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Soto in The Bronx, Acuña’s apology, Ohtani <3 marketing, Astros-Rangers Duel, Dalton Rushing debate · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: A billion, I mean seven or eight.
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  Speaker 2: He's got a lot, right. Oh man, this is tom Oh,
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  Speaker 2: this is really hard.
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  Speaker 1: You feel it up there, Tod Father. I'm in Florida
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  Speaker 1: right now. But there's all going on in the New
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  Speaker 1: York sports scene this evening. There are not one, but
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  Speaker 1: two marquee events.
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  Speaker 3: Well, the Lightning just came. I don't know if you
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  Speaker 3: saw that. It's good.
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  Speaker 1: Three marquee events. So I don't pay as close attention
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  Speaker 1: to NHL anymore. I didn't know the Lightning are in town.
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  Speaker 1: The Devil's in the conference.
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  Speaker 3: No, they're three.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't even know about that one. Or maybe they're
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  Speaker 1: playing the Rangers. No, no, So we.
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  Speaker 2: Got some nastiness going around here in the Tri state area.
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  Speaker 2: But what we know with number one is for me,
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  Speaker 2: it's the New York Subway Series. That's definitely number one
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  Speaker 2: in my opinion. We got the Mets versus the Yanks.
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  Speaker 2: And then number two, what do you think number two is?
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  Speaker 2: Are we are we skipping over to another sport or
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean the New York the New York next
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  Speaker 1: maybe yes, yes, they got game tonight as well.
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  Speaker 2: They need to, you know, I know it's a baseball show.
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  Speaker 2: But losing that big in Boston, that was that a
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  Speaker 2: little sketchy, dude. They need to figure it out.
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  Speaker 1: So I will say this, Krats, tickets to go to
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  Speaker 1: a Knicks playoff game are beyond whatever you think the
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  Speaker 1: price is up it double or triple it really, I
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  Speaker 1: mean for me at least, like if you want a
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  Speaker 1: seat that's not you know, in the last row, but
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  Speaker 1: even super top section in the back like you're dropping.
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  Speaker 1: I think still four figures tonight, No thousands of dollars.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's insane to get into that place. So the
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  Speaker 1: consolation prize is not cheap, but it is world's cheaper
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  Speaker 1: to see Juan Soto fifty thousand against one return to
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  Speaker 1: Yankee Stadium. Although news flash, Crats, he does have teammates,
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  Speaker 1: so I would say twenty five or twenty six versus
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  Speaker 1: fifty thousand helps. But obviously he's gonna get all of
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  Speaker 1: the attention. I think that's going to be a fun watch.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about it later, but I just
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  Speaker 1: wanted to make sure we got the whole, you know,
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  Speaker 1: scene set of what's going to happen this evening and
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  Speaker 1: how they're going to treat him because you know, he
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  Speaker 1: spent twenty years there, they made a higher money offer
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  Speaker 1: to him. How dare he show them up and bite
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  Speaker 1: his thumb at the Yankees after everything that they did
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  Speaker 1: for him, if.
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  Speaker 4: You say twenty years or twenty minutes.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, twenty minutes in a wait, they actually got severely outbid,
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  Speaker 1: not just by the total number, but by the bonus
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  Speaker 1: and some other things too. Sorry my bad, A quick
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  Speaker 1: quick error there. How do we feel about the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: treating him as a villain?
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  Speaker 4: Yankees fans, let's let's be let's be let's be precise here.
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  Speaker 4: Yankee fans are definitely treat him like a villain. There's
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  Speaker 4: no the guy didn't choose your team. Would have, but
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  Speaker 4: he didn't. He didn't choose your team. So if you
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  Speaker 4: were mad, go for it. You're gonna be mad for
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  Speaker 4: fifteen years every year he comes into a Subway series.
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  Speaker 4: So just make sure whatever you're gonna do be consistent.
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  Speaker 1: Todd, do Yankee fans have a point or should they
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  Speaker 1: leave him alone? Obviously you're gonna boo him a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: But I just my thing is is he is he
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  Speaker 1: public enemy number one for bringing them to a World
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  Speaker 1: Series and then going to another team that was giving
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  Speaker 1: him more money after spending a whopping one year with
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  Speaker 1: the franchise.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's just his stature and who he is
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  Speaker 2: and how he played. He was so darned good for
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  Speaker 2: the Yankees. He was h he was you know, besides
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  Speaker 2: Sho Heeo Tani, he was right there as being one
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  Speaker 2: of the best hitters in baseball last year. I think
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  Speaker 2: that links to Yankee fans that hits home knowing that
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  Speaker 2: they're not gonna get that ever again. I guess maybe
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  Speaker 2: how he did it a little bit, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: you know, with the things that came out, how he
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  Speaker 2: you know, they didn't get along. I don't know all
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  Speaker 2: the stories. But Yankee fans they're gonna be on you.
