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World Series Preview + Susan Slusser on Giants pursuing Tony Vitello · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Time for a World Series preview. It's powered by MLB
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  Speaker 1: Perfect Inning twenty five. So I think we need to
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  Speaker 1: start with the roadmap for an upset. The Dodgers are favored.
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  Speaker 1: How do the Blue Jays figure out a way to
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  Speaker 1: win a series against a team that has four number
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  Speaker 1: one starters and just dusted the top record in the sport.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a good series.
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  Speaker 1: It was an entertaining series on an individual game by
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  Speaker 1: game basis. But Tod Father, if you're on the Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: how do you crack the Dodgers' pitching staff?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I think you got to think of it another way.
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  Speaker 3: How do you keep putting pressure pitching wise? I think
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  Speaker 3: it's going to come down to the Blue Jays pitching.
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  Speaker 3: They got to find a way to stop these guys
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  Speaker 3: from scoring. I think that's the way you got to
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  Speaker 3: go about it. The Dodgers put up a lot of runs,
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  Speaker 3: and guess what, they find ways to put pressure on teams.
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  Speaker 3: I think the Blue Jays staff is the number one
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  Speaker 3: thing they gotta do because they can hit. We know
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  Speaker 3: they can eventually hit. They've done it before and they
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  Speaker 3: play well in close games. So if they can find
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  Speaker 3: a way, they're pitching staff to keep them at bay
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  Speaker 3: three four five runs going into the seventh d eighth inning,
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  Speaker 3: I think they'll have a chance. And I think that's
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  Speaker 3: the biggest thing they have to worry about, is keeping
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  Speaker 3: those batters at bay. And if they can do that,
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  Speaker 3: we know that eventually they're gonna those bats are gonna
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  Speaker 3: come alive. But it's got to be right from Jump
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  Speaker 3: Street and again, whoever they start in the beginning, they
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  Speaker 3: got to ride that wave a little bit and keep going.
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  Speaker 3: So if they can keep the hitters at bay, they're
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  Speaker 3: gonna be all right.
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  Speaker 1: In my opinion, we're showing some of the starters for
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers, like Almamoto and Glass now right now, Toronto
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  Speaker 1: makes contact.
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  Speaker 2: So did the Bruers.
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  Speaker 1: But Toronto's got a lot more slug and star power
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  Speaker 1: in there with guys like Springer and Vladdie and even here,
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  Speaker 1: I'll bring up a good example because he's been my
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  Speaker 1: favorite to watch it the plate. Ernie Clement as a
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  Speaker 1: four percent k rate in the postseason and his slogan
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  Speaker 1: percentage just six something. I mean, that's the kind of
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  Speaker 1: guy that he needs to keep doing what he's doing.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's top to strike out and he'll rack
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  Speaker 1: doubles for you.
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  Speaker 4: Here's how the Blue Jays win this series. They survive
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  Speaker 4: against the starting pitchers of the Dodgers and their starters
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  Speaker 4: match and then they get into the bullpen because guess
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  Speaker 4: Roki and Vessio. But if they can get some of
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  Speaker 4: these guys out early and make them get to some
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  Speaker 4: of the other guys that haven't been as good, that's
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  Speaker 4: their shot. Because if you're just gonna let snell Yamamoto
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  Speaker 4: glass now and show hey goes six seven innings, you're
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  Speaker 4: gonna be in trouble because that means one they're doing well,
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  Speaker 4: you're not hitting two. That means Dave Roberts can use
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  Speaker 4: to use Vessi and Sazaki a lot in the bullpen
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  Speaker 4: try to figure it out from there. So I think
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  Speaker 4: the key to this is how well do the Blue
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  Speaker 4: Jays starters match the Dodger starters, because I think both
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  Speaker 4: teams are going to score some runs yep, and I
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  Speaker 4: feel like both bullpens will have some hits and some misses.
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  Speaker 4: But if the Blue Jays starters can match the Dodger
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  Speaker 4: stars give them a chance. I think if they can
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  Speaker 4: knock them out every once in a while early that's
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  Speaker 4: their shot. Then you get the Sheans, and you get
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  Speaker 4: some other guys that just aren't as as not as good,
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  Speaker 4: but as I don't know good in the bullpen, right,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. That to me seems like the key.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, So if you're the Blue Jays, how do you
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  Speaker 1: prevent the Dodgers starters from going so deep into games?
