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Cubs-Dodgers in Tokyo, Fantasy baseball preview, Royce Lewis hurt, Devers pondered trade request? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I think this is a good move for Joe y'all.
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  Speaker 1: If he's done hitting with his hittings are and if
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  Speaker 1: you got an armed to go be a pitcher, why
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  Speaker 1: not try it out. I would if I would have
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  Speaker 1: done it, but I'm glad I could hit because I
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  Speaker 1: would have hated it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Charge about.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's charge the damn mound and talk about
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  Speaker 2: real regular season baseball games that count. The Tokyo Series
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  Speaker 2: is coming up. Let's preview it right now. Okay, I
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  Speaker 2: am very excited for this. AJ You're gonna lead us
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  Speaker 2: off because you are calling these games, So tell us
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  Speaker 2: what we need to know about both games. But really,
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  Speaker 2: let's start with Yamamoto on the mound for the defending
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  Speaker 2: champion World Series, defending champion Dodgers going up against Showa Immenaga.
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  Speaker 1: What do you want to know. Mokie Benz is out.
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  Speaker 1: Rookie Benz is sick. He got that sicky sick, so
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  Speaker 1: he's out. So that's a big blow. Start with that.
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  Speaker 1: But also I think people most people don't realize im
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  Speaker 1: monogavers Yamamoto, two Japanese born pitchers starting for the first
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  Speaker 1: time on opening day and then starting in Japan it's
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  Speaker 1: an incredible story. It's going to be an incredible moment,
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  Speaker 1: and I think people shouldn't sleep on what a historic
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  Speaker 1: moment this is for baseball. Everyone says, hey, we want
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  Speaker 1: to grow this game globally. Guess what this morning or
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  Speaker 1: tomorrow night, or whatever you want to call it, wherever
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  Speaker 1: you're based, it's going to be a historic moment for
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  Speaker 1: Major League baseball and especially Japanese born players. Think about
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  Speaker 1: the size of the Japanese influence with started kind of
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  Speaker 1: with each Row. I know there were some others before him,
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  Speaker 1: but each Row is the first star. And now you
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  Speaker 1: look at what show Hay brings every day. Then you
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  Speaker 1: look at him Monaga, what he did, Yomoto, Broki Sazaki's
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  Speaker 1: pitching tomorrow, say a Suzuki. I mean, listen, there's five
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  Speaker 1: legit major league players in this game that mean a
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  Speaker 1: lot to their team. And if Japanese fans are going
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  Speaker 1: to show out, it's going to be a show.
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  Speaker 2: You said show a lot of times, Cam, So while
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  Speaker 2: you talk about this game, we can show.
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  Speaker 1: That because show's going to go deep. You can book it.
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  Speaker 1: Show Hay is going to go deep because what he.
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  Speaker 3: Does my house on it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm with AJ going deep. For sure, he has a
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  Speaker 4: flare from the dramatic. But to add to AJ's point two,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I think what gets overshadowed at time is
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  Speaker 4: how good in Monaga was last year.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he was dominant, he was a star for
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: And what he's able to do, Like you said those
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  Speaker 4: two starting opening day, this is what we wanted our game.
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  Speaker 3: Want to grow our game, and it's growing in a
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  Speaker 3: fast way, and this is just the beginning.
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  Speaker 4: What AJ said, there's more dominant players continue to come
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  Speaker 4: over and show their dominance in our league.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's fun to watch.
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  Speaker 2: It was a good quote from Will Smith. He was like,
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  Speaker 2: now I'm surprised that it took two abs for Otany
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  Speaker 2: to Homer. You know, they were playing exhibition games against
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  Speaker 2: your Muri Giants. But in all seriousness, AJ, on the
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  Speaker 2: strategy side, this is a real game. The Cubs might
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  Speaker 2: make or miss the playoffs by a game or two
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  Speaker 2: they need to win. Okay, are you avoiding show Hey
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  Speaker 2: based on who he is and where he is? Not
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  Speaker 2: completely avoiding him? But isn't he the guy you're circling
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  Speaker 2: and being very careful against, because already he is a
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  Speaker 2: tip whatever three hitter on the planet. Dude, he's going,
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  Speaker 2: like you guys said, he's going to go off in
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  Speaker 2: this game if you give him pitches to hit. So
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  Speaker 2: that's not my problem. If I'm Craig Council in the cups.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I just got to look at the lineup construction
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  Speaker 1: and see who's hitting bind him, and he's Freddie hitting
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  Speaker 1: behind him? Who's going to hit behind him? I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: they ain't like the Dodgers go out. Yeah, but do
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  Speaker 1: they bounce Tajo? Do they bounce excuse me? Do they
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  Speaker 1: bounced Taale there? Do they put Will Smith there? Do
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  Speaker 1: they put Freddie behind? Show?
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  Speaker 5: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: Do they who do they put there? Do they put
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  Speaker 1: a you know, I don't know who they're going to
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  Speaker 1: put there. That's the key for me. Yeah, So am I careful, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: one hundred percent. But at the same time, listen, em
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  Speaker 1: Andague is going to say, hey, I can punch this
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  Speaker 1: dude out with my high fastball combo that I have
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  Speaker 1: with my slider. He's done it before, so I think
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  Speaker 1: Shoda is going to go after him, but he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be careful in a big situation. Also, let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget you know, you can't always early in these years.
