Diamondbacks SHUT OUT By Astros, Lose MORE Ground In NL Wild Card Race

Intro I don't want to use that old Houston we have a problem cliche but Arizona we have a problem we're g to talk about it stick around 30 seconds let's go [Music] [Applause] [Music] Blowout L shrinks Wild Card lead I don't like that song Welcome in to another edition of the phnx DBS podcast brought to by our friends at bet 365 Go download the bet 365 app now use code phnx 365 when you sign up choose your offer and find out why it is never ordinary at bet 365 and this wasn't one of those extraordinary games this was just a terrible one I am your mayor of phnx occasionally known as Derek montia this man next to me is once again my vice mayor uh now and in the future apparently uh it's the one and only Jesse fredman Jesse what a stinker tonight we knew things could be bad in Houston for the Diamondbacks but I think this even exceeded our wildest nightmares I mean to be fair here Derek the Diamondbacks offense did do better than the Royals offense against framber Valdez because last time framber Valdez pitched he didn't allow a single hit through seven Innings and the Diamondbacks at least managed two of those in this game uh but yeah this was uh this was pretty brutal all the way around obviously Valdez was outstanding yordon Alvarez hit the two three run homers the Diamondbacks get shut out that's something we haven't seen for quite a while May 24th was the last time the Diamondbacks were shut out this season just the fifth time it's happened all year uh May 24th was that Braxton Garrett a complete game shut out uh against the Miami Marlins that was also a very dark day uh of the season for the Diamondbacks losing to to that Miami team but this is a similarly Dark Day Derek uh you know the Astros are obviously a much better team than that Miami Marlins team was uh but at the same time your your cushion in the National League is getting very very small I was going to say this did feel like one of the worst loss worst losses of the season and I mean maybe it's just because that's how long it's been since the Diamondbacks got shut out you had a you know a very limited amount of offense in the previous game now from the Diamondbacks and this is two in a row this was a team that even in their losses even in that series you know against the Dodgers where they lost you know of course several of those games they still put up a lot of runs and it feels like uh something broke with this team and I don't know what it is I don't know if this is just one of those stretches but it feels like it couldn't come at a worse time considering you know that you have the Mets the Braves the Padres all continuing to win you have teams breathing down your neck I mean it's not even just the Mets now you also have the Cubs that you got to start to consider as they come closer into play for the Wild Card race and things are very crowded once again and and this is not a good time for the Diamondbacks to you know be losing games like this this kind of loss could really you know you want you want to flush it you wanna just move on but this kind of loss could linger this kind of loss could make you lose some confidence I don't know if the Dbacks getting Blake Snell out of the game yesterday so early was some sort of a curse or or how to explain the situation but the offense sure was going good in that first inning yesterday making Blake Snell throw 42 pitches and since then I think the Diamondbacks are four for 53 as a team which is not great uh this offense is as you were saying earlier just pretty much completely shut down uh here over their last 17 Innings of offense I guess uh but at the same time I'm also reminded of how good the offense has been and the fact that the Diamondbacks still lead the league in scoring by a pretty wide margin I think this team for a while has been relying on the offense a little bit too much because it's been so incredibly good and we saw it in those first two games in San Francisco where the bullpen had a couple of Clunkers but it worked out because the dback scored enough runs that it didn't actually matter when all was said and done you're not going to be able to do that all the time um and the pitching is going to have to hold up its end of the bargain and I understand that you know even if the pitching had held the Astros to one run tonight this game is still a loss because it was that bad of a day for for the offense but overall needs to needs to step things up for sure uh they can have my bat I have this bat I have a h this what is this one this one's a Willie Bloomquist bat this one um they can have this one too I have a little I have a little bat I mean I don't know how much this one will help but I will donate all the bats because tonight their bats were broken and this team couldn't get much done I mean I know we're going to talk about Brandon fought who actually pitched a fairly decent game until he got into that fifth inning I mean it was a really good game until that fifth inning but uh we also need to talk about this offense because it really didn't matter how well the Diamondbacks pitched tonight the offense just didn't do anything uh and I mean even in the limited times where they got some base runner they were just stranded Diamondbacks got two hits tonight Randall gritch two out walk in the top of the first he gets stranded one two three second Heraldo Pomo lead off single in the third uh or was it a double I thought it was a double was it double um whatever was a single and then Jose Herrera bunted him over to second base you had a runner at second with one out with catel and Corbin do up and neither of those guys were were able to get the job done in that spot walk walks in the fourth he gets stranded one two three innings in the fifth and the sixth seventh inning still not much another walk from Christian Walker Gino singles uh and then Jake McCarthy pops up and hit Newman hits into the double play there was nothing that the Diamondbacks had nothing going on tonight against the Houston Astros and yeah like you said framber was as good as advertised