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O's dominate the Rays and remain in the mix for a wild card spot · Birdland Territory

0:07
Speaker 1: Hey, Birdland, the Orioles went into the trap for this
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Speaker 1: series against the Rays, having gone two and four on
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Speaker 1: this road trip, falling out of the wild card race.
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Speaker 1: A lot going wrong in Birdland, and in three stunning
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Speaker 1: days in Tampa Saint Pete, the Orioles have dramatically altered
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Speaker 1: the season. I don't think that's too strong a word
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Speaker 1: to say. Steve, Tim and Brad with you another edition
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Speaker 1: of Birdland Territory. Who won run wins Friday and Saturday
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Speaker 1: for the team that was terrible in one run games
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Speaker 1: and now I tend to blow out as we tape this.
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Speaker 1: After Sunday's win at Tropicana Field, they had their biggest
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Speaker 1: inning of the year with two on and none out
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Speaker 1: these course seven runs in the sixth inning. It's I
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Speaker 1: don't know, guys. We got thirty minutes to try to
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Speaker 1: explain how they went into Tampa against a team that
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Speaker 1: had won nine straight and was forty one and eighteen
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Speaker 1: at home and now can complete a four game sweep
1:02
Speaker 1: Monday night. It has been stunning, is the word.
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Speaker 2: I guess, Yeah, stunning.
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Speaker 3: And I think I'm done making predictions about what I
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Speaker 3: think this team can do, because honestly, I don't know, good, bad,
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Speaker 3: and different. It seems like you never know what you're
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Speaker 3: gonna get, and especially in a three game series, and
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Speaker 3: the way we take these shows, it's like half the time,
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Speaker 3: you know, we think we know what's going to come
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Speaker 3: the next time we have a show, and then by
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Speaker 3: the time we do it, we don't know what team
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Speaker 3: where we're actually watching. But it's been a really good
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Speaker 3: team to watch this weekend. This is kind of the
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Speaker 3: brand of baseball we've been hoping for this entire season,
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Speaker 3: and for them to go into the trop where the
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Speaker 3: race have been unbelievable this season. To say that I
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Speaker 3: thought they'd have a three game winning streak at the Trop,
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Speaker 3: I just don't think I could have predicted that going in.
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Speaker 3: So I guess, like we were saying before the show,
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Speaker 3: this is baseball, and I think this is American League
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Speaker 3: baseball at its best this year.
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Speaker 2: Just never know what's going to happen.
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Speaker 4: It really is unbelievable.
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Speaker 5: I just feel like there's been various points in the
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Speaker 5: year where you're thinking, Okay, maybe the wheels come off here,
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Speaker 5: and doing the shows on the fan Friday, you're thinking,
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Speaker 5: oh my gosh, this ten game stretch four at the
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Speaker 5: trop The Rays were forty one and eighteen at home
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Speaker 5: heading into this series. They won nine straight games. Heading
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Speaker 5: into this series, the Orioles coming off a gut punch
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Speaker 5: a rubber match in their prior series against the Twins,
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Speaker 5: losers of five of the last seven series, and they
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Speaker 5: rattle off three straight wins.
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Speaker 4: And you Cam Sanders with back.
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Speaker 5: To back saves and Colden Cowser's hitting home runs and
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Speaker 5: Gunner Henderson with a four hit game on Friday and
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Speaker 5: Jackson Holiday with multiple hits against left handed pitching.
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Speaker 4: Cowser as well.
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Speaker 5: Pete has been fantastic that this offense has just woke up.
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Speaker 5: And whatever you think of this team, and absolutely this
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Speaker 5: team has frustrated everyone various points this year. They fight,
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Speaker 5: they scratched, they call that they are not waving the
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Speaker 5: white flag. This season is far from over and they're
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Speaker 5: firmly in the mix for this final wildcard spot.
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Speaker 1: As at the end of the game Saturday night, if
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Speaker 1: the Rols were in a five way tie for the
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Speaker 1: wild card, that's just keeps being jumbled a bit. They
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Speaker 1: were a half game back of Texas beginning today, so
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Speaker 1: at worst at the end of Sunday night, there'll be
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Speaker 1: a half game back, they might be the wildcard leader.
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Speaker 1: It's just crazy right now with all these teams chasing
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Speaker 1: this thing. I'll tell you a big moment for the
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Speaker 1: Orioles was Pete Alonso being able to play today because
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Speaker 1: Saturday night we didn't know it was only a quote
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Speaker 1: unquote I'll say easy for us to say calf sore
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Speaker 1: and its calf cramp looked worse on the massive telecast.
