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Fair Territory: Dodgers-Padres time! Phillies flying, White Sox top Cubs, Mets edge Yankees, Bo's skid · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with you for the next half hour
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Speaker 1: or so. We're coming off Rivalry Weekend. I hope everyone
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Speaker 1: enjoyed Rivalry Weekend. Some rivalries more legitimate than others. But
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Speaker 1: this week, starting tonight, we have a very legitimate rivalry
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Speaker 1: in a very legitimate penet race. Well it's a little early,
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Speaker 1: but it's a race, and it's going to be fascinating
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Speaker 1: to see these two teams come together, as it always is.
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Speaker 1: Dodgers and Padres at Petco Park. The Dodgers five straight wins,
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Speaker 1: coming off a sweep of the Never do Well Angels.
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Speaker 1: They outscore the Angels thirty one to three in that series.
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Speaker 1: The Padres coming off a sweep of the Mariners. They
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Speaker 1: are just a half game back in this race, and
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Speaker 1: it is a fascinating race. Now, the pitching matchups, we'll
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Speaker 1: get to this first, and then we'll get into the
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Speaker 1: nitty gritty of this series. Yamamoto versus King tonight, that's
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Speaker 1: going to be an outstanding one. She and versus Canning tomorrow,
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Speaker 1: and then in the series finale Otani against Randy Vasquez.
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Speaker 1: Now the Padres I don't know that they're getting enough attention.
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Speaker 1: They're one of the most amazing stories in baseball right now.
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Speaker 1: Why are they amazing because look at the way this
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Speaker 1: season has evolved for them. If you had told me
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Speaker 1: an opening day that Nick Poveda would go down as
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Speaker 1: well as missing you Darvish and Joe Musgrove, that Manny
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Speaker 1: Machado and Jackson Merrill would have ops's barely above six hundred,
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Speaker 1: that Fernando Tatis Junior would have no home runs, all
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Speaker 1: of this about a quarter of the way a little
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Speaker 1: bit more than that into the season. What would you
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Speaker 1: have thought. You would have thought the Padres probably were
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Speaker 1: in some trouble. They're not in trouble. They are one
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Speaker 1: of the best teams in the National League. And I'll
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Speaker 1: show you something here that is really interesting regarding their
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Speaker 1: run differential and the Dodgers run differential. The Dodgers run
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Speaker 1: differential is plus ninety something, the Padre is plus seven.
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Speaker 1: Their record you can see right there the difference Dodgers
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Speaker 1: plus ninety four, Padres plus seven. The Padres record based
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Speaker 1: on their run differential should be more like twenty four
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Speaker 1: and twenty two. It's not. They're twenty eight and eighteen,
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Speaker 1: and you might say, well, how is this happening? We
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Speaker 1: know of the Padres one great strength, their one great
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Speaker 1: strength is their bullpen. And while you look at era
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Speaker 1: might not look that impressive because it doesn't necessarily reflect
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Speaker 1: entirely what the back end, starting with Mason Miller, can do.
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Speaker 1: And the back end has protected leads like basically no
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Speaker 1: other team. The Padres are nineteen and two, leading after
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Speaker 1: six innings, twenty and one, leading after seven innings, twenty
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Speaker 1: one to zero, leading after eight. So if they get
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Speaker 1: a lead, they're winning the game. And that's what the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers are going to have to contend with. That is
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Speaker 1: what every team is going to have to contend with,
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Speaker 1: as they have so far in playing the Padres. If
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Speaker 1: you don't get the lead early, you're in a lot
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Speaker 1: of trouble. So the Padres, they still have rotation questions,
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Speaker 1: but they are easing those questions right now. As I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: they're without Paveta and they were without Musgrove and Darvish,
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Speaker 1: but Griffin Canning is back. Little inconsistent so far, but
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Speaker 1: he is someone who can do some good things in
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Speaker 1: a rotation. Gilito, Lucas Gilito made his debut for the
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Speaker 1: season yesterday, five strong innings, and Walker Buehler has sort
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Speaker 1: of settled into what would be or what will be
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Speaker 1: now the number five spot. So I'm impressed with the Padres,
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Speaker 1: really impressed with the Padres. And if Machada and Tatis
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Speaker 1: and Meryl start going wow, they might really have something. Now.
