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Devers to DH? Rockies owner cries help, Acuña says less SB, Luis Severino reveals tipping looks · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: If you could hear it in all their voices, the energy,
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Speaker 1: the emotion, the realistic ability of maybe winning the division,
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Speaker 1: and the positivity. And it starts with Kadza. It starts
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Speaker 1: with him.
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Speaker 2: This is it, Aja is your goodbye toward at Arizona.
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Speaker 3: Fine, So I'm dancing. That's what I'm d It's been great, Listen,
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Speaker 3: it's been awesome. A lot of dinners with some old friends,
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Speaker 3: a lot of hanging out with people that I've known
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Speaker 3: for a long time, and uh, it's it's just nice
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Speaker 3: to get in people's face right and see him and
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Speaker 3: talk to him, and that it's just easier when you're
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Speaker 3: when you're here in person and not through a TV.
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Speaker 3: Not that what we do is an amazing through the
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Speaker 3: through the television and through the internet and all that,
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Speaker 3: but when you're actually talking to somebody face to face,
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Speaker 3: it's just a different conversation. And the players have been great,
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Speaker 3: the PR staffs have been great. Everybody on our team
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Speaker 3: except for Michael, has been great because I mean we've
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Speaker 3: said it before, Michael wars socks when he sleeps, which
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Speaker 3: is something I never wanted to know. And he drinks
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Speaker 3: a seven dollars Starbucks and doesn't pay you back and
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Speaker 3: he doesn't say please when he asks you to get
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Speaker 3: him one. So other than that, everyone's been awesome.
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Speaker 4: That's a win. Who's this Michael guy man?
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Speaker 1: We got to get him out him on the show
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Speaker 1: and talk to him about it.
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Speaker 2: Actually, he knows a lot about the Rangers, So if
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Speaker 2: we do want to talk Rangers ball, we can sometime
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Speaker 2: with Michael. But you guys have been crushing out there. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: it's been awesome, and that includes last night hearing from
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Speaker 2: guys like Louis Savarino, who will show part of that
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Speaker 2: combo later on in the show. We're going to talk
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Speaker 2: to some Aze players and also I just want to
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Speaker 2: throw this out there. We'll give you the spring training
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Speaker 2: schedule later on for next week, which we'll have cam
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Speaker 2: Aven on the road. The week after that is opening day,
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Speaker 2: Todd Father. We haven't said it officially. We'll get more
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Speaker 2: details next week. But we're taking a little trip.
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Speaker 4: We are, we are taking a little trip. Are you coming, Scott?
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Speaker 2: I'm coming.
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Speaker 4: But it's your spot, that's your house. Are we allowed
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Speaker 4: to say it or no?
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Speaker 2: Yeah we could say it. We could give him a
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Speaker 2: little teaser.
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Speaker 5: Why not.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're going to a city called the Queen City
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Speaker 1: again for opening Day, and we love it over there.
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Speaker 1: They're very gracious, the Reds and I can't wait to
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Speaker 1: get back there. There is nothing, and I tell you,
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Speaker 1: I've seen a bunch of Opening Day, has been a
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Speaker 1: part of a bunch. There's nothing better than Opening Day
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Speaker 1: in Cincinnati, Ohio. I will promise you that one thing.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I've never been there for their opening Day and
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Speaker 2: that's a staple. They always have it out there. So
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Speaker 2: it'll be Red's giants. Will give you more details when
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Speaker 2: he gets closer, but let's charge the damn mound.
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Speaker 3: Chubut.
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Speaker 2: Raphael Devers yesterday to the media, quote, we spoke already,
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Speaker 2: and I'm good to do whatever they want me to do.
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Speaker 2: Talking about the Red Sox, I'm here to help. I've
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Speaker 2: already spoken with them about that and they know where
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Speaker 2: I stand. But I'm just ready to play. The saga continues.
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Speaker 2: It sounded like he was a little bit affected by
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Speaker 2: the entire situation, and obviously I'm sure there's some Boston
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Speaker 2: radio stations that were all over his case for the
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Speaker 2: last month. On what fans should expect, said they can
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Speaker 2: expect a better year than last year. For me, they
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Speaker 2: can expect a lot from this team. Overall, I think
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Speaker 2: the fans can expect us to compete for a World
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Speaker 2: Series this year. I'll add this caveat to AJ hasn't
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Speaker 2: played yet. He's supposed to make his debut this weekend. Also,
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Speaker 2: Bregman hasn't played second base yet, so we haven't covered
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Speaker 2: it in the last week and changed since we've been
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Speaker 2: at spring training games. But I mean, I think he
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Speaker 2: just confirmed what we're going to see at the start
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Speaker 2: of the year, which is Alex Bregman at third in
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Speaker 2: Rafael Dever's at DH, which is probably best for his
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Speaker 2: shoulder anyway.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it just was handled partly, I think fantastic. Can
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Speaker 3: you imagine being the red third baseman and then all
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Speaker 3: of a sudden, without telling you, and without being told,
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Speaker 3: and no one mentioning to you, they sign a guy
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Speaker 3: you know, I don't trying to think of whoever that
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Speaker 3: would be in your tenure for the Reds and they're
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Speaker 3: without telling you, like, oh, by the way, Todd, you're
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Speaker 3: now the second baseman, or you're the DH or the
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Speaker 3: first baseman, or you're the center fielder. I mean, of course,
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Speaker 3: a guy of Dever's statures gonna get a little bit upset,
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Speaker 3: and I think he was kind of blindsided by it
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Speaker 3: a little bit. And I think now that he's had
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Speaker 3: time to think about it, he's changed his mind and
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Speaker 3: he's obviously said the right things. This guy wants to
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Speaker 3: be a Red Sox. He signed a long term deal
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Speaker 3: to be a Red Sox. So yeah, he's gonna do
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Speaker 3: whatever because he wants to win. He's a Red Sox.
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Speaker 3: He wants to win. He's got a long term deal,
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Speaker 3: do whatever it takes. Listen, I predicted on here he'd
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Speaker 3: be the opening day third basement. With these new comments
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Speaker 3: and him not playing and Bregman only playing third base,
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Speaker 3: Bragman's gonna be the opening day third baseman, and Devers
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Speaker 3: is gonna be the opening day DH.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and I think you hit it perfectly, kind of
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Speaker 1: piggyback what you're saying, like cooler heads will prevail. This
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Speaker 1: is something that I again, I would be like, Yo,
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Speaker 1: what the heck's going on here? Dude, I've been here
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Speaker 1: for a couple of years now, you gave me this deal.
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Speaker 1: I'm the third baseman. And then as time goes by,
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Speaker 1: nobody's budgeting on the breast the side on the coacher side,
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'm all in for the team, Like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: you got you got to bite your tongue and move on.
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Speaker 1: It's not gonna affect him. I don't think it's going
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Speaker 1: to affect Devers at all. I just think, now, in
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Speaker 1: the back of your mind, like, what what am I
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Speaker 1: like bottom of the barrel here, I'm one of the
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Speaker 1: best hitters in baseball, you know, top thirty, top thirty
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Speaker 1: hitter in baseball. Like, dude, give me the respect I deserve.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I think he handled it perfectly. I
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Speaker 1: think he said all the right things. But yeah, in
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Speaker 1: the back of his mind, he's like, dude, I've been
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Speaker 1: a third basemin for this long and all of a sudden,
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Speaker 1: you know, another player comes on, not saying he's not
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Speaker 1: good enough. There's no way Bregman's really good. He should
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Speaker 1: be a third baseman. But I feel like Bregman would
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Speaker 1: be better off at like a second base position. Raphael
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Speaker 1: Devers doesn't have that foot speed going left to right
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Speaker 1: when it comes to playing you know, other positions. So
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Speaker 1: for me, I think he said the right things. But
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Speaker 1: at the same time, I give credit to Devers for
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Speaker 1: saying the right things. And now it's time to move on.
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Speaker 1: Like all right, good man, they're not doing anything else.
