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Ken Rosenthal on the Ketel Marte fallout, Andy Green’s decision & BIG names nearing returns · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Yes, this is the Inside Scoop, Foul Territory Senior Insider
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal is with us. And I'm excited to get
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  Speaker 1: into the National League wildcard race. The American League wildcard
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  Speaker 1: race gets so much attention for so many teams. Ken,
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  Speaker 1: before we do that, and this will kind of be
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  Speaker 1: our segue into it, let's get into one of those teams,
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  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. So we did fair territory yesterday. You explained
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  Speaker 1: a lot about your article. I just want to give
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  Speaker 1: these guys a chance to chime in too. So let's
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  Speaker 1: just start it like this. What stood out to you
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  Speaker 1: about the Cattell Marte article and the work that you
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  Speaker 1: did behind the scenes to uncover what happened here?
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  Speaker 2: What stood out to me, Scott, I guess would be
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  Speaker 2: that there's probably more to it than we knew. And
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  Speaker 2: that's always the case with players, often the case when
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  Speaker 2: you have situations like this. And I'm not excusing Marte
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  Speaker 2: because you have to show up for your team. You
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  Speaker 2: have to show up at the ballpark. And if you're hurt, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but you got to get there. So that is all
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  Speaker 2: given that there is no excuse that he had to
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  Speaker 2: do that. He knows he was wrong. He's apologized for that,
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  Speaker 2: my understanding. to Mike Hayes in the general manager and
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  Speaker 2: Tori Lovello, the manager. What I didn't know was that
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  Speaker 2: he's got some stuff going on off the field with
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  Speaker 2: a family member, a close family member who is really,
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  Speaker 2: really ill. And then you have also the knee injury
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  Speaker 2: and the frustration he was dealing with there. Again, I'm
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  Speaker 2: not excusing it, but that is one thing that stood
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  Speaker 2: out to me in putting the article together. The other
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  Speaker 2: thing is, Mike Hazen, the general manager, was very frank, saying, listen,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to win baseball games, and he's an extremely
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  Speaker 2: talented player. It's not always going to be perfect, and
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  Speaker 2: this is the strategy or the course we've chosen with him,
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  Speaker 2: and listen, it's been a few years now where you've
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  Speaker 2: had incidents or situations like this with Marte, and they've
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  Speaker 2: lived with it. Now, you could argue, and I mention this,
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  Speaker 2: that They've been too forgiving, that they've been too soft
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  Speaker 2: on him, and they should have maybe traded him when
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  Speaker 2: they had a better chance to do that. Now he's
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  Speaker 2: a 10-5 guy, probably can't be traded. But at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, he's an extremely valuable guy on a below-market contract. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's the kind of player all teams want.
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  Speaker 3: I thought your article hit on the human side of Marte,
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  Speaker 3: going through things and then how he emotionally handles things. Lavello...
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  Speaker 3: And even the front office with Hazen. But one of
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  Speaker 3: the things in your, did you get any hints when
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  Speaker 3: you talked to the players that they ever felt like
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  Speaker 3: he wasn't giving it his best on the field? Because
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  Speaker 3: I didn't see anything in the article about that. It
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  Speaker 3: was more of, well, Cattell being Cattell. And yes, he's
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  Speaker 3: done this before. Did they ever hint that maybe the
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  Speaker 3: effort wasn't there on the field?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I didn't include this. And it's not a lack
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  Speaker 2: of effort, but some guys pointed out And Tori Lovello,
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  Speaker 2: in the story, the quote I had from him when
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  Speaker 2: he said he's frustrated he retreats, some of the players
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  Speaker 2: pointed out that that can be a situation that happens
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  Speaker 2: during game two, where it's not going to be checked out,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe he's just not as into it as he
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  Speaker 2: should be. There are things that you do on a
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  Speaker 2: field that maybe you wouldn't do when you're completely locked in.
