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Speaker 1: Listen. I'm all for having fun on a broadcast. When
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Speaker 1: I watched this, I thought, why is this even on
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Speaker 1: a baseball broadcast? To begin with, welcome everyone to the
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Speaker 1: Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with
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Speaker 1: Alana Rizzo and Alana. It's still really early. About one
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Speaker 1: tenth of the season is complete, yet we've seen some
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Speaker 1: disappointing teams and we want to get into some of
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Speaker 1: those things. We want to get into, Aaron Judge, Aaron Nola,
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Speaker 1: We want to talk about a lot today, but let's
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Speaker 1: start with some of those disappointing teams and managers potentially
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Speaker 1: on the hot seat.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Ken, great to be with you as always on this Thursday,
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Speaker 3: and that's where we're going to start the lead today
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Speaker 3: on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. You talked about the
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Speaker 3: fact that it's early, Ken, but there are four managers
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Speaker 3: in particular in your mind that maybe looking for work
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Speaker 3: sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it will be sooner rather than later.
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Speaker 1: And as I wrote the other day, I had a
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Speaker 1: column about managers and their status is I actually listed nine,
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Speaker 1: not that I think all of them are in trouble
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Speaker 1: immediately but these are nine managers that potentially could be
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Speaker 1: in danger at some point. And I made the point
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Speaker 1: in the column that since twenty eighteen, there have only
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Speaker 1: been three managers fired in the first half of a season,
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Speaker 1: all in twenty twenty two, so it doesn't happen very
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Speaker 1: often anymore. But the reason we're talking about this is
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Speaker 1: because we're seeing some disappointing teams. As you mentioned, Pittsburgh obviously,
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Speaker 1: Colorado obviously the two bigger ones, the two more interesting
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Speaker 1: situations are in Baltimore and Minnesota. Now Minnesota, if you
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Speaker 1: remember last year, they finished the season twelve and twenty seven.
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Speaker 1: They've started kind of the same way this year. There's
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Speaker 1: seven and twelve. Now the last two days have been better.
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Speaker 1: They've lost Matt Wallner to an injury. Correa has got
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Speaker 1: a problem now Willie cashtro potentially an issue as well,
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Speaker 1: so that could change things. But when you start like this,
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Speaker 1: after a finish like that, there are going to be questions,
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Speaker 1: and that's why Roco Baldelli is facing some questions right now.
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Speaker 1: Baltimore also disappointing. They are seven and twelve. Like Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: I don't see them as quite the same because to me,
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Speaker 1: Baltimore's problems are more related to roster construction and the
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Speaker 1: way they rebuilt the rotation after losing Corbyn Burns. But
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of frustration among their fans right now
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Speaker 1: with a lot of things. So I don't expect Michael
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Speaker 1: Olias the GM to fire brand and hide. But these teams,
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Speaker 1: when they're disappointing early like this, and the Oriols too,
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Speaker 1: they didn't finish last year terribly well, the questions come
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Speaker 1: up and you wonder what exactly is going on and
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Speaker 1: if there is something in the dynamic that does need
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Speaker 1: to change.
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Speaker 3: Ken There's been some reports out there from numerous folks
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Speaker 3: that say that Brandon Hyde perhaps is starting to lose
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Speaker 3: the Orioles Clubhouse a little bit, some rumblings perhaps about
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Speaker 3: calling certain players out Tyler O'Neil in fact, or kind
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Speaker 3: of the lineup construction and the constant movement of that.
