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FairT - Jack Flaherty to Tigers, 5 teams w/big needs, "Sacramento A's" · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: We at the Baltimore Sun Me in particular, we'll call
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Speaker 1: it whatever the heck we want to call it, and
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Speaker 1: I would expect that we will do the same at
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Speaker 1: the Athletic for the Sacramento as Welcome everyone to the
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Speaker 1: Monday edition of Fair Territory. The first spring training camps
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Speaker 1: open in less than a week, the first games, the
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Speaker 1: first exhibition games or in less than three weeks, and
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Speaker 1: the free agent signings continue. Sunday night brought a big one,
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Speaker 1: Jack Flaherty back to the Tigers, essentially, as you can see,
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Speaker 1: announced it himself on X Then it was simply a
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Speaker 1: matter of what the terms would be, and the terms
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Speaker 1: were as listed right there, two years, thirty five million
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Speaker 1: with an opt out. Now, the second year is technically
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Speaker 1: a player option, and as you saw in the thread
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Speaker 1: that I posted last night, that ten million dollar player
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Speaker 1: option can increase to twenty million if he simply makes
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Speaker 1: fifteen starts. So I expect Flowerdy to have a good year.
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Speaker 1: I expect him to opt out, and at that point
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Speaker 1: he will be eligible for a qualifying offer as long
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Speaker 1: as he doesn't get traded the way he was last season.
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Speaker 1: He has yet to receive a qualifying offer. So that
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Speaker 1: could hinder him somewhat next year the way it's hindering
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Speaker 1: Nick Pivetta right now. But if Flowerty has a second
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Speaker 1: consecutive season, he's going to be just fine. So this
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Speaker 1: is a big move and a move that we might
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Speaker 1: have anticipated when watching or when participating in the BBWAA
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Speaker 1: Awards broadcast on Foul Territory just over about a week ago.
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Speaker 1: And here is what Tarek Schouble, Flowerty's former and now
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Speaker 1: future teammate, said on FT.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I love Jackie's a hell of a talent.
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Speaker 2: That's such a I would say. I mean, if there's
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Speaker 2: a guy I want on the mountain, that's that's not
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Speaker 2: me on our team, I want him on the mountain.
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Speaker 2: I mean, he's last season was special. K for nine
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Speaker 2: was I think career high walks for nine, career low.
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Speaker 2: That's kind of the formula right in the postseason, as
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Speaker 2: you want guys that can miss bats and gets you
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Speaker 2: out of trouble. And you know, you saw his starts.
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Speaker 2: I think he only had one bad one. All the
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Speaker 2: other ones were pretty dominant, you know, in terms of
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Speaker 2: who he is, and and he was going through some
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Speaker 2: stuff too, you know, physically with his body and just
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Speaker 2: him being able to take the ball every fifth day.
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Speaker 2: You see the toughness that that kind of guy has
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Speaker 2: and I think he, you know, has the respect to
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Speaker 2: the guys in our clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: Pretty strong endorsement from the American League Sy Young Winner
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Speaker 1: Derek Scoobel. And now let's look at the Tigers rotation
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Speaker 1: with Flowherty joining Schooble, because he's suddenly looking pretty darn good.
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Speaker 1: Those two guys are at the top, Schooble, Flowerty, you
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Speaker 1: see Rhys Olsen, Alex Cobb, and the great prospect Jackson Job.
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Speaker 1: That could be the rotation, but you have other options.
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Speaker 1: Casey My is cater Montero, who had a pretty good
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Speaker 1: year for them last year, and brand Hunter. So that's
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Speaker 1: their rotation, and now their off season is coming into
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Speaker 1: better focus as well. Here are some of the moves
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Speaker 1: that they've made. Glabor Torres the infielder, of course, second baseman.
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Speaker 1: He is going to move Cold Keith to first base,
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Speaker 1: Alex Cobb joining that rotation, and saw his name Tommy
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Speaker 1: Cainley a very good year for the New York Yankees
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Speaker 1: last season. He's, of course, is a change up specialist.
