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Ketel’s food room friends, PCA HEATED after missed balk call, Kim’s Braves moment, Nobody wants Geno? · Foul Territory

• 0:02
  Speaker 1: Thursday FT. How we doing? Brzezinski, Kratz, Braun. So I
• 0:09
  Speaker 1: just came off Fair Territory, AJ, with your buddy Ken.
• 0:13
  Speaker 1: And he had just put out a story on Quetel Marte.
• 0:17
  Speaker 1: We're not going to spend a whole segment on it.
• 0:20
  Speaker 1: We've spoken about him enough, but he does have a
• 0:22
  Speaker 1: new story and there's some good new details out in there.
• 0:25
  Speaker 1: I encourage everyone to check out Fair after our show
• 0:27
  Speaker 1: for a good 10 minutes on some things that I
• 0:30
  Speaker 1: guarantee you don't know. And AJ, that includes some teammates
• 0:33
  Speaker 1: behind the scenes kind of been like typical Cattell. I
• 0:35
  Speaker 1: know some have publicly come out and defended him, but
• 0:38
  Speaker 1: the question I had for you is what is the
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: food room for players? And I ask this because within
• 0:46
  Speaker 1: the story, it mentions how he'll sometimes have his friends
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  Speaker 1: join him in the food room to hang out and eat.
• 0:52
  Speaker 2: What do you mean friends? Like just friends off the street?
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  Speaker 1: Friends not on the team.
• 1:00
  Speaker 3: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Come on. Oof. Yeah, that's– Yeah, guys.
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  Speaker 2: I've very rarely seen that happen. I very rarely see– Listen, kids, dads.
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  Speaker 4: Oof.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, but just random friends?
• 1:17
  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Random friends.
• 1:22
  Speaker 4: I need it. You can take me off. I'm going
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  Speaker 4: to go read Ken's article right now. I'm mad.
• 1:25
  Speaker 1: I'm telling you, it's– the best article I've probably read
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  Speaker 1: this year in terms of getting really inside what's going on.
• 1:32
  Speaker 1: You don't get every single detail yet. That'll still come out. Right.
• 1:35
  Speaker 1: But like who he is, how he was telling teammates like, Oh,
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: you don't need me right now. Cause it wasn't playing well.
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  Speaker 1: And then he, he retreats when there's certain moments hitting
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: him and he stayed in the hotel room. It wouldn't
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: come out. Like there's, I mean, it's not like this
• 1:48
  Speaker 1: crazy drama. I mean, it is drama, but it's not
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  Speaker 1: like they're getting them fights or whatever. It's just, he disappears.
• 1:55
  Speaker 1: Teammates are pissed. And yeah, there is a level of
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  Speaker 1: star treatment. It is like the perfect story to explain
• 2:02
  Speaker 1: how this is a business. And for them, they're going
• 2:05
  Speaker 1: three X surplus value on this player. We got to
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  Speaker 1: put up with the crap. That's what I got out
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  Speaker 1: of it.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 2: And I, and listen, I think Cattell Marte is really
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  Speaker 2: good player, but can I just say this? He's not
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  Speaker 2: Barry Bonds. He's not Miguel Cabrera. He's not, I'm not saying, Listen,
• 2:25
  Speaker 2: Miguel Cabrera was not like that. But, I mean, I
• 2:27
  Speaker 2: played with Barry Bonds. I saw what he did, right?
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  Speaker 2: But he was also, you know, the best hitter I've
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  Speaker 2: ever seen by far, right? He's not– I played with
• 2:37
  Speaker 2: Adrian Beltre in the Hall of Fame. He would never
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  Speaker 2: have done this in a million years. I played with,
• 2:41
  Speaker 2: you know, on the Red Sox, David Ortiz. He wouldn't
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  Speaker 2: do this. He wouldn't have random people sitting in the
• 2:47
  Speaker 2: lunchroom with us. Now, if you went to the hotel
• 2:49
  Speaker 2: bar after a game, would David have a lot of people?
• 2:51
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But the clubhouse is supposed to be kind of– one
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  Speaker 2: of those places where you don't do this, it's supposed
• 2:57
  Speaker 2: to be just for people that have earned their way there. Now,
• 3:00
  Speaker 2: dad's sure. Kids.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: People off the street before guys get there. It's very
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: hard to bring guys in there once the stuff starts,
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  Speaker 2: because that's when you start getting tight for the game.
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: So to hear, I mean, was this before the game? Again,
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  Speaker 2: I haven't read Ken's article after the game.
• 3:18
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Still, it's like, you know, if you're, if you're on
• 3:21
  Speaker 2: the road and you know, you've got to catch a
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  Speaker 2: bus and you have seven random people. I don't even
• 3:27
  Speaker 2: know how many it was. Three random people sitting there.
• 3:29
  Speaker 2: Every guy on that team, and I think Kress would
• 3:31
  Speaker 2: agree with me on this, is going, who the hell
• 3:33
  Speaker 2: is that guy? Who's that person sitting there? Like who's
• 3:38
  Speaker 2: random guy going for his third time through the buffet line?
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  Speaker 4: I loved one of the best lines ever. Anybody could
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  Speaker 4: say it, American or Latino. They'd be like somebody random
• 3:54
  Speaker 4: or like a pitcher gets in the line before the
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  Speaker 4: guys who play. They'd be like, oh, shocker, first in line,
• 4:01
  Speaker 4: didn't even play. Like don't be a spread killer. Definitely
• 4:04
  Speaker 4: don't bring spread killers into the spread room. That's for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And third time through is not allowed in our sport anymore.
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  Speaker 1: You can't go third time through in anything.
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  Speaker 4: You're talking about.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I've told this story before. Mookie,
• 4:18
  Speaker 2: when he first got called up, Mookie Betts, With the
• 4:20
  Speaker 2: Red Sox, we were there, and his cousin was in the–
• 4:24
  Speaker 2: it was before a game. He's just crushing a beer,
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  Speaker 2: and we're all like, who in the hell is this guy?
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  Speaker 2: Random guy. This is after the chicken and beer stuff
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  Speaker 2: in Boston. Who's this random guy crushing beers before the game?
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  Speaker 2: It was Mookie's cousin. He didn't know any better. Someone
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  Speaker 2: told him. Mookie didn't do it anymore, right? But it's just–
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  Speaker 2: someone has to– apparently no one has ever told Cattell.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe Cattell thinks he's able to do this. I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: It's just crazy that this is what's coming out now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I cannot encourage people enough to read the story,
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  Speaker 1: but also to check out the 10 minutes in fair
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  Speaker 1: later on.
• 5:00
  Speaker 2: Also, Scott, hold on. We talked about it yesterday. You
• 5:03
  Speaker 2: weren't on, but Kratz and I talked about it. Tori Lavello.
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  Speaker 2: He's like, how can we soften the blow back in?
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  Speaker 2: Soften what blow? He's the one that left the team.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that didn't have an explanation. What blow
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  Speaker 2: is there to soften? Like, make him– I said this
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  Speaker 2: a couple days ago. Make him apologize, and he's got
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  Speaker 2: to mean it because otherwise– Guys in that room, they
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  Speaker 2: look at you differently.
