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The World Series is SET: Rays-Brewers preview, HOT Game 1 prices, RIP Guardians + Karl Ravech hosts! · Foul Territory

• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Ready for the World Series? Yeah, World Series is set.
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: Brewers race. It's going to be a good one. Best
• 0:11
  Speaker 1: team in the National League versus the best team in
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: the American League. I don't want to hear anything about
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: small markets, which everyone's going to talk about for the
• 0:18
  Speaker 1: next while going forward. Let's just enjoy the best two
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: teams in baseball with the best records are going to
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: the World Series. And we get to watch them. And
• 0:28
  Speaker 1: they're kind of images of each other. Both have great pitching.
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  Speaker 1: Both have great Defense, both can bunt. They both steal bases.
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  Speaker 1: They both, I mean, some of them, they have power,
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  Speaker 1: but it's not the tremendous power of a Yankees or
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  Speaker 1: a team like that. They're just good baseball. They're managed
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  Speaker 1: by baseball guys, baseball lifers. It's going to be a
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  Speaker 1: great World Series.
• 0:49
  Speaker 2: And people actually watch it. I think the viewership for game,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was a most watched LCS, yeah, most
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  Speaker 2: watched LCS game. Telecast on any network since 2018. NLCS,
• 1:06
  Speaker 2: 7,533,000 viewers on Fox and FS1.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a big number. It's a big number. But that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, that was Dodger driven. What you worry about,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't even want to talk about this, is
• 1:22
  Speaker 1: the Brewers and the Rays are smaller markets. So people
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  Speaker 1: are going to say, oh, no one's going to watch
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: them because... But if you watch these teams, you might
• 1:31
  Speaker 1: enjoy the game, you might enjoy baseball, and you might
• 1:34
  Speaker 1: meet some new stars. Jackson Churrio, Bryce Terang, Junior Caminero,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: Yandy Diaz, Jonathan Aranda, Drew Rasmussen, the Miz. Most people
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: have heard about the Miz if you watch baseball. But,
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  Speaker 1: you know, Trevor McGill. There's a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: these teams that people haven't heard of. So tune in.
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  Speaker 1: You might find your new favorite player on a team
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  Speaker 1: that you might not expect. The Rays have great uniforms.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers have great uniforms if you're into that kind
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  Speaker 1: of thing. They both have great skits. The Brewers have
• 2:00
  Speaker 1: their slide out in left field when they hit a
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  Speaker 1: home run. The Rays have Rays in right center, and
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  Speaker 1: they have a DJ Kitty that plays tunes there. So
• 2:08
  Speaker 1: there's a lot of really cool things about this matchup,
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  Speaker 1: and it's not just on-the-field stuff. It's off-the-field stuff, too,
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  Speaker 1: that matters.
• 2:15
  Speaker 2: You know what's beautiful? Foul Territory's heading to the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to the World Series. We're going to be
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  Speaker 2: at Milwaukee, games one and two. We're doing a little
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  Speaker 2: pop-up experience. Sports fans? Come on out and we'll be
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  Speaker 2: able to relive all the iconic moments of the World Series.
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  Speaker 2: We'll be able to hang out with Alana. KP's going
• 2:36
  Speaker 2: to be there. Kevin Pillar. And obviously, we're in Milwaukee,
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  Speaker 2: so we're bringing a Milwaukee Brewers legend. Corey Knabel. Not me,
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  Speaker 2: if you thought it was going to be me. Friday,
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  Speaker 2: October 23rd. And Saturday, October 24th. I mean, it's... Like,
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  Speaker 2: you have to go. When I talk about it the
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  Speaker 2: other day, talk about cities that have... a World Series
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  Speaker 2: in it, whether they're starved for the World Series or
• 3:02
  Speaker 2: they're not, the city just is like pulsing. This is
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  Speaker 2: a free event. Like, free event. Come in, hang out.
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  Speaker 2: It's like the pregame party for the game. And everybody knows,
• 3:14
  Speaker 2: even if you're not in college anymore, pregame is sometimes
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  Speaker 2: more fun than the actual game. Now it's time to
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  Speaker 2: charge the.
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  Speaker 1: Mound.
