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Angels HEATER! Sam Blum on Kyren Paris fever, Logan O’Hoppe’s breakout + Bobby Jenks <3 · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: You know, I think if they're able to stay really healthy,
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  Speaker 1: that will at the very least put them in position
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  Speaker 1: to maybe compute this season or be in better position
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  Speaker 1: than they were last year. But when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: that depth, that's where the biggest question mark is.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go, Sam Blumba joining us right now.
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  Speaker 3: I never forgot what Sam, because we had to talk
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  Speaker 3: the other day about Bobby Jenks and I've I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I forgot what Sam looked like.
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  Speaker 5: So, oh good, is how's it going?
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  Speaker 3: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: What's up?
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  Speaker 2: Heanks?
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  Speaker 6: Damn, let's talk, angels. Are you buying this? What do
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  Speaker 6: you think so far? What's going right?
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  Speaker 1: It's tough because, like I think, I've seen this before
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  Speaker 1: to some extent. I mean, I look back to twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, they started twenty seven to seventeen. Even last
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  Speaker 1: year they were I think, you know, pretty good in
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  Speaker 1: the first couple of weeks. So I think there are
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  Speaker 1: elements of this that are sustainable. Like, you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think some of the growth from the younger players is legitimate.
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  Speaker 1: Logan o Hoppy Karen Paris. What he's doing and I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure you guys will ask about him is absurd, you know.
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  Speaker 1: So I think that that improved and obviously Paris probably
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  Speaker 1: won't hit four hundred. But you know, if there's parts
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  Speaker 1: of this team that I think are real, I like
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  Speaker 1: Jose Soriano is pitching right now, Jack o'hanowitz, Yusa Kikuchi, Mean,
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  Speaker 1: these guys look like they can maybe be the anchors
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  Speaker 1: in a rotation.
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  Speaker 5: But again, you know, it's it's so early.
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  Speaker 1: I think that there's elements of the Angels organization and
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  Speaker 1: the way they have operated that that haven't necessarily changed,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, those are the reasons why they've not.
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  Speaker 5: Really succeeded over the years.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, when you get to the point where
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  Speaker 1: you know you need to reach into the depths of
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  Speaker 1: your organization when you you know, when you sustain a
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  Speaker 1: losing streak, like, how do you respond to that?
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  Speaker 5: I think there are there are parts of this that,
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  Speaker 5: you know, the jury.
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  Speaker 1: Is still very much out ten to eleven games into
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  Speaker 1: the season, but it's it's optimistic I think, based on
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  Speaker 1: maybe what the expectations were just a couple of weeks ago.
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  Speaker 7: But didn't Perim and Asian come on our show and say, oh,
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  Speaker 7: we're building this team for more slug What do they
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  Speaker 7: have in the first week and a half two weeks
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  Speaker 7: of the season more slug. So isn't this a perfection
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  Speaker 7: of what Paramanagian was was trying to build that they
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  Speaker 7: didn't have last year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely think the first like eleven games has
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  Speaker 1: been could not have drawn up any better for them,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they they and it's not just slug. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I don't think anyone thought Kiren Parris put a five
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  Speaker 1: home runs and in you know what like eight games.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I think the idea was when
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  Speaker 1: you when they brought in Horace Hilaire, I mean, you'd
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  Speaker 1: have like a legitimate middle of the order bat. It's
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  Speaker 1: also interesting that Mike Traut's like hitting what one seventy
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  Speaker 1: eighty right now and they're still doing this, so if
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  Speaker 1: he ever gets hot, you know, when he gets hot,
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  Speaker 1: like that will be you know, an added boost. Same
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  Speaker 1: same as getting Zach nettoback, which I think they were
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  Speaker 1: hoping to have happened at the end of the month.
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  Speaker 1: So you know, there's a reinforcements potentially even coming along.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean this is kind of exactly as
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  Speaker 1: they drew it up. I just want to see it
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  Speaker 1: over a longer period of time. But this is, like
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  Speaker 1: I said, it's an optimistic outlook, you know, a week
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  Speaker 1: and a half in.
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  Speaker 4: Sam, I'm ass this because they're playing in Steinbrennerfield. Is
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  Speaker 4: this the product of Steinbrenner Field?
