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2-0 LCS leads, Tyler Kepner joins from Seattle, Payroll problems? · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: La baby, I neighver thought father, feeling good, feeling good.
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to reveal a hat later to don't do
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Speaker 1: it yet, but I'm excited pretty much.
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Speaker 2: Tell who it is from.
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Speaker 1: The well, I'm saying the front though, but yeah, yes,
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Speaker 1: we know who it is the logo. But it's fresh.
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Speaker 3: I was trying to have crafts hats, but can't hide.
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Speaker 3: Can't hide greatness, can't hide greatness.
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Speaker 1: So a couple of things. First off, this postseason is
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Speaker 1: the most watched since twenty ten so far.
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Speaker 2: Wow, that's good.
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Speaker 1: Baseball is in a good spot.
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Speaker 2: That's really good spot.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Good time for good time for a lockout, good time
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Speaker 4: for owners. They're making a lot of money. Good time.
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Speaker 1: Hold up, we're doing well.
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Speaker 2: We need to this up. That is true.
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Speaker 1: How about this one? I got one more trivia question
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Speaker 1: before we start. The last team to win a best
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Speaker 1: of seven series after losing the first two at home.
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Speaker 1: The last team to take a best of seven series
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Speaker 1: that could be in today's world in LS yes or
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Speaker 1: a world series DODG that they lost the first two
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Speaker 1: at home.
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Speaker 2: That's got to be a while back.
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Speaker 1: It's not in the twenty first century.
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Speaker 2: That's all. How about nineteen oh nine, kid, that's way back.
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Speaker 1: Let's go nineties.
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Speaker 3: Nineties break, go ahead and say ninety four some kidding? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure.
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Speaker 1: Nineteen ninety six, Braves, I mean nineties, right? World Series?
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Speaker 1: You got the thanks, you got it?
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Speaker 4: I thought. I thought the Astros lost. I mean the
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Speaker 4: Dodgers lost the first two games at home in that
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Speaker 4: in that World Series, we went to Houston, won all
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Speaker 4: three games in Houston, then came back home and lost
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Speaker 4: the next two. Did I not get that right? I
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Speaker 4: thought nobody that World Series won a game at home.
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Speaker 1: That does sound right? Did I get that info?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. Let's check it out. Let's have our
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Speaker 4: crack reporters.
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Speaker 2: Well either pretty far back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'm gonna look throughout the show again. I'll
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Speaker 1: look at who tweeted it out.
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Speaker 2: We got two chances at it, Yeah we do.
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Speaker 1: I'll look at who tweeted it out making me look
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Speaker 1: stupid or maybe not, maybe not anyway, Let's charge charge.
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Speaker 1: Let's charge the man presented by LIDS. Where we're at
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Speaker 1: with the NLCS. Kratz and I did a long postgame
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Speaker 1: show last night. But your thoughts, Lucky, I'm a moto.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's so funny. I'm listening to the broadcast
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Speaker 3: and I forget who was broadcasting. He's like, well, could
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Speaker 3: be like a gift and a curse.
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Speaker 2: You know.
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Speaker 3: It could be when you know, you go golf and
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Speaker 3: you get that first birdie on the first hole and
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Speaker 3: then everything else goes to you know what, Well, guess what.
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Speaker 3: Milwaukee got that first birdie and that was it. They
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Speaker 3: double bogie triple bogied after that. I mean, ya, Mamoto,
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Speaker 3: my goodness, what an outing. I'm glad they let him
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Speaker 3: keep going. He deserved it. His splitter, it felt like
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Speaker 3: it got nastier and nasty as the game went on.
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Speaker 3: Giving up a first inning home run, Yeah it stinks,
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Speaker 3: but at the same time, for him, it's like Wow.
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Speaker 3: To come back and only give up two more hits
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Speaker 3: after that was absolutely incredible. And he didn't get fifteen strikeouts.
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Speaker 3: You know, it wasn't like he was super overpowering. He
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Speaker 3: got the outs when he needed to, and he threw really,
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Speaker 3: really well.
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Speaker 1: And Pat Murphy, the manager for the Brewers, thinks that
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Speaker 1: the team is chasing more than ever this season. So
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Speaker 1: he said, quote, we chased more than we've chased all year.
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Speaker 1: We've been the best team in baseball at not chasing,
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Speaker 1: these pitchers brought out the worst in US. Starting pitchers
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Speaker 1: for the Dodgers in these first two games have allowed
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Speaker 1: four hits. Milwaukee's got a total of five hits in
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Speaker 1: two games, two runs scored, four played appearances with runners
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Speaker 1: in scoring position, which all game in that ninth inning
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Speaker 1: of Game one, which they had a chance to steal
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Speaker 1: could have Now it looks like they really needed that
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Speaker 1: first games. So that's where they're at. Do you think
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Speaker 1: that this is just stupid good pitching? I like to
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Speaker 1: ask this question each time to Kratz.
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Speaker 3: Well, for me, yeah, I think it's a little bit
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Speaker 3: of all. I think it's a little bit of both.
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Speaker 3: I think you're right they're swinging outside the zone. I
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Speaker 3: think they're not getting the hits when they need them.
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Speaker 3: I think the Dodgers are also playing a little bit better, truthfully,
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Speaker 3: maybe a lot better. They're playing hard. I think the
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Speaker 3: focus on what the Brewers need to do is just
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Speaker 3: build off each other. Like you make a play home
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Speaker 3: run in the first inning, that's great, but you got
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Speaker 3: to keep tacking on. You got to keep moving forward.
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Speaker 3: And the biggest problem is.
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Speaker 2: They're not and when Yamamoto got going. It was pretty
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Speaker 2: much it.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I remember I stopped watching the game for
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Speaker 3: if I come back it's the ninth inning, I'm like,
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Speaker 3: holy cow, what that coppen here? So I think the
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Speaker 3: focus on the Brewers is forget about what just happened.
