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Do Cardinals already have their 2026 closer? · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: It's Thursday.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, off to a bad start already. It's Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: August fourteenth, happy off day. It was well needed after
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: whatever the heck that Rocky series was.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to Cardinal Territory.
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  Speaker 2: My good friend and voice of the Spanish radio broadcast
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  Speaker 2: with the Stainless Cardinals, Polo Sensio, is back on the show.
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  Speaker 1: Back by popular demand.
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  Speaker 2: I should say hello, thank you for taking some time
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  Speaker 2: out of your very busy off day to chat with me,
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  Speaker 2: Katie Wu.
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  Speaker 3: I was just cleaning my apartment and making sure that
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  Speaker 3: everything looks good because I'm a very clean person, are you. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: if you see me on the road or actually now
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  Speaker 3: on the road at the stadium, I always try to
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  Speaker 3: look good and my apartment always looks good because I
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  Speaker 3: am a firm believer that if you go out of
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  Speaker 3: your house feeling that your house is clean and you're good,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have a good day. So everybody out there,
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  Speaker 3: clean your rooms, clean your house, and you will feel
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  Speaker 3: a lot better. That's that's how I'm feeling right now.
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  Speaker 3: It's a happy Thursday. Yes, that's seriously against the Rockies.
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  Speaker 3: I mean watching baseball yesterday after our game the Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: game against the Rockies. I was watching the Dodgers and
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  Speaker 3: the Angels. It's like the Angels are to the Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: what the Rockies are to the Cardinals. Yes, I thought
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  Speaker 3: things that teams that struggle against everybody else, but then
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  Speaker 3: against one team, boom, you go get it. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: that's that's how I feel. I feel good.
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad you feel good.
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  Speaker 2: And I think we were had the same wavelength. Because
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  Speaker 2: I cleaned my kitchen today. I was needed something that
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  Speaker 2: I was on the road for like ten days, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how an apartment can get so cluttered
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  Speaker 2: when I'm not even in here. But I came home
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  Speaker 2: after the our series yesterday and I looked around my
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  Speaker 2: apartment as like something has to change, so look at.
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  Speaker 3: Us has to change. Things are changing, Katie, Things are changing.
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  Speaker 2: Things are very much changing. Let's get into it, Pullos.
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  Speaker 2: We think about what the next six weeks for the
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  Speaker 2: Cardinals are going to look like they're five hundred again.
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: On Monday, we were talking about them potentially sneaking in
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  Speaker 2: three games back from the postseason or from the final
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  Speaker 2: wildcard spot, making a potential postseason ish run. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know how much stock you put into that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: know if it's as little as I did.
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  Speaker 1: And then you know, the.
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  Speaker 2: Rocky Series kind of deflates the air. But when you
• 2:19
  Speaker 2: look at this team right now going forward, what do
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  Speaker 2: you think is the most important thing they could dow?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, coming into the season, we all heard it, right,
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  Speaker 3: and we've said it before a couple of times that
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  Speaker 3: I've internet show led the kids play. The most important
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  Speaker 3: thing for me is that because as long as the
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  Speaker 3: Mets exist, you're going to have a chance to get
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  Speaker 3: into that third wildcard. As long as the Mets exist,
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  Speaker 3: you're going to have a chance. You know, the Reds
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  Speaker 3: are like one game out now we are. The Cardinals
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  Speaker 3: are four games out. And if something, if we know
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  Speaker 3: something about this team, is that we know nothing about
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  Speaker 3: the team, Like this team can go hot, pop up
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  Speaker 3: up about be a games over five hundred, and then
• 3:01
  Speaker 3: this team can go cold, blah blah blah, go at
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  Speaker 3: five hundred and again at the beginning of the season,
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  Speaker 3: that's what a lot of people were expecting, a five
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  Speaker 3: hundred bowl club. Yes, I get it. The players don't
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  Speaker 3: think that, the manager doesn't think that, the coaches don't
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  Speaker 3: think that the front office doesn't think that, but everybody
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  Speaker 3: the outside world was like, you know, that's what who
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  Speaker 3: the Cardinals are. So I think what we are now
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  Speaker 3: is what people were expecting for the Cardinals to be.
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  Speaker 3: I also think that there is another run in them.
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  Speaker 3: I do believe there's another run in them. How close
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  Speaker 3: will they get to a playoff spot? We don't know
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  Speaker 3: one thing that I've noticed this year, Katie. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm pretty new in Saint Leuis, right. This is our
• 3:42
  Speaker 3: tenth season doing baseball, and I still believe I still
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  Speaker 3: think that I'm new to Sain Lewis over the last
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  Speaker 3: few years except for the last two, but before that,
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  Speaker 3: we always heard about the September devil magic and the
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  Speaker 3: run to the players, d da da da. That is
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  Speaker 3: not happening this year. So the mindset of the fan
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  Speaker 3: base is changing, has changed. Nobody thinks amongst the fans
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  Speaker 3: that this team has a run in them still, and
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  Speaker 3: to me, that's important. That's important because it changes everything
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  Speaker 3: that the front office and the coaches and the organization
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  Speaker 3: is going to think in the future. The fans are changing.