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  Speaker 2: There's gonna be some that are that aren't gonna boo,
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  Speaker 2: but there's gonna be a lot there they're gonna boo.
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  Speaker 2: And that's just the nature of the beast when you
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  Speaker 2: come to the boogie down Bronx. I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he did anything wrong. Unfortunate for you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the Yankee fans out there and for the teammates they
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  Speaker 2: would have loved to have him there. But now he's
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  Speaker 2: moved on to the New York Mets, and this makes
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  Speaker 2: for what I call must see TV, and I cannot
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  Speaker 2: wait to watch it all.
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  Speaker 1: That's my thing is he didn't really do anything wrong.
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  Speaker 1: And I think even if there wasn't a story about
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  Speaker 1: you know, the security or whatever else he wanted with
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  Speaker 1: the Yanks, that you know, he felt like he was
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  Speaker 1: gonna get with the Mets. I mean, that's really just
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  Speaker 1: a narrative about hiding what really matters to a free
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  Speaker 1: agent who waited until he could get his big pay day. Baby,
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  Speaker 1: you got the.
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  Speaker 4: Biggest ever, the biggest ever.
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  Speaker 1: Tell you every MLB player loves him for raising the
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  Speaker 1: price of free agency. Laddie Jr. Sending him all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of chocolates and flowers and everything else. Thanks for an
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  Speaker 1: extra hondo or whatever he got when the market value
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  Speaker 1: was raised for a player. That's a similar age. So anyway,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna talk more about it. But I mean, one
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  Speaker 1: season there was a really, really great member of the team.
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  Speaker 1: I think there's a difference between villain and just being
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  Speaker 1: jealous that you don't have the player anymore. That's what
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  Speaker 1: it really is.
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  Speaker 3: Upsetting upsetting, for sure, you're upset.
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  Speaker 1: But I mean, hey, do you think that?
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  Speaker 4: All?
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 1: Last one? Do you think that Krats? I'll start with you,
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  Speaker 1: Juan Soto is a Yankee right now? If they all
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  Speaker 1: for him eight hundred and fifty million dollars in guaranteed money,
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  Speaker 1: don't I don't need to hear how crazy the number is.
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  Speaker 1: Just would he be a Yankee if it was eight
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  Speaker 1: fifty right now? Instead of is that the most?
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  Speaker 4: Is that the most he was offered? Is that? Is
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  Speaker 4: that more than any other team offered?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that would be more or even eight hundred obviously
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  Speaker 1: would be more in guaranteed money.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, if he got more, he would be a Yankee.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, I'll down it to eight hundred because obviously
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  Speaker 1: that's still much more than seven sixty five, eight hundred
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  Speaker 1: million dollars. He's a Yankee, Todd Father, eight hundred million dollars?
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  Speaker 1: Is Mon Soto a Yankee or is he a met
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  Speaker 1: At seven sixty five, I.
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  Speaker 3: Still think he's I would say he's a Yankee. Yeah
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Boom, there we go. So I think we know where
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  Speaker 1: we can direct blame. If you really really wanted the
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  Speaker 1: player as a Yanks fan, you could have offered more money.
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  Speaker 1: It's just that's how free agency works, and that's how
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  Speaker 1: life works for certain employees too. If they're working at
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  Speaker 1: a big company and you know they're in tech, and
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  Speaker 1: then another company calls them and says, hey, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you an extra fifty g's or whatever they're leaving,
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  Speaker 1: they're probably don't pull them out of the office. Respect
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  Speaker 1: old teammate Jacob de Gram at the best start of
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  Speaker 1: his Texas Rangers career and it comes against the team
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  Speaker 1: that he actually had never faced in the regular season.
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  Speaker 1: He'd faced the Astros a bunch of times in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: That doesn't mean anything, but he was dealing and he
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  Speaker 1: had some help from his defense. But this is gonna
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  Speaker 1: be a fun series, the lone star series with the
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  Speaker 1: Rangers and the Astros and Hunter Browns, a cy young
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  Speaker 1: candidate on the other side. So his degraminator back and
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  Speaker 1: do they need to make sure that you know, they
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  Speaker 1: kind of bubble lightly bubble wrap him, although not really
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  Speaker 1: because the Rangers need to get into the playoffs. This
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  Speaker 1: is this is the good stuff. Man. He's still going.
