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Speaker 1: Ft Live postgame show presented by the brand new Fox
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Speaker 1: one app, which is where you might have been watching
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Speaker 1: the World Series. Well that was fun if you're Canadian.
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Speaker 1: The Blue Jays take down the Dodgers, and I mean,
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Speaker 1: you had it all Scotty Brown Aircraft's Todd father, Todd Frazier.
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Speaker 1: You're a Blue Jays fan. You've waited for World Series
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Speaker 1: moments since nineteen ninety three. There are many that aren't
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Speaker 1: even alive last time they were in there. They get
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Speaker 1: the whole song and dance before this thing starts. They're
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Speaker 1: down to nothing. They're the best comeback team in baseball,
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Speaker 1: and they do just that with an explosive sixth inning.
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Speaker 1: They score nine runs and by the end of the
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Speaker 1: game they're trolling show. Heyo, Tani, that's good that we
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Speaker 1: need you. We would not like your services. We can
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Speaker 1: win without you, and they did it with the utmost respect.
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Speaker 1: If you want the truth, we don't need you. I meant,
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Speaker 1: and that one probably hurts a little.
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Speaker 2: Bit more than you know, saying a few vulgarities or
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Speaker 2: anything out there because they put on his spank in there.
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Speaker 2: Eleven to four and nine run inning. I mean, I
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Speaker 2: gotta be honest with you, I did not see that coming.
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Speaker 2: They chipped away, and I gotta be honest that the
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Speaker 2: guy that comes on mind is Alejandro Kirk. This guy,
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Speaker 2: I don't know how many pitches he fouled off, but
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Speaker 2: he had some really keya bats got the single down
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Speaker 2: the line, and then the wheels started turning. After that,
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Speaker 2: it just seemed like everything Blake snelled through, everything was
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Speaker 2: up in the zone, could not get that called for
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Speaker 2: a strike, and he threw a lot of pitches and
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Speaker 2: I think for both sides, the pitch count went up,
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Speaker 2: and next thing he knew, the Blue Jays were the
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Speaker 2: first one to pounce on him and make that a huge,
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Speaker 2: huge inning.
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Speaker 3: For a team that swings a lot. They didn't put
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Speaker 3: a lot of balls in play right away. They made
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Speaker 3: that pitch count come up, go up, Like you said,
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Speaker 3: but there's no I mean, there's no like I get it.
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Speaker 3: Alejandro Kirk. You know he drew that walk early in
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Speaker 3: the game, that that like that drew that first inning out,
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Speaker 3: which kind of looked like it kind of tired snell
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Speaker 3: out a little bit, but he kind of bounced back,
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Speaker 3: and then that sixth inning he got through the fifth
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Speaker 3: and then that sixth inning, they said, now we've seen enough,
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Speaker 3: Like we've seen enough, we're gonna we're gonna kick you
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Speaker 3: out of the game, and they did, and really it
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Speaker 3: was bam bam, bam bam. Barger just a pinch hit
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Speaker 3: grand slam, the first ever pinch hit grand slam put
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Speaker 3: this game a bed. And that's when the true Canadians
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Speaker 3: came out, don't you know, And they just said, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's it's a great time for us to just take
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Speaker 3: it out on on show Halo Tani because he didn't
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Speaker 3: come up on that flight that we thought it was
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Speaker 3: gonna be him, but it wasn't. And now he's just
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Speaker 3: gonna be down oh one in the first game of
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Speaker 3: the World Series and this is really nice for us.
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Speaker 1: And instead they use that money on Bladdie Junior and
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Speaker 1: it's working out for him this postseason. But it's not
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Speaker 1: just Flatty Junior. I do still feel like many casual
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Speaker 1: fans need to get introduced to the rest of the group.
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Speaker 1: Barger great example, and they told the story about how
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Speaker 1: he got super swoll over COVID and added like seventy
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Speaker 1: five pounds of muscle and now he's bam bam, you
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Speaker 1: guys mentioned Kirk, who I think is one of the
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Speaker 1: most underrated catchers in the sport. He's great defensively, he's
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Speaker 1: a pitch framing whiz. I think he's a great game caller.
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Speaker 1: And he's a pesky hitter. Yeah, the eight pitch opposite
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Speaker 1: fields high off the right field wall knock that was
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Speaker 1: only a single. That's double for ninety eight percent of
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Speaker 1: the league. Who cares. He knows his body and he
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Speaker 1: stays at first. And then Varshow hits the first pitch
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Speaker 1: to run over four injer twenty three feet. Dalton Varshow
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Speaker 1: is actually making that Diamondbacks Blue Jays trade from years
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Speaker 1: back that involved a few others that were successful on
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Speaker 1: the Arizona side look pretty decent right now. Bar Show
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Speaker 1: is an elite center fielder. He's got great pop. He's
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Speaker 1: got three home runs in the postseason. And and my
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Speaker 1: personal favorite plodfather is Ernie Clement. Ernie Clement is a
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Speaker 1: hits machine now. He was a Gold Club Finals last year.
