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Slumping Padres & A’s, LIT Angels, Tigers Rule! Free Liam Hendriks? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And I'm gonna give you young catchers out there, lesson
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  Speaker 1: get in the umpire's face. You get ejected before the
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  Speaker 1: picture gets ejected. Never let your picture get ejected. You
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  Speaker 1: jump in front of the empire, and you divert his
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  Speaker 1: attention to you.
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  Speaker 2: AJA. How does it feel to be the father of
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  Speaker 2: a stage champ Oh?
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  Speaker 1: I already was that it's my son's second one.
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  Speaker 2: The father of a two time stage had.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, it's awesome. It's an awesome thing for my kids.
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  Speaker 1: My son, all the kids that he played with for
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  Speaker 1: the last four or five years. They won when he
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  Speaker 1: was in eighth grade. He was basically a cheerleader on
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  Speaker 1: that team, and then this year got to play caught
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  Speaker 1: every almost every inning of every game. That's him right here.
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  Speaker 1: After they beat Triney Christian, a top ten team in
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  Speaker 1: the country. They pretty much whooped their ass and that's
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  Speaker 1: me and him afterwards. Pretty cool moment for me. I
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  Speaker 1: started my career there in four Myers with the Twins.
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  Speaker 1: I got to watch my son in his high school
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  Speaker 1: career on the same fields that that I started it on.
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  Speaker 1: So pretty awesome moment for me. Pretty awesome moment, especially
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  Speaker 1: for the kids. Man the kids. They put in a
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  Speaker 1: lot of work. They lost, they got smashed last year there,
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  Speaker 1: and they came back this year and beat two really
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  Speaker 1: good teams. And the team they played yesterday was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be, you know, the best team in the state.
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  Speaker 1: Well TFA proved to the best team in the state.
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  Speaker 2: Is damn like trop love that they were on the field,
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  Speaker 2: the Twins field in Fort Myers right the main field there.
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  Speaker 1: In him and stadium. Yeah, I mean they're they're called
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  Speaker 1: the Mighty Muscles now. I played there in nineteen ninety
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  Speaker 1: seven when they were the mirror, the Mirror. I also
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  Speaker 1: got to it was also cool my my Golf Coast
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  Speaker 1: League when it was called the Golf Coast League before
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  Speaker 1: my Major League Baseball decided to get rid of all
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  Speaker 1: the minor leagues. Uh and manager came Jose Marzan, who
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  Speaker 1: is now in a wheelchair because I think he has MS.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure he has MS, but I got he
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  Speaker 1: came to the game yesterday, so it's pretty awesome. I
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  Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a long time, so it's great
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  Speaker 1: to catch up with him. And you know, listen, minor
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  Speaker 1: league managers, minor league coaches, they don't get a lot
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  Speaker 1: of credit crafts will tell you. But this guy and
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  Speaker 1: I was seventeen years old, living on my own. He
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  Speaker 1: was our manager. He put up with a lot of
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  Speaker 1: crap from a bunch of high school buttholes that we were,
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  Speaker 1: but you know what, he rolled with it. And he's
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  Speaker 1: still a scout for the Twins. He does a lot
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  Speaker 1: of computer scouting for the Twins. Lives in four Myers
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  Speaker 1: and he came to the game yesterday, so it was
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  Speaker 1: great to see him catch up with him. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's always cool when you see people that helped shape
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  Speaker 1: your career. And I thanked them profusely for being around,
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  Speaker 1: helping me be a man and teaching me how to
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  Speaker 1: play professional baseball.
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  Speaker 2: That's cool. That's probably also why they switched the name
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  Speaker 2: from Miracle to muscles crats. They're like these high school buttholes,
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  Speaker 2: they're no miracles.
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  Speaker 3: It was it was Fort Misery down there. It got
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  Speaker 3: hot in the Golf Roast League. There was a reason
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  Speaker 3: it felt like Philly. Fort Myers was where the sun
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  Speaker 3: rose like. It felt like it was just hotter there
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  Speaker 3: something about it. I have no idea why.
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  Speaker 2: But it's on the water too though it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of heath yet a little bit with the heat.
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  Speaker 1: But I guess now where not where those stadiums are.
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  Speaker 1: Those stadiums are not on the water.
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  Speaker 2: They are far that's true. That's true for a big,
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  Speaker 2: big city.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, far far from the water. So they just know
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  Speaker 1: that they are not. Uh, it was hot. It was
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  Speaker 1: hot in the last two days and they played at
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  Speaker 1: one and noon, so I mean it was hot. It
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  Speaker 1: was hot. Hot.
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  Speaker 2: Florida Summers, get ready, Tampa Bay Rays. I know they're
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  Speaker 2: on the road a lot.