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  Speaker 1: He's still kicking like this.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you can you can see in his press
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  Speaker 2: conference too. He was he was let up a little
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  Speaker 2: bit with excitement the way Jacob does.
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  Speaker 3: I think. Taken away from this, he was throwing his
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  Speaker 3: fast in the upper nineties.
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  Speaker 2: All the way until late innings. I think that's a
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  Speaker 2: big key what I saw. I think his best pitch
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  Speaker 2: is that cut slider that he throws in the low
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  Speaker 2: nineties when those pitchers are both on. That fastball has
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  Speaker 2: a little rise action to it. It stays on one plane,
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  Speaker 2: but it gets on you. It's exciting, and he looks
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  Speaker 2: like the Jacob de Gram over there. And there's that
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  Speaker 2: little slider as we're watching here. It's just it's like
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  Speaker 2: a baby cutter, but it has so much spunk and
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  Speaker 2: you know, tilt to it.
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  Speaker 3: It's it's just an absolute devastating pitch.
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  Speaker 2: And then everything looks like, you know, everything works off
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  Speaker 2: the fastball, and for him, everything was working, and he
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  Speaker 2: was mostly down in the zone and that's where you
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  Speaker 2: want to live, and he lived on that outer part.
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  Speaker 3: Two as well.
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  Speaker 2: It was the Jacob de Gram of old, the degominator
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  Speaker 2: they called him in New York. And excuse me, just
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  Speaker 2: got some thunder. So everybody's excited over.
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  Speaker 4: Here in Jersey, like thor thunder.
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  Speaker 3: Oh geez, I think thor Yeah, I think Cindergard was excited.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, Okay, that's where I thought you were going with that.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty twenty twenty twenty one April twenty third, twenty twenty
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  Speaker 4: one was the last time he has gone more than
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  Speaker 4: eight innings. We're not bubble wrapping here, Scott. We're not
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  Speaker 4: bubble wrapping them. If they give him the leash to
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  Speaker 4: go eight. His manager, who knows how to take care
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  Speaker 4: of a bullpen, who knows how to work pitchers and
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  Speaker 4: get the most out of him throughout a season and
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  Speaker 4: then also the playoffs, if he lets him go to
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  Speaker 4: the eighth like he did last night, and I get it,
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  Speaker 4: he was dominant. Hunter Brown was also dominant. But that
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  Speaker 4: is an incredible sign to see and to me, there's
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  Speaker 4: no bubble wrap. You can't but it's not. We got
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  Speaker 4: to stop bubble wrapping this guy. He got hurt when
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  Speaker 4: he was bubble wrapped and didn't go deep into games.
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  Speaker 4: He's got to figure it out or the Rangers may
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  Speaker 4: not make the playoffs, let alone win.
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  Speaker 1: In the playoffs. Yeah, and Jake Berger to the rescue. Mean,
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Brown was ridiculous yesterday he had one cutter that
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  Speaker 1: was a little flat. That was a mistake pitch. And
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  Speaker 1: that's the big league's folks. Often a big league is
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  Speaker 1: not missing that one pitch that he gets, right, Todd, Father,
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  Speaker 1: You've faced aces where you're like, damn, I mean, there's
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  Speaker 1: not much we can do. We just got to wait
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  Speaker 1: and see if he makes that one mistake. And he did.
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  Speaker 1: And Berger, who's had a rough year and got demoted
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  Speaker 1: and now is back and also is embracing this new
• 11:29
  Speaker 1: pope celebration. And if you want to see more of
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  Speaker 1: that hit up our ft pwayer accout last night. It
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  Speaker 1: was a super cool story. He's doing the cross on
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  Speaker 1: the celebration because he's like, hey, the Pope was a
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  Speaker 1: White Sox fan. He doesn't like that they traded me away.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna give him a little blessing here with my homer.
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  Speaker 1: And he did and that was the difference.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know, to have him go back down
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  Speaker 2: there to kind of, you know, refresh and retrain the mind.
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  Speaker 2: This didn't know and understand that you are a big
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  Speaker 2: league ballplayer. It was a great swing by him, a
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  Speaker 2: little opposite field. Homer just snuck off over the wall,
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  Speaker 2: hit it to the perfect place on a ballpark you
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  Speaker 2: could in Arlington there, yes, and sometimes all you need
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  Speaker 2: is one run. And for Hunter Brown, don't change anything.
