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Shohei Ohtani rehab update & troll perfection, Whit Merrifield joins · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: I got one question for you. I want you to
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Speaker 1: rank these four jobs. Major League player, Golf, Pro Players
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Speaker 1: Association something or other, or South Carolina's head coach.
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Speaker 2: In the weeds, We've got another Otani update. Twenty months
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Speaker 2: since surgery, and remember he hasn't pitched with the Dodgers yet.
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Speaker 2: It's kind of crazy. I mean, it feels like he's
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Speaker 2: been on the Dodgers for a long time, but he
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Speaker 2: accomplished a lot last year. We'll give him a little break.
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Speaker 2: He is rehabbing now in a bullpen session that featured
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Speaker 2: thirty five total pitches, fastballs, and splitters with an updown
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Speaker 2: in between. Next up on progress would be mixing in
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Speaker 2: some breaking balls.
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Speaker 3: And a couple extra coaches there to watch him. I mean,
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Speaker 3: we got his translator, we got assistant GM, we got
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Speaker 3: a GM, we got four coaches. Man, man, he's gonna
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Speaker 3: get staph.
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Speaker 2: Infection were around, wouldn't you want to watch?
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Speaker 3: I mean to watch the Japanese media. The Japanese media
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Speaker 3: counts every one of his pitches too, just like when
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Speaker 3: you go over there as an American, they count every
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Speaker 3: one of your home runs in VP. Very on top
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 2: Well, I mean, he's the most famous player in the
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Speaker 2: world by far, and he's trying to get back to
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Speaker 2: do something. Yeah, So that's why some people are like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I don't need the updates like this. It's a big deal.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be cool if he comes back and can
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Speaker 2: pitch it again. I know you are, but it's unprecedented.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be cool if he can come back. The
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Speaker 2: Dodgers got some and news about Blake Snell over the weekend.
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Speaker 2: Sounds like he's not progressing as quickly and Tyler Glasna
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Speaker 2: they're both gonna get checked out again. I know you
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Speaker 2: guys are shrugging, like what happened.
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Speaker 1: I'm just thinking that, like he's you know, I.
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Speaker 4: Just want to see how this plays out because I can.
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Speaker 1: I can throw a bullpen and go up and down
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Speaker 1: and not those sliders and be like, oh, I'm.
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Speaker 3: Ready to pitch.
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Speaker 1: But until I have to get out there, it's a
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Speaker 1: different animal. So I just I'm glad he's going in
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Speaker 1: the right direction. I just want to see where he
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Speaker 1: ends up.
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Speaker 2: He's gonna end up prats July. I don't know, twenty fifth,
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Speaker 2: maybe back on the mound. So we're still our funds
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Speaker 2: two months away, but at least the progress has been good.
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Speaker 2: They're slow playing the crap out of this as they should.
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Speaker 2: You haven't heard bad news.
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Speaker 3: Right, you haven't heard that his velocities all the way
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Speaker 3: up yet, Like there's some monster steps. They're just going
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Speaker 3: in a progression here, like if you're in spring training,
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Speaker 3: you're first or second bullpen as a starter, you're doing updowns.
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Speaker 3: You know, the first one's probably twenty five to thirty pitches,
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Speaker 3: depending on where you progressed, and then you're sitting there
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Speaker 3: going up down. So he's far away. I just hope
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Speaker 3: the news from this weekend doesn't make fans think, oh,
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Speaker 3: now we got to rush them, because the Dodgers will
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Speaker 3: not rush him. And it's okay because they're they're blazing
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Speaker 3: a new trail. Nobody's ever done this. Nobody's ever rehabbed
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Speaker 3: while playing every day and then gotten back out on
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Speaker 3: a big league mound.
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Speaker 2: Their game up on the Padres, Diamondbacks played him tough. Obviously.
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Speaker 2: It was good Sunday win for the Dodgers, eight to one,
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Speaker 2: No tany. Betts and Freeman A combined nine for fourteen
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Speaker 2: with a couple homers. They showed up. But I mentioned
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Speaker 2: I mean they're missing two guys who project as number ones.
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Speaker 2: Both have a very checkered injury past. Mang gonsoliner back,
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Speaker 2: Yamamoto shining rookie Sazaki has been wobbly, but he's a rookie.
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Speaker 2: He's getting acclimated.
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Speaker 3: It'll be fun.
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Speaker 2: Word about you or not right?
