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Diamond notes, brush my London jewels. So I had the opportunity to do the twins and

the Blue J series. And I'm telling you, the analytics bent of baseball, it's just, it's

so mind-blowingly tone deaf. So Jose Barrios is dealing for three innings, dealing. He's

also a guy that you signed to a six year over a hundred million dollar contract before

last season. I'm going to be there for a long time. He's a good pitcher and had a really

good year. Three shut out innings in a, in a must win game. Now I knew something was

fishy when in the second inning that were warming up you say Kakuji. Then being very careful

with the guy who hit two home runs in game one, Royce Lewis, there's a long and bad hands

up walking Royce Lewis. They took him out in the fourth inning. Now I'm not even ripping

John Schneider because if John Schneider didn't do that, he loses job because that is, that's

ordered by the analytics people in the organization. This is what we're going to do. The second

time he goes through the order when the left handers come up, we're bringing in Kakuji.

That's it. We don't trust him to go second time through the order because he has bad

numbers against Luffy. So, you know, some people that were defending it today, well, you

know what, the numbers prove it out. You could take the numbers and stick them. You've got

to use your eyeballs. The guy was dealing and then you're asking a guy who's a starting

pitcher, you say Kakuji, to come in and a relief appearance, which he's not used to and

get people out. By the time the inning was over, two runs, ball game over, ball game over.

You know when that decision was made, that decision was made late at night, somebody's

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