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Ken Rosenthal: Yankees $2.6B infusion, A's post-Forst era, José Soriano 2x trade calls post-trade! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's the Inside Scoop with the Ft senior insider Ken
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  Speaker 1: Rosenthal and Ken. We continue to learn more stories about
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  Speaker 1: what could have happened at the trade deadline, and interesting
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  Speaker 1: one from some of your colleagues at the Athletic regarding
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  Speaker 1: Jose Soriano and phone calls that continued after he was traded.
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  Speaker 2: Is that common? It is common, and oftentimes, Scott, you'll
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  Speaker 2: hear of teams saying to the team that acquired a player, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we were in on that guy. We just didn't have enough.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think what would it take? And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know that it's completely common, but it's not uncommon.
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  Speaker 2: Put it that way. I guess I'm kind of parsing
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  Speaker 2: my words here, But regardless, what happened here was that
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  Speaker 2: the Jays gets Soriana on deadline warning. I think it
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  Speaker 2: was announced at nine nine thirty Eastern something like that,
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  Speaker 2: and then they took some calls from the Minnesota Twins
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  Speaker 2: and from the Chicago Cubs, and Dan Hayes and Mitch
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  Speaker 2: Vanna and of the Athletic had details about the Twins
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  Speaker 2: offer and they were willing to do the infielder that
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  Speaker 2: they just brought up. Kayln Culpepper, and then the Jays said, okay,
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  Speaker 2: we'll take that and we want Riley Quick, one of
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  Speaker 2: your top pitching prospects, and that's when the Twins said, no,
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  Speaker 2: thank you. But these conversations do take place, and especially
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  Speaker 2: when you have that much time remaining before the deadline,
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  Speaker 2: there is the possibility always of that player getting flipped again.
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  Speaker 2: I can't recall an example recently when that happened, but
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  Speaker 2: I know it has happened. In fact, one of the
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  Speaker 2: Rogers brothers got traded last year. I think it was Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: It wasn't all on deadline day, but he went one
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  Speaker 2: team to another and then to a second team or
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  Speaker 2: third team. So it does happen.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Ken, there was a guy a couple of years
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  Speaker 3: ago that got traded with like two weeks before. Remember
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  Speaker 3: that had been to the Twins, and then the Twins
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  Speaker 3: turned around and they kind of lost a bunch of games.
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  Speaker 3: I think it was the Twins, and then I don't
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  Speaker 3: remember who the player was, but then they turned around
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  Speaker 3: and got rid of the right two weeks later out
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  Speaker 3: the trade deadline. So this is not an unprecedented thing
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  Speaker 3: and just surprising me for someone of the value of Soriano,
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  Speaker 3: or of the thought of how good he is that
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  Speaker 3: the Blue Jays would trade for him and then just
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  Speaker 3: not shut it down right away and said they're like, wow,
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  Speaker 3: well listen, aj you know this.
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  Speaker 2: Every team has a price on every player. So even
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  Speaker 2: though the Jays get Soriano and the idea is for
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  Speaker 2: him to be controllable for two more years, pitch in
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  Speaker 2: the same rotation as dill Uncase, who has signed long term,
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  Speaker 2: if some team comes to them, If the Twins they'd
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  Speaker 2: come to them and said Kayln Culpepper Riley quick plus,
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  Speaker 2: the Jays would have done it because they would have
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  Speaker 2: believed that the value that they were getting back was
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  Speaker 2: even greater than the value of Jose Soriano. So that
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  Speaker 2: is not unusual. And the scenarios you just described, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't remember them off the top of my head either,
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  Speaker 2: those are not unusual scenarios either. You'll often see a
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  Speaker 2: team try to give itself the best shot by making
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  Speaker 2: a trade, say July fifteenth, even earlier, and then if
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't work out, they can flip that player again.
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  Speaker 2: Most dramatically, this occurred the year the Angels loaded up,
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  Speaker 2: remember with Lucas Gilito and Ronaldo Lopez and a bunch
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  Speaker 2: of others, and then they waved all of them in
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  Speaker 2: August after they fell apart. These things do happen.
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  Speaker 4: That was Scott's favorite, the dump deadline, anything to dump
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  Speaker 4: a little bit of salary. Scott loved that, Yes he
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  Speaker 4: loved it. But there's no rule against this, correct because
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  Speaker 4: we have three team trades all the time. Essentially, it
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  Speaker 4: would be kind of a three team trade. But with that,
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  Speaker 4: do you think this is going to come up in
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  Speaker 4: the CBA now that this information came out, like players
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  Speaker 4: don't want to be traded and then traded again like
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  Speaker 4: a day or two later in the middle of the season,
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  Speaker 4: the offseason, you can't do anything about.
