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Mets knock out Paul Skenes in 1st inning, Opening Day Vibes, Jackson Chourio to IL, Yanks-Giants recap · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: It's here.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening, happy Opening Day after Opening Night, which we'll
• 0:10
  Speaker 2: get into. We are here, we are watching baseball today.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: There's actually only one early game that starts, and I
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: think about fifteen minutes or so, AJ and me were
• 0:21
  Speaker 2: scrambling to figure out where it was. It's going to
• 0:24
  Speaker 2: be a fun game this year to figure out where
• 0:25
  Speaker 2: games are.
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no one knows. No one knows. No local stations
• 0:30
  Speaker 3: know that. I guess the locals just found out yesterday
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  Speaker 3: where most of their games are.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, they just announced it this morning for fans.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's fine. Listen, I get it. It's about money.
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  Speaker 3: You got to grow out what you can. But I
• 0:40
  Speaker 3: still I'm a big Opening day day guy.
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  Speaker 4: Not at night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just not a I'm not. I said it the
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  Speaker 3: other day. I just wish that they would go back
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  Speaker 3: to it's opening day.
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: They should.
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  Speaker 3: You know, kids are excited, they get out of school,
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  Speaker 3: they get to go watch their team whatever, or you know,
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  Speaker 3: the teacher turns it on or they're trying to watch
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  Speaker 3: it on their phone.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever. But I'm just a big Opening day guy daytime.
• 1:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, Okay, are you okay with today having some games
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  Speaker 2: spread out?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: With that okay, but they should be on the same day,
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  Speaker 3: and I get whether or not I understand, fine, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I just wish they were all on most of them
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  Speaker 3: because some teams fill played on tomorrow and then some
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  Speaker 3: teams start today, and it's just like, Wow, there's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: There's a lot to keep up with, and I've even
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  Speaker 2: reached a point where it is going to be a
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  Speaker 2: fun game to find where, for example, the Yankees are
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  Speaker 2: playing on a daily basis. There are double digit options,
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  Speaker 2: but we have one new option for you if you're
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  Speaker 2: a Twins fan. So let's announce that because that show
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  Speaker 2: is ready to go in up there for the world.
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  Speaker 1: To consume Twin Cities territory.
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  Speaker 2: Zach Pierce and Dan Hayes will run Point as the
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  Speaker 2: main two hosts, and Tyler Duffy also will be a
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  Speaker 2: part of the mix part of the FT Network.
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  Speaker 1: We're excited about it. There it is. Do you like
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: the skyline? I always like to get your logo take.
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  Speaker 4: I like Minnesota, always have.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't you play there?
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  Speaker 4: I did for a while. He did it.
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  Speaker 2: They're going to have some stuff to talk about, stuff
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  Speaker 2: to talk about. Yeah, what do you think Kratz?
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  Speaker 5: Great logo? The logo team just killed it every single time.
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  Speaker 5: They even had the Curse of Twins City. Correct, Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: it's legit. I just need my nineteen eighty seven Frank
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  Speaker 5: Viola jersey, and so when he shows up on the show,
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  Speaker 5: the show will be complete.
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  Speaker 2: Boom, there you go, and we will show you a
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  Speaker 2: clip from that show a little bit later on. Let's
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  Speaker 2: get to some news to start charge about. Uh oh,
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  Speaker 2: you hate the opening day I el stints Jackson Cheerio
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  Speaker 2: fractured left hand, so he hurt his hand during an
• 2:56
  Speaker 2: exhibition game when his team was prepping for the World
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: Baseball Classic.
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  Speaker 1: I think he missed.
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  Speaker 2: Two games at the time and then played in the
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  Speaker 2: rest of the Classic, and then this news pops up
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  Speaker 2: on Opening Days. So I don't know every single detail,
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  Speaker 2: but clearly it did not heal.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just bad news. I mean, just added to the
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  Speaker 3: list of Brewer things. They always seem to get through.
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  Speaker 3: It material going down. There's a big blow for them,
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  Speaker 3: but the Brewers find a way. They called up they
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  Speaker 3: called up someone uh jeezu, I'm sorry I went blank,
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  Speaker 3: but I know they called up someone I had heard of.
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  Speaker 3: So it wasn't like they called up some guy that
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  Speaker 3: hadn't have a little bit of experience Blake Perkins, who
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  Speaker 3: has done some nice things. Yeah, so I think that, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: this is fine. It hurts, But for the Brewers, is
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  Speaker 3: going to come down to their pitching. Can they pitch
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  Speaker 3: good enough without losing Freddy will Big, Will Woodruf be
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  Speaker 3: good enough? I mean, it's just to me, it's about
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  Speaker 3: their pitching. This is a big blow, yes, but the
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  Speaker 3: Brewers always seemed to find a way.
