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Devers Feud, D’backs-Dodgers is lit, Rockies = worst team ever? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: A lot of people had them in the playoffs. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: You didn't like them. You were strong about it too,
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  Speaker 2: and people gave you crap. They're like, how dare you
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  Speaker 2: Todd Father praise for Friday Baby, Let's have a day
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  Speaker 2: Scottie Brown, fresh off of p Yeah, he always does.
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  Speaker 2: He does it subtly. If you're listening to the pod
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  Speaker 2: later on, Eric Kratz, sneaky Dancer. I didn't say sneaky
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  Speaker 2: good or sneaky bad, just sneaky dancer.
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  Speaker 1: You should have seen him in Puerto Rico, man Sis.
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  Speaker 1: That's all we did, all right.
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  Speaker 2: So Todd Father is a former third Basement also still
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  Speaker 2: old first base. So that'll be good in a couple
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  Speaker 2: of minutes when we get to that whole shebang, that drama.
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  Speaker 2: But todd Father is also a former Pittsburgh Pirate. Now
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  Speaker 2: all of the teams he played for behind me, and
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  Speaker 2: I just wanted to get a minute from you on
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  Speaker 2: how the Pirates, just to say, to blame Derek Shelton
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  Speaker 2: and hey, this team should be putting together more wins.
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  Speaker 2: It's got to blame somebody besides the owner, who's one
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  Speaker 2: of the biggest train wrecks. In sports, but they did
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  Speaker 2: use Derek Shelton as the fall guy yesterday after losing
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  Speaker 2: seven in a row. They're twelve and twenty six. Their
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  Speaker 2: season's over, So any thoughts before we jump into the
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  Speaker 2: current stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Listen, It's just it's crazy what's going on over there.
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  Speaker 1: And again, I only played twenty games. Maybe twenty games
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember, but they I just remember little things
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  Speaker 1: that just would drive you crazy, like figuring out who
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  Speaker 1: should do what, this guy should be on the team.
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  Speaker 1: I remember when I got paid well not cuts, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: basically cuts. Sent down to the Triple A practice squad.
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  Speaker 1: I had three coaches come up to me and all
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  Speaker 1: three were like, this guy said this. This guy said that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, holy cow. I'm like, okay, great, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm like here we go, like this is not
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  Speaker 1: how it should be. But it was nice to hear,
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  Speaker 1: like somebody, you know, coming out and explaining to you,
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  Speaker 1: you know, who had your back and who didn't, and
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  Speaker 1: that's stuff you don't forget. But at the same time,
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  Speaker 1: blaming a manager for the faults, I guess that's what
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  Speaker 1: they do nowadays, and that's you know, that's what these
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  Speaker 1: these guys that are you know the top dogs. You know,
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  Speaker 1: he did come out and say, you can't put all
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  Speaker 1: the blame. It's everybody's got to work. Well, go get
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  Speaker 1: some players, spend some money. I mean, it's not that
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  Speaker 1: it's not that hard. You have the money to spend.
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  Speaker 1: And we talk about it all the time, these small
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  Speaker 1: market teams. Oh, you got billions of dollars. You can
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  Speaker 1: go out and try and get some guys. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day you don't get them.
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  Speaker 1: And you tried, and you figure out a way to say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: we'll give you the same amount. This person's good respect
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  Speaker 1: to you. That's just not happening.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. That's a good problem right there. That was
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  Speaker 2: a good rant. And I guess I'll conclude it with this.
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  Speaker 2: And you played with a team like the Yankees, different
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  Speaker 2: organization from the Pirates, right, felt a little different when
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  Speaker 2: you were there. Ters of treatment, of course, yes, not
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  Speaker 2: as much corner cutting.
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  Speaker 1: No, it was fantastic, yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, no offense krats. But you know when he
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  Speaker 2: was with the Yanks, they didn't need it, siziy.
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  Speaker 3: No. They had some six hot steaks though Todd knows
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  Speaker 3: what a six oz steak is.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, listen, there's nothing better than than the food
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  Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium. I mean even if you're a visitor.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about that too all the time. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: five course meals. Like you're sitting there when the game's
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  Speaker 1: all with, that's one stadium. You're sitting there for another
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  Speaker 1: hour and a half after you shower, shooting, shooting the
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  Speaker 1: ship and just eating like you're a king.
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  Speaker 2: They're keeping you there right in a good way. All right,
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  Speaker 2: let's charge the mound powered by Arena Club. We've got
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  Speaker 2: some juice to hit. What is going on in Boston Krats?
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  Speaker 2: This has been a topic all weeks since Tristan Cassis
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  Speaker 2: went down over the weekend with the season ending injury.
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  Speaker 2: How do they replace him at first base? They don't
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  Speaker 2: really have a first baseman on the forty man roster.
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  Speaker 2: Could Rafael Devers move to first Alex chorus says no.
