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Trout IL’d, Buxton shuts down trade rumors, MLB proposal includes trading picks & international policing, Adolis García out for 2026 · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I'm not getting hold of muchee Friday. There were some
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  Speaker 1: things that happened Friday while I was gone. Todd Father
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  Speaker 1: wasn't there, and they need to be readdressed, Yes, readdressed.
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  Speaker 1: Two notes in particular. Let's start with the Derby Todd Father.
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  Speaker 1: Derby's getting a little refresh. It's kind of like what's
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  Speaker 1: old is new? What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean I love when people come and ask me that,
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  Speaker 3: all the questions since I want it one time, I
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  Speaker 3: did it a couple Listen, I don't know how it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna be. I gotta be honest with you, just because
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  Speaker 3: we've never done it before. Nobody understood and what was
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  Speaker 3: going to happen in twenty fifteen when there was a
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  Speaker 3: time and everybody's like, ah, man, this could be good.
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  Speaker 3: It could be quicker, it could be it takes away
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  Speaker 3: from the guys taking five six swings. It worked out
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  Speaker 3: to be fantastic, and then they modified it a little bit,
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  Speaker 3: cut down the time. It was exhausting. I mean, the
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  Speaker 3: only thing I would say it was it was exhausting.
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  Speaker 3: But ultimately, you know, since I won, I didn't really care,
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  Speaker 3: So I did. I did a couple different ones you know,
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  Speaker 3: I had the one where we had eight swings, and
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  Speaker 3: now you know it's going to be the same ordeal,
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  Speaker 3: but with twenty swings. I think, I don't know, I
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  Speaker 3: just don't know. I'm intrigued. I'm very intrigued. I want
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  Speaker 3: to see how.
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  Speaker 1: You don't know we've done before though we did this,
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  Speaker 1: we switched to the timers for you, we had the swings,
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  Speaker 1: the swing off session. It's just it's been a long time,
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  Speaker 1: but we used to do this, I.
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  Speaker 2: Know, but it's all so it's I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just I want to see how the players react.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember twenty I mean there's never been twenty, right,
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  Speaker 3: it was outs ten out out right.
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  Speaker 1: So now is more reverting to that format right where
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  Speaker 1: there's no clock.
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  Speaker 3: So now you can take a deep breath, you can
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  Speaker 3: take your time. Yeah, I think it's gonna be longer
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, but I still think it's gonna be fun.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's gonna be great.
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  Speaker 3: I still think puts a little more pressure to on
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  Speaker 3: the guys as well, knowing this is the only you
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  Speaker 3: only have this amount of swings to do it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: we'll see, we'll see what happens. I'm in between on
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  Speaker 3: it though, because I did like what we've been doing.
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  Speaker 3: But it does give an advantage to one guy over
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  Speaker 3: the other that gets an extra break.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: You can spin at pitches. That's you know, more annoying
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  Speaker 1: for the audience if you have to keep waiting because
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  Speaker 1: you like to keep seeing guys go after baseballs. But
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  Speaker 1: the part that I think was lacking was too many
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  Speaker 1: baseballs flying around at a time right where you're there
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  Speaker 1: in person, I thought was even tough. They both were tough.
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  Speaker 1: You're watching on TV and you're like, oh, it's I
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  Speaker 1: can't keep up with this when you're there. It's actually
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  Speaker 1: tough to keep up with when you're there too because
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  Speaker 1: it's so fast, so tough slim announce. Yeah, tough to
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  Speaker 1: announce for sure. So at least for me, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get the comment yesterday. I'm like, you, Todd father got
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  Speaker 1: to see what it looks like. But I'll take like
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of this, slow it down to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the dingers.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know they I tried looking this up.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody has been announced yet, right, or has anybody been
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  Speaker 3: announcedcott to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think so.
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  Speaker 1: It's too early, not yet, but soon I would.
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  Speaker 3: I've got a guy who i'd like to see in there,
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  Speaker 3: who that probably nobody's really talking about. I like to
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  Speaker 3: see Ben Rice getting that picture. I would love to
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  Speaker 3: see his lefty swing at in Philadelphia. I think that
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  Speaker 3: would be fantastic for him. But ultimately, he's having a
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  Speaker 3: really great year. This is the good thing. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: do you have to be an All Star?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: But I still think he should be an All Star.
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  Speaker 3: Don't get me wrong. I think he's having a really
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  Speaker 3: good year. But you know, does he want to Everybody's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to mess your swing up. I tell everybody
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  Speaker 3: it doesn't mess your swing up. The last round of BP.
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  Speaker 3: The last round of BP, everybody's trying to go deep
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  Speaker 3: and hit a home run the last seven eight swings.
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  Speaker 3: So if you stop doing that, then maybe you have
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  Speaker 3: you know, you could talk about it. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 3: would love to see Ben Rice get in there. I
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  Speaker 3: think that'd be pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: Well, he should be an All Star and he should
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  Speaker 1: get invited to the Derby And if you want more
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  Speaker 1: on Derby talk, I mean, I'm with you. Will he
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  Speaker 1: say yes? I don't know. But yeah, if you want
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  Speaker 1: more on the derby from yesterday, Kratz and AJ covered it.
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  Speaker 1: They also covered portions of the latest CBA proposal that
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  Speaker 1: really does affect the game. We're not going to go
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  Speaker 1: over money all day every day, but there are specific
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  Speaker 1: rules that could be changing. Yesterday they went over some things.
