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Chuck & Buck 3-18 Hour 1: The WBC comes to an end, MacDonald's skills and we are just 8 days away! · Chuck in the Morning

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  Speaker 2: sorts of things to discuss. My goodness, do we have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of topics to break down this morning, and
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  Speaker 2: We will find out what's on tap for the bulk
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  Speaker 2: of our show here in a matter of minutes, I
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  Speaker 2: should say that we have some breaking news to start
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  Speaker 2: the morning.
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  Speaker 3: The WNBA has come to terms.
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  Speaker 2: They have reached a collective bargaining agreement that looks like
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  Speaker 2: verbally and so it looks like the season will go
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  Speaker 2: on as planned. I guess they haven't signed the dotted
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  Speaker 2: line yet, but obviously that was a contentious situation here
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  Speaker 2: in the off season, and there was some doubt whether
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  Speaker 2: or not they were going to be able to satisfy
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  Speaker 2: both sides before their proposed deadline, and that maybe the
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  Speaker 2: season was at risk. Well, it looks like pay raises
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  Speaker 2: for everybody across the board. Collective bargaining or geriment has
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  Speaker 2: been reached. I won't get into any details. I'm not
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  Speaker 2: sure if I really know any, but did want to
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  Speaker 2: pass that along that overnight I think at two o'clock
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  Speaker 2: in the morning, they reached a settlement, at least verbally,
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  Speaker 2: and so it looks like the WNBA will not slow
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  Speaker 2: its progress here as they will continue to play hoops.
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  Speaker 8: That's usually when I make my best deals.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two am, Yeah, two o'clock in the morning.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, lots of negotiating skills at two am.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, two o'clock in the morning usually when I'm my sharpest.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, right, have solved most of the world's problems. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: somewhere between two and four am.
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  Speaker 2: That is very funny now that you bring it up,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, I always say that worry is a
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  Speaker 2: weed that grow is the only weed that grows in
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  Speaker 2: the dark. And when you sit there in the dark
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  Speaker 2: at two o'clock and you can't sleep, you just think,
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  Speaker 2: you imagine in your head something far worse.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, than what it really is.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure they didn't fall asleep and then couldn't
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  Speaker 2: sleep while they were negotiating. I'm sure they tried to
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  Speaker 2: stay as sharp as possible. But you're right, two o'clock
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  Speaker 2: doesn't seem like the best time to be making your
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  Speaker 2: best decisions.
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  Speaker 8: I usually.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, good morning to you.
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  Speaker 2: We've got a lot to discuss, including the WBC, which
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  Speaker 2: ended last night in thrilling fashion, Venezuela knocking off the
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  Speaker 2: US by a final score of.
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  Speaker 3: Three to two.
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  Speaker 2: Geno swore as the lovable hero, gets the RBI double
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  Speaker 2: to win the game, and Venezuela closes out the US,
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  Speaker 2: which had a hard time hitting the baseball last night.
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  Speaker 2: Without Bryce Harper, I'm not even sure they had a
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  Speaker 2: hard hit ball.
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  Speaker 3: He had a.
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  Speaker 2: Single and a home run in the game, a huge
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  Speaker 2: home run, felt monster at the time. But Venezuela answered
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  Speaker 2: the very next half inning and it was all that
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  Speaker 2: they would need for a three to two win. And
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  Speaker 2: so they are WBC champions and certainly the most discussed
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  Speaker 2: WBC event that we have had todate. It has certainly
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  Speaker 2: inspired Rob Manfred. You could just see the wheels turning
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  Speaker 2: in his head about how much bigger he could make
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  Speaker 2: this in future years, which are some things that we
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  Speaker 2: can talk about later in the show. But as for
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  Speaker 2: the event itself, great tournament, great championship game last night,
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  Speaker 2: and congratulations to Venezuela.
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  Speaker 3: They earned it and they out pitched us, They out
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  Speaker 3: hit us. I think they outplayed us last night.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why the US couldn't square up a
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  Speaker 2: single fastball, but I will say that the pitchers for
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela did a phenomenal job of staying on the corners,
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  Speaker 2: staying on the outer perimeter of the zone.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they gave a fat pitch to the
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  Speaker 3: US all night long.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure the US squared anything up other than
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Harper all night long. And so congrats to Venezuela
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  Speaker 2: certainly well earned.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they came to play. It wasn't ay,
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  Speaker 4: you didn't give it away. They they kind of went
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  Speaker 4: out there and took it. I think Rodriguez, the starting
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  Speaker 4: pitcher for Venezuela, was looked like he was in mid
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  Speaker 4: mid season form. I mean he was dotting corners and
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  Speaker 4: pitching better than he typically would.
