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Tony Clark resignation details, Braves lose 2 arms, New tech for umps · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: cocktail while you're doing that double header. First, a little
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  Speaker 1: look at Guardians Camp this morning, bright and early, getting
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  Speaker 1: those stretches in, AJ, did you like this part of
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  Speaker 1: the job.
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  Speaker 2: I love this part of the job.
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  Speaker 3: The only problem with the guardian is.
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  Speaker 2: Not sure if we can hear it? Yeah? Can you
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  Speaker 2: not hear me?
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  Speaker 4: I got you now, we got you now.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I did not like stretching because you never see a
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  Speaker 3: cheat a switch before it's an antelope. So no, but
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  Speaker 3: it was a good We had this conversation with a
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  Speaker 3: couple of the fasten All people that actually are in
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  Speaker 3: camp today with us. They asked me the same question,
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  Speaker 3: did you like the stretching? And you know what the
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  Speaker 3: stretching was for, It's changed now it used to be
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  Speaker 3: what'd you do last night?
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  Speaker 2: What was your fun?
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  Speaker 3: What'd you do after practice?
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  Speaker 2: Did you nap?
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  Speaker 5: In?
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  Speaker 3: All that stuff? Now these guys are too serious and
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  Speaker 3: they're all like, no one's laughing. They're all just like
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  Speaker 3: perfect high knees. We got to do the high knees.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to do the butt kickers, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: got to do all that stuff. We used to be
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  Speaker 3: just a free for all. Now they have whistles and
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  Speaker 3: all that. It's it's crazy now.
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  Speaker 5: High wash, it's eyewash. You're not out there. If you're
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  Speaker 5: going out there to prepare, you're cooked. Those dudes have been.
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  Speaker 5: They have a sweat going before they get out there.
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  Speaker 5: If they're strolling out like Jimmy Rollins style where it's
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  Speaker 5: like he gets his uniform on at like three point
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  Speaker 5: fifty nine and he's out there by four, you're cooked. Like,
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  Speaker 5: that's not how That's not how it rolls.
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Rollinds catching strays for just being able to hop
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  Speaker 1: field and do thing.
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  Speaker 5: Oh he know, he was. He was the latest on
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  Speaker 5: time person ever. He would Jimmy, you're listening. You know
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  Speaker 5: exactly what I'm talking about. You were like Superman somehow
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  Speaker 5: you came into the field, but never a panic in
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  Speaker 5: the world.
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  Speaker 2: This is is good.
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  Speaker 5: Ready to go like you were, you were all ready,
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  Speaker 5: it was. It was crazy. Never seen anything like it.
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  Speaker 5: Always ready to get there on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Oh boy. So Spencer swelling back and.
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  Speaker 1: Hurston Waldrip both going under the knife and they don't
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  Speaker 1: even know obviously when they'll be back. And they didn't
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  Speaker 1: even confirm a timetable for now. Here's Mark Bowman, he said,
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  Speaker 1: surgery for removing loose bodies. They Spencer today, Waldrip on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: and the Braves are not providing a timeline. Walt Weis,
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  Speaker 1: their manager, said he hopes both will be able to
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  Speaker 1: pitch again this year. It's not just those two who
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  Speaker 1: both should have been part of the rotation. Aldo Lopez
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  Speaker 1: is a high injury risk just based on what's gone
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  Speaker 1: on with him lately. Grant Holmes had injuries lately. Chrissale
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  Speaker 1: has been their most durable guy. This is not good.
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  Speaker 5: Who if you talk to a Red Sox fan, they'll
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  Speaker 5: be like, Chrisale durable?
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  Speaker 2: What?
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  Speaker 5: But he won the sy young as a Brave. So
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  Speaker 5: there's that.
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  Speaker 2: That's tough.
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  Speaker 5: It's tough, and it's not We went through it a
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  Speaker 5: little bit yesterday. Fortunately it's bone spurs or bone chips.
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  Speaker 5: I just hope they find out what is causing those
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  Speaker 5: bone chips, because you don't just randomly go around like
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  Speaker 5: creating bone chips in your body like something is causing that.
