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Reds extend Chase Burns, Brewers acquire Lance McCullers Jr., Shohei Ohtani’s knee update, ASG thoughts · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Here we are. Everybody relaxed. We are back. People were like,
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Speaker 1: where were you? We take basically one day off the
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Speaker 1: entire year on a weekday. That's not a holiday. We
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Speaker 1: were traveling from All Star. We did miss everyone. It's
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Speaker 1: Kevin Pollar and aercrats with me, Scottie Brown today. I'm
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Speaker 1: Merca Beza.
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Speaker 2: I need my visa for Abiza.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, hey, what did you think of the All Star Game?
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Speaker 3: Kp Yeah, it was it was pretty good. I mean, obviously,
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Speaker 3: pitching stole the show, and I was happy to see
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Speaker 3: a former teammate of mine in the minor leagues, a
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Speaker 3: guy that I felt like was gonna eventually get a
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Speaker 3: chance to be on the stage. Miguel Vargas hit an
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Speaker 3: absolute bomb in that game. I think that was kind
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Speaker 3: of the crime of the All Star Game? Is him
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Speaker 3: not winning the MVP.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're talking to the fans right now.
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Speaker 2: The fans are the ones that voted for Cody Bellinger.
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Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger went a single with two RBIs won the
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Speaker 2: MVP of the All Star Game. If you look back
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Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen what his stats were in that series,
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Speaker 2: he won the MVP of that series too. So maybe
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Speaker 2: Cody's maybe Cody's got the gift for the people to
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Speaker 2: vote him in. Although I saw some of the guys
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Speaker 2: at the All Star Game, I'm like, how's that guy? Here?
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Speaker 2: Are we voting on War?
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Speaker 1: Yes, sometimes we are. Absolutely a lot of people vote
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Speaker 1: on War with awards too. But how was the show, Kratz,
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Speaker 1: Because you were in.
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Speaker 2: There, tremendous, tremendous show, can tremendous environment as far as like,
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Speaker 2: obviously Philly fans did the whole booing every National League
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Speaker 2: East opponent and Jordan Walker booing the Yankees kind of
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Speaker 2: all that stuff. But the energy in the stadium was incredible,
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Speaker 2: And I thought live the sandlot recreation thing with the
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Speaker 2: guy with the kids riding onto the field was incredible.
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Speaker 2: I thought they did a incredible job. Lights everything like
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Speaker 2: they did it. They did it big in Philly for sure.
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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. Fox is so good at that when they've
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Speaker 1: got their games and making it feel cinematic.
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Speaker 2: Chef's kids normally gets lost. Normally gets lost though when
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Speaker 2: you're at the game, because you know Fox is doing
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Speaker 2: it for their production on TV. I didn't feel like
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Speaker 2: they lost it at all. I mean to me, it
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Speaker 2: rivaled last year when I went to Atlanta and they
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Speaker 2: did the Hank Aaron hologram or whatever you call that
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Speaker 2: on the field, his iconic home run to beat Babe Ruth,
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Speaker 2: like like that was super super cool the way they
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Speaker 2: did that, and so I was like, how's Philly gonna
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Speaker 2: up end this? And like watching the kids ride the bike,
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Speaker 2: ride their bikes across the field, Freddie Freeman playing catch
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Speaker 2: at first base like it was it was really cool, Cretzy.
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Speaker 3: I didn't get a chance to watch every second of
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Speaker 3: the game, including some of the introductions, and last time
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Speaker 3: I was on I made a request for the Philly
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Speaker 3: fans to woo Mike Trout. Did they live up to it?
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Speaker 2: Was first at bat and his introduction was actually his
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Speaker 2: introduction was really epic and you could see him like waiting,
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Speaker 2: like because they had this liberty bell that they walked,
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Speaker 2: that they ran through when they came out, and you
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Speaker 2: could see him waiting, and then as soon as it
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Speaker 2: was like and from the Los Angeles Angels of Anahei,
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Speaker 2: I mean, the crowd just started going, Like I got
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Speaker 2: chills thinking about it because I was like, holy cow,
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Speaker 2: they did it. And then his first at bat was
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Speaker 2: a little bit less and then he like it went
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Speaker 2: down from there and like the game was really the
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Speaker 2: game was really the side show because a lot of
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Speaker 2: the other stuff that was going on and that home
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Speaker 2: run that micguil Vargas hit went right over our head,
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Speaker 2: hit the upper deck we were and we were in
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Speaker 2: left field there, so.
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Speaker 1: That was yeah. I mean, it was a dude, we
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Speaker 1: can say it. It was not the most entertaining game
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Speaker 1: out there. It was you know, pitching and strikeouts, which
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Speaker 1: sometimes is cool if it's a pitcher's duel, but that's
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Speaker 1: not what this is.
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Speaker 2: And it was a showcase game. It was a kids
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Speaker 2: when when KP gets to that age. If you go
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Speaker 2: and watch high school kids in a showcase game, especially
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Speaker 2: when you're talking about like the best of the best,
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Speaker 2: pitching is always going to dominate the hitting because the
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Speaker 2: hitting has zero approach to just go get a hit.
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Speaker 2: It looked like every dude was coming out swang a langon,
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Speaker 2: I mean, and there was very there was a lot
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Speaker 2: of like first pitch breaking ball heater up above the
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Speaker 2: zone like Cease was prime example. See said he thought
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Speaker 2: about throwing a first pitch change up the swore Er
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Speaker 2: first pitch of the game, and Verlander talked him out
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Speaker 2: of He's like, nah, nah, go right at him, and
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Speaker 2: he was pumping gas. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think my favorite part of the whole thing, too,
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Speaker 3: is when the starting pitchers miked up, and obviously Cease
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Speaker 3: is already kind of a unique character to begin with,
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Speaker 3: but to just kind of get his thought process how
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Speaker 3: this is probably how he's talking to himself on the mount.
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Speaker 3: I do love that part of the All Star Game.
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Speaker 3: You gotta be a little bit castious, though, if you're
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Speaker 3: a starting pitcher and really trying to allow the opposing
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Speaker 3: batters to really understand what you're doing. But you know,
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Speaker 3: for the one inning that he pitched, it's a pretty
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Speaker 3: incredible thing to get inside of the pitcher's head because
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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure that's the way Cease is talking to
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Speaker 3: himself out there.
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Speaker 1: Nailed it for me, on fan experience. My favorite part
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Speaker 1: when I'm watching from home is miked up players, miked
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Speaker 1: up superstars talking through. You never get that any other time,
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Speaker 1: and you can't do it any other time, of course,
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Speaker 1: but it's the best players in the world talking about
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Speaker 1: how they think, what they do, having fun with it.
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Speaker 1: So well done. Well done by the broadcast team too.
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Speaker 1: To put that all together, Okay, let's move forward, let's charge.
