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MLB seeking BILLIONS in Japan, Strider’s GOOD, Execs cry about Roki · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: You know, some guys they'll like come melast some guys.
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  Speaker 1: Some guys will adjust their strap.
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  Speaker 2: This was there. You can't just look over and be
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  Speaker 2: like it was a strike. He missed it.
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  Speaker 3: It's happening. Cameron Mayven, Welcome to the twenty twenty five
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  Speaker 3: MLB regular season. The Dodgers are one and oh on
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  Speaker 3: pace to go one sixty two and oh.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they look pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: No Freddy Freeman, no Mookie Bets, no problem whatsoever. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: Yamamoto came out, he looked extremely good. Show Halo Tiny
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  Speaker 5: continues to hit missiles all over the field. Michael Conforto
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  Speaker 5: a nice sight to see, just more depth when you
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  Speaker 5: look at the Dodgers' lineup. So yeah, you know, my
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  Speaker 5: first prediction was wrong. Dodgers may be going down Game one,
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  Speaker 5: but it's looking like a lot of success in the
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  Speaker 5: future for the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. Yeah. Conforto's kind of the forgotten guy from the
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  Speaker 3: offseason because they did so many other things. Rokie says
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  Speaker 3: he's going to start tomorrow. We'll get into that in
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  Speaker 3: just a second. Of course, the bullpen looks ridiculous. Tanner
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  Speaker 3: Scott added to the back end. They won that bid.
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  Speaker 3: We did a postgame show all over this Game one
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  Speaker 3: between the Cubs and the Dodgers. Dodgers won at four
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  Speaker 3: to one. Max Mounsey joined us live from the dugout
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  Speaker 3: right after the game. So if you want to check
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  Speaker 3: that out after FT, we've got it for you on
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  Speaker 3: the FT YouTube channel. It was really good. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to do it again tomorrow a postgame show Game two
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  Speaker 3: reactions as soon as the final out is recorded. We're
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  Speaker 3: there for you. So today we had Munsey. He's not
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  Speaker 3: gonna be with us again tomorrow, but if you want
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  Speaker 3: to check that out, it was really good. Even give
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  Speaker 3: us a preview of what to expect with Roki Sazaki
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  Speaker 3: for tomorrow, who will make his MLB debut, but he's
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  Speaker 3: doing that in Japan, where he's from and where he
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  Speaker 3: pitched in previous seasons. But it'll be game two of
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  Speaker 3: the regular season, and we'll see if the Cubs can
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  Speaker 3: grab a game back from the Dodgers. All right, so
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  Speaker 3: let's actually charge dam mount and we'll get into this
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  Speaker 3: series completely here with Freddie missing right now and Mookie
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  Speaker 3: Bett's obviously not playing in this as well, charge about
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  Speaker 3: all right, So let's run through it. On the game
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  Speaker 3: side and on the business side. I'll actually start on
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  Speaker 3: the business side. There's some really good stories that have
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  Speaker 3: come out in the last few days. Evandrelik, for example,
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  Speaker 3: who's a regular on the show, is out there and
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  Speaker 3: Kratzy said that MLB is going to make around thirty
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  Speaker 3: five million dollars from this event. I don't know what
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  Speaker 3: revenue that's including. I don't know if that has to
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  Speaker 3: do with the merch and all that as well, or
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  Speaker 3: if that's just on the tickets and the game experience.
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  Speaker 3: But regardless, that's a good number for MLB, but it's
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  Speaker 3: nothing in the grand scheme of what they're preparing for.
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  Speaker 3: This is all coming from a story. In an interview
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  Speaker 3: that was conducted with Commissioner Rob Manfred, he said we're
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  Speaker 3: expecting billions with a B out of Japan in the
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  Speaker 3: long term, and that they want to play more games
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  Speaker 3: out there, more events in Japan and in Korea, which
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  Speaker 3: they did last year. Japan would like to host games
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  Speaker 3: like this every three years, and why the hell not,
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  Speaker 3: especially right now when Japanese talent is better than it's
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  Speaker 3: ever been. We have five players involved in this series
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  Speaker 3: from Japan and all of them are potential stars. Right.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't seen Roki Sasaki yet. Yamamoto is should be
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  Speaker 3: over the course of his career, a top end starter,
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  Speaker 3: a one or two whatever. Otani is Otani, right. And
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  Speaker 3: then on the other side you had Imanaga looking really good.
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  Speaker 3: He is a number one starter, top five sided young
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  Speaker 3: guy from last year. And Sea Suzuki is a good bat.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if he's a star, but he's a
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  Speaker 3: very good bat. But that's five players that are involved
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  Speaker 3: in this series right now. And sure, Japanese baseball is huge.
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  Speaker 3: They love Major League Baseball, but they love it now
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  Speaker 3: because of the individual players that they can root.
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  Speaker 1: For, because guys are making the making the jump from
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  Speaker 1: Japan to the big leagues a lot easier. It's not
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  Speaker 1: just one guy smattered in here and there. But to me,
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  Speaker 1: if they're looking to make billions from Japan, this relationship
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  Speaker 1: needs to be continually fostered, continually grown. If you watch
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers telecast of the game, they talked a lot
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  Speaker 1: about the history of why some of the pitchers that
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  Speaker 1: come over were the number eighteen, how Babe Ruth coming
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  Speaker 1: over to Japan and really helping along with his Yankee
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  Speaker 1: teammates helping introduce the game to Japanese, to Japanese people,
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  Speaker 1: and so there's a history there that Major League Baseball
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  Speaker 1: has extended that has gone back in time. But I
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  Speaker 1: think it should be something that should be extended because
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  Speaker 1: I don't think Major League Baseball does a good job
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  Speaker 1: of connecting with other countries. I've been to Japan twice
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  Speaker 1: seeing how much they love their game, and I think
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  Speaker 1: there's some things that we can take from their energy
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  Speaker 1: and the way that they support their players individually, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what team they're on, and we could bring this
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  Speaker 1: back to the States and it would help grow the
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  Speaker 1: game here.
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  Speaker 3: Else business wise, in terms of how much is being
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  Speaker 3: bought and drelic story, it said just outside the Tokyo
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  Speaker 3: fans stream through a thirty one thousand foot MLB retail store,
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  Speaker 3: even as it grew late on a Saturday, a few
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  Speaker 3: games before these regular season games were to start, they
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  Speaker 3: clocked an average of eleven hundred transactions every hour across
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  Speaker 4: That's pretty good.
