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Speaker 1: Expect disaster and everything else that happens is just phonus.
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Speaker 1: I just knew that this was gonna head for disaster.
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Speaker 2: Time.
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Speaker 3: Now for power rankings, AJ, you are up. Who do
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Speaker 3: you have in your top ten? Why are you laughing?
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Speaker 4: Eric?
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Speaker 5: Because AJ hates power rankings and he's gonna be He's
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Speaker 5: gonna be like that second basement that Jason Worth was
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Speaker 5: just talking about soft as Sharman had a lot of
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Speaker 5: power rankings.
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Speaker 6: Nope, all right, so number one of my power rankings
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Speaker 6: is the Rockies, and then the White Sox.
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Speaker 2: And then the Marlins. Okay, oh wait, sorry.
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Speaker 6: Okay, no, I actually kind of took the seriously. I
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Speaker 6: did take him seriously. Okay, I'm gonna go because Alano's
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Speaker 6: on the show today. I want to not to cry.
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Speaker 6: I took the Dodgers number one, just because a lot
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Speaker 6: of them cry if I didn't take the Dodgers, They're
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Speaker 6: not even my number one. A lot of this is
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Speaker 6: his time. Stop miting on it this moment. Yes, number
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Speaker 6: two are the Mets. Then I'm going Padres, Giants, Cubs, Phillies.
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Speaker 6: Before we get to an American League team, which is
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Speaker 6: the Yankees. Then we have the Diamondbacks, the Tigers, and
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Speaker 6: the Red Sox. There's after one month. That's where I stand.
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Speaker 2: I don't care. Say what you want, it doesn't matter.
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Speaker 2: It's too early.
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Speaker 6: As Jason Worreh said April, baseball doesn't really matter.
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Speaker 3: Yes, the power rankings, by the way, powered by n'll
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Speaker 3: be nine innings twenty five. All right, Eric, your power rankings, sir.
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Speaker 5: I'm also a big Alana fan, so I put the Dodgers.
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Speaker 5: I don't think they've been playing the best this month.
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Speaker 5: That also goes into why I have the Phillies at
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Speaker 5: number two, because I'm a homer and I also think
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Speaker 5: the team is built to win for the long term,
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Speaker 5: and I.
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Speaker 4: Put number three.
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Speaker 5: I'm going completely against that theory with the Padres because
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Speaker 5: the Padres have just have something going from last season
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Speaker 5: till now.
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Speaker 4: They lost.
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Speaker 5: They don't have you Harvest, they don't have musk Roves,
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Speaker 5: and they're still pitching. The bullpen is elite, and they're
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Speaker 5: gonna run into a lot of tough NL West opponents,
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Speaker 5: tough series, but with the Rays at home, but that
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Speaker 5: place launches them up to third. For me, I went
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Speaker 5: to an American League team in the Yankees, and I
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Speaker 5: couldn't not put the number two offense in baseball up
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Speaker 5: at number four. The Mets. They're moving up my power rankings.
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Speaker 5: Mets fans, it's okay. I'm not hating on them. I
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Speaker 5: just am afraid that it's just not quite enough for
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Speaker 5: the long haul of the season to be the best
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Speaker 5: team in the National League. But they are right now,
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Speaker 5: so they earned that number five spot. The Tigers are
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Speaker 5: doing some things. I know I lost the bet with
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Speaker 5: them last night, but that's okay. And the Mariners, is
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Speaker 5: this the year that the Kevin Seitzer led offense is
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Speaker 5: gonna make the change enough to put this rotation in
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Speaker 5: to the playoffs, even though some of the rotation is
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Speaker 5: a little bit decimated, They're gonna be fresh coming into
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Speaker 5: the playoffs. And the Cubs have played the toughest RPI
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Speaker 5: strength of schedule in all of baseball, no teams under
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Speaker 5: five hundred that they have played, and they are leading
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Speaker 5: the NL Central. They don't know if they win the
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Speaker 5: NL Central. That's not a lock for me yet. But
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Speaker 5: the Red Sox all their trades, the you know, I
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Speaker 5: mean the trade of Crochet, the youth movement that Hein
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Speaker 5: Bloom made a thing in this organization is now happening.
