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Kurt Suzuki OUT as Angels manager, Rays plan v. Miz, Woodruff’s return dilemma, Trades that build champs · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Oh, hey.
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  Speaker 2: Kratz, Kevin Pillar, Scotty Braun here. Kratz, is that the
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  Speaker 2: famous FT host, Kevin Pillar, who we can see in
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  Speaker 2: person in Milwaukee in a couple days?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you look like you're from Wisconsin. Like, they're
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  Speaker 1: going to love you there. They're going to love everything
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  Speaker 1: about you.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I did spend a summer in Wisconsin. Wausau, Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 4: Shout out Wausau Woodchucks in the Northwood League. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: it's kind of like a home away from home.
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  Speaker 2: So you'll be able to navigate the whole team around Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: I'm talking about FT Live on the road in Milwaukee.
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  Speaker 2: It's for Fox One and their activation, a two-day pop-up experience.
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  Speaker 2: So anyone can go. It's free. You can relive iconic
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  Speaker 2: MLB postseason memories, experience the thrill of watching live on
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  Speaker 2: Fox One, and then you can see a live FT
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  Speaker 2: both on Friday and on Saturday. KP is going to
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  Speaker 2: be with Alana Rizzo hosting and... former Brewer All-Star Corey Knabel,
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  Speaker 2: who is part of the FT fam as well. We're
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  Speaker 2: excited for him to be there. It's at Catalano Square
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  Speaker 2: at the end of Broadway. But if you get confused,
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  Speaker 2: don't worry. Just tweet at Kevin Pillar, and he will
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  Speaker 2: give you directions specifically on wherever you are with his
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  Speaker 2: Wisconsin roots.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, just reach out.
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  Speaker 4: I know Wisconsin like the back of my hand.
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  Speaker 3: You won't get lost, I promise.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you get like 10 tweets from people just
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  Speaker 2: being like, Hey, so I'm on a different Broadway. I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to send you my location on reply. Can you
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  Speaker 2: just reply what I should do here? And then you just,
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, throw it in AI or something and
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  Speaker 2: then send them what to do.
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  Speaker 3: I'll certainly help you out. I'll help you out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, so we're excited for KP, Alana, and Corey
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  Speaker 2: coming up on Friday. That's before game one of the
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  Speaker 2: World Series. Speaking of which, let's charge. And Charge the
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  Speaker 2: Mount is presented by that Fox One app. That's where
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  Speaker 2: you can watch the World Series. Let's talk about game one,
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  Speaker 2: specifically Jacob Mizorowski. KP, he has not looked the same
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  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. We're talking about a couple starts. But
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  Speaker 2: this was the best pitcher in the National League, if
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  Speaker 2: not baseball, him and Cam Schlittler. I'm wearing this shirt today.
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  Speaker 2: But Miz, not getting swing and miss, not able to
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  Speaker 2: put hitters away as quickly, and not giving the team length.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think we will see a different Miz in
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  Speaker 2: the World Series? And what have you observed from these
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  Speaker 2: first couple starts from him?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, we're talking about a young guy who
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  Speaker 4: hasn't had an entire season of pitching, especially as a starter.
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  Speaker 4: And you could just tell there's a little bit of
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  Speaker 4: fatigue there, but... On the flip side, I think this
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  Speaker 4: is the biggest difference when you get into the postseason.
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  Speaker 4: You have this idea of a collective approach versus an
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  Speaker 4: individual approach where teams are really, really focused on this
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  Speaker 4: collective plan. How do we beat the pitcher? And a
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  Speaker 4: lot of times, yes, you have that collective plan during
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  Speaker 4: the regular season. But a lot of times it still
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  Speaker 4: comes down to individuals having their individual approach. What pitch
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  Speaker 4: do they want to hit? But when you see a
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  Speaker 4: team collectively understand, hey, this is how we're going to
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  Speaker 4: beat a pitcher. This is how we're going to get
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  Speaker 4: him out of the game. Because ultimately in the postseason,
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  Speaker 4: it's really about getting wins. It doesn't matter what I do.
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't matter what Kratzy does. It matters what team
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  Speaker 4: I'm playing for does. It's about getting wins. So I
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  Speaker 4: think there's a combination, a little bit of him just
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  Speaker 4: being a young guy pitching so deep into the season
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  Speaker 4: for the first time in his career. But I also
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  Speaker 4: think you have to give the offenses that are going
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  Speaker 4: against him a lot of credit for this collective approach
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  Speaker 4: against him.
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  Speaker 1: And moving forward, I would say you're going to probably
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  Speaker 1: see a lot of the same. I know the Rays
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  Speaker 1: struck out a little bit against the Guardians. The Guardians
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  Speaker 1: had really good pitching. But the Rays just don't strike out.
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  Speaker 1: They put the ball in play. So I– In my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: that's what I'm thinking I'm going to see a lot
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  Speaker 1: in the first game is you're going to see balls
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  Speaker 1: put in play, and I think the Miz has to
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  Speaker 1: pitch to that.
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  Speaker 2: Elaborate.
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  Speaker 1: He has to pitch to not just, ooh, what's the
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  Speaker 1: swing and miss pitch that I'm going to? It's got
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  Speaker 1: to be more of that regular season. He's able to
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  Speaker 1: move the ball to the outer half and not get
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  Speaker 1: a lot of damage on that outer half. There's guys
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  Speaker 1: that are going to do damage. You've got to be
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  Speaker 1: able to do both. But it seems like in the season,
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  Speaker 1: and we're looking at a graphic right now, the regular season,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of his pitches are more down and away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, up and away. He needs to move out
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  Speaker 1: to that area. You got to be away from hitters
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  Speaker 1: to be able to give them weaker contact. Look, this
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  Speaker 1: is the Cy Young. We're not talking about this guy
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  Speaker 1: needs to revamp everything that he's done. He needs to
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  Speaker 1: be able to get away from teams being able to
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  Speaker 1: continue to make contact with them. And when they're going
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  Speaker 1: to make contact, like a team like the Rays are
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  Speaker 1: going to make contact, you want that contact to be
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  Speaker 1: soft contact and see if they can string three or
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  Speaker 1: four hits together, which most teams can against it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and Crafty, obviously you've caught in the postseason a
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  Speaker 4: little bit.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, you.
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  Speaker 4: Understand that hits come at a premium a little bit
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  Speaker 4: because you're facing everyone's best starters. You're facing the best relievers.
