Opening Day, Big Dumper, and a Mike Trout Revenge Tour | with Dani Wexelman

Summary

Casuals with Katie Nolan: Opening Day, Big Dumper, and a Mike Trout Revenge Tour | with Dani Wexelman Release Date: March 25, 2025

Host/Author: SiriusXM
Guest: Dani Wexelman, College and Pro Baseball Host and Analyst for ESPN, SNY, MLB Network Radio

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1. Introduction

In this episode of Casuals with Katie Nolan, host Katie Nolan teams up with her producers Isabella Brady and Chris, and guest Dani Wexelman, to dive deep into the excitement surrounding the upcoming baseball season. The conversation seamlessly blends sports news, personal anecdotes, and lively debates, setting the stage for an engaging discussion.

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2. Tournament Update and Juju Watkins's Injury

The podcast kicks off with somber news about Juju Watkins, a USC star who suffered a torn ACL during the Women's NCAA tournament. This injury sidelines Watkins for the remainder of the tournament, casting a shadow over USC's campaign.

• Katie Nolan reflects on the injury, stating:
  "[03:35] Katie Nolan: You always regret it. Like, you always regret watching it back a second time..."

• Isabella Brady expresses her disappointment:
  "[03:53] Isabella Brady: Thoughts and prayers to Juju Watkins..."

The discussion highlights the emotional impact of witnessing a promising athlete's sudden injury and its implications for the tournament's dynamics.

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3. Coaching Outbursts: Dan Hurley

Transitioning to coaching dynamics, the team delves into recent incidents involving Dan Hurley, a coach known for his fiery temper. Hurley was caught on camera during a March Madness game, expressing frustration in a way that sparked widespread debate.

• Isabella Brady critiques the situation:
  "[08:27] Isabella Brady: Seriously, asking people to remove it means we're only going to see it more..."

• Dani Wexelman provides context on Hurley's behavior:
  "[09:37] Dani Wexelman: Dan Hurley was sort of one of the coaches that we've followed all season long in regards to coaching outbursts..."

The hosts discuss the potential repercussions for Hurley's reputation and the broader conversation about coaches' conduct in high-stakes games.

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4. Wild Mascot Stories

A unique segment of the episode focuses on amusing and bizarre stories from the world of sports mascots.

a. Chesapeake Oyster Catchers

The Chesapeake Bay Sox have introduced an alternate mascot identity, the Chesapeake Oyster Catchers, featuring a logo that humorously resembles female anatomy.

• Isabella Brady humorously comments:
  "[24:46] Isabella Brady: Yeah, right. It looks like a fanny..."

b. Tasmanian Devils AFL Mascot

The new Tasmanian Devils AFL team unveiled their mascot, Ramen, a two-meter-tall creature made from recycled school uniforms. While environmentally conscious, the mascot's intimidating appearance drew mixed reactions.

• Isabella Brady questions the mascot's design:
  "[26:14] Isabella Brady: It is a scary looking mascot designed by kids..."

c. Charlie Gallico Apology

Charlie Gallico, an 81-year-old mascot for the South Sydney Rabidos, issued an apology after an incident involving a young fan. Despite his gentle nature, the incident sparked discussions about mascot conduct.

• Isabella Brady defends Gallico:
  "[31:27] Isabella Brady: He is a gentle person. He's been wearing the bunny costume for over two decades..."

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5. Baseball Season Bracket Discussion

With Opening Day approaching, the team engages in a fun and competitive bracket segment, debating their top things to look forward to in the 2025 baseball season.

a. Sweet 16 Matchups

1. Seven Months of Baseball vs. Free Stuff at Ballparks

   • Dani Wexelman champions the season's length:
     "[39:44] Dani Wexelman: Seven months of baseball means more action and excitement..."
   • Isabella Brady hinges her vote on the allure of free merchandise:
     "[40:09] Isabella Brady: Free stuff at ballparks is a big draw for fans..."

2. Salty Ballpark Snacks vs. Sweet Ballpark Snacks

   • Dani Wexelman advocates for savory treats:
     "[43:51] Dani Wexelman: I'm always gonna do salty. It pairs best with beer..."
   • Isabella Brady prefers sweet offerings:
     "[41:33] Isabella Brady: The Yankees are giving away tiramisu-filled helmets, which I love..."

3. Dodgers Being Beatable vs. Big and Lil Dumper (Cal Raleigh)

   • Isabella Brady supports allowing the Mike Trout comeback:
     "[75:08] Isabella Brady: Mike Trout's back is the top excitement for the season..."
   • Dani Wexelman counters that the Dodgers are still a formidable team:
     "[73:05] Danny Wexelman: The Dodgers are beatable and I hope teams can challenge them..."

4. Mike Trout's Return vs. Are the Yankees Bad

   • Isabella Brady passionately supports Trout's return:
     "[77:27] Isabella Brady: Mike Trout's back, and it's fantastic for the sport..."
   • Danny Wexelman agrees on the importance of Trout:
     "[78:07] Danny Wexelman: Mike Trout is as relevant today as ever, and his health is crucial..."

b. Final Four Analysis

• Seven Months of Nonstop Baseball Action advances over Random Free Merchandise, emphasizing the depth and continuity of the baseball season.

• Salty Ballpark Snacks triumph over Sweet Ballpark Snacks, reflecting the hosts' preference for savory flavors that enhance the game-day experience.

• Mike Trout's Return wins against Dodgers Being Beatable, highlighting Trout's significant impact and the excitement surrounding his comeback.

• Are the Yankees Bad edges out over Big and Lil Dumper, underscoring the hosts' desire to see traditional powerhouses falter and new stars shine.

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6. Final Recommendations: What to Watch This Week

The podcast concludes with recommendations on key sporting events to watch in the upcoming week:

1. MLB Thursday Opening Day: Brewers vs. Yankees

   • "[81:00] Chris: First thing to watch is MLB Opening Day on ESPN..."

2. Women's College Basketball Sweet 16: UNC Tar Heels vs. Duke

   • "[82:02] Unknown: A huge matchup in women's basketball on ESPN..."

3. Gaelic Football National Football League Division 1 Final: Mayo vs. Kerry

   • "[82:10] Unknown: Gaelic football final, a must-watch for football enthusiasts..."

4. Bentley in NCAA Men's Hockey Tournament

   • "[83:20] Isabella Brady: Exciting family event as Bentley competes in hockey..."

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7. Conclusion

In this lively episode, Casuals with Katie Nolan blends heartfelt sports news with entertaining segments on mascots and engaging bracket debates. The highlight is the enthusiastic anticipation of Mike Trout's return, positioning him as a central figure for the upcoming baseball season. The discussion not only covers the technical aspects of the game but also delves into the human stories that make sports universally relatable.

Notable Quotes:

• Katie Nolan on Mike Trout's Impact:
  "[77:14] Katie Nolan: Mike Trout's back, and it's fantastic for the sport..."

• Dani Wexelman on the Dodgers Being Beatable:
  "[73:05] Danny Wexelman: The Dodgers are beatable and I hope teams can challenge them..."

• Isabella Brady defending mascot Charlie Gallico:
  "[31:27] Isabella Brady: He is a gentle person. He's been wearing the bunny costume for over two decades..."

This episode serves as a comprehensive guide for baseball enthusiasts, offering insights, humor, and a touch of controversy, all while celebrating the joyous return of one of the game's most beloved players.

Transcript

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[Isabella Brady]

Hey Isabella, have you seen that Trump invited the 2020 Kansas City Chiefs to the White House to celebrate their 2020 Super bowl win? Currently, yeah, he wants to do it. They didn't get to do it during COVID so he's inviting them to do it now.

[Brady]

And are they agreeing?

[Isabella Brady]

I don't know. I don't think we know yet.

[Brady]

Cause that looks really bad. If they go, it's like not only are you like the most annoying team in the NFL to everybody, but then you choose to go to Trump's invitation.

[Danny Wexelman]

For your 2020 win.

[Isabella Brady]

Like, are they gonna.

[Brady]

Sounds like a loser.

[Isabella Brady]

Hello and welcome to Casuals, the podcast that's about sports. Sports kind of. Well, today it's pretty much it's about sports a lot. I'm Katie Nolan. I'm your host, joined today by my producers Isabella Brady and Chris as well as later we'll be joined by Danny Wexelman, college and pro baseball host and analyst for ESPN SNY MLB Network Radio. We have a fun segment planned because it's opening day on Thursday and we're getting excited for the baseball season. So Danny will be here in a little bit and we're going to again shove a square peg into a round hole and do a bracket about baseball. It's, it's all going to make sense when we get there. You can email us if you're interested in doing so. Casuals with katie [e-mail]. our voicemail is 646-801-0043. And on IG and tick tock, we are at Casuals, the podcast. I usually start every pod here with a yap, but today, because we have a guest coming in to do a segment and there's a bunch of news to talk about, we're going to skip it and just jump right into the news and kind of like yap as a group, if that makes any sense. Starting off with some bad, devastating, sad news that we're not happy about. Juju Watkins USC star juju Watkins will miss remainder of the Women's NCAA tournament after suffering a torn ACL in her right knee during the Trojan second round game against Mississippi State. Watkins had to be carried off the court because of the injury just five minutes into USC's 96:59 win that propelled the Trojans into the Sweet 16 for a second straight season. Just a bummer. Just a dark cloud over the over the tournament. Now to see a young star go down like that. Was anybody watching live? I can't watch rates injury clip highlights. I because I never know. And I saw somebody say that if you zoom in, you can see her knee bend the wrong way. So I, I didn't. I've not watched it.

[Katie Nolan]

You always regret it. Like, you always regret watching it back a second time, seeing it come again. Because like you see like the game's so cruel. Like everything's going, just going like it's just a normal ball game. And then one second later, like she goes down, you're like, oh, you immediately like, see, like the gravity of the situation.

[Isabella Brady]

I was hoping that we would be able to talk about juju Watkins and Jaden Daniels this week. That was the juju Watkins clip I wanted to talk about when his mom sat between the two of them when they were talking. But clearly that's not. We, we can't talk about that. We have to talk about how she got hurt. And so thoughts and prayers out to juju Watkins, opening weekend of March Madness in general on the men's side. Chris, you took the day off famously in order to be able to enjoy your nooners without being held back by your job. Do you feel that this first opening weekend delivered somewhat?

[Unknown]

We had to wait until Sunday to get our first buzzer beater From Maryland. From Maryland. So Brady was very, very excited about that one.

[Isabella Brady]

It was a good one and I love when a buzzer beater gets hit by somebody with a last name that you can make a Fun and easy pun out of. And this was hit by Derek Queen. So he was just like, yes, Queen. Ooh, yeah.

[Brady]

Did you know that Popeyes has a buzzer beater box? I saw that last night. And I was like, I know this because. And there's another one called, like, clutch assist. Wait, sorry, continue.

[Isabella Brady]

No, no, little pause. Popeyes has a buzzer beater box. What's in it?

[Brady]

Okay, so you could choose, like, two proteins that could either be.

[Unknown]

You're not even looking this up. You're just rattling this off the top of your head.

[Isabella Brady]

That's right.

[Brady]

And it was like 35% off, so I was tempted to get it last night, but I did it.

[Isabella Brady]

35% off of a fast food item.

[Brady]

It was off.

[Isabella Brady]

Uber eats. We're doing percent off.

[Brady]

Yeah. I only ever order things that are like.

[Isabella Brady]

I thought it was like, we do, like, $10 meal deal. I didn't know we were doing Popeyes does a box for 35. I was doing that math.

[Brady]

I could be wrong. But it's like the buzzer box is for A. And then the clutch assist, I think is like two can dine.