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  Speaker 3: Because the I mean Ward hit a home run to
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  Speaker 3: right field today that probably wasn't a homer anywhere except
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  Speaker 3: for Yankee Stadium and steinbinner Field. All their home runs
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  Speaker 3: seem to be going to right field. We need to
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  Speaker 3: wait because the last four games they've hit a ton
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  Speaker 3: of home run or three games in four counting today
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  Speaker 3: they've hit a ton of home runs in Steinberfield. Do
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  Speaker 3: we need to wait until they get back to Annaeim
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  Speaker 3: when the green layer comes in and they're trying to
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  Speaker 3: hit you know, the balls off the rocks out there
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  Speaker 3: and left center and see what if this team really
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  Speaker 3: has this power? Or is this a product of where
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  Speaker 3: they played and who they played?
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  Speaker 8: Well?
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  Speaker 5: Probably a little.
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  Speaker 1: I mean I think the game, the home runs this
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  Speaker 1: week have been I mean, I think that ballpark is
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  Speaker 1: going to be ridiculous all summer. I mean, just from
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  Speaker 1: watching the last three days, it's you know, everything, especially
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  Speaker 1: at the right field. I think there were like six
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  Speaker 1: home runs yesterday if I'm not mistaken, Like all went
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  Speaker 1: to right field and two of them were like less
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  Speaker 1: than three hundred and thirty feet, So yeah, that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be an interesting ballpark. I think big picture that that's
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  Speaker 1: not necessarily you know, they were hitting home runs over
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  Speaker 1: the weekend against Cleveland, you know, quite in a lot
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  Speaker 1: of in high numbers. So are they gonna be the
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  Speaker 1: best power team ever?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about such a small sample size that it's
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to know.
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  Speaker 8: Exactly what what you get.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the Angels I think have a negative run
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  Speaker 1: differential on the season, so it's you know, there's certain
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  Speaker 1: things that look really good.
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  Speaker 8: There are certain things you've got to wait to see.
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  Speaker 1: But as far as the home runs, I do think
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  Speaker 1: the lineup has more pop. But yeah, playing in starnbenter
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  Speaker 1: Field for every team this year is going to be
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  Speaker 1: a boost. That's that's my takeaway from watching from just
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  Speaker 1: a few days, especially when when it gets to the
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  Speaker 1: summer months and you know, you're you're talking about a
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  Speaker 1: lot of humidity and the ball traveling maybe more than
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  Speaker 1: a would a Yankee stadium under the same dimensions.
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  Speaker 7: What about that depth? You said the depth, and we
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  Speaker 7: know all their depth is in the big leagues. Do
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  Speaker 7: they have anybody when those injuries start to come up?
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  Speaker 7: Because they have a draft pick from last year. Ryan
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  Speaker 7: Johnson's in the big leagues was drafted last year. So
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  Speaker 7: where's that depth gonna come from?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's gonna be the biggest question because, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I mean the last couple of years, the Angels have
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  Speaker 1: used sixty six players each of the you know, the
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  Speaker 1: last two seasons. You know this is that that's where
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  Speaker 1: it always kind of falls apart for them, and so,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I think if they're able to stay really healthy,
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  Speaker 1: that will at the very least put them in position
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  Speaker 1: to maybe compete this season or be in better position
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  Speaker 1: than they were last year. But when it comes to
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  Speaker 1: that depth, that's where the biggest question mark is. Today
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  Speaker 1: they called up J. D. Davis because Jan Moncatta went
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  Speaker 1: on the il. You know, not the Moncatta was lighting
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  Speaker 1: the world on fire. But you know, now you're now
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  Speaker 1: you're kind of testing that this is you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: that first guy, you know, first guy up at least
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  Speaker 1: of the position player corps, and you got to see
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  Speaker 1: what you have.
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  Speaker 8: I mean J. D.
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  Speaker 1: Davis really wasn't a very good big league player last year,
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  Speaker 1: really wasn't very good in spring. So you know, is
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  Speaker 1: is he going to come in and you know, be
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  Speaker 1: maybe what he was two or three years ago, or
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  Speaker 1: is he going to be you know, the player that
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  Speaker 1: maybe gotten used to seeing more recently. So it's I
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  Speaker 1: think those are the That's that's what it is. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: like in the minor leagues, they don't I don't think
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  Speaker 1: they really have tons of options, tons of big lea
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  Speaker 1: gretty options, especially in the outfield.