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  Speaker 4: Am I wrong, Kratz? No, you're not wrong at all.
• 5:27
  Speaker 4: And we were not wrong when we were saying Tori
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  Speaker 4: Lavello had to come to his aid and say things. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: he's not, you know, there's no issue with him as
• 5:36
  Speaker 4: a teammate. Liar. Liar. Clearly liar. This is what's coming out.
• 5:43
  Speaker 1: That to me is part of the problem too. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to not say much, but if you're,
• 5:48
  Speaker 1: trying to talk them up and I know he's not,
• 5:50
  Speaker 1: you know, yelling at people, he's not picking fights, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: but there are different layers of being a good and
• 5:55
  Speaker 1: a bad teammate. And I wanted to ask you guys
• 5:57
  Speaker 1: that right from the jump, because Ken and I talked
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  Speaker 1: about it from what we observed from the reporting perspective. Yeah.
• 6:02
  Speaker 1: I don't see random people sitting around in a food room,
• 6:06
  Speaker 1: hanging out. That's not a thing on dad's day. Sure.
• 6:10
  Speaker 2: Scott, I'm scared to death as a guy that played
• 6:13
  Speaker 2: for almost 20 years in the big leagues. I walk
• 6:15
  Speaker 2: into the clubhouse and I have my Fox and, you know,
• 6:18
  Speaker 2: my rights holders badge on, I'm scared to death to
• 6:21
  Speaker 2: like stand in the wrong place or be in there
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  Speaker 2: too long. Or I would never sit in a chair.
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  Speaker 2: I remember I was somewhere, I think it was spring training.
• 6:32
  Speaker 2: And I think it was Ashcraft or one of them
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  Speaker 2: was like, hey, come sit down next to me at
• 6:36
  Speaker 2: the Pirates. And I'm like, dude, I would never do
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  Speaker 2: that in a million years, sit in a chair of
• 6:40
  Speaker 2: one of the players. Like no chance, dude. If one
• 6:43
  Speaker 2: of the guys said, hey, come grab lunch with me
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  Speaker 2: in the food room, I'd be like, Hell no, dude.
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  Speaker 2: I'll go to McDonald's.
• 6:51
  Speaker 1: That's exactly what we talked about to a T on,
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  Speaker 1: on fair with Ken. Like we passed the food room
• 6:56
  Speaker 1: and man, that is the player space and up some
• 7:00
  Speaker 1: staff members. So. Hey, what's up SeatGeek? What do we
• 7:04
  Speaker 1: have for the weekend? Let's look at some seats that
• 7:06
  Speaker 1: we would like to acquire this weekend on the SeatGeek app.
• 7:10
  Speaker 1: There's some good matchups coming up this weekend. I know
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  Speaker 1: we've already talked about Yanks Red Sox a bit, but
• 7:14
  Speaker 1: let's go over a few others. Who wants to throw
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  Speaker 1: it out there first?
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to be in New York, so Yankees, Red Sox.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all about Yankees, Red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: So that's you.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry.
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  Speaker 2: Red Sox, Yankees, depending on which way you want to
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  Speaker 2: call it.
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  Speaker 1: Sure.
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  Speaker 4: We can tell who you like the most.
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  Speaker 1: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 4: We can tell. Homer. Yankees. Yankees fan. Just so Red
• 7:36
  Speaker 4: Sox fans know, AJ presents the.
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  Speaker 2: I would go no on that one, Crotty. I would
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  Speaker 2: go no.
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  Speaker 4: On that one. He was born in New York, so clearly,
• 7:45
  Speaker 4: which he claims all the time– I mean, Milwaukee in–
• 7:52
  Speaker 4: do they leave the Brewers now? Where does Milwaukee go?
• 7:54
  Speaker 4: I'm trying to think. Now I'm blanking.
• 7:58
  Speaker 1: Aren't they playing the Mariners?
• 8:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but is it home? No, it's in Seattle this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 4: I'm not refreshing. My screen is not refreshing.
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  Speaker 2: Anyways, I want to go see Scooble pitch tomorrow night.
• 8:16
  Speaker 2: In Detroit. How about that? That's a great one. I
• 8:19
  Speaker 2: want to go to that one.
• 8:21
  Speaker 1: Great seed on Stubble in Detroit. Miz against Shane McClanahan.
• 8:27
  Speaker 1: Or no, sorry. Sorry, not Miz. Mize. Casey Mize is
• 8:32
  Speaker 1: coming back from the whole slip the other day. Shane McClanahan,
• 8:35
  Speaker 1: Padres race. Good playoff implications there, especially for San Diego.
• 8:39
  Speaker 1: It's Hancock and Cease on Friday in Toronto. I'm mixing
• 8:42
  Speaker 1: up all the matchups. It's Toronto and Seattle. in toronto
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: rangers and brewers which again has many playoff implications brewers
• 8:50
  Speaker 1: now six and a half games clear of the cubs
• 8:52
  Speaker 1: in the division but the rangers need to put some
• 8:55
  Speaker 1: wins together if they want to keep the al west
• 8:57
  Speaker 1: alive so just like get rid of the first 30
• 8:58
  Speaker 1: seconds of us just coming up with random matchups that
• 9:01
  Speaker 1: didn't exist and listen to the last minute what which
• 9:08
  Speaker 1: one are you giving me a face we didn't lie
• 9:11
  Speaker 1: yeah white socks matchup right No, I know. Twins. Hey,
• 9:16
  Speaker 1: Walker Jenkins, 4-11 in August, home run every other game
• 9:19
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• 9:21
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• 9:28
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• 9:31
  Speaker 1: and use it another time or use it tonight, this weekend,
• 9:34
  Speaker 1: go hit a game. Have fun. Why are we starting
• 9:39
  Speaker 1: with the Reds and Giants? Well, I'll tell you. First off,
• 9:41
  Speaker 1: there was a crazy comeback. Second of all, Tony Vitello
• 9:44
  Speaker 1: went off at the beginning of the game. And third
• 9:47
  Speaker 1: of all, one of the big hits was a Gino
• 9:49
  Speaker 1: Suarez grand slam from Cincinnati, and he might be on
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: another ball club in the next couple of days. Yes,
• 9:54
  Speaker 1: the dump deadline is nearing and Gino Suarez and or
• 9:58
  Speaker 1: TJ Friedel might be coming to another team near you
• 10:02
  Speaker 1: now they might not get claimed but do you want
• 10:04
  Speaker 1: to start with the game or do you want to
• 10:05
  Speaker 1: start with the fact that the reds might be able
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: to save a little bit of cash over the next
• 10:09
  Speaker 1: couple days.
• 10:11
  Speaker 2: Let's start with the game because it was a crazy
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: game let's let's Let's start with that, and then we'll
• 10:16
  Speaker 2: go from there. Because I think the game was crazy
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: because it was, what, 6-0, and they're up 6, and
• 10:20
  Speaker 2: they scored 7 in the ninth, including a Gino Suarez
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  Speaker 2: grand slam. So I think that and Tony Vitello getting ejected.
