Hey, everybody. Welcome to the Roto Wire Fantasy baseball podcast, Fred Zinke and Jeff Erickson. I combined our names to come up with Jinky. There, I'm having a hell of a morning. I sent the link to the stream yard room to a guest that I had on a Sunday's Sirius XM show. So it's like, oh, she's wondering, why did I get this random link? So that's always fun to start the day.

I'm having a morning.

I guess it's just one of those days.

So anyways, baseball, we're having a bad time.

Our teams had gut punch, excruciating losses to division rivals yesterday.

Up against the trade deadline, we're both of our teams are in that, okay, do we try to

contend? Do we try to make a trade mode? It's not looking good, Fred. No, I think the, I think the

Blue Jays can more easily say, let's just wait till next year. Like, they're going to have this

core for a long time. It's going to be back in Toronto for a full year next year. They could just say, we're going to roll with the team we've got. And if we come back, we come back. If we don't, we don't. The reds are a trickier situation because I'm not sure exactly where they're going and what their plan is. Like is, and can they,

they only have to catch one team.

That's a little different than Toronto.

Toronto is a little closer. The Reds are a little further, but they only have to catch one team. They just need the Brewers to go on a slide. Right. But I'm not sure exactly what the Reds plan is. You might have a better idea of that to me, But I don't see the Reds as like, I don't see them as rebuilding.

I don't know.

I don't see them.

I think they're stand padding is what they're going to do. I felt this way for a while. And then this week is only in enhance it. Nick Nac Castianos is on the IL. That's a big part of it. And they blew yet another lead yesterday. Uh, against it. They blew it a couple of times. You know, and that's a big part of it and they blew yet another lead yesterday against it they blew it a couple

of times uh you know and that that's a and part of it is that they got a rare bad start at a

wade mylie he he struggled yesterday he didn't go five against the cubs you're asking that bullpen

to do a lot and i don't i'm not mad at the pitchers involved i'm mad at the front office and

actually i'm more mad at ownership pitchers involved. I'm mad at the front office. And actually, I'm more mad at ownership that just, and I'll save you the rant because we've been there. But, you know, it's just you're asking guys like Joss Oshitz, Brad Brock and Keith Hembrie to carry a lot of water. And it's just they're not able to do that. I just can't.

Yep. The Cubs scored, I believe exactly one run in the seventh, eighth and ninth innings. Yep. On their way to that win. So just, just no one could come in and, you know, just have that one scoreless inning. It sounds so simple. Just come in and pitch one inning. Just don't give up any runs.

One guy could do that.

They would have at least gone to extras last night. So, yeah, I don't know. I don't know what the Reds will do. And I do think maybe my Blue Jays will add something, but I don't think it's going to be like a massive rental. Like I don't see Max Scherzer to toronto or something like that i seem going to l a or san diego yeah la i i think l a

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