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Mayday! The Rockies are BAD. · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: What are the Rockies doing?
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Speaker 2: So, as you may remember, a couple of weeks ago,
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Speaker 2: we talked a little bit about the Pirates, uh after
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Speaker 2: they had fired their manager, Derrick Shelton. It was called
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Speaker 2: into question once again, as that question probably comes up
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Speaker 2: every single year for Pirates fans, what are we doing?
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Speaker 1: But fortunately we know now what it is.
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Speaker 2: So I decided to do the same, the same breakdown
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Speaker 2: or something similar for.
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Speaker 1: The Colorado Rockies because they are bad. They're really, really,
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Speaker 1: really bad, and I feel for him.
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Speaker 2: I know some of the guys on the team. You know,
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Speaker 2: I've been on really bad teams before, but my god,
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Speaker 2: they're they're really really bad. So let's talk a little
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Speaker 2: bit about how bad that this team is. The Colorado
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Speaker 2: Rockies are currently nine and forty four. If you stretch
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Speaker 2: that out for the rest of the season, they will
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Speaker 2: end twenty eight to one hundred and thirty four, which
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Speaker 2: will be the worst record in the history of modern baseball,
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Speaker 2: but kind of a lot, and it will break a
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Speaker 2: record that was set last year, so at least it's
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Speaker 2: not a long standing record.
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Speaker 1: But if they continue the way that they are continuing.
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Speaker 2: It is it is. I there's a lot to go through.
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Speaker 2: Let's just get into it. I don't even I can't even.
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Speaker 2: I can't even set this up. It's so bad, all right,
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Speaker 2: So basically I went and I found my ten. Like
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Speaker 2: most unbelievable elements or statistics about this season so far,
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Speaker 2: they kind of tell you what level.
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Speaker 1: Of bad we are at, because there's always bad teams.
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Speaker 2: It's spaseball, right. Sometimes you have your team gets hurt.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes your whole team gets hurt and you're running out
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Speaker 2: the triple A team. Like, a lot of these things happen.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes people pack it in. Sometimes there's scandals, you know,
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Speaker 2: there's all kinds of things going in. None of that
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Speaker 2: seems to be the issue. They haven't lost a ton
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Speaker 2: of people except for Chris Bryant, but I'll be honest,
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Speaker 2: I don't know how you can count on him at
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Speaker 2: any for anything at this point. So let's talk about
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Speaker 2: statistically how bad that they truly are. Number One, as
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Speaker 2: a team, they have a negative three point eight b war,
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Speaker 2: which means Baseball Reference thinks that if they just put
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Speaker 2: replacement level, if they can replace their entire team with
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Speaker 2: replacement level players, they would win more games. What that
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Speaker 2: is hard to do? That is so hard to do.
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Speaker 2: I believe there's been thirty nine players that have played
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Speaker 2: in the game for them this year, so they actually
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Speaker 2: have It's not necessarily a lot of a ton of injuries.
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Speaker 2: There's been some injuries, but there's been also a lot
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Speaker 2: of just turnover from they have a lot of young
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Speaker 2: guys whatever. So, like I just said, of the number two,
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Speaker 2: of the thirty nine players that have appeared in the game,
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Speaker 2: only ten have a positive war. There's only ten guys
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Speaker 2: who appeared in the game, one quarter having a positive
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Speaker 2: impact on their ability to win game in a war way.
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Speaker 1: So I'm using B war.
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Speaker 2: If you guys remember we talked about war like six
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Speaker 2: seven weeks ago and the difference of differences between fangrafts
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Speaker 2: war and Baseball reference. War is baseball reference, War is
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Speaker 2: results based. Fangraphs is predictive. So we use B war
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Speaker 2: because it's the war that they have earned so far
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Speaker 2: that has happened. So I try to go with that
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Speaker 2: when we're talking about things that are happening regular staying
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Speaker 2: in the.
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Speaker 1: Same war category.
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Speaker 2: The guy leading their team in war is this gentleman,
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Speaker 2: Jake Bird. He is a one point four war but
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Speaker 2: he is a middle reliever you know how hard it
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Speaker 2: is to have a middle reliever be your highest war player.
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Speaker 1: Let me put this in perspective for you.
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Speaker 2: The highest war pretty much any middle reliever will have
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Speaker 2: all year. It will be like a two and a half. Okay,
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Speaker 2: every team's third outfielder on a solid team.
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Speaker 1: Has more than a two and a half wor.
