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Pod 626 : Rough Start

Section 336

April 7, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

Yes the Orioles have struggled to start the season, but you aren't going to find gloom and doom here because Matt and Josh are not discouraged, they are excited about the bright spots on this team.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/section-336-baltimore-orioles-talk3275/exclusive-contentAdvertising Inquiries:…

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[SPEAKER_06]: Three, six, we on this, so true.

[SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland.

[SPEAKER_01]: Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls bottomers sports fans of all ages welcome to section three three six next generation of bottomers sports talk I am your in dealing string host Matt Sroka as always.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm joined by the button lover Josh the Hook Sroka.

[SPEAKER_03]: Hey man How's it going?

[SPEAKER_03]: You're caught up today with my uh stabbing myself

[SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Michael, I was, I wasn't planning to listen to Michael Marisho yet, but the headline that he just showed his friction, Josh, and then emergency room.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yes, intrigued me enough that I skipped over and listened to the part of what happened to you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, where I got the emergency room.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wait, were you got hooked?

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was picking up fishing rods in the garage and had one of the big hooks go into my finger and modern hooks all have the barbs in it, so the fish can't get away.

[SPEAKER_03]: So you can not just pull it out of your finger.

[SPEAKER_03]: I tried it hurt horribly.

[SPEAKER_03]: Dad, I then went to the emergency room where they had to cut it out.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then, well, cut it apart the lure apart so they could get to the hook.

[SPEAKER_03]: Then hook cut the hook off of it.

[SPEAKER_03]: And then slice my finger to pull the hook out the other side.

[SPEAKER_03]: So nothing, nothing fun.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my kids aren't getting any fish and poles anytime soon.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad that's not a hobby I've ever gotten into.

[SPEAKER_01]: And it's too dangerous for me as is your pointing out.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can't handle cutting the grass without getting poisonous.

[SPEAKER_03]: I'd stay away from the hooks if I were you.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I saw, what, it's so what happened, you have stitches or butterflies or just tape it up or they, I, I, I, I, sometimes they do glue.

[SPEAKER_01]: Did they glue it up?

[SPEAKER_01]: Nothing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_03]: Let's see.

[SPEAKER_03]: You can see it.

[SPEAKER_03]: Just a band aid.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was, it was wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: That little boo boo.

[SPEAKER_01]: Wow.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_01]: Paper cut.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: It's, it still hurts.

[SPEAKER_03]: It was a much bigger bandage until today.

[SPEAKER_03]: I was allowed to switch into a band aid.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's a typing finger right there, too.

[SPEAKER_03]: Oh, even worse, it's the touch ID finger for like unlocking my computer.

[SPEAKER_03]: So I have to now, you know, I'm one of those idiots who has a long password because I never actually type it in and now I have to type it in.

[SPEAKER_03]: That's a bummer.

[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.

[SPEAKER_03]: Every time I have to get onto my computer, I now have to type, please come back Peter Angela's 2024 every time.

[SPEAKER_01]: My last on the ER was with the poison ivy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I was when Dietrich Adams was announced, he's on the I.L.

[SPEAKER_01]: with a foot infection and my mealy mind went to.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

[SPEAKER_01]: I had, I had, and I got infected.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he has a bad case of poison ivy in his foot.

[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so.

[SPEAKER_01]: But mate, manager, I'll be said it looks gnarly.

[SPEAKER_01]: My foot looked gnarly too when I

[SPEAKER_01]: I think could have been that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Or he's stepped on a fish hook.

