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Juan Soto Scrutiny, Dodgers on Alert, Contending Cardinals? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: If if the mets hierarchy, which is kind of I
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  Speaker 1: don't know, kind of do to for them to just
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  Speaker 1: say these words and then not put their name behind it.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, well, ladies and gentlemen, it's a long season.
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  Speaker 2: But it happened last night. It happened. What the call
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  Speaker 2: of the year? Talk to me, the umpire call of
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  Speaker 2: the year. Did you see this? I didn't see it live.
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  Speaker 2: It was so good. I saw it live. It's so
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  Speaker 2: great when you see it live because it's so unexpected.
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  Speaker 2: Go ahead, Kratz, tell what we're doing.
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  Speaker 3: No, just check it.
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  Speaker 1: Just got to check it, replay, Yeah, look at it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe even one of these, maybe one of these protests
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  Speaker 1: protest the game.
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  Speaker 2: Protest is great. But what about this little SoundBite from
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  Speaker 2: Andy Fletcher last night the home played umpire, who was
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  Speaker 2: chit chatting with New York City about a very close call.
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  Speaker 1: Return.
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  Speaker 2: The runner's sleeve was tagged barely. We're getting a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of a commentary, A little bit of commentary. I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you a quick story. Krats not mad at that
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  Speaker 2: at all. Right, I think it's fun. Let's still remember
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  Speaker 2: this is entertainment. Canny sneak a barely in there, why
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  Speaker 2: not krats when I was at the league. When I
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  Speaker 2: was at MLB for years, we would meet with the
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  Speaker 2: league and the umps and the whole thing before the
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  Speaker 2: season started and they would ask for questions and even
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  Speaker 2: somehow it would turn into a suggestion box and many
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  Speaker 2: of the broadcasters would always say can we mic up
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  Speaker 2: the umps? Come on? We would ask for to ask
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  Speaker 2: for it right. And I was there for twelve years,
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  Speaker 2: and towards the last few years there finally they're like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we're close. And then they got it right. And it
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  Speaker 2: started what two three years ago? Yeah, a couple of
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  Speaker 2: months ago, umps getting miked up and it is just
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  Speaker 2: pure gold just to get anything right. We had a
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  Speaker 2: few weeks ago where someone was bummed about missing a call.
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  Speaker 2: Ump show is getting good. And when you are able
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  Speaker 2: to humanize these guys crafts, which I feel like is
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  Speaker 2: part of the mission statement of foul Territory, they become
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  Speaker 2: more relatable.
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  Speaker 3: Totally.
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  Speaker 1: You can't just if you don't have any connection to
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  Speaker 1: an umpire when you go to a Lit League game,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be like, totally screwed my kid. But if
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  Speaker 1: there's like, oh, you know, what's my cousin behind a dish.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe I'll give him the benefit of the doubt. This
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  Speaker 1: humanizes them. He's like, he's sitting there, going, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: miss this call New York goes Apparently it barely touched
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  Speaker 1: his sleeve. They want to get this stuff right, and
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  Speaker 1: so when New York says it, you know what they're like, Well, apparently,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to know who's in New York. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's my next step. I guess I'm always never gonna
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  Speaker 1: be pleased. I want to know who's in New York.
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  Speaker 1: I want to know who's over there, because if it's
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  Speaker 1: like Andy Fletcher's buddy, one of it is like you know,
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  Speaker 1: somebody that was on his crew last year or something.
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  Speaker 1: He's like, hey, Nerd, you got this wrong. And then
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  Speaker 1: he's got to like say it in his ear. There's
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  Speaker 1: like a sarcastic remark back when he gets on the mic.
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  Speaker 4: They should put the name on the scoreboard doing reviews
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  Speaker 4: in New York, Joe Smith, whoever it is, you know,
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  Speaker 4: blah blah blah. I've always thought that that's the that's
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  Speaker 4: a part of the accountability that umpires need. And I'm
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  Speaker 4: not here to bash umpires. All I'm saying is people
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  Speaker 4: want accountability for umpires. Well there's one, you know, Andy
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  Speaker 4: Fletcher in New York City doing replay like something. Just
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  Speaker 4: make sure something.
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  Speaker 2: I want to hear them talking to each other. I
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  Speaker 2: want a little miked up back and forth, even if
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  Speaker 2: it's just hey, I'm looking give me.
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  Speaker 4: That.
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  Speaker 2: They make up everyone in the XFL. I mean they
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  Speaker 2: make up I think families in the stands, they make
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  Speaker 2: up everybody in the XFL.
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  Speaker 4: Cool. Yeah, you know, and you can have a tony
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  Speaker 4: to make sure they can get rid of.
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  Speaker 2: The exactly I like anything right, live gets tougher, but
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  Speaker 2: you can take clips. I mean that was live what
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  Speaker 2: we heard just now. But krats. When you mike people up,
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  Speaker 2: including on buyers, you can have a production team that's
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  Speaker 2: listening to things and then they're picking out the good
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  Speaker 2: stuff and then they play it throughout the broadcast.
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  Speaker 1: It was one of my It was one of my
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  Speaker 1: more recognizable moments in my career, being miked up in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. I got miked up another game. They had
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  Speaker 1: zero content. It's not every game, and I get it.
