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MLB's rigged baseball mystery just got weirder! Eno Sarris unveils what we know · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Oh, the baseballs. The drama always always pops up with
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Speaker 1: the baseballs, crats. Is that a yellow baseball or a
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Speaker 1: white baseball?
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Speaker 2: Well?
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Speaker 3: I asked Major League Baseball and they said, because I've
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Speaker 3: been holding this ball during the show, there's a little
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Speaker 3: bit of oil that's coming off of it, so there's nothing.
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Speaker 4: Wrong with it.
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Speaker 3: There's no way the oil and the yellow baseballs are
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Speaker 3: making it go farther. What do you have to say
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Speaker 3: about that? Emo?
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Speaker 1: You know Sarrus who wrote the article with Evan Dralkus here,
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Speaker 1: you know, thanks for putting up with our act. What's
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Speaker 1: going on here?
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Speaker 3: Dude?
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Speaker 2: A bad trump?
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry? Was that a trump or?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, it was not a trumpet?
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Speaker 3: Is that what it sounded like?
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Speaker 2: I think that was nerd some of these.
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Speaker 3: That was That was my Major League Baseball PR team going,
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Speaker 3: we don't know anything, Oily baseballs tell us.
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Speaker 2: Eno, Yeah, No, I mean that was the I think
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Speaker 2: that's so hard about this recent one. Also, the ball
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Speaker 2: thing has been going on forever. Twenty nineteen, the ball
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Speaker 2: was different, and we had the Year of the home Run.
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Speaker 2: That was a nutty, nutty year where we broke all
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Speaker 2: the home runs records and drag recently has started to
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Speaker 2: look like twenty nineteen in June, and so the ball's
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Speaker 2: flying further. You know. That's how I noticed, And so
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Speaker 2: you know, they publicly keep dragging. So I started asking around.
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Speaker 2: I tweeted about it, and a couple people who had
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Speaker 2: gotten a memo from Major League Baseball early in the
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Speaker 2: season in spring training told me they got a memo
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Speaker 2: from Major League Baseball saying, sorry, the balls are splotchy.
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Speaker 2: They're splotchy yellow. There's oil seeking through. Fifty percent of
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Speaker 2: the balls are affected. We can't throw them all away
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Speaker 2: because we make too many balls over the course of
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Speaker 2: the season. We can't just make new ones, and so
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Speaker 2: you know, you're just kind of have to deal with it.
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Speaker 2: We tested them, it says they're about the same, and
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Speaker 2: so they But basically is happening is a lot of
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Speaker 2: the catchers are throwing away the splotchiest balls, the grossest balls.
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Speaker 2: There might be some oil, like they might actually feel crappy,
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Speaker 2: you know, So they're being thrown away before they get
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Speaker 2: to the picture. I think the umpires will throw some away,
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Speaker 2: so they're trying to cycle through them as fast as possible.
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Speaker 2: But when you take these two facts, splotchy ball problem
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Speaker 2: with oil on it, and then drag like you've never seen.
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Speaker 2: I mean, look at this chart. You know, yes it
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Speaker 2: changes from season to season, but this year is just
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Speaker 2: like like, just look at twenty twenty six. We have
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Speaker 2: never had a season like that. And so when they said, oh,
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Speaker 2: these two things aren't linked, I was a little incredulous
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Speaker 2: because it's like, come on, like, these are two facts
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Speaker 2: that seem to be linked, and you know, maybe we
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Speaker 2: just don't know what the link is. Maybe with warmer temperature,
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Speaker 2: more of the oil is seeking out, or you know,
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Speaker 2: whatever it is, but these two facts seem too close
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Speaker 2: to each other to say they're not related. I agree, did.
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Speaker 3: They And I'm a big conspiracy theorist, but I'm also
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Speaker 3: backing it with just what I see and the fact
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Speaker 3: that you were able to show us the drag. Something's
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Speaker 3: different about the ball. Did you ask them or the
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Speaker 3: quote unquote rep from Major League Baseball? Was that rep
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Speaker 3: asked why is their oil seeping through? Did they use
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Speaker 3: a different string inside the ball or were they wrapping
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Speaker 3: the string tighter to make a harder baseball that then
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Speaker 3: made the drag reduced And somehow oil's leaking out of
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Speaker 3: the string.
