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Red Sox buy/sell chat, lil Josh Naylor-Tigers feud, Padres falling · Foul Territory

• 0:03
  Speaker 1: Monday with with Maryfield. Let's do it ajas.
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  Speaker 2: Here we are forty percent into the season for everyone,
• 0:12
  Speaker 2: and do you guys want to guess how many teams
• 0:16
  Speaker 2: are are more than five and a half games back
• 0:19
  Speaker 2: of a playoff spot? How many teams are more than
• 0:22
  Speaker 2: five and a half games away without looking at the standings?
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  Speaker 3: Seven?
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  Speaker 1: Four? Okay? Wait? Wait wait who said seven?
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  Speaker 3: I did he?
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  Speaker 1: You said seven? We I said four? And answer three? Angels, Giants, Rocky.
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  Speaker 1: That's it.
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  Speaker 4: But competitive balance, Scott. But the competitive balance is so
• 0:48
  Speaker 4: often need a salary cap and we just need to
• 0:51
  Speaker 4: get all these teams that don't make enough money to
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  Speaker 4: actually make more money.
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  Speaker 2: Well, those teams off and aren't winning the world too,
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  Speaker 2: But we'll see what happens there.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe if they maybe, if at the trade deadline they
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  Speaker 3: traded some people away and went for it, they might
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  Speaker 3: actually win the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: That's a timid front office world. There's only a few
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: that go bold on trade that line acquisitions. And now,
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: I mean school might not be available if the Tigers
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  Speaker 2: keep winning a little bit. And he also came back
• 1:21
  Speaker 2: so damn quick. I mean he's gonna be back in
• 1:23
  Speaker 2: like a week after the rehab adding did you guys
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  Speaker 2: see that the other day? And then he even went
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  Speaker 2: after the outing to finish up and get to seventy
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  Speaker 2: pitches already.
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  Speaker 1: So thank you, nano needle.
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  Speaker 5: What an incredible thing I gotta feel. And that's going
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  Speaker 5: to be a very popular needle in the next couple
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  Speaker 5: of years.
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  Speaker 2: Agreed, most popular needle since nineteen ninety eight. Too soon, Okay,
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: let's get to something fun before we start. I want
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: to see if you guys have ever done any of this.
• 1:53
  Speaker 2: So Randy Roserena sent a note to a fan or
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  Speaker 2: multiple fans that had been heckling him, and I can't
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  Speaker 2: read it, but he basically was like, I don't understand English,
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  Speaker 2: so I'll love thanks for yelling at me. Have you
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  Speaker 2: guys ever done anything tongue in cheek like that?
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  Speaker 1: Aj?
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  Speaker 2: Did you ever I don't know, say something to someone
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  Speaker 2: like I don't even know what you're saying, or give
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  Speaker 2: them a souvenir even though they had been a pain.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to ignore them, but normally if I said something,
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  Speaker 4: it got too heated, so I just tried to ignore them.
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  Speaker 3: I laugh most of the time.
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  Speaker 4: Only when someone said something funny would I acknowledge it.
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  Speaker 4: But most of the time, you suck. I know I suck. Okay,
• 2:32
  Speaker 4: I know I suck. Whatever, I know, I got it,
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  Speaker 4: I suck.
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  Speaker 5: So I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: You never bothered me because I thought it was funny. Now,
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  Speaker 4: were there fans across the line. Of course, there were
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  Speaker 4: fans across the line, and those are the ones where
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  Speaker 4: you're like, okay, dude, like enough, But most of the
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  Speaker 4: time it was.
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  Speaker 3: All in good fun.
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  Speaker 4: I just don't understand why fans have gotten to the
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  Speaker 4: point where they feel like now they can see anything
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  Speaker 4: to these players without expecting somebody to fire back at him.
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  Speaker 4: Because and no job on Earth can you go to
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  Speaker 4: someone else's job. If you go to anyone else's job
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  Speaker 4: on the planet and they're sitting there typing on a
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  Speaker 4: keyboard and I'm standing behind them, going, you suck.
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  Speaker 3: You're the worst.
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  Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, they would finally get tired of it
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  Speaker 4: and they would say something. But every athlete is just
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  Speaker 4: expected to sit there and wear it. But it doesn't
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  Speaker 4: always happen, I understand. I mean, at certain times you
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  Speaker 4: get tired of hearing it you suck and put a
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  Speaker 4: lot of other words in there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think what Randy did was hilarious. And AJ
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  Speaker 5: was a catcher, so you know he would get his
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  Speaker 5: charps probably in the dugout or something. But when you're
• 3:31
  Speaker 5: in the outfield, you hear a lot because you're standing
• 3:33
  Speaker 5: out there for extended period of time just kind of
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  Speaker 5: by yourself, solo, just waiting for a ball to come
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  Speaker 5: your way. A lot of times you don't get a ball,
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  Speaker 5: though it could be the whole game, and so you
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  Speaker 5: got plenty of time to just listen to what people
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  Speaker 5: are saying. And you're on the road and people a
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  Speaker 5: charp at you. And I usually enjoyed talking back to
• 3:51
  Speaker 5: fans if, like AJ said, if they were funny or clever,
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  Speaker 5: you could tell it wasn't coming from a really malicious
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  Speaker 5: It wasn't really malicious. It was just they were just
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  Speaker 5: trying to get you to acknowledge them. And sometimes I
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  Speaker 5: would because it would just diffuse the situation and make
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  Speaker 5: it fun. And then the tricky thing with it is
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  Speaker 5: once you start, once you open that can, there's like
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  Speaker 5: seem to be about twenty people that jump in because
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  Speaker 5: they all want to get their little two cents in two.
