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Contreras HBP mania, HUGE weekend matchups, Steve Cohen applauds Pete, Skubal hinting at LA future? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Party people, it's Frasier Friday. Hey, don't get up and celebrate.
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  Speaker 1: Just stay seated, please.
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  Speaker 2: No sudden movements.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of laughing. Too many movements.
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  Speaker 1: No movements. Keep the back straight. No laughing.
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  Speaker 2: No crying.
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  Speaker 1: No showing your teeth. Nothing.
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Just keep it PG today, Toddfather. Nobody knows what we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman's family has a horse, and it's good at racing. Kratz,
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  Speaker 1: this is your boy.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, how, like, a horse? Like, I would love
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  Speaker 3: to have taken my team to watch a horse that
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  Speaker 3: my family or I own, and then it wins? Like,
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  Speaker 3: the boys are juiced. Like, to be down there at
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  Speaker 3: Churchill Downs, the team's all down there. How much more exciting?
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  Speaker 3: I loved watching, like, the Kentucky Derby in the locker
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  Speaker 3: room with the guys. I mean, the Latins are over there.
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  Speaker 3: They're making the noises. Everybody's, like, trying to trade their
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  Speaker 3: horse as the horse is riding. Like, I'll give you
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  Speaker 3: 150 for your horse now. He's in second place. Like,
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  Speaker 3: it is electric when you do that kind of stuff
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  Speaker 3: as a team.
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  Speaker 2: Dude, and he won. Like, come on, bro. You can't
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  Speaker 2: even script it. Right? That's incredible. And, you know, it's funny.
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  Speaker 4: Bregman's not a tall dude. He makes that jockey look
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  Speaker 4: even smaller than what he is. Like, I think that's
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  Speaker 4: the best part of it. Alex, he looks like he's
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  Speaker 4: really tall. In real life, he's really not that tall.
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  Speaker 2: Look at him. Oh, my God. Can we cut that?
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  Speaker 4: There's another tiny guy in the pink shirt there in
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  Speaker 4: the group. That guy's top. I don't know where they're
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  Speaker 4: just whatever. But at the end of the day. Pretty,
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  Speaker 4: pretty cool moment. Like, that's the cool stuff that brings
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  Speaker 4: the boys together for a nice little playoff run coming
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  Speaker 4: forward here.
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  Speaker 3: Production lady, can we make sure we cut that? September 18th,
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  Speaker 3: one minute into the show, so when Bracken comes on,
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  Speaker 3: we remind him that Todd said he looks like a jockey.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Here we go. Yeah, listen. He knows I'm
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  Speaker 2: all in fun, but yes. He could be a jockey. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: he could. Definitely.
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  Speaker 1: I'm still shocked about the production lady. Producer lady. Sorry,
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  Speaker 1: producer lady. Very formal.
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  Speaker 2: Eric's all over the place, man.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's formal Friday. But here's the jockey getting tossed around.
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  Speaker 1: That's Churchill Downs. I don't know much about the details
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  Speaker 1: of horse racing, but that's a pretty big place to
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  Speaker 1: win a horse race. That's not your local... pony show.
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  Speaker 2: That's really cool.
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  Speaker 3: That's not the south philly tracks that i drive by
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  Speaker 3: every time i go to todd's house i forget what
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  Speaker 3: that place is called but horse racing is fun to
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  Speaker 3: watch those dudes get after it.
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  Speaker 1: Well congrats the cubs had a nice little team bonding
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  Speaker 1: moment to go there with bregman and watch his pony
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  Speaker 1: win the race now let's get to some other ponies Yeah,
• 3:22
  Speaker 1: let's charge. The Red Sox met up with the Rangers
• 3:24
  Speaker 1: and we'll get to what happened in the result of
• 3:27
  Speaker 1: the game. But particularly within this game, Wilson Contreras hit
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  Speaker 1: by a pitch for the billionth time in his career
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  Speaker 1: because he is very close to the plate. That at
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  Speaker 1: least has to do with some of the times that
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  Speaker 1: he has hit by a pitch. Most of the time
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  Speaker 1: I would make the case. But in true Wilson fashion,
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  Speaker 1: he is vocal about it. First off, on the injury
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  Speaker 1: side of things, he's been their best player this season. right?
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  Speaker 1: I think that's undisputed. And this is the quote that
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  Speaker 1: drew attention. He said, if nobody does anything about it,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to keep getting hit. That's the way I
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  Speaker 1: see it. That's it. So it's a bruise after some testing,
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  Speaker 1: but initially he said he thought it was fractured. So
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  Speaker 1: he said it felt like a fracture and he had
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  Speaker 1: fractured that hand before his hand went numb for five minutes.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, of course, he's going to get more
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  Speaker 1: testing and imaging and it might take a couple of days.
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  Speaker 1: He said maybe even a week, maybe 10 days. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, but he was feeling better. I mean, that's
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  Speaker 1: a little concerning since the playoffs are around the corner
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  Speaker 1: and they're going to need him to keep doing what
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  Speaker 1: he's been doing on the field. Look at the OPS,
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  Speaker 1: the average, the homers, the whole deal. He plays a
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  Speaker 1: mean first base. So Kratz, first off, we'll show this
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  Speaker 1: while you're talking. He crowds the plate. Is there anything
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  Speaker 1: that you need to tell your pitcher to do differently?
