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Royals sign Carlos Estevez, Active Reds, Pressly/Astros tension, Tigers adding · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Wow, what an amazing stadium. Thank you, is Aaron Judges
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  Speaker 1: ty here?
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  Speaker 2: Yet markets are moving a little bit, markets are moving
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  Speaker 2: people a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you. I was wearing for crats, something.
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  Speaker 2: For listening on audio crats like did the like the
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  Speaker 2: tiny tiny gesture, tiny hand gesture. When you start to
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  Speaker 2: see some relievers sign which we've actually seen quite a
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  Speaker 2: few in the last seventy two hours, then what happens krats,
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  Speaker 2: among other things, is teams say, okay, this is the price.
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  Speaker 2: Let's all rush to the phones and offer the similar
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  Speaker 2: price based on what the prior player got that set
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  Speaker 2: the market.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I don't want to pay too much. I don't.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think any of these pictures are important enough
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  Speaker 1: to pay too much for. So what do I need?
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  Speaker 1: What do I need a closer? What do I need
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  Speaker 1: an eighth inning guy for? We'll just find somebody else.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, one team likes to go against the grain,
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  Speaker 2: actually multiple but let's cover the royals at the top here.
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  Speaker 2: Let's charge them mound.
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  Speaker 1: Charge.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos Estevez was one of the better relievers available on
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  Speaker 2: the market. Two years, twenty two point two million is guaranteed.
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  Speaker 2: There's a club option for Kansas City to be able
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  Speaker 2: to tack on for twenty twenty seven. That would make
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  Speaker 2: it three years, thirty three million dollars. So it's either
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  Speaker 2: two at twenty two ish or three at thirty three ish.
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  Speaker 2: Carlos Stevez was damn good with the Angels. He was
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  Speaker 2: pretty good with the Phillies. Had really good you know,
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  Speaker 2: basic numbers, underlying numbers, pretty good, the walk rates really good.
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  Speaker 2: A little different, like he might not have the best
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  Speaker 2: stuff in the bullpen, but it's pretty high up there.
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  Speaker 2: And the one difference for me, Todd father with someone
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  Speaker 2: like him, and he actually knows where the baseball is going. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: maybe a little more consistency to that game.
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  Speaker 3: Well that's the most important thing. I mean, you do
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  Speaker 3: have some guys coming in here, you know, trying to
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  Speaker 3: throw that pill as we call it, one hundred miles
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  Speaker 3: an hour with no conviction and you know, no accuracy.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, this is a great pickup here. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I'd like to ask Cratsy after this what he really
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  Speaker 3: thought that what Carlos should have made you know, is
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  Speaker 3: it a steal? Is it not? I mean, that's a
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  Speaker 3: conversation we need to have. I think a guy of
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  Speaker 3: this caliber is is a good Royal sign. I think
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  Speaker 3: that from you know, last year to this year, they've
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  Speaker 3: had some really good signings and I think this is
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  Speaker 3: another one that you can put a check mark on
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  Speaker 3: as a good one. I do think it's a steal
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  Speaker 3: and I think he's gonna have a great year, and
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  Speaker 3: I think with the Royals on the trajectory that they're going,
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  Speaker 3: it's a great pickup, especially this late in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: Price wise, I don't know. I mean to me, I
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  Speaker 1: feel like, if you're getting somebody under thirteen thirteen million
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  Speaker 1: a year with his track record, All Star Game, I
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  Speaker 1: think in twenty three good year. Last year was in
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  Speaker 1: the Pennant Race. You know, I guess I get it,
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  Speaker 1: you get the Grand Slam to Lindor. But this is
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  Speaker 1: a dude that if you're getting for under thirteen a year,
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  Speaker 1: because kind of that's where we're at with relievers. You know,
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  Speaker 1: Yates was in that range, Presley was more, but then
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  Speaker 1: they paid off some of the money. The Astros paid
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  Speaker 1: off some of the money. My thing is, this is
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  Speaker 1: like talk about optimizing your value. Just like Scott said,
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  Speaker 1: he's not just elite dominant stuff. He's just the elite dominant,
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  Speaker 1: get the job done, and he's going to a huge ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: So if there's a place where you're like, man, where
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  Speaker 1: could Carlos Stems really shine? Where could he be a
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  Speaker 1: guy that would really help a team? Oh wait, that
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  Speaker 1: stadium really works for him because he doesn't put guys
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  Speaker 1: on base. You have to manufacture runs against him, and
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  Speaker 1: it's just really tough to do against. I just I
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  Speaker 1: think it is a great pickup. I think he's okay
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  Speaker 1: not being the closer because they have Ersig in the
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  Speaker 1: pen in the closer role, and I think it's something
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  Speaker 1: that this dude at this point in his career. I
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  Speaker 1: think he just wants to win. So I think it's
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  Speaker 1: an underpay great job and another great move by the Royals.
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  Speaker 1: And back to back years.
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  Speaker 2: Here, remember Kratz. Last year the Royals had a bullpen problem.
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  Speaker 2: They were good, they were surprisingly good, and we were like,
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  Speaker 2: they need a high leverage arm, and they did it.
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  Speaker 2: They got Ersig from the A's and he's under team
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  Speaker 2: control still for years, enough years that I don't even
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  Speaker 2: need to check yet. So look what they've done just
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  Speaker 2: in the past you know, eight months, they just fixed
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  Speaker 2: the back end of the bullpen with these two moves,
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  Speaker 2: with Ersig and with Carlos Stebez. There's some other notable names.
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  Speaker 2: Hunter Harvey's got good stuff. Streiber I think was pretty
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  Speaker 2: good for them last year. But this is as a
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  Speaker 2: pretty big addition.
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  Speaker 1: I think. I think it's more more than just like
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  Speaker 1: you might, you glossed over it, but people weren't listening.
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  Speaker 1: They had a bullpen issue. They had a bullpen issue
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  Speaker 1: during the season. They addressed it at the at the
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  Speaker 1: All Star break, at the trade deadline. Like teams that
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  Speaker 1: fell short, teams that were kind of on the bubble
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  Speaker 1: didn't make moves like these guys made, and they were
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  Speaker 1: not afraid. They were not afraid to go make moves.
