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Braves-Dodgers preview, Spencer Jones time, Roman Anthony IL’d · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, we've got with Magorfield back on a Friday here
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  Speaker 1: on the sea.
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  Speaker 2: How you been good, guys? What's going on?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Living doing a show every day, talking ball, looking at
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  Speaker 1: some surprises, looking at some disappointments, getting closer and closer
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  Speaker 1: Memorial Day, where I feel like I can actually not
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  Speaker 1: use the I know it's early but phrase because if
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  Speaker 1: you don't, you get smacked for it. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: actually with that, I'm gonna make sure we have plenty
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  Speaker 1: of time here to get into the first segment, which
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  Speaker 1: includes two of the top teams in baseball. And I'll
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  Speaker 1: try and refrain from saying that statement. So we'll do
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  Speaker 1: that coming up in just a second here talking about
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  Speaker 1: two of the top teams in the National League. Let's
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  Speaker 1: jump into it. Shall we charge about? We are charging
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  Speaker 1: the mountain. We're talking about the Braves and the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: meeting up this weekend. Kratz, what do you have for us?
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  Speaker 1: Twenty six and twelve Atlanta twenty three and fourteen?
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  Speaker 3: LA.
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  Speaker 1: I think we expected La La to be in this spot, Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: More of this surprise. It's not like this is the
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  Speaker 1: quote playoff preview the Braves, for example, tonight go with
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  Speaker 1: Chris Saale against Emmit Sheen. Otani's not pitching in this
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  Speaker 1: series this weekend. Neither is Yamamoto, but we get to
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  Speaker 1: see two of the better teams in baseball top records
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  Speaker 1: through Thursday. Braves and Cubs are twenty six and twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Yankees have that same record in the American League, and
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  Speaker 1: then the Rays at twenty five and twelve. Dodgers, you know,
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  Speaker 1: not far down from that list too. But what are
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  Speaker 1: you looking for this weekend, man.
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  Speaker 4: The same thing I want to see every game. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I love seeing pitching matchups. And you said, oh, Otani
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  Speaker 4: and Yamamoto aren't pitching.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see dangers. I want to see the
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  Speaker 4: ball getting banged around the yard. And I know, Show
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  Speaker 4: Hey's not hitting as well as he as he usually does.
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  Speaker 4: He's got a lot on his play. Let's just relax
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  Speaker 4: on show Hey. I'm sure he will be fine. But
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  Speaker 4: going into this you have the two best offenses in
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  Speaker 4: the game, and you have intriguing storylines. Strider's coming back
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  Speaker 4: sales continue to add to to his resume.
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  Speaker 3: Elder is the one for me.
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  Speaker 4: When you get to the Sunday game, Bryce Elders had
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  Speaker 4: an incredible start to the season. How does he do
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  Speaker 4: against the vaunted Dodgers. And I'm not saying that this
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  Speaker 4: is like a measuring stick and oh this is If
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  Speaker 4: the Braves lose two out of three, they're cooked. They're
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  Speaker 4: not as good as the Dodgers. No, we saw it
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  Speaker 4: last year. I think the Brewers beat the Dodgers six times.
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  Speaker 4: They were six to oho for the season. I think
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  Speaker 4: it's a measuring stick to just see how these lineups
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  Speaker 4: can attack each other. I'm not worried about like Robleski's
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  Speaker 4: probably gonna deal so I think the Dodgers win Sunday,
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  Speaker 4: but I could really care less. I want to see
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  Speaker 4: how these lineups attack each other. I think Freddie Freeman
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  Speaker 4: needs to start start getting going because if show he's
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  Speaker 4: not getting going, Freddy's got to be there. I think
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker needs to like get to his salary status,
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  Speaker 4: like he's getting paid one hundred billions of dollars and
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  Speaker 4: he's not quite come on yet. And I think Drake
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  Speaker 4: Baldwin has come onto the scene after his Rookie of
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  Speaker 4: the Year. I think the Braves have been doing all
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  Speaker 4: this offense without Acunya, and they're going to continue to
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  Speaker 4: do without a Cunya.
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  Speaker 3: But don't tell.
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  Speaker 4: Braves fans they won a World Series without Ronald Acunya.
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  Speaker 1: That's true. I forgot about that. Wait, you know these
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  Speaker 1: guys pretty well too. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a bigger series for the Braves than
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  Speaker 2: it is the Dodgers, just because the Braves that's more
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  Speaker 2: necessarily projected to be have the record that they have
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  Speaker 2: right now. They're playing incredible baseball, and so I think
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  Speaker 2: it's I think, if you want to look at it
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  Speaker 2: from a who's more important to aspect, I think it's
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  Speaker 2: the Braves the Dodgers. It's almost like you kind of
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  Speaker 2: got the feel last year they just were just trying
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  Speaker 2: to get to the playoffs. They did the regular season
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  Speaker 2: was just what it was. They get to the playoffs
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  Speaker 2: and they kind of turn it on. It kind of
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  Speaker 2: seems like that's that same sort of mantra that they
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  Speaker 2: have this year, is we know we're good enough to
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  Speaker 2: get to one point sixty two and be where we
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  Speaker 2: need to be, and so we're just gonna kind of
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we got everything everything going by then.
