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Rhys Hoskins signs with Guardians, Joe Ryan injury update, Imai's filthy splitter, Ketel's glove goals · Foul Territory

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Speaker 2: The Milwaukee Brewers tomorrow and the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday.
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Speaker 2: It's been a great day at Rangers camp so far.
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Speaker 2: You see the guys out on the field. AJ Prazinski
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Speaker 2: is there and as we know, the Rangers after a
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Speaker 2: five hundred year missing the playoffs, this is a team
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Speaker 2: it's kind of searching for its championship identity again. The
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Speaker 2: pitching staff looking elite. The lineup, they've got some new pieces.
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Speaker 2: We've got Wit mayorfield with us as well.
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Speaker 1: AJ. Guys, how you doing.
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Speaker 3: Well? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Uh, the sun is out in surprise, surprise, the sun
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Speaker 4: came out today. And so if you guys see me
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Speaker 4: take off my sweatshirt, it will be because I am
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Speaker 4: in a sauna getting here at surprise. But other than that,
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Speaker 4: it's a beautiful day. I'm running down a dream in
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Speaker 4: the background. And USA kicked the ass in the hockey
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Speaker 4: gold medal games, so in both men's and women's. So
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Speaker 4: we are now a hockey.
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Speaker 5: Nation feeling golden, failing gold.
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Speaker 3: In that right? A, who are the Hoosiers.
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Speaker 2: We're gonna have a lot more Hoosiers references throughout the show,
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Speaker 2: so embrace.
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Speaker 1: Yourself, everybody speaking though of Team USA.
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Speaker 2: Wow, guys, you want to talk about a move George
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Speaker 2: Springer at Blue Jay's Spring trading wearing a USA hockey
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Speaker 2: jersey in his first at that.
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Speaker 1: What'd you guys think about that?
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Speaker 3: Wait?
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Speaker 2: I'm so curious your thoughts on this, especially after a
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Speaker 2: playing in Toronto.
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Speaker 6: Well, George, I will say George is a huge hockey guy,
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Speaker 6: huge hockey guy, like Donamo, hockey fan, truly loves the sports.
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Speaker 6: So I know that he was fully invested in in
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Speaker 6: the Olympics, in Team USA and their hockey run and
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Speaker 6: the fact that they won gold.
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Speaker 5: I know he's super fired up, so this is more
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Speaker 5: of it.
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Speaker 6: I know this is more of a him just celebrating
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Speaker 6: what just happened.
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Speaker 5: Versus a day at Canada.
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Speaker 6: But I know he plays for the Canadian team, so
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Speaker 6: people are gonna view it as that. But this is
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Speaker 6: just George being a being a super fan and showing
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Speaker 6: his support for an incredible run that Team USA just
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Speaker 6: went on.
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Speaker 4: No troll, This is trolling. He's trolling in that country
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Speaker 4: and he plays for the only baseball team in the country.
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Speaker 4: This is amazing. Good job, George. You just got all
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Speaker 4: of Canada mad at you from your first faked bat
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Speaker 4: of the spring training season, and I freaking love it.
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Speaker 3: Uh what you played there?
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Speaker 4: How are the Canadians gonna react when George Stringer comes
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Speaker 4: George Springer comes up for his first to bat today,
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Speaker 4: and you know what he should have done in the
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Speaker 4: first spring training a bat in Dunedin. Warn that Jersey
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Speaker 4: and then see how the reaction.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, that would have been. That would have been something.
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Speaker 6: But I mean they'll be they'll be fine. They'll be fine.
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Speaker 6: Good for Team USA, Canay, Canada's got all their goals
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Speaker 6: and this is our year. So I want a little
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Speaker 6: bit more of this in baseball.
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Speaker 2: I want a little bit more of like, Hey, what
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Speaker 2: can I do to kind of stir the pot?
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Speaker 1: What can I do to get people talking? I support you, George.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's talk a little bit about the recent
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Speaker 2: news in uh charge the mound? All right, Reyes Hoskins
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Speaker 2: signs a Guardian's minor league deal worth one point five
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Speaker 2: million if he makes the team. Of course, we know
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Speaker 2: that Reese is coming from the Brewers. He's had a
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Speaker 2: couple of injury plug seasons. Could be a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a middle of the order threat for this Guardian's lineup.
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Speaker 2: They could look they could use that a bit with AJ.
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Speaker 2: What are your thoughts on this?
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Speaker 3: Amazing to take from the sign.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't. I don't get the rece
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Speaker 5: I don't get the rece thing. What's what I mean?
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Speaker 6: The guy is the coming off a down year he
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Speaker 6: got he got two hundred and seventy nine at bats
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Speaker 6: and he hit twelve homers. If he'd got a full year,
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Speaker 6: he's gonna hit you twenty five homers. He's just going
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Speaker 6: to and if he'd got a full year, he would
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Speaker 6: have hit twenty five homers. Again, I mean, he's gone
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Speaker 6: eighteen homers his rookie year and one hundred and seventy
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Speaker 6: at bats, and then he's gone thirty four, twenty nine,
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Speaker 6: ten in the COVID year, twenty seven, thirty twenty six
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Speaker 6: after coming off a torn acl and then twelve and
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Speaker 6: in limited playing time.
