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New Pirates 2B Brandon Lowe and FanGraphs writer Paul Sporer join FT · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And now we're ready to go with our next guest,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Sport is joining US writer, podcaster Fangrafts and a
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  Speaker 1: content designer out of the park Baseball so helped me
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  Speaker 1: do some construction work for front offices out there. What
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  Speaker 1: have you thought about the off season so far? So
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  Speaker 1: maybe a favorite move? And then what are you looking
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  Speaker 1: forward to with a market that's still full of available
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  Speaker 1: names that are going to sign over the next month
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  Speaker 1: or so.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm I'm really eager to kind of see how
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the starting picture market develops with the
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  Speaker 2: two left. He's at top right now from our Valdez
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  Speaker 2: Rangers Suarez. I've always been someone who's been huge on Valdez.
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  Speaker 2: It's coming off of a rough time to be a
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  Speaker 2: free agent, had a tough second half, had the issue
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  Speaker 2: maybe throwing at his young catcher there that we all
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  Speaker 2: saw and I think two a man didn't really like there.
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  Speaker 2: How much will that affect him? I don't know. How
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  Speaker 2: much should it? I don't know? And then you get
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  Speaker 2: to the point where is his volume going to be
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  Speaker 2: used again? We talk so much about guys who don't
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  Speaker 2: throw innings, don't throw innings. This guy does guarantee you.
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  Speaker 2: Some teams are gonna flip it on him, know and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: now your damnage good. You have too many innings on you.
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  Speaker 2: So guys can't win these days. Suarez is the other way, right,
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he doesn't pitch as much Rangers swars. We haven't
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  Speaker 2: seen him put on the workload. Apparently he's asking for
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  Speaker 2: seven years and we'll see if he gets that. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm really interested to see with two guys, neither of
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  Speaker 2: whom are true bona fide, unquestioned aces. They're the last
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  Speaker 2: two guys standing though, and when there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: money to go around, maybe they end up getting a
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  Speaker 2: huge contracts. So I'm really eager from that standpoint. As
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  Speaker 2: far as a move I liked, I really like Toronto
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  Speaker 2: going out and kind of doubling down on their huge season,
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  Speaker 2: and that includes getting Dylan Ces. This guy's remarkably talented.
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  Speaker 2: He is one where like the nerd stats versus kind
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  Speaker 2: of your surface stats can sometimes disagree and show some
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  Speaker 2: issues with him, but his talent is always evident and
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  Speaker 2: when you can miss bats the way he can consistently,
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  Speaker 2: even with some of the ups and downs that he
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  Speaker 2: does have, Dylan Cees is still a super talent. I
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  Speaker 2: totally understand why they went out and paid for him.
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  Speaker 2: Whenever you're doing a seven year deal, you're not going
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  Speaker 2: to get seven great years. But if they get three
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  Speaker 2: good ones, including what maybe next year, while they're still
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  Speaker 2: in this very much competitive window, I think they'll be
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  Speaker 2: fine with it. So I like that move, and it
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  Speaker 2: showed that Toronto was very serious about staying in contention.
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  Speaker 3: I talked about Suarez Valdez, but Tatsuyo and my might
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  Speaker 3: be better than the two of them. Absolutely, are teams
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  Speaker 3: fearful of that? Or are they less fearful because of
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  Speaker 3: what Yoshinobu Yamamoto has done in his short stints so
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  Speaker 3: far in the big leagues.
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  Speaker 2: I think the more certain teams see players from overseas work,
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  Speaker 2: the more confident they get. But there are it's organization
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  Speaker 2: to organization, their organizations that have a lot of experience
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  Speaker 2: with it, and they go in not nervous at all.
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  Speaker 2: They confidently buy from the KBO and from the Japanese
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  Speaker 2: League without any issue. There are other teams that are
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  Speaker 2: still cautious and still worry about landing a dud. The
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  Speaker 2: thing of it is, though, is a lot of these
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  Speaker 2: guys come over, even the expensive ones come over at
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  Speaker 2: a fair at a pretty good market rate. Now Yamamoto
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  Speaker 2: is an exception, right, he still came over, he got
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  Speaker 2: all the money that you know was basically promise, and
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  Speaker 2: then delivered on that promise. But a lot of guys
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  Speaker 2: come over at a pretty decent discount, usually because they're
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  Speaker 2: a little bit older touch you. Emi is a guy
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  Speaker 2: who could be another great stud, maybe not to the
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  Speaker 2: level of Yamamoto, but I think he's better than I
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  Speaker 2: manauga to use. Another guy who's come over recently and
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  Speaker 2: had some pretty good seasons with the Cubs, has a
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  Speaker 2: home run issue that I think will continue to plague
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  Speaker 2: him as he spends more time in the States. But
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  Speaker 2: I do think Imaia has a chance to be better
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  Speaker 2: than both Suarez and Valdez, and I wonder how the
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  Speaker 2: dominoes are going to fall there. I actually don't remember
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  Speaker 2: what EMI's posting window is where, you know, depending on
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  Speaker 2: where those three go, maybe jumping out first and getting
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  Speaker 2: Emi could be the discount, and then all the money
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  Speaker 2: still left on Suarez and Valdez might make them a
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  Speaker 2: little bit overvalued. I am most nervous I think about
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  Speaker 2: Suarez specifically, Like I said, I believe in Valdez as
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  Speaker 2: at least a workhorse stud if not a true ace.
