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Yanks slump, J.D. Martinez calls out 2016 Astros, Weekend Matchups · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's Friday, people, it is Friday, aft Fraisier Friday and
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  Speaker 1: krats dancing and umpires getting better. When we talked to
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal will go through his in depth story that
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  Speaker 1: covers umpires that are happy and some umpires that are
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  Speaker 1: not happy about the way the ABS Challenge system has
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  Speaker 1: played out. I'm going to give you a very happy
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  Speaker 1: example to start the show. This occurred last night, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to have our two lucky panelists guess if
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  Speaker 1: this was called a ball or a strike? Yes, Kratz
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  Speaker 1: and Todd check this pitch out and tell me if
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  Speaker 1: that was a ball or a strike in San Diego.
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  Speaker 2: That was a miss call right there.
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  Speaker 1: That was a strike down the pipe.
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  Speaker 3: I think the check swing sometimes it gets a mumpire sometimes,
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  Speaker 3: but that ball should never ever be messed.
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  Speaker 1: That was right down the punt, and that, folks, is
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  Speaker 1: why the ABS Challenge system has been implemented. Kratz, is
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  Speaker 1: it perfect? No? Is there a two D verse three
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  Speaker 1: D situation? Is there a median variance where things can
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  Speaker 1: be off and there's calls overturned by fractions of an inch?
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  Speaker 4: Doesn't change? Why is it bad that something is a
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  Speaker 4: yes or no? Look, it's a yes or no, it's
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  Speaker 4: there or it's not there. And this is the one
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  Speaker 4: that before you set up in and they go, you know,
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  Speaker 4: they miss it out over the place. Oh yo, you
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  Speaker 4: were set up in. I didn't get a good look
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  Speaker 4: at that. And I'm like, I just made the last
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  Speaker 4: six of them look tremendous and you didn't seem to
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  Speaker 4: get a good look at them either. So this is
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  Speaker 4: what it's for, abs challenge system. But before we get
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  Speaker 4: into it, do I get to have one challenge? That's
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  Speaker 4: something that came up in the show yesterday that we
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  Speaker 4: didn't even get to discuss more of.
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  Speaker 5: Can I get one challenge.
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  Speaker 2: That you can challenge?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can get one. You get one and then
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  Speaker 1: we'll give you this. You'll keep it if we like it,
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  Speaker 1: If not, we take it away, right.
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  Speaker 2: We'll review it.
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  Speaker 5: So here's my challenge.
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  Speaker 4: Early in the show, Todd said something that was very
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  Speaker 4: concerning to me about the New Jersey education system. You
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  Speaker 4: went to a ten Am high school baseball game during
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  Speaker 4: a school day.
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  Speaker 3: Explain more so, very good question. But our easter break
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  Speaker 3: is this week. Easter breaks are different for each county,
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  Speaker 3: each town, or spring break or you know, spring break.
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  Speaker 3: I still call it easter break. So our spring break
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  Speaker 3: is this Monday through Friday, while others were last week.
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  Speaker 3: I've heard on the news too, they're trying to make
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  Speaker 3: it one official week so everybody in New Jersey can
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  Speaker 3: have it. I think it's all weird. Just make make
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  Speaker 3: it one week in New Jersey the same. Everybody has
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  Speaker 3: it differently. So you live on this side of the track,
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  Speaker 3: it's this week. If you live on the other, it's
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  Speaker 3: last week was spring break, so.
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  Speaker 4: You had to play a team that also had spring
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  Speaker 4: break at.
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  Speaker 5: The same time.
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  Speaker 2: I all they could have made it twelve o'clock.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah that there should be no game at ten o'clock.
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  Speaker 5: Education system does not.
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  Speaker 4: Let's make sure it's student athletes in New Jersey and
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  Speaker 4: not athletes students.
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  Speaker 2: That's that's my only Your challenge is negative.
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  Speaker 6: You're over one right now, so yeah, exactly, good try
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  Speaker 6: you lost the challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Spring break is now, it's a valid excuse. Just the
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  Speaker 2: last day of spring. Well, Sunday is the last day.