• 3:26
  Speaker 2: Charge the mound. Sponsored by MLB 9 Innings. 26, and
• 3:32
  Speaker 2: we're just going to talk about what's happening. The World
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  Speaker 2: Series preview is always fun for me, except for when
• 3:41
  Speaker 2: people are like, well, it shouldn't have been this team,
• 3:43
  Speaker 2: shouldn't have been that team. AJ, you said it. These
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  Speaker 2: are the two best teams. These are the two best
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  Speaker 2: teams that probably nobody saw coming, especially after the Rays
• 3:53
  Speaker 2: played their entire season in Steinbrenner last year. And then
• 3:57
  Speaker 2: essentially the whole team comes back and now look. So
• 4:01
  Speaker 2: maybe there was a little more to that than what
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  Speaker 2: we really led into.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know about that. I just think they
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  Speaker 1: played better. I mean, last year they had better years
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  Speaker 1: out of guys this year than they did last year.
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  Speaker 1: They avoided some of the major injuries. I know that
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  Speaker 1: they lost like McClanahan and some of the other guys,
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  Speaker 1: but they avoided a lot of the major injuries. And
• 4:20
  Speaker 1: they just played better. I mean, yes, there's something to
• 4:22
  Speaker 1: being in the trop every day. playing at the Trop
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  Speaker 1: and knowing you're going to play and have it 72
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  Speaker 1: degrees every day? Absolutely. But I don't know that that–
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yes, we're going to look and say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner playing at Steinbrenner was a difference, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: want to give it that. I mean, the Yankees, the
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Red Sox, they were just better. The Blue Jays, they
• 4:40
  Speaker 1: were better last year, and those teams also played better.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays were the best team. At home, they were
• 4:44
  Speaker 1: the best team. If you've been at the Trop, it's
• 4:45
  Speaker 1: a great place, great home field advantage. It's an awesome place.
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  Speaker 1: It's different, and it's one of the few places that's
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  Speaker 1: completely different than any other stadium in baseball. And they
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  Speaker 1: take advantage of it. They play their game there. The fans,
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  Speaker 1: as we saw last night, were rowdy. So it's a
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  Speaker 1: nice home field advantage. But to say last year they
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: didn't do this because they were at Steinbrenner, sure, you
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  Speaker 1: can throw some of that on it. But at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the day, they just played better this year.
• 5:09
  Speaker 2: Experience, AJ. Experience in the postseason. How much do you
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  Speaker 2: think it matters? Because there's only three guys on both
• 5:19
  Speaker 2: rosters that have ever played in a World Series. Do
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  Speaker 2: you think it matters, or is it It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: because both teams don't have many guys.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, well, the Brewers have more guys in the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: I think. Yanni Diaz, longest tenured. The Brewers have been
• 5:33
  Speaker 1: in the postseason every year.
• 5:34
  Speaker 2: I mean World Series.
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  Speaker 1: No, you've already been in the postseason. The World Series
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  Speaker 1: isn't any different than any other postseason game. I don't know.
• 5:42
  Speaker 1: It's not any different. I played in the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: It's not a big deal. It's the same thing. It's
• 5:46
  Speaker 1: the same game. I mean, yeah, there's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: more media involved. But if you've been in the LCS,
• 5:52
  Speaker 1: if you've been through the playoffs this many times, it's
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  Speaker 1: not that big of a deal. I mean, it's just
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  Speaker 1: a couple more media members when you go into the
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  Speaker 1: interview room. Other than that, it's the same game.
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• 6:35
  Speaker 4: AJ, how much time did you have off before game
• 6:38
  Speaker 4: one of a World Series from the end of the LCS?
• 6:41
  Speaker 1: I think we had five or six days. All right,
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  Speaker 1: so what factor will that.
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  Speaker 4: What factor is that going to play in? This is eight.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, this is over a week. Personally, having seen it,
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  Speaker 4: there's a little bit of rust, but that gets shaken
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  Speaker 4: off pretty quickly. And the other factor would be, you know,
• 6:58
  Speaker 4: for the most part, a young kid is going to
• 7:00
  Speaker 4: start in game one and how he deals with it.
• 7:03
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's a problem. I think they know
• 7:05
  Speaker 1: what they're doing. I hate that excuse, Carl, more than anything,
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  Speaker 1: because if a team plays well, they say, oh, we
• 7:12
  Speaker 1: were rested and ready to go, and if a team loses–
• 7:15
  Speaker 1: It started with the 2006 Tigers, I'm not going to lie.
• 7:19
  Speaker 1: That team, they played terrible against the Cardinals, and they
• 7:22
  Speaker 1: made a bunch of mistakes and threw some balls away.
• 7:25
  Speaker 1: Like Fernando Rodney, I remember, made some PFP mistakes. And
• 7:28
  Speaker 1: then after the World Series, like, oh, we were off
• 7:30
  Speaker 1: too long, and the Cardinals played all the way through.
