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Dan Shulman on why this Blue Jays team could make a serious run · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Thank you Dan for not texting me the whole time.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, I'd like to go to Cratsky and Alana
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  Speaker 2: and I'd like to say, how much of that story
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  Speaker 2: do you guys think is actually true?
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  Speaker 3: And Toronto is on fire lately? The AO East is
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  Speaker 3: an interesting race. We talked about the Yankee struggling. Albeit
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  Speaker 3: there's still you know, three games back or in third
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  Speaker 3: place or whatever. I'm still very close at the top.
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  Speaker 3: But are the Toronto Blue Jays, Eric? Are they for real?
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  Speaker 3: They won on Sunday, they swept the Angels. They extended
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  Speaker 3: their winning streak to eight games.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, they're for real.
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  Speaker 4: Why I say that because the last two years I've
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  Speaker 4: said this lineup is good, they just haven't hit. I
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  Speaker 4: can't figure out why they haven't hit. Haven't figured out
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  Speaker 4: how to hit in Rogers Center. They haven't figured out
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  Speaker 4: how to hit as a lineup together. This guy had
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  Speaker 4: an off heear that guy. I've felt like this lineup
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  Speaker 4: has been good the whole time. They just never have
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  Speaker 4: gotten it done. Now they're doing it. Now they're doing
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  Speaker 4: it with the added I mean, their their defense is
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  Speaker 4: some of the best defense in the game at multiple positions.
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  Speaker 4: And guys that come off the bench and their pitching
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  Speaker 4: has benefited from that. And you sit there and you go,
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  Speaker 4: is that what a complete team is? The starting pitching
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  Speaker 4: isn't quite as good as the last time they made
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  Speaker 4: it to the playoffs, but it's veteran guys and know
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  Speaker 4: what they need to do in Barrios and Gosman and
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  Speaker 4: Bassett and an approve it year for free agency. You
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  Speaker 4: sit there and you go, this team is doing what
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  Speaker 4: I feel like they should have been doing for a while.
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  Speaker 4: So that's why I think they are for real.
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  Speaker 1: They only have one problem that I see right now.
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  Speaker 1: They need a better play by play guy. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna lie. They need a better play by play guy.
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  Speaker 1: He's handsome. He is handsome. We're gonna get into this
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  Speaker 1: when he comes on. He is the biggest jinks in
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  Speaker 1: the history of sports. And I'll tell you why when
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  Speaker 1: Dan Shulman joins.
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  Speaker 3: Us, Really the biggest jink and the history.
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  Speaker 4: Of love a teaser, what a test?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I mean that is that's quite the that's quite
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  Speaker 3: a big realm history of sport. We'll be right back.
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  Speaker 3: As Aj mentioned, Shulman joined us nuts And speaking of
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  Speaker 3: mister Shulman, Dan is so gracious to be joining us today.
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  Speaker 3: We appreciate it very much. Dan, good to be with you.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry that I interrupted your dining time with Boog
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  Speaker 3: Chiambi of the Chicago Cubs, but I do appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: coming on. Is this team for real? And man, they've
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  Speaker 3: been playing well. The last we can.
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  Speaker 2: Change, they really have And great to see all you guys.
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  Speaker 2: I'm looking forward to hearing from aj Y. I'm the
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  Speaker 2: world's biggest jinks because there's not a lot of facts
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  Speaker 2: behind that, but we'll get we'll get into that a
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  Speaker 2: little bit later. But great to see all of you guys.
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  Speaker 2: And they're playing great right now. They're actually twenty six
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  Speaker 2: and ten, I think in their last thirty six games,
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  Speaker 2: and they're doing it in such a fun I don't
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  Speaker 2: think I've ever seen a team where one through twenty
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  Speaker 2: six and beyond really are contributing so much. And I
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  Speaker 2: heard Kratzy talking kind of going through the team and
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  Speaker 2: he was bang on. The defense is great. The starting pitching,
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  Speaker 2: You've got the three veteran guys at the front now
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  Speaker 2: Max Scherzer's back, Eric Lower has been a godsend for
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  Speaker 2: this team because they really needed somebody at the back
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  Speaker 2: end of the rotation to give them innings the bullpen,
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  Speaker 2: they just keep filling in with guys as guys get hurt.
