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  Speaker 1: But it seems to me Tampa Ebor City that is
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  Speaker 1: the place to build, that is where the population is.
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  Speaker 2: We've all been saying this for years.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming to you a little bit late today because
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  Speaker 1: Aja Persinski could not wrap up an interview in time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Ken Rosendahl. I'm here with Alta Rizzo.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time I think we've done a
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  Speaker 1: show together, Alta, and as usual, there is plenty to discuss.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it's so good to actually see you in person.
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  Speaker 3: I finally actually got to meet Ken's wife. She does exist, you, guys, Lisa,
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  Speaker 3: a beautiful lady. We had a good dinner the other night.
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  Speaker 3: There's a lot to talk about, and let's talk. Start
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  Speaker 3: Ken with Vladimir Guerrero Junior. Apparently money does talk, and
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  Speaker 3: we now know the number that he's seeking in terms
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  Speaker 3: of the next deal.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of money always talks.
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  Speaker 1: And yes, he is seeking five hundred billion in present
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  Speaker 1: day value, and that's what I reported. A couple of
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  Speaker 1: days ago. John Hayman and Joel Sherman from New York
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  Speaker 1: Post reported that what he had been offered by the
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  Speaker 1: Jays was in the four hundred to four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty million dollar range sports Net later followed that and
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  Speaker 1: said it was more like four to fifty, so the
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  Speaker 1: difference in present value is fifty million dollars. Fans have
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  Speaker 1: been reaching out by Twitter by my comments section and saying, whoa, WHOA,
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  Speaker 1: whoa five hundred million for Vlagerero Junior.
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  Speaker 2: You got to be kidding me.
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  Speaker 1: And I just want to remind people that when Shoho
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  Speaker 1: Tani had his surgery and was not going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to pitch.
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  Speaker 2: This was right before his free agency was major elbow surgery.
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  Speaker 1: Second one, I wrote that he's going to get five
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  Speaker 1: hundred million anyway, and fans said, Ken, you're ridiculous. There's
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  Speaker 1: no way he can't pitch now. He's not getting five
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  Speaker 1: hundred million. He got five hundred million present day. Wasn't
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  Speaker 1: what that number was, but seven hundred guaranteed total four
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  Speaker 1: to sixty in present day and if he wanted it
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  Speaker 1: to be higher, it would have been higher then. Juan Soto, Ken,
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  Speaker 1: Jan Soto's not worth as much as Joheo Tani.
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  Speaker 2: He doesn't pitch.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go back, I hope we have the clip.
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  Speaker 1: You go back and remember this exchange I had with A. J.
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  Speaker 1: Prazinski on foul territory. We discussed whether Jan Soda would
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  Speaker 1: get more than show he in present day value.
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  Speaker 2: Remember here we go.
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  Speaker 4: Should you write that he's gonna get more money than Otani,
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  Speaker 4: because if he is, we might need to cut you
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  Speaker 4: off from whatever it is that you are talking about.
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  Speaker 5: Man, I believe he's going to get more money than Otani. Now,
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  Speaker 5: not more than seven hundred. I believe he's going to
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  Speaker 5: beat his present day.
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  Speaker 6: Value, which was for sixty right, Yo, Tani deal with
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  Speaker 6: the deferrals factored in present day value for sixty. Do
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  Speaker 6: I believe Wan Soda will get more than that? Aj,
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  Speaker 6: I will bet you right now that he gets more
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  Speaker 6: than that.
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  Speaker 2: I love that.
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  Speaker 5: Why don't you think he'll get for sixty?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I just want to know what team's gonna pay.
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  Speaker 5: It, Mets, Yankees, teams out Yankees.
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  Speaker 4: Yankees can afford a fifty million dollars year player.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Yankees afford him, Yes, they can afford him.
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  Speaker 5: The Mets will have a lot more payroll flexibility at
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  Speaker 5: the end of this season, and I would expect for
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  Speaker 5: Juan Soto you will see other teams into the fray
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  Speaker 5: as well.
