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Mayday! Spring Training updates, Uniform “fixes”, Yanks facial hair · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Before we get into anything too crazy. Right now, I
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Speaker 1: think it's time to talk a little bit about things
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Speaker 1: be changing in the Bronx forever. It has finally happened.
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Speaker 1: Almost forty nine years. Nineteen seventy six, to be exact,
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Speaker 1: was when this rule was put into place by George Steinbrenner.
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Speaker 2: Facial hair. It's back on the menu. Boys.
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Speaker 1: We get to wear facial hair in the Bronx on
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Speaker 1: our faces. We don't have to just wear mustaches. Even
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Speaker 1: though Austin Wells and many guys in the past, maddingly
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Speaker 1: to name a few, have had great mustaches, and I
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Speaker 1: hope those things stay. I think you feel like the
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Speaker 1: mustaches has had a resurgence, But you know, I hope
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Speaker 1: that's not how are and Judge Grog is a facial
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Speaker 1: hair but.
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Speaker 2: Maybe it is. I don't know.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't seem like he's too interested in growing his
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Speaker 1: facial hair. Because of all of the people who had
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Speaker 1: comments on it, Aaron Judge said, we're worried about winning
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Speaker 1: baseball games. In a nutshell, we're worrying about winning baseball games.
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Speaker 1: Why do we care about facial hair. If you're worried
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Speaker 1: about that, you got other things worry about if you're
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Speaker 1: not gonna come to our team because you can't have
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Speaker 1: facial hair, then we don't want you. He didn't say
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Speaker 1: that specifically, but in a nutshell just where we focus
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Speaker 1: on baseball here, it's not that big of a deal.
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Speaker 1: And I understand that this seems to have come come
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Speaker 1: to the forefront because the new acquisition in this offseason.
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Speaker 1: Devin Williams also doesn't really like that rule he shaved
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Speaker 1: his face. I like to think that he saw it
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Speaker 1: and there was like, no, something's gonna have to be
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Speaker 1: done about this.
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Speaker 2: So he went in.
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Speaker 1: He talked to Aaron Boone, He talked to uh Brian
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Speaker 1: Cashman and said, hey, you know, people don't want to
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Speaker 1: come here because they can't wear facial air. But I
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Speaker 1: think it really had to do with you can't come
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Speaker 1: They don't want to come here because they don't feel
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Speaker 1: like they could be themselves. I think that's a different thing, right.
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Speaker 1: I also don't think it's as big of a deal
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Speaker 1: there anymore. You know, we saw last year they brought
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Speaker 1: in Michael Marcus stroman who's who has swag, alex Erdugo swag.
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Speaker 1: Jash Chishom got traded for swag. They all got to
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Speaker 1: be themselves. They were their different colored stuff, and they
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Speaker 1: they they played with more energy or more maybe personality
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Speaker 1: that maybe would be associated with more of the military,
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Speaker 1: you know, style of being this last year. And then
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Speaker 1: they went to the World Series, So maybe that has
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Speaker 1: something to do with it loosening up these things. But
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Speaker 1: I totally understand both sides of this. Guys want to
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Speaker 1: be themselves. They want to be comfortable with what they're
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Speaker 1: doing and where they're at right it if it's our
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Speaker 1: an ar rule you feel is arbitrary, and then they
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Speaker 1: pile up it feels like suppression at some point. Now
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Speaker 1: I understand people like do who cares? I agree with
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Speaker 1: that as well. There's two valid perspectives here. There's many
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Speaker 1: valid perspectives, but the two big ones want to be like, hey,
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Speaker 1: if if all things are created equal, and another team
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Speaker 1: who's like, hey, you can be, you can do it,
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Speaker 1: Be whoever you need to be and whatever makes you comfortable.
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Speaker 1: Alls we care about is how you play, and they're
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Speaker 1: offering the same amount of money. And then another place
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Speaker 1: is like, hey, we have these rules that kind of
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Speaker 1: create a box that you need to be in and
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Speaker 1: give you the same amount of money, they're proably going
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Speaker 1: to choose the place to let them be the way
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Speaker 1: that they want to be. So that's what happened. I
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Speaker 1: feel like, and I feel like they walked in the
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Speaker 1: office they're like, hey, hell, we need to get rid
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Speaker 1: of this. He's like, fine, whatever, who cares? Just play
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Speaker 1: baseball please, I'm trying to find a third basement.