[SPEAKER_06]: Three, six, we on this, so true. [SPEAKER_06]: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, welcome to Birdland. [SPEAKER_01]: Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls bottomers sports fans of all ages welcome to section three three six next generation of bottomers sports talk I am your in dealing string host Matt Sroka as always. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm joined by the button lover Josh the Hook Sroka. [SPEAKER_03]: Hey man How's it going? [SPEAKER_03]: You're caught up today with my uh stabbing myself [SPEAKER_01]: Well, the Michael, I was, I wasn't planning to listen to Michael Marisho yet, but the headline that he just showed his friction, Josh, and then emergency room. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, intrigued me enough that I skipped over and listened to the part of what happened to you. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, where I got the emergency room. [SPEAKER_01]: Wait, were you got hooked? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, I was picking up fishing rods in the garage and had one of the big hooks go into my finger and modern hooks all have the barbs in it, so the fish can't get away. [SPEAKER_03]: So you can not just pull it out of your finger. [SPEAKER_03]: I tried it hurt horribly. [SPEAKER_03]: Dad, I then went to the emergency room where they had to cut it out. [SPEAKER_03]: And then, well, cut it apart the lure apart so they could get to the hook. [SPEAKER_03]: Then hook cut the hook off of it. [SPEAKER_03]: And then slice my finger to pull the hook out the other side. [SPEAKER_03]: So nothing, nothing fun. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my kids aren't getting any fish and poles anytime soon. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm glad that's not a hobby I've ever gotten into. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's too dangerous for me as is your pointing out. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: You can't handle cutting the grass without getting poisonous. [SPEAKER_03]: I'd stay away from the hooks if I were you. [SPEAKER_01]: And I saw, what, it's so what happened, you have stitches or butterflies or just tape it up or they, I, I, I, I, sometimes they do glue. [SPEAKER_01]: Did they glue it up? [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing. [SPEAKER_01]: Nothing. [SPEAKER_01]: Okay. [SPEAKER_03]: Let's see. [SPEAKER_03]: You can see it. [SPEAKER_03]: Just a band aid. [SPEAKER_03]: It was, it was wow. [SPEAKER_01]: That little boo boo. [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Paper cut. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: It's, it still hurts. [SPEAKER_03]: It was a much bigger bandage until today. [SPEAKER_03]: I was allowed to switch into a band aid. [SPEAKER_01]: That's a typing finger right there, too. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, even worse, it's the touch ID finger for like unlocking my computer. [SPEAKER_03]: So I have to now, you know, I'm one of those idiots who has a long password because I never actually type it in and now I have to type it in. [SPEAKER_03]: That's a bummer. [SPEAKER_03]: That's a bummer. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Every time I have to get onto my computer, I now have to type, please come back Peter Angela's 2024 every time. [SPEAKER_01]: My last on the ER was with the poison ivy. [SPEAKER_01]: I was when Dietrich Adams was announced, he's on the I.L. [SPEAKER_01]: with a foot infection and my mealy mind went to. [SPEAKER_01]: That's right. [SPEAKER_01]: I had, I had, and I got infected. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he has a bad case of poison ivy in his foot. [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think so. [SPEAKER_01]: But mate, manager, I'll be said it looks gnarly. [SPEAKER_01]: My foot looked gnarly too when I [SPEAKER_01]: I think could have been that. [SPEAKER_01]: Or he's stepped on a fish hook. [SPEAKER_03]: There's our post-possibility. [SPEAKER_03]: Could be, it could be. [SPEAKER_03]: There are no details. [SPEAKER_03]: I guess in infectious foot, that is, not only could easily be, could easily be poison. [SPEAKER_03]: You are correct. [SPEAKER_03]: I just don't know how he would run into poison. [SPEAKER_03]: I've been calling this foot. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he's just doing some yard work. [SPEAKER_01]: Wow. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I guess people were debating how they would shuffle the roster. [SPEAKER_01]: But then I feel like we've had what Albert Swerre, since Zach Epsilon, we'll get to Zach Epsilon. [SPEAKER_01]: But to see what down, we had Albert Swerre has come up. [SPEAKER_01]: And then we had Kate Povich come up. [SPEAKER_01]: And now we have our third picture. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we're just already running through pictures here. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, who had Brandon Young starting in the second week of Oriental Spaceball? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, it was inevitable that he would start to multiple games this year, but not the second week. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought we'd get a few weeks in. [SPEAKER_01]: I thought we'd get to May, maybe. [SPEAKER_03]: I did not. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, there's something about though, like Fland being hurt, and then we saw Hayes getting hurt today. [SPEAKER_03]: There's something about the same guys tend to always get hurt. [SPEAKER_03]: And it's like now it's like I'm just waiting for O'Neill. [SPEAKER_03]: O'Neill's gonna be hurt any day now I can't believe he's still in there. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, at some point Well, what whether it's just your body's kind of it's not as strong or the way you play or something I mean, but we see it all the time right now we're still living it with cursed dead [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and to a lesser extent, but still a true Jordan Westburg West to get 30% of the season now. [SPEAKER_01]: So, and it seems like some guys stay healthy year and year out and some guys just get hurt every year. [SPEAKER_01]: And so you're right, the O'Neill is a ticking time bomb. [SPEAKER_01]: And hopefully, I mean, and it was just, I guess we can start with that plan. [SPEAKER_01]: It was just unfortunate because A is stuff looked really good. [SPEAKER_01]: He did with the forwardings. [SPEAKER_01]: It was in there. [SPEAKER_01]: And B, I remember all the offseason talk was and all the spring training talk with health care than ever, healthy and an advert. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, he's like felt better than he has in years, in years. [SPEAKER_01]: And I had this back surgery, you know, and four innings. [SPEAKER_01]: And you're bad for that. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, and there's really no word, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Josh, you're ready to write the right it was right elbow discomfort, but I think the bigger news was yesterday when it came out that he is going to Texas for a second opinion, right? [SPEAKER_03]: Which means the first opinion had to be pretty bad. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, you know, he didn't like the first opinion exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: What's the path you're okay? [SPEAKER_03]: The first opinion that news was had to be at least 60 day if not more. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes. [SPEAKER_01]: But either way, whenever talking about elbow, plus second opinions, yes, it's not going to be good. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to be good. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not going to be good. [SPEAKER_03]: Happy ending here. [SPEAKER_03]: And three weeks ago, we talked about how we have a depth of starting pitch and now it's like, well, where are we? [SPEAKER_03]: What happened? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, well, I mean, I feel pretty good about the start in pitching still the the whole idea that a picture could get hurt and there's just pick your guy whoever is rested or whoever's turn it is because I feel about a similar level confidence with Kate Poe bitch or with Dean Kramer or joining young and I think just time-wise there's burning out his turn so he got the start. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, when some of these guys I feel pretty equal there. [SPEAKER_03]: The guy I'm most excited to see is Tray Gibson. [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, I'll try getting them too. [SPEAKER_03]: I want sure. [SPEAKER_03]: He's the guy who won there because because we haven't seen that up into Big League level yet, I still hold out hope that it's even better than those guys. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I'm sorry, I feel I feel good about the depth and I didn't want to use the depth as early as we have, but I feel okay about it. [SPEAKER_03]: I do too with the start and pitching and I mean we're jumping straight into this, it's all right. [SPEAKER_03]: We're game 10 is going on while we're doing this. [SPEAKER_03]: So we are 3 and 6 at the moment. [SPEAKER_03]: And what's been interesting about the 3 and 6 loss is we have seen start and pitch in [SPEAKER_03]: We have seen the bats go completely cold and we've seen defense cost us games all across the border. [SPEAKER_03]: We've lost these games by every part of baseball. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's true, it's true, I mean, from being late to covering first base with Jeremiah Jackson to like being picked off at first with Kobe Mayo, it doesn't steal any bases. [SPEAKER_01]: It's like we didn't know what to do. [SPEAKER_01]: He never gets on base, so he was confused what to do when he got to first hasn't got picked off. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's like fundamental stuff, too. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's one thing, it's been different. [SPEAKER_03]: Saturday, Saturday night, what's the chance of two balls in the bottom of the night to be hit over Dylan Bieber's head? [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Like what's the chance of that? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's, it's, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, Josh. [SPEAKER_01]: The three and six star did you just look it on paper. [SPEAKER_01]: It's, it's disappointing. [SPEAKER_01]: There's no way get around it. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, getting swooped by the pirates. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not, and it's not like we're going against a juggernaut to the league, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, no, it's a soft start. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a soft start schedule eyes. [SPEAKER_01]: And so you would think, oh, this is a good opportunity to go up to a hot start. [SPEAKER_01]: But the [SPEAKER_01]: yet with that said, I don't want to be all polyana here, but there's some things I really like about this team. [SPEAKER_03]: And that's the thing is this is not going to be a withdrawn effect because this team is going to craft the bed again. [SPEAKER_03]: I've seen plenty of things that exciting about this team that think that no matter what this team is always in the game, even with this [SPEAKER_03]: I never felt like we were blown out of many games of these six losses, and I see the bats starting to come alive. [SPEAKER_03]: I see bright spots in the bullpen. [SPEAKER_03]: I've seen there's that Trevor Rodgers seems to be doing it again. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: That's exciting in the in the rotation. [SPEAKER_03]: So I'm not kind of orials Twitter orials Facebook. [SPEAKER_03]: They can melt down [SPEAKER_03]: And one of we build, and that's because that is filled with a bunch of people who have never seen this before. [SPEAKER_03]: But just expect that you sign Peter Lanzo and you win baseball games. [SPEAKER_03]: They haven't been through 162 games. [SPEAKER_03]: 9 games is nothing to panic over. [SPEAKER_03]: And I believe last year, do you know where Craig Albraness was with the Cleveland Cardian question? [SPEAKER_01]: Sure, yeah. [SPEAKER_03]: Do you know what their record was after nine games? [SPEAKER_01]: Well, there are remarkable comeback last year, so I don't know what the record was after nine games. [SPEAKER_01]: Three and six. [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and they didn't know. [SPEAKER_01]: No, I like this. [SPEAKER_01]: I like this. [SPEAKER_01]: So not, yeah, sometimes I'm about players being slow starters. [SPEAKER_03]: The managers have the managers of slow starter. [SPEAKER_03]: Don't worry. [SPEAKER_03]: No, no, it's just tell me, and I know we've talked about it before with that. [SPEAKER_03]: with other teams like the Nationals and stuff, where it's like, you can't, you can't judge his team based on nine games. [SPEAK

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