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Speaker 3: You know, things can happen in a hurry. It's a
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Speaker 3: big tidal wave of things that compiled for them to lose. Dude,
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Speaker 3: what's his name? Show Tony not even hitting. He finally got,
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Speaker 3: you know, an RBI single yesterday. That's awesome. That's a plus.
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Speaker 3: Reddy Freeman hit the home run. That's about it. Like,
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Speaker 3: you got two of their top dogs not doing pretty
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Speaker 3: much and you're still losing. That's the bigger problem I
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Speaker 3: have in this whole situation.
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Speaker 4: We got to sit here and say this pitching has
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Speaker 4: been elite. Yamamoto's probably going to be top three, if not,
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Speaker 4: I would say maybe top five in the Say Young
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Speaker 4: voting this year. And Blake Snell has two two Sy Young's,
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Speaker 4: he's won them and they're hitting on all cylinders right now.
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Speaker 4: So to me, we definitely need in the playoffs, we
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Speaker 4: need to give credit where credit is due, and both
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Speaker 4: of these guys have been dominant. Now people can say, oh,
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Speaker 4: you know, the Brewers are twenty ninth in barrel percentage
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Speaker 4: and they you know, but they scored the third most runs.
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Speaker 4: But they're in the National League Central. Let's make sure
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Speaker 4: we keep the same narrative for all things, because we
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Speaker 4: just saw the Blue Jays beat a Yankees team. And
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Speaker 4: every time the Yankees lose, whether it's to the Dodgers
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Speaker 4: in the World Series or in the Alds, oh, they
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Speaker 4: just too much swing and miss, not enough. You know,
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Speaker 4: they got to make contact. Well, the Brewers have made
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Speaker 4: some contact, I get it. They struck out seventeen times
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Speaker 4: against the starters in the last two days. But like
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Speaker 4: this is a team built for contact, it's not working.
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Speaker 4: So what's the common denominator? When a really big slug
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Speaker 4: team gets knocked out and a really good contact team
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Speaker 4: like Jays and the Brewers lose the common denominators they've
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Speaker 4: run off against some good pitching and no more of
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Speaker 4: A example of that was young Mooto last night. He
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Speaker 4: didn't shy away from the zone after that first first
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Speaker 4: at bat Homer the opposite field. He said, you know what,
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Speaker 4: I'm going to continue to throw my game and he did,
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Speaker 4: and look what happened.
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Speaker 3: Did you see him after the game? He went wow,
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Speaker 3: Like after they get the last strikeout, he turned. He's like,
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Speaker 3: didn't know what to do and he's like.
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Speaker 4: Wow, I've never been out there for the ninth thing.
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Speaker 3: I thought that was pretty unique. I wonder how many
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Speaker 3: times he's done it in Japan.
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Speaker 4: I'll look it up.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm just curious because I don't think he has one.
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Speaker 3: Yeah for him to say wow, like it was it wow?
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Speaker 3: Like holy cow, they let me go nine innings?
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Speaker 2: Or was it wow? This is my first ever nine innings?
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Speaker 2: You know, masterpiece?
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Speaker 3: You know what I'm saying Like that, That's where I'm
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Speaker 3: I'm confused. But to hear it in English, it was
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Speaker 3: and you could see his mouth go wow and like
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Speaker 3: clap his hand into his glove. I'm like, you know what,
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Speaker 3: that's pretty cool. He's you know, he's being human at
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Speaker 3: that same moment.
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Speaker 1: Over fifty starts in the big leagues, including postseason, and
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Speaker 1: he hadn't done it. I'm currently searching to see if
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Speaker 1: I can have.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I have his MPOs and NPB stats. I'll look
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Speaker 4: it up. But I know Roki Roki had that no
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Speaker 4: hitter and then he almost threw it back to back
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Speaker 4: or back to back like perfect games or something like that.
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Speaker 4: I'll look it up.
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Speaker 1: He's got he's got I've got at least Game six
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Speaker 1: of the twenty twenty three Japan Series, which is like
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Speaker 1: the World Series out there, nine innings, fourteen ks. So
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Speaker 1: he's done it at least, let's see, he's had, he's had,
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Speaker 1: He's had quite a few out there. But here they
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Speaker 1: don't do that here. Not often we have it, but
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Speaker 1: not often postseason almost never. Last time do you know
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Speaker 1: the last time? Do you guys know this? I'm confident
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Speaker 1: on this one because I saw this from multiple reporters.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes I grabbed something from one or two that are
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Speaker 1: a little shy. But Jose the Dodgers at the last
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Speaker 1: Dodger okay, but the last pitcher in the playoffs to
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Speaker 1: go CG mhm. Twenty seventeen, Oh, Charlie more than.
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Speaker 2: ALC.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it was actually twenty seventeen on the day of
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Speaker 1: Oh or no, not to knocker because that was that
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Speaker 1: would be on your side, Britlander.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oh yeah, JB. Yeah, Visile, he crosses that.
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Speaker 1: You guys do that in seven ALCS Game two in
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Speaker 1: twenty seventeen. Yeah, they we faced them in the ALCS.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, we lost them. We lost game one and two. One.
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Speaker 3: We would have been the ones that came back at
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Speaker 3: home or beat him whatever. Then we won three, four, five,
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Speaker 3: and then they won six seven. But yes, he threw
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Speaker 3: twice against us. I don't remember how went.
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Speaker 4: Was that when you hit the double that's stuck in
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Speaker 4: the top of the fest Yeah. Yeah, there was a
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Speaker 4: collector that told me.
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Speaker 2: I reached out to Yeah there was.
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Speaker 4: There was a collector that told me if I could
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Speaker 4: get that ball. Obviously it was after the game, if
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Speaker 4: I could get that ball out of the fence, he
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Speaker 4: would give me two hundred and fifty dollars for it.
