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Fair Territory: D’Backs streaking up, Gerrit Cole looks SO back, Cristopher Sánchez is HIM · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo. And Alana
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  Speaker 1: we always have a lot of cool things to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: but today we have specifically some cool pitching things to discuss.
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  Speaker 2: Ken great to be with you on this Thursday, and
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  Speaker 2: you know what we're going to talk about some aces
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  Speaker 2: not named sho hey Otani. Although it warrants a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a conversation six hit listenings. Yesterday he had
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  Speaker 2: a leadoff home run, so already giving himself some run support.
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  Speaker 2: He did have a season high four walks, he hit
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  Speaker 2: a batter, and his era ken ballooned from zero point
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  Speaker 2: seventy three to point eight to two. Show hey Otani
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  Speaker 2: is an ace among aces. But there's some other guys
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  Speaker 2: that deserve some recognition as well.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with Garrett Cole. We're leading up to the
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  Speaker 1: Grand Ace right now. But Garrett Cole coming off Tommy
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  Speaker 1: John surgery. Now he missed more than a year and
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  Speaker 1: a half, took the longer side of the recovery process,
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  Speaker 1: and yet he has come back, not yet, but he
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  Speaker 1: has come back in a way that it's surprising to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people in the game. He has been
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  Speaker 1: absolutely brilliant. And last night ten strikeouts and here's the
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  Speaker 1: key thing, no walks in seven innings against the Kansas
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  Speaker 1: City Royals. Now, I know the Royals are offensively challenged,
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  Speaker 1: but Cole was nearly as good in his first start.
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  Speaker 1: And the command, which is usually the last to come
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  Speaker 1: after Tommy John surgery. You'll get your velocity back, but
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  Speaker 1: the command is generally not there. No walks and three
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  Speaker 1: walks and twelve and a third inning so far total,
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  Speaker 1: that is truly impressive. And with Cole, obviously, if he's
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  Speaker 1: going to be this guy, and certainly there's no reason
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  Speaker 1: to believe he's going to go backwards because guys generally
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  Speaker 1: get stronger as they come back from Tommy John. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees get freed back. They've got Cam Schlitzer, They've
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  Speaker 1: got something special going. But as I mentioned, there's a
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  Speaker 1: guy pitching at a level right now that is beyond
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  Speaker 1: anyone in Major League Baseball. Of course, I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies Christopher Sanchez. His streak of consecutive innings right
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  Speaker 1: now is right up there. It is forty four and
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  Speaker 1: two thirds. And you can look at something Jason Stark
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  Speaker 1: tweeted yesterday to really put this into context. All right,
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  Speaker 1: longest scoreless inning streaks by a left hander since nineteen hundred. Now,
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind it's more difficult to do as a
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  Speaker 1: left hander because you're facing more right handed hitters. There
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  Speaker 1: are more righties and lefties in this world, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Carl Hubble forty five and a third innings in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: thirty three, Doc White, whoever he is, forty five innings
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  Speaker 1: in nineteen oh four, and Sanchez right on their heels,
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  Speaker 1: can pass them in his next start with one scoreless
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  Speaker 1: inning forty four and two thirds. As of now, he
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  Speaker 1: is seventh all time as far as consecutive scoreless inning streaks.
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  Speaker 1: Oral Herscheiser, of course, is first with fifty nine, but
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  Speaker 1: Sanchez in his next start can move as high as
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  Speaker 1: third place. So it has been an astonishing run. And
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  Speaker 1: what is so interesting is we have right now in
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  Speaker 1: the National League Jacob Misearowski pitching at an incredible level Otani,
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  Speaker 1: as you mentioned, Alana, And of course we have Paul
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  Speaker 1: Skeens not quite there. We have Chris Sale, all these
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  Speaker 1: great pitchers, and yet Sanchez right now stands alone above
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  Speaker 1: all of them. And let's not forget Kyle Harrison in
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  Speaker 1: Milwaukee as well. So that nlsa young race that's going
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  Speaker 1: to heat up, and that will evolve over time. But
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  Speaker 1: right now, with the All Star Game in Philadelphia, if
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  Speaker 1: Christopher Sanchez keeps this up, he has to be the guy.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, no question about it. Chris Sale throws today for
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  Speaker 2: the Atlanta Braves against the Boston Red Solacks. Having another
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  Speaker 2: decent year. All right, let's talk about the Chicago Cubs.
