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Ken Rosenthal: Rays Home Update, Red Sox trade idea, All-Star themes · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: If you would have said the Oils were trading guys,
• 0:02
  Speaker 1: where would Brian Baker have been on the list of priorities.
• 0:05
  Speaker 2: Eighth, ninth, tenth, And yet he's the first to go.
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  Speaker 3: Inside scoop time with Ken Rosenthaler, FT Senior insider in person.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see you, Ken, could see you guys. Happy
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  Speaker 3: All Star break to you. And of course you're breaking
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  Speaker 3: some news during the break, so let's get to the
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  Speaker 3: rays because you have news on the cell process.
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  Speaker 2: And then we also saw today the.
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  Speaker 3: Announcement that no matter how far they go, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: That was surprising. That was not my story. That was
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  Speaker 1: Mark Topkin of the Tampa Bay Times. And originally when
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  Speaker 1: I wrote about this about I don't know two weeks ago,
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  Speaker 1: my understanding was the most logical plan was first two
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  Speaker 1: rounds Wildcard Round Division Series in sim runner Field, and
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  Speaker 1: then they'd have to move it out because MLB gives
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  Speaker 1: out tickets in a big way, which distributes them to
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  Speaker 1: sponsor and broadcast partners a lot of different entities for
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  Speaker 1: the LCS and the World Series, and that would be
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  Speaker 1: make it prohibitive to play in a ten thousand, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred seat stadium. But like Mark reported, they have apparently
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  Speaker 1: decided that if they go to the World Series, they're
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  Speaker 1: playing in Steinbrenner Field.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how that's going to work. It'll be interesting,
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  Speaker 4: but so be it. Now. As for the other thing, yea.
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  Speaker 1: The sale and Evandrelic and I did report yesterday that
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  Speaker 1: that is moving forward and that is expected to be
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  Speaker 1: completed as early as September. There is an agreement in
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  Speaker 1: principle and the preference of the ownership group is to
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  Speaker 1: build a stadium in Tampa.
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  Speaker 5: Was this the back to the not to dismiss that part,
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  Speaker 5: but the figuring out where to play?
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  Speaker 4: Sure?
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  Speaker 5: Was that just made a decision made by the owners
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  Speaker 5: Because you're gonna question some money out of that too,
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  Speaker 5: because they get part of the attendance from the first
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  Speaker 5: four games.
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  Speaker 2: That's right there.
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  Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, Eric, There is a percentage of players get.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's sixty percent of the proceeds from the
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  Speaker 1: first four games.
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  Speaker 4: I might be wrong about that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but something like that.
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  Speaker 4: It's some percentage that they get.
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  Speaker 1: And sure, when you're playing in a ten thousand, five
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  Speaker 1: hundred seat stadium, the take is going to be smaller. Now,
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  Speaker 1: maybe there's a way to make it up to the
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  Speaker 1: players that MLB could do.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to be a unilateral decision. This was not
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  Speaker 1: something the players seem to have a saying. So I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine there will be some question about just what
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  Speaker 1: Eric brought up there.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm sure we know what they're rooting for, which
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  Speaker 3: is not that, because you're.
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  Speaker 6: Telling me they make the World Series, they're going to
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  Speaker 6: play in Steinbrennerfield.
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  Speaker 4: That is what Ark reported. Mark is the guy who
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  Speaker 4: has covered that team forever.
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  Speaker 6: Copper, Yeah, he's great.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, I would expect that that is going.
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  Speaker 6: To Fox is going to do a World Series broadcast
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  Speaker 6: possibly if they make it, they.
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  Speaker 4: Can make it even an ALCS broadcast.
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  Speaker 6: In Steinbrennerfield with ten thousand people. I'll be calling you.
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  Speaker 1: For And also from Fox's perspective. I know this because
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  Speaker 1: I asked when I wrote the other article. Camera angles
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  Speaker 1: and view sitelines are not as good there.
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  Speaker 2: They're not even close.
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  Speaker 4: So the presentation of the game would not be what
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  Speaker 4: it would be if it was in a normal Major
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  Speaker 4: league stadium.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a good representation.
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  Speaker 1: Now the problem is, guys, the alternatives also stink.
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  Speaker 4: Playing in Miami Tampa Bay fans, maybe they go.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they're not driving down the driving down there in
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  Speaker 1: it in Miami, people are not going to go to
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  Speaker 1: see the Tampa Bay Rays in the playoffs. So then
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  Speaker 1: you would be playing in an empty stadium. It would
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  Speaker 1: look better on TV. You'd be able to distribute the tickets,
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  Speaker 1: but people wouldn't be interested in going anyway. So I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that there was a great solution here either way.
