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Set 1: Buddy Boy (w/ Tim Kurkjian) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that.
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  Speaker 2: Chuck Norris was chasing the Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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  Speaker 3: The rex was not chasing the jeep. Murray, Murray, you there.
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  Speaker 3: You love sandwiches. Huh, Let's go to eighty. It was
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  Speaker 3: bo wow that Prime Time. Maybe I had a crush
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  Speaker 3: on Betty Rubble.
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  Speaker 2: I honestly, until after the segment ended and we went
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  Speaker 2: to commercial break, had no idea that Jonathan Coachman was black.
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  Speaker 3: He caught them the game last night, although they won
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  Speaker 3: the game. You're listening to Stu gottson Company.
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  Speaker 2: It is Stugotts and Company, presented by Van Duel and
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  Speaker 2: the Vanduel Sportsbook. Tim Kerching going to join us in
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  Speaker 2: about ten minutes, very much looking forward to that. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think anything Any guests we have gets mikey A
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  Speaker 2: and Taylor, and I think is real goody Eras for
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  Speaker 2: that matter, I'm more excited than Tim Kerchief.
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  Speaker 3: I love Tim.
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  Speaker 2: The guest that gets me most excited is the guest
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  Speaker 2: that will join us at set number two, Hogsdale.
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  Speaker 3: Taylor, had you experience the Yankee game last night?
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  Speaker 2: The Yankees win two to nothing, and one guy you dismissed.
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  Speaker 3: I think he told him to pack his bags.
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  Speaker 2: Jazz, Chisholm Schism hit a home run a solo shot.
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  Speaker 2: The other one Lombard in his first major league game.
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  Speaker 3: That was the guy.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't really rip Lombard. You ripped Cashman for using
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  Speaker 2: Lombard as an excuse as to why he didn't go
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  Speaker 2: out and make more deals during the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 3: How'd you feel?
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  Speaker 4: I ripped Cashman for ruining what should have been a
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  Speaker 4: happy George Lombard Day. That's how I was greeting everybody
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  Speaker 4: in the streets yesterday, say are you happy George Lombard Day?
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  Speaker 4: We finally made it. We have our shortstop of the future.
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  Speaker 5: You don't live in New York, right, Nobody knows what
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  Speaker 5: you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: How I experienced it was, I'm very excited about George
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  Speaker 4: Lombard because he's already an MLB level glove. You saw
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  Speaker 4: that with a couple of double plays that he turned,
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  Speaker 4: where the broadcast is like, we haven't seen anything that
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  Speaker 4: looked like this this entire season. Right now, the expectations
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  Speaker 4: on him, they feel like they're reaching Jeter esque because
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  Speaker 4: everything that he's doing, they're like, oh, Jeter did this
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  Speaker 4: when Jeter was twenty. Jeter's three thousand hit went to
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  Speaker 4: the same place that Lombard's first home run went. And
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching, I'm like, guys, these are not fair expectations
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  Speaker 4: to put on a twenty one year old.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, isn't this exactly what I said that his expectations
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  Speaker 1: because they didn't do anything at the deadline, because they
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  Speaker 1: brought him up like this, with all this grandeur that
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  Speaker 1: now we're gonna start whispering Derek Jeter when.
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  Speaker 3: He does like, let the kid be the kid.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem with Cashman, to Taylor's point, is if
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  Speaker 1: the kid is this good, why the hell are we
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  Speaker 1: just seeing him now August fourth, after you ruin the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: The whole reason they brought him up now is because
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  Speaker 1: look at this shiny toy over here, paying no attention
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  Speaker 1: to the fact that we did nothing else.
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  Speaker 4: But there are certain franchises where the up and coming
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  Speaker 4: prospects are always going to be chasing ghosts of goats
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  Speaker 4: and sports where every Chicago Bull they're gonna be compared
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  Speaker 4: to Michael Jordan, every Patriot quarterback is going to be
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  Speaker 4: compared to Tom Brady. I think the Yankee shortstop is
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  Speaker 4: just one of those in that line of unfair comparisons.
