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Ken Rosenthal on Blue Jays rise, Saving Ohtani, Brewers pitching q’s · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: We're hitting the Inside Scoop with Ken Rosenthal. It's presented
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  Speaker 1: good to see you, and let's kick things off with
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  Speaker 1: your nine questions that will define the postseason after a
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  Speaker 1: hot mess of a regular season. I want to start
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  Speaker 1: with the Toronto Blue Jays because you also wrote a
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  Speaker 1: separate article to the side about how you've called them
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  Speaker 1: the paper Tigers and now you have shed the label.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let you kind of run with this because I
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  Speaker 1: know you've had a fun relationship with Blue Jays fans
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  Speaker 1: felt like you were just telling it like it is,
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  Speaker 1: and now you're giving them praise. So what do you
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  Speaker 1: think of this Blue Jays team heading into the postseason
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  Speaker 1: now and not having to deal with a wildcard round too.
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  Speaker 2: It's good for them and they've lost six straight games
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  Speaker 2: in the wildcard round three different years twenty twenty, twenty two,
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  Speaker 2: and twenty three. And for them to survive that really
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  Speaker 2: bad week at the end of the season and to
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  Speaker 2: come through at the end to get that buy to
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  Speaker 2: get the Alias tied. Those are all really good signs.
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  Speaker 2: And the reason I called them paper Tigers in twenty
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  Speaker 2: three and twenty four is because they were a team
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  Speaker 2: that did not play to their potential. It's as simple
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  Speaker 2: as that they had a vastly talented group and they underperformed.
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  Speaker 2: This year's team is sort of the opposite of that.
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  Speaker 2: And not only did they get an amazing Comeback of
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  Speaker 2: the Year player performance from George Springer, they also had
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  Speaker 2: contributions from what Pat Murphy would describe in Milwaukee as
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  Speaker 2: average Joe's and I'm talking about Nathan Lucas and Miles
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  Speaker 2: Straw and Ernie Clement, David Schneider and all the guys
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  Speaker 2: who aren't stars on that team but make valuable contributions
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  Speaker 2: on an everyday basis. Addison Barger, I can go right
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  Speaker 2: down the line, Tyler Hyneman, name one after another, and
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  Speaker 2: that's why for me, that's been a very interesting team
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  Speaker 2: to watch, and I'm sure for fans there it's fulfilling
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  Speaker 2: to see everything come together in the way that it has.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Doesn't guarantee they'll beat the Yankees of the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 2: of course, not it's the playoffs. Things happen, but they
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  Speaker 2: are well positioned, They are a complete team, and their bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: aside from Jeff Hoffman, has come around. Now Hoffman's had
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  Speaker 2: some struggles. As Velo is down, that's going to be
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  Speaker 2: a concern. But I kind of like where they are
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  Speaker 2: right now, And of course that's why I wrote what
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  Speaker 2: I did, just in praise of them when they were
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  Speaker 2: deserving of praise for the year that they had.
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  Speaker 4: Ken Just because they don't have to play the wildcard
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  Speaker 4: round and they haven't won a game in those rounds,
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  Speaker 4: does that mean that their wildcard round now goes to
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  Speaker 4: the division series? Because technically it's not like you just
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  Speaker 4: get to skip the round. It still means the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: So can they win this division series against the Yankees
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  Speaker 4: or the Red Sox? Who you know, we know how
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  Speaker 4: hot the Yankees have been and the Red Sox are
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  Speaker 4: gonna be throwing it all out there. So whoever wins
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  Speaker 4: that series? Can the Blue Jays turn their fortunes around
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  Speaker 4: and beat the next team? Well?
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  Speaker 2: Jay, the wildcard round is unique, of course because it's
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  Speaker 2: two of three and you can go out really quickly,
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  Speaker 2: and that of course is what happened to the Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jay And they're in somewhat of the same situation as
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  Speaker 2: the Brewers. The Brewers have lost five straight opening series
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  Speaker 2: as well. One was a division series. I believe the
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  Speaker 2: others were wild cards. I'm not exactly sure, but yes,
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  Speaker 2: there is that thing hanging over them where they've got
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  Speaker 2: to get through that first round and they'll have home
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  Speaker 2: field advantage. They've been a really good home team at
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  Speaker 2: Rogers Center, which has had an electric atmosphere, especially in
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  Speaker 2: recent weeks. So everything is there set up nicely for them,
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  Speaker 2: whether it happens or not. The Yankees have played really
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  Speaker 2: well the last few weeks. The Red Sox, if they
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  Speaker 2: get past the Yankees with Crochet and BeO, they could
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  Speaker 2: be a problem. So I don't rule anything out. But
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  Speaker 2: at the same time, the Jays should be well positioned.