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Speaker 3: Word about the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: Do you think they need to win the division or
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Speaker 2: you don't care?
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Speaker 3: They would like to because it would help their pitching.
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Speaker 2: They want to, Yeah, they want obviously they want to.
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Speaker 2: If they end up a wild card team.
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Speaker 5: Nobody's gonna want to play, sure, but it puts you
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Speaker 5: in a weird spot.
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Speaker 2: Now we're playing that game. Last year Rodgers and Yankees
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Speaker 2: were by teams and they made it through. So the
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Speaker 2: trends are thrown in the garbage.
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Speaker 3: Now everyone played me had too much time off.
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Speaker 2: I know. Did you guys catch any of that series? Though?
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Speaker 2: It was pretty fun. I mean every game was like
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Speaker 2: a very different flavor.
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Speaker 3: Mimicking Guriel's homer, which was awesome, awesome, it was awesome.
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Speaker 3: He's like, oh, yeah, Guryel, you want to do that.
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Speaker 3: I do this much better.
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Speaker 2: I didn't think he had that in him.
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Speaker 3: I didn't either, but it was awesome. Thank you, thank you,
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Speaker 3: thank you. I love so it shows what they're it
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Speaker 3: shows what they're talking about on the bench, and with
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Speaker 3: division rivals, you can always see this little bit of
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Speaker 3: angst that comes out, like that guy might be a
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Speaker 3: good player, but you know this about him burns. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: Like it wasn't a game winning.
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Speaker 2: Hit.
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Speaker 3: It was a big homer and show Hey didn't just
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Speaker 3: come up with this on his own. In my opinion,
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Speaker 3: dudes on the bench were talking about and we had
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Speaker 3: to ask Max about it. But it is I mean perfect,
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Speaker 3: mimicking perfect all the way from the arms up to
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Speaker 3: when he came around third he did the exact same
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Speaker 3: high five with the third base coach. Like that's that's
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Speaker 3: clutch trolling.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, leave it to show Hey to completely nail the
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Speaker 2: home run, the battle, make the home run trot, the
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Speaker 2: whole deal. I mean, it was the difference, right. That
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Speaker 2: was a three run homer in the ninth. They end
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Speaker 2: up winning fourteen to eleven in that game. Twenty five
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Speaker 2: total runs, twenty five hits in that game. That was
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Speaker 2: the game. That was the game where you're like, oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, this feels like a playoff game with bad pitching,
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Speaker 2: Merryfield right now on foul Territory. Wait, Haw's life, some guys.
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Speaker 6: Life's great. I hope you guys are doing good.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, which short of have we been selecting here
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Speaker 2: on the golf course lately? Are you getting a lot
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Speaker 2: of time in there? Are you doing a lot of
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Speaker 2: training as well? What's the average day like for wet
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Speaker 2: Meryfield right now?
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Speaker 7: I haven't really adjusted my at least my training schedule
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Speaker 7: a whole lot as far as workouts go. Uh still
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Speaker 7: get in the gym a good bit, you know, just
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Speaker 7: keeping my body, you know, whether I was preparing to
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Speaker 7: play or not to play my my workouts would stay
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Speaker 7: pretty much the same.
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Speaker 6: So that's been consistent.
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Speaker 4: And yeah, do that.
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Speaker 7: Come home, do a nap with my daughter, and uh
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Speaker 7: in the afternoon, you know, well, if it's nice, we'll
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Speaker 7: I'll go hit some balls or go play eighteen holes
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Speaker 7: or you know, go do something with her outside.
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Speaker 6: So it's been great, it's been awesome.
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Speaker 4: Wait first, before we dig into yours, some of the
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Speaker 4: two hats over your this this shoulder, so your left shoulder,
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Speaker 4: we should take those down there awful this year, So
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Speaker 4: let's be fair weather fans. Yes, let's take let's take
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Speaker 4: those down. It's been a rough year for the old cock.
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Speaker 3: So we're gonna We're gonna try go without a job.
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Speaker 7: The more I might get a call about, you know,
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Speaker 7: getting back there to do a little power coaching.
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Speaker 1: Right now, that's funny. But so this is my question
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Speaker 1: I always people ask still ask me this. How long
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Speaker 1: do you think if a team called you today, how
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Speaker 1: long would it take you to be ready.
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Speaker 3: To play in a big league game?
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Speaker 6: Three weeks?
