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Justin Verlander retires, Ohtani's 300th, Home Run Derby entry debate · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's weird.
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  Speaker 2: I know that's the you're talking about Cagli. I'm say, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just he's not in the All Star Game, is he?
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  Speaker 1: No? Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See that's where it gets weird to me.
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  Speaker 1: That's where it gets I mean, it's because I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I have a question. It's just weird if.
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  Speaker 2: You're not part of the All Star Game that you
• 0:23
  Speaker 2: show up for the weekend and you kind of get
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: treated like you're an All Star even though you're not
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  Speaker 2: an All Stars.
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  Speaker 1: You know, can you see what I'm saying. Dunk Contest?
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  Speaker 1: Can you be in the Dunk Contest and not in
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  Speaker 1: a Star.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you have to do that now because none of
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  Speaker 3: the dunkers will do it.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, I love Jack, same concept.
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  Speaker 4: Many of them I won't participate in the Derby, so
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  Speaker 4: you need to get the young guys, just like the
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  Speaker 4: Dunk Contest.
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  Speaker 1: I know. It's just weird to me.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's weird for you guys, not for fans,
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  Speaker 4: because you guys are players that experience the whole thing.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like, oh, I'm here and then I'm not
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  Speaker 4: in the second day. Fans just want to see dudes
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  Speaker 4: that hit tanks.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's just it's it's it's just an awkward
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  Speaker 2: thing to me, right, I like it for I'll take
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  Speaker 2: the opposite side, Okay, Jay, I'll take the opposite side.
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  Speaker 5: I like the home I want to see the best
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  Speaker 5: home run hitters in the world. I want to see like,
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  Speaker 5: like I said before, I said, bring a minor leaguer up,
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  Speaker 5: whoever win, whoever's leading the minor leagues in home runs.
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  Speaker 5: I don't care if he's playing at al Paso. I
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  Speaker 5: don't care if he's playing in Reno. Like, bring that
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  Speaker 5: dude up and have him face the other guys, because
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  Speaker 5: I it's a home run derby.
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  Speaker 3: It's not.
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  Speaker 5: It's not the Stars. If it was the Stars, Trout
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  Speaker 5: would be in it, Harper would be in at Schwop
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  Speaker 5: would be in it, Judge would come off I l
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  Speaker 5: he'd be it like, but it's not so to me,
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  Speaker 5: I have no problem with it. Yeah, Jack might feel
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  Speaker 5: a little awkward. He might have to address in the
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  Speaker 5: like auxiliary Jym, but I like it if he can
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  Speaker 5: hit dingers to me. To me, he's got to be
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  Speaker 5: like Jack could be like the punt, pass and kick
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  Speaker 5: version of baseball.
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  Speaker 3: I want to see Jack.
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  Speaker 5: I don't want to see Jack run, But I want
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  Speaker 5: to see Jack throw a baseball one hundred miles an
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  Speaker 5: hour hit it one hundred and fifteen miles an hour.
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  Speaker 3: Like he's one of the freaks of our game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just to me. I don't know, I'm whatever.
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  Speaker 2: People are gonna kill me for saying this. I don't
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  Speaker 2: really care. It's in such an honor to be elected
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  Speaker 2: as an All Star that it's the same with the
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  Speaker 2: slam dunck, right, Like, what's Mac McClung. What's the guy
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  Speaker 2: who wins every year? The dude that wins the Dunk
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  Speaker 2: Contest every year. That's not all. It's not even in
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  Speaker 2: the NBA's in the G League. Like that's why people
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  Speaker 2: don't watch it anymore. And this is not a knock
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  Speaker 2: on Jack Aglion at all because he's he's actually figured
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  Speaker 2: it out and he's actually.
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  Speaker 3: Doing really well this year.
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  Speaker 2: They it's such an honor to be elected to the
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  Speaker 2: All Star Game that to get to go. Like for me,
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  Speaker 2: if they came to me and said, hey, we want
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  Speaker 2: you to be part of the All Star festivities, I
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  Speaker 2: and I was like, I'm not an All Star and
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  Speaker 2: they'd be like, yeah, you just come.
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  Speaker 1: In for Monday and do the home run derby.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you hang out in the clubhouse and then
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  Speaker 2: you I would have been like, that's so awkward.
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  Speaker 3: I would have been scared to even want in there.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. It's just me and.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure this is whatever. I'm gonna get crushed. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy that Jack gets to go because I like
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  Speaker 2: Jack and I know Jack. But I just I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: To me, it would just be so awkward to walk
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  Speaker 2: in there and know that I'm not I'm kind of
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  Speaker 2: not there because of my.
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  Speaker 1: But there's two events. To me. The dirt is some
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  Speaker 1: people like this. That's why.
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  Speaker 2: That's why I feel like it's kind of like you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: look at me, I'm a fake All.
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  Speaker 4: Star, but I see I don't know. I think you're
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  Speaker 4: too on the inside on this in my opinion. I
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  Speaker 4: mean you're you're saying how the player's feeling from them, I.
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  Speaker 2: Saying, no, some players listen. I'm I just the way
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  Speaker 2: not all players feel. The crowds played.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't have this, so he doesn't have the same
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  Speaker 2: feelings as I do. So again, I was never an
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  Speaker 2: All Star though.
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  Speaker 3: Who do you think?
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  Speaker 5: Who do you think feels more awkward the guys who
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  Speaker 5: made the All Star team and they're like, who's this
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  Speaker 5: buffoon showing up? Or do you think it's Jack being
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  Speaker 5: more awkward, because when you talked about awkward, you were
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  Speaker 5: you were playing, and you were doing playoff games. Your
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  Speaker 5: team didn't make the playoffs. You were doing playoff games
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  Speaker 5: for TV. You felt awkward there, right, Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 2: Felt awkward walking into clubhouses as a as a current
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  Speaker 2: player talking to managers.
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  Speaker 1: About their players.
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  Speaker 5: So he feels more awkward Jack or the other players
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  Speaker 5: who are like, wait a minute, I'm doing better than him,
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  Speaker 5: why is he here?
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  Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's both.
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  Speaker 2: I think Jack's gonna feel a little awkward because he's
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  Speaker 2: not he's not on the All Star team, which again
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  Speaker 2: in this we're just singing out Jack as he's the
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  Speaker 2: guy that they just announced. But also I think the
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  Speaker 2: other players are going to look at him and say really,
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  Speaker 2: like really really, And again I don't know, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I remember I won't show up for the dirt that's
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  Speaker 1: we don't remember the time.
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  Speaker 2: What's the Korean guy, the big lefty guy to hit
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  Speaker 2: the homers for the cut?
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  Speaker 3: No?
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  Speaker 1: Uh, he stopped Troy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he stopped trying with the cups.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, remember the one remember they did like the World
• 5:04
  Speaker 2: Home Run Derby where they had like a guy from America,
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  Speaker 2: a guy from Dominican, a guy from Venezuela, and he
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  Speaker 2: was the guy from Korea and had a Japanese guy.
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  Speaker 1: I forget.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know when it was, but he got to go.
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  Speaker 2: And remember guys were like, why is he at the
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  Speaker 2: All Star Game? But I think I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: this is right or not. I thought he got to
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  Speaker 2: hang around for the game the next day, which is
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  Speaker 2: even crazier.
