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WS rematch, Dodgers/Reds Alexis Díaz trade, Braves IL AJSS, CT3 smack · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: From a guy I personal standpoint, I've done when I
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Speaker 1: was nine years old an All Star game who literally
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Speaker 1: happened to me when I was pitching.
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Speaker 2: I know the feeling, so it's actually really happened.
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Speaker 3: Hello, everybody, Julie Aircrafts, Todd Frazer are here with me.
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Speaker 3: I'm so glad that AJ isn't here because I feel
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Speaker 3: like cratcy whenever he's on the show. All that he
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Speaker 3: does is make fun of me for allegedly pulling for
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Speaker 3: the Orioles, a team that I covered as a beatrider
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Speaker 3: for ten years.
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Speaker 4: So I know that Todd's gonna be much nicer to me,
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Speaker 4: and this is.
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Speaker 3: Gonna go much smoother than earlier this month when I
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Speaker 3: filled in.
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Speaker 4: For Scott Braun, the incomparable Scott Braun who I'm filling
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Speaker 4: in for today.
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Speaker 1: Yes, we will be nice, even though I thought they
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Speaker 1: should have traded all their prospects away a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago.
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Speaker 2: But that's all right, we'll be nice about it.
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Speaker 3: I listen, I agree with you. J thinks I sat
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Speaker 3: with them and drink like orange cool aid in my house.
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Speaker 4: I don't. I totally agree with that.
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Speaker 3: So you know, here we are, though plenty of other
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Speaker 3: news in baseball right as we head down the stretch
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Speaker 3: a lot of baseball stuff going on, guys. We've got
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Speaker 3: some great guests coming on later on in the show.
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Speaker 3: We've got Fee Alonzo, We've got Ken Rosenthal, We've got
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Speaker 3: Phillies manager Rob Thompson.
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Speaker 4: We're going to get to a lot of things, but first,
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Speaker 4: let's charge the mound. He has really going on here about.
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Speaker 3: Big trade guys today for the Dodgers, who really need
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Speaker 3: some bullpen hope. They're acquiring a reliever, Alexis Diaz from
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Speaker 3: the Reds. Diaz, of course, former All Star closer, but
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Speaker 3: hasn't been able to find it as of late with
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Speaker 3: Cincinnati was in Triple A, really struggling to find that
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Speaker 3: form again. Certainly, I think the Dodgers are just hoping
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Speaker 3: to take a flyer on a guy who has been
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Speaker 3: productive in the past. The Dodgers have, you know, a
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Speaker 3: rotating carousel. They've had a ton of injuries this year.
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Speaker 3: They're kind of de facto closer Tanner Scott three blown
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Speaker 3: saves in a row, a lot of injuries, and I
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Speaker 3: didn't realize this guy. They've picked up the most bullpen,
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Speaker 3: the most relief in things, they've pitched in the majors.
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Speaker 3: Almost two hundred and forty ginnings already. That can't continue either.
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Speaker 3: I like this move as a kind of a flyer move.
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Speaker 3: What do you guys make of getting Alexis Dias and
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Speaker 3: could he benefit from you know, the Dodgers always being
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Speaker 3: so cutting edge with the analytics and you know, finding
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Speaker 3: things similar to the Rays and having guys kind of
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Speaker 3: maybe turn their career around.
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Speaker 4: Here a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, honestly, I think it's a great move
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Speaker 1: as well. I think thinking back in when Alexis was
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Speaker 1: was really good, he was dominant. You know, he's taken
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Speaker 1: after his brother a little bit, but he is still
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Speaker 1: a really good pitcher. I think a change of scenery
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Speaker 1: is much needed. There's a lot of guys in baseball,
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Speaker 1: like you see trades going, You're like that guy probably
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Speaker 1: should have stayed at home. It might not work out,
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Speaker 1: and usually doesn't. But this it's a change of scenery.
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Speaker 1: It's getting acclimated with new managers, new coaches new analytical processes,
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Speaker 1: and maybe they find something in him that nobody else
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Speaker 1: could see, so you know what can hurt. He was
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Speaker 1: in triple and you know, not doing so well, but
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Speaker 1: you know, you know, in the back of your mind,
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Speaker 1: once he is right, he's a really good pitcher and
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Speaker 1: I think the Dodgers will help him with that.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's a really good pickup shocker.
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Speaker 5: The Dodgers picked somebody up and in a month from now,
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Speaker 5: he's going to be, you know, filling in for whoever's
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Speaker 5: not going to go to the All Star Game. Like
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Speaker 5: it's it's one of those things that they do because
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Speaker 5: they have the ability to give guys a runway. Some
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Speaker 5: teams pick up Alexis Dz and they go, we need
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Speaker 5: you right in the closer role Tanner Scott hasn't been
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Speaker 5: doing well, we need you, you know, his last three games,
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Speaker 5: we're panicking. The Dodgers don't need to panic as much
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Speaker 5: as they've had a ton of innings from their bullpen
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Speaker 5: because their rotation is decimated by injuries. You also sit
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Speaker 5: there and you go, what do they see? What is
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Speaker 5: it that the Dodgers see that the Reds don't see?
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Speaker 5: Right now? That he's not doing or that he did
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Speaker 5: more of when he was successful. It's not a big
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Speaker 5: it's it's could be a big trade because it's the Dodgers.
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Speaker 5: You know, if the Rays had picked them up, you'd
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Speaker 5: also be like, what are the Rays? See? It's just
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Speaker 5: about finding that value. But for the Dodgers right now,
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Speaker 5: it's all about finding innings. They need to find nine
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Speaker 5: innings a night because, like I said, they have injuries
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Speaker 5: not only to their starting rotation but their bullpen, like
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Speaker 5: trying in having Phillips Bruce Dargradol. I'm thinking, I think
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Speaker 5: Kope's coming back soon, but like these are monster dudes
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Speaker 5: in this pen that they just don't have right now,
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Speaker 5: so they need arms.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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Speaker 3: And then of course Diaz, as you mentioned, the brother
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Speaker 3: of Edwin Diaz, mets closer. So you know, you have
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Speaker 3: to feel like when certain teams pick up a guy
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Speaker 3: Tampa bas this way too. They just signed Kyle Gibson.
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Speaker 3: I look forward to him having a sub three er
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Speaker 3: in about a month, and people who said that you know,
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Speaker 3: he should retire all of a sudden, I'm sure he's
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Speaker 3: going to rEFInd himself. So it does feel like maybe
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Speaker 3: you guys can speak to this as players, but kind
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Speaker 3: of a shot in the arm when a team like
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Speaker 3: that picks you up right, like this is your chance
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Speaker 3: for them to maybe tweak something, for them to see something,
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Speaker 3: for you to add a grip or had a pitch,
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Speaker 3: or change the way you go about things a little
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Speaker 3: bit and resuscitate your career. And certainly it should feel
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Speaker 3: like as a player, when La trades for you, you
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Speaker 3: should feel pretty good about that, even if you've been struggling,
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Speaker 3: even if you've been in TRIPLEA. I think, and this
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Speaker 3: isn't the first time that these teams have traded. In fact,
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Speaker 3: they've made a lot of trades. It feels like between
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Speaker 3: these two teams, Todd you do a bunch of stuff
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Speaker 3: for the Reds. It feels like certain teams I was
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Speaker 3: talking to executive yesterday just really meshed with teams.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 3: The person I was talking to was from Detroy yesterday
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Speaker 3: and said, we always were always talking to Texas.
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Speaker 4: You know, we've made a bunch of trades of Texas
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Speaker 4: last year at the deadline.
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Speaker 3: It feels like the Reds and Dodgers are similar and
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Speaker 3: that they have a lot of pairing. Got the Gavin
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Speaker 3: lux trade of course that happened. You go back to
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Speaker 3: nineteen when Cincinnati got Kyl Farmer y'all see lquig at
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Speaker 3: Kemp Alexwood, and that trade, of course helped the Dodgers
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Speaker 3: later trade for Mex Suers or trade Turner because Josiah Gray.
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Speaker 4: Was in that package.
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Speaker 3: So it feels like these two teams kind of have
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Speaker 3: been in a lot of communication, really get along well.
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Speaker 3: And it feels like the Dodgers here are trying to
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Speaker 3: fill a need as they try to get healthy five
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Speaker 3: of their top right hand and relief options. As Krassy said,
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Speaker 3: currently injured. That's not going to be that way forever.
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Speaker 3: But if they can find a guy to get Diaz
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Speaker 3: back and get him into the fold as they get healthier,
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Speaker 3: that bullpen can slowly become a strength again from that
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Speaker 3: right side.
