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Fair Territory: Max/Bo start Game 3, Orioles new hire, Pages problem? · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. We're
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Speaker 1: going to get to the World Series Game three coming
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Speaker 1: up tonight in a second, but I want to start
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Speaker 1: the show today with the news of the moment, the
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Speaker 1: news that broke last night, first by Jeff Passon of ESPN.
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Speaker 1: The Orioles have a new manager. His name is Craig Albinas.
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Speaker 1: He was the bench coach for the Cleveland Guardians the
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Speaker 1: past two seasons under Steven Vote. Stephen Vote could very
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Speaker 1: well win his second straight Manager of the Year award
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Speaker 1: for what the Guardians did this season. So Craig Albinaz
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Speaker 1: is an interesting hire, and he's a guy who has
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Speaker 1: been kind of in demand in i'd say the last
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Speaker 1: two years. He's had some interviews, I believe the interview
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Speaker 1: with the Marlins last year and others. So here's someone
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Speaker 1: that was going to get a job this go around.
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Speaker 1: And what's interesting about this for me is how Cleveland
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Speaker 1: is a target for other teams when they're hiring executives,
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Speaker 1: when they're hiring managers, and just look at this hiring
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Speaker 1: cycle alone. Albern As to the Orioles Kay Correa, who
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Speaker 1: was a coach with Cleveland. He's going to be the
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Speaker 1: Mets new bench coach. He was also in San Francisco
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Speaker 1: with albern As before they were in Cleveland. And Matt Foreman,
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Speaker 1: the Guardian's assistant GM, is a finalist for the Rockies
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Speaker 1: head of baseball operations job. And it's interesting because with Foreman,
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Speaker 1: he is up against Amiel Sawde from the Arizona Diamondbacks,
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Speaker 1: who has been in the game a while. He was
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Speaker 1: with the Red Sox prior to the Diamondbacks, and to me,
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Speaker 1: it seems he's much more experienced than Foreman. And when
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Speaker 1: I ran that by someone in baseball recently, that person
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Speaker 1: said to me, yeah, but Cleveland is seen as the
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Speaker 1: model mid market team, the team that seems to compete
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Speaker 1: every year and how they do it. That secret sauce
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Speaker 1: is what everyone wants. So the Orioles have their man.
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Speaker 1: Still a number of managerial openings to go. We will
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Speaker 1: get to them in due time over the next several weeks.
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Speaker 1: But the World Series is still going on. Oh yes,
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Speaker 1: no major announcements during the World Series. This never happens.
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Speaker 1: That's the rule in baseball, which is never followed. But
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Speaker 1: we have Game three coming up, and this is an
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Speaker 1: interesting series, perhaps more interesting than some people anticipated when
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Speaker 1: we got going here, it's one to one, and tonight
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Speaker 1: we've got Max Scherzer against Tyler Glass. Now Max Scherzer
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Speaker 1: for the Blue Jays, Tyler Glass now for the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: Bobaschet will be in the lineup again for the Blue Jays,
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Speaker 1: and Bobaschet, you know, before World Series Game one, had
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Speaker 1: not played since September sixth, a span of nearly seven weeks.
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Speaker 1: He had that spring left knee, and as I reported
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Speaker 1: on the broadcast in Game two, after the second inning
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Speaker 1: in Game one when he was playing, when he was
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Speaker 1: in the lineup, he put on a bulky knee brace.
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Speaker 1: He was wearing a sleeve around that knee, but he
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Speaker 1: decided he needed more, he needed bulk, so he did that.
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Speaker 1: I assume that's what he's going to wear tonight. Did
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Speaker 1: not play except for a pinch hit appearance in Game two.
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Speaker 1: The Jays are trying to take it easy with him
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Speaker 1: because of course he's coming off his injury. They don't
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Speaker 1: want to play him every day, even with the off
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Speaker 1: days in the World Series. But he's back in there tonight.
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Speaker 1: I presume he'll be batting clean up behind Guerrero. He
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Speaker 1: is a bat that is huge for them obviously when
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Speaker 1: he's healthy, and in talking to the Blue Jays players
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Speaker 1: during this series, they've been quite adamant about how he's
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Speaker 1: kind of their heart and soul in the lineup. And
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Speaker 1: a guy that didn't even get to twenty home runs
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Speaker 1: but nearly had one hundred RBIs this year, that's how
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Speaker 1: clutch he was. He's someone that they value a great
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Speaker 1: deal both in the clubhouse and of course when they're
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Speaker 1: putting the lineup together as a manager and coaching staff.