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Speaker 4: I mean, is there any truth to that in what
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Speaker 4: you're hearing.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure. And when we talk about losing the clubhouse,
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Speaker 1: you never have all twenty six on your side, so
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Speaker 1: the question is how many are not on your side
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Speaker 1: at any one time? Now. I will say this, if
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Speaker 1: indeed there is merit to this argument that Hyde is
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Speaker 1: losing the clubhouse. Then that's a real issue. But it's
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Speaker 1: a younger team for the most part, and they are
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Speaker 1: trying to find the best spots for guys like Jackson
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Speaker 1: Holliday and Heston Kirstad to succeed, and sometimes that means
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Speaker 1: changing the lineup up to remove them against certain pictures
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Speaker 1: left handers, for instance. So again it's early. Hide has
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Speaker 1: been a stalwart there. He was there for the bad times,
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Speaker 1: he stuck around. Michael Oyas deserves credit for keeping him
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Speaker 1: around when they became good again and not going to
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Speaker 1: a bigger name manager. So again, I have a hard
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Speaker 1: time seeing him as the main problem right now. And
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Speaker 1: if they start hitting it, and if they're pitching settles
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Speaker 1: down a little bit, a lot of this talk will diminish.
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Speaker 1: But I just wonder with this team if their rotation
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Speaker 1: is ever going to be in a place where they're
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Speaker 1: fully comfortable now. Their injuries have mounted right Grayson Rodriguez
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Speaker 1: is out, Zach Eflin is out, Kyle Bradish not expected
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Speaker 1: back until the second half, same with Tyler Wells. We
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Speaker 1: all get that, but this is the way the team
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Speaker 1: was built too, and they signed Charlie Morton, they signed Sugano,
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Speaker 1: who's been Okay. Again, let's let it play out before
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Speaker 1: we pass any judgment. But if indeed the clubhouse becomes
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Speaker 1: an issue for Brandon Hyde, then yes, you're talking about
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Speaker 1: something else entirely.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, to be clear, you're not saying that these firings
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Speaker 3: are imminent, just something to watch out for, and oftentimes
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Speaker 3: can it's the manager that happens to be the scapegoat
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Speaker 3: regardless of the way that the team is performing, He's
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Speaker 3: usually the one to go. In Colorado's case, Bud Black,
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Speaker 3: as we know, was on a year to year deal
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Speaker 3: and also with that ownership group, I mean, who else
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Speaker 3: would be better suited to be the manager of that
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Speaker 3: team that seems to constantly be in a rebuild type
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Speaker 3: of situation and they have a DH that now apparently
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Speaker 3: has a degenerative back issue where they put a bunch
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Speaker 3: of money into and it's just a team of really
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Speaker 3: young guys. But who else besides Bud Black could lead
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Speaker 3: that team to a to a a better than five
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Speaker 3: hundred record.
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Speaker 1: There actually is someone that might be a more suitable
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Speaker 1: fit for a younger team. Now Bud Black. Everyone loves
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Speaker 1: Bud Black. Let's not mistake that for one second. He
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Speaker 1: is highly respected within that organization and outside that organization.
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Speaker 1: But Warren Shaeffer, the third base coach, is a former
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Speaker 1: minor league manager with the Rockies, He's dealt with a
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Speaker 1: lot of these younger guys and perhaps it's simply time
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Speaker 1: for a new voice there. Now, I'm not saying it
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Speaker 1: would happen during the season, And Alani, you make the
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Speaker 1: point also in the age we live in, yes, managers
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Speaker 1: are often scapegoaded, but we all know that it's a
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Speaker 1: collaborative process with statistical analysts, with office members. Managing is
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Speaker 1: not simply running the game and that's it. So that's
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Speaker 1: why there is less scapegoating because the gms know that
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Speaker 1: they're partly responsible for these things too. At the same time,
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Speaker 1: Bud Black is year to year and you wonder at
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Speaker 1: the end of this year if they finally say, hey,
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Speaker 1: but maybe it's time and maybe Bud wants to move
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Speaker 1: on to something else. So that's certainly a question that
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Speaker 1: is going to continue to fester because this team is
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Speaker 1: not playing well at all.
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Speaker 3: And the Minnesota Twins ken they're not playing well either. Rockobodelli,
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Speaker 3: the manager there, the Skipper, of course for the twins,
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Speaker 3: and perhaps is you know, the decreasing amount of attendance
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Speaker 3: and just poor attendance is does that have anything to
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Speaker 3: do with a managerial change At times?
