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Speaker 1: Jacob Muzuraski does that. He's the misz. He is a sensation.
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Speaker 1: He is exactly what you want in terms of marketing.
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Speaker 1: Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal. Big week
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Speaker 1: here in Atlanta for the All Star Game, a big
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Speaker 1: week for the Foul Territory Network will be with you
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Speaker 1: for the next two days, and obviously a big week
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Speaker 1: for baseball. A lot going on, starting with the draft.
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Speaker 1: Last night, We're gonna get into the draft a little bit,
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Speaker 1: talk about the Red Sox, the Brewers, and of course
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Speaker 1: the mizz But let's start. Let's excuse me, let's start
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Speaker 1: with the draft. And last night it just reminded me
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Speaker 1: of how the game humbles us all everyone in it, players, managers, executives, coaches,
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Speaker 1: scouts and of course writers too. Now I'm not a
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Speaker 1: draft expert. I hardly cover it at all, but the
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Speaker 1: people who do do such a great job. And yet
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Speaker 1: all the mock draft did anybody have Eli Willitts at
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Speaker 1: the top. I saw a few that mentioned he could
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Speaker 1: be a top five guy, could even go to the
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Speaker 1: top pick, but most of the mocks had other people,
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Speaker 1: other players going with the absolute number one pick. Eli
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Speaker 1: will it's the surprise. He is the youngest player in
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Speaker 1: the class. He's also the youngest player ever taken one
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Speaker 1: to one, and I think that was part of the
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Speaker 1: attraction for the Nationals. The models that the teams use,
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Speaker 1: they love youth, they love the fact that these guys
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Speaker 1: can develop, and that probably was part of it. The
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Speaker 1: Nationals of course said he was our best player, top
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Speaker 1: player on the board from the start. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Speaker 1: We hear it all the time, and I'm sure it's true.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they love the player, but I think that
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Speaker 1: age part of it had something to do with it.
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Speaker 1: The number two pick was also a surprise, Tyler Bremner
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Speaker 1: from UC Santa Barbara going to the Angels. The Angels
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Speaker 1: taking their usual heat for what some people perceive as
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Speaker 1: a reach. We'll see. No one knows what's going to
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Speaker 1: happen with any of these guys. The beauty of the
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Speaker 1: Baseball draft, and the most fun thing for me was
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Speaker 1: seeing Ethan Holliday go number four to the Rockies. Fun
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Speaker 1: because one, of course, his dad, Matt Holliday, was a
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Speaker 1: star with the Rockies. That's where he made his name.
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Speaker 1: And also I remember seeing Ethan Holliday with his brother
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Speaker 1: Jackson running around the field at High Corbett Field in
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Speaker 1: Tucson when the Rockies trained there. They no longer train
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Speaker 1: in Tucson. And there's little Ethan and great tweet post
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Speaker 1: whatever you want to call it from the Rockies last
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Speaker 1: night meant to be. That's Ethan as a youngster in
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Speaker 1: looks like Corsefield, and what a cool moment for him
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Speaker 1: to be drafted by his father's team. He's a guy
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Speaker 1: some people thought would go number one. Some people see
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Speaker 1: him as the best talent in the draft. We will see.
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Speaker 1: The draft will play out as it plays out. We
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Speaker 1: won't be able to judge it for quite some time now.
