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Ken Rosenthal & Joe Buck join FT on Opening Day! · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Best day of the year, except if there's Game seven
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Speaker 1: of the World Series. What's up, everybody, It's Scotti, bron
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Speaker 1: Danny Grahams, Todd Fraser, AJ Bruzinski and Aerocrats on opening
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Speaker 1: day coverage of Foul Territory. And we are live in Cincinnati. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: AJ and Krafts remotely set up in their spots, but
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Speaker 1: we're at Nation Kitchen and Bar at the Banks. We've
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Speaker 1: got predictions for you today. We'll be inside the ballpark
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Speaker 1: later today. Follow us on socials to see what we're doing.
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Speaker 1: Let's shout them out right at the top. Two though,
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Speaker 1: thank you for feeding us, Thank you for hosting us.
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Speaker 1: Nation Kitchen and Bar at the Banks. Be here for
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Speaker 1: a couple hours, be here tomorrow for a couple hours.
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Speaker 1: And tomorrow is a big day for the ft fen
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Speaker 1: that likes to sleep in one o'clock Eastern time. We're
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Speaker 1: back for the rest of the year. Also, if you're
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Speaker 1: in the area and you want to stop by and
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Speaker 1: say hello, they've got special offers. I'm from New York,
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Speaker 1: so when I see these prices, I'm losing my mind.
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Speaker 1: Three dollars Bush Lights three five dollars Twoss two dollars
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Speaker 1: Hot dogs one dollarhots. I'm like man yellow shot in
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Speaker 1: Chelsea in New York's like twenty Bucksnay, hey, Jay, you're
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Speaker 1: excited for Opening Day, and can I present this case
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Speaker 1: to you. There's only a few teams that I looked
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Speaker 1: at on paper and said they have no chance of
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Speaker 1: making the playoffs, like three or four tops.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. No, listen, I think I think this should be
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Speaker 2: a national holiday. I think it should be. I don't
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Speaker 2: know how we talk to to get that done, but
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Speaker 2: I think it should be a national holiday where kids
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Speaker 2: get off school, they get to tune into the games,
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Speaker 2: and you know, I like it. I like tradition, and
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Speaker 2: I liked it when Cincinnati used to be the first
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Speaker 2: game every year. They changed that. It used to be
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Speaker 2: the first one you knew Cincinnati at one o'clock. That
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Speaker 2: was the first game major League Baseball. It's changed, but
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Speaker 2: I like tradition. I was just as a national holiday
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Speaker 2: for everybody, I would go home.
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Speaker 3: Opener for each team is a local holiday since it's
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Speaker 3: a local sport, regional I agree. Opening Day, man, everybody's
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Speaker 3: everybody's juice. Spring training, got your swing locked in your
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Speaker 3: speedballs line, and you got your number one on the
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Speaker 3: mound love it.
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Speaker 4: There is nothing better, Danny.
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Speaker 1: We've all played it.
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Speaker 4: We've all been to the away teams opening day and
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Speaker 4: then either you come back or you start here. We
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Speaker 4: all know how crazy it is in Cincinnati. I was
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Speaker 4: looking back on some stuff that I did during, you know,
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Speaker 4: my eleven opening days that I've been to. Absolutely incredible.
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Speaker 4: It's where dreams come true, honestly. And I do agree.
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Speaker 4: It should be a holiday for the kids get out
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Speaker 4: of school. Whether it's you're going to the local park,
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Speaker 4: or you're going to your buddy's house, or you're coming
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Speaker 4: to the game.
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Speaker 1: Enjoy that.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, and I agree that the national holiday should be
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Speaker 5: a thing. And uh no, offense cratsy, not just a
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Speaker 5: team that's hosting that game, but what about all the
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Speaker 5: other cities that don't have teams in the city. Should
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Speaker 5: be a national holiday for them too, right, as long
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Speaker 5: as they're baseball fans.
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Speaker 1: I mean, ayj, we're in Florida. We know that they
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Speaker 1: love to take a little extra day off here and there,
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Speaker 1: so we could probably pitch that right for somebody.
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Speaker 2: Maybe call the governor and see if you'll let us
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Speaker 2: needed to be for it everywhere, not just Florida.
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Speaker 1: Exactly exactly. I'm with you. All right, let's charge the
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Speaker 1: dam mad, go over some news first predictions. Later, just
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Speaker 1: gonna hit one. Then we're gonna talk to ce Trent Rosecrant,
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Speaker 1: who already sees so we'll get him in like five
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Speaker 1: minutes to preview today's matchup between the Giants and the Reds.
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Speaker 1: But let's go over the Red Sox. A sexy pick
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Speaker 1: to represent the American League in the World Series. I
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Speaker 1: saw quite a few of those picks. I saw them
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Speaker 1: for some Ale East picks. But we talked about this
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Speaker 1: all spring training long. It was named official yesterday. Alex
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Speaker 1: Bregman third base, Raffield Devers DH, and it sounds like
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Speaker 1: it'll just be the case for the entire season. Bregman
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Speaker 1: didn't play any second in spring training. Devers didn't play
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Speaker 1: any third in spring training. So it's over.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the marriage is over. No, but we didn't know
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Speaker 4: what to expect. They came out, I know, Raphael Room.
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Speaker 4: We talked about how you know, you know, I want
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Speaker 4: to be in a position, I want to play third base,
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Speaker 4: this and that, and now we're seeing exactly what it is.
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Speaker 4: We're saying a full time DH, and now you're thinking Okay,
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Speaker 4: is this guy ever gonna play defense again? Maybe get
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Speaker 4: him a spot start here and there. Is that good
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Speaker 4: for him or is that bad for him? The focus
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Speaker 4: has to be winning games now. I think we got
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Speaker 4: to push this all aside. Bregman's their guy there barring
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Speaker 4: any injury or any kind of problems. But they're gonna
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Speaker 4: be a really good team. Let's not forget about this.
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Speaker 4: The Red Sox picked up some really good ballplayers in
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Speaker 4: the offseason, and they are ready to come for this
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Speaker 4: al least well.
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Speaker 5: I think Cors said it best. We're in the business
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Speaker 5: of winning, and Devers was on board with that. Whether
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Speaker 5: he is privately or publicly. He's still got a big
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Speaker 5: time contract for eight more years. He's still gonna make
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Speaker 5: a lot of money. He's still gonna hit the ball
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Speaker 5: out of the ballpark. And I think any smart manager
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Speaker 5: would rather have Greg Manette the hot corner every day
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Speaker 5: instead of Raphael Devers.
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Speaker 6: Agreed.
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Speaker 2: I thought the Devers would hold out, but he changed
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Speaker 2: his mind, so they made the move. Uh And I
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Speaker 2: like this move for their defense. I love Christian Campbell.
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Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a stud, so I
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Speaker 2: love this move for the Red Sox. And you'll see
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Speaker 2: in my predictions later why I love it so much.
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Speaker 3: They need to They need to make sure that they
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Speaker 3: keep Raffi in good shape because Bregman has a good year.
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Speaker 3: He gone and Raffie's back at third. So let's make
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Speaker 3: sure Raffi doesn't like stop taking ground balls altogether.
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Speaker 2: We need him to.
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Speaker 3: We don't need him to go full d eighth mode yet.
