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Cubs' Pete Crow-Armstrong for MVP, Ohtani's Dodgers STRUGGLING, Bryce Harper DRAMA · Ross and Rizzo Unfiltered

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  Speaker 2: Welcome everybody, and thank you for tuning in too, our
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  Speaker 2: first episode of Austin Rizzo and Filtered. I'm Anthony Rizzo
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  Speaker 2: alongside my patna, David Ross, two time World Series Champion,
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  Speaker 2: one with the Red Sox, one with the Cubbies in
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  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. We just did our Lovably Reunion podcast where
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  Speaker 2: we told all the stories of our ten year reunion,
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  Speaker 2: and now we are getting into Rossi and I talking
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  Speaker 2: the current game of baseball. We played together for two years.
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  Speaker 2: Rossi was my manager for a year and a half
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  Speaker 2: until he traded me, so he has the perspective of
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  Speaker 2: managerial experience. I have the wanna be a manager slash
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  Speaker 3: Debating about a lot of topics.
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  Speaker 2: We're gonna be able to dissect a lot of topics
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  Speaker 2: from what the managerial hat on and the players had
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully take you viewers inside the clubhouse and what
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  Speaker 2: guys are thinking and tune into all the races. Rossie,
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  Speaker 2: I am absolutely pumped for this. We've been talking about
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  Speaker 2: it for a long time and the Louble Reunion podcast
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  Speaker 2: was amazing, but I'm so excited to be talking to
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  Speaker 4: It's gonna be great. Bro.
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  Speaker 1: I love working with you and get to see your
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: You've got we both got so much baseball experience to
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  Speaker 1: That's that's done a lot for our lives and do
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  Speaker 1: that with a friend that it's nice to work with.
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  Speaker 1: The Levable Reunion was amazing, but this, I think is
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  Speaker 1: going to take it to the next level.
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  Speaker 4: I'm super excited to work with your buddies. This has
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  Speaker 4: been fun.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, I remember when we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about doing the ten year Reunion podcast or show.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, oh, well, let's just do it. See
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  Speaker 3: how we like it.
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  Speaker 2: It'll be therapeutic if anything, and it was turned out
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  Speaker 2: being everything more than anything we could have imagine.
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  Speaker 3: We loved it. I always love talking to Rossie and I.
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  Speaker 2: Throughout my career and even post playing, we always talked
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  Speaker 2: the game of baseball. We've Rossi has such an amazing
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  Speaker 2: light of the game. I think being a catcher and
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  Speaker 2: all the experience he went through being an everyday catcher's
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  Speaker 2: times in a backup catcher, he was able to see
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  Speaker 2: the game in a different lens and he shared that
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  Speaker 2: knowledge with me and taught me so many things. So
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  Speaker 2: all these topics that we're gonna get brought up throughout
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  Speaker 2: you know, this playoff stretch. We're in the dog days
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  Speaker 2: of summer right now. We will get into that later
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  Speaker 2: in the show, but we will be able to break
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  Speaker 2: down and hopefully give you fans and viewers perspective that
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  Speaker 2: maybe you didn't know Rossie. I was on Twitter or
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  Speaker 2: x as we call it the kids call it nowadays,
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  Speaker 2: and there's a twenty years ago nostalgia video going around
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  Speaker 2: of you hitting a walk off home run. We should
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  Speaker 2: get the viewers familiar that you played for the Cincinnati
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  Speaker 2: Reds two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty years already.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the young bug, no beard, a god hair,
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  Speaker 1: Jason Isringhausen, Kristin Norfia, our teammate. Oh my goodness, this
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  Speaker 1: was a h That was a back when I was
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  Speaker 1: like standing straight out. At least call me the wooden
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  Speaker 1: Indian on my teammates give me a hard time. I
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  Speaker 1: just stiff.
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  Speaker 4: Oh I had hair growing it back now, Donner?
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  Speaker 1: Who else we got in there, Royce, Clayton and Carnacion.
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  Speaker 3: We got all kind of guys. Is that that Great
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  Speaker 3: American Ballpark was rocket Huh?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, well I think they had. I think they had
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  Speaker 4: like dollar hot dog night that night because we were
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  Speaker 4: chasing the.
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  Speaker 1: Cards, so it sold out in like two seconds because
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  Speaker 1: they were giving away cheap hot dogs.
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  Speaker 4: But that was an amazing Now.
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  Speaker 1: I think we were like three or four back from
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  Speaker 1: the Cardinals in the in the division race, and we
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  Speaker 1: had a really good team. And that was my first
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  Speaker 1: walk off i'd ever hit. And I hit it, and
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  Speaker 1: Jimmy Edmons was going back and I'm like, you've seen
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  Speaker 1: his highlights so many times of him robin home runs
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  Speaker 1: are climbing the wall, but it just disappeared and never
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  Speaker 1: came down. I crushed it, and it's one of those
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  Speaker 1: I didn't feel really how good I hit it, And
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  Speaker 1: that was a good feeling.
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  Speaker 4: That was a nice one.
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  Speaker 2: And that was two thousand and six. I believe you
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  Speaker 2: hit twenty pumps that year, twenty plus right, twenty.
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  Speaker 4: One, twenty one. Nice year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that year I believe is the reason that started
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  Speaker 2: your two year deal span because everyone know he can
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  Speaker 2: get back to.
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  Speaker 4: That twenty over form right for sure, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And my I remember my agent Ryan said, said I
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  Speaker 1: had nineteen going into the last road trip. We were
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  Speaker 1: going Florida, and I think we finished in New York
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  Speaker 1: playing the Mets that year and I went to I
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  Speaker 1: kept kept going nineteen's, not twenty nineteens, not twenty.
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  Speaker 4: My first atration year it's not right. It's not twenty.
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  Speaker 3: So I hit in two ninety nine is not three hundred.
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  Speaker 1: I hit two off Dontrell Willis in in two upper
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  Speaker 1: deckers in and o'marlin Stadium. Some of the first balls
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  Speaker 1: off hit to get me twenty and twenty one. So
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  Speaker 1: I was pumped when when I got twenty.
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  Speaker 4: That was nice.
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  Speaker 3: That's legit.
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  Speaker 4: That's all half for you though, that's all half for you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: twenty year.
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  Speaker 2: I was a junior in high school in two thousand
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  Speaker 2: and six, so now we're doing a podcast twenty years later.
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  Speaker 1: Look at us, look at look at us, look at
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  Speaker 1: me hanging around the game.
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  Speaker 2: our show or somewhere in our show, well we'll go
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  Speaker 3: So I look forward to that. I always like doing
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  Speaker 3: question and answers with fans. So that's what we pumped.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, I think we need to call that in honor
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  Speaker 1: of Bussy, we need to call that the ball bag.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we got a baseball podcast idea.
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  Speaker 2: Our former straight coach explain that spring training every year,
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  Speaker 2: which means every day in spring training and it rolled
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  Speaker 2: into the season. He would kind of find someone who
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  Speaker 2: something that was just what are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: What are we doing here?
