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Cal Raleigh’s M’s deal, Astros promote Cam Smith, Rangers option Evan Carter, Chapman named closer, Jared Jones update, D’backs lose Monty · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey man, we're sissy's.
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  Speaker 2: We're cold.
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  Speaker 1: We need to be warm. But if I had pipes
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  Speaker 6: I'm trying.
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  Speaker 3: I was back and forth, okay, but yeah, I got
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  Speaker 3: the last time you're allowed to wear this because it's
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  Speaker 3: spring training shirt. Training is technically over, but Lamar starts
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  Speaker 3: this season. So anyway, we'll get to that a little
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  Speaker 3: bit later on. We got a lot to hit. There
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  Speaker 3: was a lot of news the last twenty four hours.
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  Speaker 3: Guys that made the teams guys that got cut and
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  Speaker 3: extension season is still on, so let's charge out Cal Riley. Baby,
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna be a Mariner for a while. They bought
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  Speaker 3: out some free agent years. So the contract for the Mariners,
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna call him superstar Catcher. Yeah, six years, one
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  Speaker 3: hundred five million bucks. It buys out the first three
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  Speaker 3: years of free agency. There's a full note trade clause
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  Speaker 3: in there, and he was already booked for about five
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  Speaker 3: million bucks this season, so it's about ninety called one
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  Speaker 3: hundred million dollars al most of new money that comes
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  Speaker 3: his way. You can kind of look at like JT
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  Speaker 3: real Muto's contract, which is one fifteen, although that was
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  Speaker 3: over five years, not six. But if you're looking past
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  Speaker 3: this season, and also JT got the free agency, Cal didn't.
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  Speaker 6: But seems like both sides should be happy about this.
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  Speaker 7: Most definitely, and I know Crazy smiling, even though he's
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  Speaker 7: not smiling right now. Another catcher gets bank. I honestly
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  Speaker 7: didn't see it. Compan I didn't even know there was
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  Speaker 7: talks going on here. I mean, I felt like it
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  Speaker 7: was kind of undercover, which is the best part of
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  Speaker 7: it because listen, you don't want stuff getting now somebody
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  Speaker 7: leaking something next thing, you know, it makes bad taste
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  Speaker 7: for somebody, But yes, this is well deserve. The guy's
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  Speaker 7: an absolute stud.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 7: I got to saw him play against the Yankees. You
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  Speaker 7: get to see how all these guys have come together
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  Speaker 7: and understood, like, listen, this is one of our leaders.
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  Speaker 7: This is one of our guys that is really good,
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  Speaker 7: knows the game of baseball, and he has a staff
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  Speaker 7: that is absolutely incredible.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is great for both sides. And
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  Speaker 1: like you mentioned that, I don't know if this was
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  Speaker 1: really talked about much. This kind of came out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, he's got one hundred million dollar contract.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's great for the Mariners right now because
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  Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto looks better to the fan base after not
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  Speaker 1: doing a whole lot during the offseason, and now they
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  Speaker 1: go and sign a franchise player, but ten million dollars
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  Speaker 1: signing bonus. His salary this year, guys is one million dollars.
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  Speaker 1: How good does that look for Jerry Depoto?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, does the bonus get paid out in year
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  Speaker 3: one or it goes through?
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  Speaker 6: I think it's right away, right, I'm sure it.
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  Speaker 2: Might be around Christmas time, dude.
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  Speaker 6: If I'm so, it'll come back.
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  Speaker 1: Yah, yeah, I want to signing bonus when I signed, right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's what happened with me when I have
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  Speaker 2: signing bonus.
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  Speaker 7: You got it at the end, but you know it
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  Speaker 7: is what You're gonna get it eventually.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, yep, okay, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, this dude is like, he's one of the
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  Speaker 5: most prolific hitting catchers in the game right now, power wise,
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  Speaker 5: especially in that place. It's just you know, he's doing
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  Speaker 5: different stuff back there. Oh yeah, and he added the
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  Speaker 5: excuse me, he added the platinum glove this year too,
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  Speaker 5: so you had the platinum glove. People are like, well,
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  Speaker 5: you know, his metrics might go down when the ABS
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  Speaker 5: comes in. He's still elite in the league in blocking
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  Speaker 5: and the whole time, the whole time he's doing all
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  Speaker 5: this framing, elite framing. He had five pass balls the
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  Speaker 5: whole year. People have talked about the one knee stuff.
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  Speaker 5: They're like, well, you know, pass balls don't really matter.
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  Speaker 5: This dude's blocking, throwing dudes out, and he could hit dingers.
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  Speaker 6: FT fan, get after it.
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  Speaker 7: He's an absolute beef Scottie. We're gonna see him playing
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  Speaker 7: for a long time in Seattle, and it's it's really good.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said Jerry to put I didn't even think
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  Speaker 2: about that.
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  Speaker 7: You know, everybody, Jerry, you know he's not a guy
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  Speaker 7: that's gonna really do much, and you know, doing something
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  Speaker 7: like this is really big for Seattle.
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  Speaker 1: Especially after some comments he made durned off season. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's got to win the fans back, and I think
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  Speaker 1: this is going in the right direction.
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  Speaker 6: You want a Platinum Glove.
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  Speaker 3: Last year, thirty four homers, and the plate discipline is
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  Speaker 3: improving too, so career high on base percentage, career high walks.
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  Speaker 3: Here's a big one too. He led Danny and catcher innings,
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  Speaker 3: so he is the workhorse catcher, which obviously is a
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  Speaker 3: taxing position.
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  Speaker 1: I think he loved that as a pitcher, and Cratsy
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  Speaker 1: working with pictures his whole career, would would probably agree, like,
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  Speaker 1: there's certain guys that you just you want behind the
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  Speaker 1: plate when it's crunch time, right. You want guys that
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  Speaker 1: know the game. You want guys that know the scattering
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  Speaker 1: report and know how to call a game and know
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  Speaker 1: how to handle the pitching staff. And cal Rawley is
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  Speaker 1: that guy. And then of course the thirty home runs
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  Speaker 1: a year that he hits it is a pretty good
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  Speaker 1: addition to.
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  Speaker 5: The way that he talks in the media, the way
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  Speaker 5: that he interacts with his teammates, the way that this
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  Speaker 5: pitching staff is elite, Like we're not talking elite compared
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  Speaker 5: to the rest of the Major League Baseball, We're talking
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  Speaker 5: elite like in history.
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  Speaker 4: This dude, can we get a C? Can we get
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  Speaker 4: a C on his chest? Ever done that? I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: He just has that, as the kids say, he has
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  Speaker 5: that aura about him because he's not afraid to say
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  Speaker 5: the things at the end of the season, like oh, hey,
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  Speaker 5: look at that team over there who just knocked us
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  Speaker 5: out of playoffs by one game. They went out and
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  Speaker 5: got dudes. So he's got he's got a direct line
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  Speaker 5: to ownership. Well maybe not ownership, I guess ownership now
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  Speaker 5: because he got that big he got the big extension,
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  Speaker 5: but he's got a direct line to like, hey, when
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  Speaker 5: Cal says something, we listen.
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  Speaker 2: And that's it. He's the man.
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  Speaker 6: Yep, he is.
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  Speaker 3: He is, so same service time Ky gets double the money.