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Speaker 1: In the weeds. I don't love going over this story
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Speaker 1: because it's opening day and so it's to be all
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Speaker 1: fun stuff. But it did come out and get a
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Speaker 1: lot of attention yesterday. Jazz Chisholm and Miguel Rojas are
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Speaker 1: not friends, and they started last year where something came
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Speaker 1: out with Jazz talking about how he didn't like the
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Speaker 1: way Mickey Road treated him. Aj I remember talking about
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Speaker 1: it at the time. He unveiled a little more info
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Speaker 1: for us the other day. Uh Chris Kirshner wrote about
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Speaker 1: the story. He said that Miggi Rowe cut up a
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Speaker 1: pair of his flashy custom cleats that he bought. This
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Speaker 1: was his rookie season, so like five six years ago
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Speaker 1: he had designed him himself. Jazz and then Miggy also
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Speaker 1: ruined another pair by pouring milk in them. Yeah, this
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Speaker 1: was twenty twenty. Is rookie season. Thoughts on when you
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Speaker 1: saw this and how much does this happen in a clubhouse?
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Speaker 2: Oh, it used to happen a lot. It doesn't happen anymore. Especially,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think Tom Dan and Krafts can tell
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Speaker 2: you that when you were young, you used to just
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Speaker 2: sit in your locker not speak, And so for him
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Speaker 2: to come up and had all the flash and all this,
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Speaker 2: I guarantee you. I just I want to hear Miggy
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Speaker 2: Roe's side of this because we've heard jazz talk about
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Speaker 2: this and he hasn't gotten over it for years now.
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Speaker 2: And I remember when Nicky Roe got traded to the Dodgers,
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Speaker 2: jazz like, thank god he's gone. But I've never heard
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Speaker 2: anything bad about Mickey Roe from really anybody, and I
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Speaker 2: haven't really, I mean, I don't know jazz chism from
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Speaker 2: from anybody. But it's just I want to hear Miggy
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Speaker 2: roside because we're really hearing jazz side of it. So
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Speaker 2: what's theory, Because I doubt Miguel Rojas just walked into
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Speaker 2: the locker room and cut up Jazus cleats for no reason.
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Speaker 2: There has to be a backstory, and that's what I
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Speaker 2: want to hear. This is this is deep.
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Speaker 3: I mean, man, the man was cutting up some custom
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Speaker 3: cleats of a rookie, and like the guys that I
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Speaker 3: talked to, they couldn't really give me an explanation of
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Speaker 3: what happened beforehand. To me, I want to know what
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Speaker 3: happened to MIGGI when he was a rookie, because rarely, rarely,
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Speaker 3: rarely were people treated awesome, and then when they become
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Speaker 3: veterans treat other people like this. Not saying it wasn't deserved.
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Speaker 3: I'm not picking a side. I'm just saying normally it's hey,
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Speaker 3: the rookies. You know, I was treated this way as
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Speaker 3: a rookie, so now as a vet, I'm going to
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Speaker 3: do this. Like I've seen dudes get their suits cut
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Speaker 3: up because they wore shorts to the field, and then
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Speaker 3: when you get to the next city that veteran doesn't
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Speaker 3: buys them another suit. It's like a hazing, but like
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Speaker 3: also like bringing them closer, not like cutting stuff up
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with with what both of you guys said.
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Speaker 5: You come up as a rookie, you kind of just
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Speaker 5: want to be seen and not heard, right like you
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Speaker 5: don't want to step on anybody's toes. And then at
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Speaker 5: the same time with with Niggi, I don't know either
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Speaker 5: one of these guys. But there's nothing but good thing
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Speaker 5: said about Miguel Rojas. You know, everybody says what a
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Speaker 5: great guy he is. So yeah, I want to hear
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Speaker 5: his side of the story too, because and I'm not
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Speaker 5: saying Jazz is a liar and he's making these things up.
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Speaker 5: I'm just saying I'd like to hear both sides because we're.
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Speaker 1: Only getting one right now.
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Speaker 5: So I think that the picture of Meggi right now
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Speaker 5: is trying to be painted as a as a bad dude.
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Speaker 5: But then I hear what Kratzy's saying, did Meggie get
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Speaker 5: treated this way when he was a rookie? Did somebody
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Speaker 5: cut up his spikes when he was a rookie? And
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Speaker 5: now he's feels like he's got his learned to do
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Speaker 5: it against a rookie coming up. There's just so many
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Speaker 5: unknowns here because we're only hearing one side of the story.
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Speaker 4: And then and then to button it up. This is
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Speaker 4: this is in the eighties and nineties anymore. So you
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Speaker 4: figure things out, you talk to the guy, you take
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Speaker 4: them to the side, and I don't Yeah, you just
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Speaker 4: got to hear the full story from both dumb But yeah,
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Speaker 4: cutting up cleats that's you know that you designed, that's
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Speaker 4: pretty tough. But again, we don't know exactly what happens Scott.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean there was definitely some immaturity. I don't
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Speaker 1: know specific stories. Maybe one day we'll get that side
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Speaker 1: from Miggey Rojas. It sounds like he doesn't really want
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Speaker 1: to go there, but eventually he probably will to defend
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Speaker 1: himself and go back and forth. But yeah, this has
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Speaker 1: gotten pretty public. Obviously in a vacuum, if someone just
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Speaker 1: came and started destroying your stuff, it's gonna lead to
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Speaker 1: some problems and in a pretty good brawl. But you
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Speaker 1: really think he just went in there out of the
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Speaker 1: blue and said, I'm gonna pick on this quiet little rookie.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and he said maddingly had a I got a
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Speaker 4: conversation with the team as well, so at the time
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Speaker 4: we don't know what that was about. But yeah, I
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Speaker 4: just think maybe it was the wrong time to kind
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Speaker 4: of bring this kind of stuff up right before opening.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's all. I agree. It's weird timing to be
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Speaker 1: bringing this up. You have all winter long, we're on
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Speaker 1: everyday lab for two hours all year long, and we
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Speaker 1: got to talk about this on opening day. So let's
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Speaker 1: move on. Let's talk about the automated ball strike system that,
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Speaker 1: unfortunately AJ we're not going to see during the season,
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Speaker 1: but we got to see it in spring training. I
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Speaker 1: feel like it didn't get as much attention as I thought,
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Speaker 1: but in a good way. I didn't see much dissension
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Speaker 1: about this. So the stats were laid out by MLB.
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Speaker 1: Let's show those now two hundred eighty eight games with
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Speaker 1: ABS compared to seven hundred and forty games in ABS
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Speaker 1: and Triple A in twenty twenty four. Four point one
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Speaker 1: challenges per game compared to three point nine and Triple
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Speaker 1: A and twenty four. Basically, they're trying to compare how
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Speaker 1: a major league game would look like versus what they've
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Speaker 1: been testing in the minors. Not much of a difference
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Speaker 1: in challenges per game over turn percentage fifty two percent
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Speaker 1: compared to about fifty one percent Triple A, So basically
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Speaker 1: the same percentage of pitches challenged. It was almost exactly
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Speaker 1: the same, two point six versus two point five seconds
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Speaker 1: added per challenge thirteen point eight in triple A it
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Speaker 1: was sixteen point six. So basically everything was a mirror
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Speaker 1: of what they had been testing already. AJ, let's run
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Speaker 1: it for twenty twenty five. What are we waiting for?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Because not every team had it. That's why they're
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Speaker 2: waiting for. Not every team had it in spring training.