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  Speaker 1: It's mon Soto, man, he's going to be twenty six
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  Speaker 1: next season as a free agent going into the market,
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  Speaker 1: he's going to do really well.
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  Speaker 2: I so enjoy bringing back this clip.
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  Speaker 1: And actually I was wrong because Sodo not only beat
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  Speaker 1: Otani in present day value, he beat him by three
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  Speaker 1: hundred million in present day value, but he also beat
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  Speaker 1: him in total value. So the point is that vlad
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  Speaker 1: Guerrero Junior, because he's going to be as a free
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  Speaker 1: agent entering his age twenty seventh season, he's going to
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  Speaker 1: get paid. Don't tell me he's not worth it. Don't
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  Speaker 1: tell me any of this. The Blue Jays offered him
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  Speaker 1: four fifty. They think he's worth at least that much.
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  Speaker 1: And now it's a question of a lot of whether
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  Speaker 1: they can get to some kind of compromise.
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  Speaker 3: It's also a question though ken of I thought a
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  Speaker 3: deadline was supposed to be a deadline. I mean, Vladimir
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  Speaker 3: Gerro Junior made it very clear that if they didn't
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  Speaker 3: come to an agreement, I'm mutually agreed upon a deal
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  Speaker 3: prior to a certain date of spring training, that he
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  Speaker 3: was no longer going to discuss and he's certainly not
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  Speaker 3: going to discuss it while there is in the regular season.
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  Speaker 3: But apparently if they come to him with the five
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  Speaker 3: hundred million dollar deal. The deadline is no longer. What's
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  Speaker 3: up with that?
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  Speaker 1: The deadline was a deadline for that particular day, but
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  Speaker 1: that day after they did not reach an agreement with
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  Speaker 1: Vlad Junior did say, Hey, if they come to me
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  Speaker 1: with a realistic offer, yes, I'd still be willing to talk. Now,
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  Speaker 1: there probably is an expiration date for that kind of conversation.
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  Speaker 2: I imagine it's opening day.
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  Speaker 1: But if the Jays wanted to revisit this sometime in
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  Speaker 1: the next couple of weeks and get closer to his number,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe get to his number, I can't imagine he
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  Speaker 1: would say no. He has made it pretty clear that
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  Speaker 1: he wants to stay. A lot of people don't want
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  Speaker 1: to go to Toronto. We've seen that over the last
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  Speaker 1: couple of years or not. That they don't want to go,
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  Speaker 1: but they have other options that they consider better. So
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  Speaker 1: here's a guy who was born in Canada, is a
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  Speaker 1: homegrown Jay, is a guy who wants to stay, and
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  Speaker 1: his number is his number. Right now, they're not that
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  Speaker 1: far away from his number. It seems to me that
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  Speaker 1: some kind of agreement can be reached.
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  Speaker 3: I mean to you and I and to most of
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  Speaker 3: the normal folk watching us, listening to us, fifty million
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  Speaker 3: dollars is a big difference. However, if he is the
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  Speaker 3: face of the franchise, which I believe him to be,
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  Speaker 3: he's a homegrown kid. As you mentioned, you didn't get show. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: you didn't get Wan Sodo. You're not getting some of
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  Speaker 3: these other players. You have the fifty million dollars. Would
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  Speaker 3: it behoove to use Jim Tracy phrase? Would it behoove
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  Speaker 3: the Jays to give him the extra fifty make him
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  Speaker 3: a forever Jay?
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  Speaker 2: I believe it would. Did Jay's probably have their own reasons.
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  Speaker 1: For not going there just yet, And I know teams
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  Speaker 1: are always looking to be as efficient as possible and
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  Speaker 1: as disciplined.
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  Speaker 2: The Jays love that word discipline. We want to be disciplined.
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  Speaker 2: I get it. But where are you without this guy?
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  Speaker 2: That's the problem.
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  Speaker 1: And we can go back through the past several years
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  Speaker 1: how they could have signed to him for much less
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  Speaker 1: at various points. And if you weren't going to sign him,
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  Speaker 1: well then you probably should have traded him. So here
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  Speaker 1: they are, Alana. They are a team that after this
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  Speaker 1: season could lose both lad Junior and Bobashett.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't have a good farm system.