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Speaker 1: Of course, you'd have to have the pitching sustain itself
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Speaker 1: as well. Not everything clicks at once in Major League
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Speaker 1: Baseball for every team, but that the Padres have accomplished
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Speaker 1: this with all that has gone against them, that's impressive.
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Speaker 1: Now the Dodgers Bookie Betts is back, of course, this weekend.
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Speaker 1: The Angels cured all their hitting woes. The Angels are
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Speaker 1: a team that is struggling bottom of baseball right now.
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Speaker 1: And you saw Otani get hot offensively. You saw Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker have a big series offensively. He's been much better
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Speaker 1: in May. And yet the Dodgers are doing their Dodgers thing,
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Speaker 1: where pitchers get hurt, pictures get replaced, pitchers get added.
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Speaker 1: Blake Snell back on the IL needing surgery. Eric Lower
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Speaker 1: designated for assignment by the Toronto Blue Jays, acquired by
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and here's a guy that is really interesting,
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Speaker 1: someone who for the Blue Jays last year was a
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Speaker 1: rotation saver. At one point, Ernie Clement called Eric Lower
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Speaker 1: the unsung MVP of the team. He had a three
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Speaker 1: point one point eight ERA in about one hundred and
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Speaker 1: four innings for the Jays last year. Then, for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: things didn't work out this season, loses his arbitration case,
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Speaker 1: wants to be a starter. They layer over him with
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Speaker 1: others who, of course got injured, then doesn't pitch, Will
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Speaker 1: gets Ill, just doesn't have a good season six point
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Speaker 1: six ninety or a designated for assignment. He's one of
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Speaker 1: these guys that with the Dodgers, hmmm, he might be
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Speaker 1: a lot better than he was with the Blue Jays
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Speaker 1: at least this season. All right, So that's it, Dodgers
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Speaker 1: Padres coming up.
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Speaker 1: Yesterday, in the Padres Mariners series, we had an exciting debut.
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Speaker 1: Colt Emerson remember him, He's the guy who signed an
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Speaker 1: eight year, ninety five million dollar extension not too long ago,
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Speaker 1: but stayed in the minor leagues. Gets the call at
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Speaker 1: one twenty five pm Pacific with a four o'clock game
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Speaker 1: in Seattle. Now he's playing in Tacoma. Tacoma's about a
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Speaker 1: thirty five mile distance from Seattle. And what happened was
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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan had some imaging in the morning. Turns out
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Speaker 1: his left groin injury is reaggravated. He's got to go
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Speaker 1: on the il. The Mariners call down to Tacoma. John Russell,
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Speaker 1: the coma manager, calls Emerson into his office. Emerson says,
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Speaker 1: do you want me to sit down? John Russell says, no,
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Speaker 1: you're on the move man. You got to get to Seattle.
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Speaker 1: And Colt Emerson gets to Seattle, makes his debut last
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Speaker 1: night at third base. That will not be his long
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Speaker 1: term position. It will be his short term position for
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. But once JP Crawford leaves as a free agent,
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Speaker 1: and that of course is the expectation in Seattle, then
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Speaker 1: next season Colt Emerson becomes the shortstop. He's a player
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Speaker 1: to watch. He's one of the top prospects in the game.
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Speaker 1: Exciting moment for him yesterday. Elsewhere in Major League Baseball,
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Speaker 1: the Philadelphia Phillies. Now here's a team that fired its
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Speaker 1: manager with a nine to nineteen record, fired Rob Thompson,
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Speaker 1: and at the time they were coming off thirteen straight
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Speaker 1: games against the Cubs and the Braves, and you might
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Speaker 1: have thought at the time, with the schedule easing, things
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Speaker 1: are going to get better. It might have gotten better
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Speaker 1: under Rob Thompson too, but they made the change to
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Speaker 1: Don Manneley, and since then, of course, the Phillies are
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Speaker 1: fifteen to four. You can make the case, I would
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Speaker 1: make the case that they would have revived, revived anyway,
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Speaker 1: but that's not how Dave Dombrowski, President of Baseball Operations,
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Speaker 1: saw it. He made the change, and certainly that revival
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Speaker 1: has come against Yes, a softer schedule, but great things
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Speaker 1: happening with the Phillies. Harper is hot, Schwarber is on fire,
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Speaker 1: twenty home runs ten I'm sorry, nine in his last
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Speaker 1: ten games, and perhaps the most encouraging news of all
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Speaker 1: for Philadelphia, Zach Wheeler is back. Zach Wheeler and Christopher
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Speaker 1: Sanchez one of the top one two two one combinations
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Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball at the top of the rotation.
