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Contract options mania! The complexity of emulating the Brewers, WS TV ratings, Contreras extension? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And I can't hold it much longer.
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  Speaker 2: Gonna let go so I can be free.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah. Let me free.
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  Speaker 2: Let me free. Let me free. Let me free.
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  Speaker 5: Let me free.
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  Speaker 2: Let me free. Let me free. Let me free.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: If you just say what you want. Johnson and loving
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  Speaker 3: life right now. William Contreras getting the MVP chance. Do
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  Speaker 3: you get chills seeing that, Kratz? I mean, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: Todd Father does too, but he played for the organization.
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  Speaker 3: Just seeing how Milwaukee is finally getting their moment.
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  Speaker 1: I love fan interaction. Any kind of fan interaction like this,
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting pictures from a couple people that work for
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  Speaker 1: the team, and they're sending me pictures of their spot
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  Speaker 1: on the parade. It is... Some of the pictures are, like, crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Any kind of parade, people are so packed in there,
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  Speaker 1: so juiced. I love it for the fans.
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  Speaker 4: And you saw the videos. These type of videos are
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  Speaker 4: even cooler.
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  Speaker 5: But, you know, you see the videos of the old
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  Speaker 5: man in the house screaming his head off, crying.
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  Speaker 4: I've been waiting all my life for this.
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  Speaker 5: And, like, some of the cool things that are happening
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  Speaker 5: in Milwaukee and that area.
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  Speaker 4: It's their first one, man. I mean, you've got to
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  Speaker 4: live this thing up. But, yes.
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  Speaker 5: Celebrate it as long as you can here it was
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  Speaker 5: really cool really magical they they were the best team
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  Speaker 5: in baseball and you know maybe they might go on
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  Speaker 5: a little run here moving forward these next couple years
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  Speaker 5: hopefully we play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that'd be nice hopefully we play and and can
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  Speaker 3: they build a dynasty right they i think for a
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  Speaker 3: dynasty you get the postseason appearances together and then you
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  Speaker 3: got to win two or three they've got the postseason
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  Speaker 3: appearances they've been doing that already for a while sure.
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  Speaker 1: Wait, wait, wait. So the Braves weren't a dynasty then, Scott?
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  Speaker 1: Tell me. Back in the late 90s.
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  Speaker 4: Early 2000s?
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  Speaker 3: They had the postseason appearances. They had a title. Were
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  Speaker 3: they a dynasty? It's a good debate, but I think
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  Speaker 3: many people would say no.
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  Speaker 4: What? I would say a title. I think a dynasty
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  Speaker 4: is more winning a championship, in my opinion.
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  Speaker 1: Ooh.
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  Speaker 4: I think.
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  Speaker 5: he won championships with Michael Jordan's teams. They were dynasties
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  Speaker 5: because he won three in a row. And then, or
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  Speaker 5: I don't, it might've, was it three in a row?
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what it, but he won three and
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  Speaker 5: then he came back and then won three more. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: I think they were all in a row and three,
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  Speaker 5: you win a couple and now we're talking.
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  Speaker 4: So we'll see.
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  Speaker 5: And that's debatable, but nothing to argue about. I think,
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  Speaker 5: I think, I think championships make dynasty.
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  Speaker 3: Well, they're having their moment and let's talk more about
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  Speaker 3: them actually right now. It's a full count. Let's do it.
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  Speaker 3: Full count is fueled by marathon. Let's get into the
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  Speaker 3: Brewers and what's happening now. Also, I want to start
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  Speaker 3: with Contreras. Kratz, we've talked plenty about him, but we
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  Speaker 3: didn't take a ton of time to talk about him
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  Speaker 3: on yesterday's show, the first show after the World Series title.
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  Speaker 3: So he wins World Series MVP. It is transaction time too,
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  Speaker 3: so SpotTrack pointing out. He gets 50K as a World
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  Speaker 3: Series MVP bonus. So he made $ 9. 5 million. Next year,
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  Speaker 3: he's going to make $ 15. 5 million. That's a team option
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  Speaker 3: that will get picked up for his age 28 season.
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  Speaker 3: And he would also be eligible for arbitration if declined.
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  Speaker 3: But I don't think they're going to decline that. And
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  Speaker 3: they have him valued at six years 86 mil if
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  Speaker 3: he put out a market extension. I think that he
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  Speaker 3: would probably turn that down. He's going to be a
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  Speaker 3: free agent after next season. We did spend a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of time on this yesterday, but Kratz, if you
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  Speaker 3: could lock him up and I'm assuming you want to,
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  Speaker 3: what would you throw his way? Maybe catch him right
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  Speaker 3: after this parade and just a quickie phone call. Like, Hey, no,
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  Speaker 3: we got you on the hook for 15 and a half.
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  Speaker 3: Can I interest you in 92?
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  Speaker 1: I know. I know I'm low balling you. But I
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  Speaker 1: think there's some question about his game calling, his continued growth.
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  Speaker 1: Is he going to continue to grow behind the dish?
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  Speaker 1: And if you look offensively, where he's at, is his
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  Speaker 1: production worth the Brewers forking out 18 to 20 a
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  Speaker 1: year for him? Let's just. Just a question. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: the countercatcher on the other team, the Rays catcher, Liam Hicks,
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  Speaker 1: had a better offensive season, better war, a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: And people don't hear as much about Liam Hicks as
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  Speaker 1: you do about William Contreras. Do you pay him for
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  Speaker 1: his above-average offense that he just put forth this year,
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  Speaker 1: or are you blinded by the postseason?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, those numbers on the right look pretty good too.
