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Fair Territory: World Baseball Classic Preview: Every Contender, Dark Horses, No ABS Challenge System · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. We have some news
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  Speaker 1: this morning, Andrew McCutchen signing a minor leak deal with
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  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers.
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  Speaker 2: That from Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: We have two games from the WBC in the books
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  Speaker 1: Korea be Chechia and Australia, and a bit of an
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  Speaker 1: upset over Chinese Taipei last night or this morning, however
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  Speaker 1: you want to look at it WBC for the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the tournament. Rest of the groups starts tomorrow. You'll
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  Speaker 1: have Team USA in action against Brazil. That'll be on Fox.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be there for that one and all the way
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  Speaker 1: through the WBC SOLA. It'll be a WBC heavy show today.
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  Speaker 3: And I love it because I love the World Baseball
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  Speaker 3: Classic and Ken, all of our World Baseball Classic coverage
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  Speaker 3: is brought to you by our friends at Fox one.
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  Speaker 3: It's live stream all your Fox favorites together in one place,
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  Speaker 3: including all World Baseball Classic games over the next few weeks,
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  Speaker 3: and after that the best Made League Baseball action all
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  Speaker 3: season long. So Ken, let's start our WBC coverage on
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  Speaker 3: this fair territory with one reason from you why each
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  Speaker 3: of the top four seeds can win the World Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 3: Let us start with Team Venezuela.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Venezuela.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, they're depleted a little bit because aw Twova is
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  Speaker 1: not playing due to the insurance issue and Pablo Lopez
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  Speaker 1: of course having Tommy John surgery that really hurts their
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff. But if you ask me, the reason to
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  Speaker 1: like this team in this tournament is the dynamic combination
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  Speaker 1: of Ronald Acuna Junior and Jackson Churio. These are two
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  Speaker 1: of the most electric players in the game. Not to
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  Speaker 1: take anything away from anyone else on the Venezuela roster,
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  Speaker 1: including of course Salvador Perez, but if you're going to
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  Speaker 1: see them maybe rake a run in this tournament, it's
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  Speaker 1: gotta be with a Cunya and Churio doing some big things.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, we talked about Venezuela, but what about the Dominican
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  Speaker 3: Republic can I don't think people are giving the dr
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  Speaker 3: perhaps as much credit or credence as they should be
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  Speaker 3: A lot of.
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  Speaker 1: One thousand percent and their lineup is every bit is dangerous,
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  Speaker 1: if not more dangerous than Team USAS and who am
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  Speaker 1: I talking about. I'm talking about vlad Junior and Tatis
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  Speaker 1: and Manny Machado and Julio Rodriguez and Katel Marte and
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  Speaker 1: Rado Perdomo, on and on and on. And you might say, okay,
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  Speaker 1: but they can't pitch.
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  Speaker 2: With the US. I'm not so sure about that either.
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  Speaker 1: It's Christopher Sanchez at the top of the rotation, It's
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  Speaker 1: Brian Beao from the Red Sox, Luis Severino, and overall,
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  Speaker 1: this is a team that really can do some things
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  Speaker 1: in this tournament because of what they have offensively.
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  Speaker 2: So I do like.
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  Speaker 1: Them, and I would think, along with Team USA, they
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  Speaker 1: are one of the favorites right now.
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  Speaker 3: I would certainly think so. All right, Team Japan obviously
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  Speaker 3: the champions can the last time the WBC was played
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  Speaker 3: three years ago. What about this team do you like
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  Speaker 3: as far as a reason that they might be champions again?
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  Speaker 1: This is the team that has won three of the
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  Speaker 1: five tournaments and a team that you might not recognize
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  Speaker 1: all of the names because not all of these players
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  Speaker 1: are in Major League Baseball, a number of them are
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  Speaker 1: in NPB, but they still have a formidable group. And
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  Speaker 1: what I like about them the most is what you
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  Speaker 1: see there the team unity and the style of play.
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  Speaker 1: These guys go about it the right way. They play
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  Speaker 1: a fundamentally sound game.
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  Speaker 2: We know this from watching them over the years.
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  Speaker 1: They're a joy to watch actually from a baseball standpoint.
