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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo. And Alana,
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Speaker 1: we've got a lot of Pennant Race action to discuss,
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Speaker 1: and I want to start off by talking about one
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Speaker 1: of my favorite things every September, unknown players contributing in
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Speaker 1: a big way to Pennant Race contenders. And who am
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Speaker 1: I talking about. Let's just use the al Wes as
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Speaker 1: an example. Leo Reevis sign is a minor free agent
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Speaker 1: January twenty twenty three for the Mariners. Last night walk
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Speaker 1: off home run Leo Reevis Jason Alexander, thirty two years old,
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Speaker 1: undrafted free agent Houston picks him up seven scoreless for
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Speaker 1: the Astros last night and a huge win against the
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays. And finally, Michael Hellman Texas Rangers. Weaver claim
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Speaker 1: in May two huge homers against the Brewers in the
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Speaker 1: Rangers sweep this week. More of this fun is coming, Alana,
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Speaker 1: but we've got some serious stuff to discuss as well.
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Speaker 1: We do.
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Speaker 2: Ken great to be with you is always on this Thursday. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: they're looking to the young guns to make things happen
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Speaker 2: for them, but when you look at the other teams
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Speaker 2: ken that are typically perennial postseason contenders. You have to
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Speaker 2: think just when things are going great, they went bad.
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Speaker 2: Tell me more about the Mets situation.
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Speaker 1: The Mets were at one point this season the talk
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Speaker 1: of baseball. They were forty five and twenty four early June.
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Speaker 1: They look like the best team in the majors. Their
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Speaker 1: record was the best in the majors. And then the
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Speaker 1: rotation disintegrated and now they are looking at a real problem.
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Speaker 1: You could see on June twelfth, where they were best
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Speaker 1: record in the majors. Their rotation at that time was
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Speaker 1: the best by ERA and now it ranks twenty fourth
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Speaker 1: in the ERA. I shouldn't say now, since then it's
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Speaker 1: twenty fourth in the RA. And you see their record
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Speaker 1: since June thirteenth, the fourth worst in baseball. Their lead
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Speaker 1: in the Wildcard race is down to two games and
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Speaker 1: effectively over the Reds. It's one game because the Reds
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Speaker 1: hold the tiebreaker. The Giants are also two games back.
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Speaker 1: But the Mets, as they approached the finale of their
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Speaker 1: series in Philadelphia tonight, they've lost the first three games
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Speaker 1: of this series. They are in a position that they
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Speaker 1: never wanted to be in and they are looking if
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Speaker 1: this doesn't turn around, then if they can't hold on
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Speaker 1: at one of the most disappointing seasons in their history.
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Speaker 1: Joe Sherman of The New York Post has written about this.
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Speaker 1: He has basically asked the question, would this be the
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Speaker 1: most disappointing team, because of course they've spent three hundred
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Speaker 1: and forty million on this club, brought in Juan Soto,
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Speaker 1: signed some starting pitchers, and yet here they are life
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Speaker 1: and death to reach the postseason, not exactly allow on
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Speaker 1: what they had in mind.
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Speaker 3: No doubt about that. And across town.
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Speaker 2: Can the New York Yankees we thought I wrote them off,
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Speaker 2: I said they're not even gonna make the postseason?
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Speaker 3: Shows you what the heck? I know what's going on
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Speaker 3: with the Yanks.
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Speaker 1: The Yankees look like they were in good shape a
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Speaker 1: week ago, actually a couple of days ago. What happened?
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Speaker 1: They started off that Houston Toronto six game set by
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Speaker 1: going four and two. Then they had Detroit, and of
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Speaker 1: course they've got another tough series in back of this one,
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Speaker 1: and yet in the first two games against Detroit their
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Speaker 1: bullpen has fallen apart. They again raise all these questions
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Speaker 1: that look to be resolved. Their bullpen was the thing
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Speaker 1: that they fix the most at the trade deadline, and
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Speaker 1: yet except for Bednar, it remains something of a mess.
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Speaker 1: It's inconsistent, to say the least. And I don't know
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Speaker 1: where it's going with the Yankees right now. The division
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Speaker 1: looks pretty much out of reach. They're three games back,
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Speaker 1: as are the Red Sox of the Toronto Blue Jays,
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Speaker 1: and they've got a series against the Red Sox coming up,
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Speaker 1: and that series is going to be really important toward
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Speaker 1: determining which team would have home field advantage in the
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Speaker 1: wildcard round, if indeed that's how this ends up, and
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Speaker 1: it's certainly trending that way. You just look at the
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Speaker 1: standings here. The Yankees and Red Sox both up two
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Speaker 1: and a half games over the Mariners in the wildcard race.
