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Ohio’s WILD chase ride: Tom Hamilton talks Guards, Rosecrans on Reds · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Tom Hadmileton is a longtime Cleveland Guardians radio broadcaster. He's
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  Speaker 1: a legend. He's one of the best in the base.
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  Speaker 1: He's joining us right now on FT Tom. Great to
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  Speaker 1: have you back on the show. We really appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: time and look forward to these chats. What do you
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  Speaker 1: have for us on how crazy the current situation is
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  Speaker 1: for Cleveland?
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  Speaker 2: Well, great to be with you, Thanks, Scott, AJ and Eric.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this makes no sense, this is unbelievable. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: September fourth, this club was two games under five hundred,
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  Speaker 2: eleven and a half games out of first. That's September fourth,
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  Speaker 2: and in two and a half weeks now. They did
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  Speaker 2: lose yesterday in Minneapolis, but the club has gone fifteen
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  Speaker 2: and two and they're one game out and they go
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  Speaker 2: ahead to head with the Detroit Tigers, the team they're
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  Speaker 2: chasing tomorrow night, Wednesday night, Thursday night. If the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: were to begin today, Cleveland would be in as the
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  Speaker 2: number three wildcard team because they own the tiebreaker over
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  Speaker 2: the Houston Astros. And you know, the old adage that
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  Speaker 2: this is why you play one hundred and sixty two
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  Speaker 2: couldn't be more appropriate than it is for this ball
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  Speaker 2: club right now. But did anyone see this coming? Absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: But when you have a pitching staff that now has
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  Speaker 2: gone seventeen consecutive games in which the starter has not
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  Speaker 2: given up more than two runs, that's how you have
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  Speaker 2: this kind of historic month.
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  Speaker 1: Tom Yes, first off, let's go through now looking forward
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the games for Cleveland laid out for us,
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  Speaker 1: and kind of way the percentage chance of how this
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  Speaker 1: actually becomes a reality for them, starting with essentially a
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  Speaker 1: playoff series against Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, they've basically they have like they're in
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs since this month began, and they swept the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers last week. They didn't beat Trek Scuobel, but they
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  Speaker 2: won the game on Thursday that Schooble pitched and he
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  Speaker 2: gave up one run at six innings. Tigers have moved
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  Speaker 2: him up. He is still going to have his four
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  Speaker 2: days rest, but he is pitching Tomorrow night. That way
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  Speaker 2: he is able to pitch on Sunday if the Tigers
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  Speaker 2: have to win that ballgame to get into postseason. Gavin Williams,
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  Speaker 2: who's been one of the most dominant pitchers in the
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  Speaker 2: American League that probably nobody really realizes since the All
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  Speaker 2: Star break, he goes for Cleveland tomorrow night. I mean, look,
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  Speaker 2: the only way Cleveland can win these games is if
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  Speaker 2: they continue to get dominant starting pitching. Because they're not
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  Speaker 2: scoring many runs. They haven't during this stretch. That is
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  Speaker 2: not going to change. I mean I would be stunned
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  Speaker 2: if at any point in the three games Jose Ramirez
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  Speaker 2: gets anything to hit. I don't care what the score is,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't think it matters what the situation is.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one guy. If you're a j Hinch, you're
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  Speaker 2: going to say, I don't care if it's a scoreless
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  Speaker 2: game in the third inning. We're not pitching to him.
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  Speaker 2: So you know it can continue. That. Can Cleveland continue
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  Speaker 2: to do this? I don't know. It seems hard to
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  Speaker 2: believe you could keep it up, but why not? I
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  Speaker 2: also wonder if today is a reset day for the Tigers.
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  Speaker 2: You know, they got swept at home by Cleveland and Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they needed this off day to realize, hey, we're
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  Speaker 2: still in first place and maybe we'll see a different
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  Speaker 2: ball club tomorrow night. But they looked awfully tight, and
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  Speaker 2: you saw a lot of frustration last week when Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: swept those three games. And then you've got Texas. You know,
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  Speaker 2: the season doesn't end no matter how you do against Detroit.
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  Speaker 2: You can't let Texas come in here. Texas won't have
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  Speaker 2: anything to play for, but that's still a pretty darn
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  Speaker 2: good ball club.
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  Speaker 3: You have to score a run to win the game.
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  Speaker 3: Contrary to other baseball historians, even if this pitching staff
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  Speaker 3: continues to do what they're doing, who will step up?
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  Speaker 3: If the Tigers take the mantra of Jose Ramirez is
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  Speaker 3: not going to beat us. Who can step up in
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  Speaker 3: this lineup? I think there's only one other guy with
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  Speaker 3: an OPS over one hundred OPS plus over one hundred
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  Speaker 3: besides Jose Ramirez. I know bow Naylor is hot right now,
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  Speaker 3: but they're not going to move him to be Jose
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  Speaker 3: Ramirez's protection, right No.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Stephen Kwan has to keep being Stephen Kwan.
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  Speaker 2: He's had a really good month of September, which is
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  Speaker 2: kind of the norm for him in his four years
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  Speaker 2: in the major leagues. To your point, Eric bow Naylor
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  Speaker 2: had about as good a road trip as you could
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  Speaker 2: have as a catcher, catching a shutout, hitting two home
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  Speaker 2: runs in one game up in Minneapolis. Well, catching a
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  Speaker 2: shutout as you know, as a catcher, it doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: any better than that. They just have to get contributions
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  Speaker 2: from everybody. You know, Kyle Mansardo has had a nice year.