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Speaker 1: Go out and play. But know, in the back of
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Speaker 1: your mind, if I'm Raphael, yeah, you know what you
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Speaker 1: guys want me to do this here and there, I'm busy.
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Speaker 1: You know those kind of things. You know that cotton
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Speaker 1: mouse game by hey man, do you mind coming to
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Speaker 1: help out the team and these things? Well, now this
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Speaker 1: function I can't make you know, as petty as it sounds, AJ,
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Speaker 1: you can understand fully it's like, well you kind of
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Speaker 1: screwed me here a little.
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Speaker 3: I just feel Listen, I feel like he got blindsided
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Speaker 3: by this. I mean they he didn't. I don't know
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Speaker 3: that he knew. Now I don't have knowledge of this,
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Speaker 3: but uh, I don't know that he knew, like they
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Speaker 3: didn't call him. Here's here's my thing as a player.
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Speaker 3: If I'm a catcher and I'm on a team and
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Speaker 3: I'm the face of the franchise, which I never was,
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Speaker 3: so I can't explain. I can't understand this from a
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Speaker 3: Raphael dever site point of view. But if I'm kind
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Speaker 3: of the face of the franchise, and all of a
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Speaker 3: sudden they let's see, I'm trying to use somebody when
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Speaker 3: I played it. If they're like, oh, we went out
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Speaker 3: and signed pud Rodriguez to take your spot, I'm like, wait,
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Speaker 3: but I've done this. I've been an All Star, I've
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Speaker 3: been the face of the franchise. I've done all these things,
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Speaker 3: and you don't call me and tell me. That's why
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Speaker 3: I think he was upset. And then he gets to
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Speaker 3: camp and without really having any idea about it, they
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Speaker 3: just jump him and they're like, hey, what do you
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Speaker 3: think are you And of course like I'm at I'm
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Speaker 3: the catcher. I've been the catcher here for the last
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Speaker 3: but six seven years, so yeah, I'm the catcher until
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Speaker 3: someone tells me I'm not. I'm going to say I'm
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Speaker 3: the catcher, and I think that's where I got misconstrued.
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Speaker 3: And listen, I give Raffi Devers a ton of credit
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Speaker 3: in this. And I know people say, oh, he should
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Speaker 3: just say this from the get go, But as a
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Speaker 3: professional baseball player that has the utmost confidence in your
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Speaker 3: ability and my ability, I want to do what I've
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Speaker 3: done for the last how many every years and again
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Speaker 3: they're paying me, and I thought to be the third baseman,
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Speaker 3: So I'm going to say I'm the third baseman. Should
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Speaker 3: he have said something different? Yes, Now he's talked about
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Speaker 3: it with the Red Sox organization, he's talked about it
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Speaker 3: with his people that he trusts, and he's changed his tune.
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Speaker 3: And listen, there's one thing I've heard about Raffie Devers.
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Speaker 3: He just wants to win, so he'll do whatever it
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Speaker 3: takes to win. So I get both sides, but I
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Speaker 3: also understand why Raffie was pissed at the beginning. Now
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Speaker 3: he's moved on. He's going to be doing the best
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Speaker 3: he can for the team. But let's not crush this
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Speaker 3: kid for saying what every one of us would have said. Scott,
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Speaker 3: I think about in your job. You know, if you're
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Speaker 3: here and all of a sudden we're like, hey, we're
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Speaker 3: bringing in another lot of rizzo, and without a lot
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Speaker 3: of rizzo, without telling you, Scott, you're out, by the way,
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Speaker 3: You're you're now on something else. You'd be like, no, no,
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Speaker 3: I'm the ft host like it's mine, right, you're gonna
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Speaker 3: fight for it. And that's what Divers did.
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Speaker 5: Nah.
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Speaker 2: I love a lot. I think she should take over.
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Speaker 3: Wait, but for after spending a week with her, Scott,
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Speaker 3: I can't argue.
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Speaker 2: Thank you exactly. Uh just see if she can move
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Speaker 2: to Orlando and then she'll be your co host every day.
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Speaker 2: But in all seriousness, Aja, for me, I felt like
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Speaker 2: behind the scenes, the shoulder helped to push this across.
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Speaker 2: He hasn't played in a game yet. I get it.
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Speaker 2: He's a bat. He's fine. I'm not worried about the bat.
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Speaker 2: I am worried about the glove. He's led the league
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Speaker 2: in errors at third base. I think every year since
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Speaker 2: twenty eighteen. He rates pretty poorly on the metrics as well.
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Speaker 2: It's just a fact that part alone is an issue.
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Speaker 2: Now you add that the shoulders not one hundred percent,
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Speaker 2: not close enough to get him on the field at
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Speaker 2: least yet hopefully this weekend. I'm like, hey, dude, I
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Speaker 2: think this is It's just best for your career too.
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Speaker 2: Where we get you some DH time, maybe you start
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Speaker 2: to mix into third base as the season goes along.
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Speaker 2: There's also definitely going to be injuries. There always are,
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Speaker 2: and it might play out that way anyway, but at
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Speaker 2: least to start the year, AJ, I just feel like
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Speaker 2: the best lineup for them has Devs at DH and
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Speaker 2: has Bregman at third base, and the Red Sox can't
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Speaker 2: mess around. They haven't been a great team. They have
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Speaker 2: a chance to be a good team this year. I
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Speaker 2: don't want to look back at April and be like, damn,
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Speaker 2: we could have won an extra few games if we
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Speaker 2: had Bregman at third base and Devs didn't look like
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Speaker 2: he was ready at third and he wasn't you know,
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Speaker 2: ever known for his club there anyway. So I feel
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Speaker 2: like it actually might help him at the plate and
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Speaker 2: just make him feel more relaxed coming into the year
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Speaker 2: because he's not one hundred percent. So I think it's
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Speaker 2: a winning move by the Red Sox.
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Speaker 4: I want to know what.
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Speaker 3: I want to know what Todd thinks about this, because
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Speaker 3: he was a third baseman. I mean, Todd was a
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Speaker 3: third I can't speak on what it's like. I mean
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Speaker 3: I could speak of what it was like being a
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Speaker 3: DH and a catcher, but I never played third. So
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Speaker 3: I want to know what Todd has to say because
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Speaker 3: I want to know how he would feel if he
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Speaker 3: was a little sore, beat up or whatever, and then
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Speaker 3: he played in the National League. But they didn't have
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Speaker 3: the DHN, but if he got to DH sometimes.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean listen, I I like DH and maybe
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Speaker 1: five times out of the year to give myself a break,
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Speaker 1: I was a guy that always wanted to be out there.
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Speaker 1: I don't know, I just felt like I wasn't into
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Speaker 1: the game as much as a DH.
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Speaker 4: Just in my mind.
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Speaker 1: My mindset was if I'm d agent, I'm on the
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Speaker 1: back end of my career, Like, if that's where they
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Speaker 1: wanted me to go, that's not a good sign.
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Speaker 4: And that's just my thought process.
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Speaker 1: So for me and no endeavors and knowing the way
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Speaker 1: he plays, he wants to be out there. Screw DH
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Speaker 1: and man, forget about that. That's you know, that's in
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Speaker 1: the last two or three years of your career if
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Speaker 1: you could still mash. I want to be out there.
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Speaker 1: I want to keep playing. I want to be in
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Speaker 1: the game. I want to talk. I want to have chatter.
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Speaker 1: I want to you know, talk around and be in
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Speaker 1: all the plays. You're at third base, you got to
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Speaker 1: be ready for every single play. It's the hot corner.
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Speaker 1: You're the man over there. So yeah, no, I want
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Speaker 1: to play and I want in. DH to me is
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Speaker 1: something that you know is like, man, they don't think
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Speaker 1: I could play defense anymore. I know I made all
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Speaker 1: these errors, but I'm not. I'm not that bad of
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Speaker 1: a defender, am I. You know that's the thought process
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Speaker 1: I would have for me.