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  Speaker 5: It's your body reacting to something. Hopefully they can figure
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  Speaker 5: that out.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot going on with the player's side of
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  Speaker 1: the situation here that runs all of baseball. Right you
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  Speaker 1: have Major League Baseball Commissioner Manfred and all the people
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  Speaker 1: blow him other side because someone said the other day, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's just the executive director.
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  Speaker 4: No, that is the leader of the Players Association.
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  Speaker 1: So the player's side that makes up our sport and
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  Speaker 1: represents all of the players, that's the Players Association, the union,
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  Speaker 1: and that is Tony Clark, who is now out. So
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  Speaker 1: we'll start there and then we'll get to the succession plan.
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  Speaker 1: So this broke yesterday. We had Ken and Evan Drelick
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  Speaker 1: all over the story first saying Tony Clark's resigning, then
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  Speaker 1: step two was passing, and Don Benetta putting out from
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  Speaker 1: ESPN that Clark resigned after an internal investigation revealed he
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  Speaker 1: had an inappropriate relationship with his sister in law who
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  Speaker 1: had been hired by the union in twenty twenty three.
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  Speaker 4: That's a Jerry Springer shit right theocratz.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's not what you're looking for from the leader.
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  Speaker 5: And I want to reiterate what you said, like the
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  Speaker 5: leader of the union, he is Rob Manford. As much
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  Speaker 5: as you say Rob Manfred, you know he can be
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  Speaker 5: the puppet for the owners. Okay, that's fine, you can
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  Speaker 5: say whatever you think. Like, this is a huge thing
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  Speaker 5: that the Players Association has to figure out. And people say, well,
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  Speaker 5: people make mistakes, Well, it's when you're a public figure,
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  Speaker 5: like they have to deal with that right now, and
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  Speaker 5: it's a big thing.
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  Speaker 4: It is a huge thing.
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  Speaker 1: Aj and he is still under investigation by the FEDS
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  Speaker 1: for if he did anything shady money wise. So there's
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  Speaker 1: stuff going on there and we don't know the resolution
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  Speaker 1: of that yet.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's still ongoing.
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  Speaker 1: So and to my knowledge, that's why there was a
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  Speaker 1: group that was internally making sure everything was okay to
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  Speaker 1: represent the player side. And with that, they're doing their
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  Speaker 1: homework and they're like, wait a second, what is this
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  Speaker 1: communication that's going on here? Then they speak to Tony,
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  Speaker 1: they notify the players and the committee there, and then
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  Speaker 1: the players call Tony on.
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  Speaker 4: Monday and they're like, what's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like they essentially said, your toast, do you
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  Speaker 1: want to announce it yourself or not? And then by
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday morning we find out before his first meeting that's
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  Speaker 1: set in camp and he meets with all thirty teams,
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  Speaker 1: he's out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, listen, this is just terrible situation. Honestly, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know enough about this, but from reading this, there has
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  Speaker 3: to be more to this, I feel like than what
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  Speaker 3: we've gotten so far, and I'm sure Kenondrek and everyone
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  Speaker 3: else is digging for it a little bit. This seems
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  Speaker 3: like the.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to get into this because this
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  Speaker 3: just sucks for so many And I hate to get
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  Speaker 3: into people's personal life because you don't know what anyone's
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  Speaker 3: doing on a personal level unless you're living their life.
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  Speaker 3: So listen, whatever Tony did, this seems like the way
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  Speaker 3: for them just to get him to resign with a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of dignity if there's more, which I obviously
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  Speaker 3: hope there's not. But this just sucks, man. I don't
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  Speaker 3: even I hate even talking about this.
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  Speaker 2: It just sucks.
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  Speaker 3: This whole thing sucks.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: territories So what's next for the union. Players have been
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  Speaker 1: meeting fast and furiously.
