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Ken Rosenthal joins FT to dissect 3-team trade including Mariners landing Brendan Donovan + Skubal arb preview, White Sox add bidet · Foul Territory

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Speaker 4: quarter zip?
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, that's that's business casual. But it takes it
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Speaker 2: Alert sounds like sounds like what I wipe my butt with.
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Speaker 1: Oh well, that's coming up at the end of the show,
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Speaker 1: the ultimate tease. But let's let's charge right now because
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Speaker 1: we have a ton to get to.
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Speaker 4: Charge.
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Speaker 1: They had been pursuing him since November, and in early February,
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Speaker 1: the Seattle Mariners get their guy, Brendan Donovan. Come on down,
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Speaker 1: little third base, maybe lead off, left handed hitter on
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Speaker 1: base machine aj. I think this is a massive move
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Speaker 1: for the Mariners. That was a must for them to
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Speaker 1: feel satisfied this offseason.
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Speaker 3: You, yeah, this is he fits perfect in their line
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Speaker 3: if he's left handed, right, he plays second base, he
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Speaker 3: gets on base for him.
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Speaker 2: They lost Polanka, they lost Suarez. This is a.
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Speaker 3: Great fit, and they gave up, you know, a couple
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Speaker 3: of their prospects. So what Brandon Donovan's a proven guy,
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Speaker 3: He's been to the All Star Game. You know he's
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Speaker 3: gonna hit you know what he's gonna give you. So
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Speaker 3: I love this move for Seattle. And why does Tampa
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Speaker 3: Bay always get involved in three team trains? Like Tampa
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Speaker 3: Bay is always the team you call and they're like, hey,
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Speaker 3: will you just throw in somebody so we'll give you
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Speaker 3: a random prospect. Tampa's is like, sure, we got nothing
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Speaker 3: else happening. We haven't done something for a while. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 3: we'll be the third team in a trade.
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Speaker 1: Yep, you need a pick in a prospect, We've got
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Speaker 1: one for you. Oh you've got Ben Williamson who we
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Speaker 1: can bounce all around the diamond. Yes, please, there's the
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Speaker 1: full trade. We're gonna learn about the prospect package soon
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Speaker 1: from JJ Cooper and Ken Rosenthal's going to break down
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Speaker 1: some sides of this trade as well. But yes, Ben
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Speaker 1: Williamson did play this past season at third for the Mariners.
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Speaker 1: Looks like he could be a really good defender. The
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Speaker 1: Rays have already talked about playing him at third. Short
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Speaker 1: second tune action, the bat might be a little bit
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Speaker 1: light to be a full time third baseman. He also
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Speaker 1: just got to the league, so let's give him a
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Speaker 1: time to breathe. But wait back to the Mariners for
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Speaker 1: a moment. Kratz and and AJ Just for clarification, I
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Speaker 1: think Donovan's going to play mostly third. I know he
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Speaker 1: can bounce around, but if Cole Young plays well, then
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Speaker 1: Donovan can play third for them. Second base is probably
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Speaker 1: his most natural spot, but he's got the ability to
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Speaker 1: swing around.
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Speaker 2: He's play mostly second base in his career though.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, no, that's true. But so let's just I'll paint
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Speaker 1: one of the lineups for you from Fangrafts. Against right
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Speaker 1: he's Donovan leading off third. Then you've got Cal Julio Naylor,
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Speaker 1: Randy Rosarina, dom can Zone, who's the guy against right
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Speaker 1: handed pitchers and usually sits against lefties. JP Crawford, Victor Roeblaze,
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Speaker 1: Cole Young. Nice balance. What do you think, Kratz?
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Speaker 4: Did you say, Julio, I'm not looking at the image
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Speaker 4: you're saying, Yeah, yeah, okay.
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Speaker 2: I was. I Like.
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Speaker 4: Before Donovan, I would agree they would have been one
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Speaker 4: short with Donovan to me, whether it's like Aj said,
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Speaker 4: he plays second, which is where he's played the most,
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Speaker 4: or he plays third. They have Colt Emerson and they
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Speaker 4: have Cole Young. Seems like they're gonna give Cole Young
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Speaker 4: that opportunity first. But this is when I have problems
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Speaker 4: with teams who are like, Yep, this is the guy
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Speaker 4: he's gonna go play. He's gonna be the future of
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Speaker 4: our team at third base. It's so tough for prospects
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Speaker 4: to hit right away when they come up. This Brandon
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Speaker 4: Donovan trade allows them to say, Okay, you're playing third
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Speaker 4: because today we see Cole Young being being here and
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Speaker 4: he's better for our team at second base. Cole Young
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Speaker 4: makes the team, it doesn't work out well. Colt Emerson,
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Speaker 4: who has only crushed it in the minor leagues, continues
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Speaker 4: to crush in the bushes. Maybe there's a shift if
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Speaker 4: Cole Young is there. It's such a great it's such
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Speaker 4: a great problem to have, and I think the Mariners
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Speaker 4: have done an incredible job of giving themselves more depth
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Speaker 4: than they ever have and they are not sitting on
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Speaker 4: their hands with this team that was on the precipice
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Speaker 4: of making the World Series last year.
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Speaker 1: What about the rest of the package. So we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about the Cardinals racking up picks. I mean, they have
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Speaker 1: a ton of picks coming up in the twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: six draft, six of the top eighty six. I have
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Speaker 1: to they acquired two picks. Has been able to unload
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Speaker 1: aj Suddi grad.
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Speaker 3: But he's got prospects too, don't forget in this trade.
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Speaker 3: Yes he got he got what three prospects in this dude?
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Speaker 3: Since what's his name?
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Speaker 1: Since I don't know, since I'm actually going to help
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Speaker 1: you out with that, can we can we throw to
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Speaker 1: JJ Cooper to help learn about what the return package
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Speaker 1: is and then we can hear how he pronounces it.