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  Speaker 1: There's people behind the scenes that are working their faces
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  Speaker 1: off to try to keep up with that stuff. But
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  Speaker 1: I think people really interact with that. I think it
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  Speaker 1: makes people connect fans connect with players that they're like, eh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really have any connection.
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  Speaker 3: He's not that good. He's not a star.
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  Speaker 1: And ultimately it helps more people connect with more players,
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  Speaker 1: not just oh, man, you know this superstar or that.
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  Speaker 1: As we're getting to another superstar doesn't want to do
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  Speaker 1: interviews right now.
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  Speaker 3: That drains the game.
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  Speaker 1: People are like, oh great, well if the star isn't
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  Speaker 1: gonna talk, who are we gonna listen to. I heard
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  Speaker 1: they miked up Todd Fraser the other day. I know
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  Speaker 1: he's hitting two thirty, but yo, I got that connection.
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  Speaker 1: You know he says, he says buddy all the time.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, But you know what I wanted before you go on,
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  Speaker 4: Like I've said this back in the day. I have
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  Speaker 4: an HBO game, Bob Buker and Haul Carrelson announcing that
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  Speaker 4: game on a on a Friday night. Whoever it is,
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  Speaker 4: everything's out the door. You could say, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: be honest with your Todd Fraser crap in the bed today.
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  Speaker 2: You know what I mean? You got the broadcasters doing
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  Speaker 2: like just being real, like basketball or dodgeball or they
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  Speaker 2: just say whatever.
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  Speaker 4: I think that'd be great you put hawk and you know,
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  Speaker 4: God bless you. I mean listen or whomever.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but big characters, big characters. I'm into it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, ye put it, put a chart in while he's
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  Speaker 4: doing it. Just you know, I don't condone it.
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  Speaker 2: Now, rock unfiltered, you know, and for for people like me. Right,
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  Speaker 2: give him old Bruskie broadcaster.
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  Speaker 4: But you don't even know, you don't. You don't use
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  Speaker 4: that bad language at all.
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  Speaker 2: I used to. I mean TV TV has cleaned me
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  Speaker 2: up a little bit, but I still got it in me. Yeah, exactly.
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  Speaker 2: A j could definitely throw him down. All right, let's
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  Speaker 2: charge because we got some drama. Of course, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: do as little as possible just to set this up.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, Wance Toto signed a massive deal with
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  Speaker 2: the Mets in the off season. We are a month
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  Speaker 2: and change, I mean almost two months into his first
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  Speaker 2: season of many many, many many more with the Metropolitans,
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  Speaker 2: and you start to hear things. So it's not just reports,
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  Speaker 2: it's also manager Sodo admired what he thought was a
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  Speaker 2: homer ended up being a single. Mendy said quote, he
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  Speaker 2: thought he had it in this ballpark with that wall
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  Speaker 2: right there. You got to get out of the box.
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  Speaker 2: We'll discuss that. Then you have a report from Bob Clappish,
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  Speaker 2: longtime New York reporter NJ dot Com, who basically said
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  Speaker 2: that the Mets are concerned with his lack of enthusiasm.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, within this article from Bob, it's like the
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  Speaker 2: man is downright miserable. Although Sodo said he was ready
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  Speaker 2: for the homecoming, he was shell shocked by the time
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  Speaker 2: Sunday night rolled around for the Subway series three sellout
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  Speaker 2: crowds broke him, basically writing in this article how it
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  Speaker 2: seemed like the only time he was happy was saying,
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  Speaker 2: what's good to judge Boone Jazz met Yankee in your life?
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  Speaker 2: What do you got for me here? Listen?
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  Speaker 4: I usually don't agree with you know, these reports that
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  Speaker 4: people put on there, And I think Bob Clappish, right,
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  Speaker 4: I didn't want to say his name, Mets hierarchy was
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  Speaker 4: for the concern onto those lack of enthusiasms. I don't
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  Speaker 4: know of anybody else. I see it a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: I see it, the energy, the enthusiasm. You know, he
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  Speaker 4: didn't hustle out a ball, Okay, got it, he didn't.
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  Speaker 4: There was a there was like a check swing, hard
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  Speaker 4: hit in the hole that you know, he didn't really
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  Speaker 4: hustle hard to first base in the Yankee series. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: all right, let's fix it right now. Let's snip it
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  Speaker 4: in the butt right now, Like what's was it? In
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  Speaker 4: my opinion, maybe this series was he was excited for
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  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden, like you know, the boobirds
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  Speaker 4: were out, they turned their back to them in the outfield.
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  Speaker 4: I don't care who you are. You could be the
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  Speaker 4: strongest of men or ladies in the world. Inside doesn't
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  Speaker 4: feel good to get, you know, that type of feeling
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  Speaker 4: towards somebody, especially when you've been there and you the
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  Speaker 4: fans loved you and enjoyed you. It's gonna it's gonna
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  Speaker 4: play a little bit in your head. I don't care
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  Speaker 4: who you are, and I think it did a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Do I think he's gonna be fine, of course, but yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just just get out there and show a little more energy,
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  Speaker 4: that's all. And you know, be that happy, go lucky
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  Speaker 4: team guy that he is. And I'm not saying he's
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  Speaker 4: bad or there's something wrong with him, but you just
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  Speaker 4: see a little bit of change.