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  Speaker 5: That's going to be an issue.
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  Speaker 1: You know, so they got to keep guys healthy and uh,
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  Speaker 1: if they're able to do that, I think they'll be
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  Speaker 1: in position to at least compete. But you know, if
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  Speaker 1: they don't, I would be hard pressed to see it
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  Speaker 1: really paying off because it's unless you got a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Kien paris Is who just kind of come out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere to be the best player in baseball. Like
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  Speaker 1: it's it's gonna be, It's gonna be tough.
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  Speaker 3: By the way, I can't believe Moncado's on the al
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  Speaker 3: No way. I mean, as a White Sox fan, I
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  Speaker 3: never saw that one coming. Yeah, just saying Tim Anderson's.
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  Speaker 4: Doing all right. Defensively. Defensively, he's doing all right. Not
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  Speaker 4: on offense, but defensively, he's doing fine.
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  Speaker 3: Look at that sweet spot, Scott, it is worn out.
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  Speaker 3: That is right in the sweet spot right there. So
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  Speaker 3: I went and got it. New clubs today, new irons,
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  Speaker 4: You mentioned Kyron Paris. Did anybody see this coming?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, Logan, Ohabby, Okay, I can understand because he's
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  Speaker 3: had a little bit of a track record, he had
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  Speaker 3: some success, but Paris really hasn't. And then all of
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  Speaker 3: a sudden, he seems like every time he steps into
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  Speaker 3: the plate, he's a home run threat. Did anybody in
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  Speaker 3: the Angels organization see this coming?
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  Speaker 5: I don't.
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  Speaker 8: I mean listen. I mean, he's been a prospect.
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  Speaker 1: He's been in the big leagues a couple of times,
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  Speaker 1: but like last year at Double A he had ninety one.
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  Speaker 1: I think like he was really just and that's it's
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  Speaker 1: a credit to him because I think he recognized, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can maybe be a guy that comes up and
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  Speaker 1: down and plays some big league games every year, but
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  Speaker 1: am I going to be a legit him a big
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  Speaker 1: leaguer with the way that I go about things now.
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  Speaker 1: And I think he realized that the answer to that
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  Speaker 1: was no, and so he went and you know, sought out.
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  Speaker 1: You know, Aaron Judge's hitting coach was an interesting guy
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  Speaker 1: if you look him up on on Twitter. But he yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he basically revamped his entire approach and it's
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  Speaker 1: it paid off for him, like immediately. And I think
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  Speaker 1: he started seeing that in spring training. I mean, he
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  Speaker 1: was not expected to make the big league roster. They
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  Speaker 1: cut Mickey Moniac to get him on the big league roster,
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  Speaker 1: and then even when the season started, he was not
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  Speaker 1: an everyday player.
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  Speaker 8: You know.
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  Speaker 1: Ron Washington was like booed heavily before the season opener
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  Speaker 1: at like a you know kind of like they do
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  Speaker 1: a red carpet event and he was getting interviewed and
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  Speaker 1: they asked if he was if Karen Parris is in
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  Speaker 1: the lineup? Washed the no, and he got booed. And
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  Speaker 1: it's just like the fans are picking up on this.
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  Speaker 1: I think the organization is slowly starting to realize, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: we got to play this guy like every single game.
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  Speaker 1: He's just worked his way into this position. So I
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  Speaker 1: to answer your question, No, I don't think anybody really
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  Speaker 1: saw this coming, but they're certainly willing to capitalize on it.
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  Speaker 4: Now, Okay, let's go to another great story.
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  Speaker 3: And I'd love to hear stories like that where guys
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  Speaker 3: go to work, make changes and become become what they
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  Speaker 3: can become.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's awesome. No hard work pays off.
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  Speaker 3: Hard working guy, Kenley Jansen, I said yesterday he's a
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  Speaker 3: Hall of Famer. Do you think you and your writer
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  Speaker 3: friends will vote him into.
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  Speaker 4: The Hall of Fame?
