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Nats take 2 of 3 from Reds, but come up short of .500 mark again · District Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the District Territory Podcast. I'm Eric Shellahouse,
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Speaker 1: joining alongside me Kevin Franzen, the Washington Nationals and Spencer
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Speaker 1: does bound. The Athletic Nationals coming off well since we
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Speaker 1: last spoke on this show, splitting the final two games
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Speaker 1: of the Red Series, ultimately winning the series two and
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Speaker 1: three and three on the road trip after dropping two
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Speaker 1: in Miami and picking up two in Cincinnati. Before we
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Speaker 1: get into a series recap, do you want to talk
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Speaker 1: about Andrew Alvarez being announced as the corresponding move recalled
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Speaker 1: from Triple A Rochester. Spencer, We're talking about it before,
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Speaker 1: but Franny, I'm curious, do you think the Nationals might
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Speaker 1: consider an Alvarez opening strategy today and having Littel being
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Speaker 1: the guy coming out of the bullpen later on?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? So I was thinking this in my head as
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Speaker 2: the game was going on, as Zach Kent was going
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Speaker 2: the moment you get past like that any you know,
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Speaker 2: like any in a third any and two thirds, you
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Speaker 2: start getting to that two range, You're going, Okay, there's
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Speaker 2: something else up and then what Alvarez hasn't pitched? He's
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Speaker 2: like almost ten days, I think, yeah, May eight. I think, yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's yeah, So I mean this seven days, so round
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Speaker 2: up there, Spencer, you get ten. Uh so you kind
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Speaker 2: of knew something was gonna happen. The other thing, too,
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Speaker 2: is that the struggles for the Orioles against lefties have
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Speaker 2: been real too, So it makes sense when you think
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Speaker 2: about it, how they've been planning this out. This is
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Speaker 2: this is like again, they're they're doing stuff right in
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Speaker 2: front of our face that we've been hoping for for
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Speaker 2: a long time that I think we should celebrate. They're
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Speaker 2: thinking ahead, they're thinking about the opponents, thinking about best
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Speaker 2: possible case scenarios for their players, you know, to put
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Speaker 2: them in and uh yeah, So unfortunate for Zach Can
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Speaker 2: because he had tell you what game one? Yeah, game one?
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Speaker 2: I think it. Yeah, it was Game one when he
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Speaker 2: had I thought, really good outing, poor defense behind him,
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Speaker 2: and it cost him a couple of runs. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I'm not sitting here saying that, Oh man, he's he
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Speaker 2: he did a pretty decent job for them, and especially
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Speaker 2: extending yesterday to help him out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's been pretty bring up because I think I
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Speaker 3: tweeted this the other day too, Like when you think
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Speaker 3: about the rosters of National's past. I remember my first
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Speaker 3: year on the beat, Robert Garcia was basically the only
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Speaker 3: lefty in there for the entire season.
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Speaker 2: Well, shoot, we went multiple series without one. Yeah, Okay,
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Speaker 2: we went three year, what twenty two, twenty three without one?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And so again it's it's very encouraging that they're
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Speaker 3: thinking ahead enough to you know, put those guys on
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Speaker 3: the roster against the Orioles team that I think it's
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Speaker 3: like historically bad against lefties, but also just again the
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Speaker 3: forestate to have a lot of those guys in there
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Speaker 3: just shows how much progress they've made from a as
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Speaker 3: boring as it might sound for me to say this
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Speaker 3: a logistical standpoint, like that's the stuff that's.
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Speaker 2: Been winning the game, I agree with you. Yeah, I
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Speaker 2: think it's fascinating as we watched this whole thing like
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Speaker 2: going you know, for NAS fans out there that they
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Speaker 2: are trying to understand. And again we we've talked about
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Speaker 2: this plenty and I don't care if I sound like
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Speaker 2: I'm gonna be a broken record on it, but we're
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Speaker 2: like deconditioning this whole thing. There's ideas and there's aspects
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Speaker 2: of this that you know, for for minor leaguers, to
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Speaker 2: move up a level. They got to graduate. It's not
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Speaker 2: just about hitting, right, Like we're seeing stuff. Like I
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Speaker 2: said it to Eric last week, I'm looking at box
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Speaker 2: scores for the first time in years of the minor
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Speaker 2: leagues every single day. It's like a part of the
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Speaker 2: morning routine to see what's going on, and it's it's
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Speaker 2: freaking awesome. But at the same time guys are dominating
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Speaker 2: the league, they have other boxes to check and they
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Speaker 2: got you know, the guys in front of them have
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Speaker 2: to be, you know, either not there or struggling whatever.
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Speaker 2: So I feel like, you know, this is a part
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Speaker 2: of the logistic thing, right, Like this is like we're
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Speaker 2: seeing these these minor leaguers dominate, but it's part of
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Speaker 2: the logistic of who they are, where they are in
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Speaker 2: their development, because it is about their development, not about
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Speaker 2: just like the well they got to move up now,
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Speaker 2: Like no, no, you got to dominate levels.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's not just gut feel anymore.
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Speaker 1: And we'll get into a little bit of a doubt
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Speaker 1: on the farm report later on, but first, really quickly
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Speaker 1: give you a look at the National League's standings this morning.
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Speaker 1: The Nationals twenty one and twenty three they'll welcome the
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Speaker 1: Orioles to town later today for a three game set
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Speaker 1: and another opportunity to get a little bit closer back
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Speaker 1: to five hundred really quickly. I want to remind you
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Speaker 1: the end, But let's get into the game really recap
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Speaker 1: really quickly. The top of the first inning, this had
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Speaker 1: all the makings of any other Foster Griffin start. He
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Speaker 1: shut down the reds one, two three. We thought, hey,
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Speaker 1: he's in business. But you go to the bottom of
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Speaker 1: the second the red straw first blood on a Matt
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Speaker 1: McClain home run. Foster kind of knew it right away
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Speaker 1: for those of you watching online looking at the replay,
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Speaker 1: but when I was watching on TV, I could not
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Speaker 1: tell that that ball had gotten out immediately. I don't
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Speaker 1: know about you all there in person. Was it obvious
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Speaker 1: off the bat that that was going to be gone?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, because the way that Foster dropped his head. Surprised me.