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  Speaker 2: Jeff Hoffman's been great lately, Ariel Rodriguez has become a
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  Speaker 2: huge part, and Braden Fisher, a rookie, is pitching a
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  Speaker 2: lot of high leverage innings. Chad Green's pitching as well.
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  Speaker 2: And then offensively, like some days it's the big boys
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  Speaker 2: Guerrero or Bisheed or Springer or Kirk, and then some
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  Speaker 2: days it's other guys. Addison Barger has been phenomenal, Ernie
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  Speaker 2: Clements had a great year, and it could be Nathan
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  Speaker 2: Lucas or Tyler Heineman or Davis Schneider or on and on.
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  Speaker 2: It just seems like in the big moment in a
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  Speaker 2: tie game, they make the play. It could be a catch,
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  Speaker 2: it could be a hitch. It could be a hit,
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  Speaker 2: it could be a bunt, it could be all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of different things. But they're finding a way to win
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  Speaker 2: close games day after day.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Ken, the Blue Jays are playing the
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  Speaker 1: White Sox, not the Cubs. So why on earth are
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  Speaker 1: you having lunch with bood boog works at the Cubs.
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  Speaker 1: I know sometimes you Canadian fellows, you get confused by
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  Speaker 1: who you're playing against.
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  Speaker 2: We do get a little confused. We do get it.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks Versus, thanks for helping me out there with that.
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  Speaker 2: AG's always I appreciate your friendship. So Boog and I
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  Speaker 2: are great, great friends. We go back many many years,
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  Speaker 2: and he's on his way, I think to Minnesota. The
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  Speaker 2: Cubs are going there tonight. He did the Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: game here and we only get a chance to see
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  Speaker 2: each other like once or twice a year. So we
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  Speaker 2: went out and had a great kind of pre lunch,
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  Speaker 2: a little early lunch, and a lot of texted during
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  Speaker 2: that time, and Boog sent a nice video message to her.
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  Speaker 2: So it was great to see him. He's one of
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  Speaker 2: my oldest, dearest friends and always great to see him
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  Speaker 2: whenever I can.
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  Speaker 1: Nice. All right, now, let's get to the real team
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  Speaker 1: in the series, the White Sox. How did the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays matchup the White Sox, because the White Sox are
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  Speaker 1: hot and I don't know the Blue Jays can hold
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  Speaker 1: them down.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you this. They played two weeks ago
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  Speaker 2: in Toronto and the White Sox won two out of three. So,
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  Speaker 2: in the interest of objectivity, and accuracy. We should say that,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the Blue Jays have won ten of their
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  Speaker 2: last twelve series and one of the two series they
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  Speaker 2: lost was to the White Sox, so I don't think
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  Speaker 2: they're taking them lightly. I don't think the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: are like that. I mean, they've played really well against
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  Speaker 2: really good teams. As you guys know. They just swept
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  Speaker 2: for from the Yankees, great scene Canada day, Springer hits
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  Speaker 2: a grand slam, roof open sunshining, Cien Tower, the whole thing.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't think they're taking the White Sox lightly.
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  Speaker 2: The White Sox have some good young arms, and the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays are going to see some of those. They
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  Speaker 2: saw some of them a couple of weeks ago. But
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  Speaker 2: it's just such a vibe around this team right now,
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  Speaker 2: Like every day the lineup comes out and there have
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  Speaker 2: been a lot of roster moves because of injuries, and
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  Speaker 2: we all play the game, guests the lineup. I'm never right,
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  Speaker 2: but it's almost like it doesn't matter who's it there
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  Speaker 2: and where they're hitting right now because everybody's passing the
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  Speaker 2: baton and there's just such a collective belief in the
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  Speaker 2: guy behind you doing his job. Whether that's a reliever
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  Speaker 2: or a position player, whatever it means. This is It's
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  Speaker 2: not like there's going a lot of runs. But this
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  Speaker 2: isn't like twenty fifteen Bautista Ancarnacion. This isn't like twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one. You know when Teoscar Hernandez and Lord of
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  Speaker 2: Scuriel and Bashett and Guerrero and Simeon and others where there.