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  Speaker 4: About a guy parking then the wrong like a veteran
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  Speaker 3: He would always keeping it lighthearted.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was fun. I was fun. Sen
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  Speaker 4: questions say, instead of the mail bag, we got the
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  Speaker 4: ball bag.
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  Speaker 2: All right, So let's get into a few of the
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  Speaker 2: major headlines in Major League Baseball right now. For me,
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  Speaker 2: the biggest one is the two best teams in baseball
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  Speaker 2: are some of the lowest payroll teams. I know, the
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  Speaker 2: upcoming CBA agreement is a hot topic in sports, all
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  Speaker 2: of sports, not only just baseball, but the ninety million
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  Speaker 2: dollar payroll. Tampa Bay Rays are by far the best
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  Speaker 2: team in the American League right now, and the one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and forty three million dollar Milwaukee Brewers are running
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  Speaker 2: away with the National League. So it's crazy to see,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the Dodgers have a four hundred plus million
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  Speaker 2: dollar payroll. I feel like all of baseball, the sports
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  Speaker 2: world wants the Brewers are raised to save baseball right
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  Speaker 2: with their low payrolls. But it's been impressive what they've
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  Speaker 2: been doing. And it's going to be a fun stretch
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  Speaker 2: to see these teams continue to fight and to continue
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  Speaker 2: to see if they're going to stay the best at
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  Speaker 2: the end of one sixty two.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it always feels like the Dodgers are slow
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  Speaker 1: playing their players right, like they're able to bring class now,
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  Speaker 1: and you know, some of these guys back snell back
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  Speaker 1: on a slower kind of trajectory when they get injured
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  Speaker 1: and kind of play for that September October time of year.
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  Speaker 1: They are scuffling right now and hit it a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a law here in August.
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  Speaker 4: But I think my.
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  Speaker 3: Perspective, you think they're in trouble, I do.
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  Speaker 4: Wouldn't say in trouble. No. I think they got a
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  Speaker 4: seven out.
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  Speaker 1: They got swept by Arizona, and Arizona's still seven and
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  Speaker 1: a half back, like they've got plenty of plenty of
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  Speaker 1: tie Tani. I think Otani's still going to pitch. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I saw some clips of him throwing yesterday. You know
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  Speaker 1: that knee I think has really affected him in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of ways. But going back to their rays and
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers, it really stands out. I think when you
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  Speaker 1: have your process of how you develop and how you
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  Speaker 1: draft and player development in the minor leagues, and those
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  Speaker 1: guys come up and contributing or or analyzing and finding
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  Speaker 1: the guys that really play your brand of baseball or
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna emphasize, you know, kind of their strengths and
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  Speaker 1: kind of everybody tries to fix guy's weaknesses. And I
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  Speaker 1: feel like Tampa Bay was from the pitching. They just
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  Speaker 1: kind of maximize the strengths of some players and and
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  Speaker 1: kind of let them go out and get better.
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  Speaker 4: Has really worked out for them, and.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers obviously like they just feels like they haven't
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  Speaker 1: hit everybody hits a law at some point in the season.
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  Speaker 1: Doesn't feel like the Brewers have hit one at all.
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  Speaker 1: They've been so consistent and their player development, their young pitching,
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  Speaker 1: the guy is that all around the infield. I don't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of time, but yeah, they continue to
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  Speaker 1: put up a lot of w's.
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  Speaker 3: They just keep doing it. The Brewers just keep doing
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  Speaker 3: it year in and year out.
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  Speaker 2: The race too many they have a down year here,
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  Speaker 2: it's oh, They're going to be automatically good next year.
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  Speaker 2: It really frustrates for me. I feel like playing on
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  Speaker 2: a big market. You see some big market teams starting
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  Speaker 2: to operate saying, hey, why can't we be the Rais
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  Speaker 2: or the Brewers and developed that way? And it just
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  Speaker 2: doesn't work that way in big markets. The big markets
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  Speaker 2: come with the bigger, the light shine brighter. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: not as easy to play there. You do not have
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  Speaker 2: as much time to develop in the big league. So
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  Speaker 2: but I do I do. What I love most about
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  Speaker 2: our game right now is it is so competitively balanced.
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  Speaker 2: Their teams are. This is the best it's been since
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  Speaker 2: I've since my time in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Well, knowing your identity, I think as an organization is
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  Speaker 1: priority number one. How many times have we been you know,
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  Speaker 1: we were together or even you know, and for you know,
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  Speaker 1: you were still playing and I was done. But like Houston,
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  Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, this is how Houston does it, Let's
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  Speaker 1: do it this way. This is how Tampa Bay does it.
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  Speaker 1: List dory to follow.
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  Speaker 2: Every every couple of years, you have this fad of
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  Speaker 2: a new pitch right right now, it's the kick change up,
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  Speaker 2: or it was when it came out. You know, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: it's just such a fad league, And I mean, really,
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  Speaker 2: you you have to keep up with the Joneses. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: you're gonna get left in the dust. But another major
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  Speaker 2: headline is schoogl Trek scuober getting trades of the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: making his Dodger Stadium debut, the loss of the Cubbies
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  Speaker 2: and their first one. The Cubbies are one of the
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  Speaker 2: hottest teams in baseball right now, but Schooble making his
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  Speaker 2: Dodger Stadium debut gives up three. Probably not to his standards,
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  Speaker 2: because it's a home run to Jack Caglione, which he's having.
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  Speaker 2: He's having a monster year, a cagey. I love his game,
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  Speaker 2: but I think that the Dodgers right now. They are
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  Speaker 2: so good that they're losing what they lose eight out
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  Speaker 2: of ten, and and if I feel like inside that clubhouse,
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  Speaker 2: they're just like, yeah, that's cute. Everyone thinks we're we're
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  Speaker 2: falling off, and they, like you said, they're just getting
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  Speaker 2: guys healthy. They're not playing, they're not pitching Otani because
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  Speaker 2: they just want to get him healthy for the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: So it's the Dodgers, man, they are just they're gonna
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  Speaker 2: be hard to beat.
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  Speaker 3: They are gonna be hard to be in October.
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  Speaker 1: And they're so deep, right like Will Smith's out, Dalton
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  Speaker 1: Rushing is out, you know, he you know, the meniscus thing,
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  Speaker 1: you know, two of their main catchers out and working
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  Speaker 1: some guys back.
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  Speaker 4: But I think they're gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: They're they're so deep, you know, they're just offensively scuffling
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  Speaker 1: a little bit right now, and school was gonna be fine.
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  Speaker 1: I watched a little bit of his start last night.
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  Speaker 1: Look like he's just a little bit. He's probably amped up.
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  Speaker 1: First time in Dodger Stadium, jumpy. The fastball is a
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  Speaker 1: little ratic for him. But he'll settle in and and
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna be they're gonna be right when they're supposed
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  Speaker 1: to become into September October, and then it's about who's hot,
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  Speaker 1: as we know, like who's rolling into the postseason with
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of momentum and pitchers, you know, hit
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  Speaker 1: the offense kind of clicking on all cylinders, and a
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff doing their job.
