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All-Star starters & snubs, Eury Pérez perfecto debate, Yankees swoon · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Ogft crew. We're back.
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Speaker 2: I hope everyone out a safe and happy and wonderful
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Speaker 2: fourth AJ is back and we have a lot to
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Speaker 2: discuss with him, So give us like two minutes and
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Speaker 2: then we're going to get into the exclusive conversation with
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Speaker 2: AJ about his tour, including meeting the Pope. AJ, good
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Speaker 2: to see you, but also we're going to see you
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Speaker 2: in person in one week, actually, exactly one week from today.
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Speaker 1: We just announced it the other day on social media.
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Speaker 2: We're going to be in Philly, of course for All
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Speaker 2: Star and we're going to be bouncing around, but we'll
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Speaker 2: also have a little home base at Ironhill Brewery. So
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Speaker 2: I just want to let everyone know if you are
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Speaker 2: going to be in the area and you would like
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Speaker 2: to say hello, you will see us there. Kratz and
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Speaker 2: I will be stationed there more so than AJ, but
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Speaker 2: you'll see a little bit of AJ there as well.
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Speaker 3: Wait, I don't even know what I'm doing here, So
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Speaker 3: that's the.
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Speaker 1: Beauty of it. Show up, show up, and it's a mystery.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I don't know. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean iron Hill Brewery. Thanks for having us. It's
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Speaker 3: going to be a fun time in Philadelphia. People that
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Speaker 3: have never been to Philadelphia for a game or for
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Speaker 3: an event. It's it's a pretty awesome place with all
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Speaker 3: the all the sporting events, as Krouts knows, all kind
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Speaker 3: of held in one little area. So it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: it's gonna be a fun event, and uh yeah, I'm
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Speaker 3: looking forward to it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's all kind of all the sporting events are
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Speaker 4: crammed down there, but a lot of people that come
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Speaker 4: to games, they just go to the big parking lot
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Speaker 4: and see their game and then leave, come down to
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Speaker 4: Ironhill Brewery and you'll see a little bit of downtown
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Speaker 4: right there, right there in center city. A lot of
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Speaker 4: cool stuff going on.
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Speaker 2: The Philly Show also will be doing shows there, and
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Speaker 2: same with is this a great game or what? Tim
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Speaker 2: Kirkchen and his son Jeff. So we're excited about that.
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Speaker 2: And the network just keeps growing. We're popping out babies
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Speaker 2: left and right. Mile High Territory just launched last week.
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Speaker 2: Late last week we announced it. There's Troy Rank who's
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Speaker 2: been on the scene writing in that area for a
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Speaker 2: long time, very good opinions, very well informed. Ryan Spilborgs
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Speaker 2: is everywhere. Spilly's on the broadcast every day working around
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Speaker 2: the team. He knows what's going on. They deliver the goods.
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Speaker 2: They had some really strong opinions and show one, so
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Speaker 2: I encourage you to check it out. Mile High Territory.
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Speaker 2: We're almost at the finish line of every team being
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Speaker 2: covered individually on the FT Network.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot going on here.
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Speaker 2: Urie Perez went seven perfect innings against the A's as
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Speaker 2: the Marlins swept them.
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Speaker 1: And the Marlins are on fire. But fans were pissed.
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Speaker 2: Even opposing fans were pissed right and Sacramento fans were like, shame, shame,
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Speaker 2: shame to the.
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Speaker 1: Marlins dugout when they pulled him at ninety two.
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Speaker 2: Pitches, AJ, is this as simple as you gotta let
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Speaker 2: him ride because he had two innings to accomplish, likely
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Speaker 2: would have been getting himself towards the who knows one
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Speaker 2: fifteen plus pitch range. They had ninety ish pegged for
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Speaker 2: him because it was only his third star back from
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Speaker 2: a hamstring injury on the island. Urie Perez has not
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Speaker 2: been the clean bill of health. So what do you
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Speaker 2: do here? Or is there just no win? If you're
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Speaker 2: Clayton mccullott, Marlins manager.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's no win and he has to do what
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Speaker 3: Peter Bendix tells him. Also, so let's not forget that
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Speaker 3: he's he was told exactly how many pitches. And this
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Speaker 3: is where it becomes a hard, a hard thing in
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Speaker 3: this game, because that Jacobs. You know, managers, the games
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Speaker 3: are scripted. They have green and red krats. You know this,
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Speaker 3: They have green red. This is where this guy's going
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Speaker 3: to pitch. And then the good managers figured it out
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Speaker 3: when things don't go according to the script, and the
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Speaker 3: ones that don't last are the ones that, oh I
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Speaker 3: didn't know what to do when it got off script. Well,
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Speaker 3: here's the problem. He was throwing a perfect game. He
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Speaker 3: was absolutely dominating. I think he would have gone out
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Speaker 3: there and probably got it done. We never will never know,
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Speaker 3: but gosh, it's like one of those like once in
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Speaker 3: a lifetime opportunities that maybe just let it ride. I mean,
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Speaker 3: Phil Humberg throw a perfect game, right, Dallas Braden's known
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Speaker 3: for throwing a perfect game. Mark what's the guy for
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Speaker 3: the what's his name? I was gonna say Marquez, but
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Speaker 3: that's not his name. Jermaine right, German? What was it
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Speaker 3: you guys remember his name? That Herman? Yeah, Domingo herman
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Speaker 3: through the perfect game, right, like so Felix, you know,
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Speaker 3: and then you have greats like Felis Hernandez that have
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Speaker 3: done perfect games. But this is your one shot to
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Speaker 3: do something historic. It's sad that he couldn't do it.
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Speaker 3: I understand why the Marlins didn't do it. Doesn't mean
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Speaker 3: I'm a fan of it, and clearly the people in
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Speaker 3: Sacramento were fans of it.
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Speaker 5: Uh.
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Speaker 3: And then to make matters worse, obviously they almost blew
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Speaker 3: this game. They did win. Trevor May took his shots,
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Speaker 3: but I think I would have at least let him
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Speaker 3: go one more inning to see where he stood. If
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Speaker 3: he gets through the eighth, then it's like, okay, I
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Speaker 3: gotta let him go. But here's the thing. That's why
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Speaker 3: they didn't let him get to the eighth, because if
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Speaker 3: he gets through the eighth clean, then they're like, well,
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Speaker 3: we gotta let him go now. So the easy decision is, oh,
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Speaker 3: he's on his pitch count, let's take him out after
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Speaker 3: seven and ninety two.
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Speaker 4: I just everything Aj said about it could have been
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Speaker 4: something historic, could have been something he'll never forget. No idea,
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Speaker 4: what is his career is going to be? Yes, they
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Speaker 4: want to win in the playoffs, if they make the playoffs,
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Speaker 4: all that stuff, I get it, But as a high
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Speaker 4: school coach, I go through the pitch count issue. I
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Speaker 4: don't want to run my players to an extreme pitch
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Speaker 4: count because I see their ability diminishing. They get tired.
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Speaker 4: But those are kids. Let's go back four starts ago.
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Speaker 4: He rehabbed in Durham one time. If you're not afraid
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Speaker 4: of him going longer, maybe he should have had a
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Speaker 4: few more starts. He had one rehab assignment and then
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Speaker 4: they threw him into the big leagues. So essentially the
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Speaker 4: organization said, well, we'd rather have him throw sixty eight
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Speaker 4: pitches against the Rangers than use somebody else in our staff.
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Speaker 4: Then he went eighty six, and then today or yesterday
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Speaker 4: they said it was going to be ninety plus a
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Speaker 4: hitter is what we had scripted, which I understand, like
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Speaker 4: you got to think ahead, but why is it ninety
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Speaker 4: What kind of ninety pitches? They had three balls that
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Speaker 4: were considered hard hit, two ground balls which people will
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Speaker 4: be very surprised at a hard hit ground balls just
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Speaker 4: look like regular ground balls, and one fly ball that
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Speaker 4: was caught. Those are the only hard hit balls he
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Speaker 4: had two three ball counts. In my opinion, you throw
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Speaker 4: him back out there. You watch, you see what he
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Speaker 4: looks like from pitch one of the eighth inning. You
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Speaker 4: can tell. If you can't tell what you look like
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Speaker 4: when your pitcher's tired, then what kind of eyes are
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Speaker 4: you using? Like you're not trying to hurt the guy,
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Speaker 4: but you're giving guys an opportunity to do somebody he
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Speaker 4: may never be able to do again.
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Speaker 2: And the what if part, So, let's say he does
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Speaker 2: the eighth inning like AJ was talking about, and he's
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Speaker 2: at one oh seven, Well, then the organization's freaking out right,
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Speaker 2: because then it takes some seven pitches to get the.
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Speaker 1: First out in the ninth.
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Speaker 2: Now he's at one fourteen, you're gonna pull him at
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Speaker 2: one fourteen when he's two outs away.
