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Angels owner drops viral quote downplaying winning? Teams feeling most heat, Pablo López out for 2026 · Foul Territory

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Speaker 3: Man.
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Speaker 2: This is a bummer.
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Speaker 3: Before we dig into this I just want to say,
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Speaker 2: That's awesome.
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Speaker 3: And then also, uh, by the way, when our show
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Speaker 3: territory of BP and Mark, Mark is supposed to protect me,
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Speaker 3: But I feel like I have a better chance of
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Speaker 3: anything else protecting me than Mark. Does you have a glove?
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Speaker 2: Why don't they put put an l screen behind you
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Speaker 2: or just put some sort of barricade.
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Speaker 3: And Mark's son is sitting over here, and he's supposed
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Speaker 3: to be protecting me, Jake, But Jake is so far away.
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Speaker 3: I didn't want to say his name, but so but
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Speaker 3: Jake is so far away from me that if a
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Speaker 3: ball came over here, he could never get here in time.
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Speaker 3: We clearly he's never been around a baseball field before.
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Speaker 3: Kp like he's it's like the bullpen guy. That's you know,
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Speaker 3: when used to have bullpens on the field, you'd have
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Speaker 3: the guy that the guy standing behind him, and they'd
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Speaker 3: be so far away the ball would get hit and
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Speaker 3: they couldn't get to it.
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Speaker 4: That's Jacob, or they'd be watching it. Would they be
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Speaker 4: watching the guy warming up in the bullpen exactly?
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Speaker 3: So anyways, but continue Alta now that I've been to.
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Speaker 2: I appreciate you taking one for the team and putting
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Speaker 2: your body out there and sacrificing yourself for the betterment
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Speaker 2: of foul territory. In foul territory, now let's charge the
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Speaker 2: mounds charging about all right, this is a bummer, you guys.
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Speaker 2: Pablo Lopez of the Minnesota Twins starter of course, had
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Speaker 2: a second opinion and unfortunately confirmed what we already feared.
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Speaker 2: He is requiring Tommy John surgery on his right elbow. AJ.
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Speaker 2: He is going to miss the entire season. This is
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Speaker 2: a massive blow to a Twins team AJ that was
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Speaker 2: already decimated, and now you lose your top end.
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Speaker 3: Starter and also a team member. They said they were
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Speaker 3: competing this year, they were going for it this year
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Speaker 3: after they traded away what ten guys at the trade
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Speaker 3: deadline last year and didn't really sign a whole lot
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Speaker 3: of free agency to bolster that. So this is a
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Speaker 3: huge blow. And everyone said they should have traded Pablo
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Speaker 3: maybe last year. Now, what do you do with Joe Ryan, right,
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Speaker 3: another valuable commodity that they have on this team. Do
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Speaker 3: you trade him in case God forbid something happens to him?
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Speaker 3: But the biggest takeaway from this for me is it
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Speaker 3: just sucks because Pablo Lopez is a great human being
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Speaker 3: and a great guy and a great pitcher. So for
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Speaker 3: him to be out, he's going to be out for
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Speaker 3: this year, and then obviously he's going to probably miss
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Speaker 3: someone next year too, so this is almost a two
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Speaker 3: year thing. It just sucks for for not only the
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Speaker 3: twins are fans, but also for Pablo, And.
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Speaker 4: So, yeah, I echo what you say. I love watching
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Speaker 4: Pablo Lopez pitch. He's a great human being. He's a
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Speaker 4: fun pitcher to watch. But when I heard the news,
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Speaker 4: that's immediately where my mind went to and everything they
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Speaker 4: did last year in selling off all their assets, and
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Speaker 4: I know they said they're going to try to compete
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Speaker 4: this year, but sometimes when the wind is open for
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Speaker 4: you to trade a guy, you know, injuries are part
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Speaker 4: of the game, especially with starting pitchers, and you know,
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Speaker 4: obviously this is new news. It wouldn't have been you know,
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Speaker 4: bad to trade him last year because he didn't have
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Speaker 4: an injury at the time, But sometimes you just got
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Speaker 4: to take the best off route there. Sometimes you hoard
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Speaker 4: these players a little bit too long and then something
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Speaker 4: unfortunate like this happens. Where you have these assets you
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Speaker 4: got to and you're not competing right now, You've got
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Speaker 4: to go out and sell them and try to make
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Speaker 4: your team a little bit better in the future.
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Speaker 5: If that's the direction you're going.
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Speaker 2: Kevin, how about this. We just got some information on
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Speaker 2: X Aaron Gleaman tweeting this Joe Ryan has been scratched
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Speaker 2: from today's start versus the Red Sox. No reason given
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Speaker 2: by the Twins yet. Should we make something of that?
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Speaker 2: Or is that is we should not imagine speculate. But
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Speaker 2: that's a little odd.
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Speaker 4: It's a little odd considering he's going to be pitching
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Speaker 4: for Team USA, so his ramp up periods a little
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Speaker 4: bit quicker, and it is very important for him to
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Speaker 4: get out on the mound and pitch because he does
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Speaker 4: have to be a little bit ready sooner because he's
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Speaker 4: going to pitch for Team USA. So so maybe you
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Speaker 4: nailed it perfectly. Maybe he's a guy that you know.
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Speaker 4: With the new news, the Pablo Lopez, maybe they're asking
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Speaker 4: price came down a little bit where maybe there's a
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Speaker 4: little bit more desperation to maybe try to trade him
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Speaker 4: before something bad potentially happens.
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Speaker 2: Aga, could you see Joe Ryan being moved before the
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Speaker 2: season starts.
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Speaker 3: I didn't think so, but maybe now or God forbid,
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Speaker 3: let's hope he's not hurt. Right, that's didn't pop up
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Speaker 3: to Ryan so oh low back tightness apparently on his
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Speaker 3: right side. So that's good. But you know what that's
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Speaker 3: gonna do. I hate to say this, it's gonna take
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Speaker 3: him probably out of Team USA. If there is any
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Speaker 3: little teeny tiny thing that pops up on these teams,
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Speaker 3: especially before they get to the tm UOSA, they usually
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Speaker 3: pull him out. So sadly, this means that he's probably
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Speaker 3: gonna miss out on pitching for TMOSA. But I'll just
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Speaker 3: go get someone else. We're in Manner's camp. I could
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Speaker 3: come up with about three or four guys in Manor's camp,
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Speaker 3: Logan Gilbert, George Kirby, Bryan Wu and Bryce Miller. That
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Speaker 3: it all look nice in that USA uniform. We can't
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Speaker 3: go Louis Castillo because I'm sure he's pitching for the
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Speaker 3: dr his hometown. So yeah, it just is just one
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Speaker 3: of those bad things and if they missed Jill Ryan
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Speaker 2: Now, I hope that he is okay. Low backkind is fine,
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Speaker 2: but I would hate that he doesn't get the opportunity
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Speaker 2: to pitch for USA for the WBC. Let's take a look,
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Speaker 2: you guys at the Twins projected starting a rotation now
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Speaker 2: that we know that Pablo Lopez is out for the season,
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Speaker 2: perhaps even longer than that, because this is going to
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Speaker 2: be a second surgery in terms of reconstruction. So let's
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Speaker 2: just assume Joe Ryan is okay, and let's just assume
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Speaker 2: he's going to be a Twin this season. Bailey ober
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Speaker 2: Simeon Woods, Richardson, Taj Bradley, and then Zebbie Matthews. This
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Speaker 2: is not a rotation AJ that streams at you. But
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Speaker 2: they do have some good arms. But is it going
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Speaker 2: to be enough for the Twins to compete who They
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Speaker 2: say they're going for it, But I don't know in
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Speaker 2: that division, I'm not so sure.
