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Santo Domingo Sal (w/ Sal Licata) · Stugotz and Company

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  Speaker 1: Excited for this.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor's got his dopey USA Baseball had on sala.
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  Speaker 1: Is already laughing. He was making fun of him right
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  Speaker 1: before we started because he.
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  Speaker 2: Cannot believe how into the World Baseball Classic Tailor is.
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  Speaker 1: It's amazing. I'm with you, sem Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Like I said, I was gonna be a little more
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  Speaker 4: interested in it this year because I paid it no
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  Speaker 4: mind in years past.
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  Speaker 3: But all right, I'll check it out. It's competitive baseball.
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  Speaker 3: Seem to care.
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  Speaker 4: And then I hear Taylor talking about it on the
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  Speaker 4: podcast on the radio show, and I'm like, oh, this
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  Speaker 4: has to.
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  Speaker 1: Be a bit.
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  Speaker 4: Then he's telling me he's that these games it's the
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  Speaker 4: loudest atmosphere ever.
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  Speaker 3: It's great.
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  Speaker 4: He's wearing full uniform on the podcast.
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  Speaker 3: Now you're obsessed with it.
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  Speaker 5: This is the exact problem that I have with Team USA,
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  Speaker 5: where we got a couple of trek Schoogles here with
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  Speaker 5: us that are like, oh, we don't really understand the
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  Speaker 5: magnitude of this, And then what do you have over there?
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  Speaker 5: The Dominican Republic's caring and the Dominican republics beating the
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  Speaker 5: crap out of teams.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they care about it in a way like they
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  Speaker 2: could listen. The only one who cares about it as
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  Speaker 2: much as the Dominican Republic is Taylor.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I just I just don't understand it.
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  Speaker 4: Like for me, I have a hard time and I'm like,
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  Speaker 4: I'm watching it a little.
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  Speaker 3: More than usual. Okay, So I see Judge.
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  Speaker 4: Make a great play and right field wow, or Judge
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  Speaker 4: hit a home run wow, Like I've seen that a
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  Speaker 4: million times before in games that actually matter. But even
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  Speaker 4: though I'm like from the US and want to see
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  Speaker 4: the US do well, like there's no chance I'm rooting
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  Speaker 4: for Judge over Juan Soto, who plays for the team
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  Speaker 4: that I root for, Like I'm rooting for Soto, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I can't have the MED first Yankee thing and lose that,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's US versus E or not. So like Taylor,
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  Speaker 4: would you be more into US if Judge were playing
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  Speaker 4: for another team, would be just as into it?
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  Speaker 5: I think I would root for the US. But I'm
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  Speaker 5: glad I don't have to face this situation because I
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  Speaker 5: could see myself very easily if Aaron Judge was Colombian,
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  Speaker 5: per se. I think I would be wearing a Colombian
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  Speaker 5: hat right now.
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  Speaker 1: Really, you would choose individual over country. What's the matter
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  Speaker 1: with you? Both of you? Why? Yeah, the atmosphere, Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's not.
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  Speaker 4: It's not individual, it's the games that matter in baseball.
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  Speaker 4: Like I love Wan Soto, I love the Mets. I
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  Speaker 4: grew up rooting for the Mets. Soto's my guy, he's
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  Speaker 4: our guys medfans. Why would I root for him to
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  Speaker 4: lose to a Yankee, no, less in the in the
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  Speaker 4: assuming that they play.
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  Speaker 3: Each other in the finals with who the hell knows
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  Speaker 3: if that could even happen. Because if Juan Soda wins
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  Speaker 3: the WBC, you win.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing, You get nothing. If you want.
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  Speaker 3: Someta wins with the Mets, you get that pride, you
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  Speaker 3: get that that's my team.
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  Speaker 6: If one Someta wins with the dominion Dominican Republic, what
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  Speaker 6: do you get?
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  Speaker 2: You get like, hey, my guy did well for his country. No,
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  Speaker 2: it's a totally fair point. Like I think the better question.
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  Speaker 2: I think there's an obvious answer to this. Would you
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  Speaker 2: rather have the Mets win a World Series? I think
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  Speaker 2: the answer is yes, as opposed to Team USA winning
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  Speaker 2: the World Baseball Classic, obviously you would want the Mets, right, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: And that.
