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Kristian Campbell's Red Sox extension, 0-6 Braves, Dodgers acquire Ruiz, May returns, Pirates option Bednar, A's bandbox, Geno is HIM · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: I wanted the biggest head possible. I don't think it's
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  Speaker 1: a big deal. I think people are making a big
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  Speaker 1: deal out of it because the Brewers pitching suck and
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  Speaker 1: they hit a bunch of homers off of it. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of other guys using it on other teams
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  Speaker 1: and they're not hitting as many homers.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, Look who's back, Look who's bad.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, I'm trying to turn on the TV so I
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  Speaker 1: can watch the games today since there's all day games,
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  Speaker 1: which I don't understand how they weren't day games yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: But that's a whole different story.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yesterday was Tuesday.
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  Speaker 1: I know, but they were all night games. There were
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  Speaker 1: no day games.
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  Speaker 2: But every Tuesday there's no day games.
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  Speaker 3: Not early in the season normally. Normally they're night games
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  Speaker 3: or day games. Sorry, I guess that one.
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  Speaker 2: I'll give the schedule makers a pass on. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like Tuesdays are for night games.
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  Speaker 3: Why would you Why wouldn't you rather play?
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  Speaker 1: Would you rather play in Chicago at one o'clock when
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  Speaker 1: it's somewhat sunny and warm, or seven o'clock when it's
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  Speaker 1: freezing balls cold?
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  Speaker 2: I love freezing balls?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, perfect, See that's why Scott, you should work for
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  Speaker 1: a movie.
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  Speaker 2: No, thanks, did that for twelve years.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I gotta order my I gotta I gotta
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  Speaker 1: order my intern around here for a second.
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  Speaker 2: Derek Lewandowski Pinstripe Territory host our buddy, and Jesse Friedman,
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  Speaker 2: is getting himself all prepped and ready to go too,
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  Speaker 2: so we're excited for that. And hopefully we'll talk to
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  Speaker 2: AJ again in a minute, because I wanted to ask
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  Speaker 2: him about one or two things before we charge, But
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  Speaker 2: we can just charge charge about AJ. Let's go over
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  Speaker 2: some things that have happened since you've been gone. One
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  Speaker 2: thing that has not happened since you've been gone. The
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  Speaker 2: Braves winning their first game of the season, so that's
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  Speaker 2: a problem. They also lost Jerkson Profar for half the
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  Speaker 2: season to a ped suspension, and then yesterday we learned
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  Speaker 2: that Rinaldo Lopez has to get a little procedure done.
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  Speaker 2: So what is the panic meter at in Braves country?
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  Speaker 1: Uh? Should be pretty high. I listen, I was on
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixteen team. We Uh we lost first nine games,
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and we started zero to nine, so I
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  Speaker 1: feel like they're not gonna be that bad. This team
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  Speaker 1: is way better than we were in twenty sixteen. So
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  Speaker 1: but listen, there's an old thing in baseball. You can't lose.
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  Speaker 1: You can't win the Penn in April, but you can
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  Speaker 1: lose it. And they've had they had some bad news
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  Speaker 1: come their way. I mean, the guy who lost the
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  Speaker 1: game on the first day was DFA to Hector Narris.
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  Speaker 1: The one of their all star starting pitchers is out
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  Speaker 1: for who knows how long. In Renaldo Lopez and their
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  Speaker 1: big offseason acquisition was suspended for eighty games for taking steroids.
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  Speaker 3: So this is this is rough.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we won sixty eight games in twenty sixteen.
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  Speaker 3: They're not gonna be that bad.
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  Speaker 1: The biggest thing for me on that whole thing one
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  Speaker 1: for thirty four runners in score position. I did their
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  Speaker 1: game on Saturday. At the time, they were like one
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  Speaker 1: for twenty one ish, but now they're up to one
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  Speaker 1: for thirty four. If you know, if you're one for
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  Speaker 1: thirty four, you ain't gonna win hardly any games. You're
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  Speaker 1: relying too much on homers and they're not. They're you know,
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  Speaker 1: in San Diego in La are tough plays to hit.
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  Speaker 3: Homers. So I think that they're they're gonna be better,
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  Speaker 3: but they're not gonna be this bad. But it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a struggle. Somebody's have to step up.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest thing when you lose that big of a
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  Speaker 4: piece of your starting rotation, somebody has to step up. Obviously,
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  Speaker 4: we saw what Schwellenbach did two years ago. We saw
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  Speaker 4: what Bryce Elder did. Like the Braves have a knack
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  Speaker 4: for figuring out pitching coming out of nowhere or in
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  Speaker 4: a sense of like prospects, like just being ready to
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  Speaker 4: come up to the big leagues. Everybody hits bumps in
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  Speaker 4: the road, different guys. They got rid of Ian Anderson already,
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  Speaker 4: they traded him, and you know, you thought for the
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  Speaker 4: last few years he'd be a guy that would come
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  Speaker 4: up and step in. The Braves always do it. They
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  Speaker 4: figure out how to take care of their pitching. How
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  Speaker 4: do you take care of one for thirty four with
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  Speaker 4: runners in scoring position? Easy, You wash your cleats, you
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  Speaker 4: come in, you play another game. That's the beauty of baseball.
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  Speaker 4: It's so the sucky part of baseball. You're ho and six,
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  Speaker 4: You're like, man, we could use like maybe two off
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  Speaker 4: days when you're seven. Oh, you're like, let's play thirteen
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  Speaker 4: more in a row. Like it's one of those things
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  Speaker 4: you just got to get back out there as an
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  Speaker 4: offense and believe in who they are. This lineup has
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  Speaker 4: very few holes in it, and yet right now everybody's
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  Speaker 4: a hole, so you know what water levels out.
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  Speaker 3: They're going to get better.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, in nineteen eighty eight they started h
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  Speaker 1: to ten. I had a family member who was in
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  Speaker 1: college at the time refused to go to class until
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  Speaker 1: they won that year. So he went ten days without
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  Speaker 1: going to class just because he was such a Braves
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  Speaker 1: fan and he's like, I'm going to support my team.
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  Speaker 1: And his family wasn't very happy because they were thinking, like,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to fail out of school. But they finally won,
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  Speaker 1: so we got to go back to class.
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  Speaker 2: Now he has a nice job, maybe that tradition will
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  Speaker 2: be passed on.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Owen, listen. Oh and nine was rough. Listen, we were
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  Speaker 1: oher to nine. It was everything tasted bad. The food
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  Speaker 1: tasted bead, the beer tasted bed, the road trips taste
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  Speaker 1: to bed, the home games taste to bed.
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  Speaker 3: Everything. I mean, you starting nine, it was That's what
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  Speaker 3: led to.
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  Speaker 1: Brian snicker being the manager he was fired or Freddie
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  Speaker 1: Gonzalz has fired that year, and then they went on
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  Speaker 1: to hire Brian Snicker, who went on to lead them
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  Speaker 1: to a World Series. So I don't think Brian Sticker
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  Speaker 1: is getting fired anytime soon. But they need, they need
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  Speaker 1: to try something. And I don't know what it is,
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  Speaker 1: because Murphy's coming back, I know, but man, it just
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  Speaker 1: losing Profar and losing Lopez in the same twenty four
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  Speaker 1: hours as rough Man.
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  Speaker 3: Did you know you were bad? Did you know because
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  Speaker 3: every training No, we knew we were bad? You knew?
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  Speaker 1: We knew, Yeah, because I was on the team the
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  Speaker 1: year before and we were we were good, and then
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  Speaker 1: we were four. We were forty nine and forty nine
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  Speaker 1: or something. For forty one and forty one, it was
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  Speaker 1: like right a halfway point. He went to Colorado and
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  Speaker 1: we h traded away everybody and we were actually ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the Mets that year, and they went to the
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  Speaker 1: World Series. The Mets traded and got Kelly Johnson who
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  Speaker 1: was on our team, and went out and got some trades.
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  Speaker 1: We even traded everybody away. We ended up losing I
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  Speaker 1: don't know how many games, but yeah, we definitely going
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  Speaker 1: into twenty sixteen, We're like, we're not going to be
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  Speaker 1: very good. They knew it because they were building for
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  Speaker 1: the next year for true us at Freed and Acunya
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  Speaker 1: and Riley and all these guys coming in the minor leagues.