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Speaker 2: Just leave me alone.
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Speaker 1: And you know that's that's what it comes down to,
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Speaker 1: all right, moving on with some more news. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: hold on, I prepared this for you. That was just
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Speaker 1: for you, Foul Territory, just for you. Let's get into
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Speaker 1: some of the action we've had in these first few
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Speaker 1: days of games. So the first thing I want to
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Speaker 1: start off. We want to start in.
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Speaker 2: A light note.
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Speaker 1: And there is some content creators I love that do
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Speaker 1: this thing where they find some great comments on posts
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Speaker 1: and I saw one recently that is baseball related. Many
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Speaker 1: of you may know who this man is, but if
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Speaker 1: you don't, I will tell you about him. This is
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Speaker 1: Eric sim aka g CO Bandit, big YouTube guy. You
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Speaker 1: may have seen him striking out against Trevor Bauer in
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Speaker 1: Live AB's He swings really hard. I've done a video
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Speaker 1: with him. He's a funny guy. He makes baseball really fun.
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Speaker 1: He's he's just a bro. He's just a dude. So
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Speaker 1: he posts this thing, welcome to Seattle, Eric Sim. They
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Speaker 1: even they even like took the the thing they usually
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Speaker 1: use that the joke is that Seattle signed nobody. Uh.
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Speaker 1: Sim's a Cali guy. He's like, maybe they need me,
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Speaker 1: they need Homers. I got you, I got you. Uh.
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Speaker 1: I thought this was a good post. I was like, oh,
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Speaker 1: nice dude, that's funny. And then I saw the comments
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Speaker 1: and uh, just there's a caveat. He is a very
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Speaker 1: good sport and this is These are on his comments
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Speaker 1: a lot so. But yeah, this is a This is
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Speaker 1: a new little segment called mean Comments. Eat tro To Sushi,
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Speaker 1: Julio Windriguez, cal Zone, Sorry, Kels cal Zone, Raleigh h
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Speaker 1: Ken Gravy Junior. That one might be my favorite, frickin' bravo.
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Speaker 1: Look eight hundred and fifty one likes. Look how much
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Speaker 1: all these have? By the way, sixteen hundred likes only
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Speaker 1: three kind of sad there, but two thousand Okay, let's
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Speaker 1: get let's get in. There's a couple last ones here,
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Speaker 1: Ken Gravey Jr. We have Candy Rosarina and Ham Wilson,
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Speaker 1: two real guys. Leave Eric alone. The guy is a
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Speaker 1: really nice person and a funny dude. But I just couldn't.
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Speaker 1: I had to share those. I'm sorry. I know it's
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Speaker 1: my first time in fal terriaty. This is the type
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Speaker 1: of stuff we'll get into anyway, Let's get into the
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Speaker 1: serious news. Oh sorry, eat Gar Martitez is the last one,
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Speaker 1: and he's my favorite player, Edgar. That is solid, solid
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Speaker 1: trash talk, Laura, Let's check it out spring training. Alex Fragman,
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Speaker 1: one of the newest, actually the newest addition to the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, goes three for three with a homer over
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Speaker 1: the Southern Green Monster in his first game with Garrett Crochet,
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Speaker 1: picking up three k's or sorry, four k's in an
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Speaker 1: inning and two thirds work in his first start without
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Speaker 1: giving up a run. Positive showings out of these two guys.
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Speaker 1: I think everyone's everyone's always trying to kind of get off,
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Speaker 1: get off, get off spring training, get into spring training
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Speaker 1: on the right foot. If you can hit a home
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Speaker 1: on that first day, feels pretty good. And we had
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Speaker 1: quite a few of those happened this week. Also, we
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Speaker 1: have another twenty twenty two Cy Young Award winner and
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Speaker 1: in the end, all that is SETI al Contra returns
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Speaker 1: to the mound for the first time since twenty twenty three,
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Speaker 1: five and twenty one days.
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Speaker 2: That's a long time.
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Speaker 1: I myself have have had a hiatus like that. It
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Speaker 1: is there is something special about taking the mound again
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Speaker 1: after that long down.