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Speaker 1: They were talking like it would continue to be worse
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Speaker 1: and looked that way. And the guy showed up today
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Speaker 1: and played his five hundred and fortieth straight game and
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Speaker 1: had that big two run double. He's got ridiculous numbers
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Speaker 1: now during an eight game winning streak. We're gonna talk
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Speaker 1: about a lot of heroes today, but I mean, this
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Speaker 1: guy just keeps doing some great things.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Pete's given them everything and more than I think
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Speaker 3: they could have asked for the season. When you signed him,
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Speaker 3: I think they would have said, this is exactly what
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Speaker 3: we were hoping for. And he's done everything and more.
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Speaker 3: And I think even lately he's stepped his game up
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Speaker 3: even further since they you know, trade away Adley, He's
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Speaker 3: really stepped up, you know, to the plate, you could say,
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Speaker 3: and just taking over as a leader, taken.
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Speaker 2: Over as a player.
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Speaker 3: He's just he's done everything and more and really has
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Speaker 3: like kind of get this offense in this team afloat
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Speaker 3: here and just has been spectacular. And we've talked about it.
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Speaker 3: I think throughout the season he's been the one guy
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Speaker 3: that we feel like in the offense that has really
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Speaker 3: done what they expected. But now he's having some guys
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Speaker 3: join them, and I think when they get on base
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Speaker 3: when Pete's on, I mean they've had him lead off
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Speaker 3: I think one of the games this series, and I
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Speaker 3: mean it's just like they're just getting they're trying to
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Speaker 3: figure out ways to get guys on base, because when
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Speaker 3: there's guys on base, he's not gonna be in it.
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Speaker 3: I'm really really keeping this offensive float here lately.
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Speaker 5: He's been great and it really is just a testament
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Speaker 5: to his leadership. Guys, and Brad, I think you hit
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Speaker 5: it on the head in terms of when they traded
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Speaker 5: away those players at the trade deadline and the Orioles
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Speaker 5: sold Pete. Wasn't you know, crying Pete. What is Michael
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Speaker 5: Aias doing? Why is the front office not believe in us?
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Speaker 5: He said, we're fine. You know, we have all the
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Speaker 5: faith in the front office, we have all the faith
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Speaker 5: in this twenty six man roster inside of this clubhouse.
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Speaker 5: And really ever since that point, he got off to
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Speaker 5: a little bit of a slow start in the month
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Speaker 5: of August, but you flash the numbers up there, Steve,
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Speaker 5: he's been fantastic and today, coming off the injury, yesterday
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Speaker 5: he had the huge two run double in the fifth
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Speaker 5: inning with two outs, and the Orioles scored all ten
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Speaker 5: of their runs with two outs. So it's exciting, man like,
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Speaker 5: and Pete is the one spearheading.
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Speaker 1: This sounds crazy to say it to him, but you
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Speaker 1: and I were on one of five seven Friday night
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Speaker 1: before the series started Baltimore Baseball Tonight, and I said,
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Speaker 1: I didn't predict it by any stretch, but I said,
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Speaker 1: here's what the Ools really need to him. They need
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Speaker 1: six and four. It's a tall ask in this ten
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Speaker 1: game stretch. Now, they could go three and four and
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Speaker 1: get six and four. It's quite amazing. And so when
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Speaker 1: we come back from this break, I want to ask
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Speaker 1: these guys about that, because, let's face it, being honest here,
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Speaker 1: this team has teased us this year and then they
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Speaker 1: fall back. Is that going to happen again? Or is
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Speaker 1: this it this time? And the charge is on. Let's
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Speaker 1: A few weeks ago, we saw the Oils win a
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Speaker 1: series at Dodger Stadium and then lose the series. At Anaheim,
7:50
Speaker 1: we saw the Oils win seven in a row, and
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Speaker 1: I believe they only won like two of the next
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Speaker 1: seven series after that. It's happened where it looked like
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Speaker 1: here they go and then they don't. So I'm wondering
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Speaker 1: if this weekend where it really looks like here they go,
8:05
Speaker 1: and knowing time is dwindling, it's changed it and this
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Speaker 1: is going to take hold. It doesn't mean they're going
8:10
Speaker 1: to go eighteen and two, but they can't go after
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Speaker 1: this great series in Tampa, you know, four and eight
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Speaker 1: something like that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I'd like to give a great prediction and say, yeah,
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Speaker 3: they could go on a sixteen and four or fifteen
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Speaker 3: to five stretch, but we just don't.
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Speaker 2: Honestly, we just don't know. At this point.