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  Speaker 4: Fell off a bunch of pitches, don't strike out a
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  Speaker 4: lot because but don't also have first pitch out. So
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  Speaker 4: they do do that too, that's my question.
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  Speaker 2: They do early. They're swinging team.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers aren't. Actually the Brewers aren't contact team. But
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  Speaker 1: what made them unique this season was that they don't chase.
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  Speaker 1: They were one of the best walks chase right whatever,
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  Speaker 1: throw it all out the window. For the last series,
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  Speaker 1: all of that was gone. They were swinging, chasing at
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  Speaker 1: great secondary stuff. But how did the Blue Jays do this?
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  Speaker 1: Because often like, what was the one game where they
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  Speaker 1: really got said? It was a Game three. Everything they
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  Speaker 1: were doing was that then the first three pitches. So
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  Speaker 1: it works great if it works the ball's falling in
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  Speaker 1: the right spot. If not, I mean you might look
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  Speaker 1: up and be like, damn, even glass now is at
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  Speaker 1: fifty pitches through five innings.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do? I just hope that the ball
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  Speaker 2: falls in the right spot.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, Listen, I don't know what you do, Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I think I think it's gonna be a tough series
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  Speaker 4: for the Blue Jays, I do. I think the Dodgers
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  Speaker 4: are just a better team one through twenty six. And
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  Speaker 4: that's the problem that every team is run into. With
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  Speaker 4: the Dodgers, That's why I've had them number one of
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  Speaker 4: my power rankings since day one. Claudia, Hey, I think
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  Speaker 4: I think they can get a couple of games, though.
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  Speaker 4: I think that if they can get it, if they
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  Speaker 4: win Game one and put some pressure on the Dodgers
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  Speaker 4: and go to La and maybe steal one here and
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  Speaker 4: there and get it back to Toronto like they did
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  Speaker 4: for six and seven, this crowd's gonna go crazy. So
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  Speaker 4: that that's kind of how you have to do. You
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  Speaker 4: have to strike early, steal a game somehow, someone hits
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  Speaker 4: a home run late, or the Dodgers make an error
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  Speaker 4: or something and they steal a game, maybe steal a
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  Speaker 4: base or two. I think one thing that the Jays
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  Speaker 4: can do, and they don't do a ton of this
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  Speaker 4: is they can run on the Dodgers. I feel like
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  Speaker 4: glass now Snell you can run a little bit, and
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  Speaker 4: especially when their Suzaki comes in you get guys on
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  Speaker 4: you can run. So I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: the really famous like headliner coaching wise for the Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: is actually their hitting coach this year. John Schneider's done
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  Speaker 1: a really nice job and he keeps gaining experience. But
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  Speaker 1: they love Dave Popkins. I mean even casual fans know
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  Speaker 1: who he is.
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  Speaker 2: And he was pushed away by the Twins. Right Twins,
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  Speaker 2: let him go. He's there.
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays play have talked him up a ton like.