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  Speaker 4: To me, like, still, what does the winner of the
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  Speaker 4: WBC even get? Like they talk about medals, like, no,
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  Speaker 4: no gold medals happen in the Olympics, Like that's an
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  Speaker 4: Olympic thing.
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  Speaker 3: This is not the Olympics.
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  Speaker 4: This is an exhibition, made up thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And I never.
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  Speaker 4: Understood the aspect of the country. We know how good
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  Speaker 4: the US is, Like just let's say Japan. Japan has
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  Speaker 4: won three out of five of these things.
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  Speaker 3: I looked it up. Okay, so they won three out
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  Speaker 3: of five. Does that mean they're better than the US?
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  Speaker 4: Like, no, we know where we staying with the US,
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  Speaker 4: So why would we worry about some World Baseball Classic
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  Speaker 4: which doesn't mean anything to value where the US is
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  Speaker 4: in terms of baseball, where all the players from all
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  Speaker 4: the country they want to be here and play in
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  Speaker 4: Major League Baseball, which yes, to me, means more than
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  Speaker 4: anything else.
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  Speaker 1: You hate our country. I mean, that's what I'm here, Santa.
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  Speaker 4: Hey.
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  Speaker 6: Were you upset when Canada lost your Olympic gold medals?
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  Speaker 3: Root for the US?
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  Speaker 1: But you know what I'm saying, why.
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  Speaker 4: Because I otherwise have no other rooting interro like it
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  Speaker 4: just but I really didn't even care about that. I
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  Speaker 4: care more about the Rangers. I'm sorry, kill me, but
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  Speaker 4: I grew up rooting for teams that happen or teams
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  Speaker 4: that play in the league's year, whether it's the NBA
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  Speaker 4: with the Knicks with me or whatever it is in
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  Speaker 4: the NFL or NHL or MLB that matters to me
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  Speaker 4: more than Olympics ever did, or certainly the World Baseball Classic,
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  Speaker 4: which is like a bad knockoff of the Olympics.
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  Speaker 6: So if you're a Los Angeles Lakers fan, are you
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  Speaker 6: rooting against the US and for I believe German Luca.
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  Speaker 1: Where's Luca? Right?
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  Speaker 2: Or if you're in LA and you're listen, if you're
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  Speaker 2: in LA and you're born in the United States, or
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  Speaker 2: you're rooting for Otani's team in the World Baseball Class.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, I mean I get hey, all right, Jalen Brunson.
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  Speaker 4: If Jalen Brunson was Canadian and he was playing for
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  Speaker 4: Team Canada, you wouldn't want to root for him, Taylor being.
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  Speaker 2: All now, oh, rut for Brunson when he plays for
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  Speaker 2: the next and all root for Team USA when Team
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  Speaker 2: USA is playing.
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  Speaker 1: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Let me ask you then, Stu, what do you get
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  Speaker 4: like if you're rooting for Team USA, whether it's hockey, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: or the World Baseball Class, Like, what you feel good
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  Speaker 4: about that as a sports fan?
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  Speaker 3: The team USA won?
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  Speaker 1: What does that do? I mean? To be honest, No,
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  Speaker 1: I don't give a shit. I mean, but I don't
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  Speaker 1: feel worse if they lose. Yes I will, Stu. I
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  Speaker 1: think I know what's going on here.
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  Speaker 5: When it comes to Judge and Sodo, Yes, Sales Ego
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  Speaker 5: cannot have anything positive happened to Aaron Judge and he
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  Speaker 5: cannot have anything boost Aaron Judges legacy. The World Baseball Classic. Well,
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  Speaker 5: would theoretically do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, listen, what he wants Judge to do is save
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  Speaker 2: the winning and save the home runs for the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he wants.
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  Speaker 3: Well, that is you're kind of both right with this.
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  Speaker 3: It's not gonna I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Aaron Judge is the best baseball player that I've ever seen.
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  Speaker 4: It used to be Barry Bonds. Aaron Judge a couple
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  Speaker 4: of years ago, in my mind, surpassed that defensively leadership
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  Speaker 4: what he's done.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously, obviously you can't pitch the guy.
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  Speaker 4: It's like he's playing softball amongst a man amongst boys
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  Speaker 4: playing softball out there. But yes, from a met fan perspective,
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  Speaker 4: maybe this is just unique to the Sodo Judge thing.