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  Speaker 1: when facing Wilson Contreras? And would you be pissed if
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox were retaliating against the Rangers in a
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  Speaker 1: game for Wilson getting hit?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, pissed. I don't know. I mean, look, you hit
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  Speaker 3: one of their guys. If the team wants to retaliate,
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  Speaker 3: they do it. The guy's got to come out in
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  Speaker 3: the media and say it. Maybe it's kind of like
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  Speaker 3: you handle it. You handle it yourself. Maybe your teammates say,
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  Speaker 3: you know what? He's our best hitter. We have to retaliate.
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  Speaker 3: Like this picture right here with the line on the
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  Speaker 3: inside of the plate, this is why he's getting hit.
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  Speaker 3: There are plenty of dudes that get hit. There are
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  Speaker 3: plenty of dudes that stand close to the plate that
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  Speaker 3: get hit and cry less than Wilson. Could this have
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  Speaker 3: been an absolute just death play for him to break
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  Speaker 3: his hand?
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: If he's concerned about getting hit in the hand, he
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  Speaker 3: can't sit out over the plate looking for breaking balls
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  Speaker 3: and then all of a sudden a heater that doesn't
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  Speaker 3: break catches him on the hand. He's second in the
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  Speaker 3: game right now, active leaders. He has 153 hit-by-pitches. Starling
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: Marte is up there. Freddie Freeman is up there. How
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  Speaker 3: many times... Do we hear those guys complaining about it?
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  Speaker 3: Let's see who else is up there. Anthony Rizzo was
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  Speaker 3: this guy. Rarely was there like, oh, we got to
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  Speaker 3: have retaliation. When you're close to the plate, you're going
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  Speaker 3: to get hit. That's the reality of it. But he's
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  Speaker 3: taking exception to it. It's also kind of a ploy.
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  Speaker 3: Get that ball out of a plate where I can
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  Speaker 3: do some damage.
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  Speaker 1: No, we didn't plan this. And also, no, Kratz, we're
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, listen....
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  Speaker 4: That's a pitch you shouldn't be swinging at anyway, too.
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  Speaker 4: So it's like, I'm not condoning anybody getting hit. That
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  Speaker 4: ball's inside, up, and in. That's a pitch I would
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  Speaker 4: swing at and be like, God Almighty, what am I doing?
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  Speaker 4: But I would be getting jammed because I was so
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  Speaker 4: far off the plate. You brought up Anthony Rizzo a
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  Speaker 4: little bit ago. I think he wanted that record so badly.
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  Speaker 4: It was so funny watching him. break the single season
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  Speaker 4: record and whatever else. Yeah, I mean, I think it's
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  Speaker 4: like a cry for his team, honestly. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a cry for, yo, dude, somebody needs to help me out.
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  Speaker 4: But should they? Nowadays, no. Because, you know, it's not
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  Speaker 4: like it used to be back in the day. He's
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  Speaker 4: going public because... Maybe he, maybe, and again, this is
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  Speaker 4: hearsay from me thinking, he's talked to a couple of
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  Speaker 4: the dogs in there by, hey, man, somebody pick me
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  Speaker 4: up here. I keep getting hit. And it just hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 4: Maybe he has like, you know what, I got to
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  Speaker 4: say something to the news. Maybe they'll kickstart some of
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  Speaker 4: the boys in here.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: But just thinking about in the past and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 4: like when I always went to the news, there was,
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  Speaker 4: you know, either want to interview me or not, but
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  Speaker 4: there was a reason sometimes I would talk to him.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe to fire a certain person up or.
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  Speaker 4: Light a fuel in one person, whatever it was. And
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  Speaker 4: it wasn't to hurt anybody. It was just maybe to
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  Speaker 4: get the team going a little bit. But, yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's a– and I'm not saying he's crying, but
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  Speaker 4: I think it's a cry for him trying to tell
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  Speaker 4: the boys, like, hey, listen, I'm sick of it. Somebody
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  Speaker 4: needs to pick me up here. And at the end
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  Speaker 4: of the day– Yeah, he exaggerated. It might take two days,
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  Speaker 4: a week, ten days.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Pissed off. He's pissed off. Does he
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  Speaker 2: have every right to be pissed off? Yes.
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  Speaker 4: But again, pitchers have every right to go inside on
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  Speaker 4: anybody no matter where they are on the plate. So
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  Speaker 4: it's that back and forth battle of who's right and
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  Speaker 4: who's wrong. I don't think anybody's wrong in this depiction
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  Speaker 4: of what happened. I think ultimately if you're getting hit,
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  Speaker 4: you're going to be annoyed. But if you're a pitcher,
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  Speaker 4: you can't stop throwing inside. And even if you miss
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  Speaker 4: by this much, you still you got it. You got
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  Speaker 4: to establish that inside corner.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: And if he's going to not lean out, then that's
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  Speaker 3: an advantage for you because it opens up, opens up
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  Speaker 3: the pitches away. The reality is what we said right now,
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  Speaker 3: Wilson Contreras is their dude. He is their guy in
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  Speaker 3: the lineup. He's the guy that makes this offense go
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  Speaker 3: because he's having the best year. I'm not saying Roman
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  Speaker 3: Anthony can't be. I'm not saying other guys can't step up.