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Speaker 3: No, it's not enough. It's not enough. I'm sorry, listen,
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Speaker 3: it's not They don't have enough offense already to begin with.
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Speaker 3: Their relief corps was decimated by trades last year. They
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Speaker 3: traded a Duran, they traded Jacks, they traded all their
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Speaker 3: best relievers. The Tigers are really good. Remember they have
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Speaker 3: they have Fromber, they have schoobl they have Casey Miz
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Speaker 3: they have Flairty and oh yeah, they brought back Justin
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Speaker 3: Verlander as their fifth starter. So that's one team in
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Speaker 3: their division. Then you go to the Guardians who won
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Speaker 3: the division last year. We know how much pitching they have.
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Speaker 3: Then you go to the Royals with Lugo Waka, Reagan's
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Speaker 3: uh the other lefty camera no a camera, they have
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Speaker 3: boo bitch. They have all those guys right, they are
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Speaker 3: all they're they're bullpen with Stevis and then they have
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Speaker 3: Bobby Witt and Vinnie Pasmentino. The White Sox are on
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Speaker 3: the come up. So I look at it right now
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Speaker 3: that they're the last place team in this division. I
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Speaker 3: know they say they want to compete and they're they're
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Speaker 3: saying all the right things, but I just look at
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Speaker 3: this team and say, where are they going to get offense?
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Speaker 3: And not that, but they don't have even close to
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Speaker 3: enough pitching for.
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Speaker 2: Me, Kevin, do does this team even have a chance
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Speaker 2: of getting in via the wild card because I don't
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Speaker 2: I don't believe the division is even even a thought.
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Speaker 2: But wildcard, which banded playoffs? Do they have a shot?
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Speaker 4: No, Because I mean we could sit here and say,
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Speaker 4: arguably the Central is the weakest division, you know, in
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Speaker 4: the in the American League, you know, the West is
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Speaker 4: very strong, the East is always very strong. But ag
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Speaker 4: you just mentioned you know three teams that pitching wise
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Speaker 4: are way better than them, offensively, way better than them.
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Speaker 4: And you could even make an argument that the White
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Speaker 4: Sox may have a better overall team because they weren't.
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Speaker 4: They weren't putting one foot in and saying we're competing,
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Speaker 4: but we're also trading. They've been rebuilding and they've been
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Speaker 4: able to sell all their assets off and bringing a
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Speaker 4: lot of young guys, and.
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Speaker 5: Maybe it's this year.
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Speaker 4: Maybe this is the year where they take a step
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Speaker 4: forward and going from bottom of the division, you know,
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Speaker 4: and maybe jumping over the Twins. I truly do believe that.
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Speaker 4: In terms of their rotation, though I think they have
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Speaker 4: some nice pieces, I think there's just a lot of
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Speaker 4: unproven guys in that rotation and give giving uh, you know,
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Speaker 4: with Lopez being out and giving some guys some more opportunity.
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Speaker 4: It will pay dividends in the future. But they're not
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Speaker 4: a team that is even sniffing the postseason this year.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.
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Speaker 7: That's what he said.
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Speaker 3: That's what he said.
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Speaker 2: That's what he said. We got to talk about the
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Speaker 2: Angels a little bit, and it's always something with garbage
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Speaker 2: with the Angels. AJA listen to this Artie Moreno, who
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Speaker 2: I would just I pray he just sells the team.
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Speaker 2: The owner of the Angels said today that he doesn't
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Speaker 2: prioritize winning because it's not even a top five priority
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Speaker 2: for the fan base. Marena goes on to say, the
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Speaker 2: number one thing fans want is affordability. They want affordability,
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Speaker 2: they want safety, and they want a good experience when
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Speaker 2: they come to the ballpark. Believe it or not, AJ,
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Speaker 2: winning is not in their top five.
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Speaker 5: What say you?
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Speaker 3: There's some fans here? Should I grab some you? Should?
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Speaker 3: They were? Just and ask him because every fan I
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Speaker 3: talked to says they want their team to be good
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Speaker 3: and to win. Am I wrong in this one? So
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Speaker 3: if it's not in the top five, given what do
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Speaker 3: we think the top five is? For Ardie Morino? I
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Speaker 3: know he said, I know he said affordability, safety, good experience.
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Speaker 3: That's three. So winning is what are the next two?
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Speaker 3: Making money for him would be four? Right, I think
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Speaker 3: be five try in center field and one through winning.
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Speaker 2: One through five. I think winning is a given right
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Speaker 2: that should not have Let's just say that this was
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Speaker 2: a poll KP. Let's say there was a poll given
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Speaker 2: out or a survey given out as a focus group
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Speaker 2: to a bunch of fans. To me, winning is obvious.
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Speaker 2: If there's going to be other things in terms of categories,
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Speaker 2: maybe that's when you say, you know, ballpark experience, amenities, concessions,
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Speaker 2: those types of things. Winning shouldn't be a category. It
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Speaker 2: should be the ultimate goal.
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Speaker 4: Well, I think the other two things that he mentioned
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Speaker 4: shouldn't even be on the list too. I think everyone
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Speaker 4: wants to go to a ballpark that's safe. I think
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Speaker 4: that's a non negotiable. I think people want to have
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Speaker 4: a good experience as well. I think that's a non negotiable.
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Speaker 4: So I don't really know what the point of this
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Speaker 4: kind of survey was, because to me, winning his all
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Speaker 4: fans should really do care about, and that's a non negotiable,
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Speaker 4: much like going to the field and feeling safe and affordability.
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Speaker 4: I mean, maybe the list should have been like giveaways
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Speaker 4: and concessions and things like that, because I have no
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Speaker 4: idea what he's talking about.
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Speaker 5: I mean, the Angels. The Angels don't I don't think.
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Speaker 4: Ardy moreno realizes how great of an asset he has.