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Speaker 2: It's really fun to be a not hurt. To put
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Speaker 2: it bluntly.
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Speaker 1: He maxed out at ninety nine point three miles an
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Speaker 1: hour on the radar gun. Great sign. Uh you know,
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Speaker 1: gave up. I think believe three hits but three scoreless
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Speaker 1: quality outing from Sandy al Contra, and my god, do
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Speaker 1: they need him because if they didn't have Sandy al Contra,
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Speaker 1: Ryan Weathers would be their open to day starter. And
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Speaker 1: no shade to Ryan. Ryan's good quality picture. But I
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Speaker 1: think if you asked him, like, hey, are you an
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Speaker 1: opening starter for a for like a playoff team, and
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Speaker 1: he's like probably not. So there's there is some hope
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Speaker 1: in Miami and I'll take it. I'm hopeful as well.
8:43
Speaker 1: Also in the homer train, Elie daily Cruz hits two
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Speaker 1: homers in his spring debut, two for two of the
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Speaker 1: parasolo homem run slugged on each side of the plate.
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Speaker 1: Now that's rare by itself. To do that in your
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Speaker 1: first outing of the spring is incredible. But if we
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Speaker 1: are I mean, at this point, we should probably stop
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Speaker 1: being surprised by what Elie daily Cruz does. And to
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Speaker 1: be honest, he's on MB the show. We talked about
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Speaker 1: this a couple of weeks ago, the cover curse. Good
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Speaker 1: way to start is to hit those two homers right
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Speaker 1: out the gate, come out hot, and I guess the
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Speaker 1: first one he hit was a projected four hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty feet off of Tristan McKenzie. Another guy who needs
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Speaker 1: to have a strong spring training. So last year day
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Speaker 1: Ellie only hit two in seventeen spring training games.
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Speaker 2: This year he's got two in one.
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Speaker 1: Coming off of season with twenty five and sixty seven sorry,
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Speaker 1: twenty five home runs, sixty seven soul in bases.
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Speaker 2: He's looking to.
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Speaker 1: Take that next step become that superstar, and I think
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Speaker 1: Tito Francona is gonna be a big, big reason that
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Speaker 1: he makes a lot of those strides. So it's gonna
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Speaker 1: be interesting to see how he continues to get better.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of more homers hit in their first ab the man,
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Speaker 1: Juan Soto hits a foreign and twenty six foot home
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Speaker 1: run in his first at bat as a New York
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Speaker 1: met cementing the idea in every Mets fan that he
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Speaker 1: deserves every dollar of that seven hundred.
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Speaker 2: Fifty eight million. Myself included. My self included.
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Speaker 1: So I swing, he swung, swung real hard. His first
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Speaker 1: swing swing a miss. Second swing, yazi, So just like
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Speaker 1: just like we wrote it up. Also in that same game,
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Speaker 1: Claim Holmes takes the takes the mound as a starting
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Speaker 1: pitcher for the first time in a very long time,
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Speaker 1: and throw three scoreless innings. Now, there's a couple of
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Speaker 1: really interesting things about the fact that he threw three innings.
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Speaker 1: I know this, I'm not. This isn't a huge deal,
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Speaker 1: but I do find it interesting. One guys making three
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Speaker 1: is throwing three innings in their first big or in
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Speaker 1: their first spring training start.
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Speaker 2: Rare. Usually they throw one or two.
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Speaker 1: Guys are stretching out slowly, but this is you know,
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Speaker 1: we've heard I've heard a lot recently, especially the last
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Speaker 1: six weeks or so, that Clay has been down. He's
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Speaker 1: been early, and he's been taking it very seriously, trying
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Speaker 1: to stretch himself out and go into spring training like
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Speaker 1: without needing to kick off the rust of being a
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Speaker 1: reliever for so long and just be a starter. So
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Speaker 1: I'd say mission accomplishs. You throw three innings your first time,
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Speaker 1: especially scoreless, Bravo. Check that box. Second he's throwing a
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Speaker 1: third pitch a brand new change up called a kick change.