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Speaker 1: And it's about comfort, you know, when you're talking to
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Speaker 1: teams like hey man, it's me again. You know, we're
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Speaker 1: looking at one of your guys like talk to me,
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Speaker 1: and then you know you could work with them and
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Speaker 1: you know, hey man, you rub my back, I rub
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Speaker 1: yours kind of deal, and you know, usually it works out,
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Speaker 1: and you know, going back to the Kyle Gibson, it's about,
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Speaker 1: you know, getting rejuvenated. I mean usually you know you're traded,
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Speaker 1: like ah, you know you're upset that you leave a team.
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Speaker 1: But a guy of his age and his caliber to
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Speaker 1: go to a place like Tampa where they make subpar
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Speaker 1: pictures into elite pictures, he's got to be really excited.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 1: I played with with Kyle for a year in Texas.
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Speaker 1: The guys upstanding gentleman. He's a great dude. He's a leader,
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Speaker 1: and he was gonna take any criticisms, any attention to details,
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Speaker 1: and he's gonna run with it and maybe we'll see
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Speaker 1: another you know, second gear on a Kyle Gibson.
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Speaker 5: One last thing with Diaz, his slider is is the
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Speaker 5: coop to Gracie for him, it's the pitch like he
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Speaker 5: throws enough fastballs to keep him off the slider. His
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Speaker 5: velocity on his slider, and I know guys don't really
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Speaker 5: talk about that much is down a mile and a
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Speaker 5: half from last year alone. And you sit there and go,
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Speaker 5: can the Dodgers pump that up? Or are they gonna say, hey,
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Speaker 5: if you throw it more, if you throw it more
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Speaker 5: this way? Because the Dodgers aren't the only ones that
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Speaker 5: have information like what I just looked up. You sit
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Speaker 5: there and you go, okay, we're just gonna have you
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Speaker 5: throw it more. That's usually what ends up happening. You
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Speaker 5: go to a team like this and they say, hey,
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Speaker 5: we're just gonna we're just gonna up the usage of
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Speaker 5: your best pitch and see how that works out, you know,
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Speaker 5: up it from forty five percent to even like a
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Speaker 3: Elsewhere In baseball, guys, some good news I think, no
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Speaker 3: matter if you're an Angels fan or not, is that
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Speaker 3: you know we've got Mike Trout returning tomorrow. He's expected
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Speaker 3: to be activated, reports at Anaheim. I think that the
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Speaker 3: team told a bunch of the players there that that
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Speaker 3: is the plan. He has been sidelined since April thirtieth
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Speaker 3: with a bone and bruise. I think anytime Mike Trout
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Speaker 3: is out, you know it's bad for baseball, bad for
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Speaker 3: the game. But you know, certainly when you look at
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Speaker 3: last year, and you just look at the last four
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Speaker 3: or five years with him not being able to stay
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Speaker 3: on the field, you have to hope, if you're the Angels,
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Speaker 3: that this is it now, that he's gonna kind of
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Speaker 3: play from June on here. And I think they're going
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Speaker 3: to be even more careful than they have in the
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Speaker 3: past about his playing time, about you know, taking days
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Speaker 3: to DH, about making sure that that lower body is
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Speaker 3: right so that they can kind of avoid what has
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Speaker 3: been like a lot of leg issues, a lot of
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Speaker 3: back issues, things like that.
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Speaker 4: So Out should be back.
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Speaker 3: It'll be interesting to see what they do in terms
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Speaker 3: of playing time, how they find that middle ground between
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Speaker 3: getting him going because the Angels need him to win
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Speaker 3: and also preserving him, which they really haven't been able
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Speaker 3: to do, and really nobody has been able to figure
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Speaker 3: out how to do that since basically COVID. So hopefully
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Speaker 3: he's back. Do you guys think we could ever see
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Speaker 3: a healthy Mike Trout, like a full Mike Trout now,
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Speaker 3: from let's say June first until the end of the season.
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Speaker 3: Is that an impossibility at this point with his career
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Speaker 3: and kind of the miles that he's already put on.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's tough.
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Speaker 1: It's tough as you're getting older, and you know, he's
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Speaker 1: a bigger guy. He's very strong looking. He hits the
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Speaker 1: weight room hardcore. You know, maybe it's time just to
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Speaker 1: he's up a little bit, you know, knowing Mike and
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Speaker 1: talking to him, he loves a game. He wants to
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Speaker 1: play for a long, long time, of course, but at
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Speaker 1: the same token, maybe it's something they think about, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe giving them a DH here and there, maybe putting
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Speaker 1: them in a different position. I want to see him.
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Speaker 1: I want to see him play a lot more. You know,
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Speaker 1: he was on track to break all these records and
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Speaker 1: there was talked about being one of the greatest to play.
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Speaker 1: He's going to go down as one of the greatest
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Speaker 1: to play, for sure. But you know what's at the
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Speaker 1: token of what you know, we're gonna play center field
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Speaker 1: twenty four to seven. I think maybe it's time to
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Speaker 1: move him around a little bit and put him in
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Speaker 1: a position to where he can play, you know, one
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two, one hundred and forty five games,
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Speaker 1: and I think that would be just enough for him
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Speaker 1: as he moved forward in his career.
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Speaker 5: Well, we know that right field is going to be
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Speaker 5: easier than center. They already made that decision. They blocked him.
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Speaker 5: They blocked him. When he comes back today, he should
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Speaker 5: be coming back playing DH. You watch what they're doing.
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Speaker 5: Ronald mccunya, much younger player in Atlanta. They have some
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Speaker 5: dhs open, but they want him to play right field.
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Speaker 5: Is that the same route that the Angels are going
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Speaker 5: to go. Are they willing? Do they feel like playing
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Speaker 5: right field is going to put him back on the IL.
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Speaker 5: If so, Jorge Soilaier is going to have to get
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Speaker 5: out in the outfit. And I know they don't want
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Speaker 5: to see that, but this is a guy you have
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Speaker 5: to have in the lineup. I get it. He I
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Speaker 5: think he's hit one eighty one seventy nine something like
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Speaker 5: that before he went on the IL. He's going to
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Speaker 5: hit around what he hits. He's not He hasn't dropped
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Speaker 5: off so significantly much that it's going to be impossible
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Speaker 5: for him to return to an All star form. Maybe
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Speaker 5: not an MVP form, but an All Star form. And
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Speaker 5: that's what you want. That's where you want to see
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Speaker 5: your your legacy players do. And that way he can
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Speaker 5: start getting after those records that Todd was saying, because
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Speaker 5: he's still had a lot of time on that contract.
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Speaker 5: You got to figure out how to get those legs
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Speaker 5: under him. Yeah. I know.
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Speaker 3: When I visited Angel's camp the spring, that was like
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Speaker 3: all they talked about was he's going to be in
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Speaker 3: right field. We're gonna really take it easy with him.
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Speaker 3: But he's got so many miles on him, Guys, I
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Speaker 3: do wonder is he going to be a player that
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Speaker 3: we look at and we say, this was the best
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Speaker 3: player of our generation.
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Speaker 4: But towards the end he was irrelevant. Like, nobody talks.
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Speaker 3: About him anymore. He's not among the top sellers in
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Speaker 3: mob jerseys, he hasn't been in the last four or
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Speaker 3: five years and will be networked this year kind of
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Speaker 3: ranked him out of the top thirty players. Is he
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Speaker 3: a guy who people have largely forgotten about because the
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Speaker 3: Angels are irrelevant because he hasn't been able to stay
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Speaker 3: on the field, Like, are we going to look back
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Speaker 3: and say, man, that was a generational player and we
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Speaker 3: kind of wasted the opportunity. No one really saw him
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Speaker 3: play his prime was out in the Anaheim for teams
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Speaker 3: that largely weren't very good. You know, he's gone to
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Speaker 3: the playoffs one time in his whole career. Are we
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Speaker 3: going to look back and say, like, he should have
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Speaker 3: been bigger, we should have done more with this.
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Speaker 1: Yes, I would say yes, just for the sole fact
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Speaker 1: he's in the West Coast and these angel fans, they
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Speaker 1: watch the show a lot, so I'm gonna get a
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Speaker 1: lot of heat for this. But I've been begging for
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Speaker 1: his button to get over in the East Coast.
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Speaker 2: I don't care where it is.
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Speaker 1: I even told him that straight up, I'm sticking not
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Speaker 1: seeing the best player to ever come out of the Northeast.