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Speaker 4: You know, I got a chance to play there, and
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Speaker 4: it is arguably one of the best places to play
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Speaker 4: in baseball southern California, you know, the Orange County, The
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Speaker 4: weather's beautiful, the fans are very passionate. I mean, he
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Speaker 4: doesn't realize what he has because if he really cared
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Speaker 4: about winning, it would be such a destination for players
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Speaker 4: to want to come and play.
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Speaker 5: It's just a matter of time.
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Speaker 4: He just needs to get rid of the team because
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Speaker 4: he really doesn't really care about you know, the Angels,
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Speaker 4: And obviously franchise values are going way up right now.
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Speaker 4: And I think there was a quote he came out
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Speaker 4: with the other day that said he wasn't actively shopping,
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Speaker 4: but I think there's a lot of people interested in buying,
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Speaker 4: So hopefully someone just kind of blows them away with
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Speaker 4: an offer here soon and we could kind of move
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Speaker 4: past the story.
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Speaker 2: I feel like he's been actively shopping for many years.
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Speaker 2: Sam Blum, who covers the Angels for The Athletic, actually
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Speaker 2: had a poll himself a few earlier this month, guys,
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Speaker 2: how confident are you in the Angels direction? And not
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Speaker 2: confident at all? Led the pack. Fifty point seven percent
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Speaker 2: of those that took the moment for the survey don't
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Speaker 2: feel good about where the Angels are going and how
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Speaker 2: can you? It seems like every time we talk about
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Speaker 2: the Angels, it's because of some sort of misstep sell
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Speaker 2: the team, like what are.
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Speaker 3: We doing Elana? What did kp just say it should
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Speaker 3: be a destination for players. It's almost like there's a
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Speaker 3: team in southern California with Los Angeles in their name
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Speaker 3: who we were at yesterday and we had their president
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Speaker 3: of baseball offs Andrew Friedman, on and he said, our
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Speaker 3: whole goal was to make this a destination or player
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Speaker 3: want to come. Guess what they've done. They've made it
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Speaker 3: a destination. Players want to come. Why because they win
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Speaker 3: and players know that they got a great chance to
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Speaker 3: go to the postseason and win a ring. To say
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Speaker 3: this is unbelievable on so many levels. But again, every
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Speaker 3: baseball fan you talk to, they don't just go, man,
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Speaker 3: you know what, I'm a Pittsburgh Pirates fan. I just
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Speaker 3: like to go because it's affordable. No, yes, affordability matters,
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Speaker 3: they go. Why did the Pittsburgh Pirates not draw forty
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Speaker 3: thousand a year because they don't win? Winning is number one.
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Speaker 3: Winning cures all. You can have the worst stadium in
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Speaker 3: the world, fans will show up if you win. You
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Speaker 3: can have the most affordable stadium in the world. Fans
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Speaker 3: will show up when you win, not because it's cheap.
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Speaker 3: You'll get way more fans if you prioritize winning. So
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Speaker 3: I don't know where this came from or what pole
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Speaker 3: they were doing. Maybe they asked Artie's family what was
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Speaker 3: the most important I don't know. We need to see
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Speaker 3: the results of this poll. But not in the top five,
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Speaker 3: not in the top two, to say, is a believable
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Speaker 3: because it should be number one to try to win.
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Speaker 2: And priority hasn't been our winning hasn't been a priority. Guys,
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Speaker 2: if you look at their season records. Of course last
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Speaker 2: year seventy three and ninety sixty three and ninety nine
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Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty three, and twenty two,
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Speaker 2: exact same records seventy three and eighty nine. The last
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Speaker 2: time they had a winning season, KP was in two
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Speaker 2: thousand and fifteen. We're going on more than ten years.
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Speaker 2: They went eighty five and seventy seven. I mean, this
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Speaker 2: has not been a good team for a long time.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and you know, for a majority of that time,
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Speaker 4: they had you know, the best player in baseball and
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Speaker 4: Mike Trout on their team, and they paired him up
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Speaker 4: with Shoe Hee o'tani, who is the best player in baseball,
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Speaker 4: and they still didn't win. So obviously they don't have
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Speaker 4: a problem in getting some players.
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Speaker 5: There's a much bigger issue here.
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Speaker 4: And already saying that he doesn't prioritize winning is the
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Speaker 4: number one reason why they can't win.
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Speaker 2: Another poll by Sam was a howe a great Morano's
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Speaker 2: work as owner AJ They said seventy nine point five
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Speaker 2: was poor. He's not done a good job. He's not done.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't prioritize wunning. No.
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Speaker 3: Also, you know what KP just said, he doesn't also
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Speaker 3: give pitchers long term contracts, right, so they always what
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Speaker 3: are they always struggling for pitching, especially starting pitching, right,
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Speaker 3: They rush guys to the big leagues they don't have
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Speaker 3: a lot enough starting pitching, so they always falter if
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Speaker 3: they're even close to being in it at the end.
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Speaker 3: What do the Mariners have starting pitching? What did the
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Speaker 3: Astros have forever homegrown guys, good starting pitching, right? What
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Speaker 3: did the Rangers have when they won in twenty three,
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Speaker 3: great starting pitching and homegrown guys that led the offense? Right?
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Speaker 3: What are the Angels said, Yes, they have some homegrown guys,
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Speaker 3: but you know what, they haven't had enough pitching.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the acquisitions. They added Jose Siri outfielder, third baseman,
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Speaker 2: Heimer Candelario, right hand or Hunter Strickland. The team restructured
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Speaker 2: Anthony Rendon's contract, thank god, to free up short term funds.
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Speaker 2: They re signed another third basement and you one Kata,
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Speaker 2: and added Kirbyates who was with the Dodgers last season
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Speaker 2: to their bullpen. So no starting arms really, and they
17:08
Speaker 2: just have not focused on getting good starting pitching. They
17:12
Speaker 2: haven't spent money. I mean, he's just happy making money.
17:15
Speaker 2: And I hate it for the I hate it for
17:16
Speaker 2: the game because it could really be a pretty a
17:20
Speaker 2: pretty cool place to play and a good experience, you know,
17:23
Speaker 2: for fans to go. But when you hear your owners
17:26
Speaker 2: say that. I mean, at a certain point, you know,
17:29
Speaker 2: folks talk with their wallets and they're not going to go.
17:34
Speaker 4: Yeahh I mean we've heard stories about We've heard stories,
17:36
Speaker 4: you know, Kakuchi coming out and talking about, you know,
17:39
Speaker 4: the inner workings of the stadium, and you know, and
17:43
Speaker 4: even if we even if we want to just overlook
17:45
Speaker 4: the fact that he said winning is not a priority,
17:47
Speaker 4: and let's just assume that is a priority that doesn't
17:49
Speaker 4: need to be talked about. If he's trying to give
17:52
Speaker 4: the fans the best experience. It's not like he's putting
17:54
Speaker 4: money into the facilities and the stadium. The stadium from
17:57
Speaker 4: you know, ten thousand feet above looks, but when you
18:00
Speaker 4: play there every single day and you have you know,
18:03
Speaker 4: friends and families and you know, your wife and your
18:05
Speaker 4: kids there in the stadium, the stadium definitely needs a facelift.