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  Speaker 4: There's not kind of that middle ground. You're not facing
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  Speaker 4: the four or five starter. You're not facing kind of that,
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  Speaker 4: you know, front end of your bullpen. You're getting the
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  Speaker 4: best guys consistently. So do you think there's this element
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  Speaker 4: of where he's pitching away from contact a little bit?
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  Speaker 4: He's trying to strike everyone out. He's also pitching away
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  Speaker 4: from potentially, you know, giving up the single or giving up,
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  Speaker 4: you know, a base hit the other way and really
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  Speaker 4: trying just to avoid damage right here?
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  Speaker 1: I think part of it's a collective– it's collective between
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  Speaker 1: him and William Contreras who's caught every game. And it's
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  Speaker 1: not just Miz. You watch it and you see how
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  Speaker 1: guys are calling games. Yes, there's an aspect in the
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  Speaker 1: postseason where you go, okay, I'm going down this entire
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  Speaker 1: order right here and I'm finding where's the holes. And
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  Speaker 1: you're always able to work to those holes in the
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  Speaker 1: lineup where I think during the regular season you're going– okay,
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  Speaker 1: I'm just going to go right after this guy, right
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  Speaker 1: after this guy. It's me versus him, you versus me.
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  Speaker 1: And in the postseason, you always have a base open.
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  Speaker 1: I'm never going to let Junior Caminero beat me. Junior
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  Speaker 1: Caminero beat himself against the Guardians. Yes, I know he
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  Speaker 1: hit a dinger late on a pitch. They get jammed
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  Speaker 1: and he kept it inside. I have no idea how
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  Speaker 1: he did it. But you're making those decisions, so there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be more pitches out of the zone. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to throw more pitches. You can't just have games
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  Speaker 1: like Drew Rasmussen where he's like, one, two, three strikes,
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  Speaker 1: you're out. Or Gavin Williams, one, two, three strikes, you're out.
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  Speaker 1: And he's striking out 19 guys. That's rare in a postseason.
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  Speaker 1: When you're facing a better lineup, which the Miz has
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  Speaker 1: been facing better lineups than the Rays have faced the
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  Speaker 1: entire postseason so far.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think there's also this idea? Let me rephrase this.
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  Speaker 4: Do you think a guy like the Miz who is
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  Speaker 4: so known for striking out, that's the type of pitcher is,
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  Speaker 4: would it be hard for you as his catcher to
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  Speaker 4: be like, hey, look it. The strikeouts are going to come,
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  Speaker 4: but you also have the opportunity with a team like
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  Speaker 4: the Rays who put the ball in play. Let's figure
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  Speaker 4: out where they don't necessarily swing and miss, but let's
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  Speaker 4: figure out where they put the ball in play weekly.
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  Speaker 4: And let's pitch to those areas and see if we can.
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  Speaker 3: Get deeper into a game.
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  Speaker 4: Would it be hard to convince a guy like the
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  Speaker 4: Miz who, like I said, is a strikeout pitcher to
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  Speaker 4: kind of not reinvent who he is. He's the Cy
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  Speaker 4: Young guy, but like, hey, let's try to get a
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  Speaker 4: little bit deeper in this game. Let's pitch to these areas.
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  Speaker 4: We can get easy outs early in the count, maybe
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  Speaker 4: get you into this sixth, seventh, eighth inning. Do you
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  Speaker 4: think that's a conversation you could have with him?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but I've had those conversations already in August. As
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  Speaker 1: a catcher that's been in the playoffs, William Contreras has
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  Speaker 1: success and failure calling games. I'm not saying it was
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  Speaker 1: his fault that they lost other years. I'm saying that
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  Speaker 1: it was success and failures understanding how to navigate lineups
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. So you're talking about that. Hey, you
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  Speaker 1: know what? When we face these guys, When we face
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  Speaker 1: this type of guy, this is what we need to
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  Speaker 1: do during the playoffs because it can just be a–
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  Speaker 1: it's a tick difference. We're not changing who he is.
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  Speaker 1: It's just a little bit different, but it can't just be, oh,
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  Speaker 1: it's October. Now we got to change. No, hey, this
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  Speaker 1: is how we're going to attack guys. You saw it
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  Speaker 1: in the last game. He went– Two pitches, I think,
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  Speaker 1: the first two times through the lineup. It was a
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  Speaker 1: concerted effort that wasn't going very well. He was one pitch,
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  Speaker 1: one ground ball double play away from coming out in
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  Speaker 1: the second inning of that game against the Dodgers. He
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  Speaker 1: got the ground ball double play, and he was able
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  Speaker 1: to last, I think, four innings, if I'm not mistaken.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't think it worked, and I think they
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  Speaker 1: need to go back to the drawing board with another
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  Speaker 1: lineup that is a different animal than what the Dodgers were.
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  Speaker 2: This is where context is important, too. Brazilian Bronco in
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  Speaker 2: the chat said, you guys are acting like he gave
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  Speaker 2: up nine runs. He gave up three runs in eight
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  Speaker 2: and a third and mentioned the teams that he went
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  Speaker 2: up against, the Padres and the Dodgers, and actually took
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  Speaker 2: a shot at the American League side saying he didn't
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  Speaker 2: face Cleveland.
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  Speaker 1: All fair.
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  Speaker 2: The part that I think is not fair is, okay,
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  Speaker 2: eight and a third, three runs over two starts from
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  Speaker 2: the Cy Young winner. I mean, I'd like a little
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  Speaker 2: more length out of that. And also context matters here, Kratz.
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  Speaker 2: We're talking about what we see in the game. Like
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, there was a chance he wasn't going to
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  Speaker 2: make it through the second inning. So we're just trying
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  Speaker 2: to say, will we see a more 2026 regular season
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  Speaker 2: version of the Miz? Or is he tired? Or is
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  Speaker 2: he not executing the same way? Or do teams have
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  Speaker 2: a better? game plan against him right now? And we'll
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  Speaker 2: mix in some charts too, to show how many balls
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  Speaker 2: have been fouled off. And also I think it's important
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  Speaker 2: to show pitch location here as well, which we'll get
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  Speaker 2: to for this four seam fastball, but let's start with
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  Speaker 2: the foul balls.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's a.
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  Speaker 4: Lot of foul balls. I mean, and that's, yeah, Once again,
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  Speaker 4: that comes down to just having a good plan. You know,
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  Speaker 4: you could tell, it looks like righties are trying to
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  Speaker 4: get the ball a little bit closer. I mean, obviously
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  Speaker 4: both hitters are here, but I would imagine righties are
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  Speaker 4: trying to get the ball a little bit closer to
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  Speaker 4: kind of eliminate that swing down and away, trying to
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  Speaker 4: do a little bit more damage.