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  Speaker 1: No, they played yesterday. We were driving home. We were
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  Speaker 1: driving home yesterday and they were in like the sixth
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  Speaker 1: inning and it was like ninety nine on my car thermometer.
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  Speaker 1: And they're out there playing in Tampa. It's it's it's awful.
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  Speaker 1: It's awful.
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  Speaker 2: We can ask Chandler Rome about it later in the show.
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  Speaker 2: He'll join us as he's covering that Astros Rays series.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's charge streakers today. Let's hit some streakers
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  Speaker 2: a j Let's start with the San Diego Pot. They've
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  Speaker 2: lost five in a row and this was an opportunity
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  Speaker 2: for them over the past week to vault ahead of
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers, right, who have been more mediocre this month.
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  Speaker 2: I know, they just won a series against the Diamondbacks,
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  Speaker 2: which is great, but the Padres aren't just losing, they're
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  Speaker 2: getting smacked. The Mariners swept them up and it was
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  Speaker 2: a very lopsided overall score in that series, and then
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  Speaker 2: yesterday they get blanked fourteen nothing to the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: They've got a day game today. But anything we should
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  Speaker 2: be aware of with this team. If you look at
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  Speaker 2: the team stats since they had the hot start, pretty
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  Speaker 2: much everything is down, of course, power and most of
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  Speaker 2: the offensive stats. They're running much less too. Remember we
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  Speaker 2: were like, hey, this team's gonna run a lot. They
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  Speaker 2: have significantly slowed down their action on the base paths.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think theres anything to worry about. Every team goes
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  Speaker 1: like this, right, it's every I mean, the Dodgers lost
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  Speaker 1: how many they lost, how many in a row earlier,
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  Speaker 1: no one was panicked about them. So I think it's
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  Speaker 1: just one of those ruts where go up and down.
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  Speaker 1: And they've had a tough five games. But Pirates will
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  Speaker 1: probably win fifteen to nothing today. Who knows who do
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  Speaker 1: they play? Oh, they play the Blue Jays, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, it's just a rough It's just
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  Speaker 1: a rough five games for them. You know, it's just
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  Speaker 1: because they're in the division they're in. They can't really
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  Speaker 1: afford to lose this many games in a row because
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  Speaker 1: the other teams are so good. But the other teams
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  Speaker 1: aren't playing great either, so they're they're fine. They're fine.
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  Speaker 3: As I said, they haven't lost much ground. Dodgers haven't
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  Speaker 3: been winning every game. The only reason that five game
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  Speaker 3: skid is concerning for the Padres is because I don't
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  Speaker 3: think there's a lot of leeway in this division. You
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  Speaker 3: can't look up and go, that's okay, we're five and
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  Speaker 3: a half six out at this At some point in
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  Speaker 3: the season, oh yeah, we can make that up on
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers. Like you have to keep pace, and this
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  Speaker 3: was a time when the Dodgers had lost four straight
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  Speaker 3: at home. They're sitting there like whatever, that was historic,
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  Speaker 3: like seven years. You just have to keep pace with
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  Speaker 3: your division. So fortunately for them, everybody's a falter a
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  Speaker 3: little bit. They're still a really good team. But you
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  Speaker 3: can't lose. You can't fall back too much.
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  Speaker 2: The skid kind of started when they torched the Rockies
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  Speaker 2: with I think thirty five runs over a two day span,
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  Speaker 2: and then they faced major league clubs, clubs that have
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  Speaker 2: double digit wins. As we're getting close to June, so
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  Speaker 2: this team's in one of those runners in scoring position
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  Speaker 2: ruts to AJ which obviously plays a big factor on
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  Speaker 2: a game by game basis exactly, it's a wave. So
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  Speaker 2: they went over eight in that loss yesterday to the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays. That means the skid is O for thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty three abs hit lists with runners in scoring position
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  Speaker 2: is probably only going to happen once in a season.
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  Speaker 1: Well yeah, and then they go seven for seven today
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  Speaker 1: and tomorrow and they win both games and they're seven
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  Speaker 1: for forty and you're like, man, that's not as bad
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  Speaker 1: as over thirty three, right, I mean, it's it's just
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  Speaker 1: one of those weird quirks in a season that happens. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: baseball's weird. Baseball's hard, hitting as hard, but you go
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  Speaker 1: get you gotta keep your lows as high and your
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  Speaker 1: high side. You're always trying to keep everything high.
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  Speaker 2: Let's show that board of the two offenses. So through
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  Speaker 2: April seventeenth, this team was fifteen and four, blazing hot start.
