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Adley’s EPIC B’more return, Phils-Braves HUGE series, Corbin Burnes back soon, Astros playoff cakewalk? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Happy Friday, Frasier Friday. Hey, it came out like a
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  Speaker 1: day and a half ago. I forgot to mention it yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: What did you guys think of the Clippers ditching the
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  Speaker 1: salary cap with Kawhi Leonard?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what happened there?
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  Speaker 3: I'm still trying to figure out exactly the details of
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  Speaker 3: all the things.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I know all the details. What do you need
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  Speaker 1: to know?
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  Speaker 2: All of it. I haven't really been in tune with it,
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  Speaker 2: if you want the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so the Clippers, after an investigation, were punished $ 30 million,
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  Speaker 1: five future first-round picks, and their owner, Steve Ballmer, was
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  Speaker 1: suspended for a year. Kawhi Leonard basically gets nothing, right?
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  Speaker 1: He just gets to live his life, and he made
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  Speaker 1: a lot of extra money. So, Codfather, what they did
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  Speaker 1: was they signed him, or other companies signed him to
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  Speaker 1: marketing deals. And... It sounded like people in Kawhi's camp
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  Speaker 1: were asking for that, right? Like, hey, if you want him,
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  Speaker 1: you got to give him even more than what the
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  Speaker 1: maximum is. So figure that out. In my mind too, Kratz,
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  Speaker 1: this was done so sloppily, right? Like he really wasn't
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  Speaker 1: even doing anything deliverables wise to earn the endorsements. I
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  Speaker 1: wonder how many endorsement deals are actually buttoned up and
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  Speaker 1: tied to teams hiding things. I bet you there are,
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  Speaker 1: if the over under is set at two and a half,
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  Speaker 1: I bet you were way, well, Honestly, if the over-under
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  Speaker 1: was set at five and a half, I bet you
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  Speaker 1: were over that number for teams that have brands helping
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  Speaker 1: them out to pay a little extra sauce to players
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  Speaker 1: that they want.
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  Speaker 2: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: There is no way that's going on. Salary cap is
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  Speaker 4: the answer to everything above board and everything that creates
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  Speaker 4: parity in all leagues. Come on, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, This is actually legal as far as I know it.
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  Speaker 1: Good joke. This is as this is legal as far
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  Speaker 1: as I know it. Okay. If a player signs a
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  Speaker 1: marketing deal for a ton of money and does what
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  Speaker 1: he's supposed to do, then that's okay. Period. Right. Makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: It makes total sense. People sign marketing deals to do things.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes you might look and be like, man, they're only
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  Speaker 1: doing a commercial shoot and a social media post or
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  Speaker 1: an appearance and they're getting X million dollars. It's a marketplace.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like the salary cap is not set for
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  Speaker 1: influencer marketing deals, appearances, marketing contracts, endorsement deals. There's no
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  Speaker 1: salary cap for that, right? So you might look and say,
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  Speaker 1: I can't believe company X is paying this NBA player
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  Speaker 1: to do that. Well, technically it's by the books. As
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  Speaker 1: long as you do something, Kawhi wasn't even doing anything.
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  Speaker 1: They were just basically funneling money to him and they
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  Speaker 1: had enough proof that it was going on that way. Again,
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  Speaker 1: my point is. You could do this a lot more
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  Speaker 1: cleanly and get away from it, and there's not much
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  Speaker 1: you can.
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  Speaker 2: Do about it.
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  Speaker 1: So fast forward. Let's say we have a salary cap
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  Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. What's to stop certain teams from
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  Speaker 1: making sure that their players get really nice endorsement deals
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  Speaker 1: from brands that they work with? And I'm talking millions, right?
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  Speaker 1: All of a sudden you look and it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: this player used to make 200K in endorsement deals. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's making 20 mil a year.
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  Speaker 4: And so those teams are still able to circumvent it.
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  Speaker 4: It was one of the things that they talked about when...
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  Speaker 4: when Portland was possibly going to get a major league
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  Speaker 4: baseball team, how Nike could come in and be a
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  Speaker 4: major piece to drawing players in. Not, I'm not talking
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  Speaker 4: about like college stuff where it's like, Ooh, you get
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  Speaker 4: some cool Nike gear. It's about those off field things
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  Speaker 4: that if major league baseball goes to a salary cap,
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  Speaker 4: they're able to circumvent those rules. Like it's gonna, it happens.
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  Speaker 4: and it would happen tallying back to baseball, it would happen.
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  Speaker 2: I knew about the Clipper thing. I didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: sound like I knew what he was talking.
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  Speaker 3: About and then just sound totally like, what is he
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  Speaker 3: talking about? The little intricate details for me are what
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  Speaker 3: I needed to hear from you. I knew Kawhi Leonard
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  Speaker 3: was involved in it, but Yeah. I didn't know there
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  Speaker 3: were those such rules like that kind of stuff, but okay.
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  Speaker 2: Now, now that's, that's trouble.
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  Speaker 3: So, but I mean, you can still make side money,
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  Speaker 3: you know, with deals, but they can't be paying your
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  Speaker 3: salary is what you're saying.
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  Speaker 1: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That's, I mean, they can, that's the thing. There's gray line.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that they went so far past the gray
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  Speaker 1: line that it became too ridiculous.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: They were essentially just paying him and he wasn't doing anything,
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  Speaker 1: you know?
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  Speaker 4: All I think of when people say Kawhi Leonard, I
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  Speaker 4: know it's off the topic, is that laugh. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 4: laugh gets me every time, but it's a big penalty.
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  Speaker 4: And based on the clothes I'm wearing today, I feel
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  Speaker 4: like I have to say, as I'm looking at myself
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  Speaker 4: on the screen, I have to say, like, we're hunting wabbits.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like I'm going hunting right now, but I
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  Speaker 4: got my yord on.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, the last penalty like that was for the Astros, right?
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  Speaker 1: With the sign stealing scandal, you know, which, which was
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  Speaker 1: some picks and I think it was five mil. So
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  Speaker 1: there's a little more money, but yeah. $ 30 million for
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  Speaker 1: a billionaire is called a drink at a bar.
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  Speaker 2: He good.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk ball. This is such a good all smiles
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  Speaker 1: presented by Lorraine co Adley Rutschman. Are you kidding me?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, the ovation was so, so well done
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  Speaker 1: in Baltimore Todd father. And then he hits the home run,
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  Speaker 1: hits another one in his third AB. Here's the first
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  Speaker 1: one we're looking at on the hanging curve ball from young, young,
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  Speaker 1: tried to go up and in on him to a
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  Speaker 1: B's later. And he got him again. Can you ask
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  Speaker 1: for a better return to a place that you loved?
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  Speaker 1: If you're Adley Rutschman, two dingers, the standing O was,
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  Speaker 1: before the first AB and then they were still cheering
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  Speaker 1: for him after the first home run.
