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Bob Nightengale’s Notes: ’26 storylines, Mets sign Pham, Brewers lose Chourio + Season Predictions · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: USA Today insider FT insider Bob Nightingale joining us right now.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Bob, happy Opening Day to you.
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  Speaker 1: And what did you think of the opening night festivities
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  Speaker 1: between the Yankees and the Giants.
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  Speaker 3: It was cool having the taxi cabs outside of the
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  Speaker 3: Yankee dugout, having the street car outside of the Giants.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, great pomp and circumstance. And you know the
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  Speaker 3: game it starts about a half hour after is supposed
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  Speaker 3: to be. But yeah, it was fine. The past game.
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  Speaker 3: I think it lasts about two five or so.
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  Speaker 2: That's true.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, it was fast and not the best work of
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  Speaker 1: course from Logan Web, but I don't think anybody is concerned.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have any concern about the Giants as a
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  Speaker 2: whole in their offense.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we've talked about how they did some things
• 0:53
  Speaker 1: this offseason, not a lot, not the heavy hitters. They've
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  Speaker 1: done some heavy hitters like adamis En Devers acquisitions in
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  Speaker 1: the last year, but it was more like a Rise
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  Speaker 1: Baier type moves. And I think everyone was waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a big pitcher. So what did you think of their
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  Speaker 1: offseason now leading into an overreaction loss on Day one?
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  Speaker 3: That was an okay off season, and they, you know,
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  Speaker 3: keep saying, well, we would have been signed Devers. To
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  Speaker 3: trade for Devers in the off season, then people say
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  Speaker 3: a great off season. So hey, Devers has got to
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  Speaker 3: be the Devers of Boston or you know, they're gonna
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  Speaker 3: have a long year. And Domas has got to be
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  Speaker 3: the Domins of Milwaukee. You know, we saw that Spurs
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  Speaker 3: last year, but wasn't the same guy. So uh, you know,
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  Speaker 3: the big guys have got to produce. I love the
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  Speaker 3: Arise uh you know, I mean hear he draws a
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  Speaker 3: four pitch walk, you know, lead off the Giants half
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  Speaker 3: in the first inning and then gets the base hit
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  Speaker 3: later on. I think a Rise was a great signing.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's going to help them a lot, and
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  Speaker 3: I think Ron Washington will help him as well playing
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  Speaker 3: second base.
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  Speaker 4: Bob, Why is everyone worried about Aaron Judge? I mean,
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  Speaker 4: he had one bad game. He's gonna be fine. I'll
• 2:01
  Speaker 4: probably win another MVP. There was one game Logan Web.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they kept talking about the shadows, the shadows,
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  Speaker 4: the shadows. Everyone has bad games, right just I guess
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  Speaker 4: it's Opening Day, so it's overreaction. Tuesday, whatever date?
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  Speaker 5: What is today?
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  Speaker 4: Thursday overreaction, so I get confused on what day Opening
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  Speaker 4: day is now?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely talk to uh, you know both guys after the game,
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  Speaker 3: you know, Aaron in the in the clubhouse and Logan
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  Speaker 3: at the team hotel later on and uh, but yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean those things happened. Logan couple said a couple
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  Speaker 3: of times to man Man, Sorry, it's stunt tonight, as
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  Speaker 3: Logan one start, who cares? Same thing? You know, Aaron, Judge,
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna have a forest rackout game and you
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  Speaker 3: win seven zero, you'll take it, you know, all that long.
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  Speaker 3: That's a reflection of how deep the Yankee lineup is
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  Speaker 3: in the sense that he can have a game like
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  Speaker 3: that and then on blank. Uh you know that, you know,
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  Speaker 3: everybody in that lineup, you know except for Judge got
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  Speaker 3: a hit. Uh, Everybody but Judge either drove in a
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  Speaker 3: run or score to run. And that's how you win
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  Speaker 3: a lot of ball games.
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  Speaker 6: Should this game continue, I'm not saying contracts from Netflix
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  Speaker 6: or PlayStation or the Switch, whatever the contract's going to be.
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  Speaker 6: I'm saying a Marquee game, and does it have to
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  Speaker 6: be at a Marquee stadium? Does it have to be historic?
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  Speaker 6: As they kept saying all night historic franchises, because if
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  Speaker 6: that's the case, then it's just another example of the
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  Speaker 6: rich getting richer.
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  Speaker 3: I think you should go to whoeber wins the World Series,
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  Speaker 3: you know, like the NFL, Hey, you win the Super Bowl,
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  Speaker 3: you know you're going to be playing in the first
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  Speaker 3: game of the NFL season. I think same thing here.
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  Speaker 3: I mean used to be. You know, I ust to
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  Speaker 3: love Cincinnati having the first game the day games before
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  Speaker 3: everybody else. But I think whoever wins the World Series
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  Speaker 3: deserves to have play that game either, you know, doesn't
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  Speaker 3: matter where it's going to be, what ballpark, but it
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  Speaker 3: should be that featured that team. That'd be. My only
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  Speaker 3: thing is like you don't always have to have Marquis
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  Speaker 3: franchises and the champion.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be like that because I remember we won.
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  Speaker 4: We were on the next year two thousand and six,
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  Speaker 4: we were on Sunday night on ESPN. We smash smashed
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  Speaker 4: the Indians and I was like sixteen to nothing, and
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  Speaker 4: then we got the day game off the next the
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  Speaker 4: day off the next day.
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  Speaker 5: It was great.
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  Speaker 4: But yeah, I agree, I think it should be if
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  Speaker 4: you want to, it should be the Dodgers, right playing
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  Speaker 4: and then if you want to do a marquee game,
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  Speaker 4: then make the Dodgers play.
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  Speaker 5: If you want to do the Giants, if you want
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  Speaker 5: to do.
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  Speaker 4: The whoever, whoever the Mats, or whoever, I mean, whoever
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  Speaker 4: you want, whoever you.
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  Speaker 5: Think is the market.
