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Pod 617: Lift-off Again

Section 336

November 6, 2025 · 1 hr 5 min

This week on Section 336, Josh and Matt are back! The Orioles have a new manager, Craig Albernaz, and Birdland is buzzing as free agency kicks off. The guys break down what Albernaz brings to Baltimore, what moves might be coming next,…

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This week on Section 336, Josh and Matt are back! The Orioles have a new manager, Craig Albernaz, and Birdland is buzzing as free agency kicks off. The guys break down what Albernaz brings to Baltimore, what moves might be coming next, and what it all means for the O’s heading into 2025.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls bottom more sports fans of all ages welcome to section three three six Welcome, it's been a while It's been a couple of weeks remember week for for at least ten years We would start and tell people all the time.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, we've never missed a week

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[SPEAKER_02]: But now what life gets in the way?

[SPEAKER_03]: What do you attribute this our latest sporadic podcast do?

[SPEAKER_03]: The the Orioles struggles, the rise in ticket prices, school nights and traffic and dangers in the city of Baltimore?

[SPEAKER_03]: What do you what's the blame here?

[SPEAKER_02]: What's the blame from 326?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think um little league.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, pretty much.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's your little

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Salas has he plays twice a week and like the games now are 730 is when the game starts.

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[SPEAKER_03]: And so the end at about like 845 or 9 and so we don't get home till after 9.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and I think your busy with school being in session and preparing classes, my thing is I end up podcasting all day during the day that like I don't feel like podcasting at night.

[SPEAKER_02]: You're a little podcast out a little podcast out, but I want I want to do 3336.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's why we snuck in it in daytime a few times there.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think that that's on your end.

[SPEAKER_03]: And on my end, the work stuff too, there's a transition happening at the college level that I'm experiencing first hand where I'm teaching more and more in the evenings and meeting with students more and more in the evenings.