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Speaker 1: I was talking to.
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Speaker 4: It on the TV.
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Speaker 1: Get up, Jacob, get up, get up, and he was close.
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Speaker 1: Jacob was close. He tracked it well.
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Speaker 2: I think the wall got close to him quick. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's a different it's a different outfit. Obviously there you
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Speaker 2: don't have a lot of space. But uh, you know,
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Speaker 2: his his cutter was actually really good yesterday for the
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Speaker 2: most part. And the Spencer Steeer one guy running the
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Speaker 2: base right there on right before Matt McClain. It was
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Speaker 2: his first one. He left over the middle. He was
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Speaker 2: trying to I think on that one he was trying
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Speaker 2: to go back door on it like he had been
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Speaker 2: and and yanked it just a little bit, base hit
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Speaker 2: and then same same type of thing, almost the same spot.
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Speaker 2: I feel like we're Matt McClain got his cutter. You
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Speaker 2: got to try to push him over the middle of
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Speaker 2: plate more than anything, and and he missed, and Matt
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Speaker 2: McLain didn't miss, And that's that's baseball. And you know,
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Speaker 2: I would say that they had a hell of an
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Speaker 2: approach yesterday more than anything against him, and the adjustments
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Speaker 2: were actually made against him from first time through to
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Speaker 2: second time through, you could see what they were trying
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Speaker 2: to do and Foster was trying to, you know, counter
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Speaker 2: with that, and uh again one of those things where
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Speaker 2: you I think, even though it gave up nine runs,
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Speaker 2: I actually enjoyed watching him trying to navigate, trying to
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Speaker 2: figure a way to go and get them. It was
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Speaker 2: never the same. And like the JJ Bladet Homer, I'm
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Speaker 2: like thinking myself, going, oh he like that was from
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Speaker 2: I think it was second bat. Second pitch was a
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Speaker 2: sweeper that started behind him. They got strike one and
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Speaker 2: it went front door on it, and I'm like, all right,
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Speaker 2: that's what That's what's set it up, because he's going
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Speaker 2: he's gonna try to get ahead in again and he
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Speaker 2: kept that front foot open. He didn't even close off.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it was it was that bad path. How
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Speaker 2: do I get there? I got to stay open on
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Speaker 2: this and he didn't miss.
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Speaker 3: Oh you know what's funny for any of that did
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Speaker 3: not That lines up exactly with what Foster said after
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Speaker 3: the game. He talked about like again, the cutter got
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Speaker 3: hit hard, but it wasn't that pitch that was an issue.
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Speaker 3: It was a lot of the asset stuff he couldn't command,
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Speaker 3: and then he mentioned I wrote this down. He said
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Speaker 3: he got predictable, and that sometimes happens when he doesn't
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Speaker 3: have his absolute best stuff in his com and is
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Speaker 3: he just he relies a little too hard on the
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Speaker 3: pitches that are working, which again you can't blame him
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Speaker 3: for that, like that's all you can certain pitches.
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Speaker 2: But that's also that's the that's also the offense too
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Speaker 2: right to recognize that because a lot of it goes down.
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Speaker 2: You know, you're trying to you're confusing yourself. But if
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Speaker 2: offense isn't talking to one another, if you're just going
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Speaker 2: up there like with like just like uh, blindly in
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Speaker 2: the whole thing and not adjusting like those guys, that's
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Speaker 2: how those guys dominate. But they can get hit hard
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Speaker 2: if you make those Hey, guys, he hasn't hit He
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Speaker 2: hasn't hit this. This curveballs right now. Don't look for
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Speaker 2: that cut like throw that out of there, sweeper whatever,
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Speaker 2: throw that out there. It's cutter. It's cutter sinker right now,
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Speaker 2: like really is what it is? Exactly.
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Speaker 3: Foster more than yeah, and Foster more than any pitcher
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Speaker 3: I've covered, thinks about games in terms of what comes next.
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Speaker 3: He thinks one pitch ahead, he thinks one batter ahead,
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Speaker 3: he thinks nine batters ahead, And so I think he's
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Speaker 3: someone to where he recognizes and in the middle of
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Speaker 3: that outing, like I have to go deep because I
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Speaker 3: have to cover some length here. But I think he
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Speaker 3: even knew in the middle of that game, Hey, I'm
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Speaker 3: I'm maybe not gonna be able to get these guys
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Speaker 3: out late. And it's just so interesting to watch him
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Speaker 3: try to figure that out without right stuff. And I
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Speaker 3: get it's frustrating and it might be even like not rude,
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Speaker 3: but like, it's so compelling to watch him try to
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Speaker 3: figure that out after being able to do it so often.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and for what is worth, Chase Burns pitched incredibly yesterday,
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Speaker 1: but the Reds defense was also phenomenal. Before that Bluedet
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Speaker 1: home run in the top of the third inning, James
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Speaker 1: would this play was so smooth, like butter spencer, spear, spencer, steer,
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Speaker 1: excuse me, just disappears into the left field corner. And
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Speaker 1: then and then later on in the game, Jacob Young
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Speaker 1: was the recipient of some highway robberty, some highway robbery,
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Speaker 1: centerfield on centerfield crime. Daan Myers again the magic of
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Speaker 1: teleportation to getting back to centerfield after the play there
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Speaker 1: and then he would add a home run in the
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Speaker 1: ninth inning, and Franny I talked about this with Spencer
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Speaker 1: was against Joey Weimer.
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Speaker 4: Look at right there, look.
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Speaker 2: At that's what we needed.
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Speaker 4: Is he good?
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Speaker 3: Is he?
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Speaker 1: Did you get to talk to Joey after the game,
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Speaker 1: because yeah, he he treated that like it was a
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Speaker 1: walk off home run he was.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a former teammate, So yeah, I mean
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Speaker 2: that's that's a big part of it.
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Speaker 1: Okay, now, I I the reaction just surprised me because
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Speaker 1: you see that, I mean those of you that were
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Speaker 1: not watching. He did not want to take the ball
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Speaker 1: from the home played umpire. It was ready to give
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Speaker 1: it to me immediately, and he just didn't turn back
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Speaker 1: around to look towards the home played umpire.
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Speaker 4: He didn't.