as good as we expected him to be he stayed on the role that he was on from that that amazing outing against the Royals but uh this one just is concerning you know and again it's it's just one game you know the Diamondbacks are still in a good position because right now even with the loss they still have a wild card spot so as much as I want to panic as much as people in the chat want to panic and I understand Justified I I panicked I'm panicking I am not I'm not in a good place mentally when it comes to this team right now but it's it's still you know they still haven't lost it there's still plenty of time uh but there's plenty of time to lose it too still and these teams don't seem to stop winning baseball games so uh the offense though like you said what's concerning is the offense has been what is what what is won them baseball games that that flat out I mean that their their pitching has been decent at times but we rarely see performance from both the starters and the bullpen lately where it's just a dominant win and the Diamondbacks win by five or more runs and the game was never really in danger that that hasn't happened for this team for a while they've had to score in order to win baseball games and and in these last two games the bats are cold ice cold yeah and and I think from a pitching standpoint I mean like you said you the Dbacks haven't had a complete like Innings one through n well pitched game in quite a while I know they limited the Giants to to three runs yesterday obviously Maro Kelly was outstanding in that game uh the bullpen wasn't awful I mean you know they were able to work out of a jam in in the eighth inning jle obviously wasn't able to get in out in the ninth and and the Giants walked it off that was a pretty well pitched game overall but still you're you're seeing way too many games like this where the Diamondback starter is just not really keeping you in the game Andor the bullpen is making things a whole lot more interesting uh toward the end than than you would like to see and Brandon fought you know I think in those first few Innings he was I don't he didn't look sharp to me really from the get-go tonight I mean he threw 26 pitches in the first he allowed a leadoff double to Jose Altuve he also hit Kyle Tucker in that inning he managed to work out of it which was impressive I mean against a good team like the Astros sometimes you're you're the Innings aren't going to be one two three you're going to have to work a little bit of traffic but his command just wasn't sharp out of the gate especially his sweeper they were talking about it a lot on the broadcast where he just could not get that sweeper uh you know to the outer edge to right-handed hitters or to lefties you know usually he's trying to paint that outside corner he was leaving a lot of those pitches in the middle of the zone and when Brandon fought leaves a sweeper in the middle of the Zone it it tends to it tends to get hit quite a bit so we saw a lot of that in this game we also saw number of yanked fast balls uh his his command in general just wasn't great and two foughts credit he was able to make it work for a while he was able to get through four Innings with only one run allowed but then in the fifth as we have often seen this season Derek the fifth inning has been his worst inning this year and once again it caught up to him couple of singles to start the inning not necessarily hit all that hard uh but then yordon Alvarez he hit that one pretty hard into right field and that turns a one- nothing game into a four nothing game just just totally blew the game open for the Astros at that point Dante Ortiz in the chat asks fought tired with all the Innings uh do you think that really could be what it is because I know he's given the Diamondbacks a lot elgo also says uh he's hitting a wall for the season and I mean what while that is true it also has been an unfortunate like truth about F's outings right like even though he might be a bit tired even though he might be have pitched a lot of innings we have seen throughout this season fought pitch brilliantly for four or five out of the six you know five or six Innings he pitches but usually there's that bad inning that we kind of you know joke about and discuss and I mean that's been a constant of his year just having trouble limiting that and I mean again even in some of his better outings he still has that inning but he limit it to just one or two runs instead of allowing it to kind of break the game open yeah it's an interesting question of like it are the Innings kind of catching up to him at a certain point I mean just from an Innings total standpoint right now he is at 165 which is a pretty big number uh I mean last year he threw uh 96 in the majors he threw another 60 or so in the minors and then of course there's about 20 or 25 in the playoffs so you know you do the math there and it's about 180 Innings total last season right now he's at 165 so he's still below that but obviously if the Diamondbacks get where they want to get this season then there's a whole lot of baseball left to be played right I mean they they played for about two months from this point a season ago so in the grand scheme of things yeah I think the Innings total is totally a valid thing totally a valid concern especially given that these are all major league Innings this season for fought you know when he spent time down last year that's that's not the same feeling as you know facing Jose Altuve and yordon Alvarez and players of a big league caliber day in and day out so I think it's a it's a valid question uh one thing that stands out to me about fought recently is that his strikeout and walk numbers have continued to be really really good I was looking earlier at his numbers over his last seven starts coming into today he had a 6.08 erra over his last seven starts and in that span fought had 44 strikeouts to seven walks which is an extremely good you know in terms of strikeout and walk numbers that's extremely extremely good his FIP in that span was just above three and yet the ER is over six and on one hand I