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  Speaker 3: That kind of plays to what you were talking about, Krafts.
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  Speaker 3: Kyle Riley is a much much better, more accomplished player
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  Speaker 3: right now than Aleandro Kirk, so the money makes sense
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  Speaker 3: for him. But Ken said, how often are you seeing
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  Speaker 3: players like Riley get the free agency. I mean, j
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  Speaker 3: t row Muto is the last what superstar catcher that
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  Speaker 3: I can think of who had consistent production like that
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  Speaker 3: to get the free agency. Teams lock up their catchers, right.
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  Speaker 5: They do, and maybe it's catcher's fault. Maybe they should
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  Speaker 5: go to free agency more. But look at the value
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  Speaker 5: that a catchers bring, especially now with the framing and
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  Speaker 5: all those metrics. There's some people who can argue that
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  Speaker 5: these framing metrics make them more valuable than some of
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  Speaker 5: the MVPs every year. I don't agree that it's that valuable,
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  Speaker 5: but they're like, hey, this has cost certainty. And as
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  Speaker 5: a catcher, there's no other position besides pitcher that you
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  Speaker 5: have a risk of a career ending type of injury.
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  Speaker 4: You blow out one of your.
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  Speaker 5: Knees, you just might not be the same You're hitting
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  Speaker 5: is always going to kind of decline as the sea
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  Speaker 5: and goes on. So when they start throwing money at you,
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  Speaker 5: it's tough to say, you know what, I'll wait till
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  Speaker 5: free agency.
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  Speaker 4: Cal is a long way away from free agency.
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  Speaker 2: It's a cool story.
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  Speaker 3: Cam Smith drafted last year fourteenth overall by the Chicago
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  Speaker 3: Cubs moved three levels last year. I mean, you only
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  Speaker 3: played thirty four games in the minor leagues or thirty two. Sorry,
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  Speaker 3: I gave him two extra games. Thirty two games in
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  Speaker 3: the minor leagues last year, hit three thirteen, three, ninety
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  Speaker 3: six on base six and nine slug that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: Then in spring training, I get it. It's fifteen games,
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  Speaker 3: three forty two, four, nineteen seven to eleven slash line,
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  Speaker 3: and they're like, enough enough, we're getting up.
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  Speaker 6: To the show.
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  Speaker 3: Especially when it's Houston and their outfield didn't look great
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  Speaker 3: on paper in the offseason, and Danny, all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 3: you got Al Twovey in one corner, You've got Cam
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  Speaker 3: Smith in another corner. Things are looking up for them
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  Speaker 3: with that outfield. Camp Smith could be an AL Rookie
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  Speaker 3: of the Year.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I've watched Cal Smith all year last year Florida
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  Speaker 1: State camp Smith, I mean Camp Smith, sorry, and as
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  Speaker 1: a third baseman, and that was really the only hole
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  Speaker 1: that anybody saw his defense. He's got a cannon for
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  Speaker 1: an arm, but his defense at third, Todd you can
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  Speaker 1: attest to this, like it's not easy playing the hot corner,
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  Speaker 1: but the dude can rake man. He doesn't strike out,
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  Speaker 1: he walks a lot, gets on base. You put him
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  Speaker 1: in right field where he's not having to worry about
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  Speaker 1: the hot corner. This dude's gonna hit some a ton
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  Speaker 1: of bombzillas in that ballpark.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, And I think the biggest thing is finding that
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  Speaker 7: one spot for him. And I remember coming up they
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  Speaker 7: call the super utility guys. They're trying to find a spot.
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  Speaker 7: You put him in left, you put him in right, third,
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  Speaker 7: you know, bounce around, but that plays with your psyche
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  Speaker 7: a little bit. Put him in one spot, let him prosper,
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  Speaker 7: and he's going to absolutely dominate this year.
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  Speaker 2: And what a field.
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  Speaker 7: Good story man, you know, well the I think the
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  Speaker 7: Astros did a really good job with the whole bringing
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  Speaker 7: the family in and that kind of stuff. I think
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  Speaker 7: that stuff is what baseball needs, Scotty. You talk about
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  Speaker 7: this all the time. We need to revolve a little
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  Speaker 7: bit more and you know, keep up with the Jones
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  Speaker 7: a little little bit with baseball and to get out
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  Speaker 7: there a little more. And I think they did a
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  Speaker 7: really really good job.
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  Speaker 5: Easy for me to tear up, but watching them call
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  Speaker 5: his family in, I've never seen that before. The clubhouse
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  Speaker 5: is a sacred place, and the way that they did it,
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  Speaker 5: I absolutely loved it, Like that was so pro. He
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  Speaker 5: was just like, I mean, he was ball and balling
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  Speaker 5: when he saw his parents coming in there. But to
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  Speaker 5: me when we were in camp, when we were in
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  Speaker 5: camp talking to Joe, he didn't he didn't just say, WHOA,
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  Speaker 5: this dude's raking. He was just like, this guy's this
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  Speaker 5: guy's the real deal, Like this is this isn't like
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  Speaker 5: we're not like we're not joking around. Like this guy's
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  Speaker 5: makeup is unbelievable. This guy has parents who did the
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  Speaker 5: right thing. And like you saw it in that moment,
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  Speaker 5: like you saw how much family means to him.
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  Speaker 4: But you also see a team that's aspiring to get
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  Speaker 4: back to the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: They're not just you know, if this is a cool
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  Speaker 5: Arlyn's story, Hey we got to justify the trade of
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  Speaker 5: one of our superstars.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, cool story.
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  Speaker 5: They want to win, They want to win, and this
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  Speaker 5: dude's gonna get a lot of AB's.
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  Speaker 6: Super athlete too.
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  Speaker 3: I always like to bring this up with Dana Brown,
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  Speaker 3: who's running the Astros front office now.
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  Speaker 6: He was on FT a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: If you want to look back at one of those
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  Speaker 3: episodes when we were at Astros camp. He is a
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  Speaker 3: scouting extraordinary. He did insane work for the Braves, including
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  Speaker 3: being the guy for example, with Michael Harris the second
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  Speaker 3: they were like, this is the guy, we have to
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  Speaker 3: draft him, trust me, Lock, And there's many others I
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  Speaker 3: don't have him at the top of my head that
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  Speaker 3: he was leading the charge for as a scout with Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Comes over to Houston and this is a big deal
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  Speaker 3: trade for them. You're trading Kyle Tucker and you're trying
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  Speaker 3: to be a contender.
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  Speaker 6: You have to hit.
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  Speaker 3: Not only do they get cam Smith and he becomes
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  Speaker 3: their top prospect, he's up with the team right away,
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  Speaker 3: so you have thesat parades to start the year for them.