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  Speaker 6: Well, unfair maybe, But if you're not allowing to make
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  Speaker 6: this comparison, get over yourself because it's not just any
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  Speaker 6: Chicago bull player that gets compared to Jordan. Remember Harold
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  Speaker 6: Minor Baby Jordan. Like that stuff happens all the time.
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  Speaker 6: And Okay, are some of them overreaches? Are some of
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  Speaker 6: them premature?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but get over yourselves.
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  Speaker 6: If you can not, you too, But get over yourselves
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  Speaker 6: if you are upset because he's getting compared to Derek Jeter.
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  Speaker 6: I mean he was a big time prospect, his dad
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  Speaker 6: was a player and people, and you know, he's just
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  Speaker 6: a soft buttery hands that shortstop.
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  Speaker 5: Like, why not compare him? Why not set the.
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  Speaker 3: Bar for him?
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  Speaker 2: I won't be so gentle. I'll ill emit directly at
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  Speaker 2: you two. I mean, Jesus.
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  Speaker 3: Christ, who cares think he's gonna be the next Jeter?
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  Speaker 3: That should excite you. I mean, he's from Miami.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's not necessarily the comparisons. It's that's all we
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  Speaker 1: get to talk about right now. It's it's it's not
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  Speaker 1: the comparison, it's in the situation of, well, if he
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  Speaker 1: can't save us, then I guess the season's over.
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  Speaker 3: Because we did nothing else.
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  Speaker 4: And it's a twenty one year old like he's going
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  Speaker 4: to go through struggles. And if everybody's question is about
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  Speaker 4: why aren't you Derek Jeter, why aren't you one of
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  Speaker 4: the greatest players in franchise history? Your first month into
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  Speaker 4: the season where when he hit that home run, I
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  Speaker 4: hate to admit it, I was like, man, Brian Cashman
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  Speaker 4: is going to get absolutely bailed out this trade deadline
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  Speaker 4: because he calls up Lombard. But also the Yankees win
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  Speaker 4: to nothing. That's that's the only way this Yankee team
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  Speaker 4: can win. With two solo home runs and a great
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  Speaker 4: start behind Ryan Weatherson, I mean came from the Marlins.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he pitched very well. They got to win. The
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers lost. I think the Dodgers have lost.
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  Speaker 4: Fay stink theytink.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like for a night, I do for an
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  Speaker 2: that Brian Cashman was sitting in the owner's box and
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  Speaker 2: he was holding up his middle finger and it was
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  Speaker 2: aimed directly at you, Taylor.
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  Speaker 4: Well, what I would point back at Brian Cashman. Jazz
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  Speaker 4: Chisholm is still in the ninth percentile in terms of
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  Speaker 4: batting run value according to Baseball Savant. Like Jazz Chishm.
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  Speaker 4: He strikes out and he's gonna hit it the occasional
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  Speaker 4: home run. That's that's That's just who Jazz Chishm is.
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  Speaker 4: The more interesting thing, isn't that. I mean, you just
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  Speaker 4: ripped Tony Gwinn for batt.
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  Speaker 5: And three seven every year.
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  Speaker 4: But look at look at the way the Red Sox
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  Speaker 4: are playing. The Red Sox are bringing back small ball
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  Speaker 4: where the Red Sox win games where like three sacrifice bunts,
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  Speaker 4: and it's one of the reasons why the Red Sox
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  Speaker 4: are one of the hottest teams in baseball right now.
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  Speaker 4: But the more interesting thing and the more universal conversation
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  Speaker 4: that I think could come out of the the Yankee
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  Speaker 4: game last night, George Lombard hits his first home run.
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  Speaker 4: The fan that catches it, obviously, George Lombard is gonna
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  Speaker 4: want the ball back. The fan that catches it, he
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  Speaker 4: gives the ball back for just a signed baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Terrible job.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm wondering what you guys would have done, because
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  Speaker 4: at the end of the day, George Lombard Junior is
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  Speaker 4: still a twenty one year old kid, and you're gonna
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  Speaker 4: try to hold him or I guess you're gonna try
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  Speaker 4: to hold the organization hostage to get this ball back.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's situations like this. If I caught that ball,
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  Speaker 2: you just have to hold out and see how much
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  Speaker 2: the ball means.
