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Fair Territory: Rookies sizzle, Viral ABS, Yankees & Blue Jays sweep · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. We
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  Speaker 1: are coming off a rollicking opening weekend of Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: We have a ton to get to. I want to
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  Speaker 1: go through the things that struck me the most. We
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  Speaker 1: could really sit here all day and talk about that,
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  Speaker 1: but I'll go through my highlights. Obviously it's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be a complete list, So don't start complaining, what
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  Speaker 1: about this? What about that? No, we're not doing that.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to try to get through as much as possible, though,
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  Speaker 1: because a lot of cool things have happened. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's start with the series that I was at, the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees Giant Series. Yankees look great. They allowed one run
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  Speaker 1: in three games, swept the series. As I said on
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  Speaker 1: the broadcast on Saturday, the thing that impresses me most
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  Speaker 1: about the Yankees is obviously, yes, their team on the
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  Speaker 1: field is very good, but the depth that they have
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  Speaker 1: in their organization with players on the injured list, Garrett
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  Speaker 1: Cole and Carlos Rodin and Clark Schmidt, and then prospects
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  Speaker 1: who are close to the majors And who am I
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  Speaker 1: talking about Carlos Legrange, the other pitcher, Elma Rodriguez. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: and then the outfielders Jason Domingiez, I know, we struggled
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  Speaker 1: on that ball at TRIPLEA the other day. Off the wall,
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  Speaker 1: Spencer Jones, George Lombard, Cumming and others. They are in
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  Speaker 1: a position where if injuries strike, as they inevitably will,
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  Speaker 1: they're in a reasonably good spot to carry on without
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  Speaker 1: much loss. Obviously, you lose a judge or a stand
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  Speaker 1: and that's a big deal. But that's what I like
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  Speaker 1: about the Yankees. And obviously their offense, which was one
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  Speaker 1: of the best in the elite game last year, is
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  Speaker 1: back and still rather potent. The Giants, we're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: talking about them a lot this season. They need to hit,
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  Speaker 1: and if they're not going to hit, then the whole
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  Speaker 1: thing is not going to work. It's three games. No
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  Speaker 1: one should be panicking yet, Let's see how this plays
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  Speaker 1: out for them. They faced some great pitching Freed and
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  Speaker 1: Schlitler and Warren. The Yankee starters were really good, though
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  Speaker 1: not quite as good, perhaps as the Blue Jays starters
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  Speaker 1: in their season opening sweep of the Athletics. Let's look
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  Speaker 1: at something right here that really impressed me about the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays and kind of an unsung thing right now
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  Speaker 1: about where they are. Perhaps we all thought their rotation
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  Speaker 1: would be good. This good, though, I'm not so sure.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the strikeout totals for each of their starters
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  Speaker 1: in this opening series. And Eric Lawer is not at
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  Speaker 1: the level, of course of Gossman and Cease. But my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: eleven for Gossman, twelve for Seas, nine for Lower thirty.
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  Speaker 1: Two strikeouts in sixteen and two thirds innings for the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays rotation. That is pretty good, all right? Elsewhere
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  Speaker 1: excuse me elsewhere? Blue Jays, Yes, they've been great. The
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  Speaker 1: Brewers too. I know. They had an inferior opponent in
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  Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox, and they came back on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: They did some really good things in that series. They
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  Speaker 1: are the Brewers of old again, even with their pitching questions,
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  Speaker 1: already a two game lead up on the Cubs, and
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs, well, they didn't have a great opponent either.