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  Speaker 2: The beautiful part for school is he's coming in there
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  Speaker 2: and it's not like he's coming in there to be
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  Speaker 2: their savior. He's now just another superstar amongst their entire
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  Speaker 2: superstar rosters. So he has even if he gets off
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  Speaker 2: if you're a Dodgers fan and Scoobol does get off
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  Speaker 2: to a rough start his first few addings, as he's
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  Speaker 2: getting comfortable with his new staff, his new teammates, a
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  Speaker 2: new league. You have all the time in the world
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  Speaker 2: with him. Obviously they want to get that first round
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  Speaker 2: by and get that locked up. But if not, they
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  Speaker 2: have the pitching, they have the depth. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's August eleventh, it's the dog days of summer on
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  Speaker 2: a team that has won back to back World Series titles.
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  Speaker 2: They are going through the motions. I would say, if
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  Speaker 2: you ask them, I would imagine inside of the clubhouts.
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  Speaker 2: They're they're not they're they're grinding every day, they're working
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  Speaker 2: as hard as they can.
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  Speaker 3: But once once in a few weeks, once they could
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  Speaker 3: see the light at the end of the tunnel.
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  Speaker 2: I think this Dodgers team will be clicking on also,
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  Speaker 2: and there's like we've seen the last few year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and then last comment for me on the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: is it when you're going bad, every team goes through
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  Speaker 1: a stretch where it's just not going well. Like in
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  Speaker 1: that Arizona series, Otani, Freeman and Bets were three for
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  Speaker 1: thirty three and they got swept by the Dodgers, right
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  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz blew two saves, Like some of these things
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  Speaker 1: aren't gonna happen. Those guys are gonna, they're gonna. You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna go through ups and downs. But when it's going bad,
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  Speaker 1: it's going bad as every team and you can't explain it.
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  Speaker 1: Like look at the Coves who are so hot now
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  Speaker 1: and they lost you know, two ten game losing streaks
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  Speaker 1: out of the season. So everybody kind of goes through
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  Speaker 1: the ups and downs, which is so impressive about you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Milwaukee Brewers, as we were talking just how consistent.
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  Speaker 2: They've been well, I think too. When everyone plays the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 2: you go Dodger Stadium, where the Dodgers come to you,
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  Speaker 2: that's your that circle on the calendar. All the pitchers
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  Speaker 2: are throwing their hardest stuff. Everyone's hyped up, the adrenalins
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  Speaker 2: higher for the opposing team. And when you're on the
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  Speaker 2: big market team like the Dodgers, when I was on
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees of the Cubs, it was you knew you
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  Speaker 2: were getting their best stuff every day. So when you
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  Speaker 2: go through the skin it it gets magnified a little more,
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  Speaker 2: but it's it's all.
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  Speaker 4: Part of the grind, no doubt, no doubt, no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: How about let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 4: We got Yeah, let's talk about the Cubbies a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: And there you go, bro talking about Otani. Wow, I mean,
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  Speaker 4: what a what A done?
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  Speaker 3: That is going to be?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, and obviously I may be a little
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  Speaker 2: biased in Chicago here, but I feel like what PCA
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  Speaker 2: is doing, man, is just the growth he's made this
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  Speaker 2: year has been insane. He's it Honestly, it's really not
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  Speaker 2: about me, and I don't want to talk about me,
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: but here we go. What he's doing the adjustments he's
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: made against lefties this season has been tenfold. He's walking more.
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: I believe it's helping him face right hand and pitching
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: as well. I mean, he's made real adjustments. His walk
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: rate is through the roof compared to what it was.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: What was he walking at a three percent clip when
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: you had him as your as your player, as your
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: young rookie ross he so.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he just got a he didn't get He
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: only got like fourteen at bats for me, so he
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: was he would we were, we were all grinded at anytime.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a anytime you could have a anytime you're
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: on base, can be around eighty to one hundred points
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: higher than your average. For me, that's where you start
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: separating the good players to the elite players. And I
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: mean he's what twoity six, three eight and a five
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: forty four slug while playing the best center field in
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: the game.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's gonna.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Be maybe the defender in the game, right, Yeah, Yeah,
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: for sure, I think I think the really you know, obviously,
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: Pete's got to continue to carry that through the season,
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: and I don't see any signs of him not being
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: able to do that.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: The trick is.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: I think Otani separates himself when it comes to pitching.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: He comes back and pitches and is dominant like he
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: was before the knee started popping up and he stopped
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: pitching before the All Star break.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: I think that's going to be the real separator.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: But PCA has had a phenomenal year up to this point,
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: and what's impressive to me is the adjustments he's made,
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: Like you're talking about controlling the strike song, but getting
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: off to a rough start being around those guys in
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: the WBC, I think God a real impact on him,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: and no doubt how those guys were the superstars right
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: and then going in struggling a little bit and making
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: some adjustments and then just like putting the guys on
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: their back. We talk all the time about what successful
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: teams have, and obviously the Cubs have been really successful.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: They had their horses or horses, and PCA has stepped
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: up and turned himself into an MVP candidate along with
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: all the great players they have around him. But he
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: is that horse. I mean, we had Chris Bryant in
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen that won the MVP and was a guy
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: that showed up every single day, and his performance and
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: his versatility and his base running skills.
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: I don't think got enough love.
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: But he was a guy that you two at the
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: top of our order, really performed day in and day out,
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: and that just eats the consistency and the winning and
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: builds the confidence of the group.
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: No doubt.
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, for me, right now, he is the MVP
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: of the National League. I think that what he's done
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: this year. Otani has been banged up, He's not hitting
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: as good as he is, but I know, I know,
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the pitch hitting is just what Otani has been doing
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: is unheard of. But again, in this game, I feel
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: like we just kind of get bored of the superstars,
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: the boring players, and for sure.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: You know Pa now.
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: I mean, for me, what I'm impressed most by is
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: his adjustment off lefties and being around the team a
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: little bit more talking to him, a little bit more,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: talking to John Mayley, their hitting coach, their assistant hitting
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: coach in Chicago, just the adjustments and talking to Pete
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: about hey approach and why he always asked me why
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: I sit so close to the plate, and how to
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: to take pitches and the reason you take pitches.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: So he I was so impressed.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Of him, all the questions that he asked me and
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: all the right questions, and then seeing him in game
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: and being up close seeing him take his approach into
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: the game, and over the last few months watching him
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: continue to just grow confidence in his approach. You literally
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: see him blossoming. You literally, I see the development right
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: in front of my eyes. It's crazy to see.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: He's the most exciting player in the game. For me,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it's like must watch TV when he's on field.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I mean with you, he's yeah, he he
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: and he loves the smoke.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: He loves he wants all of it.
• 19:56
  Speaker 4: He loves.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: The Cubs right now are one of the hottest teams
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: in Baby, I mean Cubs in the National League, Red
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: Sox in the American League. If if you're Cubs fan,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: this week summertimes Chicago Cubs, Cardinals, this weekend, you have
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: the Aaron Water Show this weekend. You have David Ross
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: calling the game on Saturday on ESPN this weekend, and
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: then you have.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Roll right Sunday Sunday, ABC Sunday Sunday ABC Sunday.
