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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I
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Speaker 1: should say I'm Ken Rosendal here with Alana Rizzo and Alana.
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Speaker 1: I want to start the show with a quote from
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Speaker 1: Matt Gilb's article in The Athletic this morning about the Phillies.
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Speaker 1: It's not a quote, actually, it's quoting Matt because he
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Speaker 1: said something incredibly profound about baseball.
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Speaker 2: What Matt said is no.
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Speaker 1: One has any idea about anything.
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Speaker 2: In this sport.
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Speaker 1: Now, Matt, of course was writing about the Phillies problems
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Speaker 1: at City Field and the sweep that the Mets imposed
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Speaker 1: on them, but it's true, no one has any idea
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Speaker 1: about anything in this sport, even the people on X,
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Speaker 1: even the people in social media, even all of the
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Speaker 1: people out there who think they know more. We know nothing,
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Speaker 1: which is the enduring beauty of baseball.
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Speaker 3: And I think what he's referring to, obviously, Ken, great
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Speaker 3: to be with you as always on this Thursday, is
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Speaker 3: the Phillies have a queen's problem and the Phillies just
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Speaker 3: got swept by the New York Mets. What is happening?
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Speaker 2: Good question if you're the Phillies.
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Speaker 1: And this is a problem that dates back to twenty
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Speaker 1: three and includes, of course, the postseason last year, they
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Speaker 1: have struggled at City Field. It's one of those weird
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Speaker 1: baseball things. Or the Mets that much better than the Phillies. No,
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Speaker 1: of course not, but this has had profound implications for
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Speaker 1: the Pennant races. Suddenly the NL East is at least
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Speaker 1: somewhat realistic for the Mets their four games back, and
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Speaker 1: even more significantly, what has happened here is the Phillies
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Speaker 1: no longer command one of the top two records in
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Speaker 1: the National League. They were right there or not right
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Speaker 1: there with Milwaukee, but they were second to Milwaukee. Now,
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Speaker 1: after last night the Dodgers winning, the Dodgers have slipped
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Speaker 1: ahead of the Phillies. So for the Phillies it's kind
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Speaker 1: of problematic. Now the wildcard race is pretty much decided.
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Speaker 1: You see it right there, the Reds of four and
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Speaker 1: a half games back. It's like the Royals in the
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Speaker 1: American League. The Royals are three back in the American
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Speaker 1: League wildcard race. Affect either one of those teams to
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Speaker 1: get there, barring some kind of Minnesota Twins twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: four collapse. But these races are still alive. The Division races,
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Speaker 1: as we'll discuss in a little bit, are quite good
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Speaker 1: as well. But the Phillies thing, there was not a race.
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Speaker 1: There were seven games up going into this series, and
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Speaker 1: now there is one because they're only four games up.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, if you're the Phillies, you're wondering what the
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Speaker 1: heck is going on. And from the Mets perspective, Nolan McClain,
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Speaker 1: last night, this kid suddenly looks like an ace. They
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Speaker 1: are hitting again. Yent Dos is hitting again. You've got
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Speaker 1: Soto and the Door and Alonzo all awakening from their
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Speaker 1: August slumber or whatever that was. They're an interesting club
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Speaker 1: once again.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and the Mets. All the Dodgers, I should say,
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Speaker 3: have the Mets to thank for putting them in a
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Speaker 3: position right now, Ken in which the Dodgers could get
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Speaker 3: a buy just based on seating. How important do you
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Speaker 3: think that is to be able to get that buy
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Speaker 3: in the first round. I guess it depends on how
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Speaker 3: how well you're playing at the time. Do you want
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Speaker 3: the break or do you not?
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Speaker 1: Alana, every team would say they want the break.
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Speaker 2: Now.
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Speaker 1: We have seen examples in recent years, the Diamondbacks a
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Speaker 1: couple of years ago, even the Rangers a couple of
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Speaker 1: years ago of teams in the first round breaking out
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Speaker 1: and going all the way into the World Series. It's
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Speaker 1: just more difficult that way. And if you're the Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: for instance, do you want to expose yourself to a
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Speaker 1: best of three, even though it would be at your
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Speaker 1: stadium most likely where anything can happen. You can go
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Speaker 1: into a situation where you're facing a hot team and
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Speaker 1: then you have also two or three more games to
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Speaker 1: play and to use your pitching staff in those games.