want to be like oh that's just bad luck and that's bound to to come around but the eye test is telling me that there's something real to fought just sort of I don't know if it's losing his composure but just sort of making a whole bunch of mistakes all at the same time and when you do that major league hitters are are going to make you pay for it and we certainly saw that in that fifth inning today T in the chat says uh be fought pit pitches better in the cold see big game Brandon 2023 no sweaty so Jesse obviously the answer here is uh ice baths before the game for Brandon fought there stick him stick him even if you're at a way Park stick him in like a cooler for one of the you know one of like the concession stands or something until you know you get to a point where you're ready to have him start warming up uh but don't call it warming up you know call it something else that way just mentally he doesn't start to get hot or sweaty I don't know I don't know what the answer is but I still feel like Brandon fought uh is you know a future Ace for this team based on what we've seen out of him at times he's just been asked to do a lot and I think right now the Diamondbacks as a whole might feeling that pressure uh and that pressure is only going to get there it's it's it's only going to be heavier as we approach you know the the end of the season the Diamondbacks may have lost a key member of of their staff another injury with Jose Herrera getting knocked on the head by Kyle Tucker's back swing in the bottom of the fifth inning uh Jesse my concern there with that wasn't as much as the fact that it hit him on the top of the head as much as it looked like it kind of compressed uh his head down and like that he might have some sort of neck injury and something like that could potentially cause Herrera to lose a lot of time and Diamondbacks can't really afford that right now yeah I mean you know you hope that Gabby Marino is is ready to come back fairly soon but from what we've heard it doesn't sound like it's going to be anytime super soon you've still got a little a little while there and even so we were just talking on this show yesterday about how when Gabby does come back you figure that Jose Herrera might have the upper hand over Adrien del Castillo at this point given some of the the defensive challenges that we've seen there so yeah that that is certainly another uh real bummer part of this game for the Diamondbacks uh we might have an we might have an update in the chat by the way Mark R says he passed protocols and is playing tomorrow so okay hopefully there's no uh no long-term no no time Miss there for Herrera because that would be uh that that would be huge I mean the Diamondbacks right now need Jose Herrera in there I think not for his offense but for what he offers this team behind the plate he's he's a leader back there and and he does give them a better you know just just a better catching option right now than ADC yeah and I mean I think another challenge if they had you know gone the route of having to put him on the concussion I uh or whatever just to make sure that he was good you face the challenge then of bringing up a catcher from Mareno who is not familiar with any of your pitchers and that just and just you know brings in a whole other layer to trying to fill that spot while while herrera's away so that's good news um yeah it sounds like like Tori said that on the broadcast after the game so hopefully the Dbacks have have avoided any any concerns there well uh Roman in the chat or Roman on Twitter asks is Marte injured again no I think they just took him out because they weren't ready to have him run on the base path late in the game and it didn't really matter at this point like the the the Diamondbacks you know Tory Lolo waved the White Flag when he put Jordan mcgomery into the game and I again completely disagree with the way that Lolo manages games when the Diamondbacks are down and this is another one of those instances but you could argue that all you want it really didn't matter the Diamondbacks didn't score they hardly got anything going on offense so as much as I want to agree with many of you about you know the fact that he just turns to Jordan mcgomery that's what Jordan mcgomery is here for now Jordan mcgomery did not have a good outing but he did go out there and eat up a bunch of innings and uh you know he that's that's the point is for them to not go out there and have to use you know multiple Bullpen pitchers in a blowout like this and and somehow then put themselves at a disadvantage for the games you know for for the rest of the games of the series so you know he came out there uh he did his thing last time he pitched minute made Park Jesse ALCS hero this time guess what not so much uh gave up another three run home run to yordon Alvarez uh who was just an absolute Menace and and Terror to the Diamondbacks tonight uh a couple of dinkle dinky it was uh I think they said on the radio broadcast that it was you know it was death by a thousand paper cuts to Jordan mcgomery at one point because it was wasn't all his fault there were some defensive mistakes there were some balls that just went in areas that they had no business going but uh the end result is he did Pitch three Innings gave up four hits four earn runs he walked one and he struck out three um his Bullpen uh erra Jesse is 6.30 so it's basically the same his starter ra is 6.44 so after were the same basically right but I'm just saying as much as we thought he was going to go to the bullpen and shove and maybe like transform into this different thing which I'm not saying we thought that but it was disgust right like you know maybe Jordan mcgomery goes and and shows them you know you made the made the wrong move no Jordan mcgomery has shown them that he's that they made the right move when it comes to moving him to the bullpen and I don't even know if he has value there at a 6.30 erra but uh at least he comes in and is able to pitch a lot of innings in in again in a game like this and you know it it ends uh King Snake eventually it it eventually