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on in Minnesota, and you're right,
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Speaker 1: declining attendance. They're trying to sell subscriptions to a new
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Speaker 1: streaming service, the team is for sale. All of this
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Speaker 1: plays some role in front offices decision making, but to
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Speaker 1: what extent that probably varies. I can't say for sure
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Speaker 1: that that's going to affect anything with Minnesota and Derek Falvey,
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Speaker 1: the president Baseball Operations, has had a very close relationship
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Speaker 1: with Baldelli, much like Michaelias has had a very close
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Speaker 1: relationship with Brandon Hyde. And I should mention as well
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Speaker 1: that Michaelias came out the other day and vocally supported
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Speaker 1: Brandon Hyde said he's doing fine, So that doesn't necessarily
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Speaker 1: mean anything, but at the same time he did say it.
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Speaker 1: So getting back to Minnesota, I don't know that any
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Speaker 1: of the things that we just talked about, the attendance,
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Speaker 1: the television situation, the ownership situation, will affect Baldelli and
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Speaker 1: the way he is viewed as much as just the
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Speaker 1: way the team is performing, and if they continue and
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Speaker 1: build upon what they've done the first two games against
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Speaker 1: the Mets, then okay, it's a slow start and they're
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Speaker 1: back to being the Minnesota Twins, a team that should
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Speaker 1: be a force in the AL Central. If not, then
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Speaker 1: it becomes a different question.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting to see because the tandem is usually
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Speaker 3: the GM and the managers. So you're right, if they
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Speaker 3: get rid of that guy, they're also admitting Ken that
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Speaker 3: they've made a mistake. Much more to come here on
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Speaker 3: things going right, Ken Rosenthal, the New York Yankees Aaron
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Speaker 3: Judge has been doing just fine without having one Soto
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Speaker 3: in that lineup.
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Speaker 4: I tell you what.
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Speaker 3: It seems like it was a good deal for one Soto,
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Speaker 3: but it seems like it was a better deal as
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Speaker 3: well for New York.
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Speaker 1: It's interesting to see the Yankees perform at this level
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Speaker 1: offensively when that was really their biggest question. I thought
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Speaker 1: going into the season, and I thought that rotation would
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Speaker 1: be a strength. Right now with the injury, it's not
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Speaker 1: as much of a strength. Judge has been amazing and
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Speaker 1: I want to look at and show people what he
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Speaker 1: has done over his first eighteen games versus his first
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Speaker 1: eighteen games last year, when if you right recall, he
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Speaker 1: was the American League MVP. Judge has been out of
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Speaker 1: sight great this season. Four h nine batting average five
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Speaker 1: nineteen on base eight h three, slugging seven home runs.
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Speaker 1: That compares to last year when he started so slowly.
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Speaker 1: He was hitting one eighty two after eighteen games, had
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Speaker 1: only three homers. The on base was not what it
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Speaker 1: is now, nor was the slug So we can dream
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Speaker 1: on Aaron Judge and wonder just how far he can
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Speaker 1: take this this year. And the other interesting element, of course,
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Speaker 1: that surfaced this week was Juan Soto's comment that you
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Speaker 1: know what, I'm not seeing the pitches. I'm not seeing
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Speaker 1: as many pitches in the zone as I was last
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Speaker 1: year because I was in front of the best hitter
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Speaker 1: on the planet. And one Sodo acknowledged that Aaron Judge
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Speaker 1: was that I would concur with his opinion, even though
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Speaker 1: one so is the seven hundred and sixty five million
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Speaker 1: dollar man. The Yankees are quite an interesting team, and
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Speaker 1: they've had some things happen offensively that maybe they didn't
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Speaker 1: expect Austin Wells, Ben Rice, Trent Grisham, Jash Chisholm at times.
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Speaker 1: So they look like still even with Cole down, even
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Speaker 1: with heel out, the best team in the American League.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure we'll end that way, of course, but
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Speaker 1: they are a team that was recalibrated after losing Soto.