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Speaker 2: There was a bunch of teams that only had it
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Speaker 2: when they went on the road, so they didn't get
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Speaker 2: to try it out as much as some other teams.
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Speaker 2: So I love these numbers. I love the guys that
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Speaker 2: are was that cal Rawley was nine for nine. I
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Speaker 2: think that's why he got the big extension yesterday. It
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Speaker 2: was because he was so right on all these challenges. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: I mean, I love it. I think it's great for
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Speaker 2: the game, and I love what I've heard from people.
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Speaker 2: It makes umpires stay locked in even at the end
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Speaker 2: of a game when the strike zone used to get big.
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Speaker 2: Guess what if there's challenges left, they still have to
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Speaker 2: stay locked in and it doesn't waste people's at bats.
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Speaker 3: Cool love that love everybody locked in. It's the big
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Speaker 3: it's the best league of baseball in the world. Everybody
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Speaker 3: should be held to that standard. Pleating umpires.
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Speaker 1: There you go. I mean, there's not even that much
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Speaker 1: to say about this, Like it was, it was done beautifully. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: we got to see it more. Also, I mean I
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Speaker 1: have a separate issue to a Francona was like, I
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Speaker 1: don't want to even care about this member that. And
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Speaker 1: we're here because he's like, it's not for twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: like Terry, we're trying this out to make the game better.
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Speaker 1: But whatever. At some point we'll get him on old school,
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Speaker 1: old school as can be. And I get it. He
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Speaker 1: was out of the game for a year. He wants
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Speaker 1: to just focus on his team. I don't really think
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Speaker 1: there's that much of an issue. If you know, you
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Speaker 1: have a few challenges mixed into a game, is it
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Speaker 1: really going to throw things? Although you know what, I'm
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Speaker 1: waiting for one game in the first few days of
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Speaker 1: the year where someone does one of these or they
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Speaker 1: do it to MA and say like next year you're done.
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Speaker 1: It might happen.
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Speaker 4: It might happen.
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Speaker 1: We'll see.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's definitely gonna it's definitely gonna happen one of
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Speaker 4: them old school Max Scherzer, maybe in de Grom coming up.
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Speaker 1: Bill, You come on, man, we'll see right Ureser. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's a good call. ESPN do Buck joining us right
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Speaker 1: now as he's about to call his first game since
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty one, right, Joe, and great to have you on.
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Speaker 7: How you doing, hey, guys, Yeah, twenty twenty one. That's
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Speaker 7: the last time I laced him off.
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Speaker 3: I guess.
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Speaker 8: I mean I did a game last year with Chip Carrey.
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Speaker 7: But sitting here with Bill Schroeder, Joe Girardi getting set
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Speaker 7: to go, I can't wait. It's gonna be fun, whether
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Speaker 7: it is ideal here at Yankee Stadium, So all good.
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Speaker 2: How nervous are you? How nervous are you? That's all
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Speaker 2: I want to know. How nervous are you that Steve
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Speaker 2: Horn is gonna mess up the notes for you? And
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Speaker 2: then you go in and you look at Steve, You're like, Steve,
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Speaker 2: I haven't done a game in forever, and it's all
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Speaker 2: your fault.
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Speaker 7: Well, this is very insider information, but Steve Horn is
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Speaker 7: sick and at home and not even here, so I
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Speaker 7: don't have my security blanket with me today, so I'm
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Speaker 7: flying blind. I think I'll be okay, but say a
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Speaker 7: prayer for me. Aj I know you're rooting for me.
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Speaker 7: You're always in Mike Bourner.
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Speaker 3: What does rust look like for an announcer? Because you've
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Speaker 3: talked about players, he hasn't been there for a year.
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Speaker 3: Gotta get the rust off. Nobody actually knows what the
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Speaker 3: rust is. What's the rust for you?
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Speaker 1: Are you like?
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Speaker 2: And he goes back from deep pass? Wait, I mean
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Speaker 2: a deep fly ball?
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Speaker 8: That's pretty much it. Yeah, I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I guess just kind of tracking the ball from this
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Speaker 7: seat it's still the best seat in the house, and
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Speaker 7: reading outfielders and trying to put my brain around where
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Speaker 7: the runners are and you know who could score and
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Speaker 7: who's going to be held at third on base hits
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Speaker 7: into the gap, whatever it is. I mean, this is
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Speaker 7: part of my DNA. I'd like to think I'll get
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Speaker 7: right back into it. But if I don't, then it's fine.
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Speaker 7: I'm not auditioning for the jobs.
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Speaker 1: That's great. That's great.
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Speaker 4: You got the Yankees and Brewers coming up. Talk a
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Speaker 4: little bit about faulty games. What do you expect from
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Speaker 4: them this year and how you feel about their chances
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Speaker 4: of getting getting to the playoffs and making a run.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I mean two playoff teams from a year ago.
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Speaker 7: Milwaukee just seems to find a way here after year.
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Speaker 7: They've got a lot of good young players. Obviously, Jackson
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Speaker 7: s Curio is as good a young player as there
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Speaker 7: is in the game, and the Brewers identified that fast
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Speaker 7: and made sure that he was locked up into a
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Speaker 7: contract extension before he got one hit in the big leagues.
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Speaker 7: And you know, pitching wise, they're a little banged up,
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Speaker 7: but they've got Freddie brawl to going today, so they've
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Speaker 7: got their ace on the mountain.
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Speaker 8: For the Yankees, I mean.
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Speaker 7: You guys know, you know, in particular, this is a
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Speaker 7: team that is World Series or bust every year. And
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Speaker 7: you know, they don't have Garrett Cole, they don't have
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Speaker 7: John Carlos Stanton, they lost Juan Soto, but they've added
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Speaker 7: some pieces.
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Speaker 8: We just got finished talking.
16:54
Speaker 7: And Aaron Boone, he likes a lot of the young
16:56
Speaker 7: guys they've got, So there's a lot to like.
16:59
Speaker 8: It's just that they're gonna have to have guys.
17:01
Speaker 7: But sure, whether it's Austin Well as a catcher, Anthony
17:05
Speaker 7: Volpi the shortstop and needs to take the next step.
17:09
Speaker 8: I mean, on and on and on.
17:10
Speaker 7: Jason de Venga as a rookie that's gonna be starting
17:12
Speaker 7: in left fields. They need young guys to play well
17:16
Speaker 7: to go with Aaron Judge and Cody Bellinger and some
17:19
Speaker 7: of the other veterans they have now on this team.
17:23
Speaker 5: Hey, Joe, we've been having this conversation earlier today about
17:27
Speaker 5: Opening Day being in national holiday. I'd like to hear
17:30
Speaker 5: your opinion on that, And do you have a favorite
17:32
Speaker 5: Opening Day for all these decades of you and your
17:35
Speaker 5: family being in baseball.
17:38
Speaker 7: Yeah, I used to just love I mean, in Saint Louis,
17:40
Speaker 7: it is the holiday, you know. I know it's not
17:43
Speaker 7: a national one, but from where I where I come from,
17:47
Speaker 7: it's a special day. And they have the Clydes Dales
17:50
Speaker 7: going around the warning track, and I mean it is
17:53
Speaker 7: as much pomp and circumstance as you're gonna find anywhere
17:57
Speaker 7: in the country on Opening Day.
