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Rays Reality Check w/Marc Topkin and Reds Talk w/C. Trent Rosecrans · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's Mark Topkin from the Tampa Bay Times joining us
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  Speaker 1: right now. We're going to talk about the race.
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  Speaker 2: Mark. Great to see you.
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  Speaker 1: How is everything going for the Rays in the refreshed trop.
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  Speaker 3: It is great to be back. And a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people would never think they would say that about the
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  Speaker 3: Troup speaking of aj but it is great to be
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  Speaker 3: back here at Tropic Canafield.
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  Speaker 4: Why all the hate Topper? You know that I always
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  Speaker 4: like going to the trop. I love close to home.
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  Speaker 5: He hates it.
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  Speaker 3: It is close to home. But I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 3: Eric Neanders said this first, and I'm kind of stealing
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  Speaker 3: it from him, But all the things that people were
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  Speaker 3: talking about before the hurricane that were bad about the
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  Speaker 3: trop now it's been reframed and everything that's good about
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  Speaker 3: the Trop I mean from a baseball standpoint, from a
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  Speaker 3: fan experience standpoint, and just from the emotional standpoint of
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  Speaker 3: feeling like home. This is where the Rays have been
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  Speaker 3: for twenty eight seasons. We know what happened with the hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: Tremendous effort and the resiliency and strength of this community
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  Speaker 3: to get this thing re Else City of Saint Pete
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  Speaker 3: gets a shout out, But this is where the Rays
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  Speaker 3: belong as of now. We know there's plans to another
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  Speaker 3: stadium in a few years, but as of right now,
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  Speaker 3: this is where the Rays belong. This is home and
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  Speaker 3: it feels good to be here.
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  Speaker 5: I know where a few days removed from the opening
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  Speaker 5: day there, did that have a different feeling because that area,
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  Speaker 5: whether you're from exactly Saint Pete or the surrounding area,
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  Speaker 5: everybody was affected by the hurricane. So did it feel
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  Speaker 5: like something that like it just felt different in the
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  Speaker 5: sense the fans could really rally behind the reopening of
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  Speaker 5: a stadium, then maybe isn't going to be there forever
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  Speaker 5: or wasn't your favorite place to be before it tore down?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely cratzy And look this is I don't think I'm
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  Speaker 3: wrong about This is the biggest building, this holds the
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  Speaker 3: biggest crowd that got damaged by Hurricane Ray j didn't
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  Speaker 3: have any issues. It's the next biggest venue that we
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  Speaker 3: have in the Tampa Bay area and it was damaged.
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  Speaker 3: It was a sign for many, many many months of
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  Speaker 3: the damage. Oh here in my little video right, it
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  Speaker 3: was a sign of the damage, and it was a
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  Speaker 3: beacon of the damage and driving by with the roof
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  Speaker 3: being tattered. Then when they fixed it and got all
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  Speaker 3: the pieces pulled down, and then it was driving by
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  Speaker 3: and seeing the place with no roof on it, just
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  Speaker 3: the bones the framework. That was horrible. Then they started
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  Speaker 3: working on it and it was kind of a sign
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  Speaker 3: of hope. And then when they finished it, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was late November, it was a sign of success
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  Speaker 3: and realization that they really were going to play baseball
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  Speaker 3: here once they fixed the inside. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 3: it was totally different. I think it was a sign.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, there's still places that aren't open from the hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: And there's a beach bar right near where I live
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  Speaker 3: out on Saint Pete Beach, Treasure Island area. We had
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  Speaker 3: our daughters like night before the wedding party or the
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  Speaker 3: welcome party, two nights before, called Caddies. It just opened
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  Speaker 3: today or yesterday. That's how long it took to rebuild.
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  Speaker 3: They're our favorite pizza place on Saint Pete Beach where
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  Speaker 3: rock Obaldelli picture hangs on the wall. Vito of Michael's
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  Speaker 3: that they didn't reopen. They're done, they just couldn't reopen.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things that were still affected
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  Speaker 3: by this hurricane. And to see this place full and
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  Speaker 3: vibrant and loud in a celebratory mood and people happy,
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  Speaker 3: and yeah, it meant a lot. It really did.
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  Speaker 2: Well.
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  Speaker 4: Did you throw a party? Did everyone throw a party
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  Speaker 4: when they got back into Trot because you're talking about
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  Speaker 4: the celebratory mood, but everyone hated the Trout before, Like
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  Speaker 4: not me? I want to say, not me, because before
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  Speaker 4: you say that, not me? But did everyone throw a party?
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  Speaker 4: Because they got out of Steinberger Field, which listen was
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  Speaker 4: as good as it could be. But now they're back
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  Speaker 4: in an actual big league ballpark again.
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  Speaker 3: You're in a big league ballpark. Look, they have the
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  Speaker 3: ability to draw, you know, without the upper deck open,
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  Speaker 3: twenty five thousand fans at some point this summer, we're
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  Speaker 3: told that'll be available. That can push you to thirty
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  Speaker 3: five or forty if the occasion were to warrant it.