[Isabella Brady]

So it was like two can dine.

[Brady]

So it was like, enough food for, like, two people.

[Isabella Brady]

Sure.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Which also if it. If you can order that and just eat it yourself. Any. Any pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard enough.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

All right, Chris, get out of the year. Yes, absolutely. It was fantastic. And somebody right before that, Colorado State had hit like a clutch three. That was great. The end of that game was very exciting and intense.

[Katie Nolan]

And 50 seconds ago, they just hit a. Just a long three pointers dagger and like, you know, my team's down, three seconds to go. I've already just started ripping off expletives from my couch. And then my emotions were turned the other way. Queen hit that shot and said in his post game interview, immediately, they. They said, how do you. How did you get the confidence to take that shot? He's like falling away. He's going towards the baseline, like, banks it off the backboard. They said, how did you get the conference take that shot? He goes, well, I'm from Baltimore, so it's like no big deal. Like, and just how to be quotable.

[Isabella Brady]

And if a quote was ever engineered for Brady to love it, that would be it. Made in a lab. What about be born? That's a fun. That was a fun little guy to root for. B Born.

[Katie Nolan]

I can't remember his real first.

[Isabella Brady]

Me neither. And I don't mind.

[Katie Nolan]

It was Bjorn.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. In Mine, it was Baby. And his last name was Bjorn.

[Katie Nolan]

Baby Bjorn, the shortest guy on the court by like six inches.

[Isabella Brady]

But he bawled out.

[Katie Nolan]

He just like going into the lane and just putting up little floaters over men 7ft tall. Little Bjorn born was like a thorn in the sun.

[Isabella Brady]

It's not his name. It's. I think it's like Brendan, maybe.

[Katie Nolan]

No, it's Bjorn now.

[Isabella Brady]

Braxton, Dan Hurley. Chris, can we talk about this? Because you have been pitching stuff about coaching outbursts in college basketball for weeks, and I don't know that we ever really gave it the time that. That you were hoping and that it probably deserved losing to Florida. Dan Hurley was caught on camera kind of in like the underbelly of the stadium, saying, I hope they don't. You like they, us, Baylor. I really hope they don't in the tunnel. And then everything that's come from that afterwards, like that video was posted and reported on. And then I guess Yukon reached out to the news station and basically like threatened them to try to take that video down. And then they released a statement saying that, like, the last image of Dan Hurley should have been when he left the court. That was the person filming was filming in an undesignated area. And it wasn't for people to see and should never have seen the light of day. It just was a strange situation that does not reflect well on the program, in my opinion.

[Katie Nolan]

Streisand effect in full. Seriously, asking people to remove it means we're only going to see it more. It's like Trump wanting his portrait in the Colorado State house being taken down because it looks too much like Bobby Hill. Like, of course, Nick, now that you've requested to come down, we're all going to see this portrait.

[Isabella Brady]

Not like his official portrait was much better. He's scary.

[Katie Nolan]

No, I don't know what a good portrait would be, but.

[Isabella Brady]

Chris, did you have a thought? No.

[Unknown]

Dan Hurley was sort of one of the coaches that we've followed all season long in regards to coaching outbursts. Right. I think we mentioned on the show last week or the week before how he got into it with a Creighton fan when they beat Creighton last month. And, you know, just chirp back at him saying, two rings, baldy, two rings. Because the Creighton fan was getting in his face. And he's had a couple of those moments throughout the season as well. He had another one where he was talking to a referee and said, I'm the best coach in the fucking sport. Pay me some respect. Essentially so he's known for these sort of outbursts, but seeing it at the end of a. Of a March Madness game, he was going for the three peat. UConn had won the last two March Madnesses.

[Isabella Brady]

Last March Mad Nye, I believe.

[Unknown]

March Mad Nye. I've never said March Madnesses before. It was. It felt weird. But it was just a very fitting way, I think, for UConn season to end. And the fact that we got a coaching outburst, that was fun because, you know, we want to add as much spiciness to this tournament as we can.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Charles Barkley not adding a lot of spiciness, but is representing we've had this in our bracket that he represents the fan that doesn't know anything. During the halftime of the Illinois and Xavier game, he was asked his biggest takeaway from the first half, to which he responded, well, I think that's a good question.

[Brady]

I relate to that.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, it's a good question. It's also a question. Charles.

[Brady]

Don't let them hate on you, Charles, because I get it.

[Isabella Brady]

It's also a question.

[Katie Nolan]

Charles responded with 35% off of a Popeyes box.

[Isabella Brady]

It's also a question you could have probably seen coming. Coming of the. The halftime of a game to say, what'd you think about the first half? Not necessarily a gotcha type of question. Sort of the first question you expect to be asked, but shout out. Charles, I think it's important that we display that you cannot pay attention to the games. It's okay. My brackets busted. I don't know about everybody else. I had Saint I went with my heart instead of my head and I had St. John's going all the way. Cause I thought it would be really fun. And they are done already. So I'm done. My fiance's bracket lives on. He picked Arizona. They are stomping through to the. They're still dancing as they say. How's everybody else's bracket? Isabella? Good. Your. Your first bracket experience.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Brady]

Okay. I put St. John's taking it all too, but right now CBS Sports says I'm number one, so. Well, is that gonna go down so far?

[Isabella Brady]

Look at the potential points or available points. The way that it seem. You won't lose the points from St. John's until we get to those. So you have less points available to you.

[Brady]

I see lots of X's.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Story of our lives. Well, I hope everybody else's brackets are going well out there. We have to celebrate a milestone, an anniversary. It is the. Brace yourselves, guys. I'm going to say the year anniversary of this thing and it's going to upset you that it's been that many years. Okay, I just trigger warning. It's the 20th anniversary of and boom goes the dynamite. For those who don't know or for those who love to be reminded, on March 22, 2005, Ball State freshman Brian Collins volunteered to anchor the news link at nine sportscast on the university television station after the regular anchor cancelled. The 19 year old telecommunications major had never hosted a television broadcast before, but figured it wouldn't be too hard to read some copy, cover some highlights and share some scores. But when the inexperienced person working the tele prompter accidentally fast forwarded the script, Collins turned to his pre printed version for help only to find that the pages were out of order. An incredibly relatable story if you've ever been on live tv. And that's what brought him to the highlights of an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and the New Jersey Nets.

[Unknown]

The Indiana Pacers are looking for a.

[Isabella Brady]

Measure of revenge tonight against the New Jersey Nets and to strengthen their playoff hopes. The Nets won the last Sunday's matchup.

[Unknown]

94 to 85, which left the Pacers.

[Isabella Brady]

One game behind the Chicago in the seven series.

[Unknown]

Let's check out the highlights.

[Isabella Brady]

Silent for the first few for the first play.

[Katie Nolan]

In here, panic.

[Isabella Brady]

Reggie Miller's looking good.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yep. Three and it's good.

[Unknown]

Later he gets the rebound, passes it to the man, shoots it and boom goes the dynamite.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh my God. Passes it to the man. The underrated part of that, that's my favorite part.

[Unknown]

That's honestly my favorite part.

[Isabella Brady]

Later he gets. Okay, underrated part. Favorite part upon rewatch that was Isabella's first watch so we do have to get her opinion on that. But the underrated part on a rewatch is how long the silence is and the fl the frantic flipping between pages where you can hear him like he's.

[Brady]

Like he shot it.

[Isabella Brady]

Reggie Miller's looking good.

[Unknown]

It is Steven Jackson. David.

[Isabella Brady]

It's crazy. The beginning part. You can hear the struggle of a cold read of when you're like I'll just read what it says in the prompter but you haven't seen the prompter before. And so you say like the New Jersey Nets. Like your emphasis is on the wrong one game behind the Chicago in a seven game series. Oh my God, it just makes my skin crawl. Isabella, thoughts on Boom goes the Dynamite?

[Brady]

Where is he now?

[Isabella Brady]

He is working as a reporter for TV news stations or he has worked in Texas, Ohio and Minnesota. He has risen above. He has moved past. I'm glad he, I mean, look, that's a guy stepping in, in the clutch and, and he was not helped out by his team. A teleprompter that goes too fast. Nothing worse than that. Pages out of order. You guys know the sky was crooked. I mean, he didn't have time to care about that. He didn't have a moment to care about that. Highlights are tough. Highlights are tough to do you think they're easy until it's silent and you're supposed to say something. Well, because how are you supposed to.

[Brady]

Watch the highlights and then also read copy at the same time?

[Isabella Brady]

Right? And so also it's like when you know there's a script to something, it's. It's harder to just naturally talk the way you would because you're so stressed about finding the script and saying, sticking to the script especially it's not his job. So he's like, let me read the script. And he can't. So then he's like, I have to do it on my own. And I'm sure in that moment all his brain was just like oh my God.

[Katie Nolan]

But all his brain went to okay, I have to do this. But while trying to improv this, I also need to come up with a catchphrase.

[Isabella Brady]

Need a catchphrase, need to have a catch. Because 20 years ago that's what doing highlights was. It was just coming up with a catchphrase.

[Unknown]

And he said that's the catchphrase that he and his buddies had come up with when they were playing Mario Kart in their dorms.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh my God, that's so funny.

[Unknown]

So that was like a thing within their friendship group and then it just took off.

[Isabella Brady]

I wonder when they said it in the dorms, if they said it excitedly or if they said and booze.

[Brady]

Actually my favorite part of it is actually the. And shoots it in between.

[Isabella Brady]

Passes it to the man, passes it to the man. He shoots it, shoots it, shoots it. And boom goes the dynamite.

[Katie Nolan]

I have dropped the fake question mark.

[Isabella Brady]

Shout out to Brian Collins.

[Katie Nolan]

And boom goes the dynamite.

[Isabella Brady]

Shout out to Brian Collins. You're a king. Thank you for giving us that. This is a story that we are calling. That's what Sports should be. 37 year old Timberwolves forward Joe Ingles started his first NBA game since January 30, 2022, so that his 8 year old autistic son Jacob was able to watch his father play in person. So I guess that Joe Engels 8 year old son had attended his first entire NBA game on March 16th. But Joe Engels didn't play. Um, he finished scoreless in six minutes of play in this recent game that he played. But Wolves head coach Chris Finch said that the decision to include the Australian in the starting five helped inspire the team to a lopsided win. They beat the Pelicans 1:34 to 93. Uh, Finch also said after the game, sometimes you have to do the human thing. And you always talk about all these minutes matter. Those minutes matter for another reason. I thought that was sweet. It's a, it's a game that mattered. It was an important game. They ended up winning it. But to let him start so that his son could see him play, it's the kind of thing that makes you really emotional. And I thought that was very sweet.