• 7:34
  Speaker 1: I hate that excuse because the year before, we swept
• 7:37
  Speaker 1: the DS. We won in five in the LCS, and
• 7:40
  Speaker 1: then we swept the World Series, and we had time
• 7:43
  Speaker 1: off in between all of them because– Before the DS,
• 7:45
  Speaker 1: the Angels went five, and then when we swept them,
• 7:48
  Speaker 1: the other team went six. The Astros went six games.
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  Speaker 1: So we had all kinds of time off, and it
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  Speaker 1: was great. I was like, man, this is amazing. We
• 7:55
  Speaker 1: had days off. I can walk around Chicago, enjoy everybody
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: being like, man, you guys are in the World Series.
• 7:59
  Speaker 1: Go get them. So I hate that excuse, Carl. I
• 8:02
  Speaker 1: don't think it should matter. Just be ready to play.
• 8:05
  Speaker 1: That's it. And I don't have any doubt in my
• 8:06
  Speaker 1: mind that Pat Murphy will have these guys ready to play,
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  Speaker 1: as will Kevin Cash.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't doubt it either. But what you guys
• 8:13
  Speaker 4: are great at, all players, AJ, Kratzy, it doesn't matter
• 8:17
  Speaker 4: who you are. If you're on the Dodgers and you
• 8:20
  Speaker 4: win a World Series, they will tell you that nobody
• 8:23
  Speaker 4: believed in them. Or they'll create some chip that they
• 8:28
  Speaker 4: mysteriously have on their shoulder. It doesn't really matter the circumstances. However,
• 8:33
  Speaker 4: if the Brewers go into game one, Kratzy, and Mizorowski
• 8:37
  Speaker 4: walks three in the first inning... they will assign it
• 8:41
  Speaker 4: to we haven't played in eight days. I agree with
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  Speaker 4: the simplistic view of it's a game. It's a World Series.
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  Speaker 4: If you're not ready to play in game one, then
• 8:49
  Speaker 4: when are you ever going to be ready? But it's
• 8:52
  Speaker 4: a thing. It will be a thing if, in fact,
• 8:54
  Speaker 4: they come out and don't play crisply, where the Rays
• 8:57
  Speaker 4: will have two days off. And after a media day
• 9:00
  Speaker 4: where everybody gets blinded by the light, they'll be on
• 9:03
  Speaker 4: the field trying to maintain the consistency that they've just
• 9:07
  Speaker 4: established in this LCS against the guardians and pretty much
• 9:11
  Speaker 4: have had like both teams through the course of the
• 9:13
  Speaker 4: entire season. It will be a thing.
• 9:17
  Speaker 2: It'll be talked about based on the result. It'll be
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: talked about based on the result. You think Aaron Ashby
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: wanted to play three days after he threw three innings
• 9:25
  Speaker 2: to close out game four. I don't care how nasty
• 9:28
  Speaker 2: he was or how much in control he looked like
• 9:30
  Speaker 2: he was like he threw three innings. These dudes needed
• 9:34
  Speaker 2: a break. They needed a break. Like who would have
• 9:36
  Speaker 2: had the advantage of, if the guardians had made it
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: in the way that they were pitching their bullpen, like
• 9:41
  Speaker 2: the break is useful, no matter what happens. If you
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: have two days break, you're not sitting there like, well,
• 9:47
  Speaker 2: I didn't even have time to think about how big
• 9:50
  Speaker 2: a world series is like, no, like that doesn't, that's
• 9:53
  Speaker 2: not how you, you get into it and it's another
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: game and the adrenaline gets going and, me, to people
• 10:02
  Speaker 2: who say that, it was because of rust. I need
• 10:05
  Speaker 2: you to say that before the game. This team looks rusty.
• 10:08
  Speaker 2: How do you know? Well, because they haven't played. Not, well,
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: they lost so they looked rusty. Say what you think
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: it is before the game and then we'll go and
• 10:17
  Speaker 2: we'll evaluate what you thought as the game went on. Right.
• 10:21
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 10:22
  Speaker 4: So AJ, let's, let's go over. You guys did a
• 10:24
  Speaker 4: good job last night. A great job on the post
• 10:26
  Speaker 4: game show. I saw quite a bit of that actually,
• 10:28
  Speaker 4: knowing I was doing this today with you guys. And
• 10:31
  Speaker 4: oftentimes you go to sleep and you wake up and
• 10:33
  Speaker 4: you have some thoughts that you didn't get to share
• 10:35
  Speaker 4: last night, whether it be the post game or, or during.
