Talking the Biggest Midseason MLB Headlines with Craig Mish

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00:00You see him on Newswire, he's the legendary Scoop Mish, and he also does Marlins games on TV.

00:09He's very famous down in South Florida with all the old ladies.

00:13I used to be hated by those same old ladies when I lived in South Florida, and all the old men.

00:19They all hated me.

00:20I think the Herald called me Satan at one point, but I look good in the picture, I thought, the day that they called me Satan.

00:27I thought I really had a glow to me.

00:29Anyway, Craig, it's good to see you.

00:31A lot of sweeps in baseball over the weekend.

00:35I'd say the one that excited me the most, to be honest with you, was what the Brewers did to the Phillies.

00:41I actually heard boo birds out all weekend at the bank, and I was enjoying it, actually.

00:49Biggest surprise was seeing the, I mean, it depends on how you feel about the category war,

00:54but Jesus Lozardo of the Phillies had the number one war for all pitchers in the National League going into that series.

01:02He gave up 13 runs in one game, but, Scott, it's really hard to identify a lonely series in May or June

01:10and think that that's a precursor to anything else.

01:13I guess the only thing is we've got to look at Milwaukee as a team that's just never going to go away.

01:17I mean, this is two years in a row.

01:18You look right before this seven-game winning streak that they went on, and everyone's like,

01:22ah, they're done.

01:22The Cubs are there.

01:23The Cardinals are ahead of them.

01:25Now, all of a sudden, the Brewers are right there again.

01:27It just doesn't matter who the manager is or who the talent is on that team.

01:30The Brewers are in it every year.

01:31So, my biggest takeaway from them is just never count the Brewers out.

01:34Yeah, and, you know, the Cardinals have won tons of games, but yet they're still four deep of the Cubs.

01:41Have you been surprised by the Northsiders and Crow Armstrong in particular,

01:46who's put his name on a map this year, not only with his bat, but, boy, is he something else in center field?

01:55Yeah, at this point, I think you probably – I know the odds will stay maybe Kyle Tucker has a better chance to win the MVP,

02:01although Ohtani, as long as he's there, he's probably going to win it.

02:04But I would say that Pete Crow Armstrong probably should be number two in the National League.

02:08And, look, the Cubs have made some really savvy moves over the last couple of years.

02:13They're doing this without Imanaga, who's been hurt, too.

02:16So, I definitely think they'll be in the mix, and I think that the Cardinals probably look like the most overrated team

02:21through the first two months of the season.

02:23I cannot imagine that they're going to continue to play this kind of baseball.

02:27And, quite frankly, Scott, this is not the direction that they thought that they would be in this year.

02:31So, I do expect some huge regression to come back from them in the second half.

02:34And I think if they're going to trade players, time is probably coming up pretty soon for them.

02:39So, the Mets beat the Dodgers, right, in two of three at Citi Field, I think, in late May.

02:45And now they start up out in Chavez Ravine, a big four-game series tonight.

02:52And they've won – they just swept the Rockies, and they've won eight of ten.

02:56And how do you think they'll do out on the West Coast against them?

03:00I was watching – and talking to Carver, hi, I was watching the Yankees and Dodgers, you know,

03:06kind of over the weekend and watching them last night.

03:08And they're tough customers.

03:11They're hard to beat.

03:12I couldn't believe they beat Yamamoto.

03:14How do you think the Mets do this time out West as opposed to beating them twice at Citi?

03:19Well, you know, Scott, I don't know if you saw the news about a half hour ago.

03:23The Major League Baseball made the announcement that those three wins against the Rockies

03:27only count for half a win each.

03:29So, I don't know if that's going to affect the upcoming series against the Dodgers, 9-50.

03:38All right, so –

03:38Are you doing stand-up now on the side, too, down there?

03:42What is happening?

03:43It's been a while since we've been on.

03:44Mafia gave me some topics.

03:46I said, you know what, I'm going to build a comedy show around it.