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  Speaker 3: But every team I've ever been on, whenever there's been
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  Speaker 3: retaliation because somebody's hitting our best player and then we're
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  Speaker 3: going to go and hit their best player, that stuff's
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  Speaker 3: taken care of. So either the Red Sox as a
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  Speaker 3: team are like, whatever. Sorry, Wilson gets hit a lot.
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  Speaker 3: We don't feel like we need to retaliate at all.
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  Speaker 3: Corey Seager, who is their best player, or Josh Young,
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  Speaker 3: who's swinging the best for that team right now. There's
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  Speaker 3: a reason they don't feel like they need to retaliate.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe it's because they don't feel like it's that big
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  Speaker 3: of a deal that he's getting hit. So he comes
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  Speaker 3: out and says something, and the guy's already new. Or
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: else the pitchers are just like, we weren't watching anything.
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  Speaker 3: And Chad Tracy was like, we would never do that.
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  Speaker 3: To me, I don't think that's the case. Every team
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  Speaker 3: I've ever been on. The dudes step up for the boys,
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  Speaker 3: especially when your best hitter gets hit.
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  Speaker 1: They stepped up at the plate. Trevor Story hit a dinger.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you want some revenge? They definitely played a part.
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  Speaker 1: It's one game, but it was a huge swing, right?
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  Speaker 1: The Rangers are leading, and I had the number they
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  Speaker 1: threw out there. At the time, 63-1 when leading after
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  Speaker 1: seven innings. That's how good they've been at. shutting down
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  Speaker 1: games in the last couple innings. And Jacob Latz has
• 11:43
  Speaker 1: been great. We talked about him and gave him cred
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  Speaker 1: the other day when he had the five-out save. They lost.
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  Speaker 1: Latz blew it. Trevor Story hit a three-run homer. Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox won the game 4-3. Look at where the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: are at. They're now one game back of Houston, two
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  Speaker 1: games back of the wild card. That one game back
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  Speaker 1: of Houston is really two games back because they need
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  Speaker 1: to pass them since the Astros hold the tiebreaker. That's
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  Speaker 1: a problem. It's a big loss for the Rangers. We're
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  Speaker 1: about to enter the final week of the season, Todd.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, message sent there.
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  Speaker 4: But this isn't the first time in this month. The
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  Speaker 4: Grom pitched a hell of a game. They bring somebody in.
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  Speaker 4: I know their bullpen is good.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 4: But they're losing these games in a big time of
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  Speaker 4: the year. Where it just can't happen. It just cannot happen.
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  Speaker 1: They won the DeGrom game, though. At least the last one.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe you're talking about a different one. The last DeGrom
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  Speaker 1: game was 4-2. Maybe the time before that.
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  Speaker 4: The time before that. But these games in September, the
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  Speaker 4: ones where you're like, shoot. God, we needed to have
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  Speaker 4: that game. And you go home and you're like, damn it.
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  Speaker 4: At least I thought that way. Kratzy, I think, would
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  Speaker 4: be on the same page. Wouldn't be able to sleep
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  Speaker 4: at night knowing like, two games back in the wild
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  Speaker 4: card right now, that is so hard to figure out.
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  Speaker 4: Things got to go right. Like that's huge. That's absolutely huge.
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  Speaker 4: And it's devastating for this Ranger team. And I, you know,
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  Speaker 4: these mistakes right now, I don't see them getting in.
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  Speaker 4: I don't see them getting in right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Astros won yesterday. Cause this would happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: you looked at the division and you were like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's toast like a week ago. And then the Rangers
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  Speaker 1: picked up some games and the Astros were fading. And
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  Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you look at the, Division
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  Speaker 1: that nobody wants, the AL West. And it was tight again, right?
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  Speaker 1: Mariners are a mess. We'll talk about them later in
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  Speaker 1: the show. They're done for a while now, for a
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  Speaker 1: couple weeks. Rangers, though, I mean, they had a shot here.
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  Speaker 1: And then yesterday, the Astros pick up a big dub
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  Speaker 1: to put themselves back in sole possession of first place.
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: Jordan hit his 40th home run. They had five solo
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  Speaker 1: homers in that win yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: So, crats.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're going to be doing this. We only
• 13:51
  Speaker 1: have a week and change left in the season. So,
• 13:53
  Speaker 1: every time we have a show, we're probably going to
• 13:55
  Speaker 1: be reporting on the AL West division.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we're going to be reporting on a division where
• 14:00
  Speaker 3: the run differential is a negative for all five teams.