[Unknown]

Yeah, it's what sports it's all about. It's all about the bigger picture sometimes. Right. Like this is. This was a must win game for the Timberwolves. We're getting towards the end of the season. They are well and truly in the playoffs hunt. They got to make sure that they got the best possible seed once we come to the playoffs. Yet still, the Coach puts in 37 year old Joe Ingalls just for his son. And you could see how much it meant to his entire family, how much it meant to his wife, how much it meant to his kid. Fascinating story. Loved it. Good on the Timberwolves.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. So sweet. A bronze statue of Wayne Gretzky that stands outside of Edmonton's Rogers Place was splattered with feces Friday morning. This is last Friday. Adding insult to injury after the hometown Oilers not only lost on Thursday to the jets in overtime, but also Connor McDavid left the game with an injury. That's most of that I don't care about. Let's really zoom in on Gretzky's statue getting covered in poop. The person who saw it note, quote, noted the smell of fecal matter around the statue. That statue was unveiled in 1989. It's been in that spot since 2016. They moved it, but it's been around for a while. That's a 9 foot 2 inch bronze likeness of the great one. Weighs 950 pounds. The reason I imagine has to do something with Gretzky's close relationship with Trump. During four nations, this all came out that people were mad at Gretzky because he was being supportive of Trump. Trump even came out and was like, he loves Canada. Don't be mean to him. Which is not usually a good way to sell people when the guy they don't like you for being friends with comes out and is like, no, he's good. It's like, well, they don't like you, so that's not gonna help. But he tried anyway. Part of a potentially a tough year for Gretzky as he, you know, retired in 1999 with 894 career goals, which at the time was 93 more goals than anyone else. Uh, so it was one of those records that you were like, no one's gonna beat this. This is going to be the record forever. But now it looks like potentially it might not even be the record for the rest of this year because Alexander Ovechkin, 39 years old, plays for the Washington Capitals. He has 12 games left, including tonight, Tuesday night, he has 888 goals. So he needs six more goals to tie the record and seven more to set a new record. I just feel like I know nobody cares about hockey, okay? I know you guys don't care. But Alexander Ovechkin is such a unique, uniquely incredible talent. He is not only on the heels of Gretzky's record of all of goals scored. First of all, if it weren't for like lockout seasons and the COVID season, he'd be, I feel like approaching a thousand goals. He has done all of this. He got injured this year. He's 39 and he was injured. He broke his leg at the beginning of the season and he still might break this record. Not only is he right there on all time goals, but he's also number three in hits all time. Now, for a non hockey fan, usually your goal scorer is not also an incredibly physical player. You protect your goal scorer. You have very physical players who will start fights, who will enforce anything done to their goal scorer because they want to protect the, you know, the guy who scores the goals. Alexander Oetkin is built literally different. If you google he played a soccer game recently. If you just google Alexander Ovechkin soccer, I think it helps put into context just how big this guy is. He. If you go on the list of all time hits leaders in the NHL, you have to go all the way down to number 42, which is Jamie Benn. Before you find another player on that list that has scored 40 goals in a season, number 42, Alexander Ovechkin, is number three on that list and has had 1340 goal seasons. There is truly no comp for what we're seeing. And I know if you don't like hockey, this might not matter to You. I'm trying to show you how cool it is and how there's only, what did I say, 12 games left, including tonight. And so if there's a. I know we do a specific segment of. If you want to watch sports, some sports you can watch. There are. You should try to catch a game just to see Ovech can break this record. You know, Brady has mentioned that it was interesting that people are mad about Gretzky because of his relationship with Trump, but nobody's bringing up Ovechkin's relationship with Putin. And I just wanted to clarify for the record, that's different. And it's different because Ovechkin is just a huge fan of Putin because of that time. He scored eight goals in one game. I don't think he even knows he's a politician. I think he just knows that guy scores goals. He's a goal scorer just like me. Yep. It's game. Game recognized game. And that's. That's gotta be what that is. So that's just me going on my little rant about Ovechkin and how like it we. You've probably heard that it's impressive, but it's even more impressive than that. To be number three in hits in the league is crazy. So go ovi. Get it done. I don't want him to have to do another season to try to get. I'd like it to just wrap up this year and he can do it. So let's get that done. All right, now we've got a group of silly stories where we didn't really come up with, like, a name for this group. It's just the mascot stories. We've got a couple big stories in mascotville that needed to be shared with you. The first one, the Chesapeake Bay Sox, that's the Orioles Double A affiliate in baseball. They've joined in on a trend of minor league teams adopting an alternate identity for some of their home games. This new identity, the Chesapeake Oyster catcher, has brought with it a logo that people are talking about. The logo, let me just say what they describe it as. According to the Bay Sox, it's an oyster in glove logo intended to show a baseball nestled inside of a Chesapeake Oyster playfully caught by an orange baseball mitt. And now that is certainly what it is. But if you were to picture a Chesapeake Oyster cracked open with a baseball where the oyster. Can you just. You should Google looks like the female anatomy. It looks so much like a fanny. Like a. Yeah, good, good, good.

[Brady]

Wait, actually, sorry. Fanny.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, right.

[Brady]

That's that version.

[Isabella Brady]

Perfect. Um, yeah, I think. I think this could do a lot of good for men. I think we could. This could be really helpful. Take a good hard look at it. The Chesapeake Bay. Oyster Bay Sox. The Chesapeake Oyster Catchers. Take a good hard look and just note the places and things. You know. It couldn't hurt to have the knowledge. In celebration of Women's History Month, they announced that 10% of the oystercatchers merchandise sales will support Cervivore, a non profit dedicated to cervical cancer education and advocacy. Which came first, the oyster or the charity? Do you think they thought of it before they made it? Or do you think that people were like, this looks like a vagine. And they were like, the chair came after the backlash. Yeah, after the.

[Katie Nolan]

But did they know?

[Isabella Brady]

I don't know.

[Katie Nolan]

Are they 4D chessing this?

[Isabella Brady]

They said some of you saw an oyster, others saw something unexpected in our alternate identity oystercatchers patch. We won't unsee it either, but it's like. But you. But how did you go unseeing it that whole time?

[Katie Nolan]

They knew.

[Isabella Brady]

They had to know.

[Katie Nolan]

They knew.

[Isabella Brady]

The Tasmanian devils in the AFL have launched a new mascot. The new Tasmanian Devils AFL team, set to join the league in 2028, have revealed their club mascot. Is it Ramen? Chris Ramen?

[Unknown]

I don't know. I don't know what the Tasmanian accent is like that, but I would say.

[Isabella Brady]

Ramen, much to the horror of anyone who's laid eyes on the terrifying creature. Again, visual content here. Please, please Google rum ramen. It's R A M apostrophe U N. Just Google that and take a look at the new Tasmanian Devil. It's two meters tall, took nine months to create, and it was made partially out of discorded discarded school uniforms, which sounds really cool. I love the, like, reuse of all the recycling, the upcycling, as we call it, of old clothes. The problem is, I hate it. The problem is the way it looks is bad. And sc. It's just ramen is a Tasmanian term for scallywag or rat bag, which. I've never even heard of that term. It's a term of endearment. You guys say rat bag a lot?

[Unknown]

Oh, yeah.

[Katie Nolan]

It's a Tasmanian term for an Australian term.

[Isabella Brady]

Apparently it's a term of endearment, still commonly used. So you're a real ratbag. It's like, it's negative, but not in a bad way, almost. It's like you're a problem. You're a scallywag. Well, Like a rap Scally.

[Unknown]

I've historically used Rat bag as more negative and not in that cheeky sense. Whereas I would say scallywag is playful but cheeky.

[Isabella Brady]

We know that one. Yeah.

[Unknown]

Ratbag I don't think has that same sort of connotation. At least the way I use it. But again, I'm from Melbourne. It could be. It could be different from where I'm from.

[Isabella Brady]

He has blood on his knees from scrapping on the Queenstown gravel. He was devised by school kids. And he poops footballs. There's a video of him ingesting a football and then pooping it out. Deflated.

[Unknown]

Incredible.

[Brady]

What kind of mechanism is inside of that suit that's having him?

[Isabella Brady]

A guy? I think it's just a guy. I think he just takes the ball from the. From the. And then he probably lets the air out and then pushes it out a hole in the butt. I think.

[Brady]

Is he taking the hands out of the sleeves and then crushing it? Because I saw that he put the football in the mouth.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Perhaps. I also think this may be the first instance of the mascot suit having a butthole.

[Unknown]

Interesting point.

[Isabella Brady]

I can't think of. I know Gritty's got an uncomfortable belly button that I do not like looking at and that he decorates with different little things and I dislike it.

[Brady]

But not that live mascot. Isn't that one. He has a butthole. Drake.

[Isabella Brady]

Is that his name? You're right.

[Brady]

Is that the right university though?

[Isabella Brady]

But can. Yes. It is true. To make sure Grift 2 has a butthole. I don't want to misreport or misinform.

[Katie Nolan]

I think we should all live Bulldog.

[Isabella Brady]

Well that's. And that's an assumption that you're comfortable making. But not me.

[Unknown]

I do like how Ramen has blood on his knees though. Because Tasmanian football grounds are somewhat famous for pretty much being gravel instead of grass for whatever reason. Like they. They grow up playing on very hard surfaces rather than like synthetic turf or anything like that. So you're incorporating that ridiculous aspect of Tasmanian football into your mascot. So I do like that.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. But the rest of it I don't know. I'm still. Maybe I'll come around on it. I didn't like Gritty when he first came out and I came around on him. So it's possible. But this is just a scary looking mascot. It is a scary looking mascot designed by kids. Okay. And then last mascot story. An 81 year old rabbit mascot in Australia has issued an apology after pushing over. I'm gonna put an asterisk on that he pushed, but I don't know about pushing over. I saw the video. A nine year old child at an Australian Rugby league game over the weekend. So it was the South Sydney Rabidos, which sounds like a serial to me, but that's the name of the team. The Rabidos, their mascot has apologized during an NRL match against the. Here we go, Chris. The Cronulla Sharks.

[Unknown]

Cronulla Sharks.

[Isabella Brady]

Cronulla Sharks. It's Charlie Gallico, he's 81 years old, dressed as Reggie Rabbit was filmed shoving a nine year old boy while moving through the players tunnel at Shark Stadium on Monday. He claimed that Benji, we know the nine year old boy's name for whatever reason and Benji started it. He said Benji started it when he grabbed me. He was a Sharks fan and he was waiting by the tunnel and he wanted a high five from the mascot. And Gallico then apologized following an investigation by the club into a complaint made by the child's mother whose full name we know, and I won't be saying, but I will say the last name triggered Chris to think that maybe it was somebody who was related to. He looked into it. He's not, unfortunately. So I said, chris, be better.

[Unknown]

That would have been such a good bit. I know we have cousins with that surname in Sydney.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Unknown]

And it's not a common surname.

[Isabella Brady]

Right. This mascot is a well loved member of the team. He's worn the bunny costume for more than two decades. Again, he's 81 years old, but the prime minister got involved. He's a Rabidos fan. Came out in defense of the. What is a panel beater. He said, quote, I was a director of South Sydney in the 90s, which is when Charlie began as South Sydney's mascot. Charlie's a very gentle person. If he weighs 40 kilos, he must be wet. He's been doing it for a long time and he would never try to hurt anyone. He's been pushed, whacked, because people don't realize there's an 81 year old fella in there as a mascot. I've seen 9 year olds put an.

[Katie Nolan]

81 year old fellow in there.

[Isabella Brady]

That's probably the learn. It's not like, hey, he's 81, he can't be mean. If I had been a mascot for decades, I would want to push a kid more than anybody. I can't imagine a better candidate for wanting to shove a child than an 81 year old who's had to deal with them inside of a mascot costume for Decades. So I say justice for. Justice for the eight year. Look, I watched the tape. He pushed him, but he didn't shove him. And he certainly didn't shove him to the ground. The kid is still standing. He just got a little bit. Yeah, he pushed. He got pushed back. And I think that's your way of going like, whoa. I think part of the initial response is like, a mascot's not supposed to do that. But maybe it's not a bad idea for us all to remember that a mascot has agency and can do that. Don't be weird. People are weird with mascots. They like grab them in places that you're like, hey, still a guy. Still a guy in there. So maybe we don't yank on him because he'll push you. Even if he's 81, he'll push you.

[Katie Nolan]

Took a punch once as the Bayhawk.

[Isabella Brady]

You did.

[Katie Nolan]

And the guy was like, oh, I thought that was Jerry in there, whatever. Like. So apparently it was like I was the wrong guy in the suit. Still had feelings. Still hurt.