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  Speaker 3: Those are some stat cast numbers. A lot of good
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  Speaker 3: red on the right side there of the profile page, Toddfather. Also,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, don't be afraid to go back at your
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  Speaker 3: boy Kratz. It's a Friday. If you're repping the William
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  Speaker 3: Contreras side and Kratz said, you know, still long-term questions,
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  Speaker 3: are you going to be an elite game caller and
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  Speaker 3: all that? What would your response be after what you
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  Speaker 3: just did?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, I think right now we're all excited and
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  Speaker 5: you know, this is the next thing coming.
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  Speaker 4: We'll do this every year. Let's go.
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  Speaker 5: Now, wait till it just dies down a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: I would have to agree with Kratzy a little bit
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  Speaker 5: here just because of the fact of, yeah, this is exciting.
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  Speaker 5: You guys did it. It was unbelievable. I think he
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  Speaker 5: is a really good player. But yeah, I would like
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  Speaker 5: to see him. I think this is the six years, 86,
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  Speaker 5: I think that's in the right vicinity, 80 to 90.
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a really good Good for him. I
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  Speaker 5: think he goes back. I think I would take that
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  Speaker 5: in a heartbeat. He had an exceptional playoff. Let's see
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  Speaker 5: what he does as he moves forward. But if there
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  Speaker 5: was an opportunity to move forward and get a couple
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  Speaker 5: more years like this, I don't think he should hesitate.
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  Speaker 4: I think he should jump on it.
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  Speaker 3: And he might feel differently now after experiencing everything he did.
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  Speaker 3: And there are some guys that want to stay and
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  Speaker 3: start to evaluate what you'd get on a free agent market,
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  Speaker 3: what you'd get after a lockout. This might be a
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  Speaker 3: good time. We haven't really talked about this. Nothing is guaranteed.
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  Speaker 3: And Todd father, we talked a lot about how free
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  Speaker 3: agents are going to try and get signed. Both sides
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  Speaker 3: are going to try to get free agents signed over
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  Speaker 3: the next month. What about extensions? Extensions could be a
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  Speaker 3: thing over the next few weeks. I don't think there'll
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  Speaker 3: be a ton, but there could be some extension offers.
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  Speaker 3: Like if I'm a team, I think you have a
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  Speaker 3: little bit of leverage right now on an extension to say, Hey,
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  Speaker 3: we don't know what the other side's going to look like.
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  Speaker 3: So do you want to try and lock in a
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  Speaker 3: bunch of money right now? Long term.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Could happen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Kratz, you don't think that's a thing?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I've been back and
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  Speaker 1: forth on this because some people were saying when the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers and I forget who else gave the extension or
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  Speaker 1: gave some extensions. It was all right around the same time.
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  Speaker 1: They're like, are these going to be easily grandfathered into
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  Speaker 1: a new CBA? Is there going to be changes in
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  Speaker 1: how they do things? So, I don't know. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think anything changed. I don't think we're making drastic changes
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  Speaker 1: with how we're offering guys money. You're either going to
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  Speaker 1: offer them at this time four years ago or you're
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  Speaker 1: going to offer them at this time this year if
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  Speaker 1: they're in the same category.
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  Speaker 3: You're talking about the time period where the Brewers did
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  Speaker 3: a few like Pratt and Lara. The Tigers got McGonigal
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  Speaker 3: done early in the year. Connor Griffin got done with
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  Speaker 3: the pirates.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: But I think they're all different, but I think they're
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  Speaker 1: all different. I think Connor, Connor Griffin almost added them
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  Speaker 1: both together. He wanted to make the team. Like it
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  Speaker 1: was clearly a accept this, make the team. He said, no,
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  Speaker 1: went to the bushes. They offered him more McGonigal felt like, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: I'm on the team. This is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: sick extension. Like, That kind of stuff, it's all different.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think the CBA or anything like that changes
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  Speaker 1: that right now.
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  Speaker 3: J.J., Weatherholt was another one too.
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  Speaker 1: There, thank you. I knew there was somebody else.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but there's two different extensions too. The ones that
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  Speaker 3: I'm bringing up right now are the guys that are
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  Speaker 3: either not in the big leagues at the time or
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  Speaker 3: barely sniffing the big leagues. And then we started this
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  Speaker 3: conversation with William Contreras, who's a year away from free agency.
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  Speaker 3: I will say this, one other thing to consider. This
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  Speaker 3: goes against my other point. Usually after a lockout, teams
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  Speaker 3: feel good again. There is a honeymoon phase usually after
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  Speaker 3: the lockout for an offseason where they're like, cool, everything's
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  Speaker 3: going to stay the same in terms of the rules
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  Speaker 3: for a little bit. So I feel more comfortable forking
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  Speaker 3: out cash. That is also something to consider. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot there. I want to keep moving on some other
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  Speaker 3: business components of finance. what the Brewers are doing and
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  Speaker 3: how it's impacting the rest of baseball. So you see
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: a number of articles and episodes of shows talking about
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers' blueprint. And you see many of them even
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  Speaker 3: on the FT Network. There are other team shows that
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  Speaker 3: we have that are like, hey, how come this team
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  Speaker 3: can't be the Brewers? Well, there will definitely be an
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  Speaker 3: episode at some point with the Twins talking about this.
