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Should Major League Baseball have a salary cap? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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We are now talking to former 13 year relief pitcher Jake McGee.
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Jake, what's up, buddy? How's it going?
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Thanks for having me. Absolutely.
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And I want to thank Nathan for, you know, landing us you, I know
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you're a busy guy, 13 years in the major leagues.
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Well, obviously you play for the Giants, an organization that has
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found ways to win and they they know how to find pitchers.
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Tell us a little bit about your time with the San Francisco
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Giants. Giants, It was really cool
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because we was living in Florida and we moved to Reno, NV has
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only three and a half, 4 hour drive to San Francisco.
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And luckily I was a free agent, went there and I actually played
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with the bullpen catcher or the bullpen coach who was there,
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Craig Alvarez. And now he's the bench coach for
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Stephen Vogt. And they had a really young
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staff and Andrew Bailey's a pitching coach there and it was
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great. They're really on top of their
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game and you'd send me videos of how many balls move in and
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highlights over after every game.
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So you played for a team early in your career that had one of
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the greatest regular season comebacks, the 2011 race.
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What was that run like getting into the playoffs the way they
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did and the Red Sox falling apart the way they did?
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That was probably one of the craziest games I've ever been a
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part of because I'm ever sitting in the bullpen and we were
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losing 7 nothing. I think Mark to share hit a
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Grand Slam off a off of David Price earlier in the game.
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We're like, ah, we're done, we're done.
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And then all of a sudden later in the game, we ended up tying
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the game and going extra innings and actually pitched that night,
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got the win. I pitched the night before and
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got the win. I don't even think I was going
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to pitch that night. But how it all worked out with
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like the fans seeing, seeing the other game lose and then
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Longoria literally hit the home run like not even a minute
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later. The whole stadium was crazy.
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Yeah, that was cool. Yeah.
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Thanks, Jake. Good reminder.
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Appreciate you, bud. Yeah, do you?
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Do you? Do you catch that game too?
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No, I no, I didn't. I didn't.
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I want to say Proctor gave it up.
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I believe yeah. Proctor was on the man.
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That was like his second stand after 840 appearances under
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Tori. But I mean, he ran him out there
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all the time. But no, I think it's always,
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it's always funny. Obviously we kind of came up
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together and played each other all the time.
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And so, but playing with like all the other teams, because
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you, you played for a little few more than I did.
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Like, did you take a piece from each team or did you just try to
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turn the page when you win it? Because I know sometimes it's
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hard to distinguish, especially when you play, you know, four or
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five years with the team to kind of, you know, break that cycle
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and that and kind of the, and it's always weird going into the
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visiting clubhouse when you've been on a team for that long.
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So did you take like a piece with each team or did you just
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try to turn the page and like and start over?
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I kind of took a piece with each team and then every team was a
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little different. Luckily, majority of teams were
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very heavy analytical, except for the Rockies.
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So they're still a little behind the curve a little bit with some
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of that. And but once I, once I got
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traded to the Rockies, I, you know, talked to the GM and Susan
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GM and we got kind of things moving with the analytical side
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and, you know, getting reps Otos and Trackman and kind of
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learning more of that. But I think from starting at
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Tampa, I had a super good building block.
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They'd give me my pitch movements, how to pitch, just
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use my fastball up in the zone. And then to by the end of my
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career, luckily I was able to play with the Dodgers and the
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Giants. And, you know, they run really
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good organizations, really good communication and trainers and,
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you know, keep guys healthy, you know, really well.
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We are talking to former 13 year vet relief pitcher Jake McGee.
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He pitched from 2010 to 2022 with the Rays, the Rockies, the
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Dodgers, the Giants, the Brewers, the Nationals, won a
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World Series with the Dodgers. As you know, he probably has a
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very beautiful ring that it keeps in a safe.
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You know Jake, the UCL tear is a very common injury right now for
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pitchers. A lot of people have been going
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back and forth and and arguing why some of these pitchers are
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having injuries like this. What do you think is the reason
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why these UCL terrorists have been so so so in so bad for
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baseball right now? I think with some of the guys,
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it's training with the heavier balls and the weighted balls.
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And if you've never really trained with it and your arm
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pass is already kind of set, and then you just try to throw
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heavier balls and you know, and then gain Velo and your body's
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not really used to gaining Velo that quick and your muscles
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aren't really used to it either, I feel like.
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And I think my biggest thing is I think you have to do your arm
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exercises before and after the game.
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But I think the biggest thing is the weight of balls and the
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training programs in those ways. And when you throw, when you're
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throwing 88 and all of a sudden you're throwing 94, you know,
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your UCL doesn't have time to catch up in that, in that amount
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of time, you know? So your your training program,
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the pitching performance Nevada that you have been running for a
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while now to what are some of the points of emphasis you have
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in that type of pitching program and do you think some of those
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concepts could be adopted to higher levels to make sure this
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doesn't happen as much? Yeah, definitely.
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It's when I started doing lessons.
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I've had a lot of kids to use like a water ball on the mound,
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using like lighter Med balls. And then we use plyos.