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  Speaker 4: I agree, Bob with you. It should be the team
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  Speaker 4: that won the World Series. They're trying to make like
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  Speaker 4: the NFL anyway, so let's do it. And then the
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  Speaker 4: other thing for me is I couldn't believe when they
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  Speaker 4: said that was only the sixth time since what's it
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  Speaker 4: called Team O PNC pack Belly, What's what's the stadium.
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  Speaker 5: Called in San Francisco now a park?
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  Speaker 2: It's only the.
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  Speaker 4: Sixth, only the sixth time they've had opened their opener
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  Speaker 4: in that park. That seems absurd to me because it's
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  Speaker 4: it's in the West Coast. It's usually I mean, the
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  Speaker 4: weather doesn't change, actually gets worse as the year goes on.
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  Speaker 5: You would think the Giants would open a home a lot.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they used to volunteer. They wanted to start
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  Speaker 3: every year on the road. I'm not sure why, and
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  Speaker 3: that was always a request in Major League Baseball. Can
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  Speaker 3: we start to seize on the road so that that
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  Speaker 3: was their own doing. And hey, it works out well
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  Speaker 3: for the Yankees. You know, now they get to spend
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  Speaker 3: today at wine Country. A bunch of guys are going
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  Speaker 3: to Napa, guys are going to Sonoma. So pretty cool
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  Speaker 3: for them having a day off and enjoy the wine
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  Speaker 3: country up there.
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  Speaker 6: That's the biggest smile we've seen on this on the
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  Speaker 6: show by you Bob talking about a day off going
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  Speaker 6: to wine country. I love it.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm in La now, so I'm not with them.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Well, then let's talk about La.
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  Speaker 6: Let's talk about the Dodgers and how they're ruining baseball,
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  Speaker 6: and yet you wrote an article about how there's some
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  Speaker 6: teams that are pretty close payroll wise, but they don't
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  Speaker 6: get blamed for ruining baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean that the Mets payrolls gave about fifty
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  Speaker 3: million dollars more than the Dodgers last five years, and
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  Speaker 3: Mets have spent more than the Dodgers. But yeah, teams
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  Speaker 3: are right there. You know, the Yankees are right there,
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  Speaker 3: the Phillies are there. Uh, you know, Atlanta's get up there.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I mean there's too many teams that are closed. So,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, the Mets. You know, are people scream
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  Speaker 3: at the Mets because their payrolls about forty million dollars
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  Speaker 3: more than Dodgers. They're not, so you know, hey, let's
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  Speaker 3: let's be honest. And the Dodgers geld lost two years ago,
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  Speaker 3: the Podreys, they could, they should lost the Phillies last
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  Speaker 3: in the first round. Definitely should lost the World Series.
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  Speaker 3: Things happen, and uh, you know, we'll see. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: there would be no compeation in the regular season because
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers probably win, you know, ninety six wins. It
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  Speaker 3: just kind of coach the playoffs. And then people will
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  Speaker 3: get upset because all those guys would be healthy come
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  Speaker 3: playoff time, whether it all banged up. Right now, Hey, with.
• 6:47
  Speaker 1: Sea keek, we're looking ahead that game. So let's look
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  Speaker 1: at the weekend. Let's start with Friday. What else do
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  Speaker 1: we have.
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  Speaker 2: Cam Schlitzler is making his season debut.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see if Luis Severino is the usual dude on
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  Speaker 1: the road versus at home. Kevin Gossman pitching in that
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  Speaker 1: game for Toronto. Chris Sale will pitch for Atlanta. Sandy
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  Speaker 1: al Contra on the mound for the Marlins against the Rockies.
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta by the way, is playing the the Royals on
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  Speaker 1: the weekend here that includes what's your game?
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  Speaker 2: Do you know who's pitching?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, they've started to lay them out.
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  Speaker 6: Matchups are good. The matchups are good because it's all
• 7:33
  Speaker 6: the best starting pitchers going against each other. But like
• 7:36
  Speaker 6: the team matchups Pirates, Mets, not a lot of fight in,
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  Speaker 6: you know, not like, oh, you know, we're really banging
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  Speaker 6: heads here, Twins Orioles, White Sox, Brewers. It just feels
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  Speaker 6: like I wanted to look down the list and go, man,
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  Speaker 6: I'm seeing all these all these number ones on the mound,
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  Speaker 6: and I'm like, Red Sox, Reds like what Rangers feel.
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  Speaker 6: They have a long history of what opening days like.
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  Speaker 6: It just feels like a weird, weird mishmash of teams.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, some make sense, some don't.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, AJ's game on Saturday is Waka against
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  Speaker 1: Ronaldo Lopez.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah it'd be good. Yeah, two good good names, Walka
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  Speaker 5: and Naldo's teammate Ronaldo. Yeah, Villa was.
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  Speaker 2: He didn't really pitch last year.
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  Speaker 4: No, but they said as Villa was down the spring,
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  Speaker 4: so we'll see. We'll find out together. But who can't
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  Speaker 4: wait to go to the Atlanta. It's gonna be fun
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  Speaker 4: see Vinnie, see Jack, see a bunch of the Royals,
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  Speaker 4: and then see a bunch of braised people that I
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  Speaker 4: know from from a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: with that. Hey, Bob, some little news and notes from today.
• 9:06
  Speaker 1: I'll just throw them both at you to get both answers.
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  Speaker 1: What did you think of the Brewers losing Jackson Churio
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  Speaker 1: and how that injury started actually with an exhibition game
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  Speaker 1: back in the World Baseball Classic, and then also the
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  Speaker 1: Tommy fam signing, which we didn't get to yet on
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  Speaker 1: our show, but a minor league contract with the Mets.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Tommy Fam. He was actually texting when I was
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  Speaker 3: on the plane this morning from San Francisco, to La,
• 9:31
  Speaker 3: got there close, and it got the deal done. He
• 9:33
  Speaker 3: had been very very's fresh grade all winter and spring, like,
• 9:36
  Speaker 3: my god, I can't get a job here. And some
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  Speaker 3: teams you know, lied to him, say we're staying within,
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  Speaker 3: and then they went and went got someone from the outside.
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  Speaker 3: So he gets a two point twenty five million if
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: he makes it, makes a team. He does have an
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: opt out on April twenty fifth, so he doesn't have
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: to be the miners long for the mess to make
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  Speaker 3: a decision. I think it's a good fit for FAM.