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  Speaker 1: I heard one quote from I think it was Varshow
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  Speaker 1: this series, who said, let me give you the difference
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  Speaker 1: in the past, the way our hitting instruction and coaching
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  Speaker 1: staff was set up. If I had to make a
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  Speaker 1: mechanical tweak, it would take me weeks, if not months,
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  Speaker 1: to get back on track now it's days and that
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  Speaker 1: he lets everybody be themselves. So with all of that
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  Speaker 1: being said, if you're a Blue Jays hitter and he says, hey,
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  Speaker 1: be yourself, if you're a swinger, you're not going to
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  Speaker 1: be like, Okay, well, I want to get deep into
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  Speaker 1: account every ab against this starter because we want to
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  Speaker 1: get them out of the game and get to the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: Right, you're going to keep just playing the way that
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  Speaker 2: you play.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and if that's being ready first pitch for a
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  Speaker 3: pitch you're looking for, it's ready to attack. And I
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  Speaker 3: think that's a great concept. I've had coaches like that,
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  Speaker 3: We're not going to tinker with anything. Really, maybe something
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  Speaker 3: in your mindset, what you're looking for. Are you looking
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  Speaker 3: out over, you're looking in, what types of pitches you're
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  Speaker 3: looking for. You don't necessarily need to tinker with somebody's
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  Speaker 3: stance all the time and footing and everything else. You
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  Speaker 3: need to get in their mindset. And I think I
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  Speaker 3: think that's one of the biggest parts that people need
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  Speaker 3: to understand, Like you're getting lessons from somebody, you don't
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  Speaker 3: need to revamp or change anything. You need to change
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  Speaker 3: their mindset of thinking, do what you do best. Let's
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  Speaker 3: let's figure out what you do best as a hitter,
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  Speaker 3: and whatever is the stuff that's you can't do best
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  Speaker 3: at let's lay off of that until two strikes. Be you,
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  Speaker 3: go out there and that's what got us there. For
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  Speaker 3: the Toronto Blue Jays, be you, and let's focus on
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  Speaker 3: what's God is there and go out there and win
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  Speaker 3: a championship.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so I feel like we've at least painted somewhat
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  Speaker 1: of a roadmap for the Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 2: What about for the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, just be the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: Just be the Dodgers. Just do exactly what you've been
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  Speaker 1: doing to a t go out and play. Is there
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  Speaker 1: is there a weakness to exploit Blue Jays?
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  Speaker 4: The bullpen, it's the bullpen.
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  Speaker 2: It's John Schneiner might do it differently this round.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's gonna have to use lefties.
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  Speaker 2: Use lefties.
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  Speaker 1: But I also think that you need to get more
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  Speaker 1: creative with I mean, I know I talked about this
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  Speaker 1: on the postgame show last night. Like Basset, maybe Gossman
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  Speaker 1: pitches an inning or two on a throw day, you
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  Speaker 1: don't think that you think that's that's doing too much Nope.
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  Speaker 2: Like.
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  Speaker 1: Roster, Gosman's going game one or two. Right, it's either
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  Speaker 1: Gosman or your savage. I gotta look at what the
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  Speaker 1: you know, how many days it's been. But probably a savage, right,
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  Speaker 1: because Gosmin.
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  Speaker 4: He's got three days, so he's got plenty of Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But but my point is goss and you savage, you
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  Speaker 1: might look at a little bit differently. But but Gossman's
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  Speaker 1: veteran guy and on a long term deal and knows
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  Speaker 1: how to take care of himself. He's been in the
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  Speaker 1: league for a minute.
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  Speaker 2: I do think he pitches game one or two. In
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  Speaker 2: between that and his next start, he could give you
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  Speaker 2: an inning or two.
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  Speaker 1: I know it wasn't beautiful last night, right, he got
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  Speaker 1: himself in a little bit of trouble. But if that's
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  Speaker 1: what it takes, because you don't have confidence in some
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  Speaker 1: of the other guys, like I'm okay with that. You know,
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  Speaker 1: if the splitter is the equalizer against the Dodgers in
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  Speaker 1: a certain pocket of the lineup, and it's his throw day.
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  Speaker 1: When they said he throws thirty plus pitches on his throw.
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  Speaker 2: Day, give me in an inning.
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  Speaker 1: It wouldn't be the first time this has been done
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  Speaker 1: often top either Patrick Corbyn for the twenty nineteen Nats.
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  Speaker 2: When did the Red Sox win eighteen? It was Purcella.
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  Speaker 1: It was three of them that we all saw right
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  Speaker 1: that were coming out of the bullpen on throw days
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  Speaker 1: and people were like, oh, hell, score a brilliant whatever.
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  Speaker 1: It's like, Yeah, veteran guys on their throat day are
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  Speaker 1: giving you an inning.
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  Speaker 2: And they were fine.
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  Speaker 3: I think it all matters of where they are in
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  Speaker 3: the series. If they're down, yeah, of course, if they're
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  Speaker 3: doing well, I don't necessarily think you should bring them in.
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  Speaker 3: You should save them for the opportunity to come in
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  Speaker 3: either Game five or Game six. What might have you there?