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We don't use the plyo over 8 ounces, so starting with the
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foundation that way. And my biggest thing I tell all
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the kids is do your arm bands before and after every time you
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throw off the mound. Do some kind of arm bands every
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time. I did that pretty much my whole
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career and luckily after I had my Tommy John, I only, I didn't
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have one shoulder, shoulder problem after that.
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And I think a lot of times the some of the kids they'll just
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throw off the mound and not do anything after.
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Yeah. Did you, did you think to like
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they're the misuse of it too. I'm, I'm not saying misuse, but
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overuse. Like not enough kids take a
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season off or they take time off because sometimes less is more.
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And do you think overuse and not resting is, is leading to that
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too? And I'm, I've never been a fan
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of weighted balls either. But yeah, do you think that's
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part of it too, that that helps into this or hurts in in this
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situation? Yeah, I think so for sure.
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I think it's usage and understanding how much you're
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throwing off the mound on all the weighted balls and all the
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other things you're doing. You listen to your body a lot of
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times and can't push it too hard.
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And if you're doing weight balls and then you're throwing a 45
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pitch bullpen, it's not good for your arm.
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And I think a lot of kids, they don't even take time off in the
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offseason if your arm if you don't build up enough and build
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up the right way and have the right, right throwing program
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too. Now obvious Trevor Bauer has
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been a big story for baseball over the last couple of years.
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And Trevor Bauer was a Cy Young winner.
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This guy has been a dominant pitcher.
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He went over there to Japan. He was a Cy Young.
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What he what? He was the best pitcher in
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Japan, in Mexico, He's the best pitcher in Mexico.
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He was, he was accused of something and then went to court
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and everything was dropped and, and baseball has not allowed him
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to come back. When you look at these stories
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and obviously who Trevor Bauer is, and I don't know him
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personally, maybe you know him, Jabba knows him.
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Obviously he's not too fond of him.
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Do you think baseball should allow Trevor Bauer to obviously
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come back to baseball and and have an opportunity to play
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professional baseball again in the major leagues?
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Well, well, I I don't know. I think they should let him come
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back. He wasn't really, you know, he
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didn't get convicted of anything.
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But I think sometimes in baseball and I've seen over the
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years, if something gets out to where a guy isn't most liked in
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the clubhouse and you know, a lot of the team, it's a culture
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in the whole clubhouse to where if then if all the G Ms. here at
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like 1 of the things I'd learned early in my career is try not to
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burn any bridges. And then when you burn a bridge,
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everyone talks to everyone from the clubhouse staff to the G Ms.
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and you know, like I've I've I'm kind of surprised that not a
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team one team hasn't like just given him a offer and brought
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him back. But I feel like the, you know,
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everyone together is probably on the same page.
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Like, no, let's not let him back in.
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And, you know, he was a big part of the bringing the media in the
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clubhouse and having his own own channel.
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And then with all the sticky stuff getting started like it,
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there was just a lot going on in that situation with him.
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If you were AGM right now for that organization, you were AGM
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for an organization right now and you needed a pitcher, you
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need a starting pitcher and he's available, would you dig deep
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and bring him to your organization, no matter how much
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backlash you would get it from the media or somebody else from
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the organization, Would you actually dig deep and actually
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bring him to your organization if you have a chance to make the
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playoffs? Well, no, I don't.
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I don't think so, honestly, because it, I was saying
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earlier, like baseball's such a culture.
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And when there's too many distraction, it, it can and it
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messes with five or six of your guys on your roster, you know,
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it can throw you into a losing streak, you know, And it's, I
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don't know if that'd be best for an organization.
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And bringing a lot of noise and distraction is, you know, I've
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learned is usually not the best and any, any pro sport really.
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So a lot of the new rules that have come out in baseball
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recently, obviously after the lockout, I think your last year
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in MLB was after the lockout that year after and the first
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year of the pitch clock was right after that.
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So what are your thoughts on some of those, the pitch clock,
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the three batter minimum, stuff like that?
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I don't really mind if 3 batter minimum too much earlier in a
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career job I probably knows too. It was getting out of hand
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sometimes when you'd have the lefty in and the next area you
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bring in the righty and you know is at least the three batter
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minimum. You know, it teaches a lot of
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guys in big leagues to learn how to use their pitches against
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lefties and righties. And then the pitch clock.
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I feel like they should add a couple more seconds because I
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feel like I would have had a hard time with the time that is
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now because I always look down and look up and get my sign and
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you know, I feel like I would I'd be rushed a little too much.
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I think that could have should be adjusted by a couple more
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seconds. For me too, I think adding a
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couple seconds too. And as you being left-handed,
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you guys cheat because you can actually stare at the runner.
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And so for me it was like playing the game of cat and
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mouse. Like can I hold?
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And then now I get it's hard enough to get guys outlet alone.
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Like OK, I disengaged the rubber just to step off.
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Then I picked OK, now I either have to pick them off and then
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it's like, OK, I got to go. I got to look at the clock and I
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think they should add I was a guy that worked fast.
