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What was the GREATEST New York Yankees team ever? · NY's Sports Loud Mouth (VIDEO)

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  Ladies and gentlemen, he has been waiting and we're happy to
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  have him on. We are now talking to former 10
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  year MLB reliever Juan Ricone. Juan, what's up, bro?
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  How are you guys Nice being on your show.
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  Thank you very much. Well, thank you for.
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  Coming the invitation. Well, thank you for coming.
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  I mean, it's it's cool to have you on.
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  I remember you as a pitcher. More on the Twins.
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  I remember you with the Twins. I and you had a problem
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  sometimes against the Yankees. I, I the I'm a Yankee fan so I
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  remember you a lot. And for some reason the Twins
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  can never beat the Yankees in a class ever.
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  I, it's funny because I, I, I got a chance to interview some
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  ex twins in the past and I, I got into what was it?
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  Was it bad juju against the Yankees or just the Yankees were
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  there? I don't what do they call that
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  the kryptonite? I don't know what it was, but I
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  remember you on as a relief pitcher.
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  You are a really good relief pitcher.
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  You just, you had your problems against the Yankees and that's
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  how I remember you. But that's doesn't mean that
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  you're not a great pitcher. You 10 years, almost 10 years in
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  the major leagues, nine years in the majors from 2001 to 2010.
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  That's a pretty good career. And I, it's funny because we're
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  friends with Nick Goody and Nick Goody was a relief pitcher in
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  the majors. He was, I think five years, six
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  years in the majors. And we talked about his time
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  with the Guardians, What was the difference playing in Minnesota
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  and then going to Cleveland. Well, the in Minnesota, I
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  remember we had the Dome. So weather wise we were, we were
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  very spoiled. It was, I think it was at 70°
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  every night, every game. So going to Cleveland then as a,
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  as a player for Cleveland, it was where I play my first
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  doubleheader in the big leagues ever.
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  So it was after, you know, six years in the big leagues, never
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  had to play a doubleheader. First game was supposed to start
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  at 2:00, started at 7:00 PM. The second game started, I think
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  it was at 11:00 PM. It was quite of experience,
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  different experience. It was colder, of course,
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  because it was outside. So I couldn't, you know, it was,
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  it was a little different. Cleveland was way different than
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  Minnesota and that aspect. The WBC was fun to watch.
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  It really was. And watching Venezuela, a team
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  that nobody expected to go to the finals and knock off Japan,
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  knock off Italy that knocked off the United States, and then
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  knock off the United States the way they did.
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  I mean, they completely dominated the United States as
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  far as what we saw with the pitching.
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  And besides Bryce Harper getting the two hits, they completely
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  shut down Team US as lineup, which everybody called the Dream
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  Team. I don't know why because they
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  were definitely a dream. That was a nightmare to watch.
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  So what was it? Why do you think Venezuela
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  played as high such a high such as a high level team throughout
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  this tournament, then teams like Japan and teams like the United
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  States? Well, I don't know.
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  I don't know about the culture in Japan, you know, never been
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  there. I've never played against them
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  or never did. I think that the US takes it
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  well. You know, I got, I got picked
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  to, to go here. So I got to go on representing,
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  you know, something like that. For us, it's totally different.
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  We have gone for the last, I don't know, 26 years through
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  some very, very bad stretches as a as a country.
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  And those guys, they take it very seriously as I'm going to
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  give something back to my country to, to something to
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  celebrate it. It is hard for, for somebody to
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  put it in perspective or to put it into words what he means to
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  us to go out there and listening to our, our, our national anthem
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  and, you know, wearing that, that hat that, I mean, they had
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  the jersey with the, with the Venezuela.
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  You don't play for like the Yankees used to say, you don't
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  play for the name in the, in the back of the jersey.
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  You play for the front of the jersey.
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  So that's, that's the difference with what what I have seen with
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  the US and, and Venezuela, for example, for example, yesterday,
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  2 days ago it was I think we play with our horror outs and
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  and that's why we we end up winning.
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  When you look at the team, Suarez is a is a star in the
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  league, he's a great hitter. But if you look at the roster
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  from top to bottom, they don't even compare to Team USA.
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  And then you look at their bench, the management, you have
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  Miguel Cabrera, arguably the greatest right-handed hitter of
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  all time, and there's a pitcher over there who had a nasty
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  change up over there with the Twins.
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  Actually had two change ups. People don't know.
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  You have two different Johan Santana, who is going to be a
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  Hall of Famer. He has.
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  He was one of the best pitchers in the league for about 10 years
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  before he had arm trouble, but this guy was as good.
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  A pitch he was the most dominated pitcher in the 2000
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  early 2000. He was sensational.
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  He really was with the Twins. He was unhittable.
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  I remember the the the one pitcher the Yankees always had
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  problems with. Well, there was 2 Johan Santana
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  and Felix Hernandez. Those were the two guys they had
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  problems with year in and year out.
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  And the one thing I remember Johann Santana was his change
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  up. And yeah, I didn't even know he
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  had two change UPS. But those two guys, Miguel
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  Cabrera and Johann Santana were bench coaches on Venezuela and I
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  think that helped them because you you have two stars, 2 guys
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  that have played at a top level. So what do you think?
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  Do you do you think they had a lot to do with the success?
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  Obviously Miguel Cabrera with the hitting and Johann Santana
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  with the pitching. I think they did.
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  And I tell you it's not because, because they, they gave the,
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  the, you know, the secrets of their career, because I don't
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  think that was a fact. I think the, the reason why it
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  was because those kids, I grew up watching Johann Santana and
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  Miguel Carrera playing. So at some point they say I want
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  to pitch like him. I want to hit like him.
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  So now having them in the clubhouse, in the dugout, it was
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  like a dream come true. I'm going to listen to what this
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  guy has to say. It's not it's our metrics.
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  It's not about spin rate. It's not about none of that crap
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  that they're teaching nowadays. It's about how you compete, how
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  you pitch, how you hit the approach at the plate.
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  Dusty Baker say a few years ago that the computer can, can help
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  you to identify what are the issues, you know, the swim, the,
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  the pitch and all that, but how can you correct it?
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  The computers aren't going to tell you.
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  So that's when you have all these guys with all that
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  experience in the big leagues. He said, Hey, you know, what do
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  you think about this? It's not about your swing, it's
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  about the approach because these guys, they have been there.
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  And that's why I think that it was very important for them to
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  for the for the team to have those guys in the dugout.
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  So I one of the big conflicts going into the World Baseball
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  Classic was the insurance controversy with the Dominican
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  Republic, Puerto Rico, Venezuela and a couple players as well.
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  And a lot of people were saying the US, if they want to make
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  this their type of thing, because Rob Manfred obviously
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  came out on the field and celebrated with Venezuela and
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  graduated them. So they want to make it their
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  type of tournament. Do you think the the Major
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  League Baseball League office has to do more to help those
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  players to make it a better tournament?
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  That can happen with the best stars that are there.
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  I think that they should because the, the, the show, you know,
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  the, the people are paying big money.
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  These tickets were very expensive.
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  I'm here close to, to to Miami. My son got to go to three of
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  those Venezuelan games and they were very, very expensive.
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  So if you're going to pay all those top dollars, you want to
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  go see, you know, the superstores where in your
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  national color. So I think the mayor League
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  Baseball could have done a little bit better, a little bit
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  more to help out those players that they really wanted to play.
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  I don't know what was the situation.
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  Maybe somebody blame it on the insurance in order not to go
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  because they probably were not prepared or you know, when they
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  have some some, you know, undisclosed, you know, soreness
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  or whatever, they don't want to risk it.
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  So, so the the Major League Baseball should have done a
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  little bit better with that. We are talking a former 10 year
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  MLB reliever, Juan Recon pitched from 2001 to 2010 with the Twins
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  and the Guardians, the Tigers, the Rockies, and we're talking
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  about the WBC because a lot of people were shocked the way
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  Venezuela just absolutely dominated Team USA and really
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  was successful throughout this tournament.
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  A lot of people were shocked that they got as far as they
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  got, but they had talent is no question that they did.
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  But they were missing players because of insurance situations.
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  And Team USA, even though they didn't have all their top guns,
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  Tarek Schuble decided to go back with Detroit.
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  Maybe if he pitches in the championship game, maybe it's
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  different, who knows? I mean, Nolan McLean is a good
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  pitcher. Nobody's going to take that
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  away. And I I thought the way
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  Venezuela actually handled Team USA pitching, even Whitlock.
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  Whitlock was one of the best relief pitchers in during the
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  WBC. They hit against him and they
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  walked against him and then Suarez gave him, you know, a run
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  for his money. My question to you, Juan, When
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  you look at this, when you look at this tournament and you look
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  at Team USA, you look at the Dominican Republic, you look at
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  Japan. Those were the three top teams
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  going into this tournament. Well, as Vegas had, USA won,
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  Japan 2, Dominican Republic three.
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  Nobody really looked at Italy. Nobody looked at Venezuela,
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  nobody looked at any of these teams, these these third world
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  countries as they would call them, because nobody, nobody
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  thinks that they have enough talent to win.
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  But they've proven that now in this tournament that it's
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  possible, it's possible for these teams to come out and
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  knock off the, the top teams, the USA, the Japanese, I mean,
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  Cuba, we've seen how good Cuba's been and they're a third world
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  country. They they weren't so good or
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  because of obviously the insurance situation, but for,
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  for years, Cuba's always had a very, very, very, very good
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  team. So is.
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  There. So when Japan, when Japan won
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  the the first time, they went against Cuba, that's true.
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  And they knocked out everybody out and they they, they, you
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  know, they gave Japan a run for their money.
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  It was in the AC. So to your point, yeah.
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  Yeah. And that's that's what kind of
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  turns me off because I think this would be better in the
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  middle of the season because spring training these guys, this
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  is like spring training to these guys.
