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Orioles vs Yankees series preview, Chris Bassitt DEALS in Astros win · Birdland Territory

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  Speaker 1: The inconsistency of the twenty twenty six Orioles well on
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  Speaker 1: display today at Oriel Park at Camden Yards. Welcome in
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  Speaker 1: to the latest edition of Birdland Territory with Tim Barblace
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  Speaker 1: and Brad Brock. I'm Steve Mleski. The bird split two
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  Speaker 1: with Houston today at the Yard. As we tape this
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  Speaker 1: about twenty four hours before they take the field in
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  Speaker 1: the Yankee Stadium. We're gonna get into that in just
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  Speaker 1: a minute. Game one today, the Oriols speed Houston ten
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  Speaker 1: to three. It was one of their better games of
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  Speaker 1: the year. Game two was not that as they lost
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  Speaker 1: eleven to five. We're down ten to nothing early and
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  Speaker 1: so guys, we're gonna get into the aspects of both
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  Speaker 1: games throughout this show today. We got plenty of time
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  Speaker 1: to do that. But how crep Now are the Orioles
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  Speaker 1: for this big four game series in the Bronx. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is the first twice in the next four series
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  Speaker 1: they're going to face the Yankees. The Yankees on paper
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  Speaker 1: right now, look so much the better team, but I
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  Speaker 1: think it's an opportunity for the Orioles to go in
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  Speaker 1: there and surprise us, elevate their game show that this
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  Speaker 1: second game was They're gonna flush it, as they like
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  Speaker 1: to say, and move on. What what are your thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: Brad on this big weekend looming for the Orioles.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a big one. It's the first time
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  Speaker 2: going on the road facing the Division O ponent, and
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  Speaker 2: anytime you go to Yankee Stadium, the games are just
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  Speaker 2: they're more exciting. It's there's a lotder atmosphere. It's it's
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  Speaker 2: New York City on a Friday night, so it's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more amped up. And I mean,
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  Speaker 2: in the history of Orioles Yankees, there's been some crazy
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  Speaker 2: games at Yankee Stadium, so you can always expect that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, honestly, going into it, I think I
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  Speaker 2: like the abats they had today. I know they got
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  Speaker 2: beat real bad in the second game, but I like
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  Speaker 2: how many pitches they're starting to see. I don't like
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  Speaker 2: the swing and miss obviously as much as what's going on,
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  Speaker 2: but I really just like the they're seeing tons of
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  Speaker 2: pitches they're getting. I feel like almost every batter had
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  Speaker 2: a two two through two count. A lot of times
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  Speaker 2: they're just not getting the swing when they need it.
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  Speaker 2: So the offensive side. I think I think they're getting
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  Speaker 2: They're getting really really close. And then today Bassett's outing
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  Speaker 2: is going to go a long way for this this
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  Speaker 2: stretch here Yankee Stadium, having him get into the seventh
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  Speaker 2: inning there only having to use Rigo Garcia for one out,
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  Speaker 2: get him ready to go for the weekend, and then
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  Speaker 2: you didn't have to use Helsley or Kittridge or the
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  Speaker 2: big arms at the back of the bullpen. So the
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  Speaker 2: bullpen's ready to go. And I think that outing that
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  Speaker 2: Bassett had today is going to go a long way.
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  Speaker 3: It was huge.
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  Speaker 4: It was a must have outing for Chris Bassett because
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  Speaker 4: we know how much he's really struggled. But also with
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  Speaker 4: this being a doubleheader ahead of this four game series,
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  Speaker 4: especially when you consider the fact that the Yankees are
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  Speaker 4: off today, so that's a big advantage that New York
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  Speaker 4: has going into this four game series. And Trevor Rodgers
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  Speaker 4: was scheduled to start in the opener, he's on the
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  Speaker 4: il due to the flu. But looking at this series
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  Speaker 4: as a whole, has this been the start to the
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  Speaker 4: season that the Orioles have wanted? Absolutely not, You're you're
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  Speaker 4: a game under five hundred heading into May, but looking
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  Speaker 4: at this from a glass full perspective, this is an
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  Speaker 4: opportunity to make a statement.
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  Speaker 3: Guys.