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Speaker 1: And now Flaherty the question now for the Tigers is
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Speaker 1: is there one more move left? And is that move
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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. The Tigers payroll currently, according to Fangrafts, is
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Speaker 1: estimated to be one hundred and forty two million. That
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Speaker 1: would be the highest in the Al Central, edging the
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Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins by a little bit, and the highest for
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Speaker 1: the Tigers since twenty seventeen. If you signed Bregman for
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Speaker 1: likely twenty five million plus a year, that takes it
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Speaker 1: even higher. Can they afford it? Of course they can
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Speaker 1: afford it. Will they do it? I'm not so sure.
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Speaker 1: Now they are still sitting on Javier Bias's six year,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and forty million dollar contract. That is not
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Speaker 1: a great contract, obviously a couple of years remaining. It
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Speaker 1: was done by the previous front office, but it is
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Speaker 1: that kind of serves as a warning sign for the
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Speaker 1: current front office, and the current front office has been
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Speaker 1: quite vocal about keeping opportunities open for their younger players.
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Speaker 1: They currently have Jace Young slay it in at third base.
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Speaker 1: He is a promising guy, good hitter, not necessarily a
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Speaker 1: great defender, But my goodness, if you can get Alex Bregman,
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Speaker 1: you have to do that. I've said that for the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, I've said it for the Astros, and I'll
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Speaker 1: say it for the Detroit Tigers. Bregman is too good,
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Speaker 1: and he's too good a player and a leader. Simply
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Speaker 1: to say we don't need him, We've got Jase Young. No, sorry,
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Speaker 1: doesn't work like that. So the Tigers suddenly looking impressive
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Speaker 1: in an Al Central that includes an improved Royals team
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Speaker 1: they've done some things this offseason and an interesting Guardians club.
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Speaker 1: Now they've done some things too, subtracted added, but this
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Speaker 1: division should be pretty competitive, as it was, of course
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Speaker 1: last season when it produced three postseason teams. For more
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Speaker 1: on the deal, check out Tiger Territory. Cody Staven and
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Speaker 1: my colleague at the Athletic and Kieran Steckley have a
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Speaker 1: fresh episode out now all about how Flowerty fits with
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Speaker 1: the Tigers. Subscribe to Tiger Territory on YouTube and wherever
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Speaker 1: you get your podcasts. Okay, moving on, there are still
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Speaker 1: a number of teams with a lot to do this offseason.
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Speaker 1: The off season doesn't last much longer, but yes, there's
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Speaker 1: still a lot of action, and I want to go
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Speaker 1: through five teams and their remaining needs. This is not
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Speaker 1: a complete list. Don't start yelling at me what about
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Speaker 1: this team? These are five that I've selected. Now we're
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Speaker 1: going to start with the San Diego Padres, and you
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Speaker 1: might have seen a quote from their fan fest over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. Aj Peler, their general manager, said we need
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Speaker 1: to add a bat or two and an arm or two. Now.
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Speaker 1: The Padres have been exceedingly quiet this offseason. Of course,
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Speaker 1: they've got the lawsuit going on between the late owner's widow,
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Speaker 1: Sheiel Seidler, and the late owners brothers, three guys that
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Speaker 1: are all vying for control of the club. Now, the
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Speaker 1: Padres have insisted that is not affecting their operations or
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Speaker 1: in this case, in action speaks louder than words. So
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Speaker 1: what can the Padres do? Well, there are players out there.
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Speaker 1: Bregman doesn't fit for them. They've got Manny Machado at
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Speaker 1: third base. They've got a blood of infielders. Pete Alonzo, Nah,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't really fit for that either. He's gonna cost
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Speaker 1: them too much money. Nick Pavetta, I guess they could
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Speaker 1: do that, but it's gonna cost them draft picks. So
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure what Aj Preller has up his sleeve.
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Speaker 1: But we've seen him act without regard to the normal calendar.
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Speaker 1: Dylan Ceas in March, Luisa rise in May last year.
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Speaker 1: He will do things at different times than other gms,
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Speaker 1: so I anticipate the Padres will have some more moves.
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Speaker 1: On this list of teams with needs, the Red Sox.
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Speaker 1: All season long, all off season long, we've been talking
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Speaker 1: about the Red Sox need for a right handed bat.
