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Braves THRIVE v. Mets, D’Backs IL Carroll, Volpe’s weird rest day · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: We had such high hopes for them, and they just
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  Speaker 1: there's always a couple teams every year that you can
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  Speaker 1: really attribute a lot of their struggles to injuries.
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  Speaker 2: Happy Tuesday people, Hey Trevor, welcome back to Trevor May.
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  Speaker 3: How you doing, man, I'm good. How are you guys doing?
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  Speaker 4: We're good.
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  Speaker 5: Are you enjoying the baseball season?
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  Speaker 2: You're like a full fledged media member now, AJ's a
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  Speaker 2: grizzled bat.
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  Speaker 5: How many years have you been mediaing, Aj?
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  Speaker 4: Well, I started meeting in like two thousand and six.
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  Speaker 4: Got so I was a media I was a media player.
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  Speaker 4: I was a player media whatever it is like if
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  Speaker 4: it's player coach. I was player media. And then I
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  Speaker 4: started full time after I retired. So since twenty seventeen,
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  Speaker 4: I've been doing it.
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  Speaker 5: And Trevor, this is the first full year, right, last
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  Speaker 5: year was the first four year.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I guess before. Yeah, so this is my
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  Speaker 1: second full year. Yes, things have ramped up for sure
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  Speaker 1: here in your two Yeah. Yeah, that's definitely definitely happening.
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  Speaker 2: Any advice for current players who are looking to get
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  Speaker 2: into media once they retire. I always have advice for
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  Speaker 2: players from the media side, for the guys that don't
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  Speaker 2: really talk that much or say that much and then
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  Speaker 2: pop up everywhere.
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  Speaker 5: That wasn't you two. You guys obviously were very vocal
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  Speaker 5: when you played.
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  Speaker 2: But sometimes I talk to a guy and I'm like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: it'd be cool if you made yourself a little bit available.
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  Speaker 2: That would certainly help, even just to get some friends
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  Speaker 2: on the other side. But any other advice, Trevor.
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  Speaker 1: That's a big one, he asked, Start while you're playing
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  Speaker 1: that that find find ways to like practice if you
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  Speaker 1: find out if you enjoy it. It's a different type
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  Speaker 1: of difficult. It can be exhausting in different ways than
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  Speaker 1: you're used to. We all think physical. Mentally exhausting is
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  Speaker 1: a different thing. So get some practice. And I would say,
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  Speaker 1: there's a period of time we're saying yes as your friend,
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  Speaker 1: so say yes to everything. But when the time comes
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  Speaker 1: to where you can't say yes to everything, try to
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  Speaker 1: make that decision quickly because if you say yes to
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  Speaker 1: you everything for too long, it can get overwhelming quickly.
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  Speaker 1: So but yeah, just say ask to the work and
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  Speaker 1: get the practice in and don't worry about it. Just
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  Speaker 1: do you, like, just be yourself and see where you
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  Speaker 1: kind of land. I think at anything to add.
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  Speaker 4: No B be there for the media when they talk
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  Speaker 4: to you, when they want to talk after games. The
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  Speaker 4: biggest thing, and listen. The one thing I'll tell people
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  Speaker 4: is you either like doing this or you don't. And
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  Speaker 4: if you like it, then, like Trevor said, practice it
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  Speaker 4: and get opportunities to do things. And I think you
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  Speaker 4: see people doing that more and more because what I
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  Speaker 4: find funny is a lot of guys I played with
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  Speaker 4: and I don't know about you, Trevor, guys that were
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  Speaker 4: like I hate the media now are in media and
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, wait a second. You hated the media when
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  Speaker 4: you played, You were like anti media, and now you
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  Speaker 4: like it. And I always try to tell guys the
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  Speaker 4: media has a job to do. Give them some answer,
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  Speaker 4: even if it's BS. Just give them something so at
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  Speaker 4: least they can don't have to make up the story
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  Speaker 4: they're writing, because if they come to you and you're
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  Speaker 4: not available, then guess what, they can say whatever they
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  Speaker 4: want because you're not there to answer the questions. So
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  Speaker 4: just answer the questions. It takes two minutes out of
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  Speaker 4: your life and move on, even if it's BS. Look
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  Speaker 4: at Derek Jeter. Derek Jeter said a lot of words
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  Speaker 4: that didn't say a whole lot. But people are like, oh,
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  Speaker 4: he's the greatest because he sat there and answered the questions.
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  Speaker 1: That's be available, be available, be candid. They're starving for
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  Speaker 1: authenticity and people being candid, you don't have to say, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I'm mad at this guy, or I'm mad at this
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  Speaker 1: thing or this person messed up or whatever I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk about. Like when things go poorly, say wow,
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  Speaker 1: that sucked and I hate it and I'm actually really
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  Speaker 1: not happy right now. People are great, we aren't either.
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  Speaker 1: You're all on the same page. It's a human thing.