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: And then you roll right into the White Sox at
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Wrigley where all the drama coming off you know sm
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I d from Pete to the fans, so that the
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: White Sox are really good. That rivalry is going to
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: be get your popcorn for that. That's going to be
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: must watch. So this is the if you're in Chicago
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: baseball fan, Cubs fan, this is the mecca of the schedule.
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: In my opinion, It's a dog days of summer. It's
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: August falls kind of right around the corner. I know
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: we don't talk about that in Chicago, but enjoy this
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: upcoming week. I know for me, I can't wait to
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: watch that series against the Cardinals and even more excited
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: for next week's series against the White Sox.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: Sure to a goot. Time to be in Chicago, that's
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 21:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you're gonna boat. You're gonna get on a boat
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: this weekend.
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: I got it.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: I got my little ones, got a little volleyball tournament.
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: So I'm getting in late Saturday, Sunday, maybe Sunday after
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: the game late and then I'm back back home being
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: dad on Monday.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: What else we got here?
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Another another?
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: I want to go ahead.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I like Philadelphia Phillies. Yes, Kyle Schureberg, Philadelphia Phillies, Right,
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Bryce Harper, another stud Bryce Harper at the deadline basically
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: said to Dave Dombrowski and the organization, Hey, we need help.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: We think we deserve help, which is controversial in the clubhouse, right, Rossie,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: I mean you managed. Don Mattingly's response was a head
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: scratcher for me being a player. But they go out
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: and get help, they all get Luis their eyes, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: he's really gonna I feel like turn that that lineup
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: and just make it a lot deeper with a lot
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: more room for error.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Throughout that lineup now, but you got to build on
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: your strengths, right, Like. I think the tricky part is
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of moving parts. I think there's like
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: four guys switching position. Credit to Bryce Harper, your highest
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: paid player, your face of the franchise, him and Schwarber
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: being able to win, willing to move positions to accommodate,
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: you know, some of the moving parts, and then what
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: they're picking up. So I think that's a pro move.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: I'm with you on the Mattingly stuff like that whole
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: thing is just kind of handled a little bit weird.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: I think you're when you're in the playoff hunt as
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a player, you're expecting help, you know, I don't think
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: it's any offense to two guys that are there, or
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: you're just thinking like, hey, we can't improve in some areas,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: and that's the front office's job, and they actually should
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: take a lot of pride in that because they don't.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They don't have any impact really in season up to
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: that point, like major impact. So but yeah, I think
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: from a managerial standpoint, Don Scott has got his hands full.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: He's moving. I think Ball moved.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: From third to first, to Rise goes to second, Stott
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: goes to third, and Harper to write. So I mean
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: we've got all kind of moving parts, and you got
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: guys going to probably put in some extra work defensively
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: in August, which is always a little bit tricky. But
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: their identity has been offense this this entire year, pitching
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: an offense, so defense was never a strong suit for
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: them this year. And I think they've got the pieces,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: seem to be off to a good start since a
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: trade deadline.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, all right, Rossie, let's take you back.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: I want you to put your player hat on. It's two,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: all right, fifteen, No, it's twenty sixteen. We have expectations
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: to win the World Series at the trade deadline. I
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: go out in the media and say, we need help.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: What are you saying to me as my veteran on
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that team.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: I just think there's like better ways to phrase that,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Like it'd be great if they added somewhere, but we
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: leave that up to the front office, you know, like
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: that's their job now. Now they're in their season and
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and you know, I think front offices have a lot
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: on their plate when it comes to how many guys
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: are coming or trades or moving pieces, and who are
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: prospects they believe in, who are who they're willing to
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: trade or they're not willing to trade the future. You know,
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: we go into looking back on sixteen and theo Epstein
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: had so much belief in us he gave up Labor
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: Torrez for Erodist Chatman. Yes, if I say that, right, yeah, yeah,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you're you're you're smashing on Ron Dolan and Strophie and
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: all those guys for sure. I think the one thing
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I would say to a veteran player is or to
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: a player like you, is just like, hey, man, like
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: if somebody asked you, I was, I was, like, I
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: believe in every guy in this room, Like we're we're
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: the best team in baseball right now, and if the
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: if the front office feels like they can upgrade in
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: some spot, that's awesome.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I love it. I actually loved it.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: I understood.
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think Bryce was throwing any shade at any
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: individual players on his team, but look, I mean, him
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: and Dombrowski seemed from afar, seemed to have a little
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: bit of a little beef honestly, right seven from last
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: year saying he's not elite anymore, and that got dragged
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: into the media a little bit. And then Bryce wearing
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: the shirt in the off season and just Bryce wants
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: to win, man like his He's done everything, He's won MVP,
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: he's an All Star, he's hit tons of homers, he's
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: made a ton of money. Hit The last thing on
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: his checklist of baseball conscious is winning a World Series, right, So.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: And then on the other end, that on Donnie's part,
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: the way that he answered it, I remember, just sitting
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: there watching, I was scratching my head. I'm like, that's
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: not how you protect your superstar player by any means.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: And I mean, Donnie's son is the GM, so maybe
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: he's protecting the general manager but his response. I mean
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: as a player, if you said that about me or else,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: as my manager, I would be in your office right
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: away saying what the what are you saying?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: Sure, sure, saying yeah, I saw Donnie's comments. It was
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: a little bit. It's a little yeah.
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: I felt the same way as like, wait, that was
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: the That was the worst way to handle that, you know.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like you could say, I like what he
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: said about he's not going to comment on guys, because
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: if he does, some guys gets in their job right.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: You can sensitive that as a big leader.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: But the way he started it with like just calling
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: out Bryce saying, oh well, Bryce seems to be into it.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Every player is a GM come the trade deadline, every
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: single one of them. Hey, even on other teams off,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: imagine if this team gets that right, you're just you
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: talk about it. You know what's coming. It's not we're
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: not naive to it.
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: But sure, well, and if you the thing about managing
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: is you've got two sides. You've got your player side
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: that you here all the time, and then in your
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: office there's like front office, and they may be bitching
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: about something or something that's not going right in trade talks,
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: or whatever, so like he could have just gotten out
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: of that meeting or trying to stand up for those
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: guys knowing they're working hard and not working out and
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: not being able to make the moves they want to make,
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: or you know, but I'm with you the wording that
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: he used and how he could have went straight into
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: like you know, every play everybody plays GM right now,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: and every every player wants the best guy on the market.
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: There's not one team out there that didn't want Trek Scuball.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: You know, every team wanted him. But is that realistic
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: and is that a knock on anybody else in the staff. No,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: It's just like, we want the best player possible to
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: help us win a World Series, and that's how we're wired.
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: And I don't know that every front office and every
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: organization is thinking about winning the World Series every single year.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: I think, you know, they kind of hedge their hedge
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: their vets a little bit.
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, honestly, what the Phillies there getting arise
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: is its lengthened their lineup. And then the Cubs too,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: bro like them going and getting Gausman and Clay Holmes
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: and then the dude in the bullpen who throws one
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: hundred and five. I mean, they've really they the Cubs
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: had the best deadline I've seen them.
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: Having a long time.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: I was joking with some friends and I don't know
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: if Cubs fans are gonna like like this, but.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: Did Bruce Levine save the Cub season by sending out
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: his tweet? I mean, j jed jed oh.