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Speaker 3: That's why he said the easier decision after the seventh
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Speaker 3: than it would have been if he would have gone
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Speaker 3: back out for the eight, because if he gets through
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Speaker 3: the eighth, they have to let him go for the
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Speaker 3: You have to, I'm sorry. That's why they're like, oh,
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Speaker 3: we get him out of seven, then oh we can say, oh,
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Speaker 3: he had two more innings. He had to cover thirty
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Speaker 3: maybe thirty more pitches, but by taking him out on
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Speaker 3: the seventh, they're like, well, well never know, will we.
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Speaker 4: How many people have ever gotten hurt from throwing too
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Speaker 4: many pitches. Everyone's gonna go Johan and Santana. He blew
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Speaker 4: out after his one hundred and forty two pitch No
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Speaker 4: Hark prior Mark Pryor because he threw you know which
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Speaker 4: game it was that he threw too many.
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Speaker 1: Pitches, all of them.
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Speaker 4: So that's what I'm saying, Nolan Ryan, And I'll argue
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Speaker 4: Nolan Ryan.
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Speaker 3: Nolan Ryan through like three hundred pitches a game, it
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Speaker 3: was fine.
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Speaker 1: So they don't make him uld water these guys.
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Speaker 2: These guys can't stay on the field, not all of them,
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Speaker 2: but too many of them can't stand.
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Speaker 3: They don't throw enough.
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Speaker 1: I agree, don't get.
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Speaker 3: That's the biggest thing.
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Speaker 1: I'm with you, same page.
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Speaker 2: But the problem is it's not getting fixed, Like it
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Speaker 2: can't get fixed on the fly. So right now, the
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Speaker 2: way it is, the front office is going percentage chance
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Speaker 2: that this player gets hurt at this many pitches. This
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Speaker 2: is the trajectory that the computer says that he should
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Speaker 2: be pitching right now. It's just the way that the
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Speaker 2: format is in. The Marlins are more like that than
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Speaker 2: maybe any other team in baseball. The Marlins are a
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Speaker 2: walking formula right now and it's working for them. And
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Speaker 2: Uri Prez can't stay on the field. I'm not saying
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Speaker 2: if it's me, I'm in screw it mode and I'm
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Speaker 2: just putting them out there because I'm like you guys,
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Speaker 2: at one time, I think he'll live. But I'm just
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Speaker 2: telling you the perspective from the front office. They don't
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Speaker 2: care about our entertainment. They only care about winning games
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Speaker 2: and their philosophy of winning games, which is percentage chance
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Speaker 2: of this happening, and not to mention Kratz, percentage chance
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Speaker 2: of them winning the game.
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Speaker 1: They don't care. They're like, we're up big. They almost
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Speaker 1: lost it, but they're like, percentage chance we're winning this game.
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Speaker 1: Pull them now.
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Speaker 2: He's already been injured plenty in life. We don't want
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Speaker 2: to deal with this.
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Speaker 4: No, no, no, no, don't. I don't want to be on
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Speaker 4: that side. Or Aj and I both agree, we're looking
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Speaker 4: to win the game one hundred percent. When you're winning
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Speaker 4: nine to not, there's never I am never making a
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Speaker 4: decision for my team. Well, you know what, we're gonna
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Speaker 4: throw this guy out there just because that's gonna be
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Speaker 4: something cool. We could lose, but not a chance that
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Speaker 4: is not ever in my decision. Your career is so short.
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Speaker 4: It's your job to stay on the field, but you
9:19
Speaker 4: also have an opportunity to come up and taking that bat,
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Speaker 4: throw a pitch in the game, to do something historic
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Speaker 4: that could possibly never be done again and may never
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Speaker 4: get another chance. In my opinion, don't get in the
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Speaker 4: way of that. And this is where I think people
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Speaker 4: who are making these decisions, I'm not talking about Clayton McCullough.
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Speaker 4: I'm talking about people who are making these decisions have
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Speaker 4: never strapped on the cleats and been in a spot
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Speaker 4: to do something historic. Look in summertime, it's cool in
9:51
Speaker 4: the morning, hot during the day, cool again at night.
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Speaker 4: Rarely am I sitting there going, oh, I'm just gonna
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Speaker 1: We're all on the same page.
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Speaker 2: I'm just telling you I understand where the other side
10:54
Speaker 2: is coming from because I know what the front office does.
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Speaker 2: I know how the front office thinks. They don't care.
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Speaker 2: They're just like chances we're winning this game. Chances this
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Speaker 2: pitcher gets hurt if we go one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: five pitches with him. That's what What are the chances playing?
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Speaker 4: What are the chances? We see all these models, we
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Speaker 4: see the FIP weighted way Whip, whatever it is. There's
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Speaker 4: so many models. What is the show me? The model
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Speaker 4: that says when Uri Perez on his fourth start, after
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Speaker 4: the il throws one hundred and eleven pitches, that his
11:27
Speaker 4: chances of getting hurt are exponential in that start. Now,
11:32
Speaker 4: I would argue with you, maybe the next start he
11:34
Speaker 4: needs to throw seventy pitches, because then you can even
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Speaker 4: it out. Now it's like ninety ninety. He has a
11:40
Speaker 4: better chance of getting hurt when his body's broken down
11:43
Speaker 4: after a tough start, just like the same reason you
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Speaker 4: wouldn't throw somebody at one hundred pitches and then go say, hey,
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Speaker 4: you know what I want you to do tomorrow. I
11:51
Speaker 4: want you to play shortstop. Like that's where your chance
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Speaker 4: of getting hurt is in this game. He's good, he's
11:58
Speaker 4: good to go. He wasn't even taxed yet.
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Speaker 2: That's my thing, AJ why I mean, maybe this is done.
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Speaker 2: You know where some organizations are tracking stressful pitches like
12:07
Speaker 2: this was such a non stressful outing. There were I
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Speaker 2: believe three baseballs hit over ninety five miles an hour
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Speaker 2: exit velocity off Yurie Prize.
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Speaker 1: Two of them were ground balls like that. You know
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Speaker 1: how some perfect games.
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Speaker 2: Are like oh that was smoked, great catch out there,
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Speaker 2: Like there, this was easy, breezy, having no problem with
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Speaker 2: an a's team that is slumping right now, and that
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Speaker 2: to me should hold account here.
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Speaker 3: Also, I agree with Krats. Skip him if he does
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Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty pitches, he does a perfect game,
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Speaker 3: you can skip him his next start. You know what
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Speaker 3: you have coming up the All Star break too.
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Speaker 6: You can give him all. You can give two weeks
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Speaker 6: off if you have to. You can see he pitched
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Speaker 6: on Sunday, right, so have him skipped. I'm sure there's
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Speaker 6: an off day in there, and then you give him
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Speaker 6: the four days for the All Star break. He gets
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Speaker 6: two weeks off, he pitches the first game back. Like,
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Speaker 6: I don't, I don't. I don't get it. I don't
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Speaker 6: understand it. I'm not Clayton McCall. If I'm not in
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Speaker 6: that locker room, I'm not Peter Bendix. I'll never I
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Speaker 6: don't see what they're seeing. But I mean again, this
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Speaker 6: was a chance for a kid to do something that
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Speaker 6: could be a historic people will never get again. I'd
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Speaker 6: go back to Phil Home or the guy I know
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Speaker 6: that threw a perfect game. And heck, you could even
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Speaker 6: use Dallas Braiden if you want to use Dallas Braiden.
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Speaker 3: They're remember for one thing in baseball, They threw a
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Speaker 3: perfect game in a big league game. There's only been
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Speaker 3: I think twenty two of them or something like that
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Speaker 3: in the history of the game. Maybe I don't know,
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Speaker 3: somewhere around that number in the low twenties. This is
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Speaker 3: an historic opportunity to do some very special that you'll
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Speaker 3: always be remembered for. I just feel like you got
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Speaker 3: to give the guy a shot.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been twenty four perfect games ever. Twenty four
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Speaker 2: perfect games ever in the last one, like you guys
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Speaker 2: mentioned was Demngo Harman June twenty eighth of twenty twenty three.
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Speaker 2: It's not always the most notable name, and this could
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Speaker 2: be the same case here. Urie Perez came up as
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Speaker 2: a super prospect. He's a huge guy, he's a presence,
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Speaker 2: he's got good stuff. But he hasn't stayed on the
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Speaker 2: field consistently and he hasn't even put up many consistent
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Speaker 2: results when he's been to do that.
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Speaker 1: He's still young.
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Speaker 2: It's fine, but this could have been the highlight of
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Speaker 2: his career and that gets robbed. It's just step for
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Speaker 2: front offices. They don't care about a milestone like that.
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Speaker 2: They don't care about the entertainment factor. They don't care
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Speaker 2: about fans yelling shame at Clayton McCullough. They care that
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Speaker 2: in their mind, they keep him in. They get in
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Speaker 2: their disaster scenario if he's had one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: six pitches and he's trying to get that last out
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Speaker 2: and that's all, and then he gets hurt and then
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Speaker 2: they feel like they get blamed for it.
