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Acuña IL'd again, Braden Montgomery's historic debut, Blue Jays catcher questions, Oppo knocks rule · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Hey, fun fact Aircrafts is a high school baseball coach
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Speaker 1: and this is a big week for you, mister Kratz,
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Speaker 1: the culmination of everything you work for all year. So
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Speaker 1: tell the people what's going on in life. I don't
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Speaker 1: do this often, but I think it's worth pointing it
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Speaker 1: out so everyone sends good vibes your way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Documented Academies where I coach. We're taking on Eden
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Speaker 2: Christian out of Pittsburgh. So it's like Philadelphia versus Pittsburgh
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Speaker 2: in the single A State PA State Championship on Friday.
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Speaker 1: Wait, I hear Mike one bad boy, I was like,
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Speaker 1: he sounds terrible.
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Speaker 2: I would definitely see this is what happens. I'm distracted.
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Speaker 2: I'm distracted by outside stuff, which the outside stuff that
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Speaker 2: you were talking about was the PIAA. The Pennsylvania State
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Speaker 2: Championship is going to be held on Friday at ten
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Speaker 2: thirty in the morning up at Happy Valley, up at
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Speaker 2: penn State. So we're taking on my school documented Nite Academy.
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Speaker 2: It's taking on Eden Christian. So the boys got to
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Speaker 2: go out bang, play some play some defense, and throw
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Speaker 2: some strikes.
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Speaker 1: This and the mustache is on the line for mister
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Speaker 1: Kratz too that it's gone after Friday. It's gone.
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Speaker 2: No matter what, it's gone, no matter what. There there's
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Speaker 2: no there's it'll it'll be on the bus ride back
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Speaker 2: as we celebrate, but we'll shave it off.
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Speaker 1: Once we get back as soon as you get.
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Speaker 2: Back as soon, probably Friday night, because I'm thinking about
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Speaker 2: going to a concert Friday night, Skillet concert Friday night.
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Speaker 2: So don't need to be seen out in public with us.
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Speaker 1: That's fair and aj house life up in the vineyard, I.
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Speaker 3: Think here's good. The weather appear is kind of interesting.
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Speaker 2: I like it.
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Speaker 3: It's it says it's seventy, but then it feels chilly
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Speaker 3: if you're where the wind is blowing, and then it's
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Speaker 3: hot if you're in the sun. It's crazy. This place
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Speaker 3: is great. I never been here before. Uh, it's nice.
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Speaker 3: It's peaceful. It's slow, gosh, slow life up here. Your vinyoners,
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Speaker 3: your viny r vineyard ors have a slow life up here.
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Speaker 3: But it's nice. It's it's relaxing. And if you like
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Speaker 3: American flags and you like Americana, this is the place
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Speaker 3: to go because everyone has an American flag, everyone has
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Speaker 3: something American on their front. Porch. It's like, uh, you know,
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Speaker 3: a throwback to one of those Norman Rockwell paintings. The
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Speaker 3: shingled houses, white shingled houses, and it's a pretty place
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Speaker 3: up here. They got.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I'd usually go for a day or two
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Speaker 1: when I would call Kate Lee games. I had a
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Speaker 1: friend who was out there, and that was one of
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Speaker 1: my favorite spots I've ever been to, a little remote, quiet,
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Speaker 1: slow yeah, for an off day when i'd call whatever,
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Speaker 1: sixty games. This summer, you had three off days, like
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Speaker 1: that's the off day. You want good food, Americana, It's great.
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Speaker 1: So life is good right now, and that includes for
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Speaker 1: the way White Sox. Let's true.
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Speaker 2: Let's charge that.
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Speaker 1: Yes, people, we are going to spend time talking about
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Speaker 1: the White Sox in multiple segments today. Let us begin
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Speaker 1: aj with your viewing experience of their thrilling walk off
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Speaker 1: win and Braden Montgomery stealing the show on his debut.
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Speaker 1: This has only happened five times in major league history,
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Speaker 1: a walk off home run in your major league debut.
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Speaker 1: Last time it happened was twenty fifteen Carlos Perez and
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Speaker 1: the time before. There's some notable names on this list.
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Speaker 1: Miguel Cabrera did it in two thousand and three, Josh
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Speaker 1: Bart in two thousand and two, Billy Parker in nineteen
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Speaker 1: seventy one, Braiden Montgomery number five, and aj this is
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Speaker 1: the last player to get called up in that Chris
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Speaker 1: not Chris, el guyor Crochet deal. And all of them
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Speaker 1: have now become big leaguers.
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Speaker 3: Yes they have, And what a trade for the White Sox.
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Speaker 3: And who the thunk we'd open the show with the
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Speaker 3: White Sox. Only two years ago they had lost the
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Speaker 3: most games in history, and since this show's basically been
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Speaker 3: on the air, the White Sox have sucked until this year.
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Speaker 3: So it's so nice to be able just to talk
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Speaker 3: about the White Sox. On the opening of the show,
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Speaker 3: they took down the Braves. Braden Montgomery. What an unbelievable moment.
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Speaker 3: I can't even imagine being in your big league debut
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Speaker 3: and hitting a walkoff homer against Ray sale Igalacias too
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Speaker 3: has been it'd only given up two runs the whole year,
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Speaker 3: and you give up a two run homer, so that
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Speaker 3: was awesome. The crowd was going crazy. The Cell I
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Speaker 3: still call it the Cell, even though it's not called
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Speaker 3: that anymore, was rocking. One of the coolest moments you
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Speaker 3: know that you could ever have as a player and
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Speaker 3: to do in your big league debut. Incredible, Listen. I
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Speaker 3: was one of the ones that questioned the get Chris
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Speaker 3: Gets hiring, not because I questioned Chris Gets, but because
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Speaker 3: I questioned not going outside the organization. Well, it took
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Speaker 3: him three years, but they've kind of started to figure
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Speaker 3: it out, and the players are starting to come up
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Speaker 3: to the big leagues in these trades, Kyle Teel Montgomery.
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Speaker 3: The list goes on and on of guys that they've
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Speaker 3: made trades for and a lot of them have worked out.
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Speaker 3: So kudos to the front office of the White Sox
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Speaker 3: were making the right trades, and kudos for these players
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Speaker 3: for playing really well. And it is a fun place
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Speaker 3: to be on the South side of Chicago. Right now,
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Speaker 3: they are the better team in Chicago and we didn't
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Speaker 3: think we'd be saying that at the beginning.
