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Top 5 MLB Catchers + O’Hoppe joins · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It has been tough on me to be honest with you,
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  Speaker 1: like we're not getting certain calls in certain situations, and
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  Speaker 1: does drive his nuts, you know, like it's keeping me
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  Speaker 1: up at night.
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  Speaker 2: Nice and simple.
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  Speaker 3: We've got two guys who watched the game every day
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  Speaker 3: who are on this show every day in Kratz and AJ,
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  Speaker 3: who both were catchers for a long time in their
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  Speaker 3: professional careers, and they're watching catchers now. And I want
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  Speaker 3: to top five, so AJ, you can kick this off.
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  Speaker 3: Top five MLB catchers right now.
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  Speaker 2: Who do you have?
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  Speaker 4: Well, we're starting at five, we starting at one.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go five to one.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, five, I have William Contreras. He went to the
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  Speaker 4: Brewers and become really good defensively, improved himself monumentally defensively
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  Speaker 4: and offensively. He's always been able to hit handles a
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  Speaker 4: pitching staff, been too the playoffs last couple years. So
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  Speaker 4: five for me, it was William Contras. And I find
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  Speaker 4: it funny that producer lady asked me, I just wrote Contrasts,
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  Speaker 4: and she asked me, as Wilson or William. I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: Wilson does catch anymore, so we can't count him? Come on,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, seriously, come on, no, all right? So then
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  Speaker 4: at four, now I thought this guy would be higher,
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  Speaker 4: but he's getting a little bit older. He slowed down
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  Speaker 4: just a little bit, And that's JT real mutto. I
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  Speaker 4: love you, JT. You're the athletic as it all gets out,
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  Speaker 4: you do everything great. But as we get older, we
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  Speaker 4: know what happens if you slow down a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: you're still unbelievable. I wish I could be half as
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  Speaker 4: athletic as you've been. Three was the guy we just
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  Speaker 4: had on Logan o'hapi. He's off to an unbelievable start
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  Speaker 4: this year. He's raking and he's kind of just leading
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  Speaker 4: that team. I know the Angels aren't doing the best,
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  Speaker 4: but I love where he's at in his future. To
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  Speaker 4: Will Smith, he's hit his whole career. And the thing
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  Speaker 4: is he's already got a World Series under his belt.
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  Speaker 4: So Will Smith is too. And then one Cal Rawley
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  Speaker 4: platinum glove leads the league in homers, leads the league title.
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Judge leads the league in home runs as a catcher.
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  Speaker 4: It's unheard of. So that's my top five. I'm sure
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  Speaker 4: there's somebody in there people say I missed, but That's
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  Speaker 4: where I'm at right now.
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  Speaker 2: That's a good looking list.
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  Speaker 3: I'm excited to see where Kratz differs, and I know
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be a little Philly bias in there
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  Speaker 3: without even looking at the list. You know Kratz watch
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  Speaker 3: his games every day. He's super smart. But you've got
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  Speaker 3: your little troll list that's just weighing to pounce on.
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  Speaker 3: Wherever you put JT film, you doocrats for.
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  Speaker 5: Sure because it's and I liked that. I liked where
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  Speaker 5: AJ put him and I appreciate his view. But I'll
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  Speaker 5: get to him when I get to my number one
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  Speaker 5: catcher because he's still the BCIC okay, BCIB not BCIC
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  Speaker 5: best catcher in baseball, but number five, I have my
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  Speaker 5: other hometown favorite, Salvador Perez. Salvado Perez has not been
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  Speaker 5: a Gold Glove candidate for a while, ever since the
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  Speaker 5: framing metrics really became a thing and it was not
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  Speaker 5: necessarily like ooh, all about the throwing anymore, Salvador Perez's
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  Speaker 5: value behind the dish got kind of just a little
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  Speaker 5: bit above average instead of Gold Glove year and in year out.
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  Speaker 5: So Salvi because he is the best hitting and he's
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  Speaker 5: currently in my opinion, the only current catcher that is
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  Speaker 5: on a Hall of Fame track, So that's why I
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  Speaker 5: had to put him in there. Andy's my good friend
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  Speaker 5: because of the way he pokes William Catreras all the
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  Speaker 5: things that AJ said. He's in the MVP voting in
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  Speaker 5: the last two seasons, like, you can't not have a
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  Speaker 5: guy like that on your list. Will Smith. I agree,
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  Speaker 5: he could be two, but I have someone else at
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  Speaker 5: number one, and AJ has will Smith is like one
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  Speaker 5: of those most boring productive catchers of all time. He
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  Speaker 5: gets back there almost every day. He is a World
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  Speaker 5: Series year in and yeah, year out, He's playing an
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  Speaker 5: extra month and some of these guys on this list
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  Speaker 5: are playing, so what he does back there is crazy.