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Speaker 2: Now in some of them, well, yeah, it is weird
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Speaker 2: because they all they partially owned Rawlings, so they they
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Speaker 2: sort of own the means of production and they partially
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Speaker 2: own it with Seidler partners, so it's kind of like
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Speaker 2: they own Rawlings. I mean, we have to say partially
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Speaker 2: because that's legally what it is. But they they can
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Speaker 2: tell Rawlings what to do, and they changed. I don't
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Speaker 2: know what they changed, but there's been there was more
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Speaker 2: oil put on, you know, part of the process than usual,
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Speaker 2: and that's what's that's what's seeping through. They blamed on
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Speaker 2: a yarn supplier, so they said it was it was
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Speaker 2: some of the yarn they got was too oily. I
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Speaker 2: mean that that doesn't make that much sense to me.
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Speaker 2: I don't I don't think of the yarn being super oily.
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Speaker 2: But I'm not making these balls, so whatever is possible.
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Speaker 2: But you know, just the idea that like they own
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Speaker 2: the means of production, this mistake was made. They didn't
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Speaker 2: tell the public. They just told the players, and in fact,
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Speaker 2: most of the players I talked to hadn't even heard
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Speaker 2: of that memo. And then I talked to front offices
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Speaker 2: and nobody I talked to three gms. I talked to
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Speaker 2: directors of pitching pitching coaches. None of them had heard
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Speaker 2: that the balls were different. So you know, once again,
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Speaker 2: I don't think that they're very good at communication internally,
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Speaker 2: and maybe they didn't really want everybody to know about
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Speaker 2: this because they were kind of hoping that nothing would happen.
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Speaker 2: And maybe the weirdest thing, and this is in their favor,
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Speaker 2: the weirdest thing, is that April and May were kind
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Speaker 2: of normal. I mean, you look back at that graph,
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Speaker 2: April and May looked like last year. It's June where
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Speaker 2: everything has gone all crazy. So I think their stomachs
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Speaker 2: kind of took a lurch in June. This is what
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Speaker 2: you're looking at here is batted ball distances in domes.
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Speaker 2: So that's like weather, accounting for weather, and it's we
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Speaker 2: use barrels, and barrels are a type of ball that
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Speaker 2: are hit really well in the air, So you're accounting
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Speaker 2: for how well the ball is hit and you're accounting
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Speaker 2: for weather. And you can see that in June, we've
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Speaker 2: seen this huge increase, this eight foot increase in barreled
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Speaker 2: balls in how far they're going, and that increase is
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Speaker 2: the biggest in the stack cast era. So we have
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Speaker 2: something happening. It is definitely happening. Like what the source
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Speaker 2: of it is, I guess it's still a mystery, you know.
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Speaker 2: But set against this manufacturing error, I feel like there's
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Speaker 2: got to be a link.
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Speaker 5: Two quick comments on EEno just for me, real quick one. Emo,
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Speaker 5: I think you need to unblur your background. Man, it
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Speaker 5: looks like you got some pretty sweet stuff back there.
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Speaker 5: People need to be able to check it out behind
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Speaker 5: you when you're talking. And then just personally, you know,
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Speaker 5: I played nine years in the major leagues and anytime
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Speaker 5: I saw Eno in the locker room was a fun
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Speaker 5: day for me. Man anyone listening, he usually had the
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Speaker 5: most thoughtful questions throughout a year from the media side,
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Speaker 5: and he would usually seek me out with something pretty cool.
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Speaker 5: So I definitely I would tell anyone listening to go
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Speaker 5: check out ENO's stuff because he's talking about things that
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Speaker 5: not everyone talks about and thinking outside the box, and
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Speaker 5: a little bit goes with this Youno. But also at
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Speaker 5: the same time, I'm going to kind of go anti
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Speaker 5: what we're talking about a little bit and just say
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Speaker 5: what gives on some of this stuff? This goes back
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Speaker 5: to like twenty seventeen World Series for me, where Justin
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Speaker 5: Berlander was complaining about balls. He was trying to like
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Speaker 5: sign some balls and saying like the ink wouldn't even
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Speaker 5: go onto the balls. They had like a film on him.
