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The MLB Report with Paul Tipton & Will Retherford (2.174.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome baseball fans to the Central Indian Sports Report for the first edition of the Major League Baseball Report with Uncle Paul Tippton and Will Rutherford And to in 2026 And excited to talk some baseball though.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I barely followed anything.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I've only had time to follow what's been going on here locally So I turned to the two of you and Paul, what's the biggest story of the offseason?
0:32
[SPEAKER_03]: Well, for Will, it must be Wilson Contreras going to the Red Sox.
0:36
[SPEAKER_03]: I was stunned by that move.
0:39
[SPEAKER_03]: So who the Cardinals going to have his catcher?
0:42
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I believe that, that's a good question.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So they've got Iván Herrera, who I think is going to be premier hitter at the MLB level.
0:52
[SPEAKER_01]: He's shown flashes of bad.
0:54
[SPEAKER_01]: He's a career 2.90 hitter.
0:56
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure a lot of pop last year.
0:58
[SPEAKER_01]: If you would just stay at L.C., I think he'd got in a 25 home runs.
1:03
[SPEAKER_01]: I expect that they will probably have Jimmy Crooks as they're opening day catcher and Lee use Iván Herrera as their designated editor.
1:10
[SPEAKER_01]: They traded contraris so Burlisonal moved to first permanently and they obviously traded Arnado.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They traded Brendan Donovan.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They cleared up a lot of space too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think three apps on the log jams they had positionally will see whether that holds true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If it's not Jimmy Crooks, it'll be Iván Herrera starting opening day.
1:32
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's not the position he's most concerned about in the off-season with the Cardinal.
1:37
[SPEAKER_00]: That's for sure.
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[SPEAKER_00]: His favorite card should be no longer a Cardinal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, that's very true.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a sad sad day in the rather-for-the-for-house-hold-win.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Our sweet friend, Brendan Donovan, was traded to Seattle.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think Paul, it makes them immediately the best team in the AL West in terms of roster.
2:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm hard press to say they might be the best team of the A.L.
2:04
[SPEAKER_01]: If you want my honest opinion, I think they're my early pick to be the world series representative for the American League.
2:14
[SPEAKER_01]: They got nothing out of that second-based position.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I mean,
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[SPEAKER_01]: J.P. Crawford is serviceable, but Brandon Donovan is an absolute huge upgrade in terms of line-up potential in terms of positional versatility that J.P. Crawford just couldn't really provide them down the stretch there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying he's the reason they didn't go to the world series, but we said a walk-off hit to send them to the ALCS, but I just think that that was a big improvement and somewhere that they can look and say we are, I think ready for that
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know another place they made an improvement.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Getting rid of.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Gino Suarez.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're, wait a minute.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not thrilled that he's back with the reds?
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[SPEAKER_00]: No.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I love a lot of interest in the Mariners this off season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Since the reds are going to be running away with the NFL Central anyway, I might have more time to devote to the Mariners.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, I think it's going to be a fun team to watch.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're rotations absolutely stacked.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the fact that they were able to get a brain in Donovan, not give up any of their MLB ready to teaching depth was probably a huge win for them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I obviously, with Juno Suarez being traded, I think you're see Donovan probably play some third.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He can play a third base.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's a gold glove, level second base.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When I wouldn't say he's as good at third,
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's not that you're not there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I love their rotation.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that they just have four absolute studs that can just go out there and shove every five days.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's kind of a team.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited to watch, especially with them playing a lot of late games.
4:01
[SPEAKER_01]: I my brain and don't have a new fandom will probably turn to me watching some some more mayor's games and I have in years past.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I'm also very near the Pioria spring training home of the mariners.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I should get over there and check them out too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There are team on the rise.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I do think it's fair to question, you're not going to get 60 bombs from Cal Raleigh probably again.
4:35
[SPEAKER_01]: And I think the question for me with the mariners is going to be,
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[SPEAKER_01]: maintained the level of success they had last year with getting that natural drop and production from their catcher.
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[SPEAKER_01]: how many times did a catcher put up the the type of year that he did very rare.
