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Execs speak for Twins & Blue Jays + Pat Murphy’s unique thank-you, Camden Yards party renovations · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Well, depending on what kind of Twins fan you are
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  Speaker 1: and how optimistic you are, good.
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  Speaker 2: Bad, and ugly, let's get right into it. Yesterday's Twins
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  Speaker 2: press conference.
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  Speaker 1: Aaron Gleeman, someone we've had on the show many times,
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  Speaker 1: asked whether fans should expect them to significantly increase the
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  Speaker 1: payroll above $ 100 million to significantly strengthen the roster, potentially
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  Speaker 1: returning to 2023 spending levels, and whether ownership should set
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  Speaker 1: clear payroll expectations for fans.
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  Speaker 2: Here was Tom Pollad's response, KB. I'll let you react after.
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  Speaker 3: In a vacuum, I'd love to level set expectations for
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  Speaker 3: the fan base. I think it does this organization, in
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  Speaker 3: particular Jeremy, a disservice to pigeonhole ourselves in that way.
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  Speaker 3: We've talked about a range.
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  Speaker 2: We are not going to be an organization going forward.
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  Speaker 3: That says this is the number, you.
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  Speaker 2: Have to stick to that.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think that that's realistic if you want to
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  Speaker 3: be flexible and adapt to the opportunities that present themselves
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  Speaker 3: in this market.
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  Speaker 2: And so let me just.
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  Speaker 3: Say, I have been very vocal about what our ambitions are.
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  Speaker 4: I've been vocal and to some degree critical of where
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  Speaker 4: we've been. And so it can take some comfort in
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  Speaker 4: the fact that a payroll, wherever we land, is.
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  Speaker 3: Cognizant of both of those things and will be commensurate
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  Speaker 3: with what we're trying to accomplish.
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  Speaker 2: Huh? KP? KP?
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  Speaker 5: Thoughts?
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  Speaker 2: What do you say? Okay, first of all, where do
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  Speaker 2: you go to the school of.
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  Speaker 5: Learning how to talk like an executive, where you just
• 1:48
  Speaker 5: say a lot of things, but you don't say anything? Because,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, after he said, I'm in a vacuum, which
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  Speaker 5: we don't live in a vacuum, he just said a
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  Speaker 5: lot of things, but he didn't really say anything.
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  Speaker 2: What did he say? AJ, help me out. You know
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  Speaker 2: what he sounded like?
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  Speaker 1: David Stern yesterday when he was talking about a cap
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  Speaker 1: to the lower trajectory of our team, and I didn't
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  Speaker 1: put a cap on the trajectory.
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  Speaker 2: It's a lot of words.
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  Speaker 1: Basically what Tom Polak said is no, but he made
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  Speaker 1: it sound way more intelligent than just saying no, we're
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  Speaker 1: not going to spend any money. Twins fans, keep coming
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  Speaker 1: out and showing up for your team, and let's hope
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  Speaker 1: we can figure out in a bad AL Central.
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  Speaker 2: That's basically what he said. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's crazy that you have to kind of
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  Speaker 5: go to this school of speaking the language when you
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  Speaker 5: become an executive of once again, saying a lot of
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  Speaker 5: those kind of triggering words where you're like, oh, he
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  Speaker 5: talked about money, but he didn't say anything.
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  Speaker 2: Talked about winning, but didn't say anything. Are we going
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  Speaker 2: to spend?
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  Speaker 5: We don't have the answers to it. So it's just
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it is what it is, you know. They
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  Speaker 5: all kind of talk the same. You're never going to
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  Speaker 5: really get full transparency out of them. And I know
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  Speaker 5: over the next couple of days, we're probably going to
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  Speaker 5: get a lot more of these press conferences as all
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  Speaker 5: the teams kind of, you know, meet with the media
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  Speaker 5: members and kind of go over their season.
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  Speaker 2: And I would expect a lot more answers like this.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we saw it and we also saw in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle when Jerry DePoto had his press conference and he
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  Speaker 1: kind of said a lot of the same things.
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  Speaker 2: You're like, wait, what?
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're happy because when you fail, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't learn from it, then you don't really fail.
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  Speaker 2: You just get better. And I'm like, whoa, you almost
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  Speaker 2: made the World Series last year. And now you're 10 games,
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  Speaker 2: 11 games under 500. So you failed.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, your team failed. And Dan Hay is one of
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  Speaker 1: our friends. Also had a great tweet about this same
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  Speaker 1: kind of conversation.