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Speaker 5: And the Alex Bragman stuff is I mean just dingers
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Speaker 5: to left and he hasn't even really gotten that.
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Speaker 4: Hot in Fenway yet. And the Giants.
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Speaker 5: I think the Giants might have the most staying power
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Speaker 5: because they're pitching in defense has really stepped up.
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Speaker 3: Why did you put the Phillies so far down on
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Speaker 3: your list? Weren't they won last week? Now they're two.
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Speaker 4: They've never been one. It's always been Dodgers.
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Speaker 5: And I think power, I think power rankings are really
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Speaker 5: what's gonna happen total Who's the toughest looking team? And
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Speaker 5: I think this team is played together. I think there's
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Speaker 5: something about having a lineup that's played together and consistently
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Speaker 5: day in and day out. Besides like Marsh and Rojas
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Speaker 5: and Kepler getting moved in there, they just know each other,
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Speaker 5: they know how they need to feed off each other,
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Speaker 5: and I think they'll be able to make adjustments.
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Speaker 4: And the starting rotation is pretty sick.
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Speaker 3: I actually should have asked AJ. It was AJ that
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Speaker 3: had the Phillies pretty far down on his list this
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Speaker 3: week versus last time. AJ, why do you have a
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Speaker 3: Phillies so far down?
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Speaker 2: I'm worried about their bullpen.
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Speaker 6: And I look, also, this is where we're at in
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Speaker 6: the season right now, and I think the Phillies aren't
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Speaker 6: playing great. And I don't know how in the world.
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Speaker 6: Eric Ka Kratz says the Mets fit. They have the
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Speaker 6: best record in baseball by far. It's not even clothes.
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Speaker 6: They're playing unbelievable right now. I don't know how you
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Speaker 6: put the Mets down in fifth just because you're a
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Speaker 6: homer for the Phillies and the Yankees and the seventeen
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Speaker 6: other teams you played for, But I mean the Mets.
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Speaker 3: Here's my top as far as power rankings are concerned,
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Speaker 3: powered by MLB nine innings twenty five. I have the
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Speaker 3: Mets as number one, and yes, partly because of record
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Speaker 3: nineteen and nine, but we're not doing it based on record.
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Speaker 3: Their rotation a league best two point twenty nine era
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Speaker 3: everybody and the return of Jeff McNeil and Francisco Alvarez
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Speaker 3: has bolstered their lineup a bit. The Dodgers, yes, I
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Speaker 3: get it. I'm a homer, but it is what it is,
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Speaker 3: despite the injuries to key players, key pitchers. Rather Blake Snell,
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Speaker 3: on the planet, although I wish he was a rescue pup.
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Speaker 3: That's for another show. They're eighteen and ten. Their depth
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Speaker 3: continues to keep them afloat. They're still competitive. The Cubs
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Speaker 3: another National League team, of course, potent offense, solid rotation.
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Speaker 3: The Cubs have impressed early in the season. Their Bullpenny
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Speaker 3: ra I'm with aj is problematic five point one point seven,
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Speaker 3: but they're still number three for me. The Giants, Jeff Berry, Buster, Posey,
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Speaker 3: the whole thing. They've had a strong week. They took
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Speaker 3: series from the brew Crew, they took series from Texas.
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Speaker 3: They leave the major leagues and walk off wins, which
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Speaker 3: is neither here nor there. They could probably use a
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Speaker 3: few laughers in there instead of having to do it
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Speaker 3: in walk off fashion. The Padres. I think the Padres
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Speaker 3: are my number fIF team. They started season incredibly hot,
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Speaker 3: as we know, but they've had some injuries. Jake Cronilworth
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Speaker 3: obviously has hurt Luisa Rise with that concussion that was scary,
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Speaker 3: but their depth it's going to be tested in the
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Speaker 3: coming weeks. But Padres are in my top five. The Tigers,
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Speaker 3: that's my first American League team. They are at number six.