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  Speaker 1: You can't say, all right, well the starter's going to
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  Speaker 1: go five, six, seven innings because they're not built up
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  Speaker 1: that much. So in a big game like this, especially
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  Speaker 1: look for this starting pitchers early in the year, they
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  Speaker 1: lose their stamina, especially their first one or two starts,
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  Speaker 1: because they're adrenaline is just rushing. Imagine Emmenagua pitching back
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  Speaker 1: in Japan, Yamamoto pitching back in Japan. In these games,
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  Speaker 1: their adrenaline is going to be through the roof. So
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times they have a little bit of
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  Speaker 1: a crash, So they might go an inning or two
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  Speaker 1: really great, that adrenaline comes back down to normal. There's
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  Speaker 1: usually a little bit of a crash. That's when they
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  Speaker 1: give up some runs. So there used to be an
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  Speaker 1: old saying that we used to have. We love Mark
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  Speaker 1: Burley on opening Day, Why because everybody wants to get
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  Speaker 1: off to a fast star hit homers, hit homers. Early's
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  Speaker 1: going eighty two, eighty four, right, rollover, rollover, rollover. The
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  Speaker 1: slower the guy throws an opening day usually the better
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  Speaker 1: they are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember last year Yamamoto in South Korea was
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  Speaker 2: well frazzled. It was also his major league debut, but
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  Speaker 2: just all things to keep in mind and rested bullpens
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  Speaker 2: obviously both ways, like, you don't have to worry after
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  Speaker 2: these two games. You get some time off before they
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  Speaker 2: play regular season games again. They get a week and change,
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  Speaker 2: so a lot more we'll do with the two Okio series.
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  Speaker 2: And lastly, yeah, Mookie Bets apparently lost about fifteen pounds.
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  Speaker 2: They're worried that he could get hurt by rushing back
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  Speaker 2: too quickly, so he's been pretty sick. He might even
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  Speaker 2: fly home and not be there for the games. Spreading rumors. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's continue the Raphael Devers saga. It's been going
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  Speaker 2: on all off season, so the off seat or the
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  Speaker 2: spring training, sorry off spring training. Spring training started with
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  Speaker 2: Devers saying no, I'm not moving off third. Then we
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  Speaker 2: just recently had him say that he would do what
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  Speaker 2: the team wants him to do. In between that, we
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  Speaker 2: did get this little rumor out there that he even
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  Speaker 2: thought about asking for a trade. And then Lumer Looney
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  Speaker 2: wanted to clarify things, but he said, I didn't say
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  Speaker 2: Devers was over it. Yes, he's pissed he lost his job.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying he considered to ask for a trade, and
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  Speaker 2: that's getting blown out of proportion. Soon the headline will
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  Speaker 2: be Devers asks for trade. It's come the way people
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  Speaker 2: are talking about it now. In fairness, once you throw
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  Speaker 2: even an iota of a thought in your brain ham
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  Speaker 2: of a player thinking about moving on, I think the
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  Speaker 2: general public and fans of sports have the right to
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  Speaker 2: be like, WHOA, this is big, even if he didn't
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  Speaker 2: formally send a request in if it's true that he
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  Speaker 2: even thought about leaving Boston. Because of this, we are
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  Speaker 2: allowed to talk about this topic. Don't act like, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're blowing this up. Like to me, it was a
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  Speaker 2: level of pissed off that I think is worth scrutinizing
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  Speaker 2: and dissecting.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it was a level of pissed off,
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  Speaker 4: a level of I think, an element of surprise, so
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  Speaker 4: to speak. I think even when we looked at this move, right,
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  Speaker 4: where was Alex Regman going to sign? It almost struck
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  Speaker 4: me as if, regardless of if it was Boston or
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  Speaker 4: not roth Field, Devers was kind of taken back from it.
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  Speaker 4: Right if he does come here all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 4: now I'm a first base DH or I'm losing playing
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  Speaker 4: time at a spot that I've played my whole entire life.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's it's definitely a conversation, right, because
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day too, if your front
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  Speaker 4: office also what you don't want to happening is Rafael
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  Speaker 4: never is showing up, you know, in spite or pissed
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  Speaker 4: off or showing up this gruntle, right, because.
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  Speaker 3: That affects your clubhouse also too, Right.
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  Speaker 4: The chemistry, the energy that you you bring into that building, it.
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  Speaker 3: Rubs off on people.
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  Speaker 4: You know, I had a coach tell me one time,
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  Speaker 4: Alonzo Powell, you tell me when I was just saying,
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  Speaker 4: they go, hey, man, I don't care how.
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  Speaker 3: You feel in that day. You're a guy that you
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  Speaker 3: affect other people in that clubhouse.
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  Speaker 4: So if you're in a pissy mood, if you're in
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  Speaker 4: a crappy mood, you may affect two or three people
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  Speaker 4: that we need to win that day. So you you know,
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  Speaker 4: this is a conversation that has to be had. Like
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  Speaker 4: you said, even if it was a thought in his
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  Speaker 4: mind that you know, I don't want to be here,
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  Speaker 4: this is what they're going to me. It's a conversation
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  Speaker 4: and it creates an atmosphere that you definitely want to
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  Speaker 4: get ahead of you're the Boston Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: My problem is Liver Maloney in this situation. What is
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  Speaker 1: m He came out and said he was mad. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I get it, but you know, Lou's like, oh, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't say, you know, I considered you know, whatever he said.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't say it was this or that. But I
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  Speaker 1: mean Devers came out was mad. He admitted it. I
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  Speaker 1: mean he was. He said what he said because he
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  Speaker 1: was mad about the way he was handled. I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why lum Malone's trying to like speak
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  Speaker 1: for Raffie Devers. Let's like, let's let Raffie Devers speak
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  Speaker 1: for himself here. And he did, and now he's changed
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  Speaker 1: his tune and said listen, I'll do whatever I need
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  Speaker 1: to do to help the team win. So I just
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  Speaker 1: this is this seems like it's like lum Maroloni. I
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  Speaker 2: All right, here we are. Paul Skeins is starting Opening Day.