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Speaker 2: Let's charge on that.
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Speaker 1: The extension season continues. We actually learned about JJ Weatherholt
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Speaker 1: for the Saint Louis Cardinals right when we were wrapping
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Speaker 1: up a show a week ago. And now post All
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Speaker 1: Star Game, Chase Burns is a rich man. Seven years,
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Speaker 1: one hundred and five million dollars. Deal includes no options
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Speaker 1: or deferrals. Reading the Ken Rosenthal tweet latest guarantee to
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Speaker 1: a picture with less than four years of service, John
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Speaker 1: Rossi on it. First, the Reds have largest. What did
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Speaker 1: I say?
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Speaker 2: You said latest? I didn't want people to think it
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Speaker 2: was a late Sorry it was largest, No good.
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Speaker 1: I need that, you know, I do that right back
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Speaker 1: to everyone else, largest, largest, big money. He's over one
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Speaker 1: hundred million dollars KP. What do we think about Chase
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Speaker 1: Burns getting the big bucks from the Reds, a small
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Speaker 1: market team that is able to keep someone who would
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Speaker 1: become very expensive if you let it linger.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not even going to talk about kind of
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Speaker 3: what's pending out there and maybe the reasons he did it,
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Speaker 3: but I absolutely love it for not only the player.
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Speaker 3: I love it for the organization. A small market team
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Speaker 3: like the Reds coughing up over one hundred million dollars
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Speaker 3: to a starting pitcher. Lets you know that baseball is
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Speaker 3: in a great place that every team has the ability
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Speaker 3: to do it. It's whether or not they want to do it.
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Speaker 3: And for Chase Burns, there's gonna be a lot of
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Speaker 3: people that sit here and say, oh, man, he was
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Speaker 3: at four years of service time. He could have waited
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Speaker 3: two years and he probably could have got double that.
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Speaker 3: That's probably true, but there's also a chance he could
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Speaker 3: throw a pitch a week from now and never pitch again.
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Speaker 3: I immediately think about a guy like Walker Buehler, who
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Speaker 3: probably had a long term extension thrown in front of him,
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Speaker 3: and he was arguably one of the best pitchers in
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Speaker 3: the world. He was a World Series Hero. You know,
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Speaker 3: he was an All Star. He was a cy young
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Speaker 3: candidate every single season, and then you get to a
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Speaker 3: point in your career you have injury where you have
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Speaker 3: a couple injuries, and that big deal is no longer there.
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Speaker 3: Now we're talking about a guy who signed a one
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Speaker 3: year deal with Boston last year. We're talking about guy
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Speaker 3: who had to sign a minor league deal this year,
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Speaker 3: who's pitching for maybe you know, a couple of million
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Speaker 3: dollars this year. So as a starting especially a starting pitcher,
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Speaker 3: because their success is so much determined on their health
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Speaker 3: of their arm, you're always one pitch away from throwing
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Speaker 3: your last pitch. So for a guy like Chase Burn
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Speaker 3: to understand that and to take one hundred million dollars
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Speaker 3: and look at I don't have one hundred million dollars.
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Speaker 3: I don't know what that's like, but I can't imagine.
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Speaker 3: There's a huge difference in your lifestyle when you have
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Speaker 3: one hundred million, maybe one hundred and fifty million, or
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Speaker 3: one hundred and seventy million, or even two hundred million.
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Speaker 3: At that point, you're really rich. You could probably do
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Speaker 3: whatever you want. You have generational wealth. You're never gonna
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Speaker 3: have to work again. So good on both sides, getting
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Speaker 3: a deal done.
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Speaker 2: Man, it's tremendous and this is part of bil A culture. Obviously.
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Speaker 2: You have to like what's going on the city that
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Speaker 2: you're in, not just the team, because over this length
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Speaker 2: of a contract, there's going to be very few of
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Speaker 2: your teammates that are going to be there the duration
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Speaker 2: of it. But look back to when I think it
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Speaker 2: was in twenty three the Reds extended Hunter Green. Hunter
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Speaker 2: Green really hadn't established himself to be the Hunter Green
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Speaker 2: that he is now. He had a Tommy John surgery
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Speaker 2: I think before he even got called up, and he
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Speaker 2: was a future prospect, so the future was bright for him.
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Speaker 2: He signed for six years fifty three million. Okay, so
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Speaker 2: a team option on top of that. But what that
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Speaker 2: does is it enables him to be in the same
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Speaker 2: clubhouse as now Chase Burns gets called up and they
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Speaker 2: have these conversations. Are you pissed that you signed it?
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Speaker 2: Do you feel like you're in prison because you're never
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Speaker 2: going to be able to leave this organization, whether they
10:57
Speaker 2: have a good year or a bad year, Are you
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Speaker 2: excited about it? And to me, when organizations start doing that,
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Speaker 2: then they're able to go to other guys in the
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Speaker 2: organization who come up and have an incredible Essentially, this
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Speaker 2: is Burn's first full year. I mean, if he had
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Speaker 2: like ninety days last year, incredible first year, you're an
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Speaker 2: All Star. And those conversations have already happened with Hunter Green.
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Speaker 2: If they haven't, maybe I'm completely off, but this is
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Speaker 2: how it works, and they're like, He's like, sure, I
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Speaker 2: would love to be in the same work. I would
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Speaker 2: love to sign an extension.
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Speaker 1: He's got good stuff. A couple things that stand out
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Speaker 1: to me. First, I want to answer from a fan
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Speaker 1: who's in there, often Christian, who has great stuff, great questions,
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Speaker 1: but he's like, why would a player like this not
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Speaker 1: bet on themselves? And I think KP answered it. I mean,
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Speaker 1: you're seeing this with many position players. You can make
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Speaker 1: more of a case for position players. For pitchers, you
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Speaker 1: got to get paid, you got to get that first contract,
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Speaker 1: and if you're good, there's longevity for the star pay.
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Speaker 2: Right.
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Speaker 1: Look at some of the big time pitchers in our
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Speaker 1: sport and how they can pitch really well, deep into
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Speaker 1: their thirties. There will be another bite at the apple.
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Speaker 1: But there are too many stories of arms falling off
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Speaker 1: and nothing happening. You just you can't afford that and
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Speaker 1: it can happen at any times.
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Speaker 2: Are another thing, time bomb. Yeah, that's a great another thing.
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Speaker 2: As everybody knows, insurance costs have gone through the roof.