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  Speaker 3: So I think, yes, I love that decision. I think
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  Speaker 3: that's great. If you're down too, well, oh there's no
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  Speaker 3: holds bars. You're going out and doing whatever you think
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  Speaker 3: you can to find a.
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  Speaker 4: Way to win.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, And I'm with you on the home field part.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, Dodgers went to and one against some Snell
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  Speaker 4: dealt against them this year already kershawb Scherzer in that game,
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  Speaker 4: famous game this year and the third game the Blue
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  Speaker 4: Jay's bet to Dodgers late.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, the Snell one makes sense.
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  Speaker 1: The Suzer Kershaw one, I mean, Kershaw is probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to be much of a factor, and Max is
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  Speaker 1: a different Max. If you see that Max, that Max
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  Speaker 1: can work for forty. Right, you need just one of
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  Speaker 1: those as as your bridge, as your pivot later in
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  Speaker 1: the series to get through the back end of the
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  Speaker 1: rotation and win.
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  Speaker 2: A game four.
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  Speaker 1: You are relying on some experience there. That's actually a
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  Speaker 1: big part of this is Max and Bieber.
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  Speaker 2: What are you going to get?
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  Speaker 4: Bieber needs to have the good stuff, not the stuff
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  Speaker 4: he had last night though. That's stuff he had last night.
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  Speaker 4: It wasn't good.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's not going to work against the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: And we've seen two bad and one good from Bieber
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  Speaker 1: other one. Is there any way to like it's just
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  Speaker 1: an inconsistency thing when you're coming off surgery.
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  Speaker 4: Actually, just keep talking about it.
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  Speaker 1: I guess extra rest does that make any difference. He's
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  Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of rest, right, He's gonna have
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  Speaker 1: eight or nine days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, over a week.
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  Speaker 4: He starts game three when he pitched Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
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  Speaker 4: Since she's gonna have a week.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's next Monday. I think that's probably good. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, but.
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  Speaker 4: I'm fascinated about how you Savage does against the Dodgers. M.
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  Speaker 4: I haven't seen him. You know, America is actually handled
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  Speaker 4: him pretty well.
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  Speaker 2: First start.
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  Speaker 1: They really handled him well. So he also didn't have
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  Speaker 1: his good splitter in that first Yeah, it's a field pitch, right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't know. It's gonna be fascinating with his
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  Speaker 4: angle and they've never seen it. I don't know. We'll
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  Speaker 4: see how it does.
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  Speaker 2: Dogers are really good at laying off pitches.
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  Speaker 4: Dodgers are really good. Rogers get strikeouts. Blue Jays don't
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  Speaker 4: strike out. A lot of interesting matchups in this series.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of blue too. If you like blue, this
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  Speaker 4: is your series.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the one thing I will say for those
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  Speaker 1: that are putting out, Oh, the Blue Jays can rescue baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Shut up. That is way too much.
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  Speaker 1: If the Dodgers win again, like, stop it, that is ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers paeril is like four hundred ish and the
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays perils like two eighty or something like. Stop
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  Speaker 1: First of all, yeah, they're two teams that that definitely
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  Speaker 1: spend tod father. But let's not act like if the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers went back to back World Series titles, the sport
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  Speaker 1: is broken forever. It's just it felt this way last
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  Speaker 1: year with Yankees and Dodgers. It's like, we never get
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  Speaker 1: a matchup like that and we can't just enjoy it
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  Speaker 1: one time.
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  Speaker 2: We never get a matchup.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, and everyone's like, ah, this is just like
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  Speaker 1: the two big teams.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, it never happens.