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  Speaker 1: I'll let's charge and I'll explain the rest charge about Okay,
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  Speaker 1: So some of the keys that were covered in our
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  Speaker 1: other segment or video if you're watching this afterward, were
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  Speaker 1: AJ and Kratz covering the high schoolers not able to
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  Speaker 1: get picked anymore if MLB's proposal went through. There were
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  Speaker 1: a number of changes the international draft. I want to
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  Speaker 1: take on some things that weren't covered in the part
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  Speaker 1: one of what you guys went over Kratz, because there's
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  Speaker 1: so much in this proposal, right, and you guys went
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  Speaker 1: over how they would cut significant bonus money for players,
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  Speaker 1: the age eligibility for international players would bump up. I
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  Speaker 1: want to get to at least two things here. One
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  Speaker 1: is actually great for the game if it gets executed,
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  Speaker 1: and one is I think a telltale sign of the
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  Speaker 1: difference between money and ethics in our sport. Stay tuned
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  Speaker 1: on that one. Let's start with this. Did you guys
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  Speaker 1: notice that draft picks were included in here for trades?
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  Speaker 1: Trading draft picks in the domestic draft, picks could only
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  Speaker 1: be dealt for the next upcoming draft. Twenty twenty eight
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  Speaker 1: draft selection could only be traded after the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: seven draft. In the proposed setup, teams can't deal away
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  Speaker 1: first round picks in consecutive domestic drafts. They don't want
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  Speaker 1: teams just unloading all of their draft But I'm just
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  Speaker 1: even like, wait, we've gotten to maybe we would trade
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  Speaker 1: draft picks because I was told for years that one
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  Speaker 1: side didn't want that, even though all the fans want that.
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  Speaker 1: Teams that can't acquire more than three additional selections within
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  Speaker 1: the first three rounds of a given draft on top
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  Speaker 1: of their original picks in those rounds. And then one
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  Speaker 1: awful part of this was a proposal from MLB saying
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  Speaker 1: they'd like to cut the lottery picks from six to four.
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  Speaker 1: So the lottery was put in there, pushed hard by
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  Speaker 1: the players, even though everyone should want that because you
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  Speaker 1: don't want tanking. So if you're cutting it from six
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  Speaker 1: to four, you're going the wrong direction. In my mind,
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  Speaker 1: and then for the International Draft, most picks could be traded,
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  Speaker 1: but the league says there will be certain limitations. So
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  Speaker 1: these are just proposals crats. But for me, I just
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  Speaker 1: want to look at the big part. We now know
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  Speaker 1: on the table that trading draft picks is okay. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to hurt our sport.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: MLB is saying it's okay, and they're putting it out
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  Speaker 1: there because for me, I don't care what either side wants.
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  Speaker 1: I care what we want, and what we want is
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  Speaker 1: to be able to talk about teams making more trades
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  Speaker 1: and draft picks help that.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't I don't agree.
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  Speaker 4: I don't agree. I think trading a draft pick is
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  Speaker 4: trading a lottery ticket. Like, hey, you know what, you
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  Speaker 4: have a lot of a ticket. I have a lottery ticket.
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  Speaker 4: Now if you scratch off a lot of a ticket
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  Speaker 4: and you're like, WHOA, that's a winner, Okay, I'll trade
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  Speaker 4: you with that one. You don't know. I think I
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  Speaker 4: think there's more. I think there's less intrigue in trading
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  Speaker 4: a lottery or trading a draft pick in baseball than
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  Speaker 4: in other sports.
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  Speaker 1: So, just to be clear, you don't want to trade
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  Speaker 1: draft picks.
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  Speaker 2: No need to, no need to stronger, don't. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it's a bad thing. I don't.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's as eyewash.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but it helps to promote trades. Right now, you
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  Speaker 1: can trade your comp picks, right, uh, Todd Father like
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  Speaker 1: team get compensation picks for like where they are in
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  Speaker 1: revenue sharing and all of that. I think if you
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  Speaker 1: want to try and put a limitation on it, we
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  Speaker 1: can talk about that. But being able to trade your pick,
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  Speaker 1: I think should be the right of a team, and
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  Speaker 1: I think it would create more intrigue around the draft too.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: You could have the draft coming up and then all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden, the team picks trades their first round
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  Speaker 1: pick for a big player, and it kind of sparks
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  Speaker 1: the trade deadline a little bit sooner too, because you
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  Speaker 1: have to make a call. No, you don't think any
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  Speaker 1: of that's cool.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, you trade your first first round pick. So
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  Speaker 4: what's the value of a first round pick to the
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  Speaker 4: analytical front offices?
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  Speaker 2: Would be?
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  Speaker 4: My question?
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  Speaker 2: Is that?