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  Speaker 5: Of spring, not a ten am game. There's no excuse
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  Speaker 5: for a ten am game.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm talking to you, Diamondation, okay, nothing or eleven please?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Oh listen, they have those eight am or big big
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  Speaker 3: oh those those hit, those hit hard. We have these
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  Speaker 3: eight am games sometimes even in all tournaments, we have them,
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  Speaker 3: and it's just depending on where you live.
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  Speaker 2: It's tough. It's tough.
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  Speaker 1: Eight am is the start of the game start.
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  Speaker 3: I have an eight am game tomorrow. Actually, I'm driving
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  Speaker 3: down to Belmore, New Jersey hour and a half away.
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  Speaker 3: I'm staying overnight tonight and I have an eight am
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  Speaker 3: game tomorrow, Room eight U tournament eight am.
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  Speaker 5: It's not I had another challenge.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not cool. We don't like that.
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  Speaker 1: Whoever's doing that, stop it. All of them are yeah,
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  Speaker 1: all of them are trying to get Yeah, the games
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  Speaker 1: and the kashish and then pay the ni L for
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  Speaker 1: all those high school stars. I dting about the last part,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about. First, I'm gonna ask you
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  Speaker 1: about some weekend matchups that people should think about. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the Yankees in the race. Since you know
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  Speaker 1: the Yanks pretty well. A series didn't work out too
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  Speaker 1: well for them. Some decent pitching the last couple of
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  Speaker 1: days for the Yanks, but yeah, the A's really shut
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  Speaker 1: them down. As not known for their pitching, Jeffrey Springs
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  Speaker 1: was able to shine. Is there a potential problem with
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees offense? Names like Caballero, McMahon, Bellinger hasn't done
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  Speaker 1: much yet. It's probably easier to go to reverse. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: Ben Rice is looking good.
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  Speaker 2: Ben Rice is looking good. Judge, Judge is still doing
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  Speaker 2: his thing.
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  Speaker 6: Power wise, It like two, he usually is like a three.
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  Speaker 6: It's early, Yeah, it's early. Yeah, I think there's you know,
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  Speaker 6: I'm not a panic button. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 6: maybe a little worrisome. You know, you're playing against a
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  Speaker 6: team where you should win the series every single time,
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  Speaker 6: and twice on Tuesday, like one hit and it barely
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  Speaker 6: got through the whole.
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  Speaker 3: If they shifted just a little bit more over, it
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  Speaker 3: could have been an easy ground ball out. They're not
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  Speaker 3: getting it done in situational hitting, and then when they
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  Speaker 3: go up, they're not stepping on the guy his throat
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  Speaker 3: to you know, lack for better words, to win these games.
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  Speaker 3: You know, Jazz got to get going a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: The pitching has been fine. I mean Weather's had an
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  Speaker 3: outstanding yesterday, he got it outstanding outing. I think he
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  Speaker 3: went seven plus, only gave up one run, you know,
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  Speaker 3: stant and he started off good. He's you know, he's
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  Speaker 3: slowly but surely. He's one of the guys that have
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  Speaker 3: been doing well. It's just the bottom of the lineup
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  Speaker 3: has been a big struggle right now. Austin Wells, McMahon,
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  Speaker 3: Ca Baerra and In Rosario with the two big home runs,
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  Speaker 3: so they decided to put him back in. They moved
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  Speaker 3: Trent Grisham down to the eight hole. So it's a
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  Speaker 3: plethora of a guys that they got to really figure
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  Speaker 3: out and get going. I said it before the season,
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  Speaker 3: like with all the injuries they had, I said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: if they're you know, within the next two months the
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  Speaker 3: start of the year, if they're five hundred a little
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  Speaker 3: bit over, I think I would take that, known what
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  Speaker 3: the injuries they have. But now, you know, the hitting's
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  Speaker 3: got to start coming through, and that's the biggest concern
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  Speaker 3: and I have right now people are like, oh wait,
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  Speaker 3: it's earlier in the year. Well, guess what, these these
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  Speaker 3: games count Yeah, they got to they got to figure
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  Speaker 3: out and they got to go down to tamp And
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  Speaker 3: and do what they do.
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  Speaker 1: we went over this the other day. If you're looking
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  Speaker 1: and you know the Rays always play them tough, Kratz.