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  Speaker 2: They were scoring four point six runs per game. Since then,
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  Speaker 2: they're twelve and sixteen, scoring just under four runs per game,
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  Speaker 2: three point nine to six. Batting average significantly down, on
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  Speaker 2: base significantly down, slugging down a ton. Home run number
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  Speaker 2: similar in a lot more games, and the stolen base
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  Speaker 2: number cut in half in a lot more games. Twenty
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  Speaker 2: four stolen bases in their first nineteen games, twelve stolen
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  Speaker 2: bags in their next twenty eight games. I mean, I'm
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  Speaker 2: with aj here Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: No, here's the thing, Scott. You can look at these
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  Speaker 1: and you say what you want, but Krowts will tell
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  Speaker 1: you this. When you're hitting and you're feeling good, you
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  Speaker 1: steal more bases and you're more aggressive. When you're not hitting,
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  Speaker 1: everyone just shuts it down because you're like, man, I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to possibly make it out or do something
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  Speaker 1: crazy on them. This is yeah. When you're not hitting,
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  Speaker 1: everything looks like crap. Food tastes like crap, the hotel
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  Speaker 1: beds feel like crap. Everything is crap. And then as
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  Speaker 1: soon as you start hitting, guess what, the whole team
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  Speaker 1: is happy. It's weird. It's weird how people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have any energy. Well, we got two hit,
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  Speaker 1: that's what. There's not a lot of energy. Now when
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  Speaker 1: you get two hit, guys, happy hit day.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. Let's hit one streaker on the other side
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  Speaker 2: and then we'll get ready for Will Benson. The Angels
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  Speaker 2: have won six games in a row, and right now
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  Speaker 2: they're beating down on the A's who have lost eight
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  Speaker 2: games in a row. So there's a big flip flop
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  Speaker 2: going on in the AL West. I know, AJ's looking
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  Speaker 2: like damn, I thought the A's were going to be
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  Speaker 2: better than this. They are plunging and the Angels are
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  Speaker 2: coming back to life. I mean, basically, everybody had them
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  Speaker 2: dead already in the season, and this little six gamer
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  Speaker 2: is putting them in wild card contention, you know, back
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  Speaker 2: in a mix at least to be relevant here. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: this is what we've seen with the Twins in the
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  Speaker 2: American League Central, where you look the Twins and you're like, oh,
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  Speaker 2: they're done. They're dead. I think the Oils are actually done.
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  Speaker 2: But for a lot of these other teams AJ, it's
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  Speaker 2: too early to actually do a burial ceremony when we're
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  Speaker 2: in mid May.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm more worried about the A's and the Angels,
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  Speaker 1: Like what happened? Days were twenty two and twenty and
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  Speaker 1: playing great, and now they've lost eight in a row, Like,
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  Speaker 1: what the heck happened? That's what I want to know.
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  Speaker 1: What happened to my A's. My A's are never I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I picked you guys to be there at the end,
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  Speaker 1: and here you are losing eight games in a row
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of May. Like, what that's the thing?
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  Speaker 1: To me? Is Angels great, they're hot with days? What
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  Speaker 1: the heck happened in the Sacramento Oakland West Athletics, whatever
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  Speaker 1: the Las Vegas whatever the hell you are is Mark
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  Speaker 1: fighting Markcotzy's What the.
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  Speaker 3: Hell does it mean that if you just score runs
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  Speaker 3: all the time and you're just bludgeoning teams and you
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  Speaker 3: have these long, long games that they're having, you know,
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  Speaker 3: it's like nine to eight, twelve to seven, they're winning those.
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  Speaker 3: Is that where you're out? Are they having a case
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  Speaker 3: of getting worn out? Is the youth of this team,
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  Speaker 3: the inexperience of this team getting to them.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so.
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  Speaker 3: I was just looking at their schedule and I think
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  Speaker 3: they just ran into some hot teams right now. Now,
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  Speaker 3: obviously people will say, well, they ran into hot teams
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  Speaker 3: because they were playing the A's who were playing Barrett,
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  Speaker 3: But you gotta I think they were probably not playing
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  Speaker 3: better than you'd think they were going to. But they
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  Speaker 3: came off a stretch where they played the Marlins and
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  Speaker 3: then they went the Mariners, who's one of the best
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  Speaker 3: teams in baseball. Then they played the Yankees, then they
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  Speaker 3: played the Dodgers, the Giants, now the Angels. Is when
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  Speaker 3: they probably looked at the schedule and they go, we
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  Speaker 3: can get it back there. But they haven't because the
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  Speaker 3: Angels and Logan o'hapi have been hitting moonshot dingers.
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  Speaker 2: So I'll just give you those stats on the way
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  Speaker 2: out here for run Loud. In this eight game losing
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  Speaker 2: streak going backwards with the Dodgers series to now nine
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  Speaker 2: nineteen nine, one, three, four, seven, ten, it's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of runs. They're not gonna win most of those games.