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: I don't know. That was a crazy game. I mean,
• 10:30
  Speaker 2: I know it's two teams that aren't going anywhere, but
• 10:32
  Speaker 2: here's the no-check swing, check swing. And just think, if
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: they call that a check swing, maybe Gino Suarez doesn't
• 10:39
  Speaker 2: get the chance to hit that grand slam.
• 10:41
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I mean, Tony said he had enough.
• 10:47
  Speaker 4: He didn't want to see this game. And he was right.
• 10:51
  Speaker 4: He didn't know what to expect coming out. But, hey,
• 10:54
  Speaker 4: we'll have check swing challenges coming up soon, so in
• 10:58
  Speaker 4: a few years. But to me, the comeback, I love
• 11:03
  Speaker 4: seeing the fight out of a team that is out
• 11:06
  Speaker 4: of it. Obviously, I'm not saying that they think they're
• 11:09
  Speaker 4: out of it, but the Reds are out of it.
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  Speaker 4: Whether they think or not, when... They made the move
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  Speaker 4: when the front office made the move to save $ 3, 700, 000
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  Speaker 4: by putting Friedel's $ 700, 000 up for the last month of
• 11:23
  Speaker 4: the season and Eugenio Suarez's $ 3 million up. The front
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  Speaker 4: office is out of it. It kind of sucks because
• 11:31
  Speaker 4: after a game like this, you're pushed hard. They're not
• 11:34
  Speaker 4: thinking they're going to make the playoffs. I get that.
• 11:36
  Speaker 4: But as a player, you never give up. And it
• 11:38
  Speaker 4: feels like the front office gave up for in my opinion,
• 11:42
  Speaker 4: what comes down to a very small sum of money.
• 11:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a weird trade deadline. They didn't really
• 11:47
  Speaker 1: do anything. And people were like, you didn't get any
• 11:50
  Speaker 1: calls or offers for any of these guys. And it
• 11:53
  Speaker 1: sounded like they did, but it wasn't what they wanted, right?
• 11:55
  Speaker 1: Like maybe it's a prospect they didn't really value. And
• 11:57
  Speaker 1: I'm like, isn't somebody who's even close to your radar
• 12:01
  Speaker 1: better than nothing? Especially when you're trying to say, oh, well,
• 12:04
  Speaker 1: you know, they're better off with us. I mean, are
• 12:06
  Speaker 1: they better off with you? Because you're not in it
• 12:08
  Speaker 1: this year. So if you were selling and you're trying
• 12:10
  Speaker 1: to sell, I don't know every conversation going on behind
• 12:12
  Speaker 1: the scenes, AJ, but now you're willing to give up
• 12:15
  Speaker 1: players like that for nothing.
• 12:17
  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 1: That's just a salary dump at this point. It's okay.
• 12:20
  Speaker 1: I mean, they're not in it. So if it's going
• 12:22
  Speaker 1: to save them a few, like Gino Suarez is getting
• 12:24
  Speaker 1: three mil the rest of the year and maybe a
• 12:26
  Speaker 1: team like Seattle, or we talked about Milwaukee before the show.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: I don't know if that's totally a fit. I know
• 12:31
  Speaker 1: Gino's having a bad year. And then Friedel is having
• 12:34
  Speaker 1: a really bad year, but, Maybe, and if those two
• 12:37
  Speaker 1: do get picked up, it would save the Reds almost
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: $ 4 million, and you would hope they spend that on
• 12:42
  Speaker 1: someone else in the offseason.
• 12:46
  Speaker 2: Will they, though? That's the $ 7 billion question or whatever.
• 12:50
  Speaker 2: I got sorry about to have a collective bargaining problem.
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: But why would Seattle not pick up this guy? They
• 12:55
  Speaker 2: love this guy. They can get him for $ 3 million
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: for the last month, even if he's a bat off
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: the bench. I mean, right now, I think the last
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: time I checked, J.P. Crawford was playing third. I'm not
• 13:03
  Speaker 2: sure the last time I– I did a Mariners game.
• 13:07
  Speaker 2: He was playing third. So they just lost Emerson, right?
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  Speaker 2: I just, why would they not? That seems like, it
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  Speaker 2: almost seems too perfect. Therefore, it won't happen, right? That
• 13:17
  Speaker 2: the Mariners wouldn't pick him up and say, hey, you've
• 13:20
  Speaker 2: been here. We love you here. The fans love you here.
• 13:23
  Speaker 2: Come give us a great month and hit some homers
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  Speaker 2: and try to get us back to the postseason and
• 13:27
  Speaker 2: make another run.
• 13:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and yesterday, real quick, Crawford was that short, right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, because Emerson got hurt.
• 13:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 13:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, Emerson's out for the year, right? So Crawford
• 13:40
  Speaker 1: can go back, you know, remember the story earlier this year,
• 13:43
  Speaker 1: Crawford's like, Hey, I'm down to do third. I want
• 13:44
  Speaker 1: to be with the Mariners long-term. I know we got
• 13:46
  Speaker 1: Emerson and Cole Young coming through here. So now Emerson's
• 13:49
  Speaker 1: out for the rest of the season. And, you know,
• 13:52
  Speaker 1: for example, yesterday, oh, you know, who was playing third
• 13:57
  Speaker 1: base yesterday in that game against Philadelphia? Yeah.
• 14:03
  Speaker 4: Weston Wilson.
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: Wasn't he on FT? Yeah, Weston Wilson. Remember when he
• 14:07
  Speaker 1: was first on FT after Weston Wilson, after he had
• 14:10
  Speaker 1: a great story? But point is, and this is nothing
• 14:11
  Speaker 1: against Weston, Gino Suarez for a little bit of pop there,
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  Speaker 1: returned to Seattle, find it again. Remember also how good
• 14:18
  Speaker 1: he was during the regular season last year and had
• 14:20
  Speaker 1: a couple moments in the playoffs. Might be worth $ 3
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: million if the Mariners can add him and make the playoffs.
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: $ 3 million. I don't know. I don't see anybody picking
• 14:29
  Speaker 4: him up because of the price tag. Now, just because
• 14:32
  Speaker 4: he's on waivers, people need to know he's not getting released.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: He can stay with the Reds if nobody claims him.
• 14:37
  Speaker 4: This is a waiver process. He's not being DFA'd. So
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: nobody's going to pick him up for the league minimum.
• 14:43
  Speaker 4: $ 3 million, though? If you're the Mariners, are you going
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: to give him all the DHs? Is he going to
• 14:50
  Speaker 4: get all the DHs in Seattle? Is he going to
• 14:52
  Speaker 4: go play third base over, like you said, Weston Wilson,
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: over whatever configuration they would have? For $ 3 million for
• 15:01
  Speaker 4: a guy on the bench? I don't know. I don't know.
• 15:06
  Speaker 1: I think he might start at third base. I think
• 15:08
  Speaker 1: he would be their starting third baseman from the jump.