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  Speaker 3: And Aaron Gleeman writes about the Twins. And he said,
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  Speaker 3: like every small market team, the twins want to copy
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  Speaker 3: the Brewers and the Rays because of their success with
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  Speaker 3: low payrolls, but emulating the brewers and rays requires a
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  Speaker 3: different type of investment behind the scenes. And he talked
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  Speaker 3: about how the twins fall short in that category. You know, he,
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  Speaker 3: Mentioned something that we've brought up here, but the Rays
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  Speaker 3: leading with 50 analytics department staffers. The Brewers are tied
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  Speaker 3: for ninth with 32. I've talked about the international staff
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  Speaker 3: being the biggest for the Brewers. And he said the
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  Speaker 3: Twins are tied at 16 with 24 on the analytics
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  Speaker 3: side in their analytics department. And then he went over
• 10:33
  Speaker 3: the scouting side and he said Baseball America estimates the
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  Speaker 3: Rays are five with 84 scouts. Brewers tied for 10th,
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  Speaker 3: 78 scouts. And then he mentioned the Twins. Dead last,
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  Speaker 3: 39 scouts after shrinking the department this year.
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  Speaker 4: Oops.
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  Speaker 3: You're going the wrong way. You're trying to be like them. Oops.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think you can sit here and go, okay, well,
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  Speaker 1: we have this many scouts, so here's where we're going to, like,
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  Speaker 1: you can't be last. You don't need to be first.
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  Speaker 1: You got to be right in the middle there somewhere.
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  Speaker 1: And let's try to stop emulating the Rays. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: try to pull pieces that are good from what they do.
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  Speaker 1: And you can emulate the Brewers. You know why? The difference? Todd,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers won a World Series.
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  Speaker 4: The Rays did not. Spot on. That's it. That's it.
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  Speaker 5: And they were the best team overall on every aspect
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  Speaker 5: of what they did.
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  Speaker 4: And that's just the God's honest truth.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's an important point by Kratz. Copy
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  Speaker 3: a winner. The Rays have had good success. They haven't
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  Speaker 3: won a title. And they've come close. I want a winner.
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  Speaker 3: So I think the Brewers will be receiving a lot
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  Speaker 3: of copycatting. And Kratz, I'm with you on that.
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  Speaker 1: If they want a winner, though. That's what you said, Scott.
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  Speaker 1: I want a winner. If they want a winner. Or
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  Speaker 1: do they just want to have success with low payroll?
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  Speaker 1: That's the difference. Ask yourself that honest question. Oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: why can't we do that as the Reds? Why can't
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  Speaker 1: we do that as the Twins? Do you want a winner?
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  Speaker 1: Or do you want to just save money and have
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  Speaker 1: some success?
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  Speaker 3: And also playing to what you said, I'm completely on board.
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  Speaker 3: Do you need the most people behind the scenes in
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  Speaker 3: every department? No, but you can't be last. Last is
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  Speaker 3: a death sentence these days. I firmly agree with that point. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: next up. on the business side, Zach Scott, former GM
• 12:37
  Speaker 3: and front office exec, uh, responded to Travis Sawcheck talking
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  Speaker 3: about how the brewers, you know, built systems culture over
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  Speaker 3: time to sustain front office, coaching personnel losses, talking about
• 12:49
  Speaker 3: how poaching happens. And we went over a couple of
• 12:51
  Speaker 3: poaching situations yesterday. The Astros looking at a brewers exec
• 12:55
  Speaker 3: and a brewers, what was it? Scouting guy went to
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  Speaker 3: the white socks. So Zach Scott said, Hiring by brand
• 13:02
  Speaker 3: has a very mixed track record. It's funny to see
• 13:04
  Speaker 3: people get excited when their team hires someone from certain
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  Speaker 3: clubs as if they don't know anything about them. It's
• 13:09
  Speaker 3: so much more complex than that. And I'll remind people
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  Speaker 3: that several people who get these jobs are endorsed by
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  Speaker 3: their current bosses because those bosses want them out. It's
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  Speaker 3: a cutthroat business. Wow. Hey, you should take this guy.
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  Speaker 3: And then they get off the phone and they go, dot, dot, dot,
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  Speaker 3: because he sucks.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think that's happening a lot? Well, listen, that's, that's,
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  Speaker 4: that's risky there, man. That's tough.
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm not, I'm not on this. I'm sorry, Zach.
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  Speaker 1: I think you have the wrong view of how being
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  Speaker 1: a leader is like you want. I'm, I'm a coach
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  Speaker 1: and this is the only, this is the only example
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  Speaker 1: I have. I'm a head coach of a baseball team.
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  Speaker 1: I hope every one of my assistants pushes me to say,
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  Speaker 1: I'm taking your job. I mean, that's, Isn't that the
• 14:00
  Speaker 1: culture you create as the boss of something? Because that
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  Speaker 1: person's pushing you to be better. And so the idea
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  Speaker 1: that like, ooh, I got to get rid of my
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  Speaker 1: assistant GM. So I'm going to get him that job
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  Speaker 1: over with another team so that he doesn't take my job. Bro,
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  Speaker 1: you want somebody to take your job. Come and get me. Like,
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  Speaker 1: come and get my job. You know why? Because we're
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: working together and we're going to be the best freaking
• 14:25
  Speaker 1: group that we can be. And if you're like, if
• 14:28
  Speaker 1: there's somebody that's like, I got to make sure I
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: cut this guy. He's getting too close. Ah, you're looking
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  Speaker 1: at the wrong things. So I don't agree with this
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  Speaker 1: at all.