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  Speaker 3: The Lombard you do.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, for those balls, I'm always just thinking, give
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  Speaker 6: me some tickets, give me you know, a signed something
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  Speaker 6: doesn't have to be this specific baseball. Maybe if Derek
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  Speaker 6: Jeter could sign something and then you mail it to me,
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  Speaker 6: that would all be great. But yeah, I'm not. I'm
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  Speaker 6: not holding out for you know, thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I am.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, you got him right where you want him,
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  Speaker 2: you have something that he wants.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the answer has got to be situational. I
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  Speaker 1: catch a Rod's, you know, five hundredth home run, I
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  Speaker 1: want money. I catch George Lombard's first home run. My
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  Speaker 1: answer is threefold. I want tickets, I want something signed,
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  Speaker 1: and I need you as a guest on the podcast.
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  Speaker 5: I have a question with baseball because this drives me crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry Stude.
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  Speaker 6: I was looking up Derek Jeter's rookie season numbers and
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  Speaker 6: it just reminded me, when.
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  Speaker 5: The heck do they decide it's your rookie season. How
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  Speaker 5: much do you have to play in one season?
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  Speaker 4: Ninety five? With that, it's not ninety five, it's ninety
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  Speaker 4: six was his rookie season. Okay, he came up in
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  Speaker 4: ninety five, and I don't think he had the necessary
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  Speaker 4: at bats.
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  Speaker 3: So how many at bats in nineteen ninety five for Jeter?
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  Speaker 6: This is why this is so confusing. When you're a pro,
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  Speaker 6: that's your rookie season. If you want somebody to have
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  Speaker 6: a full rookie season, bring them up at the beginning
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  Speaker 6: of the season. Don't bring them up in July, August, September,
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  Speaker 6: and because if you come up, that's your rookie season.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, right, well, how many at bats did Jeter have?
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  Speaker 2: Do you have it in front of you?
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  Speaker 6: I only have the one that's forty eight that's counted
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  Speaker 6: as his full season.
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  Speaker 3: I don't have the ninety five one.
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  Speaker 4: He played fifteen games and got forty eight at bats
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  Speaker 4: in ninety five.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what was his batting average in ninety five his
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  Speaker 2: rookie year before the rookie.
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  Speaker 4: Year, his batting average was two fifty.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm surprised they brought him back.
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  Speaker 4: Well, ninety six is when when he was coming in
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  Speaker 4: in ninety six. It was established he's going to be
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  Speaker 4: the starting shortstof is there?
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  Speaker 1: You had that joke locked and loaded. I was just
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  Speaker 1: curious what if Taylor had said he batted four to twelve.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you had a joke for both sides.
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  Speaker 7: And I'm just curious with the small sample, do we
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  Speaker 7: have a name for that debut season that's not a
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  Speaker 7: rookie season?
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  Speaker 3: No, never thought of it.
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  Speaker 6: Now I thought, since I yeah, it's a September call up,
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  Speaker 6: I think so the stats shouldn't count for your career totals.
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  Speaker 6: Then I'm sorry, like they got to make a decision.
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  Speaker 6: You're either up and you're a pro and that's your
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  Speaker 6: rookie season, or it's not right.
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  Speaker 2: Did the Marlins call up Miguel Cabrera in September the
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  Speaker 2: year they won the World.
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  Speaker 3: Series at three?
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  Speaker 2: That sounds familiar and you but you're saying, if indeed
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  Speaker 2: that is the case, none of those numbers should count
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  Speaker 2: for his career stats.
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  Speaker 5: Or that should just be his rookie season.
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  Speaker 6: If you get brought up in September, that means you
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  Speaker 6: weren't ready in a I'm sorry, you're just not rookie
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  Speaker 6: of the year or whatever the heck you do in baseball.
