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  Speaker 1: We've got a good chance to win next year, but
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  Speaker 1: then after that, who knows where this goes. So the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs are going to need to be aggressive at the deadline,
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  Speaker 1: in my opinion. Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of
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  Speaker 1: Bear Territory. I'm Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. Alana,
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  Speaker 1: good to see you. We have a lot to discuss today,
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  Speaker 1: of course, on the field, but we also have an
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  Speaker 1: off the field question.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be interesting because at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: the season, Ken, We're like, wouldn't it be funny if
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  Speaker 2: the Tampa Bay Rays had to play the postseason games
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  Speaker 2: at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa, Well, where they sit right now, Ken,
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  Speaker 2: that is a real possibility. What more can you tell us?
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  Speaker 1: It is a real possibility simply because they are playing
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  Speaker 1: so well. They are twenty nine and fourteen since May eight.
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  Speaker 1: That's the best record in the Majors, slightly over the
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  Speaker 1: Houston Astros. They are one game at a first place,
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  Speaker 1: and they lead the wild card standings in the American League. So,
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  Speaker 1: as I wrote today, you see it right there. The
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  Speaker 1: Rays and MLB have had preliminary talks about possible home
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  Speaker 1: playoff location. The reason why this is even a question
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  Speaker 1: is because the Rays are playing this season, of course
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  Speaker 1: in a ten thousand seed stadium, Steinbrenner Field, that is
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  Speaker 1: a small stadium. It is not the kind of stadium
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  Speaker 1: that you generally associate with postseason games. However, this is
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  Speaker 1: something of a one off, right. The hurricane that ripped
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  Speaker 1: the roof off of Tropicana Field created this situation, and
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  Speaker 1: now with the Rays in such a strong position competitively,
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  Speaker 1: and Wilbe at least has to start thinking about what
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  Speaker 1: it might do now. The way I understand it and
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  Speaker 1: the way I wrote it Alana, is that the first
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  Speaker 1: two rounds, the Wildcard Round, if that's what the Rays
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  Speaker 1: qualify for in the Division Series, perhaps that could take
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  Speaker 1: place at Steinbrenner Field. But the next two rounds, the
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  Speaker 1: LCS and the World Series, should the Rays get there,
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  Speaker 1: that would be more difficult. And what happens is that
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball, as the playoffs go on, has to
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  Speaker 1: give tickets or make tickets available for a variety of
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  Speaker 1: different people players, umpires, broadcast partners, sponsors, and in the
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  Speaker 1: World Series, the way I reported it was seventy five
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  Speaker 1: hundred of those tickets are kind of set aside for
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  Speaker 1: those various groups seventy five hundred tickets set aside in
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand states stadium. That's a problem. And then you have,
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  Speaker 1: of course different issues with the press box size. It
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  Speaker 1: seats only twenty nine. You have television partners which would
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  Speaker 1: need to maybe change some things in Steinburner Field to
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  Speaker 1: broadcast the postseason game the way it normally would. You
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  Speaker 1: also have postseason shairs. They're tied to gate receipts, and
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  Speaker 1: the shairs would be less if the Rays were playing
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  Speaker 1: at Steinbrenner Field. Now it's all somewhat hypothetical, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because the Rays have not made the playoffs yet, but
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  Speaker 1: it is growing to be more of a realistic possibility.
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  Speaker 1: And then you ask, okay, if the Rays can play
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  Speaker 1: at Steinbernerfield, where would they play. The obvious choice would
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  Speaker 1: be my Miami, perhaps Atlanta if the Braves missed the playoffs.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem with that is you're taking away their
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  Speaker 1: home field advantage, something that they've earned in making the playoffs,
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  Speaker 1: presumably as a wildcard team, the first wildcard team, or
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  Speaker 1: a division champion, and that's something you don't want to do.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a sticky situation. It was always going to
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  Speaker 1: be problematic if the Rays made the playoffs, and again
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  Speaker 1: we're getting closer. It seems to that possibility where this
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  Speaker 1: becomes a real discussion.