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  Speaker 2: Perkins gives you a nice speed defense combo. Jake Powers
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  Speaker 2: is going to get the start in Churio's place today.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like two to four weeks was the initial
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  Speaker 2: initial prognosis. I would tend to think with that kind
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  Speaker 2: of injury in that age player Kratz, it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be more towards the.
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  Speaker 1: Four and so we'll see him in mid to late April.
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  Speaker 5: I would say the other way, I would say, yes,
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  Speaker 5: I get it, you don't want to rush it. But
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  Speaker 5: he's twenty two years old, like some people aren't even
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  Speaker 5: graduating college right now, twenty two years old. So I
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  Speaker 5: think he's going to heal pretty quick. I think they
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  Speaker 5: know they can't miss many games without him, because Glenn
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  Speaker 5: Perkins can do some nice things, but you got I
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  Speaker 5: mean Blake Perkins, not Glenn Perkins. Blake Perkins can do
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  Speaker 5: some nice things, but nobody's gonna Obviously, the ceiling is
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  Speaker 5: where you need Jackson Churio to get to, and he
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  Speaker 5: hasn't quite reached that yet, but he adds an electric
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  Speaker 5: piece to that lineup that they desperately need.
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  Speaker 2: Kratz, your former teammate, Christian Yelich wants to play the
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  Speaker 2: outBut field, and it sounds like they're going to give
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  Speaker 2: him that opportunity with this news.
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  Speaker 1: Are we good with that?
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  Speaker 2: He's had what what's been the primary issue to back
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  Speaker 2: for him?
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  Speaker 6: The back? Was it all stemmed? Yeah? He was.
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  Speaker 5: He's been dealing with his back for a shoot back
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  Speaker 5: when I was playing with him. You know, I think
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  Speaker 5: it's just something that the way he the way he
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  Speaker 5: spins and rotates. I think it's something that he's had
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  Speaker 5: to deal with. I think he's got that cleared up.
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  Speaker 5: But after that kneecap injury that you know, cost him
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  Speaker 5: his second MVP, I think it's something that he slowly
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  Speaker 5: worked back. But I think he's really gotten to the
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  Speaker 5: point where he's healthy. How much do you want him
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  Speaker 5: to play in the outfield. He's going to be fine
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  Speaker 5: out there. It's about him being on his feet that
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  Speaker 5: whole time. Does that affect his back, because if it does,
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  Speaker 5: then you got to have somebody else out there, because
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  Speaker 5: he'll play a fine outfield. He does a great job
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  Speaker 5: of keeping the ball in front. He doesn't throw, he
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  Speaker 5: doesn't make bad throws. He doesn't have like the most
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  Speaker 5: tremendous arm, So he'll be serviceable out there.
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• 6:00
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  Speaker 2: Capping this off with the overall point on the Brewers,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not too concerned. They didn't really turn it on
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  Speaker 2: last year until the last two three months.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the first four games it got smashed by the Yankees.
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  Speaker 3: Remember the Torpedo Bats.
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  Speaker 2: Were like, oh, the Brewers, they've lost it. No, they
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  Speaker 2: had the most wins in baseball last year, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it sucks to lose.
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  Speaker 1: Cher Area is one of your better bats.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not too concerned about it, especially, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: on the offensive side of things, they should be a
• 7:31
  Speaker 2: pretty solid offense with their own unique flavor. It's going
• 7:33
  Speaker 2: to be the same flavor offense. They keep acquiring similar types,
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  Speaker 2: right you plug in a David Hamilton, a Jet Williams,
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  Speaker 2: all these kind of guys that they keep acquiring to
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  Speaker 2: be in their system and the organization. Minor leagues are
• 7:46
  Speaker 2: major leagues. No, Kratz, you don't think so.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I get it. Durbin and Collins like
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  Speaker 5: they had success last year. Were they elite players? No,
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  Speaker 5: they weren't elite players. But now you're plugging in guys
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  Speaker 5: that you're like, I hope we have success Andrew Vaughn
• 8:02
  Speaker 5: thing worked out, Like you can't just constantly keep hitting
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  Speaker 5: on these guys. It's like, oh, we're going to replace
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  Speaker 5: it with the next hopefully the guy works out type
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  Speaker 5: of player. And when you lose a cheerio, I think
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  Speaker 5: that I'm more concerned about it than I think you are.
