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Blue Jays Season Preview with Kevin Pillar + Mariners Season Preview & TV confusion with Ryan Divish · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: It is Miller time.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna do some light takes with KP talking about
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Speaker 2: the Blue Jays. Happy Opening Day to you, KP. It's
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Speaker 2: great to see you. And how fired up do you
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Speaker 2: think the Blue Jays fan base is for this coming season.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of the perfect storm. They didn't win, but
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Speaker 2: they came damn close. The team did not settle in
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Speaker 2: the offseason. They've locked in extensions for some of the
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Speaker 2: decision makers, and now they get to see it all
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Speaker 2: play out.
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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, what a perfect transition. You were
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Speaker 3: talking about average players. Here's one right here. Did all
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Speaker 3: the things off the field. You know, That's how I
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Speaker 3: made up the statistic called of war off the field war,
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Speaker 3: and mine was really high. You know, guys wanted to
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Speaker 3: drink at the bar. I was there. They want to
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Speaker 3: play golf. I was there, They want to fish. I
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Speaker 3: was there. But as far as the Blue Jays, I
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Speaker 3: think the fans got to be really exciting, excited for
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Speaker 3: opening Day. And I'm getting a chance to fly up
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Speaker 3: there tonight and be part of the opening Day for Sportsnet,
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Speaker 3: and I just want fans to remember that tomorrow's a celebration,
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Speaker 3: whether they win or lose. Tomorrow. I think they have
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Speaker 3: a lot to be proud of. They're gonna hang two
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Speaker 3: banners tomorrow. And yeah, I mean, they locked up their manager.
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Speaker 3: They locked up their their general manager for the next
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Speaker 3: five years, and the future has never been more bright
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Speaker 3: in Toronto. They got a superstar in Vladimir Guerrero Junior,
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Speaker 3: and they got a bunch of guys just scratching the
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Speaker 3: surface about to be found superstars.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but shouldn't they panic? They're already behind the Yankees.
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Speaker 4: The Yankees already in first place, so shouldn't shouldn't they
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Speaker 4: be panicking?
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Speaker 3: KP one hundred percent. I think we should be scoreboard
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Speaker 3: watching right now. I think I honestly truly like joking aside,
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Speaker 3: I do believe, you know, on Bluebird yesterday we kind
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Speaker 3: of did kind of an al least kind of breakdown,
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Speaker 3: and I truly believe starting August first, scoreboard watching is
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Speaker 3: going to be happening because I think, you know, what
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Speaker 3: the Red Sox did this offseason, I think what the
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Speaker 3: Orioles did this offseason. I think the Yankees bringing back
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Speaker 3: some of their guys and ultimately getting Garrett coleback is
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Speaker 3: a game changer for them, And really, you can't never
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Speaker 3: count the Rays out. If it was any other team
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Speaker 3: and they didn't say rays across their chest, you maybe
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Speaker 3: count them out. But it's the Tampa Bay Rays. And
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Speaker 3: I truly think this division is going to be really exciting.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna come down to the wire.
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Speaker 4: What do you have to say about the people who say,
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Speaker 4: wait a minute, Like two years ago, this Blue Jay
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Speaker 4: team was awful, So at this time last year we
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Speaker 4: were talking about the Jays is just kind of one
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Speaker 4: of the decent teams in the division. Maybe the Santander
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Speaker 4: signing is gonna be good. Clearly that wasn't a good
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Speaker 4: signing because he never ended up playing and other guys
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Speaker 4: stepped up. Is there a fear that George Springer has
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Speaker 4: a step back? Is there fear that Alejandro Kirk doesn't
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Speaker 4: have the same season or Vladdie doesn't have the same
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Speaker 4: season and they're just the middling three or four in
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Speaker 4: the American League East.
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Speaker 3: I think it's a realistic possibility. Absolutely. I mean, you
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Speaker 3: played for a long time, aj you played for a
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Speaker 3: long time, like baseball is the biggest mystery sport on
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Speaker 3: the face of the earth. Like I think in you know,
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Speaker 3: like you know, an NFL quarterback is probably gonna be
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Speaker 3: pretty good, you know, Steph Curry's probably gonna make shots,
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Speaker 3: But hitting a baseball is so damn hard, like to
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Speaker 3: expect guys year in and year out to do the
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Speaker 3: same thing and to maybe take the next step and
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Speaker 3: then the next step, Like, yeah, it's definitely a realistic possibility.
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Speaker 3: You know, a year two years ago, this team wasn't
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Speaker 3: very good, and now we're talking about this team potentially
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Speaker 3: winning the AL East again and potentially winning the AL
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Speaker 3: and I think they're probably the most bet on team
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Speaker 3: to win the World Series right now too, So I
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Speaker 3: think there's a huge kind of gap for where this
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Speaker 3: team could be at. I think they could win a
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Speaker 3: World Series where I think they could finish third in
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Speaker 3: their division. I think that's also partly due to how
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Speaker 3: competitive the AL East is.
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Speaker 5: What do you make of the injuries?
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Speaker 6: Alrighty though you Savage down, Burrios down, sant Tender, we know,
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Speaker 6: down right, Jimi Garcia down. What do you make of
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Speaker 6: the injuries to start the year for the Blue Jays?
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Speaker 6: Do they have enough depth to cover all these all
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Speaker 6: these injuries of guys they're expecting to contribute a lot.
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Speaker 3: Well before all these injuries happened. We were sitting on
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Speaker 3: Bluebird Terry talking about who's gonna be their five starters?
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Speaker 3: Are they going to go with six starters. There was
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Speaker 3: also a time Max Schurz there wasn't in their rotation.
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Speaker 3: He was sitting at home as a free agent and
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Speaker 3: they went out signed him, and you're like, WHOA, Now
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Speaker 3: you have seven eight starters. You have all this depth.