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  Speaker 2: And I just the Braves are They've looked so good,
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  Speaker 2: and you're right, Cratzy. It's I think it's this series
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  Speaker 2: is more about the players finding some confidence, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: Bryce Elder pitching on Sunday, getting these guys out, getting
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  Speaker 2: that confidence, whether it's the hitters facing Sasaki and Roblowski
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  Speaker 2: and and and seeing these guys and saying, Okay, that's
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  Speaker 2: what that pitch looks like and sort of banking it
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  Speaker 2: because you don't see these guys too often. You see
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  Speaker 2: them twice a year, and you're you're just kind of
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  Speaker 2: banking it for those important games in the late fall.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, are you saying that the Dodgers can't just coast
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  Speaker 4: into the playoffs this year or are you saying that
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  Speaker 4: it might be a little bit different this year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying they can just coast into the playoffs. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: if there's one team that can just coast, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: obviously you'd like to see some guys going. He likes
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  Speaker 2: Yotani kind of get going, And you'd like to see
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  Speaker 2: Mookie get back and kind of getting into Mookie shape.
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  Speaker 3: And and but.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's whably play one sixty two. It's like Austin
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  Speaker 2: Reiley struggling with the Braves right now. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: get going for this Braves team to make a run.
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  Speaker 2: But it's I mean, there's so many times, like you
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  Speaker 2: look at Judge back in twenty twenty four, I think
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  Speaker 2: about this time, he was sitting two hundred with like
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  Speaker 2: maybe five or six homers, but then he goes on
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  Speaker 2: to do Judge things. Just the guys that can be
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  Speaker 2: consistent and do it year after year are the ones
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  Speaker 2: that are the superstars and such a hall of famers.
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  Speaker 2: And you just got to be able to not look
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  Speaker 2: at the scoreboard and say, man, I'm hitting two hundred
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  Speaker 2: and just trust your process, trust that you're doing things
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  Speaker 2: the right way and you've done it before. If you've
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  Speaker 2: done it before for years and years, you know it's
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  Speaker 2: in the bank. And you just got to keep trusting
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  Speaker 2: that and not let that mendoz align on the scoreboard
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  Speaker 2: and that ops being low and that weighted runs created
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  Speaker 2: plus not where you want to be. You just can't
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  Speaker 2: look at that, trust your process, and by the end
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  Speaker 2: of the season you'll be where you need to be.
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  Speaker 4: Wait, wait, what if I looked at the scoreboard and
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  Speaker 4: I was like, I'm hitting two hundred, Like the same
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  Speaker 4: thing as you just said, I'm hitting two hundred, but
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  Speaker 4: like maybe that's a good thing. I get it for
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  Speaker 4: the stars that you're talking about, but why can't the
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  Speaker 4: Braves coast in? They got an eight game lead in
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  Speaker 4: the NL East eight games. I get it like coasting
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  Speaker 4: at this time of year, but that's a significant lead.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care who it's over.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 2: It definitely is. They're They're there. They got it on
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  Speaker 2: cruise control right now. They got all cylinders firing. So yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they keep doing what they're doing, keep putting
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  Speaker 2: on autopilot and just run out there and let Mattio
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  Speaker 2: hit a homer every game, a big homer every game.
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  Speaker 2: Let's sales trike out nine and go eight innings and
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  Speaker 2: and have this bullpen come in and there's just dominate.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's pretty easy money right now for
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  Speaker 2: the Braves. But yeah, I guess, I guess going back
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  Speaker 2: to looking at the average on the scoreboard, it's it's
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  Speaker 2: kind of easier now, right because they don't have averages
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  Speaker 2: on the scoreboard. They have ops and the advanced stuff
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  Speaker 2: on most scoreboards. Most scoreboards don't have averages anymore.
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  Speaker 1: right now top two. Nobody knows it, but they do.
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  Speaker 3: I bet they have.
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  Speaker 4: They have some of the best on base percentages too,
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  Speaker 4: and the best ops is also and the best they're
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  Speaker 4: ops plus is a team is really good.
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  Speaker 2: Who took the Dodgers deep last year? The Blue Jays?
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  Speaker 2: What do the Blue Jays do? Put the ball and play?
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  Speaker 2: It's important.
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  Speaker 1: I'll look up some of those other stats while we're
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  Speaker 1: chatting about it. Let's get to the pitching for a
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  Speaker 1: moment here too. So Krats Saturday is interesting. You have
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  Speaker 1: Roki Sasaki who always kind of feels like he's on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of falling apart and falling out of the road.