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  Speaker 5: So I agree, it's when it when it's lighthearted, and
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  Speaker 5: it could be fun. But then people will cross the
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  Speaker 5: line at certain cities you go to especially, and you
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  Speaker 5: just kind of let those keep those keep ignoring those people,
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  Speaker 5: because the minute that you acknowledge them, that's all they
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  Speaker 5: want is they want you to acknowledge them. And then
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  Speaker 5: it just spirals.
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  Speaker 2: And if you're Randy, you're lucky. You don't speak English.
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  Speaker 2: You know a lot of players who.
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  Speaker 3: Wrote the note. If he doesn't speak English, who wrote
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  Speaker 3: the note?
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he got his interpreter.
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  Speaker 3: I'm just asking. I don't know. He might not speak English,
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  Speaker 3: but he sure writes English will.
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  Speaker 4: Proper actual proper punctuation in that it wasn't just written it.
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  Speaker 4: There was periods and all kinds of stuff in that note.
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  Speaker 5: It's like the family. The one guy, this hispanic guy
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  Speaker 5: has memorized three sentences of perfect English and then doesn't
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  Speaker 5: know anything else. Maybe that's Randy's go to.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got the same note that he gives out
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  Speaker 2: to everyone that he asked exactly fun, good fun, All right,
• 5:22
  Speaker 2: let's Charge's charge and Red Sox and Yankees met up
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  Speaker 2: this weekend. We don't have to get too deep into
• 5:31
  Speaker 2: the series itself. Each side took a game. There was
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: a rainout mixed in there. The Red Sox are last
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  Speaker 2: in the American League East. They're ten and a half
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  Speaker 2: games back of the Rays and the Yankees. Wondering first off,
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  Speaker 2: which way we think they'll sway? Ultimately is the trade
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  Speaker 2: discussion can happen while we're in June. Jen McCaffery of
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  Speaker 2: The Athletic wrote that the Red Sox should probably be sellers,
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  Speaker 2: but of course alluded to how the American League kind
• 5:55
  Speaker 2: of sucks so everybody stays in it. She said, a
• 5:57
  Speaker 2: surplus of catchers means a source told they're shopping Connor Wang.
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  Speaker 1: They've fielded calls.
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  Speaker 2: On relievers, and you know, on the other side, they're
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  Speaker 2: still looking for bats to aja. If they do end
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  Speaker 2: up selling at the deadline or all this, Chatman would
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  Speaker 2: go for a pretty penny. I'll tell you that.
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  Speaker 4: Rolled as Chapman Whitlock right, he would probably go for something.
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  Speaker 4: Sunny Gray. Would you trade a Sonny Gray? Is yea
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  Speaker 4: free agent at the end of the year, you probably
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  Speaker 4: move him?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 4: They have some pieces, But it still goes back to
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  Speaker 4: this and we sit it all off season. Alex Kora
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  Speaker 4: told me this, and I still, even though he's not
• 6:33
  Speaker 4: the manager anymore, guess what he said, They needed right
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  Speaker 4: handed power bat. What are they still looking for a
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  Speaker 4: right handed power bat because they have a bunch of lefties.
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  Speaker 4: They have Wilson and Jurists and then a bunch of
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  Speaker 4: lefties that can hit. So it's the same thing for
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  Speaker 4: the Red Sox. You know they're pitching gray, they're doing great,
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  Speaker 4: this and that, but if you watch those games. I
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  Speaker 4: watched the game yesterday, they couldn't get a hit with
• 6:53
  Speaker 4: guys in score position.
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  Speaker 3: They can't.
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  Speaker 4: They don't hit a lot of homers, and they don't
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  Speaker 4: get hits with guys in scoring position. So your pitching
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  Speaker 4: can only be so good. At some point you got
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  Speaker 4: to score some runs. And they still need right handed power.
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  Speaker 4: They haven't found it. They got to find pieces. I
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  Speaker 4: think they're gonna be sellers, but we'll see.
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  Speaker 2: Looks like it's some matchups tonight. This episode is presented
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  Speaker 2: by Sea Geek. So we've got all night games. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's the eight games on the Monday slate here,
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  Speaker 2: including the Mariners and the Orioles. Emerson Hancock going for Seattle.
• 7:24
  Speaker 1: Baltimore is starting to play well. Ajay right back then.
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  Speaker 4: They're playing better, but it's also because the mest of
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  Speaker 4: the American League stinks.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean they're playing better. They are.
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  Speaker 4: The Rays have come back down to earth a lot
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees without judge. I mean, it's just, yeah, they're
• 7:40
  Speaker 4: playing better.
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  Speaker 3: They are.
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  Speaker 4: I'll give I'll give the Oils credit. They're playing better,
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  Speaker 4: but again they're still under five hundred.
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  Speaker 3: You know. The game.
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  Speaker 4: The game I want to see tonight is I was
• 7:49
  Speaker 4: looking at this earlier is the Brewers in at the Athletics,
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  Speaker 4: and I want to see how Harrison does in Sacramento
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  Speaker 4: because every pitcher seems to go there and gets be struggling.
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  Speaker 3: So I want to see how he does. And also
• 8:02
  Speaker 3: Sanchez has to go to Toronto. Let's see how he
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  Speaker 3: does up there north of the border. Maybe a crossing
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  Speaker 3: the border mess him up. He's been so damn good.
