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The MLB Report with Codey & Paul: Is the Playoff Field Set? (2.16.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_04]: Please tune in to the MLB report every Monday morning for the latest in Major League Baseball from Cody Emerson and Paul Tipton.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Of course, our coverage will increase as the post-seizing its near will have one nearly every single day.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Here we're sitting to the central Indiana Sports Report with your host, Greg Mendel.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Welcome back to the central Indiana sports report, major league baseball fans to the MLB report with Cody Emerson and Paul Tippedon.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Those are going to be the twelve teams in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Am I wrong?
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[SPEAKER_04]: The twelve teams currently in are going to be the twelve of my wrong.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to completely agree because I think there's a couple.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the AL West isn't completely done.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Mariners.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're both making the postseason right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's a couple that are still to be decided.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm still holding out hope that until the end of the season, I'm always cheering against the mess, but, you know, that's why I'm a little sour here, Cody, because I think the reds are probably done.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, this is the big.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is the headline.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you have given up on the reds, I wouldn't say given up is the right word.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm very doubtful of the reds.
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[SPEAKER_04]: How about that?
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[SPEAKER_01]: We talked about that schedule.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It hasn't done the reds really any favors.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's well, they started better against a poor schedule.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Al R good enough to be in the playoffs, but their record is not going to allow them to be in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I believe.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I will I say this by saying that once we get to October, we will be podcasting pretty much every night about major league baseball either it'll be Cody and Paul it'll be one of them will have will sometimes every single night will be talking about the playoffs once they get here.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Only a month left in the regular season.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my gosh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would I would like to put one team as a post as a distinct possibility of breaking into the playoffs that the Texas Rangers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The worst chance any team currently in a playoff position has of making the playoffs is eighty seven percent.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So we look like we're pretty solid, but I like your Rangers.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's kind of focus on the Rangers here and see if we can get something interesting here with the rest of the regular season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Besides, of course, the individual championships, batting crowns, home run titles, those things will still be decided.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But as far as the team race may be Rangers and Reds.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Rangers have the talent to do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they've done it before.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We've been saying it all year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So it's like I'm not in, of course, they've got the manager who's done it at the highest level.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to completely disregard the Rangers.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I will say I think it was.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Did I see?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Nathan he evolved.
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[SPEAKER_01]: In just a couple of days ago on the third general manager, Chris Young did announce that he is going to miss the rest of the year due to a rotator cuff strain.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So that he and he's been one of their top pitchers all year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're going to have to find a way around that and DeGrom has still been.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've been impressed with Jacob DeGrom.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No one should be shocked that Jacob DeGrom is pitching well when he's healthy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, but the right, their stranger can probably do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're probably going to have to do it on the offensive end.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And they're capable of doing it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I guess if the if the ranger snuck in, there are fun team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like Bruce Boats.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like Corey Seager.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like a lot of the people on that team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah, big, big series with the Astros this weekend for the ranger's poll.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I after they visit the desert for three starting today.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Correct.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I came into this podcast a little depressed about the reds and what's been going on lately.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Doesn't look like they're going to be a postseason team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That being said, they play the Blue Jays at home.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This Monday to up.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We will look forward to that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: We will have a podcast next weekend to talk about that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But this is their final chance.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This week has to be a good week for the reds.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Do our best.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: especially when you're going to get those three against the Met.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Low Met season never dies.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just when it happens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would love it if it happens.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And every year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's like you're in the United States, right?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And usually it's in catastrophic fashion.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but the reds have got to, yeah, you're right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Reg, this is the last chance they're holding on.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They have a chance to write the ship.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've been a game last time we recorded, I think they're on four back.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're not completely out of it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When you've got four, you have to play almost perfectly.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The reason that helps when, you know, you got a three game series against the team that you're right behind.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So a sweep would be massive.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you even take two out of three, start to put some pressure on the meds late.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We know how the meds handle pressure at late in the season.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They've got a chance.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like we've said,
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[SPEAKER_04]: Real fast before we move to some individual things.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's talk about the Yankees.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Paul's Yankees have been playing much better.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Any chance they catch the Blue Jays Paul?