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  Speaker 3: I guess you know you got rough pitch that well
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  Speaker 3: in five years. Well, he did it last night. Last night.
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  Speaker 3: He was he was fantastic. He found away last night.
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  Speaker 4: He you know, he said afterwards that that his first
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  Speaker 4: outing in WBC was trying to overthrow everything. And then
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  Speaker 4: Johan Santana, a Venezuelan guy that's coaching on the team,
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  Speaker 4: just said, dude, relax, go have fun, enjoy it, and
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  Speaker 4: stay calm. And he looked about as calm as you
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  Speaker 4: could possibly look, considering you're going against I mean a
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  Speaker 4: murderers row, which is that that American offense is a
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  Speaker 4: murder's row. And yet if he's dotting his pitches, then
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  Speaker 4: he's getting ahead, and then when he would make a mistake,
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  Speaker 4: when he would throw some pitches that were decent pitches
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  Speaker 4: to hit, they were swinging through them or fouling them off,
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  Speaker 4: and you're just not going to be able to get
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  Speaker 4: away with that. You're not going to It kind of
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  Speaker 4: felt like that the entire tournament. To me, it felt
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  Speaker 4: like America was just like this, Like they kind of
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  Speaker 4: felt like, we are so stacked, it's just a matter
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  Speaker 4: of time until two or three guys run into one
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  Speaker 4: in a row. Well, that's just not the way that
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  Speaker 4: baseball works. You might but when it's a one and
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  Speaker 4: go home type thing, not a series or you know,
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  Speaker 4: anything like that, where you're you know, best out of
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  Speaker 4: five or best out of seven, you kind of have
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  Speaker 4: to show up and make all twenty seven outs counting.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't think they necessarily did. It was it
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  Speaker 4: was something, You're right. The home run by Bryce Miller
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  Speaker 4: was fun. It was It was cool when that happened.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, I loved Bryce Miller home.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, Christ Harper, Yeah, I like, oh he's healthy, Oh
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  Speaker 6: my gosh, offensive firepower.
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  Speaker 3: I knew we could hit.
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  Speaker 4: I was just watching a video right throw yesterday that's
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  Speaker 4: why that popped in my head and the same name.
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  Speaker 4: But I it was cool when he when he hit that,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, Okay, there you go. And yet there was
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  Speaker 4: not a whole heck of a lot of I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: opportunities necessarily, they had a couple, and I'm not really
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  Speaker 4: sure if I'm real happy about Calciton on the bench
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  Speaker 4: for one of them in particular.
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  Speaker 6: It is fun though, because you you know, just talking
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  Speaker 6: about the US firepower and the fact that you you know,
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  Speaker 6: at any moment, the possibility that they could have run
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  Speaker 6: into a couple in a row, and that game is
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  Speaker 6: totally different that it was such a suspenseful, exciting game
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  Speaker 6: because you're only down to nothing, you have multiple times
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  Speaker 6: where with two outs you've got one person on base
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  Speaker 6: and anybody that could have changed the game in that moment,
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  Speaker 6: and then with it continuing to not happen and not
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  Speaker 6: happen until Harper steps up. I mean, I was on
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  Speaker 6: the edge of my seat for that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 8: It was great.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean several games, several games have been that way.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it was a great event. It was a
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  Speaker 2: great game last night, and congratulations to Venezuela. And it
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  Speaker 2: was awesome to see how emotional all those guys were.
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  Speaker 2: But the one thing that I do want to push
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  Speaker 2: back on here this morning, and I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: we'll be able to even tackle this in just one conversation,
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  Speaker 2: but the one thing that I didn't want to hear
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  Speaker 2: when I woke up this morning or read when I
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  Speaker 2: went to social media, unfortunately, is the narrative that is
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  Speaker 2: being expressed apparently both on social media and apparently national broadcasts,
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  Speaker 2: and they're chalking it up to the US just doesn't
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  Speaker 2: care enough. And I think that that is so unfair.
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  Speaker 2: That's not the reason why the US lost the game
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  Speaker 2: last night. Can we live in a world is it
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  Speaker 2: reasonable to live in a world where Venezuela did care more?
