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Matt Snyder talks MLB, Bill Seals on the Cyclones & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Our number 2 Miller and Condon, welcome back to the Iowa Sports
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  Radio Network as we take you until 2:00.
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  Off the bench comes Lucas Strain from 2:00 until 5.
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  Lucas flying solo through Thursday.
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  I think I Colt is in tomorrow. Guess those throughout the
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  remainder of the week until Sean gets back on Friday.
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  Still to come this hour, Bill Seals bottom of the hour just
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  got through with Matt Campbell's press conference.
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  We'll recap that with Bill Seals from cyclonereport.com.
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  Part of on three media at 1:30. Transplays of the day at about
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  1:50. But right now, time to talk some
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  baseball. We do it every Monday with our
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  friend Matt Snyder from CBSSports.com.
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  Matt Trenton, Ken, How are you? I am great.
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  Other than the fact that the Brewers just won't stop winning.
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  It's. Unbelievable to run that they're
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  on between them in the National League and the Red Sox in the
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  American League. Both of these teams on a
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  remarkable run. So let's start with the Red Sox.
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  Can they win the East? Yeah, I think so too.
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  I mean, I don't I, I, I think I would still stick with the Blue
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  Jays, but it's remarkable that all of a sudden the Red Sox are
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  three games away from having the best record in the American
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  League. Like 2 1/2, actually, yeah, 2
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  1/2 from the best record in the American League.
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  I it's no, it's three. Sorry, 3.
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  Yeah, but still. Yeah, it's 3.
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  Sweep the Astros, who were red. Hawks.
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  Yeah, and they just recently beat the Dodgers two out of
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  three at home. Garrett Crochet, easy and
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  obvious age, but Lucas Giolito starting to look more and more
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  like the All Star version of Giolito.
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  Brian Baio has been great offensively.
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  Trevor Story now kind of looks like the Trevor Story of old.
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  Meanwhile, Roman Anthony's growing up really, really fast.
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  Things are just kind of starting to come together right now.
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  You know, the Red Sox are interesting because they didn't
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  do much. The fan base was upset.
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  They have that. Joe Ryan rumour.
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  They they had a rumour, but when you're working on the periphery,
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  and it's the Red Sox too, we're not talking about a team that
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  struggles financially, it's the Red Sox.
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  Yet we saw this happen with that White Sox team 30 years ago.
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  We're kind of brings the clubhouse together, you know,
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  blank the front office, we'll do it ourselves.
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  We're fine here. Could you see that maybe being a
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  little bit of a rallying cry here in Boston?
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  Yeah, definitely, for sure. It it it's one of those things
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  like I don't think that for example, just trading Raphael
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  Devers all of a sudden made them better, just like it made the
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  Giants worse. I think the Red Sox were should
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  were better than they were playing and that was going to
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  even out of the Giants were playing too well and that that
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  he put out as well. I I totally could see them also
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  kind of saying like, look, they traded away one of our best
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  players earlier in the year and they didn't get us enough help
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  with the trade deadline. But you know what, we're good.
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  We're just going to do it on our own.
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  So yeah, yeah, you could totally see that.
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  Felt like they kind of used another starting pitcher there,
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  as you mentioned, like with the Joe Ryan thing, really fast.
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  But it apparently there were some sources that said not even
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  close. That was never even a real
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  discussion. So, yeah, I thought Bresla was
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  going to be a little bit more aggressive.
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  But then again, they're playing well right now.
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  So you know what, we'll see. Maybe they didn't need to do
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  more. Maybe Walker Buehler just need
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  to start pitching like we know he's capable.
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  And with G Alito continuing to kind of lock things in, maybe
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  they'll end up having a really good playoff rotation.
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  We'll get out of the American League East, but I got one more
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  for you. Are the the Yankees quit on
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  Aaron Boom? I mean, the errors that they're
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  making and the and the fashion that they're making them, I
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  mean, it's just it's it's almost unbelievable that the Yankees
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  can be this deficient on defence.
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  Talking about the Yankees, a team that was supposed to win
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  the American League. I get the judges all he might be
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  back tomorrow. So that's at least good news.
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  But the way they're booting the ball around, whether it's
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  infielders or outfielders, it's embarrassing.
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  Yeah, and things can be contagious like that.
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  Sometimes when it's good, things are contagious.
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  Sometimes when it's going bad. I mean, if you just look at
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  Friday night, the the three relievers were all new guys who
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  who blew that. They were all three guys that
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  they get at the trade deadline. There's no way they could have
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  quit on Boone because they didn't know him before and not
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  as the manager. And and that error in the ninth
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  in the right field was Caballero.
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  He's new. And so I, I think it's just one
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  of the things that it's a coincidence in some ways that
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  it's happening all at once. But I do think there's something
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  to the sloppiness and the way that the team has been run for a
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  while. And this goes all the way back
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  to the World Series with the discussion that we've had.
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  When the Dodgers apparently said in the offseason, I think it was
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  Chris Taylor said, like, we were just waiting for them to mess
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  up. And sure enough, and that fifth
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  inning for the Yankees, it wasn't like some of these also
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  range. It was Aaron Judge who dropped
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  the fly ball. It was Garrett Cole who did not
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  cover first base. And at some point, you're just a
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  team that makes sloppy mistakes. And that's kind of what the
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  Yankees right now are becoming known for.
