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Cubs-White Sox was a vibe, Edwin Díaz cockfighting scandal, M’s call up Colt Emerson, Loads of injuries · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Happy Monday people, Happy Rivalry weekend, hangover day, you guys, kid,
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Speaker 1: that was so exhausting. That was exhausting. That was fun though.
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Speaker 1: That was entertaining. And we're going to get to what
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Speaker 1: I think was the most entertaining series. But before that,
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Speaker 1: the most entertaining gimmick occurred in the Royals Cardinals series
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Speaker 1: in Saint Louis a j Did you like that? Would
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Speaker 1: you be a fan of that? The tarps off section
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Speaker 1: that Ali Marmol was funding.
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Speaker 2: You know, I thought it was great. I thought it
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Speaker 2: was cool that the random kids showed up there and
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Speaker 2: did it, and then the crowd got bigger and bigger
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Speaker 2: each day. I thought it was great. I thought Ali
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Speaker 2: Marmele jumping in was awesome, bringing the couple, bringing a
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Speaker 2: few of them into the stands, and you know, I
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Speaker 2: mean there's a lot of people there except for in
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Speaker 2: this section. So you heard all the players talk about it,
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Speaker 2: saying how it was one of the most exciting times
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Speaker 2: of their big league career. I think it's great. The
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Speaker 2: Cardinals are playing well, the fans from Texas apparently are
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Speaker 2: behind them, and then you get all these young kids
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Speaker 2: jumping around their shirt saw bringing excitement in the park.
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Speaker 2: What's not to like about this grat I mean, yeah,
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Speaker 2: your shirts are all let's make sure it stays a
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Speaker 2: male section male only. Girls can have like a big
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Speaker 2: hat section. But to be a club baseball player, to
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Speaker 2: be a you know, just a fan of baseball, and
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Speaker 2: then you get an opportunity to do exactly what they're
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Speaker 2: doing when they're in the clubhouse there, you know, rubbing
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Speaker 2: elbows with Cardinals players who aren't really that much older them.
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Speaker 2: This is a really young team, Like, that's the experience
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Speaker 2: of a lifetime. They'll be Cardinals fans forever if they
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Speaker 2: weren't already.
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Speaker 1: Such a different vibe when you can get that kind
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Speaker 1: of energy. We've talked about this a lot age that
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Speaker 1: you can't get that energy daily in our sport unless
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Speaker 1: you hire those kids to just come to every game.
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Speaker 2: No, they're not gonna do that, aren't they were they
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Speaker 2: club baseball players or something. So even it was super
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Speaker 2: cool that Ali did this, and maybe it can become
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Speaker 2: like a section or a thing for the Cardinals for
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Speaker 2: the rest of the year. Every team always wants a
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Speaker 2: rallying cry. Maybe this is the one for the Cardinals.
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Speaker 1: And many teams are good at this what was it?
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Speaker 1: What was Felix Ornandez's little area. It's been a minute now,
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Speaker 1: remember King King's Court, King's Court, King's Court. They've got
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Speaker 1: others too for people out there. So when they do
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Speaker 1: create those situations, it's cool. It often happens with starting pitchers,
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Speaker 1: so you get it. How many times does a starting
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Speaker 1: pitcher start a game at home during the year fifteen.
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Speaker 1: It's just through the whole thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Padillas Flotilla went South Asano. They had South Pals in.
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Speaker 2: Philly. They had some of them.
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Speaker 3: Some of them pop up, some of them pop up,
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Speaker 3: and they're a little gimmicky, but you know the ones,
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Speaker 3: the ones that really hit and are big, like like
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Speaker 3: King Felix.
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Speaker 2: That was cool. I think for a little bit. Julio
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Speaker 2: had the no fly he still has a no fly zone.
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Speaker 3: But they were doing some stuff in Seattle, and it
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Speaker 3: doesn't never it's got to get huge, like King Felix.
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Speaker 3: They're all had yellow k's and they had crowns sometimes.
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Speaker 2: It was cool.
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Speaker 1: Judges Chambers, I mean that's a fixture. Yeah, yeah, that's cool.
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Speaker 1: So it was fun. Yeah, it was cool story to follow,
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Speaker 1: and that the team was buying into it as well.
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Speaker 1: I like when it's both sides there. The fans were
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Speaker 1: into it, or these students created this college like atmosphere,
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Speaker 1: and then it was reciprocated with Ali Marmal, who's a
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Speaker 1: cool has a young feel to him. He feels like
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Speaker 1: he can connect with a group like that, and he's
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Speaker 1: got his team playing inspiring ball. Let's get to the
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Speaker 1: big showdown from the weekend. There were many, but this
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Speaker 1: one stands out. Charging about what do you have for
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Speaker 1: us AJ Cubs White Sox was a vibe.
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Speaker 2: I mean, this is how it used to be when
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Speaker 2: both teams were trying for so long, one of the
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Speaker 2: other wasn't trying, and now they're both and I wouldn't
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Speaker 2: even say the White Sox have really even tried yet.
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Speaker 2: They're just playing really well. And the city was on
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Speaker 2: notice and it was awesome to watch. The game yesterday
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Speaker 2: was crazy three run lead going into the ninth. Confordo
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Speaker 2: hits a three run homer to tie it, uh and
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Speaker 2: then ethgar Kiro walks it off. I mean, it was,
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Speaker 2: it was. It was a good game to watch. It
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Speaker 2: was a fun game to watch. The whole weekend was fun.
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Speaker 2: All the games are really good. The crowds were into it.
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Speaker 2: There was a ton of fights, which I don't condone,
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Speaker 2: but it always happens in the In the Socks Cubs rivalry,
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Speaker 2: we saw pie Crow Armstrong say some things to some
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Speaker 2: some fans in the stands, and you know what, that's him.
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Speaker 2: But this was how this this series is meant to be.
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Speaker 2: I tell people, I played Red Sox Yankees, I played
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Speaker 2: Dodgers Giants, I played Cardinals Cubs. I played in a
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Speaker 2: lot of the biggest rivalries in MLB, and this one,
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Speaker 2: to me, those six games that we played were the
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Speaker 2: closest I ever saw to playing a postseason game in
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Speaker 2: the regular season when both teams were good and both
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Speaker 2: teams were really trying. It was. The atmosphere was incredible
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Speaker 2: and this is the way it should be. I never
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Speaker 2: believe it. I honestly never believed it. When you said it,
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Speaker 2: it was like, all right, fine, like your Chicago, your
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Speaker 2: Chicago dum makes you say that.
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Speaker 3: I saw it this weekend. I saw what like just
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Speaker 3: the energy. Yeah, the games were good. You know, they
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Speaker 3: had the stars Wrikami hits two homers in one game.
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Speaker 3: Like the guys that were playing that you would think
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Speaker 3: you wanted to see in this in this rivalry, in
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Speaker 3: this series did some cool things, and then the Sunday
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Speaker 3: game was ridiculous to have that much energy, to have
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Speaker 3: that much in a May middle literally middle of May series,
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Speaker 3: and had the outcomes the way they were White Sox.
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Speaker 3: One didn't think the White Sox were gonna win this.
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Speaker 2: It was.
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Speaker 3: It was awesome, and I completely disagreed with you, but
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Speaker 3: I never experienced it, and I think this is something
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Speaker 3: it's showcased what people need to experience and why teams
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Speaker 3: need to try.
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Speaker 2: I get it.
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Speaker 3: The Cubs are just as to blame as the White Sox.
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Speaker 3: The Cubs didn't try for a lot of years. Then
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Speaker 3: the White Sox weren't very good. Whether they were trying
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Speaker 3: or not, they weren't very good. And now they're both good.
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Speaker 3: At this point in the year, it was it was
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Speaker 3: fun to watch.
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Speaker 1: details on the topic of trying. The White Sox signed
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Speaker 1: Murakami this offseason, and aj I think it's fair to
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Speaker 1: say that part of it was the rest of baseball
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Speaker 1: allowing the White Sox to sign him for a rate
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Speaker 1: like that. I don't think they were going to pay
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Speaker 1: massive dollars for him. If we could scrap it all
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Speaker 1: and do it again, things would change. It's a big
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Speaker 1: part of it. Another couple homers for him on Saturday.
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Speaker 1: There have been a lot of articles coming out lately
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Speaker 1: on almost every publication that's covering baseball. Seriously, what happened?
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Speaker 1: Why the league miss right? Like? So, I was just
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Speaker 1: reading the one from Sam Blum this morning, for example,
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Speaker 1: and he's going off of the end zone contact rate
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Speaker 1: the league said was too low, not hitting velocity. And
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Speaker 1: then there's you know, scouts quoted essentially saying, I don't
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Speaker 1: think his defense is going to be able to make
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Speaker 1: up or his offense is going to be able to
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Speaker 1: make up for his defensive issues. You know, some in
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Speaker 1: the league saw him as like a massive liability at
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Speaker 1: first base. Watch him play. Is he the best first
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Speaker 1: baseman in the league? Not close? Is he the worst
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Speaker 1: first baseman in the league? Not close. He looks fine,
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Speaker 1: average good, forty homers and average defense at first base
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Speaker 1: is worth more than what the White Sox paid for.