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  Speaker 1: They played the Washington national and lost two of three
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  Speaker 1: in the opening series. So here we go in the
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  Speaker 1: NL Central also want to mention with the Nationals, Joey
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  Speaker 1: Weimer Waiver claim reaches in each of his first eight
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  Speaker 1: played appearances for Washington. Good for him. Great weekend for
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  Speaker 1: Joey Weimer. Now, the thing that struck me most about
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  Speaker 1: this weekend perhaps would be the performances of some of
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  Speaker 1: the ballyhooed rookies we had all across the league. And
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  Speaker 1: I can go right down the line. Let's start with
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  Speaker 1: Murakami coming from Japan, three home runs in three games,
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  Speaker 1: and then go to some of the other players we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about. Chase the Laughter from the Cleveland Guardians. My goodness,
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  Speaker 1: four home runs first three games, first player since Trevor
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  Speaker 1: Story and the only other player since Trevor's Story to
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  Speaker 1: do that, and three of the guys he took deeper
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  Speaker 1: among the better pitchers in the game off that Seattle staff,
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  Speaker 1: Andre Munos Andres Munos, George Kirby, and Logan Gilbert. Pretty
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  Speaker 1: good group there. He also broke up a no hitter
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  Speaker 1: on Sunday. Pretty good weekend for Chase the latter Now
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  Speaker 1: Kevin McGonagall. He had a fantastic debut four for five
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  Speaker 1: in that game. He's five for twelve overall. He was
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  Speaker 1: robbed of a home run by Jackson Merrill on Saturday
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  Speaker 1: and then came back with a ten pitch at bat
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  Speaker 1: against Wandy Peralta, in which he laced the go ahead single.
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  Speaker 1: This guy looks like he's going to be a stud
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  Speaker 1: in the game for a long time. The same might
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  Speaker 1: be true of the Marlins. Owen Casey, what did he
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  Speaker 1: do this weekend? He was pretty good too, to run
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  Speaker 1: walk off home run yesterday. That would be Sunday five
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  Speaker 1: for ten overall with three extra base hits. He of
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  Speaker 1: course was the big prize for the Marlins in that
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  Speaker 1: Edward Cabrera trade, and then the Cardinals Jj weatherhold home
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  Speaker 1: run and his debut for his first major league hit,
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  Speaker 1: and then a walk off two run single on Saturday.
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  Speaker 1: So some really spectacular performances by rookies, and yes, I
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  Speaker 1: probably of leaving off one or two, but those were
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  Speaker 1: the ones that stood out perhaps most of me. They
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  Speaker 1: were really good, these guys, and they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: really good. They're going to be fun to watch. At
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  Speaker 1: some point, we'll get Connor Griffin up here as well,
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  Speaker 1: and we'll see other rookies impressed in the same way
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  Speaker 1: that these guys have done. The Rookie of the Year
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  Speaker 1: races in both leagues could be rather good. Now, on
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  Speaker 1: a lighter note, perhaps some closer entrances that we saw
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  Speaker 1: this weekend that were, I don't know, pretty cool. Mason
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  Speaker 1: Miller of the Padres coming out to the group. Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's the ah, I'm screwing up this all right. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna say this song because I'm not sure what
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  Speaker 1: it is, but Mason Miller has a new great entrance song.
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  Speaker 1: You see it right there. Obviously, the light's going back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, and it's really cool. It's a heavy metal song.
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  Speaker 1: Korn's Blind, I believe, is what it is. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: Korn's Blind, all right, Sorry for the brand cramp there.
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  Speaker 1: The other one, well, Edwin Diaz. We've seen his act before.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen what he does coming into Narco with the Mets,
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  Speaker 1: and of course he did it with the Dodgers as well.
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  Speaker 1: You remember timmy trumpet would play live once in a
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  Speaker 1: while with the Mets when Edwin Diaz was there, he
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  Speaker 1: would be the guy playing the trumpet part from Narco.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers brought in someone with the same initials, Tatiyana Tate.
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  Speaker 1: She did the same thing and the Dodgers had kind
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  Speaker 1: of a raucous time with Edwin Diaz doing the Narco entrance.
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  Speaker 1: So some cool entrances by closers and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good things happening. Now, one thing that was a little
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  Speaker 1: more troubling, at least in the opening game that the
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Pirates played O'Neil Cruz in centerfield. Now, you saw
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  Speaker 1: some discourse after opening day about Paul Skenes and Matthew
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  Speaker 1: Boyd and Logan Webb all having rough starts. Well, yes,
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  Speaker 1: by the pitching lines they did. Problem was Paul Skeins
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  Speaker 1: would not have had a rough start if not for
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  Speaker 1: two misplays in centerfield by O'Neil Cruz. The sun obviously
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  Speaker 1: was a factor here, it was an issue for him.
