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Nats fire GM & Manager, All-Star snubs, Astros sweep LA, Yanks slide · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: What's the matter, AJ, what's the matter?
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Speaker 2: Over your ears? Alana? Because Christian Walker is coming up
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Speaker 2: to bat again. So God Ristian Walker.
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Speaker 1: He destroyed the Dodgers his entire career. Good afternoon, everybody,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to a brand new episode of foul Territory.
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Speaker 1: That is a J. Pierzinski. That is Eric Kratz. I
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Speaker 1: am your pinch hitting host, your spots starter Alana Rizzo
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Speaker 1: in for Scott Braun Boys. It looks like you're both
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Speaker 1: in hotel rooms where you be. AJ.
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Speaker 2: First of all, Alana, you're used to being that spot
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Speaker 2: starter since you root for the Dodgers, and all they
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Speaker 2: do is have spot starters every game, so you know
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Speaker 2: you should be good at it. You should be good
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Speaker 2: at it because as a home.
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Speaker 1: Run, well you know what. That's They're still leading the
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Speaker 1: league and wins in the National League, and that's fine.
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Speaker 2: Still works, Sure, that's true. Now if they would just
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Speaker 2: stop telling the astros what was coming, it would be better.
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Speaker 1: But other than that, that's a different topic of conversation. AJ,
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Speaker 1: that's a different topic of your station. Where are you.
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Speaker 2: I'm in Atlanta the All Star Games here this week.
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Speaker 2: I'm actually brought my son to Atlanta for a couple
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Speaker 2: of days to go to this place called Maven Baseball.
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Speaker 2: It's like a drive line for hitters on the East
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Speaker 2: Coast here, and he has an all star break from
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Speaker 2: his summer league, so we shot up here to get
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Speaker 2: him some swings. They have the high speed cameras and
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Speaker 2: all the body sensors and all that, and then when
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Speaker 2: he's in college he can't use it because he'll be
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Speaker 2: close to her. And they do a video program where
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Speaker 2: you can use it to fix things.
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Speaker 1: All right, And Eric, I think you're traveling with your
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Speaker 1: kids as well. Where are you.
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Speaker 3: I'm with my son up in the terrible, terrible weather
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Speaker 3: state of Massachusetts. Oh wait, you're there too, So it's
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Speaker 3: so freaking hot up here. I'm in Boston shipping off
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Speaker 3: the Boston. We're like shipping off to some air conditioning.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, drop Hick Murphy's no, what is up shipping off
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Speaker 1: to Boston? It's hot here. You're absolutely right. There's seven
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Speaker 1: days of good weather in Massachusetts total in the entire
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Speaker 1: calendar year. Seven days. You're not hitting one of them.
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Speaker 1: get to it. Let's charge the Mound boys charge of
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Speaker 1: about interesting timing. If you think about the Washington Nationals,
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Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox took it to them, but they
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Speaker 1: have decided to go ahead and have a fire sale.
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Speaker 1: And by that age, I mean they're firing everybody. It
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Speaker 1: looks like Mike Rizzo is out. It looks like David Martinez,
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Speaker 1: their manager, is out. What do you think about the
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Speaker 1: situation going on with Washington?
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Speaker 2: Weird timing. They do have the first pick on Sunday
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Speaker 2: in the draft too, which is an interesting time to
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Speaker 2: fire your general manager. Listen, Dave Martinez, it's not his fault.
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Speaker 2: He won a World Series not long ago twenty nineteen.
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Speaker 2: Mike Rizzo has been there a long time. Just to
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Speaker 2: me goes on the owners. They didn't spend money, They
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Speaker 2: didn't pick the necessary moves in a tough NLAs with
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Speaker 2: the Mets, the Braves, the Phillies, they spend money and
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Speaker 2: guess what they have. They have really good teams in
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Speaker 2: the NATS. Yes, they're competing with the Braves, because the
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Speaker 2: Braves are banged up like no team other than the
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Speaker 2: Dodgers that we've probably ever seen. But yeah, to me,
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Speaker 2: this is like Learner fired Rizzo and Martinez. But I
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Speaker 2: mean sometimes you got to look in the mirror and say, man,
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Speaker 2: we got to spend some money because they got some
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Speaker 2: good players James Wood cj Abrams. I mean, they got
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Speaker 2: some good young players that are there and ready to
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Speaker 2: do it, and they got to get supplemental pieces around them.
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Speaker 2: If you don't do that, you get in a constant
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Speaker 2: cycle of oh, our players like Mackenzie Gore, they're good.
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Speaker 2: Oh we're not good enough, so we got to trade
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Speaker 2: them and then we got to start over. But no,
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Speaker 2: spend some money like you did in twenty nineteen. Bring
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Speaker 2: in I'm not saying you bring in Suzarn Corban and
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Speaker 2: all those other guys. You got to bring in somebody
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Speaker 2: to supplement this roster. And they didn't do that.
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Speaker 1: It seems like ownership needed to decide on options for
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Speaker 1: both Martinez and Rizzo for twenty twenty six. But the
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Speaker 1: timing to AJ's point is peculiar in terms of it's
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Speaker 1: almost never that a general manager against fired before the deadliner,
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Speaker 1: oftentimes before the end of the season. And when I
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Speaker 1: think of Mike Rizzo, I think of the Nationals. I mean,
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Speaker 1: the Learners have been loyal to Rizzo, whether it's been
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Speaker 1: to a fault or not, incredibly loyal. What do you
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Speaker 1: think about the timing of this whole thing?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think it's terrible. I think it's
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Speaker 3: terrible because one, they've done all their work for the draft.
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Speaker 3: I think the draft is probably just plug and play.
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Speaker 3: You really can't screw up the draft if you have
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Speaker 3: the number one pick, unless hey, you know what, we'd
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Speaker 3: like to go with a super low pick or super
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Speaker 3: low money pick. Let's try to lowball somebody with our
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Speaker 3: first pick. You know, maybe the ownership wants to do
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Speaker 3: something like that. I doubt it because the last group,
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Speaker 3: the last winning team, was built on that. To me,
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Speaker 3: I just don't see why, except for the contract needed
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Speaker 3: to be decided, why you would make the decision now,
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Speaker 3: which a team that's rebuilding needs to have all their
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Speaker 3: ducks in a row right now. They don't need to
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Speaker 3: have people looking over their shoulder like, well, I'm not
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Speaker 3: even gonna be here, so why would I care. I
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Speaker 3: just there's a lot of things with the Gnats that
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Speaker 3: don't I don't get. They won the World Series and
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Speaker 3: it was like, that's fine, We're glad we did it,
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Speaker 3: Like Nats fans. That's when Gnats fans came aboard, like
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Speaker 3: they were like, yeah, they're wearing their Nats hats nattitude
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Speaker 3: all over the place, and then they just like, oh,
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Speaker 3: that's fine, that's all we're really building that whole team
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Speaker 3: for was one World championship and they got it. And
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Speaker 3: it just feels like since then their record shows it too.
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Speaker 3: Since then, they just really don't care about putting a
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Speaker 3: winning product consistently out on the field.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, not a lot of curly w's as much as
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Speaker 1: there used to be. This is just so strange too,
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Speaker 1: is again with the timing and things. But you look
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Speaker 1: at it, though, how does this AJ affect a clubhouse?
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Speaker 1: Because now you look around, Davey Martinez isn't there. They
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Speaker 1: don't even have an interim manager. Miguel Cairo is quote
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Speaker 1: thinking it over, I'm not exactly sure what that means.
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Speaker 1: Mikey Bartolo is the interim GM. But now, what do
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Speaker 1: you do if you're walking into that clubhouse today as
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Speaker 1: a player.
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Speaker 2: Well, first of all, let's not forget then that's kind
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Speaker 2: of got a little bit screwed by COVID because they
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Speaker 2: didn't get to do all the things that other teams
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Speaker 2: get to do because they won. And then twenty twenty,
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Speaker 2: remember it was the year that was cut short, so
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Speaker 2: they didn't get to do all the cool stuff that
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Speaker 2: every other team gets. So it was a pandemic. So
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Speaker 2: there was nothing they could do about that. But how
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Speaker 2: does this affect players? It sucks. I was on a
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Speaker 2: team where we fired the manager in the middle of
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Speaker 2: the year. It changes everything because every player starts looking
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Speaker 2: over their shoulder, like, oh man, you know, does this
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Speaker 2: new manager like me? What do I have to do
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Speaker 2: to get in his good grades? Is this? Oh man,
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Speaker 2: what's he thinking? What's this new coach thinking? It's a
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Speaker 2: bad situation. We've seen it work in a lot of
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Speaker 2: places in mid season where the teams get better because
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Speaker 2: it's a new voice, because players are like, man, we
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Speaker 2: got to try harder, We got to play harder because
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Speaker 2: I don't know where we're standing now. I've never been
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Speaker 2: in a situation where the GM was fired. That's a
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Speaker 2: new one to me because usually wait to fire the
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Speaker 2: gym at the end of the year. But it just
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Speaker 2: shakes everything up and everything is going to be different.