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Speaker 1: They hold commanding positions. In other words, it's just a
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Speaker 1: matter of which one finishes ahead of the other. And
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Speaker 1: as for the rest of the wildcard race, you see
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Speaker 1: what's going on there. The Rangers are a game and
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Speaker 1: a half and back of the Mariners. The Mariners, in turn,
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Speaker 1: are only a game back of the Houston Astros in
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Speaker 1: the Ale West, so we could be looking at a
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Speaker 1: hugely wild finish in the West. But for the Yankees
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Speaker 1: and the Red Sox, it's going to be a question of, all, right,
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Speaker 1: where does this series start and that series. You can
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Speaker 1: make the case either way. Yankees prefer being at home,
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Speaker 1: Red Sox prefer being at home. Maybe the Yankees be
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Speaker 1: better off on the road so their fans don't turn
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Speaker 1: on them if things go awry, But no, I would
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Speaker 1: expect that every team in the postseason, in the wildcard
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Speaker 1: picture would prefer to be at home. It's as simple
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Speaker 1: as that. Comfortable and all the things that come with
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Speaker 1: playing at home.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you always hear about I get to sleep in
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Speaker 2: my own bed. That makes a big difference. Ken, you
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Speaker 2: were talking about the Rangers and the Astros in the
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Speaker 2: Al West. The Rangers lost all of their studs, yet
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Speaker 2: here they are we're still talking about them in terms
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Speaker 2: of a possible postseason contender.
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Speaker 1: I mentioned Cody Freeman is another one. Dustin Harris had
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Speaker 1: a big hit for them last week, and Asuna has
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Speaker 1: been also a contributor. Young guy. It's incredible what has
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Speaker 1: happened with their team. For I would say five months,
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Speaker 1: they were arguably the most disappointing team in baseball at
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Speaker 1: least right there with the Braves. My other World Series pick,
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Speaker 1: by the way, this year, Rangers and Braves had that workout,
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Speaker 1: but because of all the injuries they had in late August,
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Speaker 1: Simeon Evaldi Seger, you thought there's no way they're done,
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Speaker 1: and yet they've drawn energy from those players I just mentioned,
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Speaker 1: the younger, less experienced players. They're going to get Seger
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Speaker 1: back probably next week. Adolie s Garcia might be coming
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Speaker 1: back as well, and once that happens, I assume they'll
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Speaker 1: be in a really good spot to challenge the rest
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Speaker 1: of the way and see where they end up. They
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Speaker 1: play at City Field Friday night. It's fascinating series ahead
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Speaker 1: of us there. Rangers at Mets will be started by
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Speaker 1: none other and former Mets ace Jacob Dekron.
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Speaker 2: It's gonna be an interesting I tell you what, it's theater.
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Speaker 2: You can't make this stuff up. Ken, So let me
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Speaker 2: ask you this question, because we just don't know. Does
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Speaker 2: this mean we're going to get an exciting, unpredictable October
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Speaker 2: or are we really just gonna get a random champion
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Speaker 2: Because it doesn't seem Ken, in the thirty teams that
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Speaker 2: there's one that really sticks out.
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Speaker 1: Alna, I totally agree with you, and it certainly appears
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Speaker 1: from this vantage point right now as we look at this,
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Speaker 1: that this could be one of the more wide open
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Speaker 1: postseasons in recent memory. Now, the one caveat I'll say
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Speaker 1: to that is the Dodgers suddenly seem to have found
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Speaker 1: their rotation. And I know it's come against two last
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Speaker 1: place teams, the Orioles and Rockies, and the Rockies are horrific,
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Speaker 1: But Yamamoto and glass Now and Otani and Kershaw, all
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Speaker 1: of these guys are pitching well. Oh and I forgot
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Speaker 1: Blake Snell. He was really good last night. If those guys,
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Speaker 1: if they can find obviously a lot of quality in
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Speaker 1: their rotation, that's gonna give them an advantage, and that
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Speaker 1: would in my mind perhaps make them the favorite. But
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Speaker 1: that said, we've watched the Dodgers all season, Alana. You
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Speaker 1: watch them as closely as anyone. They've been an enigmatic team,
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Speaker 1: a team that's been somewhat disappointing. And maybe now they're
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Speaker 1: rounding into form and things are going to be better,
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Speaker 1: and Mookie BET's certainly playing better. But I don't know
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Speaker 1: that I entirely trust the Dodgers. Their bullpen has been
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Speaker 1: a bit of a mess, so we'll see. But to
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Speaker 1: your original point, yeah, it looks wide open the American League.
