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Benches CLEAR after controversial slide, Buehler’s “accidental” early exit, Strider nearly traded? · Foul Territory

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm back.
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  Speaker 2: Vegas was incredible. I have so many things to get
• 0:07
  Speaker 2: you caught up on. So two things.
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  Speaker 1: Tell us.
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  Speaker 2: I always watch the shows that I don't miss or
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  Speaker 2: that I don't make. I always miss 100% of the
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  Speaker 2: shots that I don't take and make 100% of the
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  Speaker 2: shots I don't miss. That's how my brain's working right
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  Speaker 2: now after a fake trip to Vegas. I was on
• 0:26
  Speaker 2: a meeting this morning. I do 80 a day. And
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  Speaker 2: on one of them, AJ... Someone said I was Vegas.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: True?
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  Speaker 2: True story.
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  Speaker 3: I love it.
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  Speaker 4: I love it.
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  Speaker 2: I should have made you happy, Scott. And he said
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  Speaker 2: he watches. I think there's some people that catch the
• 0:48
  Speaker 2: AJ days and are catching onto a theme that AJ
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  Speaker 2: will make up where I am for the day. But
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: this person did not catch up on that little trick
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  Speaker 2: that's being played by AJ. I was not in Las Vegas.
• 1:00
  Speaker 2: I wish I was in Las Vegas to try and
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  Speaker 2: beat AJ's 21st birthday celebration weekend, but I did not
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  Speaker 2: have the firepower to make the trip. So that's one.
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  Speaker 4: You did not want to try to beat that celebration.
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  Speaker 4: I promise you.
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  Speaker 2: I personally, AJ, do not want that smoke because I
• 1:18
  Speaker 2: don't want to feel that way. Sometimes I do. Right now,
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  Speaker 2: I don't. I will take the hangover-less body that I
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  Speaker 2: have at the moment. The second thing that I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to go over with you was something you brought up yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And I think you've told this story before, but I
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  Speaker 2: wanted to get you to humor us before we begin
• 1:34
  Speaker 2: our journey. Jermaine Dye calling pitches. You mentioned that, but
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  Speaker 2: I wanted more and I, maybe you told it, but
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  Speaker 2: I still want more.
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  Speaker 4: So we used to, Burley, Burley never shook and never
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  Speaker 4: did any scouting reports, never watched video. He just pitched
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  Speaker 4: and whatever you put down, he would say, okay. And
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  Speaker 4: now if, and there were times in Jermaine and we
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  Speaker 4: had a really tight knee grip. It was Jermaine, Creedy,
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  Speaker 4: Canerco and, um, you know, your eBay, the guys that
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  Speaker 4: were around, but said Nick, they were around for, for
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  Speaker 4: multiple years, um, that hung out together a lot. Uh, Jermaine,
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  Speaker 4: every once in a while would be like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: I could call the pitches with Mark pitching. And so
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  Speaker 4: every once in a while, if the game would get
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  Speaker 4: out of hand one way, uh, we, we go to
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  Speaker 4: Jermaine and say, Jermaine, you want to call the game
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  Speaker 4: from right field? And he's like, I'll do it. And
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  Speaker 4: he'd be out there, literally curve ball, fastball way, fastball
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  Speaker 4: in cutter change up. And I just, I just look
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  Speaker 4: out in right field and Jermaine, change up. Okay, change up.
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  Speaker 4: Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see.
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  Speaker 4: It took a lot of pressure off me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because you had so much pressure with Mark Burley pitching. Like,
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  Speaker 1: there was no wrong pitch to call. It was just–
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  Speaker 1: he was bringing it to the plate and it was
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  Speaker 1: probably going to be weak contact.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But it made Jermaine feel special for a couple minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, 100%. I love him now.
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  Speaker 4: But then when he gave up– Then if he gave
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  Speaker 4: up a hit, then it was like, see, it's not
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  Speaker 4: that easy, is it, Jermaine? You think it's so easy
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  Speaker 4: out there. It's not that easy when you start giving
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  Speaker 4: up hits.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's when they say, well, you weren't out
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  Speaker 1: there when Burley threw. It was a perfect game, so
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  Speaker 1: maybe we need a different catcher.
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  Speaker 4: That's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the reason I brought this up is in yesterday's
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  Speaker 2: interview with Max Muncy, which you can catch wherever you
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  Speaker 2: catch us, the guys were asking if he's ever called pitches,
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  Speaker 2: and he almost– purposely went out of his way to say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I do not want to do that. I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to give the team any ideas about my catching ability
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  Speaker 2: as the emergency catcher on the team for many years.
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  Speaker 2: He does not want that smoke either. So has this
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  Speaker 2: happened frequently or is this a rare occurrence? Like, Kratz,
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  Speaker 2: did you ever know someone that called pitches from a
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  Speaker 2: different position than you did?