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[SPEAKER_01]: We're talking a once in the lifetime type of year from a catcher.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's really hard to replicate, and I think they're searching for probably more out of their lineup.
5:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I think Julio Rodriguez is a lot to show in terms of his pedigree as a premier player in this league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that he
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[SPEAKER_00]: that that organization expected him to be there as you last year was there stars except for Raleigh had long stretches of just not hitting the baseball and I don't expect that to happen again this year.
5:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Now you're going to get a whole year a Josh Nailer who I think offensively provides an awful lot obviously coming from that trade from Arizona last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I like their, they're going to have dominant can zone and Rob ref Snyder as their DH platoon, but I like ref Snyder can mash against left handed pitching.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So I expect him to be successful there, Greg, listen to this rotation, Logan Gilbert, Brian Wu, George Kirby, Luis Castillo, and Bryce Miller, Luis Castillo's your four.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Let's do that started all star games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's your fourth, he's your number four in your rotation.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not sure I completely agrees there for the best, but I hear you, it's a nice rotation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's a pretty pretty sweet list of people to send out there.
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[SPEAKER_01]: May I mention another team of the ALS, I think it's going to be a lot better than people think.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Unless it's the Astros, go ahead.
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[SPEAKER_01]: it's the athletics.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they have a chance to really compete for a nail wildguard spot to be quite honest with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that that is a line up that is honestly really dangerous.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If you want the god on us truth, I really like how their lineup looks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I have tickets to see them in Las Vegas of all places on March the 7th.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So I will I'll come back with a report.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We'll see if you see if I share your enthusiasm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, Greg, to be fair, I said that they were a team that would exceed expectation and be over their window.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If I, if I believe my words last year, I did not say they were going to be.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think they're going to be good.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Nick Kirk, shaling, lears, brick, rucker, Tyler Soderstrom, Jacob Wilson, Jeff McNeal, Lawrence Butler.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you've got Denzel Clark, who might be the best center-filer in the game and Max Monsi has been a top prospect for years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a good lineup.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't get it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You said that last year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're playing in a minor league ballpark, too.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Is there still going to be playing in Sacramento?
7:51
[SPEAKER_01]: It curts his, he was the guy after he got called up.
8:01
[SPEAKER_01]: Uncle Paul, what about your Yankees?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I want to hear what you have to say about the state of the roster.
8:10
[SPEAKER_03]: Yankees fans are always expecting the Yankees to do something in the off season, and retaining Cody Bellinger is nice for them, but I don't...
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[SPEAKER_03]: Uh, I think it's just going to be wide open for the ALEAST.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The red socks have upgraded, um, the, um, the, um, the blue jays, obviously, or depending champ.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, um, and then Baltimore, we're also improving themselves with Peter Lanzo and some of their signings.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So, uh, I think it's, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Our fight report guy, Hanson Crafton is a Yankees fan and to say the least he is not excited about this year's season.
9:01
[SPEAKER_03]: It's nice to think they made it through.
9:06
[SPEAKER_03]: Nobody had more wins in the American League last year, but they're pretty likable.
9:13
[SPEAKER_03]: Garrett Cole comes back so that we'll just have to see.
9:19
[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, and broken on if he's going to be as good as he was last year, but, you know, you don't know if Trent Grisham's going to be as good as he was last year or a whole lot of other players.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, if I don't, they would probably declare that I don't like Aaron Boone.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I'm declared that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it'll be sure.
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[SPEAKER_01]: your two bench guys are gold Schmidt in a rosario.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to play a lot.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not a Yankee's guy at all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know why you wouldn't like this lineup.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Really, I think that jazz chism is grossly overrated.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I thought that his power numbers were inflated last year due to playing it, you know, the short porch, but I don't know why you wouldn't like this team.
10:01
[SPEAKER_01]: You got Luis Healback.
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[SPEAKER_01]: you sign Ryan Weathers from traded for him from the marlins.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You like to what you saw from Kim Schlittler last year, Max Freed, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a young level candidate.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You get redone and Garrett Cole back all the sudden that five is pretty daunting.
10:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you with the blue jays.
10:21
[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to be tough.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They did lose.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I would say the best shit, second best player on their team probably, and are you can you expect to get 330 home runs, 30 doubles from at 38-year-old George Springer?