03:48But, no, there are some teams that can go toe-to-toe with L.A., the Phillies, the Mets.

03:54I would have thought the Braves, honestly, with their pitching, too.

03:57But, look, it shouldn't be a surprise that the Mets can fight with some of the best teams in the league.

04:02They have the second-highest payroll in baseball.

04:04So, yeah, I mean, I think it'll be a really good series.

04:07You just have to wonder, you know, from a betting perspective, honestly,

04:10coming off the weekend that the Dodgers just had against the Yankees,

04:13how they may respond against the Mets.

04:16That was kind of their pinnacle of the season, winning two out of three.

04:19So, I give the Mets a good shot this week.

04:21So, a lot of people, I thought as well, that Arizona was going to be tougher than they are.

04:27They're kind of falling apart.

04:30I saw the Pirates beat them up for 19 runs in two days.

04:34I saw Gallen get lit up.

04:37I mean, this is a problem, right?

04:40Like, this team was kind of loaded with pitchers and now burns his elbow.

04:45Is he not – did he not just say Saturday he blew his elbow out?

04:50It sounds like it.

04:51That could be something that they're not going to be able to overcome.

04:55I know they signed Eduardo Rodriguez a couple of years ago.

04:58He's been in and out, on and off the injured list.

05:00He'll come back, obviously.

05:02And, you know, they haven't had burns in the past, and they still did well.

05:06To me, that was one of the teams that I looked at and said that they underachieved through the first couple of months.

05:10And I still do like their team, and I like their organization.

05:13But losing burns, if this is a season-long thing, and I'm not sure that it is.

05:17Obviously, it's hard to speculate with the arm and stuff like that.

05:20But I don't – there's no replacing that guy.

05:22Just ask the Orioles, right?

05:23So, yeah, it remains to be seen if Arizona can get it done.

05:27I still think that, to me, the Diamondbacks are better than the Giants.

05:31I just don't know if they're better than the Padres.

05:33That would be the team that they'll have to fight back and forth with.

05:37What do you think of Bubik and what Scoobal were used to?

05:43And Scoobal is getting better than ever.

05:45I saw Greg Maddox talking about him in an article about how he's just getting better and better

05:50and learning that it's not just one Cy Young.

05:53He might win more of them.

05:54And what do you think of this kid Bubik in Kansas City?

05:57He's been great, too.

05:58Royal Staff is really good.

05:59They get Caglione up now, and that's the big story of baseball today.

06:02How good can he be?

06:04The Royals did not wait any longer.

06:06June 1st, they called him up.

06:0712-1 to win the Rookie of the Year, Scott, without playing a game in the first two months?

06:11Are you kidding me?

06:13Right?

06:14So, he was fantastic in AAA, right?

06:17Like, his numbers are staggering.

06:20Let me repeat myself.

06:21He has not played a game.

06:23We're two months into the season, and FanDuel makes him 12-1 this morning because he's gotten called up.

06:28Help me understand this.

06:29He has the second-shortest odds to win the Rookie of the Year of the American League.

06:33Jacob Wilson of the A's has played two months.

06:35He's hitting .320.

06:36I mean, it just tells you how the book's got to protect themselves, I guess.

06:40But, I mean, can a guy come up in June and win Rookie of the Year?

06:44I mean, you've got to be kidding me.

06:47Stenga's got a nice ERA as well.

06:49I like watching him pitch.

06:51And Cam and Arrow, the guy the other night, how about that guy?

06:54Four for five, two home runs, 12 total bases.

06:57I mean, the guy's freaking out.

06:59Craig, congrats on the gig.

07:00I know you're doing great, calling Marlon's game.

07:03Now you're doing stand-up comedy.

07:05It's incredible.

07:06I hear that you're a quitter in the fantasy leagues.

07:08You gave up that because you're making so much money doing all this other stuff.

07:11Newswire's number one.

07:13Congratulations on all of it.

07:14I won't tell anyone I know that you're a quitter.

07:16I won't tell anyone I know that you're a quitter.

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