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Speaker 1: They're one of the best players ever come out of
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Speaker 1: you know, in the Northeast, Oh Jersey. I'll give him
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Speaker 1: that best player to come out of Jersey. We can't
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Speaker 1: even we can't even watch him. Man who's staying up
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Speaker 1: that late to watch him play and the team's not
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Speaker 1: doing well, so he knows, he knows. I'm a guy
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Speaker 1: like that, and I bust his chops all the time.
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Speaker 1: I probably won't happen, but you know, a man can
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Speaker 1: only dream.
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Speaker 3: Guys, some kind of sad news here. I know it's
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Speaker 3: a it's a business, it's a cold, hard business. But
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Speaker 3: the Marlins have made a bunch of roster moves coming
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Speaker 3: this from reporter Craig Mish who is down there. One
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Speaker 3: of them includes dfa ing Ronnie Simon, who people, if
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Speaker 3: you weren't familiar, and made a bunch of errors recently,
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Speaker 3: Fernando Detis was among the players who backed him as well. Guys,
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Speaker 3: how how tough is that to see? For a guy
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Speaker 3: who I think we all know has the talent to
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Speaker 3: you know, get demoted in the wake of probably one
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Speaker 3: of the more embarrassing games that he's had as a professional.
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Speaker 3: Matt Mervis another infielder who's being designated for assignment as well.
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Speaker 4: But chuys have both been there. You've been players.
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Speaker 3: You know, you're you're the greatest thing going one second,
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Speaker 3: you're not the next. How how frustrating is this for.
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Speaker 1: A guy like Ronnie Simon, I would say very It
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Speaker 1: is frustrating because you're on a team that you know
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Speaker 1: you can easily make it. It's one of those teams
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Speaker 1: that you know won't be in the playoffs. They're you know,
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Speaker 1: they're struggling right now, and and it shows and to
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Speaker 1: you know, to put matters into the worst. You know,
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Speaker 1: you make a couple of errors and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: you know, one mistake here, all of a sudden, you're
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Speaker 1: getting sent down and demoted, so designated for assignment.
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Speaker 2: It's tough.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's the worst feeling in the world. So
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Speaker 1: I'm feeling for this guy right now. Man, things happen.
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Speaker 1: Baseball is a crazy sport, so you have to be
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Speaker 1: on your toes at all times, no matter who you're
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Speaker 1: playing for.
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Speaker 5: I mean, Ronnie played, he's played seven seven eight years
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Speaker 5: in the bushes since he was eighteen, and now he
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Speaker 5: finally got his first call up and he doesn't do
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Speaker 5: real well. That's tough, but he'll get another shit.
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Speaker 3: News out of Baltimore guys at Oriels play Cedric Mullins
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Speaker 3: on the ten day il red hamstring strain really unfortunate.
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Speaker 3: Not only is Mullins probably going to be a guy
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Speaker 3: that's gonna get a lot of trade talk here as
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Speaker 3: a pending free agent, but he's.
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Speaker 4: Been a rare bright spot for the Orioles.
16:15
Speaker 3: He's consistently been pretty good for them, I'd say, outside
16:18
Speaker 3: of Jackson Holiday, he's been really the one guy for
16:21
Speaker 3: the Orioles that has been able to put it together
16:23
Speaker 3: at the plane and what's been a disappointing season, so
16:27
Speaker 3: disappointing in fact that we know that they fired manager
16:30
Speaker 3: Brandon high Well. Now news from yesterday are Ken Rosenthal
16:34
Speaker 3: reported and the team announced officially today John Babray is
16:37
Speaker 3: joining the team as a senior advisor, basically overseeing kind
16:41
Speaker 3: of like the boss now of the hitting coaches is
16:43
Speaker 3: how I took it, which is interesting right. You don't
16:47
Speaker 3: often see these moves being made in season. Here we
16:51
Speaker 3: sit at the end of May. What can he do,
16:55
Speaker 3: if anything, for the big league club or is this
16:58
Speaker 3: a matter of getting a guy in play now to
17:01
Speaker 3: make wholesale changes in the winter.
17:05
Speaker 2: I honestly don't know.
17:08
Speaker 4: You.
17:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, these kind of moves. It makes you wonder, like,
17:14
Speaker 1: what is going on? Yeah, it's struggling ever since they
17:18
Speaker 1: fired a manager. I mean, I Brandon Hyde was a beast,
17:21
Speaker 1: awesome manager, awesome guy, and they kind of put the
17:24
Speaker 1: blame on him, which I thought was wrongfully. So he's
17:28
Speaker 1: an absolute stud of a manager and hopefully he gets
17:30
Speaker 1: back on his feet somewhere. I just think they're trying.
17:34
Speaker 1: They're really trying right now, so we'll see how it goes,
17:48
Speaker 1: all right.
17:48
Speaker 3: Guys, really unfortunate. Sixty day I L for Braves reliever
17:53
Speaker 3: aj Smith Shaver. Whenever you hear elbow and sixty day,
17:58
Speaker 3: I L.
17:58
Speaker 4: We kind of know where that.
17:59
Speaker 3: We don't have an official update, but we know where
18:02
Speaker 3: this is going.
18:02
Speaker 5: Right.
18:02
Speaker 4: It's not good.
18:04
Speaker 7: It's probably surgery, not good, especially when he said he
18:11
Speaker 7: fell to pop Normally, A lot of these elbow injuries,
18:15
Speaker 7: it's like I didn't recover well, I had extra surgery
18:19
Speaker 7: or I had extra swelling, and you have like the
18:22
Speaker 7: whole strain whatever, the flexer strain, and then they try
18:27
Speaker 7: to rehab from it and then eventually it turns into TJ.
18:31
Speaker 5: This the move to go immediately on the IL and
18:35
Speaker 5: then immediately to the sixty day within a day is ominous.
18:40
Speaker 5: Obviously we're not doctors, but it is. It's tough, especially
18:45
Speaker 5: for a guy who's really kind of a raw young pitcher,
18:48
Speaker 5: only starting to pitch his senior year of high school
18:52
Speaker 5: and coming into the big leagues. He's barely he's barely
18:57
Speaker 5: become a starter, and he's really a guy that stepped
19:02
Speaker 5: up recently with the injuries and then the reinjury by
19:05
Speaker 5: Strider who's now obviously back. But they need this. Everybody
19:09
Speaker 5: needs starting rotation help. But this is is a huge loss.
19:12
Speaker 5: It's also a huge loss for a really young pitcher
19:15
Speaker 5: who I was expecting a lot of great things because
19:19
Speaker 5: he was just learning how to pitch and still succeeding
19:22
Speaker 5: in the big leagues.
19:25
Speaker 1: And at the end of the day, they have been
19:27
Speaker 1: struggling and they haven't been the bravest team that they've
19:30
Speaker 1: wanted they have a koonya back, but still they're not
19:33
Speaker 1: exactly where they want to be.
19:34
Speaker 2: A long ways to go.
19:37
Speaker 1: It seems like you get somebody back and you take
19:39
Speaker 1: what's the all add it's take one step forward, two
19:41
Speaker 1: steps back, unfortunates, nothing else people can do. It's not
19:44
Speaker 1: like they did it on purpose. But love seeing this
19:47
Speaker 1: guy pitch. Well, he's a beast. So hopefully you know
19:51
Speaker 1: it's good news. But when you hear these things, it's
19:54
Speaker 1: not really that good news.
19:56
Speaker 3: Yeah, no, not when you hear sixty DL. This isn't
19:58
Speaker 3: like a hey, let's go to a week off. Hope
20:00
Speaker 3: it cools down unfortunately, So again, nothing official, but likely.
20:05
Speaker 3: It looks like it's probably some kind of surgery, probably
20:08
Speaker 3: a season ending thing. The Braves are in trouble. I
20:10
Speaker 3: mean they got buried pretty early, guys. And when you
20:12
Speaker 3: get buried that early, you have to go on a
20:15
Speaker 3: long run to reverse it.
20:17
Speaker 2: You know.
20:17
Speaker 3: It's like that old adage, like you don't win the
20:20
Speaker 3: division in April, but you can lose it. And for
20:22
Speaker 3: the Braves, I think it's you know, people have been
20:24
Speaker 3: waiting on such a talented team to go on a run,
20:27
Speaker 3: and it does feel like they keep getting crushed with injuries,
20:31
Speaker 3: so it's not all bad news there. Of course, Chris
20:33
Speaker 3: Sale last night in his start, became the fastest MLB
20:37
Speaker 3: pitcher in history to twenty five hundred strikeouts. So, you know,
20:41
Speaker 3: what Chris Sale has been able to do, I think
20:43
Speaker 3: has been certainly a bright spot.