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Speaker 5: So I don't.
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Speaker 6: I mean, he's never been an average guy. He's not
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Speaker 6: gonn hit for average, and he's going to play.
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Speaker 5: A serviceable first base.
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Speaker 6: Uh, and he's got yea clutch postseason experience. I don't
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Speaker 6: understand what this, what the why people aren't more inclined
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Speaker 6: to go after Reese. He's a leader in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 6: I spent some time in Philly, and people all over
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Speaker 6: that clubhouse, whether it was players, staff, whoever, was rave
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Speaker 6: about Reese as a teammate and as a person. So
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Speaker 6: I'm really confused as to why more teams aren't interested
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Speaker 6: in Reese.
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Speaker 4: I don't know that it wasn't they were interested. I
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Speaker 4: think they were a little bit scared of the injury bug, right,
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Speaker 4: Remember he hurt his knee and then he missed them
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Speaker 4: a bunch of time in the last couple of years.
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Speaker 4: But like you said, if he if he's healthy, he'll
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Speaker 4: hit you twenty five to thirty any given year. And
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Speaker 4: now he's gonna strike out a bunch, He's gonna he's
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Speaker 4: gonna give you some you know, average, the averages first
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Speaker 4: base play, So maybe teams were looking at that. But
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Speaker 4: for me, for the Guardians, this is a great signing
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Speaker 4: because they can add that pop to their lineup. They
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Speaker 4: can add that leadership to a lineup and they hadn't
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Speaker 4: done much this offseason, So I think for the Guardians
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Speaker 4: this is a huge deal and he can help them
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Speaker 4: try to win another division, which people forget they won
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Speaker 4: the division last year. We're in the postseason with almost
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Speaker 4: the same team, so just another bat they can add
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Speaker 4: to a lineup that we've been seeing for a while
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Speaker 4: and needs more offense.
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Speaker 2: Still wild to me that the Guardians won the division
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Speaker 2: last year and how that all shook out. What do
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Speaker 2: you think about where he fits in with this team.
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Speaker 2: I know AJ was talking about how they need that
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Speaker 2: they need that bat.
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Speaker 1: And Reese could be a good option for that. I
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Speaker 1: know you you're a big fan of him.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with AJ.
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Speaker 6: I think he fits in perfectly with with with this
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Speaker 6: team and brings a brings another level of experience and
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Speaker 6: leadership to a fairly somewhat young team. They're not as young,
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Speaker 6: I don't feel like as they have been in the past,
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Speaker 6: but it gives jay Ram a little bit of a
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Speaker 6: little bit of extra protection and another voice in that clubhouse.
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Speaker 6: And I just I agree. I think it's a great fit.
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Speaker 6: I hate that it took so long and that it's
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Speaker 6: you know, it is what it is with the the
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Speaker 6: money that these games getting. I think one to five
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Speaker 6: on a minor league deal, So I don't think it
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Speaker 6: reflects the kind of player that he is. But good
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Speaker 6: for the Guardians. I think it will be a great fit.
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Speaker 6: And they always the Guardians always seem to squeeze out
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Speaker 6: the best out of the out of their players. So
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Speaker 6: good for Reeves, good for Cleveland, and I hope it
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Speaker 6: hopefully goes well.
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Speaker 2: Okay, obviously we know how this works. But when you're
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Speaker 2: going to camp on a minor league deal, how different
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Speaker 2: is that than going to camp on a big league deal.
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Speaker 6: Uh well, I mean it's it's Uh well, I guarantee
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Speaker 6: you with Reese, it's sometimes it's different when you're a
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Speaker 6: younger player or you're kind of a fringe guy.
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Speaker 5: You're trying to go make the team. You're going to
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Speaker 5: have it.
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Speaker 6: You need to go have a good spring and earn
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Speaker 6: yourself a spot on the team. With Rees, I can
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Speaker 6: almost guarantee that that Cleveland told them, hey, look, you're
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Speaker 6: on the team, Like, we got to put you on
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Speaker 6: a minor league deal right now because we're not ready
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Speaker 6: to make a forty man move. We don't know what
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Speaker 6: way we're gonna go with it. We don't know who
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Speaker 6: we're going to dfa to make their room for you.
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Speaker 6: So for now you're gonna be on the minor league deal.
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Speaker 6: But I can almost assure you that they told him, Look,
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Speaker 6: you're gonna be on You're gonna make the team, But
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Speaker 6: we just got to do this for now.
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Speaker 4: So he's got to make the team. He's got to
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Speaker 4: make the team. They probably didn't have a roster spot
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Speaker 4: open Trischer, so it's a little bit different. He's not
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Speaker 4: coming to with guaranteed money. He's got to make the team.
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Speaker 4: But I have a pretty good feeling and probably make
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Speaker 4: the team. I don't know why the Guardians would do
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Speaker 4: this unless he was gonna make the team.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he's on a minor league deal.