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Speaker 1: We talked about this a little bit last year. Last
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Speaker 1: week I showed you the grip. This is something We're
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Speaker 1: going to be touching on a lot this year because
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Speaker 1: the kickchange is a new one that I'm seeing out
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Speaker 1: in the amateur space. You know, the guys that tread
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Speaker 1: are teaching it, the guys a a drive line are
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Speaker 1: teaching it. It is now added to the menu. When
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Speaker 1: you go in to do a pitch design session, you
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Speaker 1: can choose the pitches you want to try, and now
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Speaker 1: the kick change is part of it. It's just another
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Speaker 1: version of a change up that allows guys who weren't
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Speaker 1: previously able to throw it off speed pitch like that.
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Speaker 1: By the way, breaking balls are all the ones that
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Speaker 1: break off speed pitches are change ups in varieties like that, knuckleball,
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Speaker 1: change up, screwball, splitter, forkball, those are off speed pitches
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Speaker 1: if you're bucketing them, just so you guys know. So
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to see how that pitch comes out or
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Speaker 1: develops over the season. My guy, Jeremy Hefner is the
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Speaker 1: pitching coach over there in New York, so he's going
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Speaker 1: to get all of the resources he possibly could use
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Speaker 1: or need in order to make that pitch really, really good.
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Speaker 2: We also have the ABS Challenge coming. They're running a test.
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Speaker 1: For the ABS Challenge, which if anyone who doesn't know
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Speaker 1: automaty balls and strikes, but it's a challenge system. So
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Speaker 1: just a quick recap a hitter or a pitcher feels
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Speaker 1: like the pitch was called incorrectly, a little tap on
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Speaker 1: the top of the head and they will quickly check
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Speaker 1: up on it on the board.
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Speaker 2: It actually is really quick.
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Speaker 1: A lot of these things are being checked in less
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Speaker 1: than ten seconds, so it's not a huge delay, which
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Speaker 1: isn't too bad.
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Speaker 2: I like it.
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Speaker 1: But there are a few things that are interesting about
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Speaker 1: this one. This thing's been tested for like four years
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Speaker 1: at this point, right, and they are slowly rolling it
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Speaker 1: out for a few big reasons. Now, this doesn't mean
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Speaker 1: that we're moving towards robot umpires. I don't think we're
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Speaker 1: ever going to get there because I don't think it's
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Speaker 1: I don't think it improves the quality of the product.
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Speaker 1: I don't think getting every single pitch exactly right every
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Speaker 1: time immediately is actually that fun. I think that actually
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Speaker 1: the challenge adds a little bit more tension and strategy
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Speaker 1: for both teams to use. You only have so many challenges.
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Speaker 1: When you get them, you can get them right forever.
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Speaker 1: You could be on a streak the whole game and
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Speaker 1: then never lose any That is a skill you could
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Speaker 1: learn to be really smart and learn the strike zone.
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Speaker 1: It also like prioritizes guys like learning what that is
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Speaker 1: so they get the opportunity to call those things. I
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Speaker 1: think that's a net positive for hitting. Honestly, I just
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Speaker 1: think that's a net positive. Also, I feel a little
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Speaker 1: bit better for umpires. I know, I know that's a
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Speaker 1: weird take, but you know what, they just get yelled
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Speaker 1: at and yelled at, and I understand they got to
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Speaker 1: do their job better. But now there's a way to
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Speaker 1: be kind of vindicated or get the thing right. So
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Speaker 1: maybe we're just like, yeah, they're human. It'll make us
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Speaker 1: see that as like Hey, you just make mistakes. But
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Speaker 1: we can fix it a little bit. We have an
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Speaker 1: opportunity to fix it and maybe that'll that'll, that'll smooth
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Speaker 1: that out a little bit too. Okay, But the reason
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Speaker 1: this thing is taking so long to roll out is
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Speaker 1: look at it. Does anyone notice about does does this
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Speaker 1: strike zone look weird to you?
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Speaker 2: Does it look a little bit short?