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Speaker 4: I was like, what, now what he should who does that?
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Speaker 3: I would have said, twenty five hundred, easy money, let's
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Speaker 3: go famous baseball?
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Speaker 4: Was that was that Game two?
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Speaker 5: Though?
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Speaker 2: It's weird. Yeah, yeah, I think that was Game two.
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Speaker 2: We tied at one one, like in a six I
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Speaker 2: don't remember.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so now what now? What for Milwaukee?
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Speaker 2: Good luck? I mean.
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Speaker 3: Serious, I mean I sit here and say that with
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Speaker 3: being all funny and stuff.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, they still have a chance.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, of course anything can happen, but it's it's going
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Speaker 3: to be a climb, it's going to become they have
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Speaker 3: game this Game three is the most important game in
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Speaker 3: their lives, and they have to find a way to
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Speaker 3: win it.
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Speaker 2: I think that's the biggest problem they have.
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Speaker 3: Game Game three is so big because Game four Dodgers
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Speaker 3: can pretty much do what they want. You know, they
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Speaker 3: can nitpick, you know, put whoever they want out there.
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Speaker 3: So Connie, Yeah, that's what I mean. Or do you
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Speaker 3: save them for another day? That's what I mean. Like
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Speaker 3: they could I'm not saying to do that, but they
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Speaker 3: can decide on really what they want to do.
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Speaker 4: So I got kind of eviscerated on Twitter for saying
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Speaker 4: saying what I said about how the Dodgers, well would
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Speaker 4: be that will be the Brewer's game plan. How do
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Speaker 4: they be glass now, you know, make them throw strikes
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Speaker 4: and all this stuff, and I said some other things
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Speaker 4: and fans are like, no way, not a chance. Like
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Speaker 4: this show gives you the player's point of view, and
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Speaker 4: if you were to ask the Brewers players to be
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Speaker 4: one hundred percent honest, they would tell you, yeah, we're
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Speaker 4: not out of this, like we one hundred percent got this.
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Speaker 4: We swept this team in the regular season. Is it
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Speaker 4: going to be tough? Yeah, you can't win four games
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Speaker 4: in one night, but you can win one each night
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Speaker 4: and play view when they're down. Is I'm not going away.
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Speaker 4: I'm not going away without a fight. So you're gonna
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Speaker 4: see some fight from the Brewers. And if you want
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Speaker 4: somebody on it, if you want to watch another show
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Speaker 4: where people are like, yeah, analytically, they just don't have
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Speaker 4: any chance here, And I just don't see how it's like,
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Speaker 4: don't don't come on a show. Don't watch a show
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Speaker 4: where players will give you the real view of what
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Speaker 4: they're thinking in this moment, like they're not quitting and
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Speaker 4: they're gonna give Tyler glassan now all he can handle.
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Speaker 2: For sure?
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Speaker 1: What would you tell the boys, Like, if you're Pat
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Speaker 1: Murphy right now, who is a wordsmith, he's really fine.
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Speaker 1: He is well covered as a manager, both for the
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Speaker 1: success that he's out on the field the last couple
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Speaker 1: of seasons, and he's immedia darling. But what do you
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Speaker 1: tell them?
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Speaker 3: I think I'll bring it back to when we were
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Speaker 3: down two o to Cleveland in seventeen. I think, you
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Speaker 3: know where, we probably should have won game too, if
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Speaker 3: we found a way to get you know, a review
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Speaker 3: in in time, which didn't happen. Whatever, we ended up
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Speaker 3: winning a series. Win the day, Just win the day,
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Speaker 3: go out and win the inning. Every inning, every day.
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Speaker 3: Don't worry about anything that's going on outside. Win today
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Speaker 3: and then we'll worry about tomorrow. Find a way to
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Speaker 3: win today. It doesn't mean you have to win by
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Speaker 3: the home run. Win scrappy, beat out a ball, make
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Speaker 3: the play, you know, get on base from the air,
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Speaker 3: steal a base something, find a way to win the game.
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Speaker 2: Cratzy.
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Speaker 4: If you have the If you have music on in
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Speaker 4: the clubhouse after a big win and you come in
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Speaker 4: and you're too you're down too, I'd say turn the
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Speaker 4: music on, turning music on. We're flying to LA. It's
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Speaker 4: time to get going. Just like just like Biggie said
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Speaker 4: going back to Cali.
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Speaker 2: Could have said it, I'm going going back back to CALLI. Yes,
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Speaker 2: all that good stuff.
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Speaker 1: Hey, we do this a lot in the offseason, but
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Speaker 1: we'll let it go into this current postseason as well
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Speaker 1: because it's becoming a big story. The Dodgers spend a lot,
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Speaker 1: the Brewers don't, the payroll disparity, the league and the
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Speaker 1: owners just love this conversation. What are your thoughts on
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Speaker 1: these two teams matching up? And I'm going to kick
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Speaker 1: it off, okay, because the top two teams in the
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Speaker 1: National League this year. Are the Brewers and the Dodgers, right,
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Speaker 1: they're the last two teams standing. The Dodgers spend a lot,
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Speaker 1: the Brewers don't. There are a lot of teams in
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Speaker 1: between the Dodgers and the Brewers that aren't there. So
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Speaker 1: there are a bunch of really really dumb teams that
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Speaker 1: spend a lot of money. And I have no idea
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Speaker 1: what they're doing because the way that people speak, you
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Speaker 1: would think that you just look at the sheet, look
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Speaker 1: at the payroll sheet, the top ten, and I think
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Speaker 1: half the teams didn't make it, and you just be like, Okay,
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Speaker 1: National League side easy, Dodgers, Mets, NLCS every single year.
