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Pat Murphy's new richer contract, Jazz hypes 50/50 club, Four more years of Freddie Freeman? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Charging about.
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  Speaker 2: I tell you what Pat Murphy good for him an extension,
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  Speaker 2: And it's actually not even an extension.
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  Speaker 3: Aj.
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  Speaker 2: It is a brand new contract for Pat Murphy, the
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  Speaker 2: manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. It is said to be
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  Speaker 2: let's see here, with a club option for twenty twenty nine.
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  Speaker 2: It adds two years onto his contract, guaranteed eight point
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  Speaker 2: nine to five million in new money, makes him one
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  Speaker 2: of the highest paid managers in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: So Todd, let's start with you.
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  Speaker 2: Pat Murphy is a guy people seem to love to
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  Speaker 2: play for, and it just speaks to what the Brewers
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  Speaker 2: and Mark Antanasio think about him going ahead and giving
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  Speaker 2: him a new deal before the season starts.
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  Speaker 3: What do you make of it?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think this is fantastic.
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  Speaker 5: You know, you hear a lot of players getting big deals,
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  Speaker 5: and now you're seeing managers getting big.
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  Speaker 4: Deals too as well. He's a players coach man. This guy.
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  Speaker 5: He's funny, he's witty, but ultimately he's serious at the
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  Speaker 5: times that need be a lot out of his players.
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  Speaker 5: I never got to play with him or for him.
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  Speaker 5: Excuse me, I would have loved to. I played for
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  Speaker 5: some really good managers, but this guy he's an old soul.
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  Speaker 5: He loves the game and he respects the game. Like
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  Speaker 5: I said, he wants a lot out of you, and
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  Speaker 5: deservingly so good for him. Man, there's not many good
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  Speaker 5: managers out there. This guy right now, he deserves it,
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  Speaker 5: and I'm happy for him. And hopefully the Brewers understand,
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  Speaker 5: the players understand that this is a big step for
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  Speaker 5: them to keep stepping up and winning their their divisions,
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  Speaker 5: because guess what, He's not going anywhere anytime soon.
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  Speaker 2: A Jay under Pat Murphy's tutelage the Brewers one ninety
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  Speaker 2: and one thirty four. He's a baseball rat, a grinder
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  Speaker 2: kind of guy. Old school mentality obviously came up of
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  Speaker 2: course in the college ranks with ASU and Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: I believe, and these guys just like to be around him,
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  Speaker 2: and the Brewers have rewarded him for it.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and if had success back to back manager of
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  Speaker 6: the Year, back to back ALE Central titles. They won
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  Speaker 6: the most games baseball last year with a team that
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  Speaker 6: many people didn't think was going to do a whole
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  Speaker 6: lot except.
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  Speaker 1: For Eric Kratz.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he's great to talk to. He's engaging when you
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  Speaker 6: talk to him. He's intelligent when you talk to him.
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  Speaker 6: He's also funny when you talk to him. He's sarcastic
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  Speaker 6: at times, but he knows how to communicate with people,
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  Speaker 6: and he knows how to connect with people. And I
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  Speaker 6: think that's what being a big league manager is all about.
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  Speaker 6: And he has his thing and he has a way
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  Speaker 6: that he wants this team to play. And the Brewers
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  Speaker 6: give Matt Arnold and the Brewers' front office a huge
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  Speaker 6: pat on the back. Also, they have molded this team
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  Speaker 6: into a team that Pat Murphy wants. It's not just
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  Speaker 6: let's go slug, let's go hit homers. Murphy's about small
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  Speaker 6: ball times and they do hit home runs, but he
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  Speaker 6: wants to take the extra base. Played great defense, pitch
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  Speaker 6: really well. And I said this last year when we
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  Speaker 6: talked about it a lot. The Brewers almost shocked you
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  Speaker 6: the way they played because when he went in there
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  Speaker 6: for a three game series and they swept the Dodgers
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  Speaker 6: for the whole year, right, but the Dodgers got him
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  Speaker 6: the postseason. But they had a way of because it
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  Speaker 6: was so different than what so many other teams did,
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  Speaker 6: where they bunt and they'd hit run and they'd steal bases,
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  Speaker 6: they'd take the extra base. They just put so much
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  Speaker 6: pressure on all the other teams. Teams weren't used to it,
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  Speaker 6: and for those three games, it just whoa. When you're
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  Speaker 6: in the middle middle of a long twenty you say
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  Speaker 6: your twenty games twenty days, and in the middle of
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  Speaker 6: that is three games of the Brewers and you're not
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  Speaker 6: ready for it. It's shock teams, and good for them
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  Speaker 6: for finding a different way to do it with obviously
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  Speaker 6: not the highest payroll. But they always pitch, they always
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  Speaker 6: play defense, they always run the bases, and they put
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  Speaker 6: the ball in play.