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Speaker 5: So we had a three team deal, not surprisingly involved
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Speaker 5: Seattle and Tampa Bay, two of the teams that are
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Speaker 5: most willing to trade. But we're just going to look
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Speaker 5: at the prospects on this portion here. So what did
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Speaker 5: the Cardinals get get back? Prospect wise? I would say
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Speaker 5: that they got a number of kind of intriguing pieces,
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Speaker 5: all of whom kind of aren't perfect prospects, but all
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Speaker 5: have kind of characteristics that you could be really interested in.
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Speaker 5: The top prospect that came back is clearly Durandelo Cinca.
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Speaker 5: You could call him the switch pitcher. Although predominantly a
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Speaker 5: right handed pitcher, he does throw left handed as well.
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Speaker 5: He can throw lefty in games, but predominantly a right
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Speaker 5: hander who if he's going to start, is going to
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Speaker 5: be a right handed starter who always has the ability
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Speaker 5: to flip over and throw a lefty slider in a
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Speaker 5: tough matchup at times. But he's an intriguing starting pitching
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Speaker 5: prospect who has it's not that far away, but at
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Speaker 5: the same time also hasn't kind of put everything together yet.
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Speaker 5: He's not a top hundred prospect for US, but he's
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Speaker 5: not that far off the top hundred. He's kind of
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Speaker 5: on that cusp of the top hundred. He's the primary prospect.
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Speaker 5: I would say that they got back, but you also
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Speaker 5: need to keep an eye on Ty Pete, who also
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Speaker 5: came back from the Mariners. We had Cincho ranked as
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Speaker 5: number seven on our Mariners Top thirty, and we had
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Speaker 5: Pete ranked tenth on our.
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Speaker 2: Marin's Top thirty.
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Speaker 5: Pete has a lot of athleticism, a lot of tools.
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Speaker 5: Showed some power last year, but there's also a lot
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Speaker 5: of swing and miss. Is an outfielder who, if everything clicks,
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Speaker 5: could really be an everyday regular. But at the same time,
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Speaker 5: with the strikeout Rady has, there's no sure bet that
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Speaker 5: he's going to that everything's going to click, or that
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Speaker 5: he could even be a big leaguer. He's going to
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Speaker 5: have to make some improvements. And then from the Rays
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Speaker 5: comes over Colton Ledbetter, who is kind I would say,
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Speaker 5: kind of the antithesis in some ways of Pete. If
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Speaker 5: Pete is really flashy, tools led Better's more of kind
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Speaker 5: of a whole lot of solid tools and skills. There's
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Speaker 5: not a whole lot of power here, although he hits
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Speaker 5: the ball harder than his home run numbers will kind
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Speaker 5: of give you evidence of He's played center and right field.
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Speaker 5: The Rays kind of viewed him as a right fielder.
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Speaker 5: Maybe the Mariners see if he can play center, maybe
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Speaker 5: they can improve his defense because he has athleticism. He's
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Speaker 5: also a pretty successful base stealer. Was not on the
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Speaker 5: Rays top thirty, but that race top thirty is very deep,
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Speaker 5: and you don't want to forget about. Maybe one of
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Speaker 5: the key things here that is definitely we're paying attention
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Speaker 5: to is the Also the two compensatory picks their competitive
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Speaker 5: pounds PETE B picks, which means they go after the
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Speaker 5: second round sixty eighth and seventy second picks. But those
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Speaker 5: are not just two picks. That's going to be another
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Speaker 5: two point five million or so in bonus pool allotment
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Speaker 5: that will allow the Cardinals to spend more than almost
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Speaker 5: anybody in the draft in twenty twenty six. So that's
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Speaker 5: the prospect return in the three team Cardinals Mariners raise trade.
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Speaker 1: I I'm bloom getting the job done. AJ. He did
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Speaker 1: everything you needed to do in terms of the rebuild
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Speaker 1: so far and offloading all of these veteran players to
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Speaker 1: get nice return packages.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, was it Senja Sja Durangeloa Sanja. So two things
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Speaker 3: about him. One, I just before this trade, the mariner
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Speaker 3: said he was only going to pitch right handed, so
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Speaker 3: the switch pitcher thing is not the thing. And then also,
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Speaker 3: I remember my son's team went and played in a
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Speaker 3: tournament and his team was there and all the scouts
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Speaker 3: are there to see him throw with both arms, and
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Speaker 3: the coaches like, yeah, he's not going to pitch in
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Speaker 3: this tournament, and the scouts were like, well, we only
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Speaker 3: came to see him. The scout's like, we don't care,
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Speaker 3: he's not pitching, and so the scout's all left. It
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Speaker 3: was kind of funny, but because they wanted to see
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Speaker 3: a guy that get throw in ninety with both hands,
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Speaker 3: and now he's only a right handed pitcher. But this
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Speaker 3: is kind of what the Cardinals need to do. It
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Speaker 3: restocks their farm system, They get rid of one of
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Speaker 3: their better assets, they get players. Hein Bloom did this
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Speaker 3: in Boston too. Let's not forget when he had to
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Speaker 3: trade Mookie Betts and redo that whole thing. Hein Bloom
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Speaker 3: came from the race. He knows how to develop organizations.
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Speaker 3: He knows how to develop talent. He knows how to
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Speaker 3: build talent inside an organization. So for the Cardinals, yes,
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Speaker 3: it's going to suck for a few years. This is
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Speaker 3: a win for the Mariners, absolutely, this is a win
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Speaker 3: for right now because they're trying to win right now,
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Speaker 3: keep up with the Blue Jays, Yankees, Red Sox and
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Speaker 3: the rest of the teams in the American League. For
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Speaker 3: the Rays, the Rays never seemed to miss on a trade,
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Speaker 3: so yeah, it's a win for all.
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Speaker 2: This is one of those trades. It seems like a
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Speaker 2: help all three teams.