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Speaker 1: Last part of this.
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like if he does pull off this
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Speaker 2: perfecto and he had to do one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 2: nine pitches, let's just say, right, let's say he had
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Speaker 2: the labor a bit in some longer AB's and then
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Speaker 2: he gets hurt.
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Speaker 1: Do the Marlins get crushed?
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Speaker 3: No? They know no, you know how they would have
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Speaker 3: really got crushed if they would have lost, which they
14:48
Speaker 3: almost did by the way, they almost lost it. They
14:50
Speaker 3: had a chance to lose this game. But if they
14:52
Speaker 3: would have lost this game, can you imagine how bad
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Speaker 3: they would have got crushed. So if he gets hurt,
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Speaker 3: you can't I agree with Boo Kraut said, you can't
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Speaker 3: look at it and say, oh, is that one star
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Speaker 3: he's been a guy who hasn't been on the field.
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Speaker 3: That'd be like, we just talked about Tristan Cassis in
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Speaker 3: the in the break right, he's always hurt. So is
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Speaker 3: there one thing you can look back and say, Man,
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Speaker 3: Tristan cass is hurt because he took too many swings
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Speaker 3: while he was on the aisle. Again, you never know,
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Speaker 3: You just you never know. And if you constantly play
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Speaker 3: to not get guys hurt, and as a player, if
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Speaker 3: you play not to get hurt, that's when you get hurt.
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Speaker 4: He wasn't going to get to one hundred and twenty
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Speaker 4: six pitches. It's not a perfect game anymore. If he
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Speaker 4: gets to one hundred and twenty six pitches, like a
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Speaker 4: perfect game means it's really efficient. It's one, two, three,
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Speaker 4: you know, ground ball here, something there. Like, it's just
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Speaker 4: not happening. You're not going deep into counts. So I
15:40
Speaker 4: don't see his pitch count rising through that moment.
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Speaker 2: If he walked the guy, would you still go like,
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Speaker 2: now you have ninth inning, you take him out, ninth inning,
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Speaker 2: one out, walk, you take him out, You.
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Speaker 3: Let him finish the hitter, try to no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 3: it's a hit. Yeah, as soon as a hit, a walk,
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Speaker 3: you let him stay a hit, you take him out, right,
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Speaker 3: But you also have a different mentality, like, look, we
16:04
Speaker 3: have a nineer lead, attack the zone. It's if it's
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Speaker 3: a one run game, you're like, you know, we still
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Speaker 3: gotta work the edges. Those are those are higher stress pitches.
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Speaker 3: Then you know what we're gonna do.
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Speaker 4: We're going right after these guys. We're going right at them.
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Speaker 4: We are. It's not like he's trying for a no
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Speaker 4: hitter and he's like walks two or three guys in
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Speaker 4: the seventh, eighth, and ninth inning because he's like, I
16:26
Speaker 4: am not giving up a hit. That's a different mentality.
16:29
Speaker 4: You're talking about a nine run lead, attack the zone.
16:33
Speaker 4: Get this thing done.
16:35
Speaker 2: Nice good chat and from Irelands fans, you might be pissed,
16:40
Speaker 2: but team's bawling right now. They're not even just in
16:43
Speaker 2: a wild card spot. They're going for a little division action.
16:46
Speaker 2: I know there's a lot of season left to go,
16:47
Speaker 2: but hopefully they're buyers at the trade deadline. I'm just
16:50
Speaker 2: saying they were double digit games back not too long ago,
16:53
Speaker 2: and now I think they're three or four games back
16:55
Speaker 2: of the first place Atlanta Braves. Hey, tough news again
17:00
Speaker 2: and for Brandon woodrift. So this is Kurt Hoag, who
17:02
Speaker 2: hosts Our Brewer Territory show. He said Pat Murphy confirmed
17:05
Speaker 2: the return of assist near which I labor him in
17:08
Speaker 2: his shoulder, causing the dead arm feeling that was previously
17:10
Speaker 2: mentioned as a possibility by doctor Keith Meister, and Murphy
17:14
Speaker 2: said it wasn't totally a surprise.
17:15
Speaker 1: Not a surprise.
17:16
Speaker 2: I mean the alternate thing is he can have another surgery.
17:18
Speaker 2: So you know, AJ, when he's pitched, he's been really good.
17:21
Speaker 2: It's just tough to keep big Wu out there.
17:24
Speaker 1: Right now.
17:24
Speaker 2: He's dealing with some things that I don't want to
17:26
Speaker 2: call it chronic, but clearly there's things that keep popping
17:28
Speaker 2: up here, whatever you want to call it.
17:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, this sucks. I mean he just came back. He's
17:34
Speaker 3: missed so much time, and then everyone thought, oh he's
17:36
Speaker 3: back and figured it out and then boom, it pops
17:38
Speaker 3: up again. It's it sucks for Brandon Woodrift and the Brewers. Uh,
17:44
Speaker 3: just get better, get healthy and get back and you know,
17:46
Speaker 3: if it's not this year, then hopefully again. But this sucks.
17:50
Speaker 3: It sucks always talking about this, especially with certain people
17:52
Speaker 3: or certain things just keep popping up. This just sucks.
17:55
Speaker 4: AJ and I talk about all the time. Whenever there's
17:57
Speaker 4: a shoulder injury, You're like, now what you want to hear?
18:00
Speaker 4: Shoulder is way more complex than the elbow and assist reoccurring.
18:05
Speaker 4: You know, it's just a constant movement and you never
18:08
Speaker 4: know exactly which way the shoulder's supposed to move, and
18:11
Speaker 4: so when it starts getting stuff going on in there.
18:14
Speaker 4: This is the kind of stuff that happens where things
18:17
Speaker 4: just keep popping up. Unfortunately for Big Wu, it's gonna
18:20
Speaker 4: be a little bit more time off.
18:22
Speaker 2: And with the way the Burgs are playing, you're like,
18:24
Speaker 2: this team's gonna make the playoffs? Will they have enough
18:26
Speaker 2: firepower to finally get over the hump and you know,
18:29
Speaker 2: beat some big dragons in the National League, like the Dodgers,
18:32
Speaker 2: maybe the Braves. So it would help to have Big
18:35
Speaker 2: Wu part of that big three in the rotation?
18:39
Speaker 3: Is that always the question with the Burgs?
18:42
Speaker 4: Yep, pretty probam.
18:49
Speaker 2: Hey, little Tristan Costas updates shut down from hitting wrist
18:52
Speaker 2: issue popped up. This was Chad Tracy, the Red Sox manager,
18:56
Speaker 2: telling Tim Healy from rehabing, and this is Tyler Milliken
18:59
Speaker 2: with the tweet from rehabing the knee to an intercostal
19:01
Speaker 2: strain and now the risk it just never ends.
19:05
Speaker 1: And A it.
19:06
Speaker 2: Sucks for the player. But also I will remind fans
19:11
Speaker 2: that sometimes I betrayed, opportunity arises for a young player
19:15
Speaker 2: and you're able to get somebody that's going to put
19:16
Speaker 2: you over the top.
19:17
Speaker 1: Don't prospect, Hug. It wasn't even totally the case.
19:20
Speaker 2: I'm just mentioning this because I just remember Todd Father
19:22
Speaker 2: getting absolutely roasted to pieces one time for bringing up
19:26
Speaker 2: Tristan Costas in the trade and they were like, he's
19:28
Speaker 2: the next superstar in the league.
19:29
Speaker 1: I'm like, relax, everyone.
19:33
Speaker 3: Well two things. One, yes, you shouldn't prospect, Hug. Ask
19:36
Speaker 3: the Orioles how some of their prospects have worked out.
19:39
Speaker 3: And two, Christin Cossa has also offered an extension and
19:43
Speaker 3: didn't take it, And there was a lucrative extension he
19:46
Speaker 3: didn't take it, and now he hasn't played in that
19:48
Speaker 3: I mean Tristan coss Is. We've talked about this on
19:51
Speaker 3: the show before, like he's not even relevant to me
19:53
Speaker 3: anymore until he can get on the field. He hasn't
19:55
Speaker 3: played for like two years now, so it sucks for him.
19:58
Speaker 3: It sucks for the Red Sox. But you know, this
20:01
Speaker 3: is why Eric and I always say, and if you
20:03
Speaker 3: get an opportunity to take your first contract, you should
20:05
Speaker 3: take it because you never know what can happen.
20:08
Speaker 4: Doesn't mean his career is over. It just means that
20:10
Speaker 4: he has to grind back in a different way that
20:15
Speaker 4: you know he's had to so far. And hopefully all
20:18
Speaker 4: these things that keep popping up, he can figure out
20:21
Speaker 4: the root cause of them. And you know it can
20:24
Speaker 4: it can get better. But prospect hugging. I love that,
20:27
Speaker 4: I love that. I love that vernacular. We should use
20:29
Speaker 4: that all.
20:33
Speaker 1: All right, seek let's see what the week has for us.