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  Speaker 1: They've been a good team.
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  Speaker 2: And you never hear the Brewers complain about anything small
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  Speaker 2: rod team, that type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't seem like they.
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  Speaker 1: Do, though.
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  Speaker 2: They seem to be in the mix, certainly in the
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  Speaker 2: hunt every single season in the National League Central and
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  Speaker 2: have made it to the postseason more times than not
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  Speaker 2: over the course of the last decade. And I tell
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  Speaker 2: you what, Todd will talk about this in terms of
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  Speaker 2: managerial salaries, there seems to be a new trend that
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  Speaker 2: these guys are finally starting to make some actual coin.
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  Speaker 2: Because of course you had Craig Counsel with then the
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  Speaker 2: Brewers and obviously now with the Cubs. The Cubs given
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  Speaker 2: him a five year, forty million dollar deal, so about
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  Speaker 2: an eight million dollar average value in terms of that salary.
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  Speaker 2: Dave Roberts, of course, recently March of twenty twenty five,
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  Speaker 2: that new contract was for twenty twenty nine average slightly
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  Speaker 2: over eight million for Roberts. Of course, the manager of
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers, and then Alex Cora on a contract are
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven seven point three million, for a total
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  Speaker 2: of twenty one point seventy five. So it seems like
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  Speaker 2: the managers, the good ones anyway, are starting to be
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  Speaker 2: paid as such.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and I.
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  Speaker 5: Think you're seeing a trend here a little bit too.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm actually for it.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 5: I would love to hear what AJ thinks, but for me,
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  Speaker 5: they're ex players. These guys played the game, they understand
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  Speaker 5: the game. They're going to know how to control the
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  Speaker 5: game too as well. I had a guy in Dusty
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  Speaker 5: Baker who absolute gem of a guy, absolute gem of
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  Speaker 5: a coach.
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  Speaker 4: He understood, Hey, you know, Frise, we're gonna give you
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  Speaker 4: a day off here, Mike, all right?
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  Speaker 1: Cool?
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  Speaker 4: Well, he knew it.
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  Speaker 5: In my mind, it's like I want to play every game,
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  Speaker 5: but he understands the grind and he understand And I
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  Speaker 5: think these ex players, and you know now, managers coming
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  Speaker 5: into the league here have a name for themselves not
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  Speaker 5: only from playing, but now from managing. And I think
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  Speaker 5: the more ex players we can get to manage it
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  Speaker 5: better in my opinion.
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  Speaker 6: Agreed, But Pat Murphy didn't play. Pat Murphy was a
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  Speaker 6: football player. Does you know Pat Murphy played football.
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  Speaker 4: Player?
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  Speaker 1: I agree, man, I think players.
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  Speaker 6: I think players give the best insight to the game
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  Speaker 6: and understand the game better. And they got away from
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  Speaker 6: that for a little while, and some organizations are still
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  Speaker 6: away from that. And I have no problem if you
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  Speaker 6: didn't play in the major leagues or have a nice
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  Speaker 6: career that you can be a good manager.
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  Speaker 1: I think you can.
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  Speaker 6: It just gives you a little one extra notch of
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  Speaker 6: credibility to players when you've done it, you did it
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  Speaker 6: for a long time and you were a successful player.
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  Speaker 1: It helps.