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  Speaker 5: It said.
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  Speaker 1: Notifying number from Tom Polat on payroll. This was his
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  Speaker 1: statement on twins off season ahead. I have said over
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  Speaker 1: and over that a hundred million dollar payroll or anything
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  Speaker 1: close to that is not sufficient to be consistently competitive
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  Speaker 1: and in the playoffs. And so we intend to take
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  Speaker 1: the off season and meaningfully invest. I know everybody in
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  Speaker 1: this room wants me to define what meaningfully is. And
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  Speaker 1: I understand that that's a subjective word, but I'm confident
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  Speaker 1: that Jeremy's old, if he has conviction about a move,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to help us improve this roster and help
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  Speaker 1: us accomplish our goals. that this ownership group is prepared
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  Speaker 1: to support him with the financial resources he needs. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: go on saying Tarek Skubal and some of the other
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  Speaker 1: three top pre-agent players, pitchers on the market.
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  Speaker 2: That would improve your team, but they're not going to
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  Speaker 2: do that, KP.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, at least that statement made a little bit
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  Speaker 5: more sense. It wasn't guaranteeing anything, but it was saying
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  Speaker 5: we understand $ 100 million is not enough. We have ownership
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  Speaker 5: that is willing to go over it. if it makes sense,
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  Speaker 5: if it's meaningful, which is obviously a loose term, but
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  Speaker 5: at least you could kind of dissect that statement and
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  Speaker 5: understand that they feel like they got a great manager.
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  Speaker 5: They feel like they have some great pieces, some young pieces,
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  Speaker 5: potentially they understand that that division is not the strongest
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  Speaker 5: in baseball and that there might be some opportunities. Are
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  Speaker 5: they going to go out and, you know, check off
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  Speaker 5: some a list free agents?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 5: But I, do I expect them to potentially go out
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  Speaker 5: and spend some money? And free agency, if we actually
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  Speaker 5: have free agency, I think, you know, all this is
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  Speaker 5: kind of just talk right now. We obviously know what's
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  Speaker 5: coming up December 1st. So you're not going to get
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  Speaker 5: a lot of kind of, you know, clear, transparent answers
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  Speaker 5: from anyone right now.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, I'm Max.
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  Speaker 3: I'm here to pump you up at the pump and
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  Speaker 3: save you big in the gas game.
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: So you're like a mascot for a gas station? Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I guess you could say that.
• 5:29
  Speaker 1: You're like a gas cop.
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  Speaker 2: And you're a word nerd, bird. I'll give you $ 20
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  Speaker 2: for that meat stick.
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  Speaker 3: Nope. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: $ 19.
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  Speaker 1: All right, KB, let's talk a team near and dear
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  Speaker 1: to your heart, the Blue Jays. Mark Shapiro had a
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  Speaker 1: press conference yesterday. He also had some confusing words a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. He said he's going to travel to Japan.
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  Speaker 1: He's going over to Japan.
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  Speaker 2: Here you go.
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  Speaker 1: Keegan Matheson, Mark Shapiro said the Blue Jays will send
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  Speaker 1: a contingency to Japan this offseason. And he he may
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  Speaker 1: travel there, too, as they look to expand their presence,
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  Speaker 1: both baseball and business wise. He added that the Japanese
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  Speaker 1: market will obviously be something they explore again this winter.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Okamoto had an unbelievable year for him as
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  Speaker 1: a rookie. Is this something the Blue Jays need to
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  Speaker 1: look into or they just need to say maybe they
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  Speaker 1: need to travel to the Dominican to figure out how
• 6:20
  Speaker 1: Vlad starts hitting again?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, look at, I don't know if that's a
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  Speaker 5: thing that you, you have in your post season presser,
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  Speaker 5: you know, maybe weeks from now you talk about, Hey,
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  Speaker 5: we want to potentially go to Japan and explore business and,
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  Speaker 5: and baseball there. And, you know, obviously Okamoto had a
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  Speaker 5: great year going over and signing him. But I think
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  Speaker 5: for a lot of the fans that comes off a
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  Speaker 5: little tone deaf, it's like they want answers about what
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  Speaker 5: happened in the season, not what necessarily we're going to
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  Speaker 5: do in Japan moving forward. So, Once again, it's crazy
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  Speaker 5: when you have executives sitting down and you like to
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  Speaker 5: think that they're talking to the fans, but instead they're
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  Speaker 5: kind of just talking right over them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 1: And then this one I found interesting too about Ernie Clement,
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  Speaker 1: who I thought was a star gurn.