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Speaker 2: I'm not saying this is why guys are signing these
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Speaker 2: early extensions, but players used to go not of my
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Speaker 2: stature or of KP's stature, but players like this used
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Speaker 2: to go to purchase insurance, purchase like a future's insurance, Like, hey,
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Speaker 2: if these things happen in the next two years, in
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Speaker 2: the next year, I'm hedging myself that, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm going to pay this whatever for insurance and then
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Speaker 2: I'll be able to get the one hundred million if
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Speaker 2: that's what was offered to me. And it's kind of
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Speaker 2: the way of them hedging against injuries. It wasn't, but
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Speaker 2: it happened now. Insurance costs I heard for these guys
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Speaker 2: are just like everybody's insurance costs through the roof. Places
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Speaker 2: aren't even taking pictures. Insurance is what I'm hearing. Unless
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Speaker 2: it's like half a year, unless it's like part way
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Speaker 2: through a year, maybe a year at length.
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Speaker 1: That's good info. I've got other info for you on
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Speaker 1: the red selection process a few years ago, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 1: and I'll be draft Charlie Condon was looked at as
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Speaker 1: a superstar college bat and many people thought that he
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Speaker 1: was going to land with the Reds. The Reds go
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Speaker 1: Chase Burns, the Rockies then take Condon at three. Nick
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Speaker 1: Kurtz taken by the way at four by the A's
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Speaker 1: and I remember back then some people were like, really
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Speaker 1: they're taking Nick Nick Kurtz that I yeah, that worked
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Speaker 1: out pretty well for them. But number one that year
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Speaker 1: Travis Bozana. That's working out well so far for Cleveland
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Speaker 1: as he's already an instant All Star. But kp for
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Speaker 1: the Reds, it's hard to recruit pitching sometimes with that ballpark.
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Speaker 1: I think it's becoming easier for them when you see
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Speaker 1: some of the success they have with their young pitching core.
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Speaker 1: But that was part of the process for them. Hey
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Speaker 1: we can land a hitter, we can get Gino Suarez
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Speaker 1: to come back to Cincinnati free agent starters if we're
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Speaker 1: even on money against another team, they're probably not coming here.
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Speaker 1: Let's draft and develop. Derek Johnson's been there for a while,
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Speaker 1: part of the pitching development program. In many other names
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Speaker 1: that you know, I don't necessarily know, but I know
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Speaker 1: are doing a great job there. They've got something special
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Speaker 1: going on with how they develop arms and how they
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Speaker 1: select arms in Chase Burns.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and everyone knows it's a hitter's ballpark. So yeah,
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Speaker 3: it's easy to get some especially guys that maybe are
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Speaker 3: trying to have a bounce back year, especially one year
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Speaker 3: deals for hitters, like come into Cincinnati, kind of boost
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Speaker 3: your stats, go back on the free agent market. It's
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Speaker 3: easy to do that with hitters. It's hard to get
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Speaker 3: a pitcher maybe in that same kind of category to
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Speaker 3: want to come into Cincinnati, knowing how much of a
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Speaker 3: hitter's ballpark it is. But you think about, you know,
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Speaker 3: drafting and developing arms. Think about their rotation. Now with
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Speaker 3: Chase Burns locked up, Hunter Green locked up, you got
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Speaker 3: Lodolo there, you got Abbot there, Like, that's four fifths
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Speaker 3: of your rotation that you're gonna have, you know, at
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Speaker 3: least for Lodolo and Abbot, I think they each probably
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Speaker 3: have four more years left before their free agents. So
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Speaker 3: I love what Cincinnati's doing. You know, when you are
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Speaker 3: a team like that that historically is playing in a
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Speaker 3: hitter's ballpark, it is really important that you go out
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Speaker 3: and you draft and develop. And they've been able to
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Speaker 3: select the right guys. You talk about the decision they
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Speaker 3: had to make in two thousand and four, twenty twenty four,
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Speaker 3: you know, choosing to go pitcher over you know, the
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Speaker 3: the best offensive player in the draft. They made the
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Speaker 3: right decision.
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Speaker 2: And I'll bring up one last point. Derek Johnson DJ
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Speaker 2: was the pitching coach in twenty eighteen with the Brewers.
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Speaker 2: The Reds pulled him away. The Reds gave Derek Johnson
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Speaker 2: something that other organizations Major League Baseball doesn't do. They
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Speaker 2: gave him a multi year contract to leave the Brewers
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Speaker 2: and come over there. And now what he has helped build,
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Speaker 2: he would never say he's built it. What he has
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Speaker 2: helped build there has turned into extreme value. Teams don't
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Speaker 2: want to spend on coaches, but they should when they
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Speaker 2: find a good one and lock them up and make sure.
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Speaker 2: Because he didn't want to leave Milwaukee, but he's a family.
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Speaker 2: How could he not leave Milwaukee? When you know what,
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Speaker 2: we're going to give you multi year con. We're gonna
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Speaker 2: give you a multi year contract like that's unheard of
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Speaker 2: in Major League Baseball. Now, look at what he's helped
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Speaker 2: build and they've put together.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, wise move. I like this one too. Chase Burns
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Speaker 1: looks like the real deal. Already an All Star this year,
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Speaker 1: locked up long term with the Red seven years, one
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Speaker 1: oh five. Mil Let's get to some trade rumors, shall we,
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Speaker 1: and reports coming up after we tell you about Riverfront Territory,
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Speaker 1: Mason Danny and C Trent, we'll have plenty on Chase
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Speaker 1: Burns being a Red for a long time now locked
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Speaker 1: in at a good price. Hey, we're here, let's talk
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Speaker 1: about show. Hey Otani for a moment, fluid drained from
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Speaker 1: the knee. He's going to be DH only for the
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Speaker 1: Yankee series, as Dave Roberts confirmed, he had a little
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Speaker 1: procedure to relieve knee irritation. No injection he was supposed
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Speaker 1: to get that after skipping the All Star Game. Is
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Speaker 1: going to be DH at minimum for this weekend's Yankees
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Speaker 1: Dodgers series.
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Speaker 3: You know, I mean, you heard me right before the
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Speaker 3: All Star break, and this is I think this is
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Speaker 3: another reason why the Ulstar break needs to be a
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Speaker 3: little bit longer, because there are probably multiple guys that
17:42
Speaker 3: are in a situation like this that have, you know,
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Speaker 3: some bumps and bruises or a knee that needs to
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Speaker 3: get drained. And I know there was some people that
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Speaker 3: were critical that show Hey wasn't there, But when you
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Speaker 3: have to make a decision about what's best for your
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Speaker 3: team the Los Angeles Dodgers, what's best for show Hey Otani.
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Speaker 3: Him traveling to Philadelphia when he's not going to participate,
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Speaker 3: when he has this need that needs to be drained,
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Speaker 3: is the priority. I do believe if the Ulster break
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Speaker 3: was a little bit longer, he probably could have gone
18:09
Speaker 3: to Philadelphia showed face, you know, done the red carpet thing.
