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Matt Snyder talks All Star game & MLB, John Bohnenkamp talks Iowa hoops & Trent's Picks presented by Circa Sports · The Lunch Rush with Trent Condon

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  Right hour number two, welcome back Miller and Condon.
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  Iowa Sports Radio Network Trent Condon, Ken Miller take you to
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  the top of the hour. At that time, we will vacate the
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  premises and make wait for off the bench comes Sean Robertson,
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  Lucas Strain, John Bowencamp coming up bottom of the hour on
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  the Hawkeye basketball media availability earlier this
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  morning. But let's head to the All Star
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  City, to Atlanta All Star game tonight.
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  National League, American League and Matt Post Matt Postons, he
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  was our last get Matt Snyder from
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  cbssports.joins.uscoversbaseballrightsforward@cbssports.com. Matt Trenton, Ken, thank you for
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  coming on. How are you?
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  I'm great. I'm just looking at my hotel
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  room window at Truest Parker. So.
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  Pretty pleased. Does it feel like a big event?
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  Yeah. Yeah, it does.
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  Like there is. The battery the past two days
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  has been insane. It's a really, really nice area
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  around the ballpark. I kind of feel like Wrigleyville
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  was one of the first places that really built the area around the
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  ballpark and a lot of the new places now like Cincinnati
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  really built up around it in San Francisco was pretty good.
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  Atlanta here are the Battery. It's great.
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  So, yeah, I, I it did not feel like a regular season game or
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  anything like that. There were and there's just all
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  kinds of I think one of my favorite things is, is trying to
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  count the jerseys, like how many different teams jerseys I see
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  represented in the fans. That's awesome.
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  I'm sure there's some like some Expo sprinkled in and some of
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  the, you know, come before jerseys no longer there.
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  Baseball fans are baseball fans, right?
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  Love the they show up. So I guess let's let's go to the
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  Mizuroski story first of all, because it dominated last over
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  the weekend when it became apparent that he is going to be
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  a part of it. I have no problem with it.
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  I know that some of the players, in particular the Phillies do.
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  And I can't wait. And I'm so grateful that the
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  Brewers and the Phillies are not done with each other this year.
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  They will get to see these two teams collide, which could make
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  for some outstanding theater. But baseball's been always
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  criticized for not doing enough to promote their fans.
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  Are there are there both their superstars?
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  Here's one. I I don't know.
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  I, I, I know that I'm, I'm not in the majority when it comes to
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  this, but I don't have a problem with it, Matt.
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  I I understand, I think both sides of it, but but here's
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  here's a good point is I talked to Trevor McGill, the Brewers
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  closer, and asked about it and he went, look, there's guys left
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  and right dropping out and say they're not going to pitch and
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  they need somebody whose schedule lined up that would
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  pitch and his schedule lined up and he said, I'm good to go an
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  inning. So what's the problem there?
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  Like so many guys are just saying, I'm not going to pitch,
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  I'm not going to pitch. And they needed somebody who
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  could pitch. And he's like, plus his arms
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  electric as anybody. And if the whole point is you
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  want to put on a good show and you want fans to see who who's
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  the best talent in the league, he's like, he's one of the most
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  talented players. So what?
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  What's the problem here? And I could not possibly agree
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  more. There's some news from today
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  about the potential of Major League Baseball players playing
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  in the 2028 LA Olympics. Now, baseball, yeah, has been
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  obviously something that has not been a big part of Olympic lore.
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  I mean, what do you got to go back to Mark McGwire in 88 kind
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  of the last time? It felt like it had some of
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  those memorable moments and he was a youngster at USC at the
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  time or just coming off of it. Is this a realistic possibility
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  or is this just one of those topics that comes up, a question
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  comes and then you guys all write articles about it?
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  Or do you see this as a real possibility?
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  Man, I, I, I sure hope not. I mean, I just think about if
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  baseball's an everyday sport, right?
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  We need the rhythm we have every day.
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  If you have a gap in the middle of the season, I mean, how long
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  do the WNBA have to take off? It was like a month, wasn't it?
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  I, I just can't see us shutting down the game for an entire
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  month. And, and if you don't, then the
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  players who take part in the Olympics are just going to leave
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  their team. What teams are going to be OK
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  with players that are paying millions of dollars to just take
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  off for a month and go play in the Olympics?
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  I'm just not seeing it. I think the World Baseball
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  Classic is as close as we'll get to an international event where
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  players represent their countries.
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  And even then, USA we're, we're scraping the the bottom of the
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  barrel for pitching because no pitchers wanted to disrupt
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  spring training. I, I just don't see it as being
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  a realistic thing. Just with this being a summer
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  sport, it's just not going to happen.
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  I know that we're going to get some challenges tonight when it
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  comes to a balls and strikes. Are we close to to implementing
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  the robo UMP, if you will, next year when it comes to that, or
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  is there starting to be some push push back amongst the
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  players? I thought, and I don't remember
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  who it was, but if I could, I would give them credit.
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  Made a great point that the young players coming making
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  their way through the miners today will have a big edge when
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  it is that who it was. I thought that was a great point
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  because they're used to this, right?
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  They're used to being and that's A and the veterans maybe you
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  know, separate two behind in the beginning.
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  Are we close to to having robo UPS do you think?
