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So you can consume all of that in one convenient location, however, and whenever you please. Ladies and gentlemen and beautiful family people joining me for episode number 255 of the Talking Align podcast, I am your humbled, honored, hyped, and always Andy Gaffin, host Colton, Gaffin Colton, and I can't thank you enough for choosing to stop by, hang out, not get any pics today, but plenty of insights, plenty of analysis, and dive into more than our fair share of rabbit holes. Now my friends, nothing major to recap from yesterday, I didn't dish out any pics on the show, so you know what's coming here today, it's the American League Special Edition, baby, the MLB American League Special Edition to be specific or Pacific or if you're a little dyslexic there, I am, so it's all right, lisdexic, no big deal, we'll roll the boat together. Now my friends, pretty much the same thing as yesterday, we're gonna go through the 2021 sessions, I'll look through all of that, I'll dis those out for you, so like I said yesterday, you guys don't have to go search on the internet web trying to find all last year's trends before tomorrow's scramble, hey, you've always spent some time in the lab, last few days finding these numbers for you, so you don't have to search for them, so that'll be the first segment, second segment, pardon me, no, frog in the old throat, excuse me, the second segment, we'll give it to pitching rotations, everything, because like I said yesterday, that's where you make your money betting on MLB, whether it's first five, whether it's K-Props, whether it's just starting your handicapping process, looking at the pitching match up for any given day is going to tell you a lot of boatload, a shit tonne, brings trucks backed up to your facility wherever you're betting about that match up, so we're gonna go through all of that because I know a lot of people haven't been talking about it, they've been talking about offense and wind totals, and I really don't give a damn, I'm trying to catch tickets every single day, not wait 162 games to catch something out, so my personal preference, we'll move into the third segment of the day, which will be a little future action, we'll talk about the division winners, obviously I'll go east central west just like I did yesterday, I'll give you kind of the breakdown of the odds and then my opinions, where my heads are at, where my heads are at, well shit, where my head is at, and then also get into the American League winner as well, I'll talk about that, goodness gracious, no can be cornered since we're talking about the AL, but I do believe I'm gonna have a cornered, become a thing, we'll kind of slide it in there with the crypto corner, whatever, maybe it turns into a blog, I don't know, but you didn't come here for all that nonsense, you came here for the stone cold insights and now it's everything in between, so I'll dive into it here for you, I'm looking forward to it, I'm hyped up to date to talk everything AL, but before we do, yeah I need my sipping, you probably probably do too, so regardless, whatever time you're tuning into the show here, hey to me, and to all of the sipping on the black elixir, the gods on this gorgeous, Wednesday, MLB, Wednesday, almost MLB Wednesday, betting Wednesday, terrific Wednesday, take your sip, I'll be right back.
Oh, Lord have mercy, whoa, mm-hmm, ha, okay, I'm gonna have to come back to that a couple times, y'all gonna have to excuse me a few more times with that, but as for now, let's get started for a second of the day my friends with the 2021 American League trends, that's right, we're going to the past for just a short brief period, and we're looking at last year, I'm kind of telling you what I expect, just briefly some of these teams are maybe something I expect going into this season, so again we'll start straight up, then we're working to run line, then we're working at the over under trends, we'll do best and worst for the both of them as well, I realized I kind of goofed up yesterday, there's 15 teams, I guess I didn't really goof up on the NL, it would have been kind of redundant, so I ended up doing it the right way I think, but I think I left out a team, one team a couple times, so ignore me, I made sure not to do that today, so let's get into straight up first of all, I'm gonna do best and worst, obviously again, we're gonna do top eight and then bottom seven here for straight up, since there is 15, and that's kind of where the split was, leading off in straight up leaders, first place in the American was Tampa Bay 101 and 65 straight up record Houston, 104 in 74, Boston 98 and 75, the White Sox 94 and 72, Yankees 92 and 71, the Louges, 91 and 71, really got hot once they finally had an opportunity to go back and play up there in Canada, Seattle, I forgot they finished with a 91 season, 92 for the Mariners, I'm back on the train, I don't care what anybody says, and Oakland Athletics 86 and 76, I'm gonna have a lot of opinions actually to tell you guys about Oakland, that picture rotation kind of scares me this year, they lost Manaya, there's a lot of question marks, man, I got a lot to talk about with the A's because they were one of my favorite teams to bet F5 with last year, so and they lost Chris Bassett, so there's a lot to talk about, so bottom seven straight up in the American, I'm gonna go worst to best, if there was a best worst, if that's how you want to look at it, Baltimore 52 with 110, Texas 60 and 102 straight up, Minnesota 73 and 89, Kansas City 74 and 88, Detroit 77 and 85, Los Angeles Angels 77 and 85, goodness gracious, with that started line up and the Cleveland now guardians formerly the Indians 80 and 72, well I remember that I'm sure there'll be a few broadcasters that messed that up a couple of times, but they are now officially the guardians 80 and 82 for them boys last year, so there's your straight up trends, I kind of think we see some teams that I think we see stay the same or maybe a little bit of improvement, Seattle, I'm really tuning in on, I am talking a lot, we'll talk about Toronto as we roll out through the day here, I'm a big fan of the Blue Jays and what they got going on over there for sure, Boston, I'm interested in, especially with that star, started line up, shout out Jeff Dawson, I'm sure you're spurked up here, me say that if you're tuning in for the 98 and 75, I think they can get to at least 100 win season, but they're gonna have to depend a lot on that starting fishing rotation, so I'll talk about that a lot in depth, and then I don't know, speaking of pitching, if Baltimore can get some shit together as far as that goes and John Means can stay healthy this year, I don't know, maybe Baltimore's got something going on, I'll talk about that more in depth, but let's stick with the trends for now and move it into the run line my friends, we'll go top 7 in bottom 8 this time around for the run line, starting things off again Tampa Bay, leading the pack in the American League, 98 and 68 to the run line last year, you gotta imagine a lot of those were with them as minus 1.5, what is that song, oh that I was gonna do the Rose Arena Mocorana, but I can't remember the whole damn thing unless I look at the words, oh hey Pablo, Tori, I'm coming for you my man, don't you worry, I'll have those lyrics out soon enough, but for now let's keep it rolling, I can't wait to see right to do some stuff, be able to sing the Rose Arena Mocorana and have the usual Pablo Tori back and forth that I do throughout the MLB season, it's a blast, love you Pablo, appreciate you doing all your content, Detroit Tigers, 95 and 67 to the run line last year, I will tell you I cast a shitload of tickets on Tigers, a lot of them were at plus 1.5 for sure, or even the books would be given you plus 2.5 and I'd buy down to the plus 1.5, similar to what I told you last yesterday's episode about the D-Backs, teams would be throttling them through the first 6.7 innings and then they'd just give up and toss in the end of the bench guy in the open and you'd give up 3.4 runs and then you'd be like oh that's why that guy has an 11.98 ERA, well that makes all types of sense, so I really think that's what we see again this year, I'm not saying Detroit's gonna be bad by any means, I'm actually really excited to talk about them here today as we get a little bit further on, but as far as the records go here, continuing to steam on, Seattle again, 92 and 70 to the run line last year, third best in the American League, a lot of those that plus 1.5, Cleveland 88 and 74, Toronto 86 and 76, Boston 91 and 82, and Oakland 85 and 72, and then we're going to the bottom eight here again, worst to best, Minnesota 66 and 96 to the run line, a lot of those times they were overvalued at minus 1.5 is the reason for that, Baltimore 70 and 92, Angels 74 and 88 overvalued, again I really hope to see that team put stuff together this year, especially with the names that they have on that team, but we'll talk about that more in depth here shortly, Texas 74 and 88 as well, so when the Angels and the Rangers have the exact same run line record, kind of something you might want to scratch your head say, hey, how you doing? That's typically not how that should go. Yankee 76 and 87 to the run line, Astros 86 and 92, White Sox 82 and 84 and the Royals, a dead even 81 and 81 to the run line last year. We'll move into the over-unders real quick and then we'll start talking teams, talking pitching rotations, everything in between, a lot more overs in the American League than the National League.
