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Behind the scenes of a Cardinals broadcast · Cardinal Territory: A St. Louis Cardinals Podcast

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Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Happy Hall of Fame weekend, and welcome back
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Speaker 1: to Cardinal Territory. I'm your host, Katie Wu here with
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Speaker 1: some familiar faces you might recognize, Chip Carrey, Brad Thompson,
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Speaker 1: voice of the Cardinals television broadcast, to join me. Gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: how are you. Thank you for coming on the show.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Katie, Thank you for having us. Katie, it must
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Speaker 2: be deep into the season. You've ran through everybody. Somebody
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Speaker 2: said no, and Chip and I got to be involved.
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Speaker 3: So thank you.
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Speaker 1: Well, you know I did say when we started, right
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Speaker 1: before we started recording, let's be great, and Brad, I
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Speaker 1: believe you shook your head no. So we're all, oharty perfect.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're sitting the bar where it needs to be.
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Speaker 1: Look, it's the beginning of September. We've done this for
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Speaker 1: five months. I think we're all just in survival mode
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Speaker 1: and just trying to get through the day.
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Speaker 3: Right we look at you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's just say we've had some challenges over the
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Speaker 4: last few weeks, but look, the twenty one games left,
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Speaker 4: the Cardinals have a change finish over five hundred, have
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Speaker 4: a chance to impact the playoff race and still have
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Speaker 4: a chance to check out the proverbial runway for some
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Speaker 4: of these guys. So we'll see how things transpire here
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Speaker 4: over the final three and a half weeks.
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Speaker 1: Perfect Perfect Brad's like, all right, Chip's got it, and
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to sit here and look pretty amazing.
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Speaker 5: You know what.
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Speaker 1: I think at this point of the season, fans are well,
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Speaker 1: they're well familiar with the dynamic between you two in
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Speaker 1: the broadcast booth. What they might not see or know
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Speaker 1: is just what exactly goes on behind the scenes of
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Speaker 1: a Cardinal's television broadcast. I am so lucky to be
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Speaker 1: able to waltz in there every day, eat your snacks,
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Speaker 1: and leave. But for you guys, when you're doing your
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Speaker 1: prep and you're doing your work, what's the preparation like
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Speaker 1: behind the broadcast? And then how do you pass the time?
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Speaker 1: Because from what I may or may not have seen,
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Speaker 1: there are some extracurriculars in the booth that you could
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Speaker 1: maybe entertain with.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, like that.
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Speaker 2: You could go a lot of directions with that part
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Speaker 2: of it. But I would say this, and Chip, I
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Speaker 2: know this is your life too. Look, I think the
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Speaker 2: preparation for games, I don't think it ever ends, right,
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Speaker 2: You're kind of always watching stuff. You're always reading stuff,
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Speaker 2: and that part of it always goes. Certainly you're gonna
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Speaker 2: dig in on whoever the opposition is, what all the
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Speaker 2: stuff is around the league, and you're gonna be prepared
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Speaker 2: coming in. I like to still prepare as if I
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Speaker 2: were pitching against the opposing lineup, So a lot of
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Speaker 2: times that I'll dig into that how I would get
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Speaker 2: somebody out with somebody else's stuff, which is so much
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Speaker 2: better than mine and way easier when you're digging into
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Speaker 2: stuff like that. But once all that's done, Chip, there
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Speaker 2: is a time to when we get to work, it's
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Speaker 2: family there. I mean, we've got such a great group
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Speaker 2: of people that we have the opportunity to work with
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Speaker 2: every day, that help us get on air, that just
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Speaker 2: help us do everything, and it's a great place to be.
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Speaker 2: I think we're very fortunate getting a chance to do
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Speaker 2: what we do. And then yeah, do we have pac Man,
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Speaker 2: Papa shot multi game videos, darts are maybe they're coming,
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Speaker 2: might be a little dangerous, but ship there's a lot
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Speaker 2: going on in the boot.
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Speaker 6: Well you hit it on the head. It's family.
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Speaker 4: We spend more time with each other, frankly than we
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Speaker 4: do with our loved ones, and that's just the nature
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Speaker 4: of the job.
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Speaker 6: I think you hit it on.
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Speaker 4: The head too, Brad, that the people we work with
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Speaker 4: are not just coworkers, they're dear friends. This is the
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Speaker 4: first job that I've ever had in this business, and
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Speaker 4: as you guys know, I'm the old guy and this
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Speaker 4: trio of people on the digital screen where a game
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Speaker 4: is over, and I'm actually mad. And I'm mad not
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Speaker 4: because the Cardinals won or lost, or something crazy happened,
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Speaker 4: or I messed up on the air as something didn't
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Speaker 4: go right with the broadcast. I'm mad because I don't
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Speaker 4: get to hang out with my friends for the next
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Speaker 4: eighteen hours.