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Speaker 2: Of the year. I questioned the Chris Gets trade before
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Speaker 2: the Chris Gets signing, because what did he like? What
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Speaker 2: prospects did he help build in the He builds the
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Speaker 2: infrastructure in the minor leagues when he was down there,
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Speaker 2: and then he gets the job, and clearly he's able
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Speaker 2: to create a different structure at the top. I think
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Speaker 2: it's probably a lot of Will Venable. So many times
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Speaker 2: at this time of year, when teams are struggling, we're like, oh,
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Speaker 2: the manager and managers, it's his problem, is it? Well,
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Speaker 2: the manager has to be praised, just like Uterra has
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Speaker 2: to be praised over in Washington. But Will Venable turned
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Speaker 2: a team last year. Obviously they had to do better
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Speaker 2: than they did the year before, but you started to
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Speaker 2: see some things that you're like, Okay, is this really enough?
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Speaker 2: Even this year I was like, really enough? But Will
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Speaker 2: Venable's doing some good things. So clearly him and his
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Speaker 2: staff are doing amazing with that team and just helping
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Speaker 2: them believe because there's a lot of young guys and
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Speaker 2: to see this culmination of another young guy, another prospect
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Speaker 2: in Montgomery come up and do what he did yesterday,
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Speaker 2: Like the fact that his first big league hit was
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Speaker 2: an RBI knock through the hole was cool, and then
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Speaker 2: he kind of just flicked one the left for an
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Speaker 2: oppo dinger off the top of the wall. The best
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Speaker 2: thing that Aj said is the one thing that I
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Speaker 2: think people in Chicago need to be so excited about
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Speaker 2: the fact that the crowd was electric. They're starting to
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Speaker 2: all come out, they're all wearing black. It's like every
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Speaker 2: time you're seeing these games, it's like you could tell
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Speaker 2: the sense that it's like they don't feel like they're
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Speaker 2: out of it. The team doesn't feel like they're out
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Speaker 2: of any game, and the end, the fans don't seem
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Speaker 2: like they're out of the game, like leaving early. It's
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Speaker 2: a cool environment right now.
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Speaker 3: That's statement you've ever made.
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Speaker 2: Scott. Yeah, I was just making sure it wasn't because
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Speaker 2: I'm on two strikes for my twake. That's what I'm saying.
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Speaker 2: It was the greatest statement you ever made. But I
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Speaker 2: mean all the players in that crochet trade have made
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Speaker 2: it right. The White Sox fans people, here's the thing
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Speaker 2: about White Sox fans. You have to see, if you
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Speaker 2: put a good team on the field, the fans will
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Speaker 2: show up. But if you put a crappy team on
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Speaker 2: the field, the White Sox fans aren't going to show
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Speaker 2: up because they're not going to waste their money just
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Speaker 2: to show up to a crappy team.
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Speaker 3: So this is the classic. Now are they going to
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Speaker 3: add we'll get the chuck Garfine later Chuck Garfinkel and
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Speaker 3: we'll ask him. But this is a time when the
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Speaker 3: White Sox really need to capitalize on the fact the
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Speaker 3: American League ain't very good. Cleveland is there kind of
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Speaker 3: for the taking if you can do it. Detroit stinks
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Speaker 3: right now. So I think this is an opportunity for
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Speaker 3: the White Sox to make some noise, maybe win this
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Speaker 3: division sneakily and get into the postseason, do some damage.
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Speaker 3: Davis Martin is pitching against Chris Sale to night. It's
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Speaker 3: pretty good. Sean Burke is pretty good. I mean, they've
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Speaker 3: got some pieces here, and they've got an opportunity to
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Speaker 3: maybe take this division a little bit and get into
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Speaker 3: the postseason and have a chance, just because the American
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Speaker 3: League we've talked about it ain't that great this year.
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Speaker 1: off show. Hey, Otani's pitching in Pittsburgh, one day off
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Speaker 1: of the Otani Skians matchup. But still we get to
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Speaker 1: see what he's doing. Why are you shaking your head?
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Speaker 3: It's not the best matchup to it.
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Speaker 1: I didn't say it was the best matchup. I try
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Speaker 1: to leave you the best matchup. What's the best matchup?
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Speaker 3: I mean Sale vers Davis Martin in Chicago? Are you
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Speaker 3: kidding me? Sale comes back to Chicago where he started it.
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Speaker 3: Davis Martin has been really good, should be on the
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Speaker 3: All Star team. They've both been really good. So I think,
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Speaker 3: to me, that's the one I would want to go
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Speaker 3: see in the in the in south on the South Side.
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Speaker 3: This good place is going to be tonight, especially after
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Speaker 3: last night. They're feeling it there in the South Side.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to the Sphere. I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: the Belagio. I'm going into whatever the heck Las Vegas's
9:11
Speaker 2: Park is called because they got fireworks mid game, postgame,
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Speaker 2: all game. I want to see how many runs get
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Speaker 2: put up in that game. I mean, it's it's s
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Speaker 2: Broke versus I saw it? Who Perkins? Perkins? Yes, as
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Speaker 2: a ticket.
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Speaker 1: Runs will be scored six e rs for both sides.
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Speaker 3: And did you see the Did you see the home
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Speaker 3: run that Churio hit yesterday? Flicked it clicked ass out
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Speaker 3: ass out right field.
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Speaker 2: It wasn't me, it wasn't just over the wall. It
9:46
Speaker 2: hit the back of the bullpen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that place is unbelievable. I want to go hit there.
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Speaker 2: I was.
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Speaker 3: That's all PCL days right there.
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Speaker 2: That is PCL for days.
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Speaker 1: But that's why I asked you guys yesterday if you
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Speaker 1: feel like anyone's to do something differently, right, like if
10:03
Speaker 1: you're one of those strong dudes. Nope, they're not always
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Speaker 1: squaring it up.
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Speaker 3: But I'm saying they're just it wasn't squared up. That
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Speaker 3: ball was a fly ball, the one and uh who
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Speaker 3: hit the one to write the night before? Uh? Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I mean that was another one where he's like boop,
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Speaker 3: I don't know. That's that might be the highest over
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Speaker 3: under I've ever seen. Fourteen and a half by the way,
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Speaker 3: at twelve.
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Speaker 2: It was in It was the one in England got
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Speaker 2: to fifteen after like the first game or the first
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Speaker 2: two games. It was. It was that's that and a
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Speaker 2: Hey, do you think this team, if they make a move,
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Speaker 2: hurts their future, because that's what that's what you're gonna hear. No,
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Speaker 2: do you think it no hurt? Why?