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Speaker 5: That was the first time I remember hearing about some
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Speaker 5: of this, and then how it's ebbed and flowed. There's
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Speaker 5: stories of where like pool Holes and Judge were given
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Speaker 5: juice balls in the record setting home run season for
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Speaker 5: Judge and then the retirement season for pool Holes where
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Speaker 5: they were literally given hand given juice balls to you know, keep.
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Speaker 4: That narrative going.
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Speaker 5: Conspiracy Eric Kratz there. But what I'm saying is like
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Speaker 5: we write about this off and on throughout the years,
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Speaker 5: and even like the Aaron Judge one, which I think
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Speaker 5: was borderline proven. Maybe that's the conspiracy in me, but
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Speaker 5: that he was given juice balls, and these stories just
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Speaker 5: kind of come and they get a little bit of love,
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Speaker 5: and then they just disappear and nothing happens, and we
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Speaker 5: just accept that the balls are what they are. Is
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Speaker 5: that what you see when you write about it or
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Speaker 5: you talk about it. Are fans are they engaging? Are
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Speaker 5: they actually distraught and upset about any of this or
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Speaker 5: is it just another ho hum thing they read MLB's
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Speaker 5: rig and stuff. Let's move right along.
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Speaker 2: I think to some extent, you've decided it's rigular. You
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Speaker 2: have you decided it isn't. And so you know, if
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Speaker 2: you have decided it isn't, you're not that interested in
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Speaker 2: this ball story. You've decided it is, you just say, hey,
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Speaker 2: another example. I think you do bring up a bunch
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Speaker 2: of interesting ones. I've talked to Erlander at length about
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Speaker 2: this one. He actually once took me across the clubhouse
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Speaker 2: to the hitters in nineteen and he said, tell me
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Speaker 2: what you just told me, because that's something about the
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Speaker 2: ball being juiced. And so I had to tell Ian
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Speaker 2: Kinsler and all the hitters on the team that the
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Speaker 2: ball was juiced, and they're like, but what about this?
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Speaker 2: But what about this that I had to hose and
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Speaker 2: Verlanders totally like, yeah, I see you guys, aren't that good.
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Speaker 2: It's just the ball being juiced. That's like, thanks Justin,
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Speaker 2: But no, I think what is one thing that is
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Speaker 2: different is that we have with Hawkeye and track Man.
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Speaker 2: We have the ability to look at dragged directly and
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Speaker 2: in a way that we could didn't before. So I
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Speaker 2: think to some extent this was happening in past years
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Speaker 2: and we just didn't have the tools to be like, aha,
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Speaker 2: it's the ball right nineteen eighty seven And there was
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Speaker 2: a huge increase in home runs in nineteen eighty seven.
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Speaker 2: And now that we look back and we try to
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Speaker 2: figure out why was there just a big increase in
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven. There were changes in ball manufacturing, and
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Speaker 2: I believe that was a ball change that was the
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Speaker 2: nineteen eighty seven was the first twenty nineteen, you know,
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Speaker 2: And so I believe that some of the ebbs and
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Speaker 2: flows of offense over the course of the history of
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Speaker 2: the game have been due to the ball. In fact,
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Speaker 2: early early baseball, the ball looked completely different. It was
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Speaker 2: dead and weird and made out of just the weirdest stuff. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, now we've we've tried to dial in the ball,
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Speaker 2: and we've we had for four or five years relative normalcy. Uh,
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Speaker 2: this is the first year where it's like, what is
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Speaker 2: going on again? And the last thing I do want
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Speaker 2: to bring out the judge thing because what they I
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Speaker 2: believe that was a really interesting study by Bradford, And
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Speaker 2: you know what, what he and and his his expert,
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Speaker 2: you know what they what they found was that the
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Speaker 2: balls were from the same batch. They they proved that
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Speaker 2: the Pooh Holes ball and that the Judge ball they
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Speaker 2: were from the same batch. But one thing that you
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Speaker 2: do with balls that are going out to these things,
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Speaker 2: you have to you have to stamp them right like
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Speaker 2: if they're going to go, so they are going to
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Speaker 2: be from the same batch. Like, so I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: that that proves to me that they juiced balls that
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Speaker 2: they just they got one batch and they commemorated all
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Speaker 2: of them and they said, where are where do we
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Speaker 2: need commemorated balls? Where do we need like these balls
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Speaker 2: that have a stamp on them. We need them with
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Speaker 2: pool Holes, we need them with Judge. So I read
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Speaker 2: that story a little bit differently. But yeah, I think
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Speaker 2: the technology evolving to where we are now is why
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Speaker 2: we're super aware of the ball changes from year to year.