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  Speaker 2: This is different. This is guy's kind of scratching and
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  Speaker 2: clawing and just making the little play in the big
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  Speaker 2: moment to win a game. And you know, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the chemistry and the unity in that clubhouse is tremendous
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  Speaker 2: right now, because, as I said, it's really one through
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  Speaker 2: twenty six.
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  Speaker 4: Does it feel like we gotta do it for bo
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  Speaker 4: so he comes back. Does it feel like there's like
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  Speaker 4: a theme like that's driving it or is it more
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  Speaker 4: of like a we are sick and tired of underachieving
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  Speaker 4: and we need to go out there and win these games.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's a little bit of number two because
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  Speaker 2: they did have a as you say, I think twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty one, twenty two to twenty three, you could arguably
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  Speaker 2: say that those teams were more talented than this team.
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  Speaker 2: And I think for both Guerrero and Bhashet, who have
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  Speaker 2: been here through all of it, there is time and
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  Speaker 2: the expectations Cratzy were probably lower for this team. I
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  Speaker 2: don't know what you guys said at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the year. I know what I felt. I think the
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  Speaker 2: expectations were lower for this team coming into this year
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  Speaker 2: than many of the many of the previous years. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's a collective just nobody's worrying about personal stats.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's worrying about personal stuff. They brought in some guys
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  Speaker 2: who were on multi year deals, so they're not one
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  Speaker 2: They're not all one year guys looking at the next deal.
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  Speaker 2: Sure's there's an exception, obviously, but he's almost forty one
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  Speaker 2: years old. They've got guys who have grown up and
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  Speaker 2: you know, in Gladdie's case, he has signed the deal
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  Speaker 2: like now it's time to win, and you know then
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  Speaker 2: they've just got grinders, like Ernie Clements a grinder, Ethan
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  Speaker 2: Lucas is a grinder, Miles Straw is a grinder, like,
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  Speaker 2: They've just got guys who are happy to contribute in
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  Speaker 2: whatever way they're asked to do. John Schneider says over
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  Speaker 2: and over and over WI in what's important now, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, for Straw could be playing a couple of
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  Speaker 2: innings of defense or getting a bunt down for Lucas.
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  Speaker 2: It could be leading off the last couple of days
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  Speaker 2: against Righty's because they've reconfigured their lineup. For Jeff Hoffman.
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  Speaker 2: It could be pitching four times in five days and
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  Speaker 2: getting to save all four games because so many other
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  Speaker 2: guys are down because they haven't gotten enough innings at
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  Speaker 2: times out of the rotation. There's just a collective, a
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  Speaker 2: real close bond in that clubhouse where they want to
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  Speaker 2: do it for the other twenty five guys.
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  Speaker 1: It makes total sense that you know, but don't be
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  Speaker 1: careful using grinders because crats will yelling you you're not
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  Speaker 1: using it properly. So I'm just going to let you
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  Speaker 1: know Dan that Kratz is gonna yell you at some
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  Speaker 1: point for not y. Although I disagree with his interpretation,
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  Speaker 1: I more agree with yours. But we'll go to something else.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankee series. You guys just played. You swept the
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  Speaker 1: Yankees sports That guy had the broom and it started
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  Speaker 1: a fight with Michael Kay. Was that the feeling of
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  Speaker 1: all the Blue Jays fans after that series is, Wow,
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  Speaker 1: we swept the Yankees for four games. We went in there,
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  Speaker 1: we took over first place, and now they have a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a lead. Is that how the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays fans feel right now that this team can actually
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  Speaker 1: do this? Right?
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  Speaker 2: So, if you go back to twenty one, twenty two
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  Speaker 2: to twenty three, and they were good all three of
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  Speaker 2: those years, but it was always fighting for a wildcard spot.
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  Speaker 2: It never felt real to fight for a division title.
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  Speaker 2: And listen, we all understand there's a lot of baseball
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  Speaker 2: still to go, but if you're looking to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: create all of that. Put all of the ingredients in
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  Speaker 2: to make a series huge for Blue Jays fans. This
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  Speaker 2: one had all of them. There's no team the Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jays fans would love to see the Jays beat more
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  Speaker 2: than the Yankees. Plus the Blue Jays were playing well
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  Speaker 2: coming into the series. Plus they were three games back
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  Speaker 2: coming into the series. So if you wanted to dream
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, you could say, okay, well, if they
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  Speaker 2: take three out of four, they were only one back
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, like you could have those thoughts.