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  Speaker 1: Man? You know, I've I don't have a vote from
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  Speaker 1: their I guess my vote probably will come up right
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  Speaker 1: when Janson's eligible. I mean, although he could still be
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  Speaker 1: pitching for a couple of years, I know he's chasing
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  Speaker 1: five hundred. Yeah, I mean it's tough to answer that
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  Speaker 1: without like really being someone that studies, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: the criteria. But I mean if he's like, you know,
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  Speaker 1: gonna finish third all time and career saves, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that's yeah, I don't see why.
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  Speaker 8: To me, it seems like a showin'.
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  Speaker 1: But again, I haven't really studied all the advanced numbers
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  Speaker 1: behind it. And you know, maybe that's something I'll get
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  Speaker 1: to do in five years, but or six years or
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  Speaker 1: whatever long it is.
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  Speaker 8: But yeah, what he's.
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  Speaker 1: Doing, and I think it's cool that he's doing it
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  Speaker 1: back in southern California. You know, he's he seems to
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  Speaker 1: really be, you know, vibing with this team. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: the way he got his save, his forageer fiftieth the
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  Speaker 1: other night with stranding a runner at third with zero
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  Speaker 1: outs in a one run game, I think was really cool.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, it's just it's been a really good
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  Speaker 1: start for him and and you know, we'll see if
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  Speaker 1: he's able to get if he's able to get five
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  Speaker 1: hundred this year, they will have had a very good season.
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  Speaker 3: If he's fifty more saves this year, the Angels have
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  Speaker 3: had an incredible zeon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, seriously.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking we're talking about Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We're talking about definitely a playoff team, I don't know,
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  Speaker 3: the world serious team.
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: Definitely, we'll get to see Mike Tron the playoffs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it was good move. It was good move.
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  Speaker 2: In the off season.
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  Speaker 3: I questioned it too, because I didn't know what they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna do with Ben Joyce. But Ben Joyce has been
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  Speaker 3: a weapon for him in in you know, the seventh
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  Speaker 3: in the eight to get to Kenley.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, is he okay? By the way, a few
• 10:40
  Speaker 2: ticks down the other day?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I'm just not in Tampa to Houston tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but from what I've read from reporters there, Blue Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Fletcher said that it wasn't it wasn't a serious injury
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  Speaker 1: or anything.
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  Speaker 8: He just wasn't hitting his spots.
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  Speaker 1: I mean again, his villa was down, So you know,
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  Speaker 1: that's that would be concerning to me, to be honest
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  Speaker 1: with you. But uh, you know, we'll see the next
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  Speaker 1: time he comes out and how that looks. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: with Ben Joy's big picture, you know, he's talked so
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  Speaker 1: much about wanting to throw like one hundred and seven
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eight, like it's legitimate.
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  Speaker 8: Goal for him to to reach those Velo numbers.
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  Speaker 1: And my my thing, and I'm not a scientist, an expert,
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  Speaker 1: a pitching guy, but like that just seems like a
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  Speaker 1: silly kind of He's he's so effective at one on one, one,
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  Speaker 1: o two, but really with the sinker, that's the most
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  Speaker 1: effective pitch for him. I don't, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 1: I don't necessarily see the value in him, like really,
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  Speaker 1: you know, rearing back and trying to throw one oh seven,
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  Speaker 1: especially with his injury history. So you know, if he
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  Speaker 1: can kind of stay in that one oh one range,
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  Speaker 1: which is really where he kind of sits, to be
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  Speaker 1: honest with you, then that's a that's quite good for him.
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  Speaker 6: Imagine sitting down with Ben Joyce like, Hey, we're just
• 11:42
  Speaker 6: gonna need you to stay around that one oh one range.
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  Speaker 2: Let's not push.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, if you told me, I'd be like, that's a
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  Speaker 6: fake movie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 6: Next up, I wanted to ask you about Logan o'
• 11:55
  Speaker 6: hoppy off to a hot start with the Bat and
• 11:58
  Speaker 6: he comes on the show pretty frequently. Something that stood
• 12:01
  Speaker 6: out was a conversation he said he had with Travis Darnaut,
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  Speaker 6: who told him that he should be himself more and
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  Speaker 6: just have fun. Have you seen that from him? You know,
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  Speaker 6: we tried to get into it more with him and
• 12:13
  Speaker 6: he kind of gave us a TBD, like, let me
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  Speaker 6: see how I let my emotions out a little bit differently.