• 9:58
  Speaker 3: I think it's a good fit for the Matt's too.
• 10:01
  Speaker 3: Uh Yeah, bad break Injurio. Just strange that that happened
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  Speaker 3: in March fourth is only being diingosed now. You know
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  Speaker 3: he didn't look that good in the WBC just okay,
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  Speaker 3: Uh you know he was about a ninth throughout the tournament.
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  Speaker 3: Uh but yeah, you know, bad timing for the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: to you know, find out now. So if I won't
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  Speaker 3: see him until you know, mid late April. Uh, just
• 10:24
  Speaker 3: a smaller airline fracture, but still the thing should have
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  Speaker 3: been diagnosed a long time ago.
• 10:30
  Speaker 6: Is there another move obviously, Tommy Famm is you know
• 10:33
  Speaker 6: a late addition to the start of the season, and
• 10:35
  Speaker 6: we'll see if he gets called up. Is there another
• 10:37
  Speaker 6: move that you suspect happening? Obviously the name Lucas Giolito
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  Speaker 6: comes comes to mind. But is there another team besides
• 10:44
  Speaker 6: the Braves, because everyone's linking him to the Braves.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean if Atlanta wanted to sign him, they
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  Speaker 3: would have signed him by now. Obviously they think he's
• 10:53
  Speaker 3: asking for too much money and they don't think you
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  Speaker 3: can help right now, that trouble with Giolito is a
• 10:59
  Speaker 3: little bit like when Gallon sounded Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks went
• 11:03
  Speaker 3: through that thing already, where hey, if a guy misses
• 11:06
  Speaker 3: a good chunk of spring trail, like Jordan Montgomery, did
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  Speaker 3: you know he's gonna struggle during the year. I think
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  Speaker 3: Giledo's going through that right now. Teams see the research
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  Speaker 3: like equal be position player in need maybe just four
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  Speaker 3: or five days of spring to be fine. You can't
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  Speaker 3: do that as a pitcher. So I think a lot
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  Speaker 3: of teams are saying, yeah, I like to have Gilito,
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  Speaker 3: but what am I really getting And how long will
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  Speaker 3: it take for Henry right? I mean, that's that's a
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: long time for a pitcher, and I think that hurts
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  Speaker 3: his value.
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  Speaker 4: But can't he just sign and then go through it?
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't it seem like you? I mean, and then maybe
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  Speaker 4: he might have to take less. What's he gonna do?
• 11:41
  Speaker 4: Sit out a year and then sign, try to sign
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  Speaker 4: next year, go pitch an independent ball ball.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't.
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  Speaker 4: He's too good of a picture for someone not to
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  Speaker 4: have signed him, and for him to have never lowered
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  Speaker 4: his standards or what he signed for.
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  Speaker 5: It doesn't make sense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean sometimes he's got lower as a demand.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't like I had a draft pick conversation. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: you know, everybody knows his track work everything else. I
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  Speaker 3: don't know what he's asking for, but obviously it's more
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  Speaker 3: than anybody wants to give him or he would been
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  Speaker 3: to sign you know, a long time ago. Uh you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe he's waiting for some other team to have key
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  Speaker 3: injury besides Atlanta. But you know, how long is it
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  Speaker 3: going to take for him to be ready? Uh? You
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  Speaker 3: know mid May, late May, and you know, what are
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  Speaker 3: you gonna get? That's a lot of time missed for him, Bob.
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: What about overall storylines for you heading into this season?
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  Speaker 1: Like pick out one or two that you're really curious
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  Speaker 1: to watch, whether it's a team, a player A rule
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: of course, the obvious ABS challenge system is out there,
• 12:38
  Speaker 1: which began last night.
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  Speaker 3: I'm so fascinated by Detroit. I love the fact they
• 12:44
  Speaker 3: signed Framer Belt as uh and you know now that
• 12:47
  Speaker 3: you have the the two races. I mean he got
• 12:50
  Speaker 3: flaring number three Berlin and number four. Love to see
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  Speaker 3: Berlin or have such a great season where it, you know,
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  Speaker 3: thinks about coming back. He still has that three hundred
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  Speaker 3: in his mind. He should have won more games last year.
• 13:01
  Speaker 3: Just a bad break. I think that's two giants in
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  Speaker 3: the America League. I mean, obviously we got the Al East,
• 13:08
  Speaker 3: but just with Chiel and Detroit. And he's almost a
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  Speaker 3: Quinn flit between those two in two Juggernauts, and of
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  Speaker 3: course the nationally like, okay, who's going to knock off
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. I still think people don't talk enough about
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  Speaker 3: the Phillies. I still think the Phillies have another run
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  Speaker 3: left in him. I pick Bryce Harper to win the MVP.
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  Speaker 3: I think he's going to come in with a chip
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  Speaker 3: on his shoulder and show people that you know what
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  Speaker 3: you know. I haven't been considering a top ten player
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: now for a few years. And the MVP belting and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Let me show me what I can still do.
• 13:40
  Speaker 5: Talk about awards.
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  Speaker 6: What about the Rookie of the Year, because there's a
• 13:44
  Speaker 6: lot of Connor Griffin isn't up, so people wanted to
• 13:47
  Speaker 6: pick him as Rookie of the Year. But then you
• 13:49
  Speaker 6: have Kevin McGonagall, then you have some guys coming over
• 13:51
  Speaker 6: from Japan.
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  Speaker 5: Where do you feel like the Rookie of the Year race?
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  Speaker 6: Where do you feel like it goes through here going
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  Speaker 6: on Opening Day?
• 14:01
  Speaker 3: Well, certain America that I think McGonagall as long as
• 14:03
  Speaker 3: Detroit wins. I mean, if you can have a good,
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: solid year and your team, you know, wins the UH Division,
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  Speaker 3: that really, you know, gives you a lot of extra
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  Speaker 3: credit points and you should have an advantage over someone
• 14:15
  Speaker 3: might have better stats, but whose team doesn't make the playoffs.