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Speaker 3: Wow?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think I think a week to get used
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Speaker 7: to cleats, another week to kind of another two weeks
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Speaker 7: really to get kind of my arm going, and I
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Speaker 7: think I don't know twenty at bats and and i'd
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Speaker 7: be I'd beware.
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Speaker 6: I've always said I think spring spring training is too long.
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Speaker 6: I think.
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Speaker 7: After you take some VP and and see some see
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Speaker 7: some pitching, once you see like the length of it,
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Speaker 7: I think is is more.
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Speaker 6: Of seeing different type of pitchers.
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Speaker 7: So you see like lefty right good change up, you
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Speaker 7: see a right sinker, you see a sweeper, you know
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Speaker 7: a split or two right on right change up. Like
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Speaker 7: the length of it is, in my opinion, you want
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Speaker 7: to see all of those pitches.
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Speaker 6: But in a.
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Speaker 7: Condensed situation, I think if you just run the the
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Speaker 7: different guys out there every day, you throw a different
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Speaker 7: picture out there, I think it wouldn't take any time
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Speaker 7: to get ready.
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Speaker 3: Okay, so you're saying it needs to be shorter. Do
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Speaker 3: you think that runway is available in Triple A? Like,
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Speaker 3: do you think like to be able to see all
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Speaker 3: that stuff? And also the second part of that question
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Speaker 3: would be a team calls you and says, well, we're
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Speaker 3: not gonna give you a big league deal. We just
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Speaker 3: want you to go rehab or get going in Triple A,
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Speaker 3: then we'll give you a big league deal. Do you
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Speaker 3: feel like you can trust big league teams in that sense.
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Speaker 6: I would say no to that. Yeah, I would say
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Speaker 6: I would say no to.
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Speaker 7: That, but I mean I would I would say the
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Speaker 7: first two weeks would kind of be the build up
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Speaker 7: for what I was talking about, and then maybe, you know,
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Speaker 7: like the one of the six game uh series that
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Speaker 7: they play now in the minor leagues. I think in
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Speaker 7: my from from my perspective.
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Speaker 6: That would be the window that I would need to
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Speaker 6: be ready.
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Speaker 7: Teams would probably feel different, and but yeah, if you're
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Speaker 7: asking me, that's what I would.
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Speaker 3: Need, all right. I see a pink bat in the background.
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Speaker 3: Maybe it's not pink, maybe it's just faded red. You
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Speaker 3: have a little and yesterday was obviously Mother's Day, So
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Speaker 3: first of baseball question, then an actual Mother's Day question.
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Speaker 3: If you got well for you, it would have to
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Speaker 3: be a big game. It would have to be four
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Speaker 3: for four. You get two hits all the time. Anyway,
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Speaker 3: you go four for four with the pink bat. Did
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Speaker 3: you ever petition to use the pink bat again the
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Speaker 3: next day because you raked with it? And did you
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Speaker 3: get to celebrate anything the fact that you were home
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Speaker 3: on Mother's Day and not trying to play a day
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Speaker 3: game somewhere.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. No, I tell people it's been nice chasing around
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Speaker 7: a little two year old, not chasing sliders in the dirt,
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Speaker 7: So that's been a little bit, a little bit better transition.
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Speaker 7: But no, I mean I never present Petition because we
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Speaker 7: always got those fancy bats and I never was had
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Speaker 7: a good day with him. So I used him because
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Speaker 7: I felt like I'd be letting my mom down if
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Speaker 7: I didn't use the pink bat. But I never seemed
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Speaker 7: to have success with it, so no, I didn't Petition
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Speaker 7: to continue.
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Speaker 6: To use it.
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Speaker 7: I needed to get back to see the old black
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Speaker 7: and brown bat.
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Speaker 3: Well, I mean Yelly had the same issue. Christian Yelich
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Speaker 3: had the same issue. He never hit well with him,
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Speaker 3: and he's been he was in a little bit of
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Speaker 3: a funk, and yesterday he went dinger base hit up
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Speaker 3: the middle. He went up with dinger base up the
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Speaker 3: middle in Tampa and he used it. So did you
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Speaker 3: ever get to the point where you were like, mom, sorry,
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Speaker 3: like I need to I need to stay hot, I'm
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Speaker 3: not using it, or did you never? Did you never
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Speaker 3: go that far?