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Speaker 2: So, it's like that's like a that's like a utility
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Speaker 2: outfielder is good year.
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Speaker 1: Like that is yikes. That's a yikes. That's a big yikes.
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Speaker 2: But hey, shout out to my boy bird getting the
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Speaker 2: job done and he is having a good year.
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Speaker 1: If you go look at stats fact.
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Speaker 2: Number four, they have a negative one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 2: one run differential meeting the other team has scored one
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Speaker 2: hundred and seventy one more runs than them. That's last
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Speaker 2: in the MLB by seventy six runs. Twenty ninth is
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Speaker 2: the Baltimore Oil is.
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Speaker 1: At negative ninety five. That's a whole mess in its own.
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Speaker 2: They have seventy six less runs than that, and they
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Speaker 2: are one hundred and seventy two runs behind the second
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Speaker 2: worst team in the NL West, that is their Arizona Diamondbacks.
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Speaker 2: So you tough let's let's I'll give you some perspective
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Speaker 2: on that. Let's extrapolate that over one hundred and sixty games,
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Speaker 2: that puts them on pace for negative five hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty six season. That would break the record set by
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Speaker 2: the thirty two Red Sox by one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 2: seven runs. So they would just break it by like
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Speaker 2: thirty percent. It's almost as if It's almost as if
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Speaker 2: there was like juice balls and everyone broke the home
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Speaker 2: run record in the same year. Except except this is
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Speaker 2: just their their poor play, which is rough. It's rough
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Speaker 2: out here, and let's see some f's up in the
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Speaker 2: chat for that.
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Speaker 1: That's not great.
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Speaker 2: Number six starters have a seven point three one RARA combined,
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Speaker 2: So we are almost two months of the YEA and
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Speaker 2: they have over a seven as a as a staff.
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Speaker 1: Shay, it was three hundred and eight home runs.
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Speaker 2: By the way, starters have not done very well, though
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Speaker 2: a couple of them have thrown a little bit better recently.
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Speaker 1: That's got to get.
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Speaker 2: Better, and that is a major reason why they are
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Speaker 2: losing so many games. Manager Bud Black was fired on
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Speaker 2: May eleventh when the team was seven and thirty three.
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Speaker 2: They are now two and eleven since, so problem not solved.
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Speaker 2: But Bud Black was the manager there for nine years
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Speaker 2: and he went through a lot of these these stretches.
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Speaker 2: But sometimes the stretch is just too bad to defend.
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Speaker 1: All right. Number eight.
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Speaker 2: As a team, they have a ninety seventy six fielder percentage,
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Speaker 2: which is horrendous.
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Speaker 1: That's really really bad.
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Speaker 2: That's they fields ninety seven point six percent of balls cleanly,
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Speaker 2: which is thirtieth in the MLB by like I think
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Speaker 2: like like three percent or something like some crazy high number.
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Speaker 2: So not three percent, that's that would put them over
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Speaker 2: one hundred zero point three percent. So not not as
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Speaker 2: bad as I said it, but still pretty bad.
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Speaker 1: Last two Doozies.
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Speaker 2: They have been shut out eight times this season in
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Speaker 2: fifteen point one percent of games total, so one of
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Speaker 2: every six games they don't score any runs. Yanks, And
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Speaker 2: they have been swept eight times out of seventeen series
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Speaker 2: and have yet to win any of them. So I
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Speaker 2: guess the question I have to pose, because this happens
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Speaker 2: every year, no matter how bad a team is, they're
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Speaker 2: gonna sweep someone. Who do you think they're gonna sweep?
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Speaker 2: My guess is the Dodgers I bet you they sweep
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers at least once.
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Speaker 1: At least once. Yikes.
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Speaker 2: But I want to know what you guys think, Well,
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Speaker 2: what do you guys need to.
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Speaker 1: Who do you think they're going to be.
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Speaker 2: In in their first series? Who's gonna be the first
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Speaker 2: one that loses the series to them? It's got to
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Speaker 2: be soon, right, It's got to be. So a couple
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Speaker 2: of caveats. I don't want to I want to point
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Speaker 2: this up. This is gonna be really important to know.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of like I don't want to say misinformation,
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Speaker 2: but there's a lot of like wrong information about how
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Speaker 2: pitching changes.
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Speaker 1: In how the altitude change is pitching.
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Speaker 2: It really really affects pitching a lot, like from a
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Speaker 2: physics scientific standpoint, it does.
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Speaker 1: This is going to be important in a minute.
