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Ken Rosenthal on Roman Anthony, Basallo's O’s Deal, Astros Offense + Sticking with Padres in NL West · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Hey, we're back with Ken Rosenthal Live. Ken, how are you?
• 0:12
  Speaker 1: How are you? From some hotel room in America.
• 0:15
  Speaker 2: It's basically how Can lives his life as he goes
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: from game to game.
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  Speaker 3: Here exactly, I'm in San Diego getting ready for FS
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: one tomorrow night. San Diego Padres hosting the Los Angeles Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Should be an excellent series. Ken. We'll get into that
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  Speaker 1: more or later.
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  Speaker 2: But you wrote about Roman Anthony and obviously had a
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  Speaker 2: big home run last night.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about him earlier in the show, his maturity when.
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  Speaker 2: You look at a guy like this, Ken, I mean
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  Speaker 2: I mentioned this in the show, but like, how important
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  Speaker 2: is it for him to be the total package if
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  Speaker 2: he's going to come up and not just have the
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  Speaker 2: physical tools, but you know, the mental tools and being
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  Speaker 2: able to really embrace everything that goes along with being
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  Speaker 2: a big deal to the.
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  Speaker 1: Boston Red Sox, which is a very tough market to survive.
• 1:01
  Speaker 3: In, Britt, it's always important to be that kind of person,
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  Speaker 3: and he seems to be the kind of player, the
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  Speaker 3: kind of young man who was just utterly unfazed by
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  Speaker 3: anything that's going on around him. So when I wrote
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  Speaker 3: that column, that was leading into the series. It was
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  Speaker 3: about kind of how he's met every challenge so far
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  Speaker 3: in a big way, and here he is going into
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  Speaker 3: Yankee Stadium, a centerpiece of the rivalry for perhaps the
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  Speaker 3: next eight or nine years, because he signed long term,
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  Speaker 3: and I didn't expect that it was going to be
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  Speaker 3: a problem based on everything people told me. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: that much of a soothsayer that I can tell this myself.
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  Speaker 3: So he goes into the Yankee Stadium last night, Game one,
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  Speaker 3: draws a walk, has a game tying single, and then
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  Speaker 3: of course the home run, which was an absolute dagger
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  Speaker 3: in the ninth inning, a two run shot to make
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  Speaker 3: the score six to three. I would say he looked unfazed.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, let's stay with some young guys in
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  Speaker 4: the American League East Sami Basio just sign an extension.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously we can look at the numbers. Obviously we can
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  Speaker 4: look at the player, But can you hit on more
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  Speaker 4: of the long term ramifications and just the overall picture
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  Speaker 4: of the Orioles who are doing bad this year but
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  Speaker 4: are still expected to win.
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  Speaker 3: A couple of things here, Eric, First off, the implications
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  Speaker 3: for the industry when you see young players like bassioh
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  Speaker 3: like Roman Anthony, like Jackson Merrill sign these deals. I
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  Speaker 3: always see both sides of it. Certainly, if it's my
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  Speaker 3: son and somebody's way of one hundred and thirty million
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  Speaker 3: at them, or even sixty seven million, as Basio just got,
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  Speaker 3: it's really tempting and you never know what will happen
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  Speaker 3: in life, and that money is obviously guaranteed it's going
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  Speaker 3: to set you up for a long time. The other
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  Speaker 3: side of this is when these young guys sign these extensions,
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  Speaker 3: they are sacrificing the chance to earn even more, much
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  Speaker 3: more money at a later time. Now, Basillah was a
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  Speaker 3: guy who would have been a free agent, I believe
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  Speaker 3: entering his age twenty seventh season. Roman Anthony the same.
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  Speaker 3: And those are young ages for free agents. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: how free agents can benefit when they enter the league
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  Speaker 3: so young, and then of course reach their six years
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  Speaker 3: and go to free agency, and who knows, in the
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  Speaker 3: next CBA it might not even be six years, maybe
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  Speaker 3: it's five. So all of that is clearly a concern
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  Speaker 3: for the Union as they try to push the salary
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  Speaker 3: structure forward. And I know most fans sit there and say, well,
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  Speaker 3: what's the difference, man? The guy's making one hundred million,
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  Speaker 3: the guy's making five hundred million. There is a difference,
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  Speaker 3: and it does matter. But again, I see both sides
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  Speaker 3: of it. I get torn on it, Eric, because in
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  Speaker 3: my mind Roman Anthony is probably going to be a
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  Speaker 3: five hundred and six million, six hundred million dollar player
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  Speaker 3: if he becomes a free agent Pisia. I'm not so
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  Speaker 3: sure about the position. It question makes it a little
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  Speaker 3: bit different. Of course, Jackson Merrill center field, and my goodness,
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  Speaker 3: he could have hit the jackpot. But these guys made
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  Speaker 3: their choices, and I'm sure they're comfortable with their choices. Now.