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  Speaker 3: I think they're announcing something tonight. They're going back, they're
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  Speaker 3: starting a concert series again. But yeah, this is a place,
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  Speaker 3: and just that's the fan standpoint, or a media standpoint, whatever,
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  Speaker 3: we don't count. But then go to the player standpoint,
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  Speaker 3: and I can tell you, I don't know if there
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  Speaker 3: were five times last year once we got like through
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  Speaker 3: mid May that the race took a full pregame workout
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  Speaker 3: on the field where there was an issue with rain,
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  Speaker 3: with heat, with lightning, something to do with they couldn't
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  Speaker 3: get it, you know. The days they took a full
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  Speaker 3: batting practice, the pitchers through all their work outside. There
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  Speaker 3: was very rare that they could do that. Now you
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  Speaker 3: get back to an environment where you can do everything
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  Speaker 3: on schedule. I mean they're starting early work, like four
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  Speaker 3: hours before game time today with bunting and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: So just the ability to have the work day uninterrupted,
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  Speaker 3: the certainty of knowing you're going to play the games
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  Speaker 3: from a scheduling standpoint. So yeah, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 3: like tangible and intangible benefits to being back here. And
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  Speaker 3: you know, is there still a roof or there's still catwalks,
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  Speaker 3: or there's still gonna be weird things that happen. Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: and maybe instead of it being the bad things, that
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  Speaker 3: becomes oh that looks like you're weird, old uncle, right,
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  Speaker 3: Oh that's the old trop with the ball bouncing off
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  Speaker 3: the roof thing again. Oh that's funny, ha ha.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, or you could be like, holy cat, we would
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  Speaker 5: have been outside today at least we're inside. I can't
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  Speaker 5: see the ball when it goes up in the roof,
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  Speaker 5: but you know what, we're inside. But talking about the stadium,
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  Speaker 5: what do you have any updates on the next steps
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  Speaker 5: or like what we could see of the next steps
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  Speaker 5: of the possible new stadium coming for the race.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, still a lot of conversations going on. We had
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  Speaker 3: a story in today's Tampa Bay Times that looks like
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  Speaker 3: the Hillsborough County Commission that's the Tampa side, the county
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  Speaker 3: over there called Hillsboro. They're gonna vote May fifth or
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  Speaker 3: May six, something like that, and then the Tampa City
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  Speaker 3: Council wuld vote the next day. There stills has to
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  Speaker 3: be a final term sheet submitted, analyzed, scrutinized. They're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have a public workshop on it. One of the commissioners
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  Speaker 3: says he wants to do a public hearing. We'll see
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  Speaker 3: how that unfolds. But right now the plan is for
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  Speaker 3: some votes in May because the team is asking for
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  Speaker 3: about one billion dollars a little more of that to
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  Speaker 3: pay for half of the stadium, which is right now
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  Speaker 3: pegg to two point three, and then there's the additional development.
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  Speaker 3: I think you guys have all been to the Battery
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  Speaker 3: in Atlanta. That has been their model. They've said that
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  Speaker 3: from day one. But it's gonna be the Atlanta. It's
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  Speaker 3: gonna kind of be Atlanta's battery on steroids. It's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be bigger, reasonably amount bigger. They're trying to build this
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  Speaker 3: thing and that land. It's right next to Steinberner Field,
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  Speaker 3: across from Raymond James Stadium. For people familiar with the area,
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  Speaker 3: this done area doesn't have a lot there right now,
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  Speaker 3: so it would be a very I think, potentially, you know,
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  Speaker 3: well received addition to the Tampa area. The downtown has
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  Speaker 3: been thriving a little bit with Water Street, but nothing
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  Speaker 3: really over there, so be curious to see how the
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  Speaker 3: sun folds. Obviously, the future of the team has tied
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  Speaker 3: very much into this. The new owners have made this
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  Speaker 3: their number one priority, So we'll see what happens. But
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  Speaker 3: I think we should know something within the next month
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  Speaker 3: or so. I don't know that a no voter or
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  Speaker 3: a delay kills anything, but it certainly puts a major
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  Speaker 3: crimp in their plans. It's a very aggressive schedule. They
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  Speaker 3: want this stadium open in twenty nine and they still
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  Speaker 3: are waiting for approval to you know, do the first
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  Speaker 3: active construction, and they're building on an active college campus,
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  Speaker 3: so they've got to move that too. Orlando, Orlando, I
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  Speaker 3: hear you saying that. I hear you saying that, Orlando.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we'll see. Well, we'll tell you why. We'll meet,
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  Speaker 3: like at the Stuckies in Lakeland or the Hooters. We'll
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  Speaker 3: meet at the Hooters in Lakeland halfway once this thing
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  Speaker 3: gets settled.
