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Rockies checkup w/Kelsey Wingert-Linch: Dollander’s call, Veen time, Fans booing Kris Bryant · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: If you're not putting Brenton Doyle and top two or
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Speaker 1: three center fielders in MLB, I challenge you to watch
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Speaker 1: a few more Rockies games.
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Speaker 2: Hey, here we go, Kelsey Winger Lynch joining us right now. Kelsey,
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Speaker 2: good to see you. It's been a minute. Kelsey covers
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Speaker 2: the Rockies TV field reporter, the whole deal.
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Speaker 1: How you doing, I'm doing good. I just flew in
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Speaker 1: from Denver. They're awful storms in Atlanta. So I had
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Speaker 1: a red eye last night that got moved to four
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Speaker 1: to twenty five, and so I've made it. I'm good.
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Speaker 3: Good.
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Speaker 2: Well, we're glad you made it so that you could
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Speaker 2: join us too, because this is the time right for
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Speaker 2: the Rockies and their fans to watch young players emerging here.
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Speaker 2: They need something to hope for. Chase Dolander just made
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Speaker 2: his debut this weekend. Zach Nan gets called up now,
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Speaker 2: So can you give us the goods on what to
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Speaker 2: expect here?
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Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean these are two guys. When you're looking
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Speaker 1: at spring training, people were thinking that they were probably
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Speaker 1: going to break the opening day roster. Chase Dolander not
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Speaker 1: as much as a surprise as somebody who's only made
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Speaker 1: twenty four starts in the minor leagues. He only has
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Speaker 1: one start in Triple A, which came this season, but
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Speaker 1: zach Veen had such a good spring he actually won
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Speaker 1: the team's MVP award they give out every year, the
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Speaker 1: Abby Career Award. But these are two young talent guys.
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Speaker 1: Ven obviously drafted out of high school in twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: Dolander drafted in twenty twenty three out of Tennessee. But
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Speaker 1: these are some of the names along with the Brenton Doyles,
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Speaker 1: the Ezekiel Tovars, who have already solidified themselves. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if you're watching the show, you probably should know who
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Speaker 1: Brenton Doyle and Ezekiel Tovar is. But these are two
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Speaker 1: of the other names now that we've been hearing for
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Speaker 1: a long time, that we're finally getting to see, and
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Speaker 1: two names that can really excite this fan base. People
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Speaker 1: who are die hard Rockies fans know these names and
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Speaker 1: have been waiting for them to get here. So it
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Speaker 1: was exciting to see I'll underdo what he did last night,
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Speaker 1: and then Zach Veen, I mean, what he's done in
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Speaker 1: Triple A this season. But Bud Black said, if he
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Speaker 1: forces the way on the roster. He forces his way
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Speaker 1: on the roster, and that's exactly what he did.
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Speaker 3: Kelsey. A couple of things. First of all, Man, I
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Speaker 3: feel old because I was there when you started with
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Speaker 3: the Braves. Now that you've already switched teams, gosh, Doug,
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Speaker 3: I feel old. But it's amazing what you what a
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Speaker 3: career you've had for yourself. So I'm very happy for you.
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Speaker 3: And I love your Dale Murphy jersey behind you because
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Speaker 3: I have the same one I wore and actually the
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Speaker 3: other day, not long ago. Yep, I have one similar.
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Speaker 3: But I'm a little bit mad you don't have my
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Speaker 3: batting gloves up there. I figured you could have got
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Speaker 3: a pair of I ripped so many I figured you
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Speaker 3: would get a pair.
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Speaker 1: I have a pair of Tyler flowers, so I'm kind
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Speaker 1: of surprised I don't have a pair of yours.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, me too. I'm disappointed in you, but I mean
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Speaker 3: I can send you a pair.
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Speaker 4: Behind you.
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Speaker 1: Those are all the ones, yes, those are.
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Speaker 3: All the broken ones. No torpedoes in there, but no,
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Speaker 3: I want to know, Kelse, is this the way they
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Speaker 3: can do something for the Rockies and make them competitive again.