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Speaker 1: This was a good staredown too. Let's bring in FT
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Speaker 1: senior insider Ken Rosenthal. So it appeared as if Ken
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Speaker 1: the Giants signing Luisa Rise might have helped to push
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Speaker 1: this one across the finish line that began in November.
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Speaker 1: What else can you tell us.
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Speaker 6: Actually, Scott, that's not my understanding as far as the
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Speaker 6: Arise piece is concerned. These teams were down the line
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Speaker 6: when that happened. The Giants didn't have a piece like
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Speaker 6: Jerangelo Sinta, and that was the difference in the two
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Speaker 6: teams and what they were offering. There were other teams
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Speaker 6: involved as well. The Red Sox were involved, the Royals
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Speaker 6: were involved at various points. The Dodgers, as always, were lurking.
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Speaker 6: But in the end, the Cardinals needed the third team,
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Speaker 6: Tampa Bay, to get exactly what they wanted because with
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Speaker 6: Ben Williamson going to Tampa Bay, that enabled Tampa Bay
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Speaker 6: to send the Cardinals an additional pick and an additional player,
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Speaker 6: and that is what ultimately led to this deal coming
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Speaker 6: to fruition.
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Speaker 1: All right, so what do you think of the impact
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Speaker 1: for the Mariners and how badly they needed to pull
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Speaker 1: this off? Ken Also, if you want to mix in
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Speaker 1: some parts from your story this morning on a very
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Speaker 1: unique day for the Seattle front office.
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Speaker 6: Well, I love it for the Mariners, and I'm a
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Speaker 6: Brendan Donovan fan. It seems to me that virtually everyone
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Speaker 6: is a Brendan Donovan fan. And he'll go at the
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Speaker 6: top of their order, most likely will start the season
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Speaker 6: at third base. They were talking about bringing their top prospect,
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Speaker 6: Colt Emerson to the big leagues playing him at third,
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Speaker 6: but with Donovan, you don't have to do that now
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Speaker 6: he can play other positions as well, and if Cole
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Speaker 6: Young struggles at second base, or if they need someone
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Speaker 6: to fill in in the outfield, Brendan Donovan can do that.
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Speaker 6: And offensively, this is really the key for the Mariners
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Speaker 6: top of the order, in front of Raleigh and Julio
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Speaker 6: and a ros Arena and that gang, and then at
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Speaker 6: the bottom of the order with j Crawford and Cole
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Speaker 6: Young being contact guys, that gives them a little bit
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Speaker 6: of a different look. With Brendan Donovan also being someone
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Speaker 6: who puts the ball in play, it's a much more
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Speaker 6: intriguing looking offense than it has been. And for that reason,
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Speaker 6: and I forgot to mention Naylor. Of course, this is
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Speaker 6: a very intriguing trade for the Mariners, and they gave
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Speaker 6: up a good amount. Sandra is, by some estimations, a
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Speaker 6: top one hundred prospect. The outfielder Typete is a guy
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Speaker 6: who is kind of a flyer, a chance you take
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Speaker 6: high upside if it happens. And then the pick as well.
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Speaker 6: But with Williamson, he was expendable once they got Donovan,
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Speaker 6: so for then this was a move he had that
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Speaker 6: they had to make. Now, as for the story I
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Speaker 6: wrote today, I learned last night that the Mariners kind
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Speaker 6: of learned that they had an agreement, not kind of
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Speaker 6: they learned they had an agreement when they were at
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Speaker 6: the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, Washington yesterday. The States
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Speaker 6: Senate there was adopting a proclamation basically hailing the Mariners
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Speaker 6: and cal Rally for his historic season, for the Mariners,
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Speaker 6: for their great year. And at that moment when they
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Speaker 6: were reading the proclamation, Justin Hollander, the Mariners GM got
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Speaker 6: a text. It was part of a group text with
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Speaker 6: hein Bloom, the Cardinals president baseball Operations, and hein Bloom said,
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Speaker 6: Hollander start the medicals were good to go, meaning they
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Speaker 6: had an agreement and that they had to next finalize
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Speaker 6: the medicals and review the medicals. That this takes place
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Speaker 6: with every trade. And that is how on a day
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Speaker 6: that the people were at the state House they came
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Speaker 6: to get Brendan Donovan.
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Speaker 4: I want to ask about the person who just brought
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Speaker 4: up hein Bloom. Obviously everybody says hein Bloom traded mooky Bets. Okay,
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Speaker 4: ownership made hein Bloom get rid of Mooky Bets. I
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Speaker 4: felt like that transition year where him was kind of
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Speaker 4: helping in the minor leagues, helping the structure the infrastructure
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Speaker 4: was going to be Moe's opportunity to to mozae Lock
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Speaker 4: the previous GM to get rid of these guys, and
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Speaker 4: now him had to come in. Is him's legacy going
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Speaker 4: to be very similar in Saint Louis as it is
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Speaker 4: in Boston. Obviously we don't know the future. But is
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Speaker 4: it fair to heinm Bloom to make him make these moves?
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Speaker 6: He knew what he was getting into, and last year
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Speaker 6: with moze Lock, in his final year, Mozelac was not
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Speaker 6: willing and maybe ownership was not willing to go to
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Speaker 6: these lengths to start the rebuilding process.
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Speaker 2: They were kind of.
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Speaker 6: Waiting for hein Bloom to be that guy. Now, when
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Speaker 6: you embark upon something like this, and remember they've traded
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Speaker 6: Sonny Gray and Wilson Contreras and of course now as
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Speaker 6: well Brendan Donovan, you know that it's going to be painful.
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Speaker 6: Cardinals fans know it's going to be painful, and Cardinals fans,
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Speaker 6: the knowledgeable ones understand that this was probably overdue. So
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Speaker 6: I don't know that heim Bloom is being looked at
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Speaker 6: in a negative way in Saint Louis. The Boston situation
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Speaker 6: was entirely different, Eric, and you alluded to it. Ownership
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Speaker 6: basically forced that deal by not signing bets Heim.