ends and thankfully we it ended but we do have to give uh the king snake to somebody I thought about giving it to AJ Green from the Philadelphia Eagles because he scored me a lot of points tonight fantasy football against Max and I figured I should give it to somebody that did something positive for this podcast but uh instead we're gonna just give it to Joe mantiply because he pitched a third of an inning and he got one out and he didn't give up any hits and he didn't give up any runs and he didn't walk anyone he had a Flawless night Derek and that's not something that you can say about any other member of the diamond don't scoff at this this this king snake is no joke ladies and gentlemen this man deserved it he absolutely deserved it uh one one note on the on the Montgomery thing real quick I remember when we were talking with Scott Boris because of course Boris showed up to Montgomery's intro pressor when the Diamondbacks made that signing official we were all you know me and several of the other reporters pulled Boris aside and talked to him for a while and he T he referred to Jordan Montgomery as being the Astros assassin he said that that was sort of within Boris circles that's sort of what they had nicknamed Jordan Montgomery and rightfully I mean understandably so at the very least because you look at what Montgomery did against the Astros in the ALCS last year it was pretty dang impressive stuff uh this guy threw let me find my numbers here this guy threw 15 Innings and allowed two earned runs in that Series against the Astros he pitched three times including in game seven where he came out of the bullpen and threw two and a third scoreless Innings at minute made so that's the last time you were referring to earlier that's the last time that he pitched in that ballpark um but yeah just sort of uh sort of a reality check of how things have changed for for Jordan Montgomery right and you know that was what about 10 months ago at this point it's a it's a reality check for us all Jesse it's very sobering to remember that you can still lose a game eight to nothing uh and again like we said before we came into the series this fber Valdez Valdez and the entire pitching staff is very good their relievers are very good we didn't even have to test the bullpen tonight so uh I mean this is not this isn't a good series it's not a good matchup for the Diamondbacks right now and I mean the Astros did just lose uh what was it they got swept by the Reds I believe I I don't know if that's yeah the Astros did just get swept by the Reds which uh in our addition of on the record earlier today with Chandler Rome uh he said that like the Astros apparently have a thing with never beating the Reds like they had lost nine straight games against Cincinnati or something Bonkers like that so apparently there's some history there uh with the Astros not being able to to beat that team but uh yeah they uh definitely didn't seem to show any ill effects uh in in uh in this one here tonight well we have more from this game even though I do not want to talk about this game anymore here shortly but we got to pay some bills so uh before we get to that I want to remind you all to check out bet 365 of course bet 365 has 90 million users worldwide I am one of them for a good reason because bet 365 offers the widest range of games and markets available for live in-game betting across 78 Sports if there's something you want a live in-game bet on I bet it's on BET 36 365 uh and I might find action on bet 365 on that bet that I just bet you on uh but 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that we were saying that the playoffs were dwindling away Jesse and I don't I don't know if we ever made that claim before today but we're gonna make it today gota be careful things are things are getting dicey and I don't like the direction in which they're going but of course I'm sure I'm not the only one when it comes to that mostly because you know the Diamondbacks we have won a lot of games this season we're going to get into where they were at at this time last year but it's just wild to think with the success they H have had that the Diamondbacks still have all of these other teams hot on their heels and and you know in this race alongside of them so every win is crucial tonight's game you just forget it if you're one of the members of this team you got to move on uh you got to pretend like this one didn't even exist let's take a look at the count presented by desert Financial Credit Union and of course you'll see The Count why the Diamondbacks get outscored by the Astros 8 to zero they are out hit by the Astros 12-2 Astros went five for 10 with runners in scoring position to the Diamondbacks 0 for three the Astros had five extra base hits including some very very hard- hit home runs to the Diamondback zero and then xba 337 for the Astros to the Diamondbacks 119 expected batting average so just got beat just got molly [ __ ] tonight Jesse yeah and there is I mean especially with a game like this there is a tip your cap element to framber Valdez I mean I think it felt like every pitch that Valdez through was either just nasty and perfectly buried in the dirt or like pinned the bottom third of the strike zone uh I mean he was just dotting Corners all night long it felt like except for the first inning his command was a little shaky think he threw 12 balls to seven strikes in the first inning made a couple of middle middle mistakes the Dbacks weren't able to capitalize on but the rest of the way he was basically in cruise control I think this is about as well pitched of a game as the Diamondbacks have have faced all season and you know as much as the I mean the offense is certainly gonna have its good days and its bad days but there's also an element of like Elda just pitched a really freaking good game and sometimes no matter what you do offensively it's going to be really hard to get anything going against certain guy and Valdez was on that level tonight I mean he has been one of the best pitch in all the baseball here over the last couple of months and yes we're only