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  Speaker 4: Fine?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: But I want my team to get somebody at least
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  Speaker 4: a little bit closer. Give me, give me like like
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  Speaker 4: if you have if you have Mason Miller. That was
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  Speaker 4: a trade that just happened last year. Yeah, I get it,
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  Speaker 4: a J Peler. They're in the playoffs, they're gonna go
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  Speaker 4: ahead and trade their first round pick for Mason Miller. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: well he's farther away than Debreeze is. He's farther away
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  Speaker 4: than to me. The draft in baseball is not the
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  Speaker 4: as other sports, and so when teams, yes, they have
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  Speaker 4: that value, but that value is very like I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who's how somebody's going to payan out
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  Speaker 4: in the pit with that pick, no matter where you're
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  Speaker 4: picking in the first fifteen picks or in the fifteen
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  Speaker 4: to thirty picks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, go ahead, Scott, I got you.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, no, you're good.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's different now just because there's twenty rounds
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  Speaker 3: and I think each round now is pretty huge. And
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to trade a draft pick, a first
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  Speaker 3: round pick, second or third, you know, one of those
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  Speaker 3: top picks, you know, not only are they spending more
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  Speaker 3: money too as well, but they're getting more top you know,
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  Speaker 3: baseball players too. I find it very intriguing. I find
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  Speaker 3: it very intriguing. I find it if they really want
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  Speaker 3: somebody and they think this guy. Yeah, like a Mason Miller, like,
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  Speaker 3: hey man, we'll get We'll give you, you know, our
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  Speaker 3: number one pick for next year or whatever, or number
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  Speaker 3: two and then what that would be a big big
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  Speaker 3: thing for me. That's like training away two top prospects
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  Speaker 3: for me. So I feel like that kind of package
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  Speaker 3: for you know, you know, their top pick or whatever
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  Speaker 3: can bode well with saving players too as well. So
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  Speaker 3: it's very intriguing. It's very intriguing. Every other team, every
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  Speaker 3: other team does it have sports time.
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  Speaker 4: You're you're saying, you're saying you would rather as a team,
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  Speaker 4: you would rather see your team if you had a
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  Speaker 4: team get get one draft pick in the first round
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  Speaker 4: rather than getting two prop top prospects from a team.
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  Speaker 2: That's the intriguing part. Bro. I don't know, it's intriguing
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  Speaker 2: because it just depends on who you are and what
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  Speaker 2: you want in your your club.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, pick your own guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's it's a hard decision, but I think
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  Speaker 3: it makes it very interesting for the fan and for
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  Speaker 3: you know, your team, who you room for.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also teams fall in love with who they pick.
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  Speaker 1: So this I think would help spur more trades because
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  Speaker 1: you're less attached to a pick that you don't have yet. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Patrick Bailey a couple months ago.
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  Speaker 3: You cannot like it. But at the same time, oh,
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  Speaker 3: if you're giving Way a first or second round pick
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  Speaker 3: for somebody, oh maybe, well you must be on board
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  Speaker 3: big time. And there's gonna be some fans that are
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  Speaker 3: liking it and a lot that don't, So yeah, welcome.
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  Speaker 1: Good fans can conceptionalize picks too, like, oh, we're trading
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  Speaker 1: our first round pick. This guy better be good. Good debate,
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  Speaker 1: that's what's good debate. Very I want I've always been
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  Speaker 1: big on this. There's no reason why we shouldn't be
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  Speaker 1: able to trade picks. You want to put some limitations,
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  Speaker 1: we can talk, but it is important. I think every
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  Speaker 1: league gets sparked more. And I think we've gotten a
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  Speaker 1: little soft as a sport with trades sometimes because everyone's
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  Speaker 1: so scared. So if you give more assets, I think
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  Speaker 1: it helps to just spur more trades. No, I value
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  Speaker 1: this prospect differently. You're right, everyone's going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to value picks very similarly versus prospects. Right, you might
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  Speaker 1: think one prospects the next big thing and the other
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  Speaker 1: team doesn't. Whatever it is, the debate on a pick
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  Speaker 1: will be easier to justify for a trade. I just
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  Speaker 1: think it'll create more trades, and that's all I care
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  Speaker 1: about in this scenario. It's not going to hurt anyone.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's only going to help the league. Part
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  Speaker 1: two of this discussion super important related to the international
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  Speaker 1: I want to get to today. MLB proposed to work
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  Speaker 1: with the Dominican Republic government on player protections. So you
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  Speaker 1: can read many incredible articles, including a recent one from
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  Speaker 1: Alding Gonzalez on a child who actually died and was
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  Speaker 1: being given steroids and paraphrasing a little bit here and
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  Speaker 1: died from this right there is complete control from what's
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  Speaker 1: called buscones. They're trainers down there, but they're really like
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  Speaker 1: loan sharky trainers. It is like a criminal web that
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  Speaker 1: is wild, and it is also sparked by teams that
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  Speaker 1: have people down in places like the dr that are
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  Speaker 1: paying these buscones right and controlling all of it. MLB
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  Speaker 1: has not done much about this. They can say they have,
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  Speaker 1: but there's no way they're going to prove that they've
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  Speaker 1: done much. And in fact, you can go to a
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  Speaker 1: recent quote from Rob Manfred who said when he was
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  Speaker 1: asked like, why are you guys, you know, not pressing
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  Speaker 1: down harder on this? He said, yeah, but who's taking
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  Speaker 1: the check?
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  Speaker 2: Right?