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  Speaker 3: Should we look away from the fact that they don't
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  Speaker 3: have a lot of homers, that they don't play what
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  Speaker 3: is considered winning playoff baseball is their style of the team.
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  Speaker 3: They built base running, defense low, I mean never strike
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  Speaker 3: out in today's base fall sense is that going to
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  Speaker 3: Can it lead to success in the playoffs and buck
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  Speaker 3: the trend that we've had for the last however many years.
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  Speaker 2: Well, home runs certainly are good. We all know that.
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  Speaker 2: But the Jays do have the lowest strikeout rate in
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  Speaker 2: the majors. The Brewers are not far behind them, and
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  Speaker 2: they're a comparable type offense. These are offenses that put
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  Speaker 2: pressure on defenses by putting the ball in play. And
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  Speaker 2: I believe the Blue Jays had the highest batting average
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  Speaker 2: in the league. And we all discount batting average now,
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  Speaker 2: but what does batting average translate to base runners? They
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  Speaker 2: have base runners. It's pressure on the pitchers. It's just
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  Speaker 2: a different kind of way to go about it. Now
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  Speaker 2: they have the ability to hit home runs as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's not their strength obviously, but can they win a series?
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  Speaker 2: Can they go far in the playoffs with this style?
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  Speaker 2: I don't see why not.
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  Speaker 4: Ken, I can tell you're rooting for with your black shirt,
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  Speaker 4: so we won't tell anybody. But I know what that means,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll let people try to figure that out.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of teams are a block.
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  Speaker 4: I know though. Okay, we're simpatico, so I know I
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  Speaker 4: know what it means.
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  Speaker 1: You're not gonna let anyone in on this.
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  Speaker 4: I have no idea what's behind here, But we had
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  Speaker 4: this argument earlier and I'm throwing for your curveball here.
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  Speaker 4: Besides the fact, who's your X factor in these playoffs?
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  Speaker 4: Because we had a whole conversation about who mine was,
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  Speaker 4: who Kratzs was, and Scott couldn't come up with one.
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  Speaker 4: So who's your X factor in these playoffs for a
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  Speaker 4: team to make a run to win the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: To find X factor? What do you mean the guy
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  Speaker 2: who would be the.
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  Speaker 4: Players to winning?
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  Speaker 3: Not but not.
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  Speaker 4: Kratz thinks Kratz is like Trek School. Yeah, no kidding,
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  Speaker 4: Kratz Trek School pitches. Well, the Tigers do well. I'm
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  Speaker 4: talking under the radar guy that no one's talking about
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  Speaker 4: that has to be show up big because there's always
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  Speaker 4: this guy that shows up in the postseason. I could
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  Speaker 4: stand out and say, boom, he carried them Marco Scuterow
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  Speaker 4: the one year for the Giants, right, I mean that's
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  Speaker 4: an X factor.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I was gonna say Jeff Hoffin, but we've already
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  Speaker 2: talked about him. He certainly would be Oh.
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  Speaker 4: You love the Blue Jays now they have black in
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  Speaker 4: their uniform. Anthony Volpi.
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  Speaker 2: Anthony Volpi, if he has a big postseason, He's done
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  Speaker 2: that before and certainly coming off a poor regular season,
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  Speaker 2: it would be great for the Yankees if he did that.