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  Speaker 3: I'll tell you this from living down in Miami for years.
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  Speaker 3: If the Rays were in the ALCS and they were
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  Speaker 3: playing the Yankees, the Blue Jays, the Red Sox, even
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  Speaker 3: the Tigers, it would be a trip for other people
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  Speaker 3: to go down, and that place would be eighty percent
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  Speaker 3: of the other team, and they would have a full
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  Speaker 3: seven game series of home games crowd wise, Yeah, and
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  Speaker 3: that would be weird and ugly too, right.
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  Speaker 1: So again, I don't know how they resolve the ticket
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  Speaker 1: aspect of this, because my understanding was seven five hundred
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  Speaker 1: tickets for World Series games are distributed by MLB to partners,
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  Speaker 1: all the people I just mentioned, the media broadcast partners, sponsors,
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  Speaker 1: all these folks, seventy to five hundred tickets will not
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  Speaker 1: be available for those games.
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  Speaker 4: Because you'll only got ten thousand, five hundred to start with.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know how that resolves, but I imagine they'll
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  Speaker 1: just have to figure it out.
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  Speaker 3: And then for the other side of the equation here,
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  Speaker 3: it seemed like the league was pushing for a sale
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  Speaker 3: because it also will help lead to a resolution. At
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  Speaker 3: the same time, this new group that comes in, which,
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  Speaker 3: according to your article, wants to stay in Tampa Bay,
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  Speaker 3: but specifically in Tampa, not in Saint Pete. We'll have
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  Speaker 3: to go back to work to try and get a
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  Speaker 3: deal done with Tampa. Yes, he put a ballpark together.
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  Speaker 1: But Scott, the difference is the government officials in Tampa,
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  Speaker 1: and to some extent the government officials in Saint Pete
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  Speaker 1: no longer wanted to deal with Stuart Sternberg. They had
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  Speaker 1: been down this road with him each in multiple ways
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  Speaker 1: and it didn't work, and they just felt no. I
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  Speaker 1: would expect that once the sale goes through and these
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  Speaker 1: conversations start, a new Tampa will be a lot more receptive,
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  Speaker 1: and Saint Pete might be too.
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  Speaker 2: It's been twenty years.
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  Speaker 3: It's been a long time, but for our purposes, your
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  Speaker 3: article kind of kills AJ stream.
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  Speaker 6: You never know.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't.
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  Speaker 6: I would say it's not dead, but it is kind
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  Speaker 6: of dead because if they don't want to listen, If
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  Speaker 6: Patrick Zulowski doesn't want to listen to Orlando, and I
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  Speaker 6: don't know that he he does, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: Know that rule out AJ he bringing Orlando into the
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  Speaker 1: mix for leverage. Yes, since you bring a city into
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  Speaker 1: the mix. And I'm not trying to your hopes up here, but.
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  Speaker 6: Once you bring a city, you're only lower things around me.
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  Speaker 4: Once you bring a city into the mix, you never know.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, you're right, might happen. Right, So here's what I'm
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  Speaker 6: gonna say about that. Yes, it's been twenty years, but
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  Speaker 6: I don't know where they put the team in Tampa.
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  Speaker 6: I don't. I mean, I know they have options. I
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  Speaker 6: just don't know where it's a good spot because they
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  Speaker 6: want a hundred ish acres like they want this, but
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  Speaker 6: we're looking at the battery, and I think this is
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  Speaker 6: one hundred acres or around one hundred acres to do
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  Speaker 6: the things they do here in the battery. The stadium,
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  Speaker 6: the hotels, the condos, the restaurants, the bars, all like
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  Speaker 6: this confined area. I just don't know where you find
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  Speaker 6: that in Tampa Bay fair question.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the geography or the city well enough
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  Speaker 1: to know myself, but you.
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  Speaker 4: Don't always get what you want either.
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  Speaker 1: No, I know they may not be one hundred acres available.
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  Speaker 1: They were talking about Ebor City at point. They've been
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  Speaker 1: talking I think as well about the waterfront, some area
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  Speaker 1: on the waterfront.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's available and what's not there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure though, that they have ideas in mind, and
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  Speaker 1: it just seems to me and a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: have said this over the years. No disrespect to Saint Pete.