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Speaker 1: So Bobaschet back in the lineup. The pitching matchup, it's
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Speaker 1: an interesting one, to say the least, because of Max Scherzer,
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Speaker 1: forty one years old starting Game three, coming off that
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Speaker 1: brilliant performance in Game four of the ALCS that really
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Speaker 1: helped the Jays turn this thing around or turn that
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Speaker 1: thing around. Max Scherzer is pitching on extended rest, as
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Speaker 1: Shane Bieber would have been pitching on extended rest and
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Speaker 1: will in Game four. Blue Jay's manager John Steiner said
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Speaker 1: they wanted to give Bieber an extra day. I don't
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Speaker 1: really believe that's the reason. One guy is on ten
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Speaker 1: days rest, one guy's on eleven something along those lines,
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Speaker 1: they're okay. The real motivation here, it seems to me,
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Speaker 1: and from what I understand talking to some Blue Jays people,
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Speaker 1: is that Shane Bieber has given the Blue Jays an
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Speaker 1: awful lot since returning from Tommy John surgery. Remember they
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Speaker 1: traded for him while he was completing the final stages
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Speaker 1: of his rehabilitation, and he's pitched really well. He's done
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Speaker 1: extremely well for them, as well as anyone could have imagined,
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Speaker 1: and they simply don't want to push it, and they're
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Speaker 1: probably thinking he's got one good game left in him.
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Speaker 1: Aj Persinski mentioned this on foul Territory the other day.
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Speaker 1: So if you want Bieber to go all out in
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Speaker 1: that one game, game four would be the time to
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Speaker 1: do it. Scherzer can start game three, end games if necessary.
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Speaker 1: Not that big a deal with Game seven because that's
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Speaker 1: ultimately going to be a bullpen game, most likely short
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Speaker 1: leashes for everyone, But that seems to be the motivation here. Schurzer,
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Speaker 1: of course has big game experience, big game experience at
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Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium across North America, and he's coming off at
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Speaker 1: great outing. But it seems to me this was as
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Speaker 1: much motivated by Bieber as it was by Scherzer. Now
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Speaker 1: shures are at Dodger Stadium, this is going to be interesting.
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Speaker 1: Go back to twenty twenty one, the NLCS Game six.
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Speaker 1: Scherzer had pitched in relief in the Division Series in
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Speaker 1: Game five against the Giants. He came back in Game
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Speaker 1: two of the NLCS, wasn't particularly good and then told
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers his arm wasn't right. It was overcooked. That
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Speaker 1: was the term he used, overcooked, and the Dodgers wound
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Speaker 1: up using Walker Buehler on three days rest in Game
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Speaker 1: six against the Braves. Buehler did not really pitch all
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Speaker 1: that well as you might expect on three days rest,
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Speaker 1: and ultimately the Dodgers lost. The series. Has been something
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Speaker 1: of I don't know a villain is a right word,
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Speaker 1: but fans are not exactly short memory people in Dodger
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Speaker 1: Stadium and in LA in general, and they are going
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Speaker 1: to remember that Scherzer did not take the ball. Whether
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Speaker 1: he was justified and not up to it physically or not,
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Speaker 1: this is a thing. So I do expect him to
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Speaker 1: get a chili reception tonight. I also expect him not
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Speaker 1: to care one bit. Surezer is used to big game
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Speaker 1: environments he was telling us the other day how on
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Speaker 1: August eighth, I believe it was he pitched in Dodger
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Speaker 1: Stadium against Clayton Kershaw on Kobe Bryant Bobblehead night, and
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Speaker 1: he loved the energy, He loved the whole thing. So
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Speaker 1: it's going to be an interesting atmosphere, of course, the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers playing their first World Series game at home and
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Speaker 1: with Max Scherzer obviously starting for the other team. Sure's
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Speaker 1: aer amazing postseason history will go through it all tonight.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure on the broadcast. He's one of the great
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Speaker 1: central characters of our game and Game four in the
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Speaker 1: ALCS when he stared down and yelled at his manager,
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Speaker 1: that was one of the great Shurser moments and one
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Speaker 1: of the great Blue Jays moments of recent memory. Finally,
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Speaker 1: as we discussed World Series Game three, the Dodgers are
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Speaker 1: considering a lineup change. It's interesting with the Dodgers, how
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Speaker 1: they've become this starting pitching machine, and yet with that
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Speaker 1: great lineup o Tani and Freeman and Bets, they're not hitting.