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  Speaker 2: And did you guys see the video? They kind of
• 9:57
  Speaker 2: did it as if he was getting called up to
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  Speaker 2: the sh show, bringing him in, sitting them down at
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  Speaker 2: the desk, the whole deal, which is great, But it
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  Speaker 2: was the news that we all could have told you
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  Speaker 2: as long as he was healthy. What September of twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four, we could have said, hey.
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  Speaker 1: Day when he was draft wrote this right exactly in
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. Yeah, he's going to start an opening day.
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  Speaker 2: We have the clip, let's show it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean the cool thing is, you know he sent
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  Speaker 6: me a text when the video came out today and
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  Speaker 6: he said, you know, it's gonna be tough next year
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  Speaker 6: when you're when you're starting day two. So that's that's
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  Speaker 6: what we need. That's what we have with Jared and
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  Speaker 6: Mitch and you know, Bailey and Heen.
• 10:43
  Speaker 2: And that was him talking to some local Pittsburgh media
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  Speaker 2: about Bubba Chandler texting him that I'm next there. It
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  Speaker 2: is a serious confidence boost for the rotation with another
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  Speaker 2: big dude coming, and obviously they'll need it because they
• 10:57
  Speaker 2: didn't really participate in the off season. But yeah, you
• 11:00
  Speaker 2: had some jokes on social scam with people being like,
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  Speaker 2: you know that that's like telling Lebron, hey, you're in
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  Speaker 2: the starting lineup tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I guess, right, Pittsburgh trying to create some
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  Speaker 4: type of.
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  Speaker 3: Energy around camp, right.
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  Speaker 4: I think a lot of Pittsburgh fans, honestly, probably a
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  Speaker 4: little disappointed in the.
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  Speaker 3: Lack of moves this year.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's just one of those things you're
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  Speaker 4: trying to create a storyline that we already know was
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  Speaker 4: going to happen. I mean, if you didn't have Paul skin,
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  Speaker 4: if you didn't have Paul Skins open, you know, the
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  Speaker 4: season up, who.
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  Speaker 3: Would that be?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the headlines will be ridiculous, right talking about
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  Speaker 4: why would you not? So, I don't know, it's really
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  Speaker 4: not much to talk about. Like you said, it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of the writing has been on the wall for years.
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  Speaker 4: We know that at this point Paul Skins is one
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  Speaker 4: of the best arms in our league. Hell, at this point,
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  Speaker 4: he might you know, take that role as the best
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  Speaker 4: picture in the game. He has that type of stuff.
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  Speaker 4: So Tom will tail. But we all we all knew
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  Speaker 4: what was gonna happen. When you talk about who's the
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  Speaker 4: opening day starter for the Pittsburgh Pirates, it could only
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  Speaker 4: be one guy.
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  Speaker 2: Only would have been funny and viral if they brought
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  Speaker 2: him in and they were like, so you didn't learn
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  Speaker 2: to kick change this off season, We're going with Jared Jones.
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  Speaker 1: That would have been great and pranked the crap out
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  Speaker 1: of him.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would have been That would have been better.
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  Speaker 1: As we had Bubba Chandler on. We should have had
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  Speaker 1: They should have had Bubba in there in on it
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  Speaker 1: and been like, hey, Paul, sorry, we're giving it to him,
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  Speaker 1: and had Bubba Chandler. And then.
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: We've got Paul Sport joining us right now, fangrafts writer.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna cover some fantasy baseball, which we don't get
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  Speaker 2: to enough in my mind. And also he's the content
• 12:47
  Speaker 2: designer for Out of the Park Baseball game just released
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. We'll get to that as well. Paul. Great
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: to have you on and how was it for you
• 12:56
  Speaker 2: to put together your starting pitching rankings, specifically Fantasy baseball
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: wise this year, did you really feel like you had
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: to like tug and pull on a lot of decisions
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  Speaker 2: or felt like you were in a good spot?
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  Speaker 5: Gentleally, great to speak with you. I really appreciate y'all
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  Speaker 5: having me on. Yeah, I mean the pitching rankings. I
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  Speaker 5: could spend so much time on them. You know, they're
• 13:14
  Speaker 5: always like a snapshot. I really doing this process for
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  Speaker 5: the last several years. I kind of get how prospect
• 13:21
  Speaker 5: folks are, you know, because they always say, hey, this
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  Speaker 5: is a snapshot in time. It can change if you
• 13:26
  Speaker 5: asked me an hour later, I might feel differently, not
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  Speaker 5: because the guy's pitch, but because you see a little
• 13:31
  Speaker 5: bit more data on things, and things move, And then
• 13:34
  Speaker 5: of course we start spring and all the injuries start coming.