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Speaker 1: Who knows Tiger's and the Blue Jays two best teams
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Speaker 1: jockeying for the best record in the league home field
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Speaker 1: advantage throughout the American League playoffs. I don't know that
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Speaker 1: either as invincible. Jeff Hoffman gave up another homer last night.
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Speaker 1: The Tigers looked good the last two nights, but they
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Speaker 1: were kind of coming off lethargic run there for about
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Speaker 1: two weeks. So yeah, it's looking really interesting.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you this about the can I have
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Speaker 2: my own opinion on it, but I want yours and
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Speaker 2: your perspective. You Nobu Yamamoto through one hundred and twelve pitches,
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Speaker 2: That's a career high for him. He gives up the
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Speaker 2: home run to Jackson Holliday. I think Andy pai Has
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Speaker 2: could have made a better attempt to get that ball,
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Speaker 2: considering a no hitter was going on, but that's neither
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Speaker 2: here nor there. Would you have sent Yama back out
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Speaker 2: or did Dave Roberts, in your opinion, make the right
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Speaker 2: call of bringing in the pen.
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Speaker 1: I don't know. It looks bad because of the outcome.
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Speaker 1: That's the only reason that looks bad to me. And
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Speaker 1: I would have sent him out, of course. And I
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Speaker 1: know it's a career high, but my gosh, we count
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Speaker 1: pitches all the time alone, and we count everything in
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Speaker 1: this sport, and understandably, so it's that kind of sport.
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Speaker 1: It's very statistically driven. But no hitters are special. No
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Speaker 1: hitters are once in a career perhaps for most pitchers.
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Speaker 1: And Yamamoto had a chance there, of course you send
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Speaker 1: them back out. I don't even think there's any question.
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Speaker 3: That's funny.
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Speaker 2: See, I wouldn't have I think Dave made the right
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Speaker 2: decision because the next pitch, maybe one thirteen, maybe he
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Speaker 2: blows out his arm.
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Speaker 3: And you got to think that you would believe, you
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Speaker 3: would believe Ken Rosenthal that your bullpen could get one out.
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Speaker 2: That is neither here nor there, My friends, all right,
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Speaker 2: Time to get those questions in for Ken Rosenthal. But
10:26
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Speaker 2: Britt Jeroli, both of the athletic of course, have some
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Speaker 2: Orioles news.
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Speaker 1: What is it? Well, you see it right there, and
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Speaker 1: it's interesting because some Oriel fans, perhaps we're wondering if
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Speaker 1: Mike Elias would be back at all, considering how disappointing
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Speaker 1: the team has been this season. It turns out the
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Speaker 1: team promoted him to president of baseball Operations last winter,
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Speaker 1: and now they're starting to build out their front office
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Speaker 1: under him. You remember last week they hired Danny Has,
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Speaker 1: national scouting Director to be a special assistant and their
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Speaker 1: plan right now is to hire a general manager under Elias,
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Speaker 1: so another executive to help things along for the Orioles.
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Speaker 1: This represents obviously a show of faith in Elias. That
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Speaker 1: show of faith came even before this disappointing season. And
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Speaker 1: this is a team that has played very well since
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Speaker 1: late May forty nine and forty one since May twenty eighth,
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Speaker 1: sixth best record in the majors, and they firmly believe
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Speaker 1: that if they get their pitching straight, which is happening
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Speaker 1: to some extent with Trevor Rodgers emerging, Kyle Bradish ninth back,
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Speaker 1: if they can get their pitching right, and they've got
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Speaker 1: to rebuild their whole bullpend this winner, then they can
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Speaker 1: be back to where they were in twenty three and
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Speaker 1: twenty four.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I really thought this team was going to make
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Speaker 2: a postseason push. Ken When this season started, it was
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Speaker 2: like they looked so good top to bottom.
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Speaker 3: What went wrong.
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Speaker 1: Starting pitching, and that was the failure of this club.