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  Speaker 1: They've got other players whose contracts are expiring at some
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  Speaker 1: point relatively soon.
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  Speaker 2: They need to, in my view.
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  Speaker 1: Get this building block in place and then they can
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  Speaker 1: worry about some other things and start to proceed with
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  Speaker 1: him there.
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  Speaker 2: And building around.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, if they don't win now, when are they
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  Speaker 3: going to win? Because they don't have the complimentary pieces
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  Speaker 3: as you mentioned in the farm system. It's almost like
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  Speaker 3: I remember when everybody from the Nationals was traded away
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  Speaker 3: and one Soda. There's that meme of Wan Soda walking
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  Speaker 3: into the to the house and no one's around but him.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, that's kind of how I feel the Jays
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  Speaker 3: are now. If you don't win now, when will you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's a great.
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  Speaker 1: Question, and they have put a lot of resources into
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  Speaker 1: this year's team.
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  Speaker 2: They've done a lot.
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  Speaker 1: They acquired him as signed Santander, signed some relievers. Jeff
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  Speaker 1: Hoffin was one of them. They are clearly trying to win. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's the other question. They're in a vision that is
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  Speaker 1: really good. Obviously, let's say Guro Junior is not signed,
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  Speaker 1: and let's say the deadline approaches and they're not all
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  Speaker 1: in right now. I don't know that that's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen because with expanded playoffs, everybody's in an all time
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  Speaker 1: pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: But it could happen, and they've wanted to avoid distraction.
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  Speaker 2: That's one of the things that, of course all teams
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  Speaker 2: want to do.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna have a big distraction. So it seems to
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  Speaker 1: me the way to eliminate the distraction would be to
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  Speaker 1: get the player under contract and find a way to
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  Speaker 1: do it.
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  Speaker 3: It's funny because when you talk about distraction, we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: move on here to the New York Yankees in just
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  Speaker 3: a moment. It's always a distraction. Whether he signs, it's
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  Speaker 3: a distraction. Whether he doesn't sign, it's a distraction. Let's
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  Speaker 3: talk about the New York Yankees in that same Al
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  Speaker 3: East Division. Obviously, ken I believe of course, with the
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  Speaker 3: now Tommy John surgery for Garrett Cole and the injury
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  Speaker 3: to Luis Hill, they're a worse team than they were,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a week and a half ago. There are
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  Speaker 3: starters on the market. There are also a team right
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  Speaker 3: across the way at camel Back Branch in the Los
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  Speaker 3: Angeles Dodgers that has a plethora of starting arms. Why
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  Speaker 3: are the Yankees seemingly not back in the market to
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  Speaker 3: compliment the three that they have in the rotation now.
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  Speaker 1: It seems to me, Alana, that they don't like what
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  Speaker 1: is out there, and what is out there is Lance
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  Speaker 1: Lynn and Kyle Gibson and Spencer Turnbull and Brian Cashman.
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  Speaker 1: The other day raised eyebrows around the industry and especially
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  Speaker 1: in media circles when he said, Hey, the luxury taxes
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  Speaker 1: are concerned.
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  Speaker 2: They're already over the Steve Cohen line.
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  Speaker 1: They are going to have to pay one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: ten percent tax on any player they signed.
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  Speaker 2: So Lance Linn at five million is really Lance Line
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  Speaker 2: at eleven million.
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  Speaker 1: That's one concern, but that shouldn't be so much of
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  Speaker 1: a concern when you get Yankees insurance money coming back
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  Speaker 1: for Carrot Cole. Yeah, they're the Yankees, but it just
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  Speaker 1: seems to me that they're not enamored with the options
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  Speaker 1: out there, and making a trade at this time of
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  Speaker 1: year is generally pretty difficult.