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  Speaker 1: It's a simple geography question. If you're in Tampa, you
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  Speaker 1: can draw fans from all the way up I four
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  Speaker 1: to Orlando. When you're in Saint Pete, those folks just no.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody went yeah, no, it's the logistical nightmare. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 2: been like that for a while.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's hit trade chatter for a few minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Anything new with some of the teams. I think you
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  Speaker 3: spoke the other day about maybe the Red Sox, the Cubs,
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  Speaker 3: any news or expectations I know that it'll start to
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  Speaker 3: heat up really right after this time period because front
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  Speaker 3: offices have to get through the draft and then they refocus, right, Okay, the.
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox what I talked about yesterday was a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks ago, I would have said they have to
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  Speaker 1: get a number two starter, not that such an animal
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  Speaker 1: is available, but I would have thought, yeah, that's what
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  Speaker 1: they needed right behind Crochet. But since BeO and Giorlito
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  Speaker 1: have come on, I don't know that you need a
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  Speaker 1: number two.
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  Speaker 4: Now you can get the best available in the lower tier.
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  Speaker 4: And one guy I mentioned.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday on the Fox broadcast was Charlie Morton, and Charlie
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  Speaker 1: Morton is a guy who has ties with Alex Kory
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  Speaker 1: going back to twenty seventeen Astros. He also after that
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  Speaker 1: horrible start, and he was kind of the poster child
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  Speaker 1: for the Oriols Bad Beginning three point zero five era
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  Speaker 1: in his last fifty nine innings, so he's kind of
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  Speaker 1: become Charlie Morton again, and the price for him wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: be the price that it would be for I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: Meryl Kelly or somebody like that. So maybe that's one option,
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  Speaker 1: and it's just an option, and when we talk about
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  Speaker 1: the trade deadline, even with the Yankees as obvious a
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  Speaker 1: link as it appears to be with Ajohano Suarez, that's
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  Speaker 1: the most obvious one in the world. Doesn't mean it
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  Speaker 1: happens other teams want Suarez. We speculate and speculate, and
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: so often things happen that we don't ever anticipate.
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  Speaker 4: Case in point, the Brian Baker trade.
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  Speaker 1: If you would have said the Oils are trading guys,
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  Speaker 1: where would Brian Baker have been on the list of
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  Speaker 1: priorities eighth, ninth, tenth, And yet he's the first to go.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, and for more in he's getting paid a
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  Speaker 3: pretty penny this year, and I know he picked it
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  Speaker 3: up lately, but he had a really rough start. They
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  Speaker 3: probably don't have to give up much if they're willing
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  Speaker 3: to take on most, if not all, of the salary too,
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  Speaker 3: which is important and Red Sox fans are going to
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  Speaker 3: be banking on that ken because they are still better,
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: at least many of them, about what happened with Rafael Devi.
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  Speaker 4: They saved all that money with that deal.
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  Speaker 1: They have it can do things like that and give
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  Speaker 1: up less, and that would be a shrewd.
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  Speaker 4: Move on their part again one scenario out of one hundred.
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  Speaker 1: And I know people follow everything that is written and
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: said about the deadline and linking teams with players, but
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  Speaker 1: it's fulls gold.
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  Speaker 2: We don't know what's going on half the time. But
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  Speaker 2: what's not.
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  Speaker 5: Fools gold is what you just said about Raffie Devers.
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  Speaker 5: That's a lot of money that's they cleared up. Is
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  Speaker 5: there something out there that tells you the Red Sox
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  Speaker 5: could use some of that money, not some like a
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  Speaker 5: massive part of that money and add something that we
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  Speaker 5: don't see.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Eric, that's a great question, And certainly you
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  Speaker 1: can't rule it out because every year there are players
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  Speaker 1: traded that we never anticipate moving. This would be the
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  Speaker 1: way you're describing a high salary player who probably is
• 11:24
  Speaker 1: under some kind of deal, under a long term contract extension,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it might be, and the Red Sox would simply
• 11:31
  Speaker 1: absorb that player, take him off a team's hands, with
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: the idea of not giving up much in return. They
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  Speaker 1: certainly are positioned to do that. Now, who that guy
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  Speaker 1: is that's a tougher question to answer.
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  Speaker 6: Well, you keep talking about the Red Sox. Are they
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  Speaker 6: fool's gold? Though? Because of the ten game winning stream
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  Speaker 6: because now they play the.