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  Speaker 1: But like you said, especially in certain markets, if you
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  Speaker 1: don't give them anything, they're just gonna say whatever, and
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  Speaker 1: that that passes in certain places, So just know that's
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  Speaker 1: what happens. And also I will say one one big
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  Speaker 1: realization I had since joining the media. I used to
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  Speaker 1: always be like, oh, what like that sound? By what
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  Speaker 1: what are you even talking about? You to play a blah,
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  Speaker 1: And then I'm realizing that, like, especially in studio TV
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  Speaker 1: or during a game, you only have so much time
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  Speaker 1: to make your point and that's really hard to do quickly.
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  Speaker 3: It's very hard to do.
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  Speaker 1: So sometimes you say something you want to go more
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  Speaker 1: in depth on it, and you can't. And now I
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  Speaker 1: know that there's a lot of people out here that
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  Speaker 1: would like to say more on something and clarify what
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  Speaker 1: they're saying.
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  Speaker 3: They just don't have time, So kind them a little
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  Speaker 3: bit of slack. You know. I can honestly say that
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  Speaker 3: I was.
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  Speaker 1: I was in the wrong of a lot of those
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  Speaker 1: situations when I was a player, And it's not for you,
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  Speaker 1: it's for the fans. People are talking to fans, not
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  Speaker 1: to players.
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  Speaker 5: And it's good to have fan interest.
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  Speaker 2: If no one's talking about your sport, your sport's not
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  Speaker 2: going to do well long term where it's going to
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  Speaker 2: go in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 5: So obviously, as part of the mission statement.
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  Speaker 4: Here, here's something I would always tell the guys I
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  Speaker 4: played with. Listen, win things are going good, give credit
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  Speaker 4: to everybody else, and when things go bad, blame yourself.
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  Speaker 4: Because I always thought, listen, if I could take a
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  Speaker 4: little bit of pressure off of one of my teammates,
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  Speaker 4: then it was good for the rest of the team
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  Speaker 4: because I could handle it. Now, if you can't handle that,
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  Speaker 4: I get it. But when you have a great game
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  Speaker 4: and you go, you know, four for four. Trevor is
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  Speaker 4: a pitcher. You go out and throw a six out
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  Speaker 4: save or whatever it is, and you say, oh, man,
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  Speaker 4: the catcher was great, or man, the other guy's got
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  Speaker 4: on base for me, and you know, I watched their pats.
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  Speaker 4: It led to maa pats. Like then it makes the
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  Speaker 4: other people on your team feel really good about themselves.
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  Speaker 4: And then when things go wrong and you lose, blame
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  Speaker 4: yourself if you can handle now, if you can handle that, obviously,
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  Speaker 4: And I do not agree with fighting fights in the
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  Speaker 4: newspaper or on media, Like fight your fights behind closed
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  Speaker 4: doors and say good things in the media, but listen
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  Speaker 4: when things go wrong, say hell, man, I screwed up.
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  Speaker 4: I screwed up. It's my fault. It's my fault. And
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  Speaker 4: that also helps your teammates because there's some people out
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  Speaker 4: there that can't handle the pressure of knowing that they
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  Speaker 4: screwed up. And you're like, oh, it's my fault, it's
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  Speaker 4: my fault. And if you can handle that, it's a
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  Speaker 4: good thing.
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  Speaker 2: And here's my quick two cents, and then we'll cover
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  Speaker 2: the news. Make sure that you love it. I'm piling
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  Speaker 2: onto what they're saying, but make sure you love exactly
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  Speaker 2: what you're doing. Like in the media role that you're in,
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  Speaker 2: there are other media roles, there are other places to
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  Speaker 2: work for their other ways get your point across. So
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a player or an aspiring broadcaster, journalist, whatever,
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  Speaker 2: make sure that you're doing what you love because you're
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  Speaker 2: doing it so much. You're doing it every day, especially
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  Speaker 2: in baseball where you're covering the sport all the time,
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  Speaker 2: and when we're always texting. I mean we have chap
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  Speaker 2: ECC of course, as everyone knows, we have regular text
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  Speaker 2: We're always talking about what's going on in the games
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  Speaker 2: that night because we genuinely, genuinely have fun with it.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about what we were texting about last night.
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  Speaker 2: Let's start with the Braves and the Mets charge them out,
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  Speaker 2: all right, So the uh charge the amount is powered
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  Speaker 2: by MLB nine innings twenty five. More on that coming
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  Speaker 2: up in a moment. The Mets are kind of like
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  Speaker 2: a fun gimmick video game. For the past year and
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  Speaker 2: a half, they play ball and they make it fun.
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  Speaker 2: So they have a new sign. Laugh, Amelia, you get
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  Speaker 2: a nice look at that. In the dugout.
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  Speaker 5: They did lose, though now they are owned four against
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  Speaker 5: the Braves. This season.
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  Speaker 2: The Braves record against the Mets since twenty two twenty two.
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  Speaker 2: Do either of you want to take a guess out
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  Speaker 2: of thirty seven games, how many games have the Braves
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  Speaker 2: won against the Mets since twenty twenty two?
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  Speaker 5: Give me a record? AJ first than Trevor.
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  Speaker 4: Twenty five and twelve.
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  Speaker 3: I'm cheating, But twenty seven and ten.
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  Speaker 4: Nahn you cheating.
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't even I couldn't even like do say it
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  Speaker 1: first and then say I cheated later.