• 13:37
  Speaker 5: So I'm consistently updating them. So if you go to fangrabs,
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  Speaker 5: you'll see that there's been many updates. There'll be a
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  Speaker 5: few this week with two more big weekends of fantasy
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  Speaker 5: drafts coming. But I feel pretty good about where we're
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  Speaker 5: at as the pool is. But again, those small little
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  Speaker 5: changes that you can make. The top is secured though,
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  Speaker 5: and obviously I'm wearing my Tigers hat here because we
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  Speaker 5: know who the top guy is, Trek Scougble, but Paul
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  Speaker 5: Skeins is right there, and a Pauls with a great
• 14:02
  Speaker 5: mustache is somebody I'm gonna have some favoritism toward, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just by default there with being a Pauls myself with
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  Speaker 5: a mediocre mustache. And then of course Wheeler. Wheeler might
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  Speaker 5: actually be a bit underrated right now, because when you're
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  Speaker 5: looking at fantasy aces, you want somebody who's got that
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  Speaker 5: track record, and let's be honest, neither Schooble nor Skeens
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: has a lengthy track record. Schooble has done some things
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  Speaker 5: in the past to have some confidence in, but obviously
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  Speaker 5: Skeens is a sophomore. Meanwhile, Wheeler, while a bit older,
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  Speaker 5: has been doing it for a long time, so he's
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  Speaker 5: almost a bit underrated at this juncture. And then you
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: get back into the risky but high upside with Garrett
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  Speaker 5: Crochet and Jacob de Grom there for different reasons, young
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  Speaker 5: and old, but injury and lack of recent innings for
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  Speaker 5: de Grom and overall innings for Crochet. So it's a
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  Speaker 5: really interesting pool at the top this year, and I
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  Speaker 5: think it's had some people maybe pushing pitching down a
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  Speaker 5: little bit and going for hitters in those first few
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  Speaker 5: rounds and then starting to tackle the pitching.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna go back on you on
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: this because what you said at the end is the
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: most important thing. Help, right, Okay, Yes, kerk Scoobel was healthy.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: Paul Schames has never pitched thirty starts in a year,
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: so that's that worries me. But then Wheeler, yes, has
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: done it for years and years, including the postseason. My
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: problem is you get the crochet last year he was
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: so limited an innings it's it's hard for me to
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: want to And then to Grom, we don't know what
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: you're getting out of him. Then you have Sale, who
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: I love to death. But again one healthy year in
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: the last like five years. Right, So to me, Burns, Gilbert,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: Wheeler and scoobal or this should be the top four
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: if we're just counting on health, because he can't always
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: you know, we always say the best ability is availability.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: To me, this is obviously a everything goes right scenario.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: George Kirby's on that list. He's already injured, right so
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: to me, he got.
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Moved down though too I know that did get ranked
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: down a little bit for his current health.
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: So obviously this is everything goes perfectly, everyone stays healthy
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: and makes thirty starts less.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: Yeah, because you're a thousand percent right about best ability
• 16:01
  Speaker 5: is availability. The problem is is we're not super precise
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: in determining who's going to get hurt. To me, if
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: you're pitching, you're at severe risk of getting hurt. So
• 16:11
  Speaker 5: while Wheeler is safer, I don't think I think that's
• 16:15
  Speaker 5: a false sense of security there that he's going to
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: pitch a two hundred innings this year versus somebody even
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: like de Gram who hasn't reached over one hundred in
• 16:22
  Speaker 5: the last four or five seasons. Right, So I have
• 16:25
  Speaker 5: like a very small split between the safety there just
• 16:28
  Speaker 5: because pitching. That's just the way pitching is.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 16:30
  Speaker 5: We're seeing guys fall every day lately, So give me
• 16:33
  Speaker 5: the most talented guys and I will roll the dice
• 16:36
  Speaker 5: on injury.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I'm not unique there.
• 16:38
  Speaker 5: I'm not alone, but I am in the minority as
• 16:42
  Speaker 5: far as people who draft. I understand moving up Burns logan, Gilbert,
• 16:46
  Speaker 5: They've got the better track records. I just don't think
• 16:48
  Speaker 5: that that safety in the track record is super bankable
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: because if you're throwing pitches every five days, you are
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: a massive, massive injury risk. Regardless of how healthy you've
• 16:58
  Speaker 5: been in the past, it cannot be guaranteed for the future.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: So I'll take the best guys on a parenting basis
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: and kind of let the chips.
• 17:05
  Speaker 7: Fall where they may health wives, Paul, that was great
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: from a position player standpoint, boring, let's talk about Let's
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: talk position players.
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Does not talk pitchers anymore. Let's talk position players.
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: Who in your eyes, right, we saw Jackson Merrill really
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: outplay his adp more to the last year.
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: Who in this year's season is You're Jackson Merrill.
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Who's the guy, the young guy that we may not
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: be focused on, but you say this guy is going
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: to have a big year for fantasy baseball.
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: Well, I have a.
• 17:37
  Speaker 5: Hard time not gravitating toward O'Neal Cruz. You know he's
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: big in the fantasy community as well. You know you
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: have Ellie Da La Cruz and oneo Cruz. Ellie did it,
• 17:46
  Speaker 5: so he's up there, He's in the first round. Onneo
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: Cruz is still a pretty expensive guy. He goes in
• 17:51
  Speaker 5: the top four or five rounds. But we haven't fully
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: seen it yet. Twenty twenty season move to center field,
• 17:56
  Speaker 5: has all the skills in the world. He's a huge
• 17:59
  Speaker 5: expector right that Pittsburgh team. I really think they should
• 18:01
  Speaker 5: have gone out and gotten at least another bat or
• 18:03
  Speaker 5: two to really help themselves. But O'Neil Cruz could be
• 18:06
  Speaker 5: that game changer. If he goes thirty thirty this year,
• 18:09
  Speaker 5: watch out, things could go absolutely crazy. And then a
• 18:11
  Speaker 5: couple guys who have not debuted yet that I've got
• 18:13
  Speaker 5: my eyes on, Matt Shaw for the Cubs and Cam
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Smith for the Astros, two guys who were just drafted
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: but have zipped up the rankings and zipped through the organizations,
• 18:23
  Speaker 5: and they're gonna break camp for both their teams. Shaw
• 18:25
  Speaker 5: already did, he went, you know, he went, played to
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: Tokyo there and is going to play in the Tokyo
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: Games this week. Cam Smith is right there on the CUSP,
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: but it's looking like he's gonna break camp for the Astros.
• 18:35
  Speaker 5: He's actually a former Cub.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: He was part of the Kyle Tucker Deals.