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  Speaker 3: Paul, Can we go to the top picture list that
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  Speaker 3: you are going to be releasing later this week, because
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  Speaker 3: the best part about lists are people who are going
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  Speaker 3: to poke holes at it. They're gonna be like, well,
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  Speaker 3: what I'm gonna And there's explanations that you need, the
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  Speaker 3: first one being if you're a Pirates fan, what the
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  Speaker 3: heck Trek Scoogle's better than Paul Skeins? How can you
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  Speaker 3: even say that? And then you just move on from there.
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  Speaker 2: Should I block my Detroit hat here while I'm on
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  Speaker 2: my showing my bias too much?
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  Speaker 3: There we go, There we go.
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  Speaker 2: I am a Tigers fan, and I always make that
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  Speaker 2: bias very clear. We all have biases, folks. Nobody's unbiased.
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  Speaker 2: Anyone telling you they're unbiased, they're lying. You haven't hearing
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  Speaker 2: biases there? But listen, I think almost harder on the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers to make sure that I'm not going to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: to light with them and boosting up the guys on
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  Speaker 2: my favorite team. But anytime you're going for the two times,
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  Speaker 2: cy Young, I think you're in pretty good standing to
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  Speaker 2: put him number one. I really do think it's a
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  Speaker 2: Skien Scooble one too. Take them how you want them.
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  Speaker 2: I think the Tigers are a bit better club, and
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  Speaker 2: when it comes to fantasy, we do care about the
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  Speaker 2: win potential, even though that is something that's maybe a
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  Speaker 2: little bit out of the player's control. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: necessarily against Scheens that it's not his fault he's on
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  Speaker 2: the Pirates, but when you're coming into fantasy, you've got
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  Speaker 2: to pile up wins. And I do think Skiing Scooble
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  Speaker 2: has the edge there being on the Tigers, who are
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  Speaker 2: at least in a competitive window right now. Pirates aren't
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  Speaker 2: trying to get there, though, and I did like that
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  Speaker 2: three way deal they did.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so glad you brought up fantasy because now I'm
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  Speaker 3: gonna go straight to your number eight, who finished second
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  Speaker 3: in the cy young in Christopher Sanchez.
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  Speaker 4: Are you are you?
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  Speaker 3: Are you playoff bias by putting yo Yoshinoba Yamamoto so
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  Speaker 3: high up on this list or do you feel like
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  Speaker 3: he's gonna have a much better year and give you
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  Speaker 3: more Fantasy points.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think I'm playoff bias and I will say
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  Speaker 2: this only because I was making the case for him,
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  Speaker 2: for Yamoto as the bankable four the fantasy world. At
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season, said scooball Skiins, Crochet are
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  Speaker 2: the top three. Take them how you want them. That's
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  Speaker 2: the lock. That was the consensus. The door was opened
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  Speaker 2: for four, according to a lot of analysts. I said,
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  Speaker 2: at the very beginning of the playoffs, no, no, no, Yamamoto
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  Speaker 2: is the clear four, and then you can go from
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  Speaker 2: five on. So I was kind of playing in my
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  Speaker 2: flag a little early. Admittedly, we all knew he was good.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't think he was going to be as amazing
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  Speaker 2: as he was in the playoffs. But I was ready
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  Speaker 2: to be on Yamamoto as a top five bankable guy
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  Speaker 2: right away. The playoffs certainly helped, and again on the
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  Speaker 2: best team in baseball.
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  Speaker 5: Now.
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  Speaker 2: Part of that is actually a little bit of a
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  Speaker 2: detractor in fantasy because of the way they manage their pitchers,
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  Speaker 2: because they're always working toward October. They don't care about
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  Speaker 2: your fantasy wins. They don't care about your fantasy innings.
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  Speaker 2: And I understand that, right I'm not one of these
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  Speaker 2: dweds that's gonna go yell at a manager on Twitter
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that, but you have to be mindful
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  Speaker 2: of that. I do think that that maybe discounts Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: a little bit. I think Yamamoto is a bit of
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  Speaker 2: an exception, though. I think they're paying all this money
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  Speaker 2: for him to be a true ace, to be there
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  Speaker 2: all throughout the regular season and the playoffs as well,
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  Speaker 2: So I think he's somebody who bank on for thirty
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  Speaker 2: plus starts of high quality work. I think he is
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  Speaker 2: the number four, maybe even the number three. I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to put him up above Crochet push come to shove,
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  Speaker 2: though I still kept Crochet at three.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well, part of fantasy can kind of go
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  Speaker 3: over into a little bit of a line line setting
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  Speaker 3: and Cy Young when you're looking at cy Young picks
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  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the year or your sleeper sleeper
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  Speaker 3: fantasy pick, m hmm to me, I go down into
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  Speaker 3: your ten, eleven and fourteen range where you have where
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  Speaker 3: you have Cole Reagan's, Brian wu and George Kirby. Are
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  Speaker 3: there any other picks for you that could be a
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  Speaker 3: Cy Young type of year this year, just based on
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  Speaker 3: how things kind of went last year and how they
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  Speaker 3: could trend or they could continue to trend up for
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  Speaker 3: next year.