• 10:38
  Speaker 4: So what, what did you wake up and say to yourself?
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: Either this is the headline going into this World Series,
• 10:44
  Speaker 4: or I wish we had talked more about this last
• 10:48
  Speaker 4: night as we look forward to Brewers and, of course,
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: the Rays.
• 10:53
  Speaker 1: How excited I am I get to go to a
• 10:54
  Speaker 1: World Series in Tampa Bay for the first time. In 2008,
• 10:58
  Speaker 1: I didn't go because we lost to the Rays in
• 11:01
  Speaker 1: the DS with the White Sox. And then in 2020, obviously,
• 11:06
  Speaker 1: I did get to go to the World Series, but
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: it was in Texas, so it was a little bit weird.
• 11:11
  Speaker 1: uh so i'm gonna get to go to the world
• 11:13
  Speaker 1: series in my home state uh for the first time
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: um because when the marlins have been in it uh
• 11:19
  Speaker 1: 97 i was in hawaii playing in winter ball in
• 11:22
  Speaker 1: 2003 i was in uh i was still playing and
• 11:25
  Speaker 1: we had lost to the yankees so again i didn't
• 11:27
  Speaker 1: think it was a good look to go after i
• 11:28
  Speaker 1: just lost so i'm excited to get to go to
• 11:30
  Speaker 1: a world series in my home home state carl and
• 11:33
  Speaker 1: uh Just want to see the drive for you.
• 11:35
  Speaker 4: Is that like, is this a car ride now? Is
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: that what this means to you?
• 11:39
  Speaker 1: It's a two hour, two hour ish drive depending on traffic.
• 11:42
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it's a drive, but it's worth it because again,
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: I used to try to, I used to go to
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: the world series every year. I used to try to,
• 11:48
  Speaker 1: when my son was a little bit younger, we used
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: to go and we have some friends that would go
• 11:52
  Speaker 1: with us. And we haven't gone the last couple of
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: years because of schedules. So now I'm going to be
• 11:58
  Speaker 1: like Randy or Rosa Raina and Tyler Glass now and
• 12:00
  Speaker 1: Alejandro Kirk and just sit there and, Be a fan,
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: except I hope they don't show me on TV. So
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: I'm going to ask my Fox people, please don't show me.
• 12:07
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll be down in the truck or something so
• 12:09
  Speaker 1: they don't see me. But it'll be good to catch
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  Speaker 1: up and see everybody and just have a good time
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: and enjoy a World Series game between the two best
• 12:16
  Speaker 1: teams in baseball. I can't reiterate that enough, Carl. The
• 12:19
  Speaker 1: two best teams in baseball are playing for the championship,
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: which neither one of them have ever won. So we're
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: going to crown a new champion, even though there's no
• 12:27
  Speaker 1: parody in baseball.
• 12:29
  Speaker 4: Kratzy, you have a thought that you didn't share last
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: night other than you have the ability to maybe go
• 12:35
  Speaker 4: and watch it on TV now and be comfortable, or
• 12:37
  Speaker 4: maybe you're going to go to one of these games?
• 12:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to go to one of these games.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: My parents' 50th anniversary is this weekend, so I won't
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: be in Milwaukee, so there's that. But I would love
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: to go to one of these games. I think it
• 12:51
  Speaker 2: would be electric environment, both in the dome. I love
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: dome games, so it's extra loud. The biggest thing... that
• 13:00
  Speaker 2: I take away from last night is how the teams
• 13:04
  Speaker 2: that have advanced have on paper been the best teams.
• 13:10
  Speaker 2: And rarely do you see that happen. They play out
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: that way. But when it does happen, you say, why
• 13:16
  Speaker 2: did the other team fall short? Why did the, why
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: the guardians fall short? And I think they just had,
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: just didn't have quite enough of a team or, or,
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: Was it the Rays pitching? We kind of talked about
• 13:29
  Speaker 2: it in our pre-show meeting. Like, I'm interested to see
• 13:33
  Speaker 2: where this goes. Is it the Rays pitching or was
• 13:35
  Speaker 2: it the fact that the Guardians just don't have enough
• 13:38
  Speaker 2: offense like they haven't had for the last decade since
• 13:41
  Speaker 2: they've been at the World Series?
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Agreed.