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  Speaker 4: It's interesting. It's very interesting. I don't want any piece
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  Speaker 4: of that.
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  Speaker 3: If you win, you're not. I mean, like if you're
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  Speaker 3: leading a front office and you're worried about people below you,
• 14:50
  Speaker 3: then you're a loser because you're not winning. If you're winning,
• 14:54
  Speaker 3: you're going to be there. Unless you're James Click with
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  Speaker 3: the Astros. That's an outlier, right? Because he won and
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  Speaker 3: he still got booted. Anybody else, if they win, they
• 15:02
  Speaker 3: ain't going anywhere. They're not going anywhere. Am I right?
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  Speaker 3: Do we ever see? I mean, again, after a season
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  Speaker 3: or two, things can change.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Like Dombrowski got booted by the Red Sox, what, a
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  Speaker 3: year or two after? We see those. But my point is,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if you've got a consistent winner, like if
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  Speaker 3: you're the Brewers, you're Matt Arnold, you're not worried about
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  Speaker 3: who's below you. You're worried about who's around you so
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  Speaker 3: that they're really talented and you can continue to win
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  Speaker 3: front office executive of the year awards, make the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: every year, and then get a World Series title.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about you. If you're in that position and
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  Speaker 1: it's about you, you're not going to do as well
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  Speaker 1: as you could. I'm not saying you can't do well.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying you're just not going to do as well
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  Speaker 1: as you could.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. And then we'll get to the other part later.
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  Speaker 3: So on the way out of this segment, which had
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  Speaker 3: a lot of brewers in it, Kratz, I mean, I
• 15:51
  Speaker 3: think you should show off what you're wearing. We haven't
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  Speaker 3: even talked.
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  Speaker 4: About it yet. Yeah, I was wondering.
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  Speaker 1: I thought we were wearing suit jackets today. No, it's
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: my Uke jacket. Like, you're celebrating Uke. I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: anything to dress up for for Halloween, but this is
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  Speaker 1: the jacket that they gave us when we had Uke
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  Speaker 1: road trip where we all dressed up in Uke type
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  Speaker 1: of suit jackets. So might as well wear it today
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  Speaker 1: when they're in their parade.
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  Speaker 4: Tasteful.
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  Speaker 3: Well done. Love it, Kratz. I love the outfit today.
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  Speaker 3: And I wanted to make sure the podcast crowd heard
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  Speaker 3: it early on. Okay. Full count is fueled by Marathon,
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  Speaker 3: So this one first and then the one that we
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: didn't get to in the last segment, too, because I
• 16:39
  Speaker 3: think they play off each other. So Richard Deitch, who
• 16:42
  Speaker 3: is a media reporter. posted the world series viewership numbers,
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  Speaker 3: but I'll round here. If it's 0.5, I go up.
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  Speaker 3: If it's 0.4, I go down.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: Game one, 12 mil game to 11 mil game three,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: eight mil game for 13 mil game five, 14 mil
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: projected with that number there. And then here's somebody who
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: works in media. Lena is the name posted.
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: Sorry.
• 17:09
  Speaker 3: I didn't do my homework on who this person is exactly,
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: but I saw that this tweet got a lot of action,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: 500K views about. She said, as someone who works in
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: the media, this to me is the wildest step of
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: the World Series so far. Rays fans are peeved about
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: all the conversation around attendance and point to the location
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: of the stadium. But how do you account for this?
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: And then she posted from an article that Milwaukee's metrics
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: for game two were massive, 35.4 rating, 71 share. Rating
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: denotes the percentage of TV homes in a given market
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: watching a certain program while the share refers to the
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: percentage of TV's in use turned to an event the
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: tampa area by comparison 12.1 local rating peak 41 share
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: for game one so milwaukee dusted them on the tv
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: side too because that that is an argument and people
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: went nuts after this on both sides but people like
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: you can't say oh well they're not going the games
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: they're just watching on tv and then also milwaukee is
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: on a different level right now in terms of the
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: fever so it's tough to compare to them crats but
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: even still if you compare that number to a lot
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: of other spots in their market. It's not a great
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: TV number. I mean, it's great, but not great enough
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: for World Series and trying to win your first title.
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: That's my point.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: That's the biggest thing. They just don't follow the team
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: as much, and I don't think it's necessarily the fans.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: I think it's the team not selling the team to
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: the fans for years. They're a franchise that just hasn't
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: advertised in the area, the broader area. You still have
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: all the people from Tampa. I get it. If not
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: coming to the stadium, all people can watch. Make it
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: be something that people want to watch and create that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Brewers franchise. I mean, the Rays franchise.
• 18:48
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: You can't use that excuse to talk about, oh, well,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: the causeway. And then they're like, oh, well, no one's
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: from Tampa. And I'm like, okay, well, that was the point.
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: They were saying where the Tampa fans at. Because they're like, oh, well,
• 18:59
  Speaker 3: so many people aren't from here. That's why they're not watching. okay,
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: that's what we were talking about then. Then it wasn't
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: the causeway.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Then they shouldn't have a team.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: Or the team should advertise in the area to make
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: all these transplants be like, I want to be a
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Rays fan.
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: Well, New Ownership Group has a chance to do what
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Stu Sternberg did not do well, marketing.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: No, he did not.
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: So the Baseball Hall of Fame takes things when history happens,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: and they've grabbed a few things from the Brewers. One
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: of them is something that I thought he would need,
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: but I guess not. Aaron Ashby gave his specs. No
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: more specs. The glasses go to the Hall of Fame.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: So Aaron Ashby can't see anymore. Don't ask him to
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: come into a game in the offseason unless he gets
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: new ones.