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Speaker 3: I mean, they have options, that's the thing, right, So
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Speaker 3: they have we'll just use the catcher. They have Kiro,
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Speaker 3: they have TiO who hasn't even played this year, who's
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Speaker 3: supposed to be the starter. They have Romo right, they
11:23
Speaker 3: have Corey Lee down on Triple A. I know's he's
11:25
Speaker 3: supposed toly raking in Triple A. But they have all
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Speaker 3: these pieces. When Mark Commy comes back, what comes to
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Speaker 3: Jacob Gonzalez? Do you trade him? Do you try to
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Speaker 3: trade someone else? I mean, they have options for the
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Speaker 3: first time in a long time, where the where the
11:37
Speaker 3: White Sox in the past were like, man, we just
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Speaker 3: need to get as many good players in here as possible. Now,
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Speaker 3: do I think they need to go get some more pitching?
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Speaker 3: Of course they do. But at least they're exciting to watch.
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Speaker 3: The fans are energized, and it's just fun to go
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Speaker 3: to the ballpark there for the first time in a
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Speaker 3: long time.
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Speaker 1: And on the other side, they didn't just beat the Braves.
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Speaker 1: The Braves that it really tough loss. Ronald Lacuna Junior
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Speaker 1: left again. The left hamstring is barking tightness. They're gonna
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Speaker 1: get it checked out. You know, he talked about how
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Speaker 1: pissed off he is and he missed some time, you know,
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Speaker 1: not long ago with a hamstring strain. They've got to
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Speaker 1: figure this out. Aj. I know they won a World
12:19
Speaker 1: Series without him, but it's helpful to have him.
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Speaker 3: For it is. I mean, he's always hurt. You can't
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Speaker 3: count on him. You can't count you can't count on
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Speaker 3: Ronald Couone. As much as I hate to say that,
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Speaker 3: he's a great player when he's out there, but you
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Speaker 3: can't count on him because he's had both knees. Now
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Speaker 3: it's a hamstring. It's this, it's that it's always something
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Speaker 3: with him. And look, it sucks because he could be
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Speaker 3: one of the greatest players we have in this game,
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Speaker 3: but it seems like there's always something with him.
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Speaker 2: One of those things where young guys, young guys come
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Speaker 2: to the big leagues with so much talent and I'll
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Speaker 2: always go back to it and we'll see what happens.
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Speaker 2: Juan Soto, Ronald Lecunya, who would you have taken from
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Speaker 2: the beginning of their career to them have the big
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Speaker 2: the best career and it's all going to be hinged
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Speaker 2: on health. They play a different type of game. Man
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Speaker 2: Soto can steal some bases now like there's it's it's
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Speaker 2: availability is the best ability And unfortunately, hopefully Ronald can
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Speaker 2: learn the things that Mike Trout's learning about trying to
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Speaker 2: stay healthy about Chris Sale was learning about trying to
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Speaker 2: stay healthy. All completely different players, but having success and
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Speaker 2: staying healthy are two things. They're still really good players.
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Speaker 2: Ronald is not a bad player because he gets hurt.
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Speaker 2: It's just different. If you can't be on the field,
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Speaker 2: you can't put up the historic numbers that we think
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Speaker 2: he could.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and this isn't like him running into a wall.
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Speaker 1: I mean we don't condone that either, But it's soft
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Speaker 1: tissue injuries popping up. So you know, the hamstring's the
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Speaker 1: theme this year, he said, the knees in the past, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it sucks, and.
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Speaker 3: I mean the knees are for me, The knees are
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Speaker 3: that's those are like freak things where he you know,
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Speaker 3: like the soft tissues, where I start getting worried that
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Speaker 3: things in their body are breaking down. Because Mike trout
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Speaker 3: Right had soft tissue. That's when guys start breaking down,
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Speaker 3: when you start getting hamstrings and backs and calves and
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Speaker 3: all these different string I don't want to say strange injuries,
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Speaker 3: but just injuries of the soft tissue where you would
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Speaker 3: think they'd be preventable. But we've also seen I don't know,
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Speaker 3: maybe I'm wrong in this, but I feel like maybe
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Speaker 3: I'm paying attention more a lot more hamstrings, a lot
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Speaker 3: more pulled muscles than I remember in the past. So
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Speaker 3: I could be way off on that. I don't know,
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Speaker 3: but it just seems like guys are having a hard time.
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Speaker 3: I mean, we just mentioned Kyle t over the White Sox.
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Speaker 3: He pulled his hamstring at the WBC. Hasn't played all year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah that one mid June. Yeah that one. That one
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Speaker 3: looked better. Maybe it was worse than we really thought.
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Speaker 2: But if you guys remember back when Manny Machado first
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Speaker 2: came up, many Machado was a stud prospect. His knees,
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Speaker 2: he had something I don't remember if it was both knees,
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Speaker 2: but like they were wor worried that he wouldn't be
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Speaker 2: able to stay healthy because his knees had like something
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Speaker 2: about the angle of his knees, and he heard it
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Speaker 2: the one time round in first that dude stays on
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Speaker 2: the field all the time. There is a ability to
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Speaker 2: being able to stay on the field and knowing what
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Speaker 2: that looks like, and Manny's ability to be out there
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Speaker 2: helps him to continue to accumulate really big numbers throughout
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Speaker 2: his career. Here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I remember there were two sides of the coinback then.
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Speaker 1: One was, uh, knees at twenty one or whatever he was.
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Speaker 1: The other side was if he's getting the knee surgery
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Speaker 1: at that age. It's usually easier to recover at that
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Speaker 1: age and overcome that as long as it's not something
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Speaker 1: chronic that keeps popping up. I know it's well documented
15:48
Speaker 1: what Carlos Korea has gone through with his ankles. This
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Speaker 1: was not that, and Manny has been one of the
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Speaker 1: most durable players. Ronaldconney Junior certainly has not. The Braves
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Speaker 1: fortunately are in a spot where they are any playoff position.
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Speaker 1: I would be the world would be shocked if they
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Speaker 1: fall out of one they just have to maintain and
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Speaker 1: manage also when he's out right, because I know I
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Speaker 1: mean Akunya for as heard as he's been guys, he
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Speaker 1: loves to play, like he'll play. He'll try to push
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Speaker 1: to play in the Winter League. I think last time
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Speaker 1: they felt like he came back a little bit too quickly,
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Speaker 1: so they made him wait a little bit longer to
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Speaker 1: recover from the knee surgery and all that. You know,
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Speaker 1: so they are balancing you know, his happiness and his
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Speaker 1: desire to play. That's a good thing, that's what you want.