18:09
Speaker 4: It's not like he's not putting money into putting the
18:12
Speaker 4: best product on the field, and he's not also improving
18:14
Speaker 4: the stadium. So clearly he's the only one making money
18:17
Speaker 4: in this operation.
18:20
Speaker 1: For sure. For sure.
18:21
Speaker 3: K P. Let me let me ask you a question.
18:23
Speaker 3: You played there, right, you played an anam. What was
18:25
Speaker 3: it like? What was it like? What was it like? Now?
18:28
Speaker 3: If you would have known that he didn't care about
18:29
Speaker 3: winning when you went there, would you have gone there?
18:33
Speaker 4: Well, I didn't really have a choice, but I will
18:35
Speaker 4: tell you once I got there. I mean, it is
18:37
Speaker 4: arguably one of the best places to play. The weather's perfect,
18:40
Speaker 4: you can shove to the field early and you know
18:42
Speaker 4: you're going to get early work in. You could hit
18:44
Speaker 4: on the field, you can do all those sort of things,
18:47
Speaker 4: you know, And living in Orange County and living in
18:49
Speaker 4: Newport Beach doesn't suck. It definitely gives you the best
18:53
Speaker 4: out of any places that I played. And as if
18:55
Speaker 4: you look behind me, I got ten teams on this wall.
18:58
Speaker 4: There was not a better place for work life balance
19:01
Speaker 4: than playing in southern California.
19:04
Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, I just want to ask you
19:06
Speaker 3: before we go, because we didn't get your opinion. I
19:07
Speaker 3: want your opinion on this. Mike Trout saying he has
19:10
Speaker 3: to play centerfield. I saw Mike Cameron here earlier at
19:12
Speaker 3: Mariner's camp and he put out the tweet about ego.
19:15
Speaker 3: The ego tweet, and Mike Cameron was just trying to
19:18
Speaker 3: explain it to me like man, centerfield is hard. So
19:20
Speaker 3: I want your opinion. You played centerfield, KP. What do
19:22
Speaker 3: you think about Mike Trout saying centerfield is Didn't he
19:24
Speaker 3: say it's easier on his body than right field or
19:26
Speaker 3: dhing and he feels better playing center than right field
19:30
Speaker 3: or paging.
19:31
Speaker 5: I'll I do have an interesting take on it.
19:34
Speaker 4: And I had left that year in twenty three and
19:39
Speaker 4: Mike played, they asked him to play the corners, and yes,
19:44
Speaker 4: as far as taxing as centerfield could be on your body,
19:47
Speaker 4: because you have the most ground to cover, you have
19:49
Speaker 4: the most responsibility in centerfield. I do think the corners
19:53
Speaker 4: have an additional challenge for someone coming off, you know,
19:57
Speaker 4: multiple knee surgeries. There's much harder play plants. You know,
20:00
Speaker 4: when you have to cut a ball off down the
20:02
Speaker 4: line and spin and throw. You obviously have you know
20:06
Speaker 4: the bleachers to your left and right, whether you're playing
20:08
Speaker 4: left or right field. I was definitely in favor of
20:11
Speaker 4: Mike Trout staying in center field because I think the
20:14
Speaker 4: movements that you make, the violent movements.
20:16
Speaker 5: Happen more in the corners.
20:18
Speaker 4: Yes, there is a little bit greater responsibility responsibility in
20:21
Speaker 4: center field, but I do think it is a little less.
20:24
Speaker 5: Taxing on your body than playing the corners.
20:25
Speaker 4: So I have a much different take on it, especially
20:29
Speaker 4: in especially the way that Anaheim is constructed to center
20:33
Speaker 4: field is actually the smallest part of the field in Anaheim,
20:36
Speaker 4: so the run from the out from the outfield and
20:38
Speaker 4: right field to the dugout is the furthest left field
20:41
Speaker 4: is by far the biggest part of the field. So
20:43
Speaker 4: I was in favor of Mike Trout playing center field.
20:46
Speaker 4: I think him mixing between centerfield and DH is probably
20:49
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21:23
Speaker 2: We're talking about Major League Baseball teams, managers and front offices.
21:27
Speaker 2: Guys it's going to be feeling the heat if you will,
21:31
Speaker 2: So let's talk about this. There were thirty six executives,
21:33
Speaker 2: former executives, managers, coaches, and scouts to tell us which
21:37
Speaker 2: front offices, managers and players are feeling the most heat
21:41
Speaker 2: heading into the season. So if you take a look
21:43
Speaker 2: at it, apparently garnering eighteen votes KP, Bryce Harper and
21:49
Speaker 2: the Phillies core group. This is kind of coming off
21:51
Speaker 2: of the whole conversation with Dombrowski saying that Bryce Harper
21:55
Speaker 2: is no longer elite. David Stearns Mendy of the Mets,
21:58
Speaker 2: aj Preller who just got an tension, and the Padres
22:01
Speaker 2: for an office Aaron Judge, who just hit a two
22:02
Speaker 2: run home run by the Way, and the Yankees players,
22:05
Speaker 2: Dana Brown of the Astros, Joe Espada, Manny Machado, and
22:09
Speaker 2: the Padres players. So the Briars showing up twice on
22:12
Speaker 2: this list by the athletic Let's start with number one KP.
22:16
Speaker 2: Bryce Harper is a guy that I never question, I
22:19
Speaker 2: never worry about him, I never questioned his work ethic.
22:22
Speaker 2: Why do you think they are saying that Bryce Harper
22:25
Speaker 2: has a lot to prove?
22:28
Speaker 4: Is his general manager president of Baseball Operations put a
22:32
Speaker 4: target on his back. That's probably why he's the number
22:35
Speaker 4: one person on this list. I've never questioned anything Bryce
22:39
Speaker 4: Harper's ever done in his career.
22:40
Speaker 5: It is hard to be at.
22:42
Speaker 4: An elite level every single year, and even when he
22:45
Speaker 4: is not elite, he is still better than most guys.
22:48
Speaker 4: He just happened to have not an elite year last year,
22:51
Speaker 4: and I think it's unfair for his GM and president
22:55
Speaker 4: of Baseball Operations to kind of put that target on
22:57
Speaker 4: his back. I would really like to see that list
23:00
Speaker 4: turned to maybe the pressure should be on the Phillies
23:03
Speaker 4: front office because they've been a team that's been oh
23:07
Speaker 4: so close many times and they've built this really nice
23:11
Speaker 4: core group of players together led by Bryce Harper, and
23:14
Speaker 4: just haven't been able to win a World Series.