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  Speaker 1: I let Jimmy Rollins call pitches one time. And in
• 3:50
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues, I would definitely– there was– Some Giants
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  Speaker 1: fans might remember the name Brian Bocock. He's like, I
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  Speaker 1: want to call pitches. It looks so cool, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: always looking in there to see what you guys are.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, all right, cool. Do it next inning.
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  Speaker 1: That was my buddy Nate Bump on the mound, and
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  Speaker 1: Nate's like, are we serious? I was like, Nate, you
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  Speaker 1: throw two pitches. It'll totally be fine. You're throwing a
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  Speaker 1: sinker most of the time. He did it. We went one, two, three,
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  Speaker 1: and he was like, That was kind of nerve-wracking and
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  Speaker 1: kind of exhausting. I think I'm done. And if Max
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  Speaker 1: Muncy became a catcher, imagine Max's stats as a catcher.
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  Speaker 1: That would be legit.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh, he'd be a good catcher.
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  Speaker 1: He wouldn't have those stats as a catcher. What are
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  Speaker 1: you talking about, AJ? How does that affect your hitting?
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  Speaker 1: Come on, man. Trust me.
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  Speaker 4: There was many more times when you come off the
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  Speaker 4: field after you give up a four or five spot
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  Speaker 4: and you're leading off and you're like, oh. Man, I'm
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  Speaker 4: pissed we just gave up a five spot. Oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: by the way, I've got to go try and get
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  Speaker 4: a hit now. And I'm leading off against, I don't know,
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  Speaker 4: name a great lefty. Randy Johnson, I mean, Roy Holiday,
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  Speaker 4: Chris Sale, CeCe Savathia, name one. And they're like, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: go get a hit. Go have a good at bat.
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  Speaker 4: And you're like, I'm still thinking about the five we
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  Speaker 4: just gave up that we're now trying to catch.
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  Speaker 1: That you were back there and your jersey weighs three
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  Speaker 1: more pounds than it did to start the inning. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: but no, don't worry about it. It does not affect it.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't affect it.
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  Speaker 4: Some people say it doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: Those people are not real catchers. So with that, let's charge. AJ,
• 5:39
  Speaker 2: you watch just about every White Sox game. Sam Antonacci is,
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  Speaker 2: I would say, one of the folk heroes, one of
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  Speaker 2: the spirit animals here. out there on the south side
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  Speaker 2: of Chicago. And he's certainly one of the shirt leaders
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  Speaker 2: So he's a fiery guy. He takes a lot of
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  Speaker 2: pitches to the flesh to earn a base. In this case,
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  Speaker 2: he slid into Brandon Lau, barely. I mean, his elbow
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  Speaker 2: kind of touched him. Do you think this was a
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  Speaker 2: big deal? Bilal doesn't get into it much with people,
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  Speaker 2: but he seemed pretty pissed and used some expletives and
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  Speaker 2: benches cleared. The mound was not charged. There were no
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  Speaker 2: punches thrown. But what do you think? Do you think
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  Speaker 2: there was any reason to be pissed?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, Sam earlier in the year threw an
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  Speaker 4: elbow kind of at Wilson Contreras at first base. That
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  Speaker 4: one was a little bit more than this. This one
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  Speaker 4: to me was he just kind of slid. And what
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  Speaker 4: do you do? I don't know what to do with
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  Speaker 4: my elbow. And it just kind of got into Brandon
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  Speaker 4: Lau a little bit. I know you're not allowed to
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  Speaker 4: touch anybody on the field anymore. But I didn't think
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  Speaker 4: this was that bad. They still turned a double play.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't like he took him out. It wasn't like
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  Speaker 4: he swung his elbow at him. It wasn't like he
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  Speaker 4: kicked his leg out from under him. He just kind
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  Speaker 4: of slid. And listen, I know this, when I slid,
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  Speaker 4: especially in a double play, I would use my, I
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  Speaker 4: put my arms up to cover my face, right? If
• 7:02
  Speaker 4: there was a guy, you know, turning it, I'd put
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  Speaker 4: my elbow out because they would swing their leg around.
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  Speaker 4: This is back when you could take guys out. So
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  Speaker 4: they would throw and they'd swing their leg around. So
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  Speaker 4: you'd throw your elbow up to try to protect yourself.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think this– I think this got blown out
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  Speaker 4: of proportion just because Brandon Lau– listen, we love Brandon Lau.
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  Speaker 4: He's a great dude. He's a great player. But they're
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  Speaker 4: not used to being touched. So if you touch him now, oh, no,
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  Speaker 4: what a catastrophe. But I didn't think this was a
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  Speaker 4: big deal, but it's good for baseball because you know
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  Speaker 4: what we're talking about? Baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if this was the 70s, 80s, 90s, you
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  Speaker 2: might be benched for not going into second hard enough.