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  Speaker 3: Listen I knew he was good there with the Royals
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  Speaker 3: I didn't know how much he was loved though uh
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  Speaker 3: this is incredible I mean listen you come back to
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  Speaker 3: your home city where you first played and the you
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  Speaker 3: know the excitement I remember when he got called up
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  Speaker 3: like this is the dude coming up and you know
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  Speaker 3: he was good he plays the game the right way
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  Speaker 3: you know switch it and catcher um I didn't know
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  Speaker 3: the fans loved him that much, man. And I think, honestly,
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  Speaker 3: this is, it was truly incredible, man. This was, this
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  Speaker 3: was really, really fun for him. And if I'm him,
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  Speaker 3: I'm remembering this night forever. And if, you know, now,
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  Speaker 3: you know, anytime he goes to Baltimore or anything with Baltimore, he's,
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  Speaker 3: he's got a soft, soft heart for that. And he's
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  Speaker 3: going to make sure he does what he does best
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  Speaker 3: and help out as many people as he can there.
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  Speaker 4: I think he was the face of this next, Or
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  Speaker 4: the final part of the rebuild. They were rebuilding and
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  Speaker 4: they wanted to say, okay, this is the group that's
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  Speaker 4: going to get us here. This is our 1-1. And
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  Speaker 4: I don't think he's done anything bad in Baltimore. If
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  Speaker 4: you have a 1-1 and he goes three-time All-Star, I
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  Speaker 4: think people thought maybe he was an MVP. But I
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  Speaker 4: felt like his tenure in Baltimore should be remembered with
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  Speaker 4: a standing O like that.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, agreed.
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  Speaker 1: Right, you're a three-time All-Star. Also, keep in mind, when
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  Speaker 1: you sign a first-round pick, a first overall pick, you're
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  Speaker 1: expecting him to be there, hopefully, for life, if he's
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  Speaker 1: a superstar.
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  Speaker 2: For a while, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We might just be scratching the surface, right? Sometimes we
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  Speaker 1: want to judge every player right off the jump. It
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  Speaker 1: takes time, whether it's development, injuries. Adley Rutschman can still
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  Speaker 1: be a star player in this league for a long
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  Speaker 1: period of time. He's young. I mean, technically... the way
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  Speaker 1: we used to look at prime years, he hasn't even
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  Speaker 1: gotten there yet. So in terms of what he did
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  Speaker 1: at the start of his career with Baltimore, there were
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things. Was it perfect? Was he
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  Speaker 1: the best player in baseball? No, but there were a
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  Speaker 1: lot of good things. And if you look at the
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  Speaker 1: overall body of work, definitely above average catcher, borderline, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: really all-star, right? So upper echelon catcher in the sport.
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  Speaker 1: So good for Ole Miss fans to recognize that. And
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  Speaker 1: I've got the Adley shirt on, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 1: Um, let's keep the conversation going right now. Let's bring in, uh,
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  Speaker 1: our first guest here.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: Um, Steve, you're going to have to tell me, cause I,
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  Speaker 1: I apparently was told last time around that I said
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  Speaker 1: your name wrong. So I apologize for that, but tell
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  Speaker 1: it to me straight one time. And then I've got
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  Speaker 1: you from here on out. Oh, we had you muted.
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  Speaker 5: It's spelled with a W, but it's pronounced without it. Molesky. Molesky.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: No W on the right. So I said Molesky last time.
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  Speaker 1: That's the last time. Steve Molesky joining us.
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  Speaker 2: One of the stars.
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  Speaker 6: You couldn't say it the way I've never heard it
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  Speaker 6: so far. I've heard it thousands of times.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I'm sure, Steve. Well, it's great to have you on.
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  Speaker 1: You guys are crushing it on Birdland territory too. It's
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  Speaker 1: been awesome to listen to. So first take us through
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  Speaker 1: the Adley return and how cool it was for O's
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  Speaker 1: fans to experience him coming back, but then also. Adley
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  Speaker 1: burned them, and they ultimately lost the game.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I mean, who knows their pitchers better than Adley?
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  Speaker 6: Not just the actual stuff they have, but how they
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  Speaker 6: sequence it. So, I mean, maybe some of that was
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  Speaker 6: on display last night. But, you know, the Orioles love
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  Speaker 6: their own. They love original Orioles. And Adley is the
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  Speaker 6: ultimate original Oriole, one-one pick. There's only been three in
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  Speaker 6: the history of the Oriole franchise. And, of course, the
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  Speaker 6: draft dates to the mid sixties. And he was the
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  Speaker 6: face of the rebuild, a rebuild that went from 115
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  Speaker 6: losses to 101 wins in an AL East title, two playoffs.
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  Speaker 6: They didn't win a playoff game, we know, but they
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  Speaker 6: got there and they went from worst to first on
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  Speaker 6: his watch and he delivered. And so last few years
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  Speaker 6: were not what he wanted. This year was much better.
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  Speaker 6: And I think ultimately, Scott will never know this answer,
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  Speaker 6: but it seems like the Orioles felt like they wanted
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  Speaker 6: to resign him, but they weren't going to be able to.
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  Speaker 6: And so they learned their lesson with Machado. They traded
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  Speaker 6: him with two months to go, and they got what
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  Speaker 6: looked like a decent haul, and it wasn't. And so
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  Speaker 6: if you wait till the final two months, the package
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  Speaker 6: goes way down. This package was robust, obviously.
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  Speaker 4: Who was the last guy that you think would have
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  Speaker 4: received that type of ovation, that type of impact on
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  Speaker 4: Orioles fans?
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 6: There are not many, probably. There really aren't. Sometimes when
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  Speaker 6: you leave, the Orioles fans don't like that. They didn't
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  Speaker 6: like it when Mike Messina went to New York. That
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  Speaker 6: was free agent. That's very, very different. And so, yeah,
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  Speaker 6: they did. That was a great night for Oriole fans
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  Speaker 6: and classy of the organization, the tributes, and Adley handled
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  Speaker 6: it classy. And he was asked, of course, pregame, any
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  Speaker 6: hard feelings against Mike Elias? And he said, none whatsoever.
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  Speaker 6: And he said, I love the Orioles, always will. And
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  Speaker 6: he sits tight with that group. Gunner, Adley, Couser, Mountcastle,
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  Speaker 6: those are thick as thieves. They're friends for life. And
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  Speaker 6: so you could see the affection on the field. You
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  Speaker 6: don't see that often in a Major League Baseball game,
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  Speaker 6: guys practically hugging at home plate.
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  Speaker 5: But we saw it last night.
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  Speaker 3: I want to dive into this Orioles team now and
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  Speaker 3: talk a little about, you know, basically I call resurgence here.