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Speaker 2: It's just on the winning side of things. What if
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Speaker 2: I told you at the end of the year that
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox missed the playoffs by two games and
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Speaker 2: we felt like it would have changed if we had
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Speaker 2: a top five third baseman defensively at the position versus.
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Speaker 4: A bottom five.
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Speaker 3: You lose seventy games. You lose seventy games. Anyways, God,
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Speaker 3: how many times as you look back on the hear
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Speaker 3: and be like, man if I would have got a
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Speaker 3: hit with this guy, you know we missed. I mean
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Speaker 3: I was on a team that missed the playoffs more
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Speaker 3: than once in the last day of the year, okay,
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Speaker 3: and so many times I look back and I was like,
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Speaker 3: man if I would have got a hit or I
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Speaker 3: wouldn't have done this. But you know how many other
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Speaker 3: guys There's twenty four other guys on the team that
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Speaker 3: could say the same thing. So you can't just say like, oh, man,
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Speaker 3: I know if Bregnan would have been playing second instead
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Speaker 3: of Devors, we would have won two more games. No,
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Speaker 3: like you never you can't say that because there's all
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Speaker 3: these games you look back on and you remember the
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Speaker 3: losses for me at least more than the wins. So
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Speaker 3: you look back at the end of the year like,
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Speaker 3: oh man, we lost in Game one sixty three in
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Speaker 3: the tiebreaker. If only I would have got to hit here. Well,
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Speaker 3: guess what there's You know, when I was on the Rangers,
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Speaker 3: we had Beltra, Andrews, Morland Kinsler. I guarantee you they
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Speaker 3: all look back at the end of the year, you're like, man,
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Speaker 3: if I just would have got to hit here or
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Speaker 3: got to hit here or done this, we would have
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Speaker 3: made the playoffs instead of having that. So you can't
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Speaker 3: do that. And I thought Derek had a great point too.
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Speaker 3: By the way, Devers is down three homers already because
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Speaker 3: Cole's on the show for the.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, when when Cole got hurt at great Yes, intentionally walks. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: intentional walks. That's true for me. Last part here, just
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Speaker 2: to circle back, Aja, do you really think that there
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Speaker 2: was zero interaction until spring training? I'm just genuinely curious.
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Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to it. Do you think
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Speaker 2: they didn't even make a phone call. Does that face
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Speaker 2: say at all or did you free?
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Speaker 3: I'm just saying I don't think they did. I think
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Speaker 3: I don't know, but I don't know. The way it
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Speaker 3: was handled, it seems like they didn't have communication. I
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Speaker 3: don't know if that's true or not. It's just the
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Speaker 3: way it was handled. It just seems like that.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Well, regardless, in my mind, they're in the best
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Speaker 2: position to succeed, at least for now, to start the
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Speaker 2: year with this defensive alignment, and I think that's what
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Speaker 2: many in the front office are looking at. So we'll
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Speaker 2: see how this plays out. Got to get him back
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Speaker 2: on the field, and again they were pushing their chips in.
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Speaker 2: Bregman hasn't played one game at second base. I know
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Speaker 2: he's real good, but if i'm switching positions, I don't
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Speaker 2: care who you are, I'm putting him at second base
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Speaker 2: all spring. So clearly they knew this was going on,
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Speaker 2: all right. Anyway, if you have thoughts about this, you're
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Speaker 2: catching it later on. Drop some comments for us. Let's sizzle.
14:52
Speaker 2: We do talk about the Rockies on this show, not
14:55
Speaker 2: frequently since they're pretty irrelevant, but we do talk about them,
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Speaker 2: and some fans are def going to drop something in
15:01
Speaker 2: the comments like, oh you guys, just you guys just
15:03
Speaker 2: cry about money and pick on owners.
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Speaker 4: No we don't.
15:05
Speaker 2: We praise the ones that give a crap. And this
15:09
Speaker 2: is one who just has completely punted for a while.
15:11
Speaker 2: Now run your team better. Dick Monfort who said, quote,
15:16
Speaker 2: the only way to fix baseball is to do a
15:18
Speaker 2: salary cap and floor. It gets better though. With a
15:20
Speaker 2: cap comes a floor for a lot of teams. The
15:22
Speaker 2: question is how do they get to the floor. And
15:24
Speaker 2: that includes us probably, but on some sort of revenue
15:27
Speaker 2: split deal, I would be all in. So basically he's saying,
15:29
Speaker 2: I want a cap, a floor, and someone to pay
15:32
Speaker 2: for it. Right. So dude, you bought the Rockies years back.
15:36
Speaker 2: They're worth a lot more. If you have a problem,
15:38
Speaker 2: just get out of the sport. But anyway, he also
15:40
Speaker 2: said to the Denver Gazette, sports are supposed to have
15:43
Speaker 2: some sort of fairness, right, There's got to be some purity.
15:46
Speaker 2: The Dodgers are the greatest poster children we could have
15:49
Speaker 2: had for something for how something has to change. Something's
15:52
Speaker 2: got to happen. The competitive imbalance and baseball has gotten
15:55
Speaker 2: to the point of ludicrosity. I don't think it's a word,
15:58
Speaker 2: but he said it. It's an unregulated industry. And he said,
16:01
Speaker 2: like one of my fellow owners said, the problem is ourselves.
16:04
Speaker 2: You've got thirty owners, they're all diverse. This system works
16:06
Speaker 2: for big markets. It's gotten to the point where the
16:08
Speaker 2: big markets can't make any money because they're selling it
16:10
Speaker 2: all out in payroll. That part actually is the most telling, Aja,
16:15
Speaker 2: So tell us why you really want to change the system,
16:18
Speaker 2: even though there are other teams that thrive, that also
16:21
Speaker 2: spend less money than you and still can put a
16:23
Speaker 2: good freaking product on the field. They're in the stone
16:25
Speaker 2: age right now?
16:27
Speaker 3: Bye bye Felicia, were they saying Friday by Felicia?
16:32
Speaker 4: Bye?
16:32
Speaker 3: Mister Monfort? I mean, come on, are you kidding me?
16:34
Speaker 3: Sell the team? Then why do you want If it's
16:36
Speaker 3: so you're losing all this money, you can't make money,
16:38
Speaker 3: then why do you own the team? Because you could
16:40
Speaker 3: sell it for probably what one point five to two
16:43
Speaker 3: billion dollars and get out now, and you have made
16:45
Speaker 3: hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars over the lifetime
16:48
Speaker 3: of your ownership. So I don't know, get out then
16:52
Speaker 3: and as far as like, we need to have a
16:54
Speaker 3: salary cab, we need to have a floor, and then
16:56
Speaker 3: he says we need other teams to chip into the floor.
16:58
Speaker 3: So basically he want you want the other teams that
17:00
Speaker 3: are making all the money because they're trying harder to
17:02
Speaker 3: pay for you your players. Like, come on, like, this
17:05
Speaker 3: is just you know what this is.
17:07
Speaker 4: This is just.
17:07
Speaker 3: Owners saying we're getting ready. We're gearing up for a
17:10
Speaker 3: CBA fight, and we went all the press. We want
17:13
Speaker 3: everyone to feel sorry for us, so when the CBA
17:16
Speaker 3: fight comes up, we can say, see, we totally been
17:17
Speaker 3: telling you this for years. It's just crazy to me.
17:20
Speaker 3: What do you use ludicrosity, Well, you're ludicrosity. That's just
17:23
Speaker 3: saying this.
17:25
Speaker 4: I was gonna say the same thing.
17:27
Speaker 1: They they come out and they start chipping away with
17:30
Speaker 1: these things, and then two months down the road, we'll
17:32
Speaker 1: forget about it, and then somebody else will come up
17:35
Speaker 1: and say the salary cap word again. And I think
17:38
Speaker 1: that won't ever happen. If that does happen, baseball will
17:42
Speaker 1: be in a lot of trouble. The players are, you know,
17:46
Speaker 1: that would be very hard for them. This is why
17:47
Speaker 1: the sport is great. The players have an upper hand
17:50
Speaker 1: on some things like that, and it just won't ever happen.
