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Games begin! Yankees kill facial hair policy, 1st Robo Ump challenge · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm very heated about this topic because I always
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  Speaker 1: thought it was weird, and most players I spoke to
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  Speaker 1: thought it was weird. It's a big day for a
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  Speaker 1: lot of reasons. There's a big day. But I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: start with something we can all agree on. Okay, if
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  Speaker 1: you get a massive contract, let's call it a nine
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  Speaker 1: figure contract. If you're a nine figure contract guy, that
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  Speaker 1: means one hundred million dollars or more. And you want
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  Speaker 1: a number from a player, a new bar has been set.
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  Speaker 1: He coach a car ninety two G's Soto got Brett
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  Speaker 1: Baty a car. Great line too from him, Baby, Baby's like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I had an idea when so and so maybe as
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  Speaker 1: a sister, and somebody was asking me what my dream
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  Speaker 1: car was, and then they asked me what my insurance was.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, I got to interrupt her. He screwed up, He
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  Speaker 2: screwed Wait, why you gotta go with the rolls. You
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  Speaker 2: gotta go, you gotta go with the rollies.
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  Speaker 3: Baby, If you've got continued now, you've been talking about
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  Speaker 3: it for a while because he was driving his high school.
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  Speaker 3: He kept it since high school, and he didn't ask
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  Speaker 3: him about his dream car yesterday he'd been talking about
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  Speaker 3: it with this guy.
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  Speaker 4: I think this guy's name was Mark.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not sure who it is with the Mets, but
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  Speaker 3: he was talking about it, and he's like, I mean,
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  Speaker 3: this is kind of like something.
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  Speaker 4: A little more spacious. I mean, baby's a big dude,
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  Speaker 4: like he needs some spaciousness. I mean, this is good.
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  Speaker 4: You're not He can't, Brett Baty, you can't. Can't be
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  Speaker 4: rolling around in no rolls.
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  Speaker 2: Why not.
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  Speaker 3: That's not realistic. That's not realistic. Well, guess what it's
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  Speaker 3: like getting a tom Ford bag when you're in the bushes.
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  Speaker 4: I get it. It's nice, but I mean you got
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  Speaker 4: to stick to the coach and you know, I'm kidding.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, if he's like, wow, my
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  Speaker 2: dream car has been two tenty twenty five, s uv
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  Speaker 2: rolls Royce whoop sees pay that man his rolies? Either way, whatever, man,
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  Speaker 2: all good. This is a really cool, cool story. This
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  Speaker 2: is great, Todd Bother.
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  Speaker 1: I'm on your side.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate. I knew you would. This guy's got no
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  Speaker 2: facial hair. Oh maybe he does a little bit. Try
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  Speaker 2: excuse me, Oh he does making it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm back.
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  Speaker 1: We'll get to that we'll get to that. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole world. That's a good ten minutes that leads on
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  Speaker 1: this show. But let's charge actually before we charge calendar
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  Speaker 1: police with the pop ups. Oriels Camp Tuesday, Pirates Camp Wednesday,
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  Speaker 1: Yankees Camp, Thursday, Cardinals Camp, Friday, Mets Camp.
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  Speaker 4: They hate You're not a Mets camp.
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  Speaker 3: Oh I'm gonna be there, but they hate me. I
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  Speaker 3: just say, I never Cardinals, Cardinals at Mets. I never
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  Speaker 3: played there.
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  Speaker 4: They hate me.
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  Speaker 3: They said the one guy said I hope you get cancer,
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  Speaker 3: which is like over the top.
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  Speaker 4: That's from the Mets camp.
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  Speaker 1: Who said that? Who said that on Twitter? Maybe Mets fans,
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  Speaker 1: Mets community.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he meant this. No, there's no way around that word.
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  Speaker 2: That's not good. I don't even like joking around that word.
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  Speaker 2: That's terrible.
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  Speaker 4: That's a bad one.
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  Speaker 1: It's but anywayrat you can rebound, because we're gonna talk
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  Speaker 1: Mets later too. You can rebound. You can say, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: let me just get this straight. If you're a Mets fan,
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  Speaker 1: you would rather finish first in the division than finish third,
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  Speaker 1: win ninety games and win the World Series Option A
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  Speaker 1: or Option B. Because you didn't say that, they were
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  Speaker 1: gonna flunk in the playoffs. You just said you think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be a third place team.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Anyway, that's old stuff. But what a calendar, what a
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  Speaker 3: week coming up next week? I'm excited.
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  Speaker 1: I am excited as well. And those shows will be
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  Speaker 1: live from spring training. More info as we roll along
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  Speaker 1: here on our show, let's charge it down mound because
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  Speaker 1: we got games or game all right, So let's dive
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  Speaker 1: into this and there are many layers, but Todd father, First,
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  Speaker 1: take me through the first ever challenge via automatic balls
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  Speaker 1: and strikes. Cubs played the Dodgers. We'll get into a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of game stuff. There's not that much to
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  Speaker 1: slice up. But Max Monthy first inning so classic that
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  Speaker 1: it's Max because he's got a better eye than most umpires.
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  Speaker 1: But take me through the experience and do you like it?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I actually saw this live. I was I was
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  Speaker 2: sitting there waiting. I had a little bit of time,
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  Speaker 2: going to get my kids from school, and I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: you know what, let me watch a little bit of this.
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  Speaker 2: I wish, you know, it's a work in progress. I
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  Speaker 2: really I wish they showed this screen first, the ABS
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  Speaker 2: strike zone first, before the umpire put up O two.
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  Speaker 2: He went. The screen didn't come up until after the
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  Speaker 2: umpire went oh two count, which was pretty cool. I
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  Speaker 2: thought it was a strike. The catcher caught it. I
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  Speaker 2: forget who it was. He framed it, went the throw
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  Speaker 2: and looked back. He's like, you know, let me try this,
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think it was pretty cool. I've wanted this.