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  Speaker 1: You see the tweet there from Noah Hale's of our
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  Speaker 1: own network, the Foul Territory Network, about this about how
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  Speaker 1: O'Neal Cruz in centerfield could be an issue. Now, yesterday
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  Speaker 1: the play that's cut down Lindor at the plate in
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  Speaker 1: the Pirates extra ending victory over the Mets. O'Neil Cruz
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  Speaker 1: started that relay with a good throw from centerfield. So
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  Speaker 1: he's a work in progress. It remains to be seen
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  Speaker 1: just how good he's going to be or not good
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  Speaker 1: out there. But O'Neil Cruz with Pittsburgh trying to take
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  Speaker 1: a step forward here. That's a bit of an issue
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  Speaker 1: right now. So with that we close out my initial
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  Speaker 1: impressions of Opening Weekend. We're going to get to ABS
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  Speaker 1: and the Inside Dish. Trust me on that, and trust
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  Speaker 1: me as well, I will never forget Korn's blind again.
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  Speaker 1: Just a brain cram, Folks, Calm down, relax, We're having fun.
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  Speaker 1: It's Opening Weekend. We'll be back with the Inside Dish
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  Speaker 1: Right, time now for the inside dish to part of
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  Speaker 1: the show where I talk about maybe a story I've written,
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  Speaker 1: a trend in the game, something else entirely, And today
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  Speaker 1: it will be a combination of both a COMMI I
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  Speaker 1: wrote for Today's Athletic and a trend in the game,
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  Speaker 1: actually an innovation in the game, the one we know
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  Speaker 1: as the Automated ball Strike System ABS. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to show you a post on x to start with
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  Speaker 1: from the Democratic Senator from Connecticut, Chris Murphy. Now we're
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  Speaker 1: not getting political here, but I just want to show
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  Speaker 1: you this, he tweets last night. ABS is not making
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  Speaker 1: the game better. He was ratioed like you wouldn't believe.
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  Speaker 1: Fans love ABS. And that's what I want to talk
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  Speaker 1: about here. The one unexpected thing from ABS, at least
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  Speaker 1: for me so far, was and has been the entertainment value.
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  Speaker 1: And it was perhaps most exemplified by what happened in
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  Speaker 1: Cincinnati on Saturday, when two straight strike three calls against
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  Speaker 1: Ajohanni Osuarez by C. B. Buckner were overturned. By the system,
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  Speaker 1: and the crowd, with the bases loaded and the Reds
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  Speaker 1: leading but looking to add to their lead, went nuts
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  Speaker 1: on each of the overturn calls. The play by play
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  Speaker 1: announcer for the Reds kind of got into it too,
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  Speaker 1: so it's allowed, as the crowd has been all day
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  Speaker 1: and the Reds have hit two home runs, and it
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  Speaker 1: was just really an example of how abs can be
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  Speaker 1: part of the crowd experience. Now we all knew obviously
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  Speaker 1: it would be on the scoreboard and it would go
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  Speaker 1: about it that way, but to see it in action
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  Speaker 1: and to see it in ballparks all across America. I
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  Speaker 1: had a game Saturday, the Fox Game in San Francisco,
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  Speaker 1: in which there were seven challenges and all seven were overturned.
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  Speaker 1: That's how good the teams were that day in making
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  Speaker 1: their educated guesses, so to speak. So this was something
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  Speaker 1: I didn't expect. And there was also a sequence Sunday
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  Speaker 1: where you saw Minnesota Twins manager Derek Shelton ejected for
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  Speaker 1: arguing not the call by the robot, but whether it
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  Speaker 1: took Baltimore Orioles closer Ryan Helsley too long to challenge. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Hellsley did tap his cap quickly. It wasn't clear whether
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  Speaker 1: the umpire saw it, so he did it again, and
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  Speaker 1: that's where Shelton probably saw, Hey, WHOA, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: But it seemed to me that it did happen quickly enough.
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  Speaker 1: And that said overall, when you watch ABS unfold in
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  Speaker 1: a park or on your television screen, it does move quickly.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, I remember, or I've seen in tennis when
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  Speaker 1: the Hawkeye automation comes into play and they're showing it
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  Speaker 1: on the score, where the crowd will clap rhythmically as
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  Speaker 1: if like, wow, this is something cool that's coming. In baseball.
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  Speaker 1: So far, it seems to me it's happened so quick
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  Speaker 1: that there's not even time for the crowd to get
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  Speaker 1: into it in that fashion. So ABS, so far, and
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  Speaker 1: I emphasize the words, so far is a hit. Now.