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  Speaker 3: It just bugs me. Did you guys, will they expand
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  Speaker 3: the rosters in September?
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  Speaker 1: You're allowed to call.
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  Speaker 3: Up Yes, guys, yes, free of George. Right, you don't
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  Speaker 3: have to drop anyone.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys see the plane that was flown over
• 9:14
  Speaker 2: Wrigley Field last night?
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  Speaker 3: No, it had a banner Dodgers are bad for baseball.
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  Speaker 3: M you did see one of those. I did not say.
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  Speaker 5: I did not know that Chicago was taking up for
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  Speaker 5: all of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: The sign was backwards.
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  Speaker 4: The new banner should say the Dodgers are bad at baseball.
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  Speaker 2: how are you today?
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  Speaker 8: I'm well? Stu Gods, I'm well. Is he how you
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  Speaker 8: guys doing?
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  Speaker 3: We're doing great.
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  Speaker 2: We are told that we have a very strict fifteen
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  Speaker 8: To me, oh, I've never been mad at you guys.
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  Speaker 8: God down, something else to do? At twelve forty five?
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  Speaker 3: How dare you? Timmy?
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  Speaker 2: Where do you stand on the topic that everyone's talking
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  Speaker 2: about now that relates to baseball? The Dodgers being banned
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  Speaker 2: for baseball? What does Tim Kirchin stand on that?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, well, it's not healthy that they have a payroll
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  Speaker 8: where theirs is and others are over four hundred million
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  Speaker 8: dollars below them. That cannot be considered healthy for baseball. However,
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  Speaker 8: I'm just not going to blame the Dodgers for this.
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  Speaker 8: They are operating by a set of rules that are
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  Speaker 8: out there, and every other organization, if they had the
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  Speaker 8: same resources and same money, would do exactly the same thing.
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  Speaker 8: They are trying every single day to win, which I
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  Speaker 8: thought was the idea here all along. Now they have
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  Speaker 8: money and resources that nobody else has, they can make
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  Speaker 8: mistake to make up for it. But there's no way
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  Speaker 8: around this either, Fellas. They are the best run organization
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  Speaker 8: in baseball. A draft and develop better than others do,
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  Speaker 8: they teach better than others do. And even though they
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  Speaker 8: have all these advantages built in to be, you know,
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  Speaker 8: to make a mistake and make up for it and
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  Speaker 8: go get ultimately whatever they want, they still are exceptionally
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  Speaker 8: run and they deserve some credit for that.
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  Speaker 4: Tim They're struggling right now, and it feels like the
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  Speaker 4: Cubs are making a bit of a statement this series
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  Speaker 4: beating the Dodgers. Do you think Pa is overtaking show
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  Speaker 4: Hey for the MVP right now?
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  Speaker 8: That's a good question. The the MVP is suddenly up
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  Speaker 8: in the air when it's never up in the air
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  Speaker 8: with show Hey, because he's the most remarkable player that
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  Speaker 8: anyone has ever seen, but yes, I think I don't
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  Speaker 8: think anyone has overtaken show. Hey, but this is a
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  Speaker 8: fluid discussion now where it probably wasn't two or three
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  Speaker 8: months ago. But this we should never know who the
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  Speaker 8: MVP is in April. I as an old school guy
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  Speaker 8: that did you help your team win? Did your team
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  Speaker 8: win and what did you do down the stretch to
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  Speaker 8: help him win? I thought that was part of the
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  Speaker 8: process here and we've kind of lost track of that.
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  Speaker 8: So I'm kind of happy that it's back that we're
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  Speaker 8: going to see who's the best player in the game
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  Speaker 8: in the last two months, and that will, you know,
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  Speaker 8: determine who wins the MVP.