17:58
Speaker 8: That said, you know, this is the.
18:01
Speaker 7: Year for the Cardinals where they're not expected to do much.
18:04
Speaker 7: So I'm interested to see how that opening DD goes
18:08
Speaker 7: in Saint Louis. That's gonna be fun to watch for
18:12
Speaker 7: me and to see I think more the reception for
18:17
Speaker 7: members of the front office.
18:19
Speaker 8: With the kind of offseason that they've had.
18:22
Speaker 7: It's been a long time since you go into a
18:25
Speaker 7: season with a team that really hasn't done anything to
18:27
Speaker 7: improve their team. And the one stated goal they had
18:31
Speaker 7: in the off season was to trade Nolan Arnatto and
18:34
Speaker 7: they didn't even get that done. So it's still a
18:37
Speaker 7: special day. I just, you know, my dad being on
18:40
Speaker 7: the field. I miss that, reading the names of the players,
18:44
Speaker 7: seeing them come around in the cars, and getting out
18:47
Speaker 7: at home plate and getting the big ovations. It's specially
18:49
Speaker 7: in Saint Louis, but it's going to be special here
18:51
Speaker 7: today Yankee Stadium too.
18:55
Speaker 2: Joe as someone that has worked a game with you, ah,
18:58
Speaker 2: meaning one game with you. You know, I miss you
19:01
Speaker 2: in the booth because for baseball, I know people say, oh,
19:04
Speaker 2: you know, they give all the crap to Joe Buck,
19:06
Speaker 2: but I I personally I think you're the best. You
19:09
Speaker 2: meant when you hear Joe Buck, it's a big game, right,
19:12
Speaker 2: So I miss you in the booth. I know you
19:14
Speaker 2: have Joe Girardi next to you, so say hi to
19:16
Speaker 2: him for me. I don't know if Ed's feed is
19:18
Speaker 2: with you, who's your stack guy tell him he knows
19:20
Speaker 2: where you can go, and it's not Hey Joe, hey buddy,
19:25
Speaker 2: you know ed speede A stack guy tell him he
19:27
Speaker 2: can go wherever he needs to go. It's not there.
19:29
Speaker 2: Women's across game. But how much do you miss baseball?
19:33
Speaker 2: I know people say, oh, Joe Buck, you know cause
19:36
Speaker 2: you take all the heat, and he talked about it
19:37
Speaker 2: many times. And I'll tell this story. First time we
19:39
Speaker 2: ever worked together twenty eleven, I think in Detroit, we
19:43
Speaker 2: walked into the hotel bar and I'm like, I'm with
19:45
Speaker 2: Joe Buck, the coolest dude in the world, and fans
19:48
Speaker 2: started giving you crap and you just look. I don't
19:50
Speaker 2: even know what you said, but you had like the
19:52
Speaker 2: guys like I hate you, Joe Buck, and You're like,
19:54
Speaker 2: thanks for listening or something, and I'm like, this guy
19:56
Speaker 2: gets it. So that's why to me, I miss you
19:59
Speaker 2: doing base I tune into all your broadcasts in football,
20:02
Speaker 2: But do you miss baseball in the World Series and
20:04
Speaker 2: all the things you did?
20:06
Speaker 7: Yeah, I missed the big games. I missed the big moments.
20:09
Speaker 7: There's nothing like when people ask me, you know, what
20:12
Speaker 7: do you prefer doing? Football is huge. There's no doubting that,
20:16
Speaker 7: there's no questioning that. But a big moment in a
20:19
Speaker 7: game seven in baseball, there's nothing like it. There's nothing
20:23
Speaker 7: like it in sports. As I've said though before, it takes.
20:28
Speaker 8: A long, a long line of work.
20:32
Speaker 7: To get to a game seven. It takes a lot
20:34
Speaker 7: of reading. It takes you know, for you guys, it's
20:36
Speaker 7: different from players. I mean, that's what you're grinding for
20:39
Speaker 7: For us, it's it takes a lot to get there.
20:43
Speaker 7: And so I don't miss the day to day. I
20:46
Speaker 7: love the game. I watched the game. I'm a fan
20:49
Speaker 7: of the game. But as far as where I am
20:52
Speaker 7: in my life with six year old twins and daughters
20:54
Speaker 7: in their twenties, it's just a better lifestyle for me
20:57
Speaker 7: to be just doing football and watching.
21:00
Speaker 8: Role as a fan. So do I miss it.
21:02
Speaker 7: I missed that part of my life because I was
21:04
Speaker 7: a younger guy then. But I don't sit around wanting
21:08
Speaker 7: to do stuff that I'm not. I'm enjoying what I'm doing.
21:12
Speaker 3: Since you've been out, is there any big calls now
21:15
Speaker 3: you've heard that you kind of like you gotta get
21:17
Speaker 3: chills or you go that one's that's memorable.
21:20
Speaker 2: I know it's only been a few years.
21:23
Speaker 7: Yeah, no, I as far as guys doing it now, yeah,
21:26
Speaker 7: I mean I think Joe Davis is big game. Big
21:29
Speaker 7: calls are as good as anybody's ever done it. And
21:31
Speaker 7: his call of Freddie Freeman's Grand Slam in Game one
21:35
Speaker 7: of the World Series I texted him right after. He
21:38
Speaker 7: and I talked on the phone the next day. The
21:41
Speaker 7: directing by Matt Gangle, the Fox director. I thought the
21:44
Speaker 7: whole thing was like a movie and it's happening in
21:48
Speaker 7: a live, real life and I was blown away. So
21:53
Speaker 7: I know how hard those moments are, I know how
21:55
Speaker 7: fun those moments are. And I think Joe's done an
21:57
Speaker 7: unbelievable job and be more proud of him.
22:01
Speaker 8: So I don't miss that stuff really.
22:04
Speaker 7: I mean I I did a lot of it, and
22:08
Speaker 7: I feel like my work can stand on its own,
22:10
Speaker 7: and it was time really to let somebody else get
22:13
Speaker 7: in there and do it.
22:14
Speaker 2: Joe, you can't come back, Okay, you can't. I miss you,
22:18
Speaker 2: but you can't. But trying to suck up to Gangle
22:20
Speaker 2: and Zieger and all these guys, right, you cast your Chimpson,
22:24
Speaker 2: You cast your Chimpson. You know, as much as I'd
22:26
Speaker 2: love to work, you're out.
22:29
Speaker 8: I know that's fine. The game moves on, life moves on.
22:33
Speaker 1: True.
22:34
Speaker 2: I think you're doing okay though, I think you've done okay.
22:37
Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, Yeah, it's been fun.
22:41
Speaker 6: All right.
22:42
Speaker 1: Well let me one more, Joe before you jump. Yeah,
22:47
Speaker 1: just just a quick look at you know, MLB versus NFL.
22:50
Speaker 1: Obviously you're you're calling NFL games now, is there is
22:53
Speaker 1: there something that stands out about one or the other
22:55
Speaker 1: that they're doing better or worse than the other. And
22:57
Speaker 1: obviously we just came off you know, I would say
23:00
Speaker 1: hysteria in Japan for Sho hey o Tani and the
23:03
Speaker 1: Dodgers out there. So it's weird. It's like MLP's bigger
23:06
Speaker 1: in Japan. Obviously the NFL is American sport right now.