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  Speaker 1: Right now in the dugout, I think, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how they handle that.
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  Speaker 4: If MLB adopted a special international format to promote the
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  Speaker 4: upcoming inaugural.
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  Speaker 1: World Baseball Class see eight players.
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  Speaker 4: Representing eight countries, including he'sap Choi, who was on the
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers at the time, sorry represented South Korea hit five
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  Speaker 4: home runs in the first round. And then it included
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  Speaker 4: Bobby Abray Venezuela, Pudge Puerto Rico, Poppy for Dr Carlos
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  Speaker 4: Lee Pan and my Andrew Jones crous Out, Jason Bay Canada,
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  Speaker 4: Mark to share a US and Choi Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: See, you guys thought I was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you said, but most of those other guys were
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  Speaker 1: all stars. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Who is the representative to share to share a mack? Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: But is he senator? Now?
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  Speaker 4: For me, when does he run hold on? It's about
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  Speaker 4: the fans. The fans want to see bombs. Jack agleone
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  Speaker 4: is having actually an all star caliber offensive season. He's
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  Speaker 4: at one nineteen oh ps plus four fifty five slug
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  Speaker 4: like he's he's.
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  Speaker 1: Said he's having a good year.
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  Speaker 4: Hasn't made it and maybe he gets in. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think he will, but maybe he gets in. And for me,
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  Speaker 4: it's to me, this is very different from saying, oh,
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  Speaker 4: like we're letting a bunch of minor leaguers, okay, which
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  Speaker 4: I don't hate that idea anyway.
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  Speaker 1: From krats it's an exhibition.
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  Speaker 3: No, it's one minor leaguer. Nope, it's one minor leaguer.
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  Speaker 3: Let him in one you know.
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  Speaker 4: The high school and they do in between, like where
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  Speaker 4: the two finalists for high school get to do that?
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  Speaker 1: I love tween break.
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  Speaker 3: Are they doing that this year?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's a kid that I know from my son's
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  Speaker 2: high school that my son played with that's in the
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  Speaker 2: Home Run Derby.
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  Speaker 1: They usually it's on Friday.
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  Speaker 2: I was like, when I saw the contestants, I was like, dang,
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  Speaker 2: I won't be able to see him.
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  Speaker 1: I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 4: I used to actually call this, but they used to
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  Speaker 4: have high school Okay, so then I'm sure they're doing it.
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  Speaker 4: They do the derby with the high schoolers and then
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  Speaker 4: the two finalists would face off our last time of
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  Speaker 4: the derby.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that it's awesome.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really fun.
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  Speaker 4: People are just there on Monday to watch dingers and
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  Speaker 4: you're in the outfield to catch home runs, and they
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  Speaker 4: say they run experience. The main problem is if every
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  Speaker 4: All Star, let's just paint a picture of a vacuum
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  Speaker 4: world of every All Star has to say yes. If
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  Speaker 4: there has to be in the home run Derby, then
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  Speaker 4: this is a different story. We've got plenty of options.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody says yes from that group, not nobody, but met
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  Speaker 4: many of them.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, people do we.
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  Speaker 2: Have in the derby right now? Ben, Rice, Junior and
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  Speaker 2: Jack that's it. I think, so is Bryson.
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  Speaker 1: He should be in. Let's count him. Let's count him in.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna do it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, he hasn't said it because he didn't call me
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  Speaker 5: to throw to him. But my thing is, and we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna get an answer at the end of our show. Here,
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  Speaker 5: there's no way they've asked Hunter Goodman already and or
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  Speaker 5: they haven't asked him and they've gone to non All
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  Speaker 5: stars like that's that's gonna be my thing. I can't
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  Speaker 5: wait to ask Hunter that at the end of the show.
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  Speaker 2: So they asked every All Star player. Have they asked
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  Speaker 2: every All Star player if they would do it? If
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  Speaker 2: they did it, didn't have We surrised.
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  Speaker 1: He can probably hit bombs. Ridiculous, he can hit bombs.
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  Speaker 3: He used to hit bombs.
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  Speaker 1: Now Luisse different in the home run.
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  Speaker 3: Derby just did it. JAZZI should not have been there.
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  Speaker 3: He wanted a billion dollars.
• 8:39
  Speaker 2: Jazz is still available. We can still call him. He's
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  Speaker 2: going fifty to fifty this year, fifty stolen.
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  Speaker 5: Bases, fifty missed challenges. Well, he's already hit that.
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  Speaker 4: Inconclusion, I think you try to mix in some All
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  Speaker 4: stars and then you try to find some other big boppers.
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  Speaker 2: I just don't understand why this is become such a
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  Speaker 2: hard thing to get people to do.
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  Speaker 1: You tell me, I don't know this kind of if
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  Speaker 1: they would ask me, I would have.
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  Speaker 4: Jumped at this overgain every time, right, yeah, I would
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  Speaker 4: be like, but guys, what's.
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  Speaker 1: Fifty more swings? Who cares? Guys love saying no?
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  Speaker 3: Now they do?
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  Speaker 1: They like they like to say no more than they're like.
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  Speaker 2: They become so obsessed with telling everybody, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to do that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Pick like you should do a lot. I feel like
• 9:19
  Speaker 1: it's cool to say no. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh they asked me, but I don't want to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no, they asked me.
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  Speaker 4: And then this is the thing to the media, like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: in twenty thirty four, we might have the All Star
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  Speaker 4: Game in my host city and then come back to
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  Speaker 4: me then you know, like, oh, I'll do it one
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  Speaker 4: time for my hometown.
• 9:35
  Speaker 1: Maybe if everything.
• 9:39
  Speaker 5: Did did get hurt, Judge did get hurt. He has
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  Speaker 5: the one legitimate person that I'm like, as much as
• 9:46
  Speaker 5: I want to see him out there, he did get
• 9:47
  Speaker 5: hurt doing the derby, not hurt his swing, hurt his shoulder.
• 9:52
  Speaker 5: That probably cost him the MVP in seventeen, just saying.
• 9:57
  Speaker 1: I don't know Josh.
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: Hamilton that one year and remember the so he put
• 10:00
  Speaker 2: on O'Neil.
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  Speaker 4: Cruz last year, not in the All Star game, in
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  Speaker 4: the derby, put on a show. Do you want O'Neil
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  Speaker 4: Cruz in your derby?
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying, do you want what you said? It's one
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  Speaker 1: of those things.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, as long as the person's okay doing it
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  Speaker 2: and they understand that, people are going to be going, hey,
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: why is this guy here?
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  Speaker 4: But that's only the play. That's like a very select
• 10:25
  Speaker 4: few players, and maybe they don't do that anymore. No
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: fans care. No fans will.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Jack, you didn't make the All Star team. Why
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: are you at the dirt?
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  Speaker 3: Fans say that. Really anybody in Philly.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: And Philly fans will say, hey, you got a booger
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  Speaker 4: on your you know, on your nose or whateppen.
• 10:43
  Speaker 1: They'll say anything to them. Well, hold on, let's let's get.