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Speaker 1: It's the reason Brandon Hyde was fired as manager. The
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Speaker 1: starting pitching was just awful at the start of the season.
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Speaker 1: Charlie Morton was kind of the symbol of this all.
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Speaker 1: He found it and was good enough to get traded
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Speaker 1: to the Detroit Tigers, where he now is part of
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Speaker 1: their rotation. But they had injuries. Grayson Rodriguez was one
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Speaker 1: of them. They had disappointing performances. They just weren't good
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Speaker 1: enough in that part of it. And the other thing, Alana,
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Speaker 1: They've had some stagnation and regression among their young position players. Now.
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Speaker 1: Injuries are part of that too, with Rushman and Kowser
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Speaker 1: and others. Westburg's another one, but Donough Henderson hasn't been
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Speaker 1: as good. Jackson Howne really hasn't broken through yet. Now
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Speaker 1: they have Besiah, they will go into next season confident
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Speaker 1: that these guys are gonna bounce back. Progression as a
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Speaker 1: young player is not always linear, and we'll see what happens. Then.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be an interesting team to watch.
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Speaker 3: Do you think that Adlee Rischmand is there next.
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Speaker 1: Year, Yes, no question. And he's there because Samuel Bissio
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Speaker 1: is not proven as a catcher. There are questions in
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Speaker 1: the industry whether he will ever catch, could be a
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Speaker 1: first baseman DH in the long runs. Short term, Rushman
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Speaker 1: is the better defender, and the Orioles believe he's going
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Speaker 1: to bounce back. Now. It was a difficult second half
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Speaker 1: of twenty four and a rough start to twenty five
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Speaker 1: before he got hurt. But Atli Ruschman, they still believe
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Speaker 1: and see as a centerpiece of what they're going to do.
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Speaker 2: All right, love the information there on the O's ken.
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Speaker 2: Let's get in a question from our chat. Bernie Suarez
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Speaker 2: wants to know he's talking about the Astros. Are the
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Speaker 2: Astros in trouble? The Rangers seem to be making a run.
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Speaker 1: The Rangers are definitely making a run. The Mariners are
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Speaker 1: playing better after their little lull six and fifteen whatever
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Speaker 1: it was. I don't know why that. I'd say the
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Speaker 1: Astros are in trouble, but there are clear questions there.
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Speaker 1: Their offense has been a disappointment, even after the return
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Speaker 1: of Jordan Alvarez. They rank something like twenty fourth in
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Speaker 1: the majors and runs per game, and remember the deadline
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Speaker 1: they reinforced the offense with Correa, with Jesus Sanchez, with
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Speaker 1: Ramon Urias. So for whatever reason, they have not clicked offensively.
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Speaker 1: They've had some pitching injuries too, just this week, Luis
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Speaker 1: Garcia on top of Spencer Arraghetty and then Josh Hater
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Speaker 1: that was a couple of weeks ago. He's out for
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Speaker 1: the rest of the season as well. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know that they're in trouble. They've got the pedigree still
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Speaker 1: to hold on in the Ale West, but it's a
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Speaker 1: lot closer than they ever imagined. It would be thinking
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Speaker 1: that with the deadline and with Alvarez coming back, that
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Speaker 1: they would ignite, and that really has not happened.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk about the Atlanta Braves. I really
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Speaker 2: thought that this was going to be it for the Skip.
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Speaker 2: I thought Brian Snicker was going to hang up the cleats,
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Speaker 2: if you will, longtime baseball man, great baseball mind. But
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Speaker 2: there are thoughts Ken out there that he is kind
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Speaker 2: of toying with returning in twenty twenty six. What more
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Speaker 2: can you tell us?
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Speaker 1: He addressed that yesterday with reporters who cover the team,
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Speaker 1: and somewhat surprisingly, at least to me, he said, you know, what.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure that I want to step down just yet.