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  Speaker 3: The mindset that changing, and perhaps today's show should be.
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  Speaker 3: Times are changing because now people are not believing in
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  Speaker 3: this team. I just said, do I believe they have
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  Speaker 3: another run? I do believe they have another run, and
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  Speaker 3: I want them to have another run. So I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what to think. I really don't know what to
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  Speaker 3: think about this team. I mean, they show you one
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  Speaker 3: day really really good things, then the next day things
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  Speaker 3: don't go their ways. It's like a yeah, it's a
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  Speaker 3: little frustrating for everybody. And you can tell like I
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  Speaker 3: hardly ever get frustrated. But thank you, Katie. Well you've
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  Speaker 3: made me frustrated this morning, that I have that.
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  Speaker 1: Effect on people. It seems sorry about it. I'm with you.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's, for whatever reason, a huge difference between
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  Speaker 2: being three games out of a postseason spot and four.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know why, but what I have taught, like
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  Speaker 2: after the deadline, I told myself, release your expectations and
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  Speaker 2: just see how they play. This rotation has problems, as
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  Speaker 2: we know. There are some serious concern over the inconsistency
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  Speaker 2: of the offense. I like the bullpen not their best
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  Speaker 2: day yesterday. That's going to happen. You're allowed to have
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  Speaker 2: a bad day if you're Jojo Romero. In the course
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  Speaker 2: of three months, Okay, So, if there's one thing I'm
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  Speaker 2: banking the success of this team on, it is the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: because they've overcome adversity over and over again. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: not sure if that's enough to make up for a
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  Speaker 2: very sketch starting rotation in terms of, you know, not
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  Speaker 2: having a lot of consistency there and an offense that
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  Speaker 2: also hasn't had a lot of consistency there.
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  Speaker 1: So is it frustrating?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, We've talked about it all season long with fans
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  Speaker 2: like ride the roller coaster. It kind of feels like
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  Speaker 2: a toxic relationship with the Saint Lois Cardinals with very
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  Speaker 2: long time. But as we look forward to the Romainians
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  Speaker 2: seven six weeks of the regular season, you are right.
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  Speaker 2: The Mets keep Mets in it up, good one put
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  Speaker 2: on a show, and you know, the Reds I'm not.
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  Speaker 2: I've always been kind of a Reds hater and I
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  Speaker 2: can't give you any valid reason why, so I'm just
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  Speaker 2: gonna take my opinion out of there.
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  Speaker 3: The Reds are like, it's one of those teams that
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  Speaker 3: it's very easy to not like or to forget about them.
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  Speaker 2: I just never I never believe that they will actually
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  Speaker 2: put a run together. I could be wrong this year,
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  Speaker 2: but I never actually felt that no.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, And and it feels the same way because
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: we didn't know who they were they were going to be. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they had a new manager, but how much impact does
• 6:44
  Speaker 3: a manager have on a team? And I guess you know,
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  Speaker 3: Tito Francona's having a good impact on them because he
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  Speaker 3: has the one game out of the bets because the
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  Speaker 3: Mets keep metsing around. It's yeah, man, it's it's frustrating,
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  Speaker 3: is maddening. But that's why we love it. That's why
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  Speaker 3: we're here. That's why you are doing what you're doing.
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  Speaker 3: That's why I do what I do because we love
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  Speaker 3: that feeling of frustration and stress, thinking and hoping that
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  Speaker 3: one day we're going to be part of that team
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  Speaker 3: that is the final team, is the final team drinking champagne.
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  Speaker 3: And that's why we keep doing it. And that's why
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  Speaker 3: we go back to doing it this Cardinal team. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean you said the rotation, Who are we? What
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  Speaker 3: are we? You know? Is Libby tired? Is Liby just
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  Speaker 3: having a bad rough stretch out? What's going on with
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  Speaker 3: Michael as you're not at home, he's pretty good, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's decent, he's a five inning good guy. Then on
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  Speaker 3: the road he just blows up. Who is Sonny Gray?
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  Speaker 3: Sonny Gray is see your a's or is he not
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  Speaker 3: your ace? And the Seed do things like an ace
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  Speaker 3: should do. Then you have the other two guys, McGreevy
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  Speaker 3: and Palante, which I was thinking this morning. If you
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  Speaker 3: combine McGreevy and Planti you have a great pitcher like
• 8:01
  Speaker 3: because McGreevy is super cheer, super cool, attacks, attacks, and
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  Speaker 3: then Polante cares so much that at times on the
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  Speaker 3: mountain he looks like he's about to like knock somebody's
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  Speaker 3: teeth in or something like that. It's just, it's it's
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  Speaker 3: it's crazy to think that even though we have had
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  Speaker 3: so many issues throughout the year. You said it, somehow
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  Speaker 3: three sounds a lot better than four. But four is
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  Speaker 3: not that bad. And I said it five minutes ago.