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Anyways, when it comes to that situation, why do you think
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stolen bases are up? They made the bags bigger than
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they've they've done stuff like this.
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But I'd like your opinion on, you know, there was there was a
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pitch today that was literally right down the middle and he
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called it a ball. What is your feeling on ABS as
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far as I'm an old school guy? Like I love the umpires, but
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it's getting ridiculous on some of these things.
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And, and you know as well as I do being in in meetings with our
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Pennsylvania and, and how umpires are not held
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responsible. Like they don't have to answer
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questions, but when it's getting to this point in your house,
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they don't have to. Do you think that's a good thing
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or bad thing for baseball? It's a good thing because I when
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I was rehabbing a AAA for a couple games because they've had
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ABS there a while and there's one inning where I didn't even
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know they're using it. I had a good inning, but during
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the inning I asked where, where pitch was like the umpire and
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he's like, I don't know. And I was like, why do you say I
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don't know, like and they're like, oh, they don't give them
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like the exact pitch locations in triple AI guess.
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So I was like, I have no idea. But I think that ABS how it runs
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in AAA and seeing some of that, it runs really smooth and it's
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you know, it's a cool visual for the fans too, to see it up on
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the Jumbotron and like seeing where the pitch misses.
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But like you were saying about the accountability for all the
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umpires, there's so many of them who if you try to talk to them,
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they're rude back to you. You can't even ask them
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anything. And they're never held
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accountable even if they blow a call.
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So I think this will work, and I'm glad that they're not
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rushing it into the big leagues, like if they would have put it
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in this year or even next year. So at least they'll have two
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years of spring training to use it, get used to it, and then
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then be implemented from there. But I think accountability for
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the umpires will be big in that way.
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Steroids has really been a problem when it came to the
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major leagues, and a lot of guys are not in the Hall of Fame.
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Alex Rodriguez will never see the Hall of Fame.
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Mark McGuire, obviously. David Ortiz is in the Hall of
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Fame. Jeff Bagwell is in the Hall of
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Fame. Mike Piazza is in Hall of Fame.
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Because they were, even though a lot of people believe they want
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steroids, there was no proof, obviously.
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Do you think that guys like Barry Bonds?
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Roger Clemens and some of these other guys should be in the Hall
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of Fame and should have like an asterisk on their name, don't
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you believe? I mean, I believe it.
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We've asked a lot of ex players and even players in a league
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should these guys be in the Hall of Fame?
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Do you believe guys like that should be in the Hall of Fame?
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Yeah, I, I agree. I think they should be in the
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Hall of Fame, you know, because back then it wasn't really
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regulated as much. And, you know, it sounded like
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everyone was doing it and it wasn't regulated.
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And I think just the talent and how hard baseball is and all the
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numbers those guys put up, like Barry Bonds year is what he put
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up is ridiculous. And you know, even before he was
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accused of terror rights, he was probably would have been a Hall
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of Famer. And then with Rodger Clemens
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and, you know, it's I think those guys are those accolades.
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A lot of them aren't, you know, a lot of people aren't even
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gonna catch some of those records.
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So I feel like to where, you know, I feel like they should be
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in the Hall of Fame. They shouldn't, you know,
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shouldn't wait too long to try to put him, put him in, you
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know. The media shouldn't have choice
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on who goes to the Hall of Fame, who doesn't.
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Players should. Your peers should vote you in
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the Hall of Fame. Don Mattingly should be in the
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Hall of Fame. I know he didn't have that long
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career, 13 years because of his back injury.
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Albert Bell should be in the Hall of Fame.
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The numbers that he was putting up.
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And then you have other guys. Tony Larusso was on the
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committee, obviously allowed to go to the Hall of Fame.
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I The problem right now in baseball is there has to be some
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kind of control and the players should have a say.
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The media, if they don't like somebody, they couldn't
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interview them or they just didn't like their attitude, they
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didn't obviously vote them in the Hall of Fame.
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Jorge Posada, this is one of the best catchers of the last 25
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years. How many votes did he get?
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I think he didn't even get. I don't even think I had 3% of
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the votes and he was right off the ballot.
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Jeff Kent. How many second basemen were as
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good as Jeff Kent? Because he wasn't light or his
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notoriety as far as his peers, He wasn't inducted into the Hall
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of Fame. He was.
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I think he was out of the picture, what, within like two
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or three years after he had his opportunity to be on that list.
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Why do you think these players are still not in the Hall of
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Fame? I think they should, you know,
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eventually change it a little bit.
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It shouldn't be all, all, all up to the writers.
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I think the players should have some part in it and then after
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when they follow the ballot, then do the people who are
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inducted vote. They can vote it in after.
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I don't know the exact. They changed the rules the.
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Rules about it, right? Yeah, they came all the time,
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but I think. Yeah, now it's the commit, the
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committee vote if you've gone past.
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Yeah, yeah. And I feel like some of those
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guys should have been in there because you see, you know, the
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other Hall of Fames, they induct tons of people in there.
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And I feel like baseball, they're super limited and very
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picky. Oh, you're saying the media, if
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you pissed off the media in your career, you have no chance of
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being in the Hall of Fame. That's for sure.