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  Speaker 2: Plus it was the can The Day weekend, which, as
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  Speaker 2: you guys know, is Canada's version of the Fourth of July.
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  Speaker 2: Plus the weather was great, and the roof was open
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  Speaker 2: and the sun was shot like it had everything. And
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  Speaker 2: then three of the four games were absolute like nail biers,
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  Speaker 2: felt like September or maybe even October baseball going right
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  Speaker 2: down to the wire. And the other one was on
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  Speaker 2: Canada Day, which was five to four in the seventh
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  Speaker 2: and Springer hit a grand Slam to make it nine
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  Speaker 2: to four. They win twelve to five, and the noise
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  Speaker 2: coming out of that building was just crazy. You guys
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  Speaker 2: know what it's like when they're good. You guys know
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  Speaker 2: what the scene is like at the Rogers Center when
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  Speaker 2: they're good. It had all the ingredients. So, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody in their wildest dreams, no
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  Speaker 2: matter how big of a fan of the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: you are, I thought they would sweep the Yankees. But
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  Speaker 2: to come out of that series ahead and then to
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  Speaker 2: win three more three one run wins against the Angels,
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  Speaker 2: now we'll see how they do against the White Sox
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  Speaker 2: and the A's end the break. But AJ, honestly, I
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  Speaker 2: can't remember the last time there was a regular season
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  Speaker 2: here with that much energy and emotion in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 2: and in the stands. I think you probably have to
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  Speaker 2: go back to twenty fifteen, twenty sixteen to the Boutis
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  Speaker 2: Stan Carnascio teams.
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  Speaker 3: That's awesome, though, that's what you want. I mean, I
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  Speaker 3: think baseball's better when the Blue Jays are good. Dan,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm going to give your flowers here for just
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  Speaker 3: a second first Canadian ever to be named national sportscaster
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  Speaker 3: of the Year. That was back in twenty eleven Canadian
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  Speaker 3: Screen Award for Best Sports Play by Play. I get
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  Speaker 3: so much joy, and I mean this truly, I get
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  Speaker 3: so much joy listening to you and Buck Martinez in
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  Speaker 3: the booth. And I've often texted you not only the
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  Speaker 3: knowledge that you bring, but just how good you are
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  Speaker 3: at this, not only with this, but we college basketball
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  Speaker 3: and all of the things. How much fun has it
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  Speaker 3: been doing games with Buck, obviously now that he's back healthy,
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  Speaker 3: and just seeing your son kind of following your footsteps,
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  Speaker 3: and just this career that you've had it it's just
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  Speaker 3: it's remarkable just what you've accomplished in this game.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that's very kind of you. And I love when
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  Speaker 2: you text me, and I always text you right back.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not trying to text aj right back. You text
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  Speaker 2: me during a game, but you and Kratzky, you'll get
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  Speaker 2: an immediate response. But it's been it's been so fun.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a Toronto guy and I was like, I was
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  Speaker 2: a math major in college. I didn't have any dreams
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  Speaker 2: of this or any of that. So it's been it's
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  Speaker 2: been so so fun. Buck is actually offer a little
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  Speaker 2: bit right now, but we're going to have him back,
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  Speaker 2: we hope very soon. So you know, to work with
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  Speaker 2: Bucker now, to work with Joe Siddle, who I worked
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  Speaker 2: with a lot as well as great, and then to
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  Speaker 2: have my son Ben in the business as well. He's
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  Speaker 2: the radio announcer for the Blue Jay, so he's like
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  Speaker 2: just one floor down in the Rogers Center and he
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  Speaker 2: helps me a lot. He's smarter than I am, and
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  Speaker 2: his prep skills they're better than I am. And he
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  Speaker 2: helps me understand stuff that the old man can't understand sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: So that's all great as well. But you know, being
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  Speaker 2: from Toronto, I mean, I hope my whole family Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jay fans and so many friends, and I'm hearing from
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  Speaker 2: people now a lot of that I haven't heard from
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  Speaker 2: in a while, because this team has energized the fan base.