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Speaker 3: I think I think we should just kind of embrace
8:32
Speaker 3: this weekend and like the guys in the clubhouse are doing,
8:34
Speaker 3: I think they're going to.
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Speaker 2: Use this as momentum.
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Speaker 3: I feel like we've talked about the lack of being
8:39
Speaker 3: able to take momentum this entire season, and I think
8:42
Speaker 3: that's going to be the biggest question mark moving to
8:44
Speaker 3: the series against the Yankees and then playing the Rays again.
8:47
Speaker 3: We've seen them struggle at the trough. Then the Rays
8:49
Speaker 3: came to Camdy Yards and they swept them. So it's
8:52
Speaker 3: it's just it's a mixed bag lately. But I just
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Speaker 3: like seeing today Cole and kass are hitting home and off,
8:57
Speaker 3: the lefty Jackson Holliday contributing in a big way. I
9:00
Speaker 3: just think they're getting some of the guys that they
9:02
Speaker 3: need to step up kind of stepping up this weekend.
9:05
Speaker 3: And it's a really good sign to see Connor Henderson
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Speaker 3: with the four hit game on Friday.
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Speaker 2: But his swings have been really good.
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Speaker 3: I feel like his at bats have been way better
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Speaker 3: in the last week to ten days, and I feel
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Speaker 3: like they were even the months prior to that. So
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Speaker 3: for me, that gives me hope with this offense maybe
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Speaker 3: carrying some of that momentum. And then it's funny we
9:22
Speaker 3: talked about I think the last episode kind of having
9:25
Speaker 3: Chris Bassett coming back into the rotation.
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Speaker 2: We weren't sure if we wanted to have him in there.
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Speaker 2: The whole time.
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Speaker 3: Now, if this team's in the playoff hunt at in
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Speaker 3: the wildcard, he's exactly who you want in the rotation.
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Speaker 3: So it's kind of this jumble. You don't know how
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Speaker 3: to feel about it all as a fan. Just be excited,
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Speaker 3: ride the waves, and hopefully they can just continue it
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Speaker 3: back at home and you know, maybe pull off a
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Speaker 3: sweep tomorrow and go back into.
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Speaker 2: Camy Yards with some real momentum on Tuesday.
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Speaker 5: Today was a big spot for this club because I
9:54
Speaker 5: think heading into this series, if you would have told Birdland, hey,
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Speaker 5: you're gonna take two of four.
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Speaker 4: I think everyone would have signed up for that. Oh
10:03
Speaker 4: my gosh.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely well, you've already secured the series win at this point.
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Speaker 5: You took three of four, which no one could have
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Speaker 5: predicted heading into this series, and you have the opportunity
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Speaker 5: to get greedy and sweep the four game series tomorrow
10:17
Speaker 5: night at the Trap.
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Speaker 4: It's hard to say if there's going to be carryover. Steve.
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Speaker 5: I think if there's one thing that we've seen a
10:24
Speaker 5: lot of this year is just the roller coaster ride,
10:27
Speaker 5: the inconsistencies with this ball club. But I think something
10:31
Speaker 5: that's been a lot of fun for me, guys, is
10:35
Speaker 5: this is a very loose team right now.
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Speaker 4: And you can point to a lot of different things.
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Speaker 5: Today Joel Pozo really feeling himself unintended.
10:47
Speaker 4: You saw some guys do some.
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Speaker 5: Of that, but even Gunner Henderson, I thought Gunner he
10:54
Speaker 5: got robbed twice today, and the second one where DeLuca
10:59
Speaker 5: made a diving catch massive, well not massive, was on Peacock.
11:03
Speaker 5: Peacock had that close up of Gunner and he just
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Speaker 5: started smiling and laughing.
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Speaker 4: And that might seem small to me, and maybe I'm
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Speaker 4: making this out.
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Speaker 5: To be bigger than it is, but I feel like
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Speaker 5: a few weeks ago he would have slammed his helmet
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Speaker 5: and slammed his bat. You know where he's had this
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Speaker 5: strong series, he's had quite frankly, a strong month of
11:23
Speaker 5: August so far, where he got robbed a couple times today,
11:26
Speaker 5: but he didn't.
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Speaker 4: Lose his cool over it.
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Speaker 5: This team just seems to be playing loose, and they're
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Speaker 5: playing with a lot of confidence right now.
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Speaker 1: The Oriels have nine lives, maybe fifteen this year. They
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Speaker 1: just every time people want to put a fork in them,
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Speaker 1: they're not ready for that. And this is why they
11:47
Speaker 1: say it's a marathon. Not a sprint, and this is
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Speaker 1: why we were saying, even with forty one games left,
11:53
Speaker 1: for them to go twenty six and fifteen seems improbable,
11:56
Speaker 1: but it could happen. It's happened to others when it
11:59
Speaker 1: didn't seem like that. And sometimes when teams rerail off
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Speaker 1: big streaks, you never see it coming because they're not
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Speaker 1: playing well and then they win ten in a row.