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  Speaker 5: The fact that he had the season that he had
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  Speaker 5: last year with a I think it was a foot
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  Speaker 5: injury or an ankle injury that he was playing through,
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  Speaker 5: whatever it was he was playing through that. This dude
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  Speaker 5: is the quiet anchor of that team because they already
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  Speaker 5: have three MVP candidates. He's just kind of like, cool,
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  Speaker 5: I'll just go out and do what I do. Big
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  Speaker 5: Dumper is not number one on my list because JT.
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  Speaker 5: Real Muto's Cavs are ridiculously awesome and until somebody comes
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  Speaker 5: along with a game that is more complete than JT's,
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to have JT at the top of the list.
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  Speaker 5: Do you start on slow this year? Yes? Is he
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  Speaker 5: down from where he was last year? Yes? Who else
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  Speaker 5: on this list has a better arm? Can steal bases?
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  Speaker 5: Also has been to the World Series, hasn't won it yet,
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  Speaker 5: so Salvi and Salvi will Smith have him in that sense,
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  Speaker 5: hits for power and just perfect smile.
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  Speaker 2: Wait, so let me get this straight.
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  Speaker 4: How do you have Salvador Perez? How do you have
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  Speaker 4: Salvador Perez? And I love Salvey? First of all, he's
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  Speaker 4: never been on the show and he's your good friend,
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  Speaker 4: so that's weird. Second of all, he doesn't catch all
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  Speaker 4: the time anymore. They have a better catcher and this
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  Speaker 4: is not a knock on Salvey. He's the second best
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  Speaker 4: catcher on their team behind Freddy for Me. Freddie for
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  Speaker 4: Me is a catcher, is better. Salvey plays first in
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  Speaker 4: DH a whole lot more than he catches. And now
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  Speaker 4: do you not have a hobby on there after what
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  Speaker 4: he's doing this year? Plus he's a friend of FT.
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  Speaker 4: You would think that he would definitely and listen to
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  Speaker 4: no offense to JT. But right now, how can you
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  Speaker 4: look at platinum glove and leading the league in homers
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  Speaker 4: as not and catches every day. Cal Rawly catches every day.
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  Speaker 5: So does Patrick Bailey need to be on there because
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  Speaker 5: he was in the running for a Platinum Glove too?
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  Speaker 5: Like Patrick Bailey, neither one of our listens because he
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  Speaker 5: doesn't hit. Okay, but how many years? How many years
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  Speaker 5: have all these guys done it compared to how many
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  Speaker 5: years Salvey's done it? Is he catching as much? No?
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  Speaker 5: Is Joe Mauer a Hall of Fame catcher or is
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  Speaker 5: he a Hall of Fame player?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? We can argue about that all day long if
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  Speaker 4: you want to.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 4: So that's where come on, Well we're talking right now,
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  Speaker 4: We're not talking five years ago.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I mean, if we're just going by the hottest
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  Speaker 5: players in baseball right now, I don't even know that
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  Speaker 5: William Contreras should be on there because he's not having
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  Speaker 5: a great start to the season. Like to me, it
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  Speaker 5: was an over Salvey though if you look at his numbers,
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  Speaker 5: so you can throw Salvey in that list too. It's overall,
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  Speaker 5: Who are the best catches in the game. To me,
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  Speaker 5: I could not put Salve in there.
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  Speaker 3: If Kyle Riley got calf implants, would he fault to
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  Speaker 3: number one because you said JT's got the calves. My
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  Speaker 3: biggest gripe is that when I'm doing right now, sure
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  Speaker 3: you want to look at the first month and change
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  Speaker 3: of the season, okay, but that's not enough, right You're
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  Speaker 3: going to look back the last year, maybe two, and
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  Speaker 3: you're also trying to project forward a little bit as well.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a tough case. I mean, cal really only
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  Speaker 3: is missing one category, and yeah, he's not going to
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  Speaker 3: steal bases for you. Besides that, it's hard to not
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  Speaker 3: look at him and think that he's the best overall
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  Speaker 3: catcher in the sport right now. The defensive metrics love him.
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  Speaker 3: He has been a beast at the plate. He has
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  Speaker 3: been a much better hitter than JT over.
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  Speaker 2: The last year and a half.
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  Speaker 3: talking about them all season long. But I do want
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  Speaker 3: been ripping some slab packs digitally and what happens.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, as a kid, you wanted to rip open
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  Speaker 5: the packs. How can they do this digitally? Oh baby,
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  Speaker 5: this is exciting how the graphics come out and everything.
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  Speaker 5: And oh yeah, the card that you pull you can
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  Speaker 5: actually get that John physically, so it's perfect. It's all
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  Speaker 5: in one place and it's a super exciting experience.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they send that to you from the vault if
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  Speaker 2: you want it.
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  Speaker 3: But if you look at it and you're like, it's
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  Speaker 3: not the card for me, I want to sell back.
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  Speaker 2: Go for it.
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  Speaker 5: Year and a half. Yes, who's had a better career
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  Speaker 5: so far?
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  Speaker 2: But we're not doing career.
