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So that's when you know. That's when you know a baseball topic is really hot in the streets. And then I guess we could circle up on Yankees beard policy a little bit. A little more spring training around the horn for you. Let's start with the ABS system. If some of you have no idea what I'm talking about. Automated balls and strikes. I'll be honest, till this morning, I didn't know what it's did for. Makes sense. Makes sense. And in spring training, they are messing around. Slash. Using the system that they have now used at Double A and AAA for the last two years. Early results seem positive. Actually. I guess I don't know if there's any results that are negative. You got anything, aj? No. A fierce head shake? No, because we've had the technology for a while. I think that's where a lot of people jump to. And I actually think the system that they're using is the right format. There will be tweaks along the way. Sure. You could say that with anything. But I like where they are at. So where we are at, each team gets two. That's actually a lie. I'm gonna start over. Each team essentially gets two wrong answers. So you get two challenges. But if you get it right, you don't get penalized. So in theory, you could have unlimited, which there will be a point this season that an umpire has a really bad day, and we all get to see that live. So that'll be fun. But, yeah, you get two of them, and if you get them wrong, you lose them. So the thought process behind that is, I think when MLB or baseball in general came to the table and was like, where do we go with this? Because if you are a tennis person, this is the system that they've used in tennis for a long time. And it's actually. It's kind of the coolest thing about tennis right now. Don't need to give you my full tennis rant. But in a big tennis moment, when they challenge it and it goes to the big screen, the crowd starts clapping and then it cuts down and you find out what happened. It's kind of sick. They've had that for a while now. Very similar. The same technology that they'll be using for the MLB strike zone. So we'll get a little bit of that effect. It's Going to be fun to see which home stadiums kick into gear. Are they gonna do like an, oh, will they do a clap? I don't know. That first one was way too spooky. They're not gonna do that. Oh, that's Joe's McFly effect. So that'll be fun. But, yeah, I, I think you see it in the NBA a lot, that there's a ton of stoppages and it's affected the game, it's affected the quality of the game, it's affected the watching experience that I think baseball, if you were every pitch turning and looking to see if it was a ball or a strike, something feels off about that. So. And umpires are part of the game. A little inside John Boy Media. If you go to most of our baseball channels and search like, most viewed videos, most of them are talking, are tied to umpires. It's kind of insane. It frustrates me a little bit as like a sports loser. But people love the umpires and it's a conversation we've talked about a little bit because Joe west is out, Angel Hernandez, like, a lot of the guys that were kind of stars of the game, guys that if you knew them once, you knew them for a long time because they were umpires for 30 plus years. Where baseball players, you know, we get stuck on the pool holes and the studs that stick around for 20, but most guys are there for three. So umpires, a good ump has some staying power. Anyways, when they came to it, they were like, all right, so are we just getting rid of umps? What are we doing? They're like, no, let's have the umpires call the game. Let's do this two challenge rule. Let's see what happens. And the reason why it's limited is because they don't want, okay, if it's a two one count, four nothing game in the fifth inning and there's a borderline pitch, we can't just be challenging each one of that. I know there's something that sounds dumb about that because it's like, well, let's get the call right and if we have the technology, huh? But that's too far. Like, sports are not meant for that. And that's the other fun part of the challenge system that it ties back to the pitcher. The hitter and the catcher are the only three people that can challenge the call. And it has to happen instantaneously. So there's been a few, few highlights early on in spring training. You know, you'll see the catcher or the the hitter usually tap the top of their head. The ump will do the same thing. We get the replay review, they zoom in on it, which that's exciting sometimes and then you get the call. So it won't be a part of Major League Baseball this year, I believe. I don't think it's official but from everything they've done, rules wise, it should be official next year in Major League Baseball and I think you should be excited for it. I will say the early return on it, when this had been dreamt up years ago, it was how our pitchers going to manipulate this. Are pitchers going to snap off curveballs that just nick the outside, outside corner of the zone and then they end up in the dirt? Are they going to flip? We'll keep it all curveballs for now. Are they going to flip high curveballs that come down at the last second that for years could they clip like the back of the strike zone even though they might have come across your chest this way. Very interesting on talking baseball with myself and Trevor figuring out the