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Speaker 3: But I think teams are gonna get tested with their
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Speaker 3: debt at some point throughout the season. It just happens
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Speaker 3: to be super early with the Blue Jays right now. Yes,
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Speaker 3: if someone wants to go down in that starting rotation,
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Speaker 3: I think their depth is going to be tested. And
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Speaker 3: I don't think there's a ton of depth kind of
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Speaker 3: after the five guys they have in the rotation right now,
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Speaker 3: at least proven depth. You know, going into spring training,
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Speaker 3: and once they signed Max Scherzer, you know Eric Glauer
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Speaker 3: was going to be their seventh starter. You know, now
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Speaker 3: he's pitching Game three of this series or the third
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Speaker 3: game of the season. So the depth is going to
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Speaker 3: be tested early, but all these teams are going to
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Speaker 3: go through it at some point or another. The blueges
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Speaker 3: happened to do it, you know, pretty early on in
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Speaker 3: the season, but getting give me Garcia is kind of
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Speaker 3: you know, it's going to be such a big deal
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Speaker 3: to them. I think he was the guy they probably
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Speaker 3: missed the most last year during their postseason stretch, because
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Speaker 3: when he's healthy and he's on, he's electric, and he's
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Speaker 3: the back of the bullpen guy that they really desperately need.
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Speaker 4: Injuries early in the year could be the first sign
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Speaker 4: of the most fearful thing people teams that go to
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Speaker 4: the playoffs fear World Series hangover. Do you see any
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Speaker 4: other thing that lingers like that besides pitching injuries and
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Speaker 4: the amount of innings that they threw because they pitched
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Speaker 4: an entire extra month.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean, I think if you guys listened to
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Speaker 3: John Snyder's initial meeting and he quoted George Springer, it's like,
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Speaker 3: this is the first time they've really had a bullseye
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Speaker 3: on their back. You know, they're they're being hunted. They're
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Speaker 3: not the hunter anymore. And as much as you want
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Speaker 3: to kind of go into spring training and pretend like, hey,
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Speaker 3: let's just do everything we did last year, you know,
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Speaker 3: we'll sneak up on teams and you know, it's about
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Speaker 3: us versus them. Everyone's going to give the Blue Jays
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Speaker 3: their best. You know, if teams have an option of
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Speaker 3: running out their closer back to back days, or they're
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Speaker 3: back into their bullpen back to back days, they're moving
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Speaker 3: guys up to face the Blue Jays to kind of
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Speaker 3: size themselves up. That's what they're going to face. That's
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Speaker 3: what the Dodgers have faced over the last couple of years.
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Speaker 3: That's what teams like the Yankees, you know, always have
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Speaker 3: to deal with. But I think there's also a reason,
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Speaker 3: you know, up until last year, there hasn't been back
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Speaker 3: to back World Series champions one. I think it's just
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Speaker 3: incredibly difficult to get to the World Series back to
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Speaker 3: back years, yet alone to make the playoffs multiple years
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Speaker 3: in a row. So the Blue Jays have a big
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Speaker 3: challenge in front of them, not just about being having
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Speaker 3: that bulls on their back, but it's just really difficult
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Speaker 3: to get back to the postseason year and year out.
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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be a big challenge for him.
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Speaker 2: Hey, with seakeek, we're looking ahead at games, So let's
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Speaker 2: look at the weekend.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with Friday.
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Speaker 2: What else do we have Cam Schlitzler is making his
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Speaker 2: season debut. We'll see if Luis Severino is the usual
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Speaker 2: dude on the road versus at home. Kevin Gossman pitching
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Speaker 2: in that game for Toronto. Chris Sale will pitch for Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: Sandy al Contra on the mound for the Marlins against
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Speaker 2: the Rockies. Atlanta, by the way, is playing the the
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Speaker 2: Royals on the weekend. Here that includes what's your game?
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Speaker 2: Do you know who's pitching?
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Speaker 1: Oh?
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Speaker 2: No, they've started to lay them out.
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Speaker 5: Are good?
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Speaker 4: The matchups are good because it's all the best starting
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Speaker 4: pitchers going against each other. But like the team matchups Pirates, Mets,
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Speaker 4: not a lot of fight in, you know, not like, oh,
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Speaker 4: you know, we're really banging heads here, Twins Orioles, White Sox, Brewers.
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Speaker 4: It just feels like I wanted to look down the
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Speaker 4: list and go, man, I'm seeing all these all these
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Speaker 4: number ones on the mound, and I'm like Red Sox, Reds,
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Speaker 4: like what Rangers, Phillies, they have a long history of
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Speaker 4: what opening days like. It just feels like a weird,
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Speaker 4: weird mishmash of teams.
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Speaker 1: I agree, some make sense, some don't.
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Speaker 2: By the way, AJ's game on Saturday is Waka against
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Speaker 2: Ronaldo Lopez.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, it'd be good. Yeah, two good good names. Walka's
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Speaker 5: teammate Ronaldo. Yeah, Villa was.
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Speaker 1: He didn't really pitch last year.
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Speaker 5: No, but they said his Villa was down the spring.
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Speaker 5: So we'll see. We'll find out together. But I can't
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Speaker 5: wait to go to the Atlanta. It's gonna be fun.
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Speaker 6: See Vinnie, see Jack, see a bunch of the Royals,
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Speaker 6: and then see a bunch of braves, people that I
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Speaker 6: know from from a long time ago.
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Speaker 2: KP first one from the show. It seems like I
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Speaker 2: don't remember if it's you that I was listening to
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Speaker 2: or someone else on the show was pretty high on
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Speaker 2: the Orioles.
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Speaker 1: So who was that?
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Speaker 2: And if so, I feel like you have to play
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Speaker 2: the elimination game, Like, if you like the Orioles and
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Speaker 2: you think they're going to make the playoffs, you've got
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Speaker 2: to pick a team in that division that's not going
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Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. Forget the raise, but of those four,
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Speaker 2: who is not going to make the playoffs?
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Speaker 3: Don't put me on the spot like that. Come on,
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Speaker 3: But yeah, it was me who was high on the Ools.
