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Javy Báez suspended from WBC, Padres sale moving closer, Orioles acquire Blaze Alexander · Foul Territory

• 0:09
  Speaker 1: I thought this was fake, but it's a real story.
• 0:14
  Speaker 1: Pabi Baiez can't play in the World Baseball Classic. Why
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: because he smoked a little weed in twenty twenty three
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  Speaker 1: or an edible or something that like half the league
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  Speaker 1: has done. I'm like what, and wait, blame game here.
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  Speaker 1: I was doing homework during the show because some of
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  Speaker 1: our fans let us know about it. I thought I
• 0:34
  Speaker 1: saw something on Twitter x whatever and thought it was fake, right,
• 0:39
  Speaker 1: because there's plenty of fake stuff out there. And then
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  Speaker 1: you know, fans are telling us and they're great and
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  Speaker 1: they know, and then I start researching it and yes,
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  Speaker 1: he has been denied suspended from twenty twenty three, and
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  Speaker 1: it's a suspension that lasts through this World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 1: so he cannot participate for wait for it, the team
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  Speaker 1: that is getting screwed over and over again, Puerto Rico,
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  Speaker 1: No Hobby Bias, no Francisco Lindor, no Carlos Korea, probably
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  Speaker 1: no Jose Brios isn't on there, right, No tons of
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  Speaker 1: guys missing from that roster. It's bullshit. This one probably
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  Speaker 1: tops it all. MLB in the Player Association for the
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  Speaker 1: most part, run the World Baseball Classic, but they have
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  Speaker 1: to go through the federation that runs this, like the
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  Speaker 1: World something federation that hip Kratz's nerdy brain probably knows
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  Speaker 1: more about, so he'll fill us in. Apparently both sides
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  Speaker 1: MLB and the PA, we're trying to figure this out,
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  Speaker 1: and federation was like, Heisman, no, sorry, I know it's
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  Speaker 1: legal in many spots and half the league, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but but he's not allowed. And it's that's a terrible look.
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  Speaker 1: Like if I'm if I'm MLB and the Players Association crats,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, okay, well, maybe we're gonna have to run
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  Speaker 1: this tournament differently from now on, Like why how is
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  Speaker 1: this federation still doing this shit?
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  Speaker 2: Because this is a big I'm just gonna be careful.
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  Speaker 2: There's I'm not afraid of Matrix Baseball. I'm afraid of WATA.
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  Speaker 2: I'm afraid of the World Drug Association. So I'm afraid
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  Speaker 2: of them. But I love that that our producer or
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  Speaker 2: director named it in the weeds and we're talking about weeds.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: On a Friday, I needed that. And the other thing, Scott,
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  Speaker 2: it's over half. We used to play this practice. We
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  Speaker 2: used to play this like go through the team I'm
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  Speaker 2: not one of the guys that partakes in it. It's
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  Speaker 2: my choice, it's not I'm not judging other people. But
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  Speaker 2: we used to say how many guys, how many guys
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  Speaker 2: you know edible or smokey. I'm like, looking around, I'm like,
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  Speaker 2: that number is higher than fifty percent on every team
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  Speaker 2: I played on, just saying.
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  Speaker 4: No, and he's not wrong, he's not wrong, depending on
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  Speaker 4: what team you're at. But yeah, they don't mess around.
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  Speaker 4: They do pop up drug test. I mean it's like
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  Speaker 4: the Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: That's fine.
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  Speaker 4: You see all the time these people get up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they got pop for marijuana and not allowed to do
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  Speaker 4: Olympics after four years of training your heart out and
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  Speaker 4: trying to work your rear end off to be in there,
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  Speaker 4: and then you get pop for a little having a
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  Speaker 4: little marijuana in your system.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: It's a tough one, but you know it's legal in
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  Speaker 4: mostly every state too in America.
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  Speaker 3: Like it's hard.
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  Speaker 1: Steroid test, cool, go for it. Of course, We're all
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  Speaker 1: for all that kind of testing, the.