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Speaker 3: A little bit of a surprise contender, if you will,
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Speaker 3: leading the majors in everal offensive categories. That would be
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Speaker 3: the Yankees at number seven. The Rangers, despite struggles at
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Speaker 3: their DH spot, gentlemen, they've managed to stay competitive. Their
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Speaker 3: speculation about signing JD. Martinez. Will they do that? Will
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Speaker 3: it help? I don't know. The Phillies at number nine,
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Speaker 3: love them. I would run through a wall for them,
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Speaker 3: and then the Arizona Diamondbacks. Now the Phillies. My biggest concern,
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Speaker 3: obviously is a bullpen. We've discussed that. Romano not the answer,
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Speaker 3: as you might understand with his thirteen and a half
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Speaker 3: e ra and then the Dbacks.
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Speaker 2: There you have it.
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Speaker 3: That's my top ten. I don't know if this is right.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if it looks good. I don't even
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Speaker 3: know if this made any sense. Those are mine.
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Speaker 2: The sense part I can't make.
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Speaker 4: I can't help you with.
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Speaker 2: I can't help you with the Sun's part. None of
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Speaker 2: them making my first one. I thought you crush it. No,
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Speaker 2: I thought you crushed it.
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Speaker 6: I just don't know how you don't, you know, the
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Speaker 6: Mariners over the Rangers, even though the Mariners ahead of
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Speaker 6: them and playing better.
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Speaker 2: And I don't know, but I don't know.
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Speaker 3: Mariners weren't even.
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Speaker 1: On my list.
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Speaker 2: Oh now, I know.
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Speaker 6: That's what I'm saying. That's so I don't know why
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Speaker 6: you have the Rangers over the Marriors. That's kind of
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Speaker 6: my point.
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Speaker 1: I don't know.
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Speaker 3: I just like Bruce Bochie.
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Speaker 4: I guess, my gosh, you're such a sucker. Ims I
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Speaker 4: thank their arms.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, you know, it's fine, all right.
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Speaker 2: Anyway, everyone loves Everybody loves Bochi. That's like he's lovable.
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Speaker 2: It's like him and that Bill Old Maggan. He's that's
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Speaker 2: low hanging fruit.
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Speaker 3: we're at with you here. You, of course can be
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Speaker 3: read at the Athletic. You just released an article this
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Speaker 3: morning when you said the Blue Jays rotation has no
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Speaker 3: room for bad days. Mitch, explain yourself.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not really about the rotation. It's been kind
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Speaker 1: of the strong part of the team. It's been the
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Speaker 1: bright spot. The top four, especially the big Dogs, have
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Speaker 1: been logging innings for this team, giving them quality starts.
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Speaker 1: But the offense is giving them basically no room for air.
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Speaker 1: And we've finally seen the rotation kind of slip the
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Speaker 1: last few days and that's resulted in three more losses.
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Speaker 1: So the offense isn't putting up more than four, which
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Speaker 1: they haven't done in weeks. It's hard to win a
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Speaker 1: lot of baseball games.
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Speaker 5: How much of this, though, is part of the offense
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Speaker 5: is you have eight guys playing defense. For those pitchers.
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Speaker 5: They built this team for that defense, and I get it.
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Speaker 5: The pitching, you know, has been really good, but it hasn't.
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Speaker 5: It can't be that good without because they're not striking
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Speaker 5: out the world without that defense. So as a defense
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Speaker 5: kind of helped prop that up. Especially now that var
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Speaker 5: Show's back, that could be a huge, huge exclamation point
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Speaker 5: for this defense with Golden Center.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure, I think the defense definitely helps the
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Speaker 1: pitchers get their ears down. We've seen that kind of
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Speaker 1: be the story of this team for the last three years.