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Speaker 1: Last year, actually the Mets look like crap. At the
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Speaker 1: beginning of the year, Yeah, got hot, made it to
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Speaker 1: the NLCS. But this year really really dropped the wallet
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Speaker 1: down and said let's go. They didn't make the playoffs.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we can have a whole hour session about that.
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Speaker 3: But I got to ask the question today about whether
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Speaker 3: it's good or bad for baseball that the Dodgers are winning,
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Speaker 3: and I said, I thought it was just fine. I
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Speaker 3: gotta be honest with you, I seeing what they have.
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Speaker 3: They still have guys that are injured that aren't even playing.
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Speaker 3: And that's the crazy part about the Dodgers. How good
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Speaker 3: this team really is. It goes to show you, Hey,
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Speaker 3: if I'm a baseball fan, I gotta respect what the
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Speaker 3: Dodgers are doing here. They're spending money on quality guys
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Speaker 3: and guess what happens. They're winning games. Will they win
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Speaker 3: the World Series? They might, they have the best chance.
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Speaker 3: But again, I think this is great. You want to
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Speaker 3: say the Dodgers do win Scotty next thing. You know, Like,
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Speaker 3: if I'm on the team, I'm like, that's the team
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Speaker 3: I want to beat. Now you get a little hungrier,
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Speaker 3: maybe you pick up a.
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Speaker 2: Guy here too.
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Speaker 3: But you know, everybody in this business has money when
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Speaker 3: it comes to being a president and all this kind
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Speaker 3: of stuff. They just don't want to spend. So I
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Speaker 3: don't feel bad for those teams. They have the money.
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Speaker 3: It's what their businessmen want to do about, you know,
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Speaker 3: when they want to get the better players.
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Speaker 4: Well, how about instead of looking at the actual dollars
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Speaker 4: that are spent, because yeah, they're never going to match up,
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Speaker 4: how about we look at the percentage of revenue brought
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Speaker 4: in compared to the salaries, and then we see see,
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Speaker 4: oh well, maybe this team could have spent a little
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Speaker 4: bit more like teams may not be able to spend
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Speaker 4: the same number, but percentage wise, maybe we got to
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Speaker 4: get a little bit closer to this. So if you
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Speaker 4: want to talk about salary caps, how about this. Let's
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Speaker 4: bring in the salary floor and that'll enhance a lot
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Speaker 4: of competition. If it's because of money, then make sure
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Speaker 4: your team is spending the same percentage as the Dodgers
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Speaker 4: are spending of the revenue that they bring in. Just
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Speaker 4: a percentage, that's it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Also, you could just improve revenue sharing. You could say, hey,
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Speaker 1: here's another fifty mil to Milwaukee that we're all splitting
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Speaker 1: on TV money. There's plenty that already exists. The problem
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Speaker 1: is that process is broken because you don't have to
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Speaker 1: spend it on players. You can spend it on quote,
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Speaker 1: improving your team. There are ways as yeah, improve your
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20:16
Speaker 1: offense for five months become a bottom eight offense in September?
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Speaker 1: That's the question that really keeps me up at night.
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Speaker 1: They're indicating that they're going to make some changes this offseason.
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Speaker 1: That to me sounds like some potential changes to personnel
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Speaker 1: because they're frustrated about the finish line after a season
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20:45
Speaker 1: two or three good innings in the playoffs, I.
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Speaker 4: Hope the organization looks at it like, well, why were
20:52
Speaker 4: they successful? The first five months might be generous, but
20:57
Speaker 4: first four months of season was it actual success or
21:00
Speaker 4: were they kind of being held up on a thin
21:04
Speaker 4: pedestal of not controlling the strike zone. There's general things
21:09
Speaker 4: that work and don't work, and were you doing those
21:12
Speaker 4: things in those first four months. If they were and
21:15
Speaker 4: then they switched, then what happened? You got a pinpoint
21:18
Speaker 4: exactly before you just go and say hitting coaches gone,
21:22
Speaker 4: this guy gone, game planning gone, like whoa, whoa, whoa.
21:25
Speaker 4: There was some success there and they were the best
21:27
Speaker 4: team in the Central for a long time.
21:31
Speaker 1: Tyler Kepner joining us right now. You can catch so
21:34
Speaker 1: many great articles of his in the Athletic Tyler, great
21:37
Speaker 1: to see you. First off, How is the postseason going
21:40
Speaker 1: for you?
21:41
Speaker 5: It's great, guys, good to be here. I've been following
21:44
Speaker 5: the Mariners the whole way through. So let's do a
21:48
Speaker 5: lot worse than hang out in Seattle for the month.
21:51
Speaker 5: It's been fun.
21:52
Speaker 1: I'm with you, okay, So give us the goods. You've
21:55
Speaker 1: been with one team the entire postseason. Tell us what
21:59
Speaker 1: you've seen from Seattle. What's something that maybe most of
22:02
Speaker 1: the world doesn't know obviously, I'm sure you've covered it
22:04
Speaker 1: in articles, but give us something good to kick this off.
22:08
Speaker 5: Wow, well, something that most of the world doesn't know.
22:14
Speaker 4: I don't know.
22:14
Speaker 5: I mean I I go a lot of ways with that,
22:17
Speaker 5: but it is it is just really impressive how much
22:21
Speaker 5: they outpitch people. I mean, everybody kind of knows that,
22:23
Speaker 5: and now we're seeing it. They just have more good pitchers.