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Speaker 4: But usually somebody gets hurt in spring training, or there's
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Speaker 4: somebody that didn't perform up that might be had options,
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Speaker 4: and then they they can just dfam and clear a
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Speaker 4: spot on the roster.
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Speaker 3: So I don't know why they would do it unless
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Speaker 3: he was going to make the team.
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Speaker 2: All right, that was by far the best part of
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Speaker 2: the show. Skip Schumacher cheering for Theirs over the U.
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Speaker 2: We love to hear it all right, so yep, didn't
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Speaker 2: ask for your comment yet. AJ, good news for the Twins.
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Speaker 2: Joe Ryan's MRI showed only inflammation. And this is from
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Speaker 2: our friend Dan Hayes. As we know, that is phenomenal
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Speaker 2: news for the Twins considering the news that they got
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Speaker 2: recently on Pablo Lopez having to have Tommy John surgery.
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Speaker 1: The team said on Saturday that with Joe Ryan it.
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Speaker 2: Was lower right back kind of soreness, but thankfully for
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Speaker 2: them guys, not a big issue.
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Speaker 1: AJ.
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Speaker 2: I'll start with you, how much of a sigh of
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Speaker 2: relief for the Twins letting out right now?
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Speaker 4: Well, they're like, whoo, we just lost Pablo Lopez and
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Speaker 4: now we can still trade Joe Ryan at some point
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Speaker 4: after we get off to start and you're probably when
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Speaker 4: they're not really trying, even though they said they're going
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Speaker 4: to try and win this year. The biggest thing is
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Speaker 4: how does this affect it for the WBC. Is gonna
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Speaker 4: be allowed to pitch in the WBC? I would think no,
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Speaker 4: right right when if he's hurt, they can't and he
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Speaker 4: can't pitch, they they're gonna have to replace him on
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Speaker 4: the WBC roster.
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Speaker 3: So who's that gonna be.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good point.
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Speaker 6: I mean that with this new insurance, uh, people bound
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Speaker 6: pounded down your throat about being old and being heard.
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Speaker 6: You got any sort of any sort of ax that
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Speaker 6: pop up, I guarantee the insurance isn't gonna isn't gonna
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Speaker 6: let it fly. So I don't know if I don't
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Speaker 6: think his WBC futures.
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Speaker 5: Is gonna happen.
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Speaker 3: I hope not. I hope.
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Speaker 6: I hope he gets to pitch for Team USA. But
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Speaker 6: but yeah, I don't see it happening. And who they
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Speaker 6: replaced with it with him, I'm not sure because potitch
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Speaker 6: a player wise, it'd be it'd be different. But you know,
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Speaker 6: Joe knew going in to the spring that he was
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Speaker 6: gonna be pitching, and so he had he's built up
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Speaker 6: a little differently than had he just been getting ready
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Speaker 6: for a regular season. You can't really go find a
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Speaker 6: pitcher probably that's been that's built up to the level
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Speaker 6: that he needs to be to go and and be
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Speaker 6: a starter. So maybe they just piece together some more
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Speaker 6: bullpen games. I don't know, But yeah, I don't see
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Speaker 6: his WBC future happening unfortunately.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, definitely a blow for Team USA, for the WBC
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Speaker 2: with the news of Joe Ryan and his inflammation. Certainly
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Speaker 2: what the Twins wanted to hear when it comes to
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Speaker 2: Joe Ryan's injury. But guys, I'm also curious the Twins
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Speaker 2: had a chance to trade both pitchers at last year's
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Speaker 2: trade deadline, Pablo Lopez.
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Speaker 1: And Joe Ryan.
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Speaker 2: AJ you you kind of touched on it briefly, but
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Speaker 2: your thoughts on that the decision they made last year
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Speaker 2: and then how this affects them going into this year
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Speaker 2: with Pablo's injury and then obviously Joe Ryan on the table.
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Speaker 3: How does it affel.
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Speaker 4: I think they're gonna be more aggressive possibly of trading
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Speaker 4: him if they don't get off to a good start,
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Speaker 4: because now they you know, there was talks to Pablo
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Speaker 4: Lopez getting traded, and now with him out for you know,
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Speaker 4: a year and a half, Let's let's be honest. Everyone says, oh, Tommy,
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Speaker 4: John is a year, but it's really a year and
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Speaker 4: a half. So you're looking at Pablo Lopez missing all
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Speaker 4: of this year and a bunch of next year, so
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Speaker 4: the Twins can't trade him.
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Speaker 3: Joe Ryan.
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Speaker 4: I think they'd be aggressive on once they get an
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Speaker 4: opportunity and they see where they're at, and if they're
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Speaker 4: doing good or not doing well, they might trade him
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Speaker 4: earlier than we've seen and try and get more value
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Speaker 4: out of them. So I think that's how it affects
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Speaker 4: him more than anything. But and I don't know, as
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Speaker 4: a former twin, I hate this for the people of
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Speaker 4: Minnesota and the fans of Minnesota because it's it could
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Speaker 4: be a long few years and I lived that as
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Speaker 4: when I first came up Minnesota and we brought the
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Speaker 4: fans back and the fans have been great. But now
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Speaker 4: as they continue to kind of go down, you see
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Speaker 4: the fans not showing up, and they shouldn't because he
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Speaker 4: looks like the team to them is not trying. Not
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Speaker 4: saying that they're not, but it just looks like that
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Speaker 4: from the outside.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I agree with you, and I think they're gonna
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Speaker 6: try earlier, and I think there might be it might
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Speaker 6: be having to sacrifice a little bit of what they
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Speaker 6: were asking for before now that he's got this on
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Speaker 6: his on his resume, which you know, I don't I
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Speaker 6: don't know how serious it is, but it's never you never.