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Speaker 1: They'd rather have the rest. All teams would rather have
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Speaker 1: the rest. Sometimes these teams come out flat after having
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Speaker 1: the rest. But if you're the Dodgers, you want one
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Speaker 1: to get the division, which now they have a two
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Speaker 1: game leader with San Diego, not exactly secure, but better
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Speaker 1: than they were, and you want also to get that
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Speaker 1: buy no question, they want that. The Phillies would want
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Speaker 1: it to if only to rest your banked up players.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, Shoeo Tani obviously a key
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Speaker 3: component to that Dodgers, not only the starting rotation, but
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Speaker 3: of course to the offense. Breaking out the split ken
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Speaker 3: to right handed hitters looked really good yesterday. Nine K's
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Speaker 3: five innings what did you see?
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Speaker 1: I saw a really, really good pitcher and I watched
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Speaker 1: that game last night. He does things with the baseball
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Speaker 1: that not a lot of pitchers can do. And when
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Speaker 1: I talk like that, when I say that, what I
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Speaker 1: mean is he can manipulate the ball in ways that
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Speaker 1: a lot of.
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Speaker 2: Other guys can't.
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Speaker 1: That's sweeper or I don't know if it's a sweeper slider.
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Speaker 1: It was breaking horizontally like crazy the split, as you mentioned, Alana.
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Speaker 1: He broke that out to right handed hitters, which he
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Speaker 1: really had not done before. It's a pitch he still
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Speaker 1: has to command, but.
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Speaker 2: He has so many weapons.
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Speaker 1: He is so good, and if he is going to
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Speaker 1: be the guy we saw last night in the postseason,
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Speaker 1: which is of course his goal, then you're looking at Otani,
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Speaker 1: Snell Yamamoto.
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Speaker 2: That is pretty good. Put it that way.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this, and maybe what do you
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Speaker 3: think the way Kershaw has been pitching lately. We've had
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Speaker 3: this conversation a lot on Dodger's territory. I know it's
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Speaker 3: been talked about in other places as well. Do you
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Speaker 3: go Glass now Ken or do you go Kersh?
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Speaker 2: Well, we're talking about the fourth starter.
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Speaker 1: It all goes well, right, So it's not that.
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Speaker 2: Big a deal. You wouldn't even figure in the Division series.
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Speaker 1: I would go Kersh in the playoffs with Glass now
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Speaker 1: right behind them.
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Speaker 2: It's not a bad decision to have. It's a good one.
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Speaker 1: And I would want to see also how those two
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Speaker 1: guys are physically. Both of them have different physical variables
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Speaker 1: in play here Kershaw, his age, last now his various
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Speaker 1: ailments that always seem to crop up. So I would
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Speaker 1: want to see just exactly where they are. But if
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Speaker 1: they get there with Otani Yamamoto and going forward where
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Speaker 1: they are are now, of course yes, and then they're
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Speaker 1: going to be in a really good spot.
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Speaker 3: No question about that. Alex Vessia hitting the il one
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Speaker 3: of the Dodgers' relievers, Ken, is this more of a
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Speaker 3: situation in your opinion, that the kid just needs some rest,
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Speaker 3: especially with the return of Tanner, Scott and Kirby Yettes
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Speaker 3: Yates give him a blow a little bit. The Dodgers
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Speaker 3: are pretty good about that whole phantom I l and
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Speaker 3: the moving parts of giving guys rest when needed all.
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Speaker 1: I can't believe you would suggest the team would use
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Speaker 1: this phantom il, especially the Dodgers, But yes, they are
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Speaker 1: quite good at that, getting their guys breathers at different times.
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Speaker 1: Vessi has been used hard really all season, so yes,
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Speaker 1: it would behoove them to give him a little bit
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Speaker 1: of time off now.
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Speaker 2: And I'm sure he's got something.
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Speaker 1: Barking pictures always do it this time of year, so
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Speaker 1: you could justify it. We joke about the phantom I
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Speaker 1: l but yes, it's legit, I would think in this case.