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  Speaker 3: They're willing to chase in a little bit more.
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  Speaker 4: That comes down to a collective approach, and that's also
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  Speaker 4: how you kind of wear down a pitcher, especially one
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  Speaker 4: as good as the Miz, who is so used to
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  Speaker 4: getting swing and miss. There's no better way to frustrate
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  Speaker 4: a strikeout pitcher than consistently fouling pitches off getting his
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  Speaker 4: pitch count up you know making it a little bit
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  Speaker 4: tougher you know on your manager your pitching coach to
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  Speaker 4: allow this guy to go deeper into a game once
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  Speaker 4: again we're also talking about a guy who hasn't you
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  Speaker 4: know thrown 200 innings in his career he's getting a
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  Speaker 4: lot deeper into the season deeper than he's ever been
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  Speaker 4: before so there is going to be some natural you
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  Speaker 4: know wear and tear and obviously he's the future of
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  Speaker 4: this organization um you don't necessarily want to put him
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  Speaker 4: in harm's way. You're going to need him for two,
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  Speaker 4: maybe three starts in the World Series. So the best
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  Speaker 4: way you can kind of get under a guy's skin
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  Speaker 4: is just consistently foul balls off against him and get
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  Speaker 4: his pitch count up.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I want to make sure KP is on
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  Speaker 1: the screen at the same time I say this. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, 54% of his pitches have been fouled
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  Speaker 1: off is a crazy number. But KP... Can you foul
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  Speaker 1: balls off? Can you practice and say, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to foul a few balls off in a
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  Speaker 1: big league game? No, no.
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  Speaker 4: You can't say you're going to foul him off. You
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  Speaker 4: can definitely kind of change your approach where I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to be a little bit shorter. I know that I'm
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  Speaker 4: not trying to do damage on these pitches. I'm playing
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more, you know, almost like cricket. I'm
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  Speaker 4: trying to protect home plate as opposed to trying to
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  Speaker 4: advance the ball or trying to hit the ball in
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  Speaker 4: the gap. But you can't say, hey, I'm going to
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  Speaker 4: foul this pitch off here. I'm going to foul this
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  Speaker 4: pitch off here. It's just a change of thought process. And,
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  Speaker 4: you know, I forgot who it was who had that
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  Speaker 4: really kind of late with Tampa. He had that really
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  Speaker 4: late swing where it was like super defensive and he
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  Speaker 4: fouled it off. A swing like that, yeah, you can
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  Speaker 4: definitely try to foul a pitch off. But no, it's
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  Speaker 4: not something you could work on. It's just a different mindset.
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  Speaker 1: And KP, in all the playoff games, do you know
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  Speaker 1: what your batting average was in the playoffs?
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  Speaker 3: It wasn't that good.
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  Speaker 4: I could tell you it was probably sub 200.
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  Speaker 1: Did you know what it was when you were playing
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  Speaker 1: in those games? Did you know what you were hitting?
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  Speaker 1: Nobody knows what they're hitting in the playoffs. That's why
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  Speaker 1: you get at-bats like this. That's why you get approaches
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  Speaker 1: like this because guys are not worried about their numbers.
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  Speaker 1: Should they be worried about their numbers in the season?
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: It is so impossible to have the same mindset and
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  Speaker 1: I've lived it. I've seen it. I've watched guys, but
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  Speaker 1: you are okay trying to make that pitcher work, just
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  Speaker 1: whatever you do to stay alive, and that creates a
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  Speaker 1: foul ball. They would love to just take whatever pitch
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  Speaker 1: the Miz throws them and drive it out of the ballpark.
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  Speaker 1: During the season, guys just can't or don't have that
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  Speaker 1: same level of grind. When guys do have that, those
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  Speaker 1: are the guys that you're like, wow, that is such
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  Speaker 1: an impressive, you know, unashamed, unapologetic approach. Because that's why
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  Speaker 1: we see all these longer at-bats during the postseason. That's
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  Speaker 1: why we see guys really pushing it and pushing the limits.
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  Speaker 1: Hitters do not know what their batting average. I've never
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  Speaker 1: met a hitter who's like, we won game one of
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  Speaker 1: the World Series, but I was 0 for 4. This sucks. No,
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  Speaker 1: they're like, we won. I don't even remember what I was.
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  Speaker 1: I know I hit a ball to the right side
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  Speaker 1: that helped move the guy to third that we ended
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  Speaker 1: up scoring. We won three to two. That's what you remember,
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  Speaker 1: and that's the difference. And Miz and William Contreras and Hookie,
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  Speaker 1: their pitching coach, all have to make that adjustment on
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  Speaker 1: how they attack certain types of hitters.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good point. We didn't win that playoff series,
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  Speaker 2: but I was three for nine, so I hit. 333.
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  Speaker 2: in that playoff series said nobody.
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  Speaker 4: No i mean i could i could tell you like
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  Speaker 4: much like kratzy totally lived experience too like i've had
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  Speaker 4: postseason games where i've been over and our teams won
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  Speaker 4: and it doesn't matter and i've also had games where
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  Speaker 4: i've had four hits in a postseason game we lost
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  Speaker 4: and you're always thinking man i wish i could have
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  Speaker 4: done more to help the team there's there's no like
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  Speaker 4: It doesn't feel good. It doesn't feel good to have
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  Speaker 4: four hits and a losing effort in a postseason game.
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  Speaker 4: And it certainly doesn't suck to go 0-4 when you win.
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  Speaker 4: So I think this is just– I think this really
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  Speaker 4: just sums down to like, yes, to answer that guy's question.
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  Speaker 4: We're splitting hairs here. Obviously the Miz is the best
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  Speaker 4: pitcher in the world, one of the best pitchers in
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  Speaker 4: the world. We're talking about how could he just make
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  Speaker 4: these subtle adjustments to give his team the best opportunity to–
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  Speaker 4: Allow him to pitch deeper in the game. And a
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  Speaker 4: lot of this comes down to it's not necessarily things
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  Speaker 4: that he has to do different.
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  Speaker 3: It's what the offenses are doing to them. And this is.
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  Speaker 4: Baseball is one of the only sports and maybe hockey.