• 13:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think there's a few people. I
• 13:46
  Speaker 4: don't know where you guys fell on this, but when
• 13:49
  Speaker 4: we came out with the bracket and the Red Sox
• 13:53
  Speaker 4: were battling the Yankees and then the Rays had to
• 13:55
  Speaker 4: deal with them, once they disposed of the Yankees, it
• 13:58
  Speaker 4: felt a foregone conclusion. It never felt like the Guardians
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: were in that series, even though they won the two games.
• 14:04
  Speaker 4: To me, it just didn't feel that way. And now
• 14:06
  Speaker 4: I think they get the ultimate test because this is
• 14:09
  Speaker 4: literally like, you know, this is battling your twin brother.
• 14:13
  Speaker 4: This is looking in the mirror. There are so many
• 14:16
  Speaker 4: aspects of these teams, including players that once played for
• 14:19
  Speaker 4: the other, that reflect each other's strengths and maybe their
• 14:24
  Speaker 4: potential weaknesses. And we'll talk much more about that with
• 14:28
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• 14:30
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• 15:00
  Speaker 2: but we also need some power on the plate and
• 15:02
  Speaker 2: someone reliable in the infield.
• 15:04
  Speaker 3: I say we take Jimmy.
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: Yes!
• 15:11
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• 15:11
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• 15:12
  Speaker 1: Yes!
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Maybe next year, guys.
• 15:19
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• 15:21
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• 17:38
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• 17:40
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• 17:43
  Speaker 1: guardians it was a nice year 85 wins jason kipnis
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: no sorry not sorry that your team lost uh you
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: were already counting your take your chickens uh to go
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: to the world series but it's not happening kip sorry
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: as much as we like you and the guardians and
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Steven vote. And actually a lot of the guardians people
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: are awesome. So don't take it too. I love Sandy Alomar.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I love Kate Smith. I love, uh, Jose Ramirez. I mean,
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: I love a lot of the guardians people. That was
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: just more of a being in the division for my,
• 18:12
  Speaker 1: most of my career, you know, you learn to not
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: like certain teams and that's the way it should be. Uh,
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: with the guardians, listen, they won 85 games. They won
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: the division the last weekend of the year. Um, I
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: don't know what to say about the Guardians because they
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: didn't have a 20 home run guy. They didn't have
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: 70 RBI guy, 75 RBI guy. They didn't have a
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: 300 hitter. There's so many things offensively challenged this team was,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: but they could really pitch. And the pitching carried them.
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: I just wish at some point, they did a nice
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: job going to get Joe Adele and Nathaniel Lowe. I
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: just wish at some point they could figure out how
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: to find some hitters because think how good they'd be
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: if you have Gavin Williams, Parker Messick, Tanner Bybee, and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: you could add like, I don't know, Junior Caminero and
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Yandy Diaz to the offense, that'd be a pretty good team.
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: Well, Yandy's got to be kept around there for sure.
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: But look at the two balls that were hit in,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: let's see, it was Tommy Pham and Junior Caminero. Both
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: balls were every other park, it's supposed to be a
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: home run. We're in a day and age where it
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: is home run or bust. To me, the Guardians need
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: to find, not necessarily, oh, we got to find that
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: power guy. We need him. Like, where is that guy?
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: It's how do we enhance what we have because of
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: our park? Look, there's guys on this team that can
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: hit home runs. Chase DeLauder can hit home runs. The
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: ball can fly out to right field. But we saw
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: two cases in a short postseason stretch of games in Cleveland.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: that the ball doesn't always travel. It's a tougher place
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: to hit homers. I don't care what history says. I
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: don't care what, like recently, this is what's going on
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: and it's, it can be a problem. So they have
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: to figure out just like Colorado has to figure out, well,
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: how do we get pitching in Colorado? Well, there's, It's
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: what you have to deal with. You have to learn
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: through it. And that's where I think the Guardians need
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: to find that, just the same way as they found
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: their goldmine in pitching.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but I don't know how you develop hitters. I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: think teams have had a much easier time finding pitching
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: than they have hitting. And I think that's where the
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: problem lies. Listen, is Stephen Kwan a nice player? Absolutely.
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: Can he help you win? Absolutely. Jose Ramirez, Hall of Famer, obviously.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: But when you go around their infield, Travis Vazana has
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: to take another step. Obviously, Chase DeLauder has to take
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: the next step, right? Who plays first for him? And
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: are they going to bring back Nathaniel Lowe or try
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: someone else there, right? Center field, Petey Halpin, is he
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: a long-term answer, right? Is Rocio the answer? He plays
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: a nice shortstop, but he led the team in RBIs
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: out of the nine hole because of opportunity. So they
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: have a lot of things. They have nice pieces, but
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: can they take the next step? And then can they
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: supplement us?