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  Speaker 1: And now they added to it again, similar to the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers adding to their strength in the bullpen, similar to
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians adding Paul Seawall to their strength and their bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: So this is again I just don't see. My My
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  Speaker 1: quandary here is where were the Phillies with this Did
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  Speaker 1: they really not like what they saw? Where were the
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  Speaker 1: Where were the Yankees with this deal? Are they really
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  Speaker 1: that far over the CBT that they don't want to
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  Speaker 1: go over it?
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  Speaker 4: Where were the Orioles Orioles Jimmy Christmas bro like. You
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  Speaker 4: can always add to this team for a let a
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  Speaker 4: million a year. Easy peasy, lemon squeeze.
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  Speaker 2: f T. Yeah, we saw the Padres do this, and
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  Speaker 2: I think it actually hurt the reliever market ready for this,
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  Speaker 2: So last year the Padres had a super bullpen. Then
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  Speaker 2: they made it even more super by the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 2: They got Jason Adam, they got help me Tanner Scott. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: they were one win over the Dodgers from in my
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  Speaker 2: mind winning a World Series, and we are in a
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  Speaker 2: copycat league, Todd Father, you know what we would have
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  Speaker 2: been doing all off season long. Look at the Padres.
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  Speaker 2: They've got the perfect model. They've got a really good team,
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  Speaker 2: but they have a super bullpen. It is the best
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  Speaker 2: stuff bullpen in baseball. And that's why they won. And
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  Speaker 2: we would think even more about Cleveland too, even though
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  Speaker 2: they didn't end up winning, and that c yes, we'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, look, Cleveland and San Diego had just ridiculous
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  Speaker 2: bullpens and that's something that can carry you obviously during
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  Speaker 2: a season, but also in October, and there's depth to it.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at those two teams, you're like, there's
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  Speaker 2: four or five guys that could be closers around most
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  Speaker 2: of the league. So if the Padre has ended up
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  Speaker 2: winning at all, I think we would have done that. Now.
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  Speaker 2: The Dodgers bullpen was great too, and they actually were
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  Speaker 2: dominant plenty of times. I think things got overshadowed at
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  Speaker 2: times because they had to do bullpen games since they
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  Speaker 2: didn't have a starter for every playoff game. But do
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  Speaker 2: you buy into that theory at all Kratz that the
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  Speaker 2: league would have looked around him and like, wait, instead
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  Speaker 2: of spending this much on this guy, this much on
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  Speaker 2: this guy, let's let's just pile together, you know, forty
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  Speaker 2: million bucks on a season, right, and get ourselves four
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  Speaker 2: high leverage relievers that cost us double digit millions.
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  Speaker 1: So you're saying instead of getting the one big guy,
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  Speaker 1: or you're saying, they just piled together as much as
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  Speaker 1: they could.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying Tanner Scott, who might be in a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a different category, but as Stevens is in
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  Speaker 2: this category, Yeats is in this category. These are guys
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  Speaker 2: that are on short term deals that are in the
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  Speaker 2: low double digit millions. Right, it's ten, twelve, thirteen in
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  Speaker 2: that range, And I just wonder why a team wouldn't go,
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  Speaker 2: let me get three, four, five of those, because also
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to deal with that at the trade deadline.
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  Speaker 2: The Braves have done a little bit of this in
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  Speaker 2: the past, where they've loaded up their bullpen heading into
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  Speaker 2: a year. They did that more so last year than
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  Speaker 2: this coming season. And I know it can be expensive,
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  Speaker 2: but I just think that the way bullpens are valued
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  Speaker 2: and utilized down the stretch of a season, there should
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  Speaker 2: be more value placed on these guys. Teams are worried
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  Speaker 2: about the risk. Also, some teams Todd Father actually are
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  Speaker 2: able to figure out bullpens without paying much. But that
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  Speaker 2: doesn't mean you shouldn't take this route. And I love
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  Speaker 2: Kratz's point about the Orioles. I'm like, what if the
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  Speaker 2: Ools just had racked up three or four of these
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  Speaker 2: guys and had a Super bowlpen like the Padres. That's
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  Speaker 2: a much sexier team to meet what they actually put
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  Speaker 2: together in the offseason.
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  Speaker 3: Agreed, And I think I want to break down a
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  Speaker 3: couple of things. If the Padres ended up win the
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  Speaker 3: World Series, we'd be dominant in talking about them all day.
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  Speaker 3: It would have been a whole different Padres team in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion, But it didn't happen. As we all know.
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  Speaker 3: You the point you bring about having finding three, four, five,
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  Speaker 3: five through a couple of different relievers, I've been saying
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  Speaker 3: that this whole time, Like, dude, this is the time
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  Speaker 3: of year you can pick up a guy like a
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  Speaker 3: Stevens for you know, cheaper money or whatever. It is,
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  Speaker 3: low low teens. Uh. And there's some really good bullpen
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  Speaker 3: usage of bullpen guys. So that's that's the thing. Are
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  Speaker 3: they are there superior guys where it's like, oh, this
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  Speaker 3: guy's been dominant, you know, for his whole career. Maybe not,
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  Speaker 3: but there's guys right now that are up there all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden that are going to be a staple
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  Speaker 3: for your team. And I think anything, if you're a
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  Speaker 3: business guy, hey, listen, you know we really like this guy.
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  Speaker 3: Tell me where we're at and find a way to
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  Speaker 3: meet in the middle something and you can go from there.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's harder, you know, saying it out loud
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  Speaker 3: than trying to figure it out, But there's a couple
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  Speaker 3: of steels. There's a couple of packages right now that
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  Speaker 3: you can get for cheaper, which you know it sounds terrible,
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  Speaker 3: but you know that's the way it is as you
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  Speaker 3: get closer to spring training.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, all right, so let's get to one more on
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  Speaker 2: this front. Because the Red stay active. And if you
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  Speaker 2: check out our Instagram story, Todd Father and I gave
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  Speaker 2: them a little shout out. They've been doing things. They
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  Speaker 2: pick up Taylor Rogers from the Giants, They get a
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  Speaker 2: little money to cover the contract for this season Rogers
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  Speaker 2: is to twelve million bucks. They give away a minor
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  Speaker 2: league pitcher by the name of Braxton Roxby. And now
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: you start to look at all of the activity for
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  Speaker 2: Cincinnati this offseason, and it's Nick Martinez returning on a
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  Speaker 2: qualifying offer to add swing man depth. You acquire Gavin Lux,
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  Speaker 2: You acquire Brady Singer to help with starting pitching depth
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  Speaker 2: and innings issues. Suitor be Kratz's boy for a little
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  Speaker 2: more in the bullpen. Austin Hayes instead of Luis Robert,
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  Speaker 2: who they were trying to acquire, and Ken told us
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  Speaker 2: about it and they finally gave up and Hayes instead.