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  Speaker 1: What's interesting is that we're in the shiny new toy
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  Speaker 1: phase of this. Right. We have seen nothing too egregious
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  Speaker 1: as far as overturned calls. We've seen good things happen,
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  Speaker 1: but we've also seen the possibility of not bad things
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  Speaker 1: is happening, but outcomes that might not be all that desirable.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen some calls decided by a tenth of an inch,
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  Speaker 1: and as Jason Stark informed us in his article on
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  Speaker 1: March twenty fourth in The Athletic. And actually we've written
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  Speaker 1: about this before, Jason and I ourselves, there is margin
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  Speaker 1: fer error here, and I want to show you what
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  Speaker 1: Jason wrote. League officials told The Athletic that MLB is
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  Speaker 1: ninety five percent confident that a pitch would be within
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  Speaker 1: zero point thirty nine inches of the location where the
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  Speaker 1: ABS system pinpoints it. The league also is confident, it
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  Speaker 1: is ninety I'm sorry, ninety nine percent confident that the
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  Speaker 1: location would be within zero point four to eight inches.
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  Speaker 1: That's about a half inch of where ABS said it landed.
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  Speaker 1: That's not one hundred percent, it's ninety nine percent, or
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  Speaker 1: it's ninety five percent. And the problem with that is,
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  Speaker 1: as Jason has written, let's say a World Series game
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  Speaker 1: comes down to a tie score in the ninth inning
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  Speaker 1: with the basis loaded and a three to two count,
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  Speaker 1: and a call gets overturned by a tenth of an inch.
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  Speaker 1: You're within the margin for error. And that's a problem.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to see games decided that way. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not Games seven of the World Series, but it could happen.
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  Speaker 1: We had Games seven of the World Series get down
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  Speaker 1: to a pretty nitty gritty last year in the ninth inning,
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  Speaker 1: so we will see how this all plays out. And
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  Speaker 1: in his article, Jason wrote how some players were in
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  Speaker 1: favor of a buffer zone in which umpires would be
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  Speaker 1: permitted some grace where if a pitch is within a
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  Speaker 1: certain margin for error, say a half inch as an example,
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  Speaker 1: then it could be a call stands situation, much as
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  Speaker 1: we see with instant replay right when the call is
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  Speaker 1: not overturned. There are problems with that. It creates confusion,
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  Speaker 1: and ultimately the league decided it didn't want to go there.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to see a lot of interesting things happen.
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  Speaker 1: And as I wrote in my story my column today,
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  Speaker 1: we've already seen star players regretting not doing certain things
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  Speaker 1: with abs, either not challenging or challenging too early and
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  Speaker 1: burning a challenge. We saw that with Roman Anthony and
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. They expressed remorse about not a I'm sorry
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  Speaker 1: challenging when they shouldn't have perhaps, and we saw Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Torkolsen express regret about, hey, I should have challenged earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the game when I had a real shot there
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't and it cost us. You're going to
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  Speaker 1: see that there are new forms of strategy here, new
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  Speaker 1: forms of scrutiny, and new things for us to debate.
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  Speaker 1: And in my view, with baseball, it is the best
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  Speaker 1: talking sport. It always has been. It's a sport where
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  Speaker 1: the action is not so fast, where you can't talk
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  Speaker 1: about things between pitches, between innings, even though it's faster
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  Speaker 1: with the pitch clock, And it's a sport which, because
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  Speaker 1: it plays out over six months and one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: sixty two games, gives us endless opportunities to talk about
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  Speaker 1: things and debate things and all of that, and that's
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  Speaker 1: where the strategy element here comes into play. It's really
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  Speaker 1: interesting to see how players are handling it, and it
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  Speaker 1: will be really interesting to see how players and teams
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  Speaker 1: evolve in their thinking with how aggressively to use their challenges. Remembered,
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  Speaker 1: you're permitted to per game. If you are correct, you
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  Speaker 1: can keep going. You retain your challenge. If you're incorrect
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  Speaker 1: and you lose your two by the ninth inning, well
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  Speaker 1: you're out of luck. And Jason has pointed out too
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  Speaker 1: that what happens if a team loses its challenges, and
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  Speaker 1: then we see an agreeious call occur in the ninth inning. Well,
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  Speaker 1: that's too bad. That's part of the system. So I
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  Speaker 1: am all in favor of anything in baseball that encourages
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  Speaker 1: more discussion, more debate, more decision making. And I've actually
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  Speaker 1: in the story in the column mentioned that I would
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  Speaker 1: like to see draft picks traded. I would like to
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  Speaker 1: see a second trade deadline at the winter meetings. Again,
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  Speaker 1: more decision making, more things to discuss, more things to
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  Speaker 1: debate and have fun with. That is what ABA is
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  Speaker 1: proving to be so far. You might have seen the
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  Speaker 1: hilarious Randy A Rose Arena helmet tap after he was
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  Speaker 1: three steps up the line so convinced of his correctness
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  Speaker 1: with a challenge the other night in Seattle, and it
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  Speaker 1: proved to be correct in his case, not by a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but he was right. So we're gonna see an entertainment
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  Speaker 1: aspect here that perhaps some people didn't anticipate. I sure didn't.