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: That dude is not answering the phone. I'm sorry. Him
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: and Louis Varlin from last year, these dudes don't answer
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: the phone because they're just going to be like, does
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: coach want me to get loose again? I'm good right now.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: Listen, Scotty, something I learned from the Hall of Fame, like, Kratz,
• 20:10
  Speaker 5: you can do this too. If you want your stuff preserved,
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: anything you've played in, like a glove, a bat, a jersey, balls,
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: whatever authentic, you can put it in your own little
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: compartment there for your sons and daughters, daughters, daughters, for
• 20:28
  Speaker 5: your lineage. They can see that for as long as
• 20:31
  Speaker 5: there's a Baseball Hall of Fame. I thought that was
• 20:33
  Speaker 5: pretty cool that I learned that.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Do you have something there?
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: I have....
• 20:39
  Speaker 5: Man, I don't have, no, I, they, they showed me
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: a bunch of articles when I was there in Cooperstown,
• 20:44
  Speaker 5: but they said, whatever you really want, we can, we
• 20:47
  Speaker 5: can put in there. So I might do some home
• 20:49
  Speaker 5: run Derby stuff, you know, before, you know, all said
• 20:52
  Speaker 5: and done.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: That's cool. Yeah. I mean, it's like a time capsule slash, uh,
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: safety deposit box kind of thing where you're right.
• 21:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: I mean, they are built for it. Quick question, random,
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: but The bat that you used that you weren't actually
• 21:08
  Speaker 3: holding when you hit a homer. Do you have that one?
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: Where's that one?
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't know. I don't know if I have it.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: You know the bat I'm talking about where you threw
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: it at?
• 21:17
  Speaker 4: Yeah. Maybe I should have got that.
• 21:21
  Speaker 5: You know, hindsight 2020, maybe I should have got it authentic.
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: Authenticated.
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: You have a ton of merch already, so you didn't
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: need to keep anything else.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: You worry about your merch, okay?
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: Hot Corner is presented by the Fox One app. We
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: continue to learn about options, club options, player options. All
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: of that will go down in the next few days.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: This is our annual reminder that mutual options are basically fake.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Nobody ever accepts them on both sides. Nick Martinez, who
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: is the one?
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: I played for the Brewers. I want to say it
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: was Ramirez. Right-handed hitting. Now I got to find out.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: Aramis Ramirez?
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: No.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: Could be Aramis.
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 22:20
  Speaker 6: Anyway.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: I'm going to look it up. We'll look it up.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Nick Martinez declining his mutual option. It was set at
• 22:24
  Speaker 3: $ 20 million. You're like, oh, that's a good number. Well,
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: he gets $ 4 million for declining it. Right? So we're
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: already down to, you know, here's my value, $ 16 million.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: And then we'll see what he fetches on the free
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: agent market.
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: Great check.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Great year.
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: 4 million. That'll do your Christmas shopping. So John Heyman
• 22:44
  Speaker 3: reporting on it and how basically all mutual options end
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: up this way. Sonny Gray has one of these. You
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: got a $ 10 million buyout. He's a free agent. Incredible.
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: The opt-ins to me are more interesting. So I'm going
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: to do two opt-ins. One, Pretty obvious. Corbin Burns not
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: opting out of the final four years 140. This was
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: the year where he had a trigger, but he would
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: have had to give up four 140. And given the injuries,
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Todd Father, I mean the elbow and then really just
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: popping up for a minute at the end of this season.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: You're not getting 4-1-40 on the free agent market, so
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: you keep that. Still think he could be a valuable
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: piece of the Diamondbacks over the next few years, but
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: you opt into that one fast.
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. There's some that are just really simple.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: It's so cool that Sonny Gray is going to get
• 23:47
  Speaker 5: a $ 10 million buyout, and then Corbin Burns, he's got
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: a big one here. All these guys, this is why
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: baseball is so great. You can decide what contract you
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: want and they have to stick to it. And then
• 23:59
  Speaker 5: at the end, you decide whether you want to go.
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: Player options are great. Mutual is kind of tough. And
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: then team option is even tougher because they decide your fate.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: So you have to really decide moving forward exactly what
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: you want to do.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: And there might be some arguments here and there, but
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: these guys are all making the right decisions in my
• 24:18
  Speaker 5: mind so far.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Last one, Kratz, most importantly, or maybe I just want
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: to be able to question anyone that was going the
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: other way on this. Bo Bichette has a $ 42 million
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: player option for next season. Yeah, he's going to stay
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: with the Mets. He has another one for the season
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: after that. Again, $ 42 million. If he finds his form, right? Great.
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: You can hit the free agent market after that. But
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: look at the numbers for Bo. And I know he
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: started slow, Kratz, and then he got better. But he never, like,
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: set the world on fire this season for a long
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: period of time. He's obviously opting in. 28 years old,
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: I get it. He's not getting $ 42 million a season,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: and he's not getting even a longer-term deal that adds
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: up the next couple seasons for him right now. That
• 25:05
  Speaker 3: could change. But I remember seeing a couple times during
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: the season, like, oh, Bo might opt out.
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I'm like, huh? No.
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: No freaking way.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: That might be the biggest opt-out one I've ever seen.
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: I love it. I love Bo Bichette. There's not– it
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: was a panic move by the Mets to give him
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: the contract because they heard what the Phillies were looking at.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: And good for the Phillies that they didn't get that.
