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Ken Rosenthal on Aaron Judge’s return, Max Muncy’s rise, Gausman’s ride, Pat Murphy NL MOY three-peat? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's the Inside Scoop with FT Senior Insider Ken Rosenthal.
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  Speaker 1: He's back. Aaron Judge returns. Almost exactly 100 days, I
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  Speaker 1: think it was. A few months. Ken, what should we expect?
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  Speaker 2: I have no idea, Scott. And obviously we should expect
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  Speaker 2: Aaron Judge to be some semblance of MVP Aaron Judge. But,
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  Speaker 2: as you said, it's been more than three months. No
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  Speaker 2: rehab assignment. He's going to play right field. So the
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  Speaker 2: first question here is... all right, how are the Yankees
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  Speaker 2: going to build him up in the major league level,
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  Speaker 2: at the major league level? Obviously, he's been doing quite
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  Speaker 2: a bit of activity, baseball and non, in recovering from
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  Speaker 2: his fractured rib. But it's a question of, do you
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  Speaker 2: play him seven innings, then rest him? Do you play
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  Speaker 2: him five, seven the next day, nine the next day?
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  Speaker 2: How this is all going to work, that's going to
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  Speaker 2: be something really, it's going to be quite interesting because
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  Speaker 2: the risk here is without a rehabilitation assignment, without getting
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  Speaker 2: his legs under him, so to speak, and Eric and
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  Speaker 2: AJ can speak to this, the risk is maybe he'll
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  Speaker 2: suffer a leg injury if you're built up too quickly.
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  Speaker 2: And I know it's hard for fans and even reporters
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  Speaker 2: to understand sometimes, but being in your spikes and on
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  Speaker 2: the field and standing there and doing all the things
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  Speaker 2: that players do, that takes some getting used to, and
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  Speaker 2: he hasn't really done that. So I'm expecting him to
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  Speaker 2: be good because he's Aaron Judge. He's always good. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just really interested to see how their buildup goes at
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  Speaker 2: the major league level. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: And that was going to be my question is how
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  Speaker 3: are they going to build them up? Because I remember
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  Speaker 3: we did a, we did a Yankees game. I did
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  Speaker 3: a Yankees game not long ago. And Aaron Boone said, well,
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  Speaker 3: if he doesn't want to go on rehab, we're probably
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  Speaker 3: not going to send them on a rehab and he
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  Speaker 3: can get as a bats officer, Jack, we can, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he can do SIM games. He can take BP, but,
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  Speaker 3: But he said the one thing they are worried about
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  Speaker 3: is getting him on his feet. So did they have
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  Speaker 3: him while they were on the West Coast running out
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  Speaker 3: to the outfield, standing there for like 10 minutes and
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  Speaker 3: running back in, sitting down for 10 minutes just to
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  Speaker 3: try to simulate innings? Did they do anything like that?
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  Speaker 3: Or are they just saying, Aaron, you're going to go
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  Speaker 3: play nine innings the first night and let's hope nothing happens?
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  Speaker 2: Somewhere in between, AJ. It wasn't exactly what you said,
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  Speaker 2: running out and sitting down and doing all that. But
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  Speaker 2: he was on his feet. He was taking BP and
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  Speaker 2: he was doing different things. He was out in the
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  Speaker 2: outfield as well. He has been out in the outfield.
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  Speaker 2: So again, it's not as if he hasn't done anything
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  Speaker 2: and it's not as if he is simply incapable of
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  Speaker 2: doing this.
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  Speaker 4: He can.
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  Speaker 2: But there is a buildup that needs to take place
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  Speaker 2: and When I asked Aaron Boone the other day about this,
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  Speaker 2: I said, okay, you're going to do three innings and
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  Speaker 2: then five innings and seven, and he didn't seem inclined
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  Speaker 2: to go about it in that way. It sounded more
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  Speaker 2: like they would play him seven if possible, maybe even
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  Speaker 2: the full nine, then maybe give him a day off
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  Speaker 2: and just kind of play it by ear. For instance,
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  Speaker 2: if you're in a game tonight where the Yankees lead
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  Speaker 2: 6-1 after the sixth inning, just as an example, Well,
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  Speaker 2: maybe then you get him off his feet so you
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  Speaker 2: have him for the next day for however many innings.