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Speaker 1: They brought in gold Schmid, who has been good Bellinger
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Speaker 1: and now they look like a pretty formidable Yankees club.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be tough to beat them, certainly in
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Speaker 3: the Al East, and to your point, perhaps the best
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Speaker 3: team in the junior circuit, and a very interesting series
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Speaker 3: coming up for the Bronx Bombers. Not in the Bronx
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Speaker 3: kin They're going to their spring training facility as they
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Speaker 3: get ready to take on the Tampa Bay Rays at
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Speaker 3: Steinbrenner Field. What are you watching for in this particular set.
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Speaker 1: I'm watching to see how many home runs are hit, Alana,
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Speaker 1: because we have seen it at Steinbrenner Field play a
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Speaker 1: little bit small now. The first series against Colorado, there
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Speaker 1: weren't that many home runs hit. I'll show you the
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Speaker 1: stats right here, and people thought, well, maybe this place
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Speaker 1: won't play the way we think. First three games combined
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Speaker 1: total of home runs by both clubs just three. The
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Speaker 1: last twelve games, thirty eight homers have been hit, and
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Speaker 1: the place is playing small without a second and third deck,
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Speaker 1: the wind is more of a factor one way or
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Speaker 1: the other, and if it's blowing out, obviously that's an issue.
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Speaker 1: And keep in mind this ballpark has the same dimensions
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Speaker 1: as Yankee Stadium, and it seems to be playing really
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Speaker 1: small to the areas where Yankee Stadium already plays small,
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Speaker 1: right center and right field. So I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: interested to see just how many home runs are hit
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Speaker 1: in this series and how odd it is for the
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Speaker 1: Yankees to be dressing in the visiting clubhouse at the
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Speaker 1: place where they are always in the home clubhouse all spring.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, the entire situation is just bizarre.
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Speaker 3: Perhaps not as bizarre as the athletics in Sacramento, but
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Speaker 3: it has to be a bit of a strange feeling
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Speaker 3: to go to your spring training facility here at the
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Speaker 3: end of April. Don't forget to get your questions in
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Speaker 3: for Grill and Ken here on fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal.
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Speaker 3: We have that coming up momentarily. But before we get
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Speaker 3: to Grill and Ken, Ken, what do you make of
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Speaker 3: the early season struggles for Philadelphia's ace Aaron Nola.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what to make of it, but I
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Speaker 1: would say that at this point I'm not all that concerned.
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Speaker 1: The cold weather has been an issue for pitchers, there's
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Speaker 1: no question about that. An issue for velocity, it's an
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Speaker 1: issue for command or that. So he's off to a
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Speaker 1: slow start. There's no doubt Zach Wheeler hasn't been his
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Speaker 1: normal dominant self either, But Nola has had bigger problems.
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Speaker 1: Three bases, loaded walks already. That's not Aaron Nola, and
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Speaker 1: he said after last night's game, Yes, I need to
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Speaker 1: be better. I need to clean it up. The only
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Speaker 1: concern I have for the Phillies long term about this
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Speaker 1: group is that it is getting older. And I would
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Speaker 1: not say that Aaron Nola is old. This is his
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Speaker 1: age thirty two season. I would not say that Zach
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Speaker 1: Wheeler is old. It's his age thirty five season. But
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Speaker 1: we've seen many pitchers pitched well into their late thirties
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Speaker 1: and even early forties at a high level. My concern,
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Speaker 1: if there is one, is that Nola and Wheeler since
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen rank first and second in the majors in
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Speaker 1: regular season innings pitched. They've thrown a lot now, They've
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Speaker 1: been durable, They've been guys that you can trust. That's
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Speaker 1: why they were resigned by the Phillies to massive deals.