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  You have Aaron Judge who doesn't really hit really well in spring
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  training. And a lot of these Japanese
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  players, they don't over there in Japan, it's not even spring
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  training now they. They stole.
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  Yeah, so it's like 2 months from now where their season starts.
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  So all these Japanese players, they're not even warmed up.
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  They're pretty much going into a tournament not ready for it.
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  And the same thing with Venezuela.
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  All these guys, you're going to a tournament and I know
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  everybody has to deal with it, but I think it's a big problem.
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  And I think that if you're going to play the WBC knockout, the
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  All Star game, that's my opinion.
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  Nobody cares who hits The Who wins the Home Run Derby or who
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  wins the All Star game. And make this three years the
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  All Star week. That's what I would do with the
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  All Star two weeks. This is what they did with the
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  Olympics for Team USA hockey and and, and, and hockey is they
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  they made sure that there was no All Star game.
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  They made those two weeks for the hockey and the Olympics the
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  All Star game. Why doesn't the WBC do that?
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  If they do that, you're going to see better baseball.
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  Am I right or wrong? Yeah, I think that it it's going
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  to come. John Smoltz was talking about
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  that. They were they about how good it
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  was about 1.21 point eight people that attended to the
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  games. I'm pretty sure that's a bigot
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  attendance that any other star game ever that have ever been
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  played. So rating wise the money, the
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  tickets in the custom in tickets.
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  I think that the revenue is going to be great, $7.5 million.
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  Venezuela is going to is going to pocket from winning the the
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  tournament. I don't know, probably they're
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  going to have to do a good research in order to sell that
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  idea to the to the owners because that you remember that
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  all, every All Star game, the owners, they get money from
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  hosting the the All Star game. So that's going to be a very
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  problematic because you're going to have to do that this series
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  here in Miami, Houston, where the South American countries can
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  come and watch the game. You cannot do this in Seattle,
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  for example, to go play Venezuela in Seattle or go play
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  Venezuela in Kansas City or they are in in Colorado.
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  It's too far for them. They're not going to attract any
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  people. So they got to be very smart
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  with the logistic about it. But I think it could be, it
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  could be very, very good for the for the show, for the baseball.
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  Juan, you're from Venezuela and, and I know a lot of Venezuelan
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  people I've seen all over social media, they all broke down and
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  cried after they won the WBC. Nobody expected this.
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  How did you feel when you got a chance to watch this game and
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  see the final and watch your team, your country raise up and
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  and win that gold medal? What was it like?
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  What did you feel inside? Doing it's, it's hard to put
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  into words in perspective, like I said earlier in the in the
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  show, because, you know, as a country, we have gone through so
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  much. And then at the end of the of
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  the the game, the, the strikeout to, to end the game.
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  And then you see the end, the national anthem being played and
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  you see all those guys. When the third I was watching
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  the game while I was eating and I remember hitting the, the, the
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  the table and say he's done, you know, to my wife.
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  It's unbelievable. I, I had to really there.
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  There has been sometimes that when I, when I watch all the
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  reviews and the country celebrating, he's been hard to
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  hollow to those tears because it's very, he's very touchy.
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  I think the country deserved it, the players deserved it, the
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  fans, everybody was, it was, you know, a dream come true.
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  Ownership gears a little bit. You played with a guy in Joe
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  Mauer who was just recently inducted Hall of Fame catcher.
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  I always thought him and Buster Posey were the two guys that
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  kind of changed the catching position when a lot of those
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  guys were the bigger, bulkier guys.
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  Before that you saw, and maybe not in the older days like guys
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  like Yogi Berra and Johnny Bench, but like a lot of those
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  power hitting catchers and these good really offensive catchers
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  were like that. Now you're seeing those two
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  guys, I think really, one, what was he like as a teammate, you
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  working with him as a relief pitcher and even off the field?
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  And two, do you really think those two guys were the guys
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  that changed the catching position?
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  Well, definitely bosser with that play at the play definitely
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  changed the the contact play with the with the catcher.
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  Even in the in the youth, you know, 12/11/14 whatever, you're
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  not allowed to make contact with the catcher because of both are
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  positive. So he can look back and sit back
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  and said, listen, I did something for for baseball in
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  general, not just in the big leagues.
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  Joe, I always say Joe is it was like a lady dude.
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  That guy is soft, soft spoken guy.
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  Very neat. Yeah, the guy was like struck
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  out. I don't know.
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  I don't ever think that he that he went over for one time, but
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  he was so calm. Well, what there was a time.
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  This is true story, right? There was a time that there was
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  a position player show up late for a stretch and I think that
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  he had done it multiple times. So it was not for me to say
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  anything about that because I was a pitcher, position player.
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  You don't get to get, you don't get to step in anybody's toes.
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  So the guy goes, I say, Joe, what the hell?
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  This guy is showing up late. And the guy goes, well, honey,
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  it's not my career. You know, they're supposed to
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  know. He was always, well, you know,
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  Joe didn't have the numbers to go into the OSR game, into the
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  Hall of Fame. But I'll tell you this, the kid
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  was such a gentleman to the media that he never said no to
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  any interview, any interviews. He never told, you know, get the
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  fuck out of here. I mean, I'm sorry, get out of
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  here. I'm not going to give, I'm not
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  going to say anything to you. I'm not going to talk to you.
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  No, he was always very polite because he understood that was
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  their job, you know, to to write and probably write whether
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  whatever they were thinking about it.
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  And so he was very, always very polite.
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  So those guys are not in the Hall of Fame.
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  And then they should have looked into this guy and say, well, you
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  know, I need to be like this guy if I want to go into the Hall of
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  Fame. He had a tremendous numbers 2000
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  hit as a catcher. I don't know, I think a two or
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  three batting titles, you, you don't get to you don't get to
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  see too many catchers winning a batting title, let alone too.
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  And the guy was such a great guy, great teammate that he
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  deserved to be in the Hall of Fame.
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  So I think I both of them change the the the baseball one way or
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  other. By the way, we are talking a 10
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  year MLB reliever, Juan Recon pitched for from 2001 to 2010
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  with the Twins, the Guardians, the Tigers and the Rockies.
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  You it's so interesting when you watch pitchers and and relief
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  pitchers, some of them have long careers and some of them don't
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  have much of A career. And we Jabba is he's been a big
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  part of this show and Jabba had three years where he was just
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  such a dominant relief pitcher. And then obviously the Yankees
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  with the Jabba rules and they didn't know if he was a starter,
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  didn't know if he was a relief pitcher, and it kind of ruined
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  his career. Eventually his arm went and then
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  he hurt himself on the trampoline and his career was
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  never the same. When you look at the game now
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  with the new rules and and some of the different training
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  facilities that you have, do you think that if you played in the
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  game now, you would add a longer career than you did in the early
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  2000s? I think I would have.
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  The way that they're back in my days, it was like, oh, you're a
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  pitcher, go run for 40 minutes, you know?
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  No, no, I'm not kidding. It was, it was just like that.
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  Don't get too strong, you know, don't lift too heavy, you know,
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  things like that. Don't do so many explosive
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  exercises. Now they have all this
• 20:15
  technology, all these, all these guys training.
• 20:19
  When I was in the minor, there was one conditioning trainer for
• 20:22
  the whole minor league system. Now they have even multiple
• 20:26
  conditioning trainers per per level.
• 20:28
  They have mental coaches in in English and in Spanish.
• 20:32
  You know, they have all these, all these equipment gears
• 20:37
  personal that is it's unbelievable.
• 20:39
  Now they they are telling you don't throw.
• 20:42
  Let's say, oh, you know, one, this is the this the what the
• 20:46
  computer is saying, don't throw your breaking ball when you're
• 20:48
  hitting the count or and you stick by that and you're going
• 20:52
  to, you're going to, you're going to be successful.
• 20:55
  So they're actually telling you what to do and what not to do.
• 20:59
  And it would be very dumb for you not to freaking do it
• 21:01
  because the numbers are there. So I think I would have had and
• 21:06
  I was sad because I think I would have had because I used to
• 21:10
  throw a cutter. My fastball, I, my 4 sing was a
• 21:12
  cutter. It was a natural cutter and my
• 21:15
  slider. So I used to pitch up in the
• 21:17
  zone a lot. And back in the days I used to
• 21:21
  teach you throw down in the zone.
• 21:22
  Now they teach you throw up in the zone because the uppercut
• 21:26
  swing that they're teaching nowadays, they're not going to
• 21:28
  be able to catch up to this pitch.
• 21:30
  So I think that's what I what I would have believed that I would
• 21:35
  have a longer career. Now also back in my days, I
• 21:40
  think that I threw in, in four years in a row, I think that I
• 21:44
  threw 280 something games. Now you don't see that in, in,
• 21:50
  in, in the game. I started in 2003, I started a
• 21:54
  year in AAA and spent about a month in the minors and I threw
• 21:58
  as a long believer 50 something games.
• 22:00
  And the next year I threw 77 games or something like that.
• 22:04
  In the next two years, I threw 150 games combined, 777575.
• 22:10
  You don't see that anymore, you know, in the game.
• 22:14
  And, and I think and also something that they're doing
• 22:18
  nowadays that they're bringing you up throughout the minority
• 22:22
  system a little quicker. When you look at my numbers,
• 22:26
  before I established myself in big leaks in 2003, I probably
• 22:31
  had 700 innings in the minors and I dominated the minor
• 22:35
  leagues. So now they're no wasting time.
• 22:38
  Your prime in the minors. He say, well, you know, this guy
• 22:41
  had three 300 a year, 300 innings in the big leagues and
• 22:46
  and the minors bring him up. They're reading.