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Speaker 1: And to me, the reason I'm bringing this up again,
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Speaker 1: aj is I just think it's changed the complexion of
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Speaker 1: the organization. It sparked things a little more. It's somebody
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Speaker 1: that you can market around and rally around. It's a
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Speaker 1: home run threat who everyone's talking about. And he's not
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Speaker 1: the only one I know. Vargus is playing super well.
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Speaker 1: Montgomery et cetera. But he seems to be bringing it
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Speaker 1: all together. You're closer to it. You watch more pitches
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Speaker 1: of them than I do. What do you think.
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Speaker 2: I think he's brought a different presence. He's brought something
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Speaker 2: that they can the fans can focus on. I mean
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Speaker 2: him and Montgomery and listen, I gotta give m A.
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Speaker 2: Gill Vargas a ton of credit here. Also, the average
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Speaker 2: is down, by the way, He's going to be Rookie
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Speaker 2: of the Year, Markamy. I don't care what Jim Bowden says
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Speaker 2: and Kevin McGonagall or whatever. But if the white Socks
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Speaker 2: stay in this race, and they right now are in
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Speaker 2: this race, if they stay in this race and he
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Speaker 2: keeps he gets an OPS of nine thirty four at
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Speaker 2: the end of this year, guess what, he's gonna win
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Speaker 2: Rookie of the Year. So I'll be right on that
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Speaker 2: one too. K percentage. Who cares, No one cares about
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Speaker 2: K's anymore. Strike out all you want, just keep hitting
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Speaker 2: ops in nine thirty four. He shows he shows some
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Speaker 2: of the younger guys how to take your bats. He's
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Speaker 2: just been a good presence in as far as his
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Speaker 2: defense goes. He's playing first base, and I know Ron
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Speaker 2: Washington said. Ron Washington said first base is incredibly difficult.
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Speaker 2: In that terrible movie Moneyball, it is hard, right, But
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Speaker 2: he was a third basement in Japan. He's moved over
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Speaker 2: to first and been pretty darn good. So I don't
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Speaker 2: know what the miss was here. I'm not a scout.
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Speaker 2: I didn't see him play before this, but we saw
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Speaker 2: him perform in the WBC in big moments. Remember he
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Speaker 2: got the big hit a few years ago against US
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Speaker 2: to win that game against some guys who have some
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Speaker 2: pretty good velocity, were major league pitchers. So I'm very
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Speaker 2: happy that he fell to the White Sox and the
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Speaker 2: White Sox were able to sign him because he has
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Speaker 2: brought a different presence at the White Sox Anita for
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Speaker 2: a long.
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Speaker 1: Time, he's talked about it being a big chip to Kratz,
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Speaker 1: so this article talked about Yoshida and even say as Suzuki,
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Speaker 1: he's been a nice player, but he was a superstar,
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Speaker 1: and they're like, oh, it didn't translate to superstar. I'm like,
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Speaker 1: all right, well, he's been a very nice player. I
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Speaker 1: know he's lacking a little especially with runners scoringstition. By
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Speaker 1: the way, it's five for forty struck out in a
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Speaker 1: big spot this weekend, but in general he's been a
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Speaker 1: plus player, right and Yoshida, you can make a different
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Speaker 1: case for or Kami has this big chip because it's
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Speaker 1: not just about him. He was quoted in the story saying,
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Speaker 1: when I came to the majors, my goal was to
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Speaker 1: change the perspective of NPB players in Japan, perspective of
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Speaker 1: what people are looking at here on position players over there.
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Speaker 1: And he thinks he's raised the level already with what
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Speaker 1: he's shown in the first quarter this season. Long way
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Speaker 1: to go. But when he talks like that to me,
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Speaker 1: it makes it like it's personal and it has to
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Speaker 1: do with his countrymen being disrespected.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I say, Suzuki. I remember when he
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Speaker 2: came over and we had played against him with Team USA,
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Speaker 2: and I was like, this dude's like he's legit.
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Speaker 3: He had he looked the part in the sense of
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Speaker 3: speed zone discipline, like walking more than he's striking out
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Speaker 3: all that stuff, and he didn't transition. He didn't transition
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Speaker 3: at all, like more comedy has transitioned. And so maybe
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Speaker 3: he does have that, like you said, little chip on
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Speaker 3: his shoulder. Maybe he has that you know, Okay, Well
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Speaker 3: the reason I didn't hit krat said I can't hit
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Speaker 3: ninety four plus, Well, you know what, I didn't see
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Speaker 3: it very often. So when you don't see something very often,
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Speaker 3: how are you going to necessarily catch up to it
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Speaker 3: or make the adjustment for it. And everybody who's like, oh,
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Speaker 3: he strikes out so much, he's got a great eye.
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Speaker 3: He's got a great eye. People have stopped talking about
12:20
Speaker 3: Kyle Schwarber striking out too much. And Kyle Schwarber has
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Speaker 3: four more strikeouts than more comedy. And I think he's
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Speaker 3: the part that's cool to see him do this is
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Speaker 3: he's doing it as kind of the lynch pin for
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Speaker 3: this team. Is Vargas having a good year? Absolutely? Is
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Speaker 3: Colson Montgomery?
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Speaker 2: Is he a.
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Speaker 3: Problem for teams when he's in the box, So you
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Speaker 3: think about him where he's at in the order, But
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Speaker 3: you can't let more ecamy beat you right now. And
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Speaker 3: he's doing it. To have this many home runs this early,
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Speaker 3: very few, there's probably better. There's probably better Japanese or
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Speaker 3: players that have done better in America that have come
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Speaker 3: over from the MPB. But to do it right away
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Speaker 3: is so impressive and way harder than people are really
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Speaker 3: giving you credit for.
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Speaker 1: Remember, most people in the off season were like, Oh,
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Speaker 1: there's gonna be an adjustment. He's gonna have to figure
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Speaker 1: out how to time up major league pitching. Not really.
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Speaker 2: I said it.
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Speaker 1: You you, Yeah, you were one.
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Speaker 2: I said it. I even talked.
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Speaker 3: I talked to different scouts of teams that needed a
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Speaker 3: DH and they all said the same thing. They all
13:25
Speaker 3: said the same thing. They were like, Yo, everybody's gonna
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Speaker 3: say all the big hit that he had against tam Usa,
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Speaker 3: it was against Merrill Kelly. It wasn't velocity, and it
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Speaker 3: was like, were they nitpicking things? Were they seeing hitting?
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Speaker 3: And aj was a really good hitter. He didn't have
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Speaker 3: like ridiculous power like Moricmi. But hitting in the big
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Speaker 3: leagues is about making an adjustment. Anybody who teaches hitting
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Speaker 3: and goes, okay, well you got to swing this way
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Speaker 3: every time, every time you got to swing one way, Well,
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Speaker 3: what happens when they're just attacking you up top? You
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Speaker 3: got to be able to make the adjustment. And for
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Speaker 3: him to have this much success early, he's already gone
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Speaker 3: through two or three cycles of adjustments from how the
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Speaker 3: league is pitching him and he's still bashing Dingers.
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Speaker 1: Impressive, and so are the White Sox right now, hanging
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Speaker 1: in there, hanging in there. You know, we're past a
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Speaker 1: quarter point of the season. They're in one of the
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Speaker 1: worst divisions so far in terms of wins and losses.
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Speaker 1: Al Central not good. L Weska, Yeah, when.
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Speaker 2: Do we start talking about the Tigers of being in trouble?
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Speaker 2: Just asking when when they stop hit it? Oh? Wait
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Speaker 2: that now, different segment.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Ken Rosenthal talks a lot about a big series
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Speaker 1: that's firing up this week, the Padres and the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: To hit the Padres side for a moment. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: Dodgers later. AJ Padres swept the Mariners. When do we
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Speaker 1: start talking about what's wrong with the Mariners?
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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, we already we kind of already have, haven't we?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have. But also the Al West is terrible
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Speaker 1: right now, so they're like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, right in the did you guys watch the game yesterday?
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Speaker 2: I mean, the Padre's pitching completely shut down the Maris offense.
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Speaker 2: There is no offense on this team at all. It
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Speaker 2: is even I mean, I know they scored a couple
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Speaker 2: runs late, but it was like they were just it
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Speaker 2: was they had no chance.
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Speaker 3: I'm like, what are they They handed it up to them.