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Speaker 2: I don't care who. You know, if they take the
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Speaker 2: assistant GM, move them to the head GM, it's still
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Speaker 2: gonna be different because there's gonna be different thought processes,
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Speaker 2: different moves. And if whoever they decided to hire, I mean,
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Speaker 2: are they gonna hire Miguel Cairo, I don't know. They
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Speaker 2: bring up Matt Lee Croy from tripa A, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's weird. Normally, when you fire someone like this,
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Speaker 2: you already have somebody in the wings ready to come up.
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Speaker 2: When I was with the Braves, Freddie Gonzalez got fired,
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Speaker 2: Brian Snicker was they didn't make the move, so they
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Speaker 2: had assurances from Brian Snicker he was gonna take the job.
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Speaker 2: Usually don't make a move like this unless you have
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Speaker 2: somebody ready to go.
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Speaker 3: Mage Cairo I talked to him actually when I was
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Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh earlier this year, and I was like, Maggy,
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Speaker 3: I was like, how on earth do you not have
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Speaker 3: a big league managerial job? And his quote was, you
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Speaker 3: know what if the if a good one comes along,
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Speaker 3: I'm not just taking anything. So for him to say, uh,
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Speaker 3: I'm waiting, or we'll see good for him. You don't
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Speaker 3: have to. Yes, I get it. If your goal in
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Speaker 3: life is to be a big league manager, the only
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Speaker 3: one of thirty, so so many people have said that.
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Speaker 3: But if you're like, you know what, there's a standard
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Speaker 3: I want to keep in the sense of like, I
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Speaker 3: want to manage a team that wants to win, in
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Speaker 3: the sense that the front office is pushing to win.
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Speaker 3: And I bet he may not want another intern tag.
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Speaker 3: I'm only going off of what he told me in
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Speaker 3: Pittsburgh earlier this season. But he's not just gonna take
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Speaker 3: any job. This guy. And I think he'll be a
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Speaker 3: great manager one day, but who knows?
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Speaker 2: What do I know?
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Speaker 1: And he has a lot of ties obviously with Davey Martinez,
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Speaker 1: he was the bench coach there. That's got to be
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Speaker 1: a little bit weird. But yes, to your point, there's
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Speaker 1: only thirty jobs in all of Major League Baseball, and
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Speaker 1: I'm sure David Martinez would understand if Miggy would take
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Speaker 1: the job. Anybody would, I mean, anybody that wants to
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Speaker 1: be a big league manager.
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Speaker 2: You can't be that picky though. I'm sorry Miguel Cairo,
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Speaker 2: he can't be that picky. What's he waiting for? The
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Speaker 2: Dodgers job, the Phillies job. I mean, what's the Cardinals' job.
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Speaker 2: What's he waiting for? Because you can say, oh, I
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Speaker 2: don't want certain jobs, but at the end of the day,
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Speaker 2: you got to go and prove yourself. Davey Martinez was
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Speaker 2: fortunate he went from the Cubs, where he was bench
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Speaker 2: coach of Madden they won, into the Nats where they
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Speaker 2: wanted him again. Those jobs don't pop up, though, because
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Speaker 2: you got to put in your time. And I don't
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Speaker 2: mean this, this is not an knock on Miguel Cairo
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Speaker 2: at all, but I mean, if the let's say the
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Speaker 2: Yankees move on from Aaron Boom, god forbid is their
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Speaker 2: first name on Brian CASHMZ, this is going to be
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Speaker 2: Miguel Cairo, They're gonna shoot for bigger fish first. So
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Speaker 2: I don't know that necessarily you can be that picky,
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Speaker 2: but hey, if you that's what he wants to do,
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Speaker 2: and he wants to continue to try to get that
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Speaker 2: dream job. God bless them.
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Speaker 2: Huh hold on here, I'll show the people.
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Speaker 1: It is very beautiful. That's a great park, and you're
11:08
Speaker 1: at a great hotel attached to the park. That's awesome.
11:13
Speaker 1: That has done a great job of How about that.
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Speaker 1: Atlanta's done a great job of making that whole area
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Speaker 1: around the park. The battery is what it's called a
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Speaker 1: lot of fun. You can walk around, you can shop,
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Speaker 1: you can do all the things, you can eat, you
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Speaker 1: can take in a ball game, you can stay right there.
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Speaker 1: It's very nice. I wish all parks were.
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Speaker 3: Like, yeah, that's great, And if you're another owner, you
11:35
Speaker 3: can look at it and be super jealous and hold
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Speaker 3: your city at ransom to so that you can also
11:41
Speaker 3: get a battery around your stadium.
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Speaker 1: Hmm, do you have somebody in mind?
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Speaker 3: I won't name names.
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Speaker 1: You're not naming names, You're not name dropping in this
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Speaker 1: particular situation. Well, guys, this isn't good if you're the Brave.
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Speaker 1: Since the Braves finished a three game sleep with the
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Speaker 1: Mets on June nineteenth, they failed to win any of
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Speaker 1: the five series that followed. They're five and eleven while
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Speaker 1: averaging just three point one runs per game. Even worse
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Speaker 1: than that, if you can believe it, thirty one of
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Speaker 1: the fifty runs in that sixteen game stretch came in
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Speaker 1: the five wins. That means nineteen runs in the eleven
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Speaker 1: losses that they've had. That's basically negative one point seven
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Speaker 1: runs per game. What are the Braves doing besides not
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Speaker 1: hitting or scoring?
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Speaker 2: I'm scoring, not scoring? They can't score. This has been
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Speaker 2: this has been a theme form for two years now.
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Speaker 2: Last year we all question, man, where's the offense go?
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Speaker 2: Because remember Acunya Olsen, Murphy Albes, Riley Harris, all these
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Speaker 2: guys it was their thing, right. They signed all these
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Speaker 2: guys to long term deals, were like, these guys are
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Speaker 2: gonna score a million runs for the next five years.
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Speaker 2: It disappeared. Last year they fired their hitting coach, Kevin Sitzer.
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Speaker 2: He gone right. They brought in a new hitting coach.
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Speaker 2: It hasn't gotten any better. Nobody knows why. It's not
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Speaker 2: the ballpark. The ball flies at the truest part, Like
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Speaker 2: I could literally sit here where I'm sitting right now
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Speaker 2: and probably hit a ball from here to home plate,
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Speaker 2: and I haven't touched the baton five years. Both flies
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Speaker 2: at the truest park. So it's not the ballpark. It's
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Speaker 2: the players. I don't know what happened, but their offense went.
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Speaker 3: Away, don't You couldn't hit it that far the to
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Speaker 3: the chop house right now? But what else? What else?
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Speaker 3: What else could have gone differently in the last two years,
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Speaker 3: They didn't all of a sudden just stop Like people
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Speaker 3: are like, oh, they're comfortable because of their contracts. I
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Speaker 3: don't believe that.
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Speaker 1: This bums me out. I like Clark Schmand a lot.
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Speaker 1: I've met him, had a conversation with him a couple
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Speaker 1: of times. His family's super cool. He was doing really
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Speaker 1: well for the New York Yankees. Now he's on the shelf,
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Speaker 1: likely a UCL tear guys and is expected to require
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Speaker 1: Tommy John surgery. Just notched it up to another guy
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Speaker 1: needing TJ and fourteen starts the season. Schmid pitch to
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Speaker 1: a four and four record with a three three two ERA.
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Speaker 1: This is a bummer. I mean, the Yankees are struggling.
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Speaker 1: They're starting rotation is horrendous. They've started to hit a
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Speaker 1: little bit, but the ERA has ballooned and this this
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Speaker 1: AJ is not going to help matters.
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Speaker 2: They're in third place, well, they're tied for second. I
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Speaker 2: guess they were in third place for a second there,
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Speaker 2: but then the Rays also you know the.
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Speaker 3: Rate Yankees are in third place. It's July seventh, but.
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Speaker 2: Nobody had running away from That's what I'm saying. But
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Speaker 2: their pitching is faltered. I mean, Rodno and Freed have
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Speaker 2: been good. It's the other people that have a member
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Speaker 2: good and they need heel back. They're obviously not getting collback.
