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For "Hot Corner" in Hour 3, the guys ask how Tuesday's guest, Seth Johnson, fits into the Orioles long-term plans in their starting rotation. 

Tim also ranks the members of the show based off their "demeanor". 

In the final hour of the show, the guys check in with Puck Sports' John Ourand - who broke the news this week of David Rubenstein's purchase of the Baltimore Orioles - and longtime MLB Insider Ken Rosenthal. 

• MLB Rundown 
• Long stretch of games for O’s – facing Astros, Red Sox, Nationals & Guardians
• AL West strength who will prevail into Wild Card spot – Astros, Mariners & Rangers 
• NL East – Atlanta Braves rule across entire AL
• Compare Braves & Brewers  pretty evenly matched in starting pitching 
• BaseballBiz visit to Camden Yards – Avid & loud fans with a Sold Out crowd of 43,000 plus fans
• Mat’s visit to Camden Yards, sat in the vanishing left field seats w/Blue Jays fans
• Finding moments & milestones with Yandy Diaz
• Select a Rays jersey with player longevity with the Rays - Isaac Paredes 
• Yandy & Isaak quietly build a great body of baseball work
• Game 2 – Zach Eflin was on fire against the Orioles Eflin, the most important & steady confident player of the Rays. Cy Young award talk
• Game 3 with Orioles – Tyler’s pitching was off and Rays lost
• Grayson Rodriguez - pitched a career-high 8 scoreless innings on 7 strikeouts & 5 hits (O's Game Notes) ‘he fanned Curtis Mead on a 100.1 mph fastball in the 2nd inning, the 2nd fastest strikeout pitch by an O’s starter in the Statcast era …His 117 strikeouts this season are the 10th-most by an O’s rookie at 23 years old
• No Yankees & Red Sox this postseason 
• Grayson Rodriguez & Shane McClanahan comparisons on style and health
• Brandon Lowe – (O's Game Notes) slugged his 21st home run of the season in the first inning; marked the 105th homer of his career, surpassing Carl Crawford for sole possession of 6thplace on the Rays all-time home run list…Also marked his 202nd career extra-base hit, tying him w/Fred McGriff for eighth-most in team history
• Game 4 – 11 inning loss for the Rays 
•  Why did Kevin Cash use Pete Fairbanks for 2 innings 
• Rays face Angels next
• Shohei Ohtani 
• Ray Bourque & the Boston Bruins path could that be the same for Mike Trout
• Angels need an Alex Anthopoulos style GM to rebuild their organization – perhaps Chaim Bloom
• Pirates could be a model for a new Angels path
• Will Rays keep a .600 record for the remaining season?
• Teams with a Bye may go cold with time off at the beginning of postseason
• The Stadium of the Future – Virtual Ballpark – with live - on-field avatars
• AppleTV & MLB –  a camera shot from the seats with the Canadian broadcast 
• Rays’ Tristan Gray (O's Game Notes) Gray made his 1st MLB start, 1st career hit, and launched his first career home run in the 8th inning

Thanks to Mat Germain. Mat can be found on Twitter @Mat_Germain_   Mark can be found on Twitter @TheBaseballBiz
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 Nate Andrews, Baltimore Orioles analyst from Full Count Chaos visits and brings a look from Birdland to BaseballBiz On Deck 

• Orioles Rebuild – Mike Elias ‘Rebuild is Over’ 
• Leading American League with an over .600 winning record this year 
• Yankees & Boston Red Sox tied for last in AL East 
• The AL East is the Beast 
• Brandon Hyde – Hats Off to Hyde – looks to be the AL Manager of the Year 
• Strong Orioles Roster, Rutschman, Mateo, Mountcastle, Henderson, Hays, Santander, Frasier, O’Hearn, Urias, etc 
• O’s IL - Mullins & Hicks 
• Aaron Hicks – Yankees tribute upon return to Yankee stadium & Yankee fans fill stadium with boos 
• Young superstars ready to step up when injuries arise in the lineup 
• Ryan O’Hearn stepped up – clutch player - Winning is contagious with the Orioles 
• Trade murmuring – Angelos not likely to trade for Ohtani 
• Orioles bullpen has blown many saves 
• Marcus Stroman or Blake Snell potential trades – why are the Padres doing so poorly, are they ready to trade 
• Dean Kremer awesome pitching 
• Shintaro Fujinami traded from the Oakland A’s still trying to find the strike zone 
• What does trade deadline, August 1st, look like for Baltimore 
• Blood, Sweat, Tears and Money What about fickle fans until the losses start to pile up                                                                                                                                        
• Baltimore loud at the Trop in St. Pete 
• October brings a “different beast” to baseball 
• Pete Fairbanks – Tampa Bay Rays – Closer Assassin – hard to face 
• Camden Yards – when will a lease be signed – the Orioles aren’t going anywhere –  ask John Angelos 