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  Speaker 6: Potentially Speaking of PA, Tim help me out with this,
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  Speaker 6: I really don't get his point on that, whether Babe
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  Speaker 6: Ruth existed or not.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, well, look you are talking to the wrong guy,
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  Speaker 8: almost seventy years old. For my entire life, I've tried
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  Speaker 8: to explain that the people who came before us in
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  Speaker 8: the sport still really matter. Babe Ruth, for me, this
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  Speaker 8: is for me, is still the greatest player of all time,
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  Speaker 8: and he dominated his era like nobody has ever dominated
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  Speaker 8: their era. I really believe that if they had had
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  Speaker 8: a DH in the American League in nineteen twenty he won,
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  Speaker 8: have won twenty games and hit fifty homers. I really
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  Speaker 8: believe that. And Bert Hawkins, who used to cover baseball
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  Speaker 8: back when Babe Ruth played and became a good friend
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  Speaker 8: of mine as the PR director of the Texas Rangers.
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  Speaker 8: I asked him once, I said, Hawk, who's the greatest
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  Speaker 8: player you've ever seen? And he laughed at me. He goes,
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  Speaker 8: buddy boy, I'll take Babe Ruth and you can have
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  Speaker 8: the next three. That's how good being. And it really
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  Speaker 8: bothers me that we have turned this guy into a
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  Speaker 8: cartoon character that all he did was eat hot dogs
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  Speaker 8: and drink beer during the game, rather than recognizing what
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  Speaker 8: a great athlete he was. He stole one hundred and
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  Speaker 8: he had one hundred and thirty six triples, He stole
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  Speaker 8: one hundred and twenty three bases. He has as many
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  Speaker 8: career shutouts as Pedro Martinez, who's the best pitcher I've
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  Speaker 8: ever seen for a short period of time, and yet
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  Speaker 8: we still want to paint him as someone who would
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  Speaker 8: never get a hit in today's game. Sorry, I'm not
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  Speaker 8: buying that.
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  Speaker 2: Timmy, what year was it when Hawks said to you,
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  Speaker 2: buddy boy, I'll take Ruth the next three.
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  Speaker 8: That was in nineteen eighty two. He was the pr
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  Speaker 8: director of the Rangers. It was my first full, full,
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  Speaker 8: full year on a beat, and I learned so much
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  Speaker 8: from some of the older guys who had been around.
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  Speaker 8: Burt Hawkins taught me an awful lot, and he called
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  Speaker 8: me buddy boy.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: Every time Tim Kerchin is with us, Timmy, how the
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: Red Sox turn their season around?
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  Speaker 8: I'll tell you, tou gotts. I'm a little confused, I
• 16:42
  Speaker 8: must say. I look at their lineup certain days and
• 16:45
  Speaker 8: wonder how do they score up runs with this lineup?
• 16:49
  Speaker 8: I look at their pitching, and I see great young pitching,
• 16:53
  Speaker 8: especially left handed pitching. Painton totally, all these guys Bennett
• 16:58
  Speaker 8: that not everyone had heard about. And they're doing this
• 17:01
  Speaker 8: without Garrett Crochet, who's not just their best pitcher, but
• 17:04
  Speaker 8: one of the five best pitchers in the league, and
• 17:07
  Speaker 8: they have still turned this around. Fellas they were thirty
• 17:10
  Speaker 8: two and forty six, they were arguably the biggest disappointment
• 17:15
  Speaker 8: of the season, and they have since gone twenty nine
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  Speaker 8: and five. They have the only team ever to enter
• 17:21
  Speaker 8: a month ten games under five hundred and finished seven
• 17:25
  Speaker 8: games over no one's ever done. I've never seen an
• 17:28
  Speaker 8: in season turnaround quite like this, And yet you really
• 17:32
  Speaker 8: can't just say, oh, well, Roman Anthony came back. He
• 17:36
  Speaker 8: led the way because he's unbelievably talented, and even that
• 17:39
  Speaker 8: didn't happen. So this is why baseball is so good.
• 17:43
  Speaker 8: I have slapped my forehead a dozen times during this streak,
• 17:46
  Speaker 8: saying I don't know how this is happening, but this
• 17:50
  Speaker 8: is why baseball is the best.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Tim, I love how the Red Sox plays small ball,
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: and I also love your book. I'm fascinated by sacrifice
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  Speaker 4: flies inside the game we all love. If you were
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: a baseball executive or a manager and your team was tied,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: runner on third, one out, and you needed a sacrifice fly,
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: great question, who from baseball history would you call on?