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So my last question now, you got to go soon, Dodgers you won a
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championship with in 2020 during the pandemic year.
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So what was that year like? And now a lot of people saying
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the Dodgers ruining baseball with this deferred money and all
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the big contracts they've given now, what are your thoughts to
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that? She's being paid.
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No, I'm just kidding. In 2020, that was probably the
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weirdest years ever. And people say it was like, oh,
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it was like quarter of a quarter of a year.
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Like, not really a real like earned championship, but what we
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had to go through as players and our families and during the
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season, we had to do spit tests every day and our families
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couldn't really go have a normal life because then if they got
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COVID and I got COVID, you know, it was really hard.
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And when we were in Texas, we are just hotel in the field,
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hotel in the field. And we were there for almost 40
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days and very stressful. But in the end, winning the
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World Series is great. And then your second part of the
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question, I think the Dodgers are just using the system the
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right way and they've built a really good culture there and
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everything from their trainers to their coaches and everything.
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And you doing it the right way. And all, all other 29 teams can
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be doing the same thing, using more deferred money, building
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their culture a little differently and bringing in
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people. And I think overall, I think as
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a player, I'm sure Java would agree to to where, you know, if
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there's great culture and great trainers and coaching staff
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like, and you're getting paid well and you can have a chance
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to win a World Series, you know, they're going to keep getting a
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lot of players. Yeah, and I mean, that's the
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funny part that people don't realize.
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Like Deferred, he's been happening for years.
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It's just not to the standard of realm that it's going right now.
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But I always like putting people on the spot because, you know,
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you play for different teams. You have to have a favorite.
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I know there's always like, oh, you're, you know, your first
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ever appearance, your first ever call up your World Series like,
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and we we both kind of experienced it.
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What was your best experience? A single experience or a
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favorite team with experiences. I mean, I'm going to say I
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experienced a lot of good times with your Rays teams.
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Yeah, I mean Tampa by far was probably is my favorite team
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overall and I learned so much from they would bring in
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veterans my first couple years. I remember playing with Johnny
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Damon and Manny Ramirez one of their first years and having
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called Kyle Farnsworth in the bullpen and.
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You know, Grant Balfour and, you know, learning from those guys
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helped me play as long as I did in my career.
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And, you know, he's picking their brain and learning in that
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way. And we're in Tampa, we're in the
20:18
playoffs pretty much every year. And I was very lucky my first
20:21
five years playing with, you know, competing to go to the
20:24
playoffs every year. It was really awesome.
20:26
You know, Jake, you mentioned Kyle Fondsworth.
20:28
Have you seen what he looks like now?
20:30
Oh yeah, I think last time I was a Tampa I saw him and he's been
20:33
playing semi Pro Football in Orlando.
20:36
He went from retired to the MVP of the league because he was
20:39
bored and he's a black belt. Two different like martial arts.
20:43
Yeah, I saw his son in Tampa a couple years ago and asked him
20:46
about him. He's like, yeah, like he did the
20:48
Pro Football thing and, you know, now he's like trying to be
20:52
more of a bodybuilder now He's so.
20:55
Big human. He's always been that shredded.
20:58
Oh yeah, his whole career, yeah, he's always been that shredded.
21:02
He definitely he looks like Zoo. Who do you think has the
21:04
nastiest stuff pitch wise? I would say Paul Skeens.
21:08
And then I think just I've seen how he works and the work he
21:13
puts in and just all of his pitches and how they move.
21:15
And he seems like a guy who's going to keep adapting with the
21:19
game and want to get better and better.
21:20
And you know, his stuff just blows everyone away and how many
21:23
pitches he has is really nasty. But the young kid with the
21:26
Brewers is when he gets more under his belt because I've
21:30
heard, I've talked to other pitching guys and they said his
21:32
extension is like the farthest in baseball because he's so tall
21:37
and he throws 102. So they're like, he's going to
21:40
be really, really good. It doesn't make any sense.
21:42
You're 64, Jabba 6 and they got Kyle Farnsworth.
21:45
Anyways, Jake, we really appreciate the.
21:47
Time I got one. One question for Jabba.
21:49
Go ahead, I'll see if he remembers this.
21:51
What do we got? Remember, if we're playing
21:53
against each other in high and it's got to be the most track
21:57
case you ever had in one game in the minor leagues, our team was
22:00
not that good and I think you had like 16 or 18 strikeouts
22:04
against us and threw like 8 innings.
22:06
Oh, you guys were in. First of all, we're.
22:07
In Vero Beach. Yeah, Vero Beach it was.
22:09
Hot. Yeah.
22:10
So yeah. Yeah, I think, I think I had 16.
22:14
Like, I just remember like we had that bootleg auxiliary
22:17
locker room had to walk over summers in Florida.
22:20
Team strikeouts. Yeah, Vero Beach, their fence,
22:23
their outfield fence was like 3 1/2 feet too.
22:25
Yep. Yeah.
22:26
And we didn't have like and the dugouts were small.
22:29
We didn't have no awning or anything like I think.