Special Thanks to Nate Andrews for sharing knowledge on The Baltimore Orioles
 You can find Nate at https://www.fullcountchaos.com or on Twitter @FullCountChaos

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• Nate Andrews, host of Full Count Chaos visits BaseballBiz to talk Orioles. 
• We discuss the O's prepping for the 2023 season. Spring Training at Ed Smith Stadium starts soon.
• Minor League team names 
• Mike Elias – No more Gigantic Traumatic Rebuild – time now for Lift Off 
• Orioles have 9 of the top 100 prospects - Gunnar Henderson, Grayson Rodriguez, Jackson Holliday in top 12 
• New Balanced Schedule – seeing every team, every year 
• East is the Beast – AL East 
• Orioles had a better record than half of the American League teams 
• The Freakin’ Yankees – nice guy, Aaron Judge complains about “Wall-timore” 
• Every team fan gets to see  legends like Shohei Ohtani play their team 
•  ‘Da New MLB Rules –  
  • Losing the Shift – Batters being paid $10 million a year paid needed to quit whining about the shift & figure it out  https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-2023-rule-changes-pitch-timer-larger-bases-shifts 
  • Adley Rutschman, the Shift, Premier Catcher, Pop time leader & Fan Favorite at the Caravan, 
  • Nate will miss tough guy Rougned Odor, rocket arm & ready to throw down 
  • Base Sizes Increased. What will the impact be on the game? 
  •  Cedric Mullins & Mateo will continue to steal even more bases. Adley’s pop speed will definitely be necessary.   https://www.mlb.com/glossary/rules/base-sizes 
  • Pitch Clock 
• Oriole’s Spring Training at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Florida 
• Getting  ready for Orioles baseball this year after a 2022 winning season. 
• Red Sox & Chaim Bloom may have a hard year 
• The Angelos Family Soap Opera – law suits and rumors of moving the team. They have yet to extend the lease in Baltimore.  Expansion teams in Nashville & Las Vegas? 
• 2023 Playoff time 

 Special Thanks to Nate Andrews for sharing knowledge on The Baltimore Orioles
You can find Nate at https://www.fullcountchaos.com or on Twitter @FullCountChaos

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Special thanks to XTaKeRuX for the music "Rocking Forward"

Tommy & Jimmy are suffering Red Sox fans
Big Picture who is leading the American League with 7 Wins for the last 10 games?

Who will be the division winners?

National League

• Steve Cohen’s Amazing Mets pitching is amazing 
• Mets Manager, Buck Showalter speaks about Jacob deGrom’s return’, “He was something”
• After 13 months deGrom delivers 12 SO’s in 5.2 innings against
• Max Scherzer delivers 11 SOs
• Mets took 4 of 5 against the Atlanta Braves
• Braves & NY Mets Fights in the stands are not acceptable – 
• Little League players can teach us all something on sportsmanship
• Tight NL Central Cardinals leading the division by 1 game over the Milwaukee Brewers
• Reds, Cubs & Pirates unlikely Wild Card candidates
• NL West
• Dave Roberts LA Dodgers leading the pack
• Padres made major moves bringing on Juan Soto & Josh Bell from the Nationals

American League 

• Astros are now co-leaders with the Yankees with a .640 winning average
• Yankees & Mariners 13 inning game began with Gerrit Cole facing off with Luis Castillo 
• Mariners used 5 pitchers & Yankees used 7 pitchers in that game
• Yankees slow slide down from a .724 winning percentage to .640 today
• Reflecting on Mark & Brandon’s predictions 
• AL Central – Expected the White Sox to have a strong.
• AL West – Dusty Baker’s boys are leading strong 
• Mariners are coming on strong
• Expectations of the Angels have been dashed 
• Sadness for the Red Sox – as Chris Sale was in a bike accident and has a wrist injury that will take him out for the remainder of 2022
• AL Wild Card likely candidates  – Toronto, Seattle, Tampa Bay Rays or Baltimore Oriole

Special Thanks to Brandon Noe for his baseball insight & news reports

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Best wishes to Chris Sale. May he have a speedy recovery.