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  Speaker 6: It just gives you a little bit more respect, a
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  Speaker 6: little more cachet with the players. But I'm happy managers
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  Speaker 6: who get getting paid more. Now they need to figure
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  Speaker 6: out a way to pay coaches more, not only just
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  Speaker 6: the managers, but all the coaches down because for people
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  Speaker 6: inside the industry, they know that coaches don't get paid nothing.
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  Speaker 1: They get paid they have the worst schedule, They have
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  Speaker 1: the worst schedules. They have to be here, you know,
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  Speaker 1: for seven o'clock game. They get here like some guys
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  Speaker 1: get there like ten in the morning.
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  Speaker 2: Are there talking to Chris Woodward yesterday, who obviously is
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  Speaker 2: a base coach here for the Los Angeles Dodgers, and
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  Speaker 2: we were talking about the fact he lives in Santa Monica.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, my god, that's so hard to get to
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  Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium. He's like, I leave my house at ten am.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they get their schedules are crazy, Their pay
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  Speaker 2: is not good, and I would love to see them
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  Speaker 2: get paid more as well. But you were talking, you
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  Speaker 2: and Todd were talking about, you know, the fact that
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  Speaker 2: major league coaches, major league managers the experience factor and
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  Speaker 2: the respect factor. So does that mean in your opinion,
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  Speaker 2: guys in Asia, I'll tee you up first on this.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think Tony Vittello with the Giants will have
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  Speaker 2: a tougher hill to climb because he wasn't a major
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  Speaker 2: league player and he's coming from the college level.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, again.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think that you have to be a major
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  Speaker 6: league player to be a good major league manager. There's
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  Speaker 6: been people that have proven that. But I feel like
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  Speaker 6: you just have a better understanding from day one of
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  Speaker 6: what it takes. Now, Tony Vaitel is going to have
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  Speaker 6: to be a quick learner about how the major leagues
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  Speaker 6: work because he's never had to do one hundred and
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  Speaker 6: sixty two games in one hundred and eighty days or
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  Speaker 6: whatever it is, plus run a spring training, plus handle
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  Speaker 6: guys going up and down, plus handle the front office,
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  Speaker 6: plus handle a bullpen for that long, plus handle personalities
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  Speaker 6: that long.
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  Speaker 1: He's done it.
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  Speaker 6: He's done it for fifty to sixty games, which is,
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  Speaker 6: you know, a nice run. But Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday off, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday,
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  Speaker 6: use the same pitchers on Friday, Saturday Sunday, use your
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  Speaker 6: different guys in the midweek games. Whereas this is twenty
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  Speaker 6: games of twenty days. How do I make sure the
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  Speaker 6: bullpen's good? Now? He made some good hires in people,
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  Speaker 6: But you can't. It doesn't mean you just can't be
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  Speaker 6: a good manager. It just means again, there's just a
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  Speaker 6: little extra respect from players when you talk to other players.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, you know, reporters when they talk to other
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  Speaker 6: reporters that are on the grind every day, Hey, I
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  Speaker 6: know what you're going through well as a player, when
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  Speaker 6: you look at guys and you say hey, I as
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  Speaker 6: people you say hey, I know what you're going through
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  Speaker 6: and you've been through it, so it just gives you
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  Speaker 6: that it's not a big deal. It is now we're
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  Speaker 6: making it into I should say.
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  Speaker 5: And I think the biggest thing that probably in his
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  Speaker 5: mind is expectations, so he's probably thinking of his mind,
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  Speaker 5: I gotta do this, I got to make sure here,
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  Speaker 5: I gotta do that, And hopefully that's not the only
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  Speaker 5: thing he's thinking about. I would like for him to
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  Speaker 5: come in be his own man, and come in and
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  Speaker 5: be a manager and do what he does best. I
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  Speaker 5: know a lot of things he did at Tennessee were awesome.
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  Speaker 5: It's going to be a different type of atmosphere now,
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  Speaker 5: you know, not the raw rack kind of stuff, which
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  Speaker 5: I don't I don't mind it all. College baseball is
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  Speaker 5: great with all that stuff, but he's got to understand
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  Speaker 5: he's going to be with professionals and I think the
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  Speaker 5: biggest thing in.
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  Speaker 4: His mind maybe or our minds, is expectations.