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  Speaker 5: I think when you saw the streets how flooded they
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  Speaker 5: were prior to the game, you could you could feel
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  Speaker 5: the excitement just through the screen. And then in the
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  Speaker 5: background you see a ton of Yamamoto billboards and show
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  Speaker 5: hel tiny billboards. So the atmosphere is electric. I think
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  Speaker 5: it's extremely warranted. And you know, the fun part for me,
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  Speaker 5: Scott is there are more, you know, guys coming that
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  Speaker 5: are highly talented, that have a lot of skill. So,
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  Speaker 5: like Krassy said, I think they're doing a they needed
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  Speaker 5: continue to do a good job of taking advantage of
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  Speaker 5: this relationship now because you can see how much, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the Japanese people love the game of baseball and watching
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  Speaker 5: their guys come over and have success now and do
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  Speaker 5: it at a high level, it's fun to watch. Just
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  Speaker 5: watching that game, the atmosphere, the energy was electric, to
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  Speaker 5: just see people on their feet, look like the whole game.
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  Speaker 5: And that's what it's about, right, capturing that international fan
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  Speaker 5: and continue to expand the game of baseball, and that's
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  Speaker 5: what you want to see.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get into the game part of this,
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  Speaker 3: and then if we have time, there's also a pretty
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  Speaker 3: interesting story from Ken Rosenthal about rookie Sasaki who makes
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  Speaker 3: his MLB debut tomorrow. But as far as the game cam,
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  Speaker 3: how ridiculous is this Dodgers team? As we get to
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  Speaker 3: see them for the first time in a game after
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  Speaker 3: winning a World Series and they were shorthanded with their
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  Speaker 3: starting staff. Their starting rotation should be exponentially better in
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  Speaker 3: terms of talent, Their bullpen should be better at least,
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  Speaker 3: if not much better, And they added depth to like
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  Speaker 3: you mentioned, with someone like Conforto in the lineup for
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  Speaker 3: the first time with.
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  Speaker 5: La Yeah, I couldn't help Scott but find myself. As
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  Speaker 5: I was watching that game, I started to think, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: no Freddy, no Mookie. And then you watch Tommy Edmond
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  Speaker 5: come up and continue to do what he did last
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  Speaker 5: year in the postseason for them. He looks like a
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  Speaker 5: perfect fit. You're watching these guys like Miguel Rojas. These
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  Speaker 5: are guys that just still quality players. They play such
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  Speaker 5: team a team brand of baseball where it's pasted the buttime.
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  Speaker 5: If I didn't get the job done, the next guy
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  Speaker 5: pick me up. It's so deep when you look at
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  Speaker 5: this roster and it just it has me shaking my
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  Speaker 5: head as I say, here and go, how could I ever,
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  Speaker 5: you know, pick against the Dodgers when you look at that.
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  Speaker 5: This is a team that when you watch their starting staff,
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  Speaker 5: when you look at the bullpen, now even watching Tanner
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  Speaker 5: Scott come in and just dominate that inning. You know,
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  Speaker 5: if this team gets a lead, they're gonna be tough
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  Speaker 5: to deal with. On top of having the ability to
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  Speaker 5: play from behind. Also, there's no panic in that lineup,
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  Speaker 5: and then I forget, and then guys like Will Smith
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  Speaker 5: come up, and these just different guys that you aren't
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  Speaker 5: thinking about still.
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  Speaker 4: In this lineup.
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  Speaker 5: Max Munsey takes a pay cut to stay with a Dodger.
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  Speaker 5: He controls his own as good as anybody we've seen.
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  Speaker 5: Just quality at bat after the quality at bat, just
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  Speaker 5: so many ways to beat you. It makes it fun
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  Speaker 5: to watch, but it also makes me wonder, you know,
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  Speaker 5: how special this team could actually be when you talk
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  Speaker 5: about a regular season standpoint, this could be a you know,
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  Speaker 5: a historic type of season when you look at the
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  Speaker 5: talent if they're healthy, and we won't even see Blake
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  Speaker 5: Sneill or Glass now this series. So it's it's crazy
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  Speaker 5: when you think about how loaded this team is.
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  Speaker 1: Not even talking about the pitching staff, but talking about
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  Speaker 1: the lineup. They have team at bats, team at bats
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  Speaker 1: even if Freddie and Mookie aren't out there. You saw
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  Speaker 1: when Ben Brown went in. Hey, you know, what Shota
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  Speaker 1: gave up no hits, what he was doing riding that fastball.
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  Speaker 2: Max Muncy.
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  Speaker 1: If you watch the interview, he talks about how they're
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  Speaker 1: in that stadium, being at sea level, that ball rises
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more so, spinning a little bit different,
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  Speaker 1: more pop up strikeouts. But if you look at when
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  Speaker 1: Ben Brown first came in his first inning, everybody he
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  Speaker 1: was swinging at the same pitches. Even Will Smith the
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  Speaker 1: ball that he hit, he was swinging at that breaking ball.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't afraid of it. As a team, they weren't
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  Speaker 1: afraid of it. Show Hey, bang that ball to right
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  Speaker 1: field hard like they were swinging at pitches, a pitch
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  Speaker 1: that they knew they could hit. And so teams, when
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  Speaker 1: you see that, you have to see that trend early
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  Speaker 1: and you have to be able to make the adjustment
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  Speaker 1: because this lineup goes together. They talked about what they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna do, and they bring their approach against that pitcher
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  Speaker 1: in that moment as a team.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, I want to add to that too, Crassy, because
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  Speaker 5: you're absolutely right. And to add to Crassy's point, why
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  Speaker 5: it's so important is because when you look at the
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  Speaker 5: longevy of a season, the Dodgers had the type of
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  Speaker 5: team that will wear out starting rotations and bullpens because
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  Speaker 5: they have such team and quality at bats, they are
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  Speaker 5: not afraid of foul pitches off. You watched Maximunths even
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  Speaker 5: his first at but I think he was at two
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  Speaker 5: strikes and he had like a little check swing just
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  Speaker 5: to get another pitch. Those ad up when when you
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  Speaker 5: talk about a course of the season, the course.
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  Speaker 4: Of the series.