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  Speaker 3: That is a crazy stat, whether I like run differential
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  Speaker 3: or not. Every team has a negative run differential. The
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  Speaker 3: Rangers losing this one, I would, yes, in the moment, Todd,
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  Speaker 3: I would agree with you that in September, like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: that's a huge one to lose. The fact that they're
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  Speaker 3: 63-1 throughout the entire season from the seventh inning on,
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  Speaker 3: Like Nats fans need to become Rangers fans because what
• 14:31
  Speaker 3: they've watched from the seventh inning on has been the
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: exact opposite. And we have a Nats pitcher coming on
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: later and Eric Coleman, but it's, it's something that this
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  Speaker 3: is the time of year where rookies are like, Oh
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: my gosh, this is such a big game. I can't
• 14:47
  Speaker 3: even think about anything else. And the veteran presence on
• 14:51
  Speaker 3: teams helps you realize, look, Every one of these games
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: this season has mattered. Every one of those 64 other
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  Speaker 3: games before last night that they only had blown one
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  Speaker 3: or only had lost one from the seventh inning on
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  Speaker 3: has been huge. So it helps you bounce back. And
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: the reason you have to bounce back is you have
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: one off day for the rest of the year and
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  Speaker 3: you have an uphill climb the rest of the year against,
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: in my opinion, some teams that are playing pretty decent
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  Speaker 3: in the Jays, the Mets, and the Twins.
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  Speaker 2: Yep. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: The winning percentage of the teams they have down the
• 15:29
  Speaker 1: stretch here is not great, but the Jays are still
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: trying to stay alive. Right. And the American league East
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: has been really good. The Mets are playing. This is
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: not the time you want to play the Mets. I
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: know they were just coming off a crappy series, but
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: they've been much better the last couple of months. Like
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: this is not the best time to run into them.
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  Speaker 1: And then, yeah, the twins are, I mean, the twins
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  Speaker 1: have been pretty bad the last couple of months, so
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: maybe that helps, but. Overall, it's going to be good.
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  Speaker 1: We'll follow that. Kratz mentioned rookies, so that reminds me
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: right on our way out here. Can we show the
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: rookie dress-up that the Red Sox are rolling with? Red
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: Sox are like five-ish games up and down on whoever's
• 16:03
  Speaker 1: above and below them in the wildcard. So they are
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: very firmly planted in that seat. So have a little fun.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, they do this regardless, even if it was
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: a tight race. But the rookie dress-up got really creative,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes manager, still interim for now, Chad Tracy
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: dressed up as Woody from Toy Story. I see Mario
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: and Luigi. I see the, what are they called? The
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Oompa Loompas from Willy Wonka. Who's our bottom left, dude?
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  Speaker 3: Lorax. It's a Lorax, Peyton Tolley. Wow. My question is,
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  Speaker 3: it's the picture of Chad Tracy dressed up.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: We even had Ron Washington on talking about Tony Vitello
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  Speaker 3: in spring training. Do you dress up a manager? You
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: dress up trainers. You dress up coaches. Do you dress
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: the manager up? Good for Chad Tracy. Not, I mean,
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: not being against it. It's just a, it's a question
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: about the respect level of a manager. And maybe he's
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: one of those guys who's like, I love, I love
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: having a good, a good laugh, but also why is
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: his office in the visiting manager with the Red Sox logo?
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: I feel like it, I don't know. Something's off about
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: that picture for me, but who knows?
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: You're saying why is he in the visiting manager office?
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: Why is Chad Tracy dressed up in the visiting manager
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: with the Red Sox logo behind him on the wall,
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: but also on the door? I don't think.
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: The Red Sox were in Arlington.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: I know they're in Texas, but... These pictures, this wasn't
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: from Arlington. This was clearly from home because they have
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: the Boston logo above Peyton Tolley there with the Lorax.
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: No, it says visiting manager on it, though. Right.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Why is he in the other manager office? I don't know.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I think we're getting a little too blues clues on
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: everyone here.
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: I'm just asking.
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Maybe they were in the visiting side in Boston doing it.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know, man. This is weird.
• 18:16
  Speaker 5: Anyway, sorry.
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm watching.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Wait, one more point on this from someone who has
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: never sniffed a major league clubhouse as a player or
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: any member of an organization. But do you think it's
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: different now? If this is all the old school, more
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: grisly managers and they really run the ship, they're probably
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: not dressing up. But now there's some benefit to being
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: a manager who's kind of with the boys. And that
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: even can be like, hey, front office is saying this.
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: Let's do our own, not do our own thing. But
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: does any of that check with you, Kratz, that a
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: newer manager might want to relate with players in a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: different way?
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: Totally will. I mean, he'll totally manage... If I were
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: a manager today, I would manage way different than Charlie
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: Emanuel would have managed or John Russell would have managed.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: My first managers in the big leagues. I think if
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: AJ would manage, he would way... He would manage way
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: differently than Tom Kelly did.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: But.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: And I'm posing, and I'm not saying I know the answer.
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: The question I'm posing is I'm leaning on Ron Washington's
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: comments in spring training. Do you dress up the manager?
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: If I was the manager, I would love to dress up. Look,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: this isn't going to lose any respect. I've already built
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: up a ton of respect from the year. Like, if
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: you want to dress me up, like, let's get it.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Just clip that last part, please. If you want to
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: dress me up, let's get it. Thank you. Appreciate you.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Frankie.
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: Thank you, Frankie. We love you. All right, let's get to... SeatGeek.
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is what you dream of. If you
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: love watching playoff baseball in September, if you love rooting
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: for a team that's on the bubble, then look up
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: some matchups this weekend. Let's do it.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: What do we have?