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[SPEAKER_02]: I would say at less than one percent.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, not hopeful at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They win seven games against the nationals and the Chicago white socks and then everybody gets excited.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But they're playing the Tigers, the Astros, and sadly they have to play the red socks again.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The Yankees should be happy with being a wild card.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I saw this the other day.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I was right after they concluded their, or right after they read Soxan Yankees played their last series, just think two weeks ago, maybe.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Red Sox has owned the Yankees this year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Ironically, I think, or neck and neck of each other.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I did see how this guy is, if the postseason were to start today, which obviously it done, the Red Soxan Yankees would play in the first round of the wild card.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Awesome.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's, yeah, sign me up for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, I don't sign Paul up for that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He knows nothing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No Yankee fans wants that right now.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I end.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's why I want it because I want the Yankee's out of the postseason.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, the only person I am rooting for on the New York Yankees is Maximus Fried because obviously he's been his entire current in length.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Paul earlier this year, I kind of made fun of Cody for saying, Kyle Raleigh was the MVP over Aaron Judge and I think he got us.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, I, uh, I object strenuously.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cal Raleigh is now hitting two forty.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The leak averages two forty two, which is low, then that he's below the average.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know apparently batting average doesn't mean anything to anybody.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No, it doesn't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But it ought to.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And fifty home runs does not compensate for a two forty batting average.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm, I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I kept running to forty's not bad though.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Not MVP material when there's somebody whose OPS is over a thousand and has forty home runs and is batting three twenty four.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's the best season we've ever seen by a majorly catcher though offensively.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You need to say that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And what I'll say about that batting average thing, Paul, I agree with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm a more of an old fashioned baseball fan despite my young age.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But Kyle Corber is going to win the National League MVP in batting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: basically leave average two.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That was your moment next question.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Does that mean Kyle's for work?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Kyle's forber and I texted you guys this too sealed the National League MVP when he had four home runs against the brave's double-eye pitching staff.
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[SPEAKER_04]: a rough year for brace pitching and I think it received much like it through the history.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, in the sad part is I guess I can tie this into my rage rant.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Chris sale came back and looked like Chris sale.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The one problem.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The braze as it has been the entire year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, this past year is against Philly's brave didn't score like Chris sale struck out nine over six innings.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Um, looked like Chris sale.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The brave's offense has not done a darn thing to help him out.
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[SPEAKER_04]: All right, Paul.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Schwartz, Tony is MVP of the National League at the, your argument about Schwartz is that he's not competing with somebody who's hitting three, twenty five and also hitting
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[SPEAKER_02]: for power as well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So just I get here.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I understand what you're saying.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Kyle Schwabber's value this year could not be undersold.
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[SPEAKER_04]: to that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If I could make any change in baseball, I would go back to the MVP and call it something else because every, both outstanding player, including both of you to get wrapped around this word value.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The members don't make the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I believe they won't.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I understand that, but it's such a subjective thing.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Or always not on that team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The mayor's very Dawson being an MVP for a last place team as a joke, because his value meant deadly squat.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I disagree with the player would be better, and then there would be no doubt who that would be.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You and I agree on almost everything except for that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm just going to have to disagree.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Take Colorado off the Mariners and I don't even think they're five hundred.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Shaking your head is not worthy of a podcast ball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: You got to actually say worse.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you play for a mediocre team and you're either either penalize or you're rewarded depending on whether the team makes the postseason or not.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It depends on the pitching staff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You might as well say that.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Yes, but depends on who adds the most value to their team that actually accomplishes something to me.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Was Andre Dawson the MVP when they finished the last place?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Would you vote at him the M?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Well, hold on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: M. V. P. Yes, yes, I would.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh-huh.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They caught his value.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was the best player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That's not what the award is.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So now it's a consolation prize.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I disagree with Cody there.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's not based on who deserve.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Over who.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We should call it the most surprising player.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, the league.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that would be no doubt.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Cal Rally.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, yes, but that's what you guys seem to be arguing like Cal Rally.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Wow, who could expect it?