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  Speaker 5: So when you really look at this, the way that
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  Speaker 5: they can stretch you out as a lineup right hard
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  Speaker 5: to punch, a lot of contact, a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 5: It's why that is so important when you talk about
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  Speaker 5: those quality at bat. So I just wanted to add
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  Speaker 5: to that what Cratzy said. He's absolutely right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, good call, And then give me the Cubs perspective, cam,
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  Speaker 3: is this team going to be better this year? It's
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  Speaker 3: only one game and they're facing the Dodgers. They put
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  Speaker 3: up one run. AJ was on our post game show
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  Speaker 3: and said, hey, maybe this was Kratz. Hey Matt Shaw
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  Speaker 3: making his debut, a little hiccup on the field. Defensively,
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  Speaker 3: whatever supposed to be a good player is do you
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  Speaker 3: feel comfortable with him as your five hitter? For a
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  Speaker 3: lineup that has been underwhelming. I mean, obviously Kyle Tucker
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  Speaker 3: should make them much better offensively, but do you think
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  Speaker 3: this is going to be a playoff team from what
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  Speaker 3: you saw in game one?
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  Speaker 5: Well, I found myself asking what do they do well?
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  Speaker 5: And I know it's only one game. Man, When I
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  Speaker 5: look at the lineup, you know, one thing that really
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  Speaker 5: sticks out to me is it's not a very athletic team.
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  Speaker 5: And I know Kyle Tucker is, you know, shown to
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  Speaker 5: you know, be athletic. But when you look at speed,
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  Speaker 5: when you look at the lineup, I do see some holes. Right,
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  Speaker 5: Shaw's gonna have his ups and downs, I will say.
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  Speaker 5: Watching his at bats, I'm curious to see how his
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  Speaker 5: mechanics translate.
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  Speaker 4: To the big leagues. We know that guys are a
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  Speaker 4: lot more consistent.
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  Speaker 5: Guys are able to find that hole and stick with
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  Speaker 5: it to you can make an adjustments. He's got the
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  Speaker 5: big leg kick, But I like this at bats. I
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  Speaker 5: like his ability to be ab to get to the fastball.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's big when you talk about a guy
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  Speaker 5: the big leg kick. And then again I like in
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  Speaker 5: halfs at bat right, you said they have some pieces
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  Speaker 5: Suzuki I'm Tucker, but I'm just curious on what's gonna
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  Speaker 5: be their identity offensively. Is it gonna be, you know,
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  Speaker 5: quality at bats, hitting balls in the gap, manufactured runs
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  Speaker 5: by base hits, or is it wait around for the homer?
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  Speaker 4: Because when I.
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  Speaker 5: Look at this team, they just don't strike me as
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  Speaker 5: a super athletic team. So I am curious, you know
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  Speaker 5: what they're gonna do the pitching. I actually, you know,
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  Speaker 5: I told Mark here Ben Brown, I actually liked his stuff, right,
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  Speaker 5: but he's facing a extremely competitive Dodger lineup.
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  Speaker 4: I think that guy could be a great bridge guy.
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  Speaker 5: If he's your bridge guy that can give you three
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  Speaker 5: or four innings during the game, I think that bodes
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  Speaker 5: well for the Cubs. I really like him that spot
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  Speaker 5: he attacks, showed pretty decent command. But I do think
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  Speaker 5: they still have some holes. I'm still worried about the bullpen.
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  Speaker 5: After Steel and ty On, I'm curious to see, you know,
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  Speaker 5: how they are able to compete. But it's a it's
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  Speaker 5: a long year, and you have to remember they're competing
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  Speaker 5: in a division where the Pirates didn't do much. Saint Louis.
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  Speaker 5: They still sticking with their kind of young core. We
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  Speaker 5: got to see what they have. So this is a
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  Speaker 5: division that's still up for grabs for the Cubs. But
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  Speaker 5: I'm curious to see how the identity kind of shapes
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  Speaker 5: shapes in the form.
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  Speaker 4: Man.
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  Speaker 1: I love the Kyle Tucker pick up, but he's got
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  Speaker 1: to be an MVP for this team. I love I
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  Speaker 1: think his leg kick is that is the new leg kick.
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  Speaker 1: That's more of like a step over the bat type
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  Speaker 1: of leg kick than the like Matt Holliday huge, cock
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  Speaker 1: it high and let it fly kind of leg kick.
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  Speaker 1: But all those things he's got. Matt Schaw's got to
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  Speaker 1: be Rookie of the Year. I said this in the
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  Speaker 1: postgame show. You know, he's got to have that kind
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  Speaker 1: of year. That's a lot to put on a kid.
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  Speaker 1: And so this lineup, nobody's gonna deny it's Alex Bregman.
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  Speaker 1: Even has an ops of eight hundred, people will be like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I see what he could have done in the Cubs lineup.
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  Speaker 1: Just look at two start comparisons. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs should be close to where where the where
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are, But if you sit there and you go, oh, man,
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  Speaker 1: they just lost their two best players.
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  Speaker 2: They take Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: And who out of the lineup for the for the Cubs,
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  Speaker 1: like the Dodgers took Freddy and Mookie out, Like you
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  Speaker 1: need that depth, And I don't think the Cubs did
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  Speaker 1: enough for depth to make that huge run unless those
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  Speaker 1: guys have monstrous years. Because even in the division, I
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  Speaker 1: think the Reds lineup has more depth. And so you
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  Speaker 1: sit there and you go, how are they going to
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  Speaker 1: match up the rest of the year and not just
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  Speaker 1: be five hundred team?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, this looks like a good team. Does it look
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  Speaker 3: like a great team? I'm not sure. And the division
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  Speaker 3: is weird. It doesn't have any standouts, at least on
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  Speaker 3: paper right now. But the Brewers have been dominant in
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  Speaker 3: the division lately, and I don't think any team is
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  Speaker 3: bad in that division this year. Sure, you want to
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  Speaker 3: say the Cardinals, you know, aren't going to be that good, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: but they didn't do anything in the offseason, as in,
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  Speaker 3: they didn't shed anything from their roster either, so it
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  Speaker 3: should be a decent team. The Pirates should be a
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  Speaker 3: little bit better with the starting staff that they have,
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  Speaker 3: So I just don't think there's any pushovers that's going
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  Speaker 3: to make it kind of easy to cruise through any
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  Speaker 3: parts of the division. The spring training schedule is coming
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  Speaker 3: to a close. We are almost there, So thank you
• 15:45
  Speaker 3: Detroit yesterday, when Fort Myers today for the Twins staying
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: in that city for tomorrow's Red Sox Camp appearance. First
• 15:53
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• 16:00
  Speaker 3: then we will finish strong with the Atlanta Braves. All right, Kratz,
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: this is all you. We got a busy show and
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: we didn't have you on for this. Last week, the
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: Marlins were doing their whole practice squad. Come on over
• 16:11
  Speaker 3: daily wage hundred and fifty bucks and you can be
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: on the practice squad. Meanwhile, MLB apparently was on this
• 16:17
  Speaker 3: because then the Union calls and they're like, wait, what
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: are we doing so you can trackt minor league teams?