• 22:48
  The Twins already knew that I was going to be a reliever
• 22:51
  there. There's a funny story because I
• 22:53
  was in AAA in Edmonton with Santana in 2002 and they had him
• 23:00
  in the bullpen and they had me starting think about how wrong
• 23:03
  they had it right. So then I gave up a lot of runs
• 23:08
  in one game and he came up and he relieved me and then the next
• 23:11
  out and they go, listen, we're going to switch.
• 23:14
  You know, we've been talking about you being a reliever since
• 23:17
  you were in double AI. Don't know why they keep you
• 23:21
  starting. So if they knew in AA, why are
• 23:23
  you going to make me go back to AAA and to throw 100 innings
• 23:27
  again before you give me a shot when I have thrown 40, I mean,
• 23:33
  A400500 innings already in, in the minor league.
• 23:36
  So the the baseball has changed because they haven't identified
• 23:40
  the fact that they're wasting all these bullets in the minors.
• 23:44
  You know, bring him up. He's that's why you seen 1920
• 23:47
  year old guys in the big leagues already, because they don't want
• 23:50
  to waste their time in the minors.
• 23:53
  They should or their prime. You should have been the Mets.
• 23:56
  You should have been the Mets trainer.
• 23:57
  You could have tell Noah Synergard not to do all those
• 23:59
  extra workouts to get himself to 230 lbs and then mess up his
• 24:02
  everything. I'm telling you, look at just
• 24:05
  look at back in my days, you know, Brad Rocky, Gonna, Mike
• 24:09
  Musina, Andy Pettit, the the only big guy that he stood up
• 24:15
  for me was a Royer Clements. But even Roy Holiday there was a
• 24:19
  workhorse. He wasn't that strong.
• 24:21
  He was that he was obviously he was strong, don't get me wrong.
• 24:24
  But it's not like the guys that you seen nowadays that they look
• 24:27
  like freaking bodybuilders and they only last.
• 24:30
  Well, he's throwing 100. Yeah, but he's going to break
• 24:32
  down in three years because these guys just in Verlander,
• 24:37
  Kershaw, you know, they're, they're not that is strong.
• 24:41
  And they were able to throw 10 years, 12 years, 15 years in the
• 24:46
  big leagues. Now these guys are getting way
• 24:48
  too strong. They're not doing that much of
• 24:50
  running. They're doing a lot of lifting.
• 24:53
  That's where I think they're breaking down more often.
• 24:58
  It is crazy when I watch the game of baseball and people
• 25:01
  forget that baseball was in a strike time in the 90s and now
• 25:06
  we're going into a another strike in 2027.
• 25:11
  There could be a full season of no baseball.
• 25:13
  And going into this this season, watching the WBC and, and
• 25:17
  getting a chance to see all this stuff happen in the offseason
• 25:21
  and, and the deferred money, Tucker goes, Kyle Tucker goes to
• 25:25
  the the the Dodgers. When you look at the game now,
• 25:28
  when you look at the game now, Juan, and, and you want, and a
• 25:32
  lot of players are questioning what the Dodgers, I mean, what
• 25:34
  the Dodgers are doing. Do you think that this is going
• 25:37
  to affect next year's strike? Do you believe that this could
• 25:41
  go on for a full season? And no baseball because of what
• 25:44
  we've seen with the Dodgers and how the Dodgers have taken this
• 25:48
  deferred money, which has been around for a long, long time,
• 25:50
  But they've used it to their advantage where they've built a
• 25:54
  super team, which has hurt the game.
• 25:56
  And everybody says this is the Yankees.
• 25:58
  Oh, this was the Yankees in the 90s.
• 25:59
  It wasn't the Yankees in the 90's.
• 26:01
  The Yankees built through a prime of young players.
• 26:04
  And then they took veteran guys like Wade Box or Charlie Hayes
• 26:07
  or Scott Brosius or Tino Martinez or Paul O'Neill and
• 26:11
  they mashed them together with youth and, and started to become
• 26:14
  a dynasty. This is not a a team that had
• 26:18
  young players and then they're putting veteran players with
• 26:21
  them. This is all superstar players.
• 26:23
  Friedman superstar, Mookie Betts superstar, Ohtani superstar, all
• 26:28
  this Snell superstar, Glass now superstar.
• 26:31
  All these guys are superstar players from their respectable
• 26:34
  teams. And everybody says, well, the
• 26:35
  Yankees did it, so I guess it's OK.
• 26:38
  What do you think about what the Dodgers have done to baseball?
• 26:41
  So I'm going to ask you, you're asking me a question.
• 26:44
  I'm going to ask you a question or, or a few questions.
• 26:47
  Mookie Betts, where did he play before going to the Dodgers?
• 26:51
  Boston. And why did he got traded?
• 26:52
  Well. He didn't get traded.
• 26:54
  He signed with the Dodgers. Well, but he signed with the
• 26:57
  Dodgers because Possum didn't want to give him money, right?
• 27:01
  OK, what about Tyler Glass now? That was Tampa.
• 27:06
  OK, Tampa. What happened?
• 27:07
  He went to Pittsburgh to to Tampa, right in a trade, and
• 27:10
  then Tampa didn't want to pay him.
• 27:12
  Whatever. So the Dodgers came.
• 27:14
  Let's come over here. I'm going to pay you.
• 27:16
  You know, he's always hurt or whatever.
• 27:19
  What's our guy? OK, what about the first baseman
• 27:24
  for, for, for them that used to play Freeman, that they
• 27:29
  miscommunication with the GM, with the agent, whatever it was.
• 27:33
  But I think that the Braves took a little longer to offer him
• 27:36
  something. Am I right or wrong?
• 27:38
  So you can really punish a team that is willing to invest in all
• 27:44
  these superstars that these other teams are being cheap
• 27:47
  about it. You see what I'm saying?
• 27:50
  Well, I, I mean, I, I, you could look at it that way or you could
• 27:54
  look at it this way and I look at it completely different.
• 27:57
  Yes, they gave Mookie Betts $300 million.
• 28:00
  Yes, they gave Friedman 100 and something, $1,000,000 money that
• 28:05
  he wanted. But what they did is they use
• 28:08
  that deferred money and they say, you know what, We don't
• 28:10
  have to pay Mookie Betts the whole 300 million.
• 28:13
  We'll cut it in half and pay him that in increments for the next
• 28:16
  12 years and we don't have to worry about it.
• 28:18
  And Otani, Otani decided to go to the Dodgers.
• 28:22
  They gave him a $70 million a year contract.
• 28:25
  They gave him a lot of money and but they're only paying him 2
• 28:29
  million a year and he's not going to see that money until 12
• 28:31
  years down the road. To me, they have spun the wheel
• 28:36
  and make the deal and that's what they're doing.
• 28:38
  They're we're going to buy our way to a championship.
• 28:41
  We're going to build this where we're going to win multiple
• 28:44
  championships. And then whenever we're done
• 28:47
  dominating baseball, we'll sell the team and whoever takes over
• 28:50
  this team is going to pay those guys in the future.
• 28:52
  To me, that affects the game And and now you're going to see
• 28:56
  going into the offseason, they're going to be talking
• 28:59
  about a salary cap because I know everybody says there's no
• 29:03
  way that baseball union is going to allow that.
• 29:05
  But what happened this offseason?
• 29:07
  Who's running the baseball union now?
• 29:09
  We don't even know. So I mean.
• 29:12
  That was that. That was a shit show.
• 29:15
  Clark is Clark's gone. So now you had the guy that was
• 29:18
  the face of the players in the players union.
• 29:22
  Now you're bringing a new guy that by the way, the players are
• 29:24
  pretty much he's a puppet to the players.
• 29:27
  How is this going to work when you're sitting in front of the
• 29:29
  owners, you're sitting in front of the commissioner, and you're
• 29:32
  trying to figure out how this deferred money has affected the
• 29:35
  game? And by the way, how are we going
• 29:37
  to go into another season with all this money going to these
• 29:40
  players where we're going to have a billion dollar player in
• 29:43
  a year time or in two years time because we saw Juan Soto just
• 29:46
  get $68,000,000 a year with the Mets.
• 29:49
  We know that. We know that.
• 29:51
  Hey, look, Bo Bo Bashet just got $48 million from the New York
• 29:56
  Mets to play third base when he's ever played third base in
• 29:59
  his career. I mean, the money is ridiculous
• 30:02
  and eventually something needs to be done.
• 30:04
  And I know a lot of people don't want to believe it, but it's
• 30:07
  coming. There has to be a cap.
• 30:10
  I don't think that there will be a cap and I'll tell you why,
• 30:13
  because people are coming to watch the game.
• 30:16
  They're coming to watch the players.
• 30:18
  The owners are making money. If if I can pay you 60 million
• 30:24
  dollars, $40 million, it means that I'm making a billion
• 30:27
  dollar. It means that I'm going to be
• 30:29
  selling, you know, $1,000,000 worth of merchandise with your
• 30:33
  name, just just only your name. I know that I'm going to be
• 30:36
  that's that's all being all study.
• 30:38
  What I think it will help the the whole situation is that they
• 30:43
  get a floor salary floor from the from the owners.
• 30:47
  You know, you can know, have the the mornings, for example, they
• 30:51
  have Ozuna, they have Stanton, they have a rise, they have
• 30:57
  these solar guys. And what they have done, they
• 30:58
  have trade them away because they want to keep a $40 million
• 31:04
  team. And you know, people just come,
• 31:07
  they watch and they get the advertisement where they get the
• 31:10
  money from. They're not worried about
• 31:11
  winning. They're not worried about making
• 31:13
  money with the with the fans, with the tickets.
• 31:16
  Look at how packed the stadium was here in Miami.
• 31:18
  It was 43,000 people. I don't know how many people
• 31:21
  they, they, they got, they got there.
• 31:23
  The, the tickets were about $2500 per ticket and that thing
• 31:28
  was freaking sold out. What happens?