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  Speaker 2: And there are reasons why they care more because they've
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  Speaker 2: never won the WBC, because they've their country right now
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  Speaker 2: is in turmoil and has been for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: And those players wore that onto the field. That was
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  Speaker 2: very clear that they were wearing that onto the field.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Daniel Polinci is trying to close out the
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  Speaker 2: game and he's crying while he's doing it. Ronald Acunya
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  Speaker 2: couldn't soak the tears up while he was playing the
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  Speaker 2: outfield in the last inning, because they could taste how
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  Speaker 2: close that they were. Several of the Venezuelan players collapsed
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  Speaker 2: to their knees, including Gino, and immediately just praised God
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  Speaker 2: in that moment.
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  Speaker 8: And Lopez as their manager.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it did mean more to them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think that that is understandable why it
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  Speaker 2: did mean more to them. And yet the US did
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  Speaker 2: not lose the baseball game because they didn't care enough,
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  Speaker 2: because they didn't you know, they didn't show up at
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  Speaker 2: the ballpark, as you know, with more passion than what
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  Speaker 2: Venezuela did.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, baseball is a tricky game. Baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, that's an All Star team that you're facing
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  Speaker 2: last night. I mean, the US wasn't the only team
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  Speaker 2: with an All Star team. Jackson Churio was hitting ninth
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  Speaker 2: for that team, for goodness. He's one of the best
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  Speaker 2: young players in the game. So it's a game though
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  Speaker 2: that if you play one time, one time, really anything
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  Speaker 2: can happen, more so than any other sport that is
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  Speaker 2: out there. And the Venezuela outplayed the US last night,
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  Speaker 2: They outpitched them last night in the game. They had
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  Speaker 2: more quality at bats than what the US did, and
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  Speaker 2: they won the game outright, But I just get tired
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  Speaker 2: of everybody playing the team I wanted to win, or
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  Speaker 2: maybe the team you didn't even want to win, but
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  Speaker 2: you couldn't wait to criticize.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably the better way to put it.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as they lose the game, there's got to
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  Speaker 2: be somebody at fault, some heads have got to roll,
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  Speaker 2: and all that reaction to events like this. Look, I
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  Speaker 2: don't again, I don't doubt for a second that Venezuela
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  Speaker 2: wanted it more.
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  Speaker 3: They wanted it more, but.
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  Speaker 2: US bucket last night did not lose because they didn't
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  Speaker 2: care enough. They wanted it badly themselves. They didn't show,
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  Speaker 2: they didn't have bad at bats because they were just
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  Speaker 2: going through the paces. Mark DeRosa didn't make pitching changes
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  Speaker 2: based off he thought.
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  Speaker 3: He had it in hand.
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  Speaker 2: And yet everybody went to bed last night point and fingers,
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  Speaker 2: and then I have to wake up and have to
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  Speaker 2: listen to three morons talk about it this morning on
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  Speaker 2: my drive in, and all they wanted to do is
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  Speaker 2: point fingers that the US doesn't care enough and that's
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  Speaker 2: the reason.
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  Speaker 3: That we don't win WBCs.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, it drives me nuts. Yeah, it's silly. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: just it's silly because of what you said at the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: There where any game of baseball you could literally have
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  Speaker 4: this year's Dodgers, which is about a stacked as you've
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  Speaker 4: ever seen a regular team, right Not not an all
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  Speaker 4: Star team or a WBC team like this, just a
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  Speaker 4: regular team in the MLB is about as stacked as possible.
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  Speaker 4: Put them against whichever roster you want, the worst one,
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  Speaker 4: and on any given day that that team can win.
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  Speaker 4: That's not even close to the discrepancy of US. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if you want to say US has maybe more stars, okay,
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  Speaker 4: but that doesn't mean that the Venezuela is not jam
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  Speaker 4: packed like you said. I mean they have guys up
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  Speaker 4: and down that lineup that are big time players in
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  Speaker 4: big time you know, for multiple different organizations around baseball
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  Speaker 4: right now. So I mean, I think it is a
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  Speaker 4: fact that Venezuela cared more about winning this, yes, because
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  Speaker 4: of multiple reasons.