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Speaker 1: We didn't see this coming. No one saw them coming
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Speaker 1: into Tampa doing this if they couldn't beat the Rangers
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Speaker 1: or the Twins, but they did it, so call credit
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Speaker 1: to them for that. Let's touch on Trevor Rodgers. He
12:19
Speaker 1: gave up eight runs at the trop in May and
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Speaker 1: again today, that was an early pictures dul It looked
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Speaker 1: like the final is going to be three to two,
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Speaker 1: two to one, not ten to two. And Trevor Rodgers
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Speaker 1: was getting it done and has he just consistently has
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Speaker 1: for this team.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and I was really glad that they let him
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Speaker 3: finish that sixth inning. They had a hoppy ready to
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Speaker 3: come in the game, and Craig Albin has left him
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Speaker 3: out there to get that final out, and I just
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Speaker 3: I really like that. It's tough as a starting pitcher,
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Speaker 3: and really any picture when you had that long of
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Speaker 3: a half an inning, I think it was close to
12:50
Speaker 3: a half an hour. He had to sit and to
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Speaker 3: go back out there, and he didn't put up a zero,
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Speaker 3: but he didn't let the floodgates open. He didn't have
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Speaker 3: to give the ball back down to the bullpen and
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Speaker 3: force them to get sure out in that game. And
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Speaker 3: I just really like the fact that they let him
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Speaker 3: go out there finish that editing and he's just been
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Speaker 3: the guy they expected. He's been a bulldog. He got
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Speaker 3: through six innings today and just really kind of settled
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Speaker 3: that game in. After they score all those runs. The
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Speaker 3: last thing you want to do there is when you
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Speaker 3: get up big, is to give up a three or
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Speaker 3: four spot, and left Tampa back in that game.
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Speaker 2: So that was a really big inning there.
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Speaker 3: I know it didn't really seem like it at the time,
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Speaker 3: but I know players were sitting down there going that
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Speaker 3: was a big out. That was a big inning there
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Speaker 3: to kind of stop the momentum and keep the score
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Speaker 3: at Bay where it was. And he just continues to
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Speaker 3: impress like he has for the last three months now,
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Speaker 3: I guess three plus months at this point.
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Speaker 5: And It really just showed you how much his season
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Speaker 5: has turned around, because they were bringing that up on
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Speaker 5: the broadcast today, just him getting shelled at the trop
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Speaker 5: a couple of months ago and Brian Roberts bringing up
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Speaker 5: Bay that was him coming back from the flu, and
13:51
Speaker 5: we know that the month of May was really really
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Speaker 5: rough for Rogers. But he's in a really fine groove
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Speaker 5: right now, and he had that four seamer working today.
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Speaker 4: Brad.
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Speaker 5: He had ten whiffs on that four seamer, but he
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Speaker 5: just was pitching from ahead. He was filling the strike zone.
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Speaker 5: You know, he got strike one twenty of twenty six
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Speaker 5: batters that he faced, seventy seven percent. When you're pitching
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Speaker 5: ahead like that, that's a recipe for success.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I actually think both announcers mentioned that later.
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Speaker 3: I think it was in the sixth inning. And I
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Speaker 3: think the NBC broadcast is great how they have an
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Speaker 3: announcer from the Rays and announcer from the Orioles and
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Speaker 3: they just kind of like compare notes with each other
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Speaker 3: on the team. But they mentioned that, and they talked
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Speaker 3: about how he doesn't have this blow you away stuff,
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Speaker 3: but it's it's kind of refreshing watching pictures like Trevor Rodgers.
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Speaker 3: Go out there, work the corners, work the top of
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Speaker 3: the zone, work the bottom of the zone, and like
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Speaker 3: you said, when he gets ahead, good luck. And I
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Speaker 3: think with an aggressive lineup like the Rays have, it
14:47
Speaker 3: kind of can work against him at times that you're
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Speaker 3: almost too aggressive because when he's spotting up. They mentioned
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Speaker 3: on the broadcast that you almost don't have an approach
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Speaker 3: for that type of picture, and that's I think he
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Speaker 3: used that to his advantage today against a really great
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Speaker 3: lineup and just did a tremendous job.