23:10
Speaker 7: Yeah, I think, well, obviously the NFL does a lot
23:14
Speaker 7: of things right. What was always a huge difference for me,
23:18
Speaker 7: especially in October, is when I was going back and
23:20
Speaker 7: forth between the two, was the pitch clock. When you've
23:26
Speaker 7: got a play clock in football and you can kind
23:28
Speaker 7: of gear yourself for the next snap, it's it's.
23:32
Speaker 8: Kind of an advantage for the play by play guy.
23:34
Speaker 7: This will be my first full game doing a game
23:37
Speaker 7: with a pitch flock, and we've got two analysts heres,
23:40
Speaker 7: so I'm anxious. I think the pitchclock has been great.
23:44
Speaker 7: I'm a big fan of it. I'm a fan of
23:46
Speaker 7: it as just a fan on the couch, and I
23:49
Speaker 7: think I'll be a fan of it as the play
23:51
Speaker 7: by play guy. But that's something new for me. I
23:54
Speaker 7: think like you say. I mean, the marketing for baseball
23:58
Speaker 7: in a has been amazing. Those two games for fun
24:00
Speaker 7: to watch. It's still a very big international game. The
24:05
Speaker 7: NFL is getting there as well, but Baseball and Opening
24:10
Speaker 7: Day this is special.
24:12
Speaker 8: And if I could.
24:12
Speaker 7: Turn I don't know if I can turn the camera
24:14
Speaker 7: on or not, Probably we'll it'll mess the whole thing up.
24:17
Speaker 8: But I mean it is crystal clear.
24:20
Speaker 7: The stadium is just perfect, and this place will be
24:24
Speaker 7: packed rooting on the Yankees trying to beat the Brewers,
24:27
Speaker 7: and I can't wait to watch it.
24:29
Speaker 1: Oh, Joe, We're excited to listen. Thanks for joining us
24:31
Speaker 1: from the booth. Means a lot to us and obviously
24:33
Speaker 1: to the fans. Have a great call.
24:36
Speaker 8: All right, guys, thank you, thanks for having me.
24:44
Speaker 1: We've got the homage inside Scoop with FT Senior insider
24:47
Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal. Happy Opening day to you, Ken. Great to
24:50
Speaker 1: see you and your storylines were put out for the year.
24:53
Speaker 1: Do you want to give us a little taste of
24:54
Speaker 1: one or two that stood out well.
24:58
Speaker 6: I had the A's and the Rais playing in minor
25:01
Speaker 6: league ballparks. That was one. I had the Aging Aces,
25:04
Speaker 6: Verlanders Sherzer Kershaw that was another. Talked a lot about
25:08
Speaker 6: the divisions, talked a lot about how the National League
25:11
Speaker 6: is clearly superior right now to the American League and
25:14
Speaker 6: how that might play out. So that was some of it.
25:17
Speaker 6: There were twelve storylines in all. Story was like thirty
25:20
Speaker 6: five hundred words long, so there's plenty to get through there.
25:26
Speaker 1: So I want to double down on what you said
25:28
Speaker 1: with the ballparks. We talked about it a lot over
25:31
Speaker 1: the offseason. It's actually here. It's still hard for me
25:35
Speaker 1: to fathom that not one, but two teams are going
25:38
Speaker 1: to play in minor league facilities for the entire year.
25:41
Speaker 1: How weird will it be for you to get to
25:44
Speaker 1: one of those games. I'm sure you'll get to at
25:46
Speaker 1: least one, if not both, over the course of the year.
25:48
Speaker 1: And I know we're looking at the A situation as Hey,
25:51
Speaker 1: they totally deserve this. They set this up. You could
25:53
Speaker 1: make the same case for the Rays because I know
25:55
Speaker 1: that there was a disaster down there with the hurricane,
25:58
Speaker 1: but they had twenty years to get a new ballpark
25:59
Speaker 1: to get that could have withstood that.
26:02
Speaker 6: Well, you can make that case. But as I wrote,
26:05
Speaker 6: the A's situation is self inflicted. The Rays one, when
26:08
Speaker 6: you can argue, yes, that it's self inflicted because they
26:12
Speaker 6: didn't get a new ballpark done sooner. It really is
26:15
Speaker 6: the result of the roof blowing off Tropic Counterfield. So
26:19
Speaker 6: they're distinct situations, at least in my view.
26:22
Speaker 2: It will be interesting to.
26:23
Speaker 6: See how this plays out. I don't know if you
26:25
Speaker 6: guys have seen some of the photos of how steinbredder
26:28
Speaker 6: Field has been transformed into a raised stadium, which is cool,
26:32
Speaker 6: But playing outdoors for the Rays that's going to be
26:35
Speaker 6: interesting because of the weather in Florida in the summer,
26:38
Speaker 6: and I know that there's been a lot of talk
26:40
Speaker 6: also about the heat and Sacramento in the summer. People
26:43
Speaker 6: have told me that's not as big a deal. It
26:45
Speaker 6: gets hot, yes, it gets hot everywhere, but nothing impressive.
26:49
Speaker 6: But just the idea of these teams playing in those
26:51
Speaker 6: facilities now it might energize them to some degree because
26:55
Speaker 6: in each case they're selling a lot of tickets and
26:58
Speaker 6: that's not something they necessarily in either of their previous existences.
27:02
Speaker 6: So I'm interested to see, yes, how this plays out
27:07
Speaker 6: real quick.
27:08
Speaker 4: You don't have to go on depth here, but Dodgers
27:10
Speaker 4: dynasty or not. Do you see this team going through
27:13
Speaker 4: divisions and the league simply and easily, or do you
27:18
Speaker 4: see them, you know, coming up a little short this year?
27:22
Speaker 6: Todd, I definitely see them making the playoffs. They've made it,
27:24
Speaker 6: what eleven twelve straight years. That's not going to change.
27:28
Speaker 6: The one thing that does concern me is simply the
27:31
Speaker 6: strength of the league and the difficulty of getting through
27:33
Speaker 6: a division series and then league Championship Series and World Series.
27:38
Speaker 6: We've seen them have difficulties in the DS really three
27:41
Speaker 6: straight years. They won it last year, but let's not
27:44
Speaker 6: forget they were downing two games to one in San Diego,
27:48
Speaker 6: throwing a bullpen game. I wouldn't say it's a miracle
27:51
Speaker 6: that they won, but the odds were against them, so
27:54
Speaker 6: clearly the regular season they'll do what they need to
27:57
Speaker 6: do there to get to the playoffs and that'll be
28:00
Speaker 6: for them. But once they get in the playoffs, if
28:03
Speaker 6: you face the Braves with a healthy Chris Sail, a
28:06
Speaker 6: healthy Spencer Strider, maybe Spencer swelling back, and then you
28:09
Speaker 6: get I don't know, maybe you get the Phillies in
28:12
Speaker 6: the Division series instead with Sola and Sanchez and Wheeler,
28:16
Speaker 6: or maybe it's someone else entirely, and you still have
28:18
Speaker 6: a difficult time the Diamondbacks, the Gallon burns Kelly. It's
28:23
Speaker 6: not that easy to win in the playoffs. We know
28:26
Speaker 6: that the regular season, the best teams generally prevail, but
28:30
Speaker 6: we'll see how it all plays out in October.