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  Speaker 2: They finally win Ken after their slide, their four and
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  Speaker 2: a half games back of Milwaukee. What do you make
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  Speaker 2: of what's happened with them? Obviously they we have on
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  Speaker 2: such a tear and then things went south when PCA
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  Speaker 2: went a little south.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know quite what to make of a team
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  Speaker 1: that is already had two ten game winning streaks and
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  Speaker 1: one ten game losing streak. Clearly, they've had some pitching
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  Speaker 1: injuries and that's been part of this. And I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: of course about Boyd Cabrera, Horton and Steel. That's a
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  Speaker 1: huge amount of pitching to lose. But as I mentioned
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  Speaker 1: this I believe on our Monday show and was jumped
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  Speaker 1: on by a Cubs fan, the offense has been the
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  Speaker 1: bigger problem. And during that ten game losing streak, really
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  Speaker 1: Michael Bush of their regulars was the only one hitting
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  Speaker 1: at a high level. Everyone else was not good at all.
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  Speaker 1: And in fact, Ian Hap and Seya Suzuki their ops
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  Speaker 1: is during the ten game losing streak they were two
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  Speaker 1: seventy six. Now that's an okay batting average, not such
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  Speaker 1: a good ops And we're flashing on the screen right
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  Speaker 1: now those ops is during the losing streak. Gregman seven fourteen,
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  Speaker 1: PCA six ninety six. Horner, who started off so hot,
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  Speaker 1: was five point forty eight. Swanson four to sixty six.
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  Speaker 1: Not good, not good at all. But I would think
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  Speaker 1: now that the Cubs finally have one one, they'll get
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  Speaker 1: back to a more, I don't know, stable pace. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see if they can catch Milwaukee. Four and a half
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  Speaker 1: games at this time of year is not much at all. Clearly,
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  Speaker 1: they've got to get their pitching healthy, though, and that's
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  Speaker 1: going to be a big question for them and will
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  Speaker 1: be leading into the deadline when they would be a
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  Speaker 1: team I would expect in search of starting pitching.
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  Speaker 2: The other day, Ken I was talking on Dodgers Territory
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  Speaker 2: with Clympsius and Katie Woo about the fact that the
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  Speaker 2: NL West is a two horse race. It was the
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  Speaker 2: Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres, and I
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  Speaker 2: Ken are feasting on lesser opponents. That's what they need
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 1: They are and they just completed a thirteen game stretch
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  Speaker 1: against the two worst teams in the National League, the
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  Speaker 1: San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies, and they did
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  Speaker 1: what they had to do. They went eleven and two
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  Speaker 1: against those teams. And you see the standings right there
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  Speaker 1: in the NL West. So they're in second place in
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  Speaker 1: the NLS, four and a half games behind the Dodgers
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  Speaker 1: first place in the wild card standings. Now their schedule
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  Speaker 1: is going to get more difficult. They've got Seattle in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle for three than LA at home for four, the
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  Speaker 1: LA Dodgers, not the Angels. But this is an interesting
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  Speaker 1: team and now Martell is hot. Carol is hot, Perdomo
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  Speaker 1: is still not really there. They've gotten nice contributions, especially
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  Speaker 1: from the rookie Ryan Walshmant and now from another rookie,
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  Speaker 1: Tommy Troy. These guys have come up in the wake
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  Speaker 1: of injuries and of course the designation for assignment of
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  Speaker 1: their previous center fielder. But at the same time, they're
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  Speaker 1: an interesting team because they do have some pitching coming
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  Speaker 1: back as well, Rubin Burns at some point, perhaps around
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  Speaker 1: the All Star break, two relievers Aj Puck Justin Tinez.