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Speaker 3: Stop throwing strikes. They just handed those runs to them essentially.
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Speaker 2: I know, by the way, you have a seven nothing
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Speaker 2: lead and you throw a rookie a three to one
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Speaker 2: change up. I was even they even said it on
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Speaker 2: the broadcast. I was like, what are we doing? I
15:29
Speaker 2: think PV said it on the broadcast. I was like,
15:31
Speaker 2: what are we doing? Like, you got to make the
15:33
Speaker 2: guy hit his way on? And by the way, do
15:36
Speaker 2: you guys like the New NBC broadcast, there's a lot
15:38
Speaker 2: of people talking. I feel like so many It's like,
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Speaker 2: who's talking? Wait, we're going here? It's and I love Jason.
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Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm just it just seems like there's
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Speaker 2: a lot because it's three guys. It's three people in
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Speaker 2: the booth, then a guy on the field, and then
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Speaker 2: someone in the studio.
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Speaker 1: Then it's like, Wow, I did a game package for
15:56
Speaker 1: a long time where it's different people all the time too.
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Speaker 1: I prefer consistency.
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Speaker 1: last week and we got it all together over the weekend,
17:15
Speaker 1: and let's talk about what's going on with Edwin Diaz. Well,
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Speaker 1: nothing really publicly, and I have no idea if he's
17:21
Speaker 1: going to get in trouble or anything, but there seems
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Speaker 1: to be some pretty strong evidence with videos and interviews
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Speaker 1: that AJ he's into cock fighting. He likes to raise
17:32
Speaker 1: them roosters and have them go at it. And it's
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Speaker 1: not just him. His younger brother Alexis he's been in
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Speaker 1: And then so were the two big jockeys that were
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Speaker 1: one and two in the derby. Those are the dudes
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Speaker 1: that are the cousins of Elmer Rodriguez, right, that's the
17:52
Speaker 1: whole lineage there. So there's a lot going on here.
17:55
Speaker 1: It goes back, really, it first starts they could they
17:57
Speaker 1: found stuff back to twenty ten. I don't even how
18:00
Speaker 1: old he was at that. I mean, that's a long
18:01
Speaker 1: ass time ago, sixteen years ago. But there's him talking about, how,
18:06
Speaker 1: you know, kind of like, oh, good things. It's legal here.
18:10
Speaker 1: It's not. It's not legal in Puerto Rico, So I
18:13
Speaker 1: don't know, that's bad info. It's been illegal there since
18:16
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen. In all of the US and its territories,
18:19
Speaker 1: the territories was the part that was newer about seven
18:22
Speaker 1: years ago. So there's been a ton of chatter the
18:24
Speaker 1: last few days. AJ, there's been some articles, not a ton,
18:28
Speaker 1: and I don't know what's going to happen from all
18:30
Speaker 1: of this. Had no idea on like the criminal side
18:32
Speaker 1: of the investigation, how the government works with that, and
18:35
Speaker 1: how the League is going to tie into this. But
18:37
Speaker 1: we have not heard much of a peep besides tons
18:40
Speaker 1: of posts from what's supposed to be Edwin Diez's Facebook page.
18:45
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't want to get it. I mean, I
18:46
Speaker 2: don't want to get into rumors. He clearly from everyone
18:49
Speaker 2: saying from things he said he's been to these. I've
18:52
Speaker 2: never been to one of these. It's it's not a
18:56
Speaker 2: good look. That's all I can say. If this is true,
18:58
Speaker 2: it's not a good look. And I don't know. I
19:00
Speaker 2: hate to get into rumors like this. It's it's just
19:02
Speaker 2: a bad it's a bad thing, and I hope that
19:05
Speaker 2: people understand that, uh, you know, it shouldn't be done.
19:07
Speaker 2: That's why it's against the law. Yeah, I mean, anytime
19:11
Speaker 2: you're posting and advertising something that's against the law, it's
19:17
Speaker 2: it's a tough it's a tough look because it's happening,
19:21
Speaker 2: and it's a tougher look because you are somebody in
19:23
Speaker 2: the spotlight. And when you're somebody in the spotlight, I'm
19:25
Speaker 2: not saying that you need to be held to a
19:27
Speaker 2: different standard because federal law is federal law, and.
19:31
Speaker 3: You shouldn't be like he. He should be treated like
19:35
Speaker 3: anybody else. But you're as soon as as soon as
19:39
Speaker 3: his I think, are the jockeys his cousins.
19:41
Speaker 2: I don't one hundred percent know Elma Rodriguez his cousin.
19:47
Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, but the Yankees young rookie.
19:51
Speaker 3: Correct, correct, But there the Artis brothers. As soon as
19:55
Speaker 3: they won the Kentucky Derby. As soon as they were
19:58
Speaker 3: one two in the Kentucky Derby, people started going through
20:02
Speaker 3: all of their stuff. Before that, all this stuff had
20:05
Speaker 3: already been posted. So anything I tell this to the
20:07
Speaker 3: high school kids, I tell this to you know, different
20:11
Speaker 3: teams that I go and talk to. You're not famous, now,
20:14
Speaker 3: I promise, because I don't know you. I didn't know
20:17
Speaker 3: the Ortiz jockey people. As soon as it starts getting out,
20:21
Speaker 3: anything that you've ever posted comes back, and you have
20:25
Speaker 3: to have an answer to it. Not a reckoning, but
20:29
Speaker 3: and it is illegal. Whether people are going to sit
20:32
Speaker 3: here and say, oh, well, you know, you're not perfect.
20:34
Speaker 3: I'm not perfect, you're right, but there are things that
20:39
Speaker 3: most likely there's some type of punishment out there for
20:43
Speaker 3: people that do this, and so are they going to
20:46
Speaker 3: Is major League Baseball going to do something? Had they
20:49
Speaker 3: ever had this precedent before? Everybody knows the you know
20:53
Speaker 3: what happened with Michael Vick and the dog fighting. Is
20:56
Speaker 3: there is there a precedent that Major League Baseball has.
21:00
Speaker 2: That's the sin. That's why probably everything's very we haven't
21:02
Speaker 2: heard anything yet because they're not sure and they have
21:05
Speaker 2: to figure this out the validity of everything. Was it
21:08
Speaker 2: just pictures? Was he posting it? Was he?
21:10
Speaker 3: How involved was he? And that's where the investigation will
21:13
Speaker 3: probably take some time.
21:15
Speaker 1: USA Today put out a couple articles, and I mean
21:18
Speaker 1: it is a long list of things that they were
21:21
Speaker 1: able to pull before it was then taken down, So
21:25
Speaker 1: they were able to pull photos, videos. There's also an
21:29
Speaker 1: article from March tenth, and they're basically talking about how Diaz,
21:34
Speaker 1: you know, went to some cock fighting thing on a
21:38
Speaker 1: day I guess in between the World Baseball Classic and
21:41
Speaker 1: in there. That's where the quote is from where he
21:44
Speaker 1: said to El Nuevo Dia on March tenth, quote, it's
21:48
Speaker 1: a pastime I followed since I was a child. It's
21:50
Speaker 1: legal in Puerto Rico, thank god, otherwise I wouldn't be here.
21:54
Speaker 1: So there's also a missing education involved, Like you can say, oh, no,
21:58
Speaker 1: he knew it was illegal.
21:59
Speaker 2: I don't know. I don't know if he knew it
22:01
Speaker 2: was well. I think one thing that you have to
22:02
Speaker 2: understand is that it's a cultural thing in Puerto Rico.
22:05
Speaker 2: So people, even though it might be illegal, I think
22:08
Speaker 2: there's a big thing where they're trying to say, it's
22:10
Speaker 2: been in our culture the whole time, we're going to
22:11
Speaker 2: continue to do it. So I think that's why some
22:14
Speaker 2: people might not understand that it actually is illegal. Not
22:17
Speaker 2: giving him an excuse at all, but it is one
22:19
Speaker 2: of those things where they have fought back on this
22:21
Speaker 2: numerous times. There's been lawsuits and other things. If you
22:23
Speaker 2: read about this a little bit where people in Puerto
22:25
Speaker 2: Rico said, hey, this is part of our culture. Now
22:28
Speaker 2: it's still against the law, but there's a million things
22:31
Speaker 2: that are against law. Speedings against the law. Everyone does
22:33
Speaker 2: it all the time. Right, there's a million things Texting
22:36
Speaker 2: and driving is against law. I mean, listen, Ain't nobody
22:39
Speaker 2: on this show can say they'd never text and drove before.
22:41
Speaker 2: So I mean, come on, like, there's a lot of
22:44
Speaker 2: things that are against the law. Now, this one's obviously
22:46
Speaker 2: worse than some of those other things that I just mentioned,
22:49
Speaker 2: But if it's part of the culture, listen, I get
22:52
Speaker 2: maybe why Edwin Diez is a little bit confused, but
22:55
Speaker 2: I just you know, it's one of those things. It's
22:58
Speaker 2: just a bad situation and I'm god really didn't want
23:00
Speaker 2: to talk about it, but we brought it up, so
23:01
Speaker 2: we got to talk a little bit about it.