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  Speaker 6: Scott. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Are they plugging a player into a system or they're
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  Speaker 2: finding a player that they think they can tap into
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  Speaker 2: more or I guess.
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  Speaker 3: For me, it's more they try to find players that
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  Speaker 3: they can tap into. That is Murph's style that he
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  Speaker 3: likes around that, Like the lefty pitcher is.
• 8:33
  Speaker 1: Harrison, Kyle Harrison, the guy.
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  Speaker 3: Who is a breakout Kennedy for a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: because he's going to get thrown into the Brewers pitching
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  Speaker 3: lab and the way they do things there. So I
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: think they more try to find people that fit into
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  Speaker 3: their system than going out and finding and Murph does
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  Speaker 3: a good job of also adjusting to people. But I
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  Speaker 3: think they do a good job of finding people that
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  Speaker 3: they like that have certain skill sets that work together.
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  Speaker 2: Speeding, yes, speeding defense. And Kratz doesn't have to make
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs this year. Yep, I said it with
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  Speaker 2: my chest. Yep, you did, and you might be right.
• 9:08
  Speaker 2: We'll see. Cubs definitely should be better, Pirate should be better.
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  Speaker 2: Are they going to be great? I don't think so.
• 9:13
  Speaker 2: But are they going to be better?
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  Speaker 1: Yes?
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  Speaker 2: Red should be similar so last year, so Cardinal should
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  Speaker 2: be worse. So we'll see. All right, let's move on
• 9:24
  Speaker 2: to the next topic. Last night's game, it was just
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: one game, but the Yankee smacked the Giants, so first
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  Speaker 2: off game thoughts.
• 9:34
  Speaker 3: It was a game logan web, they jumped on logan
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  Speaker 3: web in the second ending. Game was over in the
• 9:38
  Speaker 3: second ending when they went up five to nothing. Max
• 9:39
  Speaker 3: feed was great. Uh, a little more speed, a little
• 9:44
  Speaker 3: more aggressiveness from the Yankees than what we had seen
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  Speaker 3: last year.
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  Speaker 4: Cover Euro when you went first to third in the
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  Speaker 4: leftfielder's face was fun. Stan look good?
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  Speaker 1: Uh?
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  Speaker 4: Free you pitched well.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously everyone's overreacting about Judge going over five with four punches.
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  Speaker 4: It happens. I mean I did.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: I did Barstool this morning, wake up Barstool and Fox
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  Speaker 3: and they one of the guys asked me if Aaron
• 10:05
  Speaker 3: Judge was beginning to be washed, and he had Phillies
• 10:08
  Speaker 3: Jersey on, so I told him to clown question.
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  Speaker 4: It's one game, I.
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  Speaker 1: Guarantee, he said, Aaron Judge washed.
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  Speaker 6: It's like, is he.
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  Speaker 3: Starting to get washed after the WBC and his four
• 10:16
  Speaker 3: strikeout game?
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  Speaker 4: And I'm like, dude, stop like please.
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  Speaker 3: But no, I thought it was It was a fine.
• 10:23
  Speaker 3: It was a baseball game. You never know what's gonna have.
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  Speaker 3: Of course, everyone wanted a three to two nail bier
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  Speaker 3: that comes on the last thing he did it. Yankees
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  Speaker 3: jumped them, they jumped them early. It was fine, it
• 10:31
  Speaker 3: was It was a nice intro to the season.
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  Speaker 1: Which is rare for Logan web.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but he still gives them five innings. It's amazing.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: It's amazing.
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: Right after the what was it the second, then the
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  Speaker 2: third and the fourth went went very nicely. Yeah, and
• 10:45
  Speaker 2: then in the fit there were a few you know,
• 10:46
  Speaker 2: hard contact knocks to start the inning. But what did
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: you think, Kratz of the Yankee showing up with some
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: offense and the Giants showing up with what three hits?
• 10:58
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean the whole note hit thing.
• 10:59
  Speaker 5: That's probably concerning just because you see the guys that
• 11:05
  Speaker 5: are in the lineup and you're like, Lee's going to
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  Speaker 5: be your fifth hitter, and a lineup that they need
• 11:11
  Speaker 5: to make contact, and they did that last night. So
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  Speaker 5: I guess that's a positive out of the fact that
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  Speaker 5: they still only had three hits, you know, if I'm
• 11:18
  Speaker 5: trying to make something positive out of it. But to me,
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  Speaker 5: the story was the fact that the Yankees did it
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  Speaker 5: without needing to beat the ball out of the stadium,
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  Speaker 5: like they did it by putting the ball in play.