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Speaker 1: Have they acquired a right handed bat after losing Tyler O'Neill. No,
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Speaker 1: they have not. The Red Sox are another natural fit
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Speaker 1: for Bregman. They don't seem to be willing to go
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Speaker 1: long term, but I'm not going to rule them out
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Speaker 1: either until he is signed. If the Red Sox acquire Bregman,
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Speaker 1: he would play second base for them, with Devers remaining
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Speaker 1: at third. That is a question all its own, But
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox still need a right handed bat, and
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Speaker 1: if they end up with someone like Randall gritchik, okay,
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Speaker 1: that's fine, but it's not what this offseason held is
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Speaker 1: terms of promise for what they could have done. Number
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Speaker 1: three on this list the Mets with Pete Alonzo. This
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Speaker 1: reunion seems all but inevitable if Alonzo had wanted to
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Speaker 1: go to the Toronto Blue Jays. I believe he would
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Speaker 1: have gone to the Toronto Blue Jays already, but perhaps
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Speaker 1: he has something else in mind, and perhaps the Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays in the end will emerge as the Pete Alonzo winner.
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Speaker 1: I'll believe it when I see it. But the Jays
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Speaker 1: have done some interesting things right Max Scherzer, Alonzo's former
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Speaker 1: teammate with the Mets, signing last week. They've added Anthony
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Speaker 1: santan Dare, Jimi Garcia, Andres Jimenez. They are looking to be,
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Speaker 1: at least it's twenty twenty five a competitive club. Now
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Speaker 1: beyond that, a lot depends on whether they sign Vladimir
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Speaker 1: Guerrero Junior to an extension. We will see about that,
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Speaker 1: but I'm not going to rule out the Blue Jays
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Speaker 1: for Alonzo just yet. As we all know, it seems
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Speaker 1: a lot more logical for him to end up in
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Speaker 1: New York. Back in New York with a team that
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Speaker 1: still needs one more power bat. Number two on my
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Speaker 1: list the Mariners and first base they've signed. The Mariners
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Speaker 1: have two hitters, Orgeye Polanco and Donovan Solano. I like
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Speaker 1: both players, but they still haven't needed first and they've
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Speaker 1: been linked all off season to Justin Turner. They could
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Speaker 1: be a team for pie to Alonso, except they are similarly
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Speaker 1: not willing to pay what it would take. Are they able?
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Speaker 1: I would say that yes, they are able, but they
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Speaker 1: are not willing. So that's a whole thing that you
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Speaker 1: can pretty much rule out. What could they do well?
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Speaker 1: My colleague at the Athletic Jim Bowden, suggested Kobe Mayo
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Speaker 1: from the Orioles they're emerging young first baseman corner fielder
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Speaker 1: as a possibility. The Ools, in my views, still could
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Speaker 1: use a number one starter, even though they've kind of
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Speaker 1: filled up their rotation, They've got a number of options.
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Speaker 1: Louis Castillo would fit. I don't know if the Ools
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Speaker 1: would ever do Kobe Mayo six ers of control for
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Speaker 1: Louis Castillo in decline with a couple of years of control,
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Speaker 1: but perhaps you could fashion some kind of deal around that. Again,
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Speaker 1: I'm skeptical, but the Mariners need a young, promising, up
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Speaker 1: and coming guy in that order along with Solano and Polanco,
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Speaker 1: two veterans. They need help offensively. They have the entire
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Speaker 1: off season, and finally the Yankees. We know what the
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Speaker 1: Yankees need. They need an infielder third basemen would enable
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Speaker 1: them to play jazz at second. Second baseman would enable
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Speaker 1: them to play jazz at third, and they need a
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Speaker 1: left handed reliever. A reunion with Tim Hill would make
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Speaker 1: a lot of sense. So those are just five teams
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Speaker 1: with needs, and the Yankees are probably going to need
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Speaker 1: to trade Marcus Strohman to accomplish what I just described.
