So it's exciting, and Sprode will be up here Sunday.

I just strategically-wise didn't love the fact that McLean's going to face the Phillies again.

Yeah, I mean, you said that yesterday, and I get it.

But sometimes don't you want that early test against one of the best teams in the league, but also in the division?

And if he passes it, it almost feels like now we truly can believe in him as being our future and now, eighth. I'm not worried about Monday or Tuesday. I'm more worried about a potential playoff series. Right. But I mean, if he pitches great on Monday or Tuesday, then it is what it is. You know that Nolan McLean is as advertised. Yeah. But that's it. I just don't want him seeing the Phillies multiple times.

That's not it at all. Evan, you've been pumping up the idea of seeing Tom Seaver face Jacob DeGroft Friday at City Field and you're upset because you have been sitting on this in one-down matchup. So that's dead now? Yeah. Yeah, that's dead now. Well, you think that has something to do with my opinion? Yes!

Will you still go to the game?

Yeah.

It's Jake's return.

There is one thing that No. Yeah. Yeah, that's a dead down. You think that has something to do with my opinion? Yes.

Will you still go to the game?

Yeah.

It's Jake's return. There is one thing that's going to cleanse... But will you... Keep going. Okay, there's one thing that's going to cleanse Evan Roberts. Jacob de Grom love a fair and fest, and it's that he wants to see Jacob deGrom and of city field and Evan's best hope at the next Jacob de Grom see him eye to eye and out duel him so that Nolan McLean has this moment that Evan can lean on and look at his scorebook 20 years ago and go, I was there and I hyped up the moment. The mojo transfers.

And he lost it.

He lost that moment.

And it's bothering Evan and Evan can't focus on anything else but that baseball-wise.

Because he doesn't...

Do you believe that it will ever happen again? Now, what'll happen here? Nolan McLean versus Jacob de Grombeck. Oh, no. That's never going to happen. Are you kidding me? They won't come back here for two more years. You've just been having fantasies about this. Well, I think it was really cool.

I mean, I said it to yesterday, it would be like Doc Facing Seaver.

It's kind of magical.

And I'll give about this. Well, I think it was really cool. I mean, I said it to yesterday. It'd be like Doc Facing Seaver. It's kind of magical. And I'll give you this. I'd be disappointed. But that's not the reason for my opinion. My opinion is based on a strategyery around a potential playoff series against the Phillies. You really think I'm putting a Friday night against the Rangers above that? Yes, because it is the Friday night that you have been talking about both on and off the air for weeks now.

You mapped out Jacob de Grom star before Bruce Boshi did.

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