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Speaker 3: I think the Oriols have a lot of the same
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Speaker 3: ingredients that the Blue Jays had last year. They're being
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Speaker 3: slept on a little bit. They have a lot of
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Speaker 3: young talent, they have actually superstar talent on there. And
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Speaker 3: if you look at their five guys in the rotation,
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Speaker 3: do they have a legitimate ace, but they got five
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Speaker 3: very accomplished major league pitchers. They got Ryan Helsley in
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Speaker 3: the back end of the bullpen. They got Cano in
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Speaker 3: the back end of the bullpen. At some point they're
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Speaker 3: gonna get Felix Batista back in the bullpen too. I
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Speaker 3: love the signing of Pete Alonso. I believe he's gonna
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Speaker 3: lead the American or I think he's gonna leave major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball on RBIs. I think about that lineup they
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Speaker 3: built kind of around him. I love the addition of
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Speaker 3: Taylor Ward. He's an RBI machine too. He hit you know,
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Speaker 3: thirty plus homers last year in Anaheim. I think his
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Speaker 3: game is going to be elevated, getting out at Anaheim,
10:50
Speaker 3: getting into a winning environment, being around a lot of
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Speaker 3: other really good players. I think they just have all
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Speaker 3: the makings. And if I had to pick a team,
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Speaker 3: that oo, man, if I had to pick a team,
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Speaker 3: and it's hard because last night that offense was so
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Speaker 3: good for the Yankees, but it just felt like without
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Speaker 3: Garrett Cole and without Rendon to start the year, it
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Speaker 3: felt like maybe they could fall behind and it would
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Speaker 3: be a lot for them to catch up. But the
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Speaker 3: way the offense. Look last night, they can run pretty
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Speaker 3: much anyone out there on the mound, and they're gonna
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Speaker 3: be able to win some games. So I don't really
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Speaker 3: know which one of those four teams is the odd
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Speaker 3: man out. I love what the Red Sox did in
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Speaker 3: the offseason two. I think once again, they got Garrett
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Speaker 3: Crochet kind of leading that pitching staff, Sonny Gray, you know,
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Speaker 3: they got Bryan Bello BeO, you know, and I think
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Speaker 3: they got two other really legit starters in that rotation.
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Speaker 3: They got a Roaldess Chapman at the back end of
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Speaker 3: the bullpen. I love a lot of the young talent
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Speaker 3: they have out there. And I know Alex Regman's not
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Speaker 3: there anymore, but I think his imprint is in that
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Speaker 3: Boston Red Sox organization. I think what he was able
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Speaker 3: to do and be around those young guys for an
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Speaker 3: entire year, I don't think that.
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Speaker 1: Leaves a right one more from me on the show.
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Speaker 2: So can you tell AJ and Kratz about your Ross
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Speaker 2: Atkins take, since you said on the show, like, hey,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't your favorite guy and now you're respecting the
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Speaker 2: work that's being put together by him in the organization.
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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I love being I love being at Toronto
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Speaker 3: Blue Jay, and you know, I was drafted and brought
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Speaker 3: up by a different general manager. The team was having
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Speaker 3: a ton of success. You know, we didn't ultimately win
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Speaker 3: a World Series, but we won a division. We got
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Speaker 3: to the Alcs back to back years. A new president
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Speaker 3: of Baseball Operation comes in, brings his own general manager in.
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Speaker 3: You know, he starts, you know, year after year, they
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Speaker 3: start kind of taking my friends and my teammates that
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Speaker 3: were part of those two thousand and fifteen and sixteen teams,
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Speaker 3: you know, and not re signing them or trading them off.
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Speaker 3: You know, fast forward a couple of years in twenty
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Speaker 3: nineteen and I get traded off. And yeah, I wasn't
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Speaker 3: super happy with him. Wasn't super happy with getting traded.
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Speaker 3: I wasn't super were happy with, you know, him kind
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Speaker 3: of stripping down something that I thought was special. And
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm a man of my word, and I
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Speaker 3: think I was definitely wrong. He had a vision for
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Speaker 3: the team long term. He knew he had guys like
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Speaker 3: Laudie and Bo and Calvin Viigio and a bunch of
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Speaker 3: these young guys in the lower minor leagues and ultimately
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Speaker 3: he made the right choice because he got a team to,
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Speaker 3: you know, four outs away from winning a World Series
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Speaker 3: and we're sitting here talking about the Blue Jays as
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Speaker 3: potential the beast of the Al East once again. And yeah,
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Speaker 3: you know, I got to give him a lot of credit.
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Speaker 3: He had to make some tough decisions. They weren't very
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Speaker 3: popular decisions with the players, and definitely weren't popular decisions
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Speaker 3: amongst the fans across Canada, but he made the right decision.
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Speaker 4: I'd be in your boat because I'm kind of disappointed
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Speaker 4: the fact that my roommate only got two years and
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Speaker 4: he got five years. Do you feel like there's a
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Speaker 4: little bit of a disconnect or is that like, hey, Schneis,
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Speaker 4: I know you did a good job, but this is
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Speaker 4: my team and I'll get rid of you at any point.
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Speaker 4: When I see those numbers, that feels like that's what
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Speaker 4: it looks like.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was a little bit surprised by the five
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Speaker 3: versus the two. But you know, maybe, you know, a
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Speaker 3: general manager could still kind of have the idea of, hey,
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Speaker 3: this is the team we built right now, but he
14:19
Speaker 3: can still have kind of have this vision of five
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Speaker 3: years out in the future, you know, about guys that
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Speaker 3: are coming up through the organization where a guy in
14:28
Speaker 3: you know, the managerial seat still kind of has to
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Speaker 3: be in a much like a player. What have you
14:33
Speaker 3: done for me lately? Right now? You've got to prove
14:35
Speaker 3: yourself again and again and again. And ultimately that's the
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Speaker 3: direction that they felt was best for the organization to
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Speaker 3: give him some job security, but at the same time,
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Speaker 3: not this long term extension where you know, things don't
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Speaker 3: work out, they're eating money and having to fire him.
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Speaker 3: I was a little bit confused by it. I thought
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Speaker 3: he had done enough over the last couple of years,
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Speaker 3: not only in the success that they had had, and
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Speaker 3: it's been three out of four years they've been to
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Speaker 3: the postseason. I felt like the relationships he's built with
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Speaker 3: the players, especially a guy like Laddie who signed up
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Speaker 3: for the next fourteen years. He thought maybe he would
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Speaker 3: get the same sort of duration that Ross Atkins get got.