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Speaker 1: He's a good base runner, he's a good baseball player,
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Speaker 1: as John Schneider likes to say, good defender. But the
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Speaker 1: two regular seasons here that he got pretty normal playing
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Speaker 1: time were still a bit under league average in terms
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Speaker 1: of ops plus at one hundred he was in the
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Speaker 1: mid nineties. I mean, this dude's like hitting five hundred
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Speaker 1: in the playoffs with slug He's incredible. And think about it,
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Speaker 1: bases loaded, no outs, they get snell out of the game,
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Speaker 1: you still got to capitalize. And he's the one that
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Speaker 1: sets the tone, gets the knock that's the go ahead,
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Speaker 1: and then it starts the doozy in the inning for
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Speaker 1: nine runs.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and he's a guy that when you look on
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Speaker 2: his baseball card, if you look, if you look who
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Speaker 2: he is, his size of stature, you're not blown away
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Speaker 2: by it, you know what I mean. But this guy
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Speaker 2: is an absolute beast of a baseball player. He fouls
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Speaker 2: the balls off. He got back to back sliders there,
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Speaker 2: and he did something with it. The first one he
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Speaker 2: saw didn't really like. The second one came up with
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Speaker 2: a big line drive up the middle. He finds a
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Speaker 2: way with two strikes to put the bat on the
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Speaker 2: ball stay on it, and I think that's his biggest asset.
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Speaker 2: He battles the whole time and he's focused on finding
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Speaker 2: a way to get the barrel to the ball. And
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Speaker 2: these guys are not going to blow you away with
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Speaker 2: their big names. They're just going to blow you away
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Speaker 2: by battling, seeing more pitches, fouling pitches off, and next
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Speaker 2: thing you know, boom, an easy single to right field,
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Speaker 2: gets the wheels turning a little bit, a walk, a
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Speaker 2: hit by pitch, and all of a sudden, here we
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Speaker 2: go a new pitch and change. It doesn't matter. This
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Speaker 2: team is clicking on all cylinders. It doesn't matter who
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Speaker 2: they're playing right now. And you know, you think you savage.
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Speaker 2: How he did? He didn't, He didn't have his best game,
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Speaker 2: but guess what, he only gave up two runs out
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Speaker 2: of the four innings too as well. He'll be just
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Speaker 2: fine as they move forward. But again, what a performance.
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Speaker 2: And they got these guys at the bottom lineup that
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Speaker 2: are absolutely doing what they're supposed to do, finding a
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Speaker 2: way to get on pace.
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Speaker 3: Because we're talking about Ernie Clement fourth round twenty seventeen draft,
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Speaker 3: Cleveland Indians, Nathan Lucas, seventh round twenty fifteen Draft, Cleveland Indians.
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Speaker 3: Like they didn't, just like they didn't just buy this team.
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Speaker 3: Everyone's like, oh, you know, the only way you can
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Speaker 3: win postseason is by buying team, buying players and getting
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Speaker 3: all the all the money. It's all about, you know,
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Speaker 3: we should have equal payroll and everybody should be able
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Speaker 3: to buy the same players. You know what, dance, dance
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Speaker 3: with the person you came with. And you know what
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Speaker 3: these guys are. I think Ernie clement is seven multi
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Speaker 3: hit games in the postseason now, like they're rolling these
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Speaker 3: boys out. They're rolling them out and they're putting together
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Speaker 3: at bats. They're doing what they do and they're not
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Speaker 3: like man, I wouldonder what my analytics say about how
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Speaker 3: how my launch angle's going in my swinging speed. You
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Speaker 3: know what, they're up one zero right now.
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Speaker 1: Also, they kept their superstar, Bladdy Junior. And the story
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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers, Yes, they spend a lot of money,
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Speaker 1: but they stole superstars from teams that easily, easily, easily
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Speaker 1: could have afforded them. That includes Mookie Betts in Boston,
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Speaker 1: that includes Freddie Freeman in Atlanta, among others. So just
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Speaker 1: keep that in mind. Laddy Junior stays, it's it's a big,
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Speaker 1: big example. What you got another you want to add.
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Speaker 3: No, just the fact that the Blue Jays they extended
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Speaker 3: Alejandra Kirk this offseason too, and he had a down
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Speaker 3: year last year. I'm not saying that money makes players better.
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Speaker 3: I'm saying there's certain times when you put guys in
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Speaker 3: situations that they get to play their game because they
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Speaker 3: have security, because they have the ability to say, Okay,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I'm kind of an unorthodox player. I'm
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Speaker 3: gonna hear hate from something from one side. I'm just
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Speaker 3: gonna do my thing. I'm gonna do my thing for
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Speaker 3: the team to win. They extended him, and look at
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Speaker 3: the year that Alejandra Kirk's had.