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  Speaker 6: How do you do that against logan web? You do
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  Speaker 6: it early.
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  Speaker 5: You jump them early, because then you if you don't,
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  Speaker 5: you know, then that sinker gets a little bit more
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  Speaker 5: sync to it. Then that four steamer changes your eye
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  Speaker 5: level and you never want to face that change up.
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  Speaker 5: So I think they did a good job of just
• 11:45
  Speaker 5: jumping them early, but hitting as a lineup, and then
• 11:50
  Speaker 5: Max Free. You give Max Free to lead. He's one
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  Speaker 5: of the better pitchers in the game at pitching with
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  Speaker 5: the lead. And I say that because I think some
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  Speaker 5: guys just have one route to a successful game, and
• 12:01
  Speaker 5: that is strike one. Go for the strikeout, Go for
• 12:06
  Speaker 5: the strikeout, go for the strikeout. And I think Max
• 12:07
  Speaker 5: Freed does a really good job once he gets a lead,
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  Speaker 5: landing pitches that he's like, hey, you know what if
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  Speaker 5: you hit this ball hard at worst as a double,
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  Speaker 5: and then he's ahead and account and he's able to
• 12:18
  Speaker 5: go deeper into games and give you quality innings. And
• 12:20
  Speaker 5: so Max Freed off to another off to a good start.
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: Can he get twenty wins this year?
• 12:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, if he stays on there.
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: But we did have only one ABS right last night.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I turned it off and it was seven.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, I believe, just the one from one.
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  Speaker 4: And what was the outcome, I don't even know because
• 12:38
  Speaker 4: I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 1: But I was.
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  Speaker 4: I know it was cayby Erra, but it was in
• 12:42
  Speaker 4: the middle of it.
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: People that don't like the manager interviews, fine, but they're
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: gonna happen, and it just was weird. Normally, I know
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: on Fox when we do them, we split the screen
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  Speaker 3: so you can still see what's happening? And also I
• 12:53
  Speaker 3: know when we have Ken and uh Berducci doing the interviews,
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  Speaker 3: they'll stop and say, hey, hold on, we need to
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  Speaker 3: go to this. They'll stop the guy, which they I mean,
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: there's not I'm knock on Lauren at all.
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  Speaker 6: Orange Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's tricky, but it was.
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  Speaker 3: It's a tricky thing. So people that were upset, I
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  Speaker 3: get it. I just thought they should have split screen
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  Speaker 3: instead of and stopped and be like, hey, hold on,
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  Speaker 3: and then they had the manager on. They could have
• 13:13
  Speaker 3: said what do you think of the abs right then
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  Speaker 3: and there. Yeah, that was the only thing, Like they
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  Speaker 3: just didn't show it.
• 13:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was a tough spot there. There were some
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  Speaker 2: technical issues.
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  Speaker 4: You might getting into all that because it was their
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  Speaker 4: first broadcast.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, they have.
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  Speaker 3: Room to grow. Fine exactly, but that was the one
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  Speaker 3: thing that most people are complaining about.
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  Speaker 4: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: It was the first one ever. Like you could stop
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  Speaker 3: a manager interview in the middle and say, hey, this
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  Speaker 3: is the first one of this ever.
• 13:34
  Speaker 4: Let's show it. H That's fine. It didn't happen, but fine.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Yep, I'm with you.
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: Paul Schemes did not make it out of the first
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: inning in Queens opening day, thirty seven pitches. I mean,
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: you can't let him go much past that. Anyway. Mett's
• 13:49
  Speaker 2: got to him a little bit, O'Neil Cruz got to
• 13:52
  Speaker 2: him a little bit twice.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball is hard. It happened, and I don't even need
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  Speaker 4: to I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: There was a couple of wins blowing when went over
• 14:04
  Speaker 3: said he lost one in the sun.
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  Speaker 4: Stuff happens.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Baseball's hard. But does that happen to every center fielder?
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  Speaker 3: Like where sure every centerfielder has lost the ball in
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  Speaker 3: the sun. He should ask Kevin Blar he's lost one
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  Speaker 3: in the sun.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sure.
• 14:16
  Speaker 3: Darren urstaid one time we went to Anaheim and he said,
• 14:21
  Speaker 3: I've never lost the ball in the twilight, And that
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: night first game centerfield.
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: He lost the ball in the twilight. So, I mean,
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: stuff happens.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 14:28
  Speaker 4: Well, worried about skiing skeins will be fine.