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Speaker 1: It's not like that, yeah, I mean, speaking of the
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Speaker 1: White Sox aj it felt like there were a lot
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Speaker 1: of guys that were just not really getting back as
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Speaker 1: quickly as you wanted them to from injuries. That's not
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Speaker 1: a Kunya. They have to put the brakes on him.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he wants to play, but still you got to
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Speaker 3: be able to play. You got to be able to
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Speaker 3: stay healthy and play. And I think it's also we
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Speaker 3: talked about I think we talked about this yesterday with
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Speaker 3: guys in or two days yesterday of two days to
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Speaker 3: go out, I forget. We talked about certain teams that
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Speaker 3: have more injuries than others. Well, the thing for me
17:03
Speaker 3: that about that is also players need to learn how
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Speaker 3: to play and manage Sometimes you can play at seventy
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Speaker 3: five percent and get through it instead of oh, man,
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Speaker 3: I need to go on the il because I'm a
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Speaker 3: little bit sore. And I think that's one of the
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Speaker 3: things that also isn't taught when we talk about this
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Speaker 3: is yes, it's cool that guys get more time to
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Speaker 3: get better, but also there are times where you're going
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Speaker 3: to have to play a little bit sore, a little
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Speaker 3: bit injured, and you have to learn how to manage that.
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Speaker 3: But again, in the minor leagues, when you're not given
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Speaker 3: that opportunity and you get two days off a week,
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Speaker 3: and you get a DH time a week and you
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Speaker 3: get all this, then you're not able to figure out
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Speaker 3: how to play with a little bit hurt. Now teams
17:42
Speaker 3: are more they just want to almost put you on
17:44
Speaker 3: the I Oh you're a little bit so we'll put
17:45
Speaker 3: you on the aisle for ten days. We'll see in
17:46
Speaker 3: ten days. And it's not a pride thing. It's not
17:49
Speaker 3: a thing where man I stayed on the field. It's like, ah,
17:51
Speaker 3: you're fine, we'll see in ten days.
17:55
Speaker 2: I saw Ronald Lacuna's dad at the All Star Game
17:58
Speaker 2: when we were in Atlanta last and ron and I,
18:02
Speaker 2: Ronald Senior and I played together, and he was like,
18:06
Speaker 2: oh man, everyone's so mad about him playing winter ball.
18:09
Speaker 2: He doesn't lift a lot. Ronald's like, you know what,
18:11
Speaker 2: the way he gets in shape is by playing baseball.
18:13
Speaker 2: So there's different ways to get in shape, and then
18:17
Speaker 2: there's different ways to keep guys healthy. And like what
18:20
Speaker 2: AJ said, like there is something too not going on
18:24
Speaker 2: the IL, but it's also like a process. It's not
18:27
Speaker 2: just AJ didn't go on the IL because well, he
18:30
Speaker 2: just showed up and he didn't get hurt. Like everybody
18:33
Speaker 2: that everybody that I talked to that played with AJ said,
18:37
Speaker 2: this guy catches every single day and he's lifting legs
18:42
Speaker 2: almost every single day. He's in the gym doing something.
18:45
Speaker 2: So as Ronald continues to mature and get older, there's
18:49
Speaker 2: ways to stay healthy that he has to learn. But
18:52
Speaker 2: it'll be different because his way of getting ready is
18:55
Speaker 2: different than then Olsen's way of getting ready, which is
18:58
Speaker 2: different than Albi's way of getting ready. Everybody does it differently,
19:02
Speaker 2: but the goal is to stay on the field.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and some guys most guys evolve that over time
19:08
Speaker 1: to fit their body as they learn it. So we'll
19:11
Speaker 1: see what happens with Ronald and we'll let you know
19:14
Speaker 1: when we get the news.
19:15
Speaker 3: Diet. There's one thing about what Krasher said about not lifting.
19:18
Speaker 3: You don't have to lift heavy, or you don't have
19:20
Speaker 3: to work out or whatever, but you got to do
19:23
Speaker 3: something you just can't. You got to do something to
19:25
Speaker 3: wake your body up. You got to do something to
19:27
Speaker 3: get your body ready every day. Whether it's getting up
19:30
Speaker 3: and going for a walk, or whether it's going to
19:31
Speaker 3: the gym, or whether it's riding a bike, or whether
19:34
Speaker 3: it's doing yoga or plate whatever you have to do.
19:36
Speaker 3: But you got to wake your body up at some point,
19:39
Speaker 3: and you got to get into a routine. Whether that
19:41
Speaker 3: involves lifting weights. And I'm not saying everyone has to
19:43
Speaker 3: lift weights, but even if it's going in there and
19:45
Speaker 3: doing five pounds and just whatever, just to get your
19:48
Speaker 3: body flowing, you got to do something. You got to
19:51
Speaker 3: take care of your body.
19:53
Speaker 1: We've got some updates while we've been on so here's
19:56
Speaker 1: one on the Phillies. Johann Rojas, who had been banging
20:00
Speaker 1: for the Juicy Juice, is now going to be done
20:02
Speaker 1: for the rest of the year owner collateral ligament terror,
20:07
Speaker 1: so it's the good old Tommy John or in this case,
20:11
Speaker 1: it's the looks like the brace procedure that's been pretty popular,
20:15
Speaker 1: the internal brace that's going on. So that'll knock him
20:17
Speaker 1: out for the rest of the year. So first half
20:19
Speaker 1: of the year juicy juice peds, second half of the
20:22
Speaker 1: year tough injury man. That guy's a good defender out
20:25
Speaker 1: there and never much bat yet in his career. But
20:30
Speaker 1: you know, some outfield depths I don't want to say,
20:32
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't want to say. It doesn't mean anything,
20:34
Speaker 1: but Kratz of the Phillies need outfielders that can.
20:36
Speaker 2: Hit, yeah, for sure, And he wouldn't have been eligible
20:39
Speaker 2: for the playoffs anyway, so if they had come up
20:42
Speaker 2: with some kind of like defensive platoon of some kind, no,
20:46
Speaker 2: they they need somebody that can hit. Brandon marsh he's
20:49
Speaker 2: earned his left handed at bats, and I think that's
20:52
Speaker 2: why he's hitting as well as he is because he's
20:54
Speaker 2: getting everyday. AB's Crawford's still learning the big leagues. He
21:00
Speaker 2: and the Dolies isn't hitting at all, but he's giving
21:02
Speaker 2: them good defense. So there's value in there. But if
21:05
Speaker 2: they could, like I said yesterday to me, I think
21:07
Speaker 2: that Byron Buxton thing. There's a lot of teams that
21:10
Speaker 2: could have success, but there's very few teams that have
21:13
Speaker 2: a Dombrowski. Who's gonna say, what will it take? I'll
21:17
Speaker 2: give them everybody.