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  Speaker 1: So this is a team that, on paper at least
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  Speaker 1: could get stronger. And I don't know that I would
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  Speaker 1: consider them a threat to the Dodgers, but could they
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  Speaker 1: be a playoff team? Absolutely the Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 2: comes from Sarah Harmon nineteen seventy four in regards to
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  Speaker 2: the San Francisco Giants, one of the two teams that
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  Speaker 2: you mentioned, Ken was the worst in the National League.
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  Speaker 2: Andrew Baggerley of the Athletic your colleague as well, hinted
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  Speaker 2: that the Giants could honestly consider releasing quite a few coaches,
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  Speaker 2: including Ector Borg. Do you see this as very likely
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  Speaker 2: a lot of heat on the third base coach for
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  Speaker 2: the Giants.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of heat on him. He also helps
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  Speaker 1: Ron Washington with the infielders. He's a guy that Ron
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  Speaker 1: Washington told me he was very high on in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: Now things have changed, obviously, and yes, the Giants could
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  Speaker 1: be looking for scapegoats soon. But if they change the coaches,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't solve the main problem, which is Devers, Chapman
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  Speaker 1: and a Damas have been huge disappointments. That's where the
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  Speaker 1: team is built around, and that is where the team
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  Speaker 1: has had its most struggles. So you can change coaches.
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  Speaker 1: They probably should change coaches just to shake it up
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  Speaker 1: a little bit. But my goodness, the coaching is not
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  Speaker 1: the problem with the Giants. There are greater issues at hand.
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  Speaker 2: Is that a hitting coach issue? It certainly doesn't seem
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  Speaker 2: like a third base coach issue if they're not hitting. Yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 1: Can't put it on the hitting coach. Even though they've
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  Speaker 1: gone to a slightly different style this year. It's a
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  Speaker 1: greater emphasis on contact with Hunter Men's coming over from
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  Speaker 1: the Toronto Blue Jays. But Devs, Chapman and Damas, these
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  Speaker 1: guys have long track records. No hitting coach is going
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  Speaker 1: to wreck them, and I just don't buy that at all.
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  Speaker 1: Now a lot of might the hitting coach be scapegoaded, Absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: the hitting coach might be scapegoaded, but it would be
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  Speaker 1: just scapegoating just that, right.
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  Speaker 2: Wicked Better, always a good fan of the program, has
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  Speaker 2: a question for you, Wicked Better fifty four. Which team
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  Speaker 2: do you think has the best chance of making the
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  Speaker 2: postseason this year? Washington Saint Louis or the White Sox,
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  Speaker 2: which I never thought i'd hear that, And which one
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  Speaker 2: will have the most success over the next three to
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  Speaker 2: five years. If you had to guess.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say the White Sox had the best
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  Speaker 1: chance of making the postseason, simply because the American League
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  Speaker 1: is that much weaker than the National League, and for
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  Speaker 1: that matter, the American League Central is fairly weak as well.
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  Speaker 1: Though the Guardians, with Bizana doing some things now and
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  Speaker 1: the laughter two rookies, they're getting more interesting by the day.
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  Speaker 1: Messik at the top of the rotation, or at least
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  Speaker 1: near the top of the rotation. So I would still
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  Speaker 1: say the White Sox as far as this year postseason chances,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're great, but I would give
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  Speaker 1: them a shot now. Long term, that's a really interesting question,
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  Speaker 1: and I would go there with the Cardinals only by
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  Speaker 1: a slight hair over the Nationals. And the reason I
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  Speaker 1: say that, I just like what the Cardinals have done,
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  Speaker 1: and they obviously need more pitching to go with their
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  Speaker 1: position player group, which is pretty good now. The National's
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  Speaker 1: position player group also is pretty good, but they're going
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  Speaker 1: to subtract CJ. Abrams is going to be traded, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's at the deadline or the offseason, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: see them necessarily getting better with their offense when they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be doing that, and they have pitching needs
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  Speaker 1: as well, great pitching needs, so I'll go with Saint Louis,
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  Speaker 1: though of course, any of those three could be the
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  Speaker 1: team in the next three to five years that emerges.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe multiple of those teams will ken.