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  Speaker 4: The Yankees are red hot going into this four game series.
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  Speaker 4: They've won ten of twelve games, and they lead the
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  Speaker 4: league in home runs. The starting pitching has been really,
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  Speaker 4: really good, and obviously you're gonna face four of their starters.
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  Speaker 4: You miss Schweitzler, but you're going to face everyone else.
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  Speaker 3: Max Bried'll start that game on Monday.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tall task going into this series, but it's
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  Speaker 4: a big opportunity for the Birds.
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  Speaker 1: It is, and I think some fans might be surprised
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  Speaker 1: to know this stat. In the last three years, Orioles
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  Speaker 1: and Yankees has been even just about Baltimore nineteen wins
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  Speaker 1: Yankees twenty. The Orioles lost the season series to the
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  Speaker 1: Brons Bombers six straight years from twenty seventeen through twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty two. But there's two years they were a playoff team.
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  Speaker 1: They beat them seven and six. Orioles in twenty three
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  Speaker 1: when they won the East eight and five, they won.
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  Speaker 5: The season series the next year.
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  Speaker 1: Last year, seventy five win Orioles went four and nine,
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  Speaker 1: So they've been holding their own in recent years. But
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  Speaker 1: right now, the Yankees are scoring nearly five a game.
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  Speaker 1: They're starting rotation era is the best in Major League
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  Speaker 1: Baseball two seven to four the Orioles, who by the way,
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  Speaker 1: are at four sixty. That doesn't even look like a
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  Speaker 1: good matchup on paper. So to me, they are the
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  Speaker 1: big underdog in this series. Two and two, I think
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  Speaker 1: we'd almost take right three and one, we'd be elated.
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  Speaker 1: But I think the Orioles guys have to prove that
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  Speaker 1: they can elevate their play to look as good as
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees or in their league, and now they have
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  Speaker 1: seven chances to do that in their next thirteen games.
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  Speaker 2: Yain, I think, honestly, it's it's a good measuring stick.
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  Speaker 2: I think it's a it's an early test and it's
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  Speaker 2: still the first week of May, so it's not emergency
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  Speaker 2: if you went in there lost three out of four.
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  Speaker 2: But it's a good test. It's where they want to be.
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  Speaker 2: It's the team that they want to compete against and
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  Speaker 2: see where they are up against the Yankees their first place.
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  Speaker 2: They want to try to make gain some ground on them.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said, at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 2: I think it's it's just going in there one game
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  Speaker 2: at a time. That's the beauty of baseball. It's it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't matter what happened today, it's tomorrow's a whole new thing.
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  Speaker 2: Like we've talked about a bunch of times on the show.
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  Speaker 2: But when you go in there, you try to get
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  Speaker 2: the first game of the series and then you move
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  Speaker 2: on to Saturday. So that's that's the beauty of it all.
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  Speaker 2: And I just kind of look at those numbers and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it's got to come back to the
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  Speaker 2: me And I feel like the Yankees they're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: have a two seven the entire year, and the Orioles,
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  Speaker 2: you would hope they're starting pitches are gonna have a
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  Speaker 2: four to six. So that's that's the hope of Orioles
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  Speaker 2: fans that it's got to come back a little bit. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 2: you know, pitchers get off to a great start and
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  Speaker 2: they kind of settle in the middle of the season
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  Speaker 2: and hopefully the Oriols hitters can get hot and kind
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  Speaker 2: of knock that era number up a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: For the Yankees and Steve what's crazy about those numbers?
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  Speaker 5: Man?
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  Speaker 4: Garrett Cole's return is still looming, you know, Carlos Rodin
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  Speaker 4: is still sidelined, and they're still off to this great
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  Speaker 4: start to the season.
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  Speaker 3: Something that we've been talking about a lot over the
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  Speaker 3: past couple.