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  Speaker 4: Ooh, Mark, not happened.
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  Speaker 3: Not happened. You're not going to Hooters or we're not
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  Speaker 3: meeting halfway?
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  Speaker 4: Both?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you have to.
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  Speaker 4: Drive your media meet. You know, players don't go meet media.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, actually they often do when they apparently when
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  Speaker 3: they're done, go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: Apparently only coaches meet the media in random places. Sorry
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  Speaker 4: too soon?
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, Yeah, we are not going to sit in
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  Speaker 3: the hot tub together. I can tell you that. I
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  Speaker 3: know you're not. No that. I will say that when
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  Speaker 3: some players stop playing and they get jobs in the
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  Speaker 3: media or other jobs, and they are much more friendly
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  Speaker 3: to said media people than when they were playing and
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  Speaker 3: had to go hit or how to go to the trainer's.
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  Speaker 6: Room or something.
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  Speaker 5: AJ's not friendly and just in general, so that's just
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  Speaker 5: that's just life life for you. But that's okay, Mark,
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  Speaker 5: What do you see on the field from the race?
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  Speaker 5: What do you see? And I mean I don't even
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  Speaker 5: want to like project out for the season more so,
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  Speaker 5: just what are you seeing early goings? Because this is
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  Speaker 5: a really really new looking lineup from all the subtractions
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  Speaker 5: that they had in the offseason and moving forward. What
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  Speaker 5: are you seeing so far in the first twelve games
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  Speaker 5: that we've that you've seen so far?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I think you could you could break
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  Speaker 3: it down really simply and you could say the starting
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  Speaker 3: pitching has been pretty good. You say the lineup's been
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  Speaker 3: really good. I mean, I think that's a very intriguing offense.
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  Speaker 3: Kevin Arow really hasn't gotten going yet. Yandi's been hot,
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  Speaker 3: Ronda has been hot than cool now looks like he's
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  Speaker 3: hot again. Chandler Simpson has been one of the best
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  Speaker 3: players in baseball right now. You know, Nick Vortees has
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  Speaker 3: been a pleasant surprise at catcher. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 3: of things about this lineup. They kind of looked at
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  Speaker 3: it as they got the big three right and Diaz,
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  Speaker 3: Ronda and Cavanaro and the rest we're going to be
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  Speaker 3: complimentary pieces. Well you're seeing some of those complimentary pieces
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  Speaker 3: pay off, so that part's been good. Now the defense
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  Speaker 3: has been really bad and the bullpen has been pretty bad.
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  Speaker 3: So those are two things that have to get better
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  Speaker 3: obviously soon. They I don't know if they still do,
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  Speaker 3: but as of yesterday, they led the major's and errors.
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  Speaker 3: They threw out their first runner trying to steal a
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  Speaker 3: base last night. For the entire season, I think they've
• 10:11
  Speaker 3: got fifteen against them down one thrown out, and the
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  Speaker 3: bullpen has led. I think they've led. Last night may
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  Speaker 3: have been the first game they didn't lead in all year,
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  Speaker 3: and then they've obviously lost six of those eleven games,
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  Speaker 3: so you can put that obviously on the bullpen. That's
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  Speaker 3: got to get better. Griffin Jackson had a really rough start,
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  Speaker 3: some bad luck, which is kind of what his story
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  Speaker 3: was last year. And I think you're seeing Brian Baker
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  Speaker 3: kind of emerges the guy at the back end here
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  Speaker 3: because Clevenger's on the il Useta just started to rehab
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  Speaker 3: last night. He's still several weeks away, so they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: be patching this thing together.
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  Speaker 4: Isn't that what the Razor best at though, isn't the
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  Speaker 4: patching things together and figuring out ways when people say, oh,
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  Speaker 4: they can't do this, and then next thing you know,
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  Speaker 4: you look up and they're fighting for a playoff spot
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  Speaker 4: and you're in the race at the end. It seems
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  Speaker 4: like this is the perfect storm for Neander and Kevin
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  Speaker 4: Cash to say, oh, look what we did again.
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  Speaker 3: I mean it could be. I mean, two leasing seasons,
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  Speaker 3: two losing seasons in a row the last two years
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  Speaker 3: kind of left them pretty frosted. I mean they were
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  Speaker 3: very disappointed. Neanders said they did not go into the
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  Speaker 3: offseason planning to redo the roster. There were forty nine
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  Speaker 3: players under team control at the end of the year,
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  Speaker 3: forty on the roster in nine on the sixty dail
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  Speaker 3: and I think twenty six of those guys are gone.