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  Speaker 5: So understand, you're gonna have to take the good with
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  Speaker 5: the bed as a manager and ride that wave until
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  Speaker 5: you know, you find they find a way to lose
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  Speaker 5: a ballgame.
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  Speaker 2: Todd, what's going to be the biggest thing for him
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  Speaker 2: to realize quickly? Do you think might be one of
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  Speaker 2: the bigger hurdles that he's going to have to transition from.
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  Speaker 3: The baseball level. Obviously at a high level.
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  Speaker 2: They won the National Championship, but to the big league
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  Speaker 2: level of things are very different between these whitelines.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think it's managing different ballplayers. You know, it's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be hard to mold every single guy to what
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  Speaker 5: you expect. And that's the part of those expectations I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking about. You know, you got your big names, Let
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  Speaker 5: those guys be Let them, you know, be the leaders
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  Speaker 5: of the team, and just understand there's going to be
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  Speaker 5: a lot of different things you can't control going out there,
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  Speaker 5: but you can control, you know how what you want
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  Speaker 5: out of your players. You know, you can control making
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  Speaker 5: sure everybody's on time, doing their due diligence.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, you're gonna have.
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  Speaker 5: To take the good with the bad because it's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a different type of managing. And you got
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  Speaker 5: to understand not everybody is the same in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 1: I also tell you he doesn't get to pick his
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  Speaker 1: players here. He doesn't get to He.
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  Speaker 6: Went out and recruited, right, He recruited thirty five guys
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  Speaker 6: right nowadays, But Posey gets to pick them and they
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  Speaker 6: who they draft. And there's players that were already there,
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  Speaker 6: so you don't get to pick your players in there.
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  Speaker 6: They can be there for Raffie Devers as a long
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  Speaker 6: term contract, right, So he can't just say, oh, you
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  Speaker 6: got to transfer. I don't like you, We'll go find
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  Speaker 6: someone else. Doesn't work like that in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 6: You can't just have always a new shuffle coming in.
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  Speaker 6: So that's going to be fascinating. Plus the other thing
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  Speaker 6: the other day, remember this, the where he corrected all
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  Speaker 6: the media people after that.
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  Speaker 1: You got it.
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  Speaker 6: You need those guys on your side, right, And he
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  Speaker 6: didn't really get on them, but he was just like hey,
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  Speaker 6: first press conference, he's like, hey, I want to sit
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  Speaker 6: down and explain, guys, you got this wrong, Tony.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody's really nobody really cared that much.
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  Speaker 2: He's certainly not used to having to address the media
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  Speaker 2: twice a day. I mean, that's something that's very different.
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  Speaker 2: No other sport does that, except for baseball, where the
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  Speaker 2: manager has to address the team twice a day. Oftentimes
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  Speaker 2: it is said that they will have to rip the
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  Speaker 2: jersey off of your back before you, guys are ready
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  Speaker 2: to give it up. Freddy Freeman kind of has a
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  Speaker 2: timeline Fobby and Ardaia, who writes for the Athletic Covers
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Freeman again today floated the idea of playing
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  Speaker 2: four more years, which would lead him to retired at
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  Speaker 2: age forty after twenty big league seasons. He said this
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  Speaker 2: yesterday during his press conference. Didn't want to open a
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  Speaker 2: campaign for another contract. He's signed through twenty twenty seven,
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  Speaker 2: but added he would like for it to come in
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles, so aj he has a two more years
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  Speaker 2: left on his deal here and then, of course he
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  Speaker 2: did that say that yesterday. He was not going to
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  Speaker 2: talk about a new contract and want to talk about
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  Speaker 2: an extension as of yet, but he would like to
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  Speaker 2: finish his career guys, as a Los Angeles Dodger.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think that happens.
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  Speaker 1: I hope it does.
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  Speaker 6: But then Alana comes to the real question Hall of Famers,
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  Speaker 6: does a Dodge, Dodger or Brave.
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  Speaker 3: He goes in as a Dodger.
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  Speaker 1: He won a World Series in Atlanta, has.
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  Speaker 3: Two with La, and he's going to have.