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  Speaker 6: But it was it was about trying to not be
• 12:23
  Speaker 6: a certain way because everyone else wants you to be,
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  Speaker 6: you know, buttoned up and serious.
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: Like if you're goofy, be goofy. If you're super emotional,
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: be super emotional.
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  Speaker 6: Have you seen any of that from him, and if not,
• 12:35
  Speaker 6: at least any impact that Travis is making there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's really well said,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, with with Logan, like you know, being
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  Speaker 1: around that team last year when they would lose, it
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  Speaker 1: was something that he took incredibly personally. And I think
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: that you know, sometimes you know, you see guys upset
• 12:53
  Speaker 1: after losses and it feels like, you know, that's just
• 12:54
  Speaker 1: kind of where you have to be because you lost.
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: I think with Logan it was something that really really
• 12:59
  Speaker 1: like it wasn't an act. It was like very legitimately
• 13:02
  Speaker 1: tough for him to kind of deal with a lot
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: of the failures of last season, not just with that team,
• 13:06
  Speaker 1: but he really struggled himself down the stretch in the
• 13:08
  Speaker 1: last two months, just wasn't wasn't a very good hitter.
• 13:11
  Speaker 1: And so I think, what what we've seen so far
• 13:13
  Speaker 1: this year, and I'll be curious to see kind of
• 13:15
  Speaker 1: how he responds to a slump and how he responds
• 13:17
  Speaker 1: to a losing streak in these things when there is adversity.
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: But I think to your point, like he's someone that
• 13:22
  Speaker 1: you know, he's talked about being very proactive about, you know,
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: working on himself being a little more neutral even when
• 13:27
  Speaker 1: they win, you know, even when things are good to
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: not like let that that emotion be too high or
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: too low. And you know, it sounds cliche, but I
• 13:34
  Speaker 1: do think there's a legitimate element to it, especially with him,
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: and especially kind of what I've seen from him last
• 13:39
  Speaker 1: year and the way he kind of handled that stuff
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: and I wrote all story about that, so you know,
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: he he's I think I think there's a lot of
• 13:45
  Speaker 1: maturity there. He's always been, you know, someone that came
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: across to me is incredibly mature. But you know, they're
• 13:50
  Speaker 1: looking at him to be the leader, you know, when
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: things when they lose. You know, he's the guy you
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: go to when they when they win, He's the guy
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: you go to in the in the clubhouse. I'm talking
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: about the beat writers. So you know, he's kind of
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: taken on that team leader role. And I think the
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: older he gets, and uh, you know that's going to
• 14:05
  Speaker 1: be something he does even more. And I honestly think
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: the angel should should look into, you know, an extension
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: for him. They haven't done that with any of the
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: young players, and you know, you're seeing it this year,
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: the way that the season started, like, there's a value
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: in keeping some of these guys long term. Other teams
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: are doing that, and I don't think the Angels will
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: be in a position to afford guys like Ohapi and
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: Netto or Sorryana when they hit free agency, if you know,
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: they don't start, you know, making that proactive effort to
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: you know, get a one or two extra years out
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: of you know. Maybe it's some sort of early extension.
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: I love it.
• 14:34
  Speaker 7: I love it.
• 14:34
  Speaker 4: I love Logan, the former catcher. Guess what.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: Guess Who's always the guy who stands there and answers
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: the question, usually the catcher. So because you have you
• 14:41
  Speaker 3: see everything, and everyone will usually your smartest and they
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: want to know what you have to say. So I
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: love that about Logan. I love he's taking the next step.
• 14:47
  Speaker 4: In his career.
• 14:48
  Speaker 3: Before I let you go, Sam, I mentioned that we
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: had talked on the phone. I don't know, have you
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: has the article that we talked about. Has that come
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: out yet?
• 14:54
  Speaker 8: It has not, not till not till ower the next one,
• 14:57
  Speaker 8: But okay.
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: So I don't want to dig too much into your story,
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: but we had a conversation about a former teammate of mine.