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Speaker 3: All right, let me ask you this, the Milwaukee Brewers
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Speaker 3: signing Eric Fetti. Did that surprise you?
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Speaker 1: Yes, and the Brewer's entire season in a number of ways,
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Speaker 1: of course. But if you remember at the start of
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Speaker 1: the season, they basically had no pitching healthy. They had
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Speaker 1: to do some weird things to start the season, and
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Speaker 1: of course that crazy Yankee series happened, and then their
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Speaker 1: pitching got really healthy, and I was writing quite a
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Speaker 1: bit about their depth and how they can do some
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Speaker 1: things to the deadline, and they ultimately traded in Estra
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Speaker 1: Cortez Junior. Now they're in a situation where they're not
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Speaker 1: so healthy and it's not horrible. They lost McGill to
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Speaker 1: the IL yesterday with a flex restrain. He thinks it's
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Speaker 1: not serious.
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Speaker 2: We'll see.
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Speaker 1: But they signed Fetti because they had to pitch Aaron
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Speaker 1: Ashby last night in place of Quinn Priester, who they
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Speaker 1: had pushed back.
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Speaker 2: A couple of days because he has a risk issue.
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Speaker 1: They wanted Fetti to back up Aaron Ashby, which he
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Speaker 1: did and did reasonably well. It was four to third
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Speaker 1: innings tour and runs not bad. So they're in kind
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Speaker 1: of an unusual state right now where they're a little
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Speaker 1: bit in flux with their pitching. They've got Trisney ready
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Speaker 1: to go. They've got Robert if you remember him. This
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Speaker 1: is a talented dude. He is on a rehab assignment.
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Speaker 1: He might be coming back. So they still have a
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Speaker 1: really good position, or they're still in a really good position.
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Speaker 1: Remember it's Freddie Peralta, it's the Miz, it's Brandon Woodruff.
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Speaker 1: They're okay, and they've got a number of other bodies
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Speaker 1: and a number of other relievers in the mix as well.
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Speaker 1: But it's interesting that they're in this kind of uncertain
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Speaker 1: spot right now at this moment with their pitching staff.
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Speaker 1: Now for all that's going on with them, and they
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Speaker 1: haven't played as well of late as well.
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Speaker 2: They are still.
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Speaker 1: Six games up for the best record in the National League,
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Speaker 1: six games ahead of the Dodgers, and they also are
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Speaker 1: six and a half games up on the Cubs, so
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Speaker 1: they're in a comfortable or reasonably comfortable position.
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Speaker 2: It's still late August.
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Speaker 1: Anything can happen, but I like where the Brewers are,
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Speaker 1: so they too, like the Dodgers, just have to get
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Speaker 1: to the finish line and get their healthy with their pitching,
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Speaker 1: and that is what they are trying to do.
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Speaker 3: What is the biggest area of concern when you think
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Speaker 3: about a flexsore strain with Tyler or McGill, I mean
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Speaker 3: fifteen day il for him. Nothing too serious, that's what
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Speaker 3: he says. Although when I think of flex sorece strain,
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Speaker 3: I worry about that.
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Speaker 2: I always worry about that.
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Speaker 1: And again, we'll just have to wait and see how
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Speaker 1: this goes. But before we go out of this first segment,
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Speaker 1: I want to show you something, Alana that is really cool.
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Speaker 1: If the season ended today, here is how the postseason
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Speaker 1: would look and there are some amazing matchup here. This
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Speaker 1: is if the season ended today. So again, you don't
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Speaker 1: know what's going to happen. The bye teams in the
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Speaker 1: National League, the Brewers and the Dodgers.
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Speaker 2: We've discussed that.
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Speaker 1: Mets at Phillies in the Wildcards, sorry, no city field.
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Speaker 1: Padres at Cubs, that would be an amazing series. And
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Speaker 1: for all the things the Cubs have gone through, I've
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Speaker 1: got a better record than Padres. They've got one of
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Speaker 1: the better records in the National League. It's right there
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Speaker 1: with the Dodgers as well. So that's the National League.
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Speaker 1: Now the American League.
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Speaker 2: This is quite interesting too.