[Isabella Brady]

You're any. It was like you're any taking a punch for your Audi.

[Katie Nolan]

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[Danny Wexelman]

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[Isabella Brady]

Select DeWalt and Klein tools Lowes. We help you save. Valid to 328. Selection varies by location while supplies last. See associate or lowes.com for more details on qualifying items. All right, let's go ahead and bring in our guest. You may know her as a college and pro baseball host and analyst. She does a lot of college games. You've seen her on SNY, maybe heard her on MLB Network Radio. She's from St. Louis. She's very Midwestern. She'll put ranch on anything possible. These are good facts to have about a guest. Danny, we were just talking about mascots, and before we get into what we brought you here to do, I. You were a mascot?

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, I was a mascot.

[Isabella Brady]

What mascot are you allowed to say? Is there like a mascot vow of secrecy, or Are you allowed to reveal who you were?

[Danny Wexelman]

I try to keep it a secret just for myself.

[Isabella Brady]

Sure.

[Danny Wexelman]

Right. So the Internet doesn't find it.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

You can't find a picture of me in it. You wouldn't know. It's. You would know. You wouldn't know. And I heard you and Brady talking about it as well, and it is true that when you get a whiff of Febreze and body odor, it just comes all trailing back.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

I worked in minor league baseball, and as an intern, you have to be the mascot.

[Isabella Brady]

You do everything. You got to do it all.

[Danny Wexelman]

So I worked for the Harrisburg Senators. Rascal, the river Monster. You can look it up.

[Isabella Brady]

What's a river monster?

[Danny Wexelman]

It's horrifying, in fact. And I'm smallish. I'm small, and Rascal is huge. So it was overflowing on my body, and Rascal's the main one. And then Bingo, Bongo and Steve.

[Isabella Brady]

Sorry.

[Danny Wexelman]

The three monkeys that go along with Rascal. That makes sense to you?

[Isabella Brady]

That's four mascots. It's a minor league team.

[Danny Wexelman]

The more the merrier.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh, my God. He's huge.

[Danny Wexelman]

Are you scared?

[Isabella Brady]

Well, he's kind of goofy.

[Danny Wexelman]

Can you look at me the same?

[Isabella Brady]

No.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

Certainly not.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

How many? How. How long was your stint?

[Danny Wexelman]

I did almost a full season.

[Isabella Brady]

Wow.

[Danny Wexelman]

And I had to go to appearances. So we would go to little league games. I wasn't on the field.

[Isabella Brady]

They.

[Danny Wexelman]

They had a pro for that.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

Which, by the way, I saw the pro with his head off. Mascot suit on. Scarred for life.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

Why? I don't like mascots.

[Isabella Brady]

You're don't. I mean, that's crazy.

[Danny Wexelman]

I go the other way.

[Isabella Brady]

You'd be pro mascot. No. Is it because you got snubbed? Is it because they wouldn't let you out on the field?

[Danny Wexelman]

That's right. I wasn't good enough to be on field.

[Isabella Brady]

Kids events as a mascot, I would hate.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's special.

[Isabella Brady]

I would hate.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's a special kind of hell when they're like, okay, everybody smile, and you're in the suit, sweating. Sweating profusely after someone sweated yesterday. It's special. I earned my stripes.

[Isabella Brady]

You never want to have to know the past tense of the word sweat. It's really not something any of us should have to deal with. Also, just because it's a minor league team. It looks like a minor league. It's a little. It looks like a thinner, baggier. It's not like a sturdy mascot costume.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's dirty.

[Isabella Brady]

Just like a big sack, like a sleep sack.

[Danny Wexelman]

Plus the shoes. And then the head. Like, the head goes on my head.

[Isabella Brady]

No, it doesn't.

[Danny Wexelman]

We're in the small head club. Imagine that head on your head.

[Isabella Brady]

We are in the small head club. And that mascot head size is about the size of my fiance's head. So I get it. But the reason that we brought you here is not for your mascot expertise, though we are completely amazed by you. It's baseball season. Almost like we're really close. I know technically it started in Japan, but, like, I don't acknowledge that. That doesn't count. To me. Opening day is Thursday. Today. Thursday. This is Tuesday, Right? It's Tuesday.

[Danny Wexelman]

I don't know.

[Isabella Brady]

This is the first time we've recorded episodes out of order, and it's not going well for me. My brain is like, is this next month? But okay, Thursday is opening day. So we wanted to do. Because it is still technically March, and it's definitely still March Madness, We. A couple weeks ago, a week ago, two weeks ago. What's time? We did a bracket of the things we were looking forward to for March Madness with Charlotte Wilder. This time, we're going to do a bracket of things we're looking forward to in baseball season with you.

[Danny Wexelman]

I love it.

[Isabella Brady]

If that's okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

Please. Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay, cool. So we're gonna do sweet 16. I'm excited to see what you're excited for. These have been seated and picked by the producers. So as always, I give my disclaimer. If you don't like the seating, take it up with them. Okay. This is not. Our job is to debate what's put in front of us. That's right. We are the Stephen A. Smith and Shannon Sharpe of this program, and we're gonna duke it out.

[Danny Wexelman]

I like it.

[Isabella Brady]

So in our first matchup, the one versus the 16, it's seven months of baseball. And then for the 16 seed, we have free stuff. Random weird free stuff being given out at baseball games off the bat.

[Danny Wexelman]

Seven months of baseball.

[Isabella Brady]

I know it's a one seed, so it's like really easy to say.

[Danny Wexelman]

Do you want to know why? Why? Because if you go to the seven months of baseball, you're gonna get the free stuff.

[Isabella Brady]

True.

[Danny Wexelman]

Right. So for me, it's like built in automatically. And also the fact that meaningful games, seven months of our lives, and the best baseball we're gonna see, I think in the entirety of the sport is coming in a few days.

[Isabella Brady]

You're very. You're that excited for this season?

[Danny Wexelman]

Stamp it. Market.

[Isabella Brady]

It's going to be the best season.

[Danny Wexelman]

The best season we've ever seen in the game.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

100%.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

Put my name on it.

[Isabella Brady]

I love that. Yeah, it'll be the long. A long one.

[Danny Wexelman]

What do you have?

[Isabella Brady]

That's for sure. Well, I was going to just give a shout out to some of the weirdest stuff being given away at ballparks this year so that we can obviously move seven months forward. On April 19, the Orioles are giving away a bobblehead of their owner. You know what we've all been looking to add to our collection? April 22, the Red Sox are giving away a Charlie Brown themed jersey, but you have to buy a VIP ticket package. That's not really free.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's fake free.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. The. April 30th, the Blue Jays are giving away an Alejandro Kirk bobble arm doll.

[Danny Wexelman]

His arm is expensive and worthy.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, sure. May 2, the Yankees are giving away Jazz Chisholm Yankees basketball jersey. I don't need you to switch sport. I don't need a crossover. No, no, no. Also, it's not like basketball jerseys are better suited for a fan to wear. I feel like that's actually the hardest of all the jerseys for a fan.

[Danny Wexelman]

To put on, especially in baseball. Are you kidding me?

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. It's like, just leave. Just let him wear a baseball. I don't want to don't give old grown men basketball jersey. May 17, the Blue Jays again. They've got a lot going on. They're giving away a cross branded Blue Jays Barbie Hawaiian shirt. Now, hold on.

[Danny Wexelman]

Let me go across the border for that.

[Isabella Brady]

Be back in May 25. The Astros are giving away a sheepskin Sherpa bucket hat. You know, climate that's relative to their climate. Oh, the royals. July 26, a free flow rider post game concert.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay, all right, I'll consider it.

[Isabella Brady]

How much are the tickets?

[Danny Wexelman]

Is it free?

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, I guess, if you bought the ticket. And then this one is for Brady, our producer, a huge fan of sweater vest. August 23rd, the White Sox are giving away a 1980s logo sweater vest. So that is the only reason I can think of to go to a White Sox game live in person. Because that stadium sucks.

[Danny Wexelman]

I've never been.

[Isabella Brady]

It's so bad.

[Danny Wexelman]

Are you saying I shouldn't go?

[Isabella Brady]

Don't go.

[Danny Wexelman]

Don't go.

[Isabella Brady]

Don't go. Okay, no offense. What's it. Didn't they just change names too?

[Danny Wexelman]

It's Guaranteed Rate, right?

[Isabella Brady]

Is that them? I thought that Guaranteed rate was. Oh, maybe you're right.

[Danny Wexelman]

Maybe, you know, whatever. I think that we should stop naming parks after brands.

[Isabella Brady]

Agree 100% agree. I don't be like Camden Yards. I don't care who sponsors. It does not matter to me.

[Danny Wexelman]

Did you see the Astros new ballpark name? I don't know how to pronounce it yet. No, I'm actually working on it. I. I don't know how to pronounce it yet. They renamed it, which makes me really sad. I just think we should continue to call it the Juice Box. Like Daikon maybe. I don't know how to pronounce that brand.

[Isabella Brady]

Dyken Park Dyke.

[Danny Wexelman]

Does anyone know?

[Isabella Brady]

It's gotta be Daikin.

[Danny Wexelman]

I feel bad that I don't know. I feel like a.

[Isabella Brady]

But it was like Minute Maid. That was the whole.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, but they had to take it.

[Katie Nolan]

Daikin is the best I've got. Let me update you on Guaranteed Rate Field, though. Guaranteed Rate, for lack of popularity, is now just Rate Field. No, they're no longer.

[Isabella Brady]

They don't guarantee the Rate anymore.

[Katie Nolan]

It's just Rate Field.

[Danny Wexelman]

If they were smart, they'd called it G Rate, so you'd be Great Field. But they can't be great. They're not even. They don't get to be that bad.

[Isabella Brady]

What? Is the company no longer called Guaranteed Rate or are they just like, look, no guarantees in life. It's just Rate Field.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's too dangerous to guarantee.

[Isabella Brady]

Hate that. Hate that. And we're gonna move the seven months on to the next round. Wow. This took forever. And we're only on the first matchup. Okay, now we got the 8 versus the 9. It's salty ballpark snacks up against sweet ballpark snacks.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's easy for me.

[Isabella Brady]

Easy?

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, it's easy.

[Isabella Brady]

Why? What is. What's your thought?

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm always gonna do salty.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm gonna default to salty. I also think salty pairs best with beer. And I'm always drinking a beer.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

At the ballpark. And so when I tell you that I will scope the ballpark for the best nachos, I will find the nachos, and I will crush the nachos. And then I'll get an unlimited popcorn bucket plus a pretzel with the same cheese as the nacho cheese.

[Isabella Brady]

Damn.

[Danny Wexelman]

Because I'm a trash can.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, I see that.

[Danny Wexelman]

At the ballpark only you're a real goat.

[Isabella Brady]

Not the greatest of all time, just in the sense of you will eat anything. Anything at a ballpark.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Well, we have to give a shout out then to the Yankees. I hate to do. But they are doing a. They're doing those plastic helmets, but they're filling it with tiramisu. And that's a sweet treat that I would eat.

[Danny Wexelman]

You would eat it, but you couldn't.

[Isabella Brady]

Catch me dead at that park, so I won't be eating it. And we're gonna move salty on to the next round.

[Danny Wexelman]

I would bring it out for you.

[Isabella Brady]

You would?

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Like, meet me in the parking lot.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'd meet you in the parking lot. Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. Maybe we figure this out, because that actually sounds. Sounds like a good idea. Okay. The 4 versus the 13 we have. Will anybody beat the Dodgers up against baseball being played in strange places?

[Danny Wexelman]

Ooh, yeah. This is a good one. I. I am obsessed with the fact that there are two teams playing in minor league parks this season.