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  Speaker 3: So that was a whether by design initially, but it
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  Speaker 3: became a very much plan to flip this roster around,
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  Speaker 3: and for the veterans that they brought in an interesting
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  Speaker 3: right Stephen Mattz, Nick Martinez, Cedric Mullins, Jake Fraley, then
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  Speaker 3: Gavin Lux by trade. So the first four free agency
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  Speaker 3: by trade, those are guys that could either step in
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  Speaker 3: they're all I think in contract years except Mats who've
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  Speaker 3: got a two year deal here. You could think they're
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: going to be motivated, they're gonna play really well. They
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  Speaker 3: could really relish in this opportunity, or if things are
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  Speaker 3: going bad, they could all get traded in July, I
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  Speaker 3: would assume. So there's going to be an opportunity here
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  Speaker 3: for a few months, and it's a combination of the
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  Speaker 3: raizone players, see what kamin Erra can do. The pitching
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  Speaker 3: that they brought back. Obviously rast was and they traded
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: Shane bos but Rasmussen's here. Shane mcclanahan's probably the biggest
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  Speaker 3: swing guy of everybody, look good physically so far, just
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  Speaker 3: hasn't put together a complete outing, and he certainly has
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  Speaker 3: been unhappy with how he's done, but he's done better
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  Speaker 3: than he thinks. And then they've got to figure out
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  Speaker 3: a way to straighten the rest of us out. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: aj Yes, it could be one of those years where
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  Speaker 3: the race pull something off, or it could be another year.
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  Speaker 3: And Theander has said this publicly. They've been accumulating all
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  Speaker 3: this young talent, all these trades over the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of years. They've been getting in you know, some very
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  Speaker 3: talented prospects and guys that they haven't rushed to the
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  Speaker 3: big leagues, And I think part of that is to
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  Speaker 3: time this up for what they hope is that new
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  Speaker 3: stadium window, whether it's you know, the last year here,
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  Speaker 3: twenty eight, the first year there, if they get this
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  Speaker 3: thing built twenty nine and have this core ready to go.
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  Speaker 3: Like Jacob Melton, who they got this offseason. No rushing
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  Speaker 3: to get him to the big leagues, but he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy that could be a really big impact player for
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  Speaker 3: them going forward. All Right.
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  Speaker 5: I saw Shane mcclanahan's debut in the playoffs against US.
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  Speaker 5: When he's with the Yankees, you always knew there's something different.
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  Speaker 5: Anytime a left he throws one hundred miles an hour
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  Speaker 5: is a start, you know. Blah blah blah. His interview
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  Speaker 5: the other day I thought was refreshing and something that
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  Speaker 5: I had never seen. I'd never seen many interviews with him.
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  Speaker 5: Had you guys seen this side of him in the
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  Speaker 5: sense of he For people who didn't see the interview,
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  Speaker 5: it was very much like, I don't want the I
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  Speaker 5: don't want the feel good story. I want to pitch better.
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  Speaker 5: I want to do Have you seen that side of
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  Speaker 5: him or is it something that has matured over the years.
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  Speaker 3: Now, I think I think you're onto something there. I
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  Speaker 3: think the time away, don't forget he you know, he
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  Speaker 3: got hurt in August of twenty twenty three, did the
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  Speaker 3: Tommy John rehab, was declared healthy at the end of
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  Speaker 3: the twenty four season through like a live VP. They're like,
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  Speaker 3: you're good, dame. In spring training twenty five he was
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  Speaker 3: ready to go, right. He went through the whole spring training.
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  Speaker 3: In his last start of spring training was when this
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  Speaker 3: nerve thing happened and they thought it was going to
• 13:51
  Speaker 3: be a couple of days. That was the initial story
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  Speaker 3: was he needs a couple of days, he should maybe
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  Speaker 3: still make the opening day start. We'll see, And they
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: ended up missing the entire year because this thing was
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  Speaker 3: so hard to to assess and treat and figure out
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  Speaker 3: what to do with it. So for all he's gone through,
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  Speaker 3: I think he has come out of this as a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of a more mature Shane McClanahan, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more of a team leading Shane McClanahan, a little
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  Speaker 3: bit more of a I mean, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say like touchy feely kind of thing, because he's still
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  Speaker 3: kind of a you know whatever, you know what to
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  Speaker 3: the wall kind of guy. But I do think that
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  Speaker 3: there's a little bit more sense and awareness to Shane McClanahan.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, he said something leading up to that
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: first start in Milwaukee where he said, you know, I
• 14:30
  Speaker 3: realized I'm not gonna do this forever. And you know,
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: missing two plus years in a career that does have
• 14:35
  Speaker 3: a limited span. I think kind of shook him up
• 14:38
  Speaker 3: a little bit in that regard. And I think you're
• 14:40
  Speaker 3: seeing a guy who is a little bit more focused
• 14:43
  Speaker 3: and driven, if that's possible, but also more aware, like
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: you say, of situations and his role on this team.
• 14:49
  Speaker 3: And and with this situation.
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: Hey, Mark, wave to Elvis behind you, over.
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: You, over your Oh he's this way, Elnes. They want
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: you to say, hi.
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, I missed him in spring training this year.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: AJ said he missed you in spring training.