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  Speaker 1: I saw some excuses getting thrown out there. Not from
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  Speaker 1: the team unless I miss something postgame, but oh it's
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  Speaker 1: cold in New York. Derek Lewandowski, our Pinstripe Territory host,
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  Speaker 1: brought up a nice point, Yeah it's cold in New York.
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  Speaker 1: When we got towards the end of the season into
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  Speaker 1: October as well. So the Diamondbacks played in New York
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  Speaker 1: last night. They scored seven runs. They weren't cold.
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  Speaker 5: Look like you.
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  Speaker 4: Can glean whatever you want from the beginning of the season.
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  Speaker 4: But I said it yesterday and I'll keep saying it.
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  Speaker 4: This offense is gonna do fine. They're going to create runs.
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  Speaker 4: Are they going to hit three hundred as a team.
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  Speaker 5: No? Is there team batting average going to be where
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  Speaker 5: fans want it to be. No? Are they going to
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  Speaker 5: strike out too much?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 4: Are they going to go through slumps? Yes, this is
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  Speaker 4: just a little blip in the radar. This is a
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  Speaker 4: good lineup. I don't think Trent Grisham is going to
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  Speaker 4: have a year he had last year. That's just me
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  Speaker 4: picking one guy out of the lineup. I think he's
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  Speaker 4: going to be able to hit homers. I think if
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  Speaker 4: they keep him at eight, I think there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of value with him hitting in front of judge. So
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  Speaker 4: they moved him down there. He needs to get a
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  Speaker 4: few hits and then they can rightfully so move him
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  Speaker 4: up or a right left combination, whoever's on the mound.
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  Speaker 5: Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: All that to say, this is great for the Yankees
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  Speaker 4: because they're going to hit. Their pitching is holding not
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  Speaker 4: just holding their own. They're pitching starting rotation is dominating.
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  Speaker 4: The bullpen not so much, but their starting rotation is
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  Speaker 4: dominating when they're losing two of their top three guys.
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  Speaker 5: In the rotation.
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  Speaker 4: And I know Cam Schlitler would say I should be
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  Speaker 4: one of the top three guys. But with those two
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  Speaker 4: guys out, Rodin and Cole out, you just hope you're
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  Speaker 4: staying around.
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  Speaker 5: Like Todd said, so.
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  Speaker 4: To me, I think this is a good situation because
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  Speaker 4: that means the pitching is going to come a little
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  Speaker 4: bit back down to earth and the hitting is going
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  Speaker 4: to start carrying more of the load. But now you're
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  Speaker 4: getting in, like a lot of the American League East teams,
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  Speaker 4: you're starting to get into inner division play here, and
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  Speaker 4: this is when it comes a grind. This is when
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  Speaker 4: it becomes you got to put better at bats together,
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  Speaker 4: make adjustments that I think sometimes you don't see the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees do necessarily. And I love the fact that everybody's
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  Speaker 4: freaking out about how guys batting averages are where they
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  Speaker 4: are through forty at bats. I can go through like
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  Speaker 4: four or five times in my career where I had
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  Speaker 4: forty at bats and they were like, you're not hitting
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  Speaker 4: good enough. I know it's a small sample size, but
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  Speaker 4: see so I love anytime that you guys can say, wow, Eric,
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  Speaker 4: it's okay, you could have gotten more.
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  Speaker 5: Of a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Fine, then I'll do it. On the other end. Chandler
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  Speaker 1: Simpsons hitting three ninety one.
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  Speaker 2: You know the Rays, it can flock.
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  Speaker 1: They look okay, but I think they could give the
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  Speaker 1: Yanks a lot of trouble this weekend done in their
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  Speaker 1: home park. Yondi Diaz and Jonathan Rondolph to nice starts,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, Chandler Simpson's been the story. They We's got
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  Speaker 1: eighteen hits in twelve games, and I feel like the
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  Speaker 1: industry wants him to succeed too, because he's not a
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  Speaker 1: power guy. He's not a V louy exitvlow guy. But
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  Speaker 1: you're like, if he can get on base enough, this
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  Speaker 1: is the Billy Hamilton story from years back.