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  Speaker 3: Hayden was Neesky obviously part of that trade as well
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  Speaker 3: for some pitching depth. But then I mean some people
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  Speaker 3: were doing I saw a poll on on social media
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  Speaker 3: take you know war for a lack of a better
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  Speaker 3: stat of parates Camp Smith and Hayden Mseneski versus Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 3: They're like, I know it's three players versus one, but
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  Speaker 3: they're like, the Astros might have replaced the overall production
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  Speaker 3: there with that group. If Cam Smith is a star
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  Speaker 3: from day one, which is certainly possible. And I bring
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  Speaker 3: up Dana Brown also because you saw him more than
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  Speaker 3: probably any of us did. He said, he's a super
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  Speaker 3: athlete at third base, Like you said, when you're learning,
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  Speaker 3: it can take some time. He goes, you get to
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  Speaker 3: just unleash the athleticism a little bit more in the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna see stuff from Cam Smith that I
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  Speaker 1: don't think anybody has really seen because of the athlete
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  Speaker 1: that he is. And he's such a great kid. I
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  Speaker 1: call him a kid. He's an adult obviously, but like
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  Speaker 1: he's so willing to learn and so willing to get
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  Speaker 1: better even though he's such a good hitter already, and
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot to learn in the big leagues again
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  Speaker 1: of adjusting to pitchers. But this dude, he's got it
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  Speaker 1: all man. And I love the fact that the astros
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  Speaker 1: aren't waiting to bring this kid up to perform up here.
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  Speaker 6: He's ready to go.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 5: I'm brought back to another first round pick, third baseman,
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  Speaker 5: college star left handed hitter ended up being a Platinum
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  Speaker 5: Glove left fielder Alex Gordon. Think about it, if he hadn't,
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  Speaker 5: if he had broken in as an outfielder, he would
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  Speaker 5: have had a few years jump and wouldn't have had
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  Speaker 5: to make those adjustments trying him out a third. Now
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  Speaker 5: it didn't work. Put an athlete in the outfield. To me,
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  Speaker 5: you could probably always go back to third. But now
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  Speaker 5: go run around out there, catch some balls for the boys.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if he does star, if he wins Rookie
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  Speaker 3: of the Year, what is it first or second place?
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  Speaker 3: I think it is, then they would get a first
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  Speaker 3: round pick. So that would be awesome for Houston obviously
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  Speaker 3: because they were hit too exactly with some losses. When
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  Speaker 3: Evan Carter was a star in the postseason a couple
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: of years ago. Last year heard a lot of the year.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: They're worried about some chronic issues.
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I got to look up what it is. I think
• 16:29
  Speaker 6: it's the back. Is it the back crats?
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's back.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: So and he's not on the opening day rosters, so
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: they optioned him to start the year. You didn't hit
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: much in spring training, obviously, every you know, sample sizes
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: small for spring training one fifty four four, nineteen ops.
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: But it's just crazy when we saw how unstoppable he was.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, he was an on base monster for the
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: Rangers and the huge part of why they won the
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: World Series a couple of years ago.
• 16:54
  Speaker 6: And you know, he hasn't been the same since.
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: He's still twenty two.
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: Let's just make sure Rangers fan understand that winning a
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: World Series mattered because they had Evan Carter there and
• 17:06
  Speaker 5: he only got called up in September. You need depth.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: It's okay to let this back issue. Hopefully it isn't chronic.
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: I watched an interview last year and he was very
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: frustrated that he was missing the season, but he seemed
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: just more like uncertain about what the injury is. He's
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: not starting on the il. To me, that's a good sign.
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: It's also a good sign that he's gonna be able
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: to go get at bats. See what kind of recovery
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: he needs. Hey, can I play three days in a row?
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Can I play five days in a row? He's twenty
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: two years old. If you're up in the big leagues,
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: you need to be playing every day. And to me,
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: I don't think he's a player that you're gonna see
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: this huge like, oh he did unbelievable. Now it's a
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: bust because of his z own discipline. Plate discipline of
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: a veteran hitter is awesome. His dude's twenty. He was
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: twenty years old and he had plate disciplined. So well,
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: give it some time. It's okay. It'll allow some of
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: the other guys to get their abs. And when he's healthy,
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: when he knows he can go back to back to
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: back to back days, then when he's raking, you.
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: Bring him up.
• 18:14
  Speaker 7: And I think he said it, well, I mean, you
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: touch on every single one of those how's your body
• 18:19
  Speaker 7: gonna adapt to playing more. You gotta understand back. I've
• 18:23
  Speaker 7: had back issues. It's no joke. I mean those backspasms.
• 18:26
  Speaker 7: Whatever he has speculation, but when you do have a
• 18:29
  Speaker 7: back problem, you need time to rest. And that's the
• 18:32
  Speaker 7: worst part. You can't lift, you can't really do anything.
• 18:35
  Speaker 7: It's a lot of hot and cold water, you know,
• 18:37
  Speaker 7: trying to get the blood flow back in there. But
• 18:39
  Speaker 7: for him, I wouldn't take this as a detriment. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 7: would say, you know what, let me get back on
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: my feet, let me go dominate and triple A and
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: then I'll come back and be the Evan card of old.
• 18:49
  Speaker 7: Let me just get my back right, get it to
• 18:51
  Speaker 7: a position where I can get into a routine where
• 18:54
  Speaker 7: I know I got to get to the ballpark at
• 18:55
  Speaker 7: one o'clock or twelve thirty, whatever it is. This is
• 18:58
  Speaker 7: your job and you've got to find that. And if not,
• 19:01
  Speaker 7: you're gonna get pushed out of here quicker than you think.
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Cratty made a great point. He's only twenty two.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: I didn't even think about how young he was. This
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: kid's still developing into trying to be a great major
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: league baseball player. And yes, he had the great twenty
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: twenty three. But there's a lot of guys that don't
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: even get a sniff when they're twenty two, and you know,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: hasn't had that much triple a time. Let him get
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: some att bats, let him get healthy, figure out his body.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: When he's ready, he's gonna come up and do what
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: he did before.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I will say this, I mean, if he gets himself
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: in a good spot physically again, the mental component is there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: I mean, he is a freaking savant with balls and
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: strikes at a young age. You know he knows his
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: zone since he came up to the show. We saw
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: that right away from him. So hopefully he gets himself
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: right and gets up to the Rangers, which should be
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: a really competitive team this year. A lot of people
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: have them as like a sexy pick to when the Division,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: if not even.
• 19:53
  Speaker 6: Gets to the World Series.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: All right, up next, baraldis Chapman officially named the closer
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: for the Red Sox. We saw coming and for me,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: this is the one part of the team that you
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: still have some question marks with because the rotation certainly
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: got fixed up, and the position player group already was
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: pretty good last year.
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: They could hit. The defense should be decent too, and.
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: Especially better now with Alex Braikman over at third base,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: so and the bullpen hold up. And of course, Chapman
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: said he's looking forward to closing a game at Yankee
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: Stadium when he's with the Red Sox because he's an
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: adrenaline junk.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Oh, without a doubt.
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: And I feel like watching a roll this from when
• 20:27
  Speaker 7: he played here. When I play with him here, I
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: feel like he's got.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Bigger and stronger each year.
• 20:32
  Speaker 7: He's like a fine wine man, and I know he'll
• 20:34
  Speaker 7: sip on his wine here and there. But this guy
• 20:37
  Speaker 7: is an absolute legend. He's an absolute stud. His numbers
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: just cute, absolutely rising and rising. I mean, dare I say,
• 20:45
  Speaker 7: one of the better closers to ever play in this game.
• 20:47
  Speaker 7: I mean, to be honest with you, he's been absolutely
• 20:49
  Speaker 7: doing it. From a guy in Louisville TRIPLEA where I
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: used to tell him after the games, the games aren't
• 20:54
  Speaker 7: supposed to be this long. We have to pick it up.