• 16:20
  Speaker 3: Now you're just trying to hire locals to get involved here.
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: That seems like a violation. So they squashed that. The
• 16:27
  Speaker 3: Marlins kind of played it like, oh they they didn't
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: think this through completely. They released it too quick. The
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: LinkedIn post got taken down. What a freaking disaster.
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: It was trash and I was driving when I was
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: listening to you guys talk about this, or I would
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: have commented in the chat. I was pissed that you
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: guys didn't blow these dudes up for that. I know
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: it went quick, but look like, it's not funny. It's
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: not funny to try to like take take things away.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: They're trying to take teams away when oh yeah, they
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: finally raise the salary of minor league players and then
• 17:04
  Speaker 1: they cut some teams so they really aren't paying that
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: much extra money to minor league players. And then they're like, oh, hey,
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: everybody wants to play in the big leagues. Everybody wants
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: a chance in professional baseball. Come on out, you know what.
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: We might not need to even need you on Thursday,
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: but it's okay, Like just be ready from twelve to
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: five every single day. It's a trash move by them,
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: and it's a way to try to cut costs and
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: to undermine what has been going on for years. Don't
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: try to cut costs and undermine how players get developed
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: by you know, just trying to think outside the box.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: If you want those guys and you need them to
• 17:39
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• 17:44
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• 17:46
  Speaker 1: minor leaguer, don't try to undermine and cut the costs
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: of those guys also that are not getting a lot.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: It was a trash move, and you know, it kind
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: of shows what they've done totally in the big league
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: org too, not just.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: A minor leagues.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're trying to cut costs everywhere, and it sounds
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: like they might get themselves in trouble again for not
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: spending enough. You know, there's not a floor by any
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: means in Major league Baseball, but what they've been doing
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: is criminal this offseason really the last couple of years.
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: But they said, you know, it wasn't vetted before they
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: got it finalized. They didn't run it through everywhere. I'm like,
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: stop it. You had this idea, you put it out there.
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: They thought that they're in Jupiter, so it's close to
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: South Florida. They can get some good baseball players to
• 18:29
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• 18:33
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• 18:35
  Speaker 3: and less people in the system these days. So yeah,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: it was it was pretty crappy.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It's terrible. It's terrible.
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: They need to they don't, and they're talking about contracting
• 18:46
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• 18:48
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  Speaker 3: have time later. Tobias Meyers down obleaque issue, Probably going
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: to miss first few weeks at least of the season. Kratz.
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: Good thing they signed jose Kintana by the way, but yeah,
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: there you go. Open up this season on the IL
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: return before the end of April is in play, Pat
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Murphy said, I think it's a little better news than
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: we thought. But thoughts on the Brewers rotation and you
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: know what should be more of a fight for them
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: this year. You know, we keep talking about this team
• 20:23
  Speaker 3: where it's like, oh, they lose this guy, they lose
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: this guy, and then nothing really happens. They're still the same,
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: So we'll see. This was one of their stars, their
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: Breakoutso we just spoke to last week.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Who's going to be the Tobias Myers of twenty twenty
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: five because he came out, kind of came out of nowhere.
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: You see his stuff and you're like, whoa, they never
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: overexposed him. You know, he wasn't an innings eater guy.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: But this is what this team. This is how this
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: team finds value, whether it was Council, whether it's Murph,
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: whether you know, I guess Hooky's been there for a
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: while pitching coach. But you know, they cycle guys in
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: and out because they're not afraid to get guys opportunities,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: but they also kind of build the lane that they
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: put them in. Tobias Myers is no different. They have
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: some legit arms in the minor leagues that might now
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: need to step up sooner than they thought they were
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: gonna have to. Again, we're always talking about depth. They
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: just don't have a ton of depth. But what they
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: do have they trust in and that is the biggest thing. Confidence,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: whether you have it or someone else has it in
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: you will take you so far in this game. Because
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: everybody is really talented whoever has the most confidence can succeed.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: This is unfortunate injury, but seems like he'll be back
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: based on the image.
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: And the thing is this team actually has quite a
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: few starters that should be returning throughout the year. I mean,
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Ashby's hurt, Myers will come back, dal Hall will come back,
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Brandon Woodriff will come back, Robert Gasser will come back.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: They have a whole rotation that's on the il, which
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: you can look at as bad but also as okay.
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: Get through the first month of the season and then
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: at least some of these guys are going to work
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: their way back and be on the mount. So even
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: though depth has been an issue, it actually could become
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: a pretty good problem for them, you know, at some
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: point this season. So we'll see. Brewers are still gonna
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: be strong. That's the end of the story here. Don't
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: forget about Jackson. Curio look like a superstar the last
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: four months of the season. After the first tour, bet
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: MGM locks yesterday was terrible. Cam, You're okay because you
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: had a big boy parlay. I just picked Seas Azuki
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: to do it in front of the home country fans.
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: But it didn't happen today because he ran into the
• 22:46
  Speaker 3: Dodgers pitching buzz sauce. So let's spin it forward. Game
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: two is tomorrow morning again, six am Eastern times. So Cam,
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: you want to cook something up for us first.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, let's do it. Yeah, you know what not that
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: we want to go with.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: But you know what I learned, my listen, there's no
• 23:03
  Speaker 5: way I'm going to pick against the Dodgers again. We
• 23:06
  Speaker 5: are going Dodgers' money line. It will not happen the
• 23:10
  Speaker 5: rest of this season. I don't care who they're playing,
• 23:12
  Speaker 5: Dodgers money line. We're gonna throw a little hundred out there.
• 23:16
  Speaker 5: Hopefully we can get that money. Get that money right.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and you got the under eight and a half
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: runs paris also.
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: Yeah, also eight and a half. You know what, that
• 23:26
  Speaker 5: kitchen looked too good on the Dodger staff. I know
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: we got justice still again tomorrow. It's gonna be I think,
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: another pitching duel. So yeah, yeah, yeah, I jumped the
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: gunning on the over too. We're gonna stick with the under.
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: Okay, Okay, I like that, but I'm going against your
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: immediate what you just gave me because I locked in
• 23:44
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• 23:54
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• 23:57
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• 23:59
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• 24:04
  Speaker 1: It's really tough to sweep a series, and I think
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• 24:11
  Speaker 5: I like it. Thank you better than me, Cratcy. I
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  Speaker 5: appreciate it. I didn't want to do it again. I'll
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  Speaker 5: let you have this.