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: Another opinion here. Our resident gm on FT to try
• 10:50
  Speaker 4: and settle this for us. Jim Bowden available, Jim. I
• 10:53
  Speaker 4: don't know how much you've caught. But the debate here
• 10:56
  Speaker 4: that took over the show for the first ten minutes
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: is are you okay with guys like Jack Aglon and
• 11:02
  Speaker 4: O'Neil Cruz going to the Derby since half the All
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  Speaker 4: Stars won't do it anymore.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, No, I mean, I think the whole idea is
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  Speaker 6: the All Star Week is to celebrate those players that
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  Speaker 6: are being given the honor and the privilege of being
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  Speaker 6: on the All Star team. And so my own personal
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  Speaker 6: opinion is that I want the home run Derby to
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  Speaker 6: be represented by players on the All Star team. And
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  Speaker 6: I think that unless you have some kind of injury,
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  Speaker 6: if you're asked to do it, I think you should
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  Speaker 6: be a part of it. But no, I don't like
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  Speaker 6: seeing players outside of All Stars participating in it.
• 11:34
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Jim. I knew you were a smart guy.
• 11:36
  Speaker 2: That's why you wore your suit today, because you're a
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: smart fella and you agree with me.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I didn't know always agreeing with you, except for
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: the fact that aga, I really want to go on
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: your vacations going forward, I mean, the pope. I mean,
• 11:49
  Speaker 6: I just want you to invite me on your family
• 11:51
  Speaker 6: vacations because that looks so sick and it seemed like
• 11:54
  Speaker 6: you were gone for like two months in the middle
• 11:56
  Speaker 6: of baseball season.
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: What was that all about? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Hey, listen, Jim, you know, as a former player and
• 12:02
  Speaker 2: as a former media member now a current media member.
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  Speaker 2: I took two weeks off Kratz. Sorry, my Jim, listen,
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  Speaker 2: my life is a vacation. As people tell me all
• 12:13
  Speaker 2: the time, I just wonder or as this is a
• 12:16
  Speaker 2: you guys will love this story. My daughter was on
• 12:19
  Speaker 2: this trip of this right now. My son just my daughter,
• 12:22
  Speaker 2: and she looked at me, and we were with another
• 12:24
  Speaker 2: couple and their daughter who's about close to my daughter's age,
• 12:27
  Speaker 2: and I don't know how it came up, and my
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: daughter goes, well, Dad, you just live a fantasy life
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: with fantasy money.
• 12:33
  Speaker 3: I'm like, so true.
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? I mean, are you kidding me?
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: She delivers it so straight to you, and I love it.
• 12:42
  Speaker 2: I'm like, are you I just wanted to be like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: it's a fantasy.
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  Speaker 3: Huh. Do you realize how.
• 12:46
  Speaker 1: Many jobs I have?
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  Speaker 7: You?
• 12:48
  Speaker 1: Do you realize how hard I worked all the time.
• 12:51
  Speaker 1: You work hard, not as many jobs.
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  Speaker 6: Playing You earned it in the radio booth. You earned
• 12:56
  Speaker 6: it doing this. So yeah, I mean, you work hard.
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  Speaker 6: You should get to play hard and celebrate. That's all
• 13:00
  Speaker 6: you were doing. But that was an amazing, amazing trip.
• 13:04
  Speaker 6: I followed it on Instagram. It was pretty incredible.
• 13:07
  Speaker 4: So let's talk seakeek matchups. Now, what are we looking
• 13:13
  Speaker 4: at this evening or the rest of the week.
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: For me tonight, it's Yankees raise, I mean Yankees Cole
• 13:21
  Speaker 2: Cole McClanahan. We should have been there today, Skuy, you
• 13:24
  Speaker 2: should have had us on the road today doing that.
• 13:26
  Speaker 1: I would have loved to show live. That would have
• 13:28
  Speaker 1: been cool.
• 13:28
  Speaker 4: From the trop I agree. Watch that you can strike
• 13:30
  Speaker 4: out twenty times a game.
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: Watch you strike out twenty times again, thirty four k's
• 13:35
  Speaker 1: and two games. That's a record for them. True.
• 13:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the game for me tonight though. And Foster
• 13:42
  Speaker 2: Griffin pitches again tonight, so he's got a chance. But by
• 13:44
  Speaker 2: the way, we talk about Zach Wheeler, Foster Griffin should
• 13:46
  Speaker 2: be on the All sort team.
• 13:48
  Speaker 1: Foster Griffin's good sub three ra pitching for the Nats.
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: Then I don't know. Are the Nats going to trade him?
• 13:58
  Speaker 1: Year of weird? Right?
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have to sell.
• 14:02
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but do you sell if you're like within a
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: few games of a wild card?
• 14:07
  Speaker 3: But are they? Are they a playoff winning team? Get in?
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: That's his philosophy.
• 14:14
  Speaker 3: Just get in.
• 14:14
  Speaker 1: If you just get in, we can get hot and win.
• 14:17
  Speaker 5: Foster Griffin throws Game one, Yeah, is the prospect return
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: value Game two?
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 14:23
  Speaker 4: Is the prospect return that you get for Foster Griffin
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: worth it versus you know, basically tanking the rest of
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: your season.
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: If you're giving up a player or two.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Foster Griffin is gonna be value to a playoff run,
• 14:39
  Speaker 4: even if it's not a title.
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: I don't think for them, no, I think they're I
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: think they sit there and they go, okay, like we
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: keep them. We give him a qualifying offer, he accepts it. Crap,
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: I guess we're actually paying a pitcher twenty plus million
• 14:54
  Speaker 5: dollars next year.
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: Good for Foster Griffin. He can buy me lunch.
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's been really good.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: And he used my shoes in high school, so he
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: can find me lunch. At least he could do.
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: It's because of the shoes, true, But yes, good ticket.
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: It is a hot ticket. I know sometimes it's it's
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: not a hot.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: Ticket in Saint Pete.
• 15:13
  Speaker 4: But Yankees and rays Cole against McClanahan, raisor lights out
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: at home this year, Cabayaro suddenly becomes a home run
• 15:22
  Speaker 4: derby participant when he faces them.
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: There's just there's storylines there.
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: By the way, Marlins are playing really well. They're eight
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: games over. They're playing the Mariners, who are a playoff team.
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: According to Jim Bowden, yea, they walked them.
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: Can we get some people in the stands.
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: Did you see that game?
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: There was like nobody at that game. Nobody. Now.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: I know it's a Tuesday night and I get it,
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: there's no school, But can we get some people in
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: the stands for the Marlins.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: They're playing really well. They deserve some people to come
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: watch them. It's a long conversation. Okay, Well, I'm just.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Saying trying to sell their team in Miami.
• 15:54
  Speaker 4: It's a tough marketing play. They've been hurt. I know,
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: they talk to people down there. They're hurt, and so
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: even when they're good, they're hurt.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. I know that's why there's.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: Plenty of teams that are going to come into Miami
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: and then it's a hot ticket. But it's the Mets,
• 16:08
  Speaker 4: it's the Yankees, it's the Phillies, it's Go down the Line,
• 16:12
  Speaker 4: the Red Sox, anybody that plays them there.
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: That's when those games are lit. But it's full of
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: other things.