• 15:12
  Speaker 4: So you're willing to give him all the at-bats and
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: tell Weston Wilson or whatever? I'm not sure. See, I
• 15:17
  Speaker 4: don't know enough of who has been at third. Like
• 15:20
  Speaker 4: who's their left-handed option when they face a righty at third?
• 15:24
  Speaker 1: Well, I mean, things have changed. That's what we're talking about.
• 15:26
  Speaker 1: If everything's at full strength, it's J.P. Crawford. but cold
• 15:30
  Speaker 1: Emerson's out. And also he wasn't performing. And that was
• 15:33
  Speaker 1: partially because he was hurt and then needed surgery. So
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: this is where you start to run into depth issues
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: and you see if Gino can find something. I mean,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: over the last five years, one of the best power
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: hitters in the sport, if you think he's still got
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: it and can get a hot month for you as
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: a very streaky hitter, just throwing it out there, it
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: could be worth the risk. Can we show some of
• 15:51
  Speaker 1: the other players who could be on waivers over the
• 15:54
  Speaker 1: next couple of days? And the way this works is
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: it's in reverse order of standings, but you can claim
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: the player and you get them for, No cost of prospects.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: You just pick up the player and you pick up
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: the rest of his money. The Angels famously did this
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. What was it? Three years ago,
• 16:07
  Speaker 1: the dump deadline that we called it on FT. This
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: is baseball prospectus throwing some other names out there. Luis Robert,
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Labor Torres, Kenley Jansen, Ryan Stanek, Caleb Ferguson, and Nolan
• 16:18
  Speaker 1: Gorman from the Cardinals, Pierce Johnson, and Brock Burke, two
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: other names that the Reds could put on there. So
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: these were just some other names that they threw out
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: into the world to see if These are not players
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: that were put on waivers that we know of yet.
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: But this all has to happen, AJ, in the next
• 16:33
  Speaker 1: few days. These are not nothing names. Some of these
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: guys could make an impact, and some of them are
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: making good money, and they're on teams that are not
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: in it. Tigers are out. Mets are out. Reds are out.
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: Put Luis Robert on waivers and see if anyone claims him,
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: and they can pick up the $ 20 million option next
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: year instead of the Mets.
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: The Mets are going to pick it up. Lock. My
• 16:54
  Speaker 4: lock for next year. My lock for next year. Luis Roberts'
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: option is picked up.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: And he goes on the I.L. for at least a month.
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: I'm not saying it's a good choice. I'm just saying lock.
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: Picked up. Team option.
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: If there's a full season.
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: Ryan Stanek, even on top of that, Ryan Stanek can't
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: help a bullpen somewhere. I didn't look up what he
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: would be charging a team to play. You think Kenley
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: Jansen can't pick up a team, help him out in
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: the bullpen? Now, obviously, he's a little bit different because
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: he hasn't done much but closed. But Stanek, I mean,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: Stanek can give you some innings, even if he's your fourth,
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: fifth option out of the pen. As you come down
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: the stretch here, a team, there's plenty of teams whose
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: bullpen stinks that could use a league average arm right
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: now from what he's done, and he has a ton
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: of experience. Yep.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Who says there's no trades in late August? You
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: trade for nothing, right? A player to a team for
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: nothing but picking up money. We'll see if that happens
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: over the next couple of days. Also, by the way,
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: we have a Giants show, Splash Hit. We talked about
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: the Reds and some of the players that they might
• 18:08
  Speaker 1: shed over the next couple of days. That's Riverfront Territory
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: with Mason C. Trent and Danny Graves, all part of
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: the FT Network. I just wanted to mention AJ's favorite stat,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: run differentials. The Tigers are currently at plus 70, AJ,
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: and the Astros, who might win the AL West, are
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: at minus 48. The Phillies are at plus 23. The
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Pirates are at plus 24. So your favorite stat just
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: keeps winning. I'm being super sarcastic with all of that.
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: It's such a dumb stat. I hate seeing it on
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: standing sports.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be a kind of a guesstimate on
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: how your year's going. It's supposed to be. It's supposed
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: to be, but it doesn't always happen that way.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Unlucky.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: You know what that means?
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: You know what it means? It means you're either really
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: good or really bad in blowouts.
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: Exactly. That's why it's such a dumb stat because they
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: do the Pythagorean record thing where they're like, well, the
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: Tigers should be that. Well, they're not. It's late August.
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: They're not.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And also it penalizes. They're better without Tobel and Mize.
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: Of course they are. And it penalizes, AJ, teams that
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: have good bullpen. Because often you have a good bullpen,
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: you're going to win the close games, right? Often you
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: look at the one-run record and you're like, oh, of course,
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: you're winning one-run games. Your run differential is not going
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: to be as good. Stupid, stupid stat. I have to
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: every few months just throw it out there.
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: My favorite is when teams have really good run differentials
• 19:32
  Speaker 4: like the Brewers and their expected wins. I just looked
• 19:36
  Speaker 4: it up for the Brewers. They're supposed to have 84
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: wins instead of 82 wins. But the Tigers are supposed
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: to have... 74 wins instead of 62. So they're the
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: most unlucky team ever. Keep the team the same. Don't
• 19:50
  Speaker 4: build it next year. One of the things that I
• 20:00
  Speaker 4: wasn't very good at was playing Major League Baseball. One
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  Speaker 1: any disease. Dustin May, by the way, not funny you
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: can laugh about it now because he ends up being okay,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it sounds like, but I mean, leaves after a pitch.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Right scapula contusion. Now, a pitch off his shoulder, and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: that was 106 exit velocity off the bat of A.J. Ewing-Kratz. So,
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Robert Gasser to the rescue, but it worked out for Milwaukee.
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: Dustin May got hit by a Jacob Mizorowski fastball. Like,
• 21:20
  Speaker 4: that's what it feels like, 106. I mean, first pitch
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: of the game, too. He's lucky it didn't hit his arm.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: It hit kind of the meat right in your lat there. So,
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: that was– I'm sure he has got a nice bruise today.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. Yeah, perceived velocity for the Miz 107. If
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: you listened to Tom Verducci on FT yesterday, catch that
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: one if you didn't. And then also AJ, Chelsea James
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: was writing about Andy Green, who's doing a pretty good
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: job with the Mets, but it doesn't sound like he'll
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: be their manager next year. Sounds like he might want
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: to be their general manager under David Stearns.
• 21:55
  Speaker 4: Wow.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: Good for him. Good for him if this happens.
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: They've said all along he wasn't going to be the
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: candidate for manager next year. Everyone seems to think it's
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: going to be Carlos Beltran. We've had people on here
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: say that he's a leading candidate for that job, but
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: Andy Green right to the front office. I like it.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Get players in positions of power.
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: So he can be like, Hey, Pete Alonzo is actually
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: really good.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: He stinks.
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: AJ, can you see that little graphic we pulled from
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: the White Sox?
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah. What does it say?
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Players of homers in five straight games for the White Sox.
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Notice anything?
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Tristan Peters and Mark Commie have done it this year.
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: Greg Luzinski.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: Ron Kittle.