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  Speaker 1: Uh yeah.
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: Kyle Harrison hasn't allowed more than two runs in a
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  Speaker 2: start this year, and his ERA since April twenty one
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  Speaker 2: is one oh five. Is the ra on the season
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  Speaker 2: one five seven, the least talked about cy Young candidate.
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  Speaker 5: With he's pitching, Well, yeah, he's pitcher. Well it's it's uh,
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  Speaker 5: it's been fun to see him do so well. But yeah,
• 8:37
  Speaker 5: you're like, I get you said, Sacramento seems to be
• 8:40
  Speaker 5: a weird, weird place where pitchers go to die. So
• 8:43
  Speaker 5: see how it goes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and for Sanchez, he's going up against Patrick corbyin
• 8:49
  Speaker 2: in that Phillies Blue Jays battle. Should be a good
• 8:52
  Speaker 2: one there. And then yeah, raise red Sox AJ The
• 8:55
  Speaker 2: Rays of lost ten of thirteen, so this is their
• 8:57
  Speaker 2: little slump session. They've been good overall at home, but
• 9:01
  Speaker 2: not as well lately ever ever since I mean they
• 9:04
  Speaker 2: got swept there by the Tigers. You're looking at them like, uh, oh,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they're not as good as we thought.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, they were just so hot. They were never going
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: to be as hot as it were. That's the thing
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  Speaker 4: about baseball.
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  Speaker 3: What tell them?
• 9:15
  Speaker 4: You get so scorching hot and then you always come
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  Speaker 4: back down to reality.
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• 9:40
  Speaker 5: Yeah, i'd agree. I think they'll they'll end up be
• 9:42
  Speaker 5: in sellers. But it's a weird spot to be in
• 9:44
  Speaker 5: right now because with the Yankees you got Judge hurt,
• 9:47
  Speaker 5: so that's that's gonna to flight that offense a little bit.
• 9:51
  Speaker 5: Tampa's sort of coming back down to life a little
• 9:53
  Speaker 5: bit there. I think they're going to three o their
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  Speaker 5: last seven, I think in the last ten games, so
• 9:57
  Speaker 5: they're you know what, what are they going to be?
• 10:00
  Speaker 5: Toronto doesn't seem to be the juggernaut that we all
• 10:02
  Speaker 5: thought they were going to be start the season. Baltimore
• 10:05
  Speaker 5: is not playing great, so it's still a fairly wide
• 10:09
  Speaker 5: open division with what one hundred games left something like that,
• 10:12
  Speaker 5: and and again with a wildcard situation, there's just so
• 10:17
  Speaker 5: many teams in the America League that are just not good.
• 10:19
  Speaker 5: So what do you do with your Boston? I think
• 10:22
  Speaker 5: I think you start making having those conversations, but I'm
• 10:25
  Speaker 5: not sure you pull any triggers. Just just quite yet.
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: No, And don't you think that crag best loss job
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: is going to have to do with this too?
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  Speaker 1: Aha?
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, if the team doesn't make the playoffs this year,
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: he's probably out of a job.
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: So if that's the.
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  Speaker 2: Case and you're within three, four, maybe even five games
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  Speaker 2: of a wildcard, you're probably trying to convince the brass
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  Speaker 2: that you should buy.
• 10:50
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 10:50
  Speaker 2: You're probably calling up owner John Henry and saying, oh,
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: this team's got it number of projections, say we're going
• 10:55
  Speaker 2: to have a much better second half. We need to buy.
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  Speaker 2: Otherwise everything he's been planning for is not going to
• 11:01
  Speaker 2: really matter. They're gonna can them.
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  Speaker 4: What have we learned about John Henry over the last
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: few years in the Fenway Sports Group. They don't want
• 11:10
  Speaker 4: to spend a ton of money on this team anymore.
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  Speaker 4: So there's no way they're gonna let be like Kurk Breslo.
• 11:15
  Speaker 4: Your budget for the last two months is up by
• 11:17
  Speaker 4: fifteen million, go get three players. They haven't they haven't
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  Speaker 4: shown her any want to do that. So what's just
• 11:25
  Speaker 4: gonna raculously change because Chriig Breslo goes in there and
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  Speaker 4: does this or that. I mean, no banks for Rex,
• 11:30
  Speaker 4: for players.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're not.
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  Speaker 4: They're going to say, here's what you got, make it work.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, Jerry Depoto out in Seattle. He's done
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: a great job of making it work with his budget
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  Speaker 4: that he's been given every year. You know, Matt Arnold
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  Speaker 4: and Milwaukee's figured out a way to make it work.
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  Speaker 4: The Red Sox haven't figured it out for a while.
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  Speaker 4: And sucks because baseball is better when the Red Sox
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: are good. I'm sorry, I know people hate that, but
• 11:51
  Speaker 4: when the Red Sox and the Yankees and these rivalries
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  Speaker 4: are good, it's better for baseball because more people tune
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  Speaker 4: in and more people care.
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  Speaker 1: And they made the ouse last year with but yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so far it's been a step back.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean it has. It's weird, and it's it's
• 12:08
  Speaker 5: like the Red Sox are no longer in that top
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  Speaker 5: tier of a of a organization. It feels like it
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  Speaker 5: feels like I feel that they've always been growing up.