• 16:18
  Speaker 4: They have a dedicated fan base It's just that it's
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: small because there's a second layer that watches like with
• 16:23
  Speaker 4: a distant eye. Because they feel like they mistreated that
• 16:27
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• 16:53
  Speaker 4: Okay, let's talk about the miss and how von Herrera
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: was able to not just time him up aj but
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: only almost was two timed up, almost pulled it foul.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: Right as far as he was ahead of this pitch
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the home run he hit off of him.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Burs still won the game and they swept the doubleheader
• 17:14
  Speaker 4: against the Cardinals, but Brendan Schaefer, who covers the team,
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: said Herrera got into the cage pregame, ramped up the
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: machine to spit out foam baseballs at one oh seven
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: plus so that it would look slower in the game.
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: That explains how he was able to actually be out
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: in front on missus heat, pulling his homer so hard
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: that radio broadcaster Rick Courton was pleading with it to
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: stay fair during his home run call with a laughing emoji.
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Bigley hitters can figure out a way to hit heaters.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Christ you know this, like they'll figure out a way.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: The thing that makes miss so good as he's able
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: to throw that little slider break the ball. That's what
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: he gets a lot of his strikeouts on. It's not
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: the heater. Yes, the heater is nasty, and guys don't
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: want to look like a fool. But it's more that
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: he can throw his slider first strike. That's when he
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: gets a ton of his guys look foolish on it
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: because they're ramped up for one hundred and five. If
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: he throws it like you did to Schwarbur and he
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: dots it down in a way, ain't nobody hitting that anyways.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: You can do all the phone balls you want, but
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: he ain't hitting it even if you swing out it
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: no matter what. So you made a mistake. Herrera was
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: out in front.
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: Good for him.
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: If I'm facing Jacob Mizerowski, if I look stupid, on
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: a breaking ball. So what, but I'm gonna be ready
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: for that heater and I'm gonna try and clip them
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: out front. And he did it. So this is great,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: a great Listen to young kids out there. If there's
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: a guy throwing harder, you don't have to swing harder,
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: you have to swing earlier and just sometimes you got
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: to give up, give it up. You're gonna look bad
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: on a breaking ball. Yeah, hey, you should be able
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: to protect everything. Go watch a Jacob Miseerowski start. You're
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: not protecting. So good for von Herrera. I don't think
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: he's the only guy.
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: I was talking to a hittig hitting coach the other
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: day and he's like these machines that pump out the
• 18:45
  Speaker 5: phone balls and they can get their like real look
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: without worrying about Okay, this one jams me a little bit.
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna break my knuckles. That's how you do it.
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: I'm telling you. This is This is why in playoffs,
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: when relievers throw five out a seven game, six out
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: of seven games hitters, they start to look more human
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: than they did during the regular season. Big league hitters,
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: even crappy ones like me, If you're telling me what's
• 19:11
  Speaker 5: coming and I have a chance to practice that pitch,
• 19:15
  Speaker 5: I'm going to start smashing it. You throw me enough
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: breaking balls on the field off a machine, I'm going
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: to start smashing it. My numbers against breaking ball sucked.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: So in a game, if you're ready for a pitch,
• 19:29
  Speaker 5: you time it up, You're gonna clip it.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: I don't care who you are.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: Evon Herrera is way better than I was, and big
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: league hitters can catch up to anything and make adjustments
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: to anything. That's why you need people who are seeing
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: the swings, seeing the approach. Maybe this is the time
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: we break mix in a breaking ball. But this doesn't
• 19:46
  Speaker 5: make Miss. He had eleven strikeouts, doesn't make him any
• 19:49
  Speaker 5: better or worse.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: Well played him before Miss.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: Remember vintage Verlander carrying his velocity, which is nothing compared
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: to Miz. But back in the day, it was his
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: vo deep into starts, So let's honor him now. It
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: is some ft breaking news justin Verlander announcing on social
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: media that he is retiring after this season. He said,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: this season has challenged me in ways I haven't experienced before,
• 20:17
  Speaker 4: both physically and mentally. I've always believed as long as
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: I could compete at the level I expected myself I
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: keep playing. I never wanted to retire because of a milestone,
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: a number, or a date on the calendar. I wanted
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: the game to tell me when it was time. Over
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: the last several months, I've realized that time has come.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: While I'm fully committed to giving my team everything I
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: have for the rest of this season, I've decided this
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: will be my last.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: It's fitting that I get to.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: Finish where it all started with the Tigers, the york
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: that drafted me and gave me my first opportunity. We
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: will honor him at the All Star Game in Philly.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: He is an instant commissioner's pick to be there as
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: a legend selection. He's currently on a one year, thirteen
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: million dollar contract with the Tigers and just hasn't been
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: able to get himself right and on the field for
• 20:55
  Speaker 4: a team that desperately needs all the help that it
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: can get as it tries to climb its way back
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: towards wild contention. But before we do all of that,
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: let's honor a crazy good career and a guy who
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: was trying to pitch like deep deep into his forties,
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: and he did get well into his forties.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Father time is undefeated. As we all know, Tom
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Brady tried to play. Justin Verlander wanted to keep playing,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and he had an unbelievable career, someone that had I
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: think the most career bats of Justin Berlinder, of anyone
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in my career.
• 21:21
  Speaker 3: I mean I had a ton.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: We faced them five six times every year and I
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: was always in the lineup. So we had some classic battles.
• 21:28
  Speaker 2: We're buddies now we play golf together. Now we've and
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: so we know each other off the field, and we
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: used to not get along very well.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: We do.
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: It's improved, to say the least, our relationship. But congratulations
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Justin Berlin are on an unbelievable career. You're going to
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: be a first ballot Hall of Famer. You deserve it
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: for what you did, how you pitched, how you went
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: about it. You know, there was no scandals or anything.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: He just went about his business and pitched and took
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: the ball every fit day. And he's going to be
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: in Cooperstown one day. Congratulations JV, and we'll see you
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: on the golf course.
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: Forty three years old. What were the battles like?
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Is that what caused a little bit of animosity to
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: fierce competitors.
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, we used to yell at each other back
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and forth. He punched me out and I'd yell at
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: him and he then I'd get a hit and he'd
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: yell at me.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: And listen, it was. He came up right right after
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: we had won.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: In Chicago and they kind of took over the division
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: there for a little bit, so and he was kind
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: of the man, so you know, listen.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: It was. It was all good fun.
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: And like I said, we've talked about it since and
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: become buddies and he's he's I've grown up. He's grown up,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: and we're not playing against each other anymore, so it's
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: still fun. He had unbelievable career, man, I mean, listen,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: he kind of changed the starting pitcher right from guys
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: who were eighty eight to eighty nine to ninety six,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: and then he could throw it a hundred when he
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: needed to. That was kind of the evolution and he
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: was kind of the first one that could do it.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: And congratulations, Jamie Man. Awesome career.
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: I saw him in the bushes when he came up
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: to double A. I think that starting rotation was Anabo Sanchez,
• 22:57
  Speaker 5: Joe L. Zumaya and just Verlander, and I remember facing
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: him and he went, he went ninety two sinker in,
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: ninety four sinker in, and then ninety nine up top
• 23:09
  Speaker 5: and you said it's Scott. You were like, oh, well, JV.
