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Pod 630 : Cracks

Section 336

June 4, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min

This has been a fun couple weeks of Orioles baseball but there are cracks not on the Orioles but in Matt and Josh's lives. we get to all that and some Baltimore Orioles TalkSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/section-336-baltimore-orioles-talk3275/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy &…

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This has been a fun couple weeks of Orioles baseball but there are cracks not on the Orioles but in Matt and Josh's lives. we get to all that and some Baltimore Orioles Talk

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[SPEAKER_01]: Three, six, we on this, so true.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland.

[SPEAKER_03]: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.

[SPEAKER_03]: Baltimore Sports fans of all ages.

[SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to section 336.

[SPEAKER_03]: The next generation of one of our sports talk.

[SPEAKER_03]: I am your inherently studying host Matt Sworka.

[SPEAKER_03]: As always, I'm joined by the Button Lab of Jazz Shroker.

[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Matt.

[SPEAKER_02]: I apologize for putting this off long enough, just in time for the Orioles to have an embarrassing loss.

[SPEAKER_03]: I know we were just one day too late.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was in recording this.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's been a fun two weeks of Orioles baseball, but yesterday was not like the, hey, everything's positive, things are looking better.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yesterday's not to game to come off of with that type of conversation.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I was just reading before the show.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was looking up, you know, on MLB.com, somewhere else news.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I was just scrolling through stuff.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then it really was.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was just more MLB news.

[SPEAKER_03]: And I saw, did you see that yesterday with Tani?

[SPEAKER_03]: Show Hillotowny through six scoreless innings to lower his RAA to 0.74, 0.74, and he reached base five times.

[SPEAKER_03]: So that's pretty good for her.

[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you're not sure if you know this, but Otani's not only is he.

[SPEAKER_02]: a money-making machine for the team that signed him the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's also a pretty good baseball player.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty good about there.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like any team could have signed him with that contract and it would have been worth it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Well, and it's not, and I feel bad if I'm a really good player in the National League.

[SPEAKER_03]: Because there's no way anyone can ever win the MVP again, as long as Otani is pitching and hitting.

[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a Tony all the way until every year.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: If a Tony's not hurt, he's the MVP.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right.

[SPEAKER_02]: But yeah.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just start talking about their sports.

[SPEAKER_03]: No more on the other teams.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: I didn't go and be a finals.

[SPEAKER_03]: I watched them be a finals.

[SPEAKER_02]: You should know, which was a very game for us.

[SPEAKER_02]: Remember, there were people that actually thought the Orioles would sign a Tony.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, there was someone who renounced, who was the guy who said I'm no long in Orals ran because the Orals didn't pursue that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, forgot about that.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: So was that JLC?

[SPEAKER_03]: No, this was a national guy.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's was, no, no, it was it, uh, it's the guy from it's a zips guy.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Dan's a broski with a broski.

[SPEAKER_02]: I believe it was Dan's a broski.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which I get like you should pursue a tiny, but also, I don't know, why waste your resources when you know you had no shot at a tiny.

[SPEAKER_03]: And above all the other things to be upset about historically with the Orioles, that's not the top my list.

[SPEAKER_03]: But hey,

[SPEAKER_03]: We don't need a tonny.

[SPEAKER_03]: We just came off of, I know we lost yesterday, but prior to that, we are coming off a seven and three homestand.