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  Speaker 1: So it's not about the drug dealers, it's about those
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  Speaker 1: that are using It doesn't matter deal away. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: this is what they proposed, a code of conduct for
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  Speaker 1: independent trainers with appropriate penalties. Great the prohibition of any
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  Speaker 1: individual or firm from purchasing an interest in the player's
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  Speaker 1: future signing bonus or salary, or having a player or
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  Speaker 1: his family money with the player's future signing bonuster comp
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  Speaker 1: as collater as collateral. Great down there, No, no, no, Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: This has to do it down there. They have loan
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  Speaker 1: sharks down there that'll be like I'm going to give
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  Speaker 1: you five cents and you give me eighty percent of
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  Speaker 1: your salary. This is not the places that are more
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  Speaker 1: sec approved and all of that in the US that
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  Speaker 1: are like, oh, i'll give you a million bucks for
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  Speaker 1: five percent. This is like loan sharks taking all of
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  Speaker 1: their money, which is what the Piscones do too. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: a few more that They proposed implementation of a lifetime
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  Speaker 1: ban from the baseball industry and criminal penalties for any
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  Speaker 1: person who provides performance enhancing substances to a player. This
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  Speaker 1: is all in the Dominican Republic. This is like ten
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  Speaker 1: eleven twelve year olds people sometimes that are dealing with
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  Speaker 1: this stuff down there. It is insane criminal activity that
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  Speaker 1: is going on. That's been a problem for a long time.
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  Speaker 1: An MLB's answer has been we need an international draft.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on one more and then we'll get to this.
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  Speaker 1: A requirement that players who reside in an independent trainer
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  Speaker 1: academy prior to age eighteen must remain enrolled in an
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  Speaker 1: education program. Okay, so there's four things they put out there.
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  Speaker 1: Now tell me, let's do some really simple math hereocrats
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  Speaker 1: tell me why those four things could not have been
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  Speaker 1: implemented for the past twenty years. One reason, Okay, I'm
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: going to preface this so there's no bias on for
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: I think we should have an international draft one day.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: I actually think that's fine. As a fan, I'm good,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: I'm in. I'm in on an international draft. The whole
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: point of this, though, is this has nothing to do
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: with an international draft. This is basically MLB saying we're
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: not going to crack down on something that is creating
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: significant criminal activity in the Dominican Republic because we don't
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: get the way we want, so we're gonna let it
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: crash and burn. Meanwhile, what happens, Kids get abused, kids die, Right,
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: we had a kid who literally died from being forced
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: to take start right, what are we doing?
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: It has been something that I have ever since I
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: heard in twenty twelve, I heard Mariano Rivera speak on this,
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: speak on the fact that, yes, everybody knows who Mariano
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: Rivera is. At the time, everybody knew who Robinson Cano was,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: and he named other Latin players that came from Latin countries,
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: not just as dr but from Latin countries and are
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: playing in the big leagues. He's like, everybody knows them.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: There's that many times ten that are at these boastcons
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: at these training facilities. It's the Dominicans type of like
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: go live at baseball camp is essentially what it would
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: be like, except it's essentially child human trafficking by these
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: Bostcans because Major League Baseball has turned a blind eye
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: to it. He's turned a blind eye to it. People
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: probably remember the video of me crying talking about different
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: Latin players that come what they come from, and when
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: you talk to them, is it's a travesty because I'm
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: talking to the guys that are in tripa in the
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: big leagues, not the guys that never made it, who
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: were sixteen years old. And most people don't get done
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: growing at sixteen years old but haven't had any schooling
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: for the last two years, don't get picked by a team,
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: and these boast goans just push them back out into
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: the street, send them back to their family, and they
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: leave with less safety, they leave with less health, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: they leave with zero education. For the majority of these
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: there are some that are high quality, but the majority
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: of them, these kids have gone to possibly four years
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: without any schooling, and Major League Baseball has turned a
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: blind eye to it. The players associations tried their best,
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: but Major League Baseball's turn a blind eye to it
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: because they say, well, how can we regulate it?
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that's the hardest part getting school,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: getting education fantastic playing baseball, absolutely fantastic. Combine those two
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: things together. There shouldn't be anything else after that. It
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: should be about the kids that I mean, the DOMNI,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: the DR has some of the best baseball players to
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: ever play this game. Let's just keep on building on
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: that and making these kids better each day, day in
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: and day out. Give them a good little education. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: know it's harder, you know. I know it's much more difficult.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: You know where they are and the circumstances and everything.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: But if you can give them an opportunity to further
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: themselves in baseball the right way, I think we're going
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: to be better off.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And just to conclude, I'm for a draft internationally.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: If they can get it all right and make it
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: make sense. I think that does make sense. But it
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with what was put out there
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: when they say there's nothing we can do to regulate, No,
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: there are things you can do. You literally just told
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: us in public that you're holding them back to get
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: more money. That to me is where it crosses the
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: line and it pisses me off. So we can spend
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: much more time on this. It's just proposals. So I
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: don't want to go too deep. Most of this that's
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: never going to happen, but just wanted to throw it
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: out there for you to.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: Good words, guys, stop changing baseball except for this, No,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: except for this, But this.
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: Is this is probably the number one problem in the
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: entire sport for humanity. Forget everything else, literally humanity. That's
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: the thing that gets me going.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Besides this, baseball is very good where it's at right now.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: We don't need to change anything with the sword alone.
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: It's been. The fans love it, it's quicker. The rules
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: are actually really good in helping the sport. MLB slow down. Man,
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: it's been. It's very good. We don't need anything else.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: We don't need a lockout. Let's keep it rolling.
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: And it's a travesty. It's a travesty. We have to
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: wait till December twod to like talk about negotiations with this,
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: Like this is something that Major League Baseball could start
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: right now and save people's livelihood. Just getting an education
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: anywhere in the United States in the Dominican will better
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: your future. So the fact that Major League Baseball wants
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: this to be negotiated feels like it's very like how
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: could the players not agree to this. We are willing
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: to help people. You can help people right now. You
• 20:57
  Speaker 4: are benefiting from the commodity as you're looking at it
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: that a player is and you're not willing to make
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: sure these buscons aren't taking twenty thirty percent of future
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: signing bonus or I'm saying based on numbers that I've
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: seen of star players that take that money, and then
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: that doesn't even mean like I'll even push those guys aside.
