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Mina Kimes is with us. We are delighted to see her. I don't know if she heard any of the nonsense it is that we were talking about, but before we get to football stuff with her, I do want to gauge her interest in the Olympics. Are you excited about opening ceremonies? Are you going to gather around a television or a streaming service with your friends in order to partake in the pageantry of the opening ceremony?

I love the Olympics. I don't know if I'll catch the opening ceremonies, but I love that universal, like collective thing where we all instantly become experts in sports we know nothing about and have like incredibly strong development opinions, pardon me, and takes that develop like in.

the span of a single day. You don't know anything about, I don't know, I would say the luge, but that's a winter sport. I'll have to go with the summer thing, like the 400 meter fly. And then suddenly you're watching and you're like, this is an outrage. How did this happen? I love that feeling so much. It's just sports in cubes, right? It's just the stuff that you love just stuffed all together as fast and as quick as you can so that you can enjoy the things you enjoy about sports and sprinkle some patriotism on top.

I think, yeah, it's that, but it's like, I think with a lot of sports debates on the internet and beyond,

it can get toxic because people bring such different levels of investment and expertise. Whereas with the Olympics, I mean, we're almost, I would say 99% of the people who watch it are new to whatever sport we're talking about. And I weirdly think that sort of democratization of knowledge makes it less toxic. Give me the stat of the day music, please. ♪ Start of the day, start of the day ♪ ♪ It is the start of the day ♪

Wow.

I need to explain to the shipping container that once we get to the third hour of Greg Cody, he doesn't know he's on the air anymore. Like, we are just badgering an old man, be careful, please, because he doesn't know when we're on the air and when we're not. No, as soon as I said, wow, I instantly realized that I should not have said that aloud. Yeah.

That's self-awareness. That's self-awareness. No, it's my fault. I told him in his ear that flag football would be in the 2028 Olympics, and he said, wow. It was worthy of a wow. I mean, they're letting anything in. Breakdancing. Come on.

Surfing. The surfing competition is in Tahiti, which is how many thousands of miles from Paris? Ooh, wait a second. Can I trade one of my things to get surfing in Tahiti? Mark Sanchez has more playoff wins than the combination of Lamar Jackson, Dak Prescott, Kirk Cousins, Kyler Murray, and Derek Carr. That is a great stat that I want to save.

the next time I literally just coming off first take where we had this argument, the next time people use playoff wins as a metric for why one quarterback is better than another. Thank you for that stat. Can somebody email it to me, please? I want to have that on hand, like just like a weapon in my back pocket.

All right. Mark Sanchez has more playoff wins than the combination of Lamar Jackson, Dak Prescott, Kyler Murray, Derek Carr. It must be better. That's how this works, right? Kirk Cousins. It must be a perpetual frustration to you, or are you just perpetually amused by it? I know that quarterback's wins are not a quarterback stat, or used to be part of your Twitter bio, but...

You do find maddening, do you not? The general silliness that surrounds you as you're breaking down tape and studying advanced analytics. It only bothers me because there's different layers to when it's deployed in debate. Like some people bring it up if we're talking about Joe Burrow versus Josh Allen, Justin Herbert versus whoever, Lamar Jackson. And I actually I don't want to.

be patronizing and say it doesn't matter at all or it's never worth bringing up because obviously those memorable playoff performances and your playoff record and certainly Super Bowl record do matter to the average fan. Where it bothers me, though, is when people use it as a stand-in for what actually happened in the games and

When instead of talking about, okay, what actually happened in this game? Why did they lose? Was it because of the defense? It just gets reduced to a record three and oh, or he lost or whatever. And that bothers me because I feel like as analysts, our job is to actually try to give context for these performances. And what you're doing with that particular stat is you're robbing individual players of their context.

I have spent the last couple of days, okay, kind of trying to gear up for the season by having some Tua conversations, just trying to get myself in game shape for the season. And one of the conversations we were having here this week that I wanted to ask you about is,

How many quarterbacks are you sure about? A number. You put them in any offense, they're going to be great and put up the same numbers. It's not going to be offense dependent. You're going to get the confidence of I have blank number of quarterbacks that I simply know that my measurement of them is they are valuable and good, the most valuable and the best.