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  Speaker 2: Ken When you were talking about all of the different
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  Speaker 2: implications that this could have on the Tampa Bay Rays,
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  Speaker 2: the one thing that stood out to me the most
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  Speaker 2: is the fact that let's say they play the first
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  Speaker 2: round there, but by the way you get let's say
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  Speaker 2: you get to the CS or the World Series and
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  Speaker 2: they're going to move you. That just seems like such
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  Speaker 2: an unfair situation. I understand it's, you know, act of
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  Speaker 2: God type of situation with the hurricane carrying up Tropicana,
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  Speaker 2: But if I'm the raise, I'm very upset about that.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, what can be I mean, you have to
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  Speaker 2: would imagine they'd have to pick a neutral site, and
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  Speaker 2: who has to be on board with it? Who has
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  Speaker 2: a say in this decision?
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  Speaker 1: That's a great question, a lota and it would be
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  Speaker 1: in the end major League Baseball's decision. They have to
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  Speaker 1: be the ones making that call. But think about if
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  Speaker 1: the Rays had to play, say an LCS in Miami.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, you've got to get your families there and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. That's part of it. That's part of
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  Speaker 1: the equation. But from a competitive standpoint, the bigger question
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  Speaker 1: is what kind of environment would it be. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to have raised fans driving across the state, not
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  Speaker 1: many of them anyway, to be in Miami. It would
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  Speaker 1: probably be a small crowd because the crowds are always
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  Speaker 1: small in Miami, and it's not their team, and all
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  Speaker 1: of those kinds of things come into consideration. And yes,
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  Speaker 1: it would be a horrible situation for them to have
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  Speaker 1: to play at a neutral site when in theory they
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  Speaker 1: would have earned more at that point. Again, we're not
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  Speaker 1: there yet. We may never get there, but it's going
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  Speaker 1: to be, as you just mentioned, Alana, a challenging, difficult
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  Speaker 1: situation to tackle.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, considering they're ten games over five hundred and right
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  Speaker 2: on the heels of the New York Yankees, this is
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  Speaker 2: a real possibility, ken, I guess the only better thing
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  Speaker 2: is that, you know what, at least we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: this for the raise. I guess they would rather have
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  Speaker 2: this conversation than not make the postseason, all right. The
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  Speaker 2: Toronto Blue Jays can also trying to make that postseason.
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  Speaker 2: They're in the thick of it there in the ala
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  Speaker 2: Al East. Rather, Max Schuzer is back. What type of
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  Speaker 2: boost could that be for the Toronto Blue.
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  Speaker 1: Jays A huge boost And he was good last night,
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  Speaker 1: a little rusty, but ninety three, ninety four, topped out
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  Speaker 1: at ninety five and he looked like Max Schurzer. And
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  Speaker 1: from reports this morning, he also came out of it well.
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  Speaker 1: He told the manager of the Blue Jays, John Schneider,
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  Speaker 1: all things are go for his next start, which would
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  Speaker 1: be Monday against the Yankees. This is a huge boost
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  Speaker 1: for Toronto because they've been kind of trying to patch
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  Speaker 1: that rotation spot the entire year. They've got Burrios, they've
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  Speaker 1: got Gosman, they've got Bassett, Now they have Schurzer and
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  Speaker 1: Eric Lauer has stepped in and done a really good job.
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  Speaker 1: Boden Francis has regressed Spencer's Turnbull one of the guys
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  Speaker 1: they brought in. They dfa'd him. So if Max can
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  Speaker 1: stabilize that spot in the rotation, it would mean an
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  Speaker 1: awful lot to a Jay's club that, like the Rays,
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  Speaker 1: has been something of a surprise in the American League East.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Guardians ended up beating the Jays and ten
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  Speaker 2: innings yesterday, but it's great to have future Hall of
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  Speaker 2: Famer In my opinion, Max Schuers are back on the
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  Speaker 2: hill for the Jays. All right. I tell you what, Ken,
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  Speaker 2: there are some unbelievably talented arms in the NNEL Central.
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Izarowski one of those arms going up for the
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  Speaker 2: Milwaukee Brewers, and of course Aaron Savali requested to be traded.
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  Speaker 2: He ends up going to the White Sox. But Jacob Izerowski,
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  Speaker 2: you can see, Ken, why the Brewers were high on him.
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  Speaker 1: No question. And that matchup yesterday was one that had
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people excited, the biggest crowd all season
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  Speaker 1: in Milwaukee, which was really cool. Two small market teams, right,
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  Speaker 1: nothing ever happens but small market teams. No. That was
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  Speaker 1: the focus of the entire sport yesterday and it was great.