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  Speaker 2: They need him to get it going again. I just
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  Speaker 2: think when you look at this ball club, look it.
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  Speaker 2: You know there are two guys you circle Stephen Kwan
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  Speaker 2: and Jose Ramirez when you're the opponent, and you say,
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  Speaker 2: those two guys can't beat us. So it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be up to these young kids to see if they
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  Speaker 2: can keep doing it. You know, I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: any secret that this is an offensively challenged ball club.
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  Speaker 2: And when they score four runs a game, that's a
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  Speaker 2: big night.
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  Speaker 3: Are the fans going to come out before we delve
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  Speaker 3: into any more of the bullpen or anything like that.
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  Speaker 3: Well the fan this do Cleveland fans know this is
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  Speaker 3: happening and how big of a series this is?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Probably didn't help that the Browns stunned the Green
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  Speaker 2: Bay Packers. And I'm from Wisconsin, so I'm in mourning
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  Speaker 2: yet today. I don't know, you know, talk about miracles
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  Speaker 2: Brown's winning a game and beating Green Bay. But that's
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  Speaker 2: a story for another day. But I hope they do
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  Speaker 2: you know. I mean, it's been a good year as
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  Speaker 2: far as attendance is concerned. But I think this has
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  Speaker 2: caught everybody by surprise when you look at what this
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  Speaker 2: club has done this month. So you know, A what, Eric.
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  Speaker 2: When it comes to fans, I've given up trying to
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  Speaker 2: predict what they're going to do or not do. If
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  Speaker 2: they can't enjoy this, you know, that's on them. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just I can't believe we're having this kind of relevant
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  Speaker 2: baseball with what this club has gone through, not only
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  Speaker 2: losing a ten, had a ten game losing streak in July,
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  Speaker 2: lost nine out of ten in August. We're fifteen and
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  Speaker 2: a half games out in July. And oh yeah, by
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  Speaker 2: the way, you lose one of your top starters, Luis Ortiz,
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  Speaker 2: and the most dominant closer in the game, Immanuel classe A,
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  Speaker 2: for what we all know is a gambling probe. And
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  Speaker 2: yet this ball club's overcome that. It's remarkable.
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  Speaker 4: Hey May, when I was there ten days ago or so,
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  Speaker 4: Steve asked even vote, what's going on? He said, this
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  Speaker 4: team just doesn't quit. They play twenty seven outs. He
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  Speaker 4: gave all the cliches, but there's got to be something
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  Speaker 4: more that Steven Vote does for this team. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, you look at them on paper and
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  Speaker 4: you say, all right, there's the offense is going to
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  Speaker 4: come from. There's a lot of pitchers that nobody's ever
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  Speaker 4: heard of, including Kate Smith at the back end of
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  Speaker 4: the bullpen and some of the other guys, Hunter Gaddis
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  Speaker 4: and some of the other guys. So what does Stephen
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  Speaker 4: Vote bring to the table that makes this team go?
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  Speaker 4: And can you win Manager of the Year like Pat
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  Speaker 4: Murphy has a chance to do back to back years.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I sure think so. Aja. There are an
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  Speaker 2: awful lot of similarities with Steven Vote and Tito, and
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  Speaker 2: that's not fair to either guy because Tito's resume has
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  Speaker 2: got him set up for the Hall of Fame. We
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  Speaker 2: all know that. I don't think the game has ever
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  Speaker 2: had a better manager than Tito. But in some ways,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot of similarities, and it starts with I
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  Speaker 2: think Steven Vote, like Tito, they're at their very best
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  Speaker 2: when the ball club's at its very bottom or at
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  Speaker 2: its worst moments. There's no panic from that office. And
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  Speaker 2: as you guys know that played, you know, you take
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  Speaker 2: the lead from your guy. If you see your guy
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  Speaker 2: throwing stuff in the dugout and visibly being upset when
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  Speaker 2: a guy strikes out or showing panic. Players see that.
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  Speaker 2: They pick up on that you can't fool players. But
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  Speaker 2: Tito and Voter have that similarity in that they don't panic.
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  Speaker 2: They're at their best when the club is struggling. And
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  Speaker 2: then I still think it goes back to number eleven.
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  Speaker 2: Justin Moreno made a great point yesterday we were in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: and the longtime Minnesota twin who's now doing television for
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  Speaker 2: the Twins, pointed out how on Saturday night, when Cleveland
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  Speaker 2: had back to back shutouts in that day night doubleheader
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  Speaker 2: and we're beating Minnesota eight to nothing. On Saturday night,
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  Speaker 2: Voter took Stephen Kwan and Jose Ramirez out of the
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  Speaker 2: ball game with a couple of innings to go, and
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  Speaker 2: Justin Morna on Sunday pointed out how he made sure
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  Speaker 2: to watch and that Stephen Kwan and Jose Ramirez never
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  Speaker 2: left the top step of the dugout. He said, a
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  Speaker 2: lot of times I saw I've seen a veteran get
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  Speaker 2: taken out of the game and he's back up the
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  Speaker 2: tunnel to the clubhouse and getting something to eat or
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  Speaker 2: relaxing or whatnot. He's done his job. He goes. When
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  Speaker 2: you see that guy jose Ramere is still engaged with
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  Speaker 2: his teammates watching that ball game with two innings to go,
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  Speaker 2: that's been decided, he said, you have no idea unless
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  Speaker 2: you're a player. What That then sends the message to
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  Speaker 2: the young kids when that guy is fully engaged like that,
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  Speaker 2: And boy, guys, aren't many players like that in the game.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that has been part of why this
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  Speaker 2: club is as special as they are. Look without jose
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  Speaker 2: A Rameres, this ball club is in the lottery for
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  Speaker 2: the number one pick in the draft.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's one of the best moves they made was
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  Speaker 1: getting him to sign that long term extension. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Jays in the playoffs. The Guardians might make the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: and run into Shane Bieber. So I remember there was
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  Speaker 1: an interview. It was either Chernoff or Antonetti who said, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: this was like a week or two before the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 1: We think we're gonna have a big second half. They
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  Speaker 1: ended up being right. Why did they trade Bieber?