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Speaker 1: That's a great call. So he got the extension late
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Speaker 1: spring training, five years, fifty eight million bucks, and that's
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Speaker 1: going to take him through his prime years. You've got
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Speaker 1: one of the top catchers in the sport for twelve
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Speaker 1: million dollars per year. He would have been a free
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Speaker 1: agent after next season. Very well done, and your right crats,
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Speaker 1: he was coming off and season. That's a good time
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Speaker 1: to throw some money at someone and say, hey, you
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Speaker 1: don't know what life's going to bring. You have about
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Speaker 1: fifty eight million dollars and in baseball terms, that ain't much.
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Speaker 1: So credit on that side. I also want to bring
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Speaker 1: up a grown Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, I also look into the different stuff with al
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Speaker 3: Jhundra Kirk. Everyone looks at offense, but the guy was
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Speaker 3: a goldgloved, gold glove type of player two years ago.
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Speaker 3: And then I know from talking to guys on the
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Speaker 3: inside that they were not happy with the way that
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Speaker 3: he was necessarily receiving the same way as he was
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Speaker 3: the year before. His blocking was really good. He was
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Speaker 3: low to the ground and he was able to get
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Speaker 3: a lot of numbers in different ways. And he said,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I think my blocking the way I mean,
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Speaker 3: my receiving the way I was doing it before is good,
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Speaker 3: but I think I can add to it this way.
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Speaker 3: And I really think a contract helps a guy like
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Speaker 3: this say I know what I know because I'm the
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Speaker 3: one out there doing it and I'm gonna play my way.
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Speaker 3: And he's still a young player. People look at him
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Speaker 3: and they're like, oh, man, you know he's he's he's
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Speaker 3: a different he's a different body type. There's no way
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Speaker 3: it's gonna it's gonna play and translate to the big
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Speaker 3: leagues like he's done it the whole time and he's
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Speaker 3: now able to do it his way without saying ooh,
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Speaker 3: you gotta change, you gotta change because you got to
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Speaker 3: hit for more slug you gotta you gotta receive differently
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Speaker 3: because you know he's doing it his way. And I
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Speaker 3: think a lot of the contract really helps because there's
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Speaker 3: numbers that back that up.
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Speaker 1: I want to bring up Bo Boshett Todd Father. Bo
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Speaker 1: is back. Here's a comment from Harman. But Bashett looked
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Speaker 1: like a hell of a lot better than I expected.
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Speaker 1: I liked that they played him but then swapped him
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Speaker 1: out for IKF. That should be the play going forward.
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Speaker 1: So when we left our show this afternoon, Todd Father,
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Speaker 1: we didn't know where bo would play, and then they go, uh,
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Speaker 1: second base, first time since twenty nineteen, where he played
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Speaker 1: like one game in the miners he played I think
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen got a little more time there. But he's
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Speaker 1: never played second base in the major leagues and he
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Speaker 1: was off since the sixth of September to try and
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Speaker 1: recover from a knee injury. And here he is back,
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Speaker 1: one for two with a walk and a play at
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Speaker 1: second base that makes other teams go, you know what,
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Speaker 1: when this guy hits free agency, we could sign him
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Speaker 1: to play second base too.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I mean listen, everybody's talking about, well, this might hurt
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Speaker 2: him a little bit free agency.
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Speaker 3: Whatever.
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Speaker 2: He's a team guy, as we know that, he's not
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Speaker 2: afraid to play any positions. He looked comfortable at the plate,
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Speaker 2: you know, three to zero count swinging. I thought that
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Speaker 2: was really fantastic. I'm sitting here with my buddy Dave
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Speaker 2: and I'm like, listen, is he swinging three to oh
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Speaker 2: here or what? And I said, let's go, And all
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Speaker 2: of a sudden, he gets a number to right field.
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Speaker 2: That must have felt pretty darn good. Made a huge
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Speaker 2: play in the hole there, nice throat a first base Again,
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Speaker 2: You're not going to see him run really hard. But
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Speaker 2: guess what, this is what we talked about earlier. He's
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Speaker 2: the guy. He's a beast. He's an absolute stud of
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Speaker 2: a player. He's a top thirty player that you need
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Speaker 2: to see on that field. And if he's on that field,
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Speaker 2: good things are gonna happen, and I think this only
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Speaker 2: boosts them. We'll see how he feels tomorrow because back
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Speaker 2: to back games he hasn't played either. But again, when
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Speaker 2: you're up that big, you can make that change. I
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Speaker 2: k have better be ready just in case they need
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Speaker 2: to put him in a little earlier. But again, huge
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Speaker 2: part for Toronto's success just getting him on the field.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's not running well, but he looks comfortable at
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Speaker 1: the plate, and they said the knees still bothering him
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Speaker 1: for sure. You can tell when he's moving around. Right
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Speaker 1: when he was doubled up, he wasn't moving that well
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Speaker 1: over to first compared to what you usually see from him.