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  Speaker 5: I'm thirty seven and just growing up. It's always it
• 12:22
  Speaker 5: was always the Red Sox and the Yankees, and the
• 12:24
  Speaker 5: Red Sox kind of built this powerhouse team to break
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  Speaker 5: the curse, and then they just went on a little
• 12:30
  Speaker 5: bit of a run and they were just they were
• 12:32
  Speaker 5: a powerhouse forever and they they're the big market. It's
• 12:35
  Speaker 5: the Boston Red Sox. Everybody wanted to be a Red Sock.
• 12:37
  Speaker 5: Everybody wanted to play in finway, everybody wanted to to
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  Speaker 5: wear the bee on the hat. I mean, it's it's no,
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  Speaker 5: it doesn't no longer has that lure, and it's it
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  Speaker 5: sucks and it's weird because you're right, when when the
• 12:48
  Speaker 5: Red Sox are good, baseball's better.
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  Speaker 3: And they just.
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  Speaker 5: If you want if you're the Boston Red Sox and
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  Speaker 5: you want a right handed power bat, to your point, AJ,
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  Speaker 5: you should go get the right the best right handed
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  Speaker 5: power bat on the market. And there shouldn't really be
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  Speaker 5: anybody that can take that away from you. Uh, And
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  Speaker 5: they just they're not doing that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're still missing with their kind of some of
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  Speaker 2: their best players, right. I mean, they're definitely missing their
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: best pitcher and Garrett Crochet Roman Anthony hasn't played for
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  Speaker 2: most of the season here. So at some point you
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: get those guys back, it starts to look like a
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  Speaker 2: different ball club.
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  Speaker 1: That'll help.
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  Speaker 3: They got to get to five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Well, how far away are they right now?
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  Speaker 3: They're nine games under. Yeah, so they get to five hundred.
• 13:34
  Speaker 3: They got to get to five hundred.
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  Speaker 4: That's that's my whole thing with every team they're like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we're in it. The Tigers got to get to five
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  Speaker 4: hundred Before you're actually in it.
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  Speaker 3: You can't. Yeah, you can have a nice run.
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  Speaker 4: But if you're still under, if you're still nine games
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  Speaker 4: under five hundred, if you're the Red Stars, you've got
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  Speaker 4: to get to five hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Is it possible this year that an ALE Wildcard team
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  Speaker 2: is sub five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: It's possible.
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  Speaker 5: No, No, it's I mean, it's possible. Probable, maybe not,
• 13:58
  Speaker 5: but it's definitely possible. I remember I remember Dayton Moore
• 14:04
  Speaker 5: telling me in Kansas City one year that they the
• 14:06
  Speaker 5: way they evaluated their the teams when the start the
• 14:09
  Speaker 5: year was you needed forty games. After forty games, you
• 14:12
  Speaker 5: have a pretty good idea of where your team's at.
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  Speaker 5: And we're past that threshold. So the Red Sox have
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: a pretty good idea where they're at. Grantited, you're right,
• 14:18
  Speaker 5: they are missing a couple of major pieces, and so
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: that does factor into the equation. But I think you
• 14:25
  Speaker 5: got a decent sense of where your team's at and
• 14:27
  Speaker 5: you need them to turn around pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 3: What you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: So, Scott, here's my question for you. The Royals still
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: Are the Royals in it?
• 14:38
  Speaker 1: Everybody's in it, aj, everybody's within five and a half.
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  Speaker 4: The Royals are twenty seven and thirty nine. Yes, I know,
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  Speaker 4: they're only five and a half out of a wildcard.
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  Speaker 4: Are they in it because they have the same record
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  Speaker 4: as the Tigers?
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  Speaker 2: I mean no, If I had to guess, the Royals
• 14:55
  Speaker 2: are not going to be a playoff time the team
• 14:57
  Speaker 2: they should be selling the Tigers.
• 14:58
  Speaker 1: Tigers a playoff team there should be selling.
• 15:00
  Speaker 2: I think the problem we've had in prior years is
• 15:03
  Speaker 2: how slow it's been for some teams, and then you
• 15:06
  Speaker 2: always get one or two that breakout. I mean, the
• 15:09
  Speaker 2: easiest one to look at is last year Cleveland. Nobody
• 15:13
  Speaker 2: saw anything for Cleveland the division what fifteen and a
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: half back, and all of a sudden they storm back,
• 15:21
  Speaker 2: you know, with covered has covered the blue Jays a lot. Wait,
• 15:25
  Speaker 2: the blue Jays weren't that good until around this time
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: last year?
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: Right? Right?
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: Yeah, they they did sort of explode, but they you know,
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: they they had basically there. They knew they're guys that
• 15:41
  Speaker 5: were going to be there and be there for the
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: next year of the year after. And so then they
• 15:44
  Speaker 5: went out and got Bieber and and I forget how
• 15:49
  Speaker 5: they got the deadline, but I know Bieber was a
• 15:51
  Speaker 5: big splash, and so they just kind of ran it
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: with the team that they had, and they just seemed
• 15:54
  Speaker 5: to peak and get hot. I think the Red Sox
• 15:59
  Speaker 5: in particular, and Detroit was Scoob Buler in a little
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: different spot where their guys are running out of time
• 16:06
  Speaker 5: and they got to make a move.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: Thank you, aj the we're Mike checking you the I know,
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: but I mean.