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Speaker 1: He didn't want the rock back, not so quickly. He
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Speaker 1: wished he had that one that was in the left
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Speaker 1: field bleachers. I give you those those of you watching online,
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Speaker 1: one more final look at the box score. The Reds
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Speaker 1: pitching box score from Thursday night, Chase Burns lowering his
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Speaker 1: season e r A to a one eighty seven. Franny
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Speaker 1: He was phenomenal yesterday. But what in particular was working well.
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Speaker 2: Everything, everything, just the way he adjusted. Uh, I feel
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Speaker 2: like he threw change ups a little bit more. He
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Speaker 2: threw He threw James's first curveball of the year too,
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Speaker 2: by the way he had thrown. He hadn't thrown a
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Speaker 2: curveball all year. And he just I mean we already
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Speaker 2: called we already called James a one percenter anyways, right
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Speaker 2: Like j would always talk about that, Chase Utley would
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Speaker 2: talk about that coming from those ranks where you know,
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Speaker 2: some guys just the one percent and they get they
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Speaker 2: get certain things.
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Speaker 3: Uh.
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Speaker 2: The one thing I will say about Chase Burns is
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Speaker 2: he is not trying to go for the punch though,
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Speaker 2: which is like kind of last year when we saw him,
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Speaker 2: it was everything. It felt like he was trying to
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Speaker 2: go for the punch right away. So sladder was in
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Speaker 2: the zone. Change up when he was going to it
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Speaker 2: was in the zone. It's change up yesterday was phenomenal.
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Speaker 2: Really was the way he set it up. Uh, And
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Speaker 2: you got the power on now. I I brought it
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Speaker 2: up and I was trying to compare it. It's hard
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Speaker 2: to on TV, you know, describe it completely. But like
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Speaker 2: you know, you see ninety eight ninety nine one hundred,
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Speaker 2: you're thinking Jacob Mizerowski and I'm like, no, it's just
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Speaker 2: definitely not the same. You know, it's two miles an
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Speaker 2: hour perceived veloscity higher for Miserowski because of his extension,
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Speaker 2: and you're just getting normal, like whatever you see is
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Speaker 2: what you get from Chase Burns. But what Chase Burns
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Speaker 2: had last night or yesterday was his ability just to
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Speaker 2: get in on guys and then have you thinking in
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Speaker 2: so much that that change up plate so well away right,
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Speaker 2: So like you were left handed hitters were conscious of that.
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Speaker 2: He was able to elevate on the right e's and
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Speaker 2: get them to chase a little bit. And then every
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Speaker 2: once in a while he would throw these VP fastballs
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Speaker 2: at ninety five ninety six, and guys like CJ had
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Speaker 2: one where he hammered one that was foul. But you go, oh, yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I was he out in front of that and You're like, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's ninety five point one, you know what I mean? Like, no,
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Speaker 2: but that's but again to me as the kid, yes,
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Speaker 2: it's the change of speeds. And so I was really
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Speaker 2: impressed by him more so because of like this year,
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Speaker 2: he's taken off like two pitches per inning, and you
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Speaker 2: could you understand why. I mean, he's trying to get
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Speaker 2: deeper into games, and obviously he is, but he's being
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Speaker 2: more pitch efficient and you know, when it punches there,
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Speaker 2: he can go get it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: You can look over at the Nationals side of the
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Speaker 1: starting pitching from yesterday and it was Foster Griffin, who
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Speaker 1: has been fantastic this season. Hopefully just uplift in the road.
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Speaker 1: And Spencer, you wrote an article the other day mentioning
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Speaker 1: his repertoire seven pitches. I think that, you know, was
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Speaker 1: the key the other day he just didn't have all
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Speaker 1: seven clicking, and you know it's so important for him
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Speaker 1: to have all those pitches working. If you want to
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Speaker 1: read more of that, you can read about Spencer's article
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Speaker 1: in The Athletic. I saw this on Instagram this morning
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Speaker 1: from NAT's fanatics, the possibility of Foster Griffin being dealt
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Speaker 1: later on the trade deadline. Franny we talked about in
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Speaker 1: a previous episode. That's Coleman Crow at the bottom that
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Speaker 1: Coleman Crewe in their hypothetical trade scenario flipping Foster Griffin
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Speaker 1: for Coleman Crow at the trade deadline. That one struck
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Speaker 1: me as the most particular and the most interesting, given
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Speaker 1: how he had pitched against the Brewers the other day.
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Speaker 4: At Nats Fanatics on Instagram. But I'm not sure who
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Speaker 4: did that. I'm not sure who did the jersey swap editing.
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Speaker 1: But the Brewers one to me was the most interesting
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Speaker 1: because of how he had pitched against the Brewers this
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Speaker 1: season and in terms of you.
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Speaker 2: Know, it's the two teams that actually gave him the
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Speaker 2: worst worst time.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a team that you know, who knows that
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Speaker 1: that's what they're going to be looking for come the deadline,
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Speaker 1: But you'd assume they're probably going to be buyers.
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Speaker 2: And uh, I'm gonna be honest, I don't I don't
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Speaker 2: see I don't see the Foster Griffin being a trade
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Speaker 2: trade candidate. I don't see it either anymore, because I
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Speaker 2: could see him someone that they could use for year,
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Speaker 2: for a few more years to write, so an extension
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Speaker 2: type thing. But again, if you're able to get like
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Speaker 2: a the Ronnie Cruz type deal for Michael Soroka, Okay,
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Speaker 2: now we're now we're talking. But I can't sit there
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Speaker 2: and say that you know, it's a foregone conclusion on
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Speaker 2: that one. I just can't sit there and say, yes,
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Speaker 2: he's gonna get traded the first feel like everyone is available,
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Speaker 2: But I want to give credit to that the first
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Speaker 2: mockup they had with the Cubs included Ronnie Cruz.
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Speaker 4: Now in that world.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so I don't pay attention to bloggers. Sorry, no
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Speaker 2: need to.
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Speaker 3: Well, I actually think we should talk about this a
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Speaker 3: little more, not the bloggers part, but the Foster part.