geometry. Is that geometry, if a ball's moving this fast and then it's coming down like this. Trigonometry, you have no clue. If you're listening, you might have a clue and let me know. Engineering, what do they do? Physics. Physics feels good. Physics feels great. The early return seemed to be that the pitchers aren't going to be able to cook the books that much. Let's see what happens and let's see the evolution of it. Like we had to do with a lot of changes in baseball, which I know there's a lot to be discussed with. I just saw Dan Rourke and he winked at me. So cool with baseball. Baseball's the old sport. Baseball's dying. All, all these things we read so often, yet somehow some way we were able to build a company out of young people liking baseball. So that's something. And when we're talking significant rule changes, how about baseball leading the way whether you want to do pitch clock or infield shifts. You know football, I mean I guess they had the new kickoff rule player safety stuff but I don't know. Not like that significant of a change to the game. NBA, there's again these sports are always every sports always adding something but these are game changing things by baseball and almost everyone from pitch clock to shifting the base running. I think everything has been received with baseball fans at this point with open arms. I will admit I talked about the pitch clock on this show and I was nervous at first. It felt a little quick for Me, my thing was, okay, when it comes down to a big postseason moment and things like that, are we. Are we going to feel it by not feeling it? Like, those used to be the moments where baseball won because it'd be a three, two count, bases loaded, eighth inning of the playoffs. The pitcher would get the ball back and do a lap around the mound. Maybe the catcher would come out. And these were like the sick baseball moments. What's he gonna throw? Is the hitter ready? Do you think he's gonna throw a strike? Is he gonna throw a ball? That led to kind of the beautiful breathing conversation of baseball. I, when the pitch clock first started happening, wasn't having a blast because I was like, damn, these games are kind of flying by. There was a couple 7pm starts that I would get home, you know, cook up some dinner, 7pm you know, sit down, eat. I'm watching the game. I'm cooking, I'm eating. I'm really grooving, baby, you know, 7, 7:35, look up, cleaning the plate from dinner. It was the top of the fourth inning. Now a couple things happened. That was the worst Yankee team in 30 years, it turned out, and they couldn't hit. So there was a lot of very quick innings. So I was like, okay, I'm really not liking this. The Yankees stink. And that's kind of how opinions are supposed to work. Wait, I'm watching the team I like, and they're really bad now. And there's this new rule. I don't love this. Come to find out, it was because the Yankees were bad. I didn't like that. And what the hitters have countered back with is they use their times. Each hitter gets a timeout. And now you see it traditionally, if they go down 0212, they're going to use their time, they're going to reset, which that has kind of made the at bats breathe a little more. It kind of brought the baseball conversation back that the pitch clock had been fantastic for just cutting out the massive gaps of time that were ridiculous between throwovers to first. Just holding the ball forever, stepping off the rubber, whatever it was. That the pitch clock has been awesome for that. That. That's been a resounding win for baseball. The shifts, I want them to turn the knob up a little more. Teams are shifting. If you go look at where your second baseman or your shortstop is starting for a lot of whatever they're facing, righty or lefty, teams are still shifting. It's. I think it's fine, and I can be okay with it. I know personally the Yankees try to game the system a little bit. Anthony Volpe, the Gold Glove shortstop, breakout year inbound. Check out my article that for Volpe, if there is a big pull lefty, he will take his hop as the pitch is coming and then start heading past second base, which, hey, he's gotten to a couple balls over there on lefty hitters, which you've gamed the system perfectly. That's what we're always looking for. I don't know if there's a solution that people have talked about making like a triangle past the bag that you can't cross that I'm interested. If not, I still think we're in a good spot. I've been. I've been loud, he says. I've been loud about I the outfield shifts to me are still wild. I think we've taken away a lot of the outfield defensive highlights via the shift or outfielders just play so deep now. Doubles used to happen and then analytics was like, hey, why don't we play at the wall? No doubles defense used to be a thing. Now that's what everyone plays because everyone figured out a single. Giving up a single is better than giving up a double. Analytics numbers. What math is that? Algebra 2 is better than 1. Audio Jack said, I can't believe you keep asking me these math questions. That being said, there it I used to be the best play in baseball. A ball in the gap or a ball off the wall, when that outfielder would turn and fire at a second. And if you didn't know about the baserunner speed, you'd be like, okay, do we got something here? Does the outfielder have a good arm? And I just think tracking down balls in the gap, I think that's some of the most beautiful