23:04
Speaker 1: No, And I think for for our show, this is
23:06
Speaker 1: where we're going to try to address anything that we can.
23:10
Speaker 1: And you know, we put the segment of spreading rumors.
23:14
Speaker 1: There's a lot put out there. There's a lot on Facebook page,
23:16
Speaker 1: but it also is put out in articles now, in
23:19
Speaker 1: publications that we follow in and get our news from.
23:22
Speaker 1: So you know, our fans were looking to us, Can
23:25
Speaker 1: we tell you much about what we think is going
23:26
Speaker 1: to happen? Not really like do you think if you
23:29
Speaker 1: had to guess, do you think that Edwin Diaz is
23:32
Speaker 1: going to get suspended for this from MLB, it's an
23:39
Speaker 1: interesting case.
23:40
Speaker 2: From Michael Vick. Did is just Michael Vick territory, Like
23:45
Speaker 2: you know, it's I don't know, it depends on depends
23:49
Speaker 2: on what level. And it's really going to be based
23:51
Speaker 2: on this is all, you know.
23:52
Speaker 3: All the stuff that we're reading about is stuff that
23:55
Speaker 3: USA Today found posts. Now they're going to have to say, actually, fine,
24:00
Speaker 3: in my opinion, they would have to find concrete evidence,
24:04
Speaker 3: not just pictures or statements from him promoting a fight
24:09
Speaker 3: that's coming up or cock fighting that is gonna be
24:13
Speaker 3: happening at a certain place. Like you get it, like
24:16
Speaker 3: you are used sometimes as a celebrity to promote things
24:20
Speaker 3: that you're like, yeah, okay, what you know. I I
24:23
Speaker 3: know that stuff. I've been to some But so it's
24:27
Speaker 3: gonna be the evidence. And like I said, I couldn't
24:32
Speaker 3: find after reading these USA Today articles, I couldn't find
24:35
Speaker 3: a case in Major League Baseball that is similar to this.
24:41
Speaker 3: And so you have to look at what happened with
24:44
Speaker 3: Michael Vick and the NFL and the federal government came
24:49
Speaker 3: down on Michael Vick very hard. So is that the
24:52
Speaker 3: same thing that's gonna happen to Edwin Diaz. I have
24:55
Speaker 3: no idea, but for Major League Baseball feels like they
25:00
Speaker 3: they don't have like an example of something that has
25:03
Speaker 3: happened before in this realm.
25:06
Speaker 1: And sometimes, from my observation, leagues will try to follow
25:11
Speaker 1: the law first and see if there was an investigation
25:14
Speaker 1: and something followed right. And it's case by case because
25:17
Speaker 1: sometimes the law gets complicated, cases take a while, and
25:21
Speaker 1: then teams don't want to be paying players during that
25:24
Speaker 1: time period or if they have to sit out or
25:26
Speaker 1: take a while, so it gets complicated. I just I
25:29
Speaker 1: think you guys would all agree. I don't remember a
25:31
Speaker 1: case like this in baseball. I don't remember a case
25:34
Speaker 1: with any animal fighting that's illegal that's involved in baseball,
25:38
Speaker 1: especially not specifically cock fighting. I don't know a lot
25:40
Speaker 1: about it, but I agree with AJ, I don't understand it.
25:44
Speaker 1: But in Puerto Rican culture, it's a thing, and it
25:47
Speaker 1: does seem like there is a subset of people that
25:50
Speaker 1: have been fighting the law that was implemented on them.
25:54
Speaker 1: Like not that's we don't want that. I mean, you
25:57
Speaker 1: can argue that, but it is. It is the damn law.
26:00
Speaker 2: Here's the thing in Spain, bullfighting is frowned upon, right.
26:06
Speaker 2: Ozzie Gehan was our manager. He used to go to bullfights.
26:08
Speaker 2: He used to talk about it. I love bullfighting. I
26:10
Speaker 2: grew up watching bullfighting on TV, and I I've always
26:13
Speaker 2: wanted to go and he would go to bullfights and
26:15
Speaker 2: talk about it. I don't know, is that the same thing,
26:18
Speaker 2: because that is kind of not I think it got
26:21
Speaker 2: banned at some point, did it? Not? Bullfighting in a
26:24
Speaker 2: lot of Spain. I mean, I know it still happens
26:26
Speaker 2: around Barcelona, I think area. I'm not exactly sure, so
26:29
Speaker 2: don't quote me. But for Ozzy was taking a bunch
26:31
Speaker 2: of grief because he was like, I like bullfighting and
26:34
Speaker 2: to go to bullfighting and I see bullfighting and I
26:36
Speaker 2: grew up on bullfighting. So I don't know. I mean,
26:39
Speaker 2: unless you can prove Edwin Diaz actually had one of
26:41
Speaker 2: the cocks and made the Cox fight each other, and
26:44
Speaker 2: I don't know that you can don't. I don't know.
26:46
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's just it's just a bad story
26:49
Speaker 2: that I don't feel awkward talking about. I think I
26:54
Speaker 2: think it's something that I know Michael Vick went because
26:57
Speaker 2: of that example. Whether people want to make it a
26:59
Speaker 2: line comparison or not. He got in trouble because of
27:03
Speaker 2: the funding, because of how involved Azigian going to sit
27:08
Speaker 2: in the front row. Maybe that's not the same in
27:12
Speaker 2: the minor leagues. I heard of a team. It wasn't
27:14
Speaker 2: my team, and I never saw it. They would go
27:17
Speaker 2: and buy beta fish at the local at the local store,
27:21
Speaker 2: and they would each buy a beta fish and they
27:23
Speaker 2: would put it in the bowl and whoever would win,
27:26
Speaker 2: they would win money from the beta fish. Because beta fish,
27:29
Speaker 2: I guess when they when they are in the same
27:32
Speaker 2: bowl or if there next to each other, they like
27:34
Speaker 2: or they see their own reflection, they're like they attack
27:36
Speaker 2: each other. So I guess that's the minor league, minor
27:39
Speaker 2: league version of beta fish fighting.
27:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's a beta fish thing that that I've heard
27:46
Speaker 1: of where I think it's like two males together or
27:48
Speaker 1: something will fight to the death something like that. Yep,
27:51
Speaker 1: you're not off and for the bull fighting, yeah, from
27:54
Speaker 1: the team behind the scenes. It's legal in most of Spain,
27:56
Speaker 1: constitutionally protected as part of the country's national heritage. However,
28:01
Speaker 1: the sport is deeply polarized. The legal status varies significantly
28:05
Speaker 1: depending on the region, so just like AJ said, this
28:08
Speaker 1: stuff gets complicated whether you are super super against it
28:12
Speaker 1: or it's not as big of a deal to you
28:13
Speaker 1: because they're like, oh, it's animals, Like do I think
28:17
Speaker 1: we should be doing that? Nah? I like watching if
28:20
Speaker 1: you're going to watch a fight, I like a little boxing.
28:23
Speaker 1: But for me, there's not much we can do about
28:27
Speaker 1: this until we find out right what else happens. So,
28:30
Speaker 1: and there's not a lot of coverage on this right now.
28:32
Speaker 1: Right there's a couple of publications, a lot of blogs
28:35
Speaker 1: and tweets and rumors. So what we do know is
28:39
Speaker 1: if that's a real Facebook page, it was flooded with
28:42
Speaker 1: evidence to be able to show that Edwin's into it.
28:45
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens. Obviously, as more news comes in,
28:49
Speaker 1: we'll let you know. We got nothing to hide here.
28:50
Speaker 1: We're just reporting on what we do and don't know
28:53
Speaker 1: about the situation. If there's writers that cover the story
28:56
Speaker 1: that do an investigation, we will be the first ones
28:59
Speaker 1: to request to bring them on the show. When we say,
29:02
Speaker 1: for the first quarter and sometimes even the first half
29:04
Speaker 1: of the season, it's too early to judge what the
29:07
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies are doing lately. Is why we say that
29:11
Speaker 1: they are fifteen and four in their last nineteen I
29:14
Speaker 1: mean aj They dusted the pirates this weekend and capped
29:17
Speaker 1: it off by having Wheeler beat schemes on Sunday. They're
29:20
Speaker 1: on freaking fire.
29:24
Speaker 2: They got confident. This is what happens when something changes,
29:27
Speaker 2: whatever it is we joked about. Remember cal Rawley taking
29:30
Speaker 2: the shower and they changed managers. Not that it was
29:32
Speaker 2: Rob Thompson's fault, but maybe he lit a fire and
29:35
Speaker 2: some of the people had to look in the mirror.