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Speaker 1: They haven't hit in the postseason. They're averaging since the
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Speaker 1: start of the Division Series. Take out the Wildcard round
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Speaker 1: since the start of the division series, averaging three point
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Speaker 1: seven runs per game. Otani, Betts and Freeman combined one
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Speaker 1: ninety eight in that span seven to sixteen. Ops, those
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Speaker 1: guys haven't gotten it done. Now the team is still
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Speaker 1: ten and two in that time, or ten and two
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Speaker 1: in the postseason, I should say that includes the wildcard round.
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Speaker 1: But Dave Roberts is mulling a lineup change because Andy
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Speaker 1: pah Haz is four for forty three in the postseason,
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Speaker 1: and while he's a great defender, they're looking for a
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Speaker 1: little bit more the bottom of the lineup in front
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Speaker 1: of Otani, right, So what can they do if they
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Speaker 1: want to put Bajes or Piez on the bench, They
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Speaker 1: could go with Kigy Hernandez in centerfield or Alex Call.
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Speaker 1: Probably it would be Hernandez, and Hernandez is not as
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Speaker 1: gifted as centerfielder as Pies is. He's good out there,
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Speaker 1: hasn't played all that much out there this season, neither
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Speaker 1: his call for that matter. But they might want to
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Speaker 1: get calls on bas skills into the lineup and kind
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Speaker 1: of redo the bottom of the order that way. So
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Speaker 1: that's the decision. Dave Roberts is mulling here. We'll see
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Speaker 1: how it all plays out. We'll see what he ultimately decides. Here,
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Speaker 1: pies did of a hit in game two. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that that swings this one way or the other,
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Speaker 1: but they will lose something defensively if he's not in there,
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Speaker 1: and maybe the idea would be maybe to gain something offensively.
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Speaker 1: So there you have it. That is the preview of
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Speaker 1: game three. Talk about the orioles. We've got much more
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Speaker 1: Time now for the inside dish, the part of the
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Speaker 1: show where I talk maybe about a story I've written,
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Speaker 1: a trend in the game, something else going on with
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Speaker 1: the sport. And today I want to go in a
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Speaker 1: little bit different direction. And I'm going to go in
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Speaker 1: a little bit of a different direction because of an
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Speaker 1: interview I did with Freddie Freeman before Game one of
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Speaker 1: the World Series in Toronto, and I asked Freddie about
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Speaker 1: being back in Canada. He's played, of course for Team Canada.
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Speaker 1: His mother and father were born in Canada, and he
10:35
Speaker 1: talked about his mother, Rose Murray, who passed away from
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Speaker 1: Melanoba when he was only ten years old, and he
10:41
Speaker 1: said that when he plays in Canada and people ask
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Speaker 1: him about his mom. To him, it's kind of a
10:48
Speaker 1: cool thing because it keeps her spirit and it keeps
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Speaker 1: her memory alive for him, and it always brings a
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Speaker 1: smile to his face. And then answer kind of stuck
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Speaker 1: with me. And when Stand Up Cancer that moment happened
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Speaker 1: after or in the middle of game two, it hit
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Speaker 1: me again, and it hit me again that it's really
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Speaker 1: important to keep memories alive of certain people, and that's
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Speaker 1: kind of what the Stand Up to Cancer moment is about.
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Speaker 1: Also about honoring people who are alive and fighting that
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Speaker 1: horrible disease. And even with certain bow ties, not all
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Speaker 1: of them, but certain bow ties, part of my thinking
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Speaker 1: and motivation is to honor people who are fighting certain
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Speaker 1: things and also to honor the memories of those who
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Speaker 1: might have passed from a particular disease or condition. So
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Speaker 1: when you watch Stand Up to Cancer, you always see
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Speaker 1: the people standing, and it's always a poignant moment to
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Speaker 1: see everyone standing with their signs, with the names on
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Speaker 1: the signs. The players do this, the fans do this,
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Speaker 1: everyone involved in the game does it. And as someone
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Speaker 1: who is working on the broadcast, I'm always privileged to
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Speaker 1: be able to honor people and have my signs shown
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Speaker 1: because I'm part of the broadcast. They're going to show
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Speaker 1: me so this week or this stand up to cancer.
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Speaker 1: I had four names. You can see them right there.