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  Speaker 1: At I mean, it's also the lowest ops he's had
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  Speaker 1: in his career so far. If he were to end
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  Speaker 1: the season today, it's the lowest. I'm not saying one
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  Speaker 1: is happy hit guy, but maybe that energy comes back
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  Speaker 1: when he starts doing well and if you're like, well,
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  Speaker 1: he's got to be a team player. There's a first
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  Speaker 1: place team, like he's got to be. Look, you signed
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred and sixty five million reasons of why you're
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  Speaker 1: getting a superstar. If you expect him to be something
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  Speaker 1: that you're not one hundred percent sure he was going
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  Speaker 1: to be, you have to temper your expectations. This guy
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  Speaker 1: is going to produce on a field. Now, do you
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  Speaker 1: not see it? Maybe you know, maybe the people that
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  Speaker 1: said this, you know, lack of energy, maybe they can
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  Speaker 1: put their name to it and not just be like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, mets hierarchy. So I would appreciate that, But
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  Speaker 1: I'm on Todd's boat too, Like he's not doing the
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  Speaker 1: he's not doing a Sodo shuffle.
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  Speaker 3: That was brought up quite a bit by Eddy Perez.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes when you're not feeling great at the plate, you're
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  Speaker 1: not you don't have that extra swag, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: that extra Oh and ultimately Mendy might say, hey, we
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  Speaker 1: need you to run out of the box just because
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  Speaker 1: that's how we the whole team is going to be.
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  Speaker 3: Does he get to second on that?
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  Speaker 1: Does he get the second I mean, Duran doesn't have
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  Speaker 1: a great arm, but he won hot bare handed. That
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  Speaker 1: threw it into second, which is one hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 1: feet away from where he was.
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  Speaker 2: So I don't know, you're gonna get scrutiny. Hey, remember
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  Speaker 2: Robinson Cano, don't think about the PD juicing stuff. I'm
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  Speaker 2: just talking about him sometimes taking his time heading to first.
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  Speaker 2: He was just a very calm, smooth player, and sometimes
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  Speaker 2: it rubs people the wrong way. And yet you would
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  Speaker 2: look and now again we don't know anything because it's
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  Speaker 2: clouded by peds. But the narrative on the other side
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  Speaker 2: for a while was he plays every day. So how
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  Speaker 2: critical are we gonna get when he puts up the
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  Speaker 2: numbers he's putting up and he's playing the games he's
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  Speaker 2: gonna play.
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  Speaker 4: I just think he needs to get back to that mindset,
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  Speaker 4: like Kraty says, the happy gold lucky take the pitch.
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  Speaker 4: You know, look at the picture you know he had.
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  Speaker 4: You know when he struck out twice those last two
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  Speaker 4: times he struck out, it was like a cheeky smile,
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  Speaker 4: like it was like, ah, yeah, yeah, trying to Sometimes
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  Speaker 4: maybe he tried a little too hard, you know what
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  Speaker 4: I mean? Guy, the guy is an unbelievable player. He's
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  Speaker 4: a great hitter, he can play the game. He's just
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  Speaker 4: a monster of a guy that every team wants. But
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  Speaker 4: you see slight, little differences, and that's part of the
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  Speaker 4: up and the ups and downs of a season. And
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  Speaker 4: I think people need to understand that too as well.
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  Speaker 4: He's in a new situation. The Mets and Yankees are
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  Speaker 4: polar opposite teams. Okay, I've played for both of them.
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  Speaker 4: I understand both. I understand both clubhouses, I understand you
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  Speaker 4: know how these teams play, and it's just a different
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  Speaker 4: beast and there's nothing wrong with it. He just has
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  Speaker 4: to find his happy place and keep on rocking. I
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  Speaker 4: would take his stut.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 1: I take their stats for a week, But anyway, he's
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  Speaker 1: gonna be under a microscope the whole time. That can
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  Speaker 1: be draining. It cannot be draining. Whatever he wanted to
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  Speaker 1: be the man, I get it. Here's the thing in
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  Speaker 1: your career, In a baseball player's career, there's pretty much
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  Speaker 1: four major major milestones. Signing professionally, making the big leagues,
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  Speaker 1: getting to your contract status, and for the really good,
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  Speaker 1: really for the really good players. Hall of Fame Juan
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  Speaker 1: Soda so far from the Hall of Fame. He's already
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  Speaker 1: accomplished all those things. If the Mets hierarchy, which is
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  Speaker 1: kind of I don't know, kind of dodo for them
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  Speaker 1: to just say these words and then not put their
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  Speaker 1: name behind it. But anyway, if the Mets hierarchy truly
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  Speaker 1: believes he has lackluster attitude or just engagement enthusiasm, to me,
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  Speaker 1: it's their job to make sure he sees that last
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  Speaker 1: goal come to fruition of making the Hall of Fame,
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  Speaker 1: because it is a long way away, and he could
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  Speaker 1: be like.
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  Speaker 3: You know what, I don't know that I can. I
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  Speaker 3: can keep this energy up.
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  Speaker 1: They got to put people around him to keep that
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  Speaker 1: energy up if they believe this is what's going on.