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  Speaker 2: through Scott Coleman's tweet our Hammer Territory host. He said,
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  Speaker 2: need to clear up one thing. I've heard from multiple
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  Speaker 2: sources connected to the team. It's pretty obvious Alexanthopolis got
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  Speaker 2: his hands tied by ownership this winter. They screwed him.
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  Speaker 2: You could argue he could have tried to make trades,
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  Speaker 2: but then you deplete the farm even more. They did
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  Speaker 2: acquire jerreckson Profar about a month ago, AJ for three
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  Speaker 2: years and what was it forty two or forty five?
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  Speaker 2: Forty two mil? So that was a decent level signing
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  Speaker 2: that I guess could have been utilized on pitching. But
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  Speaker 2: they also felt like they needed another bat, another outfield guy,
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  Speaker 2: another on base guy. Also, another guy to hold down
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  Speaker 2: the offense and make it look really strong. While Ronald
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  Speaker 2: Ducunya Junior returns, he's gonna miss half the and we
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  Speaker 2: don't know what version of him will get when he returns.
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  Speaker 1: No, yeah, nobody knows. Hopefully he'll be fully healthy. He's
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  Speaker 1: been through this before, so hopefully he'll be fully healthy.
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  Speaker 1: But man, I don't listens as a Braves fan growing
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  Speaker 1: up and still root for the Braves because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people Chris Sail, Bryan Snicker, a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: guys that are there, Eddie Perez, and a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the people behind the scenes that no one's ever heard
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  Speaker 1: of that I know very well.
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  Speaker 3: It pains me to see the Braves off to a
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  Speaker 3: star like this.
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  Speaker 1: But also the schedule makers didn't do any favors. You
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  Speaker 1: got to start in San Diego and La. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if any team could survive that, especially the way
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  Speaker 1: San Diego is playing right now and the way that
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  Speaker 1: how good the Dodgers are.
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  Speaker 3: That's a rough start from a team coming from Florida.
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  Speaker 3: I have to go to the West Coast. That's rough.
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  Speaker 1: I know we're showing their batting averages, But I mean
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  Speaker 1: I like Drake Baldwin. I like what I saw out
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  Speaker 1: of him. I mean, the top four are gonna be fine,
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  Speaker 1: top five once they get going. It's this is not
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  Speaker 1: a bad team, so let's not hit the panting button.
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  Speaker 1: But it's they're struggling right now. At least they don't
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  Speaker 1: have at least they don't have Raffie Devers in the
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  Speaker 1: line up, right. I mean, imagine if they had him,
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  Speaker 1: how much panic would be.
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  Speaker 2: We'll get to that. We'll get to that. But it's
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  Speaker 2: the only winless team right now. And I was on
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  Speaker 2: an Atlanta radio show last week and I was like, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you come home two and five, who cares? This
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  Speaker 2: is a brutal gauntlet road trip. Well, now, they're just
• 10:21
  Speaker 2: trying to pull off one dub Kratz, But how much
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  Speaker 2: credit should go the other way? I mean, Chris Sale
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  Speaker 2: pitched pretty well until his last inning he got knocked
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  Speaker 2: a little by Mookie Betts and then they added another
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  Speaker 2: run with Will Smith poking one through. But the Dodgers
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  Speaker 2: are damn good. The Padres haven't lost yet either. We'll
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  Speaker 2: talk about both of those teams later in the show.
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  Speaker 2: These could be two of the top five teams in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: Dodgers everybody knew. And also they're going to be firing
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  Speaker 2: on all cylinders right now, coming off a World Series title.
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  Speaker 2: Plus the acquisitions they made the big offseason they had.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's pretty much healthy right now. Of the big people,
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  Speaker 2: I know, Freddy's out day to day, Mookie was on
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  Speaker 2: his way back after missing the first two games, although
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  Speaker 2: it looks like the ten pounds that he's off right
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  Speaker 2: now still doesn't make a difference because he's a power machine.
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  Speaker 2: The Padres look like they were underrated. I know it's early,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to overreact, but a week into the season,
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  Speaker 2: the Padres look damn good. They look like they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be a problem.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how they were underrated. I think everybody
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  Speaker 4: had them as a top five team in baseball.
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  Speaker 2: I think, no, no, no, don't go there's no absolutely
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  Speaker 2: should go there.
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  Speaker 3: I put in my power.
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  Speaker 2: Rankings that like numbers. I'll check back for exact and
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  Speaker 2: I was the leader looking there. And tons of people,
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  Speaker 2: first of all, when I posted it on YouTube were like,
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  Speaker 2: this is trash. Did you see their off season. I'm like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I saw their offseason. But they're also still keeping most
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  Speaker 2: of their core together and guys like Merril are going
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  Speaker 2: to get better, who obviously just got paid again. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that later. A lot of people were down
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  Speaker 2: on the Padres. A lot of people were like really
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  Speaker 2: after that offseason, like, okay, I get it. They lost
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  Speaker 2: a few players. They also picked up a player too.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, Nick Povetta looked freaking money the other day.
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  Speaker 2: He joins a different team, change of scenery, He's always
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  Speaker 2: had this stuff. Maybe that all comes together for him.
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  Speaker 2: Cease I've said for a while now is a one.
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  Speaker 2: Michael King is for the most part a one, and
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  Speaker 2: looked really good yesterday. No, people were not down on them.
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  Speaker 2: Krats not saying that they were going to be a
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  Speaker 2: bad team. But I don't think there were a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people putting them in their top five power rankings.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I don't think we knew what we what they
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  Speaker 4: had in that bullpen. I think that bullpen has giving
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  Speaker 4: up I'll run since the first game of the season.
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  Speaker 3: I need to look back at that.
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  Speaker 4: But I mean they just they just churn out bullpen
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  Speaker 4: pieces that are just handling this. I think Michael King
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  Speaker 4: went two and two thirds in his first game and
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  Speaker 4: the bullpen kept him in the game. This team ever
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  Speaker 4: since it started last year, even some people could say
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  Speaker 4: probably like the last twenty games of twenty three season,
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  Speaker 4: they've started to play as a team in the sense
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  Speaker 4: of like having team at bats. They don't strike out collectively,
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  Speaker 4: they don't strike out very much, so they're putting together
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  Speaker 4: a really nice run to start the season, and the
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  Speaker 4: bullpen is one of the huge reasons. Obviously Pavedo was dominant.
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  Speaker 4: Second time through, Michael King was dominant. So they have
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  Speaker 4: the pieces, will they hold up?
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  Speaker 3: Who knows to me? To me?
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  Speaker 4: Their lineup holed up because every one of those dudes
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  Speaker 4: is athletic. You're not sitting there going uh, I guess. Besides,
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  Speaker 4: like a Gavin Sheets, who's leading the team and hitting.
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  Speaker 4: Everybody's versatile. Everybody's played shortstop at one point. Now they're
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  Speaker 4: playing other positions, and so they know how to they
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  Speaker 4: know how to hold up, and they know how to
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  Speaker 4: play together. There's some kind of value about teams who
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  Speaker 4: have the same lineup day in day out. Most of
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  Speaker 4: these guys have all hit together for the last two
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  Speaker 4: two and a half year whenever a rise came, so
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  Speaker 4: not in two and a half years last season, they've
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  Speaker 4: been hitting together and they play essentially the same lineup
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  Speaker 4: back to back to back.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, first of all, let's say this about
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  Speaker 1: the Potters. I had him an eight of my power
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  Speaker 1: rankings because I still don't trust their starting pitching. I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: I don't. Darvish is out who knows for how long. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I mean I saw Vasquez, Randy Vasquez pitch. I mean
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  Speaker 1: we sold on him being a third starter. He did pitch,
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  Speaker 1: but he pitched against the Braves, who can't get a
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  Speaker 1: hit with runners in scoring positions. So do we trust
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  Speaker 1: what we've seen from them? The Guardians don't have the
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  Speaker 1: most prolific offense in baseball. They started at home against
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  Speaker 1: two teams with that aren't swinging the bat very well.
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  Speaker 1: So do we trust them for one hundred and sixty
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  Speaker 1: two games? That's the question.
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  Speaker 3: And we do our power rankings in four months, we
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  Speaker 3: can maybe change where they're at.
