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on today’s show we finally have a a decently moderately sized uh signing on our hands to look at and React to what it says about the Padres with usay Kikuchi agreeing to a deal with the angels and then also it’s mailbag Pala answering your questions on Blake Snell Jackson Mir losing out on Rookie of the Year Marvel DC questions all sorts of stuff on this episode so uh let’s get to it you are locked on Padres your daily San Diego Padres podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team Every Day greetings ladies and gentlemen and welcome to an edition of lockdown po podcast which is part of the lockdown podcast Network your team every day for Monday November 25th as always I’m your host with sometimes occasionally but certainly not always the most Javier Reyes can follow me on Twitter SLX and also Blue Sky haveno j a v i i p n o also check out the show account on Twitter _ Padres for updates on the show and feel free to keep sending me questions on all of these handles uh because we’re going to be answering a bunch of them today but I must first start off and say with this podcast first of all we are brought to you by the always impeccable FanDuel we love them very much you can start the season with a big return on FanDuel new customers can place a $5 bet and you’ll get started with $150 in bonus bets if you win your first $5 bet visit fanduel.com to get started first of all I just want to like say for this podcast maybe you can tell already I am once again and it’s driving me insane and I am so so sorry to you guys I’m getting sick again I don’t know what why this keeps happening that I go out once to the store every two weeks or whatever and I get sick I’m trying to figure it out I’m sorry uh so I apologize for that so you might get a lot of cuts uh especially for my video listeners you might get a lot of cuffs because I am coughing and I’m I’m a little nasly but I’m coughing like crazy right now now so if you get a lot of C coughs my apologies if that’s really distracting I’m trying to get better but um for today’s episode guys we’re going to be talking uh a lot of mailbag questions um is and I think that that’s going to be really key over the next few weeks that’s why the intro I mentioned there’s a Marvel DC question because frankly we don’t have too much to uh talk about because this is how baseball offseasons go for better or worse when it comes to the game in my opinion it’s for the worst because I think that one thing that’s always fun about the other two major sports is when free agency open it like actually opens and it’s like oh cool this is great I saw the best you know right tackle get signed in like two days and NBA oh Kevin Durant sign with the Warriors or the the the Nets like it’s it’s much more exciting but in these things with a with and this is for a bunch of reasons whether it be ownership being cheap whether it be Scott Boris being really annoying to negotiate with granted that’s his job um a bunch of these reasons why it might take until like February before wano signs but alas that’s where we’re at but that doesn’t mean we don’t have nothing to talk about folks I’m just saying keep those mailbag questions coming in it makes it a little bit easier for mailbag Monday the first thing I want to talk about and there really hasn’t been much Padre’s news the only thing that’s of news is something we’re to get into later and that’s Jackson Merill um losing out on Rookie of the Year Dennis Lyn actually wrote a really great article detailing you know why it was unfortunate that he lost and maybe why he should have won um I recommend that we’re going to talk about that in a second but first of all us Kikuchi agreed to a deal this morning uh with the angels three years 63 million now this might not seem like it’s Padre’s related and for the most part it isn’t first of all I just want to say that the angels are hilarious um it’s the the the angels are the Rockies of the American League and what I mean by that is there just seems to be literally no direction in anything they do this is a team that and the angels I’m being now um this is a team that basically has shown that myself and others were right that they should have traded sh Otani and mik trout like three years ago and they would have absolutely kickstarted a really great rebuild if they did that but in my opinion I think that there’s a selfishness and greed from the owner where they don’t want to invest enough to make the team better but they do want to have uh the star power that actually will make people like pay attention to their games especially in the case of sh who they didn’t trade and they didn’t and for no reason right like I don’t know if you guys remember when they made that trade for Lucas Gil at the deadline and he was terrible and they gave up really good prospects and their team was even worse after that so yeah this is what happens when you have bad ownership so so again Padre’s fans whenever it looks bad just be thankful that it’s s now we’re going to see this offseason right with the new ownership group and what have you but just be thankful that like this is a team that’s clearly going to like at least try somewhat so that’s good but anyway um you say Kikuchi is a player that so I have I have two reactions to this and they’re both Rel to the Padre’s I think that the Padre’s they clearly need to get a starter this offseason right and Kikuchi was definitely one of those players that could have done that and he was really good last year like he was a really really solid player and actually his his peripherals um suggest that he actually got a little bit unlucky yes he had a 4.05 ra but 3.75 expected FIP of 3.46 X FIP of 3.2 he’s actually been really really Sol these last two years um he’s a little bit