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  Speaker 3: It's been and I've been a component. I wasn't a
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  Speaker 3: fan when they had all the prospects. They didn't do
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  Speaker 3: anything with them. And I always said they got to
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  Speaker 3: trade some of these guys so they can get better
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  Speaker 3: and better. You know, you never know what a prospect
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  Speaker 3: is going to be. But now they kind of turned
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  Speaker 3: it around a little bit. My question to you is,
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  Speaker 3: you know, why and and how? Is this team in
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  Speaker 3: a playoff run right now? What has been the key
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  Speaker 3: for this team's run moving forward? And how do they
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  Speaker 3: have the shot to make this playoffs?
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  Speaker 6: They seem like a team with nine lives this year,
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  Speaker 6: and they probably used up seven or eight of them already.
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  Speaker 6: And every time they get momentum, they don't keep it.
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  Speaker 6: We thought after the Couser catch finally got to 500,
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  Speaker 6: it was a four-month climb to get there. Now here
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  Speaker 6: they go, and they've lost three straight cents by four
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  Speaker 6: combined runs. At different times, they've had different things come through.
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  Speaker 6: The rotation for a long time carried them, and so
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  Speaker 6: it's been a little iffy late because some guys are
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  Speaker 6: really heavy on their innings now. The bullpen was on
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  Speaker 6: a tremendous roll for about two weeks, and now it's
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  Speaker 6: given up late homers back-to-back. The offense is Jekyll and Hyde.
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  Speaker 6: They went to Tampa. They scored 26 runs in four games.
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  Speaker 6: The next six games against the Yankees in Tampa, they
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  Speaker 6: scored 14 runs. They started their last road trip 5-1
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  Speaker 6: by scoring 43 runs. They went to Colorado and got 9.
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  Speaker 6: You just don't know. Throw a dart and the Orioles
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  Speaker 6: offense may score 8 or may score 1.
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  Speaker 5: We've seen both.
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  Speaker 4: Do you feel like it's an implementation of the players
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  Speaker 4: that are out there? Do you feel like it's how...
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  Speaker 4: They're implemented. There's some questionable pinch hitting, but not pinch
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  Speaker 4: hitting because you don't win and lose a season on
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  Speaker 4: pinch hitting. But it's the question of why they're making
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  Speaker 4: the decisions based on a roster that they have.
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  Speaker 6: Well, here's what I wrote today, and I asked Craig
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  Speaker 6: Albernaz's question after.
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  Speaker 5: The game last night.
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  Speaker 6: And the Orioles are really wedded to the left-right platoon edge.
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  Speaker 6: And when they were winning the AL East, the stats
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  Speaker 6: could show you They were playing the platoon advantage about
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  Speaker 6: as well as anybody in baseball is working for them.
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  Speaker 6: In my opinion, it's not working anywhere near that.
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  Speaker 5: Well last night.
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  Speaker 6: The seventh inning last night, 3-3 game, two on, two out,
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  Speaker 6: and Carlos Narvaez is batting. And he has really struggled
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  Speaker 6: as an Oriole. After last night, he's 5-for-55.
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  Speaker 5: Without an RBI. That's a 3-0-3 OPS, 30% K rate.
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  Speaker 5: They allowed him to hit well.
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  Speaker 6: In a tie game with two on, with a full
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  Speaker 6: bench of lefty hitters, Eric Miller, lefty, was in for
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  Speaker 6: the Red Sox. But the Orioles, to me, and to
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  Speaker 6: hear Craig Abernath explain it, what allowed Nervais to hit
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  Speaker 6: there is simply he bats right against the left. And
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  Speaker 6: they didn't want the left-on-left Basayo. Basayo doesn't have great
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  Speaker 6: numbers against left, but Basayo has an 800 runners in
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  Speaker 6: scoring position stat. And, oh, by the way, the runners
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  Speaker 6: in scoring position OPS this year for Nervais is 272.
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  Speaker 5: And he's five for 50. So to me, that was
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  Speaker 5: a no-brainer.
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  Speaker 6: I know it's left on left, but Basayo, he can
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  Speaker 6: make a one-for-one move.
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  Speaker 5: He comes in to catch.
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  Speaker 6: The Orioles are keeping three catchers with one reason to
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  Speaker 6: do that is you can pinch hit for Pozo and Nervais.
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  Speaker 5: But they didn't.
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  Speaker 6: Now, in the very next inning, they have a player
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  Speaker 6: they just acquired who Mike Elias said could be an
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  Speaker 6: impact player. Lewis Robert Jr., who had homered in that game,
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  Speaker 6: he was not allowed to hit. And apparently the reasoning
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  Speaker 6: there was he was facing a right-handed pitcher. So they
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  Speaker 6: batted Basayo then. But the game was all ready. The
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  Speaker 6: Red Sox were up two then. They were two outs
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  Speaker 6: and none on. If Basayo homers, they're still trailing. So
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  Speaker 6: that puzzled me greatly last night. Moves into seventh and eighth.
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  Speaker 6: And I pointed out in my Substack article today, They
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  Speaker 6: didn't lose that game because of managerial moves. They gave
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  Speaker 6: up four homers. They blew a 3-1 lead. They got
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  Speaker 6: scored on in the 6th, 7th, 8th, and 9th. They
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  Speaker 6: didn't hit for most of the second half of the game.
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  Speaker 6: There were plenty of reasons they lost to the Red Sox,
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  Speaker 6: but there were also some puzzling decisions.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Steve, you've totally gone off on the Luis
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  Speaker 4: Robert thing.
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  Speaker 5: I have to ask.
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  Speaker 4: You're there. I joked about it when he got claimed
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  Speaker 4: off of waivers from the Mets. If Luis Robert has
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  Speaker 4: a good month, do you think the Orioles bring him
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  Speaker 4: back on his $ 20 million player option?
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  Speaker 6: I would not rule that out because if you look
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  Speaker 6: at this season, the outfield offense has been very disappointing.
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  Speaker 6: Now that is a gamble on top of a gamble
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  Speaker 6: for $ 20 million.
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  Speaker 5: So they're going to give them five as it is
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  Speaker 5: in this month.
• 16:43
  Speaker 6: Um, But if he's just a platoon player, I guess not.
• 16:47
  Speaker 5: I don't know.
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: How will you know in a month? What if he
• 16:50
  Speaker 6: has a great month? That still doesn't tell you he's
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: going to be healthy and good next year.
• 16:55
  Speaker 5: But I would not rule it out.
• 16:57
  Speaker 6: And at least the option is there for the Orioles
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: that they don't have to give up a player. They
• 17:02
  Speaker 6: don't have to beat somebody in free agency. And here
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: they could get an outfielder who does have a silver
• 17:07
  Speaker 6: slugger on his resume.
• 17:10
  Speaker 5: Oh, Steve.