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Speaker 6: And I think that's what makes our place so special.
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Speaker 4: There's a great deal of care and camaraderie, and we
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Speaker 4: really do like each other, love each other, and treat
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Speaker 4: each other as family members because as I said, we
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Speaker 4: spend so much quality time together and we get to
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Speaker 4: know each other on a really, really deeper level than just.
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Speaker 6: Hey what tie you wear? And you're hey, what did
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Speaker 6: you write in the athletic today? And I think that's
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Speaker 6: really really important. I hope that people at home.
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Speaker 4: Understand that that we are as committed to each other
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Speaker 4: as we are heart to the product that we're presenting
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Speaker 4: at home, and even on the days when the product
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Speaker 4: is not as good as we would like it to be,
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Speaker 4: we're still showing up, as Brad said, doing our research,
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Speaker 4: doing our homework, and trying to bring the experience of
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Speaker 4: Cardinal Baseball, and even if it's not good, Cardon Baseball,
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Speaker 4: major League Baseball into their living rooms because we're guests
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Speaker 4: and we really understand the enormous responsibility that that job
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Speaker 4: has and the real honor that it is to sit
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Speaker 4: in those chairs.
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Speaker 1: Spot on, and I couldn't agree more. Obviously, you guys
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Speaker 1: know how I feel about you. I won't get sentimental
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Speaker 1: on the broadcast, but it is it's very clear when
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Speaker 1: you walk into your booth that everyone from Kim who
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Speaker 1: does all the incredible work behind the scenes, Shapiro, your
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Speaker 1: your producer, from Ricky to Alexa go down the list
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Speaker 1: like it is just so so great. And you know, here,
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Speaker 1: I am not even mentioning Jim Hayes, which I would
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Speaker 1: keep the darts away from him because maybe not the
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Speaker 1: most observant. I can see him coming into the booth
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Speaker 1: all frazzled about something and dart immediately to the forehead.
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Speaker 1: So I'm yeah, we talked about the same. Jim love
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Speaker 1: it of Hayes. I'm not sure how the dartboard would
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Speaker 1: work out, especially when you add in the smoke machine,
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Speaker 1: you know, the fog machine, the strobe lights. Safety hazard perhaps,
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Speaker 1: but you guys will master the walking treadmill, so what
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Speaker 1: do I know about safety?
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Speaker 2: No, that's a good call, and let's be honest, Chip,
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Speaker 2: the treadmill has not been used much this year.
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Speaker 3: It's more of it's hanging on, leaning up against the wall.
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Speaker 2: And the fog machine maybe wasn't as thought out as
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Speaker 2: we went on Amazon and just bought this thing. But
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Speaker 2: day one, as you know, Katie, of the fog machine,
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Speaker 2: I turned it on and hit it hard. I'm like,
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Speaker 2: let's do it. Boom the whole place it looked like
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Speaker 2: Scooby Doo. Okay, jumping out of the mystery machine. Turns
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Speaker 2: out though the air it funneled under the door and
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Speaker 2: then the whole media hallway looked like there was a fire.
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Speaker 2: And that's when a Cardinals' front office executive came in
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Speaker 2: opened the door and he goes, this is not good,
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Speaker 2: and I agree, well, we'll fix it.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, so we don't use it as much anymore.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have to break it out.
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Speaker 6: By the way, Katie, we have to figure out what
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Speaker 6: your entrance music will be.
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Speaker 4: We were music videos for everybody when they come in,
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Speaker 4: do the fog machine, open the door, have the strobe
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Speaker 4: lights going and we you know we haven't.
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Speaker 2: Done that yet.
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Speaker 1: Well yeah, I think the last time we used the
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Speaker 1: fog machine was the flow Ride a concert for obvious reasons.
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Speaker 1: So let me think about that. We have time. We
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Speaker 1: only have a homestand and a half left, but we
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Speaker 1: can definitely make that final full homestand as entertaining as possible,
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Speaker 1: at least for us. I'm not sure about the product
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Speaker 1: on the field. For us, we are going to have
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Speaker 1: a great time. But I do want to hear your guys'
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Speaker 1: thoughts about the Cardinals and how you know, twenty one
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Speaker 1: games left, not a lot in this transition runway season,
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Speaker 1: however you want to call it. So let's hit our
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Speaker 1: Draftking segment, our players to watch, so we can maybe
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Speaker 1: talk about the players that you guys would like to
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Speaker 1: that was that was way shorter than I thought it
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Speaker 1: was going to be I thought we had time to reset.
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Speaker 1: But okay, all right, my bad.
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Speaker 3: That was a good problem. I like it so short.