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  Speaker 1: And having won that much over the past, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a few decades, right, the Yankees dynasty is a long
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  Speaker 1: time ago at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And if you're a president or GM or one of
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  Speaker 3: those guys and the Dodgers do win, it's like, Okay,
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  Speaker 3: maybe I need to start spending a little more to
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  Speaker 3: get this, get my team going, and stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: And there's nothing wrong with that. They had an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to get guys, and guys said, you know what, if
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna pay me, I'm coming over, and I'd like
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  Speaker 3: my opportunities here. The end goal as a baseball player,
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  Speaker 3: Number one is to win the World Series. Number two
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  Speaker 3: is to provide for your family, of course, but you
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  Speaker 3: want to I mean you can flip flop that too
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  Speaker 3: as well. I mean, family always comes first. But as
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  Speaker 3: a baseball guy, when you're playing, you want to win
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  Speaker 3: a World Series and you want to take care of
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  Speaker 3: your family, so they both kind of go together. So yeah,
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  Speaker 3: if you're gonna pay me, that's great. I can provide
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  Speaker 3: for my family and have the best opportunity to win
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  Speaker 3: a World Series. So why doesn't every president try and
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: do that? We don't know that answer. So it's just
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  Speaker 3: part of baseball. And if the Dodgers win, I think
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  Speaker 3: it's fine for baseball too. If you don't like or
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  Speaker 3: play better that old adage that's all or get better players.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Freddy Freeman has been incredible for them during his Dodgers' tenure.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a five hundred million dollar player. He's a
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  Speaker 1: player anybody could have signed. Mookie anyone could have traded
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  Speaker 1: for Initially. First of all, the Red Sox also are
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  Speaker 1: a big, big, big market, and they somehow felt like
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  Speaker 1: he was He was a cast.
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  Speaker 2: Monty was a castle.
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  Speaker 1: Great to see you, and I'll start with this your
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: shock factor when you saw Tony Botello as the main
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: man leading away to manage the San Francisco Giants and
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: as of us doing this this second, it's not done,
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: but it does sound like it's heading towards that direction.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: So what do you think?
• 17:52
  Speaker 6: Well, you know, Andy Baggerley from the Athletic has been
• 17:55
  Speaker 6: mentioning Tony Vitello quite a lot, in fact most really
• 18:00
  Speaker 6: ever since this job opened up. So am I surprised, yes? Shocked? No,
• 18:07
  Speaker 6: because we knew that the name was out there there.
• 18:10
  Speaker 6: I think there are some family connections with Tennessee University
• 18:14
  Speaker 6: of Tennessee. Obviously, the Giants have taken or acquired some
• 18:20
  Speaker 6: Tennessee players, including Blade Tied Wallen. Of course, Drew Gilbert
• 18:25
  Speaker 6: is on the big league team, so they definitely have
• 18:28
  Speaker 6: some interest in those kinds of guys. It's stunning in
• 18:34
  Speaker 6: that he has no pro experience, neither playing nor coaching.
• 18:39
  Speaker 6: That's virtually unheard of. But we know Buster Posey's bold, right.
• 18:44
  Speaker 6: I pulled off the Devers deal six weeks before the
• 18:46
  Speaker 6: trade deadline out of nowhere, so I think this potentially
• 18:50
  Speaker 6: is another big swing from Buster Posey.
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: Okay, what's the connection between Buster, Posey, and Tony. I
• 18:58
  Speaker 4: tried to find one along the way. You mentioned Tennessee.
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: Buster went to Florida State. Is there something I'm missing
• 19:04
  Speaker 4: here that they're so connected and they have a relationship from.
• 19:08
  Speaker 6: I believe someone in his wife's family has a Tennessee connection.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: So yeah, there's that. But also you know that in baseball,
• 19:17
  Speaker 6: you know what a small world it is. Aja everybody
• 19:20
  Speaker 6: knows everybody, and when you're talking to you know they
• 19:23
  Speaker 6: took a player from Tennessee. When you were talking two
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: players in the draft who are from a school, you
• 19:29
  Speaker 6: get to know pretty much everyone there. Now, this is
• 19:32
  Speaker 6: Buster's first year as the top baseball executive, but you know,
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: he's got a huge bunch of people in the front
• 19:40
  Speaker 6: office helping him who have experience. I certainly think that
• 19:43
  Speaker 6: Jeff Barry knows probably everyone at Tennessee. After a long
• 19:47
  Speaker 6: career of being an agent. Zach Manzien's obviously been in
• 19:51
  Speaker 6: numerous front offices and probably as well acquainted with everyone there.