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Speaker 1: That is because in Triple A and I was there
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, I rehabbed in in Sacramento, Sacramento
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Speaker 1: in Salt Lake, so I had to deal with the
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Speaker 1: ABS system. Okay, with the ABA system, and it's great
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Speaker 1: and all, except kind of hard to know where the
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Speaker 1: strike zone is these days. So what they did was
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Speaker 1: they shaved a little bit off the top of the zone,
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Speaker 1: and they shaved a little bit off the bottom. So
14:51
Speaker 1: what they did was they tried to squeeze it a
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Speaker 1: little bit this much, a little bit this way for
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Speaker 1: the system, so like, it's not the strike zone that
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Speaker 1: veterans who have been playing the game for a long
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Speaker 1: time are used to the umpire's looking for. So I
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Speaker 1: didn't know where the top of the zone was and
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Speaker 1: it was interesting. So I was like, I'm not going
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Speaker 1: to do this at all because I don't know, I
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Speaker 1: don't know what. I got to learn the zone again,
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Speaker 1: and that was the thing that gave me pause. And
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Speaker 1: I think that's a lot of feedback the all pictures gave.
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Speaker 1: They were like, hey, are you gonna shrink the strike
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Speaker 1: zone while making it listen, like to sneak that in there.
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Speaker 1: So they've been trying to calibrate this thing, get this
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Speaker 1: thing standardized across the league. That is one of the
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Speaker 1: hardest things they're having to do because the way cameras
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Speaker 1: are positioned and everywhere's different, and to get it exactly
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Speaker 1: the same so it's the same every park is the
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Speaker 1: is a lot of the hang up. I believe the
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Speaker 1: there's a gentleman that works with the Detroit Tigers. I
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Speaker 1: had a conversation with him when we played them in Komerica,
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Speaker 1: and I'm blanking on his name, so I apologize for
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Speaker 1: that if you were here watching, But he parroted the
15:50
Speaker 1: same thing, and he was He was one of the
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Speaker 1: one of the few people that were in charge of
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Speaker 1: like facilitating the testing in Toledo and other places, and
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Speaker 1: he said this, He's like, yeah, the calibration is tough. Also,
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Speaker 1: figuring out what the proper sizes so you're not giving
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Speaker 1: too much of an advantage to a hitter is tough,
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Speaker 1: and we haven't found that sweet spot yet, so we
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Speaker 1: want to keep testing it. And now they're doing it
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Speaker 1: in the big leagues. So I like it. If we're
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Speaker 1: going to do something, I like it, right. I think
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Speaker 1: that overwhelmingly people like it generally. I actually run a
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Speaker 1: this week's poll was in my Instagram. I have a
16:24
Speaker 1: little thing called baseball is a life, a thing, a
16:26
Speaker 1: community where I run some poles every once in a while.
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Speaker 1: And this is what they said, love it no notes
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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty eight of the three hundred people
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Speaker 1: that voted, roughly of the three forty. So this is
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Speaker 1: I don't know why it doesn't show a percentage That
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Speaker 1: kind of drives me nuts, but that's like eighty percent
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Speaker 1: of the vote. Love it No notes, Matt Fields are
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Speaker 1: necessary eighteen people because you know what, when that options there,
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Speaker 1: some people just click it. Okay, Yeah, it seems overwhelmingly positive.
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Speaker 1: Feel it's not taking away from the broadcast. If anything,
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Speaker 1: It's like, will we get it? I just want to
16:59
Speaker 1: see I just want to see an interesting you know,
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Speaker 1: dichotomy between the veteran guys and the young guys who
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Speaker 1: are given the green light to run these things and go.
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Speaker 1: So oh, we had a question which I this is
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Speaker 1: another cool, interesting thing I have on my show and
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Speaker 1: no one else has it, well not no one else,
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Speaker 1: but I have it. I can grab a question. So
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Speaker 1: this question was just asked. Does it need to touch
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Speaker 1: or is there a threshold for it to be called
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Speaker 1: a ball strike? It only needs to any any part
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Speaker 1: of the ball needs to be touching the strike zone
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Speaker 1: for it to be a strike as of right this moment.
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Speaker 1: That's another thing with calibration. And that's a phenomenal question actually,
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Speaker 1: because he's reminded me to talk about this. They're trying
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Speaker 1: to figure out if they want to do like half
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Speaker 1: the ball, like more than fifty percent of the ball
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Speaker 1: needs to be in but then the strike zone could
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Speaker 1: be bigger, or are we going to do barely touching?