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  Speaker 1: Such hard he's gonna have two more before he so
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  Speaker 1: in the next two years, he's gonna win two more.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna be here for another four. I do believe
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  Speaker 2: they will sign him to another contract to finish his
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  Speaker 2: career here.
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  Speaker 1: If he gets four, then yes, he definitely goes in.
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  Speaker 2: He's going in as I don't think he goes in
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  Speaker 2: as a Brave because the Braves didn't bring him back.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: I also remember playing with him with the Braves, and
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  Speaker 6: all he wanted and all he ever said was I
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  Speaker 6: just want to win a World Series like you've done.
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  Speaker 1: And now he's got three.
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  Speaker 6: So Freddie, I don't feel sorry for you at all,
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  Speaker 6: So don't give you that anymore.
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  Speaker 3: I really believe he goes in as a door.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, if you know, he's got a chance to
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  Speaker 6: get to three thousand hits and he's gonna play until
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  Speaker 6: he's forty one. Minute ttil I was. I mean I
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  Speaker 6: was turning forty in the offseason that year. So good
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  Speaker 6: for Freddy Man. If he can do this and keep
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  Speaker 6: playing at the level he's done as long as he
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  Speaker 6: stays healthy. His family wants him to do it. He
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  Speaker 6: lives right there in California. He's he's from right there
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  Speaker 6: in California. He loves it in California. So good for you, Freddy.
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  Speaker 6: If you can do this, go get him.
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  Speaker 1: Buddy and Todd.
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  Speaker 2: He said yesterday during the press conference that he was
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  Speaker 2: very irked that his batting average last season did not
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  Speaker 2: start with a three. And he said, and I asked him,
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  Speaker 2: how irked were you? And he said that it really
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  Speaker 2: bothered him because if he's hitting three hundred, it means
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  Speaker 2: he's getting on base, it means he's driving his teammates in.
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  Speaker 2: And while we may not pay a lot of attention
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  Speaker 2: or put a lot of value in batting average anymore,
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  Speaker 2: it matters to him. So an opportunity for him to
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  Speaker 2: have a kind of a comeback year. Obviously he was
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  Speaker 2: very banged up last year, so comeback season offensively for him.
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  Speaker 3: And he's still chasing three thousand hits.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and now before I go on, I want to
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  Speaker 4: go back to that forty comment.
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  Speaker 5: I just turned forty. I can't see myself playing more
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  Speaker 5: than a week and any I don't know how these
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  Speaker 5: guys do it. I mean a week might be pushing
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  Speaker 5: it because I know the next day I'm going to
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  Speaker 5: be in trouble.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I mean I love that about him. It
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  Speaker 4: did irk him.
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  Speaker 5: I think anybody would take what he has done, even
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  Speaker 5: when he's injured. I never batted over three hundred. I
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  Speaker 5: think two seventy three was the highest I ever did.
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  Speaker 5: Guys don't understand average with guys that are older, are big,
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  Speaker 5: are key. I still think it's something that needs to
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  Speaker 5: be blown up a little bit more. I believe if
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  Speaker 5: you have a good batting average, what does that mean.
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  Speaker 5: For one, you're getting on base, for do you're helping
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  Speaker 5: your team out? And for three, power numbers are probably
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: in there too, so for most people. So for that
• 14:20
  Speaker 5: love that about him. I hope he gets over three
• 14:23
  Speaker 5: hundred next year. I hope he stays healthy. He's great
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: for the game. I would love to see him play
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: until he's forty. I think that would be fantastic, And
• 14:30
  Speaker 5: I don't think he's gonna slow down man. He's big
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: in stature, he works hard, his swing is beautiful. Everything
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: about him, you know, maybe the defense a little bit,
• 14:39
  Speaker 5: But I just think the way he goes and if
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: he stays healthy, he's going to be pretty good for
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: a couple more years.
• 14:45
  Speaker 2: Todd, do you think he finishes his career as a Dodger?
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: Do you think the Dodgers, you know, find a way
• 14:51
  Speaker 2: to give him those extra two years so he can
• 14:53
  Speaker 2: finish his career here.
• 14:55
  Speaker 5: I do, just on the fact they brought Clayton Kershaw back.