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: He was one of the guys that could he could
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: keep his velocity into the later innings. I don't know
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: what AJ's experience was. AJ was a much better hitter,
• 23:20
  Speaker 5: so maybe he came with it a little bit. Whenever
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: I faced him early in the game, nobody on you
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: weren't getting the best. Justin Verlander, he was like, whatever, Like,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: you stink, I don't need to throw one hundred miles
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: an hour. Now you get a dude on second. Now
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: you're going to see the best. You're going to see
• 23:37
  Speaker 5: that tighter slider that's dotted, You're going to see that
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: heater up. I mean that to me, that's what people
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: should adopt, not the fact that he threw a hundred,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: because he's not throwing one hundred for forty until he's
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: forty two years old without being able to save some
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: of those bullets along the way, and he missed a
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: season for Tommy John came back. Want to say young,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: but when you look at some of his awards, the
• 24:01
  Speaker 5: fact that he won a Triple Crown one time, the
• 24:03
  Speaker 5: Triple Crown for pitchers. He was an MVP winner, not
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: a sy Young. An MVP winner three times, sy Young
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: two times he won. He won the ERA title. And
• 24:17
  Speaker 5: this is the one that I think is really cool.
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: He was the Player of the Year, the Player of
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: the Year. Yes, I know that's MVP, but as a pitcher,
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: that shows how dominant he was. And I'm honestly forgetting
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: which year that was.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Do you remember what year that was?
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: No, but you can eleven twenty eleven.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: Tigers, by the way, because eleven he had, twenty twelve
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and go Camerera won the triple crowns.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they had star power. They never won the.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Royal I the Royals knocked them off. They never won.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: I know, they never won.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: No. Forty three years old right now, just.
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: I hope you get to see him pitch again though
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: this year, yes, well not next year he's retiring.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Scott Well, I don't know. Maybe he goes to the
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Mexican League and.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: He becomes a Savannah banana.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: Nobody's Justin Turner in the Mexican League.
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: No, no, no.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Because somebody else somebody will say I'm the guy. I
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: want to be the guy.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: I want to be the guy to say, no, he
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: doesn't deserve it because he didn't pitch.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: He had Timmy perfect games or something.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: I disagree.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: He was on the Astros in twenty seventeen, so he
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't deserve Yeah, somebody will say that.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Exactually, I don't care about the unanimous anything, just because
• 25:24
  Speaker 4: it has nothing to do with like what you did
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: on the field. It just to do with like one
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: random person just having their own anybody Mariano was you know,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: I think he's the only one.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: Yes, the fact that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Or there's a million guys that just you're like, how
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: is that person not?
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: You dreamed Beltry? I think even Jeter miss Jeter.
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: Missed by one.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I think it's a ridiculous. Come on, I'm sorry Ichi
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: row right, didn't row miss Yeah? He then you want
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: to get lunch with him or something. Yeah, it's a
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: waste of time.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I like the question, but it's ridiculous that somebody has
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: their own little agenda. But for JV, he was able
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: to resurrect himself. Like Kratz mentioned, there were really multiple
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: times I think in his career where you're like, Oh,
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know, maybe he.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Went from Detroit to Houston and then kind of took
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: at another level. Yeah, and then he had the Tommy
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: John and they'd be like, oh, he's done, and then
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: he went out and just did it again. He kind
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: of became more of a break and ball pitcher with
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: the change. He always had the breaking balls. It wasn't
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: you know. The only thing that I remember he used
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: to throw a bigger curveball. He used to be more
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: of like a four seene curveball. And then as time
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: went by, he learned more of like a slider that
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: he could control and he could just to sneak a
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: strike in right. He would still flip a curveball and
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: every once in a while to steal a strike, but
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: when he kned it out, man, it was like that shoe,
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: that little sharp slider already learned the thrill. He This
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: is why he's a first Beellt Hall of Famer, because
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: as stuff changes, or as the game changes, he was
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: able to reinvent himself and become just as good as
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: he was before.
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: He stayed with the trends of the sport, like what
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: are great starting pitchers doing right now?
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: You know? Fastball, living up in the zone.
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Okay, now we'refining the slider with the you know, different
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: devices that you have and spend right, like he he
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: stayed on everything right. He was actually known even like
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: really early on in his career as one of those
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: kind of like Brady crazy guys with prep with sleep.
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: He's like ten plus hours of sleep, super prep, like
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: twenty years ago when I mean, you know, some starters
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: would just kind of show up and talk to you
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: for a little bit and then go on the field.
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: And Verlander's like doing hours of homework. That was unique
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: twenty years ago, wasn't it. Yeah, So that's special because
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: he had isn't it always with the legends like this
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: that you have, you have it all the natural talent,
• 27:36
  Speaker 4: but then you also add what Verlander had or you
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: don't think so.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Not everybody because not everybody's built the same, right, I
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: mean Mark Burley did none of that, and he was
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: he was great, So I mean it just depends. It's
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: like we talked about who did we talk about yesterday
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: that had had to have like a fire and Dalton
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: Rushing was a Dalton Rushing. Who are you talking about
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: where they're like they have to play with like a
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: Cam Schlitler, Cam Sliver, Yeah, Cam Slitler.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: He's like he finds something on social media to make
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: him feel good about it.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: Don't say I regressed in two stars?
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Yes?
• 28:07
  Speaker 5: What Yeah, Jared Caravas, I'm showing you baseball the baseball savant,
• 28:12
  Speaker 5: Jared Garravas, the super fan who is a Red Sox
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: fan helping the Yankees. But the last thing, twenty fourteen.
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I remember facing Verlander in fourteen, and I remember the
• 28:21
  Speaker 5: stuff was way way down in his year. I just
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: looked it up. He had like a four or five era.
• 28:26
  Speaker 5: I remember guys on the Royals being like, this is
• 28:30
  Speaker 5: the time you have to crush Verlander and Salvado Perez, Alx,
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Gordon Hosmer, Mustakis, they were all facing them throughout that time,
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: and they're like, this is when you want to face them.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: He is down right now. They're like, I don't know
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: what it is.
• 28:44
  Speaker 5: I doubt he's going you know, he's like regressing and
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: he's going to just rebrutal after this. But they said
• 28:51
  Speaker 5: in fourteen something was different, whether he played through injury
• 28:55
  Speaker 5: or not. But I remember that specifically. And then obviously
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: we're we're twelve years later.
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: And he won.
• 29:03
  Speaker 5: I'm not sure how many Cy Youngs after fourteen, two
• 29:07
  Speaker 5: Cy Youngs after that, two second place finishes after that,
• 29:11
  Speaker 5: So something was going on that year. And credit to
• 29:14
  Speaker 5: him for reinventing himself a couple different times.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: I just want to highlight one season because Kratz mentioned it.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Twenty twenty two, he missed eighteen months, he was coming
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: off no baseball for eighteen months on TJ his third
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: Cy Young award a one to seven to five VRA
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: A World Series title.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: Just ridiculous. And how old was he then? Thirty nine? Legendary, right,
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: it feels like a while ago.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I guess it was four years ago, but the dominance
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: that he had and then even for a couple of
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: years after that, I mean three Zra. It really was
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: just twenty twenty four, you know, didn't pitch well with Houston,
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: and then last year actually finished strong and gave him
• 29:55
  Speaker 4: one hundred and fifty two innings with three eight five
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: yr one hundred and fifty two innings for the Giant
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: last year.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: This year just you know, not able to star.