• 31:30
  The mornings are not investing the money.
• 31:31
  It's just to say the mornings, the daughters did what they did.
• 31:35
  Everybody knew what they were doing.
• 31:37
  Everybody. It's not like they reinvented
• 31:38
  the wheel. Everybody knew that they were
• 31:40
  paying the money, just like the the Mets did with Bobby Bonilla
• 31:44
  with $1,000,000.10. It's always been there.
• 31:47
  So now they were probably smarter than the other 2019
• 31:50
  probably were. But they they identify how they
• 31:54
  can bring people in. They went at it, they're
• 31:57
  winning. But then you have the Marlins,
• 31:59
  Kansas City, they have the Pittsburgh, they have the second
• 32:02
  best or third best ERA. And what they did, they fire the
• 32:05
  pitching coach, you know, So there there has to be some
• 32:11
  repercussion for your team not being competitive.
• 32:15
  We got to drop the house if you. If you're paying, if the
• 32:20
  daughters are paying, if the Mets are paying all these guys,
• 32:23
  it means that they're, the owners are making money.
• 32:27
  They're not broke. They say, well, attendance is
• 32:30
  slow. You don't make money from
• 32:32
  attendance. You make money from
• 32:33
  advertisement, TV deals, baseball cards, you know, the,
• 32:38
  all the, the, the, the money that people pay for the, all the
• 32:45
  things that they, they, they're sold to collectible things.
• 32:48
  You know, all the stuff, collectible items.
• 32:49
  So collectible items, it's one of the biggest business right
• 32:54
  now in, in, in the US they, they collectible things.
• 32:57
  So when when you look back and say why are we going to get a
• 33:01
  salary cap when the owners are making all this money, If you're
• 33:05
  paying all this guys all that money, it means that you have
• 33:07
  the money. Otherwise, you want to be able
• 33:09
  to afford them. See what I'm saying?
• 33:11
  I got what you're saying. I to me, I don't care about the
• 33:14
  owners. I care about me as a fan.
• 33:16
  I don't want to see the Dodgers win every single year because
• 33:18
  they're buying their way to a championship.
• 33:20
  Nobody wants to see that. And everybody says, well, George
• 33:23
  Steinbrenner did that. George Steinbrenner did.
• 33:25
  And it wasn't even George. It was how that did it.
• 33:28
  How was the one that bought that that championship in 2009 with
• 33:32
  CC Sabathia and AJ Burnett and Mark to share because he wanted
• 33:35
  his father to see that championship in the new Yankee
• 33:38
  Stadium before he passed away because he he was very sick.
• 33:41
  But the Yankees really have kind of swayed away from that.
• 33:44
  They're paying their players, but they're not the highest as
• 33:47
  far as salary caps. I think the Yankees are like 4th
• 33:50
  or 5th right now in baseball. They're not.
• 33:52
  Yeah, the dollars are first. Think of the Mets and then.
• 33:55
  Toronto. I mean, the Yankees are not
• 33:58
  really up there anymore in the top three and the Yankees are
• 34:01
  still a really good team. I, I think the problem right
• 34:04
  now, and I think you're right, these teams need a floor and I
• 34:07
  want to see competition. Why are the Dodgers just going
• 34:11
  all the way? And, and, and I'm not saying
• 34:13
  that the Dodgers couldn't have lost the World Series.
• 34:15
  They they almost did, but because of their talent.
• 34:18
  They were They were two inches, 3 inches away from.
• 34:21
  Losing, but they, because of their talent and because of all
• 34:26
  the specific positions that they have that really the Blue Jays
• 34:30
  didn't have or anybody they matched up against didn't have.
• 34:33
  They had an advantage going into that game.
• 34:35
  Now, the United States had an advantage going into the
• 34:38
  Venezuela game. the United States had an advantage against
• 34:41
  practically every team that plays.
• 34:42
  So did Japan, so did Dominican Republic.
• 34:45
  And that doesn't always happen. But if you look at percentages
• 34:48
  and one you as a baseball player, it's all about
• 34:51
  statistics, stats, stats. Numbers don't.
• 34:54
  Lie. Numbers don't lie.
• 34:55
  If you look at the numbers here, the chances of the Dodgers not
• 35:00
  winning is probably no less than 60%, no less than 60% because of
• 35:07
  the talent that they have. And that to me is scary if
• 35:10
  you're a baseball fan. Why do I want to watch the
• 35:12
  Dodgers win every single year? Because they're buying their way
• 35:15
  to a championship. I have no interest in watching
• 35:17
  it. So.
• 35:17
  And everybody says, whoa, was the highest watched game or
• 35:21
  highest watched series in in in a long, long time.
• 35:24
  Yeah, because it was the Blue Jays.
• 35:25
  The Blue Jays haven't been. There since the night.
• 35:28
  Yeah, it's Toronto. It's the whole country.
• 35:30
  Yeah, by watching the game. Yeah.
• 35:32
  And then Japan, you have and Japan.
• 35:34
  And you have you also, and you have California, that is one of
• 35:37
  the most populated cities in the world.
• 35:39
  Japan, that's what it was. It was Otani Sasaki and all
• 35:43
  those other guys. It was all about yeah.
• 35:46
  It was about those three guys. Yeah, it was.
• 35:48
  It was all about. Japan, you have Korea as well,
• 35:51
  so yeah. I mean, come on, that gets you
• 35:53
  sick to your stomach, so. Yeah, but I think how you can
• 35:56
  balance that. For example, how good would have
• 35:59
  been the Marlins having all those A guys?
• 36:02
  I think it was that they traded away for nothing, right?
• 36:06
  Just tell me what the Marlins got from the Stanton trade.
• 36:09
  They got nothing. Nothing.
• 36:12
  You see what I'm saying? When they traded away the bear,
• 36:15
  what's his name, the left fielder.
• 36:17
  They went to the Braves. Ozuna.
• 36:19
  Ozuna. Ozuna, why did they just name me
• 36:21
  one guy that out of that trade they got nothing, nothing.
• 36:25
  So why did they trade them away? Because of money.
• 36:27
  So when you start penalizing those teams, listen, you got to
• 36:31
  spend $40 million, You can not have a a budget of $38 million
• 36:39
  nowadays when they have the freaking dyers in five hundred,
• 36:43
  $600 million, stupid, you're not going to be able to compete.
• 36:46
  But for them, it's about to make money.
• 36:49
  It's not about competing. And for a Stein brainer, it was
• 36:52
  about competing. You see what I'm saying?
• 36:55
  That's the difference of mentality.
• 36:57
  The dyers, they want to compete, they're going to get their money
• 36:59
  back. San Diego has done the same
• 37:01
  thing. Nobody talks about that because
• 37:03
  they haven't. They haven't win.
• 37:04
  See what I'm saying? I got it.
• 37:06
  So. I got it.
• 37:06
  I just think the Dodgers already made their money back have.
• 37:10
  Yeah, they made their money back for sure.
• 37:12
  How did they make their money back?
• 37:13
  Winning, yeah, But winning? Yeah.
• 37:16
  Well. Winning.
• 37:17
  You, you, you go to Kansas City. When they were winning, what did
• 37:21
  they do? They packed the stadium every
• 37:24
  single day back in the day. The Angels that they sold, they
• 37:28
  were sold out for I don't know how many years in a row because
• 37:32
  they have a competitive team. You put competitive teams on the
• 37:35
  field and the fans are going to show, you know, But when you
• 37:39
  have those low market teams that they're not put in any effort to
• 37:43
  bring better teams, you know, it's easy to point fingers.
• 37:48
  You know, Oh, well, the daughters are winning because,
• 37:50
  well, you can do the same thing. Maybe not in in such a big
• 37:52
  scale, but you can put a competitive team on the field.
• 37:56
  That's what I'm saying. So I think that the the salary
• 37:59
  cap as a former player will hurt the game.
• 38:01
  I got it. I got it.
• 38:03
  Juan. I I.
• 38:04
  Know we're looking at, I don't know, I don't know if if this is
• 38:08
  true, but every year in spring training the the player
• 38:13
  associations comes to talk to every single team and it's about
• 38:17
  3 hour meeting. It's a long meeting, but they go
• 38:20
  into every single detail conversations.
• 38:24
  What's he looking like? It's it's unbelievable.
• 38:27
  And Donald Fair, when Donald Fair was the the the president
• 38:32
  of the player association. That to me is the best that I
• 38:35
  have seen. Well spoken guy, very, very
• 38:39
  smart. He would have be very detail
• 38:43
  orientated. He went to hockey, hockey back
• 38:47
  in the days he had a salary cap and the salary cap in my
• 38:51
  understanding, you know, don't, don't kill me.
• 38:53
  I don't know. This is this is what I I'm going
• 38:55
  to sell it at face value. OK, So if if your team, the
• 39:01
  salary cap was $40 million and your team was at 38, for
• 39:04
  example, and they would have ran halfway through the season, a
• 39:08
  guy making $10 million, the $5,000,000 remain in the in the
• 39:13
  country in the, in the contract, the three because you were at 38
• 39:17
  to get to 40, the $3,000,000 was going to be paid by the players.
• 39:21
  They were going to take a cut from their salary to pay for
• 39:26
  that. The players didn't get any
• 39:28
  revenues for from TV, from tickets for nothing.
• 39:32
  And that's why they went to strike.
• 39:34
  That was when done off fair. I don't know, 15 years ago, I
• 39:37
  don't remember how long it was. And what do they do now?
• 39:41
  Now they have one of the best contracts, one of the the the
• 39:45
  best salary because you go watch a game.
• 39:48
  I'm I don't, I don't watch hockey, but every time that I
• 39:51
  watch a game, the freaking arena is packed, you know, and
• 39:55
  everybody's getting their money. You don't hear about strikes or
• 39:58
  anything like that, but players, I mean, the Major League
• 40:01
  Baseball is always wanted to control that, that the salary
• 40:06
  cap because they would control the game and that's what they
• 40:10
  want. I don't think that is going to.