18:12
Speaker 3: You know, he is the face of baseball. To be
18:14
Speaker 3: there is really important for the game. But when you
18:17
Speaker 3: only have two or three days for an off day
18:20
Speaker 3: and you have to get something like this done, it's
18:23
Speaker 3: a reason the Ulster break. Another reason the Ulster break
18:25
Speaker 3: needs to be a little bit longer.
18:27
Speaker 2: Another reason I will not ever listen to anybody that
18:30
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18:34
Speaker 2: not want the buye I will never, I will never.
18:37
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18:41
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18:44
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19:38
Speaker 1: They also designated Aaron Savali for assignment, who had a
19:41
Speaker 1: hot start and then cooled off. But Kratz, we love
19:44
Speaker 1: the nickname. The numbers look good. He was a star
19:47
Speaker 1: at LSU, second round pick twenty twenty four, twenty three
19:49
Speaker 1: years old, and he's coming in hot on Friday against
19:52
Speaker 1: the Nats.
19:54
Speaker 2: I was at the the Nats. He can't wait till
19:57
Speaker 2: the bullpen gets in there, so's you can get some
19:58
Speaker 2: slangs off. Uh, there's a lot of triple A pitching
20:02
Speaker 2: in their bullpen. I was at the combine when he
20:05
Speaker 2: was a high scorer and I was the coach of
20:08
Speaker 2: one team and the hitting coach on my team was
20:11
Speaker 2: Billy Butler. And Billy Butler I was watching I go Bill.
20:17
Speaker 2: I was like, this guy swings exactly like you. And
20:21
Speaker 2: obviously everybody knows what Tommy Tanks ended up doing. You know,
20:24
Speaker 2: he made a lot of money going to LSU after
20:27
Speaker 2: being an NC state. He is pure hitter. I thought
20:31
Speaker 2: he was gonna get drafted out of high school. Tough
20:33
Speaker 2: for a guy, but he's now athletic and he's moving
20:36
Speaker 2: to third I'm excited to watch it because Billy Butler
20:39
Speaker 2: was a real hitter. Bill as a person was a goofball.
20:43
Speaker 2: Tommy's probably a little bit less of a goofball than Bill.
20:49
Speaker 1: And another offensive player who could be an impact guy
20:52
Speaker 1: for an A team that actually has disappointed KP. I
20:55
Speaker 1: don't think anybody expecting them to be the best team
20:57
Speaker 1: in baseball, but they dropped nine in a row heading
21:00
Speaker 1: to the break, it's looking like they're going to be sellers.
21:04
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, but I think we just talked about
21:06
Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Radds. I think it's a fair comp I
21:08
Speaker 3: think what you've seen over the last couple of years,
21:11
Speaker 3: the A's have done a really good job of drafting
21:14
Speaker 3: and developing offensive players. You think about Wilson, you think
21:17
Speaker 3: about Lawrence Butler, you think about obviously Nick Kurtz. You know,
21:20
Speaker 3: Tommy Tanks is just kind of the next guy in
21:23
Speaker 3: line of them being able to go out identify big
21:26
Speaker 3: league talent at the offensive level. Obviously, them playing in
21:29
Speaker 3: Sacramento is not a sexy draw for any starting pitcher
21:34
Speaker 3: or any relief pitcher to want to come in and
21:37
Speaker 3: sign their long term. You've obviously heard Luis Severino his
21:41
Speaker 3: complaints about you know, pitching there in the mountain stuff.
21:44
Speaker 3: And then obviously we saw what happened in Vegas with
21:47
Speaker 3: the ball flying out there I do think at some
21:50
Speaker 3: point Vegas will be a destination because of its geography,
21:54
Speaker 3: the nightlife. You know, it's a non tact state. So
21:57
Speaker 3: I do believe that they have disappointed this year, but
22:00
Speaker 3: I do believe that the future is right for the
22:02
Speaker 3: a's organization.
22:04
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what he said, That's what he said, That's
22:07
Speaker 2: what he said, That's what we said.
22:12
Speaker 1: I encourage everyone to check out all of the All
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Speaker 1: Star coverage that we had because we did our shows,
22:16
Speaker 1: we had guests there, but then we also had reporters
22:19
Speaker 1: on the scene, Red Carpet Media Day, the whole deal.
22:22
Speaker 1: There were great quotes coming from a variety of players.
22:25
Speaker 1: A one thing that stood out was the conversation Wilson
22:28
Speaker 1: Contreres had with a number of reporters about how much
22:31
Speaker 1: he loves Boston. So Kevin Wilson has something called a
22:36
Speaker 1: no trade class. Now the Red Sox are actually in
22:40
Speaker 1: a much better position than they were a couple of
22:42
Speaker 1: weeks ago. It appears that they could be buyers, if
22:44
Speaker 1: not at least holders. But Wilson made it would say
22:48
Speaker 1: kind of clear that he doesn't want to go anywhere,
22:51
Speaker 1: and he's got that big boy no trade clause, which
22:53
Speaker 1: he waived to go to Boston, and it sounds like
22:57
Speaker 1: if the Red Sox fell apart over the next couple weeks,
23:00
Speaker 1: he's not very interested in moving.
23:04
Speaker 3: Is this a full note trade clause? Do we know
23:06
Speaker 3: that we're limited? Probably full note trade. I would assume
23:09
Speaker 3: let's just go with the full tradeause.
23:11
Speaker 1: Let's let's go with full I think it's full, but
23:12
Speaker 1: I'll double check.
23:14
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, obviously, what the Red Sox did?
23:16
Speaker 2: You know?
23:17
Speaker 3: Closing the unofficial first half has completely changed the conversation
23:21
Speaker 3: that feel around this team and what they actually might
23:24
Speaker 3: end up going out and doing during the deadline. And
23:27
Speaker 3: we just heard Robert talk about it. They may be
23:29
Speaker 3: one of those teams that over the next couple of weeks,
23:34
Speaker 3: it's it's huge what they do over the next two weeks.
23:36
Speaker 3: Do they become sellers? Do they become buyers? And obviously,
23:39
Speaker 3: when you're a guy like Wilson Contreras and you're in
23:42
Speaker 3: Boston for you know, the foreseeable future, what else is
23:46
Speaker 3: the guy supposed to say, whether he means it or
23:48
Speaker 3: doesn't mean it, Like he's there, he has a no
23:50
Speaker 3: trade clause. He controls what he wants to do. But
23:53
Speaker 3: I do think winning nine straight before the break. You know,
23:57
Speaker 3: Boston is a great place to play. Unfortunately that the
23:59
Speaker 3: year I got a chance to play there was during
24:01
Speaker 3: the COVID year, But as a visiting player, it was
24:04
Speaker 3: always one of those places I enjoyed going. The fan
24:07
Speaker 3: base is incredible. Fenway Park went an amazing place to
24:11
Speaker 3: play eighty one games a year. So yeah, I mean,
24:14
Speaker 3: it's not surprising he's going to come out and say
24:16
Speaker 3: he doesn't want to go anywhere. It would be interesting though,
24:19
Speaker 3: Let's say the Red Sox do scuffle down the stretch.