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Speaker 1: So the Phillies right now looking formidable again. One other
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Speaker 1: thing I want to note from the weekend. This was
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Speaker 1: actually the most fun story of the weekend in my opinion.
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Speaker 1: What the Chicago White Sox did in their Crosstown Classic
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Speaker 1: against the Chicago Cubs. White Sox won two of three
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Speaker 1: in that series. They're now twenty four and twenty two overall,
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Speaker 1: two games over five hundred the Chicago White Sox, and
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Speaker 1: they're just one game behind Cleveland in the AL Central. Now,
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Speaker 1: this is another team outperforming its run differential. White Sox
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Speaker 1: run differential is negative seven, so maybe they should be
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Speaker 1: a little bit below five hundred instead of a little
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Speaker 1: bit above. But that's not the reality. And the reality
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Speaker 1: is the White Sox have three hitters Moricamie, Montgomery and
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Speaker 1: Vargas who are legitimate major league hitters. They are a
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Speaker 1: team that right now ranks tenth in the majors and
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Speaker 1: runs per game tenth. Rookie Sam Antonacci has also given
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Speaker 1: them a lift. They've done some really good things offensively, rotation,
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Speaker 1: Davis Martin's been really good. The rest of it. Okay,
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Speaker 1: bullpen a bit of an issue, but Brian Hudson's been good,
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Speaker 1: Sean Noacomb's been good, Grand Tiller, They've got pieces, and
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Speaker 1: they've been a fun team to watch. Chicago this weekend
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Speaker 1: was on fire in a way it hasn't been in
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Speaker 1: quite some time for this series. So the White Sox,
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Speaker 1: I don't want to say they're totally back, but they're
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Speaker 1: a lot more interesting than they've been. They're a lot
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Speaker 1: of fun again and it's fun to watch them doing
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Speaker 1: their thing in Chicago. All Right, we will be back
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Speaker 1: right after this with the Inside Dish, and the subject
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Speaker 1: is the New York Mets. Time out for the Inside
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Speaker 1: Dish the part of the show where I talk about
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Speaker 1: maybe a story i've written, trend in the games, something
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Speaker 1: I've seen, and today I'm going to talk about the Mets.
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Speaker 1: And the reason I'm going to talk about the Mets
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Speaker 1: is they remain a study in fascination. I've seen them
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Speaker 1: the last two weekends, first in Arizona and then this
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Speaker 1: weekend in the Subway series against New York and Friday night,
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Speaker 1: it seemed that the Mets season was effectively over night.
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Speaker 1: If you didn't see it, Clay Holmes, their ace right
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Speaker 1: handed pitcher, was struck in the leg by a drive
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Speaker 1: by the Yankee Spencer Jones suffered a fractured fibula. Continued
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Speaker 1: pitching by the way for several hitters after that, which
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Speaker 1: makes him serious due to the weak material, but Holmes
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Speaker 1: goes down. Now, Clay Holmes is a highly respected guy
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Speaker 1: really all over the game. He's beloved by players and
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Speaker 1: especially of course in his own clubhouse. And the next day,
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Speaker 1: walking into Carlos Mendoza's office, we talked with him as
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Speaker 1: part of our preparation for the Fox broadcast, and Mendoza said,
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Speaker 1: of all the injuries, this one hit the hardest, It
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Speaker 1: hit the clubhouse the hardest. It was the one that
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Speaker 1: affected the guys the most. And the reason for that
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Speaker 1: one obviously Holmes's skill, his popularity within the team, the
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Speaker 1: respect for his work ethic, but also Holmes represented, along
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Speaker 1: with Freddy Peralta and Nolan McClain, the Met's best hope,
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Speaker 1: that rotation, those top three, that was the Mets' best
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Speaker 1: hope for getting back into contention. And at that moment,
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Speaker 1: after Friday Night, leading into Saturday's game, after losing the
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Speaker 1: opener of the Subway series to the Yankees, it seemed
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Speaker 1: the Mets season was over. Remember, nearly half of their lineup,
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Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor, Luis Robert Junior, Jorge Polanco, Francisco Alvarez, nearly
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Speaker 1: half the lineup was already on the injured list, some
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Speaker 1: of the replacements, Ronnie Morasio, Ronnie Maurisio for Lindor and
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Speaker 1: Mike Takman and Jared Young. These guys are also on
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Speaker 1: the IL and a number of these players do not
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Speaker 1: appear that they're going to be back anytime soon. So
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Speaker 1: what happened the rest of the weekend. This is why
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Speaker 1: baseball is the most amazing sport. I can say this,
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Speaker 1: and I say it all the time. I refer to it.