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Speaker 1: But at the plate solid and that's really tough. I mean,
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Speaker 1: I have no idea about this, but you can tell me,
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Speaker 1: especially you, Right, you don't play for days, then you
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Speaker 1: just pop up. How about bo don't play for six
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Speaker 1: weeks and then pop up against Blake Snell in World
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Speaker 1: Series Game one. Also, you're going to play a new position.
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Speaker 3: The position part is what I was impressed with. He
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Speaker 3: didn't try to make too crazy of a play. I
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Speaker 3: think it was Taoscar. You know it wasn't going to
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Speaker 3: be a double play, but he still made the turn
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Speaker 3: and he just that turn looked effortless. It looked fluid,
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Speaker 3: which I love to see. He's seemed comfortable around the bag,
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Speaker 3: which is good. You're not going to see him be
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Speaker 3: down any hustle doubles, and that's fine. I do want
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Speaker 3: to see his continued approach of you know what, they're
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Speaker 3: gonna give me that ginormous three to four hole between
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Speaker 3: the first basement and the second baseman, I'm gonna go
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Speaker 3: that way. I think the number three to zero. I
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Speaker 3: think it was a change up, kind of cute off
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Speaker 3: the end. So I'm like, eh, okay, but if you're
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Speaker 3: getting this kind of production out of them, sorry, there's
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Speaker 3: nobody else on the lineup. There's nobody else that's not
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Speaker 3: on the roster that's gonna give you the same thing.
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Speaker 3: And they have a goal glove winner or a goal
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Speaker 3: glove finalist at multiple positions in IKF who can come
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Speaker 3: in in those situations. So good for the Jays for
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Speaker 3: having them out there and not being afraid, like, you know,
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Speaker 3: we'll ease him in off the bench. Look sucking up
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Speaker 3: through Game two. If he's hurting, the knee swells up
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Speaker 3: play Game two, you get off after that on Sunday
13:52
Speaker 3: because MLB is afraid of the NFL, and then you
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Speaker 3: play games games three and five. If it's really swelled
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Speaker 3: up to me, this has added such a boost for
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Speaker 3: this lineup.
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Speaker 1: I want to talk about Dodgers pitching with both of you,
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Speaker 1: Okay, Todd Father. They were able to figure out Blake
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Speaker 1: Snell enough to not let him go eight innings. Mission accomplished,
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Speaker 1: and then they get to the bullpen. There's one weakness
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Speaker 1: that stands out over everything else with the Dodgers, and
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Speaker 1: that's been obvious since the first game they played, the
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Speaker 1: wild Card game against the Reds. Their bullpen is a problem.
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Speaker 1: And guess what happened Their bullpen was a problem.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, got exploited in a little bed. And as you saw,
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Speaker 2: four innings is not going to do it. I don't
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Speaker 2: care who's starting anymore. It's just not how this playoff
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Speaker 2: is rolling. It's not how this World Series is going.
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Speaker 2: You need your starters to go five plus, if not
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Speaker 2: six plus. And again, I honestly, I'm not making an
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Speaker 2: excuse for Blake SNeW, but I think a little bit
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Speaker 2: extra time I might have changed, you know, not only
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Speaker 2: the way he pitches, but his mindset and going into it.
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Speaker 2: Baseball players I don't know about Ucratzy, but you know
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Speaker 2: most of them at least, they want to keep going.
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Speaker 2: They want to play, they want to play, and we've
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Speaker 2: had those conversations before. But a week off or whatever
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Speaker 2: the time was is a pretty long time. And you
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Speaker 2: could tell his fastball stayed up. His breaking stuff either
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Speaker 2: got fouled off or got hit pretty hard. So just
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Speaker 2: couldn't find that fastball. And I thought once, you know,
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Speaker 2: if he finds that fastball up in his own or
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Speaker 2: inner half, which he's really good at, he's really good
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Speaker 2: at throwing. But it just didn't seem like he had it.