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  Speaker 1: Arski actually outpitched Skeens. Skeens I thought got browed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. When I say browed, I mean balls and
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  Speaker 1: play things going on. Wasn't great defense behind him, but
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  Speaker 1: Vizarowski with the twelve one h hour pitches in the
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  Speaker 1: first inning, it's just something to behold. Skeens is the
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  Speaker 1: more complete pitcher, but this kid's stuff is perhaps even
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  Speaker 1: more electric. It's a little different but more electric, and
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  Speaker 1: it was just fun to watch, and it's fun to
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  Speaker 1: watch his enthusiasm and a lot of Going forward, the
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  Speaker 1: Brewers might have some decisions to make.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you mean by that? Tell me more.
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  Speaker 1: They obviously have traded one starter already, Aaron Savali. They've
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  Speaker 1: got Randon Woodruff coming back, They've got Nest Cortez Junior
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  Speaker 1: coming back. And the question is would they trade another
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  Speaker 1: starter to perhaps get some more offense, open up another spot.
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  Speaker 1: There are all kinds of things that they could do,
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  Speaker 1: and Freddy Peralta would be the obvious one. Now Freddy
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  Speaker 1: Peralta is under control for next year as well, with
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  Speaker 1: a very affordable club option eight million dollars. Freddy Peralta
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  Speaker 1: also would be the guy who could perhaps bring you
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  Speaker 1: the most in the trade. But while that was maybe
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  Speaker 1: a good idea, I don't know ten days ago before
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers started playing really well, I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: now they would want to consider it, because, hey, they're
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  Speaker 1: having a nice run here, They're going to be in position.
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  Speaker 1: They are in position two and a half games back
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  Speaker 1: in the NL Central to make a strong run at
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs and their owner Mark Attanasio is well aware
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  Speaker 1: of the hit in perception the franchise took when they
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  Speaker 1: traded Josh Hater at the deadline in twenty twenty two,
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  Speaker 1: when they also had a heck of a team and
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  Speaker 1: a heck of a chance to win. Now, that trade
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  Speaker 1: worked out okay, not for that year, but it eventually
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  Speaker 1: led to them getting William Contreras. But I don't know
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  Speaker 1: that the Brewers want to go down that road again.
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  Speaker 1: The question is with a seeming surplus, and they've got
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  Speaker 1: pitchers in the miners as well who have contributed the
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  Speaker 1: major league level? Could you trade Peralta? Could you trade
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  Speaker 1: Jose Kintana? Might you consider some of these things just
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  Speaker 1: to kind of shake it up a little bit and
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  Speaker 1: put your team in an even better offensive position. They
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  Speaker 1: could use a bat on the left side of the enfield,
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  Speaker 1: among other things. So I don't know where this is going.
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  Speaker 1: The Brewers are always fascinating. It's fascinating to me that
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  Speaker 1: they just keep competing. That's one thing. But they are
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  Speaker 1: one of the few teams now that seems to have
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  Speaker 1: and they say it seems because this surplus I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about could disappear in a minute. But what
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  Speaker 1: I say is they seem to have a relative surplus
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  Speaker 1: of starting pitching.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's interesting. Ten days ago, Peralta could have very
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  Speaker 2: easily been on the trading block, But now as close
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  Speaker 2: as they are to the Chicago Cubs, you would think
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  Speaker 2: that they couldn't trade Peralta. With seemingly another ace emerging
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  Speaker 2: in Masowski, it'll be interesting to see. But also before
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  Speaker 2: we get to our next segment, Ken, it's interesting and
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  Speaker 2: fun to look at the dynamic arms in the NL
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  Speaker 2: Central with Burns, with schemes, with Masowski. This is a
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  Speaker 2: fun time.
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  Speaker 1: I would even throw Kate Horton from the Cubs into
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  Speaker 1: that mix. And the Reds have a really good rotation
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  Speaker 1: in general. That is young and Chase Brune's debut got overshadowed,
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  Speaker 1: maybe by what happened yesterday, but that was a pretty
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  Speaker 1: impressive debut too, striking out the first five hitters he
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  Speaker 1: faced in the Major League. So, yes, Alana a great point.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of fun things happening in the NL Central
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  Speaker 1: right now, All right.
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  Speaker 2: The first question comes from Armand, Hello, Armand, great to
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  Speaker 2: have you back. Are the Byron Bucksten trade rumors real?
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  Speaker 2: I've seen Mets fan talk about him for center field,
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  Speaker 2: and would the Twins really trade him? Now? To be
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  Speaker 2: fully transparent, Armand is a Mets fan, so I think
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  Speaker 2: he wants Buckston.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe I'd like to go where Armand is hearing
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  Speaker 1: these rumors. I have not heard any of these rumors.