• 15:03
  Speaker 7: I lost.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: We lost Octavio Dotel recently. He was a former teammate
• 15:07
  Speaker 3: of mine. We have another teammate of mine who was
• 15:08
  Speaker 3: an Angels prospect, Bobby Jenks, who's battle and the cancer
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: right now. Any updates on the story, I know I've
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: you know, I've talked about a little bit on hearing
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: people out there.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: I don't know how many know the story.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: I don't want to ruin your story, but you know,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: we talked to he asked me for Bobby Janks stories
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: and and and what was going on and what I
• 15:25
  Speaker 3: thought of Bobby as a person. So I don't know, Sam,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: if you can get into it or not.
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: I mean, I would love for people to read the
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: story when it comes out next week. But you know,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: I would say that it's you know, I talked to
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: him on the phone. You know, it's I think, what
• 15:38
  Speaker 1: with the challenge is so great for his family right now,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: and you know, it's it's it's hard to like really
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: describe it when I'm just sitting here talking about about
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: him and about it, but I appreciated that he you know,
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: he gave me this time and he's he's you know,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: he's dealing with a really, really tough diagnosis. But one
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: of the reasons I asked to talk to him, and
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: the reason I wanted to do the story is, you know,
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I read some of his comments that he gives to
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: Scott Murkan a couple of months ago about just you know,
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: trying to stay positive through this, and it came through
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: in the way that he talked about it and his
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: belief I believe is genuine that he will battle this
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and you know, I know he's very, very motivated to
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: get back to Chicago in early July when you guys
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: have your twenty year reunion. I think that's you know,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: that's something that he made very clear to his doctors
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: from my understanding, and it's something that I think he's
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: he's incredibly incredibly motivated by.
• 16:27
  Speaker 5: So, you know, you know, there's there's.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Science, there's medicine, there's a lot of reasons that maybe
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: we'll prevent him from being able to do it, and
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: I think we can all just hope and pray that
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: he's you know, he's well enough and he's healthy enough
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: to be able to have that moment, because it would
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: be special, you know, not just for you and your teammates,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: not just for Bobby, but also for just like the
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: thousands and thousands of white Sox fans that really really
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: care about him. And that's something I've learned a lot
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: by reporting the story too, So and I appreciate your
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: time talking with me about it, and you know, hope
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: everyone reads it when it comes out next week.
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: I'll definitely read it. But I just want to say
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: thank you for doing that and bringing a light. And
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: then also, I mean, the thing about Bobby is that
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: if people that remember him, he was like a larger
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: than life figure. So then to have him be the
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: one that has going through this, it seems like it's
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: not real, right because he was such a big guy.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: You know, he's like three hundred pounds and just this
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: barrel chest to do that would walk out there with
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: the long go.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Tea and the whole deal.
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: That's why I think I think for a lot of people,
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: it's hard for them to look at.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: And say, man, how does Bobby Jenks be the one
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: that gets this? You know?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: And so to hear that he's being so positive and
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: being handling it as well as you could, because I
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: don't know how I would personally handle it. If a
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: doctor Ken to me and said, yeah, you have the
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: cancer and it's not a great diagnosis, so how do
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: you go? But I mean, I know, talking to him,
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: texting with him, he's very positive about it.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: We'll see.
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: So prayers to Bobby obviously, and obviously I'll read your
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: story when it comes out.
• 17:42
  Speaker 8: Yeah, no, thank you.
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: And his family's been amazing and I appreciate you know,
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: them kind of letting me in because it's you know,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: we didn't know each other or anything like that, so
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: it's it's been a process, but it's been, you know,
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I think, a very positive one to get to know them,
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: and you know, what they're doing is really heroic too,
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: So yeah, no, and you're right, it's hard to imagine,
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, there's really no other words.
• 18:04
  Speaker 6: Yeah, those are the important ones that we want to read.
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: So obviously, you know, credit to your bosses for len
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: you put that together. As you're covering the angels too,
• 18:13
  Speaker 6: I know you don't just do Angels coverage has been
• 18:16
  Speaker 6: a few good ones. Actually, I encourage everyone to read
• 18:18
  Speaker 6: the latest that you were a part of with the
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: title inflation going on in baseball. But anyway, the Bobby
• 18:24
  Speaker 6: jank story is important. Yeah, and we're thinking about him
• 18:27
  Speaker 6: and his family. Sam, thanks for joining us. We'll catch
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: you again soon, of course.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 18:31
  Speaker 8: Thanks for having me, guys,