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  Speaker 3: And then nationally, I think, you know, Nolan McLean's got
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  Speaker 3: a huge advantage just because uh, you know, he's already
• 14:24
  Speaker 3: got eight starts in the big leagues. Uh if you
• 14:27
  Speaker 3: just fell short of rookie status, so, uh, he knows
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  Speaker 3: how to pitch a tough guy. I think He's a
• 14:33
  Speaker 3: clear cut favorite in the nationally to be that guy.
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  Speaker 3: Uh You, We'll see about somebody else, but I like
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  Speaker 3: McLean a lot. Uh So, just just to have that
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  Speaker 3: advantage aboard of being a rookie. It's almost like, you know,
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  Speaker 3: rookie two point zero.
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: We're a live show.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll throw a team your way because it's the
• 14:53
  Speaker 1: first game of the day, and we had O'Neil Cruz
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: with a little knock in the center field. He sets
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: the ta able for Brandon Loud New Pittsburgh Pirates to
• 15:02
  Speaker 1: hit a two run home run off of Freddie Peraltez.
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  Speaker 1: Opening days underway in Queens. But I'll do the big
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: picture question. Do you think that the Pirates have done
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: enough to put themselves in the playoff mix. I'm not
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: even gonna say make the playoffs, but like we're going
• 15:15
  Speaker 1: to talk about the Pirates in September and be like
• 15:17
  Speaker 1: they're within two three games, they have a shot. And
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: you've seen them now in spring training. You've seen, of
• 15:23
  Speaker 1: course that Connor Griffin's not starting the year with the team.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: But where are we at with the Pirates?
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: I think if they finished five hundred, it's a great
• 15:31
  Speaker 3: year for him. I used to think that instead of
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: being a contenders, dat's about disrespectability. And they spent some money,
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: they still just spend more money.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: I mean.
• 15:40
  Speaker 3: The bottom line is this is, you know, one of
• 15:42
  Speaker 3: the most profitable teams in all of baseball, and you've
• 15:46
  Speaker 3: got to take advantage of schemes and in these you know,
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: young pitchers. I do like the fact they got some offense,
• 15:52
  Speaker 3: but you still in that division, you still got to
• 15:55
  Speaker 3: go through the Cubs and the Brewers. The Reds are
• 15:57
  Speaker 3: a bitter team. So no matter what to Pirates do,
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: it is still hard. You know, for see that these
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: guys a going to finish higher than third place, if not,
• 16:07
  Speaker 3: you know, if not fourth place. I just think Brewers
• 16:10
  Speaker 3: and Cubs the Reds are just you know, better teams
• 16:12
  Speaker 3: than they are.
• 16:13
  Speaker 6: All right, there are so many new managers. Which of
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: the new managers has the best record at the end
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: of the season. I wasn't gonna say playoffs, just which
• 16:20
  Speaker 6: of the new managers teams has the best record at
• 16:23
  Speaker 6: the end of the season.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I'll go Baltimore. I just think it's a Goldman. I
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: don't think that got Red Band high. I think Van
• 16:32
  Speaker 3: Hyde should have got a job for what he did
• 16:35
  Speaker 3: bringing that team from nothing and you know, one one
• 16:38
  Speaker 3: hundred games a couple of years ago. So I think
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: that team bounces back no matter who is going to
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: be the manager. So I'll go Baltimore. I think they
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: knocking their worth for the playoffs, should make the playoffs.
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: They wish they got that one more big started. They
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: never got that guy. But it's still a much better
• 16:56
  Speaker 3: team that showed a year ago, and I think they
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: bounced back, So I'll go ball More Bob.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Last one for you.
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: Did you hear the Barry Bond story last night about
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: George Steinberner And what was your reaction to that?
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: You have anything to it?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I've heard a story. I know his agent, well,
• 17:14
  Speaker 3: uh ag knows versus White Sox and is Gilbert. Remember
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: now Starnberger was suspended at that time. He wasn't even
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: in the picture. Bonds. Uh you know that time. I
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: don't care if you want to play for New York
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: or not. You've got to pretend like you want to
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: play for the Yankees just to get that bending up.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: And you know he wanted the bending up for San Francisco,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: So that never would have happen if it was going
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: to happen to hang up the phone. Fine, you know
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: that the agent in this case, Denis Gilbert, would be called, hey,
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: sorry about that. I think is uh his phone got
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: cut off. He's sutainly gonna. I've got ties with you.
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: But you're not going to cut ties with the Yankees
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: and George Starnberg. You know, no matter if you had
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: any interest in going to the Yankees, you won the
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: Yankees being involved, you were not going to upset Starnberger,
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: and Starnberger was a spending at that time.
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: Well, Barry put on a good show last night. He
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: was telling some good stories, so I enjoyed it.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: Bob, Thank you, Happy Opening Day to you.
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: All right, my pleasure. Thank you guys. Take care.
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• 19:17
  Speaker 1: what did you think of that story from Barry with
• 19:20
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• 19:22
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I'd love to know how I mean, I think
• 19:24
  Speaker 5: Bob said, is it? I mean, I'm.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: Assuming it's true, But it was one of those like,
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I mean, does he really hang up on George Steinbrener?
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: But he ended up where he wanted it up San Francisco.
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: So good for Barry. Listen, Barry. The better story for
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: me was when Barry told the real story when he
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: said I wasn't a great teammate off the field, but
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: on the field he was, and that is true. There
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: was no better teammate to have in the batter's box
• 19:46
  Speaker 4: than Barry Bonds. So listen, I got along with Barry.
• 19:49
  Speaker 4: I like Barry. He didn't bother me because he would
• 19:51
  Speaker 4: dish it out and I would give it back to him.
• 19:54
  Speaker 4: And that was fine, and I had but I thought
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: that was a I thought that was a great story
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: when he said, hey, I wasn't a great teammate outfield,
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: which never saw him, but he's like I was the
• 20:04
  Speaker 4: best on the field.
• 20:05
  Speaker 5: He was right about that.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: So that would be my question.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: Do players need Barry to be leading the charge and
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: a sea on his chest and taking everyone out to
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: dinner or does he just need to show up, hit
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: dangers and get on base.