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  Speaker 4: They had a meeting yesterday, which is Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: Bomb Nightingale said Bruce Meyer, who was kind of the
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  Speaker 1: number two there and he's the union's lead negotiator, is
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  Speaker 1: still going to be in that spot even if he
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  Speaker 1: also becomes the interim executive director. So that was one
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  Speaker 1: bit of news from Bob, and there's been a lot more.
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  Speaker 4: Evan and Ken.
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  Speaker 1: Came out with an article saying intriguing candidates emerge as
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  Speaker 1: MLBPA debate successor for ousted leader Tony Clark. Names they
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  Speaker 1: mentioned in there included Matt Nusbaum, who's part of the
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  Speaker 1: general council or I think is the lead general counsel there.
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  Speaker 4: Don Fair who used.
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  Speaker 1: To work with the MLBPA back in the day and
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  Speaker 1: then he went to the NHL side.
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  Speaker 4: Daniel Murphy is on that picture.
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  Speaker 1: He used to be part of the PA mix there.
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  Speaker 1: And Andrew Miller is part of the mix currently. We've
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  Speaker 1: had him on the show. So there's some names, there
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  Speaker 1: could be others. It sounds like there's some dissension to
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  Speaker 1: where some guys want to just get this roll in,
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  Speaker 1: keep the train on the tracks. Go with the guy
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  Speaker 1: who's already there and let him go. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be a part of the mix regardless. Others are like, hey,
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  Speaker 1: let's take some time, let's make sure we get this right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make sure we maybe talk to other candidates. You
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  Speaker 1: can speak to this, Kratz, because you've been part of
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  Speaker 1: the union. You got to get a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: on the same page. And they're a little busy right
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  Speaker 1: now with spring training, so there's a lot going on.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's better now than during the season. Like,
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  Speaker 5: you don't want guys to have to worry about this
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  Speaker 5: during the season. But when you're part of the subcommittee,
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  Speaker 5: when you're part of the executive committee as a player,
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  Speaker 5: you're representing the twelve hundred some odd players that are
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  Speaker 5: saying yay, you're nay to certain things. And I would agree.
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  Speaker 5: I would sit on the side of, hey, let's take
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  Speaker 5: some time. Let let's not need to name somebody the
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  Speaker 5: next forty eight hours. Nothing's going to happen. Nobody's attacking
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  Speaker 5: your city, nobody's attacking the union. No, but like this
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  Speaker 5: isn't like maybe baseball time to strike because Tony's out there,
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  Speaker 5: executive directors out No, there is such a structure built,
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  Speaker 5: such a game plan already built. Tony was really like
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  Speaker 5: the rallying cry guy. He was a guy that sat
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  Speaker 5: through the strike of ninety four and so he was
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  Speaker 5: him along with some of the other over player player
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  Speaker 5: reps or not player reps, but representatives from the players Association.
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  Speaker 2: They saw it.
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  Speaker 5: They saw that, and it's supposed to be there to
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  Speaker 5: remind guys, hey, you know what, we need to stay unified.
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  Speaker 5: That's where they need to find somebody. That's who they
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  Speaker 5: need to find. They need to find somebody who's not
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  Speaker 5: trying to politic their way into this role. They need
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  Speaker 5: to try to find somebody who has the best intentions,
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  Speaker 5: not somebody that's looking to get a major salary bump
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  Speaker 5: because they're getting this role. And I don't think that
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  Speaker 5: decision should be taken lightly. I think the next executive
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  Speaker 5: director needs to be somebody who was respected on both sides,
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  Speaker 5: respected by Major League Baseball, respected by the players, and
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  Speaker 5: respected in the avenue. That this is all going to
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  Speaker 5: be negotiated in lawyers like legal representatives, because there's a
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  Speaker 5: lot of there's a lot of things that go on
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  Speaker 5: that players may know what's going on, but when you
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  Speaker 5: have people that went to school for this stuff that
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  Speaker 5: are professionals in this realm. Sometimes I'm little against the
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  Speaker 5: player being in this role. The executive director doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 5: negotiate this CBA. He's in there, he's part of it.