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Speaker 3: But that's kind of the decision that Mark Schapiro and
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Speaker 3: the Rogers family decided to go with the two year
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Speaker 3: deal with for him.
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Speaker 4: We saw a lot of theatrics last night in the
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Speaker 4: opening night of Baseball. Whether people like it or not,
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Speaker 4: you've been in different opening days at different stadiums, whether
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Speaker 4: you were the home team or the away team.
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Speaker 5: How does the Blue Jays.
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Speaker 4: Opening day rank in all their festivities and ceremonies rank
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Speaker 4: compared to the other teams that you run.
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Speaker 3: Man, it's a great question. I would say it's up there.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously the roof being close helped, so it's
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Speaker 3: very loud. But I will tell you there has been
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Speaker 3: a giant difference from twenty nineteen when I was there
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Speaker 3: to now, just with this stadium renovations, with you know,
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Speaker 3: the people behind the scenes running all these sort of
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Speaker 3: events you know got to witness. Then getting back to
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Speaker 3: the postseason, and it was night and day difference in
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Speaker 3: terms of like introductions for the postseason scoreboard, entertainment, you know,
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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff, you know the last year
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Speaker 3: versus you know when I was playing there in twenty sixteen.
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Speaker 3: So I'm really excited to get up there and see
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Speaker 3: what they have in store, you know, revealing two banners.
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Speaker 3: And I know it's not a World Series championship that
16:34
Speaker 3: they're hoping for, but an AL Lease championship and an
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Speaker 3: American League championship are something that the fans are going
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Speaker 3: to celebrate. I expected to be super lively, rocking, and
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Speaker 3: I expect them to put on a great show because
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Speaker 3: that's what the Blue Jays do.
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Speaker 7: KP.
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Speaker 1: We're excited. We'll see out there.
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Speaker 2: We'll be looking for you, and thanks for joining us, dude,
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Speaker 2: Happy Opening Day.
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Speaker 3: We're happy Opening Day, guys are.
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Speaker 2: Celebrate responsibly, Ryan Davis straining us right now, Ryan, happy
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Speaker 2: Opening Day or evening to you as it'll be out
17:18
Speaker 2: in Seattle at night, so.
17:20
Speaker 1: Set the scene for us.
17:22
Speaker 2: How pumped are Mariners fans for this season compared to
17:25
Speaker 2: the last few seasons.
17:27
Speaker 8: I've been covering this team since two thousand and six,
17:30
Speaker 8: and I have never seen a city or a fan
17:33
Speaker 8: base more excited about a season than this year. There's
17:36
Speaker 8: more anticipation. There's more excitement for this season than any
17:39
Speaker 8: season I've had covering the beat. And it's a long
17:42
Speaker 8: time now. This is my twentieth Opening Day, which is
17:46
Speaker 8: kind of terrifying.
17:48
Speaker 5: By the way, I know you're in the press box
17:50
Speaker 5: at least.
17:50
Speaker 6: I think you're in the press box in Safeco whatever
17:53
Speaker 6: it's called now, it'd always be Safeco to me. Did
17:56
Speaker 6: you get some popcorn? That's all I want to know,
17:58
Speaker 6: because the popcorn in there, for some reason, is just
18:00
Speaker 6: better than any other press box I've been in.
18:02
Speaker 5: I don't know why.
18:03
Speaker 7: Now I got here a little early.
18:05
Speaker 8: I haven't. I'm like the first person here. It wasn't
18:08
Speaker 8: planned to be here this early, but you know, Seattle
18:10
Speaker 8: traffic and everything else, so they haven't put the popcorn
18:13
Speaker 8: out yet. But yeah, it's addictive, like if you could
18:16
Speaker 8: have beer. That popcorn is like the greatest thing ever
18:18
Speaker 8: because it's salty and buttery, but it's not too much
18:22
Speaker 8: in one way or the other. It's really it's really awful.
18:24
Speaker 8: I eat so much of it throughout the season.
18:27
Speaker 6: Every time I go to Seattle. It's like, I gotta
18:28
Speaker 6: get some of the popcorn. And I don't know why.
18:30
Speaker 6: It just tastes different. Maybe it's different corn up there
18:33
Speaker 6: in Seattle. I don't know, but it's really really And
18:36
Speaker 6: by the way, you can have a beer. It's opening day.
18:38
Speaker 6: You can do whatever you want, right, But that's a
18:40
Speaker 6: whole different thing. I listen, I love the Mariners team
18:44
Speaker 6: this year. I love what they did in the offseason.
18:46
Speaker 6: I love their pitching. Obviously, I'm picking them to win
18:48
Speaker 6: the American League for the first time, to actually get
18:50
Speaker 6: to the World Series. You mentioned the fan base, but
18:52
Speaker 6: does that put more pressure on Dan Wilson and these
18:55
Speaker 6: players or are they just immune to it now because
18:57
Speaker 6: of how last year went.
18:59
Speaker 7: You know, I mean it could.
19:01
Speaker 8: I think you'd rather be picked, rather be picked first
19:04
Speaker 8: than last in a lot of situations, but it can
19:07
Speaker 8: put more pressure on them. I do think that, Like
19:10
Speaker 8: one of the things that Dan is very good at
19:12
Speaker 8: is being steady to the moment and not overreacting to
19:15
Speaker 8: a three game swinger here or there, or even five
19:18
Speaker 8: games where they may be playing poor. He's so kind
19:21
Speaker 8: of like flatlined with how he acts. But I think
19:24
Speaker 8: that gives the players kind of a calm to them.