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  Speaker 3: I believe this team still has a run. What kind
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  Speaker 3: of run, I don't know, but I feel that going
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  Speaker 3: into the last couple of weeks of the season, this
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  Speaker 3: team is gonna have a real chance of sneaking in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs.
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  Speaker 2: You and Adam Waynwright lock it in with your safe besties,
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  Speaker 2: and we'll see Adam Waynwright this series. I believe him
• 8:48
  Speaker 2: and aj Prasinski, friend of the show, and a fal
• 8:51
  Speaker 2: Territory have the broadcast for Saturday nights Cardinals Yankees game.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get into that series though.
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  Speaker 2: First, however, we must hear from our good pals at
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  Speaker 2: DraftKings for our player.
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  Speaker 1: To watch segment. All right, we brought him. What are
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  Speaker 1: you drinking? Did you got to Fielder's choice?
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  Speaker 3: My friends are field their choice. Go get the polo
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  Speaker 3: breakfast burrito. It's really good. So you know who you
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  Speaker 3: know who eats a polo breakfast Mario quite often. You're
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  Speaker 3: not gonna believe Jojo.
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  Speaker 2: Romero, Oh my gosh, the guy who is our Draftings
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  Speaker 2: player spotlight the way.
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  Speaker 1: No, I didn't tell you this, but yeah, this is true.
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  Speaker 2: See so in sync, I wanted to talk about Jojo Romero,
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  Speaker 2: so I figured we'd make him our.
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  Speaker 1: Our player spotlight. Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Does he buy his scooter to field his choice, pick
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  Speaker 2: up the burrito and then go to the ballpark.
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  Speaker 3: No? No, he has breakfast and then goes to the ballpark. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's it's funny because I you know, we're neighbors
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  Speaker 3: and we walked. I walked the same way that he
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  Speaker 3: goes by. Oh here ding ding ding ding, kind of
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  Speaker 3: like yesterday, ding ding. That's the ball out of a
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  Speaker 3: good one to God.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, that was that was a tank.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Jojo Romero what a guy coming in after the trade
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  Speaker 2: deadline as the team's unofficial closer.
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  Speaker 1: They are doing a closer.
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  Speaker 2: By committee by definition, because there's only one left hander,
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  Speaker 2: Romero in the bullpen. Though. John King will start a
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  Speaker 2: rehassignment either today, Thursday or Friday with Triple A Memphis
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  Speaker 2: and Charlotte, I believe is where they are. So John
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  Speaker 2: King on his way back, hopefully soon. But for Jojo,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's so interesting as we see him, and
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  Speaker 2: you know Jojo, well, you're very close with him, Polo,
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  Speaker 2: and you look at a where he was in twenty
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  Speaker 2: three when he came over in that trade four mendo
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  Speaker 2: so sat from Philadelphia to where he is now, the
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  Speaker 2: progression and the belief in his stuff. He's nasty and yes,
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  Speaker 2: I know that pitch did not go his way against
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  Speaker 2: the Rockies yesterday, but that was the first home run
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  Speaker 2: he'd surrendered since April twenty first, and he's been so
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  Speaker 2: effective against lefties all year. Has really found a way
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  Speaker 2: to combat ritis, and he is when you look at
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  Speaker 2: the Cardinals bullpen that should be depleted, helping keep them
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  Speaker 2: sustainable and effective, even as a top option in that bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: In your conversations with Jojo Romero, what have you learned
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  Speaker 2: about him as he's embraced this new role here in
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  Speaker 2: Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 3: Well, one thing is, and we hear this a lot
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  Speaker 3: from guys. He wants to stay here. He is open
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  Speaker 3: to listening, he is open to sitting down, him and
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  Speaker 3: his agent. They want to be here. They want to
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  Speaker 3: stay here. They like it here. They're really, really do
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  Speaker 3: And when you hear you don't hear that all the
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  Speaker 3: time from every single player. Some players are like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be a free agent and see what happens.
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  Speaker 3: Some hey, whatever happens. But when somebody tells you, like
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  Speaker 3: the kids would Ryan Helsley, Hey, I know I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to be traded, but hopefully in the off season we
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: can talk and I can come back. So Jojo wants
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  Speaker 3: to be here, and that's why he wants that ball.
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  Speaker 3: He wants it and he takes it. He does is
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  Speaker 3: the best that he can and under the circumstances being
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  Speaker 3: the only lefty, and that's one thing that I haven't
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  Speaker 3: asked him, and I will do you have a little
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  Speaker 3: extra pressure just knowing that you are the one lefty
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  Speaker 3: in the bullpen right now, you have a bunch of rieties.
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  Speaker 3: But like yesterday, you know, he was the guy and
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  Speaker 3: one way or the other, the three high leverage guys
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  Speaker 3: that we have right now, you cannot use them every day.