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Speaker 1: Are we going to do it needs to be twenty
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Speaker 1: five percent of the ball or more, or if it's
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Speaker 1: just like right now they're just running and just touch
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Speaker 1: it just like they're trying to keep it the rules
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Speaker 1: the way they are. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 1: there is going to be a shrinking of strikes when
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Speaker 1: this is implemented. There is the strike zone will shrink.
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Speaker 1: It really really will, it really really will. So be
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Speaker 1: aware of that. Just be aware of that when pictures
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Speaker 1: start complaining, because they will.
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Speaker 2: My guys, that's all we do. We complain. That's what
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Speaker 2: we do best.
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Speaker 1: Uh, when pictures complain, It's gonna be in this in
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Speaker 1: the spirit of I have to make adjustments again, right,
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Speaker 1: I have to change things and how I think and
18:34
Speaker 1: things that I've worked very hard to adjust. Now I
18:36
Speaker 1: have to change it again. Right, So get get ready
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Speaker 1: to hear that same thing with the with the with
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Speaker 1: the pitch clock, which now that I don't play, I
18:49
Speaker 1: think Theron's great.
18:50
Speaker 2: So I was wrong.
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Speaker 1: I was wrong, and I'm an idiot, all right, Moving on,
18:55
Speaker 1: seaman Ayah. A lot of positives for the Mets. This
18:59
Speaker 1: is not one of them, Semana. It's likely headed to
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Speaker 1: the aisle with an oblique strain. Fortunately, oblique strains are
19:05
Speaker 1: not that long, you know, they're four to six weeks
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Speaker 1: for the most part. He's a starting pitcher, expecting to
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Speaker 1: be back in April. End of April maybe at the latest.
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Speaker 1: We'll probably take it really easy because we're here at
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Speaker 1: the beginning of the year, but he was pencil in
19:20
Speaker 1: to be their one or two starter. Losing him as
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Speaker 1: not ideal. They are already kind of struggling with depth
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Speaker 1: in that starting rotation as is after losing Montas as well.
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Speaker 1: So there's two of the five gone. So it looks
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Speaker 1: like Clay Holmes can be leaned on pretty heavily. Tyler
19:34
Speaker 1: McGill is going to be in their DP David Peterson,
19:37
Speaker 1: and I mean, I don't know where we're going from there,
19:40
Speaker 1: but sad to see manyah, But I wouldn't panic too much.
19:44
Speaker 1: It's not super a super long term thing. And if
19:47
Speaker 1: it were sures or he'd be back in like forty
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Speaker 1: five minutes. The Yankees extend Aaron Boone to a two
19:55
Speaker 1: year contract through the twenty twenty seventh season to take
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Speaker 1: him to nine years as the Yankees manager. Now, I
20:05
Speaker 1: think this is very good timing for this because they
20:07
Speaker 1: went to the World Series. When you go to the
20:08
Speaker 1: World Series, you keep what you have, like, if it
20:10
Speaker 1: don't bro if it ain't wrong, don't fix it type situation.
20:14
Speaker 1: So why not why not keep Aaron Boone at the
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Speaker 1: Helm As we know Brian Cashton is going to be there,
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Speaker 1: and Holstein Render is gonna be there too. I think
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Speaker 1: these guys with three Musketeers, I think they're going to
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Speaker 1: stick stick it out together. I think they really like
20:26
Speaker 1: Aaron Boone and what he's bringing to the table, even
20:28
Speaker 1: though a world series hasn't quite happened yet, but they
20:30
Speaker 1: did get close, right. But one interesting thing, and I
20:37
Speaker 1: thought this was worth mentioning something we noticed, right, It
20:40
Speaker 1: feels like there is there is there's a laundry list
20:43
Speaker 1: of things that are a little bit more, a little
20:45
Speaker 1: bit more difficult about playing in these big markets, namely
20:49
Speaker 1: New York, Philadelphia, Boston, LA, in Chicago. Like you, the
20:58
Speaker 1: mountain scrutiny is higher the things that every like the
21:01
Speaker 1: things that are in the media constantly, and the media
21:03
Speaker 1: is all competing with each other for clicks as well,
21:05
Speaker 1: so like every little thing is gonna be talked about.