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Speaker 1: I'm just not going to talk with this one because
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Speaker 1: clearly this is too much responsibility for me. Whether it's
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Speaker 1: Jordan Walker, whether it's Nolan Morman or Lars Newfar, take
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Speaker 1: your pick. We have twenty six to thirty five players
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Speaker 1: on who are watching to finish the season, especially with
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Speaker 1: the call ups coming up. Jimmy Crooks, who's our preeto?
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Speaker 1: You have some guys coming back, Donovan Burlison, Nolan Arnato
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Speaker 1: was supposed to be at the ballpark today. I'll start
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Speaker 1: with you, Chip, as you are looking for to see
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals close out the regular season. Who are you
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Speaker 1: looking at to maybe give you some some faith or
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Speaker 1: some inspiration as they head into next season.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'll talk to the guys that I think have
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Speaker 4: answered questions this year. I'll start without at Earlson. I
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Speaker 4: think this guy's turned to a major league hitter. He
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Speaker 4: knows how to hit the things the Cardinals wanted him
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Speaker 4: to focus on, and that is parts of the strike
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Speaker 4: zone and pitches that he could do damage with. He's
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Speaker 4: done a really really good job of that. He's been
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Speaker 4: terrific in the outfield when he's played first base, DH,
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Speaker 4: I think he's done an outstanding job.
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Speaker 6: I think he has.
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Speaker 4: Definitely solidified himself as a guy the Cardinals can keep
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Speaker 4: and build around. And it's funny, if you think back
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Speaker 4: to spring training, a lot of us are wondering, well, how.
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Speaker 6: Does Burlison fit on this team?
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Speaker 4: Ever since talk that maybe he would have to start
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Speaker 4: the year in Memphis, and he didn't, and obviously the
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Speaker 4: Cardinals are happy that that's the case. So I'm really
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Speaker 4: really happy for him. As far as guys that I
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Speaker 4: still need to see more, quite frankly, Jordan Walker.
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Speaker 6: That's been talked about a lot.
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Speaker 4: I know over the last couple of weeks, the numbers
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Speaker 4: of the last month have not been good. OLLI and
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Speaker 4: Brent Brown who said we've got to see improvement, We've
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Speaker 4: got to see some growth here because there is not
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Speaker 4: an infinite runway for these guys, Nolan Gorman.
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Speaker 6: Is Nolan Gorman's run.
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Speaker 4: Here indicative of what he's going to do over one
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Speaker 4: hundred and fifty games, or.
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Speaker 6: Is this one of those peak and Valley kind of
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Speaker 6: runs that we've seen him go on. I don't know.
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Speaker 4: I think he's bad been a lot better defensively a
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Speaker 4: third base over the last two weeks after really rough start.
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Speaker 6: To the month of August. But obviously the.
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Speaker 4: Potential is there, the power is there, and that's something
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Speaker 4: you obviously can't teach. So for me, Gorman and Walker
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Speaker 4: not surprising one of the two guys that I think
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Speaker 4: we still have to say the jury's out on as
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Speaker 4: to what they're gonna do for the Cardinals going forward
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Speaker 4: next year and next spring.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and look at those are two very good ones
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Speaker 2: because you think about young nucleus, right, but what the
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Speaker 2: Cardinals drafted first round expectations through the roof, we'll find out.
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Speaker 2: So I like that direction. I could go a few
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Speaker 2: different directions too with position players, because as you mentioned, Katie,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of them, there's a lot of different guys.
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Speaker 2: But I will go to the other side down the stretch,
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Speaker 2: and if Chip's going to break the rules by taking
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Speaker 2: two players, what the heck. I'm going to break the
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Speaker 2: rules by taking two players as well. And I'm gonna
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Speaker 2: go with Matthew Libertoor who was fantastic last time out
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Speaker 2: against the A's and I'm going Michael McGreevy because there's
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Speaker 2: no way around it. Cardinals need way better starting pitching
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Speaker 2: that's been It's honestly, when you look at the record
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Speaker 2: being what it is right now, it's pretty incredible with
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Speaker 2: the starting pitching, with the numbers that have been put
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Speaker 2: up that they have won as many games as they had.
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Speaker 2: That's going to be one of the biggest keys this
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Speaker 2: offseason is where do they find it? Like, how do
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Speaker 2: you take some of these pieces, probably trade for some
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Speaker 2: starters or at least some prospects that are on their way.