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  Not not full on, but the ABS challenge system where you only
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  have like 2 challenges a game. Absolutely yes.
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  I think it's coming next year. I think they'll have it ready
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  for the full season next year and the playoffs and everything.
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  And I think it's a good thing. I actually, I spoke to Joe Mauer
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  about it, you know, which I thought was he would be a good
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  authority. He was a good framer.
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  He was a catcher. He had a great eye at the plate.
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  And he said that of course, he's Minnesota nice, But he said not
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  only is it good to fix mistakes, but he's like the umpires
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  probably want it too, because the umpires will go back and
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  watch highlights and if they missed a call, they beat
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  themselves up over it. They're human.
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  They don't want to miss calls. So if it's a big spot and they
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  get it wrong, to have the ability to get it fixed, I think
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  it's definitely a good thing. And, and I think where where
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  people who, who don't know the full story, where they get all
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  riled up and they think it's wrong.
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  And I love the human element and everything.
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  Like you're, you're still getting it.
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  You're still going to have framing.
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  This is, we're talking about two, two challenges per game.
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  And hopefully we get AC tonight for the people who didn't watch
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  in spring training how fast it is because as you guys know, in
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  Iowa, you've had it in AAA forever.
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  The challenge, it's not like when they go to video on an out
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  safe play where it might take a minute.
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  Dude, this takes 15 seconds Max, maybe 5 seconds sometimes.
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  It's really, really fast. And if you can have a game
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  changing call fixed, I think that's a great, great thing for
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  baseball. Two parter here and it deals
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  with the sale of a team. The Rays have been our agreed in
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  principle to be sold as Stu Sternberg is finally out of the
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  baseball business. He bought it 20 years ago for
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  200 million. He's going to sell it for 1.7
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  billion. Pretty good return on investment
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  on that one. Does this mean Tampa is in play?
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  Saint Petersburg, maybe somewhere else?
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  He's based in Jacksonville on this ownership group.
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  And secondly, if the Rays go for 1.7, what are my twins going to
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  sell for? Three maybe.
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  Yeah, the twins are much more valuable franchise than than the
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  race. Much more valuable.
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  So yeah, it's gonna get up there in terms of the race.
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  I just hope they get a new ballpark.
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  And I think retractable roof is what they need something like
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  the Rangers and Astros have. Because it's just, we've seen
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  the way the Rays have to stack this year since they're playing
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  outdoors, how they have to stack all their Rd. games in the
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  middle of season and all their home games April, May and
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  September. It's just not cool to have the
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  schedule be like that. And the Trop is just not going
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  to cut it. And we know that that's been an
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  issue for a long, long time. And one of the things Rob
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  Manfred has talked about for years when he's asked about
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  expansion is we have to get the raise and the A's settled in new
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  homes before we think about expanding.
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  And hopefully this new ownership group will be more aggressive
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  and, and getting that ballpark built.
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  And I believe the plans are still Saint Petersburg, but
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  we'll see. It's a new ownership group.
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  Maybe they'll maybe they'll change plans.
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  The Tampa side definitely would be more favorable for
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  attendance. Hopefully something gets done
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  there. I'm optimistic just to get
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  Sternberg out of there. Give me a name or two that might
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  be we might not be thinking about right now that way all of
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  a sudden become available in the next couple of weeks as we get
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  close to the trend deadline. I asked Trent today about Joe
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  Ryan. Obviously he'd be an incredibly
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  coveted commodity and he'd get literally a King's ransom for
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  Joe Ryan. Is there a big name that's it's
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  not being maybe floated about on a consistent basis right now
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  that you're keeping an eye on, Matt?
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  Maybe it's just because I'm just looking at the ballpark right
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  now, but you know, the Braves could become sellers.
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  Marcelo Zuna maybe. I know that Ronald Lacuna Junior
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  was floated a couple weeks ago on MLB Network, and that's one
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  of the most ridiculous ideas I've ever heard.
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  But they could sell others like Marcelo Zuna.
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  It could be included there. Chris Dale.
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  I don't, I don't know how likely it is, but I'm sure there's a
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  lot of teams that are going to be calling the Braves about
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  Chris Dale. And what's when's he back?
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  Any idea? A couple weeks, I think.
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  So that's one of those. And actually that leads me into
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  another one I want to throw out there, Shane Bieber.
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  The Guardians are going to sell and I think they might.
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  He's coming back from Tommy John surgery.
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  He's throwing off a mound. He's going to go on a rehab
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  assignment soon. You'd have to take him without
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  him getting back on a big league mound and his return from Tommy
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  John surgery because he's not going to be back until early
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  August. But it's Shane Bieber.
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  He's an All Star caliber pitcher when he's right.
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  So somebody might take him side on scene.
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  To third base, because we know the Cubs are in the market now.
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  Matt Shaw just does not hit. And if you're going to win a
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  World Series, it feels like you can't have that kind of
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  offensive hole at a position like third base.
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  There's a ton out there. One of them potentially Nolan
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  Arnado. I don't see the Cards helping
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  out. I don't see the Pirates helping
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  out with Brian Hayes unless it's a offer that they can't refuse
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  and then he get into, you know, the Ryan Mcmahons of the world,
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  Suarez. Now, Suarez is kind of a
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  different 1. And that's going to be a big
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  one, too. You know, Arayas with the
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  Orioles is fine. What do you go through?