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  Speaker 2: This past weekend, who was a Travino for more catcher
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  Speaker 2: depth with him and Tyler Stevenson, you look back Kratz
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  Speaker 2: and on fair territory, Hanna Kaiser mentioned how they had
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  Speaker 2: the worst one run record in baseball and if you're
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  Speaker 2: talking about most losses or lost percentage, but whatever it is,
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  Speaker 2: they were losing close games. They probably looked and said, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: we were losing close games, we were missing a few
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  Speaker 2: big boys, and we're gonna do a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a positive roster turnover, I would call it. And at depth,
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  Speaker 2: I like their off season.
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  Speaker 1: Great. I mean great off season. When you when you
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  Speaker 1: put it all out there, I honestly forgot. I remembered
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  Speaker 1: all the moves, but I forgot that they made all
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  Speaker 1: of them. Like you sit there and you go, oh, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they got Travino. He's not going to be a starter,
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  Speaker 1: he's not gonna be overexposed. I get it. He was
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  Speaker 1: an all star platinum glove. But now all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: you get Tyler Stevenson in there and you rest his legs.
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  Speaker 1: That seems. That seems the way that all teams are going.
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  Speaker 1: And this dude is, you know, the best glove you
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  Speaker 1: can get behind dish that was available, and all these
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  Speaker 1: moves were made out out of the necessity that they
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  Speaker 1: have a really good core. They have Matt McLean, they
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  Speaker 1: have Ellie, they have TJ. Friedel all dudes that are,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion, can take the next step. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: Ellie taking the next step is ridiculous. You know, you
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  Speaker 1: go from third and MVV to first. I guess that's
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  Speaker 1: the only step you can really take. But you sit
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  Speaker 1: there and you go, this team wants to win, and
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  Speaker 1: how do I know that the moves they made, the
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  Speaker 1: moves they made around their young core, which is exciting.
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  Speaker 1: And really, if you had if you had me ask,
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  Speaker 1: or if you had me, guess what team makes the
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  Speaker 1: biggest jump from last year. It's been the Reds all
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  Speaker 1: off season, just for the fact that they're getting guys
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  Speaker 1: back on their roster that are huge, huge impacts.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I agree totally. I think thing about the
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  Speaker 3: comparisons here, what the Royals did last year offseason, I
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  Speaker 3: compare them to what the Reds are doing. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it's totally different guys, but you know, superb players, guys
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  Speaker 3: that you know have been there before that are looking
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  Speaker 3: for a squad to you know, get after it. Do
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  Speaker 3: the Reds have a chance to win the division now
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  Speaker 3: this year? Uh oh, that's something to talk about. Really,
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  Speaker 3: they have a great opportunity. They have really good ballplayers
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  Speaker 3: and now there is a chance here that the Reds
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  Speaker 3: do win this and NOL Central they do. They have
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  Speaker 3: the chance of fresh and healthy Matty McLean, Hunter Green,
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  Speaker 3: who was dominant, who was in talks of winning the
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  Speaker 3: Sy Young Award. I mean they have, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: to name a few. I mean, he keep going to
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  Speaker 3: lle and in a NonStop elly. Of course that's Scotty's boy.
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  Speaker 3: But Tito Francona, come on, guys, I mean pieces are
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  Speaker 3: starting to fall into place.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I like when teams do things. I
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  Speaker 2: know you're not trying to do things just to do things.
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  Speaker 2: But when we talk so much about business and how
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: MLB teams and owners care about revenue over all else,
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  Speaker 2: or at least some of them, do you know the
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: I know I've spoken to plenty of ticket sales guys,
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  Speaker 2: the girls who will say, damn, our team hasn't done anything.
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  Speaker 2: When I'm on these phone and tickets they're like, so,
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  Speaker 2: what have you done this offseason? So with Cincinnati, did
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  Speaker 2: they sign two hundred million dollars of players? No, but
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  Speaker 2: they did things. They made a lot of moves, they
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  Speaker 2: did positive roster turnover. All right, we'll swing back with
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  Speaker 1: Be right back, Yeah, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what we said. Let's get to a couple of
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  Speaker 2: things here, Astros and Tigers. Let's start at the Astros.
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Presley was traded the other day, the deal official,
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  Speaker 2: and you give the most annoying, calculated office buzz terms,
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: it's gotta stop. It's a business, but it's fun anyway.
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: He said.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: The relationship with Ryan Presley took a different turn after
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: the Astro signed Josh Hater last year. Brown used the
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: word fractured and said it wasn't the same as we
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: first met. This tweet coming from our guy Chandler Rome,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: who writes for The Athletic and hosts Crush Sitter City Territory.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: So I was listening to that podcast the other day
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: with Crush City and Northside Territory. They did a crossover episode.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: And even though the Astros the fractured relationship with Presley,
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: it's not like he took it personal with Hater. Hater's
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: just a free agent signs. Apparently they have like kids,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: similar agent. They were hanging out off the field, So
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: it wasn't that Presley was just like, Yo, look what
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: I've done in the playoffs for you. I just got
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: demoted for no reason. Even though I'm trying to look
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: at it from the front office view Todd father and
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: be like, yeah, but we want to be better and
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: he is the better reliever, So how are the astro
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: supposed to play that out without it getting fractured.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: It's very hard. It's very hard that back and forth.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: You know, why are they signing this top guy? I've
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: been doing it for years? Did I do something wrong?
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of stuff that goes in your head.
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: And if I'm presley, you know, inside might not show it,
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: but I'm likell do I do wrong? You know, like
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: why is this going on? But on the outside it's like, oh,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: this is gonna make this team better. And then ultimately
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: you lose in the first round against a Tiger team
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: that just got really hot and found a way to
• 17:55
  Speaker 3: win games. And then you're sitting back in the office
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: and told you so, you know in your mind like
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: you're talking about it like what is you know? What
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: did I do? And it's hard. You know, you want
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: to play that card all the time. I'll do anything
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: for the team as long as the team is doing well.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: We win a championship, Well, you didn't win a championship,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: so there was was there some dissension. I don't know,
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know the whole thing. I know, uh, they
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: did have a pretty good team. But at the end
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: of the day, I love this. I love to hear
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: exactly you know, what he thought and what really went on,
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: because guess what, that's human nature and that's life. People
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: have their own opinions and feelings about anything they do.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: But for me Kratz, it's like if it was a
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: superstar catcher and then someone else gets signed and then
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: he gets bumped to the bench. Okay, I get it right, Like,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: let's let's take a catcher that we like in the
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: big leagues who's really good but not the best, Like
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: who's the best catcher in baseball right now? Or one
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: of the best catchers in baseball. Let's just try to
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: use this success. Hey JT. Realmuto, but give me, give
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: me a name a little bit below him, But who's
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a solid starting catcher.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Younger?