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  Speaker 2: You played with Billy Bills.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, remember it's like, hey, Billy gets on base,
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  Speaker 1: this is trouble, trouble, and that's what Chandler Simpson is.
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  Speaker 3: And he'll get on base, not even squaring the ball up,
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  Speaker 3: and I think that's the thing. He puts it in
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  Speaker 3: the right spot on the infield, he's going to beat
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  Speaker 3: that ball out. He's going to hit a blooper and
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  Speaker 3: he's going to be on second base. And then if
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  Speaker 3: he gets on on a walk, watch out, it might
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  Speaker 3: be basically a triple when he's steals, So he's actually
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  Speaker 3: a runner. Billy Hamilton was fast, was quick, all that above.
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  Speaker 3: He never even did track in high school so that
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  Speaker 3: he had to kind of learn how to steal bases.
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  Speaker 3: But once he got going, he would definitely get there.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, this guy Simpson is incredible. He's very good.
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  Speaker 3: He's going to give Yankees a tough time. And unless
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  Speaker 3: he doesn't put the ball in play yep.
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  Speaker 1: And also one more in this series, Luis, he'll making
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  Speaker 1: his debut perfect for the Yanks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's in Tampa, right, Yeah, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 1: Right, that's an easy one. Yeah, But pitching hasn't been
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  Speaker 1: the problem, especially starting pitching. Let's move on to the
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  Speaker 1: Astros and the Mariners. That's the big heavyweight tilt out
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  Speaker 1: in the American League West. What do you have for
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  Speaker 1: us on this one? Kratz both teams kind of reeling
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  Speaker 1: right now. Again, we're gonna I'm not gonna say it anymore.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say it one more time and then I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna stop. It's early, but the Astros are coming off
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  Speaker 1: being swept by the Rockies. The Mariners are what four
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  Speaker 1: nine right now to start the year. This is a
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  Speaker 1: chance for either of them to build up a little momentum.
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  Speaker 4: Worst record in baseball for the Mariners. Here's where I
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  Speaker 4: see it. Here's where I see it is two completely
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  Speaker 4: different stories. The Mariners are healthy and doing this. The
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  Speaker 4: Astros have lost some dudes that were key parts of
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  Speaker 4: their organization. I mean, it's parts of their starting lineup.
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  Speaker 4: With the fact that Christian Javier just went out, Jake
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  Speaker 4: Myers just went out. So they're both coming in struggling. Yes,
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  Speaker 4: but the Mariners get to put their lineup back out there.
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  Speaker 4: JP Crawford didn't start the season healthy. Now he's in
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  Speaker 4: the lineup, like they're able to sit out there and go, Okay,
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  Speaker 4: either our lineup sucks and we're gonna hit one. What
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  Speaker 4: does it say right there, one eighty four the whole year,
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  Speaker 4: or the ball's gonna start rolling here. The Astros they've
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  Speaker 4: been killing it and they just got killed by, in
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  Speaker 4: my opinion, one of the worst, the worst team in
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  Speaker 4: baseball in the Rockies. But you can that can happen.
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  Speaker 4: You can get swept by teams that like that totally happens.
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  Speaker 4: The issue for the Astros is they lost two key
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  Speaker 4: pieces to their team. Did they lose their superstars? No,
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  Speaker 4: Jordan Alvarez is still gonna hit whatever three point fifteen
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  Speaker 4: with forty and one hundred when he stays on the field. Uh,
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  Speaker 4: Jeremy Paanea has been dealing with stuff all year. Is
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  Speaker 4: Carlos Korea one hundred percent healthy? Josel Tuove started out
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  Speaker 4: really hot here, so you're getting the most out of
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  Speaker 4: two of your best hitters. But when you lose Jake
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  Speaker 4: Myers roam in the outfield, who's gonna fill in? Cam
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  Speaker 4: Smith is a younger player. It's not like they have
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  Speaker 4: all the depth that they need, but Jake Myers was
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  Speaker 4: giving them a lot out there, and it's just like,
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  Speaker 4: how do we okay, this is the time when we
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  Speaker 4: need our ace to come around, and this is the
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  Speaker 4: biggest injury. This is we need our guy, our number
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  Speaker 4: one guy to come around and give us that first
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  Speaker 4: victory in Seattle are in the Mariners series.