22:32
No talk to the dugouts either. Yeah, yeah.
22:34
No talking. I went in and and tried to cool
22:37
off. Yeah, I do remember that one.
22:39
That place sucked. Yeah, that was brutal.
22:42
Well, Jake, I know you're busy, hopefully next on Station Place,
22:46
but we know you're busy and we really.
22:47
Appreciate. Yeah, no, that sounds good.
22:49
Yeah, no, Mondays are probably my busiest days.
22:51
Other other days should work pretty well.
22:53
So just yeah, just reach out and I'll, I'll come out again
22:56
sometime. Absolutely, we appreciate it
22:58
because I know you're busy. Imani gave us the time.
23:00
We really appreciate. It Yeah, they have a daughter's
23:02
team dragging the field right now they're just finishing up
23:05
softball practice so there you. Go, man.
23:07
You're a girl, Dad. Yeah.
23:08
All right, Jake, Thank. You, man.
23:11
Good to see you, Jake. Good to see.
23:12
You. Jake Mickey, ladies and
23:15
gentlemen, I thought he gave us some really good information.
23:17
UCL. We talked about the umpires, the
23:21
different rule changes. We talked about the Hall of
23:24
Fame. We talked about steroids.
23:26
Anyways, we call this Speedy 6 Pack of the day.
23:31
Let's have a sixer. Hey, who wants to play Drink the
23:34
Beer? It's time for the Speedy 6 pack
23:37
of the week. All right, Speedy, this is the
23:43
deal. You got six stories in baseball
23:45
to go over, you're going to read them off and we're going to get
23:48
one person to comment on them after the.
23:50
First fish is not a panty dropper.
23:52
Get the music on starting off with.
23:55
A lovely saying. So the big news of the day, Java
23:58
texted it in the group chat. Emmanuel Class A is on
24:01
administrative leave, connected to betting.
24:03
His teammate Luis Ortiz, so they just traded for this offseason,
24:05
also connected as well. The seventh player to be caught
24:08
with gambling 1. Of them I need a blow pop.
24:11
And the first All Star caliber player.
24:13
So blowjob. So job, I'll let you.
24:16
Take this, but you were the. One who broke it?
24:17
What are your thoughts? Yeah, well I mean he's an idiot.
24:20
They now that everybody goes in he's out till at least the 31st
24:25
of August and Luis Ortiz has been out for at least be two
24:28
months and now they're going back and showing his non
24:31
competitive pitches in an OO count with nobody on in the 9th
24:36
inning and it's been 20. I think it was 25.2% and when it
24:42
was runners on and he needed an out, it was like less than 5.8%
24:48
out of the zone. And it literally like it just
24:52
makes it super obvious and why these guys are I have no idea
24:56
what they're thinking or like why or you're already getting
25:00
paid a buttload of money. What could this possibly do to
25:03
and and you know, you know, the ramifications of betting like
25:07
this isn't a secret. I don't get why they keep doing
25:12
it, getting caught or like even entertaining the fact of what it
25:15
is. Like if you're betting on
25:16
football with a buddy or whatever, yeah, that's one
25:19
thing. But I'm not saying he was
25:22
betting on his game. Don't know.
25:24
It's just this he's on administrative paid leave.
25:27
So really like, what is it doing?
25:30
I just, it makes zero sense to me why these guys are still
25:32
doing it. It's frustrating because it
25:34
makes the game of baseball look bad And, and for guys that, you
25:38
know, respect and treat the game with dignity.
25:41
And it just, it just makes it look bad for for a lot of us
25:45
that that are still playing and, and played before and, and will
25:48
play after. #5. Big performance of the weekend.
25:53
The Nick Kurtz of the A's, A rookie tied for the most in MLB
25:57
history with 19 total bases, tied with Sean Green 1 of 20
26:01
players ever hit four home runs in the game in the first rookie
26:04
to do that. As such, I thought it was
26:08
incredible. First of all, I think he's one
26:10
of the best young players we've seen.
26:12
The A's have and the A's always find these guys and then wind up
26:16
gone after their arbitration. They can't hold on to these
26:19
guys. This guy has a tremendous amount
26:21
of talent, tremendous amount of power.
26:23
And over there in Oakland, I I mean the stadium is, is huge.
26:27
I mean you're hitting bopping home runs like that.
26:29
Joanna suspicious. Remember when they took a
26:31
chance, we going to suspicious the other ones that brought them
26:34
from Cuba and look what I think it was Cuba right you and it
26:37
says and, and look what he turned out to be the ace.
26:40
Get these guys, they transition, they become superstar players
26:44
and then they trade them away pitchers, great players and then
26:47
they go to other teams and win World Series or help teams get
26:51
to the World Series. I I think this kids special.
26:54
I think this kids going to be 1 hell of a player and 6 for six,
26:58
four home runs in a game at 22 years old.
27:00
I, I, I don't think you see this every single day.
27:03
So it was absolutely incredible. And I, I think this kid will be
27:06
a Yankee in the future or maybe a red sock or a met.