• 16:19
  Speaker 4: It's like sorry, it's like tap the microphone, okay, on
• 16:22
  Speaker 4: tapping it.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Well, we didn't hear it, now we hear it.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: The Brewers last year, on June seventeenth, or six and
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: a half games out, they won the NL Central by
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: five games. The Blue Jays were as far back as
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: eight games in the AL East and at game sixty
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: five they were still four and a half out.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: They won the division.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: The Mariners were seven games out of the AL West
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: first place spot on July tenth. They ended up winning
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: that division by three games. That's a ten game turnaround there.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: And then of course we get all the way down
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: to September fifth. The Reds were six games away from
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: a playoff spot on September fifth. They still made the playoffs.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: As we talked about a lot last year, AG, you
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: need a little bit of both, you need.
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: You need a lot of luck, you need a lot
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: of help.
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: The Mets fighters helped out the.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Guardians, yes, and the Mariners got hot, and the Mets collapse.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Let's let's call it what it is.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: The Tigers and the Mets collapse last year. That's the
• 17:15
  Speaker 4: only way that happens. It can't happen if you just
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: play five hundred. You're not gonna get caught. If you
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: have a fifteen and a half game lead, I'm sorry,
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: no team can make up that much. No team in
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: a month and a half can make up sixteen games
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: over five hundred. That's in a month and a half.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: That's like forty games. You're gonna have to go like
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: thirty and ten. And that still doesn't get it. Thirty
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: five and five right to get to even close. If
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: you play twenty and twenty, I mean that that doesn't
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: Those runs, I mean very rarely happen, but it's it's
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: you have to have.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: Help yep, you need collapses. Max Kepler, serving in eighty
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: game suspension right now for Peds, has signed on with
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: a ball club. It's the Diamondbacks. He's eligible to come
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: off the restricted list pretty soon June twenty fifth, after
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: leaving the Twins, he played last season with the Phillies.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: This tweet from Aaron Gleaman two sixteen, three hundred three
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: ninety one slash eighty eight ops plus and one hundred
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: and twenty seven games and aj The Ari Kratz joke
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: was that the Roids were not working well for him
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: last year. Hey, it is what it is.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Dude, got popped. It pisses people out.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: No, he shouldn't.
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: He should have to now serve eighty games once he
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: signs like, he shouldn't get that eighty games to do
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: what sit at home like? That is one of the
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: biggest problems I have with this whole thing. He gets
• 18:30
  Speaker 4: eighty games and he wasn't even signed by a team. No,
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: some teams should have to take him on and then
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: he gets the eighty They put him on the roster
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: and then they get the eighty games.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: It should be a deterrent.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Well, he got to sit at home and I was
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: just gonna sign the Diamondbacks for no reason, and now
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: he gets to go to spring training basically for three weeks,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: and then come back and be in the big leagues
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: with no penalty.
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: That's this is what I.
• 18:53
  Speaker 4: Don't understand about this. The way the suspension is. He
• 18:56
  Speaker 4: should have to be on a team and then serve
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: the eighty games, not oh, I got popped and now
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: I'm just gonna sit out for eighty games and do
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: nothing at home, like come on.
• 19:06
  Speaker 5: One hundred percent. Yeah, the I mean, this is just
• 19:09
  Speaker 5: one of the caveats. But the PD suspension enforcement and
• 19:14
  Speaker 5: rules are not nearly heavy enough for guys, and this
• 19:17
  Speaker 5: is just one of those little caveats you're dead on.
• 19:19
  Speaker 5: He should not be able to just come on, sign
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: with the team and go play.
• 19:27
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• 19:30
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• 20:23
  Speaker 2: the business of insurance. In terms of a team that
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: was going downhill, we probably talked about the Padres more
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: than any other team last week. I remember the show
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: that AJ and I did ourselves. We were talking about
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: them a lot. And you know, it has gotten better
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: in the last few days, including over the weekend. They
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: dropped a series to the Mets. They've lost ten of eleven, No,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: eleven of thirteen now is what they've lost. Friday was
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: really bad, so they were shut out for the seventh
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: time already this season, five nothing lost to the Mets
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: and multiple injury issues popped up. So we learned that
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: Ramon Larianoho had been out actually had torn laborm surgery.
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: It sounds like you'll miss the rest of the season.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: Usually that timetable is several months. Jeremiah Strada on the
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: aisle with a knee issue. They don't expect that to
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: be serious, but still you miss him for a little
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: bit of time and then nothing's changed yet with some
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: of the big boys, especially Manny Machado. Bob Knightingoe was
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: very pointed with his tweet. Did you see this one?
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: Aj?
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: He's like someone who's going to lose their job with
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: Machado struggles. He is now hitting one sixty nine. They
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: five ninety six ops were nearly halfway through this season.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, listen. They changed this in Victor Rodriguez. Vick Rodriguez,
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: who was their hitting coach the last couple of years,
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: is great. I had him in Boston, he was the assistant.
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: He was absolutely awesome, right, he just he got it.
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: The Padres were better hitters last year. Now the years changed, yes,
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: did they, But averages don't drop as much as they
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: they have this year for the Padres, their last and
• 21:51
  Speaker 4: batting evers and no batting average doesn't matter. But two
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: fourteen sixty games into the year ain't going to get
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: it done. You can only pitch so well, right, they're
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: last in runs, last in hits, last and on base lasting,
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: slug and last and o ps. You're not gonna They're
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: lucky to be where they are because they're pitching so
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: damn good, and Mason Miller and the bullpen has been
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: so damn good.
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: But hitting wise, I hate to.