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: We start laughing, and the next thing you know, he's
• 20:58
  Speaker 7: a closer. This guy's been putting up his whole career.
• 21:01
  Speaker 7: I think it's year fourteen or fifteen coming up on
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: Watch Out Man. This this is gonna be a fun
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: year for him.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: It's it's crazy because when he first came up and
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: he's thrown one hundred and four miles an hour, who
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: would have thought that he'd still be pitching with this
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: kind of velocity in the fourteenth or fifteenth year in
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: the big leagues. It's it's awesome to see, but it
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: kind of reminds me of and I'm not saying he's
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: Lebron James, but Lebron keeps getting bigger and stronger as
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: he gets older too, and eround us. He's scary, like
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: he's a big dude man, Like see that guy coming
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: in from the bullpen.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Some pictures are worried about how they lift weights, and
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: he just doesn't care.
• 21:37
  Speaker 7: The house all right, and he's the analytical stuff and like, oh,
• 21:41
  Speaker 7: you're supposed to do this. No, No, he lives by
• 21:43
  Speaker 7: his means. He lives by what he's gotten there. He's
• 21:45
  Speaker 7: his dad taught him how to box at a young age.
• 21:47
  Speaker 7: He taught him how to lift weights at a young age.
• 21:49
  Speaker 7: And guess what it works out for a lot of it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Bronson Royal used to you see the videos of him
• 21:55
  Speaker 7: doing cleans at like age eight nine, ten years old.
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: You know, not every everything is what it's made out
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: to be. And for him, he looks stronger, he looks
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: physically fit, and he's ready to go.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: This Boston Red SoC team is going to be a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: team to be feared.
• 22:09
  Speaker 5: Some of the people don't realize because he came up
• 22:11
  Speaker 5: and he was gunslinging one hundred and five whatever. He
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: hit one hundred and five point three than one hundred
• 22:17
  Speaker 5: and five point whatever. They don't he's not necessarily just
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: a gunslinger. He can actually throw the ball where he
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: wants to. Does he get bounts of walks, absolutely, but
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: he knows what he needs, like Todd said, and what
• 22:32
  Speaker 5: he needs is to be a monster in the weight room.
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: I've never seen I've never seen a pitcher military press
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: ninety fives, just like it's his job. Like this man's
• 22:44
  Speaker 5: out at the gym post game, and I'm not talking
• 22:47
  Speaker 5: to the field gym. He's going to like Planet Fitness
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: anytime Fitness Genesis down the road with his crew and
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: he's just he lives. He lives a different life. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: the way you know, he still has more in the tank.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Last year when Ben Joyce hit like one hundred and four,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: I think this was the same day saw it and
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: was like, I still got that in the tank. But
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: he's not every every day. He's not gonna do it.
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: He's not just gonna go out there and throw. He
• 23:14
  Speaker 5: knows what his body needs, needs to how he needs
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: to use his body, and he's evolved.
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: He's a changed man.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's still the high strikeout and high walk.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: You gotta be careful there, guy, But I mean he
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: mostly used to be a two pitch pitcher. So last
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: year he threw four pitches more than ten percent of
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: the time. He's got the four seemer, the sinker, the slider,
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: and the splitter.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: Now that's fortunate, and it's filthy too.
• 23:39
  Speaker 7: You see one hundred coming at you, and you see
• 23:41
  Speaker 7: this split change coming at you looks like one hundred
• 23:44
  Speaker 7: year swing and you're missing it by like that mark.
• 23:46
  Speaker 7: So uh, I think Danny needed that split change back
• 23:49
  Speaker 7: in the day.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I'd still be pitching right now and
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: I'm fifty one years older.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: You needed to split splinker, kick change. But he had
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: a good year.
• 24:01
  Speaker 6: Chapman. Last year we're going on ERA plus one hundred
• 24:04
  Speaker 6: league average. He was one eleven.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Because you know, the year before I mean, I think
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: some people were like, hey, is he going to be
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: done soon with Texas?
• 24:12
  Speaker 6: Let's see just what was he at.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: I believe he was three seven to two with Texas
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: after a two four five era with Kansas City and
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: era hanging in the same range last year with Pittsburgh
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: and spent the whole season there. I thought he was
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: gonna get traded at the deadline. Pittsburgh was like, now
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: we're gonna kind of try. So he stayed there, but
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: he's gonna he's gonna get in an adrenaline boost. I
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: think here too, Kratz with Boston because he's gonna be
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: involved with a team that's probably going to be more
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: competitive than Pittsburgh, and I feel like he feeds off.
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: That and he's going to be used.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Like I said yesterday talking about closers, closers are not abused.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: Closers are used. There's a difference that seventh eighth inning
• 24:52
  Speaker 5: guy might warm up in the sixth might warm up
• 24:55
  Speaker 5: in the eighth in case, you know, something else happens,
• 24:58
  Speaker 5: like you're getting Can I say dry humped on here?
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: But I did so, Yeah, that's what they call it.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: That's what they call it.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: And say it.
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: That's that's not happening. That's not happening to That hasn't
• 25:13
  Speaker 5: happened to him his entire career. So to me, I
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: think that's genius by Kora knowing, Hey, you know what,
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: I got another closer down there. Liam Hendricks too. He's
• 25:22
  Speaker 5: gonna have to wear it, but he'll probably be the
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: eighth inning guy and just throw Rodas out there in
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: the in the role he's been his entire career. And
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: he's gonna love pitching a Yankee stadium against the Yankees
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: because he loved it pitching a Yankee stadium against the
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: Red Sox.
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: It is hump day, so you're good. Yeah, it's a thing.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: It's a thing.
• 25:44
  Speaker 6: He's not lying, all right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: Lastly, there were a ton of moves made by the Angels,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: so let's go over one good one. Nikki Lopez has
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: a locker in the Angels clubhouse, so uh, he's on
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: the team, and then they pick him up because they
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Kahata does not have a locker.
• 26:01
  Speaker 6: There's Sam Blum going over some of the news. Here's
• 26:04
  Speaker 6: a couple more.
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: Mickey Moniak was cut former number one overall pick Kratz
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Phillies picked them back when they were going through their rebuild,
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: and he actually, this is what's interesting where our show
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: gets into it. He took the Angels to arbitration, right,
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: they didn't come up with a number. They wanted one
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: and a half mill for him. He said two. They
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: go to arbitration. He wins the case, but doesn't make
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: the team, didn't hit well in spring training, didn't have
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: a great year last year.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Defensive metrics don't like him.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: He was a slightly a negative win player, which I'm
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: sure arbitration doesn't care about because the arbitration judges don't
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: know baseball, but they cut him, and because he won
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: an arbitration and didn't settle before arbitration, instead of getting
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: say the one and a half or a little bit more,
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: the two million dollars gets cut down to about three
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty three grands. So it just shows for
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: some players why they end up not going to arbitration,
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: because just in case you don't have a good camp
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: and you're kind of a you know, lower end maybe
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: bench player for a team, they could cut you and
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: not really have much of a consequence. I mean, three
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: hundred grand is nothing for a big league team. So anyway,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: what do you think about the way that that.
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: Sorry, I gotta, I gotta.