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  Speaker 2: Trying to think of some others, how about Kik k
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  Speaker 2: Hernandez He always seems to be an X factor in
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  Speaker 2: the postseason. Those are two that kind of jump out
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  Speaker 2: to me. I'm not sitting here thinking of them all
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  Speaker 2: off the top of my head, but those two. Ryan
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  Speaker 2: O'Hearn and San Diego could be another one. Any number
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  Speaker 2: of guys AJ could be heroes in October. We know that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and mine was Tyler Heineman because he was our
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  Speaker 1: guest today on the show. I wasn't supposed to do
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  Speaker 1: an X factor. And my guess is I guess maybe
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  Speaker 1: AJ's talking about the nineteen nineteen black Sox with the
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  Speaker 1: with the black shirt.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: Most Okay, you guys have your inside jokes. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to bring it back outside. Scott he doesn't know. I
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  Speaker 1: to the Brewers. So this is the best record in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: right and this is a team that's consistently made it
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  Speaker 1: to the postseason. I think sometimes we look at the
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  Speaker 1: best record in baseball and don't necessarily look at the
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  Speaker 1: state of the team right now. This is a good team,
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  Speaker 1: but Brandon Woodriff is out, and you wrote about some
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  Speaker 1: of this in the Athletic Story, which I encourage people
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  Speaker 1: to check out. The one I want to pinpoint is
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  Speaker 1: Jacob Mizerwski. Remember how much we spoke about him, and
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  Speaker 1: yet he's a rookie and he might not really factor
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  Speaker 1: into much of the postseason with the Brewers. I know
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  Speaker 1: he's going to play and pitch, but he really hasn't
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  Speaker 1: looked good the last couple months.
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  Speaker 2: He hasn't. And Scott, I'm glad you made that point
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  Speaker 2: about them, because they have been the best team in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Their record reflects that sort of their rankings in era,
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  Speaker 2: runs per game, defense, any number of different scenarios. The
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  Speaker 2: problem I have, the concern I have, I should say
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  Speaker 2: with the Brewers right now, is that they're not the
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  Speaker 2: team they were necessarily in July when they had Woodroff,
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  Speaker 2: when Missowski was going well, when Tyler McGill was healthy.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, it was healthy and everything seemed to be
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  Speaker 2: really going well. Now McGill's back, d'l Haul's back. Their
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  Speaker 2: bullpen might be getting put back together in a really
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  Speaker 2: good way. But those are concerns still. Gil missed some time,
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  Speaker 2: Hall missed some time. And yes they pitched Sunday, and yes,
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  Speaker 2: the hope is that they'll be back to form, but
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  Speaker 2: that is my concern. Really. They had one point, and
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  Speaker 2: I talked about this repeatedly, a depth of starting pitching
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  Speaker 2: that was kind of the envy of the sport. And
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  Speaker 2: now they're in a situation where jose Kntana coming off
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  Speaker 2: the IL is going to have to be their Game
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  Speaker 2: three starter most likely. It's just not as stable a
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  Speaker 2: situation as they've been it. Now that said, this is
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  Speaker 2: still a very good team. This is the team that
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  Speaker 2: knows how to win games, and it's the team that
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  Speaker 2: has figured out it's pitching the entire season, going back
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  Speaker 2: to opening Day when they had nobody, when everybody was hurt.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm not discounting them by any stretch of the imagination,
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  Speaker 2: and no one should discount them. I just wish, and
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  Speaker 2: you could say this for a number of teams. I
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  Speaker 2: just wish they were in a little bit better spot. Jen.
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  Speaker 4: I just saw them on Saturday, and you know, McGill's back.
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  Speaker 4: They're not sure. I don't know that they're sure what
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna get from him, because I think when he
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  Speaker 4: threw his thing and maybe his v low is down
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  Speaker 4: a little bit, so they're hoping it jumps back up
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  Speaker 4: with the rest and deal Hall they don't know what
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna get, but Jose Cantana, they don't know what
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  Speaker 4: they're gonna get it. It's like just such a crazy
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  Speaker 4: story that they're where they are because there are just
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  Speaker 4: so many question marks of this team, which scares you
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  Speaker 4: a little bit if you're a Brewers fan. But I
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  Speaker 4: want to say this, and I think you would agree
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  Speaker 4: with me. This Brandon Woodriff being out is to me
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  Speaker 4: sucks more than any other player being out, just after
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  Speaker 4: what he went through. And I talked to him on
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  Speaker 4: Saturday and we had a great conversation. He's a great guy.
