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Shi Davidi’s Blue Jays checkup · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Shaid Bedi coming in hot from sports Net covering the
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Speaker 1: Toronto Blue Jays and looking like he's got that ballpark
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Speaker 1: right behind him for another matchup going down with the
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Speaker 1: Yankees and the Blue Jays soon, Shy, Great to see you,
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Speaker 1: Yes exactly.
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Speaker 2: We actually get to as the roof of it.
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Speaker 3: Is opening as we speak.
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Speaker 2: Yes, good good, all right, great day here in Toronto.
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Speaker 3: Perfect weather for this series.
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Speaker 2: And an awesome series. I'm sure it's going to be packed.
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Speaker 1: Was it sold out last night and is it expected
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Speaker 1: to be sold out this week for the series?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's already sold out. I think it's seven or
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Speaker 3: eight in a row for them, so people are definitely
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Speaker 3: getting into it. And the juli Jis are eleven in
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Speaker 3: a row at home as well, so it's a They're
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Speaker 3: on a heater even outside, just facing the Yankees. So
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Speaker 3: it's been a pretty intriguing run and people are definitely
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Speaker 3: hyped for it.
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Speaker 2: Shocker.
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Speaker 1: If you build a winning roster, they will come what
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Speaker 1: a concept and they've certainly done it right.
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Speaker 2: What's different? I mean, just to go big picture and
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Speaker 2: then we'll focus on this series here. What's different in
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Speaker 2: the last couple months with a roster that hasn't changed
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Speaker 2: a ton over the last few years, but they've seemed
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Speaker 2: to find it again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I think in years past we often talk about how,
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Speaker 3: in a lot of ways the Blue Jays felt like
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Speaker 3: a little bit less than some of their parts, where
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Speaker 3: you'd see the talent on the roster and you think, well,
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Speaker 3: why is in this team completely rolling? You know, certainly
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Speaker 3: the way they were twenty one when they fell a
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Speaker 3: game short of making the postseason but one to ninety
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Speaker 3: one games, but never could kind of be a complete team.
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Speaker 3: And this year it's really the opposite, where they've really
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Speaker 3: become more than the some of their parts. And you know,
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Speaker 3: a couple of weeks ago, Boba Schett said to me
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Speaker 3: that the Blue Jays this year, in his words, are
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Speaker 3: a team unlike any team he's been a part of,
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Speaker 3: and a team in a true sense of the word.
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Speaker 3: And it's really been that because they are getting contributions
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Speaker 3: up and down the roster. They are platooning their way
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Speaker 3: through certain parts of the lineup to maximize matchups. They've
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Speaker 3: got certainly some some key key star players who are
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Speaker 3: helping carry the load in Vladimir Guerrero Junior, George Springer, Bobichet.
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Speaker 3: On the pitching side, Kevin Gosman, Jose Brios, and Chris
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Speaker 3: Bassett are the anchors, but Eric Lower is a minor
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Speaker 3: league deal who's been a really a life raft for
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Speaker 3: this team, especially the early going when the pitching staff
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Speaker 3: was a bit of a mess and their bullpen which
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Speaker 3: was really a black hole last year, a negative war
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Speaker 3: bullpen which was I believe the only one of the
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Speaker 3: majors a year ago, certainly the worst in terms of
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Speaker 3: war in the big leagues. And they've they've become a
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Speaker 3: great positive now led by Jeff Hoffman, Brendan little Yariel
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Speaker 3: Rodriguez's emergence has been really important with you know, surprise
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Speaker 3: contributions from some guys you might not have expected in
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Speaker 3: terms of Brandon Fisher and Mason Fluhrdy. So they've really
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Speaker 3: just drawn on every bit of the forty man roster
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Speaker 3: and they are the embodiment of that cliche where you know,
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Speaker 3: teams every year say we need everybody, and they've really
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Speaker 3: been an organization that's used everybody thus far. Good to
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Speaker 3: see you get to see a KP.