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  Speaker 2: No, I don't expect anything in the CBA to cover this.
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  Speaker 2: And the bottom line is, eric, if you don't have
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  Speaker 2: a no trade clause, you can be traded at any time.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, it's uncomfortable, it's weird for a player to
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  Speaker 2: get possibly traded twice on the same day, but there
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  Speaker 2: is nothing in the CBA, or for that matter, really
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  Speaker 2: the context of the game that would prevent that from
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  Speaker 2: happening and make it to the point where, wow, that's
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  Speaker 2: really a bad thing. I don't know that anyone sees
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  Speaker 2: it that way except maybe a player who would be
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  Speaker 2: in that situation. But even that player, let's say Soriano
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  Speaker 2: got moved again, Let's say he went to the Twins,
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  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have even packed his bags by then, or
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  Speaker 2: at least gotten on a play most likely to the
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  Speaker 2: other cities. So I don't see a real problem with this.
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  Speaker 2: It's crazy and it would be unsettling if you're a
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  Speaker 2: player to get two phone calls in one day informing
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  Speaker 2: you you've been moved. But I just don't see that
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  Speaker 2: it's that big a deal as far as rule breaking
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  Speaker 2: or anything like that. It's not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's just it be It would be weird
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  Speaker 3: for the player and be like, oh, I got traded here,
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  Speaker 3: and you call your parents and everyone and say, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to the Blue just just kidding, I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to the Twins or the Cubs. I mean, so it
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  Speaker 3: would be it would just be different. Ken, what about
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  Speaker 3: the Yankees new thing they sold? They gave a stake
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  Speaker 3: to what is an Apollo Apollo private equity? Right, what
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  Speaker 3: does this mean for the Yankees? I guess it got
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  Speaker 3: rid of their debt? What did Apollo get back for this,
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  Speaker 3: And why would the Yankees have to do this.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know if they had to do it, But
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  Speaker 2: what they wanted to do, from the reports that we're
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  Speaker 2: seeing one in the Athletic and others, is restructure their
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  Speaker 2: debt and pay off some of their debt. Refinance, restructure,
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  Speaker 2: pay it off. So that's the goal here that they
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  Speaker 2: wanted to do that. They've always had a stadium debt
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  Speaker 2: that they've been concerned with, so this will help them
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  Speaker 2: in that regard, and also it will help them in
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  Speaker 2: what they are calling other ventures. I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: that might be. The average fan is going to want
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  Speaker 2: to know, and rightly so. Does this mean that the
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  Speaker 2: Yankees will have a higher payroll or be able to
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  Speaker 2: spend more Well, First of all, if a salary cap
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  Speaker 2: is coming, then payrolls are going to be capped anyway.
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  Speaker 2: But even if there is no salary cap, and I
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  Speaker 2: frankly don't expect that there will be, I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that how Steinbrunner is going to operate the team any
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  Speaker 2: differently based on this private equity money. And what the
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  Speaker 2: private equity firm gets is a steak in the franchise
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  Speaker 2: that is worth gazillion dollars, and if the Yankees ever
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  Speaker 2: get sold, they get a return on that.
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  Speaker 4: Private equity has been in sports for a long time.
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  Speaker 4: It's been it's in different different teams, the Red Sox.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's probably what they were saying behind the Celtics,
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  Speaker 4: you know, needing to sell players. Is the fear of
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  Speaker 4: private equity coming into a large market like this something
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  Speaker 4: that fans just in general need to be afraid of,
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  Speaker 4: or is this just a Yankee fans aren't going to
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  Speaker 4: notice anything different like you said, or are sports fans
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  Speaker 4: need to be afraid of private equity in general, not
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  Speaker 4: just with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: Eric, I will say that I am not expert enough
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  Speaker 2: to really know the answer to that. And we've seen
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  Speaker 2: what private equity does to other businesses, of course, and
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  Speaker 2: that can be debates the quality of that, whether it's
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  Speaker 2: good or not. But I just don't know that in sports,
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  Speaker 2: we've seen teams operate much differently. And again I'm speaking
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  Speaker 2: as someone very unfamiliar with this whole thing, casual understanding
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  Speaker 2: of it. So yes, it's been going on for a
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  Speaker 2: while now, and certainly there are many teams with private
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  Speaker 2: equity partners, but I don't know that it's affected the
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  Speaker 2: team's operations dramatically.