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Speaker 1: Jim Henneman, David Calvert, Scott Miller, and Chris Obert. And
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Speaker 1: Jim Henneman and Scott Miller are two former baseball writers
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Speaker 1: who recently passed. And Jim is a guy that he
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Speaker 1: was my predecessor at the Baltimore Evening Son, actually my
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Speaker 1: predecessor on the beat when I joined the Son Evening
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Speaker 1: Son in nineteen eighty seven. They kind of took Jim,
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Speaker 1: who was an older guy at that time, not that
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Speaker 1: much older, but older than me, and they pushed him
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Speaker 1: aside and made him sort of what we would call
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Speaker 1: now a national baseball writer, but it really was more
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Speaker 1: a second Orioles writer, and that was a difficult thing
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Speaker 1: to accept for Jim. I'm sure this young guy coming
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Speaker 1: in I was twenty four at the time, I was clueless,
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Speaker 1: excuse me. But he did it with such grace and
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Speaker 1: he was a class act all the way and also
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Speaker 1: a really good writer in his own right. Scott Miller,
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Speaker 1: a lot of you guys know who he is, or was.
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Speaker 1: He was a brilliant baseball writer. His work appeared in
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Speaker 1: New York Times, CBS Sports Line, many other publications. Right
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Speaker 1: before he passed, he published a book on managers, which
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Speaker 1: is brilliant. And Scott is someone we all miss. David Calvert.
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Speaker 1: David Calvert is a friend of my editor at The Athletic,
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Speaker 1: our main baseball editor, Mark Carrigg, and Mark asked me
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Speaker 1: to include his name on one of my cards because
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Speaker 1: David is going through it right now. He's fighting an
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Speaker 1: aggressive form of leukemia. He is a guy who is
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Speaker 1: the TRIPAA photographer for the Reno Aces that's the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: top affiliate, and someone who his friends speak so highly
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Speaker 1: of and loved dearly. And then finally, Chris Over. Chris
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Speaker 1: Over is a member of the Fox Sports family. He's
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Speaker 1: a guy who's been on our crew for many, many years.
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Speaker 1: He first had a brain tumor in twenty twelve. He's
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Speaker 1: been dealing with stuff ever since, and he's someone that
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Speaker 1: we all Fox thinks so highly of and love. So
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Speaker 1: these are four names, Two have passed and two are
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Speaker 1: still with us that I chose to honor. And everyone
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Speaker 1: in that stadium had their own names, of course, had
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Speaker 1: their own people that they were doing trying to do
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Speaker 1: justice too and hopefully keep their names alive. And with
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Speaker 1: certain bow ties, not all of them, as I said,
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Speaker 1: certain bow ties, it's kind of the same idea. And
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Speaker 1: the bow tie for Game one of the World Series
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Speaker 1: was for the ALS Association, and ALS is, of course
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Speaker 1: a horrible disease. It's something a lot of people are
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Speaker 1: dealing with, and a lot of people who have been
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Speaker 1: part of baseball have dealt with in recent years. You
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Speaker 1: see the names there, Jim Caple, former baseball writer, most
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Speaker 1: recently of ESPN he passed away from ALS. Matt Kirkchin,
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Speaker 1: Tim's older brother, Tim's idol, great guy, Jim Poole, former
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Speaker 1: major league pitcher, a guy covered with the Baltimore Orioles.
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Speaker 1: And Chris Snow, former baseball writer for the Boston Globe
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Speaker 1: who went on to become the asistant general manager of
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Speaker 1: the Calgary Flames. So they're all fantastic people in their
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Speaker 1: own right, and all of them passed from ALS. And
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Speaker 1: of course one of our own right now, Sarah Langs,
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Speaker 1: is fighting ALS and doing it with such dignity and grace.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing she's still at these games. She was at
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Speaker 1: the World Series in Toronto. She's going to be here
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Speaker 1: in la And not only is she at the games,
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Speaker 1: she is working as she has always worked, giving us
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Speaker 1: these amazing statistical nuggets that are just something that enhanced
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Speaker 1: the game for all of us. They are just amazing
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Speaker 1: kinds of things that she comes up with, and she
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Speaker 1: does it every day, even while fighting this horrible disease.
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Speaker 1: So the point of this all is that certain people,
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Speaker 1: you want to keep their names alive, you want to
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Speaker 1: keep their memories alive if they've passed, and you want
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Speaker 1: to honor them if they're still with us. And listen,
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Speaker 1: we all care about the games, right, We all love
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Speaker 1: talking about the games and discussing them and debating them
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Speaker 1: and arguing about out them. But and you hear this,
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Speaker 1: and it's a cliche, there are times when we lose perspective.