• 21:23
  Speaker 4: They're taking that money. It's the kids that are being fed,
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: like barely fed, played baseball, not picked, and now pushed
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: back out into a country that those kids could have
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: been educated during that time, those kids could have been
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: furthered their lives because most people don't make it to
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: the big leagues. That's the reality of the big leagues.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: No matter how many picks we have or rounds we have,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: you don't make it. It's hard to make it. And
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: so for major leaue Baseball turn a blind eye to
• 21:50
  Speaker 4: what's going on down there is a Travis steedamit?
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Yep?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: We can all conclude that we all need to do
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: better down there and work on that. So we'll talk
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: more about it. I'm sure in the off season. Let's
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: get back to ball, all right, Let's hit a couple
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: of minutes of injury suck. Mike Trout to the injured list,
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: announced yesterday with Sam Blum and Ken Rosenthal. It's a
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: hamstring injury. And then I saw the sound. He was
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: very positive, Todd Father. I mean he said already, like
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a day later, he felt significantly better. They're still going
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: to be careful, of course. Rat Bolinger posting that Mike
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: Trout said he injured it running the first base in
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the eighth inning. It's the right hamstring. Already feels much
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: better than yesterday. He's hopeful it'll be a short stint
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: on the injured list, but no timeline, and people were
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: really looking forward to seeing Trout back at the All
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Star Game. Todd, And this doesn't eliminate that, right, We're
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: still about a month away, but it makes it tougher
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: to pull that off depending on the timeline here.
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, it isn't funny that him and Gresham
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: are the Yankees, both had hamstring's injuries, and nice that
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: both the next day that they felt better already. I
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: wish that could happen to me when I get injuries.
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: So it's like hamstrings are very particular. You got to
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: be very careful with it. I hope both of them
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: are right in saying that and they come back in
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: with the fifteen days or whatever it is the minimum.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: This stinks because he was having a good year. You know,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: the Angels aren't doing so well. But it was great
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: to see him play a lot, and they were moving
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: him around to make sure he could play a lot
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: and get at d H here and there. But yeah,
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: this just it makes you sad because people love him,
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: people want to see him play, and right now they're
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: not going to see him play for a couple of weeks.
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: So hopefully it's just a little bit. It's something that
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: he can either play through or heal up quickly and
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: we can get him back on the field, because that
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: would be awesome for him to play in Philadelphia in
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: front of pretty much everybody that he lives by, which is,
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: you know, within a half hour radius, would be really nice.
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: They don't even have enough tickets allotted half of South
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: Jersey to make it to the All Star Game in Philly.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: It's a home game for Todd, for old Tod fathers
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: good buddy. But now, like it really seems like his
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: mannerisms when he was talking about it were different than
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: his other injuries, so it was good to see that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: It seems very positive. Other times it was more like
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: this one seems like, Okay, I think I'll be fine.
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: You know, maybe I need a little bit more than
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: ten days. That's what I'm hoping for. Because he's having
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: a great year. I think he's leading the league and
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: runs score this year.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Crazy, he's been great. Traut's been great, and I know
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: we talk about it all the time, but it just
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: would have been cool to see if something can get
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: pulled off to ship him elsewhere. I mean, he's just
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: he's getting deep into the career. Like it's true, you
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: just want to see him play on a spot that's
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: got a playoff chance. It's no knock on anything, it's
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: just it's the facts. But this will probably prevent that.
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: That's the thing. I mean, the chances were already super slim,
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: but we can essentially eliminate that. No, you don't think so.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: I mean, he's going to make some time here. It's
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: going to make it very difficult for a team to
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: pick him up at the deadline here. I know it's
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: already complicated with the no trade and with the money
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: and with Ardie Marino wanting to sell tickets and all that,
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: But there was at least a slight sliver that it
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: could happen. And now it's close to nothing unless he's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: back in a couple of weeks or less. And maybe
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: maybe it's a minimum stint. I don't know off the
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: top of my head, guys, but Hammy, you're usually looking
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: at at least a few weeks.
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: No, I'd say, so, it's one of those all even
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: if it was the slightest you know, you know what
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: grade one, two or three.
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: If it's like a low one, I.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Still think or whatever, I still think you need at
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: least a couple of weeks to simmer it down with
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: ice and stem and massage therapy, all that kind of stuff,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: and then you got to ramp kind of ramp it
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: up to get back in game shape. Two weeks fifteen,
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: you know how many days it's going to take off
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: before running, you know.
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's one of those injuries where you can
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: come back early and then it becomes more of a problem.
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: So you just got to be careful with with Trouty
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: and what's gone on there. I mean, hey, I don't
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: know the case.
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, would have been ahead of time for a home
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: run derby for Mike Trout in Philadelphia too, I don't know.