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Speaker 3: I agree that it's not a foregone conclusion at the moment,
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Speaker 3: I think it's more likely than not, and I think
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Speaker 3: that we should clarify that. Like again, I don't think
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Speaker 3: like Foster is someone where an extension and this is
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Speaker 3: speculation more than anything feels possible because of the commitment
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Speaker 3: the Nationals have made to him, because his arsenal around
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Speaker 3: major League Baseball is not something that typically gets top
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Speaker 3: top dollar, so it's something the Nationals could afford. And frankly,
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Speaker 3: they've done right by him. He's done right by them.
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Speaker 3: That being said, and Foster has pitched better than Michael
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Speaker 3: Soroka pitched last year, but that is kind of the
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Speaker 3: comp that we give, and you're not always going to
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Speaker 3: get a Christian Franklin and a Ronnie Cruz back for
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Speaker 3: a picture like that. But I think if you trust
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Speaker 3: in the infrastructure, like as much as it might pay
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Speaker 3: you to lose Foster Griffin at the deadline, if you
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Speaker 3: can get you know, a couple of prospects back that
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Speaker 3: you really believe in. And I get it's the mystery
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Speaker 3: box versus thing we already have, But the Nationals won
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Speaker 3: that Sroka trade ten times over. There's no reason to
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Speaker 3: believe that they wouldn't win a Foster trade down the
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Speaker 3: line as well. Once again, is not to say it's
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Speaker 3: a foregone conclusion, but I would lean that way that
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Speaker 3: it's going to happen right now, and I would lean
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Speaker 3: that it's the smart call. But I understand that the
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Speaker 3: flip side.
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Speaker 4: Of it as well.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was, you know, our messages are always
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Speaker 1: open for me on Instagram at least if you want
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Speaker 1: to reach out at that boy Shelley, that fan page.
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Speaker 1: You ask me before Franny towards you kind of specifically,
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Speaker 1: and you alluded to this earlier. Do you think yesterday
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Speaker 1: was a sign of and you and Dan have talked
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Speaker 1: about this on the broadcast before. Was yesterday a sign
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Speaker 1: of Hey, the league is maybe starting to catch up
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Speaker 1: with Foster versus you know, the Red stid a lot
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Speaker 1: of good scouting and that was kind of just their.
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Speaker 4: Game plan going into it.
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Speaker 1: But as you said, the second the third time through,
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Speaker 1: they made adjustments, and Foster made adjustments too. That's what's
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Speaker 1: so fun about watching a pitch is that he's very crafty.
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Speaker 1: But the Reds just had the adjustments they had answers yesterday, right.
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Speaker 2: So a lot of it has to do with this
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Speaker 2: number one. Do I think I think nothing but good
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Speaker 2: things for Foster? I think, you know, if I was
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Speaker 2: going up against him, he has to be perfect against me.
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Speaker 2: That's the way like I would treat him as a
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Speaker 2: as a hitter, because he doesn't have that upper end velocity.
18:23
Speaker 2: Every when we talk about the pitch arsenal in the
18:24
Speaker 2: way you could think and go through things like he's
18:27
Speaker 2: the guy that you're gonna go home thinking over for
18:29
Speaker 2: and you're gonna be like so mad because you're like,
18:33
Speaker 2: there was stuff on the table there, right, And that's
18:38
Speaker 2: a good thing because I feel like those guys last
18:40
Speaker 2: so long in this league frustrating hitters and going about things.
18:43
Speaker 2: Do I think yesterday is something that's gonna happen more often. No,
18:48
Speaker 2: I don't, actually I think that they I don't even
18:52
Speaker 2: know about scouting. I really do think it was in
18:54
Speaker 2: game talking. I do think it was the hitters talking
18:57
Speaker 2: to one another about hey man, like this is what
18:59
Speaker 2: we got, this what we're seeing. Because again, Cutter was
19:02
Speaker 2: good early. You know, a couple of them that got
19:04
Speaker 2: away from him that, you know, we're more middle we
19:06
Speaker 2: talked about with with Steer and McLane, but for the
19:09
Speaker 2: most part it was really good. It was just being
19:10
Speaker 2: able to get ahead. He's a guy that like, when
19:12
Speaker 2: he's ahead, it's it's a totally different deal, right, Like
19:15
Speaker 2: you're looking at a guy that ahead and behind even
19:18
Speaker 2: it's like in the one hundred when he's ahead, and
19:20
Speaker 2: when he's behind, he's like every hitter is MVP worthy,
19:25
Speaker 2: you know, or or literal league MVP worthy, with all
19:30
Speaker 2: due respect. You know, it was like a for a while,
19:33
Speaker 2: it was like a five hundred average against when he
19:34
Speaker 2: was behind in the count. Really yeah, So that stuff
19:39
Speaker 2: to you know, to watch, and I pay attention to
19:42
Speaker 2: that because I feel like those are signs of what
19:45
Speaker 2: your stuff's really doing, you know, We've seen some guys
19:49
Speaker 2: this year that ahead and behind. They're like they're just
19:51
Speaker 2: they just dominate. It's like you have no chance, and
19:54
Speaker 2: you're like, okay, matches, match is pretty much what you're seeing,
19:57
Speaker 2: Like Paul Skins right, like you're hoping to get you know,
20:00
Speaker 2: ahead of him, and I hope that he falls behind
20:02
Speaker 2: as a hitter or he falls behind as a pitcher,
20:06
Speaker 2: and you're going, yeah, it doesn't matter, like he has
20:09
Speaker 2: something for you. So that's something I'm watching, and I
20:15
Speaker 2: was trying to bring up the numbers for it, but
20:16
Speaker 2: obviously the numbers are popping up slow. So anyway, great
20:21
Speaker 2: story right.
20:21
Speaker 1: There, good story indeed, Hey, really quickly you look ahead
20:25
Speaker 1: towards the weekend, the Nationals welcoming the Orioles to town,
20:28
Speaker 1: down all of the beltways. We got the hot dog
20:30
Speaker 1: hat giveaway later on today there, yeah, bad day to
20:33
Speaker 1: be a hot dog.
20:34
Speaker 4: And it is a bad day to be a hot
20:35
Speaker 4: dog man. I wish I was at the ballpark. And
20:37
Speaker 4: then we got the Obie Bobbles.