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  Speaker 1: One clarification here from Krafts, So actually the cap and
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  Speaker 1: curtain and all this stuff that's involved with the NBA
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  Speaker 1: is why the Celtics had to do that. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think it had to do with the ownership of the team.
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  Speaker 1: They literally couldn't keep all those players. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: fight will be in the off season for baseball. But
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  Speaker 1: one other note on this can on the private equity side.
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  Speaker 1: The one thing we do know that goes on behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes with baseball a lot is why isn't my
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  Speaker 1: team worth as much as this team in the NFL
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  Speaker 1: or this team in the NBA. Franchisealuations and I know
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  Speaker 1: your colleague EVANDRELA covered this a ton, So could there
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  Speaker 1: be some fear that if entities take over that just
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  Speaker 1: care about bottom line, you will have a deeper fight
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  Speaker 1: with players versus owners because they're trying to sell these
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  Speaker 1: things or have them increase value, not just have it
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  Speaker 1: for fun.
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  Speaker 2: As of right now, Scott, the private equity max is
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  Speaker 2: fifteen percent of a franchise, So if you're fifteen percent,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have a majority stake, and you only have
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  Speaker 2: so much, say hel Steinbrenner is still the principal owner
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  Speaker 2: of the Yankees. Nothing's going to change in that regard.
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  Speaker 2: So again, I don't know how much fans should be
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  Speaker 2: concerned about that. And as far as franchise values, the
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  Speaker 2: fact that private equity is investing in franchises indicates that
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  Speaker 2: maybe they believe a cap is coming and that franchise
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  Speaker 2: values will be enhanced. I don't know how they can
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  Speaker 2: count on that, or maybe they just believe baseball teams
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  Speaker 2: are a good investment. Imagine that.
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  Speaker 5: Baseball players aren't. Baseball teams are a bad investment?
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  Speaker 3: Ken, Is that why guys are lining up to get
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  Speaker 3: it to try to buy a team? I don't understand
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  Speaker 3: why why people think it's a bad investment. But anyways, Ken,
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  Speaker 3: what about the A's. They fired David Force the other day,
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  Speaker 3: who'd been there forever. You know, he was not mentioned
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  Speaker 3: in Moneyball at all because Billy Bean does everything?
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  Speaker 5: Does this change anything with the A's.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's going to change something when they get a
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  Speaker 2: new head of base operations. Now who that person will
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  Speaker 2: be we don't know yet, but it seems to me
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  Speaker 2: from I understand here that they've created two years in
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  Speaker 2: a row now and their owner John Fisher said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: what are we doing now? There are reasons why they created.
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  Speaker 2: They're playing in a minor league ballpark where the ball
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  Speaker 2: flies and it's really hard to have pitching there succeed.
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  Speaker 2: But that evidently is not what John Fisher is seeing
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  Speaker 2: in total, and he's the owner, he has the right
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  Speaker 2: to do whatever he wants. He hasn't really explained why
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  Speaker 2: this move happened a mutual parting. We reported that it
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  Speaker 2: was a firing and teams love their fancy language and
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  Speaker 2: they love to make things look pretty. This wasn't pretty.
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  Speaker 2: He was fired and David Forrest did have kind of
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  Speaker 2: a mixed record there. Some of the trades weren't good Olsen.
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  Speaker 2: They got Langoleer's back forth Chapman trade was not good
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  Speaker 2: at all. The trade in which they parted with Sean
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  Speaker 2: Murphy and only essentially got back as three RRE's not
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  Speaker 2: a good trade. It looks like the Mason Miller trade
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  Speaker 2: with Leo de Rees coming back will be a boon
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  Speaker 2: for them. But like any GM, he had kind of
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  Speaker 2: a mixed record, maybe even worse than most, but at
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  Speaker 2: the same time. There are challenges with that franchise and
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  Speaker 2: running that franchise in this no man's land that they're
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  Speaker 2: in that go well beyond the head of base operations.
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  Speaker 5: So what they want to.