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  Speaker 2: If we had talked this time last year or sometime
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  Speaker 2: in the spring, I'd been killing this team for their
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  Speaker 2: pitching or lack thereof, and all of a sudden a
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  Speaker 2: year later, the Baltimore Orioles I think have two sneaky
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  Speaker 2: candidates in both Kyle Bradish and Trevor Rodgers been really
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  Speaker 2: pleased with their offseason. I was kind of wondering where
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  Speaker 2: this was last year, because we know they got the
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  Speaker 2: check book was open for Elias and they didn't really
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  Speaker 2: go out and get anybody. Maybe he just didn't like
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  Speaker 2: the market, you know, he didn't go for Burns. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: that blew up in Arizona. Pitchers get hurt. That just happens.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think they knew he was going to get
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  Speaker 2: hurt or anything, but I was like, what are they
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  Speaker 2: doing with their pitch? Well, Rodgers blew up for them
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  Speaker 2: and looks like a stud. Bradish came back, and I
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  Speaker 2: think both of those guys could be in contention, especially
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  Speaker 2: if this is a team that is playing to their max.
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  Speaker 2: I heard you guys talking about Alansa before I came on.
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  Speaker 2: I totally agree that he could surprise some folks in
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  Speaker 2: that park. He has everywhere power. And I'm not even
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  Speaker 2: so sure about the yosemity part there where you said
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  Speaker 2: he couldn't hit it out of there. I think we
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  Speaker 2: need to test that theory because maybe the polar Bear could.
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  Speaker 2: But I really really like what Baltimore's doing here. I
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  Speaker 2: like Bradish, I like Rodgers. I think both of them
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  Speaker 2: could be sneaky ale guys in addition to the guys
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned Reagan's Wu, Kirby. The thing of it is
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  Speaker 2: you never go for a favorite in a sy Young
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  Speaker 2: or MVP type bet that just burn your money at
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  Speaker 2: that point. That's so boring, it's lame. There's no sense
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  Speaker 2: in doing it. You're trying to look for the guy
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  Speaker 2: who's really going to rise up. And I think those
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  Speaker 2: five Reagan's, Kirby, Wu, the three that you mentioned, and
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  Speaker 2: then Bradish and Trevor Rodgers both for the Orioles. I
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  Speaker 2: think those are five really interesting candidates that could be
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  Speaker 2: in that Cy Young talk all year.
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  Speaker 5: Next year.
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to argue this one because of the fact
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  Speaker 3: that that's what we do with lists. We argue about him,
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily that you know, this is who's next to
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  Speaker 3: each other, but Freddy Peralta I feel like should be
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  Speaker 3: higher on this list. Chris Sale has him by one
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  Speaker 3: by one, Stitch, I think you had Sale at sixteen,
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  Speaker 3: Freddy p at seventeen. I felt like the moves Freddy
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  Speaker 3: May last year moved him up into the top ten range.
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  Speaker 3: Do you have a reason why you kept him out
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  Speaker 3: of the top ten?
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  Speaker 2: I think because we still haven't. I mean, I try
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  Speaker 2: not to judge guys too harshly on not having huge
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  Speaker 2: volume because that's not the game we're in anymore. So
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  Speaker 2: I don't really bad guys that too much. But when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to my top ten, I want to have
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  Speaker 2: seen a two hundred inning season, and I know that
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  Speaker 2: that is becoming increasingly rare, and he's really been more
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  Speaker 2: of that one to seventy five type. I will say this,
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  Speaker 2: and not to take myself off the hook. I appreciate
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  Speaker 2: the pushback here on Parolta, but I am a little
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  Speaker 2: bit higher than the industry right now on him. So
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  Speaker 2: I am on the Parolta train, but maybe I move
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  Speaker 2: him up a little bit higher because I'm a per
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  Speaker 2: innings guy. We can't predict health, and we cannot predict
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  Speaker 2: the guys that are gonna, you know, stay healthy all
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  Speaker 2: year for thirty two plus starts. There's a few guys
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  Speaker 2: each year that can do that. So give me the
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  Speaker 2: most talented guys. That's why I have somebody like Bike
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  Speaker 2: Snell ranked twelfth. I understand that he has like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: eighty innings the last three years in the regular season,
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  Speaker 2: but he's so good when he pitches. Peralta's a case
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  Speaker 2: like that, So I really do think you can make
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  Speaker 2: a strong case to move him up right there with
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  Speaker 2: Reagan's woo and Snell in that ten eleven twelve range,
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  Speaker 2: and I will take that an under invisement before these
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  Speaker 2: go out later this week.