• 17:11
  Speaker 4: Steve, don't tell me that. I'm not even an Orioles fan.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: I'm not a fan of any team. I just don't
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: know that, like, anyway, whatever.
• 17:21
  Speaker 5: It's been a while since he's been good.
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: It has been a while, but yet he did sign
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: another $ 20 million deal this year, and the Orioles have
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: said there's no such thing as a bad one-year deal. So, anyway,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: we'll get to that when that happens. Is this team
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: still a little miscast? Are they still playing out of
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: a little unconventional because Westberg's out and you have Gunnar
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Henderson who probably should be a third baseman and Jackson
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Holiday still trying to get his feet wet. Are they
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: still a miscast team on the position side, but now
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: they're starting to hit more as the halfway mark of
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: the season on has gone better for them?
• 18:08
  Speaker 6: I would guess whenever this season ends and they evaluate it,
• 18:12
  Speaker 6: it's going to be a difficult evaluation because what do
• 18:15
  Speaker 6: you hang your hat on? The rotation looks pretty solid
• 18:19
  Speaker 6: and they've locked up Braddish and Boz long-term. They have
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: Brandon Young under team control. So that looks okay for
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: next year. The bullpen, if these are two big ifs,
• 18:29
  Speaker 6: if Bautista comes back and he's close and if Helsley
• 18:33
  Speaker 6: is healthy next year, he's probably going to, Come back
• 18:36
  Speaker 6: to the Orioles, you might have two decent closers to
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: add to that bullpen. And then they've got to work
• 18:41
  Speaker 6: on the offense, which if you look at the raw stats,
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: the Orioles are one of the top four or five
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: scoring teams in the American League. If you watch them nightly,
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: it doesn't feel like that because they have nights like
• 18:53
  Speaker 6: a series like Colorado where they scored nine runs, one
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: of the worst performances by a visiting team in Coors
• 18:59
  Speaker 6: Field in a long time. So it's hard to evaluate.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: There's nothing consistent for this team this year. I think
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: they're pretty set.
• 19:08
  Speaker 5: In a rotation. The bullpen, the bulk of it is set,
• 19:12
  Speaker 5: but they've got.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: To figure out their offense for 2027.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: I want to talk about one of my favorite players
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: who I played with and now get to watch too,
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: Pete Alonzo, man.
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: This guy has been absolutely fantastic.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Can you just talk about him, not only as a
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: player in the clubhouse, and what he's brought to this
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Orioles team to get them into this picture right now
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: where they're at?
• 19:35
  Speaker 6: He seems too good to be true, but he is.
• 19:39
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've been in that club now. I don't
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: quite get what the Mets are, didn't see there. I
• 19:46
  Speaker 6: just don't. I mean, the guy hits, he leads, he's great.
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: In the community.
• 19:50
  Speaker 6: He's already done things in the Baltimore community. He always
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: says the right thing and.
• 19:55
  Speaker 5: It's not.
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: Fake.
• 19:58
  Speaker 5: It's completely sincere in every way.
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've seen that guy in the Oriole clubhouse,
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: you know, eight different reporters will come up to him and,
• 20:06
  Speaker 6: and two or three team staffers with stuff they need,
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: and he accommodates everybody.
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: It's just unbelievable.
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: And so he's been a great leader for the Orioles.
• 20:14
  Speaker 6: He's been everything they could have wanted. I mean, is
• 20:17
  Speaker 6: it crazy to say $ 155 million.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Is a bargain? I don't know.
• 20:21
  Speaker 6: With baseball, maybe it is. But this guy's production, he's
• 20:25
  Speaker 6: having as good a year as he had for the
• 20:27
  Speaker 6: Mets last year, which was tremendous.
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, big loss by the Mets there. But big gain
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: for Baltimore, not just the team, but the city too.
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: What does this rotation look like? Because obviously we haven't
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: really followed the Orioles as a playoff team, but even
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: with the loss last night, they're a game and a
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: half out. What does this rotation look like going into
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: a three-game series and then possibly winning it to move
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: on to a division series that's a five-game series? How
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: does it stack up if you sit here today and
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: make that rotation?
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: Here's what Steve would too, which doesn't mean that's what
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: the Orioles would do. They have a core four here.
• 21:12
  Speaker 6: In any way you want to stack them, Braddish, Rodgers, Boz,
• 21:16
  Speaker 6: and Young. And I don't think Bassett gets in the
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: playoff rotation. Maybe he's a bullpen guy again if they
• 21:22
  Speaker 6: get that far. To me, Kyle Braddish is still the
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: best they have. He's starting to maybe tire a little bit.
• 21:28
  Speaker 6: The innings are catching up to him. He only pitched
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: 50 innings last year, rehabbing his way back. Now he's
• 21:34
  Speaker 6: 100 over that. but he's the best they got. Rodgers
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: has been on a real roll, one or two blips,
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: but he's an under-3RA pitcher for about two or three months.
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: Abbas is really coming on in the second half, and Young,
• 21:52
  Speaker 6: they win more games with him than anybody. It's hard
• 21:54
  Speaker 6: to just– they're really very close, but I think I
• 21:59
  Speaker 6: would go Braddish, Rodgers– I think that's what I would do.
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: And maybe at Brandon Young, he's coming in the fifth inning,
• 22:09
  Speaker 6: one of those games.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Hey, I want to finish where we started. Hadley Rutschman.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So you got to cover him for a while. And
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: this was a dream day one for him back in Baltimore.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: With him, I know going through the elbow this year,
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: and it might not be 100%, just overall, what are
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox getting here? You know, what makes Red
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: Sox fans look at this and go, wow, I'm glad
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: we made this move for the stretch run. Of course,
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: he helped them win one game here and then for
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: a whole nother season.
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: Adley must have made some winter adjustments. He's pretty tight
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: lipped about things like that. So he's not going to
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: tell you why he's swinging it better this year. But
• 22:52
  Speaker 6: his OPS was 760 with the Orioles. I know he
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: hadn't hit with the Red Sox until last night. And
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: so maybe now they get what the Orioles saw. So
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: his offense trended way up this year. So did his defense.
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: It was lauded all year. He was throwing out a
• 23:08
  Speaker 6: higher percentage than he has in a few years. His
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: game-calling exceptional framing just scores incredibly high in some defensive metrics.
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: So he was the total package for the Orioles, and
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: a switch hitter, of course. And so, you know, the
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: Orioles didn't play a lot of big games on his watch.
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: So we don't really know. Is he a big-game player
• 23:28
  Speaker 6: for the Red Sox in October?
• 23:30
  Speaker 5: I don't know. I guess we're going to see.
• 23:32
  Speaker 6: But I think they got a good one. And obviously
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: he's a great teammate. He was a leader for the Orioles.