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't think they thought they'd be sitting here
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  Speaker 2: today like they are Scott In reality, if they thought
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  Speaker 2: that this was the case, Shane Bieber would be here.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, they have to. And that's the one
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  Speaker 2: side of this. When you're in a revenue strapped market
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  Speaker 2: like this, as far as how much you're able to
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  Speaker 2: spend and how much you're able to make as compared
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  Speaker 2: to say in New York or Chicago or in LA
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  Speaker 2: you always have your eye in the future as well
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  Speaker 2: as today. And they looked at it realistically. They really
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  Speaker 2: were careful with Shane Bieber. That's why Shane re signed
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  Speaker 2: with this ball club because he knew that they would
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  Speaker 2: protect him and not rush him back, much like they
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  Speaker 2: did with Matthew Boyd last year. And if you remember then,
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  Speaker 2: Matthew Boyd really helped this ball club In August, September
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  Speaker 2: and October and then it led to Matthew getting a
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  Speaker 2: contract with the Chicago Cubs with Shane Bieber. He had
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  Speaker 2: an option to come back next year, but it was
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  Speaker 2: at his beck and call. He could opt in or
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  Speaker 2: opt out if Shane continues to do what he's doing,
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  Speaker 2: and there's no reason to think he won't, He's not
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  Speaker 2: going to have that option picked up. He's earned that
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  Speaker 2: right to become a free agent go out on the
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  Speaker 2: open market, and Cleveland felt like they couldn't take that
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  Speaker 2: chance get nothing in return. They didn't feel really that
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  Speaker 2: they weren't giving up on the season, but they were
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  Speaker 2: also looking at it realistically and saying, we can get
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  Speaker 2: a top pitching prospect that's in Double A that can
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  Speaker 2: help us here in the very near future. And that's
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  Speaker 2: why they did it. Scotten that. It's also why and
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  Speaker 2: I think they have to get some credit for this.
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  Speaker 2: This is thirteen consecutive years that this ball club is
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  Speaker 2: is relevant, The eleven years that Tito was here and
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  Speaker 2: now the two years with Stephen Vote. Think of this number, guys,
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  Speaker 2: in those thirteen years, Cleveland has played twenty five games
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  Speaker 2: total in which they were mathematically eliminated. That's astounding when
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  Speaker 2: that's telling you you're in the hunt every year, and
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  Speaker 2: they do it because they're trying to win every year.
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  Speaker 2: But they can't be at all costs to win every year.
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  Speaker 2: But they're not going to do a teardown like some
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  Speaker 2: of these organizations doing, say hey we're going to be
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  Speaker 2: awful for five years, but hope you come back.
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  Speaker 3: They I saw the inside workings of the organization when
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  Speaker 3: I played in twenty seventeen. They do it from the
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  Speaker 3: bottom all the way up, and it's the people that
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  Speaker 3: they bring in. So I have to talk about you
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  Speaker 3: as a person. Congratulations on receiving your award this summer.
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  Speaker 3: Does What does the Ford Frick Award mean to you?
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  Speaker 3: As I think it's for broadcasters excellence? I think is
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  Speaker 3: what the actual excellence in broadcasting. What does that mean
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  Speaker 3: to you that you receiving that this summer.
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  Speaker 2: Well, it means Eric that one that nobody ever recorded
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  Speaker 2: us between innings, because your career would have ended a
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  Speaker 2: long time ago. So I'm thankful to that. Hey, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, it's it's very humbling. It's still very surreal.
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  Speaker 2: I thought I won the lottery and I still do.
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  Speaker 2: The best phone call I ever got was January twelfth,
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  Speaker 2: nineteen ninety working in Columbus and doing Triple A games
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  Speaker 2: and the Cleveland Indians and at that time the flagship
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  Speaker 2: Station three we called, offering you a chance to work
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  Speaker 2: with herb Score and get a major league job. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's no different than when a player gets called into
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  Speaker 2: that manager's office telling him that you're going to the
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  Speaker 2: major leagues. That's the same way it was for me
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  Speaker 2: back in January of nineteen ninety. And nothing will ever
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  Speaker 2: top that phone call. So I've lived in my mind
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  Speaker 2: a fairy tale life for thirty six years, being able
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  Speaker 2: to do Major League baseball, being able to do it
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  Speaker 2: in one city, to raise our four children, and now
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  Speaker 2: we have grandchildren, but to raise them in one community,
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  Speaker 2: and it's a great place to raise a family. We
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  Speaker 2: haven't had to pick up and move like a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people have had to do. I was lucky enough
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  Speaker 2: then because of the Indians, to be able to do
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  Speaker 2: Big ten basketball on TV for twenty five years. That
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  Speaker 2: doesn't have if you don't get a major league job.