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Speaker 3: And what you know is talking about is the infrared
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Speaker 3: stamp that they put on the ball so that hey,
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Speaker 3: somebody catches pool Hoose's ball or somebody catches Judge's ball,
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Speaker 3: then it's an infrared stamp that's put on and you
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Speaker 3: can verify it.
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Speaker 2: It's authenticated. That's that's the authenticated.
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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you, thank you. Is this disingenuous by Major
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Speaker 3: League Baseball to be a the owner of the baseball
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Speaker 3: because we've seen it change. Whether they're doing it for
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Speaker 3: some type of malpractice, or they're doing it because in
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Speaker 3: my conspiracy theory, whoever's controlling the market with cost. If
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Speaker 3: position players become more expensive, let's soften the ball. Pitchers
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Speaker 3: become more expensive, let's harden the ball to increase offense.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's any correlation to that, but
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Speaker 3: doesn't that make it a little bit dishent or it
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Speaker 3: puts a variance in there that maybe Major League Baseball
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Speaker 3: shouldn't have any control of the baseball.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, it's an interesting idea because it it begs
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Speaker 2: the question. It makes us wonder, you know, I think
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Speaker 2: that that's a fair way of putting it. But to
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Speaker 2: give them as much grace as I can, they sent
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Speaker 2: the ball to UMass Lowell, you know, the splotchy ball,
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Speaker 2: the oily ball they spent. They sent it to U
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Speaker 2: Mass Lowell and asked, are these balls, you know, different
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Speaker 2: from other balls? They looked at the same height, they
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Speaker 2: looked at the weight, they looked at the bouncy iness,
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Speaker 2: they looked at the things that they could look at,
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Speaker 2: and they said, no, this this ball is the same.
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Speaker 2: You can use it. The one thing they didn't test,
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Speaker 2: which is super important. Drag is super important on a
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Speaker 2: three hundred foot fly ball. You know, a difference in
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Speaker 2: drag like we're seeing this year will add ten fifteen
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Speaker 2: feet and you know, ten fifteen feet to a three
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Speaker 2: hundred foot five ball. That could be the difference between
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Speaker 2: home or not. It's a really big, really big thing.
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Speaker 2: They didn't test drag because drag is something that they
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Speaker 2: would have to send to a different lab in Washington State.
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Speaker 2: You'd have to send to thousands of balls, and you
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Speaker 2: have to be a bigger deal. And since they said
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Speaker 2: the ball looks the same, the steam height is the same,
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Speaker 2: you know, UMass Lowel says it's the same. They just
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Speaker 2: went with it, and for a month it looked like
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Speaker 2: they were right, and then now it looks like they
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Speaker 2: were wrong. And yes, because they own most of rawlings
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Speaker 2: and because you know this is happening, and because they're
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Speaker 2: in league with betting, and because you know the game
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Speaker 2: is the way it is with the you know, the
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Speaker 2: labors the labor battle coming. Yeah, Like those are the
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Speaker 2: questions you come up with, like why why is this happening?
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Speaker 2: You know? And or did they just try to cut
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Speaker 2: costs on the ball making? Is that why the oil
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Speaker 2: seep through? You know? Like do tariffs have anything to
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Speaker 2: do with this? You know what I mean? Like these
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Speaker 2: are the kind of questions we have and they answer
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Speaker 2: some of them, but they don't seem to answer all
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Speaker 3: I like all those questions. I like all I like
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Speaker 3: asking those questions, and that's why I'm going to ask
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Speaker 3: this one to the humid doors, because in every stadium
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Speaker 3: now all the balls are held in humid doors. Am
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Speaker 3: I correct on that because before it was. Now it's
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Speaker 3: just everybody's level is different. Does that affect it?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's not. Everyone's the difference. So there's humid
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Speaker 2: doors in every park and for most of them, they're
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Speaker 2: all the same. They did change the humid door setting
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Speaker 2: in Colorado and I think Arizona to reflect that those
15:50
Speaker 2: places are super dry and have some altitude. So those
15:54
Speaker 2: are the only in Atlanta, Yeah, altitude, there's some Atlanta.