20:45
Speaker 4: He's had such an interesting career.
20:47
Speaker 3: You look at this here, Randy Johnson always good when
20:50
Speaker 3: you're mentioned with Randy Johnson previously held that record. You know,
20:54
Speaker 3: the way Chris Sale has been able to kind of
20:56
Speaker 3: turn around his career a few years ago. You know,
20:59
Speaker 3: he's he's been a high strikeout guy. He's always had
21:03
Speaker 3: that stuff. So, you know, I think that at least
21:05
Speaker 3: there's a little bit of a positive there. A really
21:07
Speaker 3: cool staff for the Braves, a really cool kind of
21:10
Speaker 3: thing for Chris Sale.
21:11
Speaker 4: As his career continues to be just top end, I think.
21:15
Speaker 3: You know, you look at Atlanta and as you guys
21:17
Speaker 3: mentioned with some of the injuries, having sail healthy, having
21:20
Speaker 3: him productive, having him strike guys out, that's when he's.
21:23
Speaker 4: At his best.
21:25
Speaker 5: It's crazy when a guy like this was pretty much
21:28
Speaker 5: done and buried with the Red Sox got traded to
21:31
Speaker 5: the Braves, and then the Braves extended him red Sox
21:35
Speaker 5: fans were like, this is definitely not going to work out. Well,
21:39
Speaker 5: no way that that guy has anything left. Cy Young.
21:43
Speaker 5: The only blip on his radar, the only blemish last
21:46
Speaker 5: year was the fact that that back just retched up
21:49
Speaker 5: and got tightened up right at the end of right
21:52
Speaker 5: at the end of the season there, and he couldn't
21:53
Speaker 5: throw in the didn't need to throw in the play
21:56
Speaker 5: in game that they played essentially their their game one
21:59
Speaker 5: six rain out and doubleheader thing on the last day.
22:03
Speaker 5: But then he wasn't able to throw in the playoffs.
22:05
Speaker 5: So this guy, we had him on about two years
22:10
Speaker 5: ago before last season, and I asked him if he
22:13
Speaker 5: sees himself as a Hall of Famer and he said, no,
22:18
Speaker 5: if Mark Burley is not a Hall of Famer, no,
22:21
Speaker 5: I don't think. So we had him on again, and
22:25
Speaker 5: these numbers, like the way that he's racked up strikeouts,
22:28
Speaker 5: I know he still has some, you know, the three
22:30
Speaker 5: thousand strikeout plateau would be that would be a stretch
22:35
Speaker 5: five hundred more. But if he's found something in his
22:38
Speaker 5: last year when he had his resurgence that's able to
22:41
Speaker 5: keep him on the field, he has not shown signs
22:44
Speaker 5: of regression here from his cy Young year.
22:51
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's funny you bring that up. I got
22:54
Speaker 1: to ask the same question if he was a Hall
22:57
Speaker 1: of Famer, and I did say no, But the end
23:00
Speaker 1: I was like, let me go back to that real quick,
23:03
Speaker 1: and I was just looking up some stuff.
23:04
Speaker 2: I'm like, I could be definitely I could be wrong here.
23:08
Speaker 1: I I do with the I think the Cy Young
23:10
Speaker 1: was the biggest thing that kickstarted him to be on
23:14
Speaker 1: that other end of the line there the other in inspectrum.
23:17
Speaker 1: But it's when you think about it's the best of
23:20
Speaker 1: the best in him to do it this quick. I mean,
23:22
Speaker 1: he's got to be one of the best of the
23:24
Speaker 1: best to be talked about as a big, strong, left
23:26
Speaker 1: handed pitcher too. So when his career is done, we'll
23:29
Speaker 1: look back in more numbers and we'll, you know, we
23:31
Speaker 1: can talk about it.
23:32
Speaker 2: But he's an absolute stud.
23:34
Speaker 1: Yeah.
23:34
Speaker 3: I think he's just underrated because he's not flashy, he
23:37
Speaker 3: doesn't like the attention.
23:38
Speaker 4: He's not a huge media.
23:39
Speaker 3: Guy, right Like, so I think sometimes we forget how
23:42
Speaker 3: good he is. And I think if we're talking about
23:45
Speaker 3: cy Young's as we sit here, it's not JUNI yet,
23:47
Speaker 3: but he's got to be in the conversation. And I
23:50
Speaker 3: think right now, if the season were to end, you
23:52
Speaker 3: give it to Scoogle. You know what he's been doing.
23:54
Speaker 3: We're comparing him to Maddox after his last start. So
23:57
Speaker 3: I don't think there's probably a pitcher in baseball you
23:59
Speaker 3: would take for Schooble. But you go down the list
24:01
Speaker 3: and I think you know, if you're filling them out,
24:04
Speaker 3: Chris Sale is on your hand right if you're filling
24:06
Speaker 3: out who you want to pitch for you right now,
24:08
Speaker 3: he's in that top four or five for sure.
24:11
Speaker 5: I mean I would say right now in the NL
24:13
Speaker 5: the three, I mean the four that I have, and
24:16
Speaker 5: I think Sale is probably four. It's probably Zach Wheeler,
24:21
Speaker 5: Yamamoto and Skiens. Is Schemes going to get like the
24:26
Speaker 5: sympathy vote or is he going to have his if
24:29
Speaker 5: is he going to push his era down below a two? Again?
24:32
Speaker 5: Is Wheeler going to get bounced out because he goes
24:35
Speaker 5: seven innings and he's giving up a couple more runs
24:38
Speaker 5: because he wants to stay out there. He'll probably lead
24:41
Speaker 5: the league in innings. And if Yamamoto continues on the
24:45
Speaker 5: track that he's that he's on right now. I think
24:48
Speaker 5: it's his I think it's his award.
24:51
Speaker 1: Well said, that's that's very very hard, very hard to
24:55
Speaker 1: choose right now, got a ways to go.
24:58
Speaker 3: Not to get on a soapbox, but as if you
25:00
Speaker 3: BWA member and a voter, it always annoys me that
25:02
Speaker 3: we don't prioritize enough the innings, like the Wheeler, Like
25:06
Speaker 3: for the last couple it was I think it was
25:08
Speaker 3: a couple of years ago we were talking about this.
25:11
Speaker 3: I forget who the picture from Milwaukee was that was
25:13
Speaker 3: up for it, But remember I was just talking about,
25:16
Speaker 3: like how Zach Wheeler is so good, but he gets
25:18
Speaker 3: penalized for going those extra fifty innings. And I wish
25:21
Speaker 3: there was a way to kind of rectify that a
25:23
Speaker 3: little bit, because certainly keeping your team in the game
25:26
Speaker 3: and saving the bullpen, that's maybe not something that we
25:28
Speaker 3: can quantify with a stat but it matters, and it
25:31
Speaker 3: matters to the.
25:32
Speaker 5: Guys in that dugout does matter. But if you're only
25:35
Speaker 5: out there for the time that you're dominating, that's all
25:38
Speaker 5: people remember. They're not going to sit there and go, well,
25:41
Speaker 5: had that guy stayed out there for one extra inning
25:44
Speaker 5: every game, he wouldn't have he wouldn't have had quite
25:48
Speaker 5: quite as good of a career. It's like what no,
25:51
Speaker 5: like you only can judge what was out there, And
25:53
Speaker 5: Burns had quite a few less innings, but his numbers
25:57
Speaker 5: looked a lot less flashy. I mean a lot more
26:00
Speaker 5: than Wheeler, who I think. I think he touched two
26:04
Speaker 5: hundred innings, but I'm not one hundred percent sure on that.
26:06
Speaker 5: And you know he missed out. I think by the
26:09
Speaker 5: time the season ends, Wheeler wins it. That's been my
26:12
Speaker 5: pick from the beginning in the NL. But man Yamamoto's
26:17
Speaker 5: he's doing some stuff and you know they're going to
26:19
Speaker 5: skip some starts. You know, he's not going to have
26:21
Speaker 5: as many starts because the Dodgers are all about that,
26:25
Speaker 5: you know, load management to be able to be healthy
26:29
Speaker 5: for game one of the game one of the playoffs.
26:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I agree with you. And ya was Corbyn Burns?
26:36
Speaker 4: Howd I forget?
26:37
Speaker 3: Like that guy from Milwaukee what was his name?
26:39
Speaker 4: He was really good.