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  Speaker 3: One thing I think about too, when we were having
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  Speaker 3: this discussion Ken earlier on our production call, is this
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  Speaker 3: reminds me of the situation. I know I'm a homer,
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  Speaker 3: but this reminds me of the situation last year with
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  Speaker 3: the Dodgers where they had so many injuries to their
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  Speaker 3: starting arms and they were having guys come up to
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  Speaker 3: the big leagues that perhaps were not major League ready yet,
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  Speaker 3: but out of necessity they did have to come. And
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  Speaker 3: I had mentioned to you, you know, the Bobby Millers,
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  Speaker 3: the Emmitt she Ands, the Michael Groves of the world,
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  Speaker 3: and your point was they were still more major League
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  Speaker 3: ready than perhaps what the Yankees have in their farm system.
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  Speaker 3: Are they going from within if they don't like what's
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  Speaker 3: on the trade market or the freezer market.
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  Speaker 1: And guy Alana that they are very high on, and
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  Speaker 1: who's had a good camp Will Warren, so he is
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  Speaker 1: someone they can plug in.
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  Speaker 2: Beyond that, they don't have the numbers that the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: had last year.
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  Speaker 1: This time, I remember it was one guy after another
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  Speaker 1: three you mentioned River, Ryan came up, Casparius eventually came
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  Speaker 1: up again. It was just so many different options. That's
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, and they have this incredible depth. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: aren't there, and at the same time, they do have
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  Speaker 1: some options even beyond Warren, and rather than in their
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  Speaker 1: minds right now look at a Lynn or a Gibson.
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  Speaker 1: It seems that they prefer those kinds of options, and
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  Speaker 1: given the luxury tax and given all that, it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of a feeble thing maybe to some fans. But if
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  Speaker 1: they perceive that wil Warrenck can give them, or anyone
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  Speaker 1: else can give them what lance Lin's going to give
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  Speaker 1: them for much less, I at least understand that logic is.
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  Speaker 3: The wild card then the route for the Yankees this year.
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  Speaker 3: I know it's early as we sit here on March thirteenth,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm sorry, Garrett Cole is a huge loss. The
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  Speaker 3: Louis Heel, the rookie of the Year last year in
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  Speaker 3: the American League. That's a huge loss too. Is Will
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  Speaker 3: Warren enough?
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  Speaker 1: Well, he's going to be enough to start the season
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  Speaker 1: the way they set up right now, unless they sign
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  Speaker 1: one of these guys, I don't know that I would
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  Speaker 1: just concede that the wild card is the way for
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  Speaker 1: them to go because the American League, in my view,
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  Speaker 1: is weak, okay, and the Al East is good, but
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  Speaker 1: Boston is kind of a team that could be really good,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe not as good as people like me think
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  Speaker 1: they're going to be. The Orioles have their own issues,
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  Speaker 1: Grayson Rodriguez now down, so.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't rule out the division for them.
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  Speaker 1: Toronto is still kind of not at the level of
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  Speaker 1: those teams in my opinion. Tampa Bay will be good,
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  Speaker 1: but they're pitching. While it's much much better now, it's
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  Speaker 1: much healthier, their offense is still a question and they're
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: going to keep playing in a more hitter friendly environment
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  Speaker 1: at Steinbrenner Field. So I wouldn't concede the division by
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  Speaker 1: any stretch because the Yankees also can do things at
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  Speaker 1: the deadline if they need to, and who knows, it's
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  Speaker 1: just kind of more wide open.
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  Speaker 3: I was gonna say it's a wide open path in
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  Speaker 3: the Al East, perhaps way more now than it was
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  Speaker 3: just a couple of weeks ago. Much more to come
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  Speaker 3: here on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. Don't forget to
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  Speaker 3: Time now for Grill and Ken. This is where you
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  Speaker 3: any you've been doing this a long time? No disrespect,
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  Speaker 2: It's a good story. You'll like this story.
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  Speaker 1: So after the White Astro scandal, I said, White Sox
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  Speaker 1: was sitting here.
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  Speaker 2: The Astros sign stealing scandal next spring. If you remember,
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: you do remember this, Cody Bellinger had some things to say.
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  Speaker 3: He did.