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  Speaker 5: Hunter Brown's not there, so.
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  Speaker 4: All the other injuries, hunter Brown not being there, that
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  Speaker 4: is a huge loss for this team. And that's why
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  Speaker 4: I feel like they're both struggling. But I feel like
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  Speaker 4: the Mariners have a chance to pull out of this
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  Speaker 4: more than the Astros.
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  Speaker 1: Then let me bring you into one other Als team
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  Speaker 1: while we're at it. We'll finish our preview with the
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  Speaker 1: Rangers and the Dodgers. Todd Father Rangers swept by the Reds,
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  Speaker 1: then they just swept the Mariners. A lot of the
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  Speaker 1: scores are seeing in these games pretty low. It seems
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  Speaker 1: to be a similar story with Texas since they won
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  Speaker 1: the World Series. Is there enough punch in this lineup
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  Speaker 1: to be a consistent threat? There's some really good arms.
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  Speaker 1: They added Mackenzie Gore. He looked really good in his
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  Speaker 1: last start, and now they have the Corey Seeger Bowl
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  Speaker 1: out in LA against the Dodgers.
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I do and I don't.
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: I feel like they've kind of just fizzled a little bit,
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: you know, with every little thing.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: You know.
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: I know they've picked up Brandon Nemo. He's doing fantastic.
• 16:34
  Speaker 3: We knew he was gonna be you know, a two
• 16:36
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• 16:40
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• 16:45
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• 16:47
  Speaker 3: I'm not seeing it, honestly, But I do see, you know,
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: at the end of the day, like them making a push,
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: but ultimately it's just not there right now. It's just
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: not there. So if I'm a Texas Ranger fan, I'm very,
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: very worried. I'm trying to understand, you know, with the
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: off season moves that they got and the acquisitions, like,
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: where's this going to come from? I know they play
• 17:06
  Speaker 3: in a big ballpark. I've played there. I was there
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: the first time they've had it, But that should be
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: actually helpful to hitters to hit more gaps, more doubles,
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: more triples.
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: And I'm just not I'm not seeing it right now.
• 17:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, a lot of guys have struggled with that park.
• 17:18
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• 17:20
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• 17:23
  Speaker 1: getting better? I don't you know, he definitely hasn't progressed
• 17:26
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• 17:29
  Speaker 1: Jake Berger's off to a nice start this year. There's
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: concern really after that, Josh Peterson, Evan Carter, etcetera. So
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: we'll see what that looks like. Dodgers are obviously feeling themselves.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: They're off to a nice start. They just went up
• 17:41
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• 17:46
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• 17:51
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• 17:54
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: That's what he said.
• 19:28
  Speaker 7: That's what he said.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: We're going to start with JD Martinez. So JD is
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: done playing and now he's going to work for the Mets.
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: And he was a guy who made a major impact
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: in our sport beyond his individual statistics. You would hear
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: it from many other players, and I think there is
• 19:51
  Speaker 1: reasoning for this that goes beyond him just being a
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: smart guy. He eventually, now out of his playing days,
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: was able to share more about why he feels like
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: it is so much on him to be able to
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: share that knowledge and make people comfortable listening to him
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: and also talking back and forth with him. So I'll
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: let JD run point here. That's why we're doing That's
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: what he said, and then we'll add to the story here.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: When I was at the Astros, I remember I was
• 20:17
  Speaker 7: in a bad spot. I was, you know, an up
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: and down guy, guy that barely played. I would reach
• 20:24
  Speaker 7: out to the vettering guys, and at that time it
• 20:26
  Speaker 7: was a little different. You know, the veteran guys were
• 20:29
  Speaker 7: they weren't very nice.
• 20:30
  Speaker 5: You would say that this SE's not nice.