• 14:58
  Speaker 5: I think it's one of those things where they if
• 15:01
  Speaker 5: you produce and you have fun, and fans love you
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: and the brass likes you, which we've seen, I think ultimately,
• 15:07
  Speaker 5: why wouldn't you bring him out. He's a team guy,
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: he's a leader, and you don't see that aj. You
• 15:12
  Speaker 5: don't see that too often anymore either. Clubs don't like
• 15:15
  Speaker 5: the older guys around. They want this young crop coming
• 15:18
  Speaker 5: up and age and Freddie will teach these young kids
• 15:21
  Speaker 5: the rights and wrongs and everything else that goes unseen
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: during baseball season.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: We will start the segment with a comment Todd, and
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I will defer to you since you are a Yankee lover.
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: Jazz Chisholm says that he is going to be the
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: next member of the fifty to fifty club. And for
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: those that don't know what that is, that's fifty stolen
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: bases as well as fifty home runs, a club that
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: Shoheo Tani invented. Okay, I love the confidence. I love that,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: But Todd, he weighs about fourteen pounds. I'm not certain
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: that Jazz is going to be the guy to get
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: fifty to fifty.
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: What say you?
• 16:04
  Speaker 5: I can't believe you said that. That's incredible. Yeah, you're
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: you're a woman of your word. Listen, he HiT's fifty
• 16:13
  Speaker 5: to fifty. That'd be awesome.
• 16:14
  Speaker 4: Man. I I love jazz Chishlm. I do love jazz Chishlm.
• 16:18
  Speaker 5: This is so hard to do, though, Jazz getting thirty
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: thirty would be absolutely incredible.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Sky's the limit for the guy, but it is.
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: Listen, it's gonna be very hard to reach for anybody,
• 16:31
  Speaker 5: So not just Jazz, but for anybody in baseball right now,
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: it's gonna be very hard to do. I always like
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: to set my goals high, but that is really really
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: high set right there for the big dog and I
• 16:45
  Speaker 5: we'll see.
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Make thirty thirty last year. He did make thirty thirty.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: He didn go thirty thirty last year, thirty one. That
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: was his career high.
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: That was his career high in Homer's and he did
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: have forty stolen bases one year. So he's gonna have
• 16:58
  Speaker 6: to make a huge jump from thirty.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety homers.
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: I mean, he's got a career, He's got a one
• 17:03
  Speaker 6: hundred and eight career homers. So for him to hit fifty,
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: he almost I mean he's half of almost half of
• 17:08
  Speaker 6: his whole career total.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: So that's a huge jump. And the fifty careers sould
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: I hope he does.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: I hope he does.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: I mean I hope he does too.
• 17:14
  Speaker 6: That would be that would be incredible. I just don't
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: know that it's gonna happen.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: I just I mean, that's a lot of goal. I
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: love the confidence, though.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: I mean you want.
• 17:22
  Speaker 6: I also thought I was going to hit sixty and
• 17:24
  Speaker 6: steal sixty bases one year, but it didn't happen, Todd,
• 17:27
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Maybe it was because they wouldn't give me the green
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: light to steal the bases, so I lost my confidence
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: for the sixty homers.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: You really think you're gonna steal sixty back?
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: No, no, a lot. That's kind of my point. But
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: like Todd said, I like to set my goals high.
• 17:40
  Speaker 6: Just because they don't come true doesn't mean I can't
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: make him come up, make him high.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: Jazz is one for one today in the spring.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: So was it a homer?
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: No?
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: No, it's zero zero in the sixth inning, so we
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: had to get some runs on the board there. But
• 17:57
  Speaker 5: listen to button this up. I love its confidence. I
• 18:00
  Speaker 5: love where he's at. This is only a good sign
• 18:02
  Speaker 5: for the Yankees. Be confident, be under control with what
• 18:05
  Speaker 5: you say. Jazz, take off, big dog. That would be
• 18:08
  Speaker 5: awesome for Yankee baseball, all right.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: He also said that if Robot umpires were behind the
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: plate and all calls were correct, he probably.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: Have ninety to one hundred walks this season.