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  Speaker 5: But just like Rob Manfred doesn't negotiate the CBA, there's
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  Speaker 5: other people that are doing the negotiations, so those people
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  Speaker 5: are still in place. To me, this needs to be
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  Speaker 5: something that they didn't need to take time and they
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  Speaker 5: need to get it right because they need to make
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  Speaker 5: sure the union is still continue or continues to stay
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  Speaker 5: galvanized as one unit and not factions of big time superstars,
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  Speaker 5: mediocre players, Latin players, you know, Japanese players, players from
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  Speaker 5: the South, players from the North. Like they have to
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  Speaker 5: be one group and that's the best way that the
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  Speaker 5: Players Association works.
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  Speaker 4: I'll use a comp here too.
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  Speaker 1: Aj Bud Seeleague was the commissioner for a long time
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  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. He owned a team, He owned
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers, right, and the commissioner is the person that
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  Speaker 1: leads the charge with the owners. Right, they vote on
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  Speaker 1: what they want to do, then commissioner plays that out.
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  Speaker 1: Now it's Manford for a while he didn't own a team.
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  Speaker 1: He was a lawyer and on the fight for a
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  Speaker 1: long time. Then they bring him up to be the
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  Speaker 1: next guy. So playing to Kratz's point, it could be
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  Speaker 1: a former player. Doesn't have to be a former player.
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  Speaker 3: No, it need to just be the best, like Eric said,
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  Speaker 3: the best person for the job that can can encompass
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  Speaker 3: all players, right, And I think there's no need to rush.
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  Speaker 3: But this is a bargaining year, so you got to
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  Speaker 3: put a little bit of maybe a fast forward on it,
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  Speaker 3: but not a rush. Maybe you know, like when you
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  Speaker 3: hit your your remote and it goes like one time
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  Speaker 3: two times, may maybe put it one and a half
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  Speaker 3: time instead of the four times, or it just zooms
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  Speaker 3: through your show you have on your DVR. Right, so
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  Speaker 3: there is a little bit of a rush. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that because of where they're at and they're bargaining
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  Speaker 3: and they have they still have most of the team.
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  Speaker 3: I think when we look back on it now, they
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  Speaker 3: had Don Fear, then they had Michael Wiener who was
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  Speaker 3: the successor for Don Fear. He obviously got sick, passed away,
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  Speaker 3: horrible story. Then they hit the rush button. I feel like,
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  Speaker 3: who can we get in well Tony Clark was there,
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  Speaker 3: he was a player. He knows us, right. Boom, let's
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  Speaker 3: all right, Yeah, let's so Tony Clark in there. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Tony Clark takes over. You can make the argument how
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  Speaker 3: it went good or bad.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: That's not for me to argue. But now you have
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  Speaker 3: a situation here where you got to get it right
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  Speaker 3: because it's a bargaining year, because there's going to be
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  Speaker 3: so much on the table, with the salary cap stuff,
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  Speaker 3: with the international draft stuff, with all the TV rights.
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  Speaker 3: Everything we've been talking about, we're going to talk about
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  Speaker 3: for the next ten months. You got to get this
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  Speaker 3: one right, guys. You just have to get this one right.
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  Speaker 3: Whether it's a player, a lawyer, somebody off the street
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  Speaker 3: that we don't even know about.
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  Speaker 2: Please please please. As a I.
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  Speaker 3: Guess we're not members of the union anymore crowds because
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  Speaker 3: we don't play anymore. But as a former member of
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  Speaker 3: this union and someone who's pension and insurance relies on this,
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  Speaker 3: please guys, just please get it right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I couldn't agree more.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's important that they continue to stay unified.
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  Speaker 5: I think it's important that they take their time. I'm
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  Speaker 5: not saying take months to do this. I'm saying take
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  Speaker 5: a week or two rather than a day or two.