old a little bit but 33 isn’t like detrimental to me want to sign a guy especially on a three-year deal I think the angels are dumb because they should be rebuilding and I don’t understand their Direction but in a vacuum I don’t think that’s actually a bad deal for Kikuchi especially because lowkey really good strikeout pitcher 28% K rate this year with only a 6% walk rate and last year 25.9% K rate with only 6.9% walk rate year before that 27% strikeout rate and he’s gotten better with limiting the walks I think that that’s the biggest thing his walk to strikeout ratio has gone down basically every year for a while now it was 14.5% now it’s 19% last year then 22% this year so you could make the argument that maybe he’s pitching above his head but I think kuchi um was a potential option for the Padre’s considering that they need a starter and considering that we don’t know exactly how many funds they have available to them to go out and get a big starter like I really do think that um Kikuchi could have been an option because just a three-year deal like that especially with so much of the the things we’ve talked about in the show with salaries that are going to get bigger with tatis and Machado especially and the fact that you know they want to they want to potentially extend Jackson Merill and then they’ve got you know other deals like musir and cworth and darish that like you know a smaller deal like this would be pretty great I think for the Padre’s but um I am wondering if him signing with the angels is a sign that you that we don’t want him because what what what do we know about the Angels they make all the worst signings right they sign renon to like a 16year deal whatever the heck it was guy never plays and he’s a mess for in more ways than one right Josh Hamilton Albert Pool all these guys Justin Upton that’s one that was a little bit of a Miss on their part but I will say this was in my opinion like when you look at some of the top options available he was definitely one of the ones that um that sparked interest because you know that he’s not going to go for as much as Blake Snell for Corbin Burns Max freed guys like that but it also makes me wonder is the reason that this there’s two things that I another couple things that I want to say first of all this is just a reminder that the MLB Rumor Mill doesn’t always mean anything and what I mean by that is we basically got no rumors about Kikuchi and then it just happened so keep that in mind that you’re going to get a lot of reports uh I know I just saw one um I think this morning that said the Mets are currently the favorites according to Executives the sign Juan stto I just think that we’ve seen in baseball that the rumor mill just isn’t it’s only effective in my opinion like 100% certainty when you’re just wondering if someone’s kind of like if teams are actually just talking and like maybe someone’s on the table but even then because again you heard nothing about Kikuchi nothing there was no room R and all of a sudden he signs meanwhile you’re hearing all the rumors about Snell about SoDo about Roki like there’s so many there and what’s going to happen is that Roki suzaki is going to sign with the Cubs and it’s going to be like see like these things change so quickly and it’s just a harder like ecosystem to break through when it comes to reporting on it I mean Padre’s fans right like they they know firsthand the infamous Max shers are close to a deal right um that doesn’t mean that they’re all wrong and that it’s all Bs because for example Wan stto was rumored to the Padre’s and it ended up happening right but I would just keep that in mind that things are going to happen very weirdly uh when it comes to the course of the offseason so all in all hopefully though my my last point maybe Kikuchi signing so quickly with another team shows that the Padre’s have some confidence in getting one of the top tier players whether that be Roki because of how much he’s he’s going to help them when it comes to payroll um flexibility or it be a snell or fre or something like that in the sense that wow maybe they are going to actually spend a lot this offseason it really was just about resetting the luxury tax we’ll have to see so you can look at this in a bunch of different ways whether it’s like man he would have been the ideal or man he’s going to be bad because he’s an angel or man uh this is a sign that we’re aiming for someone big and we’re not going for cheap options so we’ll just have to see but uh yeah use huchi it’s a shame that he’s going to be waste on the Angels though but guys before we get into the mail bag and talk about some of these things as I try to uh finish this episode on my flu game I guess this is I got to take a second to talk to you about one of our sponsors and it is a new sponsor it is the good folks over at Omaha that’s right you might be familiar with that call when it came to Payton Manning when he was playing for when he was playing football he loved shouting Omaha but we’re talking about Omaha Stakes guys nothing delivers comfort and joy quite like the unrivaled quality and taste of Omaha staks this 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already because we had a lot of questions uh this week but more importantly we got some comments and questions on topics that I think are worthy of talking about for a long time right so firstly it’s about Jackson Merill the first thing I want to say is Ione go check out Dennis Lynn’s um article over at the athletic where basically he talks about how you you know the rookie accomplishments it’s a shame that he wasn’t rewarded reading from the article had Merill won the award the Padres would have received an additional 2025 MLB draft pick after the first round through Major League Baseball Major League Baseball’s Prospect