27:09
I mean, that's where he's going. If he turns out to be a
27:12
superstar player and he puts up these kind of numbers every
27:15
single year. You keep shaking your heads,
27:17
Mike, he's going to Vegas. He's not, he's going to get
27:20
signed. He's definitely not the A's that
27:24
that the same organization. They're the same organization,
27:27
same owner. They're not resigning With
27:29
Vegas, absolutely. It's his first year in the
27:31
league. He's going to be on the they
27:33
never. It's more years.
27:34
That's fine. And voter a contract.
27:36
They gave Butler a contract. You want to bet?
27:40
You want to bet He doesn't stay with.
27:42
Yeah, He's not. He's not staying with the.
27:45
He's not staying with the. He's definitely.
27:47
What's the bet? We'll figure it out.
27:49
I want to know now. I'm like, Mike, just zipper your
27:52
mouth. What do you think you're going
27:53
to do this live? When I think of it, I mean, I'm
27:55
hosting a damn show. You want me to think, Hey, you
27:57
know what? What's the bet, Mike?
27:59
You stick your thumb up your ass on live radio.
28:01
How about that? All right, You do it right now.
28:04
Yeah. I mean, you're probably stink
28:06
stick. Who knows?
28:07
You'll probably stick fucking cookies up your ass every single
28:09
day. You eat it Every time I munch.
28:12
There it goes. All right.
28:14
That's OK, we're not up to #2 yet, but number. 4.
28:18
Cephaluga, who many people thought would be traded,
28:20
actually signs an extension with the Royals.
28:23
Traditional stats say he's been done well. 2.5 ERA, one point O
28:26
8 WHIP, but his advanced stats fielding independent pitching
28:29
4.27, a lot like Luis Severino and 9th worst among qualified
28:33
starters with a 46% hard hit rate.
28:36
You want to jerk me off? This guy with former Met, you
28:40
know that he had he was the Cy Young, the Royals not having a
28:44
great season and they're going to pay this guy to pay play for
28:48
them for another couple years. I got to show you these advanced
28:51
stats from Baseball Savant here and.
28:53
This is my way. If you're going to use advanced
28:55
stats, this is the place you should be going.
28:58
It's real simple to read. Blue bad, red good.
29:03
Not a lot of red. Statistics.
29:05
Errol, I'm trying to make it as simple for you as possible.
29:08
Blue bad, red good. You see one thing in light red
29:14
for him on the entire chart, which means they're saying his
29:18
great. Stats are good.
29:20
Of a 295 ERA. I have no sack.
29:24
Seven and five record. He should be at 455 ERA.
29:28
People should be hitting 260 off of him.
29:29
He only throws 91 1/2 miles an hour.
29:32
He is an average pitcher and he just got paid.
29:36
Good for him. Well, don't you look at it,
29:39
don't you look at it to where because Kansas City's been
29:42
everybody else's farm system that this is actually somebody
29:45
to help with their younger kids in their rotation.
29:47
So they kind of paid him to stay.
29:48
He has done well regardless of that graph you just showed us.
29:52
And I I'm not sitting there saying he's a great pitcher, but
29:55
he's quality. I I would say that graph says
29:58
he's worth half as much as he got paid, but you're not wrong.
30:03
He's 35, he's been around the league.
30:04
He's certainly an important veteran presence.
30:07
Maybe they're paying him for that, but it shouldn't be for
30:10
the numbers that I. Mean, I agree.
30:13
I mean, if I'm Kansas City, I would have traded him, but I'm
30:15
just saying maybe he doesn't want to leave.
30:16
He found the home there. He's been successful and they
30:19
have kids coming through this system.
30:21
Breaking news. 1st is about old man Speedy. #3.
30:25
All right, the Braves entire starting rotation from opening
30:29
day is now injured. A couple out for the year, so
30:32
here's one, but minus Ronaldo Lopez who pitched in four-game
30:35
one game, so he doesn't count those 4 pitchers that are.
30:38
Hurt right now. 3.34 ERA Everyone else who started a game
30:42
this year for the Braves. 5 point. 3 ERA Droba.
30:47
The the Braves are a debacle. I mean, it's it's hurt them for
30:53
a couple years now. It's just I would I wanted to
30:56
dive deeper into that when I saw that come up early to see when
31:00
the last time all five guys from from literally the opening day 5
31:07
are not. And I mean, we're 100 games in a
31:09
little 100 games, but are all hurt.
31:12
I mean, it sucks. I know it's part of the game,
31:14
but to have it all accumulate into one, I mean, you might as
31:17
well just open up the cut and just pour a bunch of salt.
31:20
I'll let you because my butt, that stinks.
31:24
Spencer Schreider came back and he hasn't been very good.
31:27
He's got 2 miles an hour off his fastball.
31:29
He's pitched tonight. He's just not the same guy right
31:31
now. He's probably going to need a
31:32
year to recover. I wouldn't get back to he's on
31:34
fire. So the Braves suck right now,
31:36
Speedy. #2. So some more Phillies taking
31:40
shots at the MLB fraud office. This time it's Bryce Harper and
31:43
Nick Cassianos. Bryce Harper cussing out Rob
31:45
Manford over the idea of a salary cap and Nick Cassianos
31:48
also taking shots at Manford, saying he's desperate to get
31:51
this cap in place. This is the same Bryce Harper
31:53
that took shots the MLB umpires last year, too.