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  Speaker 4: Soto left the Yankees to come to the Mets. The
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  Speaker 4: narrative last year wasn't how great it was it was. Oh,
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  Speaker 4: even Aaron Boone said it the other day, my guy
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  Speaker 4: Booney talking about he still thinks Judge Soto misses the
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  Speaker 4: Yankees more than the Yankees miss him enough. So from
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  Speaker 4: a met fan perspective, yes, it drives me nuts that
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  Speaker 4: the Yankees still, even though they lost the guy, that
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  Speaker 4: they wanted to the Mets, which has never happened before.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's well, Judge and Team USA potentially be so
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  Speaker 4: head to head. I don't want that, So yes, I'm
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  Speaker 4: putting that over my country.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, yeah, Taylor, this sounds like little brother syndrome. This
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  Speaker 6: sounds like little brother syndrome.
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  Speaker 1: This is like, no, you can't win. I want to win.
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  Speaker 1: We don't miss you.
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  Speaker 5: So if it's a Mets, if it becomes a Mets
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  Speaker 5: Yankee thing. So what if in the final again, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know the bracket either. If Dominican Republic is playing
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  Speaker 5: US in the final, the starter for the final is
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  Speaker 5: slated to be Nolan McClain from the Mets. What if
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  Speaker 5: it's Nolan McClain VERSU One Sodo going up to bat
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  Speaker 5: Who are you rooting for?
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  Speaker 1: I'm rooting for Sono.
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  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, Soto's my guy. I won't want side of it.
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  Speaker 4: I like McClain, but I think there are certain guys
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  Speaker 4: that even Trump just the fandom, like, yeah, mcclean's a Met,
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  Speaker 4: that's great, Okay, good for him.
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  Speaker 3: I hope he had success. No, I'm rooted. Soto's my guy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm all in on Soto.
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  Speaker 4: I want to see him have fun, which maybe leads
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  Speaker 4: to him having more fun with the Mets, which maybe
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  Speaker 4: leads to them winning a first World Series for the
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  Speaker 4: first time in forty years.
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  Speaker 5: So what if Soto in this first inning hits a
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  Speaker 5: home run against Nolan McClain, and Nolan McClain never recovers
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  Speaker 5: from it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean obviously that they'll deal with that when he
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  Speaker 1: gets to it. I mean, he hasn't thought that far ahead, Taylor. Now.
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  Speaker 4: I guess my question to you, though, Taylor, would be,
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  Speaker 4: what if McClain goes out there and you want to
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  Speaker 4: see him pitch and win a championship for team? You
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  Speaker 4: would say, you'll get to root for a met with
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  Speaker 4: no issues whatsoever, even though the Met fans can then say, well, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: of course we had the guy that brought home the
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  Speaker 4: US Gold or whatever it is that they get.
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  Speaker 3: I'll be rooting for a perfect game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I cheered when Roman Anthony hit a three run home run.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he's a Red Sox.
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  Speaker 3: That's a little too far, I cheered, what do you
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  Speaker 3: have a little too far?
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  Speaker 1: And family? What are you talking about, Taylor? You know
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  Speaker 1: that I was rooting for a single.
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  Speaker 4: A Red Sox fans rooting for Judge. I think it's
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  Speaker 4: a great question Yankee fans, who gotta root for Red Sox?
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  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, not to mention that the tournament
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  Speaker 4: Taylor we kind of brush over it, but Tarrek school
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  Speaker 4: was one of the best, but he decides to leave.
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  Speaker 3: So what does this really mean.
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  Speaker 4: I'm supposed to put investment and feelings into this thing
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  Speaker 4: that the players do care about, but not enough to
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  Speaker 4: have to stay with it.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, come on, play Devil's Advocate a little bit.
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  Speaker 6: Roman Anthony hasn't really become the Red Sox yet, so
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  Speaker 6: it's kind of like he's peripheria Red Sox. Like it's
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  Speaker 6: not David Ortiz where I already hate you. I don't
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  Speaker 6: already hate Roman Anthony.
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  Speaker 1: That he's going to be the best player in Major
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  Speaker 1: League I'm quite well aware. But until he becomes that
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  Speaker 1: player for the.
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  Speaker 6: Red Sox, hey go TUSA, all right.
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  Speaker 5: Entering the ninth inning, when Garrett Whitlock came in the
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  Speaker 5: Red Sox reliever sal I have to admit it did
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  Speaker 5: cross my mind. It wouldn't be the worst thing if
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  Speaker 5: Garrett Whitlock was the one that blew this game.