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  Speaker 1: Blake Snell should be back what next week? Rookie Betts,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, looks like he's going to return next
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  Speaker 1: week for the Dodgers as well. And then Spencer Strider
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  Speaker 1: on the other side, and he talked about how, you know,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want a participation trophy for feeling okay and
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  Speaker 1: being back on the mound again. I mean, he misses
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  Speaker 1: being one of the top starters in the sport. It
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  Speaker 1: wasn't that long ago, and then he's been through a
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  Speaker 1: number of injury issues. But the quote the other day
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  Speaker 1: when he was racking up walks in his season debut,
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  Speaker 1: he walked five batters on Sunday, he said, I'd rather
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  Speaker 1: be pitching than hurt for sure. I don't want a
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  Speaker 1: participation trophy. I'm here to help the team win games,
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  Speaker 1: getting paid a ridiculous amount of money to do it.
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  Speaker 1: And if I can't, then that's the problem. So let's
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  Speaker 1: find a way to be more effective than it was today.
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  Speaker 1: I've got a lot of work to do. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I will say this. The Dodgers get the luxury of
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  Speaker 1: going through cruise control and figuring things out. For someone
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  Speaker 1: like Roki Sazaki, can we get him to a place
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  Speaker 1: where he's an effective starter figuring things out When a
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  Speaker 1: guy feels men like a little tweak here and there,
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  Speaker 1: like a tyler glass, now you know what, skip a start,
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  Speaker 1: or often they'll end up ailing a guy like that.
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  Speaker 1: They have that luxury because of the lead they have.
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  Speaker 1: The Braves kind of have that right now with Spencer
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  Speaker 1: Strider to be able to get him right. Not that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to boot him out of the rotation,
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  Speaker 1: but he wants to get himself on track as soon
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  Speaker 1: as possible. The Braves had the luxury of okay, you
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  Speaker 1: walked five and you came back. Cool, Let's get you
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  Speaker 1: to a good place by mid season, so you're pumping
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  Speaker 1: into the playoff race and we can use you as
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  Speaker 1: a playoff starter.
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  Speaker 4: That I think probably revolves around health and reps, and
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  Speaker 4: you can't get those if you're on the shelf. So
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  Speaker 4: I get what he's saying. Look, I don't care where
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  Speaker 4: the Braves were. If the Braves got Strider back and
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: he walked five guys last year and they were whatever
• 10:42
  Speaker 4: ten games out, he would.
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  Speaker 3: Have gotten all of his starts.
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  Speaker 4: Like Spencer, Strider is not a guy that they're like, well,
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: you know what, Bryce Hilder's pitching pretty well, we're not
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  Speaker 4: bumping him out. We're bumping Strider out. No, like he's
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  Speaker 4: in that he's in that area, Roki Sasaki, He ain't
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  Speaker 4: in that area. Oki, Susaki's got a lot to figure
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  Speaker 4: out more than just like okay, Strider's got to be
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  Speaker 4: able to repeat his mechanics, all that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Roki. I feel like they're trying to find lightning in
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  Speaker 3: a bottle.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like, you know, ooh, he tweaked his hand
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  Speaker 4: position on his splitter on his forkball. Well yeah, now
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  Speaker 4: it's a splitter and so he can control it a
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  Speaker 4: little bit better. Yes, The miles per hour are up
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  Speaker 4: a lot, but it's no longer a knuckleball, so maybe
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  Speaker 4: that does help. But to me, it's about executing pitches
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  Speaker 4: and for Rokie, and it's about staying on the field
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  Speaker 4: for Strider. I mean, everybody talks about, oh, he's a vegan,
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  Speaker 4: he's got the biggest legs in the league. You could
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  Speaker 4: be a fat turd if you're on the mound every day.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care what you look like. And that's where Strider,
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  Speaker 4: if he can stay healthy, he can solidify this rotation
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  Speaker 4: behind Sale, behind anybody else that they call it from
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  Speaker 4: the minor leagues, like they need that for them to
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  Speaker 4: make a run. Where you go, Okay, it's September thirtieth
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  Speaker 4: right now, who's pitching Game one and Game two for us?
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  Speaker 4: And to me, if it's not Strider, I think the
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  Speaker 4: Braves are a little bit behind the eight ball.
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  Speaker 2: No question.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: With Strider, it's it's it's just a matter of him
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  Speaker 2: getting back to his form and that's gonna take time
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  Speaker 2: and take reps and take bumps and bruises. At the
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  Speaker 2: big league level, you just can't simulate it. You can
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  Speaker 2: pitch in Triple A or Double A all you want.
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  Speaker 2: It's not the same as peeing in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 2: and you could feel good and your stuff could be okay,
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  Speaker 2: but until you start striking guys out, getting getting that
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  Speaker 2: confidence back, going deep into games, having a clean stat
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  Speaker 2: having clean lines. You know, when when you come out
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  Speaker 2: of the game, and then doing that and piling that
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  Speaker 2: on top of each other like he was doing before
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  Speaker 2: he got hurt, it's just you're gonna it's like scar tissue.
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  Speaker 2: You just got to work through that scar tissue and
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  Speaker 2: get back to where he is and or where he
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  Speaker 2: he was before he was hurt. And he will. He's
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  Speaker 2: such a hard worker, he cares, he's a student of
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  Speaker 2: the game. He wants to get back to what he was,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't doubt that he will. Is just gonna
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  Speaker 2: take some bumps and bruises along the way. You're not with.