29:36
Speaker 2: And then they caught the easy schedule right, and then
29:39
Speaker 2: everyone kind of started feeling better about themselves. And this
29:42
Speaker 2: is what the rest of the National League didn't want
29:44
Speaker 2: to see. You didn't want to see Wheeler healthy. You
29:46
Speaker 2: don't want to see Christopher Sanchez who never gives up
29:48
Speaker 2: a run, right, Painter goes tonight, But they go out
29:51
Speaker 2: and Harper swinging, and Schwarber has twenty homers already, by
29:54
Speaker 2: the way, yes, twenty they played forty seven games. Boom
29:59
Speaker 2: Turner the rest. These guys are starting to get going
30:01
Speaker 2: a little bit. This is what the rest of the
30:03
Speaker 2: National League did not want to see. But they got confident.
30:06
Speaker 2: Call me on June first, because from now till June first,
30:10
Speaker 2: even starting this weekend, the Pirates are a good team.
30:12
Speaker 2: Starting this weekend till June first, they have a tough schedule.
30:17
Speaker 3: They are They're in it, not like the last not
30:20
Speaker 3: like the last fifteen games. So and it's not just
30:22
Speaker 3: Don Mattingly. Ever, since they called Garrett Stubbs up check
30:26
Speaker 3: the Phillies record, I'm just saying vibes. Guys in the clubhouse,
30:30
Speaker 3: their new platoon or back up left fielder, Garrett Stubbs.
30:37
Speaker 1: They do love him, all right, Let's do this. Injuries
30:44
Speaker 1: do suck. There were many from the weekend since we
30:47
Speaker 1: last had our show finish up on Friday afternoon. Let's
30:51
Speaker 1: run through some big ones, starting with Blake Snell aj
30:56
Speaker 1: back for one start, his first start of the season,
31:00
Speaker 1: and then scratched, and we find out that he's going
31:04
Speaker 1: to get surgery for loose bodies in his elbow, which
31:07
Speaker 1: is the theme of the last month in terms of
31:10
Speaker 1: pitcher injuries. That turns into a question of nanoscope schooble scope,
31:16
Speaker 1: that new technology that we've been talking about that school underwent,
31:20
Speaker 1: or just the regular one which would probably knock him
31:23
Speaker 1: out for a few months. He's had this before and.
31:26
Speaker 2: Did these pop up though if he was healthy, they
31:28
Speaker 2: just obviously these things just pop up out of nowhere.
31:30
Speaker 2: Because he came back and pitched to the big leagues
31:32
Speaker 2: after missing Remember, he was tired at the beginning of
31:35
Speaker 2: the year because he threw what a how many innings
31:36
Speaker 2: did he throw last year? Like we figured out like
31:38
Speaker 2: one hundred innings and he was tired going into the year.
31:41
Speaker 2: So was he hurt and he just didn't mention it
31:43
Speaker 2: or what happened to these pop up in his one
31:46
Speaker 2: big league start that he had. Listen, I love Blake
31:49
Speaker 2: and I love watching Blake snowpitch. He's fun to watch.
31:51
Speaker 2: He gets it, he's laughing, he's having fun out there.
31:53
Speaker 2: He's got great stuff. But if there's one team out
31:56
Speaker 2: there that can manage with this, it's the Dodgers. And
32:00
Speaker 2: here we go again. With the Dodgers. They just go
32:02
Speaker 2: and get Eric Lawer and he'll probably turn into a
32:04
Speaker 2: star too, because they pick him up, they figure out
32:07
Speaker 2: something and boom, watch him go.
32:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, good point, good pickup.
32:13
Speaker 2: And he's gonna I mean, the guy that's had success
32:15
Speaker 2: in lower and I think because he was chatting a
32:19
Speaker 2: little bit too much. I think that's why you got
32:21
Speaker 2: run out of Toronto.
32:23
Speaker 1: I don't.
32:25
Speaker 2: I don't know.
32:25
Speaker 3: I don't think Toronto's pitching death is so crazy deep
32:28
Speaker 3: right now with all the injuries that they have that
32:30
Speaker 3: they're like, yeah, we can we don't.
32:33
Speaker 2: Need Eric Lower right now.
32:35
Speaker 3: I think because he was talking and the Dodgers are like,
32:38
Speaker 3: we're good, we can handle that. We're gonna tell you
32:41
Speaker 3: exactly because he's not gonna He wasn't happy with his
32:44
Speaker 3: role all the time in Toronto. He wasn't happy with
32:47
Speaker 3: the amount of money that he got, which I completely agree.
32:49
Speaker 3: I think it was a flawed arbitration system for him.
32:52
Speaker 3: But he's gonna have a You go to the you
32:56
Speaker 3: go to the Dodgers, where your role is gonna be
33:00
Speaker 3: undefined at any given week because of the fact that
33:04
Speaker 3: they have different dudes that step up in the rotation,
33:06
Speaker 3: and you have different guys that are doing really good
33:09
Speaker 3: in rotation that come playoff time. You're throwing in a pen.
33:12
Speaker 3: So you know, hopefully for the Dodgers, they know this
33:15
Speaker 3: guy and they're like, yeah, whatever, it's no big deal.
33:18
Speaker 2: We like him. He's gonna come in. He's gonna fit
33:20
Speaker 2: right into.
33:20
Speaker 1: Our clubhouse swingman. He's perfect swingman with a chip on
33:25
Speaker 1: his shoulder and willing to listen to an organization that
33:28
Speaker 1: knows what they're doing with the pitching. And Toronto did too.
33:30
Speaker 1: He was brilliant with them last year. Brilliant, I mean,
33:33
Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal talks about it unfair territory today. Who was
33:37
Speaker 1: Ernie clement A the unsung MVP of the team last
33:39
Speaker 1: year with the way that he would fill in evenings
33:41
Speaker 1: and then you know, really put together a strong, strong
33:44
Speaker 1: year and made what eight appearances, six starts for them,
33:48
Speaker 1: and then they cut eight. It was weird, but it's
33:50
Speaker 1: a fresh start for him. Back to Snell for a moment.
33:52
Speaker 1: Dave Roberts talked about it. He's gonna get surgery on Tuesday.
33:58
Speaker 1: As I understand it, it's going to be to take
34:02
Speaker 1: out those loose bodies and it's supposed to be a
34:05
Speaker 1: lot quicker, a quicker recovery. So we're encouraged about that
34:12
Speaker 1: and so expect him certainly back this season. Don't know
34:16
Speaker 1: really a timetable, but I think just kind of with
34:19
Speaker 1: the MRI, the scans and everything, we feel good about,
34:23
Speaker 1: you know, getting back to play Cerven. The names Lucky
34:28
Speaker 1: for the Dodgers. There's plenty of talent around them. It
34:31
Speaker 1: stinks for them to lose Snell now for a good
34:34
Speaker 1: chunk of time. Glass now is currently on the shelf.
34:36
Speaker 1: You know who shoved yesterday, Roki good point. The Angels
34:43
Speaker 1: were railroaded. They look currently like perhaps the worst team
34:46
Speaker 1: in baseball. The Dodgers outscored them what I think it
34:49
Speaker 1: was like three to three or something. I mean, they
34:51
Speaker 1: destroyed them. Yeah, it looked like two teams on different
34:56
Speaker 1: playing fields. But Roki Sazaki had a career high seven
34:59
Speaker 1: innings career I punch outs career eye swing and miss
35:03
Speaker 1: the old deal. I know you guys are gonna say, hey,
35:04
Speaker 1: take it with a grain of salt, but there's something
35:07
Speaker 1: you look good.
35:08
Speaker 2: I watched this game. He look good, He look good.
35:10
Speaker 2: This is the best he's looked as a big league
35:12
Speaker 2: pitcher by far. And yes, take it with a grain
35:14
Speaker 2: of salt. Is the Angels, by the way, speaking of
35:16
Speaker 2: a bad team? Wow, I mean, wow, it's been so
35:22
Speaker 2: long for the Angels. Wow. I just I don't even
35:25
Speaker 2: know what they could do. What could they even try
35:27
Speaker 2: to do to make this team better? That's the biggest
35:29
Speaker 2: thing I don't.
35:30
Speaker 1: Even sell off all the parts and start again, because
35:32
Speaker 1: it's what parts.
35:33
Speaker 2: They do that all the time, Scott, you keep saying that.
35:35
Speaker 1: But what they don't even know they don't do that.
35:37
Speaker 2: They have to sell. Who do they have that they
35:39
Speaker 2: could netto? Yeah, he's he's the one that I like.
35:45
Speaker 2: I like watching guy that I would say let's build
35:47
Speaker 2: around him.