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  So I don't think I would phrase it as quit on Boone, but there's
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  something there and it has to start with the manager.
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  So there, there's definitely something there.
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  What is the most dangerous team that is currently outside the
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  playoffs looking in? Is there a team that you look at
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  and say if they find a way to get in, this is a team that can
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  win a couple of series, get to ACS at minimum, you know
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  something like that. Is there a team that you would
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  target? Yeah, I hate to go back to this,
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  well, since they were my pre season AL champion and then I
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  gave up on them. But the Rangers, yeah, I mean,
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  if you look at they're capable on offense of hitting much
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  better than they've hit basically the whole season.
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  So many of their guys have talent, whether it's a younger
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  guy like Wyatt Langford or Evan Carter, or if it's a veteran
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  like Adolis Garcia or Marcus Demian, up and down that line,
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  if they've got a lot of talent. Bruce Bocchi always figures out
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  his bullpen in the postseason. It's one of the Super powers.
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  And then you go to the rotation and you say, how about Jacob
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  degrom, Nathan Ivaldi and now Merrill Kelly?
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  All of a sudden you've got three guys who can throw like post
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  season aces. And you know who have done it
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  before? Granted, degrom, you'd have to
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  go back to 2015, but they've all done it at different times.
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  In 2023 was Ivaldi and Merrill Kelly both So just on different
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  teams. But yeah, there's if the Rangers
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  get in, there's a chance. And then that league is wide
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  open. Every single good team there has
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  had really, really awful stress, whether it's the Tigers having
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  lost 1213 very recently, the Blue Jays probably right now,
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  the answer is probably right now like that league is so wide
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  open. I want to get to Fry fest in a
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  second. I mean, the the Saturday night
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  game, Jeez. So is but one more since we're
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  kind of talking on the on the on this topic now is the is the
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  wild card done in the National League?
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  I mean, is there conceit? Because it sure seems like it
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  would be a stretch for the Reds to get in there for back of the
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  Padres. It seems like whoever doesn't
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  win the central, whoever doesn't win the east and then probably
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  the Padres. But I just can't see the Reds of
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  the giants. Marlins are playing.
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  Well, I got to give them credit. Nobody saw this coming, but it
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  seems like it's over to me, Matt.
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  Yeah, how about that? The Marlins are sticks out with
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  the Giants ahead of the Cardinals.
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  I could see the Reds getting hot and Hunter Green will come back.
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  And you've got Hunter Green and Nicholas all there and the
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  rotation along with Andrew Abbott.
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  And they've got some talent on offense.
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  And you've got Terry Francona there who can help bring him
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  together down the stretch. It just it doesn't seem like
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  they're all the way there. Seems like they needed probably
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  one more big bat in front of the trade deadline.
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  And if you're going to talk about, well, who are the Reds
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  going to rundown four behind the Padres?
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  The Padres are way better. They are five behind the Mets.
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  The Mets are definitely better. And they're, what, 7 1/2?
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  And the Cubs, The Cubs are way, way, way better.
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  So, yeah, I think that these six are probably the exact six teams
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  in the National League. And on the American League side,
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  I do think there's a chance the Rangers get in, you know, maybe
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  the Royals find a way to get high.
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  It's settled on the annual side in the American League.
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  Almost nothing would surprise me as as up and down as almost all
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  those teams. I'm with you there.
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  If we go back to what a year ago at this time, nobody had the
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  Tigers in. It's true.
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  We know certainly what happened over the last six weeks for them
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  as they got red hot. Take us back to the Speedway
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  Classic and the disaster. Obviously rain, you're not going
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  to be able to do anything like that.
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  I was just so excited to see it and to have it delayed and and
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  you see the downpour of the people just sitting there with
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  their umbrellas if they were lucky.
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  It was just a sad scene overall. What was your take away from the
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  Speedway Classic? Yeah, not everything.
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  Maybe this was us giving the karma, some of that karma back
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  for how perfectly the first Field of Dream game went.
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  It's like you can just never have everything go just
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  absolutely perfectly. I it was cool.
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  I liked that yesterday that when we saw the home runs, they had
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  the the NASCAR, the car driving around for the home run.
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  That was pretty cool. Not everything is going to hit
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  perfectly. I understand Major League
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  Baseball taking the shot on it and then their heart was in the
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  right place. But yeah, it it didn't.
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  It definitely did not go off well with Saturday night.
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  And you can't control the weather.
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  But yeah, it's it would have been way cooler if it just would
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  have gone off as expected Saturday.
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  And it didn't have to delay Sunday, that's for sure.
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  No hot dog buns of all things. I mean, good God, no cheese.
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  For the. Yeah, no cheese for the nachos
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  and cheese just here's your nachos.
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  What do you want anyways? So will, will baseball go
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  forward if they already announced what they're going to
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  do with this? I don't want to call it a
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  gimmick, but with this gimmick, I guess next year.
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  For sure. I, I don't know.
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  I don't know exactly. But look, we've, we've seen the
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  Little League classic with the Field of Dreams, the the Negro
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  League special. That was outstanding.