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Speaker 2: So for me, Michael Michael McGreevy has done a really
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Speaker 2: good job in his limited duty. This dude knows how
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Speaker 2: to pitch. He's got poised beyond these years. I want
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Speaker 2: to see how he finishes this big league season. And
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Speaker 2: then for Matthew Libertor, they gave him the opportunity in
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Speaker 2: spring to be a starter and it has been wired
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Speaker 2: to wire at this point. He's been able to stay healthy. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: there's been the ups and downs. The first twelve starts
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Speaker 2: for Libby, we're outstanding. The next twelve it was a
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Speaker 2: mixed bag. Now we're starting to see some of the
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Speaker 2: good stuff. I want to see what it looks like
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Speaker 2: at the end. Is he maintaining his velocity through the
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Speaker 2: month of September, How does the breaking stuff look? How
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Speaker 2: sharp is the slider of his Can he drop in
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Speaker 2: that hammer like he was doing against the A's, like
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Speaker 2: striking out people left and right. To me, that's one
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Speaker 2: of the biggest things you traded for this young man
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Speaker 2: because you believe that he could be a future big
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Speaker 2: part of your rotation. So those are the two guys
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Speaker 2: that I'm really interested in down the stretch.
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Speaker 1: Not at all a surprise. I am in total agreement
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Speaker 1: with you guys, because we're always so in sync. The
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Speaker 1: one name I would throw in there because I think
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Speaker 1: his future will be in plenty of question over the
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Speaker 1: offseason is Lars new Bar, because you know, I don't
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Speaker 1: think the main prerogative for Lars Newbar was to stay
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Speaker 1: healthy this year in minus a three week stint over
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Speaker 1: the All Star breaks, so he didn't miss three weeks
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Speaker 1: worth of games. He's done a nice job of staying
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Speaker 1: on the field, and that again was parlorady number one
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Speaker 1: for Newfar to show. Would he like better production offensively?
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Speaker 1: Of course, would he consider this season something that he
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Speaker 1: is happy with. I don't think so, But I don't
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Speaker 1: think he went out there and fully failed. But you
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Speaker 1: do bring into question his long term status with the organization,
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Speaker 1: because as the Cardinals embark on this rebuild fully, it's
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Speaker 1: going to be a couple of years before we see
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Speaker 1: like truly competitive baseball again back in Saint us. Unfortunately
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Speaker 1: for Lars, he'll be a free agent over after the
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Speaker 1: next two years. So does he really fit in with
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Speaker 1: the Cardinal's competitive window from a free agent and rber standpoint,
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Speaker 1: I don't think so, and I think it's going to
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Speaker 1: be up to the Cardinals to see do they move
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Speaker 1: on from him in the offseason because he has a
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Speaker 1: ton of value. I mean, this is not a player
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Speaker 1: that has gone out there and really stunk it up.
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Speaker 1: I think I've always said this. He could be a
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Speaker 1: very complimentary piece on a postseason team. But will Saint
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Speaker 1: Lewis want to build around him or will they capitalize
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Speaker 1: on the value that he has right now to try
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Speaker 1: and bring in something that can expedite this rebuilt process.
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Speaker 1: A lot of that will have to do with how
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Speaker 1: he plays to finish the last three weeks of the season.
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Speaker 1: I also don't know how much playing time he's going
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Speaker 1: to get because the Cardinals have like eighteen hundred left
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Speaker 1: handed outfielders on the roster right now, So we'll get
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Speaker 1: to see where the Cardinals are really thinking in terms
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Speaker 1: of who they want to prioritize playing time based on
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Speaker 1: the rotation of outfielders. So I throw Lars Weobar in
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Speaker 1: there as well.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's a fair point, Katie, And I
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Speaker 4: think one thing that's going to be fascinating is we
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Speaker 4: have a new baseball operations group taking over right heine
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Speaker 4: Bloom is not tied in any way, shape or form
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Speaker 4: to any of the players currently on this major league roster.
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Speaker 6: So I think you will.
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Speaker 4: Have the freedom, if I can use that word, to
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Speaker 4: have make cold calculated decisions as to how to improve
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Speaker 4: this club. Going back to my Braves experience, everybody knows
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Speaker 4: that the Braves have been really, really good the last
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Speaker 4: few years.
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Speaker 6: They've won the World Series in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 4: What they may have forgotten is they went through three
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Speaker 4: years of a really bad ninety five ninety six lost stretch,
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Speaker 4: and what they did is something that Cardinals may have
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Speaker 4: to contemplate. They may have to make some trades up
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Speaker 4: very popular players, very talented players that they maybe don't
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Speaker 4: want to do, in order to accelerate this process and
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Speaker 4: bring back better talent as far as what they don't have.
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Speaker 4: And at Brad's point, that's pitching. You win with pitching,
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Speaker 4: and if you don't have it, you have no chance.
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Speaker 4: And I agree one hundred percent with what Brad said.
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Speaker 4: For this Cardinals team, who's staff era is around five
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Speaker 4: since the All Star Break, to be within a game
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Speaker 4: of five hundred is a really amazing story that Ali
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Speaker 4: and Dusty Blake I have done this year. And the
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Speaker 4: fact that none of these got as you've gotten hurt
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Speaker 4: is also incredibly impressive. I can't remember grad a season
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Speaker 4: where a starting rotation made all of it starts without
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Speaker 4: a single guy knocked on wood, going on the eel.
