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AL midseason grades, MLB moving Rays playoff games? Guest host Whit! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: For me. That wouldn't be I could I could hit
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  Speaker 1: some home runs in the playoffs finally, so I wouldn't
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  Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be off four it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll take the over in that game. Whatever it said,
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  Speaker 2: I'll take the over. Happy Thursday, Welcome to the media
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  Speaker 2: with Mary Field. How you doing?
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  Speaker 1: What great?
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  Speaker 3: You?
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  Speaker 1: How you boys doing good? Good?
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  Speaker 2: AJ? You want to check in from your parts unknown?
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  Speaker 3: Well, no, I just want to know why wad is
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  Speaker 3: in the closet, Like, we can't get lights in the closet.
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  Speaker 3: I don't understand. It is a cool closet, but still
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  Speaker 3: we need.
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  Speaker 1: This is my locker. Oh yeah, yeah, we've moved, we
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  Speaker 1: moved spots. This is my locker. I got all my
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  Speaker 1: jerseys from uh little league to like my middle school
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  Speaker 1: football jersey, travel ball jerseys all the way to college
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  Speaker 1: and then through the big leagues. Pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's cool. I think I see the Brice jersey
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  Speaker 2: down there too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I got a whole wall here of Hagen jerseys.
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  Speaker 1: I got like AJ Prazinski, Eric Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: You got my microphone?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, exactly, I bring the homes. I got Jeter
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  Speaker 1: each Row, Ricky Henderson Kershaw, Eric Cosmer, Joe Mauer. I
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  Speaker 1: got a cool wall here, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So wait, welcome to media, Welcome to foul territory. He's
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  Speaker 2: not here as a guest, He's here to guest host
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  Speaker 2: with AJ and myself. Great guest lists coming up in
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too. But walk us through the retirement
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  Speaker 2: announcement the other day, the message messages that you received
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  Speaker 2: about it and from us, obviously, congrats man, what a career,
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  Speaker 2: three time all start, all kinds of accolades to go
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  Speaker 2: along with it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. I mean, I really I've known that
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  Speaker 1: retirement was gonna be in the cards since since playing
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  Speaker 1: last year. I just wasn't the same for me. My daughter,
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  Speaker 1: my first or my wife and I first child was
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  Speaker 1: born in March during the right in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: spring training last year, and just playing the year, I
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  Speaker 1: kind of, like I wrote in my little spiel that
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  Speaker 1: I was asked to put out but I just wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not good enough to show up and play and
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  Speaker 1: I had to there. I had to be a lot
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  Speaker 1: that went into it for me to be successful. My
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  Speaker 1: focus had to be on it all. My energy had
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  Speaker 1: to be geared towards it. My preparation needed to be
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  Speaker 1: at a level different than other people's because frankly, my
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  Speaker 1: talent wasn't on the same level as most people in
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  Speaker 1: the big league. So my daughter came about. My whole
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  Speaker 1: focus was different. The game became harder because I wasn't
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  Speaker 1: as prepared, and I just knew that that wasn't sustainable
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  Speaker 1: and that wasn't fair to to me, to my family,
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  Speaker 1: to my teammates. And so really last year I kind
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  Speaker 1: of knew that that was going to be the end
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  Speaker 1: for my playing career, and I'm I was totally cool.
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  Speaker 1: Did the game is trending in a way that's going
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  Speaker 1: away from players like myself, which is fine. It's you know,
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  Speaker 1: games evolved and the way games are played and viewed evolve,
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  Speaker 1: and that evolution, unfortunately wasn't good for me, but it's
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  Speaker 1: good for the game, I think. And uh so, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm happy to be on this side now. And I
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  Speaker 1: don't have to worry about a scouting report. All I
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  Speaker 1: gotta worry about is who we're talking to and what
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking to you guys about. I don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about sliders or two seams or splitters or or
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  Speaker 1: anything like that. So it's been a it's been a
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  Speaker 1: great transition for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, dude, it's been a great run. And it's way
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  Speaker 2: easier on this side. Obviously I don't have the playing experience,
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  Speaker 2: but take it from AJ or from anyone else. Right,
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  Speaker 2: AJ is really good at Like suddenly you watch the game,
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  Speaker 2: it looks a little easier and you can spend you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's money, a little bit easier to pick up players.