35:48
Speaker 1: And then signed him. They haven't extended him. What are
35:51
Speaker 1: they waiting for?
35:52
Speaker 2: That doesn't That doesn't make you more wins. You have
35:55
Speaker 2: guys that you have guys that are playing on an
35:59
Speaker 2: almost regular basis that one don't look like they want
36:03
Speaker 2: to be there, two don't always necessarily know the situation.
36:07
Speaker 2: And three this bullpen was supposed to like they were
36:11
Speaker 2: supposed to just build this pen and build this like, Okay,
36:14
Speaker 2: we got the young young guys in this in this lineup,
36:19
Speaker 2: and now you know we're gonna build around.
36:21
Speaker 3: This with this rotation and bullpen. And they haven't done it.
36:24
Speaker 3: Like it's just a no, you don't know you trade
36:28
Speaker 3: netto and I'm you might as well send you might
36:30
Speaker 3: as well send trout with them. I'm not saying I'm
36:33
Speaker 3: not I'm not bringing up the whole trout trade. Yes,
36:36
Speaker 3: no whatever, But to me, when I watched them play,
36:40
Speaker 3: Neto provides a fire that I do not see from
36:44
Speaker 3: some of the other guys in this lineup. It's some
36:47
Speaker 3: listless at bats. It's some listless like coming into big
36:51
Speaker 3: spots as a bullpen guy and just absolutely giving it up,
36:55
Speaker 3: and it just doesn't look like it's very The effort
37:00
Speaker 3: level for me is something that I think they've created
37:05
Speaker 3: a environment where you call guys up to the big
37:09
Speaker 3: leagues ready or not ready? How much are those.
37:13
Speaker 2: Guys getting sent down because they don't play well or
37:15
Speaker 2: their effort level is lower. I just just watching them play.
37:20
Speaker 2: Please don't get rid of Netto.
37:22
Speaker 3: I love watching I will I will tune into the
37:24
Speaker 3: first bitch of that of the game when the Angels
37:26
Speaker 3: are playing and Netto's leading.
37:27
Speaker 1: Off and then you flip away. Yeah, we could go
37:32
Speaker 1: all day on that situation. It's it's stay good night
37:35
Speaker 1: to the Angels right now. There are seasons done quick
37:39
Speaker 1: one just to finish up on the two teams in
37:42
Speaker 1: that region. Bruce Dargrad are all set back. I know
37:44
Speaker 1: we're not going to spend a lot of time on it,
37:46
Speaker 1: but you know he's dealing with a back issue. Back
37:49
Speaker 1: flared up going for images. It's just a shame. He
37:52
Speaker 1: was a fun guy to watch. Velo was crazy good
37:54
Speaker 1: and it was down in the last outing. But you know,
37:57
Speaker 1: he used to be that pomp a hondo, not at
38:00
Speaker 1: you pick up a ton of k's get the ground ball.
38:03
Speaker 1: It was a fun watch. You brought a lot of
38:04
Speaker 1: energy to the mound. But it's been years since he's
38:07
Speaker 1: been able to put together.
38:08
Speaker 2: Stay healthy, healthiness.
38:09
Speaker 1: Yeah.
38:09
Speaker 2: Well it was a cool story for a minute, but
38:11
Speaker 2: now he can't stay healthy. It hasn't been healthy five years.
38:15
Speaker 2: It's been like five years since this guy's been able
38:16
Speaker 2: to pitch. I mean, what are we doing. It's effortless
38:21
Speaker 2: one hundred and it's like, nice guys, I guess yeah,
38:25
Speaker 2: you're right, you're right. Maybe it is. Maybe it is
38:27
Speaker 2: high effort. It just doesn't look high effort. But I
38:30
Speaker 2: mean he was he Yeah, you could see when he
38:33
Speaker 2: came up he had a special arm. And he can't
38:36
Speaker 2: stay healthy. It's that's that's tough to see.
38:42
Speaker 1: Next up Jose Burrios, who has done some good things
38:45
Speaker 1: in the past in his career. I know he fell
38:47
Speaker 1: out of favor with his situation in the playoffs last year,
38:51
Speaker 1: but he's going to miss significant time. It was weird
38:53
Speaker 1: at one point. I don't know if it was connected
38:56
Speaker 1: to this injury. I feel like it was like he
38:57
Speaker 1: was saying he didn't have symptoms, but I think he
39:00
Speaker 1: is now And either way, they're figuring out what the
39:02
Speaker 1: long term situation is going to be for him, because
39:04
Speaker 1: it could be as short as a couple months, or
39:06
Speaker 1: he could have some major surgery. It's one of those
39:08
Speaker 1: where they have to go in there to the elbow
39:10
Speaker 1: on Wednesday and see what's up. So AJ one of
39:13
Speaker 1: the reports there and the writers are good, butts Ben
39:15
Speaker 1: Nicholson Smith said it could be as long as twelve
39:18
Speaker 1: to eighteen months, depending on what kind of surgery. Right,
39:22
Speaker 1: that's that we can truct.
39:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the one thing Jose Brios for years
39:27
Speaker 2: was was durable and now he's lost that durability starting
39:30
Speaker 2: with last year. So hopefully it's the lesser of the
39:34
Speaker 2: of the injuries and he can be back soon pitching
39:36
Speaker 2: because he is fun to watch. He Crash just talked
39:38
Speaker 2: about the Angels and how they have guys that aren't
39:41
Speaker 2: exactly passionate. Jose Brios was very passionate when he took
39:44
Speaker 2: them ound and he could be fun to watch when
39:46
Speaker 2: he got it going. It's crazy that he's dealing with
39:49
Speaker 2: this because, like Aj said, he was missed or consistency
39:53
Speaker 2: never on the il, and then right at the end
39:56
Speaker 2: of the season it flared up. And now this year
40:01
Speaker 2: it's been one thing after the other. So right now
40:04
Speaker 2: when it rains at poors because he had nothing before
40:07
Speaker 2: and he would always make his thirty to thirty two
40:09
Speaker 2: starts a year.
40:12
Speaker 1: Next up, position player Silet's go al East Here Trevor
40:15
Speaker 1: Story hitting the shelf. They're figuring out if he's gonna
40:18
Speaker 1: need hernia surgery. It's been a groin issue. This report
40:22
Speaker 1: from Chris Catillo said since late April, and then I
40:25
Speaker 1: think Story spoke after that and said even since spring
40:28
Speaker 1: training he's had issues bothering him. So he's gonna have
40:32
Speaker 1: more conversations with doctors. See Aja, This one's fascinating to
40:36
Speaker 1: me because you know, Story was a bust as a
40:39
Speaker 1: signing until you know, he had a pretty good year
40:41
Speaker 1: last year and the super nerds inside the Red Sox
40:46
Speaker 1: front office thought it was like fake right, So then
40:49
Speaker 1: this year he's off to a slow start, but then
40:50
Speaker 1: it's like wait, he's actually hurt so because he's been
40:53
Speaker 1: kind of one of those internal battles. Remember when all
40:55
Speaker 1: this stuff came out with Corey getting let go and
40:59
Speaker 1: there's sension on you know what kind of player Trevor
41:02
Speaker 1: Story as well? The dude's playing with a hernia. It's
41:05
Speaker 1: kind of hard to tell.
41:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, Trevor Story is another guy that just
41:09
Speaker 2: is a warrior, goes out there and plays to all
41:12
Speaker 2: kinds of stuff. So I don't know this, this is
41:17
Speaker 2: one more thing to add to the Red Sox list, right,
41:20
Speaker 2: Trevor Story. They thought he was good, and I don't know.
41:24
Speaker 2: I hate I hate talking. I hate talking injuries. I
41:26
Speaker 2: hate it sucks.
41:27
Speaker 1: It's usually a Monday thing though. There's just a lot
41:29
Speaker 1: of injuries to go.
41:30
Speaker 2: I know. Yeah, I mean he came over there and
41:35
Speaker 2: signed as a durable player, as a guy that went
41:39
Speaker 2: out there every day when he's in Colorado and he's
41:41
Speaker 2: signed in Boston and it hasn't been it. It took
41:44
Speaker 2: a little while for him to come back from. I
41:47
Speaker 2: think it was the shoulder thing that he had, and
41:52
Speaker 2: you know, he originally came in as a second basement
41:54
Speaker 2: and then they were like then Xander didn't signed back,
41:57
Speaker 2: and so they had a shortstop of their future and
42:00
Speaker 2: that shoulder. I think it was a shoulder. It may
42:03
Speaker 2: have been a hip. I'm not one hundred percent, but
42:05
Speaker 2: whatever it was, it was one of those injuries that
42:08
Speaker 2: took a year and a half to like get his
42:10
Speaker 2: strength back, to get everything back. And so you saw
42:13
Speaker 2: what you saw last year and then you'd hoped he
42:16
Speaker 2: was going to build on that and not just and
42:19
Speaker 2: you know this this extra little injury here to start
42:22
Speaker 2: the year and play through it. That's tough.