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Speaker 7: I probably should have, but I tried to. I tried
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Speaker 7: to pretend like I wasn't that superstitious, so but I
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Speaker 7: really was and just tried to fight fight it, when
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Speaker 7: really I should have just gone with it and said, Mom, listen,
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Speaker 7: I love you, but I'm not going to use the
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Speaker 7: pink bat today. But uh yeah, I just I don't know.
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Speaker 7: For whatever reason, I never had success with any of
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Speaker 7: the fancy bats.
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Speaker 1: That's okay, there's only one day a year. I mean,
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Speaker 1: come on, you can do it for your mom. You
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Speaker 1: can take over four from mom.
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Speaker 6: So exactly that.
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Speaker 1: I don't remember doing anything great either with one, but
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Speaker 1: I still did it because we all love our mother
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Speaker 1: and their mother make them happy.
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Speaker 3: So it's a big deal. All right.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to some big topic stuff, the strike zone stuff,
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Speaker 1: the strike zone shrinkage.
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Speaker 3: Are you down with this? Are you down with the shrinkage?
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Speaker 1: And you think that it's a good thing that they
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Speaker 1: didn't tell anybody that it went from two inches to
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Speaker 1: three quarters of an inch?
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Speaker 7: Yeah, the no communication there was what was interesting. I
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Speaker 7: didn't I didn't know that was that nobody knew about it.
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Speaker 7: So that's that's a pretty big red flag in my opinion.
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Speaker 7: I think I think the buffer zone itself was a
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Speaker 7: little bit it was going to create problems, you know,
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Speaker 7: because you have you have players now that are getting
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Speaker 7: these swing grades and they're getting graded on whether or
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Speaker 7: not they're swinging to good pitches or not. So that
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Speaker 7: doesn't quite add up to the buffer zone that umpires raving.
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Speaker 6: So yeah, I think the bumper zone needed to get shrunk.
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Speaker 6: So I do think that's a good thing. But not
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Speaker 6: telling anybody that you're doing it is quite the quite
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Speaker 6: the strategy.
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Speaker 3: Is there a way that they can curtail this, because
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Speaker 3: you've been on the committees, is there a way that
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Speaker 3: players can be like, hey, we need more transparency or
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Speaker 3: do you feel like guys have done all they can
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Speaker 3: do and it's really just Major League Baseball saying.
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Speaker 7: I mean that's been a that's been a pretty constant harp,
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Speaker 7: is hey, like, let's just be transparent, Let's let's tell
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Speaker 7: us what's going on.
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Speaker 6: Let's just tell the players what you're planning to.
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Speaker 7: Do, because you're gonna have you know, he's got control anyway,
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Speaker 7: he can do what he wants to do, and just
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Speaker 7: tell us what you're gonna do. So I was, yeah,
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Speaker 7: I was obviously wasn't in the locker rooms.
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Speaker 1: This spring and.
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Speaker 7: Whatever to be a part of those conversations when they
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Speaker 7: came about. But I was shocked to hear that what
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Speaker 7: I didn't know, the buffers on't shrank. So when I
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Speaker 7: heard that, I was like, okay, oh good thing. And
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Speaker 7: then I heard that nobody knew that is shrunk and
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Speaker 7: I was like, Okay, that's bold strategy, especially when you're
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Speaker 7: trying to gain back some some good graces.
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Speaker 6: With the players.
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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about switching positions or learning new
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Speaker 3: positions kind of on the fly with raffidevers, kind of
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Speaker 3: refusing to play, not kind of refusing to play first base?
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Speaker 3: How one? How hard is that? Because you had to
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Speaker 3: do it and that was an extreme value that you have.
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Speaker 6: Two?
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Speaker 3: Is that fair for an organization to ask a superstar,
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Speaker 3: not just an all star like you, a superstar to
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Speaker 3: change positions and learn it on the fly so that
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Speaker 3: the team can win.
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Speaker 7: I think there's a lot to what's going on over there.