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  Speaker 4: Kids, go watch Hal McRae. Go watch Hal McRae take
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  Speaker 4: out some dudes or what. They weren't even sliding. They
• 7:42
  Speaker 4: were roll tackles.
• 7:46
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  Speaker 2: or prevent any disease. So here's what Sam said, because
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  Speaker 2: Sam's on the same page as you, AJ. And I
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  Speaker 2: think most people in this case, he said it was
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  Speaker 2: a completely legal play. If you go look at the
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  Speaker 2: rule book or go look at what happened, you can
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  Speaker 2: slide as late as you want, as long as you
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  Speaker 2: keep contact with the bag. And yeah, it defended the
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  Speaker 2: whole thing and added that he was just playing the
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  Speaker 2: game hard. And that's what Sam Antonacci does.
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  Speaker 1: There's no doubt about that. And that's why I think
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  Speaker 1: he's ingratiating himself to the White Sox fans. AJ knows, like,
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  Speaker 1: you play hard. You play every day. The Southsiders are
• 9:24
  Speaker 1: going to stand up for you. And I think it's
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  Speaker 1: something that live, Brandon Lau, that's because that's all you
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  Speaker 1: have to react to. Live, if you're watching it, you're like, no,
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  Speaker 1: good job. Like he got in there, he got in
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  Speaker 1: there as much as he could. Cause it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be a, it was going to be a bang,
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  Speaker 1: bang play at first. Cause it was a shot to third.
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  Speaker 1: So it takes a little bit to spin it around live.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think anything of it. And then when they
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: showed the replay, maybe that elbow got in there a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, but you know, there's going to be contact.
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  Speaker 1: I've never seen anybody know there's going to be contact
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  Speaker 1: and just be like, nope, nothing. No, you're going to
• 10:01
  Speaker 1: flinch or even give them a little bit. I didn't
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: see anything wrong with it. I did pray a little
• 10:06
  Speaker 1: bit for their first base coach because he was the
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: one that got in the way of Antonacci, and that
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: was when O'Neal Cruz had made his way in from
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: center field. And if you ever want to see how
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: big of a human being O'Neal Cruz is, go back
• 10:20
  Speaker 1: and watch the end of that little, like, whatever that was,
• 10:24
  Speaker 1: barking match.
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: Kerfuffle.
• 10:29
  Speaker 2: O'Neal Cruz is a big dude. Yeah, kerfuffle.
• 10:31
  Speaker 1: Kerfuffle.
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: If you're bougie.
• 10:32
  Speaker 4: I'm going to use kerfuffle.
• 10:35
  Speaker 1: Andrew McCutcheon's exact words, he's an avatar. Like, he is.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: He stood next to the first base coach, and it
• 10:42
  Speaker 1: was like, things kind of just like, Things kind of
• 10:46
  Speaker 1: just parted like there's always that guy on a field
• 10:48
  Speaker 1: with large, large humans. He is larger.
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: Do you think there's some frustration from the Pirates, AJ,
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: and how their season has resulted? You know, it's funny.
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: I was looking at these two teams and when I
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: was watching the highlights last night, I was like, the
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: White Sox are what the Pirates wish they were. yet
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: they're only a couple games away from each other in
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: wins and losses. That's not how this is played, though.
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: One team's in the American League, one team's in a
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: weaker division in general, right? The Pirates happen to reside
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  Speaker 2: in a division that has the Brewers and the Cubs
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  Speaker 2: and even the Cardinals playing well. The White Sox are
• 11:26
  Speaker 2: 75 and 70. They might not even have to play
• 11:28
  Speaker 2: in the first round, while the Pirates really haven't played
• 11:31
  Speaker 2: meaningful games in September. They're on a run right now,
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: but it's too late, so we didn't even really spend
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  Speaker 2: much time talking about them. So, I don't want to
• 11:39
  Speaker 2: say jealousy. It's not like Brandon Lowe's like, ooh, I'm
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: jealous of the White Sox. I mean more of an
• 11:43
  Speaker 2: organizational comparison. He should be jealous of the White Sox, Brandon. Hey,
• 11:48
  Speaker 2: I mean he wishes he was in playoff contention right
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  Speaker 2: now as any player would. But, AJ, the Pirates didn't
• 11:54
  Speaker 2: really accomplish the goal of being relevant in September, while
• 11:57
  Speaker 2: the White Sox I don't think most expected to be
• 12:01
  Speaker 2: relevant in September. And they're going to be in the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's all about what division you're in.