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: Ron Kittle.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Frank Thomas. Paul Canerco did it 2011. I was there,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: but I don't remember it.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Carlos Lee.
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: Carlos Lee.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: AJ.
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: AJ had 27 homers that year and 2012 when AJ
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: did it. Guess how many Tristan Peters has.
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: 12.
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: 12.
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: And you have five straight games with a home run
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: is the craziness of stats for sure.
• 23:22
  Speaker 3: It is.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: We might have Sam Antonacci on next week. So just
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: a little sneak peek of how he talks. He was
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: asked about DHing. He said, oh, so fun. Legs are fresh.
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: Don't have to run in and out of the field.
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: Don't have to interact with anybody. You get to swing
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: all the time, too. My swing felt good because I
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: took so many swings. Do it regularly? That will definitely
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: be the last time. Great quote. James Feagin posted it.
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: Last time until the next time they need him to DH.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Exactly. Oh, one more. Can we show the other tweet
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: before we get back from break? For AJ? You'll like
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: this one.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: What else have I done? I got one of those.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: I was the first. You were the first.
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: I was the first.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: And the latest, that hat, the giveaway from the other night,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: has made it to the Vatican.
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Hey, I know that guy.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: You do know him, and he knows you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: No, I know both those guys, actually. Father Tom McCarthy
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: and the Pope. So I know both those guys.
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: You're buddies, right?
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're my pals.
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, Stacey.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: A.J. 's besties. They got the giveaway. Great story.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I was the first one, though. I was the first
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: one to have one, just saying.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: Yes. Good series, Dodgers and Braves. And you're going to
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: hear A.J. call on the finisher of this one. The
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: last game of the series will feature a massive, massive
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: pitching matchup. Yamamoto and Chris Sale. Before we get to that, A.J.,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: are you guys going to talk pretty early? in the
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: game broadcast or maybe even in the open about Hassan
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: Kim and his walk off his moment.
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: And his knock he got yesterday to win the game.
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: I have buddies that are Braves fans are like, that
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: was our $ 20 million hit yesterday right there. I was like, well, that's,
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: that's harsh, but maybe true. It doesn't have many.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: No.
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: Uh, yeah, I'm sure it'll come up. It'll come up
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: in the open as you guys know, because, uh, we
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: kind of do a recap of the first two games.
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: And by the way, the Braves are four and one
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: against the Dodgers this year. They have this little, they're,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: they're kind of dominating them. And tonight is just intriguing
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: pitching matchup as it gets. I mean, Kenny and I,
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: Kenny Albert and I get to talk about Yamamoto versus
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: Chris Sale. And you want to ace, you want two aces.
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: You want to watch a great pitching matchup. You want
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: to watch two first place teams, Fox one, FS one tonight.
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: Both is where you can watch this game. It's going
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: to be awesome. And you know, the best part, you
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: guys are, You guys will be like, oh, the hitters.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: The weather. It rained this morning in Atlanta, so instead
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: of it being 138 degrees, it's going to be a
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: nice 78.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: That's actually rare for this time of year. I have
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: a good stat for you. You have to mix this in.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Do you know the last day that Hasan Kim had
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: a hit? What date it was on the calendar? I
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: know there's a gap here, of course. He's only made one, two, three,
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: four Yep, four appearances so far in August. And then
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: he wasn't in there in July. So, I mean, I
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: guess I'm kind of helping you out here. I'll just
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: say it. June 3rd. June 3rd, he had a knock.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Went one for four against Toronto. And then before that,
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: didn't have a knock in mid-May. I mean, we're talking about...
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: He gets a hit a month? He gets a hit
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: a month. Six for 77. Six hits and 77 at-bats.
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: Hasan Kim. That doesn't seem good. No, his slash line
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: is 0-7-8. And I know it's a small sample. 174 OBP,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: 0-7-8 slug for a 2-52 OPS. He is the definition
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: of kids watching the movie Space Jam and they just
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: sucked the superpowers out. They lost it. The Monstars stole
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: their superpowers. Like Kim went from a solid major league
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: player to cannot finding, cannot find a hit. And you
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: can see it here on the numbers. AJ, guess what?
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: He's still in the big league club. He's making $ 20
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: million this year. And if he suddenly finds it over
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: the next few weeks, they won't give a crap about
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: what happened over the last few months.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You know who's mad about that hit last night?
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: Who?
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Eric Kraft. Because he might've just, Made him go from
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: fifth to fourth on that list we showed yesterday of
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: like the worst seasons. What was it, Kratzy?
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: No.
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: No, I still have a solid commanding lead. And I
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: still have my extra base hits. That's right.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: I forgot about those extra base hits.
• 28:09
  Speaker 4: You know what? You know what people don't understand? Scott,
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: you kind of hit on it. Yeah, he's 0 for 27.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: And people are like, oh, 27 at bats. Like a
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: lot of players can say they were 0 for 20 something.
• 28:20
  Speaker 4: It's the length of time. since his last hit. And
• 28:24
  Speaker 4: last night's hit, while they show a picture of him smiling,
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: I promise, inside he's not smiling. He knows he just
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: raised his average to 077 or whatever it was. Like,
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: I've been through it.
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: He's smiling.
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: Oh, he's smiling, but he's not. He still knows he's
• 28:42
  Speaker 4: having a terrible season, and he still knows that his, like,
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: You question yourself. That season for me, I went to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: two different teams and I started both teams out. It
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: was a giant... Now I'm debating. No, it was the
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Pirates and the Astros. I started both teams out 0
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: for 15. And I got a hit in my 16th
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: at bat for both teams. You can't make that up.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: You can't put that out there as something that it's not...
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: It sucks. This is the worst... And so I hope
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: Kim goes four for four tonight. I'm not playing, but
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: I hope he goes four for four tonight because I
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: would never wish that on anybody. Bella, Bella, Bella, where?
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I don't know where Bella is, but I know how
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: to take care of my pup.
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  Speaker 1: one thing, AJ. You can't bring his friends into the
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  Speaker 1: food room.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: I'm going to ask that tonight when I see him.
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: If he's going to be in there, yeah, I think
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: that's fair. I think that's fair. I don't think they're
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: looking for a soft landing. I don't think... He's getting
• 30:52
  Speaker 4: any preferential treatment. But you know what's crazy is the
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: fact that he... Well, he may not have been a
• 30:57
  Speaker 4: $ 20 million player because he was probably looking more at
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: like a 25 two-year deal. And he kind of bet
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: on himself for the one-year deal. And the Braves were like, yeah,
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: $ 20 million. It's not like this dude was like a
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: $ 6 million veteran pickup. This was a big pickup for
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: a bridge contract, bet on yourself type of contract. And
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: it just... hasn't happened this year.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: No, it hasn't. I'm just a believer though, where it's like,
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: this guy was good not long ago. And I know
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: he's been through a few injuries. It's like, I don't know.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: It's just the kind of guy in my mind, AJ,
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: where suddenly he can go from, you don't belong in
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: any pro ball to, Oh wait, he's, he's kind of back.