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  Speaker 4: Like if you had a pinch hitter and this guy
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: really needed to deliver a sackfly?
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  Speaker 8: All right, Well, I would take Eddie Murray because he's
• 18:18
  Speaker 8: a Hall of Famer and Eddie Murray hit more sacrifice
• 18:21
  Speaker 8: flies than anyone in history, and yet he never led
• 18:26
  Speaker 8: the league in sacrifice flies in any season. I mean,
• 18:30
  Speaker 8: how is that possible? The first year, the first year
• 18:34
  Speaker 8: that they kept sacrifice flies as an official statistic, Gil
• 18:39
  Speaker 8: Hodges led the league with nineteen, and here it is
• 18:44
  Speaker 8: sixty one years later, sixty seventy one years later, and
• 18:48
  Speaker 8: it is still the record nineteen for sacrifice flies in
• 18:53
  Speaker 8: the season. How amazing is that? So I would take
• 18:56
  Speaker 8: Eddie Murray first because he's the all time record holder,
• 18:59
  Speaker 8: and Gil a second because he's a Hall of Famer
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  Speaker 8: and he has the single season record with nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: The idea that he has a second person in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: event that Eddie Murray.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't available is just absolutely amazing.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Timmy, what team is best suited is best constructed to
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: beat the Dodgers in a best of seven series?
• 19:25
  Speaker 8: I still think it's the Brewers. The Brewers have the
• 19:28
  Speaker 8: best record in baseball at the moment. The Brewers have
• 19:31
  Speaker 8: a starting pitcher, Jacob Yzroowski that nobody can hit, and
• 19:36
  Speaker 8: if he's healthy and throwing at full velocity, which is
• 19:40
  Speaker 8: just preposterously high, and they have Kyle Harrison who's pitching
• 19:44
  Speaker 8: tonight and he's been a really good pitcher coming back
• 19:47
  Speaker 8: from a couple of injuries. If he's healthy, and they
• 19:50
  Speaker 8: find a few other pieces for that rotation. They are
• 19:53
  Speaker 8: good enough to not only get to the World Series
• 19:56
  Speaker 8: for the first time since nineteen eighty two, but to
• 19:59
  Speaker 8: win the World Do I think the Dodgers are the
• 20:02
  Speaker 8: have the best roster? Yes, I do. If you ask
• 20:05
  Speaker 8: me who I think is going to win the World Series,
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: I think it's the Dodgers. But the beauty of baseball,
• 20:10
  Speaker 8: fellas is anything is possible. You know, the Bulls were
• 20:15
  Speaker 8: gonna win those championship seasons because because they had the
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: best team and Michael touched it on every possession. It
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: doesn't work that way in baseball, which is what makes
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: it so great. So the Brewers have a fighters chance
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  Speaker 8: to beat the Dodgers, and they have the best chance
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: to beat the Dodgers of any team in the National League.
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: Tim that parody is why I was pretty disappointed with
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: the Yankees at the trade deadline, not acquiring a reliever,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: not upgrading the catcher position. If you're a Yankee fan
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: like I am, at what point would you start to
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: get worried about Aaron Judge and the lack of information
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: on if Aaron Judge is going to come back this season.
• 20:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, it's it's confusing because he really isn't doing baseball
• 20:59
  Speaker 8: activities yet, and I think, you know, Labor Day is
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: a possibility that's in a month, that he'll be back
• 21:06
  Speaker 8: by then, but I'm not even certain of that. And
• 21:09
  Speaker 8: then there's of course a bigger question given that he's
• 21:12
  Speaker 8: six seven eighty two and we don't have a whole
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: lot of big everyday players that are great baseball players
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: like him. Are all the parts going to fit back together?