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, as you said, he was the best teammate when
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: he got in the box, the best team that I
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: ever played with by far right when he stepped in
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: the batter's box. So I mean, listen, did he talk yeah?
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Did he hang out no? Did he have his own hotel?
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: Yes?
• 20:30
  Speaker 4: I understood why because he was staying away from people
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: like I. I had no problem with any Did I get
• 20:34
  Speaker 4: to go to his birthday party.
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 20:35
  Speaker 5: Did I get to do things Yes with Barry, Yes,
• 20:41
  Speaker 5: But I mean.
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: He wasn't a guy that was going to hang out
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: at the hotel bar and drink with you and have
• 20:45
  Speaker 4: a beer and talk. No, it wasn't baring, but he
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: knew that going in. He showed up when he wanted to,
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: He did what he wanted to. But as long as
• 20:50
  Speaker 4: he was great when he stepped on that field, I
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: didn't care.
• 20:53
  Speaker 6: The reality is, if you're an average player, you do
• 20:56
  Speaker 6: need to do those other things so that you bring
• 20:59
  Speaker 6: extra value. Barry bonds, if he chooses not to do that,
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: he's bringing all that value. So until you have more
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: value than him to your team. Yeah, maybe you do
• 21:09
  Speaker 6: need to hang out with the boys, Maybe you do
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: need to be a different type of teammate. But to me,
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: all the people that complained about that, it's like you don't.
• 21:18
  Speaker 6: Everybody has their issues or or just their own personalities.
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: Like you don't have to be somebody you're not. That
• 21:26
  Speaker 6: doesn't that doesn't give that doesn't give any value to
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: the team.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: Award season is here, preseason awards picks, predictions, what's gonna
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: happen for the rest of the year. We already went
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: through teams, who's gonna win divisions, make the playoffs, when
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: the World Series, the whole deal. Now, let's go over
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: the individual accolades and where we think it will go down.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: So AJ, would you like to start and give us
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I guess take us Rookie of the Year, Manager of
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: the Year SI, and then into MVP, and we'll throw
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: Reliever of the Year in there too, since that's a
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: new award that'll be at BBWAA Awards.
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Okay, Rookie of the Year, I'm going Mark COMMI check
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: out my shirt. I think he's gonna hit thirty five plus.
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: So we're going Maricami n l JJ Weatherholt. Why because
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: he's in Saint Louis. They'll hpe him up and he'll
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: get to play every day. So I think that's you
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: know McLain, Yes, I understand that argument, but he's in
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: New York and I just think that.
• 22:25
  Speaker 5: And then we're going.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Manager of the Year Texas. I'm going skip Manager of
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: the Year in the NL. I'm going Tory Lavello in
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Arizona because I picked him both to make the playoffs.
• 22:35
  Speaker 5: Al Sig, I'm going my guy Hunter Brown.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I just think he's gonna have a great year for
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: the Houston Astros NLSI I'm not going Paul Skeanes. I'm
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: going Christopher Sanchez. I just think he's really good. He's
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: left handed, and he's gonna have an opportunity MVP shot
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: Judge o'tanni and listen, if cal Rawly didn't win the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: MVP un lists Aaron Judge gets hurt, he's gonna win
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: it again. And if show Hay doesn't get hurt, he's
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: gonna win it again. Okay, just you just they might
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: have to rename the awards Judge and o'tawni because they're.
• 22:59
  Speaker 5: Never gonna not win.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: And then really over the year, Andres Munoz because I
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: think the Mariners are going to be really good.
• 23:04
  Speaker 5: And for an I'm going off the grid a little bit.
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: I'm going Devin Williams because I think in the Mets
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: camp he's gonna get a lot of opportunities for saves
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: and I think he's gonna improve in year two in Europe.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Nice, Okay, any thoughts Kratz or would you like to
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: start rolling yours?
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: I like it.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: I think I think A J's right on with the
• 23:22
  Speaker 6: more COMI I don't think he's gonna win the Rookie
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: of the Year, but I think he's gonna hit thirty
• 23:26
  Speaker 6: five homers. I love that and I completely agree. Obviously
• 23:30
  Speaker 6: Otani is going to win it. But you'll see my
• 23:34
  Speaker 6: picks in a little bit, and I like, I like
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: your manager of the year picks. I know that's not
• 23:38
  Speaker 6: like a big, a big thing. I like that because
• 23:41
  Speaker 6: I think they're two teams that nobody's expecting and yet
• 23:45
  Speaker 6: they have a chance to make the playoffs.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: For example, I'll just pick up the manager of the year.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Our buddy Jim Boden on his GM Territory show, I
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: think it was him. He said Aaron Boone was his
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: pick for Manager of the Year. Here's my take on that.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: It's so difficult for someone like Boone because the expectations
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: are already high.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: It's much easier to pick.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: A manager of the Year candidate who's with a team
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: where you're like, hey, I think they could take another
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: step where I think they could surprise some people, right,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: or they're a fringe team, and if they make the
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: playoffs and there's a good narrative to it, then I
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: go that route.
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: Skip Schumacher is the prime example.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: He won it right in the past, he won it
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: with a Marlins team, then had the weird situation with Miami.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: Nothing on him, they just were making changes, and then
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: takes over a Rangers team that didn't make the playoffs
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: last year. That adds up a lot more than say Boone.
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Boone just has a lot. It's like the Yankees would
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: have to like crush the division and win one hundred games.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Or something like that. That's just asking a lot, all right.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: So if you don't think Murakami's gonna win AL Rookie
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: of the Year, who do you have?