19:28
Speaker 8: And also, this team is so process oriented, Like I
19:31
Speaker 8: know every baseball player tries to say that, but guys
19:35
Speaker 8: like cal Rally and Brendan Donnov and Josh Naylor, Julio,
19:39
Speaker 8: they're just kind of they're they're just so in tune
19:42
Speaker 8: with the process that, like every day is about preparation
19:45
Speaker 8: for the game. Like that's their focus. The game is
19:48
Speaker 8: kind of like the gravy after they put in all
19:49
Speaker 8: this work to be ready for it. So I don't
19:52
Speaker 8: think that the pressure should be that much. But then again,
19:55
Speaker 8: like what if they start off five and eight or
19:58
Speaker 8: five and ten, will it?
20:00
Speaker 7: Will it mount? I don't think so. It's a pretty
20:02
Speaker 7: mature team.
20:03
Speaker 8: And also this team is a team that seems to
20:05
Speaker 8: always kind of play itself into a little bit of
20:07
Speaker 8: trouble and then you know, rally late and kind of,
20:10
Speaker 8: you know, come on strong towards the end.
20:14
Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan, were there any potential extensions that we were
20:16
Speaker 2: expecting for the starting pitching? You know, this team is
20:20
Speaker 2: in a great place. Like you mentioned, they've put a
20:22
Speaker 2: little into it. They saw finally what it meant to
20:26
Speaker 2: add a guy like Gino, and really Naylor was the
20:28
Speaker 2: big one last year around the trade deadline.
20:31
Speaker 1: They keep Naylor, they add more like Donovan.
20:33
Speaker 2: We're talking about all of this, but then we look
20:35
Speaker 2: at the future and say, okay, are these starting pitchers
20:39
Speaker 2: going to be here for the next five years plus?
20:43
Speaker 7: Yeah, I haven't heard.
20:44
Speaker 8: I know Jerry Dipoto had talked about engaging some extension
20:48
Speaker 8: talks with some of his pitchers.
20:50
Speaker 7: I don't know.
20:50
Speaker 8: You know, obviously the obvious one would be Logan Gilbert,
20:53
Speaker 8: but I haven't heard anything along those lines. You know,
20:56
Speaker 8: he's the closest to free agency, and maybe that's to
20:58
Speaker 8: makes him the most difficult to sign to an extension
21:01
Speaker 8: because he is that close. You know, maybe Brian Wu,
21:04
Speaker 8: who's in his first year of our be eligibility, is
21:07
Speaker 8: a guy that's easier to sign to an extension and
21:10
Speaker 8: extend through those arbers, which can be important, But we
21:13
Speaker 8: haven't heard anything like that. Then again, like we didn't
21:15
Speaker 8: hear anything about cal Rawley's extension until right up to
21:18
Speaker 8: the day it happened, and you know, I know the
21:21
Speaker 8: Mariners have looked at it. The one thing is is like,
21:25
Speaker 8: you know, if you're Logan Gilbert and you see what
21:26
Speaker 8: Dylan s Scott and some of those guys, Yes, free
21:29
Speaker 8: agent sounds pretty enticing, but I think, you know, maybe
21:33
Speaker 8: it's somebody like Brian Wu or George Kirby, but I
21:36
Speaker 8: do think that that's something they have to address. The
21:38
Speaker 8: one thing is is like they do have two young
21:41
Speaker 8: guys in their in their minor league system, Kate Anderson
21:44
Speaker 8: and Ryan Sloan. That makes the idea of losing one
21:47
Speaker 8: of those guys to free agency, or if you're forced
21:49
Speaker 8: to trade them because they're going to go into a walk. Here,
21:52
Speaker 8: having those guys in the minor leagues makes a little
21:54
Speaker 8: bit more. It's easier to stomach maybe losing one of
21:58
Speaker 8: those guys eventually down the road.
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23:03
Speaker 6: Have we put the Randy because he's a free agent
23:05
Speaker 6: right at the end of the year, Randy Rose Arena.
23:07
Speaker 6: Have we put this to bed yet? To Cal Rawley,
23:09
Speaker 6: Randy and Rose Arena, has this been officially squashed? Because
23:12
Speaker 6: I know I was tired of talking about it, but
23:14
Speaker 6: you know, now there's another press conference about how.
23:16
Speaker 5: We're good, Like, is it finally done yet? Because I'm
23:18
Speaker 5: over it?
23:20
Speaker 7: Yeah, I hope. So.
23:21
Speaker 8: I'm certainly tired of writing about it. I feel like
23:24
Speaker 8: we've spent more words and time talking about it than necessary.
23:29
Speaker 8: I think, yeah, I think they're fine. I never thought
23:31
Speaker 8: they weren't fine, honestly, but I think from a perception standpoint,
23:35
Speaker 8: what fan bases are asking, but the fan base is
23:38
Speaker 8: questioning all that stuff. Having Randy come out make that
23:40
Speaker 8: second statement because the first one wasn't so great, I
23:43
Speaker 8: think helps kind of squash it. You know, I'm sure
23:47
Speaker 8: there's still part of Cal that didn't like hearing what
23:49
Speaker 8: Randy said after that game, And you know, apology is
23:53
Speaker 8: words only, so like I think, honestly, the big thing
23:57
Speaker 8: is just let's just get to the regular season.
23:59
Speaker 7: And play baseball.
24:00
Speaker 8: And I think that all that that kind of stuff
24:02
Speaker 8: goes away. Randy's got priorities. This is his free agent
24:05
Speaker 8: walk here. You know, he's going to try and have
24:07
Speaker 8: a big season. Cal's got, you know, coming off one
24:10
Speaker 8: of the greatest seasons a catcher will ever have. How
24:13
Speaker 8: does he respond to all of this? So I think
24:14
Speaker 8: it's pretty minimal. And you know as Aja, you know
24:17
Speaker 8: as well as I do that like once the season
24:19
Speaker 8: starts and the grind begins, you don't have time for
24:21
Speaker 8: the drama. You're so busy just trying to get ready
24:23
Speaker 8: to play every single night that the little stuff doesn't
24:26
Speaker 8: come up. Now, Like if you you know, things go south,
24:30
Speaker 8: people start playing poorly, you know, somebody is being in pain,
24:32
Speaker 8: maybe it comes up. But for the most part, these guys,
24:35
Speaker 8: you know, the culture they have in the clubhouse, it's
24:37
Speaker 8: more about preparation and doing those little things. They don't
24:39
Speaker 8: have time to worry about the drama that maybe you know,
24:42
Speaker 8: used to be so written about in like places like
24:45
Speaker 8: Boston and New York.
24:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't have to be best friends with
24:48
Speaker 1: everyone either.
24:50
Speaker 8: Exactly due you're not even friends with aj are you?
24:53
Speaker 1: No?
24:53
Speaker 2: Only Uh well, let's see we we on Mondays Wednesdays
24:57
Speaker 2: and no.
24:58
Speaker 5: One is right and that's the point.
25:01
Speaker 8: Oh no, come on, ag, I know you've got the
25:03
Speaker 8: good chemistry with Adam and and Wayne.
25:05
Speaker 7: On those guys.
25:06
Speaker 1: Come on now Saturdays.
25:08
Speaker 6: True, yeah, I've I actually have a lot of friends, right,
25:10
Speaker 6: and I just don't like to talk about it.
25:14
Speaker 1: Saturdays is when he's my best friend.
25:16
Speaker 5: That's Goldie. I like Goldie.
25:20
Speaker 8: Goldie's great. Had a bad haircut, He's he's he's hurting
25:23
Speaker 8: a little bit. They might have to put it opening day.
25:25
Speaker 5: Wait, hold up, Goldie's hair is off for Opening Day?
25:28
Speaker 7: Yeah it was. It was looking a little rough. He
25:30
Speaker 7: got mad when I called him, I go, are you
25:32
Speaker 7: going with the hag seth look? And he really didn't
25:34
Speaker 7: like that one bit.
25:36
Speaker 5: Whoa wow, Wow, I didn't. I didn't realize Goldie could
25:39
Speaker 5: have a bad hair day.
25:41
Speaker 7: It happens, how about who.
25:45
Speaker 6: I know we're a little off topic here, but we're
25:46
Speaker 6: gonna get to the TV stof so this fits perfectly.
25:48
Speaker 6: But who is Goldie Stack guy during the year, because
25:51
Speaker 6: does he still have Gee?
25:52
Speaker 5: Have you met Gee?
25:54
Speaker 7: No?
25:54
Speaker 8: I haven't met Gee. I've met Alex. Mayer does a
25:59
Speaker 8: lot there pr guy. He's really good with the numbers
26:02
Speaker 8: and helps out Goldie a lot with some of the
26:03
Speaker 8: intricate stuff. Gary Hill's pretty good as well, so you
26:07
Speaker 8: know he got a few. And Aaron's a nerd by heart,
26:09
Speaker 8: so he's on his iPad looking that stuff up a lot.
26:12
Speaker 8: But you know he doesn't bring in his fancy guy
26:15
Speaker 8: for the day to day games.
26:16
Speaker 7: It's only no.
26:17
Speaker 6: He brings Alex in when we do Fox. He has
26:19
Speaker 6: Alex two games for him where he had Gee one time.
26:21
Speaker 5: I think it was.
26:22
Speaker 6: Somewhere he flew Gey in and I had never seen Gee,
26:24
Speaker 6: so I didn't know if he was Seattle.
26:26
Speaker 8: Only Alex is a savant on Baseball Reference and fangrafts.
26:32
Speaker 8: It's like I thought I was pretty good at looking
26:34
Speaker 8: up stuff, but I just have him do it because
26:36
Speaker 8: he's way faster and way better at finding the stuff
26:39
Speaker 8: I need.
26:42
Speaker 1: Hey, so AJ mentioned it. Let's transition.
26:45
Speaker 2: You tweeted a few times over the last few days
26:47
Speaker 2: about the TV situation. I know the Mariners fans were
26:50
Speaker 2: involved in this too, So what happened because I'm only
26:54
Speaker 2: getting my take from like a national perspective, and also
26:57
Speaker 2: like things seemed very secretive, But did it seems like
27:00
Speaker 2: some deals were done and they wanted to announce them
27:03
Speaker 2: all together to fans on opening day on where they
27:06
Speaker 2: can actually watch the games on television versus getting the
27:10
Speaker 2: streaming app.
27:12
Speaker 7: Yeah, it was.
27:14
Speaker 8: It wasn't handled well MLB. I don't think HANDLE did
27:17
Speaker 8: well the fourteen teams under their umbrella of Major League
27:22
Speaker 8: Baseball channeling, the distribution and the production rights. You know,
27:25
Speaker 8: they didn't announce the channel lineups till essentially the full
27:28
Speaker 8: channel lineups till today, and even that was evolving because
27:31
Speaker 8: I was trying to, like, look, my parents in Montana
27:34
Speaker 8: are trying to figure out what channel the game is on,
27:37
Speaker 8: and like they were going to scrap their entire cable
27:40
Speaker 8: system just to go to streaming because they were worried
27:42
Speaker 8: that they weren't going to be able to get the
27:44
Speaker 8: games because they didn't know, you know, and like there's
27:47
Speaker 8: a lot of people like that, and I just it.
27:49
Speaker 7: Was frustrating for a lot of fans.
27:51
Speaker 8: I was getting daily emails what channels are the games
27:54
Speaker 8: going to be on. Some people paid the ninety nine
27:56
Speaker 8: dollars for the streaming fee, thinking that was attached to
27:59
Speaker 8: their cable, and the Mariners have been really cool about
28:02
Speaker 8: saying they'll refund that money for people that were confused
28:04
Speaker 8: by the situation.
28:06
Speaker 7: But like, this.
28:06
Speaker 8: Wasn't handled well, and like you're the Mariners, you want
28:09
Speaker 8: to be able to announce it right away. You want
28:12
Speaker 8: to say, hey, look it's gonna be on Knees Channel
28:14
Speaker 8: this time. We're gonna do it here, and they couldn't
28:17
Speaker 8: do it. And you know, I know there was some
28:18
Speaker 8: frustration within the Mariners because they wanted to get it out.