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  Speaker 2: I thought, I didn't know he had to earn his job.
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  Speaker 1: Shai Davidi, interesting reply from Ross Atkins, GM, when asked
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  Speaker 1: if Ernie Clement will be the Blue Jays starting second
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  Speaker 1: baseman next season. He's got to earn every bit of that.
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  Speaker 1: It's not just write down, Okay, we're covered, but he
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  Speaker 1: always has. When he's been given an opportunity, he's run
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  Speaker 1: with it. We're always trying to. That was in the
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  Speaker 1: plans last year, too, to try to complement every player
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  Speaker 1: the best we can. Ernie can be an everyday impactful player.
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  Speaker 1: He can also be a player that takes 500 at-bats
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  Speaker 1: and plays at a really high level. Because we're such
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  Speaker 1: a good team, he isn't the guy that's being penciled
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  Speaker 1: in every day.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Ernie Clement had a pretty good year, I thought.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe I was wrong on that.
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  Speaker 1: What if he would have said Vlad Guerrero is not
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  Speaker 1: penciled in at first base? Like, I don't– because Vlad
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  Speaker 1: has the contract, right? Like, Okamoto's not penciled in at
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  Speaker 1: third base. Kirk's not penciled in at catcher, right? Like,
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  Speaker 1: these guys are penciled– Andres Jimenez is penciled in somewhere
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  Speaker 1: because of his contract, right? So, just because Ernie Clement
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  Speaker 1: doesn't have his contract, even though he had a good year,
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  Speaker 1: he just doesn't get penciled in.
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  Speaker 2: He's got to earn it. He definitely faded in the
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  Speaker 2: second half. It happens. He had a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a rough stretch. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Speaker 5: And, you know, this is really his first full season
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  Speaker 5: of playing every single day, you know, second base.
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  Speaker 2: And he played some shortstop.
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  Speaker 5: But up until that point, he was kind of that
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  Speaker 5: utility guy where you plugged him in.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe he was playing four or five days a week.
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  Speaker 2: Someone was injured.
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  Speaker 5: He went out and played every single day. But this
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  Speaker 5: was his first season being an everyday starter. obviously voted
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  Speaker 5: into the All-Star game, first time All-Star. But when you
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  Speaker 5: look at those numbers and AJ, you know, in this game,
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  Speaker 5: when you go to ARB, which he had his first
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  Speaker 5: year ARB, he's going into a second year ARB. You know,
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  Speaker 5: I don't know what he's projected to make, but you
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  Speaker 5: have to be able to justify that dollar amount to
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  Speaker 5: the statistics you're seeing here. And at the end of
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  Speaker 5: the day, he's a 649 OPS guy, nine homers, 50,
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  Speaker 5: you know, less than 50 RBIs. And then obviously the
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  Speaker 5: on-base percentage is somewhere. I'm the perfect guy to talk
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  Speaker 5: about a guy who didn't get on base a lot
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  Speaker 5: in his career. And, you know, if I could talk
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  Speaker 5: to Ernie, it's like, I feel like I'm looking in
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  Speaker 5: a mirror when I'm watching Ernie come in and play.
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  Speaker 2: He loves to swing the bat. He puts the ball
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  Speaker 2: in play.
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  Speaker 5: But at some point when you get more expensive, when
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  Speaker 5: you go to ARB, you have to understand, I need
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  Speaker 5: to figure out multiple ways to get the first base.
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  Speaker 2: I can't be so reliant on the hit.
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  Speaker 5: I have to figure out how to get deep into counts,
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  Speaker 5: draw walks, get hit by pitches because I, At the
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  Speaker 5: end of the day, a subpar 300 on-base percentage is
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  Speaker 5: not going to fare well for you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, unless you're me, just get thrown at. That's
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  Speaker 2: how you get on base. It's really easy. If you
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  Speaker 2: can't walk, get hit. Just piss off the pitcher.