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  Speaker 2: I think this is cool. I don't want the umpires
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  Speaker 2: ever to leave. I like the human element. But again,
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  Speaker 2: they get two of them. See how it works. It
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  Speaker 2: worked fine. It was a strike. The ball was pretty
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  Speaker 2: much inside the zone. You know, umpires are sometimes you
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  Speaker 2: catch it the wrong way, they're not going to call
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  Speaker 2: it a strike for most umpires, I should say. And
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  Speaker 2: that's just the human nature, which I talk about all
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  Speaker 2: the time. So it was the right call. Kind of
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  Speaker 2: deflating as a hitter. You went from one to oh
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  Speaker 2: two and eventually months struck out. So uh, Petite got
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  Speaker 2: the best of them there, But yeah, it was It
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  Speaker 2: was interesting. Maybe they get speeded up just a little bit.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's the first one. I know, it's a work
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  Speaker 2: in progress. I don't know what the time stamp was,
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  Speaker 2: but it seemed like after he did it, like I
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  Speaker 2: was we're waiting there for you know, closer to the
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  Speaker 2: you know, the ten second range. But it is what
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  Speaker 2: it is. I thought it was great.
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  Speaker 4: I like hell.
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  Speaker 3: I like how they were talking about it the whole time,
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  Speaker 3: and the announcers. It's hard for the announcers to really
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  Speaker 3: know what was going on. And they sat there and
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  Speaker 3: they're like, well, Max Munsey was told. Dave Roberts came
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  Speaker 3: out and said, Max Munsey's not supposed to be arguing
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  Speaker 3: balls and strikes, and the announcers were kind of watching,
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  Speaker 3: and then they sat there and they went, oh, wait,
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  Speaker 3: Max isn't supposed to challenge. Oh wait, it's not Max's challenge.
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  Speaker 3: It'll get it'll get smoother. I always remember whenever they
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  Speaker 3: twitched over to replay. It was in twenty fourteen and
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  Speaker 3: the very first play of the year. We were in Tampa.
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  Speaker 3: Jose Reyes hits a pop up to the center fielder.
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  Speaker 3: He's running down to first base, tweaks his hamstring. No,
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  Speaker 3: what's his name in center? Kir Meer dives in center field.
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  Speaker 3: I think k Meyer was there at that time, but anyway,
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  Speaker 3: dives in center field. So it's like a trap. No trap.
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  Speaker 3: First play of the season, and we're trying to go
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  Speaker 3: through replay while the trainers out there getting hosey because
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  Speaker 3: he tweaked his hammy. It took forever to do it.
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  Speaker 3: It was so clunky. They tried to replay it. Sal
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  Speaker 3: Butterra was our replay guy. He screwed it up. So
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  Speaker 3: this is the first ABS challenge. So it's a little slow,
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  Speaker 3: little clunky. I think there's so many possibilities to make
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  Speaker 3: this really look awesome, and I'm glad we can get
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I instant, Yeah, that's what I agree to. I'm waiting.
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  Speaker 2: I'm waiting for the fans to go, like like get
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  Speaker 2: like they do in tennis kind of deal. Like, So
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  Speaker 2: if it's gonna be a little bit longer, you know,
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  Speaker 2: once the screen pops up and you see the ball
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  Speaker 2: start clapping, let's go. I think that's that's the right
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  Speaker 4: Ball? Ball.
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  Speaker 2: Oh don't.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand why it would take so long. Literally,
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  Speaker 3: we used to sit I talked about yesterday. We used
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  Speaker 3: to sit on the iPad and the pitch would come
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  Speaker 3: in and then iPad and we'd see it.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, now they're holding off because they don't want
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  Speaker 2: you yelling from the dugout it was a ball, you
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  Speaker 2: know what I mean? Like they wait longer. Yeah, those
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  Speaker 2: guys come in after a strikeout and they're like, you.
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  Speaker 4: Can't delay the track man.
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  Speaker 2: It's all I get it.
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  Speaker 4: They're not doing it on track man, They're doing it
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  Speaker 4: on a hawkeye.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, we'll speed it up or we'll do
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  Speaker 4: something cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, exactly, sight strike strike like that be creative.
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  Speaker 4: Fans have a dance or.
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  Speaker 2: Give them give them a sign like and you have
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  Speaker 2: the strike sign like no, no, yeah, you know what
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Like.
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  Speaker 4: That'd be cool. That's a terrible idea. That's cool.
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  Speaker 3: I hope we don't ever do that. Todd is out
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  Speaker 3: and trying to come up with cool ideas. You're not fun,
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  Speaker 3: You're that's the terrible idea.
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  Speaker 1: That a home park, So they're all going to be
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  Speaker 1: rooting for one call or the other. You're not going
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  Speaker 1: to have like, hey, the left side, you guys all
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  Speaker 1: say ball, right side, we all say strike. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: baseball does some fan things that are a little over
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  Speaker 1: the top, like the way, but I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: they're going to get that pre coordinated. Let me show
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  Speaker 1: you the quote from Max Mounsey post game. Jesse Rodgers
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  Speaker 1: tweeted this out and Cody Potit, by the way, was
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  Speaker 1: on the mound. For anyone that wants to just remember
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  Speaker 1: Monsy and Potit's names years from now when it's a
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  Speaker 1: trivia question. Quote from Max. It was a pitch that
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  Speaker 1: I definitely thought was a strike. The ump balled it
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  Speaker 1: and I looked out and the picture seemed very excited
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  Speaker 1: to challenge that one. So there you go. Max knew it.
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  Speaker 4: Pictures aren't the most challenging.