23:19
Speaker 3: Bryce Harper, by the way, only had a one twenty
23:21
Speaker 3: nine ops plus last year. So I mean, it wasn't
23:24
Speaker 3: like he was absolutely awful. He was he was pretty
23:28
Speaker 3: He was still pretty damn good. I mean, it wasn't
23:30
Speaker 3: the one forty when he's won the you know, the MVPs,
23:32
Speaker 3: but he was still pretty good. I mean, you take
23:35
Speaker 3: Preller and the Putters from office off this list. They
23:37
Speaker 3: just got extended, right. David Stearns, He's not going anywhere
23:40
Speaker 3: anytime soon. I mean, I guess the heat would be
23:42
Speaker 3: on Mandy. But you can't say David Searns, Carlos Mendez
23:44
Speaker 3: in the Mets. I mean, David Searns isn't going anywhere.
23:46
Speaker 3: He's only been there for two years. Aaron Judge and
23:49
Speaker 3: the Yankees players, Okay, fair, they haven't won a World Series.
23:51
Speaker 3: Judge as the captain. That's how you're measured. Dana Brown,
23:54
Speaker 3: Joe spot in the Astros. I think they're both in
23:56
Speaker 3: the last year of their contracts. So yes, there's some
23:58
Speaker 3: heat on them, but they also have had to make
24:01
Speaker 3: some moves because of payroll and the many Machado and
24:04
Speaker 3: the Padres players. Padres do pretty well every year. You know,
24:07
Speaker 3: they're in it. Every year they're in the hunt. But
24:10
Speaker 3: they're getting older and they they're also what it gets
24:13
Speaker 3: me about when you say players. If the payroll like
24:16
Speaker 3: the Padres goes down and Preller is not allowed to
24:18
Speaker 3: spend more money, why does more pressure go wan the players.
24:21
Speaker 3: They're gonna go out and do the same thing, but
24:23
Speaker 3: they might need reinforcements, Guys get hurt, they lose guys.
24:27
Speaker 3: It doesn't make sense how you can say they're under
24:29
Speaker 3: the most heat, like why because they need to play better.
24:32
Speaker 3: You can't go out there and say you know this, KP.
24:34
Speaker 3: You can't go out there and say, man, I really
24:35
Speaker 3: need to hit fifty homers even though I hit forty
24:38
Speaker 3: last year, because there's so much heat on us, Like, no,
24:40
Speaker 3: they're gonna go out and do what they do.
24:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, the Padres just happen to be in
24:45
Speaker 4: a tough position in the division they're in, but they're
24:47
Speaker 4: putting themselves in a position to get to the postseason
24:51
Speaker 4: mostly every year. And yes, it would be nice to
24:53
Speaker 4: see them kind of break through, But I don't see
24:56
Speaker 4: a lot of pressure on Manny Machado in that group. Yes,
24:58
Speaker 4: that core group has kind of been together for a
25:00
Speaker 4: while now too, and they ultimately haven't, you know, won
25:03
Speaker 4: a World Series. And I think that's how we're measuring
25:05
Speaker 4: greatness of players and greatness of organizations. It just happens
25:08
Speaker 4: to be a tough time to be of any organization
25:12
Speaker 4: with what the Dodgers have been able to do, and
25:14
Speaker 4: you know, with the Mets, I mean, I think that's
25:16
Speaker 4: also an unfair pressure to put on David Searns and
25:19
Speaker 4: their manager there too, because I think a lot of
25:22
Speaker 4: that pressure is coming from, you know, Steve Cohen taking
25:25
Speaker 4: over the team, you know, five years ago, we're now
25:27
Speaker 4: six years ago and guaranteeing, you know, the Mets in
25:31
Speaker 4: the city of New York is.
25:31
Speaker 5: Going to bring a World Series champion.
25:33
Speaker 4: So sometimes I think it's good to be very confident
25:37
Speaker 4: in what you're doing. But you know, like ag you said,
25:40
Speaker 4: it's it's hard to put this additional pressure on players
25:44
Speaker 4: to go out and perform even better than they've already
25:46
Speaker 4: performed because as players, we already have an amount a
25:49
Speaker 4: lot of pressure on ourselves to go out and perform,
25:52
Speaker 4: and no one puts more pressure on ourselves. They don't
25:54
Speaker 4: need that extra push from, you know, someone sitting up
25:57
Speaker 4: in that Ivory Tower.
25:58
Speaker 2: There is not a list in the world that Aaron
26:01
Speaker 2: Judge should be on AJ in terms of more pressure
26:04
Speaker 2: on him. The guy was the American League MVP. What
26:08
Speaker 2: else could he possibly do?
26:10
Speaker 3: I mean, can be a break three time? By the way,
26:14
Speaker 3: I'm saying, how could.
26:15
Speaker 2: You even be on a list of having more?
26:17
Speaker 3: What else could just because they haven't won a World Series.
26:19
Speaker 3: That's it just but it actually shouldn't been Ryan Cashman
26:23
Speaker 3: and Aaron Boone and in the front office.
26:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be. It should be Cashman and Boone,
26:28
Speaker 2: not Aaron Judge.
26:30
Speaker 3: Aaron Judge, what pressure is. All he does is go
26:31
Speaker 3: out and competing. And you know what he also did
26:33
Speaker 3: last year Alana for the first time. He performed in
26:35
Speaker 3: the postseason last year for the first time. So you
26:37
Speaker 3: can't even begin to throw Aaron Judge on this list. Now,
26:40
Speaker 3: you want to put some other players on that list, Fine,
26:42
Speaker 3: Anthony Volpi maybe is under some pressure Stanton to stay healthy, right,
26:47
Speaker 3: I mean, there's some other guys you could probably throw
26:49
Speaker 3: on that list. But to put Aaron Judge on that list,
26:52
Speaker 3: I mean that team, they're the same team they were
26:54
Speaker 3: last year pretty much. They've admitted it, and they think
26:56
Speaker 3: they have a championship caliber team. Aaron Judge is gonna
26:59
Speaker 3: do what he does every year, or if he's healthy,
27:01
Speaker 3: and let's go out and hit three hundred plus and
27:03
Speaker 3: hit fifty homers and probably win an MVP. So yeah,
27:07
Speaker 3: that's that's this is unbelievable. He's even on this list.
27:09
Speaker 2: I mean, he even said that he was surprised that
27:11
Speaker 2: the Yankees didn't make more offseason moves. He said what
27:14
Speaker 2: everybody else was thinking. He is a captain by definition.
27:17
Speaker 2: In terms of the managers, guys who were specifically mentioned
27:20
Speaker 2: as having pressure on them, Kurt Suzuki of the Angels
27:25
Speaker 2: received the most votes in terms of this list, five votes.
27:28
Speaker 2: Tony Vittello, the new manager of the Giants, Mendy of
27:30
Speaker 2: the Mets, Rob Thompson of the Philadelphia Phillies, Aaron Boon.