How many quarterbacks... What you're asking is... Sorry, I was so derailed because for some reason I thought when you were saying you were gearing up in Tua, you were going to finish that with talking about his brain. And then when you pivoted to actually just talking about football, it kind of threw me. So how many quarterbacks, you're asking, do I feel confident in? Like there's...

Like their ability to elevate? What are we talking about here? I guess, forgive me for the way that I introduced that, but I'm laughing at, bemused, and marveling at our inability to accurately measure the value of the best quarterback, separating them from their wide receivers, their offensive lines, their systems, and everything. Just asking, who's great? Who do you pay? No questions asked.

The problem with that question and as looking at it through the lens of who you pay is you can't take any of these quarterbacks out of context when you're making a decision about paying them.

Tua being a perfect example, a quarterback who I think is incredibly valuable in the context of his offense. And that matters when you're deciding whether to pay him. Like, I swear to God, I'm not being political when I say the Dolphins should pay Tua. But if he was on another team, I don't think that team matters.

should. And that gets tricky, Dan, because you can hear that and you say, well, how do you know the context around Tua is going to this context in which he is so good? It's an offense, the scheme, the speed of skill players, the play calling. How do you know that's going to say the same if you give him $50 million a year? You don't know. However,

You can operate from the assumption that at least the head coach is going to be in play and that you have a wide receiver in Jalen Waddle who's very, very young and very, very fast in a front office who has been pretty damn good at identifying skill players who work in the context of that offense. So if all of those things are in place, I

feel better about paying him because I feel like I have a pretty clear vision of what this offense with him is going to look like for the next three, four, five years. Even if, if you took him out of that context, I don't think he would be as valuable. Does that make sense? It does. But why haven't they paid him? Because the reason that we started the conversation is me saying that

I don't blame the Dolphins for thinking that if he went to another offense, any other offense, maybe San Francisco, Mina, but any other offense outside of San Francisco, that he wouldn't be statistically the player that he's been. And I think that would be fair, but the thing is you're not paying these quarterbacks based on...

who they are in a vacuum. I think Tua is not as good as, you know, your Josh Allens, your Joe Burrows, your Lamar Jacksons, whatever. He is not in that tier. I look at those quarterbacks and I think, okay, you could put them in any offense in the league and they are elevators of talent and they are uniquely able of creating offense on their own in a way that I don't feel about Tua. However, the decision to pay him is not

putting together a team from scratch, or it's not like, you know, building a bad in dynasty or whatever you are paying him based on the quarterback. You want him to be in this offense, the quarterback he has been where I would get a little bit hesitant is okay. We're I I've been saying he's so great in this offense. His offense is a buzzsaw, but of course we have seen this offense, um, run into some grit against difficult defenses, obviously in cold weather. And the question I think the front office has to ask is, uh,

have the are the struggles of this football team this offense in those situations something that can be pinned on the quarterback and are there ways in which the quarterback can continue to get better that perhaps might enable them to get over the hump he's lost some weight does that mean he might be more mobile and able to create on his own which he hasn't been very good at is he going to be better under pressure i think the offensive line in the front office have done no favors there um but

the thing about Tua you also have to remember is he's still a young quarterback. He could get better at those things. And that to me is the decision that the front office has to make. Mina, stay right there. Okay. Because Greg Cody was riveted by your every word. I've never seen him. What, what happened? No, I'm, I'm nodding in agreement with almost everything Mina said. Uh, I am a pro Tua guy. I've written like three columns, which is probably too, too many that they should pay him. Uh,

And I think they're nickel and diming him. No matter where Tua goes, he's going to bring his accuracy with him. You had his undivided attention is my point. I have not seen that look from Greg Cody in several years working with him. He's distracted. He's swigging. But you were talking his language there. And so I'm going to put a pause on this for a second. And we're going to finish the show strong. A very strong Greg Cody week. You have been disoriented. You've been distracted. You have been wonderful.

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Welcome to the Pitch Clock. Here's the pitch, a two-part baseball segment combining a nostalgic baseball trivia game and an interview with an expert. This is the Pitch Clock. ♪

Our esteemed producer, Taylor, can you explain to this group right here, me, David, and Billy, what the game is that we'll be playing today? I tailored the game towards David. So this list, you guys can flip it over now. All right. This is every $100 million contract in baseball. Ooh.