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Speaker 1: But you wonder all players have an expiration date. I'm
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Speaker 1: not saying these two are approaching that, but you wonder
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Speaker 1: whether the decline comes at some point for Nola, for Wheeler,
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Speaker 1: for some of their other players who are now in
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Speaker 1: their thirties. And I'm not saying it would happen even
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Speaker 1: this year, and I'm not saying that what Nola is
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Speaker 1: going through right now is a reflection of that. It's
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Speaker 1: just kind of in the back of my mind when
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Speaker 1: I think about the Phillies and just where they are,
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Speaker 1: not just for this season, but the ones be.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're so used to Aaron Nolan, Zach Wheeler being
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Speaker 3: money every time they take the ball. Can when they
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Speaker 3: have these early season struggles, you certainly have a microscope
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Speaker 3: on them, no question about that. Okay, get your questions
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Speaker 3: in for Grill and Ken. It is now time to
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Speaker 3: grill Ken Rosenthal. All right, Ken, Our first question is
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Speaker 3: in regards to the Toronto Blue Jays, more specifically Bo Bashett.
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Speaker 3: Matthew wants to know if the Blue Jays can't resign Bobashet.
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Speaker 3: Of course, coming off of Vladimir Guerrero Junior's really nice contract,
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Speaker 3: what do you think his trade value is.
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Speaker 1: I will answer that question with a question, why would
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Speaker 1: you want the trade Bobashett. The Blue Jays are playing well.
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Speaker 1: They look like a team that could be a surprise
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Speaker 1: at least compared to the expectations that people had for
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Speaker 1: them going into the season. They've always been talented, but
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Speaker 1: they're playing at a pretty high level. So if they're
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Speaker 1: in contention, I see no way they're trading Bobashett. And
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Speaker 1: if Bobashett is a huge part of what they're doing
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Speaker 1: Why again, would they trade him. If they were going
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Speaker 1: to trade either Bishett or Guerrero, it would have happened
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Speaker 1: long ago, and they held both, and they were kind
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Speaker 1: of adamant about it. They were like, Nope, we're keeping
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Speaker 1: these guys to free agency, whether we resign them or not.
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Speaker 1: They of course resigned Guerrero. Bashett is more of an
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Speaker 1: open question. So I don't expect that move to even
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Speaker 1: be considered if they're in contention. If they fall out
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Speaker 1: of it, okay, But keep in mind too, it's hard
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Speaker 1: to fall out of contention when you have twelve teams
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Speaker 1: making the postseason. Yeah, the Rockies are out of contention,
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Speaker 1: the White Sox are out of contention, but many other
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Speaker 1: teams will be.
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Speaker 4: In no question about that.
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Speaker 3: With the way that the format is for the postseason,
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Speaker 3: it's almost like the NBA. Everybody gets in, all right, Ken,
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Speaker 3: The next question, are there any early season standouts to
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Speaker 3: you so far?
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Speaker 6: Here?
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Speaker 4: Pretty early?
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Speaker 3: As you mentioned one tenth of the way through on
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Speaker 3: April seventeenth, anybody that you have your eye on that
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Speaker 3: perhaps was a bit of a surprise for you.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that I would call him a surprise,
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Speaker 1: but Junge is looking really good for the Giants. He's
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Speaker 1: the guy that they signed entering last season. Of course,
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Speaker 1: he was kind of struggling early, then he got hurt,
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Speaker 1: but he has been a revelation for a team that
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Speaker 1: has been perhaps the biggest surprise of all. And as
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Speaker 1: for players playing at a high level, he's one of them.
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Speaker 1: But in the National League, my gosh, we've got Tatis,
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Speaker 1: We've got Otani again, We've got a host of others
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Speaker 1: who are looking like MVP candidates and it's kind of
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Speaker 1: cool to see.
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Speaker 3: Okay, next question comes from Bernie Suarez, and this is
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Speaker 3: in regard to the Chicago Cubs. He wants to know
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Speaker 3: do you think that sending shod down was perhaps an
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Speaker 3: overreaction by Chicago.
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Speaker 1: Bernie, this is an interesting question, and I would not
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Speaker 1: call it an overreaction. I would call it a reflection
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Speaker 1: of their urgency. And some people have noted, well, they're
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Speaker 1: more urgent this year. Jed Hoyer is in the last
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Speaker 1: year of his contract. Okay, maybe that's the case, but
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Speaker 1: they should be in an urgent situation every year. They
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Speaker 1: traded for Kyle Tucker. Yes, that's an urgent type move.