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  Speaker 1: The run differentials, they're minus sixty nine dinner for two
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  Speaker 1: or minus sixty nine. By the way, that doesn't matter
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  Speaker 1: to Scott.
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  Speaker 2: Diggity, but they matter this year.
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  Speaker 3: They're they're giving up so many runs. Before they were
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  Speaker 3: just keeping up with the.
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  Speaker 2: Other runs exactly. And hey, the Angels are scoring a
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  Speaker 2: lot of runs. That offense is looking good right now,
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  Speaker 2: and the bullpen's getting it done. They had some issues
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  Speaker 2: with the bullpen at one point. You know, people are
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  Speaker 2: getting critical of Ron Washington's decision making. They've seem to
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  Speaker 2: hit their stride again. They're scoring late and then they're
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  Speaker 2: holding those leads. We'll see what happens. I'm gonna do
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  Speaker 2: a trivia question or two for you today. So there's
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  Speaker 2: three active MLB hitters with at least three thousand played
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  Speaker 2: appearances that have a three hundred or better her career
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  Speaker 2: batting average. One player, there's one, and one guy just
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  Speaker 2: recently crossed the plate appearance threshold to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be actively. That's two.
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  Speaker 1: There's three of them.
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  Speaker 2: There's three. Third one is kind of tougher. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's a long time name, Mookie, not Mookie, he's under
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  Speaker 2: it's a it's a long time name. It's a most
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  Speaker 2: likely future Hall of Famer. No, he's I mean, if
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  Speaker 2: I give you this little hint, it'll help former Crats
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  Speaker 2: teammate and is No, he's not tall three oh four.
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  Speaker 1: I thought I thought he would be hired. Then I
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  Speaker 1: thought he'd be in the three ten nights. That's so high.
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  Speaker 1: That is a high.
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  Speaker 2: Three or four is the new three forty years of that.
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  Speaker 1: I know. I'm just saying I thought he would be
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  Speaker 1: I thought he would be in the three.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's probably dropped a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he has to.
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  Speaker 2: You don't ask trivia. Back to the trivia questionnaire.
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  Speaker 1: Man, Oh, sorry, sorry, I don't know he's got MVP.
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  Speaker 1: I know that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he probably has a batting title. If I had
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  Speaker 2: to guess, Hey, j we've got that tweet on the
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  Speaker 2: Pirates record. Noah Hailes, beat writer for the Pirates, been
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  Speaker 2: on this show. Twenty six straight games with four or
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  Speaker 2: less run scored was marked yesterday as matching the longest
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  Speaker 2: streak in modern baseball history. Nineteen thirty one. Boston Braves
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  Speaker 2: also had this streak. Nineteen sixty nine. Giggoty California Angels
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  Speaker 2: also had this streak. That's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Derek Shelton fall. No, right, Derek Shelton fall. Oh he
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  Speaker 1: got he got fired, right, it's his It was his
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  Speaker 1: fault though, right, that they couldn't score any runs. That
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  Speaker 1: the team didn't bring in any offensive players this offseason.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Tommy Fam hasn't been great, but Tommy FAM's
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  Speaker 1: not supposed to carry an offense for two months at
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  Speaker 1: a time where he's supposed to be just a piece, right,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, where's the offense where if you're not the pitch.
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  Speaker 1: I mean they did lose Jared Jones, which sucks because
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  Speaker 1: he could be out till twenty seven, which really sucks.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean you have Paul Skins. Paul Skeins goes
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  Speaker 1: out and gives up two hits, loses one nothing. It
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  Speaker 1: seems like every time. Look at their eras Bill Benson
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  Speaker 1: mentioned it. Look at the Pirates eras. They have like
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  Speaker 1: four guys in like the top like twenty of baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and they're awful because they can't score. You gotta score
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  Speaker 1: to win.
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  Speaker 2: At some point, I did a radio hit the other
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  Speaker 2: day where they were like, will any of these manager
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  Speaker 2: changes lead to significant changes in win losses? You know,
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  Speaker 2: like twenty twenty two, Rob Thompson took over for Joe
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  Speaker 2: Girardi and you can look up the history there that worked. Krats,
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  Speaker 2: we're going over three on this one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was a good team. Scott. You need to
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• 16:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: That's what he said.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 16:32
  Speaker 2: That's what he said. We've got some comments from Liam
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Hendrix to Alex Spear of Weei, and we'll start here.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: There were a couple games where it was like I
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: was the last guy in the bullpen. It's a new
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: experience for me. I felt like I had been pitching
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: well to get trusted in a couple of those situations,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: and it didn't come to fruition. We had a couple
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: of chats I got in there today and it didn't
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: quite work out. I feel like I haven't been pitching enough.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: If you want me to be me, I've got to pitch.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: I'll rust before I wear out, and that's something. But
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: at the end of the day, I've got to reward
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: them for throwing me by getting guys out. If I'm
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: not doing that, I don't deserve to pitch. Alex Korra
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: addressed the comments and said we have to use him.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: That's on me, that's on the pitching department. We've got
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to trust him. There's a reason he's here, been there,
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: done that. Right now, numbers wise, he's been solid. The
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: fastball's trending up, which is great. He's been able to
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: bury the slider and the curveball, which is great. We
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: have to use him. AJ thoughts on.