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  Speaker 2: Craig Breslow basically said no, Rafael Dever's the latest to
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  Speaker 2: speak the man himself, and there are a lot of
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  Speaker 2: quotes to slice through, so he said, they can't expect
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  Speaker 2: me to play every position out there. He had started
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  Speaker 2: with saying, I know I'm a ballplayer, but at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, they can't expect me to play every position
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  Speaker 2: out there in spring training. They talked to me and
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  Speaker 2: basically told me to put away my glove. I wasn't
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  Speaker 2: going to play any other position, but DH so right now,
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  Speaker 2: I just feel like it's an appropriate decision by them
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  Speaker 2: to ask me to play another position. Inappropriate. On his end,
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  Speaker 2: he said he's not willing to play first base, doesn't
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  Speaker 2: understand why the team wants him to move again after
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  Speaker 2: asking him to move positions, and he said things are
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  Speaker 2: fine in the clubhouse, but essentially said that he is
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  Speaker 2: frustrated with Craig Breslow and almost appears as if he's
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  Speaker 2: confused why the conversation is with Breslo and not with
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  Speaker 2: Alex Cora. On the clubhouse piece, Chris Catillo saying you
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  Speaker 2: can bet teammates are not going to be thrilled about
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  Speaker 2: this stance. There were some others saying they felt some
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  Speaker 2: disappointment essentially in the room from teammates, and there was
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  Speaker 2: one line about how he's like, what are they going
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  Speaker 2: to do next? Ask me to play outfield? But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: there's Gabrielle Star. Several of them were listening intently around
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  Speaker 2: the clubhouse, and the reactions were not positive. I will
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  Speaker 2: add this, Kratz, I was trying to do some homework
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  Speaker 2: behind the scenes. I know Ken Rosenthal is going to
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  Speaker 2: join us soon too. It does sound like there is
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  Speaker 2: not much communication going on between Alex Cora and Rafael Devers.
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  Speaker 2: This is something our show brought up the other day
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  Speaker 2: and I questioned this to AJ and I'll ask it
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  Speaker 2: to you again here. Is there a fractured relationship that
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  Speaker 2: is going to cause a difference on the field for
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  Speaker 2: the Red Sox because of Alex Cora and Rafael Devers
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  Speaker 2: clearly not seeing eye to eye.
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  Speaker 3: Is it going to be a noticeable angel on the field. No,
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  Speaker 3: But if the team misses the playoffs by one game,
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  Speaker 3: this is when division by one game, that's one of
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  Speaker 3: the things they're gonna point to. That's just what That's
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  Speaker 3: just the reality of the pressure cooker of being in Boston,
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  Speaker 3: New York, Philly, probably not Chicago, but you know the
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  Speaker 3: big markets. They're going to point to all that stuff,
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  Speaker 3: and the Red Sox, while they are no pirates as
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  Speaker 3: far as shooting themselves in the foot, they are not
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  Speaker 3: doing a great job of staying ahead of this with
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  Speaker 3: their superstar. He is their superstar. They paid him like
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  Speaker 3: the super bar superstar. Whether they think he's still they're
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  Speaker 3: superstar or not, they're not staying ahead of this, and
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  Speaker 3: I don't think it's going to I mean, look at
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  Speaker 3: the start that Devers had to start the year. He
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  Speaker 3: was abysmal. I mean, he was as bad as me
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  Speaker 3: out there, and now he's up to like a one
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  Speaker 3: point thirty three oh ps plus like after even after
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  Speaker 3: that start, so he settled into his roll all the
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  Speaker 3: off field stuff. You get this sometimes with superstars. I
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  Speaker 3: just don't think they're doing a great job of like
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  Speaker 3: like holding back the water right now.
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  Speaker 1: For me, there's a couple of things I want to
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  Speaker 1: break down here. As a professional, you know, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to go kind of lean a little bit against what
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  Speaker 1: he was saying there, just a little bit. I agree
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  Speaker 1: with him for the most part, but a little bit.
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  Speaker 1: If you're a professional baseball player and you know you
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  Speaker 1: could play the field, and you've been a field of
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  Speaker 1: your whole life, get out there and work at your position,
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  Speaker 1: even though they even if they say you're probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to play there. Well, in my mind, it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I want to keep my feet moving, I want to
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  Speaker 1: get my body in certain positions just in case of
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  Speaker 1: an injury like that should be the mindset. Again, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not siding with you know, the brass, the management with
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox. But at the same time, be a professional,
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  Speaker 1: you know what I mean. And again it's me not
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  Speaker 1: bashing another player. It's me explaining, like, go take some
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  Speaker 1: balls at third. But it doesn't have to be every day.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you a day game, chill out, get ready
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  Speaker 1: to dh go out there and you know when Bregman's hitting,
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  Speaker 1: and go take fifteen to twenty balls and get your
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  Speaker 1: body in a certain position. So again, if this does
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  Speaker 1: come up somebody's struggling, well, guess what my legs are
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  Speaker 1: underneath me. I can still go out there and play
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  Speaker 1: a little bit and then eventually it's gonna take time
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  Speaker 1: to get back to where he needs to be. But
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  Speaker 1: now on the other side of the spectrum, you did
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  Speaker 1: you told him put away your glove, that's the truth.
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  Speaker 1: So why are you gonna expect him to come out
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  Speaker 1: and play in a position. Okay, So there's both different sides.
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  Speaker 1: I think as a baseball player and as an infielder,
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  Speaker 1: go in to play first base. That's probably the easiest
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  Speaker 1: transition from third to first. I easily think he could
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  Speaker 1: do it. It takes the pressure off him. He's going
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  Speaker 1: to be in every single play, just like in third base.
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  Speaker 1: You're in every single play because you've got to react.
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  Speaker 1: It's about a reaction. A couple of things. He's gonna
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  Speaker 1: have to work on, picking base balls, how to set
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  Speaker 1: his feet up at first base, you know when there's
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  Speaker 1: a lefty throne compared to a righty. Had to get
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  Speaker 1: all the base playing defense, where to position himself with
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  Speaker 1: the runnerund first so he can make an easy double play.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of things that go into it. Again,
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  Speaker 1: but at the same time, he's a professional. He can
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  Speaker 1: easily do it. And to hear this riff raff with
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  Speaker 1: uh several teammates that we're listening, that's a crock of crap.