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: I agree. Now we're not going to get to see it. Yeah,
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: it's the bummer. Yeah, I mean, he's got a hammy
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: barking right now, and he came back and then now
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: he's out for a while and it's the same one there.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: So not that it's the same guy, but you gotta
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: be careful when you're coming back from those. There's a
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: few hammy calf is up there where it takes more
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: time than you'd like it to take, even if it
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: feels like it's okay. Next up a Doley scarcia surgery.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Officially done for the season six to eight months, expected
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: to be ready for twenty twenty seven. Now Kratz, as
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: far as hurting the team on the short term, it's
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: not a killer. He was not hitting. He plays a
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: really nice outfield, he's got a good arm. Maybe he
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: would find fire, but this is not the twenty twenty
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: three monster with the Rangers that was helping lead them
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: to a World Series. So like awful for the player,
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: for the team, the Phillies are going to get one
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: or two outfielders anyway, like that's a thing on their list.
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: It's a little bit more. It's a little bit easier
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: to replace his defense. While he was he was part
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: of the reason that some of these starring pitchers had
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: good eras. It's because you have outfielders who are keeping
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: guys at first base, posing them at second, you know,
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: getting me out at home. I just yeah, I ten
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: million dollars for him, I think like eighteen for Nick.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: So they already got twenty eight million in right field
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: and aren't going to play any more games this season.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: It'll be interesting to see what they do and how
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: they can replace it.
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: This stinks. I love the guy. I played with him
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: with the Rangers. Just fantastic human being. Man, smile always
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: on his face, so gracious and happy to be on
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: the field. You know, like you said, he's not there,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: but at the same time, he's a presence still at
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: the end of the day, you got to respect his game.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Remember Adolice Garcia and Evan Carter massive massive parts of
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three World Series champion Texas Rangers. It's
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: just crazy to look at those guys and then see
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: what's been done since then. You know, you haven't seen
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: much from Carter. Unfortunately. He was promising prospect, but you
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: know he's gotten hurt a lot and the productivity hasn't
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: been there when he's playing. And then yeah, Garcia's bat
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: fell off pretty soon after that. Great dude, fun guy
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to watch. He's huge, he's got a big arm, right like,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: he's toolsy, and he took over the postseason.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: At types you're saying, you're saying that like they caught
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: lightning in a bottle in Texas.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying? Maybe?
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, no, wait dad, that's not that doesn't sound
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: like it's right, Like they made a move for Jordan
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: Montgomery that Wait a minute, so they still won a
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: World Series championship and I shouldn't try that.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Or all this Chapman too. Well, no, you know what.
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: This goes back to our conversation with Ken Rosenthal where
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: he's got teams saying that if they get a buye,
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: then they're more likely to trade for school. It's funny,
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: you remember the first year or two of the bye
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: teams were like, oh, I don't know, it might actually
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: hurt us. Now it's like, well, our percentage chances do increase,
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: and if we don't have a likelihood of a buye,
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: then we're not as interested in Schooble. I'm like, but
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: you could win the World Series as a wildcard, you
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: also need to get to the playoffs, and I don't know,
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: Trek Schoogle for August and September, winning you a few
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: extra games could be the difference. So I hope just
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: for that, I hope a team like the Orioles trades
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: for him. You know, some team that's like on a
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: fringe wild card situation. Obviously it would get it would
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: risk that he doesn't pitch in the playoffs, but I
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: hope they do and he freaking shoves and then they
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs and then you get to say,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: you know what, that actually helped you get to the playoffs,
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: which is a huge difference, and then move on and
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: that could also save the job for a GM, right
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: and specifically, if we're using this example for Baltimore, like
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: they missed the playoffs last year, you miss you missed
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: the playoffs again, questions pop up, I've never.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: Seen it have a successful season, and people are like,
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: we're we're done with that. That wasn't a good move
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: to get Google and take us to Game six of
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: the World Series. Dumb idea, we should never continue to
• 30:51
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• 30:52
  Speaker 1: Well, it's the same thing that I mean, Jed Hoyer
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: has done a nice job, but it bothers me to
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: publicly say like, we're not doing We're not going to
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: go hard unless we have like a bye like what
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: I mean, Hey, I get it, the Cubs are not
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: playing great ball, but that's just a it's a loser mentality.
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: I just I don't like the way that that's described.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: You want to push your players and say, hey, we're
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: not going to do as much as you think if
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: our players don't put it together. But the bye week
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: percentage stuff, to me, that gets back to like the
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: fifty four percent stuff with the Mariners days back, and
• 31:21
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• 31:24
  Speaker 1: acquire guys like Naylor and oh look, they were five
• 31:26
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• 31:29
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• 31:32
  Speaker 1: in the World Series last year.
• 31:34
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• 31:42
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• 31:44
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• 31:47
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• 31:50
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• 31:54
  Speaker 1: guys are soft. You're not going hard enough.
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  Speaker 1: See Geek god Father tis This season, we talk trades,
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  Speaker 1: and the media asks players about trades. So Dan Hayes
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  Speaker 1: posted this. It's all a fantastic host to hold this
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  Speaker 1: up for a moment on Twin Cities Territory and for
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  Speaker 1: the trade talk, Byron Buxton was asked. He said, quote,
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a foo. I ain't said nothing about leaving,
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  Speaker 1: nor will I. I'm a twin Let's get into it.