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  Speaker 3: And Jojo was the guy at that moment, and you
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  Speaker 3: know it didn't work out for him, And yes it
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  Speaker 3: was a bad moment, but you said it. You know,
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  Speaker 3: one home run since April, that's not bad at all.
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  Speaker 3: He wants it, He wants it bad. He has that
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  Speaker 3: passion and you see it, you know when he closed
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  Speaker 3: the game the other night, his passion, his like emphasis
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  Speaker 3: on let's go. I like that. You like that from
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  Speaker 3: a player. You like to see that because there's so
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  Speaker 3: many players and pictures in particular that you don't see
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  Speaker 3: any passion. And as a fan, you want that. You
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  Speaker 3: want that connection because if you're in the stands, if
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  Speaker 3: you're at home watching or listening on La Tremendo eight
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  Speaker 3: eighty and Espanol, of course, and you get excited. You
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  Speaker 3: want your players to get excited, and I welcome that,
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  Speaker 3: and I welcome somebody like Jojo Rometo on my team
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  Speaker 3: any time, any year, any day. I want somebody like that,
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  Speaker 3: because the last thing I want is somebody that shows
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  Speaker 3: no emotion. He might be somebody might be effective all
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  Speaker 3: the time, but with no emotion, that takes away from
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  Speaker 3: the moment. I love what he does, I love what
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  Speaker 3: he is doing, and I really want him to keep
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  Speaker 3: succeeding and being a superstar one day. And again that
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  Speaker 3: doesn't heard that his parents are family, are Mexican, somno Mahicano.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go.
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  Speaker 2: I'm with you on everything there from Jojo and what
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  Speaker 2: he's done in twenty three when he came in and
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  Speaker 2: he was the closer, that was the Cardinals just figuring out. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: look we are twenty games out of it. Let's see
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  Speaker 2: what he has. Can he figure this out? We're gonna
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  Speaker 2: put him in there, regardless of lame, regardless of handonness.
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  Speaker 2: Go figure it out, singer swim, and he did a
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  Speaker 2: really nice job that gave him the confidence to be
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  Speaker 2: a key setup believer. In twenty four, we know how
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  Speaker 2: good that bullpen was and now here. He is in
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  Speaker 2: the same role kind of that he was in twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty three, except they already know what they have in him.
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  Speaker 2: They already know what kind of stuff he is, how
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  Speaker 2: he prepares, how he goes in attacks opposing hitters. And
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  Speaker 2: when I talk to him, he said, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: of course it's not ideal to be the only lefty
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  Speaker 2: he goes. But I don't think of it at that,
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  Speaker 2: he says. I think of it more as a I
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  Speaker 2: don't have a designated role. My role is to just
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  Speaker 2: be ready. Whether it's the sixth, seventh, eighth, or ninth.
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  Speaker 2: All I need to know is who am I going
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  Speaker 2: to face. And he goes to our pal Julio in
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  Speaker 2: the bullpen and ask who are the pinch hitters, what
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  Speaker 2: lane we need to prepare for, and just tell me
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  Speaker 2: when to be ready, and I'll go in. And because
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  Speaker 2: he has that confidence and the trust and his stuff,
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  Speaker 2: that stuff plays regardless of lane leverage, wherever they are
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  Speaker 2: in the game. So Jojo Romero can be a real
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  Speaker 2: weapon for this team next year. And as the Cardinals
• 14:30
  Speaker 2: are trying to figure out exactly who they can count on,
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  Speaker 2: I think they already know they can count on Jojo
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  Speaker 2: in twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Twenty six, count on Jojo. I like that, that's a
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  Speaker 3: campaign hashtag count on Jojo. And then Jojo. That's a
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  Speaker 3: beautiful name, Joe. I mean, yeah, his name is Joseph
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  Speaker 3: abel Romero. But by the way, by the way, I
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: had a conversation with his dad the other day, by
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  Speaker 3: the name of Abeli. He's going to be here this weekend.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if you met him before, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: introduce you to him. And we were talking again where
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  Speaker 3: I live in California. He Jojo grew up like thirty
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  Speaker 3: minutes from where I live in California a little time,
• 15:05
  Speaker 3: by the name of Oxtar. That's saying with the town
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  Speaker 3: ox Star, California. On his bio on MLB and everywhere else,
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  Speaker 3: it says Camillo because he was born in a hospital
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  Speaker 3: in Camillo. But he represents ox Star, So anybody out there,
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: JoJo's dad wants you to know that he represents and
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  Speaker 3: he claims ox Star California. He is not a fufu
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  Speaker 3: from Camarillo.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, California. Love you and me both.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: We know that if you have not played pick six
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: over our draft kings, let me chose for you. Usually
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: this is Bernie segment. He is not obviously on this episode. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: and I can't make picks for you, but I can't
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  Speaker 2: Well, as we ask viewers of this podcast, no, because
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: I've only complained about it eighty times so far, I
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: missed a pretty big event in Saint Louis last week weekend.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Your pal Cardinals great YadA A Molina was back in
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: Saint Louis in the dugout in uniform with manager Alli
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: Marmel and his staff.