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  Speaker 3: I had to say it before.
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  Speaker 2: I'm glad you said it because AJ didn't know the answer,
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  Speaker 2: and AJ did well. There wid you say twenty five
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  Speaker 2: and twelve.
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  Speaker 3: Very good. No, that's definitely a conseruation. It's actually worse
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  Speaker 3: than that.
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  Speaker 4: Which is I thought I went pretty heavy. I was
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  Speaker 4: going to go lower. I was going to say like
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  Speaker 4: twenty three and fourteen, But the way you brought it up, Scott,
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  Speaker 4: I was like, oh, this is pretty heavy. Twenty seven
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  Speaker 4: and ten. And I watched this game last night. I'm
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  Speaker 4: not even in the country and I watched this game
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  Speaker 4: last night. It was it was fun. And by the way,
• 8:53
  Speaker 4: let's let's talk about this. Brian Snicker knows this is
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  Speaker 4: an important series. He brought rass Siliglaciers in in the
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  Speaker 4: eighth to face the middle of the lineup, and then
• 9:02
  Speaker 4: he brought Dylan Lee in in the eighth. They punch
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  Speaker 4: out punch Freckin' won Sodo's ticket right, and then he
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  Speaker 4: let him close out the night. Brian Snicker knows this
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  Speaker 4: is an important four game series for the Braves, so
• 9:12
  Speaker 4: they got Strider going tonight. Schwellenbach dominates way. Spencer Schwellenbach,
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  Speaker 4: you own the Mets, by the way, He's never gone
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  Speaker 4: less than seven innings against the Mets.
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  Speaker 3: He's good man, he is, He's up.
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  Speaker 1: He's a top ten guy for me. Also, every time
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  Speaker 1: I hear him talk about pitching, he just blows me away.
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  Speaker 1: I think that you should be really excited Brace fans
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  Speaker 1: that not only have you had a young guy who's
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  Speaker 1: who's putting up numbers at the beginning of his career,
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  Speaker 1: but like the things he's his understanding of the game
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  Speaker 1: is going to produce long term value, Like he's just
• 9:45
  Speaker 1: going to be health permitting, he's going to be making
• 9:48
  Speaker 1: adjustments quickly. I hear things like Paul Skeens is that
• 9:52
  Speaker 1: same stuff. It's just mind boggling how much they know
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  Speaker 1: about the game. And then they got Spencer Strider over
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  Speaker 1: there too is the same way, So like it's a
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  Speaker 1: good time to be a brace fan. They all they've
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: started slow, like five straight years, they end up there
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  Speaker 1: right there at the end of the year. Why would
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  Speaker 1: this year be any different. I still have PTSD from
• 10:08
  Speaker 1: watching them win seventy five one hundred games and catch
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  Speaker 1: us even though we were twenty games over five hundred
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  Speaker 1: in the same same amount of time. So I mean,
• 10:16
  Speaker 1: don't put it past them. They got young guys, and
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  Speaker 1: that kid he is man. I mean, throst Cheese throws
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  Speaker 1: every pitch there is. I don't know what else to
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  Speaker 1: tell you. I don't know what else he can do.
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  Speaker 1: This his rinse of pref for the next ten years,
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  Speaker 1: I guess.
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  Speaker 2: And they were in some trouble late aj with Iglesias
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  Speaker 2: giving up the back to back singles. Then it's first
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  Speaker 2: and third Soto Dylan Lee versus Soda who had homeward earlier.
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  Speaker 5: In the game. Eighth pitch of the at bat gets.
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  Speaker 2: Him on a slider, and that was really the key
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  Speaker 2: moment there. Late, I mean, pay big, you pay so
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  Speaker 2: to the big bucks, and you didn't come through there.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but no one comes through every time. Let's let's
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  Speaker 4: not say, oh man, he didn't get a hit. I
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  Speaker 4: mean the big moment. Nobody comes through every time. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: that was a tough at bat, by the way, from
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  Speaker 4: Dylan leed to once, so he just he kept throwing
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  Speaker 4: him slider, slider, got to three two, he ran a
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  Speaker 4: couple fastballs up and then shoot through the slider punched
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  Speaker 4: him out. You could see the disappointment on Soto's face.
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  Speaker 4: So let's not get on him about that whole. I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 4: bad at bats, having bad things happen, and it's just
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  Speaker 4: one of those things. But I want to go back
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  Speaker 4: to Schwellenbach for a second. By the way, my buddy
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  Speaker 4: Darren Erstad was the coach at Nebraska when he was
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  Speaker 4: playing at Nebraska. He was there shortstop. So I've text
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  Speaker 4: Ersta many times at ersty, you didn't have this dude pitching,
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  Speaker 4: no wonder, you're not the coach at Nebraska anymore, Like
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  Speaker 4: what were you thinking? And of course he says, well,
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  Speaker 4: you had a bad arm, so which he did. He
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  Speaker 4: already had the Tommy John surgery. So but yeah, I
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  Speaker 4: mean the fact that this guy wasn't pitching until he
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  Speaker 4: got really into the Braves organization. It's pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, hey, it's good for mileage purposes, a little less
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  Speaker 2: mileage on the arm. By the way, Spencer Schwellenbachi scheduled
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  Speaker 2: to join us on Fridays. FT and Ronald Acunya Junior
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  Speaker 2: is raking so twenty eight games now since he returned
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  Speaker 2: from a second ACL tear four oh eight, five thirteen.