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  Speaker 4: But man, I just have to say this, that him
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  Speaker 4: being out with the arm injury again after all he
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  Speaker 4: did to come back from the shoulder injury just breaks
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  Speaker 4: my heart. Like you know, you know what, we're not
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  Speaker 4: supposed to get personal. We're not supposed to, but when
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  Speaker 4: you see a guy, especially as a former player, go
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  Speaker 4: through what he went through, and now he can't pitch
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  Speaker 4: it the biggest stage. It literally just kind of it
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  Speaker 4: pulls up your heart strings for me.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, I'm with you, AJ and Brandon Woodroff, You're right,
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  Speaker 2: is one of the better guys in the game. And
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  Speaker 2: he had an incredible rehab, incredibly difficult rehab, and it
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  Speaker 2: took him a long time to get back. He was
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  Speaker 2: back and he was pitching really at a high level again.
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  Speaker 3: But when it.
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  Speaker 2: Comes to injuries, and I had a whole section in
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  Speaker 2: this article today about injured players. Boba Schett, we might
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  Speaker 2: not see him, Kyle Tucker, We're going to see him,
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  Speaker 2: but he's going to be maybe compromised. Will Smith the same.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many injury situations that are worth discussing.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, my heart breaks for Zach Wheeler too. This
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  Speaker 2: could have been a cy young year for him in
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  Speaker 2: a special season for the Phillies and he's not going
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  Speaker 2: to be there. Trey Turner is coming off an injury,
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  Speaker 2: So all of these things are difficult for teams. Kate
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  Speaker 2: Horton with Chicago Cubs as well. But you're right with
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  Speaker 2: Woodruff in that his rehab was longer and more involved
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  Speaker 2: and he's given his heart and soul to coming back,
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  Speaker 2: and for him not to be available here I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: is crushing.
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  Speaker 3: To him a team that probably nobody's gonna talk about,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm probably gonna get in trouble for even bringing him.
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  Speaker 2: Up the Reds.
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  Speaker 3: Is there a scenario where the Reds can beat the Dodgers?
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  Speaker 3: I get it, anybody can beat anybody. But in what
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  Speaker 3: route do the Reds beat the Dodgers and stun everybody
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  Speaker 3: in this playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Starting pitching? And that is the route, and that is
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  Speaker 2: the way you can in your head think of the
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  Speaker 2: Reds pulling off an upset here. Now, listen, the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: have tremendous starting pitching of their own. It's gonna be
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  Speaker 2: snell Yamamoto and Otani, It's ridiculous. They're all at peak
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  Speaker 2: form right now. But Hunter Green is at peak form
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  Speaker 2: right now. And in game two they're gonna go with
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  Speaker 2: Lttel to start and then back him up Ladolo, maybe
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  Speaker 2: get some lefties out of the lineup then, or vice
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  Speaker 2: versa or whatever. And then in game three they have
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  Speaker 2: another possibility with Andrew Abbott that is a cy young candidate.
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  Speaker 2: So that is the way that they can do this
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  Speaker 2: scoring games and just being really good with the starting pitching. Now,
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  Speaker 2: that said, in twenty twenty, in the pandemic year when
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  Speaker 2: they had the sixteen team playoff, the Reds were similar.
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  Speaker 2: That's when they had really good starting pitching with Bauer
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  Speaker 2: and some others as well, and they didn't score in
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  Speaker 2: the wildcard round. That's my concern here that their offense,
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  Speaker 2: which is inconsistent at best, is just not going to
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  Speaker 2: be good enough to take advantage of that starting pitching,
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  Speaker 2: assuming it's good. Other than that, I still think this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be competitive because of that pitching, and
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  Speaker 2: even the bullpen right now for the Reds is in
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  Speaker 2: a pretty good place.
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  Speaker 1: Hey Ken, do you agree with the decision by the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers to wait until Game three for show Heo Tani
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  Speaker 1: and then if there's no game three, he would pitch
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  Speaker 1: in game one assuming they win. The reason I ask
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  Speaker 1: this is what if they lose? What if they're losing
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  Speaker 1: in game two and you're like, damn, I wish we
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  Speaker 1: had show Heo Tani pitching. He might have the best
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  Speaker 1: stuff on the entire team, at least top two or three.
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  Speaker 1: So just curious if you think that they should have
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  Speaker 1: laid it out that way. I know Yamamoto is good.
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  Speaker 1: I know they spent money on Snell and he's really good,
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  Speaker 1: and they've all been good lately. But can you imagine
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  Speaker 1: if they lose two games here and Otani didn't pitch?