one day removed from the Diamondbacks knocking out a piit in a very similar situation after one inning and Blake Snell he came into that start with outrageously good numbers in his previous 10 starts but they obviously were not able to duplicate that tonight against Valdez didn't have the same game plan just like the way that they weren't able to adjust when they knock Blake Snell out of this game Jesse but uh I will say that this is one of those losses whereas Mt as you want to get at any one thing it feels like well this other thing didn't work either nothing worked for the Diamondbacks tonight starting pitching wasn't great Bullpen obviously wasn't great and offense wasn't great so you could say well if they did generate some more runs off of fber if they even had a good night off of him then this is not you know this is a bit more on the on the pitching and you're gonna be a little bit more mad that maybe Tori puts Jordan mcgomery out there there's there's nothing to be mad at the Diamondbacks just got beat tonight and matter how you want to cut it you could say Jordan mcgomery is perfect out there well Brandon fought still gave up you know his runs you could say maybe fought gets out of that fifth inning without giving up that three- run pretend yordon Alvarez does none of the damage that he does against this team the Diamondbacks still lose one to zero would you rather that happen because that would be even more infuriating than an eight to nothing loss I feel like but of course uh the the the big news is that catel Marte did return in this one he did go 0 for three Ketel Marte returns with a walk uh there was nothing wrong with him again just to quell any concerns he just there was no reason to have him run on the base path for an irrelevant reason so Le Lis Luis gor pinch ran for him in the eighth inning the Diamondbacks did option Jorge Barosa too which is the surprise of nobody I I think and uh of course uh it's just good to have catel back I mean you you you can't expect Christian Walker or catel to be the way that they were before going down to injury uh after coming back because baseball's just a Fickle game like that where you just need to you need to have some time back at a major league level before you're yourself again it's the good reason why it's the reason why it's good that they're back this early before the playoffs so that they can return to form a bit yeah absolutely uh I mean you're you're gonna have you're going to have a few stinkers every now and then and the Diamondbacks have not had I mean I guess they have had uh number of those uh here in the last 10 days or so and I think that a game like this probably feels a lot different if if we're in an alternate universe where the New York Mets haven't won eight consecutive games right there's there's just a sudden there's quite a bit of pressure that the Diamondbacks feel at this point we're gonna get into of urgency yeah there I mean there there really has to be at this point Diamond Back are if if there was a scenario a week or two go where the Diamondbacks could just sort of Coast their way into the playoffs and never really have to worry about things getting too close that that doesn't exist anymore right because we're in that situation right now the Diamondbacks have a game and a half cushion on both the Mets and the Braves that's already a small enough number that I mean there's plenty of time to make up a game and a half right it's not even really that big of an advantage at this point uh as far as catel is concerned though I think the fact that he is back and and healthy and of course hopefully he continues to be and doesn't have any setbacks like he did earlier the fact that catella is back makes me think that this offense is going to be just fine down the stretch like it's really hard for me to imagine a scenario where the Diamondbacks offense is a significant issue for them now that you have catel Marte back in the lineup and you also have Christian Walker back in the lineup as well this offense I think is going to be okay but there are obviously some questions on the pitching side uh you know Zack G and Maro Kelly looked a whole lot better over the last couple of days but there's some questions with Brandon fod and and with Eduardo Rodriguez and basically everyone in the bullpen not named AJ puck right there are still some guys that that have things to prove down the stretch and their performance is is going to in many ways determine whether the Diamondbacks are able to make the playoffs or not well we did get some good news from Mike Fitzgerald on Wolf and Luke yesterday saying that Gabrielle Moreno's return is expected sometime in the middle of September while that doesn't line up with Gabby's comments at the autograph signing about it being two weeks it's actually a little close and I mean it it's that that gives me a little bit more hope that we will see Gabby back before the playoffs which again allows him to have that amount of time to you know get back to pitching and or catching and and hitting at a major league level yeah from what they said on the on the broadcast today catel is or not catel Gabby is not yet to the point of actually catching obviously uh you know doing the whole catcher Crouch thing for nine innings is that that's going to take a little bit of time to get there he also isn't running bases but he has been taking at bats uh according to what they said on the broadcast fullon live at bats just not actually running the bases after that so that's a good sign uh and it's it's obviously a big step in the right direction and if you can get Gabby back in the lineup that just makes me feel all the more like this offense is going to be okay down the stretch they're going to score enough runs to win games down the stretch but they might not score nine every game and that's where you need your pitching to to help help your cause as well well I still feel encouraged by Zack gallon and Merill Kelly's latest performances the bullpen parts of it that you know are the high leverage guys they've still done a good job well at least AJ Puck uh and