20:39
Speaker 2: Oh there it is, guys, really quick, really quick.
20:41
Speaker 4: I got hold on, hold on bringing it back to you.
20:45
Speaker 2: Foster fifteen for one hundred when he's ahead in the
20:48
Speaker 2: count two forty slug. When he's behind, it's ten for
20:53
Speaker 2: twenty nine three forty five average of five eighty six
20:56
Speaker 2: slug even in the counts, so oh one one, three,
20:58
Speaker 2: two fifteen for sixty one two forty six with a
21:01
Speaker 2: five o eight slug four homers in those counts. But
21:04
Speaker 2: like to me, when he's ahead, and it's forty eight
21:07
Speaker 2: percent of the plate appearance has ended in him being ahead,
21:10
Speaker 2: it's a it's a one fifty average that I mean,
21:12
Speaker 2: that's it's drastic. So sorry that it took so.
21:15
Speaker 1: Long, but it finally got it and there was Yeah,
21:17
Speaker 1: there's never any rush over here.
21:18
Speaker 4: Frannie.
21:19
Speaker 1: I just want to ask you because you were talking
21:20
Speaker 1: about this on the broadcast the other day.
21:22
Speaker 4: Were you like classmates with Joey Chestnut or anything.
21:25
Speaker 2: So we went to Southey State, uh, and we take
21:29
Speaker 2: pride in Joey different cap but that's all right, just
21:34
Speaker 2: an absolute monster he came. You know what one year
21:36
Speaker 2: randomly nineteen for Life is our family foundation. After my
21:40
Speaker 2: brother passed away. We've had that for now, twenty Bochiball
21:44
Speaker 2: tournament or nineteen Bochiball tournaments. It's almost it's going on
21:47
Speaker 2: year twenty four ninety for life, but one of the
21:52
Speaker 2: years he just randomly showed up at our at our tournament.
21:54
Speaker 2: It was great, just hanging out with everybody. Everybody's trying
21:58
Speaker 2: to challenge him to like eating time. He's like, now,
22:00
Speaker 2: it's always going to work. Awesome that.
22:07
Speaker 4: I love that nugget during the broadcast yesterday.
22:10
Speaker 2: I appreciate you listening that little nugget.
22:12
Speaker 4: Well, of course I'm tuned in from everybody gets that.
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22:17
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Speaker 1: There is another game that happened that we haven't really
23:43
Speaker 1: talked about at all that, in my opinion, was the
23:46
Speaker 1: awesomest game of the season for the Nationals. I want
23:50
Speaker 1: to jump into that game game recap really quickly, Spencer.
23:53
Speaker 1: You tweet out afterwards after trailing five nothing early on
23:56
Speaker 1: on a grand slam by Tyler Stevenson. The Nationals responded immediately,
24:01
Speaker 1: which I think was the most encouraging and exciting part
24:04
Speaker 1: about this game for the fans. Cabert Ruez got in
24:07
Speaker 1: on the action, blasting a home run in the top
24:11
Speaker 1: of the second inning, which got us back into the
24:13
Speaker 1: game four to two at that time. What stuck out
24:18
Speaker 1: to you guys the most of this game because it
24:20
Speaker 1: was was back and forth early on, and then it
24:24
Speaker 1: wasn't for a while it was a chess match, and
24:26
Speaker 1: then it got exciting again late.
24:31
Speaker 2: You see the throat slash I just did.
24:33
Speaker 3: That's probably what stuck out to me the most.
24:37
Speaker 2: That was cold blooded. Wow. Yeah, and I think so.
24:42
Speaker 3: I believe the kids call this an aura gamble if
24:45
Speaker 3: I'm not mistaken, which is where you have such a
24:49
Speaker 3: high aura moment, but there's a risk involved with it.
24:55
Speaker 3: Dalen does this in the top of the tenth The
24:59
Speaker 3: Reds are end up being probably about four inches away
25:04
Speaker 3: from from flipping this game. On its head in the bottom. Frankly,
25:08
Speaker 3: I don't care. I mean that it's it's sick to watch.
25:11
Speaker 3: I love that he did it. I love that this
25:14
Speaker 3: team has embraced stuff like that, and I love that
25:18
Speaker 3: he was able to do it in front of his family.
25:21
Speaker 3: That you could really tell over the last three days
25:24
Speaker 3: just how much it meant to Dalen to represent for Louisville,
25:29
Speaker 3: to be able to play in front of his family,
25:32
Speaker 3: to be able to play in front of like eighty
25:33
Speaker 3: people that showed up for him. And I was kind
25:36
Speaker 3: of thinking throughout that whole second game, like he has
25:38
Speaker 3: this monster first game and he does all right at
25:41
Speaker 3: the start of the second game, like, I feel like
25:43
Speaker 3: there's another Dalen moment left, and it's it's something you
25:46
Speaker 3: can never really predict in baseball. But for him to
25:49
Speaker 3: come up in that moment and did what he did
25:51
Speaker 3: what he did, I mean, it was it was just
25:56
Speaker 3: kind of incredible to watch, and it clearly meant a
25:59
Speaker 3: lot to him. So yeah, that's that's what stuck out
26:02
Speaker 3: to me and fre Aanny. I think you probably saw
26:05
Speaker 3: a little bit about his h his family in the
26:07
Speaker 3: crowd and and what it meant to him. But yeah,
26:10
Speaker 3: that was awesome.
26:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, let's be honest here, you didn't need to even
26:14
Speaker 2: like see them. You could hear them the whole time.
26:17
Speaker 2: I mean, it was amazing just the first two games.
26:20
Speaker 2: To think about one hundred and seventy four played appearances
26:22
Speaker 2: going into that game with three homers or the series
26:25
Speaker 2: with three homers and then have ten plate appearances three homers.
26:28
Speaker 2: Pretty special. I thought. The you know, the response in
26:34
Speaker 2: the top half of that second game was was just huge.
