Teams primed for a surge, AL MVP & Cy races, and 'Strike Three!'
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
The Athletic
4.7 • 873 Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Eno, Britt & DVR discuss the latest chapter of the sticky-substance enforcement saga before taking a look at the teams most likely to make a run to the postseason despite low playoff odds. Plus, the trio discusses the AL MVP and Cy Young Award races, before DVR indulges his lifelong dream of being a gameshow host by introducing 'Strike Three!'.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and barrels brought to you by Tops and Tops Project 70. |
| 0:23.4 | Check out Tops Project 70 today. Amazing new cards launching each and every day. Derek Van Riper here with Enosaris and Britt Joroli. |
| 0:29.0 | And yes, we are sick of sticky substances. We're absolutely fed up and tired of them, but they're |
| 0:35.4 | not going away, as we said on the Wednesday pod. |
| 0:38.9 | Britt, you had another great story up earlier in the day on Thursday. |
| 0:43.6 | And I just want to get right at it because we're a little short on time today. |
| 0:47.6 | I'm just curious in the latest story that you wrote, did you feel like the players association actually wanted to talk to the |
| 0:57.7 | league? Because the league insists that there were multiple efforts made to have a dialogue about |
| 1:02.4 | these changes and the implementation of these changes. And yet, for some reason, the players are |
| 1:07.3 | acting as though that never happened, which is just very bizarre. |
| 1:16.6 | Yeah, I feel like, and Eno can back me up on this as well, you call the union, they tell you one thing, you call MLB, they tell you another. |
| 1:19.5 | The truth probably lies somewhere in the middle, but based on what we're hearing, it does |
| 1:25.4 | seem clear that, listen, the union represents |
| 1:28.0 | hitters and pitchers. |
| 1:29.5 | And if there's anything we know over this huge stretch of sticky stuff, it's that hitters are |
| 1:34.9 | upset. |
| 1:35.6 | Some pitchers are upset, too. |
| 1:37.0 | So I think it's tough for the union to sit there and say, we need to protect our pitchers |
| 1:42.8 | when half of the union is made up of guys who are like, hey, wait a second, these guys need to get punished. So it's this weird spot to be in. And I almost feel like the union may be defaulted and was like, well, we're just going to sit here and wait and see how this unfolds. And MLB was like, well, I thought you were going to give us some suggestions. I thought you were going to fight us on this a little bit more. |
| 2:03.0 | So it was kind of like round and round we go, right? |
| 2:05.6 | And if your head doesn't hurt or ready from this stuff, then you're probably not consuming |
| 2:11.0 | enough sticky stuff stories because my head guys absolutely pounding. |
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