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  Speaker 1: I don't you know. I don't believe that. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: guys might might have said something, but you're gonna write
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  Speaker 1: something like that and try and ruffle more feathers. I
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  Speaker 1: just find that little disheartening. I think, honestly, guys are
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  Speaker 1: always going to talk, and that's baseball in a nutshell.
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  Speaker 1: Scottie and you know they're Red Sox are are only
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  Speaker 1: two games out. They're actually playing decent baseball right now.
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  Speaker 1: And Rafael devils Dev's two knocks yesterday, it's really not
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  Speaker 1: bothering them anymore. So again, be a professional and going
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  Speaker 1: to first base isn't the worst thing in the world.
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  Speaker 1: You're in every play and I think he can do it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, has Has Raffie. I don't want what I
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  Speaker 3: said to be misconstrued that I don't think Raffie should
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  Speaker 3: be out there. I think every player from the high
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  Speaker 3: school level to the All Star game should be willing
• 11:00
  Speaker 3: to change positions to win the game. You play to
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  Speaker 3: win the game. And if you're not playing to win
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  Speaker 3: the game, are you out there for personal accolades? Are
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  Speaker 3: you out there just for yourself? Is it gonna be tough, Absolutely,
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  Speaker 3: it's gonna be tough. But this is where the organization says,
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  Speaker 3: you know what, We're gonna give you some ground balls. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: then we're gonna put you in there and we're gonna
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  Speaker 3: see how it goes. You never know, it might work
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  Speaker 3: out for you, but ultimately hopefully will work out for
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  Speaker 3: the team. Because when Yoshida comes back, if he is
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  Speaker 3: the guy that's gonna be banging balls off the green Monster,
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  Speaker 3: hitting balls the opposite field like he can when he's
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  Speaker 3: hot and healthy. Now it stretches your lineup out to
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  Speaker 3: go to the playoffs, to go where you want to go.
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  Speaker 3: The reason you told the team go out and buy somebody, Like,
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  Speaker 3: why would you not make the change? Oh? Because they
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  Speaker 3: told me. They told me I wasn't going to I don't,
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't buy that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So Alex Korra has even said on our show in
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  Speaker 2: spring training he likes guys to tell it like it is.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, we love that on this show because we'd
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  Speaker 2: like to hear the transparency even in the off season.
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  Speaker 2: Correct me if I'm wrong here. Kratz Cora said he
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  Speaker 2: wanted Bregman, but the front office was a little more
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  Speaker 2: wishy washy. Obviously everyone wants him, but it was at
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  Speaker 2: a certain price, right. Wasn't there a little bit of
• 12:31
  Speaker 2: publicity to them debating who they wanted in free agency?
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure I know that. I'm just bringing this
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  Speaker 2: up here.
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  Speaker 3: I don't remember. I don't remember that part.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, I'll ask Ken about it. But the reason I'm
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  Speaker 2: bringing this up is I'm wondering if there's a little
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  Speaker 2: dissension where Alex Core is like, yeah, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: him on the field. I want him just dhing. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even want him at first, and Breslo is like,
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  Speaker 2: I would like to try him there because that would
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  Speaker 2: maximize the lineup potential if we can get Devers over
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  Speaker 2: at first first, and we can use that DH slot
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  Speaker 2: for others. And this is still a young kid who,
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  Speaker 2: like Todd father said, should be able to handle first, right,
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  Speaker 2: he wasn't playing a good third, but that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: he can't handle first. And also nobody is saying grab
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  Speaker 2: a glove, go play there tomorrow. But for optics purposes too,
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  Speaker 2: wouldn't you say, hey, I know we told you this.
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  Speaker 2: We messed up. We shouldn't have said throw your glove out.
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  Speaker 2: We're not having you play DH at all. Go grab
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  Speaker 2: your glove, take a little early ground balls, see what happens,
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  Speaker 2: and just start to get acclimated with first base. You
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  Speaker 2: want to be in this league for a long time.
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  Speaker 2: You're signed up with us for what eight more years?
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  Speaker 2: See if that's going to be a thing for you
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  Speaker 2: in the future too. Even if you're back at third
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  Speaker 2: base next year because Bregman ops out and leaves us.
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  Speaker 2: Do we think that he's going to play third base
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  Speaker 2: six years from now. Yeah, it's a good position to
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  Speaker 2: have if you can handle it, and the holster if
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  Speaker 2: you want to still be out in the.
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  Speaker 1: Field, and maybe versatility helps there a little bit. It's
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  Speaker 1: not like they're to them. You got to go to
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  Speaker 1: the minor leagues and work on this. Ye not happening
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  Speaker 1: to numerous people, you know, go down the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: work on playing third base. We'll bring you back up,
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  Speaker 1: never to be seen again.
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  Speaker 2: They're not putting the outfield either, by the way, I
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  Speaker 2: know he said that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't think. I think it would just
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  Speaker 1: came out, you know, when you're talking all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: it's like, you know, even in the outfield, whatever just
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  Speaker 1: works out. But I think his focus should be on
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  Speaker 1: helping the team out. I think, honestly, Yeah, in the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: I would have been pissed off too. They said, you're
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  Speaker 1: not playing third base anymore. I understand understandably. Understandably that
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  Speaker 1: was your position. They brought a guy in who's a
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  Speaker 1: really good third base and took your spot. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: what you moved on now all of a sudden, you know,
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  Speaker 1: nobody's feeling bad for you. You're gonna be fine. Go
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  Speaker 1: out there and be the team guy that you know
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  Speaker 1: you can be, and try and work your butt off
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  Speaker 1: to win it, you know, in al least if it comes,
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  Speaker 1: if it comes into fruition.