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  Speaker 3: Say say, that's exactly my point.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, it's not our fault. It's not that we're not
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  Speaker 4: patriotic enough. It's that it's inherent in US as sports fans.
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  Speaker 4: Like I I'm sorry, I've hated the Yankees for thirty
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  Speaker 4: five years.
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  Speaker 3: Roughly.
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  Speaker 4: There's some Team USA made up tournament is not gonna
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  Speaker 4: trump my hatred for the Yankees for the last thirty
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  Speaker 4: five years.
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  Speaker 3: Same thing with you.
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  Speaker 4: How long you've been hating the Red Sox. It's a
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  Speaker 4: part of our lives, It's a part of our fandom
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  Speaker 4: and fabric.
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  Speaker 1: I have some Poulp questions here, Taylor.
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  Speaker 2: Is the WBC a cheap ripoff of the Olympics, a
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  Speaker 2: knockoff of the Olympics and Yankee fans? This is just
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  Speaker 2: for Yankee fans. Does your hatred of the Red Sox
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  Speaker 2: override your love of the United States of America?
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  Speaker 1: No, my stude.
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  Speaker 4: My thing is this because you're like, it is crazy
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  Speaker 4: to even think about that. And I know that if
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  Speaker 4: I say I want Soto to beat US, Okay, you're
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  Speaker 4: not patriotic, but but why since when does sports matter
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  Speaker 4: of what you? I know that it's supposed to be.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you're from New York, so the New York teams
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  Speaker 3: represent your fandom.
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  Speaker 4: It just doesn't happen that way. We're fans of all
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  Speaker 4: over teams from all over the place, So why does
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  Speaker 4: why should our patriotism be judge based on our sports?
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  Speaker 3: I don't like that the two have intertwined.
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  Speaker 6: The entire European soccer system is set up like this. Oh,
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  Speaker 6: he plays for my team, but he's French, so when
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  Speaker 6: he goes to play for them, then he's my enemy.
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  Speaker 6: It's like it's it's this is a US thing that
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  Speaker 6: we're just trying to learn how to do that. I
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  Speaker 6: feel like Europe they figured it out already. Yeah yeah,
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  Speaker 6: I mean, but Sala's right.
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  Speaker 2: Patriot is it doesn't really unless it's hockey, Like no one.
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  Speaker 1: Really cares, you know, no one cares. Hockey is the
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  Speaker 1: only place we can Why why why? I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: you just plasted Roman Anthony. I mean I hit a
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  Speaker 1: three run monster for you last night. Well, hockey for
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  Speaker 1: me us.
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  Speaker 4: I can't answer anybody else, Yeah right, I can't answer
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  Speaker 4: anybody else.
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  Speaker 3: But the nineteen eighty thing that was that was patriotic.
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  Speaker 1: We like there was a reason for that. A.
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  Speaker 3: It was the Olympics.
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  Speaker 4: B it was beating the mighty Russian team that never
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  Speaker 4: lost with an underdog USA team war well exactly, I
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  Speaker 4: was gonna get to that, but yeah, right, Rocky if
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  Speaker 4: I could change and you could say Rocky, so there
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  Speaker 4: was a Cold War, like it was actually a real thing.
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  Speaker 4: But since then it's like it's just not the case
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  Speaker 4: for me. So I think it stems though the hockey.
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  Speaker 4: Why we maybe associate that more is because of what
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  Speaker 4: happened in nineteen eighty.
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  Speaker 1: Taylor put this on the pall the sal hate the
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  Speaker 1: good old US of A. It's a big old yes
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  Speaker 1: for me, go to US. I mean, come on, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I can't believe tailor roots for certain people
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  Speaker 2: on Team USA.
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  Speaker 1: It's a red he draws the line at red Sox.
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  Speaker 1: It's a little roof former don'ts that's true?
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  Speaker 3: At least I'm not faking it. He's a fraud.
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  Speaker 4: He's wearing the USA hat and saying, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: if we're luck blew the game, it wouldn't be the
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  Speaker 4: worst thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, right, it doesn't care that much, just enough to
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  Speaker 1: wear a USA. I'll tell you one.