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: So but that's less times you swing, so therefore that's
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: less homers that you can hit. So there goes the
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: fifty homers. Yeah, you're walking. That's Barry Buns. When they
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: started walking him two hundred and fifty times as homers went.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's saying he has a good knack for his
• 18:34
  Speaker 5: own The best knack for his own person I've ever
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: seen was Joeyvado playing. Just from playing with him, ball
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: would be like that far off and all of a
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: sudden like boom ball and he would get the call.
• 18:44
  Speaker 5: I wouldn't get those calls. So yeah, good dude. Listen,
• 18:49
  Speaker 5: this dude breeds confidence. And if you're a Yankee fan,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: you love every second of this. You hope he does this.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: He stays healthy and he goes out there and dominates.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying he can't hit ten homers in a
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: you never know what can happen. But again, thirty thirty,
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: what he did last year is incredible. Let's get to
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: thirty five thirty five and then keep mentioning our way up.
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: You want the confidence and you can get away with
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: that type of confidence if you produce though, Right.
• 19:14
  Speaker 6: He's just gonna jump from thirty thirty to fifty to
• 19:16
  Speaker 6: fifty skip forty forty.
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: He's just gonna jump. He's just not good for him, man,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: I hope he does it.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: Do you know what asually, skip, here's what the you
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: have to hit forty before you get.
• 19:26
  Speaker 6: But what if he hits fifty homers, it's going to
• 19:28
  Speaker 6: be fifty forty. See, so you never do forty four, Clona,
• 19:31
  Speaker 6: you're ruining the story. But I hope he does it
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: because if he does it, guess what he could give
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: his own teammate, Aaron Judge a run for his money
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: for MVP.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Then what would we do.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: It's gonna go to Judge. Probably, Okay, I'm gonna Judge, probably.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: Brutal injury update for the guys with the Baltimore Orioles guys,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: assuming he responds to treatment. We're talking about Westburg, it'll
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see where he plays second or third.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: Given the nature of his injury.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It looks like he has a part Marsehall tear of
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: the UCL in the right elbow. Buster only tweeting this
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: out and Jake Real as well. He's gonna be getting
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: a PRP injection today per Orioles player but President of
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Baseball Operations that's the POBO GM, Michael Lias. Westburg will
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: be out for all of April. Timeline is TBD after that,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: So let's first of all discuss what a PRP is, Todd.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: This is something have you had it in your career
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: and explain to folks at home what a PRP is
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that injection.
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: And let me explain. I'm not a doctor, for one,
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: but for two. When I had it, I had a
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: PRP injection. So they took blood out of my hip.
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: So when I was in Cincinnati or I forget where
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: I was, I forget what t was on, they took
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: blood out of my hip and put it actually into
• 20:48
  Speaker 5: my hand. I had a hand problem at the time.
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: Really good doctors over there, my man, Luigi, I appreciate you.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: And they mix it.
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: They take the blood, they put it in this little
• 21:02
  Speaker 5: cylinder thing, mix it around for a long time. They
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: want to get all that blood moved around. I don't
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: know what the specifics of it were, but it's new
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: blood that forms that they put into the spot that's hurt,
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: and that's supposed to help, you know, calm down and
• 21:18
  Speaker 5: make it better and make it stronger, faster, and very painful,
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: very painful for.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: About you know, five to seven days.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: I could put my hand in any position you want
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: while I was sleeping, and it was pain everywhere.
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: And that was it.
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: You know, you can use PRP in any parts of
• 21:35
  Speaker 5: your body wherever it's hurting. But again it's the procedure
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: wasn't painful, but afterwards it took a little while for
• 21:42
  Speaker 5: that to subside.
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: And it's just your own blood.
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: They say, your own blood is better than anything in
• 21:47
  Speaker 5: the world that can help you out with ailments for sure.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: Apparently it's concentrated to contain a high number of platelets,
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: growth factors, and proteins.
• 21:56
  Speaker 6: So most guys, especially elbow. The only one I've ever
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: heard that's ever done this was Yama Mo or not
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: Tanaka with the Yankees, right that needed Tommy John towards
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: UCL and did the PRP and came back And probably yeah, right,
• 22:11
  Speaker 6: that I know about, because those guys, even in the UCL,
• 22:13
  Speaker 6: when they have the p r P, they still eventually
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: have to get the surgery done the surgery done, so
• 22:17
  Speaker 6: maybe this might be a short term fix.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: That's the thing though, I mean, why why rip the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: b why just have it as a band aid?