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  Speaker 2: So overall, the sense I got was he's not a
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  Speaker 2: disruptive guy. He's not a bad guy per se. He
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  Speaker 2: is just someone who maybe is more emotional than most
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  Speaker 2: and more high-maintenance in certain respects. And I don't say
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  Speaker 2: that in a bad way because a lot of players
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  Speaker 2: are high-maintenance. But he needs positive reinforcement. That was what
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  Speaker 2: one of the players told me. He needs that. And
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  Speaker 2: Torrey Lovello kind of indicated the same thing. So, again,
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot to... All these guys, all the players
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  Speaker 2: are out there. We see them. We see what they
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  Speaker 2: do on their performance, with their performance on the field.
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  Speaker 2: We don't always know what's going on behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 2: And I want to be clear once more. I'm not saying,
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  Speaker 2: oh man, poor Quetel Marte, because Quetel Marte was wrong here.
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  Speaker 2: But at the same time, there is a depth that
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  Speaker 2: we need to understand and recognize. We don't always know.
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  Speaker 2: Even the reporters covering the team don't always know what's
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  Speaker 2: going on in guys' personal lives. Even their teammates don't
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  Speaker 2: always know what's going on. And it's just worth repeating
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  Speaker 2: that and understanding that. The game is really hard. I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to tell you and Josh that, Eric. The
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  Speaker 2: game is extremely hard to play. When you have other distractions,
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  Speaker 2: other things, injuries, it becomes that much more difficult. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 4: And as Kratzy said, you hit on the more personal side,
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  Speaker 4: human side, because obviously there are two sides. And he
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  Speaker 4: retreats and we've gotten through all of that. But do
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  Speaker 4: you think there was any indication that the team knew
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  Speaker 4: any of this before the article came out? Like, is
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  Speaker 4: this something that they try to keep under wraps or
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  Speaker 4: were they just thinking that it was just an injury?
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  Speaker 4: And then as this stuff comes out now, this is
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  Speaker 4: because obviously players talk about, you know, Not the drama,
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  Speaker 4: but obviously he plays, but sometimes they can, you know,
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  Speaker 4: we've been in clubhouses. You don't want anything to take
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  Speaker 4: away from the objective at hand, which I said, they're
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  Speaker 4: winning baseball games. And since he's kind of had this,
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  Speaker 4: I think the record's been five and four, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: I could be wrong.
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  Speaker 4: Or something like that. Do you think that that little
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  Speaker 4: bit of looming over is going to carry over into
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  Speaker 4: this last month?
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  Speaker 2: Because I know he's. That's a great question on that. Josh,
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  Speaker 2: that kind of leads us to the next step here,
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  Speaker 2: which is once he comes off the injured list, I
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  Speaker 2: think he's eligible as soon as Monday, what happens? Now,
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  Speaker 2: he's going to apologize. He's going to address the media.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to apologize to his teammates. We know that.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to happen. They've basically said that. What happens
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  Speaker 2: to the team dynamic? Do they simply welcome him back
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  Speaker 2: and say, listen, this guy's a great player. He can
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  Speaker 2: get us to the playoffs? Or is there some kind
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  Speaker 2: of lingering tension? I don't know the answer to that.
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  Speaker 2: And you guys both know, 26-man clubhouse, You're not going
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  Speaker 2: to have unanimous sentiment on anything. Some guys will be
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  Speaker 2: more supportive of Marte. Some guys will be more frustrated, exasperated,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the word you might want to use. As for
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  Speaker 2: did the Diamondbacks know this side of his personality, they
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  Speaker 2: absolutely knew it. They went through it last year. They've
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  Speaker 2: been through it even before that. So, again, they've been
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  Speaker 2: willing to withstand these storms, if you want to call
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  Speaker 2: them that. And they've been willing to do that because, again,
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  Speaker 2: he is a special player.
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  Speaker 3: Let's talk about this National League race, the wildcard race
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  Speaker 3: that the Diamondbacks are in. Where do they go from here?