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Speaker 5: Want to have something pop up when you're trying to
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Speaker 5: trade for somebody.
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Speaker 6: But I do I do gotta say with this, with
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Speaker 6: with the Tomma John, you know thing that everybody seems
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Speaker 6: to get Tom John after a picture. Can we get
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Speaker 6: on the Lindsay Vaughan a c L program with Tomma
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Speaker 6: John Because she tore a c L before she went
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Speaker 6: down doing the downhill. A week later she was doing
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Speaker 6: squats and box jumps and and and skiing. So whatever
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Speaker 6: doctor did her a c L, we need to trade
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Speaker 6: him to do some Tomma John surgery so we can
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Speaker 6: get these pictures back a little.
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Speaker 1: It didn't really work out well for her. Unfortunately, that
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Speaker 1: wasn't because of her knee though.
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Speaker 3: That was because she got the It wasn't.
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Speaker 1: Because of her knee. But yeah, there there can be
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Speaker 1: arguments made. But yes, uh a hater. I love Lindsay Van.
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Speaker 1: I'm not being a hater.
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Speaker 2: I'm just saying there were probably a lot of doctors
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Speaker 2: that were like, you really should not have been out
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Speaker 2: there for one reason.
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Speaker 4: I know the one she found, the one that said
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Speaker 4: she could do it, and she did it. Her post
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Speaker 4: afterwards was awesome, by the way, if you haven't read
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Speaker 4: her post, and it was awesome.
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Speaker 2: I did read it, and I'm not blaming her for
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Speaker 2: doing it at all. I would have done it if
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Speaker 2: I were her, But I think there are definitely some
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Speaker 2: opinions maybe she should have listened.
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Speaker 5: To before that.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's move on from injury talk and let's
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Speaker 2: talk about a splitter that is kind of lighten up
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Speaker 2: spring training right now, tedsuya.
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Speaker 1: E may look at it.
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Speaker 2: Nailed it, you guys that that name's hard. Don't don't even.
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Speaker 1: He min there we go, he mine so much right now.
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Speaker 1: I even practiced his last name going into this. All right,
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Speaker 1: Here's how his splitter was described.
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Speaker 2: He said, I'll be honest with you, I played this
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Speaker 2: game for twenty four years now and eleven professionally, and
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Speaker 2: I've never seen a pitch like that before.
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Speaker 1: In my life.
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Speaker 2: AJ your thoughts on that comment, because that's a strong comment.
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Speaker 2: Don't you dare say something about pronunciation?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Of course, I mean Indiana. Since they're now a football school,
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Speaker 4: they can't read either, So I mean that that goes
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Speaker 4: hand in hand for sure. Welcome, welcome to being a
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Speaker 4: welcoming to being a football school.
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Speaker 3: Football sound something.
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Speaker 1: And you will never get the end of it from me.
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Speaker 1: Can you talk now about splutters.
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Speaker 4: By Yes, uh, listen, a lot of guys have splits,
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Speaker 4: and Wind knows this. When they get the deep deep
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Speaker 4: it's almost like a forkball. Couse they Contraras used to
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Speaker 4: throw it right, Sazaki throws it. When it is that
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Speaker 4: deep deep forkball, it's almost like a knuckleball, and you
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Speaker 4: just don't know which way it's going. If you if
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Speaker 4: you saw cal Rawley yesterday talk about Logan Gilberts, it's
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Speaker 4: a split, but he called it a forkball. It just
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Speaker 4: you don't know which way it's going. And if you
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Speaker 4: can command that pitch, it is one of the best
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Speaker 4: pitches in baseball because it comes out hard. It comes
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Speaker 4: out like a fastball, but it moves like a knuckleball,
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Speaker 4: and it is really really hard to hit, and it's
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Speaker 4: really really hard to throw because everyone has a hard
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Speaker 4: time controlling it. So if you can control it, you
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Speaker 4: can be really special.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 6: That's the big thing, right is can you thole for
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Speaker 6: a strike? I know, going into when Sanga first got here,
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Speaker 6: I know that was our our game plan going into
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Speaker 6: his star was he if you look at if you
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Speaker 6: looked at his splits, Yeah, he's got a lot of
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Speaker 6: strikeouts on it. But how many strikes was he throwing
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Speaker 6: with it? It was it was they were all chase strikes.
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Speaker 6: So the four ball, it's not, it's not something that's
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Speaker 6: going to fool you.
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Speaker 5: It's not.