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  Speaker 5: On base seven thirty five slug.
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  Speaker 2: He's got nine homers and sixteen RBIs in one hundred
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  Speaker 2: and nineteen plate appearances. And I mean he's doing all
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  Speaker 2: kinds of dances on the bass passage.
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  Speaker 5: He loves rolling the Mets. It's good. I mean, he's
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  Speaker 5: got it down. He definitely practiced.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, how many do you remember? All those skits
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  Speaker 4: around first when you hit it, you gotta look and
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  Speaker 4: you gotta do this, You round first, around third, halfway
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  Speaker 4: to third, and then you get in the dugout. He
• 12:27
  Speaker 4: does they floppy with his hands. I don't know, man,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, listen, let the kids play. I get as
• 12:32
  Speaker 4: long as no one gets mad. Who cares what they do.
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  Speaker 4: But it's fun to watch if you're a fan. And yes,
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  Speaker 4: you're right, he loves hitting homers against some Mets. But
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  Speaker 4: I just want to know, Trevor, how the heck do
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  Speaker 4: you remember all those skits you gotta do?
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  Speaker 3: You gotta commit, dude, he commits to the bit. They
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  Speaker 3: got it.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they got to just be like, it's got to
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  Speaker 1: be like a challenger. They're betting him you can't come
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  Speaker 1: up with more stuff. It's so funny now to the
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  Speaker 1: point where now when we see guys just kind of
• 12:56
  Speaker 1: run around the bases, it's not going to be because they're
• 12:58
  Speaker 1: being humble. They're just like, nah, dude, I'm just lazy.
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  Speaker 1: I don't remember all that. There's too much to remember.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going the other way because just because I I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to have to remember this many things.
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  Speaker 3: Baseball is hard enough.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, if you if you can nail it
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  Speaker 1: and you got the choreography down, I mean, go for
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  Speaker 1: it at this point, just just go for it. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not like pointing at me and yelling at me
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  Speaker 1: as you're doing everything, then it is you know, it
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  Speaker 1: is what it is. I give it's still a homer
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you know what I mean.
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  Speaker 4: By the way, I'm gonna say this about the Braves though,
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  Speaker 4: they need the bottom of the order to do something.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but I mean Eli White, Nick Allen, Michael Harris,
• 13:38
  Speaker 4: Holy crap, what the heck happened to Michael Harris? Even
• 13:41
  Speaker 4: you know what you throw all be's in there too.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Akunya and the rest of these guys can't
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  Speaker 4: do everything. But man, I mean there's there's some bad numbers.
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  Speaker 4: If you look at the Braves lineup, they're lucky to
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  Speaker 4: even be alive right now. Their pitching has been pretty good.
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  Speaker 4: Strider going tonight, But man, the bottom of the order
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  Speaker 4: is gonna have to do something for the Braves or
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  Speaker 4: Alex and Thop is gonna have to make some moves,
• 14:01
  Speaker 4: make some some some trades to get some people in there,
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  Speaker 4: which he's been known to do before.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, what do we got on those two? I mean.
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  Speaker 2: All these and and Michael Harris. I mean we're now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, getting close to what the halfway point in
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  Speaker 2: the season.
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  Speaker 5: What are you gonna do? Option? Michael Harris?
• 14:25
  Speaker 4: Then they signed up to a huge deal.
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you can still option guys. I don't
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: I don't know, you know where the delineation is. I'm
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: guessing all these would be a problem if you try
• 14:34
  Speaker 2: and option him at this point.
• 14:35
  Speaker 4: You got six years. Six years.
• 14:38
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, Harris isn't no, but.
• 14:41
  Speaker 4: Wow, I mean wow, if you haven't seen look at
• 14:44
  Speaker 4: his number. Look at those two guys numbers. It's not
• 14:46
  Speaker 4: good knock. I mean, I think I think Michael Harris
• 14:48
  Speaker 4: has like a five hundred ops or something, and all
• 14:51
  Speaker 4: these is in the low sixes. I believe. I'm not
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: exactly sure, but I'm pretty close because again, I was
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: watching this game last night, going dang, what the heck
• 14:58
  Speaker 4: happened to the Braves guys?
• 15:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, watching Harris is weird too. His his like hands
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: look weird to me. With his swing, like how he's
• 15:09
  Speaker 1: moving his hands, they're like farther off from his body.
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: His bats like straight up and down more than I've
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: ever seen. He's looking like a little bit like old school.
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: Olsen.
• 15:19
  Speaker 1: Olsen now puts his hands behind his body a little more,
• 15:21
  Speaker 1: but he used to be straight up and down. So
• 15:22
  Speaker 1: I just watched him like that looks different, and I
• 15:25
  Speaker 1: wonder if there's something there. Obviously I wasn't hitter, but
• 15:27
  Speaker 1: he does look different. He looked different immediately the other Yeah,
• 15:31
  Speaker 1: last night I was watching his AB's that doesn't look
• 15:34
  Speaker 1: as comfortable, like he's searching for something, and as you
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: very well know, Aj, it's searching in a game like that,
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: like trying to search in real time in the big
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: leagues usually doesn't work.