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  Speaker 2: The thing that I have an issue with with pitchers
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  Speaker 2: in this day and age is everyone feels like they
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  Speaker 2: have to be one hundred percent to go out there
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  Speaker 2: and throw. Nobody's one hundred percent. Nobody's never one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: You have to figure out ways to get outs when
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  Speaker 2: you're not one hundred percent. You have to figure out
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  Speaker 2: ways from a position player side to get hits and
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  Speaker 2: to be productive when you're not at one hundred percent,
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  Speaker 2: because come late in the year, come dog days of summer,
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  Speaker 2: and then into the fall, when you've played all these
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  Speaker 2: games in a row, there's nobody that's one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: So can you figure out how to be successful? Pitching
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  Speaker 2: it eighty percent, pitching it eighty five percent?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And we'll have coverage on the weekend of this series.
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  Speaker 1: Two Hammer Territory will do a show at least one,
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  Speaker 1: maybe two over the weekend for the bravest perspective, and
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  Speaker 1: then Dodgers Territory will give you a good recap on Monday,
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  Speaker 1: So look out for both of those. Wow, the Nightmare
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  Speaker 1: Series is over for the Reds, the dream series for
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs. They swept them in four games. Reds have
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  Speaker 1: now lost seven games in a row. Three of those
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  Speaker 1: losses were walk off, and then they finally didn't lose
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  Speaker 1: via walkoff for the last game of the series, the Cap,
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  Speaker 1: but they fell eight three and Rhet Louder left the
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: game in the fourth inning. They're calling his shoulder discomfort.
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  Speaker 1: Earlier in the series. Pagan out he'll miss one to
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  Speaker 1: two months. Like a true nightmare was just experienced, and
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: Michael Confordo's popping off there, like trying to find AB's
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  Speaker 1: for me at the walk off home the other day.
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  Speaker 1: Then he was raking in the series Clint Or the
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  Speaker 1: series ender the fourth game, he's got an NOPs over
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  Speaker 1: one thousand. They gave Seya Suzuki a day off. Kratz,
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  Speaker 1: you want to just reiterate what the series was for
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  Speaker 1: the Reds. What's the word that? What Maryfield should know?
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  Speaker 3: What's the worst word?
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  Speaker 1: It starts with a then oh nine, here there you go, nightmare, nightmare.
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  Speaker 1: I know.
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  Speaker 2: You could get there crazy m Yeah, it didn't look good.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a good series for the Reds. But wow,
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  Speaker 2: the Cubs have it. Have that train rolling right now,
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  Speaker 2: and it's almost like it's almost like if you're the Cubs,
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  Speaker 2: it's great, you're loving it, but it's like, man, it
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  Speaker 2: sucks that we're doing this right now in early May,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, you know that it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: at some point they're going to scuffle. But it's like,
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  Speaker 2: can you get back to what this team is right
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  Speaker 2: now late in the year. That's that's what every team
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  Speaker 2: wants to do, is they want to peak late the
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: Cubs are peaking right now.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Just mixing in some injury updates during the breaks here
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: while the TV crowd waits for us to return macutrial.
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  Speaker 1: The Kansas City Royals manager said that Cole Reagan's was
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: diagnosed with VEO valgus extension overload aka pitcher's elbow. So
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: they're not sure what the deal is, but he's not
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: necessarily going to be shut down. Way worse news for
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: Carlos Stevez. Remember his velo was down a ton and
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: I think they said it was the ankle initially, right, krats,
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: But now it's the rotator cuff. He's got a strain,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: so he's shut down for a few more weeks, I
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: mean shut down. Hasn't pitched really for the majority of
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the year at this point, so you figure this is
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: a second half return.
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, late. That sucks.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: I hope it wasn't an ankle that created the rotator cuff,
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: because sometimes when you're landing soft or he can't push off,
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: something else takes it. That's why guys pitchers go out
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: with different things like well, why would he go out
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: with that? That's not a shoulder or an elbow, So
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: it doesn't become a shoulder or an elbow, but pitcher's elbow.
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: I'll be honest, I've never heard it. I've never heard
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: that term. I've heard dead arm, I've heard you know, obviously,
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: bone chips. We just had it with Scooble. But Royals
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: can't afford it because they got to They kind of
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: started to get some momentum. The hitters are starting to
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: swing the bats a little bit, but they they need
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: Reagan's back there. I don't know if they need a
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: status because I like Ersig, but man, they need Reagans
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: back in there if they're going to do anything.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they got to get something going they there. I
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: feel like they take like one step four and then
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: two steps back and Reagan's going out. Definitely not ideal.
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: Plock corner time. Here comes the big man, Spencer Jones.