28:34
Speaker 5: So Ken, I'm not going to ask any predictions. I
28:37
Speaker 5: know that we don't like those around here. But when
28:41
Speaker 5: you talk about the AL East, you say it's the
28:43
Speaker 5: AKA the Great Wide Open. I'm predicting that three teams
28:46
Speaker 5: could make the playoffs out of the AL East. What's
28:48
Speaker 5: your take on that?
28:49
Speaker 6: Dand it's certainly reasonable and the division is that strong,
28:52
Speaker 6: I will say, though, keep your mind last year three
28:56
Speaker 6: teams made it out of the Central and those teams,
28:58
Speaker 6: each of them feel that they're improved, as do the
29:00
Speaker 6: Minnesota Twins. And in the West we have three teams,
29:04
Speaker 6: the Rangers, the Astros, and the Mariners, who the projection
29:07
Speaker 6: systems from Pakoda and Fangrafts all have within two games
29:11
Speaker 6: of each other. You've got a better improved Oakland team,
29:14
Speaker 6: and I believe the Angels.
29:15
Speaker 1: Will be better as well.
29:16
Speaker 6: So the league is really competitive. I don't know that
29:20
Speaker 6: there's a super team. That's why I called it the
29:22
Speaker 6: wide open Al East. But I expect serious competition, and
29:27
Speaker 6: I don't know that I can say for certainty that
29:31
Speaker 6: the three teams will come out of the Al East,
29:33
Speaker 6: when in fact it could be one of the other divisions.
29:35
Speaker 1: That gets to me.
29:37
Speaker 2: Ken I will not stand for the blasphemy of Florida.
29:40
Speaker 2: By the way, the outside heat in Florida is terrible,
29:42
Speaker 2: So let's just stop the blasphemy of Florida weather. Okay,
29:46
Speaker 2: the Rays are concerned about it, though I know that
29:49
Speaker 2: having been to camp and talking to them, they are
29:50
Speaker 2: concerned about the heat and the rainouts and all that
29:53
Speaker 2: with their pitchers. So that part I'll give you. But
29:55
Speaker 2: don't blast the Florida weather because it's much better than
29:57
Speaker 2: Baltimore or Phoenix. So wherever it is you lay your
30:00
Speaker 2: head at night. Now, let's get to the question why
30:02
Speaker 2: is the National League so much better than the American League.
30:04
Speaker 2: We did our power rankings a couple of days ago.
30:06
Speaker 2: I forgot mine, but I know I had like five
30:09
Speaker 2: or six National League teams before I got to the
30:11
Speaker 2: first American League team. Why is it such a difference
30:14
Speaker 2: in talent? Talent on teams?
30:18
Speaker 6: Part of it is money, for certain that the Mets,
30:21
Speaker 6: the Dodgers, the Phillies have spent big in recent years.
30:24
Speaker 6: The Graves have I believe a top ten payroll as well.
30:28
Speaker 6: And the other part is in the American League, the Yankees,
30:32
Speaker 6: if they were healthy, I think we'd be looking at
30:34
Speaker 6: this differently. We'd be looking at the Yankees as a
30:36
Speaker 6: clear favorite. They're not healthy, obviously, and the Red Sox
30:40
Speaker 6: haven't spent.
30:41
Speaker 1: To the level that you would think in.
30:43
Speaker 6: Recent years, and that's been part of it as well.
30:46
Speaker 6: But it just seems to me aj it's probably a
30:49
Speaker 6: snapshot in time. I don't know that there's any particular
30:52
Speaker 6: rhyme or reason to it. Money definitely is part of it,
30:55
Speaker 6: but it's not the whole story.
30:58
Speaker 8: What about Sandy a contra.
31:00
Speaker 3: We haven't even haven't even played a game yet, already
31:02
Speaker 3: talking Sandy al Contra getting traded. Is it more indicative
31:07
Speaker 3: of his starts before he gets traded, or is it
31:11
Speaker 3: a deadline, like a line where it's like, okay, trade
31:14
Speaker 3: deadlines in July?
31:16
Speaker 2: Will trade?
31:17
Speaker 3: You know, we could move him by June, or could
31:19
Speaker 3: it be like a earlier the season May type of
31:21
Speaker 3: thing once he shows he's healthy.
31:24
Speaker 6: They traded Arise in May last year, so it's certainly possible. Now.
31:27
Speaker 1: I want to be.
31:28
Speaker 6: Careful talking about the other Florida team because the head
31:31
Speaker 6: of the Florida Chamber of Commerce just warned me not
31:34
Speaker 6: to say anything untoured about anything in that great state.
31:37
Speaker 6: But the Marlins, we know where they're at right, we
31:41
Speaker 6: know what they're doing. They're rebuilding, and here is their
31:44
Speaker 6: biggest piece, their most expensive player, Sandy Alcantra, who look
31:48
Speaker 6: great in spring training, touched one hundred, looked like his old,
31:52
Speaker 6: cy young self. So there's every reason to believe that
31:55
Speaker 6: they are going to move him now. The timing Eric
31:58
Speaker 6: is interesting because certainly I don't know if he shows
32:02
Speaker 6: in five or six starts that he's right where he
32:05
Speaker 6: used to be, maybe that's the time to strike and
32:07
Speaker 6: get the maximum return, or maybe you wait and have
32:10
Speaker 6: that deadline kind of frenzy take place and get the.
32:14
Speaker 8: Maximum bid that way.
32:15
Speaker 6: I'm not sure how it's going to go. Let's just
32:17
Speaker 6: hope he's healthy because if he's healthy, that'll be a
32:20
Speaker 6: fun pitcher to watch again. And yes, as I wrote,
32:23
Speaker 6: he will be a walking trade rumor.
32:26
Speaker 2: Ken, you're in Houston this weekend with Fox Right, Matt's Houston.
32:30
Speaker 2: I am Atlanta versus San Diego. So I won the
32:32
Speaker 2: weather battle there for sure, and we can make an
32:36
Speaker 2: argument for the match. But give me a preview of
32:38
Speaker 2: your game this weekend. Who you got, who's pitching, and
32:40
Speaker 2: what you're expecting to see from Juan Soto, Cam Smith,
32:43
Speaker 2: et cetera.
32:44
Speaker 6: We've got the Saturday game. It's Spencer Araghetti versus Griffin Canning.
32:47
Speaker 6: And the interesting thing for me a couple of them.
32:51
Speaker 6: One obviously is Soto, two Cam Smith, and the cam
32:55
Speaker 6: Smith story is one we're all going to pay paying
32:57
Speaker 6: close attention to in the early stay ages of the season.
33:01
Speaker 6: Then we've got Altuve and left field. There are all
33:03
Speaker 6: kinds of things going on in this series, all kinds
33:06
Speaker 6: of things going on with these teams, and with the Mets,
33:10
Speaker 6: it's can they sustain themselves? Through their starting pitching injuries
33:13
Speaker 6: early in the season, and how will it all play
33:16
Speaker 6: out offensively? With Soto I think pretty good. And with
33:19
Speaker 6: the Astros it's a new team. It's a much different
33:22
Speaker 6: Astros team than we've seen in the past. No Tucker,
33:25
Speaker 6: no Bregman, no Presley incomes Christian Walker and Parades and
33:30
Speaker 6: Cam Smith and Zach Decenzo. So I am really looking
33:34
Speaker 6: forward to this matchup, and yours is a good matchup too,
33:37
Speaker 6: Brave Padre is nothing wrong with that, but there's a
33:40
Speaker 6: lot of intrigue with both these clubs.