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  Speaker 4: Medical like they have needed for medical uses. Yeah, so
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  Speaker 4: I don't I don't know much about it. Again, I
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  Speaker 4: don't want to dive deep into it. But yeah, you
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  Speaker 4: gotta you gotta understand that it is legal, but it's
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  Speaker 4: not legal with when it comes to these federations.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not fighting for the drug. I don't care. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not a weed guy. Like I know. Sometimes when I'm
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  Speaker 1: in the other studio I'm in like people will be
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  Speaker 1: like Scott High all the time, I'm like, no, my
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  Speaker 1: eyes the way the camera looks at it. Sorry, but
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  Speaker 1: I do not smoke. It's it's not my thing. But
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  Speaker 1: come on, if MLB still had it as a thing,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, all right, I understand what's going on here
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  Speaker 1: at least, but it's not a thing in MLB. So
• 3:48
  Speaker 1: now you're asking all of these MLB players to switch
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  Speaker 1: their lifestyle for this. I'm sure many of them didn't
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  Speaker 1: even know about this. And again, if we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do the weed game in the World Baseball Classic, then
• 4:00
  Speaker 1: we're not going to have a game. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: the Straight Edge Baseball Classic. There are not going to
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  Speaker 1: be many people at that. Are they allowed to drink?
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  Speaker 1: Can they have a beer? Where does it stop?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 1: They can? Okay? Cool, But this one's tough because Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know you haven't been on for
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  Speaker 1: this part much, but dude, Puerto Rico is getting just
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  Speaker 1: drilled with the insurance stuff. And I'm just saying, it's
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  Speaker 1: a top four team in the Classic, so it's like, okay, cool,
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  Speaker 1: Like maybe Mexico or Venezuela can upset a team or two,
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  Speaker 1: but otherwise is it's just the US Japan. Let's just
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  Speaker 1: watch him in the title game because Puerto Rico can
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  Speaker 1: do some damage. Oh sorry, my bad, dr my bad,
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  Speaker 1: my bad, But still perto Rico. Puerto Rico is one
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  Speaker 1: of the top teams. They can make noise. They finished
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  Speaker 1: very high up in this tournament in the past, and
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  Speaker 1: to me, my boiling point was before this with the
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  Speaker 1: insurance with some of the guys. Now I'm way past it.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, one guy's booted. Of course, he's a guy
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  Speaker 1: who could be pretty valuable in the Classic.
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  Speaker 4: Steps up in the class with his swing, and I
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  Speaker 4: don't know exactly where they're playing, but if they're playing
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  Speaker 4: one of those high elevations and he gets that ball
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  Speaker 4: in there, he can hit five homers in two games.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, they're playing in Puerto Rico. Oh, they're playing
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  Speaker 3: in Puerto Rico.
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  Speaker 1: Yea, yeah, they get to watch any of their stars,
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  Speaker 1: think about their think about the dudes that are missing,
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  Speaker 1: Like that are the staples.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they mentioned it before.
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  Speaker 1: It's Lindor, It's Korea, It's it is trouble, it's you
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  Speaker 1: want to see the best.
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  Speaker 2: That's That's where I'm at. I'm so I'm so sad
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  Speaker 2: for Puerto Rico all they've been through in the last
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  Speaker 2: five years. The country loves baseball and they've had to
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  Speaker 2: rebuild after that massive hurricane, and like this is something
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  Speaker 2: that brings the country together, but it also shines a
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  Speaker 2: bright light on the country of Puerto Rico, the island
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  Speaker 2: that doesn't get a lot of love in this In
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  Speaker 2: this sense, you have Carlos Beltron going into the Hall
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  Speaker 2: of That's a massive day, massive day.
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  Speaker 3: You have.
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  Speaker 2: Todd and I both played in San in San Juan,
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  Speaker 2: Puerto Rico, in Ponce in I forget the other city
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  Speaker 2: in Puerto Rico, and we have to play at Roberto
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  Speaker 2: Clemente Stadium. Like there's a lot of history for baseball
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  Speaker 2: in Puerto Rico and they got to host it this year.