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  Speaker 2: And the one thing that teams have now that really
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  Speaker 2: wasn't available when you guys played was the amount of
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  Speaker 2: information that they have as far as steps that are
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  Speaker 2: being taken, the strength coaches, the things that they check,
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  Speaker 2: all of these different measures. And they can monitor a
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  Speaker 2: player's exertion level. And I imagine some of that's going
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  Speaker 2: to be going on and they'll be checking him constantly.
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  Speaker 4: There's definitely algorithms that I've seen, like the amount of
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  Speaker 4: time that you spend swinging, the amount of time that
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  Speaker 4: you spend running or standing, whatever it is. Did you
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  Speaker 4: get any inclination? You say you talked to Boone, but
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  Speaker 4: anybody from the front office or the team is against this?
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  Speaker 4: Was there some kickback or was it all only judge's choice?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that everyone with the team is totally
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  Speaker 2: in favor with this or of this because there is
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  Speaker 2: the risk of not having a buildup. So If you
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  Speaker 2: asked Brian Cashman and hooked him up to a lie
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  Speaker 2: detector and said, all right, would you have preferred Aaron
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  Speaker 2: Judge to go on a rehab assignment, even if it
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  Speaker 2: was only for two or three days? My guess is
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  Speaker 2: Cashman would say yes. He obviously is not going to
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  Speaker 2: say that publicly. And a player has rights under the
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  Speaker 2: collective bargaining agreement. A player does not have to go
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  Speaker 2: on a rehab assignment. And that's not just for players
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  Speaker 2: of a certain service level. All players, they don't have
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  Speaker 2: to go. So, When they don't want to go, and
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  Speaker 2: Juan Soto recently returned without one, and Judge did this
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  Speaker 2: a couple of years ago without one, and he had
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  Speaker 2: missed two months.
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  Speaker 4: He was fine.
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  Speaker 2: When a player doesn't want to go, then you have
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  Speaker 2: to work around that and deal with that, and that
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  Speaker 2: is what the Yankees are doing here.
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  Speaker 4: I love that. I love that.
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  Speaker 3: You know, my favorite part of what you said is
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  Speaker 3: there's all these devices, right, that can measure your steps
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  Speaker 3: and your swings and all that. I remember years ago,
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  Speaker 3: the PA was so against wearing these devices. They said,
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  Speaker 3: absolutely nobody ever wear these devices. Now you go into
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  Speaker 3: major league and minor league clubhouse, every person has them on.
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  Speaker 3: It's amazing how times change.
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  Speaker 2: Well, AJ, the fear was it would be used against players.
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  Speaker 4: No, I know. Exactly.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like that is developed. It seems like
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  Speaker 2: it's with the player's best interest at heart. And you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to monitor the, like I said, the exertion levels.
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  Speaker 2: And it doesn't seem like the fears the union had
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  Speaker 2: have been realized.
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  Speaker 4: your team's either in the playoffs or the team they're
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  Speaker 4: playing has a chance in the playoffs. So all these
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  Speaker 4: games in September, you got to get on there, get
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  Speaker 4: Agreed. Agreed, Ken.
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  Speaker 3: And it's just funny now. So the Yankees are going
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  Speaker 3: to do this. Obviously, the eyes are on the postseason, right?
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  Speaker 3: So they're going to say, hey, where does he fit
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  Speaker 3: in the lineup? He's going to play the outfield. And
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  Speaker 3: then who loses playing time? Because Garcia, Rice, Ramos, Bellinger, Grisham,
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  Speaker 3: those guys.
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  Speaker 4: Grisham, I guess, not anymore.
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  Speaker 3: But you know what I'm saying?
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  Speaker 4: They're just going to have to deal with it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Grisham's on the IL, as you just said.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: So the outfield for the moment will be Judge, Spencer
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  Speaker 2: Jones in center, and Bellinger in left. And... Effectively, Judge replaces, well,
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  Speaker 2: I shouldn't say that. He doesn't replace Grisham. Spencer Jones
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  Speaker 2: effectively replaced Grisham. What they do have is an interesting
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  Speaker 2: scenario against lefties because against lefties, they can't play both
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  Speaker 2: Garcia and Ben Rice because obviously both are in the
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  Speaker 2: DH first base mode. So if you're going to play
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  Speaker 2: Goldschmidt against left-handed pitching, you're sitting one of those guys.