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  Speaker 1: He was basically saying, no, I'm not trying to go.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not trying to go. But the thing that I
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  Speaker 1: do want to get more out of Byron is you're
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  Speaker 1: not requesting a trade. You like where you're at, but
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  Speaker 1: you do have a no trade clause, so you do
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  Speaker 1: control your own destiny and what I want to know,
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  Speaker 1: is push comes to shove. If the twin Wins are
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  Speaker 1: six and a half, seven games out of a playoff spot,
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  Speaker 1: come trade deadline and the Twins are getting some offers
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  Speaker 1: for a guy who's one of the top players in
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  Speaker 1: the sport right now, quietly, would you say, yes, that's
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  Speaker 1: what everyone wants to know. We want to know because
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  Speaker 1: we want to know are we talking about him? Because
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  Speaker 1: he could come out and just say I have it.
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  Speaker 1: He's done this in the past. We didn't do it
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  Speaker 1: yet I have a no trade cause under no circumstances
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  Speaker 1: will I waive it. He has not said that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean, as as brass of the Twins, they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna if somebody comes to him, they're definitely going to
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  Speaker 3: ask them, hey, this is what we got.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? And every trade that they're trying
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  Speaker 2: to get done.
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  Speaker 3: But maybe he loves it there Like listen, there's there's
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  Speaker 3: two different sides. Maybe he's saying this knowing and letting
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  Speaker 3: everybody know that he wants to be a Twin for life,
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  Speaker 3: or maybe he's saying that so he doesn't get in
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  Speaker 3: trouble and then eventually when something comes he's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: now the trade has common.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to wave my no trade clause.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's an opportunity to go to a team team.
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  Speaker 3: I wouldn't just go just for a team that's not contending.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, if one team is a beast of
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  Speaker 3: a team, and he knows, you know, sometimes guys the
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  Speaker 3: gress isn't always greener on the other side, Let's put
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  Speaker 3: it that way. So for him, he has to really,
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  Speaker 3: you know, sit down, talk with his team and go
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  Speaker 3: over that once something does come along the way, and
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  Speaker 3: we'll see what he wants to do.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the Twins are going to trade him
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  Speaker 1: because I like to study ownership and quotes. There is
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  Speaker 1: a new control person this year. It's one of the
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  Speaker 1: other pole ads, and it would he basically said, we've
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  Speaker 1: been in damage control reputation shot like he has admitted that.
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  Speaker 1: And I think it's one thing to trade a guy
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  Speaker 1: like Ryan Jeffers who's going to be a free agent,
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  Speaker 1: or Joe Ryan who's a year and a half away.
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  Speaker 1: Buckston's your core, he's your franchise player and he's playing
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  Speaker 1: like that. That would be like a real dagger right
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  Speaker 1: into the city. And I think it even hurts your
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  Speaker 1: franchise value, right, I think fans would protest even more.
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  Speaker 1: Some I know aren't showing up now, but there would
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  Speaker 1: be way more in the team's at least competitive darts,
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  Speaker 1: and I think's doing a fantastic job with a team
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  Speaker 1: that's not been blessed with all kinds of buy in moves.
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  Speaker 1: So for me, Kratz, I don't see it. The question
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  Speaker 1: I have though, is for Byron, do you want to
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  Speaker 1: be like Trout? It could be a thing. Are the
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  Speaker 1: twins going to be good again? Maybe? But if you
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  Speaker 1: have an opportunity right now to go to a spot
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  Speaker 1: like Atlanta and you're from the area and they're good,
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  Speaker 1: and you're going to be in the playoffs probably most
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  Speaker 1: years because they're run really well, and this is your
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  Speaker 1: chance to do it, will you do it? And I
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  Speaker 1: think he owes that to the front office too on
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  Speaker 1: the other side, like they took care of him. You're
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  Speaker 1: on a big contract. If I'm trying to make trades,
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  Speaker 1: I want to know that I can actually do it,
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  Speaker 1: and then you're going to accept it. Don't make me
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  Speaker 1: do all the legwork, go to you and then say
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  Speaker 1: not just kidding.
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  Speaker 4: My question is how much does he look at other
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  Speaker 4: teams and say, wow, it'd be nice to play in October.
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  Speaker 4: I loved it when we played in October. I love
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  Speaker 4: the fact that now I've figured out how to keep
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  Speaker 4: myself healthy, which was kind of a thing with him,
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  Speaker 4: him and Royce, and they've kind of kept themselves healthy.
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  Speaker 4: They've been able to be on the field. And Byron
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  Speaker 4: bucks in this year, like if people haven't looked at
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  Speaker 4: his stats, he's doing it right now. And I just
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  Speaker 4: have My question would be he doesn't want to leave Minnesota.
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 4: Like, I get it, he's a twin and he's not.
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  Speaker 4: He's not way. He does live there, absolutely, but winters
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  Speaker 4: in Minnesota. That's a grind, Like do you want to
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  Speaker 4: go home? Okay, so now you're going home? So to me,
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  Speaker 4: I just would have I would just want to know.
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  Speaker 4: I get it, you don't want to be trade. You're
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  Speaker 4: not requesting a trade, But what is it about Minnesota
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  Speaker 4: that you love? And are you okay spending the next
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  Speaker 4: three or four years not winning?
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  Speaker 1: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 2: That's it. That's that's the only question.