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Speaker 4: My question for you two questions. One is you've been
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Speaker 4: there a long time, just kind of explained, does it
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Speaker 4: have that kind of you know, that feel that you know,
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Speaker 4: maybe I had felt in twenty fifteen, when you know,
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Speaker 4: things started getting rolling. You could kind of just feel
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Speaker 4: that buzz in the stadium. You could feel the buzz
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Speaker 4: outside of the stadium, the entire city kind of congregated
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Speaker 4: around the stadium. You know, the support around the team
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Speaker 4: was unlike anything I'd ever felt. Or is it leaning
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Speaker 4: towards that direction right now?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really picked up, and it's kind of interesting
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Speaker 3: if you think back to twenty fifteen, Kevin, you for
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Speaker 3: sure remember this well, but it's it felt like everybody
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Speaker 3: was just waiting for the spark, and then the trade
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Speaker 3: deadline happened and that was the spark. And you know,
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Speaker 3: I think back to that first game after that, Troy
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Speaker 3: Tulowitzki played against the Phillies here and just how electric
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Speaker 3: that atmosphere was and Blue Jays fans were so pumped
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Speaker 3: about seeing Troy Tulowitzky in a Blue Jays uniform. Uh,
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Speaker 3: that was to me one of the most memorable games
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Speaker 3: that I'd covered, just because you could feel that shift
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Speaker 3: and then it carried over and I feel like it's
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Speaker 3: been a bit of more of a slow burn to
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Speaker 3: that point, because this team, you know, since May eighth,
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Speaker 3: has been playing pretty well and it just kept on,
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Speaker 3: you know, adding on more wins and another another good run,
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Speaker 3: another good home stand, another good stretch, and all of
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Speaker 3: a sudden they're they're now within striking distance of the
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Speaker 3: best record of the American League with a four game
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Speaker 3: series in Detroit coming up, and people have just sort
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Speaker 3: of picked up the pace a little bit slower, but
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Speaker 3: that but it's getting to the similar levels in twenty fifteen,
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Speaker 3: and so it's definitely been that this team has definitely
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Speaker 3: been embraced. They do it in a different way than
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Speaker 3: maybe any Blue Jays team I can really remember.
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Speaker 2: Maybe if you can go.
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Speaker 3: Back to like the nineteen eighty five team when they
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Speaker 3: were running some platoons, you know, with Rand Small Nicks,
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Speaker 3: Garth the Orige at third base and Al Oliver and
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Speaker 3: Cliff Johnson a designated hitter. They haven't really had a
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Speaker 3: team like this in a while. But the excitement around
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Speaker 3: the club, the buzz, the energy, it's definitely there right now.
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Speaker 4: And then I want to ask you about George Springer too.
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Speaker 4: I saw a video of him talking to David Schneider
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Speaker 4: after along at bat that too many people, you know,
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Speaker 4: isn't nothing. He made it out, but I think it
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Speaker 4: was like a fourteen pitch at bat and then the
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Speaker 4: Blue Jays scored with the next hitter and he was
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Speaker 4: in there pumping them up. Just how important has his
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Speaker 4: leadership been. And obviously he's playing a lot better this year,
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Speaker 4: but that's a guy who's been there, done it. You know,
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Speaker 4: hard to you know, talk about winning it when you
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Speaker 4: haven't done it, and you have a guy like George
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Speaker 4: Springer who's won it a couple of.
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Speaker 3: Times, Yeah, for sure. And obviously the performance has been vital,
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Speaker 3: right like in April when not a lot of guys
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Speaker 3: on this team were hitting. You know, George spring was
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Speaker 3: really the guy who carried this team for a stretch.
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Speaker 3: And you think back to that performance he had against
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Speaker 3: the Yankees doing the four games sweep here in Toronto
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Speaker 3: a few weeks back. And he's had a lot of
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Speaker 3: just big games and big moments this year, but he's
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Speaker 3: doing the behind the scenes stuff too. And whether that's
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Speaker 3: just you know, setting an example by the way that
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Speaker 3: he's working, bringing his energy the positivity, you're right, you
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Speaker 3: know that that moment David Schneider, like everybody was talking
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Speaker 3: about it after the game, right and just how much
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Speaker 3: it invigorated the Blue Jays clubhouse dugout at that point
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Speaker 3: in time, watching him grind and battle and just seeing
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Speaker 3: what they felt was the toll that it took on
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Speaker 3: Rodin in that moment. And you know, did it directly
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Speaker 3: lead to the two errors that follow that led to
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Speaker 3: two more runs maybe, But the fact is, you know,
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Speaker 3: you haven't a bat like that. It takes a lot
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Speaker 3: out of the opposition. And so even though he just
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Speaker 3: did pop out and made an out in that spot,
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Speaker 3: that was big. And I think the Blue Jays have
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Speaker 3: been have spoken a lot about just recognizing moments, about
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Speaker 3: playing for each other, and I think that George talking
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Speaker 3: to Davis in that spot is really just a symbol
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Speaker 3: of him recognizing, Hey, you were, you were doing something
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Speaker 3: selfless there. You did something for the team and that
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Speaker 3: helped us out afterwards.
