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Slow starts from Raleigh, Tatis, Bo & others. Who will turn it around soon? Mets call up A.J. Ewing, CBA talks "starting" · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Tuesday.
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  Speaker 3: Those ratings are through the roof and then sex. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: Now?
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  Speaker 5: It's official. We've been working on that one.
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  Speaker 3: The show exists already, it's just now part of the
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Okay, Brady Farcas, host of Refused to Lose Territory
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  Speaker 3: part of the FT Network. It is a Mariners show.
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  Speaker 3: He's been doing it for about two years. He's going
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  Speaker 3: to do more. He's going to join us later on FT.
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  Speaker 3: Do you remember Refuse to Lose?
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  Speaker 1: That was she wasn't now Back in the two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and one when they won one hundred and sixteen games.
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  Speaker 3: Further back, I think they used it a little bit
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  Speaker 3: in O one, but nineteen ninety five, Oh, they were
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  Speaker 3: down thirteen games in August.
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  Speaker 1: I remember them back, Yes, the one game playoff, and
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  Speaker 1: were the Indians, and no, no, they were the Indians.
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  Speaker 3: Back they were down two oho in that Alds to
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  Speaker 3: the Yanks.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, A Rod was on deck and they chose to
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  Speaker 2: throw to Edgar Martinez. A Rod, nineteen year old a Rod.
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  Speaker 2: I think our eighteen year old A Rod was on deck.
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  Speaker 3: When you google that term, it runs through some of
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  Speaker 3: what I'm listing, and then it even has the footnote
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  Speaker 3: in there. Still used in fan media today, such as
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  Speaker 3: you refuse to lose show a Mariner's podcast, refuse to
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  Speaker 3: lose territory?
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  Speaker 5: Cool? All right, there you go.
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  Speaker 3: We're gonna talk to Brady later. He's really good. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: I've been listening. Okay, this one's for all the haters
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  Speaker 3: out there. We're going to charge the mound with a
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  Speaker 3: special theme.
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  Speaker 5: Ut Slow Starts is the theme.
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  Speaker 3: Don't you feel like it's to go over some guys
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  Speaker 3: who have not been performing? Well, It's not like it's
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  Speaker 3: been two three weeks. Yeah, has it been enough time
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  Speaker 3: to say, hey, what's going on here?
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  Speaker 1: I think so?
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  Speaker 5: Is there someone that comes to mind for you?
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  Speaker 3: Or would you rather me list out some players that
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  Speaker 3: are a little bit slow? I would like to start
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  Speaker 3: with do you have one? Or do you want me
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  Speaker 3: to start?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I think Boba Shitt comes to mind. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: just because I just saw him.
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  Speaker 5: Tell me though, like, what is going on?
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  Speaker 1: He just looks uncomfortable. It's a new team, it's his
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  Speaker 1: first time switching teams. He looks uncomfortable. He doesn't look
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  Speaker 1: like the normal Boba Shit that we've seen. He was
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  Speaker 1: chasing more than he has in the past, didn't really
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  Speaker 1: have the power that he had. His bat speeds down.
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  Speaker 1: He just looks like he's pressing. That's That's the one
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  Speaker 1: to me that stands out off the top of my head.
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  Speaker 5: Man, if he was in a better spot.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if the Mets would being that much
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  Speaker 3: better of a spot, but yeah, sound for big money.
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  Speaker 1: Can also put it all on him.
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  Speaker 3: No, he's making over forty million dollars a year. If
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  Speaker 3: the length of the contract plays out on a three
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  Speaker 3: year deal, you might opt out, they might trade him.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows. We'll get to that later. Uh, can I
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  Speaker 3: throw one your way? Actually, I'm gonna give you an option, Kratz,
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  Speaker 3: Would you like to talk about either Fernando tatis juniors
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  Speaker 3: zero homers or Kyle Raley's super slow start compared to
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  Speaker 3: last year?
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  Speaker 2: I feel like they're a little bit less stories than Like,
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  Speaker 2: I feel like those two starts, Like Cayle Rally's never
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  Speaker 2: been a major average guy, he's got seven dingers. Fernando Tatis,
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  Speaker 2: Come on, let's let's call spade a spade.
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  Speaker 1: All right? Can can we say it out loud? Forvo Tatis?
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  Speaker 2: And power has been down ever since he's got caught
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  Speaker 2: doing steroids, Like I don't know, is it zero power?
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  Speaker 2: Is it zero home runs power?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: But it's completely down and it's been down since. Like
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  Speaker 2: I think everybody thinks he's gonna ge back to is
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  Speaker 2: like nine seventy ops, Like, I think those years are
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  Speaker 2: behind him, Like he's a right fielder that's platinum glove
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  Speaker 2: defense and zero power. Like his ex velocity is still there,
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  Speaker 2: his launch angle isn't, so I mean slow starts or
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  Speaker 2: just maybe we're getting closer to what he's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: Like I think now if Tatis has a twenty home
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  Speaker 2: run season, like I would be like, WHOA, Okay, So.