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  Speaker 2: He pitched really well. He as well as the Gram,
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  Speaker 2: stayed down in his own pinpoint control. And even when
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  Speaker 2: some of the pitchers weren't where they're supposed to be,
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  Speaker 2: they're still nasty. It's hard to hit, and this is
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  Speaker 2: why you said, Scott, it's such a tough game. But
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  Speaker 2: it was fantastic. If you wanted to watch a really
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  Speaker 2: good game and a good pitching matchup, and you had
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  Speaker 2: like two hours to spare, you should have watched this one.
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  Speaker 3: It was fantastic.
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  Speaker 4: Obviously, we all had Juice on the game yesterday, so
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  Speaker 4: it was different watching it. But it was different watching
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  Speaker 4: it too because it looked like Hunter Brown, who we've
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  Speaker 4: already known when he was just on the show the
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  Speaker 4: other day. We've already known he's kind of taken that
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  Speaker 4: next step. He's kind of taking that step where he's
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  Speaker 4: pushing pushing the limits of how good he can be.
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  Speaker 4: And he's shown that so far. And then you go
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  Speaker 4: up against a guy like the Grom. He's not an idiot,
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  Speaker 4: He's not. Oh, I have no idea who we're going
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  Speaker 4: up against. Oh he gets a zero, I'll match it.
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  Speaker 4: It looked like it was like he was ratcheting it up.
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  Speaker 4: And that whole highlight that we just showed of all
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  Speaker 4: his strikeouts really does him a disservice because that ball
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  Speaker 4: he was running in, I guess he's calling it. That
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  Speaker 4: sinker he's running in allowed him to get those punch
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  Speaker 4: outs on the pitches that when he was struggling last year.
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  Speaker 4: Early last year it was just all four seam. Analytics said, hey,
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  Speaker 4: you know, force seams. They gotta they gotta get a
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  Speaker 4: lot of swings and misses. He wasn't getting those swings
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  Speaker 4: and missus. Now he's running that sinker in or whatever
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  Speaker 4: that is. That thing's running in on those guys, and
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  Speaker 4: then all of a sudden, it's a different plane. That
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  Speaker 4: for Seemer is elite at the top of the zone
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  Speaker 4: when guys can't just sit on it. He's he is pitching.
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  Speaker 4: He's got great stuff, but he is pitching right now,
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  Speaker 4: right now. He might be He might be the one
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  Speaker 4: starting starting the All Star Game if it wasn't for
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  Speaker 4: old Turk Scoogle.
• 14:02
  Speaker 1: The era for Hunter Brown is one four three and Lastly,
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  Speaker 1: I want to cover the offenses for both sides heres.
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  Speaker 1: We'll watch them in the next few days. I highly
• 14:13
  Speaker 1: encourage you to check out our Brett Boone interview from yesterday,
• 14:16
  Speaker 1: the new hitting coach for the Texas Rangers. It's just
• 14:19
  Speaker 1: good stuff on where we're at with our game and
• 14:22
  Speaker 1: with hitting coaches, and we've covered that story a lot
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  Speaker 1: the last couple weeks. Other side, here, I'm on my
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  Speaker 1: way to the studio today Todd Father and I'm listening
• 14:30
  Speaker 1: to Crush City Territory. Chandler Rome, who covers the team
• 14:33
  Speaker 1: for the Athletic is the host of that show. He
• 14:35
  Speaker 1: was riding solo on the show today and it was great,
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  Speaker 1: and he was providing the fan feedback that he's seen
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  Speaker 1: a lot of from Astros fans over the past few weeks.
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  Speaker 1: They're saying the offense is terrible, fire the hitting coach,
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  Speaker 1: all your classic lines, and he was pointing out how, yes,
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  Speaker 1: there are some lineup depth issues. It's not as long
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  Speaker 1: at the bottom, which is pretty much any lineup in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: but was backing up numbers like weighted runs created plus
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  Speaker 1: showing that they've actually been an above average offense over
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  Speaker 1: the past month of games, twenty five games, and that's
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  Speaker 1: despite having I think a couple shoutout losses to the Royals.
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  Speaker 1: So basically, he was stating the case that the Astros
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  Speaker 1: offense is fine, and the fact that he gets quite
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  Speaker 1: a few reply tweets yesterday about how much their offense
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  Speaker 1: stinks is kind of silly because they ran into Jacob
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  Speaker 1: de Grom. Like his reply at one point last night
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  Speaker 1: to one of the Astros fans was just like, it's
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  Speaker 1: Jacob de Grom. That's it, That's all I have to say.