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  Speaker 3: They can no, no, but they aren't like they like
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  Speaker 3: somebody was was it Stark?
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  Speaker 4: Did? He interviewed?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're gonna talk about it later. We're gonna go
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  Speaker 1: over the rules what you should and shouldn't do. But no,
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to tease it. Give a little teaser for
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  Speaker 1: people that are just looking at this and they're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh, I got to see this next segment.
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  Speaker 3: That's a tease yep, because because there's like there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people that have experience with it and like
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  Speaker 3: the trends are don't let certain people challenge. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: was always thinking hitters, wait to wait till you see
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  Speaker 3: what the info came out with that. Who's not supposed
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  Speaker 3: to challenge because they're usually wrong?
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  Speaker 4: Probably not? It is correct?
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  Speaker 1: That is correct? All right, let's get to game stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Just for a quick sec Eddie Rosario first home run
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  Speaker 1: up spring training. Cool Yamamoto gets five outs. Curveball looked
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  Speaker 1: like it had a little extra drop to it, only
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  Speaker 1: used five of them, but cool, All great, everyone stayed
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  Speaker 1: healthy and well, actually that was a lie. That was
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  Speaker 1: the next thing I was going to say. Unfortunately, Bobby
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  Speaker 1: Miller hit by a comebacker, could have been much worse.
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  Speaker 1: Concussion protocol one hundred five and a half miles an
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  Speaker 1: hour off the bat of Michael Bush. He tweets postgame,
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  Speaker 1: thank you to everyone who has reached out. Really means
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  Speaker 1: a lot. Scary moment. I'm good, all praise to the
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  Speaker 1: man above. Can't wait to get back on the mound.
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  Speaker 1: And then we do have another quote from Munsi. He
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  Speaker 1: was probably the best SoundBite along with glass Now on
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers Mounsey after checking on Bobby Miller right after
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  Speaker 1: he was hitting the head by the liner quote from Max.
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  Speaker 1: They asked him where he was at, and he was
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  Speaker 1: a little pissed about the curveball coming back at him.
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  Speaker 1: So everyone's kind of like, all right, he's fine, he
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  Speaker 1: knows where he's at, So good news after obviously something
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  Speaker 1: that happens at least several times a year in the
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  Speaker 1: majors and is often leading to a worse result. Todd Father,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's the one thing we really haven't been
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  Speaker 1: able to crack in Major League Baseball is to prevent
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  Speaker 1: comebackers from being of a vulnerable thing for pictures. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, I mean you could. I know they've
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  Speaker 1: tried the ball cap liner stuff that probably helps a little,
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  Speaker 1: but not going to protect your face. They're not wearing
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  Speaker 1: face masks, so it's always going to be a tough spot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen, is it far fetched to softball players?
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  Speaker 2: The girls they wear the mask, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: them do, and it doesn't seem like it ever falls
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  Speaker 2: off their head. I'm all about safety, I'm all about health.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all about making sure everybody's okay. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 2: it was a breaking ball. But things I think about
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  Speaker 2: pictures are thrown harder. When somebody squares the ball up
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  Speaker 2: in baseball and it comes back at you from ninety
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  Speaker 2: six plus, you have no time to react. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the scary part about being a picture. You are the
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  Speaker 2: closest one to where the hitter is hitting the baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Why can't you come up with a mask that you
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  Speaker 2: put on where when they throw it doesn't and it
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  Speaker 2: just sits on there. So there's something that can protect you,
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  Speaker 2: could protect you. You know. I'm glad he's okay. But
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  Speaker 2: we do see this a lot. I mean, the one
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  Speaker 2: I think was the one of the worst ones for
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  Speaker 2: me live was the world as Chapman in spring training,
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  Speaker 2: Salvador Perez in a line drive off his head. He
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  Speaker 2: had to get stitches right down the center I think
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  Speaker 2: the center of his of his head. I forget how many.
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  Speaker 2: Eventually he came back and pitched that year, But man alive,
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  Speaker 2: it seems like it's a lot more than usual. I know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, back in the day, it wasn't as many,
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  Speaker 2: But now I just feel like it's just the way
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  Speaker 2: these guys can swing the baseball bat. The more electronically,
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  Speaker 2: you know, skilled everybody is about. You know where your
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  Speaker 2: bat path should be, how your swing should be, in
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  Speaker 2: your approach. It's totally different than twenty thirty, forty years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Kratzy and I gotta be honest, I feel like, now,
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  Speaker 2: more than ever, is the time to come up something
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  Speaker 2: with softball does with a mask and people like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: you're silly, blah blah blah. The helmet didn't work. I
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  Speaker 2: felt like that might have been too heavy. But there's
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  Speaker 2: there's something that can help you at least stain your
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  Speaker 2: face getting crushed from baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately, as much as I agree with you, Tom like
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna it's gonna have to be something that much
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  Speaker 3: worse happens before somebody actually wears a mask. I don't
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  Speaker 3: think that's right. I think you sit there and you go,
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  Speaker 3: we can come up with something that would give pictures
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  Speaker 3: an opportunity, But how how much is your ego going
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  Speaker 3: to get into it? How much is your you know,
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  Speaker 3: I know, I know guys that would put the they
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  Speaker 3: put the kevlar in in their hat and it helped.
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  Speaker 4: It helped, you know, if they ever got hit, protecting
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  Speaker 4: your face. But it's still not protecting your.
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  Speaker 3: Face like they even you know, it kind of got
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  Speaker 3: you know that that big hat that they were wearing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it looks silly. Well you're gonna look silly forever if
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  Speaker 3: they if they hit you in the face.
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  Speaker 2: Seeing football, the helmets, couple guys were those helmets that
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  Speaker 2: were two times the size to protect them from concussion.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, you're getting paid a lot of money,
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  Speaker 2: I mean looking.