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  Speaker 3: It's there. This is not just their national pastime. This
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  Speaker 3: is it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, baseball is it for them and for them
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  Speaker 4: to be able to wear you know, their country across
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  Speaker 4: their chest and be able to take something home to
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  Speaker 4: a country that's going through some stuff and has been
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  Speaker 4: for quite some time. Yeah, it means something. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you could see it in the emotion that was pouring
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  Speaker 4: out of them. I don't think you would have seen
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  Speaker 4: the same emotion had just one thing flipped. If they,
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  Speaker 4: you know, in the eighth inning or ninth inning, there
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  Speaker 4: was a home run in America won, they would have
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  Speaker 4: been very happy. Those that think that America doesn't care,
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  Speaker 4: you would have seen them that they would have cared.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if it would have been to the
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  Speaker 4: point of tears. I don't know if d Ro would
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  Speaker 4: have been sobbing. You know, I don't think that it
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  Speaker 4: would have been the same. And yet that's that's okay,
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  Speaker 4: that's just that's kind of the beauty. If there is
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  Speaker 4: one thing that I really like about it, it's the
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  Speaker 4: fact that all of these different countries kind of come
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  Speaker 4: together and they play the game the way they want,
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  Speaker 4: the fans fan the way that they do. And I
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  Speaker 4: mean that's the first couple well, the first year that
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  Speaker 4: I went to Venezuela, first Winter ball that I played
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  Speaker 4: was in Venezuela, and it was the only way I
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  Speaker 4: could explain it was like what I've heard European soccer
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  Speaker 4: fans are like.
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  Speaker 3: That's what Venezuela.
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  Speaker 4: And Dominican Latin American fans are like when it comes
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  Speaker 4: to baseball. It's just it's the fervor around the how
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  Speaker 4: intense it is in the stands is way different than
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  Speaker 4: Americans are just playing as simple. It's that is so
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  Speaker 4: big for them, and so they kind of played like
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  Speaker 4: there was all of that, like the entire country is watching.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know if the entire country of America of
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  Speaker 4: US was watching the WBC like I know for a
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  Speaker 4: fact Venezuela was.
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  Speaker 2: And I need to wedge this in because this is
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  Speaker 2: very important. We started this entire tournament talking about But
• 14:00
  Speaker 2: in the US we root for our local team more.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that that's a bad thing. It's just
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  Speaker 2: what we grew up on. We grew up on, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you rooted for the that's what you had. We didn't
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  Speaker 2: even have the WBC. The Olympics sometimes they have baseball,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they don't. And so here in this country, we
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: treat the World Series as a bigger deal than a
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  Speaker 2: relatively new exhibition tournament that takes place in the spring.
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  Speaker 3: And if our players.
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  Speaker 2: Play that way as well, if they take their major
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  Speaker 2: league teams and major league careers more seriously than the WBC,
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  Speaker 2: we can't criticize them on both ends.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we said on this show, when Julio said
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: the WBC is.
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  Speaker 2: More important and people had a problem with that, we said,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have a problem with that. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: a problem with Julio caring more about winning the WBC.
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  Speaker 2: Different upbringing, different culture, different background there, and obviously Venezue
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  Speaker 2: it was more important for them to win the WBC
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  Speaker 2: than individually it is for them to win a World Series.
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  Speaker 2: But that's not the way that we treat it here
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  Speaker 2: in America. And so why are we now holding it
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  Speaker 2: against our players that maybe they.
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  Speaker 3: Do treat the world Derek Jeter said it last night.
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  Speaker 2: No World Series way more important, right, Why are we
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  Speaker 2: then angry that our American team doesn't treat the WBC
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  Speaker 2: as big a deal as the World Series when we
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: treat it that way, I don't get the argument, I
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  Speaker 2: don't get the criticism, and it frankly just rubs me
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  Speaker 2: the wrong way.
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  Speaker 6: Well, and I would just say to the people that
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  Speaker 6: say our players don't care, if they didn't care, they
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  Speaker 6: wouldn't be there first of all, because they do care
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  Speaker 6: more about their major league baseball careers and their major
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: league baseball teams, and that is the priority.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 6: They're not just signing up to play in the WBC
• 15:49
  Speaker 6: so that they can skip spring training. Baseball players, baseball
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  Speaker 6: players are regimented, right. There is a routine, There is
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: a process to get you ready for the whole season.
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  Speaker 6: Does spring training become a grind?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: Are you ready for it to be over? Yeah? Are
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  Speaker 8: you signing up for something just so you can skip
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  Speaker 8: three weeks of it?
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  Speaker 6: No, because that's your profession, that's your process, and that's
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  Speaker 6: how you feel like you get your success for the years.
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  Speaker 6: So in a lot of cases, it's it's taking away
• 16:14
  Speaker 6: from their regular routine and their regular preparation for the season,
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  Speaker 6: and they're doing something out of their comfort zone to
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: support their country, to represent their country, and that's a
• 16:25
  Speaker 6: big deal. You heard a lot of them say I'm
• 16:26
  Speaker 6: really excited wear USA across my chest.
• 16:29
  Speaker 8: It is a big deal.
• 16:30
  Speaker 6: They did care, it is just a different type of
• 16:35
  Speaker 6: caring or maybe a little Yeah.