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  Speaker 5: I think the fast forward button is understood and agreed upon,
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  Speaker 5: but I think there's also a sense that it is
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  Speaker 5: bigger than you. And if you have somebody that has
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  Speaker 5: an agenda that wants to take this job, I don't
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  Speaker 5: think that's and I don't think that's the type of
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  Speaker 5: leader that the union wants. So you know, I think
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  Speaker 5: that subcommittee will hear from people, hear from names, and
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  Speaker 5: hopefully they make the best choice.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to make as many phone calls as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no Ken Rosenthal, not reporting on any story, but
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  Speaker 1: the one consensus that I did get was that this
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  Speaker 1: is a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: For all sides. Not the actual story.
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  Speaker 1: And the implications of what came out of what Tony
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  Speaker 1: you know, was doing. But it was time because it
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  Speaker 1: felt like there was a lot of distractions off the field,
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  Speaker 1: and clearly we're learning about some of them, but it
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  Speaker 1: felt like people were that was permeating, right. There was
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  Speaker 1: a lot going on, and you want someone who's super
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  Speaker 1: focused and who's almost like a nerd about this stuff,
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  Speaker 1: and it's all they do, They eat sleep and breathe
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  Speaker 1: it and you can call them in any time in
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  Speaker 1: there around, right, Isn't that often how the best gms
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  Speaker 1: are The commissioner It is a twenty four to seven job,
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  Speaker 1: and it seemed to me like people felt as if
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  Speaker 1: there were distractions going on here. So they're like, we
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  Speaker 1: need someone who is strong, who is focused, who I
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  Speaker 1: can reach at any time, and who's going to get
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  Speaker 1: along well as best as possible.
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  Speaker 4: With MLB.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to have your battles. But from a fan perspective,
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  Speaker 1: that's where I'm coming in here. I want games to
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  Speaker 1: be played, you want things to keep rolling in, you
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  Speaker 1: want things to get better.
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  Speaker 4: One of the things that I thought was.
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  Speaker 1: The best part of the last agreement between both sides
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  Speaker 1: was to get a little lot of reaction going on,
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  Speaker 1: so you can't just tank. NBA is going through a
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  Speaker 1: massive tanking issue right now, and I think MLB has
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: done MLB and the players have done things to be
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: able to make that better. We've seen a lot of
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: rule changes that I think continue to improve the game.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: So you want someone that's just going to be able
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to speak the language, and I think that there was
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: a lot cleaned up just now as far as the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: streamlining all of this, Yes, they have to get a
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: leader back in place. But if you're waiting on someone
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: to make a final call and that person is busy
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: with a million things going on that are off the
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: field issues, right, You've got a federal investigation, You've got
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: the sister in law situation going on here, which recovered
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: earlier in the show, that's not good.
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: You're busy, and you're busy for the wrong reasons. It's true.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: We say whatever we want on this show, AJ and
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: that part is true. I say, I got told this
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: by multiple people that are in different worlds, right, some
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: more on the MLB side, some more on the player side,
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: and they were like, I'll tell you this. I think
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: everybody would agree. It's going to be a good thing.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: It'll help get someone who's in there, who's focused.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see.
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Let's hope. That's all we can do is hope Scott.
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: Shake it up.
• 17:37
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  Speaker 1: fastenall dot Com. Okay, so let's talk about MLB umpires
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: that can now request real time feedback on ball strike
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: calls during the upcoming season, and that includes the postseason
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: as well. They'll be able to practice this in spring training.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: So here's the deal, because there actually has been some confusion.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: I have heard some people that know the game that
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: think that an umpire can look at a pitch and
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: be like, oops, I don't know if I got that one,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: and they can ask and then it's almost like an
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: umpire's challenge. Nope, that's not what this is. This is
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: real time feedback in between innings. So in between innings
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: and you gotta break, the umpire can go on his
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: little walkie talkie and be like, psh, hey on that
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: two to two to Judge and I wrung them up?
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: Was I wrong?