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  And you look at 3rd baseman knowing.
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  But it's not just the Cubs. The Yankees also desperately
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  need a third baseman. They can move Jazz Chism back
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  over to second base. The Dodgers, there's another one
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  is that just get the third baseman.
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  It feels like there's going to be some heavy hitters in that
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  same market. Yes, absolutely.
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  And I think the one who, if I can put my Cubs fan hat on for a
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  second, I'm all about a Eugenio Suarez is a rental with that
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  kind of power. You don't even have to put them
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  in the middle of the lineup. You could bat him 6th or 7th and
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  they just do just do your thing and hit your Bob in the 6th or
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  7th hole. That'd be that'd be a coup to go
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  out and get him and actually think if when for the Cubs, if
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  you're talking to Arizona, you can try to loop in Beryl Kelly
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  too. Two birds with one stone right
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  there. But yeah, like Ryan McMahon is
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  definitely going to go. Arenado is interesting because
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  the Cardinals could still kind of be buyers, but also trade
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  Arenado. It's just because they have
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  enough infielders that it is they could still stay in
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  contention without Arenado and he's not like he's that great
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  anymore and they could shed some of his salary.
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  I feel like the Yankees and Arenado is going to end up being
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  the eventually and their defense is so bad it's they can deal
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  with him not being that great of a hitter.
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  They just need a good defender at 3rd and he's still an
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  excellent defender at third base.
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  So I my feel is they're not to the Yankees is going to work.
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  The Brewers are one game back as we hit the All Star break.
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  I don't know how well I do know how they're they got there.
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  They play. They play the game the right
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  way. I love the way that Murphy's got
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  his team playing. How big of a threat are they to
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  the Cubs winning the division? Legitimate threat 100% there is.
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  They are one of the best organizations in baseball, if
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  not deepest at just getting absolutely the maximum output
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  out of out of their their players, organizational guys,
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  stars, you name it. They are so good at getting the
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  most out of their talent and maximizing everything.
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  And the scary thing is from the Cubs perspective, Jackson
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  Cherio, William Contreras haven't really hit that well
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  this year. And we know they're better
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  hitters than that. So they're probably going to
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  pick it up. And then they're they're
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  pitching. It's like between Mesrowski,
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  Chad Patrick, Logan Henderson, they're bringing these guys up
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  and sending them back down because they have so much depth
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  in the rotation being while the Cubs are starving for for
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  another arm, but the Brewers have so much depth in the
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  rotation. It's probably, yeah, it's
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  probably going to go down to the wire here.
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  I I still think the Cubs are going to win the division, but
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  the Brewers are absolutely a team that scares me.
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  And look at look at Andrew Vaughn, boy.
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  I'm not scared of the Reds or Cardinals.
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  And look at what? Look at Andrew.
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  Vaughn, since he's been, he's been unbelievable.
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  And and it's one of those things sometimes a guy kind of can feel
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  like he's freed and get out of a really, really terrible team.
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  It it almost in similar vein. Obviously he's far more
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  talented, but last night during the Home Run Derby, I was just
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  dreaming on if a good organization could get their
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  hands on ODL Cruz and what would be possible there.
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  Ryan O'hearn is an All Star starter.
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  I've watched Ryan O'hearn for a long time.
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  I didn't believe he'd ever be an All Star starter.
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  Maybe he can put together that kind of year.
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  Does that say something about maybe the first base position in
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  the American League? A little bit, yeah.
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  It's, I think things got really the ALDH.
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  It was like Rafael Devers got traded to the National League.
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  So then he got basically just removed off the ballot.
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  Some, some guys were hurt, you know, rookers, rookers there.
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  Rookers should have been starting over here.
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  But you know how how I was going to say, how do you get
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  Sacramento fans to vote? But I mean, Jacob Wilson be
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  popular. So I don't know.
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  Sometimes there's no rhyme or reason to it.
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  The NLDH is a lot more stacked with Otani, Kyle Schwarber and
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  Saya Suzuki's not even here. So sometimes there's just
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  imbalance. Are you buying the Red Sox run?
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  A little bit, yeah. I mean, Bregman's back,
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  Yoshida's back, Roman Anthony, I think is definitely the real
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  thing. If you look at the rotation
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  there, like Geolito's starting to look like the Geolito bull
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  there, and Baio looks amazing and like there should be more in
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  Walker Bueller. I do think that the front office
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  is very eager to buy in front of the trade deadline just to show
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  the fans, hey, we sold Devers, but that wasn't because we
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  wanted to be sellers. That was because we think he's a
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  bad fit here. But we really want to go for it
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  and we really believe in this team.
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  So I think they're going to be very aggressive, maybe first
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  base, which remember they once Cassis got hurt, they tried to
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  get Devers the move to 1st and he refused.
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  You know who'd be a nice fit there?
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  I believe the Diamondbacks are going to be sellers.
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  Josh Naylor. Yeah, you hear his name that
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  he's that the snakes are going to make him available.
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  I I I'm just surprised. So let's stay in that division.
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  Jays have a two game lead. They lost the series in
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  Sacramento. Just a head scratcher after
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  playing as well as they were give the A's credit.
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  Their plucky team. Yankees are the Yankees.