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  Speaker 2: That's why power rankings changed so quickly.
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  Speaker 3: I have like power rankings.
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  Speaker 2: Does he talks about him every day? I had them
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  Speaker 2: six list Kratz did not have them top ten, and
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  Speaker 2: I don't think most other people did either. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: of course, of course you did. Lastly here on on Lopez.
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  Speaker 2: So he's gonna miss significant time regardless. I think there's
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  Speaker 2: still a chance that he is out for the season.
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  Speaker 2: So it's Arthur Scoprick's surgery on his right shoulder to
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  Speaker 2: determine if he has any structural damage. Expected to miss
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: at least a couple of months. Even if there's no
• 15:29
  Speaker 2: structural damage. He sidelined through at least the season's first half.
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: There's a chance that they do find damage and he's
• 15:36
  Speaker 2: out for the entire year. AJ he was money for
• 15:38
  Speaker 2: them last year, right, He's the guy that has always
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: had good stuff. He was in the bullpen for a minute.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: Of course, he spent some time with the Nats, with
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: the White Sox, part of big Trade, and lands with
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: the Braves. They say, we're just gonna let you eat,
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: be a starter, win that spot and go he does.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: He was great, bit a little bit late, but also
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: he hadn't done this in what three years, I want
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: to say, so here we go. Became somewhat of a
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: workhorse for them in modern terms, and then now he's
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: dealing with this injury. And they're just not built to
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: be able to withstand too many of these, right. I mean, yes,
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: guys come out of the woodwork for them pitching wise
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: in the minor leagues, but it's not workhorse city in
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: that rotation.
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: No, I agreed, but this is a huge injury. Listen,
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: anytime you get into the shoulder crowds will tell you.
• 16:25
  Speaker 1: Once you start digging into a shoulder on a picture.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: That's bad news, man. Especially they're just doing a scope
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: to see what's wrong with it. That means he's got
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: some serious, serious pain uh in there in order to
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: do a scope. Because if they can't find it on
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: an MRI or something else, and if they got to
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: go in there and clean up the late room or
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: god forbid a rotator cuff, it's gonna be uh. It's
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: it's bad news for Reynaldo Lopez and the Braves. Now
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: do they have listen schwellenbox gonna be?
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: Is a stud? Can Chris Sales stay healthy? You know?
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: Smith Swarv pitched Well. We'll see how the Braves hold
• 16:55
  Speaker 1: up through this. It's gonna be interesting, but they need
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: some depth and I don't know where they're gonna find
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: it right now.
• 17:00
  Speaker 4: I'm a big proponent of letting dude's throw, and I
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: love that they let him throw. He spent a little
• 17:05
  Speaker 4: time on the IL last year. I just hope that
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: other teams don't look at it and say, oh, converted
• 17:10
  Speaker 4: guy hadn't started since twenty nineteen.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Now he starts for us. Oh, and look what happened
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: Ronaldo Lopez.
• 17:17
  Speaker 4: Because it was a prime case of why Clay Holmes
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: got picked or became a starter. You know, they wanted
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: Jeff Hoffman to become a starter. Like there's value in
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: that surplus value, as Scott loves to say. But I
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: hope it doesn't deter other teams from doing it.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: Caused me eating like, oh man, well, this is why
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: he got hurt to me.
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: Ronald Lopez was legit last year, and I think other
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: guys can also do this.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Some news from yesterday, the Pirates are optioning closer David
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: Bednar to triple A. Made the All Star team in
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three. Last year was
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: a bomb year in a bad way. It did not
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: work out. Three earned runs in three appearances this season.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The one saved that he did pick up. He gave
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: to run Homer up and it got real tight. So
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: he just doesn't look himself krats for a while now.
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Talked to him a little bit in spring training off camera,
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: and he talked about how he was more side to
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: side last year. He had some issues that were causing
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: him to be more rotational, and he's like, I'm not
• 18:19
  Speaker 4: a rotational pitcher, so everything kind of flattened out. He said,
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: I wanted to be more north and south his words,
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: and he said he felt like he was in a
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: good spot. You know, tough start. Look, you don't you
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: don't just dfa everybody that or I'm sorry, you don't
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: just option everybody that struggles for the first two series
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: of the season. But you know what Pirates decided to
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: do it help him figure some stuff out. I love
• 18:45
  Speaker 4: that they decided to do this instead of the fake Well, hey,
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: we'll put him in the il.
• 18:50
  Speaker 3: See if he can work through it.
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: He's gonna have an opportunity to work through it All Stars.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Unless there's a major injury, they usually figure out a
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: way to get back to the show.
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: We'll see.
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: This is not a one year thing, though. This is
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: you know what I want to know about this is
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: remember last year he was the All Star closer. We
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: showed in twenty two and twenty three. Right, who did
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: the Pirates bring in last year to help in the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: late innings? A role as Chapman? So was he start
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: looking over his shoulders saying, man, when are they going
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: to go to a rold As Chapman. I'm not saying
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: this happen, but you know how players work, Cratsy, Why
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: would they bring in a rold As Chapman. I'm the closer,
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: He's always been a closer. Why would they bring him in?
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: Right? It creeps in your head. Did something mentally happen there?
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not saying that that's.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: What happened, But you know, Cratzy is players that can
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: creep in there a little bit, because as soon as
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: he starts struggling a little bit, I guess what they do.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: They go to a rolld As Chapman and they let
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: him start closing games, and you try to find a
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: place for Bednard to pitch. I don't know, just the theory.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I don't hate the theory, never have any idea. I
• 19:55
  Speaker 4: don't think any player would ever admit to it. But
• 19:59
  Speaker 4: yet you're always kind of looking over your shoulder, like,
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: why did they bring in a starting catcher?
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: I'm aj Prazinski. I'm the starting catcher.
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: You know, it takes it takes a confident person to
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: be able to push that out.
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: It happened to me.
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: It happened to me in two thousand and seven, two
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: thousand and six, I made the All start team the
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: White Sox side Toby All, who was the starting and
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: I'm like, why the hell did y'all sign him? I
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: catch one hundred and thirty games, and They're like, we
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: needed a better backup, right, But I was like, it
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: was just a weird I mean, he ended up getting hurt.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: That year would suck for him and for us, but
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: you know, it was just a weird situation.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I want to get to a story in a moment
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: on who the better athlete is rookie bets Er Sho
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: Heo Tani with some of his teammates answering. But first,
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers are also undefeated, and they made a little
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: deal with the A's they picked up Estuary Ruiz. It
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: gets a lot of attention over the years for a
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: variety of reasons. He was part of a Big Three
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: team trade, and then at one point last year, people
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: are like, why is he's not playing when he was
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: looking decent at the plate, But really has never over
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: a long stretch, been able to put it together at
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the plates fast as lightning. So I could see him
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: stealing bases for the Dodgers as an extra guy off
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the bench in the playoffs. But so I had sixty
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: seven Bags in twenty twenty three, but he had been
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: DFA and so Alton Gonzalez reported at first, here's Fabian
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Ardaiya saying that they picked him up from the A's
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: slow move for the Dodgers. So is he going to
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: be a star now?
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Aj I don't think he's going to be a star,
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: but he's a nice pickup see on the big league team.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: That's the question is are they gonna option him down?
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: What are they going to do with him? Because their
• 21:43
  Speaker 1: team's pretty set in the outfield. I mean, you look
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: at PA's Confordo, Tayo, Chris Taylor, Key K can play
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: out there. They've got some dudes out there that can
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: play and play a lot.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: And so I don't know.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: I mean, is he just gonna be the twenty six
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: guy that comes in and pitch runs for Freddy when
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: he slits in the shower.
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: I mean, they don't have this dynamical on the team.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: They don't have the Terrence Gore type of player on
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: this team. I don't know that Ester Reuise wants to
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: be that type of guy. I think he understands his value,
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: but you know what, just another example, it's so unfair
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: that the Dodgers just get all the.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: Players, so unfair. No one else had an opportunity to
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: get this guy.
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: People are gonna say that if he does anything, just depth.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: You got to build up your depth and your speed.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: And yeah, maybe late in the season he appears on
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: this team and they keep him on a playoff roster.