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  Speaker 1: Because Lindor wants to be a Hall of Famer, so
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  Speaker 1: they have that. And you have to motivate your stars
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  Speaker 1: in different ways, and you motivate your twenty fifth or
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  Speaker 1: twenty six men guys.
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  Speaker 2: And Lindor wants to win a World Series because he
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  Speaker 2: hasn't won one Soto has back in twenty nineteen when
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  Speaker 2: he was a baby. But also, I mean, he's got
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  Speaker 2: the biggest contract ever. I'm sure he would like to
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  Speaker 2: prove that he was worth the money. At some point
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: over the course of his career, he's going to want
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  Speaker 2: to rack up another World Series title. I will counter
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  Speaker 2: and say, the Mets had oodles of enthusiasm last year
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  Speaker 2: and they still do so. I don't know how much
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  Speaker 2: this is on the Mets clubhouse right now, Kratz. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: Lindor is fun and it's got all the vibes. You're
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  Speaker 2: just saying they have to keep them, keep them up, Like, hey, dude,
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  Speaker 2: we need you, we need you to be the guy
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  Speaker 2: and be all skippity if because.
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  Speaker 1: We're only going on an unnamed source, We're only going
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  Speaker 1: on somebody who hasn't said this Like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 1: I just.
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  Speaker 3: Go ahead.
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  Speaker 4: He's a professional man. He knows what to do, and
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  Speaker 4: I know Kratz knows that too as well. It gets
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  Speaker 4: to you, bro, you just said the Subway series. This
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  Speaker 4: is this is like World Series type crap. Honestly, you know,
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  Speaker 4: for lack of better words, when you play against a
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  Speaker 4: New York team for the Mets Yankees, the expectations go
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  Speaker 4: out the roof. You can't seem my arm, that's how
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  Speaker 4: high they are.
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  Speaker 2: They are screaming at you. Twenty four seven saying hurtful things,
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  Speaker 2: and you have play through it. Yeah, yeah, I mean
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  Speaker 2: they weren't saying nice things and sometimes mostly like you say,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of stuff's funny, but they're they're Adam.
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  Speaker 4: You laugh at the first couple, and then as it
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  Speaker 4: goes on for three games, you're like, damn, yeah, they
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  Speaker 4: used to like me. They really don't like especially out
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  Speaker 4: there now. And I saw guys flipping them off after
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  Speaker 4: he struck out double burn.
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  Speaker 2: And they were like doing it with passion too. It
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  Speaker 2: wasn't just like, ah, we don't like you, It was like,
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  Speaker 2: we really like you. You are a villain.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, welcome back to New York.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome back to the Bronx. I should say, wow, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: one more piece because I just want to give my
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  Speaker 2: journalism perspective here. So apparently he agreed to be micd
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  Speaker 2: up by ESPN the second and he changed his mind
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  Speaker 2: minutes before the game, said he was tired of answering
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  Speaker 2: questions about Aaron Judge, sick of explaining why he chose
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  Speaker 2: the Mets, and then it said in this article he
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: also did that to reporters they were waiting to speak
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to in postgame Clubhouse got dressed again. Walking towards the door,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: told the Mets official he'd be back to answer questions
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: after seeing family members outside. Never returned. Not but at
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: least from my experience covering the game, Kratz happens all
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: the time. Now, if he does that every single day, okay,
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: But the amount of times I could tell you a
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: guy was gonna come back and he did in or
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: something popped up hundreds for me at least, and not
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: just me, people around me. Right when I was on
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: the road. So I mean, I've sat in a manager's
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: office for an hour and a half while he did
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: a full workout and was just like, oh, I'll be
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: there in a sec. And it's an hour and a
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: half later. You probably know. Yeah, So anyway that stuff happened,
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: then rats.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: But I don't mean interrupt crats. That's part of the
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: psyche going on, right, dude. I gotta talk to reporters.
• 17:37
  Speaker 4: I got to make sure I get my stuff in here. Yeah,
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: there's pressures, and I know he said no pressure for me.
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: This series was pressure filmed. And you know, we saw
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: the Yankees took two out of three and most likely
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: should have swept him at the end of the day,
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: but they didn't.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: If you don't want people to say this stuff about you,
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: show up at your locker and talk, because then you
• 17:58
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• 17:59
  Speaker 3: Then you can.
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: Especially in there.
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: That's why if you're someone else then you do that,
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: there's no story on it. If you do that and
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: you're him, someone's gonna put that in a story. That's
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: just the weight of being a superstar in the highest
• 18:14
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• 18:59
  Speaker 2: than box scores. The Diamondbacks and Dodgers are playing in
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: a series again this week. To me, Kratz, that's always fun,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: you know. I bring it up a lot, and I
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: actually don't think that we over talk about the Dodgers.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: I think there was actually about a month period during
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: our show just now, after the first couple of weeks
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: of the season, where we didn't talk about them that much.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: Injuries start piling up. Now you're getting some rivalry games going.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Diamondbacks took it to them yesterday. They got swept this
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: past weekend at home by an Angels team that's not
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: very good, and all of a sudden, you've got them
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: losing four straight home games for the first time in
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: seven years, which in and itself, props to the guy
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: on the screen right now, Dave Roberts, because to not
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: have a stretch like that is pretty crazy. But now
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: they're eight to nine in the month of May, still
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: hanging on to first, but by a thread. Do you
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: have a concern level here for the Dodgers in terms
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: of winning the division? I know it's very early in
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: the season, Crats, but they are down a lot of
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: top end starters. Kershaw came back over the weekend, looked
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: like he's gonna have to very fine and kind of
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: perfect with his command to get by with the stuff
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: that he has these days. What are you seeing?