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Speaker 1: I'm maybe hungry to finish this thing off and turn
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Speaker 1: around what was a dis pointing season this year and
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Speaker 1: not go out on this poor note. Bryan Sticker, if
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Speaker 1: he wants to return, I believe will be permitted to
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Speaker 1: return by the Atlanta Braves. It seems to me the
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Speaker 1: job is his as long as he wants it at least,
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Speaker 1: you know, in a reasonable fashion. But it's going to
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Speaker 1: be really interesting to see what he decides, what he
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Speaker 1: and his family decide on just where he is. He
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Speaker 1: seems to be healthy, even though he's an older manager,
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Speaker 1: of course, and his comments yesterday indicate to me that
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Speaker 1: he hasn't lost that fire. That if anything, the fire
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Speaker 1: was lit even higher this season because of how intensely
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Speaker 1: disappointing it has been. So they're gonna be good next year.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna have the pitching back, and they're gonna have
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Speaker 1: all of their position players and all the things that
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Speaker 1: went wrong, I would presume some of them at least
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Speaker 1: are going to go right, and they'll make some off
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Speaker 1: season moves as well. So I can see Snicker kind
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Speaker 1: of wanting to taste that again and I take another job.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think when you've been in the business as
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Speaker 2: long as he has, it's so difficult to stop. So
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Speaker 2: many folks have a difficult time making the transition out
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Speaker 2: of the game, and they just don't know what to
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Speaker 2: do with themselves. Ken, we would be remiss if we
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Speaker 2: didn't mention that today is the twenty fourth anniversary, if
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Speaker 2: you will, of the nine to eleven terrorist.
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Speaker 3: Attack in the United States.
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Speaker 2: Do you remember what you were doing on that day
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Speaker 2: twenty four years ago? And first of all, I can't
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Speaker 2: believe it's almost been a quarter a quarter of a century.
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Speaker 2: But what do you remember about that day in particular,
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Speaker 2: and how did it affect you?
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Speaker 1: Of course I remember, and I was riding an exercise
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Speaker 1: bike and watching television, and that's how I saw the
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Speaker 1: whole thing unfold. I'm a New York native, so obviously
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Speaker 1: it hurt, but it hurt for every American and it
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Speaker 1: was just a terrible event. I'll be wearing the nine
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Speaker 1: to eleven Museum bow tie tonight for Phillies Meths broadcast
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Speaker 1: from Philadelphia, and next year we're going to have for
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Speaker 1: the twenty fifth anniversary Yankees and Mets playing on nine
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Speaker 1: to eleven, which will be an incredibly special night. And
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Speaker 1: I also remember the first game back, the Piazza game,
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Speaker 1: when we put the home run against the Braves. I
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Speaker 1: covered that game. It was really emotional. The World Series
17:08
Speaker 1: that year with the Yankees playing the Diamondbacks was really emotional.
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Speaker 1: It's a time when I never want to revisit again, obviously,
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Speaker 1: and there have been a lot of dark days in
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Speaker 1: the country's history, including just some recently, but we all
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Speaker 1: remember it, and we all just want to make sure
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Speaker 1: that something like that never happens again.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I remember I was getting ready for work. I
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Speaker 2: lived in Denver, Colorado at the time. This was way before,
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Speaker 2: well not way before, but it was before I got
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Speaker 2: into journalism. And I remember my building. I was in
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Speaker 2: the hospitality industry at the time, and our hotel was
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Speaker 2: next to what is the World Trade Center in Denver,
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Speaker 2: So obviously it's not the same as New York, but
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Speaker 2: it was the World Trade Center there in Colorado. And
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Speaker 2: just remembering it felt to me ken like the world
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Speaker 2: had stopped. It felt so uneasy and such a time
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Speaker 2: of just questions and insecurity and wondering what was next.
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Speaker 2: And I remember thinking, and our gas price is going
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Speaker 2: to go through. I mean I was thinking all kinds
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Speaker 2: of different things about that, and then the reflection of
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Speaker 2: all the people that were, you know, that perished in
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Speaker 2: that having to decide whether jumping out of a tower
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Speaker 2: was better than you know, burning alive in a tower.
18:15
Speaker 2: And it's just that horrific act on our country. And
18:19
Speaker 2: to your point, I hope it never it never happens again.
18:23
Speaker 2: But to all of those that were affected on that
18:25
Speaker 2: day twenty four years ago, our thoughts are still with you,
18:27
Speaker 2: of course, our prayers for you and the ones that
18:29
Speaker 2: you've lost. I mean, a lot of those folks ken
18:31
Speaker 2: would have been getting married now or seeing their grandchildren
18:34
Speaker 2: now or whatever, and it's it's difficult, it's difficult to swallow.
18:37
Speaker 2: So again we wanted to pay respect to that. We
18:40
Speaker 2: appreciate you guys taking a moment to listen. We're going
18:43
Speaker 2: to be right back after a quick break for Dude
18:45
Speaker 2: and Dork of the Week.