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  It was great. I wouldn't mind seeing them do
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  something in Puerto Rico. I don't know about the logistics
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  of a Cuba type game, but that seems like that would be really
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  awesome, especially if you found a couple teams that had some
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  Cuban players. I wouldn't mind seeing them take
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  it to the Caribbean at some point.
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  You know, similar to how we've seen games in Mexico and, you
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  know, Australia, South Korea, Japan.
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  I wouldn't mind seeing them take it to the Caribbean, especially
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  the places that are close. So it's not that long of a road
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  trip. But yeah, I mean, I think
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  there's a lot of different things that they could do.
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  And you know, like I said, I thought it was cool the idea to
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  have a game in the field of a NASCAR track and everything.
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  So I'm sure they'll they'll come up with something else that that
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  that will also be. Fun.
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  I love the numbers on the jerseys, the NASCAR style of
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  number. I thought that was a really good
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  time. They did some good things to
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  just. Yeah.
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  I mean, you can't do anything about 3, No, Right?
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  Yeah. No, nothing.
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  Yeah, saw the VIPs and what they paid for those concerts and.
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  Selfishly, I'm still part of a Major League record because I
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  think the. The Rockies, The.
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  Rockies home opener is still the most attended baseball regular
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  season. I know that they played some of
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  the Coliseum for the Dodgers back in the day before Dodger
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  Stadium was built, but I think the the regular season with the
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  highest number of fans was Expos Rockies April to 2 or 1993
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  eighty 1000. I think of us where there was
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  crazy. That was was great though.
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  Wild time. And boy, the balls flying out of
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  that ballpark was different level.
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  Speaking of balls flying out, well, the Brewers do it again.
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  So they bring up Mizaroski goes to the IL All right, we're going
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  to bring another rookie up here. Logan Henderson was outstanding
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  in the game yesterday. Is that how?
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  He got to the game, his parents had to drive him.
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  There were no flights. Just incredible, just absolutely
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  incredible. This Brewers team, we kind of
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  touch that at the top. But I want to go to Mizaroski.
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  Look, if there was a playoff game tomorrow, he'd be pitching
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  right? And this, this is a way to
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  circumvent and and slow down those innings limits, right?
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  Absolutely. They were already starting to
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  kind of ramp down his usage. The the game before the Cubs, it
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  was at Seattle only three and 2/3 innings.
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  He hadn't even given a run, 64 pitches.
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  And they told him and that Cubs game, 4 innings, 80 pitches.
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  They're they're they were starting to be careful about his
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  workload. And I think some of this
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  honestly goes back to like the Strasbourg shutdown.
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  And the thing that I thought was the most messed up about that
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  was the Nationals never did anything creative during that
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  year. They never went to a six man
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  rotation. They never skipped him a few
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  spots. They never invented a lower back
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  injury. They just pitched him until they
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  said he was done and that was that so teams now the Brewers
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  are planning on being in the playoffs.
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  So now they're planning on let's say we get to the World Series.
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  We want Jacob Bizarowski firing on all cylinders through the
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  World Series. So now how are we going to get
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  him through October? And he just got hit on the shin
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  by Osaya Suzuki hard rounder. So let's just say he has a shin
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  injury. Yes, absolutely.
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  And they they could give him two or three weeks and then they can
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  ramp them back up and by the plus he'll be hitting his full
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  stride. I'm honestly as a Cubs fan,
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  waiting for the Cubs to try some more.
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  Something similar with Kate Horton as well.
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  Who has to be their number 3 starter in the playoffs at this
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  point, correct? Probably.
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  I mean, let's see how Taion is when he comes back.
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  He might go with the veteran there, but awful.
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  Yesterday, but it's a rehab start.
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  Yeah. Oh, was he?
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  Yeah. Two good innings, 1 inning, he
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  gave up a bunch of runs, but but it's a rehab start so you can't
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  get too excited either. Way, yeah, but Horton is
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  definitely in there. Like Colin raised.
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  He's not going to be in there. Nope.
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  I'll be surprised if Soraka and he pitch.
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  He pitches tonight. Soraka I believe.
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  I think he does, yeah. I think he.
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  Does Soraka against Ladola right?
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  Yeah, yeah. All right, Matt, I've waited
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  long enough. Here you go.
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  Buckle up. I have taken my blood pressure
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  medicine, so I'm just going to keep it open-ended for you.
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  Give me your take away and well, one way or the other, what I
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  should be thinking as a Minnesota Twins fan.
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  Just hoping that there's a sale and it goes through as soon as
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  possible. I mean it.
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  For me, the problem goes back to you win a playoff series in
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  2020. 3 was it? 2023 won a playoff series and
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  then almost immediately after the season ends, we hear, hey,
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  they need to trim payroll. They can't go that.
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  Are you kidding me? Like you just advanced in the
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  playoffs. You have all kinds of fan
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  excitement. Excited, as excited as the fans
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  have been in years and years and years.
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  And the first thing you're going to do is let it leak out that
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  you need to trim payroll because the owners are worried about
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  their bottom line. Get out of here.
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  Get out of here. It all traces back to that for
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  me. Obviously things kind of
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  collapsed on the stretch last year.
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  As we we've said on this show, we traced it back to the Joe
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  Ryan injury. Everything kind of fell apart
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  after that. And then this year, other than
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  that ridiculously long winning streak, which hilariously seems
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  like such an out here right now, but things were broken, so
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  changes needed to be made. I understand that.