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  Speaker 3: For live your life a lot longer than your career.
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  Speaker 3: So if you look silly. I remember when g got
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  Speaker 3: hit in the face, when John Carlok got in the face,
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  Speaker 3: and he was one of the first ones to really
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  Speaker 3: come up with the to come up with the c flap,
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  Speaker 3: but he had but he had like the g in it,
• 15:15
  Speaker 3: and people were like, Oh, no way that's going to
• 15:17
  Speaker 3: get in my face.
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: Let's get it.
• 15:19
  Speaker 3: See this's ale organizations now the Brewers entire organization in
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: the minor leagues. I think double a down all the
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: kids and now all the kids. So I think it's
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: just one of the things that the first person has
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: to do it and there's no drawback. Besides, it's a
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: little weird to start out. So if somebody's out there,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: go ahead and make a nice little face mask that
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: looks cool.
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, people want to look cool and be comfortable, and
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: it's tough to find the balance. It is what it is.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: We have another opening day starter. Call out the Angels
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: announce you say Kokuchi will start game one of the season.
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: Ron Wasson. Ron Washington said the choice was obvious, given
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: that he signed a big contract and was brought here
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: to be a number one. Don't look at the comments
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: and after Sam Blum's tweet unless you really enjoy laughing
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: and maybe feeling a little bit sad for Angels fans
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: and what they've gone through. But also this reply from
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: Matthew Puliott, a fantasy writer, who said Kikuchi's era plus
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: sub league average and twenty four sub league average career.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: He pointed out how Tyler Anderson had a better season
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: in twenty four also was their only All Star and
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: better career numbers. I see both sides here, guys, I
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: mean Kratz. They gave the big money to Kikouchi. He's
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: their guy for the next few years. I think it's
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: a big honor and respect thing for someone who also
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: comes from overseas, who clearly thinks it's a big deal.
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: He talked about it and said they already spoke about it,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: I think in January, and you're like, really, it's that
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: big a deal. So I think it's cool. Tyler Anderson's
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: going to be a free agent after this year, and
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Kikuchi was money down the stretch for Houston.
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess that's why you signed the big contract.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: I mean, you get first rounders. They always got all
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: the love in the minor leagues, so you know, they
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: get to do extra stuff, they get to go big
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: league camp. So I guess it's the same when you sign,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: you know, seven figure deal, eight figure deal, what was
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: its sixty six? That's eight figures. I guess you know
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: you're the big time guy. I wonder if there was
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: I wonder if there was some kickback there in the
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: sense of, you know, the pitching coach from last year
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: was saying, well, TA did legit for us, like he
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: was our guy, he was our all star. Like some
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: teams have the rule, whoever has the lowest era of
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: the starters the previous year, you get to be the
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: open a starter for the next year.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: So I don't know, I don't know. I'm sure Ta
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: is a little bit.
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: If I were him, I would be a little bit
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: pissed off too, but I understand it from a team
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: point of view.
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if I'm Kokuchia, I'm excited here. This is
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: this is really awesome.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: Ian.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: How many guys can say that, you know, honestly they've
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: been opening day starter. I mean I can honestly say
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: I've done it when I was eleven and twelve years old.
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: It was incredible, absolutely incredible, was a dream come true.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: Shove six innings shot, hit ball. But yeah, this is
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: this is really cool. I mean, let's take all the
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: numbers and everything out of it. He can pitch. The
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: guy's a good pitcher. He's over there for a reason.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Tyler Anderson can pitch too as well. You know, if
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: I'm Tyler, I'm not taking this to heart. I know
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Tyler very well from playing against him. They're all gonna
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: be fine.
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: Let's just do this. I'm gonna list off a bunch
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: of signings that happened over the past twenty four hours.
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Many of the names you actually know well because they've
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: been on our show pretty frequently, but h Todd Father
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: we got in the past twenty four hours. We talked
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: about Ross Stripling yesterday signing with the Royals, Ryan Yarborough
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to the Blue Jays, Andrew Heeney to the Pirates, Rowdy
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Talz to the Mariners. You got any you want to highlight?
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: No, I mean this is this is a really really
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: good one here. I mean, he's been looking for somebody.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: It's you.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: We're gonna see a lot of minor league deals here
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: coming up here. Sure, it's it's it's the best of
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: it's the good and bad because you're finally signing with somebody.
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: But you know, eight nine times out of ten, you're
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: not making a big league club. You're gonna have to
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: find your way on there. So you know, we love Rowdy.
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: We're happy for him, and you know, hopefully he goes
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: out of spring and just dominates and makes him wonder
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: why he's not on the big league camp, on the
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: big league team.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I mean, I said it yesterday. I love Chicken strip
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: going to the Royals. Opportunity to just go do what
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: you do. We don't need you to be anybody else.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: He doesn't need to fit into a mold and I mean, heeny,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: good job, Andrew. He he's gonna get himself a little
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: contract there and get traded halfway through the year.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: Yep, exactly. And for Rowdy this is actually a good
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: opportunity because the Mariners can't afford anyone, so they have
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: to hand out minor league contracts and just see who
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: will take them. For Rowdy, he might have a chance
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: to run with this opportunity. And personally, I'm excited because
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: if he does thrive in the beginning of the season,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he is definitely the kind of guy that's gonna say
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: everyone else in the league is soft, and it's fine,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: it's not that hard to hit in Seattle. You know,
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: he's gonna do that crat. He's gonna be like, yeah,
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: everyone else just doesn't know what they're doing. You know,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: they're staring at someone in the stands. They should be
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: staring at baseball.