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  Speaker 4: The hitting changes a little bit. But in terms of strategy,
• 15:29
  Speaker 4: baseball is played two completely different games. The game in
• 15:32
  Speaker 4: the regular season, the game in the postseason, the game
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  Speaker 4: in the individual season. or in the regular season is
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  Speaker 4: about trying to win the game, but there's an individual
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  Speaker 4: aspect to it. Like I am an individual contractor. I
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  Speaker 4: have to go out and perform. I got to do X, Y,
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  Speaker 4: and Z to be able to get a contract next year,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: to stay on this team, to keep my job in.
• 15:50
  Speaker 3: The post season.
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: It's really all about winning. How can I help my
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: team win? And that's why it's the best version of
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: baseball to watch in my opinion.
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: And with the last 30 seconds here, David Adler, by
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: the way, from stack has put some of these charts
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: and grids together and posted them. I mean, you can
• 16:07
  Speaker 2: find these pretty easily, but the heat map here too
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: for Miz and his four-seamer. The one on the left
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: was the regular season four-seamer to right-handed hitters. The one
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: on the right is where it's going in the postseason.
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: He's throwing it in more. He's always going to be elevated.
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: There's no way this guy's ever going to be down
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: and away fastball. So sorry, all you old school pitchers.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: He's always going to be elevated. To me, that pitch
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: away is where he's going to get weaker contact for
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: the majority of the Rays lineup. Obviously, you can't do
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: that to Yandy. Yandy will take that, John, deep right
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: center because that's where he wants that ball. So it's
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: not one size fits all, and he's still a good pitcher.
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Good talk.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: Can't wait for game one. Much, much more to cover
• 16:55
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  Speaker 2: different flavors over the last couple of years, 2025. We
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: had 22 players making more than $ 12 million. This tweet
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: from Dan Danny by Eddie. And then in 2026, that's
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: this year. It's just Christian Yelich and Brandon Woodruff, the
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: big money brewers with their two highly paid, uh, Vets, Kratts,
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: one of which might not even pitch. We'll get to
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: that later. And then Captain Yellich. But yeah, a little
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: bit of a difference. Variety, the spice of life.
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: It is definitely a spice of life. And it's also
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: the fact that these are the best teams and they
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: created differently. I was trying to look at see what
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: I want to see with Freddy Peralta. I'm not saying
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: I got it wrong. I want to see what he
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: was making in his last year of his contract. Only
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: eight million.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Team friendly deal that he signed a while back. Do
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: you remember the text I sent you to from a
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: couple hours ago where the Brewers lead all of baseball
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: in their scouting department? That was, I mean, I read
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: that in Jeff Passon's ESPN article. I was just catching
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: up on some reading. They had the, they had the
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: most manpower per people power in that department.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: So we're international telling you're talking about.
• 18:22
  Speaker 4: Are you telling me you're able to get to the
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: world series without spending a ton of money? Or creating
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: your roster differently? Does that mean everyone can do what
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: the Brewers and Rays are doing?
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: No. Everybody else has an unfair advantage.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: We're not allowed to talk about this, KP. This is
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: an aberration. This only is happening one time. But really,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: there's no hope. They have no chance. It's not fair.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I read an article. I read an article by a
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: guy just on Twitter. His conspiracy was that all the
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: stars in the league through the season– because this looks
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: better for no salary cap. So all the best players
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: through the season so that the Rays and the Brewers
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: made it to the postseason so that there would be
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: no salary cap.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Good for those guys, man.
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: I love conspiracy theories.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: It's like synchronized swimming, right? They all do the same
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: things to get just enough of competitiveness with strikeouts if
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you're a position player. Go for balls if you're a pitcher.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: So all those guys on the Dodgers just decided like, hey,
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: let's not try.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: Yep. Right.
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: They were like, let's go 4-0 with an Otani home
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: run and then give it up in game four.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Cooper Pratt was like, I'm going to combat that and
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: I'm going to make three errors being one of the
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: better defenders in the game. I'm going to make three errors.
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: So you all-stars. So you big time. players can't put
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: us in the World Series. That is totally, all that
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: stuff was happening. We can't clip any of this because
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: people are going to think it's serious.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Hey, did you guys see this? The Astros are still
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: working on who their GM is going to be and
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: they're deep in the process, but they're hiring Spencer Medic
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: as their new director of pitching. He's a former driveline employee,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: worked in the Yankees system the past four years, spent
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: last season as their AAA pitching coach. So he's not
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: the pitching coach, but he's leading the pitching program, essentially, Kratz,
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: and you were a former Astro. The only thing that
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: stands out to me, I mean, I don't know the guy.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Why are you doing this before the GM? Shouldn't you
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: get the GM in there first?
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Hey, who's my boss going to be when I get
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: this job? Like, don't you worry about it. It's me.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: I'm Jim Crane.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: It's like, what if my boss hates me? Don't worry,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: I like you. And hey, we're not making fun of
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: Jim Crane because I think, Kratz, you and I both
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: are great. Jim Crane knows ball. He's one of the
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: smartest owners baseball-wise in the sport by far. I don't
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: even think there's a few and then there's a huge gap, right?
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: There's a few guys that really know ball. He's one
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: of them. It's just, hey, hire your GM and then
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: you can do this.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: I wonder if Jim does it in his other businesses.
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Super successful. I loved actually the little bit I was
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: there talking to him about business and how he created culture.
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: I wonder if he does that in his other businesses.
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: I think this one more because it's fun and he
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: knows ball. Didn't he play college ball? I think he did.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: I think he did.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: I just can't imagine.
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: And look, there's going to be people out there that
• 21:22
  Speaker 4: want to be a GM regardless, but I feel like
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: you're limiting that pool of talent. you know, really qualified candidates.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: If you don't really feel like you have, you might
• 21:32
  Speaker 4: have the GM title, but you don't necessarily have the responsibility.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: So I think it's going to be a tough hire.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: Someone's ultimately going to take the job because there's only
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: 30 of those jobs in the world, but trying to
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: get the best qualified person for someone who's going to
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: just be a yes man might be a tough sell.
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: Let's shake it up. The trade deadline is very important
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: in the foul territory network world. It's very important in
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: the social media sphere, the fan interest sphere. And I
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: think this time of year is where we need to
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: emphasize why we spend so much time breaking down trades
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: and in the offseason signings, whatever. But I want to
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: talk about trade specifically here, KP, and I'll cue you
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: with Sarah Lang's putting this tweet out there. And there
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: are plenty of moves that have been made just now
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: by these teams specific. I mean, both of them made
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: some nice moves, but like Freddie Peralta to the race,
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: that's probably the best move we saw.