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Speaker 2: And now if Schmid goes down, that stinks. Their bullpen
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Speaker 2: hasn't been as good. But the big thing about the Yankees,
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Speaker 2: and I'll say this and I'll keep saying it. They
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Speaker 2: only score when they hit home runs. They have to
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Speaker 2: hit home runs to score. They don't manufacture runs very well.
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Speaker 2: And if their pitching is not perfect and they get
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Speaker 2: into these extra inning games where teams can hit a
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Speaker 2: ground ball, a second hit a fly ball and score
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Speaker 2: that run. The Yankees haven't done that. That's why the
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Speaker 2: record extra innings is bad. There's a lot of things,
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Speaker 2: but the pitching is is number one. They're gonna have
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Speaker 2: to go out and get some help. Eric.
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Speaker 1: I like what Jazz Chishom Junior said to Bob Klapp.
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Speaker 1: He said, I've played with the Marlins. I've seen bad
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Speaker 1: teams go through rough time. He's not lying, and believe me,
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Speaker 1: this isn't even close to what I've been through in
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Speaker 1: the past. I still feel like we're going to be fine.
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Speaker 1: He's had a lot of dingers. I think he's hit
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Speaker 1: like eight home runs recently, but he's had a lot
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Speaker 1: of errors too, playing third base defensively. But I believe
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Speaker 1: what he's saying though. I mean, the Yankees obviously are
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Speaker 1: built to get through this.
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Speaker 2: No.
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Speaker 3: Uh, Are they built to get through it? Yeah? Because
15:21
Speaker 3: I mean they showed what they could do early in
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Speaker 3: the year, but the Jays just weren't playing well early
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Speaker 3: in the year. The Jays could have had a much
15:28
Speaker 3: larger lead had they started out a little bit hotter.
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Speaker 3: So there's ebbs and flows of seasons. Are they built
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Speaker 3: to get through this? That will be the question that
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Speaker 3: can only be answered at the end of the season,
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Speaker 3: because if you don't field your position as well as
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Speaker 3: you should, Hence Gastism should be playing second base, but
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Speaker 3: they have to play him at third because they don't
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Speaker 3: feel like they feel like he's the better option at third.
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Speaker 3: Then you're not going to make plays. You're not going
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Speaker 3: to run base as well, because the ball you can
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Speaker 3: be pitched to to not hit a home run, Like,
16:03
Speaker 3: let's pitch to this guy so he doesn't hit a homer,
16:06
Speaker 3: We'll let him get a single. Well, they're not taking those, Okay.
16:09
Speaker 3: If you're not getting your home runs, then you have
16:12
Speaker 3: to base run. So you have to base run and
16:14
Speaker 3: you have to field, two things that historically they haven't
16:18
Speaker 3: been very good at recently, and I don't know if
16:21
Speaker 3: they're built to be able to do it. I don't
16:23
Speaker 3: think you can just flip a switch to be able
16:26
Speaker 3: to do that. I think Volpi's defense is going to
16:28
Speaker 3: go up. I think he's had a tough start to
16:30
Speaker 3: the season. I think I think Jazz's defense is going
16:34
Speaker 3: to go up when he moves to second base. So
16:36
Speaker 3: I think a starting pitcher and a third baseman are
16:39
Speaker 3: probably highest on the Yankees list.
16:42
Speaker 1: Aj Are the Yankees Al champs or is it time
16:46
Speaker 1: to give way to the Tigers? Obviously I'm not discounting
16:49
Speaker 1: the Houston Astros are always in the picture. But is
16:51
Speaker 1: it somebody else's year this year? Besides New York's?
16:56
Speaker 2: Uh? Detroit, baby? Can we talk about Detroit? Who's your Tiger?
17:01
Speaker 2: Brandon Inch is my Tiger? Right? I mean, Detroit is
17:05
Speaker 2: where it's at with their young core of kids, with
17:09
Speaker 2: Riley Green and Torkosen having a bounce back year, and
17:12
Speaker 2: then you throw school ball flirty and the way A J.
17:14
Speaker 2: Hinch manages his bullpen Casey Miies having a great season
17:18
Speaker 2: for him, it's Detroit's right now. I'm sorry, I know
17:20
Speaker 2: the Tiger. The Tigers are in the AL Central, and
17:24
Speaker 2: the Yankees have owned the AL Central, But I think
17:26
Speaker 2: this is the year that the Tigers could jump up
17:28
Speaker 2: and bite them and knock them out. Maybe in the
17:31
Speaker 2: LCS if the Yankees get there, because you have to understand,
17:33
Speaker 2: if the Yankees finished where they finish right now, they're
17:35
Speaker 2: a wild card. They got to get through some stuff
17:37
Speaker 2: to get there. Right Houston looks really good again. I mean,
17:40
Speaker 2: they did just sweep your Dodgers there, Alana.
17:44
Speaker 1: That the Dodgers had stop stop stop stop, justin rebless
17:48
Speaker 1: and nothing against those guys, but stop, come.
17:50
Speaker 3: On, try. I'm not saying that.
17:54
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they weren't trying. I'm not saying they
17:56
Speaker 1: weren't trying. But the point is, when the Astros and
17:58
Speaker 1: the Dodgers match up again in the in the World Series,
18:01
Speaker 1: if in fact that does happen, the uh pitching staff,
18:04
Speaker 1: I would hope to God is a lot better and
18:07
Speaker 1: more prepared and healthier than what they have right now.
18:10
Speaker 2: Just make sure they're not telling them what's coming a lot.
18:12
Speaker 2: And that's all I got to say.
18:13
Speaker 4: Man.
18:14
Speaker 2: Apparently apparently the Dodgers are telling them what was coming.
18:18
Speaker 2: Apparently the Dodgers were telling the Astro as well was coming.
18:21
Speaker 1: Guys. This is I've seen a lot of terrible first pitches,
18:24
Speaker 1: but this one I believe probably takes the cake. What
18:28
Speaker 1: do you think about this.
18:29
Speaker 2: Nah, Yeah, it wasn't that bad. I mean, at least
18:34
Speaker 2: Clark got a glove on it knocked it down. But
18:36
Speaker 2: the second one was money right. But I've seen this before.
18:40
Speaker 2: I've seen this before. Bob Costas did this, and see
18:44
Speaker 2: in Saint Louis, he requested me catch his first pitch.
18:47
Speaker 2: He threw it so far outside. I dove for it,
18:49
Speaker 2: couldn't catch it. They were filming commercial. He called back
18:52
Speaker 2: through a perfect strike. So I've seen this actually happen before.
18:56
Speaker 2: And the best part is in Saint Louis, nobody booed.
18:58
Speaker 2: They actually cheered him for it again, not doing.
19:02
Speaker 1: Ovin Kamara didn't do it bad. I guess that bad
19:04
Speaker 1: of a job. I mean, fifty cents was pretty bad.
19:06
Speaker 1: There's been there's there's been some although I will say this,
19:10
Speaker 1: I bet you they practice right then they get out
19:12
Speaker 1: there on the mound, and then I would freak out
19:15
Speaker 1: if I had to throw out a ceremonial first pitch
19:17
Speaker 1: at any ball game. I don't think I could do it.
19:19
Speaker 3: Let's get it. I don't want to.
19:21
Speaker 1: I don't want to do it like that terrifies me.
19:25
Speaker 3: That's why they that's why they screw up. That's why
19:27
Speaker 3: the second one is always better. It's like my golf game.
19:30
Speaker 3: I'll shank the first shot and the next one piped.
19:35
Speaker 2: Yeah, what's a shank?
19:38
Speaker 1: Well, you don't know what I think is.
19:40
Speaker 3: You don't.
19:42
Speaker 2: It's like a cramp to me. I don't have them.
19:44
Speaker 2: You don't have.
19:45
Speaker 1: You've never shanked a shot, You've never sankna.
19:48
Speaker 2: I'm a professional athlete. I can kick the ball and
19:51
Speaker 2: swing and hit it straight I mean not straight, but
19:53
Speaker 2: I don't.
19:55
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19:57
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19:59
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21:03
Speaker 1: All right, guys, This from Dodger insider Max Munsey is
21:06
Speaker 1: saying that we possibly got the best case scenario no
21:08
Speaker 1: structural damage. In their monthsI estimates he'll be out for
21:11
Speaker 1: six weeks, which I figured it was more than a
21:13
Speaker 1: bone bruise. But the good news is, guys, it's not structural.
21:16
Speaker 1: Max Monthly obviously taken one on the knee on a
21:19
Speaker 1: defensive play when somebody slid into him. They need him,
21:22
Speaker 1: I mean, they certainly need his bat, but hopefully nothing broken.