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: Or he might have played really well in Philly. Who knows?
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: Also, I know he was fine. I got to look
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: deeper at what the D-metric said. I watch a lot
• 25:44
  Speaker 3: of Mets games. Fine at third. He should be playing second.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: So we'll see if they figure that part out. I
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: think asking him to play a position like that, he
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: should be a middle infielder. You don't want him at short.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: That's fine. We've talked about that. He should be a
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: second baseman. I think, I think he'll hit better if
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: he's a second baseman too. I believe in that stuff.
• 26:02
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• 27:02
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• 27:05
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• 27:09
  Speaker 3: in sports. The Lambo leap for Sal Freelick, for the
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: podcast crowd. That's what we're watching right now. The Brewers
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: capturing it as they shut up. At the Packers game
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: last night. That's freaking cool.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: That is cool.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: That's epic right there. Big woo with the trophy. He
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: probably can't even lift his shoulder. All the way over
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: his head.
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: With all his might.
• 27:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's really, really fantastic. That's so cool. Just a
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: bunch of boys. Just boys just hanging out, man. Isn't
• 27:41
  Speaker 5: it crazy? You see these football players and basketball players
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: are specimens. You got just a bunch of dogs, just
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: guys just chilling and they're all shapes and sizes, man.
• 27:51
  Speaker 5: Baseball players are beautiful. You would never know. Some guys
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: who walk right down the street and you're like, ah,
• 27:58
  Speaker 5: just a regular dude. No, that's a World Series champ
• 28:01
  Speaker 5: for sure.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: Even the Packers players on the sidelines and they're in
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: a game and they like see them coming through and
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: they're like, clapping.
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: It up oh yeah that's the good stuff give respect.
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: So the brewers are going to do their thing they're
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: going to party and partying means showing up at as
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: many public places as possible to get your flowers right.
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: But different the different times we made it deep whether
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: it's the nlcs alcs world series I don't know. I
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: wasn't playing in a lot of games. So I was
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: always in charge of like, Hey, what are we going
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to do when we win? Cause it's not, it doesn't
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: jinx it. You plan, you plan and you talk about
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: the things you want to do and you go, you
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: know what? We might not sleep for seven days. We're
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: going to go here. We're going to do this. Then
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: we're going to go out to Vegas. All the boys
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: will fly. And some would be like, I'll pay for
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: the plane. And you're like, yeah, that's kind of why
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: we brought it up. Cause we're not flying.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: You know? So it's like, It's stuff like that, that
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the boys are going to, they're going to need a nap.
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: Let's put it that way.
• 29:08
  Speaker 4: They're going to have time.
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: They're going to have time to nap. Unfortunately.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: You know what? You know what we're not going to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: bring up next season? The world series hangover. If we
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: miss any games, there's no hangover. You're going to get
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: extra time to rest. No world series hangover conversation next
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: year for either side, for, The champ or the runner-up.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I know it happens all the time, but they're going
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: to get extra time. It might not be a lot
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: of extra time. It might only be a week or whatever.
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Pratt doesn't think it. He doesn't think it's going to
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: be any.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: Such a positive man. Positive thinker.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: All right, BetMGM Futures, it begins.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: We mentioned yesterday some of the early odds. plus two
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: 50 on the Dodgers to win the world series. That
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: is way too high. I'm sorry. That is ridiculous. I, that,
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: that is like one of my, it's not even about
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: if they're going to win or not. Like you're getting
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: plus two 50 on the Dodgers. That's it. That's crazy.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Brewers at plus 600 Yankees plus 900. Again, this is
• 30:14
  Speaker 3: not against the Dodgers. Just like that's not good value
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: for a world series winner at this point in time.
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: Do not do that right now. That, That shouldn't change much,
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: even if the Dodgers have a good year heading into
• 30:26
  Speaker 3: the playoffs. There's just too many things that could go wrong, injuries, whatever.
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: Do you agree with me, Kratz? Plus 250, you're not
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: getting enough value for a World Series winner at that price.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: No, they're not baiting me in on that one, so
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: I got to be patient. They might start out like
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: two and three in the beginning of the season, and
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I might get up to like 300 if that's what
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: the number is. The one that surprises me here is
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: the Cubs at plus 1,400. Braves, no. I get that. Yankees,
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: they're just hedging themselves because they know there's going to
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: be a lot of people that are going to put
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: something down on the Yankees. To me, the value on
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: this board is probably at the Braves at $ 1, 300.
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: Okay. Why the Cubs?
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: Glaring hole. Glaring hole. I mean, they had the best
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: defense in the game, one of the best offenses, and
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: 30th in starting rotation. So hard for a team that
• 31:30
  Speaker 1: doesn't spend recklessly to take care of all of that.
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: We just had a long segment with Sahadeh DeSharma, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: I just think it's an uphill climb. I don't think
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the Cubs are there as far as a team, especially
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: losing your, like, one of your captains and Ian Happ.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Like I think there's, there's a lot. Carson Kelly is
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: a free agent too. We didn't even get to him.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: Like there's a lot that they're, that they have to
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: for right now. I just don't think that numbers where
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: I would even come close to touching it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: One more for me, Todd father, the race of a
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: new ownership group. They're just a year in. Maybe they
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: do bring some people back or also spend a little
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: money in free agency. They're plus 2,200. That's the same
• 32:17
  Speaker 3: as the Guardians. The Red Sox are ahead of them.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: The Yankees are way ahead of them.
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: Scott, does the win the World Series?
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: I got you.