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Speaker 6: It's pretty amazing.
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Speaker 3: No, No, you're absolutely right.
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Speaker 2: Look, they've been very fortunate to that front, and look
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Speaker 2: at that. You credit the guys for putting in the work,
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Speaker 2: the training staff, the performance that they've done a really
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Speaker 2: good job. But at the end of the day, you
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Speaker 2: need more results, right, So that's going to be the
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Speaker 2: really interesting part going forward, Katie, I totally agree with
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Speaker 2: the Lars new Bar stuff, and not just Newt in general,
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Speaker 2: but look new regime under hind Bloom. You're probably listening
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Speaker 2: on a little bit of everybody and you're trying to
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Speaker 2: figure out what everybody else thinks about your players. And
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Speaker 2: I'm sure that they've already been doing this. They did
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Speaker 2: this at the trade deadline. I'm sure that there were
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Speaker 2: some deals that were kicked around, not done outside of
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Speaker 2: the three relievers that the Cardinals parted ways with. But
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Speaker 2: that's going to be a big part of it is
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Speaker 2: how do people value your system? How good of a
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Speaker 2: job are you doing with your department of valuing other
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Speaker 2: people's players that you're about to acquire, because that's where
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Speaker 2: your success is going to come from.
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Speaker 1: That's a promo exactly all right. Speaking to promos, you guys,
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Speaker 1: we have something to promote of yours next homestand Chip
17:14
Speaker 1: and Brad you have launched the twenty twenty five Feed
17:16
Speaker 1: the Future initiative and this will be taking place on
17:20
Speaker 1: September nineteenth, Chip, why don't you direct us to how
17:24
Speaker 1: you came across this idea, what fans can expect and
17:27
Speaker 1: how can they be involved in this charitable event next homestand.
17:30
Speaker 6: Yeah, this is the Feed the Future initiative.
17:32
Speaker 4: I think all of us who are fortunate enough to
17:34
Speaker 4: work in Major League Baseball realize how lou who we are,
17:36
Speaker 4: how blessed we are to get to do what we
17:39
Speaker 4: do and work with the people that we work with.
17:43
Speaker 4: We live in a community that is suffering drastically from
17:46
Speaker 4: food insecurity, and school has started. Their kids that are
17:49
Speaker 4: going to school in the city of Saint Louis, who
17:52
Speaker 4: don't get three square meals a day, they're lucky.
17:54
Speaker 6: To get one meal a day if that.
17:56
Speaker 4: And our Feed the Future initiative, which I'm so grateful
17:59
Speaker 4: for Brad joining us, will take place at Operation Food
18:02
Speaker 4: Search from ten to twelve on September nineteenth. We're getting
18:05
Speaker 4: fans involved. It's kind of a team building exercise. We're
18:08
Speaker 4: going to package meals for our friends and fellow citizens
18:12
Speaker 4: in need here in the city of Saint Louis. This
18:14
Speaker 4: is something that Brad and I got to do a
18:16
Speaker 4: couple of years ago of Kyle Gibson. We went down
18:18
Speaker 4: to Phoenix, Arizona with his Big League, Bigly Impact group
18:26
Speaker 4: and really was onspiring to see how major league athletes
18:30
Speaker 4: who are blessed with great talent and great financial resources
18:33
Speaker 4: spending time to pack meals for people in other countries,
18:36
Speaker 4: other communities that they are never ever going to meet,
18:39
Speaker 4: and it just really made an impact on me. Then, look,
18:41
Speaker 4: I've got time. It's two hours of our time. Let's
18:44
Speaker 4: try to find a way to help those of us
18:46
Speaker 4: who need it most, especially this time a year, and
18:48
Speaker 4: especially for the kids the future. Youngsters will go to
18:51
Speaker 4: a school without something in their bellies, can't learn, can't
18:53
Speaker 4: be successful. And hopefully Cardinal Nation will want support the
18:57
Speaker 4: project to join us on the nineteenth.
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Speaker 2: If you go to Cardinals dot com slash feed the Future.
19:02
Speaker 2: That's Cardinals dot com slash feed the Future. That's where
19:05
Speaker 2: you can you can donate. They're looking for, you know,
19:08
Speaker 2: donations of five dollars or more. If you donate at
19:11
Speaker 2: least two hundred dollars, you can pack meals alongside with us.
19:15
Speaker 2: And just to echo what Chip said, Look, I've had
19:18
Speaker 2: the opportunity over the years to go to schools in
19:22
Speaker 2: communities that need help and talk to kids and be
19:25
Speaker 2: around kids and being around groups and there's a need
19:28
Speaker 2: and it's it's sometimes and hopefully anybody watching this that
19:31
Speaker 2: you don't have to deal with it food insecurity, but
19:34
Speaker 2: it's real, it's tangible, and people need help, and there's
19:38
Speaker 2: no shame in needing help, honestly, the only shame is
19:40
Speaker 2: if you can help, not helping somebody else. And Ship
19:43
Speaker 2: That's why I'm so excited that you got this thing going.