18:47
Speaker 4: Time for your weekly Arena Club segment where we see
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Speaker 4: what AJ pulls from a slab pack and we go
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Speaker 4: pull a little emerald pack. This week, AJ looking for
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Speaker 4: something big.
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Speaker 1: Always, I'm always looking for the big thing. Next big Thing's.
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Speaker 4: Got big money, big money, Baby. We've got a Dave
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Speaker 4: Winfield card from nineteen seventy four, seventy four tops card
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Speaker 4: from this Emerald pack. Estimated value three hundred bucks. You
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Speaker 4: could sell it back for two seventy sold sold. I
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Speaker 4: feel like you are into more of the current players.
19:23
Speaker 4: Would that be accurate?
19:25
Speaker 1: You like legend?
19:25
Speaker 3: In my showroom, I have a Robin you out, I
19:27
Speaker 3: have a Griffy Rookie car.
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Speaker 1: Think that's true? So I mean I have some older
19:30
Speaker 1: vintage your players. Bob Gibson, Oh yeah, you have Gibson,
19:33
Speaker 1: So I know.
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Speaker 3: I disagree Scott, but Dave Winfield for that amount of
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Speaker 3: money back, I'm reselling it.
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19:57
Speaker 3: All right, time for due to the week, Ken, who
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Speaker 3: do you have? Who is your and out performer this week?
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Speaker 1: I'm going to go with Mookie Bets. And remember it
20:05
Speaker 1: was about a month ago, Alana when Mooki basically said
20:08
Speaker 1: my season's over, at least from a statistical standpoint, I
20:11
Speaker 1: won't have my usual season, and I'm going to just
20:14
Speaker 1: play for the team. Well, since he said that, he's
20:18
Speaker 1: been basically the Mookie Bets of old and right. Over
20:21
Speaker 1: the past thirty one games, he's hitting three thirty three
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Speaker 1: with the nine to thirty one ops really hot in
20:26
Speaker 1: his last seven games for nineteen batting average, four homers,
20:30
Speaker 1: eight extra base hits, fourteen RBIs. That's in the seven
20:33
Speaker 1: game period. So MOOKI good to see you back.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, welcome back, Muke. We appreciate you.
20:39
Speaker 2: Marcus lynd Bett's MLB, which is so funny that his
20:42
Speaker 2: initials are MLB. All right, my dude of the week,
20:45
Speaker 2: it's not baseball. I appreciate you guys. Letting me go
20:48
Speaker 2: off on a limb here the Denver Broncos. I'm born
20:51
Speaker 2: and raised in Colorado, Denver Broncos football fan my entire life.
20:54
Speaker 2: It's the only thing that keeps my dysfunctional family together.
20:57
Speaker 3: One of our goals is.
20:58
Speaker 2: To make sure that we're engaging community mbers three sixty
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Speaker 2: five days a year in the area and around the stadium.
21:03
Speaker 2: And what they're doing is they have a proposed new
21:05
Speaker 2: stadium plan still in Denver, Colorado. But what I love
21:09
Speaker 2: about this is it all is privately funded. This is
21:11
Speaker 2: not tax payer dollars. And what they're trying to do
21:15
Speaker 2: is have a new football stadium surrounded by restaurants and activities,
21:18
Speaker 2: very much like what the Montforts have done in Loto
21:21
Speaker 2: with Coursefield and that unbelievable McGregor Square area.
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Speaker 3: They've done a really good job.
21:26
Speaker 2: I rip on the Rockies a lot, but the Montforts
21:28
Speaker 2: have done an amazing job with that and that's what
21:31
Speaker 2: the new ownership group of the Broncos is trying to do.
21:33
Speaker 2: So they are my dudes of the week. Go Broncos
21:36
Speaker 2: were one to oh, and I'm glad the Chiefs are
21:38
Speaker 2: zero and one.
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Speaker 3: But that's either here nor there.
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Speaker 1: One second you say the words privately funded.
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Speaker 3: Yes, privately funded.
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Speaker 5: That's me among owners well, public funds. Ask the athletics.
21:56
Speaker 5: I don't know what's happening, but the Broncos, if you're
21:58
Speaker 5: not going to take their tax dollars, you're going to
22:00
Speaker 5: build a brand new stadium. I would love it if
22:02
Speaker 5: you named it, you know, Alana Rizzo Field at Mile
22:05
Speaker 5: High or whatever it is.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. Okay, my dude of the week is
22:10
Speaker 2: out there. Candida's time for Dork of the week.
