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Roki Sasaki’s debut, Cubs lineup q’s, Coby Mayo’s O’s option frustration, Braves sign Kimbrel · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Complaining when you didn't tear it up, when you didn't
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  Speaker 1: really give yourself a chance like I was, you know,
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  Speaker 1: on an impression, or I came up in the air
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  Speaker 1: with making a tough decision.
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  Speaker 2: Charge.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, let's charge the damn mound now. If you want
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  Speaker 3: a full full recap of the Tokyo series. We did
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  Speaker 3: postgame shows after game one, with Munsey joining us from
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  Speaker 3: the dug out, and then game two. We were on
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  Speaker 3: for about twenty twenty five minutes, but let's spend a
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  Speaker 3: few right now. And Cam wasn't on in the morning
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  Speaker 3: because he was hustling around Red Sox camp. But Cam,
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  Speaker 3: the dream stays alive. For Dodger fans, they're like, will
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  Speaker 3: we ever lose the game? They're two and zero.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it was impressive, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think what I was the most impressed with that
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  Speaker 1: we talked to Can about it earlier, was this whole
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  Speaker 1: thing about can Roki Susaki develop a third pitch? Can
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  Speaker 1: he develop another pitch because he's essentially a two pitch guy.
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  Speaker 4: Well, today we were.
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  Speaker 1: Coming in watching the game, he threw some wicked sliders
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  Speaker 1: that showed me immediately he's working on this stuff. And
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  Speaker 1: also too there wasn't ending. I don't know if it
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  Speaker 1: was a third, fourth or fifth where he lost it.
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  Speaker 1: I think he had a few walks, but it was
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  Speaker 1: just a simple well, is just trying to be too fine.
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  Speaker 1: Once his feet gets settled under him and he realized
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  Speaker 1: that that stuff plays in his own that dude is
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  Speaker 1: going to be lights out. Then you saw Kirby Yates,
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  Speaker 1: just so many weapons, so many ways to beat you.
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  Speaker 1: And I heard you talking about him this morning, Scotti,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy tanks right, he has picked up right where he
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  Speaker 1: left off again, No Mookie, no Freddy, no problem. The
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers are so deep, such quality at bats, and the
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  Speaker 1: pitching rotation is insane. So Dodgers fans have a lot
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  Speaker 1: to be excited about right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we talked about it. We talked about
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  Speaker 2: the pitch, the knuckle, the kiatine, whatever you want to
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  Speaker 2: call it is splitter, something that Japanese pitchers do really well.
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  Speaker 2: And he's no different. Yes, he's twenty three years old.
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  Speaker 2: I get that. Is they learn how to manipulate that pitch.
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  Speaker 2: To me, what he's gonna learn with so much movement
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  Speaker 2: is how to manipulate it the way that the way
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  Speaker 2: that is best for the situation. He's facing a righty.
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  Speaker 2: He does want that thing dipping down and into a rity.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be giving him the best chance. Maybe the
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  Speaker 2: guy pulls off the ball, he's able to manipulate that finger,
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  Speaker 2: maybe not split it quite as much on the fork
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  Speaker 2: and make it more of like a splitter that's gonna
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  Speaker 2: dive and drop away. He's going to learn because his
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  Speaker 2: mechanics are so repeatable, and he hasn't really thrown that
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  Speaker 2: many innings as far as yes, he's a twenty three
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  Speaker 2: year old, and yes he's been I think in professional
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  Speaker 2: baseball for five seasons now over in Japan. He hasn't
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  Speaker 2: thrown that many innings, so he needs those reps and
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  Speaker 2: it'll only only improve. Is it gonna happen this year?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, five walks, quite a few walks.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he'll he'll settle in and his stuffs, so
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  Speaker 3: damn good, the big yo, let's locate in the zone.
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  Speaker 3: Your your stuff will play in the zone. Just focus
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  Speaker 3: on that that heater and land some splitters and then
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  Speaker 3: get them to chase the rest. And like Cam said,
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  Speaker 3: if you got the slider, this guy who this guy's
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  Speaker 3: got cy young stuff. There's no doubt that team's ridiculous.