• 19:55
  Speaker 6: I think they like the job he's done there. You
• 19:57
  Speaker 6: can't argue with the success that he's had. I have
• 20:01
  Speaker 6: seen some people kind of compare this a little bit
• 20:03
  Speaker 6: to Gabe Kapler two point zero. You know, somebody younger
• 20:08
  Speaker 6: and very outside the box. Uh, so we'll see, you
• 20:13
  Speaker 6: know that maybe they're in one of those we swing
• 20:15
  Speaker 6: from the younger guy outside of the box to the older,
• 20:18
  Speaker 6: more established manager to the younger guy again. But this
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: this one is very bold.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not along those lines. Do you think a college
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: manager can translate to a professional manager at the major
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: league level without really any experience coaching at that level?
• 20:39
  Speaker 6: You know, it just hasn't. It's been done so rarely.
• 20:41
  Speaker 6: Everybody talks about, you know, Pat Murphy, but he had
• 20:45
  Speaker 6: coached for for a while in the minors, you know, certainly,
• 20:50
  Speaker 6: you know, and he'd been on staff, so you know,
• 20:54
  Speaker 6: go back to Bobby Winkle maybe, and even he had
• 20:57
  Speaker 6: had time on a big league staff. So so it's
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: really just such an unknown. If you're a team that
• 21:04
  Speaker 6: has a lot of young players, maybe, but the Giants
• 21:07
  Speaker 6: aren't all young players. They do have five guys who
• 21:10
  Speaker 6: are on long term contracts who are more veteran guys,
• 21:13
  Speaker 6: but they are say, take Matt Chapman. He really took
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: to Drew Gilbert. You know, Drew Gilbert's a very sort
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: of raw rye, you know, collegiate type player, and he
• 21:25
  Speaker 6: showed that tons of personality, loads of enthusiasm, and Chapman
• 21:30
  Speaker 6: loved that. You know that as the team kind of
• 21:35
  Speaker 6: faltered a little bit down the stretch, I think some
• 21:37
  Speaker 6: of that stuff maybe got put aside. Drew Gilbert, to
• 21:42
  Speaker 6: his credit, didn't haul out the raw ras stuff when
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: the team was playing poorly. But maybe that is something
• 21:49
  Speaker 6: that a team that has struggled to kind of be
• 21:51
  Speaker 6: consistent for a few years could use as a little
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: more energy, some more enthusiasm. I don't know if that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 6: I've never met Tony Vittello. I walked past him once
• 22:02
  Speaker 6: when the Giants played the Rockies this year. I really
• 22:04
  Speaker 6: should have stopped and introduced myself. Guys kind of whipped
• 22:06
  Speaker 6: all that one. But yeah, he's he's got a big personality.
• 22:12
  Speaker 6: You always wonder sometimes how that plays in a big
• 22:15
  Speaker 6: league clubhouse, especially with somebody that has no pro experience
• 22:19
  Speaker 6: of any kind. If you've got a big, big, big
• 22:21
  Speaker 6: personality to go along with that, there's the potential that
• 22:25
  Speaker 6: it could rub some veterans the wrong way.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Sure, that was gonna be my question, how do we
• 22:30
  Speaker 4: think this is going to go? Because he's never had
• 22:32
  Speaker 4: to answer. When you're the head coach of a collegey
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: you have an ad and but if you're doing well,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: they just kind of let you do your own thing.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: They don't really have to answer to anybody. Well, here,
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: he's got owners, he's got buster, he's got GMS, he's
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: got players. A lot of times you have to answer
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: to how's he going to deal with not being like
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: the big man on campus? Because in college, you know,
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: college football coaches are the man. College basketball coaches, college
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: baseball coaches, they control their Oh you don't like this,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: guess what, transfer, We'll find somebody else. So there's a
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: million people you can find. Big leagues don't work like that.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: You have a select few people you can get. So
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: how's Tony going to adapt to being not the head
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: guy in charge?
• 23:10
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean there's all sorts of things. The so
• 23:13
  Speaker 6: much more media right that that's going to be a
• 23:16
  Speaker 6: huge difference too. I think he's very good with the media.
• 23:19
  Speaker 6: It certainly seems like fans so many more fans, and
• 23:24
  Speaker 6: the fans are going to be as skeptical, I think,
• 23:27
  Speaker 6: as we're going to hear from a lot of the media.
• 23:31
  Speaker 6: So he's going to have to deal with a lot.