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: I always think that every team is going to do this,
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: and then most of them don't. Aj is having just
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: an absolute weapon on the bench in the playoffs. I
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: know you got to keep rosters tight, but are you
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: surprised that there aren't more Terrence Gores in our game?
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: No, because one dimensional players don't play that much anymore.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: They don't play in the Terrence score. I mean, Kratz,
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: you played with him. He couldn't hit, so he couldn't
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: steal first right. So it works in the playoffs, but
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: it doesn't work over one hundred and sixty two game
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: season because there's not enough times where you're like, man,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: we really need a pinch hitter only here, right, because
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: a lot of times the guy would come up again.
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: In the postseason, you can throw a guy out there
• 23:18
  Speaker 1: to steal a base. Dave Roberts was a way better
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: player than Terrence Scorre. Dave Roberts probably stole the most
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: famous base in history or one of them, right, But
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: he was a way better player than what Terrence Score was,
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: or it was another guy not Terrence Score was.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Oh.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: Quenton Barry was another one that kind of had a
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: career of being a pinch runnery type of person who's
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: now the third base coach for the Cubs.
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: Right.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: But it's just because there's so one dimensional it's hard
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: for teams in today's game to justify having a guy
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: that can only do one thing on a roster.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: But the teams that it works on are the teams
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: that have dudes that play one hundred and sixty games.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: You have your set roster lineup and you don't need
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: to go to the bench. But Terrence Scores got three
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: World Series rings, so it's a winning formula. Even if
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: you're steal one base in that one base pushes you
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: over the line. I just think there's I think there's
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: value there, and good for the Dodgers given this guy
• 24:12
  Speaker 4: another shot after the A said you know what, we
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: don't need humble dfa mm hmmm.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: A couple other things from LA. First off, welcome back
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: to Dustin May. It's been about two years since he
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: pitched on a big league mound. Remember he had the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: life threatening esophagus situation where he needed surgery. I mean
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: his story is really I mean sad at some points,
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: but now happy that he's back. Damn aj he looked good.
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: I know the Braves are struggling, but truck out the
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: side in the first five innings one hit, three walks,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: six punchouts. Dodgers were down a run early, and then,
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: like I mentioned earlier in the show, Mookie betts with
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: a little pop. I mean, he's suddenly on fire and
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: they pick up the dub. But May looked good.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: He did.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: He's another weapon if he can stay healthy. I don't
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: know if anybody watched this game watch I stayed up
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: and watched him start, and they kept showing his wife
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: in the stands, and they kept talking about how emotional
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: it was for what he went through last year with
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: the esophagus thing, so for him to come back and
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: be out there after arm surgeries and then the thing
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: he had where he what was it he swallowed at
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: like a tortilla chip or something, and then he thought
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: he was gonna die and they had to do emergency
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: surgery on him. So welcome back, just to may please
• 25:25
  Speaker 1: stay healthy because your stuff is nasty.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, nasty. I want to keep him on the field.
• 25:31
  Speaker 3: Nasty.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: And you were thinking this guy that I heard stuff
• 25:33
  Speaker 4: in the offseason. Wow, you know e's him back into
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: the bullpen and you know that arm is just gonna play.
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: That arm place five innings, one inning, seven innings, sinkers
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: go lore and his velocity's back.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: He looks he lost weight or maybe just a tighter.
• 25:50
  Speaker 4: Uni man, he's just got I don't know, he has
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: the it. And the Dodgers. The Dodgers lineup, obviously, we're
• 25:56
  Speaker 4: not going to hit on now a ton. They just
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: wear teams down. They are the best team at taking
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: team at bats. It's like, it's okay, we didn't get
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: them this time. Keep them out there though, we'll get you.
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: Oh you're gonna put your bullpen pieces in.
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're good. We got something on those guys.
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: Mm hmm. May. By the way, I know this was
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: several years ago. I don't know if it's still the case.
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: Was not a fan of bullpen action. He's got the
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: Stroman line. I'm a starter, and Hey, that stuff is
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: starter like. I mean, you happen to be on a
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: team that's got a lot of starting depth, but a
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: few pitches like that, He's going to have that fit
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: spot lockdown for LA. All right, So one more thing
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: fun story here from Ken and the Athletic Undefeated Dodgers
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: have Mookie and show Hey who's the better athlete? So
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: I'll give you a couple of quotes. Man, I lost
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: my quote, AJ you go first.
• 26:52
  Speaker 3: Great quote.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm just thinking, amazing your quote, Scott, it
• 26:55
  Speaker 1: was amazing rookie.
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: I don't know.
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: I've only seen show Hey play baseball, so I don't know.
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: But I've seen MOOKI do per foll three hundreds and
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: in bowling and do a million other different things ping
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: pong and all this other stuff.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: So I go, I'm going Mookie. I'm sorry.
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: I'm sure show Hey can do a lot of things,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: but I haven't seen him, so I'm going Mookie. And
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: plus Mookie is a former teammate of mine. I've only
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: shaken Mookie's I've only shaking Shoe's hand, so I can't.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: We haven't had good deep combos with show Hey. Chris
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: Taylor said, I've never seen Show play other sports. MOOKI
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: pretty much anything he does. He's a natural at You
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: can pretty much put him on any field or sport
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: and he can thrive at it. Gratz is it's a
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: clean sweep.
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: I feel like it's a clean sweep. I think it's Mookie.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: Also, one of my former teammates, Mookie Bets easy peasy,
• 27:40
  Speaker 4: not saying Show Hey can't. I'm not saying Show He's
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: not bigger, stronger, faster, more baseball talented.
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: Mookie is the better athlete.
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, it's settled. Remember the football who was it?
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: The football player? Was it Hunter? Travis Hunter brought up
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: him versus Otani? No, he was.
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: He said what he does is harder.
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, so that was an athlete talk. That was
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: just difficulty of playing on both sides.
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: Put Show Hey. Put show Hay on a football field.
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: I guarantee you could play tight end and put him
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: on defenses. I don't know a linebacker. I guarantee you
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: could do it. And then let's see Travis Hunner hit
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: a baseball. I'm going with ain't having it.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Ft Breaking news, Christian Campbell has agreed to a long
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: term extension he is a week into his big league career.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: It's eight years. It guarantees him sixty million dollars. There
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: are club options for twenty thirty three and twenty thirty four.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: This had been talked about over the last several days.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Chris Catillo was all over this story initially. I think
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: Robert Murray was breaking it about ten minutes ago. But
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: AJ Christian Campbell is going to be the starting second
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: basement for the Red Sox for a long time. Actually,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: he's a great athlete and versatal enough to play the
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: outfield at some point in his career if they need
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: him to do that too. But this kid just looks
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: like he's got a good head on his shoulders. He's
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: oozing with potential. He's gotten so much better over the
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: past year because he's really getting a lot of the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: tutelage from the Red Sox organization. That's making a difference
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: for him. There are a lot of good stories over
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: the offseason about how he was able to change his
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: swing and just maximize his ability, And I mean, we're
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: seeing it now, We're going to see it for probably
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: the next decade in Boston.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Good for him, Listen, I always get your first one.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: He's still only twenty two years old, so he'll be
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: a free agent again, possibly a thirty I love this deal.
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: This is what we talked about with the Jackson Merril.
• 29:41
  Speaker 1: Did Ronald Acuna do this? This deal could be huge
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: for the Red Sox down the line, but it's also
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: gives Christian Campbell's security for the next eight years, having
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: a good idea where he's going to be and knows
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: he's got money for the rest of his life. So
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: way to go, Christian Campbell and listen, this dude's off
• 29:55
  Speaker 1: to a great start. He's six for sixty with a
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: homer already in his big league debut. He's playing second base.
• 30:00
  Speaker 3: Great.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: I love what they're doing. They're giving him a chance
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: and he hits right handed in Fenway, which I think
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: is a big deal.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: They need this guy. He's there, he's gonna be there
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: for a long time.
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: Good job, Christian Campbell. And you know what, John Henry,
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: you're smoking the cigar. You're sitting there in front of
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: your fireplace. Don't be afraid to pet keep passing out money.
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: I love this.
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: I love it.
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: I love it for him, I love it for Christian,
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: I love it for the organization, and for the fans,
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: Red Sox fans have somebody to get behind a six
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: foot three second baseman. Not quite the Dustin Pedroia, but
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: the makeup stuff that everybody's talking about. This guy hit
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: one eighty in spring training, so people are like, oh,
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: don't get an memor with the great hot spring training.