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Okay, So if you're Tyler Stevenson and then the Reds
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: acquired JT. Real Muto, Tyler might be like, I don't
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: know if that was the best use of resources, And
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: now I'm getting bumped to the bench because I'm not
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: playing another position. Let's say he's not playing first for
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: them either. Okay, that's different to me than a bullpen
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: of seven plus guys and enough room for everyone. It's
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: just a change of roles within that bullpen. And if
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: you do want to win a World Series, you do
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: want to sack the hell of that bullpen. We just
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: talked about that at the top of the show.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: That's why it's not That's why I don't think it
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: affected the team. I think it affected Dana Brown and
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: Alex Presley's relationship because when a guy like Josh Hayter
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: is on your radar to sign, you're not going to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: You're not if you're an open dam which I feel
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: like Dana Brown really is, You're not going to Alex
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: Presley and being like, how do you feel about us
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: signing out Josh Hater?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Here?
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: Alex And they're like, I was, Alex, Ryan Presley, Sorry,
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: how do you feel about that? No, they're gonna tell him, Hey,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: we're gonna go sign Josh Hater to make our bullpen better.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And then he gets to wonder, am I gonna lose
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: my Am I gonna lose my job? Am I gonna
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: lose my role? Well, he really cares about the team.
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: He said all the right things, so it's not gonna
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: affect on the field. But you know what, I feel
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: like Dana Brown owed me a little bit more. So
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: maybe that's where the relationship can get fractured. I don't
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: think I had anything to do with the fact that
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: they put the best team out there to win and
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: that's all players won.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: So they talked about how Presley actually stepped it up
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: a ton last year as more of a veteran presence
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: because he's a pretty quiet, out of the limelight guy,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: but when the team was struggling earlier than the season,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: he would hold court with young pitchers. Apparently he was
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: a huge help for Hunter Brown's turn around to end success,
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: which was a big deal for the Astros. I get
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: everything that everyone's saying. The only part that I don't
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: understand is how the Astros are supposed to play this
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: part out, Like what would have been the.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: Way to do it.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: The only thing I could come up with is if
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: they said, okay, like we're bringing on hater, but we're
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: just gonna tell him like, you're going to pitch the
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: eighth and Presley's going to pitch the ninth and that
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: would have made him happy because then you get both arms,
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: but you're putting one in a spot either way that
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: he doesn't want to be in or that he's less
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: comfortable in.
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: Okay, So so just to clarify, the Astros did nothing wrong.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: But can I just jump in here though Hater wanted
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: to be the closer and Presley wants to be the closer,
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: right or wrong, that's the problem. So when one person
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: becomes a closer, the other bun's going to be like,
• 21:37
  Speaker 3: especially after he did so well. So I see the
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: side of what Presley is talking about. Like, listen, I've
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: been I've been the top dog. I've been you know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: in World Series Championships, I've been getting last outs. You know,
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: why am I? Why am I? You know? It's him
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: or I kind of deal. But I know Presley, he's
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: a he's a veteran. He understands, he's not going to
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: say much. But in that situation, it's all you got
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: to pick one or the other. Yeah, that's and they
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: didn't pick me, meaning you know, so I'm not trying
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: to argue be that person. But he's got feelings, I guess.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: I mean, I'm trying to understand it.
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: I get like the alpha dog mentality, but I'm saying,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: what did the astros do? So if they pick up nothing,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: they pick up pay her? Okay, And I'm on the
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: phone with you and you're pressing, I'm like, and they
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: did give him heads up, but they didn't say, like,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: can we acquire him? They were like, we're going to
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: We're just letting you know that he's probably gonna be
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: our guy for the ninth next year.
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: So if I'm on the phone and I'm like, are
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: you cool with that? And you're like, man, I don't
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: really love that.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: What do you want us to do?
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: If you want us to not sign the player and
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: put us in a worst position, we feel like there's
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: value here.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: On the market.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: You guys are just saying it is what it is.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: This is just the nature of a competitive player who
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: had a position for a while within a team and
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: he had to change roles.
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: Everybody gets everybody gets replaced, everybody gets replaced, and when
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: that stuff happens, you got to look at it and
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: be like, well, I'm not spending another five years here.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: So I get what the Orc's trying to do. And
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: you know what I get two years with this dude,
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: I get two years with the best reliever in baseball
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: added to our core. That's down there. I'm game with it.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Whether it was that fast, no, it probably took a
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: few days. But again, you don't have to build that relation.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: Dana Brown and Ryan Presley do not have to be friends.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: Like that's not a that's like, you don't have to
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: be friends with your GM. Now your manager and you
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: you got to talk it out. Joe Aspata did a
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: good job supposedly about sitting them down and talking them
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: through it. So that's a relationship. I think that needs
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: to be mended and talked through. But your GM, you
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: could never talk to your GM, and you guys win
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: a World Series easy pas yep.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: Well, of course there's some gms that are around all
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: the time and some that barely talk to players. We
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: can do a whole segment on that. But in the meantime,
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: and by the way, what was I gonna say? Oh,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: Joe Aspata did also mention how you know things got
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: fractured a little after that part too, just drawing that
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: out there. Yet, there was a lot to it, and
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: they had a super slow start, but obviously picked it
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: picked it up, didn't get the job done in the
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: playoffs because of the Tigers. So let's hit the Tigers
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: for a few minutes. Cody Stavenhagen, host oh Tiger Territory
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: and the Athletic Tigers beat writer said or posted at
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Scott Haires quote said, I think the bullpen in our
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: lineup are two areas that we are going to look
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: to upgrade if we can. But we also loved our
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: depth on both sides of the ball. I love always
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: throwing that line after there, but just in case we
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: don't get anyone, please don't kill me. But I'm a
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: big fan of that move. I'm still a little bit
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: underwhelmed with their offseason, coming off such a successful year
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: and to me, a division that can be taken, and
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: the Tigers had like a little smoke and mirrors action. A. J.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Hinch even told us that this past weekend to how
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: they put everything together to say, season after season, you're
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: going to have schoobl and the rest. It's just tough.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: So I like the Glave Torres edition. I think he
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: could have a nice replatform season for Detroit. Cainley cool
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Alex Cobb for some veteran depth, so we're getting there.