• 23:37
  Speaker 6: And so I think the Red Sox will be happy
• 23:40
  Speaker 6: with that. And I think the Orioles potentially seem happy with,
• 23:44
  Speaker 6: you know, the science and it's been incredible on their farm.
• 23:46
  Speaker 6: And Andy Azekar was just South Atlantic League player of
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: the month at high A for Baltimore. And they like
• 23:53
  Speaker 6: some of these young kids they got.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: I like it for Boston. This is definitely going to
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: help them, and it's a league where it's tough to
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: find a catcher like that. So, Steve Molesky, thank you
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: for joining us. Good to see you, bud.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: All right, guys.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 24:12
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• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Can I dedicate our SeatGeek segment right now to one series?
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And I know we touched on it yesterday, but let's
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: line it up, right? I mean, I think it's pretty
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: obvious that there is a division still up for grabs.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's multiple, right? The Rays are still only
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: up three games on the Yankees, but we're focusing on
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the NL East. The Braves and the Phillies match up.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: We cover this a lot on Thursday. So if you
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: missed anything, I encourage you to check out segments on
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: Thursday's show, including a conversation with Tom McCarthy, Philly's play-by-play broadcaster,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: but Todd father, I'm going to do it this way.
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: Seat geek, which seat do you want? As in which
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: game do you want?
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: Okay.
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: I think I know what the answer is, but let's
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: do it like a fantasy draft. So tonight you have
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Chris sale against Christopher Sanchez. Then you have Martine Perez
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: on Saturday against Zach Wheeler.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: And then it is, I know it's elder on Monday.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: So I guess it's Molly on Sunday.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: It's not Elder on Monday anymore. It's Grant Holmes on Monday.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: They just switched it. But Grant Holmes, delicious, delicious salad
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: that he's working versus Lizardo.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: True.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Pasta Lizardo. Okay.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: All right, so Todd, I'm giving you first dibs.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: Well, anytime Chris Sale is pitching, I want to be there.
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: I will be going to the game tonight on SeatGeek.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: If I was going, that's the one I would pick.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: And I'm looking for a seat. Literally right behind home plate.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be the best seat. And I
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: know SeatGeek's got it covered for me. So I will
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: find that seat. If you're a fan, you're a young kid,
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: if you can get behind home plate or get a
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: little side view from below behind the dugout.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Oh, my God.
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: And this is going to be a fantastic game, Sanchez.
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: I'm looking for a low scoring game, but also a
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: really good thrown game.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: So I'm going to game one. I will see you
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: guys later.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: I'm actually picking second here, Kratz. I'm going to take
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Monday's Grant Holmes. I know that's going to switch now
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: to Jesus Lizardo. I want to watch Lizardo. I've been
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: talking about him a little more recently on the program lately,
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: and he's, I think, not getting talked about enough in
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: our sport for the swing and miss. And to me,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: how that looks in the postseason could be a huge
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: difference for the Phillies in a series.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: Doesn't that sound like a good dish? The way he's
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: pitching looks like a one. What?
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah. You know, can I get a side of
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: pasta lozardo? Like, that sounds like a good Italian dish.
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: Maybe I just roll with this.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Pasta lozardo.
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: I like it. I like it. I'm going to game
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: three because I want to see if the Philly– look,
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: when you go game one, you're going to face Chris
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: Sale in the playoffs, and you're like, whew, tough matchup.
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: I want to see how the Phillies do against Tyler Malley.
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: That could be a precursor of what they do in
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: the playoffs.
• 27:38
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• 27:50
  Speaker 1: Scooble allowed 10 hits, matching a career high against the Cardinals.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: They pulled off a walk-off win. That was a big
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: knock for Teoscar Hernandez, who has had his struggles this season.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: And also, I will say, 5-2-3's Two earned runs. It's
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: not like he got shelled. All of the hits were singles. But, yeah,
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: it's not classic Scooble yet. Do we think that classic
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: Scooble will appear here? Or, you know, I brought this
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: up yesterday, I think, for the first time in a while, Kratz.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: He had surgery this year.
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: Came back quick.
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: It's real. Quicker than ever.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: His velocity's back. His velocity came back right away after
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: the surgery. Yes, that is something to definitely watch. but
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: also it's okay to give up singles. Like that's what
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: people are afraid of. And I think that's why we
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: live in this generation of throw it till you blow it.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Like just throw it as hard as you can till
• 28:46
  Speaker 4: your arm blows out. And I think if you can
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: pitch and dance around some raindrops with some singles, this
• 28:54
  Speaker 4: is what we talk about the playoffs. It's so hard
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: to string together a ton of hits against good pitchers.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Because if you watched when Scooble got guys on, It
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: was a different type of locked in. So I'm just
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: saying it's okay. It is crazy though, that he gave
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: up that many hits.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: And also I just wanted to mention on Otani. So
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: he sat right, Todd, and this is a good back
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: and forth. Apparently Dave Roberts just kind of told him like,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Hey dude, you're out.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: And he sent him back like a, a yes, sir.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: Like a salute. I mean, he's dealing with biceps and
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: neck discomfort and his knee is still a problem. Sometimes
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: somebody needs to tell you, hey, dude, take a day
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: or two. They're not going to IL him. but, or
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: at least it sounds like they're not, but take, take
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: a day or two or three or four. You're there.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: They're going to win the division. Obviously they want to
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: try and get one of the top two seeds, but yeah,
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Shohei needs to be, he needs to be feeling good
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: at the plate heading into October. Forget the mound for
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: a moment.
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Well, I think you said it best, two different things.
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: Take a break, but he needs to be well on
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: the plate coming October. Well, listen, you've got three weeks.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: You put him on an.
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: IL stint, that's 15 days. Then he's got, what, five
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: to seven games to get ready to go? That's not
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: ideal either. I mean, for most, maybe it's okay for him.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: So he's going to have to push through this, in
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: my opinion, and he's going to have to understand that
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: he's going to bet– He's going to be the top dog.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: He's going to bat where he is right now, and
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: he's going to be lethal, hopefully.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: So it's damned if I do, damned if I don't
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: kind of feel.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Hey, Byron Buxton is going to need off-season surgery from
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: Bob Nightingale Jr. He wants to make one more try
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: at returning this season. Yeah, you feel for Buck, and
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's the hip. That's a tough– spot on the body
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: can you guys help me out with that.
• 31:00
  Speaker 3: Anything from the the waist down for a guy that's
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: got speed hello that's not good at all so um
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: this is a tough one man these injuries for this
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: guy they just keep on coming i don't there's got
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: to be something going on man i don't know it's
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: weird it's weird you feel bad i feel terrible for
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: this dude because he's a He's a freak of an athlete,
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: you know, and he talks about wanting to be in
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: Minnesota and finishing out his career and all that kind
• 31:30
  Speaker 3: of stuff.