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: And they'd be like, yep, you were wrong. As usual,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Judge's zone is actually not that large. Okay, great, thank you.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: I'll make sure I try and make that better next
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: time around. And also if he gives me shit next
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: a B then I'll just take it. But that's really
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: what's going to happen is you can ask every half
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: inning to look back at any pitches. Now you communicate
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: that you're not going to actually see it, but they'll
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: just tell you like, oh, on that too too, Yeah
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: you were wrong that one missed on the ABS challenge system, so.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: It doesn't affect anything in game.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: It's more to help you, I think, evolve aj during
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: the game when you're calling it.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: As an umpire.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I like this, And instead of a player having
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: a run back to the iPad and say told you
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: that pictures a strike last at bat, umpires can actually
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: ask and then they might imagine this God and Eric apologize, Man,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I missed that call. I apologize you should have challenged it,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: and yeah, I know we still wrung me up, crapy umpire.
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: So I like this. I think it keeps everyone accountable
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: and it helps umpires learn on the fly. I'm all
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: for this, making the game better, making umpires better, and
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: just making everybody happy.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: Is it?
• 19:36
  Speaker 5: I never I never figured it out. Is it an
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: actual communication system or is it where they can talk
• 19:43
  Speaker 5: to them or do they because they said they'll make
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: a signal about a call and then they'll tell them,
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: so it's not a direct umpire talking to somebody.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: Is it somebody talking to the umpire.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: I can clarify all of this for you because I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: did a lot of nerdy work since I was hearing
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: things that were so you can't do this during the game.
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: This has to happen in a half inning.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: What you can do is you can do a quick
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: alert like hey, I'm go don't want to check that
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: pitch back. You can do that during the actual play
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: during games, right when we're in play. That could cause
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: a problem, and it was mentioned in this article which
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: included Evan Dryk and some others from the Athletic I
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: think Mitch Bannon on there our new host on Bluebird Territory.
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: But imagine if you're doing that and you're like, hey.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: Bank that I want to bring that up during the
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: half inning and see if it was a ball or strike.
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: What if someone hears you and they're like, wait, so
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: you weren't confident about that pitch. So they did mention
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that in the article because they're not going to tell
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: you that until the half inning.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: What it does is it could speed up the process.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Let's say they wanted to look at three pitches during
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: that half inning, or have the person they're communicating with
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: right the operator, so.
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: Kratz, the operator's not going to talk to them.
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: They would call for this and be like, hey, it's
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: the middle of the fourth I think I messed one
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: or two up. In the top of the fourth. I
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: just want to get clarification, make sure I was right.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: How did I do boop? They talk, they tell them,
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: so that's the process.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I know, it's in between the half innings. My
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: thought was when I read it they were or how
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: it was. How I read it was, it was a signal,
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: you know. So it'll be fun for me to watch
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: different umpires and be like, oh, if he if he
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: grabs a side of his mask, that's the signal. He
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: wants them to check that pitch. And then at the
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: half inning they'll they'll give him the result of what
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: that pitch was. Because I love watching different intricacies Brian
• 21:33
  Speaker 5: and Nora. After every pitch he shifts his he shifts
• 21:37
  Speaker 5: his chest protector and he does something with his chest
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: protector every single time. You know, Vic Carrapozzo doesn't move
• 21:45
  Speaker 5: at all until it's time for strike three. He's the
• 21:48
  Speaker 5: one who's actually in that picture there. So I love
• 21:51
  Speaker 5: watching that kind of stuff. But I want to see
• 21:52
  Speaker 5: a little tick, like if they go check because.
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: Now they're not doing that. It's tech.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: It's tech, so they'll be attack so they'll hit the teck,
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: but you'll look for them to like hit their belt
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: buckle and be like.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: And get that.
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: That's what I mean.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: It's it's not going to be like a sign. It's
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: not going to be a sign for that someone's watching
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: them on there. It'll be some button that they hit
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and they want them to review.
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: And I want to see.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: But is going to be subtle?
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: So if you're catching, I mean, are you going to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: see the umpire trying to subtly just oh.
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: I'm not as I'm catching, I'm saying the bench will
• 22:30
  Speaker 5: see it.