22:26
Speaker 5: And for them to go to Toronto and get half
22:29
Speaker 5: their innings from starters who were on short rest is
22:33
Speaker 5: just and win both games is amazing. I mean, you
22:36
Speaker 5: would go out there and hope to get a split,
22:38
Speaker 5: you know, you could. You could even envision that they're
22:41
Speaker 5: tired and you come back and you're down oh two,
22:43
Speaker 5: but you reset, they're up to to oh and they
22:45
Speaker 5: got half their innings from starters on short rest. It's
22:48
Speaker 5: pretty amazing. But it shows the depth they have. And
22:50
Speaker 5: now they're getting Brian Wuback. So it kind of goes
22:53
Speaker 5: to the philosophy they've been building here and sticking with
22:57
Speaker 5: through a lot of you know, ups and down. They've
23:01
Speaker 5: believed in it. Strike throwing is gonna work most of
23:04
Speaker 5: the time, and here they are.
23:09
Speaker 3: You talk about good hitting and you know, well actually
23:11
Speaker 3: talk about good pitching. He brought up hitting a little
23:13
Speaker 3: bit too as well. One of those hitters, Jhe Polanco
23:16
Speaker 3: man just coming on so strong. You give him my
23:18
Speaker 3: nickname here, I'll let you talk about that. Just give
23:21
Speaker 3: a little insight of how good he's been in these playoffs.
23:24
Speaker 3: And it seems like, you know, over the years, he's
23:27
Speaker 3: been doing this for a long time now and doing
23:29
Speaker 3: pretty well out it.
23:31
Speaker 5: Yeah, Todd, it's kind of nice to see a player
23:33
Speaker 5: who's been around a while, been just a solid, sort
23:35
Speaker 5: of everyday guy for about eight or ten years, have
23:40
Speaker 5: this kind of moment. I mean, three games in a row,
23:42
Speaker 5: this guy is driven in the go ahead run. Plus
23:44
Speaker 5: he hit two home runs off Schoogle in Game two.
23:47
Speaker 5: You know, it's not like he's hitting four hundred, but
23:49
Speaker 5: his his hits have all been monumental. So whenever they
23:53
Speaker 5: have a clutch situation they need to take the lead.
23:55
Speaker 5: You know, he's the guy, his switch hitter, so you
23:58
Speaker 5: know he's hard to pitch too. He'd he's a great
24:01
Speaker 5: pull hitter. He's just the kind of guy who you know,
24:05
Speaker 5: sort of a glue guy on the team and Honestly,
24:07
Speaker 5: he was their big move last offseason. They were very
24:09
Speaker 5: quiet after a season where you know, they came a
24:12
Speaker 5: little bit short of a playoffs, but it was a
24:14
Speaker 5: real disappointment. He was their big move to bring him
24:17
Speaker 5: back for one year in seven point seventy five after
24:19
Speaker 5: him two thirteen last year. But they knew that he
24:23
Speaker 5: was just really really physically compromised last year with that knee.
24:26
Speaker 5: He tried to grind his way through it. He had
24:29
Speaker 5: the potel attendon fixed up this this week last year,
24:33
Speaker 5: and you know, he's been he's been terrific. He's been
24:36
Speaker 5: the player they thought they were getting last year.
24:39
Speaker 4: All right, let's reverse back to Game four. The end
24:42
Speaker 4: of Game four of the Alds. The Tigers just beat
24:46
Speaker 4: them pretty handily in a bullpen. That's from the bullpen
24:50
Speaker 4: that's kind of tired. How looking forward likely was it
24:56
Speaker 4: going to be that they were two to zero in
24:58
Speaker 4: the Alcs going back home, considering they had to beat
25:01
Speaker 4: the best pitcher on the planet for the fourth time
25:04
Speaker 4: in one season and they couldn't out hit a team
25:09
Speaker 4: In my opinion, that in the Tigers that just lost
25:12
Speaker 4: their bats in the second half, like they like. These
25:14
Speaker 4: two teams were gonna beat each other up in a
25:16
Speaker 4: pillow fight, and then they were gonna get boat raced
25:19
Speaker 4: by the Blue Jays. And now we're looking at a
25:21
Speaker 4: team that's well rested, they're at home, and they have
25:24
Speaker 4: a two to zero league.
25:27
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's really and there were so many moments in
25:29
Speaker 5: that fifteen inning game where it could have gone either way, right,
25:31
Speaker 5: I mean, it was that close to having the Tigers
25:34
Speaker 5: be the team and knocking out the Mariners, and the
25:36
Speaker 5: whole narratives different. Seattle just wins a lot of those
25:40
Speaker 5: three to one, three two games. It feels like they
25:42
Speaker 5: played three two games almost every day. You know, there
25:45
Speaker 5: was three to two in the last game of the LDS,
25:47
Speaker 5: three to one in the first game, and then they
25:49
Speaker 5: kind of boat race the Blue Jays at the end
25:51
Speaker 5: of that second game. But you're right, it could have
25:54
Speaker 5: gone either way. They looked at the Tigers and found
25:57
Speaker 5: a team that was very much like them in the
26:00
Speaker 5: sense that, you know, they do strike out some, but
26:03
Speaker 5: they walk some. They pitch really well from the starting standpoint.
26:08
Speaker 5: But yeah, they just were able to outlast him. And
26:11
Speaker 5: maybe it's one of those fluky things of baseball, but
26:14
Speaker 5: they were able to get that win in fifteen innings,
26:17
Speaker 5: and then, like I said, go to Toronto and get
26:20
Speaker 5: that kind of performance from Bryce Miller, right Like, I
26:22
Speaker 5: think we forget sometimes how good Bryce Miller is because
26:25
Speaker 5: his year was really choppy. I mean, he was injured twice,
26:28
Speaker 5: you know, and when he was out there, he you know,
26:30
Speaker 5: he had a five mid five Zra. But this is
26:34
Speaker 5: a guy who was a budding superstar just last year
26:37
Speaker 5: and now he looks like that pitcher again. Last game
26:40
Speaker 5: against Toronto was his best outing of the year. He
26:42
Speaker 5: was a little upset because, you know, in Game four
26:44
Speaker 5: they pulled him at fifty five pitches. He felt he
26:46
Speaker 5: was rolling. But as it turned out, they got a
26:49
Speaker 5: little lucky because having only thrown fifty five pitches, he
26:52
Speaker 5: was in a good spot to go six innings and
26:55
Speaker 5: give them a really strong representative start. And not just
26:57
Speaker 5: the six innings, but that kept the bullpen to where
27:00
Speaker 5: they didn't have to use that extra guy in the
27:03
Speaker 5: in that sixth And I feel like it's so important
27:05
Speaker 5: right now. If you've get a manager who's willing to
27:08
Speaker 5: let his starter go six seven innings, if he's if
27:11
Speaker 5: he's feeling good, then you don't expose the bullpen as much,
27:14
Speaker 5: guys get a little more rest. And so I cred
27:16
Speaker 5: Dan Wilson for going with his eyes on what he
27:18
Speaker 5: saw with Miller in game six, Game one and let
27:21
Speaker 5: him go six in it.