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: They mean it was almost uncharacteristic of the moves they made,
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: and I'm so happy as a fan watching it's it's
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: gonna be fun to watch the Cubs down in the stretcher.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Wrigley's rocking.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: They needed pitching, and they went out and got two
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: really good, good starters and some bullpen help.
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: I think.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: I think also like the underlying stuff when you go
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: into that, you know you've got Colin Ray, Javier Sad
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: going to the bullpen, which gives you a lot of
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: depth for those games and might get out of hand
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: or some real link down there from those guys. So
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: it just deepened your whole staff and coming back becoming yeah,
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: carere yeah and uh and closer plenty. Yeah, boy's been locked.
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: Yeah plenty. That's the one they need to bro.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: They have, they have legit.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: Matt Boyd since coming back Matt Boyd since coming back
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: from there, is il Stent has been lights out. He's
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: I feel like he's he's kind of Harry the group.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: And Colin Ray doesn't get enough love for the Cubs
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: because he kept that ship steady when everybody was hurt,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: and he kept posting and kept them in a lot
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: of games. Uh, he's not going to wow you, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: I feel like he's one of the best competitors that have.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: If you asked me four or five weeks ago, even
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: really before the deadline, if the Cubs how a legitimate
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: chance of winning the World Series, I would have said no.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, they're a good team, but they're pitching just
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: wasn't deep enough in my opinion, to win a seven
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: game series at the end of the season. And it's
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: credit to Jed in the front office to going out
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: and identifying their needs and not just getting one guy.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: They injected a new life into that clubhouse. And that
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: feeling of getting dudes traded over, I mean, that's belief.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: That's belief in the offense, that's belief in the defense.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, the defense is the best in the game.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: It's one of the best defenses I think to ever
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: play the game. They are so good and then they
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: go out and get two nasty sinker ball pitchers. Gosman
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: is nasty and he's proven in the playoffs. Clay Holmes
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: is nasty and healthy. I mean, you have boys.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I was around Clay Holmes in WBC and that I
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: mean when he's right, he is filthy. He's a big human.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: You've been around you, you play with him?
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah? I love massive big.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: I thought I thought Judge was big, but he's a big,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: big dude.
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: Mannas gonna love Chicago. I've told him all the time
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: he would love Chicago. So I'm happy for him and
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: his wife that they got traded over there for him
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: to showcase again on another big, big market. He Yankees, Mets,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: now the Cups. He's played in the highest level. He's
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: closed in the highest level situation. So I mean, bro,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: They're then stacked up in a in a seven game series.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: Now they're they're gonna be hard to beat. In my
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Their their offense is so well constructed, their their lineup
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: construction that they just grind man and they win. And
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I don't think anyone on the team is too flashy
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: even PCA with everything he's doing. It's not like he's
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: the flashy player. He's just there are a bunch of grinders. Man.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: I love this team right now?
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. Well enough love for the cubbies.
• 31:38
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• 31:42
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• 31:48
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• 31:53
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• 31:57
  Speaker 1: outstanding players, uh this week and we're kind of highighlighting
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: will you're a bray you for the Boston Red Sox.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Absolute animal. He's been going off all year. He started
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: in WBC for Venezuela and actually has been carrying this
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: Red Sox offense along with a lot of our buddies.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: But he's had a phenomenal week. He plays an amazing
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: right field. Three home home runs this week. Nine RBIs
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: just you know, in that Red Sox deep lineup, he's
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: been a staple at the top and you know, just
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: got to highlight him for our PLIA of the.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: Week, PLI of the Week. I'll tell you what.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: I'm in Nantucket right now, a little vacation and I've
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: had about probably ten to twenty coronas a day if
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: you do the math.
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: There been here for a week.
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: What a special ireland here in Nantucket, Massachusetts talking about
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox are player ply of the week. So
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: but yeah, well he's been amazing man. And his defense
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: is just the city is an absolute cannon. Their defensive
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: alignment in Femway is incredible. He plays shallow right where
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm I'm this This Red Sox team, man,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: they are fun to watch it. Their turnaround is there's
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: just there's no way anyone saw this coming.
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: ROSSI no, no, And we were there, uh doing that
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: that Yankee series, both of us for ESPN and and NBC,
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: and like it felt like they were dead and they
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: got swept. The Yankees got hot and they have been rolling.
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: He has been a big part of it. Wilson Catreres.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: You know they up and down.
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: Well, hey, talking about Braid going.
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: Out and getting adlete Rushman, we're talking about the Red
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Sox having needs. Uh Yankees needed a catcher they got nobody. Uh,
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay upbraided at the catcher position. You know, they've
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: we're talking about moves. Craig Buzzer went out and the
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: need for their team and went out and filled it
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: with an apparently giving away some really good prospects. So
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox are real. I think they're coming to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: and Adley's not even there yet. I think he's actually
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: scheduled to be today or tomorrow be activated. So next
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: time we gop on here, well talk talk how he's
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: been playing for them and how that moves working out.
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: Been another big move.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: And then obviously Addley being familiar with the Al East
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: and knowing the gauntlet that it takes to win in
• 34:27
  Speaker 2: the Al East when he got called up with the Orioles,
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: he basically the timeline he got called up, they started
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: winning a ton of games, and I know the last
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: year and a half hasn't gone according to their their.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Projections and plans.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: But him coming over to the Red Sox, letting him
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: get acclimated, I'm sure it'll take him a little bit.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: Hopefully he gets right into it and makes the race
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: that much more exciting. But man, what Wilson conceris is
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: doing with their pitchers to him, They got the characters right,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: They got totally the big the big Left. He's a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: character that seems like fans in Boston just absolutely love
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: love him for me.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: You can talk about to change his scenery a little
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: bit like going from a place she loved in Chicago,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: but going getting traded to New York who was in
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: the race, Like talk about that, like a change of
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: scenery and getting back into that competitive Nature's gotta be no, no,
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: super exhilarating.
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, these guys are the Rays, obviously are the Rays.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: And they're just gonna play their brand of baseball that
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: they play, and they're gonna always pitch. They're always gonna
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: be fundamentally sound. Kevin Cash does an amazing job managing
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: what he has there, and they're always good. Now, the
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Yankees are the Yankees, and they're always going to be
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: usually the favorites in the Al East and the Red
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Sox this year, with the way this season has gone,
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: they go on this massive street. They sweep the Yankees,
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: They get embarrassed to the Rockies a few weeks ago.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: They come into the Yankees series at home and they
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: end up souping the Yankees a four game set, a
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: couple of national television games, and that springboard of them
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: to a fifteen game win streak, and then they lose,
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: and then they go on to win more, and now
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: post All Star Break they're winning. They've won. I think
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: they had the best record post All Star break, right,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: So this team is real and they had the emotional streak.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: And usually after emotional streaks. You saw with the Cubs
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: over this year when they streaked and won ten games
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: in a row, then they lost ten games in a
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: row and they won ten. It's like when you're on
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: teams that are really good for me, ROSSI and you manage.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: So maybe you're different. But looking back now from all
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: the years I played, I'd rather go ten and two
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: over the course of twenty thirty forty games or ten
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: and three then win ten twelve in a row. Because
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: you win that many games in a row, it starts
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: getting too emotional and you're playing at such an high
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: emotional level that you can't sustain that emotional level for
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: the rest of the season. So I feel like it's
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: almost good to lose a game here and there and
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: then just keep going and keep trekking.