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: This, okay, First of all, Alex Cora saying, it's on
• 17:30
  Speaker 1: the pitching department. Aren't you the manager? Don't you make
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: those decisions who comes into the games? Also, he has
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: a five and a half VRA, so to say, like
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: he's getting guys out, I don't know about that five
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and a half VRA. In a bullpen, that's usually not
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: getting a whole lot of guys out because unless he's
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: coming in with all clean innings, he's also torching other
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: dudes runs too, So let's not forget about that. But like,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: you've been hurt, Like when he says I'll rust before
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: I wear out, he's been hurt. And I know he
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: had cancer, but he's also had his arm worked on
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: a couple of times. So hey, dude, just be happy
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: that you're getting to pitch, like until you can go
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: out and prove and you get four or five scoreless
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: outings in a row. You're not gonna get higher leverage situations.
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: Guess what, you might have to be the twenty sixth
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: guy until you work your way back up to that.
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: So far, I mean, I'm looking at his numbers right now.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: He's zero to one with a five five six era.
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: I mean, there's not really any way I can look
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: at this and say, Man, he's I know it. I
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: mean I don't know. I mean I don't know. A
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: lot of walks a lot. You know, he's still striking
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: guys out, but I don't know. Sometimes you just got
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: to work your way back to that. You've been out
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: for years, you've been out for years. You got to
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: get back into it. That's it.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: His last two outings really ballooned his era. He gave
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: five runs in his last two outings two and three
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: before that, he was doing well, but he also really
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: didn't pitch. He pitched on the tenth of May, then
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: four days off, didn't pitch, and then on the twenty
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: first he pitched again.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: So it's a lot of days off. But this is
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the bullpen life bullpen.
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: All the time, we talk about starters not going long
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: enough because the bullpen's gonna get worn out. Oh, pictures
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: are bullpen guys are throwing too much? Then when they
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: don't throw enough, Oh we're not throwing enough. We're stay rusty.
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: This is what goes on. And this is why, honestly,
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: it takes a saint to be a bullpen coach. You
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: can't just hang out down there and hear these dudes constantly,
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: I want to get in the game. I want to
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: get in the game. I am throwing too much. What
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: are they trying to do? Wear us down? Like it's
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: a fine line for a manager to constantly be like, Okay,
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: I got talk to all these guys. These guys are pissed,
• 19:42
  Speaker 3: they're happy, They're always this and that. To me, Corus
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: saying this is the pitching department, Like the pitching department
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: has to make sure this happens. Like, I don't know why,
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: why the pitching department. You're the manager, you get paid
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: way more than the pitching coach.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: I'm curious about the hierarchy not in Major League.
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: Baseball before we get into this, but Liam Hendrix isn't
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: like the eighth inning guy. He's not the closer, right,
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: He's a guy that's still coming back from injury. So
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: unless you're the closer or a hot, super high leverage guy,
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: then you're not going to have a defined role. You
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: just got to kind of pitch when you get to pitch.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm sorry. He's a veteran guy. I mean,
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: I know he wants to pitch every other day or whatever.
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: But if the game doesn't dictate that, then they're not
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: going to put him into that game. If it's a
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: one nothing game in the eighth inning, Liam Hendricks hadn't
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: earned the trust yet of Alex Cora and the pitching
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: department to be into that game. That's just the way
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: it is.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: A j Do you get the vibe that Alex core
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: is pretty straightforward. He's got dirt and his spikes now
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: managing this team for a bit, including a World Series title,
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: and he's able to point things out that other teams
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: would be a little more hidden about, like, yeah, there's
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: a pitching department that includes the front office and they
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: go over usage. There is lineup decision making. There is
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: where do we put devers or who do we put
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: at first base? Right, there is internal dissension. Dissension's okay, right,
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: debate's good. You don't want yes men all around your
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: organization just saying yes to one person. So how do
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: you think the dynamics working here? I feel as if
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Cora and Breslo have healthy debates and then Cora will
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: just kind of lay out or maybe in a little
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: bit of hidden messaging layout that one person wants Liam
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: to pitch more, one doesn't. One person wants Rafaeld Devers
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: at first base, one doesn't.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean he does it. He does it subtle ways.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: He does it very you know, not out front, not
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: he just is kind of subtle and takes his little
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: you know, poo poo poo, poo poo poo poom here
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: and there. But you know, listen, he's won a World
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: Series in Boston, So how many guys can say that?