21:20
Speaker 1: Sometimes you need that to push the chips in. Sometimes
21:24
Speaker 1: you do one other note we just learned aj Acuna
21:30
Speaker 1: is on the I L with the hamstring.
21:33
Speaker 3: Yep Lukhu's text to me.
21:36
Speaker 2: Rowdy Rowdy Rowdy ironically, ironically the manager for Trey Mancini
21:43
Speaker 2: dun Davis Rowdy. It's married to Dougs daughter. Wow wow us.
21:55
Speaker 3: She must be special.
21:58
Speaker 2: Oh she has to either be special or to be
22:00
Speaker 2: married to Rowdy.
22:03
Speaker 3: Rowdy. I didn't say it. I just said you has
22:05
Speaker 3: to be special.
22:06
Speaker 1: I heard, I heard blessed, blessed.
22:10
Speaker 3: Rowdy Rowdy was texting me and he said he asked
22:13
Speaker 3: for my number, but they said they retired it. And
22:14
Speaker 3: I said, well, they also have a statue in me Rowdy,
22:16
Speaker 3: so you know you'll get to see it on a
22:18
Speaker 3: daily basis.
22:22
Speaker 1: Epic epic Rowdy in Atlanta.
22:25
Speaker 2: Good luck, good luck being, good luck being Matt Olson's
22:27
Speaker 2: caddy just.
22:28
Speaker 1: Saying he does not take days off. He had a
22:33
Speaker 1: good game yesterday. By the way, a couple dangers perfect though.
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Speaker 1: Ale Central chatters shall we first off, Evan Woodberry, who
22:42
Speaker 1: covers the team, said Jack Flaherty's ALE ranking since May
22:45
Speaker 1: sixth among forty five qualified starting pitchers, first in ker nine,
22:50
Speaker 1: third in a number of categories K percentage, kate A
22:52
Speaker 1: walk percentage, f war fit sierra, all of your favorites,
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Speaker 1: and then forty fifth in babbit left on base percentage,
23:00
Speaker 1: hard hit percentage. So that's good. It means there's good
23:04
Speaker 1: process there. Can you get the results?
23:07
Speaker 3: We shall see, Well, he needs to figure it out.
23:10
Speaker 1: Stuff's working. Yeah, this stuff is working according to the
23:13
Speaker 1: strikeouts in the walks, but then when the ball is
23:15
Speaker 1: put in play, it is creating offense for the other side,
23:21
Speaker 1: whether it's bad defense or timely hitting or whatever. It is.
23:26
Speaker 1: Harder contact right was not really listed on there. So
23:29
Speaker 1: there are some things to keep in mind with Flherty.
23:32
Speaker 1: Let's get to the good news. Trek Scougle sounds like
23:35
Speaker 1: he's going to be back any day now. Cody Stevenagan
23:40
Speaker 1: yesterday said he's going to throw a bullpen tomorrow. That
23:43
Speaker 1: was yesterday, so that's today. He should throw a bullpen today.
23:45
Speaker 1: They're going to see how it goes before any official word,
23:48
Speaker 1: but it could be a return against the Guardians in
23:50
Speaker 1: that series, and Schoogle said, I expect everything to go
23:53
Speaker 1: well tomorrow and hopefully I'm back. I mean, he looks
23:55
Speaker 1: like he's ready.
23:57
Speaker 3: It's a big thing. I mean, listen, here's the deal.
24:00
Speaker 3: They're so far out of it right now though, I
24:02
Speaker 3: mean it's scary. Again, we talked about this. They are
24:05
Speaker 3: far out of it. They are far out of the
24:06
Speaker 3: race or far and they need Jack Flaerty, they need
24:09
Speaker 3: from Rivaldez, they need everybody to do a lot of
24:12
Speaker 3: things right. And yes, getting care Scooble back will help,
24:16
Speaker 3: but they also they don't they haven't really swung the
24:18
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25:27
Speaker 1: going on between the Blue Jays and the Phillies, So
25:30
Speaker 1: this was fun. Aj Vladdie Junior pushed to lead off.
25:33
Speaker 1: They go as he goes. They want to get him going.
25:35
Speaker 1: Where's the power for Vladdie? It'll come eventually, or so
25:38
Speaker 1: we think. He had his moments last year too, and
25:41
Speaker 1: then he was stupid good in the playoffs, but the
25:44
Speaker 1: star was Brandon Venezuela. Or did I just say that wrong. Valenzuela. Sorry,
25:50
Speaker 1: I see the country. Brandon Valenzuela. He's been awesome though,
25:53
Speaker 1: I mean he's been great on defense. He's been an
25:56
Speaker 1: impact bat while Alejandro Kirks and out, I mean, aj
26:01
Speaker 1: they haven't skipped a beat from the catcher position he's
26:04
Speaker 1: putting up. Kirk does.
26:06
Speaker 3: He was a big prospect too, if you remember, and
26:08
Speaker 3: then they signed Kirk to the extension and everyone was like, Oh,
26:12
Speaker 3: what's Valinzuela gonna do? And then Kirk goes down and
26:14
Speaker 3: he stepped up and done a nice job. Especially defensively,
26:17
Speaker 3: they haven't you know, you mentioned it, But offensively, I
26:18
Speaker 3: think that's been a little bit of a surprise. I listen,
26:23
Speaker 3: the real question is what happens when alee Janndra Kirk
26:25
Speaker 3: comes back shortly? What do they do with Vealenzuela. Do
26:28
Speaker 3: they send him a triple A, do they try to
26:30
Speaker 3: trade him? What do they do with them? Because they
26:31
Speaker 3: have Kirk locked up for a long time, so it's
26:35
Speaker 3: an enviable position when you have multiple catchers that can
26:38
Speaker 3: do special things on your team, because most teams are
26:40
Speaker 3: trying to find one catcher, but when you have two
26:42
Speaker 3: that can be good. That's a big deal in Vladdie.
26:45
Speaker 3: I don't know what's going on about it. He's got
26:46
Speaker 3: no pop krats. What the heck's going on in Toronto?
26:49
Speaker 3: Did Bow take his pop with them to New York?
26:50
Speaker 2: What the heck that he goes through those stretches though,
26:54
Speaker 2: because he's got such a steep attack angle where he
26:57
Speaker 2: will hit those absolute two iron scuds to left center.