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Speaker 7: There's a lot of layers to it. I think in
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Speaker 7: a special circumstance on with a with a special team,
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Speaker 7: I think that the team has well, the team always
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Speaker 7: has the right to do that. But I think I
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Speaker 7: think because of what happened to Tristan. I think it's
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Speaker 7: it's kind of it's from a player's perspective, it's fair
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Speaker 7: game that they ask Raffi to, Hey, let's let's let's
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Speaker 7: try to work on first base. The other layer to
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Speaker 7: it for me is that Rafi has been paid. You know,
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Speaker 7: they they paid him. They he's gonna make his money
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Speaker 7: now no matter what. So if he goes over there
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Speaker 7: and for the rest of this year, even next year,
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Speaker 7: if he you know, they ask him to play first
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Speaker 7: base next year, if he's got some bad defensive numbers,
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Speaker 7: it doesn't really matter, you know, from a from a
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Speaker 7: salary standpoint, because he's already been paid. Now, if this
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Speaker 7: is a guy who's going through arbitration or coming up
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Speaker 7: off free agency and you're asking him to change positions
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Speaker 7: in the middle of the season to something he hasn't done,
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Speaker 7: and it's going to hurt him from a defensive standpoint,
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Speaker 7: and then that's gonna be used against him when he's
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Speaker 7: trying to negotiate a contract that's messed up. And that's
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Speaker 7: that's when I would say that team is really hurting
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Speaker 7: this kid by doing this. But with the Rocky situation,
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Speaker 7: you know, I get that he's not comfortable over there
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Speaker 7: and doesn't want to go and try to do it
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Speaker 7: in the middle of the season and you know, embarrass
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Speaker 7: himself with certain plays and maybe be at a position
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Speaker 7: here and there, and you know, get criticized for that,
17:33
Speaker 7: but you know, when you make the money he's making,
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Speaker 7: it just kind of it kind of.
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Speaker 6: Comes with that territory.
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Speaker 7: So yeah, that's that's kind of my thought on what's
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Speaker 7: going on over there in Boston.
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Speaker 4: Stay stay in the Al East or a team you
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Speaker 4: played for. And you know very.
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Speaker 1: Well the Blue Jays when they change defenses didn't make
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Speaker 1: that big of a difference because Vladie and Bo they
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Speaker 1: can't hit a home run. I mean Bo has won,
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Speaker 1: Blattie doesn't have him any more, right they signed to
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Speaker 1: the huge deal. Is do you think Bo is next?
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Speaker 1: And again, where has all the power gone for the
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays? They used to used to just flick balls
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Speaker 1: out of the sky.
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Speaker 7: Though, Yeah, I'm not sure what happened over there, but
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Speaker 7: it was it was noticeably different the way the ball
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Speaker 7: carried when they when they did the renovations. You know,
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Speaker 7: it's got kind of on the right up against the lines,
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Speaker 7: got kind of the cutouts that are the kind of
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Speaker 7: a big fence but shorter, and you can still you
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Speaker 7: can still miss a ball and get it out there.
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Speaker 7: But once you get to the gaps in center field,
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Speaker 7: I mean, it's it's a poke. You got to really
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Speaker 7: poke it to get out. And it used to not
18:38
Speaker 7: be that way there. So you would think because it's
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Speaker 7: a dome, that it wouldn't make you could really change
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Speaker 7: the way the ball carried and and maybe it's just
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Speaker 7: maybe it's just in our heads, but it's sure. It
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Speaker 7: sure was different after their renovation, to feel the ball
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Speaker 7: carried to the gaps in the center field. So that's
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Speaker 7: probably a little bit of it. You know, at this point,
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Speaker 7: there's probably some some pressing going on, you know with
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Speaker 7: those guys knowing that they haven't hit that many home runs,
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Speaker 7: and then you try to.
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Speaker 6: Hit home runs and then you don't hit home runs.
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Speaker 7: So Bow just got to keep doing his thing and
19:15
Speaker 7: keep being Bow, and he'll get hot and he'll pop
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Speaker 7: five home runs, you know, before you know it, and
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Speaker 7: in a week and then he'll kind of get back
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Speaker 7: on track. And same with Laddie Ladiel. Turn the video
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Speaker 7: game on and just start hitting everything over the fence.
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Speaker 7: But yeah, it's Bo's in a different position because he's
19:36
Speaker 7: doesn't have that contract yet.
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Speaker 6: But but yeah, it's weird.
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Speaker 3: I don't know.
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Speaker 6: I don't know what happened. I don't know if there's
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Speaker 6: a reason for it. But the ball is definitely not
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Speaker 6: carrying like it used to in a Rogers center.
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Speaker 3: This guy them, it will always be this guy them.
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Speaker 3: We can't call it ro you know, it's always this guy.
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Speaker 3: All right?
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Speaker 1: Before me, let you go, I got, I got, I
19:52
Speaker 1: got one question for you. I want you to rank
19:53
Speaker 1: these four jobs and either the most likely to happen
19:57
Speaker 1: for you or which one you would want to do
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Speaker 1: the most Major League player, Golf Pro Players Association something
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Speaker 1: or other. Yeah, or South Carolina's head coach.