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  Speaker 2: All right, let's get to Ken Rosenthal coming up in
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  Speaker 2: just a moment. And and yes, by the way, Core
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  Speaker 2: was the front guy in the off season and was
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  Speaker 2: vocal about it how he wanted bregmant.
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  Speaker 1: Communication was a thingation. Yeah, and then that comes in
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  Speaker 1: with respect factor too a little bit. Yeah, your teammates
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  Speaker 1: need that, ballplayers need them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure the PR team for the Red
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  Speaker 2: Sox has everything together right now for him either. I
• 15:19
  Speaker 2: don't know if they have his back, they'll just kind
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  Speaker 2: of throw him out there sometimes. So anyway, we'll get
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  Speaker 2: Hammer Territory, commented on this little Braves note about them
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: selecting Luke Williams to the roster and they designated Eddie
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: Rosario for assignment. He said, no joke. I think the
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: Braves saw how slow Eddie turned third base in the
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: ninth last night and said, yeah, that's enough.
• 16:01
  Speaker 1: Williams. It's another USA guy. Played the Trials with him.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: He was our leadoff guy, stud waiting for him to
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: get going. Man, give him a shot, let him prosper.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: The kid can play. So I'm rooting for you, rooting
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: for you, buddy.
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: He's a little faster than Eddie.
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: Yes, he's quick.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to cueue up the sprint speed for him.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: Hey man, listen, I kid you not. I'm on here
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  Speaker 2: and it's not popping up.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Why would it do that?
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: Oh, I guess there's not enough plate appearances obviously, So I'm.
• 16:29
  Speaker 3: Like Williams, Luke Williams, I get this is the case.
• 16:34
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• 16:38
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• 16:45
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• 16:48
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• 16:51
  Speaker 3: straight days and he had that ridiculous NLCS like, and
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  Speaker 3: Kyle, I know you got a lot of love for
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: the span base. What would be your message to them,
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: just to keep them in the building as the team tries.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: To figure out some of these struggles. You believing us.
• 18:31
  Speaker 4: Thank you, broduct, Thanks.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: And a little more here After, Kyle Freeland got emotional
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: and walked off the podium, but Patrick Saunders, who covers
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: the team for the Denver Post, said Freeland was asked
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: to compare the Tigers and the Royals turnarounds to you
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: know what they're dealing with. He said, what they're doing
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: is right. What we're doing is wrong, and we're not
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: winning baseball games. We're playing a bad brand of baseball
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: all the way around, pitching, fielding, hitting. I mean, they
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: might set the record for worst team in baseball a
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: year after we saw the worst team in baseball, the
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: Chicago White Talks. So first, real quick, Kratz, because I
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: know you're an emotional guy. Did you feel that from
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Kyle who's been there for a while, grew up in
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: Colorado and also only pitches every five six days, He's
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: he's feeling it. It must suck to be on a
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: team that loses that bad every day one.
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: I mean you said he pitches once every five days.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Pitchers are out there every single day for themselves in
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: the sense that they got their day after throwing. Today
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: is a tough day. They're sore, they're working out, they're
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: getting everything going. So like pitchers are invested, they're just
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: not invested in the same way that like position players are.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: And to me, that's where that frustration comes from. I
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: think he has after last night. I think he has
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: like a ten zero point five era exactly at home
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: in his home starts this year, like he just had
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a stinker. And you see that emotion from him. It
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: shows he cares. It shows a veteran that's been on
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: this team when they were good cares and he wants
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: he wants them to do well. Nobody's being put around him.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Nobody's been putting around him. So you put all that
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: work and effort and daily grind into another stinker where
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: guys just throw the ball away, balls that are rolling
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: almost stopping rolling and hitting going between your player's legs
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: and bouncing away and runners move up again. Like that's
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: that's frustrating to work all week for one start and
• 20:43
  Speaker 3: then you see that effort behind you, or you see
• 20:45
  Speaker 3: that those results not about effort, those results behind you
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: on defense.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's everything, it's everything. You know, when it rains,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: it pours. We know that the record looks dismal. Yeah,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: you come to the ballpark every day like, oh boy,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: here we go again. That's the last thing you got
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: to any job, not even ballpark. You go to a job,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: you know where it's struggling. You're not winning, you're not
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: getting the you know, getting the job you want, or
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: they're not giving you the opportunities. Let me go to
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: get another coffee. You know. It's just it's tough and
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: it it's hard to get stuff out of your players
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: when you're struggling in any profession that you do, and
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: especially baseball. Now it's uh going the ballpark, like, here
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: we go again, been there, been there, It's it stinks. Todd.
• 21:30
  Speaker 3: I got a question for you. Have you ever played
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: on a bad team that you were like, I just
• 21:36
  Speaker 3: don't think today we're gonna win. Did you ever think
• 21:39
  Speaker 3: that in the big leagues? Because I asked Aja that before,
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: like you guys were all stars, Like, so, you know,
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: I want to compare your mindset and process compared to
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: mine on the teams that I played on.
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, No, there was never a thought in my mind that, oh,
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: we're gonna lose today. When you're struggling, there's doubt. You know,
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: sometimes there's doubt, especially with yourself, but team wise, always
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: toun came up the next day and let's just get
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: after it. And I always thought we always had an
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: opportunity to win. But you know, you always had doubt
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: in your mind when you struggle, you're like, oh, no,
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: here we go again. No, not this time. But you
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: know you find a way to get out of it.
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: But you never played for the twenty twenty five Colorado Rockies,
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: who have already had four six game losing skids. They
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: were outscored twenty one to three in the doubleheader yesterday
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: and out hit twenty nine to nine. They're six and
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: thirty one on the season. It is May ninth.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: That's it's so funny. We're talking about this now and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: a buddy of mine who works with the Rockies, he says,
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: have you seen the Rockies record? He's in the minor
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: leagues and we're talking about it right now. I feel
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: like Tim Kerchon.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: This is crazy. This is unbelievable.