I told you yesterday, there is a lot of pitcher friendly ballparks in the National League, a lot of ballparks where some of those, there's a lot of lefties in the regardless, there's a lot of guys in the League that like to hit the same size. It's ridiculous how many times guys just don't hit Oppo. Like I just, I don't understand it. They get paid so much money.
They just don't hit Oppo. They just can only hit to the same side of the field. I just don't understand it. Regardless, there is many, many, many, many, many more pitcher friendly parks for those type of hitters in the National League.
In the American League, it just seems like there's warmer weather, there's more domes, balls popping off the bats a lot more, thus you're seeing more unders. We only are more overs. We only had four over teams to talk about yesterday. We got eight today, Minnesota, 86, 67 and nine last year to the over, used to 95, 75 and eight, angels 87, 72 and three, Tampa Bay 86, 72 and eight, Cleveland 85, 72 and five, Seattle 83, 75 and four interesting, there, Texas 78, 74 and 10 and Baltimore 79, 77 and six to the over.
As far as the unders go, it wasn't like it was outlandish for some of them. It kind of was kind of the bottom four here, but then once you get into the five, six and seven in the worst to the best year, or I guess the best of the worst one that comes to the unders, sorry if I'm confusing you all the map, these are all to the Detroit to the under last year was 88, 68 and six. So these are the best under teams in the American League Detroit 88, 68 and six to the under Yankees 89, 69 and five to the under blue jes 84, 69 and nine and the royals 82, 68 and 12, a little bit better, not a severe white socks 83, 73 and 10 to the under last year, Oakland 83, 74 and five and Boston the old red socks 87, 82 and four to the under last season. How's it going?
How's it going? How's it going? How about that? What do you know?
All of the 2021 trends, what a perfect time for it to be going right by my, oh, right by my dome piece. Sometimes I forget which way I'm going here. Before we keep it moving, keep it moving because I'm vibing right now. I'm feeling real, real good.
We take a quick sip and we'll keep it steaming. Yeah, that's quality. That's quality. We continue to scoop on the toppings to this proverbial podcast Sunday with the second segment of the American League special edition.
The 2022 AL pitching rotations breakdown and analysis. Just like yesterday, we're going all 15 teams in the AL will break it down every single one of the pitching rotations. I'm telling you if we're fading them, I'm telling you the guys that we're going to be able to find value on. I'm telling you if I don't have a dang clue in hell, I got to see what this kid does.
So we start things off in the East. First things first, Toronto Blue Jays. We got Jose Barrios, Kevin Gosman, Hung Jin, Ryu, Alec Minoa and you say Kakuchi. This might be my favorite pitching rotation in the entire American League.
Kakuchi comes over from Seattle for last year and just absolute from last year and makes this dog on rotation look great. You'll also notice Gosman comes over from San Francisco and makes this lineup or this rotation look even better. I think that they have plenty of firepower up and down it. Barrios is dominant.
He looked good from Minnesota last year now that he comes over from there. This is all pretty much revamped. Hyung Jin, Ryu and Alec Minoa are the only two that stayed. Obviously, we saw Ryu have struggles from time to time last year.
But I think he corrects those and I think Alec Minoa, he does his thing again. I mean, that boy is nasty. I think he comes out again. Again, Toronto might be one of my favorite pitching rotation.
I think we can find a boatload of value here for first fives early on in games early on in the season. Next one up, New York Yankees. We got Gary Cole. Everybody knows him doing Montgomery, Luis Severino, Jameson Talon and Nestor Cortez.
All of these guys honestly have shown flaws and like, I don't know, I mean, they're good names. Like, I'm not gonna tell you they're not. But like, I don't know what Gary Cole is like post Spider-Tac post all of this shit. Like, you gotta remember guys like, that was still a big thing last year.
And like, I know it got swept under the rug, but like, I went to a couple games live in Primetime towards the end of the season when it really wasn't a big conversation piece and the checks and everything were still happening and players were still getting shitty about it. So, I don't know if what Gary Cole is post that, this new MLB and like, join my company. I mean, sure, he showed flashes last year, but wasn't somebody that I saw him on the bump. I'm not going to tell you, I wasn't looking at the other team trying to pick up a plus a half if they were a dog because I figured that he would at least give up a runner too in some spot.
Severino, okay, for sure. Talon, I think about the same as Montgomery and then Nestor Cortez, yeah, he shows flashes, he bangs out from time to time, but he just doesn't feel like that stamina pitcher to me. He's not gonna go six, seven, eight innings like some of these other guys can and then you're gonna get deep in your bullpen. And I don't know, the Yankees, the Yankees rotation, I know I got some Yankees fans out there in the timeline and stuff that might hate me saying this, but I'm not a big fan of the Yankees rotation this year.
And I think they get themselves into trouble early on in the season. I don't know that that that offense is gonna be enough to keep them in contention here early on, but I'll be crazy. It's all called speculation right now. Next one up Tampa Bay of the old race.