[Isabella Brady]

Crazy.

[Danny Wexelman]

I love weird. Like, give me the weirder, the better. And I will tell you that the Dodgers are not unbeatable. And it grinds my gears, and it makes steam come out of my ears. You can't see it because I have these headphones on when people say that they're unbeatable, but I'm gonna go beating the Dodgers. I think there are plenty of teams that can beat the Dodgers this year. I have the Red Sox winning the world Series this year.

[Isabella Brady]

Excuse me.

[Danny Wexelman]

Not just because we're here. I picked these before I knew I was coming Every.

[Isabella Brady]

A lot of people. Look, I'm seeing a lot of people say the Red Sox are good. I think it's actually, we'll get to it later. We'll talk about. Let's. We'll table this because I have a lot of thoughts. Yeah, I feel like the Braves could beat the Dodgers. I feel like the. Speaking specifically in the National League, who can be better than them? I feel like, like the Phillies, their window might be closing. Right. They're getting older group.

[Danny Wexelman]

They're like an old woman who wants to bear children.

[Isabella Brady]

She needs to hurry up.

[Danny Wexelman]

Her time is running out.

[Isabella Brady]

Her clock is ticking. So she needs to get knocked up soon. I don't know. Everything I'm seeing about the Dodgers this year, they're like, will they break the record for wins in a season? I'm like, I fucking hope not.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's so boring.

[Isabella Brady]

I'm so sick of it.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's lazy.

[Isabella Brady]

It is. It's poor writing. It's really bad writing. As for baseball being played in strange places other than minor league stadiums, they're also doing one at Bristol Motor Speedway.

[Danny Wexelman]

Sick.

[Isabella Brady]

It is.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. You know why? See for me, grow the game anywhere you can. In every sliver and corner of this country, there are baseball fans. And I don't care if they're wearing jorts or they are at the country club. Like, people love baseball. They just do. They want to drink a beer, eat a hot dog, sit back, they want to tune out for a couple innings, come back, watch someone hit a home run, and then go on with their day, like, no matter where you are in the country. So I'm good with that. I think it's awesome.

[Isabella Brady]

This will be the first AL NL game played in the state of Tennessee. And with a capacity north of 150,000, Bristol could bring a new all time attendance record for a baseball game.

[Danny Wexelman]

You haven't bought in yet.

[Isabella Brady]

I mean, you know, I could.

[Danny Wexelman]

Dude, can you picture it? Picture it now? Like baseball at the Motor Speedway with those fans, the rabid fans. Yeah, I think it's a perfect match.

[Isabella Brady]

Sight lines are always my. I'm like, is everybody gonna be able to see? Is it really gonna be a good event for a baseball? Stadiums are my favorite part of playing it in a minor league stadium is great. That's fun to me. Everyone can see it's made for baseball.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yes.

[Isabella Brady]

It's just made for much smaller baseball. It's like when the. Who was it that moved in hockey to Utah, but in between they had to play in like a minor league stadium. It's like Those games must have been so fun to go to because you're like, it's.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's like the Little League Classic.

[Isabella Brady]

Yes, right, exactly.

[Danny Wexelman]

In Williamsport. I got to go to one of those. I went to the first one, Cardinals, Pirates, and there's what, like a couple thousand fans and it is like the most magical way to watch a game. I agree.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. I like a small environment. It's like seeing a band in a tiny before.

[Danny Wexelman]

They're cool.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, exactly. Everybody. It's what everybody loves. All right. The five seed is the young Kansas City Royals. And the 12 seed, big and Lil Dump.

[Danny Wexelman]

Great pronunciation.

[Isabella Brady]

Thank you. We know Kansas City Royals is the American League's favorite. Goofy, young core, Bobby Witt Jr. Obviously, everybody loves 24 year old leading candidate for MVP. They also have Vinny Pasquintino, the Pasquatch at first base.

[Danny Wexelman]

Love it.

[Isabella Brady]

Maybe the funniest guy in the league. I'm not saying we can have a separate discussion, but he may be okay. Salvador Perez, veteran catcher. I love a team. A young team with a veteran catcher habitually wears women's perfume while catching. They have water fights in the dugout. Do you love the Kansas City Royals?

[Danny Wexelman]

They're kind of fratty. They're giving Baltimore Orioles right with the homer hoes. And who doesn't love a homer hose. Right? Like, bring me back to college all day. I. I am a Bobby fan through and through. I will root for that kid all day. But I'm going with the big Lil Dumper.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh, my God.

[Danny Wexelman]

Cal Raleigh, right? That's right. Cal Raleigh. Like, come on. Dude has leaned in to being called Big Dumper. He's gotten brand deals because of his butt.

[Isabella Brady]

I know. Even like his. His, like, manager calls him big. It's like a. That's wild to me. But it's the best nickname in baseball. If you're wondering why is he called that? He has a big butt, dude.

[Danny Wexelman]

And isn't that the stereotype for the sport? Is it not? I'm pretty sure.

[Isabella Brady]

I mean, yeah, there's a lot. I once said famously during a baseball broadcast that Christian Walker, because it was he. So he got walked. And I said, he's doing his name. He is his name. And then I said, if he really wanted to do his name, they should call him Christian Stair Climber because he's got, you know, so. And people didn't like it. Shocking. People didn't like it.

[Danny Wexelman]

Oh, they're boring.

[Isabella Brady]

He hit 34. Cal Raleigh hit 34 home runs in 2024 and won the Platinum Glove. Al Platinum Gloves. Best defensive player in the league. The Lil Dumper is his new stadium food that's named after him. The Seattle is going to sell steamed pork dumplings. Little dumpers.

[Danny Wexelman]

Pork seems appropriate.

[Isabella Brady]

Little porky dumpers.

[Danny Wexelman]

You know what? Like I said, you know baseball. Stay casual, stay cool, stay weird.

[Isabella Brady]

Don't get too serious about it. Just sport your little dumpers. All right, the dumpers. Move on. Because I actually like. I like you being in charge. I like you picking every son. It's just like when we did this for March Madness. Charlotte was very deferential, and I think she. And I was like, I'd rather you. I don't care. You pick. I want to know what you think. So. Good. Take this, please, Dear God, take the stress of decision making from me. We now have the 2 seed versus the 15. It is Shohei Ohtani and all that that encompasses. And Mike Trout's back. Listen, can I make my argument? Now that I've given you the power, I wanna make my argument. I'm excited. I don't care. 15 seed. Clearly Brady's not excited that Mike Trout's back. I love Mike Trout. Mike Trout was like the face of baseball for a generation of people for a number of years. He was like, the guy. He's a sweetie pie. He's stuck at a shitt team. And I just feel like he's back and I'm excited to see him. He was gone for like a minute.

[Danny Wexelman]

I have two polarizing thoughts. You're so right.

[Isabella Brady]

He is.

[Danny Wexelman]

He is the face of the league. And it's so great that he's back. Please stay healthy. Please don't get hurt.

[Isabella Brady]

Yes.

[Danny Wexelman]

And if Mike Trout finishes his career having only played three postseason games and getting one hit. That's a fact.

[Isabella Brady]

It's not fair.

[Danny Wexelman]

Fact check then. It is a tragedy upon the sport. But my problem is that I. I want him to leave the Angels. Leave the team? Why didn't you leave the team? Do you want.

[Isabella Brady]

He's loyal.

[Danny Wexelman]

Does he. But does he want to win?

[Isabella Brady]

Probably.

[Danny Wexelman]

I don't think. I don't know. That's where I question it. You stayed and now they have this wonky cell phone thing going on, trying to distract from the team if my.

[Isabella Brady]

Wait, what's that?

[Danny Wexelman]

Oh, you didn't hear about this?

[Isabella Brady]

No.

[Danny Wexelman]

Cell phones are essentially banned from the clubhouse. Like, to an extent. Yes. It's been in place for a couple of weeks now. And essentially they want the guys to talk to each other because everyone's got their heads buried in their phones. They Got young guys.

[Isabella Brady]

Sure.

[Danny Wexelman]

They got a bunch of young guys on their team. And so the older guys, like Mike Trout have said, hey, we're gonna put our phones away now. You can bring it out for a couple of instances. But the message was delivered. I just think they're distracting from being a not very good team.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, they stink. They have stunk. I get. I'm. I'm with you. I get. I think he should have left, but I also feel like everybody was like, you gotta stay. You gotta be loyal. Fans, sports fans always want that. And then this is the downside of that. Like, he stayed. He was loyal. Now he's in right field at the. With the Angels.

[Danny Wexelman]

What do you got? You, you, you take this one.

[Isabella Brady]

I love Shohei Ohtani so much.

[Danny Wexelman]

How much?

[Isabella Brady]

So.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

And to see him back in full Shohei form two way, baby, is very exciting. That's why I'm glad you have the power to make the decision of which of these we move on to the next round because it's kind of two returns to hopefully form. So it's. Who are we more excited to see? You're writing something.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm writing something. So we have seen a lot of Shohei. It's time to see more of Mike. Yes, More Mike. Hashtag more Mike. I love this.

[Isabella Brady]

I feel like I influenced it again slightly. All right. A seven versus a ten. We have. Are the Red Sox. Fun. Question mark. And Tito is back.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, I like this. Okay, so Tito is back number one. Anytime Terry Francona is back in the game. And he is. He's like a quote, dream. If you are a beat writer in that town, your. Your stories just got way better. I would pay for that writing. Like, I would take down that paywall. I'm paying for that. Huge fan of the Red Sox. As I told you, I have them going all the way this year.

[Isabella Brady]

Crazy.

[Danny Wexelman]

And Christian Campbell, who's going to be their second baseman, covered him in high school. Then he went to Georgia Tech. Marcelo Meyer, Roman Anthony. They had a boatload of kids out there. And I am so stoked about this team. Plus Alex Bregman. If Rafi Devers can get on board, get with it.

[Isabella Brady]

Do you understand where he's coming from, though? Always?

[Danny Wexelman]

Of course I do. But I also know that he's one of the worst defensive third baseman in the league.

[Isabella Brady]

He's been improving.

[Danny Wexelman]

Do you want to win?

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay, then he can't play third base.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay, but. But they just paid him all that money to be their third baseman.

[Danny Wexelman]

He'll be back Bregman's not gonna be there forever. He's not. So just for one year. What if I told you. What if I told you, fast forward seven months? Devers off third. He's the primary dh. Bregman's at third, and you win the World Series, and then Bregman's gone and Devers goes back.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Okay, great.

[Danny Wexelman]

You'd be into it, right?

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, I'd be totally into that.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay. All right.

[Isabella Brady]

Especially Bregman being gone. I know he's good. I know he's exciting.

[Danny Wexelman]

I just rewind this back on October.

[Isabella Brady]

1St, and I'll be with you if they win. But if they do all this and then they still crash and burn, it's going to be devastating. I have. I have. It's been too many years of getting my hopes up about that team. When I see people start to go, I don't know. Call me crazy. I think the Red Sox are fun. Go. You're crazy. And I'm not. I'm not engaging, dude.

[Danny Wexelman]

They traded for crochet, though. Like, they're in it. They're. They mean business. And. And they still kept their top prospects. That's insane. That never happens.

[Isabella Brady]

That does never happen.

[Danny Wexelman]

So I'm into it. And the Yankees have injuries, and the Orioles don't even get me started. So I. I'm gonna go with Red Sox are fun. Hell, yeah. Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

But shout. Shout out to Tito. I'm glad that he's feeling better.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yes.