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, this one hurts.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: Torrey Hunter, probably one of the more eloquent speakers, incredible player,
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: great person. I heard him talking about Buxton and Trout.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: We know what Trout has done. We know Trout has
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: had injury issues. And Torrey on that interview said, Kind
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: of feel like Buxton has a higher ceiling than Mike Trout.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: That's not some Joe Schmo like me saying something like that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: Torrey Hunter knows what he's looking at when he's talking
• 32:03
  Speaker 4: about center fielders in the game. And it will always
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: be tied to injuries. My issue is if he's trying
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: to get back out there for a team today on
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: September 4th, that's three and a half back behind three
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: other teams. then it's probably what he's done most of
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: his career. Like, I'm trying to stay out there. And
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: does that make the injury worse? I don't know. Only
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: him and the medical staff will know. But I'd hate
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: for him to stay out there on a bad hip
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: and it becomes something else that then crops up later in,
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: you know, next season that he kind of, you know,
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: used too much. Because when something's hurting, you have to
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: mitigate it by leaning on something else. And that's the
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: last thing that you want. You want him to be 100% healthy.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: Whenever he can be.
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: Hot corner. Hold up. Hold up. So this show had
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: Dana Brown, the former general manager of the Astros on
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: the other day. Okay. He was fired. The Houston Astros
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: might not just make the playoffs. They might not just
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: win the division. They might receive a first round buy from,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: They won three of four games against the White Sox
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: just now. Look at the standings. Wow. So the Rays
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: are in a good spot right now, although they need
• 33:29
  Speaker 1: to still wrap up the division with the Yankees. The
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: White Sox are one and a half games up on
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: the Astros. You want to be able to try and
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: catch up to a team. You face them head to head.
• 33:40
  Speaker 1: You do what you need to do. Astros did that.
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Hunter Brown in this last game to swing it their way. Varshow,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: two-run triple. Altuve, two-run home run. the Houston Astros might
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: receive a buy. They might be in a position, Kratz,
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: where they have one of the better pathways to make
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: a World Series, right? We've talked about the seeding and
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: how it's going to put a team like the White
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Sox or now maybe the Astros in a favorable position.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: That's what could happen right now.
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: Totally.
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: And to be honest, you know who doesn't want to
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: see the Astros in the playoffs? The Yankees. They still
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: haven't beaten... They still haven't advanced in a playoff where
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: they have to beat the Astros. So that's just a
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: fun story that could happen once it all plays out.
• 34:29
  Speaker 4: But if they're able to get this, again, I'll say it,
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: just like I said it before, if they get the
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: number two seed over the White Sox, that sets them
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: up because that side of the bracket is just a
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: weaker side of the bracket that is going to be
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: an easier path. Still good teams. but it's an easier path.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: But the Astros do it. Now they can set up
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: their rotation. Now you can have Hunter Brown go game
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: one and game five instead of game one. And possibly
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: if you win that series, game two, game three, I
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: guess he would be able to throw in game two
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: and possibly not in game five. So anytime you get
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: your best pitcher to be able to throw twice when
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: one of your weaknesses is the depth of your rotation,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: that would be huge.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't like how you said that about the Yankees.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: I was in a good mood until you brought up
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: the Astros.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Well, talk us out of it. Yeah, tell us. I
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: would love to talk you out of it, but I can't.
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: I can't.
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: That's why it upsets me so much. It's the bugaboo.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: It's the bugaboo. Kratzy and I have been a part
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: of it. It all started, you know, in 17 when
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: they figuring out what was coming and.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: What pitch, and then it just– They cheated. You could
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: say it.
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: No, I'm just being nice because I'm trying, I'm upset
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: about what Kratzy said. So I'm going to, I'm going
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: to take the high road, but yes, unfortunately for us,
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: they did. So yeah, it's been the bugaboo anytime. Is
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: this the year that they find a way to do it?
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: Only time will tell still long ways to go, but yes,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: it'll change. It'll change the playoff. You know, some teams
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: might go higher. Some might go lower. We'll see in
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: these next 2022 game, but yeah, I don't, I wouldn't
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: want to see him either. I wouldn't want to see
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: him either.
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: But that's the path we're talking about. So we mentioned
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: this the other day. It's just that when we did
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: this segment, Kratz, remember, we didn't even really factor the Astros.
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: And we factored them into being on this side of
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: the bracket. But a buy is an advantage. Straight up.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: No doubt about it.
• 36:37
  Speaker 3: Right?
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: You think so? Oh, I don't even think it's close. Wait, wait.
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: I don't think it's close. Okay.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: For pitching, yes. Yeah, but for everything. You have to
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: win another series.
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: How many of those teams that play right away end
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: up beating those eventual... We've had this conversation. We don't
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: have to go down that road. But I'm just saying,
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: it's an advantage pitching-wise.
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: Of course it is. 100%. 100%.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: But I still think those teams have a major advantage
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: playing two, if not three, games. They're going. Everybody else
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: is five days off. And I'll die on that horse.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: I know a lot of Kratzy, AJ... Some people have said, oh,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: you need to get– the bye is great. It's going
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: to help you either way. I would rather be playing games.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: I think there's still a way to have those teams still–
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: like they're playing meaningful games. You win those games, you've
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: already been part of pressure situations.
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: You know what I mean?
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: You're going into a hostile environment, whatever stadium you're at.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: It's okay because I just played two or three hard-fought games.
• 37:41
  Speaker 3: I know what it's like, my opinion, but ultimately– That's
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: why everybody loves the game. But I think the advantage
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: is playing more games. But I do want the bye.
• 37:54
  Speaker 3: That means we did better.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Of course. Of course.
• 37:57
  Speaker 3: But if I'm stuck playing games and win that series,
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: I think the advantage goes.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: To that team. No, no, no.
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, that's why we do this. Just let's paint it, okay?
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: Let's say the Guardians make it and the Astros pass
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the White Sox. The Guardians and the White Sox are
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: going to match up, right?
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: Sure, yeah.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Kratz?
• 38:26
  Speaker 4: Yep, yes.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, wait, wait.
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, because the White Sox win, right? Their division.
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: They host the Guardians. Let's say the White Sox win
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: the division. They host Guardians, okay? They duke it out. Cool.
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: Somebody won. Astros, chilling, line up their rotation. Not the
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: deepest rotation in the world. I mean, first off, let's
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: look at what they just did last night. Like, I
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: need Hunter Brown lined up. Okay. Hunter Brown lined up
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: next series. You guys just beat each other up in
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: like a 50-50 series, right? I think most people would look.
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: And even if we put the Benham Jam odds on
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: a series with the White Sox and Guardians, it's probably
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: pretty close. It's probably plus one or minus 110 on
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: both sides.
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: So 50-50 chance that you survive. Now you move on.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: Now you face the Astros all lined up for next round.
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Bullpen's rested. Starters can line up the way they want
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: to line up. And the Astros are playing at home.