Now I'm 50-50 on this. We got McLean and Shane McLean and Corey Kluber, Drew Rasmussen, Ryan Yarbrough and Luis Petino. Petino, I could go either way on. It's a coin flip if he's gonna show up one day to the next.
Yarbrough, I'm good with. I could get down with him pretty much every five positions. Drew Rasmussen showed a lot last year in the F5s. I think McLean and comes in and then being kind of looking like he's gonna be their ace and their lefty ace at that.
Corey Kluber obviously was not the best, definitely didn't have the best year of his entire career last year in New York. I mean, he started the year off the season and then just kind of cool off towards the season. So kind of, Drew, he's still out as to what Corey Kluber's gonna be here in a race uniform, but I like this lineup. I definitely think we're gonna be able to find plenty of value on McLean and hand.
Keep Rasmussen and Yarbrough in the back of your minds as well because I really think they're gonna have some F5 value, especially if they're playing somebody like a division rival, like a Boston or like a Toronto or something as we get a couple of weeks down here. They might come in as a dog, but a very short dog. You might get one of those Rasmussen and Yarbrough first five plus a half at like minus 130 minus 140. And that's some chalk that you can afford to eat on that.
And it's a fun thing about for you there. Next one up sticking in the East. We got the Boston Red Sox, Boston. Boston for the mid-day market report.
Shout out Jeff Dawson. Nathan Yavaldi, Nick Pavetta, Tanner, how Michael Waka in Rich Hill was interesting to see Michael Waka head on over here after being in Tampa Bay. I don't know. And being in St.
Louis for so long, that just seems to me like Tampa Bay is like, Hey, yeah, here, have him. You want him to go right on ahead. Yavaldi struggles from time to time, but I got faith in him. Pavetta kind of the same.
I mean, these guys are solid rich hill too. Like these guys can be solid, but they've shown more flaws as of late than not. And I don't know, sometimes you feel really, really confident in them. You feel like you're able to get involved with Yavaldi and Oh, Pavetta, no problem.
We can get on him. And then all of a sudden he allows three in the first inning and you're sweating, sweating, sweating your yones off for the next four innings, hoping that the boys can put a couple on the board. Now, I don't know, I'm gonna have to see what shakes out. I'm gonna see because I truly believe that's what this rotation is going to be again.
And I'm a little bit worried about the Red Sox. I don't know exactly what shakes out, but we'll see as the season rolls on you. I'm a little worried about from that perspective, not necessarily from an offensive perspective, but, uh, or that rotation get a little big to get themselves a little bit of trouble. But moving right along into the next team, the Baltimore Orioles, we got John Means, joined Lyle's Bruce Zimmerman, Zach and Lother in Tyler Wells.
Lother in Wells, I can't really tell you one way or another. Hopefully John Means can stay healthy this year. Obviously, he pitched that no, no last year, got the name for himself, started dealing and then Spider-Tac, no, no, came down and then everybody started getting hurt. So I don't know exactly what's gonna, what he's gonna look like here.
I'm pretty sure what's Tommy John. I don't know exactly, but I don't always gonna look like here post that surgeon, everything. I'm hoping he comes back looking as good as he did. Bruce Zimmerman looked good last year, showed flashes.
You could back him in certain spots, just takes the right opportunity against the right team. He was really good against lefties if I'm not mistaken being a righty. But all I'd be said, joined Lyle's, I'm not over the map either, or over the moon, I guess either. I'm pretty sure he was with the Rangers last year.
That sounds right. I didn't look too deep into that because I just, it didn't jump off the board of me. Obviously, the Baltimore Orioles are at the bottom of everybody's list. I like finding value on them from time to time just because they do go under everybody's radar or even on everybody's fade radar.
And from time to time, you can really find a lot of value on the over in games that the Orioles are involved in simply because I've said it a couple times already now today, a team will throttle them for the first five, six innings. And then they'll quit playing. Well, the Orioles aren't going to quit playing, especially in front of their home fans. So then they just start pipping bombs off these meatballs and get left over the heart of the plate.
And the next thing you know, you went over in the seventh inning after you thought it was going to be an under all the way. So some of the thing about their little bit of additional perspective, because not the best team to bet on by any means. Next one up, there's the first five. That is the East.
Let's move into the Central, my friends. The wrong side of town. But hey, what are you going to do? Chicago White Sox.
They got Lance Lindback this year. Lucas Gileto and Dylan Sees looks to be moving up, Keiko and Kopek. Keiko obviously has started in the past. It looks like Kopek is going to be solidified as a starter as well.
Don't quote me on it. I don't know exactly what's all going on. But no, no real staunch opinions. Obviously, I love betting and back in Lindy, Lido and Sees.
Honestly, sometimes I like Fade and Sees. You'll see me talk about it throughout this entire season. There'll be some key spots where it is okay to fade Sees and the White Sox might end up winning that game. But the first five is going to be really, really shaky because of the arsenal that Sees is throwing in the batters that are going to be going against him.
So a little bit something to think about there, but no real staunch opinions as of right now on the White Sox. Definitely will be gachist to take a ton of the line. I mean, I want him to win being on the North side, but I'll tell you what, when they catch me, take a time and give a damn. There are rivals, Minnesota Twins.
I'm a little bit, not a little bit, I'm a lot of bit worried about the Minnesota Twins. Sunny Gray, Dylan Bundy, Bailey Oberge, Joe Ryan and Lewis Thorpe. I can't tell you or point out of a crowd, Joe Ryan or Lewis Thorpe. Bailey Ober had his issues last year.
Dylan Bundy was not with the angels and Sonny Gray moving from the Central with Cincinnati now to the American over here with Minnesota. I don't know, it's probably one of my least favorite rotations in all of the American League right now. I don't have a whole bunch of faith in this one. I'd love for them to surprise me.
But honestly, all these guys last year, if I saw them as an opposing pitcher and a team that I wanted to get involved with, I was looking to fade them in the first five. So just got a little food for thought there, but definitely going to have to be waiting to see exactly what these guys do. Moving on, a big fan of this rotation, actually, a lot of people fade the team. A lot of people don't like, obviously they're one of the bottom of the barrel.
I don't even want to say bottom of the barrel, they're just not one of the greater team. Detroit Tigers, it is what it is. But man, they got a rotation that you can back, especially when the books have to make them dogs, like the books have to make them dogs, like they can't make them favors. They just can't do it.
And then especially because of that, in the first five, they always end up getting plus a half and it's like they always end up tying the son of a bitch or being up and then in the sixth inning and then the rest of the game, they just let it completely slip away. So they got a water Rodriguez, Casey Mys coming back, Tyreeks gooble and Matt Manning coming back and then Tyler Alexander, my scuba and Manning are all three going to be able to catch you tickets. Most specifically Mys, Casey Mys point blank period is the best pitcher in this rotation. I don't really know why a water Rodriguez is getting the number one.