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Speaker 1: Okay, as usual, we have a plethora of candidates, but
22:26
Speaker 1: I'm not going to let the Dodgers off the hook
22:28
Speaker 1: for what happened last Saturday night at Camden Yards. This
22:32
Speaker 1: was one of the more memorable games of the season,
22:34
Speaker 1: if not the most memorable, and it was just a
22:37
Speaker 1: shocking outcome. Let's go back to the details. For eight
22:40
Speaker 1: and two thirds innings, Yoshinoba Yamamoto had a no hitter
22:45
Speaker 1: at that point. After eight and two thirds, with one
22:47
Speaker 1: out to go, the Dodgers led three to nothing. They
22:50
Speaker 1: had a ninety nine point five percent chance of winning
22:54
Speaker 1: that game. That was their win probability, ninety nine point
22:57
Speaker 1: five percent chance, and the other point five came in.
23:02
Speaker 1: They blew that game and detailed it a little bit.
23:04
Speaker 1: It was a comedy of errors in a certain respect.
23:08
Speaker 1: And it was so appropriate that the Orioles made this
23:10
Speaker 1: comeback on the night they celebrated now Ripkin's thirtieth anniversary
23:14
Speaker 1: of breaking Lou Garrig's record. That was the shock of
23:17
Speaker 1: shocks again, the game of the year for me and
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers for losing it, the Dorks of the week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and so am I because I was sitting there
23:26
Speaker 2: tweeting it like, oh my gosh, if you're not watching,
23:27
Speaker 2: you should probably tune in.
23:29
Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
23:30
Speaker 2: And then it was like Jackson Holiday, which is so
23:32
Speaker 2: ironic too, Ken that he the Holiday family requested permission
23:36
Speaker 2: from the Ripkin family for Jackson to wear number seven
23:39
Speaker 2: and then he breaks up the no no Andy Pa
23:42
Speaker 2: has I don't know what the heck he was doing
23:43
Speaker 2: in the outfield. Then you have to pray that your
23:45
Speaker 2: bullpend can get one flipping out, and they couldn't. I
23:48
Speaker 2: almost went to bed after the no no was I
23:50
Speaker 2: was like, all right, well, no, No's over, I'm going
23:52
Speaker 2: to go to bed, and I stayed up like and
23:53
Speaker 2: I shouldn't have because then I just got pissed. All right,
23:56
Speaker 2: My my York of the week, besides myself, is Philly's
24:02
Speaker 2: Karen Ken. I mean, I know I'm not really going
24:04
Speaker 2: out on a limb here, but my goodness, woman, what
24:06
Speaker 2: are you doing? And now, I mean, just first of all,
24:09
Speaker 2: I don't think that this woman should have lost her
24:11
Speaker 2: job and people should be stocking her.
24:13
Speaker 3: I mean, that's just ridiculous.
24:15
Speaker 2: Okay, be the bigger person, but the way that she
24:17
Speaker 2: handled this situation, my goodness, you, Karen. You Phillies, Karen
24:22
Speaker 2: are my dork of the week. And I tell you what, Ken,
24:25
Speaker 2: she's getting served. Karma is a is not a good thing.
24:28
Speaker 3: I tell you that.
24:29
Speaker 1: Yes, And she did get a five thousand dollars offer
24:32
Speaker 1: for that ball if she autographed it and said I'm
24:34
Speaker 1: sorry in the inscription. But of course she's not going
24:37
Speaker 1: to do that because that would identify her. People wouldn't
24:40
Speaker 1: know who she is. Now, I'm with you a lot.
24:42
Speaker 1: At one point I want to make here, the social
24:44
Speaker 1: media witch hunt takes place in a number of different
24:48
Speaker 1: ways at a number of different times. It's ridiculous. The
24:50
Speaker 1: woman did something wrong. Okay, we all have our bad moments,
24:53
Speaker 1: maybe not publicize the way this one was. But I
24:57
Speaker 1: don't care for that at all, and that needs to stop.
25:00
Speaker 2: I agree, completely leave her alone. She did a bad thing,
25:02
Speaker 2: but you don't need to harass her. Kim, tell us
25:04
Speaker 2: a little bit more about the Native Nations baseball team
25:08
Speaker 2: and the article that you recently wrote.