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: He is large, He's six foot seven, and he has
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: eleven home runs in a nine to fifty eight ops
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: over thirty three games, with forty one runs driven in
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: at Triple A this season. Now Crat some people think
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: that he would have been up much sooner on many
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: other teams. The Yankees built some depth here. Now the
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: depth is getting tested. Domingo has had an ugly crash,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: so he hits the shelf for a little bit. John
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Carlos Stanton's out and they just bring on the next
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: monster monst Look, the Yankees are going to bring up
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: whoever is gonna help the team, not like, Okay, we're
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: gonna hold you down.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: We're gonna they understand that one hundred and eighty strikeouts
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: and the bushes turns into at least two hundred in
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: the big leagues, or let's just be nice, one hundred
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: and eighty strikeouts in the big leagues. And when you're
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: adding in pieces to a lineup that already has, like
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: you said, the Monstars, it already has. You know, it's
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: gone through Greg Byrd who was huge and had homers,
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: and Gary Sanchez who was huge and hit homers like
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: they have homers. Trent Grisham, I think did Trent have
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: thirty last year? I know Jazz had thirty. They're fine,
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: they're finding homers. The Cody have twenty five. Like to me,
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: they don't need they didn't need more homers. I'm glad
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: he's getting called up now. And people say, well, he
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: would have been up if he was on another team. Okay,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: you know, do you have to learn how to strike
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: out less or command the strike zone more, not strikeout less.
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: I would say command the strike zone more, because he
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: does get his walks, but does he get minor league
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: walks or does he get big league walks? The only
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: way to find out is to throw him in the
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: big leagues. And I hope they don't try to throw
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: him out there one game and then sit them to
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: two games, then sit them three, like I want to
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: see this guy. He's only ever played every single day
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: in the bushes. He can steal you twenty bags in
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: two months if you let him run, because he's not
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: just this freakish six foot seven hitter. He's actually athletic too,
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: and he can play really good outfield. That's why I
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: thought he'd be up sooner.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I do love how you keep calling up the bushes.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I do like that. I think this is the perfect time.
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: I think it's the perfect time for him to come
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: up because he's not coming up as a spark for
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: this lineup, so there's not a lot of pressure on
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: him right now. It's just we're gonna put We're gonna
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: fill you in, You're gonna link in our lineup, and
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: we don't need you to carry this team. We don't
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: need you to go out there and do anything that
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: you're not doing. Just go be you learn, learn the
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: big leagues, get adjusted, and we're gonna put up six
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: or seven of runs frankly without you. So just good,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: don't have don't have any pressure. Just go and play
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: your game. And so I think it's it's a perfect
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: time for him to come up, get acquainted, get his
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: feet wet, find some success, not worry so much about
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: struggles because the way they're playing, his struggles aren't gonna
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: keep this team from winning games. So it's a great
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: time for a guy like him, who's gonna have a
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: lot of swing and miss, gonna have a lot of strikeouts,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: to come up and just not feel overwhelmed by the situation.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: So kudos are the Yankees for finally get him up
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: and looking forward to seeing him play. I've hard a
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: lot about him. Obviously, he's, as you say, a monstar.
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: He's huge, and he's a lefties. So with that right
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: field Porsche, there's a lot of pot flies that he's
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: gonna hit that'll that'll find the seats, and it's just
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: a matter of can he continue to hit those balls
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: can when pitchers adjust to him, can he adjust back?
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: That's really what it comes down to in the big leagues.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: That's how you become a steady big leaguer. It's you
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: become an All Star and play for a long time.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Is continuing to adjust when pitchers are just to you.
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: I think he can hit the ball out of Yellowstone
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: based on some of the balls I've seen him hitt.
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: And he can take the ball of the opposite field.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: As you know, with like bad swings are usually pulled swings.
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: Good swings are you know, where you're driving it the
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: other way too. But the fact that he's coming into
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: a spot where, hey, you know what, like they need him,
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: they need.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: Him to just be who he is.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: If you saw a guy with that was striking out
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: a lot in the minor leagues coming up to the
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: big leagues, you're a guy that didn't strike out much,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: you put the ball in play, would you have a
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: conversation with him right away, right when he got to
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: the big leagues because you have established sluggers in this lineup,
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: I mean from top to bottom. Even you know, Ryan
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: McCann's a gold glover, so he's taken a lot of
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: big league get bats. Paul Goldschmid's a guy who just
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: figured out to be how to be an MVP, and
• 21:57
  Speaker 4: he's been an elite level player. Do you think they
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: have a conversation with him right away or do you
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: think they say players say, Spencer, just go be six
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: to seven and do some cool things.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: That's a good question. I think it depends. I think
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: it depends on I mean, he's been around for a
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: while now, he's been in camp, and he's worked with
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: some of the big league coaches, and so they're familiar
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: with them to an extent. And I'm sure they see
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: they see a lot of video of him in the
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: minor leagues, and you know, maybe it's it's a thing
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: where he's almost too selective and he's letting too many
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: good pitches go. He might be chasing too much. There's
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: there's something that I'm sure that they see that they
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: can maybe pull them in out I'd pull them in
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: or they want to be Look, man, you got three
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: cracks at getting the ball over that short short Fans
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: of left field, don't give them a strike. If you
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: see a good one, be ready to go from the jump,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: get three cracks at it. If you strike out, go
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: back and you'll next to about you'll get three more
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: cracks at it. But don't ever give this. They're too
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: good at this level to give them strikes, especially when
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: you have a high swing and misrate. We're not into
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: building the pitch count of the starter up anymore and
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: trying to get to the bullpen. That's not the way
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: of the world anymore. That's not how we play offense.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: We're trying to do damage when we get a ball
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: on the zone. So get something you like early, put
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: a swing on it. If you don't get it, get
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: another one, put a good swing on it, and try
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: you get three cracks at it. So that's that's that's
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: what I would tell them, And again that's just from
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: me not knowing much about him, just from the outside end.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: If I was in that Yankee staff, that would be
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: one of the first things that I would tell them.