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  I don't think they're as good as some years, but they're still
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  the Yankees after all. How's this going to shake up If
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  you if we go on record today as to who wins the American League
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  East knowing the Jays have a two game lead as we sit here at the
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  break, how do do you see it ending up?
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  The only thing I'm really sure of is no Orioles.
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  I guess I could probably say I don't think the Rays can hang
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  either. But man, I definitely think the
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  Red Sox are legitimate. I don't think the Yankees are
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  going anywhere. I don't think the Blue Jays are
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  going anywhere. The Blue Jays offensively during
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  that run from like Memorial Day up until that last series, they
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  were after almost six runs a game.
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  And it wasn't, you always think of Vlad or Beau Bichette or
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  George Springer, who looked like the Astros version of George
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  Springer for a long time. But it was it was, you know,
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  Alejandro Kirk, who's an All Star.
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  He was Addison Barger and David Schneider getting big hits and
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  Nathan Ruth. Like it's up and down the line
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  of every single guy's producing. I think it's real.
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  I think they really are that good offensive, probably.
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  So yeah, I think the Jays are going to be there.
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  If pressed, I guess I might just take the Yankees, but man, I
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  wouldn't be surprised at all if the Blue Jays are.
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  Red Sox won it. We still have a couple weeks of
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  baseball before the trade deadline or a little less than
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  two weeks. But Ken and I were talking
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  earlier in the week about the Angels and in an American League
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  that looks pretty open, they haven't made the playoffs since
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  2014. They haven't won a playoff game
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  since 2009. For a fan base that just hasn't
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  seen it, they've spent and it just hasn't gone their way.
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  Could the Angels be a team because we know the twins aren't
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  going to spend, the Rays aren't going to spend.
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  There's a bunch of those wild card teams in the race or on the
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  periphery of the race that aren't going to spend.
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  Could we see the Angels, if they have a good, you know, 11 game
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  stretch here coming out of the break that they could be a team
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  decides, you know what, let's go for it because it's been so
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  long. Yes, 100%.
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  That's that's what they will and that's what they should do.
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  It's four games out, like you're in it.
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  If you're four games out of a playoff spot, you're in it.
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  And we've seen teams take a wild card all the way to the World
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  Series. I don't think they're good
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  enough. Absolutely not.
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  But you've got to try. You've got to try because you
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  never know. So yes, I absolutely think if
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  they're anywhere, as you said, even on the periphery, that they
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  definitely should try to make a move or to and and they they
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  should be aggressive. I mean, it's look we we talked
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  about for years, man, they're wasting Mike Truss prime.
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  Well, it's over. He's post prime now, but still
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  33 years old. He has 17 bombs and 70 games
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  like he he could still play. It'd be nice to see him on the
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  big stage. What do you do for you the
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  Kansas City Royals? I I think that they can kind of,
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  I mean, they're 4 1/2 out. So basically what I just said,
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  like they should try. And at this front office,
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  they've shown that they will try.
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  But if they fall back, I could see them kind of like selling on
• 19:03
  the margins a little bit and trying to reload for next year.
• 19:07
  Like there's, you know, Seth Lugo, maybe you just do what you
• 19:11
  could get for him. He has a player option for next
• 19:13
  year. So he's it's almost free agency,
• 19:17
  somebody like Jonathan India, maybe Michael Lorenzen, stuff
• 19:21
  like that. Like you can just kind of sell
• 19:23
  around the edges and still be ready to reload for next year.
• 19:28
  While we're talking about the central my Twins, it's a
• 19:30
  potential lame duck status if you don't know what the front
• 19:33
  office is going to be there and there's some big things that you
• 19:36
  could do. I mean, if you think that Royce
• 19:37
  Lewis is cooked this maybe somebody is willing to take him
• 19:40
  on and think that they can reclamate him.
• 19:42
  The big contract with Correa and of course Ken mentioned Joe
• 19:45
  Ryan, There's a lot of names out there for this Twins team
• 19:48
  knowing that they are for sale and they will be sold.
• 19:51
  You did anticipate soon. Do you want a front office that
• 19:54
  doesn't know they're going to be there running that kind of and
• 19:58
  trading away maybe the future of your organization?
• 20:02
  No, you don't. But I also think that you're
• 20:07
  you're trying to impress. If you're the front, let's say
• 20:10
  you're Derek Valerie, you're trying to show the next owner
• 20:15
  that you're worth retaining. So I think you go for it and you
• 20:18
  just try to make the playoffs and hope that they can make a
• 20:21
  run to like the ALCS or even the World Series.
• 20:24
  And then when you get a new boss, say, hey, look, we just
• 20:27
  made a deep playoff run, you got to keep me.
• 20:29
  So I think they're going to try. And and lastly, we'll get you
• 20:33
  out of here on this just because this team's 3 1/2 games out.
• 20:36
  This was a lot of people's chic pick this year to represent the
• 20:39
  American League and it's the Rangers.
• 20:41
  Degrom's having a terrific year of Aldi's, unbelievable.
• 20:44
  They've obviously Seeger when he's in the lineup, Carter
• 20:47
  likewise Garcia likewise. Are the Texas a playoff team?
• 20:51
  We'll put Texas, we'll ask you this way.
• 20:53
  Rangers going to make the playoffs.