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Speaker 1: On the major league side of the things, a lot
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Speaker 1: going on. A lot, And let's start with the Red Sox,
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Speaker 1: the team that traded field Devers and took heat from
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Speaker 1: a lot of people, including me for doing that. Well,
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Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox enter the break having won ten
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Speaker 1: straight games. They swept the Rays four straight to get
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Speaker 1: to this point. And when you look at the Al
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Speaker 1: East standings right now, you're going to see something a
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Speaker 1: little different, something that I don't know that we anticipated
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Speaker 1: at the start of the season. The Toronto Blue Jays
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Speaker 1: are up top. That's one thing we didn't expect. Yankees
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Speaker 1: two behind, and now the Red Sox suddenly just three behind,
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Speaker 1: with the Rays five and a half out after losing
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Speaker 1: twelve of their last sixteen going into the break. So
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Speaker 1: the wild card standings, it's the Yankees, it's the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox one back, and then the Mariners. So the Socks
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Speaker 1: are in playoff position as we speak, and as we
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Speaker 1: get to the deadline, the question becomes, Okay, what are
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Speaker 1: they going to do? They need a starting pitcher. A
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, I might have said they needed
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Speaker 1: a number two right behind Crochet. Now I don't know
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Speaker 1: that that's the case. They've got Crochet, of course, being Crochet,
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Speaker 1: ace of the staff, all star, brilliant performer, but in
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Speaker 1: recent weeks Lucas Giolito has come on and Brian Bayo
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Speaker 1: has come on, So right now, I don't know that
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Speaker 1: they need the number two that's going to be so
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Speaker 1: hard to get. Anyway, they could just use a starting
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Speaker 1: pitcher who would help them as well as a first
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Speaker 1: baseman and of course the requisite bullpen help. Red Sox
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Speaker 1: are in great shade, and the big question I guess
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Speaker 1: with them as we enter the deadline or one of
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Speaker 1: the big questions is Jaron Durant and will they trade
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Speaker 1: him right now? The Red Sox have an outstanding group
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Speaker 1: of position players. You could argue certainly that they have
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Speaker 1: a surplus in the outfield DH spots and duran could
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Speaker 1: be the odd man out in that equation. At the
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Speaker 1: same time, Darren Durant has three plus years of service
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Speaker 1: remaining or club control remaining. You don't want to trade
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Speaker 1: him for a rental. Obviously, it would be perfect if
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Speaker 1: you could trade him for a starting pitcher with three
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Speaker 1: plus years of control, but I don't know that that
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Speaker 1: animal will be available. So it's going to be really
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Speaker 1: interesting to see how they play this because they are
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Speaker 1: a team that frankly might be in the World Series
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Speaker 1: if they make the right moves here. They have a
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Speaker 1: ton of talent, They've got a really intriguing, exciting club,
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Speaker 1: and they've come on a good deal in recent weeks.
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Speaker 1: All Right, one other team I want to talk about
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Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers, another team that is really hot right now.
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Speaker 1: And the Milwaukee Brewers have won seventh straight. They are
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Speaker 1: just one out in the NL Central, one out, one
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Speaker 1: behind the Cubs. Amazing, how far that they've come and
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Speaker 1: obviously they are also first in the wildcard race. They
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Speaker 1: have a better record than the Mets, than the Phillies.
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Speaker 1: They have the third best record in the National League.
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Speaker 1: That's right, the Milwaukee Brewers third best record in the
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Speaker 1: National League, behind only the Dodgers and the Cubs. And
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Speaker 1: what's amazing about the Brewers when you look at their
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Speaker 1: journey from the off season to now. In the off
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Speaker 1: season until March, they didn't sign a free agent for
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Speaker 1: more than one million dollars. They finally signed Kintana under
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Speaker 1: pressure for four point twenty five million at some point
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Speaker 1: in March, and that certainly helped them. He's been a
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Speaker 1: fine addition for the Brewers. So they don't have much
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Speaker 1: of an off season after losing Willia Domis the free agency,
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Speaker 1: after trading Devin Williams, and yet here they are again.
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Speaker 1: Then they start the season the Torpedo Bats series in
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Speaker 1: New York. Remember, oh my goodness, Freddy Peralta said yesterday
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Speaker 1: Sunday that he was a little bit worried after that
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Speaker 1: series and after what happened at the hands of the
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Speaker 1: New York Yankees with their torpedo Bats, which we haven't
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Speaker 1: heard a word about for a couple of months. Now
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Speaker 1: the Brewers climb back out of that and here they are,
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Speaker 1: as they are here every single year. It seems, no
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Speaker 1: matter what you do to them, no matter who they lose,
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Speaker 1: they rally now. South Freelick injured his hamstring on Sunday,
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Speaker 1: underwent an MRI, awaiting the results of that. Obviously, they
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Speaker 1: need him and he's been a huge part of what
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Speaker 1: they've done since moving to the leadoff spot in May.