• 15:07
  Speaker 4: And it was really nice of him to take that
• 15:09
  Speaker 4: picture of you or the video of you last night
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: when you went to get the ball and your pants
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: fell off. So it was really awesome of Elvis to Okay.
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: I think we're done. I think we're done right here. Yeah,
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: we're done right here. I lost you. I can't hear you.
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: What see? This is the problem topper.
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: You think you're doing a nice thing, relaying a message
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: to someone, and then all of a sudden, it's like anchorman.
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: They're putting things in the teleprompter.
• 15:36
  Speaker 3: I know, and I also have the you know, I
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: think I'm having fun. I'm kind of making fun of AJ.
• 15:39
  Speaker 3: I'm always going to get the short end of this.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: I'm always gonna end up losing. So I poked the bear, man.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: I shouldn't have poked the bear, did you?
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: In all honesty, though, did you guys see that when
• 15:48
  Speaker 4: it happened? Because when they showed it on TV, it
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: was like the Cubs guys didn't know what to say
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: because I saw the car. I didn't see the Rays.
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Maybe the Rays didn't show it on their broadcast, but
• 15:59
  Speaker 4: the cub showed it and they were like, uh, okay,
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: let's not even acknowledge that the guy pants fell off.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: No, they showed it on the RAS broadcast, and my
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: wife sent me the clip right away because we did
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: not see it from here. Just kind of another good
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: reporter wife, right, good reporter wife. I was like, hey,
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: did you see this? So I knew about it before
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: it started making the rounds Viraly, But yeah, you really
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: don't have a view of that here because just the
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: way the netting is. And I talked to Ryan Valaid,
• 16:25
  Speaker 3: the right fielder, and asked him, and he either did
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: the ultimate big league thing or truly didn't see it.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: But he said he didn't see it. So I don't
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: know if the race were were either. I think what
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Dwayne's stats said and I'm paraphrasing here, and if I
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: got it wrong, Dwayne, I'm sorry, but something like you
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: never know what you're going to see at a ballpark
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: or when you come to the ballpark, and that was
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: definitely true last night if you were watching that clip,
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: because that was not a good thing to see.
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: Mark, did you see? Did you see? Were you there?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: When I was with Texas and the guy ran down
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: the steps and had the snap pants and he pulled
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: his pants off, and then he did a front flip
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: onto the field and he only had his tidy whities
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: on and then he ran out to the bases and
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: they tackled him. I don't know, I don't know if
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: you remember.
• 17:03
  Speaker 3: That, but I was. I don't know that I remember
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: that this guy ran ran.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: There's twenty thirteen. The guy ran. No, he was just
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: he was just just his thing. This is what he did.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: He ran down the steps and the TRUP got to
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: the dugout and he had those snap like basketball pants
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: on right, ripped him off, threw his shirt off front,
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: flipped over our dugout, and ran. They tackled him around
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: second base and they had him in handcuffs. He was
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: like this walking off the field, laughing and smiling, and
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: all he had was as tidy white as covered in
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: clay on.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: Wow, I do not remember that. I'm surprised because we've
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: been looking up a lot of weird stuff about the
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: TRUP for a lot of our pre uh you know,
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: build up to the coverage here. I thought you were
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: going to say the day that some hippie looking dude
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: wandered down by the dugout and everybody was kind of
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: looking him weird, and by security came over and realized
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: it was John Jaso and they were like, oh, yeah,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: he was a hippie. He still lives. I think he
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: still lives on his boat out here off the Saint
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: of Beach Marina, so he does too. Funny.
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: He looked like you should be putting in Pirates of
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: the Caribbean at the end, by the.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Way he did, and that would have been a good
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: career for him. He definitely could have gone into some
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: method acting or some extra roles on TV and broadcastings
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: like that.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: For sure.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: I mean to turn this around.
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Here, Yeah, yeah, this would be a great way to
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: close it out. Let's see what we got here.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: Looks exactly the same, right, the score, the video boards
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: been like tripled in size. They changed the banners. All
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: the wildcard banners are now on one the new owners.
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: You see him right in the center of the new
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: owners didn't like having the separate banners for the wildcard
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: to celebrate your bigger championships, so those are different. And
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: then you see it more here, So yeah, it's been refreshed.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: The turf looks great. The roofs got a few brown
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: spots on it. Those are gonna bleach. That's not gonna
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: stay brown. And then we're back here and we got
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: Elvis behind us. So what could be better?
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Exactly exactly the angle Elvis used for you last night,
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: Mark when you all ball Exactly that was exactly the angle.
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: I will say.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: The roof looks more and I mean this as a
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: compliment more like plastic versus paper mache.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: From last time.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: It looks like really it's one layer rather than two,
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: so it's actually brighter. So these afternoon sessions and the
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: day games, it's been brighter.
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Okay, maybe better for hitters. We'll have to let Willia
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Domas know. Maybe he'll come back.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and Nelson Cruz might pop in on that one too.