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: Throw it all on Steven Susan Junior, who's their new
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: hitting coach, but something's got to change. Manny Machado the
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: other day said, hey, maybe we have too much analytics.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: Well in San Diego, Manny Machado says something that's usually
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: pointing at something. So again, I don't know. I don't
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: want to put it all on Steven Susan Junior. I
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: know Vic, and I played for Vic, so maybe I'm
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: a little biased towards vickor Vic the old hitting coach.
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: But man, this is bad. When you look up and you.
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: Say last, last, last, last, and all those numbers, it's crazy.
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: It is and I know Steven a little bit from
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: his playing days. I don't know him much as a coach.
• 22:48
  Speaker 5: I think he's I think he's kind of big into
• 22:49
  Speaker 5: that teacher man philosophy like we're talking about earlier, a
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: little bit of a jay. But uh, if that's the case. Look,
• 22:56
  Speaker 5: hitting is such a unique thing. It's very individ jewel.
• 23:01
  Speaker 5: Everybody has different feels, everybody approaches it different There's not
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: one way to do it. And I know that the
• 23:07
  Speaker 5: teacher man philosophy has gotten very popular because Aaron Judge
• 23:11
  Speaker 5: is the best hitter on the planet and and he
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: he buys into that and he hits them and that's
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: great because it works for him. But it doesn't work
• 23:18
  Speaker 5: for everybody. And so I hope that it's not a
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: it's not a sus is not really doing a one
• 23:23
  Speaker 5: this is the way to fix everything by doing this
• 23:25
  Speaker 5: one move and having this one feel kind of thing, uh,
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: because that can derail some stuff quickly, and it might
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: be what's happening again, I'm just I don't know, but
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: it's it's not good and and it's it's from an
• 23:39
  Speaker 5: offensive standpoint, it's really not good. But the good thing
• 23:42
  Speaker 5: they have is they have some proven guys that have
• 23:43
  Speaker 5: had success in the big leagues for a long time,
• 23:46
  Speaker 5: and so they can fall back on that. And as
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: a hitting coach, that's I feel like that's majority of
• 23:51
  Speaker 5: your job is being a therapist and talking to your
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: hitters and helping your hitters be in a positive mindset
• 23:58
  Speaker 5: because it's such it is the hardest thing to do
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: to hit bar none, it's such a volatile thing. If
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: any little thing is off, you're not going to have
• 24:05
  Speaker 5: success doing it, whether that's mentally, physically, whatever it is.
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: And so that's the main job of the hitting coach,
• 24:12
  Speaker 5: and they just they they got to get it figured
• 24:14
  Speaker 5: out as a team.
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: With question for you because you know, recently out of
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: the sport, you played with a lot of superstars and
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: I know some of them are really open to criticism
• 24:26
  Speaker 2: and others kind of want to do their own thing.
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Related to also, yes, having a private hitting coach and
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: all of that, you know, how have you seen that
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: dynamic with some teams when a guy is struggling and
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: the team probably has a suggestion, but you have to
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: be really delicate with the player depending on who it is, right,
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: And I'm not just saying this for Machado, but think
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: about it right without knowing the exacts of the situation.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: If you're the padres and he's been your guy for
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: a long period of time, you probably have to be
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: a little delicate. I'm sure he's, you know, in the
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: cage trying to figure things out. But a lot of
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: people try to start giving you advice when it's really
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: not working for this amount of time.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: It's been a while now.
• 25:02
  Speaker 5: Exactly. And that's that's where being that therapist that I
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: was talking about comes into play. You have to know
• 25:08
  Speaker 5: your players, know how to approach your players, know how
• 25:10
  Speaker 5: to communicate with your players. I play with a guy
• 25:12
  Speaker 5: like a guy like Matt Chapman. He wants you to
• 25:14
  Speaker 5: grab him by the throat, tell him that he sucks,
• 25:17
  Speaker 5: and tell him this is why he sucks, and this
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: is what he's doing that sucks, and this is why
• 25:21
  Speaker 5: he's the worst hitter in the game. And he wants
• 25:24
  Speaker 5: you to do that stuff to fire him up. And
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: then there's some guys that you got to be delicate with,
• 25:27
  Speaker 5: or some guys that you have to wait for them
• 25:29
  Speaker 5: to come to you. There's some guys that you can
• 25:32
  Speaker 5: show them one or two things. If you show them
• 25:34
  Speaker 5: a handful of things. It's gonna overwhelm them. Some guys
• 25:36
  Speaker 5: like the more information. So it's just it's it's truly
• 25:39
  Speaker 5: about the individual player and what what buttons do you
• 25:43
  Speaker 5: have to push on that player to make them successful.
• 25:46
  Speaker 5: It's a hard, hard job. Being a hitting coach is
• 25:49
  Speaker 5: the hardest coaching job in sports, truly, and it's you
• 25:56
  Speaker 5: never get the credit and you always get to blame.
• 25:57
  Speaker 5: So it's but yeah, they're just they're San Diego is
• 26:01
  Speaker 5: looking for somewhere to throw the blame right now.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Lorian it was really good for them last year.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: Aj that proved to be a great But.
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: This is what happens.
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: The number one job guy that gets fired on the
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: coaching staff is usually the hitting guy.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, it sucks.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: That's why hitting jobs are really hard, and the guys
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: that can do them well and stick around for a
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: long time are really special. The hitting and the pitching coach,
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: those are like the first guys. Now, if you have
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: a manager like an Alex Korra or someone like that,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: there are a manager's the GM will come and say, hey,
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: we want to get rid of this, we want to
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: change this, And those managers will say you know what,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: you're not firing your coach.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: My coaches without me.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: I remember back in the day Tom Kelly, they wanted
• 26:42
  Speaker 4: to get rid of his old pitching Coade Dick such
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: and He's like, no, if he goes, I go, well
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: guess what next year we had wrong Gardenhire as a manager.