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  Speaker 1: And this was vintage de Grom.
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  Speaker 2: Listen, you want to see this. If you're a baseball fan,
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  Speaker 2: you want to see the old school de Gram. It's
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  Speaker 2: so exciting to watch. I was fortunate enough to play
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: behind him, and you know, sometimes you're sitting there like
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  Speaker 2: I don't even need to be here right now, knowing
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  Speaker 2: how nasty this guy is. So we want to see that.
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  Speaker 2: We want to see everybody healthy when we want to
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  Speaker 2: see Jacob de Grom lead this team and take this
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  Speaker 2: team to get to the playoffs, because when he's in
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  Speaker 2: playoff mode, oh he's nasty. You can put him up
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  Speaker 2: there with the Verlanders of the world. Insurers of the world,
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  Speaker 2: you know when he's right. So again, this is really
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  Speaker 2: really nice thing and really really fun to watch. I
• 16:13
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, but you're also on a show with two
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  Speaker 4: it no way, Like Todd still thinks he's three months
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  Speaker 1: Bbblehead nights. I mean, every time he has a Bobblehead night,
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  Speaker 1: that they showed off. It was the Mister fifty to
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  Speaker 1: fifty bobble And of course the place erupts and there's
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  Speaker 1: But then you also get to see him put on
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  Speaker 1: a show. I mean, he had another huge day yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: Every time he's got one of these, it's like he
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  Speaker 1: plays up to the promo. I mean, he is a
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  Speaker 2: You need to have a series like one one a month,
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  Speaker 2: like pins at the Low Lag World series, like you
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: have a set, so this guy would just keep going
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: off and off absolutely amazing. You just watch people don't
• 20:05
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  Speaker 3: He's gonna be fine if you keep doing that. Have
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  Speaker 3: one sliding, one catching, one throwing one hitting all that bunting.
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  Speaker 3: I don't care what you do. Backflip any type of
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• 20:46
  Speaker 4: You're not supposed to slide with your hand down the ground.
• 20:48
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• 20:51
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• 21:00
  Speaker 1: Oh wow, krats got dark on us just right here.
• 21:05
  Speaker 4: Just saying you saw it. What do you What do
• 21:08
  Speaker 4: you teach Todd? You teach hands up, hands up when
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• 21:16
  Speaker 4: I don't think I've ever seen him slide hands first.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: No, I rarely did too, only on if I needed
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: to get a round a guy at home plate or
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: something like that. I remember I broke my hand when
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  Speaker 2: I was younger sliding in the third my first time.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: Playing on a bigger field. It was muddy.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: When flipped over, I couldn't even hold the bat. I'm like,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: I'm never doing that again.
• 21:36
  Speaker 4: So if show Hayes show show Hay's big and big
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: spots like that, you know it's like his night. He's
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: got a lot of fanfare. Should we doubled down on
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: like a hits runs and RBIs tonight for Old Show.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Hey because hey An, I'm Helays of the Angels.
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: No, it's they're not giving anything out. It's giveaways. Giveaways
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: are the lock.
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: Gives the playoffs?
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: Do it during the Yeah, right, challenge him, Todd Father.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: I always play by the heat check rule, right, Like,
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: is this a trend that is so on the money
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: that you should just be giving something out, you know,
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: for every playoff game? And see if he hits a
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: homer for every playoff game. I mean you might be
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: watching this right now thinking it's dumb, but it is true.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: I mean, every time he's got something cooked up with
• 22:29
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• 22:32
  Speaker 1: thing I want to ask you guys about, and Krats
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: already actually answered this yesterday, so I'm gonna see if
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: Todd Father can give us a different answer. Todd Father,
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: twenty four year old top catching prospect for the Dodgers,
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Dalton Rushing gets called up, made his major league debut yesterday.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: Uh that's a fun debut. Oh wow, I'm on a
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: team that won nineteen to two over the A's and
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: they get to watch, oh tany homer on his bibble
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: night and kim Off has been off to an awesome start.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: Rushing had I think he saw eleven pitches in his
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: first two played appearances and only swung twice, had a
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: hit in his second at bat. There's a nice Dalton
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: rushing auto that I'm sure is worth a pretty penny,
• 23:12
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• 23:15
  Speaker 1: some slattery right there. Right, that's nice.
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: That's the dream card right there.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, that's a really cool card. Okay, should
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: he be up in the big leagues? Todd Father? When
• 23:27
  Speaker 1: Will Smith is the longtime starting catcher for the Dodgers.