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: He didn't even do good in spring training. So for
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: Red Sox fans, you gotta think, man, all this stuff,
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: that Alex Korra, that Alex Bregman, that's all the people
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: in that follow the Red Sox. Papal Bond said in
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: the offseason, talk about just something different about this guy.
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: And he's around to other elite prospects his age, and
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: there's still something that stands out above them. And now
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: they got him for sixty million, easy pasy, and I
• 31:10
  Speaker 4: think he's a prime candidate for it. The guy just
• 31:13
  Speaker 4: got drafted. He wasn't a first rounder, so he doesn't
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: have you know, one, two three million dollars in the
• 31:19
  Speaker 4: bank that he can just sit on. Now he's got
• 31:22
  Speaker 4: sixty in the bank. Good for him, good for the team.
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: Baseball needs to do more of this, in my.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: Opinion, Yeah, this is where teams are missing the boat.
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: We talked to Jim Boden about this the other day. Aj,
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised that some teams are not more aggressive on
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: this front, you know, sometimes like, oh, we didn't even
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: have a chance. I'm like, okay, are you sure? Did
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: you throw a boatload of money at the player or
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: did you just have an initial combo with an agent,
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: like send the official offer, let the agent send it
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: to the player, and let them, at twenty two years old,
• 31:53
  Speaker 2: turn it down. I'm not saying for Campbell, but there
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: are other players. I was picking on the Orioles, for example,
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: with many of their young think really good position players,
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: and none of them signed long term yet.
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: I don't know why. This was the old Indians back
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: in the day. I know that the Guardians now John Hard,
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: but this is this is the John Hart we're gonna sign.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Manny told me all those guys, Sandy Alomar Junior, all
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: those guys to those long deals, and they had a
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: nice long run because they did it. Then the Braves
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: did it right with Alvisa, Kunya, Olsen, Riley, Sean Murphy.
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: They've signed all these guys to long term extensions and
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: they've been good for a long time. This if you
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: find players that you think you can trust. Now, they
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: don't always work out. I forget, what was the guy's
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: name in Philly, Scott, Scott Kingery, Right, they don't always
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: work out. But if you have a pretty good idea
• 32:44
  Speaker 1: and the Scott Kingery deals not breaking the Phillies either
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: when he signed it. But if you have an idea
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: that these guys have good makeup, they have the ability
• 32:51
  Speaker 1: to do this, and they want to be in the
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: situation if you go to most of these guys at
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: twenty two. If someone would have come to me at
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: twenty two years old and said here's eight year sixty million,
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: I would have said, I'll sign in blood, right, I mean,
• 33:00
  Speaker 1: come on, I mean what do I do to get
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: this deal? So I think teams are learning and they
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: need to pick the right guys, and usually when they do,
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: they work out for both sides, but usually more for
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the team.
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: Because how many times.
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: You say, man, that player is really overpaid at this point,
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: not very often. It's usually man, the Braves are saving
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: how much on a kunir Riley? In all these a lot?
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: So that's where I think the value is.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, free agency is where you can get burned. But
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: with these extensions, it's few and far between that you
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: look at them and go, wow, that completely bombed, that
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: completely didn't work out. Your kingery call is perfect. Six years,
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: twenty four million dollars. That is not a big deal
• 33:42
  Speaker 2: for the Phillies. Six years twenty four you caught them
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: that early. It's not and it doesn't work. Oh well,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: not a big deal for them. It's not in baseball
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: terminology for a big market team like that, for any team,
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: it does not matter. That does not make a dent.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: So yeah, what was the guys for the Reds? There
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: was one for the was it Cinzel? Whendn't he won too?
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: They signed?
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: Didn't Sinzel sign a deal when he first came or
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: maybe I'm wrong on that, but I could be.
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: I think Cinzel did, I mean Tamata did with the Pirates,
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: I mean logo, they went crazy. You remember, he's the
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: famous story.
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: People he signed like five years, five million or something.
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: He signed like.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Ten and then he'd been inflamed out in five seconds
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: and he got himself ten million bucks. Then he was
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: in a came back.
• 34:30
  Speaker 1: He had some he had other problems going on. But
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: I mean everyone looks at Rosney Castillo for the Red Sox.
• 34:37
  Speaker 1: He was in Triple A forever, but he was an
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: international free agent from Cuba that they signed right for.
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: He was making how much?
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: I mean, you know, Alan Crab, I mean there are some,
• 34:47
  Speaker 1: but I mean, you know, listen, most of these work
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: out for the team and the player.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, seven years seventy two and a half, largest ever
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: at the time by an international free agent for rus
• 34:58
  Speaker 2: De Castillo, which was more than the six years sixty
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: eight that jose A Bray you got. Josea Bray was
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: a steal for a while, but yeah, Castillo didn't work out.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: I think Castillo was under twenty five. I got to
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: look back to that. But you know, you can't do
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: that anymore internationally, like Yon Mancata who got a ton
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: of money with the bonus. Actually no, Castillo was agelegical,
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: so you could still do it. But yon Mancatta, for example,
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: got the big signing bonus, then the Red Sox flipped
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: him for sale. You can't do that anymore. You can't.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: That's why rookie Sazaki only got what he got, Choeotani
• 35:31
  Speaker 2: only got what he got. You can't sign guys internationally
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: for as much money anymore until they hit a certain age.
• 35:38
  Speaker 4: Rusnee got helped by Yasiel Puig Mania out in La
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Puigue came over and then Rusney people are talking about him.
• 35:46
  Speaker 4: Is he was going to be better than Puigue? Issue was?
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: I played against him a lot in Triple A. The
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: size comparison was not even close. Puig was an NFL
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: running back. Rusnee was more like a cornerback.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: He was. He was a smaller guy.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: But hey, I think he was Paul Tuckett back to
• 36:06
  Speaker 4: back to back, Paul Tuckett MVP. So the man went
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: down there and he hit. So you know, he never
• 36:13
  Speaker 4: seemed like he grumbled playing against him. He always smelled
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: so delicious. Oh so much good cologne up there.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: You can get that with seventy two million dollars.
• 36:23
  Speaker 1: Michael Michael b in Our in Our that works for us,
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: had a great point. Who who else would he like
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: to see extended? He said, well, Langford with the Rangers
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: would be one, But what who are some other younger
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: Ish stars that are just that We're just here. Merrill's
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: already gotten it. I guess Skeens would be the one,
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: and then the Orioles guys, Gunner and Adley, but it's
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: almost to the point where it's too late for them now.
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: But Skenes, I guess would be the one, even though
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: I don't see him signing anytime soon.
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: But who always.
• 36:49
  Speaker 1: I mean, Langford is a good Langford was a good one.
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: Dylan Cruz. Yeah, James Wood maybe, but it might be
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: too late for him too.
• 36:58
  Speaker 4: Tigers Joe, Yeah, James would that that apotaco he hit
• 37:04
  Speaker 4: the other day that like Righty's are like feeling good
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: and they hit it where he hit it left hand.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: He hit it left handed though, that was that was
• 37:11
  Speaker 4: nice to me. You get like a Jackson job. The
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: Tigers have had some have not had success with their
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: young guys that are supposed to be elite prospect pitchers
• 37:21
  Speaker 4: getting hurt. So you know what, maybe maybe they don't
• 37:25
  Speaker 4: do it. But I think he's built differently than other guys.
• 37:29
  Speaker 4: I think his command and the way he throws the
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: ball is different.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: But I'm not a doctor.
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: Cam Smith was a good one. Cam Smith was a
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: good one. From Bourbon and Baseball.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: That was a good one. That was a good one.
• 37:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, Ellie, Ellie, But again, Ellie's like at the
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: point where it's almost too late like you get after
• 37:51
  Speaker 1: you get I mean, unless you go crazy like they
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: did with Jackson Merrill.
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: Right, where the nine years that much?
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Look at the difference, right, Campbell got eight year sixty,
• 38:00
  Speaker 1: he's in his first year. Merril already has here on
• 38:02
  Speaker 1: her belt. He got what nine to one to thirty.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: So once you get past that first year, if you
• 38:06
  Speaker 1: don't lock these guys in, the number goes way up
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: if they have a good year.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: I got one Vlatty Junior.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: Are we are?