• 20:55
  Yay or nay? I'll say no, I'm bailing on.
• 20:58
  I was, I was one of the biggest, the defenders of the Rangers
• 21:02
  heading into the year I loved. Him.
• 21:03
  I had a point in the American. League.
• 21:05
  I did too. Things just haven't clicked
• 21:08
  offensively on the whole. Now they've gotten big games
• 21:11
  here and there. But like Adelis Garcia, I
• 21:13
  thought he was going to be more like 2023.
• 21:15
  No, Evan Carter a little bit. Now recently he started to pick
• 21:20
  it up, but like Wyatt Langford kind of thought was already
• 21:23
  going to be an All Star caliber player.
• 21:24
  That hasn't happened. Marcus Simeon was brutal for the
• 21:28
  first two months. Just Jock Peterson, just
• 21:32
  horrific isn't at the plate. Jake Berger hasn't really helped
• 21:35
  at the plate. It's just so many things that I
• 21:38
  thought would go right offensively have gone completely
• 21:41
  terribly. So my expectation is
• 21:44
  everything's just not going to turn around on a dime.
• 21:47
  Like you're not just going to get back from the break and all
• 21:48
  of a sudden have everybody hitting like we thought they
• 21:51
  would. So it just seems like a bad mix
• 21:53
  right now. But you know what?
• 21:55
  Flags fly forever, and they got their World Series in 2020. 30
• 21:57
  Well said. We'll talk to you on Monday.
• 21:59
  Today, enjoy the All Star game. We'll read your work at
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  CBSSports.com as we always do. Matt Snyder joins Us Weekly
• 22:06
  during the baseball season and we're grateful for that.
• 22:09
  Thank you, Matt Snyder, Enjoy Atlanta safe trip home.
• 22:11
  Take care buddy. Take care guys.
• 22:13
  Good to talk to you. Good hit there. 20 minutes with
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  Matt Snyder on Major League Baseball at the break.
• 22:18
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• 23:02
  John Bowen Camp, Associated Press, I would call it
• 23:05
  troops.com, etcetera, etcetera joins us to recap the media
• 23:10
  availability today. McCollum and some of the Iowa
• 23:13
  players. Former Iowa player Trent Owen
• 23:15
  Freeman out four to six weeks, but sounds like we'll be back
• 23:18
  for the season. But Owen Freeman real injuries
• 23:21
  a. Real injury, not a finger
• 23:23
  injury. You keep him out a couple months
• 23:24
  it. Was wild, wasn't it?
• 23:26
  Hello. John Bowen, Camp Trenton.
• 23:27
  Ken, how are you? I'm good.
• 23:30
  How you doing? Doing pretty well.
• 23:32
  So I want to get just you want for a pick your brain on what
• 23:35
  you saw today. I want to start though, with
• 23:38
  Bennett Sturtz, who's kind of the given when it comes to the
• 23:40
  Drake players as to at least on the surface, how we think he's
• 23:43
  going to fit in. And I think part and parcel to
• 23:46
  that is, you know, just, we, we saw him play against good
• 23:49
  competition, right? Texas Tech, really good team,
• 23:52
  Missouri, a really good team. Those two teams played in the in
• 23:55
  the tournament, beat Mizzou, lost to the Red Raiders.
• 23:59
  But we've seen him do it before. I I'm anxious to.
• 24:02
  Did you get your take on what when you watch Sturtz play, does
• 24:06
  he look like a Big 10 player to you?
• 24:09
  Yes, no, I think it's really good.
• 24:13
  I think that I think there is it's the it's the it's the I
• 24:17
  mean, obviously the scoring is there, but it's the court
• 24:20
  vision, it's the understanding the game.
• 24:23
  And I mean, when you're putting together a new roster to get a
• 24:27
  guy like that, you're way ahead of the game.
• 24:30
  You know, at that point when then and he was one of the first
• 24:33
  ones to commit. And so when when they got him,
• 24:36
  it was like, OK, not net. You've got your star now.
• 24:39
  Now you build around him and I think I think Ben Mccollum's
• 24:42
  done a really good job of that. But you know, to to go back to
• 24:45
  your question, yeah, I think he's really good and I think
• 24:48
  he's going to be really good in the Big 10.
• 24:50
  And I mean, I again, he showed it last year against power
• 24:53
  conference team. There's there's a lot of talent
• 24:57
  there to like. When you see him listed, you
• 25:00
  know, top 20 NBA prospect, I think that's certainly eye
• 25:03
  opening for a guy that didn't have AD one offer coming out of
• 25:06
  high school. And they can they can find him
• 25:08
  all over the place. How?
• 25:08
  Old is he? Is he?
• 25:09
  That's that's working against it means got to be 2220. 2122,
• 25:14
  yeah, probably something in that range.
• 25:17
  And I think a reason that I'm optimistic that they're going to
• 25:20
  hit the ground running is just all those Drake guys, right?
• 25:22
  You have that kind of continuity.
• 25:24
  Ben McCollum coaches hard. I think we've seen that.
• 25:27
  The videos that have come out looking back at last year at
• 25:30
  Drake, he's a guy that way. But when you're not just going
• 25:33
  to a new place, but you're bringing five guys with you that
• 25:35
  know what the expectations are, I think that's a huge help for
• 25:39
  the other 13 guys on that roster.