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  Speaker 7: More's a nice hat though, Yeah, straight hat. Get Trek
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  Speaker 7: Scuble out of that dugout. He's talking about he wants
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  Speaker 7: to come back in the semifinals. He wants to come
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  Speaker 7: back in the finals, just to hang around the team
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  Speaker 7: and be in Miami if they win. He also said
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  Speaker 7: he'll be the first to sign up for the twenty
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  Speaker 7: eight Olympics or whenever. The next World Baseball Classic is
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  Speaker 7: trader get tarreka, Google out of here, go.
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  Speaker 2: Pitch for the Dominican so South can root for you.
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  Speaker 2: I guarantee you he's rooting for Roman Anthony, though.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jesus, I.
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  Speaker 4: Respect him more for prioritizing what he should prioritize his team.
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  Speaker 4: That's paying him himself, trying to get a big contract,
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  Speaker 4: like that's what it should be. And by the way
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  Speaker 4: you talk about, well he'll come back and want to
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  Speaker 4: play again, stude, did you know? Because I did not
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  Speaker 4: know this happen to stumble across it over the weekend,
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  Speaker 4: no one. Aronaudo's at the dish for Team Puerto Rico
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  Speaker 4: or PR, whatever you want.
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  Speaker 1: To call it.
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  Speaker 4: And you know it's like, well, this is Aeronauto's third
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  Speaker 4: Baseball Classic, his first with Team PR.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm like wait a second, like which team are
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  Speaker 3: you on?
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  Speaker 4: You could change teams in the W You see, this
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  Speaker 4: is not the Mets in Cardinals or Rockies or Yankee
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  Speaker 4: Like this is You're supposed to be representing your country, right,
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  Speaker 4: I thought, that's the point of this. So Aeronaudo he
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  Speaker 4: plays for Team USA for the first two go rounds
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  Speaker 4: and then he can't make that team, so he joins
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  Speaker 4: the Puerto Rican team.
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  Speaker 1: Like that, how is that possible?
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  Speaker 3: Who's representing?
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  Speaker 1: No, I'm with you, it seems it doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: make sense. It shouldn't It shouldn't be allowed.
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  Speaker 2: But again, no one fucking cares about this thing except
• 14:23
  Speaker 2: for Tailorman the Dominican Republic.
• 14:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, so, Aeronauto was on Team USA. But I
• 14:29
  Speaker 5: think what happened was he knew he was not going
• 14:31
  Speaker 5: to get called for this team, so he was like,
• 14:33
  Speaker 5: where do I have options? Oh, somebody in my family
• 14:37
  Speaker 5: is of Puerto Rican descent. I'm gonna play there. If
• 14:40
  Speaker 5: for some reason, Austin Wells becomes the next best catcher
• 14:44
  Speaker 5: in the next three years, I got news for him.
• 14:47
  Speaker 5: He's playing for Team USA next time.
• 14:49
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 14:50
  Speaker 2: But once you declare yourself for one country, that's it.
• 14:52
  Speaker 2: That's the country you need to make the team. And
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: you don't make the team, you don't.
• 14:55
  Speaker 1: Get to hop around. That's not how sports works.
• 14:57
  Speaker 4: I mean, come on, right, especially, like the whole point
• 15:00
  Speaker 4: is just supposed to be representing your country, not just
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: playing to play. So like in ten years from now,
• 15:05
  Speaker 4: Judge can't make Team USA, He's gonna go play on
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: another team because of the heritage, and I'm using him.
• 15:11
  Speaker 3: I mean, that's absurd.
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think that is. I don't think Judge has
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: options though. Am I gonna jump over to Team Australia?
• 15:23
  Speaker 5: My dad was born and raised in Italy. If the
• 15:25
  Speaker 5: Italian team wants to reach out to me, so I've
• 15:29
  Speaker 5: told them before. One of the best defensive fielders my
• 15:32
  Speaker 5: high school program has ever seen, Francisco Savelli.
• 15:36
  Speaker 1: My line is open.
• 15:37
  Speaker 3: He's the manager of Team Ittawa.
• 15:40
  Speaker 1: Your line's open. Huh.
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: They probably could use it. Yeah, that's the thing.
• 15:45
  Speaker 4: Like, okay, great, my parents are from or not my parents,
• 15:47
  Speaker 4: but like my heritage is from Italy. So which am
• 15:50
  Speaker 4: i am? I? Team Italy or Team USA? I guess
• 15:52
  Speaker 4: I could play from bold Technically, does that make me
• 15:55
  Speaker 4: a bad Italian because I want to play for US?