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  Speaker 3: Right, AJ, absolutely, absolutely much easier. Trust me. With the
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  Speaker 3: farther you get away from home plate, the easier the
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  Speaker 3: game is. You'll be sitting I guarantee you'll go to
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  Speaker 3: a game. Sometimes you'll be sitting in your luxe sweet
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  Speaker 3: that you'll get because you know the Royals will bring
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  Speaker 3: you back or the Braves or the Phillies or someone
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  Speaker 3: for some sort of reunion thing. You'll be sitting to
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  Speaker 3: me like, gosh, why couldn't that dude hit that slider?
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  Speaker 3: It's so easy when I played. Just never forget, I'll
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  Speaker 3: tell you this, Never forget how hard it was, and
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  Speaker 3: never forget that playing baseball is the hardest thing in
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  Speaker 3: the world to do.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, there's no question, And I don't imagine forgetting
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  Speaker 1: that anytime soon. That was honestly another reason. Well, another
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  Speaker 1: reason that I felt retirement was right for me was
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  Speaker 1: it took me so long to grind to get to
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  Speaker 1: the big leagues. I don't think a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: understand how difficult it was for me to kind of
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  Speaker 1: kick in that door. And then once I did, I
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  Speaker 1: had a good stretch of good play, and then the
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  Speaker 1: first kind of when I started struggling towards the end
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  Speaker 1: of twenty three in Toronto and got benched and then
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to play in the playoffs and didn't really
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  Speaker 1: get a lot of calls in the offseason as a
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  Speaker 1: free agent with the Philly as a bench roll, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't really have that drive to claw and scrap and
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  Speaker 1: grind my way back to being the player I was
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  Speaker 1: because this game is so hard, and I spent so
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  Speaker 1: much energy getting to where I was, I didn't think
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  Speaker 1: I could do it again.
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  Speaker 3: Two things, But do you think that you know as
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  Speaker 3: a bench players, as a utility guy, it's harder to
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  Speaker 3: find a job because teams want to give it to
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  Speaker 3: the younger guys, and you can't have it like even
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  Speaker 3: a blip on the radar as far as your numbers go, right,
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  Speaker 3: because they just want to get rid of it. They
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  Speaker 3: want to get rid of the veteran guys and went
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  Speaker 3: all young guys because the young guys, oh, we can
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  Speaker 3: pay them seven to fifty, or we can pay a
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  Speaker 3: wit Mayfield a few million, and they feel like they
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  Speaker 3: can get the same value. Even though I disagree totally
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  Speaker 3: with that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's definitely a new way they to view it,
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  Speaker 1: and I disagree along with you that it's there. There's
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  Speaker 1: so much that goes into being a bench role that
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  Speaker 1: the numbers, sure numbers just can't quantify. I mean, as
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  Speaker 1: a bench guy when you're not playing every day one
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  Speaker 1: you're right, you better get off to a good start
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  Speaker 1: and have a good base with good numbers, or you're
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna be You're gonna always be looked at as
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  Speaker 1: you know, this guy is not a good player. He's
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  Speaker 1: hitting a buck fifty, he's sitting two hundred. You might
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  Speaker 1: only have seventy at bats, and most guys go through
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  Speaker 1: stretches of fifty to seventy at bats where they're not
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  Speaker 1: playing well. And as a bench guy, those numbers linger
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  Speaker 1: longer because you don't get the the uh, you're not
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  Speaker 1: in there as much, so you don't get a chance
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  Speaker 1: to build on that as much. But but yeah, the
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  Speaker 1: the value that a bench guy brings, you almost don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like you gotta have the right mindset because you
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  Speaker 1: almost don't feel like you're a part of the team
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  Speaker 1: a lot of times, because guys are running out there
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  Speaker 1: and playing every day and you're just kind of off
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  Speaker 1: to the side. You know, there, guys are having conversation
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  Speaker 1: about what's going on the game, and you almost don't
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  Speaker 1: feel like you're a part of it because you weren't
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  Speaker 1: in the game. And so you got to have that
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  Speaker 1: the right mentality and the right kind of attitude towards
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  Speaker 1: being a bench guy. That it's a it's a hard
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  Speaker 1: thing to do and a hard thing to have. And
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  Speaker 1: I've been teammates with guys that were incredible bench guys,
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  Speaker 1: and then I've been teammates with guys that that weren't
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  Speaker 1: bad teammates or bad guys, they just weren't good at
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  Speaker 1: being bench guys. And so there is a almost a
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to say, well, there is a special skill,
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  Speaker 1: because you've got to be able to sit for a
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  Speaker 1: week and then go in and perform at a high level.