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Speaker 3: This is interesting stuff.
25:12
Speaker 1: I wrote it a couple of days ago and actually
25:14
Speaker 1: worked on it for nine months on and off. What
25:17
Speaker 1: it is is an effort by the former Major league
25:19
Speaker 1: pitcher DJ Carrasco to build a national program for Native
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Speaker 1: American players that doesn't exist right now, and they took
25:28
Speaker 1: a very dramatic first step recently by having the first
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Speaker 1: Native American team compete in the Babe Ruth World Series
25:35
Speaker 1: in Branson, Missouri. Their long term dream is to build
25:39
Speaker 1: out an infrastructure where you have a national program from
25:43
Speaker 1: childhood up through adulthood for Native American players and then
25:47
Speaker 1: ultimately to get a team into the World Baseball Classic.
25:51
Speaker 1: That's complicated, it's going to take time. It's not something
25:54
Speaker 1: that can happen right away, but it's certainly an appropriate dream.
25:58
Speaker 1: And Alta we talk this and you mentioned it to
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Speaker 1: me off the air. Baseball is always looking for talent. Well,
26:05
Speaker 1: here is an untapped source of talent, the Native American community.
26:08
Speaker 1: Now we have some Native American Major leaguers, but the
26:12
Speaker 1: point of this program is to identify the players, maybe
26:15
Speaker 1: on reservations, maybe in rural areas, who don't get the
26:18
Speaker 1: opportunities that guys like Ryan Helsley did and John Gray
26:23
Speaker 1: did and some other players because those guys went to
26:26
Speaker 1: public high schools, they went to college in many cases,
26:29
Speaker 1: and they're in a different category. What they want to
26:32
Speaker 1: do is create opportunities for players who are not getting
26:36
Speaker 1: those opportunities now. And it's a wonderful idea. It's an
26:40
Speaker 1: incredible program that DJ Carrasco is trying to start here
26:43
Speaker 1: and is starting, has started, and we'll see where it goes.
26:46
Speaker 1: But that was the point of writing it, and I
26:49
Speaker 1: hope people read it to see just what's going on
26:52
Speaker 1: here because it's kind of a cool effort and an
26:55
Speaker 1: effort that really anybody can everybody can get behind.
26:58
Speaker 3: I love it.
26:59
Speaker 1: I love it.
26:59
Speaker 2: What was the most interesting thing that you've found out
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Speaker 2: when you were spending nine over the course of nine
27:03
Speaker 2: months to put this together, just that this.
27:06
Speaker 1: Was happening really and that things were progressing, and that
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Speaker 1: DJ Carrasco, who is Native American but in a very
27:14
Speaker 1: small way, but he's not a guy who is part
27:19
Speaker 1: of a tribe really or anything like that. He's mostly
27:22
Speaker 1: Mexican American. That's his greatest lineage, and this is his passion.
27:27
Speaker 1: And there's a guy named Ryan Flynn who created the
27:30
Speaker 1: baseball program, the national program in New Zealand, and they're
27:33
Speaker 1: kind of combining on this, and these guys are incredibly
27:37
Speaker 1: passionate about what they're doing. And they want to make
27:41
Speaker 1: this as big as possible, so we will see what happens.
27:44
Speaker 1: Dusty Baker had an interesting quote and Jacob Elsbury, Jacoby Elsbur,
27:49
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, cannot be the last great Native American player.
27:52
Speaker 1: There have to be some players there. I know they are.
27:56
Speaker 1: Dusty has contributed time and money to the Native Nations effort,
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Speaker 1: and others are getting behind it as well. And again
28:03
Speaker 1: we'll see where it goes. Alana. But it's a cool
28:06
Speaker 1: thing that DJ Carrasco is trying to do.
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Speaker 2: I agree with you, and please if you take the
28:10
Speaker 2: time to read it, that would be great. Learn more
28:12
Speaker 2: about the Native Nations article. We want to say goodbye,
28:15
Speaker 2: thank you guys for being here, thank you for watching
28:17
Speaker 2: and listening. Foul Territory is next. Aj Pierzinski, Eric Kratz,
28:20
Speaker 2: and Scott Brown welcome Will Salmon, Annisabo and Matt Barnes
28:24
Speaker 2: to this show. We appreciate you guys. Ken is back
28:26
Speaker 2: with a fresh new episode on Monday.
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Speaker 3: See you later.
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