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Speaker 6: Suh, long time no see. I mean, I hope you
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Speaker 6: enjoyed the draft. You were you were, You and Hazel
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Speaker 6: were grinding at the draft.
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Speaker 3: But tell you what, it was great to get into
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Speaker 3: the air conditioning there.
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Speaker 6: I bet, I bet, I bet all right, trade deadline
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Speaker 6: coming out for the Blue Jays. Just give me one
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Speaker 6: thing you want. That's it, just one quick, easy, give
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Speaker 6: me the biggest need for the Blue Jays of the
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Speaker 6: trade dead And then I also want to know have
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Speaker 6: you ever climbed the sea In Tower?
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Speaker 5: That's it?
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Speaker 3: Okay, I have not climbed the see In Tower, but
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Speaker 3: I would actually like to, but it's just never worked
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Speaker 3: out with my schedule in terms of need. You know,
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Speaker 3: if you had asked me this a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 3: I probably would have said starting pitcher, and maybe my
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Speaker 3: lean might still be starting pitcher. But I think you
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Speaker 3: can probably like not really have to twist my arm,
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Speaker 3: and I could say, like, you know.
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Speaker 2: Just load up on.
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Speaker 3: Get an elite reliever type, someone who can go in
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Speaker 3: and be reliable and leverage. And the reason for that
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Speaker 3: is just you know, you kept on thinking, Okay, Jimmy
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Speaker 3: Garcy is going to get back. Jimmy Garcy is going
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Speaker 3: to get back, but he's going to see a specialist
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Speaker 3: again on Wednesday. I guess that's tomorrow at this point,
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Speaker 3: and they're going to try to figure out what's going
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Speaker 3: on with the nerve issue in his elbow. When I
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Speaker 3: talked to him yesterday. He said what he's feeling is
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Speaker 3: worse than what he had last year, and what he
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Speaker 3: had last year cost him the final two months of
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Speaker 3: the season. So I think if Jimmy Garcia is not
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Speaker 3: going to have a pathway to providing, you know, quality innings,
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Speaker 3: I think maybe you take your chances on the rotation
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Speaker 3: holding up uh and maybe that Alec Manoa can come
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Speaker 3: back and be a boost at some point later in
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Speaker 3: the season and make that your priority, because I just
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Speaker 3: think the way bullpens are, how important bullpens are in general,
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Speaker 3: but particularly in the postseason. You know, I think the
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Speaker 3: Blue Jays wanted to get a starter and or reliever
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Speaker 3: no matter what. But if you're only going to do
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Speaker 3: one thing, I think right now, loading up and getting
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Speaker 3: the best reliever you possibly can might be a wiser
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Speaker 3: course of action.
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Speaker 6: Yepkay, they put Minoa in the bullpen when he comes back,
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Speaker 6: just yes or no.
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Speaker 3: I haven't heard that as a thought yet, and my
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Speaker 3: guess is that they would probably just want him on
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Speaker 3: a regular routine. But when there's need in in a
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Speaker 3: playoff race, you know, sort of all bets are off,
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Speaker 3: but they generally don't like to do that with guys
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Speaker 3: coming off. Tom of John.
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Speaker 2: AJ bring him back?
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Speaker 1: Is the lensing cumb Remember Lenscomb when he was doing
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Speaker 1: those little two.
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Speaker 6: Three Yeah, yeah, a lot of guys have done that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, it's an interesting idea for sure.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, shy, enjoy and now there's full sunshine for you. See,
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Speaker 1: we just wanted to help you pass the time while
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Speaker 1: the roof opened and the sky's parted for you.
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Speaker 2: So there you go. Thank you so much, appreciate you.
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Speaker 3: Good to see you.
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Speaker 5: Guys.
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Speaker 3: Be well,