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: That's hard to say.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: When he comes on, we're gonna we're gonna have to
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: ask him is the batter's eyes straight or not. I
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: have a hard time saying that because then he's gonna
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: go up his next at bat and be.
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: Like, oh, you don't want to throw him off. I mean,
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: come on like that in camp.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I'm just telling you. I'm telling you from a player's standpoint.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: I hated when dudes come back and like, dude, there's
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: a bright spot right next to the batters.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: I see it.
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: You go up there and you're like, what you're looking for?
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: It Like it's like not subconscious, but like it's a distraction.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: That's why dudes on adderall we're always so much better
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: at hittings because they just never they were never distracted
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: by a squirrel.
• 21:02
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• 21:07
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• 21:09
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• 21:11
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• 21:14
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• 21:17
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• 21:30
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• 22:09
  Speaker 1: Big big news from hal Steinberner. I'm gonna sum it
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: up for you. Okay. The Yankees facial hair policy dead
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: burn it rip, one of the biggest loser policies in
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: Major League history is gone. Oh players rejoicing everywhere. Yeah yeah,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: bring us on. Todd Father and Krats both played for
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the New York Yankees. They had to be clean shaven.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: They would like it to still be well groomed. Todd Father,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: were you surprised to see this news and did they
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: do the right thing?
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: I want to do this gift where the guy's just
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: looking in his eyes are like loser, Like, what are
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: you talking now?
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: I just say that, don't say that outside.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: That Hey, listen, this is breaking news, and I think
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: it's hysterical. Well, I gotta be honest with you. It's
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: something that the Yankees have implemented for a lot of
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: years now. I know we heard Ken talk and how
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: Don Mattingly wanted to change. It's a new time, it's
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: a new error. It's it's totally different. I I kind
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: of liked it. If you want the truth, I mean,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: you go to a different organization. They have their own
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: set of rules. They want you to do certain things.
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: You know.
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: Now, I'm into facial hair. I I you know, I've
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: been having facial hair for a lot of years now.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Every once in a while shave it off. My kids
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: will be a little annoyed, But yeah, I did. Like
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I'm an old school guy, like the old school way
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: the Yankees. That's what made them the Yankees. Everybody hated. No,
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: you go to hell. You can't have facial hair. That
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: was part of their persona. You're disciplined, you come to
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: the ballpark making sure you look good. I mean, when
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: you go to any other job, you're not going in
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: there scruffy. If you're wearing a suit and tie. It
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: is what it is. And am I upset that it's
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: gone on. I'm not upset. I I'm not upset at all.
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: But it was kind of their persona and or their
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: intuition of saying, listen, these are the Yankees. We got
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: steps and we got rules, and we got to live
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: by these and this is what makes us. They believe
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: to be a better organization. So we're looking here. Glabor
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: Torres didn't believe it at first, so I thought it
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: was a joker seeing from Evan Woodberry. So some people
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: are gonna be excited either way. I'm on both sides
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: of the fence. If you're mad, I'm happy with you.
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: If you're not, okay, you know it's what you believe in.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: It's a polarizing subject, facial hair and facial hair that
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: you have a choice to keep or not to keep.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: But then you go somewhere and they're like, no, we
• 24:38
  Speaker 3: don't want it. What I love the most is what
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: Aaron Boone said. I don't know if we have the
• 24:42
  Speaker 3: quote or not. I just saw it. Ryan Hope tweeted
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: it and he said, if we've heard around the lead
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: from players that would say I'm not going to the
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Yankees because of the facial hair policy, right or wrong.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Aaron Boone said, if we just miss out on one
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: player that could help us win a World Series, then
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: it's a bad policy, which is one hundred percent true.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: True.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: I don't think any player that's going to get the
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: right amount of money is that attached to their beard
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: that they can grow back. But I also saw in
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: Houston in twenty sixteen, Dallas kyke and I were in
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: the weight room. Jim Crane, the owner, came in, very
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: successful businessman, has other businesses other than the Astros. So
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: this was twenty sixteen before they went on to be
• 25:29
  Speaker 3: the team. They were just starting to be the team
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: that we know him as now. And he said, you
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: know what, he said, not one person at my other
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: in my other businesses has a beard like Dallas Kaykeel.
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: But also not one person in the other businesses can
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: win a cy young like Dallas Kykel. So he was
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: being honest about it. He was being honest. He was
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: meeting the player where they were and he said, you
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: know what, I have this standard in my other businesses.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: It doesn't fly here. So good for how being the
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: one that says, you know what, I'm willing to I'm
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: willing to bend a little bit, but don't don't abuse
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: this privilege. Don't don't be coming in here looking like
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: looking like a homeless, scraggly person.
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: Beard either.
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: Entertainment business, it's sports. It was Unamerican, and they spoke
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: to the big boys.
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, it was.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: They spoke to the big boys Judge Cole, John Carlo.
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: They all said it was trash. We can go back
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: and we can look at Devin Williams and how he
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: felt like a little boy. And also, by the way,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: it would have been cool to ever and know about this.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know two weeks ago, so we didn't have
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: everyone shaving their beards Williams, gold Schmidt, etcetera. I'm pretty
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: sure's the challenge.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Tell me what you said to me before when you
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: saw Derek talking about Oh, like, how.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Do you remember you don't I forget what you said.
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: It's not like you can't grow it back.
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: Oh right, yeah.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: Oh.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Derek Lewandowski of Pinstriped Territory said on the show, He's like,
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: he's like, oh, I wish.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: They would have told these guys ahead of time. This
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: is just unbelievable.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: Like before opening day, they're gonna get a nice little
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: beard back together like it's not like it's not like
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: they said, hey, everybody, you gotta go bald, like it's
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: not coming back like I got nothing coming back up here.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: So you know what, when I went to the Yankees
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: and I shaved this off, I'll tell you what. What
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: the kids say, my ris went up. I'm just saying.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying I don't got that great of a
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: beard right now.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: The kids.