• 27:11
  Speaker 5: That's no and no, no contract under five years of
• 27:15
  Speaker 5: service is guaranteed arbitration pre ORB anything like that. They're
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: not guaranteed, even if he would have even if he
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: would have agreed before go into an arbitration process, you
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: need five years of service to have it guaranteed. So
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: him getting part part of it guaranteed is actually a
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: boon for him.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Oh so it doesn't matter if your arbor pre orb.
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: I must have understood that wrong.
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: Five years are under And the only reason I know
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: that is because I went through the same thing. I
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: had four years and like, I was thirteen days short
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: of five years, and they were gonna cut me at
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: the end of spring training, and I was like, well,
• 27:54
  Speaker 5: don't because that would suck. And they ended up trading
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: me and so I got my I got my contract
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: because I was on another team, But had they cut me,
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: I would have only gotten it, says a third. I
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: think it's like, I think it's considered ninety days of
• 28:10
  Speaker 5: your of your salary, so it's not fully guaranteed, but
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: there is a guaranteed.
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: Portion of it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: No, this isn't totally adding up. So let's say you're
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: you know, Julio Rodriguez and you signed a couple of
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: years in. I mean that everything that he just signed
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: is guaranteed. So what do you what do you mean
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: he signed?
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: He signed a big league contract. An arbitration contract is
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: not fully guaranteed until after five years of service.
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: If you get to ARB.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: If it's pre ARB and you settle on a contract
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: like an extension, I think it's guaranteed.
• 28:41
  Speaker 6: All right, we'll look it up.
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: We could, we could defend it. Text.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna text the first over. Yeah, yes, stay out
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: of this fight. We talk every day, so we're allowed
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to do this. Brian Johnson has made the Angels opening
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: day roster. He was picked last year out a Dallas
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: Baptist didn't throw in the minors last year. He's twenty
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: two years old, seventy fourth overall pick the comp pick
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: for them losing Otani, and they're like right up to
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: the biggs, which the Angels do every year.
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: They don't really believe in the school system of minor leagues.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: If you're good enough, they're like right up to the chef,
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: right up.
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: If you're ready to go.
• 29:14
  Speaker 7: I think of Mike Leak Cincinnati read Yeah, same guy
• 29:17
  Speaker 7: came up.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: They're like, oh, man, he's on the fence. Here is
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: he gonna make it? Is he not? Boom came right up? Boom.
• 29:22
  Speaker 7: Why not let's go see what you're made of. Some
• 29:25
  Speaker 7: guys don't need it. There's a lot of guys I
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: thought that didn't need it that should have been called up.
• 29:29
  Speaker 7: But that's the nature of the beast in baseball. But yeah,
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: fortunate for him, he's gonna have a big opportunity. Let's
• 29:36
  Speaker 7: let's give him a chance to And I think people
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: need to understand that give this guy a chance. He
• 29:40
  Speaker 7: might fail a little bit, but guess that's it. He
• 29:42
  Speaker 7: deserves to be there. And congratulations to him.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: I trust Ron Washington. Whatever decisions he makes to keep
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: somebody on the roster. I know it's not just uh,
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: let's just go and see what he's gonna do. I
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: think he feels something good about about this kid, that
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: he's got a great arm and see what you can
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: and if it doesn't work out, guess what. Plenty of
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: time to go down in the minor leagues and develop.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: But why not give the kid a chance if he
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: feels he's ready I don't like wasting bullets of pitchers.
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: If you feel like he's a big league pitcher, I'm
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: fine with that sometimes with the position players. I think
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: it's a little bit different with the Angels where you
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: should let him marinate a little bit, But it.
• 30:18
  Speaker 6: Is what it is.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Andrew Suck. We've had a bunch obviously in spring training,
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: as we always do. Here's one that just popped up
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: yesterday right after The show Man. Jordan Montgomery has had
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: just a weird journey the last couple of years. Kratz,
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: former teammate of yours. He appeared in two spring training games.
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: He was going through like a finger issue that he had,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: so he's mostly doing backfield work, and then he wasn't
• 30:44
  Speaker 3: recovering well after outings, so he's actually going under the knife.
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: He's not going to pitch for the whole year. He's
• 30:49
  Speaker 3: getting Tommy John surgery. It's the second TJ that he's getting.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: He had one in twenty eighteen with the Yankees, so
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: that'll be it for his Arizona Diamonbacks career, right.
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: I don't think he has another option after this to use.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: And you know, it was just the World Series win
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: with the Rangers stud picked up at the deadline. The
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Diamondbacks regretted not getting him at the time right and
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: thought maybe if we had him on our side, because
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: we were close, we would have won the World Series.
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: They signed him in the off season. He had a
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: terrible year. He gets booted to the bullpen, he's pissed
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: about it, switches representation off season.
• 31:25
  Speaker 6: You're thinking he's going to get traded. He doesn't.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Now we're in spring training, doesn't make the starting rotation,
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: gets booted to the bullpen, and then one day later
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: announces Tommy John surgery. How was that for chronological order
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: of a crazy freaking year and a half.
• 31:39
  Speaker 5: And the thing that people don't remember is Ken Kendrick,
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: the owner of the Diamondbacks, came out and said when
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: they signed him, when they signed him originally, they said,
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: you know what, our success last year has led to
• 31:51
  Speaker 5: x amount more season tickets that they sold, So it
• 31:56
  Speaker 5: was kind of a later signing in the Blake Snell ilk.
• 32:00
  Speaker 5: You know, each of them missed the spring training and
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: it was a tough start. So kudos to Ken Kendrick.
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: Then fast forward a year, not kudos to what he said,
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: and it just sucked like This is just I'm not
• 32:15
  Speaker 5: saying that people should take the first offer that they
• 32:18
  Speaker 5: get or just just more. Each individual situation in free
• 32:23
  Speaker 5: agency contract offers is different. Jordan Montgomery was looking at
• 32:27
  Speaker 5: one hundred and fifty million. It didn't come It was
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: kind of a late late surge in his career at
• 32:35
  Speaker 5: the end of it, you know, before he made it
• 32:37
  Speaker 5: to free agency where he was really successful, really healthy.
• 32:41
  Speaker 5: It sucks, but after all of this, a year to
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: just like reset, a year to rehab and be one
• 32:48
  Speaker 5: hundred percent healthy for next year.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: I think we'll do him a world of good.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: Well, the story too with him that offseason was about
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: four years one hundred million dollars. Insiders have put it
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: out there and even I asked a couple of people
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: and got some confirmation. So I'm not the insider, but
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: it was about four hundred. Yeah, he's looking for the
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: one fifty. It doesn't come through, and you know some
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: people are like, oh, he held out too long and
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: all that.
• 33:10
  Speaker 6: So yeah, I mean he had one hundred mili, he
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: might not have wanted to go to Boston.
• 33:14
  Speaker 7: Yeah, but here here's the problem that I have, and
• 33:17
  Speaker 7: I remember going through it when I tried signed in
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: long term. And I don't blame the agencies, but at
• 33:22
  Speaker 7: the same time they go about they don't want to
• 33:24
  Speaker 7: ruin the landscape, like you got it, you gotta stick
• 33:27
  Speaker 7: with this. You know you can't go under this price?
• 33:29
  Speaker 7: Well why not? I know it's fifty million, But at
• 33:32
  Speaker 7: the end of the day he lost out on so
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: much more money if somebody was to offer you that.