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  Speaker 4: If I take the text, then it would be Selby
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  Speaker 4: if you want to go full career.
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  Speaker 5: So then so I weighed everything. I weighed everything Okay,
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  Speaker 5: you can't just give You can't just give somebody an
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  Speaker 5: ace status as a pitcher because they had one unbelievable season.
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  Speaker 5: It'll just become an ace. You guys asked me to
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  Speaker 5: rank the catchers in the game right now, Yes, tongue
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  Speaker 5: in cheek. The whole calf thing with JT is funny,
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  Speaker 5: funny business. But to me, over the last five years,
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  Speaker 5: full out production at the plate, I still had JT up.
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  Speaker 5: There is he am I going to argue that he's
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  Speaker 5: maybe going down right now and Cal is going up? Yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I wouldn't. I wouldn't disagree with that. I could listen
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  Speaker 5: to that argument, But maybe I looked too broad at this.
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  Speaker 5: William Contreras is going up. His last two years, he
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  Speaker 5: completely changed, you know, he went through the Milwaukee Brewers
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  Speaker 5: catching catching instructional camp and he's improved his defense. To me,
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  Speaker 5: it was already there. He was athletic. I don't know
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  Speaker 5: that he cared too much. Now he understands the value
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  Speaker 5: for him as a player. Probably he started putting more
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  Speaker 5: into it. And to me, JT has come over to
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  Speaker 5: the Phillies and been something that is so hard, like
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  Speaker 5: teams don't trade for a guy at that status and
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  Speaker 5: then him come in and get the production that he's
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  Speaker 5: had to me. I just feel like his overall game,
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  Speaker 5: while it may not be as good currently today as
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  Speaker 5: some of the other guys in this list, the overall
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  Speaker 5: package is higher. I want to do this.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, that's fair, I get it.
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  Speaker 4: I'm gonna put Yachty on this list. Joe Mauer, I'm
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  Speaker 4: gonna go, Thurman Munson, I'm gonna go John Ben. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: if we're going Was, I mean, Pudge Was. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of guys. If we're going Was, this
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  Speaker 4: is this is, this is.
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  Speaker 2: Current Wait wait, okay, I'm gonna do it.
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  Speaker 4: This Nogi has you know, ten plus rings. I mean
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  Speaker 4: you can throw him in there. You know, we could
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  Speaker 4: go all the way back to like some guys that
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  Speaker 4: a lot of people in our chat have never heard
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  Speaker 4: of are on TV. I've never heard of for catchers.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, there's a lot of people.
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  Speaker 3: If we were going Was, let me see if I
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  Speaker 3: can sway him here, AJ, because this is a rare
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  Speaker 3: moment where you and me are agreeing and we're going
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  Speaker 3: against crats ready this year, right now, you have a team.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to give you a catcher just for the
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  Speaker 3: rest of this season.
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  Speaker 4: And Probb, we got a hit, so just make you happy, Kratz.
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  Speaker 4: He doubled in a run. So there you go, just
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  Speaker 4: because you heard you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, don't worry about you, don't worry about twenty twenty six.
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  Speaker 3: Right now, you do not have a catcher and you're
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  Speaker 3: a fringe playoff team. Who do you want on your
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  Speaker 3: team for the rest of this season?
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  Speaker 2: One player?
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  Speaker 5: That's easy. I think that's easy. I think I think
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  Speaker 5: you take cal Raley. I think you take will Smith.
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  Speaker 5: I think you take William Contraras. I think those are
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  Speaker 5: your top three choices.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So basically what we're determining here is you're going
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  Speaker 3: off a lot of track record and accomplishments versus present
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  Speaker 3: and projecting forward. Yeah, okay, that's fine. Next time we're
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  Speaker 3: going to all align when we do rankings on current players.
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  Speaker 3: I want who do you want? Give me your guys
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  Speaker 3: right now, who do you want on your team? That's
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  Speaker 3: the right now to me?
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm just can you guys please send your top
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  Speaker 5: five catchers in the game for today's show. Didn't say
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  Speaker 5: right now, didn't say currently, didn't say build a team
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  Speaker 5: around them in the game.
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  Speaker 2: Ever, come on, you're.
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  Speaker 4: Playing, I mean, please send your top five catchers. I
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  Speaker 4: mean we're starting with like Bench and Pudge and some
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  Speaker 4: of those guys.
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  Speaker 5: Anybody did it wrong. Maybe you guys did it wrong.
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  Speaker 5: Then maybe maybe we're all maybe all two of us
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  Speaker 5: are wrong. And Scott didn't do.
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  Speaker 4: Thet It's hard to argue that cal Rawley is not
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  Speaker 4: the best catcher in baseball right now. I'm sorry, there's
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  Speaker 4: no there's really there's really no argument you can make
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  Speaker 4: except for Crats didn't put him at one.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, I didn't.
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  Speaker 4: I didn't.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't necessarily disagree. It was more of a opinion
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  Speaker 5: of it's semantics. It was semantics.