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, did you have a question?
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: No? No, No, it's right here, oh number four here.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, for our podcast friends.
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: There is a framed YadA Amelina jersey in Polo's apartment
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: behind him.
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: With the gloves nice.
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: He signed for me.
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: There, love that love that for you. My background is
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: not nearly as cool, but whatever, it's fine.
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: Everyone that was there again, wasn't me? Uh has raved
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: about how that weekend went. And I know you and
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Yadi are especially close. You helped organize this. What was
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: your takeaway from Yadi weekend.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: I loved it. I you know, like I tell people,
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: when people tell me, I'll tell him we miss him,
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: tell him we miss him. And they missed the player, right,
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: they missed the passion. For me, I miss my friend
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: because you know, for whatever reason we we we got
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: close to the point where, yeah we it's always baseball,
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: but it's more family and and just life now than
• 18:13
  Speaker 3: than than than baseball. And I loved having him here.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I had, like you said, a little small part on
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: him being being back in Saint Louis. And when I
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: picked him up from the airport, he had a smile
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: from here to here and he sees me and hey,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: let's go, let's do this. And from the minute he
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: got here, he was happy, he was relaxed, he enjoyed
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: his time. He missed the I think that the part
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: that he missed the most, other than the fans and
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: the love of the fans, was be part of the
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: team again. Feel like you're part of a team. And
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: before I go forward with this, kudos props high five
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: star in the forehead to Oliver Marmont. I mean he did,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Ali did a phenomenal job of I don't know like
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: trying to make people understand that he's not scared. He
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: is very secure. He is confident of who he is.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Oli Oliver, come like I tell him, call him. Because
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: he was ahead of everybody. He was ahead of the
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: media once he realized that this was happening, once he
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: heard that Yadi was on the plane and Yaddy had
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: landed in Saint Louis. Okay, this is happening. He is here.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Let me talk to the media, let me talk to
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: the fans, and let's make sure that Yadier Molina, who
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: is a nikon, a hero, beloved, cardinal and forever will be,
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: feels welcome and doesn't feel like he's stepping on anybody's toes. So, Oliver,
• 19:49
  Speaker 3: if you're watching, I told you already face to face
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: on Saturday morning. I'm saying it again. You did a
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: phenomenal job of telling people. I know what I have,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: I know who I am, I know who this guy is,
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: and if he can make me better as a manager
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: and make my team better now and for the future,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: anybody who can make me better, and even you know me,
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Polo or you Katie, we are welcome. We welcome those people,
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: come challenge me, make me better. Let's work together for
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: one goal, and the goal is to bring Cardinal Baseball
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: back to the playoffs and bring number twelve to the house.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: So with that being said, Ali again, Felicia did a
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: great job. You earned a lot more. I mean I
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: already respected you, but a lot more than before and
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: I told you already. But yeah, going back to Yadi,
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I mean he enjoyed every single one of the moments
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: talking to the catchers, you know, putting a couple of
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: thirty minute, one hour clinics for Poso, for for Petro Pajez,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: for Pogi, for KT, for Julio Range, the coach in
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: the bullpen. And one of the things that some people
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: don't understand. Yeah, you're a catcher, right and you are
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: one of the best. Ever, that doesn't mean that you
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: only know catching. You know a lot of things planning,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: you know, pitching. And one of the conversations I had
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: was with Andrew Garnillo and another believer for the Cardinals,
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: and he was very happy to not only meet him,
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: but to talk to him and to hear what he
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: was saying about planning ahead of time. So his visit
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: when I dropped him off at the airport on the
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: way back on Sunday morning, I asked him, Hey, from
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: one to ten, how do you you know what's the
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: grade you put on this visit? And he said eight.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, okay, that's not about grade. And then he
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: said it will be ten if my flight doesn't get
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: delayed back home. The flight got delayed about forty five minutes,
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: so maybe a nine. I mean, I cannot promise that
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: he's going to be back. I'm not him, He's not
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: I but I can tell you that he is very
• 21:51
  Speaker 3: happy and he's looking forward to coming back and talk
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: some more baseball with the guys and get to know
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: this team, because he knows this team is going to
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: be a lot of those guys, a lot of the
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: guys we have are gonna be here for a while,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: for a few years, so he wants them to know
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: him and he wants to know them too. So it
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: was a very good visit for Saint Louis, for him,
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: for Cardinal Nation, for our manager, for our front office
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: and our future front office. And also, I mean he
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: made an appearance at then you see him one of
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: his gloves. They didn't have a glove from Yadi at
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: the You see him for some reason. Yeah, it was crazy.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: So it's there now and it's going to be out
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: for people to watch it or look at it. And
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: again he did things that in the past he didn't
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: because he was playing. He was worried about playing baseball
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: and being ready. Now he got from what I saw right,
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: he got to enjoy baseball again. He got to enjoy
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: then you see him, and if we haven't been to
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: the Cardinals museum, please do so it's really really cool.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I mean it was really really good, Katie.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: And you missed a good weekend of baseball because the
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: Cardinals the Cubs, and you miss the return of Yadi
• 23:02
  Speaker 3: and Molina. But I'm sure that you'll be around for
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: the next time he's he's here.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: But you know what I did see.