• 40:12
  Is going to help the game at all?
• 40:13
  Well, I just want to let. You again, this is That's my
• 40:17
  understanding about. I'm just going to let you know,
• 40:20
  hockey only the most you can pack out in a stadium I think is
• 40:24
  16,000. They don't pack out.
• 40:26
  Yeah, they're not big. They're not big and but the
• 40:28
  salaries are not compare comparable to the baseball
• 40:31
  salaries. No.
• 40:32
  And they play a third of what they play in the big leagues as
• 40:35
  well. Juan, they're getting up there.
• 40:37
  I mean, the highest paid play right now in the NHL is making
• 40:40
  $20 million. I mean, that's for Edmonton.
• 40:43
  He's the best player in the world.
• 40:44
  Just letting you know. But it's interesting.
• 40:46
  Connor McDavid, He's making 2020, 1,000,020. 20, He plays in
• 40:50
  Edmonton. Edmonton, yes.
• 40:52
  I play, I play in Edmonton one year.
• 40:54
  Coldest place on earth. I mean next Minnesota.
• 40:58
  Feel like a freaking beach trip? I love.
• 41:05
  It shorts. I love it.
• 41:06
  I love the cold. Say that again.
• 41:07
  I love the cold. No, I listen.
• 41:09
  I love the cold, but no one I have to stand up there for 8
• 41:12
  hours. I got you, I got you.
• 41:14
  But we were outside on a football field and it was, it
• 41:16
  was like 30° and my feet were cold because you're not moving
• 41:20
  around and, and, and you start to get frozen.
• 41:22
  That kills you? Yeah, it kills you.
• 41:24
  As a pitcher especially, you're on a mound and you're going to
• 41:26
  throw. It's definitely cold.
• 41:28
  But Juan, we got to get you back on the show.
• 41:30
  You're fantastic and you're. Thank you.
• 41:33
  And we go back and forth and I agree with a lot of things you
• 41:35
  said, but the deferred money, I beg to differ.
• 41:37
  We got to maybe we'll talk off air one of these days.
• 41:40
  I I think that. Yeah, that's fine.
• 41:42
  Absolutely. But I, but again, I, I, I don't
• 41:44
  think that it will as a, as a former player, I don't think
• 41:46
  that it will help the I'm always going to cheer for the players.
• 41:50
  I know, I know you will. A lot of the players will so.
• 41:53
  Yeah, but I don't think that it will help the the game because
• 41:57
  then the the owners are going to pocket all the money I got.
• 41:59
  You and. People are not coming to watch.
• 42:02
  The owners are coming to watch. The old time is, you know, you
• 42:06
  cannot even name the name the owner of Pittsburgh.
• 42:09
  No top of your head, but I can bet you that you can name the
• 42:12
  best picture on that rotation. Yeah, Paul skins.
• 42:16
  Paul skins, do you see what I'm saying?
• 42:18
  So, so and I bet. You that you can.
• 42:21
  Name that You can name the the best hockey player for Edmonton,
• 42:27
  but you don't know the owner. Yeah, I guess you're right.
• 42:30
  I mean, the owners don't want to be known.
• 42:31
  They just want to make their money.
• 42:33
  But I got what you said. They want to make their money,
• 42:34
  yeah, but they stay behind the scenes and they want to make
• 42:38
  their businessman. Some of them are just one.
• 42:43
  They're used to make money, and that's it.
• 42:45
  And that's pretty understandable.
• 42:46
  But we're going to have a salary cap.
• 42:49
  They got to be a full cap as well.
• 42:50
  I agree with you. I agree with that, but I we'll
• 42:53
  see what happens. But we, we appreciate you
• 42:55
  joining us and. But I think that's going to be a
• 42:57
  strike, to be honest. Yes, I think, I don't, I don't
• 42:59
  think that we gonna, we as as players or or we as fans are
• 43:04
  going to be able to escape that. I, I absolutely agree with you
• 43:08
  and I'm, I'm interested to see what Rob Manfred or Manfred as,
• 43:14
  as a man fool as we call a man fool on this show, how that's
• 43:19
  going to work with that guy leading the way as the
• 43:22
  commissioner of baseball. So that's just my opinion, but.
• 43:25
  Yeah, it's going to be, it's going to be interesting because
• 43:27
  now the head of the player association, they, they, they,
• 43:32
  they hear whatever is so stupid what he was doing or he was
• 43:36
  allegedly doing, because I don't, you know, I wasn't even
• 43:39
  there to know for real what he was doing.
• 43:41
  Well, not just say he was sleeping with his sister-in-law.
• 43:43
  We know what he was doing, he was having.
• 43:45
  Fun. I actually forgot about that
• 43:47
  because I was talking about the money that he was, that he was
• 43:51
  paying his bossing or whatever. I mean so stupid man.
• 43:55
  He was in the play association. He was flopping.
• 43:58
  His Think about this man. He was flopping his yes, yeah,
• 44:00
  think about this. The player association is the
• 44:03
  strongest union in the world, the baseball player association,
• 44:07
  because you know, the the lowest income of a guy is what,
• 44:13
  $700,000 Yes. And you have 7, I don't know how
• 44:18
  many people, 800 people in the, in the manual League Baseball
• 44:21
  any given day and you have guys making $60 million or the the
• 44:26
  lowest pay salary is $700,000 that that unit has a lot of
• 44:31
  power. It sounds like it, Juan.
• 44:34
  We love you. Keep up the good work.
• 44:36
  We'll talk to you soon. OK, guys.
• 44:39
  Nice, nice being here. Thank you for the invitation.
• 44:42
  Julie, we love it. We love it.
• 44:43
  You're great. You're sensational.
• 44:45
  You know your baseball. We definitely got to get you
• 44:47
  back on the show. We'll talk to you soon, my
• 44:48
  friend. Sounds good, let me know.
• 44:50
  Juan Recon, ladies and gentlemen.
• 44:52
  And let me tell you something. The knowledge that this man has,
• 44:56
  he he knows the baseball union, we can go back and forth.
• 44:59
  There are things that I, I can argue with some of his takes,
• 45:03
  but he knows because he's been a part of the game and he's been a
• 45:06
  part of the association. But it it, it's kind of, it's
• 45:09
  kind of interesting how baseball has allowed the Dodgers to get
• 45:14
  away with what they've gotten away with.
• 45:15
  And a lot of Dodger fans can't stand the way I attacked them.
• 45:18
  But here's the facts. The Dodgers are an organization
• 45:22
  that will continue doing this if they they don't do something
• 45:26
  about it. And it has nothing to do with
• 45:28
  the owners making money. I could care less what the
• 45:30
  owners make, but as a fan and I want to go watch competitive
• 45:34
  baseball, that's not fair. That's not fair to watch this
• 45:38
  team and Kyle Tucker to a roster that has Shayo Itani Friedman
• 45:43
  bets a pitching staff. That's ridiculous.
• 45:47
  I I mean it's and I dude, they have Muncie.
• 45:50
  They've got so many great players on that roster.
• 45:53
  It makes you sick to your stomach.
• 45:54
  So that's my argument to it. But hey, listen, it's in the
• 45:58
  rule. I mean it's not in the rule book
• 46:00
  that you can't do this. And that's why I think baseball
• 46:02
  needs to do something about it during the strike.
• 46:05
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we call this all righty then.
• 46:10
  All righty then. All righty.
• 46:15
  All righty, All righty. All righty, then welcome back to
• 46:20
  our literary segment. All righty then we're going to
• 46:24
  take a look at one of Errol's articles on
• 46:27
  worldwidesportsradio.com. Awesome article on the
• 46:30
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• 46:33
  Take a look on the screen if you're watching with us and if
• 46:36
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• 46:40
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• 46:41
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• 46:46
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• 46:51
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• 46:53
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• 47:01
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• 47:04
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• 47:12
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• 47:27
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• 47:30
  doing right now. So go ahead.
• 47:32
  Yeah, so here it is. Pinstripes, power and pure
• 47:35
  chaos. Which damn Yankees team was
• 47:38
  actually the greatest ever? We have these articles up on
• 47:42
  Reddit. There's a lot of comments.
• 47:43
  Speed is going to go through some of these comments after I
• 47:46
  read you guys an excerpt. And again, if you're only
• 47:49
  listening to listen audio, you can catch us on video, I believe
• 47:52
  both on Apple and Spotify. A lot of Spotify viewers on
• 47:56
  subscription already. All right, here we go.
• 47:59
  Before we dive into the greatest teams in the history of the New
• 48:03
  York Yankees, we need to address the elephant in the Bronx, the
• 48:06
  championship drought. The Yankees used to win so often
• 48:09
  that the rest of Major League Baseball basically felt like
• 48:12
  extras in the Yankees documentary.
• 48:14
  But since the champagne showers of the 2009 World Series, things
• 48:19
  have been a little dry. And by dry, I mean the kind of
• 48:22
  drought that has Yankee fans pacing around the Bronx like
• 48:25
  caffeinated pigeons, wondering if October is still on the
• 48:28
  calendar. But before we crown the greatest
• 48:30
  Yankees team ever, we need to look back through the decades of
• 48:33
  dominance, chaos, superstars and enough Hall of Farmers to fill
• 48:37
  half of Cooperstown. The 1930s Yankees Murderer's Row
• 48:42
  reloaded key players. Joe DiMaggio.
• 48:46
  Bill Dickey. Red Ruffin, Joe Gordon Manager
• 48:49
  Joe McCarthy 1939 Yankees won 106 games, swept the World
• 48:53
  Series. Like they were late for dinner
• 48:55
  reservations. Other teams had stars.