• 21:01
  Speaker 2: Go outside.
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: I don't know who the free agents are. Again, I
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: don't know the answer to this because I haven't dug
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: into it because we're not in the offseason yet. Can
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: they go out and sign a big-time first baseman to
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: come in and hit 30 for them? Think how much
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that would change. Do you run Austin Hedges and Patrick
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Bailey back there again as catchers because Bailey had a
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: nice little run for a month or so where he
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: figured out how to hit for a little bit? Is
• 21:20
  Speaker 1: that the answer to catcher? You just can't have too
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: many positions on a field where guys aren't doing it offensively. Yes,
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: you can have one or two. The Rays have one
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: or two that aren't dynamic offensively, but then the other
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: seven guys make up for it. Can the Guardians figure
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: that out enough? And if, God forbid, Jose Ramirez doesn't
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: have the greatest year ever every single year like he
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: did this year, can you have enough offense to make
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: it work? The reason they were good in the postseason,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: Jose Ramirez figured it out.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: The biggest challenge for these teams, guys, is that the
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Brewers and Rays have unfortunately ruined it for teams that
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: would say we can't spend money or we don't have
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: the money. Because when you look at those two teams
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: now that are in the World Series, they do have
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: enough power. They have enough small ball. They certainly have
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: enough starting pitching. The bullpens are great. Like it can
• 22:06
  Speaker 4: be done on a budget. And the problem for the
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: Indians now into the Guardians, for the most part, with
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: the exception of maybe the mid to late 90s, which
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: you guys are familiar with, the superstar names aren't there anymore.
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: except for Jose Ramirez, and Jose Ramirez could have gone elsewhere.
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: So how the Guardians and Chris Antonetti get back to
• 22:31
  Speaker 4: whatever it was that was successful in the 90s that
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: I think it had to do with the great pitching,
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: it had to do with the Baergas and the Bells
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: and the Loftons and the Martinuses and the Alamars, like
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: all of those, but they don't have those names. And
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: that's why that series that we just witnessed never felt
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: like It was a series. And the Rays are not
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: the Yankees. They're not the Dodgers. They're not the Phillies.
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: They're not the Braves. They don't come at you and
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: you look at them and be like, oh my God,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: we can't compete. We don't belong in the same field.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: But when you collectively look at them, it certainly felt
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: like they were two different leagues playing. And by the way,
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: the Guardians and Rays are in the same league. So
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: it felt to me they were missing so much unless
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: it was the Rays peaking at the right time. But
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: the Rays won 98 games during the regular season for
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: a reason. And as you know, in Chicago and elsewhere,
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: it came down to the very last week which team
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: was going to win the Central. So the series played
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: out the way it felt like it should have played
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: out to me. I thought it was a five-game series.
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: I was surprised it went six.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: I can't argue. I didn't think it was going to
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: go that long either. I thought it would be over
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: rather quickly, and credit to the Guardians for getting it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: to six because they did. They won two of the
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: first three. They beat Rasmussen, and then Gavin Williams shoved
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: in game three, and they were up 2-1, and you're thinking, wow,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: this might not go back to Tampa. And then Tampa,
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: over time, their depth took up. Again, it goes back
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: to this for pitching. Okay. You start seeing these guys.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Kate Smith finally was vulnerable. Gattis was finally vulnerable. These
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: guys who they'd seen over and over and over again
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: because the starters go two innings. When you have a
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: guy like I talked about, Parker Messick, who has been
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: one of your best starters all year. Let him, let
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: him eat. Maybe he figures it out. I don't know,
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: but you see these guys over and over again. Eventually
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: it wears you down. You can't just keep doing this.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: We say this every year in baseball team with a
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: starting pitching usually wins.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: No doubt.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: Hey fellas, first time, long time. Kevin Long is back.
• 24:31
  Speaker 4: Apparently going to speak with the Mets tomorrow, but a
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: coaching staff position per a source. He was fired as
• 24:36
  Speaker 4: the Philly city coach last week. He was of course
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: the Mets hitting coach. The last time the team reached
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: the world series, he is, He's close with Juan Soto
• 24:43
  Speaker 4: from his national days, that according to Mike Puma with
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: the New York Post. Let's start with that theory, Kratzy.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: I've worked for years with Eduardo Perez. You know, the
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: notion that a hitting coach can make a significant difference
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: and Long has had a long run of success. You
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: tell me the idea that he might go back to
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: New York. Are we putting Band-Aids on here? Is this
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: a fix?