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: What are we excited about people?
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: This weekend.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, we were just talking about the Rangers. Everything
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: they're doing has a playoff feel to it. So if
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: you want to check out the Rangers and Blue Jays
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: and watch a team potentially truly fall apart and out
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: of the mix this weekend, you can certainly do that
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and grab a seat in Arlington. Because at this point,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, Kratz, it's not like they have to win
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: every game to win out, but you need to put
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: together a stretch that's going to look like So what
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: are we at? Is it nine games left for them?
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So it's got to look like six and three, seven
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: and two. I know you can say, oh, well, whatever
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the Astros do, you just have to do a little
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: bit better. But yeah, for them to focus on what
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: they need to do, you're going to have to probably
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: take this series this weekend at the least against Toronto.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: 100%. 100%.
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: The Astros will probably go 500. And I'm not saying
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: that because I know the matchups or anything like that.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: I'm just, look at their record. 77 and 76. They're
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: probably going to go 500. They'll finish one game over.
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: 500 for the season. I guess that's, yeah. No, that's
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: not possible. So it'll be two games over. 500 eventually.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: To me, it's just like, do the Rangers want it?
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: because they're going to have to do everything they can.
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: The reason the Lats, I think, gave it up last
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: night was because he'd gotten a five-out save in this
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: same series. You can't just keep going to the well. Like,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: it's not going to always work. So somebody has to
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: step up for the Rangers, and I think it's going
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: to be this offense. I have a sneaky suspicion this
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: offense is going to do something, because I think you
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: want to face Dylan Cease right now, if you ever
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: want to face him, because he's shown he's a little
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: bit human right now.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And Godfather. Just looking around at some other spots, tell
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: me if you'd grab a seat, right? Because you have
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: Houston having to win some games. They take on the
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Atlanta Braves this weekend. That's not easy. And then you
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: have the White Sox trying to string wins together. They
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: did win yesterday. That was a good start for them
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: to take down Fromber and the Tigers. But they've got
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: to try and keep doing their thing this weekend against Detroit.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: So any seats that you're going to purchase?
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: I think you can nickel and dime all of them, honestly,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: because there's one team besides KC versus Pittsburgh that you
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: can go to and be like, all right, well, we
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: know this team has to win. So I'm interested in
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: the White Sox, man. Are they going to figure out
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: a way to win the division or not? So I
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: guess I'd want to go see them play to see
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: if they're going to finish out this year strong.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: You can't really go wrong with any games. Boston, Tampa Bay,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: both are in. Why watch them? Is Tampa Bay going
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: to fizzle and let the Yankees try and find a
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: way to win? I don't think so, but Boston can
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: go on a little run and win three, four in
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: a row, and next thing you know, the Yanks are
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: playing them two games back.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: So we'll see.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and the Yanks can end the season for the Diamondbacks.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: They're on life support at this point.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's done.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: But, yeah, it didn't work out for them.
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: This year.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Needed full attendance from Cattell Marte. Too soon?
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Sorry. Sorry. It's never too soon.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: You look back at your season and you feel like
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: you needed an extra game or two. That's why we
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: talk about this stuff.
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: He's got to find a new team.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: I don't think he's going to.
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: Ten and five.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Well, he can.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: He can accept a trade, but the Diamondbacks are going
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: to move him. Who's going to trade for him? That's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: what I'm saying. Are they going to move him? Penny's
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: on the dollar.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Penny's on the dollar.
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: He's a stud, too. I agree. Jesus. I know. Yeah,
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: he is.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: But you're going to have to live with him. It's
• 23:53
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• 23:55
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  Speaker 3: Don't bury the lead.
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: Well, there's multiple leads with that. I mean, there are
• 25:01
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• 25:03
  Speaker 1: let's get to Steve Cohen. Steve Cohen. He actually offered
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: a response to a viral video that a fan posted. Actually,
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: the fan posted that in response to the tweet that
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: Steve sent that was replying to our tweet. So follow
• 25:21
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• 25:24
  Speaker 1: David Lennon from Newsday, who said that it was hard
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: to find David Stearns. Right. And then Cohen replied that
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: he saw Stearns. And then This fan online, NJDMets, says
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: the owner of the team who clapped when the opposing
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: team tied the game last night and he had video
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: of Cohen applauding for Pete Alonso when he hit his
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: 300th homer. And then Steve Cohen said to Mike Puma
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: of the New York Post, it was his 300th. I
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: got to give him props. Do we have a problem
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: with this?
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: This obviously is just.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: Dominating the New York radio stations for the last 48 hours.
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Todd, was that him standing up at the end there? Yes.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Are you?
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: So, so here's the question. Just nice and simple, right?
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Are you okay with your owner applauding a milestone for
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: a player that meant a lot? Or does he have
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to sit and be like, nah, I'm not respecting that.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Uh, Off the top of my head, honestly, I think
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: he should have kept that to himself and then maybe afterwards.
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: I don't mind him going down and seeing him on
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: the field the next day and be like, hey, man,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: congratulations on 300.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: I don't think it's a really good look. But at
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: the same time, he did give his respects to him.