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Speaker 1: But also the story has been they've been a really
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Speaker 1: good pitching team, a really good defensive team, and they
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Speaker 1: still haven't really made a lot of noise because the
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Speaker 1: offense has let them down. They got to find the balance.
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Speaker 1: It's hard to do that in the middle of the season.
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Speaker 1: I think the Blue Jays thought bringing in Anthony santon
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Speaker 1: Dair was going to help. That's he's a big back
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Speaker 1: guy who's not really built for defense. He hasn't really
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Speaker 1: gotten going. So they got to find the balance to
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Speaker 1: win games, and I think right now they're a little
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Speaker 1: too pitching and defense centric.
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Speaker 5: We talk about Parks all the time and Rogers Center
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Speaker 5: when I played there, when AJ played there was kind
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Speaker 5: of a joke, but they also had Jose Bautista and
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Speaker 5: Carnacion Brett Lowry Adam lymb like there was some bangers
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Speaker 5: that were Troy tulwhisky that were going through that team.
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Speaker 5: Now that they made those renovations, do you hear rumblings
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Speaker 5: around that the players are like, Ooh, I don't know
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Speaker 5: what the renovations did, but the ball doesn't travel as
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Speaker 5: far and when you play in the same place eighty
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Speaker 5: one times, is that getting under the Blue Jays player's
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Speaker 5: skin because it's been more than just like a few
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Speaker 5: months or a year.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, you definitely hear that. I think when they made
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Speaker 1: the renovations, the front office and all the people involved
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Speaker 1: in that were pretty confident it was going to play
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Speaker 1: as a lot closer to a neutral park. And it's
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Speaker 1: hard to tell exactly how much it's been the product
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays have put on the field, but it
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Speaker 1: hasn't quite played as a neutral park. Other teams are
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Speaker 1: hitting home runs, the blue Jays aren't. It's kind of
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Speaker 1: a question. It hasn't necessarily been a long enough time
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Speaker 1: since the renovations in my mind to really know if
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Speaker 1: it's the Blue Jays struggling offense kind of dragging down
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Speaker 1: the park factor numbers, or if it is just an
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Speaker 1: overall weird thing with the batter side could be like
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Speaker 1: the dome, Like a lot of factors go into park factors,
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Speaker 1: and I just don't know what the cause of this
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Speaker 1: is yet, but it's definitely not playing how they initially
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Speaker 1: thought it would.
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Speaker 3: Let's talk about the defense there a little bit, Mitch.
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Speaker 3: I have seen circus catches before, but there's always some
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Speaker 3: time and when you go to a baseball field and
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Speaker 3: you see something you've never seen before. I mean Dalton Varshow,
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Speaker 3: my word, that had to have been one of the
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Speaker 3: most unbelievable catches I have ever seen. Where does it
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Speaker 3: rank for you?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really high up there. The only other one
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Speaker 1: that comes to mind was a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 1: Kevin Kiermeyer running too that same kind of cutout on
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Speaker 1: the renovated wall on opening day, scaled it brought a
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Speaker 1: ball back into the park. That's the only one I
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Speaker 1: think that really kind of is up there for me.
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Speaker 1: But Varshow, first game back, he falls down, he said,
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Speaker 1: in his words, he thought of profanity, and then he
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Speaker 1: located the ball and it's like, I don't know how
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Speaker 1: he made that catch. It was truly incredible, and it
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Speaker 1: speaks to how incredible it was. Because when a team
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Speaker 1: hits five home runs like the Red Sox did in
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Speaker 1: a couple winnings last night, and we're talking about a
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Speaker 1: crazy catch, it's got to be a pretty big play.
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Speaker 6: Let me ask you what you just mentioned home runs.