[SPEAKER_02]: Is that a college transition that colleges are starting to offer more evening classes?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yes, because the deal is, um, for a couple of reasons, one is we're attracting a lot more now, working adults who especially put up education, who would another tracks that and now they want to get into teaching and okay, families, they have jobs and now they get so we're dealing with that.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Three, six, we on this, so true. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland. [SPEAKER_03]: Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls bottom more sports fans of all ages welcome to section three three six Welcome, it's been a while It's been a couple of weeks remember week for for at least ten years We would start and tell people all the time. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, we've never missed a week [SPEAKER_03]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: But now what life gets in the way? [SPEAKER_03]: What do you attribute this our latest sporadic podcast do? [SPEAKER_03]: The the Orioles struggles, the rise in ticket prices, school nights and traffic and dangers in the city of Baltimore? [SPEAKER_03]: What do you what's the blame here? [SPEAKER_02]: What's the blame from 326? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I think um little league. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, pretty much. 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[SPEAKER_03]: And now you have the Michael Marisho. [SPEAKER_03]: It's a way you can air out your opinions. [SPEAKER_03]: So it, this podcast become less important for you. [SPEAKER_02]: It may hit me and part of it is that it's Orioles off season and Orioles off season. [SPEAKER_02]: A lot of times for us when we weren't doing [SPEAKER_02]: Football talk shows three thirty six has become off season like let's talk about what's going on in our lives and you're right I have the micomercial now every day. [SPEAKER_02]: I do five episodes of that a week then maybe an extra which is six and I do Hicks next which is seven podcasts. [SPEAKER_02]: I could be doing a week Plus there's other podcasts. [SPEAKER_02]: I produce that I'm not on the air with but you're right that It's much easier to go and complain over there about some frustrating thing in my life [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, I'm going to be even more reliant on you. [SPEAKER_03]: I feel like for this for the or my or else talking discussion, because I think I shared this with you a few weeks ago. [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe a month ago now. [SPEAKER_03]: I've completely unplugged from social media and stuff. [SPEAKER_03]: I still have. [SPEAKER_03]: I still go on Facebook on my laptop. [SPEAKER_03]: I log in to Facebook. [SPEAKER_03]: So I scroll my sister and stuff, give it to the vets. [SPEAKER_03]: But I literally haven't been on Twitter or Instagram in weeks. [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't even, and that was my main Twitter was my main way to say, okay, what are real fans thinking? [SPEAKER_03]: I've been unplugged from that for a while. [SPEAKER_03]: So even when the new hire will get to, and some of the action around the world, I have no idea what people are thinking and I'm talking about. [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm curious to get your tips on some of this stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, I'll be great. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm excited. [SPEAKER_02]: How is things with Little League? [SPEAKER_02]: People love the little league talk. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, things are really good. [SPEAKER_03]: I shared with you, Josh, and we haven't been on since this happened. [SPEAKER_03]: But two weekends ago, Silas hit his first home run over the fence. [SPEAKER_02]: I took the video to the Michael mayor show and shared because I was so excited for silence. [SPEAKER_03]: It was amazing. [SPEAKER_03]: It was pretty wild. [SPEAKER_03]: It was pretty wild. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, he's eight. [SPEAKER_03]: You just don't have eight year olds hit the ball over the fence very often. [SPEAKER_03]: But it was also like, silence is a big kid. [SPEAKER_03]: And a lot of power, you know, this age, the biggest kids can hit them all the further. [SPEAKER_03]: It's just, you know, he has the biggest bat. [SPEAKER_03]: He's, you know, so just. [SPEAKER_03]: But every time we play at one of these, these travel ball fields, [SPEAKER_03]: where the fences are pushed in a little bit. [SPEAKER_03]: Like they're not defensive. [SPEAKER_03]: I think it was 150 feet to write in the field. [SPEAKER_03]: But he's eight. [SPEAKER_03]: He's eight. [SPEAKER_03]: Like, yeah, he was the only person that's teamed up at home around. [SPEAKER_03]: There's no one else in this, in this. [SPEAKER_03]: And Gordon, that was that. [SPEAKER_02]: And let's be hit around. [SPEAKER_02]: That fence, he hit that dead center. [SPEAKER_02]: And he hit it 20 feet past the fence. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And [SPEAKER_03]: But there's always been pressure on Salis because they know he's the only one that really has a shot. [SPEAKER_03]: So they're always like, Salis, you got to humor us out. [SPEAKER_03]: So there's always been like, oh, stretch your goto. [SPEAKER_03]: Salis, every time we play, they're like, if someone's going to humor, it's got to be you, Salis. [SPEAKER_03]: You can hit him run. [SPEAKER_03]: And so he hears this all the time. [SPEAKER_03]: And he's finally did. [SPEAKER_03]: He finally hit him run. [SPEAKER_03]: And I showed you the video of how I've had celebrating. [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't show you in the dugout. [SPEAKER_03]: Like he was emotional. [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, I got it. [SPEAKER_03]: But just because, I mean, it has to be an amazing feeling. [SPEAKER_03]: You did this thing that people knew you could do, but I don't know if he knew he could do it. [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: I never hit a home run over the fence until I was like, dirty, maybe. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I told him. [SPEAKER_02]: I said, I was 33, I think. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I think I was 33. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was definitely first shot like that. [SPEAKER_02]: I was in my 30s. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I definitely was in my 30s for like, first I over the fan some run. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and for, and for me for, from the doubt perspective, it was so funny because, I mean, every dad on the team ran up to me and like, slap him in the back and he had to do something. [SPEAKER_03]: We had to go like, I hit the home run. [SPEAKER_03]: I yeah, one dad came running from the outfield like a full-on sprint waving his hand in the air. [SPEAKER_03]: He had the ball. [SPEAKER_03]: And so he gave me the home run ball. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, that's awesome. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm glad you got the ball. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah and so it was just it was just a really fun cool event. [SPEAKER_03]: It was also against the context it's pretty cool too because it was against the team that we'd lost to in the previous tournament in the championship game, lost to them. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, so it was a big rematch game. [SPEAKER_03]: He's the first step bat. [SPEAKER_03]: We were down three nothing. [SPEAKER_03]: He came with two two runners on. [SPEAKER_03]: And the any struck out he struck out in coach pitch like this is coach pitch and struck out, which is embarrassing. [SPEAKER_02]: And so like a Casey at the bat situation. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's I had mixed feelings whenever he strikes out of mixed feelings like part of me is like Mad because you know, this was a big moment in the game and this would cost us the game against this rival that we have the other part of music feels bad for him that he struck out. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, the other part is like, I'm just curious. [SPEAKER_03]: Like, I'm kind of glad to see him face some failure. [SPEAKER_03]: I'm curious. [SPEAKER_03]: How is he going to react? [SPEAKER_03]: He's going to go to no got to cry about it. [SPEAKER_03]: Like, what's he going to do up a striking out, but he was fine. [SPEAKER_03]: When he came back up his next time up and hit a RBI single to drive and two runs and next time up hit a home run. [SPEAKER_03]: So bounce back. [SPEAKER_03]: Um, and so just had a great game and we end up going to the championship and winning. [SPEAKER_03]: And he had that home run. [SPEAKER_03]: So, yeah, that's my, I mean, it's pretty, and that's not the tournament two of the of the season of the year. [SPEAKER_03]: So I was pretty good way to end it. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's cool.

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