• 21:23
  Speaker 8: And is he going to be a great offensive player
• 21:26
  Speaker 8: and defensive player when he comes back. I think those
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: are legitimate questions. So I thought the Yankees would do
• 21:34
  Speaker 8: I thought they would upgrade their catching also, and they didn't.
• 21:37
  Speaker 8: But they are really counting on Aaron Judge coming back
• 21:40
  Speaker 8: and being really good, and I'm just not positive that
• 21:44
  Speaker 8: that's going to happen.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: Tim quite the debut for George Lombard Junior yesterday, so
• 21:50
  Speaker 6: maybe a good news Yankees question. What are your early
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: thoughts on him? And is it fair to compare him
• 21:55
  Speaker 6: to the best Yankees shortstop?
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: Ever?
• 21:57
  Speaker 8: Uh, a little early after one, I'm ready guy won
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: five rings and got well over three thousand hits. However,
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: I love what the Yankees did there. They need a
• 22:11
  Speaker 8: jolt of energy somehow, and you can't ask a twenty
• 22:15
  Speaker 8: one year old to come in and say, all right,
• 22:17
  Speaker 8: you're the smart plug. Let's go, We're gonna win because
• 22:19
  Speaker 8: you're here. That's too much. But I've seen him before
• 22:22
  Speaker 8: many times when just somebody comes up and if he's
• 22:26
  Speaker 8: not under the enormous pressure of oh, the savior is
• 22:29
  Speaker 8: here because this is a team that's going to the
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: playoffs anyway. But he added a jolt last night with
• 22:35
  Speaker 8: a homer in his second major league at bat. I
• 22:37
  Speaker 8: think it was the right thing to do. He's wildly talented.
• 22:40
  Speaker 8: He's comes from a great gene pool with his dad
• 22:44
  Speaker 8: and his brother, and I expect him to be a
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: really good player, just like Jeter was. The day that
• 22:50
  Speaker 8: Jeter showed up, and remember they didn't think he was
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: ready to play every day in the big leagues, and
• 22:56
  Speaker 8: he showed them that he was. I think similar things
• 22:59
  Speaker 8: are gonna happen from George Lombard.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: June, Timmy, We'll get you out of here in just
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: a second. You know, I'm a big Mets fan. The
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: problem in baseball, as far as I'm concerned, is all
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: the teams are not trying to win. The Mets are
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: certainly trying to win. They're just not good at it.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: What do they need to do to kind of right
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: the ship moving forward?
• 23:16
  Speaker 8: Well, I think they did the right thing Stu Gotts
• 23:19
  Speaker 8: by moving a bunch of players at the trade deadline,
• 23:22
  Speaker 8: because they have to get the bad taste out of
• 23:25
  Speaker 8: their mouth as much as they can from this season
• 23:28
  Speaker 8: and then rebuild again. But the lesson has to be
• 23:31
  Speaker 8: they try to rebuild an infield, new first baseman, second baseman,
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: new third baseman in one offseason, it usually doesn't work
• 23:40
  Speaker 8: that way. So David Stearns has a lot of work
• 23:43
  Speaker 8: to do. He's got to go get some pitching, and
• 23:45
  Speaker 8: he's got to go get some people to go with
• 23:47
  Speaker 8: the core that they have. They're led by Soto and Lindor,
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: but they brought up a couple outfielders, Ewing and benj
• 23:54
  Speaker 8: who showed that they are major league players. That's a
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: really good thing. But the Mets have a lot of
• 24:00
  Speaker 8: work to do to get themselves back into a contending
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: situation of some kind next year.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Timmy, we appreciate it. Check out his wonderful podcast.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: He does it with his son. Is this a great
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: game or what it is? Fantastic? Timmy, I got you
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: out here a minute early. I mean, how about that?
• 24:18
  Speaker 8: Well, thanks so much to guys. Is he see you soon?
• 24:21
  Speaker 8: I'll talk to you guys later.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Is that like a forklift backing up into you?
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: What is going on there? He told you had to
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: be out okay. The great Tim Kirchin. Thanks to him
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  Speaker 3: for joining us