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  Speaker 2: Do is build up as they get into Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty eight is the timetable, and they want to
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  Speaker 2: be a competitive team. By them, they were supposedly going
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  Speaker 2: to start spending a little bit more money than they've
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  Speaker 2: been spending. They were ramping up and have ramped up,
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  Speaker 2: but not to the level that I initially reported that
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  Speaker 2: they were projecting. So again, it always comes back to
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  Speaker 2: the owner and it comes back to what his vision
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  Speaker 2: of this is. They have had one of the smaller
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  Speaker 2: front offices, smaller analytics teams in the game, and that's
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  Speaker 2: going to have to be boosted up too. And whether
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  Speaker 2: John Fisher wants to do that or not, whether he
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  Speaker 2: likes it or not, that remains to be seen.
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  Speaker 4: Is there an archetype? Is there a name or a
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  Speaker 4: type of general manager from a certain team that you
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  Speaker 4: think could possibly come in, somebody that can transition a
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  Speaker 4: team from being terrible to a new city, Like you know,
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  Speaker 4: is John Fisher a I'm going to get a veteran
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  Speaker 4: GM now that I'm going to be this Las Vegas
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  Speaker 4: baseball team, or is it you know, from more of
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  Speaker 4: the small front office, small front office type of teams.
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  Speaker 2: Expect that it would be a small market team. Perhaps
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  Speaker 2: that produces the next head of base operations for the
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  Speaker 2: Oakland or the Sacramento A's. Now, when you say a
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  Speaker 2: small front office team, that is not necessarily going in
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  Speaker 2: line with small markets. Some of the small market teams
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  Speaker 2: have big front offices and lots of staff. Tampa Bay Cleveland,
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  Speaker 2: I believe does not, maybe to the extent of Tampa Bay.
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  Speaker 2: So that's not the thing. The thing is finding someone
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  Speaker 2: who can run a team that is not going to
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  Speaker 2: be at the level of the Yankees and Dodgers. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: even in a cap floor system. Even in a cap
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  Speaker 2: floor system, you're going to need someone who is savvy
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  Speaker 2: with the payroll. The a's in that system, like the
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  Speaker 2: Guardians and like the Rays, and like all these other
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  Speaker 2: teams that people think are all of a sudden going
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  Speaker 2: to be rich, They're going to be still at the
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  Speaker 2: bottom of the scale, most likely in payroll. And that's okay,
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  Speaker 2: But if the system continues as it is, you're definitely
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  Speaker 2: gonna want someone who manages a payroll efficiently and does
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  Speaker 2: all of those things. And again they've had challenges there.
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  Speaker 2: Free agent pitchers don't want to come there, even if
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  Speaker 2: they want to spend money. So they created this mess
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  Speaker 2: and now they've got to find a way out of it.
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  Speaker 3: Ken, But they had a movie made about them. They
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  Speaker 3: only need one person in the front office. Two people,
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  Speaker 5: That's it, and the.
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  Speaker 2: Obviously AJ David Force wasn't there. Then that was Paul
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  Speaker 2: de Podesta, who is in the movie Yea, and that
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  Speaker 2: was a different It wasn't a different group entirely, but
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those guys have gone on to other things.
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  Speaker 3: I know, they just need two people. Though the movie
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  Speaker 3: they they put a they said that in that bad
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  Speaker 3: movie that is Moneyball.
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  Speaker 5: Ken, you wrote an article about go laugh. It's true.
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  Speaker 3: It's terrible movie. They didn't include the twins who ended
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  Speaker 3: all that crap.
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  Speaker 2: So let's a book that didn't include that, and they
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  Speaker 2: went based on the book. AJ. I know, I didn't
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  Speaker 2: read the book because that's not the thing you do.
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  Speaker 3: The book because I was on the team that ended
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  Speaker 3: the winning streak and knocked them out of the playoffs,
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  Speaker 3: so I didn't need to read that.
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  Speaker 2: Omitted the contributions of Zito, Mulder and Hudson. That was
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  Speaker 2: where it started.
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  Speaker 5: That's fine, Ken whatever. I know you love moneyball.
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  Speaker 3: So you wrote a story the other day about all
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  Speaker 3: the Angels guys being on Trout's golf course. Now you
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  Speaker 3: told me about it. I wasn't allowed to talk about
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  Speaker 3: it until the article came out, so I didn't read
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  Speaker 3: the article either, because you had already told me this story.
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  Speaker 3: So can you elaborate a little bit. How one guy
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  Speaker 2: Yes, this is for the people like AJ who don't read.
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  Speaker 2: I will give it a bridge version of the story.