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: I mean, at the end of the day, like, oh,
• 33:39
  Speaker 7: you can't do that, You'll ruin the landscape of what
• 33:41
  Speaker 7: you know, the younger players are gonna get coming up.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Baloney. This is my life too as well.
• 33:46
  Speaker 7: And I you know, looking back on some things in
• 33:48
  Speaker 7: careers and in my career it's like maybe, you know,
• 33:51
  Speaker 7: I shouldn't have listened, and I should have did this,
• 33:53
  Speaker 7: or other guys shouldn't have listened, did that, Like listen,
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: one hundred million dollars is game changing. He wouldn't have
• 33:59
  Speaker 7: to wear He still doesn't have to worry about anything.
• 34:01
  Speaker 7: But still his kids, kids, kids, everybody else down the
• 34:04
  Speaker 7: road would have been taken care of. Stop worrying about
• 34:06
  Speaker 7: the norm of what everybody else got, and worry about
• 34:09
  Speaker 7: what you feel is right.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: It's hard to say no to something has nine figures
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: in it right for however many years. And I know
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: it's easy for us to say that here, but if
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: any of us were offered that, I think it would
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: be a pretty easy decision. But yeah, I think when
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: you mentioned that they're trying to keep the kind of
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: the salaries where they are or above as the years
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: go by, I get that. I understand where everybody's going
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: with that. But at the same time, like if somebody
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: takes a hometown discount, nobody's really complaining about that. They're
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: complaining when you're going to free agency and not signing
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: for fifty extra million dollars, like you know.
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: You can't do They go you can't do that, Yes
• 34:53
  Speaker 7: you can, You're lot right. The other side's going to
• 34:57
  Speaker 7: be like, yeah, we could do whatever the heck we want. Well,
• 35:00
  Speaker 7: you know you're going to change your landscape of you know,
• 35:03
  Speaker 7: free agency and this and that below me.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's my life. I want to get what I
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: feel like I deserve.
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: We've had him on.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: It's been a minute because he's been going through a lot,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: but I'd love to get him back on at some
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: point Kratz, because I'm not even sure if it was
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: just about the money.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: I know.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: You know, remember that offseason two years ago, there were
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: talks about his wife studying in Boston for something. But
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: then it sounded like talking to some other people behind
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: the scenes, he really wanted to go back to Texas.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: Maybe they were hoping that something would formulate. But the Rangers,
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: you know, really didn't spend much a couple off seasons
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: ago after winning the World Series, So I'm curious what
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: ended up happening there. I Mean, sometimes you know, you
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: run with something, Oh, this person's doing some school here
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: for a year, he must want to sign there, and
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: it's like, oh, that might not be the case because
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: he was brought the deal and he said no.
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, one hundred percent.
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: And I mean that did the Rangers make the right choice?
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: You know, the Rangers fans will probably be like, oh, no,
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: they had a down year. I wish we would have
• 35:59
  Speaker 5: had another guy. Yeah, you're always looking for better players,
• 36:03
  Speaker 5: resigning players. Their TV contract landscape was up in the
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: air in the off season, so they didn't make moves.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Looking back on it, yeah, they needed more pitching depth.
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: They got Jacob deGrom and you know, he didn't throw
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: a lot for him. A lot of things a lot
• 36:22
  Speaker 5: of things go into it, and it's not cut or dry,
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: but it is exactly what Todd said.
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: I get it.
• 36:29
  Speaker 5: Agents are gonna be around a lot longer than players are.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Players.
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: Association is gonna be at around a lot longer than
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: an individual player is. But it's your opportunity to capitalize.
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: And if you think that number is your number, hey
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: get it.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Can I get some clarification here too, just from the
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: show that has all these players on that say whatever
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: they want.
• 36:52
  Speaker 6: You know, you have some people online like.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Oh, he didn't make the rotation, so he was just like,
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: screw it, I'm gonna get surgery. I'm like, you know,
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: as much as you want to buy into certain conspiracy
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: theories and storylines, and I'm sure he's not pleased with
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: the owner of the team, you're a pitcher and he
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: already had TJ.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 37:11
  Speaker 6: Do you think that someone would be like.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: You know what, I probably don't need this, but let
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: me go for it.
• 37:18
  Speaker 6: I saw plenty of that.
• 37:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 37:20
  Speaker 6: No, I'm sure.
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: Oh he was on the cusp and decided because he
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: didn't make the rotation, he's just gonna sit the year
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: out and get surgery.
• 37:27
  Speaker 2: Kind of like the Rendoin story.
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: Which, Hey, I'm the first person to be like, this
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: guy doesn't like baseball, bat signing, whatever.
• 37:33
  Speaker 6: But I don't think he's getting hip surgery for fun, right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: You don't want to go under the knife just to
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: go under the knife. It's not like you're getting plastic
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: surgery to fix something, right, Like this is something that
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: you're fixing inside and then you can't play for a while.
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: Jordan Montgomery, whether he made the rotation or didn't make
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: the rotation, he wants to pitch better so that he
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: can get a contract when free agency comes again. It's
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: he's not gonna cry wolf and say, Okay, I'm just
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: gonna go and get cut right now, have this big
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: slice in my elbow again.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and then obviously, I mean you're a double TJ guy.
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Your value goes down, right, if you want to clearly
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: just go off of that narrative. Your value goes down.
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Your dad had two Tommy John surgeries. I don't know
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: when he's gonna come back, but it's probably not going
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: to be at the start of next year. So do
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: you really think that he's that spiteful. He's just gonna
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: miss a year and a half. The time and cost
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: himself even more money just by going under the night. No,
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: he couldn't recover after he's got a tear again.
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, he still wants a pitch. I mean yeah, he
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: wants to play. He's still pretty young.
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah he is yes man two years ago, dude, he
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: was freaking nasty, just just picking his spots, changing speeds,
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: like the sequencing was so on for him. He was
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: just so good in the playoffs. He's not the biggest
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: stuff guy, but he was a pitcher.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it spot up with the best of them.
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, so get well soon, Demanti. We'll get him on
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: at some point. We'll we'll we'll have krats text him,
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: you know, every other week and say we miss you.
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: So we get him to join us because he's pretty
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: fun combat. Anyway, let's get to Jared Jones. It was
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: really fun to watch last year for the Pirates. So
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: he goes down for a little bit of time. He's
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: getting testing done. This is actually good news here. He's
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: gonna miss time, but no torn ligaments, no surgery. He's
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: gonna go six weeks without throwing. So this was from
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: Noah haile To we've had on the show. Does great
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: job covering the team. He said overall encouraging news for
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: the Pirates. It is encouraging long term news for the Pirates.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: On the short term, I just feel like this is
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: a team that needs so many things to go right
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: for them to be a playoff club. And if he's
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: not doing anything for six weeks, well here you start here,
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: six weeks, then you got the ramp up and he's
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: a starter. I didn't look up what the date is,
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: but if we had to guess, I mean we're talking
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: what maybe late May, maybe June.
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Well, if they're if they're making him sit for six weeks,
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: why don't he just go ahead and get cut, just
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: like Jordan Montgomery is going to get.
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: His elbow cut right right, just going under the Yeah.
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: So it's unfortunate for them, obviously, but I still think
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: that they're ways away.