21:25
Speaker 2: Guys. No good news, best case scenario, no legam of damage,
21:30
Speaker 2: no structural damage. Because when I was watching this live
21:33
Speaker 2: but we were texting back and forth, it was like
21:35
Speaker 2: Oh that looked bad for poor Max, So great news
21:37
Speaker 2: for him and hopefully Gibbel soon Max, and hopefully when
21:41
Speaker 2: I think we're talking to him tomorrow. So if we do, Lon,
21:43
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, but we'll pump up the Dodgers for you
21:45
Speaker 2: and ask him about the Astro series.
21:48
Speaker 1: It is okay that you guys interviewed Dodgers. I don't
21:50
Speaker 1: have to be the only one that talks to these guys.
21:52
Speaker 1: But yes, it is confirmed. Max Munsey, a friend of
21:54
Speaker 1: the show here, will be on with us tomorrow. They
21:58
Speaker 1: need him, no, I mean he's a huge cog that lineup.
22:00
Speaker 1: I mean he's a guy that gives you a professional
22:02
Speaker 1: at bats. He's patient. It stinks when when these guys,
22:05
Speaker 1: when anybody goes down, but especially one of your key guys, eric.
22:08
Speaker 2: An all start too again.
22:12
Speaker 4: M hmm.
22:13
Speaker 1: Could have been an All Star.
22:17
Speaker 2: Tough, tough position.
22:20
Speaker 1: What's a tough position? Third base?
22:22
Speaker 2: Third base? Yeah you're not Machado's Machado. I mean that's
22:27
Speaker 2: stuff that's that's to start for sure. But yeah, he
22:30
Speaker 2: could have been, should have been an All Star. But
22:32
Speaker 2: you know what, sometimes you need glasses. Kids, don't be
22:34
Speaker 2: ashamed to wear glasses.
22:35
Speaker 1: Just saying, well, it helped and then it helped Muncie.
22:39
Speaker 1: So that's right, it's helped all of us, all of
22:42
Speaker 1: our all of our readers. I don't even know if
22:44
Speaker 1: a j if you're into readership, Eric, I.
22:47
Speaker 2: Can't read a lot of No.
22:49
Speaker 1: No, no, I actually have to wear readers. Do you
22:51
Speaker 1: have to wear readers like you?
22:53
Speaker 2: I've been wearing contact since I was ten years old.
22:56
Speaker 1: No, I have contacts, but I also have to have readers,
22:58
Speaker 1: all right, much more to talk about.
23:01
Speaker 2: We don't want to scare the children.
23:03
Speaker 1: Oh wow, my god. No, it's it's fine, it's okay. Well,
23:19
Speaker 1: I will maintain, gentlemen, that the next time that the
23:22
Speaker 1: Astros and Dodgers meet up, which would be the World Series,
23:25
Speaker 1: that the Dodgers will have better pictures on the mound
23:30
Speaker 1: than they did this time. However, the Astros absolutely killed
23:34
Speaker 1: the Dodgers over the course of their weekend series at
23:38
Speaker 1: Dodgers Stadium. The Astros of now when nineteen of their
23:40
Speaker 1: last twenty four games, and they took it to my Dodgers.
23:46
Speaker 3: Eric, thoughts, Yeah, thoughts were they were just a hot team.
23:52
Speaker 3: Nobody had, nobody had any trash can issues. Dodgers threw
23:57
Speaker 3: the best players out there, and you know they're just
24:00
Speaker 3: they're just playing rehab games again, you know, show Hayes
24:03
Speaker 3: rehabbing the rest of their starting rotation is just like,
24:07
Speaker 3: we're just gonna get healthy, like they they can. They
24:10
Speaker 3: can lead the National League and wins without even really
24:13
Speaker 3: throwing the best team out there. Are they gonna?
24:16
Speaker 1: Why do you sound starcastic when you say.
24:18
Speaker 3: All this, because we've had quite a bit of chatter
24:23
Speaker 3: about this all day today on and off camera, So
24:27
Speaker 3: my sarcasm level is super high because you are the
24:31
Speaker 3: homer of all homers. But let's be realistic. They did
24:35
Speaker 3: score some of these against the bullpen, which has been
24:39
Speaker 3: a little bit ebb and flow. They have some injuries
24:41
Speaker 3: out there also, But Yamamoto is really the only guy
24:46
Speaker 3: right now that is yes solidified. He's gonna be your
24:49
Speaker 3: game one starter. They still have to figure out how
24:52
Speaker 3: to give him some time off because they're not just
24:54
Speaker 3: gonna blow pass like we talked about with Pepio. They're
24:57
Speaker 3: not just gonna blow past the most innings ever, so
25:00
Speaker 3: they have to figure that out. Listen, Dave Roberts just
25:03
Speaker 3: got his extension. What he has to deal with as
25:05
Speaker 3: far as like, availability of players is a much harder
25:10
Speaker 3: job than what people think, like, oh man, this guy,
25:13
Speaker 3: you know, he just got's the best, the best roster
25:16
Speaker 3: money can buy. He has to figure out how to
25:19
Speaker 3: keep Tanner Scott healthy for the playoffs. He has to
25:23
Speaker 3: figure out how to keep the rest of his bullpen healthy.
25:26
Speaker 3: When you don't have starting pitchers, who are you know,
25:30
Speaker 3: the best starting pitchers. I mean, they have big league
25:32
Speaker 3: starting pitchers, they just don't have their all star starting
25:35
Speaker 3: pitchers like they had no doubt.
25:36
Speaker 1: Houston swept the Dodgers for the first time at Dodger
25:40
Speaker 1: Stadium since two thousand and eight. I mean, Houston was
25:42
Speaker 1: the better team this week. And what's the matter, aj,
25:44
Speaker 1: What's the matter?
25:44
Speaker 2: Gaver your Earsalona? Because Christian Walker is coming up to
25:47
Speaker 2: bat again.
25:48
Speaker 1: So Christian Walker destroyed his entire career. He's destroyed this.
25:55
Speaker 1: I mean, think about how many times that that he
25:57
Speaker 1: came up to the plate with the Diamondbacks against the Dodgers.
25:59
Speaker 1: He crushes them. I would just go like this every
26:01
Speaker 1: time Christian Walker came up.
26:03
Speaker 2: Yes, true, but let me sell you this one thing
26:06
Speaker 2: that Eric did hit on that worries me a little
26:08
Speaker 2: bit about the Dodgers, their bullpen's getting hit. Right, Tanner
26:11
Speaker 2: Scott was unhittable last year, he's been getting hit and
26:15
Speaker 2: he got hit. All these guys that have been that
26:18
Speaker 2: was their strength, right last year bullpen game, they got
26:20
Speaker 2: through their bullpen and they were unbelievable. But these guys, yes,
26:23
Speaker 2: they're tired because they have to pitch five. They have
26:25
Speaker 2: to cover four, five, six innings. That's the difference with
26:28
Speaker 2: the Rays this year. The starters are going longer their bullpens.
26:32
Speaker 2: Rest did excuse me? You can't just have five innings
26:36
Speaker 2: of every game bullpen covers.
26:37
Speaker 1: Doesn't work, agreed thousand percent. So what do you do
26:41
Speaker 1: about that? I mean, do you just you ride this
26:43
Speaker 1: through and hope that you can maintain Do you do
26:45
Speaker 1: you bring in some reinforcements at the deadline? Do you
26:48
Speaker 1: bring Joe Kelly back? Do you bring in Brett Honeywell?
26:50
Speaker 4: Do?
26:50
Speaker 1: I mean? Who do you get? Do you try for
26:52
Speaker 1: some of that?
26:54
Speaker 3: I think that's Dave Roberts, And honestly, it's part of
26:56
Speaker 3: not just Dave Robins, but it's also the medical staff,
26:58
Speaker 3: It's it's pitching coaches. All those guys they have to
27:03
Speaker 3: go to the guys who are going to start and say,
27:07
Speaker 3: you guys are gonna have to wear it because right
27:10
Speaker 3: now their offense keeps them in so many games. When
27:13
Speaker 3: these starting pitchers, you know, you're like, ah, it's a
27:16
Speaker 3: one run game. We want to win this game. Players
27:18
Speaker 3: want to win the games. There's there's nobody, nobody's front office.
27:21
Speaker 3: They want to win the games. I get it. But
27:24
Speaker 3: you're gonna have to force some of these guys. You're
27:27
Speaker 3: gonna have to force Emmitt Sheihan to go more than
27:31
Speaker 3: six in a really good start, five in an average start,
27:34
Speaker 3: four in a below average start. You're gonna have to
27:37
Speaker 3: force them to go more, which is gonna put more
27:41
Speaker 3: pressure on the offense to score more. You're gonna have
27:44
Speaker 3: to go. Ribleski's gonna have to throw more. They have
27:47
Speaker 3: to throw more. And I don't know if they can
27:50
Speaker 3: make that decision as an organization, but they're still in.