I mean, he's cool, he's a good pitcher, but I truly believe that Casey Mys is ace in this rotation. You're going to be able to catch plenty of tickets on him if you keep your ears with the streets on him when he's getting starts in, especially like I said, if he's getting an F5 plus a half minus 130 minus 140 hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer, hammer, as hard as you possibly can. That is a money making machine, my friends. Next team up, Kansas City Royals.
I was actually surprised. I didn't know this until I started doing some research into the American here. Zach Grinky is now the ace of the Kansas City Royals. Had no idea that that was a thing, but now he is officially in action.
Zach Grinky, Brady Singer, Brad Keller, Chris Boobich and Carlos Hernandez, Singer and Keller Boobich, they also showed flashes last year, but just not enough to keep their teams in the game or keep the rules in the game. And then Carlos Hernandez, I am not over the moon on whatsoever. So it was kind of wild to see. Frankie go to Kansas City with me and Houston for so long.
I guess kind of bouncing around. I don't know exactly what's going on there, but hey, we'll we'll see what's going on if he if he can do some work for the Royals. Now moving right along into the next central team. Before we move to the West, the last central team here up on tap, Cleveland Guardians.
And this might be one of my other favorite rotations in all of the American League right now. They got Shane Bieber, Zach Klee, Zach Calcantrell, Aaron Savali and Tristan McKenzie. That is five star studded guys. And I think don't get enough credit.
Shane Bieber, solid is all hell. Please Zach spend a lot of the year last year injured. I think he comes back this year, absolutely dealing dominant as all hell. So I'm looking forward to that.
Calcantrell and Savali, they'll have a bumper to here. They're going to be the two guys that have a little bit higher ERA out of this group of guys. Now watch me say that and they come into 2022 and are just absolute nuclear power plants. They're going to book in my opinion, and what I've seen in the past, they're going to have a few more bumps than the rest of these guys.
And so we'll just make ends, but that doesn't mean that they're going to have a five, six ERA early on in the season or even carry one throughout the season. I think it's going to be three, four, max, maybe like a three, five, eight. I really, I really, really am a huge fan of these guardians rotation. So definitely something to keep in mind as you're looking at K-Props keeping an eye on first fives, everything in between.
Let's wrap it up with the last five. Then we'll talk to vision winners and League winners, and we'll get in the second half of the show. My friends started off with the Houston Astros, another solid dominant rotation, but they got some question marks right now. They got Justin Burlander coming back off of the injury last year.
Obviously the old dog thinks he's still got a few tricks he can dish out to the new pups coming in the batter's box. Then they got Lance McCullers, but Lance McCullers is injured. He did something with his flexor tendon in his forearm. And let me tell you, like, when you mess that thing up, like I've never messed it up, but I like, I've had that pain where it is before, and it is so nagging and annoying.
And like, all you do as a pitcher is obviously throw the ball. So like for, and McCullers is a deep guy. McCullers is a seven, eight. Like, if you get him in the first five, you might be able to bank on him going eight.
Like, he is a consistent dominant dude. So they're not going to risk anything on him. So they got to fill that position. Framerville des behind him.
You can obviously bank on Framber. Good five f five, ticket catcher for you there. Luis Garcia and Jake Oder Rizzi. Oder Rizzi.
I'm pretty sure, yeah, he was with Minnesota last year and had some, had some question marks. I don't know if that trade happened over the, over the year, if he was, if he was already there last year. I can't remember. But either way, how do you fan of the backup of the lineup?
Luis Garcia is okay, but the rotation rather, but the front half of the rotation, I'm a big fan of hopefully McCullers can get healthy sooner rather than later. And you definitely be able to catch tickets here on the front half. Next one up, the Los Angeles Angels. We got Shohei Otoni, Noah Cindergaard, Patrick Sandoval, Michael Lorenzen, Jose Suarez and Jaime Baria.
Baria. Sorry if I'm mispronouncing that, Mr Jamie or Jaime, I would imagine it's Jaime, but whatever. Hopefully I'm not pronouncing it wrong. Obviously Shohei Otoni is going to be the one, but he's going to be overvalued left, right and center.
Honestly, I just kind of a wait and see approach for me. I don't know exactly like Cindergaard, Sandoval, Lorenzen, Suarez, but like those are names, you know, those are names that are dominant, those are names that can be good, but I'm just not over the moon, whether or not they're actually going to be or not. So it's kind of a wait and see approach for me. Obviously it was a real, real, real fizzle out showing from the Angels.
They'll get Mike Trout back this year. We'll see what he looks like with Otoni as well. I'm really excited. I'm excited to have the Angels back to play in Angel Ball because you know, the MLB is a lot more fun when the Los Angeles Angels are good too.
You got two teams in LA, Duke in and out. So we'll see what happens. They didn't spend all that money on Shohei for no dog hunt reasons. So we'll see what happens with LA.
Quite possibly, my top three, this is probably rounds out my top three of favorite rotations in the American League and that's the Seattle Mariners. Robbie Ray, Marco Gonzalez, Chris Flexin, the legend of Flexin rides on Logan Gilbert and Matt Brash. Don't know much about Matt Brash. I'm not to look deep into him, but Logan Gilbert rookie last year coming back second year here with the Mariners.
He was dominant last year looked good solid kid. Give you a good five innings, good six innings and then maybe tell off in the seventh, but still could get through it as well. But I'm telling you it was catching those F-5s left right and center. Same with Chris Flexin.
I mean literally, what do I say? Put it on my tombstone for crying out loud. Here lies the man that took the F-5s every single damn time Chris Flexin was on the bump. I mean, I just, I find myself every single time.
I see him. I can't do it. I've tried to stay away and even though I know like sometimes like, oh yeah, this isn't the right value for me to back flex in this spot. I still do it anyway because I love Chris Flexin.
He caches tickets left right and center. I even wrote a damn blog about him for crying out loud. Shout out Chris. You demand.
Robbie Ray, new year, new team, same pants. Definitely still the same booty huggers, chokers, whatever you want to say. Definitely same pants on Robbie Ray here this year with the Mariners. I'm excited to see what this rotation can do.
And then don't leave out Marco Gonzalez. He'll give you a solid three or four. I think he's going to end up getting replaced by Matt Brash. If I would say I just don't know enough about Brash yet.