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: The kids say, no.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: The kids didn't say it to me.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: The kids say the word riz like skibbity riz and
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: stuff like that. No, I got big time charisma when
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: I shaved all my face, So I didn't mind it.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: I'll be honest with you.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: How did other players feel about it?
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: Majority didn't like it, didn't like it.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: But they did it. They he said, I wish I
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: had facial there, but they didn't. They weren't going about
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: it like every day, oh this facial take a take
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: one of those electric razors every other day, and you're
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: at least for me, I would have my skin almost there.
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: It depends on what kind of electric razer you had.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: But and then you take the buzzer that that makes
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: it nice and tight. Two or three days, you do that.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: You're fine. I'm not into the you.
• 28:23
  Speaker 4: Know, the the blade.
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: The blade, I'm not a but the single blade at
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a barbershop, I'm good. But you know the shit quatro
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: quadruple duples that I get, the razor bumps. I couldn't
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: do that.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I love the blade. I love the blade, But I
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: want to hit on what Scott said. Please do Scott.
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: It's un American. Un American.
• 28:43
  Speaker 4: Oh god god, it's not American.
• 28:46
  Speaker 3: A beard is not a it's not a race.
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: It's not it's not even it's not even entertainment. A
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: beard is not entertainment.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: Entertainment is what you're putting out there, the you're putting
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: on the field. The Yankees are not the Yankees because
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: of a beard or no beard policy. The Yankees are
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: the Yankees because of the tons of graffiti they have
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: in the rafters called championships and pennants. That's why the
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: Yankees are the Yankees. And that's why this rule was
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: okay that they changed it. But it was also okay
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: that they had a rule because if you don't have standards,
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: and I'm not saying I'm gonna be the one to
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: say what the standards are, and I, Hey, I'm the
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: one that has to set these standards. Each organization can
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: set their own standards, and to say it's un American
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: to like so, then all kids who can't grow a
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: beard like my boys are trying to grow these beards
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: out and it's just like there's like little patches.
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: It's like, no, like.
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: I didn't say you have to have one crawtz, I
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: said preventing one. It's weird. I brought this up recently.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I don't like it.
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: No, it's true. You're you're telling these grown men how
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: they have to wear their face. It's it's just weird.
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why do you care? Oh, I'm sorry, boss.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Are you staring at my face all day?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah?
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: But this isn't another job. I don't care about the
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: other jobs.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: This is baseball. The other jobs are important too, so teacher.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: I understand, but every job is different. Every job is different. Also,
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: I don't believe in the policy anywhere. Okay, I don't
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: believe in the policy anywhere. I just think it's stupid,
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: it's weird. I just think it's like a weird fetish
• 30:25
  Speaker 1: thing from somebody that came up with it and they
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: just wanted to carry it through. Sorry, I'm very heated
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: about this topic because I always thought it was weird,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: and most players I spoke to thought it was weird.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: And like krat said, if you lose one freaking player
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: one player because of it, and you're at an organization
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: that pride yourself on winning, then it is a loser policy.
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: And if the superstars on your current team tell your
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: ownership group it's weird, outdated, out of touch on fair.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: These are all things that were said to them over
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: the years, and again in spring training they finally got
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: smart and switched it, So I'm giving them credit for
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: finally waking up.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: I agree with you, but most of those guys have
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: said it's a loser policy probably didn't play for the
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: team and understood to the tradition of Yankee Baseball. That
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: being said, are you a big component on names on
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: the back of jerseys, because that's another thing that I mean,
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: that's next people are gonna be like, all right, well,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: we got one down, how about the other? I think
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: I think no name should be on the back. I'm
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a no name or guy.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Whether every jersey or just for Yankees.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I think just for Yankee should they change it?
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: I don't care as much. This was the one I
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: was dying. I don't care. Now that's not an American Yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: but Todd you I can go the other way too. Okay,
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you're a Yankee, right, And they're like, hey, Yankee policy.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: We all wear thongs. That's what we do. You going
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: out there and wearing a thong. What's the line? You're
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: taking the line the other way?
• 31:45
  Speaker 4: Come on?
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wasn't going to the depths of the earth here, Okay.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: I mean, didn't Derek Jeter wear a thong or something?
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Wasn't that a story?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: The good luck thong? Hey, if it produced hits, maybe
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: some do. But I'm just saying I thought this. This
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: to me was the line, that's all. And I'm not
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: going off me. Guys I'm in spring training and guys
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: always made fun of it when you'd be around them.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, here come to the Yankees.
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: But they're they're shaved off beards. They're so much better
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: than everyone else. And it was weird.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: Who wore the first dong?
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: Ever?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, whoever invented that? Incredible?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: What's the next Scott? What's the next rule? Because now
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: you don't have any rules. You've gotten rid of all
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: the rules. What's the next rule that you you need
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: to get rid of because a lot of my.
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Call outs have been working. Okay, so so other things
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: that I Other things that I was dying on were
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: the unlimited timeouts in our sport, because that's not how
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: the game was originally crafted, right. That was actually an
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: old school thought bringing in new school. That was what
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: I was dying on ten years ago. I was like
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: Yanni Milina, Brian mcchan et cetera. I was like, you
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: are calling time out every batter in playoff baseball? Do
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: you really have to go over the game plan every
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: batter because that's not how baseball was created? And I
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: was dying on that hill and it was gone. They
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: created timeouts, pitchclock, huge fan for years, thought they should
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: have implemented it ten years ago when I was calling
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: it in Arizon FO League games. That was next. Facial
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: hair policy was the one that I was going after.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: On the stylistic side, let me ask you a question, Kratz.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: You love when players show off their bats and their
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: unique uniforms, and the uniforms were so messed up last
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: year that they couldn't even do players weekend correctly. So
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: isn't this an extension of showing off your style and
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: your swag in the game. We like when the guys
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: show up with cool outfits to the ballpark, so we
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: talk about style in the sport. Isn't this a part
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: of that, part of your personality?