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: I mean, he will be fine. He would definitely be fine,
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: because that's what Kershaw. Just figures out a way to
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: pitch with what he has, broken toe, broken shoulder, whatever
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: it is, he'll put up his you know, three to
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: one er. To me, what I'm seeing is a team
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: that's going to have to fight to get to where
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: they want to be. If these if this starting rotation
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: comes back healthy, that's a big if. And to me,
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the team is still they're still at the top. I
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: don't They're not going to run away with the division
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: like they have other years. They're not going to win
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the division. Is just not going to allow them to
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: win one hundred and two, one hundred and four games. Yes,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: injuries will play a part of that, but this lineup
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: can carry this team. This bullpen can carry the rotation
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: until they get healthy. And to me, a team this good,
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: with this good of a lineup, this many weapons, if
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: they're fighting the whole way to get into the playoffs,
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: that makes them super dangerous once they get into the playoffs. Now, obviously,
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: if none of the rotation comes back, it'll be a
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: slug to get a sludge to get through the postseason.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: But I still see them winning the division. I just
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: don't see it being easy.
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: On them.
• 21:24
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and if you look back. I'm looking back at
• 21:26
  Speaker 4: these last four games they've lost. They've given up six
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: or more runs each game. It's gonna be hard, hard
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: to win games. I know, Mookie Betts hit the two
• 21:33
  Speaker 4: home runs and you know, show Hey did his thing.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: But you know, they're only a couple guys. They got
• 21:38
  Speaker 4: to come together a little bit. They've had some mistakes
• 21:40
  Speaker 4: that first inning woes, I mean a drop, pop up
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: opportunities to get another out and may get out of
• 21:48
  Speaker 4: the inning and not give up another run. So yeah,
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: they're still in first Don't get me wrong, but these
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Padres Diamondbacks are really good. But these Padres are absolutely
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: stunning right now, and they are chomping not the Bets
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: to get in first place.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. Yeah, Padres are a half game back as
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: of this conversation. Dodgers do have an off day coming
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: up on Thursday, but soon after that they'll go twenty
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: nine games in thirty one days if there's no rainouts.
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: That's hefty. That's hefty when you're feeling it a little bit.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: And this probably is the deepest organization with pitching names right,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: with guys who can pitch in the big leagues, of course,
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: but they're not the deepest pitching staff in baseball right
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: now because half the guys are missing. It's a story,
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: it's real. I mean, we're not talking about this in
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: July or August. We're talking about it in May. I'm
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: just trying to weigh the level of how much we
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: should bring this up on the show, Like, should we
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: be talking about this a lot and concerned or are
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: they gonna are we gonna look at the end of
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the season, they're gonna win the division by four games,
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have ninety seven wins, and then they're gonna
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: be locked and loaded for the playoffs.
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: They definitely could, but right now I think there's a
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: cost for a little bit of concern.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: I do not a lot.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: I think ninety six wins will win the division, and
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: people are like, oh, there's so many good teams in
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the division. They're gonna start beating each other up if
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: they had If they had two good teams in the division,
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: you might need to win one hundred and one games
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: to win a division. But right now they're four deep
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: in this division with you know, with some you know
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: laughers with the Rockies. But for the Dodgers not not
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: being at full strength in their rotation. You can't you
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: can't get swept by the Angels. You can't get swept
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: by the Angels. That's not that's not a Dodgers team.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: My fear is and I thought they were gonna win,
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: you know, the game last night, because they come off
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: of that and they're like, screw that. We're in the division.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: Now we're coming out same issue. Boys were throwing the ball.
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: Gotta throw strikes. You gotta throw strikes because the Diamondbacks walks,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: you walk diamonback guys, it's a double. They just run
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: the bases, even if not stealing or getting an extra
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: base when the ball is put in play. They're doing
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: all the right things. That walks will kill you.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: That's a good team, the Diamondbacks. And for some team's
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: going to be really tough matchup, which yeah, looks like
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: it's the case for the Dodgers. Crats, you're on every day.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: You remember what we just went through from call it
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: October through March. Right October begins the playoffs, the Dodgers
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: end up victorious, last man standing, last team standing, and
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: then they won the offseason. They even get the guy
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: who anyone could have had for a lower price, Rookie
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: Sasaki because he couldn't sign as a normal free agent.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: He was still an amateur free agent. We add that
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: all up, and when we were in February and they
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: were starting to just pile on and back up Tanner
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: Scott and Kirby Yates, suddenly people were like, I actually
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: felt like some people were serious. Why even play? Why
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: even play the games? They're gonna win one fifteen, They're
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: gonna sweep through October. I'm like, come on, now, did
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: I think that they'd be missing most of their starting
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: staff by mid may Man? Maybe? No, I didn't. But
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the point is baseball's different. It's just different. In the NBA,
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: if there was a team that got seven super players,
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: right or whatever. At least you know, I'm not as
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: dialed in this second, but I know right there was
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: a time where it was just hey, let's get three
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: or four of the best together and let's do this
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: super team thing. Yeah, it's easier to predict baseball no way.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: I mean here, I'll ask it again, Kraft as you
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: rebut here, you're taking the Dodgers or the field to
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: win a World Series this year?