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's all about the momentum and and and they've
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: been getting The Red Sox had great starting pitching, but
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: they definitely came together. Uh you know, I think a
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: little bit with the They've got five Venezuelan players on
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: the team, and all that stuff was going on in
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: Venezuela with the earthquake and just some some crazy stuff
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: in the government over there. So those guys, Wilson and
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: Will you're you know, they've got a number of guys
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: that you could feel that it was way heavy on
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: them when we were there, and then you know, it
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: feels like they've kind of come together in a great way.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: And then they go and get as fun to watch,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: you know, fun to watch, he added, he added a
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: great piece.
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: So the Yankees, for.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: Craig, get the deadline right.
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: The Yankees didn't go and make massive moves upgrade their bullpen.
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: I know they got some hitters, but I feel like,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: as a Red Sox, you just sent a good you're dangerous,
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: you're playing with house money. It's a it's a younger team.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: Guys are getting a runway. Caleb Durbin has completely anchored
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: that lineup as well with him and Wilson. So I mean,
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: that's gonna be a fun stretch here down the stret.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: You know, it's crazy they don't have Roman Anthony healthy.
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: If he's a too or crochet like this I hadn't.
• 38:16
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• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Roman Anthony's rehabbing and you know they're hoping to get
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: him back.
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: I don't know if that's that's possible, but that's that's
• 38:29
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• 38:32
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  Speaker 1: and the Red Sox pitching. Peyton Totley six innings, two hits,
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: fourteen k's on Friday Night from the Red Sox.
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: Like this guy.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: I love Beast, I love im saying I've been getting
• 40:56
  Speaker 2: targeted on his his content that he's been just his
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: postgame interviews and bro, he is just a genuine guy
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: that I feel like fans can gravitate to.
• 41:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like he's the guy you want to
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: throw a couple of beers back with, you know what
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: I mean? You want to sit around and and pound
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: some some coronas with that guy. He's talking about players, players,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: He's one of those.
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: The miz has been delan, the mizs been locked in.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, every day time he pitches, and I just saw
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: that they're going to now try to pitch him every Sunday.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Just kind of load management here down this stretch. But bro,
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: fastest player in MLB history to reach two hundred strikeouts.
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: Second fastest, second second fast crazy, it's crazy.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: I mean, he's he in my opinion, he has the
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: sign young locked up right. Obviously, he's got to stay
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: healthy here down the stretch, and hopefully he does, because
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: it's you want to see this guy in the playoffs.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: You want to see him on the biggest stage throwing
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: one hundred and five. Him versus PCA in the NLCS
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: this year. Hopefully I'm manifesting that and PCA takes them deep, hopefully,
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: or or Happer and I got Happer or Nico right.
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: But.
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: Man, Bro, he just keeps doing it. One hundred and five,
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: one hundred and five, one hundred. It's not a it's
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: not ninety nine, it's not ninety eight. He's change up
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: is ninety eight? Rossie, what are we doing?
• 42:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's why I'm sitting here. We're talking to you, Bro,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: he's really good.
• 42:30
  Speaker 3: And the other end go ahead, yeah they oh, they're there.
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: And you have Schlitzler for the Yankees, who is just dominating.
• 42:39
  Speaker 3: Bro.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: He's he's tall, he's got the extension, he's got he's
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: got that chip on his shoulder that just for me
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: is like, this is who I.
• 42:48
  Speaker 3: Want in a big game.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: I feel like maybe he scuffles every once in a
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: while and then he comes back and just.
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: Says, fuck you, I'm the best picture, yeah for sure,
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: and just dominates.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: He things like that guy you don't want to piss
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: off and take his focus to the next level. What's
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: impressive to me about him is like, if there is
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: a guy you would love to catch, it's just all
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: hard right, cutter sink or four team pretty much, you know,
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: is eighty percent of his pitches and just just coming
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: right at you and going hard.
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: It seems like a lot of fun.
• 43:17
  Speaker 1: I think he's you know, Dylan Ceeze is having a
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: great year and leading the league in strikeouts, but and
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: with you know, he was on the IL.
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: I think for a couple of weeks.
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: But I think cam in New York is my favorite
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: for the cy young in the American League.
• 43:32
  Speaker 4: He's been impressive.
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: I would have to say so too, right, because it
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: has to I know, I know a lot of the
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: time it goes it doesn't go off wins and losses
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: in your team. But the Yankees are right in the
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: thick of winning the division. They're gonna make the playoffs,
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: where the Blue Jays this year have falling off and
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: are kind of in a downward spot.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: So think about this.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: I mean, let's like we talk about there's been so
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: many great pitchers and some veteran guys like Schooble that
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: have been around, but Peyton Totley, Jacob Azarowski and Cam Schlittler,
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: all three of these pitchers are in their rookie or second.
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: Year and dominating the league.
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: Like, there's a lot that we talk about and the
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: league talks about about how pitching development is is going
• 44:18
  Speaker 1: the wrong way, and I don't know how anybody can
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: say that with Obviously there's some injuries that I think
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: that we've got to figure out, but the way they're
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: developing pitching right now, the stuff's getting better. They're getting
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: in the zone. I know it's a little erratic, but
• 44:32
  Speaker 1: they're setting up with this elite stuff. It's not the
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: way I was came up with guys on the edges
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: and sinker slider type stuff.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: But it's real power stuff.
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: And you know, from the three guys we talked about,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive that what the run they're on at
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: their age right now.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: Bro, it's insane. These these dudes. Everyone always asks me,
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: right now, oh do you miss it? Or is the
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: game easier? I'm like, no, I go I watched I
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: watch these teams and Brewers had guys rolling out there
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: all Their average fastball is one hundred miles an hour
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: in a game this year. What the game? The picture,
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: the development is better than ever. The information that these
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: guys are getting is better than ever. And I think
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: it's only going to get harder to hit in this league.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: I mean, these pictures once they can, which they're never
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: going to figure out how to solve the chess piece
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: of thrown to hitters because we always say pictures, you know,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: we give them, We don't ever give them that much credit.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: But bro, the development of these guys, you got to
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: give credit to all these pitchers for diving deeper into
• 45:38
  Speaker 2: their development, diving deeper into their mechanics, going to the
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: drive lines or all these other places. And then the
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: organizations as well catching up and hiring these guys internally,
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: hiring these guys to literally go in slow motion and
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: see how you release the ball and saying, hey, you
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: release the ball like this, If you move the seams
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: a little bit, your ball should probably start doing this
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: more right, and.
• 46:04
  Speaker 4: Its seams shifting.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the science behind it was is absolutely insane,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: and I do believe that's maybe why you're seeing a
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: little bit more injuries right now, because guys are continuing
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: to try to throw new pitches. And when you try
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: to throw a new pitch, if you're a young player
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: and you're just experimenting throwing new pitches, it takes time
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: for your muscles to adapt to that. So you can
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: get away with being young and dehydrated or or whatnot,
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: or or not having caught up on your sleep. But
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: eventually you keep messing with throwing in a different way
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: and messing these muscles up.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: In one day, your your arm just pops. You know that.