27:55
Speaker 3: They have the best record in the National League. I'm
27:57
Speaker 3: not saying you give away games. I'm saying you have
28:01
Speaker 3: to figure out how to not crush your bullpen guys
28:04
Speaker 3: in all of these close games, because this is when
28:07
Speaker 3: it starts to creep up. Usually not pre All Star break.
28:10
Speaker 3: It's usually July twenty to like August fifteenth, when dudes
28:16
Speaker 3: are just cashed and they're like, oh, I can't throw anymore.
28:21
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a bullpen that's banged up. It's a starting
28:24
Speaker 1: rotation that is banged up. And coming into the season,
28:26
Speaker 1: I was like, man, this bullpen is so good with
28:28
Speaker 1: the addition of Kirby Eights and Tanner Scott, we thought that,
28:31
Speaker 1: you know, trying was going to be good. Evan Phillips
28:34
Speaker 1: and they're down a ton of key arms in the bullpen,
28:37
Speaker 1: but nobody gives you length anymore. That's like when you
28:40
Speaker 1: see you know, Trek Scoogle throwing complete games a what
28:45
Speaker 1: is that? And what a Gift's not the way the
28:48
Speaker 1: game goes Dodgers.
28:49
Speaker 2: It's not true though, look at the Rays. The Rays
28:51
Speaker 2: used to do it the Dodger way. Yes, then they
28:53
Speaker 2: got better starting pitching, guys that can stay healthy. Now
28:56
Speaker 2: they lead the league in innings from starters, and their
28:59
Speaker 2: bullpen is better be because of it. It's not I
29:01
Speaker 2: disagree with the way the game is going. The game
29:03
Speaker 2: goes the way your players should let you go. If
29:06
Speaker 2: your starters can go deep into games, and that's the
29:07
Speaker 2: way your team's built, then let them go. But if
29:10
Speaker 2: you don't, I mean Garret Cole used to go seven, eight,
29:12
Speaker 2: nine innings every time before he got hurt. Verlander Schurz
29:14
Speaker 2: are these guys that are great. Kershaw used to go
29:16
Speaker 2: nine innings like every start, Right, So I disagree with
29:19
Speaker 2: that's the way the game goes. The game goes like
29:21
Speaker 2: this because we have people that say, oh, this lever
29:25
Speaker 2: in the sixth inning is better than a starter or
29:27
Speaker 2: third time through? Not necessarily the truth, right, No.
29:31
Speaker 1: That's the thing though. That's what I'm saying, is like
29:32
Speaker 1: the game lends itself to what the analytics are saying
29:35
Speaker 1: versus then just letting your guys go out there and
29:37
Speaker 1: wear it or not even necessarily wear it, but allowing
29:39
Speaker 1: your guys to see the lineup the third time through.
29:43
Speaker 1: It's just a different fundamental. It's a different approach now.
29:45
Speaker 1: It seems like than it was when you guys played.
29:49
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30:17
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30:23
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30:26
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30:28
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30:30
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30:31
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30:49
Speaker 1: This is good news. If you're a Padres fan, you
30:51
Speaker 1: Darvish will return from the IL to face the Diamondbacks
30:53
Speaker 1: tomorrow night. Mike Shilt announced Starvish hasn't pitched yet this
30:56
Speaker 1: season due to write elbow inflammation, so it's his twenty
30:59
Speaker 1: twenty five debut that could line Darbish up to make
31:02
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31:15
Speaker 2: They need help, plain and simple any's starting rotation. Help.
31:19
Speaker 2: They're trying to piece together until some of these guys
31:22
Speaker 2: come back. They're not getting Muscrow back obviously anytime soon.
31:25
Speaker 2: They need Cease to pick it up. But darvishall help.
31:27
Speaker 2: They need help. And their bullpen we mentioned their bullpen
31:30
Speaker 2: was unbelievable the first couple of months. They've started a
31:33
Speaker 2: falter because they've had to cover a lot of innings.
31:35
Speaker 1: And Eric, you mentioned that it's his first day back
31:38
Speaker 1: in six hundred and thirty eight days. I mean, that's
31:40
Speaker 1: a lot to expect from a guy. We can't imagine
31:43
Speaker 1: that this is going to be the savior.
31:44
Speaker 3: Correct not used you's been back. You pitched last year
31:48
Speaker 3: I was talking about somebody else. Sorry, yeah, yeah, I
31:52
Speaker 3: was talking about Big Will. But no, he's not going
31:54
Speaker 3: to be the savior. He's not going to be the savior.
31:56
Speaker 3: But he's going to be somebody that they you don't
32:00
Speaker 3: just pick up. You don't just pick up a you know,
32:03
Speaker 3: a front line starter. So he's not a frontline starter.
32:06
Speaker 3: But can he give you innings? Because their bullpen was
32:10
Speaker 3: legit early, They've hit some bumps in the road, so
32:13
Speaker 3: they need it. Really, they're running after the they're running
32:16
Speaker 3: after a wildcard right now, So how can they get
32:19
Speaker 3: a firm lead in the wild card because I don't think,
32:22
Speaker 3: you know, seven games back of the Dodgers's gonna be
32:25
Speaker 3: tough to catch him, especially since the Dodger just lost
32:28
Speaker 3: three in a row, so it's not like they're gonna
32:31
Speaker 3: run another three in a row.
32:32
Speaker 2: Off Again, let me.
32:33
Speaker 1: Ask you this. You mentioned Brandon Woodruff. He's back now
32:36
Speaker 1: for the first time in six hundred and thirty eight days.
32:38
Speaker 1: That is great for the Brewers.
32:40
Speaker 3: He looked good, Eric, really good, and he even said
32:43
Speaker 3: in his postgame interview. One, I'm super proud of him.
32:46
Speaker 3: Two he said in his postgame interview, he's like One
32:48
Speaker 3: of the best things that happened to him was he
32:50
Speaker 3: had he had sprained his ankle. During that rehab process,
32:53
Speaker 3: he got hit in the elbow, so it allowed him
32:55
Speaker 3: to actually get all the way back to where he
32:58
Speaker 3: wanted to be and he went out and dominated on
33:01
Speaker 3: a big league mount. That is a huge pickup for
33:03
Speaker 3: the Brewers, who I think, because they're a lot closer,
33:07
Speaker 3: do have a shot to catch the cups and adding
33:09
Speaker 3: another bullpen piece. They sent Chad Patrick down. I know
33:12
Speaker 3: it's near the All Star break, so it falls that
33:14
Speaker 3: they won't need another guy. That guy was Rookie of
33:17
Speaker 3: the Year candidate and they got a They got big
33:21
Speaker 3: Woo to fit into that spot. This star rotation just
33:24
Speaker 3: has turned into something that has been is going to
33:27
Speaker 3: be a huge strength going forward.
33:30
Speaker 1: All Right, So every year we're talking, you know, All
33:32
Speaker 1: Star Game snubs and somebody should have made the team
33:35
Speaker 1: that didn't. What do you guys think, Eric will start
33:39
Speaker 1: with you, is there anybody that really stands out to
33:41
Speaker 1: you that you wish would have made And they may
33:43
Speaker 1: still because of injuries and those types of things and
33:45
Speaker 1: schedules and stuff, but is there somebody that you would
33:47
Speaker 1: like to see in Atlanta.
33:49
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a lot of guys I'd like to see,
33:51
Speaker 3: but there's one guy that deserves it. I think it
33:54
Speaker 3: was like since nineteen thirty six, no player that was
33:57
Speaker 3: leading the league in RBIs didn't make the All Star team.
34:02
Speaker 3: Sayas Suzuki not being on the All Star team is
34:05
Speaker 3: a travesty. It's not like he wasn't good last year.
34:07
Speaker 3: He had like an eight, like an eight thirty six
34:10
Speaker 3: or eight forty six ops, something like that, and he
34:13
Speaker 3: just continued it. He has been They're one of their
34:16
Speaker 3: most consistent hitters. I get it, Kyle Tucker. You know,
34:19
Speaker 3: he's the aircraft carrier all that stuff. But he's been
34:21
Speaker 3: one of the most consistent hitters throughout the entire season.
34:27
Speaker 3: And he gets snubbed. He gets snubbed, And in an
34:30
Speaker 3: interview before the game yesterday, PCA said, this guy maybe
34:34
Speaker 3: one of the most sneaky athletes that people don't know about.
34:38
Speaker 3: Clearly other players don't know about him because the players
34:41
Speaker 3: missed on this one. Sayas Azuki should be an All Star.
34:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I do agree with you there. I
34:46
Speaker 1: mean Kay Jennings or Chad Jennings rather than the athletic
34:49
Speaker 1: it's notable snubs in his opinion Tree turner Raphael Devers,
34:52
Speaker 1: which I don't know about Dovers one Soto among notable misses. Yeah,
34:56
Speaker 1: Saya Suzuki deserves it. But this just goes to show
34:59
Speaker 1: you though, it's so much more about voting, is it not.
35:02
Speaker 1: I mean John Hayman with the tweet Julio Rodriguez made
35:05
Speaker 1: the All Star team over George Springer and Joe Adell.
35:09
Speaker 1: As usual, fans do a better job voting than the
35:11
Speaker 1: players do, so I mean that's part of it, right,
35:14
Speaker 1: you got to vote for them. But yeah, I mean
35:15
Speaker 1: the baby Dave Roberts puts sayas a Zuki on there
35:18
Speaker 1: somehow if there's if there's an injury.
35:21
Speaker 2: Listen, Michael Busch to me is a big one too.
35:22
Speaker 2: He's got a nine fifty ops too, So Michael Busch
35:26
Speaker 2: deserves It's tough. I mean, the Cubs have a lot
35:28
Speaker 2: of guys that are having great years, So Michael Busch
35:30
Speaker 2: to me is the big one on that list. Narvaias
35:33
Speaker 2: and I mean, listen, I get why the guys who
35:35
Speaker 2: made it in the American League made it. You're not
35:37
Speaker 2: taking cal Rawley off that team for sure. So and
35:40
Speaker 2: then from there, and so I mean, to me, Michael
35:43
Speaker 2: Busch is the most obvious one. But then who do
35:44
Speaker 2: you take off? Because I know Alta is going to
35:47
Speaker 2: say Andy PaaS should be on the team. But also
35:49
Speaker 2: I think the Mariners Rosarina should have got the nod
35:51
Speaker 2: over Julio Rodriguez. Julio Rodriguez is ops is in the
35:56
Speaker 2: like one hundred and seventeenth or something like that, you know,
35:58
Speaker 2: all of baseball, and he made the All thir team. Listen,
36:01
Speaker 2: Julio Rodriguez is a great player, but he shouldn't have
36:04
Speaker 2: made it this year. He's having a bad first half.
36:05
Speaker 2: So there's you can always do this now, Listen. Pitching
36:09
Speaker 2: is the one thing where you can always make changes
36:10
Speaker 2: because Chris Sales already on the team, So like a
36:13
Speaker 2: from ber Valdez and and some other guys that need
36:16
Speaker 2: to be there, we'll get on it because of guys
36:18
Speaker 2: pitching on Sunday. But to me, you're gonna look at
36:20
Speaker 2: the position players and to me, the biggest numb other
36:22
Speaker 2: than Suzuki, has got to be Michael Bush.
36:25
Speaker 3: People are gonna bring up one soda and be like, well,
36:27
Speaker 3: hy can you not bringing one soda? How do the
36:29
Speaker 3: players not vote a j can tell you they send
36:33
Speaker 3: out this paper that and they still do it by paper.
36:36
Speaker 3: I asked somebody last year unless they changed it and
36:38
Speaker 3: now they do it digitally. They send it out early.
36:42
Speaker 3: So before Wan Wan ended up winning, Wan Soda ended
36:45
Speaker 3: up winning the Player of the Month for the month
36:47
Speaker 3: of June. Michael Bush could have won it for the
36:50
Speaker 3: month of June, but Wan Soda had like eleven dingers
36:53
Speaker 3: and just tore it up before all of that happened.
36:58
Speaker 3: Those votes, some of those vot're already in. It's not
37:01
Speaker 3: like they're voting the day before. They vote weeks before,
37:05
Speaker 3: and so that's why you see sometimes some guys having
37:08
Speaker 3: a hot May hot April and players are like, oh yeah,
37:12
Speaker 3: I've seen him. It's just like what's on the top
37:14
Speaker 3: of your mind. So that's why the players miss Sometimes.
37:18
Speaker 3: Also the players sometimes just like, hey, who'd you pick?
37:22
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I'll take that, or here you fill this out.
37:25
Speaker 3: Sometimes the travel the head of travel fills it out
37:31
Speaker 3: for some guys. So it's not the best, but normally
37:34
Speaker 3: they don't miss it by that much. Wan should be
37:37
Speaker 3: in now, I mean what he's done, but he didn't
37:40
Speaker 3: have it when in my opinion when guys were voting,
37:44
Speaker 3: And that also.
37:47
Speaker 1: Begs to question two. When the when the ballots come out,
37:50
Speaker 1: it's whoever was the starter in that position at the
37:53
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, right, So even if that guy's
37:55
Speaker 1: like on the il or it's been terrible, Like if
37:59
Speaker 1: let's just say, if you know, Francisco Indoor is the
38:02
Speaker 1: starting shortstop for the Mets, but then he missed half
38:04
Speaker 1: of the year on on the you know, the injured list,
38:06
Speaker 1: He's still the guy on the ballot that fans are
38:08
Speaker 1: voting for. It's not like they change it based on
38:11
Speaker 1: who's active at the time. So it's not the most
38:13
Speaker 1: perfect system. It's a flawed system. But you know, the
38:16
Speaker 1: managers that have the pool will get you know, the
38:19
Speaker 1: Michael Bushes and the says Zookies of the world on
38:22
Speaker 1: on the roster if there is injury or or whatever.
38:25
Speaker 1: Because it's not it's not it's not a perfect system.
38:27
Speaker 1: What do you think about Clayton being selected as the
38:31
Speaker 1: you know, the legend pick by All Star you know, really,
38:35
Speaker 1: Commissioner Rob Manfred.
38:37
Speaker 2: It's a right call. It's a right call. Good for him.
38:39
Speaker 2: He has this ability doesn't affect anything. I don't even know.
38:42
Speaker 2: If Clayton will get to pitch, he'll get to bring
38:44
Speaker 2: his kids to at least one more All Star game.
38:46
Speaker 2: They'll get to experience it. I'm sure he'll live it up.
38:49
Speaker 2: Hopefully he keeps his shirt on we Love You Clayton
38:52
Speaker 2: shirt on with that Dad bought. But yeah, I mean,
38:56
Speaker 2: it's a right call on three thousand strikeouts, all the
38:58
Speaker 2: stuff Clayton Kershaw's done right in this game. It was
39:01
Speaker 2: the right pick. This is one thing where I will say,
39:03
Speaker 2: good job Rob Manfred.
39:05
Speaker 1: Yeah, only twenty players have ever hit the three thousand
39:08
Speaker 1: strikeout mark. Only three active guys, right, Verlander, Max Scherzer,
39:11
Speaker 1: and Clayton Kershaw. Now, so congratulations Tim, you said, dad
39:14
Speaker 1: bod they're having another kid. That's going to be their
39:16
Speaker 1: fifth kid. AJ so talk about bringing the kids to
39:19
Speaker 1: the yard that he has four with the fifth on
39:21
Speaker 1: the way. Finally another girl. Since the start of the show,
39:37
Speaker 1: we do have an official now from the Washington Nationals.
39:39
Speaker 1: Gentleman Miguel Cairo has been named with the club's interim manager.
39:43
Speaker 1: If you're just joining us here on foul Territory, the
39:45
Speaker 1: Washington Nationals last night decided to fire both Mike Rizzo
39:50
Speaker 1: as well as their manager Davey Martinez. It looks like
39:53
Speaker 1: Miguel Cairo, at least for the interim, is going to
39:56
Speaker 1: be the manager for the Nats. I mean, no big surprise,
40:00
Speaker 1: I guess, Eric, But again, what remains to be seen
40:03
Speaker 1: and very brought it up. Where where do they go
40:07
Speaker 1: from here? I guess.
40:09
Speaker 3: It's more than just the manager, more than just the GM.
40:12
Speaker 3: Where do they go? They got to keep making decisions.
40:15
Speaker 3: If you're talking about just this year, Miguel Cairo has
40:19
Speaker 3: been on the bench, So what is the change that
40:21
Speaker 3: he's going to make in the sense of change of
40:25
Speaker 3: you know, conversations that are being had because he has
40:28
Speaker 3: the year of the players as the bench coach. You're
40:31
Speaker 3: you're there, you see it at day in and day out,
40:34
Speaker 3: and you see the deficiencies. Does he choose to call
40:36
Speaker 3: those deficiencies out? If he does, the players might be like,
40:41
Speaker 3: we don't want you back, or hey, I love somebody
40:43
Speaker 3: keeps me accountable. So that's that's what mcgge's That's what
40:47
Speaker 3: Meggie's choice has to be. Where does he take this
40:49
Speaker 3: team from here?