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: One, yeah, yeah, hey, and we can show the board
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: while I give you mine first five innings under four
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: and a half runs. I got stealing rookie Sasaki, both
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: looking really good. I don't think Roki's gonna deal with
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: the butterflies like Yamamoto had in his first big league
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: start in Korea. He's in front of the home crowd
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: in Japan. He's done it plenty of times here, So
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• 24:59
  Speaker 3: rosenbel out a story yesterday about Roki Sasaki and the
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: recruitment process. He's about to make his Major League debut.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: He is signed up to the Dodgers under team control
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: for a while now, and he doesn't cost much six
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: and a half million dollars signing bonus, and he's a
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: league minimum player this year as a rookie because he
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: signed was signed away from Japan before he was eligible
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: to be a free agent officially, you know, a pro
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: free agent like Yamamoto was. So the title of the
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: article is meet the Japanese company that irked MLB execs
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: during the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes. Of course, Ken did a
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: brilliant job of reporting and getting certain people on the record,
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: even if they had to do it anonymously. Apparently the
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: process involved what essentially sounded like his marketing agent, a
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: guy named Tomaki Sakai from a marketing company called Densu
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: and Joel Wolf was his actual player agent. This was
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: very different. Wolf was leading the charge with Yamamoto because
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: it was a player contract cam and in this case
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: the money was going to be about the same. Obviously,
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: the Blue Jays and the Padres had a little bit
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: more to offer, but not much. So they said that
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: this guy Sakai was kind of running point on these conversations,
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: and Wolf was instructed to give opening and closing remarks
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: to teams, but then told not to talk in between
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: because to me, it actually makes sense. It is a
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: marketing conversation. What does the marketing money look like for
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: a guy who is not going to be paid his
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: value for the first five six years or more of
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: his career. So there's a lot more in here. There
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: were a lot of pissed off executives that felt like
• 26:32
  Speaker 3: this was all a roose and that he had it
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: decided in his head already. So he asked teams to
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: do homework on why his velocity was down. Teams presented
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: cases with custom websites. Some of them even gave him
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: a tablet to look at, and then they asked for
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: it back. When he didn't select them, They took the
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: websites down the whole deal. Obviously the information was already collected,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: but you know, a lot of execs just felt skeptical.
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: And he even had one executive tell Ken ROSENTHALDENTSU the
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: marketing agency had an agenda and it just never felt
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: like we truly fit with whatever that agenda was, and
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: that they're skeptical moving forward when that marketing group represents
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: a player. So I'm just curious for your take, because
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: for me, I'm like, I get it, and you're going
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: to be a pissed off Ezech. But if you really
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: felt that was the case, then just take yourself out
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: of the running. Nothing actually was done wrong here. He's
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: allowed to have in his head a front runner. So
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: if he said, hey, I'm going to probably pick the Dodgers,
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: then he's allowed to do that. And if he feels
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: like they have the best marketing machine, then why not.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: What are your thoughts from the player perspective?
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, from a player perspective, this is one of the time.
• 27:34
  Speaker 4: This is the time in his situation. Quite it's a
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: free agency.
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: This is the time where you can be selfish, right,
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: I don't have to care about how you teams feel,
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: because at the end of the day, I'm only looking
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: for one team to like me. We knew there were
• 27:47
  Speaker 5: a lot of teams that like Roki. So as far
• 27:49
  Speaker 5: as marketing, yeah, like you said, I don't see what
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: the problem is. He wants to see where his marketing
• 27:53
  Speaker 5: value is going to be the best, where it's going
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: to be elevated the highest. So you know, if he
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: did have a front runner, that's his business. That's also
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: his prerogative. So you know, for me, it sounded like
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: a lot of pissed off organizations that.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: You know, they didn't get their prize, so they're upset.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: But at the end of the day, you know, I
• 28:11
  Speaker 5: think himself and his representation had every right to handle
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: the situation the way they did. Let's see what information
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: I can get from the organization who gives me the
• 28:20
  Speaker 5: best information. Hell, he might have got something from somebody
• 28:23
  Speaker 5: and gave an iPad back and don't take it.
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: To the Dodgers. So we'll see what happens.
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: But for me, sounded like a lot of disgruntle organizations
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: that just didn't get the prize that they wanted to get.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, every kid, every kid when they're ten, is
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: like this is the favorite team that I want to
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: play on. Then every kid, when they're sixteen, they start
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: going through the process, Teams start talking to them. You
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: could be a third rounder. Okay, you know, I want
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: to play in the minor leagues. And then you get
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: drafted and you're you're or you're about to get drafted.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I don't care what team I play for. I want
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: the one that's going to give me the best opportunity
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: to make the big leagues and make the most money.
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: Things change, you know what. That's exactly what Rochie did.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: And until we find out that there was a pre
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: signing deal, there was something already worked out, which is
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: against the rules. All this says is just boo hoo,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: the ambulance backing up for all these executives.
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: You put your best foot forward, you go and you.
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: Give the presentation that you think will get this guy here,
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: and now all of a sudden, we didn't get it
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: because there was a marketing agency. And sorry, you didn't
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: get it. That's not that's that's not his fault. That's
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: your fault.
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: And the players being restricted on a player salary cam
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: not to make more money off the field over this course.
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: And and I'll just add this too. Going back over
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: the processes we.
• 29:49
  Speaker 5: All heard about, you know, certain certain courtship, you know
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: ways that we try to be had. Well, a lot
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: of you guys who you know, try to make a pitch.
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: It sounds like the pitch wasn't that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Impressive, right, I don't want to say any names, but
• 30:03
  Speaker 5: certain guys bringing certain people in to meet them, and
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: it's like, eh, like there you go meet Showy and minky.
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: And like I don't want to hear it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 5: Like at the end of the day, he made the
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: decision that was best for him, and it's not like
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: the Dodgers. They did a better job rolling out that
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: red carpet than anybody else. So hey, sometimes you got
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: look in the mirror and blame blame the guy that
• 30:24
  Speaker 5: you're looking at.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: All we heard about this guy was all thirty teams
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: won them. There's plenty of free engines out there that
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: nobody even made a single run at. You think this
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: dude who's like I can go anywhere I want, I'm
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: gonna go somewhere where you didn't put any players around me,
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: Like this team did good for the Dodgers, They've put
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: their best team out there.
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: And if you really.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: Want players like this to come over on the cheap,
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: on like less than what they paid Paul Schemes to
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: be drafted out of LSU. And you know what, you
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: gotta put money up front. Ain't nobody coming to your
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: golf outing if you ain't got awesome prizes, don't cheap
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: wear your cheap.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I love it.