17:53
Speaker 1: That's it, and people sit there, Oh they make too
17:55
Speaker 1: much money. Well, that's just what the sport is. You know,
17:58
Speaker 1: if you're really good at this sport and you're really
17:59
Speaker 1: good at your job, you should be making the most money.
18:02
Speaker 1: So it's it's just something where you know, some of
18:06
Speaker 1: these owners come out and here he is. Everybody's gonna
18:10
Speaker 1: remember Dick mont fort for for a couple couple of days,
18:13
Speaker 1: and then the next owner will come out and be like, oh,
18:15
Speaker 1: I didn't know this guy was an owner, and then.
18:17
Speaker 4: It'll just happen again.
18:18
Speaker 1: So that's that's just part of the old, ever lasting
18:22
Speaker 1: cycle wheel of ownership.
18:25
Speaker 4: Right now, that's where they're at.
18:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, can we reply to him?
18:29
Speaker 5: Dude?
18:30
Speaker 2: What are you? What are you doing?
18:31
Speaker 5: Like?
18:32
Speaker 2: What are you doing with your team right now? Are
18:34
Speaker 2: you awake? What are you doing right like? This is
18:38
Speaker 2: one of the hardest people to feel bad for. You
18:40
Speaker 2: have an awesome franchise in an awesome city that supports
18:44
Speaker 2: the team regardless, it's a great spot to go for
18:46
Speaker 2: a game. Are you awake? And I'm not just saying
18:50
Speaker 2: player payroll. I'm not this isn't one of my Hey, dude,
18:53
Speaker 2: spend more money on your team. There's more to it
18:55
Speaker 2: in this case. What are you doing with your organization?
18:58
Speaker 2: That's the thing. I mean. You guys have just been
19:00
Speaker 2: hanging in abyss for a long time now, and it's
19:03
Speaker 2: not like other teams in his spot can't compete. The
19:06
Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians spend less money than the Rockies, right they
19:09
Speaker 2: made it to the ALCS. They are just in the
19:12
Speaker 2: middle of nowhere right now, So you need a good
19:15
Speaker 2: organization to be able to compete too. Let's remember, aj
19:18
Speaker 2: the Mets had the highest payroll ever a couple of
19:20
Speaker 2: years ago and didn't even make the playoffs. The Padres
19:23
Speaker 2: were up there too, didn't make the playoffs. So we
19:26
Speaker 2: have gone over the parody game. I get it for
19:28
Speaker 2: the five teams that always complain about their situations. Pirates
19:32
Speaker 2: fans were here for you, Rockies fans were here for you.
19:35
Speaker 2: But this is just such bs.
19:37
Speaker 4: Dude.
19:38
Speaker 2: I would swing it right back to you and be like,
19:39
Speaker 2: how about relegation If you don't know how to run
19:42
Speaker 2: a team correctly? Right, how about you get punished for
19:44
Speaker 2: never giving your fans a good product. It's been a
19:47
Speaker 2: long ass time and it's ridiculous.
19:50
Speaker 3: They're not doing that. They're not relegation. This isn't soccer.
19:53
Speaker 3: I mean, I think it is cool that in soccer
19:54
Speaker 3: you can't get relegated, But what are you going to
19:56
Speaker 3: call up the Portland Pickles to be a big league
19:59
Speaker 3: team next year? Because they don't even have like a
20:01
Speaker 3: real team. They're a minor league team. They don't have players,
20:03
Speaker 3: So relegation. Anyone that says that, including you, Scott, is
20:06
Speaker 3: as I like, we'd like to say down South, an idiot.
20:08
Speaker 2: I just figured while we're asking for anything, right, he
20:12
Speaker 2: was asking, he was asking for his wish list. We
20:14
Speaker 2: can throw our wish list out there too if you
20:16
Speaker 2: have a problem, because there's plenty of people that would
20:18
Speaker 2: love to see a little more fire from that organization.
20:21
Speaker 2: Do you feel like they draw.
20:23
Speaker 3: Three million fans a year? They draw almost three million
20:26
Speaker 3: fans a year. They're in a big they're in a
20:28
Speaker 3: medium to large market. Denver is a large area that
20:31
Speaker 3: they have that they encompass, so they draw almost three
20:34
Speaker 3: million fans a year. Todd, you've been there, of course,
20:36
Speaker 3: fields awesome place to go play. It's awesome sightlines. It's awesome.
20:39
Speaker 3: I mean in the summer when the sun's setting and
20:41
Speaker 3: then it's like the sky is glowing orange and pink
20:43
Speaker 3: and purple and all these different colors. It's an incredible place.
20:46
Speaker 3: People love going there. I mean, they have Dingers, their mascot.
20:50
Speaker 3: There's so many things that are great about Colorado. I mean,
20:53
Speaker 3: you know, they have the whole area with the bars
20:55
Speaker 3: and the restaurants and everything around it. Listen, don't tell
20:58
Speaker 3: me you're losing money. You're not losing money. But my
21:01
Speaker 3: thing with the Rockies is you gotta do something different.
21:04
Speaker 3: Nothing you've tried, which is the old way, old way,
21:06
Speaker 3: old way, over and over and over again. Try something,
21:10
Speaker 3: get crazy, do what the Rays did. Everyone wants to
21:13
Speaker 3: be the race, the Rockies that they're this poor, they
21:15
Speaker 3: need to be the race. You need to go off
21:17
Speaker 3: the grid like Joe Madden did with all the crazy
21:19
Speaker 3: stuff he was doing, and he started all these new trends,
21:21
Speaker 3: right shifting and openers and doing all these crazy things.
21:25
Speaker 3: If you're the Rockies, you got to come up with
21:26
Speaker 3: the next crazy thing and try to do it. Because
21:29
Speaker 3: of your you know, you always say the field, the field,
21:31
Speaker 3: the field, the field is a disadvantage. Well, there's got
21:33
Speaker 3: to be some smart people out there that can figure
21:35
Speaker 3: out how you can make kords Field your advantage instead
21:38
Speaker 3: of a disadvantage that you always complain about.
21:40
Speaker 4: Yep.
21:41
Speaker 2: And just for clarification, Rockies are seventeenth TV market two
21:44
Speaker 2: point five pour million in attendance last year. I mean,
21:48
Speaker 2: this team does well.
21:49
Speaker 3: Just if they were good. Imagine if they were good,
21:50
Speaker 3: what they would draw.
21:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's an awesome spot for a ballpark experience. So
21:55
Speaker 2: it's just a shame to hear someone like this. I mean,
21:58
Speaker 2: in the past he usually puts out his predictions, but
22:00
Speaker 2: it's like, dude, are you paying attention to the transactions
22:02
Speaker 2: that are going on with your team? Just just be better, bro.
22:05
Speaker 2: It's just a shame to have someone like this in there,
22:07
Speaker 2: who's just out in left field. And it to me
22:10
Speaker 2: feels like, you know, picking a random person off the
22:14
Speaker 2: street and being like, want to run a team. You
22:16
Speaker 2: can bring some of your friends in and you guys
22:18
Speaker 2: can figure it out. It feels like a mom and
22:20
Speaker 2: pop shop and you know, I feel like we've been
22:22
Speaker 2: taking it easy on them and these kind of comments.
22:25
Speaker 2: It's just like it's tired, bro. Just just leave. The
22:28
Speaker 2: Marlins are calling for former college and pro players to
22:32
Speaker 2: be on their practice squad. There are tryouts in Jupiter, Florida,
22:35
Speaker 2: and you can be on the practice squad from April
22:37
Speaker 2: first to September fifteenth. There's the official call out. They
22:41
Speaker 2: are definitely going to get a phone call from the
22:43
Speaker 2: players Union. One hundred and fifty bucks a day. You
22:46
Speaker 2: got to be available from noon to five, around ten
22:48
Speaker 2: to fifteen home games days per month when the Jupiter
22:52
Speaker 2: Hammerheads are in town, selling it as a unique opportunity
22:56
Speaker 2: to gain exposure to pro players and coaches. One fan,
22:59
Speaker 2: Robert Stock, said, I wonder if these won't turn into
23:02
Speaker 2: a workaround a sidestep minor league roster restrictions, especially if
23:05
Speaker 2: they sign a player or two from the practice squad Eventually.