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Speaker 2: I mean, even the first inning he got the first
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Speaker 2: two outs. The next thing you know, he's twenty eight
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Speaker 2: pitches in the first inning and just got away with
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Speaker 2: that pop fly with bases loaded. So it just seemed
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Speaker 2: like it just wasn't wasn't there day to day, even
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Speaker 2: though they're up to night, and you felt like something
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Speaker 2: was gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for sure, I think there's a I think there's
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Speaker 3: a clear there's a clear media bias that you know
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Speaker 3: what your days off means something. The fact that some
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Speaker 3: a team that swept going against a team that has
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Speaker 3: won game seven, has never won a series, there's something
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Speaker 3: to that storyline. But I'll be honest, if there's a
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Speaker 3: team that can fight against that storyline, it's Los Angeles
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Speaker 3: Dodgers because of the fact that, like little things I
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Speaker 3: tweeted about it during the game. Every time you showed
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Speaker 3: one of the hitters, whether it's Tay Oscar, whether it's Max,
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Speaker 3: whether it was Key k talking to the first base coach,
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Speaker 3: they're talking about like the angle that the slider comes
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Speaker 3: in on, and you saw Max even say like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: that slider's like actually backing up more like a left
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Speaker 3: handed slider, a left handed curveball coming out of a
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Speaker 3: right hander's arm. And the reason I say that is
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Speaker 3: because this team makes adjustments. This team does a good
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Speaker 3: job of saying, Okay, I understand why a layoff would
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Speaker 3: hurt us, but we're gonna go out and do this.
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Speaker 3: We're gonna we have this to draw from. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I don't know that there's many postseason experiences that this
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Speaker 3: Dodgers team hasn't experienced. So when you talk about like
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Speaker 3: when you talk about like veteran like knowing how things
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Speaker 3: are gonna go, this team has been battle tested. So
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Speaker 3: you see them being able to make that adjustment as
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Speaker 3: the series goes on, even if they had a little
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Speaker 3: bit of a layoff.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, the adjustment also was Blake Snell was able to
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Speaker 1: fool the Blue Jays during the regular season in a
17:54
Speaker 1: brilliant outing, and they remembered it. They got eaten up
17:57
Speaker 1: by that change up, and it didn't happen again. And
18:00
Speaker 1: I mean the change up they mentioned at one point
18:02
Speaker 1: during the broadcast two for twenty two to eleven strikeouts
18:05
Speaker 1: in the postseason entering that outing, and then they were
18:10
Speaker 1: at least at five hits if not more, against that changeup.
18:14
Speaker 1: So it was a total difference there you go. The
18:16
Speaker 1: fact that the left he's in struggle with Snell either
18:18
Speaker 1: is actually terrifying Mikey in the chat. Okay, So I'm
18:22
Speaker 1: gonna throw a different idea out there for Dave Roberts.
18:27
Speaker 1: If he feels like he doesn't have enough to trust
18:31
Speaker 1: in the bullpen, does he get starters involved? I mean,
18:35
Speaker 1: you could say that was Sheen, but he's a reliever
18:37
Speaker 1: now for them. I'm saying, do you see Blake Snell
18:42
Speaker 1: on his throat day later in this series? Do you
18:44
Speaker 1: see Glass now for a bullpen session or two in
18:47
Speaker 1: between his outings? Just throwing it out there. Does sho
18:50
Speaker 1: Hao Tani become a bullpen factor late in games? And
18:53
Speaker 1: maybe Roki Sasaki comes in a little bit earlier, or
18:56
Speaker 1: Roki's got to give him two or three Just throwing
18:58
Speaker 1: that out there based on Game one here, Todd father,
19:03
Speaker 1: if I'm LA and a starter doesn't get me through
19:07
Speaker 1: six ish, like you mentioned, it's going to be a
19:11
Speaker 1: very nervous time period to get to the late stages
19:14
Speaker 1: of the game. If you're in a close one up,
19:17
Speaker 1: a run or two or an a TI game. I'm
19:19
Speaker 1: just saying that is the challenge now, and Dave Roberts
19:21
Speaker 1: didn't have to deal with it at all at all.
19:23
Speaker 1: In the last rounds, they just breezed by a team
19:26
Speaker 1: that they were so much better then. But this might
19:28
Speaker 1: be different.
19:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything goes Scott, you know that. I think you
19:33
Speaker 2: take a game by game. Yeah, of course, after this
19:37
Speaker 2: game and you're going tomorrow, you're thinking about the bullpen
19:40
Speaker 2: and oh boy, if I'm Dave Roberts, all right, well
19:44
Speaker 2: we need some help here. We Needyamamoto to come in
19:46
Speaker 2: here and get after it and do his job and
19:48
Speaker 2: give me six seven plus innings and find a way
19:51
Speaker 2: to win. But if they do lose that game tomorrow,
19:55
Speaker 2: then no holds bars. Everybody needs to be ready and
19:59
Speaker 2: it doesn't matter matter what inning. They need to be
20:01
Speaker 2: ready to come in. Of course, you know, going down
20:03
Speaker 2: to nothing is very big and for Toronto will be huge.
20:06
Speaker 2: Know they got to play three in LA. But again,
20:09
Speaker 2: take it day by day. Understand. You know this happened
20:12
Speaker 2: before too, but they found ways to win. So is
20:15
Speaker 2: this the time where they don't find those ways to win?
20:18
Speaker 2: We'll see themorrow night.
20:20
Speaker 3: I don't think you changed. I don't think you changed.