10:39
[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't that my chicken's on, that's for sure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I definitely would kind of think you'll revert to the mean a little bit, but I could be wrong.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Of course, another that is the whole is the biggest story in baseball.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I don't think to answer your original question.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Great.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It's got to be the Dodgers and the busting there, the limits of any possible payroll that's within crazy.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I do have one stat for you guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just checked this out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The last nine guys, they signed.
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[SPEAKER_03]: from starting with Otani and then ending in the off season here with Kyle Tucker and Edwin DS.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The last nine players have cost them $1.8 billion.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And that is more than the raise, the marlins, the pirates, and the A's have all those teams have spent in
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[SPEAKER_03]: in the 21st century, in 26 years, all together, those nine guys.
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[SPEAKER_03]: So this year for, this is going to be an interesting year with a collective bargaining.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It just, it looks like it's, the players don't want to change the system, but something has to give.
12:05
[SPEAKER_03]: Something's got to change.
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[SPEAKER_03]: don't want to be a pessimist, but I think all the baseball fans ought to enjoy this year because 2027 is, at the end of this agreement is very much in doubt, I think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I, I just don't even know how.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I feel about it all.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like in some ways, I think it's good that the Dodgers are so good and they bring so many eyes to the game.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But then the other side of me says that it's terrible for baseball and it's not really a competitive fairness to other franchises.
12:45
[SPEAKER_01]: And part of me says, well, the Dodgers are spending money that they should and other teams should increase their payroll.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think I'm left feeling like the salary floor
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[SPEAKER_01]: is a much better consolation than a salary cap.
13:04
[SPEAKER_01]: I think you need to force these teams to spend an x amount of dollars on their roster every year.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And then if you want to spend more, it's been more.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a way to potentially force some ownership groups that can't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, the money that they, you know, feel and you might get some fresh blood and new ownership in some cities that might help benefit their payroll, but some things got to change because this, the pace doesn't feel sustainable.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just doesn't feel fair.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When players are starting to be like, can we even win?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we beat this team?
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think the Dodgers can be beaten
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there will be a stretch the entire year in a seven game that they don't win four games.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's how good I think that team is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They shouldn't.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They should not ever lose more than three games in the seven games span.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They should have been a lot better.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Their record should have been a lot better last year, I think, and it is kind of amazing that somebody almost took them out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But I don't think it's, I think you're right, it's not sustainable, even if it's just changing the bookkeeping so that I'm not sure how all these contracts work and I'm not sure how the Dodgers are.
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[SPEAKER_03]: able to do it more than others.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I know that there are some franchises, they don't want to spend the money on payroll at all, but the daughter bookkeeping is remarkable to say the least.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The stat last year was that after the World Series is over, they had already generated the revenue to pay all of Shohei Otoni's contract.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They made $700 million.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think part of that is because
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[SPEAKER_01]: people love Dynasties.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You create a whole new crop of fans, they buy merch, they you get advertising and sponsorships from companies that probably wouldn't be that interested in baseball regardless.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It makes it fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It gives people a team to root for and it gives the rest and the league.
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[SPEAKER_01]: a team to root against.
15:15
[SPEAKER_01]: I do think that last year of the conversation, I mean, the BlueJays were a top five pay rule too.
15:20
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's not feed this false narrative that that's on a team that doesn't spend money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: That's a very good roster that money largely built.
15:29
[SPEAKER_01]: That being said, I still just the way that the game baseball goes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be shocked that they didn't win their division.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like it baseball can just work like that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I
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[SPEAKER_01]: The diamond backs are gonna be pretty good again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, are they gonna be good enough to probably overtake the Dodgers now, but anything could happen.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The pod race are gonna be good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So, that's a team I think could potentially place boiler.
16:01
[SPEAKER_03]: It's discouraging to be in the Dodgers division.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I just have to say,
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[SPEAKER_01]: Paul, I don't know why it's discouraging the pod raise and giants ownership they've got plenty of money like they could spend to I don't know that they can spend on the level the Dodgers now part of that is because the Dodgers are an ownership group of what 12 people that can pull There are money together, but if I'm the pod raise, I'm thinking how much I spend for taught to you how much I spend on the child now.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Hold on, are we expecting everyone to spend a billion dollars?