40:52
Speaker 1: But aj is it the same kind of voice. I mean,
40:54
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's been through all of it.
40:56
Speaker 1: I mean, what else could he possibly say that hasn't
40:59
Speaker 1: been said before? I mean, wasn't he following Davy's lead.
41:02
Speaker 2: Yeah, he'll have something different to say. It's a different person,
41:05
Speaker 2: so it's a different voice, and maybe he says the
41:07
Speaker 2: same thing. He just says it in a different way
41:08
Speaker 2: and people respond to it differently. I mean, yeah, it's different.
41:12
Speaker 2: But is Miguel Cairo. He's auditioning for this job, maybe
41:15
Speaker 2: long term depending on what they do it the GM position,
41:18
Speaker 2: So he's going to do everything in his power to
41:20
Speaker 2: try to win games and try not that Davey Martinez wasn't.
41:23
Speaker 2: But if he wants this game long term or this
41:25
Speaker 2: job long term, he's gonna have to win games. So
41:27
Speaker 2: maybe he says the same thing. He just says a
41:29
Speaker 2: little bit differently. He's been in this position before, he's
41:31
Speaker 2: managed teams before, so it's not his first time. We'll
41:34
Speaker 2: see how it goes.
41:36
Speaker 1: When you were in a situation like this, guys, if
41:38
Speaker 1: a manager got, you know, fired mid season or at
41:40
Speaker 1: any point in the season, what are you looking for
41:44
Speaker 1: for the new guy coming in?
41:45
Speaker 2: Eric?
41:46
Speaker 1: What do you what do you hope to see? Man?
41:50
Speaker 3: Just that he doesn't try to be a hero when
41:52
Speaker 3: he comes in as a manager. I've never seen it
41:55
Speaker 3: where a manager comes in and like, guys, this is
41:58
Speaker 3: what we're gonna do, and this is how it's gonna happened,
42:00
Speaker 3: and it go well. You see guys come in and
42:04
Speaker 3: they assimilate very well to the clubhouse, they have connections.
42:08
Speaker 2: And I think it's on the.
42:10
Speaker 3: Players too, because the players are kind of embarrassed. Their
42:13
Speaker 3: manager got fired because they weren't playing well. That's the
42:17
Speaker 3: reality of it. Like, no, I've never been on a
42:20
Speaker 3: team where a manager got fired because he was making
42:23
Speaker 3: bad moves. I've been on teams where managers should have
42:26
Speaker 3: gotten fired because they were making bad moves, but they didn't.
42:29
Speaker 3: They just got fired because the team wasn't winning. And
42:32
Speaker 3: so as a player, you're like, look, I'm already embarrassed
42:34
Speaker 3: because we're not doing well as a team. Don't come
42:37
Speaker 3: in here and be like, all right, guys, we're gonna
42:40
Speaker 3: hustle even harder than we did before. Like no, that's not,
42:43
Speaker 3: that's not how it works. It's not you're not giving
42:45
Speaker 3: raw ross speeches. So just assimilate into the clubhouse. As
42:49
Speaker 3: a bench coach, you're shifting over another chair to the left,
42:53
Speaker 3: and you know what you can You can handle this
42:56
Speaker 3: the same way you were a bench coach. Look at
42:58
Speaker 3: how Pat Murphy did it.
43:00
Speaker 4: Yeah, no doubt.
43:01
Speaker 1: What about you. A new guy comes in, a new voice,
43:03
Speaker 1: what do you anticipate.
43:05
Speaker 2: It only happened to me one time. It was Snicker.
43:07
Speaker 2: Brian Snicker came in. I didn't know what to expect
43:10
Speaker 2: because I didn't know Brian Snicker at all. So it
43:13
Speaker 2: was kind of what Krat said. You're just embarrassed out.
43:14
Speaker 2: We weren't playing very well, the team stunk. You just
43:17
Speaker 2: wanted it to You felt bad for the guy who
43:20
Speaker 2: was just let go because it's basically on the players.
43:22
Speaker 2: The manager is not making the moves, he's putting the
43:24
Speaker 2: players out there, and the players are not playing very well.
43:27
Speaker 2: So you just want the manager to come in seamlessly
43:30
Speaker 2: and like Krat said, not try to be a hero.
43:33
Speaker 2: Just keep things rolling and just try to make small improvements,
43:37
Speaker 2: whether it's saying something different to this guy or saying
43:39
Speaker 2: something different to that guy and making them maybe feel
43:42
Speaker 2: just a little bit better about themselves. I don't know
43:44
Speaker 2: that it makes that big of a difference in the
43:46
Speaker 2: middle of a year especially on a team like the Nationals,
43:49
Speaker 2: is not going to compete anyway. So good luck, my Gokaira.
43:51
Speaker 2: That's all I can say. You want this job, you
43:53
Speaker 2: got this job. Here's your chance to go earn it
43:55
Speaker 2: for the long term.
43:56
Speaker 1: Yeah, no doubt. Make the most of the opportunity that
43:58
Speaker 1: he has been given and seemingly earned. Aj obviously has
44:01
Speaker 1: a foul territory hat on. But Eric, there was some
44:05
Speaker 1: speculation as we now go into Kratz's hats Kratz hats,
44:08
Speaker 1: there's some speculation as to what was on your lid?
44:11
Speaker 1: What do you got for us today?
44:14
Speaker 4: Do you know that is?
44:15
Speaker 3: Alana?
44:17
Speaker 1: I don't it looks like an Oreo cookie.
44:20
Speaker 3: It's a whoopie pie. Oh okay, And supposedly Maine. I'm
44:26
Speaker 3: up here in New England, so I figured how to
44:27
Speaker 3: wear something New England. So supposedly Maine is the place
44:33
Speaker 3: where whoopie pies were invented. And I love a good
44:35
Speaker 3: whoopie pie. So this was Portland's Portland's alternate hat double
44:40
Speaker 3: a for the Red Sox.
44:42
Speaker 1: I like you should do like the Portland Sea Dogs.
44:44
Speaker 1: They have a good one too. They have a cool hat. Yeah,
44:47
Speaker 1: there were people speculating it was an o's hat. But
44:49
Speaker 1: it's not. It's a it's a whoopie pie, okay, And
44:52
Speaker 1: there you have it.
44:52
Speaker 3: Okay.
44:53
Speaker 1: So how about some games that we're looking forward to
44:55
Speaker 1: watching coming up, guys, Tampa Bay Rays at Detroit Tigers.
44:59
Speaker 1: That's a good one. They don't have to face Schooble,
45:01
Speaker 1: so that's nice. And then the Dodgers and the Brewers,
45:04
Speaker 1: Dodgers looking to get back on track, Guardians and Astros,
45:07
Speaker 1: Billies and Giants. What are you guys looking most forward
45:09
Speaker 1: to watch?
45:11
Speaker 2: No, I'm going Dodgers Brewers of course. Why Freddy pre guy,
45:15
Speaker 2: Freddy p is pitching against Yamamoto. Dodgers just got smacked
45:19
Speaker 2: by the Astros. They need to win. Oh yeah, by
45:21
Speaker 2: the way, they got to go to Milwaukee and face
45:23
Speaker 2: Freddy Parrault. Not an easy place to win. And Freddy
45:25
Speaker 2: pearlt is having a great year. If you haven't seen
45:27
Speaker 2: his numbers, look him up. Kids under A three, R,
45:30
Speaker 2: nine and four. So it's gonna be interesting to see
45:33
Speaker 2: how they you know, they fly across country kind of
45:36
Speaker 2: to Milwaukee, you know, not the atmosphere. The Dodgers are
45:39
Speaker 2: used to the sun. The weird roof all that, let's
45:42
Speaker 2: see how they handle the adversity.
45:44
Speaker 1: Freddy Parolta lock and in quality starts at home. Milwaukee
45:47
Speaker 1: is seven and one guys with him as the starter.
45:50
Speaker 1: To AJ's point, he's had a really good year. Eric Kratz,
45:53
Speaker 1: is there any particular game or series upcoming that you're
45:56
Speaker 1: looking forward to?
45:58
Speaker 3: It feels like some prove it series, Like some prove it,
46:01
Speaker 3: like are the Giants going to show up and beat
46:05
Speaker 3: the Phillies. They're at home, it's you know, it's their
46:08
Speaker 3: home turf opportunity. The team flew across the country to
46:12
Speaker 3: play like it feels like a series that the Giants
46:14
Speaker 3: should be able to take. But to me, to prove
46:16
Speaker 3: it is the Diamondbacks. They're not counted out yet, but
46:21
Speaker 3: they're playing a team in their division in the Padres.