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  Speaker 1: And the game is supposed to be fun. ABS is
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  Speaker 1: making it fun. We're gonna see some unintended consequences. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna see some unfortunate things happen at the same time.
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  Speaker 1: On balance, I'm down with this. I'm good with this. ABS,
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  Speaker 1: in my view, is a success. All right, with that,
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  Speaker 1: we will take a break. Grilling Can is coming up
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  Speaker 1: right after this. All right, time now for Grilling Can
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  Speaker 1: the part of the program where you guys get to
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  Speaker 1: ask me questions. Let's get going. First question comes from
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  Speaker 1: videos two seven. Is Murakami better than we thought he was?
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  Speaker 1: Fair question? And actually at the start of the off
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  Speaker 1: season the predictions for Murakami in free agency turned out
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  Speaker 1: to be much higher than what he actually got from
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  Speaker 1: the White Sox, and there were some questions about swing
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  Speaker 1: and miss, questions about defense, questions as they always are
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  Speaker 1: about Japanese players adapting to major league pitching. Well, so far,
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  Speaker 1: so good. He had the three homers in three games
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  Speaker 1: against the Brewers. Obviously you want to see a play out.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously we are in the small sample overreaction phase of
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  Speaker 1: the season the opening week. But again it's very encouraging
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  Speaker 1: and there's no question he has power. That was not
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  Speaker 1: a question coming over from Japan. So the question will
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  Speaker 1: be as major league pitchers adjust to him, how will
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  Speaker 1: he adjust in kind, and whether he will be able
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  Speaker 1: to saying not a one hundred and sixty two homer
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  Speaker 1: in one hundred and sixty two game performance, but a
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: level that is comparable to what he was able to
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: do in Japan. All right, next question, This one comes
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: from Texas or a fan Rangers fan. Is McCutcheon making
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: enough of an impression on the Rangers that they'd be
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: willing to buy out Jack Peterson should his struggles continue? Okay,
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: slow down, we're talking again about the opening weekend, And yes,
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: Andrew McCutcheon had a great opening weekend. I could have
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: mentioned him in the open to the show when I
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: was running through the things that made the strongest impression
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: because that exchange that he had with the Phillies fan
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: after his home run yesterday in which the Phillies fans saying,
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: come on, Cutch, give us a break, and he was like,
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: hey man, I'm sorry. That was great. That was hilarious.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: So obviously, over time, if McCutchen has that big an impact, yes,
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: they could be looking at a different perspective on Jock Peterson,
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: but they go to they are going to need Jack
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Peterson to be really good too, and offense has been
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: an issue for the Rangers. We need to see more
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: from Cutch. We need to see more from Jock. Again,
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: It's the opening weekend, not time to overreact. All right,
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Let's get to the next question. This one comes from
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: John C. Ninety who says, if a team like the
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Pirates suddenly had as much money as the Dodgers, where
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: they develop the same level success of success or is
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: it more than money? Great question, and I would say
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: to you, it is more than money, And yes, the
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Dodgers spend more than other teams. But I will point
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: you to a story by the athletics Fabian our Diet
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: last week about the Dodgers' culture and about the way
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: players hold each other accountable and how the emphasis there
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: is on winning and winning only that's part of it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: With the Dodgers. They are also excellent at developing players
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: in the minor leagues, identifying which players to draft, identifying
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: players to or who might be undervalued by other teams
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: but could play valuable roles for them. There have been
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: countless examples of that. So the Dodgers, at every level
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: of evaluation are operating on a higher level than every
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: other team. So the Pirates would not be the Dodgers
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: if they were simply spending the same amount of money
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and you see this in other leagues as well, salary
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: cap pleagues. Certain teams are run better than others, and
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: that is how they are enabled to be so successful
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: over extended periods of time. All right, next question from
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Foul Territory Show. Are you worried about Bobashett? I will
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: point you to a column by Joel Sherman of the
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: New York Post, my friend and someone I admire greatly,
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: who writes about Bobashet on Monday today and basically says,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: don't worry about Bobashet. If you're the Mets, You've got
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: other issues. Maybe Bobashet's defense a little bit Polanco's defense
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: at first, Maybe Sean man I is lack of velocity.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: There are other issues that are surfacing with the Mets.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Bobashet being able to hit is not going to be
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: one of them. Bobashett is going to hit. They have
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: every reason to believe that. It was interesting to hear
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: his own view of his opening start with the Nets.