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Speaker 1: Actually with what I said about the Padres, what they're
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Speaker 1: doing is amazing, and what the Mets did the next
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Speaker 1: two days was amazing as well. The Mets rallied to
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Speaker 1: win the two games remaining in the series against the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: And yesterday they're down five to one. They're messing up
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Speaker 1: all over the place. Bobacht drops a pop up. There
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Speaker 1: be in the Mets, and yet they showed incredible resolve.
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Speaker 1: They came back against the Yankees closer David Bednar two
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Speaker 1: outs in the ninth inning, three run homer by Tyrone Taylor,
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Speaker 1: they tied the score. Then they win it in the
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Speaker 1: tenth on a walk off hit by Carson benje in
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Speaker 1: the infield. Now where are the Mets then? Are they
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Speaker 1: going to be good enough to get back into this race.
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Speaker 1: Can the two kids, Carson Benge and aj Ewing help
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Speaker 1: bring them energy and lift them as they have so
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Speaker 1: far for the rest of the season. The odds are
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Speaker 1: against it. Let's face it. The Mets right now, as
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Speaker 1: you look at the division race, are eleven and a
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Speaker 1: half games behind the Atlanta Braves, eleven and a half
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Speaker 1: games with the season more than a quarter complete. In
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Speaker 1: the wildcard race, there's seven games back, and as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: a number of their injured guys are not close to
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Speaker 1: coming back. If they have those players, you'd say, okay,
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Speaker 1: they can go on a big run here and maybe
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Speaker 1: do some things and maybe get back not only into
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Speaker 1: the wildcard race, but maybe even in the division race.
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Speaker 1: It's a long season. Things even out over the course
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Speaker 1: of a season. But the National League is quite strong.
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Speaker 1: You see it right there. San Diego, Milwaukee, Saint Louis.
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Speaker 1: These are teams that are the leaders in the wildcard
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Speaker 1: race right now. Philadelphia is coming. Pittsburgh and Cincinnati, while
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Speaker 1: struggling at the moment, are teams that have proven to
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Speaker 1: be more competitive this year. National League is a heck
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Speaker 1: of a lot better than the American League. We know
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Speaker 1: that if the Mets win in the American League, sure yeah,
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Speaker 1: they'd have a better chance. But to secure a playoff
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Speaker 1: berth in the National League, you're probably going to need
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Speaker 1: to win ninety games, right, It's that good a league.
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Speaker 1: To get to ninety wins, the Mets have to go
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Speaker 1: seventy and forty six. That doesn't seem likely possible. You
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Speaker 1: can't rule out anything, but without Holmes, now, with their
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Speaker 1: rotation kind of still in this uncertain state, it seems
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Speaker 1: unlikely they're going seventy and forty six. So where are
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Speaker 1: we in the big picture? The thirty thousand foot few
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Speaker 1: with the Mets, of course, they have the second largest
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Speaker 1: payroll in the game at three hundred and seventy million.
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Speaker 1: Of course, their president of Baseball Operations, David Stearns, has
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Speaker 1: come under great scrutiny for this dramatic overhaul of the
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Speaker 1: roster that has been a talking point the entire offseason
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Speaker 1: and into the season. The one thing Stearns has admitted
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Speaker 1: so far that might have been a miscalculation on his
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Speaker 1: part was not putting enough stock in the injury risk
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Speaker 1: of some of the players he acquired, specifically Robert Junior
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Speaker 1: and Jorge Polanco, these guys have been hit or hurt.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry before and as I've often said, and it's
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Speaker 1: kind of a accepted premise in the game, past injuries
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Speaker 1: are the best predictor of future injuries. Now, Polanco was
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Speaker 1: healthy last season, but he's had some stuff over the years.