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  Speaker 1: So their rotation without Otani is not going to be
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  Speaker 1: necessarily as strong. They still have Yamamoto, they still have
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  Speaker 1: Chicano from the Colorado Rockies, and they still have Kokuchi
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  Speaker 1: as well as the reigning Japanese Sawamura Award winner. He's
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  Speaker 1: a picture named hiromi Eto. So they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: as always right in the mix. Do they have enough
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  Speaker 1: firepower with Mura, Kami and Okamoto and all of these
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  Speaker 1: guys to beat the US.
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  Speaker 2: And beat the Dominican I don't know. Seya Suzuki also
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  Speaker 2: with this team, Masa Taka.
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  Speaker 1: Yoshida, all these guys, But at the same time, we
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  Speaker 1: know that they're going to be there, no question about it.
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  Speaker 3: And let me ask you this about Team Japan in particular,
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  Speaker 3: when you look at the dr lineup that has of
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  Speaker 3: course the names that you mentioned, Juan Soto all of
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  Speaker 3: the things, and then you have Venezuela as well. And
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  Speaker 3: then you look at Team USA, which we're going to
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  Speaker 3: get to. I think power hitters. I think guys that
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  Speaker 3: are like hitting the ball over the fence. When I
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  Speaker 3: think of Japan, I don't necessarily think of sluggers, but
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  Speaker 3: they do have a unique style of play. Perhaps is
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  Speaker 3: that an advantage for Team Japan.
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  Speaker 1: It has been in the past, and you're right, Alonge,
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  Speaker 1: it's interesting because home runs win, we know that they
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  Speaker 1: have that element. Seya, Suzuki and Murakami, of course are
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  Speaker 1: great sluggers, but they do put the ball in play
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  Speaker 1: generally speaking, and they do things.
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  Speaker 2: To make teams uncomfortable. So yes, that does give them
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  Speaker 2: an advantage.
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  Speaker 1: But in this tournament, it's such a short press time frame,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course the knockout round is one and done.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be really interesting to see how this
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  Speaker 1: goes about with them and the Dominican in the US,
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  Speaker 1: just kind of how they play against each other.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Team USA, can you look up and down the
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  Speaker 3: lineup one through nine, you begin to salivate. I don't
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  Speaker 3: know that there has ever been a more potent lineup
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  Speaker 3: assembled under one team than Team USA. Why will they
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  Speaker 3: win if they do well?
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  Speaker 1: We've seen the last two days the exhibition games, that
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  Speaker 1: they've played in Arizona, San Francisco Giants, Colorado Rockies. They
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  Speaker 1: outscored those teams twenty nine to five. Now, granted it's
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  Speaker 1: a spring training type environment. Those teams, the Giants and Rockies,
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  Speaker 1: had lost some of their players for the WBC, but
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  Speaker 1: we saw that potent US lineup on display and that
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  Speaker 1: is the main reason it can win. But as I
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  Speaker 1: say here, it's the best roster they've brought to the WBC.
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  Speaker 2: I know they won in seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: I know they had a strong roster in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and six, but this roster top to bottom, including the
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff, especially the pitching staff, is its strongest.
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  Speaker 2: We have not seen both Cy.
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  Speaker 1: Young winners on a team USA entry in the WBC.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see it in this tournament, Schiens and Scooball. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see Logan Web, a top five CY Young finisher. He's
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  Speaker 1: pitching the opening game against Brazil. So they are a
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  Speaker 1: really balanced, interesting group. To be sure, they seem to be,
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  Speaker 1: at least.
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  Speaker 2: So far, on something of a mission.
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  Speaker 1: They have this togetherness that maybe Mark Durosa has said,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't quite have to this extent the last time.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm really interested to see how they fare here.
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  Speaker 2: They are, of course, like every other team.
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  Speaker 1: In this tournament. Hell bet on winning now.