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: But I thought that they were one of those locks
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: to get one of the big boys. And Bregman still
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: out there, so it still could happen. But I just
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: figured Detroit was going to go down that route and
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: didn't realize that they had so much PTSD about the
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: big money giving out to hobby bias.
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean, listen from what I saw last year
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: with the Tigers and how they came through and took
• 25:32
  Speaker 3: care of Houston. I was a masterpiece of what they
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: did of putting guys in understand, Listen, no no eye
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: guys on this team. One guy would bat first, and
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: then the next time he'd bat seventh, he'd bat ninth.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: One game, it just depended on who was pitching, and
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: then they figured out what pitchers need to throw in
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: what innings and it worked to perfection. And yeah, I
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: was thinking, like I, when are they gonna get this big?
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: This offseason gonna be great because they got the guys
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: in each position. Now you need a big dog to
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: come in as well and be a dominant pitcher, uh,
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: a reliever. They got Canley, of course, but that that
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: one guy that I just feel like they're missing, and
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you know, we don't have much time off Scotty. We
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: talk about it all the time. There's still opportunities to
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: grab guys. It's still a destination right now where people
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: want to go. Yeah, is it cold. It's not fun
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: to play in that that that stadium when it's freezing,
• 26:22
  Speaker 3: But it's baseball at the end of the day. And
• 26:24
  Speaker 3: I think what they have going there is really really
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: fun and we're gonna see it fun for a lot
• 26:27
  Speaker 3: of years.
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they have a good core. I just I want
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: flarity and I want pregnant, because that's what we do
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: on this show. We spend money of other ball clubs.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: But if you look at their payroll compared to what
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: it used to be, you're like, yeah, they can definitely
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: add those two guys. Anyway, let's give you a little
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: bite from uh wait, was it Parker Meadows on It
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: was like about to say, Austin, I got my Austin
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: my park.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, I'm calling it Ryan Presley, Alex Presley. They're
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: not even close to being brothers.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: That's your former Pirates teammate probably. But anyway, let's get
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Parker on Tiger Territory with a few words here.
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: I want to know what is that locker room? Like,
• 27:06
  Speaker 5: what type of dude is Parker Meadows in the locker room?
• 27:09
  Speaker 5: I was a straight clown, bro, so so what's park
• 27:12
  Speaker 5: of Meadows like in the in the clubhouse.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: I'm a little bit of a clown too. I don't
• 27:19
  Speaker 6: like to take everything too serious, but I'm usually the
• 27:23
  Speaker 6: quiet guy that kind of observes the room and sees
• 27:26
  Speaker 6: what the vibes like, and once I recognize the vibes,
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: I'll kind of fall into place with that. I'm pretty
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: aware of what's going on. But I'm pretty good at
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: ping pong. We play ping pong a lot. I'm up
• 27:40
  Speaker 6: there on the leaderboard for ping pong. Others will probably disagree, but.
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, man, I don't know.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: I like to have fun.
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: I like to try to keep everybody loose.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Nice Parker Meadows, who had, you know, a much better
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: second half. You know, he was struggling against the breaking balls,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: which was the same problem the year before, also just
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: came back when I was a little more aggressive.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Who doesn't struggle against breaking ball? No, I know, I know.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: I'm just say yeah, I never could.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I struggled with them in Little league, so that was
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: it for me.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: You still struggle with breaking ball.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: I still do.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: We're gonna have a conversation. We're gonna go down here
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: in the lab. We're gonna work. But yeah, breaking balls
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: are hard to I think I was probably like a
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: one fifty average against all speed pitchers. But when they
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: threw me that fastball, like Cratzy thought he could sneak
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: the cheese by the rats. Sometimes all of a sudden
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: he goes, yeah, you know, the glove goes down. Damn.
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: I never I never took my off that fastball.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: I like this Tiger's team more obviously on the Tigers
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: on Tiger Territory. So make sure you check out the show.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: Look it up wherever you watch your team shows. We're
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: getting ready for Ti, Oscar Hernandez too. There's your Tiger
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Territory part of the FT Network. And if you're look
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: into your right and you're like, hey Jackson, that's Austin Jackson,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: mister nice man with the grizzly beard. Part of that
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: Kieren Steckley, Cody Stavenhagen crew, go give it a look
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: and listen. The ultimate teaser. I saw this the other
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: day from Ryan Divish. The Mariners signed Louis Castillo, and
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: then people were confused, but it's a different Louis Castillo.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And if anything, when I see Mariners and Louis Castillo,
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you guys are, but notifications in
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: the off season, I'm immediately going, where's he going? Because
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: he's been in trade rumors now comb and I was like, ah,
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: this is just one of those cute little baby signings
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: that are being put out there. There's Hayman signing Luis F. Castillo,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: a right handed pitcher, not to be confused with Louis M. Castillo.
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: They're all star, righty, it's minor league contract, MLB camp invite.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: He was with Chibilate and Orrix the last couple of
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: years over in Japan.
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see how this goes.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: I mean it's not you know, you know what they
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: say when you enter that clubhouse. It's a clubhouse. I'm
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: big enough for to Louis Castillos.
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: I think of the combio is they're a good combio
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: in there, right? Can he be?
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Castillo? Ste might not be on the opening day roster
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: film for the Mariners. A good one, Well, yeah, you
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: might get traded.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: A good one. I like that there prove it more
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: proven one, Yeah, yeah, I want you to say that
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: the Louis which one.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Dude, you're amazing, you're a big league ballplayer, but you're
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: not Louise m.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: I hope he is.
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: Do you think he gets traded Kratz we call.