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  Speaker 1: But there's just a special kind of guy that can
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  Speaker 1: do it and a really really special kind of guy
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  Speaker 1: that can play every day and then transition to that
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  Speaker 1: role and I just wasn't I wasn't that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, So I have two questions for you, now, how
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  Speaker 3: much golf are you going to be able to play?
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  Speaker 3: I guess this's kind of three questions. How much golf
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  Speaker 3: are you gonna be able to play? Is your wife
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  Speaker 3: sick of you being home here? Because that was the
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  Speaker 3: biggest thing once I retire. My wife is like, you
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  Speaker 3: got to get out of the house because you're driving
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  Speaker 3: me crazy. And the last thing is who's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a better broadcaster? Media? Got you or your former
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  Speaker 1: Uh one not playing as much golf as I would
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  Speaker 1: like to be. My daughter is is very she's she's awesome,
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  Speaker 1: she's so much fun, but she is a very high
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  Speaker 1: knees baby. She needs attention all the time. And so no,
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  Speaker 1: my wife is not sick of me being home yet
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  Speaker 1: because my daughter needs all sorts of attention. And Jackie's great, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: jack Jackie's done a great job. I got to listen
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  Speaker 1: to it a couple of times. Jackie's a little, a
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  Speaker 1: little soft spoken when I'm sure he'll come out of
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  Speaker 1: his show a little bit. But uh I I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I would, I don't know. We'll see, we'll see what happens.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to get a chance to to call some
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  Speaker 1: games and see how that goes for me. But Jackie's
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  Speaker 1: done a good job, so it's a high bar for me.
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  Speaker 2: Ay j. He's the first one to officially be in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, good for him and him and we had our
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  Speaker 3: first actual other guy, say Junior cam Anio. But Lacuna
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  Speaker 3: is going to put on the show. It's at home too,
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  Speaker 3: that's the thing. It's in Itllano. So they got to
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  Speaker 3: get somebody from the hometown team to do it. And
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  Speaker 3: who better than Akunya. I mean we know this. I mean.
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  Speaker 3: The only thing is he's not gonna be able to
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  Speaker 3: do is trotter on the bases after you, So it
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  Speaker 1: This guy's got more juice. This guy's got more juice
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  Speaker 1: than anybody that I've ever seen. I didn't. I didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to take the people the last year when I
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  Speaker 1: was with the Braves, but he was with me in
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  Speaker 1: twenty eighteen in the Japan All Star series Wins Japan
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  Speaker 1: when he was just a rookie, and I was like,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is just flipping balls out to left center
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  Speaker 1: like a left hand, so I'm sorry to right center
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  Speaker 1: like a left and he was righty and he was
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  Speaker 1: like on nineteenth at the time, just easy juice. How
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  Speaker 1: he's gonna have a lot of ajournal and going playing
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  Speaker 1: or doing it in front of the hometown team. So
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  Speaker 1: I expect a big show from him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, easy win there. You're like, as long as he's
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  Speaker 2: feeling good back healthy, which he clearly is. I mean
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  Speaker 2: he's been on a tear at the plate. The only
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  Speaker 2: thing you're not seeing from him is the amount of
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  Speaker 2: stolen bases. I think that's a given as to why
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  Speaker 2: we're seeing that right now. But besides that, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: he's been a monster his first month back. So we'll
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  Speaker 2: see you Kunya at the All Star Game. In the derby.
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  Speaker 2: He'll probably be in the All Star Game too. We'll
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  Speaker 2: be there too. Charge about all right? Let's charge. So
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  Speaker 2: the dream for some of you that like to troll
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  Speaker 2: the League of the A's and the Rays matching up
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  Speaker 2: in the ALCS unlikely, but the Rays making a run
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs could happen. They are off to an
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  Speaker 2: awesome start and the latest year from Ken Rosenthaler, FT
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  Speaker 2: senior insider, MLB and the Rays have engaged in preliminary
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  Speaker 2: conversations about where the team would play home games if
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  Speaker 2: the Rays made the playoffs. They only seed about ten
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  Speaker 2: thousand in George steinbern Er Field, home of the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: exhibition and spring training action. So the Rays have been
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  Speaker 2: playing there. They're on an absolute heater. They sell out
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  Speaker 2: almost every game down there in Tampa. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to hop across the Causeway. That's been well documented on
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  Speaker 2: this show. But AJ, what do you think about the
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  Speaker 2: controversy here? Because if they do figure something out, then
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  Speaker 2: the Rays obviously are going to be pissed because they're
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  Speaker 2: going to be playing in a neutral site in the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: Where are they going to go? That's what I want
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  Speaker 3: to know. Where they going to go? Where do they go?