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Speaker 2: There's some altitude in Atlanta, so they're trying to I
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Speaker 2: guess quote unquote deaden the ball a little bit because
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Speaker 2: you know those places are high, you know. But the
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Speaker 2: humid or I do think the humid or could have
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Speaker 2: something to do with this, because what you do is
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Speaker 2: you make a ball, you send it somewhere, so it's
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Speaker 2: I don't think it's in a humid or. Maybe you can,
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Speaker 2: like you know, try to keep it sort of weather tight,
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Speaker 2: but you're sending it somewhere. It's traveling. It sits somewhere,
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Speaker 2: and then the rule is you have to put them
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Speaker 2: in the humid door for a certain amount of time
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Speaker 2: before you use them, so it could sit somewhere then
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Speaker 2: go in the humid door, and then when it comes out,
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Speaker 2: there's a you know, like just think of like a
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Speaker 2: thing drying and wetting and drying. Right, You've got this
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Speaker 2: thing that's like dry, and then he goes in the
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Speaker 2: humid door. It might wet up, and then when it
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Speaker 2: comes back out again it's drying like and then think
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Speaker 2: of like oil is in this ball, maybe too much oil,
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Speaker 2: and then it dries. Maybe it comes out when it wets,
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Speaker 2: it goes in, when it dries, it comes out, you
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Speaker 2: know what I'm saying. So there's some this ball is
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Speaker 2: changing environments, and there's too much oil in it. And
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Speaker 2: I think that maybe June, with warmer temperatures, is having
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Speaker 2: seeing a different relationship between that extra oil and the
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Speaker 2: ball and the human doors and the weather, and that's
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Speaker 2: what's producing this effect. I have to tell you that
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Speaker 2: is me trying to figure it out. Nobody has figured
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Speaker 2: out this mystery yet.
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Speaker 3: All right, last one for me. Can you go over
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Speaker 3: what Terrek Scoble said? And is this what sparks more
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Speaker 3: debate or is this shouldn't we just listen? I mean,
17:29
Speaker 3: Terrek Scooble picks up a baseball every single day, knows
17:33
Speaker 3: exactly what it feels and how it should travel, how
17:35
Speaker 3: it should fly. Can you talk about his quotes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he talked about how you know the ball's flying
17:44
Speaker 2: so he'd noticed it in June. And also he talked about,
17:48
Speaker 2: you know, the ball to ball, the ball to ball consistency.
17:52
Speaker 2: What's different difficult about the ball to ball consistency is
17:55
Speaker 2: just that you know it's handmade. The one that we
17:58
Speaker 2: use in the major leagues it's hand stitch together in
18:00
Speaker 2: Costa Rica. The one that they use in the lower
18:02
Speaker 2: minor leagues is machine made in China. There's a difference there,
18:06
Speaker 2: and that leads to more ball to ball variability. So
18:10
Speaker 2: while I'm like, I feel for him that, you know,
18:13
Speaker 2: every ball is different and that kind of is really annoying,
18:16
Speaker 2: I think that's the source of it. Now he talks
18:19
Speaker 2: about also, you know, like people thinking about conspiracy theories.
18:22
Speaker 2: We just ran through a lot of those here, you know,
18:24
Speaker 2: because we have the same questions he has. He's playing
18:27
Speaker 2: the game and he's wondering why, like, why is this splotchy?
18:30
Speaker 2: Why can't we just get rid of these balls? Why
18:33
Speaker 2: is it so variable? Why why is it seem like
18:37
Speaker 2: sometimes you just like the offense peaks when you need
18:40
Speaker 2: it to. I mean, you know, these are these are
18:43
Speaker 2: questions that are natural, I think. And you know, I
18:49
Speaker 2: appreciate that Baseball made a statement. They could have said
18:53
Speaker 2: no comment or whatever. I appreciate they made a statement.
18:55
Speaker 2: I appreciate that they show us drag. It's on a
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Speaker 2: publicly tracked page where we can see the drag on
19:02
Speaker 2: the ball. I appreciate their trying to be visible on this.