27:23
Speaker 4: All right, Obviously, there's only two series going on right now,
27:27
Speaker 4: so America is locked into two series. Tell us something
27:30
Speaker 4: about Josh Naylor that we don't see in day to
27:34
Speaker 4: day games watching this series, watching this team play because
27:38
Speaker 4: you're there every day. Tell us something that he brings
27:40
Speaker 4: obviously offensively, stealing bases, all that stuff to this team.
27:45
Speaker 4: But tell us something we don't know about Josh Nayler.
27:49
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a great that's a great question, Eric, and
27:51
Speaker 5: I was just texting with my college Jason Stark about that.
27:54
Speaker 5: Josh Nailer is the kind of player the more you
27:56
Speaker 5: watch him, the more impressed you are. He he just
28:01
Speaker 5: he's always thinking, you know, like he makes a lot
28:04
Speaker 5: of really smart plays in the field, and on the
28:07
Speaker 5: basis he's had a couple of errors this postseason, but
28:09
Speaker 5: he's also had to play. He had like a three
28:11
Speaker 5: he had like a double play where you know, the
28:13
Speaker 5: guy was on first and he had to tag the
28:14
Speaker 5: right guy first, and he just execut he's always thinking.
28:18
Speaker 5: You see that on the basis too, as you mentioned
28:20
Speaker 5: the big stolen base against Google to you know, to
28:25
Speaker 5: scratch out the one run they they were really going
28:27
Speaker 5: to get off off him. So he's you know, he's
28:31
Speaker 5: a he's a good hitter, not just a good power hitter,
28:34
Speaker 5: right like I mean, he's he's got power. But he
28:36
Speaker 5: hit two ninety five this year. It's really hard to
28:38
Speaker 5: hit three hunderd now, and he came really close. I
28:42
Speaker 5: just think he's a winner. I think he's a winning
28:43
Speaker 5: player who really brings so much to that, to that
28:49
Speaker 5: lineup to make it more legit, you know. And as
28:52
Speaker 5: far as something that you don't know, I happen to
28:54
Speaker 5: be sitting next to his family yesterday on the plane
28:57
Speaker 5: and his dad was wearing a really sweet Gary Payton jersey.
29:02
Speaker 5: So you know, they're really in the full Seattle Seattle
29:05
Speaker 5: mode right now, the family. So it's cool to see
29:08
Speaker 5: them along for the ride too.
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Speaker 4: Was that because there was no Shawn Kemp jerseys available.
30:19
Speaker 2: I don't know.
30:20
Speaker 5: Maybe he's the They gotta love the Glove, I think.
30:24
Speaker 5: I think the Glove is a little more like the
30:27
Speaker 5: soul of those old Sonics teams. I like Camp too, though,
30:29
Speaker 5: I mean.
30:32
Speaker 4: McDaniel.
30:32
Speaker 5: If you want to go back a little farther, I would. Okay,
30:36
Speaker 5: you know, the X Man, Okay, I'm a little older, probably.
30:38
Speaker 4: So the Super the SuperSonics. I like that. But the
30:42
Speaker 4: other guy that they picked up at the trade deadline.
30:45
Speaker 4: Is there any signs that Henneo Suarez is going to
30:49
Speaker 4: break out of what the slump that he's in. I
30:52
Speaker 4: don't want to say slump, or has he because it's
30:55
Speaker 4: a he's a very flyball hitter. He didn't have a
30:58
Speaker 4: great year when he came over to Seattle. It's forty
31:01
Speaker 4: nine home runs, so I could really care less what
31:03
Speaker 4: his what his short sample size, you know, but he's
31:08
Speaker 4: a very flyball hitter coming home to a very unfriendly
31:13
Speaker 4: flyball park. Is there any signs of him possibly breaking
31:16
Speaker 4: out or where it's or is it just like, man,
31:19
Speaker 4: I hope he runs into one.
31:22
Speaker 5: That's kind of how I see it now, Like I don't.