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: He can help the team. Like give credit. If you're
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: the Braves, you've been able to let him kind of
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: figure it out both from a health standpoint and then Um,
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: you know, the bigs, I'm not saying he's good suddenly now,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: but you have at least put him in a position
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: where you're like, yeah, you're here. He talked yesterday about
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: how he's appreciated the support. Cause this is like in
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: almost any other scenario, a case where the team would
• 32:00
  Speaker 1: be like, see ya. Yeah, of course. So, uh, it's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: a cool story. I hope you just suddenly crushed it.
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Two out single frame in the bottom of the ninth, um,
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: first hit in months. And now the Braves are two
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: games back of the Dodgers for second best record in
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: the national league. Why is that important? Because the top
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: two teams receive a buy that used to not be cool.
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Now it's super cool. So I'm sure the Braves would
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: love to line up their pitching in the post season.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: And that's why this game matters. Well, I'm again being
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: sarcastic because there was one season where apparently it wasn't
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: cool because there was the rest versus rust conversation. We've
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: gotten rid of that because teams have taken advantage of
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: it since.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: Yes. And because players have talked about it and, put
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: common sense out there rather than idiotic people who are like, nope,
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: want to stay playing. Said nobody ever after 162 games.
• 32:54
  Speaker 4: We want that break.
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Hey, one injury note. Roki Sasaki, injured list, blister.
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you how he got the blister.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: What?
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Having to reach into that high-lye Cessna he uses as
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a glove every time he caught a finger on. Have
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: you seen how big his glove is?
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I think last night Frenchie and CJ were talking about
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: it on the Braves broadcast, and they were saying which
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: glove is bigger, the one in San Francisco in left
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: field or Rookie Suzuki's glove he uses.
• 33:28
  Speaker 4: I wonder if anybody's looked at the actual– what are
• 33:31
  Speaker 4: the rules? Is there a rule? There are rules. You
• 33:37
  Speaker 4: can't use a catcher's mitt at any other position. You
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: can't use a first baseman's mitt past a certain size
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: behind the dish. Like I know, and I didn't know
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: those rules until I had to catch a knuckleballer and
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: I used the first baseman's mitt and they were like, well,
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: you got to make sure it's not over whatever, 17 inches.
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: I wonder if there's a rule for the pitcher and
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: the size of glove you can have because they are,
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: they are testing the limit. That is for sure. It
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: looks almost AI. It looks comical.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: You know the ones that they have in the outfield?
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: Some people bring those crazy big ones. Yeah.
• 34:16
  Speaker 4: They had it in the All-Star game. Mm-hmm.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: That's rookie for you. Hey, I mean, it's helped him,
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: or at least even if it's a mental thing. I mean,
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: there were claims that, yeah, exactly, he was tipping and
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: people could see through the glove and all that. But
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: he could be a big factor if he comes back.
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: You need the Hubble telescope to see through that glove
• 34:37
  Speaker 2: he's got now.
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: I agree. He might be a big deal for them
• 34:41
  Speaker 1: in the postseason. I mean, he was. That was one
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: of the more unlikely stories last year, don't you think, AJ?
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: We're watching him, and you're like, oh, man, this guy's
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: not having a good first year.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Well, you know what he could do? He figured out
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: how to throw a split over the plate. That's what
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: was the difference in the bullpen.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: That's what Verducci was talking to you guys. Right, and
• 35:01
  Speaker 1: that's what Verducci was talking to you guys about yesterday. Remember,
• 35:05
  Speaker 1: he's like, Diaz, in his mind, has to earn the rollback.
• 35:09
  Speaker 1: He can't land his slider for strikes, and they're just
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: torching his heater. No? You don't think he has to
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: earn it?
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: I don't agree that he has to earn it back,
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: and I definitely don't agree with the soft landing. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: think it was Cody Allen that talked about it on
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: KP's podcast. The adrenaline is what closers live on. If
• 35:31
  Speaker 4: you've got to throw him in the seventh or eighth inning,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: is he really that guy? Is he really the guy
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: that you're going to get once you throw him in
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: the ninth? I don't know. I mean, he's got to
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: earn his way back. I shouldn't have said, no, I
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: don't think he's got to earn his way back. But
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: right now, it's not like Tanner Scott's like, my job.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: So Rokey's like, I'll take a 15-day break, get my
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: blister healed up, you can just bring me back in
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: the bullpen, and we'll be good to go through the postseason.
• 35:58
  Speaker 1: I know every situation is different, but I mean, the
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Dodgers do this. It's like, any issue, immediate IL, right, AJ?
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: And then, I don't know a ton about the situation,
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: but Bryce Miller's going through some things. It just feels
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: like if someone like that's on the Dodgers, they just
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: IL him. And this is– it's not really a knock
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: on the Mariners because they're actually really good at keeping
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: their pitchers on the mound. They've done it super well,
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: you know, going deep into the playoffs. And most of
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: their guys are on the mound this year.
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: But the Dodgers are really good. I'll tell you what
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers are really good at, depth. They have depth.
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: So if they're like, hey, we need 10 days. Okay,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: we'll give you 10 days, Rookie, to– Get your finger fixed,
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: and then we'll see you then because we have seven
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: other starters on any other team that would be guaranteed
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: to be in the rotation. So we're fine. That's kind
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: of what the Dodgers have done. That's what they've learned.
• 36:49
  Speaker 4: That's why it was one of my two main locks
• 36:52
  Speaker 4: to start the year. The Dodgers under 103.5 wins. Like,
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: it's just, it's not that it's so hard. I think
• 37:00
  Speaker 4: the Dodgers could do it if they were like, hey,
• 37:02
  Speaker 4: we get an extra, we get a buy to the
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: NLCS if we win 105 games. I think they could
• 37:08
  Speaker 4: do it. I just don't think that they feel the
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: benefit of winning so many games because they are going
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: to win the division. They want to make sure they
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: get that buy, which the Braves are creeping right now,
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: but the Braves have to play well to get there.
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: I just think they know how to do this and
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: they have the depth but they're also not playing that
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: panic game of we've got to win every night.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: And you can watch that game, the final game of
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers-Braves series, tonight on FS1 and on the Fox
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: 1 app. AJ will be part of it. AJ, who's
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: on with you, by the way?
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Kenny Albert.
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: Nice.
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: Okay. Kenny Albert.
• 37:53
  Speaker 2: Tonight and Saturday in New York. Oh, cool.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Okay. So yeah, AJ and Kenny and then the other Kenny,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: Kenny Rosenthal, also on Saturday's broadcast. That's right. And Wano.
• 38:05
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• 38:07
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• 38:10
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• 38:12
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• 38:22
  Speaker 1: So with a twist, a mistake was made, a missed
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: Bach call, and the future MVP of the National League,
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: Pekra Armstrong, was very heated about the missed call and
• 38:32
  Speaker 1: then also a bad strike call later on a couple
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: innings later. That's Alfonso Marquez. Marquez did apologize postgame, so
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I want to give him credit for that. Ken Rosenthal
• 38:42
  Speaker 1: gave him dork of the week but also gave him
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: credit for doing that. Let's get PCA's words postgame on
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: what happened.