• 23:33
  Speaker 6: He's going to have an enormous amount on his plate.
• 23:36
  Speaker 6: The thing I'm more curious about is who winds up
• 23:39
  Speaker 6: being the bench coach. Do you need somebody who's very
• 23:43
  Speaker 6: experienced in that spot? And if so, is that do
• 23:47
  Speaker 6: you sort of feel like, if you're Tony Vittello, is
• 23:49
  Speaker 6: there's somebody looking over my shoulder all the time. Do
• 23:52
  Speaker 6: I have to worry that if I, you know, we
• 23:54
  Speaker 6: go into a long losing streak, that suddenly I'm going
• 23:57
  Speaker 6: to get replaced by somebody who's got some former managing experience.
• 24:02
  Speaker 6: I you know, I would have had the same question
• 24:05
  Speaker 6: probably if it had been somebody like Nick Huntley, who
• 24:07
  Speaker 6: was the early front runner before he withdrew his name
• 24:10
  Speaker 6: for family reasons. And I think still might be potentially
• 24:13
  Speaker 6: somebody that the Padres are looking at. So there's so
• 24:18
  Speaker 6: many different aspects to this. It's absolutely fascinating. We're gonna
• 24:21
  Speaker 6: be able to write about this all off season, which
• 24:23
  Speaker 6: I guess is a good thing.
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: You answered that question too. I was gonna bring up
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: Nick Huntley, But how about the other coaching staff? Have
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: you heard of any wind about what might be? Is
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: there going to be a whole new revamp of everybody
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: pretty much, or is there going to be a couple
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: of guys that you still know about? Have you heard anything?
• 24:40
  Speaker 6: Well, it's going to be interesting, because the Giant said
• 24:43
  Speaker 6: when they let go Bob Melvin and Matt Williams and
• 24:47
  Speaker 6: Ryan Christensen both immediately told me that they are leaving
• 24:50
  Speaker 6: with him. But otherwise, the Giant said that they will
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: recommend the rest of the coaching staff to whoever the
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: new manager is. Now. I would assume that Tony Vitello has,
• 25:01
  Speaker 6: you know, at least somebody or a couple of guys
• 25:04
  Speaker 6: that he would like to bring in, but they are
• 25:07
  Speaker 6: going to need some experience. I thought JP Martinez and
• 25:10
  Speaker 6: Garvin Alston, the pitching coach and the assistant pitching coach,
• 25:15
  Speaker 6: were fantastic last year. It's really tough to argue with
• 25:18
  Speaker 6: what the job the Giants pitchers did overall. I really
• 25:23
  Speaker 6: hope they're back. I think the Giants hitting coaches did
• 25:25
  Speaker 6: a good job, you know, with you know a lot
• 25:28
  Speaker 6: of things kind of going against them at times. So
• 25:33
  Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't know how that's going to
• 25:35
  Speaker 6: go at all, But to me, it's that bench coach
• 25:38
  Speaker 6: spot that's going to be really in the you know,
• 25:41
  Speaker 6: they're going to need some experience. There's just not a
• 25:43
  Speaker 6: ton of older coaches there.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: So there's enough about the new manager. Let's let's talk
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: about the team this year, and let's talk Buster. How
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: would you rate Buster's first year on the job, including
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: if this does go down, which everyone is kind of
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: is expecting it to happen, how would you rate his
• 26:00
  Speaker 4: first year on the job as president of baseball as well?
• 26:06
  Speaker 6: You know, it's I really would probably give him a
• 26:09
  Speaker 6: solid A because of the Dever's trade and doing that
• 26:13
  Speaker 6: so early and out of nowhere and giving up not
• 26:16
  Speaker 6: a ton to get such a great player. The one
• 26:21
  Speaker 6: stumble that was understandable at the time was trading to
• 26:25
  Speaker 6: experienced relievers just before the team got hot, which obviously
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: you don't have a crystal ball, you don't know. They
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: got very good value in return for those relievers and
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: Tyler Rodgers and Community Duval, but they then went on
• 26:40
  Speaker 6: a tear. But the bullpen had so little, you know,
• 26:46
  Speaker 6: very young guys pitching in different spots that really hurt
• 26:51
  Speaker 6: them down the stretch. I think that they were a
• 26:53
  Speaker 6: much better team than they were that final month of
• 26:56
  Speaker 6: the season, but the bullpen really struggled, so I still
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: give him an a. I really I think all the
• 27:03
  Speaker 6: moves he made at the time were very good, and
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: the offseason moves too were very good. So he's doing well.