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Speaker 1: And it kind of hit me when Freddy said what
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Speaker 1: he did about his mom. It hit me in the
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Speaker 1: stand up to cancer moment, And it hits me when
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Speaker 1: I wear certain bow ties that hey, man, yeah, the
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Speaker 1: games are important. The work that I try to do
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Speaker 1: is important. The work that everyone is doing around the
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Speaker 1: World Series is important. But the stuff what we're talking
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Speaker 1: about right now, far more important and far more necessary
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Speaker 1: to keep talking about and keep thinking about as we
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Speaker 1: go forward. You know, one purpose of the Stand Up
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Speaker 1: to Cancer thing is obviously to raise money, and one
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Speaker 1: purpose of the bow ties is to raise both money
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Speaker 1: and awareness for certain organizations. Stand Up to Cancer was
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Speaker 1: the one I wore for Game two. I've always thought
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Speaker 1: with the bow ties, listen, people aren't buying those bow
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Speaker 1: ties for the most part. Maybe they're giving to the
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Speaker 1: charitable organizations. I almost always include a link where you
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Speaker 1: can look up the organization and of course donate. But
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Speaker 1: I've always thought that the main thing here is raising awareness,
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Speaker 1: raising awareness of these different charities and doing all the
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Speaker 1: things that you can do within the context the small
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Speaker 1: context of what I'm doing to help along what's going
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Speaker 1: on with those particular organizations. So again, it's awareness. It's
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Speaker 1: the thing that has always motivated me with it since
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Speaker 1: the time I started wearing the bow ties and I
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Speaker 1: don't know, twenty ten or whatever it was, and it's
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Speaker 1: a thing that is a huge motivator today. So with that,
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about tonight's bow tie, which is
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Speaker 1: fitting in this conversation, fitting for all of what I
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Speaker 1: am discussing right here. It is a bow tie for
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Speaker 1: the Kirk Gibson Foundation for Parkinson's. Now, of course that
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Speaker 1: the World Series returns to Dodger Stadium, Kirk Gibson's on
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Speaker 1: everyone's mind. Kirk Gibson hit the amazing home run in
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Speaker 1: Game one of the nineteen eighty eight World Series. I
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Speaker 1: was lucky enough to be there off Dennis Eckersley. It's
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Speaker 1: one of the great moments in baseball history, certainly one
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Speaker 1: of the most memorable moments for people of a certain age,
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Speaker 1: and something that always brings a smile to your face.
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Speaker 1: The Vin Scully call Gibbey's trip around the bases all
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Speaker 1: of it well. For ten years now, Kirk Gibson has
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Speaker 1: been fighting a diagnosis of Parkinson's disease. And he is
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Speaker 1: a guy that, as a player, was one of the
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Speaker 1: strongest individuals you could imagine, one of the fiercest competitors
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Speaker 1: you can imagine. And here he is. He's dealing with
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Speaker 1: Parkinson's and he's dealing it with it in the same
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Speaker 1: way that he was as a player. And there's a
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Speaker 1: story by Cody staven Hagen that we had up last
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Speaker 1: week about how he opened a thirty two thousand square
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Speaker 1: foot Kirk Gibson Center for Parkinson's in Farmington Hills, Michigan.
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Speaker 1: And at that center there are classes that help those
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Speaker 1: suffering with Parkinson's with cognitive therapy and physical therapy, and
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Speaker 1: Kirk Gibson's the driving behind all this, and through donations
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Speaker 1: and fundraising, what they've done is they've enabled these classes
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Speaker 1: to be free for all those suffering with Parkinson's who
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Speaker 1: want to come and take advantage of those facilities and
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Speaker 1: After at FTFAM all right, time now for grilling? Can
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Speaker 1: the part of the show? I answer your questions, So
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Speaker 1: let's get right to not waste any time. Here comes
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Speaker 1: the first question. It is from Richard Procter, who asked,
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Speaker 1: do you think that there will be any movement on
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Speaker 1: the CBA this offseason? As a result of the impending workstoppage?
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Speaker 1: Do you foresee if you were long term extensions and
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Speaker 1: long term free agent signings? Okay, two separate questions. Do
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Speaker 1: I expect movement on the CBA this off season? The
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Speaker 1: answer to that is no, because we're still too far
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Speaker 1: away from the expiration of the current deal, which is
21:26
Speaker 1: December one, twenty twenty six. Like everything else in baseball,
21:30
Speaker 1: like everything else in life, deadlines are what motivate people
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Speaker 1: to act. And even though it would make a lot
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Speaker 1: of sense to get this out of the way this offseason,
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Speaker 1: I just don't expect serious movement until the following off season,
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Speaker 1: when obviously the deadline of December first will be staring
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Speaker 1: everyone in the face. Now, how it will affect the
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Speaker 1: free agent market and extension markets, that's a good question.