[Isabella Brady]

He's now the manager for the Reds. It's weird. It's weird. I got used to him at the Guardians. That was weird at first. I loved him managing the Guardians. I thought he was great. I loved his relationship with Jose Ramirez. It's very cute.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's very cute.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh, Tito, we love you. All right. 3 versus 14. Paul Skeens. Just, you know, the Paul Skeens of it all. Up against celebrity first pitches. Now, that comes from Isabella, our most casual sports fan on the podcast. She said the thing she's most looking forward to is watching celebrities throw out their first pitch.

[Danny Wexelman]

She's not wrong.

[Isabella Brady]

She's not wrong. There's been some good ones throughout history. I don't know if you have a personal favorite.

[Danny Wexelman]

50 Cent.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Do we want to show? And let's get Isabella on mic here, so. Because I don't. Have you ever seen 50 Cent throw out his first pitch?

[Brady]

No.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay, so let's go ahead and take a look at that just so she can see it.

[Danny Wexelman]

Oh, no.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh, my God. Really? In front of all those People. Oh, my God. I don't even know how it went like that. It's like. It's an impressive.

[Brady]

The worst that I was expecting is that maybe he was gonna just, like, throw it at the base, like it was gonna go down right or something.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, it's like his hand had butter on it.

[Isabella Brady]

Crazy. I don't even know how. If you tried again to throw it that poorly, I don't think you could.

[Brady]

Oh, sorry.

[Isabella Brady]

Are we gonna move it on? Because if not, I'm gonna show her another one.

[Danny Wexelman]

She said, oh, sorry.

[Isabella Brady]

Let's show her. Let's also take a look at Carly Rae Jepsen. The immediate embarrassment.

[Brady]

Weird. She was, like, holding on to it for so long.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's a great analysis.

[Isabella Brady]

It really is for a casual. That was perfect, actually. Her release point was too late.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, she spiked it.

[Isabella Brady]

Now, if we're gonna show bad first pitches, I do feel like I have to show my. My first pitch.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yay.

[Isabella Brady]

I want to see yours go well. Wait, are we moving it on to the next round? Because if so, we'll hold on to it.

[Danny Wexelman]

I have a question about your first pitch.

[Isabella Brady]

I don't want to answer it, but no.

[Danny Wexelman]

You did it for the Trent and Thunder, which is a minor league affiliate for the.

[Isabella Brady]

I know. The Yankees. I know, I know, I know, I know.

[Danny Wexelman]

Do people know that?

[Isabella Brady]

Yes.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

We did it. It was the only people who would let us throw out a first pitch, and we wanted to do it for the show. And I regret it. I regret it fully because it was a horrendous moment for me in sports.

[Danny Wexelman]

You weren't the worst.

[Isabella Brady]

It's pretty bad. Paul Skeens, though. We should talk about a little.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

What? Talk to me about Paul Skeens and your thoughts.

[Danny Wexelman]

Paul Skeens is a once in a generation type player, which everybody knows the Pirates are going to squander his time there. He deserves the largest contract ever given out to a pitcher yesterday. This kid has his X's and O's and his eyes and his T's dotted and crossed and is like, the best dude in the game. And what I love the most is that when he was told about getting that opening day nodded. Dude, no face. Here's a face.

[Isabella Brady]

Here's my thing about the opening day. Who else, first of all, who else was gonna pitch on opening day? The Pirates called Paul Skeens into the office to let him know he was gonna pitch on opening day. He was the starter for opening day, and they recorded him like he was gonna have some sort of reaction. Now, this is a guy who, when he was named rookie of the year.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Next to his smoke show, Livy Dunn, girlfriend.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

No reaction. So what made you think he was gonna be like, whoa, opening date there? It's that he's their best pitcher. Of course he's gonna pitch on opening day.

[Danny Wexelman]

Classic.

[Isabella Brady]

Stupid.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's who Paul's been, by the way. I got to interview him when he was at Air Force. So for those who don't know, he started at Air Force. His career, he was a catcher. He was a two way guy. But he was catching and then he was pitching and hitting. And then he transfers and goes to LSU and wins that national championship. He is a freaking dog. Like, this dude is unbelievable what he does. And like, his mindset. I'm all in. Like, sign me up. He'll be a Dodger in five years. Oh, no. Maybe a Yankee.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh, no.

[Danny Wexelman]

Because the Pirates are going to do what the Pirates do to every dude that's good on their team. They let him go because they won't pay him and they're going to waste his time.

[Isabella Brady]

But Pittsburgh fans, I'm so sorry.

[Danny Wexelman]

I want Paul Skeens to start a headband line. He rocks the best headbands. I don't know what company he gets them from, but they're.

[Isabella Brady]

But we will find out.

[Danny Wexelman]

We will find out whatever company. Start your own brand. Like, I feel like Livy does so many great brand deals. She can help him with that. Paul Skeens is a dog. Like, put me in his corner. I will support that kid all day long.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. So does he move on?

[Danny Wexelman]

On, yeah. He has to move on.

[Isabella Brady]

He has to move on.

[Danny Wexelman]

It has to be him.

[Isabella Brady]

Before we go, we will take a look at my first pitch.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

First of all, wearing shorts in public, Not a thing I do.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm impressed.

[Isabella Brady]

Not a thing I do. Those legs are never out. Ooh, thank you. From the mound.

[Brady]

Loosening up the shoulders.

[Isabella Brady]

From the mound. Nodding, Accepting the. The. Yeah. Until she panics. Panic. Katie. That was better than Carly Rachel. No, no. Now, see, it was a hittable pitch. It wasn't bad. But it's the form that kills me as a woman who has played softball, who was, like, pretty serious about playing softball, throwing a baseball. I was so nervous I was gonna throw it bad. Cause it's so tiny.

[Danny Wexelman]

Totally.

[Isabella Brady]

I barely practiced and then I threw it like I was pushing it. I pushed the ball to home plate. Immediately mortified. Cause I immediately calls to mind people you with, you know, in your younger years of, like, Coming up through softball, you're like, oh, that girl's on the softball team. She's not going to be on the softball team next year. She's not very good, and she doesn't like it. I immediately thought of her when I. The way I threw it. I was like, that's not how you threw it.

[Danny Wexelman]

Did you think of the name? Were you like, I know the name of this. Yes.

[Isabella Brady]

I won't say it, but yes. God, you threw, like. Not a girl. Yeah, that specific girl.

[Danny Wexelman]

That girl.

[Isabella Brady]

And I. I wasn't proud of it. I'm really not proud of it.

[Danny Wexelman]

I would have. I might have swung and missed at that. I might have offered at it.

[Isabella Brady]

I mean, it went over the plate, right? But it was clearly. It would had to be my off speed stuff. Like, there's no chance.

[Danny Wexelman]

It was an O2 count. And you. You were just looking for some chase.

[Isabella Brady]

Thank you so much. I got. You did what I had to do. It's okay. It was so stressful. I was so stressed out. All right, rounding out the sweet 16, here we have. Are the Yankees bad, and is Juan Soto worth that $765 million contract?

[Danny Wexelman]

This is a good one.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

I want to hear what you say first. I want to hear what you think about the Yankees.

[Isabella Brady]

I think they.

[Danny Wexelman]

Can you be objective?

[Isabella Brady]

No. Of course. Why would I say.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's such a dumb question? Danny, shut up. What are you talking about?

[Isabella Brady]

No, no, of course not. I've told their manager to his face to go to hell. I think the Yankees are bad.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

I love that the Yankees are bad. The Yankees being bad is all I ever need or want.

[Danny Wexelman]

Question for you.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

Would you rather the Yankees be really bad or the Red Sox be good?

[Isabella Brady]

Hmm.

[Danny Wexelman]

You know how people say, I hate losing more than I like winning?

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Those people are mostly elite athletes. I like winning. And so I think I would like the Red Sox to be good.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. Good pick.

[Isabella Brady]

But it's a special tasty little treat when the Yankees just stink. And they're going through a lot, right?

[Danny Wexelman]

Ooh, they're going through it.

[Isabella Brady]

Give me some of the things they're going through so I can bask in it.

[Danny Wexelman]

Well, their number one starting pitcher, ace Cy Young award winner Garrett Cole, is out for the entire season.

[Isabella Brady]

Kind of a bummer for me because we do love to play against Garrett Cole. He stinks against us.

[Danny Wexelman]

I feel so. So that's games that you would have won that you won't right now.

[Isabella Brady]

So I actually. And I like the way he was like a whiny little brat. I liked watching him lose specifically. So that bad thing. Yeah. It's actually also a bad thing for me, I think.

[Danny Wexelman]

Fair.

[Isabella Brady]

But anyway.

[Danny Wexelman]

All right. Let me give you good things.

[Isabella Brady]

Thank you.

[Danny Wexelman]

Respectfully. Giancarlo Stanton, both his elbows are dealing with tennis elbow.

[Isabella Brady]

Well. And that's. And he plays baseball. So that's interesting.

[Danny Wexelman]

Just in case you didn't know.

[Isabella Brady]

But you do need your elbows to swing the bat the way you'd like him to swing.

[Danny Wexelman]

We could experiment. Maybe you don't need them. I don't know. He could be the first.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. We'll find out. We're gonna find out.

[Danny Wexelman]

We'll find out. DJ lemayhue also dealing with a calf.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. Which means not a small cow, but his. He has an injury to his lower leg. Just clarifying for anybody who might.

[Danny Wexelman]

In case you thought DJ was in fact dealing.

[Isabella Brady]

Sometimes you gotta deal with a small pig or a cow.

[Danny Wexelman]

This is casuals. I need to remember that.

[Isabella Brady]

Exactly.

[Danny Wexelman]

So D.J. lemayhue and Giancarlo Stanton, the reason it matters is because of their designated hitter situation and the third base situation. So there's going to be some young guys playing for the Yankees and vying for those spots. And that's not good news for them because they struggle defensively. They were not very good last year. Now they have their best pitcher who is hurt. Also. Luis Heel, who was their American League Rookie of the year, is going to be out for the first few months. And why does that matter? Because last year Garrett Cole was hurt to start the season, but Luis Heel showed up and he was like, I can do it. And he saved them.

[Isabella Brady]

Huh.

[Danny Wexelman]

And he's out for three months. Clark Schmidt is also dealing with a couple of injuries on the pitching staff. And so they're slow rolling him. It is. And Jason Dominguez, who's the Martian, he's their rookie. He's. I don't think he's very good at playing the outfield.

[Isabella Brady]

Damn.

[Danny Wexelman]

Not as bad as Jose Altuve, but.

[Isabella Brady]

Oh, my God. Horrendous.

[Danny Wexelman]

Move that man. Back to the why.

[Isabella Brady]

What was happening there? I only saw. I like saw the highlight and. Or low light and was like, what Good one. Why is he.

[Danny Wexelman]

Dude, it's bad. So can I tell you really quickly? He. He's been average to below average playing second base his whole career in Houston, the whole time. And they weren't like, hey, maybe we should move him off the spot. They won every year and this year they decide to move him out there. He can't tell if the Ball is in front of him or behind him.

[Isabella Brady]

The learning curve is steep.

[Danny Wexelman]

Dude, he's five foot nothing and you're putting him in left field.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

And. And by the way, he's the only veteran guy you have. It's horrible. It's a horrible idea. I hate it.

[Isabella Brady]

Who's playing second?

[Danny Wexelman]

Brendan Rogers. He got a Gold Glove one time.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. Or.

[Danny Wexelman]

Or it's gonna be Mauricio Dubon.

[Isabella Brady]

I. I hope.

[Danny Wexelman]

I like Dubon too.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

But it's a. It's a disaster. I think the Astros are having a midlife crisis.

[Isabella Brady]

Hell yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

That. Absolutely. Crisis.