• 18:38
  Speaker 5: That tells you what the Cubs are doing with their
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: draft and development ability. So I'm really excited about both
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: Shaw and Cam Smith, and they're probably better comparisons for
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: the Jackson Merrill right, because we didn't really know what
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: to do with Jackson Merril in the fantasy community last
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: year we saw that he was maybe gonna get the job,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: and again, like Shaw, he went to Tokyo, which was
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: kind of a big indicator that they're in on him.
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: But he was playing a new position. Remember he shifted
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: from short to center, and then Boom had an amazing season.
• 19:03
  Speaker 5: So Shaw's probably the perfect parallel. But again I'll throw
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: in Cam Smith, who's angling for a job there in Houston,
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: who I really really like as well.
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: Well, Paul, I'm going to reject Cam's claim and bring
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: us back to pitching again. One other component I wanted
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: to get to, which is the pitchers that are one
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: step away from acehood. You covered this will show this
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: as you run through it for us what he got.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: So these are the guys that are right there on
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: the cusp. They've in some cases have even shown it before,
• 19:34
  Speaker 5: but they have a lingering concern Cole Reagan's probably track record.
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: Now again you could counter me and say, how does
• 19:41
  Speaker 5: Cole Reagan's be one step for me? So, but Garrett
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: Crochet isn't, and I don't have a great answer for
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: that other than I think the super upside that we
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: saw from Crochet last year was a bit higher. He's
• 19:51
  Speaker 5: also going to the Red Sox, which are just a
• 19:53
  Speaker 5: better team than the Royals right now. I think the
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: Royals are confident, capable team, but I do think the
• 19:57
  Speaker 5: Red Sox are a bit better, So that's their little
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: split there. Michael King's transition from reliever to starter has
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: been incredible and I really love everything he's doing out
• 20:06
  Speaker 5: in San Diego. Max Freed, he's done right, like this
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: is the guy. The only thing we need is if
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: you could turn off injuries. If Rob Manfred you know
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: you can do in video games. I don't know why
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: Rob Manfred can't just turn off injuries in real baseball
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: for us, because if Max Freed could be guaranteed one
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: hundred and eighty plus innings every year, I think I'd
• 20:22
  Speaker 5: be ranking him top ten on a parenting basis. He
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: is one of the best pitchers out there now. The
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: tough part is are they going to start him every
• 20:29
  Speaker 5: day in New York Because they lose a new pitcher
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: every day it seems like, which is really unfortunate for
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: the Yankees, although no one's feeling bad for Yankees fans,
• 20:36
  Speaker 5: let's be honest. Tanner Biby had a great sophomore campaign
• 20:40
  Speaker 5: last year. He was really the only starter outside of
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: Ben Lively, who kind of surprised that was delivering for Cleveland.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: They had to lean on that bullpen so much. But
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: they're looking for Biby and youngster Gavin Williams to maybe
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: take some pressure off of that bullpen. And then I
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: love the Minnesota guys Bailey Over, Pablo Lopez, Joe Ryan,
• 20:57
  Speaker 5: They're all three very similar. I have both Over and
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: Ryan here. If either of them can cut into their homers,
• 21:03
  Speaker 5: they've got sky high capability. Of course, you can see
• 21:06
  Speaker 5: I had to move Grayson Rodriguez down with his injury,
• 21:09
  Speaker 5: but he's already working his way back and if we
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: could ever get health from him, he still has ace upside.
• 21:14
  Speaker 5: To me, Shane McClanahan has shown the flashes of the
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: ace upside. We've heard from Tampa Bay that they're going
• 21:19
  Speaker 5: to give him about one hundred and fifty innings, and
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: in today's game, especially for fantasy purposes, if you can
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: get to about one hundred and fifty that's enough to
• 21:27
  Speaker 5: be a superstar, and then showed to Imanaga showed a
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: lot last year. I do worry about his second half
• 21:31
  Speaker 5: homers and how that's going to play in a full season,
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: but I cannot deny the skills that showed to Ima.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: Naga showed.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: Wow. I just there's so many injuries concerns. I can't
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: but I love it because I don't play fantasy, so
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I understand one hundred and fifty innings is what you
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: guys look for. It still amazes me all right. Out
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: of the Park Baseball launched recently. What should we be
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: looking for? What's new? What are we looking for? And
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: if I get this when I download this game, what
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: am I looking for? As far as card wall player wise,
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: what's the big hit that I need to give?
• 22:04
  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of different ways to play. It's
• 22:05
  Speaker 5: called Perfect Team. If you play Out of the Park Baseball,
• 22:08
  Speaker 5: maybe you've played the Bass game before, where you do
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: the simulator, you know, against the computer. Our Perfect Team
• 22:14
  Speaker 5: mode is where you play against other players and it's
• 22:16
  Speaker 5: a card collecting game, which you've probably seen a lot of.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: If you're a sports video game player, you know they're
• 22:22
  Speaker 5: on MLB the show they're not mad and all that,
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: where you're collecting real life player cards, putting your team
• 22:27
  Speaker 5: together and playing against others. The difference here in OTP
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: versus those other games that you're not getting on a
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: controller and playing. It's all about the mental so you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 5: it's kind of the moneyball version of it. You're the
• 22:36
  Speaker 5: GM and manager more than you are the actual player.
• 22:39
  Speaker 5: So you put your team together, and we have leagues
• 22:42
  Speaker 5: that run all week, so Monday through Saturday, each day
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: is a month of the season, and you just go through.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: You play thirty games, you know, however many games there are.
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: Sometimes you got some off days whenever, and then Sunday
• 22:54
  Speaker 5: is the playoffs. So it plays like a real regular season.