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  Speaker 2: That they've got to go show it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Durosa, the skipper, said he really wanted to focus
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  Speaker 3: more on assembling a team unit than just putting a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of different players together. Wanted to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: they molded together. Well, okay, we've talked about the top four, ken,
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  Speaker 3: what about a dark Is there a team that maybe
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  Speaker 3: we're not paying attention to but could shake things up
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  Speaker 3: a bit.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you two, Alana, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to mention Team Mexico because they are right outside
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  Speaker 1: the top four in my opinion. But the two i'll
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  Speaker 1: give you are Italy and Canada. Italy has a number
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  Speaker 1: of major leaguers. They're in USA's group, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in Houston, Jack Callian one, Michael Lorenzen, Jacob Marci, Aaron Nola,
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  Speaker 1: Vinnie Pasquentino, and Kyle Tiel. Those are some of the
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  Speaker 1: major leaguers that they have on their roster. They're going
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  Speaker 1: to be a formidable challenge for anyone that they play.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's Canada, same kind of thing. A number
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  Speaker 1: of major leaguers on their roster as well, Jamison Taione,
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  Speaker 1: the big pitcher, Freddie Freeman not playing this time around,
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  Speaker 1: but they still have the Naylor brothers, they still have
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  Speaker 1: Tyler O'Neill, Owen Casey Denzel Clark. So they should be
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  Speaker 1: an interesting team to watch, a fun team to watch,
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  Speaker 1: and sure I can see either one of these teams
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  Speaker 1: maybe pulling off an upset or two, maybe even getting
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  Speaker 1: out of pool play.
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  Speaker 3: Adam Odovino also with Team Italy, recently retired of course
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  Speaker 3: for him Team Italy, though the coaches this picture can
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  Speaker 3: made me laugh. Of course, you don't necessarily have to
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  Speaker 3: have the same lineage to the country as a coach
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  Speaker 3: as you do as a player, but you can see
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  Speaker 3: their manager Francisco Cervelli, the hitting coach Tod Hipposava, of course,
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  Speaker 3: the great Yankee pitching coach Dave Righetti, bullpen coach sal Fassanoh,
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  Speaker 3: that's definitely Italian, and hitting coach Frank Mencino. So good times.
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  Speaker 3: This is a fun tournament. But I love to see
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  Speaker 3: this and perhaps you're right, perhaps the Italians are the
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  Speaker 3: dark horse team of the WBC. All right, one more
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  Speaker 3: question for you. Someone that isn't necessarily a household name yet,
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  Speaker 3: but could be by the end of this tournament.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it's hard to find that, I guess in some
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  Speaker 1: respects because someone who might not be a household name
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  Speaker 1: in our country might be a household name in their country.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess we look at a guy like henromi Eto,
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  Speaker 2: who I mentioned earlier.
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  Speaker 1: He's the best pitcher in Japan right now, who is
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  Speaker 1: not in Major League Baseball. But I'll give you a
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  Speaker 1: dark horse from Team USA. Now, it's the name we
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  Speaker 1: all know, but he's going to play, and he's going
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  Speaker 1: to play more than Alex Regman did in twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 1: Bobby Rich Junior in twenty twenty three. Those were the
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  Speaker 1: young guys on those teams. The young guy on this
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  Speaker 1: team is Roman Anthony and he already is making a
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  Speaker 1: strong impression. He's going to be a starting outfielder for
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  Speaker 1: Team USA at just twenty one years old. So I
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  Speaker 1: know that I can say Roman Anthony is a dark horse.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a big contract, he's a big prospect, but
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  Speaker 1: he is the youngest member of Team USA, and I
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  Speaker 1: do expect him to make an impact.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Roman Anthony, the Roman Empire has certainly been all
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  Speaker 3: the talk for the Boston Red Sox. They think very
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  Speaker 3: highly of this young man, as they should. Okay, when
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  Speaker 3: you're looking about the pool play can in terms of
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  Speaker 3: games that you're most excited to see, of course, Tmosa
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  Speaker 3: takes the field tomorrow for the first time against Brazili.
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  Speaker 3: You had mentioned you're on the call on Fox. Is
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  Speaker 3: there a pool play game that you're most excited to
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  Speaker 3: see in this upcoming tournament?
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  Speaker 2: USA Mexico?
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  Speaker 1: And that was a game the last time that was
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  Speaker 1: incredibly dramatic. It was in Phoenix the last time. It'll
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  Speaker 1: be in Houston this time, and of course you have
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  Speaker 1: both those states. Texas and Arizona are quite close to
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  Speaker 1: Mexico on the Mexican border, so.
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  Speaker 2: You'll have a number of fans from.
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  Speaker 1: Mexico in dyke In Park in Houston.
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  Speaker 2: That's one element of this.