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Speaker 2: So I remember my data from pitching in Colorado. I
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Speaker 2: was averaging sixteen point five inches of vertical like ride
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Speaker 2: on my fastball. In that outing it was twelve point
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Speaker 2: one percent, so I lost four inches of ride, which
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Speaker 2: means the air that you get underneath your ball to
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Speaker 2: keep it in the air isn't there. So the ball
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Speaker 2: it just gravity takes the ball more. The sweeper also
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Speaker 2: same thing. The horizontal gets hurt because there's no air
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Speaker 2: underneath the ball. That's how you get it. So basically
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Speaker 2: it just turns into a curve ball. It's kind of dumpy,
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Speaker 2: though you still get a lot of depth. Sweepers don't
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Speaker 2: really work either. The only pitch that stays kind of
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Speaker 2: the same is an.
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Speaker 1: Old school gyro slider. It's pretty close.
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Speaker 2: You lose a little bit of moot depth, but not
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Speaker 2: a ton you can it'll move similarly to the way
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Speaker 2: it normally moves. That is the only pitch that works
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Speaker 2: kind of well there or just close to normal. So
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Speaker 2: it's hard to pitch there no matter what stuff you have,
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Speaker 2: it's hard to pitch there. But the Rockies have a
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Speaker 2: problem outside of like not understanding this stuff, they don't
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Speaker 2: really act on this at all either.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about this.
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Speaker 2: Ooh, we have some breaking news really quick before we
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Speaker 2: move on. Chris Taylor is signed with the Angels and
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Speaker 2: will be their center field in center field for them.
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Speaker 1: Tonight against Yankees. So congratulates to Chris tail.
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Speaker 2: Taylor picked back up for all you fantasy heads out there,
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Speaker 2: all right back to it. So they're bad they're bad,
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Speaker 2: and we know they're bad, and the altitude affects it.
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Speaker 1: And it's sad they gotten so bad though, that.
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Speaker 2: The team's actually getting sued by a fan partially because
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Speaker 2: they're so bad.
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Speaker 1: So let me tell you a little bit about that.
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Speaker 2: The Rockies are being suits for being so awful that
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Speaker 2: they cause injuries. Now that's a little bit of a
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Speaker 2: clickbait title. That's not the main thing being positive at them.
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Speaker 2: But as of May twenty fifth, this is yesterday two
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Speaker 2: to five. Timothy Rocal, a Colorado Rockies fan, has filed
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Speaker 2: a lawsuit against the team following a severe injury he's
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Speaker 2: sustained during a game at Course Field in July twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty three. Rochel was attending the game in a luxury
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Speaker 2: suite is Bad, and was struck in the right eye
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Speaker 2: by a foul ball, resulting in what he describes as
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Speaker 2: catastrophic and permanent injuries.
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Speaker 1: Is he I hope you can see.
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Speaker 2: The circumstances, He basically said, because of the way the
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Speaker 2: studio of the suite was set up that you couldn't
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Speaker 2: see the ball entering, Like you couldn't see the field,
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Speaker 2: so you can tell if there.
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Speaker 1: Was a ball coming.
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Speaker 2: So you couldn't be aware, Okay, So like because you're
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Speaker 2: kind of farther back, it's like you can get the
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Speaker 2: ball up and over. It's almost like, I don't know,
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Speaker 2: having suites just outside the fence of like a high
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Speaker 2: school game, but like having it covered, you'll not be
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Speaker 2: able to see if the ball's coming at you or not,
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Speaker 2: which you are technically close enough to get hit. So
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Speaker 2: you got to know about that stuff. That's valid in
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Speaker 2: my opinion. There's also it also asserts that the Rockies
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Speaker 2: failed to extend productive netting AQUADU adequately, as required by
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Speaker 2: all Major League ballparks, So they're thinking that it had
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Speaker 2: they extended their netting higher, that the ball wouldn't have
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Speaker 2: gotten in the suite and this wouldn't have been a problem.
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Speaker 2: But the last thing that was positive in this lawsuit
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Speaker 2: was the claim that the Rockies prolonged poor on field
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Speaker 2: performances led to a game day environment where spectators, particularly
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Speaker 2: in luxury suites, are less engaged with the action. So
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Speaker 2: they're like, hey, us up there, the rich people up there,
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Speaker 2: you guys suck so bad that not only do the
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Speaker 2: people down there not want to watch, but if we
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Speaker 2: can't see the game we're definitely watching, not watching, this
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Speaker 2: travesty of a team you've put together.