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: And so here are your postseason MVPs acquired midseason by year.
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: And so there are a ton in the 21st century here,
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: a ton.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Freddie P this year, LCS MVP, 24 was Tommy Edmunds.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: nlcs mvp i won't go through the whole list but
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: i'll give you a few because i know there's a
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: listening crowd to this jorge soler world series mvp in
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: 21 eddie rosario nlcs mvp in 21 2018 at steve
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: pierce world series mvp 17 verlander in the cs uh
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: cs for andrew miller the year before that and on
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: and on we go so kp newsflash the trade deadline
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: is a big deal and actually for a team that
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: you played with not too long ago jordan montgomery was
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: a Pretty hefty acquisition by the Rangers. Didn't win an
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: MVP in the World Series or the CS, but I
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: bring that one up a lot too because the Diamondbacks
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: were going for him and so were the Rangers, and
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: the Rangers got him.
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: I mean he certainly could have made an argument.
• 23:24
  Speaker 4: I mean obviously Corey Seager went out and did what
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: he did, but Jordan Montgomery was probably their most important
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: pitcher during that time. But this just really emphasizes– you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: teams that are willing to potentially sacrifice, you know, a
• 23:38
  Speaker 4: couple of prospects that are unproven that may end up
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: being great players, you know, for the immediate future.
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: And when you see a list.
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: Like this, it just, and seeing a guy like Freddie Peralta,
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: you know, raise that trophy just kind of, you know,
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: reemphasizes the importance of, you know, potentially selling some of
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: your future for the right now. And it's great for
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: teams like the Rays that are willing to part with
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: some of the future for, immediate success. And then Freddie Peralta, damn,
• 24:08
  Speaker 4: was he good in that postseason series, man. And this
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: is a guy who wasn't pitching great with the Mets,
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: you know, and he didn't necessarily have the best, you know,
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: regular season even with the Rays. But you know a
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: guy like this is capable of turning it on the postseason,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: pitching it in that moment. He has experience and ended
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: up being a great trade for the Rays.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: You know why that tweet didn't have any other people
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: on that list, like the people that they traded for him?
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: Not that they didn't make any impact, just you're not
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: giving up mega stars for these guys that are on
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: this list. You're not giving up your number one prospect
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: in your organization for the guys on this list. It's
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: just little things around the edges that help each team
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: improve for the ultimate goal of winning a World Series.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: That's true. I mean, the ALCS featured the Guardians and Rays.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: We spoke about Freddie Pee. And Liam Hicks has been
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: helpful too. So has Tyler Wells. Joe Adele? Joe Adele,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: huge help. Foster Griffin, big help. Nate Lowe, huge help.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: And there was one other on that list, right? There's
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: one other.
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: Like you said, I mean, you could look at this list.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Patrick Bailey, which was not deadline. Patrick Bailey, I just
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: wanted to get that out there.
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: But yeah, still a trait.
• 25:27
  Speaker 4: But you're looking at this list, and like you said,
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: I mean, obviously– You know, Verlander, you probably gave up
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: a little bit more, you know, but a lot of
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: these guys, Andrew Miller potentially, but you're looking at a
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: lot of these guys and, you know, Freddie Peralta obviously
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: has the capability of being a one or two in
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: a rotation, but you're looking like to Cratchit's point, these
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: are just, you're sprinkling players, veteran players onto teams that
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: already have good rosters that are probably.
• 25:52
  Speaker 3: Already going to the postseason.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: You're just, you're adding something else that your team might,
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: need or might be missing or maybe they just have
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: the the postseason experience and you're not giving up a
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: ton for them and sometimes you have to kind of
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: just bring in one of these guys and um this
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: this this is what you're supposed to do if you're
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: trying to.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Win 100 anyone else come to mind.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: As far as trades that like teams.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, impactful dudes.
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: I mean, I could just talk about my own experience.
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: Obviously, in 2015, we got Troy Tulewitzki and David Price.
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: And obviously, those are your big ticket names. But we
• 26:30
  Speaker 4: also went out and acquired Ben Revere, who was our
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: starting left fielder. Mark Lowe, who became kind of our
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: fireman in the bullpen. Latroy Hawkins. These were kind of.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Those under-the-radar moves.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: We as the media love to talk about a lot
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: of these big names being moved, but a lot of
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: times look at this list of players. A lot of
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: these are your, you know, your mid tier players, your, um,
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: platoon players, your, um, you know, not your superstar type
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: of players that really end up making a huge difference
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: in your team, you know, advancing in a post-season series, um,
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: But yeah, I think about some of those names that
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: were not the biggest names in my career on trade
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: deadline that made some of the biggest impacts.
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: And we talked about it earlier in the show about
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: how it's not necessarily how you approach a lineup the
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: same way as you do in the postseason as you
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: do in the regular season. Look at the names as
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: far as position players go. These are rarely guys that
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: are middle-of-the-order impact bats. Solaire is obviously going to hit
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: in the middle of the order because he has power.
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: But in no way are you mortgaging the farm for
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: a guy who came from the Kansas City Royals and
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: hit his 40 homers and then has a down year. No,
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: you're not mortgaging the farm for that. I think about
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: the guys that we picked up in 18 with the Brewers.
• 27:54
  Speaker 1: Mike Moustakis. Jonathan Scope. Scoper barely even played. He got
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: about a 15 at-bat runway, and it didn't work out.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: He was kind of a bench piece for us. Moose
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: had a walk-off hit in the Game 1 of the
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: NLDS against the Rockies.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: 2017.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: Todd Frazier. Todd Frazier was the lockdown third baseman who
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: was walking just as much as he was striking out.
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: Created a stable spot at third base when they were
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: kind of moving in and out different guys for the
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: New York Yankees. There's names that get moved, and it's
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: to improve your team. Even if you improve your team
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: just a tick, and it doesn't have to be that, oh, well,
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: you know who we need to pick up at the
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: trade deadline? We need to pick up Aaron Judge. Well,
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: how is that? Okay, okay, fine. Shohei Ohtani. That's fine.
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: That's not how the trade deadline works, but it doesn't
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: mean you go, if we can't get Aaron Judge, we
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: are not doing anything in the trade deadline. It's the
• 29:01
  Speaker 1: little things, it's the little moves that help your team
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: improve just that little bit. And then in the postseason,
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: you might get 15 at-bats in a series. You might
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: go six for 15 and win the NLCS MVP.