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  Speaker 2: But when you get that call from the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 2: that that's beyond any expectation or any dream. Didn't I
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  Speaker 2: didn't get into this to get awards. It's still a
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  Speaker 2: little uncomfortable to talk about it, but it was an
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  Speaker 2: incredible week and I just we're so very grateful, and
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  Speaker 2: it's just it's been that kind of a year where
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  Speaker 2: you're like, man, never be able to top twenty twenty five.
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  Speaker 2: Trust me from a professional standpoint.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is really cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well it's much deserved, Tom, man do the best in
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  Speaker 1: the biz. And then really cool that you get this
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  Speaker 1: shocker final week of the season where you're essentially going
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  Speaker 1: to be calling a playoff game. So we'll be looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to some great Tom Hamilton calls here over the
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  Speaker 1: next week.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks for stopping by, guys.
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  Speaker 2: Love the show, Thanks so much for having me. Take care.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, we've got our buddy c Trent Rose Grants, who
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  Speaker 1: covers the Reds for the Athletic joining us right now
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  Speaker 1: on ft S you Trent. I'm going to start it
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  Speaker 1: this way because Ken Rosenthal has now coined the National
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  Speaker 1: League Wild Card Race presented by the New York Mets disaster.
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  Speaker 5: So here we are. Let's talk about the glass apt
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  Speaker 5: full portion of it. How thrilling is this in Cincinnati?
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  Speaker 5: Are fans kind of like coming back?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: It was a you know, It's funny.
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  Speaker 7: The first game of the Cub series, Hunter Green goes
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  Speaker 7: out and was just lights out throws the shut out,
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  Speaker 7: flirted with a no hitter, one nothing when and afterwards
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  Speaker 7: he said something it's like, you know, yeah, it was great,
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  Speaker 7: but I wish there were more people here, and.
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  Speaker 6: They kind of reacted.
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  Speaker 7: It was a it was a good weekend for that,
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  Speaker 7: decent weather, other stuff going on downtown, Cubs in town,
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  Speaker 7: so a lot of Cubs fans. Almost was good that
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  Speaker 7: it was Cubs fans because they were like, let's go
• 17:57
  Speaker 7: Coby's thing, and the fans showed up to kind of
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: try to drown them out, and it was a it
• 18:03
  Speaker 7: was a really good atmosphere and so so I think
• 18:06
  Speaker 7: there's been some and then we'll see how it is
• 18:08
  Speaker 7: this week with no Cubs and the Pirates in town.
• 18:11
  Speaker 7: But heck, if I'm a baseball fan, Schemes versus Hunter
• 18:16
  Speaker 7: Green on Wednesday sounds like a pretty good game regardless
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: of standings.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: Obviously we're talking about today. If the playoffs would start today,
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: three and now Central teams would be in. Is that
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: indicative to the fact that the Central has improved or
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: the rest of the National League? The Mets have absolutely collapsed.
• 18:41
  Speaker 7: Oh, I think it's it's an indictment on the rest
• 18:44
  Speaker 7: of the leagues. When you're talking about you look at
• 18:47
  Speaker 7: payrolls and you look at those kind of things. Preseason,
• 18:50
  Speaker 7: everybody likes to like, you know, kind of like look
• 18:53
  Speaker 7: down on the NL Central. But a year in, a
• 18:57
  Speaker 7: year out, they've got it. Almost seems like every year
• 19:00
  Speaker 7: there's four teams. You could put them in a bag
• 19:03
  Speaker 7: and pull them out, and that's two through or one
• 19:08
  Speaker 7: through four. Maybe you can always pick a leader, and
• 19:12
  Speaker 7: you always know there's going to be one team that's
• 19:13
  Speaker 7: going to be at the bottom. Often the Pirates off
• 19:16
  Speaker 7: in the Reds. So I think it's it's kind of
• 19:20
  Speaker 7: indicative of the rest baseball. I mean, really, how many
• 19:23
  Speaker 7: good teams are there? The Dodgers, you're waiting on it,
• 19:26
  Speaker 7: but you know they still have the third best record,
• 19:30
  Speaker 7: They're still in a fight for their division. In the
• 19:32
  Speaker 7: last week, and didn't everybody decide they won the World
• 19:35
  Speaker 7: Series And when they signed Roki Sasaki and I realized
• 19:39
  Speaker 7: that he's been dominant and it's ruined baseball forever. But
• 19:43
  Speaker 7: you also have then like the Phillies are good. I
• 19:47
  Speaker 7: wouldn't want to face the Phillies, but you don't want
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: to face the Dodgers. But everybody else is kind of there.
• 19:53
  Speaker 7: I think the Brewers are the thing with the Brewers
• 19:56
  Speaker 7: is they never hurt themselves, and we're seeing how far
• 20:00
  Speaker 7: that can go.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: All right, So somebody that doesn't hurt themselves. Who's the
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: reds All star that's gonna or star that's gonna step
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: up in these last six games to make sure they
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: not only are at the finish line, but they get
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: it across. Because Eliot right now is having the toughest
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: stretch of his career. But who is that star that's
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: gonna step up because you can't hope, well, you know,
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: you get a little impact here, you get a little
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: impact there. These are games when you're facing a Pirates
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: team that is down on the mat, you have to
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: crush them. And to me, that's when the stars come
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: out and they dominate this next series.