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  Speaker 3: Do they go to Miami? But there's no Miami fans,
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  Speaker 3: Tampa fans are going to drive to Miami. Do they
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  Speaker 3: go to back to the trap? The Troup can't handle
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  Speaker 3: it right, they go to Atlanta if they're not in
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  Speaker 3: the playoffs, that's the question. Where do you go? I
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  Speaker 3: mean just keep them there. I'm sorry it's going to
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  Speaker 3: hurt revenues for you guys, but you know what, it
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  Speaker 3: was a natural disaster. It wasn't like this was something
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  Speaker 3: like Oakland going to Sacramento so then they could hopefully
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  Speaker 3: get to Vegas one day. This was a natural disaster hurricane.
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  Speaker 3: So it this sucks for Rays fans more than anything,
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  Speaker 3: and raise employees and race players and everything just not cool.
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  Speaker 2: It's the league's call, though, as you know well being
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  Speaker 2: on the rules committee. This is another one of those
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  Speaker 2: situations where the PA can get involved and the players
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  Speaker 2: can get involved with their take, right, and even the
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  Speaker 2: players on the Rays can be like, hey, we want
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  Speaker 2: to play in front of this crowd that's been supporting
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  Speaker 2: us all year. But there it looks like there's a
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  Speaker 2: chance that the early rounds could be okay, But especially
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  Speaker 2: once you get to ALCS, if the Rays are there,
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  Speaker 2: it's almost definitely going to get moved for a variety
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  Speaker 2: of factors. Playoff share is obviously one of them. But
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  Speaker 2: the way TV sets up for those types of games,
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  Speaker 2: they have to give out for the World Series about
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  Speaker 2: seventy five hundred ticket's a little less for CS, but
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  Speaker 2: it's still thousands, so that's not gonna work.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's just a it's a it's a sucky situation,
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  Speaker 1: especially in Tampa because it's not really anybody's fault in Tampa.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I guess you could say that they could
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  Speaker 1: have they should have built a new stadium in Tampa
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  Speaker 1: years ago, but I mean, the Troup just got destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: It's not like Oakland where it was just mismanaged from
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  Speaker 1: from ownership, from the from the jump. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: the Troupe got destroyed, so it's like, what do you do?
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  Speaker 1: And then they've had you know, they've had to play
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  Speaker 1: at Stybrunner Field, which again they've they've probably gotten better
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  Speaker 1: attendance than they would have at the Trot but you're
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  Speaker 1: still you're playing at a spring training site. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a you don't have that big league feel to it.
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  Speaker 1: So I know those guys, I know I feel for
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  Speaker 1: those guys. And then you get to the playoff conversation
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  Speaker 1: and the thing that's gonna perk the player's ears up
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  Speaker 1: more than anything is the playoff share. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: have but ten thousand people that you can get into
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  Speaker 1: the gate, your playoff share is not gonna be what
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  Speaker 1: it should be. So yeah, it's a weird situation. But
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  Speaker 1: like like AJ said, if you go to Atlanta, you're
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna have less than probably ten thousand people at
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  Speaker 1: that game. And if you do, they're not gonna be
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  Speaker 1: really Tampa fans. They're just gonna be there to wat games.
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  Speaker 1: So it's not going to be a good atmosphere. And
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, I wonder if they've kicked the tires down
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  Speaker 1: the road of doing something at Raymond James. I know
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  Speaker 1: there's an overlap with football, but I think that would
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  Speaker 1: be really cool if they could somehow figure it out
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  Speaker 1: that if Tampa got in, they could kind of like
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  Speaker 1: they used to do in Oakland and a couple other places,
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  Speaker 1: where they would have the football and baseball they would share.
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  Speaker 1: If there was a way you could have a makeshift
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  Speaker 1: baseball field and Raymond James, even if it wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: best field in the world, I would think that would
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  Speaker 1: be better than some alternatives They did it in Miami
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  Speaker 1: or Atlanta.
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  Speaker 3: They did it with by the way, the Savannah Bananas
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  Speaker 3: did it, and left field was like two hundred feet.
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  Speaker 3: If not, it might not even have been two hundred feet.