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  Speaker 3: How about that it was semantics. It's hey, it's crats.
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  Speaker 3: Krats did a little skip bayless on us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: and and it works sometimes because you gotta be riled up.
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  Speaker 5: Is that the wrong comp Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Good? Do you like?
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  Speaker 5: Like I did it? I did it based on my parameters.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, he does it based on trying to get
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  Speaker 5: clicks for something. I'm not trying to be stupid. I'm
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  Speaker 5: trying to base it on my parameters.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, fine, all right, Well anyway, if you're watching
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  Speaker 3: this after the fact, let us know your list. I
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  Speaker 3: know I got some shout outs on others that people liked.
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  Speaker 3: Most of the other ones that were shouted out, I
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  Speaker 3: don't really think they have a case for the top
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  Speaker 3: five right now. Avon Herrera, Austin Wells, Carson Kelly. To me,
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  Speaker 3: a lot of the names that were thrown out there
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  Speaker 3: are recency biased.
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  Speaker 5: I think there's I think there's I really do think
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  Speaker 5: there's a five or six. If you want to take
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  Speaker 5: Salvey out of it, I get it. You know, he
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  Speaker 5: doesn't catch as much or whatever. I think that top
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  Speaker 5: four or five guys and then there's a stark drop off.
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  Speaker 5: I really do, because other guys do. Like one thing,
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  Speaker 5: I thought I thought Jonahim was going to be. I
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  Speaker 5: thought he was going to be vault himself into that
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  Speaker 5: top five. He hit it down year last year, but
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  Speaker 5: before that, I thought he was going to really start.
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  Speaker 5: His batting average went up, his power was always there,
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  Speaker 5: switch hitting catcher who plays every day Gold Glover. Then
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  Speaker 5: they took away him playing every day, bringing in Higashioka,
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  Speaker 5: and his batting average has kind of been down for
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  Speaker 5: the last year and a half here. But to me,
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  Speaker 5: I thought he was going to be a guy that
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  Speaker 5: would vaulte himself, but I really think that that four
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  Speaker 5: or five, and then it's a big drop.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys notice one name that was missing from
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  Speaker 3: both of your lists? Who is a pretty big deal?
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  Speaker 3: What division el East?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty big?
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  Speaker 4: Nadly? I thought about that one. But he's had a
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  Speaker 4: bad year, like a full bad year from June almost
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  Speaker 4: to June again, And that's kind of If he would
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  Speaker 4: have stayed on the track he was on, he probably
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  Speaker 4: would have been three or four. But like Logan, who
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  Speaker 4: again maybe a little biased because he's on our show
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  Speaker 4: a lot and I really like him and Long Island
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  Speaker 4: got to stick together, but he's on a track like
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  Speaker 4: this right, Adley has not been on that truck. He's
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  Speaker 4: almost like I hate to say this because I love Adley,
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  Speaker 4: but he's kind of like flattened or and that's why
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  Speaker 4: I know he's a name that, Gosh, if you would
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  Speaker 4: have done this year ago, he would have been probably one,
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  Speaker 4: two or three for everybody.
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  Speaker 5: If we go back to just the other day when
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  Speaker 5: we picked our top three guys to start an organization with,
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  Speaker 5: I picked Adlie. He was When I was doing this,
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  Speaker 5: I was thinking about it, and it's he has intangibles
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  Speaker 5: at the catching position that I think are awesome, and
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  Speaker 5: I think, you know, he can still get back. He's
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  Speaker 5: still a young player. The position doesn't allow you to
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  Speaker 5: be young forever you age quicker. I don't think that's
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  Speaker 5: his issue, but it has really Just like Aja said,
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  Speaker 5: if this was if it was this time last year,
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  Speaker 5: I would have taken Adlie. I definitely would have. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: I just like just the other day I took him
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  Speaker 5: in started first three guys that we're gonna that we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna start an organization with.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not making life easy on him. He's got to
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  Speaker 2: catch a crap rotation right now. You gotta catch a
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  Speaker 2: rotation with like a six E R A.
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  Speaker 3: It's gotta make you depressed when Logan o'happy is losing
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  Speaker 3: sleep over missing a borderline call and adlets like, damn,
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  Speaker 3: We're supposed to be a playoff team, maybe a division winner,
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  Speaker 3: and this.
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  Speaker 3: Logan o'happy you're joining us right now on FT logan.
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: How you doing dude? So you know we haven't talked
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: to obviously since the Angels went through a tough stretch,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: But how are you doing personally through all of this?
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Doing all right?
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: Thank you?
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: Obviously more learning moments than we anticipated starting here, but
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: uh no, doing okay and uh yeah, I mean good
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: two wins the past couple nights and looking to build
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: on that going forward.
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you're doing all right. You're raking forget Yeah, I'm
• 17:32
  Speaker 4: doing okay, dude, you're raking. What are you talking about?