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  But for me, it's on ownership and it goes back to right after
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  that playoff, advancing in the playoffs and then just throwing
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  a wet blanket over that. And we just need the owners to
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  to get out of there. Which of the two teams that we
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  watched last night, on Sunday Night Baseball, or both look
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  like a world, a team that could win a World Series to you?
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  I still think both, but I I would rank the Phillies ahead of
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  the Tigers at this point. The Tigers need to play more
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  quality baseball and and sustain it moving forward after having
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  lost 12 of 13 there. I don't think they did enough in
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  front of the trade deadline. They needed to show up the
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  bullpen and rotation a little more.
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  Although. Charlie Martin.
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  He was good last night. Yep, I agree with.
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  You but you know, 41 years old, but the Phillies you're looking
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  at and let's say the playoff rotation is first of all, Zach
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  Wheeler and Christopher Sanchez are bases right now.
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  They just is absolutely an 8. They're probably going to get
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  back Aaron Nola before the playoffs.
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  So then Knowles are four with Ranger Suarez is a three.
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  That means you can kick Caseless Lizardo Lizardo to the bullpen
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  where now they've got Johann Duran at the back end of the
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  bullpen. You know, it's the offense.
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  Maybe they could have used a bat.
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  I kind of, I really wanted them to go out and get Luis Robert.
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  I think he would have fit perfectly there and would have
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  been, but they've got pieces on offense to get hot.
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  It's just going to be a matter of getting out of the right
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  time. I think the Phillies are one of
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  the most attractive teams in terms of how the postseason
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  roster shaked out in terms of being able to make a deep run.
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  Couldn't agree with you more. So I see last night just
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  watching Sports Center and I see on the bottom line Julio
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  Rodriguez goes 2020 for the 4th and 2nd of year to open up and I
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  saw a quote from him. Big accomplishment.
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  And yet what I think of Julio Rodriguez right now, I think of
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  a guy that's been a disappointment.
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  Is that fair? Yeah.
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  Except for the 9th inning on either Friday or Saturday night.
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  It's interesting because I, I was actually thinking about
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  writing sometime this week about how he's probably a little
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  underrated because he burst under the scene.
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  He got that big long ext 2023. He was fourth in MVP voting.
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  And some people such as myself predicted him to win MVP last
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  year and he had a down year. And I think that part of this is
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  offense is so suppressed in T-Mobile Park that if he was
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  elsewhere, he probably would have a lot better rate stats.
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  But also he's he's such a good defender.
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  He's such a good baserunner. He does have the power.
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  He's like, I think we were expecting he's going to start
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  stacking MVP and what he didn't now it's man, he's such a
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  disappointment that I think it's got the point that he's actually
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  underrated and underappreciated. Cal Raleigh hitting under 200
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  since June the 1st which is kind of snuck up on me.
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  Don't. Go to the Don't go to the Home
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  Run Derby. Yeah, it's it's unbelief.
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  They're a tough team, I'm telling you.
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  I think that the of the six divisions, if I could only watch
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  one, as far as how the playoffs are going to unfold, I think the
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  the AL West is going to be bananas.
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  I really do. And I think that the Astros open
• 18:17
  the door this weekend by getting swept by the Red Sox.
• 18:20
  Yeah, and you've got the Mariners right there, the
• 18:22
  Rangers, who are very capable, they can run the Angels for not
• 18:25
  being a very good team, are actually not horrible at all.
• 18:29
  And then the A's actually have a lot of fun players, especially
• 18:32
  Nick Kurtz. So it's yeah, it's a really fun
• 18:34
  division. Does the Cal Raleigh thing was
• 18:37
  funny because about 3 weeks before the All Star break I was
• 18:42
  on CBS Sports HQ on video and I said my biggest prediction for
• 18:46
  the rest of the season was that Cal Raleigh was going to slow
• 18:48
  down with his home run pace because how could he not slow
• 18:51
  down and everybody was going to blame it on the Home Run Derby.
• 18:55
  Absolutely happens every year. Fun week ahead of us, Matt
• 18:59
  Snyder, CBSSports.com recovers Major League Baseball and does a
• 19:03
  terrific job. We love talking to Matt on
• 19:05
  Mondays, and we'll do it again next week.
• 19:07
  Matt, thank you. Have a wonderful week, my
• 19:08
  friend. Thanks a lot.
• 19:10
  All right, take care. Yeah, good to talk to you.
• 19:12
  Matt Snyder, CBSSports.com. Another fun week of baseball
• 19:15
  behind us, and onward we go. Soon it'll be September and
• 19:19
  Yikes. I didn't jump in, but when you
• 19:22
  brought up, the playoffs are set in the National League.
• 19:24
  They are, don't you think? I don't know what it is.
• 19:28
  I still like this Reds team. Yeah, chasing down the Padres 4
• 19:33
  back is going to be difficult, but there's something about a
• 19:37
  couple of those young arms like the guys like Ladolo, who's
• 19:39
  going tonight. They're not great, but they're
• 19:43
  they're pretty good. Speaking of B minuses, you threw
• 19:45
  out that number that grade earlier.
• 19:48
  They got a lot of B minuses on that singers.
• 19:49
  One of them. Singer.