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: Kind of yeah, it is. It can be, It definitely
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: can be. It can be. You know the Brian Wilson beard.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: You talk about other dudes that have big time beards,
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: so it can be, it can be an extension of that.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: But you also it's okay to have tradition and is
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: haired is right word? Tradition like it used to be
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: I think in the nineteen and probably Derek Lewandowski could
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: probably tell us on pinstripe territory. But the Yankees used
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: to never sell Yankees' hats, and the ownership of the
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: Yankees said, you want a Yankees hat, you got to
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: make the team. And those are the only people that
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: get them. Now look at what the most the most
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: sold hat is.
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: So you know what, some traditions are good, are good,
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: they live, they leave a legacy, and now we'll never know.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: I'm an untried tradition. I just thought this one was
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: stupid and dated, So that's all I went after it, pitchforks,
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: the whole deal.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: I'd hear some multiple Yankee guys come out and be
• 34:42
  Speaker 2: a little angry about this, just letting you know that I.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Did when I first brought this up on one of
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: our first shows. Yeah, guys, I brought this up on
• 34:51
  Speaker 1: one of our first shows a couple of years back,
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: and woo. The comments on TikTok were pretty off, pretty
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: weird in terms of what they thought I believed in.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: But it is what it is. The only other call
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: out I do have is really, we just figured this out.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: To me, I think it's innocent. Where hal Steinberner, who
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: makes that call, is just at spring training. He's like,
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: oh yeah, let's actually let's figure this out right now,
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: so better late than never. But I'm like, could have
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: done it two weeks ago, But it's fine. They figured
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: it out now early in spring training. So anyway, if
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: you're catching this later on, leave us some comments. I
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: know that a lot of people are very very opinionated
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: one way or another on it.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: We go.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: Now that the spring trains have begun, We're going to
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: give you a little tutorial that Kratz is very excited
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: to walk you through on how to handle the ABS
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: challenge system. So we actually created a nice little how
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: to board. This is all thanks to Jason Stark. He
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: gets all the credit. But Kratz, would you like to
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: read us through it and throw some comments out there.
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I think you're the perfect guy because you're kind of
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: in the middle of all this catcher catching the picture
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: you did hit two, So tell me how this should
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: work within the complexion of a dugout.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Honestly, we got you know this is from Jason Stark's article,
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: but the strike zone is not the same as what
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: we're used to as hitters. The strike zone never changes,
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: which is super awesome, and guys will start to understand
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: that in the big leagues, and I think it's going
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: to be an advantage for hitters. Don't put games in
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: the robots hands, meaning try to use your challenges. Don't
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: get emotional because you're still learning what these what this
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: zone is. Hitters don't need to get emotional. Don't let
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: pictures challenge this is my favorite one. Pictures think everything's
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: a strike because we as catchers. This is my value
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: as a catcher. We're not only trying to manipulate the umpire,
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: but we're trying to manipulate the picture to give him
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: a good.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: Idea that, you know what, that probably was a strike.
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: You really got it close there, when in reality they
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: didn't get it close. Make this all about the catchers.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm gonna get that tatch dude on my
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: right bicep because that way my kids know that it
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: is all about the catchers. And I was a catcher, okay,
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: and I'm gonna get a tattooed there, so Todd knows too.
• 37:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a test. Don't save your challenges. No, don't
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: save them.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: That's true.
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: Don't save them.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: This is a huge thing. And this is from people
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: who had experienced. Jason Stark he did all the he
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: did all the research from guys who have experienced in
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: the last I think two or three years now were
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: the guys that he interviewed. So this is all good
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: info that I know. They're already talking about Big League
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: Camp because we watched some of the live AB's and
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: they have the system set up. Dudes are challenging. Dudes
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: are challenging, and it's fun to see who gets it
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: right and who gets it wrong.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: And when you use them too as well, I think
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: you have some really good points. Stark's got some really
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: good points. Are you going to save these for a
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: bases loaded opportunity? Are you going to use these right
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: off the bat? You know, it's just one of those
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: things where I haven't done much research on it, but
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: I know he has. So those are all really good points.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: But at the end of the day, like in big
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: time situations, you know, if it's ball forward, end the game,
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: we got, We're gonna challenge it anyway, just you know,
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: you know what I'm saying, Like bigger situations to save
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: runs in its borderline, I think you have to use it.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: So we'll see, We'll see how it goes. I love
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: everything about it. I hope this is an ink is
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: not an inkling to take away from umpires, but this
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: is the start of something really good that will help umpires.
• 38:30
  Speaker 2: There won't be many arguments, but at the same time,
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: let the humans be humans.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: My value at my value, sorry Scott, my value as
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: a player was receiving and that receiving was even Todd's.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: Todd's brother got thrown out of a game, and as
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: he was arguing with the umpire.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: He's like this, dude's back here doing magic stuff. He's
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: doing magic stuff, and you flyl for it, and you know,
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: you just you take the ball. The ball's over here
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: a little bit, and you just just move it a
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: little bit. Not not like what guys are doing now.
• 39:01
  Speaker 5: But I get it. There's success in it. So I'm
• 39:03
  Speaker 5: not saying it's wrong. I'm saying it's all the same.