20:22
Speaker 3: I don't I don't think one game shows you necessarily
20:27
Speaker 3: that you have to change and go, Okay, Blake Snell,
20:31
Speaker 3: You're available. I think I think that's happening. I don't
20:34
Speaker 3: think in two days Blake Snell's throwing his side going dog.
20:39
Speaker 3: I'm not available. I signed one hundred and seventy million
20:41
Speaker 3: dollar contract. I know it's only one hundred and fifty
20:43
Speaker 3: two million current present day value, but I'm not available.
20:47
Speaker 3: Like to me, I think this same status quo is
20:53
Speaker 3: going forward. I think you ran into the fact that
20:56
Speaker 3: they did a great job of pushing Blake Snell out
20:59
Speaker 3: in the fifth, like he got through five. He was
21:02
Speaker 3: at I guess he would consider be five plus and
21:05
Speaker 3: they did a great job. Look, he got a ball
21:07
Speaker 3: on the ground and it wasn't at somebody. He could
21:09
Speaker 3: have been a groundball double play and he could have
21:11
Speaker 3: gotten through six. There. I don't think you necessarily change
21:15
Speaker 3: and panic and and pivot, because I already think the
21:19
Speaker 3: only guy you have right now that you trust that
21:22
Speaker 3: is a true bullpen piece, like throughout the year bullpen
21:26
Speaker 3: piece is Blake Trinon. I don't think. I don't think
21:30
Speaker 3: you're trusting Emma Sheehan necessarily as oh well, he was
21:34
Speaker 3: a bullpen piece he started, He started a lot of
21:36
Speaker 3: games for him. Roki was a starter and he's now
21:40
Speaker 3: considered a bullpen piece. So I think you're still sticking
21:42
Speaker 3: with the same pieces. I don't think you're going, hey, show, Hey,
21:46
Speaker 3: I need you to be ready for the ninth because
21:47
Speaker 3: we might use Roki in the seventh and the eighth.
21:50
Speaker 3: I don't think they're at that point yet. If you
21:52
Speaker 3: see that, I think the Blue Jays have really cracked
21:57
Speaker 3: the shell that is the Dodger's powerhouse, and it's how
22:02
Speaker 3: Dave Roberts deploys all of their pitching.
22:07
Speaker 1: Was she and the right guy there? I mean easy
22:09
Speaker 1: to look back now. And I also, you know, we're
22:11
Speaker 1: thinking about Alex Bessi and the FAM. He's not going
22:14
Speaker 1: to appear in this series. You know, we were talking earlier.
22:17
Speaker 1: We didn't know for sure if he was going to
22:19
Speaker 1: be on that that Bereatman or Family Medical Emergency List
22:22
Speaker 1: or anything like that. The Dodgers said they didn't want
22:24
Speaker 1: to put him on there because they didn't even want
22:26
Speaker 1: to put pressure on him to come back when he
22:28
Speaker 1: shouldn't be coming back yet. From what he's dealing with
22:31
Speaker 1: off the field, that's super serious. He's a super valuable
22:35
Speaker 1: piece in the circle of trust in a bullpen that
22:38
Speaker 1: is thin. So you're going to have to score early,
22:41
Speaker 1: like you like, like you say, Todd Father, score early,
22:44
Speaker 1: and for Game two, ride Yamamoto. Yamamoto's obviously, I mean,
22:50
Speaker 1: you're not going to pick up the strikeouts like you
22:52
Speaker 1: usually do against the Blue Jays. They're the best contact
22:54
Speaker 1: team in baseball. But he's got a lot of secondary stuff.
22:56
Speaker 1: And the thing right now is this team's not chasing
22:58
Speaker 1: that much. But you gotta hope that they chase a
23:01
Speaker 1: little bit on the secondary stuff because he's got some
23:03
Speaker 1: of the best in baseball and that at least leads
23:06
Speaker 1: to some weak contact right and not as much quality
23:09
Speaker 1: of contact from the Blue Jays, and that gives the
23:12
Speaker 1: Dodgers an edge early on in the game and that
23:15
Speaker 1: they can ride Yamamoto and not be nervous where you know,
23:18
Speaker 1: if it's close and you feel like he's got a
23:21
Speaker 1: problem in an inning, that's where you put Dave Roberts
23:23
Speaker 1: in a tough situation. So we'll see how that looks,
23:26
Speaker 1: but that's what we have to look forward to in
23:28
Speaker 1: Game two. On the other side, like you mentioned, Trey
23:31
Speaker 1: Savage did not have his splitter. They talked a lot
23:33
Speaker 1: about how he hasn't done four days rest starts very
23:36
Speaker 1: often this year. I think five out of almost thirty ish,
23:39
Speaker 1: if you're including everything from down in a ball all
23:43
Speaker 1: the way up to the show in the postseason. He
23:45
Speaker 1: just didn't have the splitter at no feel for the splitter.