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  Speaker 5: I love that, Paul. I love that.
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  Speaker 1: I love the energy and the analysis there, and then
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  Speaker 1: I'm excited to get the feedback. You know, it's always
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  Speaker 1: a super kind and just full of appreciation from everybody
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  Speaker 1: that reads it. But really you look inside and you know, hey,
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  Speaker 1: at least they read it and there's interest there despite
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  Speaker 1: what they say.
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  Speaker 5: It's good debate.
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  Speaker 1: On our way out, I just want to reiterate this too.
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  Speaker 1: You love playing out of the park baseball, so do
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  Speaker 1: I again, just to remind everyone eighty percent off running
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  Speaker 1: right now, there it is plus a perfect points sale.
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  Speaker 1: It is nine to ninety nine, as Paul said, for
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  Speaker 1: at least one night, but for many people, many many
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  Speaker 1: nights of entertainment. So, Paul, can you just tell us
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  Speaker 1: either your favorite part of OTP twenty six Because they
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  Speaker 1: update each year pretty significantly, That's why some people are like,
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  Speaker 1: well I have twenty five. No, no, you got to
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  Speaker 1: get twenty six. So can you tell us one of
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  Speaker 1: your favorite parts of why you play? I know, for me,
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  Speaker 1: I always wanted to do the GM.
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  Speaker 5: Be like a GM, but obviously not actually be a GM.
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  Speaker 1: And also I wanted it to be so realistic that
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  Speaker 1: things pop up that really do happen, even though they
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  Speaker 1: seem crazy.
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  Speaker 5: And you know what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Every scenario you can ever think of pops up in OTP,
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  Speaker 1: which is just like real life.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I, Hey, your player got caught in.
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  Speaker 1: A betting scandal or hey, like everything happens, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how real life is it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I had Lad Junior leave for the NBA
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  Speaker 2: one year in a SIM in an OTP twenty four
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  Speaker 2: sim he left to become a point guard in the
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  Speaker 2: NBA was pretty hilarious, except the fact that I lost
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  Speaker 2: lat Junior. It was not that funny to me, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they've got everything.
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  Speaker 4: That's the base.
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  Speaker 2: Game, where you can take a team over, you can
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  Speaker 2: go back in history if you want, you can go
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  Speaker 2: from today forward. But I also focus heavily on the
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  Speaker 2: perfect team aspect, which is similar to Diamond Dynasty if
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  Speaker 2: you're familiar with MLB, the show where you collect cards
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  Speaker 2: based on historical players, put your team together and go
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  Speaker 2: against other people. This year, the expansive content that we've
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  Speaker 2: had with the art team bringing in more and more
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  Speaker 2: licensing so we've got actual pictures of guys has really
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  Speaker 2: been at our best level yet. So every year we're
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  Speaker 2: trying to improve that and leverage the licenses that we
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  Speaker 2: have so that we can show more and more player
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  Speaker 2: faces and just kind of create more flair for the
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  Speaker 2: cards because the aesthetic value, like it's cool to show
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  Speaker 2: off that you got the cool looking card too, right.
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  Speaker 2: It's great that he plays well and he simulates well
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  Speaker 2: and he's helping you win tournaments in league, but it's
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  Speaker 2: also neat that it looks cool, because we like things
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  Speaker 2: that look cool in video games. So I've been really
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  Speaker 2: really impressed with how well our art team has done
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  Speaker 2: this year. Our tournament suite, like what we offer for
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  Speaker 2: you to be able to do in the Perfect Team
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  Speaker 2: game is just so expansive. So whether you're new to
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  Speaker 2: OTP or you've been playing the Bass game and want
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  Speaker 2: to come over to Perfect Team, there's so much to do.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of fun. The discord, all the people
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  Speaker 2: on Twitch. Great, great community too, that's always willing to
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  Speaker 2: help newcomers because it is a lot to take on.
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  Speaker 2: It's a deep, rich game of baseball nerddom. But the
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  Speaker 2: people once you get in and start meeting the community,
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  Speaker 2: so many people willing to help you because we want
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  Speaker 2: the friendly competition of it all. It's not like, oh
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to make somebody better because they might
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  Speaker 2: beat me. It's like, hey, we want everyone to be
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  Speaker 2: good because it's fun to having a competitive environment in
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  Speaker 2: Perfect Team.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's probably the friendliest environment out there community out
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  Speaker 1: there in like the baseball space, right, like just super supportive. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great community.