promotion incentive PPI instead Paul skines was announced as the winner after pitching as well as anyone in the majors from the time he debuted in May and instead the pades will get no draft related compensation after promoting marijan opening day and watching the shortstop turn center fielder flourish for six full months um he goes on to explain like look this is like a guy who you know he turned 21 and he led the team in war he was basically the team’s overall best player uh and help them resurge right after such a down 2023 things that voters seem to not take into account I think that for me before we get into some of your guys’ reactions I think that it’s I was a little bit surprised by how not close it was and I it’s it’s funny because I said this with with arum on um was it Thursday or Friday’s podcast I think it was Friday’s podcast so everybody go check that out we talked about Roki suzaki um I said it as a joke but I think I’m only like 20% kidding when I say that like you know oh you need someone like if was if Jackson barl is dating uh Paige Beckers that he’s more famous does that affect the vote maybe I don’t know frankly um because voters can be a little bit weird sometimes but to me um my personal opinion is that I think rookie of the year is a reward that shouldn’t be predicated on team success necessarily I think that it really should just be the Excellence of the individual because like I just feel like often times the rookies are on the teams that aren’t necessarily going to be amazing anyway right that I maybe I’m dead wrong on that but that’s just me um I think that in general there’s been a little bit of a vibe that like have the pyres been getting robbed you know Jake cworth could have won rookie of the year he lost to Deon Williams man Machado could have won MVP then you have Merill in my opinion the only one that’s a robbery and I’ve talked about this before was Machado I don’t understand how he literally led the national league in war I’m pretty sure or was I I’m pretty sure he led the national league in war okay looking back he didn’t lead he was 0.1 behind noan arado that year but he Lo the winner was Paul Goldman and I just like I don’t understand how Machado heading into that season clearly needed to be the alpha because they didn’t have tatis I don’t understand how the war discrepancy is that close and the two other nominees are teammates so why is one of them the MVP you literally had another one on there just made no sense to me Machado was obscenely clutched that year they don’t go anywhere without him that year and they maybe don’t even make this trade for soda so I thought that one actually was a robbery when it comes to this I just think that when I start seeing things like best ER for a pitcher since 1913 25 years or younger or whatever it was I just think that like it’s fine if skin won and some of you do agree we’re going to talk about some of those responses right again guys I’m sorry about my health and whatnot I just I’m sorry um so first of all we did get some that said yeah uh he was robbed at ramama mury 9938 says Jackson Maro was robbed of NL rookie of the year I think this was due to baseball Riders of America voters having a West Coast bias and don’t watch Padre’s games since most of them are on the East Coast Jackson deserved better skin only played in 23 games it it’s totally fair like it really is and I I saw some people making jokes where it was like the MVP voting came out and Jackson was ninth in voting and then Paul SK was 19th now my response to that would be is that in general position players are always going to be higher so it’s like you might have to take that out of the equation because that’s a little bit unfair that just because they’re playing a different position that they can’t be rewarded and I think that’s what these type of rewards you know your s Young’s rookie of the year that might be what it’s for but I do get it because it does emphasize how much more important Jackson Merl was to a team that was actually relevant in the grand scheme of baseball this year so I do understand that point and someone also Echoes the same sort of sentiment at movie fan z89 says I know it’s an award that’s for a single player and not a team award so maybe Merill is not as upset but I do think he was robbed skin did not even start the season and only pitched in 23 games and 23 first place votes out of 30 Merl was out there every game in a position that was brand new to him and he excelled I just think the reason that they went so far for skin is because they also nominated for sa young and everybody knew he was not going to win that so by default he ran away with Rookie of the Year um I I kind of like that I think that it reminds me a little bit of like how the Oscars like there’s so many years where one movie is clearly the best but it’s not going to win because a bunch of reasons oh it’s a war movie it’s a biopic on some famous leader or whatever so that’s got to win best picture right that’s more important that’s serious so usually they end up giving like Best Director to what actually is the best movie of the year maybe that’s what happened here right like one of those sort of situations well it’s not one to one sorry guys I’m sick leave me alone but you get my point like the the kind of they’re not going to win blank so you give them this uh sort of sentiment is what I’m getting at and I absolutely understand that but then lastly we had someone else say at Brandon Evans 1306 I don’t think Merill was robbed schemes was putting up historic numbers I do think Merill deserve more first place vote though also Marl won the Players voting which uh means more more to me totally feel that totally feel that it’s it’s a tight race but I think that Dennis Lynn again go check out that article I just think he