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  Speaker 3: From the Orioles perspective, I heard Andy Coska earlier talk
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  Speaker 3: about how this is a statement by ownership. I don't
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  Speaker 3: buy that this contract is a deal any club would
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  Speaker 3: have wanted to do with a player as promising as Psio.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what position he plays. He's going to hit.
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  Speaker 3: We've seen that already. He's one of these guys who
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  Speaker 3: looks like he was born to hit. So eight years,
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  Speaker 3: sixty seven million, sign me up. The real question for
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  Speaker 3: the Orioles will be, as Andy mentioned, what they do
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  Speaker 3: in the off season, because they do have a lot
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  Speaker 3: to do, and hey, they made a representative offer to
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  Speaker 3: Corbyn Burn's last offseason four years, one hundred and eighty million.
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  Speaker 3: It was representative, but it was also bound to lose
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  Speaker 3: because they knew everyone knew he wanted six years or
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  Speaker 3: seven years. So it's a huge offseason for them. Obviously,
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  Speaker 3: this is a good step. And people might say, well,
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  Speaker 3: what about Henderson and what about Rushman and what about
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  Speaker 3: Westburg all these other guys, Well they're all different. Henderson
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  Speaker 3: represented by Scott Borris, as is Jackson Holliday. Scott Bors'
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  Speaker 3: clients generally go to the open market. Doesn't always happen.
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  Speaker 3: I know Scott might be listening. It doesn't always happen,
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  Speaker 3: but more times than not it does happen. And with Rushman,
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  Speaker 3: he obviously did not sign extension. And now there are
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  Speaker 3: questions about what Adley Rushman is, what he's going to be.
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  Speaker 3: So passioh was the guy. He was the guy who
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  Speaker 3: was willing to take a deal and good for the
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  Speaker 3: Oriols in getting it done.
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  Speaker 4: He talked about the broader picture. I want to talk
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  Speaker 4: about the broader picture of those three contracts. Merrill, rom
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  Speaker 4: and Anthony and Bassio. Does this can this give fans
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  Speaker 4: an idea of how much money teams I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to say wasting, are, but when a guy has very
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  Speaker 4: little time in the big leagues, the uncertainty of how
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  Speaker 4: he's going to make adjustments in the big leagues and
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  Speaker 4: actually have a successful career, shouldn't it give fans an
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  Speaker 4: idea of when your team says, ah, we don't want
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  Speaker 4: to spend forty million dollars, but they're giving contracts to
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  Speaker 4: guys who are just barely in the big leagues that
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  Speaker 4: are over eighty six, you know, eighty to one hundred
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  Speaker 4: million dollars. Shouldn't this give fans an idea like, hey,
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  Speaker 4: it's really not that much money in the scheme of
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  Speaker 4: things for teams.
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  Speaker 3: It's not if you look at it on a an
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  Speaker 3: annual basis. Excuse me, So, yes, it's sixty seven million
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  Speaker 3: for VISAIOH, but it's over eight years. It's one hundred
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  Speaker 3: and thirty million for Roman Anthony over eight years, one
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  Speaker 3: hundred and thirty five for Jackson Merrill over nine years.
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  Speaker 3: When you break it down like that, it's very club friendly.
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  Speaker 3: And obviously, if these players went year to year then
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  Speaker 3: went to arbitration, where their salaries would rise and then
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  Speaker 3: to free agency, the potential for more is there. At
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  Speaker 3: the same time, teams will say these contracts can be
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  Speaker 3: gambles too, because there is no certainty in the game.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe visioh is a bust. I don't believe that is
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  Speaker 3: a very high likelihood, but it could happen. We've seen
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  Speaker 3: this kind of thing happen before, so there is a
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  Speaker 3: bit of risk on the club side to commit that much.