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  Speaker 2: It's a good problem to have, obviously. Too many good players,
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  Speaker 2: and Rice is scalding hot right now. But in the
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  Speaker 2: game we did on Saturday, that was a game started
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  Speaker 2: by Robbie Ray. Luis Garcia Jr. was not in the lineup.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Rice was. They had a great game, and that's
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  Speaker 2: the way they're going to go about it. So they have,
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  Speaker 2: certainly at this point, much more of a full-strength look
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  Speaker 2: to them. They have the DH spot available because Stanton
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  Speaker 2: is not there. But I imagine that at some point,
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  Speaker 2: They will give judge DH days as well and kind
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  Speaker 2: of just go about it in that sense.
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  Speaker 4: Do you know what he did? Cause I didn't end
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  Speaker 4: up looking it up when he came back from his
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  Speaker 4: last rehab. Did you ever look at how he did
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  Speaker 4: and how slow that acclimation back into the big leagues was?
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  Speaker 2: He did really well. He had a good run toward
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  Speaker 2: the end of the season and it was not an issue,
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  Speaker 2: which of course is why I am sure he feels
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  Speaker 2: confident that he can handle this. And, Players know, you
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  Speaker 2: guys know this. They know themselves. They know their bodies.
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  Speaker 2: They know where they are physically at all times. And
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  Speaker 2: having done this before and done it successfully, I asked
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  Speaker 2: at one point, two months versus three months, is that
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  Speaker 2: a difference? And was told, nah, it's not really a
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  Speaker 2: big deal. You miss that amount of time, you're missing
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  Speaker 2: a lot of time. So again, he's done it. He's succeeded.
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  Speaker 2: And from that perspective, there is no reason to believe
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  Speaker 2: that oh my gosh, Aaron Judge can't catch up to
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  Speaker 2: Major League pitching at this point. He'll be okay.
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  Speaker 4: Can you talk to us about what you wrote about
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  Speaker 4: the Kevin Gosman trade and how he and his family
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  Speaker 4: had entrenched themselves in Toronto and ended up losing more
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  Speaker 4: than just his team on the flight when he got traded?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I was talking to Gosman the other night before
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  Speaker 2: the broadcast that we did in Chicago. AJ, we were
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  Speaker 2: part of this. And I asked him, hey, what was
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  Speaker 2: it like? I always ask players, what is it like
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  Speaker 2: the day you get traded? What happened? Because generally speaking,
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  Speaker 2: more often than not, you get good stories out of it.
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  Speaker 2: So I asked Gossman about it, and he said, well,
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  Speaker 2: we were on the flight from Toronto to Houston. It's
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  Speaker 2: the day before the deadline. I'm playing cards with Shane Bieber,
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  Speaker 2: Max Scherzer, and Jeff Hoffman, and I had three of
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  Speaker 2: the worst hands you will ever have. Got crushed in
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  Speaker 2: this card game. Stopped playing cards, and I thought, Nothing
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  Speaker 2: good's gonna happen here. And sure enough, about an hour
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  Speaker 2: later on the flight, he gets summoned to the front
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  Speaker 2: of the plane to talk to manager John Schneider. Schneider
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  Speaker 2: informs him of his trade to the Cubs. And yes,
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  Speaker 2: at that point, Gossman said his first thought was for
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  Speaker 2: his family, his wife, Taylor, and their two young daughters,
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  Speaker 2: because they had grown to love Toronto, as had he.
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  Speaker 2: And they were quite comfortable there. Kevin Gossman was quite
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  Speaker 2: popular there as a player, as well he should have been.
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  Speaker 2: He was a great free agent signing by the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: So it was an emotional moment between he and Schneider
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  Speaker 2: because Schneider, when Gossman first signed with the Jays, was
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  Speaker 2: the bench coach that year. Then he became interim manager.
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  Speaker 2: Then he became manager. So these guys have been through
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  Speaker 2: a lot together, including coming within two outs of winning
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  Speaker 2: the World Series. And again, it was one of those
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  Speaker 2: kind of interesting trade stories that you hear from time
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  Speaker 2: to time.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Chicago's real tough to get adjusted to, Ken. Let
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  Speaker 3: me tell you, it's really tough. I mean, if you're
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  Speaker 3: going to go to a city, I mean, Chicago's probably
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  Speaker 3: the worst one you can end up, especially on a
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  Speaker 3: team that's pretty good.