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  Speaker 4: And I mean, let's, let's be honest here. The pirates
• 12:10
  Speaker 4: have beaten the white socks. If you watch both those games,
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  Speaker 4: you know, last night, four to two, the first night,
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  Speaker 4: I think seven to three or whatever. And it didn't
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  Speaker 4: even seem that close of games. Um, white socks had
• 12:20
  Speaker 4: some chances last night, but it never really hit into
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  Speaker 4: some double plays or whatever, but it it's because they're
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  Speaker 4: in the national league. If the, if you, if you
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: put the pirates in the AL central and I'm an
• 12:30
  Speaker 4: AL central guy, it's been most of my career in
• 12:33
  Speaker 4: the AL central. Uh, I think they'd be in better shape.
• 12:36
  Speaker 4: I think they'd, they'd probably be the two seed right
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  Speaker 4: now in the American league, like the White Sox are
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: be just because of the record and everything else. So,
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: and who you get to play the entire time you
• 12:46
  Speaker 4: get to play, you know, 13 against the twins, 13
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  Speaker 4: against the guardians, 13 against tigers, 13 against the Royals.
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  Speaker 4: And when you're in the NL central, you get 13
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  Speaker 4: against the Brewers, 13 against the Cubs, 13 against Cardinals,
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  Speaker 4: 13 against the Reds. And if you compare the division
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  Speaker 4: by division, I would say the five in the NL central,
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  Speaker 4: probably better than the five in the AL central. So,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, as far as frustration goes, no. You can't
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  Speaker 4: control where you play. You control the games you do. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: maybe for some fans, they're like, gosh. I mean, every
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  Speaker 4: team other than teams in the AL West go, man,
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  Speaker 4: if we were only in the AL Central this year.
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  Speaker 1: I can honestly say I never, as a player, I
• 13:20
  Speaker 1: never looked up and was like, man, I wonder what our,
• 13:23
  Speaker 1: you know, how we'd be doing if we were in
• 13:25
  Speaker 1: a different division. But as a non-player, I look at it,
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: and it's an honest, honest thing. Like, there's a lot
• 13:32
  Speaker 1: of teams that probably are like, You look at the Marlins,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe Marlins ownership, or Marlins fans would say, man,
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  Speaker 1: if we weren't in the National League East. But as
• 13:42
  Speaker 1: a player, to me, that's not really a thing that
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: I ever thought of. Did you know you were going
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: to face better pitching in the American League East, the
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: National League East? Yes. Those are where the better teams are.
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  Speaker 1: But this year, the American League is a little bit down.
• 14:01
  Speaker 1: The Pirates made a little bit of a push to
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: add offense, which they felt like they needed. And with that,
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: their defense kind of took a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: step back. And then, you know, obviously they didn't have
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: any money left over for the bullpen. So they're five
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  Speaker 1: games out. Like, this is where they're at. And I
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: think it's a– you can't look at the White Sox
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  Speaker 1: and be like, man, I wish we were in the
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: American League Central. It would be fair. But when they realign,
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: when they add new teams with expansion– Who knows? We'll see.
• 14:31
  Speaker 1: That'll be a big discussion. Well, we were used to
• 14:34
  Speaker 1: being the American League Central. Now we're in the East,
• 14:37
  Speaker 1: or now we're in the South, or the North, whatever
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  Speaker 1: they're going to call it.
• 14:42
  Speaker 4: They'll be Kings of the North. The White Sox will
• 14:45
  Speaker 4: still be Kings of the North. They're going to be
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: this year, except it's a Central. I'll tell you one thing.
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: That Central travel, y'all ain't know about that Central travel.
• 14:54
  Speaker 4: That Central travel was the best. Buncey said it yesterday.
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: Muncie said it yesterday. He's like, man, that travel in
• 15:03
  Speaker 4: that central, I can't imagine how good that would be.
• 15:06
  Speaker 4: It was nice.
• 15:07
  Speaker 2: It's so good you don't even need as much fuel
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  Speaker 2: on your plane, right? You can basically have half a
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: plane like the Tigers.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Sometimes when I was with the Twins back in
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: the day, that plane they had in Major League when
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: I was with the Twins back in the day, we
• 15:23
  Speaker 4: were lucky if we had one engine on our plane.
• 15:25
  Speaker 4: Sometimes we floated in.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: Did you guys have to stop?
• 15:30
  Speaker 4: Not from Minnesota. Only time I ever had to stop
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues was when I went from Puerto
• 15:35
  Speaker 4: Rico to San Francisco. We had to stop on that one.
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: Wait, but from what I took, though, yesterday was Muncie
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: saying Scooble on the Tigers would have to stop on
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: a plane going coast to coast. Is that accurate?
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: In 2026?
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Most of the time you don't go coast to coast.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: You don't go.