26:41
Speaker 5: It was different teams. You know, you sit there and
26:43
Speaker 5: you go, oh yeah, I forgot. Yeah, that was one
26:46
Speaker 5: of the best rotations in the game. Oh yeah. They
26:48
Speaker 5: had the role aids relief pitcher now the Trevor Hoffman
26:51
Speaker 5: Award winner for like five straight years in the bullpen.
26:55
Speaker 5: That team, those teams they could pitch, they could throw
26:58
Speaker 5: the ball. Woodie Freddy Burns now Burns is on his
27:02
Speaker 5: third different team.
27:05
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely, I agree with you guys. So yeah,
27:09
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27:37
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27:40
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27:43
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Speaker 4: You know, what's so interesting to.
27:48
Speaker 3: Me about the Rays, guys is that every year we're like, oh,
27:50
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27:52
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27:54
Speaker 3: I feel like I look at their like certain elements,
27:57
Speaker 3: like their bullpen, and it's like Pete Fairbanks and a
27:59
Speaker 3: bunch of guys I've never heard of, but they just
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28:02
Speaker 4: Get the job done right.
28:04
Speaker 3: Like every time we talking about Tampa I'm usually googling
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28:10
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28:13
Speaker 4: In a nutshell.
28:16
Speaker 5: Yeah, imagine if they would actually spend and add to
28:19
Speaker 5: that all that mediocrity that they have, they could be
28:22
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28:24
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28:27
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28:32
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28:37
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28:40
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28:42
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28:45
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28:49
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28:54
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think that's fair. You know, the way to
28:57
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29:01
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29:06
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29:09
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29:13
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29:16
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29:18
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29:21
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29:24
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29:26
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29:28
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Speaker 4: All right, guys, we got a big series.
30:40
Speaker 3: We got Dodgers Yankees rematch, the World Series rematch in May,
30:46
Speaker 3: a little bit different than it was for the World Series.
30:49
Speaker 4: Cratsy's shaking his head already. Uh, this is gonna be
30:52
Speaker 4: What do you got?
30:54
Speaker 1: No?
30:54
Speaker 5: I was shaking my head because before the break you
30:56
Speaker 5: said I have a little rematch. You said little rematch,
31:00
Speaker 5: Yankees and Yankees and Dodgers, little rematch, little rematch.
31:05
Speaker 3: Like this is like it wasn't even close to a
31:08
Speaker 3: good series. It wasn't like seven game thing.
31:12
Speaker 5: Look this, this whole segment is sponsored by MLB Rivals. Yes,
31:17
Speaker 5: this is a this is a rivalry that the Dodgers
31:21
Speaker 5: just threw gasoline on by their comments last year. And
31:25
Speaker 5: it's a little rematch. This is the only chance because
31:29
Speaker 5: we don't have you know, we don't have like the
31:31
Speaker 5: rubber match, the cage match, We don't have another game
31:34
Speaker 5: that they could have played in the World Series. They
31:36
Speaker 5: beat them soundedly, and then they talked about it. They
31:43
Speaker 5: chatted about it while drinking some booze. And now even
31:47
Speaker 5: Chris Taylor is not even afraid of what he said.
31:50
Speaker 5: He hasn't gone back on his statements. To me, this
31:53
Speaker 5: is more than a little rematch. This is a opportunity
31:56
Speaker 5: for the Yankees to be like, you know what, you
31:59
Speaker 5: guys did get lucky. You know what, we did make
32:03
Speaker 5: some heirs, but we are the better team. So to me,
32:07
Speaker 5: it's a huge rematch.
32:09
Speaker 4: Better team.
32:10
Speaker 3: They were not even close to the better team last
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Speaker 3: Guys, look at this courtesy as Sarah langs if and
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Speaker 3: when let's assume that the lineups are what we think
32:27
Speaker 3: they're going to be. They're gonna have Judge Bellender Goldschmidt
32:30
Speaker 3: facing off Otani Betts Freeman. The first time in history
32:34
Speaker 3: the game has had three former m VPS in each lineup.
32:38
Speaker 3: That is star power. That is pretty remarkable. Krats, your
32:42
Speaker 3: take on the Yankees being the better team is about
32:45
Speaker 3: as good as your mustache, which is.
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Speaker 1: Not good.
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Speaker 5: Below average. But I didn't say they were the better team.
32:54
Speaker 5: I said the Yankees have a chance to show they're
32:57
Speaker 5: the better team. But I can't believe this. This tweet
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Speaker 5: by Sarah Langs like the fact that two of the
33:05
Speaker 5: teams that spend the most money have three former MVPs
33:09
Speaker 5: and in their lineup. Of course they do, because they're
33:13
Speaker 5: the only teams that are willing to spend They're the
33:15
Speaker 5: only teams that are willing to get together the best players.
33:20
Speaker 5: Everybody had a shot at gold Schmidt, and based on
33:23
Speaker 5: how much the Cubs wanted to get rid of Cody Bellinger,
33:26
Speaker 5: everybody had a shot at Cody too. Yeah, you had
33:29
Speaker 5: to pick up his contract. Yeah, you had to deal
33:33
Speaker 5: with the fact that he had a down year after
33:34
Speaker 5: the year the year prior to twenty three. But you know,
33:38
Speaker 5: it's it's two teams that want to win the World Series,
33:42
Speaker 5: and is so refreshing because there are others, there are
33:46
Speaker 5: others in the league that could care less about winning,
33:49
Speaker 5: and it's proven because they don't go out and get
33:52
Speaker 5: the guys to supplement the lineups that are decent lineups.
33:57
Speaker 3: All right, let's do a little tail of the take
33:59
Speaker 3: here for this huge, huge, huge rivalry. Let's get into
34:02
Speaker 3: who would you guys rather have at first base? Paul
34:05
Speaker 3: Goldman Freddie Freeman.
34:08
Speaker 5: Right now, Freddy Freeman for me, every day, all day,
34:13
Speaker 5: even when even when Paul Goldschmidt, even when Paul gold
34:17
Speaker 5: Schmid one is MVP, Freddie Freeman's the guy. Freddie Freeman
34:22
Speaker 5: is going to be a Hall of Famer. And if
34:25
Speaker 5: you're talking about just today, yeah, Goldie's doing awesome. But
34:28
Speaker 5: if you look at the last month, what Freddy's doing,
34:32
Speaker 5: coming off of slow start to the season because of that,
34:35
Speaker 5: because of that ankle injury, He's he's up there. Freddy
34:39
Speaker 5: was up there with with some of judges numbers, you know,
34:43
Speaker 5: hitting over four hundred during that span, driving in runs
34:47
Speaker 5: and just putting together ridiculous at bats. He's he hasn't
34:50
Speaker 5: lost a step Freddie Freeman all day.
34:53
Speaker 1: The only step, the only step he's lost was going
34:55
Speaker 1: into a shower. That's the only step. We can move on.
35:00
Speaker 3: That ankle isn't that great. I don't know if we
35:02
Speaker 3: could say, yes, lost a step, considering his ankle was
35:05
Speaker 3: held together by like tape and glue during the World Series. Whatever,
35:08
Speaker 3: I'll give you guys that. Let's move on to second base.
35:11
Speaker 3: Who are we going with, Miguel Rojas, Tommy Edmund, did
35:14
Speaker 3: you Lea Mayhew? I don't why Lea Mayhew is on this.
35:17
Speaker 3: He's not gonna be playing every day. They got to
35:20
Speaker 3: kind of keep that guy in bubble wrap. I hope
35:22
Speaker 3: he can help when he can help. He's like thirty
35:23
Speaker 3: six no offense.
35:25
Speaker 5: He's playing, He's playing better at second Laye's playing better
35:29
Speaker 5: when he's out there, he's playing better. His bat's not
35:32
Speaker 5: going to return to the same batting title form American League,
35:36
Speaker 5: nationally batting title winner. But I mean, come on, Miguel Rojas, No,
35:42
Speaker 5: Tommy Edmund, Tommy Tanks to me, I'm looking at this
35:46
Speaker 5: guy as a guy who could could have a huge
35:50
Speaker 5: series this series, Like, look at all the huge at
35:53
Speaker 5: bats that he had last year after he came over
35:56
Speaker 5: from the Cardinals. I guess the Cardinals just didn't need
35:59
Speaker 5: a guy like this. The Dodgers were like, oh yeah, sure,
36:01
Speaker 5: we'll take him easy. The guy can play center field,
36:04
Speaker 5: he can play a gold glove second base. We even
36:06
Speaker 5: plugged him in a shortstop. So if you're putting Tommy
36:09
Speaker 5: Tommy Tanks at second base, I'll take Tommy.