• 40:07
  Speaker 6: The Pirates.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they would need Paul Schemes to pitch every
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: single day of every single game. So but it's unfortunate,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: and hopefully, you know, when he does get ramped back
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: up after the six weeks, it may be June, it
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: may be after the All Star break, but I don't
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: think there's any reason to rush him to get where
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: they want him to be because they're not going to
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: be contending. They're still in that rebuild and they're still
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: going to be relevant for a little bit. But at
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: the end of the day, you don't want to risk
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: this guy and actually have him go under the knife
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: if you bring back too soon.
• 40:40
  Speaker 7: You know, I mean, I mean, what can you do?
• 40:42
  Speaker 7: I mean you're gonna have to. I would build my
• 40:44
  Speaker 7: legs up like nobody else's business. That's probably the only
• 40:47
  Speaker 7: thing you can do. And for him rehab, build your
• 40:51
  Speaker 7: legs up, get a little stammin or get on the
• 40:53
  Speaker 7: bike and on the treadmill, stuff like that, and be
• 40:55
  Speaker 7: ready to go. Because when your time's called, what happens
• 40:58
  Speaker 7: if all of a sudden they tear it up and
• 40:59
  Speaker 7: they need a guy, Oh well, we got him coming back,
• 41:01
  Speaker 7: so be ready to go. I think it's it's six weeks.
• 41:05
  Speaker 7: I'm gonna say three months at least in my opinion,
• 41:07
  Speaker 7: because you're gonna have to ramp back up, start your
• 41:09
  Speaker 7: throwing program, go down to a minor league stint, and
• 41:12
  Speaker 7: where you.
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: Go, easy, easy, ty.
• 41:15
  Speaker 5: You're exactly right, because if he's not thrown for six weeks,
• 41:18
  Speaker 5: you're talking about a build up for six weeks after
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: that then rehab so and that rehab stint can be
• 41:25
  Speaker 5: twenty days, probably three or four starts, depending But either way,
• 41:30
  Speaker 5: are we not concerned that this is back to back
• 41:33
  Speaker 5: years of a young kid who throws a billion with
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: a banger that there's no structural damage, but there's pain
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: and inflammation in that elbow, Like, are we like, is
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: there a concern that, hey, you know what, maybe physically,
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: biomechanically he may need to change something because no damage
• 41:55
  Speaker 5: is great, but there's precursors and if they don't nip
• 42:00
  Speaker 5: it in the bud right now, where are we at?
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: It's tricky though, because, like we're talking about, you're not
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: going to just get surgery right that it's not needed, No,
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: no, no no. But the issue means you're saying, when he
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: comes back to change something, is there a formula like, well,
• 42:19
  Speaker 3: what he actually has to do?
• 42:20
  Speaker 6: Spin it different?
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Maybe?
• 42:22
  Speaker 6: I mean, yeah, you know, maybe.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Come up with a different pitch, one that's not going
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: to put so much stress.
• 42:28
  Speaker 6: But which one is that?
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: That's what they I think that's what Cratsy's saying that biomechanically,
• 42:32
  Speaker 1: you got to figure that out. Figure out what is
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: causing this this issue the pain because there's there's no
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: structural damage. But if there's pain when you're throwing, you
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: can't just keep throwing that way and hope that there's
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: no structural damage. Eventually, you got to figure out how
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: to make this work where you can pitch without pain
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: and memris.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: They don't show everything, you know.
• 42:53
  Speaker 7: I when I had knee surgery, I had of torn meniscus,
• 42:56
  Speaker 7: but they also found three different other things in there
• 42:58
  Speaker 7: they didn't see on the m R. That's just the
• 43:00
  Speaker 7: God's honest true. So I'm not saying they're missing the
• 43:03
  Speaker 7: big thing, but there could be some underlying factors as
• 43:06
  Speaker 7: well we're not seeing.
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we talked about the pitching injury epidemic
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: for a couple of years now. Kratz, I feel like
• 43:13
  Speaker 3: I'll read, Hey, throwing hard causes a problem. Hey, throwing
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: breakers causes a problem. I'm like, so what doesn't cause
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: a problem, Like you know, just long doss or medium
• 43:26
  Speaker 3: what doesn't cause a problem, Like forget that, what pitch
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: doesn't cause a problem?
• 43:30
  Speaker 6: And an eighty two mile an hour fastball.
• 43:33
  Speaker 5: Maybe throw maybe throw more. I mean even one of
• 43:36
  Speaker 5: the one of the slower throwers. As far as like
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: prospects go Drew Thorpe with the White Sox, he went,
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: he went Yankees to the Padres Padres. You know, he
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: was in big trades. He got Tommy Johns. So it's
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: not necessarily only the guys that throw hard. To me,
• 43:52
  Speaker 5: why don't if you're if you're a pirates organization, why
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: don't you try to go outside the box. You're not
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: willing to pay for the big time guys. And I'm
• 44:01
  Speaker 5: not saying this to one specific player. I'm talking about
• 44:03
  Speaker 5: the org. Have these dudes throw more, Have them throw more.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: People are gonna be like, what, You're an idiot. Okay, yeah,
• 44:12
  Speaker 5: I've been called an idiot before. And before you say
• 44:15
  Speaker 5: anything else, I'm a two h nine career hitter, So
• 44:17
  Speaker 5: I don't know what I'm talking about. Maybe try something
• 44:21
  Speaker 5: different than what everybody like. We're guys, innings are going
• 44:26
  Speaker 5: two hundred to one eighty. Now, a dude's a workhorse
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: if he throws one hundred and sixty innings. Have them
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: throw more, and maybe they learn to pitch and like
• 44:36
  Speaker 5: not have to throw their one hundred pitches at a
• 44:40
  Speaker 5: billion percent.
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: And be out of the game in the fourth inning
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: after four thirds. So I agree with with Cratzy there.
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: I think as pitchers, you have to throw more. You
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: that's your one and only job is to throw, So
• 44:56
  Speaker 1: why not throw more long, toss more, whether it's every
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: day or every other day. But I also, and this
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: is going to probably piss off a lot of pictures
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: and strength coaches, but I never wanted to go in
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: the weight room and do anything upper body except like
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  Speaker 1: normal shoulder routines. And as far as weightlifting, are they
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  Speaker 1: weightlifting too much? Is that's what causing this strain on
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: their elbows? I never once had a sore elbow. My
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: shoulder would hurt often, but my elbow never bothered me.
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  Speaker 1: But is that because I never worked out my upper body?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is. Maybe these guys are
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  Speaker 1: working out too much.
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  Speaker 2: For all this.
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  Speaker 3: Chapmen from thirty minutes ago in the show says, excuse me,
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  Speaker 3: I lift like a beast, And yeah, he's had some injuries,
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  Speaker 3: but he's mostly been a freaking workhorse reliever, and I
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: get it, different starter reliever.
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  Speaker 6: And also there's some outlier bodies.
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  Speaker 3: But crats I mean, I just don't think we have
• 45:47
  Speaker 3: a formula yet we do this all the time. We're like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: we got to fix the pitching injury epidemic. And then
• 45:52
  Speaker 3: we ask people, even smart people, like what's the answer,
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  Speaker 3: And there's not much of an answer. I think that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the most common one is probably the youth,
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  Speaker 3: but that's not even.
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  Speaker 2: The right way to look at it.