you know like you said I I I do feel like the offense is going to come back online but uh who knows Jesse who knows I uh am a known truth teller of course I never lie because I'm a mayor I'm a mayor of phnx I'm a mayor of phnx now then and forever and uh of course I don't lie but espo Espo's he's radical he's dangerous I don't know if you've seen those ads also py who who is he really who is he really working for I don't know uh they're they're very catchy Those ads I have nothing to do with them by the way uh and I'm not lying about that either but uh the numbers of course they never lie Jesse they are also part of my campaign what do the numbers have to say about tonight's game tonight's number is 80% uh and of course people probably familiar FR framber Valdez is well known as a ground ball heavy pitcher obviously throwing that Sinker with all that crazy movement and his his secondary pitches that move of plenty of movement down in the zone he's going to generate a lot of ground balls 80% represents the Diamondbacks ground ball rate in this game against ramber as they had 15 batted balls against them and 12 of them were on the ground and two of them that were not came in the seventh inning so their ground ball rate through six Innings Derek would have been 92% 11 out of the 12 were Ground balls the only one that was not was a Randall grishik flyy out that I think happened in the fourth or fifth inning so um yeah it's pretty pretty brutal uh but obviously fber Valdez he was at his best tonight once again and he's the type guy who can generate a bazilian ground balls and he he certainly did that uh Sean in the chat want you to know Jesse it's framber okay fber I did just I did just say framber yes but I I was probably saying framber earlier so my uh yes my mistake there appreciate you Sean making making sure we're doing Justice to we gotta we gota we're terrible with names one of us is at least and I'm not GNA really point fingers at which one of us is terrible with names usually it's me uh but of course we do have to pay some bills we do also have to talk about this wild card race uh but first before we do that I think we have speaking of the mayoral election some more campaign ads to run Damon take care of whatever you need to take care of hi I'm Mark mclone from Arizona's Family Sports in the extra point podcast in this election season I'll be voting for espo there's nothing against his opponent Dereck montia the man has great hair great shirts and great takes it's just I'll be in the car listening to a postgame show and my kids will say Daddy what did he say and I'll say uh he's talking about AJ Puck and they're like no I heard that word at school that's not what he said and I'm like shut up up Derek you're teaching my kids to swear and I don't appreciate it so I'm voting for espo this election season because a vote for espo is a vote for good clean American conversation with no potty words and you know espo has great takes as well great glasses I was also hoping to hire him as a lifeguard uh for an event in a couple weeks at the mcloon Family household I actually think uh you know this is a great thing you're doing but uh instead of the votes maybe the two of you could leg Russell um winner and loser has to come my program next week and discuss I'm espo and I approve this message Mark Mark I'm not allowed to say those words anymore Mark tell your kids they can listen to this show you know somebody in the chat here says Jesus breaking out more big guns well I haven't gotten personally involved in this election at all yet Jesse I haven't put together a single ad as you know that weird uh pack super pack that's making all of those attack ads has nothing to do with me but I am proud to present to you my own endorsement Damon if you would yeah I'm here in my kitchen because everyone is talking about kitchen table issues and I'm giving all my delegates and all my support to Derek he's never been convicted of 34 felonies he's never tried to overturn an election he doesn't cheat at golf that's that's my guy I'm going with him I'm Derek montia and I approve this message that's Kenny M from Sports Center I'm just saying I don't know I I think I think I go I think I go Mark mclone personally yeah I know I knew you would you're a Trader that's because you're a Trader and uh that's it is what it is but uh it's all right it's all right if Kenny's voting for me everybody should vote for me and I'll get the entire yeah Tanner says it best he says uh take espo off the ballot uh the espo just got beat the same way the Diamondbacks did uh tonight so anyway how how much did you have to pay Kenny Maine to make this video for you Derek was it like a what's that website where you can pay to have like a celebrity film a birthday came Jessie and I didn't pay a dime I didn't pay a dime and in fact I'll show you when Kenny M texted me that video personally to my own cell phone uh number whatever this is this thing the smartphone uh but yeah no it is what it is um I I just won yeah Sean said Dereck waited to bring out the new look it it's it's how did I get Kenny I know Kenny Kenny knows this race Kenny has his pulse on Sports and everything going on in the Sports World so of course you would know about this election but uh Bourbon and baseball I think Ash our friends covering the Astros said y'all give fought a break this is his second year H why are yall comparing him to fber I don't think we were we were just I don't think at any point we're comparing I mean fber Valdez is one of the best pitchers in the league no question about it uh I mean I guess you sort of have to compare them in a way in an individual game because that was the literal pitching matchup today but no that you're not expecting Brandon fought to out pitch uh fber Valdez at least not on you know like a regular basis so uh but at the same time like fought didn't pitch all that well in this game right there's a big gap between what fber did today and and what fought did right with four and twoth thirds Innings and four and runs you you'd hope for a little bit a little bit better than that