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  Speaker 3: And there is also, Eric, I'm interested to hear your
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on this, the possibility of complacency for certain players
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  Speaker 3: after they get their money. I don't know that it
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  Speaker 3: happens very often. Most players are extremely driven, but there
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  Speaker 3: is that, and there's been some talk. I know my
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  Speaker 3: colleague at Fox, John Smoltz, has mentioned with the Braves,
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  Speaker 3: he gave all these guys money and now, well, it's
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  Speaker 3: not necessarily all working out in your favor. Injuries occur,
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  Speaker 3: as with Spencer Streider in their case. So Eric, I
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 4: I can hear that. I can hear what you're saying.
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  Speaker 4: But we started this out talking about the talking about
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  Speaker 4: the article that you wrote about Roman Anthony. They all
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  Speaker 4: of a sudden, they didn't just find Samubisaio and like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't even see this guy. They've known him, they've
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  Speaker 4: had him since he was sixteen years old. So if
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  Speaker 4: you're a player out there that's not getting a contract extension,
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  Speaker 4: and you're that type of player, maybe they're worried about
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  Speaker 4: that and so they wouldn't go that route. So but
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  Speaker 4: I see it as a player's point of view, there's
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  Speaker 4: so many guys that get extensions and actually play better
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  Speaker 4: because they're not worried about where their next contract or
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  Speaker 4: getting hurt is going to come from.
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  Speaker 3: Eric, it's actually a good point. And when I wrote
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  Speaker 3: that story about Anthony, I talked to his agent, Mark Rogers,
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  Speaker 3: and Mark said to me that he thinks in part
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  Speaker 3: Anthony wanted the deal because he doesn't want the distraction.
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  Speaker 3: He just wants to go play, and there's value in that.
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  Speaker 3: Let's face it, if Roman Anthony did not sign that deal,
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  Speaker 3: what would happen in a city like Boston, where there
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  Speaker 3: was such intense focus on the team, They would be
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  Speaker 3: talk of the extension year after year after year up
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  Speaker 3: until he became a free agent, as there was with
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  Speaker 3: Mookie Betts and Xander Bogart's and others. So he eliminates that,
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  Speaker 3: and he can now just go play and he's not
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  Speaker 3: going to be impoverished. We all know that. So that's
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  Speaker 3: another angle to this that definitely is worth considering.
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  Speaker 1: Ken I want to stay in the Al East.
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  Speaker 2: I want to go to the Blue Jays, who Shann
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  Speaker 2: Bieber's making his first start tonight, and he I think
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  Speaker 2: is a great acquisition and certainly.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't cost an arm and a leg because he hasn't pitched.
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  Speaker 1: He's coming off Tommy John. So the Blue Jays were
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  Speaker 1: lied very heavily on their scouts in Ross Atkins in
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  Speaker 1: addressing a need because you look at this rotation right
• 10:29
  Speaker 1: now for the Blue Jays, they've got five guys, so
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  Speaker 1: now you have a little bit of a competition. You
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  Speaker 1: had Bieber into the mix.
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  Speaker 2: They're twenty seventh and f four, their twentieth in era
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  Speaker 2: and during today. Could this be a potential big impact
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  Speaker 2: deal because we don't often see starting pitchers of Bieber's
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  Speaker 2: caliber moved at the deadline And could this really, in
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  Speaker 2: your mind, if Bieber is even close to Bieber of old,
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  Speaker 2: could this catapult Toronto into like a real legitimate World
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  Speaker 2: Series threat that.
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  Speaker 3: Is the best case scenario. No, doubt, Britt. Now, they
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  Speaker 3: did give up a good prospect for him, because he
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  Speaker 3: is Shane Bieber, former Cy Young Winner, a guy who
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  Speaker 3: when he is healthy, is as good as there is
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  Speaker 3: in the game. The only concern I have here, and
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned this, I believe in the column I wrote recently.
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  Speaker 3: He's coming off Tommy John surgery. I know he's looked
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  Speaker 3: great on his rehab assignment and from that perspective, from
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  Speaker 3: that angle, you look at it and say, well, why
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't he translate it to the big leagues. Because it's
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: not that easy. That's the reason. And we've seen Spencer Strider,
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  Speaker 3: albeit a very different situation, coming off a second major
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  Speaker 3: elbow surgery. But it doesn't always take imediately, and there
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  Speaker 3: might be issues, control issues, command issues, whatever the case
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  Speaker 3: might be with Bieber as he transitions back to the
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  Speaker 3: major leagues. But the way you described it, Britt, if
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  Speaker 3: he is indeed on track to becoming anything close to
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  Speaker 3: the Shane Bieber of old, great move by the J's,
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  Speaker 3: and yes it can be a catapulting kind of move.