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: You know, it's weird how this just popped up. And
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he's not even watching the show right now. I said,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: turn the show on. You'll see we're talking about it.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: That is absolutely insanity.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the pace is because I don't
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: have the quick math, but it's really bad.
• 23:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's like seven games below. What the what
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: the White Sox did currently?
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: They're on pace for ish?
• 23:14
  Speaker 3: I think something didn't The White Sox lose one.
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: One right right?
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: Right? Is that it?
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: One is the all timer last year?
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: They've got work to do.
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: And they will get to work and do it.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it just might not be winning work. The thing
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: is Krafts for me, usually when the team's this bad,
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: it does usually tumble even more so. I mean the
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: Rockies aren't big trade deadline sellers because the ownership family
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: just has no idea what to do with the trade deadline,
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: and they'll just keep people their friends with. But you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: get worse usually if you sell off parts and then
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: also your depth guest tested as the year goes on.
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: It's hard enough for an organization to operate with that
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: ballpark and in that environment. We haven't seen a lot
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: of consistent winnings since that franchise started, But I don't
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: think anyone's asking for that. They're just like, can we
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: get a competitive team to some extent right now?
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: You would be excited if you looked at the guys,
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: like from a prospect standpoint, from a like Ryan McMahon,
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: Ezekiel Tovar, Brenton Doyle, like you're like, yeah, Like even
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: my buddy and my twin Jacob Stallings had to bounce
• 24:32
  Speaker 3: back resurgent offensive year last year. He has a goal
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: glove in his in his arsenal, Like you'd be like, Okay,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: they got some cool, nice pieces, but they're so afraid
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: as an organization to go outside of what they've done
• 24:48
  Speaker 3: that a team that, yeah, they didn't hit very well
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: at the beginning of the season, they fired in the offseason.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: They didn't bring back one of their assistant coaches that
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: was from the organization. Didn't bring them back for no
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: reason because they cut down from three hitting coaches like
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: most teams have to two. And then they hired Bam
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: Bam Hensley Mullins and they fired him what like twenty
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: games into the season, and now they're hitting even worse
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: since Clint Hurdles that Like, it's just I'm confused the
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: message that they're sending the players, not the players not
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: getting the job done. It's confusing what message is being sent?
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: And I'll button this up real short and simple. If
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: I'm in double A, triple A, it's go time. Hey,
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: get after it, dominate all of a sudden, you're gonna
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: be the next one in line, because if they do
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: trade some pieces, they're gonna bring some people up because
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: they got nobody else. Minor leaguers and Rockies. Get after
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a big dog. It's your turn.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: M hm, time to shine. I mean, they're gonna start
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: switching things up. They already did a little bit right.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: They had a new hitting coach in there, and Clint Hurdle,
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: although he it's been part of the mix. There for
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: a long time. They need some fresh voices, freshness, get
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: a little freshness that. You notice how some of the
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: worst teams ever just never really go outside of their
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: comfort zone to get help. It's almost like they don't dissension.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: They don't want someone telling them you're wrong.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe you can raise that, we can talk about it more.
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: Sometimes that's the exact opposite. That's the exact opposite of
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: what the ras are doing. The rais are like, if
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: you don't, they get rid of you. If you don't question,
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: if you're not willing to bring something up that will
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: help the organization.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Hey we're back. We'll do some fan comments on the
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Kyle Freeland to quote Dodger hater or something like that.
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I don't know what the name is. It's not the
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: player's faults, the owner's fault. Yes, it's pretty obvious master plan.
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: Why should people believe in a team that the owners
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: don't care about. I have nothing against the players. The
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: organization is terrible. Jare Bear, I've been hoping this guy
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: goes to a winning team for a long time. He
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: deserves so much better, and so does the entire Rockies
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: fan base. You know what, I'm gonna stop. There's a
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: lot more. It's kind of depressing Friday.
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: Rockies ownership does care about the people. They care about
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: the people they have on the roster. In my opinion,
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: that they don't care about winning. That's my like. They're not.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: They're not. They're not treating their players bad. They treat
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: their players like gold. From what I have heard, the
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: difference is, I don't think they care about winning as
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: much as a Major League Baseball ownership should care.
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: Why why aren't they? You know, I know we can't
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: talk from what we're trying to run here, but what
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: about the manager? Like Pirates got rid of theirs? And
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: what about good old Bud Black over there? I mean
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: been there for a long time. Yeah, I mean is
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: it time to start mixing and matching that up a
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: little bit?
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: I will say the difference between the White Sox and
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: Rockies versus the Pirates is the Pirates will actually switch
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: it up every five to seven years when they retank,
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: they will bring in a new group.
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: But when's the last time that they've been good at
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: the Rockies under his management?
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Eighteen eighteen?
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: Okay, so it's been seven eight years.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Kyle Schwarber's been hitting on base a lot for a while.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: Forty three games with the knock in the ninth, more
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: than halfway to Ted Williams, who has the record at
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: eighty four, a.
• 28:26
  Speaker 1: Little over halfway.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: Good luck even Still, when you think about it and
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: how bad batting averages are these days, and I know
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Schwarbs takes a lot of walks. This isn't a hitting streak,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: this is on bass streak. Still, the fact that he
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: is getting on base in forty three games in.
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: A row is damn impressive.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: And the way pitching is these days, how advanced it is,
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: how you're not getting the same pitcher for you know,
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: they pull guys like that's impressive. I mean, I think
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: the pitching's better than when Ted Williams was hit.
• 28:55
  Speaker 1: I was school with you, right, A little bit, a
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: little bit measured, yeah.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: And they needed to stretch it. They needed that comeback.
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: He made out and last out the third out and
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: the seventh, and they needed to stretch it around. The
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: boys needed to come through for him. Obviously, came back
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: and won. Scott hit a Dukee fly ball for a
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: three run dinger to get him back up to the plate,
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: and then he looped it in. He got to first
• 29:20
  Speaker 3: and like high fived Paco the first base coach, and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: was like already running out. He knew he was getting
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: pinched run for Rojas, just ran like his feet were
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: on fire, like it was. It was awesome. Then Den
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: Schwarmer was top step cheering for the boys. Anyway. He's
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: a he's a G. He's a G.
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, he's got to get the boys to figure out
• 29:45
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• 29:48
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  Speaker 2: numbers that could be caused for alarm. Let's begin with
• 30:34
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. Now this was several days ago, but still
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: you'll get the effects. He said, one hundred and fifty
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: seven innings by starters. That means they're on pace for
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: a bottom five innings output of all time. Their starters
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: are going four and a half innings on average. It's
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: just how things go in LA these days. I'm reading
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: stuff here from the article. Obviously it's been successful for them,
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: but over the course of a full season, you know,
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: you're looking at an extra two hundred to two hundred
• 31:00
  Speaker 2: fifty innings that the bullpen will be taxed with. Now, krats,
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: it's not the same roster all year, especially for the Dodgers.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: Their forty man is fit for a twenty six man,
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: if that makes sense. But what do you take from
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: these numbers?
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I mean, it's disheartening. It's also disheartening if it comes
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: with injuries. It's you always look at the rays and
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: you're like, oh man, the rays are just they don't care.
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: They're gonna break their bullpen guys. And then they bring
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: up the next one. Dodgers do it a little bit
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: different in the sense that they're not pushing their starters
• 31:35
  Speaker 3: through some situations just because it's more like, Okay, you
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: know Yamamoto Sasaki, they came over from Japan. Glass now
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: is always coming off some type of injury. I thought
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: that's why Blake Snell was gonna be a huge piece
• 31:48
  Speaker 3: for them, that he would be able to eat more
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: innings because he can throw more pitches. But they do
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: it differently in a sense that they're like, we're not
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: gonna push these guys right now. We're not gonna push them.
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: We have out of the bullpen. We have Casparius Landon
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: Nak has thrown out of the bullpen. I know he's
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: starting now. They even talked about Dustin May throwing out
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: a bullpen. He hasn't. But they have a different type
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: of pitcher that they can call up from the minor
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: leagues that gives them innings out of the bullpen. Oh yeah.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: And then they have foreclosers in their bullpen too, and
• 32:21
  Speaker 3: that's with Blake trying to not even in their current
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: active bullpen. So they build it differently. But it's concerning
• 32:30
  Speaker 3: because those dudes cannot stand up to that the rest
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: of the year, and they're just gonna start cycling through
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: a bunch of triple A guys.
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: Yeah, basically all she wrote there with that, I mean,
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: that's part of it.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: They have Yamamoto obviously having a cy young ish seasn't
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: up until last night. By the way. The other problem
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: could be the Nashally West is damn good, and we
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: talked about you thought they were going to look better
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: than they they are right now, the Dodgers, and they
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: certainly look good. But you know, Game one against the Diamondbacks,
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: they brought it to them and Yamamoto had a mistake pitch.
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: He really hasn't had many of those, right, it was
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: it was ninety two down the pipe, Gabrielle Moreno's first
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: home run of the year, A big timely one, a
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: grand slam for them there, it is right. I mean,
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: Yamamoto has been working those corners. Obviously, he's got great
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: secondary stuff. So, I mean he's been great so far
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: this year, and this was the clunker.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: I do, but I do have like I feel like
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: that is alarming about the innings. I don't know, I know,
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: we yeah, I do, I do it. I four and
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: a half. They have a bunch of guys that could
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: do it, and I know they have the injuries, but
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: at the same time, it's like, you know, get the
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: six you know, get to you know, get get into
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the sixth and listen, they have a good bullpen, but
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: you know, when everybody is healthy, they're going to be
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: absolutely dominant. But still that is an alarm for me.
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: My point is it just got so overblown in the offseason.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Crats.
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: This is not a perfect team.
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: What how How is this not a perfect team? How
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: can you just just give them the trophy? Let's just
• 34:14
  Speaker 3: play for second place. It's not a perfect team. They
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: have a lot of they have a lot of Hey,
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: they won it last year after Todd said, oh, they
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: should just give them the trophy, and then the team
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: got better. Yes, they got better. They want to win
• 34:29
  Speaker 3: it again. That's why they brought the players in that
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: they did. If they were the perfect team, they wouldn't
• 34:34
  Speaker 3: have brought in all those guys. They would be like,
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: we don't need all these guys because we'll be fine.
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: We just have twenty six really good players. No, they
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: need it, and they know that these kinds of things
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: are gonna happen. But they also know that it'll set
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: them up for success in the postseason because they've built
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: so much depth and they didn't just grind these dudes
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: into the ground the entire.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Season and ship.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Well, you're saying that in a way where they'll be
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: better or you don't know if he will pits? Which
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: way do you mean that?
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: I would say they're going to be both both, But
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: right now, honestly, the only thing I could think of
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: him doing, even if he's one hundred percent, bring him
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: out of the bullpen. Don't even you can't do that?