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  Speaker 3: He hit forty two homers in twenty twenty one, that's
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  Speaker 3: what you're referring to. Then he's hurt and had the
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  Speaker 3: PD suspension and was out for twenty twenty two. Ever
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  Speaker 3: since then, I mean, Kratz a spot on. I thought
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  Speaker 3: it would be more if you asked me, like, what
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  Speaker 3: has he hit since then? I thought maybe he got
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  Speaker 3: the thirty. He hasn't gotten his high since since twenty five.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, so yes.
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  Speaker 3: He hasn't had a homer, but he's more like a
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  Speaker 3: twenty homer bat.
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  Speaker 5: Yep, so he hits a few a month, he'll get close.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, krats nail. There's nothing else to say
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  Speaker 1: about this. I mean that ringworm is a bitch.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, he's an incredible outfielder, but he got paid he
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  Speaker 3: did get paid. He got paid one sixty six ops
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  Speaker 3: plus and twenty twenty one. Since then, the high is
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  Speaker 3: one thirty, which is still all Star caliber. But you
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  Speaker 3: know other seasons one ten, twenty twenty three, one twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: and twenty twenty five, like, yeah, you what do you?
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  Speaker 1: What do you do? Last year?
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  Speaker 3: Last year he was a one twenty six ops plus,
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  Speaker 3: eight fourteen ops, twenty five homers in a full season
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  Speaker 3: one fifty five games, two sixty eight batting, three sixty
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  Speaker 3: eight on base four forty six, slugging.
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  Speaker 5: He's slugging two ninety two.
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  Speaker 1: I mean well, I mean, you know, everyone keeps saying
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  Speaker 1: he's hitting the ball hard, but he can't pull it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: he might be hitting the ball hard, but he's it's
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  Speaker 1: because you know, the crats, when you're when you're dragging
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  Speaker 1: and you feel like you have to generate more, you
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  Speaker 1: swing more outside instead of keeping it short, because when
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to generate bat speed, so that which would
• 7:01
  Speaker 1: lead to a lot more rollovers instead of like trusting
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  Speaker 1: that you can get there on your own with what
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  Speaker 1: you have. So there's a big part of it.
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  Speaker 3: For shouting out seat geek, right now, you know the code.
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  Speaker 3: It's still there for you. You should use it. It's
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  Speaker 3: getting a little warmer out if you've been hibernating territory
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  Speaker 3: ten on se geek. Anything catching anyone's eye this evening,
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  Speaker 3: I've got one.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Skeens Paul Schemes against the Rockies.
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  Speaker 5: And Pas Night no hit or alert, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Momoto's pitching its giants. Dodgers need to win. There's not
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good like Matt, there's a lot of
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  Speaker 1: good pictures.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hmm. I agree.
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  Speaker 6: Braves a Cubs, right, that's that's a good one. And
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  Speaker 6: it's in Atlanta. But yes, and it's Colin Ray against
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  Speaker 6: Grand Holmes. Okay, should see some offense to another good one.
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  Speaker 5: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Good.
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  Speaker 2: Wheeler's going in Boston against yep, Terrence Brockington Davison.
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  Speaker 3: I'll give you one that might be a little off
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  Speaker 3: the board. But the Mariners against the Astros. So you
• 8:09
  Speaker 3: get Brian wu on one side, see if he kind
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  Speaker 3: of myself rolling, and then Ami on the other side.
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  Speaker 5: See. I want to watch that. I just want to
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  Speaker 5: see what that looks like. He's back.
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  Speaker 1: He might be in my lock later.
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  Speaker 5: Wow.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Mariners strike out a lot.
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  Speaker 5: They do it. Just will he throw enough strikes. I
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  Speaker 5: don't know.
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  Speaker 1: That he has to throw enough strikes because they're going
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  Speaker 1: to swing at it whether he throws a strike.
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  Speaker 5: Or not, even if it's out of the zone.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that's the thing with the Mariners. I got
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  Speaker 1: to go back to my roots tonight.
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  Speaker 5: There's some good ones.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good point by Krats, like you have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Oh that matchup is one whatever and one ace.
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  Speaker 3: Shane mcclanahan's pitching for the race against the Blue That wow,
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  Speaker 2: At this point, I'm going to seek and I'm finding
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  Speaker 2: a pitcher that I want to fit see and see.
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  Speaker 2: Mcclanahan's one of them. Like right now, I want to
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  Speaker 5: Thank you see geek.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I mean, yeah, if we're gonna break
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  Speaker 2: down like the mechanics of a swing. I think Banana
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  Speaker 2: Tatis still has a really good swing, But the mechanics
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  Speaker 2: of hitting a home run, it's not about, Oh, your
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  Speaker 2: bat's in the slot and your swing is is elevating
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  Speaker 2: the ball. The party's out front. If you want to elevate, elevate,
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  Speaker 2: you got to hit it out front. You got to
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  Speaker 2: catch the ball out front. You gotta have enough bat
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  Speaker 2: speed to get the ball out front. You have to
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  Speaker 2: trust that you can get to the heater out front
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  Speaker 2: and still stay back on breaking balls like and if
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: you're not able to do that, you're going to still
• 10:13
  Speaker 2: be able to barrel the ball up, but it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be deeper in your stand or deeper in your
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  Speaker 2: swing all that stuff. And to me, that's where I
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: mean you're talking like Tatisa was hitting some appotators before,
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  Speaker 2: like some balls were coming off the bat hot, and
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  Speaker 2: you know, zero home runs. He's not a zero home
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  Speaker 2: run guy. Everybody we're going to talk about that's like,
• 10:36
  Speaker 2: this is like other level type of players that we're seeing,
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  Speaker 2: low level production. He's not going to have zero home
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  Speaker 2: runs this year. Is he going to have thirty? Absolutely not,
• 10:51
  Speaker 2: because of exactly what I said before. So he's maybe
• 10:54
  Speaker 2: trying to figure out who he is. He's on a
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  Speaker 2: team with a bunch of guys that don't strike out,
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  Speaker 2: so he's like, Okay, I'm gonna be that guy too.