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: Traded.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: I don't. The only the only reason I don't is
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: because I don't think teams just watching the whole Stroman
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Saga and even even to the Presley Saga team are
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: just in trades. They're looking for that contract to just
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: be sliced. They just want they don't want to pay it,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: even though I think Luis castell is a twenty four
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: million dollars a year pitcher right now. Like to me,
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: there should be teams lined up, there should be the
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Orioles lined up, But I just think they're they don't
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: want it. I don't think the match will happen. I
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: just think the teams aren't gonna line up because nobody's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: gonna want to pay that much for some reason, and
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: the Mariners aren't gonna want to eat that much.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I'm going against you. I think he gets dealt in
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: spring training when either an arm goes down or a
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: team realizes their arms are not good enough. Oma and
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: the chat said teams are hungry for starters. Seattle needs
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: better bats house Seattle not trading. Yeah, I mean, this's
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: gotta be tough trader. Jerry has a nickname for a reason,
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: but he's pretty hamstrung. I do hope that they do something.
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: I just think they need to switch it up a
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: little bit. There's not been much activity in Seattle.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: But when you got a good the pitching staff, for
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: people talking about how good they are, it's tough to
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: get rid of those good pitching. Beat's good hitting all day.
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: It's not working.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, he's back.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Not let's hit the office. Let's hit the office.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Can I can I help to present the case here
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: because I'm going to you're in person, so let me
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: take a seat to father to father. All right. You know,
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: I got a little problem here. I'm an executive that's
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: part of the Tonto front office. I'm not going to
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: say who I am. I could be a GM, I
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: could be assistant GYM.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: Don't show your name on here. I don't you.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say anything. But you know we're
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: having trouble consistently recruiting players to sign with us.
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: Notebook place.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is something where you probably need to write
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: this down because there's a lot to it. And if
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: I start to tell you the intricacies of some of
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the offers that we put together, you're going to need
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: to write a whole book just on that Anthony Santander
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: deferred contract. So the Jays keep going to the ten
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: yard line and then they miss so. Andy Martino, who
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: covers the Mets in depth, said that the Jays got
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: close last week with Alonzo, but it didn't get finalized,
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: hence the potential pivot back towards the Mets. It sounds
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: like there's a lot of deferral action going on. The
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Blue Jays are trying to do their Dodger impressions. So
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: how do we get the deal done more consistently. We've
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: done a few things. We got ourselves, Jeff Hoffman, and
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: we got Anthony Santander. But of course that's not good
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: enough for a playoff team this year.
• 33:14
  Speaker 3: Here, here, here's the problem when teams are when agents
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: come to you, I know you don't want to give
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: them the best offer listen, or want to give them
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: the offer you really want to do. You want to
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: hear what they're doing, but sometimes you got to bite
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: the bullet. You got to get out of the way
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: and say, listen, we understand this is what you want.
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: We're going to go a little more, do you How
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: do you like that?
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: Pay more? Though, because it's it's just on our show.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: It said that they offer market value just like everyone else.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: They can't. You can't do that anymore. People don't want
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: to go up there. It's just the way it is.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: People don't want to go up to Canada. Some guys
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: are afraid to. I don't get it. I like Canada.
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: I don't have like grizzly bears with no syrp, no ballpark.
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: They're in the woods.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: Is it an advertising place to go to? I don't
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: think so. Not anymore. These guys, they for some reason,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: they will think about it. Toronto will keep them in
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: the back of our minds in case this deal doesn't
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: go through. Well, why Toronto starts spending a little morning.
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: You know me, money's vital to me. I gotta make
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: sure I got minds and you got to make sure
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: you got yours. So so understand, make it a little
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: more appetizing, that's all so.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: Because our taxes are higher up there, we need to
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: pay a player just a little bit more.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: Of the listen, five years for one hundred million, five years,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: one hundred and ten million. What's the big difference? Ten
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: million dollars? Is that a difference? It's a big It's a.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: Difference, but not much, since you know, we're a massive telecommunication.
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: Anthony Santander, Jeff Hoffmin. They got the players, they need
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: one more. Peter Lonzo, You're still in the mix, but
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna make a few calls. Eric, don't tell anybody
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: about this. The problem will be fixed sooner than later.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: I feel like Todd. I feel like Todd kind of
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: has some family that works with the Jays, the fact
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: that they like swindle swindle their money like around like, oh,
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: you know what, the loonies and tunis a Canadian dollars
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: strong this year, we're gonna get three percent of your
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: paycheck in loonies and tunies and forty percent and when
• 35:18
  Speaker 1: the dollar is strong, we're gonna give you sixty percent
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: of dollar. Like it's like it's right up, it's right
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: up your people's alley there, Todd, make sure make sure
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: I get Yeah, your people, you know what I'm talking about.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: Listen, you're gonna get a call after the show. Hey,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: you better be careful.
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I'm driving out there tomorrow. If everybody wants to come
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and see me, they can come and see you.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Don't say that. Don't you say that?
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Well now we know now, lok.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: You better digress.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I don't digress. I don't back down. I'm Amish.
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we don't mess with the Amish. They're good people.
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: We like the Amish.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: There's another good point here from the chat. The Blue
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Jays need to win and use that as an appealing
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: pitch for free agency. So here's the other factor. Okay,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: because I feel like sometimes this show gets a bad rep.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: They it's a good rep with some teams, a bad
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: rep with others. Where really, I promise you we don't
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: give a flying bleep about which team is thriving or not.
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: We want in generally cool storylines. We actually want teams
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: that have been struggling for a minute to find success.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: So with a club like Toronto, they need to show
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: that they're a good team. Good farm system helps. If
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: everything's the same and it's todd that's where players will
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: start to look at things. So I have to deal
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: with customs. It's just a fact of life, and it's.
• 36:35
  Speaker 3: About family too. Yeah, well, my wife, my kids, my
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: you know, some have to stay for school in the
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: United States. Some God, don't worry. We homeschool will be
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: all right. It's that mismatch. There's a whole lot of
• 36:47
  Speaker 3: stuff that goes on leaving the country for sure.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Ten million bucks more. That certainly helps to figure out
• 36:52
  Speaker 2: the school system.
• 36:53
  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, get a nanny, then you can bring somebody
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: with you.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Exactly, popcorner quickly here. First off, poll results, which of
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: these teams is best in the NL Central. You're only
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: allowed to put four options, so we went Brewers, Cubs, Reds, Pirates. Oh,
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: I guess we didn't include the Cardinals. I would have
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: not included the Pirates, but I don't want to think
• 37:13
  Speaker 2: with both of them.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: No, Cardinals are worse.
• 37:16
  Speaker 2: Are I think the Cardinals are worse than the Pirates
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: this coming season?
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: No?