Gonzalez just showed a little bumps here and there. But maybe improves into this season. We'd love to see that as well in the entire Seattle rotation, the rotation we can bank on for the entire 162. Two more teams.
Texas Rangers, they picked up John Gray into this year. Got Dane Dunning, Martin Perez, Taylor Hearn and Spencer Howard. Obviously Spencer Howard was that prospect for the Phillies. Definitely did not show up as they were anticipating.
Now he's kind of bouncing around. About home in Texas. Not the biggest fan. I think from time to time you'll be able to find some value because the Rangers are going to be dogs more often than not.
So you'll be able to find some value in Gray Dunning possibly Perez or on the mound and you're going to be able to find an F5 plus a half. I'm a pretty big fan of that with Texas but it's going to be a pick and choose. You're not going to be able to run to the window every single time you see that F5 plus a half of Texas. So keep that in mind.
And I would say for now until we see what the kids all about, especially after a bad freshman year, you never like to rule out the possibility of a continued on sophomore slump. Just keep your ears up the street and see what's going on with Spencer Howard before you start backing him up. He's on the mound with Texas. Last but not least the Oakland Athletics.
We got Frankie Montas, Cole Irvin, Paul Bellac, Bern Dalton, Jeffries. And then they have no number five now with Sean Manaya gone. That kind of bums me out because like I was a huge fan of Manaya on the athletics. But now he's on the pods.
We'll see what happens. Talked about that yesterday. Check that out. Episode number 254, the TTL pod.
If you want to see everything all in L and you're not a fan of the AL but everything in L on yesterday's show. Frankie Montas obviously we're going to be able to back him but you got to be careful from time to time because he will stick it into neutral on the old brain side of things from time to time and give up a few runs when you least need them, i.e. maybe in the bottom of the fifth or something like that. Cole Irvin, he's dominant.
He's somebody you can depend on in the first five. He's going to be somebody when you see him on the mound. You can definitely look to get involved with Oakland or maybe even his K-props. Paul Blackburn, big fan as well.
Dalton Jeffries should make a little bit of noise over there in Oakland. So I'm a big fan. I definitely not cracking my top five or obviously my top three two here. It definitely would have if it was kind of similar to last year with the government of Bassett, the government of Manaya and it's a little scary for me here.
So there you go. We'll see what kind of value we can find with Oakland. But that is all 15 American league teams, entire starting pitcher rotations. All 30 guys, roughly 30 guys.
Maybe 31, 32. I don't know how many guys I just went through but shout out to all of them. Can't wait. You start helping me catch some dog on ticket.
So quick, set my friends. Pardon me one brief moment. Yeah, that's all I did. Okay.
Into the next segment of the day. 2022 MLB AL division winners. Got odds and I got some predictions for you if you would care to listen. East, let's start things off with the AL East.
We got Toronto coming in as the favorite plus 170 plus money though. Yankees behind them plus two 50 third place race plus two 50 red sacks behind them plus 500 and the O's plus 20,000 who 201 odds. Sorry, O's. You know, I always tell you, like I never like to take the leader in a futures market.
But I really think Toronto makes some noise this year with there being no COVID restrictions in Canada and then being able to play at their home ballpark and do all that and I'll have to worry about it. Like I said earlier on the show, they really caught fire last year when they started playing in their dome, when the fans were there, when they were getting the vibes. And I really think that that's something we're going to see here coming into 2020. I think they're going to play off of that momentum.
If I was going anywhere, that's why I would lean. But how do you look at Tampa Bay and what Kevin Cash has done over the last, I don't know, five years or whatever, how long this run has been that that Tampa Bay has just seemed to be dominant in the A.O. East. How can you not look at that plus two 50 and think about getting involved?
I think the Yankees and the Red Sox could potentially flip places. I think Tampa Bay could be number two plus two 50. I would actually put the Yankees up a little bit more around plus three 50 plus 400. I just think the Yankees are getting that value right there simply because they're the New York Yankees.
And I think a lot of Yankees fans are going to be crying, whining, moaning and complaining this year. I can't wait to see it on the timeline. That's my hot early take early prediction that the Yankees are going to be a hot dumpster fire. But who knows who am I?
What do I know? I live in the middle of the dog-gone country. I don't know anything about shit except Chicago Cubs. Or maybe I do.
Speaking of the middle of the country, let's talk about the central Chicago White Sox minus 210 leading the pack as the favorite Minnesota plus 190 Detroit plus five 50 Kansas City plus 2000 and Cleveland plus 2000. Told you multiple times and just said it a minute ago, I never liked to take the favorite in a futures market. Now, especially when they are at minus money, let alone minus 210 in that future spot. I hate to say Chicago White Sox fans and this is not me being a Chicago Cubs fan.
I think it's going to be a scrap scrape and an absolute war for you guys to get into the playoffs again this year. I think it might be flirting with wild card spot. I think it might be something very, very, very, very, very, very, very outside of what you guys are thinking that it's going to be. But hey, especially with these odds is what I'm thinking.
I don't know, especially with Jose Vermeeras just resigning what I said about that rotation. They make a couple of additions earlier on in the year. I'm not telling you to put your dog-gone mortgage on it, but a little pizza and beer on the guardians plus 2000. I'm not putting it out the realm.
I told you what's up with Minnesota. I'm not a big fan of that rotation whatsoever. I think that gets them into trouble early and often. Detroit, I like the rotation, but the offense is lackluster is all hell and I can't get down with that.
Kansas City, no thanks, no way, no how. They didn't make nearly enough moves in the offseason. Zach Reinky isn't going to be the answer to all their prayers. So that leaves me with Cleveland, with not having wanting to bet the minus money.
So that's kind of where my eyes go, process of elimination, kind of what I've been talking to you, not even confirming bias is just kind of building on the storyline that I've been talking to you about all day to day. So Cleveland Guardians, new team, new name, new playoff push plus 2000, my winner for the central. Let's wrap it up. With the West, we got Houston, obviously the favorite minus 170, Angels plus 380, Seattle plus 450, Texas plus 2,200 in Oakland plus 4,500 to win the division.
I'm very interested in seeing what LA does. I'm even interested in seeing what Seattle does. I mean, Seattle could put together 10 more wins and be 102 win ball club this year. I'm interested to see what they do.
I honestly, I don't think they come crashing back down to Earth. I think they build upon momentum. I think Seattle is doing something special over on the West Coast this year. I think the plus 450 is a little bit too much for me to get involved in.
I think it's kind of just a little bit too much of a setup. But if I'm looking at you, and again, as that comes out of my mouth, if I'm looking anywhere, I'm looking Seattle or LA, and it's just honestly that LA seems like plus three, like those odd just don't, I don't know those odd just don't correlate with the names on the team and to be that close to Seattle, call me crazy. I think Seattle wins the ALS plus 450. I like the value a little pizza and beer.