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  Speaker 2: I can maybe generate some RBIs, I can figure out
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  Speaker 2: how to do some other things. But he's not a
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  Speaker 2: he's not twenty twenty tatis and he's only getting older,
• 11:12
  Speaker 2: and he's only getting farther away from the ball playing
• 11:15
  Speaker 2: in right field, which he's given.
• 11:17
  Speaker 1: You a lot of value on defense.
• 11:18
  Speaker 2: Maybe not three hundred and twenty five million dollars of value,
• 11:21
  Speaker 2: but a lot of value.
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  Speaker 3: I want to go back to cal because that's where
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: I think.
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  Speaker 5: Kratz.
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  Speaker 3: It is worth pointing out that, yes he has seven homers,
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  Speaker 3: but is a shell of himself compared to last year.
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  Speaker 3: He had a five eighty nine slug percentage last year.
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  Speaker 3: Even all the years before that, he was in the
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: mid four hundreds, even high four hundreds, he's slugging three twenty.
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  Speaker 3: His ops plus is sixty one. To me, aj this
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  Speaker 3: is a big reason why the Mariners are off to
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: a man start, because last year Cal was doing col things,
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: and even if he was close to that, I mean,
• 11:57
  Speaker 3: the Mariners would be soaring right now. Don't think anyone
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: expected him to hit sixty again. I don't even know
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  Speaker 3: if anyone expected fifty again or one sixty seven ops plus.
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  Speaker 5: But he's at sixty.
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  Speaker 3: One with one hundred at league average for ops plus,
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  Speaker 3: he's one fifty seven, batting, two thirty eight on base,
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  Speaker 3: three twenty slogging.
• 12:14
  Speaker 1: It's having a rough start.
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  Speaker 5: It's time to talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: It's having a rough start. It sucks because I love
• 12:18
  Speaker 1: Cal and I love what he did. I still thought
• 12:21
  Speaker 1: he should have been MVP. Thirty one point four percent
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  Speaker 1: strikeout right. That that also, like we talked about Tatis,
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  Speaker 1: that's pressing, that's going outside of his zone. That's trying
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  Speaker 1: too hard, that's that's too much. Yes, the seven homers
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  Speaker 1: are nice, but when you look up there and you're
• 12:35
  Speaker 1: on the interstate, which the interstate means you're hitting in
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  Speaker 1: the hundreds, nobody likes to look up there and you
• 12:39
  Speaker 1: try not to look, but eventually he gets see you.
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  Speaker 1: I still think cal comes out of it. And the
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  Speaker 1: way you have to look at it is eventually someone's
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  Speaker 1: going to pay a lot for this to make up
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  Speaker 1: for it. But it's concerning because we're in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of May and it's the same.
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  Speaker 5: I'm going to strike out percent.
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  Speaker 2: The strike out percentage is close to his career career numbers.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's not thirty one, but I think he's
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  Speaker 2: like a twenty nine percent career, So two percent bump
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  Speaker 2: in a month and a half he was dealing with
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  Speaker 2: the side. How much is that doing it? And then
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  Speaker 2: and then you add in the pressing, you know. I
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  Speaker 2: think he strikes out a lot. I mean last year
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  Speaker 2: he struck out one hundred and eighty eight times in
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred plate appearances.
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  Speaker 1: That's that's a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But last year he also bumped his average twenty seven points,
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  Speaker 2: twenty seven points above his normal average, which was two
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  Speaker 2: eleven two thirty two, two twenty. So he's a career
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  Speaker 2: two twenty hitter including this year.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I get it, but there's a big difference between
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  Speaker 3: two twenty and one fifty seven. There's also a humongous
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  Speaker 3: difference between a five eighty nine slug and a three
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  Speaker 3: twenty slug or even a four to fifty ish slug,
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  Speaker 3: which looks like about what you'd seen for the prior
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  Speaker 3: three years combined. So it is a massive difference for
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  Speaker 3: the Mariners not to have that right now, He's not
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  Speaker 3: the only one too. I'm going to finish with this
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  Speaker 3: list and you guys can just pick one each. There
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  Speaker 3: are a number of guys that are well well below
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  Speaker 3: their career norms Kateel, Marte, Jose Ramirez, Austin Riley. Yes,
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  Speaker 3: Riley's at an eighty one ops plus seventy nine for Kateel,
• 14:23
  Speaker 3: even Jose Ramirez set one oh five compared to usually
• 14:28
  Speaker 3: being more like a one forty.