20:36
Speaker 2: We are one week away from a break, So enjoy
20:38
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20:48
Speaker 2: This is what we like to do here. So Yankees
20:49
Speaker 2: Raised is huge. Of course, we might get to the
20:51
Speaker 2: Yankees a little bit later on. Aj Since you've been gone,
20:54
Speaker 2: the Yankees have barely won. They have looked terrible, and
20:57
Speaker 2: the race have barely lost.
21:00
Speaker 3: They needed me to come back so they could try
21:01
Speaker 3: to win a game.
21:02
Speaker 4: It was bad.
21:03
Speaker 3: And Junior Cameranaro it's a home run every game. I'm like, oh,
21:07
Speaker 3: Junior Caminara, home run. Junior Caminara, home run, Junior Canuro.
21:10
Speaker 3: It's like a bro Yankees lose, Rais win, Junior Caminaro,
21:13
Speaker 3: it's a home run. So yeah, it's been crazy. The
21:15
Speaker 3: Rays have opened up a little bit of a lead.
21:18
Speaker 3: They had a little bit of a lead on them
21:19
Speaker 3: before though, So the Yankees came back but didn't seem
21:22
Speaker 3: like they're going away. I'll tell you what those got
21:24
Speaker 3: the game. There's one matchup you didn't talk about. Its
21:26
Speaker 3: Brewers and the Cardinals. That's the one other than the
21:28
Speaker 3: Yankees and the Rays I'd like to go take a
21:30
Speaker 3: look at because the Cardinals are better than expected. The
21:33
Speaker 3: Brewers are doing what the Brewers have done for years.
21:35
Speaker 3: But this is a chance for the Cardinals maybe to
21:37
Speaker 3: make a statement before they all start breaking.
21:40
Speaker 2: I'd see some Cardinals scores over the weekend with the
21:42
Speaker 2: Cubs that they're putting up numbers on offense.
21:47
Speaker 4: They were giving up some too. The Cubs the other
21:49
Speaker 4: the other day had twenty three I think, and then
21:52
Speaker 4: they scored seventeen. Yeah, there's I like this series. I
21:57
Speaker 4: think it's really kind of another test series for this
22:00
Speaker 4: younger Saint Louis team. See how they match it up
22:03
Speaker 4: against the perennial division winners and the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what was it, twenty three to three on seventeen
22:13
Speaker 2: to one. Yeah, but twenty three to three was the
22:16
Speaker 2: That was not Cubs Cardinals, that was Cubs.
22:18
Speaker 1: I don't remember who they were playing.
22:20
Speaker 2: Padres, Yes, Padres, good, good call. But then yeah, it
22:25
Speaker 2: was seventeen to one the.
22:28
Speaker 1: Padres.
22:29
Speaker 2: Yeah, they had lost but eight eight in a row,
22:30
Speaker 2: and then they snapped that on the Sunday win. And
22:33
Speaker 2: they had the three nothing advantage on the Otani game
22:36
Speaker 2: with Michael King out pitching him. And then Tascar Hernandez
22:39
Speaker 2: hit the Grand Slam the other night. So they've had
22:41
Speaker 2: some tough close losses late too. Anyway, this is a great.
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23:08
Speaker 2: made it, who did not? All Star rosters have arrived.
23:17
Speaker 2: Complain first, then hype later. You guys want to complain
23:20
Speaker 2: a little bit about who didn't make it. And I
23:22
Speaker 2: know that things might change by the time we're done
23:24
Speaker 2: with this, but there are quite a few names that
23:26
Speaker 2: we can list. Pitchers get replaced pretty frequently, but aj
23:30
Speaker 2: position players often don't. So if we bring up a
23:32
Speaker 2: name like Bryce Terrang and how well he's played for
23:35
Speaker 2: the Brewers, or your guy Colson Montgomery with the White
23:38
Speaker 2: Sox who's playing shortstop, premium position and putting up as
23:41
Speaker 2: many homewards as almost anybody in baseball.
23:43
Speaker 1: Who else? There's a ton of names that we can
23:44
Speaker 1: mention here.
23:46
Speaker 3: The one that stands out to me. I just did
23:47
Speaker 3: the Braves this weekend, I July fourth game the Mets.
23:50
Speaker 3: Michael Harris. He's sitting three hundred. I know, average doesn't matter,
23:53
Speaker 3: he's got eight almost forty ops. I think he's got
23:56
Speaker 3: over an a forty ops. He plays a delightful center field.
24:01
Speaker 3: If you watch him, he can steal your base. I
24:04
Speaker 3: don't know how Michael Harris didn't make this team. Honestly,
24:06
Speaker 3: that was the one that I was like, whoa when
24:09
Speaker 3: I saw the reserves and then Sonny Gray. I mean
24:12
Speaker 3: pitcher to me is Sonny Gray's ten to one but
24:16
Speaker 3: dealing for the last place team? I think feelid was
24:18
Speaker 3: he ten to one? Two and a half? E ra
24:20
Speaker 3: around there? So, I mean those are the two that
24:23
Speaker 3: off the top of my head, I was like, how
24:24
Speaker 3: did these two guys not make it?
24:27
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean Michael Harris, that's a tough one. Maybe
24:30
Speaker 4: maybe Braves fans should vote for Braves players more. Oh
24:33
Speaker 4: wait they did, so why they missed Michael Harris? What?
24:37
Speaker 4: I I agree with you? I mean, it's a tough
24:39
Speaker 4: tough outfield to crack the starting lineup. I mean Juan Soto,
24:44
Speaker 4: Brandon marsh has done. He was leading the league and
24:46
Speaker 4: hitting for a bit. To me, it really is what
24:49
Speaker 4: Scott said. Bryce terrang Bryce terrang Ozzy Alby's. See Bravece
24:54
Speaker 4: fans voted for Ozzy Alby's, but they didn't vote for
24:56
Speaker 4: Michael Harris, but you know Ozzy Alby's is he's there,
25:02
Speaker 4: you know, kateel Marte, you're thinking, is gonna be one
25:05
Speaker 4: of the better second basements, But numbers wise, Bryce Terrang
25:09
Speaker 4: should be in there, and I'm not saying he won't be. Obviously,
25:12
Speaker 4: he's gonna be, you know, one of the first ones
25:14
Speaker 4: if somebody or win, somebody in the position player corps
25:18
Speaker 4: doesn't show up. But man, he's he's doing it. Offensively
25:22
Speaker 4: a twenty ops I think he's like a one twenty
25:24
Speaker 4: something OPS plus. But defensively too, he's I'm not sure
25:30
Speaker 4: where he's out on the war in the National League,
25:32
Speaker 4: but fans, I guess aren't enamored with War. Players aren't
25:36
Speaker 4: enamored with War. But he's on a first place team too.
25:40
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's third in fangrafts war for second basement, first
25:44
Speaker 2: in WRC plus, which is usually very similar to OPS plus,
25:48
Speaker 2: and one of the better bats at second base. Second
25:49
Speaker 2: base was fierce, right. You mentioned Ozzie Alvies, who you
25:53
Speaker 2: know hasn't had as good as a year. I mean, he's
25:55
Speaker 2: been good, but not as good as a year as
25:56
Speaker 2: Terrang and some others that I'm about to name Luisa
25:59
Speaker 2: Rise with a select did by the players. Brandon lau
26:02
Speaker 2: in many years would have been an All Star for
26:04
Speaker 2: what he's done with Pittsburgh JJ.
26:06
Speaker 1: Ding Ding Ding ding Ding look at yeah wow, for sure?
26:10
Speaker 1: What about weather Holt?
26:11
Speaker 2: He might win Rookie of the Year still in the
26:14
Speaker 2: National League and he didn't make it. His defense is
26:16
Speaker 2: rated at second base metrics wise higher than anyone else
26:20
Speaker 2: in baseball for a second basement, and he's put up
26:22
Speaker 2: the offensive numbers to show for it. Hey, AJ, you
26:25
Speaker 2: missed the whole Wilson Contreras fund that we had for
26:28
Speaker 2: a while. And I know he's going to be missing
26:30
Speaker 2: some time soon. But he's fourth in the American League
26:32
Speaker 2: in ops. He's been by far the best player on
26:34
Speaker 2: the Red Sox.
26:35
Speaker 1: Red Sox get.
26:38
Speaker 3: Fights, actually two stats. Ejections, well, ejections, charging the mound
26:44
Speaker 3: when he doesn't really charge the mount and apologies, so
26:47
Speaker 3: I mean actually three stats. He leads a league in.
26:50
Speaker 2: Maybe we would have had our an All Star brawl
26:53
Speaker 2: if Wilson Contreres was there.
26:54
Speaker 1: He's it's not a brawl.
26:57
Speaker 3: It's not a brawl. When you stand there and go
26:59
Speaker 3: what are you talking to? Out to Kate Cavally, and
27:01
Speaker 3: then everyone gets in between you and then you're like no, no, you're.
27:04
Speaker 4: Like, hold me back, guys, oh no, hold my soul, Like,
27:07
Speaker 4: come on, that's not a fight.