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Speaker 6: Vlad hit his third home run last night. Boba Shit
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Speaker 6: has the same amount of home runs this year that
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Speaker 6: I have zero? What the heck is going on with
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Speaker 6: Boba Shit? How much is this hurting him to get
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Speaker 6: a contract extension like Vlad and then he's also a
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Speaker 6: free agent.
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Speaker 2: Is there pressure on Bow to get going?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. And I think that the thing with
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Speaker 1: vladim Bo is all of their numbers compared to last
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Speaker 1: year kind of look the same, except the power is
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Speaker 1: way down. Like they're they're putting up pretty similar batting averages,
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Speaker 1: they're walking up pretty similar clips. Obviously, Bo is coming
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Speaker 1: off the weird year last year where he was very injured.
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Speaker 1: He looks mostly back except for the power, it's just
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Speaker 1: not there. He had a hand injury and a calf injury.
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Speaker 1: Those aren't necessarily injuries. I think this far out would
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Speaker 1: impact the power, and so it's it's really kind of unexplainable. Why,
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Speaker 1: especially those two are not hitting for power. If you
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Speaker 1: want the positive spin, a lot of these guys in
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays offense are objectively struggling, and the numbers
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Speaker 1: under the hood kind of are struggling too, Bo and Vlad.
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Speaker 1: Their expected power stats are a lot closer to where
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Speaker 1: they actually usually sit in their career, So I think
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays can have some faith that those guys
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Speaker 1: will rebound. I think the question is if it's going
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Speaker 1: to be in time before they slide into a hole
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Speaker 1: and get close to the deadline for those to get
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Speaker 1: back to where they should be.
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Speaker 3: And it's certainly not just all Bo obviously. Anthony Santander,
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Speaker 3: who you alluded to a little bit earlier, Mitch, He's
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Speaker 3: had one hit in his last twenty six at bats.
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Speaker 3: He's sit in one seventy four to two sixty two
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Speaker 3: ninety four as far as the slash line, with three
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Speaker 3: home runs in twenty eight games this season. His fit
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Speaker 3: FIVEO fifty four ops is seventh worst among ale qualifiers.
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Speaker 3: Are you noticing something in particular in his offensive approach?
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Speaker 3: Have there been conversations or what needs to change here?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they're trying things for sure, because he's the guy
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Speaker 1: they brought in to bring the power. Not much else
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Speaker 1: changed with this lineup except for Santon there. He was
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Speaker 1: kind of supposed to be a solution a lot of
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Speaker 1: the problems they had last year. He is a historically
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Speaker 1: slow starter. I feel like everyone's talked about that for
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Speaker 1: the last month. The slow start has continued. They thought
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Speaker 1: he was going to heat up, and then he went
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Speaker 1: on that slide that you just mentioned. There, Teams are
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Speaker 1: pitching him inside a lot, and he's struggling to either
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Speaker 1: lay off of those or to get out in front
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Speaker 1: of those. That's definitely a problem. The one thing that
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Speaker 1: Jase are trying right now is taking him out of
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Speaker 1: the DH spot and putting him in the field. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned he's not necessarily a guy known for his defense,
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Speaker 1: but they're just trying things to get him engaged in
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Speaker 1: the game, to get him kind of feeling more like himself,
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Speaker 1: because if this offense is going to go anywhere, they
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Speaker 1: need him hitting a lot closer to forty home runs
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Speaker 1: than he is right now.
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Speaker 6: I'm just shocked at they're so low in the home
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Speaker 6: runs there. What's second to last and home runs for amazing,
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Speaker 6: that's great. It's craziness to me because I, like krat said,
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Speaker 6: I you go to Toronto and it's like there's a
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Speaker 6: launch a bad.
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Speaker 2: I don't know what they change.
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Speaker 6: I don't know what Rogers did when they change those
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Speaker 6: walls and then they changed the color of the walls.