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  Speaker 1: And Twins President Baseball Operations Derek Foley came out this
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  Speaker 1: week and said, right now, they're not looking to sell now.
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  Speaker 1: It's early. Of course, we're about five weeks away from
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  Speaker 1: the deadline, exactly five weeks actually, and no one's going
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  Speaker 1: to concede just yet. Now, if they do sell, would
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  Speaker 1: they possibly move Buxton? I have a hard time believing it.
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  Speaker 1: He's on a great contract. Yes, he'd be appealing to
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  Speaker 1: any number of teams, of course, but he's Byron Buxton.
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  Speaker 1: He is one of the Twins' most popular player, if
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  Speaker 1: not the most popular. He's a guy who's having a
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  Speaker 1: great year. So what I would say to Mets fans
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  Speaker 1: out there is stop picking out players from other teams
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  Speaker 1: that you want on your favorite talk shows and start
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  Speaker 1: thinking about how you fix that road.
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  Speaker 2: In other ways, Yeah, they've been pretty pretty, pretty bad,
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  Speaker 2: the Mets starters have since June thirteenth, Ken Rosenthal. The
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  Speaker 2: Mets have struggled, but I do believe that they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be okay. All right, Another question here on chat
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  Speaker 2: BCC from Lance Johnson. I appreciate this question because I
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  Speaker 2: too have this question Lance, How difficult will the trade
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  Speaker 2: deadline be with very few sellers obviously a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people buying because a lot of people are still in
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  Speaker 2: this race.
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  Speaker 1: Right Well, that's the way it looks right now. But
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  Speaker 1: I did speak with an executive yesterday who said to me, Alana,
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  Speaker 1: you guys meaning reporters, are going to be disappointed with
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  Speaker 1: this deadline because there's just not going to be that
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  Speaker 1: much that happens. We probably have seen the biggest trade already,
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  Speaker 1: the Raphael Devers trade. Now, all that's said, this is
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  Speaker 1: a sport where the teams and the executives find it
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  Speaker 1: impossible to sit still. So even if we don't have
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  Speaker 1: a number of other sellers emerge, and I believe that
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  Speaker 1: we will, you're still going to see activity. You're still
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  Speaker 1: going to see gms and presidents of base operations trying
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  Speaker 1: to make things happen. Whether we get big trades or not,
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  Speaker 1: I can't say for sure, but I always believe that
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  Speaker 1: things are going to happen. Maybe not to the extent
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  Speaker 1: of the Devor's trade that was kind of a comet,
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  Speaker 1: but there will be deals. Teams will be desperate to
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  Speaker 1: do things, desperate to improve themselves, desperate to put themselves
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  Speaker 1: in the best possible position for the postseason.
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  Speaker 2: All right, another question here on YouTube. We appreciate you
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  Speaker 2: guys being here with us. This one is involving the
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  Speaker 2: Atlanta Braves Ken if we can get that question pulled
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  Speaker 2: up Hammeritary and Atlanta Braves podcast Ken, are our Braves
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  Speaker 2: underachieving or just not as good as we thought? Of
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  Speaker 2: Foul Territory Network.
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  Speaker 1: I would say both, they're underachieving and maybe they're not
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  Speaker 1: as good as we thought. I mean, you're talking to
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  Speaker 1: a guy who picked them to go to the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: So obviously they're not as good as I thought they
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  Speaker 1: were going to be. But they have not played to
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  Speaker 1: the level that we would have thought from the Atlanta Braves.
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  Speaker 1: And part of it is the offense. Right Nick Allen,
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  Speaker 1: great defensive shortstop, not hitting. He's not going to hit,
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  Speaker 1: that's not who he is. Ozzie Albi's huge disappointment at
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  Speaker 1: second base, and Michael Harris the second huge disappointment in
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  Speaker 1: center field. So they have not gotten offense from three
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  Speaker 1: up the middle positions. They've also had not great production
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  Speaker 1: at a left field. That's four spots in a nine
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  Speaker 1: person lineup. That's part of it. Injuries have been part
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  Speaker 1: of it too. They haven't had Strider. Now they've lost Sale,
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  Speaker 1: they're kind of scrambling to put together their rotation. So yes,
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  Speaker 1: they've underachieved, and yes they are not as good as
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  Speaker 1: we thought. The question is going to be what can
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  Speaker 1: their president of base Operations, Alex Anthropolis do about it.