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Speaker 3: A Dolander and and being and these guys, are these
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Speaker 3: the ones that can make them competitive again because it's
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Speaker 3: been it seems like a long time, and they're in
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Speaker 3: a really tough division. And I know we ask questions
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Speaker 3: all the time, what are they doing? But is this
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Speaker 3: the next wave of Tovart and Doyle and then Dolander
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Speaker 3: that can make them competitive in a tough division.
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Speaker 1: So my initial reaction is saying, the next big step
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Speaker 1: is them getting that starting pitching down. This season, we
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Speaker 1: are seeing Arman Marquez back healthy, Antonio Senzatela back healthy,
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Speaker 1: Kyle Friedland has obviously been in that rotation for a while.
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Speaker 1: You have an Austin Gomber who's currently on the IL.
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Speaker 1: But they've been drafting really heavy pitching drafts because they
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Speaker 1: know that that's how you acquire pitching in Colorado, right,
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Speaker 1: you have to draft well. So they've drafted a ton
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Speaker 1: of really talented pitchers. So Chase Dolander, you have guys
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Speaker 1: like Park Carson palm Quest we could possibly see this season.
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Speaker 1: You really want to see some guys come up and
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Speaker 1: solidify some young talent in that rotation, some guys who
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Speaker 1: could be a top of the end rotation. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, when I think that the offense had
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Speaker 1: also been struggling this season. Bud Block has been saying
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Speaker 1: for the past couple of years, he knows that there's
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Speaker 1: more power in this lineup. Obviously we haven't necessarily seen
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Speaker 1: that from Chris Bryant, which was a big reason why
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Speaker 1: he was added to this lineup for the offense that
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Speaker 1: he could provide. And they're starting to get it in
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Speaker 1: areas that you might not expect, people like Hunter Goodman,
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Speaker 1: where if you're a Rockies fan, you know that there's
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Speaker 1: talent there, but if you don't really follow the Rockies,
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Speaker 1: you might not be familiar with his name. But Brenton
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Speaker 1: Doyle what he was able to do last season, Michael
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Speaker 1: Tolia with twenty five home runs, So I think right
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Speaker 1: now they're trying to obviously, as any team, become more
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Speaker 1: well rounded. But to me, I think the next biggest
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Speaker 1: step is, just because of how difficult it is to
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Speaker 1: pitching cores, is to find some high end talent in
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Speaker 1: that rotation, and hopefully that's starting with these guys that
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Speaker 1: we're going to probably see up this year even after Dolander.
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Speaker 4: But are they doing anything different Because if you take
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Speaker 4: the best pitchers, like if you take the five best
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Speaker 4: pitchers in the game and put them in Colorado, there's
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Speaker 4: gonna be some drop off. Are the Rockies looking to
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Speaker 4: change almost their like pitching identity as compared to the
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Speaker 4: rest of the league where they can have pictures that
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Speaker 4: do X and Y when they're in Colorado and X
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Speaker 4: X and T when they're on the road, Like, is
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Speaker 4: there any kind of shift, because without that shift, I
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Speaker 4: feel like we're kind of just constantly hitting the same wall.
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Speaker 1: I think that's hard for me to answer. I think
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Speaker 1: probably what you guys can obviously see is a lot
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Speaker 1: of times you don't see a lot of strikeouts in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: We are, there's more pitchers who are going to induce
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Speaker 1: a lot of ground balls. There's a credible defense really
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Speaker 1: everybody in the infield, Ryan McMahon, Michael Tolia, Ezekiel Tovar.
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Speaker 1: The second basement's kind of up in the air right
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Speaker 1: now with a strata hurt, But we have a gold
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Speaker 1: Glove caliber defense in that infield. So you see them
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Speaker 1: get and try to draft pitchers who can induce a
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Speaker 1: lot of ground balls and really make that defense work.
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Speaker 1: But as of recently, there's been a little bit more
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Speaker 1: emphasis on maybe trying to get those strikeouts out because
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Speaker 1: if you put the ball in play, there's always a
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Speaker 1: chance for it to go out of the ballpark in Colorado,
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Speaker 1: or a chance for there to be an air obviously,
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Speaker 1: So I think they are kind of looking maybe for
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of strikeouts, whereas in the past
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Speaker 1: that hasn't been as much of an emphasis. But Bud
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Speaker 1: Block says all the time, and you know, Buddy obviously
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Speaker 1: a former starting pitcher, just says, Hey, if you have
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Speaker 1: a good breaking ball, it's going to break in Colorado.