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: As much as everybody wants to say, oh, you know,
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: the New York market's going to eat them up, I
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: promise I have seen the meetings. I never had a
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: set through them because I wasn't I was young. I
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: was older when I got to the Yankees organization. But
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: spring training they have multiple hours, multiple days in spring
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: training of media training until you have a year of
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: big league service. Kylehi Goshi Yuka, he was like, goy,
• 24:01
  Speaker 4: He's like, all right, it might be actually three years
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: of big league service. I'm not sure. He's like, it
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: took me forever. It was like I had like ten
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: or twelve straight years of media training. So Spencer Jones, well,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: he hasn't been around forever. He's been in big league
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: camp for a long time with the Yankees. He's done
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: all this media training. And I would be hard pressed
• 24:20
  Speaker 4: to find somebody that came up through the system that
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: was not prepared for the New York market. Like I
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: want you guys that came up through the system now
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: got traded to the Yankees and then spent a couple
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: of years in the minor leagues, but came up through
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: the system that isn't prepared for the New York market.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: So I'd like to put that to bed right out
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: of the gate.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And if I was his teammate, and I don't, I
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: don't know because I don't follow him and I don't
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: know how active he is, but I'd pull him aside
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and be like, hey, buddy, we're in New York. You
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: play for the Yankees. Let's let's not be on. Don't
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: check your Twitter or your Instagram, DMS or anything like
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: that for a good while. Let's just leave Goes alone,
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: all right, and.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: You'll I'll tell you hit a homer until you hit
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: a home.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Do something good. Even then, even then it might not
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: be far enough. You know, people are crazy.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: You never know people are crazy, like, oh, you went
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: three for four with two homers. What happened in the
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: fourth at bat?
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: You're not clutch. We won John Carlos Stanton's bad calf
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: back before.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: You don't check it.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I want to finish with this. He is turning twenty
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: five years old in one week, and he will be
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: making his rookie debut. Just to give you context, here
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a player who we spoke a lot about a month
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and a half ago, Connor Griffin, just turned twenty. They're
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: five full years apart. When Connor Griffin gets to Spencer
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: Jones's age, he would be well, he's on an extension,
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: so it doesn't matter. But if he hadn't had that extension,
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: he'd be thinking about free agency a year later. Spencer
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Jones isn't going to be a free agent until he's
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: a grandpa. Just to give you the difference in the
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: ages between two kies, we're talking a lot about the
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Judge was an older rookie too. Uh, would I think
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: he was twenty three? I want to say, I can
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: find it if you guys give me one second while
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: you're chatting.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: Seven as a rookie.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Oh right, you're the perfect person to talk to us.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: And Judge was twenty four. By the way, twenty sixteen
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: was his age twenty four season. We have the perfect
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: guys on for this.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, it's uh, you know, age is just a number.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: It's just a number. I think we put a little
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: too much stock in age. You know, everyone ages differently.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: My my thirty four looked different than somebody else's thirty four.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: And it's just the ages. It all depends on how
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: you age, and so you know, his twenty five could
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: be like somebody else's twenty, or somebody else's thirty.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Or my forty.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Yes, Kratz has aged gracefully. He's still committee. Yeah. Hey,
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: so Roman Anthony does end up going on the shelf.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: He wasn't getting better and technically the injury is something
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: with a finger. So he said, what was it. I'm
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: looking for the tweet. He's wearing a brace on his hand,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: but it's technically something with his finger. Anyway. Wait, you've
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: gone through this, right, what was it for you? And
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: you haven't been injured much in your whole career, but
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: did you have a wrist injury in the miners?
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little different. It wasn't swinging. I was sliding
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: into third base and jammed my wrist into the ground
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: as I was sliding in feet first. It kind of
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: fell back on my wrist and it blew up like
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: a like a Mickey Mouse hand.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: It was. It was.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: It was gnarly and it was so painful, and honestly,
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: it took about two years before it felt normal again.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying it it took that long to not
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: be painful, but there was weakness and just didn't feel normal.
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: The mobility wasn't there. So there's so much with the wrist,
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: in the in the feet and the knees, so many
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: little intricacies that go on with it that whenever you
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: hurt something with it, it can linger and it can
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: be something that you're gonna have to deal with for
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: a long time. And I'm not saying he won't be
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: able to play through it, but he'll know it's there
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: and don't know it's there for for a good.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Bit, so he said. He clarified it's a ligament sprain
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: of his right ring finger.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: That's a little different. Yeah, that's a little different. The
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: lefty holding the bat. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: I can't remember if he's a two in finished guy
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: or a top hand of release guy. But if he's
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: a top haird of release guy holding the bat right
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: there could I mean that that's it's something that he's
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: gonna feel and we'll see if that if it affects
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: him or not. He's such a good player, but it's
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: it's gonna be something he's gonna have to get used to.