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Speaker 1: The buy teams, the Blue Jays and the Tigers. They're
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Speaker 1: fairly comfortable. The blue Jays four game lead over the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, four and a half over the Yankees. They
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Speaker 1: should get there. And in the wild card Mariners at
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Speaker 1: Astros in the AL West Championship and Yankees at Red
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Speaker 1: Sox in the AL East kind of consolation bracket.
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Speaker 2: So those would be really cool matchups.
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Speaker 1: The one thing, as cool as these things are, first
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Speaker 1: of all, they can change. Obviously, they can change. And
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Speaker 1: the other part that's bugging me a little bit about
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Speaker 1: this season, it's all kind of decided right now. We're
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Speaker 1: not even in September, and I'm not talking about the matchups.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about we know who the twelve teams pretty
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Speaker 1: much are going to be the Reds, Yes, they're still
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Speaker 1: in it. The Royals, Yes they're still in it. Big
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Speaker 1: series this weekend against the Tigers, another one coming up
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Speaker 1: against the Mariners. But I just see the twelve teams
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Speaker 1: we just listed as the most likely playoff draw.
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Speaker 3: Ken In what universe would you have thought that the
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Speaker 3: Tigers and the Blue Jays would have been the teams
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Speaker 3: with the buye in the American League?
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Speaker 1: Would not have thought that in any universe, Alna, But
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Speaker 1: give both teams credit. Tigers have built, granted a big
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Speaker 1: league in the AL Central and the Blue Jays this
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Speaker 1: is a team that I have kind of doubted for
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Speaker 1: a while now, and I've doubted them because they have
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Speaker 1: not played to their talent level. They've not played to
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Speaker 1: their ability. And yet this season, I would say they've
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Speaker 1: exceeded their talent level. Now they've got some star players,
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Speaker 1: but it's the role players who have really defined their season.
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Speaker 1: I know Springers had to bounce back the year in
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Speaker 1: Vladim Baschett's being great, but it's guys like Barger and
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Speaker 1: all these other ones, Ernie Clement who have really defined them.
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Speaker 1: And good for the Blue Jays, they're right there.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel finally the offense and the defense has
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Speaker 3: surrounded the good pitching at some more complete team in
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Speaker 3: terms of the Toronto Blue Jays. Okay, much more to
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Speaker 3: All right, time now for Grill and Ken. We're taking
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Speaker 3: We appreciate the conversation. The first question Ken is involving
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Speaker 3: the Boston Red Sox and this is a conversation and
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Speaker 3: a question that a lot of people have had. Should
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Speaker 3: they call up Peyton Tolly, a young man that certainly
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Speaker 3: has comparisons to Garrett Crochet. Obviously Fitz is now on
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Speaker 3: the il. What should they do? Matthew Harnett wants to know.
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Speaker 1: They need a starter. I believe it's either tomorrow or Saturday,
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Speaker 1: and Kyle Harrison is one candidate. Peyton Toley is another. Now,
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Speaker 1: Peyton Tolly is kind of a two pitch guy, but
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Speaker 1: he's extremely talented. And from talking to Red Sox people,
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Speaker 1: you hear the David Price comparison from I believe two
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Speaker 1: thousand and eight, Remember when David Price came up and
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Speaker 1: was out of the bullpen in the playofs that was
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Speaker 1: quite a weapon. The Red Sox are in a little
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Speaker 1: bit of a funny place with their rotation. They're getting
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Speaker 1: great work out of Crochet. Of course, he's a saw
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Speaker 1: young candidate, as well as Brian Beao and Giolito fourth
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Speaker 1: and fifth spots a little bit walk So Peyton toly
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Speaker 1: is a guy that to me is really interesting. Kyle Harrison,
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Speaker 1: who came over in the Devonstrate, has had some success
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Speaker 1: in the major leagues. He's not been horrible, so he's
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Speaker 1: going to get a shot too. I expect we're going
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Speaker 1: to see both before the seasons over, and actually we'll
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Speaker 1: see one of them most likely in the next.
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Speaker 2: Couple of days.
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Speaker 3: Let me ask you this about Walker Buehler, Ken Rosenthaler,
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Speaker 3: you surprised that they made that move when they did
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Speaker 3: to put Buehller in the pen.