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: They never won. Yeah, but then why do the Yankees
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: get the plus 900 piece?
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: The Yankees are closer. How about that?
• 32:35
  Speaker 4: Todd? I don't know.
• 32:39
  Speaker 5: It's hard. Now, every time you see this, you've got
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: to take in two things. Well, obvious free agency and
• 32:47
  Speaker 5: injuries too. Like, is Judge going to be healthy? Is
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: Stanton going to be back pitching without Stanton? There's a
• 32:55
  Speaker 5: lot of unknowns. So, I think this is a little
• 32:59
  Speaker 5: bit early to kind of judge and figure out. But
• 33:04
  Speaker 5: if you're looking for like a bang for your buck,
• 33:05
  Speaker 5: maybe the Phillies get like two dogs that come in
• 33:08
  Speaker 5: and then it'll go up. So, that's why it's gambling.
• 33:12
  Speaker 5: I think Brewers are Plus 600? That's a good one
• 33:17
  Speaker 5: right now for me. That's something I'd be looking at
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: right there.
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: Yeah, young team, capable of repeating.
• 33:21
  Speaker 4: I feel like that's really high. I feel like it's high.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: What do you think it should be?
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I think it should be closer to what the Dodgers are,
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: plus 250.
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: Oh, you think it should be the other way, plus 250? Yeah.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I do. I really do.
• 33:35
  Speaker 5: They got everybody, pretty much everybody coming back. So, I mean,
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: who says that they don't make another run at this thing?
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: That could be your value pick then. You could six
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: X on that.
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: Cause it's really hard. Cause it's really hard to, it is.
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: Hard to repeat. Sure.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: Sure. All right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: Bet MGM players inside the bet MGM app. You might
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: have yourself a little, any sport parlay boost token. And
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: we know that does not include baseball, no more baseball
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: for a minute, but that can include football, basketball, hockey,
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: whatever's on there, right? Activate the token. If you win
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: the wager with that token, extra winnings, gambling, prom or
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: concern call 1-800-GAMBLER.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: Okay, Kratzy, here we are again, man. How many times
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: do we have to tell people to get the best
• 34:18
  Speaker 5: tickets in the house? Where do we got to go?
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: We got to go to SeatGeek. It's been worth it
• 34:22
  Speaker 5: so many times, so many years. The green light will
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: let you know when it is time to go and
• 34:28
  Speaker 5: the best seats available. The red will let you know
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: if it's not the best. Kratzy, tell them how easy
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: it is.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Todd, I know it's easy, but I'm looking for the
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: deals because that's what I do. Even so much, like
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: we're getting such a good deal. I want you to
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: come across the river. and we'll go to a Sixers
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: game together. I don't know where to sit in the stadium,
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: but it'll let me know that it's a perfect view
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: because I'm not a big NBA fan, but I gotta
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: go see the Sixers play with LeBron and the boys.
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: And of course I have a code for you all.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: You can use code TERRITORY10 for 10% off your next
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: set of tickets at SeatGeek. That's 10% of all tickets
• 35:03
  Speaker 5: with promo code TERRITORY10. Make sure you click the link
• 35:07
  Speaker 5: in the description to download the app and have the
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: code automatically added to your account so you can use
• 35:12
  Speaker 5: it later.
• 35:13
  Speaker 6: At the start of the 2026 Arizona Fall League, Major
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: League Baseball quietly started testing new outfield positioning rules. These
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: rules regulated where the outfielders could play, with corner outfields
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: starting much shallower and closer to the line and centerfielders
• 35:24
  Speaker 6: also starting shallower. The goal was to increase the offensive
• 35:27
  Speaker 6: output and especially more extra base hits in the gaps.
• 35:30
  Speaker 6: And to say that is what it has accomplished is
• 35:32
  Speaker 6: an understatement. Runs are up substantially with a 34% increase
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: compared to games at all other parks. In Salt River,
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: there's been an average of 15.9 runs per game. All
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: other parks are over four runs per game less. Doubles
• 35:46
  Speaker 6: are up 81% at Salt River, with an average of
• 35:49
  Speaker 6: almost five per game. The increase in triples has been
• 35:52
  Speaker 6: even more dramatic, with a 236% increase. There's been an
• 35:57
  Speaker 6: average of 2.2 triples per game in Salt River, but
• 36:00
  Speaker 6: if MLB's goal was to increase balls in play and
• 36:02
  Speaker 6: extra base hits, they are accomplishing that so far.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: Grats.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: I hate it.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: I hate it.
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: I hate helicopter parenting. I hate helicopter coaching. I hate helicopter–
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: let the players play the game however the heck they
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: want to play it. You want to create– well, let's
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: create more offense. Okay, well, let's move the mound back.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: Let's move it down. Let's do all these things. Like
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: I just am– I'm against it.
• 36:35
  Speaker 5: Kratzy, I love where you're at right now because it's
• 36:38
  Speaker 5: usually me saying how much I dislike some things. And
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: for you to start it off like that with your
• 36:45
  Speaker 5: jacket on, I freaking love it, man.
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: Awesome, awesome. What are we doing? Kratzy, that's what you
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: should have said. What are we doing?
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, what are we doing here? Yo, are we nickel
• 36:57
  Speaker 1: and diamond? Are we riding the wave? I should have
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: used some Todd phrases.
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: Oh, listen, my guy, okay? What are we doing out
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: there in the outfield?
• 37:08
  Speaker 5: I wish, you know, I'd still probably be playing right
• 37:11
  Speaker 5: now if that was the case, my guy.