• 25:42
  Right. And it's not just, I mean, it's
• 25:44
  five guys that know the system, actually 6 if you throw in the
• 25:47
  red shirt player, they know the system, they know what he wants,
• 25:51
  they know what he likes, they know how he is.
• 25:53
  But these are also guys that want, I mean, they won 31 games
• 25:57
  last year, they won a conference title, they won a conference
• 26:00
  tournament, they went to the second round of the MC turn.
• 26:03
  These guys know how to win. And when you're doing
• 26:06
  intangibles and you start and in college basketball is an awful
• 26:10
  lot, even in this transfer portal era is still a lot about
• 26:13
  intangible and chemistry and whatever else.
• 26:16
  And I think when you've got that foundation, when you've got that
• 26:19
  core, now you did, now you build around it.
• 26:22
  And he's done a really good job of that in my mind.
• 26:24
  But you've got a really good base to start from because these
• 26:28
  guys know how to win. Was Trey Thompson there today?
• 26:32
  No, and and part of it he cannot as, as and he may have been
• 26:36
  there like watching, I don't know.
• 26:38
  I got there. I was a little late because I
• 26:41
  had, I had, I had a phone interview to do, but.
• 26:44
  You can't do any. Sort of instruction with him,
• 26:47
  yeah, until the fall gets here. So I asked him, I, I sat down
• 26:52
  with Ben McCollum yesterday and and I asked him about that and
• 26:55
  he said that that they can't do any instruction with him until
• 26:58
  the school year start. Brendan Hassan back out there.
• 27:01
  Saw some clips from him on social media knocking down 3
• 27:05
  pointers. He was a guy that had been out
• 27:06
  for a little bit. What do we expect for him?
• 27:09
  He, I think he's going to be a starter.
• 27:11
  He's going to play certainly 20 plus minutes a game.
• 27:13
  Is he going to be a guy though that they rely on for you know,
• 27:16
  32 type minutes a game? Or is he going to be maybe in
• 27:19
  that 25 range? Something like that, when you're
• 27:22
  kind of looking at a minute's breakdown and how he fits in and
• 27:24
  getting all the pieces working together.
• 27:27
  Probably in the high 20s, I would think, you know, in that
• 27:30
  25 to 28 range. But he can shoot the ball.
• 27:33
  There's no doubt about it. You look at his numbers from
• 27:36
  last year and and you know, throughout his career, he can,
• 27:39
  he can shoot the three. And again, he's done a really
• 27:42
  good job in the composition of this roster of finding guys that
• 27:47
  can shoot. And, and I mean, and, and, and
• 27:50
  it's not just even the guards, it's some of his bigs can, can
• 27:54
  step out and shoot. So to get a guy again, to get a
• 27:57
  guy like that that that that had good numbers last year, it
• 28:01
  wasn't really a big, big part of that Kansas State team, but
• 28:04
  still a really good player. And so to get somebody like that
• 28:07
  one out and OK, now you've got your score, Now you've got that
• 28:10
  that two guard that you lost, you know, that you didn't have
• 28:14
  with this, you know, when you were starting to put this
• 28:16
  together. So I think I think it was a
• 28:17
  really good pick up for them to get him.
• 28:20
  What was the take away or two from what you heard afterwards
• 28:23
  or saw during once you got there?
• 28:26
  One year, a couple of year takeaways, John.
• 28:29
  They're, they're, it's a very intense workout that they do.
• 28:33
  I mean, this isn't just summer. Let's let's play, pick a ball,
• 28:36
  get to know each other. I mean, there's a lot of
• 28:38
  installation going on. There's a lot of, you know, and,
• 28:41
  and, and he, when we talked yesterday, you know, he said, I
• 28:45
  really want intensity. And he goes, and I told myself,
• 28:48
  I, I think you have read some real intense workouts and he
• 28:51
  goes, I think we could be better.
• 28:53
  And so I'm thinking if that's the level he wants to get at,
• 28:57
  you know, these guys are really going to have to get after it,
• 29:00
  and that's a good sign. And to me, it's, you know, in
• 29:04
  talking to the players today, it's that way in the weight
• 29:06
  room, it's that way, you know, in individual workouts, they
• 29:09
  want you and they're doing this, this, this, and and they want
• 29:12
  you talking and they want you, you know, to be, you know, they
• 29:15
  want the communication there. So there's, like I said, a lot
• 29:18
  of intensity with this group and and you can see it again today.
• 29:21
  I mean, I know they only got a couple weeks left in the summer
• 29:24
  workout, but these guys really get after it.
• 29:26
  And I mean, they, they hustle. And that's what that he wants
• 29:30
  out of his team. That's what made that Drake team
• 29:31
  so good one. So was it night and day when you
• 29:33
  think back to McCaffrey at this point of the offseason, you
• 29:36
  know, when you'd get an opportunity to watch the team
• 29:38
  practices as a whole? I mean, is, is it?
• 29:41
  Is it the contrast stark? Yeah.
• 29:44
  I mean it was, I mean, I mean Franz teams were very, you know,
• 29:47
  and he would always say this. They were very business like,
• 29:50
  you know, and I mean it was just we're just going to go about our
• 29:52
  business. These guys are little.
• 29:55
  I mean, these guys have a lot more intensity to it.