27:02
Speaker 2: To me, I think Vladdie will be the easiest of
27:06
Speaker 2: these two issues. Vladdie will get hot sometimes it's a
27:11
Speaker 2: matter of okay, is he you know, is he making
27:13
Speaker 2: good swing decisions? When that walk to strikeout gets a
27:18
Speaker 2: little bit better for him, he's good to me. I
27:22
Speaker 2: think he can do more damage when other guys around
27:24
Speaker 2: him are doing more damage if he has a little
27:26
Speaker 2: more protection. I don't hate the leadoff position for him.
27:30
Speaker 2: You only hit lead off one time, and you have
27:32
Speaker 2: other guys behind you in the order, and now you're
27:35
Speaker 2: having an opportunity to get him some stakes. So yes,
27:39
Speaker 2: his powers down. It's almost like it feels like if
27:42
Speaker 2: he wants to hit forty homers, he'll have a season
27:44
Speaker 2: where I'll hit forty homers. I don't I'm not saying
27:46
Speaker 2: he doesn't want to right now, but as far as
27:49
Speaker 2: the catching position, this is what a lot of teams
27:50
Speaker 2: are paying for. And so the Blue Jays will have
27:54
Speaker 2: to make a decision. Do they send Tyler Heinemann out
27:57
Speaker 2: and then they don't have a true third backup in
28:02
Speaker 2: the organization because he'll probably get claimed, or do you
28:05
Speaker 2: send Vealezuela down, which is unfair to him because he's
28:09
Speaker 2: been one of their better hitters in Kirk. I think
28:11
Speaker 2: he'll be back by Friday.
28:13
Speaker 3: By the way, Vlatti has three homers three three. We
28:17
Speaker 3: talk about Tatis and his one. Vlatti has three homers
28:20
Speaker 3: on the year. We're we're he's got almost three hundred
28:23
Speaker 3: at bats at this point, like we're we're getting into
28:25
Speaker 3: territory like Tatis stuff. Where the heck did the power go?
28:30
Speaker 3: And I don't know, I don't know where it went.
28:32
Speaker 3: And also, you know, we're talking Blue Jays here, we're
28:34
Speaker 3: talking Laddie. I want to look at the look at
28:37
Speaker 3: the Phillies a little bit too. I mean, I know,
28:39
Speaker 3: Schwarber's Schwarber's the guy, and Marsh's off to a great
28:43
Speaker 3: star and Harper's doing what Harper's done. But after that,
28:47
Speaker 3: I mean, Turner six twenty two ops two twenty six.
28:50
Speaker 3: He's in JT real mutto. Don't even look at his numbers.
28:53
Speaker 3: I know he was hurt, but still a doolie scarcia oof.
28:57
Speaker 3: I mean, it's what we've talked about with the Phillies.
28:59
Speaker 3: Can they get this lineup turned around? I mean, it's interesting.
29:02
Speaker 3: These are two teams that we expect to We all
29:04
Speaker 3: expected coming into the year to be deep playoff contenders,
29:09
Speaker 3: and both these lineups are You're like, wow, okay.
29:14
Speaker 2: You would expect it from the Blue Jays lineup in
29:16
Speaker 2: the sense that, ah, you know what, they just have
29:18
Speaker 2: to get hot, they have to they make contact. Blah
29:20
Speaker 2: blah blah. The Phillies last night Dylan Cees. While Dylan
29:25
Speaker 2: Ceese is clearly one of the better pitchers in the game,
29:28
Speaker 2: the fact that they swung and missed twenty nine times
29:32
Speaker 2: against Dylan Ceese is a crazy, crazy number. Right off
29:37
Speaker 2: the right off the IL too. And again, maybe it's
29:40
Speaker 2: not a catastrophic injuries coming back from but right off
29:43
Speaker 2: the IL and it was swinging miss central and they
29:47
Speaker 2: weren't great swings. J. T Romuto looks looks like something
29:51
Speaker 2: is bugging him because there's a lot of inconsistent swings,
29:56
Speaker 2: like like just like a slider off the plate that
29:59
Speaker 2: he's not that he's trying to kind of flick at.
30:01
Speaker 2: So who knows what's going on there. But the lineup
30:05
Speaker 2: needs to turn it around because this pitching staff cannot
30:08
Speaker 2: carry them the way they have been, especially considering that
30:11
Speaker 2: two out of the five times Nola's we'll see and
30:15
Speaker 2: Painter's been a nothing for them. So yes, their pitching
30:18
Speaker 2: stat's been good, but this lineup was built to bang,
30:21
Speaker 2: and it's paid to bang, and they need to start
30:23
Speaker 2: doing it.
30:25
Speaker 1: That was twenty nine whiffs off of fifty swings.
30:30
Speaker 3: Fifty nasty, no.
30:34
Speaker 1: Doubt, no doubt, but this was like his nastiest in
30:37
Speaker 1: terms of getting the whiffs. Fifty eight percent of swings
30:41
Speaker 1: or a swing and miss. I mean, that is a
30:43
Speaker 1: nuts number in our sport.
30:46
Speaker 2: The most in a game all season was thirty, The
30:50
Speaker 2: most in a game all season was thirty, and they
30:52
Speaker 2: got twenty nine in his six.
30:55
Speaker 1: Six in six innings. Eleven punchies six innings.
31:00
Speaker 2: But how do you, I mean, Aja, you didn't strike
31:03
Speaker 2: out much. How do you tell a whole lineup guys
31:06
Speaker 2: make more contact? Guys don't like. That's like saying, guys,
31:10
Speaker 2: you need to walk more, Well, how do I walk? Do?
31:11
Speaker 2: I just like take pitches? Do I take? Like it's
31:15
Speaker 2: something that has to be has to be addressed for
31:18
Speaker 2: this team to make the run that I think they'll
31:20
Speaker 2: make a playoff run. But if they want to win,
31:23
Speaker 2: they gotta they gotta be able to make the adjustments
31:27
Speaker 2: that I thought, like a year and a half ago
31:29
Speaker 2: they had started to make those adjustments and then the
31:32
Speaker 2: power started going down a little bit. But now if
31:34
Speaker 2: the power is down as a team and the strikeouts
31:37
Speaker 2: go back up, yeesh oh.
31:43
Speaker 1: Here's my thing. I like both teams. I think they're
31:45
Speaker 1: both playoff teams. I like the bones of what both
31:47
Speaker 1: teams have. I think that Flatty will find pop. I
31:51
Speaker 1: think Flatty will be different in the playoffs. Of course,
31:53
Speaker 1: you've got to get there. It's not gonna be an
31:55
Speaker 1: easy path for Toronto. I think both teams will add
31:57
Speaker 1: it the deadline. We also didn't mention Duran, who finally
32:01
Speaker 1: had a blown save here for the Phillies. But he's
32:03
Speaker 1: been money for them, So I like.
