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Nationals checkup w/Andrew Golden · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Definitely that ideal start for you know, your number two overall.
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  Speaker 1: Pick him a couple of seasons ago, who obviously you know,
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  Speaker 1: was a Rookie of the Year candidate from a jump,
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  Speaker 1: But I still think he's in that mixed definitely done
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  Speaker 1: ideal starts.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Here we go Andrew Golden joining us and
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  Speaker 2: covering the Nationals for the Washington Post back on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Great backdrop of course, he's at the ballpark. So Andrew,
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  Speaker 2: what are you seeing these first few games here for
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  Speaker 2: the Nats. They're on a run right now, taking down
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  Speaker 2: the defending champs. Do you you know see this team
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  Speaker 2: kind of hitting a turning point this season because they're
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  Speaker 2: not getting a lot of love in the NL East.
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  Speaker 2: But is this a statement series?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think it's definitely a statement series because Sad I
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  Speaker 1: think when you look at what state with my takeaway
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  Speaker 1: from the first couple of games, but James would have
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  Speaker 1: been unbelievable. I think you get three homers in three
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  Speaker 1: homers and four bats in the past couple of games
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  Speaker 1: where you started to beat up. I think the key
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  Speaker 1: for them is just getting off to a hot start
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  Speaker 1: early in games. The first couple series they weren't scoring
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  Speaker 1: early in games, but the series they have been in
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  Speaker 1: the Diamondback Series before they have been too. So I
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  Speaker 1: think it's being off to a hot start from at
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  Speaker 1: the plate and that typically helps them perform well later
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  Speaker 1: in games. I've been impressed so far, Andrew.
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  Speaker 4: Should I have them number one of my power rankings?
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  Speaker 4: Since everybody had? The Dodgers and the Knots have beat
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  Speaker 4: them too in a row. If they sweep them, should
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  Speaker 4: I make them number one of my power rankings in baseball?
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  Speaker 1: I mean that's how power rankings work, right, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: if they see the Dodgers the yeah, they should be
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  Speaker 1: number one, right Like, that's how that's how should worked.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly how ludicrous power rankings are. Thank you, so yes,
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  Speaker 4: next you, whenever I have to do my power rankings
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  Speaker 4: for their Nats will be number one for sure.
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  Speaker 3: There we go.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but how good was How good was Mackenzie Gore?
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  Speaker 4: I mean he's you know, two of his three starts,
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  Speaker 4: he's been really really good. Is this the guy they
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  Speaker 4: thought they got when they made that trade for Sodo?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: I think Mackenzie shown that brief spurts during the early
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  Speaker 1: portion of his career. I think the key is just
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  Speaker 1: sustaining it, not having the bad outing spiral. I think,
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  Speaker 1: you know, my first year, my first year, his first
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  Speaker 1: full season was twenty twenty three, and he was really
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  Speaker 1: good in the first half and sporggled in the second.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, he was really good last year except for
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  Speaker 1: like nine starts, and so I think this year, a
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  Speaker 1: key's just limiting those bat starts, maybe two or three
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  Speaker 1: outings versus you know, six or seven. Yes, I think
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  Speaker 1: if you could do that, I think you're looking at
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  Speaker 1: a top of the rotation guy, a guy who could
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  Speaker 1: be a eight for this for this team. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what he's shown them. He went out there against the
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  Speaker 1: Phillies and shoved I forget the exact step, and that's
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  Speaker 1: someone he and Bob gives me the only guys to
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  Speaker 1: break out thirteen and allow one to hit no walks.
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  Speaker 1: So that's pretty good company, and I think it speaks
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  Speaker 1: to the kind of player that he could be.
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  Speaker 3: Andrew haven't been to a Nats game for a long time,
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  Speaker 3: but when they started hanging up all the natitude signs,
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  Speaker 3: the fans really got behind it. What is what is
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  Speaker 3: the natitude? Right now? The fan base of the Nationals.
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  Speaker 3: Are they mad that they didn't go in and get
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  Speaker 3: some piece, some veteran piece that would have been like
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  Speaker 3: a Pee Alonso for a long kind of like the
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  Speaker 3: Jason Worth type of thing. Or fans just like, oh need,
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  Speaker 3: we're gonna wave our hats in the third inning like
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  Speaker 3: we do every game.