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: The field.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: I've said that every day this offseason. I said it
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: in spring training. That is not Dodgers hate. That is
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: realism in baseball. You're giving me the field. I will
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: take the field.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: You I picked them to win it all.
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna stick with the dollars.
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: You got the Dodgers over the field, over the field.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Why why do you think?
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: I think once everybody gets healthy, it's gonna be bawl game.
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: And that's just the way I feel about it. I
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: think they're gonna do the same thing they did last year,
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: and all this is the ups and downs of baseball,
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: the ebbs and flows. We're gonna talk about. Man, oh
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: they're not the team to be. Then they'll be like, oh,
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: here they come again then and then what happened to them?
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: It's gonna be up and down, and once the playoffs
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: come around, everybody's healthy or for the most part at least,
• 26:45
  Speaker 4: they're gonna be the team that's gonna stroll their way through.
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: Okay, Okay, we'll see. Yeah, they're definitely hitting some early
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: adversity here. It is early, but just worth pointing out here.
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: In mid May, hey crats Mark fine sand mlb dot
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: com article said Prior to the announcement of Alvarado's suspension,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: a source said the Philadelphia Phillies reached out to free
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: agent David Robertson. Remember him, the guy.
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: Who probably has set his price to where he thinks
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: it's should be and until they reach it. D Robin
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: ain't coming out of retirement. Ain't coming off the couch,
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: especially now since you think crap.
• 27:27
  Speaker 3: Like, is he ready? Is he not ready?
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: Is he gonna have a down year like he had
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: in twenty three with the Marlins? Is he gonna have
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: a great year right on his career norms like he
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: had last year with Texas?
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: What else? Oh, it's an interesting phone call. Oh oh,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: you guys had a bullpen problem and now it's about
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: to get much worse with this little announcement you got.
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: Oh oh, well, my price is the same.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: You know.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: He's great.
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: Doesn't have an agent either.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: He knows what he's smart man, he's got veteran leverage.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: It's hey, I made a lot. Yeah I don't want
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: you got to talk me off the couch, right, Yeah.
• 28:08
  Speaker 4: That's it. He's got young kids too as well. He
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: wants to be around them. But you know, play play
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: baseball for four months. That'd be fun.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: What do you think his number is? Because also, I mean,
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: he'd have to get ramped up a little bit. So
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: you're looking at I have a little about a half
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: a season, maybe a little bit more.
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: I'd be guessing if I knew his number, but he'd
• 28:25
  Speaker 4: probably wants I would say ten million.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: That sounds about right. Hey, do you know who's joining
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: us tomorrow? Because it's relevant to my last combo, I
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: call him polar Bear, but yeah, whatever you want to
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: call him. You introduced him that way now I'm kidding. Yeah,
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: Pete Alonzo is the name, and we're excited to get
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: him back on. So we'll dive into things with Pete.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Not too deep, but we'll dive into things with Pete
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: and get the load down on what's going on with
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: the Metropolitans. So actually it's a good timing, you know.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: We get to hear his take on what the SODO
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: experience has been like for him, you know. And obviously
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: Pete at a pretty banging start to the season in
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: the first.
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: Month, and everybody, like Mets fans like it's okay, half
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: a game out is still essentially first place, like this
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: is a good team. When we talk about it is
• 29:23
  Speaker 1: something enough, is something gone wrong? We're talking about to
• 29:26
  Speaker 1: win the World Series, not to make the playoffs, like
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: this is a playoff team when they're what they're adding
• 29:34
  Speaker 1: on the fringes makes them a World Series winning or
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: a NLCS losing team.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: It does not feel like they've hit their stride yet,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: which is scary. All Right, we're back and we'll give
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: you a little bit of news today. Kyle Gibson has
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: cleared waivers, so he's a first officially a free agent again.
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: He was defaid by the Orioles. They gave him four starts.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Was that fair? Can you tell in four starts if
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: the guy has anything to contribute to the big league team?
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: He's been in the league for a long time and
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: he had a very late start to his season, or
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: did he catch a team at a bad time and
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: they needed to start making changes And besides kicking your manager,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: there's not that much they can do. I mean, you're
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: not making trades yet, So who are you gonna cut?
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean a veteran who you paid.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I was trying to look up his status, his contract
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: status to see if he was you know, if it
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: was one of those forty five day Johns where it
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: was like, but I don't think it was No. I mean,
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: he was getting five point twenty five. To me, I
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: think it's too early. I think there's a threshold right
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: at that seven start mark. It's not like they have
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: somebody else. He's not taking starts from he's not taking
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: if they had somebody that was hot in triple A,
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: not even for the Orioles. You need somebody that's hot
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: to somebody's that's hot, And to me, you already have him.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: It just seems like a mismanagement.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: Of funds and I don't I wouldn't be surprised if
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: he get if he latches on with the team, if
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: he wants, if their fit is there for for Gibbey
• 31:26
  Speaker 1: and his family.