• 29:57
  And you know, I'm not saying one way is right one way.
• 29:59
  Sorry, it's a different, you know, kind of a style.
• 30:02
  But I mean, Franz teams were very, you know, he always talked
• 30:04
  about business, like come in, get your work done.
• 30:07
  You know, Ben McCollum is get your work done.
• 30:09
  But I want to hear you guys and I want you to, you know, to push
• 30:12
  each other. And you can see that in this
• 30:15
  group and you've seen that in the videos they've shown from
• 30:17
  the weight room. And I mean these guys really,
• 30:19
  these guys really get on each other.
• 30:21
  And I mean, they want they want to win.
• 30:23
  I mean, this isn't a, this isn't a let's take a year to rebuild.
• 30:27
  It's like, no, they want to get to the NCAA Tournament.
• 30:30
  They want to be in that upper half of the Big 10.
• 30:32
  They won't, they don't want to be playing on Wednesday in the
• 30:35
  Big 10 tournament. They want to play on Friday.
• 30:37
  So, so I mean, there you can just tell there is an intensity
• 30:41
  with this group that that I, I, I really like it.
• 30:44
  It's fun to watch them work. How do you think Kim Manuel is
• 30:47
  going to hold up being undersized at the center
• 30:50
  position? It's one thing to do it in the
• 30:51
  NBC play 20 minutes a game. They're hoping for a lot.
• 30:56
  Obviously out of him, out of the center position this year.
• 30:58
  How do you think he's going to hold up?
• 31:00
  I, I, I think the body is there. He's going to need help.
• 31:03
  They're going to have to find somebody to help him out inside
• 31:06
  because I don't think he can go 3536 minutes a game.
• 31:10
  You're going to have to find somebody or, or a combination
• 31:13
  thereof to give you a good 10A good solid 10.
• 31:17
  And you, one of the things we were talking about yesterday
• 31:19
  and, and he brought up about, and I think he said Matt Painter
• 31:23
  said, this is everybody. They always talks about, you
• 31:25
  know, getting stars. And he's like, sometimes you
• 31:27
  need that guy to play right field.
• 31:29
  You know, you need that. You need that guy to give you 10
• 31:32
  minutes. And so it's going to be really
• 31:34
  important, I think in, in, in, in the, in the rest of this
• 31:38
  summer here in the last week or so.
• 31:40
  And then to get in the fall to find that second person inside
• 31:44
  or third person to give you 10 minutes to give him a break
• 31:48
  because he can't do it all on his own.
• 31:50
  For Garris maybe? Maybe you know, but the one good
• 31:55
  thing I really like about him is, is, is, is I think he's he's
• 31:58
  going to, he's going to be a really good big, but he can step
• 32:00
  out and shoot 3. And so So what you know, how you
• 32:04
  know, how much is he going to be playing inside?
• 32:06
  We don't know yet. And, and again, they don't know
• 32:09
  yet because they haven't really seen a whole lot of him this
• 32:11
  summer. So again, that's going to be one
• 32:13
  of those. How does this?
• 32:14
  How does he fit in and and where do they kind of work around him?
• 32:19
  John Bowencamp joining us as we take a look inside Iowa
• 32:22
  basketball after media availability.
• 32:24
  One final name that was available today is Tate Sage.
• 32:28
  Talk about a guy there wasn't. I talked to a couple of Drake
• 32:31
  people and he committed to them. They're like, we'll see.
• 32:34
  And now he's been and maybe the most buzz, yeah, the most
• 32:39
  buzziest kind of guy this summer, like, look out here and
• 32:42
  maybe not for this year, but for the future, Take us in Tate Sage
• 32:45
  a little bit a guy at six foot seven, got some guard skills.
• 32:49
  Pretty intriguing prospect. We talked to him today and I
• 32:52
  mean, he was, he was like I was, I wanted to be.
• 32:56
  He didn't even visit Iowa when he committed.
• 32:59
  You know, it's just like I want to play for Coach Mack.
• 33:01
  And because he said I really like where I fit in in the
• 33:05
  system and I I like him. Again, he's going to be one of
• 33:08
  those guys. He's going to have to get a
• 33:09
  little stronger, But the body is there, the the length is there.
• 33:15
  And I think his ability is there.
• 33:17
  It's just a matter of can he take the, the bounding that that
• 33:21
  kind of comes with, you know, the big 10.
• 33:24
  So and he even admitted that he goes, I've got to get stronger.
• 33:26
  But he, you know, he, he's here to work.
• 33:29
  And so I, I think maybe he becomes a pleasant surprise,
• 33:34
  maybe not right away, but but I think probably at some point
• 33:38
  this year, he he is probably going to play a significant role
• 33:41
  on this team just by the way he plays and with his size and
• 33:45
  everything else. Again, it's all going to come
• 33:46
  back to how much, you know, can he put on some weight?
• 33:49
  Can he put on some muscle? But there's there, there is
• 33:52
  something there and I, and again, I think they tap into it
• 33:56
  as he goes along in his career. Quick baseball when John, as we
• 34:00
  talk about as we talk about your Dodgers and we see them, it's
• 34:04
  crazy to think that well, this team's really underachieving
• 34:07
  this year, got the second best record in baseball, best record
• 34:11
  in the National League. So I I guess I mean is this the
• 34:15
  bottom I mean? I mean, there's there's they're,
• 34:19
  they're only going to get better.