• 48:58
  These Yankees had a solar system. 1950s Yankees Baseball's
• 49:03
  royal family Key players Mickey Mantle Yogi Barrow Whitey Ford
• 49:06
  Roger Maris Manager Casey Stengel 7778 They Bronze Zoo and
• 49:14
  as you keep going 1980s Yankees great players no rings late 90s
• 49:18
  Yankees the baseball Death Star ranking the greatest Yankees
• 49:23
  team ever. Here it is.
• 49:25
  Yankees 1998 Baseball perfection #1 number 21939 Yankees
• 49:32
  overwhelming dominus number 31953 Yankees five straight
• 49:36
  championships or 1977 talent chaos and five 2009 The last
• 49:43
  championship team the greatest Yankees team ever assembled.
• 49:47
  The 1998 Yankees Debating the greatest Yankees team, however,
• 49:53
  is like arguing which Lamborghini is the fastest.
• 49:57
  All right, so a mixed bag here of agreements and disagreements.
• 50:01
  We'll start with one that was kind of a split.
• 50:03
  This is traditional half 842-1927 or 1939, he says.
• 50:08
  You can't really compare the free agency era to the stock
• 50:11
  roster as an old when you have to home grow it. 1927 Yankees at
• 50:14
  872 OPS as a team and AW 2125 WRC plus.
• 50:18
  But the pitching staff was better in 1939, especially after
• 50:21
  losing, obviously, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig.
• 50:24
  Very, very interesting and and I agree, thank you traditional for
• 50:27
  giving us your take. And it's interesting when you
• 50:30
  look at 1927 or 1939 and try to compare both teams and, and now
• 50:34
  looking at the statistics and you say, well, you can't look at
• 50:37
  that, but then you bring up the statistics.
• 50:40
  That's, that's the thing. And then the transition of the
• 50:42
  game and now adding war and, and all these statistics, you, you
• 50:46
  can actually look at those teams and compare those teams to now
• 50:50
  the new age teams because of all the statistics and, and what the
• 50:54
  analytics are showing you now. I I still think the 98 Yankee
• 50:58
  team is the best team. They won more games and even
• 51:02
  though they didn't have the stars that the 1927 Yankees and
• 51:05
  the 1939 Yankees add, there were just more consistent than those
• 51:09
  teams. So that's why I went with the
• 51:11
  1998 Yankees. All right, so this one agreed
• 51:14
  with you. Grissom Stash says 1998 125 and
• 51:18
  50 total record, including the post season and sweeping the
• 51:20
  Padres in the World Series. And the Padres weren't a good
• 51:23
  team. I mean, Cam Caminiti was their
• 51:25
  best player. That's kind of why I brought it
• 51:27
  up. Yeah, and and May, rest in
• 51:29
  peace. Cam was on steroids and a lot of
• 51:31
  people say the steroids. That was when it's the steroids
• 51:35
  time was at its worst. But here's the facts.
• 51:40
  It didn't matter who they played in the World Series.
• 51:42
  The Yankees were going to kill him.
• 51:43
  They were just so good. Their pitching staff, their
• 51:45
  bullpen, if you look at their pitching staff, it was
• 51:48
  ridiculous. They had David Wells, they had
• 51:50
  Rodger Clemens. I mean, they, they're, they were
• 51:53
  stacked from top to about Andy Pettitte.
• 51:56
  I mean, this was one of the best pitching Staffs ever assembled.
• 51:59
  And if you look at their bullpen, they were pretty damn
• 52:01
  good too. So I, I mean, they had Mariano
• 52:04
  Rivera as their clothes. I mean, it was ridiculous.
• 52:06
  So my fact, here's the facts. The 98 Yankees were so dominant
• 52:11
  and and so good, it didn't matter who was hitting ninth or
• 52:15
  who was hitting first. So I absolutely agree agree with
• 52:18
  you Grissom, and I agree with you. 98 Yankees were the best
• 52:22
  Yankee team of all time. All.
• 52:23
  Right. Next one is Chiquita.
• 52:24
  OK, 85, he says. Easily 1927.
• 52:27
  There's a reason they got the nickname Murderer's Row.
• 52:29
  Chiquita, thank you for your take, and I agree.
• 52:32
  I agree with you. A murderer's row was
• 52:34
  sensational. Think about the talent that they
• 52:37
  had Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig. I mean, wasn't that murders Row?
• 52:41
  Everybody talks about how those two players, I mean, Babe Ruth
• 52:46
  was the greatest, I believe the greatest baseball player of all
• 52:48
  time. And Lou Gehrig 3000 games in a
• 52:52
  row, I mean, he was as good a hitter as Babe Ruth was.
• 52:55
  And when you look at that lineup, it was stacked from top
• 52:58
  to bottom. So I agree with you.
• 53:00
  That was I mean, they had the most stars and they had the
• 53:02
  biggest. Actually, I don't even know if
• 53:04
  they had the most stars. I think the a little bit later
• 53:07
  with Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford, those,
• 53:11
  I mean, those teams had a lot of stars too.
• 53:13
  So but that that roster in in the middle of, you know, in the
• 53:18
  middle of that lineup having Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, I
• 53:20
  mean, you can argue any one of these teams would fit there as
• 53:24
  #1 but again, the 98 Yankees 120 and 50 throughout the the
• 53:29
  regular season, the playoffs, no Yankee teams ever done that.
• 53:32
  And it's talk, talk about hitting superstars.
• 53:36
  Who was their best hitter of that year?
• 53:38
  Really, Who was their best hitter?
• 53:40
  Bernie Williams? Paul O'Neill?
• 53:44
  I mean, are they Hall of Farmers?
• 53:46
  They're not, I'm just saying. Now that's how, especially how
• 53:50
  stingy the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 53:51
  So Don Manningly, those guys aren't getting in.
• 53:53
  All right, let's go to the next one.
• 53:54
  Kaiser Soze 961939 was the most impressive championship team
• 53:59
  after losing Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but Murders Row still
• 54:01
  the best overall. Again, Lou Gehrig, and thank you
• 54:06
  to Kaiser. Thank you for your take on that
• 54:08
  1939 Yankees were a great team. They were great.
• 54:14
  And the 1927 Yankees murders row.
• 54:17
  Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth were sensational players.
• 54:21
  They're two of the best, two of the greatest hitters of all
• 54:24
  time, not just in that era of all time, but, and 1939 was good
• 54:30
  and, and the 1950 Yankees were really, really good too.
• 54:33
  And the 1970 Yankees, the, the Bronx Zoo, they were great too.
• 54:38
  When they added Reggie Jackson to that roster.
• 54:40
  And Thurman Munson. I'm not, I mean, are you going
• 54:43
  to tell me that Reggie Jackson and Thurman Munson were two of
• 54:46
  the best at their positions of all time?
• 54:48
  They were, they're both Hall of Farmers.
• 54:51
  So I, I, I, I understand how everybody's comparing it.
• 54:55
  It's just a take. I still think the 98 Yankees,
• 54:59
  for what they did with less of superstar talent, was more
• 55:03
  impressive. All right, last one, we'll round
• 55:05
  it out with the 98 Yankees Truth seeker O4 says Yankees were the
• 55:08
  best team in MLB history. Hard.
• 55:10
  Stop. No question.
• 55:11
  Thank you, truth seeker. I agree with you.
• 55:13
  The 98 Yankees. And here's the thing, if you
• 55:16
  look at the rosters, besides Mariano Rivera, Derek Jeter,
• 55:21
  and, and some of the Yankee players that they built through
• 55:25
  their farm system and, and they did add Rodger Clemens and David
• 55:29
  Wells was good and David Cone was a good pitcher.
• 55:32
  They're all great pitchers. When you look at just straight
• 55:37
  up talent, it was built through their farm system.
• 55:40
  Andy Pettitte was arguably one of the greatest pitches the
• 55:44
  Yankees have ever had. He came from the Yankees farm
• 55:47
  system. Jorge Posada should be
• 55:49
  considered a Hall of Famer. This guy's statistics, as far as
• 55:53
  a catcher's concerned, you can compare him to Johnny Bench or
• 55:57
  any one of those guys that are in the Hall of Fame, but this
• 56:00
  guy barely got 10% of the votes and that's why he's never going
• 56:03
  to be on the ballot again. Bernie Williams, one of the most
• 56:07
  underrated playoff players of all time.
• 56:10
  You're going to tell me this guy wasn't as good a two way player
• 56:13
  as we've ever seen the Yankees have?
• 56:15
  But they're not Babe Ruth, they're not Joe DiMaggio,
• 56:19
  they're not Mickey Mantle, Lou Gehrig, even Aaron Judge because
• 56:25
  of just the way the transition was from the 90s, from the 80's,
• 56:30
  the 70's, the 60's, the 50s and everything like that.
• 56:32
  But my argument would not argue that 98 wasn't the best team
• 56:37
  because of what? Lack of talent?
• 56:40
  Well, lack of superstars. They had and and still did it
• 56:43
  with the players and and won at a dominant fashion.
• 56:46
  So that's my take. The 98 Yankees is the greatest
• 56:49
  Yankee team because they did it without and and Derek Jeter was
• 56:53
  a star, but he wasn't a superstar in 98.
• 56:55
  He was remember he came up in 969596.
• 56:59
  He won his first World Series in 9698.
• 57:02
  Derek Jeter was three years into the league.
• 57:03
  He wasn't even a captain of the team.
• 57:05
  So he didn't become the captain until 99 I think.
• 57:09
  So my argument here is Derek Jeter still was still a young
• 57:13
  man. He was 2324 years old when he
• 57:16
  was at a high, when the Yankees were that high level.
• 57:19
  So that's just my argument, OK, You, everybody's got their own
• 57:23
  opinion and I love it. Thank you for all the fans that
• 57:26
  have reached out to us and answered and and argued their
• 57:29
  points. I love it.