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Speaker 1: Good Matt Shaw not the first player to get sent
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Speaker 1: down who had a big reputation coming in. Mike Trout
18:09
Speaker 1: was sent down, if you might recall. So I don't
18:11
Speaker 1: see it as an overreaction. I see it as them
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Speaker 1: trying to get him right, and they still view him
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Speaker 1: as an important part of their future. This is a
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Speaker 1: temporary blip.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: You mentioned Kyle Tucker. Omar has a question for you
18:24
Speaker 3: about Kyle Tucker. Do you think he will actually be
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Speaker 3: extended or hit free agency? Now there was a report
18:30
Speaker 3: obviously that they were going to extend him, hasn't been
18:33
Speaker 3: made official. Certainly, do you think the Chicago Cubs want
18:36
Speaker 3: Kyle Tucker for the long haul or does he hit
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Speaker 3: free agency?
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Speaker 1: They want him for the long haul, I'm sure, but
18:41
Speaker 1: I don't know that the talks with him so far
18:44
Speaker 1: have been anything even close to serious. And the Guerrero contract,
18:49
Speaker 1: the five hundred million over fourteen years, changed the landscape
18:51
Speaker 1: for Kyle Tucker considerably. His price is going up, and
18:55
Speaker 1: it's going up because even though he's two years older
18:58
Speaker 1: than Guerrero, he is a more well rounded player. Even
19:01
Speaker 1: vlat fans would not disagree with that. So I fully
19:05
Speaker 1: expect him to hit free agency, and I fully expect
19:07
Speaker 1: him to be outside the Cubs price range.
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Speaker 3: Okay, and Hall of Fame question for you, Ken Rosenthal,
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Speaker 3: do you have a favorite section or part of the
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Speaker 3: experience when you go to Cooperstown. This is from doctor Cole.
19:20
Speaker 3: He's going apparently their time is limited and he hears
19:23
Speaker 3: that it can take one or more days to see it.
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Speaker 3: All is there is a section that doctor Cole and
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Speaker 3: his family must see.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure they will see the section that I'm
19:32
Speaker 1: going to mention the Hall of Plaques and where everybody
19:36
Speaker 1: is honored and where you can see the different biographies
19:38
Speaker 1: of the Hall of famers on their plaques. Now, I
19:41
Speaker 1: must admit I have not been to Cooperstown all that much.
19:45
Speaker 1: Once as a kid and then again for Jason Stark
19:48
Speaker 1: when he was awarded the BBWAA Career Excellence Award. And
19:52
Speaker 1: the reason I don't go enough is because it always
19:54
Speaker 1: falls right around the trade deadline and I just cannot
19:57
Speaker 1: spare the travel and time that it takes to get there.
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Speaker 1: But a few times I've been there, it is a
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Speaker 1: really cool experience. Cooperstown is a lovely place, and sure
20:08
Speaker 1: the hall is where the plaques are. I know it's
20:12
Speaker 1: got a name, and it's eluding me right now. But
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Speaker 1: that's the action. That's where to be, all right, And.
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Speaker 4: I assume doctor Cole was the man. I wanted to make.
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Speaker 3: Sure that I said doctor Cole could be bringing her
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Speaker 3: son to Cooperstown. So enjoy the experience. Cooperstown is a
20:26
Speaker 3: wonderful place. The plat Gallery, Ken, I think, is what
20:29
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Speaker 3: Dude, dude, dude, Okay, dude to the week. Can I
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Speaker 3: get to shout out a person, an organization, what have you?