• 15:44
  Speaker 3: So too Yeah.
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: By the way, here's their ops albs six twenty six,
• 15:51
  Speaker 4: Michael Harris five seventy eight, Eli White six sixty one,
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: Nick Allen five point fifty six. That's four of their
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: five bottom hitters after you get I mean, Akunya is
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: twelve hundred, which isn't going to sustain Olsen eight thirty six,
• 16:03
  Speaker 4: a Zuna seven ninety one, Austin Riley seven sixty four,
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: Sean Murphy's doing good sevn fifty one, But the other
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: four just that's not good. I don't know how you
• 16:11
  Speaker 4: sustain that your pitching has to be too good, especially
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: in a tough NLS.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: I mean, I can make it sound worse. For Harris,
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously still a great defender, but ops plus
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: one hundred league average is that fifty nine? And if
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: you look at a stat cast page peripherals trying to
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: see he is there, you know, is there something good
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: that you can point to? Is there some battered ball,
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: luck issues. Everything is blue. Besides bat speed. Everything is blue.
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: You know the expected numbers, the exit v low barrel,
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: hard hit, squared up. Chase percentage is second percent tile
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: in baseball. Same with walk percentage not walking. I mean,
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: there is not much to point to, Trevor, and obviously
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: things can just suddenly click.
• 16:57
  Speaker 5: I mean, you know how this.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: Sport works for a pitcher or a hitter. But we're
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: getting pretty deep into the season. And the other factor
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: here is that the Braves need a lot to go
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: their way. I mean, that's part of why they're treating
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: some of these games like high stakes. In the middle
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: of June, there's six games back of a wildcard. Forget
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: the division, they're almost double digit games back in the division.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: There's six games back of a wildcard. And even to
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: just get to one of those wildcard spots, you have
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: to leave one, two, three, three teams or four teams.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: So they've got a lot of work to do. It's
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: not impossible they can make a nice run, right, it's
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: not ten games back, but they have a lot of
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: work to do, and you just need a lot of
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: things to go right on a nightly basis, because they're
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: not the only team that's going to get hot, if
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: they even do get hot.
• 17:39
  Speaker 1: I still just think that it comes down to ceiling,
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: like talent ceiling for me, and they're stars when they
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: are out there being stars, just they rattle off truly
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: impressive runs. And those same guys are still there, And
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: especially with Striders now seeming to hit his stride from
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: Tommy John hey uh he he is looking way better.
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: I believe Sale didn't Sale just go down though with
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: a So they're gonna be but the timing couldn't be
• 18:11
  Speaker 1: better for Strider to come into his own with that happening.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: But if they have all three of them, you know,
• 18:18
  Speaker 1: like that's like they can go series without giving up
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: a run, and if they give up no runs, they
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: win those games probably, So I still think that they're
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: still scary in that way, especially with the Albi's and
• 18:33
  Speaker 1: Michael Harris kind of just being non factors with their bats.
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: One of them becomes a factor again and we're having
• 18:38
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• 18:40
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• 18:44
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• 18:47
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• 18:50
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• 21:00
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• 21:21
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• 21:22
  Speaker 4: By the way, did you see the play where would
• 21:25
  Speaker 4: you see the Alex car play with Christian Moore? Where?
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know the rule, but I thought,
• 21:30
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• 21:31
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• 21:34
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• 21:37
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• 21:39
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• 21:41
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• 21:43
  Speaker 3: I don't know, hey.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: And speaking of Jackson Holliday, Ken, let us right into
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: this one. AJ had a four RBI night and what
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: do you know, let the kid play every day. Let's
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: also not act like that was Brandon Hyde's decision to
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: be platooning the kid who they want to be a
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: superstar and play every day, and all of a sudden
• 22:01
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• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Yeah, imagine that. It's weird. I just don't understand these
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: kids face lefties in the minor leagues. I face lefties
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: in the minor les get to the big leagues, and
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: people say, oh, you can't hit lefties. Well no, I
• 22:14
  Speaker 4: did find against lefties. But when you face him once
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: a month or once a week, or you face a
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: tough lefty coming out of the bullpen and you haven't
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: done it, it doesn't work. And I just never understood this,
• 22:24
  Speaker 4: Like why we are just automatically pitchinghole guys to oh,
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: he's left handed, he can't hit lefties. They don't do
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: that with right hes very often. I don't know. I think,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: just let them play, let him figure it out. And
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: the biggest thing is to me is you never know
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: if a guy can hit lefties. You're listen, your numbers
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: left on left are never going to be as good
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: as right on right because you just don't see him
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: as much right or as a left handed hitter against
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: right handed pitching, because you just don't see him enough.
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: So I don't understand it. Let him play. Let him
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: figure it out, especially on a team like the Orioles
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: that needs help offensively, Let Jackson Alliday play. You showed
• 22:57
  Speaker 4: it last night but double four through on Homer, let
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: him play man.