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  Speaker 2: I mean they're always Yeah, the way they build up
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  Speaker 2: like for the base game, like the mods that they
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  Speaker 2: do for stadiums and rosters and face gen like some
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  Speaker 2: like aftermarket stuff. Basically we're talking here. People create faces
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  Speaker 2: for the entire Negro leagues or the entire MLB history
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  Speaker 2: that you can load in and play with. So there's
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  Speaker 2: so much great stuff I can't I couldn't even do
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  Speaker 2: an hour with y'all to get in everything. That wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: even be enough time. That's how rich the game is.
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  Speaker 2: But ten bucks, you will not regret it because again
• 14:10
  Speaker 2: you'll at least get one solid night out of it,
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: and that's worth ten bucks any day.
• 14:14
  Speaker 5: Yep, exactly.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: My thing was, Yeah, I'm not in and on an
• 14:17
  Speaker 1: everyday basis like you are, but when I do jump
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: in it on certain special occasions, you feel like you're
• 14:23
  Speaker 1: part of the group, which I love, and it's hard
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: to do that.
• 14:26
  Speaker 5: Most groups will be like, who are you?
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: You're just stopping by here, you know a few times
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: a year to do some type of you know, live
• 14:32
  Speaker 1: twitch sim or something like that.
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: But it's been awesome. So I just wanted to shout
• 14:35
  Speaker 5: out the community there and.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Call you the glad that we keep it inviting y'all
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: in and we love that. Y'all have had me on
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: to talk about the game a few times too. I
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: really do appreciate that.
• 14:43
  Speaker 5: Guys. Thank you. Anytime, man.
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: We'll do it again next year, okay, So have a
• 14:47
  Speaker 1: great holiday, Happy New Year to you, and good luck
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: when your list comes out, we'll be looking at the
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: article and the comments.
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: Thanks, gentlemen, Take care.
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: The newest member of the Pittsburgh Pirates is here, Brandon
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: Lau joining us right now, just a few days after
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: the tradeover from the Rais and a great run with
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay. Brandon, good to see you man. Happy holidays.
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: And what was your reaction when you got the phone call?
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks for having me on.
• 15:14
  Speaker 6: A lot of mixed emotions on it, honestly, you know,
• 15:16
  Speaker 6: we're kind of expecting it. We got a little bit
• 15:19
  Speaker 6: of the heads up from Eric, so you know, absolutely
• 15:22
  Speaker 6: didn't have to do that, and so it was a
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: great thing on his part to do. But yeah, it
• 15:26
  Speaker 6: was just you know, closing a chapter in Tampa. But
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: on the flip side of things, going to a team
• 15:32
  Speaker 6: that's you know, showing a whill to go get guys
• 15:35
  Speaker 6: and really kind of get into that win.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: Now, what is a heads up? What is it like, Hey,
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: in two hours, this could happen. Hey we're talking and
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: a week out, a week later it happened.
• 15:48
  Speaker 6: It was more of hey man, it's talks are really
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: starting to kick up a little bit. And I mean,
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: you know how things work. It's I've been around the
• 15:57
  Speaker 6: Rays for a while. You understand the big this model
• 16:00
  Speaker 6: and how things work over there, and you know, you
• 16:03
  Speaker 6: start to play GM in your own head, so you
• 16:06
  Speaker 6: kind of understand that this makes too much sense to
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: move me now. So it kind of it just all
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: kind of came together and you kind of started putting
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: the puzzle pieces together yourself. It was more of a
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: of a you know, a couple of days of you know,
• 16:21
  Speaker 6: this really started ramping up. I would you know, be
• 16:24
  Speaker 6: prepared look into something happening.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: Do they tell you? Do they tell you what teams
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: are are asking? And did you think it was going
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: to be the Pirates when Eric called you? You're talking
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: about Eric Neander for anybody?
• 16:40
  Speaker 5: Does he doesn't.
• 16:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, he kind of gave me just like a list
• 16:44
  Speaker 6: and he's like, hey, these are the teams. Like I
• 16:46
  Speaker 6: can't tell you one is going to be the thing,
• 16:48
  Speaker 6: because you know, I mean the Pirates could have offered
• 16:52
  Speaker 6: one thing and then you know another team swoop in
• 16:55
  Speaker 6: with a better deal and they would have done that one.
• 16:56
  Speaker 6: So it's more just hey, these are some of the
• 17:00
  Speaker 6: people that are you know, searching around for to trade
• 17:04
  Speaker 6: for you, and you know, we just want to give
• 17:05
  Speaker 6: you that heads up.
• 17:08
  Speaker 7: Have the pirates talked to you about you know, where
• 17:10
  Speaker 7: you're going to play, what positions and you know what
• 17:13
  Speaker 7: what they think about you and where you're gonna where
• 17:15
  Speaker 7: you're gonna be pretty much?
• 17:17
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean there's been there's been a lot of
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: phone calls the past few days. I've been, uh, probably
• 17:21
  Speaker 6: used up my words for the next month and a
• 17:23
  Speaker 6: half all the talking I've had to do. But yeah,
• 17:26
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's it seems that second base is going
• 17:28
  Speaker 6: to be the primary focus and then you know, whatever
• 17:31
  Speaker 6: else they ask of it. But you know, I'm excited
• 17:35
  Speaker 6: to get out there and be in a position that
• 17:37
  Speaker 6: I'm comfortable with.