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Speaker 6: I don't know, but they brought the fences in and
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Speaker 6: the ball stop traveling. So maybe go back to the
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Speaker 6: old way Toronto. The pitching staff, though, to me, the
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Speaker 6: starters have been okay. I mean Barrios Gosman. Gosman had
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Speaker 6: the awesome ejection and fell down the steps the other day,
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Speaker 6: which is not funny, but it's kind of funny because
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Speaker 6: he's okay. You know, Allen Francis has been has been
17:23
Speaker 6: good for these guys. The bullpen hasn't been great. Is
17:27
Speaker 6: there hope that the pitching staff one A, the starters
17:29
Speaker 6: can keep it up and the bullpen can get to
17:31
Speaker 6: where they can help them win some games?
17:34
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's gonna be hard to ask them
17:37
Speaker 1: to do more than they're doing right now. Like the
17:40
Speaker 1: weird part what about this pitching staff is yeah, the
17:42
Speaker 1: big four starters have been good. Obviously, Max Schurtz are
17:44
Speaker 1: as hurt. You're hoping to get them back in the
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Speaker 1: next month or two ideally, and then you got your
17:49
Speaker 1: five guys the bullpen. They just gotta be in situations
17:53
Speaker 1: to lock down games, and they just haven't been. The
17:55
Speaker 1: bright spot for this pitching has been Jeff Hoffman, Jimmy
17:58
Speaker 1: Garcia and Brendan Little have been electric out of the
18:01
Speaker 1: back of the pen. But you can't really showcase that
18:04
Speaker 1: if you don't have late game leads. So I think
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18:09
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18:17
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Speaker 3: Mitch, it looks like you guys are going where the
19:25
Speaker 3: Blue Jays rather are going with a bullpen game today.
19:29
Speaker 3: The fifth spot in that Toronto starting rotation is a
19:32
Speaker 3: bit of a question mark. Max Sures are obviously not
19:34
Speaker 3: coming back until probably late May. What's the long term
19:38
Speaker 3: fixed for that? And what's the short term answer?
19:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, the short term answers figure it out. The long
19:45
Speaker 1: term I think is max stures are getting healthy. But yeah,
19:47
Speaker 1: in the short term, it's gonna be a patchwork. They're
19:50
Speaker 1: gonna call up Eric Loward. It certainly sounds like today
19:53
Speaker 1: for some bulk. Easton Lucas had two really good starts
19:57
Speaker 1: and then two really bad starts. He can come back
19:59
Speaker 1: in a week if he's figured some stuff out In
20:00
Speaker 1: Triple A. Jake bloss top prospect for this team, a
20:04
Speaker 1: guy that got back in the Yusa Kakuchi deal, had
20:06
Speaker 1: a couple of slow starts in Triple A, looked great
20:09
Speaker 1: in his most recent outing. There's some options there. None
20:12
Speaker 1: of them are super obvious or super sexy, but they're
20:15
Speaker 1: going to have to figure this out for the rest
20:18
Speaker 1: of May, probably a little bit of June, and they
20:21
Speaker 1: do not want to go to a four man rotation
20:23
Speaker 1: like Barrios, Goswin Bassett. Those are guys this team has
20:27
Speaker 1: leaned on so much the last couple of years. They're
20:29
Speaker 1: all well over thirty. They're not the type of guys
20:32
Speaker 1: you want to be skipping starts and making pitch on
20:34
Speaker 1: short or normal rest consistently through a season, especially if
20:38
Speaker 1: you want them ready for October.
20:42
Speaker 2: Mitch, the Leafs are playing. Oh go ahead, Alana, Oh no.
20:46
Speaker 3: I was just going to ask you, in Mitch's opinion,
20:49
Speaker 3: how hot Schneider's seed is, if it is at all.