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Speaker 1: But again, the five teams with needs, and your team,
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Speaker 1: whoever you might root for, probably has a year or
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Speaker 1: two as well. This is the time of year when
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Speaker 1: teams start to realize maybe they're not as good as
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Speaker 1: they thought they were, and that's why more moves are
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Speaker 1: possible leading into spring training and during spring training. Stay
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Speaker 1: tuned well, well well. Time now for the inside Dish,
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Speaker 1: the part of the show where I talk about maybe
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Speaker 1: a story I've written, maybe a trend in the game,
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Speaker 1: maybe a story from a long time ago. And today
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Speaker 1: we're going to go back more than three decades to
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three when the Oriols were sold to Peter Angelos,
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Speaker 1: and this was a period in their history in which
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Speaker 1: their owner at the time, Eli Jacobs, was in bankruptcy
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Speaker 1: and the team was auctioned off in bankruptcy court. In
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Speaker 1: New York. Eli Jacobs was based in New York, and
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Speaker 1: this was going to be this huge auction, and it
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Speaker 1: turned out to be just that. And in that situation,
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Sun sent a number of reporters, including myself.
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Speaker 1: I was working for the Sun as a sports columnist
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Speaker 1: at the time, and an interesting scenario developed. Now the
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Speaker 1: day before the auction, the day before this great hearing
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Speaker 1: in New York, I wrote a column in the Baltimore Sun,
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Speaker 1: and I kind of made fun of the guy who
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Speaker 1: is going to be running the auction, a judge named
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Speaker 1: Cornelius Blackshear. And here is what I wrote to kind
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Speaker 1: of kick off the proceedings. Cornelius black Schear. He isn't
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Speaker 1: listed in the Baseball Encyclopedia. His biography does not include
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Speaker 1: his speed from chambers to bench, nor state whether he
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Speaker 1: swings the gavel left or right. For all anyone knows,
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Speaker 1: he thinks Oriole Park is a bird sanctuary. Worse, he
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Speaker 1: probably sold one baseball game in his life and now
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Speaker 1: harbors a secret passion for the New York Yankees. Remember
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Speaker 1: I was writing for the Baltimore paper at the time,
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Speaker 1: so I had a Baltimore bent, a Baltimore Angle on this.
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Speaker 1: The next day we go to court and we're all
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Speaker 1: there gathered and there were a number of heavy hitters
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Speaker 1: in these various rooms before the auction began, and I
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Speaker 1: sort of snuck into one of the rooms and I
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Speaker 1: was listening, and I believe it was Bildwick Junior who
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Speaker 1: went out to own the Cardinals and the Angelos group,
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Speaker 1: and they were working out terms of a possible partnership.
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Speaker 1: So I snuck into the room. And then at the
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Speaker 1: start of the auction, actually before the start of the auction,
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Speaker 1: the judge Cornelius Blackshear summoned me to the bench. I
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Speaker 1: was a little nervous. Now I'm the son of an attorney.
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Speaker 1: I kind of knew my way around a court room,
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Speaker 1: and I kind of knew when a judge calls you
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Speaker 1: up to the bench, it's not a good thing. So
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Speaker 1: the next day in the Baltimore Sun, after the auction,
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Speaker 1: after all went down, one of our editorial page writers
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Speaker 1: wrote kind of a recap of what had happened. And
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Speaker 1: here is the part that he wrote about the particular
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Speaker 1: scene with me. Judge Blackshear unwittingly caused fright among the
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Speaker 1: sons reporting contingent in the courtroom. No sooner had he
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Speaker 1: taken the bench than he asked whether Ken Rosenthal of
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Speaker 1: the Baltimore Sun was in the courtroom. Well, that is
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Speaker 1: what happened. And at that point when he called out
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Speaker 1: my name, as I said, I was a little nervous.
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Speaker 1: I thought that maybe I was in trouble. And here
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Speaker 1: is what happened next, because I was in trouble, but
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Speaker 1: not the kind of trouble that I thought. I thought
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Speaker 1: I was going to be in trouble for sneaking into
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Speaker 1: that other room to hear the meeting that was going on.
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Speaker 1: And here's what the editorial page writer in the Sun wrote,
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Speaker 1: Mister James Keat I believe was his name. As mister
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Speaker 1: Rosenthal tensely acknowledged that he was present, his colleagues braced
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Speaker 1: for trouble. During his delay before the hearing, mister Rosenthal
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Speaker 1: had unobtrusively slipped into a meeting between the Angelos and
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Speaker 1: DeWitt groups. That's what I described, and an attorney representing
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Speaker 1: mister Jacobs, the journalist, feared he had unwittingly broken some
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Speaker 1: sort of judicial rule and was about to be reprimanded.