• 16:37
  Speaker 8: As you said, they they just don't show it the same.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 16:40
  Speaker 6: And Venezuela, it was awesome to watch their tears streaming
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: down their faces, and I sat there and watched that
• 16:47
  Speaker 6: entire party, the.
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: First time I've ever done that, watch the entire.
• 16:53
  Speaker 6: Yeah, and especially when the team I'm supporting loses. But
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: I didn't feel like my team really lost. I just
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: felt like that was an awesome game. And look at
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: how happy Venezuelan is. That's that is just that's what
• 17:06
  Speaker 6: this should be about. Like look at the pride that
• 17:09
  Speaker 6: is on their faces.
• 17:09
  Speaker 8: I loved it.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Well, I mean the play and simple bottom line
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: truth of it is is I mean the emotion that
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: you see out of the Latin American players is that's
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: how they play the game, that's how they live. I mean,
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: if you walk into a family dinner in Venezuela, it's
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: the emotion around it is far different than just a
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: family dinner here. And that's not right or wrong, it's
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: just the way that it is. And so they play
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: the game with a different type of passion like it
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: it comes out. That doesn't mean that there's not the
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: same intensity going on inside of the minds and inside
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: of the hearts of the guys that had USA across
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: their chest. And so it's a very lazy narrative. It's
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: a very well because I couldn't see them hooping and
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: hollering to the same level.
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: They didn't care as much. Well, okay, don't.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: They probably don't care the same, but it doesn't mean
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: they don't care.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: And so today doesn't mean they didn't lose because they
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: don't care.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: And it most certainly doesn't mean that they lost because
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: they didn't care. There's no, that's not a correlation or causation.
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: There's nothing about that that is the same in baseball,
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: sometimes caring too much, it gets in the way, gets
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: in the way of you performing. That's the part of Yes,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: that's part of the reason where you will see the
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: highs and lows, and in baseball you want to kind
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: of stay even keel and you want to stay kind
• 18:27
  Speaker 4: of on the same level. Most of the Latin American
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: players that I played with, that's one of the hard
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: things for them to get to kind of rein in
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: is to not get too high when things are going good,
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: because it's really hard to not fall off a cliff
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: when it starts to go bad.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: And so I mean, it's it's not a fault. I
• 18:43
  Speaker 3: don't I'm with you.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I woke up to basically even last night, you know,
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: just everybody wanted to start pointing fingers. And that's what
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: social media does. It gives everybody an opportunity to just
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: start calling somebody an idiot or somebody doesn't care, or
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: I can say I can call somebody out and criticize them.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Go ahead if you want.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: I can just promise issue that there's nobody on Team
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: USA that isn't disappointed that they didn't bring home the
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: championship for themselves and for the country. Do they care
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: to the point of it's going to affect their season
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: and now all of a sudden, they don't really even
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: care as much about the World Series that is what
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: they're really going to be striving for. No, that's not
• 19:18
  Speaker 4: the case, and it's not the case Venezuelan guys, even
• 19:20
  Speaker 4: if they care more, because this is something they get
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: to take home to their country, whereas a World Series
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: championship individually, they can go home with it, but they
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: don't take it home with Venezuela across the chest. They're
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: still going to be fighting their butts off all season
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: long because they want to win another championship.
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: This is just one that's different and for those emotional. Yeah.
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: For those that don't can't get that, then that's just
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: that's on them, not on me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: All Right, we're gonna talk a lot more about this.
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: They got a lot of other angles, including the Cal angle,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: to discuss about WBC.
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: Game last night. But let's find out what's on tap
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: for the rest of the show. What's on TEP, what's
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: on TEP? All right, Venezuela three US two.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: It's a venuze that wins the WBC for the first
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: time in their nation's history. As for the Major League
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: Baseball season, kind of feels good to know that all
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: the Mariners are heading back to Peoria, Bizardo and Cal
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: and Spire. Everybody's going to be back here within the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: next twenty four to forty eight hours and the team
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: will get started for the season, which begins in eight days.
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: Might begin without JP Crawford. He has a lingering shoulder issue.
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: They are behaving as if it's not a big deal,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: but it's a big enough deal that they're not sure
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: he's going to start the season as the opening day shortstop.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: Another thing that we'll discuss later on in the show.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: NCAA tournament got started last night.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: Boy, I really love that.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: You've gone to this sixty eight team field. It's not
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: like these games were played on the back burner or anything.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: Texas sixty eight sixty six over North Carolina State and
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Howard eighty six eighty three over Baltimore County last night,
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: so they're in the field of sixty four. Two more
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: games tonight Prairie View A and m versus Lehigh and
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: Miami of Ohio versus SMU. Then the field of sixty four.