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  Speaker 1: And the other element is Mexico is a really good
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  Speaker 1: team and they have something this time that if they
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  Speaker 1: had the last time, they might have won the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a closer. Andres Munos from the Seattle Mariners
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  Speaker 1: is in this tournament. Now they don't have Julio Urias
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  Speaker 1: they had the last time, who was packful for them.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, Mexico with Randy Rosaeda and
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  Speaker 1: some of the other plays that they will boast in
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  Speaker 1: this tournament, they're gonna be a fun team to watch
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  Speaker 1: and that game is going to be probably the biggest
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  Speaker 1: of the USA's group going forward. Here in pool play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Benji Gill, the team manager for Team Mexico going
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  Speaker 3: up against Mark Durosa of Team USA. All with WBC.
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  Speaker 3: Fox one streaming now. Time now for Grill and Ken.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna go ahead and keep the WBC theme going here.
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  Speaker 3: We're unfair territory with Ken Rosenthal on this Thursday. So
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  Speaker 3: I'll ask you, because you are, as we mentioned on
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  Speaker 3: the call, how is covering the WBC different from a
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  Speaker 3: playoff series or a playoff game.
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  Speaker 1: It's not that much different in Alanna, honestly, because the
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  Speaker 1: intensity is really high. I don't know that the attention
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  Speaker 1: and the media contingent for one of these games is
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  Speaker 1: what it is for an LCS game or a World
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  Speaker 1: Series game. But I will tell you this story and
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  Speaker 1: you'll appreciate this, Elana as a former dugout reporter yourself.
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  Speaker 1: So for many years, really until twenty twenty three, I
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  Speaker 1: wore in my ear one IFB in just one ear
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  Speaker 1: after the WBC in twenty twenty three in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: It was so loud.
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  Speaker 1: I needed to do something different, and I was talking
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  Speaker 1: to our audio people and they said, you can get
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  Speaker 1: with the rock Stars where the double monitors in both
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  Speaker 1: ears and they also have as part of that kit present.
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  Speaker 2: So I turned to that.
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  Speaker 1: And it was all because of the semifinals and finals
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  Speaker 1: in the WBC, So it was loud, and from that perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it is like a playoff game maybe in some respects
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  Speaker 1: in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: If you have say the.
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  Speaker 1: Dominican Republic playing Venezuela or the Dominican Republic playing in
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  Speaker 1: the US, it can be even louder. The crowd is
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  Speaker 1: divided and it's a lot of fun. It's just incredible
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  Speaker 1: atmosphere and an absolute blast, different than a playoff game,
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  Speaker 1: but unique and special in its own way.
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  Speaker 3: Can let's expand on that for a moment. The atmosphere.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you think about games in the United States,
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  Speaker 3: and of course there are fans and they're boisterous and
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  Speaker 3: they're having a great time. But I don't think of
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  Speaker 3: our fans as having a bunch of props. You go
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  Speaker 3: to these WBC games or you know, winter Ball and
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  Speaker 3: Venezuela or whatever, and there's props, and there's music, and
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  Speaker 3: there's chants, and there's traditions and speak to the atmosphere
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  Speaker 3: creating to all of that noise that you were just
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  Speaker 3: talking about. And how much people really get into.
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  Speaker 2: This, well, the one thing that defines this tournament is passion.
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  Speaker 1: Passion from the players and yes, passion from the fans.
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  Speaker 2: And that is.
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  Speaker 1: At I would say a higher level, a more intense
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  Speaker 1: level than what you would see normally in I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: even a playoff game, and certainly, don't get me wrong,
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  Speaker 1: playoff games fans are really intense, but national pride is
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  Speaker 1: at stake here and maybe not for the US so
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  Speaker 1: much as for the Latin American countries and for Japan, Korea,
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  Speaker 1: some of the Asian countries. That passion, that feeling of
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  Speaker 1: needing to win this tournament, badly wanting to win this tournament.
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  Speaker 2: That takes the fan.
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  Speaker 1: Level to another area, and that's what makes it so cool.
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  Speaker 1: So we've seen it grow in the US and we've
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  Speaker 1: seen people become more interested, fans become more interested. But
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  Speaker 1: it's that passion from the other countries that kind of
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  Speaker 1: is what we had to catch up to, both as fans,
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  Speaker 1: that level of it, and also from the player's perspective,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't necessarily see it the same way as they
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  Speaker 1: do now.