Tori travels home to Virginia and visits with renowned international griot and poet Nikki Giovanni in the watermark year of 2019 for the diaspora and humanity (2019 being the 400th year since our ancestors arrived in Virginia to create a new global culture).  They discuss Giovanni's life and thoughts on the future, humanity, politics, and the highs and lows of it all.  Giovanni is arguably the greatest living poet in the world, as well as a beloved activist and educator.  On this special show, Giovanni shares her thoughts on our current political climate, the Global International African Arts Movement, and her report card to God about humankind. 

Credits:

Guest:  Nikki Giovanni
Host and Producer:  Tori Reid
Executive Producer:  Patrick A. Howell
Executive Producer:  Tom Lutz
Co-Executive Producer:  Tori Reid
Sound Mixer and Cinematographer:  Trevon Facey
Audio Engineer and Editor:  William Broughton

Music:

Intro – “Consumer” from “The Year of 11 Project”
Outro – Produced by Stereo Mixtrumental

Logo Photography:  Bobby Holland / MPTV Images
Photo credit for Nikki Giovanni:  Trevon Facey  

a Victory & Noble production
@ 2020 Victory & Noble LLC All Rights Reserved

Here's to Life with Tori Reid is a show about living your best life, living it out loud and always using the reservoir of the spirit to fill in life's valleys and mountain tops. Find more of our shows at www.HerestoLifeEveryday.com, also find out more about our host Tori Reid on Instagram at www.instagram.com/iamtorireid.

Jim Caruso made his Broadway debut alongside none other than Liza Minnelli in Liza’s At The Palace in 2008, which won a Tony Award for Best Special Event and also earned a Grammy nomination. He has performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center and in Times Square for a crowd of 100,000 theater fans. He is the winner of multiple MAC awards, BroadwayWorld Awards, BackStage Magazine Bistro Awards, and a NightLife Awards. And on top of all of this, he is MOST beloved for his acclaimed weekly series' “Broadway at Birdland” and "Jim Caruso's Cast Party." 

Diana DeGarmo & Ace Young met in the Broadway production of "HAIR" in 2010, connecting over their shared experience as American Idol contestants. Diana has a new album out, "GEMINI," a country big band record available digitally and on vinyl. Ace is working on his new solo project, too! And next year they'll be touring together in the national tour of Broadway's "First Date." 

And a very first ENGAGED PEEYAW to all our listeners out there! Wil is tweeting about Normani because she wrote the song, Court is a child bride engaged to a successful comedian and Leif is greedy BUT he LOVES his MOMMY!!! That’s right ladies and gentleGAYS we are kicking off another THIS B*TCH series with... ARIANA GRANDE! You’re not going to believe what year ol’ GRANDE AEROLES was born... let’s just say we were smoking cigarettes by then! We go all the way back to the beginning of her journey... her parents were CEOS and she was a weird deranged goth child! We know! We STAN!!! From Prep school and the French Horn to the Florida Panthers (who for the record we DO NOT know) all the way to a big time move to Los Angeles to be on... BROADWAY!! We have all the scalding hot TEA that made this donut licker who she is today! One day you’re using the internet to research 9/11 the next DING DONG Nickelodeon’s here! Court is known in most circles for her LIGHTLY DIVERSE group of friends, Wil is THE CHILD DETECTIVE and our tiny baby sex doll has a voice to bring the HOUSE DOWN! From the YouTube covers that made her a household name to the first single that had us looking for Jordan Sparks! YOU MUST LISTEN TO THIS EP! THEN RATE! REVIEW! FOLLOW! REPOST! SUBSCRIBE! VISIT www.narcisistas.com and come back next week for BIG NIPPLES PT.2!!!