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Speaker 1: But the Brewers, unlike really any other team, are in
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Speaker 1: a unique position entering the deadline. In my estimation, they
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Speaker 1: have starting pitching. The trade now. Obviously it's fragile, and
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Speaker 1: obviously you don't really want to ever trade starting pitching
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Speaker 1: because the moment you do, then you lose one and
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Speaker 1: then suddenly you're facing a shortage again. But the Brewers
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Speaker 1: are sitting there right now. They've got Miseroski, of course,
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Speaker 1: who has come on. They got Brandon Woodriff who has comeback,
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Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta, Jose Cantana. Then they have all these others too.
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Speaker 1: Tobias Myers came up briefly. Let's not forget Logan Henderson,
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Speaker 1: Chad Patrick, and of course Quinn Priester. It just named
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Speaker 1: I don't know, seven or eight guys. They can trade
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Speaker 1: a pitcher they need help on the left side of
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Speaker 1: their infield, a shortstop ideally, or a third baseman. They're
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Speaker 1: a team that scraps and fights and does everything possible
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Speaker 1: to win. I just love seeing the way they go
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Speaker 1: about it every single year. They're one of my favorite
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Speaker 1: teams just to watch, just to see how they piece
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Speaker 1: it together. I don't have a favorite team obviously, but
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Speaker 1: just monitoring them, charting them, watching them, it's really cool
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Speaker 1: to see how they somehow contend every single year. And
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Speaker 1: this is the best record, actually, the most wins they've
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Speaker 1: had at the All Star break in franchise history. Now,
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Speaker 1: granted the season started on March twenty seven, that might
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Speaker 1: be influencing that total. But Mark aut Tnasio, their owner,
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Speaker 1: should be influenced, should be incentivized to go out and
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Speaker 1: do something at the deadline to add to this team.
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Speaker 1: And he has his general manager, Matt Arnold, has the
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Speaker 1: starting pitching, the flexibility to maybe do some things. All right,
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Speaker 1: So that's the draft, that's the Red Sox, that's the Brewers,
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Speaker 1: And yeah, we're gonna talk about the miss We've got
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Speaker 1: the Inside Dish coming up right after this.
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Speaker 2: play just because, but even summer needs back up, a
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Speaker 2: little partner in the good kind of chaos. Someone to
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Speaker 2: reminds us what our bodies and our hearts were made for.
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Speaker 2: Play that moves you, well, well.
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Speaker 1: Well back down with the inside Dish from the All
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Speaker 1: Star Game. And yes, Jacob Mazerski has been the talk
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Speaker 1: of the sport really ever since he came up in June.
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Speaker 1: And of course he became the talk of the sport
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Speaker 1: in a different way when he was named to the
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Speaker 1: All Star team on Friday as a replacement for Matthew Boyd.
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Speaker 1: I wrote about this today, and I want to get
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Speaker 1: into it because there's a lot of layers here. There
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Speaker 1: are a lot of layers here and a lot of
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Speaker 1: things to discuss. Now. I'm going to start off at
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Speaker 1: the top by saying what I did in my column
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Speaker 1: this morning. I see both sides of this debate. I
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Speaker 1: certainly see the side of Major League Baseball and Fox.
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Speaker 1: They want to generate as much attention as possible for
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Speaker 1: the game. They want to generate as much buzz as
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Speaker 1: possible for the game. Jacob Muzaraski does that. He's the miz,
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Speaker 1: he is a sensation. He is exactly what you want
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Speaker 1: in terms of marketing. Now. The problem is, of course,
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Speaker 1: to those who see this selection as something less than ideal,
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Speaker 1: is that Jacob Zerowski has made five, count them five
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Speaker 1: starts in the major leagues, only five, And the question becomes,
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Speaker 1: how far do you lower the bar. Paul Skins had
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Speaker 1: made eleven starts last year when he became the All
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Speaker 1: Stars starting pitcher for the National League, but he had
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Speaker 1: been dominant in those eleven starts, even more dominant than
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Speaker 1: Miseraski had a one point nine zero ERA. No one
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Speaker 1: had a problem with that up in early May. He'd
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Speaker 1: been a major leaguer for the bulk of the season.