• 57:30
  And that's why I keep writing and I keep posting stories for
• 57:33
  everybody to read because I want them to enjoy it.
• 57:37
  All right, ladies and gentlemen, we got to get into some baseball
• 57:41
  as we're going to get into the American League and National
• 57:44
  League Central preview. The Tigers open up as betting
• 57:48
  favorites to win the American League Central at a + 110,
• 57:52
  followed by the Royals at plus 225 and the Guardians at plus
• 57:57
  425. The Tigers were able to keep
• 58:00
  Glaber Torres on his qualifying offer, brought back Justin
• 58:04
  Verlander, signed Kenley Jansen and their big move was signing
• 58:11
  Framber Valdez for a three-year 150, a $115 million deal.
• 58:19
  The Royals had a quiet offseason, mostly extending
• 58:21
  their own players, including Salvatore Perez and Vini
• 58:26
  Pascontino for two years, Mikel Garcia for five years.
• 58:31
  The Guardians also were pretty quiet, only signing three relief
• 58:35
  pitchers, but did lock up Jose Ramirez for another 4 year, $106
• 58:40
  million extension, which will be added on to his current
• 58:44
  contract, keeping him with the Cleveland Guardians until 2032.
• 58:49
  So he's going to retire as a Guardian.
• 58:51
  The Cubs opened as betting favorites in the National League
• 58:55
  Central at plus 110, the Brewers at plus 250, the Reds at plus
• 59:00
  450 and the Pirates at +600. The Pirates made some moves to
• 59:06
  improve their lineup depth, trading for 2nd baseman Brandon
• 59:10
  Lowe and signing first baseman Ryan O'hearn and DH Marcel
• 59:16
  Ozuna. The Reds brought in three new
• 59:20
  relief pitchers, but their big move is bringing back WBC hero
• 59:25
  Suarez, who hit 49 home runs last season.
• 59:29
  The Brewers were able to bring back pitcher Brandon Woodruff on
• 59:35
  a qualifying offer, but traded traded Freddie Peralta to the
• 59:42
  Mets for pitching prospect Brandon Sprout and in an
• 59:46
  infielder prospect Jeff, I'm sorry, Jet Williams.
• 59:51
  The Cubs traded for Marlins pitcher Edwin Cabrera, brought
• 59:55
  back Shoda Imanaga, Imanana, whatever on a qualifying offer
• 1:00:02
  and signed Alex Bregman to A5 year $175,000,000 deal.
• 1:00:07
  By the way, Bregman who didn't show up to the WBCWBC, he really
• 1:00:12
  didn't show up. Out of all the players, he was
• 1:00:14
  the one that didn't show up and he just made himself almost $200
• 1:00:17
  million in the offseason by the Cubs.
• 1:00:19
  It's interesting to look at the Tigers and not think that the
• 1:00:23
  Tigers even with the additions that they made.
• 1:00:26
  Are not the favorites to come out of the central and, and it's
• 1:00:28
  central to me every single year is up and down.
• 1:00:32
  The Guardians always find a way in the second-half of the season
• 1:00:36
  to to get back to that second or first place position and run
• 1:00:41
  away with the division. They do it every single year.
• 1:00:43
  It's pretty amazing. We talked to Nick Goody all the
• 1:00:46
  time. He worked with the Guardians
• 1:00:47
  last year and I went back and forth with him.
• 1:00:50
  He told me don't be surprised if the Guardians come back and win
• 1:00:52
  the division and what happens? They did that.
• 1:00:55
  So I'm not going to bet out. I'm not going to bet against the
• 1:00:58
  Guardians at a + 425. If you're a betting man, I would
• 1:01:02
  bet that plus 425. I would because I don't trust
• 1:01:06
  the Tigers even bring it back. Justin Verlander, the old man,
• 1:01:09
  Justin Verlander. Glaber Torres was good last
• 1:01:12
  year, but is he going to be consistent?
• 1:01:14
  Remember, he only got brought back with a qualifying offer.
• 1:01:17
  So he's going to be a free agent again next year.
• 1:01:20
  So I he's going to want to play and he's going to want to play
• 1:01:23
  hard. Kenley Jensen was an interesting
• 1:01:25
  signing. He's a good relief pitcher.
• 1:01:27
  He was the closer for the Dodgers for, for many, many
• 1:01:31
  years. And and Framber Valdez, he's
• 1:01:34
  another guy that's very interesting to this this roster
• 1:01:37
  as well. So the Tigers are good.
• 1:01:40
  They got a lot of good young players.
• 1:01:41
  We're going to see a lot of good young players come up from their
• 1:01:44
  farm system. They're loaded.
• 1:01:46
  They're loaded and to add players in pieces the way they
• 1:01:49
  did this offseason, it's very Detroit not ask because they
• 1:01:54
  don't usually do that. They usually over the last
• 1:01:57
  couple of years they've they've taken their money and thrown it
• 1:02:00
  into some of the younger players and they're doing what the
• 1:02:03
  Braves are trying to do, keep their younger players and make
• 1:02:05
  sure that they don't go to arbitration.
• 1:02:08
  And that's what the the Tigers are going to try to do, and
• 1:02:11
  they're not going to be able to do that with Tarek Skubal.
• 1:02:13
  And Tarek Skubal is going to go to free agency because he's
• 1:02:16
  going to make himself $500 million, if not next year or the
• 1:02:19
  year after, whenever the strike is over.
• 1:02:21
  The Royals. Weed is a great player.
• 1:02:25
  He will be up for an MVP once again, as expected.
• 1:02:28
  Salvador Perez, we know how great of a catcher he is.
• 1:02:32
  He won. He won the WBC, He was one of
• 1:02:35
  the leaders for that Venezuela team.
• 1:02:36
  So you like Salvatore Perez and you want to bring back a veteran
• 1:02:40
  captain of that magnitude. But I don't trust the Kansas
• 1:02:43
  City Royals. I don't think they're going to
• 1:02:44
  be any good this year. I think they're going to be
• 1:02:46
  chasing and Brandon and a guy like Wit, and I'll say this
• 1:02:50
  again, Wit will be eventually a guy that is going to have to be
• 1:02:54
  traded. There's no way they're going to
• 1:02:56
  be able to keep Wit as good as he is.
• 1:02:58
  Teams are going to be gunning for him when he becomes
• 1:03:01
  arbitrated or even becomes there was, you know what, one year or
• 1:03:04
  two years left on his contract and and which is coming up very,
• 1:03:07
  very soon. So Wit is going to be a free
• 1:03:10
  agent. Teams like the Yankees who are
• 1:03:12
  going to need a shortstop for their future.
• 1:03:14
  If one of these guys, Lombardi or one of these guys don't work
• 1:03:17
  out Volpe, I could see that happening.
• 1:03:20
  So very, very interesting. The Reds as far as the Central
• 1:03:23
  is concerned. Here's the thing.
• 1:03:28
  I think the Cubs are going to run away with this division.
• 1:03:31
  I do, I, I think the Cubs, even though the Brewers had a great
• 1:03:35
  season, I, I don't know if the Brewers are going to be able to
• 1:03:38
  do it again this coming year. I think the Cubs adding a
• 1:03:41
  Bregman, they've got some good depth in that lineup now in the
• 1:03:45
  middle of that lineup and they got a good pitching staff.
• 1:03:48
  I can't see the Cubs not winning this division this year, but
• 1:03:50
  don't be surprised as the Brewers are going to be chasing
• 1:03:52
  them and the Reds. I think I could see three teams
• 1:03:54
  making the playoffs, 2 wild card teams and and one of these teams
• 1:03:58
  going to win the division. This is probably besides the
• 1:04:03
  Dodgers division. Now the reason why I say the
• 1:04:06
  Dodgers because we don't know what the Diamondbacks are going
• 1:04:09
  to be and and we we don't know what the Padres are going to be
• 1:04:12
  because the Padres for some reason can't stay healthy.
• 1:04:16
  Tatis and and Machado. How long are they going to keep
• 1:04:19
  those two guys on the on the same roster?
• 1:04:21
  But I, I will say this, I think the Cubs have more depth this
• 1:04:25
  year than they did last year. I think they're the better team.
• 1:04:28
  The Reds watch out for them. They're going to start off
• 1:04:30
  really, really strong. And we'll see how, if they're
• 1:04:33
  going to last year they started off very slow, but I think this
• 1:04:36
  year they're going to start off really, really strong.
• 1:04:38
  We'll see if they tail off. They really picked up the pace
• 1:04:41
  in the second-half of the season when the Mets kind of fell
• 1:04:43
  apart. I want to see how they do this
• 1:04:46
  year with some of the additions. Are the Pirates going to be that
• 1:04:49
  bad this year? Paul Schemes is looking to be
• 1:04:52
  traded. They added a Zuna.
• 1:04:53
  They they added some pieces. Something the Pirates never do.
• 1:04:57
  Is the reason why they brought a Zuna is because they're trying
• 1:05:00
  to get some draft stock or farming farm hands in the future
• 1:05:04
  and move a Zuna when when free agent or or when, when the trade
• 1:05:07
  deadline comes around. That could be something that
• 1:05:09
  they're looking for to do. But I think it's the Cubs, the
• 1:05:14
  Brewers, the Reds, that's where I would go, and then the
• 1:05:17
  Pirates. But I think the Cubs want to run
• 1:05:20
  away with the division this year.
• 1:05:21
  Yeah, the Cubs, I think are the second best team on paper in the
• 1:05:24
  National League after the Dodgers.
• 1:05:25
  I think the Cubs have had a good farm system for a while.
• 1:05:28
  A lot of these young pitchers are going to play bigger roles
• 1:05:31
  in it this year. You saw the bullpen kind of
• 1:05:32
  emerge in the second-half when I thought they didn't do enough
• 1:05:34
  with the trade deadline. They actually did very well and
• 1:05:36
  I think they definitely made their mark.