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Speaker 6: You're not gonna think it's a fastball coming in and
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Speaker 6: it's gonna drop off the table. Those are the ones that,
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Speaker 6: in my opinion, really are the tough ones. Is the
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Speaker 6: ones that they don't come in with that almost knuckleball
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Speaker 6: sideway spin. They come in looking like a two seam
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Speaker 6: and then just diving off the table. So it's yeah,
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Speaker 6: it's it's a matter of canny control it because if
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Speaker 6: you can't and you can recognize it, you got to
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Speaker 6: be disciplined enough as a hitter to just not swing
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Speaker 6: at it and wait for something else because it's gonna
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Speaker 6: be a ball majority of the time time because the
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Speaker 6: chances of him controlling it are not very good. So
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Speaker 6: it can move all, it can move all you want.
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Speaker 6: You got to be able to throw it for a
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Speaker 6: strike whenever you need to throw it for a strike,
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Speaker 6: And so that's what it's really going to come down to.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, But it seems like you kind of had that
17:13
Speaker 2: immediate wow factor in camp with it right, he faced
17:16
Speaker 2: astro hitters for the first time.
17:18
Speaker 1: He showed a lot.
17:18
Speaker 2: Of of you know, deception as they explained it Hose TV.
17:24
Speaker 2: Altuve was talking about his slider movement, Carlos Correa talking
17:28
Speaker 2: about the splitter in the fastball, so you have to
17:31
Speaker 2: imagine AJ that means it's going to translate. Well, if
17:33
Speaker 2: he's already wowing guys in camp right now, just in
17:36
Speaker 2: a live VP.
17:37
Speaker 4: If you can throw it over the plate, he can't,
17:39
Speaker 4: and he can't. You can't really sit on that pitch
17:40
Speaker 4: because it's I remember the one pitch he gave me
17:43
Speaker 4: more trouble than anything. And I don't know if it
17:45
Speaker 4: wit agrees as a split, especially a hard split, because
17:48
Speaker 4: you can't sit on it looks so much like a fastball.
17:51
Speaker 4: And the problem is when you say, oh, make him
17:52
Speaker 4: get the ball up. A lot of times when they
17:54
Speaker 4: throw splits, they throw the high fastball ve low, so
17:56
Speaker 4: then they throw the high fastball velo and then you say, oh,
17:58
Speaker 4: I gotta get him down and then throw the split
18:00
Speaker 4: off of it. Roger Clemens right, the high fastball and
18:03
Speaker 4: then the split off of it, or if they have
18:05
Speaker 4: good angle like a guy like Clements had they throw
18:08
Speaker 4: it right at your knees with the fastball and you're saying, oh,
18:10
Speaker 4: I got to get the ball up, and then he
18:12
Speaker 4: just paint that fastball down and then they throw the
18:14
Speaker 4: split right off of it, and you just look like
18:16
Speaker 4: a fool. Tim Hudson was another great example of it.
18:19
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the one, is the one that looks like
18:21
Speaker 6: the heater, and U for whatever reason, I always always
18:24
Speaker 6: had a lot of success with the split. For again
18:26
Speaker 6: whatever reason, I never hit the change up very good.
18:29
Speaker 6: If it looked like a heater coming in and he
18:31
Speaker 6: pulled a string on it, I was never very good
18:32
Speaker 6: at it.
18:33
Speaker 5: But for a split.
18:34
Speaker 6: Majority of them I could recognize, and if I could
18:36
Speaker 6: see the spin difference, then I had a chance. But
18:39
Speaker 6: so I was always kind of partial to it. If
18:41
Speaker 6: a guy had a split, get me in there. But
18:44
Speaker 6: these these ones coming in now, especially from the Japanese pitchers,
18:48
Speaker 6: are like you said earlier, they're not they're not split.
18:50
Speaker 5: They're more of a they're more of big fork balls.
18:53
Speaker 6: And I think that's as you said, with Logan Gilbert
18:56
Speaker 6: throwing it too, I think that's becoming a little bit
18:57
Speaker 6: more of the trend than the hard Roger Clemens type split.
19:03
Speaker 2: Okay, so let's take a look at this yesterday when
19:08
Speaker 2: they were lining up for the anthems. This is from
19:11
Speaker 2: our good friend Chandler Rome. He said, attendance obviously at
19:17
Speaker 2: Great Fruit game at Great Fruit League games, very optional
19:21
Speaker 2: for veteran players who aren't in that day's lineup.
19:23
Speaker 1: We all knew that.
19:24
Speaker 2: However, Emi was on the first baseline in the national
19:29
Speaker 2: anthem prior to the game against the Nationals and it
19:32
Speaker 2: was his first major league baseball game.
19:35
Speaker 1: What do you guys think of that?
19:36
Speaker 6: Hey, jay Aw, I was just gonna say, he must
19:41
Speaker 6: have had a tea time setup, so you know he
19:43
Speaker 6: wanted to watch him get want to watch a little
19:44
Speaker 6: bit of baseball.
19:46
Speaker 5: No, but I think it's great.
19:47
Speaker 6: I mean, a new guy probably sticking around to see
19:50
Speaker 6: his pitcher's throw and trying to get acclimated to the team.