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: I mean, they were all starts right. Morton was put
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: in the bullpen, and so that messed the other day
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: the game after they fired Brandon Hyde, you had Gibson,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: didn't last long, got beat up, then more incoming in.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: I'm like, you could put Gibson temporarily in the bullpen,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: let him low leverage, eat some innings. You know you're
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: gonna need him to rescue someone. No, I mean that's
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: what they're doing with like I know, it's not great.
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: My point is they're often having blow up starts from guys.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: It's it's four, five, six runs in the first few
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: innings and then you need someone to rescue the bullpen.
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: Do and that's where the innings. I think you keep
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: him as a starter. He's essentially on like March twentieth
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: in spring training. Right now, four starts in, he's essentially
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: at March twentieth. So you just don't have the luxury of, hey,
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: you know what, we'll pull you after twenty five pitches.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: He's trying to figure it out. These hitters, they're getting
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: ready and they're chomping at the bit, and he works
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: on being down in the zone, and he just hasn't
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: been down in his zone.
• 32:32
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• 32:36
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  Speaker 2: it to the Tigers yesterday. And I got a question
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: in the chat today and I don't remember who it was.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I think it was Brandon, but Brandon goes, when is
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: it time to talk about this team potentially actually being good?
• 34:25
  Speaker 2: World Series? Good? Relax? But could this team actually be
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: good be a contender for wildcard or division? When does
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: the narrative change on a show like ours? Right where
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: it goes from what are we doing? You're in a rebuild,
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: but you didn't even trade anyone kind of a lost
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: season to hold up a lot of the youngsters are
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: starting to click in, and this team's got a little
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: old school way to it. But they might actually survive
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: a marathon to be able to get through in a
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: entire season with an intact staff. It might not be
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: the best pitching staff in terms of stuff, but they
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: might be healthier than the teams that they look around
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: and see below them.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, they might be healthier. And the pitching staff
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: is there. Fetti's Fetti's doing doing well. Sonny Gray is
• 35:21
  Speaker 1: going to be the anchor of this staff. Miles Michael
• 35:24
  Speaker 1: lists they're getting some young some young pitchers in also
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: a young lineup. To me, it's not necessarily like super
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: young in the sense of like they have they have
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: some dirt in their cleats, not a lot, not like
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: the Cardinals Cardinals teams of old, but a young lineup
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: that doesn't drive the ball and is weighted on on base.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I think they're leading the league and on base and
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: batting average. You wonder if tonight, I think they go
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: up against Scooble, you wonder if they're.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Able to.
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: Do enough against pitchers who are not going to walk them,
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: are going to challenge them. They're batting average. I think
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: they were leading the league in batting average. It's something
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: we don't see so to say it's gonna work or
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: it's not gonna work. At some point in the big leagues,
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: if you don't do damage, and you don't do damage
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: as an entire team, the walks start to diminish. The
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: walks start to go down because all of a sudden,
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: it's like, well, why did you throw a borderline pitch
• 36:29
  Speaker 1: to that guy? He's not going to hit a home
• 36:32
  Speaker 1: or he has three homers in his last one hundred
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: and fifty at bats, And I think that's an adjustment
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: that teams are going to have to make against them.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: If they don't make it, and this team really does
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: have great plate discipline as a team, it will be
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: a different type of finish to the season where they're going. Okay, well,
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: I mean, this team's in it. I guess we have
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: to make a move at the trade deadline, which could
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: could hurt them down the road here. But I feel
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: like the way they're playing right now, they don't need
• 37:06
  Speaker 1: to change anything, but they need to continue to improve
• 37:10
  Speaker 1: at the areas that they're not improving at. I mean,
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: Nolan Arnatto, I think just got dropped down in the
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: lineup the other night. Jordan Walker, who's supposed to be
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: the guy supposed to be, you know, Rookie of the
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Year candidate two years ago. He's hitting eighth every day
• 37:24
  Speaker 1: in the lineup. He has like a six hundred ops. Like,
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: they're not getting results from guys that you would think.
• 37:31
  Speaker 1: They're getting results from guys who you didn't think of
• 37:34
  Speaker 1: and are out there every single day in the lineup.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I know, Walker's had a better past week, but
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: it's still been a rough season for him at the plate.
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: He just hasn't developed. He's always switching it up too.
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: I mean, I know we talk about that with a
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: lot of guys, right, who else does that? Bragman's big,
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: always switching it up. Bellinger makes big changes over the
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: course of his career. You're better at this than I am.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: But Jordan Walker's always it's that is he comfortable? You know?
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: Did he Has he found himself yet? Obviously the answer
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: is no. He's twenty what is he twenty three years old?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: And it hasn't come around for him yet. But you're
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: talking that way, and I'm like, wait, Jordan Walker's doing
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: nothing and the Cardinals can't lose right now? I mean,
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: where are we at here? It's like thirteen out of fourteen,
• 38:24
  Speaker 2: some crazy number. Right. His team's balling.
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: The team is balling. Here's my issue with the team
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: is is there nothing? Maybe I'm maybe I'm like too
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: much into the new school era of driving the ball.