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  Speaker 3: It was like one hundred and eighty feet to left
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  Speaker 3: or the right field. So I mean, sure, I'm sure
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  Speaker 3: they would. The Yankees rais and Aaron Judge is like,
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  Speaker 3: oh man, it's one hundred and seventy two feet to
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  Speaker 3: left field.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't think about that. Yeah, I mean it's just
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: you know, it's it just kind of popped them out,
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: like that's this an area in Tampa where you can
• 16:04
  Speaker 1: pack people in and it's outdoors and you can do whatever.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: But yeah, if it's one hundred and eighty feet the left,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I mean for me, that wouldn't be I could I
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: could hit some home runs in the playoffs finally, so
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't. I'd be I'd be all four it.
• 16:18
  Speaker 2: I'll take the over in that game, whatever it said,
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I'll take the over. You know they had the last
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: time the Rays were in the playoffs, which was two
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: years ago, and then they had a run for that.
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: I think they've made the playoffs in five the last
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: six years, so if you go to two years ago,
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, they went a little bit viral in
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: the wildcard round AJA remember that they were playing against
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: the Rangers. Rangers dusted them and went on to win
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: the World Series. The crowd for those two games nineteen
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: thousand and seven oh four, and if you do the
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: eye test, it was lower than that in twenty thousand
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: and one ninety eight at the traps and those were
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: day games. But whatever, I mean, it's playoffs. It was
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: a poor showing. I mean, obviously you're selling out in
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: Tampa right now, still only getting you to ten and
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: a half thousand, But it's not that much of a
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: difference for the early rounds.
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: No, no, it's not. And it's the ten The ten
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: thousand there will probably feel better. It'll probably be a
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: better atmosphere than two thirds of the trop full. So
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: it's just like I said at the at the beginning,
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: it's just a sucky situation. But you know, I'm glad
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: they're talking about it now. I'm sure they'll be come
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: up with the best solution that they can. Hopefully they
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: listen to the people. Hopefully MLB listens to the players
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that are actually going through it and get engauged from
• 17:37
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent off your first order. Well, you know what
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: the league is really rooting for. I mean just to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: be real because on this kind of factor, it's not
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: the biggest market and it's a mess this year. I'm
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: just hoping they he'll meet to the CS for one
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: year to get by, because if they get to the CS, yeah,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: it's going to be the storyline that dominates. And the
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: one thing to go against the natural disaster part is
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: that place is like saran wrap covering it. I mean,
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: I've been to the trap, You've been there a million
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: times with that. That place should have been retired ten
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: years ago, and they've been talking about a new ballpark
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: for a quarter century and they haven't figured it out.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: So finally I think mother Nature stepped in and punched them.
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously it was terrible tragedy that went down
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: there with the hurricane, but it's like mother Nature showing
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: how frail that ballpark was and that it shouldn't be
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: a major league ballpark anymore. At the very least, they
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: needed to massively redo it. So I do blame you know, administration,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: league ownership the whole deal. And we've talked a lot
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: about how Stu Sternberg is an exclusive talks with one group.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: There's another group making a bid, so hopefully that happens,
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: so they can move this forward because now as a
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Florida resident, I want to see a better baseball setup.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: They're making Florida look bad right now. I mean, we
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: could have a better baseball setup, whether it's in Tampa
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: or AJ's favorite Orlando.
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: I think I I think if this season shows anything,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: you got people coming up showing up to a spring
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: training park to watch it, to watch a game, and
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: better numbers than was when they would go to a
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: big league park at the Trot or a big league
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: park at the trop So I mean, why this this
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: should be the deciding factor, Like, hey, look it works.
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: If we build a place in Tampa, people are gonna
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: show up. They'll have great attendance if they build a
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: spot in Tampa. Tampa is a great city. It's a
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: really cool city and it's got a great outdoor vibe
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: to it. And if you put a ballpark there, I mean,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: it would kill it. I don't, I don't. I don't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: get the hold up. I mean money always hold up.
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: But you know it would. I think you would over
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: as much as it more as it would cost you
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: to build. I think you would you would get that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: back and then some in no time. If you built
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: it in Tampa.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: I'm totally with you, dude. I mean, we've talked about
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: it a lot on here, and hopefully the new group
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: can figure that out. Tampa is just probably not going
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: to give the same amount of money towards the whole project,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: but who cares. I mean, look at the Lightning. It's
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: been a great example there. All right, let's let's get
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: to a couple of things from last night. First off, AJ,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: are you're back with this?