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  Speaker 2: Why do you think the American League is so weak
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  Speaker 2: this year? As I look at the standings. Obviously, right
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  Speaker 2: now the AO wild Card is the New York Yankees
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  Speaker 2: in the first spot. They have a seven game advantage
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  Speaker 2: in the wild Card than the White Sox, which again
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  Speaker 2: very surprising, a one and a half game lead there
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  Speaker 2: in terms of the second place, and then the Twins.
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  Speaker 2: But then you look down and everybody else, even the
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  Speaker 2: Twins at the moment, are two games below five hundred,
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  Speaker 2: yet they're in a playoff spot in the Wildcard. Why
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  Speaker 2: is the junior circuit so weak this season?
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that if there is one answer to that, Alana.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say this though, and I'm just throwing it out there,
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  Speaker 1: because the Dodgers of a boogeyman of the sport right now,
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  Speaker 1: and MLB mentioned them again in their release yesterday responding
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  Speaker 1: to the union's proposal. How the Dodgers would not be
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  Speaker 1: penalized enough under what the union is proposing. Okay, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need to go into that, but in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers have raised the bar in the National League.
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  Speaker 1: They've made the Padres spend money to try to catch
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  Speaker 1: up the Phillies. The Mets have done the same, the Mets,
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  Speaker 1: of course not too great effect, and the Cubs too,
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  Speaker 1: and it just seems to me that the standard is
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  Speaker 1: a little higher there now. Obviously you have the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: in the American League as well. I'm not sure how
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  Speaker 1: the payroll breaks down in terms of which league has
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  Speaker 1: more high payroll teams. I would guess it's the National League,
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  Speaker 1: but it just seems that this is sick of for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, and one of those things. And listen,
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  Speaker 1: the season is only our third complete. The Orioles are
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  Speaker 1: starting to play better, just as one example. Maybe there
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  Speaker 1: are other teams as well that finally kind of start
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  Speaker 1: to kick in a little bit. Seattle's playing a little
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  Speaker 1: bit better. They've won a few more games lately, coming
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  Speaker 1: off a good series in Sacramento. So we may see
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  Speaker 1: some of these teams start to emerge in a bigger way.
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  Speaker 2: You had mentioned the Orioles playing a little bit better.
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  Speaker 2: Alexander rain seventy nine oh eight wants to know are
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  Speaker 2: they in a position to buy this deadline?
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  Speaker 1: Not yet, but we're two months away, actually more than
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  Speaker 1: two months away still, and if indeed they continue their
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  Speaker 1: recent upswing, yes they will be in position to buy.
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  Speaker 1: And what will they need? The same thing they've needed
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  Speaker 1: for the past. I don't know, two to three years,
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  Speaker 1: a top of the rotation starter. If Scooble is out there,
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  Speaker 1: they would be certainly one of the teams in the
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  Speaker 1: mixed Freddy Peralta. I don't know that Freddy Peralta is
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  Speaker 1: that much of a difference maker, but he'd be better
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  Speaker 1: than what.
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  Speaker 2: They have, all right, A good question that we were
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  Speaker 2: here to ponder. Where does your don Alvarez rank among
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  Speaker 2: the best hitters in baseball? Can two straight two home
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  Speaker 2: run days, twenty home runs already? Overall? Where does he
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  Speaker 2: rank in terms of the game's best to you?