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: It's okay, canself brag a little, I'll sell promote you
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: a little bit logan, you're banging, you're like leading the
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: team and everything. I mean, let's talk a little bit
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: about that. Let's talk up a little bit about some
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: changes you made and dig in. Let me explain to
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: me what you change and why you're banging.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: Well, I appreciate it.
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: Really getting back to doing what had worked for me
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: in the past and what felt comfortable is what's really
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: helped this off season. I don't have a hitting guy
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: back home. I have a couple of coaches that I
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: talked to and bounce ideas off of, whether that's from
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: back home or guys that I met coming up in
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: the minor leagues were've been here in the big leagues now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: But I actually I hit up my buddy that came
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: with me. He came to feed the machine me every
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: day in the winter. His name's Kyle, and I texted
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: him after I forget what series it was, but a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago, and I was like, hey, man,
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: just give me some thoughts on things we were talking about,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: you know, because he would just go and feed the
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: machine and listen and I would bounce ideas off and
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: shot me a text, and I realized I was like Wow,
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: this is completely different than what's going on in my
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: head right now. So I got back to those things,
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: the things I really wanted to maximize my strengths doing,
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: and and it's helped so far.
• 18:48
  Speaker 5: How much do you not want an off day when
• 18:50
  Speaker 5: this kind of thing happens. I mean, you're in there,
• 18:52
  Speaker 5: you're in there catching and dhing. Do you go to
• 18:55
  Speaker 5: the do you go to the field ever? Going a
• 18:58
  Speaker 5: man like I'd rather I'd rather hit up rather hit
• 19:01
  Speaker 5: up the catching duties tonight. But I guess it's okay
• 19:05
  Speaker 5: that I'm the aging because I'm hot.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: I want to be in the lineup every night, and
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: I think I think everyone knows that too. I've been
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: vocal about that in the past, and whether it's going
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: well or bad, I want to be in there, you know,
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: if it doesn't matter the way obviously you're you're happy
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: when you're playing better and you're trying to learn and
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: stay in the process when things aren't going well. But
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: I want to play regardless. I love to play whether
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: it goes good or bad, and I don't think that'll
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: ever change.
• 19:32
  Speaker 5: We were just talking about first base. A lot of
• 19:35
  Speaker 5: times guys are like, oh yeah, catchers like, got to
• 19:38
  Speaker 5: get him in the lineup, will put him at first base.
• 19:40
  Speaker 5: Nothing against Nolan Shanawell, but how much harder is it
• 19:44
  Speaker 5: to actually play a big league first base? Because you're
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: you're swinging it right now, so they want you in
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: the lineup. They want Travis Darnaut to play too, So
• 19:54
  Speaker 5: both of you guys get in there. Bang. Your offense
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: is better now if you know first base opens up
• 20:00
  Speaker 5: or for you? Is that something that dudes can just
• 20:03
  Speaker 5: be like, oh, yeah, you know what, I'll just go
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: in and play first base, No big deal, It's just
• 20:08
  Speaker 5: a big league game.
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: I definitely don't view it that way. I'd be terrified
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: to be a first base fee through me, So that
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: was definitely for Nolan to cover. If I do have
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: an off day and I'm just sitting around, I do
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: like going out to shortstop and just riding on netto
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the entire time. That doesn't carry any weight on what
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: I would do in a game, but it's just something
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: fun to do. But either way, I want to be
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: in the line of regardless, and I hope selfishly that
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it's not first base just yet.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Well understood, but DH so I used to have to
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: DH too sometimes and I hated it because when you're catching,
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: you're involved in every pitch. What's your routine is a
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: DH because a catcher, you don't have a lot of
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: time to think about you're a batch. You're like, oh man,
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: I'm up. Oh gosh, I gotta get my stuff off.
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: You gonna get my bat and goes helmet and my
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: bat and let's go. Or your DH. You're sitting there
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: sometimes for two three innings. You're like, oh my gosh,
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: now you know, and you have three innings sometimes to
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: think about your bat. So how do you mentally stay
• 21:06
  Speaker 4: focused on the game when you're just a DH.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: It's a real thing. It's things that I don't think
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: people realize. You know. It's a tough thing mentally to
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: adjust from that. When I was younger, I used to
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: get in the cage and take a bunch of swings
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: and then I would get in my actual bets that mattered,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: and I was a little tired. So now I'll take
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: my bat and sit down and try to stay off
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: the iPad and stop looking at everything so I can
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: keep my mind a little quiet. And then when I
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: do feel like I need to get hot again, I'll
• 21:35
  Speaker 1: go down in the tunnel and ride the bike for
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: a little bit. Usually wherever I'm at, like last night
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: i was hitting fifth, I'll go down there at the
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: bottom of the lineup or when Netto's sitting at the
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: top and get myself loose for a little bit, and
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: then that keeps me pretty locked in, and staying on
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the top step and just staying engaged in the game
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: helps to as far as the mental side of being
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: in it. So I'm just starting to get the routine now,
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: and I haven't DHD a whole lot in my career,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: but I definitely didn't expect to take this long to
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: find a good routine.