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  Speaker 3: We'll talk plenty about him throughout the season, but I
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  Speaker 3: do want to bring the Cubs side up here. We
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  Speaker 3: spoke about the Cubs for about half the postgame show today,
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  Speaker 3: just like, hey, how good do we think they are?
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  Speaker 3: But I actually want to lock in on a very
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  Speaker 3: specific part of today's game. The end of the game,
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  Speaker 3: the last out off the bat of Matt Shaw, ground
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  Speaker 3: ball out. Jesse Rogers does an awesome job covering the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs for a long time now, and he brought up
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  Speaker 3: this tweet, and there's fire on socials right now. Cam
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  Speaker 3: about it. Some people are obviously coming after him, and Jesse,
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  Speaker 3: I thought brought up a really good point in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the roster construction. He said, small thing, but good
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  Speaker 3: time to wonder why a rookie is hitting ahead of
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  Speaker 3: a one to seventy seven million dollar player who is
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  Speaker 3: twenty five home run seasons on his resume. Manager's execs
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  Speaker 3: off and wave off batting order questions. Quote, put your
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  Speaker 3: best hitters up top. They say, it's simple, you do
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  Speaker 3: that for this exact scenario. So they get the extra
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  Speaker 3: bat late not here point being they were two long
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  Speaker 3: and this team's down three runs. Justin Turner came in,
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  Speaker 3: he pinchhead, he walked right, and then next up is
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  Speaker 3: Matt Shaw and Jesse Rodgers. Just bringing up a very
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  Speaker 3: interesting point. He's not saying this is what they had
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  Speaker 3: to do, but he's, like anyone else think that maybe
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  Speaker 3: Danzby Swanson should be ahead of Matt Shaw in the
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  Speaker 3: batting order, A guy who is just making his debut
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  Speaker 3: and he had a late start to camp right because
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  Speaker 3: he had a little injury. And I don't know, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: don't you want to bury him in the lineup a
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  Speaker 3: little bit and let him.
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  Speaker 1: Get cozy one hundred percent? And especially right now. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I know it's early, it's a small symble size. Triple
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  Speaker 1: A is different. Not saying that he can't make it
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  Speaker 1: at the big league level, but like Hobvey Bias when
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  Speaker 1: he first came up, a lot of movement, a lot
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  Speaker 1: going on, and he doesn't have as much going on
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  Speaker 1: as Hobby, but that big leg kicking, the high velocity,
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  Speaker 1: and these guys' ability to be consistent and hit certain
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  Speaker 1: spots and find those holes. I think it's a fair question, right,
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  Speaker 1: you want your veteran guys in that situation late in
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  Speaker 1: the game. That's why you stacked the lineup like that one, two, three, four.
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  Speaker 1: You want those guys to get those at bats Layton games,
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  Speaker 1: clutch situation. So I'm sure Cubs fans might be the
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  Speaker 1: ones who didn't like that tweet, but it's a very
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  Speaker 1: an extremely fair question.
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  Speaker 4: Listen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to compare my seventy U team to
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs, but when I make that lineup, I make
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  Speaker 1: it so at the end of the game, my best
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  Speaker 1: guys will be hitting.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm I'm in on this one.
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  Speaker 2: It is definitely a team sport played by individuals, and
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  Speaker 2: you want your best individuals up there. Soccer, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a penalty shot to win the game, rarely are
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  Speaker 2: you going with the rookie up there. They get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to set that. In baseball, you set that lineup
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  Speaker 2: before the game. You want those vets in there, push y'all,
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  Speaker 2: push y'all, maybe down. I don't disagree with Jesse, but
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  Speaker 2: it also is just a it's a copy out of
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  Speaker 2: what you have with the Cubs. You're choosing Dansby Sponson
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  Speaker 2: over Matt Shaw to protect like like maybe maybe they
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  Speaker 2: were a little thin. We just talked to Breggy. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: they were a little thin, should have gone after him
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  Speaker 2: a little harder.