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  Speaker 2: They get to host it and like these games are
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  Speaker 2: gonna be on TV and for them to not have
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  Speaker 2: their best countrymen out there. I'm sad for it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: sad for how it's played out. I'm not saying it's
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  Speaker 2: fair or unfair. I'm just sad that the best guys
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  Speaker 2: don't get to play. And it's only going to continue
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  Speaker 2: because we had Miggey row on, Miguel Rojas on the
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  Speaker 2: other day, and anybody over thirty seven years old gets
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  Speaker 2: denied of insurance unless they change the unless they change
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  Speaker 2: the rules coming up. And I'd have to look at
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  Speaker 2: where guys are in their in their age. But if
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  Speaker 2: you're thirty four this year, you're not gonna be able
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  Speaker 2: to play in the next WBC. And it sucks because
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  Speaker 2: these guys are gonna get to play at home. If
• 7:05
  Speaker 2: you've never been to winter ball, and I'm not saying
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  Speaker 2: this is winter ball, this is a this is a
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  Speaker 2: step up from winter ball, but winter ball. They just
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  Speaker 2: want to see their team, They want to see their
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  Speaker 2: countrymen play. They even love it when foreigners come to play.
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  Speaker 2: I never played in Puerto Rico, but I play in
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  Speaker 2: the dr They want to see it and it's super important.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I hope they fix it next time around,
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  Speaker 1: and there are fixes. We've gone over it already. You
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  Speaker 1: can get other insurance coverage, not even just the player,
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  Speaker 1: the federation, the league, whatever, everybody together could do that.
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  Speaker 1: But it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: So this is part two on a series called fam
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: Grafts as in Tommy Fam. There was an article out
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  Speaker 1: about Tommy Fam mentioning certain ways where pirates batters had
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  Speaker 1: it a little rougher than others, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: his points were pretty interesting and I personally thought some
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  Speaker 1: of them were valid. Now there's more. But wait, Todd Father,
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  Speaker 1: there's more. Tommy gets into it online and I love
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  Speaker 1: when he's candid, So let's show you what we were
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  Speaker 1: talking about here. He replied that in addition to all
• 8:17
  Speaker 1: of the points that he brought up last time, and
• 8:19
  Speaker 1: there's a video you can look up on foul Territory
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  Speaker 1: to get it. But just to give you an example,
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  Speaker 1: he talked about how they're all in all these close games,
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  Speaker 1: the closers come in and shut them down, and they
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  Speaker 1: did have more of those late and close situations against
• 8:31
  Speaker 1: closers versus the mop up man. All that, right, but
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: he goes on Twitter and he says that the Pirates
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  Speaker 1: had a broken humidor that's not getting talked about. And
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: then Warmonger on Twitter said I hadn't heard that, and
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  Speaker 1: he goes all season and Tommy said, we know, and yes,
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  Speaker 1: Pittsburgh had a broken humidor that affected hitters negatively. I
• 8:54
  Speaker 1: was told they bought a new one, so should be
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  Speaker 1: better next year as in this season. This was I
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  Speaker 1: think in reply to Warmonger posting about teams hurt by
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  Speaker 1: the best fielding against them in twenty twenty five, and
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  Speaker 1: the team that was most hurt on that front was Pittsburgh.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is. Fielding run value really really nice number.
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  Speaker 1: They're thirty one against them, and I encourage you to
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  Speaker 1: read the article in The Athletic to learn more about it.
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  Speaker 1: But the part that the article didn't get to was
• 9:30
  Speaker 1: what Tommy threw out here after it was posted. It
• 9:32
  Speaker 1: was actually well after it was posted in the discussion
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  Speaker 1: has continued Tommy's acted there. So what do you think
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  Speaker 1: about the broken humidor conspiracy theory?
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  Speaker 4: The first first time I've ever heard anything about it. Listen,
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  Speaker 4: I Tommy fan is an intricate person. I think you
• 9:48
  Speaker 4: take what he says, and you don't take it lightly.
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  Speaker 4: For one at least, that's what I do. I mean
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  Speaker 4: from knowing him from playing against them. He's a serious dude,
• 9:55
  Speaker 4: but he'll also be funny in his own way. This
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  Speaker 4: seems to be ideal, I mean, seems to be possible.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, look at that field running rally. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that's it's up there on them.
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  Speaker 1: So I do you believe the conspiracy theory about the humidor?