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: What do you make of it? I think he's a
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: tremendous hitting coach and I think his reputation precedes him.
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: I think it's also okay to say, you know what,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: maybe he stayed a little too long in Philly or
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: they just needed a new voice. Both, both things can
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: be very true. And in my opinion, you go, Kevin Long,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: you won world series in New York. You did in Washington.
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: You did in, you went to the world series in
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: New York. Like, I think it's fine. I think he
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: should be the best available if you have a shot
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: at going to get him.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: What about you, H? I love Kevin Long, except for
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: the fact that he big-legged me to come on the
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: show a couple times. But other than that, I love
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: Kevin Long. He's great. I love him. I love talking
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: to him. I love the way he teaches hitting. We've
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: sat down and had many talks about hitting. And certain
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: coaches out there don't like Kevin Long because he talks
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: hitting different than certain people that just got fired in
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: other cities. You know, he does drills that are different.
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: He's helped a lot of people. Kratz knows who I'm
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: talking about, by the way. It's either here or there.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: But Kevin Long is awesome. He knows how to talk
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: to guys. He knows how to get guys going. He
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: knows what's right, what needs to be said. He's been
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: doing it for so long. If you can't get along
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: with Kevin Long and figure out something from him, then
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: you're just not really trying that hard because he knows
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: how to teach hitting and he knows how to get
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: you to hit.
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: And it's not just one way. It's multiple ways to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: be successful in the big leagues.
• 26:44
  Speaker 5: AJ, in this post season, there is a chance for
• 26:48
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• 26:51
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• 26:54
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• 26:57
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• 26:57
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• 27:59
  Speaker 4: and Rays tease. So it looks like this sort of
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: goes back to the Rosenthal conversation about copycat league, etc.
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: It makes sense that teams are plucking guys from organizations
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: that have had success. It looks like the Brewers assistant GM,
• 28:14
  Speaker 4: according to Bob Nightingale, has been with the Brewers since 07,
• 28:17
  Speaker 4: is now a serious candidate for the Houston Astros general
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: manager position. vacancy you guys both both played so tell
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: me the Astros or seem to be a little bit
• 28:27
  Speaker 4: unique in the ownerships um I don't know desire to
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: be involved and that of course is Jim Crane who
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: I know and respect and like but it I'm not
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: sure about autonomy in the Astros organization but you get
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: in other organizations because Kratz has given me the best
• 28:46
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• 28:48
  Speaker 2: You uh Man, I love Jim Crane. I do. My
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: little month and a half that I was there, I
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: really respected the way he's done things. I think he
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: probably holds a standard that I think is probably unreachable
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: just based on the fact that James Click gets fired
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: after winning a World Series. Dana Brown gets a beleaguered
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: team with a below average pitching staff to the playoffs.
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: I think.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: These GMs have done a tremendous job. And so for
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: Matt Klein, who I really respect from the Brewers organization,
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: if that's the case, hopefully he gets some latatimi.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Hi, fellas.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Per Front Office Sports, I don't know if you know this,
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: but tickets to get into Game 1 of the World Series,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: Jeff kind of just referenced it in Milwaukee, higher than
• 29:39
  Speaker 4: the entry price. price for the Super Bowl. World Series
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: Game 1, 2809. Super Bowl was 2,600.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: That's aftermarket. But, I mean, it's been a long time.
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: It's been 1982, and they're passionate fans in Milwaukee. So
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: good for them. But, yeah, I've heard this. It's crazy.
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Timeless ticket.
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: Are you spending $ 2, 809 to get in, AJ?
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: You're going.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Are you forking over $ 2, 809?
• 30:06
  Speaker 1: No, I got a credential, Carl. I don't need $ 2, 809.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: And I know these people. I know people at Fox.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: There's this company called Fox that I work for. There's
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: this company called Fox that I work for that usually
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: comes through. They might not be the great seats, but
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: I'll be in the building. And I don't think they're
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: going to be $ 2, 800, but maybe.
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: Nick, you're correct. I'm not paying $ 2, 800 unless AJ is
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: paying for it.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I'm not paying that. Like I said, I got my credential.
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I got a credential. I'll go by myself.
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: You talked about the ratings. Will the ratings be great
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: for this World Series? Not that that's a barometer for anything.
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: Will people watch this World Series, or will it take
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: a game six and seven?