• 19:50
  Absolutely Another B. Brian Hayes comes over, hit a
• 19:54
  big home run the other day. They, they have no power, have
• 19:58
  none. They came back.
• 19:59
  How about the Rockies game on Friday night?
• 20:01
  Did you? See this?
• 20:03
  They're down. 9 Nothing after the first inning.
• 20:05
  And what was the final 1716 Rockies or something like that?
• 20:08
  It was the fourth time since the 1800s that a team gave up nine
• 20:13
  runs in the first inning and came back and won the game.
• 20:18
  You had that game. Was that the same night that the
• 20:19
  Yankees blew the lead with the? Yeah, I think it was Trent.
• 20:24
  I think it was the same night. Speaking of bullpens, Duran with
• 20:29
  the Phillies so he throws a splinker 4 times.
• 20:33
  On Saturday or. Friday, Friday night.
• 20:35
  But leading into him coming out, the Twins apparently sent his
• 20:39
  full entrance to them. They didn't go to commercial,
• 20:43
  the Phillies broadcast. Really.
• 20:45
  And Duran comes in, throw in splinkers.
• 20:49
  This is like his split finger slash sinker kind of combination
• 20:51
  pitch. He calls it a splinker.
• 20:53
  You throw in a 9899. What do I see on Twitter?
• 20:55
  I thought this guy threw hard. Yeah, well, hey.
• 20:58
  It's crazy last night. 9899 doesn't isn't considered hard at
• 21:03
  his work right, right that's he's all right and then.
• 21:07
  Come talk to me when he hits 100.
• 21:09
  No, that's his off speed pitch that he's throwing 98.
• 21:12
  And if you didn't think he threw hard, I hope you record taped
• 21:15
  the game last night 'cause my God, he was.
• 21:17
  Unbelievable. He's gonna be beloved.
• 21:19
  There he might be the difference maker.
• 21:20
  Oh, absolutely right, 'cause that bullpen was awful.
• 21:23
  It was. And I like Romano, he's the Jays
• 21:25
  closer. But he just there's, he's, he's
• 21:27
  not the same. You put that dude there.
• 21:30
  Oh my God. With he's just he throws a item
• 21:33
  3. He's fun to watch.
• 21:34
  Are the Phillies that, I mean, it's the Phillies are the
• 21:37
  Phillies, Yeah. How many teams can win the World
• 21:39
  Series? Dodgers.
• 21:41
  Yeah. Phillies.
• 21:43
  Padres. Brewers.
• 21:46
  Yes. Cubs.
• 21:47
  Yes. I don't think so.
• 21:49
  No, I don't. Like the Cubs?
• 21:50
  Don't like the I? Don't think the Cubs can win
• 21:52
  World Series, not with that rotation.
• 21:54
  Yeah, you brought up those 3-4 spots.
• 21:57
  Yeah. It's Kate Horton and three and
• 21:59
  then Kate Horton's been great and Matthew Boyd is phenomenal
• 22:02
  and Imanaga, good to see him get.
• 22:04
  Back. You can come back though, he can
• 22:06
  be a solid number of. 3 fours. Do you know who's starting to
• 22:08
  worry me a little bit. And I was, I was shouting from
• 22:11
  the rooftops. You don't need a closer.
• 22:12
  You don't need a closer. Palenci is the guy.
• 22:14
  Look what he's done. His last two starts have not
• 22:17
  been good. He blew a save yesterday, got
• 22:19
  bailed out by, of all people, Justin Turner with a pinch hit
• 22:23
  home run. A steel bar starting to turn
• 22:27
  back into a pumpkin. A little bit kind is too.
• 22:30
  Kind is too. Keeler had a bat on the other
• 22:32
  day. I just, I want to say they can.
• 22:35
  It's great for business. I don't think they can.
• 22:37
  So Mets and Phillies, Yes. Brewers.
• 22:40
  Padres. Dodgers.
• 22:42
  OK, go to the American League. Middle World Series.
• 22:46
  Winter World Series Red Sox. I can't I'm.
• 22:49
  With you Yankees, no. Blue Jays, maybe.
• 22:53
  I don't think so. The Detroit I don't how many
• 23:00
  rain. Delays.
• 23:01
  Are they going to get scoop and pray for rain?
• 23:03
  That's it. That's just, and Charlie, what
• 23:06
  was really good last night, Flaherty's Paddock, your guy,
• 23:09
  you know, but you know Chris Paddock he can't count on.
• 23:12
  Him. No, he's awful, OK.
• 23:13
  Are there three teams in the West that can win the World
• 23:16
  Series? Out of this group I'm I'd feel
• 23:20
  more confident with the Rangers. I would too.
• 23:23
  And the Mariners. Yes, and the Astros.
• 23:26
  And the Astros? Yes, those are the three.
• 23:29
  Nobody in the East, nobody in the Central.
• 23:30
  I don't think so. Win a World Series.
• 23:32
  Win a World Series, I think the Padres can a.
• 23:35
  Lot more in the National League than the Men I.
• 23:36
  Think the Padres can, think the Dodgers can, and I think the
• 23:39
  Mets and the Phillies can. And I got to throw the Brewers
• 23:41
  in. We'll take a time out.
• 23:42
  We'll throw out the Bill Seals when we come back.