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[SPEAKER_02]: Plus he's a catcher.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, does that not matter?
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: He's in on every single play.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It doesn't matter.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: No.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The center fielders in on one out of every forty plays, whereas the catcher is in on every single pitch.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Doesn't matter to your value to the team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You play the position.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You play the position you play and no.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it's the one.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The one thing that I will, and I know he hasn't done it like a bulk of the year, but this Aaron judge, it doesn't hate his hit or he's not even in the field anymore.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you designated hit more than five games, you should be automatically eliminated from the MVP vote, eliminated and the Hall of Fame, by the way, Harold Baines can't play in the defense, not play defense and be in the freaking Hall of Fame.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It makes no sense.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to get that far, but I get where I get what you're saying.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get what you're saying, Greg.
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[SPEAKER_02]: You may have had an argument when the National League did not have a designated hitter, but they shouldn't.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm saying if you don't play in the field, you are not as valuable as someone who plays in the field.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I'm sorry.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's not even close.
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[SPEAKER_04]: There's that word again.
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[SPEAKER_04]: You're not as outstanding as someone who plays in the field.
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[SPEAKER_03]: How about that?
13:00
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, how Rowley makes a positive impact on defense?
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[SPEAKER_04]: Aaron Judge is a good defensive player.
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[SPEAKER_04]: The defense makes no difference whether Aaron judges in the game.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Not the outfielders mean almost nothing almost all the time.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're all about the same and major league baseball.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They're a few don't give me wrong who make an impact defensively in the outfield.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Not very many every catcher matters when they play day to day.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Everyone.
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[SPEAKER_04]: If you don't have a good one, you gotta get a new one.
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[SPEAKER_04]: That's my argument.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Let's move on.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Do we know who the psi young award winners are because I don't believe it's Paul schemes anymore is it?
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[SPEAKER_01]: The American League we know and I would argue that Scoobal has an argument for the MVP.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'll I'll say that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I know there's the topic of shit pictures when let's not get let's not go to.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I know he would go there because he's gonna win this.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I am so yes.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They have their own.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, who's the most valuable picture because Paul's game says oh, that's not what we call it.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Good point.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Good point.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nope.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The next one.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They were doing this a hundred years before even you were born.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So this isn't all that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: When Andre Dawson got it, it was just because it was a last place team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That was that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, in fact, that added to his whole valuable debate kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
14:23
[SPEAKER_02]: No.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Scains and scuba will get my boat.
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[SPEAKER_04]: So the both favors coming into the season.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's team.
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[SPEAKER_04]: But we'll rub her made the point this week that Christopher Sanchez has been the best picture in the last week this year.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And I think he might be right.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can't go wrong with him.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think he's got the number that's confused games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I would argue Chris for Sanchez.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think he's exploded onto the scene.
14:52
[SPEAKER_04]: Paul, I think you had made the argument that Christopher Sanchez has been more valuable this year than Paul Kiel.
15:03
[SPEAKER_04]: So we could go either way on that.
15:06
[SPEAKER_04]: Oh, and don't even get me started on a Hall of Fame voting.
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[SPEAKER_04]: I don't even want.
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[SPEAKER_04]: This is why we love to debate baseball.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's one of the honestly, they screwed everything up the way they did.
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[SPEAKER_04]: They talked about MVP and the award.
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[SPEAKER_04]: And, but it just makes for better conversations, doesn't it?
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[SPEAKER_04]: We've been doing this.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's why the competition does.
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[SPEAKER_04]: Thank you so much Cody and Paul for joining me always a lot of fun.
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[SPEAKER_04]: It's about to get even more fun when we move the podcast into the both season and we react almost every single night to what's going on in the playoffs.
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[SPEAKER_04]: looking so forward to that.
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