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  Speaker 1: Carlos Korea sends me a text he wants to talk.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm like, okay for an article, no cameras. I
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  Speaker 1: want the cameras. I was at MLB Network at the time.
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  Speaker 1: Our producer Ben Freifeld had just driven across the state
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• 14:01
  Speaker 1: probably the wildest spring training.
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  Speaker 3: Always when you sit down for dinner, I swear that's
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  Speaker 3: A question here in Grill and Ken in regards to
• 14:09
  Speaker 3: the Tampa Bay Rays. Ken obviously had just mentioned they're
• 14:12
  Speaker 3: spitting the entire season hitting ads are playing at Steinbrennerfield
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  Speaker 3: So the question is are the Rays moving to Tampa
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  Speaker 1: Not Montreal, Tampa is a possibility if they are sold
• 14:27
  Speaker 1: to Tampa based interests. Evandrelic of The Athletic reported a
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  Speaker 1: couple of days ago that there is pressure from Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball and the owners on Stuart Sternberg, their owner,
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  Speaker 2: It does not appear he's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to come up with the financing necessary by March
• 14:44
  Speaker 1: thirty first to advance their stadium deal. So that's gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a problem. They're not going to have the stadium
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Pete. If that's the case, he needs to sell,
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  Speaker 1: and if he sells to owners that would be preferring
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  Speaker 1: to move the team to Tampa, that would be the
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  Speaker 1: way to go. Orlando would be perhaps another possibility, But
• 15:04
  Speaker 1: it seems to me, Alana, and you've been there. You
• 15:07
  Speaker 1: know this Tampa Ebor city that is the place to build,
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  Speaker 1: that is where the population is.
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  Speaker 2: We've all been saying this for years in Saint Pete.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of self defeating in some ways, and that's the
• 15:18
  Speaker 1: fear the Rays have with this whole stadium.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, and you certainly would know more than
• 15:22
  Speaker 3: I can, but I don't know that I've ever heard
• 15:23
  Speaker 3: of a time in which the owners and Major League
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: Baseball are putting pressure on an owner to sell. Why
• 15:30
  Speaker 3: do you think that's happening now with this situation, in
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: particular with the race.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great question. I would say.
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  Speaker 1: The answer is because they don't see this stadium deal
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  Speaker 1: in Saint Petersburg.
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  Speaker 2: As coming together with him there.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: And if that's not going to come together, then what
• 15:47
  Speaker 1: he has not had good relations with people in Saint Pete,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: people in Tampa.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: It's kind of just gone awry for him.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: And I should say, when we're talking about Stuart Sternberg,
• 15:58
  Speaker 1: we're talking about his owner of a very successful franchise.
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  Speaker 2: Considering what they have.
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: Spent each year, and the guy that is beloved, beloved
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: by his employees, he just for whatever reason has not
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  Speaker 1: been able to kind of get this whole thing going
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  Speaker 1: and get it done.
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  Speaker 2: And that is why the pressure is there. They want
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: this resolved once and for all.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think is a more precarious situation or
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: a convoluted, confusing situation, the Athletics stadium issue or the
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: Race stadium issue.
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  Speaker 1: I would say the race right now, the Athletics have
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: a deal in Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: They are adamant that that is going to happen.
• 16:38
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball is adamant that is going to be
• 16:41
  Speaker 1: something that gets done, even though there are those.
• 16:43
  Speaker 3: Like me, are they going to be?
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: But the Rays do not have anything like that in place,
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: So I would say right now the race situation is
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: more precarious.
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: Okay, before we get into Dude and Dork of the week,
• 16:55
  Speaker 3: one more question. The Breakout Series begins today, Ken, do
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: you have a breakout prospect that you have your eyes
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: on somebody that we should be paying attention to. I mean,
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: obviously everybody in the Breakout Series has a high ceiling,
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: we think, but is there somebody in particular we should watch.
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: A guy that stands out to me is someone I
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: wrote about a couple of weeks ago, Chandler Simpson with
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: the Rays. He is probably the fastest man in baseball.