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  Speaker 4: Now, maybe they were definitely being one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: This is a move that made too Not to get
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  Speaker 1: into that cratzy, but you're right, that move made so
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  Speaker 1: much sense. And you look at the payroll, You look
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  Speaker 1: at Chicago regally in the summertime, that type of atmosphere,
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  Speaker 1: that type of player, and I love Justin Turner.
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  Speaker 4: I love him, and you still could have had him.
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  Speaker 1: You could have used him as a guy to pick
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  Speaker 1: up some batskets, Lefty at first base, DH, whatever you need.
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  Speaker 1: But there's no doubt in my mind that you know
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  Speaker 1: today the last two days were days where they definitely
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  Speaker 1: could have used that veteran presence in the lineup.
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  Speaker 3: Yep. Now they'll head back home and obviously play the
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  Speaker 3: rest of the season in the States, and you have
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  Speaker 3: plenty of time to go. But you just like to
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  Speaker 3: point those things out because it's a bummer to you know,
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  Speaker 3: get yourself already a week earlier than everyone else. You
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  Speaker 3: go out. It's a great trip. They're running into a buzzsaw.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the Dodgers are playing basically a super Bowl
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  Speaker 3: like atmosphere, and it's a home game for them, international
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  Speaker 3: home game, let's call it. But still, I mean the
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  Speaker 3: Cubs lost. It's it's not as strong as a roster
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  Speaker 3: as the Dodgers. I don't think anyone would say that.
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  Speaker 3: kimberl for a moment, and we'll get to Patrick Corbyn
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  Speaker 3: later on in the show. Those were the two vets
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  Speaker 3: that were signed in the past twenty four hours. Thoughts
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  Speaker 3: on this one feel good story and Kimberle was pretty
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  Speaker 3: good for a while with the Orioles and then kind
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  Speaker 3: of fell off, especially late in the year, and ended
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  Speaker 3: up with a five and a half. Is cra when
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  Speaker 3: you're at this stage in your career and you're coming
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  Speaker 3: off a bad finish, that's what's going to happen. It's
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  Speaker 3: a two million dollar contract if he makes the major
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  Speaker 3: league team and when, which I'm assuming, you know, would
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  Speaker 3: take a little bit of time since he's joining camp
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  Speaker 3: with a week to go, so it'll be pro rated whatever.
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  Speaker 3: He's made plenty of money in his career. I think
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  Speaker 3: it would be cool for his last season to be
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  Speaker 3: in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: I love that. Can Atlanta unlock what I don't think
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  Speaker 2: some of the other teams have been able to unlock Phillies,
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  Speaker 2: most recently the Orioles, where he has good stretches. Can
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  Speaker 2: they sit him down? Can they not use him during
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  Speaker 2: those stretches where he's not going well. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't watched enough games recently of Kimberle to see
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. I know he has trouble holding runners whatever,
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  Speaker 2: throwing strikes. But I love that it's going back to
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  Speaker 2: the Braves. I love that, you know, a kid from
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  Speaker 2: the South is gonna go play in Gwinnett and be
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  Speaker 2: one of the first ones called up because there's really
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  Speaker 2: not that much. It doesn't really hurt the Braves that much.
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna make him sign the whole forty five day
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  Speaker 2: consent thing, so the two million wouldn't even be guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: When he gets called up, he'd have to stay for
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  Speaker 2: forty five days. And for Kimberrel recently he started out well,
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  Speaker 2: so he could really earn that spot in the forty
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  Speaker 2: five days when he's in the big leagues. But I
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  Speaker 2: just think it's I think it's for awesome. I think
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  Speaker 2: he should play. However many years he plays, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: just this year, just May or three more years, it
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  Speaker 2: should all be in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, I mean, if he joins the team, in say,
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  Speaker 3: late April, and then he's feeling it at some point
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  Speaker 3: in August. There's a fan toom my ol you can
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  Speaker 3: use that, no big deal?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean Bruce Bochie said they're gonna do
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  Speaker 2: it kimberl So why can't Why can't Jeames just do
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  Speaker 2: it with a bullpen? I mean, I'm sorry, now with
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  Speaker 2: Kimber with the grum Why can't he do it with
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  Speaker 2: with the bullpen? Oh wait, because it's called roster manipulation,
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  Speaker 2: But who cares?