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: I did see a shutout loss of the Rockies and
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: a series lost to the Rockies. So obviously, really good
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: timing on you.
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: You we need to get you out of here.
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Remind me careful what you're for when I think you're
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: completely right about the Yaudi situation. Again, I wasn't there,
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: but from people that I've talked to, whether it was
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: the importance of Yati coming back like he is Saint Louis.
• 23:29
  Speaker 2: You know, we this franchise is so lucky to have
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: so many historic names and but there is there's only
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: one number four. And for Yati to come back after
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: such a long absence, I you know, talked to him
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: in spring training, as you know, and that was the
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: first time we really heard from him in a while.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Just about where he was at.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: I think it makes a ton of sense to want
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: to be around his family and help his son who's
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: in high school. Uh, try to commit and he did
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: to U t Austin, I believe right, Yeah, congratulations Yannu.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: But for him to come back have that reception, to
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: have Ali Marmal do what he did and say like, hey,
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be selfish here. This is the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: best thing for everybody in the organization to have Yati here,
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: come sit in the dugout with me, Yati in the
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: city connects. I just loved everything about it. And I
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: know that he did a couple of signings out one
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: with you out in South County to go visit the museum,
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: to just be a part of this organization. Again, it
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: can be very hard as a player, not just a player,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: but a franchise icon to step away from the game
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: hire and not really know what your identity is after that.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: But one thing about YACHTI is that he will always
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: be synonymous with Saint Louis. And I think that was
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: relayed to him this weekend. And you know him much
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: better than I do. Maybe that was something he needed
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: to feel and experience firsthand to really understand it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: Yeah, because last time he was here was when Adam
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: retired and listen lasted about twenty four hours and it
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: was quick. It was in and out, in and out.
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: This one was a lot more relaxed, a lot more time.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: He enjoyed it. He enjoyed it very much. And I
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: don't know if you saw this, but at the end
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: of game, one of that serious pa or was like
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: praising his presence in the dagout like during the game,
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: and Benji Molina, my partner in the booth, he caught
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: you know, he does his job. I do my job,
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: so he's looking more around what's what's happening, And he
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: caught it and we talked about it during the during
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: the broadcast, how Yadi was like whistling and yelling, not
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: yelling in a bad way, like for him to listen
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: to him to hear him, and he was like telling him, like, hey,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: go inside against Kyle Tucker, Like you know, the Cuffs
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: were pitching inside and they hit Wilson Contreras, and they've
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: been hitting everybody. And during one not bad with Kyle Tucker.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: I looked and Yaddy was telling Pedro like go up
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: and in like like make him feel uncomfortable. So two
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: pitches up and in the second one hit a fly
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: ball to center field with Mensa with runners first and
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: second late in the game. So not only he was
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: talking to Pedro, and then Pedro like, Okay, I need
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: to tell this guy, you need we need to do
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: this a little more, because if I don't have the experience,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: that guy over there has the experience, and let's do it.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: And Pedro said it. I enjoyed it. I really loved
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the way he was on me the whole game. And
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: I hope he comes back and we continue this relationship.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: And let's not forget Pedro and and and Joel and
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: even Evanne. Those are young young catchers that need some guidance.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Just just because they are on the big league doesn't
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: mean they don't need to get better or they don't
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: need help. I think to stay at this level. That's
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: when you need the most help because sometimes, you know,
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: you go through the minor leagues, then you get to
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: the big leagues, and it's sometimes it's very easy to
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: get to the big leagues. You know, guys that have
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of talent, a lot of power.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: But then once you get to the big leagues, what's
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: your next challenge? Just be in the big leagues, Just navigate,
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: be a log in the ocean and the Gulf of Mexico,
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: just like going around and you know here and there,
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: No you want to You want that challenge. You want
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: to be challenged at something or by someone. And I
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: think having somebody like that it challenged not only the catchers,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: but a lot of people. And who knows, perhaps even
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: that even the manager, you know, because I know they
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: were talking a lot. They were talking, and he was
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: talking with Dusty, he was talking with Stubby, Clad with
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: Pop Warner, with everybody. And I know from afar looking
• 27:05
  Speaker 3: at it, he enjoyed it, and those guys enjoyed it too.
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: It's it was a good It was a good It
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: was a good thing. It was a good thing to
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: have him. And you said it, there's there's many many
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: legends and many many Hall of famers, but there's only
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: one YACHTI you know, and that guy when you when
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: you see him walk on the field, you know that
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: that somebody, that that person is special and he's very
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: special in many many ways here and.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: Sid those and how lucky are we to be able
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: to chronicle even just a short bit of Yaddi's time here?
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Right? I love that. That's that's awesome.