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  Speaker 1: And if that's true? The big question I know that
• 10:13
  Speaker 1: Kratz is going to bring up is, yeah, it broken
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  Speaker 1: all season where most of the season, I don't didn't
• 10:18
  Speaker 1: fix it. That's is that the pirate way?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 4: Is that usually what happens. I wasn't long enough to
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: see a lot of stuff there. But if a ball
• 10:27
  Speaker 4: is not going to travel for me, I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 4: be out. I want I want that damn o humidor,
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  Speaker 4: you know. And so if I'm a hitter, I'm like, wow,
• 10:34
  Speaker 4: what the heck? I mean, thirteen feet is a good
• 10:37
  Speaker 4: distance you go from hitting a homer at you know,
• 10:39
  Speaker 4: three twenty five and then you hit it at three thirteen,
• 10:43
  Speaker 4: three twelve. You know, I don't know, I think baseball
• 10:46
  Speaker 4: is the same game at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 4: But it is what it is. It's a dry atmosphere
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  Speaker 4: in Pittsburgh anyway, So I don't they need all the
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: help they can get over there?
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  Speaker 1: Krats, Can you explain this?
• 10:58
  Speaker 2: The humid door used to just be in places like Colorado,
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: places like Arizona. The fact that Major League Baseball mandated
• 11:09
  Speaker 2: that every team get a humidor, I think they're still
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: trying to figure it out. They're tweaking it so that
• 11:16
  Speaker 2: each park plays similar. That's the reason that every team
• 11:19
  Speaker 2: got human doors at every team has the same quote
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  Speaker 2: Baseball's And if the fact that the humid door was broken,
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily blame the Pirates. You can see I'm
• 11:33
  Speaker 2: a pirate fan. I had my Pirate jersey there and everything.
• 11:35
  Speaker 2: It's super neat of me. Look at me, pirate fan,
• 11:38
  Speaker 2: pirate fan, pirate fan. But I don't think it's the
• 11:41
  Speaker 2: Pirates being cheap because the humid door. From what I
• 11:45
  Speaker 2: was told yesterday, I think that's when I first saw
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  Speaker 2: the article. Major League Baseball pays for these humid doors.
• 11:52
  Speaker 2: So is major League Baseball coming in and checking the
• 11:55
  Speaker 2: humid door every time? And if they are, then why
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  Speaker 2: did they not replace it if they aren't our teams
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  Speaker 2: manipulating their humidor a little bit. And like this whole
• 12:07
  Speaker 2: fielding runs value, I've never seen this, Like fielding runs
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  Speaker 2: against I've never seen it because everybody plays the same teams.
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  Speaker 2: It's not like the Pirates were the most unlucky because
• 12:20
  Speaker 2: other teams were making great plays against them. But the
• 12:23
  Speaker 2: Reds were also there. So who do they both play?
• 12:26
  Speaker 2: Can you show that list again, please, Jair, so I
• 12:28
  Speaker 2: can see the list because I know the Reds were
• 12:29
  Speaker 2: second Pirates in the Reds both play the Brewers and
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: the Cubs, who are really good defensively. And then you
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: go down the list there the Phillies were in the playoffs,
• 12:41
  Speaker 2: the Padres are in the playoffs, the Red Sox were
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: in the playoffs. You know that's top ten, so it's
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: not necessarily winning or losing. But I think it's part
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: of a case that Tommy's Tommy's looking for a job,
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: and anything that's dinged his numbers from being just a
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: little bit below or quite a bit below his career numbers.
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: He has a valid excuse. And the dude's smart. He
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  Speaker 2: is very well educated on what goes on in these games,
• 13:08
  Speaker 2: and you know he should have a job by this time, agreed.
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  Speaker 4: And I didn't even know about the humidor thing until
• 13:18
  Speaker 4: we brought this up today.
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  Speaker 3: You didn't know about it at all at all.
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  Speaker 1: I had no You never knew that there was a
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  Speaker 1: human or like, even back when it first became a
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  Speaker 1: thing in Colorado.
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  Speaker 3: And then I just went way over my head.
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  Speaker 4: I had no clue that you know, the balls are
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  Speaker 4: being I thought it was just for Ceagars.
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  Speaker 1: You played with rats, and he didn't tell you who Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: You didn't tell him about the humidor.
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  Speaker 2: I told him so, I told him, but he wasn't listening.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't listen to me, Todd.
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  Speaker 3: I was looking for that sizzler in Puerto Rico that
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  Speaker 3: we win.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, this is interesting, So I like Tommy
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  Speaker 1: just adding the yeah, I'm conspiracy theory. It's probably true.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he would just make that up totally.
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  Speaker 3: He never does. He's very very.