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  Speaker 2: Well, he made the point, AJ. He made the point
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  Speaker 2: that the first series that the Cubs played when he
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  Speaker 2: joined them was at home against the Dodgers. They swept
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  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. It was electrifying at Wrigley, as it often is,
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  Speaker 2: and He said it took him about two days for
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  Speaker 2: him to say, okay, I don't need to be sad.
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  Speaker 2: I can be excited. I'm part of a good thing.
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  Speaker 4: No, I love those stories.
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  Speaker 3: Like you said, I love the, cause it's always random
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  Speaker 3: how guys get traded, what they're doing, especially when it
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  Speaker 3: could be an off day, guys are playing golf, wherever
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  Speaker 3: they're doing.
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  Speaker 4: It's just one of those things.
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  Speaker 3: I've been a part of it where guys found out
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  Speaker 3: not through their agent or through the team, through the
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  Speaker 3: TV or, you know, having to have conversations, whether guys
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  Speaker 3: should take, accept the trade. So, There's a million stories
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  Speaker 3: about that. I love each and every one because they're
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  Speaker 3: so different. But you also wrote something interesting, Ken. Our,
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  Speaker 3: what is it, 90-mile stretch between Milwaukee and Chicago could
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  Speaker 3: define the World Series because both Chicago teams and Milwaukee
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  Speaker 3: have a great chance to make a run to the
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  Speaker 3: World Series. Can you explain more about why the White
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  Speaker 3: Sox are going to make the World Series?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the White Sox are looking good right now, AJ.
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  Speaker 2: It looks like they're going to have At this point, anyway,
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  Speaker 2: they would have the number two seed in the American League.
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  Speaker 2: Do I expect them to get to the World Series
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  Speaker 2: and overcome what look like the three best teams in
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  Speaker 2: the league, the Rays, the Yankees, and the Red Sox?
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  Speaker 2: I don't necessarily expect that. But it's been a great
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  Speaker 2: year for the White Sox. And you know what? In
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  Speaker 2: the American League this year, all things seem possible. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Tampa Bay is strong. The Yankees with Judge will be stronger.
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  Speaker 2: The Red Sox have the possibility of getting Gary Crochet back.
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  Speaker 2: for the postseason in a relief role. And as Crochet
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  Speaker 2: said about his possible return, I'm no Joe Schmo. I
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  Speaker 2: can maybe do some things, which I loved. So it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be an uphill fight for the White Sox
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  Speaker 2: to get to the World Series. I would say the
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  Speaker 2: Cubs and the Brewers are stronger teams and would have
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  Speaker 2: a better chance of getting there. But the playoffs are
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  Speaker 2: the playoffs. And despite what MLB tells us about how
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  Speaker 2: they are always won by the large market teams, who knows?
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  Speaker 2: Maybe this year something will be different.
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  Speaker 1: little bit on your Max Muncy story and the aftermath
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  Speaker 1: me that I learned about was the position debate that
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 2: And Max Muncy, of course, has gone on to become
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  Speaker 2: a great Los Angeles Dodger. He is second on the
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  Speaker 2: all-time list for Los Angeles Dodgers in home runs. He's
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  Speaker 2: 35 behind Eric Carros for the record. He's 36. Might
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  Speaker 2: be tough to get there, but he might get it.
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  Speaker 2: He might ultimately become the all-time leader for a Los
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  Speaker 2: Angeles Dodgers player in franchise history. That's amazing. And it's
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  Speaker 2: all the more amazing considering that the A's released him
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  Speaker 2: at the end of spring training in 2017. Now, that
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  Speaker 2: item I wrote about today deals with the A's former
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  Speaker 2: general manager, David Forrest, approaching Muncie when the Dodgers were
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  Speaker 2: in Sacramento this year. and saying, hey, we really blew
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  Speaker 2: it with that decision. And Muncy's gracious about it. He's like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: I didn't give them much of a chance to make
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  Speaker 2: a different decision. But the one thing he said was
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  Speaker 2: that they felt he didn't have a position. And he said,
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  Speaker 2: they're right. I didn't have a position then. I bounced
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  Speaker 2: all over the place, left, right, first, second, and third, DHing,
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  Speaker 2: of course, as well. And it never really gave him
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  Speaker 2: a chance to get settled. So In that sense, it
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  Speaker 2: was one of those situations where they got impatient with
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  Speaker 2: him offensively because he wasn't the hitter that he became.