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Speaker 2: Bloom didn't make a great deal.
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Speaker 6: I don't know that it was going to be easy
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Speaker 6: for him to make a great deal with one year
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Speaker 6: of Mooky left at a big salary number, so and
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Speaker 6: with the Dodgers also taking on David Price and the
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Speaker 6: rest of his money.
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Speaker 1: So that was one job.
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Speaker 6: This is another job and another task entirely. And I
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Speaker 6: would say that we don't know exactly how this is
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Speaker 6: going to turn out. But the direction he has taken
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Speaker 6: with this team, that is the proper direction. This is
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Speaker 6: what they need to do at this moment in time
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Speaker 6: in their evolution as an organization. And the moves that
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Speaker 6: he has made so far have been pointing toward a
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Speaker 6: better future. Whether it transpires or not, whether he picked
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Speaker 6: the right guys, that remains to be seen. But I
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Speaker 6: will go back to one trade he made in Boston.
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Speaker 6: I'll go back to a couple things. Actually, the trade
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Speaker 6: of Christian Vasquez to the Astros that brought them back
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Speaker 6: will your or bray you pretty good trade. It was
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Speaker 6: one that I actually criticized at the time. A lot
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Speaker 6: of people did thought it was unnecessary. And then you
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Speaker 6: look at some of the young players that they have
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Speaker 6: in the big leagues right now. These were guys drafted
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Speaker 6: under heinm Bloom, developed under heinm Bloom. So his legacy
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Speaker 6: in Boston is not simply the Mookie Bets trade. It's
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Speaker 6: a lot of what is going on there in a
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Speaker 6: positive way.
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Speaker 1: Right now.
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Speaker 3: Ken Heim Bloom used to work for the Rays. How
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Speaker 3: did the Rays always end up in a three team
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Speaker 3: trade and they're always like, hey, we'll just take the
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Speaker 3: last player something like that. How do they always end
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Speaker 3: up in these trades? Because it always seems like if
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Speaker 3: there's a three team trade, somehow the Rays are involved
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Speaker 3: getting a player, giving up a draft pick, whatever it is.
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Speaker 3: How do they do this every time?
17:50
Speaker 6: Aj, You're absolutely right. They are willing on these kinds
17:53
Speaker 6: of deals and they are able. And John Becker from
17:56
Speaker 6: Fangrafts last night posted something on x which he said,
18:00
Speaker 6: I believe six of the last seven to three team
18:04
Speaker 6: trades have involved the Rays, and clearly they are in
18:09
Speaker 6: many cases a facilitator in these deals. So in this case,
18:13
Speaker 6: Seattle and Saint Louis couldn't quite match up. They talked
18:16
Speaker 6: about this starting in November Worth three months later now,
18:19
Speaker 6: and they had yet to match up. The Rays found
18:24
Speaker 6: a way, as I mentioned earlier, by taking Williamson from
18:27
Speaker 6: the Mariners and then sending additional capital to the Cardinals.
18:32
Speaker 6: That was a way to satisfy the Cardinals in a
18:34
Speaker 6: way that the Mariners were not able to do on
18:37
Speaker 6: their own.
18:38
Speaker 2: So I don't know.
18:39
Speaker 6: That in each case it's been the same kind of
18:42
Speaker 6: role in some of these trades. I'm sure they were
18:44
Speaker 6: the principal team looking for the third team. But as
18:48
Speaker 6: John Becker tweeted right there or posted, I should say
18:51
Speaker 6: they have a knack for doing this kind of thing.
18:54
Speaker 4: At the beginning, when you first came on, you said
18:57
Speaker 4: three of three of Scott's favor words the Red Sox
19:02
Speaker 4: were in. I guess that's four the Red Sox were
19:05
Speaker 4: in in on. So anyway, what's next for the Red Sox?
19:11
Speaker 4: I essentially they've been in on so many guys and
19:13
Speaker 4: just so they've missed out. But what's next or what
19:16
Speaker 4: are you hearing is next for them?
19:18
Speaker 6: They need an infielder and preferably a right handed hitter.
19:22
Speaker 6: Donovan actually was not a great fit for them in
19:26
Speaker 6: that respect. He's a left handed hitter, but the roster
19:30
Speaker 6: that they have is largely left handed, so ideally it's
19:33
Speaker 6: a right handed guy to play second base. Sombayer can
19:36
Speaker 6: play third. Whether they accomplish that or not, I'm not
19:39
Speaker 6: sure they'll be able to. It's getting late in the offseason.
19:42
Speaker 6: The options are dwindling. If you want Nico Horner from
19:45
Speaker 6: the Cubs, you better be prepared to give up an
19:47
Speaker 6: awful lot. The Cubs do not want to trade him,
19:50
Speaker 6: so I don't know exactly where this is going with them.
19:54
Speaker 6: Clearly though, they need that additional bat, that one more
19:59
Speaker 6: offensive piece. The guy who would have been perfect was
20:02
Speaker 6: katel Marte. But kateel Marte, as the Diamondbacks stand right now,
20:07
Speaker 6: is not getting traded.
20:11
Speaker 1: What's the one thing you say? Aj, Everyone likes money,
20:14
Speaker 1: You want money. You can sell this thing, this this
20:18
Speaker 1: arbitration case alone. I think you could sell for more
20:21
Speaker 1: than the price of one regular season game. I think
20:25
Speaker 1: it would be that popular for fans to watch how
20:27
Speaker 1: this goes down and how you make a case for
20:30
Speaker 1: Terrek School not being good at baseball. We need not
20:33
Speaker 1: be good enough to be what.
20:35
Speaker 4: We'd need to warm up first, like this would be
20:37
Speaker 4: like a boxing match where we need a couple like
20:40
Speaker 4: preliminary fights, so that fans kind of like, what is this?