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: I don't know how many times, I mean, I played
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: on the, you know, the East coast, there was the
• 16:02
  Speaker 4: Red Sox I played for and we never had to stop.
• 16:05
  Speaker 4: We just flew. So maybe we had a different plane,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: but yeah, I don't know.
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: You would never, your schedule would never be like, Oh,
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: we're going to go play the Dodgers and then finish
• 16:14
  Speaker 1: out the road trip with the Marlins and the Braves.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Like if you're, if you're, you're going to the West coast,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: if you're in a century, you're going to the central,
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: you're staying there, maybe hit like a Houston and then
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: bounce back home. But, Rarely would you go West coast
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: all the way to East coast. I'm sure it didn't
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: happen much. And I think he said that was the
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: old plane. Now they have a new plane, but I'm
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: not a hundred percent on that. I thought he said
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: it was their old plane.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Okay. We'll have to do some digging there. Our investigative
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: reporters on the.
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: Old plane, new plane.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Who gives it?
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Who gives it?
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: But if that's true, that's still, if that's true though,
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: that's still pretty incredible. And Max was great yesterday. Max
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: was awesome. If you haven't seen the Max Muncy interview,
• 17:02
  Speaker 4: it was awesome. He was great. Like he always is.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Exactly. And hey, if you want more on what happened
• 17:08
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• 17:11
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• 17:16
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• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Seed Geek, it's that time. It's Thursday. So let's look
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: at what the weekend is going to bring us here
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: and where you might want to grab a seat. Seat
• 17:27
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• 17:29
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• 17:32
  Speaker 2: starting up this weekend. I mean, if there's a sweep
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: in a series like that, AJ, it's the kind of
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: sweep that can end a season. I know the Diamondbacks
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: maybe have a little bit more if they fall apart,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: like over one series coming up because the Padres are
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: still up on the schedule for them at the end
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: of the year, although that's in San Diego. But that
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: one stands out to me as a big one to watch.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: What else?
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: You know, Orioles, Blue Jays, that could be an elimination series.
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: I mean, that's a big one. Astros, Rays, the Rays
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: are playing so well, they're beating the crap out of everybody.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: So if they go into Houston, Houston blew the big
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: lead last night. Those are the two, excuse me, that
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: really stand out.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I think this is an absolute slam dunk that Major
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: League Baseball made this happen. What is tomorrow, September 11th?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Who is playing this whole weekend on the 25th anniversary
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: commemorating one of the saddest days in our country. And
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the fact that New York is playing New York in
• 18:34
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• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that had to happen. Very well done on the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: schedule front. Sometimes we have questions about the schedule. This
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: is a tip of the cap and we're going to
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: do a segment on, what's about to happen there and
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a big documentary coming out. We'll do all of that
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: a little bit later in the show with a special guest,
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: but I'm with you. So there's plenty of action to
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: keep an eye on from the weekend. I mean, the
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: guardians still have to do their thing and they're facing
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: a twins team. That's toast at this point. Twins can
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: hit a little bit this year, but they couldn't do
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: enough on the run prevention front.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: Look up. Yeah.
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: The guardians, you know, the guardians played the Orioles.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: Whatever the guardians are, as Kevin said, they're going to
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: catch the white socks.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Not the, They're not going to catch the White Sox. But, AJ,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: they're in the driver's seat for a wild card.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: They are. They are.
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: And Cody Clemens had a nice year. I know what
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: you're going to say, Krauts. Oh, no, no.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just going to say he overtook the
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: lead for home runs for the Twins. He might have
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: a shot at 30.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: I think he's at 26.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 19:39
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• 20:03
  Speaker 2: for them as they get closer and closer to hosting
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: home field for that wild card round. But Did you
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: guys see this stat? Bryce Harper has now lost 9
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: of 14 challenges in the first inning of games. He's
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: challenged more first inning calls as a batter than 18 teams. Kratz,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: you're watching a lot of Philly. What's the word here?
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: What's going on?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: You know, I haven't heard much of a scruffle about it,
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: but it is not a good number. I mean, I
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: think some teams maybe don't use it enough. Other teams
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: don't understand the importance of it, and I think If
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: you're losing that many in the first inning, I don't
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: care if you're a superstar or not, I think it's
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: something that you have to be able to say, hey,
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: maybe we curtail this a little bit. Or why do
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: you feel like it's so important in the first inning
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: to try to win those challenges?
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, AJ, you better be careful in October.