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I think you're frozen, dude.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: We'll work on and I think I'm not just forever.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah. AJ is doing the show from an airport today,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: and it's also an international airport outside the country airport,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: so it's not necessarily going to be the smoothest Wi
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: Fi take a swig while Witt tells me about his
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: former teammate Zach Wheeler, who was dominating all year really
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: but yesterday him and Ranger Suarez last two nights were
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: great against the Astros. They lost him booth though, because
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: the Astro is pitching is South. They've been on fire too,
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: and Josh Hater quietly is twenty one for twenty one
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: in saves. But thoughts on those two this year.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: They're just they're They're everything that you want a starting pitcher.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: They're consistent, they're calm, they're poised, they're nasty, they're durable.
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: I know Rangers been hurt at the start of this year,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: but I think it's the maybe like one of the
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: first times he's ever been hurt. So they're everything that
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: you want to starting pitchers. They're clutch that they've both
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: been proven to be amazing pictures in the postseason late
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: in the postseason. So, uh, I can't say enough about him.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: And they're they're fun teammates too.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah. We did the story the other day that I
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: think mac el brought on Zach Wheeler. Wait and how
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: he's not the biggest workout guy. Huh, not a big weightlifter. No.
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: Uh. Funny story about Wheeler real quick is is when
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: he signed his extension, he loves raising kines, right, So
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: we got a whole schmorgasport of raisin canes for him
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: and spring training and had it had a big spread
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: for him. And so when I went when I left
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: Philly went to Atlanta, we were facing Wheeler. I went
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: in Atlanta, I go to the raisin canes down the street,
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: and I get a thing of raising kings and send
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: over to him before he pitches. But before I send it,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I take a bite out of every single chicken finger
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: that was in the box. I send it over to him.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: Then he didn't like that very much.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: That's great. Jacob de Gram was awesome yesterday. So I
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: do want to shout out him dominating and also the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: durability we're seeing from him. Aj we haven't heard about
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: any hiccups so far.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Would he have if he didn't give up the hit?
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: Would he have been able to finish that? That's what
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: I want to know. Will never know. But he was
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: into the seventh he was only mid eighties pitches. Let's
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: say he goes one, two, three in the eight Does
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Bochi run him out there for the ninth? That's I
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: don't know, that's the question. But he's nasty. I mean,
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: he's like the old Jacob Grom from like six seventy eight,
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: ten years ago, and you know people are like, oh,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: his velo's down. Listen, he was still throwing ninety nine
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: to one hundred in that seventh inning last night.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they would have let him eat just
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: based on you know, he's as mid thirties might not
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: have another chance to do that. And I think it
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: was eighty nine pitches, so I mean it could have
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: gotten dicey real fast. There might have taken one twenty
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: five to one thirty.
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: But what's amazing is that was his deepest no hitter
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: he's ever gone. You would have thought Jacoby Grohn would
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: have been into the ninth, eighth, ninth before. That was
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: the deepest one he's ever had. That's what's crazy to me.
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is I mean, this is what Texas signed
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: up for when they when they signed up to get him.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: The question has always been his durability, but when he's healthy,
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: he's always been who he is and that's an elite,
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: elite pitcher.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he is definitely still that guy. And on the
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: other end, the Orioles have been no hit through seven
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: innings I think three times in the past week, and
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: through six innings I think four times in the past week.
• 24:44
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  Speaker 2: the Weeds. Let's hit some grades halfway through the season
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: for the American League. We'll cover National League a different day,
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: and we're going off of CBS Sports dot Com. Putting
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: an article together because we like to at least see
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: a list from another publication and then comment on some
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: parts that we like some that we maybe don't like.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Aj From the grades that you're looking at right now,
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: I think I can see one that stands out to you.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: They've got the White Sox receiving a B. And I'll
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: give you a little bit of context before you probably
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: let a rip. They said, yep, they're terrible, but they
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: basically were saying how you could make a case that
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: they were expected to be even worse than their record
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: breaking season last year. They did ditch Getor Crochet, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: they pointed to some players that could be a part
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: of the core of next you know, a better White
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Sox team. So they said, better than expecting on the field,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: plus young players establishing themselves is a bee for them.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: I would have gone to see it the most. Yes,
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: there are some nice young players. They've made some good trades,
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: but when you're treating assets like Garrett Crochet, you better
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: get good players back. Right. They're also on pace for
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: fifty two wins this year, better than forty one like
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: they won last year. But they're still in place to
• 27:03
  Speaker 3: lose one hundred and ten games, So yeah, where there's
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: some some bright spots you can look at and say, Okay,
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: well they this and that. But again, like I said
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: going in the ear, they were never going to be
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: as bad as they were last year because they set
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: the all time record last year. I think a C
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: is where they're at because they haven't had the development.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: Luis Robert hasn't had the development. Now micguil Vargas has
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: gone better, but you know some other guys haven't had
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: the development. Andrew Vaughn's gone now. I'm supposed to be
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: a big part of this team. So yes, where I
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: see the see the upgrades, I also think it's too
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: early to judge, and I mean to see it would
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: have been average because they weren't going to be as
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: bad as they were last year. I'm sorry, they just weren't.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: It couldn't have gone as wrong as it went.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: Wait, I'll throw some other grades out there and then
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: let me know one that you either really like or
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: don't like. They've got the Angels with a B, the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: A's with a D, the Orioles with an F, the
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Red Sox with a C. The Guardians got to see
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: the Royals get a C. The Angels got to B.