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  Speaker 2: And he really wasn't set at any one spot. So
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  Speaker 2: they had other players ahead of him, and they let
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  Speaker 2: him go. And credit to Max Muncy for becoming the
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  Speaker 2: player that he has become with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Speaker 2: And he's a three-time World Series champion. He's a three-time All-Star,
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  Speaker 2: and he's still doing big things for that team.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, and you count your blessings that they let you
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  Speaker 1: go and it didn't work out because you just don't
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  Speaker 1: know what your future looks like, even if the A's, say,
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: give you a little bit more PT or give you
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: the position that you're looking for. It's all worked out
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: really nicely for Max. My question for you, my last one,
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  Speaker 1: is on the A's. So this has been a brutal year, right?
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  Speaker 1: And they're terrible at home and all of that. Suddenly
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: they're Kind of playing a little well down the stretch here.
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  Speaker 1: And I think the most shocking part of the Labor
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  Speaker 1: Day weekend for me was what they did to the
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: Mariners in those first few games. We spoke for weeks
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: about how the Mariners were about to enter a soft
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: part of the schedule. And AJ is going to kill
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: me for asking this question because I'm big on schedule watching.
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: They looked better than the Mariners.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. And the fallacy of schedule watching is that sometimes
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: this can happen. And we all do it. I certainly
• 16:55
  Speaker 2: do it. And, for instance, the Dodgers, the rest of
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: the way, have a very easy schedule on paper. They
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: should be well positioned to get that number two seed
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: from Atlanta in the National League. Just look at the schedule.
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: And the Nationals, right now, we talk about schedule. The Nationals,
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: since the deadline, have not been the same team. Traded
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: Foster Griffin, traded Curtis Meade. They just have not been
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: the same. And, of course, Garcia Jr., So when you
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: look at schedules and you count wins, it doesn't always
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: work out that way. But at the same time, the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: reason it doesn't work out that way is because teams
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: like the A's, like the Mets right now, all these
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: teams that are out of it, the Cincinnati Reds are
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: playing better. Well, it's a different story when the pressure
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: is off and teams start performing. And there's that old adage, too,
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: never trust what you see in spring training and never
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: trust what you see in September training. from some of
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: these players and teams. And that's worth keeping in mind
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: as well.
• 17:57
  Speaker 4: All right, Ken, do we need to make a rule
• 18:00
  Speaker 4: for writers that they can't select a manager of the year,
• 18:04
  Speaker 4: three straight years, or if Pat Murphy continues to do
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: what he does, it's just going to be the Pat
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: Murphy manager of the year award in the NL.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: There should be no rule ever restricting writers from picking
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: whoever they want. And, My fear always with awards when
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: guys are on a roll, Otani in the MVP races
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: is a good example of this. If he's deserving of MVP,
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: then enough voter fatigue that you sometimes hear about, he
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: should win MVP. Murphy, it's the same thing with the Brewers.
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: This team has exceeded expectations once again. They very well
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: could end up with the best record in franchise history.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: This is without Quinn Priester, without Brandon Woodruff, with the
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: youngest pitching staff in the major leagues. There are a
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: lot of reasons that you could say Pat Murphy is
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: again deserving of Manager of the Year. It would be
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: three straight. No manager has ever won three straight. Now,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: to make the same case, or a case, I should say,
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: for Don Mattingly, You can make a case, certainly, for
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Walt Weiss. Maybe even Tory Lavello, if the Diamondbacks get
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: there after all they've been through. I didn't mention him
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: in my column, but perhaps should have. Maybe even Craig Stammen,
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: if the Padres get there after what they've been through.
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: But it seems to me that if the Brewers get
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: to 98-99 wins, franchise record, even 100, Murphy's going to
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: be a pretty strong candidate yet again. And You just
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: don't vote for someone else because I'm tired of voting
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: for that guy. That's ridiculous. That is not what we
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: should do as voting members.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I feel like Murph is not embarrassed, but he's trying
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to be humble about it.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: He's like, stop. Stop voting for me.
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: It's the players. It's the organization, the ivory tower, all
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: his terminology. But we might get another Murph speech. Ken,
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: good stuff. Good to see you. see you we'll talk
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: to you later this week thanks guys all right so
• 19:54
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• 20:09
  Speaker 3: Year Yes, it'll probably be Milwaukee for me.
• 20:13
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