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: Can you tell us the other teams that Eric told
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: you about that Eric Neander told you about when during
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: that process.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: I don't want to get on any anyone's bad side
• 17:50
  Speaker 6: or anything that way.
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know if he would want me to share
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: that or if the other teams would.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: I don't.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: That's fine, No, I'm not. I'm not gonna press you,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: but I want to press you about one thing. You said,
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: you know how the Rays go. You know how you
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: don't even need to listen or read MLB trade rumors
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: or anything like that. You knew where you were at
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: in your contract. You knew how the Rays deal with
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: guys and at the end of their contracts. How does
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: the end of the season go for you? Because it's
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: really all you've known. You know, you've only hit dangers
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: for the Rays. Do you start pat Well, you always
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: have to pack your stuff up because you guys weren't
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: gonna be in Steinbrenner again. So that's a good thing.
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: But is it Is it a different end to the
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: season when you guys made like a little mini run
• 18:32
  Speaker 3: right at the end to try to make the playoffs,
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: and then when it's over, do you have it? Was
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: it a different kind of ending to the season than
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: other years?
• 18:42
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean I think it's it was a very
• 18:45
  Speaker 6: similar to the way that things ended in the previous year.
• 18:49
  Speaker 6: You know, we did make that little run, but it
• 18:52
  Speaker 6: wasn't sustained enough for it to really get really interesting
• 18:56
  Speaker 6: there down the stretch. I mean, we started playing some
• 19:00
  Speaker 6: you call it garbage time ball games there at the end.
• 19:03
  Speaker 6: You know, we were out of it, and we were
• 19:04
  Speaker 6: just kind of playing baseball at that point, which it's
• 19:07
  Speaker 6: not upset about.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: But you know, it's just.
• 19:10
  Speaker 6: You knew that you weren't playing for the postseason, so
• 19:13
  Speaker 6: you know, those games are always not as much fun.
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: All Right.
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: You said you've used up all your words, so you
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: can use up more of your words here. Well, I
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: want to know what the pirates talk to you about,
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: because some people think it's just oh man, they traded
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: for Brandon Lao. Okay, Brandon you're on the team seeing
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: Bradenton in a few months. Like, what do they talk
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: to you about? And are you kind of like, why
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: did they call me to tell me this?
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: No?
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: I mean it's all been extremely helpful stuff.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, I've talked with Sharon Ton, I've talked with DK,
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: the manager, the hitting coaches, you know, I just had
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: a trainer reach out, you know, the clubhouse guys. Everybody's
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: trying to get in touch with you to you know,
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: not only make their introductions, but you know, try to
• 20:00
  Speaker 6: get you settled in any way possible, you know, try
• 20:04
  Speaker 6: to get any questions that you have answered anything like that. So,
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: I mean, it was everything's been extremely helpful, trying to
• 20:12
  Speaker 6: get us ready, But you know, it's nothing's going to
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: be normal until you actually get there in person and start,
• 20:19
  Speaker 6: you know, building that relationship.
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: Hey, Brandon, I want to talk recruiting for a moment.
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: This didn't have to happen because you were traded, but
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: it has been reported that the Pirates might tap into
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: one of the best pictures on the planet. Paul schemes
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: to make some phone calls to make the team better.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: Sounds like that makes a ton of sense to me,
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: as long as the money can back it up for
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the free agent to want to be there in the
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: fit the whole deal. So, first off, have you spoken
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: to Paul at all yet? I'll go on that one
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: first and then i'll give you the next one here,
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: But have you spoken to him? And at the very least,
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: how excited are you to be teammates with him? He's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: pretty business like with how ridiculously good he's been so
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: far in his first couple of seasons.
• 21:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Absolutely, I've not talked to Paul yet, but speaking on,
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: you know, being a teammate with.
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: Him, I mean, it's.
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: Probably the best picture in the big leagues right now.
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: So he's a it's a pretty good guy. To have
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: on your team. So I'm excited to kind of see
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: the behind the scenes work of it all. You know,
• 21:21
  Speaker 6: playing against him and seeing it on TV and stuff
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: like that, you understand that, you know, he's got electric
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: stuff and you can throw it where he wants to.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: But being a baseball player and understanding the process of everything,
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: you understand that stuff doesn't happen just overnight with with
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: no work. So I'm excited to see everything else that
• 21:38
  Speaker 6: kind of goes on, you know, see the hard work
• 21:41
  Speaker 6: that he puts in, you know, see what he does
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: to truly get out there and be that dominant and
• 21:47
  Speaker 6: understand that he's not just waking up every fifth day
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: and going out and throwing seven Shetty.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: My next question on the recruiting front, do you have
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: it in you to help the pirates? They ask you
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: for a phone caller too. I know you're new to
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: the party, but you're one of the veteran bats here,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and specifically it could be a phone call for a
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: former teammate, like a potential high leverage, you know, reliever
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: out there, like like you know someone that's named rhymes
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: with Tearbanks something like that, right, Just would you be
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: able to make phone calls like that comfortably to help
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: a team that is hopefully on the rise, hasn't seen
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: much playoff success or really appearances in general in a while,
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: and are trying to convince the them base like, Hey,
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: we're in this. We just brought in Brandon Lound, We've
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: got some money to spend on some other guys.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't.