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: And this year the rumor is that Alex Cora they
• 26:51
  Speaker 4: went maybe went to him and said, I don't know
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: if it's true or not, but it's what I was
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: reading that. Hey, they wanted to maybe get make some
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: coach changes on the coaching staff, and he said, if
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: they go, I go. Well that's kind of the way
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: it is, because what do we talk about in New
• 27:05
  Speaker 4: York In this offseason they changed all the coaches, but
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: Mandy got to keep his job.
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Right. It just depends on how loyal you are to
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: these people and how good you think these coaches are,
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: and if you have enough confidence yourself that you will
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: can find another job once you're let go, because gyms
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: will do this, Hey, we've got to change your coaching staff,
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: and if you say no, as a manager, they'll let
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: you go right with them.
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Right, It's tricky.
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, the prime example this year was the Phillies,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: and it was the same example several years ago. You know,
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: it might not be that person's fault, but you have
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: to do something or you feel like you have to
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: do something. As an organization. You can't get rid of
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: the players in April, May even June for the most part.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: So Copper took over years back for Joe Girardi and
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: it turned into a great run and a nice coaching
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: career for him with the Phillies. Same thing is going
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: on right now with Don Mattingly. We knew this team
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: was We figured this team was better than what it
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: looked like. It was playing super poor. They had to
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: do something. You know, you got to do the hitting.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: Coaches often get picked on, but you also know what
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: you're signing up for.
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: Yes, every coach is hired to be fired. I'm sorry,
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: every coach, every manager is hired to be fired at
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: some point. There's there's very few coaches managers that get
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: to go out on their own players for them mat
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: or get to go out on their own terms.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: It doesn't happen.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:22
  Speaker 5: The thing with the changing is that they have a
• 28:25
  Speaker 5: new staff. They changed it going into this year, and
• 28:27
  Speaker 5: so it's a lot of times that that stuff isn't
• 28:29
  Speaker 5: what you need, you know, But right now, something's got
• 28:32
  Speaker 5: to get going for him. And so do you fire
• 28:35
  Speaker 5: somebody that you just brought in and even though he's
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: forty games in, it's time to make a switch. I
• 28:40
  Speaker 5: don't think so. I think that's just somebody getting a
• 28:43
  Speaker 5: good hit and getting that snowball going down the hill,
• 28:46
  Speaker 5: because it is contagious. Hitting is contagious in a positive
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: way and a negative way.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Hey, on the topic of injuries, Ryce Lewis has been
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: through it, but they optioned him.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: He had a good attitude.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: He went down. He's learning multiple positions. He played multiple
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: positions over the weekend. He was hitting the crap out
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of the ball and Triple A so got called up.
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Here's the unfortunate part for the marketing team AJ The
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Twins had a Royce Lewis replica jersey giveaway. They took
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: it off the promo schedule on it was for Friday
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: when he was optioned. Right that was optioned a couple
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: of weeks ago, Saints down in Triple A. They schedule
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: a separate Royce Lewis T shirt giveaway for that day.
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: He gets called up by the Twins. Marketing departments everywhere
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: are melting down.
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Well, this reminds me was a Jason Tyner back in
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: the day. Had they had a babblehead with the Rays
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: and they defaid him like a week before and they like,
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: we're just going to give the babble heads out.
• 29:39
  Speaker 3: Anyways, I think they did.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: But it's great, it's kind of it's it's funny on
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: a only on the fact that they had all these
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: T shirts things lined up for him.
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: But it's not funny for Royce Lewis who got sent down.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: But he did come up and have a nice game yesterday,
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: so at least he had that.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's crazy, man, I mean, we played the Twins
• 29:58
  Speaker 5: in twenty twenty three in the ballcard game and that
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: guy was their best player by far, and just it's
• 30:05
  Speaker 5: unfortunate that he can't seem to get out of the
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: the way of the il and just can't seem to
• 30:11
  Speaker 5: get it back. And he's a great dude, So I'm
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: really cheering for him. Hopefully you can figure it out.
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's always very open in interviews and all that,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: and man, I mean you've seen some ridiculous runs for
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: him when he's feeling it.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: He just did it.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: I know it was in triple A, but when he
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: got options just now, I mean, he didn't look like
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: he belong there.
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: He looked like he needed to be in the big league.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what that looks like.
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: But he's been open about thinking he's going to get
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: traded and just kind of going through it emotionally with
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: the way that the team has gone through it.
• 30:40
  Speaker 1: So we'll see.
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: But sucks for the marketing department and also for anyone
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: that was trying to buy tickets for either of those
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: promo giveaways. They're like, hello, can I can I get
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: my promo?
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: No better communication along those lines in the team, Hey,
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: let's just.
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Promo doesn't care the promost The front office doesn't care
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: about the promo schedule. They're trying to figure out how
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: to have the best team. So they they're like, oh,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: T shirts that will give them away a different time,
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: we'll sell them in the Twins garage shale flea market.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Are they trying to figure out how to have the
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: best team?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: They're competing this year? But if they said they're competing this.
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Year, they're around, They're here, They're here. I don't think
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: Lewis play.
• 31:24
  Speaker 5: Well, if they're going to compete, that's for sure.