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: So he can do that?
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it.
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: Here's some cachet and I know, Scott, you like that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: But is that going to be his downfall that he's
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: like taking a little kind of pot shot at all
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: the people because there's a lot of people giving him
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: information that I'm sure a guy who knows a lot
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: about what's going on is like, why are you telling
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: me this? I know for a fact that the organization
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: came to him after the year that they won the
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: World Series and said, had you followed our pitching recommendations,
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: the era would have been half a run lower. And
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: if you look back at the eighteen team or era,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: it was pretty good. But it was like, I think
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: there's some I think there's some jabbing back and forth.
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: But every manager gets their sheet. It's about this big
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Every manager gets their sheet and they go pitched and
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: it's like how many innings they've pitched, how many like
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: the previous five days, and then how many pitches and
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: then it's like green and red and the columns are available,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: not available, And you kind of have to follow that
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: because they believe that that is health and not health pictures.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: If you don't follow that, it's set out by people
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: who the organization usually believes is smart, are smarter than
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: the manager.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's your bullpen card right there. I mean my
• 23:14
  Speaker 2: thing is AJ probably saw some of that and it
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: worked out for one season for sure. In two thousand
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: and five, right, Kenny Williams and Ozzi Gihan would disagree
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: on things AJ and they still found a lot of success.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: Disagreement is not always a bad thing. It's not because
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: you can learn new things. As long as you're willing
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: to listen to the other person, then it's not a
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: bad thing. You know, it can't be. And I think
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: that's one thing that's happened to some certain organizations. And
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: we can look at the records and choose them, but
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: they're always like, oh, yes, you're right, you're right, you're
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: doing this the right way. Oh I'll just you know, internally,
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: move up somebody because they were telling me what I
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: wanted to hear, and now I'm gonna put them in
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: charge because they make me feel like my opinion is right.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: And we see it in organizations and you got to
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: have somebody there to tell the person who's in charge, hey,
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: maybe this isn't the right move. But a lot of
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: people don't like that because if they're in charge, they
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: want people to say yes, yes, you're doing the right thing,
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: and it's not always the best yep.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of companies and even leagues that are
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: like that, where you just have a bunch of yes men,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and then it leads to demise or at least to
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: less productivity. It is what it is. So AJU weren't
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: on for the Walker Buehler versus Mike Esterbrook versus the
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Mets to an extent situation. I'll show a couple tweets
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: from it. Francisco Lindor says there's no animosity between him
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: and Bueller. Quote, I ain't got nothing against Bueller. I'm
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: a lover, but yeah, I wanted to get him out
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: of the game. It puts them at a disadvantage because
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: he was like doing the Hey get him out of
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: the game. And then also Alex Corus said he laughed
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: with the Lindor yesterday morning at breakfast about Lindor, urgent
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: Core and Bueler to get ejected in the game. AJ
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: your thoughts on all that.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: And Bueller deserved to get ejected. But here's my thing
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: with this. Narvaia's the catcher is the one who's got
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: to stop it. He went for the pitcher, And I'm
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: gonna give you young catchers out there, lesson get the
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: umpire's face. You get ejected before the picture gets ejected.
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: Never let your picture get ejected. You jump in front
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: of the empire and you divert his attention to you.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: And if you have to go, then you go as
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the catcher. Don't let your pitcher be the one to
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: go now if it happens quick and the umpires a
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: quick trigger. But this was building. And if you watch
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: narvaias he doesn't go, he goes to Bueller. If he
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: just stops, Esterbrook turns around and gets in his face.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: Esterbrook loses his attention on Bueller and it goes right
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: to Narvaia's and then he listen, Narvaia's might get ejected. Fine,
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: you'll take your catcher getting ejected over your starting pitcher.
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: That was dealing.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: It's a good take. We didn't even cover that part
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: of it. Kratz. Did you notice that?
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: I like that? No, I didn't notice it.
• 25:50
  Speaker 3: Young catcher though, like AJ said, he was you know,
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: he was just in the bushes for a while, so
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: he doesn't have a lot of.
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Experience up there.
• 25:58
  Speaker 3: Narbias, Carlos, it's not osh right, right, right right, it's
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: a different Narbias. He was another Yankees prospect catcher who's
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: swinging it. So maybe he's like, ah, whatever, Bueler, I'm
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: just gonna hit a dinger, so you get out of there.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: It's important. It's important thing that AJ brought up.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Aj, you missed the announcement yesterday, so I'd like to
• 26:22
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• 26:52
  Speaker 2: Aj. The foul Territory Shop dot com list is much longer.