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  Speaker 5: Ops plus guy. Any thoughts on any of those three.
• 14:36
  Speaker 1: Jose Ramiroz gets a pass for me. Austin Riley is
• 14:40
  Speaker 1: a little more concerning, but the Braves are playing so
• 14:41
  Speaker 1: well so nobody talks about it. Could tell Marte, Corbyn,
• 14:45
  Speaker 1: Carol and Geroldough Heroldo Perdomo are all underneath their average,
• 14:50
  Speaker 1: so it's kind of been a slow star follow them.
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  Speaker 1: If it wasn't for Ed Themero Vargas who knows where
• 14:54
  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks are, but they're back at five hundred without
• 14:57
  Speaker 1: those three, So Arenato's off to a nice star for
• 14:59
  Speaker 1: them to change the scenery. Guy, I don't know Carrol.
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: Everyone's like, oh, Carol got off to a great start.
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  Speaker 1: He's been struggling a little bit here. But Marte, Carroll
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  Speaker 1: and Perdoma all three have have not been great for
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  Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks. So maybe it's just it wasn't warm enough
• 15:16
  Speaker 1: out in Arizona and waiting for the weather to get warmer.
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  Speaker 3: It's a good thing when Kratz the team's still hovering
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  Speaker 3: in the five hundred have gotten nothing from their stars.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's that's impressive. I honestly thought Carol
• 15:32
  Speaker 2: shows how much I have been paying attention. I just
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: thought Carrol was coming back from that handmate, and he
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: started out hot, and I thought he was doing well.
• 15:40
  Speaker 2: To me, Scott, I don't know if you're gonna let
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: me go off the board, but you got to choose
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: one of the giants, guys, one of the giants big
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  Speaker 2: three devers I think is starting to come on. If
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: you watched the game last night, he and maybe it
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: was a Rokie thing. He didn't have that front leg
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: like way almost out of the front of the batter's
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: box like he normal like he had earlier in the year.
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: He was almost more like closed off, real close to
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: the plate. But he knows rookie's not going to throw inside,
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: so he's like, come and get me some and then
• 16:08
  Speaker 2: he hit a dinger last night. But he kind of
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: has made changes. Chapman, you know he's going to give
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: you gold glove to me. The biggest thing is Willia Domas.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: Willia Domas is going to be a lower average guy
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  Speaker 2: if he goes because when he is, when he's going,
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  Speaker 2: when he does well, and I think I think he
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: got over thirty homers last year. He's the first guy
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: since Barry Bonds. He still is going to hit two
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: twenty to forty type of hitter. But when he gets going,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: I feel like he is the energy for that team.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: Is that team good enough if Willia Domas is hitting
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: two eighty right now with twelve pumps. No, I don't
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: think they're built built well enough to be able to
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: compete in the tough National League. But I think of
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: those three guys at the plate, I think Devers will
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: come through. I think Chapman will be who he is
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: because he's going to be able to be heavily weighted
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: war with his defense, and that's why they that's why
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: they paid him, and he's still playing good defense. To me,
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: it's Willia Adamas whose defense at short is going to
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: only continue to age poorly. So to me, that energy
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: that he brings when he's not just when he's doing well,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: but when he's coming up with big hits because he's
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: in the middle of that lineup. I think Williadomas, when
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: he turns it around, the Giants will be a little
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: bit more respectable on offense.
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: Last one, we'll let a fan chime in one of
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: the F team members. If you want to become an
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: F team member on YouTube, that would be great. Scrill
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: a te Corey Seeger, lengthy, slow start, longer slum for
• 17:38
  Speaker 3: him with and strikeouts are up. He's been healthy and
• 17:40
  Speaker 3: on the field for the whole first forty.
• 17:44
  Speaker 5: Knocks on wood. He did a knocks on wood.
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: He has been healthy, but he has not been hitting.
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: That's another one.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was struggling for Corey Seeger. Yeah, I
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: mean the ops plus is one hundred because he's got
• 17:57
  Speaker 3: a little pop seven homers slung's at three seventy two.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: But I mean, this is the guy you look the
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: last you want to know the three prior years for
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: seeger on ops plus on hundred league average one fifty three,
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: nine seventy four. He's way below what he normally does. Yeah,
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: he is nasty. He's so damn good. I'm not worried
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: about him. That's what I'm not worried about.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: Do we say Royce Lewis's struggling or has it been
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: too long to be like, I don't know what Royce
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: Lewis we have. He had a big hit the other night,
• 18:25
  Speaker 2: but I mean he even came out and said he
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: feels like somebody's got to tell me I'm not going
• 18:29
  Speaker 2: to the minor leagues like I'm not getting But he
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: hasn't been that all star level when healthy. He's been
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: healthy and he hasn't been hitting, so maybe he's not
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: in that group. But I think he's hitting like one
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: seventy one seventy five something like that.
• 18:45
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's worth pointing out because he's had flashes. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: some of these others were talking about our superstars and
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: they're not putting right now all stars exactly good game.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Hope you all enjoyed it. Thanks for chiming in.