• 27:39
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  Speaker 2: We've done a lot of talking about the state of
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals organization, but one thing that I think we
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: should bring a lot of light to You've pointed out
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: in the beginning of the episode. It's been ten years
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: of Spanish radio broadcast here in Saint Louis. You and
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: Benji Molina have done an exceptional job job and making
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: the Cardinals more accessible, not just domestically, but globally, and
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: that's important as Major League Baseball tries to expand its game,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: as the Saint was Cardinals, one of the most historic
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: organizations in sports, try to do the same. And I
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: don't think maybe what you have done has been emphasized enough.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Lately, so let's let's give it a shot.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: How does the Cardinals Spanish broadcast work for you?
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: What do you enjoy about it?
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: It's a miracle that is working now. I enjoy everything
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: like like the people you know. Like I always tell
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: when people ask me, what's your favorite part of the
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: favorite part of your job. The favorite part of my
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: job is having those headphones on and talk about baseball
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: like the people you know, meeting people like you, like
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: you know, all of the writers, the players, the coaches,
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: the owners, the GM, the new GM, the press. Like
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: that is that is really really good And I enjoy that.
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: I knew that was that was going to be the
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: part of the job that I was gonna it was
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: gonna be easy for me if there's so, but nothing
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: is ever easy, but connecting with the community, not only
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: with the Latinos and San Louis, but the Latinos. There
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: are fans of the Cardinals worldwide and Latinos that are
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: worldwide fans of baseball because we like I said, yesterday,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: you were watching I didn't know, but I told you,
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: and you said you were doing it too. You were
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: watching the Dodgers against the Angels. And tonight I'm gonna
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: watch whatever game is out there. Why because we love
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: baseball and whenever I'm watching, I like to listen. A
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: couple of innings in Spanish. Why because I want to
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: know what's out there. I want to know who's out there,
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: and yeah, you know, I want to know what kind
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: of competition is out there and see how I can
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: get better by learning from other people. And that is
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: very important because when we look at others, when we
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: see what others do then help us grow. That's really good.
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: And what we have done here in Saint Louis little
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: by little we become. We are now a staple of
• 30:58
  Speaker 3: Cardinals baseball because the last few years you cannot paint
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: the picture of the Cardinals without the Spanish broadcast and
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the calls and the moments that Benji and I have
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: been able to throw out there to our fans and
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: to be able, Like I said, you know, JoJo's dad
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: they listen in Spanish and Mexico. His grandparents live in
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: Mexico and they don't speak a lot of English. So
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: the families are connected with the players. A couple of
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: days ago was talking to Julio Ranghahler, both play coach.
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: His parents listened to the broadcast and Panama and not
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: only that, you know, not only that the families of
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: the players, but people all over the world. They let
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: us know where they're listening from. And you said it.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: MLB is telling us they want to grow the game
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: of baseball worldwide or keep growing. It will help us grow,
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: help me, help you, as Jerry Maguire said in that movie,
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: help me help you, so help us help MLB continue
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: to grow. And I know in Saint Lewis the population
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: of Latinos is not it's not huge. It's not big
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: like you know, like Chicago, New York, LA, or any
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: any any place of California. But we are here and
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: we I see them. I see me on the streets.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: I see the kids. I see them like lasking me
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: for autographs and things like that. And that's that's important.
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  Speaker 3: I don't do this and I'm gonna talk about me.
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  Speaker 3: I don't do this because I want to be recognized
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: or I want people to give me likes on Instagram.
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  Speaker 3: That's the last thing in my worries. You know, I
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: have a family, I have myself, I have friends that
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: I that I worry about. Likes or no likes on Instagram.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: You know whatever, if you if you like it, fine,
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: if not, that's also fine. But September eighteenth, we just
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: got a letter. I got it and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: Benji also got it. We've being recognized by the City
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: of Saint Louis as part of you know, a group.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's like this year is like four people
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  Speaker 3: that they are recognizing as Latinos helping Latinos, Like like
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: the Hispanic Heritage Month is being celebrated, and they are
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: going to celebrate us. They're gonna give us an award
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  Speaker 3: or diploma. I don't do my job for that, but
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I welcome that because being recognized, even though it's not
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  Speaker 3: part of what I want to do, it feels good.
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  Speaker 3: It feels good to know that people have their back.
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  Speaker 3: It feels good to know that people see what you do,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: hear what you do, and perhaps you don't see eye
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: to eye with other people in the community, but when
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: we work together, good things can happen. And yes, you know,
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  Speaker 3: we've been doing any one games now for three or
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: four years now, well actually since COVID we've done every
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: single home game. Hopefully in the future we can we
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: can go out more, we can do out more, we
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: can take Cardinal Baseball to the road and continue to grow.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: That's that's that's one part. I like to be challenged.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: I like to feel that there's a challenge out there
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: for me, and I think doing one sixty two at
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: some point it's gonna be a good challenge. I'm up
• 33:53
  Speaker 3: for it. And you know, I only have to thank
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: my family for supporting me, my wife, my kids, my dogs,
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  Speaker 3: my mom, my brother, my sisters, all of them. People
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: like you, Katie, people like like you know, Derek Gould,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: people like like Danielle Guerrero, like John Dan like uh Ben,
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Jammine Hoffman, you know, the older writers here and and
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: uh and and sign lewis that from the day we
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: got here, have taken the interest of learning who who
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: is this guy? Who are these people? Because they are
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: part of Cardinals Baseball now, and that nobody's gonna take
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: that away from us. So yeah, I mean thank you
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: to the community, to the organization of course, for for
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: helping us keep moving forward and hopefully in the future
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: we continue that. It's been a lot of fun and
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: it's going to be a lot more fun in the future.