Again, not saying put your dog on mortgage on it, but then again, how do you look at Houston, what they're doing and think that they don't, I don't let maybe they get into a little bit of an issue early on in the season with those issues with Lance McCulloch being injured. McCulloch's, who knows what's going to happen as far as that number five. If the rest of those guys are going to be able to step up, have that next mentality, who knows? Maybe they do get in trouble early on in the season.
Seattle hammers gone because nobody is anticipating them coming in and being a good team again this year and being able to rely on that picture rotation. And they get a three, four, five comfortable game lead in the ALS to kick things off. I don't know who knows. Shake it up.
But my pick, ALS Seattle Mariners plus 450. There goes a final segment of the first half of the show. My friends and we'll dive into a little bit of nonsense. We'll get on up and get on out.
My American League winner, odds and official pick. As far as it goes, Toronto plus 450. I'll give you the top 10 once again here. Chicago White Sox plus 460 Houston Astros plus 480 Yankees plus 650.
Raised plus 750 Boston plus 1200. Angels plus 1200 Seattle plus 1500 Minnesota plus 2400 and Detroit plus 2800. Very interesting that Detroit was the number 10 team there in the AL. Definitely, I guess that's right about what I put him, but it was very interesting the plus 2800 to me.
With it being a plus 450, I think I'm going Toronto. I think I'm going the Blue Jays to make that push this year. But it honestly, like I feel like everybody's going to be talking about that. So again, I'm going with the team nobody's talking about and maybe a sprinkle on two nobody you're talking about.
Maybe take a gander at the Angels plus 1200 and take a gander at Seattle plus 1500. Little sprinkles, but a $10 sprinkle if you got a burn in a hole in your pocket, you just sit around, you got a fresh 150 if Seattle makes it to the World Series, you know, like I don't know. I don't know. I said, so I'm saying who knows who to say what am I?
I'm crazy. But what I do know is those ones would be the one they'd arrest me just from what I've been saying. Houston repeating just again just seems too easy. The White Sox, I just everybody's talking about them.
They're over the moon on them too. Many people over the moon on them. Yankees, like I said, I think a lot of people are going to be crying here in a few weeks Tampa Bay plus 750. If it was going to be the same Tampa Bay performance, I don't think they'd be a plus 750.
Boston, and that's kind of out of the way for me, Minnesota, Detroit, I've told you about both of them. So again, leaves LA in Seattle and that's kind of where I would sprinkle my money. So there's your odds. There's my pick for League winner.
Call me crazy. Call me. Call me goofy. I don't care because we ain't all going to know until 162.
Matter of fact, probably 190 some odd games from now. So we're all going to have to wait. Ain't nobody going to know. That's my goofy opinion.
And we all know what are opinions, but I'm not going to go down that rabbit hole. We're just going to wrap up the first half. Oh, speaking of the boy. Not good words there.
Uh, that wrapping up for the first half of the show my friend. I bring guys back over here. So I got the dog on my own. Oh, yeah, baby.
Here we go. Okay. Let's see. That's first half of the show.
Nothing else American League wise you missed any of it. It's all there. Quick, probably about 30 minutes. I'm going to get all the way through that.
I'd say someone that ballpark maybe a little bit longer. Give or take who knows. I do have a handful of ransom reaction shit. I wanted to get through shit.
I wrote down shit that I found out. I couldn't believe there's some betting issues going on in the world of MMA. So you know, your boy, he does kind of wait. Oh yeah, I'm not in the sports gambling space.
That's right. I'm an FT guy. I don't know about sports gambling. So maybe I can't talk about PFL and betting.
I don't know. Maybe I'll talk about that. I don't know if I'll have an educated opinion on that because I'm not a sports gambling guy. I'm an FT guy.
I totally forgot. Sorry. I don't have an educated opinion to be able to talk about this stuff. Geez, totally forgot.
So speaking of it, that'll segue me into my crypto corner because that's what I know about. I don't know anything about sports or sports betting. I know about that. I actually want to talk about community and why it's really important to the space and why it's actually important to a lot of other spaces that could maybe take note from it.
I don't know. Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe I'm not who to say who's no. It's probably nothing.
We'll also have some motivation minutes talking about being successful in your life. Little perspective and talking about my definition of success being happy, hungry and healthy and not what you're thinking hungry. Can't Wait to talk to that. The three H's is kind of what I'm pointing at.
Can't wait to tell you guys about that. And then kind of three things I heard from I'm not sure who it was. It was just kind of a background podcast or another video I was watching. It was kind of a compilation of some things and it was three things.
If you want to live a successful life, it just smacked me right in the chest. So I said, well, motivation minutes of the day. And then I'll give him my happy, healthy and hungry. We'll talk about that live in a successful life.
We'll go on and get on up and get on out. So first things first, hopefully I know what I'm doing. Hopefully I can man, I don't know. Did I just talk about the American League for 45?
Did I just provide insights on the American League for 45? What just happened? I don't know. I kind of blacked out.
What just happened? I don't know. Did I? I don't know.
I don't know. Maybe. Maybe I don't know. Full disclaimer.
I don't really know. I'm not a sports gambling guy. I'm an FT guy. So full disclaimer, I probably don't know what I'm talking about.
Uh, time for my rent and reactions. And maybe that's part of it. Maybe I'm feeling facetious today. Maybe I'm playing chess or maybe yeah, maybe I am playing chess while everybody else is playing checkers.
I don't know. Maybe I'm dumb. Maybe I'm super, maybe I'm crazy. Oh, no.
Dip chips off the forehead this morning. So who knows what I do know. It's Tiger Woods is officially playing in the Masters, my friends. T-time set for tomorrow.
1034 AM Central Standard Time. I said it on yesterday's show before was even announced. I said my friends. If he don't play with the hell I'm talking about.
He ain't going out there playing a practice round looking at good and that beautiful Nike match and navy blue and gray fit. If he ain't coming out to the Masters and rocking championship red on Sunday and lifting that trophy up above his head. That's my humble opinion. I think he wins it.
He ain't getting the love. Uh, just because I think he should. Like he's not getting that much of the handle and I don't know. I might do a little sprinkle on him and actually that's a hell of a segue talking about sprinkles talking about everything in between.
I don't know. Maybe don't believe me. I'm not a betting guy. I'm an FT guy.
So just I don't know. But I want to talk a little bit about the Masters. Super excited to watch the Masters kind of check some stuff out. I did find some top five values in top 10 and top 20 value.