• 18:59
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• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Jordan Moore on Twitter, posting the top five records in
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: baseball along with payrolls Braves two fifty three mil, Raise
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: eighty seven mil, Cubs two thirty two mil, Yankees to
• 20:12
  Speaker 3: eight mil, Padres two nine mil.
• 20:14
  Speaker 5: Bottom five This is fun.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: Giants to one mil, Rockies one twenty two, Angels one
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: eighty three, Astros two thirty seven, Mets three sixty eight.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: He right at the bottom, Rays plus Mets. Very different,
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: three hundred difference, I hope.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: When the Union went into the owners, they said, here's
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: the standings. So do we really Are we all really
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: going to whine and cry about this? Yes, because have
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: the best record in baseball.
• 20:45
  Speaker 5: Because the Dodgers have sho Heo Tani.
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: And then the other team could have had him. It
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: is true they didn't try.
• 20:56
  Speaker 5: How many show them?
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Do we show that graphic again?
• 20:58
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: One quick second. I mean, listen, are there some high
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: payroll teams up there? Yes, But it also shows you
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: to metch the Astros, the Giants. I mean, who thought
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: the Rockies were a one twenty two?
• 21:10
  Speaker 5: By the way, you would have thought lower.
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I forgot Chris Bryan's on there making
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: a huge chunk. But where's the rest of that at
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: who's the other guys? Freeland and who else?
• 21:22
  Speaker 5: Uh?
• 21:24
  Speaker 3: Chigano got a little bit of money, yeah, a little bit,
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: a little bit of money.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: Lorenzen got a little bit, but not to make it
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty two.
• 21:30
  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's a little bit.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: Who are the Rai's going to trade for the trade deadline?
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That's the question.
• 21:34
  Speaker 5: You know they're going to go get somebody they should.
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: Rockies still more than the Pirates.
• 21:44
  Speaker 7: A pair of dynamic outfielders are getting the call to
• 21:48
  Speaker 7: the major leagues. We'll start with the Athletics bringing up
• 21:51
  Speaker 7: Henry Boltay. Boltay has long been kind of one of
• 21:53
  Speaker 7: the better prospects in the organization, but always had concerns
• 21:56
  Speaker 7: about whether he's going to make enough contact to make
• 21:58
  Speaker 7: it all work. He's shown improve movements at that this year.
• 22:01
  Speaker 7: He has had a very good start to the year.
• 22:02
  Speaker 7: He was at TRIPA Las Vegas, though, which is a
• 22:05
  Speaker 7: great place to hit. But the signs are encouraging. The
• 22:09
  Speaker 7: Mets are obviously in more trouble, but they are bringing
• 22:12
  Speaker 7: up I would say also the better prospect. Aj Ewing
• 22:15
  Speaker 7: was a big riser in our recent Top one hundred
• 22:17
  Speaker 7: Prospects update. He is number thirty three on the Baseball
• 22:19
  Speaker 7: America Top one hundred. Nowadays, hit first, I would say,
• 22:24
  Speaker 7: at the end of the day. But there's there's hitting ability,
• 22:27
  Speaker 7: there's power, there's athleticism. I know he's coming up because
• 22:30
  Speaker 7: Luise Robert is going on the il. But at the
• 22:33
  Speaker 7: same time, if you told me that he is the
• 22:35
  Speaker 7: Mets center fielder of the present and future, it would
• 22:39
  Speaker 7: not surprise me, especially for a team that needs to spark.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: Oh wait, you have Louise Robert all right, now, that's
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: why I mean when he comes back, what do they
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: do with him?
• 22:51
  Speaker 5: With you ing?
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know what, The Mets suck enough right now
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: that anybody that hits will find a spot.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Because Leffield is Soto, he ain't going there centerfield Robert
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: at some point, rightfield is bene when Robert comes back,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: because right now Bench is playing center. He's doing a
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: good job in center field for a guy that wasn't
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: really a center fielder, you know. So this is why
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: this move is interesting. I mean, we haven't really talked
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: about it other than before now cratzy. But if you
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: if you have Soto and left, you have Benje and
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: center right now, and he's doing a nice job, you're
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: gonna bring you just put him in center and make
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Bene go back to right where he wasn't as comfortable
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: as he has been in center. Right.
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: But they love playing guys out of position anyway.
• 23:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, I'll be here all night. It is true.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I know. That's why it's another interesting I mean, this
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: this why I ask Ken the question. This screams of
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: just full panic. This is the last thing we can
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: do in order to make something happen on this year
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: before we just punt it.
• 23:50
  Speaker 5: He is not saving the season.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: I mean unless he comes up and he's I don't
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: even know who he could be. I don't know name,
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: name of name, like the greatest of mcgonagallat you rolla
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: in two thousand and one when he won MVP.
• 24:04
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that that ain't happening.