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you hope it doesn't sap performance for him. I
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: mean the problem very clearly for this team. They've hadded
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: a number of problems, but they need to swing the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: bats significantly better, especially at home, like there's barely any
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: pop for them at Fenway over the course of the
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: first quarter of the season. For Boston, it does not
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: help when one of your big boys is out and
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: then dealing with something that could affect him when he
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: comes back conspiracy.
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: That's not Alice Bragman.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: Here's my conspiracy with fifteen seconds left, coaches in the
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: coaches boxes, oh anything, just saying, just saying conspiracy.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Knowing the pitch helps.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: Wit. You know wit, Come on, you know, Bobby.
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: Hey, this one's a bomber. Luis camp Usano was finding it.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: It had taken a while. He dominated hitting wise last
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: year in Triple A. He had struggled over the years
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: in the BIGS. He's been one of the best hitting catchers.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: Fractured toe crats. It wasn't even from catching. He found
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: a ball off his foot. So he's gone on the shelf.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: And it just sucks when you're in a flow like that.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: And he said he is famous. Quote a month ago
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: he stopped giving a bleep and that's why he feels
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: like he's better.
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: And he's been. He's been really good for him. I mean,
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I love to see it. I love to see a
• 30:22
  Speaker 4: catcher that, you know, kind of shoot. He came up
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: early and it just didn't happen for him. Everybody matures
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: at different ages. I broke my toe in two thousand
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: and nine at the Triple A All Star Game, and
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: I'm like, there ain't no chance I'm coming out. We
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: tape that John up and I played the rest of
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: the season. You ain't coming out because of a broken toe.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: Whatever he has, that that must be painful because if
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: it gets up into your foot, then you start like
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: limping a little bit differently. But I think if it's
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: just a tow, I bet he stays in. But if
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: it's not, like something farther down in the joint, then
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: you start limping. Then you get a hip. Just like
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: we talked about with pitchers, you gotta take it. You
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: got to stop it before it gets something else worse.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know, all bad things lead to some
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: good things. And can we give a shout out to
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: Ridelfo Durant been grinding down in the bushes, as Crassy
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: would say, and finally gets his shot, So kuduz to him.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to him, and hopefully he can make the most
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: of it. I know he had no for day one,
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: but hope he's back in there tonight and gets his
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: first knock. Cheering for that.
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: He's a big leaguer, Yep, he's a big leaguer. Yees.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: Forever ever, I want to look up what his number is.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I always like looking up people's numbers when they when
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: they make their debuts. He was number twenty three thousand,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: six hundred and eighty seven to have ever made it
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: to the big leagues twenty eight years old. He's looking
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: at Spencer Jones like, hey, what's up baby? You were
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: in his grade when I was a senior in high school.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: Like everybody, it makes it a different time. Buenos swear today.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Ridolfo love that, and also, yeah, he's facing a tough opponent.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: Cardinals have been playing really well. They won two to
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: one in the series opener. Libertor was really good, and
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: five of the twelve teams with winning records in baseball
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: are coming out of the NL Central right now. Not
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: too shabby. I'm always a fan of someone being super candid.
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: Dan Hayes, who runs our Twin City Territory show, said
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: that Royce Lewis is having a difficulty avoiding looking at
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: the big picture and wonders about his future with the Twins.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: So he said, Royce quote, it can be really hard
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: when you feel like your career is going in a
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: different direction. It's been tougher because obviously we know there's
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: always someone on your tail, there's always someone ready to
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: take your next job. Every day I'm here fighting and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: working as hard as I can to show that I'm
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: giving it my ab because I love what I do.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: I've been smiling. I feel fine leaving the game, But
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: I think what scares me most is like, Oh, they
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: might try to get me out of here when I
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: leave the field. That thought does creep into my head.
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  Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Royce, who usually is pretty candid with
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: quotes like this, And also they traded away a third
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: of his team at the deadline last year, so it
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: wouldn't be crazy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a real thing, and so I'm glad he
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: said something because it's a lot. It's something that a
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: lot of guys go through, especially when you're on a
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: team like the Twins are right now. I had the
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: that going in my head a lot in Kansas City.
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: There was always talk about me getting traded. And the
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: thing that I had going for me was I dated
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: Moore as a GM who was always available to talk to,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: was very upfront with me about what was going on,
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: and so I was very fortunate to have that, or
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: I'd have been going through the same thing that that
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: Royce is going through And doesn't sound like he has
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: that that guy he trust in the front office where
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: he can be like, hey man, what's going on.
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Am I going to be here?
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: Am I not going to be here? What's the deal?