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Speaker 7: Let's go from the bottom of the top least player
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Speaker 7: association whatever until they fixed the n I L transfer situation. Uh,
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Speaker 7: And that's that's that's the next.
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Speaker 6: And then then it's then it's a hard one. Yeah,
20:34
Speaker 6: it's a hard one.
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Speaker 3: It's hard. It's hard.
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Speaker 7: But no, I mean, I would say right now because
20:42
Speaker 7: I still I still feel like I can do it.
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Speaker 7: Baseball or golf pro would be second, and then top
20:49
Speaker 7: of the list be a baseball player.
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Speaker 1: So Paul Minary ecology right now and said, wait, I
20:53
Speaker 1: need you to come help my staff out because we stink.
20:57
Speaker 1: You wouldn't jump on there because he's older, he's an
20:59
Speaker 1: older fellow up you know in three years he's like, wait,
21:02
Speaker 1: you could just slide right in and take over.
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Speaker 3: You would say no to that.
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Speaker 7: I just I hate the way the college game is
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Speaker 7: set up right now in all sports, with the nil
21:12
Speaker 7: and the transfer portal, and frankly watching some college games,
21:18
Speaker 7: the way the game is played down there is it's
21:20
Speaker 7: it's hard to watch. And so maybe in that sense
21:23
Speaker 7: I could go down there and feel like I could
21:24
Speaker 7: help help to get help change the way the game's
21:29
Speaker 7: played at the college level. But but no, I had
21:33
Speaker 7: no interest in recruiting the kid who all he wants
21:36
Speaker 7: to do is make as much money as he can
21:38
Speaker 7: and then have to recruit him again every year because
21:42
Speaker 7: there's a risk that he transfers. So that's it's a bad,
21:46
Speaker 7: bad set up right now in the NCAA. And hope
21:48
Speaker 7: hopefully it gets it gets fixed, But I don't know
21:50
Speaker 7: how they're going to do it.
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Speaker 2: Make them sign contracts.
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Speaker 3: There you go, that's a big breath.
21:57
Speaker 1: Or make them incentive. Make I always said make an
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Speaker 1: incentive base. Why are you paying a guy who's never
22:02
Speaker 1: played a down four million dollars. He's never played one
22:04
Speaker 1: down in college football. The guy from Michigan that they
22:07
Speaker 1: pay ten million, he's a high school kid. There's ten million. Yeah,
22:11
Speaker 1: he hasn't done anything.
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Speaker 3: He could leave be like, yep, here's my things. Ten
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Speaker 3: million out.
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Speaker 2: People always had to recruit. They didn't have to do
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Speaker 2: what Wit said on the back end of his answer,
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Speaker 2: which is then convince him every single year to have
22:22
Speaker 2: to stay. If they sign a contract because they're pros
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Speaker 2: at this point, like pros do, then it would be different.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, but to talk to college coaches, they have to
22:30
Speaker 1: recruit high school It's better now they change the rules.
22:32
Speaker 1: So they used to have to recruit middle schoolers. Yeah,
22:35
Speaker 1: high schoolers juco other colleges. And the worst part was
22:40
Speaker 1: they had to recruit their own team back every year.
22:42
Speaker 1: You have to say, all right, well, if you listen
22:44
Speaker 1: to college football coaches now they do their press conference
22:46
Speaker 1: at the end of spring and they say, well, we
22:48
Speaker 1: have ninety players on the roster. We've made contracts with
22:51
Speaker 1: eighty seven of them, deals for them to come back,
22:53
Speaker 1: but there's three we don't know about and they leave.
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Speaker 3: Those three leave, You're like, what are we talking about?
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Speaker 4: Agreed?
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Speaker 3: It would be tough, a.
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Speaker 6: Whole different podcast.
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Speaker 3: It is, it is.
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Speaker 2: That's an hour right there. We do have our Baseball
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Speaker 2: America show later on. Maybe we can get into it there,
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Speaker 2: but wait, thanks for the time, man. Good to see.
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Speaker 6: It, no doubt. Good to see you guys.
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Speaker 3: Come on down to Florida. Win. I'm always happy to
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Speaker 3: get in your pocket.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I love to Yeah, watch out well.
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Speaker 3: Get a love stroke, love stroke.
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Speaker 6: Later went alright, see you guys. I