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  Speaker 3: Not with or without Cattell, we've hit on that. But
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  Speaker 3: how does this team find the path to make it
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  Speaker 3: into the wildcard, to make that last spot, which they've
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  Speaker 3: kind of faltered a little bit without Cattell?
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  Speaker 2: Depends on the pitching, Eric, in my opinion. They are
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  Speaker 2: in a precarious place with the health of their staff.
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  Speaker 2: Soroka just went on the aisle again. They expect he'll
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  Speaker 2: be back. They've been waiting on Corbin Burns and Zach Gallin.
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  Speaker 2: And who knows when they'll be back, if they'll be
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  Speaker 2: effective when they're back, and can they survive in their
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  Speaker 2: present state where they are right now? I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: And the Padres have played really well in the last, what, six,
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  Speaker 2: eight weeks or so. It's a tough team to chase,
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  Speaker 2: even though certainly the Diamondbacks are within range here. So
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  Speaker 2: if I had to bet right now, I'd bet the Padres.
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  Speaker 2: I just think they're in a better place overall, and
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  Speaker 2: you can factor in the Marte situation when saying they're
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  Speaker 2: in a better place overall. But it's a race, and
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  Speaker 2: we'll see what happens down the stretch. The Diamondbacks are
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  Speaker 2: a good team, and they've got one superstar, Corbin Carroll,
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  Speaker 2: A guy named Geraldo Perdomo, who's a really good player,
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  Speaker 2: maybe hasn't had the best year. And then Marte, who
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  Speaker 2: is capable of amazing things. You guys asked me what
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  Speaker 2: I learned in the article. One of the things I
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  Speaker 2: learned is that he hit that walk-off homer in early
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  Speaker 2: June against the Dodgers to give the Diamondbacks a split
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  Speaker 2: of a four-game series at home. That was the sixth
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  Speaker 2: hardest ball hit by a Diamondback this year. The guy
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  Speaker 2: who has the five hardest, it's also Quetel Marte. And
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  Speaker 2: that speaks to He hasn't had the best year either,
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  Speaker 2: but they are capable of doing big things. We saw
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  Speaker 2: that a few years ago when they made it to
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  Speaker 2: the World Series.
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  Speaker 5: East guy, and I'm talking to you Toronto fans. I'm
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  Speaker 5: talking to you Baltimore fans. A couple weeks ago, probably
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  Speaker 5: not a reason to come out to the games. Look
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  Speaker 5: at the standings right now. Both of you teams are
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  Speaker 3: One more with the Diamondbacks. Gabriel Moreno. Gabriel Moreno behind
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  Speaker 3: the dish. Have you seen the maturation of a player
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  Speaker 3: that got his team in the first year of a
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  Speaker 3: trade to the World Series and then has taken some
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  Speaker 3: criticism and now Sure seems that way. And he's a
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  Speaker 3: guy that has had some injuries too.
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  Speaker 2: So you never know how that... figures into his development.
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  Speaker 2: And I was just talking to a GM this morning,
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  Speaker 2: not the Diamondbacks GM and not even someone who was
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  Speaker 2: talking about this situation. And he said, relative to prospects,
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  Speaker 2: the old line, it ain't linear, right? These guys do
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  Speaker 2: not always follow a linear path, go straight up from
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  Speaker 2: the start of their careers. George Lombard Jr., right now,
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  Speaker 2: classic example. Been in the big leagues a few weeks,
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  Speaker 2: amazing defensively at the start, and then we see the
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  Speaker 2: six errors in six games, and it's baffling to people. Well,
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  Speaker 2: because it's not linear. So, it seems to me that
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  Speaker 2: Moreno has followed that kind of path, and Eric, I
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  Speaker 2: don't need to tell you, it's even more difficult for
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  Speaker 2: a catcher and a catcher in today's game when there
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  Speaker 2: is so much information to process. So... He is a
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  Speaker 2: stalwart for them. He is one of their key players,
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  Speaker 2: and I don't see that changing anytime soon.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Ken, to switch gears, I think you also wrote
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  Speaker 4: something on Andy Green wanted to prioritize family over managing.