all right well we will talk about this wild card race here shortly like I said but we do have uh some real bills to pay not with the political ad money 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try for yourself the shades rated five stars by over 300,000 people all right Jesse well people want me to bring back the swearing and I might soon based on these MLB standings but let's take a look at where uh the teams fall right now uh with major league baseball what do we got here oh maybe we don't have that well the Mets I actually I didn't do the standing specifically because the Dodgers and Padre's are still playing right now oh okay yeah that's a good point and I mean that obviously could change but uh unfortunately everybody else is winning uh and things aren't great the Mets win in Extra Innings that is their eighth win in a row uh the only thing I can hope is that our guy Dante Ortiz is right when he says someone said it the other time day but it's only a matter of time till the Mets met right and that's a good point as much as we want to be worried about the Mets they are the Mets and they are gonna met at some point right so like this is just them giving their fan base hope making their fan base believe only to let them down only to disappoint them only to make them sad so as much as I want to panic I obviously foolishly shouldn't be panicking yeah I mean the Mets also have a very difficult schedule the rest of the season I think they have probably the hardest schedule out of all of these teams they're facing the Reds right now they were able to pull off a walk-off win um over the Reds in the 10th inning earlier today they've got the Reds for a couple more games and they have a Toronto Blue Jays team that's not all that great for three games starting next week so the next five games the Mets are still you know playing not terrible teams but not great teams either after that though is when things really start to get difficult for them they have a three-game series on the road against a Philadelphia Phillies team that is still probably going to have something to play for at that point given the the buys and uh obviously having three teams buying for those two buy spots after that they get three games against the Nationals which is a bit of a break but then they finish the season four games at home against the Phillies three games on the road against the Braves and then three games on the road against the Milwaukee Brewers so that is a brutal brutal finish if if you're the Mets I mean you're talking about seven games against the Phillies three games against the Braves and three games against the Brewers those are all obviously very good teams so uh it's not going to be easy for the Mets to to continue on the pace that they're on right I think they've benefited from playing some not great teams recently of course they did come into Arizona and take two out of three last week so they deserve all the credit in the world for doing that but things are going to get a lot more difficult for them here over these next few weeks and again unfortunately the tiebreakers do not land in the Diamondback's favor in a lot of these instances and that's the reason why this is yeah even more crucial that they fight their way in because they do not hold the tiebreaker over the Mets they do not hold the tiebreaker over the Braves and they still have one more series to play against the Padres that could determine that but uh the Braves beat the Blue Jays the Padres are beating the Giants so yeah things aren't great but a lot of baseball left to play and the backs have a lot of games left against the Giants and the Rockies they also have a lot of games left against the Brewers two more series left against the Brewers so hopefully the Diamondbacks can find a way to win against those teams while they you know those the teams they have left on their schedule but this time last year Jesse NL Wild Card standings last year, today... they were not in so good of a spot and made the playoffs right but we know that the the field wasn't nearly as competitive as things are right now uh but let's take a look look where were the Diamondbacks at this time last year Damon yeah this is this is pretty crazy to look at so this is exactly a year ago today what the NL Wild Card Standings looked like and the Diamondbacks right now are 79 and 63 so they would have been with their record right now last season if it if the playoff picture had been equivalent to last season they would have been better than all of these teams they would have been better than the Phillies and had the first wild card spot although the margin there would have been really close but yeah last season at this time the Dbacks were 72 and 68 uh they were a half a game out of the playoff picture so just sort of right on the cusp they were basically tied with the Cincinnati Reds in that position the Miami Marlins occupied that third wild card spot and the Chicago Cubs as hard as it may me to believe Derek the Cubs a year ago today were 12 games over 500 and had a four game cushion on the Diamondbacks and looked to be in very good position to make the playoffs and yet obviously they wound up falling out of the of the whole thing altogether so um yeah it's a reminder of a couple things number one that the Diamondbacks last year were in a much more dire position than they are right now you would much rather be where the 2024 Diamondbacks are on September 6 than where the 2023 Diamondbacks are but number two it's also that the Cubs were 76 and 64 and seemingly in a really good spot and they wound up missing the the whole thing entirely though both those cushion Yeahs and diamonds do now yeah right that didn't make me feel better Jesse like you made me feel better for a second and then you somehow made me feel way way worse that's not how this is supposed to work but uh of course you do have a wonderful breakdown for on the record if you haven't had a chance to check that out make sure to check out on the record with Jesse this week uh Chandler Rome was on the show and you guys talked about Alex bregman possibly