• 1:05:38
  Now it's interesting because the Brewers are slowly right there,
• 1:05:40
  too. We I've thought the same thing
• 1:05:41
  with their developmental process, like how long could
• 1:05:43
  they keep this process up, getting of these players?
• 1:05:47
  I thought they missed the playoffs last year and they
• 1:05:48
  still did very well that Cincinnati was better than them
• 1:05:50
  and they still got in. And yeah, I'm not going to fall
• 1:05:53
  for that kind of thing again. And the Brewers, I think still
• 1:05:55
  can win the division because they've owned the Cubs head to
• 1:05:57
  head recently. So that could help win the
• 1:05:58
  division. The Cubs I think is more talent
• 1:06:00
  to make World Series run. That's another question.
• 1:06:02
  We'll see if anyone could beat the Dodgers, but you're right,
• 1:06:04
  the Padres are one of my drop offs.
• 1:06:06
  So I think there could be a window for the Reds maybe to get
• 1:06:08
  in as that other young team. Now Fish, we talked about it
• 1:06:11
  earlier this week. Hunter green already hurt.
• 1:06:13
  How much is that going to affect their rotation?
• 1:06:15
  I think they still have a pretty deep rotation as a whole.
• 1:06:17
  The Reds, which one team they they couldn't get the pitching
• 1:06:19
  and hitting going at the same time last year, like when
• 1:06:21
  they're hitting did well in the when the pitchers were hurt, the
• 1:06:25
  pitching didn't do well. Then the offense went cold kind
• 1:06:27
  of in the second-half of the season, but just enough because
• 1:06:29
  the Mets had the historical lapse.
• 1:06:30
  They were stable to get in the playoffs.
• 1:06:32
  So there's a window for that. The Pirates, we'll see if they
• 1:06:35
  can get the pieces together on offense.
• 1:06:36
  Fish, I think you brought up last month or so, they kind of
• 1:06:38
  spent a lot in order to get it. Can they make all the work?
• 1:06:42
  That's another question in the American League.
• 1:06:44
  I'm with you on the Guardians. I think the Guardians were like
• 1:06:46
  behind, like they were not expected because they didn't
• 1:06:49
  know there was the LCS the year before, but they lost a lot of
• 1:06:51
  pieces and their young kids didn't come up for the whole
• 1:06:53
  season yet. Now you're going to get a full
• 1:06:55
  year with Manzardo, who's a good prospect, chased a Lottie, a
• 1:06:58
  good process. I know Goody was talking about
• 1:06:59
  that. I think they were actually
• 1:07:01
  playing like with house money essentially last year here and
• 1:07:03
  now I think they're going to have even more of a more of a
• 1:07:05
  well-rounded identity all season long where they rely on a we're
• 1:07:09
  going to play hot in the second-half because we're not
• 1:07:11
  expecting to do well because Class A got suspended and all
• 1:07:13
  that betting scandal in over their heads.
• 1:07:16
  And that's the other thing with the Tigers, how much they let
• 1:07:18
  the drama of school ball affect them.
• 1:07:20
  Are they going to have enough veteran leadership with these
• 1:07:22
  other guys to not let that be a distraction for them all year?
• 1:07:25
  Because the American League is going to have tougher divisions
• 1:07:28
  with the West and with the East, where you might be out of the
• 1:07:31
  playoffs if you let that thing get into you.
• 1:07:34
  Yeah, Speedy. I think that the biggest move
• 1:07:37
  that was made by any team was getting Framber Valdez in the
• 1:07:40
  offseason. Because if they lose Scubal now,
• 1:07:43
  they still have a guy that can, you know, he's a #2 but he could
• 1:07:47
  be like a poor man's ace, you know, going forwards.
• 1:07:50
  He's a really good pitcher. Now they have two lefties with
• 1:07:53
  him in Scubal. Rest of that rotation, a little
• 1:07:57
  hit or miss. You know, Casey Mize, more of a
• 1:07:59
  depth starter, had a good first half, you know, kind of fell off
• 1:08:04
  in the second-half. Like Franber Valdez has elite
• 1:08:08
  upside. Like elite upside tied for the
• 1:08:10
  most wins since he's become a starting pitcher since 2020.
• 1:08:14
  You know, this is a real, real dude.
• 1:08:16
  Obviously played for a really good Houston team.
• 1:08:19
  Easier to get wins there. Wins is not a perfect statistic
• 1:08:22
  to go by, but no one's going to say he wasn't a top 15 pitcher
• 1:08:25
  in that time. No one's going to say that, you
• 1:08:28
  know, maybe in the last few years closer to top 20, top 25
• 1:08:31
  at worst, but I would still say he's top 15, top 20 and that's
• 1:08:36
  great to add on. And if case they lose him.
• 1:08:38
  The biggest question mark in that division in my opinion,
• 1:08:43
  though, is Kansas City. And you, you say it, Errol, but
• 1:08:46
  there's a guy that they didn't have last year and until the
• 1:08:50
  very end of the season when Cole Reagan's came back and made
• 1:08:54
  three electric starts like we thought he could do.
• 1:08:57
  He's a real number one in my opinion.
• 1:09:02
  He flashed a lot. I know Jabba loved him, would
• 1:09:04
  talk about him a lot as well. His stuff was electric, maybe a
• 1:09:07
  little too electric to maintain the arm health.
• 1:09:10
  But if he's back, that gives them a whole nother dimension.
• 1:09:15
  That's like giving them a Garrick Cole, you know, at the
• 1:09:17
  beginning of the season. Like, that's how good he could
• 1:09:20
  be. Like his ceiling is outrageous
• 1:09:22
  in my opinion. I don't think he can't.
• 1:09:24
  Even with Reagan playing at a high level, I don't think it's
• 1:09:27
  going to make a difference. I mean, the Cubs are that much
• 1:09:29
  better than them. And and I, I and I do believe
• 1:09:33
  Milwaukee, we're talking about Kansas City.
• 1:09:35
  I'm sorry. No, yeah, I'm talking about in
• 1:09:37
  the AL because you don't know what that that that Cleveland
• 1:09:40
  lineup, speedy, like you see these names.
• 1:09:44
  But I'm going to have a fantasy baseball draft this weekend and
• 1:09:47
  I'm going to tell you zero of those guys are going to be
• 1:09:49
  drafted, you know, maybe very late.
• 1:09:51
  It doesn't. Matter, it's the way they play
• 1:09:53
  as a team and, and, and, and I believe they're very well
• 1:09:57
  managed. They have one of the better
• 1:09:59
  managers, one of the more underrated managers in all the
• 1:10:02
  baseball. And I'm not talking about
• 1:10:03
  Francona because he's not running that organization, he's
• 1:10:06
  running Cincinnati. So I think, didn't he win
• 1:10:09
  Manager of the Year? Vote yes.
• 1:10:11
  So I to me, I, I think that we're going to see how this team
• 1:10:17
  does with less and we've seen it every single year.
• 1:10:21
  They start off really, really slow.
• 1:10:22
  Last year they were really bad and then after the All Star
• 1:10:26
  break, slowly but surely they got back into it and then
• 1:10:30
  eventually took over and and knocked tight the Tigers out of
• 1:10:33
  first place, which was shocking because the Tigers were so much
• 1:10:36
  better than they were all season long until really 2530 games
• 1:10:41
  left of the the season It was. It was pretty impressive what
• 1:10:44
  the Guardians did. But Kansas City is not going to
• 1:10:46
  be any good and and they're going to have to decide what
• 1:10:48
  they're going to be doing with because he is not staying with
• 1:10:50
  that organization. Yeah.
• 1:10:52
  The other problem, even with the mitts, the other pitching
• 1:10:53
  injuries, fish, was the fact that their offense never got
• 1:10:55
  going all year depth wise inside of maybe Garcia had a nice year.
• 1:10:59
  Like they're pitching. They had Cameron that pitched
• 1:11:01
  well. You had Chris Bubeck who pitched
• 1:11:04
  well before he got hurt. He was an All Star.
• 1:11:06
  He was like the second or third highest at the All Star rating
• 1:11:08
  for a while with pitchers until he got hurt.
• 1:11:11
  That just their offense was so terrible, like they were third
• 1:11:14
  worst OPS as a team or something.
• 1:11:15
  Before before we move on, you mentioned the Red 4 and I love
• 1:11:19
  Francona. You know that's where he is.
• 1:11:21
  Now they have Hunter Green who is going to be out till at least
• 1:11:25
  July, but it's going to be right around the trade deadline.
• 1:11:28
  Now Chase Burns has also hurt. He's their their prospect.
• 1:11:32
  I don't know how much he's going to be able to go this year if
• 1:11:35
  they suffer one more injury and Ladolo, who's their next best
• 1:11:38
  pitcher is an injury risk. You now have a team that might
• 1:11:44
  free fall and they might sell off a piece.
• 1:11:46
  And even though he's been, he hasn't pitched all season,
• 1:11:49
  Hunter Green might be the top name at the trade deadline that
• 1:11:53
  any team is going to be dying to get because you're not going to
• 1:11:57
  get a guy who throws over 100 on average from anywhere else.
• 1:12:01
  And it's going to be pretty awesome the competition for him.
• 1:12:05
  If this is what I, I, I think that really might happen because
• 1:12:08
  that's competitive that division.
• 1:12:10
  And if they don't have enough pitching to get through the
• 1:12:12
  first half of the season, they should sell because they got
• 1:12:15
  enough talent for the future. I think they're going to be
• 1:12:17
  fine. I really do.
• 1:12:19
  I I think Francona is a great manager.
• 1:12:22
  He finds ways to win games and I think he will find a way to keep
• 1:12:25
  this team in that race and see how healthy they can get.
• 1:12:28
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• 1:12:32
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