27:08
Speaker 3: Like when everyone's like he charged amount, He didn't charge
27:10
Speaker 3: the mound. He charged There was thirty people between him
27:13
Speaker 3: and Kate Kavali.
27:14
Speaker 4: Now he did throw a helmet, which is a bulldotton.
27:18
Speaker 3: A helmet, But didn't he hit his own guy? No,
27:19
Speaker 3: he didn't hit he hit someone else.
27:22
Speaker 4: He hit Chaparro. But I mean everybody throws a helmet.
27:25
Speaker 4: Think about Bryce Harper when he threw it. You know,
27:27
Speaker 4: you just you don't. You don't do enough helmet practice throws.
27:30
Speaker 4: But no, it's it's not charging the mound. It's not
27:33
Speaker 4: charging the mound it is. It's exactly like, I don't know,
27:36
Speaker 4: if you have dogs in your neighborhood, it's exactly like
27:39
Speaker 4: dogs barking at each other through the fence and then
27:41
Speaker 4: the fence gets opened up. Most dogs just smell each
27:44
Speaker 4: other's butts, So that's essentially what they're doing. They're barking
27:47
Speaker 4: at each other. They're not charging the mount until it's
27:50
Speaker 4: actually charging the picture picture's mound, which you got a
27:54
Speaker 4: full ray. There ain't nobody standing in your way for
27:56
Speaker 4: about I would say a good three seconds till anybody
27:59
Speaker 4: comes in, and they don't. But back to the All
28:03
Speaker 4: Star stuff. Some years, some positions are just really tough.
28:08
Speaker 4: Some years you can be hitting two nineteen with like
28:12
Speaker 4: twelve homers at a position and nobody else is doing
28:15
Speaker 4: very well and people are like, okay. Like, in my opinion,
28:19
Speaker 4: with second base, I think the players got it wrong
28:21
Speaker 4: with Luisa Rise. I do, and that's nothing taking nothing
28:26
Speaker 4: away from what he's doing. I think at second base
28:29
Speaker 4: it's a it's it is a very crowded position this
28:34
Speaker 4: season in the first half.
28:36
Speaker 1: Hey, I've got one for you.
28:37
Speaker 2: He's been insanely good through the course of the beginning
28:41
Speaker 2: of his career. But he's in a pretty long rut.
28:44
Speaker 3: At Tregolden, Kereg Baldwin.
28:47
Speaker 1: No, No, but that is a good one. That is
28:48
Speaker 1: a good one.
28:49
Speaker 2: I was going Skiens, Dude, Skeins, isn't a rut he
28:53
Speaker 2: gets in. Skeens actually was vocal about it yesterday to
28:57
Speaker 2: the media how he feels like the highlight of the
28:59
Speaker 2: team has been the offense and he's right, and now
29:01
Speaker 2: it sucks that those guys didn't get in. But even look,
29:03
Speaker 2: I mean, practicon Ashcraft has better numbers than Paul Skins.
29:06
Speaker 2: Justin Robuski has better numbers than Paul Skins. Kyles Harrison
29:09
Speaker 2: has better numbers than Paul Skins. And he literally got
29:12
Speaker 2: ruined by that one Las Vegas start that knocked his
29:15
Speaker 2: numbers a little bit off of what looks like a
29:18
Speaker 2: young conversation.
29:19
Speaker 3: The problem is these were voted for like weeks ago, right,
29:22
Speaker 3: so the last few starts aren't included. And crabs would
29:25
Speaker 3: say this too. Players don't know exactly what's going on.
29:27
Speaker 3: And I and listen, I love Drake Baldwin as much
29:29
Speaker 3: as the next guy, but he's I think, I just
29:32
Speaker 3: he was like one for forty or something. Since he's
29:34
Speaker 3: come back, he missed a month and now he's like
29:36
Speaker 3: one for forty. Now. I know he was voted as
29:38
Speaker 3: starter by the fans, which is fine. It's kind of
29:40
Speaker 3: a reward for being the rookie of the year and
29:41
Speaker 3: he was off to a great start. But you know,
29:44
Speaker 3: that's an example of it's not necessarily recency biased. And
29:48
Speaker 3: Paul Skeins is a big name, and you know who
29:52
Speaker 3: once in the game, big names. They want big names,
29:56
Speaker 3: but do you think Bright Harbor got a Legends pick?
29:58
Speaker 3: They want big names. Hey.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Michael Waker has been in the league for
31:05
Speaker 2: a while.
31:06
Speaker 1: He was actually an MLB pick. He was a league pick.
31:10
Speaker 2: We mentioned how Sonny Gray and gets selected, and Gray
31:12
Speaker 2: will probably get in when you know a pitcher bows
31:15
Speaker 2: out or doesn't hit the schedule the right way. Davis Martin,
31:18
Speaker 2: I think also probably should have the edge over Waka.
31:21
Speaker 2: I mean we like Waka good, dude good. And is
31:23
Speaker 2: he deserved All Star? Yes, but not above the two
31:27
Speaker 2: that I just mentioned when I was matching up numbers.
31:29
Speaker 3: How does the first place team only have one one
31:31
Speaker 3: All Star? The White Sucks they have one star. They
31:35
Speaker 3: have one All Star, Miguel Vargers. There's about three or
31:37
Speaker 3: four guys you can make an argument should be on
31:39
Speaker 3: that team. Murakami doesn't get hurt. He's on the team, right, Davis.
31:43
Speaker 4: There's other players, there's other players that are hurt that
31:45
Speaker 4: are on the team. Why why wouldn't they look at
31:48
Speaker 4: what Murakami's done. I think he's still like seventh or
31:52
Speaker 4: eighth in home in home runs in the league. Like, yeah,
31:56
Speaker 4: I anyway, I think there is There's always going to
32:00
Speaker 4: be snubs. That's the reality of the All Star Game,
32:03
Speaker 4: and there's going to be a lot of guys that
32:05
Speaker 4: can say they're All Stars this year. It doesn't dumb
32:08
Speaker 4: down the All Star Game. But you do question sometimes
32:11
Speaker 4: where did the motivation for players votes come from? And
32:17
Speaker 4: where did the MLB votes come from? And then I
32:21
Speaker 4: mean the most intriguing we already hit a little with
32:23
Speaker 4: Bob is the is the Bryce Harper get out of
32:26
Speaker 4: my locker room? And then Rob's like Rob Manford's like,
32:31
Speaker 4: why don't you just stay in your locker room that
32:33
Speaker 4: I'm not allowed in.
32:36
Speaker 2: The commissioner's selection Bryce Harper. Usually, I feel like that
32:39
Speaker 2: goes to someone who's all of his career yes, and
32:44
Speaker 2: you're like, hey, we're going to give him like a
32:45
Speaker 2: tip of the cap. But I guess for Bryce, it's like,
32:49
Speaker 2: you're not going to have Bryce Harper at the All
32:50
Speaker 2: Star Game. And also I do think that they want
32:53
Speaker 2: in the derby. They want him in the derby, and
32:55
Speaker 2: if he's not, you know how a lot of the
32:57
Speaker 2: players say, if I'm not an All Star, I'm not
32:58
Speaker 2: doing anything with the dirt so that's probably, but not
33:02
Speaker 2: that Bryce necessarily stated that to the league. But you
33:05
Speaker 2: just know, right kjf Brice didn't make it. Is he
33:08
Speaker 2: going to participate in the derby?
33:09
Speaker 3: No way, no, no chance. Bryce has too much respect
33:12
Speaker 3: for the guys that are there. It's one thing you say,
33:15
Speaker 3: lover hate Bryce Harper. He respects the heck out of
33:17
Speaker 3: the game and he respects the heck out of people
33:20
Speaker 3: that have earned things. And if he wasn't selected in
33:21
Speaker 3: All Star, there's no way he would have played in
33:23
Speaker 3: the derby. And Schwarberz already said he's not doing it
33:25
Speaker 3: because he doesn't think he's going to do it because
33:27
Speaker 3: he's back doesn't feel great. So they needed somebody from
33:29
Speaker 3: Philadelphia and it wasn't gonna be Brandon Marsh. So how
33:32
Speaker 3: did you get Bryce Harber to do it? You give
33:33
Speaker 3: him the legends.
33:34
Speaker 4: Pick John Middleton. When he sent his revenue share check
33:38
Speaker 4: into Rob Manfred that he has to pay every month,
33:40
Speaker 4: he also slid in a note that you better make
33:43
Speaker 4: sure Bryce Harper is there because this man has been
33:46
Speaker 4: talking about for the last two and a half years
33:49
Speaker 4: about doing the home run Derby when it's in Philly,
33:51
Speaker 4: So make sure you know who my pick is for
33:54
Speaker 4: the Legends pick for this year.
33:57
Speaker 2: There you go, Yes, handpicked by the command Sin still
34:00
Speaker 2: working on who is VP or his Derby pitcher is gone.