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Speaker 1: I can't speak to that. I know how difficult it
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Speaker 1: is to pitch in Colorado. I mean, you guys, probably
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Speaker 1: aj Eric could speak to it more from the catching
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Speaker 1: side of the difference that you truly do you see
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Speaker 1: when you're pitching at altitude compared to pitching at sea level,
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Speaker 1: especially with any breaking ball. But I think that's a
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Speaker 1: tough question for me to answer on is there a
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Speaker 1: shift in the philosophy. The only thing I've noticed is
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Speaker 1: a little bit more of an emphasis on getting those
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Speaker 1: strikeouts instead of constantly emphasizing get ground ball outs.
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Speaker 4: What will be this team's identity as a whole, What
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Speaker 4: would be their identity in the sense of, like they
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Speaker 4: do they see themselves as an underdog? Do they see
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Speaker 4: themselves as this elite defense when the Giants are also
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Speaker 4: building an elite defense in their own division. What is
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Speaker 4: their identity that you feel like when you walk into
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Speaker 4: that clubhouse or that you hear all the time.
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Speaker 1: I think they see themselves as a very sound, defensively
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Speaker 1: talented team. I mean, you have Brenton Doyle, who's now
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Speaker 1: won back to back go gloves in center field. Argue
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Speaker 1: this is biased coming from somebody who watches him every day.
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Speaker 1: But if you're not putting Brenton Doyle and top two
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Speaker 1: or three center fielders in MLB, I challenge you to
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Speaker 1: watch a few more Rockies games and just truly look
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Speaker 1: at the talent that he has. Ezekiel Tovar with the
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Speaker 1: gold glove last year. This is a team that really
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Speaker 1: prides themselves on defense. We just turned to triple play,
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Speaker 1: what was that two days ago? Fifth only the fifth
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Speaker 1: and franchise history. But outside of them being very prideful
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Speaker 1: of their defense, I think it's a lot of young guys.
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Speaker 1: There are some veterans in the mix, especially the season
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Speaker 1: with some of the guys that they picked up, like
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Speaker 1: Kyle Farmer, Nick Martini. But you have those younger guys
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Speaker 1: who kind of kicked the door open these past two years,
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Speaker 1: showing people that they can play in the big leagues,
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Speaker 1: they can contribute in the big leagues. But then last
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Speaker 1: year you really had some breakout seasons where it's not
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Speaker 1: just in the Denver area where you're going to know
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Speaker 1: those names Brenton, Doyle, Ezekiel Toovar and Michael Toldiat. Those
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Speaker 1: guys really started to plant some roots where around baseball
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Speaker 1: you're going to get familiar with those names. So I
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Speaker 1: think it's young guys who are out to prove that
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Speaker 1: not only they belong, but they can continue to replicate
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Speaker 1: the season that we saw last year.
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Speaker 3: Always Kelsey, I always say this about the Rockies. They
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Speaker 3: got to try something crazy, right. They need to go
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Speaker 3: back to the ninety five Blake Street Bombers and just
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Speaker 3: try to outslug everybody. You know, they've tried this ground
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Speaker 3: ball trick forever. It hasn't worked. They've tried, but when
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Speaker 3: are they going to I don't know, Joe maddin Ish,
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Speaker 3: just go and do something crazy that baseball has to
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Speaker 3: kind of stop and say, wow, why are they doing
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Speaker 3: this in Colorado? And try to win every game at home?