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: Why not? Just I do like to do in travel all. Hey, man,
• 35:26
  Speaker 1: you just bad go warm up? Hopefully the ning takes
• 35:30
  Speaker 1: a little longer than usual, so you get hey, why change,
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: bro Listen, you want to see him like a little kid.
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: Hurry up, get down there, one, two, three, and you
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: got three warm ups. You're good. You're good. Just hop
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: on the mound. You'll get your warm up.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: If anyone could do it, it is him, right. He
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: is like the little league kid who's just better at
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: everything than anyone in baseball. Right, You're like, this dude
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: can lead and stolen bases, strike out. The most interesting
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: the most power. He could play outfield too. He I
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: think will at some point later in his career go
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: to the outfields because he can, and he might win
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: a Gold Glove out there, going.
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: That cage underneath the stadium. I'm telling you, man, I
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: could see it happening. Might not happen in the regular season,
• 36:12
  Speaker 1: but we'll see playoffs.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: Things can happen. Who knows playoffs things can get crazy, right.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: Could I see him closing out a World Series game?
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: Absolutely this year? Even absolutely? But could I also see
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks bouncing the Dodgers early on in the playoffs,
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: you know, in the first or second round. I could
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks might finish in third or fourth in the division,
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: snag a wild card, and then upset the world. I mean,
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: this is a good team, and I think it's a
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: team that's built to win in the playoffs if they
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: get there. They just missed last year, the year before
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: they made it to the World Series. Diamondbacks are damn good.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: That was pretty good yesterday.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: And the lineup they're a good team. The lineup's good, man.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: The defense is good. I'm just saying this is a
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: really solid ball club that can upset anyone. And I
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: think they've put the right mix of people together, crats
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: like Perdomo, who we've talked about a lot, k Tell Marte, Corbyn, Carroll.
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: These guys are not scared. Even Kevin Ginkel, who told
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: us in the offseason how he feels like the Dodgers
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: tighten up against them, whether that's true or not, that's
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: the kind of guy I want in my bullpen facing
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers in a playoff game in the eighth inning,
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: when the bases are loaded, They're.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Gonna need a lot of Kevin Ginkles in the bullpen
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: because that bullpen is shaky, shaky McGrady right now without
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: Justin Martinez, without aj Puck, Like we're we're a little
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: we're a little struggle bust in there. But you said
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: that lineup is ridiculous. You can't. You can't count a
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: team out that has two MVP candidates on it, Codel, Marte, Corbyn, Carrol.
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: They lost Christian Walker and they added Josh Naylor. Like,
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: this lineup is awesome. They run the bases with their
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: hair on. To me, that's a team that can beat you,
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: just like a team that has three really good starters
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs can beat you. A lineup that can
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: absolutely do so many different things, not just hit a
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: home run or not just put the ball in play.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: They can do everything that. That's the team that can
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: win in the playoffs, and they'll be scary. They have
• 38:22
  Speaker 3: to get in first. They can't keep playing eight to
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: seven games.
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: Well said, well yeah, oh hey, aj Hinch is the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: seventy fifth manager in history with nine hundred wins active
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: managers to reach that, Mark Bochi, Tito, Melvin Black, Hinch.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Congrats Hinch.
• 38:38
  Speaker 1: I like it.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: He's great. Obviously the Tigers are playing great ball. Let
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: me get to the A's from that article from Mino
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Cires because we were running that short on time, because
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: we're going to get to Ohio's. But he said, right now,
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the easiest park to homer in at night is Sacramento.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: The sixth hardest place to hit a homer in during
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: the day A Sacramento.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: That's interesting.
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: Wait say that again. It's opposite.
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's hotter during the day.
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but the warmer it is, it should be going out.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: No, I think they're looking at night time homers and
• 39:16
  Speaker 2: daytime homers. So easiest park to homer in at night
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: is Sacramento the sixth hardest place to hit a homer
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: in during the day Sacramento.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: Just wait until, wait till the summer summer heat.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: Like I would have said, like like Colorado during the
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: day day games. Oh, I love hitting it over on
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: day games, So I would have said it would have
• 39:41
  Speaker 3: been opposite. It gets you know, it gets dark, it
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: gets cooler. I don't know. I wonder if like some
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: wind rolls in or something usually gets calmer at night.
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: I'm confused by that, but I'll just know.
• 39:53
  Speaker 1: Wait, wait until the summer comes and it's scorching degrees
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: and they play a day game and the ball.
• 40:02
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be the sun there. It's gonna be a
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: one ten and the boys are just gonna be cooking.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: Like looking, she's a frying out here.
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: Let me some coke.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Let's go to the pool.
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: And they both have the wildest swings in home run
• 40:18
  Speaker 2: environment because the weather matters so much more since their
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: minor league parks, they shade their fields less when it
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: becomes more of a factor. That's interesting, makes sense though, Yeah,
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: analyticals and weather riticals, well, you don't have the whole
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: stadium hover and over your block and stuff coming in right.
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: That's how I explained things. That's why I'm not in
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: the education world. I ended up here.
• 40:44
  Speaker 1: I just made up a word.
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: All right, let's look ahead at the weekend. You want
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: to pick a series that you'll be watching.
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, for me, I got excited because I thought
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: it was Yankees' Mets. But that's next week, next weekend.
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: So little crats are here, Philly Cleveland, Philly Cleve. I'm
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: feeling a little bit of action. I'm seeing Philly here.
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I mean the Guardians. They find ways to win games.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: You know, Philly's coming off a nice little stretch thereon Tampa.
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: So I feel like a little Nola Williams action. Williams
• 41:17
  Speaker 1: has been pitching really, really well. In my opinion, he
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: just goes after it. He'll get hit every once in
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: a while, but he finds a way to throw a
• 41:24
  Speaker 1: lot of endings and get after it. So I'm I'm
• 41:26
  Speaker 1: gonna go over there in the Guardian action.