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: People should watch. I don't know if they will just
• 30:53
  Speaker 1: because everyone says they– Don't want the Dodgers to win,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: but then the Dodgers and Yankees and Red Sox are out,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: and then nobody watches. So I don't understand why everyone
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: says they want this, but then nobody watches. So do
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: you not watch when there's not one of these teams?
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: So if you're one of those people saying it, tune
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: in and watch.
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: I agree.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: And the only way they're going to become popular is
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: to have them play in World Series, and people will
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: watch and say, I like their style of play.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: I want to watch them more.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: We had Anthony Rizzo on yesterday on Dirt for the
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: Dugout as we slapped some hands. We've had Adam Wainwright on.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: We've had David Ross and Dustin Pedroia. We went through managers.
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: We had Cora and Boone. We had Buck Showalter, Dusty Baker.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: A little later on, actually, today, I'm going to do
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: another one of those with... with Justin Musil about baseball recruiting.
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: I'm going to find out what in the heck goes
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: into baseball recruiting. You guys probably are aware of this stuff.
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: I am unfamiliar with it. He used to work for
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: the Brewers organization, my co-host for three or four years
• 32:05
  Speaker 4: in their front office. And I'm looking forward to finding
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: out when you have a high school age kid or
• 32:09
  Speaker 4: even younger, what goes into getting them prepared to play
• 32:13
  Speaker 4: at the next level. We're going to do that around
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: five o'clock Eastern time. Thanks everybody for watching on Marquee.
• 32:20
  Speaker 4: For AJ and Pratsy, I'm Carl Ravitch. We'll see you tomorrow.
• 32:27
  Speaker 4: What was it like in the days leading up to AJ,
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: a world series? Like what are some of the things
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: that go through your mind? Is it all about ticket gathering?
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: What are you thinking at this stage? Oh, you just
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: wanted to get there. Um, you just want to get
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: the games to, to be played really. Um, All that
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: stuff is taken care of most of the time because
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: you have to buy the tickets at the beginning of
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: the postseason.
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: It's easy. No, I asked you at the beginning of
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: the postseason. You said you didn't want any. Sorry, I
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: can't get any more. So that part's easy. There are
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: some flights that you get involved, but most of the
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: time at this point with the Internet, people can take
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: care of themselves. The thing is you just want to
• 33:05
  Speaker 1: get there. You just don't want anyone to get hurt
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: in the simulated games you're playing, and you just want
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: the games to get there. Because everywhere you go, Someone
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: says something to you, hey, man, good luck in the
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: World Series. I'm so excited. I haven't seen a World
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: Series in this long and da-da-da-da-da, 1882. And for the Rays,
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: you know, you guys really need to win because you
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: guys have never won one. So it's just get the
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: games here and get ready because you just, as a player,
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: you want to play.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: And you're used to coming to the ballpark every single
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: day and, like, you want to get there early and
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: you're coming for inter-squad. you're coming for live SIM games,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. You get your work in, but it
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: doesn't quite have that same feel. And exactly what AJ said.
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: It's like, you want that. You want, like you're craving that.
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: It's a good crave. And the idea that we're, we're
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: literally like 10 days away from the end of the
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: season with an unknown, what, what happens after, I think
• 34:00
  Speaker 4: we should all relish the next 10 games fellas. And, uh,
• 34:03
  Speaker 4: And here's one as we say goodbye here on the show.
• 34:06
  Speaker 4: This was shown on the Jumbotron. I don't know if
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: you saw it, but our good buddy Danny Wexelman posted it. Derek,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: thank you for the ticks. I'm sorry. I think we
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: should stay just friends.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: So the ticks thing, the tick plan didn't really work,
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: did it there?
• 34:27
  Speaker 1: He tried. He shot a shot.
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: He got put in the friend zone.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: He's He shot a shot. Shoot or shoot.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: Shoot or shoot. They're going to keep shooting. So I'm
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: not sure that Derek's going to be put in his place.
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: I think he's going to keep shooting. But the tickets
• 34:43
  Speaker 4: didn't work. It was cheaper.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: It was in Tampa. The tickets were cheap. So it
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: was in Tampa. At least he didn't buy Milwaukee tickets.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: And she said, you're still in the friend zone. Heck
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: of a place to go, though. We've got a chance
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to watch a championship.
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: Good for them. Good try, fella.
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: Good try.
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: All right, guys, that was fun. I apologize for any
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: of the technical issues that I was dealing with. I'm
• 35:06
  Speaker 4: going to get on the phone with my Wi-Fi provider,
• 35:09
  Speaker 4: but thanks very much for hanging in there.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: No problem. Thank you. All right, boys. Adios, everybody.
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