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  Speaker 4: And I know Andy a little bit from his days
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  Speaker 4: at UK. He played with my older brother, Vince, and
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  Speaker 4: then obviously I played as Andy was coaching. And he
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  Speaker 4: was actually in Pittsburgh when I saw him, but I
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  Speaker 4: didn't know that, but it was one of the– Quotes
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  Speaker 4: that popped out to me, do you see more managers
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  Speaker 4: looking at that? Because I know it was not necessarily
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  Speaker 4: a big deal, but it was brought up this past
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  Speaker 4: Super Bowl. And Andy Green is kind of one of
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  Speaker 4: the first managers that I've heard say that. But we
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  Speaker 4: all know playing a sport, coaching a sport, there are sacrifices.
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  Speaker 4: But is that something that you expected? Because I know
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  Speaker 4: he kind of took over interim. And just reading that,
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  Speaker 4: I thought that was interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Josh, I would say I didn't expect it. And the
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  Speaker 2: reason I didn't expect it is his career arc. So
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  Speaker 2: you go back to San Diego, 2016 to 19, four
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  Speaker 2: straight losing seasons. He's fired at the end of the fourth,
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  Speaker 2: right before the end of the fourth. And he comes to, well,
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  Speaker 2: he goes to Chicago to be the bench coach for
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  Speaker 2: David Ross. Then he comes to the Mets to be
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  Speaker 2: the farm director. I would have expected, what I did
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  Speaker 2: expect from him was, hey man, now's my chance to
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  Speaker 2: prove I can manage. And that's not what I heard.
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  Speaker 2: It's not what we've been hearing, Will Salmon and I,
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  Speaker 2: in covering the story for The Athletic. So it doesn't
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  Speaker 2: necessarily surprise me knowing Andy a little bit and knowing
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  Speaker 2: how much he values his family. It's not to say
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  Speaker 2: other managers don't value their families. His twin girls are
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  Speaker 2: at an age going into their senior year of high
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  Speaker 2: school where he feels he wants to be present for them.
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  Speaker 2: And for whatever reason, he doesn't feel like managing is
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  Speaker 2: this burning desire for him where he's going to sacrifice
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  Speaker 2: everything what he would need to sacrifice. Now, the interesting
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  Speaker 2: aspect here is front office jobs are much more year-round
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  Speaker 2: than managing jobs or playing jobs. Front office guys never
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  Speaker 2: get a break. Even Christmas week, they're working usually with
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  Speaker 2: transactions and all that. But the way it was explained
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  Speaker 2: to me, and this is true, I know this from
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  Speaker 2: covering the sport, front office people, general managers, foreign directors,
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  Speaker 2: whichever you want to discuss, they have the ability at
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  Speaker 2: least to break away at times to see a family event,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's, I don't know, a dance recital, a sporting event,
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  Speaker 2: whatever the case might be. So a fan might say, well,
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  Speaker 2: what's the big deal? I mean, he's away from his team.
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  Speaker 2: As a manager, he'd be away from his family. As
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  Speaker 2: a manager, he'd be away from his family. As a
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  Speaker 2: front office guy, well, it is different. And either way,
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  Speaker 2: it's not like you're present for your family all the time,
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  Speaker 2: but there are choices you can make. and being in
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  Speaker 2: the front office is one of them, to maybe ease
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit, at least during the season.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, and you are doing the unbelievable Red Sox-Yankees rivalry
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  Speaker 3: this weekend, which is maybe going to be a precursor
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  Speaker 3: to October, all the things that you guys are going
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  Speaker 3: to say on Fox 1, and you're going to be
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  Speaker 3: on the sideline reporting all this stuff. Are we even
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  Speaker 3: really looking at the two teams that we're going to face,
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  Speaker 3: especially considering... that in the playoffs right now they're not
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  Speaker 3: going to have a TBD when the Red Sox play
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees for the starting pitcher for the Yankees. We
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  Speaker 3: don't know what George Lombard's going to do. We don't
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  Speaker 3: know if Trevor Story's going to be back, Roman Anthony.