made a great point where it’s kind of a really un forunate like precedent to set that like we talk all the time about how you know there’s all this like incentivization to not call up players to be cheap to go to arbitration blah blah blah blah that’s kind of in the owners and the team’s favor a lot of times and it is unfortunate that like the Pirates are rewarded for calling up their player later than they should have so they could get that um service time I’m pretty sure um like you have all that and they get rewarded for that in a way that feels I think I think SK actually gets like another level another year of control I forgot what it is exactly meanwhile the Padres were like bullish and not service time manipulating and they don’t get rewarded for that and it literally helped them make the playoffs and be so great so look my opinion is that I have no beef with either winner of this award I think it’s phenomenally close I really do but I agree with my man right here I think it should have been closer like really only seven thir first place votes that to me was very weird and it was was very like maybe a little bit of the East Coast bias thing I know that’s like a common uh thing that people bring up but to me I was like really like did you guys not watch the sport this year because if if Paul skem doesn’t play for the Pirates this year it does not impact anything in terms of the grander picture of baseball I think that that matters sometimes but again I think that matters more for MVP so again I’m going back and forth and I think as evidenced by and this these are only just a few comments as evidenced by the comments that I’ve gotten from some of you guys and that I’ve seen online and seen from other reporters it tells me that maybe this was you know no one’s going to be happy either way like this was clearly a very heated race the fact that I’ve seen even Padre’s fans say like hey I get it SK was amazing so who knows who knows um another comment though moving on to another topic from my man rahama muray is sandir is an expensive option for us would prefer a cheaper player like Mark can if proar doesn’t resign um Mark canah I think might be a little bit watched at this point I mean he’s fine right but I would rather go the Tyler anneal route if you want to get like a little bit a little bit spicy because Tyler O’Neal while he is scary has shown that this is a guy who could hit probably like 25 home runs play great defense strike out a lot but get on base at a decent clip because of his walk rate and also like I said play good defense I think that there’s like upside there I would much rather spend money on Tyler O’Neal because I think that he’s not going to cost nearly as much as santand there and as evidenced in my episode we did last week I just think he’s a total trap and I’m also going to be writing more about that for just baseball so look forward to that but of course y’all that’s not it we’ve got more topics to discuss a few more questions to answer that you guys sent in that will be a blast and will make you smile because they made me smile we’re going to talk about that in just a second guys but first I got to shout out one of our sponsors and that is the good folks over at FanDuel get ready to tackle the NFL with FanDuel America’s number one sports book right now customers can bet $5 and get 150 in bonus bets if you win so let me tell you man and the fandel Sportsbook app gives you everything you need to place live bets 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four it’s great to have two players in your lineup that can get on base that often and I just lament they never batted one and two after tatis came back and reclaimed his number two spot in the order tatis great and has a great Ops but his on base is far below arise and profar um I think that part of that was um a couple things that that I have to say is uh profar just up was number seven in on base percentage this year I get it I think that this still is like a thing where you know it worked though you know what I’m saying like the lineup order worked this year I do get what you’re saying though the idea of those two uh at the top of the order is pretty sick I will say that arise grounded into more double plays this year than I would have liked um it was really frustrating but overall I don’t hate it but I just think that this lineup was so good this year that I can’t really critique too much and I understand them sometimes batting tatis higher in the order because get more fast ball getting that guy on base is a nightmare especially on the Bas paths but overall it’s hard for me to complain when it clearly worked you know what I’m saying but I do understand your your point though overall about Brar and I agree I said this on Twitter like a couple weeks ago like his weight on base his expected weight on base was great he made actual changes to his swing right like he has more of a leg kick his stance is like not it’s it’s much wider like there are actual things that he changed in his plate approach that we’re going to talk about when we do the Prof fire player and review in more detail and then also also in the second half yeah still in 795 um Ops like he was still at least walking and that’s always been a trait that he’s always shared so to me I kind of agree with you man I I think that the profile thing is like I know it’s out of nowhere and I think that’s the one thing is that numbers eye test all that no I don’t see anything that jumps out for why he could regress but in just in terms of the general I’ve never seen a player who for 10 years was just eh or nearly out of the league figur it out this late it’s pretty unprecedented like I know that we’ve seen players like this do well we’ve seen your you know JD Martinez when he finally got a chance but that was different