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Speaker 1: Since the trade deadline when the Oils traded prominent players,
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Speaker 1: they're seven and five and they've gained ground after these
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Speaker 1: three wins. So again, nine lives, maybe fifteen things happen.
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Speaker 1: It looked like it's going to mean the end, and
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Speaker 1: it just hasn't for this team. When we come back,
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Speaker 1: I want to get into Cam Sanders a little bit,
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Speaker 1: and Brad, I think you can relate to this a
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Speaker 1: guy who's who knows is he finding himself? Is this
15:29
Speaker 1: a blip in the radar and in his career? Who
15:31
Speaker 1: knows how it's going to play out. But he's been
15:33
Speaker 1: on the mound for some huge moments in the last
15:35
Speaker 1: few weeks around the trip to Triple A, and he
15:39
Speaker 1: keeps coming through, big, big for the Orioles at a
15:41
Speaker 1: time when they're still waiting to hope. Felix fatistic inglod Back,
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Speaker 1: Hellsley's not there, some other bullpen guys are inconsistent, and
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Speaker 1: what a job he's done. We'll touch on that next.
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17:11
Speaker 1: twenty three, the Oriols went eight and five against the Rays.
17:14
Speaker 1: I was a division winning Oriole team. Playoff oriol team
17:17
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty four went nine to four, losing oriol
17:21
Speaker 1: team last year went seven and six, and a team
17:24
Speaker 1: that's two games under five hundred as we tape is
17:27
Speaker 1: six and three with six straight wins against the Rays.
17:30
Speaker 1: That's thirty and eighteen. That's six twenty five ball. That's
17:34
Speaker 1: playoff ball, and then some. Since twenty twenty three against
17:37
Speaker 1: a very respected Aleas opponent. I think every fan in
17:41
Speaker 1: Birdland respects what the Rays continue to do and the
17:45
Speaker 1: Orioles recently continue to beat them again. I think Bradley
17:50
Speaker 1: you said, don't try to explain it, just enjoy it.
17:52
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, definitely.
17:55
Speaker 3: It's weird when you play as many games as you
17:57
Speaker 3: do in your division, there's just certain teams that you
18:00
Speaker 3: matchup better against for whatever the reason may be. You
18:02
Speaker 3: could be in last place, they could be the first
18:03
Speaker 3: place team. But sometimes it just matches.
18:06
Speaker 2: Up better that way. And now it's only thirteen games.
18:09
Speaker 3: When I was playing, it was nineteen games in division,
18:11
Speaker 3: and that was a huge advantage when you had teams
18:13
Speaker 3: that you just knew you played well against. It was
18:16
Speaker 3: like a sigh of relief because the Al East can
18:18
Speaker 3: be a can be a beast at times, and I
18:20
Speaker 3: just think the Oriols just feel comfortable playing the Race.
18:22
Speaker 3: For whatever the reason may be. The matchups just seem
18:25
Speaker 3: to work out that because it doesn't matter. We've had
18:28
Speaker 3: different managers, different lineups, but they seem to win these
18:31
Speaker 3: games against the Race, So it's it's definitely an advantage
18:33
Speaker 3: when you feel comfortable against a team and they have
18:36
Speaker 3: six games here in the next ten days, like we've
18:37
Speaker 3: talked about against them, so it's or seven games against them,
18:41
Speaker 3: and it's it's it's big. It's a big time of
18:43
Speaker 3: year to face a team you're comfortable playing. And obviously
18:47
Speaker 3: the Oriols feel that way because these last six games
18:48
Speaker 3: against them have been big time wins for.
18:50
Speaker 1: Them, by forty six to twenty. Yeah, you've doubled the
18:56
Speaker 1: score on the Rays in winning six straight. They've had
18:59
Speaker 1: a couple of big numbers against them. I mean, forty
19:01
Speaker 1: six runs in six games against Tampa's pitching. Come on,
19:05
Speaker 1: so let's get back to Cam Sanders. What a story
19:08
Speaker 1: and Brad, you, more than any of us can relate
19:11
Speaker 1: to a guy who had to establish himself and maybe
19:13
Speaker 1: that we're seeing it in real time what he did
19:16
Speaker 1: in Houston. Then he went back, then he came back,
19:19
Speaker 1: and look at the spots they're throwing this guy in
19:22
Speaker 1: seems to have ice water in his veins. He's been
19:25
Speaker 1: optioned five or six times to the miners this year,
19:28
Speaker 1: and yeah, he's on the mound in Tampa with a
19:30
Speaker 1: one run lead.
19:32
Speaker 2: It's crazy.
19:34
Speaker 3: You obviously hope when you make waiver claims and you
19:37
Speaker 3: pick guys up off of DFA limbo that this can happen.