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  Speaker 2: Paul Golchman has talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: He is the only US player to appear for Team
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  Speaker 1: USA in three WBCs, and he said, going back to
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, his first one, that a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: best players didn't play, and the team that took the
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  Speaker 1: field kind of had a chip on his shoulder because hey,
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  Speaker 1: they knew that people were saying this is not the
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  Speaker 1: best US team.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a problem anymore.
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  Speaker 3: One more question about the WBC and then we'll get
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  Speaker 3: into some other baseball related stuff. Questions from our chat.
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  Speaker 3: Why are there not challenges in the WBC. Obviously there
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  Speaker 3: are challenges now in Major League Baseball. The ABS system
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  Speaker 3: is coming into play this season in twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: Why not in the World Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 1: Well, because ABS has not been used yet in Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball, and I don't know that all of the
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  Speaker 1: stadiums around the world are equipped with ABS.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, I'm pretty sure they're not. That is the reason.
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  Speaker 1: Once this takes hold in Major League Baseball, perhaps in
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  Speaker 1: the next WBC, we will see ABS, and I can
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  Speaker 1: anticipate that happening.
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  Speaker 2: But that's why this.
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  Speaker 1: Time around it's not going to be in effect.
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  Speaker 3: All right, makes more sense, all right? Some questions now
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  Speaker 3: coming in from the chat. We always appreciate you guys participating.
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  Speaker 3: Wicked Better fifty four, can you report it in your
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  Speaker 3: latest article that the Astros have interest in Lars Nutbar
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  Speaker 3: and Alex Barlson. Which one is more likely to be
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  Speaker 3: traded to Houston and would be the better fit?
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  Speaker 1: All right, Wicked Better, I didn't report it exactly like that.
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  Speaker 1: I said Saint Louis was a potential fit for the Astros.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they have serious interest in newt Bar.
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  Speaker 1: I would imagine they do in Burlson. He's a really
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  Speaker 1: good young player. But it seems to me that a
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  Speaker 1: straight up trade between those two is kind of impossible.
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  Speaker 1: The player that the Astros would like to move is
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  Speaker 1: Estoc Parades. ESOC Parades is not a player the Cardinals need. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if the Cardinals could spin parades somewhere else, for instance, Boston,
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  Speaker 1: then you have something. And this actual combination Houston, Saint Louis,
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: Boston discussed the parameters of a Brendan Donovan deal, so
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: they've been down this road before. I don't know that
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: it's going to happen, but who knows. Maybe it could.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: And the difference here is, if indeed this was to
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: come to.
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  Speaker 2: Pass, I would expect that what Houston would.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Be getting would be a left handed hitting outfielder from Boston,
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: not from Saint Louis. So I don't know how feasible
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: it is. But when you're talking about the Astros, they need,
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: as I wrote, to trade parades for a left handed
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: hitting outfielder, and obviously the Cardinals have those. Perhaps they
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: can involve another third team that would take parades.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: Keen Ce Carrera nine to five to one wants to
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: know this. Would it have been crazy to invite Connor
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Griffin to the WBC.
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: Yes, that would have been a leap too far.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: And the question is valid because, as I mentioned in
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen, they took Bregman. In twenty twenty three they
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: took Bobby Wick Junior, but those guys were established in
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: the majors by then. This year, thanks to the injury
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: to Corbyn Carroll Roman, Anthony is like the designated young guy,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: the Christian Lightner nineteen ninety two Dream Team version of
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: what we're going to see here.
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Griffin is not yet a major league. He's nineteen years old.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: He needs to get involved in the majors before I
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: would expect the WVC would be a place for him.
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: Ken, we have a new member to our foul Territory family,
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: and it's a family that you know very well. Why
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: don't you tell us who the latest addition to FT is.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Well, yes, I'm very happy to announce Alana that the
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Twin Towers from the Baltimore Sun are back under the
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: same banner. Foul Territory Network proudly welcomes Tim Kirchen and
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: his son Jeff's show. Is this a great game or what.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Now?
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: When we were at the Baltimore Sun, were actually at
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: different parts of the Baltimore Son.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We were competing. He was at the.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Morning Sun and I was at the Evening Sun. You
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: might ask why are we called the twin Towers because
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the late manager of the Baltimore Orioles, Frank Robinson, dubbed
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: us as such. This was a time when Jakima Ladjawan
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: and Ralph Samson were the actual Twin Towers. We obviously,
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Tim and I are not twin towers. That is why
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Frank gave us that nickname. And in short, he would
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: just call.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: Us sometimes the Towers. What are the Towers got for
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: me today?