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  Speaker 2: Tommy's not gonna Tommy's not gonna make something look like
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  Speaker 2: he's He's very much black and white. Tommy is black
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  Speaker 2: and white when he plays, when he's on your team,
• 14:16
  Speaker 2: when he plays against you, when you're not even playing
• 14:18
  Speaker 2: against him. Like I saw him in Pittsburgh in April
• 14:21
  Speaker 2: this year and he introduced me to his mom and
• 14:25
  Speaker 2: he's like my mom biggest fan. But she's also the
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: toughest on me. There's no like, oh, it's so great
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: to be here. And she looks at me and she goes,
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: you're right, somebody needs.
• 14:36
  Speaker 3: To be tough on him.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: And I'm like, whoa, this is coming in Like, it's
• 14:41
  Speaker 2: just I don't think he's making this up. He's not
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: gonna make this up. He's very directed. You'll say he
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: didn't have a good season, or he said he has
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: a great season.
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: You like the opens. Who's the guy with that's Michael
• 15:03
  Speaker 3: Stop Stop, Wow.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: We might have to do a segment on Michael right now.
• 15:09
  Speaker 3: Michael, Michael Beer behind.
• 15:11
  Speaker 4: The Oh my god, you gave him some love. Go
• 15:15
  Speaker 4: for you, Mike God the show. It took me by stormy.
• 15:20
  Speaker 3: It was different.
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: Well, let's get to the padres. Uh. There was a
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: story two days ago about how the family court battle
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: with the late Peter Sidler's widow and then the brothers
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: and all that kind of got settled to an extent
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: so that they can keep rolling. Appears to be over.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: But here's the next layer that's important, more relevant. The
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: Padres are for sale and they're looking and one of
• 15:53
  Speaker 1: the big names that was brought up is the owner
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: of the Warriors, Joe lacam who's on the team. Since
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: you know, the most valuable NBA franchise, it's a layup question.
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: The layup question.
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  Speaker 3: No, I just said it. Oh didn't they?
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: At least this article said the Warriors. Is that wrong?
• 16:14
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: I always think, yeah, I think that's the most valuable.
• 16:19
  Speaker 3: I'm not the most valuable franchise in the league after
• 16:24
  Speaker 3: winning four NBA titles.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: At least, you know, And these estimates, it all depends
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: on what you sell for, right, But the estimates here
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: is this Forbes usually eleven Bill Warriors, ten Bill Lakers.
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: Knicks are right behind around that number as well. But
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: the point is he built that franchise into a powerhouse.
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: And sure you got some talent around it, there's no doubt,
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: But it takes more than that. There are teams with
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: talent that can't figure it out. Our culture, yeah, our
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: sports had Trout and Otani on the same team.
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  Speaker 3: How'd that go?
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: So anyway, initial bids are expected near the end of
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: this month, and the Athletic is reporting that the Padres
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: are seeking about three billion dollars. Three billion dollars record
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: sale in baseball is two point four to two bill.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: That's when Steve Cohen bought the Mets in twenty twenty.
• 17:13
  Speaker 1: So even if they fall well short of the three bill,
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: there's a big gap between two four to two and three,
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: So it looks like they'll get a number that is
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: a record in the sport. Forbes estimates the team's worth
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: right now at one point nine to five bill. They're
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: asking for a little more, and I think they're going
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: to get a little more.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: Where does all that money go to?
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: That goes to the owner's pockets? Oh, you're saying, like
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: who in the family. No, it's split around. He left
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: it to a bunch of them. That's what the fight
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: was over. So it gets funny.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: You just want to give me, you want to give
• 17:44
  Speaker 3: me one? In a little bit, I'll take five. You're
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: not in. You're not in?
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: I got that word. You know it's funny.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: I'll take point five.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: They have this AI text thing that automatically already sent
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: me Todd's not in, sugar.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: Yeah, man, I can make I can make my own
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: New Jersey major League team.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, well that's actually part of the story too.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: See Todd and me are doing a bit here. People
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: are worried that the team's gonna move again. And because
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: remember it's part of this legal battle at one point
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: that that was thrown out there by a think her
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: named Shiel, the widow of Peter Sidler. That's not happening. Okay,
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to act like I know everything, but
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: that sounds like legal bs in. This article from Dennis
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: Lynn and The Athletic helps to confirm that even if
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: someone like Joe Laika buys the team, despite his ties
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: to the Bay Area, he's not moving the team. The
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: team would be in San Diego. The Padres are a
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: powerhouse business wise, so they're staying where they're staying.