23:08
Speaker 2: I actually think teams are gonna complain about this too.
23:10
Speaker 3: AJ, I'm not complaining. Sign me up. By the way,
23:14
Speaker 3: here's what we should do on our FT network. We
23:16
Speaker 3: need to get a camera crew down there. Todd and
23:18
Speaker 3: I will sign up and we'll play on this team
23:20
Speaker 3: and we'll see if for any good let's see if
23:22
Speaker 3: we still got it. I mean, Todd can make it
23:24
Speaker 3: down from Jersey for ten to fifteen days a month. Right,
23:26
Speaker 3: they'll get one hundred and fifty dollars a day, and
23:28
Speaker 3: we'll see if for any good and to see if
23:30
Speaker 3: they sign us. What if they signed the Todd father
23:32
Speaker 3: and he goes and plays third base this year in Miami,
23:34
Speaker 3: he could put a new kneon behind him and he
23:37
Speaker 3: could get another year of service.
23:38
Speaker 2: Time.
23:38
Speaker 3: Let's do this, tok.
23:40
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, all I'm thinking about the first person that
23:43
Speaker 1: came in my mind was Vince Papali. Listen, they might
23:46
Speaker 1: just find a rose in the thorn. Here a guy
23:49
Speaker 1: comes out, run a six, four, five sixty. All of
23:52
Speaker 1: a sudden, his gap the gap baseball. The guy's gonna
23:55
Speaker 1: steal bang boom. Two years later, he's in the big leagues.
23:58
Speaker 1: It's the new Vince Papa baseball.
24:00
Speaker 4: You just never know.
24:02
Speaker 1: Watch out that one guy that said they they screwed
24:05
Speaker 1: me over. You know, I should have been a big
24:06
Speaker 1: league it's my time. And the mom and dad are like,
24:09
Speaker 1: here we go, Johnny boy, go ahead.
24:10
Speaker 4: Try out next thing.
24:11
Speaker 5: You know.
24:12
Speaker 4: A year later, I know you could do with Johnny Boy.
24:14
Speaker 4: You're run the mall like this is crazy. Yeah, And
24:18
Speaker 4: then the Evince Papali's coming as you watch out.
24:21
Speaker 2: That's good. I think about the movie The Replacements too.
24:23
Speaker 2: You just have all these talented dudes that have these
24:25
Speaker 2: weird backgrounds and stories and they all get together and
24:29
Speaker 2: form a team, and then maybe they're even better than
24:31
Speaker 2: the major league team. So be careful what you wish for.
24:34
Speaker 3: I think I think of the ninety five spring training
24:37
Speaker 3: when we had the replacement players and for big league teams,
24:40
Speaker 3: and there was like I remember I was in spring training.
24:42
Speaker 3: I never crossed the line, but we we roomed with
24:44
Speaker 3: the replacement guys in spring training that year, and it
24:46
Speaker 3: was like one guy was like a carpenter and the
24:48
Speaker 3: other guy was a drywall guy. One guy was like
24:51
Speaker 3: a coach at his high school, and they were gonna
24:54
Speaker 3: play in the big leagues that year. I mean, think
24:55
Speaker 3: about the story though. If you're a random guy there
24:58
Speaker 3: and you could be the rooty, you and I could
25:01
Speaker 3: be the rudy. We could go in there and everyone
25:02
Speaker 3: lays their the hammerheads, all lay their jerseys down until
25:05
Speaker 3: we get a chance to get in a bat in
25:07
Speaker 3: a game.
25:08
Speaker 1: Oh, I remember my brother in the minor leagues. Crazy.
25:12
Speaker 2: Let's give you a little taste of what to expect
25:14
Speaker 2: next week in the Tokyo series because they sold out
25:18
Speaker 2: the workout. Over ten thousand people bought tickets. The place
25:22
Speaker 2: is packed for their workout day, sold out within an hour.
25:26
Speaker 2: We're doing postgame shows after those two games next week.
25:28
Speaker 2: They do count their regular season games. But Todd Father,
25:31
Speaker 2: the photos and the the tweets right now that I've
25:35
Speaker 2: seen this morning from Tokyo are insane. We knew it, right,
25:40
Speaker 2: we knew it. But it truly is like you know,
25:44
Speaker 2: Dream Team Jordan kind of visiting you know, spots in
25:48
Speaker 2: Asia when people would go nuts. I mean, probably honestly
25:51
Speaker 2: more than that, because these guys are from Japan and
25:53
Speaker 2: it is the football of Japan.
25:56
Speaker 4: Right.
25:57
Speaker 2: NFL makes the most money in America, Baseball is by
25:59
Speaker 2: far number one in Japan.
26:02
Speaker 1: Just think about this, Honestly, even if you don't even
26:06
Speaker 1: go to game, you get to go to something like this.
26:07
Speaker 1: Just think about a kid that's ten, eleven, twelve years old, Dad, Mom,
26:12
Speaker 1: All I want this year is to find a way
26:14
Speaker 1: to get to one of those stadiums, to see my
26:16
Speaker 1: heroes play, to see show Hey a Suzaki, all these guys.
26:25
Speaker 1: Just this is just a dream come true. For all
26:27
Speaker 1: these people. They're packed in there, and guess what they
26:30
Speaker 1: are all watching right now, and they are not I
26:33
Speaker 1: know what's going on. They are not on their phones,
26:35
Speaker 1: they are not doing anything. They are sitting in there.
26:38
Speaker 1: They're taking mental notes, They're writing down stuff. There's coaches
26:41
Speaker 1: up there that are watching. There's pictures being you know, made,
26:45
Speaker 1: there's memories. Just imagine sitting there and these guys are
26:48
Speaker 1: all on the edge of their seats, young men, young women,
26:52
Speaker 1: young and old seeing a professional team take a workout.
26:57
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? People have to pay to do
26:59
Speaker 1: things like that. For the most part, this is the
27:01
Speaker 1: coolest thing.
27:02
Speaker 4: In the world. Look at the dome.
27:03
Speaker 1: Look at how awesome that is, and the people in there,
27:06
Speaker 1: and they are the most gracious fans you'll ever see
27:08
Speaker 1: in your life. And if I'm a professional player right
27:11
Speaker 1: now and I'm practicing there, warming up, I got goosebumps
27:14
Speaker 1: thinking about it.
27:15
Speaker 4: How cool and amazing this is gonna be.
27:18
Speaker 2: There's two real MLB games next week. We'll have postgame shows,
27:21
Speaker 2: but also we'll be watching the game and we'll be listening.
27:23
Speaker 5: To dump dump dumb.
27:29
Speaker 3: This guy right here, I'll be doing them. Yeah, I'll
27:33
Speaker 3: be on the call for the series, Can you guys
27:35
Speaker 3: hear me?
27:36
Speaker 4: Yeah?
27:37
Speaker 1: Who is on there with it? You know who's who's
27:39
Speaker 1: going to be broadcasting with uh.
27:42
Speaker 3: The first day, I believe is Benetti, mister Jason Bennetti.
27:45
Speaker 3: In the second game, Adam Amin.
27:48
Speaker 2: Nice, Okay, Well, we're looking forward to that. And also
27:52
Speaker 2: a little bit of news show. Hey spoke about the
27:56
Speaker 2: pause with the bullpen sessions and really just echoed what
27:59
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have been saying. They just want to make
28:01
Speaker 2: sure that he's preparing to hit. This is a difficult
28:05
Speaker 2: balance that nobody can speak to with past experience. Hey,
28:09
Speaker 2: how do you become a starter again coming off another
28:13
Speaker 2: elbow surgery and an off season shoulder surgery. The elbow
28:18
Speaker 2: surgery was obviously before the previous season, and then still
28:23
Speaker 2: maintain your fifty plus homer self and try and be
28:28
Speaker 2: a top end starter. It's a lot to me. I
28:32
Speaker 2: mean it's a lot anyway, AJ But when you add
28:34
Speaker 2: in the fact that he has had injuries and surgeries,
28:37
Speaker 2: there's just nothing to go off of. So it does
28:40
Speaker 2: sound like it was part of his plan. Hey, I'm
28:42
Speaker 2: going to get some things going, then pause a little bit,
28:45
Speaker 2: and then I can work into this as the season
28:47
Speaker 2: goes along.