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Speaker 1: But again, when you choose a mis Eroski, you're not
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Speaker 1: choosing others who have been with their teams the entire
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Speaker 1: season and others who have really worked their entire careers
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Speaker 1: to become an All Star. And I think of Tyler Rogers,
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Speaker 1: the San Francisco Giants reliever. A friend or actually a
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Speaker 1: commenter on my column this morning mentioned Nick Pavetta, who
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Speaker 1: certainly has been All Star worthy for the Padres. They've
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Speaker 1: got three relievers that should be enough. But yeah, Pavetta's
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Speaker 1: pitched really well. And there are others as well, others
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Speaker 1: who did not get a spot because Jacob Miserowski did.
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Speaker 1: But what I wrote about is that Jacob Miserowski, the
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Speaker 1: miz is only in this game, was only available to
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Speaker 1: be chosen because others starting pitchers turned down spots. Now
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Speaker 1: we know the rules here. Pitchers who are scheduled to
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Speaker 1: start on Sunday, either they or their teams can request
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Speaker 1: that the league restrict their usage, and by restricting their usage,
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Speaker 1: they can also request not to pitch. We get it.
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Speaker 1: One day's rest. That's a lot to ask. And the
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Speaker 1: Sunday pitchers they bowed out understandably. So we also had
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Speaker 1: six starting pitchers who went on Saturday two days ago,
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Speaker 1: went on Saturday, and they also bowed out. Two in
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Speaker 1: the National League, four in the American League. The rules
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Speaker 1: or the All Star criteria says nothing about Saturday starters.
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Speaker 1: There's no reason they shouldn't be able to pitch. Now,
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Speaker 1: in each case, you can look at it, Zach Wheelers,
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Speaker 1: Garat Crochet, Matthew Boyd, right down the line. Every one
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Speaker 1: of these starters. Jacob de Gram's another one who bowed out.
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Speaker 1: Those are guys who bowed out after pitching Saturday. In
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Speaker 1: each case you can certainly understand why they might not
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Speaker 1: want to pitch. And with the sport just ravaged by
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Speaker 1: pitching injuries, yeah, being overly cautious is a good idea.
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Speaker 1: So there's that to balance, and it's not easy. But
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Speaker 1: when you take it as a whole, when you see
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Speaker 1: this many players bowing out, and either way, we are
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Speaker 1: up to seventy nine All Stars and it's going to
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Speaker 1: become eighty. The Zach parades Withdrew today because of family matter,
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Speaker 1: so he's going to be replaced most likely eighty All
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Speaker 1: Stars and by the way, no Wan Soto eighty. At
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Speaker 1: that point, it's not necessarily a good look. And at
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Speaker 1: that point you wonder if players can show more of
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Speaker 1: an obligation to the sport the ones who back out,
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Speaker 1: And yes, it's nuanced, it's difficult. As I said, the
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Speaker 1: withdrawals in almost every case are justifiable. But while labor
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Speaker 1: tension is always the undercurrent of what is going on
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Speaker 1: with baseball, and players sometimes don't feel like they need
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Speaker 1: to go out of their way to help MLB out,
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Speaker 1: I get it, but there does have to be an
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Speaker 1: obligation at some point, at some level, an obligation to
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Speaker 1: the fans, an obligation to your advocation, your vocation, I
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Speaker 1: should say. So, it's a difficult one and I don't
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Speaker 1: know how you fix any of this. Alex Korra, the
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Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox manager, said on Sunday, told reporters that
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Speaker 1: maybe the best idea is to shorten I'm sorry, lengthen
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Speaker 1: the break. Lengthen the break, give pictures more time to
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Speaker 1: recover from their last starts, and as part of that,
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Speaker 1: you can move the game back to Wednesday, move it
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Speaker 1: to Wednesday instead of Tuesday, again, creating more space from
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Speaker 1: the end of the first half and the All Star
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Speaker 1: Game itself. I don't know that that's the answer. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if that would do it. I don't know
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Speaker 1: if paying the players more money, something I suggested in
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Speaker 1: the column would do it. Either, the players on the
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Speaker 1: winning team get twenty five thousand dollars each no small sum.