• 21:08
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• 21:26
  Speaker 2: NBA expansion continues to be a hot topic here in Seattle.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: We will discuss it a little bit more today.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Krack and loss last night to the Tampa Bay Lightning
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and lopsided fashion. Six to two was the final score there.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: And the Seahawks are going to open the National Football
• 21:41
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• 21:44
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• 21:47
  Speaker 3: They will play on a Wednesday.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: And not the traditional Thursday opener in the National Football League.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: That is to accommodate a global game that will be
• 21:57
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• 22:01
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• 23:12
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  Speaker 3: All right, More on the tournament.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: We're actually having a Green Jacket draft today at nine o'clock.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: I think it's the last one of the Green Jacket
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: calendar year.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: I mean might have to have that discussion a little
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: bit later on, but yes, we'll do that today at
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: nine o'clock. And there's a lot of Seahawks talk today.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, we've already discussed the WBC. We got a
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: lot of different angles to discuss with the WBC, and
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: we'll get to all of them as many as we
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: can before ten o'clock today. It seems to be the
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: topic of conversation right now in the sports world, but
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: the Seahawks make news every single second of every single day.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Yesterday we talked about the Seahawks secondary something that Greg
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Bell told us on Monday that we reacted to, and
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: I said, yesterday put a pen in that because I
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: want to have a further conversation about that very topic
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: later on in the week.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: Well, I'm choosing this to be later on in the week.
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: We were talking about losing Reek Wollen, losing Kobe Bryant
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: and for now replacing them with sort of cheap free
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: agent and also promoting from within with tay O Katta.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: That cheap free agent that came over is Noah Igmanoghany
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: over from the Washington Commanders, who Greg Bell educated us
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: to on Monday morning.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: As the first round pick a few years ago by
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and that means that they're not the
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: only team that was.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Intrigued by him, and first round talent means that everyone
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: had an opinion and evaluated him. Get traded to Davis
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: and for the Commanders two years ago twenty twenty four,
• 25:40
  Speaker 5: he was a nickel defensive back and primarily nickelback for them.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: He's known as a physical jam the receiver off the
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: line corner, a little shorter, little stock here. He's had
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: problems tackling, which Washington people highlighted quite a bit, which
• 25:58
  Speaker 5: is usually a problem in Seattle if you can't tackle outside.
• 26:02
  Speaker 5: This is yet another John Schneider fringe. Second third wave
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: signing won't count toward the COMPIC formula because he didn't plan,
• 26:11
  Speaker 5: didn't have a big contract.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: But I've seen people saying, well, he must be now
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: the new Woolen and that the rotation will probably be
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: him with Joe and Witherspoon. No, I think it's clear
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that there will not be a three cornerback rotation for
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: two spots this year, and that the money they're paying
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: Joe eight million dollars a year and the money they're
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: about to pay Witherspoon thirty plus million dollars a year.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, those are the two guys, and they're going
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: to have two starters at outside corner with Emon Worry
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: as their hybrid nickel and four to three Sam linebacker,
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: and they're going to roll with that. Tyle Kotta right
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: now being probably the starting safety next to Julian Love.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: But they'll try these guys that are now signing for
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: low risk deals, and if they don't fit into depth
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: pieces and special teams, they'll cut them.
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: Greg Bell with us back on Monday, and you can
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: hear the entire conversation at ninety three three KJR dot com.
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: I said this yesterday. It turns out we're gonna have
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: just about the same amount of time to discuss it
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: as we did yesterday, So put a pen in it again.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Later on down the line.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: But I just repeat what I said to a degree yesterday.
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is a scary fricking thing for the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: rest of the National Football League, a scary freaking thing
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: for the rest of the NFC West. The fact that
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: we had Drake Thomas and Tyokatta step into significant roles
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: when at the beginning of the year, I'm like man
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Drake Thom's going to make the team, but he's gonna
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: make it just as a depth piece, and Tyokota.
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: There's I don't even know if he's going to even
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: make the roster.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: I mean that was sort of the assessment as they
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: both in the preseason, you know, didn't exactly flash Okata
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: looked like he was just flat out struggling. And then
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: we watched both of them as their role increase, just
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: get better every week, like every snap, it felt like
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: they were getting better. And by the end of the season,
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: they were major contributors to a World championship team. And
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: those were two guys undrafted. Those are two guys picked
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: off of a scrap heap that Mike McDonald turned into
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: valuable contributors to a super Bowl team. That he's willing
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: now to let others walk who were deemed more talented
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: in order to keep them on the roster and keep
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: going with what they have.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: That's special. If Mike McDonald.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Knows the type of guy that give me that ig
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: monogony from the Commanders. Twenty six years old, former first
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: round pick hasn't quite lived up to his billing. We
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: can get him on the cheap John, that's a guy
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I can turn into something really good. If he's that good,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: if he can take other people's junk and turn it
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: into treasure, if he's that specially just bedazzles and biogany.