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: No, well that's gonna be a good one.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: Cardinals over Pirates. You might have to place a friendly
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: wager on that one. But anyway, Reds Cubs, Brewers, Who
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: do you think is the best?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: We talked about the Reds, but you haven't beat the
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Brewers yet, so I'm gonna stick with the Brewers. Right
• 37:36
  Speaker 3: as of right now.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: Okay, it's it's.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Red should win this, but I'm sticking with the Brewers
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: just on past events.
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: Crats you got you got to beat the Brewers, but
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: I think the Reds have the Brewers have done enough.
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, the Brewers won the poll and then the
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: Cobs got second, Red's got third. I voted for the Reds.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: I haven't decided, but for now I'm going Reds next up.
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: Susan Sluster reported on Rob Manfred touring the a's new
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: home ballpark in Sacramento with John Fisher and Vivek. I
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: don't know how to say his last name, but the
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: dude who owns the Kings, who I'm sure got a
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: little FaceTime with the big boys with the league to
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: try and talk them into staying. But anyway, apparently there
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: have been some issues there. There's going to be a
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: three week road trip to resurface the field in June
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: for their minor league team so they can get it
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: together because that field's going to take a beating. It
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: was not made for that initially. Also apparently last yearne
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: construction workers mistakenly started drilling into a weight room with
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a picture working out on the other side of it
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: from somebody who actually was involved in a little accident
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: once where they were doing construction a place they shouldn't
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: and a ceiling collapsed on my body. Yeah that's pretty scary. Yeah,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: true story. Don't have time for it right now, but
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: another time. But anyway, hopefully they get their ish together.
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: This is how Rob toured Wow the stadium. Thank you?
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Is Aaron Judge or Sho Tani here?
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: Yet?
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: I do think he goes because he has to be
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: able to tell players face to face. I went there
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: and it looks good enough, So deal with it, like
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: you got to go there one time and say that
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: you were there, and I know that. You know, the
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: players on the other side are gonna be like, yo,
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: we need conditions to be up to this standard. So
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: we'll see, well, we'll let it play out. We'll see
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: what it looks like, and then next up, let's just
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: get to let's pick one rumor from Kenny ballgame here.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Let's because we're gonna talk to Rosenthal tomorrow. But just
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: a quick thought on the Reds and White Sox talking
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: but not ending up at deal status. I know we
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: talked to Jim Bowden about it. How badly do you
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: think the Red should push or do you think they're
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: better off just waiting for that price to go down
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: to one high end prospect and not too.
• 39:52
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: I just think this is the time if they if
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: they feel like Louise Robert is the twenty twenty three
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: Luis Robert, and they can unlock that, this is the
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: time to make the move. If they don't. And the
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: concerns we brought up with Jim Bowden are legitimate. He's
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: seeing the exact same things I'm seeing, like, you need
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: this guy one under committed because he can play at
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: eighty percent health. Everybody talks about health. He's that talented
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: to me, you add that to that lineup with Ellie
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: whole Baby and I think I think you talk about
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: a team that could enjoy or that could really bring
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: him into the fold. Ellie is another Latin player. To me,
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: that's a thing. He's a superstar. So there's that connection
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: there that would help him improve.
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: Well said, Well said, I agreed, he would have a
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: lot of homers at this stadium, So UH put a
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: lot of lot of things in perspective. You know, is
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: he going to be that workhorse? That's that's my biggest issue.
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: Can't be any doubt in hustle and energy and emotion, enthusiasm,
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: all that stuff. But I don't know.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: But if you're buying stock and you do believe in
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: the player, this is the time to try and do
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: it now. If the asking price is too high, it
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: is what it is, okay. But if he ends up
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: starring in the first half of the season, there are
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: going to be a lot of other teams involved. It
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: just makes them more difficult. It's both sides of the
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: coin here. I could also see a trade happening in
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: a few weeks where you kind of get pushed to shove,
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: don't want to risk it. They're like, let's do this,
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: because they did that last year with Dylan Cees. They
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: waited until March thirteenth and then they traded him to
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: the Padres. So we'll see at MGM futures. Let's hit
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: the Rays eighty point five on the win total for
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay half and half, so it's a little under
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: the five hundred mark. They just signed Hasung Kim. You
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: weren't on with this yesterday, Todd follow I heard a
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: surprising little addition for the Rays and their highest paid
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: player of course, now and They're coming off in eighty
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: one in last year. So at MGM is like, I
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: challenge you do they go one up, one down? What
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: are we thinking?
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: They're playing at a new spot too?
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah?
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: More offense there, oh man.
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: I feel like you can never count those Rays out
• 42:15
  Speaker 3: for getting eighty eighty wins. Man.
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: But then I think, is you got to.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: Pick at least one or two teams that are gonna
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: suck in the division because not every team's gonna win
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: eighty some odd games. So I'm okay with going over
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: on the Rays, and I feel like I might do that,
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: but I do have to be honest with myself and
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: be like, who's gonna suck in the division.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: It's a tough one man.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: Right now, For me, it's it's Toronto, it's any team, man.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: And I know Kratzy probably would agree with that. He's
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: he's I don't know. I don't see I don't see
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: him getting over eighty. I don't see it. I see
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: under five hundred. I see him battling. But the division
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: is just too tough. It's just too tough. And I
• 42:57
  Speaker 3: would I would say in the mid seventy range.
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, Krats, I'm taking the under with Todd.
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: I think that's what Todd's answer was. But I'm taking
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: the under, but I also want to take eighty and
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: a half because they're playing in a minor league park.
• 43:10
  Speaker 1: There might be a game where you know what, guys,
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: like it's the end of the year, this is our
• 43:15
  Speaker 1: nineteenth rain out, like each of you gets a half,
• 43:18
  Speaker 1: So they might actually be the first team to win
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: eighty and a half. But I'm taking the.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: I'll actually take the over. I think that the there
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: will be a home field advantage because it's gonna be
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: such a pain for others. Thought about the reschedule and
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: go through all the rain there and like, yeah, we
• 43:31
  Speaker 2: did this every day. So anyway, if you want to
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: play poker inside, aer Kratz is your guy. He is
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: digitally playing over the next few days in the Gridiron Classics,
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: So if you'd like to face him, you can win
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: a custom football jersey every night during this little run.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: I entered one quick tournament last night Kratz while I
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: was in Jersey, and I was out very quickly, went
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: all in ace king against pocket aces. That is a
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: pretty trophy, and that is one that you won in
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: one of these online tournament. So good luck to you
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: coming up over the next few days. And I heard
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Todd Father might be playing in a twenty or two
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, tonight, right, Cratty, You and I it's a couple.