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  Speaker 3: Patrick Corbyn will do it now for two minutes, signs
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  Speaker 3: with the Rangers major league contract one million dollars a
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  Speaker 3: little over that guaranteed, according to John Hayman. And then
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  Speaker 3: he said, plus a few million in incentives. You know
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  Speaker 3: that's actually funny. One million plus plus a few million incentives.
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  Speaker 3: Hayman's usually like precise, like so and so got one
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  Speaker 3: point six two five mil whatever. But I like this
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  Speaker 3: version of John who's just like heay whatever. He's got
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  Speaker 3: a few million incentives, he's got a battle mill and
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  Speaker 3: a major league contract, and Rangers fans are like it
• 10:51
  Speaker 3: is one of the youngsters getting kicked out of the
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: rotation to start the year. Is Jack Leer and Kamara
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  Speaker 3: Rocker gonna make the rotation or someone else gonna get bumped.
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  Speaker 3: I saw a little bit of that circulating, But I'm
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  Speaker 3: also like, it's March nineteenth. Patrick Corbin, unless I'm completely
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  Speaker 3: unaware of how the things are going, is not going
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  Speaker 3: to start the year in the rotation. So I think
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  Speaker 3: they'll be okay. But you got a depth. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: they've got the Grom in that rotation. They've already got
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  Speaker 3: two injuries, with Bradford down and with John Gray down. Right, now, Cam,
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  Speaker 3: what do you think.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like the school Oh my bad, Yeah, you know
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  Speaker 1: what hek My whole thing is, I'm just happy to
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  Speaker 1: see a veteran guy who can go get out to
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  Speaker 1: get a big league deal, right.
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  Speaker 4: Even though it's one million.
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  Speaker 1: We see so many of these minor league deals, these
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  Speaker 1: minor league invites. Let's be honest. You can say what
• 11:35
  Speaker 1: you want about Patrick Korman. You can say he isn't
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  Speaker 1: the guy that he used to be, but at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, he's still a big league arm right,
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  Speaker 1: He's still gonna he's still gonna help somebody's rotation get
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  Speaker 1: big out. So I'm just happy to see the veteran
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  Speaker 1: guys get what they deserve and not these whole minor
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  Speaker 1: league invites. I just I'm happy for the guy he
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  Speaker 1: will deserve.
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  Speaker 2: I think my thing is and we don't have a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time and break here, but listen to this
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  Speaker 2: thirty two injured, thirty two, thirty three, thirty three COVID
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  Speaker 2: season thirty one, thirty two, thirty two. He stays healthy.
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  Speaker 2: He gives you starts. That's what you need to make
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  Speaker 2: it through a season. Every team needs starts. This man
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  Speaker 2: will do it for you.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, not gonna beat around the bush either. The eras
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  Speaker 3: were not always pretty. This is not a guy you're
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  Speaker 3: signing to win you a playoff game. This is a
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  Speaker 3: guy you're signing to get you through the marathon when
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  Speaker 3: your rotation could be thin. The real question is have
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  Speaker 3: we lost our touch? That MGM locks empty today empty
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  Speaker 3: first five innings under four and a half runs Cam's
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  Speaker 3: SGP with the Dodgers winning but holding that under and
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  Speaker 3: the Cubs didn't win for Kratzi, so wipe it. But
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  Speaker 3: we won't. We'll wipe it by winning some bets when
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  Speaker 3: the season starts. For everyone else, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Can't can't do it. I can't do it hurts. It hurts.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I'm not. I can't even wait, like I
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  Speaker 2: need to have another game, like let me get like
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  Speaker 2: a let me get over under on John Carlos Stanton's homers,
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  Speaker 2: or something like, let me get something today to just
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  Speaker 2: re to rehash it.