24:21
Speaker 3: What if there's a scenario where Milwaukee comes and offers
24:25
Speaker 3: him to trade and he gets a chance to play
24:26
Speaker 3: with his brother, does he wave his no trade clause?
24:28
Speaker 2: Then interesting? Milwaukee won't want to pay a first baseman
24:34
Speaker 2: that much money for the twenty seventh season, and then
24:37
Speaker 2: obviously he else has the team option for the twenty
24:40
Speaker 2: eight season. So there's a lot that goes on with Wilson,
24:44
Speaker 2: and I think him saying this is not just well, yeah,
24:47
Speaker 2: this is what he's supposed to say, because that's what
24:50
Speaker 2: players say. But I mean, Tarrek Scoble just said the
24:52
Speaker 2: other day to or told a friend he wants to
24:55
Speaker 2: stay and he doesn't want to be traded. He wants
24:57
Speaker 2: to stay in Detroit. Well, it's not really up to
24:59
Speaker 2: him him Wilson, it is because he has a full
25:02
Speaker 2: no trade and that's why you get it. But it
25:06
Speaker 2: also the reason I think he's saying this is he's
25:09
Speaker 2: taking a role that I think he's seen other guys
25:12
Speaker 2: take in different times of his career. Talking about the
25:16
Speaker 2: older guys with the Cubs, the fact that he was
25:20
Speaker 2: over got sent over to the Cardinals or signed with
25:23
Speaker 2: the Cardinals, and you know, he was never really that
25:27
Speaker 2: leader guy. Now now in Boston, he's kind of tried
25:31
Speaker 2: to take that leadership role. I don't think he's done
25:34
Speaker 2: a great job of it. I just think it's like
25:36
Speaker 2: his emotion kind of doesn't allow him to be that leader.
25:39
Speaker 2: But he's taking a different role on a team that
25:44
Speaker 2: there is no leader right now because they wanted Roman
25:47
Speaker 2: Anthony to be that leader. He's been mia the entire
25:51
Speaker 2: season with this injury that he's got, and so I
25:54
Speaker 2: think he's kind of fell into that role. And so
25:57
Speaker 2: that would be a reason that hey, I want to
25:59
Speaker 2: stay here, Like this is something I haven't experienced, I've
26:02
Speaker 2: seen before. I haven't experienced, and I'm enjoying this leadership role.
26:06
Speaker 2: Whether or not he's handling it well or not, that's,
26:09
Speaker 2: you know, for us to just judge an opinion on him.
26:12
Speaker 1: He's a great player. Productivity wise, he's been a great player,
26:16
Speaker 1: consistent bat, and he transitioned really smoothly to first base.
26:20
Speaker 1: It's a better position for him, Kratz. I mean, you
26:22
Speaker 1: watched him at patcher throughout the years. This is the spot, Like,
26:26
Speaker 1: it's not just oh well, we need a position for him,
26:28
Speaker 1: and we'd rather not fill up the DH spot, even
26:31
Speaker 1: though he does put up DH level numbers. Let's put
26:34
Speaker 1: him at first. I mean, I don't know what he's
26:36
Speaker 1: at without above average and defensive run safe, but the
26:41
Speaker 1: top ten defensive first baseman in baseball.
26:44
Speaker 2: He's he has done so well. And even when he
26:46
Speaker 2: first came up, I remember playing against him, I was like, WHOA,
26:49
Speaker 2: this dude's athletic. He just never understood and comprehended the
26:54
Speaker 2: intricacies of being behind a dish. He knew he had
26:58
Speaker 2: a good arm. He would have the most pickoff attempts
27:01
Speaker 2: and the most pickoffs and the most airs of anybody.
27:04
Speaker 2: Like I think when he came over to the Cardinals.
27:06
Speaker 2: I think the Cardinals didn't weren't set up to allow
27:09
Speaker 2: him to be successful behind the dish. They had Yadier Molina,
27:14
Speaker 2: and Yadier Molina did everything for the Cardinals organization, and
27:17
Speaker 2: then Wilson came in, and I think they were like, well, Wilson,
27:21
Speaker 2: we're paying you fifty six million dollars over the next
27:23
Speaker 2: five years. We need to ask He probably weren't that,
27:26
Speaker 2: but we need you to do exactly what Yati did,
27:29
Speaker 2: and nobody does what Yati did, like eighty seven million
27:32
Speaker 2: for the next five years, and so I think he
27:35
Speaker 2: was set up for failure in that sense. But first
27:38
Speaker 2: base is I think, I honestly think watching his athleticism,
27:41
Speaker 2: watching when he first came up he played outfield, and
27:44
Speaker 2: the way he moved around behind the dish, I thought,
27:47
Speaker 2: if he wanted to, he could have learned third base.
27:49
Speaker 2: And it's done exceedingly well. Now he's getting older, he
27:53
Speaker 2: learned first base. That's such a credit for him to
27:56
Speaker 2: him for learning that and really in that position.
28:02
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's pretty crazy. When I watch games that the
28:04
Speaker 3: Red Sox are playing, I forget that he was even
28:06
Speaker 3: a catcher because he looks so natural at first base.
28:09
Speaker 3: It looks like he's played that position.
28:11
Speaker 2: His whole life.
28:11
Speaker 3: But and I think to Kratsey's point too, and I
28:14
Speaker 3: think it's to you know, give my flowers to catchers.
28:18
Speaker 3: It's very difficult to manage both sides of baseball when
28:23
Speaker 3: you're catching. You know, there's very few really good offensive
28:27
Speaker 3: catchers that are also really good defensively. The fact that
28:30
Speaker 3: he's been able to remove himself from the catching position,
28:33
Speaker 3: go to first base, not have to think about game
28:35
Speaker 3: planning and sitting in those meetings with pitchers and reading swings,
28:39
Speaker 3: he could just kind of be an athlete, which I
28:40
Speaker 3: think he always was. I think he was athletic enough
28:43
Speaker 3: to catch. I think he was athletic enough to play
28:46
Speaker 3: the outfield. He's an athlete at first base. But it's
28:48
Speaker 3: really allowed him to free up his mind and really
28:51
Speaker 3: put a little bit more emphasis on what he's been
28:53
Speaker 3: able to do offensively.
28:56
Speaker 1: So tell me Boston winning nine in a row, heading
28:59
Speaker 1: into the break for team and two stretch up or down,
29:02
Speaker 1: believing it or not.