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Speaker 1: So it is officially in the.
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Speaker 2: A charge positive in the lawsuit, which is going to
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Speaker 2: be really really interesting if it is. If that's carried
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Speaker 2: through and he wins any sort of settlement from the
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Speaker 2: fact that the team's bad, then owners will have to
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Speaker 2: think about how the play on the field could effectively
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Speaker 2: open them up to liability.
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Speaker 1: Is that completely silly? Yeah, of course it is. That's
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Speaker 1: the dumbest that's so dumb.
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Speaker 2: But there's just a tiny, little baby part of me
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Speaker 2: that one seemed to get some money for that, just
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Speaker 2: to see what happens just a little bit, mostly because
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Speaker 2: it doesn't affect me and I don't really care. But
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Speaker 2: and it would be funny. I think that you guys
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Speaker 2: might think it might be funny too.
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Speaker 1: That's just that's just like inherently funny. So what do
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Speaker 1: you think? What do you think?
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Speaker 2: So imagine being so bad that you're getting sued. Can't
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Speaker 2: couldn't be me. But there's also another element to why
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Speaker 2: the Rockies are so bad.
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Speaker 1: So let's talk a little bit about how they can.
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Speaker 2: Get better and what we need to see or what
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Speaker 2: has caused them to get to this point and what we.
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Speaker 1: Need to see moved forward.
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Speaker 2: And just like the Pittsburgh Pirates, it all starts, well,
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Speaker 2: that's their park.
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Speaker 1: That's their park. It's beautiful, isn't it. It's beautiful park.
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Speaker 1: At least the park's beautiful.
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Speaker 2: This man, Dick Monfort, Richard Monfort, the fourth. I don't
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Speaker 2: know if he's a fourth, but Richard Monforth and his
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Speaker 2: brother Charles, because they're always named.
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Speaker 1: Richard and Charles, aren't they.
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Speaker 2: He has been the owner the pro He has basically
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Speaker 2: been an owner of this team, a partial owner since
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Speaker 2: the team's inception in nineteen ninety seven, and they took
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Speaker 2: over operating ownership in two thousand and five.
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Speaker 1: Dick also is a.
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Speaker 2: Very act role in the ownership group when it comes
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Speaker 2: to negotiations. He kind of leads their business negotiations team.
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Speaker 2: He is the guy who sits at the table and
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Speaker 2: says things sometimes which I mean, I don't I don't
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Speaker 2: know Dick personally. I bet you he's actually a really
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Speaker 2: nice guy because he is very loyal. They focus on
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Speaker 2: loyalty a lot in that place, which is a good thing.
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Speaker 1: Most of the time. We'll talk about why maybe not this.
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Speaker 2: Instance is great, but they basically have a reputation of
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Speaker 2: being like a mom and pop shop, meaning like once
14:29
Speaker 2: you go, you're a rocky for life and they'll take
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Speaker 2: care of you. I think that's that's something that just
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Speaker 2: you don't see very much in baseball anymore.
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Speaker 1: So I'm not super sad about it.
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Speaker 2: But part of that mom and pop shop kind of
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Speaker 2: aura is they shirk analytics and like advanced player development.
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Speaker 2: They just kind of just like go off of gut,
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Speaker 2: which we've all seen Moneyball.
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Speaker 1: That was two thousand and one. That was before even
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Speaker 1: about the team.
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Speaker 2: So they are not only they behind in this revolution,
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Speaker 2: they like they haven't engaged with it all. From what
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Speaker 2: I've heard now, I didn't play for them, I didn't
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Speaker 2: never been in the organization, and I don't know to
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Speaker 2: what extent that that is true, but I have heard
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Speaker 2: it from too many people to ignore it at this point. Okay,
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Speaker 2: since he's taken full ownership of the team, they are
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Speaker 2: fourteen hundred and twenty nine and sixteen and seventy, good
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Speaker 2: for a six a four fifty eight winning percentage, which
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Speaker 2: is bad. That is bad.
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Speaker 1: That's a bad winning percentage.
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Speaker 2: Mister Monfort had three of the first six seasons where
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Speaker 2: he was the principal owner, winning seasons, and then only
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Speaker 2: two in the next fourteen. So we are in one
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Speaker 2: of those situations where we have an owner who once
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Speaker 2: he took over, he had some success. By the way,
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Speaker 2: one of those years was two thousand and seven when
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Speaker 2: they went to the World Series.
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Speaker 1: I don't know if you remember what.