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: We rewinding back to twenty twenty like that's that was
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: the last time they had a chance to sign him
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: to a team friendly and Ellie I think is in
• 38:24
  Speaker 4: the tatiase range. Now what is at like three twenty five.
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: In the mid threes. Yeah, he's got to be at
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: least in that range.
• 38:33
  Speaker 3: Now that's where Ellie's at now, he's way best.
• 38:36
  Speaker 2: Jackson Merle fourteen three forty was the extension age twenty
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: two season in twenty twenty one. He signed it right
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: before spring training started. It was the third largest deal
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: in Big League history in general. Obviously, there's so many
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: years in the back end where he really starts to
• 38:53
  Speaker 2: get a lot of the cash. But yeah, I agree
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's where Ellie's at, at least in his
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: third season. Yeah, right in the middle.
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: Let me look at Let me look at your crinkled
• 39:04
  Speaker 1: baseball card that you left in mid started her debuted,
• 39:08
  Speaker 1: He debuted six six twenty three. Let me let me
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: make sure I can read that rightly? Ah, you you're
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: torpedo wing his card? Scott an old torpedo. It we
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: got just now it's a crooked book mark?
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Are there onions in this camera?
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: However? I have another one Scott right here, same one.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: Thank you, Please take care of that. Okay, let's hit
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: a hot corner. Oh not no, we're sisling sisen Okay.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: Nathan Yuvaldi was on fire yesterday, CG. He shut out
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: the Reds in Great American small Park four hits. AJ
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: you punched out eight, I mean, and he did it
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: in ninety nine pitches. He's been one of the better
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: pitchers in the sport for a while. I think the
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: knock is that he got hurt so often early on
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: that sometimes he's forgotten. But come playoff time, he's been
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: a beast and you get these when everything's right.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: Uh yeah, this dude's good. Big game Nate, they call him.
• 40:16
  Speaker 1: Remember what he did for the Red Sox in twenty
• 40:17
  Speaker 1: eighteen when he went like seven innings in the in
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: the World Series in that game that months he finally
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: won in the World Series. Remember that whole thing where
• 40:24
  Speaker 1: the Red Sox he saved the Red Sox bullpen. I mean,
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: how long has he been called big game Nate for
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: different teams and different organizations.
• 40:31
  Speaker 3: I think.
• 40:34
  Speaker 1: I think that he has always been good when he's healthy,
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: and if he gets that split and cutter going, man,
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: it's a long night for any team facing him, because
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: he still throws ninety five to ninety eight.
• 40:46
  Speaker 3: This dude has always had justin elite arm.
• 40:49
  Speaker 4: I think of Marlins the first time I ever saw
• 40:52
  Speaker 4: him pitch, and then it was the Yankees, it was like,
• 40:55
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, ninety seven ninety nine with cut easy, paasy.
• 40:59
  Speaker 4: He just he keeps going. I think he's on his
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: second Tommy John surgery. I think he's the best, the
• 41:05
  Speaker 4: most productive pitcher after a second Tommy John surgery or
• 41:09
  Speaker 4: whatever the internal bracing. I'm not sure the exact lingo.
• 41:12
  Speaker 4: But he was great last night, and he was great
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: in Cincinnati, so you know, he wasn't afraid of contact
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: there and did a great job like this guy. He
• 41:22
  Speaker 4: seems like he doesn't age. And I'll say it again,
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: I said it before. He is one of the only
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: pitchers that I've ever heard position players rave about what
• 41:31
  Speaker 4: kind of a great teammate he is, like to another
• 41:34
  Speaker 4: level other pitchers great teammates. This guy really just connects
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: with everybody in the clubhouse. I see why teams re
• 41:42
  Speaker 4: sign him when they do, or you know, don't let
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: him get the free agency, or he's he's really enamored
• 41:48
  Speaker 4: or they're really enamored with him when he's in free agency.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: Texas is going to be a problem.
• 41:54
  Speaker 1: By the way, Lighter.
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: Five shoutouts seventy pitches. They just took him out. I
• 41:58
  Speaker 3: don't know why.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: I mean pitch count. I guess seventy pitches, but five
• 42:02
  Speaker 1: shut in Cincinnati.
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: Very young, very young guy. He's not though, he's not
• 42:07
  Speaker 3: that young.
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: Twenty five. What's the guest twenty five?
• 42:13
  Speaker 3: Twenty five?
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, bullpen didn't work yesterday, so they're trying to get
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: the bullpen work in because big big game Nate went
• 42:21
  Speaker 4: too long. So like hey, they're calling, they're calling from
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: the bullpen, going, hey, can we get a couple of innings?
• 42:26
  Speaker 3: Out of it.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: For some of my guys down here, they'll reverse bullpen call.
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: What does that sound like when the phone rings?
• 42:37
  Speaker 3: Me mean pictures everywhere?
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Just some people love that sound. All right. We've been
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: hitting this one every day, but AJ hasn't talked about it.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: AJ Raphael Devers no MLB batters more than twenty swing
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: strikes so far this year except Evers he's thirty five. Oh,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: what's going on?
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: He don't like being to DH.
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: H be to D.
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's it. You don't like a DH. He
• 43:10
  Speaker 3: don't like a DH third base.
• 43:14
  Speaker 1: I don't know what the hell's going on. I mean
• 43:16
  Speaker 1: some people, I don't know. Some people said he was overweight.
• 43:19
  Speaker 1: I've seen some people said this and said that. But
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: I mean the bottom line is a guy I don't
• 43:24
  Speaker 1: like the DH. There's very hard to find people that
• 43:27
  Speaker 1: like the DH. Okay, I hated dhing. When you catch
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: every day and then you get they're like, go sit
• 43:32
  Speaker 1: over there and take four pinch hit at bats, it sucks.
• 43:35
  Speaker 1: I mean, David Ortiz, Edgar Martinez, who else? Every other
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: guy complains about not playing the field. Carlos Dogato is unbelievable,
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: but he's like, I want to play first, right, I mean,
• 43:45
  Speaker 1: I mean guys that we've seen this happen to dhing
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: is not an easy thing to do, especially when you're
• 43:51
  Speaker 1: used to playing every day, and especially when as what
• 43:56
  Speaker 1: did Papa Ban say, when you're a pig and you
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: went the bacon and then you hit homers or whatever
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: you say, make the pig squid? The hell did he
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: say that the other day? But like I mean, it's
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: not an easy job if you don't do it, and
• 44:06
  Speaker 1: if you really don't sell your heart and sold what
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: he said he didn't really want to do anyways, It
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: is a hard, hard job to do, man, and people
• 44:13
  Speaker 1: that you can find that do it every day are
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: very special.
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: So what's the solution here? I mean, he's not going
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: to suddenly be their starting third basement at this point.
• 44:23
  Speaker 2: Christian Campbell ain't going anywhere, Alex Bregman's not going anywhere,
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Kristin Costas isn't going anywhere. And actually his glove looks
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: better at first and he's been working at it, and
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: at least early first week here, it does look like
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: it's going to be better. So he's gonna have to
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: figure it out. Aja, nothing's gonna change. He's not suddenly
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: going to pop in as the third basement.
• 44:41
  Speaker 3: I know. My question is is he healthy?
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: Because remember we talked about his shoulders, and people have
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: talked a little bit about his shoulders. Is he healthy?
• 44:49
  Speaker 1: That's the question. Is especially this shoulder, his front shoulder.
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: As a left handed hitter, you need that shoulder and
• 44:55
  Speaker 1: he kind of one hand finishes a lot of times.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: Is that shoulder healthy? Because of that shoulder's it's going
• 45:00
  Speaker 1: to be a long year. And at the back, shoulders
• 45:02
  Speaker 1: sore too. I don't know what shoulders. Certain some people
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: are saying both shoulders. I don't know that for a fact.