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  Speaker 1: Right up there? You'd have to put him up there
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  Speaker 1: and right now. If you look at the OPS plus
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  Speaker 1: leaders and OPS plus is adjusted OPS adjusted to the
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  Speaker 1: players ballpark and his league, jord On Alvarez is the
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  Speaker 1: number one guy. He is leading the majors in OPS
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  Speaker 1: plus and a number of other categories as well. You
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  Speaker 1: see him right there that two oh two. What it
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  Speaker 1: means is he is one hundred and two percent above
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  Speaker 1: league average. One hundred is league average Ben Rice, next,
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  Speaker 1: James Wood, Christian Walker, and Kyle Schwarber. So Alvarez has
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  Speaker 1: always been one of the most dangerous hitters in the game,
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  Speaker 1: and this year so far it's a total tour de
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  Speaker 1: force and he has been I would say, yes, the
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  Speaker 1: best hitter in the game. You look at some of
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  Speaker 1: the other advanced metrics WRC plus, he's number one there
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  Speaker 1: as well. And even in years where he's not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: at the top of these leaderboards or ears when he's injured.
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  Speaker 1: When this guy is healthy, he is as good as
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  Speaker 1: it gets.
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  Speaker 2: All right. You can check out Chandler Rome's article two.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, another colleague of Ken Rosenthal with The Athletic.
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  Speaker 2: He also hosts the astros Pod on our Foul Territory
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  Speaker 2: netwhere he can check out his article on Alvarez and
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  Speaker 1: I'm the dude, so that's what you call me.
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: It is time to give our flowers, to give our
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: props to the dude of the week. Can you have honors?
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: Go ahead? I mentioned earlier the Orioles are in the
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: middle of a bit of a resurgence here, and the
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: guy who was at the center of it all earlier
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: in the week was the Dude of the Weeklton Kowser
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: two run walkoff homer on I'm sorry, three run walkoff
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: homer on Sunday, then a two run walkoff homer in
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: the thirteenth inning on Monday, a game in which he
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: also had a great slide to tie the score in
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: extra innings. So back to back walk offs for Colton
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: Kowser to give the Orioles wins. He's been something of
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: a disappointing player earlier in this season, and now obviously
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: he has done some really big things. First oriol to
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: hit walkoff homers in consecutive games since fred Linn in
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty five. How long ago was that? That was
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: two years before I started covering the Oriols, So that
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: was a long time ago. Colin Kawser, week.
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: Ago, long long fred Linn is an Oriol I think
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: if fred Linn is a Red Sock, that was a long, long, long,
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: long time ago. All right. My standout performer of the
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: week is a current Red Sox Wilson Controres for a
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: number of reasons. Over the course of the weekend, he
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: hit career hit number one thousand. He has since exceeded
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: that mark, but it came in the form of an
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: RBI triple. Coming into the season, Wilson Conturiss had only
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: had eleven triples. He has two already this season, and
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: he now has over a thousand hits, and he also
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: hit the ten year service time mark, which very few
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: players in Major League Baseball get to ten years, and
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: they're fully vested in terms of their pension and those
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: types of things. He gave the RBI triple ball to
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: his dad, he gave the bat to his mom. He
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: said he didn't want any conflict in the house. And
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: he also told me that when he was signed in
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen, once he came up to the big league level,
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: his goal was never to be sent down again. So
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: Wilson Conturi's Ale Player of the Week. Congratulations on the honor,
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: and congratulations for hitting that ten year service time mark.
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to the dork of the week. Okay, Ken,
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: who is your dork?
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: The Texas Rangers lineup. Now. We haven't talked enough about
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: the this season. They have been, along with the Royals,
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: the Orioles, some other teams, among the game's biggest disappointments.