being Arizona Diamondback in the future how yeah I didn't really anticipate like going super deep on free agency on September 6 when the Diamondbacks are in the middle of a pretty contentious playoff Chase but corre the topic came up when I was uh when I was previewing this dbx Astro series with Chandler Rome earlier today if you haven't caught that yet it's here on our YouTube channel you can also find it on the audio side we post all of these uh on the record interviews there as well uh but yeah asked I asked Chandler about Alex bugman who is wasn't in the lineup today for the Astros I think he's been a little banged up um but he is he's healthy I imagine we'll we'll see him at at some point during the weekend um and yeah he's a free agent at the end of the season and I asked chanler do you see the Astros bringing Alex bregman back and uh Chandler's response was I don't see the Astros bringing him back and also don't the Diamondbacks need a third baseman um and he he named off a few teams granted it was not just the Diamond Backs but Chandler is a obviously a very well-connected reporter does a great job covering the Astros over at the athletic and he mentioned to me that Alex bregman just moved to Arizona within the last couple of years and you know there's not a ton of uh I think there's some speculative components to this you know it wasn't like he had sources directly telling him like oh yes Alex bregman definitely wants to play for the Diamondbacks but it did seem to make some sense from his standpoint and the Diamondbacks are in a position an interesting position at third base going into next year where they do have this club option for aeno Suarez and if you had asked us a couple months ago whether they were picking up that club option we would have said certainly no but at this point uh you really might think about picking up that club option I believe it's for $15 million right around $15 million um it has a $2 million buyout the debucks are paying that no matter whether they keep him or they let go elsewhere um based on the way the Gino has played recently I think the Dbacks really really might look at picking that option up but if they didn't who knows maybe uh maybe they would take a look at really Landing a big fish in a guy like Alex bregman uh T might be right here he said stuff animal snake needs out yeah we need to get Jesse Jr out win or lose and maybe that'll bring the Vibes back for this team I don't know at least maybe for the offense uh someone wanted to know Jesse in the chat what uh what what you're playing on the PS5 behind you this is important this is important information I'm guessing it's just MLB the show Good Good Eye it's like you can't you can't really see very little back there it's not like this guy where you see this Killer Instinct machine yeah yeah uh yeah personally I I have basically not touched uh the PS5 for a solid pretty much ever since baseball season started because that marks when I have no free time whatsoever um but SP free time sleeping that's what he does with his free time it's pretty much and and even that there's not usually enough to go around but I do enjoy a good game of ml the show every now and then that's definitely uh that's definitely my go-to on the rare occasion that I actually have the time to do that so yes all right well of course we appreciate you guys so much for stopping by you guys are the real king snakes around here for joining us after this loss of course will be back on Monday and hopefully Archie will be back on Monday he's in Oklahoma and I don't know he's he's he's hunting wild animals and I don't know if we'll get him to come back but if we do he'll be back on Monday make sure you hit that like button before you get out of here also make sure you follow us on Twitter I am at capore Caveman with a K Jesse is at Jesse and fredman the people's producer Damon Ferell is at Damon dog that's dawg we are Damon's dogs bark bark and that guy got that guy a cartoon head so I mean that's how much I take care of my constituents by the way just keep that in mind uh but uh again our shows at phnx dbxs uh but all roads lead to at phnx forsports on Twitter Instagram and Facebook we again appreciate your time we hope to see you guys back here on Monday we'll have a mailbag Monday we'll answer your questions we'll have some fun then so make sure to join us for that but in the meantime we hope you guys all have a wonderful weekend enjoy watching in football I hope all of your fantasy football teams win except yours Jesse and everybody else in the phnx fantasy what do you what do you have against me dere we're not we're not playing against each other this week I'm playing against Damon and uh you you guys well I I hope both teams lose I hope both teams lose Jesse is getting smoked right now getting smoked am I because yesterday not go very well for you Damon so you check that out Jessie back today is that what I'm heing I like none of my players have actually played yet so we're still in the very we're still in the very early stages much like the Diamondbacks postseason race there's still a lot of games left to be played here J Herz was mid and Jaden Reed went off wow I me it just wasn't a good I like the way Jesse said that though I gotta admit I'm kind of team Jesse now a little bit right Jaylen Herz was kind of mid that's unfortunate but we're still with we're still in shouting distance I still I still like our chances Waffle House wagon isn't going to go down without a fight so I'll tell you that's one place I will not be this year is the waffle house but I probably shouldn't have said that that seems very clippable and regretable veryable it doesn't matter I'm the Champion and I will ride with this I I'll eat those waffles with this ring on at Waffle House and probably get robbed but that's that's a story for a later time we appreciate you guys stopping by we will see you guys on Monday until then like I was saying have a wonderful weekend and remember kids when you come baseball is fun but when you come for the king you best not [Music] miss we all sitting like the mayor