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: Come on.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Well, it's like the whole shift thing. I remember talking
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: to Ryan Howard about it, and he was like, oh, man,
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: if they had banned the shift back in this day,
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I said, big piece. I was like, if they had
• 37:25
  Speaker 1: banned the shift, you could have made them ban the shift.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: You think you go four for four with four bunts
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: to the left side, they're going to stop at some point?
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: Nope.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: How about eight for eight? How about, like, you make
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the decisions that you make. I'm sorry. Like, I just,
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: why do we have to, oh, we want more action.
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: You want more injuries from pitchers, too? Like, is that fine? Like,
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: we're just overlooking that because these dudes got to throw
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: more pitches. Oh, we got to strike guys out more.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: So we're going to throw hard? Like, stop. Stop with that.
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: More free agents just emerging with, you know, options and
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: all kinds of stuff. So I think the list is
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: up to maybe in the one 30 something range, but, um,
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: Bob Nightingale posted some more that just hit it. Uh,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Zach Acklin, we talked about Sonny gray.
• 38:18
  Speaker 4: What's up. Uh, the name I keep looking at is,
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: is Michael King. He's very intriguing. Uh, that that's a
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: dude right there that can be a two or three
• 38:29
  Speaker 4: on any ball club.
• 38:31
  Speaker 5: So for me, I see all the names, uh, Could
• 38:35
  Speaker 5: there be a reunion back in New York?
• 38:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 38:38
  Speaker 5: I think their pitching's pretty good right now, but I just,
• 38:42
  Speaker 5: I like him a lot.
• 38:44
  Speaker 4: That's all.
• 38:44
  Speaker 5: And I think he could help any team out. He's just,
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: he's really chilled too. And he, you know, Kratzy, I
• 38:51
  Speaker 5: think I might've said this to you before. He kind
• 38:52
  Speaker 5: of has that Roy Halladay kind of throwing motion and
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: everything to him. So it's, I know you've probably heard
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: that before too, but it's a beautiful thing.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: I talked to him about it. I talked to him
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: about it and they both prepared the exact same way.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, it was, and I, I played with him
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: at the beginning of his career. Well, I mean, in
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: AAA and the big leagues, but just the way they
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: both went about it stuff. And I mean, his ball
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: is both directions.
• 39:19
  Speaker 4: Oh my God.
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Stay healthy this year and he's going to get paid.
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: Can I add one more, Tweets coming in here as
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: we're wrapping up the show for the weekend. Ken Rosenthal,
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: I think either– yeah, he said, Mariners still searching for
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: a manager, but they add C.J. Gilman as their hitting coach.
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: He comes up with that one with Spencer Nussbaum and
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: Chandler Rome all teaming up there. I'm always curious about
• 39:42
  Speaker 3: the hires. We're going to find out about the Mariners
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: any moment now. Why wouldn't you announce the manager first?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Aren't they involved in picking?
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Are they waiting? Come on.
• 39:52
  Speaker 4: For what?
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: Waiting for what? I mean, just for the rest of the.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Brewers celebration and then their Friday MLB 6 o'clock dump.
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: To say that they hired a manager?
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: That's what I mean. Isn't that a good thing?
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: It makes no sense, right? Like if Joe Espada is
• 40:14
  Speaker 3: your selection, what are you waiting on? You can make
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: your announcement today, and then you're hiring the hitting coach?
• 40:20
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't get it. Maybe there's more
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: in the story that I'm missing.
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: Maybe Jerry DiPoto is like, I am sick of seeing
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: what I've seen. I'm hiring a hitting coach, not the manager.
• 40:32
  Speaker 4: Crazy, man.
• 40:34
  Speaker 3: Publicly then, still just announce the manager first.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: How about Bobby McGill? You don't have to announce the
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: hitting coach first. Anyway.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: Well, it leaked, but still, I don't know. All right,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: let's slap. I'm going to do two Bob Nightingale tweets,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: one of our insiders. So first off, he said, Hall
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: of Fame catcher Ted Simmons said, I was asked about
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: the World Series title and what it means after losing
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: Game 7 in the 1982 World Series. He said it
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: was horrible. Never got over it. None of us did.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: We're now over it because this group has made it
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: happen for all of us. Robin Yount had similar comments.
• 41:21
  Speaker 3: So I think that's super cool. And then last one,
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: we got to shout this out, guys, because it is
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: so difficult to do. Bob Nightingale had a perfect bracket.
• 41:30
  Speaker 3: He picked everything right in the bracket for the entire postseason.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: And people do not waste time going after Bob anytime
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: they can. Including on predictions. Oh, that's the worst predictions ever.
• 41:39
  Speaker 3: Bob picked the perfect bracket.
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: God bless him. Bobby Bones. Good call, man. When you know,
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: you know.
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: He had the Rays beating the Yanks. He had the
• 41:50
  Speaker 3: Guardians getting to the ALCS. Bobby did it. How many
• 41:55
  Speaker 3: people had perfect brackets first try just now?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Good for you, Bobby. That's good. That's good. I thought
• 42:01
  Speaker 1: I did good, but I didn't do that good.
• 42:03
  Speaker 4: Perfect.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Perfect.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: Perfect.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: People came for him because he said Milwaukee in six,
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: not five.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: Oh, my. Shut up. No, it wasn't perfect. It wasn't
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: perfect overall. Yeah. Happy Halloween, people.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: Can't wait to see Todd Father Vicks.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Brew Crew. Love and life.