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  Speaker 3: Are we looking at two teams that are actually going
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  Speaker 3: to face each other or just two uniforms that are
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  Speaker 3: going to face each other in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 2: Eric, that's a good way to put it. You didn't
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  Speaker 2: even mention Aaron Judge, who's not going to play this weekend, obviously.
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  Speaker 2: So the point you're making is, are these the teams–
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  Speaker 2: on the field that we're going to see on the
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  Speaker 2: field in October? And the answer to that is almost
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  Speaker 2: certainly no. With the Red Sox, the return of Trevor
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  Speaker 2: Story seems to be imminent. Roman Anthony, that's imminent too,
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  Speaker 2: but the reports this morning are he's still in Worcester,
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  Speaker 2: and he's not going to join the Red Sox, at
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  Speaker 2: least today, for the opener of this series. It's a
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  Speaker 2: four-game series, doubleheader tomorrow. We've got the second game on Fox.
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  Speaker 2: So that alone is different. Garrett Crochet could be back
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  Speaker 2: as a reliever. That's different. And then with the Yankees,
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  Speaker 2: Max Fried, he returns in this series. That's the expectation.
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  Speaker 2: And then what becomes of Judge? Now, you saw the
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  Speaker 2: comments yesterday. He doesn't want to go on a rehabilitation assignment.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure that's going to be a matter of discussion
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  Speaker 2: between him and the team. But, no, these are not
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  Speaker 2: exactly the teams we're going to see in October. And
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  Speaker 2: there are going to be some differences. With the Yankees, too,
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  Speaker 2: the evolution of the pitching staff, how that's all going
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  Speaker 2: to play is going to be really interesting, too, because
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  Speaker 2: they're down some relievers. Some of their guys are hurt.
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  Speaker 2: They're hoping Clark Schmick comes back. They've got the possibility
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  Speaker 2: of putting Will Warren in the bullpen if their rotation
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  Speaker 2: is healthy enough in the postseason. And then there's Elmer Rodriguez,
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  Speaker 2: who just came up and came back again and looked
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  Speaker 2: much better than he had in his previous outings in this,
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  Speaker 2: his rookie season. So it's a great point that the
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  Speaker 2: teams we're going to see are going to be close
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  Speaker 2: to what we'll see in October, which is only really
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  Speaker 2: a month away at this point, but not exactly the same. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: for sure.
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  Speaker 3: No, I mean, that's the difference. And Roman Anthony isn't
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  Speaker 3: going to be ready? I mean, I'm clamoring for it.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that he isn't going to be ready.
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  Speaker 2: It sounds like he's not going to be playing for
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox tonight. So he's really close, and he's
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  Speaker 2: been out for so long. And remember, when they were
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  Speaker 2: struggling at the start of the season, I talked often
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  Speaker 2: about how they built their team around him, and it
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  Speaker 2: was a flawed premise because he was so young, and
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  Speaker 2: then he gets hurt. Well... They've turned their season around. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: we've talked about it at Lent. Credit to everyone involved,
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  Speaker 2: including the chief baseball officer, Craig Breslow, who I was
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  Speaker 2: hard on. A lot of people were hard on earlier.
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  Speaker 2: But here they are in a great position. I believe
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  Speaker 2: they have an eight-game lead for the final wildcard spot,
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  Speaker 2: so they're going to make the playoffs. And it's one
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: of the more stunning things we've seen in the game
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: really in a while. Actually, we seem to see one
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: of these every year. Cleveland did it last year where
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: they came from nowhere to make the playoffs. But This
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: one was particularly surprising.
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Well, Ken, we're looking forward to it. Yanks Red Sox
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: is back, like Kratz said. We'll see you on the
• 17:19
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• 17:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks, guys.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Ken Rosenthal, FT Senior Insider. AJ's on that one, too.
• 17:25
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• 17:27
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• 17:51
  Speaker 2: And we got a little.
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• 17:55
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• 17:57
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