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: The Mariners get to see Rays get an a. Jay's
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: got a B. Rangers get to see Astros at an A.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: I'll touch on the Orioles, I think, well, before I
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: do that, I do want to touch on the White
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Sox and give a shout out to Shane Smith. And
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: I think that's a big reason why they might have
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: gotten to be because you find someone like that who
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: is could be your front end starter kind of out
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: of nowhere. I think that's a good find. He was
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: my brother's college roommate, so I'm a little biased, but
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: he's a stud. So nice job Shane, keep shoving. But
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: the Orioles, Yeah, I mean, what a disappointment. But at
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the same time, I think that's just that that's why
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: baseball is such a volatile sport. It just it just
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: varies year by year. You just don't know what's gonna
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: happen year by year. And that's why I have such
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: a big problem with with a lot of teams going
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: all in for the future and and did I get
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: there's you got to play for the future a little
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: bit and and have some guys coming up, but you
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: don't know what's gonna happen year by year. I mean,
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: the Orioles were a front runner this year and guys
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: are are playing well, and that's what happens in baseball.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: So that's why I'm always such a big component on
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: if you have a chance to win, go and win
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: this year, because you never know what's gonna happen next year.
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: The Orios looking back on last year, probably wish they
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: would have made a couple more moves to put themselves
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: in a better chance to move forward and move forward
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. So yeah, I think in F is
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: a proper grade for them.
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: Yeah, for me to take better their second half last
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: year was great. To me, they're an F. But you
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: know what why they're an F not I don't want
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: to put this on the players. The players aren't playing great.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: The situation is n F. Sacramento has been an F.
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: What they've had to deal with has been an F.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: The players are starting to pop off about it, So
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: to me, it's not really I mean, it's a whole
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: organizational grade and that's why they would be an F
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: for me, as well as the players could handle this,
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: it's it's an impossible situation. They're in.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: The Astros get an A and I'm I'm with them
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: on that one. From CBS handing that out, you're not
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: operasons and played since May second. He's still out with
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: that hand injury. I guess you could ding them a grade,
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: maybe give an a minus because they haven't handled that
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: injury well and medical staff is part of your team
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: or whoever is making those calls. But Alto, they had
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: a slow start. Now he's picked it up, really got
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: what Hunter Brown and fran Bervaldez who were awesome, but
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: a ton of injuries and question marks in the back
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: end of the rotation. And yet they lose Bregman with
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: they lose Kyle Tucker. They look like they're going to
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: win the division. I know there's a long way to go,
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: but it's a pretty impressive record for what they've dealt
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: with in the first half of the year.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And you know, the big piece they
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: got in Christian Walker is hasn't even gotten hot yet,
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: and so I think that's a I think they're in
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: a good spot. And I think when some of these
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: pieces start coming back, you get yourd on back, you
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: get some guys playing better than you get Walker going,
• 30:50
  Speaker 1: it's going to be a gonna be a tough team
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: for anybody in the West to compete with.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they what about the Jays? They gave them b
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: I thought that was pretty fair. I mean, Jimenez and
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: Santander have done, you know, almost nothing offensively, especially Santander
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: compared to what he did a year ago. Yet they're
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: they're balling.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: We talked to Dalton our show, uh recently here and
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: starting to see the pop come back for Bo. Are
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: you buying what the Blue Jays are selling here?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: They're they're a fun team. They're they're a lot of
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: fun to watch and and I think a beast probably
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: are proper grade. And it's only because of of those
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: two guys that you mentioned not playing the way they
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: can't play. You got Bo's playing good, He's playing good.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: George's back to playing like George. Dalton has been great
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: when Dalton's been able to to be in the lineup. Kirk,
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He's playing awesome. Yeah, guy like Heineman, who's who's killing
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: it as as the backup catcher Ernie Clements having it
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: just a dynamite year, like you just go. All those
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: guys are just they're doing their part. Addison Bargers came
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: out of nowhere and and had some really big hits
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for him. So yeah, I think I think if if
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: you got uh Jimenez and sometimes they're doing that have done,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: if they would have done anything to this point, really
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: it'd be an easy A for me.
