🎧BJHH: 178 - The Drill Zone
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This week Nick is mildly distracted by some drilling going on somewhere in his building—don’t worry, it was very infrequent and barely noticeable when it did happen—as we rather coincidentally spend much of the episode talking about drilling of the baseball variety!
As in: we discussed how Kevin Gausman pitched a gem to lead the Jays to a series win in Cleveland on Thursday, despite having intentionally put himself in trouble to send some kind of a message about Guardians pitchers throwing at Vladimir Guerrero Jr. by throwing at their own star man, José Ramírez, to lead off the bottom of the fourth inning, with the Jays only just up 3-0.
We also talked about how the pros and cons of the incident were discussed both online and on the broadcast—a lot of which actually reminded me of yet another “dril.”
PLUS: A quasi-traditional vibe check, thoughts on the Robinson Piña/Colin Murray trade, rating Jays relievers based on our current confidence levels, and a whole lot more!
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AND! If you’re a paid subscriber to the site here, and you’re not so into listening to podcasts, you can check out a transcript of the episode at the bottom of this post.*
*(An unedited transcript that is, which… if you check it out I think you’ll immediately see exactly why I’m choosing not to deal with cleaning up that mess. But I think it’s legible enough that you’ll get the gist, should for some reason you want it.)
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