• 27:10
  Speaker 6: I mean, this is probably his biggest test to date.
• 27:14
  Speaker 6: So you know, let's get back in another year. Let's
• 27:18
  Speaker 6: reconfer on a grade for Buster.
• 27:22
  Speaker 4: That's really good.
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: That's really good. He's a stud. I'm talking about free
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: agents now, where they resign any guys and do you
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: see them getting after it a top free agents in
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: the market, because they always seem to be involved, you
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: know what I mean, And they always seem to get
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: one or two guys, but it's always that man, why
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: couldn't we get this person? Do you see this team
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: in the same direction going in a free agency or
• 27:42
  Speaker 3: do you see this team kind of you know, maybe
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: holding back a little bit.
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: Well, I think they're really going to want to know
• 27:47
  Speaker 6: what happens with a lot of guys who either have
• 27:49
  Speaker 6: team options or potentially are tied to qualifying offers. Kyle Tucker,
• 27:54
  Speaker 6: I think is a guy who would they would definitely
• 27:56
  Speaker 6: have interest in if he is somebody who is available
• 28:01
  Speaker 6: on the market and they need another back, they absolutely
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: need another bat, but almost all of those guys either
• 28:09
  Speaker 6: have team options, player options, or qualifying offer potential, so
• 28:15
  Speaker 6: we shall see. They'd very much like to bring back
• 28:18
  Speaker 6: Justin Verlander. I think the ball is in Verlander's court
• 28:21
  Speaker 6: on that one. He's pitching it a great ballpark. I mean,
• 28:24
  Speaker 6: we know why he went there, right, you know, he's
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: trying to get to three hundred wins. Great ballpark, good defense,
• 28:31
  Speaker 6: and he pitched really well, particularly in the second half,
• 28:34
  Speaker 6: really well, so he's going to get offers. But the
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: record was absolutely not what he wanted. So I don't
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: know quite how he looks at that. Does the manager
• 28:46
  Speaker 6: decision or what they do with pitching coach, does that
• 28:49
  Speaker 6: potentially affect it. I don't know. If he leaves, they
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: also need a veteran starter. There are going to be
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: a lot on the market. I certainly know when Bob
• 28:58
  Speaker 6: Melvin was still the manager, you would looked at, say
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: Sonny Gray, who absolutely has the best relationship with with
• 29:05
  Speaker 6: Bob Melvin and would have loved to come there. He's
• 29:07
  Speaker 6: got to you know, obviously he can decline trades, but
• 29:12
  Speaker 6: I think you know, a year in a good ballpark
• 29:14
  Speaker 6: for pictures with you know, Matt Chapman played behind him.
• 29:18
  Speaker 6: He knows what that's like. That's fantastic for pretty much
• 29:20
  Speaker 6: any picture. I think he's somebody that could make a
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: trade for if the asking price isn't too high. So
• 29:27
  Speaker 6: they've got a lot of options there. But they definitely
• 29:29
  Speaker 6: will need a veteran picture of some sort, and they
• 29:32
  Speaker 6: need a bat another bat somehow.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: And the thing that I think Giants fan should be
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: excited about is the fact that they'll get that done
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: because Posey in year one already has talked his bosses
• 29:43
  Speaker 1: into doing a lot of things that it was not
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: as easy to do in the past.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: Right, he's clearly got cachet.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: Even in this manager situation, Susan Tony Vattello is not
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: coming over for a million bucks a year, right, He's
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: going to be a more expensive manager. Buster's spending on
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: Dever's and a damis and that'll continue. So I think
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: Giants fan should be excited about that part. Clearly he's
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: got some say. But appreciate the time. We're gonna obviously
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: talk more about this. We'll wait till it's official, but
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: thanks for hopping on with us, and appreciate the time.
• 30:13
  Speaker 6: As always, fantastic Thanks US