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: That's right, Topper Gray. Catchup has always been really appreciated.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Good talking to you.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: We'll talk soon, okay, all right, me and Elvis say
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: thank you.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Elvis. Check out Copper in the Times. Riverfront
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Territory Stars. See Trent Rosekrantz joining us right now. You
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: can listen to his show Danny Graves along with him.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: They did one that actually was posted late last night
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: talking about the Reds taking down the Marlins, so check
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that out.
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: Plus of course his work in the athletics. See Trent.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: How you doing and how are the Reds doing?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: I feel like not getting talked about enough on the
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: national scene, and that's why you're here.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:04
  Speaker 8: I've liked this team from the beginning, and they're playing
• 20:08
  Speaker 8: a lot like I almost see it as like a
• 20:11
  Speaker 8: meld between that twenty twenty three team that was so
• 20:16
  Speaker 8: like daring and running all the time, and then last
• 20:19
  Speaker 8: year it seemed like they were a little more reserved
• 20:22
  Speaker 8: under Terry Francona and how he wanted to do things.
• 20:25
  Speaker 8: And this is almost the perfect medium you're seeing them have.
• 20:29
  Speaker 8: They're not scoring a ton of runs, but they're scoring
• 20:31
  Speaker 8: enough runs. They are scoring with hit and runs, with
• 20:35
  Speaker 8: stolen bases, double steals, like the whole It was all
• 20:41
  Speaker 8: done last night in the last two innings, in the
• 20:44
  Speaker 8: ninth and tenth you had situational hitting. You've seen that
• 20:48
  Speaker 8: from Elie de la Cruz. You've seen it from Nathaniel
• 20:51
  Speaker 8: Lowe up and down the order, Tyler Stevenson. It was
• 20:55
  Speaker 8: an exciting one yesterday, but it was like an encapsulation
• 20:58
  Speaker 8: of everything. They've some great pitching. The team hasn't released.
• 21:03
  Speaker 8: I don't think they've scored a run for Andrew Rabbitt
• 21:05
  Speaker 8: in sixteen point one innings or sixteen or third innings,
• 21:08
  Speaker 8: but that's also been against Garrett Crochet, Paul Skeins and
• 21:13
  Speaker 8: and then last night sandi Ala Alcantara, who looked better
• 21:16
  Speaker 8: than both those guys combined. Yesterday and so yeah, it's
• 21:20
  Speaker 8: been a weird one, but they've also won five in
• 21:24
  Speaker 8: a row. They're at the top of the division. They've
• 21:29
  Speaker 8: got great pitching. You know, their number eight guy coming
• 21:33
  Speaker 8: into spring, Brandon Williamson just threw a really nice game
• 21:38
  Speaker 8: again in Florida two days ago. They have depth in
• 21:42
  Speaker 8: the rotation. It's been caused to use it with Hunter
• 21:46
  Speaker 8: Green and Nickelodolo down, but you've that means you have
• 21:49
  Speaker 8: Chase Burns, Rert Louder and Brandon Williamson, which has been
• 21:53
  Speaker 8: pretty good so far.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Can they can they sustain this by the way they can?
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: But with this lack of offense, I mean this is
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: this is a real la. I mean, the pitching can
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: because the pitching has been good for a couple of
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: years now, right even with Al Green and Lodolo, I mean,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: Abbott and some of these other guys have been really good.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: And Terry Francota he always figures out a bullpen somehow,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: some whether whoever it is he's got to stick in
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: certain roles. He figures it out. But can they sustain
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: this with this lack of all I mean, this is
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: this is I know it's only eleven games, but this
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: is a lack of offense.
• 22:28
  Speaker 8: It has been a lack of offense, but I don't
• 22:30
  Speaker 8: know that it's going to continue to be a lack
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: of offense. You're seeing Ellie de la Cruz being quietly good,
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: you know, like he doesn't do any things quietly on
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: the field, but he's been quietly getting on base two
• 22:42
  Speaker 8: times a game. You've seen some differences in his approach
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: where he is. He has two of his three homers
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: are from the right side so far this year. You're
• 22:51
  Speaker 8: seeing those improvements. I think Matt McClain is coming back.
• 22:54
  Speaker 8: He's not the guy he was in spring training, but
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: nobody in the history of the game is the guy
• 22:58
  Speaker 8: he was in spring training. I think that's going to
• 23:01
  Speaker 8: be coming around a johanneo Suarez, Sal Stewart. I think
• 23:07
  Speaker 8: this offense is underperforming at the moment, but will be
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: better than they are right now.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Hey, I noticed I got to ask you about Rhet Louder.
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: He was just on the screen there. Yeah, ridiculous start
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: to his big league career. So your colleague Eno Cyrus
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: was on with us yesterday and one of the notes
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: he brought up in terms of the ABS Challenge system
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: is that he thinks, you know, it could hurt guys
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: who nibble or who are not.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Just big stuff guys, big blow guys and all that.