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  Speaker 3: I watched a lot of college basketball. I could help
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  Speaker 3: you out there, Cam.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Hay, some good game. Hey, shout out Carolina. He
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  Speaker 1: look like they belonged last night. Say they had a
• 13:31
  Speaker 1: chip on their shoulder. Don't want to get it. This
• 13:33
  Speaker 1: is just about Urtory. But shout out No.
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  Speaker 3: But I'm with you there. I mean, you know the corruptness. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: exactly there there. I could see both sides. My only
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: thing is, let's not waste too much time talking about
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  Speaker 3: which eleven seed should be in Both those teams could
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: have been that are teams, and neither of those teams
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: are winning the NCUAA Championship.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: You want to get all the best teams in there.
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  Speaker 3: This ain't a tournament of four, eight, sixteen. It's a
• 13:58
  Speaker 3: massive freaking tournament. It's just it's fun for people to
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: grab anyway. On that front, you can get ready for
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  Speaker 3: bet wins. And if you have any tips, maybe you
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  Speaker 3: can send them Kratz his way, because I don't know
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  Speaker 3: how much college hoops he's watching. But it was a
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  Speaker 3: really fun season. A lot of talent in NCAA basketball
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  Speaker 3: this year. There's some good contracts that were handed out
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  Speaker 3: to guys, so they're getting well paid and they're they're
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: earning their keep. I'm telling you, I mean, I watched
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: more this year than I had in probably ten years
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: to help my dad recover, and it's good times. Anyway.
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  Speaker 3: Gambling problem, we're concern Call one eight hundred gambler coming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 14:39
  Speaker 3: That's what he said. Kobe Mayo is a great hitting
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  Speaker 3: prospect with the Baltimore Orioles who wants to get some
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  Speaker 3: pt in the major league. Seventeen games last year, and
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: you know, he didn't put much together in the big leagues,
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: but he's looking for some more consistent playing time instead.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't hit great training, he gets sent down and
• 15:01
  Speaker 3: he had some comments. So let's read through him real quick.
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  Speaker 3: He said, it definitely is difficult. It obviously sucks because
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  Speaker 3: you feel like you've proven everything you've needed to. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't feel like it's quite enough. Obviously, you go
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  Speaker 3: back there and if you have success. He's talking about
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  Speaker 3: Triple A, it's, oh, he's supposed to have success because
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  Speaker 3: he's already proven it. And if he doesn't have success, it's, oh, well,
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: obviously he's fallen off. It's kind of a lose lose
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: talking about going to Triple A and then Orioles skipper
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Brandon Hyde used Mayo's criticism to praise the remaining roster.
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: So he said, that's what happens when you have good teams.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: Good teams option players that they like, and he said,
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: more reps a Triple A. We feel like that's what
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: he needs right now. Guys, he's played a lot of
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: ball in Triple A. We'll go to our Triple A
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: specialist first here, Kratz. He's not coming off a great spring,
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: but yeah, I mean, you got a little more minor
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: league dirt in your cleats than Cam. But we've talked
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: about the logjam for the Orioles. I've been bringing this
• 15:56
  Speaker 3: up for a year, and sometimes when we bring things up,
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: it's not just and them. Sometimes we actually hear things
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: from a team executive or a player on the team
• 16:05
  Speaker 3: about how there is frustration when the logjam gets so
• 16:08
  Speaker 3: loaded up and you can say, oh, boo hoo, just
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: play better, hit better, But what do you think about
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: this krats a guy that's crushed it in Triple A
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: and it's starting to get frustrated. And I think he's
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: twenty five now starting to get to that age where
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: you're like, what do we got? Oh, he's twenty three.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: Okay, still still when you put up the numbers that
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: you do at twenty two years old in triple A, yeah,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: you expecting an opportunity. The difference is where, where and
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: what did you do? Like it's a small sample size. Sorry,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: that's what you got. Famous Pete Orr story. Everybody gets
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: a chance. Not everybody's chance is the exact same size. Look,
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: some people get three at bats to prove it. You
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: go one for three, you're gonna get another three to
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: ten bats. Kobe Mayo has every right to be pissed
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: off if you get sent down from big league camp
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: and you had twenty five pumps in the bushes. The
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: year before, you should be pissed off. The difference is,
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: don't talk to the media of the first three days.