• 20:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's going to be interesting to see
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: how the challenges go in October. I mean, again, I
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: did a game not long ago where The Braves were
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: out of challenges four hitters into the game. Drake Baldwin
• 21:09
  Speaker 4: used one, and then Ronald Acuna, first hitter, and a
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: ball that was all up in the plate. I mean,
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: I've seen pitchers' challenges lately, which you thought that we
• 21:18
  Speaker 4: had gotten rid of, where pitchers are challenging calls. So
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: I think it's going to be interesting to see the
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: strategy of this in the postseason. But, yeah, Bryce has
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: been bad, which surprises me because he knows the strike
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: zone really, really well. So I'd love to know if
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: those were the balls at the upper part of the
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: zone because that's the one that seems to give people
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: the most fits.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah, in first inning, you've got to be careful. Then
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: you're getting nervous about the second one if you drop
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: the first.
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: Not if you're Bryce Harper.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: Not him, but the team, I'm saying.
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: No, but I'm saying, what's the team going to say? Hey, Bryce,
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: stop challenging?
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: No.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: No.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Hey, we appreciate and respect the way that Pat Murphy
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: does his job. It's so different from how most managers
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: do it. Brandon Sprote in yesterday's win for the Brewers
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: had four walks with a seven-run lead in the ninth.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: And Murph said, it's unacceptable. You've got to throw the
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: ball over the plate or you can't be a major
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: league pitcher. They optioned him, AJ.
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: I didn't know they optioned him.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they just did today.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: Oof, that's rough. It's got those 100 miles an hour,
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: big part of the Mets trade with him. But, yeah,
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: you've got a seven. Listen, Krauts will tell you, I'd
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: rather have you give up seven solo homers in a
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: row than walk four guys in a row. Because you
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: walk four guys in a row, guess what happens? You
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: have to bring in someone else. You have to bring
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: in your Reva, and they barely hung on. But I'd
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: rather have you give up seven solo homers in a
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: row than walk guys because you just can't defend it.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: You have no chance. Hitters will tell pitchers all the
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: time how hard hitting is. Pitchers don't believe it.
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: They don't. And I don't know, like last night, it
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: didn't look like it was a, oh, he was trying
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: to nibble. It was, he was trying, I mean, by
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: the end of that, by like the third walk, during
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: the third walk, Contreras was like sitting up, setting up
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: down the middle. They were big misses. And this isn't
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: the first time that Murph has said some poignant remarks
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: about Sprote. So Sprote's got to, he's got to make
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: the adjustments.
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, meanwhile, the Brewers need to adjust to nothing. They're
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: going to run, run, run away with the division after
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: doing what they did to the Cubs. They swept them.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: They faced them seven times in the last 10 days.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: They won five of those games. It actually has pushed
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: the Cubs back to a dangerous zone where they're going
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: to be on the road for that wildcard game. And Philly,
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: most likely, they're two back in the loss column here.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: Magic numbers down to five for the Brewers. Let's taste
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: some champagne.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: The good, the bad, the ugly. The good, the Padres
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: win against the Nationals. They sweep them. The Diamondbacks lost.
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: That helps the Padres. Padres and Diamondbacks, even in the
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: wildcard standings as of this segment. The bad and the ugly? Well,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: it was weird. Walker Buehler after two and a third
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: laboring gets removed from the game, Craig Stammen does it,
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: but there was some discussion going on and there appeared
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: to be a mishap. Although Stammen Padres manager tried to
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: clear it up post game and we have sound from Stammen.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So let's get his explanation of what happened. If they
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: meant to pull him, if they knew that there had
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: already been a mound visit during that inning. Yeah, he did.
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: He picked me up. You know, it was amazing outing
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: by him. I think, When I left the dugout, I
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: was very convicted that I was going to put him
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: in the game. And then that 90 feet to the mound,
• 24:50
  Speaker 3: there was a lot of things going on in my head.
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: And unfortunately, it worked out really well that Kyle came in,
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: got CJ out in that big spot, and then was
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: able to get Morales out right after that. So Kyle
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: Hart's done that a lot this season. He's really picked
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: up our starters, picked up our bullpen, been able to
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: pitch a lot of innings and get through games. And basically,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: especially when we were doing the bullpen games, he was
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: a big piece of our success. I talked myself out
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: of it or into it about seven times. But one
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: of those things like I've got to be more decisive
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: in the moment or in that walk to the mound.
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: I was decisive in the dugout and less decisive as
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I went. And when you get less decisive, the game
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: speeds up on you and you make a decision that
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: you probably shouldn't make. But it worked out really well.
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: We've got a great team. They've picked me up all year.
• 25:34
  Speaker 3: They continue to do that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: Today was a prime example of that. Yeah, Kyle Hart
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: was able to help them get out of trouble. And
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: really then the Padres bullpen was nails the rest of
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: the way in a Jackson Merrill game. Two homers, triple,
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: six RBIs, all around great win for the Padres. But
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: this part was weird. Do you believe Stammen's explanation? You
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: always want to believe everyone when they say, hey, we're
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: going to take him out. Then he talked us into it,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: but then we both forgot that there was already a
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: mound visit, so second visit, you got to take him out.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Do you believe the story?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: I believe the fact that he told us something, so
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: I like that. Whether it's true or not, who knows, Kratz?