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: My counter is, how do you explain what Rhet Lauder
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: is doing right now?
• 23:44
  Speaker 8: He's really good. I mean, like, I know that sounds
• 23:48
  Speaker 8: simplistic and maybe not a great explanation as much as
• 23:51
  Speaker 8: it is a point. But I always go back to
• 23:55
  Speaker 8: the first time I saw him. It was his first
• 23:59
  Speaker 8: Cactus League Spring for in a game. It was at
• 24:01
  Speaker 8: Milwaukee two years ago. He had not played in you know,
• 24:04
  Speaker 8: and in the minors and was there and it looked
• 24:09
  Speaker 8: like it looked like, I don't know Brady Singer this
• 24:12
  Speaker 8: this spring a guy with a lot of time. He
• 24:16
  Speaker 8: is a guy that just knows how to pitch, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 8: like it's funny because you will hear these things. Well,
• 24:23
  Speaker 8: he doesn't have the greatest stuff. Well, he has really
• 24:26
  Speaker 8: really good stuff. It's just that he's in a rotation
• 24:29
  Speaker 8: with the likes of Hunter Green and Chase Burns and
• 24:33
  Speaker 8: Nicolodolo who have like transcendent stuff. So it's it's he
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: is a stuff plus control command guy. I'm high on
• 24:45
  Speaker 8: Louder and I have been because he just takes everything
• 24:49
  Speaker 8: in stride. And I went out to the clubhouse the
• 24:52
  Speaker 8: other day and just asking everybody after his start, like,
• 24:55
  Speaker 8: could you believe that was that guy's eighth big league start?
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: And he said it was a great to get through
• 25:01
  Speaker 8: those six was it six and the third innings or
• 25:04
  Speaker 8: six innings of three hit baseball in one walk? Yeah,
• 25:09
  Speaker 8: that's a kind of grind that I think every pitching
• 25:11
  Speaker 8: coach and every level of baseball on Earth would take.
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: And Trent, by the way, I don't know if you
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: remember this, but Louder and Skiings matched up in the
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: College World Series and that was a big thing on
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: who was going to be the first pick right, which
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: seems crazy now that we look at the difference in
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: their pro careers so far. But let's not forget that
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: one time. Skans and Louder were who's going to be
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: the first pick overall? And they matched up in Omah.
• 25:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, and he went. They went toe to toe each
• 25:40
  Speaker 8: other and one of the best games any of us
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: have seen, one of the best preaching performances. And I
• 25:45
  Speaker 8: think that's, you know what, I'd rather have skins, but
• 25:49
  Speaker 8: I'm not complaining about having Louder and the Reds certainly
• 25:52
  Speaker 8: weren't complaining when he fell to number seven instead of
• 25:55
  Speaker 8: number one overall.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: Trent, what about We kind of talked about the offensive.
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: But salth Stewart's been really good for you guys. Excuse me?
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Can he keep doing this? I mean Terry Francona hit
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: him fourth opening day, right, Terry Francona doesn't usually hit
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: rookies in their first year, full year, fourth on opening day.
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: So that's got to tell you somebody believes something in
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: salth Stewart.
• 26:17
  Speaker 8: He's the ret louder of position players. He just looks
• 26:21
  Speaker 8: like he belongs. He knows what he's doing. He has
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: a high baseball like Q. Check out what south Stewart's
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: done on the basis. That's really what allowed Terry Francona
• 26:32
  Speaker 8: to know, like, hey, I think this guy can do it.
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: He doesn't strike out as much as some other guys,
• 26:38
  Speaker 8: and I think in his career, in his minor leagues,
• 26:40
  Speaker 8: he had more walks and strikeouts. And so put him
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: between Ellie de la Cruz and Aohanno Swarz, both the
• 26:47
  Speaker 8: guys who will strike out quite a bit, that's just
• 26:50
  Speaker 8: part of their game. But you put south Stewart in
• 26:53
  Speaker 8: between and it's worked out really well now South Stewart probably.
• 27:00
  Speaker 8: Do I think he is a nine to sixty seven
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: OPS guy this season?
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: No?
• 27:06
  Speaker 8: Could he be in the future.
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah?
• 27:07
  Speaker 8: Could he win a batting title in the future as
• 27:10
  Speaker 8: much as we still care about that thing, Yes he can.
• 27:13
  Speaker 8: He is that type of hitter. It is a professional
• 27:16
  Speaker 8: at bat time after time, and you know, beyond his years,
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: the at bats that he takes.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: And so I'll ask you this, and I feel bad
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: I'm asking this while Tom Fraser is not on, although
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: I think he's on the next couple of days with us.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Should they be throwing a little Sal Stuart extension offer
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: his way? Todd said he was promised that years ago.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It never came his way, and we already heard about Elliott.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: Doesn't sound like they're going to be able to figure
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: something out on the short term, so move on. Is
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: Sal Stuart the guy that they should be trying to
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: throw some money towards.