26:39
Speaker 2: That was one of those moments where I'm like, all right,
26:42
Speaker 2: like because you don't want to sit there and say
26:46
Speaker 2: this it's a front running team, because like good teams
26:48
Speaker 2: are front runners, right like they get out and they
26:50
Speaker 2: stay ahead and find ways to do that. In the
26:54
Speaker 2: case like this, this is where you gotta like understand,
26:57
Speaker 2: you're playing a great American ballpark. You have twenty four
26:59
Speaker 2: hours to play, I said. I think I said that
27:01
Speaker 2: right away. Yeah, Like who cares, like you have twenty
27:04
Speaker 2: four hours to play? Like it's one one guy at
27:06
Speaker 2: a time. You didn't think you're gonna get four right away,
27:08
Speaker 2: but they did, and then you know, CJ started off
27:10
Speaker 2: with a double. He continued his ways of just great
27:15
Speaker 2: at bats like yesterday was just a he ran into
27:18
Speaker 2: a just a filthy picture, but I saw it bad.
27:23
Speaker 2: After a bat it was like nothing giving it, like
27:25
Speaker 2: you were not giving away. AB's first five venues took
27:28
Speaker 2: two hours, yeah, which today is day and age. I'm like,
27:33
Speaker 2: holy hell.
27:34
Speaker 4: I got, I got.
27:35
Speaker 1: It was a long I got back from lunch a
27:38
Speaker 1: little bit late, and I was like, ah, crap, I
27:40
Speaker 1: hope too much doesn't happen yet. And I opened my
27:43
Speaker 1: phone as I'm headed out from lunch and it's five
27:45
Speaker 1: to four, like.
27:46
Speaker 4: Five four, like whoa, whoa wait we start? We started
27:49
Speaker 4: how many minutes ago? We said? What huh? And I
27:51
Speaker 4: get back home.
27:53
Speaker 2: I think we have. I think we have more revulsion
27:54
Speaker 2: than at like seven o'clock at night. It was.
27:57
Speaker 4: It was lunch, well that was it was a late lunch.
28:00
Speaker 4: It was a lenner for me, you know, like three thirty.
28:02
Speaker 2: We just like graduated dinner on that. Then yeah, we
28:06
Speaker 2: could Oh you're in Arizona though, that's.
28:07
Speaker 4: Right, we could have. I was in Arizona. You're right,
28:10
Speaker 4: you're right.
28:11
Speaker 2: That's why I forgot about that part. I forgot.
28:13
Speaker 4: I walked well, I walked out at dinner.
28:14
Speaker 1: It was like three third sorry, walked out of lunch,
28:16
Speaker 1: Lennard whatever we're calling it at three thirty and then
28:23
Speaker 1: let's let's get back onto the game recap at the bottom.
28:26
Speaker 2: Well, here here's everything. So up until the Rays the
28:30
Speaker 2: Rays same night, we're the first team all year that
28:33
Speaker 2: had scored two runs in the top half of an
28:35
Speaker 2: extra inning, like tenth, eleven, twelve, thirteenth, that had lost
28:40
Speaker 2: the game with Dark Dark of our shows walk off
28:44
Speaker 2: Grand Slam. So you score two or more in the
28:46
Speaker 2: in the in an extra inning, not as in total, right,
28:51
Speaker 2: like you go twelve venues, will you score two runs?
28:53
Speaker 2: Like no, no, no, if you score two or more runs
28:56
Speaker 2: in the top half of that that extra inning. This
29:00
Speaker 2: year it's twenty four one and one. And I say
29:04
Speaker 2: the extra one because the Pirates had one tied up
29:08
Speaker 2: and then they lost later on, so that doesn't count.
29:10
Speaker 2: So it's just kind of like the the washover, but
29:12
Speaker 2: twenty four times. And so Dalen hitting that two run
29:14
Speaker 2: a bomb, I felt very confident, and then I didn't.
29:20
Speaker 2: I was just like, oh my god, oh my god.
29:23
Speaker 2: They're like, oh God, please don't do it for him.
29:26
Speaker 1: Well, so, as you mentioned or someone just end a
29:29
Speaker 1: few moments ago a game of benches and in the
29:31
Speaker 1: bottom of the tenth inning that was never more true
29:34
Speaker 1: than it was here. You see, you know you watching online,
29:37
Speaker 1: this isn't really a true or an accurate replay there.
29:41
Speaker 1: But James going back and noticing immediately that was fan interference.
29:45
Speaker 1: Jacob Young having his hand up in dismay too. I
29:48
Speaker 1: was yelling at the television.
29:50
Speaker 2: They have the height. I do have the fun you
29:53
Speaker 2: see right, I think they have a height. I think
29:55
Speaker 2: they have a height. That's pretty good.
29:56
Speaker 1: We do the height that is, that's pretty realistic out
29:59
Speaker 1: of there. Even know that I could scroll it like
30:02
Speaker 1: that until I tried.
30:03
Speaker 2: It just now.
30:04
Speaker 1: But it was you know that that that play I
30:08
Speaker 1: was screening at the TV, and then they went into
30:10
Speaker 1: replay on it, and you hesitated for a second and said, hey,
30:13
Speaker 1: I hope that that call just stands because Jacob and
30:17
Speaker 1: James did such a great job there in the outfield.
30:19
Speaker 1: We were talking about this with the Marlin series the
30:21
Speaker 1: other day, Franny, about putting your hands up and letting
30:24
Speaker 1: umpires and letting the world know that something happened there,
30:27
Speaker 1: whether it's the ball getting stuck, whether it's a fan
30:30
Speaker 1: might have reached over I'm not saying they did or
30:32
Speaker 1: they didn't.
30:33
Speaker 4: Umpires ultimately ruled that he did.
30:36
Speaker 1: And the replay, you know, you can go check out
30:38
Speaker 1: the replay if you want to go see it. It
30:40
Speaker 1: was close, it was interesting. I would have loved to
30:43
Speaker 1: have seen it. I would have loved to have seen
30:44
Speaker 1: it play out. That's what I Obviously I don't. I
30:46
Speaker 1: don't because here's why, because the other day.
30:50
Speaker 2: We had that one we talked about we we did
30:51
Speaker 2: it on James' uh double that bounce back right, because
30:55
Speaker 2: of how hard he hit that one, And this is
30:57
Speaker 2: that one that was like lightly, yeah, I feel like
31:00
Speaker 2: if it, if it was allowed to go, it would
31:02
Speaker 2: just hit and just gone over, you know what I mean.