plays. That's some of the most, I don't know the result plays in baseball. And I think that's a good thing. I think when a ball's hitting the gap and you're like, huh. But when you got the whole outfield shifted anyways, going back to ABS automated balls and strikes, nailed it. The strategy is going to be the most fun part for me because now having talked about this weekly dumb talking baseball, hearing a lot of strategies and strong opinions, John boy Trevor Plouffe, that's all you're going to get out of those guys. Okay, let's say I use this example before. No, Jake, find a. Find a different team. Let's say we're the Seattle Mariners. Always trying to get my Mariners in the mix. You know, there's some questions about the depths of their lineup. I'm sure some guys are going to break out this year. Okay, so you're the Mariners. You've got Julio, Cal, rally. Let's see who else busts out for them. But let's say those are their two guys. Do you save your two challenges for them? Like, these are the two guys that might do a ton of impact or damage for you. Do you make it so like, hey, Cal, or Julio, you guys have full reign. We need your at bats to count. Or, I don't know. That's a scary message to tell a team that the rest of your at bats aren't valuable. I don't see that really happening. I think the resounding answer is situational. If you have. Because we see it in a baseball game, there's two or three moments that dictate almost every game. Bases loaded, one out in the third. If a guy turns on one, it's four, nothing. If you get the double play ball, it's zero, zero. So I think in those significant moments, and I wonder, you know, Jim started going deep into the analytics of, you know, having the moments. Is there an analytics guy or a bench coach that says, like, hey, this at bat is a big one. If you need to challenge it, you go, are they going to leave it to players? Because with only the hitter, pitcher and catcher being able to challenge a. I think pitchers need to be out. I think if I was managing a team, I would politely tell my pitcher, I'm sorry, you are passionate and locked in this game. You think every ball that is near the plate is a strike, that you're kind of out in the nicest way. And I wouldn't take that as a bad thing if I was a pitcher, to be honest. You gotta trust your catcher. Your catcher knows his own better than anyone. They're right there. Most of the MLB managers, former catchers, leave it with the catcher. And again, is that situational? I think that's going to be interesting, aside from the pitcher, catcher side of things. Because if you do get that one wrong, I mean, we've seen it in NFL with challenge systems and things like that. Like, you start operating differently and then can you imagine there's going to be a manager this year that. And it's crazy that it's going to fall on the managers because this is all players. But that's why managers have to set up the system. Like there's going to be a team that loses their two challenges, that has an awful call in the ninth inning, and then we're going to talk about that on Wake and Jake. Subscribe Talking baseball every other channel inform baseball today. Chris Rose is going to be so hot about it. My God. That yeah, it's going to be funny to see all the new parts of this happen. What moments get elevated. Yeah, elevated by everyone as they show up in the. In the light for the first time. Can you imagine the first time like there's going to be a pitcher that thinks he struck someone out to win the game. They review it, it gets overturned. It's a ball the other team hits like a game winning home run. Like we're going to have some pretty wild moments that come from this and I think you can go in a lot of. I do want to talk about the dimensions a little bit because we, you know as I've already challenged Audio Jack with math three times. Let's make it four. If you're wondering how they're measuring this. So they're getting players heights which if you know anything about me, fascinated. And we don't know the answer yet. We were told that they took the players heights. Did they have shoes on? I don't know. Was it the team measuring them? Did the players get to say their height that the league does ABS have a brand of people that go out and measure humans. We don't know that yet. I told Trev I want to know. He still has enough friends in the league. I told him to go ask Matt Chapman. Okay. Did someone measure you at spring training cleats your team other? Because I believe it's 57. Okay. It's 53 1/2% of the player's height. We had the ruler out before Jimmy made a video. And then it's the bottom of the zone starts at 27% of the player's height. So John measured this out and demonstrated and it was essentially it was the knees with a bent batting stance. Not completely bent but like relaxed. If you were stepping up to the plate and you were bending the knees a little bit, it was up to the knees. The part that I found the most interesting is that the height went to the belt and that was like the belt in a batting stance which if you think about it and I think the letter of the law going going back old umpire book is supposed to be the letters. We know that baseball hasn't been that for a long time. But I think from the reviews I've seen I saw Jazz Chisholm Challenge one. We watched a few on talking baseball. From the reviews I've seen I think the High strike is going to be the popular conversation this