34:07
Speaker 2: I'm here, try it, Rat's tell him, tell him get
34:09
Speaker 2: the message.
34:09
Speaker 4: I already said it. I already hit it in I
34:12
Speaker 4: already hit it in the in the chat, I already
34:14
Speaker 4: hit it on Twitter. I even hit up there hitting coach.
34:18
Speaker 4: I mean, my VP is money and I'm right down
34:20
Speaker 4: the road only to take it to Uber forty five minute,
34:22
Speaker 4: Uber super super cheap.
34:24
Speaker 2: And you can practice with him a couple of times
34:26
Speaker 2: beforehand too, if he wants right.
34:28
Speaker 4: I think it's I think it's a fun I think
34:30
Speaker 4: it's a fun shot at his dad. I feel like
34:34
Speaker 4: his dad is going to be the guy. I mean,
34:36
Speaker 4: his dad threw him before. And Bryce, if you're listening,
34:40
Speaker 4: I even throw a little cut because I know the
34:42
Speaker 4: other year your dad kept throwing cutters and you just
34:44
Speaker 4: kept hitting dingers in in Washington, Dinger, Dinger. It doesn't
34:48
Speaker 4: even matter. You don't even need to practice. He's only
34:50
Speaker 4: gonna swing at twenty pitches, so let's just get it going.
34:55
Speaker 1: I'm all for it. Last one for me.
34:57
Speaker 2: I know, some people were pointing out Luke Weaver, who's
34:59
Speaker 2: been one of the best non closers. Here's the problem.
35:02
Speaker 2: Only a few relievers get in. They're gonna be closers,
35:04
Speaker 2: closers pitching bigger moments. I mean, we can make that
35:06
Speaker 2: case all day. But Weaver's been awesome. He's got a
35:08
Speaker 2: two double oera. But for example, even if you know
35:11
Speaker 2: one of the relievers goes down or doesn't want to pitch,
35:14
Speaker 2: Riley O'Brien closing for the Cardinals, like he's going to
35:17
Speaker 2: get in over someone like Luke Weaver. It's just usually
35:20
Speaker 2: how it goes is they're going to select guys that
35:22
Speaker 2: are pitching in the ninth inning.
35:23
Speaker 1: No you don't agree with that, I don't agree.
35:26
Speaker 4: I don't. I think it should be the best guys.
35:27
Speaker 4: I think, and I think before that's the one thing.
35:30
Speaker 4: That's the one thing that I think the you have
35:34
Speaker 4: to win the get or the winning the game matters
35:37
Speaker 4: helped guys get in, like like Josh Harrison, like A
35:43
Speaker 4: I think like Adam Frazier got anyone because they were like,
35:46
Speaker 4: I don't want to get stuck. So I need a
35:48
Speaker 4: more versatile type of person in my in my my
35:54
Speaker 4: position player corps, and so I think if the manager
35:58
Speaker 4: of the team needed to win the I think they
36:00
Speaker 4: would say, Okay, who do I think is better? Do
36:03
Speaker 4: I think O'Brien from the Cardinals is better? Well, he's
36:05
Speaker 4: just been closing a lot of games, not a big
36:07
Speaker 4: you know, strikeout guy. Or is Luke Weaver better? Or
36:11
Speaker 4: is one of the other long not long relievers? Is
36:14
Speaker 4: Aaron Ashby? Does that change my change my dynamic, my
36:18
Speaker 4: look in the bullpen if I need it, because I
36:21
Speaker 4: do want to win this game?
36:22
Speaker 1: Okay?
36:24
Speaker 2: And yes, it's not like they never get in. I
36:26
Speaker 2: know what Jason Adam made it last year and Randy
36:28
Speaker 2: Rodriguez did. They both make it last year, But often
36:32
Speaker 2: the closers get selected. My point is I'm not just
36:35
Speaker 2: going on era for a reliever. I just think guy
36:37
Speaker 2: pitching in the ninth inning often gets a little more juice, right,
36:41
Speaker 2: He's pitching in a tougher role than someone who's pitching
36:44
Speaker 2: in the seventh year.
36:45
Speaker 4: The people know there, that's it.
36:48
Speaker 2: Raldis Chapman famous for punch outs, and also you don't
36:51
Speaker 2: want to mess with him, no butts sniffing around him.
36:54
Speaker 1: He picked up the.
36:55
Speaker 2: Reliever strikeout record one thousand and three sixty four got
37:00
Speaker 2: him over the mark.
37:02
Speaker 1: Been pitching for a long time.
37:04
Speaker 4: Yeah, hey, I watched him in that game where he
37:09
Speaker 4: blew the lead. He blew the save against the Yankees
37:12
Speaker 4: after ball was tossed around and he was chasing some balls.
37:16
Speaker 4: Chappy just needs to stay on the mound because something
37:19
Speaker 4: was going on that he was running after the ball
37:21
Speaker 4: and it was not looking hip knee, something was limping.
37:25
Speaker 4: And he still stayed out there and still threw one
37:27
Speaker 4: hundred and one to finish out that inning, and then
37:30
Speaker 4: obviously the Red Sox came back and won it. But
37:32
Speaker 4: this dude, this dude defies a lot of a lot
37:35
Speaker 4: of things in life.
37:38
Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a house right, he lifts his face off.
37:41
Speaker 2: He's thirty eight, still one of the best relievers in baseball.
37:45
Speaker 2: He's amazing, and hopefully he lands on a contender in
37:48
Speaker 2: a few weeks at the trade deadline.
37:50
Speaker 1: We'll see what the Red Sox do.
37:54
Speaker 4: Worked out last time he went to another team and
37:56
Speaker 4: the time before.
37:57
Speaker 2: That good bad, ugly. We'll start with the Yankees. They
38:11
Speaker 2: were good for a while, then they were bad. Now
38:14
Speaker 2: it's getting ugly, and it's not just the performance on
38:17
Speaker 2: the field. They're losing players. Judge has been out, He's
38:20
Speaker 2: still going to be out for a while. Stan's going
38:22
Speaker 2: to be out for a while. Max Fried has been
38:23
Speaker 2: out for a while. Carlos Redon went back on the
38:26
Speaker 2: shelf left elbow inflammation for him, and then their best
38:29
Speaker 2: pitching prospect who is supposed to be a big deal
38:31
Speaker 2: in their bullpen, Carlos Lagrnie. I think is how you
38:34
Speaker 2: say it, will not throw for approximately Leagraney will not
38:37
Speaker 2: throw for approximately six weeks. No throwing for about six weeks.
38:41
Speaker 2: So now we're pushing up against late in the season
38:44
Speaker 2: for a guy who's never pitched in the big leagues yet,
38:46
Speaker 2: and they're relying on I think they're relying on him
38:48
Speaker 2: to be a big piece of the bullpen, right, one
38:50
Speaker 2: of those guys where it's like the league barely sees him.
38:52
Speaker 2: He pops up in August, and now he's not popping
38:54
Speaker 2: up in August. I mean, you hope that he'll be
38:56
Speaker 2: back for September and aj As the bullpen's been okay
39:01
Speaker 2: for the Yankees been it's been pretty good. I would
39:03
Speaker 2: say there's some underlying numbers that would scare you for
39:06
Speaker 2: the postseason. They're among the lowest in velocity and in strikeouts,
39:11
Speaker 2: and that often can hurt you in the postseason. You've
39:14
Speaker 2: got guys in the bullpen that can punch tickets, right.
39:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of not good things happening with
39:20
Speaker 3: the Yankees, and including the fact that we didn't mention it.
39:23
Speaker 3: They lost a series at home to the Twins. They
39:25
Speaker 3: haven't lost a series at home of the Twins ever.
39:26
Speaker 3: I don't think that I can remember. It's been like
39:29
Speaker 3: since two thousand and two when I was playing for
39:31
Speaker 3: the Twins that they have owned the Twins everywhere. It's
39:35
Speaker 3: including a Yankee stadium. So yeah, this is just it's
39:38
Speaker 3: one thing after another. Cole's back at least, but then
39:40
Speaker 3: you lose Slitler got hit his last time out, but
39:42
Speaker 3: for the first time really in his career. You lose Free,
39:45
Speaker 3: you lose her it On, you lose her Grond. Hey,
39:47
Speaker 3: the back end of the bullpen has been okay, it
39:49
Speaker 3: hasn't been great, but they've been getting used a lot
39:51
Speaker 3: because like weathers has been struggling. So the back end
39:55
Speaker 3: of the bullpen, they need Cam Schudller to go out
39:57
Speaker 3: to night and pitch really well, you know, on the
39:58
Speaker 3: road in Tampa against Griffin Jackson. On paper, this is
40:01
Speaker 3: a match of the Yankee should win. But again that's
40:03
Speaker 3: on paper. But the Yankees they got to figure it
40:05
Speaker 3: out here because if they lose this series of the Rays,
40:08
Speaker 3: they're starting to get into that dangerous too far out category. Yeah,
40:13
Speaker 3: and you don't want to start chasing teams late in
40:15
Speaker 3: the season because then you have guys, It just it
40:18
Speaker 3: doesn't set up well. But you also don't want to
40:21
Speaker 3: necessarily just cruise into the playoffs. So I think this
40:25
Speaker 3: is something that, like Aaron Judge said, guys, you gotta
40:29
Speaker 3: figure this out, Like we got we got to.