19:40
Speaker 3: But I don't know if the Oarls would have seen
19:43
Speaker 3: Cam Sanders having three saves in the last couple of months. Here,
19:46
Speaker 3: like you pick up a guy that maybe can pick
19:49
Speaker 3: up some innings and you think he's got a big
19:51
Speaker 3: arm and he's gone out there and he.
20:04
Speaker 1: Well, oh do we lose Brad? Are you there?
20:07
Speaker 4: I think we lost bread.
20:09
Speaker 1: We might have lost a second. But then he's been
20:12
Speaker 1: he's been while we waited on Brad. Tim has been. Uh,
20:16
Speaker 1: this kid Sander not really a kid. I guess he's
20:18
Speaker 1: been around a little bit, but he's obviously not giving
20:22
Speaker 1: up on himself and he has a lot of belief
20:24
Speaker 1: in what he can do. Man, he's been something.
20:27
Speaker 4: Oh, he's been unbelievable.
20:29
Speaker 1: Uh.
20:29
Speaker 5: And the spots that he's been put in Steve even
20:32
Speaker 5: immediately just going back to that series in Houston where
20:36
Speaker 5: I remember it was a bases loaded jam he got
20:38
Speaker 5: out of he gotta win, then got.
20:40
Speaker 4: To save, then got sent down.
20:42
Speaker 5: And you look at just what he's been put into
20:45
Speaker 5: just in the past couple of days in this race series,
20:49
Speaker 5: it looks like, oh my gosh, you're near cano. He
20:52
Speaker 5: didn't have it on Friday night one pitch and then
20:55
Speaker 5: he was able to get that save on Friday, came
20:58
Speaker 5: back in Saturday and extra innings in that jam, and
21:02
Speaker 5: these guys need to emerge because look, bullpen that was
21:06
Speaker 5: a question mark heading into the trade deadline. They ended
21:09
Speaker 5: up trading away Tyler Wells, which was one of their
21:11
Speaker 5: better bullpen pieces. But you know, even guys like Josh
21:15
Speaker 5: Walker has stepped up, Hoppy has stepped up.
21:18
Speaker 4: Some new additions since that point have have took.
21:23
Speaker 1: And by the way, I think Brad's power went out
21:25
Speaker 1: during our taping, which coaches have the have this picture
21:29
Speaker 1: froze up, so I think we might be a two
21:31
Speaker 1: man show for our final minutes here. But we've had
21:33
Speaker 1: we've had to do it before, and it's not the
21:35
Speaker 1: first time Tim and I have been together on the
21:37
Speaker 1: air this year here at other places, so we can
21:40
Speaker 1: we can handle it. But I just have a lot
21:43
Speaker 1: of respect for guys who keep after it, because when
21:47
Speaker 1: you keep getting sent to the minors, obviously it's discouraging
21:51
Speaker 1: and it's easy to say, keep keep motivated, keep your
21:54
Speaker 1: chin up, keep pitching. Well, you'll get another chance, but
21:58
Speaker 1: it's another thing to do it. And this guy's really
22:00
Speaker 1: done it.
22:02
Speaker 5: No, he absolutely has, and you can Just think of
22:05
Speaker 5: multiple guys this season, Steve, that have just shown up
22:09
Speaker 5: out of nowhere and really carved out roles. But Sanders
22:13
Speaker 5: and look what this means in the long term of things.
22:16
Speaker 4: Does he have this long run in the majors? Who knows.
22:19
Speaker 4: But that's what's cool about sports, right These underdog stories,
22:25
Speaker 4: guys that have been optioned, guys that have been dfad
22:28
Speaker 4: and catch on somewhere else and stick, and he's been
22:31
Speaker 4: He's been huge for them in this stretch.
22:34
Speaker 1: Huge. Our teammate is back when we on the other
22:37
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23:01
Speaker 1: So the Oaths can make it four straight against the
23:03
Speaker 1: Rays on Monday night. Brad, how's everything in your world
23:07
Speaker 1: these days? Is everything all right there?
23:09
Speaker 2: Yeah?
23:09
Speaker 3: I get yeah, We're all right. It's been like ninety
23:13
Speaker 3: eight plus. He gets there must just be a rolling
23:15
Speaker 3: blockout right now or something.