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  Speaker 4: Of weeks is that this has been a very unique
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  Speaker 4: start to the schedule for the Orioles. You flip the
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  Speaker 4: calendar to May, they've only played that one series against
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  Speaker 4: an Al's team and they lost that series to the
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  Speaker 4: Red Sox at Camden Yards. But it really flips in
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  Speaker 4: the month of May. You got these two series against
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees. You have a total of seventeen games over
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  Speaker 4: May against the Yankees. Two series there, two series against
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  Speaker 4: the Rays, and then you have a four game series
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  Speaker 4: against the Blue Jays. So seventeen combined games against those
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  Speaker 4: two teams, and the Yankees obviously off to a hot
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  Speaker 4: start twenty and eleven heading into this series. But oddly enough,
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  Speaker 4: despite the Birds playing you know what, thirty one games already,
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  Speaker 4: they've only played four games against teams with a winning
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  Speaker 4: record and they're one in three in those games.
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  Speaker 3: So this is an opportunity to make a statement.
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  Speaker 1: Will be an interesting weekend in the Bronx in this show.
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  Speaker 1: In a minute, we're gonna get in some interesting comments today.
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  Speaker 1: What Craig Albernas had to say briefly after game two
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  Speaker 1: and what Chris Bassett had to say after he pitched
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  Speaker 1: so well in game one, which was between games interview,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to catch up with those quotes and
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  Speaker 5: Berdland Territory with you.
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  Speaker 1: After the Oriol split a doubleheader with Houston, SO Chris
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  Speaker 1: Bassett his best start as an Oriel game won one run,
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  Speaker 1: six and two thirds, ninety four pitches so pitcherfish and
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  Speaker 1: early at a season high twelve whifs.
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  Speaker 5: The curveball is really dancing, look really good.
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  Speaker 1: And then when he talked to reporters, he revealed essentially
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  Speaker 1: that the starters had what he termed to come to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Meeting, and he also termed their performance as poor.
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  Speaker 1: As a media guy, even as a fan, I like that.
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  Speaker 1: I like when the team is saying what we all
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  Speaker 1: can see has to do better. And coincidentally, since the
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  Speaker 1: come to Jesus Meeting, Bob's and bats through their best
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  Speaker 1: games and obviously it got away in the game two today,
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  Speaker 1: But those are two guys who will be counted on
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  Speaker 1: all year with others. What did you guys think of
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  Speaker 1: those comments?
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  Speaker 2: I think it was awesome, Like you're saying, as a
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  Speaker 2: fan as even guys on the team. Guys are very
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  Speaker 2: self aware if it's going well or not. They just
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  Speaker 2: I think they either don't want to admit it or
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  Speaker 2: they don't want to say it out loud and have
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  Speaker 2: it kind of be printed. But for him to say
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  Speaker 2: that and say they had a meeting and kind of
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  Speaker 2: say it's unacceptable how we've been pitching, I think was
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  Speaker 2: awesome to see. They're very self aware that they have
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  Speaker 2: not lived up to the expectations that they have for
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  Speaker 2: themselves to this season. And I think for him to
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  Speaker 2: come out and tell everybody that they had a meeting
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  Speaker 2: and said we need to correct some things. Sometimes it
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  Speaker 2: has to be said. And I think when you sit
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  Speaker 2: there and everyone's kind of thinking it but nobody's saying it,
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  Speaker 2: it's a way better thing to have a meeting with
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  Speaker 2: all the guys and just say, listen, this is not
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  Speaker 2: okay what we're doing. This stuff is too good. We're
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  Speaker 2: living out of the strike zone. We need to be
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  Speaker 2: more in the strike zone. And you clearly saw those
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  Speaker 2: two guys attacking hitters, going at them to get to
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  Speaker 2: their all sweet stuff. It's no Almost the entire pitching staff,
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  Speaker 2: starting staff lives off their off speed. But the only
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  Speaker 2: way to get through your off speed is if you
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  Speaker 2: throw fastballs on the zone. So I think that his
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  Speaker 2: boat was perfect. There's no other way to describe it.
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  Speaker 4: That's the leadership that we've been talking about a lot
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  Speaker 4: this offseason. You bring in Chris Bassett, you bring in
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  Speaker 4: Pete Alonso, some guys that have been through the Wars,
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  Speaker 4: They've had phenomenal appearances in the postseason.
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  Speaker 3: Chris Bassett and Blow Jay's were this close to winning
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  Speaker 3: the World.
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  Speaker 4: Series over the Dodgers as big time underdogs there and Bassett,
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  Speaker 4: you can think back to the moment during spring training
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  Speaker 4: where the guys they were going through defensive drills and
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  Speaker 4: kind of lacks of days ago, and Bassett called everybody
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  Speaker 4: in and say, hey, we got to do this right.
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  Speaker 3: And now you're just seeing that even more.
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  Speaker 4: And with Bassett today, guys by far and away his
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  Speaker 4: best outing and he had a season high twelve whiffs,
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  Speaker 4: and Brad, you're right where even in the starts prior
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  Speaker 4: to this, when we've seen him at his best, those.
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  Speaker 3: Flashes of it. The curveball has been really strong, the
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  Speaker 3: sweeper's been really strong. He had six swings and miss
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  Speaker 3: on his curveball today two on the sweeper. But I
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  Speaker 3: wanted to get.
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  Speaker 4: Your thoughts on Shane Boz yesterday, Brad, because something that
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  Speaker 4: was a lot different from his prior start in Kansas City.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't throw a single sinker, a single two seamer. Well,
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  Speaker 3: he threw twelve of those pitches, eleven of them to
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  Speaker 3: right handed batters. What did you see with that adjustment
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  Speaker 3: and how difficult does it is that for right handed batteries?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's he must have seen something where
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  Speaker 2: writers are staying out over the plate. He doesn't like
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  Speaker 2: to come in a lot of times, and the sinker
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  Speaker 2: is going to do that for you. You run it
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  Speaker 2: in off the hands, even if you throw it for
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  Speaker 2: a ball a lot of times, is going to keep
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  Speaker 2: the hitter from getting out over the plate. And that's
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  Speaker 2: where he likes to live. He likes to live out
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  Speaker 2: and up in the strike zone. But if you're not
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  Speaker 2: showing anything on the inner third of the plate, hitters
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  Speaker 2: can just sit out there and sit out there all
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  Speaker 2: the time. When I was pitching, I would always pitch away.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody knew of the skyingport. I always pitched away, But
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  Speaker 2: you had to come in every once in a while
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  Speaker 2: to just show them you can't just sit out over
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  Speaker 2: the plate. So I think that's probably what he saw.
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  Speaker 2: He saw numbers that he didn't like about something about
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  Speaker 2: guys getting out over the plate. So he started running
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  Speaker 2: that two seamer in and you have to respect it
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  Speaker 2: as a hitter. You throw it one time, okay, but
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  Speaker 2: like you said, eleven times to right. He's he's trying
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  Speaker 2: to prove a point there. He's trying to say, you're
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  Speaker 2: not gonna be able to just get out and hit
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  Speaker 2: balls the other way or pull balls that are middle
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  Speaker 2: in anymore. I'm going to run this two seamen at you.
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  Speaker 2: So he did that and it was really effective. And
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  Speaker 2: I think when he starts doing that, his breaking ball
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  Speaker 2: becomes that much more effective because he can start it
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  Speaker 2: a third away and have it break off the plate
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  Speaker 2: and it looks like it's more of a strike than
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  Speaker 2: it actually is, and that's where he's going to get
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  Speaker 2: a swing and miss.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, go back to Bassett. I agree with you, guys,
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  Speaker 1: great leadership. He's kind of been that from the start.
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  Speaker 1: The clubhouse is saying that about him, and then he's
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  Speaker 1: pitching poorly early, so you know, the fans are like Okay,
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  Speaker 1: he showed me the leadership. Well he did, he did today,
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  Speaker 1: and he did in revealing what those pitchers said. And
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  Speaker 1: again it's better to get it out then. So over
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  Speaker 1: the years I've interviewed many of starting pitchers. A boy
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  Speaker 1: one pitch, well, you look at the boxer, I give
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  Speaker 1: up six runs. Okay, maybe he's not wrong, but six
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  Speaker 1: runs doesn't get it done, whether it was one pitch
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  Speaker 1: or ten pitches. So it's better to say we haven't
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  Speaker 1: been doing as well and with a two run difference
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  Speaker 1: Yankee rotation to Baltimore, he's right, But then he did it.
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  Speaker 1: You say it and you follow it up. That really,
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  Speaker 1: I think is impressive.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely. It's one thing to say we had this meeting.
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  Speaker 2: It's another thing to come out and have two great
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  Speaker 2: starts like they had to start the series. So I
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  Speaker 2: think it's I have a perfect personal experience with this
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  Speaker 2: having to come to Jesus kind of moment where I
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  Speaker 2: was kind of twenty fifteen, I was out of options,
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  Speaker 2: kind of good outing, bad outing, back and forth, and
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  Speaker 2: pitching coach Dave Wallace pulled me in the laundry room
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  Speaker 2: in Houston and he just basically anytime he had a
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  Speaker 2: big conversation with you. He'd always take off his glasses
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  Speaker 2: and he sat there and he had a man conversation
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  Speaker 2: with me, and it was to this day, it was
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  Speaker 2: the complete turning point of my career. It was kind
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  Speaker 2: of challenging me, and it was one of those conversations
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  Speaker 2: I can still hear in the back of my head,
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  Speaker 2: and it carried me throughout my career. It was kind
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  Speaker 2: of just you, you're better than what you're showing. Are
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  Speaker 2: you going to go out there and prove it? Or
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  Speaker 2: are you just going to sit here and sit in
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  Speaker 2: mediocrity and get deafaided and go through a different team
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  Speaker 2: and have some success. So these kinds of meetings can
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  Speaker 2: have a monumental turn for pictures overall, and I don't
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  Speaker 2: think it happens very often. So I honestly loved hearing
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  Speaker 2: that today. And I think for him to back it
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  Speaker 2: up and go out there and have the start he
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  Speaker 2: had was just showing his leadership and proving to everybody
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  Speaker 2: that I think it's kind of if I can do it,
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  Speaker 2: you guys can do it. Because I'm thirty five, thirty
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  Speaker 2: six years old, I don't throw ninety eight like you
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  Speaker 2: guys do. And I can go out there and I
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  Speaker 2: can get swings in this is it's all about timing
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  Speaker 2: for the and today he was throwing fastballs. Bye guys. Alvarez,
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  Speaker 2: he struck out with the four seen fastball at ninety
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  Speaker 2: two or ninety one miles an hour. The guy's one
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  Speaker 2: of the hottest hitters in the league. And if he
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  Speaker 2: can do it, those guys can do it. And I
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  Speaker 2: think today was just an awesome example of leadership and
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  Speaker 2: just going out there and getting the job done.
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  Speaker 4: It's such a great point, Brad, because you think about
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  Speaker 4: Bassett at thirty seven compared to Shane Bose who could
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  Speaker 4: just throw gas and Kyle Brad just throws filth and rogers.
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  Speaker 4: Of course is a different type of pitcher. But you're right,
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: like Bassett leading by example there and his words, I think,
• 15:36
  Speaker 4: and I think you believe too, Brad, like they carry
• 15:39
  Speaker 4: so much more weight because he's been.
• 15:41
  Speaker 3: Through it so long and he's experienced.
• 15:44
  Speaker 4: Such high highs and had such great success and to
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: last as long as he has in MLB, that's just
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: not common.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: No, it's not. And for him to still be doing it,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: I mean it's I'm just a firm believer of his
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: career numbers are there for a reason, and he's going
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: to be there at the end of the year. I
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: just have heard it from him when I was a rookie.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: I remember Houston Street coming to me in the outfield
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: and just saying, listen, I know him off too a
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: bad start. He's like, by the end of the year,
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna have this number, that number, this number. And
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: he was exactly right. He's like, experience helps me know
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: where I'm going to be. He wasn't nervous. I think
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: he works really hard. He knows all the analytics for everything.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: He went out. You could tell in the last eight
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: days where he didn't start, he worked really hard. He
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: threw more two scenes today than he had all year,
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: so there was obviously something he was working on and
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: it worked and it was I think it's just a
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: It was a big boost, and I think guys are
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: kind of like, man, now it's my turn. I got
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: to go and step up. Obviously, the Brandon Young outing
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: was tough today, but the other guys who've been in
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: the rotation all year, it's like, Okay, now it's my turn.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: I can't can't let Chris show me up today, So
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: it's like I said, I think he can create kind
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: of a friendly competition and kind of raise the level
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: play of everybody in the starting staff.
• 16:52
  Speaker 5: Listening.
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: Unless Chris Bashik got all overnight, and clearly he hasn't.
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: He was going to start pitching better, and he did.
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: This guy pitched in the World Series and shut down
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers in a relief role, which is not his role.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: So if a couple start bad starts in April, aren't
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: going to scare this guy. And obviously he's starting to
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: get it on track for the Orioles, which could be
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: so big. But let's talk about a couple of Grand
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Slams that were hit today in the same game. We're
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: going to get to that in just a minute here
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: on Birdland Territory.
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  Speaker 1: So the Oriols are fifteen and sixteen. As the month
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: of April comes to an end, we get into may
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: Orioles in the Bronx. But let's talk about two Grand
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: Slams in one game. The Oriols had that happen today
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: in Game one, the eighth time in team history. The
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: last was September eleventh, twenty fifteen, against Kansas City. It
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: was Steve Clevenger and noahen Rimold. Today was Adley Rutschman,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: whose third career Grand Slam, and Jeremiah Jackson, his second
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: of this season, Jackson has twenty four RBIs. That's more
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: than Aaron Judge in the top five in the American League.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Adley and Jackson put on a show today in Game one,
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: and both look like they're ploys for big years.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Adley looks really good. I mean, he's just especially
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: from the left side right now, and today the home
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: run was from the right side, but from the left
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: side right now, his swing is so sweet. It's he's
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: taking balls inside out, hitting it through the six hole
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: in the first inning for an RBI. Then he's going
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: to the other side of the plate, hitting homers from
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: the right side. It's just he looks. He looks great.
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: And then we've talked about multiple times where would this
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: team be without Jeremiah Jackson, But he's he just seems
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: to step up when there's guys on base. It seems
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: like every time he has an opportunity to knock a
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: guy in, he has a big hit. And it's he
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: showed it again today with the grand Slam, and that
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: was those runs were huge to extend the lead to
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: where it was didn't have to use their top leverage
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: arms there at the end of the game, and it
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: really helps them moving into the series against New York.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: So runs like that are just great to have, and
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: he continues to have a phenomenal season so far.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: It's unbelievable.
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: And he already has more RBI steve than he did
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: last year during his run with the Orioles, which he
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: played substantially more games than just the twenty nine that
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: he's been in so far. And Adley, it's been it's
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: been such a great, great start for Adley Rutchman. You know,
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: I saw a stat earlier today following the first game
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: where he's the first catcher with ten plus extra base
• 20:24
  Speaker 4: hits fifteen plus RBIs in his first sixteen games to
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: open a season since Will Smith in twenty nineteen. So
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: that just tells you what type of start Adley Rutchman
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: is off to this year. And he's got to be
• 20:37
  Speaker 4: playing with so much confidence right now, Brad.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: And it really appears like it where.
• 20:44
  Speaker 4: The last year and a half prior to this that
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: wasn't Adley Rutchman. It just didn't look like that guy
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: from twenty twenty two through the first half of twenty
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: twenty four. And we know they's dealt with injuries, the
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: hand injury in twenty four of the Obleaku's last season
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: where I think he was pressing. And you know, even
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: last year it looked like he was coming out of
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: in June and that's when he sustained the oblique injury.
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: Where he's got to be playing with just so much confidence.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he looks like the All Star catcher. Everybody expects
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: him to be one of the best in the league,
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: and he's playing with huge confidence. You can tell it
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't matter the count. And they even said today in
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the broadcast he's swinging earlier in the count that he
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: normally has, so that that to me shows confidence when
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: you're swinging early in the count, not afraid to go
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: and attack pitches early in the count as opposed to
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: seeing a couple of pitches, because it just means you're hot.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: It means you're seeing the ball well, you know what
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: you're looking for, and when you get it, whether it's
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: the first pitcher, it's the fifth pitch of that bat,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: you're ready to jump on it. And that's what he's doing.
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: He looks great. Would love to see him, in saying Besilo,
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: getting the lineup together more often because both of them
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: right now, I feel I could carry the offense themselves
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: with the swings they're putting on the ball. But it's
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: great to see Ali back to the catch. Everybody sees
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: him being right now. Defensively, he's been phenomenal to so
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: it's just great seeing him play well and really be
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: the captain of the team.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Before the doubleheader today, with the bases loaded this year
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: as a team, the Oriols were batting three thirty three,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: seventh best in the majors ops with bases loaded nine
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: eighty eight, fifth best before they hit two Grand Slams.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: So we'd check those stats in the morning and see
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: it might be first for all we know. So those
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: are good numbers. They're doing some clutch things with the
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: bases loaded, and yet they do take minus one and
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: the one lost column into New York. Game two was ugly,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and that's what it was called by their manager. We'll
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: touch on that in a moment On Birdland Territory.
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• 23:00
  Speaker 1: Like with Chris Bassett's comments, I think we're all going
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: to like the fact that Magic Craig Albert has set
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: of Game two, and I think it was mostly talking
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: about the defense. He could have been talking about the
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: game overall. The eleven to five loss ugly unacceptable. I
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: like that, guys. He didn't throw anybody under the boss,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: he didn't call anybody by name. He just said that
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: performance is not acceptable for the Orioles and the team
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: has to figure out a way to clean that up.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: In a hurry play like that in the Bronx, it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: will be continued to be ugly.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think once again, I think it's another on
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: purpose thing. He's not just going to throw that stuff
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: out there unless he wants to. It's either he wants
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: them to see it, wants them to read it, and
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: just know that he told everybody it's unacceptable. It's not
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: acceptable to have a game like they had today. Like
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: he said, he knows the second game of the doubleheader,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: but it just was not not the start they were
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: looking for, and to get behind as bad as they
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: did early on in that game, it just can't continue.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And the inconsistency kind of just crept its head up
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: there a little bit. Right when you they're gonna come
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: out and they're gonna have this great start, they're went
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: out away from getting out of the inning with no
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: runs and they end up giving up a five or
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: six spot in the first inning, and it's just you
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: get behind like that and it's really hard to come
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: back from. He was right, it's unacceptable to start games
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: like that. And even just watching it, if I had
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: wasn't listening to the broadcast, it just looked sloppy. It
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: looked a little sluggish, and it's exactly what happened in
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: that first inning.
• 24:25
  Speaker 4: Five unearned runs were scored between the two games and
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: the doubleheader.
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: Five. That's way too much.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: And Brad, you mentioned that first inning where Brandon Young, look,
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: it was a really tough start for him.
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: There's no way around it, giving up ten hits.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: And initially the Jeremiah Jackson play that ended up getting
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: behind him wasn't ruled in error. I was like, man,
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: that was a very gracious ruling by the official scorer,
• 24:49
  Speaker 4: but then it was changed and three of Brandon Young's
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: ten runs given up were unearned.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: But they just crush you.
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: And when you think of where this team is at, obviously.
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: They are far from firing on all cylinders.
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: You can't give free runs, you can't give an extra
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: ninety feet to base runners. You can't make these elementary
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: mistakes because they just come back to bite you in
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: the butt.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: It's just when.
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: Things aren't clicking and they start to really snowball like that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: That game today, the second one was very reminiscent of
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: games last year where when you find yourself in a
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: five to nothing hole before you even take an at bat, damn, Like,
• 25:39
  Speaker 4: it's just hard human nature. I'm not saying these guys
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: are thinking that, but it's hard thinking like, oh, well,
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: I guess it's onto the Bronx.
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: You know, we got a four game series.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: Like, it's hard to dig out of that hole immediately.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is. It's it's really tough when you get down.
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: It's tough when you get down two nothing, three nothing,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: because you just then you just know you have to
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: you have to call so much tougher to get back
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: in these games. And like you said, with the Division
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: games coming up, especially on the road, it gets even
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: that much more tough. And having an anything like that today,
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: obviously you hope it doesn't happen again. But like I said,
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: I think it it was just so I think it
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: was even more disheartening as the game went along because
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: they put together so many good at bats late and
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: they scratch across a couple of runs, but it was
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: all or not, and it's like, you just wish that
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: instead of the five runs, it was three runs, and
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: then instead of ten it was seven eight runs, because
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: I just feel like they were one swing away from
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: making that game eleven eight there in the seventh or
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: eighth inning, and when you're just so far behind, it's like,
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: you know, the grand slaying puts you down three and
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: you still have to get three more runs. So it's
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: just like it just kind of snowballs, like you said,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: and it just kind of puts this mental block. They're
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: probably not thinking about it a ton, but when you're
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: down five to nothing in the first you know, and
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: you know the game is going to have to take
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: a kind of a crazy turn for you to get
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: back in it, and you're trying to put up a
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: couple in that first inning, and is that as you
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: going in to the second you're still down five to nothing.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: Now it's really on top of your head. Okay, we
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: got to get going here, and it just makes it
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: tough to win major league games that way.
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: So let's end the show be full circle where we started.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Oriols Yankees twenty and eleven, New York first place, ten
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: and two in their last twelve. Hopefully the Oriols don't
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: make me eat these words. But in recent years, when
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: I see the Oriols play the Yankees in the Bronx,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: I see a team that's not scared to see the pinstripes.
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: I don't see that with every team in the American League.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I have seen it with this one. What it will
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: be really big this weekend is if one of the stars,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: Gunner Alonso Ward, does something big early, maybe they get
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a lead, and maybe they roll through a good weekend.
• 27:40
  Speaker 5: That's the hope in Berdland, I think.
• 27:42
  Speaker 4: And Steve, you brought up the numbers earlier, and even
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I know they had a losing record in twenty twenty two,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: but I feel like later on in the year they
• 27:50
  Speaker 4: started to win some games against the Yankees, and I'm
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: with you one hundred percent.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: For whatever reason, in twenty three, twenty four.
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: Maybe even the beginning of last year, I think I
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: remember them winning a series early on in April, despite
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: them off to a rough start. They play the Yankees well,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: they're not intimidated by New York and you'd like to
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: see that carry over into this season. And look, I'm
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: sure the new guys like Pete he's gonna be fired
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: up to go against the Yankees for the first time
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: as an oreo. I know Bassett pitched today, but you
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: think of all of these new players get indoctrinated into
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: this rivalry that was red hot, especially in twenty twenty four,
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: with bullpens clearing, benches clearing multiple times that season, Like
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: if you can't get up for the Yankees, man, come.
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: On, Yeah, that's what I think it is. I think
• 28:44
  Speaker 2: it's it's just excitement in the air. It's like I said,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: it's New York on a Friday night. It's just exciting.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: It's the stands are going to be packed and there
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: they might be ruining against you, but you just hear
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: noise and you hear excitement and it's loud and it's
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: I always love pitching there when I got a chance.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know if I had great numbers when I did,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: but it was still just a great place. It's a
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: great atmosphere. It's it's what baseball should be, and it's
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: a lot of fun to go there. And like you said,
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: hopefully they can get off to a hot start and
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: just kind of continue it. And I really hope the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: bullpen shows up this weekend really kind of sets a
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: statement where get some leads, hold it and just don't
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: give that offense even a chance to really make any
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: noise and come back. I think that'd be a great
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: statement to make early on in the season and kind
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: of just move it forward where you know, you got
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: to get a lead in order to beat this oriol team.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: And it's probably the bullpen side of myself coming out,
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: but it's just that those things are Those kinds of
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: games are awesome in the Bronx and you have a lead,
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: you shut them down. There's nothing better than hearing the
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: booze after a win. And hopefully they go in there
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: and kind of just stick it to them a little
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: bit and take three out of four this weekend at least,
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: and that would be a fun weekend for Baltimore.
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Let's see how it goes.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: Birdland advantage Yankees on the record on the stats they
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: got Thursday off while the Oriols played a doubleheader.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: They're sitting at home.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: The Oriols have to get up there Thursday night, so
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: everything is tilting New York's way. But what will happen
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: when the games start. It's two teams that want to win,
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: and let's see, it's gonna be fascinating. And when we
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: talk to you again, it'll be after Sunday's game. Three
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: out of four they'll play in the Bronx. So guys,
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: enjoy the games. We'll see in a couple of days.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: And same to everybody viewing today. Thanks for subscribing and
• 30:24
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• 30:27
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• 30:29
  Speaker 5: For Tim Barblace and Brad Brock, I'm Steve Mleski.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Enjoy the Oriol Yankee series and we'll see in a
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: couple of days with another edition of Birdland Territory