• 23:44
  Miller and Con and talk Cyclones on the other side to the Iowa
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  Sports Radio Network. Melody Condon, welcome back just
• 23:54
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  those in about, oh, 15 minutes or so.
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  Top of the hour off the bench. Lucas Strain takes you one until
• 24:08
  5. Bill Seals was part of the Matt
• 24:10
  Campbell press conference today. He was part of the media.
• 24:13
  He was at the podium. He was listening in for
• 24:15
  cyclonereport.com, part of 24/7 sports.
• 24:19
  Bill joins Trent and myself. Hello, Bill Seals, how are you?
• 24:24
  I'm doing great, Kenny. How about yourself?
• 24:26
  Doing fine. Appreciate you coming on and
• 24:28
  recapping what Coach Campbell had to say earlier this morning.
• 24:32
  So I guess I'll just throw it open to you just to take away or
• 24:35
  two from what you heard from Coach Campbell before we maybe
• 24:39
  dive in a little bit in depth. More in depth to what?
• 24:41
  What did you leave there? Maybe top of mind.
• 24:45
  Well, I one of the things since we're not given any practice
• 24:48
  access is to kind of try to get some detail out of him as far as
• 24:53
  like position battles, guys in camp fighting for those spots,
• 24:57
  some breakouts. And I did get quite a bit out of
• 25:00
  him out of one of the questions that I asked.
• 25:03
  So it was nice to hear you tight end position.
• 25:06
  It's kind of one of the areas where you're not hearing a whole
• 25:10
  lot about like any heated camp competition with Berkel and
• 25:15
  Braver coming back. So it was noteworthy that he
• 25:18
  brought up Cooper Alexander, who he was a freshman last year, had
• 25:22
  the red shirt, one of the heralded members of that
• 25:25
  freshman class. And this was not healthy.
• 25:28
  And it sounds like he's had an incredible camp and is one
• 25:32
  that's pushing for playing time. So that just makes that tight
• 25:35
  end room even deeper. Also wide receiver.
• 25:39
  We we've talked about it ad nauseam here.
• 25:42
  It seems like on you guys's show, but Dom Overby was a name
• 25:46
  brought up again, Brett Eskeldson.
• 25:49
  Both those guys were freshmen last year.
• 25:52
  Eskeldson played more on special teams, did not red shirt.
• 25:56
  Those are two names brought up again.
• 25:58
  Chase. So well, I don't think he's
• 26:00
  taken a step back. It sounds like I would expect
• 26:03
  he's going to be the starting ex receiver stepping into Jaden
• 26:08
  Higgins's shoes from what we heard today.
• 26:11
  Also a lot was brought up your River Peppers was the name Matt
• 26:16
  brought up a lot over the summer LED I think a lot of people to
• 26:20
  maybe speculate he might take over for Dylan Lee, but sounds
• 26:23
  like Dylan Lee has responded well.
• 26:26
  One of those guys having a big camp so encouraging there.
• 26:29
  I didn't think that white that running backroom probably a
• 26:33
  legit 4 deep. I think when you look at it
• 26:35
  right now, that's just scholarship players and you've
• 26:38
  got Aiden Flora as well. Another name walk on brought up
• 26:42
  from Matt today. Step over to the defensive side
• 26:45
  of the ball. Kamari Moore was an interesting
• 26:48
  name brought up. True freshman, joined the
• 26:51
  program in January. Obviously Dominic Orange is
• 26:55
  going to going to get a majority of the snaps there as a mayor
• 26:59
  Hawk. Another name has been brought up
• 27:01
  throughout training camp. But Kamari Moore, one of those
• 27:04
  freshman, it sounds like chomping on a bit a little more
• 27:07
  on the defensive ends. I think Tomatola McDonough
• 27:11
  continues to impress throughout training camp.
• 27:14
  The Yale transfer couldn't join the program until the summer.
• 27:19
  So he's had a lot of time to to make up miss there since he was
• 27:23
  finishing up his degree in the Ivy League.
• 27:26
  But I think he's a guy you look at maybe a day one starter at
• 27:29
  the Leo position on that defensive end.
• 27:33
  You know, it's a conversation comes up early in the year every
• 27:36
  year. It's that offensive line play.
• 27:37
  Bill, we've been talking long enough.
• 27:38
  You know how important I feel offensive line play is and, and
• 27:41
  getting it right, right away because you're open with Kansas
• 27:44
  State. This is not a team that you can
• 27:46
  just sit out there and and be tweaking.
• 27:48
  I know that Campbell talked a little bit about Coach Clinton
• 27:50
  moving guys around in the spring.
• 27:52
  Do you feel like they're pretty solid at this point knowing yes,
• 27:55
  you're going to be doing a little bit of movement trying to
• 27:58
  find that right combination, but they have a pretty good idea
• 28:00
  what that offensive line is going to look like?
• 28:03
  Yeah, Good timing on that question.
• 28:04
  Actually, Trent, that was a a topic that was brought up today,
• 28:10
  I think. Yeah, you're correct.
• 28:11
  A lot of the movement as far as like the flexibility guys
• 28:15
  playing tackle, guard center, I think a lot of that sorted out
• 28:19
  over the spring and now you're in the training camp, I think
• 28:23
  that's getting a little more settled.