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: Last year in the second half was really good too.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: It was It's weird.
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: It's weird to hear him say that his body's not
• 30:10
  Speaker 5: keeping up. It's weird to hear the best players. He's
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: of my generation. He's one of the best pictures of
• 30:16
  Speaker 5: my generation of player. I get it, it's forty three,
• 30:20
  Speaker 5: but it's just weird to hear him say that because
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: Max is going through injuries right now and you just don't.
• 30:27
  Speaker 5: I don't know if AJ agrees, but for me the
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: end of my career, my body was fine. I didn't
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: play at this level, but you know my mind what
• 30:36
  Speaker 5: I know, I was fine.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: I quit because I wanted to be at home.
• 30:40
  Speaker 5: Like, it's weird to hear the legends, the best players
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: say just not just not where my body can't keep up.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you wanted to pitch until it was
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: at least forty five was wins and three win?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: What did he finish at.
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: To forty five? Sixty six?
• 31:00
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• 31:03
  Speaker 3: Days, one's gonna do it again.
• 31:04
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• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna sniff three. Aaron Ashby Mike.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty wins a year as the medium leverage guy, as
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  Speaker 4: Ftfam who is going to be in Philly? The Philly Show,
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  Speaker 4: great game or what? And foul Territory. That's a great
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  Speaker 4: graphic right there. So Philly Show Monday and Tuesday eleven
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: thirty am Eastern time, Ironhill Brewery and Restaurant in downtown Philadelphia.
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: Then at twelve Monday and Tuesday will be Tim and
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: Jeff kirk Gin running is this a great game? Or
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: what foul? Territory? One to three Eastern Live our usual time.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: We also will have reporters on the scene. You're gonna
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: be bouncing around a little bit with the show and
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: on the scene. And when I say on the scene,
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: I mean at the ballpark media day, we'll have Alnarezo
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: and Trisha whitakerg joining us.
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: It's going to be a big party for ft it is.
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be tired, They're gonna be tired. And then
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: we need jadd an event. I'll take four drinks. Who buying?
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: I will?
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: I will be buying because I'm gonna take you to
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: one or two events where the drinks are free.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: Boom.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: I gotta bring a nice shirt.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: A nice shirt would be preferred. Kratz.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: You are not invited because it's your hometown and you'll
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: probably go home to sleep at night.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: That'll be nice.
• 33:24
  Speaker 4: I won't be tired, Yeah, sleeping in your own bed.
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I'll trade that for a few free drinks.
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: And let's charge.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Charge.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: This one kind of snuck under the radar. Shoho Tani's
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: three hundred home run.
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: I know it's just a shiny number, but no Japanese
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: born player has ever done that, and he does it.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: In one and two games.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: The only players to get there faster by games Aaron Judge,
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: Ralph Kiner, Ryan Howard, Juan Gonzalez and all the Gonzalez
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: provided this tweet and said none of them pitched.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Thanks, Oliver cool.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Coolest three hundred homer I ever saw was Germaine Die
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: and Jim or Paul Knerko. Jermaine and I did it
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: back to back against the Tigers, same game, same game,
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: back to back. They hit their three hundred homer back
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: to back.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Wow, that's weird.
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: It was so awesome in Detroit. And you know why
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: they both did it. There's a guy him behind him
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: was you? It was me and I hit a single
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: and I'm like, I didn't even get any love for
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: my single. Wow, this is awesome. I mean, it's a
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: big number, it's a round number.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: It's cool.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Fastest guy, fit, fastest Japanese first guy, Japanese guy. Congratulations,
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: show added to your mantle.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: And he's good at that.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: When you're this good, crats, you're chasing the team accomplishments.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: But I think which I'm okay with. I used to
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: be like and I don't know I feel about this,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: but now I'm good with it. He recognizes his individual
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: accomplishments and they mean a lot to him, even a
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: little bit publicly.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: You know, some players are like, I don't look at anything.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: It's just about the team, Like we know that's bys
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: a show. I feel like it's like.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: A little more out in the open, like I would
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: like to win MVPs.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: I'd like to say, young, I'd like to set milestones.
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's okay.
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: It's not distracting the stuff he's doing isn't distracting his
• 35:10
  Speaker 5: team from winning. And what people need to understand his
• 35:13
  Speaker 5: first three years he went in eighteen, nineteen and twenty
• 35:17
  Speaker 5: not twenty was the abbreviated season. But he had twenty
• 35:21
  Speaker 5: two homers, eighteen homers, seven homers, just so you know,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: it wasn't like he's been hitting fifty every year, which
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: he won't hit that many this year, but hit to
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: get the three hundred. He's also one of four Japanese
• 35:37
  Speaker 5: born players to have over one hundred home runs in
• 35:41
  Speaker 5: their career. I honestly thought that number would be more
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: when I first heard that stat. But three hundred is
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: just a ridiculous amount. And thank you Alden for telling
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: us that he pitches too.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: He pitches, by the way, he's not winning a say
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: English year, Sorry what is? Or I just don't think
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: he's I just don't think this year is going to
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: okay as much as he wants it. First of all,
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: he's not gonna get he's not going to be at
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: the pitch enough. He's not gonna have the innings. And
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: it's just not gonna work out. Sorry, show hey, people
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: that are gonna kill me and say it's not over yet.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I just don't see he's gonna have. He doesn't, he
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: doesn't qualify for the Era title, and he's just it's
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: there's there's too many other guys that are having good
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: years now. Christopher Sanchez helped him out the other day
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: by giving up a twenty spot.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Uh yeah again, he's also.
• 36:33
  Speaker 5: He's also sitting there going he's got to take a
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: day off for this. He's got to take he's got
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: to get pushed back a day for that, and I
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: think we talked about it early. Yes, it's fine. Corbyn
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: BYRNS won it with one hundred and fifty nine innings
• 36:46
  Speaker 5: and a billion strikeouts.
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: The issue is miss is gonna win.
• 36:49
  Speaker 5: With the strikeouts this year and if show Hay doesn't
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: have I know, this is crazy to say. If he
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: doesn't have like below a one to two e r A,
• 36:59
  Speaker 5: I don't think voters are gonna be like he did
• 37:02
  Speaker 5: enough as much as he's going to run away with
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: the MVP award, I think Saya I agree with aj.
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: I just think too many things aren't going to align
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: for him to win it.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: It's tough. It's tough because there's too many guys.
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: I know, there's so many guys that are just specialized
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: in the pitching that it's gonna be hard for because
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: they're not gonna they're gonna say, we'll just give show
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Hey the MVP and we can give someone else.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I think if he has the numbers, they would give
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: it to him. But yes, they're really good competition. If
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: the mids stays healthy, I mean, what are we doing.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: This is a ridiculous run that he's on.
• 37:39
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and Zach and Zach Wheeler is going to lose again.
• 37:43
  Speaker 5: He's gonna be another top three yep.
• 37:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because Schemes really fell out of the picture because
• 37:48
  Speaker 4: he went through a you know, a pretty long slump
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: just now.
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Amazing though for show Hey, team lost by the way
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: to the Rockies.
