Are you one of these guys that cares about the MVP in baseball?

No.

Yeah.

Okay.

I mean, I think it's neat if you win it.

I think it's cool if you're following it.

The whole Raleigh judge thing is neat.

Well, yeah, because that's what I was going to bring up.

So I don't normally care about the MVP.

I really don't.

But this one is just interesting because, one, I mean, judge is involved. Of course. And two, this Cal Ralee season is historic. No doubt. So it feels a little bit different than your average. And I feel like, I mean, Aaron Judge has got to be like, well, hell, man, I had to deal with Shohei Otani when he was with the Angels and deal with this nonsense with the MVP of a guy doing something. There's never done anything before. I should have been winning those. And now I've got to deal with this guy as a switch hitting catcher. Which is happening in a historic season. It's never, ever been happening before. Quite unique. I should have five MVP's. but yeah I just to me even if you go through like all the numbers

and people have and i'll spare everybody and Aaron judge leads the world and everything

uh but home runs and rbis at Cal Raleigh has but if like this special season that he's having

at that position as a switch hitting catcher that hit more home runs as a switch hiter than Mickey Mantle and now holds that record.

He deserves it.

Yeah.

And the fact that Seattle is going to be in the playoffs.

Like that's the thing, you know, the first question you asked me very innocently was, do you care about the MVP?

And I would say i probably go back to

know from all the years of guys winning it when it was really the best player award as opposed to most

valuable you just can't be that valuable on a team that stinks it just doesn't matter it's kind of like

the old uh ralph kiner contract negotiation going in for a raise and the owner says you know we, we've lost 100 games with you, we'll lose 100 games without you. Same thing. Like, how can you be the MVP of a bad team? It doesn't matter. In this case, you've got Raleigh really leading the charge on a team that's played very well and is going to be a postseason team. He deserves it. He does. Yeah, I mean, but the writers who vote on this they always go it's it's the i don't do they really use the valuable part of it they just go through the number it's the player of the year that's exactly what mvp is yeah it's just they go through the numbers and that's why judge will still have a chance because he's going to get a lot of votes because people are going to say, you know, OPS and this and that and everything else that there.

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