• 24:53
  Speaker 5: Kevin mcgonagd.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: I think Kevin McGonagall just like AJ said about JJ Weatherholt,
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: I think he's going to get a little lot of
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: at bats, and I think it's a team that's going
• 25:02
  Speaker 6: to be winning, and I think that's I know it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: a chalk pick, but watching his at bats last year
• 25:08
  Speaker 6: in the minor leagues and then this year in spring training,
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: like it's the type of hitter that you're like, that's
• 25:14
  Speaker 6: how you should swing if you are not six foot five,
• 25:17
  Speaker 6: two hundred and seventy pounds, Like, that's that's how you
• 25:20
  Speaker 6: can be an all around hitter. And then I'm going
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: NL Rookie of the Year. This was my toughest of
• 25:26
  Speaker 6: all my predictions. I really wanted to put Bubba Chandler
• 25:29
  Speaker 6: in there. I think Bubba Chandler just his stuff. I
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: think his moxie. I think just his like like unafraid
• 25:37
  Speaker 6: to be the guy that he is. I think he's
• 25:40
  Speaker 6: he's gonna have a really good year. But I think
• 25:42
  Speaker 6: Noel McClain ends up winning it. Matt Katruro Katrro because
• 25:47
  Speaker 6: the Royals are gonna make it. And if the Royals
• 25:49
  Speaker 6: make it, I don't care who your manager is, He's
• 25:52
  Speaker 6: going to be Manager of the Year. Tito because the
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: Reds are not expected to do anything. I mean, CBS
• 25:57
  Speaker 6: had him as the twenty second best team in the game,
• 26:02
  Speaker 6: and I had the Reds making the playoffs and Tito
• 26:05
  Speaker 6: does his thing. American League. Second toughest decision. I thought
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: it was going to be Scoobale, but then I thought,
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: you know what, it's time. It's time for somebody in Seattle.
• 26:15
  Speaker 6: The team I picked to go. I think I picked
• 26:19
  Speaker 6: him to have the best record or second best record
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: in the American League behind the Tigers, and I think
• 26:24
  Speaker 6: I think it will be Logan Gilbert's year to win
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: the SIUM. I picked Paul Skeins. Not off to a
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: great start today, but that's okay. Paul Skeins will be
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: at the end of the year's era will probably still
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: be down below two and to al MVP. I do
• 26:41
  Speaker 6: think if one of the two, Judge or Otani can
• 26:45
  Speaker 6: be beaten, it's Judge.
• 26:47
  Speaker 5: Otani has no.
• 26:48
  Speaker 6: Chance of being beaten unless he's only doing one of
• 26:50
  Speaker 6: the two things that he's really good at. And so
• 26:54
  Speaker 6: I'm thinking Bobby Witt Junior, Bobby wit Junior is going
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: to lead this Royal team to the playoffs, and he's
• 27:02
  Speaker 6: gonna do it with the elite defense, elite base running
• 27:05
  Speaker 6: he might have. He might have a forty to forty
• 27:09
  Speaker 6: type of season, like that type of thing. Historic type
• 27:12
  Speaker 6: of things from shortstops usually gets you a lot of notoriety.
• 27:16
  Speaker 6: Andres Munos continuing, the Mariners winning a lot of games
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: in the American League West and the newest ex met
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: to go to the Dodgers, Edwin Diaz National League Reliever
• 27:29
  Speaker 6: of the Year.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: Very nice.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: So you've got Wit over Judge.
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: He's probably the guy that has the best shot, right,
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Is that your number two?
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: Probably?
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, because he can steal bases, plays defense plays an elite.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: But cal Rawley, again, if cal Raly didn't win it
• 27:45
  Speaker 5: last year, how did someone win it? You can't. It's
• 27:48
  Speaker 5: the same with Totani.
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: If Judge doesn't hit three point thirty, that's how wit
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: will look. If Judge does what he does, like people
• 27:58
  Speaker 6: are saying, well, that was a historic season. What he's
• 28:00
  Speaker 6: done in the years he stays healthy, he's almost unbeatable.
• 28:04
  Speaker 6: He's almost like you can't stop Aaron Judge because his
• 28:07
  Speaker 6: own base per sage is going to be over four hundred.
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: But when you hit three point thirty with his power,
• 28:13
  Speaker 6: like that's it's unstoppable.
• 28:15
  Speaker 5: It's not like he was.
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: He was outpacing the entire league, not just cal Rawley,
• 28:20
  Speaker 6: the entire league.
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: I also think that when we've talked about this in
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: the offseason, catchers don't get as much love in the
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: war category as they should. I think they should get more.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I know they get some, they should get more. Yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: So I think that's part of it. Obviously, Yeah, catchers
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: get more love, shortstops, whatever, But I don't think they
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: get enough a catcher compared to an outfielder. But that's
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: last year's topic. Let's get to stat leaders, so AJ
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: will show your board. You want to run through offense
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: and then pitching for us?
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: Uh sure, I'm going Judge home runs, RBIs, Peter Alonzo.
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: I just think he's in a good lineup, Bobby Witt,
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: stolen bases, free him e er a leader schemes. Not today,
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: but he'll be better. Like I said, Freddy Parl Tay
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: got off to a rough star fine Andres Munio saves
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: leader because of their in the K leader Sanchez look
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: up how many case he had last year? He had
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: a lot of strikeouts, and I think he's just gonna improve.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he keeps getting better. The team just took care
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: of him too. They really took care of him. They
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: give him a lot more money for one extra year, sign.
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: Sign a nice team, nice team deal. And they said, wow,
• 29:33
  Speaker 6: great job, we'll re up you again. And he said, okay, cool,
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: I'll take it. He's a He's a sneaky, really really
• 29:41
  Speaker 6: tall guy too. By the way, if you ever get
• 29:43
  Speaker 6: to see him in person, I think he's like six'.
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: Six so, anyway what about your, list how does it?
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: Differ Uh, Aron, judge it's going to be the home run.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: LEADER i think the RBIs i had to go to
• 29:57
  Speaker 6: a place where a lot of runs are, scored AND
• 29:59
  Speaker 6: i think they have a really good. Offense So i'm
• 30:01
  Speaker 6: Going Nick. Kurtz an entire year Of Nick. Kurtz i'm
• 30:05
  Speaker 6: not gonna say he's gonna get one hundred and, fifty
• 30:07
  Speaker 6: But i'm saying if he eclipses one, thirty we're talking
• 30:11
  Speaker 6: about like a dude that's just gonna be able to
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: drive so many runs in because of his bats and
• 30:17
  Speaker 6: his team around. Him stone base Leader Jose ramirez is
• 30:20
  Speaker 6: sick and freaking tired of not leading the league in one,
• 30:24
  Speaker 6: category SO i think he's going to take it this.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: YEAR i think at forty some last, year he's gonna
• 30:29
  Speaker 6: flirt with forty forty. Again like he's a guaranteed thirty
• 30:33
  Speaker 6: thirty every. Year So Jose, ramirez and Then i'm Going
• 30:37
  Speaker 6: Paul Skeens era leader took a hit, today but the
• 30:41
  Speaker 6: saves Leader Edwin diez is going to have the most
• 30:44
  Speaker 6: and Strikeouts Garrett. Crochet while he's not gonna be the
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: cy young, winner he is just he's a strikeout. Machine
• 30:52
  Speaker 6: he doesn't even have To he throws the ball right
• 30:54
  Speaker 6: down the middle and some guys miss So Garrett crochet
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: strikeouts very.