• 29:14
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• 29:17
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• 29:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and playing to KP's story, because I studied this
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: story pretty closely. Alex Anthopoulos, I think it was the
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: year before, did not do much. And Jose Bautista called
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: them out, right? Flip it one year later and they
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: acquired two stars. Now, the Blue Jays didn't end up
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: winning the World Series, but I think it changed the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: organization and the way that the city looked at the
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: team and the org. And even now, I think there's
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: still ripple effects from Price, Tullo, and that whole team.
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: Fast forward one more time here. This part's important. Alex
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Anthopoulos takes over the Braves. And in 2021, you're right.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: It's not the biggest superstars, but it's really solid. you know,
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: impact players, right? Eddie Rosario and Jorge Soler, among others,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: Jock Peterson. He made, right, four big trades, remade his
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: outfield and some DH to it. And that's what helped
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: them win the World Series in 2021. So what Alex
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: did really, in my mind, KP, Jose Bautista calling out
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Alex in whatever, what was that, 2014 when he called
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: him out?
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: I lived it.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: I think that helped the Braves win a World Series
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: because Alex realized, I need to show this team that
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: I mean business. This is my one time to make
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: a stamp each year for this team.
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: Well, equally as important as getting good players onto your
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: roster and maybe filling the holes, the confidence that comes
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: from your general manager going out And potentially, I keep
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: referring to selling the future because that's what the prospects are.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: They're your future. But when you are in that clubhouse,
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: you don't care about the future. You care about the
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: right now. And when you have a general manager willing
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: to go out and acquire players to help your team
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: right now be the best team that they can be,
• 31:27
  Speaker 4: There's no better boast of confidence in a clubhouse at
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: the trade deadline when you, whether it's one piece or
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: two pieces or five pieces, but.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: When you feel like, hey, we believe in.
• 31:37
  Speaker 4: This group of guys in here, we're going to improve
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: this roster and we're going to go try to win
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: a World Series. Nothing lights a fire under your butt
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: more than that. In my experience of being in clubhouses,
• 31:46
  Speaker 4: when a team goes for it, there's not a better feeling.
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: You go out and you want to prove him right.
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: And you want to play for him. And you play
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: for each other.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: And if it works out, it works out. If it
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: doesn't work out, at.
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: Least you know that your front office believed in you
• 32:01
  Speaker 4: enough to go for it.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: KP and I lived 14 together. And KP lived 14
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: and 15 staying around. So he saw both sides of it.
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: I got traded at the trade deadline for Danny Valencia.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: And he was a 290-300 hitter from Kansas City who
• 32:17
  Speaker 1: had some, you know, maybe teammate issues. But it was
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: a 300 hitter that they picked up. And I think
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Alex's view from talking to him when I got traded,
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: it was very much a view of, I trust this team.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: I want to show this team that I trust. I
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: trust these guys. And it was viewed more as, I
• 32:39
  Speaker 1: don't think I can, you know, he doesn't believe in us,
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: so he didn't go out and get anybody. He flipped
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that then in 15 and got that next, got that,
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: the best available guy, ironically, in 14 was David Price,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: who went to the Tigers, and then the next year
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: he goes to the Blue Jays. Like, he went and
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: did it. He went and sufficed the players because he
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: figured out what the players wanted and needed in that clubhouse.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: And it worked. And hey, Braves fans, you have a
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: 2021 title from some of the learning process with Alex
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Anthopoulos over the years. Hey, all right. So we're going
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: to do it this way for SeatGeek. And the question is,
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: you get one World Series game to go to. And
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: you can be a neutral fan because if you're a
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: fan of the Rays or the Brewers, you're going to
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: go to one of the home games. Which game would
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: you like to go to, KP? Do you want to
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: go to game one that's got the marquee set up
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: pitching matchup and the team's all rested and ready? Or
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: do you want to go deeper into the series?
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: Game one is the easy choice because people in Milwaukee
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: have been waiting a long time for this, the pitching matchup.
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: But that's not the game I'm going to choose.
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: The game I'm going to choose, and I'm kind of
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: throwing a dart up against the board hoping it sticks,
• 33:56
  Speaker 4: but I think this is going six games and I'm
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: choosing to go to game six because.
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: We're going to crown a first time champion.
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: And I'm a baseball historian to see one of these
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: franchises win a world series for the first time.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: That's where I'm going. Game six.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: I too live dangerously. And I was going to game
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: six and I am totally fine with not making it
• 34:17
  Speaker 1: because I've been to world series games. So I'm sitting
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: in a different boat. I think if you've never been
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: to a world series game, you got to go to
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: game one or two. Not that you're a Brewers fan
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: or whatever. Just to see that environment, to see that intensity.
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: If you've never been, you've got to go to one
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: of those games. I get it. If you're in Florida,
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: wait until game three or four. But I think Milwaukee
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: is a much better place to watch a game. I
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: heard from my wife's aunt and uncle that Tampa was rocking.
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: They were at game six when they clinched it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: But.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: I have a hard time believing it was rocking more
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: than Milwaukee. So St. Pete, prove me wrong.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: See, I'm torn here because I like to live dangerously,
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: but I would want to go to a game seven,
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: yet I don't know if there will be one. And
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: most series don't have a game seven. So maybe I'll
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: pick something in between. So we've got two, three, or
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: we've got three, four, five. Yeah, I'll do a sixer.
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: I'll do a sixer.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I think one.
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: We're all going to be at the same game.
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: We're all going to be there. Yeah, I'm joining you guys.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm just nervous. I mean, there's, there's a chance
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: we don't have a six either, but a seven is
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: really pushing it. So I don't want to miss out
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: on a game, even though, yes, I've been to games too.
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: I feel like the risk is worth it. Whatever the
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: percentage chance to get to a six back in Milwaukee,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: but a seven. And then if we go to a
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: six and we end up with a seven, I'm going
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: to regret my choice that I didn't just go for it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: But I don't know. A lot of people think it's
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: going to be a quick series. I don't, I think,
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: I think we've got six in us.
• 35:53
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• 36:15
  Speaker 2: Jeff Fletcher reporting that the Angels are not allowing Kurt
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Suzuki to continue as manager. He was on a one-year contract.
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: One year guaranteed. They did have an option. They have
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: invited him to be a special assistant within the organization.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: KP spent time with this organization not too long ago. We,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: I think, rightfully ripped how this was done initially, giving
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: a one-year contract to a manager and saying, good luck,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: have fun out there. So what do you think of
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: how this all played out now that we're a year later?
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: I mean, let me just.