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  Speaker 1: I mix the both. I think there are some fans
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  Speaker 1: who definitely wanted to the National to take suspend a
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  Speaker 1: little bit more right and get the back to the
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  Speaker 1: where they were on the previous decade. I think they're
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  Speaker 1: also fans who are happy with the direction of the team,
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  Speaker 1: what they see from the young players, and so I
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  Speaker 1: think you get a mixed of both. I do think
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  Speaker 1: there are some fans who are kind of like, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: it's been you know, five years, is rebuilder ready to go?
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  Speaker 1: And I think there are some where like let's be
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  Speaker 1: more patient wait for the right time. And so I
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  Speaker 1: think I think you see a bix of boats in
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  Speaker 1: the fan base. So I'm not sure if there's one
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  Speaker 1: or the other, but that's kind of how fan bases are,
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  Speaker 1: like there's always be acceptor thinks one thing and when
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  Speaker 1: I think the other way. But I think it's the boat.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Andrew. I don't know how you see the game
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  Speaker 4: from the press box they have there, and oh my god.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty high, pretty high up.
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  Speaker 4: Tell us bring out binoculars to see half the players.
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  Speaker 4: They look like ants we built when they say we
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  Speaker 4: built the museum for ants, like.
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  Speaker 1: Some some fans, I think. I think a fan of
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  Speaker 1: to Day asked me like, like what m Kennedy Gore
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  Speaker 1: Snyder looked like. I was like, I mean, you probably
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  Speaker 1: a better view than I do, Like, I don't, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, I don't really know what it looks like.
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  Speaker 1: Like I was like, it's probably better on the screen. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a pretty high press box. We're pretty up there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah it's pretty funny.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, kind of to what crowd said about,
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  Speaker 4: you know, the old and where they're at in this
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  Speaker 4: why didn't not spend some money in this offseason? They
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  Speaker 4: were like my sleeper pick to go out and sign
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  Speaker 4: a big name, like like kind of like they did.
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  Speaker 4: Why why didn't they do that this year?
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  Speaker 1: I think I think it's a mix of you know,
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  Speaker 1: ownership and waiting for the right time to waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the right time that they feel to invest in their roster.
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  Speaker 1: I also think it's a matter of when you see
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  Speaker 1: how some of their young guys can perform, Seeing if
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  Speaker 1: James wind and doing crew, who they take that step forward,
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  Speaker 1: Seeing Mackenzie Bfore takes a step forward. C. J. Abrams
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  Speaker 1: was another guy they would ask, you know, they want
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  Speaker 1: to see a lot of production from and so I
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  Speaker 1: think I think for them, what you're seeing is like,
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  Speaker 1: I think the reason they didn't spend us they're waiting
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  Speaker 1: for waiting to see how those guys perform. Maybe they
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  Speaker 1: didn't think the right guy fit their roster that was
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  Speaker 1: out there. I certainly would have expected them to maybe
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  Speaker 1: spend a little bit more, and they did spend more
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  Speaker 1: than they have in the past couple off seasons, but
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  Speaker 1: I would to expect them to take a swing this
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  Speaker 1: off season and they didn't. And I think they're content
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  Speaker 1: with what they have, and I still think that with
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  Speaker 1: what they have, I think they still they can compete
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  Speaker 1: long term.
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  Speaker 3: Now the twenty year massive battle got resolved, does that
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  Speaker 3: mean next year they're going to use that money, because
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  Speaker 3: before that was the excuse. It's like, you know, we
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  Speaker 3: don't have a lot or is it Max Scherzer's deferred
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  Speaker 3: contract that they're still paying have they given any reasoning
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  Speaker 3: of like or a glimpse of what it could be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think obviously with the massive money, I think
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  Speaker 1: that definitely makes an impact, and they can obviously spend
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more. I don't know to what extent
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  Speaker 1: that is, and I think it also depends on how
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  Speaker 1: this year goes and where they feel like their roster,
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  Speaker 1: their roster compared. I mean, I think it's also important
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  Speaker 1: to note that when they signed Jason Worth, they went
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  Speaker 1: eighty one to eighty one ers or are they were
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  Speaker 1: around five hundred like that first season with Jason Worth
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  Speaker 1: and then they took off and so like in theory,
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  Speaker 1: like that's where it seems like they would be right now,
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  Speaker 1: which then when it would make sense to kind of
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  Speaker 1: make that investment, take that risk, And so you know,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's interesting. I would expect them though maybe
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  Speaker 1: with mats and off the table, like there are really
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  Speaker 1: no excuses, like if they want to invest in their roster,
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  Speaker 1: they can and like that's not excuse anymore. And so
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  Speaker 1: I think it's kind of a fair point to make it.