21:07
Speaker 1: And so you would assume keeping a managerial job at
21:11
Speaker 1: one of these teams is like probably the hardest part,
21:15
Speaker 1: the hardest place to be. I would say that's true
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Speaker 1: for the Mets, and I would say that's true for
21:20
Speaker 1: you know, the Red Sox. I wouldn't actually say it's
21:24
Speaker 1: tue for the Red Sox either Red Sox are kind
21:25
Speaker 1: of similar to this situation. But the interesting thing is
21:29
Speaker 1: it goes one or two ways, right, That's not always true.
21:32
Speaker 1: Sometimes you actually have more job security because of the
21:37
Speaker 1: uniqueness of the organization you're in. Being a Yankees manager
21:40
Speaker 1: is it takes a very specific type of person, and
21:45
Speaker 1: if you're not certain that that person can handle doing
21:48
Speaker 1: that job, it's kind of hard to hire for it
21:51
Speaker 1: unless they've done it before. And so that's why I
21:55
Speaker 1: think we see a little bit of hesitation for for
21:57
Speaker 1: the bigger mar some of the bigger markets with the
22:00
Speaker 1: more interesting like that there's things come along with the
22:02
Speaker 1: job then that don't come along with it in the
22:05
Speaker 1: other twenty seven of the other teams you might stick.
22:09
Speaker 1: So I think that Aaron Aaron Boone has a little
22:14
Speaker 1: bit of that situation, like he's he's done good enough,
22:18
Speaker 1: but he hasn't been held at the standard that maybe
22:21
Speaker 1: other managers would have been held to. So it's an
22:25
Speaker 1: interesting situation and something to notice. I just thought it
22:28
Speaker 1: was interesting and that you guys would think it was
22:29
Speaker 1: cool because you know, like Alex Cora too, he's probably
22:32
Speaker 1: immune to a really bad season or two. He's probably
22:35
Speaker 1: immune to might making the playoffs a couple of times
22:37
Speaker 1: because he understands what it takes to win there. He
22:39
Speaker 1: also has a World Series under his belt. But Aaron Boone,
22:42
Speaker 1: he's just gonna keep on keeping on. It's gonna have
22:44
Speaker 1: to go really downhill for him and Aaron Buon. I'm
22:46
Speaker 1: gonna throw Castpan in here too. They're gonna be there
22:48
Speaker 1: for a while, so throw your support behind him.
22:55
Speaker 2: Vladar Riguerero Junior.
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Speaker 1: No extension for Vladdie, probably gonna be a free agent
23:09
Speaker 1: and has said very smartly that he's opened all thirty teams.
23:14
Speaker 1: He famously said a few years ago, I want to
23:18
Speaker 1: go beat the Yankees. I want to sign with the Yankees,
23:22
Speaker 1: paraphrasing here obviously. But now he's come around. Of course
23:26
Speaker 1: he's done that. Do I think Vladimir Guerrero Junior ends
23:28
Speaker 1: up with the Yankees? I don't think. So it's gonna
23:31
Speaker 1: be interesting to watch his free agency next year. We're
23:33
Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of conversations about how free agency
23:35
Speaker 1: has developed, especially with the first basement asking for as
23:37
Speaker 1: much money as he's going to ask for. But I
23:40
Speaker 1: think step one go hit three twenty again and you'll
23:47
Speaker 1: be fine. And finally, there's been a lot of rumblings
23:54
Speaker 1: out there about the uniforms and how they were fixed.
23:58
Speaker 2: The lettering different or back to normal.
24:01
Speaker 1: The back of the jerseys, the name's bigger, the numbers thicker,
24:05
Speaker 1: the jerseys more robust.
24:07
Speaker 2: Unfortunately, pants still see through.
24:19
Speaker 1: Fanatics, which manufactured the uniforms, started measuring players and audists
24:22
Speaker 1: to get started on the twenty twenty five uniforms.
24:23
Speaker 2: Corny MLB.
24:25
Speaker 1: They will visit each campus spring to make necessary adjustments
24:28
Speaker 1: that are probably being adding another layer to the pants.
24:31
Speaker 1: So guys, it only took a year and we got
24:32
Speaker 1: halfway there. That's called progress.
24:34
Speaker 2: I think that you.
24:35
Speaker 1: Guys should just cut them a brake. Okay, units are
24:37
Speaker 1: getting better. Sometimes you just need a little bit of
24:41
Speaker 1: a broom.