• 20:33
  Speaker 7: It was a good term. But I remember seeing that
• 20:36
  Speaker 7: and asking questions and then kind of never answering it,
• 20:39
  Speaker 7: and they kind of blowing me off, and you know,
• 20:41
  Speaker 7: just making my life a nightmare. I remember saying, I
• 20:44
  Speaker 7: was like, you know what, if God ever blesses me
• 20:46
  Speaker 7: where I'm in that position, I'm never going to treat
• 20:48
  Speaker 7: a young guy like that, and I'll always answer any
• 20:51
  Speaker 7: questions and help them out any which way, because I
• 20:53
  Speaker 7: remember how helpless that feeling was, and you know, going
• 20:56
  Speaker 7: through that whole process. So you know, when things change
• 21:00
  Speaker 7: for me, and you know, I kind of grew as
• 21:02
  Speaker 7: a player and the same situation happened, I didn't I
• 21:06
  Speaker 7: lean towards the other's side.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: One Chandler Rome tweeted from the Athletic and also, of
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: course crush shitty territory. Against my better judgment, I will
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: wade into this shady Martinez Astro's discourse. This is from
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: my last job, like his last beat reporter job in
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty two ALCSA Yankee Stadium. He said, what
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: Martinez said is nothing new. This was a quote from
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: Lance mccullors junior. A few years ago. We didn't have
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: the greatest culture in twenty sixteen, we got guys like
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: Brian McCann, Carlos Beltron. They came in and they let
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: us know we're here to win, We're here to create
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: a family in this clubhouse. It's not about hazing guys.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: It's not about giving guys a hard time or making
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: guys are in their stripes. If you're wearing this uniform,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: you're one of us. If you've been here one day,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: been here twenty years, We're going to laugh, be happy, smile,
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: and we're going to show up every day ready to play.
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: And I think we need to have that mindset that
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: makes everyone equals. It doesn't matter how much money you make.
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: And I think it's worked here.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Kratz. What are we need to know?
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: I was on the team in twenty sixteen at the
• 22:03
  Speaker 4: beginning of the season, and I see what Lance was saying.
• 22:07
  Speaker 5: There.
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: There was some guys and this is about how you
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: build a team. And I think they clearly made the
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: change going with McCann going, you know, bringing McCann in,
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: bringing in Carlos Beltron, guys that had histories of being
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: the exact opposite of what JD. Martinez was talking about.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: He experienced with the veteran guys but you also have
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: to go back to what JD Martinez experienced in twenty eleven.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: This was a brutes mcgoots team. This was Jose Altuve
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: and Hunter Pence who ended up getting traded at the
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: end of that year to the Phillies at the trade deadline.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: But then you're talking about the veteran guys that were
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: on that team. I mean, you had Olmberto Quintero, you
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: had a guy like Jason Michaels, you had a guy
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: like Carlos Lee. I don't know, I'm just naming off
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: the veterans that were on that team. And if you
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: don't make a guy who JD Martinez was kind of
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: a touted prospect and then had to figure some things out,
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: revamped his swing and then became.
• 23:13
  Speaker 5: The superstar that he was.
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: So if you have a tauted's prospect, if you have
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: young guys coming into your organization and you have veterans
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: that don't make it very nice for the young guys
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: to come in. I'm not saying you don't give them
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: a hard time. I'm saying you don't make them feel
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: like they're part.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Of the team. They're not going to succeed.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: Now, people would say, well Al Tuove succeeded, or Carlos
• 23:39
  Speaker 4: Correa succeeded, or Lance mccullors succeeded. But I saw some
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: of the things that Lance mccullors went through. I wasn't
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: there when JD. Martinez went through what he went through,
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: Like they called Lance mccullor's wagu because he was in
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: the training room getting a massage at twenty or twenty
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: one years old. We mentioned it when he came on
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: the show. So there's ribbing that goes on. But then
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: it's also like, at what point do you make sure
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: that this dude is ready to go out on the
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: field and win every single day for your team. I
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: think that's some things that when I first got called
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: up in twenty ten eleven that time period, some guys
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: were like, well, I have to make sure I treat
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: this rookie the same way I was treated.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: And my question was always did you like how you
• 24:28
  Speaker 5: were treated?
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: No, I hated it. Why would you do that to
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: somebody else? Then that seems just an asinine thing to do.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: I would get on dudes.
• 24:39
  Speaker 4: I would get on dudes for the betterment of their career,
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: and maybe some of the guys didn't see it that way,
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: but I would get on guys so that in the
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: moment when you have a big spot in a game
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: late in a season, when you're trying to make a
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: playoff push, you've already been through the fire of people
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: getting on you for this and that, and like, now
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: you're on the team and you are part of it.