32:06
Speaker 3: How Alvarado get hit. Well, he's got a five and
32:08
Speaker 3: a half Yearay How the heck does he get hit
32:10
Speaker 3: every time out.
32:11
Speaker 2: By lefties too? His numbers versus lefties are crazy. I
32:16
Speaker 2: feel like he.
32:18
Speaker 3: Has one hundred with a sinker and a cutter. You
32:20
Speaker 3: should dominate left just sinking in on lefties because lefties
32:23
Speaker 3: can't hit that. Zach Britton did that for years.
32:26
Speaker 2: You can swings. The swings that dudes are taking are
32:30
Speaker 2: like they know what's coming, you know, when a dude
32:32
Speaker 2: is balanced in the box against left handed sinkers and
32:37
Speaker 2: they just they square it up. I mean square it
32:39
Speaker 2: up hard. It's been hard contact. I'm I really wonder
32:43
Speaker 2: what is going on because he's not like a lefty specialist.
32:46
Speaker 2: He's a bona fide seventh eighth inning guy that can
32:49
Speaker 2: get both guys out. But right now he is a
32:53
Speaker 2: reverse split. If he's anything, he's a reverse split. And
32:56
Speaker 2: the swings that lefties are taking are not good. I
32:59
Speaker 2: mean are are really good, but not good for Alvarado.
33:03
Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe he's tipping. There's a lot of tipping go on.
33:07
Speaker 3: Just the lefties, just lefties though.
33:11
Speaker 2: Hey, when you face a lefty, you lick your lips, Hey, you.
33:18
Speaker 1: Is is his pitch usage? The same lefties and righties.
33:25
Speaker 2: Doesn't matter.
33:26
Speaker 3: Throw one hundred sink should get most people out.
33:30
Speaker 1: I agree. Maybe there's a pitch he's using often and
33:33
Speaker 1: there on, and they know he's using it on a
33:36
Speaker 1: tip and it's more to lefties. That's all. I'm just
33:39
Speaker 1: trying to come up with random reasons why he's suddenly
33:43
Speaker 1: getting hit, you know. I mean the problem with him
33:46
Speaker 1: was not finding the zone early on in his career,
33:49
Speaker 1: and then at some point some genius said, hey, dude,
33:52
Speaker 1: aim down the middle. It'll move.
33:54
Speaker 2: The rays did that. I was there with him with
33:56
Speaker 2: the rays. They did that. He didn't know which pitch
33:59
Speaker 2: was gonna throw. You would call, you would I called
34:02
Speaker 2: four straight fastballs, and all of them moved a different direction.
34:06
Speaker 2: One cut, one sank, one was a true four seamer,
34:09
Speaker 2: and one acted like a splitter. So I think since
34:13
Speaker 2: he's gone to the Phillies from the Rays, they've they've
34:17
Speaker 2: zoned that in. You just shouldn't see the swings that
34:21
Speaker 2: guys take off of a lefty. I mean, is his
34:26
Speaker 2: percentage wise he's throwing, Yeah, I mean he's throwing very
34:32
Speaker 2: similar percentages, more cutters to rieties, more cutters.
34:38
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Speaker 1: eight hundred gambler. Hey Will Smith is still limited by
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Speaker 1: a stiff neck. Dave Roberts said, I l as possibility
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Speaker 1: if there's an improvement, and this is tying right into
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Speaker 1: what we were just talking about. AJ helps to have
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Speaker 1: a good backup catcher like the Dodgers do, and it's
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Speaker 1: going to be the same case here with Toronto. And
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Speaker 1: maybe Toronto also eases Alejandro Kirk back into the situation.
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Speaker 1: But that's what the Dodgers do, right. Will Smith had
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Speaker 1: his moments where he was fading down the stretch and
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Speaker 1: then into the playoffs, and the Dodgers were able to
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Speaker 1: solve that last year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, dn Rushing time, maybe we'll see. Will Smith is
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Speaker 3: still really good. But Daln Rushing has proved he can
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Speaker 3: play at this level. Here's his chance. And you never
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Speaker 3: want to see anyone get injured. Will Smith is a
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Speaker 3: good dude and a great player, so you know, hopefully
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Speaker 3: he doesn't go on the io very long. But it's
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Speaker 3: one of those things. Man. We've talked about it on
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Speaker 3: here all the time. One of the biggest things about
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Speaker 3: getting injured is there's always someone that's there to take
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Speaker 3: your place, and the game goes on without you. That's
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Speaker 3: why it's so important to be on the field. So
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Speaker 3: you always wanted to be on the field because I
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Speaker 3: don't want You have to remember Scott and Eric knows this.
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Speaker 3: There's always someone trying to take your job. No matter
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Speaker 3: who you are, there's someone trying to take your job,
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Speaker 3: and when you get hurt, it just gives them that
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Speaker 3: opportunity to take that job.
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Speaker 1: Exactly. One other thing, I want to hit National League West.
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Speaker 1: You'll let me know when we have it. But Rockies
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Speaker 1: manager Warren Schaeffer is not thrilled that there are so
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Speaker 1: many people visiting the ballpark that are not Rockies fans.
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Speaker 1: Here's more.
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Speaker 2: Listen.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I get asked this question a lot, not just
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Speaker 4: from you, Patrick, and it's not just the Cubs. Man, Yeah, Dodgers,
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Speaker 4: it's blue over on that side because I when I
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Speaker 4: coach third base, I would go down. It was like
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Speaker 4: enemy territory on that side of the field.
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Speaker 3: Cardinals all red over there.
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Speaker 1: Listen.
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Speaker 2: Does it bother me? Absolutely? It bothers me. Do I
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Speaker 2: notice it? You absolutely notice it. How can't you notice it?
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Speaker 2: It's loud for the other team in our own ballport.
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Speaker 2: Now much is that on us? I would say all
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Speaker 2: of it's on us.
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Speaker 4: I would say that when we start winning a ton
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Speaker 4: of games, which isn't that far in the future.
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Speaker 3: That the blue is going.
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Speaker 2: To morph into purple.
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Speaker 4: I'm colorblind, so it looks the same, but to other
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Speaker 4: people it's going to be more purple. And I look
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Speaker 4: forward to that day and the only people we have
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Speaker 4: to blame are so is round.
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Speaker 1: I love that. That was a great answer, and he
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Speaker 1: spoke very like unmethodically, if that makes sense, Like it
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Speaker 1: wasn't front office talk. He was just like, yeah, it sucks.
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Speaker 1: There's a lot of Cubs fans. My parents were at
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Speaker 1: that game yesterday. They're not Cubs fans, but they're not
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Speaker 1: Rockies fans. It's also a cool place to visit when
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Speaker 1: you're out in Denver. But aj they're sick of it.