40:32
Speaker 4: We're not as focused as we should be. We're not
40:35
Speaker 4: doing the things that it takes to win a World Series.
40:40
Speaker 4: And if you're on the Yankees, you never once talk
40:44
Speaker 4: about anything but winning the World Series. There's never been
40:47
Speaker 4: a spring training where we're like, you know what, the
40:49
Speaker 4: American League egast is tough. We just hope to make
40:52
Speaker 4: it to the playoffs. Like I heard JP Rischardy say
40:55
Speaker 4: one time when I was in Big league camp with
40:57
Speaker 4: the Blue Jays, I was like, what, who wants to
40:59
Speaker 4: just make the playoffs? No, you want to win? Who
41:02
Speaker 4: cares who's around you. So that's their goal, and I
41:05
Speaker 4: think him calling them out saying, you know what, maybe
41:08
Speaker 4: we're not as focused as we should be, and we're
41:10
Speaker 4: gonna have these conversations, very legitimate things to say. But
41:15
Speaker 4: it's still a good team. Yes, we're talking about all
41:19
Speaker 4: their injuries. All these injuries happened before and they were
41:22
Speaker 4: still winning, they were still in first place. They're not
41:24
Speaker 4: able to string together solid games. I mean, they had
41:28
Speaker 4: a seven game stretch where they had thirteen airs. They
41:33
Speaker 4: had Cam Schlitler in back to back outings. He didn't
41:36
Speaker 4: give up any earned runs the one time to Boston,
41:38
Speaker 4: but he also didn't get his team out of the
41:41
Speaker 4: jam that they put him in. And then the next
41:44
Speaker 4: game he gave up a lot of runs had that
41:46
Speaker 4: ball been caught in center field by Spencer Jones. Then
41:50
Speaker 4: he doesn't face the next three guys that end up
41:53
Speaker 4: hitting home runs off of him, and he gives up
41:55
Speaker 4: five runs. Again, he needs to pick up his team.
41:58
Speaker 4: So I think it's a case where some of these guys,
42:01
Speaker 4: while they're they're all stars, they're their best players, need
42:04
Speaker 4: to step up and be able to pick each other
42:06
Speaker 4: up to get themselves out of this terrible ten game
42:09
Speaker 4: stretch they've been in.
42:11
Speaker 2: Also a j I'm gonna say it because I've said
42:13
Speaker 2: it a couple times this year, and I've said it
42:15
Speaker 2: multiple times over the last three or four years. They
42:18
Speaker 2: can't keep playing Anthony Bolpi every day. I'm sorry. It
42:21
Speaker 2: has hurt the team. They're not putting the best lineup
42:24
Speaker 2: out on the field. I'm being serious, and Yankee fans
42:26
Speaker 2: have been losing their mind. They're losing their mind again
42:29
Speaker 2: because they had a good thing going with Caballero. He
42:31
Speaker 2: looks like I gotta look at the numbers, but he
42:33
Speaker 2: looks comfortable at short. He is, I think hitting better
42:36
Speaker 2: when he's playing at short.
42:38
Speaker 1: Just put him out there every day. He's a better player, period.
42:40
Speaker 1: He's the better player.
42:41
Speaker 2: I know he can play multiple positions, but Pholpy's just
42:44
Speaker 2: not cutting it for them.
42:47
Speaker 3: Ton't tell Aaron Boom and Frank Cashman that because their
42:49
Speaker 3: numbers say that he's better scout, much like you don't
42:54
Speaker 3: know as much as the Marlins, No, you don't know
42:56
Speaker 3: as much as the Yankees know. The Yankees are know.
42:59
Speaker 2: This, but for a team that obviously is you know,
43:03
Speaker 2: very into something like on base percentage mixed with power.
43:06
Speaker 2: I mean, he's not really providing either of those things.
43:08
Speaker 2: He's he's it set some type of record recently where
43:12
Speaker 2: x amount of plate appearances in first three and change
43:14
Speaker 2: years or whatever of your career, lowest on base percentage.
43:17
Speaker 1: Ever ever of any player at that at that number.
43:22
Speaker 4: The way he heard you, now, he's now he's walking
43:24
Speaker 4: at a higher clip than he ever has in his career.
43:26
Speaker 4: He's got three forty on base percentage, so he's got
43:28
Speaker 4: a higher ops plus than he ever has in his career.
43:31
Speaker 4: So maybe that's why he's found his way into the
43:35
Speaker 4: lineup again.
43:40
Speaker 1: Sorry, I don't see it, but you know, keep keep
43:42
Speaker 1: running it out there.
43:43
Speaker 3: What's his I gotta look real quicks plus it's.
43:49
Speaker 2: Always eighty nine, but let's see if it's eighty nine,
43:52
Speaker 2: since apparently I'm just crapping on a play.
43:55
Speaker 1: It's eighty nine, thank you so.
43:57
Speaker 2: And his slung percentage is three twenty eight.
44:00
Speaker 3: Eighty nine's above his career. He's an eighty four career,
44:03
Speaker 3: ye eighty nine, he's doing better. Sw Ibry. Ops is
44:11
Speaker 3: six sixty two, he says, six sixty eight, So he's
44:14
Speaker 3: doing better, Scott, So you're wrong.
44:16
Speaker 4: I do I do believe that maybe right now he's
44:20
Speaker 4: part of the best lineup that they can run out
44:22
Speaker 4: there with Aaron Judge out, with Spencer Jones down in
44:26
Speaker 4: the bushes, with Grisham was out, and so they had
44:31
Speaker 4: to put the most versatile player in the field or
44:36
Speaker 4: in in right field, in left field. And I've watched
44:38
Speaker 4: plenty of games Cabriira gives it his best effort, but
44:42
Speaker 4: as far as like teams taking advantage of it, I
44:45
Speaker 4: saw a couple of games where Cabriira had plays where
44:48
Speaker 4: he had to make a throw to the plate and man,
44:50
Speaker 4: he got it out of his gloves so fast off target.
44:54
Speaker 4: So I know teams are coming in and going, hey,
44:56
Speaker 4: we're gonna take advantage of this. We're gonna take advantage
44:58
Speaker 4: of the fact that, yes, he gets rid of the
45:00
Speaker 4: ball quickly, gets to it quickly, which is admirable to Cabiro.
45:06
Speaker 4: But when it's not accurate, teams just keep on running
45:09
Speaker 4: and just keep sending them, sending them from third and so, yes,
45:12
Speaker 4: that's hurting them, but who else are they putting out there?
45:14
Speaker 4: Because they want to play the platoon advantage and that's
45:18
Speaker 4: how they've built this team, and right now they don't
45:21
Speaker 4: have it. It's not going very well form clearly. Yeah.
45:24
Speaker 2: I mean you're paying Trent Grisham, what twenty something million
45:27
Speaker 2: dollars with the qualifying offer something around there. Twenty million dollars.
45:31
Speaker 2: You've got him. Let Martian just run for a while.
45:34
Speaker 2: Obviously Bellinger is going to play every day out there.
45:37
Speaker 3: What happens Jones? Sorry, I've been going for two years.
45:40
Speaker 3: What I'm the Spencer Jones?
45:44
Speaker 4: A lot of swinging?
45:44
Speaker 3: This wasn't that the thing in the minor leagues about him? Yeah,
45:48
Speaker 3: that he's swinging.
45:48
Speaker 4: Missisi was going to happen. They were hoping. Honestly, I
45:51
Speaker 4: truly believe when they call a guy up like that.
45:54
Speaker 4: And I think even the Giants when they called up
45:56
Speaker 4: Bryce Eldred, I don't think they were like Bryce Eldred,
45:59
Speaker 4: he's our guy. Because they're only playing against righties, they're
46:02
Speaker 4: hoping they run into a few balls. No, no front
46:05
Speaker 4: office executive can show me any numbers that will say, oh,
46:10
Speaker 4: this guy, Yeah, he's striking out at a thirty five
46:13
Speaker 4: percent clip in the bushes big league pitching. This is
46:17
Speaker 4: the one case where big league pitching is not better.
46:19
Speaker 4: He's gonna hit, he's gonna strike out less. No, they're
46:22
Speaker 4: gonna strike out more. Everybody talks about it, like, oh,
46:24
Speaker 4: these these prospects can't develop because Triple A isn't as
46:28
Speaker 4: good as it used to be, or it's just not
46:30
Speaker 4: as much talent in Triple A. Where's the talent it's
46:33
Speaker 4: in the big leagues. Even in games where blowouts, you're
46:36
Speaker 4: still facing dudes that are better than they are in
46:38
Speaker 4: Triple A, So you have no chance to just like
46:41
Speaker 4: get your breath and like you have to learn to
46:43
Speaker 4: be a good hitter before you get up to the
46:45
Speaker 4: big leagues. And it didn't work out for Spencer Jones.