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Hey, so while we're on the DH topic, I mean,
• 22:07
  Speaker 3: obviously this part's not fun. Your boy, Mike Trout is hurt, Okay.
• 22:13
  Speaker 3: I know initially when the team brought in Jorges Solaire
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: this offseason, there were questions like, hey, shouldn't Trout get
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: some DH time too, you know, he wants to stay
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: on the field, And the thought process was, Trout's crazy
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: in terms of prep. He's just gonna sit there or
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: not sit there and take hundreds and hundreds of swings.
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: So now that you get to observe, you know your
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: routine as a DH.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: Can you relate to that in any way?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like there are some guys that would
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: have trouble not taking so many swings that it can
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: almost lead to an injury? Right, Like I remember who
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: is there's a few guys in the past who would
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: get stuck with DH.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: They wouldn't know what to do, and they would do
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: too much.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, anyone that's been around Mike knows how hard
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: he works. And the part they don't see and don't
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: talk about is how much he does take care of
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: his body. So as hard as he works, he's taking
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: his body to taking care of his body just as more.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: And it's it's pretty impressive to see how much time
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: he puts into all that, so obviously hate to see
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: it for him. From what I'm hearing, it's not as
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: severe as as things in the past. So we'll be
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: back pretty soon and I'm still around the boys and
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: we're still learning from him. As far as myself selfishly
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: with that, I've I've definitely done that before where I've
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: taken a lot of swings, and I think it's been
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: countertuited with what I'm doing. I know in twenty three
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: when I tore my labor and I looked back in
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: that offseason, I was taking a lot of swings every day, man,
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: And I don't know if it directly correlated to that,
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: but I think that could have definitely been a factor
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: for myself personally. But more than that, more than my
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: body being in shape, I think my mind being clear
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: is is even more important. So if I take more swings,
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking more and uh and that seems to clap
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: my mind a little more. So now I'm learning there's
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: a little discipline and getting away from the game, been
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: trying to do less. It's not an easy thing, not
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: an easy thing when I when I've been taking swings
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: in the past, but it's helped me so far, all right.
• 24:08
  Speaker 5: One last DH question. When I see that a catcher
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: that there's only two catchers on a roster and they're
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: both in the lineup, one of them is Dhing, my
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: mind immediately goes to what pitcher when if they ever
• 24:22
  Speaker 5: have to take Cement feet Travis Darnault out for a
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: pinch runner and you got to come in and catch
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: is the DH? What pitcher do you see getting in
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: that bat first in the eleventh inning when you guys
• 24:32
  Speaker 5: are when you guys are tied.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Up, hands down, Tyler Anderson, that was one of the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: easiest questions you guys have ever asked me. Ta for sure,
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: I actually want to see it before before I mean,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: he ends his career, goes somewhere else or whatever it is,
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: or I hope he stays with us long enough where
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: he is getting plenty of at that sports. But uh,
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: I definitely want to see that at some point.
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: Logan, is the reason you DH last night because you
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: started a game a week ago at six twenty nine
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: and then you guys had to travel to Aneapolis and
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: all over the country and everyone complained about that. I mean,
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: is that why you have to DH more because you're
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: still tired from that trip, which by the way, was
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: complete crap. So you can answer it. I know how
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: you have to answer it, but as a former player
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: that was crap.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: I don't see any correlation to that from last night. Yeah,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: it's things outside of our control, and yeah, I mean,
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: it's outside of our control and we learn with it.
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: And I'm a big believer in doing things that make
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: you uncomfortable. I think you come out better on the
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: other side of it. I think that was a good
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: opportunity to practice that and yeah, we got a good
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: schedule going forward.
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, you should never have to do that again.
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: Just just I'll say it. You should never have to
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: do that again. Okay, So just that's it. We'll move on.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Are you and Neto the core of this team going forward?
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: I know you're gonna throw Shanawall in there, but you
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: and Netto are off the great starts. Are you guys
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: the core? And when you guys kind of look at
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: each other a shortstop and catcher and you think like
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: we're gonna be here for the next ten years and
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: we're the face of the Angels going forward.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: That was my guy. We do understand that we have
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: plenty of guys in that clubhouse that have been doing
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: a lot longer than we have, So it's definitely their
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: clubhouse to run, don't get me wrong. And we're still
• 26:13
  Speaker 1: learning from them. I know we're in what year three now,
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: so we're still learning and still trying to come into
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: our own and and take control of our careers. But
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: that's my guy.
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: I love playing with him, love spending time within them
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: off the field, and wouldn't want to do with anybody else.
• 26:30
  Speaker 5: When you have a dude that you got to back up.