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: He makes contact like a rise. That's him. He's a
• 17:22
  Speaker 1: contact guy who is really fast, is learning and has
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: learned to play center field. I don't know that he
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: is on the immediate future of the Rais or the
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: immediate radar of the Rays. They have some other prospects
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: that are ahead of him, but he is a fascinating guy.
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: There are people who say, this guy hits for no power.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: You can't have him in the major leagues. And then
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: there are people who say, man, I can't wait to
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: see Chandlers SIPs.
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean contact hitter though like a rise. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: mean he wins the bad title. I mean that there's
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: something to be said about that.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: And when this guy puts the ball on the ground
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: can fly ally safe.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: So who wins in a race, Simpson or the free
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: or the Flash or the Freezer or whatever. In Atlanta,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: I asked.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: Simpson if he would be some of the people in
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: Major League Baseball today.
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: If you remember Jazz Chisham June first, at one point
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: and said, I'm faster than everybody about Bobby witd Jaylen Simpson,
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: who is a young guy, not disrespectful, he's very you know,
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: well mattered guy.
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  Speaker 2: Whatever he goes, I like my chance.
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: I love that. You gotta be confident. There's a difference
• 18:19
  Speaker 3: between confidence and ergants. Okay, time now for dude of
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: the week.
• 18:24
  Speaker 8: Dude, dude, dude, all right, can your dude of the
• 18:33
  Speaker 8: week is some Jayhawk baseball?
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: Jayhawk Baseball five consecutive home runs in a game against
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: the University of Minnesota. Now, that is awesome and that's
• 18:42
  Speaker 1: why they are the Dudes of the week Kansas University Baseball.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: However, Minnesota, what are we doing here?
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: And I was a guy in nineteen eighty seven, my
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: first year coming baseball covered a game in which the
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: Orioles allowed ten home runs to.
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: Mercy, a record that's still the Mercy see.
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: Both runs in the game.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: The Oiel's late general manager, Hank Peters made a video
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: the following spring of how not to pitch ten home
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: runs as the example. So while Kansas, yes, dude to
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: the week, no doubt, Minnesota needs to be kind of
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: making a video.
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're kind of almost the dorks of the week.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: We're gonna get there in just a moment. My dude
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: of the week is the Los Angeles Dodgers front office
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: and Dave Roberts. You know, forgiven, Dave well earned, in
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: my opinion, a well earned contract extension four years, thirty
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: two million, the highest AAV, surpassing Craig Council's deal. I mean,
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Dave's earned it. He's taking that team of the post,
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: is it. I understand he has an amazing roster, but
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: there's a lot more to getting to where Dave has
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: gotten just based on the roster construction. So he is
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: my dude of the week. Congratulations, Doc, very well earned
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: all right. Time now for the John Fisher dork of
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: the Week. Ken, you and I are in absolute accordance
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: on this. We're an absolute agreement about this. I don't
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: know why New Era didn't think to have a second
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: pair of eyeballs on this, but the Al West, in particular,
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: these new hats that came out, What are we doing?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Is there nobody in the great state of Texas, Ken
• 20:11
  Speaker 3: Rosenthal that can speak Spanish? Look at this hat? For
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: goodness sakes, you guys, I don't know if you know
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: what that means. But it's not it's not a very
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: complimentary way to talk about the ladies. Okay, and then
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: the athletics asks what are we doing?
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: Ken? A lot of what.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Boggles the mind here is presumably New yor like any
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: big company has all these quality controls. My goodness, all
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: these people checking the various products that they're going to sell.
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: First of all, this product's kind of dumb anyway, overlap thing.
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not into it anyway.
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: That aside, how do you do this and not see
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: oh we might have yeah, yeah, and guess what last
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: year we had the uniform fiasco.
• 20:56
  Speaker 3: It's good for social media, oh my goodness.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: The athletic or other media outlets to write about because
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: we have a great time with all this.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: But it looks ridiculous.
• 21:04
  Speaker 4: Man.
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: It's pretty rare when Alana and I decide on the
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: same dors of the week, new era you did.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna name the award for you. It's still
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the John Fisher Dork of the week. But guys, nice job.
• 21:17
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