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Speaker 2: They rattled off like they won twenty one of their
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Speaker 2: last twenty two games and went in and like swept
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Speaker 2: the first series of the playoffs. Whenever I was like,
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Speaker 2: what is happening the old Matt Hall all days? So
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Speaker 2: that was the third year he owned, alright, and he's
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Speaker 2: been riding that wave ever since. We see this also
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Speaker 2: with Art Moreno, he won a World Series in the
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Speaker 2: first year he took over, even though he bought the
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Speaker 2: team from Disney and then won a World Series and
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Speaker 2: then did got progressively worse for the rest of his
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Speaker 2: ownership tenure. The same thing has happened with Dick, and
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Speaker 2: the same thing kind of has happened with hal Steinbrenner also,
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Speaker 2: so and Jerry Reinsthorp. So a lot of these guys
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Speaker 2: like they get success right away and then they just
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Speaker 2: try to do that stuff over and over again, and
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Speaker 2: then twenty years goes by and here we are and
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Speaker 2: your team's nine and forty four.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So he has not shown that he has.
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Speaker 2: The ability to build a group of people that can
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Speaker 2: win games successfully.
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Speaker 1: I think that's pretty clear.
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Speaker 2: He has only had three different gms in those twenty years.
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Speaker 2: Like I said, Bud Black was the manager for nine years.
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Speaker 2: I am a Bud Black fan. I like Bud a lot.
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Speaker 2: I think there's only so much you can do as
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Speaker 2: a manager. He's from my hometown as well. Another little
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Speaker 2: soft spot. However, in nine years he had a four
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Speaker 2: to forty one winning percentage. He just didn't win. He
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Speaker 2: only had two winning seasons. Like, they just don't win.
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Speaker 2: When you're like, I don't want to tell you they
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Speaker 2: just don't win. But they just capped running the same
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Speaker 2: people out there to make the decisions.
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Speaker 1: The same people made decisions.
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Speaker 2: They kept getting new players and never changed the people
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Speaker 2: making decisions. And when you lose for this much, this long,
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Speaker 2: this consistently, it's probably not the players, is it?
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Speaker 1: Is it? Also?
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Speaker 2: They struggle in free agency, as we all know Chris Bryant,
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Speaker 2: that has not worked out so far. Jake McGee was
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Speaker 2: a tough one right away. They signed the Big three
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Speaker 2: and McGee, Brian Shaw, Wade Davis all together. They all
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Speaker 2: struggled until I believe way Davis threw pretty well in
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Speaker 2: his last year and Brian Shaw maybe had one of
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Speaker 2: those years good. But all three of them sent three
17:53
Speaker 2: year deals that none of those went.
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Speaker 1: Very well at all.
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Speaker 2: They had Ian Desmond who went and was okay but
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Speaker 2: paid like their biggest contract ever at that point. Daniel
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Speaker 2: Murphy came and he was after winning a batting title
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Speaker 2: and was pretty good but not great though they have
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Speaker 2: hit on Michael Goodire won a batting title there and uh,
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Speaker 2: Justin Moore no went there.
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Speaker 1: But they were cheap. They were cheap contracts.
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Speaker 2: So the only thing that's working out is like veteran
18:15
Speaker 2: guys who come in and sign a one year deal,
18:17
Speaker 2: those guys plays pretty well. Nobody else seems to do it.
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Speaker 2: Yet they just keep doing it. They just keep doing
18:21
Speaker 2: it over and over again and again. Like but if
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Speaker 2: you don't have player development and you have no data
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Speaker 2: driven anything, then you're just not gonna But you're not.
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Speaker 1: Gonna develop your player, like you're just not gonna. They
18:32
Speaker 1: just have to run into players. Is what's happening. And
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Speaker 1: I don't wanna I don't wanna.
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Speaker 2: Dunk on their players too much because I think there's
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Speaker 2: only so much you can do as well. You gotta
18:40
Speaker 2: be putt in a position to win. You gotta be
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Speaker 2: given the good information. You gotta be You gotta be
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Speaker 2: open and honest and be able to talk to the
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Speaker 2: people who are teaching.
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Speaker 1: You got to learn.
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Speaker 2: And if the people around you don't aren't very good
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Speaker 2: at it, like what you supposed to do. Like you know,
18:54
Speaker 2: it's like colleges. There are colleges that are better than others.
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Speaker 2: They have better programs, some better information, and better teachers.
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Speaker 2: It's just the way it is, all right. So let's
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Speaker 2: talk a little bit about what we've talked about in
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Speaker 2: the other ones.