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Speaker 1: Luis Robert Junior never seems to be healthy. And when
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Speaker 1: you're bringing those players as replacements, not directly but indirectly
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Speaker 1: for players who are quite durable Pete Alonso, Brandon Nimo,
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Speaker 1: it looks all that much worse. So that is one problem,
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Speaker 1: another problem, and I wrote about this today at length
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Speaker 1: in The Athletic Bobachett. Bobachet was the Met's biggest acquisition
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Speaker 1: three years, one hundred and twenty six million on the
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Speaker 1: free agent market, with two opt outs in that deal.
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Speaker 1: And Bobaschet is struggling in innumerable ways, mostly offensively, actually
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Speaker 1: entirely offensively, defensively starting a third base then going back
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Speaker 1: to shortstop when Lindor and Maurisio were hurt. He actually
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Speaker 1: has been pretty good, but offensively, no, it hasn't happened
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Speaker 1: for him, and it's been shocking because the one thing
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Speaker 1: Bobaschett has always done in his career. The one thing
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Speaker 1: the Mets thought they could count on with Bashett was
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Speaker 1: the fact that he would hit. The dude always hits.
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Speaker 1: But this season it hasn't happened. And in the column
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Speaker 1: that I wrote today, I go into a number of
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Speaker 1: possible reasons for why he is struggling, and I discussed
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Speaker 1: each of them with Bashett, and one of them, obviously,
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Speaker 1: is trying to impress with the new team in the
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Speaker 1: biggest market in the country and the pressure that comes
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Speaker 1: with that. On top of that, there is pressure that
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Speaker 1: he is feeling trying to produce with so many players,
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Speaker 1: key players with the Mets who are injured on the
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Speaker 1: injured list. So you put that just as a starting
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Speaker 1: point with Bashett, that's the starting point. Then he is
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Speaker 1: one of the most unlucky hitters in the league. You
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Speaker 1: can look at the expected stats. You can look at
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Speaker 1: some stats from Sports Info Solutions that I refer to
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Speaker 1: in the story. He has had the most good fielding
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Speaker 1: plays as the Sports Info Solutions against him of any
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Speaker 1: player in the majors. Fourteen plays that they classify as
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Speaker 1: good fielding plays have gone against bobaschet So he's had
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Speaker 1: poor luck. Same time, there are some other things going
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Speaker 1: on with him, possibly mechanically, and then there is the
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Speaker 1: idea or the reality for him that he's had to
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Speaker 1: learn a new position then go back to his old position.
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Speaker 1: This is all part of the stew with Bobashett as well.
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Speaker 1: And finally there is the contract. And this is interesting
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Speaker 1: because of course he signed for the big money and
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Speaker 1: there is pressure that comes with that. And when guys
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Speaker 1: change teams free agents, change teams for big money, it
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Speaker 1: is not surprising when they struggle. It happens a lot.
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Speaker 1: It's happened to Kyle Tucker this year, It's happened to
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Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo this year. Hasn't happened with Kyle Schwarber and
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Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger, Why because they didn't change teams. Now, maybe
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Speaker 1: I'm oversimplifying, but generally speaking, there is an adjustment period
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Speaker 1: for players when they get the big money change teams.
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Speaker 1: That is certainly happening with Bishett, and he's doing it
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Speaker 1: in the biggest market of all New York. On top
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Speaker 1: of that, he has the opt outs in the contract
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Speaker 1: after year one and year two, so effectively he can
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Speaker 1: leave the Mets after one season re enter the free
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Speaker 1: agent market age twenty nine and in a weak free
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Speaker 1: agent market, maybe hit it even bigger than he did
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Speaker 1: this passed offseason. Well, I would bet that's in Bob
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Speaker 1: Baschet's head a little bit too. How can it not
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Speaker 1: be He is effectively in his free agent year again.