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: Nice anything else you're looking forward to here to start
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: the season for the awards or for the. SEASON i
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: guess you could technically do, both but for the, awards
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: not anybody you were like having a tough time leaving.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: OUT i MEAN i have a tough.
• 31:24
  Speaker 6: TIME i have a tough time not not looking to somebody,
• 31:27
  Speaker 6: else like LIKE i. COULDN'T i wanted to find a
• 31:31
  Speaker 6: place somewhere on here For Pee, alonso LIKE i was
• 31:34
  Speaker 6: thinking about THE. RBIs i just think The orioles offense
• 31:40
  Speaker 6: is a lot like The a's. OFFENSE i feel Like
• 31:42
  Speaker 6: Pee alonso in this new, place the new. CONTRACT i
• 31:46
  Speaker 6: think some guys get complacent with a new. CONTRACT i
• 31:49
  Speaker 6: think he is the exact opposite and will just catapult this.
• 31:54
  Speaker 6: TEAM i think This orioles team is going to score
• 31:56
  Speaker 6: a ton of. RUNS i think he is going to
• 31:59
  Speaker 6: be the catalyst to. THAT i think he's gonna give
• 32:01
  Speaker 6: protection To gunner Because. Pete you can pitch Around, pete
• 32:06
  Speaker 6: but he can still hit that slider off the plate for.
• 32:10
  Speaker 6: Damage he can still drive guys. In he's learning how
• 32:13
  Speaker 6: to hit more and, more AND i think HE'S i
• 32:16
  Speaker 6: THINK i wanted him somewhere on one of these later,
• 32:19
  Speaker 6: boards BUT i couldn't fit him in because he's not
• 32:21
  Speaker 6: gonna win the stolen base or THE.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: ERI i toe, right home runs are. RBIs do you
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: guys believe in the narrative of the motivation carrying above
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: what a player already is motivated to.
• 32:35
  Speaker 2: Do i'll just use too. Easy you don't think.
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: So you don't Think pete Or Bryce harper feel like extra?
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: Juice are gonna work?
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: Harder are you gonna try?
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: HARDER i don't.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Know that's Why i'm hopefully they're trying hard all the.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: TIME i think that's one of the biggest false.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Narratives by the, way one of the one of the
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: things we were supposed to say is the first manager,
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: FIRED i DON'T i look through the list of, MANAGERS
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: i don't know who would gets, Fired like, literally between
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: the new ones and the guys they're not gonna, OKAY
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: i mean UNLESS i don't, know there's so many new, ones,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: Okay So Twins Oriols Twins shelton just got There Orioles
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: auburn has just got?
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: There, Right angels Kurts zuki's on a one year.
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: Deal they're not gonna fire him in a one year.
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: Deal astros Maybe JOE. A, spotta But Kevin cash ain't
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: never getting. Fired Olie marmele just sign an. Extension Tory
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: leavello they Love Dave roberts ain't going, Anywhere Alex cora
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: ain't going, Anywhere tito Frank cone ain't going.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: Anywhere aj hnch ain't going.
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: Anywhere they just Hired Craig stamon In San, Diego Skip
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: schumacher's new Maybe Rob, thompson BUT i think they're gonna be.
• 33:32
  Speaker 5: Good SO i don't think he's. In Stephen vote In.
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: Cleveland, No Dan wilson In, Seattle, No No Aaron, Boone,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: No Tony vaitello just hired What rocky's just hired a new.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: Manager he's not getting, fired, Right marlins they love Uh clayton. McCollough,
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: right who's gonna get like if you can Fight? Royals
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: fortaro's not getting. Fired and they just Hired Walt. Weiss
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: and then The a's Have Mark cootze who's a, lifer
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: And John sneyder just signed. Extension find me a man
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: is gonna get fired this year during the. SEASON i
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: know it's a popular.
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: THING i just don't know who WOULD i don't know
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: where it would. BE i got To that's WHY i said.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: None they asked, Me i'm, like. NONE i don't think
• 34:09
  Speaker 5: anyone's getting. Fired.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: No chances are super.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: LOW i guess technically, three but it's all based on
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: the team performance in the first few months of the.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: SEASON i think they're gonna Fire.
• 34:19
  Speaker 5: Windows it would be, one BUT i don't think he's getting.
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: Fired it's only if they would have to completely yeah,
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: them you said a spota, AGAIN i think The ashlers
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: would be. Good but let's say The ashers are twelve
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: games under five hundred On june, first you're gonna be, like,
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: Okay Jim crane is pretty.
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: Aggressive he might pull the trigger.
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: If that WAS i don't think during the season he,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: will though now by the at, Least robert just dove
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: over a ball that was going to hit him in his,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: shoulder WHICH i find.
• 34:47
  Speaker 5: Awesome but what do you talk? About crowd got, him excited.
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: Him and then there was one other that you.
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: SAID i, MEAN i think The phillies are gonna win the,
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: division SO i don't think they're gonna have a. Problem
• 34:59
  Speaker 1: but if The philly these were ten games under five
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: hundred and, like these are to me somewhat unrealistic expectations
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: to think that one of these isn't going to be
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: in good.
• 35:07
  Speaker 6: SHAPE i did the same practice THAT aj just. DID
• 35:11
  Speaker 6: i did it at my, house LIKE i just don't see.
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: Anybody so WHEN i was told to put somebody, Down
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: Ozzie gian's getting fired this, Year so.