36:13
Speaker 1: Edit well said, Well said, I agree. I wish Jazz
36:17
Speaker 1: was healthy. We could have been talking maybe maybe a
36:20
Speaker 1: little different scene. But Tommy Edmund is the real deal.
36:23
Speaker 1: Love the way he plays the game.
36:25
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to third base, and we got
36:28
Speaker 3: key Y Hernandez, Max Bunci or as Waldo Praz.
36:34
Speaker 1: I'm taking this one on. I'm I'm going with as
36:37
Speaker 1: Waldo Parraz on this one. He's been playing, he's been
36:40
Speaker 1: playing well. When he gets his time, he's he's a
36:42
Speaker 1: solid little third baseman. And you know, listen from what
36:47
Speaker 1: I've seen right now, the guy can play the game,
36:50
Speaker 1: and he's up for whatever. He's a utility guy and
36:53
Speaker 1: he will back the team up and go. Whenever there's
36:56
Speaker 1: an injury. He steps right in. Is he gonna wow?
36:58
Speaker 1: You know, but he's a good and he's been playing
37:00
Speaker 1: the game the right way.
37:01
Speaker 2: I think.
37:04
Speaker 1: I just lost Monthsy and Kiki kind of taking a
37:06
Speaker 1: step back a little bit. But Keiki is, you know,
37:09
Speaker 1: the playoff guy, especially against the Yankees.
37:11
Speaker 2: But I'm going Paraza by a little bit.
37:14
Speaker 5: I'm taking Munsie and Keik because they're going to be
37:18
Speaker 5: putting situations to have success. The Dodgers are going to
37:22
Speaker 5: put them in the lineup when the matchup is favorable
37:26
Speaker 5: to them. And you know what, Max Munsey's started out
37:29
Speaker 5: slow this year. He is about to get hot. The
37:33
Speaker 5: dude just he falls. He falls into thirty homers a year.
37:37
Speaker 5: He is a fastball masher and Keyk They're not going
37:43
Speaker 5: to over expose Kek at third. So I think this
37:46
Speaker 5: is this is just a case of Paraza is just
37:51
Speaker 5: filling in at third. I think the Yankees are looking
37:53
Speaker 5: for options. Jazz is playing third down in the minor leagues,
37:56
Speaker 5: or is willing to play third. Whether he does or
37:58
Speaker 5: he doesn't, he's willing to unlike Labor wasn't willing to
38:02
Speaker 5: play third last year. Jazz wants to do what will
38:06
Speaker 5: help the team. His quote, not mine, And I think
38:10
Speaker 5: Parazza's days are numbered at third base with the Yankees.
38:14
Speaker 3: All Kays we got shortstop. Think I know which wy
38:17
Speaker 3: you guys are going. Can we say anybody over Mookie
38:19
Speaker 3: Bets right now? Poor Anthony Volpi gets the short end
38:22
Speaker 3: of the stick at shortstop. You gotta go Mookie, don't you.
38:26
Speaker 3: It also doesn't matter where you put this guy. He's
38:28
Speaker 3: a difference maker. We could have put Mooky. I know
38:30
Speaker 3: he's playing shortstop right now, but like he's been in
38:33
Speaker 3: so many different positions too. It's it's just unreal. What
38:36
Speaker 3: a what a cool little card we've got up here
38:38
Speaker 3: on the screen. I would love to hear if anyone
38:40
Speaker 3: has an Anthony Voltpi take that. He's somehow you would
38:42
Speaker 3: take him over Mookie Bets in this present moment.
38:46
Speaker 5: But you don't want, you don't want go glove it short.
38:49
Speaker 5: You don't you don't want go glove it short like
38:51
Speaker 5: it's your premier position. It's your premium position. I mean,
38:55
Speaker 5: are we not are we discounting that or are we
38:57
Speaker 5: just saying, you know what, Mookie Bets is just gonna
39:00
Speaker 5: Mookie Best is just gonna hit, and he's gonna be
39:03
Speaker 5: He's gonna be the the Mooki Betts of all the
39:06
Speaker 5: MVP you know, MVP candidate, all this stuff, who has
39:10
Speaker 5: a higher war at this current point, Bolpie Volpi has
39:16
Speaker 5: a higher war, So thank you very much. I'll take
39:19
Speaker 5: Anthony Volpi. Sorry, Mooky, I'm being a contrarian. I'm being
39:26
Speaker 5: a Ki Betts is a better player exactly Currently, Anthony
39:31
Speaker 5: Volpe is a very underrated piece of this Yankees team,
39:36
Speaker 5: and he brings value in more than just his torpedo
39:39
Speaker 5: bat hotness.
39:41
Speaker 3: Yes, I will say this, Anthony Vulpe has gotten a
39:43
Speaker 3: lot of hate in previous seasons for not like immediately
39:46
Speaker 3: being this star, and very quietly he has put together
39:49
Speaker 3: a really nice start to this season. I feel like
39:52
Speaker 3: he drew a lot of iron from Yankee fans last year.
39:54
Speaker 3: You make errors and critical things or you know, offensively,
39:57
Speaker 3: he wasn't the guy in stretches, Uh, Anthony Bolpi, he
40:00
Speaker 3: has been very good. Still not taking him over, Mookie Bets.
40:03
Speaker 3: I am curious what you guys have here in center
40:05
Speaker 3: field though, Tommy Edmond versus Trent Grisham. Trent Grisham having
40:09
Speaker 3: a really strong start to the season with the Yankees,
40:12
Speaker 3: much better offensively than he has been at.
40:14
Speaker 4: Prior stops for a little while.
40:17
Speaker 3: Guys, it was like him and Judge were like the
40:19
Speaker 3: only ones that were doing anything offensively.
40:21
Speaker 4: So kind of curious where you guys sit with this one.
40:25
Speaker 1: Yeah, he just needed to get in his own comfortability. Honestly,
40:29
Speaker 1: it's New York's a tough place to play. Came out struggling,
40:32
Speaker 1: and he didn't play as much. And I think Boone
40:34
Speaker 1: came out and even said that I needed to play
40:36
Speaker 1: him more. And now look what he does, gold glove.
40:38
Speaker 1: He's making plays left and right, smooth his silk out there,
40:41
Speaker 1: and he's driving the ball.
40:42
Speaker 2: Again. It's definite for me. Trent Grisham.
40:46
Speaker 5: I mean, if you're taking an everyday center fielder, you
40:48
Speaker 5: gotta take Trent Grisham. He has golden center. Tommy Edmund
40:52
Speaker 5: has gold at second base. So that's why I picked Tommy.
40:55
Speaker 5: I can't pick Tommy for both positions. This isn't high school.
40:58
Speaker 5: This isn't the high school All League honors where kids
41:01
Speaker 5: are winning first team at different positions. No, this is
41:05
Speaker 5: Trent Grisham. He has earned it. He was a good
41:08
Speaker 5: player in San Diego when he played a lot, got
41:12
Speaker 5: traded over in the one Soto deal. Sorry, Trent, you
41:15
Speaker 5: were not better than Juan Soto or g in the lineup,
41:20
Speaker 5: and he rotted on the bench. And now you see
41:23
Speaker 5: the types of numbers he's putting up. I think he's
41:26
Speaker 5: gonna come. He's gonna maybe regress a little bit back
41:29
Speaker 5: down to the mean, like Kyle Glazer said yesterday on
41:31
Speaker 5: the show. But you're still getting gold glove defense, which
41:36
Speaker 5: is so valuable.
41:40
Speaker 4: Fair, fair, All right, let's go with left field? Left field?
41:43
Speaker 3: We have Michael CONFORDO. Or are we going with the
41:46
Speaker 3: Martian on the Yankee side?
41:49
Speaker 4: Are we going with.
41:49
Speaker 3: Andy Pajes the Dodgers? You know, it's a little bit
41:52
Speaker 3: of of Uplot two in there. So I'm really curious
41:55
Speaker 3: as to how you guys are gonna How are you
41:57
Speaker 3: gonna rake this? It's easy with the stars. When you
42:00
Speaker 3: get a little further down, you're like, what are.
42:02
Speaker 4: We doing here?
42:03
Speaker 3: We're going with the Yankees, young stud Are we going
42:07
Speaker 3: with some of the war veteran guys?
42:09
Speaker 4: What do you guys cut.
42:12
Speaker 5: I'll let the Yankees. I'll let the Yankees every day
42:15
Speaker 5: analyst take this one and then I'll just tell them
42:19
Speaker 5: right answer.