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Speaker 3: Eighty one games? Yeah, you'll win some games on the road,
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Speaker 3: but just do what they did in try. So it
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Speaker 3: just seems like I don't know, and I know you
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Speaker 3: work for the team, so it's hard for you to say,
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Speaker 3: but it just to me is like, gosh, I want
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Speaker 3: to see them just do something crazy because what they've
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Speaker 3: been doing for the last twenty five years, thirty years
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Speaker 3: just hasn't gone anywhere. So what can they do? I
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Speaker 3: don't know. It's me as a fan because I want
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Speaker 3: every team to try and be good, and the fan
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Speaker 3: base they have is so supportive of what of the
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Speaker 3: Paul Park in the area and just awesome fans that
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Speaker 3: it's like, man, they deserve something different. And it took
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Speaker 3: what was it two thousand and seven, a miraculous like
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Speaker 3: twenty game winning streak to get them to the World
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Speaker 3: Series that year, But other than that, it's just been
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Speaker 3: a franchise. It just seems to run in place. So
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Speaker 3: I don't know, just my opinion. You don't have to
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Speaker 3: answer really anything off of it, other than it just
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Speaker 3: it's frustrating for me as a baseball fan because I
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Speaker 3: just I just wish they would try something different.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you bring up the Blank Street Bombers, and
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Speaker 1: when I tell you, Bud Black for the last three
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Speaker 1: years has consistently been saying, we know we have more
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Speaker 1: pop on this line up. We know we have more
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Speaker 1: home runs in this lineup. We know we have more
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Speaker 1: power in this line up. It's gonna come. It's going
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Speaker 1: to come. It's going to come, and we just haven't
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Speaker 1: seen that. I do think when they I alluded to
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Speaker 1: this earlier when they signed Chris Bryant, there were expectation
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Speaker 1: of that. We really haven't seen Chris Bryant. He's been
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Speaker 1: battling a ton of injuries since he signed that contract,
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Speaker 1: and he's healthy now and he did get two hits
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Speaker 1: last night. But you know, I think there really has
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Speaker 1: been an emphasis on trying to get that power back
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Speaker 1: and it just hasn't played out, which is frustrating. It's
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's frustrating for fans, it's frustrating for the players,
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Speaker 1: it's frustrating for the coaching stuff, because, yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: a ballpark where you do have the advantage of altitude
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Speaker 1: and the ball does fly, and you really want to
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Speaker 1: capitalize on that, and it seems like they haven't been
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Speaker 1: able to in years past. But I think that they
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Speaker 1: are hoping with these young guys. I mean, I know
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Speaker 1: I've said this name fifteen times since I came on here,
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Speaker 1: but Ezekiel Tovar is going to hit around two sixty
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Speaker 1: two seventy and give you twenty to twenty five home
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Speaker 1: runs a year. Brenton Doyle hit over twenty five home
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Speaker 1: runs last year. Michael Tolia could hit thirty home runs.
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Speaker 1: Hunter Goodman could be a twenty to twenty five home
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Speaker 1: run guy. It's just is it going to happen? You know?
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Speaker 1: And we got glimpses of that from those guys last year,
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Speaker 1: and you know that it's in there. Can they all
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Speaker 1: put it together consistently? I think the Rockies feel that
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Speaker 1: they have some of this young talent and these pieces
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Speaker 1: in place who have the capability to maybe not be
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Speaker 1: the Blake Street Bombers up. How can you even duplicate that?
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Speaker 1: But I think that they believe they do have some
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Speaker 1: pieces who can contribute to that. Because that power angle
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Speaker 1: that you're talking about has been a really big conversation point,
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Speaker 1: at least to the media from Buddy when he discusses
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Speaker 1: what he believes the team needs to really improve on.
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Speaker 1: So I agree with you and it is frustrating for everybody,
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Speaker 1: and I think that they're just hoping that as these
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Speaker 1: guys mature and get more at bats and consistent playing time,
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Speaker 1: that they can start turning that out more consistently to
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Speaker 1: the level that they've been hoping these guys can.
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Speaker 4: What's the Chris Bryant vibe like with fans, with his
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Speaker 4: teammates with him, and even with the connection with the media,
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Speaker 4: because it hasn't gone as well as everybody thought it
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Speaker 4: was going to when he got here. What's that vibe like?
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm also curious to kind of get y'all's opinion
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Speaker 1: on this. On the home opener on Friday, the booze
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Speaker 1: for Chris Bryant were hard to ignore. That's been something
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Speaker 1: that we've seen a lot as of late, and kind
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Speaker 1: of to what AJ was saying, I think everybody can
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Speaker 1: see the frustration and feel the frustration and understand the frustration.