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: I saw four umpires miss a pretty obvious play. So
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: they're out there every day just like we are. Their
• 38:57
  Speaker 3: one job is to get calls right, and if they
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: get it wrong, they're supposed to talk about it, figure
• 39:01
  Speaker 3: it out, and get it right, and they didn't. I
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: get it from Alphonso's point of view at home plate.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Tough to see with two people standing in front of
• 39:11
  Speaker 3: you and all you're trying to do is call the
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: right pitch. But I don't know how you miss somebody
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: starting their motion and then stopping it and stepping off.
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: And I.
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: Just don't know. So you'll have to talk to them.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Perfect answer. I just don't know.
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't know.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I ask umpires that all the time. I just don't know.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: I don't know how you missed that. I don't know.
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: I don't know how I swung and missed. I just
• 39:38
  Speaker 2: don't know. Perfect answer.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: Four guys to miss it. Obviously, Alfonso Marquez apologized and
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: said they got it wrong, but I don't see... We
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: had the same thing happen in a high school game
• 39:56
  Speaker 4: with two umpires. They didn't see it. Okay? And their
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: high school umpire... Like, I don't see how it was...
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: I don't see how it was missed. Because... Like, I
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: would love to hear their explanation. Like, it's not a
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: called pitch. He stepped off. If they think he stepped off, well,
• 40:17
  Speaker 4: then he started his motion. And I... I just don't
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: understand how PCA didn't get thrown out either. I mean,
• 40:24
  Speaker 4: he was chirping them right there. And then he went
• 40:27
  Speaker 4: back and started chirping one of the other umpires. I
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: didn't see who it was. And he kind of waved
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: them off, too. He was pissed, rightly so. But it
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: was crazy. I can't believe he missed it.
• 40:37
  Speaker 1: But that's, again, where I'm going to give credit. Two
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: things happened. Yes, they messed up. Bad job. Two things
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: happened postgame. Apology slash acknowledgement that they messed up, AJ.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: And.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: They didn't boot PCA out of the game. People make mistakes,
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: and yes, is it kind of crazy that forums made
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: a mistake? Yes. Am I being too glass half full
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: to actually point out that we at least had some
• 41:00
  Speaker 1: accountability here and a feel for not throwing PCA out
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: after you missed something?
• 41:09
  Speaker 2: I like that they didn't throw him out. They understood
• 41:11
  Speaker 2: how mad he was, how important he was in that game,
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: and they didn't throw him out. That was fine. I
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: didn't have a problem with it. You know who gets
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: credit for this? Quentin Barry. He wasn't giving signs this time.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: He was actually giving signs to PCA to stay back
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: and calm down. And Craig Council ran out there and
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: did a great job of getting him to calm down.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: So I didn't– listen, missed calls happen. Missed calls happen
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: all the time, okay? So to say this, a lot
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: of four people missed it. Four people missed calls all
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: the time. So they missed it. I mean, did it
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: affect the game?
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: They lost 2-0. So even if that run score is 2-1,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: they still lose. So I don't know. Sometimes we're a
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: little harsh on umpires. They miss calls. They're human. I
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: make mistakes sometimes.
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: We had like 60 people in Toronto forget how many
• 41:52
  Speaker 1: outs there were a week and a half ago. Two
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: teams and numbers, right? I mean, there's a lot of
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: missing there.
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: On that series, by the way, Diamondbacks won the series. Big.
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: Cubs had great pitching. Gossman, Holmes, those look like some
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: good pickups. We're going to be talking about those guys
• 42:15
  Speaker 1: on the other side. Maybe all of the ups are
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: just lost in the eyes of Eduardo Rodriguez. This guy,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: two and a half ERA, racking innings. He's at like 160-something.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: He's not striking dudes out at a high clip. It's
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: well below average there. Not even a high ground ball.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: It's just he's getting weak contact. And he's hitting his spots.
• 42:35
  Speaker 1: And he's doing it all year long for Arizona. I mean,
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: that's the surprise of the season for them.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: Not if you watch the WBC on Fox and Fox One.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: Because he dealt during the WBC for Venezuela. So maybe
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: the WBC can do good. Maybe it's not all terrible,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: the WBC.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, here's the other thing for the Cubs. They're
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: now six and a half back of the Brewers. I
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: know they got as close as, what was it, three
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: games maybe, AJ? Division's over.
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: Is it?
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Six and a half with a month to play in
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: the NL Central and a good Brewers team.
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: Ask the Tigers.
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: Different.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: About what? Last year?
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: Mm-hmm.
• 43:23
  Speaker 1: Feels different to me.
• 43:25
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: Maybe I'm wrong. I mean, you can't predict baseball, but
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: it feels done. Okay.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: Then it's over. Everyone, Scott said it's over. Scott said
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: it's over. It's over. Scott said it.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: Make sure you let everyone know in Atlanta. It's over.
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: NL Central is over.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I also said that you– Chris Sale stinks. Scott said
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: Chris Sale stinks.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: That's too far. I love Chris Sale, and he smells great.
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: He has great deodorant. Anyway, the Kevin Gossman-Clay Holmes edition
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: looking very nice right now for this team. I think
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: they surprised a lot of people, right? You're like, are
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: they going to do something big at the deadline? No.
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: And remember, Jed Hoyer himself said, I'm not going to
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: go crazy because we're not going to be a bye team. Well,
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: he went against that. And then he ended up not
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: getting one, but two playoff starters. And it really worked. Look,
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: those three had an 0-4-5 in this three-game set. Eight
• 44:20
  Speaker 1: hits in 20 innings. Yes, they dropped the series to
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. But just a good sign to see some
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: starters like that. I know you guys, I don't even
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: know if you mentioned it yesterday, but Ben Brown had
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: a setback, which is bad. Ben Brown's got good stuff.
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: He's a beast. I mean, he's had it. He's just had,
• 44:34
  Speaker 1: what is it? Chronic. Is it his back? Whatever it is,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: he's having problems, so he might not come back for them.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: But there are arms here.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: I think it's one of the things that they needed
• 44:48
  Speaker 4: to address, and they addressed it. So it makes the
• 44:51
  Speaker 4: Cubs a good hitting team. Obviously, they didn't hit this series.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Hitting goes in slumps. But to me, if I'm a
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: Cubs fan, I am super juiced about what we just
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: got out of three of our starting pitchers.
• 45:02
  Speaker 3: Mm-hmm.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: And right now, too, they're going to go as PCA
• 45:05
  Speaker 1: and Bregman go. And those two went two for 24
• 45:08
  Speaker 1: with an extra base hit. And PCA is the MVP
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: of the National League. Bregman's been on fire, and they
• 45:14
  Speaker 1: had a down series.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: It happens.
• 45:18
  Speaker 1: It happens. Dansby will come back in a few weeks.
• 45:22
  Speaker 1: This team looks pretty good. I like the Cubs.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: We talked about it yesterday, Scott. Or was it two
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: days ago with Little Kenyon? Cubs Brewers DS, baby. Let's go.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: Let's go.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: Sign me up for that one.