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: The he did move a team already. He moved his team,
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: the Warrior. Yeah, they left Oakland, right.
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: I think this is a different situation. Yes, I don't
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: think what Padres to San Francisco by the way he
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: has taken. They have a team, they're called the Giants.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: What fans want to know, long way of getting to this,
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: What fans want to know is how does this affect me?
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: And for me Kratz, it always depends on who the
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: team gets sold to. But if it ends up with
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: a guy like Joe Leko, who has deep pockets, I
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: think this would be a plus for Padres fans. They
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: have had a really fun run. They haven't won a
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: World Series, but I think it's a fun run for
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the Padres. They have become very relevant. I felt like
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: they were much less relevant for a long time. Peter
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Siler pumped money into this team and made it an
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: entertaining ballpark experience in a variety of ways. That includes
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: getting superstars, but it's not the only thing. He did
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: a really really nice job building this team up, and
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: then once he's gone, that's when you usually have the
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: issues someone else taking over that might not want it.
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: It looks like this family has recognized that their best
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to sell it and let someone else have it be
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: their baby. So if it ends up with a guy
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: like the Warriors runner, I don't know a ton about him,
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: but I'd be pretty pumped if I'm a Padres fan,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: because in the past year or so, they've had to
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: pump the breaks a little bit on the way that
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: they were spending.
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah, one hundred percent. They've had to.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: I mean, when you hear the rumors where there's smoke,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: there's fire, where that is, you don't know. But with
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Aj Pereler, he's never afraid of trying to win. I
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: was there in sixteen in spring training, and you know,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: they had to kind of take a step back. They
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: you know, they did the whole Kimbrel out of their trade,
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: but they still had some other pieces with Kemp and Upton,
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: you know, so there's been transition. But ever since then,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: it has been like, hey, we're here to win, and
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: a new ownership's gonna have to navigate a difficult time.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have to navigate a difficult time. But I
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: think the the cachet, the street cred that they've developed
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: in San Diego now the only professional sports team, major
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: professional sports team down there is is huge, and I
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: think this next ownership is going to have to navigate
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: a thirty eight thirty nine year old Manny Machado, a
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: thirty eight to thirty nine year old Xander Bogart, a
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: post ped Fernando Tatis. How's he gonna age? You know,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: they're gonna have to navigate that and I think an
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: ownership that has had success in the NBA, it's just
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: about building a culture. It's about building a and continuing
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: to build that culture. Can you win every year? No,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: If you have the drive to win every year, you're
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: just gonna give the fans a much better fan experience,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: which right now, I'm gonna say the Padres fan experience,
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: the actual game day experience, is the best in the game.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to argue that. I'm not going to agree,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna argue they're definitely in the top.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: They're up there.
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is a fun experience, top five easy. I
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: agree with you with this Lakeup guy too. Again, I
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: don't know a ton about him.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: I love this lake Up guy, Like, just like this billionaire.
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: He's tried to buy teams. He's trying to buy the A's,
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: the Angels and the Dodgers, you know what I've been
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: So does the league not want him? Is he going
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: to be falling out too much?
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I don't know the stuff. I don't I've been watching
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: Shark Tank lately. Yeah, and I don't know why. I
• 22:21
  Speaker 3: just got off the standard.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: But my wife and I have been like on this
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: kick and the money and these money the people are
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: just throwing out there.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna get over one point nine to five.
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: I don't care if it's the Padres or you know,
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: the Hack and sack Raiders. I don't care who it is.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: But listen, Brewsters millions, it's Brewsters billions.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I just like, how I'm ready
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: for something. I've been watching shock Man.
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: They're talking about guy asked for a million dollars the
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: other day for two point five percent equity in the business.
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: They're like, what are you doing here?
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: Bro?
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: I can go on about it. It's a fun show.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: I would love to be on that. Pitch something Todd.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: Do you do you go after the show's over, do
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: you go and type in the name of the company
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to see how they did?
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: I tried. Yeah, we've done it before. We we were
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: gonna order something. We're gonna order something, and then they weren't.
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: There was no company three years ago.
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: It's good.
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: It's good when you watch an old one. I've done that. Yeah,
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: that's what you're talking about, right, Krats. When you watch
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: an old one and they're hyping it up like it
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: is the next big thing in life and it's like
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: a seven year old episode and you go and it
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: goes er four or four.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Site doesn't so it doesn't.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Exit, and that the first thing that pops up on
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Google is how this company went into nothing after Shark Tank.