46:24
Speaker 3: The Padres are getting you back, They're getting you know,
46:28
Speaker 3: they still have a really good lineup. But the opportunity
46:32
Speaker 3: for the Diamondbacks to play in the division not just
46:36
Speaker 3: make up games, but actually prove that they can score
46:40
Speaker 3: more runs than the other team or let the other
46:43
Speaker 3: team not score as many runs because they're pitching has
46:45
Speaker 3: to start showing up. So to me, anytime the Padres
46:48
Speaker 3: are playing, I want to watch them. So it's a
46:50
Speaker 3: Diamondbacks Padres series.
46:52
Speaker 1: And Eric, how much of this could be another audition
46:55
Speaker 1: for Zach Gallan. I mean, he's had a really up
46:57
Speaker 1: and down season. I mean, is he a trade piece?
46:59
Speaker 1: I know that you said that the Diamondbacks aren't out
47:02
Speaker 1: of it completely yet, but I mean, this is a
47:04
Speaker 1: guy I think that is better than his number state.
47:08
Speaker 1: But you know, he's six to nine with the five
47:10
Speaker 1: to four era, a five four five era going up
47:13
Speaker 1: against Starbus today, who's making a season debut?
47:16
Speaker 3: I mean, is he is he or is he pressing
47:21
Speaker 3: because it's a free agent year. I don't know. I
47:23
Speaker 3: don't think he's thrown enough pitches in the strike zone,
47:26
Speaker 3: and when he does throw in the strike zone, he's
47:28
Speaker 3: down in the count two zero, two, one three one.
47:31
Speaker 3: So to me, yeah, it's another proven game, but I
47:33
Speaker 3: think it's approven for the Diamondbacks. Look, you win a
47:36
Speaker 3: series against a rival opponent going into the All Star Break,
47:40
Speaker 3: it's huge because now all of a sudden, you're a
47:42
Speaker 3: couple games over five hundred. Maybe you're not gonna sell.
47:46
Speaker 3: Maybe Gallon's not gonna go anywhere. They lose Gallon's Gallon
47:50
Speaker 3: like tonight, if he if he has another man outing,
47:53
Speaker 3: his value goes down and the team's opportunity to sell somebody.
47:57
Speaker 3: So it's like, yeah, you win, maybe you don't sell them,
48:01
Speaker 3: you lose. Now he's not doing as well, so he's
48:04
Speaker 3: not as valuable. It's it's a tough spot that they're in.
48:07
Speaker 3: Mike Hayson's gonna make his money this this this trade deadline.
48:11
Speaker 1: AJ do we care about Rangers and Angels? I know,
48:14
Speaker 1: I mean those teams don't look great, but it's a
48:16
Speaker 1: decent pitching matchup. You have Jacob de garm going for
48:18
Speaker 1: the Rangers. You also have you say, Kakuchi going for
48:21
Speaker 1: the Angels. He's got some all star credentials. I mean,
48:23
Speaker 1: are we paying attention to that one at all?
48:25
Speaker 2: I am, because I have it's part of my locks.
48:28
Speaker 1: Well, sure, let's your Jacob de gram on the strikeouts over.
48:31
Speaker 1: I get that.
48:32
Speaker 3: Just no, I am.
48:33
Speaker 2: Because the Rangers have been a confusing team. The Angels
48:35
Speaker 2: have been better than I think when everyone thought they
48:37
Speaker 2: would be. But the Rangers have been a confusing team
48:39
Speaker 2: or the enit or the out of it. What are
48:40
Speaker 2: they going to do? Much like the Diamondbacks. So they
48:42
Speaker 2: is Christian I'm going to make trades? Is he going
48:44
Speaker 2: to keep guys? And to Grom's having a great, great year,
48:47
Speaker 2: So he's always fun with Jacob g Graam takes them out,
48:51
Speaker 2: no doubt.
48:51
Speaker 1: When he's healthy, it's been He's one of the most
48:53
Speaker 1: fun pitchers to watch. Yeah, that one at Angels Stadium tonight,
48:57
Speaker 1: the gram nine and two guys with the two to
48:59
Speaker 1: one three you say Kakuchi three and six with an
49:03
Speaker 1: Eri also south of three, he's at two point eight one.
49:06
Speaker 1: All right, So Eric already talked about Diamondbacks and the Pottery's.
49:09
Speaker 1: We've discussed Phillies in San Francisco, Cleveland and the Astros.
49:13
Speaker 1: The Astros, my god, every year it's like, well, they
49:15
Speaker 1: don't have this guy. They don't have this guy. They
49:17
Speaker 1: lost Brugman, they lost Tucker, and here they are at
49:20
Speaker 1: the top of the division again. They got Tanner Biby
49:22
Speaker 1: going up against Colton Gordon tonight. In that game. What
49:24
Speaker 1: are we watching for, Eric.
49:26
Speaker 3: I mean two of the I guess of the Blue
49:28
Speaker 3: Jays played the Guardians. There would be the two of
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Speaker 3: the most polar opposite Guardians lost ten straight. Yeah, like
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Speaker 3: the Astros just came off of beating Alana's Dodgers. To me,
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Speaker 3: I'm not really watching it. I think it's gonna be
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Speaker 3: the Astros. The Guardians are not scoring. They thought they
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Speaker 3: were gonna win yesterday against Scooball because they scored a run.
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Speaker 3: And then it was this bullpen that was otherworldly last year,
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Speaker 3: and they up some runs, but it didn't matter even
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Speaker 3: if they gave up one run. I think Smith came
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Speaker 3: out in case. Smith came in and it was like
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Speaker 3: he gave up ended up giving up like four or five,
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Speaker 3: but he gives up one and it's a two to
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Speaker 3: one game. They're not hitting. Where did their hitting go
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Speaker 3: from last year? I know they were bullpen heavy last year,
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Speaker 3: but they have to hit and they have to figure
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Speaker 3: out how to develop their hitting because they bought Carlos
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Speaker 3: Santana this year and he looks like somebody that's gonna
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Speaker 3: be traded at the trade deadline.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with you. The Guardians did so well
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Speaker 1: last year. Steven Vote obviously was an the American League
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Speaker 1: Manager of the Year last year, and this has been
50:40
Speaker 1: a team that certainly struggled. Guys, don't forget after today's
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50:48
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50:52
Speaker 1: on May Day. But before we say goodbye, we're running
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Speaker 1: out of time here, a G. I definitely want you
50:56
Speaker 1: to be able to talk about Bobby Jenks. I know
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Speaker 1: he's a good friend of yours. He was obviously a
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Speaker 1: huge piece to that two thousand and five World Series
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Speaker 1: team with the Chicago White Socks. Unfortunately passed away far
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Speaker 1: too young. But please go ahead and talk about him.
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Speaker 2: Well, you know, this weekend was tough for White Sox family,
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Speaker 2: losing Bobby a battle that we kind of knew was coming.
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Speaker 2: He was diagnosed with stage four stomach cancer, passed away,
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Speaker 2: and yesterday was his twentieth reunion of him making his
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Speaker 2: major league debut. So just an awful, awful thing. Cancer sucks.
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Speaker 2: F cancer, and Bobby, we miss you, we love you.
51:36
Speaker 2: It's not gonna be the same. We have our twenty
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Speaker 2: year reunion this year, this weekend in Chicago, It's not
51:42
Speaker 2: going to be the same without you there, seeing your family,
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Speaker 2: and and you know, just the whole that's in our
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Speaker 2: hearts and the whole that will be there by Bobby's
51:51
Speaker 2: presence not being there. This kid was He was a
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Speaker 2: gigantic kid, but he was like a ten year old
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Speaker 2: in his heart and he was fine, always pulling pranks,
51:58
Speaker 2: and he really grew up, fought some demons, grew up
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Speaker 2: and became a better man because of it was managing
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Speaker 2: independent league and if you talk to people there, they
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Speaker 2: say what a great manager he was because of his
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Speaker 2: love of the game and how much he learned to
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Speaker 2: treat people the right way and pass on his knowledge
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Speaker 2: of baseball. So Bobby, we love you, we miss you.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing I can say that'll make up for your
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Speaker 2: loss to his family, but just know that we're praying
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Speaker 2: for you, and all the White Sox fans are behind
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Speaker 2: you and we'll see you down the road. Brother.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Bobby James gone way too soon at the young
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Speaker 1: age of forty four. Huge piece. As I mentioned to
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Speaker 1: that two thousand and five World Series Championship team. Appreciate
52:37
Speaker 1: the thoughts and the words, a j. I know it's
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Speaker 1: very difficult for you, certainly difficult for White Sox Nation. Guys.
52:43
Speaker 1: It's been a pleasure of being on the show with
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