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Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that if I'm running
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Speaker 1: a team not terribly concerned about the possibility of missing
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Speaker 1: time in twenty twenty seven, even though at this moment
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Speaker 1: that possibility appears very real. If I were running a
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Speaker 1: team owning a team, because this is not going to
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Speaker 1: be the President of Baseball Operations choice, I would run
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Speaker 1: the team as I see fit, and run the team
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Speaker 1: as if this is not even happening, because one we're
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Speaker 1: not sure we're going to miss time. In fact, I
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Speaker 1: have a hard time believing still, for all the saber
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Speaker 1: rattling going on right now, I have a hard time believing,
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Speaker 1: with this sport as successful as it is right now,
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Speaker 1: that we're going to have a situation where the owners
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Speaker 1: are willing to shut down the sport, lose money, lose games,
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Speaker 1: and damage the reputation of the industry among sports fans.
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Speaker 1: Have a really hard time believing that didn't happen last time,
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Speaker 1: hasn't happened since nineteen ninety five. Now, the motivations here
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Speaker 1: are perhaps even stronger, and the strongest they've been since
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Speaker 1: ninety five. But again, this is a game of chicken,
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Speaker 1: and I don't believe either side is going to be
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Speaker 1: willing it's the owners actually who make the call here.
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Speaker 1: I don't believe the owners will be willing to go
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Speaker 1: through with this. I'm still not convinced. So I would
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Speaker 1: sign players to free agent contracts. I would sign them
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Speaker 1: to long term extensions. Easy for me to say. I'm
23:13
Speaker 1: not the one spending the money. I know, but I
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Speaker 1: just don't see why it would necessarily disrupt things to
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Speaker 1: that degree. Now we've seen it already happen. The Angels
23:24
Speaker 1: only gave Kirk Zuzuki a one year contract as a
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Speaker 1: new manager, it seems, because they want to keep their
23:30
Speaker 1: options open entering a potential lockout situation. That's the Angels.
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Speaker 1: I don't necessarily believe it's going to be every team
23:37
Speaker 1: all right now. Next question, this one comes from foul Territory.
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Speaker 1: What has surprised you about this World Series so far?
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Speaker 1: That's a good question. I would say the Dodgers' offense
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Speaker 1: has surprised me, and Otani not being this major force
23:53
Speaker 1: has surprised me. O'tani's had that one great game, the
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Speaker 1: clincher in the NLCS, but he hasn't done all that
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Speaker 1: much else. The Home Running Game one was kind of
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Speaker 1: in garbage time, So I'm not sure I really count that.
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Speaker 1: I would say that is what has surprised me most,
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Speaker 1: that the Dodgers' offense has not been all that potent.
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Speaker 1: All right, one more question before we go, Let's see
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Speaker 1: what we have. This one comes from Jim Huerta, who asked,
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Speaker 1: do you believe John John Stanton will actually let Seattle
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Speaker 1: spend this offseason? Well, the way I would answer that
24:24
Speaker 1: is past performance is an indicator of future performance. Right,
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Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it. They've been a
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Speaker 1: little bit more aggressive Seattle in at least in the
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Speaker 1: deadline this year when they took on Ajohano Suarez and
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Speaker 1: Josh Naylor. But it's not like they're going out and
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Speaker 1: spending like reckless sailors. So I don't necessarily believe they're
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Speaker 1: going to spend big. I think they will spend and
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Speaker 1: try to keep it going forward. Do I expect them
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Speaker 1: to be a major player in free agency? No? I don't.
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Speaker 1: They never have been, so let's see what happens. I
24:56
Speaker 1: shouldn't say never. They've done some things. Adrian Beltre was one,
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Speaker 1: but in general, well, Sale Mariners have not been that
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Speaker 1: big a spender. All Right, I want to thank you
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Speaker 1: everyone for watching for listening. We will be back Friday
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Speaker 1: with Alana Rizzo. I will probably still be either at
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Speaker 1: the World Series recovering from the World Series, but a
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Speaker 1: Lota will be there. Maybe I'll be joining. I don't
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Speaker 1: even know, and we'll see what happens. Then have a
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Speaker 1: great week everyone, enjoy the rest of the World Series.
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