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: And thank you for for for asking this because it's important.
• 34:44
  Speaker 3: It's important for people to know that that we are
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: here and that we are here for you, and we
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: welcome every single inch of help, criticism, challenges, let's go,
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: let's keep growing. I really enjoy my time here and
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: I cannot wait. You know, I'm waiting to see what
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: the future holds for me as a broadcaster and obviously
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: for the Cardinals Spanish broadcast, because I was telling somebody
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: else all the work that I've done this year's is
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: not just for me because one day, I don't know when,
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: you know, it could be standing up, or it could
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: be with my feet in front of me. I'm gonna
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: leave this place, you know, if I you know what
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: I'm saying, Like I can be walking where I can
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: be dead, But somebody else is gonna come in and
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: they're gonna keep the work or or or benefit from
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: from my sacrifices. And that is also part of the job.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: And I love that to think that somebody else is
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: gonna come in one day, one way or the other
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: and they're gonna benefit from what I've worked. That's what
• 35:44
  Speaker 3: we do. That's what you also do, Katie Will. I
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: mean being a minority, being a very smart female minority.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: It's not easy in your business. And we talked about
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: this off camera, but what you what you do, what
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: you've done here, it's it's easy and for that, my friend.
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: I'm proud of you.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm fired up. I feel like i could just
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: run through a wall. Thank you, Thank you for sharing that. Also,
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: congratulations to you and Benji on that award.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: It is well deserved.
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: Anyone who has taken a look at how the how
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: you have grown the Cardinals Spanish radio broadcast in this
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: organization and just done so much for the Latino community
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: knows that this is not just very well deserved, but
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: very long overdue. So proud of you, my friend, and
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: I'm excited to see you back at the ballpark tomorrow
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: Friday for what was supposed.
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: To be a big one, but both these teams.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: Kind of well, it is a big one for both
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: of them because let's just say the Cardinals sweep the Yankees,
• 36:42
  Speaker 3: they are back in it.
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: That's exactly something they would do. That is, after losing
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: to the Rockies, That's exactly what they would do.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: Because we play up to the competition, or we played
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: down to the competition. We go to LA and beat
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: the Doggers two out of three, Chicago we beat them
• 36:56
  Speaker 3: two three. Then the Rockies they beat us two three.
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: What's the most logical thing to happen we beat the
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Yankees because they're tight. I just I just hope we
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: have a last DS as a as an umpire and
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: then he messes up and then Aaron Bood goes into
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: the to to argue with him and start doing his thing,
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: you know, like he did it one day.
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: A marble. There there's gonna be So I think I think.
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: That the one and two leading one and two on
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  Speaker 3: injections out, let's go. You see, there you go.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: If that doesn't get you excited, please normal because I
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: have both teams for the athletic this.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: This series, which usually never happens. Yeah, but no I have.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: I have the Yankees and the Cardinals at the same time.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: So guarantee some messed up stuff will happen this weekend.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: And if you are looking, of course, when you're a
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: Cardinals perspective, you see the Yankees coming to town, you're
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: very excited to see Paul Goldschmit return to Bush Stadium
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: six years with the Cardinals twenty twenty two m VP
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: straight up, great dude, Let's keep.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: Our fingers crossed for Paul Goldschmidt.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Multiple New York reporters, including the Athletics Brend and cutting
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: reporting that Paul go Schmith stuff. We're in a low knee,
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: a low grade right knee strain on Tuesday's game against
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: the Twins. He did not play Wednesday, and ile stint
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: could be possible. The team will know more by Friday,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: so let's keep our fingers crossed that Goldie makes it
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: to Saint Louis that he's healthy.
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: And he's good to go.
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: That'd be pretty disappointing for the many fans hoping to give.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: Him a well deserved standing ovation on Friday.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: Hey, we can still clap for him. He doesn't need the.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: Cat clop for Goldie.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, Calo, my friend, thank you so much
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: for joining me on this episode's Cardinal Territory. I cannot
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: say enough good things about you, and we'll be here
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: for another fifteen minutes if I start, so thanks again.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Excited to break down the last six weeks of the
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: season with you and to eat some Ted Drews in
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: the booth.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Can't wait. Go all right, Joys for.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: Watching guys, this is the Cardinal Territory. We will talk soon.
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  Speaker 1: Thank