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: You just love to travel. You see, you can get
• 45:36
  Speaker 4: an Uber Black from Chicago to Milwaukee.
• 45:40
  Speaker 3: He's going to bite.
• 45:59
  Speaker 1: All right, let's slap. We have a riveting update to
• 46:01
  Speaker 1: the dump deadline. See Trent Rose Krantz, our buddy, FT fam,
• 46:07
  Speaker 1: riverfront territory, and the athletic covering the Cincinnati Reds. So
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: we talked earlier about how a Ohenio Suarez and TJ
• 46:14
  Speaker 1: Friedel are on waivers. They cleared waivers. So they will
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: be back with the team in Chicago on Friday. Nobody
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: wanted them. Hmm.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Well, All that talk we did for nothing.
• 46:32
  Speaker 4: Not for nothing. It was a good exercise. It's a
• 46:34
  Speaker 4: good exercise about what goes on in the front offices.
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: I just find it hard to believe that, you know,
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know, Fredo, but more Suarez with the vibes
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: he brings. $ 3 million. I'm sorry. It's a lot of
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: money in the everyday world. It's not a lot of
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: money in the baseball world. That's like nothing.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: Gino can't hit a big homer in a big moment.
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: Everybody's roster is perfect. Nobody has any. Depth concerns. Nobody
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: needs a bat like that.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I saw him hit a huge homer
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: for the Mariners last year in the playoffs.
• 47:06
  Speaker 4: Oh, that was pretty decent.
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Has he had a bad year? Yes.
• 47:12
  Speaker 4: Is he a better option than what teams have?
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: Yes. Yes.
• 47:16
  Speaker 4: No, no, no.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Because that would require them having some kid that's a
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: rookie and they have to tell, you're not our guy,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and then we can't have that.
• 47:27
  Speaker 1: I mean, the Mariners kind of did that. Cole Young's
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: been very good. And Colt Emerson didn't work out. You
• 47:33
  Speaker 1: have multiple rookies that are starting in your middle infield.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Pretty good chance one of them is going to have
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: some growing pains. That's normal, especially nowadays when the gap
• 47:44
  Speaker 1: between the major leagues and the minor leagues is, I'm
• 47:46
  Speaker 1: being told, as big as ever. Can we show the
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Phillies tweet from Mike Petriello? I thought this one was
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: good to just show what's going on with this Phillies
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: batting order. And Luis Arise joining the party. And this
• 47:58
  Speaker 1: isn't his bread and butter, but I'm actually curious to
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: get the lineup and protection, the protection in the lineup
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: perspective from you guys. So Petriello said Phillies bats through
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: the trade deadline. This was a day or two ago.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: So grain of salt here. It might be 27th or whatever,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: or it might be second in walk percentage. But anyway,
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: he said through the trade deadline, the Phillies were 28th
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: in walk percentage. One of the worst teams in baseball
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: had taken a walk, right? They don't do it often.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Phillies bats since the trade deadline. The only bat they
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: picked up was Louisa Rise. They're now first in walk
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: percentage over almost a month now with their primary acquisition
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: being a guy who does not like to walk, right?
• 48:38
  Speaker 1: So Petriello was saying this sport rules sometimes. And then
• 48:42
  Speaker 1: he said a lot of this is just about Bryce
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: Harper who has doubled his walk percentage, 13 in July,
• 48:46
  Speaker 1: 27 in August, mostly just seems to have stopped swinging.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: He said protection isn't real, but it would be funny
• 48:52
  Speaker 1: if Louisa Rise behind him meant that Harper– wasn't being protected. So,
• 48:58
  Speaker 1: I mean, Luis arrives behind him. I will say AJ
• 49:02
  Speaker 1: protection doesn't have to be, Oh, here comes this feared slugger.
• 49:06
  Speaker 1: I mean, protection can be, Oh crap, just walk two
• 49:08
  Speaker 1: of the first three. And now the guy who makes
• 49:10
  Speaker 1: contact is stepping up. Isn't that the concept here?
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: It's just all about having somebody that can make you
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: pay when you walk the guy in front of you.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: It doesn't have to be a slugger. It's just someone,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Louisa Rice can get hits in big situations. And you
• 49:23
  Speaker 2: walk Harper, Louisa Rice can get you a single and
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: maybe a double. He's run into some homers, but he
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: can do some damage to keep the inning alive and
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: to put more pressure on the pitcher. So it's not
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: always about hitting homers. It's about what kind of presence
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: they have and what can they do to keep the
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: innings going.
• 49:41
  Speaker 4: Yeah, protection is real. And the fact that he doesn't
• 49:46
  Speaker 4: have protection behind him in Luis Arias and what they're saying,
• 49:50
  Speaker 4: that's why he's walking. The teams are looking at it
• 49:52
  Speaker 4: and going, we're not going to let Bryce Harper, who's
• 49:56
  Speaker 4: been swinging a hot bat, and it's not just the walks,
• 49:59
  Speaker 4: we're not going to let him beat us. To me,
• 50:00
  Speaker 4: that's what it looks like to me. Because they're saying,
• 50:04
  Speaker 4: we can somehow deal with Luis Arias just getting a single.
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: But it's been working out. I mean, obviously, the team's
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: been hot. They've been scoring runs. And that's the name
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: of the game. Number one in walks, maybe now number two.
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: And they went to 30th in strikeouts during that time, too. Like,
• 50:22
  Speaker 4: they just completely flipped what they were doing.
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: And you know I push this all the time.
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: Protection's real, Scott. Ask those sailors. Ask those sailors back
• 50:34
  Speaker 4: in the day. Sailing from port to port. Uh, there is,
• 50:42
  Speaker 4: I don't know if Mike Petriello was being sarcastic. That
• 50:45
  Speaker 4: protection isn't real, but he clearly wasn't a seaman.
• 50:56
  Speaker 1: Uh, on the topic of protection, this is me always
• 50:59
  Speaker 1: trying to get us back in the post.
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: We are on YouTube, right?
• 51:04
  Speaker 1: Yeah. We're just on YouTube. So no rules. Uh, In
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: the postseason, yes, you can start to play music too.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: In the postseason, pitching is better, right? A guy like
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: Luis Arias sometimes can be the perfect ingredient for a
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: team like the Phillies. Stephen Kwan has been that guy
• 51:21
  Speaker 1: in the past for the Guardians. And Jose Ramirez to
• 51:25
  Speaker 1: an extent too. But when they try and pitch around,
• 51:27
  Speaker 1: here's Kwan again. Blue pit, right? It's hard to strike
• 51:31
  Speaker 1: that guy out. It's going to be the same thing
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: with Arias. Is it going to change the complexion of
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: the postseason for the Phillies? I don't know, but I
• 51:38
  Speaker 1: sure think it helps based on what we've seen from
• 51:40
  Speaker 1: them the last few years in their offense in the postseason.
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: Totally. But it's totally what we said before the trade deadline.
• 51:47
  Speaker 4: The answers for the Phillies lineup were not Joe Adele,
• 51:51
  Speaker 4: Byron Buxton, even Ward, who I thought they were going
• 51:55
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