• 39:07
  Speaker 5: It's all the same idea. So you're not taking value
• 39:09
  Speaker 5: away from organizations who have, in their opinion, overpaid catchers
• 39:14
  Speaker 5: for the receiving and framing metric, which is a very
• 39:18
  Speaker 5: undervalued thing that organizations have been valuing it. But now
• 39:24
  Speaker 5: we have to figure out as players how to get
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: paid for that. So it's manipulating the umpire. So the
• 39:31
  Speaker 5: value is still in the umpire, the value still in
• 39:33
  Speaker 5: the catcher who can't hit worth the lick.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: This guy.
• 39:38
  Speaker 3: And you sit there and you go, Okay, we're not
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: really taking the human aspect out of it, but we're
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: getting the calls right.
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: We're getting the calls right. And adds a little bit
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: of extra strategy.
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: Strategy, and Todd Father knows I like that little petty action,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: so you know it's going to happen. Todd Father there's
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: gonna be a little dug out back and forth when
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: someone uses one up and they didn't save it for
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: the superstar late. Someone's gonna say something next year, right,
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: someone's gonna say something when number eight hitter is a
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: little bit cocky and he thinks he didn't strike out,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: but he did, and then eighth inning, huge punch out.
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: Your number three hitter goes down and it wasn't strike three.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Because that's real. That impacts the freaking result of the game.
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: And you got to save those for the big boys.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: You got to know when to use them. And I
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: know Stark says, use them like it's not a test,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: like go after and use them, but you have to
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: be very critical. How many are they getting. I know
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: it's spring training in the game too, so they're gonna
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: get two duringcy you if you give it.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: Up during next season. But wait, Todd, so yes, just
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to clarify real quick. So it's two and this is
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: what they're testing out. They could switch this, They could say,
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: you know what, we should do three next year, but
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: they're doing two. And if you win, you keep it.
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: So you could technically challenge forty times if you get
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: it right every time. And we're going to keep track
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: of I'm sure players percentages. Right, Oh, how does this
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: guy do? Oh he's an eighty percent guy, like he's
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: getting it right most of the time. We'll let him challenge.
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: They should do two and then you know how they
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: do it with the challengers from the seventh inning on.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: The umpires can make a challenge, but they get one
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: more in my opinion, two one through seven one, they
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: get one for the seventh inning and the ninth inning
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: on good luck. That's what. That's what, in my opinion,
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: what they should do. Again, my opinion doesn't matter.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: I love that. I'm completely on board with that.
• 41:34
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Scott, I got I got one for you. When
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: we get players on because we're gonna we're going to
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: spring training, we have tons of players. Every time I'm
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: going to ask every one of them who they think
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: is going to be the best at it and the
• 41:45
  Speaker 3: worst at it, because you know, there's dudes, and I've
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: said it long time ago when they first started doing
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: the challenges, I think everybody should have a little flag,
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: not red because that's what they do in the NFL,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: but a flag in their pocket. And if you think
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: you were safe at first, you throw it out right there,
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: No replay needed, none of this stuff. And I always said,
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: like I know exactly on our team the dudes that
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: are gonna argue everyone because every single time play at
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: first base, bang bang.
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: They're like, oh, come on, come on, like why do
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: players do that? Why do players do this?
• 42:16
  Speaker 5: Like they check it, you have to be they check, yeah,
• 42:18
  Speaker 5: but they check every play everything.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Stop telling the replay guy. He's already checking it as
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: you're running down the line.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: You usually get the one guy that's like that's when
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: you're like, at least it's gonna be interesting, Scooter.
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: That's a great call out, bikrats. You get to see
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: the personalities and this is going to be really really
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: fun for next year, so look forward to it. But
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: we'll see a little taste in spring training. All right,
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: we're swinging back with slap hands on FT. All right,
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: let's slap and I'm very excited about next week. It
• 43:06
  Speaker 1: starts our spring training tour. We keep expanding it. Last
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: year we hit more camps in Florida. This year we're
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: gonna hit even more camps in Florida. There'll be other
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: friends taken over down there. It's not just AJ dominating
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: his home state camp. Maven's gonna get involved krats and
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: we're hitting Arizona. But first let's focus on next week.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: Oriols Camp, Pirates Camp, Yankees Camp, Cardinals camp, Mets camp.
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: If you're watching right now, send us request who do
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: you want us to talk to and what do you
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: want us to ask them? We will talk to many
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: players on a camp by camp basis. What are you
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: smirking about? You got something? You got something good?
• 43:43
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: The next thing coming up? I started laughing here on
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: our page.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: I read it. Is it the Jase Young thing?
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Josh Jung.
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: Oh my god, man, I forgot what we were talking about.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Well Josh Young, Josh Young, Yeah, not Jason Brother.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: Josh, Oh my god, yeah, well Josh Jung. Jeff Bates, Uh,
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: put on there if we can show it. He said,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I love Josh Josh Young, but I know he's been.
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: Not young young young give it?
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Give me why you confuse me? It's the way I talk.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: Just give me a.
• 44:20
  Speaker 4: Young Sorry, thank you.
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: I'm out of it, as I know, Jeff Bates wrote,
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: and I know he's a big star Wars guy. Does
• 44:29
  Speaker 2: this now confirm he is an avatar? The last Bender
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: fan to question Mark. Oh my god, this is incredible,
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: Josh Wright exposing me. Ha, I know the gaps are
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: getting deep. I'm in the denial phase right now, hoping
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: it doesn't get worse. Jees, this is spot on, this
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: is incredible. You're gonna have to shave that buddy.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: And it's not even even no, it's not even even
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: the alleys. Oh my god, Gods quick.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Josh okay, come to the dark side and Casey.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: We this baby Blue is hot. It's hot. Appreciate your
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: new era.
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: Baby Blue always slaps f t fam. Today it was
• 45:15
  Speaker 1: a good day. Monday will be even better. Spring Training Tour, Yes, yes,
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: get to see all your old friends
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: Make some new ones.