• 23:44
  Speaker 5: It's not blaming shark Tank. They're just saying this guy,
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: this guy on Shark Tank. But hey, I hope he
• 23:52
  Speaker 5: wins it if that's what he wants. But I feel
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: like it's gonna be a lot more than one point
• 23:55
  Speaker 5: nine five it is.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they want three, so there's a big gap.
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: Between still negotiating.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna finish as the top sail ever, it'll
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: top going on in basic money, they don't. They don't.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: They're only going to get like two and a half
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: billion dollars.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: There's a lot of business good difference.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: That's why we have a show.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Difference between profit and revenue.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Okay, Scott, I can't wait to learn all about that.
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Business one one.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: Yeah, we should get a guest on to teach me
• 24:28
  Speaker 1: about that.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: While we're on business one oh one, the Saint Louis
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Cardinals are moving off of the Regional Sports Networks FanDuel
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Sports Networks, which is run by a company Main Street
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: full disclosure. We used to be on that channel too,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: but that channel is in trouble right now.
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: So there was a report out there that the Cardinals
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: were going to make like forty million less this year
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: in TV money. Katie wou to the rescue part of
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Dodgers territory but also former Cardinals reporter for the f Athletic,
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: and she put out clarifying figures yesterday. She said Cardinals
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: TV revenue expected to see roughly forty mil under the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: MLB model, opposed to the roughly sixty they expected last year.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Unlike step fees with Vandal Sports Network, MLB broadcast revenue
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: is based on subscriptions and ad sales. To me, I
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: don't want to say it's like a sigh of relief,
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: but forty versus twenty twenty, I'm like, okay, I mean,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: much more doable. Plus they've gutted a lot of their
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: roster in a rebuild, so they're not in trouble by
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: any means in any way. Right, They've got money to
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: spend if they want it. They're going through a rebuild situation.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I think forty looks like a big number. Twenty You're like, okay,
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: that was more of what I would have expected them
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: to go down, from a money guarantee to more of
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: a percentage model. Here with MLB, which you know is
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: I will say, getting a ton of teams pretty last minute.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Yet again, yeah, hopefully they don't they don't screw that up.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: But here's here's one for you. They're gonna get their
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: money based on subscriptions, just like you get your money
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: based on ticket sales. Why do people come to games
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: because you're putting a good product on the field. So
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: here's a mind blower. You want more from your TV revenue.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: Put a good team out there. Don't got your whole team?
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: And I know the Cardinals have to gut their team
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: because that's the route that they're going. I like Heim
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: Bloom all that stuff, But gee, if everybody goes to
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a subscription, who do I want to buy a subscription to?
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: Oh?
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: The Cardinals? Yeah they have stuff. Lars newtbar and Alec Burlson, Uh,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: maybe I'll wait.
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: Till next year. Mason win Win and Mason win.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: And Jordan Walker like to me like I almost kind
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: of like it. Like it's like do you want to
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: work hourly or do you want to work based on
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: the business that you bring in, because if you if
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: you hustle, if you're a baller, and you ball out
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: the business you bring in, you're always in sales, you're
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: always gonna make more than you are hourly. Or you
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: just want to kind of glaze along and just hope
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: people buy subscriptions to watch your team play on TV. No,
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: Cardinals fans, they're loyal and they are die hard. They
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: love their team. But if you don't put an effort
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: out there, blue collar people ain't gonna come out. Just
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: not gonna happen.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of Cardinals fans are okay with
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: like a one year reset that's going on right now
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: where they're kind of carding. No you think they should
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: have pushed chips in this year.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no. I'm just saying that's the Cardinals have
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: never had to do that.
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: I know years.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's like a twenty year reign of the Cardinals.
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: They've never had to do that. So I don't know
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: if they're okay with it, like they just they've they've
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: had a winning team for so long that for me
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: to say the Cardinals fans are okay with it, I'd
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: have a hard time believing it. But hey, I hope
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: Cardinals fans say, y'all tell me we're totally fine with it.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: I'm just going off, you know, the little crowd online
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: that's like.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: Hey, we need to reset, Okay, reset.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: I don't love it.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: A long year.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is going to be a long year. Hey,
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: let's get to a trade. It was yesterday. We're not
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: breaking anything. Crazy Blaze Alexander of the Diamondbacks now of
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles, perhaps a top ten team in todd
• 28:32
  Speaker 1: Father's mind. To bring this show full circle, two minor
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: leaguers heading back, including one who apparently is a stuff
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: plus machine Wellington Arasina, but it's a utility infielder for Baltimore.