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  Speaker 1: The best comp is Trout right, super center fielder, long
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  Speaker 1: time and Trout's legendary. I mean, Buxton doesn't have the pedigree,
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  Speaker 1: but right now, I mean, he's one of the top
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  Speaker 1: players in this sport and Trout hasn't gotten to do that,
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  Speaker 1: your boy, and I know it. You know what's funny,
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  Speaker 1: he's so like reserved in that way that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to look at the positives, Todd father, But I know
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  Speaker 1: you have looked at him sometimes and been like, damn,
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  Speaker 1: I doesn't it hurt you a little bit that Trout
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  Speaker 1: hasn't been in October more especially, you know, like this
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  Speaker 1: year he's cranking again. And then I mean, if we
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  Speaker 1: go through the prime years for that five six year run,
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  Speaker 1: he was so stupid good and we didn't get to
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  Speaker 1: see him in October and we never have that in
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  Speaker 1: the NBA, so that that part hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: He's in a big market for a team that paid
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  Speaker 1: him well and they were trying, but they couldn't surround
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  Speaker 1: him with the right talent. Right, There's some dysfunction there,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what bothered me. Could we have seen Trout
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  Speaker 1: go somewhere else during that time period. I know it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't gonna happen, but this is what relates to buston.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you sometimes you wait around and then maybe
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  Speaker 1: Buckston gets hurt at some point and then it's tougher
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  Speaker 1: to trade the contract again. Blah blah blah, Like this
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  Speaker 1: is the time teams want.
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  Speaker 3: Him agreed, agreed, and not to harp on it more.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, we want to see these guys in the playoffs. Cratzy,
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  Speaker 2: what do you got?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I would just say it's different than Trout
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  Speaker 4: because Buckston just had some like a year and a
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  Speaker 4: half before this season. Now he's working basically about two
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  Speaker 4: years of health, and he watched his ownership ownership. Now,
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  Speaker 4: the GM ownership just absolutely gut his team last year.
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  Speaker 4: This is his team, no qualms about it, gutted his team.
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  Speaker 4: Mike Trout has just been like, ah, man, you know
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  Speaker 4: what this is gonna be. I know, Noah Cinderguard is
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  Speaker 4: going to be a great pitcher. I know we've moved
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  Speaker 4: red debtmers from the bullpen to the rotation, no hitter,
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  Speaker 4: back to the bullpen, now back to Okay, I believe
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  Speaker 4: in it. Like it's different every year. It's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: he believes in this team. Byron Buxton this time last year,
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  Speaker 4: had no idea they were gonna decimate this bullpen. No, like,
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  Speaker 4: no way he knew that, and to me, his other
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  Speaker 4: comments before were at the All Star Game before they
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  Speaker 4: were like, oh, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna trade nine
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  Speaker 4: of our guys, not really for that much, but just
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  Speaker 4: to like get them off the books. Oh, our controllable closer. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: we'll get rid of him too. Oh, another controllable guy,
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  Speaker 4: Griffin Jackson. He going the Rays won them and they
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  Speaker 4: love pitching, so of course he's legit. Like it's it's
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  Speaker 4: a different situation, good combo.
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  Speaker 1: I like it this where the player perspective is interesting,
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  Speaker 1: all right too. On our way out, just a verbal mention.
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  Speaker 1: I mean we talked about it with Ken for a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But Joey Bart traded from the Pirates to the Bravos.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't getting much pete with the Pittsburgh I mean,
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  Speaker 1: he's not necessarily going to get much pete here either.
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  Speaker 1: But Drake Balwin's pretty damn good, but they got to
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  Speaker 1: use him back into things. So there it is, atl
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  Speaker 1: designated Sandy leone for assignment and then cool one. On
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  Speaker 1: our way out here, Todd father Trey Cruz making his
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  Speaker 1: MLB debut this week and his family will join the Boons.
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  Speaker 1: The Bells the Colemans and the Harristons as only the
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  Speaker 1: fifth to have a grandfather, son and grandson all play
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  Speaker 1: in the Jose Cruz Junior and Jose Cruz you played.
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  Speaker 1: Was Cruse still in the league Cruse Junior when you
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  Speaker 1: were playing?
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  Speaker 2: I am not sure on that one. I think I
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  Speaker 2: don't know. I think so.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, definitely for Kratz, WHOA sorry about it. I
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  Speaker 1: mean it's a two thousand.
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  Speaker 4: And eight last year, two thousand and eight, I saw
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  Speaker 4: him and I definitely saw him. I mean he was
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  Speaker 4: that was he was like one of the first ones
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  Speaker 4: the rock the really or the ones that I remember
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  Speaker 4: to rock the like tight Uni he was. He was
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  Speaker 4: like out their uniform looked like it was just like
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  Speaker 4: sticking to him. But that's so cool, Grant, He's so cool.
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  Speaker 4: Go Glover too.
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  Speaker 2: Rookie.
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  Speaker 4: No, didn't win Rookie of the Year, second place, Rookie
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  Speaker 4: of the Year cool like somebody else.
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  Speaker 1: I know. He had the name, he had the look,
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  Speaker 1: he had the numbers at a time period, crats hats
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  Speaker 1: on the way out.
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  Speaker 2: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: We talked about I feel like this is a team
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  Speaker 4: that with the pitching that they have, they should turn
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  Speaker 4: it around. They got to figure out how to score
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  Speaker 4: at home. I don't know what's wrong with Globe Life,
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  Speaker 4: but they gotta get the different bats, get turn a
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  Speaker 4: human door down or something. We need some more runs
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  Speaker 4: in Globe Life.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody, that's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody.
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  Speaker 1: Twins did the right but not consistently. Can you put
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  Speaker 1: runs up there. It'll help for maybe a trade deadline
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  Speaker 1: move or two. You would think they'll push in as
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  Speaker 1: they're a wild card hunter right now, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see what it looks like over the next few weeks.
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