Pre-2010. So you guys have the number that they signed for, the team that they signed for, and then the year that they signed. Wow. So it's going to be three strikes, and you're out. We'll alternate Jeremy, David, Billy. Okay. So each of us has a sheet of paper sitting in front of us. And I have a 20-second shot clock.

All right. 20 seconds. Wait, can I ask questions? It's a 20-second pitch clock, Taylor. This is just the amount they signed for in the year, but we don't have a length of deal here. That's correct. It's just the total dollar. Okay. This is a nightmare for me. I'm going to go ahead and say I'm going to take the first guess. Number two on the board, Texas Rangers. In 2001, $252 million. That's Alex Rodriguez. That's correct.

I'm going to go number one on the board. The same guy, Alex Rodriguez, Yankees, 275-08. That is also correct. All right. Is number 12 Vernon Wells, Blue Jays. Wow. Great pull. Awesome. Vernon Wells. $126,200,000. All right. So through one round of this game. I should have held on to that one. That was a stupid. That's a great one. That's a really good one to get that early. All right. So through one round of this game, Michigan.

Me, David, and Billy all got ours right. A-Rod for both the Yankees and the Rangers. And Billy pulling Vernon Wells out of the hat. I should have held that one. That was dumb. I'm going to go to... Man, this is tough. We have 20 seconds on the clock, right? 10 seconds left. 10 seconds left. I'm going to go number nine. New York Mets, $137.5 million in 2008. Was that Johan Santana? It was Johan. Wow. Wow.

Is there a chance that number 8, 141.5, and 0-3 was Todd Helton? Yep. Wow. With the Colorado Rockies. That's a good one, David. That's very well done. Back to Billy. Man, it's getting hard. It is. This is getting more and more difficult. I'm going to get another one of these.

And now to our guest portion here on the Pitch Clock, Adnan Virk of MLB Network, joining us today to share his expertise. Adnan, thank you for joining us. I want to start with you with Jordan Alvarez because he has led the Astros back

in their division, the poor Mariners. I mean, the poor Mariners just cannot catch a break as the Astros catch up to him. He hit for the cycle on Sunday. There's a couple interesting things here. He got the home run ball back in exchange for a signed baseball. Carlos Santana also had 30 homers and 30 ballparks. The fan asked him for season tickets in exchange for the ball. Got batting gloves. So I have kind of a two-part question here. One, how impressive is it what

Jordan Alvarez is doing in leading the Astros in his season. And also, do fans need better negotiators on their behalf?

Yeah, yes and yes. But we'll start with Jordan. Jeremy, great to see you as always. Thanks for having me back. Let's start with Astros first because it's been an incredible story. I know we all want to hate the Astros and I get it, but it's been an amazing run considering the fact they were 10 games back just 33 days ago. And all of a sudden now, you know, a virtual tie here in lockstep with the Mariners, you know, since the start of June, no team better record than the Astros 27 and 14 going into Monday's action last.

And Jordan specifically, you mentioned the cycle, which is always tough to do. You've got a double in that final at bat. Going into this week, he was slashing 367, 500 on base, a 700 slug, 11 extra base hits, 13 RBIs last 18 games. So he's been awesome. And also one homer shy of 150, which he'd be the sixth –

fastest player in nl or american league history to reach 150 home runs think about that only ryan howard pete alonso aaron judge eddie matthews and ralph kiner have gotten 150 homers faster so jordan's had an incredible career not like last week when i was speaking to you but jose ramirez perennially underrated jordan's like that too doesn't speak english you don't see him in the media he's not out there but obviously an incredible slugger and always in the mix as far as

top 10 MVP considerations concerned. Obviously, not playing the field hurts him a little bit. But yeah, he's been on a run right now. The Astros have been really good. They needed to get healthy, man. The starting rotation was beaten up. Once they got those pitchers back, their offense can bang and eventually they're going to get Kyle Tucker back as well. To your point about the batting gloves, yeah, it's always funny when guys want to get something back. You know, I think there's a

I can see both sides of it. For a fan, I can see the element of classiness and saying, hey, this is important to you. I'm happy to give it back. But also, it's worth something to you, right? And you've got a lot more than me. And I've got four kids and a mortgage to pay. So you know what? Let's make this worth our while. So yeah, I think

more than batting gloves. I don't think season tickets is unreasonable. I'm not asking for a new Porsche, but I think if you're a fan and you've got a little bit of leverage, that's what life is, Jeremy. When you've got leverage, you've got the hammer, you've got to wield it. So I'm pro-fan in this instance. Well, now you're sounding like David Sampson talking about leverage nonstop. But Jordan Alvarez, I mean, I remember when he came up thinking like, oh, okay, this is Big Papi. So it's impressive to see him doing what he's doing. Yankees, I mean...