28:48
Speaker 3: One of the most intriguing storylines of the year. Will
28:51
Speaker 3: he pitch this year or ever again? And how do
28:54
Speaker 3: they get him back to rehab because he can't go
28:56
Speaker 3: on a rehab assignment, So how do they get him
28:58
Speaker 3: back if he's going to be a starter? How do
28:59
Speaker 3: you hold them up to five innings? You can't send
29:01
Speaker 3: them to Oklahoma City. They're triple A and say, hey,
29:04
Speaker 3: go give us four innings in Oklahoma City. Oh yeah,
29:06
Speaker 3: and be back to d h in La tonight. So
29:08
Speaker 3: it's going to be a fascinating thing that we're going
29:11
Speaker 3: to have to watch here from the Dodgers, the whole
29:13
Speaker 3: organization and Dave Roberts and Brandy Gomes and Andrew Freeman
29:16
Speaker 3: and Show Hey and everyone else.
29:18
Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
29:20
Speaker 4: Yeah. It's it's tough.
29:21
Speaker 1: I mean, there's been all those conversations about him pitching whatever.
29:24
Speaker 1: I think they're doing the right thing here. Slow it
29:27
Speaker 1: down a little bit, and we've talked about it before,
29:29
Speaker 1: like understandably, you know, if he is going to pitch,
29:32
Speaker 1: which I think they are definitely going to try and
29:34
Speaker 1: in to pitch, you don't.
29:34
Speaker 4: Need to do it right away.
29:35
Speaker 1: They have a lot of horses in the stable that
29:38
Speaker 1: can come in and dominate. Just worry about mashing the
29:41
Speaker 1: ball right now, slow play it if you need another month.
29:44
Speaker 4: Two, three, four, whatever it is.
29:47
Speaker 1: You want to be back one hundred percent like You've
29:49
Speaker 1: got the squad, so understandably, if ten people go down,
29:53
Speaker 1: then you got a problem. But listen, this team is
29:56
Speaker 1: stacked and ready to go after another World Series, and
29:59
Speaker 1: I think, oh.
30:00
Speaker 4: Hey, hitting right now for a while, his beautiful thing.
30:03
Speaker 2: All right, Arena Club's gonna help us out with some
30:05
Speaker 2: Ronald Acunya Junior news and quotes. Will show off the
30:09
Speaker 2: card that's available in his slab pack on Arena Club.
30:12
Speaker 2: Will talk more about that in a moment here, but
30:14
Speaker 2: here's the fresh quotes. He said, I'd rather steal thirty
30:18
Speaker 2: and play the whole season as opposed to trying to
30:22
Speaker 2: steal seventy injuring myself in missing the whole year. So
30:26
Speaker 2: quotes fresh this morning Todd Father about Acunya trying to
30:31
Speaker 2: figure out going forward what the best balance is for
30:34
Speaker 2: him and pointing to out he's had multiple knee issues
30:36
Speaker 2: and he just doesn't want to miss this extended time.
30:39
Speaker 2: At the same time, damn two years ago when he
30:43
Speaker 2: stole seventy plus. He was electric.
30:47
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he made me look like a smart man
30:48
Speaker 1: because I said that that would happen. Luckily it did,
30:52
Speaker 1: but on the sake of getting hurt too as well.
30:54
Speaker 1: But yeah, I think this is the right thing for sure.
30:57
Speaker 1: The Atlanta Braves want him to play. They want him
30:59
Speaker 1: to play full season. They want, you know, one hundred
31:02
Speaker 1: and forty five, one hundred and fifty plus games during
31:04
Speaker 1: the season for him at a healthy pace. He doesn't
31:07
Speaker 1: need to steal. He's fast enough to score from first
31:09
Speaker 1: to home on a ball down a line or in
31:11
Speaker 1: the gap. If he's on second base a ball hit
31:14
Speaker 1: hard to the outfield, he's still gonna have a really
31:15
Speaker 1: good opportunity to score. And they want to make sure
31:19
Speaker 1: they have his legs on them, so maybe a DHDA
31:21
Speaker 1: here or there. I think that's the smart move to do.
31:24
Speaker 1: He's the best player on that squad and he's the
31:26
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna take them to the Promised Land if
31:28
Speaker 1: they get that opportunity to do so.
31:31
Speaker 2: This is often what happens aja with players as they
31:34
Speaker 2: get deeper into their career. You get the exciting steals
31:37
Speaker 2: early on in the career, and then it usually dips off.
31:39
Speaker 2: I mean, Mike Trout obviously has had trouble staying on
31:42
Speaker 2: the field lately. He used to steal a ton of
31:44
Speaker 2: bags too, and he was actually running back in April
31:48
Speaker 2: of last year when he was playing. But generally you
31:50
Speaker 2: do see this dip off. There's a few other players
31:52
Speaker 2: I'm trying to think that you used to see them
31:54
Speaker 2: run like crazy and then I mean who we talked to.
31:58
Speaker 2: This isn't the prime example, but like breg In al
32:00
Speaker 2: Tuvey never runs anymore. There's just a lot of guys
32:02
Speaker 2: that once they get deeper into their career, they kind
32:04
Speaker 2: of slow it down. So do you see this now
32:06
Speaker 2: happening for a Kunye? Is this him telling us expect
32:09
Speaker 2: more of the thirty steel season?
32:12
Speaker 3: Yes, but he didn't get hurt. I mean he didn't
32:14
Speaker 3: get hurt stealing bases. He got hurt kind of at
32:16
Speaker 3: both times in like flukey ish plays. So I think
32:20
Speaker 3: this is just him trying to protect himself. And remember
32:22
Speaker 3: the first time he blew his towards ACL, he came
32:25
Speaker 3: back and was not the same player. It took him
32:27
Speaker 3: a full year to recover. That was when he went
32:30
Speaker 3: with the seventy solen bases and listen, it's going to
32:32
Speaker 3: take something like this to wrestle the MVP away from
32:35
Speaker 3: Show Hey. So we need somebody to step up. It's
32:38
Speaker 3: not gonna be a kunye. We need someone else to
32:39
Speaker 3: step up, and whether it's Bryce Harper or somebody else
32:42
Speaker 3: in the National League to step up having a historic
32:44
Speaker 3: year in order to win an MVP, because that's the
32:46
Speaker 3: only way you're getting one away from Show Hey if
32:48
Speaker 3: he keeps doing what he's doing.
32:50
Speaker 2: So should we expect this in the future from Elie too?
32:53
Speaker 2: I mean, right now, Elie de la Cruz is mister
32:55
Speaker 2: electric on the basis. I'm not saying in the next
32:57
Speaker 2: year or two, but I'm saying, deeper in his career,
33:00
Speaker 2: do you think he's going to slow it down. I'm
33:02
Speaker 2: not saying when he's thirty five years old and he's
33:04
Speaker 2: actually slower. I'm saying when he's twenty nine, is he
33:07
Speaker 2: going to be like, hey, I gotta be careful. I
33:08
Speaker 2: don't want to get hurt. I guess the question for
33:10
Speaker 2: both of you guys is how much does base running
33:13
Speaker 2: take a toll versus being a little less aggressive.
33:19
Speaker 1: I think Ellie's in one of those stages where they
33:23
Speaker 1: need him to steal. If you're in Cincinnati, he's one
33:25
Speaker 1: of those guys that can do it all. So I
33:28
Speaker 1: you know, when you reach a certain age, I don't
33:30
Speaker 1: know what that age is. It's a gap of you know,
33:33
Speaker 1: if you're in your twenties and you're still spry, and
33:36
Speaker 1: you're still loosey goosey, and you know, you're one of
33:38
Speaker 1: those guys that is that has to get that second
33:41
Speaker 1: base for them to win games.