33:43
Speaker 3: Let's talk about pressure. Who's on the most Who has
33:46
Speaker 3: the most pressure this first month of the season to
33:49
Speaker 3: start out hot or else they could be fired or
33:52
Speaker 3: team team could look different.
33:55
Speaker 6: I don't know that anyone is in danger of getting
33:57
Speaker 6: fired in the first month, because teams don't do that
34:01
Speaker 6: the way they used to. I covered a team that
34:03
Speaker 6: fired its manager after six games in nineteen eighty eight,
34:06
Speaker 6: the Orioles, and then lost fifteen more. But those days
34:10
Speaker 6: are essentially gone. Teams are much more patient with their managers,
34:13
Speaker 6: at least in season. But when you ask which teams
34:17
Speaker 6: are under pressure, I would say the Blue Jays certainly
34:20
Speaker 6: Blue Jays for a couple of reasons. Their front office,
34:23
Speaker 6: Mark Shapira and Ross Atkins has been under fire for
34:25
Speaker 6: quite some time now, at least from the fan base,
34:27
Speaker 6: if not ownership. Shapira's in the last year of his contract,
34:31
Speaker 6: Atkins has two years left. They're tied together also Vlad Junior,
34:35
Speaker 6: Boba Schett and less Vlad signs than the next couple
34:38
Speaker 6: of hours, which I don't necessarily anticipate. Those two guys
34:42
Speaker 6: are entering their walk years. This team has invested a
34:44
Speaker 6: lot in this season, signing Scherzer and Santander and trading
34:48
Speaker 6: for Jim Andez, so they're under pressure. The Cubs have
34:51
Speaker 6: a very difficult schedule in the first month, but I
34:55
Speaker 6: don't know that it's going to lead to anyone getting fired.
34:57
Speaker 6: Their president of baseball operations, Jed Hoyer, though so is
35:00
Speaker 6: in the last year of his contract and as the
35:02
Speaker 6: head of baseball operations. Remember he worked for theo Epstein
35:06
Speaker 6: for many years before this. But as the head of
35:09
Speaker 6: baseball operations, they have yet to make the playoffs. So
35:12
Speaker 6: those are a couple of teams. You can point to
35:14
Speaker 6: a few more as well, the Orioles. Certainly, it's not
35:17
Speaker 6: a firing situation. But their window is their window. It's
35:21
Speaker 6: gonna last a couple of more years for sure, and
35:24
Speaker 6: they've got some great, young, talented position players. But they're
35:27
Speaker 6: all and five in the playoffs the last two years,
35:30
Speaker 6: so we'll see how this all plays out for those clubs.
35:33
Speaker 2: Key, can you answer a question for me? I picked
35:35
Speaker 2: the Braves to win the World Series, so can you
35:37
Speaker 2: can you answer this question for me? You reported that
35:39
Speaker 2: this could be Brian Snickers last year, and Scott yelled
35:42
Speaker 2: at me when I said that he could be retiring
35:43
Speaker 2: at the end of the year, So can you confirm
35:45
Speaker 2: that those reports are true.
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Speaker 6: It's certainly not known what Snicker is going to do
35:53
Speaker 6: at the end of the year. He is going to
35:55
Speaker 6: leave his options open. But everything I've heard from people
35:58
Speaker 6: around the Braves is these energy, he's happy, he likes
36:01
Speaker 6: what he's doing, So we'll see how the year goes.
36:05
Speaker 6: It's a decision he'll probably make at the end of
36:07
Speaker 6: the year, but I don't know that we have any
36:10
Speaker 6: particular insight into it right now. AJ, we'll see this.
36:13
Speaker 6: We're both picking the Braves to win the World Series.
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Speaker 6: How about that? Oh?
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Speaker 2: No, I changed my pick I'm changing my pick.
36:19
Speaker 1: How do I call it?
36:20
Speaker 2: Change my pick? I don't care pick the Marland picks,
36:22
Speaker 2: polite Sox, pick anybody that's the ultimate, change ultimate and
36:36
Speaker 2: change change immediately.
36:39
Speaker 1: That's good, all right. I'll try to bring us back
36:41
Speaker 1: on the rails. Here's something a little insidery. Were you
36:46
Speaker 1: surprised at certain teams not getting extensions done with players?
36:51
Speaker 1: Not that we even heard any buzz about them, but
36:53
Speaker 1: I'll bring up a couple team examples. We still don't
36:56
Speaker 1: have any of those Orioles players locked up. I know
37:00
Speaker 1: there's not a ton necessarily, but obviously Gunner gets mentioned,
37:03
Speaker 1: Adlee Ruschman gets mentioned. If they got off the hot
37:06
Speaker 1: starts or have big seasons, the price goes up. The
37:09
Speaker 1: Angels are really big fans of some of their young core.
37:12
Speaker 1: Sam Blum wrote an article I think that was really
37:15
Speaker 1: at least last night in The Athletic about how they
37:17
Speaker 1: haven't locked up any of those players two extensions. So
37:21
Speaker 1: I feel like this has been going on for a
37:22
Speaker 1: long time. Ken you know the Braves did this long ago,
37:25
Speaker 1: John Hart, you know back in the day, Braves are
37:28
Speaker 1: doing this now. Other teams do this really well, and
37:31
Speaker 1: some don't does that confuse you?
37:36
Speaker 6: No, I wouldn't say it confuses me, because each circumstance
37:39
Speaker 6: is different. I don't know how Keen Ardie Moreno is
37:42
Speaker 6: unlocking these players up. I don't know to what extent
37:45
Speaker 6: the Angels have tried. In the Orioles case, Rushman is
37:49
Speaker 6: coming off a down second half, it's not the ideal
37:51
Speaker 6: time for him to sign an extension. And Gunner Henderson
37:54
Speaker 6: is represented by Scott Boris.
37:56
Speaker 1: Who, as I've said many times before.
37:58
Speaker 6: Prefers his guys to hit the open mark and establish
38:01
Speaker 6: their values that way. So each case is different, Scott,
38:04
Speaker 6: And you're right. I would say this season, or this
38:07
Speaker 6: particular march has maybe had less extensions than in the past.
38:11
Speaker 6: It seems that way. But you saw cal Raley do
38:13
Speaker 6: a big one. You saw Alejandro Kirk this week. There
38:16
Speaker 6: have been extensions in the last week or so. I
38:20
Speaker 6: just think each case is different.
38:22
Speaker 1: Okay, Well, ken enjoy opening day. We're very excited about it, obviously.
38:27
Speaker 1: I have a great first game Matt's and Astros, and
38:30
Speaker 1: we'll talk to you next week.
38:32
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40:10
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Speaker 1: one from Inside Edge. Paul Skein's kraid on played appearances
40:22
Speaker 1: ending in elevated fastballs in twenty twenty four forty six percent. Danny,
40:27
Speaker 1: is that good?
40:28
Speaker 4: Huh?
40:29
Speaker 1: Very good? Is that good?
40:31
Speaker 8: Yeah?
40:31
Speaker 1: God to eat the Violin's hitters. I love that.
40:34
Speaker 8: That is beautiful.
40:36
Speaker 1: That's nice. Yeah krats. Do you like that, mister Kratz stats.