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's got a chance to make the All Star
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Game two. He is certainly in the running. And we
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: just got the latest All Star Game update Judge and
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: Otani of course leading Javey Baias past Trout and Kwan
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: in the second ballot updates, So it looks like BIA
• 23:20
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  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: And in the next break, I did find all those
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: valuation numbers I was talking about Trevors, so I'll look
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: for those all right. Two potential injuries to hit here
• 23:48
  Speaker 2: he will cover in the next couple minutes for us
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Kenlee Jansen threw four pitches in yesterday's game before he
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: left with the head athletic trainer. His vilo is down
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: three miles per hour from his season average. I mean, Trevor,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: that's an auto take them out of the game.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: No, yeah, yeah, that's that's a big red flag. Uh,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: the velo changing, especially for a guy of his age
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: and how long he's been pitching, Like, it's just you don't.
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: You don't take chances of that stuff. And I think
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: he knows his body pretty well. He probably had something
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to do with being like, yeah, let's not let's not
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: push this. So not what you like to see, definitely yeah.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: And then the next one here Walker Buehler, who was
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: one of the big offseason signings for a Red Sox
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: team that decided to trade away their best bat and
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: have rookie Roman Anthony hitting third. Anyway, interesting contrast in
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox clubhouse. Are you sure Bueller is healthy?
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: This coming from Sean McAdam, course at one hundred percent.
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: But then when Bueller was asked if he was currently
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: pitching through anything, he said, I don't want to talk
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: about that.
• 24:41
  Speaker 5: So that's not good.
• 24:45
  Speaker 4: He's been bad he's not bad like his last five
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: stars or something.
• 24:49
  Speaker 5: It's six on the year.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: But yeahs, yeah, every sin's getting tossed. Things have not
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: gone well and they need starting pitching bad. Yeah, he
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: must be feeling something weird or whatever. But for for
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: a manager who say one certainty, they're not certain about anything.
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: So yeah, you thought that.
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: We thought the Devers thing was the was the big
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: clubhouse thing, but I guess there's there's other things happening.
• 25:20
  Speaker 5: In the weeds.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Something that we pointed out on foul Territory Twitter from
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: the Yankees lost to the Reds Anthony Volpi sitting the
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: day before. Now, the day before that he had a
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: successful game, including a home run after snapping a long
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: hitless streak.
• 25:37
  Speaker 5: So he lost his bat twice tonight.
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: On Swings and Missus whatever pines Pine tar stat Brian
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Hooke jokes about. But the question here is about rest
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: and whether it has to do with a projection model
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: saying how you're going to play in that game, or
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: a load management issue.
• 25:51
  Speaker 5: Either way.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Aj, I know we're getting very very in the weeds
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: and specific here, but we're a show that's on every day,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: and I think it does bring up a larger point
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: when Volpi is struggling really on the year, defensively even,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: and he's been okay on offense, but was just.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Breaking the slump. Do you think he wanted to sit
• 26:08
  Speaker 5: on Sunday.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: After all of that.
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I just don't know how it works. I've had managers
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: come to me and say, hey, we need you. You're
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: gonna give you this day off, and you have a
• 26:17
  Speaker 4: good game and you go in the office after the
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: game and say listen, man, I'm gonna play tomorrow, And
• 26:23
  Speaker 4: a lot of times the managers will listen to you.
• 26:25
  Speaker 4: And as far as load management goes, Anthony Volpey's twenty
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: three years old. How old is volpe twenty three, twenty
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: four ish?
• 26:32
  Speaker 5: Does he really find that?
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: Yeah?
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: That do we really need? You? Really need? Yeah? Do
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: we really need load management on a twenty four year
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: old guy? I know they're going through right now, but
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: if he gets three hits, he's feeling it running back
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: out there. I don't know. Maybe they didn't want to
• 26:46
  Speaker 4: mess up the schedule, maybe they didn't want to mess
• 26:48
  Speaker 4: up his routine. I don't know. But if I get
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: three hits, I'm fighting to stay in there and listen
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: to air Boon made his decision. But I don't know, man,
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: I just I just I remember one game I played
• 26:59
  Speaker 4: in New York. This is kind of off topic. I
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: hit two home runs in the game Yankee Stadium, and
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: I didn't play the next day. And I remember Paul
• 27:04
  Speaker 4: O'Neil on the air, goes, dude, hit two home runs yesterday.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: He ain't playing.
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: What's going on? But it had It had nothing to
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: do with it. I had to do with the way
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: the schedule lined up and it was scheduled. Yeah. I
• 27:13
  Speaker 4: went in there and said, ouzie, and want to play,
• 27:15
  Speaker 4: but he said, no, you play the day game the
• 27:17
  Speaker 4: next day instead of that. You know. It was so
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: there's weird things that can happen. I get it, but yeah,
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: you want to play the next day? You feel good?
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: Quick sat Trevor to get your thoughts. So, seventy eight
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: games this year for the Yanks, this is seventy seven
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: played for Volpi. So his first game, SAT, I'm just like, now,
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: of all the times, couldn't we have pushed that back?