19:46
Speaker 2: I know this is something that it was on your
19:48
Speaker 2: heart you wanted to champion, So I'm excited to be
19:51
Speaker 2: a part of it. Hopefully a lot of people come
19:53
Speaker 2: join us, and and this isn't going to be just
19:56
Speaker 2: a one time thing either.
19:57
Speaker 3: This is going to be something where.
19:59
Speaker 2: I know, Chip, you've talked about this with different partners,
20:02
Speaker 2: but making it something where it is a constant effort
20:06
Speaker 2: through the Cardinals who have already done a lot of
20:08
Speaker 2: stuff to help out, through us, through as many people
20:11
Speaker 2: as we can get involved, So please do that. Go
20:13
Speaker 2: to Cardinals dot com, slash feed the Future.
20:16
Speaker 1: And you know Cardinals. This is part of the Cardinals
20:18
Speaker 1: Care which I think all three of us were at
20:20
Speaker 1: Cardinals Care Ted Savage RBA Classic Golf Tournament on Thursday.
20:23
Speaker 1: The Cardinals continue to do such great charitable outreach in
20:27
Speaker 1: and around the Saint Louis area, and for you guys
20:29
Speaker 1: to do this, I think is very exciting for fans
20:32
Speaker 1: who want to know. In more information, you can donate
20:34
Speaker 1: five dollars or more to support Operation Food Search. Fans
20:38
Speaker 1: eighteen or older who donate two hundred dollars or more
20:40
Speaker 1: will be eligible to participate in the Feed the Future,
20:43
Speaker 1: Feed the Future food packaging event with Chip with Brad
20:46
Speaker 1: and other broadcasters from FanDuel Sports Network. I know I
20:49
Speaker 1: will be there, Alexadat will be there. That will take
20:52
Speaker 1: place again on Friday, September nineteenth from ten to twelve.
20:55
Speaker 1: As part of the experience, each registered donor will receive
20:58
Speaker 1: four tickets to Friday's game on September nineteenth against the Brewers,
21:02
Speaker 1: a Cardinals goodie bag, and a photo opportunity with the
21:05
Speaker 1: broadcasters at the event. So that is priceless. I know
21:08
Speaker 1: that they'll have their perfect smiles and everything, so check
21:12
Speaker 1: it out. As Brad said, you can donate at Cardinals
21:14
Speaker 1: dot com slash Feed the Future. I hope to see
21:16
Speaker 1: many of you their Chip, Brad, It's also a very
21:20
Speaker 1: exciting weekend here at Bush Stadium. It's Hall of Fame weekend,
21:24
Speaker 1: and this is one of my favorite weekends in Saint Louis.
21:26
Speaker 1: I think they do this right in terms of bringing
21:30
Speaker 1: back and honoring the legacies and the traditions that make
21:33
Speaker 1: Cardinals baseball Cardinals Baseball. So Edgar, Renteria, Walt, Jockety, and
21:37
Speaker 1: our pal Al Roski will be inducted on Saturday, that
21:40
Speaker 1: is tomorrow. When you think about what Al has meant
21:44
Speaker 1: to you guys as just being part of the Cardinal
21:47
Speaker 1: family and the FanDuel family, Brad will start with you,
21:50
Speaker 1: what does that mean? What is your relationship with Al like,
21:52
Speaker 1: and what does he mean to you? Yeah?
21:54
Speaker 2: Look, Al has been such an incredible mentor and a
21:58
Speaker 2: friend to me in I came in as a guy
22:01
Speaker 2: that knew nothing of this industry and Al had been
22:04
Speaker 2: doing this for a long time and they allowed me
22:07
Speaker 2: to come in and do a handful of games and Chip.
22:10
Speaker 2: You know how competitive this industry is, you know how
22:13
Speaker 2: people want these jobs, right, and new guy comes in,
22:16
Speaker 2: it would be so easy for Al to just.
22:19
Speaker 3: Like beat it.
22:20
Speaker 2: Al was nothing but gracious and helpful in everything that
22:24
Speaker 2: I've been doing from this platform. Same thing with doing
22:28
Speaker 2: work with the Cardinals, going to schools and doing the
22:31
Speaker 2: Cardinals Kids school program. Al has been doing that forever.
22:35
Speaker 2: He was one of the first ones I went to
22:36
Speaker 2: go see to emulate what Al was doing and bringing
22:40
Speaker 2: to the community. So that's just from the broadcast standpoint.