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: And also, you know, for the for the salary cap
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: criers wouldn't have mattered either way. You're telling a guy
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: that he's essentially gonna get the same money regardless, this
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: is what you'll get more of. They will pick a
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: place based on where they feel like they have the
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: best opportunity to make a little extra money off the field.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: It could give an even greater advantage to a bigger market.
• 31:27
  Speaker 3: Keep that in mind here. Other teams also could have
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: made wild offers to Yamamoto to show hey Otani. Now,
• 31:33
  Speaker 3: thinking back, I think some teams are like, man, we
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: should have offered Otani a billion dollars or more just
• 31:38
  Speaker 3: to see if that at least swayed things because of
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: how much money he's making guys off the field. And
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: if I had Otani, how much would that have helped
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: the recruiting process with someone like Roki Sasaki. So the
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: other thing that I want to point out from this article, guys,
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: is the Blue Jays factor in here. So Ken pointed
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: out that executives were pissed off about Toronto being in
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: the final running along with the Padres and the Dodgery.
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Everyone was okay with the Padres, it's a West Coast club,
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: it's a smaller market. You Darvish is there, it's a
• 32:05
  Speaker 3: good team. Great. That all made sense, But other executives
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: were pissed about Toronto being in the finals because Joel Wolf,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: Sasaki's agent said at the winter meetings he wanted to
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: join a team that had success on the field and
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: a history of developing pitchers, and execs were like, well,
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: the Jays haven't won a postseason games since twenty sixteen,
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: and it's not like they've done a great job at
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: developing pitching talent. Okay, So again, I'm going to come
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: back on that and say, they run things in Canada,
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: and if this guy is looking for that extra bank
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: for his buck, this is a place where they felt
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: like he might have been able to absolutely dominate that market.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: The other factor here Krafts Dentsu, which is that marketing
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: agency they said, there's no comp in America to what
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: they do. They basically do deals on every front. They
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: do advertising deals. They even have the media rights contract
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: right now, so Major League Baseball being watched in Japan
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: actually benefits them the profit off that. So some people
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: were like, oh, maybe they actually do want Roki Sasaki
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: to end up on the East Coast and dominate with
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: a different team in the Al East, right, And so
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: we have which they used to have, I guess years
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: back with the Deki Matsui playing and then Ichiro at night,
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: you'd have basically Japanese baseball fans filling up six hours
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: of content instead of three hours of content. I do
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: think that's what was going on behind the scenes. So
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: we like to try and give you the business side
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: of baseball that probably was being waged at least to
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: some extent. Hey, can we talk this guy into being
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: the face of East Coast baseball for Japanese players and
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: everyone will watch the Blue Jays and then they'll watch
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the Dodgers later on that night because the fans out
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: there are connecting with a particular player and then they
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: are adopting that team as their team. So I thought
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: the article was fascinating by Ken. There was definitely some
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: crying from executives for losing the battle. There's definitely some
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: things that can be done to fix that exactly exactly.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: So I thought it was really cool though, and ultimately, though,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, it was going to
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: be his decision. I don't nobody's going to know what
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: they actually said to him, but they might have just said, hey,
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: we're good with either of those teams. Who knows Kratz.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: Maybe they were trying to talk him into joining the
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: Blue Jays and he just said, listen, I don't feel
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: like there's going to be enough winning or enough around here.
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: I mean, Vladdy Junior is supposed to be the face.
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: He wasn't even at the meeting, like the Dodgers were
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: sending all their big boys. So I thought it was
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: really good timing from Ken to put this out because
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: he's about to make his debut and he ended up
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: in a place where he wanted to be in a
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: fair process. The pre cut deal. What's the pre cut deal. Oh,
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: we're going to give you our whole bonus. That's what
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: every team's good to do in this case. So I
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: do think that the Toronto part made sense to me,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: even if it didn't make sense on the field, and
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: maybe that's what cost them all. Right, So another injuries
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: suck that we'll get to. This one's weird. Max Scherzer,
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: who obviously is late in his career, said that his
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: thumb is causing issues for him after he hits the
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: fifty pitch more and he said it's crucial to arm health.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: He said, you know, he had examples in the past
• 35:06
  Speaker 3: two years where a similar issue actually led to injuries elsewhere.
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: So he said the thumb issue flares up in his
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: recovery and that he said pitching through it could actually
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: lead to a shoulder issue. And then here's the tweet
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: from Hazel May who says it's from Scherzer, the quote
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: it just hurts to grip the ball. But the more
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: critical thing here is what I've learned over the years
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: is that your thumb is absolutely critical to your arm health.
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: So what do we think about this one? Because I
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: think that the Blue Jays are going to have to
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: be in a really good spot for everything to work out, guys,
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: cam and for them to be competitive in a division
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: where there aren't any bad clubs.
• 35:44
  Speaker 5: Yeah, especially when you look at what Boston has done.
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: I mean, we know the Yankees are going to stay
• 35:50
  Speaker 5: competitive the Baltimore Oils, but yeah, this is unfortunate, you
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: know because when you talk about this type of injury,
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: and I'm sure crazy can maybe expound on a little
• 35:58
  Speaker 5: bit more. You know, Max surgeron we're talking about a thumb, right.
• 36:02
  Speaker 5: We don't want thumb to go to arm, to go
• 36:04
  Speaker 5: to elbow. So I'm hoping this could be just I
• 36:08
  Speaker 5: don't know if it's a nerve issue. I don't know
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: what it may be, but I'm hoping they can get
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: it under control because I do still think Max Serger
• 36:15
  Speaker 5: has some good baseball left in him.
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: I think he has some quality innings left in him
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: that the Jays could.
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: Definitely use the need. So, you know, you never want
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: to see guys banged up. We know Serger is a warrior,
• 36:27
  Speaker 5: you know. I think early on his career he had
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: a lot of people questioning his mechanics and whether or
• 36:31
  Speaker 5: not he would be able to hold up. And we're
• 36:32
  Speaker 5: starting to see it kind of coming to effect later
• 36:36
  Speaker 5: on his career.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: But you're right, this team can't afforce. Got to lose
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: many pieces.
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: When you're talking about the struggles that they've had playing
• 36:44
  Speaker 5: the game on both sides, putting it together offensively, defensively, pitching.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: You can't afford to lose any guys that you brought
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: in to be kind of a catalyst to help you
• 36:55
  Speaker 5: get back to where you want to go, and that's
• 36:56
  Speaker 5: one of the more dominant teams in that division.