31:55
And Cassianos, we know, love. He likes to speak.
31:58
I I honestly believe there should be a salary cap.
32:01
Well, because I think every single sport has a salary cap.
32:04
Why should the sport just keep driving?
32:06
So you're telling me, yeah, absolutely.
32:08
What we're going to see the first billion dollar player,
32:10
you're going to tell me right now when you see guys like Soto
32:14
get what, $678 million or whatever, $768 million, the next
32:19
guy, the next big superstar that's going to become available
32:22
is going to get a billion. It's over these guys, it's over
32:24
saturated. These guys are making too much
32:26
money. I I just think it's ridiculous.
32:28
The fact that that Manfred with the CBA when, when the CBA
32:32
becomes when, when's it going to be up 22,000 2020?
32:36
626. 26 There has to be some kind of and I know the players
32:40
union is going to fight this all the way to the end, but if
32:43
basketball is doing it, the NHL is doing it and the NFL is doing
32:46
it, there has to be something. They got to do something because
32:50
it's getting out of hand. We're eventually you got guys
32:54
deferred money. Otani Otani's not even He's
32:57
making one $2,000,000 from the Dodgers until 12 years when he's
33:01
not even playing in the league anymore and he's still making
33:03
what, $102,000,000 a year with endorsements?
33:07
It's ridiculous. There has to be something the.
33:10
Leader, why do you want these these oil tycoons and tech guys
33:14
to keep that money? Because that's who's going to
33:16
keep it If you don't give it to the players, don't.
33:18
Why not give them the market value?
33:19
Who cares if the tech guys? Don't over don't over stop these
33:23
these all these fans that are going to ball games and spending
33:26
four, $500 help the fans out, lower the prices, lower the
33:30
ticket prices. I mean, honestly, to me, fans
33:33
are spending too much money to go to games.
33:36
I, I see, I, I had a friend recently go to a game with his
33:40
two kids. He said he spent $680 for three
33:44
tickets and food for the whole day.
33:46
Is that fair to the fan? They're spending the day at the
33:49
ballpark and spending that kind of money because it's going into
33:52
the players pockets and the owners pockets.
33:54
So if you don't, if you're saying that it shouldn't go to
33:56
the owners, it shouldn't go here, then cut the prices and
34:00
make it fair for the fans so everybody can go to a ball game.
34:03
It's unaffordable. It's unaffordable.
34:06
I just, I'd just rather side with millionaires than
34:08
billionaires. I don't know.
34:11
It's just unaffordable and these speedies are making so much
34:13
money. Number one, alright.
34:15
We'll finish it off with the Hall of Fame.
34:17
Congratulations to all the inductees.
34:18
I'll give one a little bit on each of them.
34:20
Dave Parker, one of 14 players to win batting champions and
34:24
back-to-back years. Dick Allen for the White Sox had
34:26
a 212 our bat which is 1972, which is higher than the career
34:31
highs of Frank Thomas, Dan Musial and Hank Aaron.
34:33
Billy Wagner long overdue 703 games finish which is 6 all time
34:38
and doing it in 186 less innings than Trevor Hoffman was the next
34:41
lowest each row. Only player to have 10
34:44
consecutive 200 hit seasons and CC Sabathia the fourth fastest
34:48
3000 strikeouts. Thoughts of these Hall of Fame
34:51
guys? Oh, it's, it's great.
34:53
Speeches were unbelievable. Dave Parker's son reading the
34:56
poem at the end was absolutely awesome.
34:59
Love how he just took his jacket off because it was, it looked
35:01
like it was roasting CC just dripping onto his onto his
35:05
thing. Ichiro, you know, shouting out
35:08
the dude that that didn't didn't vote for him.
35:11
And I guess the dude recognized himself on Twitter as the guy
35:17
that didn't vote for him. He was like Ichiro mentioned me
35:20
in his in his speech and you know, will Allen just, you know,
35:24
saying, you know, how great, first of all, he swung a 42
35:29
ounce back. Do you realize how ridiculous
35:31
that is? That's stupid.
35:34
And then how the relationship that he created with that kid,
35:37
that kid now is 7 years old and was able to be there.
35:40
And you know, I, I, it was just, it was, it was awesome.
35:43
I I love watching it and sitting.
35:45
I mean, it's, it's one of my favorite days other than opening
35:47
day, watching those guys and families.
35:49
I'd like, I'd like to know how much, how much weight CC
35:53
actually lost standing there and sweating his butt off.
35:56
I mean, he's not eating Captain Crunch anymore.
35:58
And the Crunch Berries. So, man, he was, I was, I was
36:01
talking to his cousin as it was going and I'm like, man, and I
36:06
was like, he has a towel. Like nobody cares if you're
36:08
sweating. Like just use your towel.
36:09
Like he kept trying to do this and it kept tripping.