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  Speaker 1: He is not going to be inclined to sell. He's
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  Speaker 1: basically already declared we're not selling anybody who has club
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  Speaker 1: control beyond this season. So they could maybe do some
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  Speaker 1: things from a selling perspective Azuna if they're out of
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  Speaker 1: it would be one. He's a potential free agent. But
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  Speaker 1: the real question is how can they add and what
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  Speaker 1: will they add. It's pretty clear they need a starting
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  Speaker 1: pitcher right now, and it's been pretty clear all season
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  Speaker 1: they need bullpen help. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like there's so many teams that can take
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  Speaker 2: that same sentiment. We need a starting pitcher and we
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  Speaker 2: need some bullpen help.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 2: The next question is in regards to the Cincinnati Reds.
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  Speaker 2: We had a quick conversation about the NL Central. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: Ciel Kokowsky, I'm sure I'm saying that wrong. Kasoft Sky,
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: I don't know how to say it, but thanks for
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: being part of the show. Tweet me on how to
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: say that. By the way, you said the Reds would
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: be more aggressive. What moves realistically do you think they
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: could make? I like this question.
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: I do too. The bullpen would be one area to address,
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: of course, but they entered the season entered the season
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: needing one more bat and that that most likely would
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: go in the outfield somewhere. I don't know who it
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: would be, necessarily, but they're well aware that they're short
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: in that department, and maybe even too bad short, so
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: I could definitely see them adding offense that would imagine,
• 16:59
  Speaker 1: I imagine be their goal along with the bullpen. They've
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: got the kind of rotation that in a postseason series
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: would be pretty difficult to deal with. So I do
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: expect them to be aggressive. They've invested a lot in
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: this team. They brought in Terry Francona not to finish
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: third or fourth. They want to get back to the
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: postseason and they want to do it this year.
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the best equa decisis and a team could
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: make is getting Tito back in that dugout and in
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: the clubhouse. Okay, another question here, this one in regards
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: to the All Star Bubbs has a question for you, Ken,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: look into the All Star Game, who is a player
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: that you think deserves to get in but probably won't.
• 17:35
  Speaker 1: I'll give you one that came to my mind this morning.
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Ray's right hander Drew Rasmussen. And the reason
• 17:41
  Speaker 1: I say that is not because he isn't deserving. He
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: is entirely deserving, and he's a great story. This guy
• 17:46
  Speaker 1: has had three major elbow surgeries. But in the American League,
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: among the starting pitchers, who do we have. We've got
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: Hunter Brown, Max Freed, Garrett Crochet, Jacob Degram, Trek Scougel,
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: all kinds of guys to cheer from, and it just
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: seems to me that maybe Raspussen gets squeezed for that
• 18:04
  Speaker 1: reason alone. Maybe not. I could be wrong, and I
• 18:06
  Speaker 1: haven't gone through my potential rosters yet to see who
• 18:10
  Speaker 1: would represent which teams. Certainly Rasmussen has had an All
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Star type season, but so is Joe Ryan from ber
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: Valdez and all the other guys I mentioned, So it's
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: going to be difficult to choose between the American League
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: starting pitchers.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: Well, perhaps one of those guys can't go because they're
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: injured or some reason. Not that you want them to
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: be injured. I'm not suggesting that, but perhaps yeah, I
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: mean exactly, or they can't do it, or their wife
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: has a trip plan that she's like, you are absolutely
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: not going to the All Star Game. We are going
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: on vacation anyway. All right, next question for you is
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: in regards to the New York Metropolitans Corey Pepper, Will
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: David Stearns address all the issues starters Bridge to Diaz,
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: young guys at third, a center fielder and now a catcher.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know about all of them, and I don't
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: know that he needs to address catcher. Francisco Alvarez is
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: going to be back. He yes, is in triple A
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: for a reset and a needed reset, But I don't
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: think that is an area of need. The rotation, depending
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: on what happens with Manaia and Mantas, could be less
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: of an area of need. But it seems to me,
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: and I think it seems to everyone watching the Mets.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Did they need at least one more? And yes, the
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: bullpen for sure, And as Will Salmon of The Athletic
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: wrote this week, the infield has become an area of question.