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  Speaker 5: And have them throw at you. You probably pissed them off,
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  Speaker 5: but did you also stand really close.
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  Speaker 2: To home plate?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I stood fairly close, and I didn't move very fast,
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  Speaker 1: so I just kind of took him a lot. I
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  Speaker 1: had a big elbow guard, and I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: wore him, and people would get mad and yell at
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  Speaker 1: me for standing on top of the plate and all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So, yeah, I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I think Ernie Clement has earned the right to be
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  Speaker 1: an everyday player, whether it's second base or somewhere on
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  Speaker 1: this team. The Blue Jays weren't that good where they
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  Speaker 1: can't say, man, we can't have Ernie Clement out there.
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  Speaker 2: So, I mean, I thought he earned his spot.
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  Speaker 5: But, hey, you watch this team much, much– It's also,
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  Speaker 5: you know, as much as, you know, obviously covering the
• 10:24
  Speaker 5: Blue Jays, a lot of the blame gets put on Vlad.
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  Speaker 5: But when you don't have a good season, some of
• 10:29
  Speaker 5: those guys around the edges, not your superstars, start to
• 10:32
  Speaker 5: get micromanaged a little bit. And I think that's kind
• 10:34
  Speaker 5: of a case where, you know, they are trying to
• 10:38
  Speaker 5: get better everywhere on the diamond. You know, if Vladdy
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  Speaker 5: goes out and has his great year and this is
• 10:42
  Speaker 5: a postseason team and they lose and you look at
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  Speaker 5: Ernie's numbers, you're like, man, he was a contributor in
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  Speaker 5: our team getting to the postseason. But when the team
• 10:50
  Speaker 5: doesn't get there, then you start to kind of micromanage
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  Speaker 5: every position and be like, you know, you start coming
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  Speaker 5: out and saying those sorts of things.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And then one last thing in the division, Baltimore Orioles
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: announced the following surgery surgeries were successful.
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  Speaker 2: Do we ever have surgeries that aren't successful? I mean,
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I hope not because that would mean bad things, right? So, well,
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  Speaker 2: Kyle Braddish.
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  Speaker 5: The unsuccessful part of the surgery potentially comes later on.
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  Speaker 5: I think every surgeon is, more than likely successful when
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  Speaker 5: they do it is how does the player bounce back?
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, it's kind of crazy that they would say
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  Speaker 5: successful surgery. We, we should just assume that whatever operation
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  Speaker 5: was successful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: God forbid something goes completely wrong and that would be
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  Speaker 1: really bad. So, uh, Kyle Braddish, core muscle repair surgery
• 11:34
  Speaker 1: with Dr. Bill Myers in Philadelphia is from Matt White,
• 11:37
  Speaker 1: why rich, uh, and also Jackson holiday, left wrist TF.
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  Speaker 1: CC Debridement with Dr. Stephen Shin in Los Angeles.
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  Speaker 2: So get well, guys. I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Cool.
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  Speaker 2: Get better.
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  Speaker 1: Jackson Holiday, they're counting on to be a star player.
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Bradish, they paid to be their ace.
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  Speaker 2: So get well. If you're an Orioles fan, you root
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  Speaker 2: for them.
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  Speaker 1: You hope Pete Alonzo has another unbelievable year and leads
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: the league in homers and RBIs again.
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  Speaker 2: And then maybe he got something going on. Gunnar Henderson
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  Speaker 2: bounces back. And then last but not least, KP, Dave Roberts.
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  Speaker 2: He remains encouraged by Shohei Otani's health.
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  Speaker 1: This is from our, used to be our friend, our ex-colleague,
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  Speaker 1: now she's too big time for us, Katie Wu, because
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  Speaker 1: she's on Dodgers territory. Dave Roberts said he'd like Otani
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  Speaker 1: to take five to seven ABs off live pitching this week.
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers have workouts today through Friday at Dodgers Stadium and
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  Speaker 1: have a couple of wildcard watch parties planned.
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  Speaker 2: Shohei's very important, right, KP?
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, speaking of taking live ABs, I
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: guess the traject didn't work for the Rays because they
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: apparently used the, I mean for the Red Sox, apparently
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: they used the Rays traject over the weekend when they
• 12:41
  Speaker 1: were there and it couldn't hit Cam Schlittler. So I
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  Speaker 1: guess he needs live ABs, not just off a machine
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  Speaker 1: for Shohei.