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Speaker 1: No, and it's all performance based at this time of year,
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Speaker 1: that's the beauty of it. No more messing around. It's
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Speaker 1: all who can get us there and who is the
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Speaker 1: best possible option for the postseason. And Walker Buehler he
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Speaker 1: just was not that guy for them. So what happened
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Speaker 1: with him taking him out? Of the rotation was not
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Speaker 1: a surprise to him or anyone else who's been watching
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Speaker 1: that team all year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no question about it. Next question involving the New
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Speaker 3: York Mets shocker from our guy Scott Braun. What do
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Speaker 3: Kennon Laalana think about the Mets suddenly building a new
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Speaker 3: rotation at the end of the season with prospects who
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Speaker 3: many people didn't expect to see until twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: I love it, and it's just what we were talking
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Speaker 1: about with regard to the Red Sox. You're want to
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Speaker 1: put your best foot forward at this point of the season.
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Speaker 1: There's no more and let's give Frankie Montas a chance.
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Speaker 1: I'm just using as an example. I know he's hurt
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Speaker 1: right now, but we're not looking at that. We're looking
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Speaker 1: at who is going to be the best guy on
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Speaker 1: the mound that particular day. Nolan McClain has been an
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Speaker 1: absolute revelation, stunning what he has accomplished so far.
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Speaker 2: I encourage you to read.
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Speaker 1: Will Salmon's story in The Athletic Today about last night's game.
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Speaker 1: It's a great story and it describes how this guy
15:54
Speaker 1: just flummixed the Phillies. All right, Jonah Tong, He's the
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Speaker 1: next one coming up. They've got wrote in reserve as well.
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Speaker 2: Go with these guys.
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Speaker 1: Why not if they are capable And certainly McLain is
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Speaker 1: there's a maturity about him for guy who wasn't even
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Speaker 1: really a full time pitcher until two years ago, that
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Speaker 1: is quite unusual. Yeah, the Mets are going to fire
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Speaker 1: these bullets, and rightly so why not?
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Speaker 3: This is a question that makes me laugh because it's
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Speaker 3: a question I have every single year. It's regarding the
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Speaker 3: Houston Astro videos two oh seven. How do the Astros
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Speaker 3: always end up on top of the division even with
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Speaker 3: the injuries that they have suffered this season, like Blanco
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Speaker 3: and Alvarez. They just got Alvarez back. Let's not forget that.
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Speaker 3: You know, Bregman's not there anymore, Tucker's not there anymore.
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Speaker 3: They've had a lot of injuries, yet there they are
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Speaker 3: right at the top.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: At one point, what was its seventeen players on the
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Speaker 1: injured list, including eight starting pitchers.
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Speaker 2: It is amazing what they've done and it.
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Speaker 1: Speaks to of course, their culture, their history, recent history,
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Speaker 1: their knowledge of what it takes to win. That's a
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Speaker 1: big part of this now is back he walked, I believe,
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Speaker 1: four times in his first seven played appearances in this
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Speaker 1: last series, and then last night hit a home run.
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Speaker 1: Now that hand is going to be perhaps problematic. We'll
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Speaker 1: see if he is fully capable of being ere Don Alvarez,
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Speaker 1: but even if not.
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Speaker 2: He's a presence.
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Speaker 1: So they're in reasonably good shape right now. I'd like
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Speaker 1: them a lot better if Josh Hater was healthy. We
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Speaker 1: didn't mention him, or the person asking the question didn't
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Speaker 1: want him. But they're formidable and it's going to be
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Speaker 1: a really interesting race down the stretch between them and
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Speaker 1: the Mariners. Because the Mariners, I've said this before, to me,
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Speaker 1: they're like the Blue Jays, talented, but show me prove it,
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Speaker 1: and they have not yet done that. They've not yet
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Speaker 1: gotten over the hump. I don't know that winning the
17:48
Speaker 1: division would be what their fans would consider that to be,
17:51
Speaker 1: though certainly would be a step forward.
17:53
Speaker 2: Winning a playoff series or two certainly would be.
17:55
Speaker 1: So the Ale West is going to be rather intriguing
17:58
Speaker 1: down the stretch, especially with Aohino Suarez seemingly coming out
18:02
Speaker 1: of it now.