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Speaker 1: And while yes, no one's going to feel sorry for
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Speaker 1: him because he'll get a five million dollar buyout on
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Speaker 1: top of his forty seven million dollars a forty two
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Speaker 1: million dollars salary, a total of forty seven million if
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Speaker 1: he leaves the Mets after one year forty seven million
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Speaker 1: for one year, no one's gonna feel sorry for We
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Speaker 1: all know that no one's going to have sympathy for
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Speaker 1: this kind of quandary. But at the same time, might
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Speaker 1: this messing with his head? Yes, it might be messing
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Speaker 1: with his head and bishit As I close the column.
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Speaker 1: What he says is the thing that I'm thinking about
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Speaker 1: it to come? Yes? I expect Boguschett at some point
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Speaker 1: be the player or the team? I should say we
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Speaker 1: expected them to be. I can't say I expect that,
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Speaker 1: so it's not hopeless. It's certainly without Clay Holmes, a
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Speaker 1: much more difficult uphill battle. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: the Mets are going to be as they have been
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Speaker 1: virtually every year of their existence, a fascinating team to watch.
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Speaker 1: All right, time out for grilling Ken the part of
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Speaker 1: the show where I answer your questions. Let's get to it.
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Speaker 1: See Carrera nine to five to one. Will the Chicago
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Speaker 1: White Sox make the twenty six playoffs? Yes or no?
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Speaker 1: If you had to answer today, I'm still going to
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Speaker 1: say no, and I'm still going to say no because
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Speaker 1: I don't believe they're going to win the division. The
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Speaker 1: Guardian's offense looks like it might be real for the
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Speaker 1: first time in a while, and that's with Kwan and
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Speaker 1: Ramirez struggling. They've gotten some great work out of Angel
22:39
Speaker 1: Ramirez and some others as well. Angel Martinez I'm sorry,
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Speaker 1: and they're a team that they pitched so well. If
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Speaker 1: they get any kind of offense, they should be in
22:48
Speaker 1: really good shape. I also believe that the Tigers one
22:52
Speaker 1: schoolbol gets back once they're pitching gets a little bit
22:55
Speaker 1: more in order, are going to be in a good
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Speaker 1: place as well. They have not played well, but there's
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Speaker 1: still a very formidable team. And then you have the
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Speaker 1: Yankees and Rays in the East, you have the Mariners
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Speaker 1: in the West. Is it possible the White Sox could
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Speaker 1: slip in as a wildcard somewhere? Yes, they're going to
23:13
Speaker 1: need bullpen help. They're going to need to sustain what
23:17
Speaker 1: they've done so far. Maybe they can, and the league
23:20
Speaker 1: is so weak that maybe another injury or two here
23:23
Speaker 1: or there to other teams will enhance the White Sox
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Speaker 1: chances that much more. But as of now, sorry, I'm
23:31
Speaker 1: still not going to bet on them to make the playoffs.
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Speaker 1: All right. Next question, this comes from Video Game Nation
23:37
Speaker 1: twenty six. With the Red Sox having a very underwhelming
23:40
Speaker 1: season so far, when do you sell pieces off? Do
23:44
Speaker 1: you sell pieces now or at the beginning of July
23:46
Speaker 1: and hope you can get back into it. They're not
23:48
Speaker 1: going to give up yet, and they're not going to
23:50
Speaker 1: give up yet. For the reason I just stated, the
23:52
Speaker 1: American League is weak, so I believe the Red Sox
23:56
Speaker 1: this morning are only three three and a half games
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Speaker 1: out of the wildcard rate. So at that point you're thinking,
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Speaker 1: all right, we get hot, we get our offense going,
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Speaker 1: maybe they will, maybe they won't. Certainly isn't going right now,
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Speaker 1: then we have a chance they certainly pitch well enough
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Speaker 1: now come July. If it's not looking great, then you
24:16
Speaker 1: do sell pieces off, but you don't give up yet.
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Speaker 1: And yes, a Roldis Chapman, when he was doing his
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Speaker 1: hugs the other night going into the bullpen, people thought,
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Speaker 1: here cover the Red Sox selling off pieces already. It
24:27
Speaker 1: didn't happen. It was a false hug watch. So the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox will remain intact, at least for the foreseeable future.
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Speaker 1: All right, I want to thank you everyone for watching
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