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  Speaker 6: Forever or not.
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  Speaker 3: Every picture was pitching a million innings when they were
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  Speaker 3: a kid, either, and they still get hurt. So I
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  Speaker 3: just don't feel like there's good answers yet. Besides the body,
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  Speaker 3: unless you want to change the body and turn it
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  Speaker 3: into a cyborg, it's just not made to do this stuff.
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  Speaker 5: I think, and I said this before, the biomechanical stuff
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  Speaker 5: that teems if you don't have a bio mechanical lab
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  Speaker 5: with the force plates, and I think it's like a
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  Speaker 5: twelve camera system around in like an enclosed area. If
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  Speaker 5: you don't have that, now you're three or four years
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  Speaker 5: behind every other organization that has it. That's how we're
• 46:39
  Speaker 5: going to figure out how structurally mechanically, you know, biometrically,
• 46:46
  Speaker 5: people are moving, and what is going to create long
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: term sustained health and what is putting a lot of
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: stress on this and on this The stress is on
• 46:57
  Speaker 5: this Okay, we.
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  Speaker 4: Come back after a year to fourteen months.
• 47:01
  Speaker 5: If they play through this, then you start getting some
• 47:04
  Speaker 5: Danny Gray's stress on this, and that ain't it because
• 47:07
  Speaker 5: once this goes tough to come back from it.
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: A pitching lab is the sexy word in baseball, but
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: I think only half the teams, if not less, have it.
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  Speaker 6: It costs several million dollars.
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: the Pirates don't have a pitching lab yet. I hope
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: someone's watching or listening to another plenty of exact agents whatever,
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: text me if I'm wrong, or crats if you know,
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: but I don't think they have one.
• 47:29
  Speaker 5: They have one of the most elaborate batting cages. I
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: mean it looked like Chuck E. Cheese is in there
• 47:34
  Speaker 5: when I hit with my son in the batting cage.
• 47:37
  Speaker 5: They got so many gimmicks and other things. I didn't
• 47:41
  Speaker 5: see the force plate, but a lot of people, a
• 47:44
  Speaker 5: lot of teams have it in a different section their
• 47:47
  Speaker 5: own pitching lab, like they want to be super secretive
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: about it. Plus the lighting has to be perfect, and
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: there's a lot of the red Sox.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: I saw it that John.
• 47:58
  Speaker 6: Is nice nice. At some point I want to talk
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: about that on the show.
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: If anyone can reveal it, maybe we'll get a cia
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: op on to talk about it. Let's slap, We'll get
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: to one fan question if we have time. You know what, Also,
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: I keep forgetting to do this, So krats hats go now,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: and then I'll do our quick shout out here.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: I got it. I gotta be a Philly hut.
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: I mean, why wow off. I mean I'm going.
• 48:23
  Speaker 5: I'm going Phillies and rads here. Only problem is, just
• 48:28
  Speaker 5: like my hair, whoa, Reds are gonna be out. They're
• 48:30
  Speaker 5: gonna be knocked out by the Phillies in the playoffs
• 48:32
  Speaker 5: this year.
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  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 48:34
  Speaker 3: A little sneak peak of his playoff predictions for tomorrow.
• 48:37
  Speaker 3: All right, let's shout.
• 48:38
  Speaker 6: Out a long time broadcaster with the Nationals.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: You've had a really cool message to fans a couple
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: of days ago.
• 48:45
  Speaker 9: It's good to be back in our ballpark. And as
• 48:47
  Speaker 9: we do, I've got a little personal news to share
• 48:50
  Speaker 9: with you. The twenty twenty five season will be my
• 48:53
  Speaker 9: final one as the nats primary TV play by play guy.
• 48:58
  Speaker 9: Whatever you like to call me, I'm okay with that.
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: But I've got a new deal working for next year
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: as a full time husband, dad and grandpa, and it's
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: been pretty cool to have the kids around for the
• 49:10
  Speaker 9: last couple of months after they moved home from Seattle.
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  Speaker 9: So my objective is to all season long, thank you
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  Speaker 9: Nets fans for the way that you've been to my wife,
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: Debbie and I and our family over these nineteen years previously.
• 49:24
  Speaker 9: Let's make number twenty a lot of fun. I'm sure
• 49:27
  Speaker 9: next time, at this next year, at this time, I'll
• 49:29
  Speaker 9: be a little melancholy and a little bit sad with
• 49:31
  Speaker 9: opening day approaching, but feeling like I'm doing the right
• 49:35
  Speaker 9: thing for my family, and that's good enough for all
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: of us.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: So cheers to Bob Carpenter, who this is his twentieth
• 49:43
  Speaker 3: season calling Nats baseball, forty two seasons calling ball.
• 49:47
  Speaker 6: Easy listens.
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  Speaker 3: He's got a great home run later, exactly great, great
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: home run Paul too, So very good.
• 49:54
  Speaker 6: My girl doesn't watch baseball much. That's her favorite CAB.
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: That's a marketable call.
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  Speaker 7: That's doubt you Later.
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: I think it's great. It is great. There's some really
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: good call. Oh my god.
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  Speaker 7: You know, I've always sat back and always thought like
• 50:12
  Speaker 7: what would be my home uncle.
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  Speaker 2: I I still don't have like a natural one. You know.
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  Speaker 7: I always take like a few from this guy and
• 50:18
  Speaker 7: that one. It's always the Michael k one that always
• 50:21
  Speaker 7: comes comes to my mind, like because just because I
• 50:23
  Speaker 7: hear them all the time, you know, and I work.
• 50:25
  Speaker 7: But it's like, you got to come with something natural
• 50:27
  Speaker 7: that was absolutely incredible.
• 50:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, can you come up with something for tomorrow?
• 50:31
  Speaker 7: You know you and are gonna sit down over a
• 50:33
  Speaker 7: little surveys yea, and we're gonna figure it out.
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: And we're gonna be people gonna look at a screaming.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: MGM place next door. We're gonna just scream it out.
• 50:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I have one, I mean, muss up.
• 50:45
  Speaker 2: Oh so so just do just do it real quick.
• 50:49
  Speaker 7: Danny Graves throws a picture Todd Fraser go ahead and
• 50:52
  Speaker 7: strike three.
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  Speaker 1: Up.
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  Speaker 6: I wouldn't do you remember when now I sorr, I
• 51:01
  Speaker 6: beg you whatever else.
• 51:02
  Speaker 3: But then I'd be like Fraser muscles up for his
• 51:05
  Speaker 3: thirty second homer of the year and the Reds go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I like the secondary call.
• 51:09
  Speaker 6: But whatever.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: Anyway, if you're watching online, we're staying. We got thirty
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: seconds left. Krat Oh. There was a question about Austin
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Wells an extension. I'm going to save that for tomorrow. Actually,
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: I think it was a very good question Pinball Wizard
• 51:24
  Speaker 3: asked it.
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: So how about this.
• 51:25
  Speaker 3: I'm going to put it in my little notes, which
• 51:27
  Speaker 3: you know eighty percent of the time I actually remember them.
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: So there's a good chance we'll talk about it tomorrow.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: We got an opening day show tomorrow, of course, eleven
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: am Eastern Time. That'll be our last eleven am of
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: the season. So one more one more sleep than one
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: more early time.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah,