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AL West up for grabs, Is Aaron Judge OK? PCA praise, Steve Cohen responds to FT tweet about Stearns · Foul Territory

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Happy Thursday. Nice shirt, Kratz.
• 0:06
  Speaker 2: Hey, Kratz, remember you told me to remind you about
• 0:09
  Speaker 2: the Yankee celebration story. If you don't have the prop,
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: then forget it. We have plenty of other things to
• 0:14
  Speaker 2: hit today. I don't need you to do something if
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: you don't have all of your.
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: Tricks and tools.
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  Speaker 4: The prop matters. The prop matters. But it's something cool,
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  Speaker 4: and it'll be worth it when we talk about it.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: How about tomorrow? Can you write down in your phone
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  Speaker 1: or put an alarm down tomorrow?
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  Speaker 3: Got it. Right up here.
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  Speaker 4: I'm like an elephant. Huge nose.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, also, did you guys see how Steve Cohen replied
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  Speaker 2: to Foul Territory, which was a clip from David Lennon
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  Speaker 2: of Newsday? He was on our show yesterday. David was great,
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  Speaker 2: good enthusiasm talking about Lennon, not Stearns. But Lennon, the writer,
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  Speaker 2: mentioned how David Stearns was not really to be seen
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  Speaker 2: around Citi Field. And when he says that, he's kind
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  Speaker 2: of talking about the media angle, right, to be able
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  Speaker 2: to talk to him during Pete's reunion. So Steve replied.
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  Speaker 2: to the tweet and said, that's strange. I was in
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  Speaker 2: the dugout pregame on Monday with a guy that looked
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  Speaker 2: like David Stearns.
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  Speaker 1: Was it an imposter? Well, AJ, two people can be
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  Speaker 1: right here.
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  Speaker 2: If Stearns is not really around for the media to
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  Speaker 2: chat with him about, I would say the biggest moment
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  Speaker 2: of the year for Mets fans, then we know he's
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  Speaker 2: at the park. Every GM and Pobo goes to the
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  Speaker 2: park every day during the season.
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  Speaker 3: They don't go every day, but they go a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Just about every day.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of days. I mean, sometimes they're on the
• 1:35
  Speaker 3: road going to minor league affiliates and all that stuff. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: they're not there every day, but they're damn sure they're
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  Speaker 3: a lot. And someone's there. So, I don't know. It's weird.
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  Speaker 3: You're right. Two things can be true. Stearns is probably there,
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  Speaker 3: but he probably wasn't seen by the media. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: two things can be right at the same time. But
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  Speaker 3: it's like Stevie Cohen's listening to us and reading what
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  Speaker 3: we're writing now. Stevie, come on the show. Let's talk
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  Speaker 3: about some stuff.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to have Steve on the show.
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  Speaker 4: Steve, Stevie Cohen is one of those owners. Maybe this
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  Speaker 4: is my opinion. He's one of the good owners that's
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  Speaker 4: out there engaging the fans. Yes, I get it. He's
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  Speaker 4: a new owner, but he says what he feels. So
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  Speaker 4: I love the fact that he saw what we were
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  Speaker 4: talking about and I would love to talk to him.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's up there with, you know, with the Middletons,
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  Speaker 4: John Middleton. I think he's up there, you know, that's
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  Speaker 4: the type of, Owners that we need in the game,
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  Speaker 4: not the ones that are just recluses.
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  Speaker 3: So good for Stevie.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I'm a fan. He tweets.
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  Speaker 2: He does go on some New York shows and does interviews. Now,
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  Speaker 2: the replies to that. reply from Steve were not friendly,
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  Speaker 2: but it was mostly Mets fans that are not pleased
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  Speaker 2: with the season and feel like he's defending David Stearns
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  Speaker 2: and that David Stearns should not return. And that's a
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  Speaker 2: fair opinion to have a very fair opinion with the
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  Speaker 2: amount of money that you were allowed to spend and
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  Speaker 2: the amount of people that you let go that were
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  Speaker 2: part of the core of the Mets. You made a
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  Speaker 2: huge mistake to me. They're meeting at the middle at
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  Speaker 2: this point where it's, Hey, he's got one off season.
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  Speaker 2: All of the pressure is on this. There's no more
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  Speaker 2: five-year plans or anything else. And it's not like they've
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  Speaker 2: had zero success, but He needs to nail it. They
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  Speaker 2: need to make the playoffs next year or the fans
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  Speaker 2: will lose it. I think some are at least giving
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  Speaker 2: him one more season.
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  Speaker 1: Some aren't right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. He's got it. He's got it. Well, it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be an interesting off season too, with all the
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  Speaker 3: labor stuff that also caused a bunch of hoo-ha yesterday
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  Speaker 3: on the show. So yeah, kerfuffle. Uh, but yeah, it's, it's,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be an interesting off season because not
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  Speaker 3: only do you have to nail it with the players
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  Speaker 3: and all the trades and everything else, you also have
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  Speaker 3: to nail it with, uh, CBA expiring, there's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a lockout. There's not a possible lockout, sorry. There's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a lockout. So you have to try
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  Speaker 3: to navigate all that stuff. And oh yeah, by the way,
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  Speaker 3: make the Mets a lot better. Although they have played
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  Speaker 3: a lot better until they just got their asses beat
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  Speaker 3: by the Orioles.
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  Speaker 1: Yep. Yeah, and they're playing garbage time.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the last point we might make about
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  Speaker 2: the Mets for the rest of the season. Juan Soto
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  Speaker 2: was asked about the Pete Alonso curtain call. And here's
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  Speaker 2: the tweet from Mike Puma of the New York Post.
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  Speaker 2: Soto had no issue with the curtain call. It's been
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  Speaker 2: a tough year for the fans this year, so I
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  Speaker 2: think they just saved their power for the best moment.
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  Speaker 2: That's the quote from Juan Soto. AJ, beautifully stated.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he said it perfectly. It's been a
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  Speaker 3: tough year. One of their favorite people came back. One
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  Speaker 3: of their people that they know well and they love
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  Speaker 3: came back. So you know what they did? They gave
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  Speaker 3: him a standing ovation and they gave him a curtain call.
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  Speaker 3: They had to cheer about something this year. And Juan
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  Speaker 3: nailed it. And listen, you can say what you want
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  Speaker 3: about Juan Soto, but this was a pretty good answer
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  Speaker 3: because it kind of summed it all up. It said, man,
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  Speaker 3: we're disappointed with how we played. I understand the fans
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  Speaker 3: are disappointed with how we played, and now we're going
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  Speaker 3: to try to get better. But they wanted to see Pete,
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  Speaker 3: and Pete gave them a moment, and they responded. So
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  Speaker 3: it just shows you how passionate Mets fans are.
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  Speaker 2: Mm-hmm. Let them have their moment, and that's what Soto did. Also,
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  Speaker 2: the Mets made a lot of money over that series.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, usually when you're out of it a month,
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  Speaker 2: didn't change into the season attendance is tough and I
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  Speaker 2: know it's gone down for them but during that time
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  Speaker 2: period you ride that and you appreciate the fans for
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  Speaker 2: having that kind of passion I'm with you all right
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  Speaker 2: let's flip it to the other New York team here
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  Speaker 2: lower leg tightness for Aaron Judge as he left the
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  Speaker 2: game earlier than anticipated remember he missed 84 games and
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  Speaker 2: he just got back for the Yanks right he's been
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  Speaker 2: back for a minute and he's trying to get himself
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  Speaker 2: quickly ready for the postseason. So, if we have the sound, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: let's run that from Judge, and then AJ, you can
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  Speaker 2: follow here.
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  Speaker 1: They're in the first inning.
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  Speaker 5: Try to kind of play it off and see how
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  Speaker 5: long we go, because these games are important down the stretch,
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  Speaker 5: but kind of talking it over, I thought it would
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  Speaker 5: be the right move to come out, so we don't
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  Speaker 5: cost the team on the field or cost the team
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  Speaker 5: on the base path. Out on the field. Stuck out
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  Speaker 5: there for a couple innings, but especially going to an
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  Speaker 5: off day tomorrow, I didn't think it was smart to
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  Speaker 5: push it too much here. Like I said, I didn't
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  Speaker 5: want to cost the team down the road as that
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  Speaker 5: game was going. Was there a movement or something in
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  Speaker 5: particular or a certain play where you felt it originally?
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  Speaker 1: I can't pinpoint it. We're ramping up.
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  Speaker 5: We're still trying to ramp up, so there's going to
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  Speaker 5: be little things like this that come up. I just
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  Speaker 5: thought it would be best instead of pushing through it
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  Speaker 5: like I normally do, and it might become a little worse.
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  Speaker 5: You know, get somebody who's ready to go in there
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  Speaker 5: and just try to do what's best for the team.
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  Speaker 3: What's lowered leg tightness? Does that mean a calf? Does
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  Speaker 3: that mean an ankle? Does that mean a foot? Does
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  Speaker 3: that mean a knee? Is hockey lower body injury? Is
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  Speaker 3: that upper body injury? Is that where we're going now?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he seems like he's okay, but excuse me.
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  Speaker 3: This is why you go on rehab. That's why you go.
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  Speaker 3: Most guys want to go on rehab assignment, especially when
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  Speaker 3: you miss as long as Aaron Judge did. Because he
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  Speaker 3: said it. This is like spring training. So what you
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  Speaker 3: try to do is you try to get the soreness
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  Speaker 3: and the little minor things that pop up at the
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  Speaker 3: beginning of spring training out of the way by going
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  Speaker 3: on a rehab assignment. But he didn't want to do that.
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  Speaker 3: He didn't do that. So thank God he's okay.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't need to face minor league pitching. I think
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  Speaker 4: that's the part of the rehab that he didn't want
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  Speaker 4: to do. But the part of the rehab that I
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  Speaker 4: think sometimes is what he's talking about with spring training
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  Speaker 4: is normal with spring training. It's just being on your feet,
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  Speaker 4: putting cleats on, stretching pregame, all the things that, like,
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  Speaker 4: other sports would be like, you guys are so soft.
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  Speaker 4: But just the daily grind of that kind of wears
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  Speaker 4: on you when you haven't played for a little while.
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  Speaker 1: So? concern level or is he just ramping back up
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  Speaker 1: and should they.
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  Speaker 6: Be just ramping back up if this was spring training
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  Speaker 6: nobody would say a word he'd be like ah i
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  Speaker 6: didn't feel it today i took but because there's only
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  Speaker 6: nine games left in the season people are like oh
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  Speaker 6: no aaron judge is gonna be out for the rest
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  Speaker 6: of the year oh no we gotta calm down no
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  Speaker 6: i think it'll be fine i just wish they would
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  Speaker 6: have said what it was instead of lower body soreness
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  Speaker 6: i have lower body soreness a lot of times.
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  Speaker 4: Lower leg lower leg tightness i mean i can't believe
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  Speaker 4: it wouldn't be a calf but we shouldn't speculate injuries.
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  Speaker 4: But my biggest thing is I saw him after he
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  Speaker 4: says in the first inning, he felt it. He was
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  Speaker 4: still out there on his feet for five more innings.
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  Speaker 4: And he ended up, he ended up going for a
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  Speaker 4: ball that was off the wall to right center. So
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  Speaker 4: he tested it. He pushed it. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 4: as bad or else he would have come out immediately
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  Speaker 4: in the first.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're the Yanks, I mean, there's a very
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  Speaker 2: slim chance at this point, AJ, that they can catch
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  Speaker 2: the race. They'd basically have to sweep them in that
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  Speaker 2: upcoming series.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: So they're not moving anywhere. They're well ahead in their
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  Speaker 2: wild card seat, but they're, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, they're going to be the four seat. They're going
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  Speaker 3: to be the four seat, which is kind of funny
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  Speaker 3: because they're going to have the second best record in
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  Speaker 3: the league. And he does have to play because you
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  Speaker 3: need them ready to go nine innings. Once the playoffs
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  Speaker 3: start and they have to play the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 4: And he's got to go full tilt. You can't be
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  Speaker 4: pulling Judge out in the seventh inning because he's still
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  Speaker 4: ramping up. So every day he's out. Like I was
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  Speaker 4: trying to look to see like how many days, if
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  Speaker 4: you were to do like a normal buildup, is he
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  Speaker 4: going to play four full games before the end of
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  Speaker 4: the season? Like from now on, if he takes today off,
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  Speaker 4: if it's like, I don't know. Obviously I don't know that,
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  Speaker 4: but it's all a formula and they need him in a,
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  Speaker 4: Three game series, that's going to be back to back
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  Speaker 4: to back. There's no days off.
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  Speaker 1: When you say formula, what do you mean?
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  Speaker 4: The formula is time on your feet, exertion, number of sprints.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen the printout when big leaguers come down or
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  Speaker 4: when minor leaguers are rehabbing. It's like a formula of
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  Speaker 4: exactly what you're simulating a game where you say... Yes,
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  Speaker 4: he didn't play all nine innings, but he was on
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  Speaker 4: his feet based on the same amount that we usually
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  Speaker 4: spend on our feet or doing exert exertion plays. It's
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  Speaker 4: like six to eight exertion plays. And then they want
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  Speaker 4: to like lower it down. It's it's crazy, but it's
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: actually it makes sense.
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• 11:41
  Speaker 2: of insurance. Yeah, Yanks D-backs coming up. That helps the
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  Speaker 2: Diamondbacks team that's on life support, right?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. They're like, please, Judge, we hope your calf gets
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  Speaker 3: better after these three games, after this next weekend, because
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  Speaker 3: we need all the help we can get at this point.
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  Speaker 4: And I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I agree with what Kratzy said. He needs to be ready,
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  Speaker 3: but they need to figure out a way to get
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  Speaker 3: him to be able to play nine innings. And you
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: have to be able to play nine innings, nine innings,
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  Speaker 3: nine innings. I mean, they can't DH him because they
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  Speaker 3: have too many other guys that need to DH. So
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  Speaker 3: it's a weird situation because he didn't go– if he
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  Speaker 3: would have gone on rehab for three, four games and
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  Speaker 3: got a lot of this out of him, then it's like, ah, okay.
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  Speaker 3: But I get why he didn't. He didn't need the at-bats,
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  Speaker 3: and that's a thing. But it's also a fact that
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees knew kind of where they were locked into
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  Speaker 3: their playoff position, so they didn't need him to hurry
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  Speaker 3: back so they were able to build him up at
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  Speaker 3: the big league level. So, yeah, general soreness, it happens.
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  Speaker 4: Or he's got to play three games on turf now, too,
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  Speaker 4: in Arizona. I don't think that's the best for KF either.
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  Speaker 3: So, I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the Yankees are going to potentially play the Rays–
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  Speaker 2: In the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: Isn't that turf?
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  Speaker 4: It is, but I mean, you got to get through
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  Speaker 4: the first three games. Good for the Yankees. It's not
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  Speaker 4: going to be the Astros because they don't like playing
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  Speaker 4: the Astros in the playoffs. But my concern level for
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  Speaker 4: the injury is not high because if he said it happened,
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  Speaker 4: he failed it in the first and he tried to
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  Speaker 4: play through it. It's just a thing that's there. My
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  Speaker 4: concern level is consistent reps out on the field playing
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  Speaker 4: your best baseball as Aaron Judge and 80% of Aaron
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  Speaker 4: Judge is better than a lot of what else you
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  Speaker 4: can put out there I get that but that's my
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  Speaker 4: concern level for a Yankees team that clearly needs him
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  Speaker 4: in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah it's not perfect he missed a lot of time
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  Speaker 2: you got to try and figure this out and he's
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  Speaker 2: not the only one but he's.
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  Speaker 1: The Biggest one, the biggest player in the sport that's dealing.
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  Speaker 3: He's the star.
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  Speaker 1: He's the star.
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  Speaker 3: That's why you have to do it. Also, you have
• 13:49
  Speaker 3: to understand when you're the star, you get, you get
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  Speaker 3: treated differently as we all know. Then if you're just
• 13:53
  Speaker 3: Joe Schmo, if you're me, you don't get treated the
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  Speaker 3: same way that Aaron judge gets treated. And that's fine.
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  Speaker 3: That's part of, that's part of baseball. That's part of
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  Speaker 3: any job, any job. In what way?
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  Speaker 4: In what way?
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  Speaker 3: The rehab or no rehab? Meaning the rehab and having
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  Speaker 3: to answer questions and all that. There's, there's, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot more that goes into it. If you're Aaron judge,
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  Speaker 3: then if you're the captain of the team, then you
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  Speaker 3: have to answer more than you do if you're just
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  Speaker 3: the guy, another player, so to speak, right? You have
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  Speaker 3: different responsibilities.
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  Speaker 1: Well, think about it.
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  Speaker 2: How many players are we leading off with on a
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  Speaker 2: show with this type of news?
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  Speaker 3: Shohei.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, even on Shohei's team, Andy Pajes is saying
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  Speaker 4: he's not going on rehab. Sorry, Andy Pajes is not
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  Speaker 4: getting the same. It's the big dogs, the big dogs
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  Speaker 4: that are out there.
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• 15:01
  Speaker 2: This is a video of Junior Caminero over at third base.
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  Speaker 2: He's still so.
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: Young, guys.
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: And, you know, he's gotten knocked for his defense in
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: the past.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, he's a baby.
• 15:10
  Speaker 2: And each of the, this year and last year, he
• 15:12
  Speaker 2: got much better as the year went on in terms
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: of defensive metrics. Twitter account running from the OPS was
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: pointing out, and this might be a day or two
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  Speaker 2: old on the stats, but close enough. The 40 plus homers,
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  Speaker 2: the percentiles in all the hard hit stats, the OPS
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  Speaker 2: plus off the charts, but he said not getting credit
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: enough for the progressions that he's made on defense with
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: the Defensive runs saved and the outs above average. Also,
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: I saw Mike Petriello point this out. Yeah, the last
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: two years, it's like the first couple months, his number's
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: pretty bad, and then it gets much better. So overall, though,
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: if you're looking at even average to above average at
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: third base, I mean, MVP candidate year after year.
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen here.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: He keeps hitting 40-plus homers and playing defense all he has,
• 15:53
  Speaker 3: and he's improved. I mean, was he 23 years old? Right. Yeah,
• 15:58
  Speaker 3: he's 23. Like, gosh, I remember– 23, I was like,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: I don't need to play defense. And then wham, and
• 16:02
  Speaker 3: you're like, man, I kind of do have to play defense.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: So he's like, as long as I keep raking, it
• 16:06
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter what I do. But he's not bad over there.
• 16:09
  Speaker 3: I mean, he's got a cannon, too. If you ever
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: watch the Rays play, he's got an absolute cannon. If
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: he catches it, you're out because he's got a freaking bazooka.
• 16:16
  Speaker 4: The Rays put in the work on defense, infield work.
• 16:20
  Speaker 4: They're very intentional with it. So if he has the
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: ability to improve, he seems like a guy that's going
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: to put the work in to be able to do that.
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: But also– This is, I mean, this is the case
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: with really good hitters. How good a defense does he
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: have to play for them to say.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: His defense is caught up to his hitting? Never.
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: So they're always going to compare his hitting to his defense.
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: So it's always going to, quote, lag behind.
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: He's fine over there.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: On Deck is presented by the Fox One app, and
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: that is where you can find the Royals and the
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Astros tonight.
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: Let's start with Houston here.
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're only going to talk about Houston here.
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: Sorry, Casey. You're out of it for a while.
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: We'll talk about Philly a little bit later on, too,
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: since they're also going to be on the Fox One
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: app tonight against the Mets. But, A.J., you are stationed
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: in Houston as our reporter live today for the show.
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Can you tell me the pulse of the city now
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: that the division is kind of tied?
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: Tied?
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: It's not kind of tied.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: It is tied.
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: Well, the Astros had the tiebreaker.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: I mean, they had the tiebreaker, yeah.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: Kind of.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: I went to the game. Listen, I never do this,
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: but I actually went to the stadium last night. I
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: walked over and talked to like Jeff Blum and Todd
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: Callis and some of the reporters, you know, Chandler Rome
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: and some of the reporters over there. And I'm like,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: how's it going? And they're like, we got nine more.
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: We got nine more games. We got to figure out
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: how to get through nine more games. Or maybe it's
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: 10 or not. Whatever.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: I forget.
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: But they're like, yeah, this team keeps hanging on. They
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: keep hanging in there and they keep figuring it out.
• 17:59
  Speaker 3: That's kind of the pulse when you talk to people
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: around here. It's like they're at 500, but they're still
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: in first place. They're still going to the postseason. And
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: if they were betting, they'd bet on the Astros to
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: somehow figure out a way to get to the postseason.
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: That's kind of what the pulse is. They're like, yeah,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: they're the Astros. They'll figure out how to sneak in
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: and maybe do some damage once they're in. But, I mean,
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: it is a team carried by Jordan Alvarez and Jeremy
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: Pena right now. Christian Walker is– Been okay. Jose Altuve's
• 18:24
  Speaker 3: been okay, but I mean, Paredes has been okay, but
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: it is really Jordan Alvarez and Jeremy Pena and hope
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: that someone else can figure out a way to get
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: a hit. And they get enough pitching to get the
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: ball to Abreu and Hader at the end when Hunter
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Brown doesn't pitch. But they honestly are all like, ah,
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: we're going to figure out a way to get in.
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: That's good.
• 18:41
  Speaker 4: I'm glad that the people that have seen this team
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: the whole year have way more optimism than somebody like
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: me who just kind of watches and I probably try
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to watch every one of Jordan's at-bats. It's been lacking
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: the last month and a half, but I try because
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: he is that good. He can change a game. But
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: to me, it's just a flawed team. Yes, they're in
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: first place. Nobody would say they played like a first
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: place team, but they're in first place. Their flaws are...
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: To the point where Carlos Correa, who's not coming back,
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: was bantered about that he could possibly be playing another position.
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: Are they flawed because the guys aren't playing well? Yes,
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: but they're also flawed because they really didn't have enough
• 19:28
  Speaker 4: depth to be able to get to where they are now.
• 19:31
  Speaker 4: And the only reason they have gotten to where they
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: are now is because of the guys that AJ talked about.
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: Jordan had an incredible performance. Three and a half months
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: of the season. Four and a half months of the season.
• 19:42
  Speaker 4: Can he carry them for these last nine games?
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Hopefully.
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: That ankle isn't worse than what... it really looks like.
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: But the Astros usually figure it out and the Rangers
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: aren't that good either. So the pillow fight continues.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: So in the past four games for Houston, five through
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: nine in the order is four for sixty seven.
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: But at one point, did you see that Jeremy Pena
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: had like six hits or something in the first two games,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: and then the rest of the team had one at
• 20:16
  Speaker 3: one point, and it was Jordan's two-run homer, and then
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: finally Paredes got a hit, and they're like, oh, someone
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: else besides Pena has gotten a hit in this series.
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: It's pretty amazing. It's just not what you want. It's
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: not what you want.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: It's not what the Astros, Dana Brown, Jim Crane built
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: this team to be, but the reality is, If you're
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: in that locker room, you could care less. All you
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: know is you are in the playoffs today. If you
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: go head-to-head, if you go 3-6 in your last nine
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: and the Rangers go 3-6 in their last nine, you're
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: both in. I mean, you're in. The Rangers go home. Like,
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: you just have to keep pace with the Rangers. So
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: there will be some scoreboard watching. And I think there's
• 20:59
  Speaker 4: one little story, and I hope AJ hits it when
• 21:03
  Speaker 4: he's talking about this on Fox 1.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: Carter Jansen.
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: I know I shouldn't get away from talking about the Astros,
• 21:10
  Speaker 4: but the season that Carter Jansen's having, if you look
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: into it, not just in Royals rookie lore, but catcher rookies,
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: like he is having an incredible year. And it's pretty
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: cool to see that in Salve's, you know, coming to
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: the end of Salve's contract with the Royals.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: What do they do with Salve? Salve wants to play.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: What do they do with Salve if he wants to
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: keep playing? That's going to be– I mean, you bring
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: him back, right, because he's Salve, but then you're like, well,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: then we– it's going to cost Carter– I mean, everyone
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: loves Salve, so it's not like he's not a bad guy.
• 21:48
  Speaker 3: He's not going to be a bad guy in the clubhouse, but,
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's like what do we do with Salve?
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: That's tough. That's tough. This is where it gets awkward, right?
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: You say it all the time.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: A.J., I'd love it to see if this guy or
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: that guy would be able to stay with their own team,
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: but that's not the reality. Is it possible that we
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: could see Salve in a different uniform? But even saying that,
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: with as much as his offense has slipped this year,
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: will another team pick him up? Will another team be
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: willing to have that at first base? Because he's never
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: been an on-base guy, those types of things. But to me,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: I think they bring him back I think they figure
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: it out because they don't really have a DH. It's
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: just tough if you're looking for a little more out
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: of your DH spot in Salve, but the story isn't Salve.
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: The story is Carter Jansen's rookie year is really incredible.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: And I hope you guys can highlight it in the
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Fox John tonight.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: No, we didn't plan this. And also no, Kratz, we're
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: not wearing the same exact Mack Weldon shirts. I've got
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: a green and you've got the Heather blue.
• 23:01
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• 23:01
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• 23:02
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• 23:05
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• 23:10
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• 23:52
  Speaker 1: No, wait, hold up.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: Let's go back to that stat board for a moment
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: because you did bring up a point that's worth mentioning.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: Mentioning here, as we went over this saga with Andrew
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: McCutcheon in the offseason, there's almost zero difference here. Almost
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: zero difference. The one big difference is that Salvi still has,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: as far as I know, one year left on his contract.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Bottom right corner of your screen.
• 24:11
  Speaker 3: He does.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: Okay. Bottom right corner of your screen.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Negative war player.
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: Negative 1.1.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: And if you're DH-ing a lot, you better have that
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: number at least at 100, but really better than that,
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: that at the bottom right, weighted runs created plus, which
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: is like OPS plus, which we talk about frequently on
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the show to try and make it easy. to understand
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: league average offense and all of that, right? Hundreds league average.
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: So he's well below that.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: And, and when you look into other metrics like the
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: chase rate and the bat speed, all of that, it
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: gets even worse for him.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: He wants to play until he's 40. How old is he? 36.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: He's not getting close to that. I'm looking at some,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: some quotes from some past stories for him. So AJ,
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: he had a 13 and a half million dollar club
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: option for 2026. Instead they ripped that up and made
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: it a two year, $ 25 million deal. That covers 26
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: and 27 for his ages 36 and 37 seasons. So
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: in my mind, they have to have him back. He'll
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: be back next year. They'll hope that the bat comes
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: around a little bit, and that'll be the final season
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: for Salvi. If he wants to come back after that, yes,
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: he'll have to find another team, and it will have
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to be coming off a much better year than this
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: season because this season gets you out of the league
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: if you're not Salvi Perez.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah. As someone that played until they were 40, I
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: know how it goes. Trust me.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: It ain't.
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: Once because everyone's waiting for your decline. And as soon
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: as that decline comes a little bit, they're like, yeah,
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: he's done. He's too old.
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: He's done.
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: And then you got to go in and prove it. Like,
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: I mean, I remember my agent called me and said, Hey,
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: we can, you can play next year, but you're going
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: to have to go on a non-roster invite and try
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: to make the team. I'm like, I don't really want
• 25:39
  Speaker 3: to do that. That sounds like it's awful. Like, I
• 25:41
  Speaker 3: don't want to be that guy, that 40 year old guy,
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: try begging to make a team. Like, no, I want
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: to go to a place where they want. And not
• 25:46
  Speaker 3: the more I thought about it, I was like, yeah,
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: I don't really want to do that. Not saying that
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: could happen to Salvi, but, That's kind of where you
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: get to at a point as a player when you
• 25:54
  Speaker 3: get to that age because the way the league is
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: structured now, they are looking for any small decline so
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: they can say, yeah, he's done. Let's get him out
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: of here and move on to a young kid.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: I don't think they want to get rid of Salve.
• 26:06
  Speaker 3: No, no, no. I'm not saying that.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: No, no, no. They don't want to pay him. The
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: league just doesn't want to pay him. I think the
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: league would love to have Salve. And what's wrong with
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: a 40-year-old just hanging around trying to make a team, A.J.?
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: I started doing that when I was 30. True.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: When you were 30, you were the 40-year-old hanging around.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: When I was 30, I was looking for NRI deals.
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: I would never do that.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Kratz is a trooper. A grinder, as some would say.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: A word we haven't used in a minute.
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: Some wouldn't say that.
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: No.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Well, Kratz, we need you. We need you on this one.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: So the other game on the Fox One app. Tonight,
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: Phillies and Mets. We know Ken Rosenthal's reporting from that one.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: Zach Wheeler coming off seven shutout innings last night. Pitched
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: really well. That's four in a row good ones for him.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: So you can kind of put a checkmark. Like, okay,
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: he had his little rut.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: He's good. He's back.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: He's ready for the postseason. So what are we looking
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: for with the last ten games of the season here
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: with the Phillies? I know the offense has sputtered a
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: little bit.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: Trying to hold on to the second wild card and
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: not be the third wild card.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: That's what you're looking for.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Because the Padres are like, they win every day, right?
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: So they're right there. So what are you looking for
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: in the Phillies? You don't want to be the last
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: wild card. Although then you get to play the Braves,
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: which depending on how you look at it could be
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: good or bad. I mean, it's like this Philly team
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: is unbelievable. You don't know what you're going to get.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: It's like Wheeler will go out and deal and they
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: won't score, right? Or Sanchez will go out and like
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: he didn't have a great start the other day against
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: the Nats. You lose Lizardo. Nola's been good, but Then
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: there's days where the offense just doesn't show up. It's like, wow,
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: what are we getting with this Phillies team? That's the question.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: And for me, I mean, do they match up better
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: with the Braves than the Cubs? I guess. Geez, I
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: don't know which one they match up better with.
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter. If you get 13 walks and only
• 27:58
  Speaker 4: score three runs, it doesn't matter what team you're playing with.
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: So what do you want to see in the last games?
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: If you're a Phillies fan, you want to see this
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: team break out their game bats. And whatever it is
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: they're putting out there right now, Ain't it with the lineup?
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, good call.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: Hey, so you can watch that tonight if you're a frantic,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: nervous Philly fan or if you're in the same boat
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: with the Astros just trying to make the playoffs and
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: win the division and the whole thing. It's on the
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: Fox One app. It's the Thursday games here that are running.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: They're exclusively on there, Fox and the Fox One app.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: You can catch AJ. You can stream it at home,
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: on the go, live or on demand. Start your Fox
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: One three-day free trial today at foxone.com. Kratz, did you
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: see Sandy Alcantara racking up his first save in his
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: career and also his first relief appearance in a minute?
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, can you scream it any louder that the
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Marlins are going to try to trade him this offseason?
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: I have a hard time believing he didn't say, I
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: want this. I've interacted with Sandy Alcantara one time, and
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: there is a zero selfish bone in this guy's body.
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: He has tattooed on his arm Six plus four plus
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: three equals two. Like the things he, like now players
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: his age that are in the game have tattooed on
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: their arm, punch out, punch out, punch out. And like this,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I don't know. Him coming out and getting this save,
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: it means a lot to him. Pete Fairbanks is down.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: He's like, I'm ready. This is what we do in
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. Golly, I would love to see this dude
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: on a team in the playoffs. He wants to do
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: it as a Marlin, I think. He doesn't have a
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: choice if.
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: They trade him.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: True.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Good dude. Good dude. Wants the ball, takes the ball,
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: doesn't want to give the ball up. It's such a
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: refreshing thing for us old-timers, Kratz, us old people that
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: just can't get off my lawn enough. No, Sandy's awesome, man.
• 29:55
  Speaker 3: He seems like the ultimate teammate. He seems like a
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: guy that you just want to play with, that people
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: want to play with. He just seems like one of
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: those guys.
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: Rare pitcher leader. Maybe we can ask Pedro this later,
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: but a rare pitcher leader. It doesn't happen, but you
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: know as well as anybody, there are certain guys that
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: they get on that fringe of like, wow, everybody.
• 30:19
  Speaker 3: Looks up to this guy. Why?
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: Because he gets after it every single day, even though
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: he only plays once every five days.
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: He's a punter, but.
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Alcantara helped spoil the season for the Diamondbacks. They're in
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: bad range now. Four in the loss column. They're in
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: a bad spot. Just about cooked.
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: Time is running out. They did everything they could. They
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: did everything they could.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks lose Padres 1.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Corbin Carroll's step back looks like it is hurting. He
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: even hit the walk-off, but some of his swings, he's like,
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: it looks like he's like, pushing through. Everybody's pushing through
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: right now, but it's tough when your team keeps losing
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: heartbreakers to teams you should beat.
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Padres thumped the Rockies. Two homers for Ethan
• 31:09
  Speaker 2: Salas stood out quite a bit, too. 20 years old
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: and youngest catcher ever to have a multi-homer game. Hey,
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Eamon Grant said one crazy scenario, which has the Rangers,
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the Astros, the Guardians, the White Sox, all with the
• 31:24
  Speaker 2: same exact records. That would mean AL West Central and
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: wildcard spots locked up. Would mean Astros get the West,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: White Sox get the AL Central. These are by winning
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: the season series against the teams right below them or
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: tied with them. And then the Rangers would get the
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: third wildcard because they won the season series against the Guardians.
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: Does that help you guys at all?
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Also, on the flip side, if the Rangers White Sox
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: finish tied for final wild card, White Sox win by
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: virtue of owning the season series against the Rangers.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: So, A.J., that helps a little bit for your White Sox.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: Can I just say the White Sox are going to
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: make it? Have I said that yet? Have I said
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: the White Sox are going to make it? They have
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: all the tiebreakers. They've got all the tiebreakers.
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: They've got to win some games, though.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: You've got ten games left. Go six and four. You're
• 32:09
  Speaker 3: in the postseason. Six and four against the Rockies, the Royals,
• 32:12
  Speaker 3: and the Tigers, three teams that are not in it.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: If you don't go six and four against those three
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: teams heading into the playoffs when momentum matters, I think
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: nobody will go, damn, they got screwed at the buzzer.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: That is about as soft as it gets.
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: Am I right?
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: They play four at home, starting the night with the Tigers.
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: They go to Kansas City for three, and then they
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: finish with three at home against the Rockies. You've got
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: to be able to win six of those. If you
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: win six of those, excuse me, you're in the playoffs.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: One way or another, wild card or winning the division.
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: I want game 163. That's all I want. I know
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: it's not there. I have to say it. I played
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: in a game 163. AJ, you did at least once,
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: maybe twice.
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: I played in two of them.
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: The league killed it.
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: This would be the time to have it. Oh, Steve
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: Murakami hit a jinger. Slaughtered. Slaughtered.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Here we go. By the way, AJ left.
• 33:10
  Speaker 3: Why?
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: Because he's going to call a game very soon. So
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: if you want to go to that game in Houston,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: you can do it. SeatGeek is the spot to check
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: that out. What else do we like here, Kratz? I mean,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: we got to talk White Sox for a second while
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: AJ's not here. Tigers, White Sox, grab me a ticket
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: to that bad boy with Fran Brevalda's going up tonight
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: against the Sox for game one of that.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: Little back and forth.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Also, I mean, this one might not have been circled
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: on your calendar a few weeks ago or even at
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the season, but A's Guardians in Cleveland. Yes, please.
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Guardians fans, you better show up. It's more fun than
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: going to a Browns game.
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: I mean, you have to, you have to show up.
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: Like your team has done the exact same thing they
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: did last year. I think the Tigers collapsed last year
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: was bigger, but they ended up running down the Tigers and.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: Winning the division.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: Are they going to do it again? Is Steven Vogt
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: going to win manager of the year again because of
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: what he does with the roster that he doesn't have?
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: Like I, I don't know, but if you ain't showing
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: up for those games, I don't know what you're showing
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: up for. But who had that circled?
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: Gee, I wonder.
• 34:19
  Speaker 4: Guardians Athletics. Athletics are playing some really good baseball. They're
• 34:23
  Speaker 4: 5-5 in their last 10. So that's above average for
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: the Athletics. But they could play spoiler here, too. They've
• 34:30
  Speaker 4: already beaten a couple teams that Mariners absolutely knocked them
• 34:34
  Speaker 4: out of the playoffs by the soft underbelly of their schedule.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: Athletics aren't going to roll over, even if they have,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: you know, a quarter of their starting lineup out there
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: right now.
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. The A's know how to end a season.
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: They did it well.
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: Hey, the Marlins can play significant spoilers. Sandy, are you
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: going to come out of the pen a little bit
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: more here now?
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm joking. I'm sure. I don't know. When's
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: his next start, by the way?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Is he starting in this Padres series maybe?
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: It should start Sunday.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: I thought it said he was going to start Sunday.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: So, Marlins-Padres.
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know who the Marlins play. I should have
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: looked who they play on Monday.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Marlins-Padres. No, no.
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: I know they play the Padres. You know Sandy wants
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: to make that start. There's no way he's like, eh,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: I'll wait until Monday to pitch. No, he wants to
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: pitch against the best teams.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: Agreed, yes.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: And that game, those games, Marlins and Padres, taking place
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: in San Diego. So if you're out there and you
• 35:26
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• 35:29
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• 35:41
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• 35:44
  Speaker 2: for it, FT fam. Hey, John Heyman tweeted that David
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: Ross was being asked about the Mets open manager job,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: and he said he'd answer the phone. And I think
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: it also just opens the conversation of how many manager
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: openings there will be. David Ross, I'm actually surprised. He
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: hasn't landed with a team. He's waiting for a phone call.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: He clearly wants to get back into it. So maybe
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: this is the year, 27.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: Have you ever heard anybody besides me say, don't call me,
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: I don't want to manage that team? Like dudes that
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: are out there that are like, hey, I want to manage.
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: Rarely are you going to say, maybe if it's like
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: the Nats job that just came up, I think there's
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: experienced managers that would be like, I'm good. I'm not
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: really into a rebuild. But there's only 30 of those jobs.
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: And if you have this burning desire to be a
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: manager in the big leagues.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you take the Mets job, but it ain't all,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: it ain't all it's cracked up to be. You, you
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: gotta be willing to take a little bit of heat
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: because you are, but he's been through the grind. He
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: was a manager.
• 36:49
  Speaker 3: He got fired because he didn't get fired.
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: He just got, he got replaced because they wanted somebody
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: else that had had success against his team. And so
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: they were like, sure, yeah, we'll take Craig counsel and
• 37:03
  Speaker 4: we'll pay him more. So yeah, I mean, I, I
• 37:05
  Speaker 4: have a hard time believing that, David Ross doesn't find
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: a job. I don't know if the Mets job is
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: going to be his, though. Just my opinion. No facts
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: behind it. I just am not sure that will be
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: his shtick.
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got Alex Cora to the Mets in the
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: offseason to manage. That's my pick.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: I feel pretty strongly about it.
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: Just throwing that out there. It's been thrown out.
• 37:34
  Speaker 6: There, too.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: I'll divulge my pick once we really break.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: Down the managers.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: You have a different name?
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: Just a different name.
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: You got to remember who's around. Is it an informed name?
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: Or is it just, hey, I think there's a fit here?
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: No, no, I think it's a fit. I think it's
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: a fit.
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: Okay. Mine has a little bit of informed to it. Okay.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: I can't reveal my sources. You know me.
• 37:58
  Speaker 7: No, no, I don't.
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: There's a little bit of informed action there.
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: I like that.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Mm-hmm.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Dave Dombrowski drives a hard bargain.
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: Just saying.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Oh, I know. So you're saying Phillies versus Mets for Cora?
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Just saying.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 38:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: I like this. Appreciate what you're watching.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: And you can appreciate what you're watching if you're a
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: front office by making sure the Cubs are in a
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: good position to try and capitalize on what they have
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: this year in the playoffs. I think they did a
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: nice job there by picking up not one, but two
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: starters in Gossman and Clay Holmes, right? We're talking about
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: PCA here. I mean, this is a ridiculous season and
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: you want to keep riding a momentum that he is
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: carrying right now into October, right? If he keeps this
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: up for another week and a half. I mean, he
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: had two homers and a triple last night. So Let's
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: get some sound here from Craig Council. This was on
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: marquee postgame.
• 39:04
  Speaker 7: You're shaking your head in amazement at sometimes, in amazement. And,
• 39:08
  Speaker 7: you know, you don't get to see this. Like, that's
• 39:11
  Speaker 7: what I told Alex. I said, Alex, you don't get
• 39:13
  Speaker 7: to see things like this. Like, you know, we've spent
• 39:16
  Speaker 7: your whole life in baseball, and you just don't see
• 39:18
  Speaker 7: this happen on a baseball field. And so, you know, you're–
• 39:25
  Speaker 7: grateful to be a part of it. You're grateful to
• 39:27
  Speaker 7: see things like this. And then you're grateful for the
• 39:30
  Speaker 7: the fans get to see a season like this because
• 39:31
  Speaker 7: they're going to talk about it. They're going to tell
• 39:34
  Speaker 7: their kids about it. They're going to tell their grandkids
• 39:36
  Speaker 7: about it, seasons like this.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: Yeah, J.R.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Ritchie had a tough time with Bregman and PCA last night.
• 39:42
  Speaker 2: And then Shota Imanaga was great, actually, against an aggressive
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: Braves lineup. And that's a good sign for the Cubs,
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: even if they're not going to let him go third
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: time through in the playoffs. The first two times, if
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: they look like that. I mean, he ended up going
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: six innings, one run, four hits, eight punch outs. But
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: back to PCA. Best center fielder in the sport. If
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: you want to debate on positions, you can make the
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: case best defender in the sport, right?
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: Now taking pitches, you don't want.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: To walk them if possible. I mean, sometimes maybe, but
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: he's definitely not easy to deal with on the basis.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: And then if you're trying to pitch to him and
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: even if you get ahead, I think both homers last night,
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: I mean, I'm watching a million games. I think both homers,
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: he was down. I think one was Oh two and
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: one was Oh one. Like it's, it's the mix of
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: I'm spitting my eyes getting better. I'm going to take
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: some pitches, but also I'm not afraid to make contact with,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: with my ACE wing with authority.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: And hit homers in what? He's got, what are we at? 43?
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: 44.
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: Oh, he.
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: Had two last night. Yeah, yeah.
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: 44. So 44 home runs.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: Anyway, my point is, you're the catcher here, right? You're
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: going into a playoff series against PCA. Some of the
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: things I just mentioned are in your head here. And
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: if you're focusing on how to get them out at
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: the plate, it's gotten so much tougher this year.
• 41:05
  Speaker 3: It's gotten so much tougher.
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: Anytime you don't have the swing decisions around the edge,
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: it's not red around the edge. He shrinks the area
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: where he's doing damage. I would have been a really
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: good hitter if I only swung in the middle. That
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: is the superpower that I wish I could teach every
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: kid to do. And you look at PCA and you're
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: like 6'1, 185, runs. not going to really do much
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: power damage to you. He's doing damage. He's hit 44 homers, doubles, triples, 37.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: He's going to have 40 bags by the end of
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: the year. He's doing everything that puts fear in the
• 41:51
  Speaker 4: lineup or fear in the opposing pitcher. And Council was
• 41:56
  Speaker 4: exactly right, except Council has seen this. Council has seen
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: this exact same thing. not the elite defense in center field,
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: but in 2018, what Christian Yelich did from August to September,
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: I think he hit 400 in September. He almost, he
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: got run down by Nolan Arenado for the triple crown.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: He almost won the triple crown and people rarely even
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: talk about it because Nolan hit two homers in the
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: last day. He single-handedly carried us to the playoffs in
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: those months. And that was the most impressive thing. So
• 42:30
  Speaker 4: for council, to either A, have forgotten from eight years ago,
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: or B, think this is better. It shows you what P.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: Crow Armstrong has been doing this year.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, total package.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: And they've been talking about him all season long on
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: the show. You see bottom corner of the screen there,
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Northside Territory. So if you want a little bit more
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: on what's happening with the Cubs, go check out Patrick
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: Antahadev on the show. Plus, oh, how can I forget?
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: John Lester, regular contributor on Northside Territory.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: Injuries suck. Just a quickie here.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: I mean, some shows we don't talk about the Dodgers
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: at all, and then they kind of force you. They
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: kind of bring you back in, Kratz. They do have
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: a lot of injury action going on right now. Fabian
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: Ardaia from The Athletic, who's been on the show plenty,
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: with this tweet. Dave Roberts said, Edwin Diaz will be
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: active tomorrow. This is the one I want to ask
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: you about. He's going to pitch in low leverage tomorrow.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: They also plan to activate Andy Pius, this homestand, without
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: a rehab assignment. If you want more on that, Kratz
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: mentioned it at the top of the show, or at
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: least this fact, right? There's only postseason play after Sunday
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: for OKC, which is AAA for the Dodgers. And then
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Shohei Otani is feeling normal-ish, said Dave Roberts, continues to progress.
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: Back to the top.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Hey, I don't remember if it was you and AJ
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: or just AJ, but I was like, Edwin Diaz is
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: going to have to do some low leverage.
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: You can't just throw him into this, right? Do you
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: remember when I was saying that?
• 44:00
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 44:01
  Speaker 4: No, no.
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: I remember you saying that.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: And you guys were like, well, he needs adrenaline. I'm like, well,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: I don't care at this point. There's a week and
• 44:06
  Speaker 2: change to go in the season. So let's see if
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: he can pitch in low leverage. And if he needs
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: the adrenaline, I'm sorry. We can't wait for you and
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: try you out in the late stages of a game
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: right now.
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: We don't have time for that.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: I think they might have time. If they don't ever
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: catch the Brewers, I think they're two games back of
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: the Brewers for the best record. That's the last thing
• 44:29
  Speaker 4: they're really going for, but also the Braves trying to
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: catch them. I think that's getting a little farther. But
• 44:36
  Speaker 4: I'm saying the adrenaline because I think it was Papelbon
• 44:39
  Speaker 4: that we had on. It was either Papelbon or I forget.
• 44:43
  Speaker 4: Was it Pete Fairbanks? I'm not sure. We had a
• 44:45
  Speaker 4: closer on saying it, so I'm going to defer to
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: whichever pitcher, and it would be better if I knew
• 44:50
  Speaker 4: who said it. Whichever pitcher said that, like that adrenaline
• 44:55
  Speaker 4: is a big thing. That's why I think some pitchers
• 44:58
  Speaker 4: do better in the playoffs.
• 44:59
  Speaker 3: Some don't.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Some pitchers do better in the ninth inning than others
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: because they're used to that adrenaline. It's not because they're
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: just like, well, I'm just calm. It's because they are
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: able to harness that superpower. Adrenaline is a superpower for everybody.
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: Some people view it as fear. Others view it as, oh.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: I felt terrible. Here it comes. I think, honestly, you
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: can look at a lot of mechanics with Edwin. I
• 45:25
  Speaker 4: saw somebody broke down his mechanics and the things that
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: have changed. His lower arm slot. So what is causing that? Ultimately,
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: this is what Dave Roberts gets paid $ 8 million a
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: year to decide. Is he going to be a viable piece?
• 45:41
  Speaker 4: Or are they just going to throw Yamamoto at the
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: start of a game and then close the next two
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: out like it's a high school game?
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: They'll get crafty if they need to. You know, the
• 45:53
  Speaker 2: other thing that they do that I think is weird
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: to watch, but it worked for them, what, two years ago?
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: I mean, they'll not throw a game, but they'll play
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: a game out thinking about the long term in a series.
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: Is that the right way to put it?
• 46:09
  Speaker 3: Man, that is a tough. Okay, we can say that.
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: Not from the jump.
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  Speaker 3: I'm saying because they won.
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, with your strategy.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Because they won.
• 46:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're going to throw a Will Klein out there
• 46:22
  Speaker 4: who ended up giving them a ton of innings and
• 46:24
  Speaker 4: it kept them. They make the move that I think
• 46:26
  Speaker 4: keeps them around in the game where I think some
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: other managers will be like, We've.
• 46:32
  Speaker 3: Got to unload our clip right here. If we don't,
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: it's just never.
• 46:35
  Speaker 4: And I think Dave Roberts does a good job of it.
• 46:38
  Speaker 4: I was involved in the 2018 playoffs where it was
• 46:41
  Speaker 4: kind of like, look, of the next three games, we
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: have to win two. What gives us the best chance?
• 46:46
  Speaker 4: And I think Dave Roberts does a really good– the
• 46:49
  Speaker 4: organization does a really good job of that. It's not
• 46:51
  Speaker 4: punting any games. It's just you understanding what's in front
• 46:56
  Speaker 4: of you.
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Two years ago, they had some tough decisions to make, right?
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: They didn't have the starting staff. And I thought that
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: the way Doc managed the postseason during that run was
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: incredibly impressive.
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: Better than last year?
• 47:13
  Speaker 1: Oh, his managing style?
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Yes. Last year was like, I've got four horses.
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: You thought last year was better?
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: I thought both were very impressive decisions. In two completely
• 47:24
  Speaker 4: different ways of handling a staff. And he deserves way
• 47:28
  Speaker 4: more credit, I think, than what he actually gets for
• 47:30
  Speaker 4: what he did in back-to-back years.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: They barely won last year, too, which is crazy. I mean,
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: if IKF has a normal lead, as they always say,
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: they lose.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: Without a closer. Without really any other setup guy. You
• 47:43
  Speaker 4: lost your setup guy for the World Series. Name a
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: team that can do that.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: Even the Padres. The Padres lose Mori Home going into
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: the World Series. Oh, cooked.
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: Like that's just, that's tough. And Dave Roberts deserves a
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: lot of credit.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I'm with you.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: Do we have the javelin thing on the way out here?
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: And then you can take it right to break. It's
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: a Yamamoto teaching Scoogle how to throw the javelin. We
• 48:10
  Speaker 2: haven't talked about the javelin in a while. Clearly it
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: works for some people like the 2025 legend.
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: That is Yoshinobu Yamamoto.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: So.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: If not, we can run it in slap hands. You
• 48:24
  Speaker 1: can tell me. We can go as we go. Yeah,
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: let's break. Maybe we'll find it for slap.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, there it is.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: Okay. Scooble's jacked, by the way. A lot of sleeveless
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: action from Derek.
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: Not a small person. I wouldn't say jacked. He's pitcher big.
• 48:40
  Speaker 1: Pitcher jacked.
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: He's pitcher big. That's a body that's going to stay
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: healthy because you can't pull fat. Everybody's career is marked
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: by different milestones. This was the day I got called
• 49:05
  Speaker 4: up for the Phillies, September 17th, 2011. So 15 years ago,
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: we won the National League East on September 17th. So
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: I didn't have anything to do with it, but I got.
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: Called up to the Phillies my childhood.
• 49:20
  Speaker 4: Team it was my second big league call up I'd
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: spent the year in AAA and that's me and my
• 49:25
  Speaker 4: wife on this date 15 years ago popping a little
• 49:30
  Speaker 4: champagne I made sure I stayed out of the way
• 49:32
  Speaker 4: of all the other guys celebrating who had actually played
• 49:34
  Speaker 4: there the entire season.
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: That's a great picture that's a great picture You guys
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: are cute.
• 49:40
  Speaker 1: You cute little young couple back then. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I've never seen. You can't pull back the fireworks once
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• 49:52
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