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Speaker 1: But I've always struggled with fans booing their home players.
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Speaker 1: I mean, I just I don't think it accomplishes much.
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Speaker 1: It's kind of like the complete opposite of what happened
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Speaker 1: for Tree Turner with the standing ovation. But yeah, I
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Speaker 1: mean the the home opener was tough. The fan reaction
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Speaker 1: to Chris is you can't you can't ignore the booze
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Speaker 1: in the stadium. But I will tell you personally, you
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Speaker 1: can tell that Chris is super frustrated. You can tell
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Speaker 1: that he's frustrated with these injuries. It just seems. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I know, I walked past him in the clubhouse one
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Speaker 1: day and he had hurt his back and he was like,
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Speaker 1: it's just one thing after another. You know, He's he's
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Speaker 1: dealt with injuries constantly since he's gotten here. He has
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Speaker 1: been very kind to the media and I really didn't
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Speaker 1: know what to expect from him. And he wants he
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Speaker 1: wants to talk about life, like he wants to know
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Speaker 1: how you are, and he's genuine in that way. And
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Speaker 1: with fans, he's the one player every single game he's
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Speaker 1: in that lineup, he signs every single autograph of every
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Speaker 1: single fan, waiting until they're all gone. So he's been
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Speaker 1: good with that. But yeah, I mean, you can sense
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Speaker 1: the frustration from Chris. You can sense the frustration from
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Speaker 1: the fan base. He's still a leader in that clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: He's still the one kind of organizing like show dinners,
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Speaker 1: getting the team together. He still is a veteran presence
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Speaker 1: in somebody who is very respected in that clubhouse. I
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Speaker 1: just think he and the fan base and the coaching
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Speaker 1: staff and ownership and everybody just wants to see a
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Speaker 1: healthy season of Chris Bryant, to see what he can do,
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Speaker 1: and they just haven't been able to get that yet,
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Speaker 1: and it's been very frustrating for everybody.
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Speaker 3: AJA.
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Speaker 2: It is time for people to get some new clubs,
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Speaker 2: and to do that, they need to go to their
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Speaker 3: No doubt. I was there today. I've been there before.
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Speaker 3: Last time I was there, they gave me this killer gap. Weay,
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Speaker 3: you look at that sweet spot, Scott. It is worn out.
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Speaker 3: That is right in the sweet spot right there. So
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Speaker 3: I went and got new clubs today, new irons. But
16:54
Speaker 3: more importantly, I got this bad boy. I got me
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Speaker 3: a new putter. This is my old putter. It's on order. Yes,
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17:08
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Speaker 1: But what's about home fans booming players?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I think. I think what I always
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Speaker 4: said about booing is if they're booing you, you're already
17:48
Speaker 4: booing yourself. No, nobody's ever been booed that You're like, dude,
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Speaker 4: I freaking yeah, I'm killing it this year, so he
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Speaker 4: knows it. In my opinion, it doesn't help players. AJ
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Speaker 4: fed off of it when away fans would boo him.
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Speaker 4: I was never good enough to be booed by away fans,
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Speaker 4: so there's that.
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Speaker 3: I listened to somebody that was booed. I didn't like
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Speaker 3: being booed at home. It only happened, really in San
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Speaker 3: Francisco when I was there, so and it was fine.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you try to ignore it, but you can't.
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Speaker 3: And I was only there one year. So for someone
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Speaker 3: like Chris it has to go through this for years.
18:23
Speaker 3: It stinks. I mean, but I listen. I don't agree
18:26
Speaker 3: with it, but I understand why fans are doing. They're frustrated.
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Speaker 3: Like you said, Kelsey, they want him to be on
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Speaker 3: the field, and they you know, when you sign a
18:32
Speaker 3: big deal the way Chris Bryant signed the deal that
18:34
Speaker 3: he signed, they want to see you play and they
18:35
Speaker 3: want to see out there. And I know it's not
18:37
Speaker 3: his fault, but that's what I think. It's more of
18:39
Speaker 3: a frustrating thing than it is an actual personal thing.