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  Speaker 4: Are we worried about Dylan Cruz? Are the Notts worried
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  Speaker 4: about Dylan Cruz?
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  Speaker 3: Because I know people.
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  Speaker 4: Probably outside that don't see him every day. Is Dylan
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  Speaker 4: Cruse worried about Dylan Cruz? How worry should we be here?
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  Speaker 1: I'm not worried about doing Cruise. I think is I
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  Speaker 1: think obviously it's not a great start to the season, right,
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  Speaker 1: But I think I think when you look in the grand
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  Speaker 1: scheme of things, like if this happened in June, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if we're talking about in the same way
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  Speaker 1: that we are. I think it just happened to happen
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  Speaker 1: in the first four or five game read never hit.
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  Speaker 1: He seems fine, and the team still thinks that he's fine.
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  Speaker 1: I think they're just working with him through some adjustments.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't get the synth that Dylan is super
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  Speaker 1: concerned about it. I don't get the sense that the
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  Speaker 1: team is either. But definitely that an ideal start for
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  Speaker 1: you know, your number two overall picked him a couple
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  Speaker 1: of seasons ago, who obviously you know, was a Rookie
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  Speaker 1: of the Year candidate from a jump. But I still
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  Speaker 1: think he's in that mix. But definitely that ideal started.
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  Speaker 2: AJ it is time for people to get some new clubs,
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  Speaker 2: and to do that, they need to go to their
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  Speaker 4: Right, no doubt. I was there today, I've been there before.
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  Speaker 4: Last time I was there, they gave me this killer gap.
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  Speaker 4: I just look at that sweet spot, Scott. It is
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  Speaker 4: worn out. That is right in the sweet spot right there.
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  Speaker 4: So I went and got new clubs today, new irons.
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  Speaker 4: But more importantly, I got this bad boy. I got
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  Speaker 4: me a new putter. This is my old putter. It's
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  Speaker 4: Now I'm going to the Allen putter. They talked me
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  Speaker 4: into it because I was raining some putts today. Bob,
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  Speaker 4: the guy who helped me out, he helped me with
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  Speaker 4: my irons. He got him teed up perfectly. But then
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  Speaker 4: we went to the putt and green. I was draining
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  Speaker 4: them putts because that's the most important part of golf.
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  Speaker 3: James would home run total give it to me. You
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  Speaker 3: see him every day. We need to know what it's
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  Speaker 3: gonna because I think last night was his first pulled
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  Speaker 3: home run? Am I correct all the others we have
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  Speaker 3: been APO.
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  Speaker 1: This seed was his first pull one this season. Last
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  Speaker 1: year he had two seas. Yeah, so this season, my
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  Speaker 1: I think we like to see the prediction. I think
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  Speaker 1: I had twenty seven, so I maybe I guess I'll
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  Speaker 1: stick with twenty seven.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, that's not thirty not forty low. Yeah, I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to put it too high in the
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  Speaker 1: personal season, like there's some adjustments. I want to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: put at forty. I think you could hit forty. But
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  Speaker 1: I said twenty seven just to be kind of modest
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  Speaker 1: from the jokes.
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  Speaker 2: After watching this series, I'm like, damn.
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  Speaker 4: Number one of my power rankings put it down.
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  Speaker 2: That Andrew reappreciate the time, enjoy the game today. It
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  Speaker 2: would be fun at four o'clock east and so a
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  Speaker 2: couple hours away. Thanks for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks for having me on guys. Looking forward The
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  Speaker 1: next time