• 14:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah it's not. But here's here's my question. For a
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: team like the Pirates, what are they build on? Yes,
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: they added offense, but they're built on pitching. Their defense
• 14:41
  Speaker 5: actually wasn't that bad. I think it was the sixth
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: best defense in the game last year, six or eight
• 14:46
  Speaker 5: somewhere in there. But if you have guys that can
• 14:51
  Speaker 5: hit playing positions that maybe they normally don't play. O'Neill Kruz,
• 14:56
  Speaker 5: I think is still learning the position. Last year was
• 15:00
  Speaker 5: his first year where he got thrust out there. He
• 15:02
  Speaker 5: did okay, But are you downgrading your defense and upgrading
• 15:09
  Speaker 5: your offense enough to make the to make to make
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  Speaker 5: up the difference?
• 15:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, with Sea Keek, we're looking ahead at games. So
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: let's look at the weekend. Let's start with Friday. What
• 15:22
  Speaker 2: else do we have? Cam Schlittler is making his season debut.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: We'll see if Luis Severino is the usual dude on
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: the road versus at home. Kevin Gossman pitching in that
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: game for Toronto, Chris Sale will pitch for Atlanta. Sandy
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: al Contra on the mound for the Marlins against the Rockies.
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: Atlanta, by the way.
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  Speaker 2: Is playing the the Royals on the weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Here that includes what's your game? Do you know who's pitching?
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: No, they've started to lay him out.
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: Are good?
• 16:00
  Speaker 5: The matchups are good because it's all the best starting
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: pitchers going against each other.
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: But like the team.
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: Matchups, Pirates Mets, not a lot of fight in you know,
• 16:10
  Speaker 5: not like ooh, you know we're really banging heads here,
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Twins Orioles, White Sox, Brewers. It just feels like I
• 16:17
  Speaker 5: wanted to look down the list and go, man, I'm
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: seeing all these all these number ones on the mound,
• 16:23
  Speaker 5: and I'm like Red Sox, Reds, like what Rangers, Phillies,
• 16:29
  Speaker 5: they have a long history of what opening days like.
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: It just feels like a weird, weird mishmash of teams.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: I agree, some make sense, some don't.
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: By the way, AJ's game on Saturday is Waka against
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Ronaldo Lopez.
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah it'd be good. Yeah, two good good names. Its
• 16:46
  Speaker 4: teammate Ronaldo.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Yea was he didn't really pitched last year.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: No, but they said his villa was down the spring,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: So we'll see. We'll find out together. But I can't
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: wait to go to Atlanta. It's gonna be fun see Vinnie,
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: see Jack, see a bunch of the Royals, and then
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  Speaker 1: What do you guys think? Uh? Offense, defense balance?
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: I mean O'Neil Cruz was tought by one of the
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: best guys of all time this offseason, so he.
• 17:46
  Speaker 6: Cracked the code. Crack the code.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: But listen, I mean O'Neil Cruz wasn't great at shortstop.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: He definitely hasn't been great at center field. So I
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: guess his offense the piratesy can make up for the defense.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: But where else do you put them? Where else do
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: you put If you don't put O'Neil Cruzin centerfield, where
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: do you put them corner? Okay, but you have Reynolds
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: and Ryan O'Hearn, So then who do you put center?
• 18:12
  Speaker 5: I mean, that's that's the that you're right, he should
• 18:15
  Speaker 5: be playing center. The question is more about do they
• 18:19
  Speaker 5: do you know? Is Brandon Lowe's defense ever going to
• 18:22
  Speaker 5: be as good as say a guy that the Pirates
• 18:24
  Speaker 5: would have called up or would have put at second base,
• 18:27
  Speaker 5: where they're like, well, we can't pay for offense, so
• 18:30
  Speaker 5: we're going to find the best defensive player. And that's
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: that's honestly where they were like, hey, we're gonna find
• 18:36
  Speaker 5: value in this defense. Look, they gave Key Brian Hayes
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: an extension. I don't know that they thought he was
• 18:43
  Speaker 5: going to be this, you know, twenty five home run
• 18:47
  Speaker 5: eighty five RBI type of guy. I think I would
• 18:51
  Speaker 5: hope their evaluations knew he wasn't going to be great offensively,
• 18:54
  Speaker 5: but he was great. He was elite defensively, and so
• 18:59
  Speaker 5: they're kind of trying to make that change. They didn't
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: go like crazy different, but to me, that's where it'll
• 19:07
  Speaker 5: be interesting to see how they do, because I truly
• 19:10
  Speaker 5: believe they're built on that pitching. They've built some pitching
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: from the minor leagues Schemes Keller, Bubba Chandler, and then
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: you know the other guys that they have coming. Also,
• 19:22
  Speaker 5: it's like you have to be able to back those guys.