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: Give yourself three days to get down to camp and
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: cool off, and then go and be an absolute menace.
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: Don't hit two eighty, don't hit two ninety, hit three twenty,
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: don't make sixteen airs in the minor leagues. Yes, that's
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: an improvement on what you did the year before, but
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: go out and push it. Prove to them so that
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: when you're up there, I told you I should have
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: been up here. And then remember this, remember this when
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: it's time to sign an extension. Go to arbitration, play
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: with that fight and fire, and don't play with a
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: Don't play with a chip on your shoulder in the
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: minor leagues because what will happen? Oh see, we were right.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: He kind of fell off. He hit two fifty in April.
• 17:58
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• 18:01
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• 18:03
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• 19:04
  Speaker 4: Listen.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, the name of the
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: game is taking the you know, taking advantage of your opportunities.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: This isn't daddy ball, This isn't Oh you played so
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: well in tripa A, so you deserve a spot here.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: At the end of the day, the Orders have done
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: a great job of stacking their organization with prospects.
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: That's depth. Now it's up to you to take advantage
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: of the situation. At the end of the day, you had.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: You can call it a small sumbl size if you
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: want to, But there was a point last year where
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: he was getting run out there every day, whether it
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: was seventeen at whatever it was. He got opportunity. You
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: got to make good on your opportunity came in the spring.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: I've been there. I told you know, our producer Mark
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I was the worst spring training player. I hated signing
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: minor league deals for spring training because I wanted to
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: use it to get ready. But guess what, You're in
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: a situation where you needed to come in and impress
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: and you didn't. So you know, it's one of those
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: things where I think you got to look in the
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: mirror and then you gotta check yourself.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Hey, you said what you said.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: It's out there now, but now you got to put
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: your big boy print, your big boy pants on, go
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: down the Triple A like crats, he said, and show
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that I am a absolute menace.
• 20:06
  Speaker 4: And I belong in the big leagues. If anything, you go.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: Down there, you force their hand and now you're a
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: trade piece and maybe you get an opportunity to go
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: somewhere else. But complaining about it when you really didn't
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: take advantage of the opportunity.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: It doesn't sit well with me.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: And what if he crushes it in the miners for
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: the first couple of months but they don't have a spot.
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: Was the Orioles?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Get him on out of here, go get me some
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: more picton. You don't want to be They got plenty
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: of prospects. I don't want to listen to work right now.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: And I'm not saying he is this guy, but complaining
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: when you didn't tear it up, when you didn't really
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: give yourself a chance like I was, you know, un
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: an impression, or I came up in the area with.
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: Make make it a tough make it a tough decision.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a tough decision because you didn't go and
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: be the guy that you were in triple A. So
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: for me, the last thing I want is guys up
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: here complaining winding about not playing every day and getting
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: opportunities as a young guy.