20:43
Speaker 4: I don't even know what this is? Arbitration? Millionaires, billionaires,
20:46
Speaker 4: what's going on? And then bang six o'clock at the
20:50
Speaker 4: Polestra in Phoenix, Scott Boris versus Bob Bamfred Fred.
20:59
Speaker 1: We're gonna have a little warm up, a little appetizer
21:01
Speaker 1: of esak paratus. Oh no, wait, he just settled with
21:04
Speaker 1: the astro. Sorry, that one's wipe. That's actually a true story.
21:07
Speaker 1: I'll be here all day, but AJ, Yeah, this is fascinating.
21:10
Speaker 1: I know that if you just look at David Price's
21:14
Speaker 1: nineteen point seventy five million, which is the record in
21:16
Speaker 1: ARB for a pitcher, and you slap inflation on it
21:20
Speaker 1: from eleven years, it's twenty seven million dollars. That's without
21:23
Speaker 1: looking at Schooble's accualades. Yeah, there's multiple arguments. How about
21:28
Speaker 1: the argument of who's making more money right now than
21:31
Speaker 1: Schooble and how he's better than all of them and
21:33
Speaker 1: he's allowed to compare himself to free agents. Sure you
21:37
Speaker 1: want to call me biased on this one? Here actually
21:39
Speaker 1: this will state it right. AJ. For example, you and
21:42
Speaker 1: Jim Boden will have many head to head battles over
21:44
Speaker 1: how the CBA is going to go down. Right, Boden
21:48
Speaker 1: is saying like, nobody has a chance if you're a
21:50
Speaker 1: small market team. Blah blah blah ah. That right, Boden
21:53
Speaker 1: is like, if this case doesn't go to Schooble, everything
21:56
Speaker 1: makes no sense.
21:59
Speaker 3: That's that's my point. What did I just say to Ken?
22:01
Speaker 3: I've been saying that from the get go. Remember this
22:04
Speaker 3: is not just about Terrek Scooble. This is about the
22:06
Speaker 3: CBA and baseball going forward. So that's why this number
22:09
Speaker 3: is huge.
22:10
Speaker 2: This number is.
22:13
Speaker 3: If you're a player, If you're a player out there
22:15
Speaker 3: and you're watching this or you're listening to this, you
22:17
Speaker 3: need to be rooting.
22:18
Speaker 2: For Trek Schooble. If you're Paul Skeins, you need to
22:22
Speaker 2: be rooting for Trek Scouoble in this case.
22:24
Speaker 3: If you're any player, if you're in high school, if
22:28
Speaker 3: you're in college and you think you have a chance
22:29
Speaker 3: to get to the major leagues, you need to be
22:31
Speaker 3: rooting for Trek Scooble in this case. If you're a
22:34
Speaker 3: fan of baseball players in general, and you can say
22:37
Speaker 3: they make too much money. Trek Scooble, you need to
22:39
Speaker 3: be rooting for. I just it's one of those landmark
22:42
Speaker 3: cases in the history of the game for arbitration. Obviously,
22:46
Speaker 3: it's not free agency and some of the other things
22:48
Speaker 3: that have gone down Jackie Robinson and all those great
22:51
Speaker 3: things that have happened, but for arbitration, and if you
22:53
Speaker 3: are on the player's side at all, you need to
22:56
Speaker 3: be rooting for Trek Scooble. And again, I firmly believe
22:59
Speaker 3: Scott Boris is probably gonna argue this case himself, which
23:02
Speaker 3: he's done a lot of. I think he's argued I
23:03
Speaker 3: looked up the numbers fifty plus in his day personally,
23:07
Speaker 3: not saying like one of his other guys, but Scott himself.
23:11
Speaker 3: So I'm guarantee you And if what I know about Scott,
23:14
Speaker 3: they probably had him in a room for the last
23:15
Speaker 3: week and have fired everything in the world at Scott
23:18
Speaker 3: Boris to get him mentally prepared. He's gonna be like
23:21
Speaker 3: a UFC fighter, like a boxer, like when they come
23:23
Speaker 3: to the ring.
23:24
Speaker 2: He's gonna be like.
23:25
Speaker 3: Frothing at the mouth right perfect weigh in shape right,
23:28
Speaker 3: ready to fight. And to guarantee you, the owners have
23:31
Speaker 3: done the same thing.
23:32
Speaker 2: On their side.
23:33
Speaker 3: They've got their best whoever their best guy is, whoever
23:36
Speaker 3: that is has been in a room for a week
23:39
Speaker 3: and just everything, and they're gonna both try to get
23:42
Speaker 3: the other guy off their game, and at the end
23:44
Speaker 3: of the day, whoever's better is gonna win. But I
23:47
Speaker 3: just the arguments are all for schoobl because he doesn't
23:49
Speaker 3: even have to prove thirty two.
23:51
Speaker 2: He's got to prove twenty five. Okay, and if you.
23:54
Speaker 3: Look at all the comps, he should be making more
23:56
Speaker 3: than twenty five million.
23:57
Speaker 2: Because he's allowed to use free agents. He should win.
24:02
Speaker 3: But you know what that means, not a damn thing
24:04
Speaker 3: in this game, because there's times where you look at
24:06
Speaker 3: numbers you're like, this guy should win, and some reason
24:09
Speaker 3: he loses and you never know why.
24:13
Speaker 4: Twenty five twenty five to five and a dollar, right,
24:16
Speaker 4: that's half nineteen nineteen to thirty two.
24:21
Speaker 2: My math isn't mathing right now. It's yeah, well you
24:24
Speaker 2: got it, you got five. Yeah, that's what they need
24:27
Speaker 2: to prove.
24:29
Speaker 4: I've I've been calling different people this morning, like players
24:32
Speaker 4: that I thought went to actual arbitration, like AJ did
24:36
Speaker 4: just to like kind of get an idea. And one
24:39
Speaker 4: of the guys was like, hey call this GM. So
24:41
Speaker 4: I called the GM and he was like, he blew
24:46
Speaker 4: my mind on this. He was like, look, he's like,
24:49
Speaker 4: I believe that if you have a pissed off player,
24:52
Speaker 4: your organization is not going to be in a good shape.