• 19:25
  Speaker 5: You can't just be like, good job, guys, you've made it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 5: We're gonna put you on an island out there and
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: you better strike everybody out or you're not gonna get.
• 19:34
  Speaker 6: Through the games.
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: But how important is defense?
• 19:38
  Speaker 6: He's very important?
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: Okay, point There was an argument a couple of days
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: ago about a guy who signed an extension and if
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: he's only defense only, But now you're talking about how
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: defense is this and that I mean Jason Neaewart's und
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: a contract and people said basically for his defense, Peter Armstrong, Well,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: what PCA is going to get now? Defense is important,
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: especially in center field. If you can sign a thirty
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: to thirty guy who had a down second imaginef you
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: didn't have a down second alps he forty forty, then
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: the deal looks like a steal for the team.
• 20:09
  Speaker 5: So, I mean, I don't know. It's interesting, and honestly,
• 20:15
  Speaker 5: you got to build, you got it. This is where
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: the whole like building the whole team. You have a
• 20:18
  Speaker 5: guy like aj Persinski on your team, one of the
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: best hitting catchers during his generation. You can have somebody
• 20:25
  Speaker 5: at another position that is gonna bring mostly just defense
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: because he's bringing offense at a position that you normally
• 20:34
  Speaker 5: don't get offense from. If you have me behind the dish,
• 20:38
  Speaker 5: you're gonna need somebody else to step up at another
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: position that normally isn't a major offensive position. That's why
• 20:46
  Speaker 5: teams that have elite players at catcher, shortstop, and center
• 20:50
  Speaker 5: field that can both hit and play defense at the
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: big league level, those are the teams that are in
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: playoff contention. Like it's not like this like crazy formula,
• 21:01
  Speaker 5: it's are you are you good up the middle?
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: Are you good.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: Close to the ball? And then does the rest do
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: the rest of the guys hit? And that's the question
• 21:11
  Speaker 5: that the Pirates and the Pirates fans are gonna need
• 21:13
  Speaker 5: to watch and or gonna get to watch this year
• 21:16
  Speaker 5: and see which iteration of the Pirates is the most successful.
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: It's opening day, it's not even the second inning yet.
• 21:23
  Speaker 5: I don't think maybe they got to the I didn't
• 21:25
  Speaker 5: see if they got to the second inning yet.
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: But like, yeah, we're not overreacting. We're just making comments.
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, and this is our job. I mean,
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: we're doing a live show while there's a game going on,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: and the best pitcher in the National League is going
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: up against the team that basically did a shift change
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: with half their rosters.
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: So you like to see what this all looks like.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: Not all of the blame on O'Neil Cruz three walks
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: from schemes to other legit hits besides the two that
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: were missed by Cruise, but.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: Almost an infield hit off the end of the bat
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: by Polanco and was a jam job by Soto, But
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: he did and he did hit Haldays. But yeah, I
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: mean and he did walk. Uh Luise Robert had a
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: hell of a bat in there too.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: Did you hear what Louis Roberts said?
• 22:10
  Speaker 6: By the way he's motivated, He's.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, I didn't get these crowds in Chicago. You
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: did for Opening Days.
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: Save it, dude.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: You were on the teams when they won, So say
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: that's that's that's spilt milk leaves. Go kick rocks down
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the street. Dude, that's such a lie. You didn't get
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: the teams. You want to know why you did get
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: the crowds because you weren't very good. You couldn't play,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: that's the answer, do you know what?
• 22:30
  Speaker 6: Yeah?
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: Cool?
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: But if he were twenty one, you weren't complaining about
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: the crowds. And I was there for the postseason. You
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: had to blackout in the crazy game with the cane
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: guy and all that and the crowds were stacked.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: You weren't complaining. Dude, don't don't take shots. I hate
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: when people do this.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Don't take shots at your old team because you couldn't play,
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: You were always hurt and you didn't perform.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Well, wait can I I think you can take shots
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: at your old team, but not in this case.