36:12
That shirt was being sweat through immediately.
36:15
Oh, that jacket was breaking news.
36:17
I want to hit it. But it was it was great.
36:20
I loved it. It's it's one of my favorite
36:21
times of the year, bringing those guys back and, you know,
36:24
seeing all, all of them and and very well deserving.
36:26
And Billy being who he was and how he learned to throw
36:30
left-handed because he's not naturally left-handed.
36:32
And you know, first one, first left-hander to never start a
36:36
game to, to be in the Hall of Fame is pretty cool.
36:39
And it was really cool just hearing their speeches.
36:42
And hats off to Ichiro. Like, I knew it as a teammate,
36:46
but hats off to him from doing it all in English.
36:48
It was. It was really cool to see.
36:50
I hope not. You know.
36:53
Ichiro's joke, They said like, I didn't even know the Miami
36:56
Marlins were a team before you offered me a job.
37:00
He was great. He like, people don't realize
37:02
how funny he is. He like.
37:04
He was hilarious. I got to play right field with
37:06
him every day. And the stuff that he said to me
37:10
that I can't say it, it absolutely blew up because you
37:14
see him at like I faced him and obviously as a baseball fan, it
37:18
was, it was the the worst at bat ever.
37:20
I hated facing him. It sucked because it was like,
37:23
you know, he's not going to strike out, he's just going to
37:25
put in play, blah, blah, blah. Drama likes my cocktail.
37:30
Get to know him and, and just just how fun and put how
37:34
meticulous he is about, you know, just certain things.
37:37
Me and and Brian Hoke, we're going through stories of Ichiro
37:41
and just, you know, he would, he would lint roll in front of his
37:44
locker, then put a towel down, then he would stretch and just
37:46
everything was so precise and he was just an absolute.
37:50
I mean, crazy to think I got to play with two Hall of farmers on
37:54
the same team and share a clubhouse with them was.
37:56
Was really You want my creampie? All right, time to recycle the
38:00
cans. Speedy up.
38:01
It's been another great 6 pack. Thank you to Mr. McGee for
38:04
joining us. He was sensational.
38:06
We really appreciate the time. I know he's hanging out with his
38:09
kids and he's he's coaching and he's, he's, you know, he has
38:12
those. He's doing so much stuff outside
38:14
of baseball. So thank you to Jake for joining
38:17
us. Thank you to Mike for joining
38:19
us. I know he's been busy setting up
38:21
for his, his. Well, it's kind of your
38:24
daughter, right? It's your niece.
38:26
But my niece, you raised her. So it's kind of like your
38:29
daughter. Her 30th birthday.
38:31
So whiskey neat. So he's setting it up next
38:34
Friday. Next Friday.
38:35
So congratulations to, you know, Mike and his his niece or
38:40
whatever, whatever he wants to consider She she is because my
38:43
niece. Yeah.
38:43
Well, no, you said you you raised her.
38:45
So it's kind of like your daughter.
38:46
You know, I like it. But technically, all right.
38:49
She's your niece. Anyways.
38:50
But thank you to everybody on Spotify, Apple, Apple video, all
38:55
the audio, 135,000 downloads last month, all the different
39:00
video stuff that we're doing right now on Spotify and Apple.
39:04
It's been amazing. Keep following us, keep
39:06
obviously, Trent, we're trying to trend all the way up.
39:09
It would be great to get to 250,000 a month, 300,000 a
39:13
month. I mean, well, those numbers are
39:15
astronomical. We really appreciate you guys.
39:17
All the YouTube fans, the X fans, the Instagram fans,
39:20
everybody follow us on Jabba and the Mouth.
39:23
So if you're not following us, subscribe to us.
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Tell your friends, tell your mother, tell your sister, tell
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your brother and tell your dog if he, if he can actually dial
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it up. I mean, AI does it, so might as
39:34
well maybe your animal parrot or whatever.
39:37
Anyways, thank you again. What do we have on Wednesday?
39:40
Nothing yet on my end. I'm not sure if Nathan or anyone
39:42
yet, but nothing yet on my end. So still working on that.
39:45
And Mike, I'm anytime, man, anytime.
39:47
You want to come and join us. I mean your takes, the
39:51
lackluster of takes because we didn't talk much about the
39:53
Celtics. Mike, if you don't talk about
39:56
the Celtics, no, you don't talk about the Celtics, he's off.
40:00
And and by the way, he is not a giant fan as much as she wants
40:04
you to believe that he's a giant fan, he's a New England Patriot
40:07
fan as he's turned over the years.
40:09
So he's a lying sack of crap. Just.
40:11
Remember, just remember, Drake made top five quarterbacks.
40:13
Ryer. Ryer.
40:15
Yeah, right. Three more years.
40:17
Yeah, right. Everything.
40:18
Five years. Good luck.
40:20
Good luck. Watch.
40:21
Watch how bad he watch how big of a step he takes.
40:24
Oh, yeah. I can't wait.
40:25
I can't wait to watch him fall flat on his face.
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Anyways, that's it. We'll be back Wednesday.
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