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, this could be a little conspiracy here, but
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: it kind of feels like maybe this was pre-negotiated unless
• 36:56
  Speaker 4: the Angels did something kind of miraculous, you know, under
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: Kurt Suzuki's watch because he's really just going back to his.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: Role and maybe.
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: Maybe with everything kind of leading up to the potential
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: lockout at the end of the year, they really just
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: wanted someone for one year. And Kurt was already in
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: the organization willing to do it. The fact that he's
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: able to kind of just go back to his job,
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: it's not like he got fired from a multiple year deal.
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: He's clearly not the one to blame. Once again, I'm
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: a big believer in you know, the players determine the
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: outcome of the game majority of the time. But a
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: lot of times you, as a manager, you can only
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: deal with the guys that you have on your roster.
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: And when you look at the.
• 37:36
  Speaker 4: Angels roster, it doesn't screen much better than 62 wins
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: a year. But I'd like to think the future is
• 37:43
  Speaker 4: bright for this organization, you know, now that new ownership
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: is going to be coming in. And I would expect
• 37:49
  Speaker 4: the Angels to be much better, maybe not in you know,
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: this short-term future, but I would say in a couple
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: years down the.
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: Road, I think you're going to see the Angels be
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: a team where.
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: Not only a lot of players want to go, but
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of people are going to want
• 38:03
  Speaker 4: to manage that team as well.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, they got a bunch of young guys
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: in their lineup that really didn't have enough seasoning, so
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: they're kind of learning in the big leagues. Kurt Suzuki
• 38:13
  Speaker 1: was a long-term sub. I mean, that's like there was
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a teacher that was out for a year, and they
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: were like, you know what, we're bringing him in It's
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: not his fault, but he's not to blame either. He
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: took the one-year deal. Not saying he had much of
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: a choice. Maybe that's why Pujols didn't want it. Maybe
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: they said, Pujols, we're already paying you a million dollars
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: to hang around, so you're just going to take what
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: we give you. Who knows? He became a manager, and
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: now where's Mo going to go? What's that? Is it
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: Daniel Descalso? Does he go to somebody that he knows?
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: You watch this organization and you say, how's it going
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: to change? These guys that come from within, they need
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: to be guys that are ready to play in the
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: big leagues. You can't continue to just learn in the
• 38:59
  Speaker 1: big leagues and expect the wins and losses to change.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Although this was the first year that they ever lost
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: 100 games, I think in franchise history, I don't think
• 39:10
  Speaker 1: Kurt Suzuki did a bad job. I just think it
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: was a culture that takes more than one year to change.
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: And Artie Moreno did not give him that chance.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: And this part we know Artie is a master at
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: trying to cut corners financially on the little things. And
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: this was one of them. Nobody, else does this in
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: baseball this is not some innovative invention let's sign managers
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: to one-year contracts you're essentially an interim manager with that
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: label and to me crap some of it had to
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: do with and i mentioned this five times throughout the
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: year the lockout coming up it's like yeah i'm not
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: going to sign up a guy long term i'm Artie
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: has no idea. And Artie is going to be one
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: of the guys or would have been if he wasn't
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: selling the team. And that's going to happen over the
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: next few months. Officially, he would have been one of
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: the guys saying like, we will not play ball next year.
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: So why is he going to have a manager on
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: the payroll? The curious part to me that we'll never
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: really find out about Kratz is if Artie would have
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: actually hired someone else for 2027, or if he would
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: have waited until we found out about the lockout result.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: I think he would have waited. You know what I'm saying?
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: It's like, I don't care who the candidates are getting
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: scooped up elsewhere. We have no manager because I'm not
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: going to pay someone. And then I'll pay them starting
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: in April, May, June, July, or 28. If I need to,
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: if I'm already, he was the only one that's like, Hmm,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: I could save a million dollars here. I truly believe
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: that not conspiracy theory. I truly believe the lockout was
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: a factor in how he was looking for a manager
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: last year.
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: I couldn't agree with you more. And we'll never know.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: We'll never know because obviously he's out as the, Out
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: as the owner, and we don't know what he would
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: have done, but he 100% would have. He tried to
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: sell their fan base. He tried to sell all of
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: baseball that their fan base had fifth on their list
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: of five most important things that the team does is
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: win games. That's what he tried to sell, that their
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: fans did a survey and wrote down. I have a
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: hard time believing that somebody who thinks or would even
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: say that That you would say anything other than, well, yeah,
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: I did it once. Why would I not do it again?
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: We don't know if we're going to get a new CBA.
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: Who cares? It's December. They don't need to know who
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: their manager is. We'll probably hire somebody from within and
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. Oh, wait, they did that already
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: in 2026. Why would he not do it again in 2027? Yeah.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: And he's on his way. I don't know what the
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: exact date is or, you know, they don't tell you,
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: but I'm just saying it hasn't happened, but that's what
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: makes this weird KP is that, I mean, if Artie
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: was owning the team and he hadn't sold, he would
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: have held right. And they would have waited in this case.
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: You do want to try and look for a manager
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and have that wrapped up in the next month or so,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: but they're still figuring out what their front office is
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: going to look like. They need the sale process to
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: be official. And I'm sure you can have conversations with
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: the guy who, as the team dialed in here. I'm
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: forgetting that Stan.
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Was it number one on that list? Affordability. What's that then?
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: I believe that was number one was affordability, right? So,
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: I mean, it ties into not just affordability for the fans,
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: but affordability for me as the owner, why would I
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: pay a guy going into a lockout when he's not
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: actually going to be managing the team? So, and, and
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: the most already way to, you know, we, we can't
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: say that, you know, until the sale is actually final, but,
• 42:38
  Speaker 4: This seems like a nice parting gift for Artie to
• 42:40
  Speaker 4: kind of leave a stamp on the organization one last time,
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: kind of releasing a guy of his duties.
• 42:48
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: One last flub on the way out. Q1 of next year.
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: So sometime in the first few months of next year
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: is when we should find out that's all official. And
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: my guess is that has to do with potential tax purposes, too.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Because we found out this news months ago already, just
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: a guess, but that the actual sale gets official on 27th.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: So that will make things interesting over the next couple
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: of months. So if you're the Angels, are you waiting?
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Or can you just talk to Kroenke and say, hey,
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: what do you want to do here? And we'll bring
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: that guy in. You know what I'm saying?
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: I would love to know.
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: I would love to know what those conversations are like. Obviously,
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: it's more than a handshake agreement at this point. We're
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: talking about a multi-billion dollar.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: Purchase here. It's more than a handshake.