33:42
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's gonna be a lot opportunities for that.
33:44
Speaker 1: So Ellie's a guy that they're going to rely on
33:47
Speaker 1: the steal bases, they take the extra base until otherwise,
33:50
Speaker 1: you know, and you know, I don't want an injury
33:52
Speaker 1: to any of these guys. I want everybody healthy. But Akunya,
33:55
Speaker 1: it's happened a couple of times now, not from stealing,
33:57
Speaker 1: like Ad said, but he's been injured. So you got
33:59
Speaker 1: to be really on the careful side of you know,
34:03
Speaker 1: do we really need him to steal this space this time?
34:06
Speaker 4: All right, let's just pump the brakes and cool it off.
34:08
Speaker 1: Just those kinds of things he's gonna steal, but it's
34:11
Speaker 1: just a matter they're probably gonna pick and choose now
34:13
Speaker 1: exactly when, or let him know, like, hey, listen, I
34:16
Speaker 1: know it's a tie game, but you know we got
34:18
Speaker 1: big guns coming up.
34:19
Speaker 4: You'll be fine. Something like that.
34:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, and ag, I know it's not like he, you know,
34:24
Speaker 2: slid into a base and then tore his knee up
34:26
Speaker 2: or whatever. But there's wear and tear when he's ripping
34:29
Speaker 2: up the base paths like that.
34:30
Speaker 5: No.
34:32
Speaker 3: Yeah, And when we just had Lawrence Butler on, you
34:34
Speaker 3: know what he said, He's like, I gotta run. Mookie
34:36
Speaker 3: said the same thing. I got to run from right
34:37
Speaker 3: field to the dugout. And I kind of laughed at him.
34:40
Speaker 3: I was like, come on, dude, Like he's like, no,
34:41
Speaker 3: it's real, especially in Oakland. When they were playing in
34:43
Speaker 3: the Oakland Colsseum was like they had to run to
34:45
Speaker 3: two right fields to get to the dugout. So Acuna
34:47
Speaker 3: plays right field, that's a longer run than it is
34:50
Speaker 3: from catcher third base, like Todd and I did. So
34:53
Speaker 3: I get it. It's it's over time. We listen, Ellie
34:55
Speaker 3: is gonna run as much as Ellie can. I would
34:58
Speaker 3: love to see Acon you keep trying to steal bases,
35:00
Speaker 3: because that's what made him. So exciting to watch is
35:02
Speaker 3: he could go deep one and bad and the next
35:03
Speaker 3: to bat he could hit a single and still second
35:06
Speaker 3: to third and score on a on a sack fly
35:08
Speaker 3: and the Braves are up. So I want these guys
35:11
Speaker 3: to keep running. I don't know how we figure out
35:12
Speaker 3: how to keep them their legs healthy. But listen as
35:14
Speaker 3: Todd and I can tell you father, time always wins,
35:17
Speaker 3: and you do slow down as you get over, you
35:19
Speaker 3: get smarter, It just slow down.
35:22
Speaker 2: Yeah, the A's have I mean, the Braves have made
35:24
Speaker 2: it clear that Akunya has got to be ready to
35:27
Speaker 2: play the outfield pretty consistently. Yeah, they might mix in
35:30
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35:32
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35:35
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35:39
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35:42
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35:44
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35:48
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.
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Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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Speaker 3: That's what he said, that's what he said.
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Speaker 4: All right.
36:58
Speaker 2: So last night we spoke to Luis Severino at clutch House.
37:02
Speaker 2: It was awesome to get these extended conversations with a
37:04
Speaker 2: number of big names, but Severino stood out for a
37:07
Speaker 2: number of his answers. Let's start with this one, and
37:10
Speaker 2: he was sitting down with aj and Alana Rizzo. He
37:13
Speaker 2: spoke about the difference between the Mets and the Yankees
37:16
Speaker 2: behind the scenes. For his experience personally with the coaching
37:20
Speaker 2: staff and the medical.
37:20
Speaker 7: Staff, the trainers and the Yankees were unbelievable, but I
37:25
Speaker 7: think the Mets are a different level.
37:28
Speaker 5: It was the guy that I worked with was Joe Golia.
37:33
Speaker 7: It was since I got to the mess and splinter
37:36
Speaker 7: in the first day with the pull up a routine,
37:39
Speaker 7: and then from that day and to the playoff, we didn't,
37:42
Speaker 7: you know, miss a touch. So just he was always
37:44
Speaker 7: on top of everything. You know, the nutrition is there.
37:49
Speaker 5: It was.
37:50
Speaker 7: I mean, he's he's crazy sometimes about stuff, but he's unbelievable.
37:55
Speaker 7: He's one of the greatest thing I ever seeing. I mean,
37:57
Speaker 7: he's on top of everything. If I was pitching and
38:01
Speaker 7: Cincinnati it was hot, he would me three days later,
38:04
Speaker 7: you need more more cars because you might lose some
38:07
Speaker 7: weight pitching that there he was, it was great. So
38:11
Speaker 7: I mean I also I think, you know, I learned
38:15
Speaker 7: how to treat my body better, you know. And they
38:19
Speaker 7: also so I talked to hire a person to it's
38:25
Speaker 7: like a daughter or sleep.
38:27
Speaker 5: She showed me how to sleep better, you know, give
38:29
Speaker 5: me some tips. And everyone wants to know how to
38:33
Speaker 5: sleep better for me. Like in the season, I was
38:35
Speaker 5: sleeping four and five hours.
38:37
Speaker 4: I was it.
38:38
Speaker 7: So I sleep like three days with a machine in
38:42
Speaker 7: my chest seeing what I have. So we found out
38:45
Speaker 7: we have like have like a sleep ania. So she
38:50
Speaker 7: told me to drink my Nancy and night Cherry Hughes.
38:55
Speaker 7: The place had to be dark, so no lights and
38:59
Speaker 7: even like if I got if, I wann't the whoop things.
39:04
Speaker 7: So if you can put the time that you want
39:07
Speaker 7: to go to sleep, So if I have to wake
39:10
Speaker 7: up at eight, you had to go to sleep at
39:12
Speaker 7: ten thirty. So even if you're not tired, just shout
39:15
Speaker 7: all the lights, dring my my man, my sherry juice
39:20
Speaker 7: and go to sleep.
39:23
Speaker 2: All right, What do we think about that Todd father?
39:25
Speaker 2: You played for both teams and obviously he was with
39:27
Speaker 2: them at different times, but he felt like there was
39:30
Speaker 2: a step up in terms of his care.
39:33
Speaker 4: Yeah.
39:34
Speaker 1: I think that's absolutely incredible. You know, little things like that,
39:37
Speaker 1: You know, is it gonna make him pitch better? Maybe
39:40
Speaker 1: it might give more energy, It might give more focus
39:43
Speaker 1: and determination to do better.
39:44
Speaker 4: And I think that's absolutely awesome.
39:46
Speaker 1: Joe Golia, who I know very well from the Mets,
39:49
Speaker 1: He's been doing it for a lot of years with
39:51
Speaker 1: one man, Chicky over there.
39:52
Speaker 4: Those two are absolutely beauties.
39:54
Speaker 1: They understand the game and they are really good at
39:57
Speaker 1: what they do. So yeah, kudos to them. And yeah,
40:02
Speaker 1: I'm glad he found out I sleep in four to
40:03
Speaker 1: five hours. You know, a lot of people can do that,
40:05
Speaker 1: but if you're playing at a high level and playing
40:08
Speaker 1: competition at a high level, you need a lot more
40:10
Speaker 1: sleep than that. To find that out absolutely incredible. And
40:14
Speaker 1: you can see and hear it in his voice, how
40:16
Speaker 1: you know, happy he is to be a Met.
40:18
Speaker 2: Hey, By the way, some news here, Clay Holmes is
40:20
Speaker 2: going to start opening day for the Mets.