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: You put your team together and you're trying to win
• 22:58
  Speaker 5: a World Series. You can collect cards from today. You know,
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: we have all the players who are going to be
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: in Major League Baseball this year, even the guys who
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: are hurt. So you can get a Garrett Cole card
• 23:08
  Speaker 5: and virtually play with him this year, even though he's hurt.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: All the way back throughout history, Negro leagues, historical players,
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: and this year our guy Rich Grisham got one of
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: the greatest contracts possible. He secured the rights to Honess Wagner.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: So our number one card right now, our top card
• 23:24
  Speaker 5: to chase is the T two O six Tobacco card,
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: the most famous baseball the most famous sports card in history.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: We have it in our game, and you can work
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: your way toward collecting that, putting him on your team.
• 23:36
  Speaker 5: And he is the best player we've got right now.
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: So there's a lot of things to do in Perfect
• 23:41
  Speaker 5: Team with collecting your team, but that is the main
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: target right now that everyone's working their way toward is
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: getting themselves a honest Wagner.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is a beauty. That is a digital beauty
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: right there. Well, Paul, appreciate the insight, Thank you for
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: joining us. Good luck all season on Perfect Team, and
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: let's give her over run a little of what Out
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• 25:09
  Speaker 2: And we're highlighting slab packs because this is the new
• 25:12
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• 25:14
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• 25:28
  Speaker 1: I ain't getting rid of my Bob Gibson autographed card.
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: Bob Gibson ain't card signing cards anytime soon, so I'm
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• 25:36
  Speaker 1: The only thing I wish they had bubblegum. Can they
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• 25:41
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• 25:46
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• 25:48
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• 25:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those cards are in your showroom in the app,
• 25:52
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• 26:16
  Speaker 2: you're out of this one since you're calling the game,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: but we'll talk to Cam about the Tokyo series Game one.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: It's Yamamoto on the mound against Imanaga. I'll go first, Cam,
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: since I saw your pick and it's gonna take you
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a second. We only have two minutes, so for me,
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: nice and simple laying down one oh five to win
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: one hundred seas Suzuki, I need two or more of
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: the following combined hits runs RBI. So, for example, if
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: I get an RBI double, I'm good to go. Okay,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: if he hits a single and then scores, I'm good
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: to go. I think Sea Suzuki is gonna have a
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: huge year. I love him getting mostly DH time, and
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: of course he is playing in Japan, so I think
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: he'll thrive and be the start for the Cubs. Now,
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: what do you have cooked up for us cam O.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Well, if you follow me, last year, I was pretty
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: much horrible at making the picks. But this year I'm
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: going out from the jump, going out hot. Parlay three
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: leg give me over seven and a half on the
• 27:09
  Speaker 4: total Cubs money line at Amanaga four and a half.
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: K's let's get that a plus set five to seventy five.
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: Let's get into the money early on this season. Let's
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: go ahead, a good start.
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, until you're throwing down a hondo to win five
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: to seventy.
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: Five, right right now?
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, see, we'll see. I like the Cubs play too
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: for an upset in Game one. I think showeda Naga
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: will be good. And you know, I think the Cubs,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, both teams obviously are going to manage to
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: try to win these games, but the Cubs are definitely
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: going to get aggressive with their bullpen. It is a
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: much better bullpen this year. Dodgers are really damn good.
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  Speaker 2: the ft. Spring training tour also just different. It's just different.
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  Speaker 2: Let's show it. This is it last week of the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: tour because the season starts for everyone else next week.
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: By the way, Tiger's camp today, Twins camp tomorrow, Red
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Sox camp on Wednesday, Braves camp on Thursday. Cam running
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: through those camps and then that is it normal show
• 28:39
  Speaker 2: on Friday and we'll get ready for the regular season. Also,
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: I want to point this out. The next two mornings,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Cam You're good, don't worry. You get to sleep an
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: extra I don't know hour or two because you're hustling
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: early for these camps. But I'll be up at five
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: in the morning the next two days to watch a
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: baseball game. I think technically what it starts at six? AJ? Yeah, sorry,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: already get ready for my day, breakfast, coffee, the whole thing,
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: and then I'm going to be kicking back watching Persiansky
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: on the call with Benetti for one game, I mean
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: for the other it's on Fox, and then what did
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I mess that up?
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: No, you crushed it before you're crushing it.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: And then a postgame show after each game there you
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: go postgame reactions from FT just like we do in
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the playoffs, and we did this last year for the
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: games in South Korea, live reactions after Dodgers Cubs that
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: includes special guests Max Mounsey after game one on Tuesday.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: I think, AJ, you might be with us for one
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: of those games and then krats for the other one.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Does that sound right?
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I believe I'm on tomorrow.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Yes, okay, so you me and Max Monsey tomorrow on Wednesday.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: I have Wednesday. I hate to say this, but I
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: have another obligation for my Fox contract, I have to
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: do a Fox show after game two on Wednesdays.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: So there you go.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I'll be there. I'll be there tomorrow though.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: And we'll hear your voice plenty the next two mornings, bright.
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: And early if you're awake, gets breakfast with me.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, exactly, We'll be there and they're real games. That's right,
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: all right, let's try and figure out these stats. Joey
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: Gallo as a hitter versus upcoming Joey Gallo as a
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: pitcher if he makes it. So apparently he told the
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: White Sox he was done. It wasn't working out for
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: him in camp. It's the worst team in baseball, and
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: he's like, all right, I've had a cannon for an arm.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: He's gonna try it out. He first tweeted it's been
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: fun outfield with highlights and people are like he's retiring,
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: and then he's like, nah, I'm coming back as a pitcher.
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: So we've seen others try to do this. We see
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: others doing this right now. I'm saying position players who
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: made it to the bigs. Anthony Gos has had some time.
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: Charlie Culberson tried last year. Tyler Naquins trying right now.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: So it's been done, but not much. Do you think
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Joey Gallo can make it as a pitcher in the
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: big leagues.