20:53
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's hot, but it's it's kind of
20:56
Speaker 1: hard to tell what this organization is going to do
20:58
Speaker 1: this year if things go so like there's a lot
21:01
Speaker 1: of seats that are hot, there's a lot of contracts
21:03
Speaker 1: that are expiring, and this is a team that they've
21:06
Speaker 1: invested a lot of money in. They just give flat
21:08
Speaker 1: five hundred million dollars. It's not a team that's gonna
21:11
Speaker 1: sit around and just wait for things to go better.
21:13
Speaker 1: Santander is a veteran who just got a lot of money.
21:16
Speaker 1: This team expected to win this year. They haven't the
21:18
Speaker 1: last two years. It's kind of like a three strikes
21:22
Speaker 1: in your out situation. But I'm not sure we're quite
21:24
Speaker 1: there in April. I think a lot of people still
21:26
Speaker 1: have faith it'll turn. But if it doesn't, Like the
21:29
Speaker 1: questions are asked.
21:31
Speaker 6: You, Mitch, you could say it Atkins and Shapiro, they
21:33
Speaker 6: have to be right, Yeah, for sure. It's their last year, right,
21:37
Speaker 6: they have to. They have to feel some of the heat.
21:40
Speaker 6: From the ownership the Rogers Corporation at some point. So
21:43
Speaker 6: I would think it's fair to say. It's fair to say,
21:45
Speaker 6: but speaking of hot seats and everything going on in Canada,
21:49
Speaker 6: because your accent is killer. But the blue Jay, the
21:53
Speaker 6: blue Jays are one thing in Toronto, but the Maple
21:57
Speaker 6: Leafs are a whole different level.
21:58
Speaker 2: Now they had a three nothing lead, it's three to two.
22:01
Speaker 6: Are we getting nervous in Toronto that the Maple Leafs
22:04
Speaker 6: could blow a three nothing lead against Ottawa?
22:07
Speaker 1: The Maple Leafs blow the lead in the playoffs?
22:08
Speaker 4: This is no.
22:09
Speaker 1: Those things don't happen. I Uh, here's the thing. You
22:14
Speaker 1: can't be nervous if you have my approach to the
22:16
Speaker 1: Toronto Maple Leafs, which is expect disaster and everything else
22:20
Speaker 1: that happens is just bonus. And so I came into
22:23
Speaker 1: this series like they're playing the Ottawa Senators, a team
22:25
Speaker 1: they're objectively better than a Crosstown rifle in Ontario. I
22:30
Speaker 1: just knew that this was gonna head for a disaster. Hey,
22:33
Speaker 1: if they pull it out, great, but they've put themselves
22:36
Speaker 1: in a position for everything to go about as bad
22:38
Speaker 1: as it could.
22:40
Speaker 3: That's the spirit.
22:41
Speaker 6: Mitch that is like the most you know, that sounds
22:45
Speaker 6: like that sounds like the Boston Red Sox fans for
22:48
Speaker 6: so many years, right before they finally won in two
22:51
Speaker 6: thousand and four, it was like, oh, well, we could
22:52
Speaker 6: be up three to nothing, a ten run lead in
22:55
Speaker 6: the bottom of the ninth, and we're gonna blow it somehow, right,
22:58
Speaker 6: So that is like you.
23:00
Speaker 1: Proven you're right, then you gotta listen.
23:03
Speaker 7: Yeah, and the.
23:04
Speaker 3: Cubs franchise for all of those years as well. It's
23:09
Speaker 3: the tide's gonna turn, Mitch, the tide is going to turn.
23:11
Speaker 1: Thanks so much.
23:12
Speaker 3: He's like, no, it's not, it's just absolutely not.
23:15
Speaker 2: Well, thank you for the.
23:16
Speaker 3: Insight on the Blue Jays. We look forward to seeing
23:18
Speaker 3: what this club does over the next couple of weeks.
23:20
Speaker 3: We appreciate you taking the time.
23:22
Speaker 1: Sounds good. Thanks for having me.