19:54
Speaker 6: And that's a good time when you're in the dugout
19:57
Speaker 6: to talk to guys, hang out with guys you don't
20:00
Speaker 6: really get to see throughout the day. Maybe and you know,
20:03
Speaker 6: good for him for sticking around in the dugout and
20:06
Speaker 6: getting talked to some of those teammates.
20:10
Speaker 4: Maybe he just really likes the USA. And also maybe
20:15
Speaker 4: he was rooting for USA and hockey today we don't know.
20:17
Speaker 4: Maybe he's rooting for the USA and the WBC.
20:19
Speaker 3: How do we know.
20:20
Speaker 4: Maybe he just really likes the USA. It's a very
20:22
Speaker 4: patriotic twenty four hours, for sure.
20:25
Speaker 1: So it is twenty four hours.
20:28
Speaker 2: I just know in my six years of covering spring training,
20:31
Speaker 2: if a guy didn't have to be out there for
20:32
Speaker 2: the national anthem during a Great Fruit League game or
20:34
Speaker 2: whatever it was, they were certainly not there.
20:38
Speaker 1: So that's a that's a different thing to see, I guess.
20:41
Speaker 2: All right, let's move on to say this is Zuki
20:44
Speaker 2: on his future as he enters the last year of
20:47
Speaker 2: his contract. This is from our friend Jesse Rogers. He said,
20:52
Speaker 2: I'm not sure about the last year of his contract.
20:54
Speaker 2: He said, it depends on my performance. He said, if
20:56
Speaker 2: I perform well, I want to stay. I feel like
20:59
Speaker 2: I still haven't put up the numbers that people are
21:01
Speaker 2: expecting me to. It comes down to how I perform.
21:06
Speaker 2: So that's a pretty generic statement, right. I think it's
21:10
Speaker 2: fair for him to say that, you know, he hasn't
21:11
Speaker 2: put up the numbers that people are expecting him to.
21:14
Speaker 1: But guys what do you think about that?
21:16
Speaker 2: And just his mentality entering the last year of his
21:19
Speaker 2: contract and maybe him saying that, you know, he's not
21:22
Speaker 2: entirely happy with his numbers either.
21:26
Speaker 4: Is anybody ever wait, is anybody ever entirely happy with
21:30
Speaker 4: their numbers? No matter how I mean, unless you're maybe
21:32
Speaker 4: Aaron Judge or Shoeo Tani or someone like that, is
21:35
Speaker 4: anyone ever totally happy? There's always things you think you
21:37
Speaker 4: can get better at. Sayazuki's been a good player for
21:39
Speaker 4: the Cubs, He's helped them win a lot of games,
21:42
Speaker 4: and is the last year of his contract. It's smart,
21:45
Speaker 4: it's good negotiating play by him. He wants to stay there,
21:47
Speaker 4: So how do you get out in front of this?
21:49
Speaker 4: But yeah, listen, cool, cool, say cool.
21:55
Speaker 6: Yeah, I like it. I like the I like to comment.
21:57
Speaker 6: You know, I haven't played where I feel like my
21:59
Speaker 6: game can be and if I play well, then I'd
22:03
Speaker 6: love to stay here. And yeah, I think he's set
22:06
Speaker 6: himself up for having a good first half and saying
22:08
Speaker 6: all right, let's go, let's let's get something worked out
22:10
Speaker 6: before I hit for agency, because I'm gonna have teams
22:12
Speaker 6: calling me. So I think he's a good player. I
22:14
Speaker 6: think he's got a great, powerful right handed swing, and
22:19
Speaker 6: that's uh, you gotta do it.
22:20
Speaker 5: You gotta put the numbers together.
22:23
Speaker 2: All right, Let's talk a little bit about katel Marte.
22:26
Speaker 2: He says he's been working on his defense, and he said, quote,
22:29
Speaker 2: I need a gold glove. We've obviously heard a lot
22:32
Speaker 2: of guys say, you know, things like that. But when
22:35
Speaker 2: you hear him say that that he's working on his
22:37
Speaker 2: defense and that that's kind of one of his goals
22:40
Speaker 2: right now. I mean you would assume that's a goal
22:42
Speaker 2: for a lot of guys, but it seems like he's
22:45
Speaker 2: he's putting a big emphasis on that. AJ, what do
22:47
Speaker 2: you think.
22:48
Speaker 3: Good? Good for him.
22:49
Speaker 4: He's already one of the best offensive players in baseball.
22:52
Speaker 4: En if you had a gold glove to it, good
22:54
Speaker 4: for him, and it will only helped the Diamondbacks win.
22:56
Speaker 4: So good for catel Marte to to take this next step.
22:59
Speaker 4: And I just want to know what you played second base?
23:01
Speaker 4: How do you make yourself a goal glover? Can you
23:02
Speaker 4: just wake up one day and say, man, I need
23:04
Speaker 4: to work on this metric or that metric and become
23:06
Speaker 4: a gold Glover.
23:07
Speaker 3: How does that work?