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: I think that could be an issue there. But Bro,
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: the development and the modern day picture is fun to watch,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: and I think as we evolve more, you're going to
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: see these guys getting deeper in the game. Understand, maybe
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Biz doesn't have to throw it one O five, you
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: can he could tame it back to ninety eight and
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: go eight or nine, seven, seven to eight innings instead
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: of maybe five or six innings.
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: We got to get our guy Adam Outovino on here.
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: I work with him ESPN. He is a wizard when
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: it comes to talking. Sorry stuff, but.
• 47:18
  Speaker 4: I'm with you, Yeah, I'm with you.
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: It's it's like, what's cool about the evolution and being
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: able to be in the game for a little while
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: and manage and still being a part of it. It's
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: like all these got me Sureser's doing it now. It's
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: like all these guys come up with real elite stuff
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: and it's middle and just blowing doors, and then they.
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: Start as the stuff deteriorates.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: If you're able to stay healthy and have a long
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: career and be in the league for ten twelve years,
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: it's now we're on the edges.
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: Now we're back door and stuff.
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: Like Johnny Lester used to be ninety seven blowing doors
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: and then at the end he's sinking it, he's cutting it.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: Change up, back door cutters. You know, you start to
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: use the edges a little bit more. But that's after
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: a long, really long career and being in the game.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: For speaking of Johnny us our boys up to be
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: on the Hall of Fame ballot next year, and uh,
• 48:08
  Speaker 2: I know now being a member of being a member
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: of the media, ROSSI well, he's he's getting inductive to
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: the Cubs Hall of Fame at the end of August.
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: That's in a couple of weeks, right, Yeah, I'm excited
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: for that one, him and his family. But being a
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: member of the media, ROSSI for me and I'm gonna
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: tell I'm gonna hold you accountable.
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: Is this.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Make sure you tell all the writers that they need
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: to vote for him to get him in first Battle
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Hall of Famer. I mean, he's a three time World
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Series champion, his playoff pedigree is unmatched. Just a little
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: unsolicited love for our guy, Johnny Lester, even though he
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: calls me a moron when he does interviews, but I.
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: Still love him. Who do you got?
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Who do you got? Let's give me give me some
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: of your give me some of your power rankings.
• 48:55
  Speaker 1: ROSSI power rank A L I'll go, I'll go raise.
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: I think the Rays are you know, the additions they've made.
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: Hopefully they can figure out Peralta get him back on track.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: But I think it's raised Red Sox Yankees. Now, when
• 49:13
  Speaker 1: the Yankees get Judge and Stanton and Bellinger back, I
• 49:16
  Speaker 1: think the Yankees got the best pitching staff in the
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: league and especially in the American League. If not the game,
• 49:22
  Speaker 1: but they're really really deep with with Cole Freed cam
• 49:28
  Speaker 1: you know, they may get ron domback. It's a it's
• 49:32
  Speaker 1: a it's a deep lineup and the bullpen's been great,
• 49:35
  Speaker 1: so it probably goes somewhere in that order.
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: White Sox.
• 49:39
  Speaker 1: I really like the Astros and how hot they're getting
• 49:41
  Speaker 1: their their pitching. You know, they didn't really go deepen
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: the starting staff, which hurts a little bit. I think
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: that's probably where I'm you know, leaning.
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: N L.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: Brewers for sure. I've got the Braves ahead of the
• 49:57
  Speaker 1: Dodgers right now. I know the Dodgers are probably two
• 50:00
  Speaker 1: and will be too when they get everybody healthy. But
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: I love, I love with the Braves. And they went
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: out and tried to get de Gram looked like it.
• 50:08
  Speaker 1: He poot pooed that trade. But Brewers, Braves, Dodgers, Cubs.
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: Phillies, Diamondbacks, Dimonbacks, sneaky hot. That's deep. Yeah, that's a
• 50:20
  Speaker 4: little deep.
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: Danel Race is gonna be a goallet that playoffs and
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: then now that you are going to have to be
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: the play at such a high level in the.
• 50:30
  Speaker 1: And that's gonna be a who's hot, right, That's why
• 50:32
  Speaker 1: it's like you, I've just been watching because that you
• 50:35
  Speaker 1: watch the Dodgers so much. But the Diamondbacks are kind
• 50:38
  Speaker 1: of sneaky good and Marte hadn't been playing well for him,
• 50:42
  Speaker 1: and well, you know, like.
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: The American League, right the Yankees, my opinion, the Yankees
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: are number one powerhouse. I mean, they have a deep,
• 50:52
  Speaker 2: real pitching staff that they can end up moving guys
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: to the bullpen. Guys are gonna be getting healthy at
• 50:58
  Speaker 2: the right time. It's it almost they almost remind me
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: of what the Dodgers are doing, where they're gonna have
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: all their guys pretty much lined up to be healthy
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: going into the playoffs, which they're gonna Boonie's gonna have
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of toys to be playing
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: with there, which is nicer for him. I don't think
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: he's ever had that kind of depth before. So, but
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, you look at the American League Central. You
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: have a good week and you're the favorite to win
• 51:27
  Speaker 2: the American League Central. Right now, it's the Tigers are
• 51:31
  Speaker 2: hot again. There are a few games back. The White
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: Sox are in first place. I love the tweet that
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: John Hayman wrote out saying what a world we live in?
• 51:39
  Speaker 3: That the White Sox.
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: Have a first round by and the Dodgers don't if
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: the playoffs were to start today, right, So yeah, I
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: mean these teams, I think I think these American League teams,
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: the Rangers, right, this is kind of how they snuck.
• 51:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but Eve's right there in the in the central,
• 51:58
  Speaker 1: like you're wouldn't it be crazy if the Detroit gets
• 52:03
  Speaker 1: in with and they traded Scooble and.
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: The Splitty they did a few years ago and all
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: the pitching chaos at they traded guy.
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: They traded off Casey.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: Mayes, thank you, thank you Warrior.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Sorry case They traded off a few guys at the deadline,
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: and they go into the pitching chaos and and win
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: a series or two in the playoffs. So for me,
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: in the American League gets the Yankees, the Rays, the
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: Red Sox, and then the Astros.
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: Don't sleep on the people are sleeping on the Astros
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: and they're just yeah, you're around. It's got to be
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: the front runner for m v P right in the
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: American League.
• 52:46
  Speaker 4: Triple crown, right, Yeah, like he's he's he's there. He's
• 52:49
  Speaker 4: like that guy.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: The National League. Ah, you just you can't throwing the Dodgers.
• 52:57
  Speaker 2: They just went out and got the best picture available
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: on them market. Their playoff rotation is their their rotation
• 53:03
  Speaker 2: right now is insane, and they're going to be getting
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: guys healthy. So for me, it's Dodgers, Brewers, Cubs, Tubbies.