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  Speaker 2: Well, can you imagine if they lost two and Yamamoto
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  Speaker 2: didn't pitch. I guess you could imagine it without Snell.
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  Speaker 2: But they want to game one for whatever reason. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: the idea with Otani, and I understand it, is to
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  Speaker 2: give him a day off after the day he pitches,
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  Speaker 2: so have that after Game three. He would have that
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  Speaker 2: after game one of the Division series. The way that
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  Speaker 2: is laid out there is a day off after game
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  Speaker 2: one in the division series. That's what they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: do here. Remember they're thinking about long term always with Otani,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not just about this year. It's about preserving him.
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  Speaker 2: This guy's had two major elbow surgeries. They cannot take
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  Speaker 2: a chance and lose him, so they're just trying to
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  Speaker 2: give him the best opportunity to be at peak form.
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  Speaker 2: So I definitely understand that from that perspective. And if
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  Speaker 2: they go out two to the Cincinnati Reds, well Man
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  Speaker 2: they should beat the Cincinnati Reds with Otani pitching Game three,
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  Speaker 2: they should be able to handle this. Okay, put it that.
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  Speaker 3: Way, we wouldn't even be here if it wasn't for
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  Speaker 3: the fact that they got rid of Game one sixty
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  Speaker 3: three yesterday. We could have had an epic day of
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  Speaker 3: baseball in my opinion. What's your opinion on Game one
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  Speaker 3: sixty threes? And do you know the genesis of why
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: Major League Baseball said we don't like these get they
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  Speaker 3: get in a way of our off days that we
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: can't push things back and travel is tough.
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  Speaker 2: I love Game one sixty three. Who doesn't. But when
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  Speaker 2: they went to twelve teams, this was the price that
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  Speaker 2: the sport paid, and the reason is they don't want
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: to push back the wild card round any further. That
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: would push the division series back further, and then you're
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: having an even longer layoff for the teams with the byes.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: I understand it, and actually it makes sense in my opinion,
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: But at the same time, something is lost and you
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: go to twelve teams. You've got to have twelve teams, man, Oh,
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: we got to have twelve teams. Give more teams a
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: chance get the additional revenue. Okay, we all understand that,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: but yes, something pretty magical was lost. Ag. I believe
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: you played the game one sixty three or two, and
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: it's incredible. It's a one game playoff for the division
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: title or whatever the case might be. Yeah, it would
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: be nice if we still had it.
• 16:21
  Speaker 4: Yep, there's the anniversary Ken two thousand and eight game.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: I believe the Blackout game. We played two extra games.
• 16:31
  Speaker 4: I play two extra games that year, believe it or not.
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: So they had to back it up two days because
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: we had to make up. We played three games in
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: three days a year. We had to beat the Tigers,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: the Royal or the Royals, the Tigers, and then the
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Twins in three straight games, and one of them was
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: a makeup game and the other one was the game
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: one sixty three. And then the next year we beat
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: the Indian Slash Guardians. So we beat four different teams
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: in four days. Technically.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, I just want to know why.
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, net Scott Brown is why I'm wearing black and
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: tribute to the Chicago White Sox.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Of words coming right out of my mouth, but into
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Ken's instead. Ken, You're literally saying exactly what I was
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: going to say. All I want to know is this
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: inside joke? Is it's something we're not allowed to say
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: on the air about. Okay, I can't wait for the text.
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: We know who's favorite team is the group.
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: Texts coming in hot right. It's not a baseball team,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: It's it's something else. But whatever that is, Ken, good
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: luck to your team and enjoy the start of the postseason.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: We'll see unfair territory on Thursday, Scott.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: I want to make one thing clear. I don't have
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: a team. People say I hate their team, people say
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: I love this team or that I don't care. I
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: just care about good stories, entertaining games, and going about
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: it that way. Okay, it's on the record. I don't
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: have a team.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, and FT is mostly the same
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: way broadcasters, et cetera. It happens all the time. You're
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: doing a good job. You're doing a good job. If
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: both sides are saying you love and hate their team,
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: that means you're covering them correctly. Ken, thank you, enjoy
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: all day baseball.
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
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  Speaker 1: your questions about the postseason. Ken's hitting the road for
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