18:03
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
18:05
Speaker 3: That was a huge sign, of course for the Mariners.
18:07
Speaker 3: Hasn't quite been exactly what they needed yet, but perhaps
18:10
Speaker 3: that tide is about to change. The next question is
18:12
Speaker 3: in regards to I guess the Rockies and the Saint
18:15
Speaker 3: Louis Cardinals, because we know that John Jose Look is
18:18
Speaker 3: in his final year there as in Saint Louis. Any
18:21
Speaker 3: chance that he goes to Colorado or is another front
18:25
Speaker 3: office fit better for him.
18:28
Speaker 1: I don't expect that he is going to jump into
18:32
Speaker 1: another job where he'd be the head of baseball operations.
18:34
Speaker 1: He's done this a long time, since two thousand and seven,
18:37
Speaker 1: I believe. So we're talking about almost two decades in
18:40
Speaker 1: that job, which.
18:41
Speaker 2: Is a high stress job.
18:42
Speaker 1: And whatever your opinion of John Isaiah like, I'm just
18:45
Speaker 1: talking about.
18:46
Speaker 2: The difficulty of the position.
18:48
Speaker 1: So I would expect that if he does anything next
18:53
Speaker 1: year besides being a consultant for the Cardinals, he would
18:57
Speaker 1: accept a lesser role rather than a head of base
19:00
Speaker 1: operations role. Now, could he be a club president overseeing everything?
19:05
Speaker 1: I guess he's president based operations for the Cardinal. I
19:07
Speaker 1: don't know if it's that much of a distinction, but
19:09
Speaker 1: I would be surprised if he was the guy in
19:12
Speaker 1: Colorado simply because it seems to me from talking to him,
19:16
Speaker 1: from talking to others, he wants to take a step.
19:18
Speaker 3: Back, And wouldn't it be interesting for him to go
19:22
Speaker 3: to Colorado Ken just because that's a massive rebuild. I mean,
19:25
Speaker 3: I could see maybe an organization perhaps that has a
19:29
Speaker 3: little bit more they're a little bit closer to winning
19:31
Speaker 3: than maybe Colorado. Maybe that would be more intriguing for
19:34
Speaker 3: him if at all.
19:36
Speaker 1: Yeah, I would think you're right, Alta, that Colorado is
19:40
Speaker 1: such a difficult puzzle to solve. That coming off what
19:44
Speaker 1: he's coming off of a couple of really difficult years
19:47
Speaker 1: with the Cardinals. I don't know did he wants to
19:48
Speaker 1: jump into that. I'll use the word mess because it
19:52
Speaker 1: is a mess. They need so much work done on
19:54
Speaker 1: their infrastructure and everything else. It's going to take a
19:58
Speaker 1: while for them to get where they want to be.
20:00
Speaker 3: All right, time now for a little break. We're gonna
20:03
Speaker 3: come back and talk about Dude and Dork of the Week.
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Speaker 1: Dude, dude, dude.
21:16
Speaker 3: Okay, give us the props. Ken Rosenthal, who is your
21:19
Speaker 3: dude of the week?
21:21
Speaker 2: All right?
21:21
Speaker 1: I was really tempted to give it to the A's
21:24
Speaker 1: second best record in the Major since July twenty fourth,
21:26
Speaker 1: just swept the Tigers. But we have not talked on
21:29
Speaker 1: this show about Michael Harris the second and his remarkable
21:33
Speaker 1: runaround with the Atlanta Braves. I want to show you
21:35
Speaker 1: the stats kind of before and after, because they illustrate
21:39
Speaker 1: just how far he has come. This was one of
21:40
Speaker 1: the worst offensive players in baseball, if not the worst,
21:44
Speaker 1: through July tenth. Two of five batting average five thirty
21:47
Speaker 1: nine OPS. Since July tenth, when he raised his hands
21:51
Speaker 1: over his head, he had them down around his chest
21:53
Speaker 1: three forty three batting average one point zero zero one ops.
21:58
Speaker 1: He is the dude of the last two months, actually
22:01
Speaker 1: two and a half months at this point. So Michael Harris,
22:03
Speaker 1: good for you. I always love it when players who
22:06
Speaker 1: were down kind of turn it around, and he's certainly
22:09
Speaker 1: done that in a big way.