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: Gives them a little uh, a little depth. Sorry. The
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: stuff plus monster is Cage Stroud. By the way, he
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: was a top bullpen candidate for the Orioles. So that
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: one actually made me a little curious. You know something
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: that we don't because from Baltimore and I want to
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: compete again this year. You gotta have a money bullpen
• 29:07
  Speaker 1: to me, Kratz, I know we talk a lot about
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: their starting pitching, and I'm sure they're going to sign someone,
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: it might not be the someone that fans were dreaming of.
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: There could be some concern with the bullpen too. I
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: think everybody's looking at a team right now like this
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: offense should bang, This should be a top five offense
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: in the sport, but the pitching is a question mark.
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: So we'll see what the bullpen looks like for them.
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: I like that it's the Orioles and Diamondbacks my two
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: favorite teams to take the over this year because both
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: teams have massive questions in the bullpen. I mean, you're
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: talking about an Orioles team that had, you know, Danny Kooloom,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: who's been an incredible lefty. They had the Mountain Felix Baptista,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: they had your near Cano like and now they have
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: Hellsley as their closer, who you know, you hope he
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: didn't take what he brought from the Mets over to
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: the Orioles. You hope he he's the Cardinals closer, and
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: I think he will be because the closer role is
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: what got taken away from him when he went to
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: the Mets, and I just I think he'll slide in
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: there fine, but it's really gonna have to be a
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: it's gonna have to be all hands on deck for
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: that bullpen. But I love this for Blaize Alexander. I
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: think this was one of the reasons that they were
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: okay originally getting rid of kateel Marte, not because he
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: was going to be the starter, but because they were
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: still gonna be able to have Blaze bouncing around and
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: they were gonna hopefully bring in Jordan Lawler. And anytime
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: a guy is kind of like getting his feet wet
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: in the league, I think he almost had like a
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: two war last year as a utility guy. He was
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: going to play a major role. So they didn't get
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: rid of kateel Marte. They still have Jordan Lawler, and
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: they got Nolan Eronado, and it's like Heraldo Perdomo is
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: gonna play every day. So I love this for him
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: and his career. How he fits into Baltimore, that'll be
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: Craig Alberna and those boys over there fitting him into
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: the rotation. But anytime you get a utility guy that
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: can play short, can play third, can play second, like
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I hope, it's a better situation for him. But they
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: also have dudes over there that want to play every
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: single day with Westburg and Gunner Henderson and Jackson Holliday.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: It's tough to be a utility guy when the whole
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: infield is young and nobody replacing Pete Alonzo at first base.
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: That man's playing one hundred and sixty three if.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: You let him, no, that's right, but he'll be a
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: super utility bounce all around. And even though it's crowded
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: in Baltimore, maybe a little bit more of an opening
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: when you look at Arizona, it's like those dudes are
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: going to play every day again, health permitting, but they've
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: got an everyday set over there as well, so well trade,
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: we'll see what it looks like. And good call. He
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: it was almost a two win player on Baseball Reference war,
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: so I'm sure Baltimore was interested in that, intrigued by that.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: In good Friarzona, you get a bullpen arm. Congratulations to
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: one of my favorite broadcasters, Buck Martinez announces his retirement,
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: and man, he's called a ton of games. He is
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: a great dude, he is so dialed in. He's a
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: baseball lifer. So congratulations to him.
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: Said that now, so kind of late in the year,
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: might have been what do you mean?
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: I felt like like after the year ended, go out
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: and you know, maybe I don't know. All good either way.
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: Congratulations to Buck. Great guy, great great person. We talk
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: about Jersey all the time and his roots and everything,
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: and he just he has an understanding of the game
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: which most broadcasters, well some broadcasters don't, but he has
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: this inkling have been there before I had done it,
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: and old school kind of fashion, and he's not afraid
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: to tell it how it is. So you walk off
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: into the sunshine and enjoy a little bit of beach
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: time wherever you're going.