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  Speaker 2: Cuffs at Philly's.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, Rogers Dodgers. I think the next three series are
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  Speaker 6: coming up, no doubt. Is there a ten game win
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  Speaker 6: streak fools goal? Because they were against the Rays were
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  Speaker 6: in there, so I can't now, But they were also
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  Speaker 6: against some lesser team.
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  Speaker 1: See the Red Sox. That way, I don't believe they
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  Speaker 1: were a fraud. They were going to play better. They
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  Speaker 1: have all this talent, and with BeO and Gilidal pitching better,
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  Speaker 1: then I see them as being more real. Now they
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  Speaker 1: need more and they probably need helping the bullpen too,
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  Speaker 1: but they, to me, in a weaker American league, are
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  Speaker 1: a real World series contender.
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  Speaker 6: How much was that just you pumping up your game
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  Speaker 6: on Saturday that you're going to be at.
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  Speaker 5: Pre sale ticket Kenton. The pre sale tickes.
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  Speaker 3: Red it's pre dvrse in case you're somewhere and you
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  Speaker 3: miss an ounce of.
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  Speaker 5: Ken forgot that they can't they can't field the ball
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  Speaker 5: and they just boot the ball all over the place.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that's fair criticism.
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  Speaker 5: And eighth of the team, I mean eight of the
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  Speaker 5: nine players on the team haven't made the playoffs because
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  Speaker 5: they were just all in the big leagues this year.
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  Speaker 1: But Gregman's coming back solid story saw the f and
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  Speaker 1: if they play Ralphaela at second, which they might do
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  Speaker 1: more of solid defender in the outfield. They've been a
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  Speaker 1: shaky at times, but I don't see them necessarily as
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  Speaker 1: a poor defensive club as they are evolving.
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  Speaker 6: All Right, here's the real question I want to know.
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  Speaker 6: On Saturday night in Chicago, after the game is over,
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  Speaker 6: Adam Amin is djaying he across the street, are you going?
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  Speaker 6: I may have to go, oh, you're I'm going to
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  Speaker 6: drag you there.
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  Speaker 4: I actually want to see this.
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  Speaker 6: Yes, I think I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: People understand we're talking about Adam Aman, one of the
• 13:30
  Speaker 1: great play by play people going right now.
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  Speaker 4: Also DJs in Chicago. He does this as a gig,
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: and I asked him, why do you do this just
• 13:40
  Speaker 4: Adam Aman doesn't need anotherop. He does the Chicago Bulls,
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  Speaker 4: he does MLB, he does.
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  Speaker 2: NFL really well.
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  Speaker 4: He said he just wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: Expand his skill set and he has a great time
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  Speaker 1: doing it.
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  Speaker 6: We are going, yes, Oh, yes, we're going, Yes, We're going.
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  Speaker 6: He did in college and then he gave it up
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  Speaker 6: and he said he just missed it, so he wanted
• 13:58
  Speaker 6: to do it again and I begged him. I'm like, please,
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  Speaker 6: we're doing this game. I'll tell you one thing.
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  Speaker 2: I won't be doing dancing with you.
• 14:05
  Speaker 6: Why, I hope not. Are you a corner sitting in
• 14:08
  Speaker 6: the corner guy?
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: I will be a sitting right. You want to make
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  Speaker 2: sure he knows what he's doing.
• 14:13
  Speaker 6: Bigger story here is you're working on the A crew. Well,
• 14:17
  Speaker 6: small Sat needed the week off after doing the All
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  Speaker 6: Star Game.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't, Yeah, is gonna be here soon.
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  Speaker 6: You're an A guy. Well, A crew once in a
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  Speaker 6: while allows me to well, it's me Wayno and Adam
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  Speaker 6: and then Ken, it's our playoffs.
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: He has me bringing the head of Fox Sports a
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  Speaker 1: foul Territory T shirt to hopefully grease the skids for
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  Speaker 1: future A crew.
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  Speaker 5: I understand how this is. Broadcasting career is kind of
• 14:49
  Speaker 5: like my baseball career. A lot of triple A and
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: then you get up to the big leagues and it's
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: so amazing. So we're gonna celebrate this, and then you
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  Speaker 5: got to keep grease and not.
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  Speaker 8: Compare the second game to triple No. No, but we
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  Speaker 8: just have Ken, at least we just don't basically, it's
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  Speaker 8: the same thing.
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  Speaker 6: We just don't have.
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  Speaker 3: Ken al least to al central because often A will
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  Speaker 3: do the al least and then B will do the.