• 22:54
  Speaker 6: No.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Sometimes I think you can, But in this case, he's
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: pointing to the fans not showing up.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: The fans didn't show up because the team was terrible.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: That's what I'm saying. The team weren't good.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if the fans aren't showing up and they're in
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: a hundred win team, yeah, sure you want to call
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: that out and be like, hey, where the fans at.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: The fans weren't shown up because the team.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: Sucked and all of the guys that they signed up
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: long term became busts.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: I played an entire season where there was legally no
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: fans allowed in the stands. I promise you still get
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: the same You get still get the same focus level
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: to go out and perform because you're on a big
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: league field. You're going out to perform against other big leaguers,
• 23:34
  Speaker 5: not oh I'm gonna I'm gonna put on a dog
• 23:38
  Speaker 5: and pony show in front of all these fans.
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: No, Like does that mean?
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: Oh no, none of our fans showed up in away game,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: So I didn't have enough energy, Like there was not
• 23:49
  Speaker 5: do you get energy from the stands? I get that,
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: But I watched I was in an entire season, sixty
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: two games where there was no fans, and I promise,
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: you can still go out and compete.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: So overall it looked promising for the Pirates for a minute.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: They had a two run home run from a new
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: edition in brandon Lau. But then you know, Skiens unravels
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: along with cruise on the I mean the second one
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: he lost the ball in the sun. The first one,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: first step was in I mean, are you blaming that
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: also on the sun causing the issue?
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I've never played center field. Like, I'm not blaming anyone,
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: and I'm not blaming anything. I mean, who knows the
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: wind's blowing out? Who knows? I mean, stuff happens. The
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: first game happened.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: If it's June twentieth, it's whatever. But because it's today.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: And because it was Skeens, yes, because he gave up
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: the short I mean, the shortest start of his career,
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: and he gave up five runs in an inning.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: That's why we're talking about it.
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: If it was June twenty eighth, then it was whoever
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: name another pitcher on the planet other than probably Trek Scoogle. Okay,
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: it was a bad inning. It was a bad start.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: Freddy Prout the last year, I don't think made it
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: out of the first inning on opening there. If he did,
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: it was much longer and he ended up.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Okay, do you know what's going to sift through the
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: toxic so social media airwaves. If there's another starter that
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: doesn't perform well that pitched in the World Baseball Classic
• 25:06
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• 25:10
  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying it will pop up. People be Oh,
• 25:13
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  Speaker 1: Hey.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: Welcome to ABS Challenge System World and umpires Scorecard. The
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Twitter account provided some information, so let's go over a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: little bit of it right now. They said, we're excited
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: to anounce some stats related to the new Challenge system.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: So they said the Yankees had the highest challenge utilization
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: rate at thirty seven percent, using challenges and situations where
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: it would be the right choice. Remember when the Brewers
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: were trying to do the green card to say, oh,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: this would be the right choice time period. Well, you
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: can't do that, But the Yankees were doing that well.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: They also had the lowest challenge restraint rate at ninety
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: seven point two percent.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: This is going offspring training, by the way.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: They challenge when they shouldn't more than any other team.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: Combining restraint and utilization, they created the Challenge I score,
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: the rate at which players and teams make the correct
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: challenge decision.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: I feel like you're just gonna love this stat.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: The catchers with the highest Challenge I score this spring
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: where will Banfield and Hayzus Rodriguez head close to ninety
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: eight percent.
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: But that's just one of many stats. A great question.
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: They had a great spring training, did an awesome job.
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: Good for them. Yeah, teams are also supposed to do.
• 27:36
  Speaker 5: I know the Yankees are supposed to push the limit
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: in spring training. Sorry, I mean this is going to
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: be a cool stat moving forward, But spring training, you're
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: supposed to push the limit. How many of those fifty
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: to fifty balls are you getting?
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: Right?
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: The umpires are guessing, so are the catchers, and so
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: are the hitters.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: Isn't the point to point out the egregious stuff early
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: on in games and be very careful about the borderline pitches.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, Bryce Trange is challenged on one that was at
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: all kinds of late so and he lost.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Umpires might have a good day. They got the they
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: went one for one yesterday. There was an overturned right
• 28:17
  Speaker 2: one in in the Mets game. I mean, we can't
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: follow everything right now, but crews got wrung up on
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: a challenge I think in that game. But the stat
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: that you want to see is the challenge percentage for hitters, right.
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: I just want to know who's right and who's not right.
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Because then doesn't that help you cats and hitters, and.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: It helps you choose who can who can who who's
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: supposed to challenge catchers? No pitcher should ever be allowed
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: to challenge if I was a manager. And two, once
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you missed a couple as a catcher or a hitter,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: then you're told by the manager there's another one right there.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: Automated balls and strikes overturned right there?
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Oh in the Cubs Game's Cubs, that's just that's just
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: did one.
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: So if you have a good percentage.