• 15:57
  Speaker 4: Or am I a bad American because I would play
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: for my heritage with it.
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: It doesn't make any sense to me.
• 16:01
  Speaker 6: Depends plays, I guess for you, that's correct.
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: I'm dr I get herited in Italy.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: I'm from US and I'm root for the dr Yes,
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: oh my god, so funny. By the way, here's the
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: funny thing about this entire conversation. Because Sal's love for
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: one Soda.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Sala is gonna be the first person to rip one
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: Soda if he gets off to a terrible story after
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: the first month of the season.
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: He doesn't shimmy.
• 16:25
  Speaker 4: Actually too, you guys, you and Dan got on me
• 16:29
  Speaker 4: for a clip that I was ripping Sodo. It just
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: so happened though that he was with the Yankees. That
• 16:32
  Speaker 4: was one of the things where you guys, I was
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: getting on him, like, look, if he takes these walks,
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: he's here to swig, he's here to do damage, and
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: he was taking walks. So yeah, it's not above me
• 16:40
  Speaker 4: ripping Sodo, but just ironic that I remember, you guys
• 16:42
  Speaker 4: ripped me for Sodo. Since he'd become a met he's
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: been he's been untouchable for now. The only way I
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: rip him is if he fails in the postseason. That
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: will be it with Sodo Sala. What'd you make of?
• 16:52
  Speaker 1: What'd you make of everything that transpired yesterday in the NFL?
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Do you enjoy that day? Is that a day that's
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: enjoyable to you?
• 16:59
  Speaker 3: M I don't know, because I think there are too many.
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: I think it's too much happening, and it's because of
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: that way, because of the salary cap structure. So you
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: have good players getting caught and then signing all with
• 17:08
  Speaker 4: other teams. Okay, it's fun action for a day or two.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: It's chaos.
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: It's fun to keep up with it and the updates.
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: On your phone, But really you build a team through
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: the draft, so that's more important obviously, and I just
• 17:19
  Speaker 4: think a lot gets lost in the chaos. Too many
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: mid level type moves. I thought the best signing of
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: the day was the Giants signing the punter. They get
• 17:27
  Speaker 4: the best punter in the league away from the Ravens,
• 17:29
  Speaker 4: so I thought that was a big move.
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: But nobody talks about that.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: It's all about the quarterbacks and wide receivers. Yeah, I mean,
• 17:34
  Speaker 4: it's a fun day for sport. It's a fun week
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: with the NFL chaos with free agency.
• 17:38
  Speaker 5: So how do you feel about the your Falcons. You
• 17:41
  Speaker 5: got a new quarterback, one that we're very familiar with
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: here down in South Florida that people basically celebrated his release,
• 17:49
  Speaker 5: and now he's seemingly to be your next quarterback.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: Okay, well, I mean they still have Penis. Penix is
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: going to be the future. I wanted the Jets to
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: go after too.
• 17:59
  Speaker 1: First.
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: I want Jets to get a real quarterback, just so
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: we could watch competitive football in New York, you know,
• 18:03
  Speaker 4: the Giants, whatever.
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: But the Jets need a quarterback.
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: So I was looking at Kyler Murray, Malik Willis, and
• 18:08
  Speaker 4: Tua would have been third on my list. So if
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: that were the case going into free agency, I didn't
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: think he was gonna be a fit with the Falcons,
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: but it does make sense. Remember, you're not paying like
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: Miami's perspective is totally different. They needed to cut bait
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: and take a ridiculous cap hit to do so because
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: he clearly is not the future quarterback for that franchise.
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: So they instead get Willis. Okay, we'll see how that
• 18:26
  Speaker 4: works out. But now whoever gets Tua, they're getting him
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: for nothing, and you're getting a guy who's gonna be hungry, motivated,
• 18:33
  Speaker 4: whether he could be a backup, get some opportunities to
• 18:35
  Speaker 4: start whatever. So I think Atlanta made a smart move
• 18:37
  Speaker 4: here in the case that Penix isn't ready or still
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: needs time to develop. You have a veteran quarterback. Not
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: to mention another lefty, I mean, what does that mean
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: to lefty quarterbacks?
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: Whatever?
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Maybe there's something the way that they could teach, help
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: teach Penix a little bit.