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  Speaker 6: Uh.
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: And then the next thing, you know, you got yourself
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: a special player. You let a fifteen million dollar Woolen
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: walk and sign Igbanogany to one million, and he's as good,
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: he's as effective and doesn't give you fifteen yard penalties
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: if he's that locked in, if he's that good at
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: what he does, do you know easy?
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: That makes John Schneider's job. Now.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: I just got to recognize the special guys, pay them,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: and then all the cracks that get filled in. I know,
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: I've got an ace in my up my sleeve called
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Mike McDonald. He knows exactly the type of player that
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: he will not only turn into a contributor, but a
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: significant contributor. And if he if they've got it down
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: that well, the NFC West should be scared.
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure that anybody else is gonna win again
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: anytime soon.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's definitely got the chops to be able
• 29:51
  Speaker 4: to coach, right, I mean, he wasn't it wasn't a
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: It wasn't a fluke. What he's done basically everywhere he's
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: been Michigan, you know, Baltimore, and now how quickly he
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: turned this organization into a super Bowl champion. And by
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: doing that, I mean, you're not I don't know for sure.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Football you can say you're only as good as your
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: weakest link. I don't know if that's necessarily true, because
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: sometimes if you have a really good strong link, like
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: at quarterback, per se or something like that, that it
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: can kind of cover up some of your weaker spots.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: But it didn't feel like defensively you had any weak links,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: even though, like you said, there was a couple guys
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: that were put in there that you wouldn't have necessarily
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: penciled in as big time contributors. And if you did
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: think they're big time contributors, it probably wouldn't have been. Well,
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: then we must have had multiple injuries for them to
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: have to be thrust into a contribution as large as
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: they were, and that was not the case.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm with you.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, I think there's you know, nobody's going to
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: be perfect, you know, Mike McDonald, nobody's going to be
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: able to see somebody they don't really know and see
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: their measurables, and then you know, talk around the league
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: like what's.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: This guy Like, Oh, he's a good kid. You know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: he has our time tackling.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: And then you go, well, I'll figure out how to
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: get that shaped up.
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean.
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: If he's got all the first round talent but he
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: loses some you know, some of the things that you
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: need as far as your fundamentals that make you a
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: good tackler or a guy that misses tackles, I can
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: figure that out, and all of a sudden, you just
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: improve a couple of little things on a guy. And
• 31:18
  Speaker 4: I mean that's one where obviously I'm always going to
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: go towards this the idea of these guys can improve,
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: but they have to know what they need to improve
• 31:26
  Speaker 4: on and in the steps they need to improve upon them.
• 31:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, it's if you have three deficiencies and your
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: coach comes and tells you to work on the third
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: most important one first, and then one that shouldn't even
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: be on the list next, and you never get to
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: the top two. Well, maybe you never do come become
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: as good as you possibly could be. A good coach
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: understands you got to straighten this up first and foremost now,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: and then you got to do this. And if Mike
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: McDonald's that dude that can just make sure that everybody's improving,
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: then that's a dangerous proposition for everyone.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: He's not gonna nail everyone. There's no way to do that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: And it's a short sample size. I'm not you know,
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: maybe he just was hot in this first couple of years.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: But if he has this ability and he can get
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: a former first round pick who's only twenty six years
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: old sign him to a one year, one point five
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: million dollars.
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: You know what else that's gonna do.
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: Not only is he just excellent at coaching up guys
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: to his system, they're gonna be players lined up down
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: the street. I'll pay a one year contract for nothing
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: just to get tutored by him, because that means I'm
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: going to be a big free agent and next offseason
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: when I'm still young enough to have a huge payday.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I mean, neither have them to line up down that
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: they're gonna have their choice.
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: Of guys in the future that are gonna do that.
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  Speaker 2: For the Seahawks. Man, it's a great.
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  Speaker 3: Thing to have Mike McDonald in Seattle. I'm excited, all right.
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  Speaker 2: Coming up next, our countdown continues. Do we have a
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  Speaker 2: shortstop figured out for opening days? Sports Radio ninety three
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  Speaker 2: point three kJ RFM is eight days away from the
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  Speaker 2: opener next Thursday, will be broadcasting live from Jimmy's on
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  Speaker 2: first in the morning and then let the festivities roll.