40:26
Speaker 1: No way, this is incredible about where he has and
40:29
Speaker 1: where he's been and now all of a sudden he's starting. Ah,
40:32
Speaker 1: good for him, man, he's a beauty. But he's an
40:35
Speaker 1: awesome dude. Awesome, awesome dude. So that's really awesome. Congratulations.
40:41
Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks really damnit enturing training too. Yeah, all right,
40:44
Speaker 2: I got one more thing to show you from the
40:46
Speaker 2: Sevarino conversation. Let's get it in there.
40:50
Speaker 3: Your stuff was so good that get hit off this guy.
40:54
Speaker 7: Yeah. I mean in the Yankees, it was a lot
40:56
Speaker 7: of things I was doing, you know, a lot of
40:58
Speaker 7: tipping globs, like, oh, show what it looks, you know
41:01
Speaker 7: how it is it looks.
41:03
Speaker 3: Yeah, So you was like, look over here for a
41:04
Speaker 3: certain picture.
41:06
Speaker 5: With men and second.
41:07
Speaker 7: I was looking at second and then stopping at third.
41:11
Speaker 7: I was throwing fastball and then I look at second
41:14
Speaker 7: going straight home and was hosby, So.
41:16
Speaker 3: How did you stop?
41:18
Speaker 7: They notice it, you know, And I just start practicing
41:21
Speaker 7: like I either had to do one. I either had
41:23
Speaker 7: to stop every time in third and go or just
41:27
Speaker 7: not stop son't. Yeah, And you know, I started working
41:32
Speaker 7: on the on the off season. I was, you know,
41:35
Speaker 7: looking for that team I was signed. I talked to
41:39
Speaker 7: two teams that I asked, if.
41:43
Speaker 5: I signed with you, what are you going to help me?
41:46
Speaker 7: And they told me, this is what we have when
41:48
Speaker 7: we face you, so you know, just listen to those
41:53
Speaker 7: guys like, okay, so I need something like for sample,
41:57
Speaker 7: one team told me every time we face you, we
42:01
Speaker 7: look always if it was down, it was aspie because
42:05
Speaker 7: you don't throw the fastball down either. It was fastball
42:08
Speaker 7: everything down with Osby, So change out was sliders, so
42:11
Speaker 7: and varieties and lefty it was made away. So that's
42:16
Speaker 7: why I I was working getting that singer in a
42:19
Speaker 7: car and that sweeper, so I think that also helping that.
42:24
Speaker 4: All right, good stuff ab absolutely incredible. It wasn't just
42:28
Speaker 4: one thing, that whole boatload of things.
42:32
Speaker 1: And that's that's actually a rarity to hear that many
42:35
Speaker 1: things a player had going kind of the wrong direction.
42:40
Speaker 1: You know, usually it's just a finger movement, a glove moment. No,
42:43
Speaker 1: it was ball direction, it was head movement and.
42:46
Speaker 4: It was glove placement. That's that's a threat of no good.
42:50
Speaker 2: Yeah, that MPM futures. We pick one of todd Father's
42:59
Speaker 2: former divisi today, NL East, so Todd Pyter. We're gonna
43:03
Speaker 2: do predictions obviously closer to start of the season, but
43:06
Speaker 2: we're looking for value on the board. So Atlanta plus
43:09
Speaker 2: one twenty five Philly plus one ninety. This is for
43:12
Speaker 2: who's gonna win the NL East Mets plus two twenty
43:15
Speaker 2: and then massive, massive drop off, which I don't think
43:17
Speaker 2: you're touching, But tell me about what you like on here.
43:19
Speaker 4: If anything, well, it's really close to top three.
43:24
Speaker 1: If I'm looking for a little bang for my buck here,
43:27
Speaker 1: excuse me, you know the bottom two is just not
43:30
Speaker 1: going to happen, I would go I would go heavy.
43:34
Speaker 1: You know, it's one of those things. Now you bet
43:35
Speaker 1: one hunt, you win one ninety, that's great, you know,
43:38
Speaker 1: it's still a good chunk of change. But if you
43:40
Speaker 1: had another zero on there, just speaking out loud, you
43:43
Speaker 1: don't have to do that at all. I would go Philly.
43:46
Speaker 1: And I think Philly will win that division. I think
43:48
Speaker 1: they have a good opportunity. I think they took a
43:50
Speaker 1: step back last year, but knowing who they have and
43:54
Speaker 1: what they got coming in here, I think it's there's
43:57
Speaker 1: there's for the taking. I honestly do. I think Atlanta's
43:59
Speaker 1: going to be really good. I think the Mets will
44:01
Speaker 1: be good as well, but I think Philadelphia, you know,
44:06
Speaker 1: with Bryce Harper at the Helm, Schwarves doing his thing
44:08
Speaker 1: wheeler and all these guys that are coming back. I
44:13
Speaker 1: could see Philly, you know, kind of taking care of business.
44:17
Speaker 4: This year, you know.
44:17
Speaker 1: And you know people are like, oh, what about Atlanta. Well,
44:20
Speaker 1: you know, I just don't see it right now.
44:23
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm actually surprised there's this much separation between the
44:26
Speaker 2: Braves and the Phillies. They won't have a Kunyan Stryder
44:29
Speaker 2: to start the year. Phillies are pretty intact right now
44:32
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44:34
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45:02
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45:04
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45:08
Speaker 2: a club that didn't do much in an offseason or
45:11
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45:13
Speaker 2: a disappointing year. This is a team that can actually
45:16
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45:21
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45:24
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45:27
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45:30
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45:34
Speaker 2: that is what they needed. You watch that team, you're like,
45:36
Speaker 2: this team could swing it a little bit last year,
45:39
Speaker 2: but you're like, they need arms, and they did exactly that.
45:41
Speaker 2: They said, we're gonna spend our money on arms. We're
45:43
Speaker 2: gonna extend guys, and we're gonna spend money on arms.
45:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, and at first you didn't think that was gonna happen.
45:49
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, all the turmoil with
45:51
Speaker 1: the stadium and trying to figure out where they're going
45:53
Speaker 1: to be this person the president, and they owner acting crazy.
45:58
Speaker 1: They're like, Oh, they're just gonna probably just wash it
46:00
Speaker 1: up and just go through this year and hopefully, you know,
46:03
Speaker 1: keep everybody healthy until next year. But they are on
46:06
Speaker 1: their way up. You could hear it in all their voices,
46:08
Speaker 1: the energy, the emotion, the realistic ability of maybe winning
46:13
Speaker 1: the division, and the positivity. And it starts with Katsea.
46:16
Speaker 1: It starts with him. He is as cool as the
46:18
Speaker 1: other side of the pillow, really soft spoken, but I
46:21
Speaker 1: know he carries you know, he carries himself well. So
46:24
Speaker 1: look out for these A's. You never know. It's not
46:26
Speaker 1: gonna be the A's of old, so just be prepared
46:28
Speaker 1: for that. I think this team is ready. They're gonna
46:30
Speaker 1: be energetic and bring a lot of motion to the
46:32
Speaker 1: table this year.
46:34
Speaker 2: We know AJ likes them. I'm curious if he's picking
46:37
Speaker 2: them for the division or just for a playoff seat.
46:39
Speaker 2: We'll see. But spring training calendar for you, Actually, AJ
46:42
Speaker 2: want to answer that question, then we'll show the calendar.
46:46
Speaker 3: We're gonna save that for the surprise. Just know that
46:48
Speaker 3: I am picking the Athletics to go to the postseason
46:50
Speaker 3: this year. I'm not going to ruin the surprise for y'all,
46:53
Speaker 3: but I'm just gonna say that I am picking them
46:54
Speaker 3: to go to the postseason this year.
46:57
Speaker 5: I like it.
46:58
Speaker 2: All right, let's see what we've got for next week.
47:00
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47:03
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47:05
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47:09
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47:12
Speaker 2: Technically next week the season starts for the Dodgers and
47:14
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47:17
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47:23
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