[Isabella Brady]

I love that.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yes. And so the Yankees are. They are not going to win the division.

[Isabella Brady]

Sick.

[Danny Wexelman]

Juan Stto. Nobody's worth that much money. He just is a smart businessman. He got the Yankees to drive the price up, obviously. And then the Blue Jays were like the, the lackey. I don't even know what they were in all of this. I feel sad for them.

[Isabella Brady]

Me too. For a number of reasons.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm gonna move on with the. Are the Yankees bad? I think that's a great storyline.

[Isabella Brady]

Sick. Me too. I think it's one of my favorite storylines. All right, so now we have seven months of non stop hard hitting baseball action up against salty treats at a ballpark. I think seven months of non stop baseball action. You can sometimes go to the games. You can sometimes watch the games at home. I've always said this. One of my favorite things about baseball season is like meaningful games during the day. Especially if you're a work from home person. You toss on a random MLB Network game in the middle of the day. You get to watch the guardians or something. That's what I love about baseball. Just a random game where I don't have to like, maybe I don't know these guys. Maybe I don't know this team that well, but I just watch them and see background noise. In order to get the salty treats, you do have to go to the ballpark. And unfortunately becoming way too expensive in a lot of cities with the factor in the parking and the seats and the. It's just a lot. So those are my arguments. But again, this is your bracket. Wow.

[Danny Wexelman]

I didn't know I had the keys to the whole bracket.

[Isabella Brady]

Isn't that crazy?

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. No one's ever let me run this. Okay. I'm going seven months. Like, let's freaking go. Sign me up all day.

[Isabella Brady]

I mean, it's the longest season, the most games for a reason. It's like people make fun of baseball for it, but it's it's like, look at the good of that.

[Danny Wexelman]

But you're watching it, so how can you really make fun of it?

[Isabella Brady]

Right? How could you possibly be mad at us sweet, sweet baseball fans? Okay, can anybody beat the Dodgers up against Big and Lil Dumper?

[Danny Wexelman]

Everyone can beat the Dodgers.

[Isabella Brady]

I really believe this. Passionately. Oh.

[Danny Wexelman]

All day.

[Isabella Brady]

They've got how many MVP? Six MVPs? They've got? Like, they are. They're very good.

[Danny Wexelman]

They're good. Yeah. They're very good. They're the defending champ.

[Isabella Brady]

They're a stacked team.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. Yeah. But here's the thing. If I. I thought that no one could beat them, like, that would be a really sad day in baseball.

[Isabella Brady]

That's how I feel. That's why I'm sad.

[Danny Wexelman]

Name any team, and I'll name you, like, an awesome player or an exciting upcoming player on them that you should care about. And also, like, you're forgetting. Not you, me, specifically, casual fans forgetting. The Detroit Tigers last year needed one month to get into the postseason, and then they were absolute chaos. And. And they were amazing. And they beat the Astros, by the way, to advance to the next round. And the Mets had the Dodgers on the ropes. Like. Like, healthier Mets. Maybe we're talking about the Mets in the World Series and not the Dodgers. Seriously. I do think that. And I would be ashamed, as a baseball fan and someone who covers the sport if I was like, oh, yeah, it's just the Dodgers all the way. That would be lame.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's lame.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

Be better than that. We're not that lazy.

[Isabella Brady]

I mean, people are gonna be that lazy.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's fine. I'll fight them.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay.

[Danny Wexelman]

Like, physically, no, definitely not. But I am strong.

[Isabella Brady]

So what, are we moving on?

[Danny Wexelman]

We're moving on. The Dodgers, they are beatable.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. Beatable. Dodgers beat them. Mike Trout returning. Up against. Are the Red Sox Fun.

[Danny Wexelman]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. Mike Trout's back. Okay, Trout's back, baby. Let's go.

[Isabella Brady]

I really love. I. What if.

[Danny Wexelman]

What do you. Yeah. What are you hoping for?

[Isabella Brady]

I'm hoping that he has, like, a fantastic season, and he gets to be like, that's right. Y'all counted me out. And I'm still Mike Trout. Just a sweetie pie. Just a sweetie pie who met Katie Nolan one time in 2013. How was that? At the beginning of his. And then he. I ran it in 2022. My first game. We did an Angels game. My first game in baseball where I'm like, I don't even know why I'm here. What's happening? And he walked by, and then he went up to Heidi and he was like, is that Katie Nolan? I remember her. Tell her I said hi. And I was like, mike Trout, what's up? So that's why I'll always root for Mike Trout.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay. Fair. Dude, that's an amazing story. No, it isn't.

[Isabella Brady]

Yes, it is. I could not believe he remembered me from when we played, like, beer pong on Crowd goes wild.

[Danny Wexelman]

I want to. I want to tell you a secret.

[Isabella Brady]

Secret.

[Danny Wexelman]

I want to let everyone in on a secret.

[Isabella Brady]

Tell us all.

[Danny Wexelman]

You're really memorable.

[Isabella Brady]

That's not true. Yeah, like, literally the beginning of my career.

[Danny Wexelman]

Drink your water. So I embarrass you. Everyone I know. Any woman who works in sports, is your fan.

[Isabella Brady]

Well, I'm a fan of theirs.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay? I'm just.

[Isabella Brady]

Klein Schmidt.

[Danny Wexelman]

Jess Klein Schmidt. Yes.

[Isabella Brady]

Our sweet, sweet angel. Our sweet baseball angel.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's a reason to root for Trout all day.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, I totally brought his parents with him to. Crowd goes wild.

[Danny Wexelman]

I think we're being. I think we might be babying him a little. Probably a little much on the narrative of, like. But it's Mike. Like, Mike, show me something, man. Yeah, you still have something to prove.

[Isabella Brady]

I feel like he must want that. He's probably been chomping at the bit to, like, get back out onto. He loves baseball.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

So much.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm into it.

[Isabella Brady]

All right. So he moves on.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay.

[Isabella Brady]

All right, now skin and Are the Yankees bad?

[Danny Wexelman]

Paul Skins.

[Isabella Brady]

You gotta.

[Danny Wexelman]

He's my pick for NL Cy Young winner.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. I'm sure he'll be very excited to receive that stone faced.

[Danny Wexelman]

Do you want to, like. Do you want to give a preview of what you think his face would look like if he.

[Isabella Brady]

There's, like, subtle acknowledgment. Right. There's. But it's an audio podcast, so it was just a gentle nod. It's okay. It's not your fault. It's an audio podcast with clips and people just. I mean, we have a full set. We'll get there. Okay. Our final Four. We've got seven months of nonstop baseball action. Beatable. Are the Dodgers beatable? Which. Yes, the Dodgers are beatable. Mike Trout returning and Paul Skeens pitching.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. Do you like this Final Four?

[Isabella Brady]

I do. I think this is a good four reasons to be excited for baseball.

[Danny Wexelman]

Is it too serious?

[Isabella Brady]

A little. But I think that's an issue with the segment itself, not with our specific bracket.

[Danny Wexelman]

Shoot.

[Isabella Brady]

It was sort of a square peg in a round hole. I also. I must Go back and amend. I forgot to mention when talking about salty snacks, the Polish cannonballs that they're selling at the Pirates stadium. They're fried balls of egg noodles, cabbage, kielbasa, and bacon. And I just wanted to let everybody know that existed.

[Danny Wexelman]

I like the way you said bacon.

[Isabella Brady]

Bacon.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. No, you were like, bacon, bacon. Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

I can't even help it. It's just how I think about it. And I. I don't think you need kielbasa, bacon and cabbage just for the sake of whoever you're sleeping with that night. I don't think you need all of those wrapped into something fried. That's just me, but I'm picturing my dad eating it and my mom suffering through the evening.

[Danny Wexelman]

Sounds like something a baseball fan would really like. Can you define a kielbasa for me?

[Isabella Brady]

It's a sausage, right? But is it spicy? I don't know. I just know that it's a sausage fair.

[Danny Wexelman]

That's a lot of meat in a ball.

[Isabella Brady]

Mm. So it didn't. Move on. All right, so now we have seven months of nonstop baseball action up against. I. I don't even want to say. Are the Dodgers beatable? The beatable Dodgers?

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. Let me tell you guys something, okay? Every team, all 30 teams, there's 30 of them that play in Major League Baseball. Every team can beat the Dodgers. I'm even going to say the White Sox.

[Isabella Brady]

No, Shut up.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yes.

[Isabella Brady]

Don't.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm even going to say the Rockies. Don't do this, dude. I'm telling you right now. Let's go back to the season. I'm telling you right now that they are beatable. And any team, if you throw your best pitcher and you land your stuff and you score a run or two, you're going to be able to beat. I'm telling you right now. I just can't sit here and say that they're completely unbeatable. This is going to be the best storyline because everyone's coming for them. They're not the evil Empire. Sorry, that's still the Yankees. They are absolutely beatable, and I love that team. I could sit here and drool about them all day, but I want to drool about all 30 teams, not just the Dodgers. Like, this isn't a one team race. This is a 30 team, well, 25 team race.

[Isabella Brady]

But it's so hard to beat them. They're so.

[Danny Wexelman]

Which makes it even sweeter, doesn't it?

[Isabella Brady]

I do. I love the idea of any given Sunday. I know it's. That's football. But any Team on any day can show up and beat any other team. It's just the consistently showing up to beat a super team like this.

[Danny Wexelman]

Cuz they're supposed to what predict? Their predictions are 116. I can't do that math. So that's only losing like 50 games or like 40 something games. Yeah, that's one game per team. Team. There you go.

[Isabella Brady]

So every team will beat them once, technically making them beatable.

[Danny Wexelman]

And guess what? They could win 116 and absolutely the bed in the first round like they've done in the past.

[Isabella Brady]

Yes, that's true.

[Danny Wexelman]

Dave Roberts is one of the best to do it. Like no doubt. But they have the bed in the past and they can do it again.

[Isabella Brady]

They can and we will hope that they will. Which moves on.

[Danny Wexelman]

Beat la.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. Beat la, moves on. I like that it's evolved as it's moved through the bracket from like can anyone in the NL beat the Dodgers? To like people can beat the Dodgers to the beatable Dodgers. And now I have beat la. All right, Trout and Skins.

[Danny Wexelman]

Trout's back, baby. Trout's back. I'm on your train. I'm on your train.

[Isabella Brady]

I love this. I didn't think you were going to be like this. I thought you were going to be full skins ahead.

[Danny Wexelman]

No, because we have less of Mike Trout and more of Paul skin. So we can circle back to Paul skin any time of the week, any day, any year. My Trout's career is waning, my friends. We are running.

[Isabella Brady]

How old is he?

[Danny Wexelman]

Oh, good. Cue good.

[Isabella Brady]

30.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm gonna say 33.

[Isabella Brady]

That's what I said. 35.

[Unknown]

33.

[Isabella Brady]

Damn, look at you.

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay, 33. So we have less of him. I, I need Mike Trout back in October. I, I need them back in October. I don't. It's not going to be this year. But they have to get back. Otherwise remember this. We have spoiled the greatest player in our game. We have spoiled the opportunity to see him play in the most meaningful games that we can. And that's an embarrassment to the sport. So get, get Mike Trout back and then trade him to a contending team so we can play October baseball.

[Isabella Brady]

He's just 22 home runs short of 400 for his career. Oh look, it says age 33 right there in the doc that I should have looked at.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's okay.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, he 20, 24 was his first time missing the all star game since 2011.

[Danny Wexelman]

How many, how many home runs shy?

[Isabella Brady]

22.

[Danny Wexelman]

Wow.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

I mean he's a first ballot hall of Famer. Who will have played three postseason games and had one hit.