42:25
Speaker 1: Yankee suffered an injury soon after our show. We learned,
42:28
Speaker 1: you know, Max freed officially on the IL. It doesn't
42:31
Speaker 1: seem like it's necessarily long term, but we don't know
42:33
Speaker 1: for sure. Next time if you guys have him on
42:36
Speaker 1: when I'm not on, AJA asked Bowden about this situation.
42:39
Speaker 1: Jim Boden, our guy on the radio the other day,
42:42
Speaker 1: was saying how pitchers don't get a bruise from this
42:45
Speaker 1: type of situation and they're calling it a contusion. So
42:48
Speaker 1: it almost made me feel like he's not necessarily out
42:51
Speaker 1: of the water on this one, and that you know,
42:53
Speaker 1: sometimes they're swelling, they can't see everything and then the
42:55
Speaker 1: swelling subsides and they do another test. So right now
42:58
Speaker 1: he shut down. Then when he's seemed to free, they'll
43:00
Speaker 1: do more imaging. So I actually agree with JB. And
43:04
Speaker 1: I have absolutely no idea, you know, no business saying
43:07
Speaker 1: much medically. I'm just going off what we usually learned.
43:10
Speaker 1: But it doesn't mean that I mean it, he avoided
43:14
Speaker 1: maybe some devastation, but you still need to see the
43:17
Speaker 1: next set of imaging from him before you really feel
43:20
Speaker 1: feel comfortable about him. That's how I feel.
43:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes I have to wait a few days or
43:24
Speaker 2: a week or so in order to get the final image.
43:26
Speaker 2: So that's why they say, oh, nothing's wrong, and then
43:29
Speaker 2: a week later they're like, oh wait, there really is
43:31
Speaker 2: something wrong. So yeah, you gotta let some of the
43:33
Speaker 2: swelling go down.
43:35
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm gonna keep jumping. Jose L two by grade
43:38
Speaker 1: two oblique strain out, probably gonna miss like six ish weeks.
43:43
Speaker 1: That's how much time. Jake Myers just missed with the
43:46
Speaker 1: same injury. Who comes back for Houston Jeremy Panya coming
43:49
Speaker 1: back for the team this week, but they lose L
43:52
Speaker 1: two Bay. His power has been down compared to the past.
43:54
Speaker 1: But I mean he's always a spark plug, and he
43:57
Speaker 1: wasn't bad. He was about league average. So at any moment,
44:00
Speaker 1: one of those streaky weeks where he it's like five
44:01
Speaker 1: homers and then you're like, oh wow, it's the regular
44:04
Speaker 1: L two V numbers. So that sucks for them.
44:08
Speaker 2: Rains of poords for the Astros, which just keeps keeps
44:12
Speaker 2: coming down. I mean last year they were like, oh man,
44:15
Speaker 2: if Jordon was on this team and healthy, we would
44:18
Speaker 2: have definitely a different type of lineup. And now Jordan's
44:22
Speaker 2: healthy and other dudes are going down all around them.
44:25
Speaker 2: But the biggest, the biggest loss here is is still
44:29
Speaker 2: with the Astros and they're pitching staff. They didn't build
44:31
Speaker 2: enough depth and they got killed by it, and now
44:35
Speaker 2: they're gonna have a sludge of a season. It's just
44:38
Speaker 2: gonna it's just it could be. It could be long
44:41
Speaker 2: and hot in Houston right now. So they need they
44:44
Speaker 2: need somebody else to be able to step up. But hey,
44:46
Speaker 2: you know what, now they got more at bats for
44:49
Speaker 2: for east Oparadis and Christian Walker and one of those
44:53
Speaker 2: guys that was going to get traded before and so
44:57
Speaker 2: next guy.
44:57
Speaker 1: Up, maybe they'll just outscore everyone and crawl back in
45:01
Speaker 1: since the Ale West. Look at the records right now.
45:04
Speaker 1: It allows everyone to get hot for a week and
45:07
Speaker 1: get the.
45:09
Speaker 2: Orioles are a game and a half out of the
45:11
Speaker 2: wild Card. The Orioles.
45:15
Speaker 1: It's a great call. A couple more on the finish
45:18
Speaker 1: line here saying in the Ale West, here's another reason
45:20
Speaker 1: why the Rangers can't separate much despite really good pitching.
45:23
Speaker 1: Corey Seeger hasn't been himself. Now he's going to see
45:26
Speaker 1: a back specialist. I mean, this is the best hitter
45:28
Speaker 1: on the team, a jm R. Results pending, We'll see
45:32
Speaker 1: what happens.
45:34
Speaker 2: Did he have a hip or a back early in
45:36
Speaker 2: his career with the Dodgers? It was like real early,
45:38
Speaker 2: like twenty two or twenty three years old. Do you
45:40
Speaker 2: guys remember a hip He had a hip problem. I
45:44
Speaker 2: remember just being really young. And now you know that
45:47
Speaker 2: creeps up to the back. You want them to avoid
45:50
Speaker 2: surgery at all costs.
45:54
Speaker 1: Yeah. Two more now National League West for the last
45:57
Speaker 1: two Chase Dolander elbow stream.
46:02
Speaker 2: This is the one thing I worry about when you
46:04
Speaker 2: do openers with guys time. You worry about this because
46:08
Speaker 2: they don't get their proper routine they say it's the same,
46:10
Speaker 2: but it's not. I mean, I'm sorry, it's not. So
46:13
Speaker 2: he was pitching so well too. This this sucks.
46:16
Speaker 3: Let's let's let's let's hope it wasn't because that's a
46:20
Speaker 3: little it's a little wonky when you get the opener,
46:23
Speaker 3: like do I get to long toss? Well, I'm not
46:25
Speaker 3: a long toss guy. Okay, but you're in the pen.
46:28
Speaker 3: Are you in the first inning? Are you double barreling
46:30
Speaker 3: with the guy that's starting the game and you're the
46:34
Speaker 3: bulk guy? Like this was one of their best This
46:36
Speaker 3: is their best young pitcher that's in the big leagues
46:39
Speaker 3: right now, and you can't have him start because you
46:42
Speaker 3: don't want him to face the top three guys in
46:44
Speaker 3: the lineup. I just hope, but nobody will ever say, oh,
46:48
Speaker 3: this is why you got hurt, because everybody's doing it
46:50
Speaker 3: and they're like, well, there's no way that's why you
46:52
Speaker 3: got hurt.
46:53
Speaker 1: Well, I think it's why he got hurt. I'm just
46:56
Speaker 1: gonna go out and say it. I have nothing against me,
46:58
Speaker 1: and I if I had to guess, gun to my head,
47:00
Speaker 1: I'm going to say, yes, they messed with this kid's
47:03
Speaker 1: routine randomly in the middle of the season and he
47:07
Speaker 1: was rolling and that's why he's hurt. And you want
47:09
Speaker 1: him to be your number one. And even if you
47:10
Speaker 1: take an injury aside, please don't screw with your top
47:13
Speaker 1: end starters. It's really not that complicated.
47:16
Speaker 2: But you don't make decisions.
47:17
Speaker 3: Guys in the big leagues make decisions front offices, make
47:20
Speaker 3: decisions that can derail kids' careers. This is a kid,
47:24
Speaker 3: This is a guy that you were supposed to build
47:26
Speaker 3: your organization around, similar to what they did to Bubba Chandler.
47:30
Speaker 3: I know Bubba Chandler is not throwing strikes in Pittsburgh
47:32
Speaker 3: right now, but you call him up because you're like.
47:34
Speaker 2: Well, we want a softer landing spot in the big leagues,
47:37
Speaker 2: Well we want to rockies. Who cares you, guys are
47:41
Speaker 2: gonna lose a lot of games. You're not in the playoffs.
47:43
Speaker 2: If he faces the first three guys in the order,
47:45
Speaker 2: you know what it's gonna do. It's gonna make him
47:47
Speaker 2: freaking learn how to get those guys out. And from
47:50
Speaker 2: what I've seen, he's super competitive. Make him be a
47:54
Speaker 2: quarterstone of your pitching staff. And if he's not, it's
47:58
Speaker 2: not gonna matter that he faced the three guys in
48:00
Speaker 2: the lineup for all of his starts like stop like
48:05
Speaker 2: stop stop being stop being super like is it gonna keep?
48:09
Speaker 3: If you told me it kept him healthy by having
48:12
Speaker 3: an opener, then I'd be like, Okay, show me, show
48:15
Speaker 3: me why, show me why that's gonna keep him healthy.
48:17
Speaker 3: And until you can show me that that keeps them healthy,
48:20
Speaker 3: then to me, it's just a selfish thing that the
48:22
Speaker 3: front office is doing, saying.