27:34
Speaker 2: Of course, the Yankees are always on this list. I
27:37
Speaker 2: get that, and then Oliver Marmole of the of the Cardinals.
27:40
Speaker 2: Let's start with Kurt Suzuki, though first time manager. Obviously,
27:43
Speaker 2: catchers become oftentimes catchers become good managers. They're good managers
27:48
Speaker 2: for a reason. Kurt Suzuki, though, think about what's around him.
27:51
Speaker 2: We just had the conversation KP of Artie Moreno, not
27:55
Speaker 2: expecting to win. It's not in his top five in
27:58
Speaker 2: terms of priority. I almost feel like it's already at
28:02
Speaker 2: a disadvantage for Suzuki. And by the way, they only
28:05
Speaker 2: gave him a one year contract. I mean, what does
28:06
Speaker 2: that say to you?
28:08
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wish Whoever voted on. This wasn't anonymous, and
28:12
Speaker 4: we could see who's voting on these players, Like, how
28:15
Speaker 4: is Kurt Suzuki under any pressure except for the fact
28:18
Speaker 4: that he has a one year deal and if it
28:20
Speaker 4: doesn't work out, he'll probably go back and resume his
28:22
Speaker 4: role as special assistant. It's hard to put a pressure
28:26
Speaker 4: on a manager when we've talked about being part of
28:28
Speaker 4: an organization that clearly doesn't value winning. So I don't
28:31
Speaker 4: understand the pressure on him. You know, I can understand
28:34
Speaker 4: the pressure a little bit on Tony Vitella, just coming
28:36
Speaker 4: from the college game, and we haven't really seen a
28:38
Speaker 4: manager go from a powerhouse in college directly to the
28:41
Speaker 4: major league, so, you know, unfairly, maybe he has a
28:44
Speaker 4: little bit of a target on his back. And if
28:46
Speaker 4: you go down the list, obviously those are teams that
28:47
Speaker 4: are expected to win right now, and there's always pressure
28:51
Speaker 4: on managers when you're part of organizations like the Yankees,
28:54
Speaker 4: the Mets, teams that are expected to win right now,
28:57
Speaker 4: the Phillies. You know, I can understand some of those.
29:00
Speaker 4: Kurtszuzuki to be at the top of that list just
29:02
Speaker 4: seems very odd to me.
29:04
Speaker 3: Well, here's sorry, no, here's The thing about Kurtzuzuki being
29:10
Speaker 3: on top of this list, right, Kurtszuzuki has a one
29:12
Speaker 3: year deal and Ardie Marainer just says he doesn't care
29:14
Speaker 3: about winning, So what pressure is there on Kurtszuki. He
29:17
Speaker 3: goes on one sixty two and be like, boss, you
29:20
Speaker 3: just told me you don't care if we win any games.
29:21
Speaker 3: So as long as people have fun and get to
29:23
Speaker 3: go cheap, then why does it matter if I win
29:25
Speaker 3: or lose? So there's no pressure on Kurtzuk. I promise you.
29:28
Speaker 3: Kurtszuzuki is not feeling pressure. He's feel pressure because he
29:30
Speaker 3: wants to do well for himself. He wants to do
29:32
Speaker 3: right for the players, and he wants to do right
29:34
Speaker 3: for the Angels fans. But he's not feeling pressure because
29:37
Speaker 3: anybody else is putting him on. As far as Tony Vaitello,
29:40
Speaker 3: he's got a nice contract, he's got a nice deal.
29:43
Speaker 3: The pressure on him is just to prove that what
29:46
Speaker 3: people are saying that a college coach can't just jump
29:48
Speaker 3: from college to the big league. So I don't know,
29:51
Speaker 3: I don't agree with this list. I mean, Carlos Mendoza,
29:54
Speaker 3: you manage in New York guess what. There's pressure. Rob Thompson,
29:56
Speaker 3: you're managing Philadelphia. There's pressure. Aaron Boone, you managing and
30:00
Speaker 3: Oli Marmal. The only pressure is is they have Yati
30:03
Speaker 3: Molina in their front office in a whole new regime.
30:05
Speaker 3: So they're not supposed to win anyways this year. So
30:08
Speaker 3: what pressure is on him if if they let him go.
30:10
Speaker 3: I think he's at the last year of his contract too,
30:12
Speaker 3: So if they let him go, he's like, Okay, guys,
30:15
Speaker 3: I did what you wanted. I got you through the
30:17
Speaker 3: rough times. And then they bring in someone else. I mean,
30:19
Speaker 3: this is an interesting list. I would there's never any
30:22
Speaker 3: pressure on managers. I mean you want pressure on managers.
30:25
Speaker 3: I would look at like aj Hinch, Right, Tigers are
30:28
Speaker 3: supposed to be really good. He's a veteran guy, he's
30:30
Speaker 3: been around. Just don't mess it up, right, even here
30:33
Speaker 3: Dan Wilson with the Marriners, just don't mess it up.
30:36
Speaker 3: Let the players go play, be yourself and don't mess
30:38
Speaker 3: it up.
30:39
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I was gonna say, you know, those
30:42
Speaker 4: two managers, you could throw John Snyder in there. You
30:44
Speaker 4: obviously have a ton of success last year. Can you
30:47
Speaker 4: back it up? But ultimately it comes down to the players.
30:49
Speaker 4: But to your point, just be the same guy you were,
30:52
Speaker 4: deliver the same message. Let your players go out and play,
30:55
Speaker 4: don't mess it up. And then if I was, you know,
30:58
Speaker 4: to kind of just throw out a random there. I mean,
31:00
Speaker 4: I would imagine there's got to be a little bit
31:02
Speaker 4: of pressure on a guy like Skip Schumacher just because
31:05
Speaker 4: of the shoes he's filling with Bruce Bochi And I
31:07
Speaker 4: know last year didn't go as well as they wanted,
31:09
Speaker 4: but he did. Bruce Bochi did lead them to their
31:12
Speaker 4: one and only World Series championship. He's a Hall of
31:14
Speaker 4: Fame manager stepped away. You know, those are kind of
31:17
Speaker 4: big shoes to fill.
31:20
Speaker 2: What about Kurt Stammon. Why is he not on the.
31:22
Speaker 3: List because he's in San Diego? It's the first year guy.
31:26
Speaker 3: Again for me, the first year guys, there's no pressure
31:29
Speaker 3: on him other than just not completely. You know when
31:32
Speaker 3: pull a Gabe Kapler when he wanted the writing and
31:34
Speaker 3: he put up his left hand right like what, this
31:36
Speaker 3: is their first year as a manager. You're gonna make mistakes.