• 18:49
  Speaker 4: But they like Tua and his veteran leadership, and I
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: think it's for you're not paying him anything and the
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: guy can have some success. Tell me this, if you're
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: the idiot Jets, would you rather have Tua this year?
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: Or would you rather have Geno Smith and Carson Wentz?
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Who are the two guys that they're talking about? So?
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: Well, yeah, my fear is too might win you just
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: you know too of many games. You know, he might
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: win your seven, you know, seven or eight games. And
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: I want to be bad and I want to be
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: really bad, you know?
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: But are they are they?
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: And then the moves the Jets made yesterday they trained
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: for mickon fitz micking Fitzpatrick that would and not to
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: mention signing Tomorio Davis as well some other moves like
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: they're trying to build a team that's going to be
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: a somewhat competitive team because at some point they have
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: to start winning some games.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Sure, is it a full tank?
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: Are they really trying to really tank? I don't know
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: if that's gonna be the case.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: And then for what for the hope that you're gonna
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: get arch Manning, as if he would ever come to
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: the Jets, Like.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: Come on, the Mannings aren't gonna stop.
• 19:44
  Speaker 6: That, right, So it's funny because you were talking about
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: to and you said veteran leadership.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: Correct me if I'm wrong, But isn't that kind of
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: one of.
• 19:54
  Speaker 6: The biggest knocks against him is everybody was like, oh,
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: shut up whenever he tried to do some time.
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: He was a captain for that team for four seasons,
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: I believe, yeah.
• 20:01
  Speaker 3: But apparently they nobody respected him.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: They put him as the captain because he's the quarterback. Well, no,
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: but when the play doesn't follow the leadership, it becomes dicey.
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: And that's the problem.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: Like the year he was the captain and he was
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: playing well and led the NFL in everyone was listening. Yes,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: second it went the other way, No one paid attention.
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Right, But also they're not paying him anything, and he's
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: not right.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: He's not the future quarterball right, So what's the worst
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: that could happen with Atlanta to a start, some it's
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: not gonna be worse than Kirk Cousins.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: Was the South down here. He is overpaid.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: The Dolphins made a colossal mistake and they cut bait
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: anywhere else.
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: He's a bargain. He is a bargain by NFL standards.
• 20:39
  Speaker 4: Bingo, which is why the Jets should have been a
• 20:41
  Speaker 4: top the list to try to get him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 3: I don't even know if he would have gone to
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: the Jets because he looked at but but he would
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: look at that situation like I can't go.
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: I'm not going there and being asked to win games
• 20:49
  Speaker 4: maybe outside door, you know, outdoors, eron Glenn whatever. I
• 20:52
  Speaker 4: think it's a perfect situation for both Atlanta and for Tool.
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: But yes, he's a bargain. You say, no, thanks, Mike.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Who do you want?
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: Who do you want an under center for the Jets
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: this year? Who do you want to watch?
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Jakobe Brissette? Well, he wants to be bad. I mean, listen,
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: what is the goal would be Jets in twenty twenty six?
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: What is the goal it is to get you want
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: to call it arch Manning, it's there's four or five
• 21:17
  Speaker 6: guys that could be your quarterback of the future. Is
• 21:20
  Speaker 6: in next year's draft, your goal with three first round
• 21:23
  Speaker 6: picks should be that's our goal.
• 21:26
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: The only thing you have to do with twenty twenty
• 21:29
  Speaker 6: six is build a team that can bring in a
• 21:31
  Speaker 6: guy and he can succeed.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: I think they're doing a fantastic job of that.
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: But then what if they're so bad that they have
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: to fire Aaron Glenn and now why But now you're
• 21:42
  Speaker 4: starting over again? Like the here's the good thing for you,
• 21:45
  Speaker 4: mike Y. You know the Jet fans who feel the
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: same way, Losing won't be a problem. Like that's the
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: one thing the Jets of excel.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: We're used to it.
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: What do you mean, we're so good at us right?
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: But I don't know how to react if they win.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: That's the thing that's going to be the problem.
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: I don't know what to do with my hands when
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: they win.
• 22:00
  Speaker 4: Wouldn't you want to get out of that at some
• 22:01
  Speaker 4: point and build a competitive team like Kyler Murray to
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: mean will give them a chance to at least be
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: competitive and also still have your eye on the quarterback
• 22:08
  Speaker 4: class next year.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: I Mikey, I will say this before you give the
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you know, before before you give the patent Jets answer,
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: I will say this, the NFL seems to be shifting
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: a little bit when you think about none of those
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: big time quarterbacks were in the final four last year.