22:11
Speaker 3: Comeback player of the year quality, I don't know.
22:14
Speaker 1: I don't know because that kind of relates to last
22:16
Speaker 1: year more than in season comeback. But he's certainly done
22:20
Speaker 1: a lot this season.
22:22
Speaker 3: I'm happy for him. It's good to see those types
22:24
Speaker 3: of guys, good, good dude playing well as well. All right,
22:27
Speaker 3: minus Colson Montgomery because anybody that can hit four home
22:31
Speaker 3: runs in a week is a big deal. But how
22:33
Speaker 3: about a home run in four straight games? We often
22:35
Speaker 3: hear about that from the superstars, and maybe a lot
22:38
Speaker 3: of folks don't even know who Colson Montgomery is. But
22:40
Speaker 3: he has fourteen home runs in forty three career games,
22:44
Speaker 3: So good for him. I'm happy to see a young
22:47
Speaker 3: man that is making the most of the time that
22:49
Speaker 3: he's been given.
22:51
Speaker 1: White Sox top prospect and a guy who had some
22:55
Speaker 1: swing issues in the minor leagues and has really come on.
22:58
Speaker 1: But as we go to dork of the Week, the
23:00
Speaker 1: White Sox are going to get nominated or named in
23:02
Speaker 1: another way.
23:04
Speaker 3: All right, dork of the Week, here we go.
23:12
Speaker 2: All right, a lot, I'll take it right out here.
23:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, you teased it, go for it.
23:17
Speaker 1: I'm gonna give it to the Chicago White Sox. And
23:19
Speaker 1: here's why they didn't trade Luise Robert Jr.
23:22
Speaker 2: At the deadline.
23:23
Speaker 1: Now. I know his value is not what it once was,
23:25
Speaker 1: but they were facing a situation either trade him or
23:28
Speaker 1: you face the decision of picking up his twenty million
23:32
Speaker 1: dollar option.
23:33
Speaker 2: We're not gonna trade him.
23:34
Speaker 1: We didn't like the offers. That's fine, I understand that,
23:36
Speaker 1: But here they are now guess who might be done
23:39
Speaker 1: for the season.
23:40
Speaker 2: Luise Robert Junior.
23:41
Speaker 1: What a shock he would finish the season because of
23:44
Speaker 1: that strain left hamstring with one hundred and ten games played.
23:47
Speaker 1: He's played more than one hundred and ten only once
23:49
Speaker 1: in his career.
23:51
Speaker 2: So what do you do now?
23:52
Speaker 1: You probably pick up the option, That's what they're signaling,
23:55
Speaker 1: because well, what else are you gonna do but paying
23:58
Speaker 1: twenty million for a guy I know. I know he's
24:00
Speaker 1: a really good defender, and I know he's a great
24:02
Speaker 1: base runner. But it's a waste of money. I know
24:05
Speaker 1: they've got financial flexibility. It doesn't matter.
24:08
Speaker 2: This was not.
24:08
Speaker 1: Handled well by the White Sox Dorks of the Week.
24:11
Speaker 3: I feel like they've handled this whole Louise Robert Junior
24:14
Speaker 3: situation wrong the entire time. It's just been a messy,
24:17
Speaker 3: entire situation. Okay for me, my doork of the week
24:20
Speaker 3: is Major League Baseball? What are we doing? Do we
24:22
Speaker 3: hate our own sport? Why are we announcing the twenty
24:25
Speaker 3: twenty six schedule in the middle of the day on Tuesday?
24:29
Speaker 3: I just don't understand, Like, what is the point in
24:32
Speaker 3: an afternoon on Tuesday afternoon. By the way, Taylor Swift
24:35
Speaker 3: and Travis Kelce got engaged on the same day, at
24:38
Speaker 3: least they noticed or posted it on the same day,
24:40
Speaker 3: and it was National Dog Day. What are we doing
24:43
Speaker 3: major League Baseball? Like, let's let's have a little bit
24:46
Speaker 3: more of a decent timing of this. Do we need
24:49
Speaker 3: to know where we're playing in twenty twenty six on
24:52
Speaker 3: August twenty sixth, I ask you Ken Rosenthal a lot.