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  Speaker 5: Well, I'll tell you what, what was pretty incredible about
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  Speaker 5: that start. And, you know, I didn't, I didn't get
• 12:53
  Speaker 5: to ask Dave about it, but the adjustment Cam Schlittler
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  Speaker 5: made in that game, he's a guy who doesn't throw
• 12:58
  Speaker 5: the curve ball a ton. And after that long at
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  Speaker 5: bat against Atlee Rushman, the second batter of the game,
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  Speaker 5: he started using that curve ball a little bit more.
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  Speaker 5: And I could almost guarantee you the guys that were
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  Speaker 5: using the trajectory were not trying to hit the curveball
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  Speaker 5: they were trying to hit one of those three different
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  Speaker 5: fastballs so it was pretty incredible to see a guy
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  Speaker 5: who's going to go on and win the Cy Young
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  Speaker 5: make an adjustment like that in the game.
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  Speaker 1: Great you did throw a lot more curveballs I think
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  Speaker 1: but uh yeah Otani's pretty important they need him right
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  Speaker 1: they need to get him back so.
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  Speaker 5: You know do you think the Dodgers lineup and I'm
• 13:32
  Speaker 5: not suggesting this is going to happen but an unhealthy
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  Speaker 5: Otani and let's just say he doesn't even play do
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  Speaker 5: you think that lineup is still good enough to win without.
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  Speaker 3: Him Yes, I do.
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  Speaker 1: I think if you get Freddie, if Mookie stays hot,
• 13:47
  Speaker 1: if Freddie can find some power, Maximus, he does what
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  Speaker 1: he does, Will Smith's healthy. Yes, I think they're deep enough,
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  Speaker 1: but they look much, much tougher if you have Shohei
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  Speaker 1: Tani at.
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  Speaker 2: The top of the order.
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  Speaker 1: And if they let him run, right? If they let
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  Speaker 1: him run and they let him be what he can be, yes,
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  Speaker 1: I think it's– I think they need him. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it's necessary, but I definitely think that they need
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  Speaker 1: him and he would be a huge help for.
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  Speaker 2: Them.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree.
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  Speaker 2: I agree.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you– Not having Will Smith this year was
• 14:13
  Speaker 5: a big blow for them. And he honestly, postseason time,
• 14:16
  Speaker 5: him and Max Muncy become kind of their best two
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  Speaker 5: players in the postseason. It's pretty incredible. But you love
• 14:21
  Speaker 5: the way Mookie's swinging the bat right now. And I
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  Speaker 5: think that's the beauty of having Shohei in that lineup.
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  Speaker 5: If he's healthy and obviously the power he provides, then
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  Speaker 5: Freddie doesn't really have to search for power. Freddie can
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  Speaker 5: just do what Freddie does.
• 14:36
  Speaker 2: Agreed. Agreed. Just get hits, Freddie. Just keep on getting hits, Freddie.
• 14:40
  Speaker 2: You'll be all right. Kurt Hogue. How do I say that?
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: Kurt Hogue.
• 14:46
  Speaker 1: One of the items on Pat Murphy's calendar for between
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: now and game one is to reach out to any
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: one of the 58 players the Brewers used this year
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: that aren't with the team still and thank them for
• 14:56
  Speaker 1: their contributions to the club. That's actually pretty awesome, Pat Murphy.
• 15:00
  Speaker 1: He respects the players that aren't there, and he reached
• 15:03
  Speaker 1: out to them. Some of them aren't in the organization anymore,
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: whether it was trades or released or sent to the
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: minor leagues. And he reached out to him and said, hey, man,
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: thank you for getting us to the point where we.
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: Won 103 games. KP, they won 103 games this year. Yeah,
• 15:15
  Speaker 2: he doesn't have to do that.
• 15:16
  Speaker 5: But obviously, AJ, you've spent a lot of time around him.
• 15:19
  Speaker 5: I don't know Pat Murphy that well, but everything you
• 15:22
  Speaker 5: hear about him is he's the type of guy you
• 15:24
  Speaker 5: want to play for. He loves on you. He's hard
• 15:26
  Speaker 5: on you. You know, you've seen the stuff where he's
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: taking players out of the game for not running. He
• 15:31
  Speaker 5: sets a standard, but he's also going to put his
• 15:33
  Speaker 5: arm around you, tell you that he loves you and
• 15:35
  Speaker 5: he values you. And the fact that he's you know,
• 15:38
  Speaker 5: willing to go out and call all 58 of these
• 15:40
  Speaker 5: players that played an important part of them winning 103
• 15:43
  Speaker 5: games this year, getting in that position. He just checks
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: all the boxes of a guy that you want to
• 15:48
  Speaker 5: go to war for every single day.