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: I mean, a standing O for it?
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not totally on board with it.
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: Kratz, let me ask a follow. Is there any case
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: where it would be okay? If you don't agree, is
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: there any case where Pete hits his 500th? Pete breaks
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: the home run record. Like, are owners allowed to applaud
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: other players? Because this is the part I did some
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: thinking about it. And at first I was like, ah,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: that's not a great look. And then I was like,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: he's not applauding a random time. Like, he's applauding a
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: 300th home run. Am I giving him too much grace?
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: Because many fans actually were like, ah, this is going
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: to dominate. all the BS on New York radio for
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: a while. And I don't give a crap, but do you,
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: do you want to see your owner do this or
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: not to acknowledge a milestone from a former player?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: I love it as a baseball fan. Cause he is
• 27:34
  Speaker 3: a fan of baseball. And I also love the fact
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: that he did it because this man spent time in
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: his home. Pete Alonzo is not just some guy coming
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: in for his 300th Homer. He spent time in his home.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: They've had conversations. So I am totally fine with it.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: And I love it. Steve, said it with his chest.
• 27:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and to button this up, if it was like
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: a not, like, I think Mark made a good point here, man.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: I think honestly, and I'm getting the text message from him, like, 9-2, yes,
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: standing ovation. Hey, man, great. We're still winning 9-3. But
• 28:12
  Speaker 4: that was the tie to get him in the ninth inning.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I'm not totally into it.
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: Like, I'm not mad that I'm going to lose sleep
• 28:19
  Speaker 4: over it, but If you're a coach and you look
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: to your left and you see your guy that's supposed
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: to be on your side and you're like, oh, okay.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Interesting. That would irk me a little bit. Yeah, for sure.
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Hold up.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: But the Mets season has been 9-2 since May. You
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: know what I'm saying? It's a meaningless game.
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: I know.
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I'm pointing that out. Not to the people on the field.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: The fans aren't worried about how the people on the
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: field are feeling. That's just why the fans on the
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: stands are able to applaud Pete all weekend, and they
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: should feel okay with that, right? That's the fans' right.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: Just like players always say, oh, it's the fans' right
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: to boo me if they feel like I need to
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: be booed. You might not agree with it, but I
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: don't know. That's my take. Kate Cavalli, we saw the
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: news yesterday, is deep in extension talks. So that's a
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: good one. Just for a minute here. Cade Cavalli has
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: been one of the most underrated pitchers in the sport
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: this year, especially because he's come on late. He was good,
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: but now he's been ace level or, hold on, number
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: one quality starting pitcher for the Washington Nationals down the stretch.
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: He's been through his fair share of injuries. Todd Fother
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: didn't come right away for him. So this is one
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: of those perfect scenarios where most pitchers should keep an
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: extension in mind because the arm is a ticking time bomb.
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: If that gets thrown your way and there's any kind
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: of comps that align, most pitchers should be taking extensions
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: early on in their careers. You just don't know what's.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: Going to happen.
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: When you factor in Cavalli and the injuries that he's
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: had and how it didn't all come to him in
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: five minutes to make it to what he is now.
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: I feel like this is going to get done in
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: the next 24 to 48 hours. I think he's, yeah,
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: he's scheduled to pitch tonight. So I would imagine it
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: might get done before that.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would hope so. All of a sudden, if
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: that's on your mind, you don't want that on your
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: mind while you're going out there.
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I mean, he's a professional. Anytime you see his name
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: on there, it doesn't matter who he's pitching against. Like,
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: That's a name we know. That's a name we love.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Comfortable. I think of comfort when he's out there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: It seems like every time I watch him pitch, he's
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: always battling against whoever it is, whether he wins or loses.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: This is just a dude. He's a dude.
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: Honestly, you just want around and you want him to
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: pitch every time. He'd be great in any lineup. I
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: feel like he's been pitching for 20 years. I don't
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: know why that name just been around. So if it happens,
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: hopefully good for him. Get it while you can, man.
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: Take it. Those who got them, get them, get them.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: Keep them. Let's go. I love it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: And it's something to build on for this rotation for
• 31:06
  Speaker 3: the coming years, which they have to do a lot
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: of work to put a rotation on this team that
• 31:11
  Speaker 3: clearly has emerged as a bunch of hitters. But another name,
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: when you talk about very underrated people don't really know
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: that much about Cade Cavalli, guy who pitched last night
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: for the Angels, Walbert Ureña.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: Look it up.
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: Also a very– much younger pitcher that has emerged this
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: year and I don't think people know a lot about.
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: It's all smiles presented by Lorainco. Look at Todd Father
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: with those pearly whites there at the finish line of
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: the intro and a lot of smiles for the Dodgers
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: winning their 13th division title in 14 years. And as
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: Bob Nightingale wrote, they'll be favored to win a third
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: consecutive world series. We'll see if they actually pull that
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: off and we can talk about this amongst what's going
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: on with the ball club, but they're smiling right now.
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Todd father, they are. But when the expectations are so
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: high for the Dodgers, I feel like we've spent a
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: good amount of time over the last couple months pointing
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: out flaws like, Hey, show is not playing right now.