23:07
Speaker 4: Because I man If someone only would have told that,
23:09
Speaker 4: I would have won so many Gold Gloves and the
23:11
Speaker 4: American League ahead of Pud Rodriguez and Joe Mauer and
23:15
Speaker 4: you know, I was in the Nashley had a Yachtie
23:17
Speaker 4: Molina and those guys.
23:19
Speaker 3: Someone just would have told me. Yeah.
23:22
Speaker 5: So it's it's it's weird now with all these analytics.
23:24
Speaker 5: Is you gotta one. You gotta get the opportunities to
23:28
Speaker 5: make the place.
23:29
Speaker 6: You gotta have the balls hit that are in those
23:33
Speaker 6: like those ranges where you can you can make the
23:37
Speaker 6: play and get the guy out.
23:37
Speaker 5: You gotta have the slow guy running.
23:39
Speaker 6: He's got to hit you the ball that you got
23:41
Speaker 6: to go a long way for and field and throw
23:43
Speaker 6: and make it out to get your your you know,
23:47
Speaker 6: your your range factor or whatever it is up and
23:51
Speaker 6: you're out to buve average up and all this stuff.
23:53
Speaker 6: So that's that's the first thing, is you got to
23:54
Speaker 6: get the balls hit to you in the right situations.
23:57
Speaker 5: He can improve on his jumps.
23:59
Speaker 6: I don't think his his just kind of looking vaguely
24:02
Speaker 6: at his numbers over the over the course of his career.
24:05
Speaker 6: He's a he's a super athletic guy, but his jumps
24:08
Speaker 6: have not been great, So that's something you can work on.
24:11
Speaker 6: He's got he's got a strong arm. I think the
24:13
Speaker 6: biggest thing for him is that he's no longer bouncing around.
24:16
Speaker 6: You know, there was a time in his career where
24:18
Speaker 6: he was playing center field. He played some short stop
24:20
Speaker 6: early on, some third base even and and and some
24:24
Speaker 6: second base, and now he's pretty much just a second
24:27
Speaker 6: base and that that that's the big thing, is being
24:29
Speaker 6: able to get that every day and get comfortable and
24:32
Speaker 6: feel like you're you're just like anything. The more you
24:36
Speaker 6: do it, the better you're gonna get at it. And
24:37
Speaker 6: so I think him now having a couple of years
24:40
Speaker 6: in a row of playing solely second base under his belt,
24:43
Speaker 6: if he's really engaged and working on getting better. He's
24:47
Speaker 6: had some some pretty solid years defensively a second and
24:51
Speaker 6: so I think it's in there, just a matter of
24:53
Speaker 6: can he put it together through a whole year and
24:55
Speaker 6: not make the stupid air, make the big plays when
24:58
Speaker 6: they're hit to him. I think there's a he could
25:01
Speaker 6: win a Gold Glove. There's a lot of really good
25:02
Speaker 6: defensive second baseman though in the National League. I will say,
25:05
Speaker 6: so he's got to He's got some some big competition
25:08
Speaker 6: ahead of him, but he is a freak athlete and
25:10
Speaker 6: I think I think if all the stars align, then
25:13
Speaker 6: he could He could probably do it well.
25:15
Speaker 2: And he talks about how he's been working with Nolan
25:19
Speaker 2: Aeronato and how he said he's gonna help him win
25:22
Speaker 2: a Gold Glove Aga. Can you think of anybody better
25:24
Speaker 2: for him to work with than Nolan who's won ten
25:28
Speaker 2: Gold Glove awards, an eight time All Star. I mean,
25:31
Speaker 2: that's just a cheat sheet right next to him every
25:34
Speaker 2: day in the clubhouse.
25:34
Speaker 3: Right for sure.
25:36
Speaker 4: For sure, it's a different position, different side of the field,
25:38
Speaker 4: but Nolan knows what he's doing. The problem is is
25:41
Speaker 4: Nico Herr Horner for the Cubs is pretty good. He's
25:43
Speaker 4: pretty entrenched there with the Gold Glove, so I don't
25:46
Speaker 4: know how he's gonna jump them. But again, Nolan can
25:49
Speaker 4: help them. Nolan can show him. Nolan knows how to
25:51
Speaker 4: do it. But I don't know if Nolan's ever played
25:55
Speaker 4: second base, so I don't know. But I think Kateel
25:57
Speaker 4: can do it. He's athletic enough and he just stays healthy,
25:59
Speaker 4: especially his lower half. Health Wise, I think Katell could
26:02
Speaker 4: definitely do this and become even better if that's possible
26:05
Speaker 4: of a player.
26:07
Speaker 6: Yeah, that's the thing is you got you got Nico,
26:10
Speaker 6: you got Bryce Terrang with Milwaukee, you got Bryson Stott
26:13
Speaker 6: with Philly. I mean, those those are the three guys
26:16
Speaker 6: that have really been battling it out for that goal
26:18
Speaker 6: glove over the last couple of years. And but I
26:21
Speaker 6: will say that that Nolan's I think Nolan's biggest besides
26:27
Speaker 6: just the unbelievable accuracy of his arm, I think his
26:30
Speaker 6: biggest attribute is the jumps that he gets on balls
26:32
Speaker 6: because he's not the most athletic guy in the world.