23:16
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, No, Priube at all. Hey, in the
23:20
Speaker 1: final minutes, let's touch on little things for the Orioles today,
23:23
Speaker 1: which meant big things. I go back to the third inning,
23:27
Speaker 1: I thought Leoti Tavers made a base running blunder. He
23:30
Speaker 1: was called out on the play at second replay showed
23:33
Speaker 1: he just got his hand in there to be safe
23:36
Speaker 1: and that would have been a third out. They go
23:38
Speaker 1: on to get the left on left hit by Jackson
23:40
Speaker 1: holiday so big to run double by Pete. An inning later,
23:44
Speaker 1: Jackson is in an O two hole left on left.
23:47
Speaker 1: He takes a pitch which the announcers on Peacock are like,
23:50
Speaker 1: I don't know how I took that, But then he
23:52
Speaker 1: gets a big hit after that. Cowser left on left today,
23:56
Speaker 1: I mean, maybe we're seeing guys a point where these
23:59
Speaker 1: left the hitters will start playing more often against lefty pitchers.
24:06
Speaker 3: And that's what that's my hope that we've been talking
24:07
Speaker 3: about it for a few episodes now, and I just
24:10
Speaker 3: hope that these guys do get consistent at bats. And
24:13
Speaker 3: I think I was honestly thinking about it today that
24:15
Speaker 3: I think it's been a couple of weeks now since
24:17
Speaker 3: Adlie got traded, and I think it's the guys are
24:20
Speaker 3: starting to realize people have to step up, and I
24:23
Speaker 3: think maybe they're just feeling more comfortable not having that big,
24:26
Speaker 3: you know, clubhouse presidence that Adlie probably had with the team,
24:29
Speaker 3: and they're just realizing that it's our turn, it's our
24:32
Speaker 3: time now. And I just think Jackson especially has looked
24:35
Speaker 3: extremely comfortable hitting a further up in the lineup these
24:38
Speaker 3: last couple of weeks, and that to me has been
24:40
Speaker 3: really encouraging. And I've been We've been harboring on this
24:43
Speaker 3: a lot, but I just want to see calling out
24:44
Speaker 3: there every day. He can do things like we've talked
24:46
Speaker 3: about that nobody else on this roster can do. And
24:49
Speaker 3: seeing him at a home run today and a lefty
24:51
Speaker 3: was was great to see.
24:52
Speaker 2: And how we get to see more of it here
24:54
Speaker 2: moving forward.
24:56
Speaker 5: I think at a minimum, guys we have seen at
24:59
Speaker 5: least Jackson holiday this platoon's done, and I think that
25:03
Speaker 5: it's probably gone for his career at this point. He's
25:07
Speaker 5: been in there every single day, no matter what pitcher
25:11
Speaker 5: is out there, and Colton, it has been great that
25:14
Speaker 5: we've been seeing him get more opportunities against left handed
25:17
Speaker 5: pitching and him coming through hitting a home run against
25:20
Speaker 5: the lefty and who knows, man like it seems like
25:24
Speaker 5: the past ten games or so, it could be the
25:27
Speaker 5: start of another coldon Cowser hot streak right now, which
25:30
Speaker 5: would come at the right time in this stretch run.
25:34
Speaker 1: Getting back to Jackson for a minute, I think they
25:36
Speaker 1: have had Maybe they were saying seven leadoff hitters in
25:40
Speaker 1: the last two weeks. Obviously Pete did it, O'Neil did it.
25:44
Speaker 1: It was getting crazy on the leadoff spot. But they're
25:46
Speaker 1: just searching today Holiday hit first. I would like to
25:50
Speaker 1: see them go with him in the leadoff spot from
25:53
Speaker 1: here on out. And here's why. Is he completely ready
25:55
Speaker 1: for that? Maybe not, But I just think Jackson Holliday
25:59
Speaker 1: is not a He is ready for big moments, as
26:02
Speaker 1: that means he's always gonna come through, of course not.
26:05
Speaker 1: Is he going to have another two for twenty in
26:06
Speaker 1: there somewhere, probably, But I just think he's not afraid.
26:09
Speaker 1: He's ready for challenges and he's finally sort of established
26:14
Speaker 1: as a major leaguer, and I, like you guys were saying,
26:17
Speaker 1: I see confidence that he's ready to take off.
26:21
Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with that. I Actually I was gonna
26:23
Speaker 3: say the same thing, Steve. I really like him in
26:25
Speaker 3: the leadoff spot. I just think it brings different dynamic
26:28
Speaker 3: up there, and he has shown the ability to work counts.
26:31
Speaker 3: It's not like he's just going up there being a
26:33
Speaker 3: huge free swinger. And I think he's making more contact
26:35
Speaker 3: than he has in the past, and I think that's
26:38
Speaker 3: a huge attribute for somebody leading off. So I think
26:41
Speaker 3: it would be great to get him up there and
26:42
Speaker 3: just have somebody that just starts the game. Like I
26:45
Speaker 3: feel like they change a lineup so much, it would
26:47
Speaker 3: be great to just have one guy start at the
26:50
Speaker 3: top and just be the guy that leads off every
26:52
Speaker 3: single game and then kind of filling however you want
26:55
Speaker 3: behind that.