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: And that's a big thing, and that weighs on you
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: and it's part of the job that we have. But
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: it is hard.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is something that nobody ever saw coming. Actally,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: Royce Lewis the one to one pick in the draft,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: like the fact that he's hitting one seventy, the fact that, yes,
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: a lot of his teammates got sent away. But now
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: he's been healthy and he's been out on the field
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: and it hasn't been going well. Royce, welcome to the majority.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: You were the minority before in the sense that like
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: you just you would play, you'd be healthy, and you
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: would just bang.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: You just were.
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: And he is such a positive person. Every time he
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: talked to him, he's positive. So for him to be
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: vulnerable and honest about where he's at right now, like
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: somebody can take my job. It's no longer like wow,
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: everybody wants Royce Lewis. If you can keep on the field,
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: he's gonna be MVP type of candidate. He's got to
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: figure it out, and that's a tough time to try
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: to figure it out. But you know what, he's still young.
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: We just talked about guys getting called up at twenty five.
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: Like Royce Lewis is twenty six years old. He's going
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: to turn twenty seven soon. He's got time. He's got
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: to figure it out. And fortunately for him, he's on
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: the twins or he can figure it out.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: All right, good stuff today, let's slap. It's Friday. Do
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: you know what Sunday is?
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: Crats Mama Day?
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: And would you like to say a little shout out
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: to any of the mind I get that you appreciate.
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I thought I thought our special guests was I
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: thought our special guest was going first, No Debrah, Happy
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: Mother's Day.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Thank you mom.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: As much as my mom was a proponent of me,
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: the story I have for my mother is I was
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: afraid when I was eleven to go play at the
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: next level of Little League because there was the twelve
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: year old kids and they scared the absolute crap out
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: of me. And I told my mom I was afraid,
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: and she was like, well, let's just go. Let's go
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: to sign ups. If you're still afraid when you get there,
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: then that's fine, you don't have to play baseball this year,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: So my mom pushed me. I signed up, and I
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: wasn't afraid until I played with wit later in my career.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: But also, happy birthday to my wife, Sarah, who is
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: the greatest baseball mom.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: Of all time.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: She's actually at a game today. We went fourteen straight
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: days of going to games between softball and baseball, and
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: not one of them's mine, So I'm not in the doghouse.
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: Wow, happy birthday, star legendary, legendary on her birthday at
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: a game.
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: Even though crap, did I say happy birthday?
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: You said, Oh, it's on her birthday. Happy mother's day, Happy.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Mother, Happy mother's Day.
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: That's brutal by me.
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: I was excited about my scared of baseball story.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: Every day is Sarah's birthday at the Crats home. What
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: do you got?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: Obviously, Happy Happy mother's day to all the mothers out there,
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: especially mine a mom Kissie. Yes her name is Kissy,
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: and yes, that was a difficult time in high school
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: having a mom named Kissy, But I always like to
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: brag on her. She is the best athlete in our family.
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: My dad was a great baseball player. But my mom
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: was the true athlete. She was a five time state
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: champion in tennis in high school at South Carolina, yes
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: five times, not because she failed a grade, but because
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: she won the state tournament as an eighth grader. She
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: was that good, went on to play tennis at wake,
• 37:20
  Speaker 2: and there's just been an incredible rock and support throughout
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: my whole life, especially my baseball career and now that
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: I'm in this young career in fatherhood. She's been a
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: great grandma and so Mom always Happy Mother's Day to you.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: You're the best. And then my wife, Jordan, who's been
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: just a dynamite rock star when it comes to raising
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: our daughter, and this will be her second Mother's Day
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: as a mom, So shout out to Jordan and my Mom.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I like that name, Kissy. I think that's cool.
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: Not at high school, I get that, although I.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Mean where I'm doing the show today in Brooklyn. If
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I say too, the half Burrow will name their kids Kissy.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: They are always looking for something unique. So I think
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: it's cool.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: I like it.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Good stuff. Happy mothers say to my Ma. Rarely misses
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: a show, even the ones I did back in the
• 38:14
  Speaker 1: day when I looked twelve and they probably weren't very good.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: So appreciate you and all the moms behind the scenes
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: for ft you know who you are that helped to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: you know, make your significant others better or your kids better,
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the whole deal. We love you, we appreciate you, and
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: our best gift we can give you on our way
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: out on a Friday is whatever Kratz is wearing on
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: his massive dome.
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: Wow, the Metropolitans. This is a big weekend for him.
• 38:41
  Speaker 4: They need to step up. Lost a tough one to
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: the Rocks on a controversial Grand Slam, but Caimberll's not
• 38:48
  Speaker 4: your answer.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: The team needs to hit.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: They're playing a Diamondbacks team that wants to get themselves
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: going a little bit too, so it might be difficult,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: It might be tough sledding. It is a big series.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: They're all a big series. When you start off super slow. Wait,
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: great stuff, dude, Good to see you.
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: Good to see you. You don't look twelve anymore. You
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: look like fourteen.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Now fourteen. I just shaved the other day, so I
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: just shed like ten years of my life backwards. Good
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to note it. Good, good little weapon to have later
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: on in life. Happy Friday, everyone, Happy Mother's Day See
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