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  Speaker 2: Tiger's gonna be pissed you said that I love the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not worried about the Tigers.
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  Speaker 6: What's the guys name in the chat that he's gonna
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: be talking? That guy's gonna bear you out last.
• 15:26
  Speaker 3: Part here, because you're gonna be on the broadcast of
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: course for the All Star Game.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: In my mind, two storylines.
• 15:32
  Speaker 3: One, we're gonna have the challenge system working, which will
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: be fun and interesting to follow. And two, of course,
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: the Maze getting a lot of love and hate. And
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: he seems like such a nice kid. He was on
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: our show a few weeks ago. But the controversy continues.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: What do you think of the two storylines there?
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: This is going to be interesting.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: It's going to be interesting to see which players challenge,
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: if any do. I can't imagine players won't. I'm trying
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: to think of a good candidate to do it.
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Well. Cal Rawley was like perfect in the spring training
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: at it.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Cal Raley, Okay, there's one, but there's got to be
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: a picture with a big Scoople.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: I could see him doing it just first pitch, let's go.
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: But that's gonna be interesting for sure.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: And the other thing, the miz that's been a fascinating
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: storyline all week. Everyone has their opinions about it, and
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: AJ's gonna accuse me of being wishy washy, But I
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: am being wishy washy.
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: On this issue because I see both sides.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: I see the potential buzz and the attention that this
• 16:28
  Speaker 1: will generate for the broadcast and for the sport. But
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: I also see the argument advanced by many current players
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: that hey, you gotta earn it. Five starts is not
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: earning it. Skeins had only eleven starts last year. But
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: this is different, and this is, in the eyes of
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: many players, not the way it should be. There should
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: be more of a base a foundation. And you got
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: a guy, and I'll just use him as one example,
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Tyler Rodgers. I wrote about him, Tyler Rodgers having an
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: amazing year this tenth season. Maybe he's only shot to
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: go to an All Star Game and he doesn't get it. Now,
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: you can't feel too sorry for him. But at the
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: same time, I get why players would say this is
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: not a cool thing.
• 17:10
  Speaker 6: I get it bad for the kid though, because it's
• 17:13
  Speaker 6: not his fault.
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: Didn't do anything wrong with supposed to say no?
• 17:16
  Speaker 6: Is he gonna say no? No? No, exactly. He was
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: put in an impossible situation and it's nothing against him.
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: Make sure it's nothing against this.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Know that any player has said anything along the lines,
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: and the average fan understands that too. A fan might
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: be offended by this too. But hey, what's the kid
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: supposed to do? He pitches, well, they asked him to go,
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: He's gonna go.
• 17:39
  Speaker 6: People say I'm.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Gonna turn it down. I'm just not worthy.
• 17:42
  Speaker 6: Yet many people said no, right, that's why he's here,
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: don't That's what I wrote the other don't say no?
• 17:48
  Speaker 6: And by the way, before I know, you have to
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: go and the other A team members here, John Smoltz,
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: but good, are you gonna dance with Luda tonight on
• 17:56
  Speaker 6: the field?
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: Who's Luda?
• 17:58
  Speaker 6: Come on, you don't know Luda?
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: Chris, Chris, I'm not gonna dance with Chris.
• 18:02
  Speaker 6: You and Ducci one on each one on each side.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: You and Verducci I dance That will not be dancing Saturday,
• 18:11
  Speaker 4: not the adam Imine Fest.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: Are you a or l N l tonight. Nice awesome.
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: All right, well, Ken, we'll see on there. Thanks for
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: stopping by.
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry to disappoint you.
• 18:21
  Speaker 6: You don't know any songs by Luda.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: I know Luja Chris, I didn't know he was called
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: lu Da.
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: I mean went in the A t L or in
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: the A T L. Can this is his home field.
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: Hey, I have an expansive music knowledge, not his expansive
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: on Welcome.
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: To Atlanta where the Players play.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: Cant I heard it all day yesterday.
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: That's how.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: IM going to start his interviewing, Paul. Welcome to Atlanta
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: where the players please.
• 18:45
  Speaker 8: You.
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: That would that would be the biggest thing you ever did.
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: That would be I promise you that would be. That
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: would be.
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: It would be.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: But it's not happening.
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: His arsenal Okay, he doesn't have that pitch, not yet
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: in the future. Cat, thank you, good.
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: To see you, See you guys.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: That's it.
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: Excomyday later
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: Later on Saturday Territory Back on Thursday second half preview,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: they'll recap what happened this week