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: I'm not going to tell you where each of us stand,
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: but there was heated debate yesterday.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: Yet we're talking about catchers.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and let me know if you need any
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: other context. Right, obviously, you know what Will Smith brings
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: to the table rushing was hitting the crap out of
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: triple A pitching. And he's twenty four years old. So
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: do you think that he should be up in the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: bigs right now? Getting a starter two a week. He
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: is learning some outfield, maybe get some of that action,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: maybe some DH action. But should he be there or
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: should he be ironating in the minor leagues until he
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: can get more consistent playing time.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: First off, Krafty, wipe the snarl off your face. You
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: look like you're gonna get upset. Second it's the mustache.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: The mustache makes me look I'm just as happy as
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: I normally am.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: Got you the same face, Scotty. How many more years
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: does Will Smith have on his contract?
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: A billion? I mean seven or eight?
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: And he's got a lot, right m hm oh man,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: this is tough.
• 24:29
  Speaker 3: Oh, this is really hard.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: They should rushing sit in the miners until he's thirty five.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, obviously the boys yesterday Kratz and AJ said
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: you got to trade him. But as you know, you
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: can't just magically snap your fingers and trade someone. And
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: you want to have death just in case there's a problem.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: So when you have, yes, you you bring his behind
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: up and you put toon both of them. In my opinion,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: you put tune them both. Give you give will four,
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: You give him two? Maybe you know, give show hey
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: and off what I don't know. He's hitting that well,
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: screw trading and keep him. Let's see what he does
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: right now with the Dodgers. Yeah, give him a chance,
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: give him a chance.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: Cheers given show, hey, it bats off because the dude
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: hit twenty five homers in the in the in the
• 25:21
  Speaker 4: minor leagues. No, the reason exactly what Scott just said
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: proves our point. You need depth. You don't know what's
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: gonna happen. No position is more volatile than that one
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: in the field. Obviously, pitching, you know the Dodgers and
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the Rays, they break all their pitchers. But catching you
• 25:41
  Speaker 4: won depth. What did Austin Barnes do to deserve to
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: be DFAED People are gonna be like, oh, he was
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: only hitting two fourteen. His ops boss was forty four.
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: I get that. My guy is playing once every six days.
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: Before he was playing once every five days. But since
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: they go on a seven man rotation, he only gets
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: to catch one of these dudes, and he's catching and
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: receiving at an elite level. Will Smith is part of
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: your star studded all star lineup. Will Smith does not
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: need days off for Dalton Rushing to get to play instead.
• 26:19
  Speaker 4: Unless Will Smith is like, you know what, I'm gonna
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: be like Mookie, I'm gonna go play some second base.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go play some right field. No, Will Smith
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: is your starting catcher. Dalton Rushing is a future big
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: league starting catcher based on what he has done in
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: the minor leagues.
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Okay, so.
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: Go ahead, Yeah, Well, first off, I mean, top father,
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: I don't feel like that was a really good voiceover
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: impression because he's like.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Oh, what are you gonna sorry?
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: Plus no, it's a forty seven ops plus from Austin Barnes.
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: And according to your math, if Dalton Rushing is only
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: getting a couple starts a week, he's going to be
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: a bad hitter at the plate. I bet you he's
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: going to be a better offensive contributor to a team that, wait,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: hold up, might not win the division or might have
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: to fight for it till the end, and those at
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: bats make a difference, and you want him there. And also,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: injuries happened. They seem to happen earn more so with
• 27:13
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• 27:14
  Speaker 3: So if everything worked everything time like.
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: You did last year, you've got a guy that can
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: come in here Todd Father and Rushing and be a
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: really good starting catcher if he lives up to what
• 27:25
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• 27:29
  Speaker 2: You can't bring him up and not play him that
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: that would be a problem for me, like knowing how
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: good he is, Like they're bringing this guy up, what
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: to sit the bench? No, I this is why I'm
• 27:41
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• 27:44
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• 27:47
  Speaker 2: for knowing minor league guys and being a guy they
• 27:51
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• 27:54
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• 27:57
  Speaker 2: a sudden everything changes a little bit. You can go
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: back down and struggle, but you bring this guy up
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• 28:05
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  Speaker 3: No? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 4: He's never not played. He's never not played. I would
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  Speaker 4: his entire career, whether for Dalton rushing it's been three
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• 30:17
  Speaker 4: Barnes where you had that depth he was still playing
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• 31:20
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• 31:22
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• 31:24
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• 31:27
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• 31:33
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  Speaker 4: But yes, look at Tran Grisham, Sorry, look a look
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• 31:41
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• 31:46
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  Speaker 3: Listen, I've been a part of this one. The Ohio
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  Speaker 3: Cup is pretty cool.