I can't, I have to guess the exact Yankee. There are still four more Yankee logos. I know, but I need to, I can't just say was X, Y, Z. How much time is on the pitch clock? Seven seconds. Oh, seven seconds. Was number 19 Carlos Lee?

Wow. What? What? Just got Carlos Lee? The former Marlin. That's amazing. El Caballo. Carlos Lee for $100 million in 2006. So through two rounds, nobody has gotten one wrong yet. We have A-Rod twice. We have Todd Helton and Johan Santana. We have Vernon Wells and Carlos Lee. I cannot believe that. All right. Start the pitch clock.

I am looking here. How about number 16, the Cincinnati Reds, $116.5 million in 2000. Is that Ken Griffey Jr.? It's Ken Griffey Jr. I was surprised nobody went to that earlier. All right. I'm going to help you guys out by getting one wrong, and I'm going to get the name right, but the amounts are a problem. One of four or five, I know.

I just can't remember. And I don't have my glasses. Is one 180 and one is 161? That's correct. So I am going to go with number four, and I'm going to go with Mark Teixeira. Wow! Mark Teixeira, $180 million with the New York Yankees. A smart move by David, too, not saying who the other name could possibly be. Yeah, very well played, David. That's very good. Oh, man, so Billy, you're up. Number seven. Is number seven Miguel Cabrera?

Wow, $152.3 million in 2008. Wow, this is unbelievable. So through three rounds, nobody has gotten one wrong yet. We've got nine contracts. This is pretty impressive. I'm not going to lie. I would think above average. We haven't played this specific game yet, but every week it's going to be a slightly different game. This is pretty impressive to me. It's not above average. Okay. Okay.

This one is eating at me. I see a couple of different contracts here that are potential. How about 2004, number 18, $100 million. Is that Albert Pujols? It is Pujols. Yes. Good for you. That felt good. I'm very happy for you. Thank you. Number 13, Rockies, 121 and 01, former Expo, Sir Larry Walker.

First strike. Oh, I thought it was going to be him too. Now we've got to figure out who that is. So that's a strike for David. The first strike of the game thus far. Billy, you're up. His number 11, 126 in 2007, Buster Posey. Strike. Wow. Wow. But both of those, I don't know off the top of my head who those would be. Otherwise, I got to think with the Giants, it's likely a pitcher.

That's why years is not... The years are difficult here. I wish I knew the years. 2002, 2001. We both have strikes. This is a big moment for you. Yeah, I can capitalize here, potentially. You do have the lead, technically.

Adnan, I want to talk to you about the Yankees because this is a sort of weird and unexplainable one to me. Garrett Cole makes his season debut on June 19th. The Yankees had the best ERA in baseball amongst starters. Since June 19th, they have the worst ERA amongst starters. It's over six. What

in the world happened to the New York Yankees rotation? Yeah, it's been crazy, Jeremy. It was such a good story prior to this run because he was in consideration to make the All-Star game until he stumbled towards a stretch. Cortez has been good. Stroman, excellent, great ground ball pitcher. You know, and Rodon had a couple of shaky starts and then he was fantastic. And then Clark Schmidt, who was

Pitch the second most innings of any Yankees starting year ago. You go, hey, who's going to go out of the rotation once Garrett Cole comes back? All these guys have been great. And then Schmidt got hurt. You go, okay, easy decision now. He should be back end of August, early September. And Cole's first two starts was okay. Traditionally hasn't pitched great against the Red Sox. Devers always has his number.