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  Speaker 2: Like you guys were saying before, you know, they underachieved
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  Speaker 2: in some of those years. They should have been better,
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  Speaker 2: they should have gone deeper, that sort of thing. But
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  Speaker 2: this is not only a team that may be overachieving
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  Speaker 2: a little bit, but that aside, they're just so much
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  Speaker 2: fun the way that they're winning right now, when the
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  Speaker 2: fans have gravitated towards them. So I love driving down
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  Speaker 2: to the ballpark when I know they're going to be
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  Speaker 2: you know, thirty seven thirty eight, forty thousand people there,
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  Speaker 2: and that this game really matters to people. You know,
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  Speaker 2: our games are all national across Canada, so we have
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  Speaker 2: tons of people watching from Newfoundland to BC and everywhere
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  Speaker 2: in between. We see them on the road. The whole
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie, the whole thing's really fun right now.
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  Speaker 2: And I agree with you, it's fun when the Blue
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  Speaker 2: Jays are good, and hopefully they can keep it going
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  Speaker 2: over the next three months.
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  Speaker 1: A couple things off that answer. One when I heard
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  Speaker 1: we had Showman coming on, I was hoping it was Ben,
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  Speaker 1: but sadly we got the lesser of the two. Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and second of all, I got to tell the Jink story.
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  Speaker 1: So Dan Shulman, as we all know, works for ESPN.
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  Speaker 1: He does everything, but he mainly does college basketball. So
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: he's doing a game this year Florida at Kentucky. Florida
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: is up like fifteen points. Dan texts me, Hey, Florida's
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: really good man, I think they're gonna pull this one out.
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: They end up losing by twenty points. They lose by
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: like thirty in the second half. So then Dan, every
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: time Dan would do a Florida game, Dan, do not
• 15:10
  Speaker 1: text me during the game. So Florida's, you know, making
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: their run to the national championship, and Dan's like, can
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: I text you? I'm like, no, do not text me.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: You're the biggest Jinks of all time. And then when
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: they finally won, I was like, Dan, not even you
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: could jinx that run. So thank you Dan for not
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: texting me the whole time.
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: All Right, I'd like to go to Kratsy and Alana
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: and I'd like to say, how much of that story
• 15:31
  Speaker 2: do you guys think is actually true? All of it.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: I did, know. I don't think I did the one
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: where they got blown out by Kentucky. I think I
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: did the one where they I think they beat Kentucky
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: in the one I did well. Whatever. And then do
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: you remember the SEC tournament in Nashville, all those games?
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: I do, I do. Do you remember who won the tournament?
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: I do?
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Do you remember who was calling the games?
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Guys, you're either with me. Choose your size here, team carefully.
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Here, that's a given. I already I'm on hashtag team
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: Shulman all the way. Don't let the facts get into
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: the way of a good story.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: By the way, the National Championship, it was really cool.
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I got a chance to do a bunch of their games,
• 16:21
  Speaker 2: and it was a really cool story. What a team,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, what a you know, it's a team that
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know at the beginning of the year how
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: many everybody thought they'd be good. I don't know if
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: people thought they would be that good. But you know,
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: in AJ you watch every game, so I know you
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: know this. They just found a way, right, Like one
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: of the big guys gets hurt and another guy steps in,
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: one of the guards gets hurt, another guy steps in,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: and they they just had guys who made big shots
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: and made big plays at big moments, and it was
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: really cool to be along for a little bit of
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: that ride.
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: You're right ahead and Todd Golden's of the USA coach.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: But before I let you go, Dan as one of
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: the few Canadians that I talked to on a regular basis.
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: I have to know what's on oak Island, what's in
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: what's on Oak Island. I can stop watching that show
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: because I've.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Watched I don't know, twelve years.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I'm all in on baseball, man, I don't. I can't
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: answer any questions about anything other than baseball.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: There is nothing on Oak Island. They have been doing
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: this for five, six, seven, eight years. My husband watched
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: There's nothing on oak Island. Please tell them that the
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: Bobby Dazzler that they're never going to find. They have
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: spent so much money on this show. My word, they're
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: never going to find anything. Stop it.
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: I like, al Alana can put you in your place.
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: I gotta I gotta text her after and find out
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: how I can do that. I don't have much success
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: with you.
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Dan, It's been great talking with you as always. Best
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: of luck the rest of this season with the squad.
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: Like I said, it's great when the Jays are doing
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: well and it's always nice to catch up with you anytime.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Guys, I'm glad to see you