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  Speaker 3: On from there. We really do jump start at all here.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome and so that's next Thursday, the season gets underway.
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  Speaker 2: The team's going to be back together again here in
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  Speaker 2: the next twenty four to forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 3: That's exciting.
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  Speaker 2: But we did get some news yesterday that we haven't
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  Speaker 2: really had much of a chance to respond to, and
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  Speaker 2: that is that JP Crawford might not be ready for
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  Speaker 2: opening Day. And that's going to be an interesting decision, Bucky,
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  Speaker 2: because I mean, still the plan is for JP. Nobody's
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  Speaker 2: acting like this as some serious injury. If it was
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  Speaker 2: some serious injury, I think it's easy you go ahead
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  Speaker 2: and start the cold Emerson era. He's been crushing the
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  Speaker 2: ball here as of late. He's getting better as spring
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: training goes along and he gets exposed to more major
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  Speaker 2: league getting it. It appears that's an easy decision. But
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  Speaker 2: if your plan is that JP's our shortstop and he
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  Speaker 2: just needs a couple of weeks, then do you start
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  Speaker 2: Colt Emerson down that road or do you just try
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  Speaker 2: to kind of patch where between now and then.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it is a tough one. I'm not sure which
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  Speaker 4: is the best way to go. You don't want to,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you don't want to hold a kid back
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  Speaker 4: with the talent that Colt Emerson has if he's ready,
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  Speaker 4: if he shows he's ready, I mean even if you
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  Speaker 4: have a healthy shortstop in JP, then you're like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: we got to find something. We got to find somewhere
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  Speaker 4: to get this kid in there because.
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  Speaker 2: That day's coming. That day is coming this year and
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  Speaker 2: probably sooner than later. But does it happen on opening.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I wouldn't think
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  Speaker 3: that it does.
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  Speaker 4: But then again, there still is you know, there's still
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  Speaker 4: a week left of this spring training.
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  Speaker 3: If if if he's.
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  Speaker 4: Making the strides where they're wanting him to make strides,
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  Speaker 4: which you know, his strikeout numbers aren't high. You know,
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  Speaker 4: he's hitting the ball hard, he's got a couple of bombs,
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  Speaker 4: it's you know, he's still got a few walks. He's doing,
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  Speaker 4: he's doing what you would more than what you would
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: expect a kid his age to do. Now, how much
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: of that is happening that they would be able to dissect?
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  Speaker 4: How much of that's happening against a guy that's going
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  Speaker 4: to be in double A with him or triple A
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  Speaker 4: with him him? How much of that's happening. What's he
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: doing against dudes that look like they're making really good
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  Speaker 4: pitches that are big league competitors at this point in time.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that that's probably where it would lie.
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  Speaker 4: The whole JP shoulder thing is not nothing, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: I mean the fact that he sat out, then he
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: came back, and then he's back to kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 4: being handled with kid gloves a little bit. It's something
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: to be concerned about because it's not like you don't
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  Speaker 4: throw the ball and have decent throws. A lot of
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: them playing shortstop, So I would probably think that they
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: would venture to go down the path of all right,
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: we'll just patchwork this thing with Leo Rivas. But you're right,
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  Speaker 4: it's a if this is all of a sudden, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we got to shut you down. You know, if he
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: comes back right before spring training and it still is barking,
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: and it's like, we're putting you on the shelf and
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: we're gonna probably let this thing rest for two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Then I might give Cold Everson, hey, two weeks, go
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: jump start your career, Go take a.
• 35:53
  Speaker 8: Job, especially with I mean his struggles throwing already. If
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: his shoulder's sore, that's not I mean, that would make
• 36:02
  Speaker 8: me even more concerned.
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the medical I don't know what is happening,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: but obviously there's a little bit of concern there. And
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: so I don't think you start Emerson with if JP's
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: back in two weeks, because then you got that decision
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: to make. Now, now I've got to either send down
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Emerson or Young. Yeah, and what if you don't want
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: to send down Emerson and Young, then you got that
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: decision because you're gonna have to have a utility player
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: to some degree.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: And so I think it'll be patchwork.
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: I think it's going to be Revos being our opening
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  Speaker 2: day shortstop, and I have no problem with that. But
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: Cold Emerson's Day's coming, and it's coming soon, and we'll see,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: we'll see how it all unfolds.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Coming up next on the program, we got your headlines,
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: so we got a lot more to discuss from the WBC,
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: including why did cal Rawley not play yesterday.
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