• 35:22
  Speaker 5: Throw a name in.
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: There see if anybody was actually reading my.
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: List but that's messed. Up that's why best.
• 35:28
  Speaker 6: Broadcasts that's WHY i Asked Robert murray if if if
• 35:34
  Speaker 6: the over under is one and a, HALF i honestly
• 35:37
  Speaker 6: believe this is a year it's weird because they have
• 35:40
  Speaker 6: so many new. Hirings it would be, really really weird
• 35:43
  Speaker 6: to see more than one guy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: Fired, Okay i'm going to do that over under is
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: set at point.
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: Five i'll still take the.
• 35:54
  Speaker 1: Under so you think the entire season zero manager, FIRINGS i.
• 36:00
  Speaker 5: Mean the people be. Gone it doesn't.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Count Between april And.
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: September you guys both think there will be zero.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: Lot if things go away that we think they're going to,
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: GO i. DON'T i, mean let's something crazy could. Happen,
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah i'm just gonna go situation.
• 36:17
  Speaker 5: Where he just gets fired in the middle of the
• 36:19
  Speaker 5: year for, whatever.
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: Right non trouble off the field performance related the.
• 36:25
  Speaker 5: Teams we just went through most of the.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: TEAMS i, Mean, Okay mendy and In, toporore the two
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: that people talk about the. MOST i just don't see
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: it BECAUSE i think The phillies in The mets are
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: both going to be, Good so why would you fire
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: the manager if you're?
• 36:37
  Speaker 5: Good and the other guy that people mention Is Kurt
• 36:39
  Speaker 5: zuzuki's on a one year deal already right. Now just
• 36:41
  Speaker 5: let him finish a year and then go from. There
• 36:42
  Speaker 5: what's the?
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: Point, YEAH i, AGREE i DON'T i don't see that one.
• 36:48
  Speaker 1: HAPPENING i just feel like between everything we, said something
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: will happen based on lab. Averages because not every team
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: can be. Good you're going to have some teams that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: are massively. Disappointing to go back to last, year which,
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: one well last year was The. Orioles Brandon hye got
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: let go because The orioles crumbled in the beginning of the.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Season they have a new, Manager, yeah, okay who could
• 37:09
  Speaker 5: be the biggest The.
• 37:09
  Speaker 1: Mets The mets could BE i think The, ASTROS i
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: would say that would be the tap to go that
• 37:16
  Speaker 1: that could be a. Team because of the contract, length
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: right what it's his contract. Year he doesn't have a
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: contract after this year right. Now i'm pretty sure A
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: spot it. Doesn't AND i think you have to know
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: who the owner. Is this sometimes has to do with the.
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: Owner is it one of those super loyal owners or
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: is it an owner that's kind of pushing FOR i
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: don't want to say for, wins but like he'll keep
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: his foot on the pedal a little bit.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: More Jim crane's pretty. Loyal, yes he is pretty. Loyal
• 37:46
  Speaker 5: he's Pretty he.
• 37:48
  Speaker 6: Brought, YEAH i mean he he was the one that
• 37:51
  Speaker 6: pushed it through to let the Whole Carlos korea thing
• 37:54
  Speaker 6: like very seldom does an owner say, yeah we're gonna
• 37:57
  Speaker 6: we're gonna bring on this extra. Money like he's Very
• 38:00
  Speaker 6: he is a, very very loyal. Owner if you are
• 38:03
  Speaker 6: in his, circle AND i have no reason to believe
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: That Joe spot is not in his, circle.
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: Then who do you guys think would be the top
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: candidate if you had to pick? One what about if
• 38:15
  Speaker 1: the kandas, WELL i MEAN kutr just signed an. EXTENSION
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: a lot of this has to do with extensions, Too
• 38:19
  Speaker 1: like The royal small market team they give an extension.
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: OUT i think they're going to be fine, anyway but it's,
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: like do you really think they're going to pull the. Trigger,
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: no it's got to be a team that's good that
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: just looks terrible in the first couple months or three.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Months it doesn't have to happen right. Away it could
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: happen In june Or. July teams Like, OKAY i don't.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: KNOW i, mean you're making me pick against the. Team
• 38:47
  Speaker 6: like IF i go down the list of teams that
• 38:49
  Speaker 6: are not going to make the, playoffs, LIKE i get.
• 38:53
  Speaker 6: IT i didn't pick The braves to make the. Playoffs
• 38:56
  Speaker 6: Wet weiss is not getting fired LIKE i did.
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: About the Rest. Diamondbacks tory level is not getting.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Fired that is to, me that's a machine out there
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: THAT i think they're Always they're always a move or two,
• 39:10
  Speaker 6: away or a really good season away from making that
• 39:14
  Speaker 6: next step to be a playoff. Contender, AGAIN i think
• 39:17
  Speaker 6: The Red sox are going to be a playoff contending.
• 39:19
  Speaker 6: Team they're gonna hang around five. HUNDRED i just don't
• 39:21
  Speaker 6: think they're gonna quite make the.
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: Playoffs, Okay well that's why it's a fun. EXERCISE i
• 39:28
  Speaker 2: didn't realize how difficult it.
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: Was how many times did we have last? Year we
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: had quite a, Few, yeah which is part of how
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: we got to.
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: This during the.
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: Season Bud, Black, OKAY i mean The, orioles they weren't very.
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Underachieved that was the. Too off the top of my,
• 39:47
  Speaker 4: HEAD i could think they get fired.
• 39:47
  Speaker 5: In the middle of the.
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: Season Derek Shelton, Pirates, okay some of those.
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: Were they had also been there for four or five
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: years and hadn't worked, right so they had.
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: ONE i, mean LUs.
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Rocco baldelli was At.
• 40:05
  Speaker 5: Marble is he getting? Fired he just signed an.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Extension, YEAH i don't think.
• 40:08
  Speaker 1: So, ALSO i, MEAN i think a lot of this
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: has to do with. Expectations The cardinals should not have
• 40:14
  Speaker 1: a high expectations this.
• 40:15
  Speaker 2: YEAR i got rid of a ton of. Guys, yeah
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: that's part of.
• 40:21
  Speaker 7: It