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Speaker 1: Hey let's talk, or Hey Polanco remember him? His left
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Speaker 1: leg did not show any structural damage to his achilles tendon.
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Speaker 1: That was the MRI on the left leg. I should
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Speaker 1: say Andrew Treddick, I guess covers the team. Looks like
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Speaker 1: he's got a credential good enough for me. Metts will
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Speaker 1: adjust his pregame work. There's a chance he takes VP
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Speaker 1: the next few days, plays rehab games. It's a DH
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Speaker 1: in the near future. He will not be shut down.
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Speaker 1: We just did a segment on the White Sox, and
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Speaker 1: I feel like the combination of Poorgey Planco and Luis
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Speaker 1: Robert are just a very frustrating duo because they often
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Speaker 1: have these kind of situations where it's like they're heard.
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Speaker 1: It takes a while, there's some weird pop up situation
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Speaker 1: that happens that prevents stuff, you know, from being a
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Speaker 1: smooth rehab And you know Scott.
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Speaker 3: He's on the aisle for his achilles. Is that what
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Speaker 3: he's on there for?
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Speaker 2: I believe so lower body injury sore.
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Speaker 3: But so my question is is there no structural damage?
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Speaker 3: And what is he just sore? Again? This is these
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Speaker 3: are questions I don't know because I'm not in there,
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Speaker 3: and I'll never question anyone's pain tolerance.
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Speaker 2: I get that.
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Speaker 3: But you know, this reporting makes it sound like there's
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Speaker 3: nothing wrong with him. You should be able to play
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Speaker 3: right now. We don't know that. But it's just you know,
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Speaker 3: sometimes these tweets are worded in a way where you're like, ah,
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Speaker 3: what's the really happened in there?
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Speaker 1: It's a difficult balance when you're a team. You can't
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Speaker 1: be like, hey, dude, we gotta get you going. The
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Speaker 1: answer often is what you just saw on the tweetkrats, Hey,
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Speaker 1: we're gonna tweak his pregame routine and see if that
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Speaker 1: does things. They tried that with Luis Robert when he
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Speaker 1: was playing.
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Speaker 2: Tweak it. Does that mean he didn't have a pregame routine?
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Speaker 2: Does that mean he was doing too much? Riley have I?
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, we got a couple of minutes for slap.
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Speaker 1: You know, for all of the pulled power that is
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Speaker 1: promoted in Major League Baseball, and we love it. You guys,
40:48
Speaker 1: see how many knocks the big ones went either to
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Speaker 1: center or opposite field yesterday, So you had the salth
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Speaker 1: Stewart to run homer that was to straightaway center. Both
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Speaker 1: of Montgomery's knocks right went to the opposite way. There
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Speaker 1: were a couple others too, Oh, Randy rose Arena hitting
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Speaker 1: a slider that was probably off the plate. That was
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Speaker 1: the difference making homer for the Mariners against the Orioles.
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Speaker 1: Those are all opposite field shots right there.
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Speaker 3: Listen, you want to I tell Mike Sun this all
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Speaker 3: the time, crowds, I'm sure you do. You know how
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Speaker 3: many big hits are hit the other way? A lot
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Speaker 3: more than you think. Like just slap to the right
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Speaker 3: side if you're right handed, hitter, ground ball through the hole,
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Speaker 3: blooper over the second basement's head right. So many of
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Speaker 3: the big hits in baseball are hit the other way.
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Speaker 3: Luis Gonzalez, so Mario Rovera right to left field, left
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Speaker 3: center field. There's so many that are hit the other
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Speaker 3: way because that's when the guys aren't trying to get
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Speaker 3: too big and they just put the bat on the ball.
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Speaker 2: RBI's elevated to the opposite field. The team that does
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Speaker 2: it the most wins the most games. Yes, I get it.
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Speaker 2: Pull power is a thing, but not sustainable for the
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Speaker 2: long term. To be able to stay on off speed
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Speaker 2: pitches and to be able to square up fastballs, you've
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Speaker 2: got to be able to elevate the ball the opposite field.
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Speaker 2: Look what's happening in Vegas. Look how many of those
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Speaker 2: balls were not pull hooked balls. They're flicking them out
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Speaker 2: to the opposite field.
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Speaker 1: Remember last year, there was like a week where the
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Speaker 1: wind in Tampa was going out to one part of
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Speaker 1: the park and everybody was it was right field, and
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Speaker 1: every you know, whether you were a lefty hitter or
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Speaker 1: a righty hit or everyone's like, if you can get
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Speaker 1: the right pitch to send it to right field, it
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Speaker 1: is going to go so much longer than it usually
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Speaker 1: does even in that park, let alone in any other park.
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Speaker 1: It was like this one particular week where the home
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Speaker 1: runs were ridiculous. So that's a thing. Do you think
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Speaker 1: that any hitters can get like too opo happy, you know,
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Speaker 1: like some guys get too pole happy. That was you
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Speaker 1: can't force it, Okay, you.
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Speaker 3: Can't force it. That's that's one thing you have to
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Speaker 3: also understand is. You can't force you can't go up
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Speaker 3: there and say, I'm going to hit this ball to
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Speaker 3: right no matter what, because that's when you get really
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Speaker 3: like underneath the ball and you hit those like little
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Speaker 3: shanks to right field that some guys do. So you
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Speaker 3: can't force it. It's it's it's, it's it's it's kind
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Speaker 3: of an art. It's an art, and the best hitters
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Speaker 3: are the ones that can use the whole field.
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Speaker 2: Yep, Jeter made a career out of it. He would
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Speaker 2: stay inside the ball. It's not it's not for everybody,
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Speaker 2: but there's principles of hitting the ball to right center
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Speaker 2: compared to left center if you're a right handed hitter,
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Speaker 2: the principle that your bat's gonna stay in the zone
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Speaker 2: a longer time.
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Speaker 1: And he's still got the WBC logo. What he got
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Speaker 1: for crats Hats on our way out.
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Speaker 2: I mean, Palo Orlando started his career with three straight triples.
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Speaker 2: He's one of the he's the hitting coach on the
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Speaker 2: Brazilian team. Now, I didn't have green hair, but I
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Speaker 2: think this flag on the side of the Brazilian flag
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Speaker 2: on the side for this one is my favorite. I'm
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Speaker 2: not a big fan of the bee I'll be honest,
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Speaker 2: but I like the blue with the Brazilian flag and
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Speaker 2: I wore it because of World Cups starting.
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Speaker 1: Oh good car.
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