48:24
Speaker 2: Will theer ilgorithm says this, so.
48:26
Speaker 3: We should do this, and when somebody gets injured like this,
48:30
Speaker 3: I have a tough time not believing that it's not
48:32
Speaker 3: from this.
48:34
Speaker 1: I'm with you, it's pathetic. I mean, the Dodgers can
48:37
Speaker 1: help train Rokie in the big leagues and he starts,
48:40
Speaker 1: but Dolander can't start. This is the time to let
48:42
Speaker 1: him go through it if he needs to, so that
48:44
Speaker 1: when they're good again. He's been through these situations. Lastly
48:47
Speaker 1: Eliott Ramos rite quad strain. So he's been a good
48:51
Speaker 1: player for them the last few years. AJ he doesn't
48:54
Speaker 1: get talked about a lot, but it'll hurt to not
48:56
Speaker 1: have him for a bit of time. The Giants have
48:58
Speaker 1: actually played five hundred ball the past month. The record
49:01
Speaker 1: still doesn't look good, but they haven't been terrible since
49:04
Speaker 1: the start.
49:05
Speaker 2: Yeah, they're not making the playoffs, so I mean it
49:08
Speaker 2: suck for Elliot Ramos, but no, bring up someone else
49:12
Speaker 2: and try him. Maybe they'll spark the offense.
49:14
Speaker 4: Yeah, the future is now the present in Seattle because
49:18
Speaker 4: cold Emerson is up in the big leagues, the number
49:21
Speaker 4: one prospect on the Mariners, the number three prospect on
49:24
Speaker 4: the just updated Baseball America Top one hundred prospect rankings.
49:28
Speaker 4: So what should we expect.
49:29
Speaker 1: I would stay with this one.
49:31
Speaker 4: We've had such a great prospect, your rookie year so
49:34
Speaker 4: far that I would kind of calm things down just
49:37
Speaker 4: a bit with cold Emerson. It's not that he's not
49:39
Speaker 4: going to be an excellent player in the long term,
49:41
Speaker 4: but he is very young for the big league's twenty
49:43
Speaker 4: years old, and he's in the midst so far in
49:46
Speaker 4: Triple A before the promotion of a solid year, but
49:49
Speaker 4: not a spectacular year. There is real power here, although
49:53
Speaker 4: it may take a little while to fully appear at
49:55
Speaker 4: the big league level. There's bat to ball skills, barrel control,
49:59
Speaker 4: there's all a little bit of aggressiveness right now. There
50:02
Speaker 4: is the chance that early on he might be chasing
50:06
Speaker 4: too many pitches out of his own, especially in two
50:08
Speaker 4: strike counts. He's got to be a third baseman for now.
50:10
Speaker 4: He could be the shortstop in the long term, although
50:12
Speaker 4: third base also fits very well for him. Lefty power
50:15
Speaker 4: bat who could really thump. In the long run, he's
50:18
Speaker 4: going to be a very good player. He's obviously a
50:20
Speaker 4: Mariner for the very long term. He's already signed the
50:23
Speaker 4: long term extension. Just I would say that it would
50:26
Speaker 4: not shock me if he ends up having a little
50:29
Speaker 4: bit of growing pains at the big league level as
50:31
Speaker 4: he gets settled at the highest level that there is.
50:36
Speaker 1: And that's our spillover from our injuries suck conversation to
50:40
Speaker 1: Baseball Americas, JJ Cooper giving us a little bit more
50:42
Speaker 1: on cold Emerson who had to like scurry over to
50:45
Speaker 1: get to the game and AJ Unfortunately he's replacing Brendan
50:48
Speaker 1: Donovan who's a hell of a player and he's been
50:50
Speaker 1: pretty durable, but this year he's getting hit and the
50:52
Speaker 1: groin was reaggravated really quickly.
50:55
Speaker 2: Yeah, this is what happens. It happens a lot. You see,
50:58
Speaker 2: those guys aren't fully ready to come back and stuff happens.
51:01
Speaker 2: So listen, I watched we mentioned we watched the Mariners
51:05
Speaker 2: game last night. Emerson. Emerson's got all the swag. I
51:07
Speaker 2: know that. He better hope he can play because he's
51:09
Speaker 2: got you know, the shadows are out and he's got
51:11
Speaker 2: the freaking Oakley's and all that. He's got the swag.
51:13
Speaker 2: So he's got the big league swag. We'll see.
51:15
Speaker 1: Got the big league cash too.
51:17
Speaker 2: He does. He does. He's got a contract. And everybody
51:20
Speaker 2: talked about his character that I that I asked about,
51:23
Speaker 2: and somebody said, somebody said that plays with him right
51:27
Speaker 2: now in Triple A feels like he's a Chase ut
51:30
Speaker 2: League type of player.
51:31
Speaker 1: And I was like, whoa wow.
51:33
Speaker 2: I was like, Okay, let's let's see because that's a
51:37
Speaker 2: that's a big comp.
51:39
Speaker 1: It's a big camp. Chase Utley is gonna likely get
51:43
Speaker 1: voted into the Hall of Fame now he's trending that way.
51:46
Speaker 1: I mean, the Hall of Fame comp right there. I
52:01
Speaker 1: have two things to go over. Number one, Jackson Holiday's back.
52:04
Speaker 1: It's been a minute, but he's going to make his
52:07
Speaker 1: debut for the Orioles.
52:09
Speaker 2: Welcome back, Jackson. It's been a long time.
52:12
Speaker 1: It has uh Jordan Westberg, Yeah, he is in Jordan Westberg.
52:18
Speaker 1: You know we found out had surgery. You were off.
52:20
Speaker 1: I think I was off that show too. That was Friday.
52:22
Speaker 1: But a j that's a tough one. As Kratz mentioned
52:25
Speaker 1: on Friday, the win lost record for them, and I
52:28
Speaker 1: know it's not a one man game. It's a huge
52:31
Speaker 1: difference when Jordan Westburg's playing. He's one of those guys
52:33
Speaker 1: and now they're not gonna happen for the rest of
52:35
Speaker 1: the year, but helps to get Holiday back here.
52:38
Speaker 2: See what Jackson has?
52:40
Speaker 1: Yeah, uh, I do remember. I mean if you are
52:45
Speaker 1: all Hammett bones created equal, because like, does it matter obviously?
52:50
Speaker 1: I mean for Holiday it was his throwing hamit bone right,
52:53
Speaker 1: And for Corbyn, Carl and Lindor I think it wasn't
52:57
Speaker 1: does like does any of that stuff for the swing
53:00
Speaker 1: it's listening, okay, just wondering. Yeah, I mean.
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Speaker 3: Probably it would have probably been Lindor's. Lindor and Carrol's
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Speaker 3: throw a hand, so I mean, I assume it's their
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Speaker 3: bottom hand. I've never heard anybody do.
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Speaker 2: Their corn throws left handed. Gorbyn throws left hand, and
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Speaker 2: it was Lindor's left hand too. He throws right handed too.
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Speaker 1: Right, So I don't know just throwing that out there.
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Speaker 1: There's there's been some talk about, hey, you know which
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Speaker 1: hand will affect you more, But the dominant hand for
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Speaker 1: hitting is more. What you're looking at right, AJ fits
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Speaker 1: the dominant it's.
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Speaker 2: Your bottom end. It's your bottom hand. It's your bottom hand,
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Speaker 2: and you put the knob in it. That's why you
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Speaker 2: break it. So he just took a little longer. Sometimes
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Speaker 2: they take a little longer than other ones. Not everyone
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Speaker 2: heals the same.
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Speaker 1: One more. Geoe or Schelle retiring thirty four years old,
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Speaker 1: about ten seasons in the bigs. Did you play with
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Speaker 1: them Krats?
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I play with them with the guard with
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Speaker 3: the Indians in Triple A, and then I played with
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Speaker 3: him and with the Yankees when he came over to the Yankees.
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Speaker 3: Massive Grand Slam in the COVID season, in that first
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Speaker 3: round series against the Indians, I guess it was the
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Speaker 3: Guardians at that time, so massive, Homer, go look it up.
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Speaker 1: But I heard he was a nice guy. I mean,
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Speaker 1: he's still he is a nice guy. But I heard
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Speaker 1: he's a nice guy as a player.
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Speaker 2: Magic Glove Guante de Mahim, the glove of magic because
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Speaker 2: he could just he could pick it and you would
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Speaker 2: never look at him be like that guy can play defense. Wow.
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Speaker 2: In the games. It was the ones right at him
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Speaker 2: that he would have trouble with everything else. It was like,
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Speaker 2: I don't know if you ever want a goal glove
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Speaker 2: or not. I think he was a finalist, but he
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Speaker 2: should have.
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