• 22:35
  Speaker 6: I think that would be difficult for me to speak
• 22:38
  Speaker 6: on the intricacies and everything that works within the Pirates
• 22:42
  Speaker 6: organization and stuff, you know, for me to try to
• 22:45
  Speaker 6: call somebody that rhymes with that name and tell him that,
• 22:48
  Speaker 6: you know, the pitching staff is incredible, and you know,
• 22:50
  Speaker 6: the pitching coaches are great. Like, I can't speak on
• 22:53
  Speaker 6: any of that. I've not been around it. I don't
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: know what they're going to be talking about. So, I mean,
• 22:59
  Speaker 6: I think Paul and probably Reynolds are your best guys
• 23:02
  Speaker 6: to to be out there. I'm by all means, if
• 23:06
  Speaker 6: somebody wants to talk to me and you know, one
• 23:09
  Speaker 6: wants to hear my two cents on everything, I'll absolutely
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: share it. But right now I feel like that that
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: comes with a grain of salt. You know, it's I've
• 23:17
  Speaker 6: not truly been around it. But you know, I've been
• 23:20
  Speaker 6: welcomed in with open arms, and you know, the fan
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: base has been great so far, and I'm excited to
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: see what it all all takes in when we get
• 23:29
  Speaker 6: up to to Pittsburgh this year.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: What do you know about Pittsburgh? What do you know
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: about the fans? What do you know about like, what
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: have you thought about the stadium when you've when you've
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: come into the city to play, Because something people don't
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: know is the Troup was not the most friend hit
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: or friendly place to hit, and yet you've hit a
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: ton of dingers. People look at it and they go,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: oh yeah, but he gets to play in Yankee Stadium.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Like when your home field is the trop and you
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: were left handed, it actually squat power and you look
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: at P and C Park and they got that nice
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: little Clemente wall for you. And I honestly believe right
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: center is a joke because it's short and it's straight across.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: But what do you know about the fan base, the
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: the field, the you know, the things that you've liked
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: or disliked when you've come in to play against the Pirates.
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: Yes, I mean I've played three games total in the stadium,
• 24:26
  Speaker 6: in my career, which uh so I don't have much
• 24:28
  Speaker 6: of a feel of a whole lot of things of it.
• 24:31
  Speaker 6: But I mean it's one of the best stadiums in baseball.
• 24:34
  Speaker 6: Like you go in there, the back drop of the city,
• 24:36
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's gorgeous, the playing surface, everything about it's
• 24:41
  Speaker 6: a really cool place to go play. So that in
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: and of itself is is really exciting. And then you
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: just you know the city of Pittsburgh, you know, the
• 24:49
  Speaker 6: way they support the Steelers, and just like the way
• 24:52
  Speaker 6: that the fan base is, you know, they're they're they're
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: just waiting for the team to be good. And you know,
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: I think there's a real opportunity for them to make
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: this team pretty good and get those fans out there
• 25:05
  Speaker 6: and you know, make that place really loud and rocking.
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: And I'm excited to hit there.
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 25:11
  Speaker 6: It seems like a very good spot for a left
• 25:12
  Speaker 6: handed hitter to go play.
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: Oh oh, we're good.
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: I'm sitting on a table right now and one of the.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: One of the turkeys shoot back at you. Is that
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: what happened? And shut your phone.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's just getting really loud in here.
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: So do you know about the I mean, I guess
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: this is all new to the party, but do you
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: know about one of the top prospects in baseball in
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin. I know it's been reported he might have
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: a shot to crack the team out of spring training.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: I'm sure you'll get to know him.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: But you've had a lot of experience with young players
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: coming through the Rais system. I mean, it's no secret
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: that they churn out prospects and they often have to
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: create a lot of turnover to open up a spot
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: for someone else based on budget restriction stuff like that.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: So you know, how.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Would you handle working with someone who could be one
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: of the youngest players in Major League Baseball? And it's
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: not just mentoring, which I know you've done really well
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: with the race. This might be your double play partner.
• 26:14
  Speaker 6: Right yeah, I mean, if he's the guy at shortstop,
• 26:17
  Speaker 6: I mean, it's first off to begin this whole I've
• 26:20
  Speaker 6: heard nothing but incredible things about who he is as
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: a as a player and as an athlete. So I mean,
• 26:26
  Speaker 6: that's it's pretty exciting stuff when you hear, you know,
• 26:31
  Speaker 6: people that are very respected or that that I hold
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: very highly. You know, the words that they say about
• 26:37
  Speaker 6: certain players and for them to speak so highly of Connor.