28:21
Speaker 8: They wanted the information out there, and they haven't done it,
28:24
Speaker 8: you know, And I guess to me, it looks it
28:28
Speaker 8: sure feels like MLB really wants everything to push to
28:30
Speaker 8: the streaming angle. Hey, I'm a cord cutter. I love
28:33
Speaker 8: the streaming package, like the idea that you can get
28:36
Speaker 8: in game or like your in market game stream plus
28:39
Speaker 8: the MLB app and MLBtv to watch all the games.
28:44
Speaker 8: I'm in on that, Like I'll pay them money for that.
28:46
Speaker 8: I'm perfectly willing to pay them money for that. But
28:49
Speaker 8: at the same time, like there is a large segment
28:51
Speaker 8: of the fan base that watches games on traditional cable
28:55
Speaker 8: providers and waiting till the daybook, the day of opening
28:59
Speaker 8: day to announce that I just think is doing a
29:02
Speaker 8: disservice to people who are consuming your product.
29:05
Speaker 7: It's bad business, you know. And I don't blame the Mariners.
29:08
Speaker 7: This is MLB.
29:09
Speaker 8: Mariners couldn't come out and say anything, you know, they
29:11
Speaker 8: couldn't even really come out and say, hey, look, be patient,
29:14
Speaker 8: we're working through this.
29:15
Speaker 7: This is taking some time.
29:16
Speaker 8: These deals don't happen overnight and may lead up to
29:18
Speaker 8: opening day, but we will get you the games you
29:22
Speaker 8: want on the providers you want. But it's just been
29:26
Speaker 8: a super frustrating thing. And I'm still getting tweets from
29:29
Speaker 8: fans because they're not finding what they want right now.
29:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's fair, and it's a great point.
29:35
Speaker 2: I think we reached a point where, you know, I
29:38
Speaker 2: work in this and I'm pretty tech savvy, and I'm
29:42
Speaker 2: starting to get a little confused about everything going on,
29:44
Speaker 2: and that's when it starts to get pretty dicey, where
29:47
Speaker 2: it's like somebody who's doing this every day. So taking
29:50
Speaker 2: back to the history for a moment, here, Ryan. Of
29:52
Speaker 2: course we go back to the number one word that's
29:55
Speaker 2: used in the media space with MLB that's hopefully getting
29:58
Speaker 2: solved over time, as blackouts. But I do feel like
30:01
Speaker 2: at some point, you know, the way it was looked
30:04
Speaker 2: at was almost like it's this biblical thing, like, of
30:08
Speaker 2: course there are blackouts, Like, no, it is.
30:10
Speaker 1: It is not like that, like it shouldn't be fixed.
30:12
Speaker 2: It has not been fixed yet, right, So now we're
30:15
Speaker 2: adding on the confusion here, and it is causing I
30:17
Speaker 2: would agree with you, And that's why your tweets stood
30:20
Speaker 2: out a lot of turmoil on social.
30:22
Speaker 1: Media where it's not just vitriol.
30:24
Speaker 2: It's even like the nice fans that don't usually send
30:27
Speaker 2: out tweets and you'll look and it's like they've only
30:29
Speaker 2: tweeted once, but they just created account just to try
30:31
Speaker 2: and find something. So someone trying to is that are
30:35
Speaker 2: trying to someone trying to infiltrate your space?
30:37
Speaker 7: No?
30:38
Speaker 8: No, they want to kind of clean up around me.
30:40
Speaker 8: So but like it's just simple, where can I watch
30:44
Speaker 8: the baseball game? It's simple as that, Where can I
30:47
Speaker 8: watch the baseball game? And I think that's what fans
30:50
Speaker 8: have run into. They don't want to search. They want
30:52
Speaker 8: it to be easy. You know, there are a ton
30:54
Speaker 8: of casual fans that aren't that don't want to cut
30:57
Speaker 8: the cord. They just want to be able to flip
30:58
Speaker 8: it to channel whatever it is and know that it's
31:01
Speaker 8: going to be there ninety percent of the time. Sure,
31:03
Speaker 8: Like you know, you know, it's still frustrating for fans
31:05
Speaker 8: when Apple TV's doing games or Peacock or whatever and
31:08
Speaker 8: they can't get that or they don't have it. But
31:10
Speaker 8: you're investing money, You're asking people to subscribe or pay
31:13
Speaker 8: a higher tier for their cable, and they're willing to
31:15
Speaker 8: do that, but then you've got to make it easy
31:18
Speaker 8: for them to have access to it. Make it clear.
31:21
Speaker 8: Not everybody understands this, you know, And even like me,
31:24
Speaker 8: I get frustrated by all of this at times, because
31:26
Speaker 8: like you just want easy answers, and I feel like
31:29
Speaker 8: fans were not getting the easy answers. Not the Mariner's fault.
31:32
Speaker 8: MLB should have, you know, done something a little different,
31:34
Speaker 8: but you know, cable and MLB kind of have them
31:37
Speaker 8: kind of held captive in that way too. You want
31:39
Speaker 8: to watch the games, you want to watch it on
31:40
Speaker 8: your cable provider. Then you're going to have to wait
31:42
Speaker 8: till opening day to find out for certain I mean
31:45
Speaker 8: like with the Yankees, you know it's going to be
31:47
Speaker 8: on Yes, with with the Dodgers, you know it's going
31:49
Speaker 8: to be on spectrum. But with MLB, you know, doing
31:52
Speaker 8: these negotiations with these companies and trying to get the
31:55
Speaker 8: carriage fees and all that, it's a little bit different.
31:58
Speaker 8: And I don't know that we'll ever see like it
32:01
Speaker 8: on YouTube, TV or some of the more streaming platforms
32:03
Speaker 8: because honestly, like, if you're MLB and people are hosting
32:07
Speaker 8: on a streaming platform, why wouldn't you just get the
32:09
Speaker 8: app and pay the streaming fees there instead.
32:12
Speaker 2: Yeah, my last one on this to relate it to
32:15
Speaker 2: the Mariners was that they dealt with this right of
32:18
Speaker 2: two or three years ago where they were worried about
32:21
Speaker 2: being put on a higher tier. Now they end up
32:23
Speaker 2: out of that whole mix in there with MLB, And
32:25
Speaker 2: I guess my point is a lot of times there
32:28
Speaker 2: are like spending issues in all of baseball that are
32:31
Speaker 2: blamed on the media and the TV side of things,
32:33
Speaker 2: But I'm like, are we doing it right?