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: And once again, they are not hitting and that's been
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: the problem. And earlier in the week when they faced
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: the Houston Astros, they were no hitter. They were no hit. Now,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: Chandler Roam of the Athletic tweeted out that that was
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: the most improbable no hitter in Astro's history. Okay I
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: would go one further and say it was one of
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the most improbable no hitters in Major league history. Why
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: because it was started by a guy, Tatsuya am I,
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: who had an eight plus eer entering the game. He
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: pitched the first six innings. The no hitter was ended
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: by a guy, alimber Santa who was making his major
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: league debut. Think about that, This cat's making his major
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: league debut and he finishes out a no hitter against
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: the Texas Rangers. Now that game obviously was an outlier
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: even for the Rangers, but it's symbolized their offensive futility
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: that really has existed since the second half of twenty
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: four and this has been ongoing for them. They just
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: dfade a cutchin. But for all these reasons, and especially
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: getting no hit by the Astros, they are the offensive
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: players anyway, the Dorks of the week.
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: Ken, do you buy into combined no hitters? Is that
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: real deal?
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: Sure it's not as impressive obviously as an individual no hitter.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: An individual no hitter is something that is a rare
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: feat in the game. And increasingly rare in our game
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: today because pitchers rarely go nine innings anymore. But a
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: combined no hitter, in some ways is even a bigger
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: testament to the catcher. In this case, it was Christian
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Vasquez who caught the combined no hitter in the World
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Series for the Astros in twenty two. I believe that
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: was so. Yeah, it's really impressive and it can't be
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: looked at the same way as an individual no hitter alone,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: but at the same time, to get several pitchers doing
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it and peeing at that peak of a level, that's impressive.
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you on that, all right. My
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: door of the week is Rebay and the reason I
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: say that is because you can't do this on a
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: baseball field. Can First of all, it was also an
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: abs challenge that Abner Uriba threw a strike, and thank goodness,
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: in his case, it actually was a strike because he
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: did this like chop, you know, towards the Saint Louis Cardinals,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: dugout where he was incredibly, in my opinion, incredibly rude,
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: and it wasn't as if it was the bottom of
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: the ninth and he just struck out the side to
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: win the World Series. I mean, this is something that
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: was incredibly, incredibly tasteless against the Cardinals dugout, and I'm
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: really surprised, honestly that they didn't you know that the
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: batter didn't kind of rush the mound. But Pat Murphy,
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: the Brewer's manager, didn't take very kindly to it either,
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: with his own player, Abner Ribe, making this gesture after
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: he struck out the Saint Louis Cardinals. So we're not
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: going to show it here. You can check it out
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: on X But Abner Uribe is my dork of the week.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: Who is your dork of the week? Guys? And you're
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: due to the week. Let us know in the comments
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: who we missed. We're gonna see what we can find
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: next week. In terms of that, you can't do it
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: on the baseball field, Abner Uribate, you just can't do
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: it on the baseball field. All right? Are you excited
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: about Cubs and Cardinals?
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: Ken? I will see this, Solana. At the start of
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: the year, I looked at my Fox schedule and saw
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals were on three times in the first two months,
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: and I thought, what are we doing? Because the Cardinals,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: of course are rebuilding team. They traded Contraris, they traded great,
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: they traded Arnato, and yet the Cardinals have been one
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: of the best stories in baseball during these first two months.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: So maybe my boss is at Fox. Well maybe definitely,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: they were a lot smarter than I was. And this
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: series is going to be interesting because the Cardinals have
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: played at this really high level. The Cubs are coming
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: out of their ten game losing streak, So for both teams,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: it's kind of a measuring stick of sorts, at least
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: of where they are now. And I anticipate this is
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: going to be a fun one, as it always is
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: with Cubs Cardinals. It's like Yankees Red Sox or Dodgers
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: Giants or Dodgers Padres, except with a much friendlier twist.
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: The fans are much kinder to each other than the
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: fans of the teams that I just mentioned.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Well, the Saint Louis Cardinals losers of four straight, but
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: they still have the third spot in the National League
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Wildcard and the team right behind them, the Chicago Cubs.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: They are fourth right now in the NL Wildcard location.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: All right, that's going to do it for fair territory.
• 23:37
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• 23:42
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• 23:45
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