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: I mean it was Drake May, it was Sam Donald,
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: it was bow Knicks. Just having a good quarterback is
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: good as long as just a round up with the
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: right pieces is good enough to win a super Bowl
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: in the NFL.
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: Sam Donald just proved it, you know.
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: Exactly, So if Sam Donald can win a super Bowl.
• 22:40
  Speaker 4: And also the idea of like, okay, well, Jackson Dark,
• 22:43
  Speaker 4: oh he's the next great?
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: How do we know?
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: How do we know what Jackson like?
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: You just don't know year to year or even even
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: worse than Jackson Dart who actually did prove he could
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: have some success at the NFL level. The hope of, well,
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: next year's draft class, next year's draft class, like oh
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: oh yeah, yeah, Arch Manning is gonna be you stared.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: And Dante Moore, assuming he does want to come out
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and assuming the Jets do, you have the chance to
• 23:04
  Speaker 4: take him, like he's a gonna want to come to
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: the Jets. What you already proved he didn't want to be.
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: He's gonna come here and be the savior like that.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: It already has proven. It has not worked. You need
• 23:15
  Speaker 4: to build a team the right way inside out, build
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: a foundation, and then hope to bring in a quarterback
• 23:21
  Speaker 4: that could potentially get you over the top. But if
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: Sam Darnold could win at Super Bowl, then maybe we're a.
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: Little too hung up on the quarterbacks being the be
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: all end all.
• 23:29
  Speaker 5: I still can't get over South saying the best move
• 23:31
  Speaker 5: yesterday was the giant side of Hunter.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I already forgot the best, but I already forgot his name.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But who cares?
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: I mean, seriously, because yesterday it was a bunch of moves,
• 23:43
  Speaker 2: Like I have no idea. You're in Indianapolis. You can't
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: walk around confidently saying, hey, we got better today.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: You don't know.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: But that's kind of my point about the excitement question.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: I think it is fun, right, the fury.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: Of moves, But it's all like transactions.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay, yeah, this third linebacker, this guy's a special team.
• 24:00
  Speaker 4: But when you signed definitively first team, will pro punter
• 24:03
  Speaker 4: whether I know his name or not, it doesn't matter.
• 24:05
  Speaker 4: He was the best punter in the league a year ago.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: Also Hardball special teams guy. Also the Giant Special Teams
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: has been a train wreck for years.
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: That shows you at least.
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: They'll look at it and say, hey, this is gonna
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: help us compete and win some more football games. Nobody
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: gets you know, it's not a sexy move, but it's
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: a smart football move.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: I think that was the best signing yesterday.
• 24:24
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• 24:27
  Speaker 2: This is why he can't go on vacation. Do you
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: understand like this was the problem when we talked to
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: him last week coming off vacation.
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: His poor wife, He has all this bottled up.
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Rage and he needs to get it out, and his
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: wife doesn't want to hear about it, and so.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: I feel so much terrible for her.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: I feel much better. Well, God, you don't even know
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: the half of it. Yes, it's been it's been rough.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you feel better now that you're behind the microphone.
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: I mean I do.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: I feel better being back in the mix, getting off
• 24:53
  Speaker 4: the vacation for a week, which was not really a vacation.
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: Uh, you try to make her happy. And then did
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: I tell you the story, Like midway through the vacation,
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: it was supposed to be for the birthday. She's like,
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: this isn't my birthday. There's no no plan. Like, I mean,
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: you could you never win that way.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: So now I feel good at least I'm winning now,
• 25:08
  Speaker 4: back at work, having fun, talking up with you guys,
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: talking sports, getting it out of my system.
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: That's what makes me feel good.
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Yes, let me explain something to you. She's always winning.
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: You might not know it. She's just she's doing something
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: right now when she's winning.
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Okay, it's been rough, you know. You getting let go
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: from the job. That didn't help either.
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: And that's even when I was what I had multiple jobs,
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: things were a little shaky without that job.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: It's oh, pressures on.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Yes, we were supposed to soften you up, man, I
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: mean you came just guns firing today.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: You hate the United States. I mean, Jesus right.
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: I was gonna say there's a lot of sports going on,
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: but really we're talking about NFL free agency at the WBC.
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go d R