42:21
Speaker 1: You're annoying. I'm going with the young pup. I'm going
42:24
Speaker 1: with the Martian. You've seen some spurts of really good
42:28
Speaker 1: at bats, you've seen some up and downs, but he's
42:31
Speaker 1: still trying to find himself. If we're talking defensive wise, Kratti,
42:35
Speaker 1: which I know you're going to bring up, yeah, yeah,
42:37
Speaker 1: it's trouble, but you got to switch hitter. Here, a
42:39
Speaker 1: kid that's up and coming and he's still trying to
42:42
Speaker 1: learn that position. I'm taking him with a slight edge
42:45
Speaker 1: over those two guys right now.
42:47
Speaker 5: I mean, the exact reason that those two guys are
42:50
Speaker 5: who I'm choosing is where Jason Dominguez has an issue.
42:55
Speaker 5: They can't really bat him from the right side. They
42:57
Speaker 5: can't start him against lefties. His right handed swing has
43:01
Speaker 5: been lacking power, it's been lacking consistent contact. And all
43:05
Speaker 5: three of these dudes, somehow, Pies is the best outfielder
43:10
Speaker 5: out there. So I have to take the Dodgers side
43:13
Speaker 5: of it. Confordo is interesting to me because he has
43:17
Speaker 5: had a reverse a incredible reverse split where he has
43:21
Speaker 5: been killing lefties, and before early in his career he
43:26
Speaker 5: was handling sinkers really well from righties. So it's interesting
43:29
Speaker 5: how they're gonna use that platoon and the way pi
43:33
Speaker 5: Haes has been playing, it might be a little bit
43:35
Speaker 5: less and less Confordo, and it might just be Pijes's job.
43:39
Speaker 5: But as the Dodgers do, they're not just gonna leave
43:42
Speaker 5: twenty million dollars sitting on the bench in Confordo. So
43:46
Speaker 5: they'll have the opportunity to get in the lineup and
43:49
Speaker 5: really mix things up based on where Confordo's at. He
43:52
Speaker 5: started out hot, now he's kind of struggled a little bit.
43:56
Speaker 3: All right, let's go over to the other corner of
43:58
Speaker 3: Tasco Hernandez or Cody Bellinger.
44:01
Speaker 4: Are we take in there?
44:02
Speaker 3: This is an interesting one actually in my mind, I
44:05
Speaker 3: don't know who I would go with. I think you
44:06
Speaker 3: can kind of flip a coin here, depends on what
44:08
Speaker 3: you value the most. Which way are two esteemed player
44:13
Speaker 3: analysts going.
44:15
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm gonna take I'm gonna take Tayo. And
44:17
Speaker 5: it is a close, close match. This is the closest
44:21
Speaker 5: for me because Tayo what he did last year, how
44:25
Speaker 5: he fits into that roster, how he actually changes that
44:29
Speaker 5: lineup in the sense that he's able to punish soft
44:33
Speaker 5: stuff in the zone where the other guy's like a
44:36
Speaker 5: Max Munzi when he hits, when they hit back to back,
44:40
Speaker 5: when they're paired in the lineup, it's tough to navigate
44:43
Speaker 5: that part of the lineup because your landing your breaking
44:46
Speaker 5: balls against Max and then you have to be able
44:49
Speaker 5: to get the fastball by Tao. It's just hard. You
44:53
Speaker 5: never get into a rhythm. And I think what he
44:55
Speaker 5: adds to that lineup is ridiculous. And I think Cody's
45:00
Speaker 5: spot where he's at in the lineup is maybe the
45:03
Speaker 5: most important spot in all the American League from here
45:05
Speaker 5: going forward, because if Ron Washington gave everybody the foot
45:10
Speaker 5: the blueprint of what to do to judge, it's like
45:14
Speaker 5: Garrett Cole did to Raffie Devers. Put him on. And
45:18
Speaker 5: if Cody steps up and continues to get stay hot
45:22
Speaker 5: because he started out slow and he's gotten hot recently,
45:27
Speaker 5: then you're going to be seeing a lot more of
45:31
Speaker 5: throwing the judge, and not for wide because you got
45:35
Speaker 5: a picture. You can't pitch around him and expect that
45:38
Speaker 5: Cody's not going to do damage.
45:41
Speaker 1: I will be nice and quick here it is fifty
45:43
Speaker 1: to fifty, but I'm gonna give zero point one percent
45:46
Speaker 1: the task because you want a home run derby.
45:47
Speaker 2: So that's it, all right.
45:50
Speaker 3: Speaking a quick if you're paying attention or scoring at
45:53
Speaker 3: home or skipping over the catchers, no one cares about
45:55
Speaker 3: catchers at all.
45:56
Speaker 4: Sorry, Cratzy.
45:57
Speaker 5: We're going to.
46:00
Speaker 3: What Otani versus a guy named Aaron Judge may have
46:05
Speaker 3: heard of him? Which one are you guys going here?
46:08
Speaker 3: And is there a wrong answer?
46:10
Speaker 4: Probably not?
46:11
Speaker 1: No, I'll go first, since Cratsy's annoying sometimes, I am
46:15
Speaker 1: going with the captain Aaron Judge. He is an absolute beast.
46:20
Speaker 1: There is no wrong answers here. Maybe I'm a little biased,
46:23
Speaker 1: but I want the six foot seven guy up every
46:26
Speaker 1: single time of the day, one pitch away from winning
46:28
Speaker 1: a game always, not that Otani can't do that. I
46:32
Speaker 1: know he's gonna pick him because he could pitch too,
46:34
Speaker 1: but he hasn't pitched yet. I'm going with the big
46:37
Speaker 1: doll Aaron Judge.
46:38
Speaker 5: I mean he can't pitch when when he's d h
46:41
Speaker 5: and so no, I'm not picking Otani Aaron Judge, for sure.
46:45
Speaker 5: Aaron Judges on a historic run. And your catcher is
46:48
Speaker 5: Will Smith. That's why we picked. We went over the catchers.
46:52
Speaker 5: It's Will Smith. Will Smith right now, is the second
46:55
Speaker 5: best catcher in the game.
46:57
Speaker 2: I'll take Austin Wilson to get.
47:00
Speaker 3: That in there. All right, there it is. There's the extravaganza,
47:03
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Speaker 3: from Minnesota Byron Buxton activated off the concussion list. He's
47:30
Speaker 3: replacing Carson McCusker, who is optioned. Looks like Matt Wolner
47:34
Speaker 3: will return on Saturday. That is good news. Buxton back, guys.
47:38
Speaker 3: He's betting two sixty one, three, twelve, five, twenty two
47:41
Speaker 3: eighteen extra base hits including temp home runs. He hasn't
47:45
Speaker 3: played since May fifteenth. If you remember, he collided with
47:48
Speaker 3: Carlos Correa in uh I think it.
47:50
Speaker 4: Was in Baltimore. Yes, it was in a win Baltimore.
47:54
Speaker 3: Correa was said to have gotten not as much of
47:56
Speaker 3: the brunt, he missed less time than Buxton did. I
47:59
Speaker 3: think they're also just aways super careful with Buxton because,
48:03
Speaker 3: like Mike Trout, as we talked about earlier, the problem
48:06
Speaker 3: is keeping him on the field.
48:08
Speaker 4: Buckston is one of those guys.
48:09
Speaker 3: As he goes, the Twins go, and that's kind of
48:12
Speaker 3: been the case for a while and it has not
48:14
Speaker 3: been going that great for the Twins right now.
48:20
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they they had that nice run, I mean,
48:23
Speaker 1: kratzy you remember. I don't know how many games it
48:25
Speaker 1: was that they went on that run for, but it was.
48:29
Speaker 1: It was a beautiful thing to see. And again, I
48:31
Speaker 1: love Buxton. Man, he just got to keep his butt
48:34
Speaker 1: on the field, you know. And you can't really take
48:36
Speaker 1: him out of center field. He's too fast and he
48:38
Speaker 1: makes tons of plays. So it's a guy you need
48:40
Speaker 1: out there. Happy he's back and maybe this kick starts
48:42
Speaker 1: them back going again.
48:45
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's as my buddy Todd says, he's a beast.
48:49
Speaker 5: He literally is a monster. Like he's bigger, stronger, faster.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.
49:56
Speaker 2: That's what he said.
49:59
Speaker 5: That's what he said.
50:00
Speaker 2: That's what we should.
50:06
Speaker 4: Well, this is what Chris Taylor said.