• 20:38
  Speaker 7: I really like what I've seen from Noelvie Marte. You know,
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: he is a guy that has kind of had we'll
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: get consideration for a comeback.
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: Player of the Year because of what he's.
• 20:52
  Speaker 7: Coming back from, which was a suspension for steroids and
• 20:55
  Speaker 7: so those those don't register. But even taking that away,
• 20:59
  Speaker 7: when he did come back from his his suspension last year,
• 21:04
  Speaker 7: he was just awful. And you know, he came into
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: spring training looking to make amends and knowing that he
• 21:12
  Speaker 7: probably wasn't gonna make the team. And this was a
• 21:14
  Speaker 7: year after he was expected almost pretty much handed the
• 21:17
  Speaker 7: everyday job. Before spring training he went to the miners.
• 21:21
  Speaker 7: And it's funny, like one of the big things for
• 21:24
  Speaker 7: the Reds this year is there guys who went down,
• 21:27
  Speaker 7: went down and took it the right way, and when
• 21:30
  Speaker 7: they came back, they were ready. Will Benson. You know,
• 21:36
  Speaker 7: Marte even connored Phillips out of the bullpen. But Marte
• 21:40
  Speaker 7: is a guy that was the key really to that
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: the big Luis Castillo trade a couple of years ago,
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: and once he's kind of gotten to right field when
• 21:52
  Speaker 7: they added key Brian Hayes. He's really just it seems
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: like the world is off his shoulders and he there's
• 22:00
  Speaker 7: a guy you can can really hit, and you know,
• 22:03
  Speaker 7: I think in the future he can be a pretty
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: decent right fielder. He's got a great arm, he's a
• 22:07
  Speaker 7: good athletic player. He just tell usn't have a whole
• 22:11
  Speaker 7: lot of time out there, so you see some of
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: that inconsistency and an experience at times. But but I'm
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: going to go know, Aldie Marted, how about that for
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: off the off the Grid?
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: I like it because when a young guy gets popped Freud's,
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: you're like, a long as he's been doing this, right,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know what to expect, and he
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: has certainly bounced back. Okay, I want to do some
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: schedule breakdown because we've got six games left for the
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Mets and the Reds. Reds went out there aid right,
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: they're essentially a game up on the Mets, so this
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: is just as much for Mets fans right now. Mets
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: have three against the Cubs and then three against the Marlins,
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: including Sandale Contra on Friday. Reds have three against the Pirates,
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: but that is one Paul Schime start, like you mentioned
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: on Wednesday, and then they finished with three in Milwaukee
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: against the Brewers team that is probably playing for nothing,
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: even though they're still not going to be an easy opponent.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: How do you size up the schedules remaining for the
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: two teams fighting for that last wild card spot.
• 23:05
  Speaker 7: Well, I wouldn't overlook the Diamondbacks either their game out
• 23:09
  Speaker 7: game behind, so so don't overlook them. And I believe
• 23:13
  Speaker 7: they have a pretty they have what somebody and then.
• 23:17
  Speaker 5: Colorado Rodgers and Padres.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Three against the Dodgers at home, then three in San Diego.
• 23:23
  Speaker 7: Oh okay, okay, yeah, I was getting them connect confused
• 23:26
  Speaker 7: with the Giants. That's that's not easy, especially with those
• 23:29
  Speaker 7: two battling each other. But still, I'm not going to
• 23:32
  Speaker 7: count out the Diamondbacks. We've done that before and that
• 23:35
  Speaker 7: seemed to be a bad idea. But I think for
• 23:40
  Speaker 7: the Reds it could be tough. They struggled a little
• 23:43
  Speaker 7: bit against the Pirates and they've struggled mightily over the
• 23:47
  Speaker 7: last couple of years in Milwaukee.
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: That Milwaukee team something to play.
• 23:52
  Speaker 7: For now, but in three games, after three games, they
• 23:56
  Speaker 7: may not home field advantage throughout their close are clenching that.
• 24:03
  Speaker 6: We'll see. You know.
• 24:04
  Speaker 7: The thing with the Reds is you have a pretty
• 24:07
  Speaker 7: good shut just because of the pitching. The starting pitching
• 24:10
  Speaker 7: has been strong all season. Andrew Abbott has struggled in
• 24:14
  Speaker 7: the second half, but Brady Singers picked it up. You know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 7: you have a deeper bullpen. The bullpen was an issue
• 24:21
  Speaker 7: for a while, but if you go back to the
• 24:25
  Speaker 7: trade deadline, like it was almost a lot of people
• 24:29
  Speaker 7: didn't understand the Reds moves and they were kind of
• 24:33
  Speaker 7: going on the margins, and they did a hell of
• 24:36
  Speaker 7: a job. I mean, you got to give Nick Crawl
• 24:37
  Speaker 7: and Brad Metter a lot of credit for being creative
• 24:42
  Speaker 7: and it working.
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: Out of the trade deadline.
• 24:44
  Speaker 7: That what that was was key Brian Hayes, which upgraded
• 24:48
  Speaker 7: them at third base defensively.
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: No question.
• 24:51
  Speaker 7: I mean that guy is I had a scout yesterday
• 24:54
  Speaker 7: talking to me and it's like, you know, the only
• 24:57
  Speaker 7: thing he could come close to is prime Nolan Aeronado,
• 25:00
  Speaker 7: and I've seen that he's been just phenomenal and a
• 25:05
  Speaker 7: total change of scenery guy. That allowed them to move
• 25:08
  Speaker 7: Noel vi Marte to right field. He's been better since
• 25:11
  Speaker 7: then at the plate, seemed more relaxed. That solved some
• 25:16
  Speaker 7: of their issues with the outfield and getting production there.