31:05
Speaker 4: Like, I think so too. That's no, I agree, that's
31:08
Speaker 4: what I was like.
31:09
Speaker 2: I'm so glad not to have seen that.
31:12
Speaker 4: I think the ballpark knew. I think like they let
31:15
Speaker 4: that fan. No.
31:16
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, you're you're not gonna be the favorite
31:19
Speaker 1: fan in the ballpark when you do something like that
31:21
Speaker 1: against the home team. But it seemed to me like
31:23
Speaker 1: the Reds fans in the ballpark immediately after the call
31:27
Speaker 1: groaned in this agony of like.
31:29
Speaker 4: Oh well, that was out, that ball was out, and
31:32
Speaker 4: you ruined it for us.
31:34
Speaker 1: Dude, that's a t because if you as we're saying
31:37
Speaker 1: runner on second, that's uh, that's why they there's a
31:41
Speaker 1: lot more runs being scored in extra innings to be
31:43
Speaker 1: good with and uh yeah, it's it's just it was
31:47
Speaker 1: such an exciting game all around.
31:49
Speaker 4: I don't know why, this, says Jose Tana.
31:51
Speaker 1: Three D replay struggled just a little bit to capture
31:54
Speaker 1: this one, but I believe that was Curtis Mead right
31:56
Speaker 1: who got that final out over its second.
31:58
Speaker 2: It was. It was a great place all over the.
32:00
Speaker 4: Diamond that night.
32:02
Speaker 2: MacLean, I don't know.
32:03
Speaker 1: He's and then like the Reds are getting in on
32:05
Speaker 1: the high five line, high fire lane celebration there getting.
32:09
Speaker 4: Ready to pine up. I don't know, but it's it's.
32:15
Speaker 1: The way that Mead came across. Uh, an exciting play
32:19
Speaker 1: to end it. You heard of you tear in the
32:21
Speaker 1: post game as I bring up the pitching box score
32:23
Speaker 1: from uh, that's gonna be Wednesday night, so excuse me,
32:28
Speaker 1: Uh no, sorry, that is that is Wednesday night.
32:31
Speaker 4: I just forgot to update it so I'll get rid
32:33
Speaker 4: of that. It's not Wednesday night.
32:34
Speaker 1: That's Thursday, or excuse me, that's Wednesday Night's box score
32:37
Speaker 1: that we're looking at right now on your screen. And
32:39
Speaker 1: Richard Lovelady he was fired up again coming off of
32:43
Speaker 1: the mound and Blake saying in the post game that
32:46
Speaker 1: it was a lot to digest and a lot to
32:48
Speaker 1: be excited about in that moment. I'm just a Richard
32:53
Speaker 1: Lovelady fan at this point, I guess because the intensity
32:55
Speaker 1: of that dude has on the mound, the ore gambling
32:58
Speaker 1: at times if you've both spent I love it. I
33:01
Speaker 1: mean he's he's fired up emotionally out there forr any
33:04
Speaker 1: what do you see from him out there on the
33:05
Speaker 1: mound that has been clicking the last few outings because
33:08
Speaker 1: he's been sharp the.
33:09
Speaker 4: Last time though.
33:11
Speaker 2: Uh yeah, I've executing. I mean he's executing and that's
33:17
Speaker 2: his thing. Like he had a rough one a couple
33:20
Speaker 2: of hours ago for walking guys. You know he has.
33:23
Speaker 2: I've talked about this. It's so wild to think about it.
33:26
Speaker 2: He has the same extension as Jake Irvin. Right, so
33:29
Speaker 2: Jake Irvin sixty six, he's six feet and so you
33:33
Speaker 2: know his and Jake doesn't have a small extension. What's that? No, No, no,
33:39
Speaker 2: it's it's it's ninety five percent of so, like I
33:41
Speaker 2: even think it's even more for a guy like Richard Lovelady.
33:44
Speaker 2: He gets out there and so he's a different look.
33:45
Speaker 2: So his ninety plays up like ninety two that type stuff.
33:49
Speaker 2: But he's just not afraid. Like I don't since I
33:53
Speaker 2: get is you watch a guy that understands who he
33:57
Speaker 2: is and where he is in his career, and he's
34:01
Speaker 2: like trying his hardest to do everything to make it
34:04
Speaker 2: like this is his like this is his time and
34:08
Speaker 2: to get things done and go and maybe I'm tired
34:11
Speaker 2: of getting kicked around and you know, from from team
34:14
Speaker 2: to team and ef it let's go, you know, And
34:17
Speaker 2: and he's fantastic and his emotion I wish you we
34:22
Speaker 2: could describe what it is because there it is real
34:27
Speaker 2: when he lets something out. Yeah, give those of you
34:30
Speaker 2: watching online one more look at the pitching box score
34:33
Speaker 2: from Wednesday Night's victory. There's so many guys, you know,
34:36
Speaker 2: we got to give a shout out to Mitchell Parker
34:39
Speaker 2: was very sharp out of the full pink and gust
34:42
Speaker 2: Barlin locking down a big ninth inning there after a
34:45
Speaker 2: leadoff double I believe you know, was able to bear
34:48
Speaker 2: down there or maybe a one out double, just huge stuff.
34:51
Speaker 2: And then PJ Pulling getting his second save of the season,
34:53
Speaker 2: the opener doing the closing that night.
34:56
Speaker 1: So looking ahead to later today, these are your probable
34:58
Speaker 1: picture probable pitchers. If you're headed over to the ballpark.
35:02
Speaker 1: Shane bos will be on the mound for the Orioles,
35:04
Speaker 1: or is expected to be. He's one and four, the five, four, eight,
35:07
Speaker 1: and the Nationals are expected to throw Zach Lttel one
35:10
Speaker 1: and four with the six ninety four last time out
35:12
Speaker 1: was actually in relief at Miami. He gave up three
35:15
Speaker 1: runs to earned over four innings in which love Lady
35:19
Speaker 1: opened that game for him. So Franny Orioles come to town.
35:24
Speaker 1: They're in a competitive division as well, and every division
35:27
Speaker 1: is competitive in Major League Baseball, but it's not quite
35:30
Speaker 1: as competitive as the NL Central may be right now.