[Isabella Brady]

Crazy. It's crazy. It's. We've been really robbed.

[Danny Wexelman]

Conundrum.

[Isabella Brady]

Postseason. Mike Trout.

[Danny Wexelman]

Think about it. I mean, we did see him in the World Baseball Classic. Like, that was sick. But I want to see him in October. Like, I want to see him in Major League Baseball's World Baseball Classic.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, like, yeah, we have the World Baseball Classic at home.

[Danny Wexelman]

On home turf.

[Isabella Brady]

That's right.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

This has fractured ham mate bone. Is that real? What's a hamate bone?

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

What the hell is that?

[Danny Wexelman]

You can play with a broken hamate bone, actually.

[Isabella Brady]

What is that?

[Danny Wexelman]

Okay, I can't remember which side of the hand. I think it's. Oh, it's on this side. I think it's by your thumb. It's by your thumb. Actually. Francisco Alvarez right now has a broken hammy, which is why he's out for the Mets.

[Isabella Brady]

Hamate's tail.

[Danny Wexelman]

A ham at.

[Isabella Brady]

This is like. She's given, like, a really good explanation, but I really have to say this out loud while it's in my brain. Hammet's table tail.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. Fortunately, you can fix Handmaids. You can't fix the Handmaid's tail. No.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, no, no. Let's stay away from that.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's a minor injury. You can come back from it. It's not a huge deal. You don't even need the bone in your hand. You can live without the bone. Take it out, then you don't need it.

[Isabella Brady]

Get rid of it.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's a weird bone.

[Isabella Brady]

I removed my hamate so that I could. I don't know. First thing I thought of was Marilyn Manson removing a rib. Okay, so we're moving Trout on. So it's Trout up against Beat la.

[Danny Wexelman]

I want to be more fun because baseball is fun. And so I am not going to keep pounding home. Beat la. Mike Trout is a phenomenon.

[Isabella Brady]

I did not think this was gonna work out this way.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

I think if I were to pick it, Trout would have won this bracket. No, I didn't know that people. Other people were as excited as I am about Mike Trout coming back.

[Danny Wexelman]

It's time. He has missed so much time in the game, and he is like, here's. Here's what I'll tell you. So I cover the game at the amateur level. I'm talking 13, 14 to 18 year olds, plus college. Right?

[Isabella Brady]

Crazy.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm seeing them all.

[Isabella Brady]

They must look so young.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah. I'm a girl. I'm their grandma.

[Isabella Brady]

That's crazy. That's Upsetting to me. That hurts my feelings.

[Danny Wexelman]

I'm like, what's your first cd? And they're like, what's a cd?

[Isabella Brady]

What's a cd?

[Danny Wexelman]

Right? They still write down. We ask them, who do you look up to? Who's your favorite player? They still write down Mike Trout. So even however many years he's been in the league, you could pick a million other guys. They still write Mike Trout. And that tells me that he is as relevant today as he was when he got into the league. And so we need to see him be healthy. That's the best thing for the sport. Mike Trout, baby.

[Isabella Brady]

I think you're absolutely right. It's like a sport that has struggled in recent years with, like, finding and marketing and pushing its face. But the best I think they did of that was Mike Trout. And I think a lot of casual fans know Mike Trout and are, like, wondering what's up and where he's been. Well, he's back, and thanks to this. This bracket, he's the number one thing we're most excited about going into this baseball season that starts on Thursday. I'm so excited. Danny, thank you for being here. Tell everybody where they can find you.

[Danny Wexelman]

Thanks for having me. First of all, this is awesome. This is so cool. For those who are listening, the set is sick. It is so sick.

[Isabella Brady]

We're working on it.

[Danny Wexelman]

I think people should send. Should send in ideas of what should fill the photos back here, by the way. Yeah, they should send in picture ideas.

[Isabella Brady]

That might be because we still have the lady from the Amazon Basics frame is still in the frame.

[Danny Wexelman]

Selena Gomez.

[Isabella Brady]

Somebody said it kind of. Somebody said it looked like somebody else that I didn't think it looked like at all. But we're getting a lot of looks like. Looks like comments.

[Danny Wexelman]

Looks like.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah, we got to fill it with something. We'll get there. Yeah, we'll get there eventually.

[Danny Wexelman]

I have. College baseball is in full swing, so I've got two college games coming up tomorrow. On Wednesday, it's Michigan State at Notre Dame Fun on ACC Network. And then Sunday is Cal versus Louisville ACC Network as well. And then it'll be on SNY Thursday for opening day.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

So I'm stoked. It's a busy week.

[Isabella Brady]

Very excited. How'd you feel about that cocaine celebration, dude?

[Danny Wexelman]

That was okay. Like, the thing about college baseball is that they've been stripped of having any fun.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah.

[Danny Wexelman]

And then that dude, I think his name's Voight. Like, Mitch Voight. That dude was like, let me remind people how fun college it was.

[Isabella Brady]

Fun. It was electric.

[Danny Wexelman]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

An electric.

[Danny Wexelman]

I heard your analysis of it, and I was a fan.

[Isabella Brady]

A lot of people took that at face value. A lot of people were like, she can't be serious. And here's the thing. I wasn't. It was a joke. The whole thing was a joke. But I did love it. And I just love, you know, college baseball.

[Danny Wexelman]

Dude, it's sick.

[Isabella Brady]

Rip a line, you know?

[Danny Wexelman]

Rip a line. It's never been better. College baseball's like, peak right now. And it's going to. It's a great season so far.

[Isabella Brady]

She's at Danny Wex. Is that on all of them or is that just on which one is that? Is that on all of them?

[Danny Wexelman]

It's on, like the places, people, the.

[Isabella Brady]

Ones that matter at Danny Wex. Danny, thank you so much for being here. This was so fun. Go baseball.

[Danny Wexelman]

Thanks for having me. Go baseball. Go Mike Trout.

[Isabella Brady]

Go Mike Trout. Thank you so much to Danny for being here. Before we go, it's the C block. So here's what to watch this week. If you wanted to watch some sports.

[Unknown]

Chris, first thing that everyone should watch, MLB Thursday Opening Day, the first game that will be broadcast on tv. Brewers versus Yankees. We mentioned that the Yankees could be bad. Imagine seeing the Yankees lose on opening day on ESPN. That game is on at 3pm Eastern, which means that's west coast nooners. Anyone on the west coast can pop a nooner for the. For the Brewers Yankees game. So you got to get on that. You can watch that game on ESPN or listen on MLB play by play channel A 175 on SiriusXM.

[Isabella Brady]

They're still doing baseball on ESPN. I thought they said no, Moss.

[Katie Nolan]

They got one more year. One more year on the deal.

[Isabella Brady]

One more year.

[Katie Nolan]

One more year.

[Isabella Brady]

All right, what else, Chris?

[Unknown]

Women's college basketball. We have a huge matchup on Friday at 2:30pm Eastern. It is number three UNC Tar Heels against number two Duke in the Sweet 16. That is what I'm talking about. A Duke UNC matched up in the Tawny Sweet 16. When it goes through to the Elite Eight. That game is also on ESPN.

[Katie Nolan]

For the Soul of Lachlan Ratliff.

[Isabella Brady]

That is what I'm talking about. What else?

[Unknown]

The third thing that people should watch now, this one's going to cost a little bit more because you're probably going to have to subscribe to a certain service. It's Gaelic football. Mayo play Kerry in the National Football League Division 1 final in Gaelic football. And for everyone out there who has become fans of the Australian football team that I root for, that I will not say their name because they do not deserve to be named on this pod anymore. Based on how the season has begun, one of their listed players, Rob Monahan, is actually. He was recruited from Kerry. So I think we should all be going for Kerry in this game. It's going to be a huge matchup. That's at Sunday at 12pm Eastern. You're gonna have to subscribe to GAA.

[Isabella Brady]

Go for this one, which is GAA Go.

[Unknown]

Yeah, that's the Gaelic Athletic Association. So you can watch Gaelic football and hurling on. On this service. So if it depends on if you want to go monthly or yearly, if you want to go yearly, probably monthly. 30 bucks.

[Isabella Brady]

I think I'd probably go month to month.

[Brady]

A free trial.

[Unknown]

20. 20 something dollars. They should have a free trial. So everyone could. Yeah, there's a lot of action in Gaelic football.

[Isabella Brady]

They can't have a free trial because there's so little. They just would lose everybody to like. I'm obviously not going to subscribe to this. I just want to watch this one thing.

[Unknown]

Yeah. Just got to watch Mayo versus Carrie.

[Isabella Brady]

Yeah. So they can't ever.

[Unknown]

Exactly. But make sure that you maybe tune into the highlights, which should be on the GAA YouTube channel after the game. But it's going to be a big match up. I'm very excited. I love Gaelic football. I used to play it a lot in high school. That was one of the fun activities that we used to do every now and then. And it looks a lot like Australian football. So if you like Australian football, then you're gonna like difference.

[Isabella Brady]

But all these specific types of football.

[Brady]

Is it like soccer football or is it like actual like.

[Unknown]

No, it's like Australian football in the way that they. It's played with a round ball. It's played with a round ball, like a soccer ball. But the way that they move, they can either kick the ball or hand pass it. You know how in Australian football we spoke about how you punch it out of your hand? They do that as well. And then they have similar sort of goals where you've got like a soccer net. So if you kick it in the soccer net, it's worth three points. It's called a goal, but it's worth three points. And if you kick it over the net in between the sticks, then it's one. One point.

[Isabella Brady]

What?

[Brady]

Oh, this is like ultimate football. That's what it sounds like.

[Unknown]

Yeah. There actually used to be a series played every year. Rather than having an all star game for the Australian. Australian Rules football. We used to have an international rules series where we would. Australia would play Ireland in a mashup version of Gaelic football and Australian rules football.

[Isabella Brady]

So then they made a new football out of these two other types. It's too many different types of football.

[Unknown]

It's awesome is what it is. It's awesome.

[Isabella Brady]

It's like a crowd.

[Unknown]

That's how. That's how I first fell in love with Gaelic football. And we've had a lot of players be recruited to Australian football from Gaelic football football over the years. So a lot of. A lot of Australians know about Gaelic football. I don't know how many watch, but a lot of them know that it exists.

[Katie Nolan]

And that's hurling being on this schedule. Hurling is the one that's like Gaelic football, but they also carry a giant, heavy wooden spoon.

[Unknown]

Yeah. And they. They hit the ball or it's not quotable. It's called a sliatar or something like that.

[Brady]

I think I like this.

[Unknown]

Don't get. You don't get as many Australians recruited from hurling. The only one I can think of, of his former team that I will not name today, player Satanta Rohelpin. He. He came from hurling, but usually you're getting more players from the Gaelic. Gaelic side of things.

[Isabella Brady]

Sure.

[Unknown]

Yeah.

[Isabella Brady]

Okay. And then I'm gonna add just one more here on the fly because I forgot, but on Friday, Bentley is playing in the NCAA men's hockey tournament. My brother went to Bentley. My dad went to Bentley. They don't normally get involved and stuff like this. So this is very exciting. It's a whole family event in the Nolan household. That's Friday. I don't know what time on ESPN plus, so if you. I'll be watching that. It's probably more just for me, but it's exciting, you know, when, like a school that you went to does a thing. So rarely happens in the Nolan household. So we didn't really go to sporting schools. Okay, everybody, that's it. That's a podcast. Thank you so much for listening. I hope you're excited for baseball. I certainly am. If you want to email us [e-mail]. our voicemail 646-800-010043. On IG and Tik Tok, we are at casualsthepodcast. We. You know what? We love you and we mean it, so bye.