• 45:06
  Speaker 1: But to me, he's got to be healthy. And if
• 45:09
  Speaker 1: he's healthy, he'll figure it out. He's too good of
• 45:11
  Speaker 1: a damn hitter, or he just needs to face Garret Cole.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, that's not gonna happen this year.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Too soon, Derek, not Garrett, he said Derek, by the way,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: Pinck Territory, Christ And I don't want someone to say
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: too soon Carrott.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: No, no, no, not Garrett. Derek.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: We like Garrett.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: That's what he said. All right, So let's hit this
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Sacramento home field advantage, which does not look to be
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: the case. In the first two games. The Cubs destroyed
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: the A's in Game one, and then yesterday they pick
• 45:50
  Speaker 2: up a closer win, but a win. Kyle Tucker is
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: homeward in four straight games, and Brent Rooker said, quote,
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: my hope and kind of my vision is that it
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: feels like a very big SEC collge baseball game in
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: terms of the energy that we bring with the capacity
• 46:02
  Speaker 2: that is allowed. Do we feel like this is going
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: to be an SEC environment? This is not an Oakland thing.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: That's not a Sacramento thing. Last dive fire throwing this
• 46:12
  Speaker 2: out there. It's a John Fisher thing. They do a
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: lot of empty seats and open grass. I think that
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: was like, was that the beginning of the game, We're
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: about halfway through the game. Whatever it is. Aja, I've
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: been to an SEC game, You've been to I'm sure
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: plenty of SEC baseball games. That's a vibe. Brent Rooker knows.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's going to be in Sacramento. Yeah,
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: they don't leave no matter what.
• 46:35
  Speaker 1: And listen, Rook played at Mississippi State in Starkville. At
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: the Dude Douty Noble and they have grillers and cookers
• 46:43
  Speaker 1: and everything out in the outfield. It's just smoke coming
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: up in the outfield. They don't leave. They stay until
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: the game is over, and then they stay after. I mean,
• 46:50
  Speaker 1: Misssippi State has condos in leftfield. You can runt out
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: and stay in condos for the whole weekend. So it's different.
• 46:55
  Speaker 1: People Listen, the first game, everyone was there. The second
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: game there was not a sell I don't believe, and
• 47:01
  Speaker 1: people left early and the a's listen. I played in
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: Sacramento in two thousand. It was a bandbox in I
• 47:06
  Speaker 1: don't think that much has changed. They said it was
• 47:09
  Speaker 1: fair for the PCL. But that's compared it to like
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: Colorado Springs and Albuquerque in places like that where the
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: ball salt lake, where the ball absolutely flies. So you've
• 47:17
  Speaker 1: seen in the first two games. I mean, there's gonna
• 47:19
  Speaker 1: be a lot of home runs hit in Sacramento whatever
• 47:21
  Speaker 1: they're calling it now, whatever they're calling that park these days,
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: but it's it's it's gonna be a fun atmosphere if
• 47:26
  Speaker 1: you want to see home runs.
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want to pitch there though.
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: M hm, A J. Does your thoughts on days being
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: a sneaky little wildcard playoff team change after the first week,
• 47:42
  Speaker 2: not as much about the results.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Time, and I'm sticking with it.
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: I'm sticking with Okay, I.
• 47:49
  Speaker 1: Took the over and their wins it was like seventy
• 47:51
  Speaker 1: one and a half. I took the over on the wins.
• 47:53
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're losing ninety games this year, and
• 47:55
  Speaker 1: I think they'll figure it out. I think they have enough.
• 47:57
  Speaker 1: I think Springs and Sevarino are good at the top.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: I think they're gonna hit a little bit better than
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: what we've seen early. But I mean, they also played
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: Seattle in Chicago, both teams that are pretty good and
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: expected to be in the playoff race. It's not you know,
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: it's not like they played the Braves. I mean, right,
• 48:13
  Speaker 1: I mean they played Chicago and Seattle with two pretty
• 48:15
  Speaker 1: good pitching teams. I'm kidding about the Braves. Okay, everyone
• 48:18
  Speaker 1: calmed down in Twitter world and then on the chat,
• 48:21
  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, It's not like the Braves.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: We had to go to the Padres and the Dodgers
• 48:27
  Speaker 1: days have had the Barners at Seattle with their great
• 48:30
  Speaker 1: pitching staff, and now they're playing the Cubs in a
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: ballpark they don't know, and they so it's too early.
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: We're not even a weekend. So let's everyone take it back.
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: Okay, what about the Cubs. They look much better lately.
• 48:43
  Speaker 4: There's scoring enough problems to stay out of there, to
• 48:46
  Speaker 4: stay out of there underbelly that is their bullpen, like
• 48:51
  Speaker 4: they're getting their innings in. They're scoring runs right now.
• 48:54
  Speaker 4: That ball, Say you hit the center field, I get it,
• 48:57
  Speaker 4: it's four oh three. People are gonna be like, well,
• 48:59
  Speaker 4: it just looks like it's shorter. Well, I don't know
• 49:01
  Speaker 4: how short it is. I was mushed to center and
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker hitting four homers in four straight games. Like
• 49:09
  Speaker 4: the team's hitting, they're gonna have to hit all year.
• 49:12
  Speaker 4: You're going back to Chicago regularly. Ain't that nice for hitters?
• 49:16
  Speaker 4: As much as people want to say awesome, some hitters
• 49:19
  Speaker 4: really struggle. Some days you get some absolute bangers of
• 49:23
  Speaker 4: games twelve to thirteen, but it's gonna be tougher to
• 49:27
  Speaker 4: hit there.
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: I'm against you on the bullpen side, yeah, and I agree.
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's it's a becoming more of a pitcher's
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: park there in Chicago. But I think the bullpen's going
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: to be fine. I think their bullpen was a big
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: problem the last couple of years. I think they've patched
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: it up to a much better place. Is going to
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: be a dominant bullpen, not necessarily, but dude, Porter Hodge,
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a problem. A very
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: legit set up. Guy. Presley had a rough go over
• 49:55
  Speaker 2: the weekend with command and then when it was in
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: the zone it was getting smacked. But he he recovered yesterday.
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: So I feel like they're gonna be Okay, Kratz, I'm
• 50:04
  Speaker 2: against you on this one with the bullpen. I'm not
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: saying they're gonna be a great team, but offense definitely
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: looks better. If Kyle Tucker looks like that.
• 50:10
  Speaker 4: Holy I mean, they keep bringing Pearson in and he's
• 50:14
  Speaker 4: not he's not solidifying that role that the Blue Jays
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: thought he was gonna be years ago. And I see
• 50:21
  Speaker 4: the same guy. So who are the pieces that that
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: Craig Counsel is gonna say and this is something that
• 50:28
  Speaker 4: this is the value that he brings. He's gonna say, Okay,
• 50:31
  Speaker 4: I'm gonna go to this guy and I'm gonna be
• 50:33
  Speaker 4: really I'm gonna be like this is my guy. He's
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: a concrete guy. Meriweather X teammate of mine down in
• 50:39
  Speaker 4: Triple A. Unbelievable stuff. Needs to have another great year
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: like the one year that he had that was awesome.
• 50:47
  Speaker 4: Porter Hodge is young guy. I think he's the setup
• 50:50
  Speaker 4: and I love Presley. Yes, but you need to make
• 50:54
  Speaker 4: sure if you're gonna be a playoff team. If you're
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: we're talking about a playoff team, we're not talking about
• 50:59
  Speaker 4: just winning the now Central.
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: Aj I watched the Yankee game last night. I'm gonna
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: do the Yankees dimebacks later for our playback game, and
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: they must have said the word torpedo. I would say
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: the over under probably twenty four and a half. I mean,
• 51:11
  Speaker 2: it was that many torpedoes thrown out there. If you
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: do a torpedo drinking game, you better go water on
• 51:16
  Speaker 2: a broadcast like that anyway. The tweet from someone named
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Colm Clark. I feel bad for all the travel ball
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: parents that have to buy a torpedo bat for their
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: kid that platoons in left field with a buck seventy
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: four batting average.
• 51:30
  Speaker 3: It's true, it's true.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Listen, we haven't got your torpedo thoughts man. Give me
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: your one and then given about it you're.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: Giving I'm giving you. I'm giving you my torpedo. Talk
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: right here, all right, I'm gonna show you this right now.
• 51:45
  Speaker 1: I know CAM do this in the day. So here's
• 51:47
  Speaker 1: the bad I swung right. See two forty three right,
• 51:52
  Speaker 1: Notice where the barrel goes to. This is all barrel.
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: This is all barrel. Why because I hit ball from
• 52:00
  Speaker 1: here to here every time?