I want to tell you guys about just real quick. And then while we're talking about it, if I can find Tiger, yeah, Tiger is at plus 5000 to win this bad boy. So how do you not put a little sprinkle on that? I mean, how do you not put a little sprinkle on that?
Tiger is like he literally has skipped every other major championship to this point to be able to play in the Masters and be able to make his glorious comeback. Do you understand how electric it would be if he ends up winning this dog on thing? If he ends up walking this dog on thing off, what I envisioned is like the last six months he's been in like that cryo chamber like he's been frozen with like tubes coming out all of them. And he's just been in that cryo chamber just and then they just woke up like last week and then they just brought him out of that cryo tube and like all y'all about to just like you're about to see like 22 year old Tiger Woods out there.
He might be in his 40s or however the whole he is now. I don't even know how he is about to look like he's 22. He's about to be drained in 72 foot putts. He's about to be chipping in from 112 out.
He's about to be bombing 370 yard drives Bryson de Shambo. Who I'm telling you what my money's getting sprinkled on Tiger. I don't give a damn. You'll add your mind if you don't think that he's coming out here to take home the prize.
Now, like me on that one that I found some incredible value on a little bit of top 10 for you. And these are going to be the ones that I really really think are going to have the values. These finishing positions and it's simply just taking stock of who is being involved who plays well in Augusta in the past who is playing well right now and who can at least get themselves in the top 10. And one guy that I believe is going to be able to do that is going to be Colin Moore Cowa and you're getting plus 175 for him to finish in the top 10.
I mean, hell if you even have a little bit more faith and you think he finishes in the top five, it's a little crazier. But let me tell you let me see if I can find it's he is plus 350 to finish in the top five. So it might be a little tight but everybody's talking John Ron this year. Everybody's talking Justin Thomas.
I'm sorry but Deed Dustin Johnson has looked not great whatsoever this year. I literally off the map. Then you got Scheffler, Cam Smith, Brooks, Kept, Colin Moore, Cowa, Kept because look decent but he's kind of falling off as we fit the weekend here in the last couple of tournaments. And then you bump right into Moore, Cowa, McAvory, Shofli and Spieth.
I mean, I'm more interested in looking at Shofli plus 390 at the top five finish. Spieth plus 400 at the top five finish. I could get down with Cam Smith the way he's been putting lately. The way he has his short game on.
You know you need that at Augusta plus 270. JT plus 240 is always worth a shot at top five finish. So if you hear those names, I mean, and you're thinking you want to do just a little sprinkle across the board. Top five.
Check it out. But triple on this top 10. You still think I think Justin Thomas finishes in the top 10 and that's at plus 110. You're getting actually you're still getting plus odds for crying out loud.
Like what they the value they give you on these is just bar none and people do not take the time. They just look at the outright winners. Just instantaneously. Oh, I got to go to the outright winners.
Got to make sure we look at that. But the five and the 10th, the top 10th, the top 20s are going to have crazy crazy, crazy value. And even these top 20s, even if you think somebody like the angle burger plus 130, Tiger Woods finishes in the top 20, even if you like that, Tiger Woods is finishing the top top 20 plus 130. Even if you think Tiger comes back huge, huge outing but he slips towards the end plus 280 to have a top 10 finish.
I mean, how can you not want to get involved with some of that? So just wanted to provide a little bit of perspective on some of the stuff that I've kind of looked at and some of the things that I've been able to take value or advantage of rather from a gambling perspective because obviously everybody wants to get involved when it's the big tournaments and stuff like that. So I just kind of wanted to give you a little additional value there. So there you go.
There's my thoughts on everything. 2022 Masters. Moving it right along. UFC 273 is this weekend, my friends.
My blog will be coming out on Friday nights to all subscribers Saturday morning to the general public, maybe just Friday night to everybody who knows. We'll see what happens. But I also want to tell you guys had one hell of a conversation about UFC 273 on wise word season three episode four with legendary Andrew McInnes. If you are listening, if you are watching live, you just found out who it is.
You found it earlier on in the show if you would tune in too. So a little bit of a teaser for you there. We talked all things. He's actually the number one wager talk handicapper since 2021 on 5% you bank roleplays in UFC.
So he knows his shit. Just like I know much we had an awesome, awesome, awesome conversation everything around UFC. We started at the first literally popped it up on the screen. I started at the first fight worked all the way up and then even got into more UFC rabbit holes.
So make sure you turn into that and stay tuned. I'll let you know when the old blog is coming out. Now submit a rest and shit. I'm going to talk about you in a second.
Let me take a step. That's good. I love I love coffee. I mean, I love coffee.
Wow. Wow. I don't know what I did before I drink that stuff. Wow.
I love coffee. Okay. Um, so PFL the, uh, the PFL right now, they had a little bit of a, a betting issue. So you know the PFL championships, all that shit.
There was a fight card this past Friday and through one way or another, somehow there was like suspicious activity with crazy line movement and this, that in the third to where some commission that keeps track of all this stuff and see me, I'm not, I'm not the smartest, the brightest bull in the, the bull, you know, but, but I'm trying to describe this in layman's terms here. Um, basically they flagged this because all these lines were moving. It turns out that this fight card was pre-taped on March the 25th and it just happened this past Friday. So that would have been, it was pre-taped on, um, two, so two weeks ago.
And so it was on the first, these bets were coming out on the first and it was, the card actually happened on the 25th and it was pre-taped. So they saw these line movements and basically everybody knew what was happening. Everybody had the drop. Everybody was cashing tickets, but some people didn't, some people didn't know that's what was going on.
Like some people just like, they just bet like they bet and did what they did. And like they saw a movement like damn that other dog should have moved like that. Like holy shit, let me take that value. They all cash out, come to find out that they get these red flags.
Oh my gosh, the security, what, I don't know if it's SEC or what like who it was, but they flagged it. Yo, this was pre-taped. This is, um, whatever type of activity they were flagging it as. And now all the people who had no idea and the people who did have an idea woke up the next morning, the books took back all that money, literally wiped all the accounts and literally have just like completely deleted this, take all of that money, put it in and like there's this whole open investigation and all this shit going on right now.
So the PFL is just like literally set to get started again. Like Kayla Harrison is about to be back in prime time doing that. I mean, so it's a very weird time for PFL. Like I stumbled across the smoke.
I got to do some more research on it, but basically like it looks like somehow people were rigging like delayed a week of actually airing the PFL in order to win some money because nobody watches the PFL. How the hell will they ever know? Well, it was on the front page of the worldwide leader this morning. So holy shit, has more stuff kind of rolled out for that because I'm sure it will.