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[SPEAKER_01]: When the pod when the pod drinks have four guys and they're starting line up that are all making north of three hundred millions dollars Or an average annual value that would play out to that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't feel that bad form.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I help.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I don't feel that Tickets that the minimum or seventy five dollars are these things.
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[SPEAKER_00]: How about we settle down with the salaries and we figure something out Where we make a compromise where we don't shit on the fans all the time
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[SPEAKER_01]: I get your point, absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The players aren't going to settle for less money.
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[SPEAKER_01]: When the cookie jar has been open, now the way it is, where you can make as much money as you want.
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[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to tell them.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every other league does it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Every other league gives these players an exact percentage of that they make.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And there's no reason not to do the same thing in baseball.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I, I, I don't disagree with you.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that the, the so, that the so-do deal is egregious.
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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not worth 700 million dollars.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't have paid him that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's he, I can go get nine players.
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[SPEAKER_01]: that can get close to replicating his production for $765 million over the course of 10 years.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely, I can.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's all about roster construction.
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[SPEAKER_01]: If these ownership groups and general managers are dumb enough to pay these players the money eventually, they're going to get burnt.
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[SPEAKER_01]: The Dodgers lineup is going to start fading out soon.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I've already Freeman isn't getting any older or any younger.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Mokey that's not getting any younger.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Will Smith, Max Monk, Muncie, Tayals Kornand is like these are players that it's great while they're all on their prime.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But when you're paying Showhail Otani $70 million and he's $38 and his knees are starting to give out, then all of a sudden, you know, it doesn't look as fun as it does right now.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Well, we used to laugh about some of those contracts, Bobby Boney, a get-and-paid until the end of time and all that.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But the podries, Preller did roll a lot of money and he tried his best and he almost succeeded in competing with the Dodgers, but they can't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They don't seem to be able to do it over the long haul and then they have to contract.
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[SPEAKER_03]: That's the Diamondbacks.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They make a splash and they try to get it more burn.
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[SPEAKER_03]: and they extend there, and then they, it's easy and they have to get rid of, they have to purge the roster and it's just, it's very difficult to compete with that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, with the exception of the pirates in the A's, the last 10 years, I think every team's pretty much made a run of some kind, except for the reds who were about to, I think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So, it's not imperfect.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's not, the beauty of the game is that baseball is completely random.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It is the state of disorder within order of itself.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Like that is the beauty of it is that the Dodgers could play the reds in a three game series and the reds could sweep them and that would happen like that's what we're talking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying the next other in the first round and we got the exact result we expected.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And you know what I am absolutely befuddled that the reds one two out of three.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't have said that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You're right.
19:56
[SPEAKER_01]: If I'm the Dodgers, and I have to face a rotation of Paul schemes, Mitch Keller, Bubba Chandler, Brax, Nat, Ashcraft, and a playoff series, I don't feel great.
20:09
[SPEAKER_01]: That's what we're talking about, is like the, and that's where I think the money being spent on pictures is more beneficial than the money spent on a lineup is like,
20:18
[SPEAKER_01]: a tarq school, uh, a Paul schemes, those type of guys, they can shut a Dodgers line up down.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Bad.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, if you get a, if you get a guy who's even just hot, even if he's young, like Schuittler, uh, for the engine, um, I agree with you, when you get to the playoffs, there's and there was a lot of excitement this whole year, just when the Dodgers went back
20:48
[SPEAKER_03]: I don't know.
20:49
[SPEAKER_03]: I just part of it is I'm tired of the Dodgers, but I think that's fair.
20:56
[SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the same way that people got tired of makers and got tired of the chiefs and the patriots and Yanji people get tired of that.
21:05
[SPEAKER_01]: They get tired of that success.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's fair to question.
21:08
[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's fair to be
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[SPEAKER_01]: hesitant to say that I'm super excited to win.
21:13
[SPEAKER_01]: I know one team is probably going to be in the world series, but I thought the world series was absolutely phenomenal last year.