• 52:03
  Speaker 3: See this right here?
• 52:05
  Speaker 1: You know what this is. This is special tape that
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball made for me because I broke so
• 52:09
  Speaker 1: many bats that they didn't want it flying off in
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: the stand, so they made me tape my bats so
• 52:13
  Speaker 1: they wouldn't break. An half true story. Me and Johnny
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Damon both went to the same high school. I had
• 52:17
  Speaker 1: to put tape on our bats. But look at how
• 52:20
  Speaker 1: big my head was. Look the whole thing right here
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: is head. This is all head, right if you put
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: the part here, they put the part here. Now I
• 52:30
  Speaker 1: know CAM showed like a two C two seventy one
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: that tapered. I wanted as much head as possible because
• 52:35
  Speaker 1: I hit the ball from here to hear right, this
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: is all head. This is nothing new. If you take
• 52:39
  Speaker 1: it and move it from here to here, and I
• 52:41
  Speaker 1: hit most of my balls here. Greg, what happens if
• 52:43
  Speaker 1: I hit it here, it's different, Or I hit it here.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: I wanted the biggest head possible. I don't think it's
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: a big deal. I think people are making a big
• 52:49
  Speaker 1: deal out of it because the Brewers pitching sucked and
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: they hit a bunch of homers off of it. There's
• 52:53
  Speaker 1: a lot of other guys using it on other teams
• 52:55
  Speaker 1: and they're not hitting as many homers. So I think
• 52:57
  Speaker 1: this is as much ado about nothing, but way to
• 52:59
  Speaker 1: go for bat companies because guess who's capitalizing on it.
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: Back companies. They're like, we got torpedoes.
• 53:06
  Speaker 1: We got torpedoes, right, and every kid's like, I want
• 53:08
  Speaker 1: to tor My son comes up me and goes, I
• 53:10
  Speaker 1: want a torpedo, But I go, well, better find when
• 53:12
  Speaker 1: we get to college next year, kick, because I'd buy
• 53:14
  Speaker 1: anyone that's good.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Hey, the Yankees got torpedoed by Gino Suarez in the
• 53:21
  Speaker 2: Diamondbacks yesterday. What was it seven or eight four? Whatever
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: the final was. I mean they scored four runs, not fourteen.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: So maybe there was a perfect storm of Bruce pitching
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: having a rough time against the Yankees over the weekend
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: a team.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: Look at where on the box. Go back on the
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: go to the box and look at where those pitches
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: that the Yankees were hitting out. I mean, if this
• 53:43
  Speaker 1: is the box and you could put a dot in
• 53:46
  Speaker 1: the middle.
• 53:46
  Speaker 3: They were.
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: Let's lap. And one last reminder to everyone, you can
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: catch us tonight. Me Cam mab and Derek Lewandowski, Jesse
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: Friedman all on the call for the Yankees and the Diamondbacks.
• 53:57
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• 54:06
  Speaker 2: We all watch together on the screen. It's like an
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: all cast. It's gonna be fun and aj the Yankees
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: turned out to be human. They lost yesterday. They were
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: in control and then basses loaded. Mark Leider serves up
• 54:19
  Speaker 2: change up or splitter whatever to Gino Suarez, who has
• 54:23
  Speaker 2: not been able to miss lately in the first week
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: of the season, Player of the Week Grand Slam dudes
• 54:29
  Speaker 2: on absolute fire right now leading baseball with five homers
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: in his first five games. Great pickup from the Diamondbacks.
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: I know he started slow last year. He picked it
• 54:38
  Speaker 2: up later in the season, and he single handedly won
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: them that game yesterday with that swing.
• 54:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a great It was a If you've
• 54:47
  Speaker 1: ever talked to au Hennio Suarez Gino, for sure, he's unbelievable.
• 54:52
  Speaker 1: He's a great dude. He's an awesome guy, and he's
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: always smiling. People rave about him in the clubhouse, and
• 54:57
  Speaker 1: he hits big homers for you. And he's a free
• 54:59
  Speaker 1: agent at the end of this year. Expect a big
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: year out of old Gino. But that home run last night, man,
• 55:04
  Speaker 1: that that crushed Yankee fans, crushed Derek Lewandowski, and it
• 55:09
  Speaker 1: was just, you know, the Yankees were never going to lose,
• 55:11
  Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden they lost.
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, not to pick on the Mariners, but
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: I remember he was taking some of the brunt of
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: the blame for the high strikeout totals for Seattle a
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: couple of years ago. So they got rid of him.
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: They really need a third baseman. Talking about Seattle and Gino,
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: who's the best at her in baseball in the first
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: week of the season, now, I guess him and Judge. Anyway,
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: we'll talk much more on that later on tonight. Let's
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: get to a few other notes. One Sean Mania set
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: back shut down a couple more weeks. This, according to
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: Carlos Mendoza Will Salmon from the Athletic with the tweet,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: Maniah needed a full spring training ramp up, so that
• 55:48
  Speaker 2: obviously pushes his timeline back. So now we're going to
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: late May, if not early June, if everything lines back
• 55:57
  Speaker 2: up once he can pitch again.
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: Right, great? Right?
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Not great? I mean it sucks, But think about this.
• 56:09
  Speaker 2: When we entered the season, almost everybody had the Mets,
• 56:12
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers or sorry, the Mets, the Braves, and the
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: Phillies in the playoffs. I think the Mets should be good,
• 56:19
  Speaker 2: the Braves should be good in recover. I'm not too
• 56:22
  Speaker 2: concerned about the Phillies right now. But there's definitely a
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: chance that, for example, aj the Dodgers, the Diamondbacks, the
• 56:28
  Speaker 2: Padres make the playoffs. You know, maybe the central is
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: a little better than we anticipated, and all of a
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: sudden you only have the Phillies and say the Mets
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: are the Braves making the playoffs instead of all three?
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, listen, when I said great to the Mania thing,
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: it's like great, meaning like great, Oh no, this sucks.
• 56:49
  Speaker 1: If you're a Mets fan, like no, like, yeah, these
• 56:52
  Speaker 1: setbacks happened a lot. Uh, hopefully he gets healthy soon.
• 56:56
  Speaker 1: But the Mets need him. The Mets need him, the
• 56:59
  Speaker 1: Mets need all the pitching. Then gets and go. Didn't
• 57:01
  Speaker 1: look that great last night, you know, so we'll see.
• 57:06
  Speaker 1: But you know, hopefully Sean and I as a great dude,
• 57:08
  Speaker 1: gets back quickly and can pitch for the Mets and
• 57:11
  Speaker 1: drop down at though like chrysalesmore.
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: I'm with you, And lastly, I know I promised it earlier.
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: David Rubinstein, the owner of the Oriole, said money was
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: not the issue in Corbin Burns choosing closer to home
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: Arizona over Baltimore.
• 57:24
  Speaker 1: What really, you know what, if it wasn't an issue,
• 57:26
  Speaker 1: then you would have given him more and he would
• 57:28
  Speaker 1: have stayed in Baltimore.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: Exactly two fifty mil would have kept him in Baltimore.
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: I'll tell you that. I'm not sure what amount of
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: money would have made a difference. We were prepared to
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: put in this money necessary.
• 57:40
  Speaker 1: Well, I don't I guarantee you if they would have
• 57:42
  Speaker 1: gotten over the Arizona deal, he would have gone to Baltimore.
• 57:45
  Speaker 3: They did it.
• 57:46
  Speaker 1: They probably were in the same range. No tax in Arizona.
• 57:50
  Speaker 1: I don't believe right Home lives at.
• 57:52
  Speaker 3: Home year round. Lower tax, yeah, lower tax yeah.
• 57:55
  Speaker 1: So I mean, listen, there was a lot of incentives
• 57:57
  Speaker 1: for Corbin Burns to being in Arizona, and he delivered.
• 58:00
  Speaker 3: He pitched you all last night.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: He did. He pitched well, kept him in the game,
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: and his team came back. That team can score runs.
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be a fun game tonight. Carlos Rodin on
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: the mound for the Yankees tonight. And who is at Gallon?
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: I'm forgetting real quick. Someone helped me. Yes, but it's
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: a good matchup. Yes, Gallon against Rodan and we will
• 58:20
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