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: I mean, managers, you know what's funny is if they
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: would have lost this game, it would be such a
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: bigger story. but because they won this game, he's like, ah,
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: it's so funny. But imagine if Tony Vitello would have
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: done this, right? Where they forgot how many outs there were,
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: how many mound visits they had or someone on the
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: hot seat. Then it would have been like, oh man, look,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: this guy doesn't know what he's doing. Craig Stammen's a
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: first year guy too, but because they're winning and right
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: now they're have a great shot at going to the postseason.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: Everyone's like, ha ha, look how funny that was. Remember
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: when Gabe Calvert did this and Brought in the guy
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: who wasn't warming up. Everyone's like, look at this guy.
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: He doesn't know what he's doing. But Padres are in
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. Ha, this guy's great, man. Look how funny
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: it is. Kyle Hart picked us up. Let's go team.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think Gabe Kaplan knew what he was doing.
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: But I think the decision that he was making on
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: the way to the mound, you can have brain farts.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So I would agree that he had a brain fart.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I think he's hemming and hawing about going out there.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: and maybe he's thinking so much about it. And I know, shoot,
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I coach high school baseball, and I'm constantly, people think like, oh, well,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: 85 pitches, that's usually when you take your pitcher out. Like,
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: that's when you think about it. No, I think, I
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: started thinking about it at 50 pitches, at 60 pitches,
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: like who's going to get warmed up, all that stuff.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: So there's, Things that he was thinking and the inning
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: was kind of getting out of hand for Walker Bueller.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: And I think it ended up being the right idea
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: to go out to the mound because Ruben Niebla had
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: already gone out, the Padres pitching coach. They already had
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: their conversation. And when that happens, I might give you
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: a leash of like maybe two more hitters. depending on
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: how the matchups go, depending on where the lefty is.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: And I just think on that 90 feet to the mound,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: I think he kind of had a brain fart. I
• 28:09
  Speaker 1: don't see any reason knowing Craig, the little bit that
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I know him, I feel like if he was like,
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: holy cow, I just completely forgot that we had another
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: mound visit. I think he would have said it. So
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: I'm going to go on the side of Craig had
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: a brain fart.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: You know, Padres. I don't want to say Padres fans
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: were just people on socials were like, I thought way
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: too rude. Like, Oh, Bueller stinks, take them out. Whatever.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: I'm like, he's filled a nice role for San Diego
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: this year. There's definitely been some good starts and some
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: bad ones, but I mean, the ERA is in the
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: mid fours. He's eaten a ton of innings for a
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: rotation that at a couple of points had just about nothing. Now,
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: of course, yeah, here comes Nick Pavetta. I know Musgrove's
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: going through his issues still. They've lost a number of
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: guys throughout the course of the season. Remember last year,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: I mean, if you looked at this rotation heading into
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: this year, you were like, oh, they have Darvish, they
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: have Musgrove, they have Pavetta, right? But here comes Walker
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Buehler eating innings. So I just want to give him
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: some credit there. I know it wasn't his day necessarily yesterday,
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: but I mean, even I'm pretty sure the start before
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: I think was the Yankees start, right? Yeah. Five innings,
• 29:20
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  Speaker 2: Jazz Chisholm on the I-L, a sprained right thumb for him.
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  Speaker 2: So he's going to be shut down from baseball activities
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: for the next seven to 10 days. Can we show
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• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the thoughts from the two. Lombard Jr., George, was asked
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: if it's awkward for Anthony Volpe getting called back up.
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: Volpe's been hitting well in the minors right now. And
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  Speaker 2: what the baseball world is like. Anything can happen. Excited
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  Speaker 2: to have them. Excited to work together. I mean, AJ, sure,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you can ask the question, but what do you want
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: the kid to say? Also, it's his teammate. I mean,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: he wants to win. And I don't think Lombard's too
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: worried about Volpe stealing his job long term at this point.
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  Speaker 2: He had a four-year lead. It's not happening. Lombard's the
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  Speaker 2: shortstop of the future.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, what's he supposed to say? Yeah, he sucks.
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  Speaker 4: He's a bad teammate. We don't want him here. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he pretty much said it the best he could say it.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, in the back of your mind, you always
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: know this, and I tried to explain this to people,
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  Speaker 4: and Kratz I'm pretty sure would agree with me on this.