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: Joey Gallo the pitcher would strike out Joey Gallo the hitter.
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: I know that, But do you mean that's rude?
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: You're my wrong, I'm kidding swing and missing his game, You're.
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: Not right now, Listen, if he works out for him,
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: this guy really, you know, this is what he wants
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: to do. I mean, I saw when I was at
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: White Sox camp, I saw Sergio Santos, who's the trip
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: a manager is going to be a big league coach
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: at some point. I was there when they transitioned him.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: I was there when they switched him over. I was
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: on the field. They were like, you need to watch
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: this dude throw. He was in campus a third baseman.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: He couldn't hit, and he couldn't feel, And they're like,
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: but this dude's got a great army. He went on
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: a pitch in the big leagues for a long time.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Now because of that, he knows how to play, he
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: knows how to talk to hitters, and he knows how
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: to talk to pictures. So I think this is a
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: good move for Joey Gallop. He's done hitting us and
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: hitting is hard, and if you got an arm to
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: go be a pitcher, why not try it out. I
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: would if I would have done it, but I'm glad
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: I could hit because I would have.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Hated injury suck. We got some tough ones. Let's start
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: with Royce Lewis. Strange left hamstring running out of ground
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: ball yesterday. Unlikely for opening Day. We're gonna be in
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Twins camp tomorrow, right, is that smile? Yeah? M so
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: we probably we'll get some questions and answers on his status.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: This is the thing, Cam, You'll be there. The Twins
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: have a few stars. They can't get them all on
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: the field at the same time. And you know they
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: didn't really do anything in the offseason. Royce Lewis is
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: a huge part of this lineup.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he has showed that he has superstar potential. He's
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: shown that he is a guy that has a flir
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: for the dramatic. When the time when when, when the
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: moment really needs him, He's been a guy that steps up.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: But like you said, I think this has been a
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: frustrating part.
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: If you're a Minnesota Twins fan is you know, having
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: three year superstars not being able to be on the field.
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: You look at Buston just a year ago.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: They tried to go the whole year out playing him
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: a center to try to keep him healthy. We know
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: Carlas Korea has battled his injury. So these are three pieces.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: And then you talk about Royce Lewis, who was an
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: intricate piece of that lineup. Well, he's in that lineup.
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: Special things happens for the happens for the Twins. So
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: to see him down early, it's gonna be one of
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: those things where I'm sure they're not gonna rush him back,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: right because you want to have him healthy as long
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: as possible, So they're gonna probably slow play this thing
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: to make sure they get the best version of Royce
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: Lewis when he is able to return.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: All right, Yeah, it sucks. I mean, there's no other
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: way to put it. This sucks for the Twins. It
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: sucks for you know what, It sucks for more than
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: anything baseball because you know certain guys that are special,
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: like a Royce Lewis when he swings the bat or special,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: and to lose him for an extended period of time. Again,
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: just sucks for baseball, man. I'm sorry, it just it
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: just it's not good. It's not good for the Twins
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: obviously first and foremost, but just not having his bat
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: and his energy because it's a smile on that energy
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: brings is special, man. So it sucks for him, it
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: sucks for the Twins, but it also sucks for baseball.
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's torn his ACL a couple of times. Remember
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: last year was game one of the season he had
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: the quad strain that kept him out for a while.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: So you know, he's had these what are those soft
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: tissue injuries that are popping up for him, which is
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: never great. You know. It's it's the injuries where you're
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: running and all of a sudden, it's not a contact,
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: you know, it's not like he's running into a you know,
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: a wall or whatever. Although he did right for one
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: of those ACL injuries. I think he did when they
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: tried to put him in the outfield. So we'll see
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: what happens. Hopefully we get some news that it's not
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: too long for him. And then one more quick one
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: here the Rangers shutting down John Gray. They also had
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: to shut down Corey Bradford, so it looks like on
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the positive side, for the youngsters, Kumar Rocker and Jack
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: Ledder will step in and be part of the rotation
• 34:44
  Speaker 2: in the first week of the season. But obviously sucks
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: to take two hits here really quickly with these guys
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: just quick coming and forget me and right and and
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: Tyler may Molly they're checking out right now.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, by the way, but Gray wasn't shut down because
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: of an injury. He got hit by a line drive
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: and broke his wrist, So it's a.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Little bit different, right. I mean, we can blame Evan
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: Grant for the way that he structured this tweet. He
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: said shut down at least six weeks. But yeah, he
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: fractured his wrist on a comebacker, So sucks for the Rangers.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Very competitive. Al West just wanted to let everyone know
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: about that, and we'll get more info on those guys
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: as well. And yeah, it looks like you could get
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: both the youngsters in the opening day rotation or the
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: opening week rotation for the Rangers. Does this affect anything
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: for you guys with the Rangers or you think they'll
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: be okay?
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: This is what we worried about from the get go.
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: Is it not did we not worry about them and
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: they're pitching injuries. I mean, this was their big thing and.
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: They have a history of it too.
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: Like you say, like this is just John Granted hit
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: by comebackers different, but he's had a history of injuries
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: and the groam and the list goes on. You know,
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: only thing I don't worry about Sky is that division.
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: I think that division still is very much up in
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: the air.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: So I think with those.