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: It's a huge advantage.
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: Huge.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: Huge.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: But I see what Todd's saying, though, too. And honestly,
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: throughout my career, and this is what we got to
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: ask like, current live players that are active today, like,
• 39:30
  Speaker 4: not playing and sitting out, your timing goes to trash.
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: And that's kind of what Todd is alluding to. And
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: also the fact that I've seen, I've been on a
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: wildcard team that made it to Game 7 of the
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: World Series. You catch that wave, you ride that wave,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: Todd says that all the time, and there is something
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: to that. That is a 100% agreeable statement, except 100%
• 39:58
  Speaker 4: of the games that you don't play in, you have
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: zero chance, zero chance of losing. So you cannot go
• 40:07
  Speaker 4: into a wildcard series and go, I definitely want to
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: play these games because we're going to get, we're going
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: to get on a hot streak. Like you don't want
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: to play those games. Anything can happen. Broken back, bleeder,
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: you know, a bad call here or there. And all
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: of a sudden, crap, we lost that series. How did
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: that happen? But that, that's my side of the argument.
• 40:29
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I like it. I'm not like saying this, I'm not,
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: Todd's dying on this hill. I'm not dying on the hill,
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: but I like the debate.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: I like it. It's good.
• 40:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 40:40
  Speaker 4: And I think it matters team to team, too. I
• 40:43
  Speaker 4: really think it matters team to team. I think there's
• 40:45
  Speaker 4: some teams that need breaks more than other teams. I
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: think a young team like the White Sox might not
• 40:51
  Speaker 4: need breaks. Now, only they know. These dudes are just like,
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: they're pissing vinegar. They're like, let's go eat a bowl
• 40:57
  Speaker 4: of Froot Loops, have a Pepsi, and go out there
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: and roll the pole a little bit. Where I think
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: like a Dodgers team, they're older, they need that break.
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: An Astros team, they have a... don't have a deep rotation.
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: They didn't want to set up Hunter Brown. All that
• 41:11
  Speaker 4: stuff goes into it too.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: Let's keep the talk on the AL West for a
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: moment because those of you that are like, I still
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: like the Mariners. It's getting close to jump off the
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: wagon season soon. I was one of those people that's like,
• 41:27
  Speaker 1: they're going to figure it out eventually.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Right?
• 41:29
  Speaker 1: So here's wild card. They're four and a half.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: Forget that. Right.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: Four and a half with a billion teams to leap.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: Wipe that.
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: Now on the division, four and a half back of Houston.
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: No, sorry, sorry.
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: Five games back of Houston, four and a half is
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: the wild card. Or sorry, I can't read.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Yeah, four and a half.
• 41:49
  Speaker 5: No, six, six.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: It's six and four and a half.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're right.
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: Are they not toast? I mean, they'd have to, right.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: They're playing crap teams, okay? They're cooked. 17 of their
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: final 22, I think it's the number right now, is
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: three worst teams in baseball. Rockies, A's, and Angels. Here's
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: the problem. If you look at the four worst teams
• 42:10
  Speaker 1: in baseball, going back to, I had this note and
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: I have too many notes in front of me.
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: Where is it?
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: Here it is. July 6th. That's a while back already.
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: They're in there.
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: It's the three teams they're playing plus the Mariners.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: So sometimes you might look in the mirror and be like, wait,
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: I am them.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: They stink.
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: I think they're a good team. They're not going to
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: be able to make this up.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: Why?
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: Because there's no magic sauce. The magic sauce is them
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: winning and playing better baseball, and they just haven't done it.
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: I don't care how crappy they're... I mean, look at that.
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: You play the A's, the Angels, and the Rockies. In seven,
• 42:54
  Speaker 4: ten days, you play nine games against three teams that
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: you should win all nine of those. Even if you
• 43:00
  Speaker 4: win all nine of those, the other teams that you're chasing,
• 43:04
  Speaker 4: they have to go 500, and they're still ahead of you. Like, Sorry,
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: it's just not happening. We're not burying them today, but
• 43:10
  Speaker 4: maybe Monday we will.
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: On Deck is presented by Fox 1. All right, so
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: we've covered some of the teams that are playing this
• 43:21
  Speaker 1: weekend on Fox 1. Let's continue that. The Diamondbacks. Specifically,
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: if they will have more reinforcements on the way. And
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: I know you can't rely on everyone and you eventually
• 43:31
  Speaker 1: run out of time.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: But.
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: For someone that you know well and you caught, right, Kratz?
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: You caught Corbin Burns' early career?
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, his big league debut.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: Big league debut. Tell me what could happen here. He's
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: nearing the end of a 15-month rehab from Tommy John surgery.
• 43:49
  Speaker 1: He signed a mega deal with the Diamondbacks. It was
• 43:53
  Speaker 1: a devastating loss for them. And it came at a
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: time when, yeah, you essentially lose him for like two seasons, right?
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: But.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks hang around, and they might get back someone
• 44:05
  Speaker 1: who could be very valuable towards the top of a
• 44:07
  Speaker 1: rotation here down the stretch.
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: Or he might be very valuable out of the bullpen.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: He might be very valuable. You talk about teams, Garrett
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: Crochet bringing guys back that might not be that seven-inning
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: guy that you're paying him to be, but can give
• 44:23
  Speaker 4: you huge innings. And the playoffs is just all about
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: your innings. So what can you get? What can you get,
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: you ask me? You can get a dude who, as
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: a rookie, had a 2-6-1 ERA coming out of the bullpen.
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying he's going to be out of the bullpen.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I'm saying in that season, he was just getting his
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: feet wet in the big leagues, and he was trying
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: to give us the best outs down the stretch. So
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: he's been tested in those moments. You're talking about a
• 44:52
  Speaker 4: dude in the playoffs who threw nine innings. I'm trying
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: to look it up now. Nine innings.
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: And.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: had a two-something ERA. Basically, he gave up two earned
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: runs the entire playoffs.
• 45:07
  Speaker 1: Wait, which playoffs are you talking about?
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: I'm just talking about in the playoffs. If this team
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: makes it to the playoffs, they're going to need him
• 45:16
  Speaker 4: in September to have big innings. He's been there. He's
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: done that. He has been in those situations throughout his
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: entire time with the Brewers. And I think the one
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: year with the Orioles, he played in the playoffs too.
• 45:28
  Speaker 1: He got one of the starts. That's what I'm talking about. Wait,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: I just want to stop you on that one. Do
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: you remember that outing? Eight innings, five hits, one run.