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: I'm excited to see exactly what it looks like in
• 26:43
  Speaker 6: person and on the field. And you know, as for
• 26:47
  Speaker 6: you know, a guy being young in the big leagues
• 26:49
  Speaker 6: or anything like that, I don't. I don't think that
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: age is your defining factor. You know, there are definitely
• 26:55
  Speaker 6: multiple things that go into it. You know, you don't
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: get to this position in baseball and be a highly
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: talented prospect the way that he is without an extreme
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: work ethic and a drive to be one of the
• 27:07
  Speaker 6: best players you know in baseball. So that's really, you know,
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: all you really need to hear and really need to
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: see out of a guy. You know that he's going
• 27:15
  Speaker 6: to work his tail off to be good. And you know,
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: as for anything that I can do, I can just truly,
• 27:21
  Speaker 6: I could probably just answer questions for him. He's probably
• 27:24
  Speaker 6: an extremely good hitter, an extremely good defender, and there's
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: a reason he's the number one prospect in baseball. You know,
• 27:30
  Speaker 6: I'm just there to put up some guidelines for him.
• 27:33
  Speaker 7: Maybe that's all that's all you can ask. My last
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: question would be, like anything you want to say to
• 27:40
  Speaker 7: the Tampa fans that you were there for a while.
• 27:43
  Speaker 7: You know, he had a good time there. I know
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: you did and you played well. So anything you want
• 27:46
  Speaker 7: to let them know about.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, just from the bottom of my heart, thank
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: you guys.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: I mean it's it's never easy, you know, going in
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: somewhere and not knowing the city, not knowing the fan
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: base or anything like that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: But they made it very easy.
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: You know.
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: They took me and my family in from from the
• 28:05
  Speaker 6: start and we called it home. Man. That was everything
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: we knew and we loved it. And I'll always be
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: thankful to Tampa Bay and and everything they've done.
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: You have to pick because other shows are like, well,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: you know, I can't pick. You got to pick who
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: are you going to miss the most? Besides Chad Mattola,
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: the hitting coach there in Tampa, who are you going
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: to miss the most? And then everyone else can shoot
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: you a text and be like, are you serious, bro?
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: You miss Yandi the most?
• 28:37
  Speaker 6: No, I mean there's so many, so many of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 6: guys that are gonna miss. Honestly, I gotta say the Rasmussen's,
• 28:45
  Speaker 6: the and the family as a whole. Man. It's that's
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: that's the part that really makes this the most difficult
• 28:52
  Speaker 6: is not is understanding that my son and their son
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: aren't going to be playing with each other every day.
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: You know, they everywhere that they went, Man, it was
• 29:01
  Speaker 6: like there's two were attached to the hip. So that's
• 29:03
  Speaker 6: that's the toughest. Toughest part of this whole move is
• 29:06
  Speaker 6: understanding that they're not going to see each other every day.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: How hard? How hard is it on your wife? How hard?
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I mean, obviously your son is how old is he three?
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: Now? He's about turn three?
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: Okay, how hard is it on your wife? We rarely
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: get into it because it's players talking to players, but
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: you mentioned it, so I have to ask when that
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: call came in, how hard was it? And who was
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: the first text or phone call that she got from
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: one of her friends.
• 29:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean it's extremely tough. That's the hardest part
• 29:39
  Speaker 6: honestly about the business is you know, it just it
• 29:42
  Speaker 6: rips friendships away from you. And you know, you can
• 29:45
  Speaker 6: you can do whatever you want to keep that friendship
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: going and talking with people and you know, over phone
• 29:53
  Speaker 6: and stuff like that, but you know, when you're not
• 29:55
  Speaker 6: with them every day for seven months like you usually are,
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: you tend to drift a little bit. So those are
• 30:03
  Speaker 6: difficult because you make those relationships, you have those friends
• 30:06
  Speaker 6: for the better half eight years. But I think the
• 30:10
  Speaker 6: first phone call that she got was actually Blair Reynolds
• 30:14
  Speaker 6: like called her and was like, you're with the Pirates, Like,
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: I can't wait, I'm so excited. So I think Blair
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: actually broke the news to her because she didn't have
• 30:21
  Speaker 6: her phone with her when I was texting her.
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: Wow, that's good, that's good. Hey, that's what happens. You
• 30:32
  Speaker 5: know the speed game, Brandon.
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's suddenly it's a thing, it comes out,
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: it's fast, and then everybody knows about it. So I'm
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: glad man, I'm glad to see you end up in
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: a spot that I think you know, has a lot
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: of promise. It's coming season, depending on what they do
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the rest of the off season, so we'll look forward
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: to seeing in spring training. But thanks for joining us, dude,
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: and also enjoy the trip you're on and have a
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: great holiday.
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: I appreciate you guys. Thanks for having me on