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Speaker 1: Dig Monfort, what kind of owner is he? Well, you
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Speaker 1: guessed it. He is an inherited owner.
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Speaker 2: He is someone who inherited his money from his parents
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Speaker 2: and then took over a baseball team. Though he didn't
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Speaker 2: inherit the team from them, he inherited the money. Okay,
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Speaker 2: so then he bought in because he's a big baseball fan.
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Speaker 2: He is, I've heard that about it. He loves being around.
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Speaker 2: He is in view, he is. He is approachable, which
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Speaker 2: is another I think a checkbox in his He does that.
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Speaker 1: And he is loyal.
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Speaker 2: I like those two things. At least from a human standpoint.
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Speaker 2: He sounds like a guy that at least people want
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Speaker 2: to be around, and most billionaires aren't that way because
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Speaker 2: they suck.
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Speaker 1: So I will give him his do accolades for that.
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Speaker 2: But as we talked about last week, inherited inherited owners
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Speaker 2: tend to be slower on this data driven revolution, and
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Speaker 2: his lack of movement at all in that side of things,
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Speaker 2: it lines up pretty well. Also, the nature of where
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Speaker 2: they are and how physics are different means they should
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Speaker 2: be the number one data driven team.
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Speaker 1: They should be.
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Speaker 2: They should be inventing new types of equipment to play there.
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Speaker 1: They should be doing that. Instead, they're just like the.
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Speaker 2: Go be your best, we'll see what happens. They literally
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Speaker 2: have no there's like no analytics people in this thing.
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Speaker 2: They do the bare minimum. They get people the scouting reports,
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Speaker 2: and that's just about it, and it's usually just general
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Speaker 2: stuff and anything else you want. Additionally, you have to
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Speaker 2: go get yourself, which is not how it should be.
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Speaker 1: So they're not data driven.
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Speaker 2: He's an inherited owner who does not make fast decisions,
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Speaker 2: or really he doesn't like to change because things have
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Speaker 2: been good for him so far. That's all he's known
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Speaker 2: is things being good, and sometimes that's what happens. I'm
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Speaker 2: not like mad about these guys about this, but I
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Speaker 2: don't think they would admit that if you ask them,
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Speaker 2: which would be an issue. So you have to grow,
21:03
Speaker 2: and you have to you have to iterate, and you
21:05
Speaker 2: have to adjust, and guys like Dick tend to struggle
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Speaker 2: doing that in baseball.
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Speaker 1: They just tend to not be great sports owners. And
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Speaker 1: I think he's proved that. And they are. They are loyal,
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Speaker 1: but there's such thing as being too loyal.
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Speaker 2: Once again, only three gms in twenty years, they should
21:21
Speaker 2: be having way higher turnover. If they're trying only a
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Speaker 2: couple a couple managers in those years, they should be
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Speaker 2: They should be not letting a manager.
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Speaker 1: Should not be able to stick around.
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Speaker 2: For nine years and have a four forty winning percentage
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Speaker 2: in the major leagues. That shouldn't be That shouldn't be possible.
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Speaker 1: And however, here we are it is and it is
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Speaker 1: not great. So if you are a Rockies fan, unfortunately.
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Speaker 2: You're gonna have to wait for someone who has not
21:54
Speaker 2: been a Rocky in the Rockies organization to come in
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Speaker 2: and get a little bit of leashed make some decisions
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Speaker 2: like that. It has to start there. They have to
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Speaker 2: try that, and they haven't tried it yet. So I
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Speaker 2: wouldn't hold your breath because you might pass out. It
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Speaker 2: might you might be waiting for a while. But until
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Speaker 2: this man makes decisions like that, or another owner comes
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Speaker 2: in and does that, or or that's it. That's really
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Speaker 2: it. It starts at the top of the pyramid. It starts
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Speaker 2: up here, uh, and and being really really committed to
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Speaker 2: making those decisions and making having hard conversations and letting
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Speaker 2: people go that aren't getting the job done. You have
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Speaker 2: to be able to do that, and Dick Montfort has
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Speaker 2: not shown that he has the ability to do that.
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Speaker 2: So that is what it is, and there's that's where
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Speaker 2: we are, and.
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Speaker 1: It's unfortunate, but it is the world we live in.
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Speaker 2: And that is what I believe is wrong with the Rockies,
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Speaker 2: and it's I don't really see a lie at the
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Speaker 2: end of the
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Speaker 1: Look you mean