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Like, yeah, that's true.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: There's there's an umpire. There's an umpire that doesn't use
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: the clicker. He has. He has hair bands on his
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: hand and.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: He pulls them, pulls them to the one finger when
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: it's two strikes, when it's when it's three balls on
• 22:45
  Speaker 5: the other f on the other hand, that's how he
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: does the that's how he does his ball cat like.
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: All that kind of stuff is interesting to me.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I think this will cause more fights and injections. Why
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: because a JA this gives the umpire ammo. They didn't
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: have any ammo. And credit to MLBNPA right, who both agreed,
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: we're doing all of these things, but we're not really
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: giving the umpires as much access during a game, we
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: get to run, like you, guys both said, to the
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: dugout and check the tablets and see who was right
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: and wrong. And we've seen sometimes guys get tossed after
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: as they're screaming at the umpire, they talk to them
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: the next day. B umpire has a little revenge now too.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: If he gets he gets a little shit from the player.
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: He could be like, okay, okay, I see you that
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: half inning he checks and he's like, nope, I was right.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if an umpire is going to
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: bring that up, but he's certainly going to have the
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: amo if someone says something to him, be like did
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: you check that pitch?
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Did you check that three two where you felt like
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: you had ball four? I got you, bro.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: I dis agree, scout, because now there is no arguing
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: anymore because you know what the argument is. Cap your
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: helmet if you don't like to call, and we'll challenge
• 23:52
  Speaker 3: you and we'll see you right there. So I don't
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: think it's going to lead any more rejections. I just
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: think it's another tool to help the umpires improve. And
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: I'm here when umpires.
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Get better, do you think that a catcher might be like, hey,
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: next half inning, you should just check a few of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: your pitches.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: Well, that might get somebody objective, but again there will
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: say challenge it if you don't like it.
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: That's the thing. Like they're they're not checking the egregious ones.
• 24:20
  Speaker 5: The catchers are going to go They're gonna challenge the
• 24:23
  Speaker 5: egregious ones. This is where this is where the money's
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: gonna be made. That fifty to fifty ball. And when
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: I say a fifty to fifty ball, it truly means
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: that umpires call that pitch fifty percent of the time
• 24:36
  Speaker 5: of ball fifty percent of the time a strike.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: Who was right?
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: Because now there's it's black and white. Now there's no
• 24:46
  Speaker 5: gray area. It is you were either right or you
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: were wrong. And you can see the progression on the
• 24:51
  Speaker 5: screen for the podcast, we have a we have a
• 24:54
  Speaker 5: progression of what umpires zones look like throughout how they've
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: changed since two thousand and seven to twenty five and
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: twenty five. To me, it's interesting because there's different times
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: when they've kind of implemented different like objectives. Hey, our
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: objective starting twenty twenty five, which teams found out in
• 25:16
  Speaker 5: spring training I think it was, or maybe in the
• 25:18
  Speaker 5: winter meetings I forget was, Hey, we're going to call
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: the tighter zone. We're going to call the actual zone.
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: It shows over an entire year, it kind of shrunk
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: on the sides a little bit. Back in two thousand,
• 25:31
  Speaker 5: I think it was fourteen or fifteen, they said, hey,
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: we're going to make an onus about not making the
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: zones so.
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: Wide and more top to bottom.
• 25:41
  Speaker 5: Ironically, you know, the four seam fastball was really starting
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: to get some life pun intended, but it was something
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: that it shows umpires overall can make adjustments and players
• 25:53
  Speaker 5: can make adjustments too. But it's such a cool graphic
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: that we just showed.
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: There it is again.
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, two thousand and seven was kind of brutal compared
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: to what it looks like now in twenty twenty five.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Look at that chunky amiba in two thousand and seven.
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: Ah, and now how different strike.
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: Zones a differently. It looks you'll be called differently though,
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: so you can say people are like, oh, they sucked
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: in two thousand and seven, but that was the strike
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: zone that we were given. Players make adjustments. Talk to
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: any player, they'll adjust to what's being called, right, and
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: it's gotten tighter because we've gotten better technology. And over
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: the years the technology has gotten better and better, and
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: so have the umpires and so have the hitters. So yeah,
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: it's a natural evolution of what happens with technology and
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: players and us.
