Springer's Dip, State of the Yankees & Your Texts!
6/12/20261 hr 40 min
Blake Murphy is joined by Sportsnet's Chris Black to discuss George Springer's dip in production, Brendon Little's pitching with the Bisons and Patrick Corbin's last few starts. Afterwards, Jorge Castillo (31:52) previews the Aaron Judge-less New York Yankees. Baseball labour reporter Jen Ramos-Eisen (50:58) talks the latest in the CBA negotiations and the Athletics playing in Vegas. In the final segment, Blake takes your texts on Nathan Lukes, Ernie Clement, the 4th and 5th starter spots and more! (1:15:30)
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First 90 secondsBlake Murphy· Host0:00
[upbeat music] Well, you heard it there coming in, Jays-Yankees, 7:07 tonight. Ryan Weathers against Trey Savage. We assume. The Jays weirdly haven't actually, uh, mentioned who their probables are, but we're pretty sure it's Trey Savage against Ryan Weathers, which surely the Yankees aren't happy to hear, given how Trey Savage has performed against them. What a sports weekend this is shaping up to be. You'll have game six of the Stanley Cup finals, you'll have game five of the NBA finals. Canada is playing a World Cup game today in the city, which is, uh, very, very cool. Um, the Marlies are in the final. There's all sorts of stuff going on. There's a, a UFC on the White House lawn, which I'm morbidly curious about, and, um, you know, the Monster energy drink. I'm a guy who likes a Monster energy drink. That kind of laying out over [laughs] the, the White House is very amusing to me. Uh, lots of fun sports stuff, and a Jays-Yankees series, which is always fun. Uh, three set down at Rogers Center, 7:07 tonight, 3:07 on Saturday, 1:37 on Sunday. Let's get into it. Uh, on the line we're joined by sports@producer and King of the Threads at Down to Black on Twitter, it's Chris Black. Chris, how we doing, buddy?
Chris Black· Guest1:13
How's it going, Blake? I'm doing well.
Blake Murphy· Host1:16
That's a bit of a eye roll with the, the King of the Threads. You don't, you don't like that? I don't, I don't know- [laughs] ... uh, I don't know how else to push people there.
Chris Black· Guest1:22
I'm never comfortable, I'm never comfortable with praise, specifically public praise, but I appreciate it nonetheless.
Blake Murphy· Host1:29
Well, uh,