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: And what happened was Joe Adell told me Friday, as
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: I was preparing for the broadcast that when he got traded,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: he was on whole number seven at Trout National. I said, Joe,
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: what are you talking about? And he said, we had
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: an outing and it was about a dozen of them
• 16:47
  Speaker 2: went on the off day on the East Coast. They
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: had it off day right before series against Baltimore. Took
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: a two hour drive the night before up to Trout's place,
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: stayed there, and then on deadline day had this outing,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: which Trout had planned before he really realized that it
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: was going to be the trade deadline. So before they
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: even teed off, Brent Souder learned that he was traded
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: to the Atlanta Braves. Joe Adell on Whole seven goes
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: to the Cleveland Guardians, and then on Whole twelve or thirteen,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: these guys weren't exactly clear. Ryan Zephyr John got the
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: word that he was going to the Chicago Cubs. And
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: then there was one more trade that occurred when the players,
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: some of them were going back to Trout's house in
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: a car, and that was Kirby Yates, and Kirby Yates
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: said he never even expected to get traded. He's thirty nine,
• 17:36
  Speaker 2: he's throwing ninety miles an hour. But the Pirates wanted him,
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: they got him, and that's how it went down. Now
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: people might say, well, where was Jose Soriano. He wasn't there.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: He had stayed back in the hotel in Baltimore. He
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: is not a golfer.
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: Wow, okay, well maybe it actually helped for once to
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: not be a golfer and participating there so that you
• 17:57
  Speaker 1: weren't you know, flummixed on the course, a good story.
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: Check it out in the athletic a lot more there,
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: and then lastly, let's finish with the game coming up,
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: and we'll do more on the nitty gritty game wise
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: later this week.
• 18:08
  Speaker 2: But Brewers and Dodgers.
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: Meeting up, and where are these two teams at? I
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: will just put it there and let you run.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: It's interesting with the Brewers. How last night they moved
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: both William Contreras and Christian Yeoitch down in the order.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: It worked for them. Those guys have been struggling. The
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: Brewers are a team that have really yet to have
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: a dip this season. Now it might be coming. All
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: teams have it. The Dodgers are kind of going through
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: it right now, but they have played an exceedingly high
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: level even with some things that have gone against them
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: injury wise. They just keep it going right now. This
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: series could be an NLCS preview and NLCS rematch of
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: last year and then previewing this year, and it's going
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: to be really interesting to see just if the Dodgers
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: start to snap out of it now. Dave Roberts has
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: talked about them playing with more urgency, not trying just
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: kind of playing with a little bit more pep in
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: their step. Did it last night to a certain extent,
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: and then Diaz got to save, which was a good thing.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: And Schooble against Kansas City was okay, not dominant Terrek scouble.
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: So they obviously have the talent. Snell is coming back tonight,
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: and they're excited about what lies ahead, but they are
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: not perfect. And amazingly enough, Terrek scoubel coming over.
• 19:27
  Speaker 6: Has not been unbelievably great and unbelievably important to the Dodgers,
• 19:33
  Speaker 6: because that's baseball, folks, and things don't always go the
• 19:37
  Speaker 6: way we think.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Tennis, one player is, yeah.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: A schoobl pitching Saturday. Is he lined up for Saturday
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: for Fox?
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure because they've been going with six and
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: he's lined up on one thing. I saw it's him,
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: But then Dave Roberts mentioned last night it's probably Sunday,
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: which would be five days rest instead of four, and
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I kind of anticipate that's what the gonna do Sunday.
• 20:02
  Speaker 3: Unlucky Ken for once. Unlucky Kim. By the way, it
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: was Jonah Hill not so throwing the moneyball. I don't
• 20:07
  Speaker 3: want Jonah Hill and neither one who's now digging taekwondo
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: or something.
• 20:11
  Speaker 5: I don't want him to find me and beat you up.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: So we're gonna have.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: To We're gonna have to take either one of those guys.
• 20:16
  Speaker 5: No Ken, they he's taken jiu jitsu or something. I
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: don't know. I just probably could sit on them and
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: they probably would.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd be good, aj I think you could take
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: either of them. I've seen their seen their strength and
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: measurables and enough movies. Ken, Thank you, we'll talk to
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you later this week.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: Thanks guys.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: All right, so you can see Ken of course this weekend,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and that game we're talking about, we'll preview it a
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: little bit more later this week too. The Dodgers taking
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: on the Brewers.
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: There would be.
• 20:42
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