21:54
Speaker 3: So I'm going to go ahead and start with my
21:56
Speaker 3: Dude of the Week first, if you don't mind, I'm
21:58
Speaker 3: gonna go with Mike Trout. And the reason ken that
22:01
Speaker 3: I say Mike Trout is because a lot of people
22:04
Speaker 3: could have handled this situation poorly, and Mike Trout the
22:07
Speaker 3: class act that he is. Obviously, when the Angels were
22:10
Speaker 3: playing against the Houston Astros and Astros fan kind of
22:13
Speaker 3: leaned over grabbed the ball out of Mike Trout's glove. However,
22:16
Speaker 3: the fan I think handled it appropriately. You could tell
22:18
Speaker 3: that he was very remorseful, and after the game, Mike
22:22
Speaker 3: Trout went with and met the gentleman and his son
22:26
Speaker 3: and just handled it, I believe, with absolute pure class. Again,
22:29
Speaker 3: it was a little bit going back to the postseason
22:33
Speaker 3: when the Dodgers and the Yankees played in the World
22:35
Speaker 3: Series and those Yankee fans grabbed the grab Mookie's wrist
22:39
Speaker 3: and that that was not appropriate. Again, stop going into
22:43
Speaker 3: the field of play and stop trying to grab baseball's
22:45
Speaker 3: get out of the way. But I do believe that
22:48
Speaker 3: Mike Trout handled it appropriately. Mike Trout is healthy, Mike
22:51
Speaker 3: Trout is playing well. The Angels are playing well, and
22:55
Speaker 3: it's good to see. Mike Trout is my dude of
22:58
Speaker 3: the week. Ken, you I have a guy behind the
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Speaker 3: plate that you wanted to give a shout out to.
23:05
Speaker 1: I do. And we gave umpires, all of us, a
23:07
Speaker 1: lot of heat. We're always on top of them. We're
23:09
Speaker 1: always critical of them when they perform poorly. But when
23:12
Speaker 1: an umpire gets a perfect score for his plate job
23:16
Speaker 1: according to the umpire Accuracy website, that's pretty good. And
23:19
Speaker 1: here's Mark Ripperger he got one one accuracy. Good for him, man,
23:24
Speaker 1: that's awesome. As long as it's awesome that he could
23:27
Speaker 1: pull that off. On the scorecards. Judgment. Now you don't
23:31
Speaker 1: know if MLB's grading system is the same, but that's
23:34
Speaker 1: really good. Hats off to Mark and a great job
23:37
Speaker 1: by him behind the plate, no.
23:38
Speaker 4: Doubt about that.
23:39
Speaker 3: I love looking at those scorecards, and it's a lot
23:42
Speaker 3: different now that Angel Hernandez is no longer behind the plate.
23:45
Speaker 3: But that is neither here nor there, Ken Resenthal, it
23:48
Speaker 3: is time now for our John Fisher Dork of the week,
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Speaker 3: and you and I have a time here to usually
24:04
Speaker 3: each get to go, but I think you and I
24:06
Speaker 3: have the same sentiment that the dork of the week
24:09
Speaker 3: was worth both of us talking about the same person.
24:12
Speaker 3: For me, I have to say it's very I have
24:15
Speaker 3: a personal reason why I think this person is the
24:17
Speaker 3: or the situation is our dork of the week. Wiley
24:20
Speaker 3: Ballard and the Braves broadcast for asking for a fans
24:23
Speaker 3: number on air now. This is the sideline reporter on
24:26
Speaker 3: Fandual Sports Network for the Atlanta Braves. And I usually
24:29
Speaker 3: don't like calling out our colleagues. But the reason this
24:31
Speaker 3: person is the dork of the week, or this situation
24:34
Speaker 3: rather is the dork of the week, is he went
24:35
Speaker 3: into the stands. He's doing a sideline report he's talking
24:37
Speaker 3: to these two lovely ladies and he ends up getting
24:40
Speaker 3: her phone number on the air. And again, I understand,
24:42
Speaker 3: I'm old lady yelling at clouds in this situation, But
24:45
Speaker 3: as a woman in this industry, had I done that,
24:49
Speaker 3: my job would have been probably you know, I probably
24:52
Speaker 3: would have lost my job. The reason is there's a
24:54
Speaker 3: double standard for men and women in this industry. And
24:58
Speaker 3: had I gone into the stand and I was getting
25:00
Speaker 3: somebody's number, it would have been probably looked down upon.