31:39
Speaker 3: There's not press The only pressure is what you put
31:40
Speaker 3: on yourself. I'm sorry, I mean Alex Corr does he
31:43
Speaker 3: have pressure on him Craig Counsel with his team. Those
31:46
Speaker 3: are the guys that are veteran guys that have been
31:48
Speaker 3: around and done it. When you're in your first year,
31:50
Speaker 3: you can make mistakes and be like, look, guys, is
31:52
Speaker 3: my first year. I'll learn from it. But when you're
31:54
Speaker 3: Craig Counsel making eight million dollars a year with the
31:55
Speaker 3: Cubs team that's expected to win, that's when the pressure
31:58
Speaker 3: should be ramped up. Not these first year guys, the
32:00
Speaker 3: first guys. Whatever weiss in there.
32:05
Speaker 4: I mean, he's he's stepping into, you know, filling some
32:07
Speaker 4: big shoes too, and obviously he's had some history managing
32:10
Speaker 4: before and it's his second go around. I mean I
32:12
Speaker 4: feel like a guy like that would be a little
32:14
Speaker 4: bit more justified on this list as opposed to some
32:16
Speaker 4: of these names we saw. So hopefully some of these
32:19
Speaker 4: people that voted will will not be anonymous and and
32:22
Speaker 4: you know, you know, put their name next to their
32:24
Speaker 4: votes so we can maybe understand a little bit better
32:27
Speaker 4: or why they chose who they chose.
32:29
Speaker 3: KP.
32:30
Speaker 2: How big of a learning curve do you think Matello
32:31
Speaker 2: is going to have? I mean, yes, I understand it's
32:33
Speaker 2: the same game, but it's at a completely different level.
32:35
Speaker 2: It's not like he recruited these guys, right, I mean,
32:37
Speaker 2: this is his team. I know that they've surrounded him
32:39
Speaker 2: with some very smart people to help him along the way.
32:42
Speaker 2: But how hard how hard of a first year do
32:45
Speaker 2: you think he'll have?
32:46
Speaker 4: I mean from everything that I've been hearing out of
32:48
Speaker 4: Scottsdale that the players love this guy.
32:51
Speaker 5: He brings such great energy, he brings such great.
32:54
Speaker 4: Vibes, And honestly, that's kind of the biggest thing you
32:57
Speaker 4: can want out of a manager is communication. You know,
33:00
Speaker 4: does he put off good vibes? Does he put off
33:02
Speaker 4: good energy? And obviously there is the in game adjustment,
33:04
Speaker 4: but he's surrounded by great people. He has a great
33:06
Speaker 4: staff around him. And Yeah, the biggest challenge he is
33:10
Speaker 4: going to face, and he's openly talked about it, is
33:13
Speaker 4: in college, you're only playing three or four games potentially
33:16
Speaker 4: in a row. You can go to your best guys
33:18
Speaker 4: in the bullpen very often. Learning how to kind of
33:20
Speaker 4: manage a bullpen is always going to be the biggest
33:22
Speaker 4: challenge for someone going from the college game to the
33:25
Speaker 4: big league game, because it's hard to go to your
33:28
Speaker 4: best guys every single game when you're playing, you know, fifteen, sixteen,
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Speaker 4: seventeen games in a row. But everything I've heard from
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Speaker 4: there is he's an incredible guy. He's an incredible leader.
33:37
Speaker 4: He makes baseball fun, He gets out there interacts with
33:40
Speaker 4: the guys. That communication has been great and I'm looking
33:43
Speaker 4: forward to watching him.
33:44
Speaker 2: There's another list too, in terms of front offices managers
33:47
Speaker 2: under pressure. The Mets the most, the Royals the least.
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Speaker 3: Well.
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Speaker 2: I guess the Royals tie with the Red Sox, the Rookies,
33:53
Speaker 2: the Rookies. They should be the Rookies, the Rockies, Cardinals,
33:57
Speaker 2: and the Royals. I think the Red Sox guys should
33:59
Speaker 2: be a little bit higher than this. I mean, the
34:02
Speaker 2: Red Sox didn't do a ton as far as the offseason.
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Speaker 2: I guess not if you listen to their fan base.
34:08
Speaker 2: Should the Red Sox be higher than this? AJ? Are
34:10
Speaker 2: you okay with where they rank?
34:12
Speaker 3: I guess on this list, I think Red Sox fine
34:17
Speaker 3: because Alex Cora, they love Alex Cora. Preslo is fairly new.
34:21
Speaker 3: I think they're fine. The Red Sox have changed. It
34:24
Speaker 3: used to be a lot of pressure in Boston. Now
34:25
Speaker 3: they're the Red Sox. They just I don't know. It's
34:29
Speaker 3: different up there. Now you live up there, Alona, you
34:31
Speaker 3: know it's different. It's not as pressure packs. And they've
34:33
Speaker 3: won those World Series that it used to be.
34:47
Speaker 2: All right, kp so, a long time umpire is hanging
34:51
Speaker 2: up the spikes. Major League Baseball announcing that Phil Couzzy,
34:54
Speaker 2: who umpired for twenty seven years and memorably for Mets fans,
34:59
Speaker 2: ejected Max Are for the sticky stuff remember back in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty three. He is retiring. So is Mark Carlson,
35:06
Speaker 2: who for twenty six plus years and will now evaluate
35:10
Speaker 2: and train umpires for the league. Do you have any
35:12
Speaker 2: Phil Pezzy stories or Mark Carlson stories that you want
35:15
Speaker 2: to share.
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Speaker 5: No, you know, it's a weird thing.
35:18
Speaker 4: As an outfielder, you don't get to know the umpires
35:21
Speaker 4: as well as obviously someone like aj who's who's back
35:24
Speaker 4: there with them every single day. It's more of a
35:27
Speaker 4: passing relationship unless you've had kind of like a heated
35:31
Speaker 4: moment with him at the plate. I didn't really get
35:33
Speaker 4: to know him. I'm that well obviously know who both
35:36
Speaker 4: of those guys are.
35:37
Speaker 5: But congrats on a great career.
35:39
Speaker 4: Obviously with the the you know, the challenge system coming in.
35:44
Speaker 4: You know, it might be a good time for some
35:45
Speaker 4: of these umpires that have done it for a long
35:47
Speaker 4: time to get out. But twenty six and twenty seven
35:50
Speaker 4: years of you know, traveling around and umpiring as long
35:54
Speaker 4: as they did, and you know the wear and tear
35:56
Speaker 4: on their body is real too.
35:58
Speaker 5: So congrats.
35:59
Speaker 3: Ohly shit, all right, I don't care what y'all did.
36:01
Speaker 3: My son just hit a homer. Oh so, I don't
36:04
Speaker 3: really give a shit. Sorry, his first hit in college baseball.
36:08
Speaker 3: I don't even know I missed it. I was listening,
36:10
Speaker 3: I was talking to Cal Rawley. Maybe he rubbed off
36:12
Speaker 3: on him. I don't know he did.
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Speaker 5: He definitely did.