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: He hit the dinger off of Scooble the other day
• 26:35
  Speaker 5: and scooball struck him out and he had his words.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: You know, we saw the kind of altercation. Did you
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: look out there and did you kind of like stand
• 26:43
  Speaker 5: by Neto and go, can you like, can you can
• 26:45
  Speaker 5: you get somebody a little bit smaller than Scooba or
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: are you like, nah, Like I'm good, I got this guy.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I'll back up my boys, but I think they're right
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: or wrong and doesn't matter who's out there. I think
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Eric would say the same thing. So it was one
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: of those moments where you know, two competitors got a
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: little hot and I'm gonna back up my boys regardless.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Hey, are you happy that Washed that no more team meetings?
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: Are you happy? Because? Like, because Washed his meetings are
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: pretty funny. I played for Washing. His meetings are pretty funny.
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: So sometimes you just want to have a meeting with
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Washing to hear what his vocabulary might be.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I've sat and washed his office strictly, so I can
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: leave there with an expanded vocabulary and some content for sure.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: So I don't think the one on one meetings and
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: me and himill ever, and I definitely have my journal open.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: Want to keep making some notes of things he's saying. Yeah,
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: I enjoyed my time with him a lot.
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: Don't let your mom read some of them notes, notes okay.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: At all? No, no, no, Dad, maybe, but mom absolutely not.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's got some choice words. Uh, Logan, I want
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: to ask you about a couple of pictures. I'm gonna
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: start on on a side where it's been a tough
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: watch and a tough struggle for him, whatever we want
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: to call it. Some fans have asked about red debt mers. Right,
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: you've caught him, you know, he had the what was
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: it about a week ago? The back to back appearances
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: where things didn't go well for him. I think that
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: was the first time in his career. Also, I mentioned
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: this the next day, that he ever pitched and then
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: pitched again, especially in a major league game. This guy's
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: been a starter his whole life. So what are you experiencing,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: you know, as somebody that's a similar age. This is
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: a guy who was a big time prospect and he's
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: had ups and downs so far and hasn't totally found it.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was what a week ago when he came
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: back to back and before that he was shoving. I mean,
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the numbers were, but I'd imagine
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: they were unbelievable just catching them. You're always confident when
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: debt comes in, you know. And I mean it's been
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: what two three appearances where he's struggling, And one thing
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I'm learning in my big league career now is that
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: that one or two weeks feel permanent when you're in it,
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: you know, and he just is going through one of
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: those times right now. We're not worried by any means.
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: We know what he's capable of doing, we know how
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: it already works, and all he does to to hone
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in his game and really dial in what he has.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: And I know when he tells the rubber, I'm confident
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: what he can do and definitely looking forward to watching
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: him get back to what he's able to do.
• 29:23
  Speaker 5: Oh go ahead, Scott.
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: Sorry, I'm Sorrycrats. I had two pictures. I wanted to
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: do the other one real quick. Jose Soriano, I just
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: feel like he hasn't been mentioned much on a national scale.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Right you guys are playing late games. Team hasn't been
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs the last several years of course. So
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: give us the goods on Jose Soriano and how damn
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: good he is and how if someone sees him on
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: the ledger right for a night game or maybe the
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: interests around the East coast for fans like that, they
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: should check him out.
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: I'm excited about this. I'm happy to ask me about him.
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: This guy's stuff is unlike anything I've ever seen, really
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: like the sinkers unbelievable. The secondary pitches are all good.
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: He's started developed a split even more. It's it's fun
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: to catch him, man. It's he has four weapons that
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: he can throw at any time, and he's a good
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: dude to work with too, and he's opened to different
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: ideas and also knows what what he brings to the table,
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: what he wants to do. So he does not get
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: enough credit and he doesn't get enough recognition. I don't
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: know what it is, the late games or whatever it
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: may be, but it's a fun one when he's on
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: the mound, and I think it's when people should definitely
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: take more note.
• 30:25
  Speaker 5: Of two part question here. One, when did you find
• 30:29
  Speaker 5: out that the strike zone buffer zone was shrunk on
• 30:33
  Speaker 5: you guys? And two. How much has that change your livelihood?