35:33
Speaker 1: So how can the Nationals, you know, have a productive
35:35
Speaker 1: series this weekend? And not that the goal is to
35:37
Speaker 1: go and take two out of three, but get some wins.
35:39
Speaker 2: Here, uh, goals goals to win series, goals to win
35:44
Speaker 2: they win serious as always the goal always use me
35:46
Speaker 2: excuse me, it doesn't always win series. And if you
35:49
Speaker 2: get a sweep, that's it's a chair out on top,
35:53
Speaker 2: like the frosting, right, Like, that's that's the icing on
35:56
Speaker 2: the cake. So I just want to see them come
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Speaker 2: out today and do something, like, I just want to
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Speaker 2: see them do something, do something positive. Game ones at
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Speaker 2: home have been awful, awful, and you know, especially after
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Speaker 2: the butt kicking yesterday, but they've responded well after buck
36:15
Speaker 2: kickings too.
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Speaker 3: This year.
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Speaker 2: There's been a few, so I'm excited to see that part.
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Speaker 2: But I they just need to limit. Like again, you
36:23
Speaker 2: go from Great American Ballpark, not a lively place to hit.
36:28
Speaker 2: Oh wait, the small park is very lively, but you're
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Speaker 2: gonna come to a park that I think tomorrow starts
36:37
Speaker 2: to heat up a little bit, you know. So you're
36:40
Speaker 2: hoping that the offense continues over here. But they need
36:43
Speaker 2: to just they need to play clean baseball. Still still
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Speaker 2: too MANI mistakes. I mean the amount of errors that
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Speaker 2: they've had, the amount of under and runs of that
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Speaker 2: they've had, just way too much.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'd say the same thing, and we can. We'll
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Speaker 3: save it for a future. So the cj NAS short
37:02
Speaker 3: second conversation, but yeah, clean baseball is always number one
37:06
Speaker 3: until they figure that out.
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Speaker 2: Number two.
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Speaker 3: I'm really fascinated to see how many pitches are thrown
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Speaker 3: by left handed pitches this season. As we reference before,
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Speaker 3: the Orioles cannot hit lefties. And when I say they
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Speaker 3: cannot hit lefties again, it is like way below replacement
37:23
Speaker 3: level type numbers against them. The Nationals don't have Foster
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Speaker 3: going in this series. So can you get eighty ninety
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Speaker 3: pitches out of Alvarez if you need to? Can you
37:33
Speaker 3: get Mitchell in the third game of a series? Can
37:36
Speaker 3: you get Love Lady throwing two innings? PJ throwing you know,
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Speaker 3: maybe first and third of the series. Like, you are
37:43
Speaker 3: going to count so much on those guys in this series,
37:46
Speaker 3: And frankly, it's a lot of arms who, like you said,
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Speaker 3: like weren't expected to be big contributors. And so if
37:51
Speaker 3: they can show up in this series and get the
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Speaker 3: Nats you know, back to five hundred perhaps or again
37:58
Speaker 3: right on the doorstep of it, that's going to be
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Speaker 3: really compelling stuff. So that's what I'm keeping an eye
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Speaker 3: on at the very least.
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Speaker 1: Definitely envious if you guys are gonna be over at
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Speaker 1: the ballpark there later today. As I mentioned the hot
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Speaker 1: dog giveaway later today tomorrow, it's the Ovechkin bobblehead.
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Speaker 4: That one is gonna be pretty epic.
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Speaker 1: So if you are out of the ballpark, make sure
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Speaker 1: you show up early and get yourself one of those giveaways.
38:20
Speaker 1: And before we sign off, I want to say I'm
38:22
Speaker 1: going to start doing, you know, these weekly Friday giveaways.
38:24
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what I'm gonna do next week, maybe
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Speaker 1: one of those bobbleheads or the T shirt and Nationals
38:29
Speaker 1: to some degree.
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Speaker 4: But to start it.
38:30
Speaker 2: Off, Liam was kind enough to sign one of our baseball.
38:34
Speaker 1: Cards here and I've put on that's incredible the Gonats inscriptions.
38:38
Speaker 1: So if you want to be the recipient of this,
38:40
Speaker 1: if you're still listening to this podcast right now, go
38:43
Speaker 1: ahead and shoot me a DM on Instagram. First come,
38:45
Speaker 1: first serve for this one at bat Boys Baseball or
38:48
Speaker 1: sorry at bat Boy Shelley and I'll go ahead and
38:52
Speaker 1: get that sent out to you. But guys, anything you
38:54
Speaker 1: want to toss them before.
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Speaker 4: We head out.
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Speaker 2: Hot dog boys, Yeah, I.
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Speaker 4: Could definitely get to one of those fenses. That's one
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Speaker 4: of those.
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Speaker 1: And Franny please have a hot dog for me later
39:05
Speaker 1: because on the broadcast, you said you're not you're not
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Speaker 1: a big hot dog guy, but like maybe get one
39:11
Speaker 1: of the crab. But I have to.
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Speaker 2: Like play a part like on there. You know everything
39:15
Speaker 2: I say on there's an.
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Speaker 5: Act, so well, whether they're going to have the hot
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Speaker 5: dogs for you there later today and there's going to
39:22
Speaker 5: be a counter on the scoreboard, I better expect to do.
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Speaker 2: You have to call it a glzsy counter.
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Speaker 4: Listen, get what the times Franny Franny.
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Speaker 2: If I was at the ball do you know how
39:34
Speaker 2: the Glizzy came up? Like I just don't get it.
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Speaker 2: Uh my generation, I can't tell.
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Speaker 1: You because I you know, I talk about it with
39:43
Speaker 1: my mom and uh yeah, you know, she's like one
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Speaker 1: of the Glizzy things are I'm like, Mom, I'm just
39:49
Speaker 1: putting away Glizzies when I get to the ballpark later today.
39:53
Speaker 2: What I mean like I feel her.
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Speaker 4: I feel her.
39:55
Speaker 2: We used to call it different, but I mean it's
39:57
Speaker 2: like we're good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, you all enjoyed the ballpark later today.
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Speaker 1: Those of you that have stuck around, thank you so
40:04
Speaker 1: much for listening, and we'll see you in next Monday's episode.
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Speaker 4: See you who is