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: Yeah, I would be looking at doing that. Maybe Matt
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: McClain as well. You know McLain has the injury history,
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: so he doesn't quite have it. But if I'm looking for,
• 27:58
  Speaker 8: I don't know, looking long term in buying low I'm
• 28:01
  Speaker 8: doing Matt McClain too, But I think South Stuart would
• 28:03
  Speaker 8: be a no doubt or that's a course up to
• 28:06
  Speaker 8: South Stewart and Dan Lozano his agent, but yeah, I
• 28:11
  Speaker 8: and of course Nick Krawl, but yeah, no, I think
• 28:14
  Speaker 8: it is a guy to sign up long term because
• 28:18
  Speaker 8: this dude can just flat hit and it's it's been impressive.
• 28:23
  Speaker 8: He's a better athlete than he looks. And that is
• 28:26
  Speaker 8: going on the base running, how he's picked up first base.
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: I think he is.
• 28:33
  Speaker 8: He is a guy that you can look at for
• 28:35
  Speaker 8: a long time and say, hey, we believe in this guy.
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: All right, speaking of believing in things, wish me luck.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I'm in Georgia. I'm in Georgia for two days. Wish
• 28:50
  Speaker 4: me luck.
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: You're in God's country. So good for you. You got
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: out of where you come from and and and got
• 29:01
  Speaker 8: to maybe go over to Athens.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: See what it's right there. I'm right there. I'm in
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: a cony and then I'm going to I'm going to
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: Augusta tomorrow, so I'm right by Athens. But I don't
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: know if I wear a Gator shirt in Athens, if
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: they'll welcome me.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: I mean they'll see it's a j. Perzinski, So they
• 29:17
  Speaker 8: wouldn't be welcome you anyway. Calient Tito's right next to
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: fully Field. Go to calient Tito's, get the State Cuban
• 29:25
  Speaker 8: and Tostone's.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: Were you reading that? Was that like a paid plug
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: right there?
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: No?
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: No, no, let me look down that perfectly.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: No.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: If if if calient Titos wants to sponsor me, they
• 29:39
  Speaker 8: can sponsor me. But it is elite. That's I had
• 29:43
  Speaker 8: my wedding reception there, or my rehearsal dinner there.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Don't use code Riverfront, it will not work. Don't say
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: that to the waiter.
• 29:52
  Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, they no waiters, we're counter service man. I
• 29:56
  Speaker 8: ain't fancy, I'm no, I'm no Florida Gator is uh
• 30:01
  Speaker 8: you know AJ Pierzinski and his tuxedo with Gene Schwartz.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Fancy what about brave shirt or jersey even right and
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: Gator's hat?
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: How would he be received there?
• 30:14
  Speaker 8: You know, most people in Athens are cool. We're all right, hey,
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: we know that you have to go back to Florida,
• 30:21
  Speaker 8: and we're gonna take it easy on you. You know,
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: they get to live in Athens, which is you know,
• 30:26
  Speaker 8: the original Athens. Of course, people know Ohio here, aren't
• 30:29
  Speaker 8: used to that. It's the superior Athens. There's no other
• 30:31
  Speaker 8: Athens in the world other than that Athens. And we
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: just know that we're We just feel good that even
• 30:38
  Speaker 8: if they lose a game, we get to go back
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  Speaker 8: to Athens.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: You're right, thank you for taking Mike White. There you go,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: Thank you for taking Mike White. Trent doesn't even know
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  Speaker 4: who Mike White is, but thank you.
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: He's the basketball coach. He just hired Jarvis Hayes to
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  Speaker 8: be his assistant. Jarvis is my guy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you knows. I didn't know.
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  Speaker 8: It's we're a football school. We don't care about other sports.
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  Speaker 8: You know, I don't know if you remember football.
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  Speaker 3: You guys used to.
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  Speaker 8: Have a team.
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  Speaker 4: M hmm okay, okay. Ever since cheating became legal, Georgia
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  Speaker 4: hasn't won anything. Just saying all right, anyways, we gotta
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  Speaker 4: go to commercial break.
• 31:23
  Speaker 8: That's your conference.
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: Hey there, I don't play that's your favorite the football.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Right now, it's the American it's the American Athletic Conference.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: Right now, it's Riverfront Territory, which is what you need
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: to watch and subscribe to.
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: More people need to know about it. The man thank
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: you very much, Trent.
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Before I go, I gotta ask you one questions. Ellie
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: still in the bathroom too soon? Sorry, that's inside joke.
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  Speaker 4: I apologize.
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: That is an inside joke.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: And maybe at some point a j will be on
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: that show and he can tell more of that story,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe Ellie can tell more of that story at
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: some point.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: But C Trend and Danny running point. It's one of
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: the new shows on the FT network.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: That's your red coverage that you get on a multi
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  Speaker 1: weekly basis.