23:47
Speaker 1: The slider was good, and he battled and got through
23:50
Speaker 1: Kevin Gossman's not going to look like Trey Ya Savage did.
23:55
Speaker 1: I think there's a pretty good chance that Gosmin's gonna
23:57
Speaker 1: have fastball command and he's going to know where he
24:00
Speaker 1: splitter is going. So even though you know the Dodgers
24:04
Speaker 1: are like, hey, we've got another ace going out there,
24:06
Speaker 1: the Blue Jays have their big man, like this is
24:08
Speaker 1: their vettering, big money number one starter.
24:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, and before I go on about that, the Dodgers
24:14
Speaker 2: had opportunities here in this game too early. They did
24:17
Speaker 2: have an opportunity and Page struck out with the bases
24:21
Speaker 2: load and then they couldn't get anything else. You know,
24:24
Speaker 2: they had another opportunity to get guys in, So don't
24:27
Speaker 2: get a twisted the Dodgers can hit. They had an
24:29
Speaker 2: opportunity to actually blow this game up. A little bit
24:31
Speaker 2: earlier in the game, which they didn't. But that's baseball
24:34
Speaker 2: in a nutshell. Yeah. One thing I'm thinking about with
24:38
Speaker 2: Gosman is is that him coming in in game seven?
24:42
Speaker 2: Is that going to mess up how he does as
24:44
Speaker 2: a starter? I don't think so It's just something to
24:46
Speaker 2: think about, well, because it wasn't the exact thing that
24:49
Speaker 2: he does day in and day out. Is jah Mamoto
24:53
Speaker 2: gonna be that nasty pitcher that goes over one hundred
24:55
Speaker 2: pitches and you know, saves the day for them going
24:59
Speaker 2: to LA. So forget about what they throw. I want
25:02
Speaker 2: to see what they do and how long they throw for.
25:04
Speaker 2: This could be a battle man, This could be a
25:06
Speaker 2: two to one game where we see a pitcher's duel,
25:09
Speaker 2: or it could be just like this, all of a sudden,
25:12
Speaker 2: big inning and it breaks out two really good pictures.
25:15
Speaker 2: This is gonna be a really fun game to watch tomorrow,
25:17
Speaker 2: and I'm I'm ready to go. I can't wait for
25:19
Speaker 2: this one too. Let's see what happens, all right.
25:23
Speaker 3: I mean Game two you already mentioned it, Todd. Game two,
25:27
Speaker 3: you got Yamamoto versus Gosman, you got Splitter versus Splitter.
25:31
Speaker 3: Really like everything is setting up for those splitters. The
25:35
Speaker 3: difference is Gosman, if you're able to say, okay, I'm
25:40
Speaker 3: taking a pitch down. Everything down, this is I mean,
25:43
Speaker 3: this is an advanced approach. The Blue Jays have the
25:46
Speaker 3: ability to have an advanced approach, but they also have
25:48
Speaker 3: the ability to swing at a lot of pitches and
25:51
Speaker 3: they say, okay, Yamamoto, anything down, we're not swinging. I
25:56
Speaker 3: think Gosman has the edge there because the Dodgers are
25:59
Speaker 3: gonna do that. The difference is Gosman's able to locate
26:03
Speaker 3: that heater down in a way. He's able to say,
26:06
Speaker 3: I see you taking each one of my best pitches,
26:09
Speaker 3: each one of my swing and mispitches the pitch that
26:12
Speaker 3: I think was the second best chase pitch out of
26:15
Speaker 3: the zone in all of Major League Baseball for Gosman.
26:19
Speaker 3: And he says, okay, I'll just playing out my heater
26:21
Speaker 3: at the bottom. I'll plan out my heater at the
26:23
Speaker 3: bottom again for some strike strikeouts, looking for some get
26:27
Speaker 3: back into count strikes. And I don't know that Yamamoto
26:31
Speaker 3: has that ability. Yamamoto does what he does by saying, Okay,
26:35
Speaker 3: I'm gonna take advantage of teams that are gonna swing
26:38
Speaker 3: a little bit out of the zone. So which Blue
26:40
Speaker 3: Jays team is gonna show up the team that says, okay,
26:43
Speaker 3: we control the zone like we did tonight because will
26:46
Speaker 3: little strike zone was exactly that it was little, Or
26:50
Speaker 3: are we going to be a team that, Hey, we
26:52
Speaker 3: try to put the ball in play a lot and
26:53
Speaker 3: then Yamamoto's splint comes into play and he's able to
26:57
Speaker 3: get a lot of quick outs. Game two, I'm even
27:02
Speaker 3: if the Blue Jays had lost this game, I'm still
27:04
Speaker 3: intrigued by Game two because the Blue Jays have their
27:07
Speaker 3: ace going. Now, they're up a game and they have
27:09
Speaker 3: their ace going.
27:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, and they're home for one more too. I mean,
27:14
Speaker 1: imagine if they can take another one here and take
27:16
Speaker 1: a two to zero lead heading over to La putting
27:18
Speaker 1: some pressure on Hey, they finished with one more win
27:21
Speaker 1: than the Dodgers, and it really matters regular season matters.
27:23
Speaker 1: They get themselves that home game here to start and
27:26
Speaker 1: the last thing on the serious side, then we'll finish
27:28
Speaker 1: on a fun note. But if you look at what
27:31
Speaker 1: the Dodgers were able to accomplish in the last round,
27:34
Speaker 1: it was incredible. But that just doesn't happen. Two series
27:38
Speaker 1: in a row. I mean, the Blue Jays first of all,
27:40
Speaker 1: are clicking their dynamic offense. But also Blake Snell's fastball
27:44
Speaker 1: command wasn't as good as this last outing. I mean,
27:46
Speaker 1: example number one was the bar show homer that was
27:49
Speaker 1: middle middle fastball, and he was painting corners. And he's
27:51
Speaker 1: actually a guy that doesn't usually give in, like he
27:53
Speaker 1: will try to avoid that portion of the plate as
27:56
Speaker 1: well as anyone. He'd rather walk you sometimes. But it
27:59
Speaker 1: wasn't the same. So that was a problem for the Dodgers.
28:02
Speaker 1: And we'll see if the other starters can replicate what
28:04
Speaker 1: they put together last time around or not. So we've
28:07
Speaker 1: got ourselves a series and let's finish on a fun note.
28:09
Speaker 1: So I noticed two things every day. Louis Viarland didn't pitch,
28:13
Speaker 1: which was weird, although they put him in the bullpen
28:15
Speaker 1: just to throw around. And we were calling his sin
28:17
Speaker 1: games the other day because I'm sure he was huffing
28:20
Speaker 1: and puffing during those. I'm kidding, but he always pitches.
28:22
Speaker 1: And then Todd Father, you know how the grounds crew is, right.
28:27
Speaker 1: I mean, for me, I've been on playoff fields many
28:32
Speaker 1: many years of my career, back when I was working
28:35
Speaker 1: for MLB, and they would be quick to tell you
28:37
Speaker 1: don't step there, don't go there, don't go there, game
28:39
Speaker 1: going on. Farrell brought an orchestra of people onto the field.
28:45
Speaker 1: They did an incredible job. It was a super cool
28:47
Speaker 1: pregame show. But I was just thinking about all of
28:51
Speaker 1: the conversations that I've had with Ground's crew over the years.
28:56
Speaker 1: How nervous do you think they were when they saw
28:59
Speaker 1: them stomping and singing and getting after it in the
29:03
Speaker 1: little pregame party.
29:06
Speaker 2: I think a little bit. I guess all turf really
29:10
Speaker 2: helps to a little bit, So I don't I don't know.
29:12
Speaker 2: That's a really good question.
29:14
Speaker 3: I would be nervous. Excuse me.
29:16
Speaker 2: I would definitely be nervous just because of what was
29:19
Speaker 2: out there, all the heavy equipment everything, and listen, this
29:23
Speaker 2: is a show. We got to put on a show
29:25
Speaker 2: for the fans and for the people, and you know,
29:27
Speaker 2: the field might have to take a hit for it.
29:29
Speaker 2: So it looked like it didn't hurt it today. Hopefully
29:32
Speaker 2: there's no bumps and bruises tomorrow.
29:35
Speaker 1: If I ever, you know, misstep, like one little step
29:38
Speaker 1: on even dirt whatever, And I've been told before like
29:41
Speaker 1: hey watch it I'm just gonna go Farrell, twenty five
29:45
Speaker 1: year old series. Okay, everything's changed, it doesn't matter anymore
29:49
Speaker 1: for ELL's Crew twenty twenty five ye old series. We're
29:51
Speaker 1: allowed to step here. Please, sir, do not tell me
29:53
Speaker 1: where I can step anymore. The world has changed. Anyway.
29:57
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a postgame show after game t you
30:00
Speaker 1: of the World Series, so make sure you look out
30:02
Speaker 1: for that. Game two is Saturday night. If you're watching
30:05
Speaker 1: this now, that's well, actually it's today. If you're watching
30:08
Speaker 1: on the East coast, it's now twelve oh one. A
30:10
Speaker 1: lot of people will watch this in the morning for
30:12
Speaker 1: a little postgame recap. Dodger fans that are freaking out,
30:15
Speaker 1: maybe we talked you off the ledge a little bit,
30:17
Speaker 1: and Blue Jays fans are just feeling themselves right now,
30:20
Speaker 1: chanting Otani. We would not like your services, but we
30:22
Speaker 1: would like.
30:23
Speaker 3: To beat you.
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30:27
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