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: I didn't remember it until I was going down the list,
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: and he was killing it. He didn't strike out a
• 45:42
  Speaker 4: lot of dudes, and I think that's what Diamondback fans
• 45:45
  Speaker 4: in September need to look at Corbin Burns and go,
• 45:49
  Speaker 4: he doesn't have that 94 to 96 cutter that he
• 45:53
  Speaker 4: usually does. But I watched his one outing, and the
• 45:56
  Speaker 4: cutter movement– is awesome. And so I think he's going
• 46:02
  Speaker 4: to give you something that I don't know that you
• 46:05
  Speaker 4: can just find anywhere else. And I think the Diamondbacks
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: are going to need to lean on whatever innings they
• 46:11
  Speaker 4: can get from him. If he can go three innings,
• 46:13
  Speaker 4: then the next out and go four. You build them
• 46:16
  Speaker 4: up to that four to five inning range for the playoffs.
• 46:20
  Speaker 4: Those are going to be huge, huge innings that you're
• 46:23
  Speaker 4: just not getting from anybody else right now consistently in
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: their rotation.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: Interesting. Interesting.
• 46:31
  Speaker 1: Might be Tuesday too, Todd.
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: That's crazy. That's what I'm seeing here.
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: I'm trying.
• 46:37
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 46:38
  Speaker 1: It looks like early next week could be the return.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: Do you think it's smart coming in this late in
• 46:43
  Speaker 2: the year? Yes.
• 46:46
  Speaker 1: You got nothing to lose. He's a veteran on a
• 46:47
  Speaker 1: big contract. I mean, what's the worst that happened?
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: Nothing to lose. Yeah.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: What do you have to lose?
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: It's hurt again. I don't know. I'm not saying it's
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: going to happen. Right. Yeah, I get it. No doubt.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: But to come in and be like, hey, you've got
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: to amp up and give me three of the best
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: things you've got, you don't think he's going to be
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: amped up and trying to throw, hopefully not, 100 miles
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: an hour? If I'm bringing this guy back, it's to
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: be that dude, in my humble opinion.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: This is why you got him. Why not?
• 47:23
  Speaker 4: No, I hear what you're saying, but I think that's
• 47:26
  Speaker 4: why I'm saying the expectation– Doesn't necessarily need to be that.
• 47:31
  Speaker 4: But he's going to give you– even a mediocre Corbin
• 47:35
  Speaker 4: Burns is better than the majority of what you're running
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: out there from a.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Opener.
• 47:41
  Speaker 4: And the whole injury risk stuff, look, we've– what did
• 47:45
  Speaker 4: you say, Scott? 15 months or 17 months?
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: 15 months.
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: So they've taken this. It's not like we're sitting there,
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: you know, a normal Tommy John– Rehab that's not an
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: internal bracing is 12 to 15 months. They're not coming
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: back and saying, hey, we need you at 13 months.
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: I know it's a little early, but we don't want
• 48:08
  Speaker 4: to waste your bullets in the minor leagues. They've run this.
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: People argue you can go to 17 months. I get that.
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: They've run it. To me, you want him to throw,
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: even if you're not in a race, you want him
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: to throw this last month so that you don't go
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: into next year saying, Okay, well, we don't know exactly.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: He turns it up, and then he goes through an
• 48:30
  Speaker 4: entire offseason of being as 100% healthy as you can
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: be to hit next year. So I'm not as fearful
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: in this case of a veteran getting hurt.
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: Understood.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Understood. But if he's there, it's go. It's go time
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: for me.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: It's a starter. It's a dude. And guess what? Give
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: us what you got because, like you said, I'll take
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: a mediocre– corbin and be fine with that for.
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: Sure yep hey you can watch the diamondbacks and you
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: can also watch the padres one of those teams going
• 49:04
  Speaker 1: to make it one of them is not going to
• 49:05
  Speaker 1: make it to the playoffs this weekend uh diamondbacks are
• 49:08
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  Speaker 1: don't know how to say the third guy's name. So
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to try and sound like I don't
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: know ball, but three of them there and they're cheering
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: on PCA. They started the PCA chant and what happened?
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: Crats PCA won them the game. They also hung out afterwards,
• 50:15
  Speaker 1: but PCA had the two run Homer on the low
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: changeup from Logan Henderson. And you got to just tip
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: your cap. Logan Henderson's changeup, by the way, this year
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: is ridiculous. And, but that was the, that was the
• 50:26
  Speaker 1: decider to one Cubs won it.
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: Pete Crowe's a vibe, bro. He's a vibe. PCA.
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: That's the group right there that's running Chicago right now.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: Chicago sports scene is hot, and PCA is leading it
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: with all them boys in that picture. And PCA actually
• 50:43
  Speaker 4: didn't have an RBI until last night's game against the
• 50:46
  Speaker 4: Brewers this season. So if he starts beating the Brewers up,
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: that might be tough for the playoffs.
• 50:52
  Speaker 1: You're saying that was his first RBI against Milwaukee?
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Got it. Yeah, no, Milwaukee's pitched him well. They've had
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: a good game plan against him. Also, I need to look,
• 51:01
  Speaker 1: you know, he really changed his stance and where he
• 51:03
  Speaker 1: was standing in the box. So if you look, and
• 51:05
  Speaker 1: I know that was the first, what, almost two months
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: of the season. I'm not saying that you disregard the
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: beginning of the season, but it was a different piece
• 51:13
  Speaker 1: of the day. That's fair, right?
• 51:15
  Speaker 4: Totally, totally. That pitch was nasty, too, that he hit out.
• 51:18
  Speaker 4: You don't hit that ball out. I mean, you get
• 51:20
  Speaker 4: a good hit, but not as bad.
• 51:23
  Speaker 1: No, you tip your cap.
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: All right, people. That's all we got. Kratat's on the
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: way out.
• 51:32
  Speaker 4: Going with the O's. The O's. We had Molesky on,
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: and you know what? This is a big weekend for them.
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: They have to kick it into gear. They can't be
• 51:42
  Speaker 4: the Scarlet Knights.
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: Of the American East. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: Whoa, whoa, whoa. They got to show up.
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: Dude, that was bad.
• 51:49
  Speaker 4: Oh, my God.
• 51:50
  Speaker 1: They got to UMass it. UMass it.
• 51:53
  Speaker 2: We're in trouble now.
• 51:55
  Speaker 1: Absolutely.
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: You know, my day was fine. That was bad. Excuse me.
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: Listen, Massachusetts got some good recruits coming in, man.
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: Give them credit. They're not.
• 52:06
  Speaker 1: You're hyping the UMass football team right now?
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: No, they just got a Virginia Tech quarterback. They got
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: three different linemen. Listen, you can recruit now, guys.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: It is what it is. I'm giving you one more chance.
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: If they play Miami, they lose 58-3.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: But, okay.
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: And, hey, I'm the second biggest.
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: I don't agree with that at all.
• 52:25
  Speaker 1: All right, maybe 58-6. Maybe two field goals.
• 52:28
  Speaker 2: No, they put up 21 points.
• 52:29
  Speaker 3: 58-20.