• 25:20
  Speaker 7: Then they got Zach Ltel into the back of the
• 25:24
  Speaker 7: rotation starter and it seemed kind of weird because it
• 25:27
  Speaker 7: is a team that needed bullpen help. Well, that moved
• 25:29
  Speaker 7: Nick Martinez in there, and Nick Martinez is just a
• 25:32
  Speaker 7: kind of a special pitcher in that he can do both,
• 25:35
  Speaker 7: will do both, and has done both. And so that
• 25:39
  Speaker 7: is this extremely extremely valuable and could be in a
• 25:44
  Speaker 7: short series. And then the other one was Miguel Andrewhr
• 25:48
  Speaker 7: who came in to just crush lefties. He started off
• 25:51
  Speaker 7: and crushed everybody, then got hurt and he's kind of
• 25:53
  Speaker 7: back and crushing lefties.
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: You brought up Cabrian Hayes.
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: I was there on Thursday, good seeing you when Hunter
• 26:01
  Speaker 4: Green should have thrown a no hitter. Why wasn't Cabrian
• 26:03
  Speaker 4: Hayes in the game in the seventh inning for defense?
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: And also, I mean I said it on the air,
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: but why the heck were they pitching to say Suzuki.
• 26:09
  Speaker 8: He was the only guy that had.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Any chance against Hunter Green that night, and they threw
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: him a pitch that he could hit, and K Brian
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: probably has that ball if he's in for Sal Stewart.
• 26:18
  Speaker 6: He does.
• 26:18
  Speaker 7: He had had a little you know, when you look
• 26:20
  Speaker 7: at Q Brian Hayes, he's had this thing with his
• 26:22
  Speaker 7: back for a while and before the game he was
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: feeling a little stiff, and so he wasn't in the lineup,
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: and that's why you had Olean Marte at third base.
• 26:33
  Speaker 7: But yeah, so or no South Stuart, Sorry you had
• 26:36
  Speaker 7: salth Stewart at third base, and and Sal's not gonna
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: make the place.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: At Brian Hayes face, you're and you're right.
• 26:42
  Speaker 7: And the other thing is is like, I don't think
• 26:45
  Speaker 7: Hunter Green was in a mindset to pitch around anybody.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: He didn't care. And you know you've been play both,
• 26:52
  Speaker 6: you guys.
• 26:53
  Speaker 7: When a guy doesn't care, you don't want to and
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: when he is just so calm like Hunter was, that's
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: part of it. And then like, okay, as long as
• 27:06
  Speaker 7: it's in the park, well I'll get the next guy.
• 27:09
  Speaker 7: And and Hunter did that. But Keebrian was good enough
• 27:13
  Speaker 7: to come in and for the ninth. I know Tito
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: had said before the game he didn't think he was
• 27:17
  Speaker 7: gonna be available, but Keebrian said he saw the chiropractor
• 27:21
  Speaker 7: and felt good enough to go in and in the ninth.
• 27:26
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• 28:27
  Speaker 8: Have you ever seen a play like what happened on
• 28:29
  Speaker 8: that night?
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: The three eight six play where but it's gotta be
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: the only one in baseball history?
• 28:36
  Speaker 6: Okay, but it is a MLB.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Why I'm saying only okay because at one point they
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: were saying it wasn't off the first baseman's glove, and
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I'm like, well, then the guy was out and there
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: should have never been a play at second it should
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: have been a hit, so it kind of know because
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: once it passes a fielder, I know, but then you
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: can get hit by the ball and all that stuff.
• 28:57
  Speaker 8: I know, but it's.
• 28:59
  Speaker 7: Old Spencer or that in the moment, but it did
• 29:02
  Speaker 7: take off his glove, so it was a three eight
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: three eight six, which yeah, only one ever, which is
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: just unbelievable. But yeah, that that was one of those,
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: and I think there was. It was weird because I've
• 29:15
  Speaker 7: talked to like everybody around that play and it was
• 29:18
  Speaker 7: just what was weird was that everybody stopped and for
• 29:21
  Speaker 7: that like split second you remember that everybody good looking
• 29:27
  Speaker 7: for a second like, oh god, is he okay? Because
• 29:30
  Speaker 7: that ball is what one o five off the bat
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: of PCA. So you're worried mostly about a guy getting
• 29:37
  Speaker 7: hit one O five in the helmet if he's I
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: mean put a bluntly like if he's going to survive.
• 29:45
  Speaker 7: I was there for our oldest Chapman and spring training
• 29:48
  Speaker 7: a couple of years ago or many years ago, and
• 29:51
  Speaker 7: it's the same kind of thing where your first reaction
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: is is this guy okay? And have I seen something tragic?
• 29:58
  Speaker 7: Luckily he was. He bounce back and hopefully you know,
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: the little bit that it hit off Spencer steeers glove
• 30:05
  Speaker 7: was enough to dead in it some or whatever.
• 30:08
  Speaker 6: But also, well that ends.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: Well, Hey, se Trent, I've got one more for you.
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: Let's say this team does make it for fans of
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: other teams that have not really paid attention to the
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: Reds all year, how dangerous do you think they could
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: be in October?
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: I actually really like a lot of.