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  Speaker 2: Man, Cleveland versus Cincinnati, there's some bragging rights over there.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as far east as possible against as far west.
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  Speaker 2: I've been in all I mean, the Cubs crossed, I've been,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, the greatest state in the Union is Pennsylvania,
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  Speaker 4: so obviously, yeah, because of all the new Jersey teams
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  Speaker 4: that are out there. We're talking about rivalry in Major
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  Speaker 4: That's the best part of the Pittsburgh Philly rivalry is
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go. We're back. We're talking about
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  Speaker 1: Ronald Lucunya Junior and in a parent apology that was
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  Speaker 1: made recently as he's getting close to returning, maybe another
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  Speaker 1: week or so until we got Ashunya back week week
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  Speaker 1: and a half with the Braves. So remember, I mean
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  Speaker 1: you have to take us back here. A few weeks
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: when he said if it were me, they would take
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: me out of the game talking about Dared Kelnick and
• 37:29
  Speaker 1: how he pimped what was it a single? I guess
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: it turned into and then he's out at second. Yeah,
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: so we talked a lot about that part. Now let's
• 37:40
  Speaker 1: spin it forward here, Mark Bowman tweet. Akunya says he
• 37:44
  Speaker 1: apologized to Snicker and his teammates for the social media posts.
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: He blamed the frustration he felt as he remained unavailable
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: while the team was losing. I actually like this. I mean, obviously,
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: I like when a player speaks his mind, but then
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: the apology part of this and why it's like teams
• 38:01
  Speaker 1: losing a little it makes just to go play ball.
• 38:03
  Speaker 1: Like Kratz always mentions how Cune wants to play winter ball,
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  Speaker 1: he wants to play. I mean, this is if I'm
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: a fan, this is the kind of guy I want
• 38:10
  Speaker 1: on my team. He's sitting there, he's so pissed. He's
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: just he's got to do something, so he's doing it
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  Speaker 1: on socials.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I gotta jump in here. I don't agree with
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: you at all. I got to be honest. Were you
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: being funny or were you or with that?
• 38:25
  Speaker 1: No, I'm not I'm not talking about if it was
• 38:28
  Speaker 1: right or wrong to do the socialia. My point is,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: now it happened, Okay. Do you like the way that
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: he apologized and said, hey, it's just to let it
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: at home and watch my team play.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, I don't mind that.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I don't mind that, But to make that the excuse
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: of why you said that, I would have to disagree.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: So some things are better left on set in my opinion.
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: But I don't think it's that big of a deal
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that we need to harp on it. But yeah, I
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: want to play. Yeah, I love that. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: But to kind of blame that on the comment you made,
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: I mean, I would hope Cratzy's on my side here.
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  Speaker 4: You know, you know what people are like, Ah, you
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: know that guy he's got you know, he gets a
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: little loose with the tongue when he's drinking, just because
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  Speaker 4: your inhibitions are down. That wasn't just like what he
• 39:18
  Speaker 4: didn't run it out. Oh man, I wonder if that
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  Speaker 4: was me. I never even really thought about that. The fact, No,
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: he feels slighted. He said that is he upset he's
• 39:29
  Speaker 4: not playing. Yeah, he's upset he's not playing. That's not
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: why he said it that to me and only he
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: can answer this. To me, that was pent up and
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: he's felt that way. Maybe he feels in some superstars
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: they feel like they should be treated differently or they
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: should be treated a certain way. To me that it
• 39:53
  Speaker 4: just boiled over in a in a in a tweet
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  Speaker 4: or a or a post.
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was fun funny, like, hey, if you're
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: dranking and you might say something, right, I mean for
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: him that's watching games, yeah, right, Acuna. Though for him,
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: it's watching games. The dude loves to play, watching the
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: team that he's on the sidelines. I get what you
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: guys are saying, Okay, And do I think that Acunya
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: genuinely feels that way, Yes, but I'm saying the reason
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: that he took it to I'm going to actually post
• 40:33
  Speaker 1: about it does have to do with him actually paying
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: attention to the team. The quote, the whole thing. It's
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: not like he's just I mean in La la land,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: like I mean, the best example of way that I
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: can come up with, because I know this was true
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: when Joannassessments was hurt, they didn't know where he was.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: He was like out in the pasture with like in
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: the farm and party whatever the heck he was doing.