that was more of just a question of playing time uh Jose Batista great example right like he got better A lot later um RA Dicky players like that there’s really not a lot of comparisons though outside of that and if there are it’s probably players that I don’t you know that weren’t from my time necessarily L earliest I could think of Bernie Williams a little bit he wasn’t amazing immediately but even that that was just like three years so I don’t know um in general that’s kind of my vibe I agree sir Tony Su I think that he has been getting um a little bit too much um not flak but I I I agree I don’t think that this was like some crazy fluke that he’s destined to be bad this isn’t Adam Frasier this is not Cody Bellinger it’s jerks and profr I think it’s different and another comment we got uh this time a little bit of a dumb one but we’re going to read it anyway because that’s what we do on this show at Chris certa 9821 says trust me when I say the reason why the media took a hold of it is because it’s a fact the Padre’s taunted the fans acted like the big bad wolves the Dodgers were getting lit by tatis so you pitch him inside you hit him it’s baseball that’s funny uh the Padres make uh took it personal the Dodgers displayed the best defense against them winning and shutting them out and an Essence up um first of all I’m just going to respond to this and say guys it’s been like a month and a half I don’t know why I’m still getting Dodger fans on my videos but um I think this idea that fans are like some innocent like cherished little baby in a cradle as if every game no matter a fan base Dodgers Padre’s Red Sox Yankees Patriots whatever it is they’re always taunting and saying stuff to players at away away games are you kidding me like I just don’t understand why we’re acting the Dodger fans at least are acting like this is some innocent innocuous group and profar is not allowed to just do something back so therefore you’re allowed to throw stuff and then throw beer at his teammate who had nothing to do with the incident anyway I rest my case uh but what can you expect from D fans they’re weird um next up we got a little bit of a question on my guy my boy uh well not a question as much as just a comment um and and there there’s been multiple comments and I think that they have to do with one of the questions I got as well um at n p 195 yeah I don’t see us making big signings mainly trades and a couple of our own free agents that’s about it and then at James BR B BR r a US sh says Padre’s will not be Big Spenders suzaki will be their biggest suzaki will be their biggest signing uh they should trade for vento’s first base and aunia shortstop from the Mets and wood left field and an infielder and or Catcher from the Nationals who would go ceas and King they they’re both one year away for free ageny so you might as well fill gaps and think long term saving lots of money at the same time then Podge should trade konorth and rise to the Yankees for Cortez and strowman who they’d quickly flip to the Jays to rid themselves or Jays and question mark to rid themselves of his contract effectively ridding themselves of cror B contract this is up there for one of the most insane trade fantasy things I’ve ever seen so you think that they can trade for Mark Vientos who was one of the best players on the Mets last year that they can just do that right aunia the shortstop um from the Mets okay I mean you could trade for aunia probably realistically because they do have Lindor and James Wood who’s one of the best prospects in baseball they’re just going to get him back and infielder and or Catcher from the Nationals and you’re going to send away C King and then you’re going to replace them with strowman and Cortez this is like fantasy baseball where like you just do trades to do trades um and again there there’s no way you’re getting Vientos there’s no way you’re getting wood this is insane but you know what I read all the comments and I did like that you said suzaki will be the biggest signing um I think if they get Roki suzaki and then just like either resign profar or bring in Jack Peterson or maybe Tyler O’Neal I think that’s all they need to do I think that’d be a huge huge offseason but again what the heck do I know but yeah guys that is one of the craziest things but shout out to you Mr James Brash uh for one of the most bold IDE is a trading get rid of your two star pitchers for lesser pitchers and then somehow convince teams to trade their young controllable Superstar assets if they pull it off sir I will buy you whatever you want um just a nice little comment from my guy at called turned a Gundam as a Rangers Padre’s to teamer since 04 I love these collaborations I get my chocolate and my peanut butter everybody go check out my Crossover with Bryce Patrick from last week it was a blast next question though has to do with free agency and it’s a very important one uh this one coming from uh Mojave Mojave Madness on Twitter what will it possibly take to bring back Snell and if so is it worth it so I think there’s two things here it does depend on what exactly the budget we’re working with is um because again if you pay Snell like four years 120 which is like kind of the popular projection prediction from a lot of different sites from the Athletics to Fan graphs to spot trk whatever it is it’s like 30 million a year and again four the good thing about that would be that it’s four years that’s the that’s the big thing for Snell is I don’t think that we’re you have to give like a six year seven-year deal to Blake Snell that’s the good news but and as much as I love him I I I’ve said this before I really think that he’s my favorite pitcher in all of baseball for a variety of reasons it’s it’s tough to say um I think that it it wouldn’t necessarily be awful but I