But they've just completely fallen apart. And it's shocking how bad it's been. You know, since June 15th, the Yankees have lost 20 of their last 29 games going into this week. Only the White Sox, a worse record in baseball over that span. And to your point with the pitching, 5.37 ERA, second highest in baseball in that span behind only the Rockies. And the starter ERA, 6.24. That's the worst.

after they had been among the best staffs in baseball. So it's incredibly frustrating for my buddy Aaron Boone. I hope they get it rectified sooner rather than later. I do think they need to make some moves, particularly their offense has stumbled because they're so reliant on Judge and Soto who are out of this world. Ben Rice had a nice little stretch, but he's come back down to earth. LeMahieu is unplayable. Boone needs to have to bench him for a week. Torres has been bad. Volpe's been bad after a good start.

Verdugo is at an 84 OPS plus. That's a huge drop off from last year after playing some really good defense early in the year. So they need help on their offense, helping Judge and Soto, and they certainly need help with their pitching staff. But it's been surprising. The only good news is Cole was excellent in his last start, so hopefully he can carry them. I mentioned he should be on the way back sooner rather than later, but it's just been surprising how they were kind of playing their heads above water and then came back down to earth. And Rodon, I think, is really important in this rotation because of the fact

You know, he's got big money in that contract. They expect so much of him, but they've got to keep the ball in the ballpark, Jeremy, more than anything. They've allowed 51 home runs since the start of June. That's 15 more than anybody else in baseball. So you've got to stop giving up these home runs. And Rodon, the six-start stretch going into Monday, 9.67 ERA. He's got to be better than that. Oh, boy. Okay. I don't know what to do here. Number...

Giants, $126 million in 2007. Tim Lincecum? Damn! Is it three strikes and we're out? Yeah, three strikes and we're out. Am I up? Number six, Boston Red Sox, 160-01. Is it Pedroia? No, that's early. Strike two. That's a little early for Pedroia. I was going to go Pedroia or J.E. Then that may be early for him, too. Yeah.

Strike two for David. Billy, on the clock. 2001. Put yourself there. I'm trying to think. Is that Pedro?

Number six? Yeah. I don't think Pedro ever got a deal like that. All right. So I believe we're through five rounds now. And thus far, I have one strike. David and Billy each have two strikes, which does put me in the lead. And potentially, maybe I can just kind of wait out the clock. All right. So if you start the clock here, I have a guess here. I'm going to go.

Number 15, $119 million in 2005 at the New York Mets. Is that David Wright? It's not. No! Wow. Everybody's at two strokes. You were so cocky. You were sure you had it. I really thought I had it. I really did think I had it. I really did. You were holding that one, too. Yeah, I was. I was looking at it the whole time. I thought I had it. This is starting to turn into next one might win. Yeah, it would.

Well, this is my third strike and I'm out. Everybody's had two strikes. I need to come up with one right now. Technically for what it's worth. Right now. Right now. Technically for what it's worth. If each of them gets strikes, I win even though I have two strikes. That's correct. Why is that? Because I started it. So I have one more right than you guys do thus far. Yeah, he got one. We're on the same round right now. So, David, it's to you. 15 seconds left. What if he steps out of the box?

No call on time here. Really? There's really no time. Five seconds. New York Mets. Number 14, Yankees, 2,220 million. CeCe Sabathia. Too early. Too early. Strike three for David. So David is now out of contention. Billy, can you keep the game alive? No. No.

Adnan, can you name a random baseball player from the past whose name makes you smile? Absolutely. I love this question. I just had Joe Buck on Cinefile. My dear friend Adam Amin, I was thinking, you know, brainstorming, who could I have on the show? It's the summer. You know, Joe Buck's my favorite play-by-play guy of all time. I met him briefly at the Emmys. Let me ask Adam. I said, Adam, could you ask Joe Buck, would he come on Cinefile? Adam asked me, he always did a middler, right? Like in Curb, he did a middler. So Joe Buck came on. He was awesome. The reason I want to have Joe Buck on Cinefile is because

He was great in Brockmire, and he's very good friends with Paul Rudd and Jon Hamm. Rudd just got nominated for an Emmy Award for Only Murders in the Building, his first Emmy nomination, supporting actor. And Jon Hamm's a double Emmy nominee as he's up for the morning show at All's He Was Great in the Season of Fargo. So anyways, listen to the episode. Buck told stories when he first met Rudd, first met Hamm. There's a guy named Preston Clark that are friends with in high school, blah, blah, blah. Anyways, when I said that Buck was this, I go, I met Paul Rudd before.