31:24
Speaker 5: I can't obviously see it with the eyes of a
31:27
Speaker 5: of a hitter, but to me, it just looks like
31:31
Speaker 5: it's a lot of big swings, and you hope he
31:33
Speaker 5: runs into one. And the good thing about Seattle, I guess,
31:37
Speaker 5: you know from what the numbers say is that you
31:39
Speaker 5: can hit home runs here. I mean cal Raley, this
31:41
Speaker 5: is his home ballpark, right It's there's no doubles and
31:44
Speaker 5: triples though, It's like a lot of fly balls will
31:46
Speaker 5: just hang up there and be caught on the warning
31:48
Speaker 5: track or you know those fly balls, Like you said,
31:51
Speaker 5: for a flyball hitter, if you really hit it, it's
31:53
Speaker 5: going to go, but it's it's it'll get caught in
31:56
Speaker 5: the air a lot if it's not really really well struck,
31:59
Speaker 5: and then just become a harmless flyout. So you're seeing that,
32:03
Speaker 5: you know, the flats a lot of strikeouts. There's a
32:04
Speaker 5: lot of swinging myths there. But he's a He is
32:08
Speaker 5: a guy though, right that, Like if you're a manager,
32:09
Speaker 5: you always know where he is because he can do
32:11
Speaker 5: so much damage. And he's had a good season, a
32:14
Speaker 5: good series, good couple's series in the field too. You know,
32:17
Speaker 5: he's a solid guy there, so you know he's he's
32:21
Speaker 5: a big leaguer. I just felt like that there were
32:23
Speaker 5: for so long that the Mariners just had a lot
32:26
Speaker 5: of guys who weren't really legit everyday big leaguers in
32:29
Speaker 5: that lineup. And over the course of last year when
32:32
Speaker 5: they got a Rose Arena and Rojas and this year
32:35
Speaker 5: with Nailor and Suarez, they just got a solid big
32:38
Speaker 5: league lineup one through nine. And when you got Suarez,
32:41
Speaker 5: Batton Low and then JP Crawcher about a ninth. That's
32:45
Speaker 5: the lineup you have to respect all the way through.
32:48
Speaker 3: I want to talk not only about the players there,
32:50
Speaker 3: but I want to talk about the stadium. We're talk
32:52
Speaker 3: a little bit about playing in Seattle. The atmosphere there
32:55
Speaker 3: is that like a tenth man for this team, and
32:59
Speaker 3: how excited there and say right now to see this
33:01
Speaker 3: team get after.
33:02
Speaker 5: Yeah, Todd, I I think it definitely can be. I mean,
33:06
Speaker 5: you know, a lot of great atmosphere is in October
33:09
Speaker 5: pretty much everywhere, but I think it is it is
33:12
Speaker 5: special here. They have a really good they're engineer to
33:15
Speaker 5: play well at home. You know, it's based on their personnel.
33:18
Speaker 5: But this is a tremendous sports city and this venue
33:21
Speaker 5: is it's my favorite stadium. Maybe I'm a little biased
33:24
Speaker 5: because I was covering the team back in the nineties
33:25
Speaker 5: of the year they moved here into the from the
33:28
Speaker 5: Kingdome to Safecoast, so I saw the whole thing. But
33:31
Speaker 5: it's the it's the only ballpark where the roof is
33:35
Speaker 5: really just an umbrella.
33:36
Speaker 2: You know.
33:37
Speaker 5: It's it's so it always feels like Seattle. You can't
33:39
Speaker 5: enclose it, so it's gonna be you know, it could
33:42
Speaker 5: be cold, it could be you know a little that
33:45
Speaker 5: that that heavy air, but it's gonna feel like seattle.
33:48
Speaker 5: But you're always gonna get a game because because you
33:50
Speaker 5: got the roof, and the roof helps that sound, you know, reverberate.
33:53
Speaker 5: And you've got three you've really got like upper decks
33:57
Speaker 5: in left field, center and right. You know that at
34:00
Speaker 5: lefield upper deck is right over the it pretty much
34:02
Speaker 5: overhangs the field just about centerfield the same thing, so
34:05
Speaker 5: you've got that kind of surround sound effect with the roof,
34:09
Speaker 5: and that's pretty cool. And they've you know, they've since
34:14
Speaker 5: ninety five. Really, I mean their attendance that's going up
34:17
Speaker 5: and down, but that ninety five team really cemented baseball
34:20
Speaker 5: in this city. And when they're good like they are now,
34:24
Speaker 5: I mean, these fans really really show out. So it
34:26
Speaker 5: was the stating was shaking. I could feel a shake
34:30
Speaker 5: in Game five. And they bring out the legends here,
34:33
Speaker 5: and they've got a good amount of legends. You know
34:35
Speaker 5: that Game five, see Griffy. We've seen Alvin Davis, mister Mariner.
34:40
Speaker 5: You know, I'm sure each year will be back. I mean,
34:42
Speaker 5: he's there all the time anyway, he's in uniform half
34:44
Speaker 5: the time. He played in the He played in the
34:46
Speaker 5: scrimmage games they had earlier this month, so you know, Felix,
34:50
Speaker 5: I'm sure it'll be by maybe Randy. So they've got
34:52
Speaker 5: a lot of a lot of cool alumni to to
34:55
Speaker 5: blow the roof off it.
34:57
Speaker 4: All right, I need your case for MVP or not MVP.
35:04
Speaker 5: Well, I have a I do have a vote, so
35:06
Speaker 5: I can't really say exactly, but I you know, I've
35:11
Speaker 5: written books about baseball history. I feel like I have
35:14
Speaker 5: an appreciation for historical feats and it certainly really catches
35:21
Speaker 5: your eye when you evaluate a performance that we've never
35:25
Speaker 5: seen before. Sixty home runs for a catcher, a switch hitter,
35:29
Speaker 5: We've never seen anything like that. I mean, he took
35:31
Speaker 5: down Ken Griffey Junior's Mariners record, Mickey Mantles switch hitting record,
35:36
Speaker 5: and the record for catchers from every catcher who's ever
35:39
Speaker 5: played baseball. So that's pretty significant. While doing it for
35:43
Speaker 5: a playoff team and coming to the plate seven hundred times,
35:49
Speaker 5: that's a lot. So it's it's it really makes you think.
35:53
Speaker 5: So I Judge was incredible too. I go on on
35:56
Speaker 5: about Iron Judge. It sawhim a lot in New York.
35:59
Speaker 5: But cal Raley when you think about all that seven
36:02
Speaker 5: hundred times the plate, more games caught than just about
36:06
Speaker 5: anybody else, for a really good staff, excellent defense, and
36:10
Speaker 5: all the home runs and production that gets your attention.
36:14
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you. For me, they're both incredible seasons.