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: And Edwin Diaz is kind of a mess. And Ricardo
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Henriquez is hurt and out for the rest of the
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: regular season. Maybe more. All that being said, they very
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: easily took down the division this year. So let's start
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: with some positives. They're smiling. And then Doc Roberts in
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: his post-game speech with the boys was basically giving them the,
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: you're the best at everything. You're the best. You're the smartest.
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: And you want it more than everyone.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: Listen, before we go on, you know, senior superlatives, best smile.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: This guy right here. I had to let that be
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: known because you said what a great smile I had.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: I don't even know if they do that anymore in
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: high school. The Dodgers are a good team. I don't
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: care what anybody says.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: All the injuries aside, name one team that wants to
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: play the Dodgers in the playoff.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody. Listen, you could sit there. Yeah,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: we want them, this and that. Well, you're going to
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: be going home. This team is really good. Yeah, they've
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: been going through their ups and downs. A lot of
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: downs lately, injuries, this and that. But they've found a
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: way to win the World Series the past couple of years.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: And they're going to try and win it again. This
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: team is really good. Their pitching staff is good. Honestly,
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: I picked them to win the World Series, and I
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: don't see them not winning the World Series.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Right now, even with all the problems they have.
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: The veteran core they have, they're like the only team
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: that has true veteran ballplayers, a handful of them.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: Love that.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: That doesn't happen in baseball anymore. Now you're talking to
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: guys that we just talked to, Tolman, and he's the
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: old man.
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, right.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: He's a puppy. So good for him. Good for the Dodgers.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: It's a team that's going to be really good. And
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: I don't think anybody wants to play this team moving forward.
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: I don't care who you are or who they have
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: and who's injured. It doesn't matter.
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I would agree. I mean, nobody wants to play them,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: but everybody wants to beat them. So that's the issue
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: that they're going to get everybody's best. But that's what
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: the playoffs are. It's not a big deal. What this
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: stretch did show us, the stretch where we were nitpicking,
• 34:20
  Speaker 3: we were nitpicking because they're supposed to be the best.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: And when they're not, to me, it shines a light
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: on the fact that everybody has a shot. And I
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: don't know that they're definitely the favorites. I don't know
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: that I'm choosing them to win the World Series this year.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: It's so hard to do. I don't care how many
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: superstars you have. I don't care if Blake Snell goes down,
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: Tarek Skubal steps in. Yamamoto throws all three games of
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: the first series, whatever it is. It's so hard to
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: win back-to-back. They did that, and now to win the
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: three-peat is tough to do.
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not just the three-peat they're going for. They're
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: going for a five-peat if you're Tarek Skubal. Did you
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: guys hear this?
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: Five-peat? No. Mm-hmm.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: Well, guys, congratulations, NL West champions. You sit on the chest.
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: You like being over here so far, being a part
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: of this NL West championship?
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: What'd you say?
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: How do you like being.
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Over here, being a part of this NL West championship? Oh,
• 35:27
  Speaker 5: it's a ton of fun.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: The group here is great.
• 35:28
  Speaker 5: It's a ton of fun to celebrate, you know, these
• 35:31
  Speaker 5: moments with these guys. It's going to be special. It's
• 35:33
  Speaker 5: going to be the first of many.
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: Tell them it's going to be special because you're playing
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: this postseason with your boys.
• 35:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is my best friend. He's my little brother. Yeah,
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: but it's a ton of fun. Are you being forced
• 35:46
  Speaker 5: to say that? No, no, the feeling's mutual. The feeling's mutual.
• 35:51
  Speaker 5: He's my little brother, though.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Little.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: Big brother.
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: We've got four Cy Youngs right here. What excites you
• 35:57
  Speaker 5: guys most just what you two can do come October?
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: The opportunity to get another World Series.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: That's the most important, funnest part. I'm going to block it.
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: You see, I got my boys back. I got his back.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: That's love. That's a lot of love.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: I appreciate that.
• 36:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that, I mean, the opportunity, right, to
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: play in October, that's every spring training, that's what you
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: show up ready to do is to go out and
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: compete in October and have a chance to win a
• 36:20
  Speaker 5: World Series. And, you know, I love our odds here. Guys, congratulations.
• 36:24
  Speaker 5: Enjoy this.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: It only gets better.
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: Only better.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: First of all, that was a fun interview. And that
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: is not easy to navigate. It is absolute chaos. When
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: you're trying to pull off interviews in a clubhouse celebration
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: like that, and then there's the distractions. And I mean,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: sometimes you do those and then there's other mics that
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: start popping up in your face and you're like, can
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I get 30 seconds for an interview? But then Scooble
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: and Snell playing off each other. The reason I mentioned
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: five Pete Kratz is not that they actually said it,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: but did you catch the Scooble words right off the
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: jump there?
• 36:57
  Speaker 3: See, I disagree. Everyone's like, what? He's already going to
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: sign back there? He's already talking about it?
• 37:02
  Speaker 1: I didn't say he's doing that, but the way he
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: phrased it was.
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: Just cute and clever. No, this is the first of
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: many champagne celebrations. Because when you talk about it, you're like,
• 37:15
  Speaker 3: this is the first one. We got to get this
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: one in. You win the division, you celebrate. Then you
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: win the next round. So for them, it'll be the DS.