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Speaker 1: Or I guess the fear could have been that I
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Speaker 1: might have been held in contempt of court, something along
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Speaker 1: those lines. Now it didn't turn out that way, but
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Speaker 1: at the time I was thinking, you know what, I
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Speaker 1: wasn't supposed to be in that meeting. No one knew
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Speaker 1: who I was. I didn't think I didn't know any
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Speaker 1: of the players at the time. Peter Angelos was not
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Speaker 1: someone who had owned a baseball team yet. Bill de
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Speaker 1: Witt was well known somewhat in baseball circles, but he
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Speaker 1: didn't know who the heck I was. And I had
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Speaker 1: been sitting in the back of the courtroom. It's not
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Speaker 1: like anybody would have said, Hey, who is that guy?
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Speaker 1: There were all these people in there who didn't know
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Speaker 1: each other. So this leads to the conclusion of what
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Speaker 1: our editorial page writer wrote. He said, feigning indignation. Judge
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Speaker 1: Blackshear denied he was a secret Yankees fan, announced he
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Speaker 1: had seen six baseball games, beats right handed, and takes
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Speaker 1: nine point eight three seconds to get from his chambers
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Speaker 1: to the bench. In his sports column the previous day,
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Speaker 1: and mister Rosetal had facetiously made some slighting references to
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Speaker 1: the judge in complaining that someone unknown to the baseball
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Speaker 1: world would decide the Oriole's fate. So what had happened
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Speaker 1: was Judge Blackchear was a faithful reader. Now this was
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Speaker 1: in an era before the internet or really had taken off,
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Speaker 1: So I don't know exactly how Judge blacksher had seen
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Speaker 1: this column, but I thought that was pretty cool and
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Speaker 1: I breathed leanless to say, a sigh of relief. Now
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Speaker 1: history knows, or history will record, what happened next the
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Speaker 1: auction that took place. Ultimately it was Peter Angelos, build
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Speaker 1: a Wit and Larry Laquino on one side. They were
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Speaker 1: all partners initially. Of course, this partnership broke up because
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Speaker 1: Peter Angelos wanted full control. DeWitt went on to own
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Speaker 1: the Cardinals. Larry Laquino went on to the Padres the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox. He had an amazing career, could be a
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Speaker 1: Hall of Famer one day. And ultimately the auction came
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Speaker 1: down to Peter Angelos's group and Jeffrey Lauria. Jeffrey Laurier
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Speaker 1: went on after that to become owner of the Marlins
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Speaker 1: because he lost the auction. The Orioles went for one
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Speaker 1: hundred and seventy three million. At the time, it was
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Speaker 1: a record price for a sports franchise. And the next
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Speaker 1: day after the auction, I wrote in the Sun perhaps
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Speaker 1: one of the doubber columns I've ever written. And I
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Speaker 1: know out there you might think I've written a lot
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Speaker 1: of dumb ones, and yeah, I've written some dumb ones
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Speaker 1: from time to time, but this one it's got a
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Speaker 1: rank in the bottom five. What I wrote was that, Okay,
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Speaker 1: the team went for one hundred and seventy three million,
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Speaker 1: and now, how is Peter Angelos going to have enough
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Speaker 1: money left to raise payroll to run the team as
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Speaker 1: he properly should. Well, payroll was never the issue in
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Speaker 1: these early years for Peter Angelos. So I was completely wrong.
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Speaker 1: And not only that, the Angelo's family, thirty plus years later,
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Speaker 1: turned that on one hundred and seventy three million dollar
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Speaker 1: investment into a one point seven to three billion dollars sale,
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Speaker 1: ten times the amount of the initial per worked out
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Speaker 1: pretty well for Peter Angelos, who now of course has
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Speaker 1: passed away, and it worked out well actually for everyone involved.
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Speaker 1: Laurie goes on to the Marlins, Lakino goes on to
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Speaker 1: his great career. DeWitt goes on to the Cardinals, and
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Speaker 1: everyone lived, including me, happily ever after time. Now for
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Speaker 1: Grill and Ken, the part of the show where you
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Speaker 1: guys get to ask me questions. Here we go. First
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Speaker 1: question comes from Nashball, who asks Ken, is there truth
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Speaker 1: to the rumor that if the Athletics or Rays make
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Speaker 1: the playoffs that MLB will not allow postseason games in
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Speaker 1: a minor league park. Actually, Nashball, this is not a rumor.