26:55
Speaker 2: But I think he'd be a great choice to put
26:58
Speaker 2: in that spot.
27:00
Speaker 4: And look, it's not a foreign spot for him.
27:02
Speaker 5: He let off a ton for the Orioles last season
27:05
Speaker 5: and he just has that profile guys where like you said,
27:08
Speaker 5: Braddy works counts. He's a contact hitter, he can spray
27:11
Speaker 5: the ball to all parts of the ballpark, and he
27:14
Speaker 5: can run. This is an athletic player, so I think
27:18
Speaker 5: he really fits the bill. He has that type of
27:21
Speaker 5: profile and you would like to see them settle in
27:24
Speaker 5: on a leadoff guy. It seems like it's been, you know,
27:27
Speaker 5: a revolving door there for quite a bit.
27:30
Speaker 1: Now.
27:30
Speaker 5: To have someone in there with some continuity, I think
27:33
Speaker 5: would be a good thing.
27:36
Speaker 1: When this series began, Tim you and I on the
27:38
Speaker 1: radio touched on the defensive disparity between these teams. Tampa
27:42
Speaker 1: Bay is a great defensive team here. We've seen it
27:44
Speaker 1: for three days. Gunner Henderson, you know, every time he
27:48
Speaker 1: hits a rocket, they run it down. But the Orioles
27:51
Speaker 1: won three games. So I think the point we're seeing
27:54
Speaker 1: here is even with mediocre defense, you can win games.
27:58
Speaker 1: And the Oils have been pretty clean. Knock on wood here.
28:01
Speaker 1: These three games hadn't been too many buttoners that I
28:03
Speaker 1: can think of, and yet Tampa's clearly the better defensive team.
28:07
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a question about that. That doesn't
28:09
Speaker 1: mean they went every time, and obviously it hasn't meant
28:11
Speaker 1: that here. So I guess what I'm trying to say
28:15
Speaker 1: is average ish are a little better defense with other
28:18
Speaker 1: things working, can still be good enough some nights.
28:21
Speaker 4: Many nights, Oh man, I think, yeah, Oh you're good.
28:28
Speaker 3: God.
28:30
Speaker 4: I was gonna say, look, I.
28:31
Speaker 5: Think that that really sticks out the most guys is
28:35
Speaker 5: the Orioles are getting up the most under and runs
28:37
Speaker 5: in baseball.
28:37
Speaker 4: I mean, if they were.
28:38
Speaker 5: Middle of the pack as opposed to thirtieth, how many
28:42
Speaker 5: more wins would they have at that point?
28:44
Speaker 4: You know, I think it's a good point, Steve.
28:50
Speaker 1: But they got the wins this weekend and that was
28:53
Speaker 1: the important thing. And so as we put a bow
28:56
Speaker 1: on this, man, it sounds dramatic to say they saved
29:01
Speaker 1: the season, but I think they they changed dramatically the
29:05
Speaker 1: trajectory of the season, which was very different when we
29:09
Speaker 1: went on Thursday into the off day. Two series losses
29:13
Speaker 1: and what's happened now. And I think, Brad, you made
29:15
Speaker 1: a good point. You ros have a comfort level against
29:17
Speaker 1: some of these al these teams. They know they can
29:20
Speaker 1: beat the Yankees, they have beaten the Rays, and so
29:22
Speaker 1: now we see if they can finish it off Monday night.
29:25
Speaker 1: Either way, they're going to get a series win at
29:27
Speaker 1: the Trap. So pretty stunning turn of events in Birdland.
29:31
Speaker 1: And I think they've got us all tuned in now
29:35
Speaker 1: for what follows for sure. All right, guys, so.
29:41
Speaker 3: I think like it's just kind of as it, Yeah,
29:47
Speaker 3: sounds good. How does it say that those fans just
29:48
Speaker 3: ride this wave and because uh, we don't talking about
29:53
Speaker 3: how they're out of it again, but it's uh during
29:56
Speaker 3: the wild card and uh, well this game, like we've
30:00
Speaker 3: been talking about, I feel like for the last couple of.
30:02
Speaker 1: Months, it hasn't been dull. We've said that a few
30:07
Speaker 1: times on this show, and today and the last few
30:10
Speaker 1: days show us that that is very, very true in Birdland.
30:14
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30:34
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