year because I think where that line stops, there's a lot of pitches that would have just been called strikes and everyone would go, okay, that I think the new height metric is going to change that. That I think it's going to be advantageous for hitters to start, which I think circling back on this conversation of years of are they going to go full automated strike zone or what are they going to do? I currently have this as good news for the hitters. And yeah, it's going to be fun to see how each team implements it. Like, I. The Dodgers are fun for a lot of reason. Like, I think Dave Roberts is just going to be like Freddie Freeman, Mookie Shohei, your guys call, man, you guys know, but also know that you're responsible for the rest of this team, that I wonder, our players going to lose privileges throughout the season? Is it. Is there going to be. Is something going to pop up in June? And it's like, well, Jock Peterson's over five, so he's just lost his privilege. And then there's probably going to be some players that are absolute sickos about it that can significantly change their season. Three, two pitch off the plate gets called a strike three. And you challenge that and it's a walk that's big, that rolls over into the next game. Like, I think this is going to be big for hitters. The one thing that I do think is going to be the pitchers winning all this. And there was one of these called over this weekend's games when pitchers, when pitchers miss the spot and they reach back, but it's still over the plate. But umps for years haven't called that a strike. Like, you're on the outside corner, the pitch is a fastball on the inside corner, but all the umpire sees is you do that. For Those on the YouTube, I reached across my body and go check out the YouTube and subscribe that pitchers are going to get a lot of those calls. Which hitters for years have been able to do the like, well, he missed a spot. Like, oh, whatever, man. That's going to be the biggest one for pitchers that I wonder. I mean, now I'm really daydreaming a little bit. But like, okay, let's say if you're facing a team that's not necessarily stealing signs, but what if, you know, when the catcher sets up, maybe they're pointing inside or outside. Could you have the catcher set up outside and throw a pitch inside? Is that crazy? I don't know. I don't know. 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Listen to the official Yellowstone podcast Now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Let's go to work. Yankees are playing that after losses now Good. And yeah, I'll. I'll Yankee it for a little bit because on this show haven't talked about losing the, the shaving policy. I know we're not all Yankee fans here, so if you don't care. Okay. Because that's not far, too far from where I land at this point. Uh, I thought. I see every side of the argument here. I thought it was kind of cool. Hey, we're the Yankees. This is what we do. You want to play for us? Shave your face. Let's go. Um, again, I'm coming from this, from the baby face perspective, although I do have a nice little pimple today that I wish I had a beard cover up. Um, so I'm just trying to grow that real fast. I understand the other side of it that that's. The whole thing's pretty old. There's been guys that have pushed the different Yankee rules on it because you could have a mustache, which I mean, allowing that is even sus in itself. But. And I think Goose Gossage is like, he's he Fu Manchu for a little bit, but he was really good, so nobody really said anything. And yeah, Devin Williams is getting a, like all the credit for this, which I don't know if that's good or bad. This had been talked about in Yankee circles for a while now. Kind of blew up again when Devin Williams came over and shaved. He got roasted, which, I mean, maybe this is me being a beardless guy. I didn't think it was that bad. I think he leaned a little better with the beard. He'd never pitch an MLB inning without a beard. It's kind of nuts that. Yeah. When you're trading for a guy to be your closer on a one year deal. Hate to look back in May and be like, he's miserable without his beard, man. I do truly think I've half jokingly talked about it on talking Yanks. And here I think there's guys that like having a beard. You like having a beard. Audio Jack BBD likes having a beard. That one of the earliest talking Yanks running jokes whenever I feel like it was. Whenever we do voicemails or reach out for questions and it would just be funny. We'd get a lot of the same stuff. Like we'd get favorite player over and over and we'd be like, okay, Bernie was my favorite. I don't you want to hear me talk about it more like our, our couple thousand listeners at the time had heard that speech many times. The other one was people would ask about the beard Policy. And me and Jimmy would yim and yammer. Not words about it. You know, if I ever needed to, to give Jim a little, a little thumb to the belly, I'd be like, you know, Jim, clean shaven Yankees, like, come on, my guy. Like, Yankees sign you to play baseball tomorrow. Like, let's go. You're shaving that thing. And Jimmy was like, yeah, if I was a baseball player, I'd have no problem with it because I'd be in shape and don't care about my beard. I was like, well, okay. It's interesting way to look at it. Appreciate it. We get our chuckle, we move on. I think if you're a beard guy, especially in today's society, you're a beard