for the Sundance Film Fest, okay? I said, he made a movie. Unfortunately, it wasn't great, but it's based on a classic book. The Catcher Was a Spy, true story of Moe Bird. Amazing story. Amazing story, right? And Rudd's a great guy. He was telling me he shot at Fenway, lifelong baseball fan. And I remember asking Paul, I said, what's your favorite team? He said, I'm a Royals fan. And I said, who's your favorite player? And this name always makes me smile. And when I said to Buck, even he smiled, and it's going to make you smile. Willie Wilson. I don't know what it is about Rudd,

Willie Wilson. Maybe it's just the alliteration of two first names. It's Will Will. It's not just alliteration. It's literally the same name.

But Willie Wilson, I just picture a slender speedster and it's 1985 again. And a guy who's slugging percentage, if we looked it up right now, it's probably 330 is his slugging percentage. But he hits you 300 and he'll get you on base and he'll steal bases. He's a guy that always makes his spot. Willie McGee's another one. Maybe I just like Willie's. Willie McGee of that era, again, speedster, kind of funny looking. Great years of the Cardinals. Vince Coleman. I just, I love that era. Those guys definitely make me smile. You can say Willie McCovey as well.

This is a great game. This is a good one. This is a good one. The Cubs won in 2007 is bothering me. Uh-huh. The Mets in 2005 is bothering me. The Yankees in 2009, I should know. I'm trying to figure that one out. Five seconds. The Mets in 2005 is the year we took Delgado. Who the hell did they sign? Was CeCe number five in 2009? Wow! He keeps the game alive! No!

No. I was off by how many years? Seven? Oh, no. Yeah. All right, I'm eliminated. Oh, God, I'm panicking. And had you not guessed that, I don't know that I would have. Because can I tell you what my thinking was? I was trying to figure out if one of these was a Randy Johnson deal. It's not the clock yet. But...

Randy Johnson didn't sign in 2001 or 2002 because we would have seen him in the World Series in 2003 against the Marlins. So I knew that Randy wasn't there yet. And I wasn't sure if CeCe was there in 2009. I'm trying to think of the Yankees who were in 2002 and 2001. That means they were on the 0-3 team. That's what I've been trying to figure out. I can think of one, but he didn't get paid that amount.

So a moment to reset here. No, you don't get extra time. You've had time. You're on the clock. I'm the host. We're through six rounds thus far. David has been eliminated with three strikes. Both Billy and I have two strikes. So we're both just kind of trying to stay alive here. All right. Start the clock. Looking at these. So the Rockies one is bothering me. I have it. 2001. The $189 million. Five seconds.

Is that? Can I get back in the game? Is that Derek Jeter? Derek Jeter is number three. Yes! 189. Was number six Nomar Garcia-Para? Yeah.

That's the game. Strike three. That's the game. Ball game over. Is number 17 Kevin Brown? It was Kevin Brown. Wow. Kevin Brown. 99 with the Dodgers. Yeah, please let us know the rest of the answers here that we have not landed. I'll go through the full list for you guys. 160 from the Red Sox in 2001. Manny Ramirez. 136 in 2007 from the Cubs.

Alfonso Soriano. Oh, I almost guessed Soriano. 126 in 2007 from the Giants, Barry Zito. Wow. 121 in 2001 from the Rockies, Mike Hampton. They immediately got it. Whoa. They immediately got it. Mike Hampton. I didn't pay that deal. Mike Hampton. Wow. Lay that off on three teams. 120 from the Yankees in 2002, Jason Giambi coming off his MVP season. Oh, wow.

I wouldn't have got that. 119 in 2005 from the Mets, Carlos Beltran. Oh. And as David mentioned, the Dodgers gave Kevin Brown 105 in 19. Wow, that was amazing. That's spectacular. And the Griffey contract, which is pretty amazing, just ended. It just ended. Major League Baseball, baby. Happy Bobby Bonilla Day to those who celebrate. Already happened earlier. God, do I hate losing. It ruins my week. This was fun. ♪

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