40:41
Speaker 8: That's that?
40:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, I love it.
40:42
Speaker 3: But when he first broke in, people were afraid his
40:45
Speaker 3: fastball wasn't going to play at the top of the zone.
40:47
Speaker 3: How's he going to be able to pitch? Well, he's
40:50
Speaker 3: done pretty decent.
40:52
Speaker 1: That's right. Yeah, Age, I remember that they were worried
40:56
Speaker 1: about a potential dead zone fastball.
40:59
Speaker 2: No, you were, Scott. You were you to explain to
41:02
Speaker 2: me what the what the dead zone fastball was. I
41:04
Speaker 2: didn't even know. I never even heard of such a thing.
41:07
Speaker 1: So you think I'm coming up with something like that.
41:09
Speaker 1: I'm not smart enough, nor did I play I am.
41:12
Speaker 2: You introduced it. You introduced it to me, so I
41:14
Speaker 2: didn't even know what it was. So so I think
41:17
Speaker 2: you know, one hundred and one with a splinker plays anywhere.
41:21
Speaker 2: And by the way, I just saw Tanner Biby got
41:23
Speaker 2: scratched to take his food poisoning. So let's make sure
41:25
Speaker 2: you guys eat something good there, don't You don't want.
41:28
Speaker 1: To lose y'all or don't eat at all. But no,
41:30
Speaker 1: we're good here. But if you're a player, yeah, be careful.
41:33
Speaker 1: There's been there's been a lot of stomach issues for players,
41:35
Speaker 1: honestly over the last couple of weeks. But uh, aj
41:38
Speaker 1: you know who introduced dead zone fastball to me. Our
41:41
Speaker 1: FT teammate, Trevor May is a big dead zone fastball guy.
41:44
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously he figured out how to not be
41:47
Speaker 1: a dead zone fastball guy personally. But anyway, let's move
41:49
Speaker 1: to show heck, so we put this one out this
41:51
Speaker 1: week too, Show Hayes batting average in hitters counts since
41:56
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three is four ninety four. Well, it's like
42:04
Speaker 1: every other one that's not on base, that's batting average. Wow,
42:09
Speaker 1: that's not.
42:10
Speaker 4: Two oh twall one three one one oh wow.
42:14
Speaker 1: Right, that's not balls and players. That's batting average. When
42:18
Speaker 1: he has count leverage, it's incredible.
42:21
Speaker 5: And you can't pitch around him because he's gonna steal
42:23
Speaker 5: second and third if.
42:24
Speaker 2: You just walk him.
42:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, so what do you do? Look look at krats
42:29
Speaker 1: If it's three to one, is that what you're doing? Crats?
42:32
Speaker 3: Garrett Cole, I mean, I'm just doing the Garrett Cole
42:36
Speaker 3: I had a no hitter. He's like, Hey, whatever, we're
42:38
Speaker 3: gonna do it. We're gonna go put him on. Holy crap,
42:40
Speaker 3: what a number. I saw this on Twitter. Yikes, that's
42:45
Speaker 3: shows the kids swing at strikes, don't swing at balls
42:50
Speaker 3: there Dame is super easy a.
42:54
Speaker 1: J How would you handle him if you have a
42:57
Speaker 1: rookie pitcher and he's falling behind.
43:00
Speaker 2: There's an old saying, throw it over the fricking plate.
43:02
Speaker 2: So get strike one right, best, Danie'll tell you best
43:04
Speaker 2: pitch of baseball, strike one. If you're O one, O two,
43:08
Speaker 2: guess what, you're ahead of the count, you have a
43:09
Speaker 2: better shut. How many times Todd krats when you're behind
43:12
Speaker 2: an the coun where you're like, oh man, I don't
43:14
Speaker 2: want to be behind in the count. I want to
43:15
Speaker 2: be in front of the count. So don't fall behind him.
43:17
Speaker 2: If you get ahead of them, I guarantee he's not hit.
43:19
Speaker 2: In four ninety four.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, there's the lesson pitchers get ahead, hit or
43:26
Speaker 5: swing a strikes?
43:28
Speaker 8: Simple, simple, yeah.
43:30
Speaker 4: And as you get older they swing up more strikes yeah,
43:32
Speaker 4: and less bold.
43:34
Speaker 2: You know.
43:35
Speaker 1: So, how concerned do you think aj young pitchers are
43:40
Speaker 1: with serving up a first pitch fastball in the zone.
43:44
Speaker 1: They get crushed.
43:47
Speaker 2: I think it's what Danny said earlier. These kids don't
43:50
Speaker 2: really understand a lot of them are just taught to
43:51
Speaker 2: throw as hard as you can. It's not about quality,
43:53
Speaker 2: It's about velocity. So I think that's why you see
43:56
Speaker 2: not being able to pitch around guys, and that's why
43:58
Speaker 2: you see oh my stuff, he's better. I can just
44:01
Speaker 2: beat these guys, and these hitters are like, yeah, watch
44:03
Speaker 2: this whack.
44:05
Speaker 1: Yep exactly all right, So if you like those, we'll
44:09
Speaker 1: do a lot more of that throughout the season. Well
44:12
Speaker 1: inside Edge, and we'll do a longer last segment because
44:15
Speaker 1: they do want to actually run through some of these matchups.
44:18
Speaker 1: Look at the pitching matchups, right, it's the only time
44:20
Speaker 1: of year when technically you're supposed to have like everybody
44:23
Speaker 1: in one day putting out their number one starter, except
44:27
Speaker 1: for maybe the Diamondbacks, which we covered the other day.
44:29
Speaker 1: So you can go to a previous show on that
44:31
Speaker 1: one with Corbyn going in game five.
44:34
Speaker 2: Yeah, before we go, I know it's Opening Day, but
44:39
Speaker 2: this is for you, Danny, screw your Hurricanes. Who cares
44:46
Speaker 2: about the crowd?
44:47
Speaker 6: Five?
44:47
Speaker 2: Yes, I know it's gonna make fun of me, but
44:50
Speaker 2: he ain't got no roctors.
44:55
Speaker 1: We did that year came out.
44:57
Speaker 2: The last time this came out, Florida went what back
45:00
Speaker 2: to baby?
45:01
Speaker 6: So here we go.
45:05
Speaker 5: I can't argue that because it has no business even
45:09
Speaker 5: sniffing any of these fast motors now.
45:11
Speaker 1: And I thought Rutgers was gonna be good that I
45:13
Speaker 1: went to UM and Rutgers. These are my two best friends.
45:16
Speaker 1: We both went to UM. Rutgers is my favorite team
45:19
Speaker 1: growing up where my parents went. They have two out
45:22
Speaker 1: of the top five NBA picks and they couldn't make
45:24
Speaker 1: it to the tournament. Absolute atrocious years for them. There's
45:28
Speaker 1: no other way to say. We're gonna stay on. We're
45:30
Speaker 1: gonna go over more of our picks. FT at Nation
45:34
Speaker 1: Kitchen and Bar. The Banks continues tomorrow one o'clock Eastern time.
45:38
Speaker 1: We'll go up until three and then we'll fly home.
45:41
Speaker 1: But we're gonna be at the game later tonight or
45:43
Speaker 1: today really for the Reds and the Giants. And then
45:46
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Speaker 4: That's it's ten times worse.
45:57
Speaker 1: No, yeah, it's ten times crazy.
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