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: Yeah, big time. All right, let's slap as always.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: We're going to stay on for an extra few minutes
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: on YouTube, so make sure you join us there on
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: the FT YouTube channel. We're going to talk about Josh
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: Naylor getting hit by the Tigers, and also we'll just
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: do quick I guess we have thirty seconds on this one.
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: The Ernie Clement play. When he was hopping around Gonna
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: Anderson AJ texted me what.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: That was the right call? You can establish your own baseline.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: You can do it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: You can run to right field if you want, and
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: the guy has to chase you and tag you out.
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, that's it's one of the quirky rules in baseball.
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: But you can literally as long as you don't run
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: straight at him and then jump out of the way.
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: That's out of the baseline.
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: But if you watch the play, he actually starts veering
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: away and Gunnar really kind of didn't really try and
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: tag him because he knew if he tried to tag
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: him he couldn't get the double play.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: It was a good play by Ernie Clement. Manet. I
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: tipped my cap to him for knowing the rules and
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: doing it right.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: M M, well we can go. Yeah.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I mean people don't know that rule though, because people
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: online were like this game was rigged.
• 32:42
  Speaker 5: It's what he has. One of the quirky rules of baseball.
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Rusty coons used to pound it in our heads in
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: spring training, that exact play, and yeah, credit to Ernie
• 32:51
  Speaker 5: and the Empire.
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: All right, here we go for a few minutes. Josh
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: Naylor flung his sliding mint as he was sliding into home,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: and the Tigers thought that it was intentional, so they
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: decided to hit him with a ninety six piece Naylor.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: After Naylor was at least took it in stride, smiled
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: at at Kider Monto after he was plunked, and then
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: Naylor postgame said, fran Arvaldez was pointing and laughing at
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: me at the bench, so I knew it was on purpose.
• 33:19
  Speaker 4: First of all, I don't know how you feel about this,
• 33:23
  Speaker 4: but you know how hard it would be an amazing
• 33:25
  Speaker 4: it would be for Josh Nailor to be running down
• 33:27
  Speaker 4: the third baseline. In his head, he goes, you know
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: what I'm gonna do to distract him. I'm gonna throw
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: my sliding mid at him, like, come on, I watch
• 33:34
  Speaker 4: this thing like twenty times. It looked like it just
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: fell off his hand. That would be like one of
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: the craziest things I've ever seen to say.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna run down to third. I'm running down third.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: I'm gonna throw my sliding minut at the catcher because that'll.
• 33:46
  Speaker 5: Get me safe one hundred percent. I don't believe that
• 33:50
  Speaker 5: that was an intentional act. I do think Naylor is
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: crazy enough though, that he probably played it off like
• 33:58
  Speaker 5: he did it on purpose. Uh, And maybe that was
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: why they felt like needed to hit him, because he
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: said he did it on purpose. But I don't believe
• 34:06
  Speaker 5: that that was a purposeful act.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: No, what do you think of Fromber doing his thing
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: from the dugout?
• 34:14
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't.
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 34:15
  Speaker 5: I think both of them are crazy. I don't think
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: and I don't necessarily think that just because Fromberg was
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: laughing at and pointing that it means it was on purpose.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: I think he I think there just could be a
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: history there, and and Frombert is just laughing because he
• 34:27
  Speaker 5: got hit, And I don't think it means it's on purpose.
• 34:30
  Speaker 5: I just I just think they're they're there are two
• 34:33
  Speaker 5: of the there are two crazy personalities in this game.
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: I know Naylor himself is he's a great dude, but
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: he's he's he's got a he's got a little crazy
• 34:42
  Speaker 5: in him, and he likes he likes contact. He's not
• 34:45
  Speaker 5: an il guy. He's a guy that loves pain. And
• 34:48
  Speaker 5: uh so, yeah, I I just I just think it's
• 34:53
  Speaker 5: it's it's a whole thing that was that was made
• 34:55
  Speaker 5: about nothing. I think the glove flying off was an accident.
• 34:59
  Speaker 5: I think him getting hit, I don't think it was
• 35:00
  Speaker 5: on purpose. May it might have been, but yeah, it's
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: it's it's getting talked about a lot because there're two
• 35:09
  Speaker 5: interesting personalities.
• 35:10
  Speaker 1: You don't think he was hit on purpose. You don't
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: think that part was on purpose?
• 35:13
  Speaker 3: Oh he was.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I thought he was. It looked like he was. But also,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: here's my thing. I this happened to me before when
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: I was with the I think I was with the Twins.
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: Was I used to wear an elbow guard and I
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: was one of the first guys running the first and
• 35:25
  Speaker 4: it flew off and it went by Frank Thomas's feet
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: and he accused me of throwing it on purpose. I'm like,
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: you think I would really throw my elbow guard at
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: you as your First of all, you're Frank Thomas, You're
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: eight foot seven, four hundred pounds. You're squashed me like above,
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Like I'm not picking you to throw my elbow guard
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: at first of all, and second of all, like I'm
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: running to first I'm pissed off. I'm not gonna throw
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: my elbow guard. I'll throw when I get back in
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: the dugout, but I'm not going to throw it at
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: the first basement. Like that's just childish behavior. I did
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: a lot of dumb shit, but I didn't do that
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: dumb shit.
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: But the accusation was given there. They thought you were
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: that skilled that you were going to make a move
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: like that, And I guess the same thing with Naylor.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: They thought that he just is in a.
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: Big league play, sprinting home and thinking about how he's
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: going to slide the mid off into the catcher.
• 36:15
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• 36:18
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