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  Speaker 3: The Jays are really interesting. I wrote about the Brewers
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  Speaker 3: this week and the way they go about it and
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  Speaker 3: the high contact low, strikeout, all the things that they
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  Speaker 3: do offensively. The Jays are the American League version, and
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  Speaker 3: you look at them and you wonder, Okay, vlad Bashett
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  Speaker 3: Springer's having a great year. But all of these other players,
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  Speaker 3: Barger and all the rest, they're not exactly household names,
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  Speaker 3: and yet they do good things offensively to score enough runs.
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  Speaker 3: So I am not only intrigued by Bieber and how
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  Speaker 3: he might fit into that rotation, but I'm intrigued by
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  Speaker 3: this team in general and just what they're going to be.
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  Speaker 3: They're like Seattle to me. They've got to prove it.
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  Speaker 3: And we've talked about Seattle for years on the verge
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  Speaker 3: of contention. We've talked about the Jays for years, how
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  Speaker 3: talented they are. Here, these teams are on the doorstep
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  Speaker 3: of playoff berths. Well, they've got to go grab them
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  Speaker 3: and then let's see what they do in October.
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  Speaker 4: Right Another team on the doorstep or going out the doorstep,
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  Speaker 4: Houston Astros, Josh Hater. Their bullpen is depleted. They just
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  Speaker 4: signed Craig Kimbrel. But what I will ask you about
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  Speaker 4: is not their bullpen being depleted, which you thought over
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  Speaker 4: the last ten games would have been Oh, this is tough.
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  Speaker 4: How can we get through games? Their offense? They scored
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  Speaker 4: seven runs last night and that eclipsed what they had
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  Speaker 4: scored in the previous six Is there a sense of
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  Speaker 4: maybe some of the pieces that we have that we
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  Speaker 4: picked up a Haesus Sanchez who went five for five
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  Speaker 4: last night, But before that, I think nine hits aren't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily fitting into the cog yet of the offensive system
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  Speaker 4: that the Astros have, or is this team just not
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  Speaker 4: that great at hitting on a consistent basis.
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  Speaker 3: They're fine and they're going to be fine, and once
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  Speaker 3: jord On Alvarez comes back, his presence alone is going
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  Speaker 3: to transform that lineup, which is too right handed, has
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  Speaker 3: been too right handed, and Sanchez was one of the reasons,
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  Speaker 3: or one guy that they brought in for that reason. Right,
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  Speaker 3: So I expect that they're going to be a good
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  Speaker 3: offensive team again and now perfect. No team is, but
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  Speaker 3: Alvarez alone because of that presence, could be transformative for them.
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  Speaker 3: And they were a relatively decent offensive team from most
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  Speaker 3: of the year until the last week or so or
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  Speaker 3: last two weeks or so, not a dynamic group entirely,
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  Speaker 3: but what's happened recently is kind of shocking. My bigger
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  Speaker 3: concern is the bullpen without Hater. Kimberl's bounced around now.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that he is much of a solution.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he is, and the rotation, it's healthier and it
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  Speaker 3: should be rounding into form with Javier back and Arragetty
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  Speaker 3: and all that. I think they're going to be okay.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm wondering though, if Seattle, as I just mentioned here,
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  Speaker 3: you are Josh Hater is down. Houston is not what
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  Speaker 3: we've seen in all recent years. Right, No Bregman, no Tucker.
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  Speaker 3: We can go on and on and on. Korea is back,
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  Speaker 3: but there's an opportunity here for Seattle, and are they
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  Speaker 3: going to grab it? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Houston we have a problem, is all I keep thinking
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  Speaker 2: every time somebody brings.
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  Speaker 1: Up the Astros. Can we talked about the Padres Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: I'll be there this series as well.
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  Speaker 2: I know recently on your show Fair Territory you said
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  Speaker 2: that you thought the Padres would win the NL West.