50:07
Speaker 3: He said he doesn't regret saying anything about the Yankees,
50:11
Speaker 3: including that they can we swear on this show s
50:15
Speaker 3: flank down their leg in the fifth inning of the
50:17
Speaker 3: Game five.
50:17
Speaker 4: Of the World Series.
50:18
Speaker 3: So I will let you all use your imaginations This
50:21
Speaker 3: is what he told the Athletic. He said, I didn't
50:23
Speaker 3: think I was saying anything super critical. He also said,
50:27
Speaker 3: that's kind of how I felt about it. I didn't
50:28
Speaker 3: mean any offense to me. It was just like I
50:31
Speaker 3: was kind of stating the fact. Guys, I'm gonna call
50:35
Speaker 3: total bs on this. I know we can't swear on
50:37
Speaker 3: this show.
50:38
Speaker 4: We are very PC. By the way, if you were wondering,
50:43
Speaker 4: is he knows exactly what he's doing here.
50:45
Speaker 3: He knows what he was doing when he said it originally,
50:47
Speaker 3: and he knows what he's doing now and own it.
50:51
Speaker 3: If you're gonna just if you're gonna say stuff that's inflammatory,
50:55
Speaker 3: like AJ used to do all the time when he played,
50:57
Speaker 3: which is part of the reason why people who played
50:59
Speaker 3: with him on their team loved Aj Presinski Aj Persinski.
51:03
Speaker 3: When other teams played him, I was on like the
51:05
Speaker 3: beat on those teams didn't like him, but AJ was
51:08
Speaker 3: who he was, And I feel like, if you're gonna
51:09
Speaker 3: say something and you're gonna stir the pot, then you
51:12
Speaker 3: can't come back later and say, oh, me, I was
51:14
Speaker 3: just pointing out the facts, like, no, you weren't, so
51:18
Speaker 3: just live with it. You started the drama. Chris Taylor,
51:20
Speaker 3: deal with the Chris deal with the drama. I find
51:24
Speaker 3: this kind of I don't know what the red word
51:27
Speaker 3: is for it, you know, I don't know. I don't
51:29
Speaker 3: want to say unnerving. But he just like, own it.
51:32
Speaker 5: Just own it.
51:33
Speaker 4: Just be who you are.
51:34
Speaker 3: And if people don't like what you said, that's fine.
51:36
Speaker 3: Don't now back down and say that you were stating facts.
51:38
Speaker 3: You weren't stating facts when you said that they were
51:41
Speaker 3: blanking down.
51:41
Speaker 2: Their leg Yeah.
51:43
Speaker 1: And I from a guy in personal standpoint, I've done
51:46
Speaker 1: when I was nine years old an All Star game.
51:48
Speaker 1: Who literally happened to me when I was pitching. I
51:52
Speaker 1: know the feeling. So it's actually really happened. So for
51:56
Speaker 1: somebody to say that it is unnerving, it kind of
51:58
Speaker 1: touches me in a different way. It hurts no, but
52:02
Speaker 1: it's a true story. But at the end of the day, yeah,
52:07
Speaker 1: just throwing up to it.
52:08
Speaker 2: It was all good. It happened.
52:10
Speaker 1: They had they had a bad inning, and you know
52:12
Speaker 1: that was one of the main reasons why I lost
52:14
Speaker 1: that game. And you know that that was the biggest
52:17
Speaker 1: problem they had last year was the defense. And sometimes
52:19
Speaker 1: it was great, but a lot of times it wasn't.
52:22
Speaker 1: And yeah, I mean I don't look too much into
52:25
Speaker 1: what he said. Honestly, it was you know, he's on
52:27
Speaker 1: a different team now, and that's that.
52:33
Speaker 3: On this more on this story with Todd, I mean,
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Speaker 3: you actually that actually happened to you, and you played,
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Speaker 3: you wanted to play again after that?
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Speaker 1: I feel like that would be Yeah, it was long
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Speaker 1: story short. I was playing shortstop. We're up six to one,
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Speaker 1: our best pitcher gives up four runs. I'm at short
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Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't hold it anymore. Just came out
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Speaker 1: boom and now thank god we had the tight straps
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Speaker 1: on the bottom, and it was just, man, it was.
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Speaker 1: It was bad. Came in, I threw one warm up pitch.
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Speaker 1: Coaches you all right, I'm like yeah, one pitch later,
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Speaker 1: three run triple. We lose seven to six, ran right
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Speaker 1: through everybody's crying left and right, and ran to the
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Speaker 1: porta John and my dad's like, what happened. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: look at my pants. And he came in there and
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Speaker 1: he's like, holy cow, it was.
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Speaker 2: It was bad. I just wanted to go home. I
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Speaker 2: wanted to go home.
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Speaker 3: You should have told Pete Alonzo. It would have made
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Speaker 3: him feel a lot better. Pete having to come for
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Speaker 3: one nothing, nothing compared to top nine year old Todd Frazier.
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Speaker 5: I've heard this. I've heard this story three times now
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Speaker 5: and it makes me laugh every time. But but I
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Speaker 5: don't think. I don't think what Chris Taylor said. I mean,
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Speaker 5: I feel like he's standing behind what he said. Should
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Speaker 5: he have used you know, should he have been as
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Speaker 5: open to what he said? On Lookie's podcast the rest
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Speaker 5: of the team said the same thing. Now they put
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Speaker 5: a mic back in front of their face, and he's like,
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Speaker 5: I don't take any of it back. I don't regret
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Speaker 5: saying it. So I mean he said it with his chest,
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Speaker 5: and he continues to say with his chest. And it's
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Speaker 5: why there's going to be in this entire graduation weekend
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Speaker 5: that I have, these games are going to be on TV.
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Speaker 1: For me?
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Speaker 4: What do you got on that? Todd?
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Speaker 3: To me, this is I don't know. Hey, I feel
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Speaker 3: like he didn't own it at all. I really don't.
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Speaker 3: He's like, well, I didn't know it was going to
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Speaker 3: be a big deal. Really, you go on Bookie Bets'
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Speaker 3: podcast and you guys trash the Yankees, and you don't
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Speaker 3: think that that's going to be like a big deal
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Speaker 3: or something that Yankee writers want to follow back up on.
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Speaker 4: I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I don't think fact that it's still talked about. I mean,
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Speaker 2: maybe it's something we don't see.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's something we don't see in baseball. This isotta.
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Speaker 5: This is a Tuesday in the NBA, and it's really
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Speaker 5: just the guys saying out loud on a microphone, recorded
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Speaker 5: what they say in the clubhouse. And if you think
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Speaker 5: the Dodgers are the only team that says stuff like this,
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Speaker 5: this is what the guys are talking about me. This
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Speaker 5: is where you sell the game. Chris Taylor shouldn't be
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Speaker 5: chastised for saying what he said. This is just an
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Speaker 5: opportunity to let fans get a little bit closer to
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Speaker 5: what's going on. What's the psyche of the players?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm with you there.
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Speaker 3: More trash talk, more drama, more NBA style rivalries, more personalities.
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Speaker 3: The game needs all of it. All Right, guys, we've
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Speaker 3: made fun of Eric Todd pretty much the entire show.
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Speaker 3: It's time to finally give him a little bit of credit.
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Speaker 3: Let's see what it's trying to give a little shine.
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Speaker 3: I guess let's see what we got for your hat?
55:34
Speaker 3: What's crass hats for today?
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Speaker 5: If that's making fun of me, If that's making fun
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Speaker 5: of me, then I got a Twins hat on or wait, nope,
55:46
Speaker 5: I did this before. Maybe it's a Nats hat. Or wait, Britt,
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Speaker 5: it could be a Marlins hat. We don't know. We
55:53
Speaker 5: don't know, but they told me it's a Twins hat.
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Speaker 4: Very nice, very nice, awesome. Oh well, well, I don't
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Speaker 4: even know what to say to that. I can't say
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Speaker 4: anything needs so I'm just gonna smile. That looks great.
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Speaker 1: He locks you up. Every once in a while, he'll
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Speaker 1: lock you up, and you just gotta figure it out.
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Speaker 5: And oh good, think about this all weekend, todd, all weekend,
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Speaker 5: just every just think about this the whole time. When
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Speaker 5: someone's talking to you, I think about my mustache.
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Speaker 3: I'm gonna think about you when it's ninety degrees with
56:28
Speaker 3: ninety percent humidity, I'm gonna wonder, like what you're doing
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Speaker 3: and how all that facial hair is affecting you.
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Speaker 4: You just got a beard going too, I'm cool.
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