32:35
Speaker 1: Because if you do it right, more fans will pay
32:37
Speaker 1: and sign up.
32:39
Speaker 7: Yeah.
32:40
Speaker 8: I think sometimes we get so many people trying to
32:44
Speaker 8: figure it out and so many different voices trying to
32:47
Speaker 8: figure out what's best for the fan, when sometimes it's
32:50
Speaker 8: again the simplest answers.
32:52
Speaker 7: You know, what is it?
32:52
Speaker 8: I always just joke that the team should have a
32:55
Speaker 8: vice president of common sense, and like, what is the
32:58
Speaker 8: common sense thing here? What is the simplest nature of
33:01
Speaker 8: the situation you're dealing with? Because oftentimes that can be
33:04
Speaker 8: the right answer. It's like the whole Randy.
33:07
Speaker 7: And Cow thing.
33:07
Speaker 8: The simplest thing in the world would have been for
33:09
Speaker 8: Randy to just come out the next day and say, look, yeah,
33:12
Speaker 8: I miss I was upset. You know, I took it
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Speaker 8: the wrong way. I shouldn't have said it. I apologize
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Speaker 8: to Cow. Then everybody moves on. But then it carried
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Speaker 8: on for like a week and a half when it
33:21
Speaker 8: didn't need to. You know, that's it's just the simple
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Speaker 8: the simplest answer often is the best answer.
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Speaker 6: Totally, totally, totally agree on that, Yes, student, the right
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Speaker 6: is that blurry for you too, Ryan, because man I
33:36
Speaker 6: look different.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, you're looking a little blurry, looking a little rough. Okay.
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Speaker 6: For the Mariners and you're talking about the TV and
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Speaker 6: all that the Yankees are on eleven different channels this year?
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Speaker 6: Can you name all eleven different channels? You said the
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Speaker 6: Yankees are always on? Yes, last night they weren't on. Yes,
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Speaker 6: They're on Netflix, They're gonna be on Fox, They're gonna
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Speaker 6: be on I'm sure they're gonna be on NBC, They're
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Speaker 6: gonna be on Peacock. I think it's eleven different channels
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Speaker 6: that the Yanks. Would you like the Marriers to be
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Speaker 6: on eleven different channels? Because I'll tell teams this all
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Speaker 6: the time. If you're bad, guess what, you're not on
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Speaker 6: any other channel. When you're good, you're on all the channels.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's fine for me.
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Speaker 8: Like like I said, I have to spend a little
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Speaker 8: bit of time out of my day explaining my parents
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Speaker 8: where the games are going to be on at But no,
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Speaker 8: like you know, when you're successful, things like you know,
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Speaker 8: I don't love Sunday night baseball. I like having my
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Speaker 8: Sunday evenings to go out and have dinner or whatever.
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Speaker 8: But when you're good and a team is good, that's
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Speaker 8: what's going to happen. You're going to move to the forefront.
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Speaker 8: And Mariners have a ton of national games early on.
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Speaker 8: If they're continue to be successful, they're going to keep
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Speaker 8: doing that. I mean that two major stars in baseball.
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Speaker 8: They have the best catcher in the best center fielder
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Speaker 8: in baseball. It's going to be a huge deal whenever
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Speaker 8: they play in games against the Astros or you know,
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Speaker 8: when they play the Blue Jays. I'm guessing that some
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Speaker 8: of those games will get picked up nationally. The rematch
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Speaker 8: of the LCS. So yeah, it's it's it's really a
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Speaker 8: good time in Seattle. You have the Seahawks winning the
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Speaker 8: Super Bowl, you have the Mariners at their apex, sew
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Speaker 8: super Sonics are going to come back. I mean, it's
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Speaker 8: a pretty good time to be a Seattle sports.
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Speaker 7: Fan right now.
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Speaker 6: By the way, we didn't we didn't talked about Have
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Speaker 6: we talked about the Seahawks since we talked to you
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Speaker 6: last about, you know, them winning the Super Bowl.
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Speaker 5: I didn't think we've talked about have we?
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Speaker 1: No?
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Speaker 7: I don't think so.
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Speaker 8: I know that, like we're written about a little bit,
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Speaker 8: just the Mariners guys going to the Super Bowl and
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Speaker 8: really feeding off of that in the NFC Title Game. Also,
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Speaker 8: Mike McDonald, former college baseball player, huge baseball nerd like
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Speaker 8: loves it. Like he went to a comedy show and
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Speaker 8: cal Rawley was there in Calci that he just would
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Speaker 8: not stop asking questions about baseball, about like scouting, how
35:37
Speaker 8: they do their their pregame meetings, all this other stuff.
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Speaker 7: He was super, super nerdy about baseball.
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Speaker 1: Nice, we're gonna have to get him on.
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Speaker 5: Well, Ryan, I can get him on. I know, I
35:47
Speaker 5: know the right people to call.
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Speaker 1: Let's get him on. If you know, if we want
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Speaker 1: guests that can talk ball.
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Speaker 5: But you don't want me to talk about anything but baseball. Yeah,
35:54
Speaker 5: so we can't have the football coach.
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Speaker 7: He's a Georgia guys and AJ's from Georgia around there
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Speaker 7: or something like that.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I've heard he's great. So
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Speaker 6: the people I know say he's great. But by the way,
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Speaker 6: Goldsmith says, his hair looks amazing. He texted me back
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Speaker 6: and just wanted you to know, no matter what, he
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Speaker 6: looks elite. So if he says something to you today,
36:11
Speaker 6: maybe it came from me.
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Speaker 7: Just say okay, works for me.
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Speaker 2: Ryan, Good stuff, man, Go do your thing and appreciate it.
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Speaker 2: Happy Opening Day, slash night to you out there.
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Speaker 1: In Seattle.
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Speaker 7: Now you guys have fun to him. Man could be