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: But if it's ever affecting the way somebody plays, you've
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: totally crossed the line.
• 25:06
  Speaker 5: Like three steps ago.
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: Krats, I want to spin it forward. You explained the
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen astros and why it fueled JD. Martinez to
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: not just become who he was, it actually fueled him
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: to become the teammate that he was and now the
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: team official or whatever you want to call his job
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: with the Mets, and why it's so important to him.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: He wants people to be mentors, he wants people to listen,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: and the game has changed a lot. I feel like
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: you hear these stories less these stories were the norm fifteen.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Plus years ago.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I'll let you describe all of this and then kick
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: it to Todd father to see if anybody was given
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: him the heisman when he tried to get advice.
• 25:52
  Speaker 5: I mean, so.
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: It's not exact specific to JD. Martinez. My story was
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: my buddy was drafted fourth overall. I think made it
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: up to the big leagues pretty quick, like big time
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: prospect coming out of high school, coming out of college,
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: and then he makes it to the big leagues. And
• 26:12
  Speaker 4: he told me in his rookie year and he didn't
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: have a very good big league career. Injuries, yes, but
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: he said he despised going to the ballpark. He couldn't
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: wait until the game started because he would get to
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: the ballpark and veteran relievers. I'll never forget the guy's
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: names were all over him. And this guy was not
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: a guy who Alec was just talking about. He's alluding to,
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: like some guy say some things and.
• 26:38
  Speaker 5: You're like, bro, are you serious?
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: Come on?
• 26:41
  Speaker 5: But this was not the case with my buddy.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: And I won't say his name because you could pick
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: out the veterans who made his life a living hell.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: And he was like, the three hours that the game
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: took were great because we were on the field, but
• 26:55
  Speaker 4: he said around that it was just wearing them out
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: and essentially warm out. And he wasn't making excuses for
• 27:02
  Speaker 4: how he did in the big leagues. He was just
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: saying it was something that was completely unnecessary and there's
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: different ways to handle it. And I think certain guys
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: back in the day felt like that was the way
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: you had to handle it because that was how they
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: were treated. And like I said before, if you're treated
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: poorly and you don't like it, why on earth would
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: you do it to somebody else? Like that is so sophomoric,
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: it's so it's so just immature in any walk of life,
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: not just baseball.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I mean along those lines, I came up
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: with a really good organization with the Reds there. You know,
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: my mentor right away was Johnny Goms and he could
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: he could have made my life a living hell too,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: but he didn't.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: He was fantastic.
• 27:50
  Speaker 3: I had some interistans during some things, but you know,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: I was I was around it even at a younger age.
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: You know, when you were a freshman. I was a
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: freshman playing you know, varsity baseball. You had some guys
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: go get the water, go do this. That's just part
• 28:04
  Speaker 3: of the whole, you know, growing up and that kind
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: of stuff. But there was never anything where I felt like,
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: you know, man, I don't this guy was a jerk.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: You know, it was part of the whole situation. It
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: was part of how Kratzy and I were brought up.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: I mean, look at you, Kratzy, You're an absolute moose, Like,
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: who's gonna mess with you?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: So that kind of stuff.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: I'm sure you had some sort of stuff going on,
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: but you know, it depends on who the person was,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: if you had a personality this or that. But for me,
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: Scott Rowland was awesome. You know, Brandon, Philip Vado, all
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: those guys, you know, Skip Schumacher's they were fantastic. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: I wanted to pass that along to everybody else too
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: as well, and make sure when they came up, take
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: them out to dinner, get them a suit, whatever it was,
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: make sure they were part of the team and felt comfortable.
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: Because I wanted to win.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: I wanted the guys to be as much comfortable as possible,
• 28:54
  Speaker 3: knowing that they had nothing else to worry about but
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: the game itself. So yeah, stinks to hear something like that,
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: but that's how it was for a lot of teams
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: coming up. You're the young buck, carry the bag, give
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: me a drink, do all this kind of stuff. So yeah, well,
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: now it's a different ballgame. Not that many veteran players,
• 29:14
  Speaker 3: so it's a totally different game.