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: It is interesting because he's I think the three man two,
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: the three positions out in the field that usually don't
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: get a lot of time time offer center field, shortstop,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: and first base, like those guys try to play every
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: single day and they're kind of the.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Offensive center of the offense.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Usually, And so planning like building the things in especially
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: if it's like analytically based, seems silly, especially with the
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: guy that young. But I do agree with AJ, like
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: most of the time you can go be like come on, man,
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: I'm good, I'll let me play.
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: Let's let's go. I really want to play. Then you're
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: gonna You're gonna play.
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: But if they can't see another opportunity to get to
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: that rest, then they will make that case to you.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: And if they make a good case, which just sounds
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: like Ozzie made a good case to you, like hey,
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: this is actually the thinking about it.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Okay, that makes sense, like that this is good long term,
• 28:29
  Speaker 3: let's do it.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: I just I think there are points in time maybe
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: where it gets reported, and there are sometimes like according
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: to our numbers, this is when guys get tired. Like
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: that's not I think a good way to act on
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: or really make concrete decisions on. You gonna be really
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: really flexible in that way. But then when it comes
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: down to it, if you plead your case and they
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: still want you to take the day off, then you're
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: probably gonna just take the day off. But for a
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: for a guy like that, who they're expecting a lot
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: from him, they need him to get going a little bit,
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: seeing a little sign of life and then seeing them
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: take a break, it's probably not easy to swallow for
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Yankees fans, and I get back.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Yankees fans, Obviously we're freaking out about it. They're
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: not loving the season that hope he has, and so
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: the timing of it is just strange chape. You're checking
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  Speaker 2: The White Sox signed No Cinderguard to a minor league
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  Speaker 2: deals at the Complex in Arizona.
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  Speaker 5: Might as well give it a shot.
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  Speaker 3: No, guys, if you want to play, you get a
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  Speaker 3: job by all means. You know, go for it, guys.
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  Speaker 1: The guys in the gym, I know that he's always
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  Speaker 1: staying in shape, so that's not going to be an
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  Speaker 1: issue for Noah. It'll just see what he's got in
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  Speaker 1: the arm, you know, with the with that law Tommy
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  Speaker 1: John Rey had, he really didn't bounce back at all.
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  Speaker 1: So maybe he went maybe went to one of these
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  Speaker 1: you know, uh training academies or something. Bounce some stuff,
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  Speaker 1: got a little bit of umph back and the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox trying to capitalize on that. I would that would
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  Speaker 1: not spriat me one bit. Guys of guys an athlete.
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  Speaker 4: Why not? It doesn't hurt you, doesn't hurt you. If
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: you're the White Sox, you give him a chance to
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: pitch in the minor leagues. And the only question I
• 31:09
  Speaker 4: have is Jared Reinsdorf has a very particular hair policy.
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: So well, if he has long hair, will you have
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: to cut it?
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  Speaker 5: Ooh TVD. I hope he makes it so we can
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  Speaker 5: find out.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Joe Creedy and I cut our hair once. I'm
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: just saying my hair wasn't near as long as cindergarten.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: We'll be all over that story. How old do you
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: think he is? We got like twenty seconds so that
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: we're back. Give me a check, Give me a guess.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty three, thirty four.
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  Speaker 5: He's thirty two, but.
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: Turning thirty three next month. So aj wins price is right. Hey,
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: it's a bad one. Corbyn Carrol is placed on the
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: il with a fractured left wrist. His manager, Tory Levello said,
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: I have not seen anything like this. Usually you have
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: a bad week or a bad month, or two guys
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  Speaker 2: in a thirty day period of time that will go down.
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  Speaker 2: But it's just been one after another. It's frustrating. I
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  Speaker 2: feel for the players. I feel for this team. It
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: sounded like it was a weird one where X rays
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: were originally negative, but they did get the confirmation you
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: know from the weekend series against Toronto when he got
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: hit by a pitch that he goes down. So I
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: don't know what the timetable is yet, AJ, but it's
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: not going to be right away here and it's a
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: team that definitely needs to have some things go their way.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Justin Martinez done for the year, Corbyn, Burn's done for
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: the year. They've lost puck in their bullpen for a
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: long period of time.
• 32:30
  Speaker 5: What is going on?
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: Just one of those years? By the way, did you
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: see Suarez got smoked last night? And that was another
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: one in the hand where he oh, that was a
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: bad one. And then and then Naylor was shaking his hand.
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: At time, I thought he might have broke his handmaid
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: or but I guess it ended up being his shoulder
• 32:45
  Speaker 4: that was sore. My thing is I've done with Corbyn,
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: Carrol has done before I'd call it a chip fracture whatever.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: I got hit in the exact same spot right here
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  Speaker 4: in my wrist, and it didn't break this bone. It
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: actually this bone knocked into the other bone and chipped
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: a piece off, and they were like, you're done for
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: the year. I came back in two weeks and played
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: it hurt like hell, but I was able to do it.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: So I don't know the severity of it. But man,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: it's like the Diamondbacks can't get right right now, as
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Tory Hunter used to say, Man I can't get right well,
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: the Diamondbacks they can't get right.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: It's so we we we such high hopes for them,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: and they just there's always a couple teams every year
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: that you can really attribute a lot of their struggles
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: to injuries, right Like, they just get decimated to where
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: you can't expect them to get to the level that
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you thought they would be too, simply because the guys
• 33:32
  Speaker 1: that you thought were gonna be on the team aren't
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: on the team.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: And that's what's happening over there. Losing Corbin Burns was
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: a huge blow.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Now the Corbyns they're just they need they need more
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: Corbins to win lots of games and without any Corbins. Uh,
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: it's not going to be not going to be the
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: the season that they want.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah, true, both Corbyn's down right now. It's crazy, Trevor.