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Speaker 1: They also get every player one thousand dollars ipend. This
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Speaker 1: is both teams, as well as first class hotel and
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Speaker 1: accommodations for up to two guests. All that's nice and
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Speaker 1: it's very much a reward for being in the game.
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Speaker 1: Would more money help, I don't know. It always seems
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Speaker 1: to held right, but I don't know that that would
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Speaker 1: change any of this. So again, there are all these
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Speaker 1: factors in play. And then someone suggested to me, as well, Hey,
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Speaker 1: why not have fans vote for the pitchers, because fans
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Speaker 1: vote for the position players, and the position players seem
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Speaker 1: to honor the fans' wishes by playing in the game.
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Speaker 1: Only one position player has withdrawn this year, one of
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Speaker 1: the elected position players. That's Jose Ramirez, and he has
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Speaker 1: ample reason. He's had digging injuries the entire first half.
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Speaker 1: So maybe that's a part of it too. But all
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Speaker 1: of these things should be up for consideration. The process
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Speaker 1: is always going to be flawed. We saw that with
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Speaker 1: the Phillies guys Ranger Suarez and Christopher Sanchez. It's never
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Speaker 1: going to be perfect. There are always going to be
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Speaker 1: players you feel are more deserving than some of the
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Speaker 1: guys on the team. That's just part of this. But
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Speaker 1: when it comes to Jacob Mazarowski, this should not be
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Speaker 1: held against him. He you might say, deny earn his selection,
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Speaker 1: but you know what, he got chosen. He didn't choose himself,
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Speaker 1: he didn't put himself in the game. He can't be
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Speaker 1: Let's see what we got Elvis Santalia, who asked Ken,
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Speaker 1: what has been an All star host city that you thought?
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Speaker 1: Did it really well? Please don't say New York, Philly
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Speaker 1: or Boss And because AJ will never let you hear
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Speaker 1: the end of it. That is absolutely true. Elvis AJ
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Speaker 1: is someone who teases me a lot for I don't know,
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Speaker 1: writing about big cities. He's completely off base, but whatever,
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Speaker 1: let me think about it. All Star city an All
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Speaker 1: Star host city that I thought really did well Cleveland
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Speaker 1: a couple of years ago, Seattle. Honestly, it's always great
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Speaker 1: and most of the cities do a really fine job
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Speaker 1: with it. So here in Atlanta it's kind of cool
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Speaker 1: because it's centralized, with the battery being right here, everything's
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Speaker 1: kind of close. That to me is what makes a
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Speaker 1: good experience, where people can just mingle and be part
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Speaker 1: of it and where it's not so spread out as
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Speaker 1: it was in La for example. But for the All
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Speaker 1: Star experience, pretty much any city does a really good
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Speaker 1: job hosting. And I look forward to next year in Philly,
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Speaker 1: and I look forward to Camden Yards eventually getting one back.
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Speaker 1: Last All Star Game in Camden Yards nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 1: Of course, MLB said it wasn't because Peter Angelos was
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Speaker 1: a difficult owner for them. That's not why they kept
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Speaker 1: the game out of Baltimore. But it's got to go
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Speaker 1: back to Baltimore at some point. That's my old home park,
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Speaker 1: all right. Next question, Let's see what this one comes from.
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Speaker 1: It's nine inning nomad who ask Ken, what do you
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Speaker 1: consider the bow tie of all bow ties? Is there
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Speaker 1: a bow tie white whale? Any faves? Not any nomad.
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Speaker 1: I can't say I have any particular faves. Some obviously
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Speaker 1: look better than others. Some of you might say none
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Speaker 1: of them look good at all, because a bow tie
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Speaker 1: doesn't look good at all. Well, I can't help you there.
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Speaker 1: There is one, however, that I would like to wear ultimately.