29:06
Speaker 3: No, I'm gonna go thumbs up. I think if they're
29:13
Speaker 3: able to get Garrett Crochet back at some point here soon,
29:17
Speaker 3: I mean Sunny Gray has been incredible, but they were
29:19
Speaker 3: a team in the off season. Obviously, Roman Anthony hasn't
29:23
Speaker 3: played much this year, but they were a team in
29:26
Speaker 3: the off season. You know, obviously, someone that follows the
29:28
Speaker 3: Blue Jays, you have to follow teams in their division.
29:30
Speaker 3: I really like what they did in the off season.
29:32
Speaker 3: I like the addition to their rotation. You know, obviously
29:35
Speaker 3: you have a legitimate closer on the back end. I
29:38
Speaker 3: liked all their position players, how they kind of always fit.
29:42
Speaker 3: It was a big debate in the offseason. They had
29:45
Speaker 3: a bunch of left handed hitting outfielders. How were they
29:47
Speaker 3: all going to play? How are they going to use
29:48
Speaker 3: the dhrol? You know, Contreras was moving from catcher to
29:51
Speaker 3: first base. They have a ton of young talent. It's weird.
29:57
Speaker 3: Baseball is a weird thing because there's no debating. Alex
29:59
Speaker 3: cor a great leader of men, and he's a great manager.
30:03
Speaker 3: This team just underperformed and they just got hot at
30:06
Speaker 3: the right time. And I think there is reason to
30:08
Speaker 3: believe in this team. Not to say they're going to
30:12
Speaker 3: go out and win every game the rest of the year.
30:14
Speaker 3: They're going to go out and win nine more in
30:15
Speaker 3: a row, but I do think they're in a position
30:18
Speaker 3: where I think we all thought they would have been
30:20
Speaker 3: at the beginning of the year.
30:25
Speaker 2: Yeah, hmm, I don't know. Not buying it. I'm not
30:30
Speaker 2: buying it. That's my analysis. I've watched. I watched eight
30:36
Speaker 2: of the nine games that they've played. I'm not impressed
30:39
Speaker 2: with the things that I feel like a team that's
30:43
Speaker 2: going to sustain this need to have. I'm very impressed
30:47
Speaker 2: through that stretch of the young left handed pitchers that
30:50
Speaker 2: they've had with totally and Bennett stepping up being like
30:54
Speaker 2: consistent during this stretch. Can they do it? Can they
31:00
Speaker 2: continue to do it? No? I don't think so, because
31:03
Speaker 2: I don't think there's enough. When they start becoming a
31:06
Speaker 2: winning team like they are right now, I think they're
31:08
Speaker 2: gonna face other winning teams and they're gonna see, all right,
31:12
Speaker 2: s col Wilson can swing it. Who else is gonna
31:15
Speaker 2: beat us? Saidan's gonna beat you. Well, just don't throw
31:18
Speaker 2: them a strike like Durbin's gonna beat you, Okay, make
31:23
Speaker 2: sure you extend away to them down in a way
31:26
Speaker 2: to like there's there's a lot of pieces that have
31:29
Speaker 2: really been falling into place and things that have been
31:31
Speaker 2: going well. I just don't feel like through this nine
31:34
Speaker 2: game stretch that they've changed anything to make me think
31:38
Speaker 2: that this team's gonna continue and continue to make a
31:42
Speaker 2: massive run, like they would need to be a team
31:46
Speaker 2: that's like where I'm saying, Wow, Wow, they're gonna be
31:49
Speaker 2: They're gonna be a consistent five games over five hundred,
31:53
Speaker 2: which would be great in the American League. I just
31:55
Speaker 2: don't see that. Like they climbed all the way back
31:57
Speaker 2: to five hundred, and I feel like they're just a
31:59
Speaker 2: team that's gonna hang right around that area, which could
32:03
Speaker 2: be bad for him because they might keep some of
32:04
Speaker 2: the pieces that are going to be expiring after this year.
32:07
Speaker 1: Yeah, you were relying on Roman Anthony to carry the team.
32:10
Speaker 1: He's not even healthy unfortunately. And then Garat Crochets are
32:12
Speaker 1: number one. For me, I'm sticking to the lack of
32:15
Speaker 1: personnel that would not be able to help them in
32:18
Speaker 1: the second half here, at least for a while. So
32:21
Speaker 1: I'm with you. I think I actually think every team
32:23
Speaker 1: in the AL East is better than them right now.
32:26
Speaker 1: We'll see what that looks like in the second half.
32:28
Speaker 1: I like every other team in the AL East better
32:30
Speaker 1: than Boston I do. We'll see what it looks like.
32:32
Speaker 1: I mean, they might not finish the last but I
32:34
Speaker 1: think every other team has a better chance of making
32:36
Speaker 1: the playoffs. And I just like the look of the
32:37
Speaker 1: roster right now for every team coming out of the break.
32:40
Speaker 1: I don't know when some of the big boys are
32:41
Speaker 1: coming back for Boston, but those are my thoughts. Well,
32:49
Speaker 1: I'm buying stock and Lance mccullor's junior guys. He was
32:52
Speaker 1: traded to the Milwaukee Brewers. Brewers are taking on two
32:55
Speaker 1: and a half mil for the rest of the season
32:57
Speaker 1: foreign change getting taken on by the Ash, So this
33:00
Speaker 1: is looked at as a little bit of salary relief
33:03
Speaker 1: for a team that will hopefully use it at the
33:05
Speaker 1: trade deadline. They also do get Prince Fielder's kid, Jaden Fielder,
33:09
Speaker 1: Cecil Fielder's grandson, who was undrafted but has played well
33:13
Speaker 1: early on a ball in the minor leagues. But let's
33:16
Speaker 1: talk about mcculler's here. He had a no trade class krat.
33:19
Speaker 1: You played with him, He's gone through a ton. He
33:21
Speaker 1: has had some legendary moments with the Astros, but he's
33:23
Speaker 1: also gone through a ton on the injury front, and
33:25
Speaker 1: even this year, then went through injuries again, but he
33:28
Speaker 1: did get back on the field for the first time
33:29
Speaker 1: in a long time. Brewers want him, Brewers spending millions
33:33
Speaker 1: of dollars on him, not saying Kyle Hyrison is going
33:37
Speaker 1: to appear productivity wise out of Lant mccullor's junior. But
33:41
Speaker 1: the Brewers are pitcher whisperers.
33:44
Speaker 2: Well, and why are they a pitcher whisper? That's why
33:46
Speaker 2: we always ask what does Hooky do? He just allows
33:51
Speaker 2: them to be who they are, surrounded by what they
33:56
Speaker 2: feel like makes them really good. I think the Astros
33:59
Speaker 2: do a really good job of that too. It's not
34:01
Speaker 2: like he's coming from the Angels. It's not like he's
34:04
Speaker 2: coming from the Rockies, places where teams are just devoid
34:07
Speaker 2: of any awareness of what it takes to compete successfully
34:12
Speaker 2: at the big league level. I think it's something that
34:14
Speaker 2: the Angels do know, and Lance, knowing Lance as well
34:18
Speaker 2: as I know Lance, I know his intelligence is acuum
34:23
Speaker 2: for what he can do. Well. Is there the differences?
