positions. I don't think you guys would have struck out. I think he just had to make it a little bit. They're not at their positions, but it could be the way you did it.

You just don't have to say the position. Yeah. I could have been an option as well. Go ahead. Ah, it's like I know this guy played all over the field, but I think he was in our

starting in 2020, could he have been a starting? Okay. Did he just, all right, Jeremy's going to fall Jeremy here. Let's stop.

It's Ian Desmond. No.

“He was a rock, he, I don't actually remember Ian Desmond says he's out the stage.”

I'll tell you who it is. Well, it has ID. ID.

You're starting second basement for the 2020 Miami Marlins.

He's got it. Eson deez. Oh, God. That guy. All right, so let's go around the board here, so that is three strikes and I name him.

I try to name him a couple more. But I can't remember what questions that would have played. Yes, absolutely.

“Is there a world in which Jorge Alfaro played left field?”

Jorge Alfaro did not play left field.

That J.A. is Hazard's Agalar. Hatches Agalar for a space, a red book color, a digital art as well. Cory Dickerson wasn't left. Yep. So I couldn't remember.

I'm sorry. I'm stunned.

You guys haven't gotten the shortstop.

Oh, Miguel Rojas. And then J.V. This is a deep cut. I'm trying to say. This one's a deep cut.

“Jonathan V.R. was in center field on opening day Friday.”

Jonathan V.R. And then who was the center field during 2006? Eric Reed. Or he definitely not already either. Their time I've started in left field for the tomorrow.

That's a victory in which Jeremy Tajay has started 1-0 in trivia this year. You're the best player in this school. Do you think it's all right? Yeah, exactly. This player is the best player who can understand.

Egalobstudium, Job or Unzug. Stimmt. Cras. I don't think he's the best player. Stoyer is the best.

Save. With this player.