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  Speaker 4: It's pretty easy to get to the big leagues, easy
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  Speaker 4: in a relative sense. It's really hard to stay in
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: the big leagues because when you are in the big
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: leagues and you are a big league shortstop, there is
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: every shortstop in every minor league system, trying to take
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: your job. Then if you play or play long enough,
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: there's kids in high school, in college. Heck, if you
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: play as long as certain people did, you know, 19, 20,
• 31:51
  Speaker 4: 20 years, there's kids that, heck, aren't even born yet
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: that are coming up that aren't even, they're trying to
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  Speaker 4: take your job by the time you get to the end.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: So it is a constant battle. And if you have
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: someone on your own team and you're worried about them
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  Speaker 4: taking your job, you're probably not in the right job.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: Do you remember the movie Dazed and Confused? I'm not
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: going to repeat the line, but he said it this way,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: and we used to say it about baseball. If you
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: think you got a job in the big leagues, someone
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: stays the same age. Every year, there's another 18-year-old prospect,
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: sometimes 16-year-old prospect that's coming into an organization that's going
• 32:25
  Speaker 1: to take your job. So if you don't produce, he gone.
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: They're going to get somebody else. And Volpe, to me,
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: still a positive big league player. Is he the franchise?
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: Is he the next? No, he might have to roll
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: into that utility role. He can still field it. Maybe
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: second base is better for him. But just like Lombard said, hey,
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: you got to work with somebody new now.
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  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you just want to rack some wins up here
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: if you're the Yankees and try and go as deep
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: into October as possible. And then Lombard's going to get
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: the chance to run with this thing for the next
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: several years if he's got it, right? The tools are
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: there for Volpe. Yeah, utility... Or maybe he ends up
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: on a different team.
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: Made a few adjustments in the minor leagues. See if
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: it applies to.
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  Speaker 3: The big leagues.
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: Hey, congratulations to Jose Altuve. 2,500 career hits in his
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: 16th season. AJ, can he get to 3,000? Or are
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: we too deep into the career here? Bueller?
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: Yes, I would say.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: I'm muted, sorry. I told you I'm sick and I
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: keep coughing and sneezing, so I'm trying to mute it
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: whenever possible. But 100%, I think he gets there. I
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: think he's going to play long enough. He's going to
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: get there in an Astros uniform. I also think Freddie
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: Freeman will get there. <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 1: <HAL> <HAL>.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Freeman's at 2,587. 102 human beings in history have
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: made it to 2,500 career hits.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: That's a lot of hits.
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: How many catchers? How many catchers have got 2,500? Ask
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: yourself that.
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  Speaker 2: How many?
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Zero?
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: I think there's only one. I think Pudge is the
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: only one. But there might be two. I thought Pudge
• 34:20
  Speaker 4: was the only one.
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: He's the only one to get to 2,500? I believe so.
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: It's so tough to do catcher any position because you've
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: got to be in the big leagues early. What was Pudge? 19,
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: 20 when he was in the big leagues? That is
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: so tough to do. AJ, you played You played for
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: 19 seasons, and I think you were like, what, like
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: 290 hitter in the big leagues? And you got 2,000 hits?
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: So the catching position, we're never going to see a
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: 3,000-hit catcher. And just to do that, it's just you're
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: going to have to be like a Jordan Alvarez type
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: that really can do everything. You can still drive the ball.
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: You still hit 300. But even then, with so much power?
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: They're going to start walking him. They're going to start
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: walking him and putting him on. He started his career early. Maybe,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: I guess, if I were to choose somebody, there would
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: be the spot. That's just so tough to do.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: That's why Pudge's name has popped up again recently since
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Salas came up, Ethan Salas, for the Padres, right? Because
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: he was the youngest to pop up as a catcher
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: since Pudge, 1991.
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: Heath and Ziles needs to get one hit first before
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: you can worry about 2,500 hits.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: That's fair.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: First one's hard. First one's hard.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: All right, people. Let's slap. Last minute, we have bring
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: up something wild and crazy. So, Mark Feinsand, reporter for MLB.com,
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: in an article mentioned that Spencer Strider was part of
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: the discussions that the Braves had with the Rangers for
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Jacob deGrom. Okay.
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: I would be excited.
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: What did the Braves think of him?
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I honestly thought they would make a big move with
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: Schwellenbach being hurt. I know Schwellenbach's got a much cheaper,
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: brighter future. in a sense of, like, fearful of Strider
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: never coming back. But either of those guys, that would
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: have been big. And DeGrom would have slotted in quite
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: nicely into a rotation that may need some help.
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah. And Strider's making some money. Is he making a
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: lot of money? No. But maybe to offset some money
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: that would be coming towards the Braves, that would have happened.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: But DeGrom vetoed it.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: We're out of here. But, yeah. We'll stay on YouTube.