• 28:25
  Matt did talk about the depth. He thinks this is the deepest
• 28:30
  that they've been offensive line wise.
• 28:32
  And I think you, you look at the, the snap counts and, and
• 28:35
  stuff from last season, they've got like 7 guys back that have
• 28:39
  played a lot of snaps on Saturdays.
• 28:42
  So you, you've got those seven guys to take into account.
• 28:47
  And then also a freshman. I would just Kenny had just
• 28:50
  asked me the question before they Ikakuma, I think I'm
• 28:55
  pronouncing that correctly. One of the true freshmen out of
• 28:59
  Utah, Salt Lake City that they brought in.
• 29:02
  He didn't even join the program until the summer in June.
• 29:06
  But already as a guy, Matt's talking about maybe impacting
• 29:10
  that lineup this this season, which is always noteworthy when
• 29:14
  you're talking about a true freshman offensive lineman at
• 29:17
  this level of football. But Brendan Black, you look back
• 29:21
  to him a few years ago, that's the last time.
• 29:24
  And at that time it was kind of unheard of.
• 29:26
  So here we are again with Vegas. Yeah, I think he's an interior
• 29:30
  guy. So somebody to keep in mind when
• 29:34
  you're, you're talking about the, the left and and right
• 29:37
  guard positions and, and who might factor in there at at some
• 29:40
  point? Yeah, Brendan Black, I think
• 29:42
  he's got the ideal size for a center, but I want to go back to
• 29:45
  the receiver, to the receiver position because Eskelsen's name
• 29:49
  comes up a lot and obviously caught Campbell's eye last year
• 29:52
  because he played as a freshman. Which leads me to a freshman
• 29:56
  question in Zay Robinson, that there's a lot of guys that are
• 30:00
  going to be competing for for catches this year.
• 30:03
  Is Zay Robinson going to be one of them?
• 30:05
  What do what do you think? His chances of cracking the
• 30:08
  lineup at least at some point, you know, playing more than four
• 30:12
  games or would be you'd be surprised if he burns his red
• 30:15
  shirt. I would be very surprised if he
• 30:18
  burns his red shirts now. Now saying that, it seems like
• 30:22
  there's been a position group or two across across the board that
• 30:26
  has had a rash of injuries in the last three or four years.
• 30:31
  Last year it was what linebacker, it was tight end,
• 30:36
  who knows. This year.
• 30:38
  I think they're pretty good depth wise at wide receiver.
• 30:42
  They was also a guy that that played basketball and and and
• 30:46
  went through the spring, didn't join the program until the
• 30:49
  summer. So he's a little behind.
• 30:52
  I think even some of those other wide receivers that were able to
• 30:55
  join the program in January. So I think with him, they just
• 30:58
  want to get him in the program at this point.
• 31:01
  Get him. They've got him through the
• 31:03
  offseason workouts, the nutrition program, get him, make
• 31:07
  sure he's completely healthy as well.
• 31:09
  He had a few things over his career at Valley.
• 31:12
  So I think it's just a good thing for him right now.
• 31:15
  He's in the program working in with the nutrition staff,
• 31:18
  strength and conditioning, recovery and I think that's
• 31:21
  going to be the the on on kind of on his To Do List for this
• 31:26
  year because I think they're pretty well set at wide
• 31:29
  receiver, the guys we've talked about a lot.
• 31:31
  End of the week last week we found out about a contract
• 31:34
  extension that has been finalized.
• 31:35
  Now with Matt Campbell. You have a take away or two from
• 31:38
  that bill. Reading through the always the
• 31:40
  legalese is always fun sifting through all that.
• 31:43
  Anything that jumped off to you? Well, I think just it's I think
• 31:47
  it's a tribute to just how important he put the the
• 31:51
  importance, I guess he places on his coaches and his players.
• 31:56
  There's the usual stipulation in there that X amount he wants to
• 32:00
  take care of his staff. And now in the new Rev share era
• 32:04
  of college football, 1,000,000 of of his contract being taken
• 32:08
  and and put into the Rev share pot at Iowa State.
• 32:12
  And you know, much has been made about about that.
• 32:15
  Now where you know, where they're coming up with the 20
• 32:17
  and a half million. I think at least for for this
• 32:20
  year, where that's coming from. Well, some of it's coming from
• 32:23
  the head football coach. So he's putting the the coach,
• 32:26
  the players 1st and and hit him kind of second.
• 32:30
  Although he's taken what, $5,000,000 a year.
• 32:33
  He's being taken care of, but I think he wants to take care of
• 32:36
  his coaches and his players. So those were kind of two of the
• 32:40
  the big things I took away from that from that story.
• 32:43
  Yeah, I couldn't agree with you more.
• 32:45
  I no doubt about it. By the way, Ben Jacobson, not
• 32:48
  Iowa State related, but Northern Iowa, he just got a contract he
• 32:51
  sent in this morning. It's a rollover, which means
• 32:54
  lifetime trend, right? Absolutely.
• 32:56
  Yeah. Back to Iowa State, you get TJ
• 32:59
  Speaking of basketball tomorrow for his final press conference
• 33:03
  of the summer. And if you get a chance to thank
• 33:05
  him for doing those for all of us who talk about sports and
• 33:08
  write about sports, certainly very beneficial as we try and
• 33:12
  kill segments during the summer months.