25:04
Speaker 3: And I know this has even gone national, there's national
25:07
Speaker 3: people talking about this situation. A lot of people are saying,
25:11
Speaker 3: have fun, lighten up. But if you look at the
25:13
Speaker 3: women in this industry, Ken, and I know that you've
25:16
Speaker 3: been around us for a very long time, there's not
25:18
Speaker 3: a woman in this industry, for the most part, a
25:20
Speaker 3: credible woman in this industry that doesn't think that that
25:23
Speaker 3: was inappropriate. And I'd like to hear your thoughts about it.
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Speaker 1: Well, that kind of hits where I was going to go.
25:31
Speaker 1: And yes, people talk about this is fun lighting up. Well,
25:35
Speaker 1: it's fun from maybe a male's perspective, and it might
25:38
Speaker 1: even be fun from certain females perspectives. But if you
25:42
Speaker 1: looked on X after this happened, Virtually every woman who
25:47
Speaker 1: is either a print reporter or a television reporter had
25:52
Speaker 1: a very strong reaction to it, a very strong negative
25:55
Speaker 1: reaction to it. Now, it's the situation. It's not just
25:58
Speaker 1: Wiley bout, it's the whole cast. Everybody was kind of involved.
26:02
Speaker 1: And listen, I'm all for having fun on a broadcast.
26:05
Speaker 1: When I watched this, I thought, why is this even
26:07
Speaker 1: on a baseball broadcast? To begin with, it had nothing
26:10
Speaker 1: to do with the context of the game. But when
26:13
Speaker 1: you talk about fun and it extends into a situation
26:17
Speaker 1: where you're making people uncomfortable, either people watching or either
26:20
Speaker 1: people who have done the job and are aware of
26:22
Speaker 1: what's going on. And when you stretch the boundaries of
26:26
Speaker 1: what is professional behavior for a reporter, then you're talking
26:30
Speaker 1: about something else. Now, this incident compared to other incidents
26:36
Speaker 1: that are more aggressive or violent or whatever, it doesn't
26:39
Speaker 1: rise to that level. We all get it, and there
26:41
Speaker 1: are degrees of things, And on live television, Alanna, you
26:46
Speaker 1: know this, sometimes things can get away from you. And
26:48
Speaker 1: that appears to be in my opinion, what happened to here.
26:50
Speaker 1: Though no one with that broadcast seem to feel bad
26:54
Speaker 1: about it. But what I'm talking about here is what
26:59
Speaker 1: you said, the double standard and a certain respect and
27:04
Speaker 1: sensitivity and kindness and fairness that needs to exist in
27:11
Speaker 1: judging people. And people will say, well, I've heard I've
27:14
Speaker 1: seen this. Hey, if a woman did it, no problem,
27:17
Speaker 1: it's just as fun as she does it. Really, when
27:20
Speaker 1: a woman's sideline reporter, when her face appears on television,
27:24
Speaker 1: there are people who will reach out to her on Twitter.
27:27
Speaker 1: I've seen this. You see it all the time. Hey,
27:29
Speaker 1: we don't need you or you're a woman, so don't
27:31
Speaker 1: tell me behavior like that would have been accepted. What
27:34
Speaker 1: I'm saying here is we have to take a step
27:37
Speaker 1: back and understand, Hey, a woman couldn't do that. A
27:41
Speaker 1: woman would be looked at differently for that, and when
27:44
Speaker 1: you think of it that way, this should not have happened.
27:47
Speaker 3: I appreciate that, and I also appreciate all of our
27:50
Speaker 3: male colleagues, Evan Grant, for one, who covers the Rangers
27:53
Speaker 3: coming out and saying the same thing. Again, I'm not
27:56
Speaker 3: trying to be old woman yelling at clouds, but there's
27:58
Speaker 3: a time and a place for that.
27:59
Speaker 4: It's usually an bar.
28:00
Speaker 3: It's not on a broadcast, and again if I would
28:03
Speaker 3: have done that, it would have been interpreted incredibly differently.
28:07
Speaker 3: So for everybody, thank you for your questions for Ken,
28:09
Speaker 3: and thank you for listening to a dude in Dork
28:12
Speaker 3: of the week.
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