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: Because people don't realize catchers get paid for framing. It's
• 30:41
  Speaker 5: not just a value you bring to the team, it's
• 30:43
  Speaker 5: how you evaluated and how much has that changed you're
• 30:48
  Speaker 5: framing and everybody's framing numbers and value.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is this is a very real thing, and
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: I've talked to umpires about it and trying to to
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: work with them. I've pretty much revamped what I'm doing
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: behind the plate, to be honest with you, and that's
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: been within the last week or two. And this is
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: a big reason because of it. I don't know how
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: much you guys have spoken on it yet, but I
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: know that the buffer zone that umpires have drop down
• 31:15
  Speaker 1: an inch and a quarter from what it used to
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: be used to be two inches now it's three quarters
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: of an inch around the zone. That makes a big
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: difference for people that I mean haven't been back there
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: catching that know what it's like. You know, it's tough,
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: and I don't know how much the abs in spring
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: training have to do with it or whatever, but these
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: umpires are good, like like they know there's a big difference,
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: you know, like if there's a change like that, then
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: we notice it, And to answer your question, it has
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: been it has been tough on me, to be honest
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: with you, Like, like coming in after games, I feel
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: like I'm catching some balls well and we're not getting
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: certain calls in certain situations, and it really it does
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: drive me nuts, you know, Like I I've been coming
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: home a lot of times even if I have a
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: good game at the plate and I know that there
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: are a couple of balls on the edge that we
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: could have gotten, Like it's keeping me up at night,
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: you know. And then you know, you just keep going
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: down the different rabbit holes that while come with that,
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and you try to make different adjustments. And I was
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: definitely pretty relieved to hear that the umpires are getting
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: graded differently, you know. And I don't want this to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: come off as a knocking against them. I think it's
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: actually impressive that they've made this change. And not only
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: have they made it, but as the league you notice
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: that it's been smaller, So I think it opens up
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: more conversation with them too. I Mean, I always like
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: talking to the guy behind me. I just enjoy that interaction.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I enjoy that part of the game. And it's definitely
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: been a topic that I've been trying to work with
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: these guys to make myself and the staff better.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Okay, look, let's go to some a little more enjoyable.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: I know that you love talking to umpires. Okay, So
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: you're from Long Island. On from Long Island. We had
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Steven Matt's on the other day, who's also from Long Island.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: All right, he tried to quiz me. I ruined his
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: quiz when I got all the answers right. He was disappointed.
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: And I knew so much about Long Island. Okay, he said.
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: The best on Long Island is Seaport Deli. Have you
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: ever been to Seaport Deli?
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: I have been the Seaport Delly. Can back that up.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, Now, question is there's a Stephen, there's a Stephen
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Matts sandwich, there's a Jacob m gram, there's a Daniel Murphy.
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: But there's no logan o'happy. How do we get a
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: logan o'happy on the Seaport Deli menu.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: I went in the twenty third round. Man, they don't
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: want a twenty third round. There's sandwich on that. Damn boy.
• 33:26
  Speaker 1: You the first couple.
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: So when you make the All Star Game, they're gonna
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: be like a twenty third round with an All Star
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: game selection. We don't want to have him a sandwich.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: And if you could make a sandwich, what would it
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: would be? If you could make one, what would it?
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: I mean the Stephen Matts is chicken cutlet, jack and
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: cheddar cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, pepper house dressing on a
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: toasted garlic hero. So what would a Logan o'happy sandwich be?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: It would be pretty close to the de gram I think,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: do you have the menu in front of you or.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: I'm looking at it right now to the mats, Well,
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: can you.
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: Read off the d ground for me? Because I think
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: that's the one I always go with. It's a lot.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: But chicken cutlet, roast, be melted monster onion rings, led uce,
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: tomato with ranch and chipotle dressing on a toasted garlic
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: hero that is a lot.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: I make sure my day is done when I have that.
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: But whenever I do get it, it's unbelievable. I haven't
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: gotten that from when I thought it would be on mine.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But hopefully we can take that up with the boys. Ads. Yeah,
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: after the season, who knows?
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, okay, because like Daniel Murphy's boring. His sandwich
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: is boring, you know, grilled chicken brast you know dall.
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: You know you gotta go something crazy. If they're naming
• 34:38
  Speaker 4: a sandwich after you got to go big.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: No doubt, no doubt. I got to put some more
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: thoughts to that. But uh that's the grom though. I mean,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: you'll be on the couch for the rest of the day.
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: But it is unbelievable, Logan.
• 34:49
  Speaker 5: I can hear you getting fatter just by talking about that.
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: Aj Aj has grease running down the side of his
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: mouth right now because of that. You got it.
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: I I'm gonna be owhere. My parents always say if
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: you leave our house hungry, it's your own damn fault.
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: So uh so we like to eat and we get
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: after it in the kitchen at the O'happy House.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: For sure.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna be out island a couple of weeks, so
• 35:11
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna I'm gonna stop by. Tell him I'm coming
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: by to be more of a lunch. But tell him
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I'm stopping by.
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: He will not leave hungry.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: I promise you, well, I want to finish with this.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: That was probably the best preparation that I've ever seen.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: From a j I mean he had the menu ready
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: with all of the ingredients. That's the good stuff. I
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: am very proud. Yeah, it right.
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: Because listen, we had we had, we had mats on
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: the other day. One of my good buddies is from
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: Long Island also, and he text me is from kind
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: of where you guys are, the same area, and he says, oh,
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: see poor Deli, that's my favorite. And then he sent
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: me the menu and I sent it to you guys,
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: if you remember Scott, if you'd ever check your phone.
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: I sent it to you guys, and I was like,
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: this is pretty this pretty stand pretty awesome that this
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: is what's on the menu.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: You can at anything there. It's unbelievable.
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: We'll tag them, we'll have a we'll have a little talk.
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: We'll get the OHAPI on the board logan good chat man.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, good catching up.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: Thank you. I appreciate it.