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: He is a seventy seventy stolen bases. This is a
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: team that doesn't get on base their own base percentages
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: brutes mcgoots. Even with Juan Soto, you think a rookie
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: is just gonna come up and all of a sudden.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: They're just gonna give him the like superstar treatment. They're
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: gonna be like, here, see how far you can hit it,
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: and it's gonna be a lot of the same. I'm
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: not saying he can't hit three hundred In no way
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: am I saying that. But he better go and be
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: Kelly leak out there. If he's like gonna change the
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: game on defense for him, maybe with him and center
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and benin right, maybe maybe it gives them a more
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: formidable outfield that they could maybe shift and cover a
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: little bit of what Wan is not able to do
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: as much and left and but like a blip on
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: the radar, like to me, it's cool.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: To me, it's cool.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: But it's not like he's not going to carry him.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: They're not dropping him into the three spot or the
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: two spot to protect one Soto.
• 25:09
  Speaker 5: Did you just say that they are going to improve
• 25:11
  Speaker 5: their run prevention.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: Here's the thing. I watched one Soda play left field
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: on Saturday. He wasn't bad. He made one really nice play.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: He made a diving catch and just tipped off his glove.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: That was a nice, really good effort. He made one
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: play where he cut the ball off. They could have
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: gone on the gap and shut it down and held
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: a guy from scoring. It was really nice. I mean,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: he didn't look terrible on left field.
• 25:33
  Speaker 5: That's the spot for him.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, one d Perca didn't have the arms strength to
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: play right. I know he had a lot of assists.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: That's because everyone ran on him. So how do you
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: get a lot of assists? Everyone runs on you, so
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: eventually throw somebody out right.
• 25:44
  Speaker 5: You gotta try every day.
• 25:45
  Speaker 3: That's the spot though, And I agree for all the
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: flat that he gets on the defensive side, he can
• 25:53
  Speaker 3: still handle it for now.
• 25:55
  Speaker 5: I mean it's just long term.
• 25:56
  Speaker 3: Eventually, when a guy slows down, he'll be a DH
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: for the team, but that might not be for five years.
• 26:03
  Speaker 5: I mean he's in his mid twenties right, But.
• 26:05
  Speaker 1: All those numbers.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: The reason he gets dings is the same reason that
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: other guys get. It's it's the outs above average, it's
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: the defensive runs. Save those kinds of things. They don't
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: show up. They don't give him, They don't give him
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: enough credit to be able to keep a single. You
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: a double to a single, It doesn't you know. So
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: if he's a smart player, if he's going to be taught,
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: and I think when his year with the Yankees, there's
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of things that they are taught in the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: outfield that you don't need to be a superstar, elite
• 26:34
  Speaker 2: track star to be able to get to the ball.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: And if you adopt those things, I think he can
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: adopt him in a much smaller left field than right
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: field in city field. I mean right field in city field.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: While it's defences keep coming in every year, it's still
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: much larger than left. Left is tiny at city field.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: So to me, I think you play to your you
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: play to your strengths, or you play to mitigate the issues.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: And I'm sure he can do enough, but he's not
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: giving who has a Gold Glove left fielder. Very few
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: teams do. The Brewers. They want three center fielders out
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: in the outfield, and you know that's how they built
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: their team. The Mets want to build a lineup that's well,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: we'll just play wherever we want to play. Anybody can
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: play first, anybody can shift from second to third. We
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: got a cornerstone in Francisco Lindoor at short who didn't
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: look like he was ready to go early in the season,
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: will take center field. One good season of release. Robert
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: is all that we need, Like there's a lot more
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: going on. The stalwarts in the Mets is jan Stone
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: is one Soto. So anytime you talk about struggles, there's
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: no way we can talk about Juan Soto being the
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: reason that they're struggling.
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and who knows, maybe it's a perfect storm. Mewing
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: just starts hitting, getting on base, set on the table.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: The one thing that you will see is he is
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: super fast.
• 28:00
  Speaker 5: Fun to watch.
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: Setting the table, get setting the table in the eight
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: nine spot.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: Yeah for sodok so he gets in traffic for soda.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Like sure, but SODA's he steals. If he's hitting in
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: a ninth spot, he gets on. Everybody's excited. Save the ball,
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: steal second four, go to first one. We know you're
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: not gonna swing, so we're not gonna throw anything in
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: the zone. So now you're first and second. It's not
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: turning the team around offensively, that's it.
• 28:39
  Speaker 5: No, No, I get it.
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, just try and get some more traffic going because,
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: like Ken said, split squad, bottom of the lineup that's
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: not going to play for a team that's gonna have
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: to go on like a ninety five win pace the
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: rest of the year. Chandler Rome tweeting that Carlos Kraa
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: joined the Astros Advance meeting on FaceTime yesterday and good spirits.
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: He had surgery. He's done for the year, which we
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: know already the Astros might be done for the year.
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: We're going to talk about them in our early trade
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: deadline segment or not even a trade deadline, just trade segment.
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: But remember when we talked so much about how the
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: Astros were going to fit all the pieces together. He
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: sacked paratus, not going to get to play every day.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: Usually that stuff works itself out.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: And care why is Korea just joined the meeting just
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: to say hi to everybody?
• 29:30
  Speaker 5: Yes, just hey, I made it through surgery.
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: I miss you guys, and I'll be back once I'm
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: at a certain stage of the recovery process.
• 29:38
  Speaker 5: That was the word. It is what it is.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: Hey, Last year there were two massive contracts that moved
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to mid season devers in Korea.
• 29:48
  Speaker 5: It's not working.