just feel like it really restricts them going forward um and I like Blake sell but I just like having a little bit more flexibility because again it needs to be emphasize that like the tatis and Machado contracts are going to get more and more expensive so that will limit them which is and then not to mention they have other pitching concerns with the fact that you still have CE and King who are gone after this year so PS have a lot to work with that’s why I think like Roki suzaki is like literally the like the saving Saving Grace he’s not going to be perfect I don’t think he’s going to be better than Blake Snell this next year necessarily but the fact that he’s only 23 and he’s going to get better and you get him controllable for a long time they desperately need that that’s why I always talk about how Jackson Merl was an A+ this season because they desperately need controllable players that can give them some flexibility to improve their team uh whether it be to make them even better than they were last year or to make up for any regressions they have right like it’s not impossible that Merill gets a little bit worse this year so maybe you want to have some other backups I don’t know what it is uh that Jake konorth all these things I just think that like I really think that it’s szaki man I really do I think that that’s like the dream thing or maybe you go a little bit bargain man hunting but this is why you have to be careful when you make these big deals and this is why every offseason when everyone yells at me about why don’t you want to get the big you know the best player it’s because you don’t know who’s going to become available you don’t know how everything’s going to trespass you like having flexibility um the Dodgers have a lot of Big Time Players don’t get me wrong but they’ve been good at not just spending only and getting these giant you know 12year deals and also even when they do have the bigger Deals they have deeper Pockets um than the Padre’s do overall so they can afford uh that type of stuff they can do show fr bets all that sort of stuff Yamamoto they can do all four of those and it not impede their ability to improve the team afterwards I don’t know if the Padres can do that so I’d love Snell I’m gonna be excited if they get him anyway but with these contracts especially the darish and konorth contracts and and bogar being the biggest one at least Darvish is still good um like an above average starter and especially you know when you need him he’s always shown up for the team but still makes me nervous uh having those guys if you could take back a move it’s easily Bogarts right now cuz that dude’s on an 11-year contract guys like it’s it’s rough with the Bogarts thing right now so they desperately need him to get better or at least just become a solid player you’re not asking for much from him but it’s scary it’s very scary um so yeah I think that I really think that you need to go a little bit cheap on the pitching again maybe a trade or so Zaki or or one of the like lower tier starting pitchers maybe you go out and get Patrick sandal maybe you go out and get I believe the rocky non-tendered um Cal quantrol it’s not terrible Max Scherer if you just want to have an old veteran on your team you know like just have okay players Alex Cobb isn’t too bad I don’t know uh srino right like I think you need to do that because I just think that things are going to get a little bit tight for the Padre’s uh going forward and then the last question is a little bit of a fun one that has nothing to do with baseball that I will answer quickly because it has nothing to do with baseball but at abdal uh on Twitter says top 10 Marvel DC characters uh look in my opinion look I’m not going to do all top 10 and break them down in full but um I think in general the most important characters are Wolverine Spider-Man Superman Batman and Wonder Woman I think those are always the golden five um give or take a couple ones out there uh my personal favorites are Magneto Spider-Man Peter Parker Kitty Pride um Rogue and then um um it’s hard to the last three would be Wolverine whether it be Laura or Logan or it be U miles Alice um miles being an honorable mention because I think that spiderverse is like one of the best movies ever made and I think that I want few more stories though Comics I like but he hasn’t quite had like the ultimate ultimate best comic story yet spiderverse has been his ultimate so he’s just just waiting for a little bit more from my boy my Puerto Rican King so hope out on him um and yeah Kitty P underrated she’s goated in the comic book shout out to her um but yeah everybody that about does it for today’s edition of the lockdown Po’s podcast the only pod that may be better than the pot Dre’s themselves feel free to send me more questions as time goes along I’m not going to lie doing today’s episode was a lot um I’ve costed I’ve had to pause this episode and restart like at least 60 times um so it’s really hard for me so I’m going to try and get better but I no guarantee that I’ll be able to record tomorrow this is really really hard for me and I’m sorry I’m sorry that I keep getting sick I don’t know why this keeps happening but whenever we do do another episode we’re going to talk about more free agents we’re going to talk about maybe Tyler O’Neal we’re going to talk more about Max freed all sorts of players and then doing the jerks and Prof our player review uh but for now I’m really sorry guys but I don’t know if I’m just healthy enough and I’m going to be up to doing see there it comes again it comes again um if I’m going to be up to doing an episode for tomorrow so stay tuned to the Twitter page and whatnot and of course follow me on my personal account haveno JV iip p n o or _ 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