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: Aj one more for the c's that were given out,
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: any that you think should be higher lower guardian C Mariners,
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: see Rangers.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: See no, because they all have problems. The Rangers can't hit,
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: they've been pitching better, their bullpend. We kind of thought
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: it was going to be a mess. The Mariners. Listen,
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: if it wasn't for cal Rawley, they could be a
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: D because he's carried them. It's just a lot of
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: these are easy because you know, expectations are put on teams.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: And by the way, the Astros should be an A
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: because what they've done with Jeremy Payne, they've turned them
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: into one of the best players in the game and
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: the growth he's shown along with some other guys. I mean, listen,
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: Joe A. Spotta has done a great job with those Astros.
• 32:48
  Speaker 3: So listen, cas are easy to give out. But I mean,
• 32:51
  Speaker 3: right now, we're halfway there. Let's let's let's let's reevaluate
• 32:55
  Speaker 3: hearing about the end of July, when the trade deadline hits,
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: then we'll really see. Because what great did the Twins get?
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: I don't know. Hold on, I don't think I wrote
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: that one down. But probably not great. I mean, you know,
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: it's like I mentioned, aside from that thirteen game win streak,
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: see they got to see see.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: My question is is, and I'll be quick on this,
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: but Carlos Korea keeps coming out and saying we're not prepared,
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: We're not prepared. What does that mean? What does that mean?
• 33:21
  Speaker 3: As a player, We're not prepared. Our preparation's not great.
• 33:24
  Speaker 3: Everyone prepares for games different ways. Every player prepares a
• 33:27
  Speaker 3: different way. I guarantee you I prepared, different than the
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: way Wit prepared, the way Todd Frazier prepared, the way
• 33:32
  Speaker 3: Aircraft's prepared, the way Ross Strippling prepares. So how can
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: you look at everybody and say, oh, they all need
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: to prepare like Carlos Korea. Well, he prepares, to guarantee
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: you differently than I prepared. But I went out and
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: performed as best I could every night, and he's doing
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: the same thing. So I don't know. I think, to me,
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: they could have been a little bit lower.
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if he's clashing with some guys behind
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: the scenes that you know, he's trying to push and
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: they're like, yo, I'm not seeing the prep the same
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: way you are. I wonder if there's a bigger story
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: to that. Yeah, Carlos is intense, but uh, anyway, topic
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: for another day. Hey, one minute to go till we're
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: back for the TV crowd.
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: Two.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Max Monsey picked up six RBI's yesterday, four from a
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: Granny and two from Mother Nature or just the Rockies
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: being the Rockies, which one? Aj?
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: I mean this is These are the two greatest RBIs
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: of Max Munsey's career. I'm sorry. The fact that everyone
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: was leaving. There's two outs, like we got to finish this,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: and he hits a pop up that doesn't go. I
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: don't even know if this goes what one hundred feet?
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: Maybe second base is like I got a nope, I
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: don't And then the best of the first baseman never
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: sees it, almost hits them on top of his dome,
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: you know, and that they got to give it a
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: hit because nobody saw it, and it's two RBI. Knock Max,
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: next time you come on the greatest two RBIs of
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: your life, of your career happened, right, I mean, look
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: almost it's totally in the head and then they bring
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: the tart out. But thank you.
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: If you're Max Munsey, it's the greatest RBIs ever.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, as if the Rockies needed an excuse to give
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: up a couple more runs and it's just been that
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: kind of year. What'd you think today? Did you have
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: a good time?
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah, great time, Thank you, Thank you all for having me.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: And hey, I'm around so if you want to do
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: it again, give me a shout.
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this was fun, ft fam, hope you enjoyed it.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow Friday. Uh AJ, safe travels. You
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: survived doing a show from an international airport.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: I've done on cruise ship international airport, so I'm all
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: over the place and.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: A perfect way to go out here as the bathroom
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: door opens one last time. You can stay by AJ.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: We'll see AJ on on Monday in Vegas. We'll have
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: all those guys we talked about, like Chef and Dexter
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: and whatever joining us on the show. Hod and uh
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: kipness with us on tomorrow's show. Spender, Schwellenbach and Rosenthal
• 35:48
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