guy, man, you get comfy with it. How long have you had a beard now? Audio Jack kind of goes in cycles. Do you mean just this beard or like, how long have I been growing a beard? How long has a beard been a go to of your. Your recipe? Probably since about halfway through 2020. Okay. How old were you? I was 23. Happy birthday. Thanks. Jess's birthday today. Happy birthday, Jess, actually. Okay, so you're 23 years old. That's a time that a lot of top prospects get called up to the MLB. Other guys are hoping 25, 26, whatever, you know, I know my college roommate, Nick Proach, Shout out the Mailman. He'd been a beard. He's had a beard essentially since he was a sophomore in high school. So a. There's one side of it, it's look good, play good, feel good, that I think a few guys were missing that. And I just think there's also. That's the positive side. The negative side is like, if you think you don't look good with a beard and now you're playing pro sports, that's a bad time. I think Joey Gallo is a big beard guy. I don't think it would have saved him. I think he was in it pretty deep. Alex Verdugo, I don't know. I don't know. It was interesting. Just going through failed left fielders. Josh Donaldson. I'm not going to go through everyone that didn't play well without their beard. Glaber Torres goes nuts this year. I think for me, the news broke. I was on my way to the warehouse. How about that? I was in the back of an Uber. Uber driver hated me. I have no idea what happened. He had such disdain for me. Like, I miss part of the transaction. So I, I'm in the. Which by the way, it's only like a 7 minute Uber from the train station to the warehouse. But I get in there, see the news, and I'm like, all right. Well, for me it was a shrug realization. And then I was like, wait, this is over. Like that's it. Like once that memos drop, like they're not going to go back and take away the policy. My God. Or revamp is going to see. It's going to be funny to see what Yankees push it. How big can a beard get? A well maintained beard. That's going to be interesting to see. And yeah, it was funny to see some of the. Because there was a few of my Red Sox fans were like, oh, they finally got rid of it. This was like the worst, the worst rule in sports. And I was like, okay, that's a little dramatic. Felt a little red socky. I think there was other fans of teams that were like, I kind of liked it. Now you're playing the Yankees. They were clean shave. Like that was it. No questions asked. Hey, the big thing Yankee fans care about. This is our little secret. We like to win. That's what we were told. The whole brand was like the shaving faces thing that came up like 8th is like, win. It's like, okay, we go out and get the best players. That's good. Short porch. I don't know. Babe Ruth played here. Jeter was hot. Then you start getting to the beard policy. I guess that, I don't know, it's. It's funny that this is probably, I say this is probably the last time I'll ever talk about it. And then someone will come out with like a gross beard or something. The thing I still don't have resolution on and it'll be interesting to see if we ever get there. You know, the Yankees, you can't have long hair. Garrett Cole pushed the limits a couple times. And when I say push the limits, like he had a little bit of flow coming out back. The one that had me out of sorts was the Yankees were supposed to trade for or the Yankees were supposed to be in the business for Luis Castillo. And Luis Castillo has beautiful dreads that for me, the beard policy was like, I don't know, guys. A lot of people shave for work, whatever, blah, blah, blah. I don't actually care. I'm, I'm glad it's gone. If the Yankees ever come up, a situation like that, it starts getting a little crazy again. Make a guy shave his dread like that. For me, that's a thousand times worse than shaving a beard. Right. Like, that's years and years and years. And I suppose we'll cross that bridge when we get there. So. Yeah, it's. It's done. And that's a good thing. I'm trying to see what else I got for you guys. I mean, it's the first weekend of spring training. You know, there's some nice stuff. Guys hit. Guys hit home. Alex Bregman homer for the Red Sox, happy for him. Juan Soto homer for the Mets, happy for him. Other than that, I mean, there's not too much to chew on. I did watch High Song Kim, the new Dodger second baseman. Play a little bit. He looks good. That's my scouting report on that. Otherwise, we're in a little bit of a baseball hole. So we will have tier list coming up with Jolly on Wednesday. Get excited for that. That's what the people like. And then, yeah, the other sports are kind of chilling, too, that we're finding. We're watching the other leagues try to find stuff in this window. The golf league. How about hockey and the four nations thing. That was pretty sick last week, except how it ended. So I think it's a high and tight one today. We'll get BBD healthy, get myself healthy. We'll get Jolly healthy and we'll be back as we're. I think it's 30 days till opening day. How do you like that? A short month. February. People forget. Nobody forgot. All right, guys, you're the best. Thank you to Audio Jack for filling in and this show, I think, still brought to you by Dan Patrick. So shout out to Uncle Dan. Make sure you go check him out. We'll see you next time. Are you hungry? Colleen Witt here. 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