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: It's not impossible, it's not working out for either one
• 29:51
  Speaker 1: of them at the moment. As we're just eating that
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Korea money right now, Tough Twins were like, be stinkful,
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: we don't have to pay that.
• 30:01
  Speaker 5: Those teams are happy they got rid of those deals.
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: Right now are the Red Sox.
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: I mean, at this very second, based on Dever's numbers.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: But ask me again, and that might be different.
• 30:13
  Speaker 1: Do you think the Devers would have been having a
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: bad year if he was in Boston this year?
• 30:17
  Speaker 5: No, that's a great point.
• 30:19
  Speaker 1: I don't because every year in Boston he did pretty well.
• 30:22
  Speaker 3: Do you feel like they got a little tickle out
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: of sending him to a place that could be a hell.
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: Hole for many They did, right, of course they did.
• 30:31
  Speaker 5: They could not wait to call.
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, they could have found a bigger park to
• 30:34
  Speaker 1: send him to.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: They would have, right, they would have sent him to
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Yosemite if it was.
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: The biggest place, the hardest place for him to hit,
• 30:43
  Speaker 1: they sent him to.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: Sometimes those are the things that get overlooked. I'm glad
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: you brought that up where people are like, see it worked.
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: He sucks And even I kind of fell into that trap.
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: And you're like, hold up, let me tell you about
• 30:53
  Speaker 3: the difference between Boston's Park and the Giants home.
• 30:57
  Speaker 1: Those five balls he hits the left that were that
• 30:59
  Speaker 1: are now caught all the monster for at least a
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: single Now they're caught. Now now the officer's running in
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: going I got it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: You're saying that some players fit certain ballparks better than others.
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: M HM.
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: Disagree. There's no way.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: There's no way East apparatus would do well in Houston zero.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: His hit profile does not work that way. Sarcasm.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: Let's run both of these back to back if we can.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: Addison Barger has nothing structurally wrong in his elbow. This
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: from Shi DAVIDI. They said the issue is in the joint.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: He's getting a cortizone shot. That's according to John Schneider,
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the manager, that's going to keep him down three four days.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: So Schneid said, hopefully a short stint on the injured list.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Barger back on there. He had that ridiculous throw the
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: other night.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: By the way, nothing structurally wrong, and why does it hurt?
• 31:47
  Speaker 5: Well?
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: Structurally wrong usually means I'm not even going to pretend
• 31:51
  Speaker 3: like I'm a doctor here.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm just asking, yeah.
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: You know, structure, no structural damage. I'll usually say like, no,
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: you know, big tear, anything like that.
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: So there's something going on in there though.
• 32:02
  Speaker 5: If it hurts, there is something going on.
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: I agree. What's up with Eric Blower this year. What
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: what's your take?
• 32:09
  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he's eating too much gluten.
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: That's what everybody used to say when I don't know
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: if AJ were here, heard guys that said that, like, Ooh,
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I'm having too much gluten.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: My joints hurt. Nothing structurally wrong. Never heard of that.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: I was done before that. We ate all the gluten.
• 32:26
  Speaker 1: We ate all the pasta, all the cookies, all the
• 32:28
  Speaker 1: ice cream, we ate all that stuff.
• 32:29
  Speaker 5: I'm not going to comment on that.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: Never heard thating. I know Matt Lee Crow one time
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: had the gut though, and he was that's that was
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: a completely different animal, dude, matter.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: What, No, Matt Lee Croy has looked like he's fifty
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: years old forever. Is he aged differently, He's just because
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: he had that gray hair forever.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: But he's awesome. The Eric Blower thing where they said,
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: oh it was just a we'd show the tweet again,
• 32:56
  Speaker 1: where it was just come on, This had to do
• 32:58
  Speaker 1: with him making statements you can't I'm I'm sorry, Like
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: he said some stuff that they didn't like and they
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: were like, oh, we have an opportunity to move on.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: We can do it and just say oh, he's not
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: pitching great. I'm sorry. Crowds you disagree, Like if you
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: can't say that nut, there's certain things as players, you
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: know that if you say it and you don't pitch
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: or play really well, he gives them a reason.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: AJ can say. AJ can say what he wants to say.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Eric cannot, Eric lower cannot. He did well last year,
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: should have been treated differently, maybe, But go back and
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: look at the games he was pitching in. When he
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: was pitching, they were putting that man out there. They
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: were putting him out there. He was giving up some dingers,
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: he was pitching some innings where I was like, okay,
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: he pitched well for three Okay, were we taking them
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: at No? This was this was setting up just certain
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: guys just can't say what they want to say. And
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: that's okay that he said it, But you also got
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: to understand. You make your bed, you sleep in it,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: and he'll find another big league job.
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: Blessing in disguise.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: He's gonna get picked up by another team, be a starter,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: and he's going to have a good year.
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: Watch it.
• 34:03
  Speaker 6: Oh yeah, he still got it year.