24:55
Speaker 4: And I was like, okay, I completely agree with you.
24:57
Speaker 4: And he said, honestly exactly what AJ said. This is
25:01
Speaker 4: a Major League Baseball versus the Players Association. So why
25:04
Speaker 4: are the teams even getting involved? Why are the teams
25:08
Speaker 4: even saying, okay, we I'm not even sure who will
25:11
Speaker 4: do it, because it's not gonna be Scott Harris for
25:14
Speaker 4: the Tigers. It'll be the assistant GM, It'll be okay, trust,
25:20
Speaker 4: it'll be an MLB generally. Generally, Scott Harris.
25:23
Speaker 3: Will be sitting there. Scott Harris will be sitting there
25:25
Speaker 3: across from Trek's school. And you're again you're staring at
25:28
Speaker 3: When I did mine, it was Brian Saban ned Colletti.
25:31
Speaker 3: They're across about eight feet away from you. Okay, there's
25:34
Speaker 3: there's a two tables separated by about two feet in
25:37
Speaker 3: between and you're sitting there and literally I'll never forget
25:40
Speaker 3: to this day. Don't mind me, I'll have shoes on.
25:42
Speaker 3: I walked in and Ned Colletti and Brian Sabian were
25:45
Speaker 3: sitting there with their feet like this and cowboy boots
25:48
Speaker 3: on the table. When I walked in, come on just
25:51
Speaker 3: like that, I swear, and I was like, oh wow,
25:53
Speaker 3: that's awesome.
25:54
Speaker 4: Guys, the picture of arrogance and so. And then I
25:58
Speaker 4: went in and they don't, they don't, they don't say anything.
26:00
Speaker 4: It's the it's the owners. They have like a lawyer
26:03
Speaker 4: that does all the argument. So I don't know who
26:05
Speaker 4: it would be.
26:06
Speaker 3: No, what's his name, Noah Haile Scott you know the
26:08
Speaker 3: millb staffing way better whoever the territory host territory.
26:14
Speaker 2: Well, anyway he cares because for skiing.
26:16
Speaker 1: It's not no Guarden, that's no, it's not No, it
26:20
Speaker 1: wouldn't be. I mean Dan Halem is one of the
26:23
Speaker 1: top lawyers who's been there forever with Rob. But I
26:26
Speaker 1: don't know who. I think they have specific our guys
26:28
Speaker 1: Morgan it's the top guy there, but I think it's
26:30
Speaker 1: probably someone that works below them.
26:32
Speaker 3: They'll use their top but they'll just sit there, the
26:35
Speaker 3: GM and the player. You're told not to say anything.
26:37
Speaker 3: You just sit there like this and you just listen
26:39
Speaker 3: to them, and they're literally there are times that they
26:42
Speaker 3: just make stuff up. I mean, my case is forever
26:44
Speaker 3: ago now, but I'm just like I'm because they tell
26:48
Speaker 3: you at the time. Michael Wiener for the Players Association,
26:51
Speaker 3: my agent's sitting next to me and they're like, whatever
26:53
Speaker 3: they say, just don't react. And they were saying some
26:56
Speaker 3: outlanda ship, and I was like, trying not to turn red.
26:59
Speaker 3: Just one of the arguments against me I'll never forget
27:03
Speaker 3: was I went up. So when I went, it's not
27:05
Speaker 3: way different money. But I went for a record for
27:08
Speaker 3: first year ARB catchers. Okay, three point five million. The
27:11
Speaker 3: Giants countered at two two five, right, And I'm like,
27:14
Speaker 3: and they wouldn't go when we tried to get something
27:15
Speaker 3: done before, they wouldn't go above two five. And I go, well,
27:18
Speaker 3: I got a chance to win one point two five
27:20
Speaker 3: or lose two hundred and fifty thousand. I'm like, I'll
27:23
Speaker 3: take my shot for the three point five, right. So
27:25
Speaker 3: we go into this meeting and Michael Wiener was all
27:27
Speaker 3: about it because it would have raised the bar big
27:29
Speaker 3: time for catchers because catchers the time, we're get paid shit,
27:32
Speaker 3: and so we do our whole thing and da da
27:33
Speaker 3: da da dah. And one of the arguments was I'll
27:36
Speaker 3: never get this. They go, well, Prazinski last year had
27:38
Speaker 3: seven pass balls or whatever it was, and they go,
27:41
Speaker 3: Jason Veritek only had six, and he catches Tim Wakefield,
27:45
Speaker 3: the knuckleballer, every time he pitches. And I'm like, no,
27:49
Speaker 3: he doesn't even catch. It's Mirabelly that catches him every time.
27:53
Speaker 3: And I'm like trying that, and I just that sticks
27:55
Speaker 3: in my head, like they just make things up. But
27:57
Speaker 3: then you have to remember the arbitrators they don't know.
28:00
Speaker 2: They don't know.
28:02
Speaker 3: Who does what really, because they're not really baseball people.
28:05
Speaker 3: They're just salary arbitrators that don't really know baseball. So
28:09
Speaker 3: just things like that, and you're just like, what can
28:10
Speaker 3: they say about tick scougble? You ever hurt your first
28:13
Speaker 3: couple of years, but then since then you've won two
28:14
Speaker 3: cy youngs.
28:16
Speaker 2: I don't know.
28:17
Speaker 1: We actually have a tweet. We have a tweet that
28:20
Speaker 1: picked up some attention. I don't know. This might just
28:23
Speaker 1: be a random fan, or it might be somebody in
28:24
Speaker 1: the base pilogies in advance. I don't know, but I
28:27
Speaker 1: really respect the tweet. So I found it this morning,
28:30
Speaker 1: and if we can queue it up and show it.