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Basically said he was surprised it took the fans as
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: long to boo him as it did. So Bobashett clearly
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: knows what is ahead of him. Clearly knows what he
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: has to do for the Mets and him hitting, I
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: do not expect to be a problem. All right, let's
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: get to another question here. We're ripping through him. This morning.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Video Game Nation twenty six asked, do you think teams
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: at some point in the future will need three ABS
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: challenges instead of only two? There is a reason it's
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: only two, and that's because Baseball wants to keep the
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: game moving and they want teams to approach this not
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: as oh, we can challenge at any time, but to
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: use those challenges selectively and only in certain situations where
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: they believe it's the most leverage. Okay, so I am
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: quite certain the system at some point will require tweaks.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: I don't know that baseball is ever going to want
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: to get to three, four or five challenges. Now, the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: next question to come out of that would be why
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: not full ABS? And I address this in my column.
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: I don't want full ABS. I don't know that anyone
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: should want full ABS. You're taking the human element out
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: of it entirely. At that point. You're taking framing out
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: of it from a player's perspective, and there's still great
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: value in framing. And you're also removing the homeplate umpire.
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: And let's face it, these guys do a great job
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: on balance, and you see that by the percentage of
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: pitches challenged, it's not a great percentage. The umpires, if anything,
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: with ABS are only going to be helped because yes,
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: on occasion, when they miss a call, it does happen.
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: We're all human. This will be able to help them
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: this system. So I don't see an increasing challenges being
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: something that Baseball looks at in the future, and I
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: don't see full ABS being the answer. This system is
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: pretty good right now the way it is, at least
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: based on the opening weekend, and again small sample, we
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: haven't seen some of these unintended consequences that I have
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: feared come to pass yet in a big way. I'm
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: sure we will in time. And then in time also
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: MLBU can look at the system and decide whether tweaks
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: are necessary. All right, let's get to another question here.
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: This one comes from Slice Life, who asks, with the
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: struggle of the top of the star lineup of the Phillies,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: would you make a lineup change to switch things up?
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: What would your approach to this be. You're talking there
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: about Bryce Harper, and I understand it. But at the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: same time, my goodness, this is the smallest of samples,
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: and I am referring all morning to Opening week overreaction.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: This is a case where if the Phillies made a
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: change now, it would be Opening week overreaction. Are going
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: to settle down. If in two months we have the
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: same kind of problem, even two weeks, then maybe maybe
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: you look at it a little bit differently. But right
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: now it's not time to start changing lineups or anything
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: like that. And I'll refer also to another team in
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: this kind of category. San Francisco Giants just saw them
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: all weekend again. One run in three games not ideal,
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: and that offense might not be as good as the
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: names on paper would suggest. But Tony v. Teller the
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: managers basically said, this is who we're sticking with. We'll
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: tweak at times. They tweak their lineup Saturday, but overall
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: they're gonna stick with the guys who at least have
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: gotten them to this point, or at least the guys
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: that they've envisioned getting them to where they need to be.
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: It's not time yet to change anything dramatically, all right.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for watching and for listening.
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: Foul Territory coming up at one pm Easton. That's Todd,
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Eric Kratz and Scott Broun, Mason Miller discussing coins, blind
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: and brewer territories. Kurt Ho will be joining as well
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: as Katie Wu. We're back Thursday with Ilana. We'll talk
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: to you then, Thanks for watching, Thanks for listening again.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: Have a great week everyone.
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