26:34
Speaker 5: I mean, he's not.
26:35
Speaker 6: The fleetest to foot, but the way he can anticipate
26:38
Speaker 6: but where balls are hit and his angles he takes
26:40
Speaker 6: the balls that are hit, and his jumps that he
26:42
Speaker 6: gets or why he can get to those balls and
26:44
Speaker 6: make all these amazing plays. And so I hope that's
26:47
Speaker 6: what they're talking about, and it could be a big
26:49
Speaker 6: difference in taking Katl's game defensive game to the next level.
26:53
Speaker 6: But I just think there's too much traffic there for
26:55
Speaker 6: him to win a goal glove.
27:04
Speaker 2: All right, let's take a look at the NL Pennant odds.
27:07
Speaker 2: Of course, the favorite the Dodgers. Uh, no surprise there.
27:13
Speaker 2: Biggest liability the Pirates and then obviously the Dodgers kind
27:18
Speaker 2: of run the table there, guys.
27:19
Speaker 1: What do you think about this?
27:21
Speaker 2: What do you think about the Dodgers?
27:23
Speaker 3: I don't know.
27:24
Speaker 6: I mean, obviously that the Dodgers or have made the
27:30
Speaker 6: news because they spend all the money and do all
27:31
Speaker 6: the stuff, and they've won back to back World Series
27:33
Speaker 6: and you can't discredit them for that because they've they've
27:36
Speaker 6: been the team that won the last game of the
27:38
Speaker 6: season two years in a row. I think there might
27:40
Speaker 6: be a little bit of playoff fatigue that sets in
27:43
Speaker 6: this year. So I would imagine that somebody else in
27:47
Speaker 6: the Nation League. The National League is kind of is
27:49
Speaker 6: kind of stacked, and I would kind of I would
27:51
Speaker 6: imagine that somebody else in the n L is going
27:53
Speaker 6: to step in and and overthrow them this year. So
27:57
Speaker 6: that's kind of where my where my guts at. So
28:00
Speaker 6: you know, I would say that maybe stay away from
28:03
Speaker 6: the future bets with the Dodgers this year.
28:05
Speaker 2: Who do you think is their biggest challenge this year?
28:08
Speaker 2: The biggest challenger, I.
28:10
Speaker 6: Mean, I mean, you got you got the you got
28:12
Speaker 6: the Phillies. I think the Braves are sneaky, I really do,
28:16
Speaker 6: you know, they're kind of under the raider. I think
28:17
Speaker 6: they're a really good team if they can stay healthy.
28:20
Speaker 6: The Podres are solid. I think San Francisco. I mean
28:25
Speaker 6: that that division over there is is gonna it's gonna
28:28
Speaker 6: put up a it's gonna put up a fight. In
28:31
Speaker 6: the Cubs. The Cubs had a gread year last year.
28:33
Speaker 6: I think they can build on that. So there's just
28:35
Speaker 6: a bunch of good teams and so I think the
28:37
Speaker 6: Dodgers are gonna have their hands full this year.
28:39
Speaker 2: How far ahead do you think the Dodgers are from
28:41
Speaker 2: everybody else at this point? When you look at everything
28:44
Speaker 2: that they were able to do this offseason.
28:47
Speaker 6: It's just they they just they just don't have a weakness.
28:50
Speaker 6: You know that they just got strengthd everywhere. They got
28:52
Speaker 6: strengthen and as they got so much depth in the
28:56
Speaker 6: starting pitching, their lineup is I mean, it's just All
29:00
Speaker 6: Star after All Star after All Star, like perennial All
29:03
Speaker 6: Star after All Star, and then you've got a guy
29:05
Speaker 6: like Miguel Rojas who comes up with the biggest hit
29:08
Speaker 6: of of the season. So it's you know, you just
29:11
Speaker 6: they have a little bit of everything going on. And
29:15
Speaker 6: but like I said, I think that a little bit
29:17
Speaker 6: of you kind of saw it last year where they
29:19
Speaker 6: were they were kind of squeaking by in some certain
29:22
Speaker 6: and some games and just sort of winning games they
29:24
Speaker 6: probably shouldn't have won. So I think there's a a
29:26
Speaker 6: little bit of playoff of teague that might send.
29:33
Speaker 3: Sorry, there was an anthem.
29:35
Speaker 4: There was an anthem, So it's okay, exactly, we support you.
29:42
Speaker 2: Give us your take on the Dodgers, and they're really good.
29:46
Speaker 4: They're really good, by the way, and and I think
29:49
Speaker 4: that there will be number one of my power rankings
29:51
Speaker 4: probably for the entire year like they were last year.
29:53
Speaker 4: So until someone beats them, they're going to be number
29:55
Speaker 4: one of my power rankings because they keep signing players,
29:57
Speaker 4: they keep improving points of weakness. Their outfield last year
30:01
Speaker 4: was down, So or do they do they go get
30:02
Speaker 4: Kyle Tuck or their bullpen stunk last year?
30:04
Speaker 3: So what did they go do? Get Edwin Diaz. I
30:06
Speaker 3: think they're all right.
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