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: Their young pitching, and I'll apply what I said about
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: the Blue Jays to the Reds. The Reds can have
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: a different looking pitching arsenal because they have a really
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: solid one through five rotation. In my mind, they're not
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: all going to be starters that immediately enhances your bullpen,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: do you agree?
• 30:43
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 30:44
  Speaker 7: I mean zachly Tel's done some of that in his career.
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: He's not unfamiliar with it. We already mentioned how Nick
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: Martinez has gone there and done that, you know. And
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: also one of the big things with this bullpen is
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: been the emergence of Connor Phillips over the last couple
• 31:01
  Speaker 7: of weeks. This is a guy again a trade with
• 31:04
  Speaker 7: the Mariners, a different trade with the Mariners, but but
• 31:08
  Speaker 7: he is a guy that has kind of had just
• 31:11
  Speaker 7: a terrible year last year, made came up early, it
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: was okay, went back to the miners, made a small adjustment,
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: and has just been lights out since he's been exactly
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: what they thought maybe he could be, and that's huge.
• 31:25
  Speaker 7: And then Zach Maxwell, who couldn't throw strikes in college
• 31:30
  Speaker 7: or in the miners, all of a sudden is your
• 31:33
  Speaker 7: extra guy and he's you know, I'm not face, I
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: don't want to face Zach Maxwell. He's what I mean.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: He basically he wears Anthony Munjos his number and looks
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: bigger than Anthony Munjo's. So that's quite the it's quite
• 31:49
  Speaker 7: the luxury that they have. Graham Ashcraft has looked good
• 31:53
  Speaker 7: since he's coming back. Tony Santian has been used as
• 31:58
  Speaker 7: much as anybody. I think he's yeah, probably, I don't
• 32:01
  Speaker 7: think there's anybody who's who was with Tyler Rogers is
• 32:05
  Speaker 7: at the top of the uses and he still looked right.
• 32:08
  Speaker 7: He came in last night, had a beginning to get
• 32:11
  Speaker 7: the save. And then Emilio Pagan is a guy who
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: is just nobody was looking at that at the beginning
• 32:16
  Speaker 7: of the year, but he's just done a really good
• 32:18
  Speaker 7: job closing, and so you just keep pushing that down
• 32:22
  Speaker 7: where you have all these guys and you have a
• 32:23
  Speaker 7: Nick Martinez that can go a couple of innings or
• 32:27
  Speaker 7: you know, I'm almost wondering, besides Green and Lodolo, do
• 32:33
  Speaker 7: you you can almost like piggyback Singer an Abbot with
• 32:38
  Speaker 7: a left right because Abbot's had a not a great
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: second half and Singer has had a great second half.
• 32:45
  Speaker 7: So there's just there's just a lot of arms. And
• 32:48
  Speaker 7: when you're talking about the Santian and and Pegan and Ashcraft,
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: you have guys who are all kind of those that
• 32:57
  Speaker 7: raised thing where you're coming from different angles and gives
• 33:00
  Speaker 7: you those different looks.
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: See Trent, great stuff, man, I'm excited to see how
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the wee Pacha Berns.
• 33:07
  Speaker 5: Oh wait about Chase Burns.
• 33:12
  Speaker 6: You know now thrown one on one.
• 33:16
  Speaker 7: I mean that the night the other night was just
• 33:19
  Speaker 7: still crazy to me, hungry and averaged one hundred miles
• 33:21
  Speaker 7: an hour on his fastball over a complete game, shutout.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: Just mhm, it was just stupid. It was funny.
• 33:28
  Speaker 7: It was like after that game, I just walked by
• 33:31
  Speaker 7: Emilio and I kind of joked I was like eh
• 33:34
  Speaker 7: Man screwed you out of a save. He goes, there
• 33:38
  Speaker 7: was nobody down there who was going to be better
• 33:40
  Speaker 7: than Hunter. There was no upgrade in the bullpen, and
• 33:42
  Speaker 7: it was right. So it's one of those things. But yeah,
• 33:47
  Speaker 7: Chase Burns is a guy that you can use in
• 33:49
  Speaker 7: that David Price roll back in when he was a rookie.
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: Uh.
• 33:54
  Speaker 7: They're being careful with how much they use him. But
• 33:56
  Speaker 7: he came in for multip plannings the other day.
• 33:59
  Speaker 6: Uh, And you can't.
• 34:00
  Speaker 7: You just can't deny the stuff. And you don't have
• 34:02
  Speaker 7: to worry about anybody saying on more than once.
• 34:05
  Speaker 1: Circle of trust pitching stuff wise, the Reds are up
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: there with any team in baseball for October when you
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: shrink what your pitching will look like.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: It actually makes me think.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: The last time the Reds have made the playoffs in
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: a full season, I know, in a really long time,
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: But the last time they made it was twenty twenty,
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: didn't they not?
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: Was it? Twenty fourteen was the last full season playoffs?
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: You sat?
• 34:24
  Speaker 6: Thirteen was a wild card loss to the Pirates.
• 34:28
  Speaker 7: Twelve was when they you know, or maybe the best
• 34:32
  Speaker 7: team at baseball and then lost to the Giants who
• 34:35
  Speaker 7: made that amazing run and then but they haven't. They
• 34:40
  Speaker 7: haven't won a playoff series or a home playoff game
• 34:44
  Speaker 7: since nineteen ninety five.
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: That's thirty years.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: Was that boat in GMing back then?
• 34:52
  Speaker 6: Maybe, or maybe it's right before him. I'm not sure.