21:19
[SPEAKER_01]: It was, and viewership was incredible, and unfortunately, you can't tell me the Dodgers being as good as they are didn't help create that.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So, if the Dodgers being incredible is what brings more eyes to the beautiful
21:36
[SPEAKER_01]: because it is worth it in a small bed of time to benefit from this dynasty.
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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, quick tease for next week because I wanted to talk about the reds today and we're not going to have time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Surprise teams, dark horses next week, if you guys are into that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And you're thoughts on the reds in a few minutes.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, Craig, I think it's going to be music to your ears.
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[SPEAKER_01]: take Paul's probably been around the game, putting along enough to think that we're on the similar wavelength.
22:10
[SPEAKER_01]: I think the red team would be pretty good in the central.
22:12
[SPEAKER_01]: I really do.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know that they win the central, but I don't think there's any reason they can't make the playoffs again.
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[SPEAKER_01]: There's no reason they can't.
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[SPEAKER_03]: They should make the playoffs, and they probably can go down to the last week for the division.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It seems like I never know about the Brewers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I never think that they're going to do as well as they do.
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[SPEAKER_03]: But when I was a little now, I would get out.
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[SPEAKER_03]: We know about the Brewers.
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[SPEAKER_03]: I would guess Brewers, Reds, and Cubs, down to the wire.
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[SPEAKER_03]: It should be a very exciting division.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And I agree.
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[SPEAKER_03]: The Reds are a team to reckon with.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think Will's going to have a different opinion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Next week, aren't you Will?
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[SPEAKER_00]: About, Hill.
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[SPEAKER_00]: the teams in the central when we talk about dark horses.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Absolutely.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to have a different a different teams.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, okay.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, that'll be something to look forward to.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And we're talking about top off season stories.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Will you have one?
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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Greg, we're found out this past week that a Francisco Lendor Corbin Carroll and Jackson Hall, they are all going to missed time and potentially not be available for opening day with a broken hammet, them.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a little bone that right around your pinky.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And a lot of those major league hitters, they wrap that pinky finger around the knob of the bat and if you miss it a ball or swing the wrong way,
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[SPEAKER_01]: You can break that bone and it causes a lot of issues with torque and your ability to, you know, kind of explode through the baseball and it's an injury that can that power from those elite guys for a while.
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[SPEAKER_01]: To me, it's a big deal because I don't think the Diamondbacks are going to be afforded an opportunity to start slow.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And Corbin Carroll is one of their best players in franchise history, so I think the loss of him is a big deal.
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[SPEAKER_01]: the bone, in swinging the bat, in swinging the bat.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It was all done, all done, swinging the bat, and all three of them, I believe, did it from the left side.
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[SPEAKER_01]: They're all left handed hitters.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think, well, Lendor is a switch at her, but I think he broke it on his right hand.
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[SPEAKER_03]: And they know it right away when it is broken, obviously.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It hurts like hell from
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[SPEAKER_01]: go and get it shot on x-ray and you know exactly what it is.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's an injury that can definitely require surgery.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm not sure if all three of them are having surgery done on it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But I think it's relevant to have you two stars in your league that are going to potentially miss opening day with an injury like that, especially when it's not even spring training.
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[SPEAKER_01]: This was all done the week before reporting.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Last year was the torpedo bat, this year it's the Amitbone knob on the end of the bat.
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[SPEAKER_03]: Mm-hmm.
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[SPEAKER_01]: You never know.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But makes you wonder Barry Bond's hit how many home runs he choked up on the bat a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe just don't put your pinky over the knob.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I just, I don't, it's that seemed silly to me, but I'm also not a major league baseball player.
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[SPEAKER_01]: So maybe I should just shut the L-up and let them do it.
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[SPEAKER_01]: But it makes them good at that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, thank you so much for being the MVP this week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So many podcasts and I really appreciate it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And for filling in on this one, and we're gonna be talking a lot of baseball this summer.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's spring training being around.
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[SPEAKER_01]: I know Paul feels the same way.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It just feels like a win.
26:03
[SPEAKER_01]: The air gets a little warmer and the birds start chirping and you're just happy.
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[SPEAKER_01]: It's just, it's fun.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Correct.
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