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Speaker 1: It's already been said that there's no guarantee the A's
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Speaker 1: would play their postseason games should they qualify in Sacramento,
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Speaker 1: and while nothing formal has been said about the Tampa
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Speaker 1: Bay Rays, I would expect the same scenario to be
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Speaker 1: in effect. Now it's possible they could play playoff games
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Speaker 1: at Steinbrenner Field, but it's also possible that maybe they
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Speaker 1: would move them to Miami or some other ballpark. Who
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Speaker 1: knows how it would play out. That's a problem for
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Speaker 1: another day, a problem that might never arise if neither
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Speaker 1: of these teams makes the playoffs. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: it's an issue. You've got two teams playing in minor
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Speaker 1: league parks this year, and if either or both make
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Speaker 1: the postseason, you're going to have as a league some
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Speaker 1: decisions to make. Okay. The next question comes from Benjamin Berger,
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Speaker 1: who asks why did no one try to outbid the
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Speaker 1: Rays for a great defensive infielder, of course, referring to
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Speaker 1: Hashan Kim. Interesting question, and yeah, I would say that
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Speaker 1: I expected Kim maybe to go back to the Padres
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Speaker 1: or maybe somewhere else. He gets two years, twenty nine
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Speaker 1: million with an opt out from the Rays. He is
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Speaker 1: a really good player. The problem with Kim this year
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Speaker 1: at least is he's coming off shoulder surgery, won't be
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Speaker 1: available until at least May, and no one knows for
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Speaker 1: sure what he's going to be, so I would expect
18:56
Speaker 1: that is why the market was depressed for him. The
18:59
Speaker 1: Padre not really being a factor in terms of free
19:02
Speaker 1: agency this offseason, at least so far. That's another issue,
19:05
Speaker 1: because they loved hash On Kim in San Diego and
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Speaker 1: rightly so. He did really well for them, and it
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Speaker 1: just seemed to me that the surgery and the uncertainty
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Speaker 1: is what affected him. Once Williadamas went to San Francisco,
19:18
Speaker 1: another logical place that kind of changed everything for Kim.
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Speaker 1: The Giants were a one team this offseason that really
19:26
Speaker 1: needed a shortstop. Okay. The final question comes from the
19:30
Speaker 1: control room. Do you have a reaction to John Shay's
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Speaker 1: San Francisco Chronicle article explaining the paper's decision to call
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Speaker 1: them the Sacramento A's. Will the Athletic entertain doing the same? Actually,
19:42
Speaker 1: at the Athletic we have not yet discussed this, but
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Speaker 1: it's a worthy topic, and the A's are basically saying,
19:48
Speaker 1: call us the Athletics. Don't call us Sacramento, don't call
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Speaker 1: us Las Vegas, certainly don't call us Oakland. Well, I
19:55
Speaker 1: remember going back to the Eli Jacobs years. Remember I
19:59
Speaker 1: talked about them inside dish with the Orioles, And that
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Speaker 1: was when Camden Yards opened, and there was this big
20:04
Speaker 1: fight between Jacob's, the owner of the Orioles, and the
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Speaker 1: governor of Maryland, who ran a state that had financed
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Speaker 1: the ballpark, about what to call the stadium. The governor
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Speaker 1: wanted to call it Camden Yards. The owner wanted to
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Speaker 1: call it Oriel Park. So the compromise was reached Oriel
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Speaker 1: Park at Camden Yards. And I remember writing at the
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Speaker 1: time we at the Baltimore Sun me, in particular, We'll
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Speaker 1: call it whatever the heck we want. To call it,
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Speaker 1: and I would expect that we will do the same
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Speaker 1: at the Athletic. For the Sacramento A's, no team dictates
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Speaker 1: what a newspaper or any other media outlet calls them.
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Speaker 1: If they're playing in Sacramento and they don't want to
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Speaker 1: be called Sacramento. Sorry, the A's don't get that choice.
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Speaker 1: The A's don't get any benefit of the doubt. We
20:48
Speaker 1: will call the A's at the Athletic whatever we want
20:51
Speaker 1: to call them. Thanks everyone for your questions, Thanks everyone
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