• 38:40
  Speaker 1: I'm just into the thought process of if this team
• 38:45
  Speaker 1: isn't going to do damage against you, how are they
• 38:48
  Speaker 1: going to win in games? Obviously, very few teams beat scooball.
• 38:54
  Speaker 1: How are they going to win games consistently? And they've
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: done it right now, so they've proven me wrong. But yeah,
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: you're talking about ops is seven eighty seven thirty seven
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: eighty six eighty seven point fifty six forty guys that
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: are playing every single day. Jordan Walker's OPS is five
• 39:12
  Speaker 1: forty six. They have a leeway, they have a runway
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: to do that this year. We're other years. Jordan Walker
• 39:18
  Speaker 1: was in like two eighty and they sent him down
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: to the bushes. So I think guys are getting having
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: success because they're just run out there every single day
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: and they're able to put at bats together on a
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: day in and day out basis.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: So in the power department for now, they rank nineteenth,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: so they're close to the middle of the pack in
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: total homers. That's not the perfect stat to be able
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: to measure the pop, but it's not like they're bottom
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: three or bottom five. Okay, so there's some pop going
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: here right now. And my thing, Kratz is, you just
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: don't have a lot of weak spots. I mean, you
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: have it at the bottom here of what we're talking about.
• 39:54
  Speaker 2: But coming into the season, did you see large new
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: bar doing this? Maybe on base about thirty six percent
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: of the time. OPS is close to eight hundred with Lars.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: The story to me is someone like Brendan Donovan breaking out.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: He's been you know, in what the three spot. I
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: think for most of the year in the lineup, he's
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: he's got an eight sixty seven OPS three ninety two
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: on base one forty one OPS plus. I mean, he's
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: been a star. He's been a star bat for the Cardinals,
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: right and he's always been a pretty good on basis
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: guy for them. It's just a contrarist to me. I mean,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: you're gonna have some ups and downs, but that's a
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: pretty consistent bat. He was one of their better bats
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: last year when he was on the field. Arnado's had
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: a bounce back season. Burlison's got pretty good potential. I
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: think could take another step. Is it a great lineup?
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Is it a feared lineup? No, but it's solid and
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: if guys are staying on the field and they're hitting
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: their peak right now, that's how you can hang around.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I still feel like it might be a little
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: too short. You asked, is this the team? Is this
• 41:06
  Speaker 1: the team at the trade deadline that's going to be
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: making moves to add. If you're going to add, you
• 41:13
  Speaker 1: got to add somebody that has a slugging slugging percentage
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: close to five hundred. If you're going to add, you
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: were still looking to get rid of Aeronauto because you're
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: looking to shed some payroll. Aeronado's ops right now is
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I think below seven hundred six to eighty seven, and
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: he's an everyday guy. Wilson Contraras while he's a consistent
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: at bat, I mean he's a consistent bat. Do you
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: want your first baseman in Major League Baseball hitting having
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: a seven thirty one ops.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: I'm not as worried as you are, dude. I mean,
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: he's a little bit above league average right now. There's
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: actually a lot of bad bat first basement right now
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: in our league. And last year Contrera's game for game,
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: and I know was half a season, was their best hitter.
• 42:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but you're saying he's a little bit above the
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: league league average.
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: Right now, but he's got a track record and he
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: should still be in good prime years. I'm not too
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: concerned about Wilson Contrarius. I mean, what do you want
• 42:14
  Speaker 2: from him, just, you know, off league average? If he's
• 42:17
  Speaker 2: twenty league average and above with the bat, I'm good.
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's that's average for first baseman in general.
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: That's gonna be your average for first basement. Like it's
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: like saying catchers who are below league average are still
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: above average, are above the position average. Who's the aircraft carrier?
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: Are we talking about a team that will end five
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: hundred be above the projected wins? Yes, because I mean
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: they've had this hot streak. They are Teams don't want
• 42:46
  Speaker 1: to play him right now, They're they're winning ball games.
• 42:49
  Speaker 1: We talk about teams who just can't figure out why
• 42:51
  Speaker 1: they're not winning. These guys are winning. They are winning
• 42:54
  Speaker 1: ball games, and they're figuring out different ways to do
• 42:57
  Speaker 1: it every night.
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: I'm just sizing up the too. I mean, the Pirates suck.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: The Brewers so far have been down compared to last year.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: That could change, but so far it's been down. The
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Cubs have been good, but they're not running away with
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: things by any means, at least not yet. And I
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: think the Reds will play better as the season moves along.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: They've been hovering around the five hundred mark. They're twenty
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: five and twenty four. But to answer Brandon's question, wait
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: and see. Right now, it's a fun story for a
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: town that was pretty pissed about the product and the
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: way that the team is being treated in the offseason,
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: and right now they're playing above expectations. And yes, if
• 43:35
  Speaker 2: they're six games over five hundred at the trade deadline,
• 43:38
  Speaker 2: prats they're buying. They're not mortgaging all their prospects, but
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: they're going to buy a little bit if they're six above,
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: that's just the way the league works. You can't tell
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: them to sell and be like, oh, well, we'll worry
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: about next year.
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, six of their last games were against the Pirates
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: and Nats too, So saying.
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