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: No, I'm going to get to spend a bunch of
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: time with him here starting on Friday. When I go
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: up to Milwaukee, I'm going to lay on his couch
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: in his office. He's going to tell me to get
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the F up. I'm going to laugh at him.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: I'll put my shoes on his desk. He's going to
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: yell at me for that.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: And then we're going to have a conversation, probably not
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: about baseball. He's going to talk about football, basketball, softball
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: who knows what you never know where the conversation goes
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: with Murph but he is one of the great baseball
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: minds one of the great baseball people just don't tell
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: Murph that his teams play as a college style because
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: he does not like that very much and he will
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: kind of get in on you so good luck to
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: Murph very cool gesture from him this is kind of
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: cool KP a new rendering of Camden Yards left field
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: outfield renovations looks like they're putting some shade out there
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: New space, social space, it's kind of similar to Colorado.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: Standing room views, central bar, concessions, open to anyone with
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: a ticket, about 2,000 seats, a little bit less capacity, 40,234.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: More renovations coming, say the O's. Should they put more
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: money into Camden Yards or should they put more money
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: into players, KP?
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Both, both.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: I mean, I saw, you know, obviously a very similar
• 17:00
  Speaker 5: situation in the Rogers Center. They took out some of
• 17:02
  Speaker 5: the seats. They have kind of those buy a ticket,
• 17:04
  Speaker 5: standing room only, first come, first serve. But it's become
• 17:07
  Speaker 5: a place where a lot of people want to go
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: to the game. They have a great kind of family
• 17:11
  Speaker 5: atmosphere up there where you don't have to bring your
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: young kids and put them in a seat. There's a
• 17:15
  Speaker 5: lot of interactive things they could do. But also for
• 17:18
  Speaker 5: your 20-year-olds, your 30-year-olds that instead of maybe going out
• 17:22
  Speaker 5: Friday night to the bar, maybe they want to come
• 17:24
  Speaker 5: to the stadium, get a couple of drinks, hang out
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: with their friends. I think anytime you can kind of
• 17:28
  Speaker 5: Create those spaces in a stadium. You're going to get
• 17:30
  Speaker 5: more people to come to the game. And if you
• 17:32
  Speaker 5: get more people to come to the game, you get
• 17:34
  Speaker 5: a better product. They go hand in hand. So I
• 17:36
  Speaker 5: think you do the stadium renovations, you get better players,
• 17:39
  Speaker 5: and then you kind of just built this thing that
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: just continues to print money for you as an owner.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: Oh, for sure. The more people you can get. Attendance
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: is up. Attendance is up again.
• 17:50
  Speaker 5: Shocking.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Viewership is up.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: People want to come to baseball games because they're fun.
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: And with all the amenities and everything, they have good.
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: I mean, most of these ballparks have great food. They
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: have interesting drinks. They have great areas where you can
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: hang out with your friends. And there are affordable options
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: for most people. You don't have to sit in the
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: first row behind home plate to have a great seat
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: at a lot of these ballparks, especially the new ballparks,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: because they all have line of sight right.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: To home plate. They're all looking down on it. So
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: I think this kind of stuff is great. Do you
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: lose some seats? Yes, you lose 2,000 seats. But you
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: know where you make up for it? people having fun,
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: people spending money on alcohol and food, and just hanging
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: out and going home and saying, you know what, man,
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I had a great time at the Orioles game last night.
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: Let's go do it again.
• 18:31
  Speaker 5: I know it's easy to say you lose 2,000 seats,
• 18:33
  Speaker 5: but maybe those 2,000 seats are empty seats. Maybe if
• 18:37
  Speaker 5: you're selling out, you're getting 40,000 to 42. You take
• 18:40
  Speaker 5: away those 2,000 seats, you're still getting the same amount
• 18:42
  Speaker 5: of people, but more affordable seats, more options for people
• 18:46
  Speaker 5: to go to games.