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: This seems like a repetition injury, and baseball players know
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: about repetition injuries. You get a bruise, you get a
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: bruise right here from getting jammed. Now, you hit there
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: six hundred times in the season. You hit there one
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: hundred times before each game. If this is a repetition
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: injury on his thumb, guys, use this. This is the
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: rudder for some of your pitches. You know you're gonna
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: you're gonna slide it, and it's gonna hold a little
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: bit more grip on a breaking ball. There's a lot
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: of things that your thumb you don't want to get
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: into shoulder and elbow issues.
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: So fix it first. Yeah, that's what he said.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 37:40
  Speaker 7: The crazy thing is, no one knows what direction is
• 37:42
  Speaker 7: it's gonna be at length. I don't think he knows
• 37:44
  Speaker 7: what it's gonna do. Sometimes with that, sometimes I'm saying
• 37:46
  Speaker 7: it's just you know, you're trying to just get over
• 37:49
  Speaker 7: the plade and the one game he fit filips and scraming,
• 37:53
  Speaker 7: he threw kind of them that well, and when he
• 37:56
  Speaker 7: missed it by like ten feet, I feel like the filth.
• 37:59
  Speaker 7: You know, I'm sure he's gonna be pretty amped up
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: for his first start for us. Well, you know, hopefully
• 38:04
  Speaker 7: he can get into a runner control and not be
• 38:06
  Speaker 7: too at it. But you know it's we tried to
• 38:10
  Speaker 7: tell him that there's no prep found them. I mean, yeah,
• 38:13
  Speaker 7: im a force last year in three you know, partly
• 38:15
  Speaker 7: maybe out the first gaming and so you know there's
• 38:17
  Speaker 7: there's there's no prep for rios. You still out there,
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: be who you are, have some finals it and let
• 38:23
  Speaker 7: us work behind you. Look at the offense and runs
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: and you know we're both from there. The ball does
• 38:28
  Speaker 7: a little bit different things over here in the sopeer round.
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: They can go compressed the area for the roof and uh,
• 38:33
  Speaker 7: you know, being at sea level less just state the
• 38:35
  Speaker 7: ball has a lot more rise. Even the American balls
• 38:39
  Speaker 7: they had a lot more rise. We found that out
• 38:42
  Speaker 7: there for there's different games and so the balls aren't
• 38:44
  Speaker 7: doing entirely what they're supposed to do. So a lot
• 38:47
  Speaker 7: of guys, I mean they fall ust someone and popping
• 38:49
  Speaker 7: them up, and I think we sell that tonight.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: It was really good stuff from Max and yeah, there
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: were a lot of pop ups today in game one
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: of the season. Awesome to have him on. Just gonna
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: plug this part. Full interview is up on the ft
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: YouTube channel, including that full postgame show from this morning.
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: We're up at five am. You can barely see my
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: eyes because it looks like I'm so damn tired, But
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: I am here, I'm with you, I'm away but six
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: am game Krazinski's actually on the call again for Game
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: two and then we'll do another postgame show. Do you
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: want to keep moving? So let's also plug our guy
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: Trevor May with may Day yesterday and a little clip
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: from that.
• 39:26
  Speaker 8: Why is he underrated? Well, let me tell you one.
• 39:28
  Speaker 8: He's on the Angels. The biggest reason usually is because
• 39:32
  Speaker 8: he's on the Angels. When do you think Angels? At
• 39:36
  Speaker 8: least a couple of years ago, it was shohe Tani
• 39:39
  Speaker 8: and it was Mike Trupp, he's thirty one years old.
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: He's been there for a while, but he's what we
• 39:45
  Speaker 8: call a producer, plays left field, just up this defense.
• 39:49
  Speaker 8: Got his first year last year of above average run
• 39:52
  Speaker 8: value on his defense. According to stat Cast, he was
• 39:55
  Speaker 8: in the top seventy fourth percentile, which top quarter of
• 39:57
  Speaker 8: the league. That's solid. He was always kind of average,
• 40:01
  Speaker 8: sitting at about a zero, and he improved last year.
• 40:05
  Speaker 8: That's a positive, especially at thirty years old. That's a big,
• 40:07
  Speaker 8: a big deal. He was a two point three war
• 40:10
  Speaker 8: player for a bad team. I get it, but he's
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: every year he's a two plus war player. That is
• 40:16
  Speaker 8: what you that is what you want. He's a career
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: one ten ops plus with a one to eleven last
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: year when twenty five and seventy five home runs and RBIs,
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: that is hitting twenty five pumps.
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: Is.
• 40:28
  Speaker 8: I think every team will take that. That was a
• 40:31
  Speaker 8: career high. He actually had a career high in home runs,
• 40:33
  Speaker 8: RBIs and solo bases with six. Just had to throw
• 40:36
  Speaker 8: that in there. And he played one hundred and fifty
• 40:37
  Speaker 8: six games. Yes he had two forty six. The strikeout
• 40:41
  Speaker 8: numbers maybe a little bit high, but he actually had
• 40:43
  Speaker 8: a lot of plate appearances, so it's not that bad.
• 40:45
  Speaker 8: It's about league average. He walked a good number of times,
• 40:48
  Speaker 8: sixty times isn't bad. And hit twenty five home runs
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: twenty six doubles. This is just like, just like any team
• 40:56
  Speaker 8: would be better with that guy. So he's a well
• 40:57
  Speaker 8: above average player. He is a good aid hitter. He's
• 41:00
  Speaker 8: a guy you have to worry about in that lineup,
• 41:02
  Speaker 8: especially with no Mike Trout, so if they get drop back,
• 41:05
  Speaker 8: he is healthy. Taylor Ward iss got to pay attention to,
• 41:08
  Speaker 8: and he's constantly producing.
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: Good stuff from Trevor every Monday. It's part of the
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: FT Network. Check out the show four o'clock Eastern time
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: Mondays on the FT YouTube channel and then that flips
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: over to may Day's channel, Trevor May's channel for the
• 41:25
  Speaker 3: second hour. But good breakdowns there, good one on Taylor Ward.
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: I'll bring this up to since we have a moment.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Jesse Rodgers during the game this morning tweeted seeing some
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: of those close pitches reminds me of a conversation I
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: had with a manager last week. He's a little worried
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: that on opening Day a player's going to forget and
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: he's going to tap his head for review, and the
• 41:43
  Speaker 3: UMP will take it as a sarcastic gesture since they
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: can't actually challenge this year. Kratz, this would so be you.