22:43
Speaker 2: You can go back and look at the back of
22:45
Speaker 2: his baseball card. Al had a much deserving Cardinal Hall
22:48
Speaker 2: of Fame career on the field, but his impact in
22:51
Speaker 2: the booth, in the community. If you're at the ballpark,
22:54
Speaker 2: chances are you got an Al Roboski card because he
22:57
Speaker 2: is walking around. He's in every booth and and he
23:00
Speaker 2: just brings a smile to people's faces. Chip for somebody
23:03
Speaker 2: named the Mad Hungarian. He's kind of huggable. I love
23:06
Speaker 2: the guy and I'm so excited for Yeah, to.
23:08
Speaker 4: Take a phrase from your vocabulary, he's adorable. I mean,
23:11
Speaker 4: that's how we would that's how we would talk about Al.
23:13
Speaker 4: I mean, for me, Al was the first baseball analyst
23:16
Speaker 4: I ever got to work with.
23:17
Speaker 6: Years and years ago. I got to fill in for
23:19
Speaker 6: Ken Wilson doing some Cardinals.
23:20
Speaker 4: Games while he was off doing hockey and I was
23:23
Speaker 4: the first guy that took me under his wing, as
23:25
Speaker 4: it were, back in the late nineteen eighties, just coming
23:28
Speaker 4: into doing a couple of Cardinals games.
23:30
Speaker 6: He's just such a great guy.
23:31
Speaker 4: His baseball career is one thing, but he had such
23:34
Speaker 4: a presence, such a personality, and in a sport where
23:37
Speaker 4: guys and teams have become somewhat vanilla, I think people
23:41
Speaker 4: clamor for that kind of uniqueness that Al brought, that fire,
23:45
Speaker 4: that passion, that craziness because you never knew what was
23:48
Speaker 4: going to happen the baseball side. It was one thing
23:51
Speaker 4: just to see Ali come in the booth every single
23:53
Speaker 4: day and give us grief about, oh, you guys didn't
23:55
Speaker 4: do such a good.
23:55
Speaker 6: Job last night. We lost five to four, like it's
23:58
Speaker 6: our fault now, thanks, but he really cares.
24:01
Speaker 4: And getting to know Al and his wife June, who
24:03
Speaker 4: just celebrated a birthday the other day. To hear Al's
24:06
Speaker 4: amazing National Guard stories from southern California and all the
24:09
Speaker 4: things that he experienced with that is an amazing part
24:12
Speaker 4: of his psyche and his personality.
24:14
Speaker 6: So if you get a chance to see him, ask
24:16
Speaker 6: him about that.
24:17
Speaker 4: He's a roic guy in so many different ways, and
24:19
Speaker 4: I think he'll come away with a big smile on your.
24:21
Speaker 6: Face when you get to encounter Alaboski, right, Brad.
24:25
Speaker 3: Oh, no doubt about it.
24:26
Speaker 2: He's got some great stories and loves telling him, so,
24:29
Speaker 2: you know, make sure you ask the right questions.
24:31
Speaker 1: I am very, very excited to see how that Hall
24:34
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24:36
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Speaker 1: All right, guys, Giants are in town for three games.
25:49
Speaker 1: We have Michael McGreevey on the Mountain night against righthander
25:52
Speaker 1: Carson Seymour, who I totally know who that is. It's
25:57
Speaker 1: a nineteen eighty five fortieth anniversary reunion of the NL
26:01
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26:04
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26:06
Speaker 1: kick off Hall of Fame weekend. We have time for
26:09
Speaker 1: one rapid fire question. So I'm not quite sure that
26:12
Speaker 1: it's like rapid fire more than just like one. Let
26:14
Speaker 1: me put you on the spot, all right, if you
26:16
Speaker 1: were going to ask the manager Ali marmal one question today,
26:20
Speaker 1: and it would guarantee to make him mad. What would
26:23
Speaker 1: you ask him?
26:24
Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Oh there's so many that I can't
26:27
Speaker 2: even out here. Guarantee to make him mad. Chip, you're
26:33
Speaker 2: good at this.
26:34
Speaker 6: Oh thanks. I always used to like to ask him, Hey,
26:37
Speaker 6: why didn't you use Elsley in the eighth inning?
26:40
Speaker 3: That's always a good one.
26:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, now, especially that's a good fan one.
26:45
Speaker 6: That's a good lead every time.
26:48
Speaker 3: Boy.
26:49
Speaker 2: Luckily, there there was nothing strategically in the last couple
26:53
Speaker 2: of games against the A's that you could go back to.
26:56
Speaker 2: But I will give Allie credit some if you question
26:59
Speaker 2: one of the things, and I know Katie is part
27:01
Speaker 2: of your job every day, is Hey, if it's something
27:03
Speaker 2: you know seventh in Inny he makes a move, that
27:05
Speaker 2: move doesn't work out, you have to question it.
27:07
Speaker 3: He usually does that pretty well. But I'd like to
27:09
Speaker 3: ask about those.