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: Two those three guys at third base, Rett Beatty and
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Viento's and Ronnie Mauricio. Well, Ventos is coming back, He's
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: coming off the il. Maybe he'll solidify it, but no
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: one has done that yet. And they could use one
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: more veteran infielder, kind of a solid type, steady presence
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: at third base. It isn't there right now, and maybe
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: one of those young guys will emerge by the deadline
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to take it. Biento's would be the leading candidate, I
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: would think, But David Stearns, I would expect is going
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: to be busy at the deadline.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like there are a lot of needs there,
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: at least according to this fan ken If you had
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: rank the needs in terms of order of importance, how
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: are you seeing it play out?
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: I always want the starter. I'm worried about Clay Holmes
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: in his first year as a starter, being as good
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: at the end of the season as he has been
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: so far. I worry about the regression of Griffin Canning
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: he pitches today against the Braves. I just wonder if
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: Mania is going to come back and be Sean Mania,
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: if Mantas can sustain what he showed in his first start,
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: which was quite promising. David Peterson, will he be able
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: to handle a load into October? He's been great so far.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: So there are all these things, these nagging questions that
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: weren't there a month ago, even two weeks ago. Injuries
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: have created some of that, And I'm forgetting, of course,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: Code I senga, when will he return and what will
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: he return as? Will he be the guy we saw early?
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: If he is great? But given all of those questions,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and they're not bad questions, you'll get some answers out
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: of that, but I would just want one more And
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: obviously the is something that they're going to have to
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: address to.
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Code, I saying you losing him is a big
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: blow to this Mets team. They certainly have scuffled over
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the course of the last ten days. I believe they're
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: two to eight in their last ten games. All right,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: much more to come here on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. First,
• 21:15
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• 22:27
  Speaker 2: All right, can let's give somebody your praises? Who is
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: it this week?
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: Wan Soto? I believe now, Alana, everyone can calm down.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Jan is still a really great player. He is not
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: in an amazing depression over leaving the Yankees, which was
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: what some people were saying when the Mets played the
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: Yankees earlier. No, he's one freaking Soto Okay. Last line.
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: Twenty seventh multi homer game breaks Jimmy Fox's record for
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: most multi homer games before the age of twenty seven.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: He has ten home runs in June. That's tied with Ajohano, Sanchez,
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: and cal Raley. He has five home runs in his
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: last five games. His OPS is up to eight ninety nine.
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: He now ranks twelfth in the majors. Hello, there's your
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: due to the week.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Yeah, if, in the words of Taylor Swift, you need
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: to calm down, all right? Mine goes to a girl
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: I have known for a very very long time. Way
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: to go, Emily. This is a young lady that has
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: been a Colorado Rockies fan her entire life. I met
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: her when she was probably six or seven years old. Recently,
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers were playing the Rockies Show. Hey, Otani hit
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: a dinger at Coursefield. That is not the exciting part.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: What's exciting is Emily has been to eight hundred and
• 23:37
  Speaker 2: thirty three Major League Baseball games and that is the
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: first home run that she has ever caught. And she
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: is now the first base woman at Adams State University.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: She plays softball there at Adam State in Colorado. She
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: is number seventeen after Todd Helton. She has been to
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: so many games. She is a baseball fanatic. I'm so
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: happy for her. I've known her her entire life. She
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: caught that home run. Bald number three hundred for Showe
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: in terms of the home runs that he's hit in
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: the US and Japan. Congratulations Emily. You are my due
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: debt of the week. All right, time now for the
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: John Fisher Dork of the Week, do you I.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Could give it to John Fisher and his cohorts who
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: are out there in Vegas doing whatever they were doing
• 24:26
  Speaker 1: the other day.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: But by the way, where's Trevor got lost in.
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: The min I'm going to go to a higher power,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: the league itself, Major League Baseball, and it's a different
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: kind of dork of the week. And the reason I'm
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: giving Major League Baseball the dork of the week is
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: because what we saw this week yesterday ms Rawski versus Skeens,
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: the debut of Chase Burns. It reinforces yet again the
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: value of a starting pitcher. How we need as a
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: sport to bring back the starting pitcher. Now, we had
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: in the December a report issued by Major League Baseball,
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: a study that they commissioned that pointed out to many
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: of us the reasons why injuries are taking place at
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: such a high percentage. A lot of us knew what
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: was the reason or the reasons were, but this report
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: kind of identified it. Velocities span all these things, all
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: the max effort. Okay, that's great, but what have we
• 25:22
  Speaker 1: done about that? Since what has the league done about that?