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: He couldn't tell you one thing about the team. Acuna
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: is like, I know what I know the plays, I
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: know what people are saying. Obviously it's the social media
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: world that that's changed even since that time period. But
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Sesis and Aucuna, in terms of paying attention, wanted to
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: play against.
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  Speaker 3: CESSP could still play.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: I think right now, if he had an opportunity, he'd
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: go out and hit thirty homers.
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  Speaker 4: He tried, He tried to get a tryout. I don't
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: think anybody, I don't think anybody wants that act. But
• 41:25
  Speaker 4: made this about him. Zero of this, zero of this instant,
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: zero of what was going on in the field had
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: anything to do with Acuna, and yet he chose to
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: be like, Hi, everybody, Hi, everybody, look at me. I'm
• 41:43
  Speaker 4: not getting any attention. I am mad, I am being
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: treated poorly.
• 41:51
  Speaker 1: There you go, Well, he got attention, and then we
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: also found out that there were a lot of little
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: things that caused him to get benched a couple of
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: times that we didn't even know about initially. So you
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: ask for a microscope, you got a microscope, and he's
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: okay with it. But obviously I'm biased because I just
• 42:08
  Speaker 1: thought it was a fun topic.
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  Speaker 3: But there you go.
• 42:11
  Speaker 1: I can see I can see where it hits. So
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: what would okay, last thing, because we only got thirty seconds,
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: what would have been the right apology thirty seconds? What
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: because you want him to apologize he did? What would
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: you have wanted him to say, I'm I'm wrong for
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: saying like he believes what he believes.
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: I'm wrong for posting it. That's it. Okay, I shouldn't
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: have posted it.
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: I didn't posted it.
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, he did say that he apologized for posting it.
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there you go.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: So Darth Cote in the chat said, what about a
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: Pirate's Mariner's piss series? So you could have a five
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: to one score in favor of Seattle? P one five s.
• 43:05
  Speaker 1: I feel like that's me at the eye doctor the
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  Speaker 1: other day. P one five s.
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  Speaker 4: Poops and farts are just a little bit funnier than piss. Yeah,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: I have no idea, Well, I have no idea, Like,
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: do you even hear a fart? Think about it? People?
• 43:20
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: Scott a lot. I let him go in here all
• 43:28
  Speaker 2: the time with Scott.
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: He enjoys it.
• 43:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I do, I do. Yeah, it creates you know
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: It's like a sound bath in there creates these vibrations
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: across the entire facility. That's why probably the audience drops
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: off in the last few minutes of the show. I've
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: finally figured it out. It took me a while. But
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: next week, Matt Carpenter on Monday just announced his retirement.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: So all the tea from Mack Carpenter over the course
• 43:54
  Speaker 1: of his career is coming out on Monday, and Pistol Pete,
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: Polar Bear Pete Wednesday next week.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go, how you do it? Double down, Let's go.
• 44:08
  Speaker 4: Pete's coming back. Let's get an old bathroom. Pete Old
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: got a ball for mister Sanga. Pete, I mean one time,
• 44:15
  Speaker 4: show up on time, Pete.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: You saw that, Todd, No, I didn't. Oh man, we
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: got a minute, So I'll tell you real quick. Because
• 44:23
  Speaker 1: we talked about the other day, We're gonna ask Pete
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: about it. So they delayed the game for like ten
• 44:28
  Speaker 1: minutes to talk about this pitchclock violation. Before the inning started,
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: Pete wasn't out there in time. He came out like
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: two seconds later, and so they gave ball one to
• 44:36
  Speaker 1: Sanga and Pete was in the dugout. I think he
• 44:39
  Speaker 1: was coming from the bathroom, if I had to guess,
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: And it's not like he's what he does that once
• 44:43
  Speaker 1: a year maybe. So they met about it the Yumps,
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: then they made the call. Then Mendoza came out to
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: talk about it. So the two seconds turned into ten
• 44:51
  Speaker 1: minutes and they could have just given him, you know,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: a one time bathroom exception.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Got them they need, They need bathroom exceptions. Now for
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: the clock. That's gonna be a new rule in about
• 45:02
  Speaker 2: a week. We'll figure it out.
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: Zero chill by the umpires, zero.
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: Man, We're gonna go by how many how many wipe
• 45:11
  Speaker 2: you take. That's that's gonna be the.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Point transition investigation. Next week we'll talk to Pete about it.