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: That's the role that you're in.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: You have to take advantage of those limbed opportunities, like
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Krassy said, and if you don't, it's only one person
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: to look at, and that's the person in the mirror.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: In organizations that are good teams, players in the minor
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: league sit there and they go, oh, you know, if
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I was in this organization, you know it would be different. Maybe,
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: But nobody that ever said that in the minor leagues
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: ended up sticking with another organization. You get called up
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: to the big league, sure, but you don't want to
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: just get called up. You want to stick. We're talking
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: about this because because Kobe made these comments, maybe he
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: wants to back off these comments at some point, but
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: there is some blame in the organization. You can't have
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: this type of dissension. You can't have the other organizational
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: prospect Basalo the catcher coming down, you know, coming down
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: to minor league camp when when season, when big league
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: spring ends, and hanging out with a guy who could
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: be toxic. The org has to be able to get
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: value lot of guys when the value is there. They
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: did it with Norby. Now you know, maybe there's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: chance to get this value. Can't keep hoarding these guys.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: It's not fair to them, but it's also not fair
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: to the overall growth of your organization.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: There you go, and yeah, I mean I've been pretty
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: pointed on what I think the o should do. I
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: would like another starter, whether it's a vet for a
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: year or a younger guy, where you trade a hitting
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: prospect for a younger pitching prospect and see what happens.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: That's happened before too. I mean you had the famous
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: what Zach Gallan Jazz Chisholm trade back in the day.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: For me, the Oils have excelled for the most part
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: with developing hitting prospects. Now, pitching prospects okay, but hitting prospects,
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, they've crushed it over the last several years.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: So you just want to take advantage of that winning
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: window opportunity. And hopefully Kobe Mayo is a part of
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: that for them this year. But otherwise, you really need
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: to use your assets to keep staying aggressive in the market.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happened.
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: And that's why you load up on those guys.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: Got That's why you go out and you build a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: farm system that is loaded so you can make those moves.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: Right, if we're not doing in the pigeon aspects.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Well, we got two guys that we can go make
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: a move for and go get one or two big
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: prospects back. So I think you know the Orioles when
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: we talk about the ORG being somewhat to blame, like
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Crassi said, I think they're in a situation where listen,
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: they're just holding on the prospects.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: They got a good team up there.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: Now go take some of those pieces, unless they're generational,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: unless they're Aaron Judge, unless they're old tiny. Sometimes you
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: got to move that because prospects. When I came up,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: it meant you just hadn't did anything yet. So hey
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: for me, like you said, use those chips while you have.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Them, Kobe Mayo better better, better count as chickens too,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: because man, that man could have gotten traded into Seattle,
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: And all we have ever heard is ain't no right
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: handers hit dingers in Seattle, So it could be worse.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Go to Norfolk. Go to Norfolk, get you some dingers
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: to left field, the short porch right, get you go
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: to Charlotte like seven times was in April again and
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: hit nine dangers, Like, let's just be careful, you might
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: get traded to might get traded the Marlins for Sandy Alpontra.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Now you in the big leagues, but it's not the
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: big leagues.
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, let's get to an injury. This one sucks. We
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: didn't have time for the segment today, but we will hit.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: I'll mention a good one on the back end of this.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: But the bad news. Pirates manager Derek Shelton this was
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: not long ago. Just informed the media that Jared Jones
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: experienced to elbow his comfort after his most recent bullpen,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: which was earlier this week. He's gonna miss his next start.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: Conversations will then be had about how his regular season
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: will start. This according to Noah Hiles, who's been on
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: the show who covers the Pirates really well, concern level
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: gotta be high, right, young guy throws hard, not even
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: telling us more info about any imaging and all that.
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: I'm like, oh, and this is a team that cannot
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: afford to lose their standout players. They are going to
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: be built around a young, exciting rotation, and if they're
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: missing a link or two, they're really screwed. They're already
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: probably screwed. All right. I don't have them as a
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: playoff team, but if they're losing a player or two
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: right away like this, this could be bad news. So
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: I hope everything's okay. Dried Jones, fun, dude, it was
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: really great to watch last year. But we'll see. We'll
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: follow this one for you.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough to hear any young arm like this.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: The other side of this is Lance mccullor's junior pitching
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: on a mound for the first time in like eight
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: hundred something days since twenty twenty two World Series. Who
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: just good to see him back and on the mat.