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: Since where are we with this bringing back the starting picture,
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: keeping pictures healthy? Nothing has happened as far as I
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: can tell. That's why MLB is dork of the week.
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: We need more of what we saw this week. That's
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: what we'll make the sport thrive at a level beyond
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: even where it is now.
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, just look at the attendance in Milwaukee for that
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: unbelievable matchup. It is about the starting pitcher and the
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: dominance of that starting picture. Okay, for me, it's about
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: that idiot fan in Chicago that decided to yell at
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: Katel Marte, say hi to your mom and can tell
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: Marte's mother unfortunately passed away in a car accident in
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: twenty seventeen. So now this idiot, twenty two year old
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: kid than he is, he's a kid, and maybe he
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: made a mistake, but he's a twenty two year old
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: that is now banned from every single ballpark in Major
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: League Baseball because of his insensitive remarks. And that's just
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: not something. You don't have the right to say that type,
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: And don't tell me for one second this kid didn't
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: know what he was doing. He knew could tell Marte's
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: mother had passed away, and those insensitive remarks deserve him
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: to be banned from every single Major League Baseball park
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: for the rest of his life. And that's a long life,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: because he's only twenty two.
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: For our friends, now, our new friends over at Nesson,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: we say goodbye to you for now Sports and at
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: Pittsburgh and NESTA Nation, we appreciate you, guys. We'll see
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: you soon. For the rest of you, we'll be right back,
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: all right, guys. For those of you that are back,
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: we appreciate it. Ken you have Philly at Atlanta Saturday
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: on Fox. But let's discuss another NL power. And I
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: know Aj Piersinski is psyched because he believes he has
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the better game can the Cubs. He has the Cubs
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: and the Astros. But the Cubbies they're looking pretty good.
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: They are looking good. And I wrote this week Alana
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: about how urgent their situation is relative to the deadline
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: with the clock teching on Kyle Tucker in Chicago. The
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: Cubs can't go halfway at the deadline. And actually it's
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: more than that. It's this year and next year. Now,
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: this year is perhaps their only year with Tucker, he
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: is eligible for free agency. But even more alarming, they've
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: got four major players, four important players, I should say,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: who are eligible for free agency after twenty six. I'm
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: talking about Seya Suzuki, Ian Hap, Nico Horner, and Matthew Boyd,
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: as well as Jamison tay On. Those guys are part
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: of a core of what they do right now. They're
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: hugely important to the Chicago Cubs. So what you're looking
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: at the next two years, Even if you lose Tucker
• 27:45
  Speaker 1: this year, you've got a good chance to win next year.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: But then after that, who knows where this goes. So
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: the Cubs are going to need to be aggressive at
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: the deadline. In my opinion, they already are canvassing the
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: market for starting pitchers. They've shown interest in the two
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Miamis starters, Sandy al Contidra and Edward Cabrera. I don't
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: know what they're going to do. I don't know how
• 28:06
  Speaker 1: this is all going to turn out. And obviously, if
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: they signed Tucker, they've got him in PCA for the
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: next five years at least, and that's the way to go.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: But I don't expect them to sign Kyle Tucker. So
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: this year is urgent. Next year is urgent, and we're
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: going to see just what the Chicago Cubs do under
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: their President of Baseball Operations Jed Hoyer and general manager
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: Carter Hawkins in the weeks ahead.
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: And quickly, we only have about a minute left in
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: the show, Ken, what is your take on PCA as
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the National League MVP over show Hey, because you know
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: Showhy is going to be in that conversation, of.
• 28:37
  Speaker 1: Course, and PCA right now is the exact kind of
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: player who would mount a serious threat to show Hey.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: An all around player. Not only does he does it
• 28:46
  Speaker 1: offensively or do it offensively, he does it defensively in
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: center field, and he runs the bases extremely well, even
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: though he forgot the number of outs this week out
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: in center field. So he is a worthy challenger to
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: show Hey. We'll see how show Hey. Which is the
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: rest of the year that's going to be telling for
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: this kind of race?
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: All right, Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal is done for
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: the day. Foul Territory is Next Guy's guest host. Wit Merrifield,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: who recently announced his retirement, joins Aj Pierzinski and Scott Braun,
• 29:15
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• 29:20
  Speaker 2: and then Dodgers' Territory follows after the Dodgers game today.
• 29:24
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