36:18
Speaker 1: I don't think it's close because you do ultimately have
36:20
Speaker 1: to make one choice. But whatever, it's not about me.
36:22
Speaker 1: A great, great explanation, Tyler.
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Speaker 2: There so tell us without telling us, you chose cal
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Speaker 2: Me for sure.
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Speaker 1: But I don't have a vote, Tyler does.
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Speaker 3: Tyler tell us you basically told us who you picked for.
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Speaker 3: But that's okay, we we love you.
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Speaker 4: That's not true.
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Speaker 5: Hey, I mean, you know, I gotta dance a little bit,
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Speaker 5: but I'm not a good chancer, dude. So but yeah,
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Speaker 5: so no, it's uh, it's it's all good. It's it's
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Speaker 5: gonna be all of a race. It'd be cool if
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Speaker 5: it was a tie, but I agree. I mean, one
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Speaker 5: thing I will say about baseball writers is that if
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Speaker 5: historically we kind of do I think understand maybe it
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Speaker 5: because we've all read Eric's book, but we do sort
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Speaker 5: of understand the importance of catching and how rigorous that is,
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Speaker 5: and the toll that it takes in your body and
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Speaker 5: you're hitting and all that. So, I mean, I think
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Speaker 5: that's why you'll see Yati Molina be a Hall of
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Speaker 5: Famer and you'll probably Sea Buster Posey be a Hall
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Speaker 5: of Famer. I think there's a lot of respect for
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Speaker 5: what you catchers have to go through, and when you
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Speaker 5: do it on a high level like cal, it's it's
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Speaker 5: super impressive. And he's been great in the postseason too.
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Speaker 5: I mean, he's getting a lot of singles, which is
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Speaker 5: a little unusual for him, but he does have a
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Speaker 5: couple of big home runs and helping the pitching staff
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Speaker 5: at key moments.
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Speaker 1: Hey, last one for you, Tyler, because you are a
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Speaker 1: legendary historian. We've been debating this now for like thirty minutes,
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Speaker 1: and actually you can help me settle this. So the
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Speaker 1: most recent team to lose the first two games at
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Speaker 1: home and come back to win a best of seven series. Okay,
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Speaker 1: and I know your thing is world series where you
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Speaker 1: just basically know everything right and LCS. That starts to
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Speaker 1: get a little bit crazy, but I've Kratz came back
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Speaker 1: to me. Kratz twenty seventeen. They split the first two
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Speaker 1: at home, So that's off. Someone else came back at
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Speaker 1: me online about a couple of things that I went
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Speaker 1: back on, So you do you know what it is?
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Speaker 5: I mean, the six ninety six World Series was you know,
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Speaker 5: the Yankees lost two at home. Atlanta had just stormed
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Speaker 5: through the Cardinals the end of that series. They blew
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Speaker 5: out the Yankees twice. They never looked any better, and
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Speaker 5: then they go to Atlanta and lose three, and really
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Speaker 5: that shifted the whole balance of power in the nineties
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Speaker 5: from the Braves to the Yankees in those last four games.
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Speaker 5: So I think that was the last time. It also
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Speaker 5: happened in eighty five and eighty six, also we had
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Speaker 5: the Mets lost two at home, they won in seven.
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Speaker 5: The Royals lost two at home in eighty five and
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Speaker 5: they won in seven. So it did happen three times
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Speaker 5: in eleven years eighty five, eighty six, and ninety six.
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Speaker 5: But I think that's the only three times it's happened
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Speaker 5: in the World Series.
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Speaker 1: Bingo, that is correct. Those are the only three in
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Speaker 1: the World Series. And the last time that happened, even
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Speaker 1: extending it to LCS was still the ninety six Atlanta Braves.
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Speaker 1: So good stuff. I knew this was perfect timing that
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Speaker 1: he's the best at this. Tyler, you're the man. Thank
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Speaker 1: you so much for joining us.
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Speaker 5: Great to see you, all right, fell It's good to
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Speaker 5: see you too, and it's always always good to talk
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Speaker 5: to a Monco guy.
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Speaker 4: Eric. Yes, yes, sir, appreciate you. Although I don't I
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Speaker 4: miss having all your hats in the background, so yeah, maybe.
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Speaker 2: I have a few.
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Speaker 5: And they had a great store in in uh Toronto.
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Speaker 5: I got a call like a vintage Angels and the
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Speaker 5: vintage Oakland A's, the Swinging A's, you know, so that
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Speaker 5: was pretty cool. But they're they're over there, all right.
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Speaker 1: We'll get when he's back at home. Appreciate you, Tyler.
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Speaker 1: Thank you all right, let's slap and a quick shout
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Speaker 1: out to the hotel out in Milwaukee that scares everyone away.
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Speaker 1: To ask her. Hernandez added fuel to the fire that
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Speaker 1: he's not staying there. His wife was spooked by the ghosts.
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Speaker 1: That's the fists are out in Milwaukee. It gets a
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Speaker 1: ton of attention. I don't know if it's good or
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Speaker 1: bad attention. It's a little bit of both. Some people
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Speaker 1: that are into that stuff like to go there. For me,
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Speaker 1: the place is dated, so it's not for me. I
40:10
Speaker 1: know there's some cool parts to it, but I'd rather
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Speaker 1: just stay in a nice, clean, fresh spot. That's me
40:15
Speaker 1: and that's Mookie Bets too. He doesn't stay there, and
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Speaker 1: some others don't either. Sorry about it.
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Speaker 3: I've had I've had a weird problem there that you know,
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Speaker 3: TV just went on for no reason in the middle
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Speaker 3: of the night, and I wasn't happy about it.
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Speaker 1: Cried, that was nervous.
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Speaker 4: It's not a big deal.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a big deal.
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Speaker 4: If you don't get your sleep, that's a big deal.
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