• 29:16
  Speaker 4: But Todd, there's you can explain the difference between bro Todd.
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Make sure I always have coffee when I get here
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: to the park, Like you better beat me to the park.
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: There's times when guys, when guys now, they call their
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: agent and they'll be like he told me, I had
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: to get to the park before them, Like I like
• 29:38
  Speaker 4: to watch my shows at one point thirty. And that's
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: something that like I never for me, I never felt
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: comfortable sitting on the couches in the big leagues. I
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: know that sounds stupid. I know that sounds ridiculous. I
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: would sit when we had team meetings. I would sit
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: on the arm rest of the couch because there was
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: always somebody that was a better player than me. There
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: was always somebody that had more service time than me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 4: But that was like something that I learned early. And
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: so when I would see rookies that there was guys
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: that would come up to big lead to the big
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: league camp game and sitting in a minor league spring
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: or sitting in the big league spring training clubhouse, and
• 30:16
  Speaker 4: they got.
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: Their like feed up. They got there.
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: You know they're leaning back on the couch. I would
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: go into the lunch room and I would make them
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: a peanut butter and jelly, all three of the guys,
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: and I'd be like, here, guys, is there anything else
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: that you guys need?
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: They'd be like what?
• 30:29
  Speaker 2: Like what?
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: And so if nobody tells them, then you're never understanding
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: that to be in the big leagues is a privilege
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: to be have an opportunity to put a big lead
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: uniform on, whether it's in big league camp or it's
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: in Game seven of the World Series. You got to
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: respect people that have done it before, and you got
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: to be like, Wow, I'm part of a team that's
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: something bigger than me, and I think those little things
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: help grow that and help grow the team camaraderie through
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: all things.
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: YEP.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: I tell everybody before I came out, I wish there
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: was like a book, a manual in a show, like hey,
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: how to dress, how to tip?
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: Uh? What to do in these situations? There is? I think,
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: what's that the Cardinal way?
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: But no guys always talk about.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: It, you know what I mean?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: Simple things of how to act and be professional and
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: what to do and.
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: All these types of things.
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: What to do in a hotel, how to act, where
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: to eat, if somebody's doing this, you need to be here,
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: uh tipping, you know the lady that cleans your room
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: in the hotel, stuff like that, And I'm sure, yeah,
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: go ahead.
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: No, no, that's that's what But that's what veterans do.
• 31:39
  Speaker 4: So it's like, if there's a book, then teams would
• 31:41
  Speaker 4: be like, we don't need veterans, just like you and
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: I both think you need veterans in the clubhouse. Like
• 31:48
  Speaker 4: another story, Brett Gardner and I would Now Brett Gardner's
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: you know, a fringe Hall of Fame player, All Star silver,
• 31:55
  Speaker 4: all that stuff, and I'm just a you know, barely
• 31:58
  Speaker 4: in the big leagues kind of guy. But we would
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: get on the rookies in big league camp in spring
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: training to the point where he would do some pranks
• 32:08
  Speaker 4: that people were like, oh, how could he treat me
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: like that? How could he put mustard in my smoothie
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: that the strength coach made me? And it wasn't about
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: ruining your smoothie. It was about the fact that you
• 32:22
  Speaker 4: have zero to one year of service in the big
• 32:25
  Speaker 4: leagues and you're going to somebody else to make have
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: them make your smoothie.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: Like, go earn it, go earn it.
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: Not that you have to be in the big leagues
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: to get a smoothie, just the fact that you need
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: to let you need to make sure you're doing these
• 32:39
  Speaker 4: things on your own and taking ownership of your career
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: and not being like, oh, great, I'm in the big leagues.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Here, everybody massaged me. Here, somebody put my uniform on.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: No, it's like it's I don't want to say it's
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: hardening players, but it's definitely something that it's fun because
• 32:57
  Speaker 4: then it's like, oh crap, yeah, maybe I shouldn't have
• 33:00
  Speaker 4: just put my feet up on somebody else's locker room
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: chair or asked for a smoothie and then like not
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: said thank you. Like it's all that stuff that's fun
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: part of being in a clubhouse.