I'll let you guys know, I don't have the full scoop on it. I just like, it was like 945 and I was like, oh, let's see what's going on in the world at MMA. And I wasn't even gonna talk about anything in MMA. And I was like betting issue with Fight Card.
And I was like, what the hell does this mean? Is this like, oh, somebody got screwed for the last year, the last year, the last year, the last year, and then I started reading into it. And I was like, oh my gosh, there's like 20 more paragraphs here. I need to be able to read this whole thing.
But I just want to let you guys know, because blue my mind, absolutely blue my mind. Speaking of blue my mind, Stefan Diggs signed a four year, $104 million extension with the $104 million extension with the Buffalo Bills got 70 million guaranteed on that bad voice. So he just got paid. He's stuck above low 40 foreseeable future.
So shout out to Stefan Diggs way go get that bag. Jose Ramirez got paid as well. I can't remember, I can't remember when the heck he what he got paid. I just retweeted it this morning.
But you can check that out on the TTL page. He just got paid this morning. So shout out to Rammer outside of that. I'm trying to see if there's any, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do any breaking news.
You all got any questions or anything? What kind of happened up the show here? You're watching Feel Free Hop in the chat more than welcome to it's wide open anything open floor anything you guys got. If you're on Twitter and you've been commenting and you want to like, oh, why the fuck aren't you responding to me, bro?
Like I'm trying to comment on him trying to show you love because I can't see you. I can't see the periscope comments. So please come over to YouTube, please come over to Facebook, drop something I will be more than I love connecting with you guys. I love answering questions.
I love popping it up on the on the screen. I love building the TTL community. Please, please, please pop in ask anything you want. I love your questions.
Nothing is off limits. Like my goofy assets here and puts my face live in prime time. Like there is an I'm the one that's got to talk about it. You guys can just leave the dog on day.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, who's going to judge you? You can just leave the freaking chat for crying out loud. So hey, go ahead. If you want to.
I'm no pressure. I can't tell you what to do. As I look through nothing else really spectacular. Yeah, nothing really jumping off the board at me here that I can really see.
No, no late breaking news. So there you go. There you have it, my friends. Everything for my ransom reactions.
Okay, dog, are the jokes. just a quick crypto corner today. Let's pop that up real quick just so we know what we're on. I talked briefly about it yesterday, but I talked more about the project.
The K noise project. Shout out to the K noise. Love the hell out of you guys. They just what a great group of human beings just like literally and it's kind of what got me down on the community track.
And like I know what kind of started yesterday's going on with it, but I just kind of want to talk about it just briefly a little bit more and like like not only for people who like are coming to my crypto corner to learn about the NFT space and learn about some of the things I know, but also the people who are coming because they know me and they respect me in the space and just like want to hear my opinions. It's just for the both of you. And it's just really that community is so important to these like it is so damn important to these like it is literally controls everything. The direction, the moves, the team, the thought processes, the opinions of the project and the general public, the floor price.
Oh, good grief. Oh, good grief. I got that fucking rabbit hole. I mean, it literally dictates everything you guys.
And if you don't have a strong community, if you don't, if you're involved in the project and you can't honestly say like, yeah, I got this community, people like I can just start naming people right now left, right and center that I like in the ether booth like or in the typical tigers like in that those small communities are part of a bigger super community. I mean, you can start going down the zombies, ebers, zombie apes, ape, liquid, the noise, the canoids and and you can just even, even if the funky flies. I mean, there's this, there's this group of human beings that are just a quality group of human beings and just see life from a different perspective. I'm so honored and blessed to be a part of it.
But it's really so important. And it's maybe just realized how important it is in life with everything. Like just having that community behind anything, man, is the only way anything survives. Like, it's the only way anybody thrives in life with anything, whether like whatever you're chasing, whatever you're going after, like personal, private, corporate, not whatever the case might be like community is so damn important.
Like, if there's not people hyping and talking about a project, then that project is going to die. Like, if there's not people out there excited about stuff day in and day out, regardless of what it is, the project is going to die because there's a million new projects minted every single damn day. And those things are selling out or if people are thinking they can pump and dump them or hype and dike, that's our new, shut up hype and dike, that's our new new shit there with the e-commerce. Oh, shout out.
Hey, this episode of Cold Script, our corner is brought to you by those exact etherbrews right there. Pop you up in the screen there so you can see them. Visit them over at etherbrews.com, e-t-h-r-b-r-u-s.com, it's your self approval, 0.05 Ethereum plus gas here today, two day gases on the way back down, which is a general case you were wondering as well. But community, and don't be afraid to be that light in the community, man, don't be afraid to be the person that just is willing to say, yo, hey, I want to build this, I want to make this, I want to make this bigger, I want to make this better because I believe in this project, I believe in this community.
And really, if you see a project and there's just crickets, there's no one to be found. You just got to stop and you got to pause and you got to think about it and what you're doing. So that's just kind of my two cents. I just kind of wanted to give some more perspective behind the community and what I really met by that and I didn't really go deep into it.
I was going to talk about the K-Noise, but like, community is just so important. I mean, they literally, like, if you are a person who comes in and complains about floor price, like, you look at a floor price and oh my gosh, it's 5.03 less than it's an mint or blah, but whatever, whatever, you've all heard it. Like, if you're a person like that, like, there's nothing the project or the founders can do about that. Like, the founders are not like taking NFTs and putting them on the floor for less than mint price.
Like, there's nothing the fucking project can do. Like, that's what I just never understand. Like, who you're bitching to? Like, bitch to the community, bitch to the paperhand dumbasses who are putting it on the floor for 100% less than what they actually bought it for.
Like, just you use your brain. Like, it's literally the community runs everything. And yeah, it does lie on the founders to guide the ship and to be able to do these things and execute on their roadmap and do what they say they're going to do. But they got to have that community behind them to keep behind them and the project keep doing the things and everything in between.
So, I don't want to ramble on too much. Obviously, you guys can kind of dive into it. I didn't want to do anything crazy for the crypto corner there because I've been shot in some projects that did some pretty heavy lifting on Monday and Tuesday and Friday and Monday, at least I guess, started the week off pretty heavy. So, I just kind of wanted Wednesday to kind of be a little lighter one.
And then maybe tomorrow we'll talk about the second-day market a little bit. Open C just, there's some things like people always popping in like, oh my gosh, I can't see what the hell happens. Like, go to your activity and check it. Like, there's just little things like just alleviate some stresses when you go to Mint because right it is the Wild West.