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Speaker 1: And as you guys know, the bow ties, each one
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Speaker 1: of them represents a different charity. I wore als over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. I will be wearing Stand Up to Cancer
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Speaker 1: for the All Star Game. And there is an organization
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Speaker 1: called Playing for Change. It's a music organization, global artists.
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Speaker 1: Everybody participates. They make these videos and they're really outstanding,
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Speaker 1: and they also fund me music in arts education. They
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Speaker 1: have a foundation that does that. I've tried to contact them,
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Speaker 1: I've tried to make this work, but to this point
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Speaker 1: I do not have a Playing for Change bow tie.
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Speaker 1: My kids are all in one level or another in
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Speaker 1: the arts, and I would love to do that at
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Speaker 1: some point. So if anyone out there from Playing for
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Speaker 1: Changes listening, I am still interested. All right. Next question,
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Speaker 1: This one comes from Zane Woods, who asked the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: need an answer in the bullpen. Tanner Scott just isn't
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Speaker 1: cutting it as the closer. What's the move the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: needed to make? Of course, the gluntonous Dodger fans are
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Speaker 1: coming for more bullpen help. Well, the Dodgers signed Tanner
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Speaker 1: Scott for seventy two million dollars. Now, granted, he has
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Speaker 1: not been as good as he was last year, not
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Speaker 1: even close. He allowed three home runs all last season,
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Speaker 1: already has allowed eight. But after signing this guy for
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Speaker 1: seventy two million over four years, you're not gonna layer
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Speaker 1: over him. With the Monuel Klausse there, you're on Durrun
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Speaker 1: or any those guys who might be out there, You're
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Speaker 1: perhaps going to try to get Tanner Scott fixed. And
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Speaker 1: you also have others coming back. Blake Trinon is one
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Speaker 1: they will eventually see, perhaps Brisdog, Gaderol and Michael Kopek.
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Speaker 1: So the Dodgers their whole offseason was designed so they
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Speaker 1: wouldn't have to overpay it the deadline, and because Tanner
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Speaker 1: Scott has struggled in the first few months of a
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Speaker 1: four year deal. I don't expect their philosophy to change.
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Speaker 1: I do not expect them to go get a closer.
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Speaker 1: All right, one more question, at least, let's see what
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Speaker 1: we have here. This comes from Cameron Pleasant to ask
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Speaker 1: did the Diamondbacks consider themselves contenders still and would they
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Speaker 1: sell off pieces with a losing streak or be more
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Speaker 1: likely to still buy with their current situation. Cameron, this
21:47
Speaker 1: is a hot question right now. It's one that is
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Speaker 1: pressing for many clubs because they're wondering just what the
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Speaker 1: d Backs will do, because the d Backs have a
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Speaker 1: lot of players the teams would want. Here's where they stand,
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Speaker 1: five and a half out in the wildcard race, and
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Speaker 1: that's with three teams ahead of them. After the break,
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Speaker 1: they face the Cardinals and the Astros at home, not easy,
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Speaker 1: and then they're at Pittsburgh and Detroit leading to the deadline.
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Speaker 1: Do the Diamondbacks seriously look at themselves as contenders? Maybe not,
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Speaker 1: but with two weeks left before the deadline, a lot
22:21
Speaker 1: of teams that are on the bubble, a lot of
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Speaker 1: these teams think, let's just see what happens, and the
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Speaker 1: Diamondbacks are doing the same. Now if they do sell
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Speaker 1: and that is what I anticipate they will do. Aohano
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Speaker 1: Suarez certainly can go. He can go even if they
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Speaker 1: consider themselves still in it, because they can put Jordan
22:38
Speaker 1: Lawler at third base after that, Zach Gallon, Merrill Kelly.
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Speaker 1: I don't expect the Diamondbacks to trade both, but they
22:47
Speaker 1: could trade one and then Josh Naylor. You have others
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Speaker 1: as well, so I do anticipate they'll be sellers, but
22:53
Speaker 1: they're just not going to admit it just yet. All right.
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Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for watching for their questions.
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