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: This would be you in the clubhouse for Game one
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: right where a teammate would go yo, ten g's if
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: you just do this during the at one point when
• 42:01
  Speaker 3: the UMP screws.
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: Up ten geez, that'd have been simple. I'd have gotten
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: out there first pitch. But hey, when you have what
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: do you have to understand? We have to understand is
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: almost every catcher that I ever know, that I've never
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: known that's been on a team for more than a month,
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: has something to the dugout to let a guy know,
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: let the manager know, like that was a strike, he
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: missed it. You know some guys they'll like tug the
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: mask some guys. Some guys will adjust their strap. It's
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: a way to not show up the umpire but it's
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: also a way to let the manager know, hey, he's
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: not giving us this pitch like this was there. You
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: can't just look over and be like it was a strike,
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: he missed it. So yeah, I definitely ten grand Scottie.
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta lower you can lower your sight
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: you can get a coupon for me. I'll do something
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: for I mean, I might give that for two fifty.
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: I do it every yet, mad right, craancy.
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: Every time, every time there's a miss. Next year, next year,
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: you're done, bro Boum's coming for you next year. Yeah,
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: I hope someone gets tossed this year that.
• 43:23
  Speaker 5: I had a teammate, I had a team that I
• 43:25
  Speaker 5: used to ask the umpire, can you throw me off
• 43:27
  Speaker 5: what I'm thinking?
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Of course I can't throw you off what I'm thinking.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: I think you're horrible.
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: You didn't say it, that's right. What's the word you
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: can't say?
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: You can't say you?
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: Well, then wait, you said you're horrible.
• 43:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, but I already asked him, can't you throw me
• 43:49
  Speaker 5: out from thinking that's what I was thinking?
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: So technically you said you can't throw me out, so.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: It works right, right, So you just say okay, so
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: I can't be thrown out just for thinking that you're horrible?
• 43:59
  Speaker 3: Got it all good? This has settled for now and
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: again next year. Let's lap spencer Strider returns to the
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: mound in spring training for the first time in eleven
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: and a half months since he went down with the
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: elbow surgery. Twenty seven pitches, twenty three strikes, eight hitters faced.
• 44:34
  Speaker 3: He struck out six of them. There was one fair
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: ball on the first pitch that he threw. Zero pitch
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: is thrown while behind in the count. Jason starked posting
• 44:42
  Speaker 3: the stats ridiculous. And then here was the postgame quote
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: after his first trip to the Mount since last April. Said,
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: it was fun to play again, and this is great,
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Cam he goes, that was definitely kind of a rare
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: emotional moment for me on the field where I was
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: happy instead of just angry at the world.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I love it.
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: And that was that him speaking on he he usually
• 45:03
  Speaker 5: attacks hitters? Is he usually attack guys angry? Yes, well,
• 45:08
  Speaker 5: if that's what we're doing, happy and smiling, and we
• 45:11
  Speaker 5: might need to go ahead and bottle that up. Right,
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: If you can get that type of production out of
• 45:16
  Speaker 5: a happy Spencer.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: Strider, let's go out there a little bit more happy, right.
• 45:19
  Speaker 5: I guess if you need to pull that chip out
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: or need to get angry, you know you still have it.
• 45:23
  Speaker 5: But we're talking about a guy who's the fastest the
• 45:25
  Speaker 5: two hundred strikeouts in the season. I think he's broken
• 45:28
  Speaker 5: Braves records. I mean, he's incredible. So one thing we
• 45:31
  Speaker 5: don't have to worry about is the swing and miss
• 45:33
  Speaker 5: stuff not being there or him having to have some
• 45:35
  Speaker 5: time to get back in action, to get back to
• 45:38
  Speaker 5: him old, to his old self. He's picked up right
• 45:40
  Speaker 5: where he left off and continue to dominate hitters in
• 45:43
  Speaker 5: this league. So we talk about a big acquisition for
• 45:45
  Speaker 5: the Braves. This is a huge acquisition to get Spencer
• 45:48
  Speaker 5: Strider back in that rotation.
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: Was Stder facing, was Strider facing the day rate guys
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: at the Miami Marlins were checking up to playing games
• 45:58
  Speaker 1: like That's what.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: He made it look like.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: Sometimes sometimes when dudes rehab and like they don't even
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: go to the minor leagues and rehab, I'm always I'm
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: always so impressed. I'm like, oh, Cameron Mayben, He's just
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: he's rehabbing against the Cardinals here. Like some dudes go
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: down and rehab against you know, the Toledo mud Hens
• 46:17
  Speaker 1: or the Scranton rail Riders. No, some dudes, they just
• 46:21
  Speaker 1: make big leaguers look like minor leaguers.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: It's crazy.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: There were real players in the lineup yesterday for the
• 46:27
  Speaker 3: Red Sox and know they were on the road taking
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: on the braids. But Dave Hamilton, David Hamilton, big league player,
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Von Grissom, obviously trying to get himself back, big league player, Nervaiez,
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: Marcelo Meyer soon to be a big league player. So
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: there were a few guys in there that did not
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: have fun days, right, Yeah, Grace fans, we can, we
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: can we get that back for the regular season a SAP.
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: They're not going to have him obviously starting out the year,
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: but the timelines do feel like they keep creeping too
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: closer then anticipated. Yeah, I know you want to be
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: careful and not rush it, but it's the same thing
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: with a Kunya. I mean, they feel like he's going
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: to be ready maybe you know, end of April, and
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: so there's talks about early May versus mid May to
• 47:15
  Speaker 3: late May. So we'll see and that could decide the division.
• 47:18
  Speaker 3: So we'll see what happens. We're going to be at
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: Braves Camp by the way, so the calendar for you
• 47:23
  Speaker 3: on the way out the cam Maven tour. He gets
• 47:28
  Speaker 3: to stay in one place tonight, which is good news.
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: The complexes are pretty close to each other. Twins in
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: Red Sox about ten minutes down the road, something like that,
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: depending on traffic. And then Thursday finishing strong with Braves Camp.
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: Have you been to that new Braves Camp? I think
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: it's what now three years old.
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: I have not, but I've heard good things, so I'm
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: eager to see. I thought they would never leave Disney,
• 47:51
  Speaker 5: but it's started to turn into a little bit of
• 47:53
  Speaker 5: a not the best situation.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it worked out well where they are now, and
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: also where they are now, like used to be nothing
• 48:04
  Speaker 3: and now it's like they built a whole town around
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: them of passes that all look the same. See tomorrow.
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: Oh,