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: And we can do a separate segment on this, but
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: just to clarify for people, we're not losing the strike
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: zone box.
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: On the games that have them.
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: There will be a delay though they'll have a I
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: think it's a nine second delay to put the game
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: broadcast out. That they have some separation there so the
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: players can't be sitting there and who knows is that,
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I guess aj so that they don't have some system
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: where someone's seeing it in real time and trying to
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: tell someone to challenge it, even though you have to
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: do an instant challenge, but so that someone doesn't like
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: like this and this is oh because they saw the
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: sign from someone.
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Yes take.
• 27:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it's I also watched the Triple A
• 27:20
  Speaker 5: game where the guy hesitated too long. He took one
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: step across the plate and he was like, oh, it
• 27:27
  Speaker 5: looked like he forgot that they had another challenge left
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: because it was in It was in extra innings and
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: he tapped on it and the umpire was like, nope, sorry,
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: and there had already been like six challenges at that
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: point in the game, so the umpire was having a
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: pretty tough day. M hmm.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: I just want to conclude by saying that many people
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: are underrating how fun this is going to be. You know,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: we put stuff out there about this and sometimes it
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: gets loved, but it doesn't get as many like views
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: and clicks as I think because I don't know if
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: people realize how fun this is going to be. The
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: pitch clock ended up being a big success for most
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: people that wanted to speat the game up. This is
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: going to add a wrinkle inside the game that I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: think is going to be super fun, especially for the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: in game experience. If you're a fan and you think
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: you got it or you're just pissed about a call,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: and then the place is going to go freaking crazy,
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: just like I mean, AJ you're a big football fan
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: where somebody, you know, where the coach throws the red
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: flag and fans freak out.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: They're like challenge that.
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see, We'll see. I can't wait to see
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: it in action, though. I'm excited to see this.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: I'm glad it's by the players and not by and
• 28:37
  Speaker 5: not by the coaches or some replay guy. I honestly,
• 28:41
  Speaker 5: when they first came out replaced, I thought it should
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: be the players and then you have more more challenges,
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: but the players should challenge it.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: I would. I would love to see it because there's
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: so many dudes who are like, oh, check that. Check
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: we kept it.
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: We kept We kept a stat the one year, how
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: many times one person I won't say his name said
• 29:01
  Speaker 5: check that and he was wrong? And it was it
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: got like six or seven all of a sudden, you'd
• 29:06
  Speaker 5: all of a sudden be like, hey, you're not allowed
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: to challenge. If he challenges something, you're not allowed to challenge.
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: And I think the same thing is going to happen
• 29:12
  Speaker 5: with the strike zone.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be fun.
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: We'll keep talking about We'll keep asking players about it too.
• 29:21
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  Speaker 1: the trends. So we went over this the other day,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: but now we've got the trends report, So I like
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: to point this out. Like yesterday the surprise topic was
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony getting a ton of love on MVP based
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: on the what plus two thousand odds that he's running.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Highest ticket percentage for al Cy Young is Garrett Crochet
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: point two percent, so that means he's getting six point
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: two percent of the picks. As far as handles where
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• 30:28
  Speaker 5: for Bradish.
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  Speaker 2: I do really like that.
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  Speaker 5: I think there are a couple names ahead of there
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  Speaker 5: that if you're not going the Crochet Scooble route, which
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  Speaker 5: are respectively Crochet's four hundred plus four hundred and then
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  Speaker 5: Schoobles at plus three hundred. It's like you're getting some
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• 30:49
  Speaker 5: how wide open this could be? And is Scoobale going
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: to be the third ever three consecutive Cy Young Award winner.
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  Speaker 2: That's tough to do.
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  Speaker 5: Only twice has it ever been done, and he do
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  Speaker 5: If you're paying me thirteen hundred plus thirteen hundred for
• 31:18
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• 31:35
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• 31:44
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