36:15
Speaker 3: I literally I literally didn't even my I thought the
36:17
Speaker 3: game started at one here, and my mom just text
36:21
Speaker 3: me and goes, it's on, and then I turn it
36:23
Speaker 3: on and my son's round on the basis circle on
36:25
Speaker 3: the police.
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Speaker 2: Congratulations. I'm sorry that you missed it, but that that
36:28
Speaker 2: is awesome. What do you have any stories a j
36:31
Speaker 2: or do you just want to go and watch your kid?
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Speaker 3: Who? I know, Phil Couzy, who was the other one.
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Speaker 2: Party Carlson, Mark Carlson.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, They're both are great. Uh, Listen, because he
36:41
Speaker 3: was a New Yorker, he had that New York attitude, right,
36:43
Speaker 3: so there was times where we would go at it.
36:46
Speaker 3: But I was also from New York, so I tell
36:48
Speaker 3: people when I need it and we'd kind of go
36:50
Speaker 3: at it. But in Carlson, I never had a problem
36:52
Speaker 3: with Carlson because he every once in a while would
36:54
Speaker 3: go at it just because he's from New York and
36:56
Speaker 3: he'd get that attitude. But listen, congratulations on a great
36:59
Speaker 3: career for both of him. I had you guys both
37:01
Speaker 3: for a long time, so I'm super excited.
37:03
Speaker 4: Yeah, I had a question for you in the spirit
37:07
Speaker 4: of the conversations we've had earlier. I'm looking at this
37:10
Speaker 4: jersey in my office here. I got a Mark Burley jersey.
37:14
Speaker 4: What did he need when you came out to the
37:16
Speaker 4: mound when you talked? Nothing he needed to be coddled,
37:18
Speaker 4: or he need to be yelled at, or you probably
37:20
Speaker 4: didn't go out there too much.
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Speaker 3: No, he wondered, you know what. I would go out
37:24
Speaker 3: to the mount with Mark Burley sometime. I mean never
37:27
Speaker 3: never did I yell at him, because I was never
37:28
Speaker 3: just gonna yell at him. You know what I got
37:30
Speaker 3: on Mark Burley. Most of the time I told him
37:31
Speaker 3: a joke, or you would talk about something that was
37:34
Speaker 3: going on, like hey, how about where are we going
37:36
Speaker 3: to dinner tonight? There was never ever like any other stuff.
37:39
Speaker 3: It was where are we going to dinner? What are
37:41
Speaker 3: we doing? Blah blah blah blah blah. So it was
37:43
Speaker 3: never it was never like what am I gonna do?
37:45
Speaker 3: Yell at Mark Burley, Hey Burley, you suck. You're only
37:47
Speaker 3: throwing eighty five? Like no, Like, dude, that's what he throws.
37:55
Speaker 5: Did you get it? You've seen a replay?
37:56
Speaker 4: Have you seen a replay of the home run yet?
37:58
Speaker 3: I just watched it too. Oh, get the tape out,
38:02
Speaker 3: I love you.
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Speaker 4: Got the head out and hit it to the pull side.
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Speaker 3: Yep, finally.
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Speaker 2: Awesome.
38:10
Speaker 3: All right, Sorry, I got a little excited here.
38:12
Speaker 2: All right, you love it? All right. Another bit of
38:15
Speaker 2: news here, Ken Rosenthal reporting that free agent Infield of
38:18
Speaker 2: Ramonte Ureus is in agreement with the Cardinals on a
38:20
Speaker 2: one year, two million dollar contract salary of a million
38:23
Speaker 2: and a half in twenty twenty six, five hundred k
38:25
Speaker 2: buyout in twenty twenty seven. Mutual option. Deal also includes
38:29
Speaker 2: two million incentives based on plate appearances. So there's a
38:34
Speaker 2: little bit of news there for the Cardinals. But I
38:36
Speaker 2: think both of you are in agreement that the Cardinals
38:40
Speaker 2: don't have much of a run in the Central this year. KP.
38:42
Speaker 2: We'll start with you no.
38:44
Speaker 4: And you know, unfortunately, for a guy like that who's
38:47
Speaker 4: probably deserving of being on a major league roster, you
38:50
Speaker 4: know how to sit out and wait his turn, and
38:52
Speaker 4: you know, with Brandon Donovan being traded, it opened up
38:54
Speaker 4: an opportunity for him, so good.
38:56
Speaker 5: For him signing a big league deal.
38:59
Speaker 4: Cardinals probably not going anywhere this year. So you know,
39:02
Speaker 4: when you are a guy like that who takes an
39:05
Speaker 4: opportunity with a team that's not expected to go anywhere,
39:08
Speaker 4: you just try to go on and perform the best
39:09
Speaker 4: you can do, and you know, hopefully you become valuable
39:12
Speaker 4: at the trade deadline and get a chance to play
39:14
Speaker 4: for a contending team, and that's just a kind of
39:16
Speaker 4: a way to prolong your career.
39:19
Speaker 2: I want to say a very special thank you to
39:21
Speaker 2: the Seattle Mariners. AJ has been there all morning long,
39:25
Speaker 2: but they have been so unbelievably accommodating. It has been unbelievable.
39:29
Speaker 2: The amount of guys that we got on this show
39:32
Speaker 2: has really been impressive, and for them to take out
39:35
Speaker 2: the time to do that for us has been so great.
39:38
Speaker 2: We love hearing from players, So thank you Mariners PR staff.
39:41
Speaker 2: Thank you to everybody there at the facility for treating
39:44
Speaker 2: Foul Territory as well as you did. Alex from their
39:47
Speaker 2: PR team, thank you, thank you, thank you. We cannot
39:50
Speaker 2: tell you how much we appreciate. It makes our show
39:52
Speaker 2: so much better when we have the players on. Don't forget, guys.
39:56
Speaker 2: Yesterday we were at Dodgers camp and we had an
39:58
Speaker 2: exclusive sit down with Roberts. It was myself, Katie Wu,
40:02
Speaker 2: Clint Pascius, Dave took us through the World Series. He
40:05
Speaker 2: took us through Game one and six and seven specifically,
40:08
Speaker 2: and kind of also talked about turning the page to
40:10
Speaker 2: twenty twenty six. So don't forget to check that out.
40:14
Speaker 2: But it's been good to be with you guys. Aj
40:17
Speaker 2: and you guys are at Rangers camp tomorrow and then
40:21
Speaker 2: the calendar continues fast and I'll bringing you a Foul
40:26
Speaker 2: Territory Spring training tour for the remainder of the time.
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Speaker 2: So for Kevin Palar, aj Przinski, aj Son the entire Mariners, everybody.
40:35
Speaker 2: I'm Alanaizzo and for scot Raun Tricia and whit Marrorfield
40:38
Speaker 2: tomorrow with aideway from Rangers. So take care, everybody. We'll
40:42
Speaker 2: talk soon.