• 53:14
  Speaker 2: I know you're going Cobbies, Cubs, Phillies, Braves. And the
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: reason I throw the Braves is because they've just been
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: so under the radar that.
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: I just feel like you need a little bit of
• 53:26
  Speaker 3: that smoke.
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: You're right, the Braves, I get, they fly on the radar.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: I just I don't trust the Phillies, the defense and
• 53:34
  Speaker 1: and some of that that that you know, the Phillies.
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: For me, the Phillies lineup is going to have to
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: be clicking in the playoffs and get hot because sure,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: I mean, but bro Shorter. Shorter is what third all
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: time in the playoff home run list. You know, the
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: guy's a proven winner. Don't sleep on this being Shorb's
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: year two. I've been saying it to him since Indiana
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: won the national championship. He's yeah, deal, ten year reunion.
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: Maybe Phillies won the World Series. So but I mean,
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: the Phillies have the pitching though.
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: You know what I mean going into a a series.
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: Those guys are nasty.
• 54:16
  Speaker 4: Sort series for sure.
• 54:19
  Speaker 1: Before we get get out of here, I want to
• 54:21
  Speaker 1: bring up you've got the Field of Dreams game coming
• 54:26
  Speaker 1: up with the Twins and the Phillies.
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we even talk about the twins and what do
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: you talk about the Twins?
• 54:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they're super sneaky, but you get them in Iowa
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: at the Field of Dreams. Are you pumped about that?
• 54:42
  Speaker 1: I got to manage I mean you you've already played in.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: I got to manage it. Like what a cool scene.
• 54:48
  Speaker 1: MLB puts on an amazing event. What they're able to
• 54:51
  Speaker 1: do in that environment in the middle of nowhere is
• 54:54
  Speaker 1: absolutely insane. Being able to give you a weight room
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: and showers and a locker room and the food. I
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: mean it's all first class and and just the middle
• 55:03
  Speaker 1: of a cornfield.
• 55:04
  Speaker 4: I'm I'm pumped to watch that. Are you pumped to
• 55:07
  Speaker 4: be on that broadcast?
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: Yeah? That's gonna be fun. I was.
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: I was on a flight recently, flying and I was
• 55:15
  Speaker 2: I watched The Field of Dreams. I haven't seen it
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: in a few years, and my son was right next
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: to me sleeping.
• 55:21
  Speaker 3: He's one years old.
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: And it gets towards the end of the movie and
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: were just on a family vacation and my you know,
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: they start playing catch the father son moment playing catch,
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: and I'm literally in tears on this plane, Anthony Junior
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: next to me. I hope my son wants to play
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: catch with me one day, all in my back of
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: my head saying I can't wait to get home.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: I can play catch with my own dad in the street.
• 55:45
  Speaker 4: Right, so so cool.
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: And then being on Netflix, it'll bring you to tears.
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: It'll bring you to tears for sure.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: Being on the global platform and just being able to broadcast, Bro,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: the broadcasting world has been fun. This like talking the
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: game with you. You and this show is gonna be
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun because we can just be unfiltered
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: and talk how we want. But probably get to sit
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: on a cast with l Duncan, who is amazing leading us,
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: Barry Bonds and Albert Puhos.
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna thread with them and a group text and it's.
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: Like, Bro, what like how where what do I bring
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: to this table? These dudes have seven hundred plus home
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: runs Albert. Albert has four hundred more home runs than
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: me in his career. Right, seven of three I have
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: three right, and he's so humble and down the earth,
• 56:31
  Speaker 2: and Barry's been so fun to work with.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: And then now you know how I feel when I
• 56:36
  Speaker 1: walk into a room.
• 56:37
  Speaker 4: It's good. Everybody.
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: Everybody's up here, and I'm like, oh, two twenty, backup catcher.
• 56:43
  Speaker 1: But I just try to smile and laugh and try
• 56:46
  Speaker 1: to be everybody's friends.
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: So I'm excited to call it. And then you are
• 56:51
  Speaker 2: in Chicago this weekend. Cubs Cardinals called Cardinals, Baby whoo.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: I've got Yankees Seattle tomorrow Wednesday.
• 57:01
  Speaker 4: Tomorrow tomorrow, Yeah, tomorrow Wednesday. That's gonna be a good series.
• 57:07
  Speaker 1: The offenses haven't been Yeah, the offenses haven't been rolling,
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: but you know, the Yankees been pitching well, and Seattle,
• 57:15
  Speaker 1: you know, on paper, God, they're like they're so impressive,
• 57:18
  Speaker 1: they just haven't be able to put together. And my guy,
• 57:21
  Speaker 1: Kyle Rally is scuffling. So it's gonna be fun to
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: be on that. And then back to Chicago Sunday. Uh,
• 57:27
  Speaker 1: my kids school starts back, so I gotta get in
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: dad mode, get get lunches packed, we got get locked.
• 57:31
  Speaker 4: We gotta lock it in. Bro. We've got to really
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: focus right now. A sixth grader.
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: I'll be Sunday night baseball in Houston too with NBC,
• 57:41
  Speaker 2: So hey, maybe maybe we got to fill in some
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: segments of uh, did we really say that on air?
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: You know, when you're when you're talking.
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: Since I know, for me, at least since I'm new,
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: I'll say stuff sometimes I'll be like, really.
• 57:56
  Speaker 4: Just what that that?
• 58:01
  Speaker 1: And it's not about me segment? So whatever, like somehow
• 58:04
  Speaker 1: coming it's not about me segment? And then did we
• 58:06
  Speaker 1: just say that on air? And get a little clep.
• 58:09
  Speaker 4: That'll be fun? Man, Well listen first one in the books.
• 58:12
  Speaker 1: I've enjoyed the heck out of this, and I hope
• 58:15
  Speaker 1: our listeners give us feedback, give us the ball bag questions.
• 58:19
  Speaker 4: You know, we want to be here.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: We want we want you guys to tune in and
• 58:22
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• 58:24
  Speaker 1: And bro, I'm excited about this journey we're about to
• 58:27
  Speaker 1: go on.
• 58:27
  Speaker 2: And I also want to give an amazing shout out
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: ross you to our amazing producer Chris Trand helping us
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: with a rundown on the show, helping us kind of
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: stay somewhat online here.
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: I know you and I can get on our rants.
• 58:39
  Speaker 3: But man, it' sh gonna be fun.
• 58:40
  Speaker 2: I hope, I hope we gain a few new fans,
• 58:43
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• 58:46
  Speaker 3: The game of baseball and the game of life.
• 58:48
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• 58:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I say, I'm excited to see some of the
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: random I mean, we want to talk about all the teams,
• 59:04
  Speaker 2: ah and be nice, break people, yeah, be nice, beat
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: be assholes, be unfiltered whatever.
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: But we could break down. We can break down mask
• 59:14
  Speaker 3: with scenarios, managerial decisions. We we have a lot of
• 59:18
  Speaker 3: experience roster. You managed. I think I managed in my day,
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: but uh, I.
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: Just definitely you definitely managed. First. First first merch shirt
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: is be unfiltered. I like that, Yes, merch shirt.
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll see you guys next week. I can't wait
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: to see how this weekend unfolds in the game.