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  Speaker 2: I thought this was going to be one of the
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: best teams in baseball this year. They've got an electric
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: The bullpen was a problem pretty early on, although they've
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: lost some guys, but even still, that's something you can
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: patch up at the All Star break or at the
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: trade deadline. I should say rotation looked pretty good. I mean,
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: I don't think many people had Zach Gallon leading the
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: league in what walks and earned runs something like that.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: He's been really solid and consistent for a long period
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: of time now. So it's just been one thing after
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: another for the Diamondbacks. Very unpredictable if you told me
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: everything that was going on with this team. Yet, also,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: they're still in a wildcard picture, and they're not a
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: team that likes to give up quickly. It's just when
• 34:30
  Speaker 2: this stuff starts to pile up, it's hard to see
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: them as a World Series winning team. Let's slap and
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: let's talk about this John Smoltz comment from Fox on Saturday,
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: and then we put it out there. John Friend of
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: the show ripped into catchers and how they're taught nowadays
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: to emphasize pitch framing in a way that sacrifices their
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: ability block. He said, there's no way the probability of
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: success is going to go up that way. JJ Cooper,
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: also our buddy, who comes from the Baseball America World, said, factually,
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: blocking has not gotten worse. The number of wild pitches
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: and pass balls keeps going down. We have a picture,
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: we have a catcher catcher. First, aj your thoughts on this.
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: I used to be on this side of the fence,
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: and now after seeing it and my son is a
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: catcher and watching and learning more and talking to guys
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: that are actually teaching this, I understand it more now.
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: Do I think it helps in the lower levels of
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: high school and college and even maybe the lower levels
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: of the minor leagues because pitchers don't throw it in
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: the area at the major league level, though, they should
• 35:40
  Speaker 4: be able to throw it in a certain area, and
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: therefore you should be able to be ready for it.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: And on one knee, you're actually already down in a
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: blocking position, and all you kind of have to do
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: is drop your glove from you start down, you bring
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: it up, and then you just put it back down.
• 35:55
  Speaker 4: You're already in that position and you should already genuinely
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: be in the area. Also, this it improves the throwing
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: of a lot of catchers because they're already lined up
• 36:04
  Speaker 4: to go to second base and they already have a
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: certainty down, so they're straight instead of kind of getting swingy.
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: So I used to be on one side of the fence,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: and I get it, and I have people talk to
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: me all the time about it. As a younger person,
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: I don't know that I would recommend this, but once
• 36:17
  Speaker 4: you get to the major leagues and pitchers allegedly can
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: throw it in a certain area, it should help you.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: I agree one hundred percent. I think that I always
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: defer to the people teaching it first. But I love
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: what you said about getting in blocking position, because most
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: of the time smothering the ball like you're already, you're
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: already halfway there.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: So it's actually easier as long as it's front of you.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: Moving side to side.
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: I understand that moving to the side where the knees down,
• 36:43
  Speaker 1: or if you swipe it a ball and you kind
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: of miss it. This happened I think it was with
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez happened with and this was where the comment
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: from small skitt I was watching as well and was
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: listening to it as well, and it just looks bad.
• 36:53
  Speaker 1: It's an optically not doesn't look very good, but that
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: is as far. It's pretty as as far as it goes,
• 36:59
  Speaker 1: in my opinion. One thing that's interesting to me and
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: that I kind of want to look into is if
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: if there's been any meaningful difference in like Catcher's knee
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: injuries since this has become popular, or even like Catcher's
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: offense in general, just because you're saving your legs a
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: little bit. You know, remember the knee savers they had
• 37:17
  Speaker 1: when in like the nineties two thousands to keep catchers
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: from being so crunched into their knees constantly. Being in
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: the normal squad does that. If you're in that way
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: all the time, you get more fatigue. So there's I
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: don't know if there is benefit there, but it wouldn't
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: surprise me if there is a little bit too.
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: So then it comes down to trade offs.
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: Are you trying to get better framing and fresher catchers,
• 37:37
  Speaker 1: then a pass ball here and then might be worth it.
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: And I can't ask Aj to comment on that part
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: because he's got superhuman stamina or endurance ability.
• 37:47
  Speaker 5: He never got hurt with anything.
• 37:48
  Speaker 2: The famous Martine Maldonado asking him how he stayed so healthy,
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: and he's like, genetics not true.
• 37:56
  Speaker 4: Go home and blame your parents, kids, or thank you
• 38:00
  Speaker 4: in certain cases.
• 38:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's good debate anyway, Trevor, great to see you.
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