27:11
Speaker 2: Man, he does a good job of not getting frustrated.
27:15
Speaker 2: I don't have one that I think that is going
27:17
Speaker 2: to make him mad. I mean, I could reference an
27:19
Speaker 2: old player or something like that if I wanted to.
27:21
Speaker 2: I think that might get it going.
27:22
Speaker 3: But other than that, he likes you a lot.
27:24
Speaker 4: When you talk about him being glove first as a
27:27
Speaker 4: minor league player.
27:27
Speaker 6: That's always a good one.
27:29
Speaker 2: Well, we did have one of those, Katie the other day.
27:30
Speaker 2: There was a foul ball into the dugout. He snatches
27:34
Speaker 2: a good grab by Ali, and I said the glove
27:37
Speaker 2: was never an issue.
27:40
Speaker 1: As actual as a broadcaster, you have to enlighten your
27:44
Speaker 1: audience with facts. But you are right, Brad. I like
27:48
Speaker 1: to start with any kind of question with all of you,
27:51
Speaker 1: just like, hey, did you think about this? Totally tongue
27:54
Speaker 1: in cheek, because obviously he did, And to kick off
27:56
Speaker 1: the media session with a heavy size. He tries to
27:59
Speaker 1: gather his patients as I'm obviously messing around. I'm not
28:02
Speaker 1: sure the fellow writers appreciate that because I've already started
28:05
Speaker 1: it off on a wrong foot. But he is so
28:08
Speaker 1: good at the strategic questions and really just like taking
28:11
Speaker 1: no offense to hey, did you like what was the
28:14
Speaker 1: lodgic behind this decision? Or why didn't you do this?
28:17
Speaker 1: When did you think about doing this? And I've learned
28:19
Speaker 1: a lot from him in terms of how he breaks
28:22
Speaker 1: things down in the decisions, and I know he does
28:24
Speaker 1: the same for you guys. You guys are in there
28:25
Speaker 1: for like thirty minutes a day just laughing it up.
28:28
Speaker 1: I know, I hear it, but he does a really
28:30
Speaker 1: nice job of making sure that you know there is
28:33
Speaker 1: Whether or not it pans out is never really the
28:35
Speaker 1: issue or the question that we have. It's the decision,
28:38
Speaker 1: like how he got there in the first place. And
28:40
Speaker 1: I think he goes above and beyond as far as
28:41
Speaker 1: managers go, and ensuring that both his writers and his
28:45
Speaker 1: broadcasters understand that they're the thought process behind it results
28:48
Speaker 1: secondary and it's just kind of interesting to see that
28:51
Speaker 1: that aspect of the gameplayout through managers.
28:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's a very curious man. He's very smart, and
28:56
Speaker 4: obviously his decisions are well founded.
28:59
Speaker 6: I can't think the moment.
29:00
Speaker 4: In my brief time here, I've said, ah, I really
29:03
Speaker 4: don't get why he did that, because he's explained it
29:05
Speaker 4: to us, and then when you think about it, it
29:06
Speaker 4: makes total sense. But Brad, what's really refreshing, I'm sure
29:09
Speaker 4: for you and for me too. Katie you've probably experienced
29:11
Speaker 4: this as well is you can sit in that room
29:13
Speaker 4: and he'll say, what did you think about situation AB
29:17
Speaker 4: or c? What would you have done? And there really
29:19
Speaker 4: is an intellectual curiosity as to how other people thought.
29:23
Speaker 6: Or see a particular series of plays.
29:26
Speaker 4: And he's really genuinely interested in what other people think
29:29
Speaker 4: about the way things transpired, and maybe he learns from
29:32
Speaker 4: us and thinks about things in a different way. So
29:35
Speaker 4: there's that really healthy give and take, which I think
29:37
Speaker 4: is really really fun.
29:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, he invites the pushback, which is pretty fun and refreshing,
29:41
Speaker 2: because you know, a lot of people like to live
29:43
Speaker 2: in that echo chamber of everything that you do is right,
29:46
Speaker 2: and I feel like that's how you grow, is getting
29:48
Speaker 2: the other side of things.
29:50
Speaker 1: Agreed. Agreed, guys. All right, Well we'll get you out
29:52
Speaker 1: of here because all three of us have to be
29:53
Speaker 1: at the ballpark in about forty five minutes. So yeah,
29:56
Speaker 1: Yati Emilina's in town, Willie McGee's in town Hall of
29:58
Speaker 1: Fame weekend, and uh there will be baseball of course
30:01
Speaker 1: as well for Chip and Brad. Again your voices of
30:04
Speaker 1: the same as Cardinals.
30:04
Speaker 6: Guys.
30:05
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for joining me here on Cardinal territory.
30:06
Speaker 1: I'll race into bus Stadium, Okay,