• 43:41
  Speaker 4: But it would be interesting to know if they have
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: to wait to Q1 of next year for some tax
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: purposes or whatever sort of things need to be done.
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: But at what point can Stan Kroenke start kind of
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: making decisions through already because technically he's not the owner
• 43:57
  Speaker 4: but he is the owner but that it would be
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: interesting to find out how those dynamics work during a
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: a sale.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah i know in the orioles what's up oh sorry
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: go ahead.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Oh no no i was just gonna say stan kronke
• 44:10
  Speaker 1: didn't go into this going you know what i want
• 44:12
  Speaker 1: to do i'm gonna rebuild this team i'm sure he
• 44:14
  Speaker 1: wants to get in right away hit the ground running
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: and hey let's let's do take care of some of
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: these inefficiencies and And it's going to be tough. It's
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: going to be a tough transition because of what's happening
• 44:25
  Speaker 1: with the lockout and because of this time period where
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: all the good managers are being taken up. And there's
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: uncertainty as to what is going to happen next because
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Artie isn't willing to commit to anybody in that position
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: that will cost him probably $ 800 to $ 1 million. Yep, exactly.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: The Orioles, I know when they were taking over, couldn't
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: do anything, even though it's like a weird time of
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: year heading into the season. There were still free agents,
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: but the new ownership group couldn't do anything until it
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: was signed and sealed. And they didn't really have a
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: say with John Angelos, who is a trip of a
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: person to deal with back when he was running the team. Anyway,
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: Angels fans are just happy. They're like, whatever it takes.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: We have a new owner. The 2026 year was a success.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: They got rid of their biggest problem for Q1 of
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: next year. But Kurt Suzuki will not be managing the team.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: We'll see if he sticks around. with the front office. AJ,
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: in this postseason, there is a chance for a fan
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: base to get very excited to witness either their first
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: ever World Series title or a World Series title that
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: hasn't been in a long time, right? So if you're
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: a fan out there and you're going, man, some things
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• 46:16
  Speaker 2: Adam McCovey wrote that Brandon Woodruff threw 23 pitches yesterday
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: against the Brewers A lineup. Sim game, sat 90-92, right
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: where he'd expect it to be in an empty stadium, right?
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: That'll tick up maybe a little bit with the playoffs.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: He doesn't throw as hard as he used to, of course. Kratz,
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: did you see this little wrinkle in the rules that
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal wrote about? Might prevent the team from replacing Kratz.
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: if injured because it says on a postseason roster, you
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: can be replaced only if you suffer an acute non-chronic
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: injury or ailment. The fear from the Brewers is that
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: potentially he might not get the injury exemption based on
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: if he comes, tries to pitch and it doesn't go well.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Correct.
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: And I actually, before Ken and I had talked to
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: big Wu about it and that was his fear that there,
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: you don't want to put your team in a spot where,
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: that has been doing so well, and then you go
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: out there and the same thing happens. You can't go
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: on the IL for the exact same thing that you've
• 47:15
  Speaker 1: already spent time on the IL for, and Big Woo's
• 47:18
  Speaker 1: had some IL times, and you don't know how Major
• 47:22
  Speaker 1: League Baseball is going to roll in that moment, and
• 47:25
  Speaker 1: you cannot be one pitcher down ever in the World Series. Sorry,
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: I get that part of it, and I know Big
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: Woo gets that part of it. Yeah.
• 47:38
  Speaker 4: I was just kind of looking at, I was just
• 47:40
  Speaker 4: looking at the entirety of the roster and like, who
• 47:42
  Speaker 4: would he replace on that roster?
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Not that every single one of these guys.
• 47:47
  Speaker 4: Pitched during the NLCS, but yeah, I mean, you, you
• 47:51
  Speaker 4: love it because of, you know, who he is and
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: what he's meant to that organization and the fact that
• 47:56
  Speaker 4: he's been able to work himself back up to what
• 47:59
  Speaker 4: is considered game ready to pitch in the world series. But,
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: With this rule being the way that it is, it
• 48:06
  Speaker 4: would be very difficult, I think, for the Brewers to
• 48:10
  Speaker 4: go ahead and add him to the roster, knowing that
• 48:13
  Speaker 4: if something, God forbid, did happen, they wouldn't be able
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: to replace him. And being kind of handcuffed down one pitcher,
• 48:20
  Speaker 4: not being able to replace him on the roster.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: Could be the difference between you winning a World Series
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: and losing a World Series.
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: So Obviously, they're probably still gathering a lot of information
• 48:32
  Speaker 4: of how he feels today, how he's able to bounce
• 48:35
  Speaker 4: back and be able to throw. Luckily, they have a
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: couple more days before they have to kind of submit
• 48:40
  Speaker 4: the roster. But from the emotional side, you would love
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: to see him added to the roster because of who
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: he is and what he's meant to the organization. But
• 48:49
  Speaker 4: it would be a really tough sell knowing that he
• 48:52
  Speaker 4: could just easily be replaced if something, God forbid, did happen.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: And we're still waiting, like the brewers, to find out
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: if MLB will interpret the rule that way, if that
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: did happen. And MLB technically doesn't have to give them
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: an answer. So we'll see if any news comes out
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: from that. We love you, Big Woo. A lot of
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: people in the Brewers world right now are like, let's
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: win this World Series for you, Bob Uecker. This story
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: went a little viral on a college house that burned down. Obviously,
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: that's terrible. But one of the few things that was
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: salvaged was a signed Bob Uecker baseball. And there it is.
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: There's a little photo.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: That's so cool.
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: Charlie Bongard.
• 49:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 49:49
  Speaker 4: Do your kids ever ask you that question now? I mean,
• 49:51
  Speaker 4: I remember growing up, like I would ask my parents
• 49:53
  Speaker 4: that question. If the house burnt down, obviously besides, you know,
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: me and my brother and like the dogs and stuff,
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: like what are you getting out of the house? You know,
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: at a time that was, you know, photo albums because
• 50:03
  Speaker 4: those couldn't be replaced. Now we have them all on
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: our phone. So have your kids ever asked you like,
• 50:07
  Speaker 4: is there some one thing in your house that you're taking?
• 50:10
  Speaker 1: We talk about it, and we still have photo albums
• 50:13
  Speaker 1: from our childhood. Wedding albums, too. That's not all digital,
• 50:21
  Speaker 1: but I think I'm going to get my Kevin Pillar back.
• 50:25
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• 50:26
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• 50:28
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• 50:30
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