24:56
Speaker 1: I would just ask you, what is a better day
24:59
Speaker 1: for this? Now, they were already late with the schedule.
25:01
Speaker 1: That might have factored into why it came out on
25:03
Speaker 1: a Tuesday.
25:04
Speaker 2: But when would we do this? I don't know of
25:06
Speaker 2: a great time.
25:07
Speaker 1: And by the way, they did get.
25:09
Speaker 2: Blown out of the water by Taylor and Travis that I.
25:12
Speaker 3: Mean, my goodness, Travis and Taylor taken over the spot.
25:16
Speaker 1: I don't know.
25:17
Speaker 3: I don't know, just not a Tuesday afternoon. I mean,
25:19
Speaker 3: there's got to be a Friday night, Friday nights at Sunday,
25:23
Speaker 3: and I don't know when people are actually paying attention.
25:26
Speaker 3: I mean, how many games are being played on it? Anyway,
25:28
Speaker 3: I digress. All right, we want to say goodbye to
25:31
Speaker 3: all of the folks watching us on TV, thank you
25:34
Speaker 3: for joining us. We will be right back with our
25:37
Speaker 3: YouTube fan right after this. All right, for those of
25:41
Speaker 3: you on YouTube still with us, Hello, welcome back, Alana Rizzo,
25:45
Speaker 3: Ken Rosenthal here on Fair Territory. Let me ask you this, Ken,
25:48
Speaker 3: the Kansas City Royals make the postseason if.
25:54
Speaker 1: If they get really hot, and that's what it's going
25:56
Speaker 1: to take. Now, They've got the Tigers this weekend at home.
26:00
Speaker 1: They are playing better, and they're hitting better. They've been
26:03
Speaker 1: an offensively challenged team really for most of the season.
26:07
Speaker 1: So I would say, Alana, they've got a slug. They've
26:11
Speaker 1: got to get great work out of their starters. I mean,
26:12
Speaker 1: all of the things you would normally say. But this
26:16
Speaker 1: is a team capable of doing that. I just don't
26:18
Speaker 1: know if they're going to have enough and if any
26:22
Speaker 1: of the team's currently in wild card position the Red Sox, Yankees,
26:25
Speaker 1: Mariners will slip enough for the Royals to come up.
26:28
Speaker 1: But I'm eager to see them this weekend against the
26:30
Speaker 1: Tigers in Kansas City. I'm eager to see that series
26:33
Speaker 1: they haven't against Seattle coming up in a couple of weeks,
26:36
Speaker 1: I believe, and let's face it, Bobby Witt, Vinnie Pasquentino,
26:41
Speaker 1: zal Perez, Yastremsky's there. Now, it's a better looking offense
26:45
Speaker 1: then it's been, and I don't rule them out. It's
26:49
Speaker 1: just kind of a long road. Their playoff odds this
26:52
Speaker 1: morning are fourteen percent. That sounds about right to me.
26:55
Speaker 3: Are you more excited to see this Ale Central matchup
26:57
Speaker 3: or AJ Pierzynski, who's doing the game with you on Fox?
27:02
Speaker 2: Well, that's an excellent question.
27:03
Speaker 1: I saw Aj last week, so I'd be good not
27:05
Speaker 1: seeing AJ this week. But no, I actually, in all
27:09
Speaker 1: seriousness for all the shenanigans on foul Territory, I love
27:12
Speaker 1: working games with AJ. We have a lot of fun,
27:15
Speaker 1: and we'll be with Jason Bennetti this weekend, so I expect,
27:19
Speaker 1: let's just put it this way, a lively broadcast with
27:22
Speaker 1: those cats in the booth.
27:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, Jason Bennetti is great. I know that AJ is
27:25
Speaker 3: already on his way there. If not already, he is
27:28
Speaker 3: on his way soon. We're gonna go ahead and say
27:32
Speaker 3: goodbye for now. Thank It's for everybody for watching and listening.
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Speaker 3: Fou Territory is next. The afore mentioned Aj Przinski Scott
27:39
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Speaker 3: The guys welcome John Smoltz to the show, who happens
27:45
Speaker 3: to be the commissioner of this uh this tournament, and
27:48
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