46:47
Speaker 4: I think they hoped he was going to steal a
46:49
Speaker 4: bunch of bases and add to some of that athleticism
46:52
Speaker 4: that this roster has, which it hasn't had in other years.
46:57
Speaker 2: Also, that doesn't mean he can't figure it out in
46:59
Speaker 2: the big leagues. Hasn't that much time yet, you.
47:01
Speaker 4: Have to figure it out in the minor leagues. To me,
47:05
Speaker 4: you have to show me you're not striking out in
47:07
Speaker 4: the bushes against dudes who are the awrs throwing ninety
47:13
Speaker 4: one and ninety four in a starting rotation, and then
47:15
Speaker 4: your your bullpeng guys are like ninety two to ninety
47:18
Speaker 4: five with not much great life for secondary stuff because
47:22
Speaker 4: if they did, they'd be up in the big leagues.
47:25
Speaker 4: So to me, you have to show me you're making
47:28
Speaker 4: an adjustment, and his numbers have not shown that. So
47:32
Speaker 4: when you call him up, hey, you know what, bang,
47:35
Speaker 4: go out and hit some Homer's for us. Hopefully you
47:37
Speaker 4: get it done. Hopefully run into a few till Grisham
47:40
Speaker 4: comes back, and then once Grisham came back, send him
47:42
Speaker 4: back down.
47:54
Speaker 1: Let's slap, shall we? Well, welcome back everyone.
47:57
Speaker 2: We did take a Friday Live show off, but we
47:59
Speaker 2: are cranky leading right into the All Star Game.
48:02
Speaker 1: A couple of reminders too.
48:03
Speaker 2: We have a new Rocky show and that is called
48:05
Speaker 2: Mile High Territory, So if you're a Rockies fan, go
48:08
Speaker 2: that way. We'll try and figure out where Hunter Goodman was.
48:10
Speaker 2: Maybe we can get him on tomorrow, but Mile High Territory.
48:13
Speaker 2: Subscribe to the show on YouTube or wherever you get
48:16
Speaker 2: your podcasts or both. Also, all Star announcement we did
48:19
Speaker 2: at the top of the show. If you miss that,
48:21
Speaker 2: you can rewind back and see where we're going to be.
48:23
Speaker 2: I'll leave it at that, but we'll be in Philadelphia
48:26
Speaker 2: dancing around one note we didn't get to because I
48:29
Speaker 2: had talked about him quite a bit, and it certainly
48:31
Speaker 2: wasn't a glorious return. But I'm sure the Reds are
48:34
Speaker 2: still happy to have Hunter greenback aja and he's not
48:37
Speaker 2: going to give up eight runs every outing. But he
48:39
Speaker 2: is back now for Cincinnati, and they've been very mad.
48:43
Speaker 1: Yeah, they've been very me.
48:45
Speaker 4: And they got Pagan back and he danced around some
48:48
Speaker 4: rain drops but ended up getting a safe. That's huge
48:52
Speaker 4: for them.
48:54
Speaker 2: There was a point where they didn't have their best
48:56
Speaker 2: position player, their best starting pitcher, and their best closer
48:59
Speaker 2: for a few weeks.
49:02
Speaker 1: It might seem they're.
49:03
Speaker 3: Too far behind for me. The teams in front of
49:06
Speaker 3: them aren't going to have a full on collapse like
49:08
Speaker 3: the Mets did last year. I'm sorry. The Brewers are in,
49:11
Speaker 3: the Dodgers are in, the Mets and Phillies are in.
49:14
Speaker 3: There's four already, right because yeah, sorry, Braves and the
49:18
Speaker 3: Mets are out. Yeah, but right, but then you have
49:20
Speaker 3: to deal with the Marlins. You have to deal with
49:21
Speaker 3: the Cubs, you have to deal with the Cardinals. I
49:23
Speaker 3: mean the Reds. I mean, I think Kirk Kurbsrie had
49:26
Speaker 3: said it best when he's like why do the Reds
49:28
Speaker 3: do this every year? And his tweet them If you
49:30
Speaker 3: saw his tweet storm, he was on but it was
49:32
Speaker 3: kind of fun.
49:33
Speaker 2: Yeah, the Reds are seven back of a wildcard. That's
49:36
Speaker 2: definitely how many teams though, a lot of teams, the Padres, Diamondbacks, Nationals, Pirates,
49:43
Speaker 2: until you finally get to the Marlins and Cardinals, who
49:46
Speaker 2: are tied for the third wildcard spot right now, with
49:50
Speaker 2: the Phillies and the Cubs ahead of them. So it's
49:52
Speaker 2: going to be a fun National League race, and some
49:54
Speaker 2: of these teams are going to fall off, right, I
49:55
Speaker 2: mean it's been a great ride for the Cardinals, Marlins, Pirates,
49:58
Speaker 2: and Nationals. At least two of those teams are not
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Speaker 2: going to be involved in September, would you agree? Where
50:03
Speaker 2: they'll be like five to ten games out and we'll
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Speaker 2: be like, all right, they had a nice run for
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Speaker 2: half the year.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and it'll be a positive. A lot of them
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Speaker 4: will take it as a positive for their season. Oh see,
50:16
Speaker 4: we made steps forward the Nationals.
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Speaker 3: I mean, the Nationals are the obvious choice there, right,
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Speaker 3: Look how much better we did than we thought?
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Speaker 4: Look at all the innovations we had with our hitting.
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Speaker 4: We bought three trajet machines and look what it did.
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Speaker 4: And now we got to buy the trajet version of
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Speaker 4: an entire starting rotation.
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Speaker 2: We talked about snubs on the other side, you know
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Speaker 2: teams that showed up, of course, five All Stars each
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Speaker 2: for the Phillies, the Braves, the Dodgers. On the American
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Speaker 2: League side, you had four All Stars for the Yankees,
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Speaker 2: the Blue Jays, and the Rays showed up with four
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Speaker 2: All Stars. Pretty good, all deserved, well deserved. Yes, although
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Speaker 2: Ronda didn't get in.
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Speaker 4: That's what I was trying to think of the fourth.
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Speaker 4: It's I was trying to think of the fourth. I
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Speaker 4: pull the list.
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Speaker 1: Wait, Baker.
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Speaker 4: Baker was Baker Rasmussen and YONDI.
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Speaker 1: You're going to forget Brian Baker, but Baker got it.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean we were big on that ale. First
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Speaker 3: base is tough, especially with lad gets in.
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Speaker 4: Right already out.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Lad's out now with the back. So maybe that's
51:37
Speaker 1: how can you.
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Speaker 3: Play in the regular season, But then you can't play
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Speaker 3: in the All Star Game.
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Speaker 4: You know your back is not going to be good
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Speaker 4: in a week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Oh, I know, I know who we can ask
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Speaker 2: every ASTROS player over the last decade that would sit
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Speaker 2: out the All Star Game and not want to hear
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Speaker 2: the booze.
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, it's true. We barely seen Astros players for
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Speaker 1: years now. I mean, now you keep moving along and.
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Speaker 2: There's guys that are separated enough, but there was a
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Speaker 2: time period for a while where they would.
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Speaker 1: Do anything they could to get out of that situation.
52:08
Speaker 1: It's true.
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Speaker 3: Taking reports to cut.
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Speaker 2: Even last year, Esak Barat has had the itis from it,
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Speaker 2: and he had no affiliation with that stuff.
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Speaker 1: Back then.
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Speaker 2: He didn't have the hamstring, he had the no to
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Speaker 2: the All Star Game.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't on the IL at the time. You just
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Speaker 1: said no.
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Speaker 4: Too much, resk.
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Speaker 1: A lot of rookies in McGonagall.
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Speaker 4: That's why I mentioned on the al side. That's why
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Speaker 4: I didn't play good in the first half of seasons,
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Speaker 4: so that I wouldn't make the All Star too. I
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Speaker 4: wanted that exactly.
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Speaker 2: I'm glad you did that for everyone, but Bazana get
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Speaker 2: in McGonagall, Parker, Messick, hal Stewart, some good names that
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Speaker 2: are in rookies.
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Speaker 1: We're excited. Krats hats on the way out.
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Speaker 4: I mean I was wearing it because Hunter was coming
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Speaker 4: on the show, but.
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Speaker 1: No, you were wearing your first Billy.
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Speaker 4: Yes, because we're because mile High is part of the
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Speaker 4: we should have. Mile High should be on every single
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Speaker 4: day at fort and one. That should be the time
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Speaker 4: that it comes on, so that people definitely check out
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Speaker 4: Billy and Troy.
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Speaker 1: I was in Denver over the weekend. Yeah, your wor Scott,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to leave it at that.
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Speaker 3: Dead's dead this weekend.
53:24
Speaker 1: I read Rock today. It was so good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Red Rock.
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