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: Okay, rats, I'll go out west.
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: It's got to either be the Dodgers and Diamondbacks or
• 41:35
  Speaker 3: it's got to be the Yankees and A's, just because
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: the A's are playing well. See how they do up
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: against a team, a lineup like the Yankees. But I mean,
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: I think the Dodgers Dodgers Diamondbacks is the is the
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: Marquis series with you know, division division clash. They already
• 41:53
  Speaker 3: played one game and you're like, this is gonna be
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: nice all weekend.
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: I agree, that's the one Roki Sasaki on the Mounta
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: tonight against Eduardo Rodriguez. But I'll give a few other candidates.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Cubs Mets should produce some offense. Jameson tie On against
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Clay Holmes in the first one. But I mean, these
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: are two really good looking lineups that could do damage
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: even in the playoffs against the Dodgers team. Like when
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: you look at the lineups right now and how they've operated,
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: I do think both lineups are capable of keeping up
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: with LA in a series. And that's saying something. Boston
• 42:27
  Speaker 2: and Kansas City just the Devers drama continuing. It's more
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: about the pre and the post game quotes. But also
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Kansas City's one fifteen out of seventeen. That's pretty good.
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: And then lastly it's really good. Lastly, this one stands
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: out Kratz because of the urgency. The Orioles just lost
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: three out of four I believe it was to the
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: Twins back to back five to two losses to end
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: the series there, right, that was four. They're playing the Angels,
• 42:55
  Speaker 2: who are not playing good ball. It's Chicano, like you
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: mentioned earlier against Kyle Hendricks and the first game. I mean,
• 43:02
  Speaker 2: the Orioles are ten games under five hundred right now,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: ten games under five hundred. When are we panicking? I mean,
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: I know we have a little bit on this show already.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Said that a lot of people had them in the playoffs.
• 43:13
  Speaker 1: I didn't see it.
• 43:14
  Speaker 2: You didn't like them. You were strong about it too,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: and people gave you crap. They're like, how dare you,
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Todd father? They're thirteen and twenty three.
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Had the prospects to get rid of, to freaking get
• 43:25
  Speaker 1: guys back. Man, prospects are great, It's cool all I'm
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: the top guy in the organization. Yeah, a few of them,
• 43:33
  Speaker 1: you know, prosper and do well. But how many really
• 43:36
  Speaker 1: go out there and are like whoa? You know, like
• 43:39
  Speaker 1: they had them to get some key veteran guys that
• 43:42
  Speaker 1: are solid and pitching didn't do it. Right now, I'm
• 43:46
  Speaker 1: just not high on them.
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: So that's why Krats. I mean this weekend. You watch this,
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: you're like, you got to put some sweeps together. You
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: got to get on a win streak here. You know,
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: this is one of the worst teams in baseball right now,
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: talking about the Angels of the Orioles are not far
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: off right. You got to put some wins together. You
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: got to win a series here. The Twins aren't great either,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: and the Twins just made them look bad.
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: It's happening in different aspects. They're getting thrown out on
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: the basis they're not hitting clearly, you know, you don't know,
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: they don't they don't have starting pitching Sigano Tonight will
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: be you know, will be a boost for them. But man,
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: you're right, it's it's panic time. You asked earlier this
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: week if it was panic time. It's panic time. Double
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: digits under five hundred has to turn around.
• 44:47
  Speaker 2: Hey, let's lap reminder to everyone. We like when you
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: make suggestions on guests that we should try and bring
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: onto the show. Player wise, if there's somebody out there
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: that you feel like is a good combo, a good interview,
• 44:58
  Speaker 2: and we're missing them, let us know and we'll reach
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: out and we'll try and get him on the show
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: next week. By the way, I do see Mason Miller
• 45:04
  Speaker 2: on the schedule for later in the week.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: It's closer.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: Always a fun combo. Cratsats.
• 45:10
  Speaker 3: I just want to say the slap pants and new
• 45:11
  Speaker 3: slap pants. That makes me happy. I just want to
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: make sure everybody noticed it. Natty Wait wait wait wait
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: is it the Nationals? Oh now it's Minnesota. Oh wait, no,
• 45:24
  Speaker 3: it's the Nationals. Wait again, it's Miami's Islands.
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: That could be the Marlins. That's right, that's a cool hat.
• 45:32
  Speaker 2: What do they call that when you can, you know,
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: flip something and it's the same either.
• 45:36
  Speaker 1: Way, inverted each other.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: No, there's a better word for that. Just none of us, knuckleheads.
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: No, CRUs you're wrong one today. Wait a minute, sack,
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: wait a minute.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Not the Rockies, Not the Rockies.
• 45:57
  Speaker 1: Rocky, I get it, I get it.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: Not Rocket a dub Yeah, yeah, to find a dub
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: lately with Hey, Kyle Freeland laid his heart out and
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: and Kratz is just ripping it.
• 46:11
  Speaker 1: Yeah he's he's just become this high school coach and
• 46:15
  Speaker 1: he's like.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: You because they win too much, that team they do.
• 46:20
  Speaker 1: He's a successful high school He's got to win a
• 46:22
  Speaker 1: state Championship for him to get some clout. It's this
• 46:25
  Speaker 1: time is now? Yeah? Put up for shot.
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: I don't win anything. I don't have to win anything.
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: The kids have to win. It's all their fault. If
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: we win, then it's mine.
• 46:33
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• 46:36
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• 46:39
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• 46:41
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• 46:44
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• 46:48
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