28:32
Speaker 1: His name is Kyle. He put together something funny here,
28:35
Speaker 1: Kyle Bland Bland Analytics Possible arguments against Schooble and arbitration.
28:40
Speaker 1: Number one, our relievers got less playing time because of you.
28:43
Speaker 1: That's selfish. Number two, you made our draft pick worse.
28:47
Speaker 1: Number three, we're running out of space in our trophy
28:50
Speaker 1: room because of your cy Young Awards. Number four, you
28:52
Speaker 1: make fan expectations too high and actually gets me thinking, Aja,
28:56
Speaker 1: should he show up with his two Siang Award trophies
28:59
Speaker 1: he's picked up the past two years in New York City.
29:02
Speaker 3: That would be awesome if he showed up. He just
29:04
Speaker 3: carried one in each arm and just sat him on
29:06
Speaker 3: the table. He was like, oh, sorry, guys, little extra hardware.
29:09
Speaker 3: I wanted you guys to be I mean.
29:11
Speaker 2: Yeah, hell yeah. What if I was him?
29:13
Speaker 3: I mean, oh my gosh, I just I listen. I
29:16
Speaker 3: know this is a big deal, but I just don't
29:18
Speaker 3: know how. I don't know how he loses, and I
29:23
Speaker 3: don't obviously don't want him to lose.
29:26
Speaker 2: But let's go back to I don't know. I want
29:28
Speaker 2: to go back to what Ken said.
29:29
Speaker 3: What is it So if the Tigers win this arbitration
29:31
Speaker 3: case and they have thirteen extra million, then they're gonna
29:35
Speaker 3: go get somebody else maybe to help their team. But
29:37
Speaker 3: if they lose it, then they can't afford it. Well,
29:40
Speaker 3: you want to talk about making Schooble feel like crap
29:42
Speaker 3: even more after going in there bad mouthing him, Then
29:45
Speaker 3: you're telling him that because he wants the money, he's
29:48
Speaker 3: worth that. Then they can't make their team better. Like
29:51
Speaker 3: I guarantee if you went to Tyrek School and said
29:53
Speaker 3: we'll give you twenty five million to save seven and
29:56
Speaker 3: we can go get a better player, he probably would
29:58
Speaker 3: have said.
29:59
Speaker 1: Yes, I think this is hilarious. Kratz. They might use
30:03
Speaker 1: this in the case. They might say Schoogle makes us worse.
30:06
Speaker 1: Why because if we have to pay him twelve million more,
30:09
Speaker 1: then we're not going to give that to someone else,
30:10
Speaker 1: so that will make us a little bit worse. I mean,
30:13
Speaker 1: I don't know what else they can say, so maybe
30:14
Speaker 1: they'll just start coming up with things that make no sense.
30:17
Speaker 1: And yes, I agree, it's very it's a very tough
30:21
Speaker 1: look to examine their off season. It's one of the
30:25
Speaker 1: more confusing off seasons. The stance is, we are good
30:29
Speaker 1: and we are young, so we will be better. We
30:32
Speaker 1: essentially haven't done anything, and we are keeping our asset
30:36
Speaker 1: who is going to be a free agent after this year,
30:38
Speaker 1: so we're not pushing Chips in with that asset a
30:40
Speaker 1: number one, and we're not trading him away. That to
30:44
Speaker 1: me is called the muddled middle. Now are they a contender? Sure?
30:46
Speaker 1: Are they a playoff contender? Yes? But are they really
30:49
Speaker 1: trying to win a World Series?
30:52
Speaker 4: I mean if they saw what I mean, look at
30:54
Speaker 4: the Mariners. Look what the Mariners have done. How close
30:56
Speaker 4: they were to winning a World Series? And they have clearly?
31:00
Speaker 4: Have they pushed all in? Have they signed somebody a
31:02
Speaker 4: two hundred fifty million dollars No, And I hope fans
31:05
Speaker 4: don't get that twisted about. That's what we're saying, like
31:08
Speaker 4: teams need to do to go all in, They just
31:12
Speaker 4: need to, like the Mariners. Perfect example for me, A
31:16
Speaker 4: plus for this offseason for the Mariners. With this last
31:18
Speaker 4: move that they made, the Tigers can't say.
31:22
Speaker 6: Wow, we loved, we loved.
31:25
Speaker 4: What was going on in the postseason last year. We're
31:29
Speaker 4: just not gonna quite push for this year. I don't
31:32
Speaker 4: think they can truly say that, and I hope after
31:35
Speaker 4: this case is over that their goal is then, Hey,
31:37
Speaker 4: you know what, we are pushing it. We're taking all
31:39
Speaker 4: our chips and just like Teddy KGB says, it was
31:44
Speaker 4: splash the pots.
31:48
Speaker 1: You mean, you might need to tell kids the reference movie.
31:52
Speaker 2: It's Rounders, the movie Rounders.
31:54
Speaker 4: It's a good movie. I randomly had sitting over here too.
32:09
Speaker 1: So we have a couple important things to do. It
32:11
Speaker 1: looks like AJ has decided where he is going to
32:15
Speaker 1: shift his rooting interest for Sunday. Biggest Seahawks fan on
32:20
Speaker 1: the planet. Actually, this is a perfect time to tee
32:22
Speaker 1: you up on this one. Before we get to anything else,
32:24
Speaker 1: I'd like to queue up the story about your Chicago
32:27
Speaker 1: White Sox AJ installing a bidet for Murakami and making
32:33
Speaker 1: him feel at home. That is a thumbs up from you,
32:36
Speaker 1: two thumbs up from me. I'm a huge fan of bidets.
32:40
Speaker 1: This is from your buddy, Scott Murkin. You're right, tomob
32:42
Speaker 1: dot com. We can't bring them on, but we can
32:44
Speaker 1: read the tweet. He said. The White Sox have a
32:46
Speaker 1: new addition for their rate Field Home clubhouse, thanks in
32:49
Speaker 1: part to an important new addition to their home clubhouse,
32:52
Speaker 1: and that is Munataka Murakami, who recommended the addition of
32:56
Speaker 1: a bidet aj take it away.