• 33:14
  But what do you expect to hear Bill?
• 33:16
  What do you want to what do you anticipate Coach Otzenberger
• 33:19
  would say? He meets with you guys for the
• 33:20
  final time our prior to the fall.
• 33:23
  Well, I would imagine we'll get some, some kind of Josh
• 33:26
  Jefferson update. It's probably not going to be an
• 33:28
  update that he's returned to practice.
• 33:31
  I think at this point they're they're just aiming to get him
• 33:34
  back at full go for pre season practice.
• 33:38
  So it but it will be nice to get an update on him that that Josh
• 33:42
  is, is getting, getting near that point and they'll be
• 33:46
  commencing I think for a couple weeks.
• 33:49
  They'll send the the the guys home and and get a break before
• 33:53
  fall classes start. So I would imagine, I think
• 33:56
  we've gotten all the veteran guys so far.
• 33:58
  That might be maybe a Nate Heisey day tomorrow as well as
• 34:02
  one of the other freshman might be interesting to talk to like a
• 34:05
  Killian Turay a little bit the the French guard that has joined
• 34:10
  the program true freshman. So but yeah, I mean, just to be
• 34:13
  kind of putting a bow on on summer conditioning out of TJ
• 34:17
  and you know, maybe what the how they are wrapping things up here
• 34:21
  in the next week. Maybe what the approach is with
• 34:24
  the players and as they will soon go on their way for a
• 34:27
  couple weeks and return to Ames for classes here in a few weeks.
• 34:32
  Be honest before you know. Indeed it will.
• 34:34
  Good stuff. Bill Seals, cyclonereport.com,
• 34:37
  part of On Three. You'll recap all the press
• 34:40
  conferences and then you get one more late in the week, correct?
• 34:44
  Yeah, yeah, we will on Thursday. We'll get another round of of
• 34:48
  two assistant coaches on on on Thursday of this week.
• 34:54
  So that'll be, let's see, we'll get Jake Landry and Ryan
• 34:58
  Clinton. So running backs and offensive
• 35:00
  lineman along with a few players.
• 35:02
  So as we worked with our way through, we got two more rounds,
• 35:07
  I think of coaches and then Matt again on Thursday the 14th.
• 35:11
  Then off to Dublin for the squad.
• 35:13
  Good stuff Bill, thanks for doing this.
• 35:15
  We will speak with you next Monday.
• 35:16
  Bill Seal, cyclereport.com, part of on three media.
• 35:20
  Bill, thank you. Good to talk to you.
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• 35:47
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• 35:50
  Sean, by the way, back on Friday.
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  So Sean returns from maternity leave for that and he'll be back
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  Yeah, there's no WNBA tonight. Nothing, because I put two games
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  in and then saw that they're not till tomorrow.
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  Nice. So we got 3 for baseball.
• 36:17
  I'm gonna take what I believe is a free square.
• 36:20
  You're Blue Jays against the Rockies.
• 36:22
  Yeah, they're in Colorado. Yeah, in Colorado, Lauer's on
• 36:25
  the mound. Who's been?
• 36:26
  I thought. They'd be a free score against
• 36:27
  the Royals, too, and the Royals won.
• 36:28
  The Royals and Rockies are different.
• 36:30
  True. Completely different -200 that's
• 36:33
  fine. 2 underdogs tonight, including the team I was just
• 36:37
  talking about and a guy I was just talking about, Nick Ladolo.
• 36:40
  I'm with you, Trent. I'm, I think the Cincinnati's
• 36:42
  live tonight. Plus 123 is the number at Circa,
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  Never bet against the streak. I'm going to bet against the
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  You know, the Astros did not have a good weekend.
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  I will take Jason Alexander of Seinfeld fame and we will take
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  Jason Alexander against Alcantra tonight and get plus money with
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  the Astros. Plus, 117 doesn't feel crazy.
• 37:13
  It it does because Miami's playing exceptionally well,
• 37:15
  right? I mean, they swept the Yankees,
• 37:17
  the Yankees about a month ago. I think we came up with a price.
• 37:22
  Yankees, yes, no, make the playoffs.
• 37:24
  And I tried to sell you one that won't make the playoffs.
• 37:27
  And at the time it was 5 to 1. A week later we talked about
• 37:29
  again, it was up to like plus 625 and I didn't pull the.
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  Truck did you? No.
• 37:34
  I did not. You didn't either.
• 37:35
  Not I did not. I'm not sure they're going to
• 37:38
  get in, Trent. I the way Boston's playing, I
• 37:40
  think Toronto's going to get get one of those spots.
• 37:43
  The Rangers have a push in them. They.
• 37:44
  Do and Seattle's already there, and the Astros aren't going out.
• 37:47
  And no one's catching Detroit, obviously.
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  But there's only one playoff team coming out of that
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  division. The Yankees might be the odd
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  team out. Can the Royals have a little run
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  here? Little run to get close or to
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  get to the playoffs? Let's.
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  Get close. I'm all for it.
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  I'm all playing better. They are, they are.
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  Bobby Witt's unbelievable. Truly is.
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  All right, that's going to do it for us.
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  We'll be back tomorrow. Appreciate you being with us.
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