• 22:24
  Speaker 6: I mean, well, because they figure if they can do
• 22:26
  Speaker 6: pr PRP and get him back in a month or
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: two months, it's better than HI because if he has
• 22:31
  Speaker 6: Tommy John's gonna miss the whole season.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I guess Bryce did it? Didn't Bryce do it? Not
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: have the he got through the season surgery? He never
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: had the surgery.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Fact check us on that. I don't.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: I don't think Bryce he did PRP.
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: He missed one week DH the rest of the season,
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: and then he got Tommy John in the off season.
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: What does this mean?
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: But Bryce also moved to first base and played DH.
• 22:51
  Speaker 6: Jordan Westburg is a third baseman, second baseman, shortsw what
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: utility guy? Right, So and there he had to throw,
• 22:56
  Speaker 6: He's gonna have to throw. And their DH is Mount
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: Castle or a lot And they now.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Don't have Jackson Holiday to start the season. And now
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: they don't have Jordan Westburg to start the season. So
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: what does this mean short term?
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: I guess for the O's they.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Need a third base. I don't know. I don't know.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: Somebody need to step up. They had all those prospects,
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: you know what I mean. I was I was two
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: years ago. I was the guy that was bashing them.
• 23:21
  Speaker 5: Trade these guys away. Trade these guys away.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: You're gonna get a lot of a lot of good.
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: Players in return. And they have a couple guys that
• 23:28
  Speaker 5: are producing, but a lot of them. You know, you
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: don't really hear about too much. And Mayo needs to
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: step up. Man, he has to step up this year.
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: But when you hear partial tear, it always worries me.
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: I don't care if it's partial, if it's zero point
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: one percent. Yeah, that's I've always believed in that. And again,
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: I hate to say that, but I'm not a doctor.
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: It would if somebody said, oh, you have a partial
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: ligament spasm or whatever you want it partial, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: knee separation, it's still a separation, and I don't know, man,
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: and this stuff might linger, it might linger, and it
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: could get you know, maybe they tell him, oh, it
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: can't get any worse.
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: Hopefully that that's the case, but I don't know.
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: See, that's my concern is, like, if they do it
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: as a band aid now just to get him back
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: in a month, what if it, you know, continues to
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: happen and then he still has to get the surgery,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: let's say mid season, and then he's out additionally for
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: the year even further.
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agreed. I don't know. We'll see, we'll see
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: if he can do it.
• 24:22
  Speaker 6: But I mean, you know, Bryce Harper's the own who
• 24:24
  Speaker 6: did it, but he dh Westbrook's not going to be
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: their dh oh year.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: So he's gonna have to throw. No, it's not that's
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: that's a major difference.
• 24:32
  Speaker 6: You have to he's gonna play third base probably, and
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: he's gonna have to throw across the diamond multiple times
• 24:37
  Speaker 6: a game.
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: You can't hide a third baseman.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I know it's it's a bummer.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: But Todd, think about it.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: If you played third and you had an army you
• 24:44
  Speaker 6: couldn't throw with how many times every team would bunt?
• 24:46
  Speaker 6: Every team would bunt. I mean, guys can well, but
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: he'd just be like, just bunt it to him. He's
• 24:51
  Speaker 6: gonna throw a couple of them away and not feel it,
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: you know, I don't know.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Some other news for the Oakland Athletics.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Timer.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: When I think of Bob Melvin, guys, I think of
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: the Athletics, and he is going back to the club
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: as a as a special assistant, if you will. Obviously
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: he was the Giants manager for a time that didn't
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: work out very well. So Melvin back with the a's
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: right place.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a Bay Area guy. He vanaged the Giants
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: for a while.
• 25:19
  Speaker 6: Like you said, I remember him being with the Oakland
• 25:22
  Speaker 6: now Sacramento as and he's going to come back, and
• 25:24
  Speaker 6: Billy being and him care united, and they had good
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: teams of Bob Melvine's there, So I like this movie