• 37:25
  Speaker 3: And as long as they get that second seed, I
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: think that's pretty much locked up. But then it's the CS.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Then it's the World Series. So you talk about that stuff.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: When you make the playoffs, you need 11 wins. When
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: you make the playoffs or you clinch your spot, your
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: last time to celebrate in regular season, all right, four
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: more champagne celebrations. Or for them, three more champagne celebrations.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: Like that's... That's what he was talking about. I have no,
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: zero belief in him being like, I'm going to be
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: here for a long time. I'm not saying he can't be.
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying that's not what I think he meant.
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: So you're saying that if they do get bounced at
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: any point, or even if they win, eventually, when he's
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: played his last 2026 game with the Dodgers, give me
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: the Boers hat, give me the Garrett Cole routine. Remember Cole?
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: Totally. After they lost... He dropped in the Boris hat.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: For everybody listening, Todd's given his best Yankees pitch so
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: that Tarek Scooble can transition everything from Cole to Scooble.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: The Cole contract will slowly fade off and then Scooble
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: will take over.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Thank you. Well done.
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: Well, I liked the little playfulness, Todd, father. Scooble and
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Snell clearly liking each other and having fun being teammates.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: Snell's older than Scooble for the record, but Scooble's calling
• 38:56
  Speaker 1: him little bro. Is he four years older?
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: Four years older. And Blake Snell is that guy. Blake Snell,
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: when I went over for the six minutes that I
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: was a Ray, he just has that personality that, I
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: don't know, I was drawn to him as a friend.
• 39:16
  Speaker 3: He's just that guy that then you play against him
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: and the same jokes, the same The same funny things
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: that you laugh at. I don't know. He's like a
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: regular dude that just is really pretty good from the
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: left side.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: He's got a good travel ball organization too.
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: I've seen those. I've seen those videos.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Colorful. I like them. I love them.
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: I would say, well, Snell does the live streaming, playing
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: video games and all that, right?
• 39:48
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: So, I mean, he's a talker. He's sneaky. He can
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: drop some funny lines for you. Those two together, though,
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: that's a good act. That's a good routine. And like
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: Kirsten Watson pointed out, who's the reporter for the Dodgers,
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of Cy Youngs wrapped up in that conversation.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Those dudes know what they're doing.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: How's Snell feeling? How's he doing? It seemed to be
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: all right.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: It's a great question. No, it's a great question, Todd,
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: because he missed a large chunk of the season. And
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: then the other day, he left after 19 pitches with
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: a groin issue. And he said he's going to be fine,
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: but you better be.
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: He seemed to be in good spirits there. Yeah, he was.
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: He was.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: I mean, think about it. The Dodgers essentially have two
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: guys in Snell and Glass now, who are two of
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: the better stuff guy pitchers in the league for a while.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: And they haven't pitched a ton for them. And this year,
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, they barely pitched, if you're looking at it.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Are the innings on the board here? Where are we
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: at for Snell this season on innings? There are not many.
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: Trust me. I had him on my fantasy team. I
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: had him and Blas on my fantasy team. It didn't
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: work out.
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: I think he's made eight starts.
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: There you go.
• 41:02
  Speaker 3: 38 innings. Eight starts. I mean, what are you going
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: to get from him in the playoffs? You're going to
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: get five innings. Probably seven to eight punches.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: And.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Yamamoto will throw the last four and then he'll start
• 41:18
  Speaker 3: the next day.
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Cute, cute. Love it. All right.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Well, congrats to the Dodgers. We'll celebrate it. It is
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: an accomplishment to take down the division there in the
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: national league West. And I mean, they did it without
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: really getting much of a threat for the entire season.
• 41:34
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• 41:45
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• 41:49
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• 42:27
  Speaker 1: Just one little nugget, one little news bit on our
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: way out. Tarps Off lasted all season long. You know,
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: I bet you there's no way to compute this, but
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: MLB probably made like tens of millions of dollars. I'm
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: saying total. The amount of little Gen Zs that were
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: able to go to a game and rip their shirt
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: off and have fun with their friends out in the outfield, right?
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: That wasn't a thing. The amount of kids that went
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: to games. And who started it? The gentleman from the
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: Stephen F. Austin club baseball team. Jim Hayes from Cardinal Territory,
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: who's on Cardinals TV also, said that that crew is
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: going to be back at Busch Stadium tonight. Friday night
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: should be fun. Maybe they start a new viral trend.
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: It's pretty unique. Would you take your shirt off? Would
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: you go out there and take your shirt off and
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: do it?
• 43:20
  Speaker 1: No, I feel like, I feel like tarps off the
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: Gen Z thing. Like I don't, I think I'm too old.
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: How old are you?
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Mostly kids. It's mostly like, it's mostly like anywhere from,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: I don't know. You seen like 12 year olds to
• 43:34
  Speaker 1: like 25 year olds.
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: I think you don't look like you're 46, you know,
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: but I am.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: I am.
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: I'm just a 46-year-old man.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: What can I do? I'm a man. I'm 40. Good stuff, everyone.
• 43:51
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• 43:53
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• 44:06
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• 44:08
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