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: They were up three to one late.
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: I think the win for the Dodgers was Evan Phillips
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: came back, looked good in a clean inning in the ninth.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: So you add someone else to the bullpen who used
• 38:08
  Speaker 4: to be what a top three leverage reliever for them,
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: a closer at times. Yeah, they slowly trickle back and
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: get everyone healthy for October. That's the game you play
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: with show Hey too. My last point on this is
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: the consistency. He's getting pretty durable these days in his thirties,
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: coming off surgeries.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: When his birthday yesterday?
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: When was his birthday two days ago? His birthday was
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: recent July fifth, yep.
• 38:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's what thirty two thirty two years old?
• 38:42
  Speaker 3: Yep?
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: But will you get to five hundred? Yeah? Men?
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: More years is?
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: I think three more years of pitching and I think
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: many more years of hitting?
• 38:51
  Speaker 1: How many more years you have in his contract? Seven?
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Something like that.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: World Series. This is his third year. He's at three hundred.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: I think he might get to five hundred. If he
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: stays healthy, he'll get to five because even if he's
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: got seven years, he gets thirty a year, that's two
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: hundred and ten. He's still got this year to go
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: half a year. So I think he will get to
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: five hundred. Better question is, I know this is not
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: on show a well John Carlos Stanton get to five hundred.
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: That's the one that's going to be interesting because if
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: he gets the five hundred home runs the Hall of Famer, yes, probably, Yeah,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: it's fascinating.
• 39:27
  Speaker 4: He's like not going to play this whole year, but
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: he'll probably pop up like September twentieth or the Yanks
• 39:31
  Speaker 4: and then that's what I'm saying in the playoffs.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: But that's that's that's the one.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: That's that's the interesting one to me is is if
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: he gets to four ninety.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: See Hall of.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Famers, you have to get to five hundred. So he
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: has to get to five hundred homers.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: The Fred McGriff McGriff got in, I know eventually, it
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: took a while.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I know standing one MVP one year
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: but he's kind of been a one trick pony his
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: whole life, which is not bad. I mean, he hit
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: four hundred some homers. He made three hundred million dollars done,
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: all right, I don't know, it's early. It's an interesting
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: it's an interesting conversation that will be had at some
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: point if he doesn't get there as he's Hall of Famer.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, the way.
• 40:11
  Speaker 4: Right early he wasn't one trick pony. Now he is,
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: but he's a really good one trick pony.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: I mean since he basically since he's gone to the Yankees,
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: he's been a one trick guy.
• 40:19
  Speaker 4: Yeah, he does damage in the playoffs. He's clutched too.
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: You know, that's the thing that the numbers don't measure, right.
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: We all know, John.
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: Carter, there's no such thing. Scott analytics. Analytics say there's
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: no such things.
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: Scott Analytics be damned. Show Tany's clutch too.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: So that's the show.
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: We all know that there have been players in careers
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: that hit many more garbage time homers, and some days
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: somebody's gonna come up with a stat measure it all
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: against I don't know leverage situation.
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: But until we get there.
• 40:48
  Speaker 5: Will be an interesting case of how he will age
• 40:52
  Speaker 5: when he's done pitching. How does he age? Because pitchers
• 40:56
  Speaker 5: age much much better than hitters do. We just talked
• 41:00
  Speaker 5: about Verlander winning a cy Young after missing an injury,
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: missing a year from injury, and he wins a CY Young.
• 41:08
  Speaker 5: Max Schurzer has pitched really well into his late thirties
• 41:12
  Speaker 5: early forties. Now I get it he's hurt the last
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: few years. But position players do not age the same.
• 41:19
  Speaker 5: Does show? Hey, buck that trend because you want to
• 41:23
  Speaker 5: talk about miles. This man has put some miles on
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: that body.
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  Speaker 4: We received some other names for All Star two. Braxton
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: Ashcraft got in. He deserves it. Jesus Lozardo is in.
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: Deserves it, but not over not over Wheeler, probably not
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: over Robleski either. I feel like the league was just like, eh,
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: there's too many Dodgers in there.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's now there's too many Phillies.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Also, Robleski doesn't get in for the same reason as Wheeler.
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: Right because he's pitching Sunday. He's pitching yeh, Sunday.
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: That's such a dumb thing. At least, you know what,
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: do you know what?
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: The easy answer to this is, Hey, congratulations Zach, will
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: you made the All start team. You're gonna be replaced
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: here now, haysus Lozardo gets it and he's like, all right, awesome.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: But they don't want to give out eighty of those
• 43:07
  Speaker 4: they they end up giving out any anyway.
• 43:09
  Speaker 5: They're not giving out eighty of them. Like, that's not
• 43:12
  Speaker 5: that's not happened to everybody that's thrown on Sunday. Or
• 43:15
  Speaker 5: even how about this, Zach, would you like to pitch
• 43:19
  Speaker 5: instead of no?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: Our rule is this.
• 43:21
  Speaker 5: We are not doing that, even though our rule has
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: been the legendary pick. It's been the older players. But
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: we're gonna go with Bryce Harper anyway, Like rule the rule,
• 43:30
  Speaker 5: Just ask the guy, would you be willing to pitch?
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: Yes? Team, would you be willing to let them that
• 43:36
  Speaker 3: player pitch?
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: No?
• 43:39
  Speaker 5: Okay, Well he's an All Star If the team lets it, okay,
• 43:42
  Speaker 5: then he's an All Star. Sorry, team says no, going
• 43:46
  Speaker 5: to Lizardo, who ends up getting it anyway.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, mas, no schemes. Otani will probably hit, but
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: not pitch. Riley O'Brien, the Cardinals closer. I called him
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: the other day. Remember, I was like, that's going to
• 44:03
  Speaker 4: be the next guy. They're going to they look for
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: dudes that rack sabs and the yep.
• 44:09
  Speaker 5: I'm here for middle relievers. Aaron Ashby, Aaron Ashby for
• 44:13
  Speaker 5: an all star AA.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Luke Weaver mm hmm, Yeah, that's what he said. That's
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: what he said. That's what he said. That's what he said.
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: We were supposed to have Ryan O'Hearn on the show.
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: We'll try and get him a different day. Three homers,
• 44:32
  Speaker 4: ten RBIs. At one point the Rockies or the Pirates
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: had ten runs on the board in the sixth and
• 44:37
  Speaker 4: it was just the Ryan O'Hearn game. You could do
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: that Ryan O'Hearn, ten braves whatever they had at that point,
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: but they walloped him. This was a huge game for
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: the Pirates Overall'll tell you why one Skians had been
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: in that long slump where they hadn't won a game
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: with him, so that was cured. Ryan O'Hearn is one
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: of the best offseason pickups. Ben Charrington nailed it two
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: years twenty something I think twenty nine million for.
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  Speaker 1: Him in this career year for O'Hearn.
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  Speaker 4: The one bad news you did get yesterday was Connor
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  Speaker 4: Griffin eight to ten weeks.
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  Speaker 1: That's huge.
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  Speaker 4: He was an above average offensive player, super speed, getting
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: better on defense. The rookie is going to miss most
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: of the rest of the season, but let's look at
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: the positive. How good is O'Hearn who he had to
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: kind of toil through the Royals what cut him. We've
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: had him on a few times where he's talked about it.
