Straight to the people, Chad is batting leadoff, 97-1.

Chad, what's going on, pal?

How are you?

And Chad.

Hey, Mike Rico, I'm good.

How are you guys?

Good, man.

What's on your mind?

Hey, I just think you guys is like therapy for me coming home from the game today.

What a disaster.

But, hey, I want to talk about the genius of

AJ Hinch for a minute if I could. You know, I think there was a, I think it was a seventh inning today.

You had Colt Keith, who's arguably our hottest hitter right now coming up. What do you do?

You pinch hits for AJ's favorite player of all time, Andy Abagnas popped out the second. And you got Kerry Carpenter coming up. And he ground, John, I. Jones, pinch hits for him, double play ending the inning. Like, what do these kids have to do to prove to AJ that they can get left-handed pitch? Well, I think the weirdest part of it is this. What are we doing? is it that Riley Green gets to hit against lefties when he's atrocious the last month? And then you do take out the two best guys you got. And again, yeah, I've never understood that. No, I'm just saying, like, what's good for the goose is good for the gander. Now, at a certain point, you've got to let Kerry just go. But if you're going to pull them, it has to be for an option anyone cares about.

If I never see Andy Abagnas again, it'll be too soon.

And the Jemai Jones things, whether it's the mustache or not, I don't care. I don't ever want to look at them again. I've had enough. Here's the thing. I have more faith late in the game

would carry Carpenter up at bat

because I know that, you know what,

maybe something can happen.

But, Chad, here's the problem.

They're chaos it's almost been a seduction

because it has worked but when when it's going to stop working is the most important part of the

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