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: Young guys, Kamar Rocker, he looked like he is back healthy,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: got his stuff back. I think it'll be fun for
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: the Rangers fans to see what their young guys have
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: and and let them get their feet weet early in
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: the season. I think it'll be good for him. It
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: might be I don't know what, what do you think
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: he might be time for youth movement.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: Go get some younger guys, some healthier guys.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: I don't know. We interviewed Kumar Rocker. I wouldn't want
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: to see him on the other side of a defensive
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: line from me.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: I know, no, seriously, he's a big boy, but there's
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: still talent.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: It didn't I'm mess drafting him too right. They dropped
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: that ball too well.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: They drafted him essentially injury. He did get hurt. Yeah,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: and then now he's back. He came back obviously last
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: year looked pretty good in his short stint. We were
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: in Rangers camp last week asking both about their chances
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: of making the team. I mean, I think there's almost
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: no doubt you'll see them both, So I'm excited. Yeah,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: I mean, this is the time. They're not twenty one
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: twenty two year old pitchers either. I think they're both
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: in the twenty five range. Now it's time. It's time
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: to see what these guys have so good for the Rangers.
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: Let's slap good story here. Brandon Woodruff makes his return
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: to a spring training mount and he was so wired this.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: Adamcalviy covers the team every day. He said, he what
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: he was so wired that when Corey Blazer went to
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: check for sticky stuff, would you just shook his hand.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: He thought he was congratulating him for getting back on
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: a major league mound, and he said, for me, it
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: was a big deal talking about Woody. So that's pretty funny.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure AJ would make fun of him after
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: the game. But he's such a nice guy. He's like, oh,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: he's excited for me. Yeah, I'm back.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Man. Pard didn't even know who he was. Coort Blazer
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: didn't even know who he was. He was just going
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: up to shake his hand. Welcome back. Come on, I
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: love you, Woody. Well, come on, no, Pars, don't pay
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: that much attention.
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: Hey, that lets you know how much he missed the game, man,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: And when you're out, when you're injured, you really really
• 38:15
  Speaker 4: realize how much you appreciate and love the game. That's
• 38:17
  Speaker 4: one thing you do is it's a humbling moment when
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: you're away and you're watching all your boys play, because
• 38:23
  Speaker 4: AJ knows when you're hurt, nobody really cares about you.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: But your family.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: He means, what have you done for me lately?
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: So to see him back on the mound in that rotation,
• 38:31
  Speaker 4: looking at what the Brewers have been able to do
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: without him, I think this is a huge lift for
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: the organization and I'm happy to see him back out
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: there healthy.
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: It's awesome.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: We have a minute left. But one other quick thing
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: I wanted to get to we didn't have time earlier.
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: You hat another twist and race stadium saga. They pitched
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: a plan to upgrade the chop and stay through twenty
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: thirty eight. Stop it, stop it.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Cut it out, please the team, please Bullo already.
• 39:00
  Speaker 2: Twenty years for resolution and you're just gonna upgrade the dungeon.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: Stop it. That is not the spot. Very disappointing. So
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: hopefully that one gets smashed. I think it will. They
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: are gonna upgrade it for next year because there is
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: still at least going for a while. All right. Lastly,
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: spring training Tour continues the rest of the week. Like
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: we mentioned, Twins, Red Sox, and Braves, our last three
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: stops and double FT shows the next two days. Tuesday morning,
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: you can catch us live on YouTube right after the
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Dodgers and the Cubs, which you'll listen to AJ on
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: the call for on Fox. Same thing on Wednesday. We'll
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: be live right after those games end, nice and early
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: for you, and then we'll have regular FT cam. Good stuff, man,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: we'll see on the next stop.
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: Let's go.
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: All right, we're back, so we have an extra three
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: minutes on this. I mean they're pitching twenty thirty eight
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: to crazy, upgrade the trop and stay there longer. You're
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: gonna put more money into that and then figure it
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: out again in whatever what is that twelve this year's
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: from now, and also however long it takes to upgrade it.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: I'm like, stop stop. I think MLB is feeling this
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: way at this point too, including Commissioner Rob Manfred. The
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: one thing he's been pretty steadfast about is that he
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: wants to get expansion figured out before he essentially retires
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: from his job, which is four or five years away
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: whatever it is. They're not going to have the expansion
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: teams ready, but they want to have them announced and
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: cam Ian we covered it a lot last week. It's
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: just annoying at this point to the amount of times
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: that we've had the Rays and really the a's to
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: tease us with projects and then pull back on them
• 40:44
  Speaker 2: to try and get a better business deal. It's exhausting,
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: it really is.
• 40:49
  Speaker 3: And you know who is really exhausting for the fans.
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: You know, I think as a player going to the Trap,
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: going to Oakland, you're really starting to feel bad for
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: the fan base. People that really invent, that really have
• 41:01
  Speaker 4: a passion and a love for these teams, and they
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: continue to get the same products. So those are those
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: are the people don't really feel for and like you said,
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: this guy, they've got to find a way to do better.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: AJ. You got a lot of love for your Orlando push,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: so we'll see. I mean, you're at least step closer.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Calling the raise for years.
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. But they gotta find a place to put the stadium. Yeah,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: find a place to put a stadium. That's the big
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: problem with Tampa. I love Tampa, but they gotta find
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: a place. And they don't have any money. And by
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: the way, I want to say, it's st Patrick's day.
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: I got my green on and I can't see it.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Scott's colored blendeds hell, this is green. This is green. Patrick.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Nothing says you're irish like Prazinski. Okay, listen, nothing says
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: you're irish.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Damn help me out here on the way out, gray
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: with green underneath. No, is that green?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: That's bad? That's bad.
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: That's great, that's great.
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 42:02
  Speaker 3: Hey, my slash shirt today too. By the way, my
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: sweat shirt today.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I see green there, green, I see the undershirt green.
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: The overshirt's great.
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: I'm with you. That's a great, my boy, that's a
• 42:16
  Speaker 3: great day.
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: That's I'm gonna send you all a picture off the
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: air and y'all all apologize to me tomorrow.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: Okay, get some rest we'll see on the call For
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: the Tokyo series. We're pumped opening day tomorrow, Baby