34:27
Speaker 2: I think the Brewers when he's put in the game
34:32
Speaker 2: don't necessarily say, Okay, well we need to lean on you.
34:35
Speaker 2: We're gonna try to suck another ending out of you.
34:38
Speaker 2: We're just gonna get what we get and then we're
34:40
Speaker 2: gonna move on. It's not oh you know what. You know,
34:43
Speaker 2: the Brewers never let pitchers pitch like this is just
34:46
Speaker 2: what we do. We're gonna go ahead and we're gonna
34:48
Speaker 2: throw all the pitchers out there, and I think that's
34:49
Speaker 2: where they'll find the value with Lance, trying to not
34:52
Speaker 2: let him be over extended, which staying healthy is Lance's
34:58
Speaker 2: biggest need. Now he's healthy this year, he's got a
35:02
Speaker 2: walk less guys. He's really That's that's what it comes
35:04
Speaker 2: down to. He's got to walk less guys.
35:07
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I touched on it earlier in the show.
35:09
Speaker 3: I mean, hopefully it's the start of many more dominoes
35:13
Speaker 3: to fall. I'm a I'm a pro trade deadline guy.
35:16
Speaker 3: I love seeing teams be active. You know, Lance's time
35:21
Speaker 3: in Houston has been, you know, just opposite ends of
35:24
Speaker 3: the spectrum. He's had some really really great moments and
35:27
Speaker 3: some really big spots for that organization, and then he
35:30
Speaker 3: spent a lot of time on the il there too.
35:32
Speaker 3: You know the fact that he was able to get
35:34
Speaker 3: back on the field this year after a couple of
35:36
Speaker 3: years out is great for him, it's great for the game.
35:40
Speaker 3: It's a big risk by the Brewers. You know, there's
35:42
Speaker 3: talks about you know, potentially you know, the mids down
35:46
Speaker 3: the stretch, kind of limiting his innings, maybe skipping some starts.
35:50
Speaker 3: Lance mccollor isn't the epitome of health. He's not a
35:52
Speaker 3: guy that you as an organization are depending on him
35:55
Speaker 3: going out and making his starts every fifth day with
35:58
Speaker 3: his injury history. But he has been a very successful
36:02
Speaker 3: pitcher in this league. Krats talked about what the Brewers do.
36:06
Speaker 3: Hopefully he gets over there, you know, first time in
36:08
Speaker 3: a different place and a great environment in Milwaukee. I
36:11
Speaker 3: think he's gonna be welcome with open arms there. I
36:13
Speaker 3: think he's gonna love his time there. They're just gonna
36:16
Speaker 3: allow him to go out and be himself and then
36:18
Speaker 3: not have him extend and do more than he needs
36:21
Speaker 3: to do if he has to go in and pitch
36:23
Speaker 3: three four innings, you know, as an opener, as a starter,
36:27
Speaker 3: maybe come in and as an opener. I think they're
36:29
Speaker 3: just going to allow him to do what Lance does,
36:31
Speaker 3: spin the crap out of the ball, and hopefully he
36:34
Speaker 3: he'd stay healthy because it could be a big addition
36:37
Speaker 3: for the Brewers down the stretch. And this is a
36:39
Speaker 3: guy who's got a ton of postseason experience, a ton
36:42
Speaker 3: of World Series experience. And I think that's also the
36:45
Speaker 3: other part why they're bringing this guy in. This is
36:47
Speaker 3: a guy who's been there, done it.
36:49
Speaker 2: He knows how to.
36:49
Speaker 3: Get over the hump, and hopefully bringing a guy like
36:52
Speaker 3: that in your clubhouse kind of you know, rubs off
36:56
Speaker 3: on everyone else that's in there and pitching depth.
36:59
Speaker 1: I mean, what you is hurt ms taking a little
37:02
Speaker 1: breather for a sect, same with Kyle Harrison on the shelf.
37:06
Speaker 1: So rack up some more starting pitching. You damn need
37:09
Speaker 1: it to get through the second half. And then maybe
37:12
Speaker 1: you're able to switch something up with Lance and he becomes,
37:15
Speaker 1: you know, the lance of old or even a piece
37:17
Speaker 1: of the lance of Old for a bit of time
37:18
Speaker 1: to help the Brewers. Why are you shaking your head?
37:21
Speaker 2: Don't expect that. Don't expect that from this move. In
37:24
Speaker 2: my opinion, they're going to extract value from it for
37:28
Speaker 2: them to put up two and a half million dollars.
37:31
Speaker 2: And you know they also did get Caleb Gorton Caleb Gordon.
37:35
Speaker 1: I think it was Colton, Colton.
37:39
Speaker 2: So Colton, Gordon. I knew it was a sea. I
37:41
Speaker 2: knew it was a sea. Caleb didn't sound right. And
37:44
Speaker 2: you look at his numbers and you go, Okay, there's
37:46
Speaker 2: not a lot there, but it's more depth. Yes, don't
37:50
Speaker 2: expect Lance McCullers to be something that he's not been
37:56
Speaker 2: for years, but expect the Brewers to extract the most
37:59
Speaker 2: value they can out of him and his slider. But
38:03
Speaker 2: when you have a one and a half whip, it's
38:05
Speaker 2: not like you're getting unlucky, like that's a that's a
38:09
Speaker 2: very drastic number.
38:23
Speaker 1: KP. What do we have here?
38:26
Speaker 3: Okay, so this is my This is my West Coast
38:30
Speaker 3: Baseball League three on three home run derby X style.
38:35
Speaker 3: My team happened to win the home run derby at
38:38
Speaker 3: their All Star game that was in Victoria, BC. That
38:42
Speaker 3: I was just at that I just flew home from yesterday.
38:45
Speaker 3: It was a friendly reminder that I can no longer
38:49
Speaker 3: do it. I can do it for like a short stint,
38:51
Speaker 3: like I can hit some homers, I go make some plays,
38:54
Speaker 3: But to play for one hundred and sixty two games
38:57
Speaker 3: a year and have to do it every single day,
39:00
Speaker 3: those days are long gone, because my right g loot
39:03
Speaker 3: today is so sore from swinging the bat. I was
39:06
Speaker 3: getting jammed in BP two crats. Granted my VP thrower
39:09
Speaker 3: was strolling kind of firm, but majority of those balls
39:12
Speaker 3: that hit my bat were too close to the label.