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: I was in freshman in college or sophomore in college.
• 35:01
  Speaker 5: You said nineteen ninety five, Yeah I was voted. Yeah,
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: I was voted.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So we'll have to bring him back on this week
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: to chat about that. But twenty twenty they made it.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: This is my other point. And from what I recall,
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: they had two games. Pitching was nasty and they didn't
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: score a run, right.
• 35:15
  Speaker 7: Correct, And you know that was Trevor Bauer, Luis Castillo
• 35:22
  Speaker 7: and more, and they were both just lights out, But
• 35:26
  Speaker 7: the offense didn't get anything done. And I think there's
• 35:29
  Speaker 7: a danger with that here. This is an offense that
• 35:31
  Speaker 7: hasn't been great or consistent and and and you could
• 35:37
  Speaker 7: get in that same kind of problem. But you can
• 35:42
  Speaker 7: also keep games really close because you have that kind
• 35:45
  Speaker 7: of pitching and they have a couple of guys who
• 35:48
  Speaker 7: can who can get hot, and if Ellie gets hot.
• 35:51
  Speaker 6: He's been better the last couple of days.
• 35:54
  Speaker 7: Maybe it's just one of those things that he can
• 35:55
  Speaker 7: pop out because he's a difference maker and he's always
• 36:01
  Speaker 7: going to be somebody that everybody's worried about. And hopefully
• 36:04
  Speaker 7: for the red sake that he gets a.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: Going Ellie in the playoffs would be fun to watch too. Damn,
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I'm looking. I'm like, he's only had thirty six stolen
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: bases this.
• 36:14
  Speaker 7: Year, and he had eighteen home runs. He had eighteen
• 36:20
  Speaker 7: home runs going to the All Star Game, and he
• 36:23
  Speaker 7: has twenty now and the two longest streaks hormorless streaks
• 36:27
  Speaker 7: of his career.
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but he's not running like we thought he would
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: this year either.
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: He had had some leg injuries. He was not exactly
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: the same. He had a quad and then something else.
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: I think it was a hamstring or something. So he's
• 36:42
  Speaker 7: he's been hobbled a little bit. But he's also played
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: every game, started all but one. The one he didn't
• 36:50
  Speaker 7: start was he had a flight canceled when he's coming
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: back from his sister's funeral in the Dominican Republican and
• 36:57
  Speaker 7: started that day in the Dominican Republic. Had some flight
• 37:00
  Speaker 7: issues getting to Cincinnati from Santa Domingo. And then that
• 37:06
  Speaker 7: game got postponed and resumed the next day and he
• 37:11
  Speaker 7: actually got in the game. So he's played in every game,
• 37:13
  Speaker 7: so you know, I think that's for him, it's really important,
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: and the team knows that he wants to play every day, every.
• 37:22
  Speaker 6: Inning, and that's just who he is.
• 37:26
  Speaker 7: Maybe that's been bad in some ways for his longevity
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: and his production, but it's also you know, you don't
• 37:34
  Speaker 7: you never want to discourage guys who will do anything
• 37:37
  Speaker 7: to post. And Ellie's a guy who was shown this year,
• 37:41
  Speaker 7: but he'll do anything to post.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so we'll see.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: Maybe he picks it back up here and lights it
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: up and uses the legs in the postseason when you know,
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: you know, limited time, amount of games to go here.
• 37:54
  Speaker 1: Great talk, great wrap up here of what we've seen
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: from the Reds, looking forward to the last week here
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: see Trent, thanks for hopping on with us.
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: Appreciated. Have fun covering this team this week.
• 38:04
  Speaker 9: Two dogs, you were the hat for you.
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: I don't know anything about what's going on with them.
• 38:12
  Speaker 7: AJ stayed away in the in the in the nice
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: part of the press box on Thursday, so I didn't
• 38:18
  Speaker 7: get to see he's.
• 38:20
  Speaker 5: So excited about Hurricanes ranked. What too did Hurricanes ranked?
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: To football?
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: You love the Canes right, good way to go Florida team,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: Florida team, Way to go.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I know, I didn't see. I was in the
• 38:34
  Speaker 4: I was in the clubouse, I was on the field,
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: But you guys didn't see each other.
• 38:40
  Speaker 6: Remember Thursday. I don't remember Thursday. Honestly.
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: I had a nice talk with had a nice talk
• 38:46
  Speaker 4: with Sal Stewart, had a nice talk with Nick Martinez.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: Who else Tito obviously, but no.
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: That was the day I had to go get my daughter.
• 39:00
  Speaker 5: Ah, so it wasn't there.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: So it was me. It was me, not a j
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: I'll own it. Wow, I'll wear it.
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: I was there from twelve o'clock because I did the
• 39:10
  Speaker 8: show from there.
• 39:11
  Speaker 5: There you go.
• 39:12
  Speaker 6: Well, next time you have my number, you can just
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: call me.
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: We can get lunch exactly exactly next time. There's always
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: next time. We actually go to No this year, not
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: for you, but we do end up.
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: Maybe maybe Milwaukee this weekend.
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: Yeah, Fox picked up Saturday is a big Fox Saturday's game.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: Yep. True.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: So make sure your daughter has you doing something on Saturday.
• 39:36
  Speaker 6: Well, I will be in Milwaukee. She will not be there.
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: You go all right, so maybe the two can reunite
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: here this weekend.
• 39:44
  Speaker 5: Thanks to you trying, good to see it, Good to
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: see you too,