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: It's tonight. It's Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The Big Sunday
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: is the big one. Sunday's the only five hundred dollars
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: buy in twenty five thousand dollars pot. Let's get at onions.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Friday show will feature Ken Rosenthal, Jonathan Paplevan, and Victor
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: Scott the Second, the speedster for the Saint Louis Cardinals.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Young ball player with a lot of promise. Anyway, let's
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: slap so first off, let's get quick comments from everyone here.
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: We're going to run out of time, but let's do
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: this first. Adam Silver talking about how MLB is inspirational
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: for the NBA to make changes of their own.
• 45:05
  Speaker 7: I'm a fan of what baseball did. I'm a baseball fan,
• 45:08
  Speaker 7: and i think some of those changes have really increased
• 45:11
  Speaker 7: sort of the engagement, the entertainment value of the game,
• 45:14
  Speaker 7: and so I'm paying a lot of attention to that.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: And in fact, I've used the pitch clock the sort
• 45:21
  Speaker 7: of the increasing the size of the base et cetera.
• 45:23
  Speaker 7: In meetings at the NBA to say, you know, if baseball,
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: which is more locked into tradition, and I don't mean
• 45:31
  Speaker 7: that negatively than any other sport, and part of what
• 45:33
  Speaker 7: baseball provides is the tradition, the legacy that if they're
• 45:36
  Speaker 7: able to make those changes, certainly we shouldn't be afraid
• 45:39
  Speaker 7: to look at changes as well.
• 45:42
  Speaker 2: And that was on the Dan Patrick Show. We like
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: to give credit to everyone for the hard work that
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: they do. Please credit your media outlets when they do
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: hard work and bring on great guests. Anyway, I like
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: the inspiration part. But for me personally Todd Father as
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: a long time NBA fan, I don't follow the game
• 45:57
  Speaker 2: that closely anymore, but I love going to games. I
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: don't want ten minutes.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: That's too damn short.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: I feel like twelve is quick. Especially by the time
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: you get all settled in, I'm like, damn, game's over
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: and they're in like a two hour fifteen ish. I
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: want to say a minute range. And MLB. It's the
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: same thing. With MLB. There was a point where they
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: were like, oh, we should go to seven innings because
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: these games are three hours forty minutes. Well, now we
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: got the time down because we got rid of the
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: dead time. No no, no, no, no, We're nine innings.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: So I see what he's saying, But like, let's speed
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: up the free throws in the instant replays. I don't
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: want ten minute quarters.
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree, I agree. It's I love basket Why
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: I love watching it? I don't know. Maybe it's just
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: something they've been looking into their analytical department, something that
• 46:37
  Speaker 3: they have gone on of saying, Man, it's these extra
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: two minutes. What is that equal eight extra minutes a game?
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: You know, I feel like it's fast enough. But what
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not the expert in all this, so for them.
• 46:50
  Speaker 3: I like how he talks about baseball. It gives a
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: new outlook to baseball and how exciting and how some
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: people perceive baseball. And I think, as a commissioner, that's
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: really cool to.
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: Hear crats wigh in and you can do krats hats.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: Maybe you can do both things at the same time.
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: You can show your hat and tats about NBA.
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: There's no teams in Scranton, but there was a thread
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: so scrant Wilson Burke and my thing with the NBA
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: you want to go to a quicker game, go to
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: a JV high school game. Man, the rest just put
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: the whistles away. Dude, just running up and down the court,
• 47:28
  Speaker 1: like you don't want to go. I'm I'm against I'm
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: against changing, changing clocks and changing times. I'm going to
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: a sporting event. I'm not trying to get out of there.
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: I want to watch it. I was kind of against
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: the pitch clock. I like it now, but I was
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: against it because I don't really care how long the
• 47:45
  Speaker 1: game is. I like the game that much.
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: You know what they call JV basketball football.
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  Speaker 1: For real? It is unbelievable.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it taught me a lot about life. I value
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: my my ear with JV when I was able to
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: commit fouls that then did not work. When you got
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: to varsity. They were like, sir, that's a foul. I'm like, well,
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: it wasn't about last year. They're like, welcome.
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  Speaker 3: What I found.
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  Speaker 1: Scott only only one year on JV. Some of some
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: of us had to play two years on JV. Todd didn't.
• 48:20
  Speaker 1: He scored a thousand points and that's all on varsity.
• 48:24
  Speaker 3: I played freshman, it was JV, and I probably had
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: like fifty points. In varsity that year. But ja, yeah,
• 48:30
  Speaker 3: I just read a little bit.
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: Just a little bit, no big deal. There's a letter
• 48:34
  Speaker 2: from Yukon recruiting him, telling them all the NBA players
• 48:37
  Speaker 2: that they recently had.
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: That was incredible.
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: Another that was freaking awesome. That's real too.
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  Speaker 3: I coached my kids. I know what I'm I know
• 48:50
  Speaker 3: what I'm doing.
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you can hoop a little all right. Lastly on
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: that front, let's show todd Fathers Championship. Yes, belt Ish Championship.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: Clack. I would score a plaque. It's a monster plaque.
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  Speaker 3: It's really cool. Raised over forty eight thousand this year
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: for the Children's Specialized Hospital. It was a great showing.
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  Speaker 3: We had sixty four teams. There was a buy back
• 49:11
  Speaker 3: tournament where our boys from foul Territory almost won it.
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: They made it to the semifinals, hoping for another good
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: one next year. It was a lot of fun. There's
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: too many thank you as I could do. But again,
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: raised over forty eight k for the children at the
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: Children's Specialized Hospital. So a lot of good money going
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: to a good going to good stuff.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: Congrats. I know you put a ton of hustle into
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: all of that. No love it, and we left to
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: support it. And so make sure you keep an eye
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: on it for next year when Cratsey you're coming next year? Yeah, grats.
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: You gotta make a trip now my bed on bed.
• 49:42
  Speaker 1: Go make it BBW A and I'm there. Who was
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: your partner? Who? Who's that with you?
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: Oh? That was Mark Montenaro of Auto Land. He's he
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: paid for the biggest sponsor, So the biggest sponsor gets
• 49:52
  Speaker 3: to play with with me, so which is great. Mark
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: was on fuego bro, he was on fire.
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  Speaker 2: Good for him, all right. Dodger's Territory coming up next
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: with Kyle Glazer and Clintesius Dodgers Padres talk