33:00
Speaker 3: I can't wait to go poop in this but day
33:01
Speaker 3: when I go to do a White Sox game this year.
33:04
Speaker 2: Oh wait, Fox doesn't have any White Sox games this year,
33:07
Speaker 2: so never mind. The clubhouse also a great point.
33:11
Speaker 3: I am allowed in the clubhouse, but they're just not
33:13
Speaker 3: allowed to go in the video room because Pedro Griffold
33:16
Speaker 3: didn't think that was a good idea for me to.
33:17
Speaker 2: Watch Heart of the Video people. I love this listen.
33:21
Speaker 3: I had had one request when I built my house,
33:23
Speaker 3: and that was I had to have a Japanese toilet.
33:25
Speaker 2: We had this conversation once when Alana was on.
33:27
Speaker 3: She couldn't believe it, and it was because Cogiuihara had
33:32
Speaker 3: one in the in the Boston Clubhouse and I tried
33:34
Speaker 3: that thing with the remote control and you sit there
33:36
Speaker 3: and play games with it, and so I was like, yes,
33:39
Speaker 3: I'm in on this. So I put one in my house.
33:40
Speaker 3: I still have it. I love it.
33:42
Speaker 2: And when you walk in and like in the morning
33:43
Speaker 2: and you have to use the restroom, the sea pops
33:47
Speaker 2: up and it just goes Oh, it just welcomes you
33:51
Speaker 2: to your throne, Scott, And so I'm all for it.
33:54
Speaker 2: I'm here for they They should be standard. They should
33:57
Speaker 2: be standard.
33:59
Speaker 1: I don't think we could ever be more on the
34:01
Speaker 1: same page on a topic. You and me can be
34:03
Speaker 1: step brothers at times. I am so on the same page.
34:06
Speaker 1: And there are varying forms of premium toilets that you
34:11
Speaker 1: can get. So my example is aj might have something
34:13
Speaker 1: really bougie. Nowadays, they actually make like really nice products
34:16
Speaker 1: you can get online for a few hundred bucks. You
34:18
Speaker 1: have to like do a little more work with installing
34:20
Speaker 1: them and everything. But I've got one and it's fantastic.
34:25
Speaker 1: The music might not be as crazy good because we
34:27
Speaker 1: might not have the licensing that AJS bougie one has,
34:30
Speaker 1: but there are a lot of cool components to it,
34:33
Speaker 1: including the heated seeds. So the White Sox are winning
34:36
Speaker 1: this offseason with that move alone. Hey, we're talking a
34:40
Speaker 1: lot more about them in positive light than we have
34:43
Speaker 1: in the prior two years, So they're doing something right.
34:45
Speaker 3: Over fifty two and a half, I'm taking over fifty
34:48
Speaker 3: two and a half for the White Sox.
34:49
Speaker 2: That's wait till you see the White Sox number.
34:53
Speaker 4: Oh, it's gonna be such a great day that day
34:56
Speaker 4: fifty two and a half.
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Speaker 3: And by the way, and by the way, let me
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Speaker 3: all so just say this about if you haven't been,
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Speaker 3: if you don't travel, and you've never been to Africa,
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Speaker 3: and you've never been to Dubai. And we had this
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Speaker 3: argument producer lady earlier on her production call. They don't
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Speaker 3: have the days. They have hoses. So you are in
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Speaker 3: there and if you use that part of your body,
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Speaker 3: they have a hose hanging on the wall. And I've
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Speaker 3: never tried it because I don't know how to hit
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Speaker 3: the right spot with the hose. I'm just saying they
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Speaker 3: just have a hose hanging there with with a little squirter.
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Speaker 1: Sure that's not for like the elephants or something out there.
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Speaker 2: No, it's Dubai. If you haven't been to Dubai.
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Speaker 1: I would say camels. But I'm saying if.
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Speaker 2: You get well, kras has been to Africa, Africa.
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Speaker 3: If you go like to real Africa Africa, like where
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Speaker 3: they're on Safari, they have a hole in the ground
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Speaker 3: and they might have a running hose where you can try.
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Speaker 1: Wow, don't tempt me to go. Don't tempt me krats
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Speaker 1: your hat, and then we'll shout out the Philly Show,
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Speaker 1: which just hit ten thousand subscribers on YouTube. But oh
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Speaker 1: that's fitting for today.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we had a regular sized person even though he
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Speaker 4: just became a giant, he's still just regular sized Harrison Vader,
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Speaker 4: So I had to wear my giants hat.
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Speaker 1: Yep, just through regular size New York City kid who's
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Speaker 1: actually getting a nice little career put together here and
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Speaker 1: making some kashish as well. The Philly Show, part of
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Speaker 1: the FT Network, features tides like you, Jim Salisbury and
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Speaker 1: Rubinamar Junior. We just want to congratulate them on hitting
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Speaker 1: ten thousand subscribers on YouTube. If you'd like to give
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Speaker 1: them some love, then all you have to do is
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Speaker 1: give them one click and it would be really nice
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Speaker 1: for that free content. There was something interesting they brought
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Speaker 1: up on their show today that I will bring up tomorrow.
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Speaker 1: It revolves around a lineup change that I think is interesting.
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Speaker 1: I'll wait until tomorrow, or actually maybe even Thursday, since
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Speaker 1: Alan is going to take over tomorrow and she has
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Speaker 1: her own agenda for you guys, but we will talk
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Speaker 1: for everyone the usual one to three durned. I'm back
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Speaker 1: Thursday and Friday.
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Speaker 2: And three day to day to a.
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Speaker 1: J's gonna go hit the bedet. We'll see you later.
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Speaker 2: Hair cut day stop. You know what that means, man,
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Speaker 2: m hm m hm