[SPEAKER_01]: Three, six, we on this, so true. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland. [SPEAKER_03]: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls. [SPEAKER_03]: Baltimore Sports fans of all ages. [SPEAKER_03]: Welcome to section 336. [SPEAKER_03]: The next generation of one of our sports talk. [SPEAKER_03]: I am your inherently studying host Matt Sworka. [SPEAKER_03]: As always, I'm joined by the Button Lab of Jazz Shroker. [SPEAKER_02]: Hey, Matt. [SPEAKER_02]: I apologize for putting this off long enough, just in time for the Orioles to have an embarrassing loss. [SPEAKER_03]: I know we were just one day too late. [SPEAKER_03]: It was in recording this. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's been a fun two weeks of Orioles baseball, but yesterday was not like the, hey, everything's positive, things are looking better. [SPEAKER_02]: Yesterday's not to game to come off of with that type of conversation. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey, I was just reading before the show. [SPEAKER_03]: I was looking up, you know, on MLB.com, somewhere else news. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And I was just scrolling through stuff. [SPEAKER_03]: And then it really was. [SPEAKER_03]: It was just more MLB news. [SPEAKER_03]: And I saw, did you see that yesterday with Tani? [SPEAKER_03]: Show Hillotowny through six scoreless innings to lower his RAA to 0.74, 0.74, and he reached base five times. [SPEAKER_03]: So that's pretty good for her. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you're not sure if you know this, but Otani's not only is he. [SPEAKER_02]: a money-making machine for the team that signed him the Dodgers. [SPEAKER_02]: He's also a pretty good baseball player. [SPEAKER_03]: It's pretty good about there. [SPEAKER_02]: It's almost like any team could have signed him with that contract and it would have been worth it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, and it's not, and I feel bad if I'm a really good player in the National League. [SPEAKER_03]: Because there's no way anyone can ever win the MVP again, as long as Otani is pitching and hitting. [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: It's a Tony all the way until every year. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: If a Tony's not hurt, he's the MVP. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm sorry. [SPEAKER_03]: Just start talking about their sports. [SPEAKER_03]: No more on the other teams. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: I didn't go and be a finals. [SPEAKER_03]: I watched them be a finals. [SPEAKER_02]: You should know, which was a very game for us. [SPEAKER_02]: Remember, there were people that actually thought the Orioles would sign a Tony. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I mean, there was someone who renounced, who was the guy who said I'm no long in Orals ran because the Orals didn't pursue that. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, forgot about that. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: So was that JLC? [SPEAKER_03]: No, this was a national guy. [SPEAKER_03]: That's was, no, no, it was it, uh, it's the guy from it's a zips guy. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Dan's a broski with a broski. [SPEAKER_02]: I believe it was Dan's a broski. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, which I get like you should pursue a tiny, but also, I don't know, why waste your resources when you know you had no shot at a tiny. [SPEAKER_03]: And above all the other things to be upset about historically with the Orioles, that's not the top my list. [SPEAKER_03]: But hey, [SPEAKER_03]: We don't need a tonny. [SPEAKER_03]: We just came off of, I know we lost yesterday, but prior to that, we are coming off a seven and three homestand. [SPEAKER_03]: Yes. [SPEAKER_03]: Josh, what I said would be, this is kind of a gauntlet, right, where we got, I forget exactly how broke down, but I think Blue Jays, then Tampa Bay Rays, then the Blue Jays again, then the Red Sox, and then I think we have the Blue Jays again after this, I think, like, and I told you, [SPEAKER_03]: I said, this ALE's gauntlet, we're going to get to the end of it here in another week or so. [SPEAKER_03]: Yep. [SPEAKER_03]: And we're going to have a really good idea of where we stand and so far it's looking pretty good. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: No. [SPEAKER_02]: It's. [SPEAKER_02]: it's amazing because two weeks ago I went out to Tampa for the game and it was the last time the Orioles got blown out before this where it was like oh my goodness why did I come into it after just two weeks ago I felt like ten years ago you were depressed you were ready to jump off the train and as I never did I never as out we said you can't once you jump off touch you can't come back on so be careful other people in our text thread said they weren't watching games [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, to the next day, they still text about the game. [SPEAKER_03]: So I don't know how, if you're not watching any game, how are you texting about the game? [SPEAKER_02]: To be fair, this team has a way of destroying you and getting you right back in it. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's this team is very compelling. [SPEAKER_03]: It's interesting. [SPEAKER_03]: I was thinking about this prior to show. [SPEAKER_03]: There's a couple guys on here who remember at the beginning of season or even going back to the off season. [SPEAKER_03]: We were like, why did they trade for blaze Alexander? [SPEAKER_03]: Like, we already have Jeremiah Jackson. [SPEAKER_03]: We have already have every position in the infield full and a utility guy. [SPEAKER_03]: And now Blaze, all the set is on fire and has been a key contributor over the past, you know, a couple of weeks for our success. [SPEAKER_03]: And the other guy has been really good. [SPEAKER_03]: We were like, there's no room for Kobe Mayo, like shouldn't we be trading him for starting a picture? [SPEAKER_03]: Like there's just no way that Kobe Mayo can fit in to this year's version of the order. [SPEAKER_03]: And you're looking at now. [SPEAKER_03]: And he's played in, I think, 50 of the games of our 61 or 62 games. [SPEAKER_03]: He's played in the overwhelming majority of them and played pretty well as of as of late. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, and even to the point that, yeah, it was a rough beginning where we're like, well, he can't handle third base, he can't hit the ball. [SPEAKER_02]: What's he doing here? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think I don't know if it's the pressure of Jackson Holiday showing up that there's another infielder, but he has pulled it together, both defensively and, of course, the bat. [SPEAKER_02]: He's crushing the ball. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: And once the epic continues, he's always been a bit streaky. [SPEAKER_03]: And so I'm curious to watch. [SPEAKER_03]: I think that's going to be part of our key success here. [SPEAKER_03]: Ken, people like Mayo, because you know, Alonza has been put, he, Alonza has been great, too, the basketball weeks. [SPEAKER_03]: We've had a few guys who just been super hot, basalio, blaze, Mayo, Alonzo of all been super hot over the past couple of weeks. [SPEAKER_03]: Alonze and you feel like, okay, he's got the track record. [SPEAKER_03]: Maybe you don't know. [SPEAKER_03]: So I think that's going to be something to watch. [SPEAKER_03]: Ken may have continued to perform at a high level. [SPEAKER_03]: Cause with the injuries, we certainly need him to. [SPEAKER_02]: I agree. [SPEAKER_02]: I was trying to find Dan's, uh, Dan's Twitter post about, uh, I believe it was Dan. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm no longer an Orioles fan. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And what I did find was people are mistaken. [SPEAKER_02]: A Baltimore Orioles meme for an election misinformation bot. [SPEAKER_02]: And it is all based off the I am that seals the deal. [SPEAKER_02]: I am no one in order to stand and and then it's a bunch of people who are then spun off of that into election stuff that seals the deal. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not whatever and made it political. [SPEAKER_03]: That's funny. [SPEAKER_02]: So I did a sea or else crossover there. [SPEAKER_02]: I like a little or else crossover and I like orials. [SPEAKER_02]: I like that the pain of being an orials fan turned into the pain of like your losing an election or whatever. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, but Kobe Mayo is, if it can keep a, if he can keep this up, that's a huge bat to having your lineup. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And a huge like, I know it's two weeks and these two weeks have been a lot of fun. [SPEAKER_02]: But these two weeks also have kind of been like, all right, it's almost like, all right, holidays back. [SPEAKER_02]: We've accepted West Brooks and not coming back. [SPEAKER_02]: This is the team [SPEAKER_03]: It's true. [SPEAKER_03]: No no upsccoming. [SPEAKER_03]: I mean, there's Dylan beavers. [SPEAKER_03]: It was I think it in baton cages a couple days ago. [SPEAKER_03]: So Dylan beavers. [SPEAKER_03]: Thank you back. [SPEAKER_03]: Sure. [SPEAKER_03]: So that's a ton of more folk now. [SPEAKER_03]: Josh. [SPEAKER_03]: Have you looked at Chris says numbers recently? [SPEAKER_03]: No, they're really bad. [SPEAKER_03]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Here's what he's done last nine games. [SPEAKER_03]: Going back to May 22nd because I just pulled this up before the show. [SPEAKER_03]: It's part of my prep work to see how Hester was doing down there. [SPEAKER_03]: May 22nd, two for four, the next day, one for four, the next day, one for four, the next day, two for four, the next day, two for four, the next day, one for four, the next day, two for four, the next day, one for four, he's got a has a nine game hitting streak in the last, let's see in the last one, two, three, four games, he has five doubles in the last four games. [SPEAKER_03]: Uh, so he's hitting the bull. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, he still strikes out too much. [SPEAKER_03]: It's, it's only has one home run. [SPEAKER_03]: I think. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and encouraging to see him hitting the ball. [SPEAKER_03]: What is that? [SPEAKER_03]: I was sure you were going to tell me he sucks. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's what I was expecting to see when I pulled it up. [SPEAKER_03]: I was expecting to see it. [SPEAKER_03]: But no, he's actually played pretty well down there. [SPEAKER_03]: So something to keep an eye on going forward. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think it's going to be his caught up any time soon, but what have you been more impressed with these past two weeks? [SPEAKER_02]: The bats are the pitch in. [SPEAKER_02]: Because the pitch in, [SPEAKER_02]: really stepped up as well. [SPEAKER_02]: Our starting, I know yesterday was not good, but our start rotation has been pitching really well. [SPEAKER_03]: I agree, and I told you the other day I was like, this, our success, this season is going to come down. [SPEAKER_03]: I think mostly to three guys, Braddish, Baz, and Rogers and Brad Young. [SPEAKER_03]: Well, and I didn't put brand in y'all, but he's looking great. [SPEAKER_03]: That's been an excellent surprise. [SPEAKER_03]: A really cool emergence. [SPEAKER_03]: Hopefully, that's not just beginning his luck here. [SPEAKER_03]: He can keep that going. [SPEAKER_03]: But Scott, Scott, Brad, has been great. [SPEAKER_03]: Shane Baz, in his last start was one of his best start of the year. [SPEAKER_03]: Correct. [SPEAKER_03]: So Trevor Rogers also had one of his best start of the year. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, is he back? [SPEAKER_02]: No, I've been as intense along and again, when the quote is from

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