19:05
Speaker 2: But there's also a level where they won't go. They
19:09
Speaker 2: won't tell us why they didn't test for drag. They
19:12
Speaker 2: won't tell us. They won't tell us. For example, they
19:15
Speaker 2: tell us, oh, well, new balls will be worked in
19:18
Speaker 2: late twenty twenty six or early twenty twenty seven, But
19:21
Speaker 2: will they tell us when they do. Will they say, Okay, hey, guys,
19:25
Speaker 2: we're moving the new balls in now, no more splotchy balls.
19:28
Speaker 2: They won't, And they didn't tell us when the splotchy
19:30
Speaker 2: balls are out there. Right, It's not like they were
19:32
Speaker 2: visible up front. They were visible when they were caught.
19:35
Speaker 2: So you know, that's when, as a pitcher, you say,
19:40
Speaker 2: why why didn't you just tell us in spring? You know,
19:44
Speaker 2: like tell the public in spring so we all knew.
19:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's the part that's bothering players, I can imagine, right, strip,
19:50
Speaker 1: don't you just want to know, Hey, the baseball changed
19:52
Speaker 1: where we are aware that we're getting a different batch now,
19:55
Speaker 1: it doesn't seem very complicated to just give you guys
19:58
Speaker 1: heads up.
19:59
Speaker 5: Y from the start. Yeah, just just let us know.
20:03
Speaker 5: We know you guys are messing with stuff. Give us
20:05
Speaker 5: the little heads up of what's going on here. I mean,
20:06
Speaker 5: it's it seems like it's come to that, so at
20:08
Speaker 5: this point, yeah, just tell us what you're doing.
20:11
Speaker 2: There is also just a question of like how good
20:14
Speaker 2: these communication channels are because our original source was an
20:17
Speaker 2: email to players, But then I talked to players and
20:21
Speaker 2: they didn't see it, So I mean, like maybe maybe
20:24
Speaker 2: they're just not checking their emails enough. Like maybe, But
20:27
Speaker 2: then also when I talk to tire front offices that
20:30
Speaker 2: they don't know, then you should tell the front offices
20:33
Speaker 2: because maybe a player will miss an email. But like
20:36
Speaker 2: if he then goes to his pitching coach and says,
20:38
Speaker 2: what's going on with why is this ball yellow? The
20:40
Speaker 2: pitching if the pitching coach knows, the pitching CoA says, well, yeah,
20:43
Speaker 2: they're an oil problem, right, Like you kind of had
20:45
Speaker 2: to tell people multiple times people miss emails especially.
20:49
Speaker 1: There's a really easy process here. Yeah, but the easy
20:52
Speaker 1: process is, you know, one person's job. There's a billion
20:54
Speaker 1: people that work for the league. One person's job. Email, sure,
20:58
Speaker 1: with more details, but calling each front office and say, hey,
21:01
Speaker 1: here's what's going on. We need you to explain this
21:03
Speaker 1: to the players. Right, that definitely didn't happen. We need
21:07
Speaker 1: you to explain this to the players. Call a meeting.
21:09
Speaker 1: There's meetings all the time, right, call a meeting. It'll
21:11
Speaker 1: take five minutes. Explain it to them. It's out there right,
21:14
Speaker 1: everyone can prove we spoke about it, and there's more information.
21:18
Speaker 1: We printed it out. It's on a table here.
21:19
Speaker 2: Done. It's that easy.
21:21
Speaker 1: The communication side to me drives me nuts. We're in communication.
21:23
Speaker 2: So but you know, break story man.
21:27
Speaker 1: Yeah, and hey, at least you know, for the yellow baseballs,
21:29
Speaker 1: maybe they got a discount, like buying something broken at
21:31
Speaker 1: the store. So maybe they're like.
21:34
Speaker 2: Half off for these baseballs.
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Speaker 6: Right.
21:35
Speaker 2: Costa Rica in double time right now.
21:44
Speaker 3: And big Daddy when he throws the can of Microsoft
21:50
Speaker 3: went down three points.
21:54
Speaker 2: Kids, check that out. It's good. It's good.
21:56
Speaker 1: Go look it up on it you know.
21:57
Speaker 2: Thank you so much. Great article. Everyone check it out.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot more to uncover within the article, including
22:02
Speaker 1: some cool charts and graphs that are kind of interactive. So,
22:05
Speaker 1: you know, thank you man, good to talk to you,
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Speaker 1: and enjoy the fourth Thank you.