• 34:20
  You're going to get guys healthy again.
• 34:22
  You know, Glass now's back now, probably comes back here.
• 34:26
  They're going to fleece the twins out of one or two
• 34:28
  relievers, probably. Wow, which?
• 34:32
  Will. Bolster the bullpen, which will
• 34:34
  bolster the bullpen, you know, and they and maybe they go get
• 34:38
  an outfielder. Pie has been unbelievable.
• 34:42
  You know, I mean, there's a lot of guys out there that that that
• 34:46
  might be really good fit for them.
• 34:48
  And I mean, it's, I don't know if you roll the dice and say,
• 34:51
  well, we'll just go with Michael Conforto the rest of the year.
• 34:54
  But again, there's, there's plenty of options out there.
• 34:58
  And like, and I've said this before, they haven't even come
• 35:02
  close to being their best and they're 5 1/2 games up right
• 35:05
  now. And so probably everybody should
• 35:08
  be frightened. But that's just me.
• 35:11
  Do they not like Tanner Scott? I mean, is he under?
• 35:13
  Is he underachieved? He is really underachieved.
• 35:16
  Yeah, that's why I think they do have to go find the clothes.
• 35:19
  Duran from the Twins. Yeah.
• 35:21
  No, no. Yes.
• 35:22
  And if it and if it costs and if it costs a couple of Class A
• 35:27
  prospects, which is probably what the twins will want because
• 35:30
  they're not very good at trading.
• 35:34
  So, so I mean, I, I do think, I do think you will go see them
• 35:38
  get somebody like that. You, there will be some, you
• 35:42
  know, and I mean, everybody's going to be looking for closers,
• 35:44
  but they are going to need some relief help because unless I
• 35:47
  mean, Tanner Scott's been so inconsistent and I just, I don't
• 35:50
  know how you trust that going in October. 30 seconds left.
• 35:54
  Jack Dryer's been unbelievable. I mean, who saw this coming,
• 35:57
  right? Yeah, I mean, he's been really
• 36:00
  good in in the role and I mean, I'd like to see him do a little
• 36:02
  bit more, but but where he's at right now with him, I I think
• 36:06
  he's got a really good season. Yep, I'm with you John, Thanks
• 36:09
  for jumping on. Appreciate you recapping what
• 36:11
  you saw earlier today. Thank you John Bowencamp, talk
• 36:13
  to you down the road brother for having me.
• 36:15
  Yep, good to talk to him. Yep, Yep, bye bye John Bowencamp
• 36:17
  as we check in on the Hawks and snippet or two on his squad.
• 36:20
  He's got to hustle home so he can talk to Brian Wardle.
• 36:24
  That's his latest interview for Blue Ribbon Magazine.
• 36:27
  How many teams does he do for them?
• 36:29
  Oh. 3040. Sometimes he do that man.
• 36:32
  I know last time we had him on, I think he was talking to
• 36:34
  McDermott and Jacobson that day. So I think he does kind of a
• 36:37
  bunch of the upper Midwest teams.
• 36:39
  It's kind of the part of the blue ribbon that he does.
• 36:42
  All right, good stuff. We'll take a time out.
• 36:43
  Transplays of the day or next. There are a couple of WNB.
• 36:46
  Why? Why are they doing this?
• 36:47
  Why? Why are they playing tonight?
• 36:49
  You got to play the games. Not everybody plays tomorrow.
• 36:53
  Not everybody likes baseball. No, I know.
• 36:55
  But are they playing? Are they are they playing
• 36:57
  tomorrow? I don't know.
• 36:58
  I haven't looked that far ahead. I got to get through the day
• 37:00
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  League All Star games, scuba versus Skeens.
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  Those are your starters. Will you dabble in the MVP
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  market? No, do not play the MVP market.
• 37:21
  I will be playing a couple of props.
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  I got both schemes and Scubble both over 1 1/2 strikeouts plus
• 37:29
  money on both of them so if I hit one we win.
• 37:31
  Do you know how far they'll go? Are they both out after the one
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  inning? I think just one inning for both
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  of them, so let's get a couple of strikeouts for both guys and
• 37:38
  we're going to be sitting pretty.
• 37:39
  It's an automatic bet every year I got to take the American
• 37:41
  League I. Mean it's.
• 37:43
  Basically a free square year after year.
• 37:45
  How about this is circus sports you can get plus money plus 102
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  as opposed to the -105 that is out there in most.
• 37:51
  I know where I'd be shopping, Trent.
• 37:52
  Circus sports, the place that I wagered on and that one and
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  wrapped. It, up with it and the place
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  we'll be putting our head on our pillow a week from today.
• 38:00
  That is right. Well, maybe Wednesday morning
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  for me. Give me the Connecticut Sun plus
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  50 1/2 tonight as well against the.
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  Fever all right, that will do it for us you're on Connecticut to
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  there's a full slate of WNB all day tomorrow anyways that'll do
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  it. The the off the bench is coming
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  up next. I'll break this habit.
• 38:18
  Yeah, you'll get there, Millery. Condon, I have a sports radio
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  network with you, noon to 2:00, Monday through Friday.
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  Thanks for being here.