• 28:59
  Speaker 5: It's gonna fit. It's gonna be fifty two to forty
• 29:02
  Speaker 5: eight percent. It's really what's gonna happen.
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: You think it's gonna be that close?
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: You don't think there's gonna be a few guys that
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: are at like sixty two percent.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: Tell me some guys that are right more than wrong.
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: Noh, totally.
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: I'm saying, like, how much more do you think?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: What do you think the variants level will be for
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: you know, uh, whatever they qualified as a minimum of
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: I don't know, twenty challenges for the year. What do
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: you think the variants will be? Like the lowest end
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: and the highest end?
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Oh, I mean there's gonna be guys that are only
• 29:32
  Speaker 5: gonna be They're only gonna they're gonna be ninety percent.
• 29:35
  Speaker 5: They're gonna get because they're not gonna push the limit
• 29:37
  Speaker 5: unless it's extreme. I think those are gonna be the
• 29:41
  Speaker 5: and it's not gonna be the stars because the stars
• 29:42
  Speaker 5: are gonna be able to use it late in the
• 29:44
  Speaker 5: game and they're gonna get ones wrong that they're gonna
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: be like gotta at least try it just ended the game,
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: so you're gonna get those. It's like saying, oh, my
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: free My three point percentage is off because I take
• 29:53
  Speaker 5: the buzzer beaters. You know, a lot of NBA dudes
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: they don't even shoot the they don't even shoot the
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: three pointer at the end of the quarter whatever because
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: the time's running out and it affects their affects their
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: shot percentage. So to me, it's gonna there's gonna be
• 30:06
  Speaker 5: the dudes that get go a whole season. They might
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: do twelve challenges, which would be a lot of challenges
• 30:12
  Speaker 5: and not get one wrong, and then there's gonna be
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: dudes who get every single one of them wrong.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: We have this tweet from Andy Coska in slap Pans
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: here Baltimore banner. He's talking about the video game world
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: and injuries. So we can run it. It relates a
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: little bit here to Jackson Holliday. He's been using axe
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: handlebats after breaking the hammetbone. He's not back at he's
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: not here to start Opening Day. It's because of Fortnite
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: kind of. Heston Kerstad plays Fortnite with Corbyn Carrol, who
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: also broke his hammetbone. Carol told kurs ed D to
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: tell Holiday try the axe handle.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the Axeandol has been around for a
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: few years now. I actually have a bat here. I
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: actually held the bat like that. I mean, I still
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: broke my handmate, but I actually held if you can
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: show my bottom hand, so I didn't hold the bat.
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  Speaker 3: I actually held the bat more like this, which is
• 31:19
  Speaker 3: how the axe handle fits pee a loanza is it
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  Speaker 3: as opposed to a lot of guys who hold it
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  Speaker 3: more straight with the knob or even hang over them.
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  Speaker 3: But I actually always kind of held it like this,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: which is kind of how the axe handle works. See
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: how it's not straight and flat. It's kind of at
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: an angle this way. That's what the axe handle does,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: and it's supposed to help you get more whip. Now
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: whether it helped me or not, I don't know, but
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: that was just always the way I held the bat.
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: I could never hold it straight. I always kind of was.
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: People were like, oh, you're choking up. No, I'm not
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: choking up. I'm actually on the knob. But I just
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: hold it. I don't hold it straight. That was just
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: the way I always did it.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know why.
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  Speaker 3: But now they make a bat and if it helps
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: them get back sooner from the handmade bone, I'm all
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: for it. But I know I switched bats one year
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: and I couldn't wait to switch back.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Did you tried the axe handle?
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  Speaker 3: I know teammates had it, but I just I held
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: it like an axe handle. So when never, I never?
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: I switched bats one time my career was the worst
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: decision I made. Paul Kenerko talked me into it.
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  Speaker 4: Terrible, I do, absolutely terrible.
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  Speaker 1: I do. You just didn't feel comfortable with a different battle.
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  Speaker 3: So Paul I used to break a lot of bats,
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: and when my bats would break, it would break, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: Paul would always get a thing in his thumb because
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: he worked thicker. He used thicker handle bats than me,
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: So then I would get jammed, bat would break, and
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: then my thumb started hurting, and I'm like, damn, dude,
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: I'm one of your thumb hurts all the time. So
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: then I switched back and it went away.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Right, So he was using the wrong bat or worked
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: for plus homers. It worked for him.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: I think it worked great for him.
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but not for you. You've got to use your
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: own back.
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: He had more balls in the barrel than I did.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, hey for tomorrow's show, Friday show, and yes we're
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• 32:57
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