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  Speaker 2: He went to Baltimore, figured it out, he got trade
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: to San Diego, so freaking sent a nice deal with
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: two years, thirty two years, I think it was twenty nine,
• 45:35
  Speaker 2: and he has what six when I say sixteen homers?
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: Last year was a career year in his career that.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Was high seventeen, So I think he's going to hit
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: there right at the end of right about halfway through,
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: they started facing they started having him face lefties with
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: and I think that was something that increased his value.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: And now he's an everyday guy really for the first
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: time in his career, and you're seeing what happens. I mean,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: he was he was pegged as a platoon guy, and
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: he was pegged as d h first base, and the
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: Pirates were like, we need offense. We're gonna waste our
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: money on Arcelos Zuna. So you're gonna go play right field.
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  Speaker 2: Look what he's done. I mean, sixteen pumps at the break.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's that's awesome. And he's an incredible dude in
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse too.
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: The story of the Pirates to me, has been their offense.
• 46:28
  Speaker 4: Their offense was abysmal last year and it's one of
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: the better offenses in baseball this year.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: Brandon, they gave some money.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Up, they gave some things up. They gave up, they
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: gave up some of their defense. They I mean, they
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: knew that was gonna happen. What did they give up?
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: He's saying their defense is not as good. That's fair,
• 46:48
  Speaker 4: but I'll take that trade off. Really, it's just some
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: arms that haven't been as good. Schemes has been.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: Their bullpen has been the problem. It's been awful.
• 46:55
  Speaker 4: Their bullpen's been terrible. And then some of their starters
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: have not been as good as they Bubba.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Chandler hasn't been great, Walk so many guys. Keller has
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: been about the same, Skins hasn't been as good, Ashtaw
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: has been great, Ashkove's been awesome. I mean, the problem,
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: it's been awful.
• 47:10
  Speaker 1: Terrible bullpen.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: It's a shame because their Bullpen has blown so many
• 47:13
  Speaker 4: games where you're like, oh, they should have won that.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: I know every team, Yeah they're still in it, but
• 47:19
  Speaker 4: they're in it because their offense, because they get hit,
• 47:22
  Speaker 4: they can.
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: Even though he's gotten nothing from Marcelo's in how about
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: esmer Lyn Baldez, He's been awesome for them.
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: The newbie O'Neil Cruz is hurt now, but he was better.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Connor Griffin was starting to figure it out before he
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: got hurt.
• 47:34
  Speaker 1: He was figuring it out.
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: This team's finding it on offense, and no Hearn is
• 47:37
  Speaker 4: a great part of that. We do have an important
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: line from Paul Skeen's postgame talking about how selfish Ryan
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: o Hearan was during this game.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Performance from Ryan.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, I think it was kind of selfish, to
• 47:54
  Speaker 7: be honest. Everybody else is getting on and you know,
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: runs a rally killers Uh you had a three run
• 48:03
  Speaker 7: home runner a Grand Slam, and it's just like what now,
• 48:06
  Speaker 7: you know there's nobody on, nobody, nobody can drive him in,
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: so you know, good for him, I guess, but uh,
• 48:15
  Speaker 7: now it was it was pretty special to watch. That
• 48:18
  Speaker 7: was that was probably the best performance I've seen from
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: a teammate. Since I've been in the big leagues Bravo.
• 48:27
  Speaker 4: See if I was a player, I would talk like
• 48:29
  Speaker 4: that more often. I know Kratz did that sometimes.
• 48:31
  Speaker 1: Did you do this sarcastic sarcastic reply sometimes or not really?
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Well?
• 48:36
  Speaker 1: Who was talking to me? What I was feeling?
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I just think they're fun to mix it up, right,
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: Paul Kanoff, he's been less serious this year.
• 48:43
  Speaker 1: He's having more fun now.
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: He went through this slump just now on the mound,
• 48:48
  Speaker 4: but he's showing more personality.
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: You're not impressed? Was good? I just I just think that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, it almost it almost came.
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: You know, nobody really knows Paul Skins except for his teammates,
• 49:04
  Speaker 2: so it was just kind of like so out of
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: the blue.
• 49:07
  Speaker 1: No, he's been doing a little bit. He's been doing
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: he's been sneaking in a joke. I mean, I think
• 49:11
  Speaker 1: it's good.
• 49:12
  Speaker 7: I do.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's good because we want we want personality
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: of these guys, not robots.
• 49:15
  Speaker 4: And we want you to be loose. Skeins is actually
• 49:17
  Speaker 4: very opinionated. I mean he was opinionated the other day
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: about the All Stars, saying like he felt like his
• 49:21
  Speaker 4: offense should have been represented. He's opinionated about the labor
• 49:26
  Speaker 4: agreement stuff. He's one of the more outspoken guys there.
• 49:29
  Speaker 4: So I just like a guy that's going to give
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: me something different. This is from someone who interviewed so
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: many players for so many years, and ninety percent of
• 49:37
  Speaker 4: the time you're just getting the Barer Blaer Blaer answer.
• 49:40
  Speaker 4: I started to zone out, just like players would. So
• 49:42
  Speaker 4: when you get someone who's taking a different route, I
• 49:45
  Speaker 4: appreciate it.
• 49:45
  Speaker 1: That's part of why we have this show.
• 49:48
  Speaker 5: So I wish he would have never I wish he
• 49:50
  Speaker 5: would have never broken character. I wish he never would
• 49:53
  Speaker 5: have smiled at the end and just been like, all right,
• 49:55
  Speaker 5: next question.
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: Watch the Brewers.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: The other day, Seal Freelick made like a jumping catch
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: that he kind of like jumped, didn't hit the wall,
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: he didn't, and all his teammates, including Murph the manager,
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: was ripping him like, oh, that's Sal trying to make
• 50:11
  Speaker 5: a sports center catch, trying to make a sports center highlight.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: Like Terang was like, no, that's fine. Bowers was like
• 50:18
  Speaker 5: he was just trying, you know, he made it look
• 50:21
  Speaker 5: worse than it really was. And then Sal comes back
• 50:23
  Speaker 5: in the media and he's like, well, the only reason
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: Bowers is a Homer was because he knew I was
• 50:27
  Speaker 5: gonna have to pinch run for him because he's so slow. Like,
• 50:30
  Speaker 5: to me, I think that banter. When people do it
• 50:33
  Speaker 5: in the media, I think that's great. And to me,
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: if it's in the media, to me, scheme's doing that,
• 50:39
  Speaker 5: I think he does it. I think he does it
• 50:42
  Speaker 5: in the background even more. I think he does it
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: with the boys even more. We just don't get to
• 50:46
  Speaker 5: see it. So it was awesome. It was awesome for
• 50:48
  Speaker 5: me to see that because you're like, whoa, he is
• 50:50
  Speaker 5: a cyborg, but he was on sarcastic mode right there.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: You get a time period in your life where you're
• 50:56
  Speaker 4: the man, you're the active player. They come to you
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: something to me, that's important, right, give me a different
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: approach if you just say, wow, that was really good,
• 51:08
  Speaker 4: that was an impressive performance, or something. We're not running
• 51:11
  Speaker 4: the quote true prompts