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• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Got quarters of in there? Is there a quarter zip
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: in there? Oh? Yeah, okay, then we could. I'm gonna
• 27:05
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• 27:07
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• 27:09
  Speaker 3: Who's going to be the general manager that wears it.
• 27:11
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• 27:15
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• 27:16
  Speaker 1: The quarter zips.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: Jim Bowden, No, it's Benish, Yeah, Jim needs something in Gucci.
• 27:22
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• 27:26
  Speaker 1: What's a loo? Is that Alo? You mean? Alo? Alo?
• 27:29
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• 27:33
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• 27:36
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• 27:41
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• 27:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, I'm still wearing my original hat and T
• 27:45
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• 27:47
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• 27:48
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• 28:05
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• 28:07
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• 28:10
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• 28:12
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• 28:13
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  Speaker 2: that's a Cardinals team that's playing good ball. We had
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  Speaker 2: a good debate for a while AJ with Kratz and
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  Speaker 2: myself the other day about the legitimacy of the Cardinals
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  Speaker 2: as playoff contenders this year. But you're at least running
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  Speaker 2: into the hottest team in the National League and the
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  Speaker 2: Tigers are getting the job done here. So for the
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  Speaker 2: first time since two thousand and six, they have the
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  Speaker 2: a playoff spot. But what do you think about the Tigers?
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  Speaker 2: And then if you want to drop some thoughts on
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  Speaker 2: the Cardinals too, aj I was saying, how I think
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  Speaker 2: that they're going to likely hang around and if so,
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  Speaker 2: by at the trade headline, Kratz, I guess you can
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  Speaker 2: give your quick take before AJ decides who was right
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  Speaker 2: and wrong. So I have to wait, no, no, tell,
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  Speaker 2: give them the context first. I think AJ wasn't paying
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  Speaker 2: attention to the show.
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  Speaker 5: The other day.
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  Speaker 2: He was watching the Florida State title.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean it's a matter of are the Cardinals
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: going to Cardinals going to be able to hit and
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: stay in it or because they have no juice but
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: they're leading it on base percentage. And I said, no,
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: they're not going to stay it. Scott said, yeah, they
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: are going to stay in it. I think they'll stay
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: in it because of the division they're in. I think
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: that's why I think they'll stay in it, because of
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: the division they're in. By the way, two thousand and
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: six Tigers lost to the Cardinals in the World Series
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: and the eighty three win Cardinals, by the way, but
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: the Tigers that year, that was when the whole there's
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: too much rest started because remember they couldn't do a PfP.
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: They Fernando Rodney threw like four balls away and they
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: were messing.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: Up pfps left and right. So under Verlander, that was
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: that was when the whole oh we had two much
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: much time off, whole thing started so the two thousand
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: and six Tigers, they live a bad taste in my mouth. Plus,
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: we won ninety something games with the White Sox that
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: year and didn't make the playoffs. We finished in the third
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: place in our division after winning the World Series year before.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, didn't that happen in twenty twelve when
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: the Giants won? Didn't the Tigers have a long break?
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  Speaker 2: Or am I off on that?
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah? The Giants swept them, I think.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, they swept him for sure because that.
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  Speaker 1: The Cardinals I think won in five and six. They
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: were the least amount of wins I think they ever
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: to win the World Series, eighty three wins. They like
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: snuck in and that was when that the Adam Wayne
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: and right Carlos Beltron curveball year and then oh yeah
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: in the catch by the lefty over the wall and
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: Andy right like that was that was a quirky year.
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: And then the Cardinals get to the World Series and
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: it was like Tigers are gonna smash him and Cardinals
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  Speaker 1: whooped them.
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. It's weird remember talking about a two thousand
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: and six World Series and playoff run and I feel
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: like we kind of sound like the old guys now
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: was almost twenty years ago, but feels like yesterday. Anyway,
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: Thoughts on the Tigers here. Do you think that they're
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: the best team in the American League.
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  Speaker 1: Right now? Yes? If they stay they're pitching stays healthy. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: if Schooba and Flaherty stay good and their bullpen guys
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: stay healthy, I think they are because A. J. Hinch
• 33:18
  Speaker 1: knows how to maneuver the bullpen, and if you get
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: Hobby Bayaz to continue to play the way he is,
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: and I mean, yes, they can be for sure. They're
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: they're and they're confident. The thing about the Tigers this
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: year is they know they can do it enough because
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: they did it last year. So that brings a whole
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: different element to your team.