39:14
Speaker 3: So I'm more into doing this the coaching aspect, But
39:18
Speaker 3: every once in a while it is fun, like you
39:20
Speaker 3: did last week, Kratzy, going out and just playing one
39:23
Speaker 3: game or one event. I'm good at doing that, but
39:26
Speaker 3: it is a friendly reminder that my playing days are
39:29
Speaker 3: long gone.
39:30
Speaker 2: Your new swing needs a torpedo bat. It's not your fault.
39:34
Speaker 2: We'll just make a bat that's manipulated to your torpedo bat.
39:38
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the torpedo bat definitely would have been
39:41
Speaker 3: useful because majority of those ball marks were down by
39:44
Speaker 3: the label. But you know, in Pratzy fashion, I am
39:48
Speaker 3: wearing the All Star Game hat right here. If you
39:51
Speaker 3: guys haven't been to Victoria, BC, which is on Vancouver Island,
39:56
Speaker 3: it is a place out of movies fairy Tales. Got
39:59
Speaker 3: to take a he played from Victoria back to Vancouver
40:03
Speaker 3: yesterday and then flew home and that was one of
40:06
Speaker 3: the most incredible experiences that I've had with my family
40:09
Speaker 3: in a long time.
40:10
Speaker 2: That's so awesome. And the playing, the playing back to
40:13
Speaker 2: back days, No nude, not built like that, not built
40:18
Speaker 2: like that. It's it takes a mindset when you're playing.
40:22
Speaker 2: You would never be like I can't play again. Never
40:25
Speaker 2: did I say I'm not playing tomorrow. Never once. It's
40:30
Speaker 2: a mindset. You'd get back into it. Easy, peasy. Give
40:32
Speaker 2: you two months, KP. You're ready to go. This is
40:35
Speaker 2: my team. USA didn't want you to manage because you
40:40
Speaker 2: you're so close to still being able to play.
40:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's to athletic, you do. There's too much going
40:45
Speaker 1: on there still, KP.
40:46
Speaker 3: You look at me, you get the itch a little bit.
40:49
Speaker 3: You do get the itch a little bit. But like
40:51
Speaker 3: you said, it is a mindset. But now that my
40:53
Speaker 3: mind's been programmed that, I don't have to do it anymore,
40:56
Speaker 3: you know, And there has been there hasn't been the
40:59
Speaker 3: potential And like you mentioned earlier, Krats, the opportunity to
41:02
Speaker 3: be an Olympian is everyone's dream, you know. And I
41:05
Speaker 3: do have an opportunity to play for a certain country
41:07
Speaker 3: in the Olympics. There are some steps that I have
41:11
Speaker 3: to do in order to get my citizenship. But it's
41:14
Speaker 3: a hard thing to commit to. As much as I
41:16
Speaker 3: would love to say I'm an Olympian, I just can't
41:18
Speaker 3: go out there and just go play. I have to
41:21
Speaker 3: start training and I have to commit myself. And once
41:23
Speaker 3: you kind of get out of that mindset of everything
41:27
Speaker 3: you do in life is dedicated around when am I
41:29
Speaker 3: going to train? What am I gonna eat? How am
41:31
Speaker 3: I going to work out? How many swings am I
41:32
Speaker 3: gonna take? Once you finally move on from that part
41:36
Speaker 3: of your life and you actually have a little bit
41:38
Speaker 3: of freedom to do some other things, it's hard to
41:40
Speaker 3: jump back in. But I'm still undecided if I'm gonna
41:43
Speaker 3: go back and try to play in the Olympics.
41:45
Speaker 2: That team has to qualify first KP so that's quite
41:48
Speaker 2: a few games, okay, team, That team isn't automatically in.
41:53
Speaker 2: There's only three teams since we're doing crafts hats kind
41:56
Speaker 2: of Yeah, this is one of the teams that's already in.
41:59
Speaker 2: I heard it A Venezuela and the US are in.
42:04
Speaker 2: I think, right, you're right, yeah, because of what they
42:07
Speaker 2: did in the WBC, and that's just that's just the
42:10
Speaker 2: ranking system. So the team that you're gonna possibly play
42:13
Speaker 2: for It's a long road to hoe and then in
42:16
Speaker 2: twenty eight you're gonna have to play. They're gonna go
42:20
Speaker 2: and ask you, Hey, we need you to play somewhere
42:22
Speaker 2: in Triple A up until the season if you guys qualify.
42:25
Speaker 2: I'm just saying I've been there. I quit. They asked
42:29
Speaker 2: me to play, and it would have been awesome for
42:33
Speaker 2: the US.
42:34
Speaker 3: Sounds like a lot of work.
42:36
Speaker 1: In two years. The Olympics is still two years away, and.
42:41
Speaker 2: My son's is your glove back either my Son's not. No, no, no,
42:45
Speaker 2: no takebacks.
42:46
Speaker 3: Okay, no, no takebacks. But I do want to say
42:49
Speaker 3: one other thing real quick before we sign off. I
42:51
Speaker 3: am wearing this jersey right now. I'm rocking a Tim
42:53
Speaker 3: Range jersey. I'm actually when I get off this show,
42:57
Speaker 3: I got to go inside and pack. I'm actually going
42:59
Speaker 3: to Cooperstown for my first time. I'm doing a coach's
43:01
Speaker 3: clinic out there. I've never been to Cooperstown. I'm really
43:05
Speaker 3: excited to get a chance. I'm gonna get a chance
43:06
Speaker 3: to go to the Hall tomorrow and then the camp
43:09
Speaker 3: is a little bit later in the day. And I
43:10
Speaker 3: thought it was super fitting that I'd wear one of
43:13
Speaker 3: my prize possessions here, Tim Rain's expos jersey.
43:19
Speaker 2: That's so sick. But you've never been to Cooperstown. Been
43:23
Speaker 2: to Cooperstown. I never played for.
43:26
Speaker 3: I grew up in southern California and I didn't really
43:27
Speaker 3: play travel baseball wasn't a big thing, so I never
43:30
Speaker 3: got a chance. And I just I don't know, I've
43:33
Speaker 3: never been to Cooperstown. And this opportunity present itself, and
43:36
Speaker 3: I was like, I have to go, no matter if
43:38
Speaker 3: I just got off a plane last night, I'm getting
43:40
Speaker 3: on another one tonight to go out there because and
43:43
Speaker 3: then the fact that I'm gonna get a chance to
43:45
Speaker 3: go walk the hall that I've never done. I'm retired,
43:47
Speaker 3: I have an appreciation for it. It's gonna be an
43:49
Speaker 3: incredible experience.
43:51
Speaker 1: Please document it for us. I know you will. I'm
43:53
Speaker 1: excited for you. I like to see when like an
43:55
Speaker 1: adult goes for the first time versus obviously a kid.
43:58
Speaker 1: It's a very different experience. Both cool experiences. But I
44:01
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