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: That's great? I love that. Obviously neither of you was
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: blessed with hype, but you were blessed with unbelievable intellect
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: and unbelievable writing skills. What's the one thing we should
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: know about Tim Kirchin?
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: The one thing people should know about Tim Kirchin is
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: that when he was on the beat for the Dallas
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Morning News and then the Baltimore Sun, that nice guy
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: you see on television, and that is Tim's personality. He's
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: an extremely nice guy, warm, big heart, but that guy
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: that wasn't the guy competing against me every day and
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: kicking my butt every single day. I was hired at
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: twenty four years old basically to compete with him, and
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: that was Harlem Globe Trotter's Washington Generals. I mean I
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: got smoked literally every day. I beat Tim once. I
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: always tell the story in two years I got him once.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: It was not even that big a story. And the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: next day he came back Alona with like four different
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: things that I didn't have, and it was almost as
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: if he was sending a message to me, don't ever
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: do that again. It was rather disparaiting, to say the least.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: It is a scrappy little guy that Tim Kirchen. Well,
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: congratulations to Tim and to Jeff Kirchen. We're very happy
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: that you are a part of the foul Territory family.
• 20:50
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• 20:56
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• 21:14
  Speaker 1: Dude, dude, dude.
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: We'll start with you, ken On. You're due to the week,
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: and it's another one of your colleagues that you have
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: a great amount of respect for. Who isn't the new.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Play by play man for NBC's Sunday Night Baseball Jason
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Bennetti Due to the week. Jason worked at Fox for
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: some time. Of course, he is the Tigers broadcaster on
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: a daily basis. I had the privilege of doing some
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: games with him, and believe me, it was a privilege.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to Jason.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: He is totally deserving of this, and if you haven't
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: heard him, I highly suggest you listen to him. He
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: is hilarious, he is knowledgeable, and he is, as they
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: say in Boston, Alana, wicked smart.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: Wicked smart. Congratulations did you and Benetti? I have a
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: little bit of the same kind of line of thinking,
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: but mine due to the week is the Detroit Tigers
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: can the way that they handled the Bennetti announcement kind
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: of the promotion, of course to getting to NBC Sports,
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: still praising him, still loving the way that he's going
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: about his business. Also though, congratulating him for being able
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: to take on the new role and national role with NBC,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: and obviously saying listen, he's still going to be a
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: part of our broadcast. He's just going to step away.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: Good for them, Good for the Tigers for letting him
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: do it, and for praising him as well. All right,
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: time now for our dork of the week. All right,
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: so our dork of the week, go ahead, Ken, you
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: have the honors.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Two words in need, I say more. Jerkson profar.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Now, his case has not been totally decided yet, but
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: he has been suspended for one hundred and sixty two
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: games for a second violation of baseball joint drug policy
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: with the Union. That decision is under appeal, likely won't
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: be decided for several weeks, but his suspension will begin Friday.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: I had one time a source who would say to me,
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: you gotta be really dumb to failure drug test.
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: Well that's two for Jerrekson.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this resolves. But dork of the
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: week until proven otherwise.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, my dork of the week. The Atlanta Braves not
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: because of what Jerks and Profar did. But just because
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: they basically copied and pasted most of their Jerks and
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Profar statement, And it's unfortunate Ken that they had to
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: do it to begin with. I mean, basically, they just
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: took out that they were, you know, surprised, because in
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five they were surprised and extremely disappointed to
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: learn that Jerks and Profar tested positive for performance enhancing substance.
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: But take a look at the twenty twenty six to one, Ken,
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: They basically just took out the word surprise and were
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: incredibly disappointed. I mean, it just basically a copy and
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: paste situation. But honestly, fool me once, shame on you
• 23:57
  Speaker 3: for me twice, or fool me once, shame on me.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: We'll meke to whatever the heck of thing is. But
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: the point is, Jerks and Profart, what are you doing?
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: All right? Guys?
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much for watching and listening. We
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: appreciate it very much. Congratulations again to Jason Benetti, very
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: proud of you, very happy for you. Don't forget fair
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: with Ken is back on Monday. Enjoy the World Baseball Classic.
• 24:20
  Speaker 3: We'll talk to you then,