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: Obviously still a road to do up downs and to
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: get on a big league mount in a regular season game.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: But you know, some some fans just go out of control, like, oh,
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: you know whatever, not going to see him now. Just
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: watch those same fans, especially if they're Astros fans. If
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: Lance mccullor's is actually on the roster and he's pitching, well,
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: but they're gonna be like this craft getting screen. I
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: didn't say that. Let me let me delete that tweet.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Yep, yep, they're there. Their text don't don't quite work
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: the same. I texted him and he said the best
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: part is he feels great today, which is everybody's hope
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: after after they come back every eight hundred some days
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: like that is that's the best part is today he
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: feels good.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: Here we are, We're back. We're gonna finish strong. And
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I got a weird one for the last few minutes.
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: So the Tokyo Series was insane. It looks like numbers
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: are coming out which we can cover. Tomar saying it
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: was by far the most watched you know, regular season
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: games or whatever. And in Japan just crushing ratings, which
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: you expect, just like the World Series in Japan, just
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: like the World Baseball Classic in Japan. I mean, they're
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: all watching out there, but Cam not everybody can be
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: as lucky as aj Prazinski and show Heo Tani's hands
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: like he did at Dodgers camp a week and a
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: half ago. So what they did was in his hometown.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: They made a replica of his hand, and you can
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: go to the show Halo Tani, you know, a little
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: shrine and and give him a little shake or you know,
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: please just be don't be weird, Just just shake his hand.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Don't be weird. Please just get your handshake and keep
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: it moving. A phantom is real.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: Show Hao Tani is a rock star. I mean this
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: guy is as big as Elvis or Michael Jackson. He's
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Michael Jackson. I mean you whoever the biggest superstar is,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: that's him. I mean, this guy's incredible. You know, your
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: big time cratzy. When they're making hands for people to
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: shake because they'll never get that close to you, that's amazing.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: I love it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's crazy. Show what show handshakes cost these days?
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah? Do you gotta put a dollar in that machine
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: to shake his hand? Like? Well a shake back like
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: you you just go up?
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Is it truly a form of his hand or somebody
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: just like they just guessed.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: No, they had a step in for him, so someone
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: they found someone who was a stunt double who had
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: a very similar frame and hand size. They brought him in.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: They did the mold. No I'm kidding, they probably actually
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: did it. You know, it was a kit. They send
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: it to him as one of his people does it,
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: and then they send it back and now they've got it.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: It's I mean, maybe next time you could do the
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: whole the whole show, hey, like the Wax Museum in
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: New York and then have the shake.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: They'll have they'll have the whole full, full body show.
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: Hey mm hmm.
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: Like you said, Scotty, just don't be weird about it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: Let's go get your handshake and keep it moving.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: I just felt like I had to put that out there.
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: I don't I don't even want to look at the
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: replies to the tweets and all of that. Just just
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: a nice formal handshake with somebody who is bringing a
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: lot of excitement and who is completely taking over Japan.
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, he is completely taking over the sports.
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: And do they bow to it? Also, because you know
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: in Japan, you know it's.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: A yes, right, it's not handshakes. I was just there, so.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm curious.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sure they'll do some AI where some some VR,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: I should say, where he'll.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Bow the next Yeah, the next machine, the next handshaking
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: machine will be a where you can actually see him
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: and pretend you're talking to him.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: I like it.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Hey, a lot of money to be made around show.
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: That's all all I see is a lot of money
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: to be made around show. Hey, that's all I heard.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: It's all yep, rightfully, so rightfully, so Hey tomorrow Cam
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: is gonna keep hitting up the camps. Last one on
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: the tour, it's braves. Camp will finish with a good
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: camp and then Crafts. You're on Pinstriped Territory tonight.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I am me and Derek and Cam. You are grinding
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: down there. I see the sweat on your brow. It
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: doesn't grind. It doesn't make you a grinder.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: Kid.
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: Still grinding and being a grinder or two different things.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: I learned that today on the show. I appreciate it.
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: Gratton, thank you.