18:41
Speaker 3: It's just like we're frustrated. We want Chris Brian out there,
18:44
Speaker 3: as we all do as baseball fans want Chris Bryan
18:46
Speaker 3: out there. I want to see the good twenty fifteen,
18:48
Speaker 3: twenty sixteen Chris Bryant because he's a hell of a
18:50
Speaker 3: player and he brings people to watch.
18:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, and fans will come out. Fans come out
18:56
Speaker 4: to Colorado. There's no doubt.
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Speaker 1: Every year out of the record their top ten in
19:01
Speaker 1: attendance every year. It's always a great crowd, it's always
19:03
Speaker 1: a great environment. So yeah, the boos, the boos seemed
19:06
Speaker 1: to be louder because of that, but but yeah, it's
19:09
Speaker 1: it's still a great environment. And yeah, just frustrating. But
19:12
Speaker 1: he's healthy right now, and that's that's the hope, is
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Speaker 1: that he can stay healthy because they just want to
19:17
Speaker 1: see what a healthy Chris Bryant not only can do,
19:21
Speaker 1: but how that impacts the entire lineup, because they do
19:25
Speaker 1: have him hitting in the middle of the order. Still
19:27
Speaker 1: when he's in the lineup, he's in the five hole.
19:29
Speaker 1: Some days he's cleaning up. So I mean, a threatening
19:32
Speaker 1: Chris Bryant could help everybody.
19:36
Speaker 3: Obviously, they could get him the fourth place.
19:38
Speaker 4: Ke Aj of the Vision I know, Kelsey, I gotta
19:48
Speaker 4: take you to your tweet that made me laugh. Chase
19:50
Speaker 4: Dolander found out about his call.
19:55
Speaker 1: Yes, oh my gosh, So we all saw the you
19:59
Speaker 1: saw the on social media of them calling him into
20:02
Speaker 1: the office. He's going over charts and the video almost
20:05
Speaker 1: was anti climatic. So when we were interviewing him whenever
20:09
Speaker 1: he got to the ballpark, I was like, Okay, we
20:11
Speaker 1: all saw a video, but like, when did you realize
20:13
Speaker 1: that something was actually going on? And he started chuckling.
20:16
Speaker 1: He's like, yeah, it's actually a funny story. He was like,
20:18
Speaker 1: I was on my phone and I get a text
20:20
Speaker 1: from a Denver hotel saying we're looking forward to welcoming
20:24
Speaker 1: you to your stay here at whatever hotel in Denver.
20:28
Speaker 1: And then he got called into the office within like
20:31
Speaker 1: twenty thirty minutes. So he went in there, and if
20:34
Speaker 1: you watch the video, the phone is like right in front,
20:37
Speaker 1: like very close to him. And he was like, I
20:40
Speaker 1: go in there and I had just gotten that text message,
20:43
Speaker 1: and then I see the phone sitting like two feet
20:45
Speaker 1: in front of me, just like facing me, recording me.
20:48
Speaker 1: So he kind of looked at his coach and was like,
20:50
Speaker 1: is this happening right now? And then he said they
20:52
Speaker 1: played it off well and went over the charts. But yeah,
20:55
Speaker 1: the automated not the automated hotel test.
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Speaker 3: That one might be the first time. How times you changed,
21:05
Speaker 3: how times you changed. We used to actually have to
21:06
Speaker 3: get called in the office and not get it recorded
21:08
Speaker 3: and get called up.
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Speaker 4: Now now you find out before it and you got
21:12
Speaker 4: a paper ticket. They handed you a paper ticket for
21:15
Speaker 4: your flight to where you're going.
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Speaker 1: No, not now, not now, you're getting a text from
21:21
Speaker 1: from your Denver hotel letting you know you're getting called
21:24
Speaker 1: up to the show.
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Speaker 2: That's why you gotta be quick, you gotta be on it. Yeah. Well, Elsey,
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Speaker 2: this was fun. Great job on that story exactly. Thanks
21:32
Speaker 2: for joining us here. Great to have you on and everyone.
21:35
Speaker 2: Catch her of course on Rockies games and you can
21:37
Speaker 2: give her a follow as well. Thanks Elsey.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks guys. Great to see all of y'all.