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: They have a rotation this year. Bullpens should be close
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: to just as good. Lineup should be much better with
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: Baiez and Torkolsen not really a big part of last
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: year's team, and they've got like three or four outfielders
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: on the injured list too. I was listening to Scott Hires,
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: who runs to the front office the other day, mentioned
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: that it'll obviously help with depth, but the guys on
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: the shelf a pretty good as athletes too and should
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: help the defense as well. Meadows Winsiel Perez and I'm
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: missing one other that are still out is appealing, No,
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: somebody else is still.
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  Speaker 1: Matt Berling's out, Okay, Rogers too, and Jake Rodgers just
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: got back.
• 34:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but he'd been out for a good chunk of
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: the year too, And obviously Dingler had been playing well.
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: But Jake Rodgers is a pretty damn good catcher.
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: I need to watch more Tigers games like start to finish,
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: but it feels like, and maybe this is Benetti giving
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: me some you know, really pumping the Tigers up, but
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: it just seems like they make these like the defense
• 34:38
  Speaker 3: makes plays that night in and night out that are
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: huge defensive plays. I get it, they have really good pitching,
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: but normally behind really good pitching is really good defense.
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: And it just feels like these guys guys that you
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: don't even are you know, realizing who's playing what position
• 34:57
  Speaker 3: for him because you think, okay, Parker Meadows should be
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: in set, no hobby bias, he's going out making big plays.
• 35:03
  Speaker 3: You have a guy in Cole Keith who moved over
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: to first base, new position. Guys are making plays for
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: this team, and it just seems like I shouldn't say
• 35:12
  Speaker 3: it seems like their defense is really good without looking
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: the numbers up or watching them day in and day out.
• 35:17
  Speaker 3: But the team's winning. That's the name of the game
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: in the show, win ball games.
• 35:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're pretty technically sound. I love Carry Carpenter too.
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: They're starting to strategize against him late in games with
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: you know which reliever they're bringing in kind of game
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: planning around him. So it's cool team. It's fun team
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: to watch right now, it's clicking for him. Tiger Territory
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: talks about this team three times a week. Check out
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: the pod wherever you get your pods, and also you
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: can check out Austin Jackson as well as Cody and
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Keeran your main host, but Ajax making weekly appearances going
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: over what the Tigers are bringing to the table. Let's
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: slap security issue in Colorado for the Phillies, Let's show
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: you the tweet from mace Elbrights for the Athletics said
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: an all time moment. This morning at cours Field, Johann Rojas,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: member of the Phillies, went into the stands to make
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: a phone call. Security guards would not let Rojas back
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: onto the field. They did not believe he was a player.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: He's like, I'm a player. I don't believe you, Zach Wheeler.
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: Who I guess they do believe had to go get
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: him and Kelp finishes the tweet by saying, Rockies Forever,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: tough year in Denver.
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: Eight and forty one, eight and forty one. Just that's it.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: That's all I gotta say is just eight and forty one,
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: eight and forty one.
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: Security is not supposed to take els like this.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a security is catching astray. Probably.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: I mean, you've you've heard of other guys Pedroia get
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: get denied at the security one time coming through to
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: the to the stadium. I don't remember. I know I've
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: heard stories of dudes that gets stopped. Normally they're a
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: little bit more of the slight figures. Zach Wheeler, that
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: dude's probably he was also probably on the field going yeah,
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: yeah he's a player.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: Oh oh oh, a player is calling you. Okay, that's cool.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah you're at the club and you're like, yeah, he can,
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: he can come in, let him, let him through. I
• 37:31
  Speaker 2: have a quick Phillies question for you, Kratz from a
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: fan who asked us this on Instagram in the past
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: twenty four hours. Give us a little question on a DM.
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: Why can't the Phils get so sit into an everyday role,
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: even at a different position every night. You bring so
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: much to the team, especially with his swinging miss down
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: this year.
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: I mean they're trying. Topper's trying. We'll ask him when
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: we bring him on the show soon. Topper's trying, like
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: he is playing in left field, and that was kind
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: kind of there was a there was a nice highlight
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: and then there was a low light too. You can't
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: just throw guys in any position. He could be a
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: goal glove infielder. Where's he gonna play Stott? Had Stott
• 38:12
  Speaker 3: started out really slow, maybe with Sosa's hot bat. Yes,
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I'm not gonna take Turner spot, not taking Harper spot.
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: Alec Bohm is a ninety seven RBI guy back to
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: back years.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: Just not a lot of spots. It's tough.
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: It's a great piece to have for when those guys
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: need days off and they go down.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, team's been healthy too. I mean injuries pop up,
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: somebody's gonna hit the shelf, even if it's for the
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: short term, and then he'll rack up consistent playing time again.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: He'll probably still end up with how many played appearances
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: three fifty fifty three fifty Okaye.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Over exposure m that comme
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: In careful, careful purple