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  Speaker 2: The Dodgers obviously swept them just last week they meet
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  Speaker 2: again for three more.
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  Speaker 1: I'm giving you an opportunity here, Ken does your what
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  Speaker 1: do you think happens here?
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  Speaker 2: And are you going to change who you think wins
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  Speaker 2: the NL West based on what you saw the last
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  Speaker 2: time these two teams met.
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  Speaker 3: First off, Britt, you know this because we work together.
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  Speaker 3: My predictions are awful, always awful, and they're worth nothing.
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  Speaker 3: So whatever I say, I mean, I'm going off my
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  Speaker 3: gut or whatever or whatever seeming intelligence I might have.
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  Speaker 3: But I never can predict baseball. No one can. I
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  Speaker 3: still like the Padres, and I like the Padres in
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  Speaker 3: Park because of what the Dodgers just did in Colorado,
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  Speaker 3: which was kind of face plant again. They split that series,
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  Speaker 3: and that shouldn't be happening. They are a team that, yes,
• 16:03
  Speaker 3: got up for San Diego last week, but all season long,
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  Speaker 3: I've just kind of questioned, coming off a World Series title,
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  Speaker 3: if the same it's not desire, But there's something there
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  Speaker 3: that I don't see that we've seen from the Dodgers
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  Speaker 3: in the past. You see it in the Padres. They're
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: out to attack, They're out to slay the dragon. That's
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  Speaker 3: the phrase I often use with this kind of situation.
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  Speaker 3: They're ready to take the next step. Now are they
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  Speaker 3: good enough? That's gonna be a question. And I still
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: wonder about their rotation. I still wonder about their offense,
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: which doesn't hit enough home runs. These are all fair questions,
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  Speaker 3: and the Dodgers are the team to beat until proven otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: But the Dodgers had a chance this week to maybe
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  Speaker 3: at least hold the two game cushion, and it's now
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  Speaker 3: back to one game and anything goes from this point on.
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  Speaker 3: They've got defensive questions with Taoscar Hernandez. They've still got
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  Speaker 3: injuries that they're dealing with. We're gonna see Tanner Scott tonight,
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna see Kirby Yates maybe tomorrow. Their bullpen is
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: getting healthier, which is great. The rotation is healthy, which
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: is great. But there's been something missing here the whole year.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: And it's understandable when you're coming off a championship one.
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: You're physically extended because you played deep into October and
• 17:20
  Speaker 3: it's going to cost you with injuries. We've seen that
• 17:23
  Speaker 3: with Evan Phillips and others. The other thing is, hey man,
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: they went so hard to get what they wanted. Once
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: you get it, not that they don't want to win,
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: of course they want to win, but it's a different
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: psychology and we've seen that this year.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: All right, real quick. This series is obviously close and
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: every team is but home field advantage, home field advantage.
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: I expect a Ken Rosenthal article about why only two
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: teams are are above five hundred by more than two games.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: It's the Brewers and the Tigers. I think the Tigers
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: are five games up at on the road and the
• 18:02
  Speaker 4: Brewers are eight games up on the road for their
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: road records. These two teams are playing. Home field advantage
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: seems like it's going to be the deciding factor for
• 18:14
  Speaker 4: the playoffs. So whoever gets that is going to win.
• 18:17
  Speaker 6: Right to write that article just yet, Eric, not a
• 18:22
  Speaker 6: bad idea, Always welcome for any ideas that come my way,
• 18:26
  Speaker 6: or grateful I should say home field with Peco.
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: Park, Yeah, that's meaningful because that place is electric and
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Dodger Stadium. Certainly last weekend they like beating the Padres,
• 18:37
  Speaker 3: the Dodger fans do, and they got their wish. I
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: do expect Peco to be really alive this weekend because again,
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: it's this whole little brother thing that they don't like
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: hearing about, and I understand that, but they want to
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: beat La. It's the whole thing, and last year just
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: amplified it because they had them, They had them to
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: one of the division series at home the Dodgers on
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: a bullpen game, and they couldn't close it out. So
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: here they are. They've reinforced themselves in the deadline. They've
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: got their course still intact with Machado and Tatas and
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: everyone else. I expect it to be really electric and
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: really kind of an unusually fired up atmosphere, even for
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Petco this weekend.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely get to feel probably like a playoff atmosphere.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Ken thanks for joining us.
• 19:26
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