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: I asked Ken about this in our last part of
• 34:12
  Speaker 3: Inside Scoop. But this is the main man who covers
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: this for The Athletic. Evandrelik wrote, it has begun, MLB
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: and the Players Association holding their first collective bargaining meeting
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: in New York, that is today, making opening presentations ahead
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: of what's expected to be a lengthy fight over a
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: salary cap. The one thing to keep in mind, too,
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: is that they're not really going to do anything real
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: for many months, but they do have to fake like
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: they're doing things. That's part of like the what is
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: it the National Labor Relations Board. I think it's the
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: nl r B, where you have to make fair efforts
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: to actually collective collectively bargaincrats. So they have to put
• 34:52
  Speaker 3: real PowerPoint dex together and say we're trying, even though
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: the fight will really happen in the offseason.
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: Probably, as one person told me, the least constructive meetings
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: that he's ever been a part of, like zero information.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Like people are so vague because nobody wants to give
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: or show anything possible, show any of their cards. And
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: yet they're supposed to negotiate in good faith based on
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: the National Labor regulations, but they don't. And it's neither side.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: One side's going to say, well, we did we did
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: quite a bit, and the other side would say, well,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: that side didn't do anything, and so it's just good
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: faith negotiations, like let's get it done.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: It's actually a pathetic process. I read way too much
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: about it. It's so pathetic, like what Kratz is talking about,
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: where they just dance and say all kinds of legal jargon. Yes,
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: I hope it gets replaced one day by AI because
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: it's such garbage. It's such garbage, like it is like
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: the pure trash of the earth. But lawyers saying a
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: boom boo boo.
• 36:06
  Speaker 5: And then they're like they're like basically talking to a bit. Oh,
• 36:09
  Speaker 5: and you're so cute.
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: I don't actually want to say anything until December, and
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: then we'll say one thing and then we'll really talk
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: in February.
• 36:18
  Speaker 5: That's basically what they do.
• 36:19
  Speaker 1: Like you have to put it out off so much.
• 36:23
  Speaker 5: What do you mean?
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: But it's not just baseball. It's not just baseball. It
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: happens in the Pennsylvania Teachers Union. It's it's unions negotiate things,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: and it's the fight of well we'll get.
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: A little bit more.
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that we're gonna get anymore but look
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: what happened to NHL. NHL said, yes, we'll take a
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: we'll take a ten percent pay cut in our next CBA.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: And you know what the owner said, screw that. We're
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: gonna we're gonna lock you out for a year and
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: we're gonna take twenty five percent.
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: Because you guys already shown that you're a week group.
• 36:58
  Speaker 5: They're like, ha, you talked first, you got punish. Yeah.
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: Hey, the Braves placed Sean Murphy back on the injured list.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: This time it's a fractured left middle finger. Ah's favorite finger.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Stud can't get right.
• 37:15
  Speaker 5: It sucks. Catcher's interference on Sunday, how's about.
• 37:19
  Speaker 1: I saw that one out he got whacked hard. He
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: used to have catchers interference like once every five years.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: Now it's like once every two games. We have one.
• 37:30
  Speaker 5: And Sandy.
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: Sandy Leon is still going strong. He was playing in
• 37:34
  Speaker 3: Mexico recently. Now he's playing in the big leagues with
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: the one of the best teams in baseball. And also,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: you know you've got Kim back, so there's a lot
• 37:47
  Speaker 3: of up and down going on. Yeah, they are more
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: than fine. Sean Murphy for the second half or for
• 37:56
  Speaker 3: the stretch run would be good. And then you get Murphy,
• 37:59
  Speaker 3: I mean bold in a blow and he's got a
• 38:02
  Speaker 3: really nice.
• 38:02
  Speaker 5: Depth for the playoffs. Or maybe they claim a billion games, or.
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: Maybe they claim him back when he goes on waivers.
• 38:12
  Speaker 5: Mm hm, he might not. He didn't go on waivers though,
• 38:16
  Speaker 5: again did.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: He No, No, what I'm saying. He's with the athletics,
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: and he knows what the athletics. Dude, they were carrying
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: three guys and Shane banger hands. He does pretty decent.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: He's gonna play every day.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: So just saying, bangaliers, that sucks when he's been working
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: a while to get back at big surgery and then
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: he got a different injury for Murphy.
• 38:41
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he had the hip surgery. He has his finger.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: Stinks, guys, just some guys, just I wonder, I wonder
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: if like all that stuff like continues to linger for guys. Obviously,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: I was fortunately one one surgery. Two surgeries, had a
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: loose body, but it wasn't earnest season like if it
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: lingers like a hip surgery sounds painful. I haven't ever
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: had hit pain yet. I made at some point, but
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: like to then get back there and catch and then
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: you break your finger, and you're like, maybe it'll be
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: blessing in disguise because he'll get fully healthy from the
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: hip once his finger heels.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: My finger's hurt. But now your back's gonna hurt because
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: you just got landscaping duty.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Most players probably still even in today's game, rush back
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: too quickly from any.
• 39:32
  Speaker 1: Slowed everyone down, though a lot of times better.
• 39:34
  Speaker 5: It's way better than he used to be.
• 39:36
  Speaker 1: Oh, he used to be you were getting backs sooner
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: because everyone didn't want to lose their job. Now people
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: were like, ah, everyone gets hurt. Now I can take
• 39:43
  Speaker 1: two months when I only needed a week.
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